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By Wendy SmithWayne Blasius, who began his

new job as executive director of the East Tennes-see Community Design Center this week, remembers having coffee with Annette Anderson back in 1977.

Anderson was executive director of the design cen-ter from 1973 to

1995. She was one of the fi rst peo-ple Blasius met when he arrived in Knoxville to begin graduate work in urban planning. They talked about the importance of getting involved in the community, and the conversation stoked his enthu-siasm for civic engagement.

In the years since, Blasius has volunteered for the design center,

Knox Heritage, Leadership Knox-ville, the Central Business Im-provement District and the Knox-ville Chamber of Commerce, along with other organizations.

“I strongly believe in giving back, that our community is only as good as the work its citizens are willing to put into it.”

He grew up in the Chicago area and didn’t intend to stay in Knox-ville. But the South grew on him − especially the warm winters.

After Blasius fi nished his de-gree, he was hired as a planner for the Metropolitan Planning Com-mission. He worked on the down-town master plan that ultimately led to that area’s renaissance.

His fi rm, InSite Development, also contributed to downtown’s revitalization with the redevelop-ment of the Phoenix and the Mast General Store/Gallery Lofts.

Knoxville has an incredible his-toric building stock, he says.

“If you look down Gay Street, there are not many missing teeth.”

The area has remained intact because businesses had little eco-nomic incentive to be there dur-ing the 1960s and 1970s, he says. If downtown had been booming, some of the buildings would have been torn down and replaced with modern equivalents.

When it comes to good design, there’s always room for improve-ment, and he hopes the design center will continue to be a play-er in that. Blasius took the reins from interim executive director Mary Linda Schwarzbart, whom he commends for her leadership. He also praises the design center’s staff and volunteer board.

He thinks his ability to envi-sion a new future for downtown’s

big, empty buildings will help him lead the design center, though its scope goes far beyond the city center. Knoxville and its outlying communities depend on each oth-er, and good design is benefi cial to everybody, he says.

The ETCDC, which serves a 16-county region, provides profes-sional design and planning services to communities and nonprofi t orga-nizations that would not otherwise be able to afford such services. Con-ceptual designs for projects, which are chosen based on service to the public, help organizations focus their vision and seek funding.

The design center was founded in 1969 by renowned Knoxville architect Bruce McCarty. Staff is composed of three full-time and two part-time employees. Fund-ing for the nonprofi t comes from grants and donations.

Wayne Blasius

Blasius is new director of design center

By Wendy SmithThe last gift that Gordon Wells

got from President John F. Ken-nedy and his wife, Jackie, was the Christmas print of the Green Room. It arrived a month after Kennedy was assassinated, and the printed inscription reads, “With our appreciation and best wishes for a happy Christmas, 1963.”

Wells, father of downtown Knoxville resi-dent Mary Wells Holbrook, was a White House po-lice offi cer for 25 years. He served during the presi-dencies of Frank-lin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisen-

hower, Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. As a White House staff member, he received a gift from the First Family each Christmas.

Holbrook keeps her collection of framed Christmas cards and

It’s tree-planting season, and the city’s tree experts will be ana-lyzing soil and growing conditions in choosing from 45 different spe-cies of trees for plantings in public places – in parks, along greenways and in rights-of-way – between now and March.

Kasey Krouse, the city’s fi rst urban forester, has selected sites where new trees will be placed. Together with the city’s arborist, Jeff McCarter, Krouse and his six employees will oversee the plant-ing of more than 600 trees around town his season.

Since his hiring in 2012, Krouse has ended the approach of plant-ing primarily monoculture stands of trees. His goal is a diverse va-riety of trees. He considers the makeup of the soil as well as the environment in which the trees will be growing.

“Planting native trees works if you’ve got the native soil. If you don’t have that, exotic trees like the zelkova and ginkgo are a bet-ter option because they will do well in poor soil,” Krouse said.

Much of the land Krouse is planting trees on has been mis-used at some point over the past couple of centuries, leaving little if any virgin soil.

“Planting these trees is reward-ing work,” Krouse said. “It’s sat-isfying to know that, if we do our research correctly, our children and their children will be playing under these tree canopies many decades from now.

“More immediately, neighbor-hood leaders and park users will notice the wider variety of tree fo-liage and fall colors, as well as the thickening numbers of trees on public properties in the city.”

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City crews planting 600 trees across Knoxville

A crew with AvaLa wn Lawn and Land-

scaping plants a tree in Tyson Park.

The Green Room print given to White House

staff the year that President John F. Kennedy was

assassinated Photos by Wendy Smith

Christmas collection refl ects White House history

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Wendy SmithJudging at Tour de Lights

was a challenge. In the end, there were 1,023 riders, most of whom sported lights, tinsel or costumes.

It was nothing short of magical to watch them depart for a tour of the Fourth & Gill neighborhood, even though my toes were numb.

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Christmas greetings!In this drawing by Carol Chilton of

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liams say it best. “Straight from

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Festival of LightsWalk around Concord

Park to see the Knox County Festival of Lights, running from 6-9 p.m. through Dec. 30. It’s sponsored by the county’s Parks and Recreation Depart-ment.

Come for a Dam Road Ride Saturday, Dec. 27, at 9 a.m. as the Knoxville Bicycle Company sponsors the Saturday Dam Road Ride. Meet at 10657 Har-din Valley Road. Info: www.Legacyparks.org/.

Lights fantastic at Chilhowee Park

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Mary Holbrook’s collection of White House Christmas gifts

was inherited from her father, Gordon Wells, who served as a

White House police offi cer for 25 years.

prints displayed year-round. They are snapshots of presi-dential history as well as mementos of her father, who passed away in 1996.

Wells was recruited from the Washington, D.C., police department to join the White House Police in 1943. During Roosevelt’s presidency, staff were given Christmas cards. The small, simple cards refl ect the aus-terity of the war years.

After World War II, Christmas gifts to staff re-fl ected the tastes, and some-times the talents, of each president. Truman gave useful items, like leather bookmarks and key holders. Both items were well-used by her parents, Holbrook says, and only the frayed bookmark survives.

Truman also gave pho-tos as gifts, including one of Blair House, where the First Family lived during a two-year renovation of the White House. He was living at Blair House during an as-sassination attempt in 1950 that killed Wells’ colleague, Offi cer Leslie Coffelt.

Eisenhower painted a portrait of Abraham Lin-coln that was reprinted for the staff in 1953. Accord-ing to White House history, he worked on the painting while waiting for news of a Korean armistice. The por-trait was so popular that he painted a portrait of George Washington for the 1954 staff gift.

While painting a land-scape in Colorado for the 1955 print, Eisenhower had a heart attack. He fi nished the painting while recover-ing in a Denver hospital.

Holbrook chuckles over

the Eisenhower paintings. “They’re just funny.

They’re not that good.”The Kennedys’ fi rst

gift to staff was a photo of Caroline’s ducks in the South Lawn fountain. By 1962, Jackie Kennedy had restored four rooms at the White House, and adver-tising illustrator Edward Lehman was hired to sketch the rooms for a newspaper story. She liked his work so much that she asked him to paint a watercolor of the Red Room for that year’s Christmas print.

Lehman was invited back the following spring to paint the Green and Blue Rooms. In spite of the president’s assassination in November 1963, Jackie Kennedy dis-tributed the Green Room prints that Christmas. While the Blue Room paint-ing was completed, it was never reproduced.

Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, relied on Ameri-can Greetings designer Robert Laessig to create dreamy White House scenes that were given to staff each Christmas from 1964 to 1967. Wells was a White House Police captain when he retired in 1968.

White House Christmas festivities included an an-nual party for staff children, and Holbrook remembers standing in line to speak with Mamie Eisenhower when President Eisenhower made a surprise appear-ance. The only thing she re-members from the encoun-ter is that he complimented her white fur muff.

“I still have the muff,” she says.

Gregg Phenicie, manager at

Liz-Beth & Co.

Holiday cheer at Liz-BethLiz-Beth & Co. celebrat-

ed its new location (7240 Kingston Pike in The Gal-lery Shopping Center) with a Candlelight Sale and Party.

Guests were treated to cocktails and gourmet des-sert treats. The store spe-cializes in one-of-a-kind art including pottery, glass and jewelry.

Elaine Fronczek, Dan Duncan and Stan Fronczek celebrate the

season with the Dogwood Arts team at Liz-Beth & Co.

Justin Gee and Jill Von Hagel

Melynda Whetsel and Nancy Wolfe at the party

Jake Smith and Bethany Hankins entertain patrons a t Liz-Beth & Co. Photos by Justin Acuff

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.

Sherri Gardner Howell

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Hot chocolate, hot cider and colorful lights drew hundreds to Concord Park last Friday as Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and ev-ery kid in sight fl ipped the switch to launch the festivi-ties.

“And what do you want for Christmas, young man?” Santa asks

Doug Bataille, senior director of Parks and Recreation for Knox

County.

Christmas comes to

Concord Park

Knox County’s 16th an-nual Holiday Festival of Lights at The Cove at Con-cord Park will sparkle and entertain each night from 6 to 9 p.m. through Tuesday, Dec. 30, excluding Christ-mas Day. The Cove is at 11808 S. Northshore Drive.

Hawg Dawg’s sponsored the refreshments on Friday and Saturday only.

The festival has grown with illuminated displays and a series of lights coor-dinated to music. Visitors walk the three-quarter-mile greenway trail to view

A wonderland of lights awaits visitors to Concord Park, thanks to the eff orts of the maintenance crew of Knox County Parks and

Recreation. Photos by S. Clark

Knox County Mayor Tim Bur-

chett tours the lighted trail.

His hat reads, “I believe.” San-

ta? “Bigfoot,” says the mayor.

Santa talks with Lucy and Sylvie Parks as mom Deena Parks

(not pictured) leads them into Concord Park.

the lights. Pets on leashes are welcome.

Tommy Conway makes sure Santa greets all who at-tend. The park staff at The Cove does all the decorat-ing, which includes plac-ing displays, adding several thousand lights to trees and building bonfi res for roast-ing marshmallows.

The event is free, but Knox County will collect nonperishable food items for the Love Kitchen, which provides meals, clothing and emergency food packag-es to the homebound, home-less and unemployed.

The children of Lauren and

Nathan Smith of Lenoir City

pause in front of a train.

They are (front) Caleb and

Anna Smith, both 3; (back)

Abby, age 6; Makayla, 10;

and Keiley Smith, 11. This

is their fi rst year to visit the

lights at Concord Park, but

it won’t be their last, said

Lauren Smith.

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Last week, after Presi-dent Obama announced we would normalize relations with Cuba, I tuned in to a lo-cal radio station’s daily talk show anticipating wing-nut hysterics at the news.

I came away gratifi ed.One caller expressed his

displeasure at trading with any Communist nation by asking rhetorically, “Why are we (trading) with Viet-nam, anyway? They killed 55,000 of our men.”

Then, for emphasis: “We shoulda nuked ’em back to the Stone Age.”

For that fellow, nothing exudes Christmas cheer like a glowing, radioactive cra-ter.

