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VOL. 7 NO. 8 A great community newspaper February 25, 2013
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RoHAWKtics’ new robot unveiled
By Theresa EdwardsHardin Valley Acad-
emy’s First Robotics team 3824, named “RoHAWK-tics” after the school mas-cot, has designed and built a frisbee-throwing robot for the Smoky Mountain Regional competition March 27-30 at the Knox-ville Convention Center.
The team had six weeks (Jan. 5 to Feb. 19) to build the robot. The team built two robots, using the sec-ond one for practice.
“When you watch the competition, you are not just seeing robots. You see the tremendous efforts of an organized group of 43 students on our robotics team,” said team coach and math/physics instruc-
tor John Tilson. “Every-body has contributed to this, including the design, programming, building, game strategy, safety and business aspects.
“This program is re-ally good to give students hands-on experience, en-hancing their learning. They work alongside men-tors to solve problems. It is a very diffi cult challenge we have each year, and it really is a collaborative ef-fort to come up with solu-tions.”
This year’s frisbee-throwing robot will end with a climbing contest to score bonus points. Ap-proximately 50 teams will compete.
“What is cool is how
Hardin Valley students Fletcher Blue and Jack Povlin load the robot with frisbees in a trial
run during First Team 3824’s open house at ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
Cody Nzinski, Kevin Dopatka, mentor Roland Schulz and Kai
Zhao work on the robot.
RoHAWKtics business team members: Georgiana Blue, Anna
Hamlett, Sam Shadwell, Emily Love, Emily Kirk and Brianna
Littleton.
Beth Love,
RoHAWKtics
business
team leader
and English
instructor
this robot is made of car-bon fi ber, a really strong yet lightweight material,” said student Caleb Young. “This enables the robot to withstand a lot of pressure while climbing, yet not go over the weight limit.”
The public is invited to attend the competition, which Tilson says is like a rock concert. “It will be packed.”
By Betty BeanCome April, Village Fine Art
Gallery owner Carolyn Mullins and her husband, Bill, are going to the house – the one near Pawley’s Island, S.C. – eight doors down from their 3-year-old grand-daughter, Caroline.
Caroline’s parents, Kathryn Mullins Edwards and Jim Ed-wards, live there, too. The other Mullins daughter, Sheryl Pless and her husband, Jeff, live in Knoxville.
Bill retired from his job as a broker with Coldwell Banker Wal-lace & Wallace last year, and the Mullinses are now closing down the gallery that has been Carolyn’s labor of love for 17 years, the past 11 years at 4660 Old Broadway.
Carolyn has notifi ed her cus-tomers that everything belong-ing to the gallery will be sold at a 40 percent discount. Items there on consignment will be sold at a
Village Fine Art Galleryclosing after
17 years
Carolyn and Bill Mullins are retir-
ing and moving to South Carolina. Photo by Ruth White
20 percent discount. She and Bill have set up a booth in Harvest Commons on Commerce Street in Pawley’s Island, and plan to close Fountain City gallery by March 30.
This means everything goes, from Ralph Watts’ exquisite wood turnings to Gary Manson’s vibrant textual paintings to Bill Lett’s witty metal sculptures and Valen-tina and Vladimir Amelyenchek’s
sumptuous oils, shipped in from St. Petersburg, Russia, and an entire roomful of Terry Chan-dler’s Smoky Mountain paintings and another full of Ron Williams’ stunning landscapes à la the Hud-son Valley School.
There’s also a large and varied collection of artworks from the estate of the late Ted Burnett and original works by graphic designer
Bill Davidson, who has worked with the gallery for many years.
Customers have been stream-ing in as word of the closing has spread.
“Word is getting out,” Bill said.The Mullinses have been mar-
ried since 1965. Both are native Knoxvillians – Bill grew up in Corryton, Carolyn on Fairmont Boulevard. He went to Gibbs, she went to Fulton. Both went to the University of Tennessee.
“Basically what happened was I always worked until my girls gradu-ated from UT. When that happened, I said, ‘I’m going to go a different di-rection,’ and I spent a year as an ap-prentice in an art gallery, then went to two framing schools. What really cemented my confi dence were trips to museums in Europe.”
Over the years, she developed close relationships with her art-ists, many of whom had to strug-gle fi nancially.
“You feel so for the artists, it’s so tough. It’s a tough way to make a living.”
She will be leaving lots of friends behind. She has enjoyed a good re-lationship with other gallery own-ers, many of whom consider her something of a pioneer.
