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By Wendy SmithWayne Blasius, who began his
new job as executive director of the East Tennes-see Community Design Center this week, remembers having coffee with Annette Anderson back in 1977.
Anderson was executive director of the design cen-ter from 1973 to
1995. She was one of the fi rst peo-ple Blasius met when he arrived in Knoxville to begin graduate work in urban planning. They talked about the importance of getting involved in the community, and the conversation stoked his enthu-siasm for civic engagement.
In the years since, Blasius has volunteered for the design center,
Knox Heritage, Leadership Knox-ville, the Central Business Im-provement District and the Knox-ville Chamber of Commerce, along with other organizations.
“I strongly believe in giving back, that our community is only as good as the work its citizens are willing to put into it.”
He grew up in the Chicago area and didn’t intend to stay in Knox-ville. But the South grew on him − especially the warm winters.
After Blasius fi nished his de-gree, he was hired as a planner for the Metropolitan Planning Com-mission. He worked on the down-town master plan that ultimately led to that area’s renaissance.
His fi rm, InSite Development, also contributed to downtown’s revitalization with the redevelop-ment of the Phoenix and the Mast General Store/Gallery Lofts.
Knoxville has an incredible his-toric building stock, he says.
“If you look down Gay Street, there are not many missing teeth.”
The area has remained intact because businesses had little eco-nomic incentive to be there dur-ing the 1960s and 1970s, he says. If downtown had been booming, some of the buildings would have been torn down and replaced with modern equivalents.
When it comes to good design, there’s always room for improve-ment, and he hopes the design center will continue to be a play-er in that. Blasius took the reins from interim executive director Mary Linda Schwarzbart, whom he commends for her leadership. He also praises the design center’s staff and volunteer board.
He thinks his ability to envi-sion a new future for downtown’s
big, empty buildings will help him lead the design center, though its scope goes far beyond the city center. Knoxville and its outlying communities depend on each oth-er, and good design is benefi cial to everybody, he says.
The ETCDC, which serves a 16-county region, provides profes-sional design and planning services to communities and nonprofi t orga-nizations that would not otherwise be able to afford such services. Con-ceptual designs for projects, which are chosen based on service to the public, help organizations focus their vision and seek funding.
The design center was founded in 1969 by renowned Knoxville architect Bruce McCarty. Staff is composed of three full-time and two part-time employees. Fund-ing for the nonprofi t comes from grants and donations.
Wayne Blasius
Blasius is new director of design center
Cedar Bluff Middle raises bar with
symphonic orchestraBy Sherri Gardner Howell
When individuals all work together, the results can be a harmony of beautiful music.
Cedar Bluff Middle School’s music department put an idea into play and not only made sweet music but nurtured an environment of cooperation and enrichment.
CBMS band director Jessica Fine, orchestra teacher Abigail Buczynski and choral director Edie Taylor championed the idea of having a symphonic orchestra at the middle school this year, which would be the fi rst time for the school since the 1970s. Fine says she has been working toward this goal for the three years she has been band director at the school.
Cedar Bluff Middle School student Savannah
Truan prepares for a concert performed by the
school’s symphonic orchestra. Photo by Sara Barrett
Sweet music
‘Goodbye Friend’Roger Kane pays
tribute to Larry YorkBy Nancy Anderson
No doubt Christmas is a special time of year, but it isn’t always joy-ful. Karns lost a pillar of the com-munity on Dec. 8 with the passing of Larry York.
He went suddenly. His big heart simply gave out.
If you’ve spent any time at all in Karns, then you’ve probably met Mr. York. One thing most every-one in Karns will tell you is that he never met a stranger. I can tell you personally this is true.
The fi rst time I walked into a Karns Community Club meeting, he made me feel welcome, greet-ing me with a broad smile and a hearty handshake. He actually remembered my father from years ago when my family lived on Blue-bell Lane. He made me feel as if I had come home.
While attending Mr. York’s me-morial service I had the privilege of hearing Roger Kane speak and want to share his words with you.
“Of all the people I have met in my time in the community, he was truly a bright light, taken too soon at 74. When other people were
Larry York
looking toward retirement, Larry looked for new ac-tivities.
“He never met a stranger, he co-ordinated people meeting who needed to meet, and he lived out the Gospel every
day without being pushy or overly religious.
“The things that he loved the most were his wife, Carolyn, his daughter, Cammie, and sharing the gospel.
“I used to think Clark the bar-ber was the one to go to for all the information about Karns, but Larry loved and knew the people
of Karns.“He used to joke that I was
the unoffi cial mayor and I would reply that he was. I am respon-sible for the lives and welfare of 65,000 people, but he actually probably knew all 65,000 person-ally. He knew their lives, families, life events and could connect all the dots of who, what, when and where.
“He ‘held court’ every day with all the seniors at Hardee’s. If you ever get sad and miss Larry a little bit, go on out to Hardee’s and see the beautiful remembrance of him on the wall.
“I stand in awe of Larry. He will ever be a part of Karns for years to come and I will miss him greatly.
“Good-bye friend.”
NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
IN THIS ISSUEMarvin West
Money trumps tradition. How else can you explain changing the name of the his-toric Gator Bowl to TaxSlayer Bowl? The online tax prep people started paying the price in 2011. Naming rights were finalized this year.
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Betsy PickleChristmas is a huge day for
movies, and Shopper-News previews two of the best ones: “Into the Woods” and “The Imitation Game.”
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Wendy SmithJudging at Tour de Lights
was a challenge. In the end, there were 1,023 riders, most of whom sported lights, tinsel or costumes.
It was nothing short of magical to watch them depart for a tour of the Fourth & Gill neighborhood, even though my toes were numb.
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Christmas greetings!In this drawing by Carol Chilton of
Greeneville, Bill and Wanda Wil-
liams say it best. “Straight from
the heart.”
Festival of LightsWalk around Concord
Park to see the Knox County Festival of Lights, running from 6-9 p.m. through Dec. 30. It’s sponsored by the county’s Parks and Recreation Depart-ment.
Come for a Dam Road Ride Saturday, Dec. 27, at 9 a.m. as the Knoxville Bicycle Company sponsors the Saturday Dam Road Ride. Meet at 10657 Har-din Valley Road. Info: www.Legacyparks.org/.
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By Wendy SmithThe last gift that Gordon Wells
got from President John F. Ken-nedy and his wife, Jackie, was the Christmas print of the Green Room. It arrived a month after Kennedy was assassinated, and the printed inscription reads, “With our appreciation and best wishes for a happy Christmas, 1963.”
Wells, father of downtown Knoxville resi-dent Mary Wells Holbrook, was a White House po-lice offi cer for 25 years. He served during the presi-dencies of Frank-lin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisen-
hower, Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. As a White House staff member, he received a gift from the First Family each Christmas.
Holbrook keeps her collection of framed Christmas cards and prints displayed year-round. They are snapshots of presidential histo-ry as well mementos of her father, who passed away in 1996.
Wells was recruited from the Washington, D.C., police depart-ment to join the White House po-lice in 1943. During Roosevelt’s presidency, staff were given Christmas cards. The small, sim-ple cards refl ect the austerity of the war years.
After World War II, Christmas gifts to staff refl ected the tastes, and sometimes the talents, of each president. Truman gave useful items, like leather bookmarks and key holders. Both items were well-used by her parents, Holbrook says, and only the frayed book-mark survives.
Truman also gave photos as gifts, including one of Blair House, where the First Family lived dur-ing a two-year renovation of the White House. Truman was living at Blair House during an assassi-nation attempt in 1950 that killed
The Green Room print given to White House
staff the year that President John Kennedy was
assassinated Photos by Wendy Smith
Christmas collection refl ects White House history
Holbrook
Mary Holbrook’s collection of White House Christmas gifts was inherited
from her father, Gordon Wells, who served as a White House police offi cer
for 25 years.
Wells’ colleague, Offi cer Leslie Coffelt.
Eisenhower painted a portrait of Abraham Lincoln that was re-printed for the staff in 1953. Ac-cording to White House history, he worked on the painting while waiting for news of a Korean ar-mistice. The portrait was so pop-ular that he painted a portrait of George Washington for the 1954 staff gift.
While painting a landscape in Colorado for the 1955 print, Eisen-hower had a heart attack. He fi n-ished the painting while recover-ing in a Denver hospital.
Holbrook chuckles over the Eisenhower paintings.
“They’re just funny. They’re not that good.”
The Kennedys’ fi rst gift to staff was a photo of Caroline’s ducks in the South Lawn fountain. By 1962, Jackie Kennedy had restored four rooms at the White House, and advertising illustrator Edward Lehman was hired to sketch the rooms for a newspaper story. She liked his work so much that she asked him to paint a watercolor of the Red Room for that year’s Christmas print.
Lehman was invited back the following spring to paint the Green and Blue rooms. In spite of the president’s assassination in November 1963, Jackie Ken-nedy distributed the Green Room prints that Christmas. While the Blue Room painting was complet-ed, it was never reproduced.
Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, relied on American Greetings designer Robert Laes-sig to create dreamy White House scenes that were given to staff each Christmas from 1964 to 1967. Wells was a White House Police captain when he retired in 1968.
White House Christmas festivi-ties included an annual party for staff children, and Holbrook re-members standing in line to speak with Mamie Eisenhower when President Eisenhower made a sur-prise appearance. The only thing she remembers from the encoun-ter is that he complimented her white fur muff.
“I still have the muff,” she says.
Group provides stroke survivor supportThe Knoxville Stroke Group welcomes stroke survivors and their
caregivers. It meets the second Tuesday of each month at Tennova’s Shamrock Room (next to Fulton High School).
The group offers help to stroke survivors with education as well as emotional, social and recreational support as they go through the recovery process.
At the January meeting, the group will have a speaker from the Disability Law Center. February is the annual bingo night and chili dinner. Info: Kerry Jones, [email protected].
HEALTH NOTE ■ Enrollment assistance for the Aff ordable Healthcare and Medicaid and the
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP): 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, South
Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3,
Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 1807 Dandridge Ave.; 3-7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12,
Montgomery Village, 4530 Joe Lewis Road. Info: www.healthcare.gov.