Although Obama’s most recent treasonous action was enough in itself to curl his toenails, it turned out the caller was equally out-raged over the origin of his jockey shorts: made in Viet-nam.

After East Tennessee’s version of Gen. Jack D. Rip-per (of “Dr. Strangelove” fame) hung up, I tried to empathize with him.

My jockey shorts are “im-migrants” as well, made in Honduras, but we haven’t had a war with Honduras lately. If we had, I might feel differently.

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this country would look like today if we had “nuked” Vietnam: probably a lot like Vietnam but without the jungle. But our actions would also have precipi-tated World War III, and we would have been nuked in turn by the Soviet Union and Red China.

(Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers …” As op-posed to “peacekeepers,” now-retired ICBMs once de-ployed by the United States.)

However, fair-minded individual that I am, I con-ceded that the caller might be on to something.

Vietnam is the wrong target, especially now that it produces serviceable un-derwear. But there are peo-ple, places and things that could do with a good Christ-mas nuking, so I made this list and checked it twice.

Denmark. Peaceful lit-tle Denmark, you say? Ha! Danes, with their well-paid McDonald’s workers and their cream-cheese pastries may seem to be the last peo-ple on earth who deserve in-

dustrial-grade irradiation, but read on. Denmark has decided to lay claim to part of the Arctic surrounding the North Pole. Because the continental shelf running under Greenland stretches to the pole and Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the pushy Danes think they can just grab ter-ritory like it was formerly part of Mexico.

Anyone who writes or says anything pre-ceded by a hashtag (#). If you’re like me, it’s becom-ing increasingly diffi cult to restrain the impulse to strangle the next person who uses a hashtag to com-municate feelings, as in, “I feel #blue today,” or opin-ions like “#DanesAreNuts.” Nuking on this scale would mean the end of Twitter, a sweet collateral benefi t.

The National Football League. The conduct of pro football players makes a strong argument for nuking. I’ll exclude Peyton Manning if he agr ees to stop making Papa John’s commercials.

The next politician who says, “I’m not a sci-entist, but …” We’ve been hearing a lot of this from cli-mate-change deniers in re-cent years. We know you’re not scientists; we only wish you would listen to them.

Jacksons celebrate ChristmasKnox County General Sessions Court judge Andy Jackson and his wife, Janet (at right), celebratewith daughters Rachel and Rebecca at the family’s annual Christmas party at their home in Sol-way. Judge Jackson is a descendant of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of theUnited States. Photo by A. Hart

Forty years ago, in 1974, the fi rst woman to represent Knox County in the state Senate was elected in No-vember. Her name was Mar-tha Ashe, and there is quite a story as to how it all hap-pened in an unplanned way.

She was this writer’s mother, and the reader needs to be 60 to have much current memory of the fall campaign in 1974 in Knox County. In fact, the full sto-ry will take up much of two columns, so this story will be continued on Dec. 31.

Martha Ashe was also the fi rst Republican woman ever elected statewide to the Senate. Since then three more women (Jamie Wood-son, Becky Massey and, briefl y, Sue Atchley) have represented Knox County in the state Senate, and many more have served other parts of the state.

At the start of 1974, I was completing my third term in the state House and de-cided to run for the state Senate that year. Tennes-see’s Constitution requires that a state senator be 30 years old. In 1974, I was 29 and would turn 30 on Jan. 1, 1975.

Since the Senate would not convene until the sec-ond Tuesday of January in 1975, I would then be 30. I sought and secured a state Attorney General’s opinion that said I was eligible to run and the Senate would determine the qualifi ca-tions of its own members.

The state Constitution also provides that the term of offi ce begins with the day of election in November.

VictorAshe

The fi rst Martha Ashe

There is not a lame-duck period for state legislators.

My mother at that time had no inkling she might seek the Senate seat but was a vital supporter in my cam-paigns. I declared my can-didacy in the GOP primary and won the nomination over longtime Sheriff Ber-nard Waggoner in August. In addition to the Democrat-ic candidate, Betty Cathey, there was an independent candidate, former state Rep. Jack Comer, whom I had defeated two years earlier for state representative in the GOP primary after re-districting. Comer was irate over his loss.

He fi led as an indepen-dent candidate to gain legal standing to sue over my eli-gibility. The lawsuit is styled Comer v. Ashe and was fi rst heard in Chancery Court by the late Len Broughton, who ruled in my favor, holding that the Senate alone would decide the eligibility of its members. Since the Sen-ate would not convene until January, when I would be 30, the issue would be moot.

However, Comer quickly appealed the decision and asked that the state Su-preme Court hear the case, bypassing the appellate court. The Supreme Court agreed to hear it.

I was ably represented byJack Draper and the late Rob-ert Ritchie, father of formerstate Rep. Wayne Ritchie. Tomy dismay, the court quicklyruled that I was not eligibleto run since I would not be30 the day of the election andordered my name removedfrom the ballot. There wereless than seven weeks to theNovember election and nowno Republican nominee.

The public reaction wasmostly in my favor andagainst the court, which wasseen by many as an arm ofthe Democratic Party.

The story continues innext week’s column with thebattle to name a GOP nomi-nee and the fi ve-week cam-paign to election day.

■ Gov. Bill Haslamhas made an outstandingchoice in Randy Boyd ascommissioner of EconomicDevelopment. Boyd previ-ously helped Haslam on ed-ucation issues as an unpaidassistant for one year.

Boyd, founder of Pet-Safe, has been a communityleader. He follows anotherKnoxvillian, Bill Baxter,who served in this positionunder Gov. Don Sundquistfrom 1998 to 2000, andAlex Fisher, who lived inKnoxville then but has nowmoved to Columbus, Ohio.

■ Former KnoxvilleMayor Kyle Testerman,80, and retired city FireChief Eddie Cureton, 77,are recovering well from ac-cidents and were patientsrecently in adjacent roomsat NHC in Farragut. Bestwishes to them as they getback on their feet and be-come more mobile.

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News gets hard to come by during the holidays, which made this announce-ment from Knox County Schools’ prolifi c public in-formation offi ce enticing:

“PUBLIC NOTICE: (14-173) Please note that two or more Board of Education members may meet on Mon-day, Dec. 15, at 11:30 a.m. at Panera Bread, 2000 Cum-berland Avenue. Education issues will be discussed and minutes will be taken. All board members are wel-come to attend and will pay for their own meals.”

So it was no surprise that two reporters played Cum-berland Avenue parking-spot roulette and showed up

Lunching in the sunshine

at the popular campus café. No telling what they were going to be talking about, right?

But there was no news broken at the meet-ing, which was attended by board members Patti Bounds, Amber Rountree, Terry Hill and Doug Har-ris, as well as assistant superintendent Elizabeth Alves (who got stuck taking notes). Also present were

Knox County Education As-sociation president Tanya T. Coats and Rountree’s 3-month-old son, Teddy, for whose affections Hill and Bounds competed as they discussed problems fi nding substitute teachers.

Afterward, Bounds was a little embarrassed about the announcement. Turns out that she, Hill and Roun-tree, who regularly attend Bible study together, just wanted to have lunch. In an abundance of caution, they reported it to KCS spokes-person Melissa Ogden, who “sunshined” the meeting, i.e., sent out a formal no-tice in compliance with the state’s sunshine law.

“We were just going to get together and have lunch. … Our intent was to convey that business ‘may be dis-cussed,’ but it was really just some people wanting to get together and have lunch, but not wanting our conver-sation to be limited to small talk. I’m surprised we didn’t have cameras rolling,” Bounds said, barely stifl ing a laugh.

This abundance of cau-tion is typical of Knox County elected offi cials, who are still smarting from the aftermath of “Black Wednesday,” when County Commission got itself into a world of trouble by ap-pointing spouses, kinfolk

and drinking buddies to seats they were being forced to vacate after the state Su-preme Court forced Knox County to abide by term-limits laws, thumbing their collective noses at Tennes-see’s Open Meetings Act in the process.

Even though school board members weren’t the offenders, they are extremely careful about such things, unlike some of their colleagues across the state.

Take the Metro Nashville school board, for example, which recently attempted to choose a new superin-tendent by secret ballot. Astonishingly unaware of

the state’s open-meetings law, they were publicly hu-miliated when Jeff Woods of the alt-weekly The Nash-ville Scene pointed out that state law is pretty clear: “No secret votes, or secret bal-lots, or secret roll calls shall be allowed.” A do-over fol-lowed.

Sometimes scoop-hun-gry local media get a little aggravated by investing time covering meetings that produce no fi reworks.

But those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember the bad old days can’t help but appreciate the transparency that has become a way of doing busi-ness.

My favorite Christmas memory isn’t really a mem-ory at all. It’s a feeling. It’s the excitement I experi-enced when I walked out of my grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve knowing Christmas was the next day.

My brother and I couldn’t stop grinning during the car ride home. “Can you believe it? Tomorrow, when we wake up, it will be Christmas!” we’d say, and fi ve minutes later, we’d say it again.

It was sheer bliss know-ing that something magical was going to happen, and no matter what we found under the tree, it was going to be good.

Each Christmas, I try to fi nd something − twinkling lights, a delicious smell or a beautiful carol − that makes me feel like a kid again. This year, it was the eighth an-nual Tour de Lights.

This was the fi rst year the annual bike ride was part of Knoxville’s Christmas in the City, and I was honored

Wendy Smith

Lindsay Lee, Angela Wampler, Stephanie Lee and Pam Lee, also known as the Snowfl akes, don’t

mind the chilly weather at the 2014 Tour de Lights. Photo by Wendy Smith

Tour de Lights is holiday magic

to be asked to help judge the event’s costume contest. When I arrived at Market Square, I was handed a clip-board and asked to mingle with the hundred or so cos-tumed participants.

The categories included best costume, best helmet, best group, best bike and best overall. I met a man wearing a top hat made out of a coffee can and adorned with a candle. I met Mayor Tim Burchett’s cousin, P.J., who restored the 1950s bike ridden by his wife, Beau-mont Elementary art teach-er Cheryl Burchett, as well as his own 1930s-era bicy-cle, which he found leaning against a tree in the woods.

He had to cut the bike out of the tree, which had grown around it.

I met the Three Wise Men, two of whom were women. They followed a star that hung from a pole attached to one of the bikes.

Saul Young, my favorite News Sentinel photogra-pher, looked more like Alice from “The Brady Bunch” than a wise man in his ruf-fl ed bath robe.

I met Steve McGhee, who had so many lights on

his bike and helmet that I thought he must be an engi-neer. He turned out to be a pharmacist.

My job would’ve been easy if not for the continu-ous stream of entrants. I thought I’d picked my favor-

ites until I met David Stair, with a shiny, red present on his helmet, and his wife, Debbie, who wore a Christ-mas tree costume made of real hemlock branches. I also ran into my friend from the Dogwood Knitters, Lyndsay Crawford, who was dressed as the Doctor from Dr. Who.

In the end, there were 1,023 riders, most of whom sported lights, tinsel or costumes. It was nothing short of magical to watch them depart for a tour of the Fourth & Gill neighbor-hood, even though my toes were numb.

