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By Anne HartImagine, if you can, a breath-

takingly beautiful nautilus shell. And then imagine that it’s yours, to do with as you want. What would be your choice? The choice was easy for local artist, wood-worker and marine archaeologist Jim McNutt.

He crafted a table from Ten-nessee white oak, fi nished it in shades of ocean blue, embedded the shell in the tabletop and added tentacles he carved from African Padauk wood that originated near where the shell was found in Mad-agascar.

The table is just one of McNutt’s

creations in more than 40 years as a woodworker. His interest in ma-rine archaeology has led him to the depths of the ocean in search of sunken relics that feed his pas-sion for ancient wood, especially if it has an interesting story at-tached.

McNutt will open his studio for Dogwood Arts DeTour 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 11, with music, food, door prizes, demonstrations and time to visit with the artist.

Woodstream Hardwoods is at 3636 Division St., between Suther-land Avenue and Middlebrook Pike. Info: www.woodstreamhardwoods.com or 524-0001.

Jim McNutt: local Renaissance manJim McNutt

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By Sandra ClarkTommy Everette, who served

as principal of Karns High School from 1981 when the new high school opened until his retirement in 2000, is remembered as a big man who enjoyed his family, his sports and his career as an educa-tor. He was tall, affable and smart.

Mr. Everette passed away March 26 at age 66. Survivors in-clude his wife, Carolyn, a retired elementary school teacher; daugh-ter Kristi; and son and daughter-in-law Bryan and Margaret Ever-ette and their children, Ben and Makenna. The family requested memorials be made to the Tom-my Everette Scholarship Fund at Gibbs High School, 7628 Tazewell Pike, Corryton TN 37721.

Diane Jablonski remembers Mr. Everette as “extremely help-ful” when she served on the school board. “He gave me great insight into the ins and outs of operating a major high school in Knox County.

“We worked closely together to bring the new baseball complex onto Karns High School campus after the old one was eliminated to build the middle school addition.

“He was so in-tune with every-thing that happened at Karns that it was quite an undertaking to surprise him when we named the sports complex in his honor.”

Fred Russell worked alongside Mr. Everette for seven years when

By Sara BarrettWhen Hardin Valley resident

Alan Zimmerman was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease last June, it was more like Parkinson’s disease was diagnosed with a case of Alan Zimmerman.

“Little did I know Parkinson’s was a life sentence,” said Zimmer-man. “Perhaps that is why I took it calmly and began to read and read and read. Then I decided to give it a run with all I had.”

Zimmerman joined every Face-book group about Parkinson’s, two local support groups and every association mailing list he could fi nd. He also started his own local Facebook group, Knox Area Par-kinson’s Club, cross-posting info from other sources to help spread the word about new fi ndings in re-

search and treatment. “Doctors can’t be expected to

know everything, and this disease strikes everyone so differently,” said Zimmerman. “If you’ve met one person with Parkinson’s, that’s all you’ve met. And who’s more interested in keeping up with re-search: you, or your doctor?”

The determined Zimmerman is now an assistant state director for the Tennessee chapter of Parkin-son’s Action Network, a nonprofi t advocating in Washington, D.C., for the entire Parkinson’s community.

Just last week, he visited Wash-ington to get support for HR 292, the Advancing Research for Neuro-logical Diseases Act that would en-sure funding for proper collection of data on neurological diseases by the Centers for Disease Control.

Making lemonadefrom a truckload of lemons

Everette made big impact in Karns

Russell was principal of Karns In-termediate School. “I can’t begin to explain what a top-notch pro-fessional he was,” he wrote.

Donna Wright, now director

of schools in Wilson County, says Mr. Everette always claimed cred-it for “discovering” her. It started when Wright taught Bryan Ever-ette in seventh grade social stud-

Alan Zimmerman lives with Parkin-

son’s disease, but it doesn’t run his

life. Photo by S. Barrett

U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan has an-nounced his support of the bill.

And Zimmerman plans to at-tend the upcoming People with Parkinson’s Advisory Council meeting and Parkinson’s Unity Walk in New York City.

Zimmerman also helps pro-mote local events to raise aware-ness of the disease.

He is looking for participants for the fourth annual Parkinson’s Walk of East Tennessee to be held 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 25, at Bissell Park Pavilion in Oak Ridge. Registration starts at 9 a.m., and there will be live music, prizes, face-painting for the kids and free health care information. Proceeds will help fund research for the seven major Parkinson’s organizations.

“It’s all going quite well,” said Zimmerman of his own symp-toms. A tremor in his right hand is the only tell-tale sign. He agrees his diagnosis may have been a bit of a blessing because of the oppor-tunities it’s given him to help oth-ers. He has 4,000 friends on Face-book, and he’s always looking for alternative methods of treatment

IN THIS ISSUE

Meeting SeymourActor Ethan Hawke makes

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

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

➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page A-8

‘65 Vols had no place to go

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

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

➤ Read Marvin West on page A-4

Women of Central Baptist host Tu Dia

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

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

➤ Read Wendy Smith on page A-7

Visiting ZimbaweSeveral local Rotarians

recently traveled to Zimbabwe and South Africa to observe projects of their international counterparts, and they were inspired to build relationships through those projects.