UT NOTES ■ Kathy Kidd, associate director of the
Early Learning Center for Research
and Practice, off ers these sugges-
tions for helping children learn to be
thankful and cheerful in the midst of
the holiday rush:
■ Normalize routines. Provide consis-
tency and predictability for children
during the hectic holiday season.
■ Be a role model. “If you would like to
see thankfulness and graciousness
in your child, the fi rst thing you have
to do is live thankfully and graciously
yourself.”
■ Limit lists. Children are often encour-
aged to make a list of everything
they want. When everything on the
list is purchased, children can start
to associate the holidays with “it’s all
about me getting everything I want.”
■ Give open-ended gifts. “Include
open-ended materials such as blocks
and large fabric pieces that push the
child to think creatively and expand
play time.”
■ Nurture openness. When children
open a gift they may not want and
react negatively, engage them in
conversation about their reaction
rather than scold them.
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“When I interviewed for the job, I told them that I wanted to look for things that would bring all parts of the music programs together,” says Fine. “The spirit of cooperation was already at the school, so this was a great time to step out and try it.”
A regular orchestra consists mainly of string instruments while a symphony orchestra pulls in band players with wood winds, brass and percussionists. They hope to add choral next year.
“We always play for each other,” says Fine of the three departments. “But this pushes that forward. It is important for the kids because a lot of them have never been exposed to music outside their own instruments.”
Students at Cedar Bluff must be in the 8th grade to participate in the symphony orchestra. The teachers have two each school year – one during fall semester and one in the spring – with each group putting on a performance at the end of their semester. The fall symphony orchestra held their recital last week and garnered rave reviews.
“What really amazed me,” says Buczynski, “is that the kids are really serious about the collaboration and showing respect for each other. In some schools, there can be almost a rivalry between kids who play in the band and those in the orchestra. For others, this might be the fi rst time they have heard their friends play.”
It’s cooperation that will be needed in the professional world, says Fine.
“If any of them pursue music as a career, they will need this understanding.
“The students in this fi rst symphonic orchestra have certainly embraced it and were willing to put in the extra time. They were doing so well that we were having a hard time fi nding music to give them!”
The class falls under new state guidelines as an enrichment class so the students get to meet during school. “They have really enjoyed it,” says Fine.
“The group only meets for 30 minutes each day, which doesn’t leave a lot of time for practicing, so they had to do a lot of the work themselves,” says Fine.
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Shopper-News spotted Santa Claus at Karns Library last week. Father Christmas lightly chuckled “ho, ho, ho,” as he listened to the wishes of nearly 50 children.
Phillip Mendez, Kerri Grabill, Destiny Ramsey and Zachary Rivera were among the volunteers
who helped with Operation Santa’s Sleigh.
COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m.
each fi rst Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff
Road. Info: www.cwkch.com/.
■ District 6 Democrats meet 6:15 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each
month at the Karns Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: Clay
Mulford, 257-6744, or Janice Spoone, 771-5920/
■ Karns Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each fi rst Tuesday at Karns
Middle School library.
■ Karns Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each fi rst and third Monday,
Karns Community Center, 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: http://
karnslionsclub.com/.
■ Northwest Knox Business and Professional Association meets
noon each second Thursday, Karns Community Center Building,
7708 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: http://www.karnsbusiness.com/.
Santa Claus visits Karns Li-
brary bringing with him the
legendary twinkle in his eyes,
a belly that shook like a bowl
full of jelly, and a “ho, ho, ho”
for the good little boys and
girls who came to visit. Photos by Nancy Anderson
Santa comes to town
Nancy Anderson
Rachel Endo said she loves bringing her daughter, Adaline, to the library to see Santa.
“The library is just a won-derful place anyway, but to be able to come to see Santa is very cool. It’s much less stressful than other plac-es. Adaline enjoys it much more, and so do I.”
Not every youngster is a fan of the merry visitor from
Camaryn Rogers, 1, spends her birthday with mom Brooke
McLeskey at Karns Library vising Santa and sharing cookies.
McLeskey said her daughter was a little too young to enjoy
Santa, but the cookies were a big hit. Adaline Endo, 4, politely tells Santa her Christmas wish for Bar-
bie dolls.
Liam McMahan of Powell doesn’t seem too sure about Santa,
but mom Breana McMahan said she prepared him for the visit
by showing him pictures and telling stories about Santa.
the North Pole, but library manager Karen Van Rij was prepared, offering brightly colored Christmas cookies and crafts … just in case.
Operation Santa’s Sleigh fl ies highBy Nancy Anderson
Santa’s sleigh took to the sky a little early in the Karns area as the Karns Volunteer Fire Department wrapped up Operation Santa’s Sleigh on Dec. 20.
The elves, who are mem-bers of the Karns Volunteer Fire Department, delivered Christmas presents to fami-lies who had little hope that Christmas would be merry.
This is the 10-year anni-versary of Operation Santa’s Sleigh for the fi refi ghters. Fire department adminis-trator Kelly Grabill, who be-comes Santa’s chief elf dur-ing the holiday season, says the collection barrels roll out at Karns grocery stores, drug stores and other shops the week before Thanksgiv-ing.
Grabill says the gener-osity of the community brought in more than 1,000 toys this year, and the fi re department was able to help 130 families.
“We like to give,” says Grabill. “That’s what vol-unteers do. It touches our hearts in a really big way to be able to help.”
Karns Volunteer Fire Department administrator Kelly Grabill looks over a few of the toys donated
for Operation Santa’s Sleigh. Photos by Nancy Anderson
Phillip Mendez, a Karns volunteer fi re fi ghter, checks the
kickstand on a new bike that will fi nd its way to a rider on
Christmas through Operation Santa’s Sleigh.
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Last week, after Presi-dent Obama announced we would normalize relations with Cuba, I tuned in to a lo-cal radio station’s daily talk show anticipating wing-nut hysterics at the news.
I came away gratifi ed.One caller expressed his
displeasure at trading with any Communist nation by asking rhetorically, “Why are we (trading) with Viet-nam, anyway? They killed 55,000 of our men.”
Then, for emphasis: “We shoulda nuked ’em back to the Stone Age.”
For that fellow, nothing exudes Christmas cheer like a glowing, radioactive cra-ter.
Although Obama’s most recent treasonous action was enough in itself to curl his toenails, it turned out the caller was equally out-raged over the origin of his jockey shorts: made in Viet-nam.
After East Tennessee’s version of Gen. Jack D. Rip-per (of “Dr. Strangelove” fame) hung up, I tried to empathize with him.
My jockey shorts are “im-migrants” as well, made in Honduras, but we haven’t had a war with Honduras lately. If we had, I might feel differently.
Then I considered what
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this country would look like today if we had “nuked” Vietnam: probably a lot like Vietnam but without the jungle. But our actions would also have precipi-tated World War III, and we would have been nuked in turn by the Soviet Union and Red China.
(Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers …” As op-posed to “peacekeepers,” now-retired ICBMs once de-ployed by the United States.)
However, fair-minded individual that I am, I con-ceded that the caller might be on to something.
Vietnam is the wrong target, especially now that it produces serviceable un-derwear. But there are peo-ple, places and things that could do with a good Christ-mas nuking, so I made this list and checked it twice.
Denmark. Peaceful lit-tle Denmark, you say? Ha! Danes, with their well-paid McDonald’s workers and their cream-cheese pastries may seem to be the last peo-ple on earth who deserve in-
dustrial-grade irradiation, but read on. Denmark has decided to lay claim to part of the Arctic surrounding the North Pole. Because the continental shelf running under Greenland stretches to the pole and Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the pushy Danes think they can just grab ter-ritory like it was formerly part of Mexico.
Anyone who writes or says anything pre-ceded by a hashtag (#). If you’re like me, it’s becom-ing increasingly diffi cult to restrain the impulse to strangle the next person who uses a hashtag to com-municate feelings, as in, “I feel #blue today,” or opin-ions like “#DanesAreNuts.” Nuking on this scale would mean the end of Twitter, a sweet collateral benefi t.
The National Football League. The conduct of pro football players makes a strong argument for nuking. I’ll exclude Peyton Manning if he agr ees to stop making Papa John’s commercials.
The next politician who says, “I’m not a sci-entist, but …” We’ve been hearing a lot of this from cli-mate-change deniers in re-cent years. We know you’re not scientists; we only wish you would listen to them.
Jacksons celebrate ChristmasKnox County General Sessions Court judge Andy Jackson and his wife, Janet (at right), celebratewith daughters Rachel and Rebecca at the family’s annual Christmas party at their home in Sol-way. Judge Jackson is a descendant of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of theUnited States. Photo by A. Hart
Forty years ago, in 1974, the fi rst woman to represent Knox County in the state Senate was elected in No-vember. Her name was Mar-tha Ashe, and there is quite a story as to how it all hap-pened in an unplanned way.
She was this writer’s mother, and the reader needs to be 60 to have much current memory of the fall campaign in 1974 in Knox County. In fact, the full sto-ry will take up much of two columns, so this story will be continued on Dec. 31.
Martha Ashe was also the fi rst Republican woman ever elected statewide to the Senate. Since then three more women (Jamie Wood-son, Becky Massey and, briefl y, Sue Atchley) have represented Knox County in the state Senate, and many more have served other parts of the state.
At the start of 1974, I was completing my third term in the state House and de-cided to run for the state Senate that year. Tennes-see’s Constitution requires that a state senator be 30 years old. In 1974, I was 29 and would turn 30 on Jan. 1, 1975.
Since the Senate would not convene until the sec-ond Tuesday of January in 1975, I would then be 30. I sought and secured a state Attorney General’s opinion that said I was eligible to run and the Senate would determine the qualifi ca-tions of its own members.
The state Constitution also provides that the term of offi ce begins with the day of election in November.
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There is not a lame-duck period for state legislators.
My mother at that time had no inkling she might seek the Senate seat but was a vital supporter in my cam-paigns. I declared my can-didacy in the GOP primary and won the nomination over longtime Sheriff Ber-nard Waggoner in August. In addition to the Democrat-ic candidate, Betty Cathey, there was an independent candidate, former state Rep. Jack Comer, whom I had defeated two years earlier for state representative in the GOP primary after re-districting. Comer was irate over his loss.