Judging was a challenge, given our absurdly creative community, but it was a pleasure to whittle down the fi nalists with my fellow judge, Erin Donovan of Visit Knoxville. It was even more fun to watch the winners, most of whom were grown-ups, grin as they accepted their prizes.

Perhaps the key to fi nd-ing childlike Christmas bliss is forgetting that you’re a grown-up − just for a little while.

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By Sherri Gardner HowellRumors were fl ying all

through “Bethlehem.” The innkeepers were abuzz, and the shepherds shook their heads in wonder. Someone said a baby had been born and that his birth was an-nounced by angels.

Thousands of visitors to Church Street United Methodist Church on Dec. 14 found the church trans-formed into the village of Bethlehem as it might have looked 2,000 years ago, with wood chips on the fl oor, sand spread all around and the village populated with shopkeepers, shepherds, animals and guests, some in town to pay their taxes and some to look for this new baby.

For 17 years, Church Street has created a Walk Through Bethlehem, an

The three magi arrive in Bethlehem to search for the baby.

Playing Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar are Major Sharpe,

Thomas Stuff s and Dave Craig. Photos by Justin Acuff

Finnian Gilbert works as

a metal smith in the Walk

Through Bethlehem at

Church Street United Meth-

odist Church.

Little Brady Kaplan gets an

early taste of acting as he

plays the baby Jesus in a Walk

Through Bethlehem with his

mother, Kelly Kaplan, and Da-

vid Rosecrance as Mary and

Joseph.

Ainsley Lamar works the

dough to make some bread

at a Walk Through Bethlehem

at Church Street United Meth-

odist Church.

An overview of a Walk Through Bethlehem

at Church Street United Methodist Church.

duce, all receiving coaching for their positions – train-ing in what a shopkeeper might say, what wares he would be selling and what kind of interaction he was likely to have with visitors.

The marketplace offers an authentic food shop, pot-ters who let visitors try their hand at making clay pots, a jewelry-making shop and animals outside in a stable.

The live nativity has Jo-seph, Mary and baby Je-sus. Two babies shared the honors of playing Jesus this year, splitting the duties into two shifts.

The tradition began with Sue Isbell, Church Street United Methodist Church’s children’s minister, back in 1997. Sue and her husband, Rick, went to a similar vil-lage creation when they lived in Nashville.

interactive village where guests can be transported back to what a village might have been like at the time of Jesus’ birth. It takes hun-dreds of volunteers to pro-

Finding the baby in a‘Walk Through Bethlehem’ Jaylen Fitzgerald and Harrison Atkins feed hay

to a camel at the Walk Through Bethlehem at

Church Street United Methodist Church.

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And she gave birth to her fi rstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

(Luke 2: 7 NRSV)I have often tried to

imagine Mary’s dismay when she realized she was going to give birth to the miracle child she was carry-ing – God’s son – in a stable.

The trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem must have been diffi cult enough, and I can only imagine how Mary must have wondered if God was absolutely sure this was the plan.

Joseph obviously loved Mary and trusted God’s angel, who had reassured him early on in Mary’s preg-nancy. But now, Joseph may have had some doubts, too. What in the world was God up to? Was this some very unfunny cosmic joke? A prank? Punishment? If so, for what?

As Lewis and I have tried to sort out this Christmas, with family and dear friends living in fi ve different states, I have been, in turn, frus-trated, sad and hopeful. I was fi nally reminded by my daughter Eden of the loveli-

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ness of the problem: having lots of people I love! She assured me that all will be well; we all love each other, we will get together as we can. It will be Christmas no matter what.

I remember so well the Christmas many years ago when the sister of an in-law had no place to be on Christ-mas Eve and was included in our celebration and gift-giving. I will never forget her saying with a sigh, “It’s Christmas, after all.”

As I have looked forward to and prepared for this Christmas, I have tried to be very careful to leave room in my schedule – in my plans, my, mind, my heart – for the Christ Child!

FAITH NOTES ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will off er two

Christmas Eve Candlelight Services: 5 p.m. informal service

with families and children in mind; 8 p.m. traditional service

with Christmas music by the Chancel Choir. Warren Pearson will

provide special music during the 11 a.m. service Sunday, Dec. 28.

Refreshments and fellowship will begin at 10. No evening service.

Info: 690-1060, www.beaverridgeumc.org.

■ Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike, will hold Christmas

Eve services at 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. with limited childcare available

at the 3:30 service only.

■ First Lutheran Church, 1207 N. Broadway, will host the follow-

ing special services: Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 24; Christmas Day service, 10:30 a.m. Thursday,

Dec. 25; Worship service, 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 28; New Year’s

Eve service, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31. Communion will be

served at all services. The public is invited.

At Christmastime, more will be said about the birth of Jesus than at any other time of the year. Yet each year I can’t help but be a bit disturbed by all the biblical ignorance and inaccuracies associated with the birth of our Savior.

When it comes to one of the most fundamental ten-ants of Christianity – the incarnation of Jesus – and one of the most pivotal historical events that ever occurred, I fi nd that many cannot discern between fact and faction.

As fundamental as the birth of Jesus is, people do not really know the account of his birth as well as one might think.

Doubt me? Then give the following quiz a shot and see how well you do:

True or False: The angel Gabriel appeared to Joseph to inform him that Mary was with child.

True or False: The Bible says that three wise men came to the manger to wor-ship and give gifts to Jesus.

True or False: The wise men were kings from the Orient.

True or False: A bright star appeared in the sky and led the shepherds and the wise men to the manger.

True or False: The shep-herds and the wise men were present on the night of Jesus’ birth.

True or False: The trans-lation of the word “Imman-uel” is “Savior.”

True or False: Jesus was born in Jerusalem.

True or False: An inn-keeper told Mary and Jo-seph that there was no room in the inn, thus Jesus was born in a manger.

Okay, so how did you

By Nancy AndersonGrace Baptist Church

produced an amazing Christmas program, re-plete with humor and a 100-member choir.

The service was free with over 2,500 in attendance.

Worship pastor Jason Breland opened the show, inviting the audience to participate by clapping and singing along. “Those of you in the balcony are closer to God, so we expect great things from you.”

They complied.There was a full orches-

tra with horns, strings and percussion on a stage packed with musicians and singers. Humor was plenti-ful with skits by the pastoral staff and a hilarious version of “Jingle Bells.”

Nationally known re-cording artist Alicia Wil-liamson Garcia captivated the crowd with her hand-

clapping, foot-stomping music.

Garcia shared an excerpt from John 10:10, a message that moved the audience to cheers and remained with many long after the closing. Audience members were overheard in the parking lot repeating her words, “New Life, new hope, new joy. Je-sus said ‘I’ve come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.’ Isn’t that wonderful?”

Roy Webb, a popular Christian pianist who has performed at the White House, took the stage to accompany the orchestra playing “Carol of the Bells,” a song made popular by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

“Elvis” opened an unusu-al interpretation of “Jingle Bells” that included a Ca-ribbean dancing duo, an opera-singing Viking and cancan dancers.

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do? Did anyone get them all right? Did you get a passing grade? Well, if you answered any of the questions with a “True,” you were mistaken. Every statement is false for one reason or another. Open your Bible and check it for yourself.

What I have discovered through the years is that it is surprisingly easy for us to believe as fact, what is in re-ality, fi ction.

Furthermore, this “fi c-tion” is sometimes propa-gated by religion. How many church lawns and “Christmas” re-enactments will portray a nativity scene which inaccurately portrays the biblical account?

But now here’s my point: If we can be misinformed about something as funda-mental as the birth of Jesus, what’s to make us think we cannot be misled regarding other religious matters?

Friends, make sure your faith is not based on what others have told you, but rather make sure your faith is based on what you know to be true from your own personal study.

Let the “fi ction” you see perpetuated on church lawns and in church pag-eants this holiday season be a reminder and a warning to you to do your own Bible study, and to never be con-tent with what others say.

“Prove all things; Hold fast what is good.” (1 Thes-salonians 5:21)

Taylor Rose, Hayden Dye and Hannah Massengill patiently wait while nearly 100 more mem-

bers of the children’s choir take their places to sing a sweet rendition of “Happy Birthday Jesus.”

Alicia Williamson Garcia captivates the crowd with her hand-

clapping, foot-stomping soulful gospel music during the

Christmas at Grace program. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Roy Webb accompanies the Grace Baptist Church orchestra

playing “Carol of the Bells.”

Elvis was in the building to open an unusual and highly enter-

taining interpretation of “Jingle Bells.”

Grace Christian Academy varsity cheerleaders kick the “Jingle Bells” fi nale into high gear. Pictured are Abbie Kirkwood, Kendall

Poplin, Grace Dotson and Koree Hewett

Grace Baptist celebrates with song

William Pendergrass chisels

a piece of wood as his father,

Joe, and Matt Smith watch.

Ginny Hill tells the story of David and Goliath to a group of

children at the Walk Through Bethlehem at Church Street

UMC. Photos by Justin Acuff

‘Walk Through Bethlehem’

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A.L. Lotts Elementary School fourth graders Hayden Phillips, Cristian Blanco, Katie Beshaw, Christopher Bussen, Ashlyn McEl-

haney and Bryan Utomo purchase gifts for a person in need with parent volunteer Lynne Blanco and teacher Kathy Alexander.Photos by S. Barrett

Hayden Phillips, Ashlyn McElhaney and Christopher Bussen are served dinner by their teacher, Kathy Alexander.

Former UT quarterback and Denver Broncos stand-out Peyton Manning knows how to give back. Through his PeyBack Foundation, Manning helps promote the future success of disad-vantaged youth by assisting programs that provide lead-ership and growth opportu-nities.

While at UT, Manning would visit classrooms at Beaumont Magnet Academy and work with students. Since his graduation, he has given back to the commu-nity and now has expanded his generosity through Knox County Schools.

Last week, the founda-tion donated $15,000 in gas cards to area schools, and the staff at each school will distribute the cards to fami-lies in need.

“In the past we have put one card each with our school Angel Tree recipi-ents’ gifts,” said social work-er Mimi Jackson from Dog-wood Elementary. “Parents knew that they were getting gifts for their children, but when they saw the gas card, many were moved to tears.”

Schools splitting the do-

Sarah Moore Greene Magnet

Academy assistant principal

Dexter Murphy shows the

bundle of gas cards his school

received thanks to Peyton

Manning’s Peyback Founda-

tion. Photo by R. White

Manning promotes student success

nation included Beaumont Magnet Academy, Belle Morris, Christenberry, Dog-wood, Green Magnet Acad-emy, Inskip, Lonsdale, May-nard, Norwood, Pond Gap, Sarah Moore Greene Mag-net Academy, Spring Hill, South Knox and West View.

– Ruth White

SCHOOL NOTES

West Hills Elementary ■ Link your Food City ValuCard, Kroger Plus Card and Target

Red Card to West Hills Elementary and help raise money for

the school. The school also participates in the General Mills

“BoxTops for Education” program and the Campbell’s “Labels

for Education” program. Clip out the Box Tops and Labels for

Education and drop them off at the school or mail to: West

Hills Elementary, 409 Vanosdale Road, Knoxville, TN 37909.