➤ Read Bonny Millard on page A-10

UT: Stop brandingWhen the talk turns to

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

It’s time to take the brand-ing iron off the fi re and quit trying to take ownership of athletic and academic excel-lence we have yet to earn.

➤ Read Bill Dockery on page A-5Tommy Everette high fi ves a friend on the night the Karns High School sports complex was named for him. School

board member Diane B. Jablonski (back to camera) joins the celebration. File photo by S. Clark

ies at Gibbs. “He kept his parents informed about the class and for some reason Tommy decided I was a ‘keeper,’” Wright recalls.

to share with them. “If I’ve got three years I can

give all my efforts to this … maybe in 20 years, I’ll write a book,” he said. Info: 482-4867, pk_hopeisalive@bellsouth.net or www.pkhopeisalive.org.

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“We are not required to leave common sense at the door.”

Pratt called witnesses – a traffi c engineer, a Realtor and a property appraiser – to testify that Kingston Pike access to the west parcel could be safe and that the parcels have no “utility” while they’re land-locked. Hale repeated his argument that access isn’t given until a site plan is approved.

C o m m u n i t y Development director Mark Shipley said that access location is decided based on development-specifi c factors like parking and landscaping.

Town engineer Darryl Smith said his biggest concerns about Kingston Pike access to the property are the close proximity of the Urban Engineering driveway and a center lane confl ict with Ingles.

In a discussion that followed testimony, Shipley said that access to a property couldn’t be denied, regardless of traffi c

concerns, once a site plan is approved.

Alderman Ron Honken expressed frustration over two hours of lost time and said he was “dumbfounded” at the applicant’s concern over the denial of Kingston Pike access.

“It was never intended to be a permanent denial of access. I’ve never seen a (Farragut) board try to land-lock a piece of property.”

Alderman Bob Markli was angry, too, for a different reason.

“We are being overtly hostile to the landowners. Why deny a property owner something that will help them market their property?”

Hale said he would have a problem with granting access to the landowner unless a hardship was proven.

Vice mayor Dot LaMarche spoke directly to Markli.

“You know we have to grant access, and we will do that in the right place.” She made a motion to deny the appeal, and Markli was the sole dissenting vote.

By Sherri Gardner HowellThe Dogwood Trails re-

main for many the crown-ing jewel of the Dogwood Arts Festival. As well they should, since the trails came fi rst! Established in 1955, the Dogwood Trails celebrate 60 years in 2015. The festival began in 1961. Farragut’s Dogwood Trail offers much for those who want to celebrate the beauty of the area.

The trails offi cially open on April 8 with the Dog-wood Luncheon, held at Ijams Nature Center this year because the South Trail is the featured trail. The Farragut trail, which will be open through April 26, be-gins in Fox Den subdivision, travels a portion of Country Manor and ends in Village Green.

Along the way, look for:Magnolia trees on Oak-

mont Circle, forming an archway over the street in one area

Rock gardens, dogwoods, azaleas, tulips and the or-namental Japanese maples along North Fox Den drive

On East Fox Den Drive, beautiful yellow cypress and weeping willows inter-mingle with the dogwoods

A spectacular mountain view at the hill at Russfi eld Drive in Village Green

Weeping cherry trees on Georgetown Drive

Mature dogwoods, tu-lips, irises and azaleas on East Heritage Drive and Dominion Circle

For trail maps and dates of special events: www.dog-woodarts.com/trails-and-gardens/

Dogwood Spring! From page A-1

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

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

Bunny time

Bunny kisses

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

white bunny at Smart Toys and Books. Photos by Nancy Anderson

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Farragut Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m. each Wednesday, Fox

Den Country Club, 12284 N. Fox Den Drive. Info: http://www.far-

ragutrotary.org.

■ “Hearth and Home: Through the Years” is the featured exhibit

at the Farragut Folklife Museum located in the Farragut Town

Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. The exhibit will be on display

through May 29. Info: www.townoff arragut.org/museum, or Julia

Barham, julia.barham@townoff arragut.org or 966-7057.

Jim McNutt From page A-1

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The Cuban people are wonderful, warm and friendly,” he says. “They are also wonderful artists. There are beautiful southern yellow pine and teak planta-tions there, and the Cubans could be great woodworkers if they just had the equip-ment. I would love to de-velop small woodworking operations for them.”

McNutt says his own in-terest in wood began when he was young and working with his dad, local home-builder Allen McNutt. “Back then, the tradesmen, carpenters, would frame a house, trim it and then build in the cabinets. I was amazed they could do all that work right on site.