He fi led as an indepen-dent candidate to gain legal standing to sue over my eli-gibility. The lawsuit is styled Comer v. Ashe and was fi rst heard in Chancery Court by the late Len Broughton, who ruled in my favor, holding that the Senate alone would decide the eligibility of its members. Since the Sen-ate would not convene until January, when I would be 30, the issue would be moot.
However, Comer quickly appealed the decision and asked that the state Su-preme Court hear the case, bypassing the appellate court. The Supreme Court agreed to hear it.
I was ably represented byJack Draper and the late Rob-ert Ritchie, father of formerstate Rep. Wayne Ritchie. Tomy dismay, the court quicklyruled that I was not eligibleto run since I would not be30 the day of the election andordered my name removedfrom the ballot. There wereless than seven weeks to theNovember election and nowno Republican nominee.
The public reaction wasmostly in my favor andagainst the court, which wasseen by many as an arm ofthe Democratic Party.
The story continues innext week’s column with thebattle to name a GOP nomi-nee and the fi ve-week cam-paign to election day.
■ Gov. Bill Haslamhas made an outstandingchoice in Randy Boyd ascommissioner of EconomicDevelopment. Boyd previ-ously helped Haslam on ed-ucation issues as an unpaidassistant for one year.
Boyd, founder of Pet-Safe, has been a communityleader. He follows anotherKnoxvillian, Bill Baxter,who served in this positionunder Gov. Don Sundquistfrom 1998 to 2000, andAlex Fisher, who lived inKnoxville then but has nowmoved to Columbus, Ohio.
■ Former KnoxvilleMayor Kyle Testerman,80, and retired city FireChief Eddie Cureton, 77,are recovering well from ac-cidents and were patientsrecently in adjacent roomsat NHC in Farragut. Bestwishes to them as they getback on their feet and be-come more mobile.
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News gets hard to come by during the holidays, which made this announce-ment from Knox County Schools’ prolifi c public in-formation offi ce enticing:
“PUBLIC NOTICE: (14-173) Please note that two or more Board of Education members may meet on Mon-day, Dec. 15, at 11:30 a.m. at Panera Bread, 2000 Cum-berland Avenue. Education issues will be discussed and minutes will be taken. All board members are wel-come to attend and will pay for their own meals.”
So it was no surprise that two reporters played Cum-berland Avenue parking-spot roulette and showed up
Lunching in the sunshine
at the popular campus café. No telling what they were going to be talking about, right?
But there was no news broken at the meet-ing, which was attended by board members Patti Bounds, Amber Rountree, Terry Hill and Doug Har-ris, as well as assistant superintendent Elizabeth Alves (who got stuck taking notes). Also present were
Knox County Education As-sociation president Tanya T. Coats and Rountree’s 3-month-old son, Teddy, for whose affections Hill and Bounds competed as they discussed problems fi nding substitute teachers.
Afterward, Bounds was a little embarrassed about the announcement. Turns out that she, Hill and Roun-tree, who regularly attend Bible study together, just wanted to have lunch. In an abundance of caution, they reported it to KCS spokes-person Melissa Ogden, who “sunshined” the meeting, i.e., sent out a formal no-tice in compliance with the state’s sunshine law.
“We were just going to get together and have lunch. … Our intent was to convey that business ‘may be dis-cussed,’ but it was really just some people wanting to get together and have lunch, but not wanting our conver-sation to be limited to small talk. I’m surprised we didn’t have cameras rolling,” Bounds said, barely stifl ing a laugh.
This abundance of cau-tion is typical of Knox County elected offi cials, who are still smarting from the aftermath of “Black Wednesday,” when County Commission got itself into a world of trouble by ap-pointing spouses, kinfolk
and drinking buddies to seats they were being forced to vacate after the state Su-preme Court forced Knox County to abide by term-limits laws, thumbing their collective noses at Tennes-see’s Open Meetings Act in the process.
Even though school board members weren’t the offenders, they are extremely careful about such things, unlike some of their colleagues across the state.
Take the Metro Nashville school board, for example, which recently attempted to choose a new superin-tendent by secret ballot. Astonishingly unaware of
the state’s open-meetings law, they were publicly hu-miliated when Jeff Woods of the alt-weekly The Nash-ville Scene pointed out that state law is pretty clear: “No secret votes, or secret bal-lots, or secret roll calls shall be allowed.” A do-over fol-lowed.
Sometimes scoop-hun-gry local media get a little aggravated by investing time covering meetings that produce no fi reworks.
But those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember the bad old days can’t help but appreciate the transparency that has become a way of doing busi-ness.
My favorite Christmas memory isn’t really a mem-ory at all. It’s a feeling. It’s the excitement I experi-enced when I walked out of my grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve knowing Christmas was the next day.
My brother and I couldn’t stop grinning during the car ride home. “Can you believe it? Tomorrow, when we wake up, it will be Christmas!” we’d say, and fi ve minutes later, we’d say it again.
It was sheer bliss know-ing that something magical was going to happen, and no matter what we found under the tree, it was going to be good.
Each Christmas, I try to fi nd something − twinkling lights, a delicious smell or a beautiful carol − that makes me feel like a kid again. This year, it was the eighth an-nual Tour de Lights.
This was the fi rst year the annual bike ride was part of Knoxville’s Christmas in the City, and I was honored
Wendy Smith
Lindsay Lee, Angela Wampler, Stephanie Lee and Pam Lee, also known as the Snowfl akes, don’t
mind the chilly weather at the 2014 Tour de Lights. Photo by Wendy Smith
Tour de Lights is holiday magic
to be asked to help judge the event’s costume contest. When I arrived at Market Square, I was handed a clip-board and asked to mingle with the hundred or so cos-tumed participants.
The categories included best costume, best helmet, best group, best bike and best overall. I met a man wearing a top hat made out of a coffee can and adorned with a candle. I met Mayor Tim Burchett’s cousin, P.J., who restored the 1950s bike ridden by his wife, Beau-mont Elementary art teach-er Cheryl Burchett, as well as his own 1930s-era bicy-cle, which he found leaning against a tree in the woods.
He had to cut the bike out of the tree, which had grown around it.
I met the Three Wise Men, two of whom were women. They followed a star that hung from a pole attached to one of the bikes.
Saul Young, my favorite News Sentinel photogra-pher, looked more like Alice from “The Brady Bunch” than a wise man in his ruf-fl ed bath robe.
I met Steve McGhee, who had so many lights on
his bike and helmet that I thought he must be an engi-neer. He turned out to be a pharmacist.
My job would’ve been easy if not for the continu-ous stream of entrants. I thought I’d picked my favor-
ites until I met David Stair, with a shiny, red present on his helmet, and his wife, Debbie, who wore a Christ-mas tree costume made of real hemlock branches. I also ran into my friend from the Dogwood Knitters, Lyndsay Crawford, who was dressed as the Doctor from Dr. Who.
In the end, there were 1,023 riders, most of whom sported lights, tinsel or costumes. It was nothing short of magical to watch them depart for a tour of the Fourth & Gill neighbor-hood, even though my toes were numb.
Judging was a challenge, given our absurdly creative community, but it was a pleasure to whittle down the fi nalists with my fellow judge, Erin Donovan of Visit Knoxville. It was even more fun to watch the winners, most of whom were grown-ups, grin as they accepted their prizes.
Perhaps the key to fi nd-ing childlike Christmas bliss is forgetting that you’re a grown-up − just for a little while.
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By Sherri Gardner HowellRumors were fl ying all
through “Bethlehem.” The innkeepers were abuzz, and the shepherds shook their heads in wonder. Someone said a baby had been born and that his birth was an-nounced by angels.
Thousands of visitors to Church Street United Methodist Church on Dec. 14 found the church trans-formed into the village of Bethlehem as it might have looked 2,000 years ago, with wood chips on the fl oor, sand spread all around and the village populated with shopkeepers, shepherds, animals and guests, some in town to pay their taxes and some to look for this new baby.
For 17 years, Church Street has created a Walk Through Bethlehem, an
The three magi arrive in Bethlehem to search for the baby.
Playing Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar are Major Sharpe,
Thomas Stuff s and Dave Craig. Photos by Justin Acuff
Finnian Gilbert works as
a metal smith in the Walk
Through Bethlehem at
Church Street United Meth-
odist Church.
Little Brady Kaplan gets an
early taste of acting as he
plays the baby Jesus in a Walk
Through Bethlehem with his
mother, Kelly Kaplan, and Da-
vid Rosecrance as Mary and
Joseph.
Ainsley Lamar works the
dough to make some bread
at a Walk Through Bethlehem
at Church Street United Meth-
odist Church.
An overview of a Walk Through Bethlehem
at Church Street United Methodist Church.
duce, all receiving coaching for their positions – train-ing in what a shopkeeper might say, what wares he would be selling and what kind of interaction he was likely to have with visitors.
The marketplace offers an authentic food shop, pot-ters who let visitors try their hand at making clay pots, a jewelry-making shop and animals outside in a stable.
The live nativity has Jo-seph, Mary and baby Je-sus. Two babies shared the honors of playing Jesus this year, splitting the duties into two shifts.
The tradition began with Sue Isbell, Church Street United Methodist Church’s children’s minister, back in 1997. Sue and her husband, Rick, went to a similar vil-lage creation when they lived in Nashville.
interactive village where guests can be transported back to what a village might have been like at the time of Jesus’ birth. It takes hun-dreds of volunteers to pro-
Finding the baby in a‘Walk Through Bethlehem’ Jaylen Fitzgerald and Harrison Atkins feed hay
to a camel at the Walk Through Bethlehem at
Church Street United Methodist Church.
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And she gave birth to her fi rstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
(Luke 2: 7 NRSV)I have often tried to
imagine Mary’s dismay when she realized she was going to give birth to the miracle child she was carry-ing – God’s son – in a stable.
The trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem must have been diffi cult enough, and I can only imagine how Mary must have wondered if God was absolutely sure this was the plan.
Joseph obviously loved Mary and trusted God’s angel, who had reassured him early on in Mary’s preg-nancy. But now, Joseph may have had some doubts, too. What in the world was God up to? Was this some very unfunny cosmic joke? A prank? Punishment? If so, for what?