As she stands in her kitchen preparing min-iature pizzas shaped like Christmas trees, Kathy Alexander looks up and smiles. “I live for this,” she said. “This is the highlight of my Christmas.”

Teacher’s tradition: students’ memories

For the past 21 years, Alexander has served her fourth graders dinner at her house after taking them shopping for folks in need. The students earn what they spend by doing odd jobs at home and around the com-munity.

“I want kids to own this and learn a lesson from it,” said Alexander. “There are a million lessons in this. … It is a math lesson on us-ing the calculator and bud-geting, it is a cooperative group lesson as they need to work together on picking out clothing and toys, and it is a lesson in etiquette and social awareness.”

“This is a great way for the kids to get involved in what Christmas is about,” said parent volunteer Lynne

Blanco, who drove the stu-dents to the store for Alex-ander. In years past, Alex-ander would transport thestudents herself. But timeshave changed, and now par-ents chauffeur small groupsof students after passing abackground check. But Al-exander wouldn’t want itany other way.

“I enjoy very much hav-ing my students away fromschool, knowing them ona different level and themknowing me on a differentlevel,” she said, placing astar-shaped pepperoni atthe top of each pizza tree.“They bond as a class. Whenwe sell coupon books at thebeginning of the year, wesell them as a group in frontof Kroger.

“We all work together onit.”

As Alexander puts thepizzas in the oven, her stu-dents fi nish wrapping theitems they purchased andplace them under Alexan-der’s tree. They comple-ment the formal diningarea where they’ll havetheir pizza. “I’ve never eatensomewhere this fancy!” ex-claimed one student.

Hearing her students in arelaxed atmosphere makesAlexander smile. “I don’t getall that at school, because Ihave to make them work,”she said.

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By Anne HartTom Daughtrey has been

elected to lead the Rotary Club of Bearden as presi-dent starting in July 2015.

Other offi cers will be Ted Hotz, president-elect; Dick Hinton, vice-president; Charlie Biggs, secretary; and Keely Ritchie, treasur-er.

New board members will be Jason Fields, adminis-tration; Stuart Anderson, service; Leo Knight, pub-lic relations; Bo Sutton, membership; Wayne Un-derwood, Rotary Founda-tion; Janice Mitchell, youth services; Gary West, past president; and Phil Parkey, director at large.

Special guests at last week’s club meeting were Mike Kitchens and Daniel Johnson of Smoky Moun-tain Service Dogs, who brought along one of their trainees, an extraordinarily well-behaved 18-month-old black Labrador named Ni-tro.

Kitchens explained that the organization trains ser-vice dogs – primarily Lab-radors and retrievers – who are then matched with indi-viduals who have physical disabilities and/or psycho-logical disorders.

Most recipients are this country’s wounded warriors who fought in Iraq and Af-ghanistan, but the organi-zation also works with chil-dren with autism.

At Western Kentucky University, service dogs split their time, working with autistic students in the

morning and with disabled veterans in the afternoon.

Each dog is trained to respond to the spe-cifi c needs of the re-cipient and is taught correspond-ing com-mands. As

examples, the dogs can be trained to open doors, pick up a cane or crutch, or fetch medication. The dog is with its owner 24 hours a day and must become accustomed to going everywhere its owner goes.

Kitchens said it takes approximately 1500 hours of training over about two years to train a service dog and that not all dogs taken into the program are able to complete the course. “For instance, some dogs just don’t like the revolving doors at airports,” he said.

Smoky Mountain Service Dogs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofi t organization staffed 100 percent by 40 to 50 volun-teers with three profession-al trainers. There is no paid administrative staff.

Kitchens said the orga-nization’s business model allows for 96 percent of do-nations to be used directly for training the dogs. The remainder is used primarily for veterinary fees, food and treats for the dogs.

Info: www.smokymoun-tainservicedogs.org, where donations may be made through PayPal.

By Bonny C. MillardEntrepreneurs wanting

to create or expand their businesses face chal-lenges, but a relatively new orga-nization is here to help.

T h e K n o x v i l l e E n t r e p r e -neur Cen-

ter (KEC), a nonprofi t that opened in April 2013, pro-vides mentoring, training and support for startup businesses. Jim Biggs, exec-utive director, spoke to the

Rotary Club of Knoxville.“We are the resource for

anyone wanting to start or grow a company here.”

KEC is a “public and private partnership. We get money from the city of Knoxville, from the state through Launch Tennessee and from a variety of pri-vate combinations, and now we’re starting to bring on corporate sponsors who see the value of what we’re try-ing to do.”

KEC covers a 16-county region and serves as a con-nection to other entrepre-neurs, businesses and orga-nizations.

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Jim Biggs

Daughtrey

Jean Baird, retiring after 60 years in the banking business, welcomes guests to her retirement

party at Regions Bank’s Knollwood Branch on Bearden Hill. Photo by A. Hart

Pictured at Slamdot’s ribbon-

cutting are web developers

Brittney Clevenger and Jes-

sica Jones, web consultant

Wade McLemore, chief oper-

ating offi cer Daniel Monday,

founder and chief executive

offi cer Sean Christman, his

wife, Elizabeth, and their 2

1/2-year-old son, Sean Jr., with

well-wishers cheering in the

background. Photos by S. Barrett

Slamdot founder and CEO Sean Christman and

chief operating offi cer Daniel Monday get a

visit from Rocky Top Air owner and Slamdot

client Gerald Allison, dressed as Santa Claus.

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By Anne HartShe has devoted 60 years

to the banking business she loves, but on her way out the door Jean Baird proved she’s still a kid at heart.

“I told my boss I didn’t want any more diamonds, I wanted a bicycle,” she says with a laugh.

After all, the Regions Bank employee with the longest employment re-cord already has a box full of diamond service pins. This time she wanted one of those cute green bikes the bank uses in its marketing program.

Of course that request was fulfi lled – plus a whole lot more. The bank’s Knox-ville management team even surprised her with a “Regions green” bowling ball.

For two full days last week, employees of the Knollwood offi ce of Regions on Bearden Hill hosted a farewell reception. A steady stream of customers came to bid a fond farewell to their favorite banker and were greeted with a sump-tuous spread of holiday food and drink.

And the question was asked: Does she plan to ac-tually ride that bike? “You bet I do,” she replied. “I’m going everywhere.”

And bike-riding isn’t all the energetic retiree has on her schedule.

The fi rst female mem-ber of the Rotary Club of Bearden, she has a 29-year perfect attendance record, and says she is thrilled that she is fi nally going to have time for more of the volun-teer work club members do in the community.

“For starters, I’m go-

By Sara BarrettSlamdot has offi cially

opened its new location in Northshore Village at 2053 Thunderhead Road.

The web design and host-ing group was founded in 2005 and has about 900 clients, ranging from mom and pop stores to large cor-porations.

Rocky Top Air owner and Slamdot client Gerald Al-lison attended the ribbon-cutting and had nothing but praise for the folks who built his website. Allison ex-pected several meetings and a long, involved process, but said he met with the folks at Slamdot one time for an ini-tial consultation, and every-thing afterward was done online. He said his business has benefi tted from Slam-dot’s ongoing support and training in “Slamcamps,” which are customized train-ing sessions in small group settings.

Originally based in downtown Knoxville, the company moved westward “for a number of reasons,” said web consultant Wade McLemore. “We’re a grow-ing company, so we need more space. This is conve-

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ing to be delivering Meals on Wheels, which I haven’t been able to do because of my work schedule. I’m really looking forward to that.”

Another big change will be her focus on specifi c va-cation dates. A major fan of the UT women’s basket-ball team who sports “Big Orange” attire throughout both the football and bas-ketball seasons, Baird notes she won’t have to plan her vacation around the Final Four in the future. But you can bet she’ll be there if the UT women are.

She says she’ll continue with her bowling league, “and I’m going to try to im-prove my golf game so I can play with Bob.” That’s her husband, Bob Baird, who was an electrical engineer at TVA and retired long ago.

The ever-supportive Bob may be in for one surprise, though. “He’s trying to give

me back the kitchen, but I’ve told him I can’t take it back because I signed a non-compete clause.” She sounds pretty sure about that.

A branch team leader with Regions, Jean Baird’s banking career began in 1954 in Cleveland, Tenn. Af-ter graduation from Bradley County High School, where she was a star of the basket-ball team, she started work-ing as a proof clerk for a lo-cal bank.

Over the years since, she has worked for a series of banks that merged and acquired other banks until fi nally becoming Regions. She has always worked closely with her customers, earning her numerous acco-lades over the years.

Kathy Eaves, a human resource generalist with Re-gions in Knoxville, echoes what so many of Baird’s

friends and customers say: “She always has a smile and is so willing to help.” Eaves said Regions “is very appre-ciative of the community’s support of her.”

Jean and Bob Baird have a son, Dr. Michael Baird, an anesthesiologist with Park West Hospital, four grand-children and one great-grandchild.

So here’s wishing a spec-tacularly happy retirement to Jean Baird, the woman who knows a shiny new bike is a lot more fun than a bunch of shiny rocks.

“One of the goals is to provide a more collabora-tive framework to try and build bridges …” Biggs said, “so that the entrepreneurs we’re trying to serve have an idea of where to start and who is the right connection for them to grow that busi-ness.”

KEC held “Startup Day” to celebrate entrepreneur-ship in Knoxville.

“Our belief is that start-ups and entrepreneurs add social and economic value to the community,” Biggs said. “The economic value is pretty straightforward: jobs, revenues. They attract outside investors.”

Info: knoxec.com.

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Alan Turing (Benedict Cum-berbatch) works on a machine that will break the Nazis’ Enig-ma in “The Imitation Game.”

By Betsy PickleTwo intense stories are

at work in “The Imitation Game.”

The fi rst is Britain’s race to unravel the mysteries of Nazi Germany’s Enigma coding machine during World War II. The second is the lifelong emotional and sometimes physical assault on mathematical genius Alan Turing, who took the lead on breaking Enigma but suffered greatly as a gay man because of his coun-try’s laws against homosex-uality.

The movie jumps around in time, framed by an inter-rogation of Alan (Benedict Cumberbatch) after the war, when his home has been burglarized but nothing seems to be missing. A zeal-ous police detective, Robert Nock (Rory Kinnear), be-comes suspicious when he is unable to learn what Alan did during the war and sus-

By Betsy PickleBefore the novel

and stage smash “Wicked,” before the TV fantasies “Once Upon a Time” and “Grimm,” the-ater had “Into the Woods,” a dark fairy-tale mash-up that united charac-ters from “Cinder-ella,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Rapunzel” into one bewitching sto-ry. The musical’s col-orful, often-doomed characters and sly lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim won over critics and audiences.

Now, 28 years af-ter the stage debut, comes director Rob Marshall’s fi lm ver-sion of “Into the Woods,” with terrifi c singing and acting by stars such as Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Christine Baranski and Tracey Ull-man and a host of lesser-knowns.

While it deserves to fi nd a strong following – much more so than the recent “Les

Turing fi lm explores depths of humans, machines

Sturdy ‘Woods’ slyly twists fairy tales

pects him of being a spy.There are several fl ash-

backs to Alan as a youth (played by the appealing Alex Lawther) at school, but the bulk of the screen time is devoted to the adult Tur-ing’s work on building a ma-chine to decode Enigma at Bletchley Park.