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

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

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

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

He has built a boat for himself and is about to em-bark on construction of an-other – a log cabin that will

sit atop two huge pontoonssitting ready in his lumber-yard awaiting a launch date.

McNutt’s business, Wood-stream Hardwoods, is adelight in itself. It’s a greatplace to do some exploringand learn about wood from amaster.

McNutt will open hisbusiness to the public as partof Dogwood Arts DeTour9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday,April 11. There will be music,food, door prizes, demon-strations and an opportunityto visit with the artist.

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Employees of the Ben Atchley Tennessee State Veterans Home

will be walking in the 2015 Mountain Man Memorial March on

April 11 to honor over 75 service members and their families.

The march also honors Frank Wallup, a 2005 UT graduate who

was killed in action in Iraq in 2007. This event is organized by

American Legion Post 2 of Knoxville. Pictured are Ruth Byrge,

Denise Rader, Dawn Baker, Kim Whitehead, Kala Wagoner, Lin-

da Alexiades and Cameron Peoples. Photo by Mikaela Parsley

Nancy Anderson

Karns High School snare drummer Jason Morrell, a junior,

said the drumline has been practicing hard and he’s confi -

dent the group will do well in competition. The group took

home a trophy for the school and individual medallions to

commemorate their third place win.

Five of the 26-member Karns High School indoor drumline are

all concentration as they practice before competing. Pictured

are senior Tony New, junior Jack Crawford, junior Jason Morrell,

senior Olivia Jones and junior Eli Henry.

Senior Brianne DiChiara twirls a compe-

tition rifl e. DiChiara said it takes hours of

practice every day to twirl with the pre-

cision necessary to win competitions.

Karns High School Varsity Winter Guard com-

pete in the fi rst annual ETPAA Circuit Champi-

onships for Winter Guard and Indoor Drum-

line held March 28 at Karns High School.

Remembering Frank Wallup

Saturday, March 28, was a banner day for Karns High School as 31 high school winter guard and drumline groups from all over East Tennessee and as far away as Dade County, Ga., gathered at the school to compete in the fi rst annual East Tennes-see Performing Arts Associa-tion Circuit Championships.

The new championship competition is the brain-child of Karns High School band director Doug Wheel-ing, who was looking for ways to get more bang out of the band budget buck when he noticed East Tennessee had enough high school winter guard and drumline teams to warrant a competi-tion circuit of its own.

“The circuit most of us were in was the Carolina Indoor Performing Arts As-sociation. The championship for that association is two hours away over the moun-tain. The competition is so large now that guards com-pete all day Saturday and the drums all day Sunday. We either have to stay overnight for the drumline the next day or go back and forth for two days. That’s a lot of trav-eling and a lot of expense.

“Several members of the

Planting fl ags on the home turf

East Tennessee Perform-ing Arts Association agreed that we had enough groups in the area to have our own championship circuit. We’re saving a lot of money and time, both of which are get-ting tighter and tighter. Even though gas has gone down, transportation costs are still astronomical; it’s the biggest issue there is as far as funds go. We’d rather spend that money elsewhere,” he said.

Wheeling said the fl ag ship year of the ETPAA Cir-cuit Championships was tremendously successful and he has already been ap-proached by several other schools who want to join the circuit next year.

“This thing has really gotten off the ground and taken off. That’s just incred-ible, but at the end of the day, we’re in it for the kids.

“We do this activity not only because we love it, but because the kids love it as well.”

Tommy Everette From page A-1

“Tommy always came across as a gruff old bear, but those who knew and loved him knew he was a big old marshmallow. Tommy was a gentle giant who had a heart for kids, particularly the kids who struggled. He was immensely loyal and would move heaven and earth to help those he cared about, and many times those individuals would not know it until much later,” Wright says.

He even helped her get her present job, having played softball for years with Larry Tomlinson, a member of the Wilson County school board. When Tomlinson mentioned Ever-ette, Wright quickly called to see what he had said about her.

“His reply was that I bet-ter not screw it up and em-barrass him since he had put his neck on the line for me – typical Tommy. He was one of a kind, bigger than life, and will be missed by many – including this old redhead,” Wright wrote.

Tommy Everette was called “Goose” when he played basketball for Gibbs High School. He played baseball and ran track as well. He moved on to Car-son-Newman College where he was an All-American basketball player and ob-tained his degree in educa-tion. He returned to Gibbs High as a math and ac-counting teacher.

He was assistant princi-pal at Halls High and fi lled in ably for then-principal Roy Mullins when Mullins

spent a year in Nashville as president of the Tennessee Education Association.

Everette was a mentor to young principals. When Knox County Schools adopt-ed block scheduling, Karns and Powell high schools were selected for the fi rst-year pilot. Everette’s leadership made the switch happen. He was named Tennessee’s Prin-cipal of the Year in 1998.

Karns High graduate Martha Harris remembers her senior trip to Wash-ington, D.C. “Mr. Everette stood next to the measure-ment of Abraham Lincoln and we all laughed and took pictures. I loved the smile on his face.”