As Lewis and I have tried to sort out this Christmas, with family and dear friends living in fi ve different states, I have been, in turn, frus-trated, sad and hopeful. I was fi nally reminded by my daughter Eden of the loveli-
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ness of the problem: having lots of people I love! She assured me that all will be well; we all love each other, we will get together as we can. It will be Christmas no matter what.
I remember so well the Christmas many years ago when the sister of an in-law had no place to be on Christ-mas Eve and was included in our celebration and gift-giving. I will never forget her saying with a sigh, “It’s Christmas, after all.”
As I have looked forward to and prepared for this Christmas, I have tried to be very careful to leave room in my schedule – in my plans, my, mind, my heart – for the Christ Child!
FAITH NOTES ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak
Ridge Highway, will off er two
Christmas Eve Candlelight
Services: 5 p.m. informal
service with families and
children in mind; 8 p.m. tradi-
tional service with Christmas
music by the Chancel Choir.
Warren Pearson will provide
special music during the 11
a.m. service Sunday, Dec. 28.
Refreshments and fellowship
will begin at 10. No evening
service. Info: 690-1060, www.
beaverridgeumc.org.
■ Fellowship Church, 8000
Middlebrook Pike, will hold
Christmas Eve services at 3:30
and 5:30 p.m. with limited
childcare available at the 3:30
service only.
■ First Lutheran Church, 1207
N. Broadway, will host the
following special services:
Christmas Eve Candlelight
Service, 7 p.m. Wednesday,
Dec. 24; Christmas Day
service, 10:30 a.m. Thursday,
Dec. 25; Worship service,
10:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 28;
New Year’s Eve service, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 31. Com-
munion will be served at all
services. The public is invited.
At Christmastime, more will be said about the birth of Jesus than at any other time of the year. Yet each year I can’t help but be a bit disturbed by all the biblical ignorance and inaccuracies associated with the birth of our Savior. When it comes to one of the most fundamen-tal tenants of Christianity – the incarnation of Jesus – and one of the most pivotal historical events that ever occurred, I fi nd that many cannot discern between fact and faction. As fundamen-tal as the birth of Jesus is, people do not really know the account of his birth as well as one might think.
Doubt me? Then give the following quiz a shot and see how well you do:
True or False: The angel Gabriel appeared to Joseph to inform him that Mary was with child.
True or False: The Bible says that three wise men came to the manger to wor-ship and give gifts to Jesus.
True or False: The wise men were kings from the Orient.
True or False: A bright star appeared in the sky and led the shepherds and the wise men to the manger.
True or False: The shep-herds and the wise men were present on the night of Jesus’ birth.
True or False: The trans-lation of the word “Imman-uel” is “Savior.”
True or False: Jesus was born in Jerusalem.
True or False: An inn-keeper told Mary and Jo-seph that there was no room in the inn, thus Jesus was born in a manger.
Okay, so how did you
By Nancy AndersonGrace Baptist Church
produced an amazing Christmas program, re-plete with humor and a 100-member choir.
The service was free with over 2,500 in attendance.
Worship pastor Jason Breland opened the show, inviting the audience to participate by clapping and singing along. “Those of you in the balcony are closer to God, so we expect great things from you.”
They complied.
There was a full orches-tra with horns, strings and percussion on a stage packed with musicians and singers. Humor was plenti-ful with skits by the pastoral staff and a hilarious version of “Jingle Bells.”
Nationally known re-cording artist Alicia Wil-liamson Garcia captivated the crowd with her hand-
clapping, foot-stomping music.
Garcia shared an excerpt from John 10:10, a message that moved the audience to cheers and remained with many long after the closing. Audience members were overheard in the parking lot repeating her words, “New Life, new hope, new joy. Je-sus said ‘I’ve come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.’ Isn’t that wonderful?”
Roy Webb, a popular Christian pianist who has performed at the White House, took the stage to accompany the orchestra playing “Carol of the Bells,” a song made popular by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
“Elvis” opened an unusu-al interpretation of “Jingle Bells” that included a Ca-ribbean dancing duo, an opera-singing Viking and cancan dancers.
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do? Did anyone get them all right? Did you get a passing grade? Well, if you answered any of the questions with a “True,” you were mistaken. Every statement is false for one reason or another. Open your Bible and check it for yourself.
What I have discovered through the years is that it is surprisingly easy for us to believe as fact, what is in re-ality, fi ction. Furthermore, this “fi ction” is sometimes propagated by religion. How many church lawns and “Christmas” re-enactments will portray a nativity scene which inaccurately portrays the biblical account?
But now here’s my point: If we can be misinformed about something as funda-mental as the birth of Jesus, what’s to make us think we cannot be misled regarding other religious matters?
Friends, make sure your faith is not based on what others have told you, but rather make sure your faith is based on what you know to be true from your own personal study. Let the “fi ction” you see perpetu-ated on church lawns and in church pageants this holi-day season be a reminder and a warning to you to do your own Bible study, and to never be content with what others say.
“Prove all things; Hold fast what is good.” (1 Thes-salonians 5:21)
Taylor Rose, Hayden Dye and Hannah Massengill wait while
nearly 100 more members of the children’s choir take their
places to sing a sweet rendition of “Happy Birthday Jesus.”
Alicia Williamson Garcia captivates the crowd with her hand-
clapping, foot-stomping soulful gospel music during the
Christmas at Grace program. Photos by Nancy Anderson
Roy Webb accompanies the Grace Baptist Church orchestra
playing “Carol of the Bells.”
Elvis was in the building to open an unusual and highly enter-
taining interpretation of “Jingle Bells.”
Grace Christian Academy varsity cheerleaders kick the “Jingle Bells” fi nale into high gear. Pictured are Abbie Kirkwood, Kendall
Poplin, Grace Dotson and Koree Hewett
Grace Baptist celebrates with song
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Karns High School’s Na-tional Honor Society mem-bers have presented a check for $1,100 to Karns Elemen-tary School principal Dar-lene Miller. The money will help purchase items for the special education sensory classroom.
Miller fought tears as she thanked the high school students who met with her at KES last week. “We are
Brianne DiChiara, Gage Massengill, Remy Clarke; (second row) Brooke Beasley, Jake Beasley, Rebekah Cobble, Morgan Schneider,
Jaiven Sims; (back) Brady Jackson at Karns Elementary School.
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so excited about this,” said Miller. “We receive very limited funding for special education programs, and the teachers already have ideas of what they’d like to
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Ashley Waldron said the de-cision will be collaborative among the department’s teachers, but they hope to purchase larger items that are normally out of their price range.
Honor Society sponsor Katie Anzalone said mem-bers wanted to do some-thing for the community. All 120 NHS members helped
raise the funds through homecoming events and coupon book sales.
Since the majority of Karns High School’s stu-dents came through Karns Elementary School, they wanted to give back to a cause close to their hearts. To make a donation to the special education classes at Karns Elementary, email Darlene Miller at [email protected].
A.L. Lotts Elementary School fourth graders Hayden Phillips, Cristian Blanco, Katie Beshaw,
Christopher Bussen, Ashlyn McElhaney and Bryan Utomo purchase gifts for a person in need
with parent volunteer Lynne Blanco and teacher Kathy Alexander. Photos by S. Barrett
Former UT quarterback and Denver Broncos stand-out Peyton Manning knows how to give back. Through his PeyBack Foundation, Manning helps promote the future success of disad-vantaged youth by assisting programs that provide lead-ership and growth opportu-nities.
While at UT, Manning would visit classrooms at Beaumont Magnet Academy and work with students. Since his graduation, he has given back to the commu-nity and now has expanded his generosity through Knox County Schools.
Last week, the founda-tion donated $15,000 in gas cards to area schools, and the staff at each school will distribute the cards to fami-lies in need.
“In the past we have put one card each with our school Angel Tree recipi-ents’ gifts,” said social work-er Mimi Jackson from Dog-wood Elementary. “Parents knew that they were getting gifts for their children, but when they saw the gas card, many were moved to tears.”
Schools splitting the do-
Sarah Moore Greene Magnet
Academy assistant principal
Dexter Murphy shows the
bundle of gas cards his school
received thanks to Peyton
Manning’s Peyback Founda-
tion. Photo by R. White
Manning promotes student success
nation included Beaumont Magnet Academy, Belle Morris, Christenberry, Dog-wood, Green Magnet Acad-emy, Inskip, Lonsdale, May-nard, Norwood, Pond Gap, Sarah Moore Greene Mag-net Academy, Spring Hill, South Knox and West View.
– Ruth White
SCHOOL NOTES
West Hills Elementary ■ Link your Food City ValuCard, Kroger Plus Card and Target Red
Card to West Hills Elementary and help raise money for the
school. The school also participates in the General Mills “BoxTops
for Education” program and the Campbell’s “Labels for Educa-
tion” program. Clip out the Box Tops and Labels for Education and
drop them off at the school or mail to: West Hills Elementary, 409
Vanosdale Road, Knoxville, TN 37909.
By Sara BarrettAs she stands in her
kitchen preparing min-iature pizzas shaped like
Teacher’s tradition creates students’ memories
Christmas trees, Kathy Alexander looks up and smiles. “I live for this,” she said. “This is the highlight of my Christmas.”
For the past 21 years, Alex-ander has served her fourth graders dinner at her house after taking them shopping for folks in need. The stu-dents earn what they spend by doing odd jobs at home and around the community.
“I want kids to own this and learn a lesson from it,” said Alexander. “There are a million lessons in this. … It is a math lesson on us-ing the calculator and bud-geting, it is a cooperative group lesson as they need to work together on picking out clothing and toys, and it is a lesson in etiquette and social awareness.”
“This is a great way for the kids to get involved in what Christmas is about,” said parent volunteer Lynne Blanco, who drove the stu-dents to the store for Alex-ander. In years past, Alex-ander would transport the students herself. But times have changed, and now par-
ents chauffeur small groups of students after passing a background check. But Al-exander wouldn’t want it any other way.
“I enjoy very much hav-ing my students away from school, knowing them on a different level and them knowing me on a different level,” she said, placing a star-shaped pepperoni at the top of each pizza tree. “They bond as a class. When we sell coupon books at the begin-ning of the year, we sell them as a group in front of Kroger. We all work together on it.”