“It took her about fi ve years to realize this was a gallery and not a museum,” Bill said.
Look out Pawley’s Island. Here comes a Tennessee pioneer.
NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Sign goneSomeone has taken the sign
that marks the entrance to Lazy Acres subdivision, and the neighbors want it back.
Richard Jett says the sign is about fi ve feet by three feet, and residents will “ask no questions” when it’s returned. Contact Jett at 679-1261.
Coff ee BreakFans of Judy Gardner’s shop,
the Silk Purse, already know that the store now shares space with Tea at the Gallery in Western Plaza.
One of the new fi xtures in the brightly
decorated store is a little green table. That’s where customers can sit down with Judy to talk about their fashion needs.
“I love working with women,” she says. “I like to fi nd the look that’s right for them. When they look right, they feel happy.”
➤ Meet Judy on page A-2
Find out where the wild things are and much more in this month’s “My Outdoors.”
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Meet Tom Dillard Tom Dillard fl ashes a slight-
ly embarrassed grin upon hearing that a lot of his peers consider him the gold stan-dard by which other lawyers are measured.
“I hope that doesn’t mean that gold is losing its value,” he said.
“At a certain age, if you don’t get disbarred or prose-cuted, people do give you some respect. But I sure appreci-ate that, and I’ve been very fortunate.”
Betty Bean profi les local lawyer Tom Dillard in this month’s LawDogs.
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A-2 • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • KARNS/HARDIN VALLEY SHOPPER-NEWS
with Judy Gardner
Coffee Break
It can be your neighbor, club leader, bridge partner, boss, father, teacher – anyone you think would be interesting to Bearden Shopper-News readers. Email suggestions to Wendy Smith, [email protected]. Include contact info if you can.
Fans of Judy Gardner’s shop, the Silk Purse, already know that the store now shares space with Tea at the Gal-lery in Western Plaza.
One of the new fi xtures in the brightly decorated store is a little green table. That’s where customers can sit down with Judy to talk about their fashion needs.
“I love working with women,” she says. “I like to fi nd the look that’s right for them. When they look right, they feel happy.”
She grew up in Ridgewood, N. J., a short bus trip from New York City. As a lifelong lover of fashion, she jumped on the bus every chance she got. She became a converted Southerner when she attended the University of North Carolina.
Judy shops for apparel every six weeks or so, and she takes it on the road. She frequently participates in community fash-ion shows, like the Historic Ramsey House benefi t at Chero-kee Country Club on March 19.
Customers can learn about her latest fashion fi nds, as well as seminars offered at the shop, by signing up to re-ceive an email newsletter. Each one also includes a recipe.
Judy loves what she does, and can’t say enough about her hometown.
“The people of Knoxville have been so wonderful to me!”
What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie?Audrey Hepburn once said: “For beautiful eyes, look
for the good in others. For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness.”
What are you guilty of?Trying to put too much on my plate.
What is your favorite material possession?My engagement ring.
What are you reading currently?Janet Evanovich.
What was your most embarrassing moment?When I was doing my TV spot I missed a time cue
and found myself with dead airtime and my mind went totally blank.
What are the top three things on your bucket list? 1) Take entire family to beach for week; 2) Attend
creative women workshop in Washington; 3) Take a trip
for a month up and down the west coast exploring art and craft places.
What is one word other often use to describe you and why?Enthusiastic. I imagine it’s because I’m pretty excited
about life and what I do.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would get on a regular and strict exercise program and stick to it. Discipline myself!
What is your passion?Life – putting a bit of magic in the everyday.
With whom, living or dead, would you most like to have a long lunch?
Besides my husband, Mort, my parents.
Other than your parents, who has had the biggest infl u-ence on our life?
My grandfather. He had a wonderful sense of hu-mor, was generous to everyone to a fault, and was one of fi ve sons of a coal miner in Pennsylvania who came from nothing and really made something of himself. He taught me “Believe it, and you can do it.”
I still can’t quite get the hang of …Most anything technical.
What is the best present you ever received in a box?A photo album to record the beach trip my three
daughters gave us for my last big birthday.
What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?Be kind to everyone.
What is your social media of choice?Pinterest.
What is the worst job you have ever had?I’ve only been in retail, which I love – except for tak-
ing inventory. Yuck!
What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?Hate to admit it, but cartoons weren’t a big thing for
me when I was little. We watched “Howdy Doody” in the afternoon.
What irritates you?Nosiness/busybodies/gossip.