James Wallace John-son, who played basketball at Austin High School, re-members his competitor as one who played well, “played clean and competed hard.”

Former Karns student Desta Barker wrote: “It has been 30 years since high school graduation, but I still remember Mr. Everette as one of the kindest and best people I ever knew. He walked the halls of Karns High School every day with a smile on his face and a hug for everyone.

“People loved and re-spected him. He was fi rm but always fair. He was like a father to us, and many of us really needed a strong fa-ther fi gure in our lives.

“Thank you, Tommy Ev-erette, for all you gave to so many people during your life. You did make a differ-ence in this world.”

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.

■ District 6 Democrats meet

6:15 p.m. each fourth Tuesday

at the Karns Library, 7516 Oak

Ridge Highway.

■ Karns Republican Club

meets 7 p.m. each fi rst Tues-

day at Karns Middle School

library.

■ Karns Lions Club meets

6:30 p.m. each fi rst and third

Monday.

■ Northwest Knox Business and Professional Associa-tion meets noon each second

Thursday, Karns Community

Center Building, 7708 Oak

Ridge Highway.

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Spring 2015 Classes, Workshops and Events

Farragut Middle School Art ShowWhen: Monday, April 13 – Friday, April 24 during regular Town Hall hours, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. A reception to honor the artists will be held Tuesday, April 14 from 4:30 – 6 p.m.

YogaWhen: Tuesdays, April 14 – May 19 (6 weeks): 9 – 10 a.m.What: Includes the basics and beyond in yoga – stretching, posture and gentle posi-tions. Cost: $60Registration and payment deadline: Monday, April 13

PilatesWhen: Tuesdays, April 14 – May 19 (6 weeks): 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.What: Pilates is a mind-body exercise that works the whole body and incorporates yoga poses in order to enhance fl exibility, strength and breathing. Cost: $60Registration and payment deadline: Monday, April 13

Spring Fling at Cranberry HollowWhen: Thursday, April 16: 6 – 8 p.m.What: Join us at Cranberry Hollow – 12556 Kingston Pike – for a class on springing up your home. Sponsored by the Farragut Beautifi cation Committee! Cost: Free – no registration required

Mobile PhotographyWhen: Thursdays, April 16, May 21 and June 18 (3 weeks): 6 – 8 p.m.What: Learn the best techniques for taking quality pictures on your smart phone. Cost: $75Registration and payment deadline: Tuesday, April 14

iPad/iPhone Basics for SeniorsWhen: Monday – Wednesday, April 20 – 22: 1 – 2:30 p.m.Cost: $45Registration and payment deadline: Monday, April 20

Farragut Intermediate School Art ShowWhen: Monday, April 27 – Friday, May 8 during regular Town Hall hours, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Awards will be given at a reception on Tuesday, May 5 from 4:30 – 6 p.m. Sponsored by the Farragut Arts Council!

Facebook for SeniorsWhen: Thursday and Friday, April 30 and May 1: 10 – 11:30 a.m.Cost: $30Registration and payment deadline: Thursday, April 30

AARP Smart Driving ProgramWhen: Friday, May 1: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.What: Participants 55 years of age or older can complete 8 hours of class time to be eligible for a discount on their auto insurance. Cost: $15 for AARP members; $20 for non-AARP members. Bring cash or check pay-ment to class.Registration deadline: Monday, April 27

All spring classes, workshops and events will be held at the Farragut Town Hall community or assembly room, 11408 Municipal Center Drive, unless otherwise stated. Hurry - classes fi ll up fast! Class registrations may be made at townoffarragut.org/register, in person at the Town Hall or by phone (218-3375). Payment is due at the time of registration. All credit card payments will incur a nominal fee ($0.06 per transaction). Cash and check payments are also accepted. No refunds are given after the registration and payment deadline. The Town of Farragut is not responsible for costs associated with the purchase of supplies when a class is canceled.

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

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

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

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

Basket Vols of ’65 had no place to go

games to a conventional 16-team bracket.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Davis was the fi rst Vol so honored.

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

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

Howard was not a great scorer and worse on free

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The NCAA got something right in growing the tour-nament format. Maybe, in time, Tennessee will have another team deserving of an opportunity. It probably won’t have an A.W. Davis or Ron Widby. There are no more Howard Baynes.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Reporters add fi ve sensesThe newspaper club at

Sarah Moore Greene is alive and well.

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

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

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

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

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

We noticed a huge retain-

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

SMG magnet coordina-tor April Lamb thumbed her smart phone, promising a tree ID “when the leaves come out.”

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

Five Ws are pretty lame without the fi ve senses.

The appointed members of Municipal Planning Com-mission look at the same in-formation, and typically lis-ten to the same arguments, as the elected Farragut Board of Mayor and Alder-men. But they don’t always reach the same conclusions.