As Alexander puts the pizzas in the oven, her stu-dents fi nish wrapping the items they purchased and place them under Alexan-der’s tree. They comple-ment the formal dining area where they’ll have their pizza. “I’ve never eaten somewhere this fancy!” ex-claimed one student.
Hearing her students in a relaxed atmosphere makes Alexander smile. “I don’t get all that at school, because I have to make them work,” she said.
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Kitchens said it takes approximately 1500 hours of training over about two years to train a service dog and that not all dogs taken into the program are able to complete the course. “For instance, some dogs just don’t like the revolving doors at airports,” he said.
Smoky Mountain Service Dogs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofi t organization staffed 100 percent by 40 to 50 volun-teers with three profession-al trainers. There is no paid administrative staff.
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Ronnie W. Rochelle, a resident of Montgomery Cove, is seeking the Knox County Commission seat from District 5, previously held by Dr. Richard Briggs.
Rochelle, 62, is a certi-fi ed fi nancial planner who served on the Farragut Mu-nicipal Planning Commis-sion from 2010 to 2012. He graduated from UT in 1975 and currently is comptrol-ler of Designsensory, a fi -nancial accounting Internet consulting fi rm.
He previously owned Parkway Galleries Furni-ture (1977-92) and has vol-unteered with the advisory committee for Knox County Parks and Recreation.
Nine indi viduals have
applied for the position which will be fi lled by Knox Coun-ty Com-mission on M o n d a y , Jan. 12. A public hearing to i n t e r v i e w candidates
is set for 4 p.m. and the ap-pointment will be consid-ered during a special called meeting, also on Jan. 12, starting at 4:30 p. m. or immediately following the public hearing.
Other applicants are:Tamara Boyer, an attor-
ney who works in banking; J. Kelly Clancy, a Realtor
who is active at First Farra-gut UMC;
David Freeman, a di-rector of Capital Resource Partners;
Ken Gross, a member of the state Republican Execu-tive Committee who works in occupational safety and health;
John Grueser, a former U.S. Air Force pilot;
Mike Manning, an ac-countant and consultant who has worked for Rush Fitness and Radio Systems;
John Schoonmaker, ac-tive in homeowners groups, he chairs the county’s Board of Zoning and Appeals; and
Grant Sandefer, a minis-ter and executive director of Compassion Coalition.
Daughtrey
Jean Baird, retiring after 60 years in the
banking business, welcomes guests to
her retirement party at Regions Bank’s
Knollwood Branch on Bearden Hill. Photo by A. Hart
Pictured at Slamdot’s ribbon-
cutting are web developers
Brittney Clevenger and Jes-
sica Jones, web consultant
Wade McLemore, chief oper-
ating offi cer Daniel Monday,
founder and chief executive
offi cer Sean Christman, his
wife, Elizabeth, and their 2
1/2-year-old son, Sean Jr., with
well-wishers cheering in the
background. Photos by S. Barrett
Slamdot founder and CEO Sean Christman and
chief operating offi cer Daniel Monday get a
visit from Rocky Top Air owner and Slamdot
client Gerald Allison, dressed as Santa Claus.
Smoky Mountain Service
Dogs trainer Daniel John-
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By Anne HartShe has devoted 60
years to the banking business she loves, but on her way out the door Jean Baird proved she’s still a kid at heart.
“I told my boss I didn’t want any more diamonds, I wanted a bicycle,” she says with a laugh.
After all, the Re-gions Bank employee with the longest em-ployment record al-ready has a box full of diamond service pins. This time she wanted one of those cute green bikes the bank uses in its marketing pro-gram.
Of course that re-quest was fulfi lled – plus a whole lot more. The bank’s Knoxville man-agement team even sur-prised her with a “Regions green” bowling ball.
For two full days last week, employees of the Knollwood offi ce of Regions on Bearden Hill hosted a farewell reception. A steady stream of customers came to bid a fond farewell to their favorite banker and were greeted with a sump-tuous spread of holiday food and drink.
And the question was asked: Does she plan to ac-tually ride that bike? “You bet I do,” she replied. “I’m going everywhere.”
And bike-riding isn’t all the energetic retiree has on her schedule.
The fi rst female mem-ber of the Rotary Club of Bearden, she has a 29-year perfect attendance record, and says she is thrilled that she is fi nally going to have
By Sara BarrettSlamdot has offi cially
opened its new location in Northshore Village at 2053 Thunderhead Road.
The web design and host-ing group was founded in 2005 and has about 900 clients, ranging from mom and pop stores to large cor-porations.
Rocky Top Air owner and Slamdot client Gerald Al-lison attended the ribbon-cutting and had nothing but praise for the folks who built his website. Allison ex-pected several meetings and a long, involved process, but said he met with the folks at Slamdot one time for an ini-tial consultation, and every-thing afterward was done online. He said his business has benefi tted from Slam-dot’s ongoing support and training in “Slamcamps,” which are customized train-ing sessions in small group settings.
Originally based in downtown Knoxville, the company moved westward “for a number of reasons,” said web consultant Wade McLemore. “We’re a grow-ing company, so we need more space. This is conve-
By Anne HartTom Daughtrey has been
elected to lead the Rotary Club of Bearden as presi-dent starting in July 2015.
Other offi cers will be Ted Hotz, president-elect; Dick Hinton, vice-president; Charlie Biggs, secretary; and Keely Ritchie, treasur-er.
New board members will be Jason Fields, adminis-tration; Stuart Anderson, service; Leo Knight, pub-lic relations; Bo Sutton, membership; Wayne Un-derwood, Rotary Founda-tion; Janice Mitchell, youth services; Gary West, past president; and Phil Parkey, director at large.
Special guests at last week’s club meeting were Mike Kitchens and Daniel Johnson of Smoky Moun-tain Service Dogs, who brought along one of their trainees, an extraordinarily well-behaved 18-month-old black Labrador named Ni-tro.
Kitchens explained that the organization trains ser-vice dogs – primarily Lab-radors and retrievers – who are then matched with indi-viduals who have physical disabilities and/or psycho-logical disorders.
Most recipients are this country’s wounded warriors who fought in Iraq and Af-ghanistan, but the organi-zation also works with chil-dren with autism.
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Jean Baird’s 60-year banking career comes to an end
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nient to downtown and also has a small-town feel,” he said.
While CEO Sean Christ-mas prefers to work behind
the scenes, COO Daniel Monday has a large person-al footprint. He has served as an offi cer for several business groups and is ac-
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time for more of the volun-teer work club members do in the community.
“For starters, I’m go-ing to be delivering Meals on Wheels, which I haven’t been able to do because of my work schedule. I’m real-ly looking forward to that.”
Another big change will be her focus on specifi c va-cation dates. A major fan of the UT women’s basket-ball team who sports “Big Orange” attire throughout both the football and bas-ketball seasons, Baird notes she won’t have to plan her vacation around the Final Four in the future. But you can bet she’ll be there if the UT women are.
She says she’ll continue with her bowling league, “and I’m going to try to im-prove my golf game so I can play with Bob.” That’s her husband, Bob Baird, who was an electrical engineer
at TVA and retired long ago.
The ever-supportive Bob may be in for one surprise, though. “He’s trying to give me back the kitchen, but I’ve told him I can’t take it back because I signed a non-compete clause.” She sounds pretty sure about that.
A branch team lead-er with Regions, Jean Baird’s banking career began in 1954 in Cleve-land, Tenn. After grad-uation from Bradley County High School, where she was a star of the basketball team, she started working as a proof clerk for a local bank.
Over the years since, she has worked
for a series of banks that merged and acquired other banks until fi nally becom-ing Regions. She has always worked closely with her cus-tomers, earning her numer-ous accolades over the years.
Kathy Eaves, a human resource generalist with Re-gions in Knoxville, echoes what so many of Baird’s friends and customers say: “She always has a smile and is so willing to help.” Eaves said Regions “is very appre-ciative of the community’s support of her.”
Jean and Bob Baird have a son, Dr. Michael Baird, an anesthesiologist with Park West Hospital, four grand-children and one great-grandchild.
So here’s wishing a spec-tacularly happy retirement to Jean Baird, the woman who knows a shiny new bike is a lot more fun than a bunch of shiny rocks.
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Alan Turing (Benedict Cum-berbatch) works on a machine that will break the Nazis’ Enig-ma in “The Imitation Game.”
By Betsy PickleTwo intense stories are
at work in “The Imitation Game.”
The fi rst is Britain’s race to unravel the mysteries of Nazi Germany’s Enigma coding machine during World War II. The second is the lifelong emotional and sometimes physical assault on mathematical genius Alan Turing, who took the lead on breaking Enigma but suffered greatly as a gay man because of his coun-try’s laws against homosex-uality.
The movie jumps around in time, framed by an inter-rogation of Alan (Benedict Cumberbatch) after the war, when his home has been burglarized but nothing seems to be missing. A zeal-ous police detective, Robert Nock (Rory Kinnear), be-comes suspicious when he is unable to learn what Alan did during the war and sus-
By Betsy PickleBefore the novel
and stage smash “Wicked,” before the TV fantasies “Once Upon a Time” and “Grimm,” the-ater had “Into the Woods,” a dark fairy-tale mash-up that united charac-ters from “Cinder-ella,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Rapunzel” into one bewitching sto-ry. The musical’s col-orful, often-doomed characters and sly lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim won over critics and audiences.
Now, 28 years af-ter the stage debut, comes director Rob Marshall’s fi lm ver-sion of “Into the Woods,” with terrifi c singing and acting by stars such as Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Christine Baranski and Tracey Ull-man and a host of lesser-knowns.
While it deserves to fi nd a strong following – much more so than the recent “Les
Turing fi lm explores depths of humans, machines
Sturdy ‘Woods’ slyly twists fairy tales
pects him of being a spy.There are several fl ash-
backs to Alan as a youth (played by the appealing Alex Lawther) at school, but the bulk of the screen time is devoted to the adult Tur-ing’s work on building a ma-chine to decode Enigma at Bletchley Park.