What’s one place in Bearden/downtown that everyone should visit?
Silk Purse Studio/Tea at the Gallery, of course! Down-town – the Tennessee Theatre.
What is your greatest fear?For me, my husband or someone in my family to con-
tract a horrible disease.
If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be?Fly with Mort to St. Barts for two weeks.
– W. Smith
Judy Gardner and employee Ray Sherrill are surrounded by pretty things and wonderful customers at the Silk Purse. Photo by Wendy Smith
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(865)974-9124Sponsored by the Lower Clinch Watershed Council (LCWC) in
partnership with Tennessee Yards & Neighborhoods (TYN)
Hoof and Harness Ex-periential Learning, a min-istry started by David and Beth Nelson, is bringing new horse-drawn carriage ther-apy sessions mid-March to Karns at TRAK, 7316 West Emory Road.
“Therapeutic riding and carriage driving is used for therapy, education, sport or recreation and leisure activi-ties,” Beth said. “All of the approaches can be benefi cial for any student with special needs. Research shows posi-tive outcomes in each area.”
The therapy helps develop communication and physi-cal skills, core strength and quality of life, according to David. “A horse is something
Hoof and Harness off ers therapy
Jerry and Pattie Loveday speak at the Karns History Club.
Beth Nelson drives the carriage pulled by Silver that will be used in equine therapeutic
experiences for the physically and mentally challenged. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
they can care about and look forward to being with.”
Silver, a registered Ameri-can miniature horse, will be pulling the carriage. “He pulls Santa’s sleigh at the ‘Nutcrack-er’ performances each year at the Ice Chalet,” Beth said. “He is great with the kids.
“Silver has a new calling now, as a therapy carriage horse.”
The Nelsons have plans for a wheelchair-accessible
carriage also. They are developing prop-
erty in Strawberry Plains with carriage trails designed as a sensory course with learn-ing activities and stops along the way. There will be a bas-ketball hoop, a bowling ramp with pins and other activities to encourage movement.
“They will be able to shoot hoops from the cart,” Beth said.
The Nelsons are passion-ate about providing equine therapy to help others. Da-vid’s career is in accounting as a partner with Rodefer Moss. But in retirement he will dedicate himself to the Hoof and Harness ministry.
Info: TRAK executive director Stacie Hirsch at 386-5970. To volunteer, call Cathy Pethel at 466-4380.
■ Lovedays speak at Karns History ClubJerry and Pattie Loveday’s
parents – Ottis and Opal Loveday and E. N. and Flor-ence Price – built a history in the Karns community which the Lovedays shared with the Karns History Club.
Pattie’s father was a build-ing contractor who launched commercial home-building in Karns. “After he started, other contractors started coming in and building,” she said. “So my dad got the building boom
A display at the Karns Branch
Library shows debris found
in local streams.
started in Karns.”Jerry’s dad worked for the
telephone company.“Both of our parents were
very involved in the com-munity and we have always loved Karns,” Pattie said. “Both of our moms were very involved in PTA and the Karns Community Club.”
Jerry grew up near Grace Baptist Church where he was very involved in the music ministry.
He plays the fl ute and piano, while Pattie plays the organ. Now that he is retired from TVA, and she from teaching, they are in the mu-sic ministry together.
The Lovedays have a son and daughter who both graduated from Karns High School just as they did.
■ Adopt-A-StreamA display at the Karns
Branch Library shows a va-riety of debris found in our area streams to increase awareness of a need for vol-unteer groups.
Adopt-A-Stream is a pro-gram of the Water Quality Forum to encourage groups to become stewards of their watershed. It is a citizen-based monitoring and litter prevention initiative to pro-tect the health and beauty of our local waterways.
Schools, community groups, businesses, civic clubs and even families can adopt a section of a local stream.
Info: www.waterquality-forum.org or 215-5800.
KARNS NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets at 7:15 p.m. each
fi rst Tuesday at Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road.
Info: www.cwkch.com/.
■ Greater Karns Business Association meets at noon each second
Thursday at the Karns Community Club building at 7708 Oak Ridge
Highway. Info: Alisa Pruett, 603-4273, or www.karnsbusiness.com/.
■ Karns Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each fi rst Tuesday at Karns
Middle School library. Info: Lorraine Coff ey, 660-3677.
■ Karns Community Club meets 7:30 p.m. each fi rst Tuesday at Karns
Community Center building at 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: Don
Gordon, 938-1655.