Director Morten Tyl-dum, working from Graham Moore’s screenplay, based

on the biography by Andrew Hodges, tends to overdo the friction between Alan and his boss, Commander Denniston (Charles Dance), and between Alan and his colleagues, led by chess champion Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode). But aside from that two-dimensional bent, the characters and plot twists are absorbing and suspenseful.

Keira Knightley is surpris-ingly good as a bright math-ematician stymied by the male-dominated world she inhabits, and Mark Strong is deliciously manipulative as MI6 chief Stewart Menzies.

The weight of the movie is on Cumb erbatch, however, and he carries it brilliantly. He uses Alan’s struggles – with relationships, working with those who are far from

his intellectual equal and creating his early computer – to move the fi lm forward as well as to make Alan sympathetic.

A quote from childhood friend Christopher Morcom (Jack Bannon) is the light that shines on and through Alan throughout his life. It, and the fi lm, testify to the complexity and potential of all human beings.

Miserables” or Marshall’s own “Chicago” – “Into the Woods” lacks a true show-stopping tune to act as a defi ning siren song, which may hinder its popularity with short-attention-span moviegoers.

James Lapine adapted the screenplay from his book for the musical, and with Sondheim’s words and

music the fi lm is a tantaliz-ing spin on familiar stories. The plight of a childless baker (James Corden) and his wife (Blunt) cursed by a witch neighbor (Streep) weaves the classic tales to-gether.

Everyone has some kind of dilemma, and some of the twists and turns are in-deed Grimm (and unsuited

Early presentsFive of the six fi lms hit-

ting town this week – “Big Eyes,” “The Gambler,” “The Imitation Game,” “Into the Woods” and “Unbroken” – will play once or twice to-night (Dec. 24). “Foxcatch-er” arrives Christmas Day.

■ In “Big Eyes,” Amy Ad-ams plays painter Margaret Keane and Christoph Waltz her husband, Walter, who tries to take credit for her work. Tim Burton directed.

■ A literature professor borrows money from his mother and a loan shark to pay off a debt in “The Gambler.” Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, Brie Larson and John Goodman star in a fi lm adapted from the like-titled 1974 fi lm starring James Caan.

■ “Unbroken” tells the story of Olympic distance runner Louis Zamperini, who enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces before the attack on Pearl Harbor and survived for 47 days at sea after a search plane he was on crashed in the ocean, only to be captured by the Japanese, who mistreated and tortured him in a POW camp.

■ “Foxcatcher” stars Steve Carell as eccentric multimillionaire John du Pont, who recruits gold-medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz and his wres-tling-coach brother, David, to train to compete in the Seoul Olympics. Bennett Miller (“Moneyball”) di-rected.

– Betsy Pickle

for little ones). Though there isn’t a “hit” among the songs, the lyr-ics are wonder-ful examples of Sondheim’s clev-er word-smithing and build to an emotional wallop with “No One Is Alone.”

It’s always a joy to hear tal-ented actors like Streep, Blunt and Kendrick show off their pipes, but it’s also fun to discover b r e a k t h r o u g h performers like James Corden (the baker) and Billy Magnus-sen (Rapun-zel’s prince) and youngsters like

Lilla Crawford (Red Riding Hood) and Daniel Huttle-stone (Jack) who can sing as well as act.

“Into the Woods” takes viewers on an engaging journey through atmo-spheric sets and timeless questions. It’s a reminder that “happily ever after” does not come smoothly – or predictably.

The baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) get instructions from the witch (Meryl Streep) that will help them undo a curse in “Into the Woods.”

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Christmas lights and little kids

Google them; no luck. So they’re stored only in my admittedly rose-colored memory.

But they really were spe-cial: red, gold and green curlicues culminating in a spectacular crown in the center.

The most anticipated night for me during Christ-mastime was my family’s tour of lights.

Mama, Daddy and I would bundle up and pile into the Dodge station wagon armed with a ther-mos of hot chocolate. And we’d drive all over town looking at the lights.

As an only child, all I had to do was sit, look, wonder and thrill.

Some of the more mod-ern-minded decorators in those “mad men” days favored pastel-colored wheels and artifi cial silver trees, or monochromatic color schemes. Though I appreciate them now, at the time I didn’t care for them. They didn’t “speak”

to a 5-year-old.For me, the only decora-

tions that mattered were bright lights of red, green, gold and white. Maybe a little blue. I could spot them as we started down a street and couldn’t wait until we were in front of the vivid, glowing colors.

My parents were egali-tarian and wanted me to see how everyone lived, so we didn’t just confi ne our-selves to the “better neigh-borhoods.”

But it didn’t matter to me if those lights were sparkling on a majestic fi r in front of a three-story colonial or gleaming dimly behind a sheet of plastic taped to a cracked window in a wooden shanty. I loved them all.

To this day, though my neighbors in my 100-year-old Fountain City neigh-borhood favor elegant all-white light displays, I still put up colors for the little kids whose parents might be driving by. They’ll be

Here at the Shopper-News, we’re all counting our blessings this week.

Carol Shane

Among mine, I count the fact that I can claim as my hometown not one but two picturesque, charm-ing North Carolina towns. One of them – Waynes-ville – is now a real tour-ist destination, though it had little more than a drugstore and a fi ve-and-dime when I moved there as an adolescent in the late ’60s.

But my little-kid years were spent in the sweet hamlet of Shelby, where there’s still a courthouse in the town square. I took a friend there a few years ago. “It’s Mayberry,” she said.

Shelby has done well; it’s on the National Park Service’s National Regis-ter of Historic Places and has experienced a renais-sance, thanks to several downtown preservation groups.

It was a wonderful place for a child. And the best time of all was Christmas.

Downtown became a fairyland. The lights strung across the streets were the prettiest I’ve ever seen. I’ve tried to

in an SUV, not a station wagon, and they’ll prob-ably be glued to a CGI-saturated adventure on the overhanging DVD screen, or immersed in an adrenaline-pumping computer game.

But I hope they glance up, at least for a few sec-onds. I hope they get a glimmer of that sweeter, gentler kind of thrill.

You can view some Christmas lights yourself this weekend at the Con-cord Park Holiday Festi-val of Lights presented by the Knox County Parks and Recreation.

Every evening except Christmas, from 6-9 p.m., visitors can walk a .75-mile greenway trail to view the spectacular dis-play of several hundred thousand lights. The park staff at The Cove did all the decorating – includ-ing a series of lights co-ordinated to music – and they’ve even provided bonfi res for roasting marshmallows.

What a wonderful place to take your fam-ily and friends! Pets on leashes are welcome, too.

The event runs through Dec. 30. It’s free, but please bring a non-perishable food item for the Love Kitchen, which provides meals and other types of aid to those in need.

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Santa won’t be disappointed with a plate of Panera Bread cookies and some hot choco-late. Photo by Mystery Diner

Santa will probably leave a little something extra in your stocking if you treat him to a Mitten Cookie from Panera Bread. Throw in a Candy Cookie and some hot chocolate, and you might just jump from the naughty to the nice list!

Mystery Diner

Panera is the bakery that grew. The company began in 1981 as Au Bon Pain Co., lo-cated primarily on the East Coast. The purchase of the St. Louis Bread Company in 1993 added 20 bakeries and a change in growth plans.

In May 1999, all Au Bon Pain Co. businesses were sold, and the company was renamed Panera Bread.

Panera is now a bak-ery/café with h o m e m a d e soups, salads and sandwich-es on the menu. Fresh bakery items range from bagels to muffi ns to cof-fee cakes and the specialty cookies. The Mitten Cookie is replaced each season with a “new” seasonal shaped cookie – Easter eggs, jack-o-lan-terns, spring fl owers.

The Mitten Cookie is a shortbread cookie with a

Plate it

Panera Bread

crunchy-sweet icing. Pane-ra’s hot chocolate – both

regular and gourmet – is the perfect accompaniment.

Marvin West

Money trumps tradition. How else can you explain changing the name of the historic Gator Bowl to TaxS-layer Bowl? The online tax prep people started paying the price in 2011. Naming rights were fi nalized this year.

There is a bonus. Because TaxSlayer has invested in NASCAR, because Dale Earnhardt Jr., once drove a TaxSlayer car at Bristol, he’ll be at the bowl to toss the coin. Don’t miss it.

If you are going to Jack-sonville, you might enjoy the $75 coaches’ luncheon on Dec. 31. Rivals will brag on each other. You can sign up for a 5k run or attend the UT pep rally or watch the parade of bands. The big tailgate party costs $50.

Nothing like that hap-pened when I was there.

Long-ago Gator Bowl stuff probably doesn’t mat-ter too much to current Vol-unteers. Even with Butch Jones conducting history class, there can’t be much interest in that great 3-0 Tennessee victory over Tex-as A&M in 1957 dampness and muck.

Bobby Gordon gained more yards (60) than Heis-man Trophy winner John David Crow (46) but Crow is in the Gator Bowl Hall of Fame on his name. Maybe Sammy Burklow should be. He kicked the winning fi eld goal, a 17-yarder, only one of his Tennessee career.

Coach Bowden Wyatt prepared Sammy for the winning moment.

“There’s nothing to it. It’s just like an extra point.”

You need to know that ex-Vol Burklow, from Haz-ard, Ky., became Dr. Sam Burklow, practicing internal medicine in Fresno, Calif.

More history? Bear Bry-ant was the Texas A&M coach, his last game with the Aggies.

Best yarn from that trip was the post-game kicking exhibition in the fashion-able Ponte Vedra Club suite of Robert R. Neyland, then athletic director at Tennes-see. The General had the game ball as a trophy. He and friends, after several glasses of lemonade, decid-

Money trumps Gator Bowl tradition

ed to recreate the moment of triumph.

A somewhat famous guest, Scrappy Moore, Chat-tanooga coach, delivered a mighty kick and broke a big mirror. His second try took out a bay window. Gus Man-ning retrieved the football from the beach.

Weeks later, the Univer-sity of Tennessee received a bill for room damages. Neyland was very unhappy. He wanted to know who the heck did what to tear up the place. Gus reminded him of the indoor fi eld-goal exhibi-tion.

The General said: “Well, there ain’t a damned thing wrong with that. Pay the people.”

Tennessee 18, Syracuse 12 in 1966 was a bit more conventional. Dewey War-ren threw for 244 yards with touchdowns to Rich-mond Flowers and Austin Denney. Floyd Little rushed for 216 yards and Larry Csonka gained 114. The play I remember best was Paul Naumoff tackling Csonka near the goal to preserve the victory.

Tennessee lost to Flori-da, 14-13, in 1969 in Doug Dickey’s last game as coach of the Volunteers. Don’t get me started on that.

Tennessee routed Vir-ginia Tech, 45-23, in 1994. James Stewart scored three touchdowns. Peyton Man-ning completed several passes.

Back when the Gator Bowl was the Gator Bowl, there were other landmarks. Ohio State coach Woody Hayes threw a forearm at a Clemson receiver and got fi red the next morning. Bobby Bowden coached his fi nal game for Florida State at the old arena.