Director Morten Tyl-dum, working from Graham Moore’s screenplay, based
on the biography by Andrew Hodges, tends to overdo the friction between Alan and his boss, Commander Denniston (Charles Dance), and between Alan and his colleagues, led by chess champion Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode). But aside from that two-dimensional bent, the characters and plot twists are absorbing and suspenseful.
Keira Knightley is surpris-ingly good as a bright math-ematician stymied by the male-dominated world she inhabits, and Mark Strong is deliciously manipulative as MI6 chief Stewart Menzies.
The weight of the movie is on Cumb erbatch, however, and he carries it brilliantly. He uses Alan’s struggles – with relationships, working with those who are far from
his intellectual equal and creating his early computer – to move the fi lm forward as well as to make Alan sympathetic.
A quote from childhood friend Christopher Morcom (Jack Bannon) is the light that shines on and through Alan throughout his life. It, and the fi lm, testify to the complexity and potential of all human beings.
Miserables” or Marshall’s own “Chicago” – “Into the Woods” lacks a true show-stopping tune to act as a defi ning siren song, which may hinder its popularity with short-attention-span moviegoers.
James Lapine adapted the screenplay from his book for the musical, and with Sondheim’s words and
music the fi lm is a tantaliz-ing spin on familiar stories. The plight of a childless baker (James Corden) and his wife (Blunt) cursed by a witch neighbor (Streep) weaves the classic tales to-gether.
Everyone has some kind of dilemma, and some of the twists and turns are in-deed Grimm (and unsuited
Early presentsFive of the six fi lms hit-
ting town this week – “Big Eyes,” “The Gambler,” “The Imitation Game,” “Into the Woods” and “Unbroken” – will play once or twice to-night (Dec. 24). “Foxcatch-er” arrives Christmas Day.
■ In “Big Eyes,” Amy Ad-ams plays painter Margaret Keane and Christoph Waltz her husband, Walter, who tries to take credit for her work. Tim Burton directed.
■ A literature professor borrows money from his mother and a loan shark to pay off a debt in “The Gambler.” Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, Brie Larson and John Goodman star in a fi lm adapted from the like-titled 1974 fi lm starring James Caan.
■ “Unbroken” tells the story of Olympic distance runner Louis Zamperini, who enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces before the attack on Pearl Harbor and survived for 47 days at sea after a search plane he was on crashed in the ocean, only to be captured by the Japanese, who mistreated and tortured him in a POW camp.
■ “Foxcatcher” stars Steve Carell as eccentric multimillionaire John du Pont, who recruits gold-medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz and his wres-tling-coach brother, David, to train to compete in the Seoul Olympics. Bennett Miller (“Moneyball”) di-rected.
– Betsy Pickle
for little ones). Though there isn’t a “hit” among the songs, the lyr-ics are wonder-ful examples of Sondheim’s clev-er word-smithing and build to an emotional wallop with “No One Is Alone.”
It’s always a joy to hear tal-ented actors like Streep, Blunt and Kendrick show off their pipes, but it’s also fun to discover b r e a k t h r o u g h performers like James Corden (the baker) and Billy Magnus-sen (Rapun-zel’s prince) and youngsters like
Lilla Crawford (Red Riding Hood) and Daniel Huttle-stone (Jack) who can sing as well as act.
“Into the Woods” takes viewers on an engaging journey through atmo-spheric sets and timeless questions. It’s a reminder that “happily ever after” does not come smoothly – or predictably.
The baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) get instructions from the witch (Meryl Streep) that will help them undo a curse in “Into the Woods.”
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Christmas lights and little kids
Google them; no luck. So they’re stored only in my admittedly rose-colored memory.
But they really were spe-cial: red, gold and green curlicues culminating in a spectacular crown in the center.
The most anticipated night for me during Christ-mastime was my family’s tour of lights.
Mama, Daddy and I would bundle up and pile into the Dodge station wagon armed with a ther-mos of hot chocolate. And we’d drive all over town looking at the lights.
As an only child, all I had to do was sit, look, wonder and thrill.
Some of the more mod-ern-minded decorators in those “mad men” days favored pastel-colored wheels and artifi cial silver trees, or monochromatic color schemes. Though I appreciate them now, at the time I didn’t care for them. They didn’t “speak”
to a 5-year-old.For me, the only decora-
tions that mattered were bright lights of red, green, gold and white. Maybe a little blue. I could spot them as we started down a street and couldn’t wait until we were in front of the vivid, glowing colors.
My parents were egali-tarian and wanted me to see how everyone lived, so we didn’t just confi ne our-selves to the “better neigh-borhoods.”
But it didn’t matter to me if those lights were sparkling on a majestic fi r in front of a three-story colonial or gleaming dimly behind a sheet of plastic taped to a cracked window in a wooden shanty. I loved them all.
To this day, though my neighbors in my 100-year-old Fountain City neigh-borhood favor elegant all-white light displays, I still put up colors for the little kids whose parents might be driving by. They’ll be
Here at the Shopper-News, we’re all counting our blessings this week.
Carol Shane
Among mine, I count the fact that I can claim as my hometown not one but two picturesque, charm-ing North Carolina towns. One of them – Waynes-ville – is now a real tour-ist destination, though it had little more than a drugstore and a fi ve-and-dime when I moved there as an adolescent in the late ’60s.
But my little-kid years were spent in the sweet hamlet of Shelby, where there’s still a courthouse in the town square. I took a friend there a few years ago. “It’s Mayberry,” she said.
Shelby has done well; it’s on the National Park Service’s National Regis-ter of Historic Places and has experienced a renais-sance, thanks to several downtown preservation groups.
It was a wonderful place for a child. And the best time of all was Christmas.
Downtown became a fairyland. The lights strung across the streets were the prettiest I’ve ever seen. I’ve tried to
in an SUV, not a station wagon, and they’ll prob-ably be glued to a CGI-saturated adventure on the overhanging DVD screen, or immersed in an adrenaline-pumping computer game.
But I hope they glance up, at least for a few sec-onds. I hope they get a glimmer of that sweeter, gentler kind of thrill.
You can view some Christmas lights yourself this weekend at the Con-cord Park Holiday Festi-val of Lights presented by the Knox County Parks and Recreation.
Every evening except Christmas, from 6-9 p.m., visitors can walk a .75-mile greenway trail to view the spectacular dis-play of several hundred thousand lights. The park staff at The Cove did all the decorating – includ-ing a series of lights co-ordinated to music – and they’ve even provided bonfi res for roasting marshmallows.
What a wonderful place to take your fam-ily and friends! Pets on leashes are welcome, too.
The event runs through Dec. 30. It’s free, but please bring a non-perishable food item for the Love Kitchen, which provides meals and other types of aid to those in need.
Info: 215-6600 or w w w.k noxcount y.org/parks.Send story suggestions to [email protected].
Santa won’t be disappointed with a plate of Panera Bread cookies and some hot choco-late. Photo by Mystery Diner
Santa will probably leave a little something extra in your stocking if you treat him to a Mitten Cookie from Panera Bread. Throw in a Candy Cookie and some hot chocolate, and you might just jump from the naughty to the nice list!
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Panera is the bakery that grew. The company began in 1981 as Au Bon Pain Co., lo-cated primarily on the East Coast. The purchase of the St. Louis Bread Company in 1993 added 20 bakeries and a change in growth plans.
In May 1999, all Au Bon Pain Co. businesses were sold, and the company was renamed Panera Bread.
Panera is now a bak-ery/café with h o m e m a d e soups, salads and sandwich-es on the menu. Fresh bakery items range from bagels to muffi ns to cof-fee cakes and the specialty cookies. The Mitten Cookie is replaced each season with a “new” seasonal shaped cookie – Easter eggs, jack-o-lan-terns, spring fl owers.
The Mitten Cookie is a shortbread cookie with a
Plate it
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Money trumps tradition. How else can you explain changing the name of the historic Gator Bowl to TaxS-layer Bowl? The online tax prep people started paying the price in 2011. Naming rights were fi nalized this year.
There is a bonus. Because TaxSlayer has invested in NASCAR, because Dale Earnhardt Jr., once drove a TaxSlayer car at Bristol, he’ll be at the bowl to toss the coin. Don’t miss it.
If you are going to Jack-sonville, you might enjoy the $75 coaches’ luncheon on Dec. 31. Rivals will brag on each other. You can sign up for a 5k run or attend the UT pep rally or watch the parade of bands. The big tailgate party costs $50.
Nothing like that hap-pened when I was there.
Long-ago Gator Bowl stuff probably doesn’t mat-ter too much to current Vol-unteers. Even with Butch Jones conducting history class, there can’t be much interest in that great 3-0 Tennessee victory over Tex-as A&M in 1957 dampness and muck.
Bobby Gordon gained more yards (60) than Heis-man Trophy winner John David Crow (46) but Crow is in the Gator Bowl Hall of Fame on his name. Maybe Sammy Burklow should be. He kicked the winning fi eld goal, a 17-yarder, only one of his Tennessee career.
Coach Bowden Wyatt prepared Sammy for the winning moment.
“There’s nothing to it. It’s just like an extra point.”
You need to know that ex-Vol Burklow, from Haz-ard, Ky., became Dr. Sam Burklow, practicing internal medicine in Fresno, Calif.
More history? Bear Bry-ant was the Texas A&M coach, his last game with the Aggies.
Best yarn from that trip was the post-game kicking exhibition in the fashion-able Ponte Vedra Club suite of Robert R. Neyland, then athletic director at Tennes-see. The General had the game ball as a trophy. He and friends, after several glasses of lemonade, decid-
Money trumps Gator Bowl tradition
ed to recreate the moment of triumph.
A somewhat famous guest, Scrappy Moore, Chat-tanooga coach, delivered a mighty kick and broke a big mirror. His second try took out a bay window. Gus Man-ning retrieved the football from the beach.
Weeks later, the Univer-sity of Tennessee received a bill for room damages. Neyland was very unhappy. He wanted to know who the heck did what to tear up the place. Gus reminded him of the indoor fi eld-goal exhibi-tion.
The General said: “Well, there ain’t a damned thing wrong with that. Pay the people.”