■ Karns Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each fi rst and third Monday at the
Karns Community Club building at 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. Info:
www.karnslionsclub.com/.
■ West Knox Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each fi rst and third Monday
at the Silver Spoon restaurant at 210 Lovell.
■ Karns History Club meets 2 p.m. each third Tuesday at the Karns
Library.
■ 6th District of the Knox County Democratic Party meets at the
Karns Library 6 p.m. each fourth Tuesday. Knoxville City Mayor
Madeline Rogero will be the speaker Feb. 26. Info: Janice Spoone,
560-0202, or Clay Mulford,
UT NOTES ■ Beranger Biannic, post-
doctoral research associate
at the Center for Renew-
able Carbon, earned fi rst
place in the post-doctoral
scholar category of the
Southeastern Conference
Symposium’s inaugural
Excellence in Poster Pre-
sentation. His presentation,
“Cobalt-Catalyzed Oxidation
of p-Substituted Phenols:
Developments toward an
Effi cient Conversion of Lignin
to High Value Chemicals,”
was selected from more than
80 other entries.
■ Mike Wiseman, the newest
staff member at the School
of Journalism and Electronic
Media (JEM), helps operate
The Volunteer Channel (TVC),
UT’s student television sta-
tion. He recently earned an
Emmy for his coverage of the
M. Lane MorrisWiseman
Gatlinburg Christmas parade,
which he worked on during
his time with the local NBC
station, WBIR-TV.
■ M. Lane Morris has been ap-
pointed the Skinner Professor
in Management. The profes-
sorship was made possible
by an estate gift from the late
Sarah E. Skinner of Charlotte,
N.C. Morris’ research focuses
on topics including employee
work-life balance, the evalu-
ation of performance-related
training programs and leader-
ship development.
A-4 • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • SHOPPER-NEWS government
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Saturday, March 16, and various merchants will be present. The Southern
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As County Commission prepares for a crucial sec-ond vote on banning digital billboards, opponents of the blinky signs are watching to see what Commissioner Jeff Ownby does.
He’s never voted their way on these is-sues, so it’s not like there’s any s u s p e n s e there. What aggravates them is that he votes at all.
Although no one will go on the record with their complaints, it’s Ownby’s re-lationship with Lamar Out-door Advertising attorney Greg Isaacs that has the an-ti-billboard folks grinding their teeth. Isaacs is a zeal-ous defender of Lamar’s free speech and property rights and appears before County Commission to plead his cli-ent’s case.
He also represents Own-by in an indecent exposure case that came about af-
Sandra Clark
GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Knox County taxpayers invested $5 million (thank you, Mayor
Ragsdale) in a new business park in Blount County and last week
it fi nally snagged its fi rst corporate customer: ProNova, a Knox
County fi rm that plans creation of 500 jobs, all in Blount County.
■ Trustee John Duncan has unveiled “an app,”
just three days before the deadline to pay
property taxes on time. Yes, if you’ve waited
this long to pay your taxes, race right over to
Duncan’s website and grab that app. Then pay
by cellphone. Of course, you can also drive to
the courthouse or a satellite offi ce in Farragut,
Halls, Cedar Bluff , or east or south Knoxville;
mail a check (postmarked by Feb. 28); or drop
by one of the banks that accept tax payments:
American Trust Bank of East Tennessee, BB&T,
First Tennessee, Home Federal and U.S. Bank.
■ Ruthie Kuhlman has scored her fi rst coup as
GOP county chair, by snagging former U.S. Rep.
and presidential candidate Ron Paul to speak at
the upcoming Lincoln Day Dinner on April 12.
Details such as place, time and price are pend-
ing, and some Republicans are grumbling about
Paul’s libertarianism, but what’s new? Just don’t
get him mixed up with Rand Paul or Paul Ryan.
■ Mike Hammond says he’s a creative person
who has ideas from time to time and wonders
how to present them to the school board with-
out appearing to “take over,” and he also wonders how to fi nd out
what the school board is doing, about such things as the commu-
nity school at Pond Gap. May we suggest Comcast Cable Channel
10 for enlightening school board discussions and perhaps a cold
beverage at a downtown venue for transmitting creativity.
–S. Clark
Ron Paul
Hard to imagine why state Rep. Steve Hall who represents the neighbor-hoods surrounding Lake-shore Park off Lyons View Pike (such as Westmore-land, Riverbend and Rocky Hill) would sponsor a Sta-cey Campfi eld bill to sell the property owned by the state adjacent to the park to the highest bidder and thereby prevent this property from being added to the existing city park.