That’s part of the process of making zoning decisions, says town administrator David Smoak, and not at all unusual.

State law is clear that any zoning matter is reviewed by the MPC, which gives a recommendation to the FBMA, he says. The vast majority of the time, the board agrees with the rec-ommendation.

That was not the case on Feb. 12, when the FBMA approved the rezoning of a parcel on Parkside Drive that abuts Sweet Briar sub-division from offi ce to gen-eral commercial.

The board made the de-cision in spite of a unani-mous MPC vote against the

No hard feelings between FBMA and MPC

zoning change on Jan. 15. Commission was swayed by Sweet Briar residents who expressed concern about having another restaurant in their backyards.

Residents were unaware that the rezoning had been appealed to the FBMA, which voted 3-2 in favor of the zoning change on fi rst reading. They swarmed town hall to protest the re-zoning at the ordinance’s second reading on Feb. 26, but the rezoning was ap-proved a second time by the same vote.

Mayor Ralph McGill and alderman Ron Honken also serve on the MPC. Both vot-ed against the rezoning. Mc-Gill regrets that two board

members who voted in fa-vor of the rezoning didn’t explain themselves during the meeting (alderman Bob Markli did, but vice mayor Dot LaMarche and alder-man Ron Pinchok did not), but he doesn’t see a fl aw in the system.

“It’s a fact of life that I may not agree with their ar-guments, but that’s the way it is. You don’t always win.”

One difference between the two entities is that the board is heavily invested in the town’s strategic and comprehensive plans, Smoak says. The result may be decisions made with the future in mind rather than the present.

Ed Whiting, who has been on MPC for fi ve years, said his mind was changed about rezoning the Parkside Drive property when devel-oper Jim Nixon admitted to a verbal agreement between Turkey Creek developers and Sweet Briar residents that property adjacent to

the subdivision would re-main zoned for offi ces.

After that, the issue be-came a matter of “keeping your word.” Such decisions can’t really be communi-cated through minutes, he says.

“The minutes only refl ect actions, not feelings.”

But there is no ill will when the board disagrees with commission, he says.

“Everybody does the best they can. For the most part, it works very well.”

There will likely be an abundance of feelings in coming months as develop-ers look for ways to develop large parcels surrounded by subdivisions, like a pro-posed apartment develop-ment north of the Farragut Church of Christ.

No matter what happens on that property, one thing is inevitable: Change. Many who speak before the FBMA or MPC say they want Far-ragut to stay the same. But that’s not possible, says Mc-Gill.

“Everything’s changing. There’s an old adage, and it applies to anything living, or an institution. When you quit growing, you start dy-

ing. I believe that. Growth has to be in our future, oth-erwise we start to retract and go downhill.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Haynes’ new jo b to create ripples

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raise funds for a political party while the Legislature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ryan Haynes

Put down the branding iron

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That’s all the branding we need.

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

City races shaping up as snoozefest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

plague is self funded by contributions generated...

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

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

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

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Karns High School’s Technology Student Association members competed at this year’s state conference, where Olivia Jones ac-

cepted the TSA Distinguished Student Award, the highest a TSA member can receive. She also received fi rst place in prepared

speech, chap ter team written and second place in fashion design. Adam Dupes placed second in chapter team written and

Olivia, Adam, Sydney Bergren, Janna Axmacher, Jarain Baier and Alex Dooley won fi rst place in chapter team.

Pictured at the competition are Janna Axmacher, Sydney Bergren, Olivia Jones, Jarain Baier, Alex Dooley and Adam Dupes. Photo submitted

Business manager Eric Boden, center, helps his buddies, phy-

sicians Jacob Bradwell and Malik Abuhatab, decide which

size housing to choose. The surprise of having three children

seemed to enlighten Eric beyond his years. Photos by S. Barrett

My Amazing LifeAt Hardin Valley Academy

Juniors at Hardin Val-ley Academy received a rude awakening and some cake during the annual My Amazing Life role-playing exercise.

Each student decides their profession prior to participating, and the num-ber of offspring each will have is decided by drawing a plastic Easter egg from a basket and reading the slip of paper tucked inside (probably the only part not true to how it happens in real life).

Several local businesses set up faux shops to help participants choose a mort-

gage, pay utilities, purchase cell phones and pay college tuition, among other every-day responsibilities. At the end, personal bank account balances reveal how well the “adults” lived their lives. Typical of real life, no mat-ter how they fared during the exercise, everyone en-joyed celebrating with cake.

Ally White, a pharmacist, and Maggie Kohlbusch, a pediatri-

cian, choose the same size house for their families.Jenna White and Thomas Wiegand open plastic eggs to fi nd

out how many children they’ll have during the role-playing

game My Amazing Life.

Jordan Lyons

■ Eager beaver leaderAs a seventh grader, Karns Middle School student

Jordan Lyons was spotted by her teachers as a leader and recommended for the National Young Leaders State Conference: Lead Now 2015, held in Nashville

earlier this month. Now in the eighth grade, Jordan is very thankful and humble to have been given the op-portunity.