Tennessee 18, Syracuse 12 in 1966 was a bit more conventional. Dewey War-ren threw for 244 yards with touchdowns to Rich-mond Flowers and Austin Denney. Floyd Little rushed for 216 yards and Larry Csonka gained 114. The play I remember best was Paul Naumoff tackling Csonka near the goal to preserve the victory.
Tennessee lost to Flori-da, 14-13, in 1969 in Doug Dickey’s last game as coach of the Volunteers. Don’t get me started on that.
Tennessee routed Vir-ginia Tech, 45-23, in 1994. James Stewart scored three touchdowns. Peyton Man-ning completed several passes.
Back when the Gator Bowl was the Gator Bowl, there were other landmarks. Ohio State coach Woody Hayes threw a forearm at a Clemson receiver and got fi red the next morning. Bobby Bowden coached his fi nal game for Florida State at the old arena.
That was before Ever-Bank Field and TaxSlayer. I suppose money makes things better.
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When 72-year-old Crossville resident Scott Amis was told he would need a metal stent to re-lieve blockage in his artery, he had reservations about going to his local hospital, Cumberland Medical Center (CMC).
“I was pushing Parkwest,” Amis said. “I was think-ing, ‘Wait a minute, I’m not going to let some-body mess around with my heart that doesn’t have any experience.’ ”
However, Amis soon learned that he would be the fi rst benefi ciary of the new partnership between CMC and Park-west’s elite cardiology team. When CMC
joined Covenant Health ear-lier this year, Parkwest car-diologists began training CMC’s staff in low-risk car-diac stents like Amis would receive. The procedures are currently being completed by Parkwest physicians with CMC support staff.
“It went like clockwork. I couldn’t have been more
pleased,” said Amis, who was back on the golf course just days after his discharge from CMC. “Having our community hos-pital able to reach out to larger hospitals like Parkwest helps our community great-ly. I’m so glad I went.”
Sudden cardiac arrest claims a life every two minutes. While coronary perfusion pressure (CPR) is a great tool to keep blood fl owing during cardiac arrest, continuous and effective pressure can be diffi cult to achieve. There is also risk of simple human error, as CPR requires exact pressure and depth at a consistent rate in a specifi c location in order to save a life.
At Parkwest’s emergency department, another option is available for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. The portable Lucas CPR device provides uninterrupted
compressions at the depth and length of time necessary without chance of error. Using a plunger that arcs over the top of the patient and performs compressions, the device eliminates the delays that preparing for and completing manual CPR may cause. Rural/Metro ambulance service has a Lucas CPR device, too.
“It means greater hope for patients,” Brian Braxton, MD, Emergency Department medical director, said. “It’s cutting edge and it’s the best product out there available in major cities.”
Last spring, Chadwick Stouffer, MD, and Thomas Pollard, MD, both members of Covenant Health’s elite TAVR team, gave stu-dents at Christian Academy of Knoxville (CAK) the opportunity to see what they do daily. With a 12-person team in tow, the phy-sicians worked side-by-side with physiology students to explore the anatomy and circulatory systems in pig hearts, which were donated by Edwards LifeSciences in Irvine, Calif. The students were taught to sew part of a heart valve on and were able to ask the physicians questions throughout the process. Pig hearts are so similar in structure and function to the human heart that they are often used as the model for research.
“If you look at the Latin word for doctor, it means teacher – and that’s what we’re doing,” Dr. Stouffer said. “We are not only teaching future healthcare professionals, but we’re also educating the community about what we do. If that can help with health maintenance and have a healthier community around us, then we’re succeeding.”
For patients experiencing severe coro-nary disease like blocked arteries and aortic enlargement, care close to home may seem like a distant hope. However, Parkwest’s car-diac program offers complex surgeries and treatment that many believe are only avail-able in larger cities.
“Short of a heart transplant or having a ventricular assist device put in, there’s really nothing in the realm of cardiac surgery that we can’t do at Parkwest,” Chadwick Stouffer, MD, said. “We have the staff, technology and capability to perform very cutting edge and advanced procedures. From a cardiac surgery standpoint, we can provide all of the services that can be provided
at major institutions like the Cleveland Clinicor Vanderbilt.”
These complex services include TAVRand brachiocephalic debranching, in whichcoronary artery blockages are bypassed andthe patient’s aorta is replaced with a surgicalcloth tube.
“As we do more and more complex opera-tions, I think patients are starting to realizethat they can get the same quality care andoperative care here in Knoxville withouthaving to drive hours away from family and
friends,” Dr. Stouffer said. “I think that really doeshelp in their recovery, not only in the hospital, butalso when they leave.”
Parkwest Cardiac Program excels in 2014
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CAK students get lesson in heart surgery
In June 2012, Covenant Health cardiothoracic surgeons began performing Transcath-eter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) surgeries, in which a new heart valve fashioned from a cow’s heart valve is placed into the heart via a long tube inserted through a 4-inch incision on the left side of the chest or through the femoral ar-tery. In 2014, the elite TAVR team reached 100 TAVRs performed on the high-risk patients who need this proce-dure the most.
Eighty-two-year-old James Clark was the recipient of this bench-mark achievement. In addition to a previous open heart surgery, Clark’s age, frailty and gastrointesti-nal bleeding made him an ideal candidate for the TAVR pro-gram. On Feb. 24, he was given a new valve in a little more than an hour by physicians Chad-wick Stouffer, Thomas Pollard and Nicholaos Xenopoulous.
100th TAVR performed at Parkwest
TAVR surgeries continue to be performed by Covenant Health’s elite cardiothoracic team. “We do nearly twice as many TAVR procedures on av-erage, and our mortality rate for the procedure is well below the national median,” said Rick Lassiter, Parkwest CAO.
Complex heart surgery sets Parkwest apart
When Cumberland Medical Center (CMC) joined Covenant Health this year, Crossville resi-dents like Shirley Franklin-Si-mons gained access to the ex-pertise of the elite heart team of Parkwest. After falling in a gro-cery store’s parking lot, Franklin-Simons was given a stress test to determine if her heart had caused the mysterious fall. She had no previous cardiac symptoms.
After being told she would need a heart catheterization, Franklin-Simons spoke with Parkwest Cardiologist Nich-olaos Xenopoulos, MD, who was on
site at CMC as part of the hos-pital’s new connection to Cov-enant Health. Using the tools and technology at Parkwest, Dr. Xenopoulos determined Frank-lin-Simons would not need a stent through a Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) measurement.
“I’m so grateful that he did a special test different than my doctor, because it showed that I didn’t need a stent,” Franklin-
Simons said. “I feel blessed that my doc-tor in Crossville referred me to Parkwest in Knoxville. It was a wonderful experi-ence.”
Shirley Franklin-Simons
Parkwest Cardiac Program benefi ts Crossville residents
First Crossville stent placed by Parkwest physician
Just a month later, he was back to walking two miles a day, working in his garden and im-proving his golf game.
Brian Braxton, MD
Sherry and James Clark
Maryville woman’s life changed by TMR surgery
Fifty-four-year-old Theresa Turner was suffering from end-stage coronary artery
disease when Greg Brewer, MD, chief of cardiology at Parkwest, recommended a transmyocardial revascu-larization (TMR) surgery. After three bypasses, three stents and a family history of small arteries, Turner was an ideal candidate for this surgery, in which a computer-guided laser
makes tiny holes in the heart to stimulate the heart muscle to create new blood vessels. It reduces angina, from which Turner was suffering, and improves overall heart func-tion.
“To be brutally honest, I was scared,” Turner said of the procedure. “But every-thing came out beautifully. I can work out for three hours straight now. I haven’t felt this good in years.”
Turner’s TMR was completed by Thomas Pollard, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Parkwest.
Theresa Turner
CAK student
Stephen Pardue
Scott Amis
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Grand Opening Dec 20!!
By Sara BarrettRick Angel and Jerry
Amiot open their home each year to share their extensive and elaborate Christmas decorations with hundreds of strangers. Nonprofi t or-ganizations contact them to host fundraisers in their home, and Amiot and Angel do so free of charge.
Amiot and Angel guide visitors through their house one room at a time. Thou-sands of hand-blown glass ornaments hang from holi-day trimmings, wreaths and Christmas trees in every nook and cranny.
“We start in October and set up the trees and garland, and then we let it set for two weeks and decide which or-naments to put out,” said
Amiot.This year only one of
the home’s three fl oors is decorated; in years past each room in the house was fi lled to the brim. “We have always just been partial to Christmas,” said Angel.
The couple started col-lecting more than 30 years ago while running a fl oral shop in California. They tell stories of their life’s ex-periences while walking through their house, look-ing at each ornament as if it is part of the memory. Betty White, Elton John and Lady Gaga’s signatures can be seen as well as pieces they received from designer Christopher Radko and sev-eral ornament companies from around the world,
most of them hand-deliv-ered.
Characters from Dis-ney and Warner Bros. deck the halls next to trees fi lled with hand-blown glass bugs from Poland. Hundreds of fi nial tree-toppers stand among nativity scenes, and wire armature elves climb the balcony rail. There is even a Christmas tree in the bathtub.
“Honey, when this stuff gets in your blood, you have to do it,” said Amiot of having inspiration strike. “When we are putting our Christmas collection out, our friends won’t come near us,” he said with a laugh.
After Christmas, it takes the men three days to dis-mantle their displays, and
Jerry Amiot and Rick Angel hold an ornament hand-painted
for them by an artist in Poland. It includes an image of them
standing on their front porch. Photos by S. Barrett
A display of 50 glass fi nials greets guests.
Christopher Radko’s orna-
ment A Shy Rabbit’s Heart
from 1993 benefi tted the
AIDS Foundation of Los An-
geles.
A wonderland of Christmas trees surrounds the mantel just outside the kitchen.
they don’t think about it again until the following autumn. They never know
from year to year if they’ll continue decorating, “but we’ve not failed yet in 33 years,” said Amiot.
“As long as it benefi ts others, we’ll do it,” said Amiot. A special story they share is of a benefi t they hosted while in California. Instead of guests bringing gifts for the hosts, they were asked to bring items fes-tively wrapped that could be given to the local AIDS hospice house, where many
residents would enjoy a fi nal Christmas. The day after the party, Amiot and Angel delivered more than two truckloads of gift-wrapped supplies to the hospice’s front door. A festivelywrapped kitchen sink was even included for a needed renovation.