That was before Ever-Bank Field and TaxSlayer. I suppose money makes things better.

THROUGH SUNDAY, JAN. 4 ■ Holidays on Ice presented by Home Federal Bank, on

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FRIDAY, DEC. 26 ■ Movie & Popcorn: “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 10 a.m.-noon,

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB December 24, 2014

NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Centerwishes you and your familya wonderful holiday season

and a happ y new year.

fsregional.com • (865) 673-FORT

Amy Taylor, pictured here on vacation with her son, Bryce, came to Fort Sanders Regional Medi-

cal Center earlier this year due to crippling hip, leg and back pain. Now, she’s back on her feet

thanks to Dr. Yau and the team at the Joint Center of Fort Sanders Regional.

Local entrepreneur receives ‘excellent care’ during two hip surgeriesAs an interior designer of professional of-

fi ce spaces, Amy Taylor of Knoxville knows how to make her clients comfortable at work.

But several years ago Taylor became very uncomfortable herself, whether sitting or standing. She had severe pain in her back and hips that made it diffi cult to bend and walk.

“I had a lot of lower back pain and leg pain. It progressed to hip pain, deep pain, in my back and lower legs. At night, I couldn’t sleep on my side. I’d wake up with a lot of hip pain,” she said.

“It got to the point where I came home and went straight to the recliner and put my legs up, because that was the most comfort-able position. I used to walk daily, but all of that stopped – going to the park or going outdoors. It defi nitely affected my level of exercise and activity.”

Taylor was diagnosed with femoroac-etabular impingement, or FAI, of the hip. It’s a condition in which the ball of the fe-mur (thigh) bone isn’t perfectly round and with activity patients can experience pinch-ing, tearing and premature wear. This can damage the cartilage of the both the ball and socket and, ultimately, lead to bone-on-bone arthritis.

“But not everyone needs a hip replace-ment,” said Dr. Paul Yau, an orthopedic surgeon at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “Caught early enough, tears can be repaired, the hip can be made round and balance can be restored to the joint. With modern techniques in hip arthroscopy, we can accomplish a lot of work through three tiny incisions.

“Hips are much like tires. If they’re not round, they’ll wear out sooner,” said Yau. “A lot of what I do is similar to being a me-chanic. If your tires are out of balance, you balance them to help them run smoother and last longer. If there is a hole or a tear, repair it. But if your treads are completely worn, it makes the most sense to replace the whole tire.”

Tips on how to avoid joint injuries

■ Avoid doing too much, too soon. Never increase the length of your workouts by more than 10 percent from one week to the next, and never increase both the length and intensity of your workout at the same time.

■ Maintain strength in the muscles surrounding the joint area. To strengthen the knees, do calf raises, lunges, squats and leg lifts.

■ Train smart by cross-training. Repetitive-motion injuries caused by doing just one sport or workout are some of the most common. You can prevent them by doing different sports or activities that work differ-ent muscles.

■ Never skip your warm-up or cool down. Tight or stiff muscles around a joint will make the area more prone to injury.

■ Always use proper technique and body mechanics when playing sports involving repetitive motion, such as tennis and golf. Taking lessons from a certifi ed coach or trainer every once in a while can help you learn and stick with proper form, which can reduce your injury risk substantially.

■ Keep in shape. A high cardiovas-cular fi tness level is crucial to avoid joint injuries. Otherwise, as you tire your form can fail and your joints carry unbalanced weight.

■ Be sure to wear proper shoes that provide adequate support during exercise.

A closer look at direct anterior hip replacementFort Sanders Regional Medical Center

is among only 15 percent of U.S. hospitals with the staff and facilities available to per-form the latest approach in hip replacement surgery, called direct anterior hip replace-ment.

In this procedure, the surgeon goes through the front (anterior) portion of the hip, instead of the side or back. This allows the surgery to sepa-rate important muscles and tendons instead of cutting through them to position a new hip joint implant.

“When I fi rst started do-ing hip replacement surgery this way, I thought it was

just another option to access the joint, but people have done amazingly well with this approach,” said Dr. Paul Yau, an orthopedic surgeon with Fort Sanders Regional Medi-cal Center.

“With traditional hip replacements, we have to cut muscles or tendons, which pro-longs the recovery process and may require limitations on hip motion,” said Yau. “It

is common to hear patients being told not to bend at the hip more than 90 degrees, squat, reach to the fl oor or cross your legs after hip replacement because it would risk a dislocation.

“With the anterior approach, none of these typical ligaments are cut, which means all of these common activities are safe, im-mediately after surgery,” Yau explained.

The anterior approach does require a specialized surgical table and intraoperative X-rays.

“The specialized table allows for safe leg placement not possible with a traditional surgical table,” said Yau. “This unique table improves access to the hip joint and permits the use of intraoperative X-rays to ensure accurate implant position.

“Traditionally, leg length discrepancies are a well-known complication after total hip replacement. The use of live, real-time imaging during surgery allows the surgeon to make both legs balanced and symmetric in length,” he said. “This means the implant will last longer. I no longer say you have to be a certain age to get a hip replacement.”

With the anterior approach, the patient

should expect usually one or two nights in the hospital.

“Some people even go home the same day,” said Yau. “People recover so much faster, it’s unbelievable.”

Yau said he began doing the anterior surgery routinely about a year ago and uses it today for about 95 percent of his hip re-placement and repair surgeries.

“It does require special facilities and a trained staff, which we have at Fort Sand-ers. There are a lot of moving parts to the surgery and they all need to be coordinated or you’ll have problems,” he said.

Studies have backed up Yau’s opinion of anterior hip replacement.

“You know how progress tends to hap-pen in increments?” he asked. “I want to say this is a giant leap instead of an incremen-tal one in orthopedic surgery. I haven’t seen anything this dramatically improve people’s outcome from surgery, ever.”

For more information on

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Taylor tried steroid injections to calm the pain, without success. So she went to see Dr. Yau.

Even though Taylor is only 42 years old, Yau suggested replacing both of her hips with artifi cial joints.

“Yes, it is quite unusual to be that young and need replacement surgery. I certainly spend a lot of time repairing and saving hip joints when possible. However, past a cer-tain point, replacement surgery has a much better chance of providing decades of pain relief. Recent data show the average age of hip replacement patients has dropped be-low age 50 and Amy’s not far from that,” said Yau.

Taylor had her hips replaced one at a time, one side in late August 2014 and the second two months later.

Both were done at Fort Sanders, with Taylor staying just one night in the hospi-tal each time. Taylor was able to go home so quickly because Yau used a minimally invasive technique called direct anterior hip replacement.

It requires only a 4-inch incision, and the muscles and tendons are spread apart to make room for the new hip joint instead of cutting them. This leads to a quicker re-covery.

Yau does a high volume of direct anterior hip replacements each year.

“This is a much easier way for patients to recover from hip replacement surgery,” said Yau. “I have some patients where I did one hip the old way and then we did the other one the new (anterior) way, and patient feedback reports the new way is about 70 to 80 percent easier.”

Taylor said in both surgeries, she felt dramatically better quickly. “In both cases by the third week I felt so much better and was off all my pain meds,” she said.

She is going through physical therapy to strengthen her muscles again after years of not exercising.

“I still have some back pain; I have a limp in my gait,” she said. “Dr. Yau recommend-ed I go to some physical therapy because my muscles are weak because I haven’t used them for two years. The pain in my hips is gone, and right now I just have muscle re-lated pain.”

Taylor said she would recommend Fort Sanders to anyone facing hip surgery.

“Dr. Yau is so personable,” said Taylor. “He talks to you, listens to you. He talked to my husband. He called me after the surgery and stayed in touch.

“Dr. Yau and Fort Sanders did a great job. The care at Fort Sanders was outstanding,” said Taylor. “They were very attentive to any needs I had, all very knowledgeable, with excellent care. I’ve already recommended them to about three of my friends.”

Paul Yau, MD

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By Sara BarrettRick Angel and Jerry

Amiot open their home each year to share their extensive and elaborate Christmas decorations with hundreds of strangers. Nonprofi t or-ganizations contact them to host fundraisers in their home, and Amiot and Angel do so free of charge.

Amiot and Angel guide visitors through their house one room at a time. Thou-sands of hand-blown glass ornaments hang from holi-day trimmings, wreaths and Christmas trees in every nook and cranny.

“We start in October and set up the trees and garland, and then we let it set for two weeks and decide which or-naments to put out,” said

Amiot.This year only one of

the home’s three fl oors is decorated; in years past each room in the house was fi lled to the brim. “We have always just been partial to Christmas,” said Angel.

The couple started col-lecting more than 30 years ago while running a fl oral shop in California. They tell stories of their life’s ex-periences while walking through their house, look-ing at each ornament as if it is part of the memory. Betty White, Elton John and Lady Gaga’s signatures can be seen as well as pieces they received from designer Christopher Radko and sev-eral ornament companies from around the world,

most of them hand-deliv-ered.

Characters from Dis-ney and Warner Bros. deck the halls next to trees fi lled with hand-blown glass bugs from Poland. Hundreds of fi nial tree-toppers stand among nativity scenes, and wire armature elves climb the balcony rail. There is even a Christmas tree in the bathtub.

“Honey, when this stuff gets in your blood, you have to do it,” said Amiot of having inspiration strike. “When we are putting our Christmas collection out, our friends won’t come near us,” he said with a laugh.

After Christmas, it takes the men three days to dis-mantle their displays, and

Jerry Amiot and Rick Angel hold an ornament hand-painted

for them by an artist in Poland. It includes an image of them

standing on their front porch. Photos by S. Barrett

A display of 50 glass fi nials greets guests.

Christopher Radko’s orna-

ment A Shy Rabbit’s Heart

from 1993 benefi tted the

AIDS Foundation of Los An-

geles.

A wonderland of Christmas trees surrounds the mantel just outside the kitchen.

they don’t think about it again until the following autumn. They never know

from year to year if they’ll continue decorating, “but we’ve not failed yet in 33 years,” said Amiot.

“As long as it benefi ts others, we’ll do it,” said Amiot. A special story they share is of a benefi t they hosted while in California. Instead of guests bringing gifts for the hosts, they were asked to bring items fes-tively wrapped that could be given to the local AIDS hospice house, where many

residents would enjoy a fi nal Christmas. The day after the party, Amiot and Angel delivered more than two truckloads of gift-wrapped supplies to the hospice’s front door. A festivelywrapped kitchen sink was even included for a needed renovation.

“We want to give peoplea reason to give joyfully,” said Angel. “We’re happy we were able to start something like this.”

By Ruth WhiteThanks to the Helen

Ross McNabb Center, May-or Tim Burchett, KCDC, United Way, Federal Home Loan Bank, the Veterans Administration and a host of donors, volunteers and community partners, eight homeless veterans will have a place to call home by Christmas.