“The experience was great,” she said. “It taught me why leadership is important. I would recommend the experience to other students because of the amount of support you get from your peers while you’re there.”

During the conference, students work together to strengthen their skills and fi nd the areas where they excel.

“I have always tried to present myself in the class-room as straightforward, and I want to help steer people in the right direction, even though sometimes that’s hard to do,” she said.

During the conference, Jordan learned how to interact in both small and large group settings, and how to help people handle crisis situations. She told peers to always try to have a goal they’d like to achieve, “but if you don’t, that’s still OK, because be-ing a kid is still just about being a kid.”

Karns impresses at TSA conference

SCHOOL NOTES

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Registration for fall is open to

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morahbetty@heskaamuna.org.

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

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

This is the fourth year the church hosted Tu Dia, or Your Day, for Hispanic women.

The day of pampering and education is a way for the church to reach out to

the community in a tangible way, said Joyce Wyatt.

She spent years as a mis-sionary in Spain and South America and has a heart for ministering to Knoxville’s Hispanic community.

Guests were treated to a healthy snack while watch-ing a cooking demonstra-tion by Jennifer Waller of the Knox County Health Department.

Members of the Tu Dia board also presented a pan-el discussion on this year’s theme, “For a Time Such as This.”

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

Joyce Wyatt and Sandra Green of Central Baptist Church of

Bearden spend time with a small Tu Dia attendee.

Central Baptist reaches outto Hispanic women

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1 Corinthians 3: 18 NRSV)

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and dusty feet, and food to eat.

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

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

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

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

By Wendy SmithIn early March, a team of

medical practitioners and skilled helpers organized by Sequoyah Hills Pres-byterian Church travelled to Léogâne, Haiti. For fi ve days, they packed up trucks with medical equipment and rode into remote villages to pro-vide exams, m e d i c i n e , e y e g l a s s e s and dental care. This year, they treated 700 people.

T h e y r e t u r n e d k n o w i n g that they made a dif-ference. But their success was due to the collaborative effort of a host of part-ners in both K n o x v i l l e and Haiti, says the Rev. Mark Taylor, who has made the trip fi ve times.

“The partnerships go on and on,” he says.

The congregation might never have worked in Haiti if not for former member Mitch Mutter. The cardiolo-gist, who now lives in Chat-tanooga, had participated in medical missions in the Caribbean country for near-ly three decades when a tod-dler he’d cared for died from malnutrition. The prevent-able death inspired him to found Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti (CNP).

The program utilizes Haitian montrices, or fe-male nutrition workers, to provide nutritional supple-ments to children in remote villages and educate women on health-related topics like hygiene and clean water. The montrices use visits from medical teams as an incentive for villagers to get

Dan Cauble, Valerie Coleman, Becky Guyton, Mark Lampley, Mary Bettis and Kelley Hays gather

during a recent Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church medical mission trip to Léogâne, Haiti.

Collaboration key to medical mission their babies weighed regu-larly.

Sequoyah Hills Presby-terian member Dan Cauble, an emergency room physi-cian, accompanied Mut-ter to Haiti in 2009. Mut-

ter encouraged Cauble to return the following

year with a group, but Cauble want-

ed another year of orientation. When they came back in 2010, it was a few weeks after Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

C a u b l e took his fi rst team from S e q u o y a h Hills Presby-terian in 2011 and has taken

a group every year since. This

year’s team con-sisted of 13 doctors, nurs-es and sup-porters. Six were church members.

Knoxville collaborators include other church mem-bers who count pills or pack

bags of clothes for children diagnosed with scabies. Local businesses and orga-nizations donate medicine, eyeglasses, soccer balls and even luggage tags for the team.

Holy Cross Hospi-tal, a mission hospital in Léogâne, provides lodging for the group. The travelers feel fortunate to have run-ning water and electricity. Electricity in Haiti is shut off at 6 p.m., but the hospi-tal has a generator. Cooks prepare delicious meals of goat, conch, chicken, rice and beans, and fresh fruit.

Each year, the group relies heavily on Haitian translators and drivers. Be-cause they use many of the same translators each year, relationships have devel-oped. It’s counter-cultural for Haitians to dream of a better future because it’s simply not realistic, Tay-lor says. The team makes a point of encouraging the young men to set goals.

They also receive help from the montrices, who travel through the vil-lages announcing upcom-ing clinics with a bullhorn. This year, a Haitian dentist worked with the group.

Pharmacy tech Kelly Hayes says the team saw few people on the bumpy ride into each village. But when they arrived, there would 200 people in line, wearing their Sunday best. Hayes and Valerie Coleman, a nurse, were amazed at the patience of those who came to the clinic. Even small children waited quietly in multiple lines. At the end of the day, the children played games with the team.