“We want to give peoplea reason to give joyfully,” said Angel. “We’re happy we were able to start something like this.”
By Ruth WhiteThanks to the Helen
Ross McNabb Center, May-or Tim Burchett, KCDC, United Way, Federal Home Loan Bank, the Veterans Administration and a host of donors, volunteers and community partners, eight homeless veterans will have a place to call home by Christmas.
Pat Polis, pastor of Wash-ington Pike United Meth-odist Church, blessed the event and the home, say-ing “today we are making a difference.” Jerry Vagnier, president and CEO of Helen Ross McNabb, added that he and his staff were “hon-ored to deliver this kind of
Present at the ribbon-cutting are Randy Boyd, Helen Ross
McNabb president and CEO Jerry Vagnier, HRM board chair Su-
san Conway, assistant director of housing and support services
Jana Morgan and Mayor Tim Burchett. Photo by R. White
McNabb builds home for eight vets
The Rotary Club of Knoxville has elected its 2015-16 board of directors, which will be led by president Sandy Martin, retired president of Corporate Interiors Inc., when the board begins its term July 1.
Allen Pannell, owner of Allen Pannell LLC, is president-elect and member-ship director. Edwin A. Anderson of Cannon & Anderson, Attorneys, is vice president and communications director.
Bill MacGrath, senior vice presi-dent and fi nancial adviser with Pin-nacle Financial Partners, is secretary.
Jennifer A. Sepaniak, chief fi nancial offi -cer for Schaad Companies, is treasurer and chair of the Financial and Audit Committee.
Outgoing president Roy King, M.D., a dermapathologist with Dermapathology Partners PC, will represent past presidents.
Other directors are: Jim Decker, chief executive director of Medic Regional Blood Center; Don Hasson, president of House-Hasson Hardware; Jody Mullins, senior district manager for Takeda Pharmaceuti-cal USA Inc.; Brent Midyett, vice president
of DFA/@home audio-video; Tiffany Walker, vice president of Elite Service Mortgage; and Ginny Weatherstone, retiring CEO of the Volunteer Minis-try Center.
Founded in 1915, the Rotary Club of Knoxville is among the oldest and
largest Rotary Clubs in Tennessee. The club was instrumental in the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and sponsor of several park projects. It is also the creator and steward of The Rotary Foundation of Knoxville, which provides college scholarships and special projects.
The Rotary Club of Knoxville 2015-16 board of directors: (front) Allen Pannell, Sandra T. Martin,
Roy King; (back) Brent Midyett, Tiff any Walker, Ed Anderson, Jennifer Sepaniak, Ginny Weath-
erstone, Bill MacGrath, Jody Mullins and Jim Decker. Not pictured is Don Hasson. Photo submitted
Rotary Club selects new board
care to veterans.” The new home is located
in the Inskip community at 4821 Coster Road.
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PUBLIC HEARINGFARRAGUT BOARD OF
MAYOR AND ALDERMENwill hold a public hearing on January 8, 2015 • 7:00 PM
Farragut Town Hall11408 Municipal Center Dr
to hear citizens’ comments on the following ordinance:
1. Ordinance14-19, Ordinance to Amend the Town of Farragut Municipal Code Title 16 Streets and Sidewalks by adding Chapter 6 Everett Road Corridor Improve-ment Fee.
LEGAL NOTICEThe Board of MAYOR AND ALDERMEN
OF THE TOWN OF FARRAGUT, at its meeting on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014 adopted the following ordinances
on second and fi nal reading:1. Ordinance 14-14, Ordinance to annex into the corpo-rate boundary of the Town of Farragut and adopt a Plan of Service for Parcel 108, Tax Map 130, 902 N. Campbell Station Road, 1.55 Acres (Kay Wellons, Applicant)
Ordinance 14-18, Ordinance to amend Title 16, Streets and Sidewalks, Etc., Chapter 4, Driveways and Other Ac-cess Ways, Sections 16-402 and 16-403.1-4 of the Farragut Municipal Code, to clarify the requirement for a traffi c impact study in relation to rezoning requests.
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FRIDAY, DEC. 26Knitting Caps for the Homeless, noon-1:30
p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.
TUESDAY, DEC. 30Family Movie Night: “Frozen,” 3 p.m., Lawson
McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.Senior Tai Chi, 3-4 p.m., Humana Guidance
Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31New Year’s Eve Celebration, 9 p.m., the Rose
Center Council for the Arts, 442 W. Second North St., Morristown. Featuring the Al Curtis Orchestra. Tickets: $35. Info/tickets: 423-581-4330 or [email protected].
New Years on the Square, beginning 11 p.m., Market Square. Ball drop and fi reworks at midnight. Holidays on Ice skating rink open 1 p.m.-midnight. Info: www.cityofknoxville.org/Christmas.
FRIDAY, JAN. 2Opening reception for Art Market Gallery
featured artists for January: Eun-Sook Kim of Oak Ridge and Harriet Smith Howell of Rutledge, 5:30 p.m., Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St. Info: 525-5265, artmarketgallery.net or facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.
SUNDAY, JAN. 4Open house and beginning Taoist Tai Chi
class, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Classes last three months. Info: 482-7761 or www.taoist.org.
Winter Princess Sk8, 4-6 p.m., Cool Sports, 110 S. Watt Road. Pictures with Princess Elsa and Anna available. Info: www.coolsportstn.com, [email protected], 218-4500.
MONDAY, JAN. 5Open house and beginning Taoist Tai Chi
class, 7-8:30 p.m., Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Classes last three months. Info: 482-7761 or www.taoist.org.
TUESDAY, JAN. 6Computer Workshops: Library Online, 5:30
p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info/to register: 215-8700.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-
9:30 p.m., Knoxville AAA Office, 100 W. Fifth Ave.
Cost: $30 members; $35 nonmembers. Must pre-register. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.
THURSDAY, JAN. 8Knoxville Choral Society auditions for all voice
parts, 6-8 p.m. To schedule an audition time: 312-2440 or [email protected]. Once a time is set, location and other details will be provided. Info/ audition form: www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org.
FRIDAY, JAN. 9Opening reception for “A Narrative of Light
and Shadow” exhibit featuring the artistry of Taiwan’s female photographers, 5-9 p.m., main gallery of the Em-porium Center, 100 S. Gay St. The exhibit is on display through Jan. 31. Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.
Opening reception for a new group exhibi-tion, 5-9 p.m., Balcony gallery, Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Features works by Lynn Corsi Bland, Gatlin-burg; Tony Henson, Kingsport; and Terina Gillette, Beth Meadows, Emily Shane, Tony Sobota and Jennifer Wil-lard of Knoxville. The exhibit is on display through Jan. 31. Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.
SATURDAY, JAN. 10Farragut Histories and Mysteries Book
Group meeting, 2 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Allison Stein, professor of history at Pellissippi State, will lead a book discussion for “Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, re-silience, and redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand. Info: 777-1750.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Charlene Ellis, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Kindermusik, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. For ages birth to 5 years old. Info: 215-8750.
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker in concert, 8 p.m., the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.
Taoist Tai Chi Society open house, 11 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Tai Chi Center, 1205 N. Central Ave. Features demonstrations and a free lesson. Info: 546-9222 or www.taoist.org.
TUESDAY, JAN. 13Computer Workshop: Introducing the Com-
puter, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info/to register: 215-8700.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 16-17All-level fl atpicking guitar workshop led by
guitarist Steve Kaufman, the three-time winner of the National Flatpicking Championships, 7-9 p.m. Friday and beginning 9:30 a.m. Saturday, MainStay Suites, 361 Fountain View Circle, Alcoa. Preregistration required. Info/to register: Steve, 982-3808 or steve@fl atpik.com.
SATURDAY, JAN. 17Diversity Day and Race Against Racism 5K, 11
a.m., YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze St. Sponsorship and registration info: www.ywcaknox.com. Diversity Day or the Race Against Racism info: Alicia Hudson, [email protected].
Farragut Skate Date, 4-6 p.m., Cool Sports: Home of the Icearium, 110 S. Watt Road. Offered by Cool Sports and the town of Farragut as part of the Let’s
Move! Initiative. Info: 218-4500.Introductory Internet Genealogy, 1-3 p.m., East
Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Instructors: Dr. George Schweitzer PhD, ScD and Eric Head, Knox County Archives. Preregistration and a valid email address required. Info/registration beginning Jan. 5: 215-8809.
A Night of Improv, 7-8:30 p.m., Nita Buell-Black Auditorium, Powell High School, 2136 West Emory Road. Presented by the Powell Playhouse. Tickets: $10, ages 5 and under free. Featuring a special Powell Playhouse performance. Ticket info: 947-7428, 256-7428.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Becca Tedesco, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Sean McCol-lough, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.
TUESDAY, JAN. 20Computer Workshops: Excel 2007, 2 p.m.,
East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215- 8700.
TUESDAYS, JAN. 20-FEB. 24Pilates class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., community room
in Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Simon Bradbury. Cost: $50. Info/to register beginning Jan. 12: www.townoffarragut.org/register or 218-3375.
SATURDAY, JAN. 24Saturday Stories and Songs: Becca Tedesco, 11
a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
West Knox Preschool and Activities Fair, 9:30-11:30 a.m., First Baptist Concord, 11704 Kingston Pike. Hosted by MOMs Club of Farragut. Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/317471285105701/.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31Beginning Genealogy, 1-4 p.m., East Tennes-
see History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Instructor: Ann Blomquist, Med. Preregistration required. Info/to regis-ter beginning Jan. 20: 215-8809.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Laurie Fisher, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Sean McCol-lough, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 10-12Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival, on stages set
exclusively along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Features fi rst-timers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Tickets available now. Info/tickets: www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 15-16Sevierville’s Bloomin’ Barbeque & Bluegrass
festival. Featuring the biggest names in bluegrass music, up-and-coming artists, the Bush’s Best Tennessee State Championship Cook-Off, and the Mountain Soul Vocal Competition, foods, handmade crafts and kids’ games. Admission and concerts are free. Info/lodging deals: 889-7415 or www.BloominBBQ.com.
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