Pat Polis, pastor of Wash-ington Pike United Meth-odist Church, blessed the event and the home, say-ing “today we are making a difference.” Jerry Vagnier, president and CEO of Helen Ross McNabb, added that he and his staff were “hon-ored to deliver this kind of

Present at the ribbon-cutting are Randy Boyd, Helen Ross

McNabb president and CEO Jerry Vagnier, HRM board chair Su-

san Conway, assistant director of housing and support services

Jana Morgan and Mayor Tim Burchett. Photo by R. White

McNabb builds home for eight vets

The Rotary Club of Knoxville has elected its 2015-16 board of directors, which will be led by president Sandy Martin, retired president of Corporate Interiors Inc., when the board begins its term July 1.

Allen Pannell, owner of Allen Pannell LLC, is president-elect and member-ship director. Edwin A. Anderson of Cannon & Anderson, Attorneys, is vice president and communications director.

Bill MacGrath, senior vice presi-dent and fi nancial adviser with Pin-nacle Financial Partners, is secretary.

Jennifer A. Sepaniak, chief fi nancial offi -cer for Schaad Companies, is treasurer and chair of the Financial and Audit Committee.

Outgoing president Roy King, M.D., a dermapathologist with Dermapathology Partners PC, will represent past presidents.

Other directors are: Jim Decker, chief executive director of Medic Regional Blood Center; Don Hasson, president of House-Hasson Hardware; Jody Mullins, senior district manager for Takeda Pharmaceuti-cal USA Inc.; Brent Midyett, vice president

of DFA/@home audio-video; Tiffany Walker, vice president of Elite Service Mortgage; and Ginny Weatherstone, retiring CEO of the Volunteer Minis-try Center.

Founded in 1915, the Rotary Club of Knoxville is among the oldest and

largest Rotary Clubs in Tennessee. The club was instrumental in the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and sponsor of several park projects. It is also the creator and steward of The Rotary Foundation of Knoxville, which provides college scholarships and special projects.

The Rotary Club of Knoxville 2015-16 board of directors: (front) Allen Pannell, Sandra T. Martin,

Roy King; (back) Brent Midyett, Tiff any Walker, Ed Anderson, Jennifer Sepaniak, Ginny Weath-

erstone, Bill MacGrath, Jody Mullins and Jim Decker. Not pictured is Don Hasson. Photo submitted

Rotary Club selects new board

care to veterans.” The new home is located

in the Inskip community at 4821 Coster Road.

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ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS NKC, $1200 & up. Visa & M/C. 423-775-6044 ***Web ID# 503531***

GOLDEN DOODLE adorable fem. puppy,

ready for Christmas. Vet ck. Must See. 423-733-9252

Lab Chocolate Pup-pies, born 12/5, Parents on prem. Ready mid Jan. Taking dep. $200. 931-544-3321.

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles,

Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots

& wormed. We do layaways. Health guar. Div. of Animal Welfare

State of TN Dept. of Health.

423-566-3647

SHIH TZU pups, CKC reg., home raised, health guar., S&W, M-$350, F-$500. Call 865-406-0042.

***Web ID# 503900***

Standard Poodles AKC, 3 crm color F, 1 blk/

wht M, Ready Christmas. 865-591-7220.

Dogs 141St. Bernard/Great Pyreenes mix puppies,

7 wks old, beautiful. $125. 423-869-7888; 865-585-4943

***Web ID# 502642***

YORKIES AKC, Ch. lns, quality M & F. Also taking dep. for Christmas., Health Guar. 865-591-7220

Free Pets 145

ADOPT! Looking for an addi-tion to the family?

Visit Young-Williams Animal Center, the official shelter for

Knoxville & Knox County.

Call 215-6599 or visit

knoxpets.org

Farmer’s Market 1501947 FARMALL H,

wide front, 3 pt. hitch, $2800. Call 865-475-1182.

BLACK HEIFERS & BULLS 865-856-3947

GRAIN FED HOGS 350 lbs. 90¢ a lb.

live weight. Call 865-992-4524.

Building Materials 188310 PCS. of 5.25x x6x16'

glass shield tech-nology decking. $16 per board. Fire resistant, structurally stronger, waterproof. 423-569-8062

Apparel/Acc. 201Women's Harley

Davidson XL suede leather fringed jacket $350; matching XL chaps $150. Harley Davidson women's sz 10 boots $100. 865-719-8262 lv msg

Household Furn. 204MODERN Light oak Dining rm. Set w/leaf, 4 cushion chairs. Like new. $250 obo. 865-690-8558.

OTTOMAN / coffee table, black leather, 60x24, exc. cond. $250. 865-216-0375

Household Appliances 204aGE WASHER, Top

load, high energy, 1 1/2 yrs. old. $300. Call 865-579-9738.

Games/Toys 206

San Francisco Atari Rush the Rock, Al-zatraz Ed. 2 seats. $650. 865-365-1497

Exercise Equipment 208Nordictrack Eliptical

mod. NTEL00909. Great cond. Hardly used. 20 built in workouts. 15 built in resistance levels. $500. 865-966-6229

Medical Supplies 219ADJUSTABLE BED,

twin size, like new, $625 obo. Call 865-457-4955.

Boats Motors 232HURRICANE Sundeck

mod. 237 2006, Ya-maha 200 HP 4 stroke / trailer, Bimini top, mooring cover, front & side curtains. $24,500. 716-474-5894

Campers 2352012 Jay Feather Ultra

LT camper, 23', sleeps 8, slide out dinette, lots of storage, $17,500. 865-318-2981

***Web ID# 501645***

Motorcycles 238Cushman Eagle 1960,

just in time for Christmas, orig.

restored except for eng. $1,000. 865-368-9828 before 7pm

HONDA SHADOW-SPIRIT 2008, red, ONLY 1000 MILES!! Showroom condition! $4995 OBO 865-414-1321

NINJA ZX-6R 2009,

Blue, ONLY 2945 MILES!! Excellent condition! $5650 OBO. 865-414-1321

Utility Trailers 255UTILITY TRAILERS

All Sizes Available 865-986-5626

smokeymountaintrailers.com

Trucks 257DODGE RAM 2014 1500 Express Quad cab 4x2, only 4700 mi. 5.7L Hemi V8, 6 sp. AT, full trailer pkg, spray bedliner, Extang Trifecta bed cover, chrome side steps. Pritius braking syst. for towing. $30,000/b.o. 865-250-4056 ***Web ID# 499109***

4 Wheel Drive 258TOYOTA TACOMA,

4x4, 2000, red, V6, looks & runs great. $6500. 865-201-8357

Antiques Classics 260DODGE DART 1964 2 dr. HT, 6 cyl., exc. cond. Ready for Christmas. $6,000. 865-250-8252.

MERCEDES BENZ 560 SL 1989 Convertible, dark maroon, like new. 25,500 mi, $24,500. 865-453-6344

STREET ROD Project 1929 Chev.

Roadster body & frame + lots of parts. $4500. 865-740-9348; 865-986-8690.

Sport Utility 261CHEVY SUBURBAN

2008 LT-- Z71 pkg, 4x4, loaded, leather, 2nd row bucket seats, 106k mi, wht w/blk int. $23,500 b.o. Private seller. 865-382-0064

GMC TERRAIN 2014 SLE, 2.4L, 22/32 mpg, 4k mi, $20,400. 865-414-2232.

HONDA PILOT 2011 Touring, fully loaded, exc. cond. 40k mi. $20,500. 423-295-5393

Imports 262BMW 328xi 2011, 2 dr,

exc. cond. AWD. 9k mi. $16,900. Phone 423-295-5393

Jaguar XK8 Conv. 1998, runs & drives great, $7900. Total overhaul. 865-521-9112

***Web ID# 502913***

LEXUS ES300 1992, 2nd owner, 125K mi, good cond., $3500. 865-573-5167

Imports 262NISSAN VERSA SL

2009, HB, 81,700 mi. new tires. (Estate Sale) $9000, 865-363-4391.

VW BEETLE 2003, 1.8 turbo charged, AT, 85K mi, $3995. 865-947-8098; 227-7075

Domestic 265Chev. Camaro RS 2010,

immac., gar. kept, TN orange, 44k mi, $18,995. 865-333-9410; 865-333-9409

CHRYS. PT Cruiser GT turbo 2003, very clean, chrome whls, sunrf, lthr, side air bags, Inferno red, 89,027 mi, $8800. 865-680-3729

Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE in-

stallation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328

Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER

SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.

PUBLIC HEARINGFARRAGUT BOARD OF

MAYOR AND ALDERMENwill hold a public hearing on January 8, 2015 • 7:00 PM

Farragut Town Hall11408 Municipal Center Dr

to hear citizens’ comments on the following ordinance:

1. Ordinance14-19, Ordinance to Amend the Town of Farragut Municipal Code Title 16 Streets and Sidewalks by adding Chapter 6 Everett Road Corridor Improve-ment Fee.

LEGAL NOTICEThe Board of MAYOR AND ALDERMEN

OF THE TOWN OF FARRAGUT, at its meeting on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014 adopted the following ordinances

on second and fi nal reading:1. Ordinance 14-14, Ordinance to annex into the corpo-rate boundary of the Town of Farragut and adopt a Plan of Service for Parcel 108, Tax Map 130, 902 N. Campbell Station Road, 1.55 Acres (Kay Wellons, Applicant)

Ordinance 14-18, Ordinance to amend Title 16, Streets and Sidewalks, Etc., Chapter 4, Driveways and Other Ac-cess Ways, Sections 16-402 and 16-403.1-4 of the Farragut Municipal Code, to clarify the requirement for a traffi c impact study in relation to rezoning requests.

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FRIDAY, DEC. 26Knitting Caps for the Homeless, noon-1:30

p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

TUESDAY, DEC. 30Family Movie Night: “Frozen,” 3 p.m., Lawson

McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.Senior Tai Chi, 3-4 p.m., Humana Guidance

Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31New Year’s Eve Celebration, 9 p.m., the Rose

Center Council for the Arts, 442 W. Second North St., Morristown. Featuring the Al Curtis Orchestra. Tickets: $35. Info/tickets: 423-581-4330 or info@rosecenter.org.

New Years on the Square, beginning 11 p.m., Market Square. Ball drop and fi reworks at midnight. Holidays on Ice skating rink open 1 p.m.-midnight. Info: www.cityofknoxville.org/Christmas.

FRIDAY, JAN. 2Opening reception for Art Market Gallery

featured artists for January: Eun-Sook Kim of Oak Ridge and Harriet Smith Howell of Rutledge, 5:30 p.m., Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St. Info: 525-5265, artmarketgallery.net or facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.

SUNDAY, JAN. 4Open house and beginning Taoist Tai Chi

class, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Classes last three months. Info: 482-7761 or www.taoist.org.

Winter Princess Sk8, 4-6 p.m., Cool Sports, 110 S. Watt Road. Pictures with Princess Elsa and Anna available. Info: www.coolsportstn.com, generalinfo@coolsportstn.com, 218-4500.

MONDAY, JAN. 5Open house and beginning Taoist Tai Chi

class, 7-8:30 p.m., Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Classes last three months. Info: 482-7761 or www.taoist.org.

TUESDAY, JAN. 6Computer Workshops: Library Online, 5:30

p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info/to register: 215-8700.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-

9:30 p.m., Knoxville AAA Office, 100 W. Fifth Ave.