Hayes also went on the trip in 2013, and she thinks the health of the area popu-lation is improving. Two years ago, many patients had diabetes; this year, she saw far fewer cases.

Taylor says it was com-mon to see people with missing limbs after the earthquake, but now most have prosthetics. Infant mortality has dropped from 25 percent to less than fi ve percent since CNP began working in the area.

Cauble hesitates to call the annual trip “fun,” but it is rewarding, he says.

“You do see things you can’t do anything about. But after seven years, I can see a difference in people. They’re happier.”

Sequoyah Hills pastor

Mark Lampley cares for

a child. Photos submitted

FAITH NOTES ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will celebrate its

200th anniversary 9 a.m. Sunday, May 3, with special services

and activities. Everyone invited. Info/schedule: 690 1060 or www.

beaverridgeumc.org.

■ New Covenant Baptist Church, 10319 Starkey Lane, will host

The Watoto Children’s Choir from Africa presenting a new

choir production, “Oh What Love,” 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2. All

performances are free and open to the public. Info: Amber Sakis at

Design 4 Media, 813-849-0076 or amber@design4.org.

■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County will meet 10 a.m.

Friday, April 3, at Shiloh Presbyterian Church, 904 Biddle St. Season-

al music will be provided by harpist Anne Jackson. Info: 525-3701.

■ Concord UMC will off er a Music and Creative Arts Camp from 9 a.m.-

4 p.m. July 13-17 for kids who have fi nished fi rst through sixth grades.

Cost: $125. Signups continue through April.

■ New Covenant Baptist Church, 10319 Starkey Lane, will host

The Watoto Children’s Choir from Africa presenting a new choir

production, “Oh What Love,” 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2. All perfor-

mances are free and open to the public. Info: 813-849-0076 or

amber@design4.org.

■ Oak Ridge District United Methodist Women (UMW) and

Knoxville District UMW will host the Social Action Workshop, 9

a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at First Farragut UMC. Registra-

tion: $10, includes lunch. Mail check made out to Knoxville District

UMW by April 3 to: Nancy Dayton, 8305 Shoregate Lane, Knoxville,

TN 37938. Info: Pat Bellingrath, 591-6274.

■ Second Baptist Church, 777 Public Safety Drive, Clinton, will

host Jennifer Rothchild Fresh Grounded Faith area-wide women’s

event from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 1-2. Tickets:

457-2046. Info: www.FreshGroundedFaith.com.

■ St. James Episcopal Church plans Easter services: April 2:

Maundy Thursday Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar, 7

p.m. April 3: Liturgy, noon and 7 p.m.; Stations of the Cross, 1 and

3 p.m. April 5: Holy Eucharist, 7:30 and 10:30 a.m.; breakfast, 9:15;

Egg hunt, 12:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rated PG. Opens Friday at Downtown West.

– Betsy Pickle

By Betsy PickleAfter actor Ethan Hawke met renowned

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He believes his discipline was (and is) genetic.

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

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

“Seymour: An Introduction.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russell also star.

Serving music guides pianist-composer through life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

208-3677.

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

Blackstock Ave. Featuring: Warclown, Tears to Embers,

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

internationalknox.com.

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

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

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

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

internationalknox.com.

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

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

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

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

By Carol ShaneMany tributes have al-

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

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

But others did.Perry Ward, a former

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

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

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

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

Cappuccino’s reopens with new menu

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

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

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

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

many – at a 2011 Knoxville Choral Society concert Photo submitted

Music well made

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

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

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

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

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

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

Soprano Kathleen Spill-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Mystery DinerSometimes the best things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cheese sandwich. Photo by Mystery Diner

The Soup KitchenItalian Pasta Soup and Pimento

Cheese Sandwich

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

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

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

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By Bonny C. MillardA recent demonstration

by two Knox County Sher-iff’s detectives and K-9 han-dlers showed how canine offi cers serve the sheriff’s offi ce and the community, and “Rocco” and “Argo” wowed the audience.

Det. Chris Wallace and Det. James Troutt, both with the Narcotics Interdic-tion Unit, recently visited the Rotary Club of Farragut and explained the valuable services the dogs provide and the training they un-dergo. Both Rocco and Argo are Belgian Malinois.

Wallace, who is Rocco’s handler, laid out several items and gave him orders

to fi nd the questionable pouch, which didn’t con-tain any drugs but once had. Rocco, as trained, stayed with his fi nd until Wallace gave new orders.

Then Wallace donned a protective sleeve while Troutt gave the bite com-mand to Argo, who lunged at Wallace, and then stopped at Troutt’s command. The dogs are used to apprehend and bite a suspect when nec-essary, but that is only about one percent of the work the dogs do, Wallace said.

These units patrol the in-terstates in search of people who are traffi cking illegal drugs, large sums of cash used in the drug trade, ille-

gal weapons and counterfeitgoods.