Cost: $30 members; $35 nonmembers. Must pre-register. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

THURSDAY, JAN. 8Knoxville Choral Society auditions for all voice

parts, 6-8 p.m. To schedule an audition time: 312-2440 or membership@knoxvillechoralsociety.org. Once a time is set, location and other details will be provided. Info/ audition form: www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org.

FRIDAY, JAN. 9Opening reception for “A Narrative of Light

and Shadow” exhibit featuring the artistry of Taiwan’s female photographers, 5-9 p.m., main gallery of the Em-porium Center, 100 S. Gay St. The exhibit is on display through Jan. 31. Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

Opening reception for a new group exhibi-tion, 5-9 p.m., Balcony gallery, Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Features works by Lynn Corsi Bland, Gatlin-burg; Tony Henson, Kingsport; and Terina Gillette, Beth Meadows, Emily Shane, Tony Sobota and Jennifer Wil-lard of Knoxville. The exhibit is on display through Jan. 31. Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 10Farragut Histories and Mysteries Book

Group meeting, 2 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Allison Stein, professor of history at Pellissippi State, will lead a book discussion for “Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, re-silience, and redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand. Info: 777-1750.

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

Saturday Stories and Songs: Kindermusik, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. For ages birth to 5 years old. Info: 215-8750.

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker in concert, 8 p.m., the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Taoist Tai Chi Society open house, 11 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Tai Chi Center, 1205 N. Central Ave. Features demonstrations and a free lesson. Info: 546-9222 or www.taoist.org.

TUESDAY, JAN. 13Computer Workshop: Introducing the Com-

puter, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info/to register: 215-8700.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 16-17All-level fl atpicking guitar workshop led by

guitarist Steve Kaufman, the three-time winner of the National Flatpicking Championships, 7-9 p.m. Friday and beginning 9:30 a.m. Saturday, MainStay Suites, 361 Fountain View Circle, Alcoa. Preregistration required. Info/to register: Steve, 982-3808 or steve@fl atpik.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 17Diversity Day and Race Against Racism 5K, 11

a.m., YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze St. Sponsorship and registration info: www.ywcaknox.com. Diversity Day or the Race Against Racism info: Alicia Hudson, ahudson@ywcaknox.com.

Farragut Skate Date, 4-6 p.m., Cool Sports: Home of the Icearium, 110 S. Watt Road. Offered by Cool Sports and the town of Farragut as part of the Let’s

Move! Initiative. Info: 218-4500.Introductory Internet Genealogy, 1-3 p.m., East

Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Instructors: Dr. George Schweitzer PhD, ScD and Eric Head, Knox County Archives. Preregistration and a valid email address required. Info/registration beginning Jan. 5: 215-8809.

A Night of Improv, 7-8:30 p.m., Nita Buell-Black Auditorium, Powell High School, 2136 West Emory Road. Presented by the Powell Playhouse. Tickets: $10, ages 5 and under free. Featuring a special Powell Playhouse performance. Ticket info: 947-7428, 256-7428.

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

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

TUESDAY, JAN. 20Computer Workshops: Excel 2007, 2 p.m.,

East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215- 8700.

TUESDAYS, JAN. 20-FEB. 24Pilates class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., community room

in Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Simon Bradbury. Cost: $50. Info/to register beginning Jan. 12: www.townoffarragut.org/register or 218-3375.

SATURDAY, JAN. 24Saturday Stories and Songs: Becca Tedesco, 11

a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

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

West Knox Preschool and Activities Fair, 9:30-11:30 a.m., First Baptist Concord, 11704 Kingston Pike. Hosted by MOMs Club of Farragut. Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/317471285105701/.

SATURDAY, JAN. 31Beginning Genealogy, 1-4 p.m., East Tennes-

see History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Instructor: Ann Blomquist, Med. Preregistration required. Info/to regis-ter beginning Jan. 20: 215-8809.

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

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

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 10-12Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival, on stages set

exclusively along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Features fi rst-timers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Tickets available now. Info/tickets: www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 15-16Sevierville’s Bloomin’ Barbeque & Bluegrass

festival. Featuring the biggest names in bluegrass music, up-and-coming artists, the Bush’s Best Tennessee State Championship Cook-Off, and the Mountain Soul Vocal Competition, foods, handmade crafts and kids’ games. Admission and concerts are free. Info/lodging deals: 889-7415 or www.BloominBBQ.com.

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When 72-year-old Crossville resident Scott Amis was told he would need a metal stent to re-lieve blockage in his artery, he had reservations about going to his local hospital, Cumberland Medical Center (CMC).

“I was pushing Parkwest,” Amis said. “I was think-ing, ‘Wait a minute, I’m not going to let some-body mess around with my heart that doesn’t have any experience.’ ”

However, Amis soon learned that he would be the fi rst benefi ciary of the new partnership between CMC and Park-west’s elite cardiology team. When CMC

joined Covenant Health ear-lier this year, Parkwest car-diologists began training CMC’s staff in low-risk car-diac stents like Amis would receive. The procedures are currently being completed by Parkwest physicians with CMC support staff.

“It went like clockwork. I couldn’t have been more

pleased,” said Amis, who was back on the golf course just days after his discharge from CMC. “Having our community hos-pital able to reach out to larger hospitals like Parkwest helps our community great-ly. I’m so glad I went.”

Sudden cardiac arrest claims a life every two minutes. While coronary perfusion pressure (CPR) is a great tool to keep blood fl owing during cardiac arrest, continuous and effective pressure can be diffi cult to achieve. There is also risk of simple human error, as CPR requires exact pressure and depth at a consistent rate in a specifi c location in order to save a life.

At Parkwest’s emergency department, another option is available for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. The portable Lucas CPR device provides uninterrupted

compressions at the depth and length of time necessary without chance of error. Using a plunger that arcs over the top of the patient and performs compressions, the device eliminates the delays that preparing for and completing manual CPR may cause. Rural/Metro ambulance service has a Lucas CPR device, too.

“It means greater hope for patients,” Brian Braxton, MD, Emergency Department medical director, said. “It’s cutting edge and it’s the best product out there available in major cities.”

Last spring, Chadwick Stouffer, MD, and Thomas Pollard, MD, both members of Covenant Health’s elite TAVR team, gave stu-dents at Christian Academy of Knoxville (CAK) the opportunity to see what they do daily. With a 12-person team in tow, the phy-sicians worked side-by-side with physiology students to explore the anatomy and circulatory systems in pig hearts, which were donated by Edwards LifeSciences in Irvine, Calif. The students were taught to sew part of a heart valve on and were able to ask the physicians questions throughout the process. Pig hearts are so similar in structure and function to the human heart that they are often used as the model for research.

“If you look at the Latin word for doctor, it means teacher – and that’s what we’re doing,” Dr. Stouffer said. “We are not only teaching future healthcare professionals, but we’re also educating the community about what we do. If that can help with health maintenance and have a healthier community around us, then we’re succeeding.”

For patients experiencing severe coro-nary disease like blocked arteries and aortic enlargement, care close to home may seem like a distant hope. However, Parkwest’s car-diac program offers complex surgeries and treatment that many believe are only avail-able in larger cities.

“Short of a heart transplant or having a ventricular assist device put in, there’s really nothing in the realm of cardiac surgery that we can’t do at Parkwest,” Chadwick Stouffer, MD, said. “We have the staff, technology and capability to perform very cutting edge and advanced procedures. From a cardiac surgery standpoint, we can provide all of the services that can be provided

at major institutions like the Cleveland Clinicor Vanderbilt.”

These complex services include TAVRand brachiocephalic debranching, in whichcoronary artery blockages are bypassed andthe patient’s aorta is replaced with a surgicalcloth tube.

“As we do more and more complex opera-tions, I think patients are starting to realizethat they can get the same quality care andoperative care here in Knoxville withouthaving to drive hours away from family and

friends,” Dr. Stouffer said. “I think that really doeshelp in their recovery, not only in the hospital, butalso when they leave.”

Parkwest Cardiac Program excels in 2014

Chadwick

Stouff er, MD

Lucas CPR device off ers better chance of survival

CAK students get lesson in heart surgery

In June 2012, Covenant Health cardiothoracic surgeons began performing Transcath-eter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) surgeries, in which a new heart valve fashioned from a cow’s heart valve is placed into the heart via a long tube inserted through a 4-inch incision on the left side of the chest or through the femoral ar-tery. In 2014, the elite TAVR team reached 100 TAVRs performed on the high-risk patients who need this proce-dure the most.

Eighty-two-year-old James Clark was the recipient of this bench-mark achievement. In addition to a previous open heart surgery, Clark’s age, frailty and gastrointesti-nal bleeding made him an ideal candidate for the TAVR pro-gram. On Feb. 24, he was given a new valve in a little more than an hour by physicians Chad-wick Stouffer, Thomas Pollard and Nicholaos Xenopoulous.

100th TAVR performed at Parkwest

TAVR surgeries continue to be performed by Covenant Health’s elite cardiothoracic team. “We do nearly twice as many TAVR procedures on av-erage, and our mortality rate for the procedure is well below the national median,” said Rick Lassiter, Parkwest CAO.

Complex heart surgery sets Parkwest apart

When Cumberland Medical Center (CMC) joined Covenant Health this year, Crossville resi-dents like Shirley Franklin-Si-mons gained access to the ex-pertise of the elite heart team of Parkwest. After falling in a gro-cery store’s parking lot, Franklin-Simons was given a stress test to determine if her heart had caused the mysterious fall. She had no previous cardiac symptoms.

After being told she would need a heart catheterization, Franklin-Simons spoke with Parkwest Cardiologist Nich-olaos Xenopoulos, MD, who was on

site at CMC as part of the hos-pital’s new connection to Cov-enant Health. Using the toolsand technology at Parkwest, Dr.Xenopoulos determined Frank-lin-Simons would not need astent through a Fractional FlowReserve (FFR) measurement.

“I’m so grateful that he dida special test different than mydoctor, because it showed that Ididn’t need a stent,” Franklin-

Simons said. “I feel blessed that my doc-tor in Crossville referred me to Parkwest in Knoxville. It was a wonderful experi-ence.”

Shirley Franklin-Simons

Parkwest Cardiac Program benefi ts Crossville residents

First Crossville stent placed by Parkwest physician

Just a month later, he was back to walking two miles a day, working in his garden and im-proving his golf game.

Brian Braxton, MD

Sherry and James Clark

Maryville woman’s life changed by TMR surgery

Fifty-four-year-old Theresa Turner was suffering from end-stage coronary artery

disease when Greg Brewer, MD, chief of cardiology at Parkwest, recommended a transmyocardial revascu-larization (TMR) surgery. After three bypasses, three stents and a family history of small arteries, Turner was an ideal candidate for this surgery, in which a computer-guided laser

makes tiny holes in the heart to stimulate the heart muscle to create new blood vessels. It reduces angina, from which Turner was suffering, and improves overall heart func-tion.

“To be brutally honest, I was scared,” Turner said of the procedure. “But every-thing came out beautifully. I can work out for three hours straight now. I haven’t felt this good in years.”

Turner’s TMR was completed by Thomas Pollard, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Parkwest.

Theresa Turner

CAK student

Stephen Pardue

Scott Amis