“All that stuff is comingthrough I-40 and I-75,” Wal-lace said. “It’s our job to try toidentify the vehicles. It’s beenpretty successful. For thepast three months, my doghas seized over $250,000 incash as well as almost eightpounds of crystal meth.”

Troutt said one of hislargest cash seizures was$345,000 and occurred onI-40 at Lovell Road severalyears ago with his fi rst dog.

The dogs and handlersgo through about 300 hoursof initial training and thenreceive ongoing monthlytraining to keep both thehandler and the dog sharp.

Knox County Sheriff ’s Detective Chris Wallace with his dog, Rocco, and Detective James Troutt

with his dog, Argo Photo by Bonny C. Millard

Canine cops

By Shannon CareyThe Farragut Chamber

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

■ Profi le by SanfordProfi le, a weight loss and

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

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

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

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

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

■ Kendall InvestigationsKendall Shull, founder of

Kendall Investigations, is a retired FBI agent with ex-perience undercover and as head of the FBI’s polygraph program. In 2001, he and his family moved to Knox-ville.

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

Right now, Shull is pro-moting the fi rm’s security guard service, which offers both armed and unarmed guards. Shull started the service when First Baptist Church of Concord asked him, as a member of the church, to provide security.

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

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

Info: 966-1494 or kend-allinvestigations.com

By Bonny C. Millard Several local Rotarians

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

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

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

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

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

Martin was part of a Rotary team organized by

Vicki Mosebach and Julie Predny chat with radio personality

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

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

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

the trip but not pictured.

Rotarians learn in ZimbabweChamber welcomes Profi le, Kendall Townes Osborn that em-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Meet Lily Duncan

By Angelia NordhornWhat do hiking, 3-D printing,

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

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

Clay Keaton with Jim LaPinska at Northwestern Mutual

Winterim at GCAAndy Pomeroy at Knoxville Pediatrics Associates

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

David Comfort at One Life Church

Abbey Parrot at Sarah C. Photography

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“When I went to my course, there were

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ask about BIG & LOUD programs at

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

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

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

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

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

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

B-2 • APRIL 1, 2015 • Shopper news

Mother Nature seems to be teasing us with the promise

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then – a fall miracle to follow the spring ones

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

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

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

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

Miraculous spring

NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier

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

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

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

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

Some folks are a lot bet-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THROUGH MAY 20Applications accepted for the Great Smoky

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

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

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

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 3Opening reception for Art Market Gallery April

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

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

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SUNDAY, APRIL 5The Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COACHMAN 2004 - 23’ travel trailer, sleeps 6,

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

DUTCHMAN TOY HAULER 2005, 32 ft. Good condition,

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

NEW & PRE-OWNEDSPRING CLEARANCE SALE

Limited Time Only2016’S ARRIVING DAILYShow Prices Extended

Check Us Out AtNorthgaterv.com

or call 865-681-3030

SUNNYBROOK 2002 - 2 dr. camper, good cond.

$4000 obo. (865)966-5028.

Motorcycles/Mopeds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

$5850. (616)260-6584.

Jobs

Driver/Transport

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

Garage Sales

North

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

Merchandise

Antiques

WANTED - Military antiques and collectibles

865-368-0682

Building Materials

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

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

Cemetery Lots

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

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

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

Heavy Equipment

GROUND LEVEL CONTAINERS

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

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

Household Goods

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

Lawn & Garden

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

Metal Buildings

GROUND LEVEL CONTAINERS

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

$1395-$1795 966-9400 x 412

Musical

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

Tools

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

864-275-6478

Announcements

Adoptions

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

Werner @ 1-888-416-5056

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

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

ADOPTION:Loving couple promises your baby a

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

Financial

Consolidation Loans

FIRST SUN FINANCE1ST LOAN FREE

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

today, 30 minute approvals. See manager for details.

865-687-3228

Real EstateSales

Manufactured Homes

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

Mobile Homes/Lots

VOLUNTEER VILLAGE Pool, Club house.

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

For Sale By Owner

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

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

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

open back deck. (865)385-6837.

Lots/Acreage for Sale

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

Real EstateRentals

Apartments - Unfurn.

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

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

Professionally managed by Garland Management Co.

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

BROADWAY AND TOWERS62 AND OLDER

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

Immediate housing if qualified.Section 8-202.

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

KENSINGTON FOREST APTS. - 404 Tammy Dr.

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

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

placed on a waiting list. This institution is an

equal opportunityprovider & employer.

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

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

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

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

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

Homes Unfurnished

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

865-776-3621. No Pets

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

Duplx/Multplx UnFurn

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

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

Real EstateCommercial

Commercial Property /Sale

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

865-544-1717; 865-740-0990

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LEGAL NOTICEThe Board of MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF

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

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

Home Maint./Repair

ACTION ADS922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378)

Garage Sales

ACTION ADS922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378)

ACTION ADS922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378)

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

HH items, misc.

ACTION ADS922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378)

B-4 • APRIL 1, 2015 • Shopper news

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