It seems sure to alienate many of his constituents.
While Campfi eld gets most of the media atten-tion for this, the proposal would already be dead from a legislative standpoint had Hall never introduced it. Bills must be introduced in both houses of the General Assembly to become law. It is also Hall’s district which is closest to Lakeshore. Sen. Becky Massey actu-ally represents most of the immediate neighbors to Lakeshore Park.
I called Steve Hall, whom I have known since he followed Ivan Harmon on Knoxville City Council, to talk about it.
Hall has tradition-ally been a low key law-maker who seldom speaks publicly on issues. He is also close personally to Campfi eld, but avoids the publicity his controver-sial friend generates. It is hard to think of any issue Hall champions beyond opposition to tax hikes of any kind. While he hosts a cable TV talk show, he is not a regular in media columns or interviews.
Hall told me several things about this bill. He said it was Campfi eld’s bill and not really his.
When I pointed out that he took ownership of it when he introduced it, he then assured me it was un-likely to pass and he would not move it until Campfi eld passed it in the Senate.
When I then asked why he would introduce a bill which he was so lukewarm on and did not feel would pass, he said he had lots of questions about the trans-fer of state land to the city.
I pointed out that selling the property does not secure answers to his questions and, if sold, guarantees the state has no interest in the property once it is in private hands. He acknowledged that would be true.
I also asked why he had not contacted the appropri-ate state offi cials like Larry Martin if he had questions about the property trans-fer. He seemed not to have
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Hard to fi gure Steve Hall’s Lakeshore bill
realized that Martin was a key player in the talks about this, and it has been covered in the Knoxville media.
After the conversation concluded, I wondered how closely this legislator thinks through proposals he is sponsoring.
Does he realize how up-setting this is to thousands of Knox Countians who use Lakeshore (many of whom are his constituents)?
The good news is that the proposal really is going nowhere.
Gov. Bill Haslam is op-posed.
Sen. Massey, a widely respected senator, opposes the legislation and favors an enhanced Lakeshore Park. She points out the large number of citizens who use the park regularly and how many more will use it when the park is enlarged.
It is unfortunate that legislation like this would be introduced without citizens who live in the area being consulted. The mayor was ignored. City Coun-cil was ignored. Adjacent neighborhoods were ignored. Knox Youth Sports was ignored. The Governor (whose Knox-ville home is less than one mile away) was ignored. While the attention may continue to focus on Camp-fi eld, Hall merits attention too as he wades into water which may be over his head.
■ Former U.S. Am-bassador to Egypt Mar-garet Scobey has moved to Loudon County and is building a home in Farragut to which she hopes to move this summer. Scobey is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and was also ambassador to Syria.
■ Patrons of the John T O’Connor pancake break-fast last Tuesday morning saw Mayor Burchett and Mayor Rogero dancing briefl y to the music of the occasion. It showed a new development in city-county relations.
■ A city-sponsored meeting to discuss how to assist South Knoxville mer-chants will be held at 9:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, at Ijams Nature Center. Vice Mayor Pavlis is pulling it to-gether. Public is invited.
Betty Bean
Jeff Ownby
Billboard vote tests Ownby
Knox County Ethics Code, Section 2:“Disclosure of personal interest in voting matters.
An elected offi cial or employee of Knox County with
responsibility to vote on a measure shall disclose during
the meeting at which the vote takes place, before any
discussion or vote on the measure and so it appears in
the Minutes, any personal interest that aff ects or that
would lead a reasonable person to infer that it aff ects the
offi cial’s vote on the measure.
“In addition, said elected offi cial or employee shall
recuse him/herself from the discussion and/or vote on
the matter.
“This provision shall not be applicable to voting
on measures for reapportionment of districts or other
measures that aff ect all members of the Knox County
Commission. ‘Personal Interest’ means, for the purpose
of disclosure of personal interest in accordance with this
policy, a fi nancial interest of the offi cial or employee, or
a fi nancial interest of the offi cial’s or employee’s spouse
or child living in the same household, in the matter to be
voted upon, regulated, supervised, or otherwise acted
upon in an offi ci al capacity.”
ter the 4th District com-missioner was arrested on Sharp’s Ridge last May. The case is still pending, and those on the other side of the billboard issue wonder how Ownby, who lost his job after the arrest, can afford to hire one of Knoxville’s highest profi le attorneys to represent him.
Chief Deputy Law Di-rector David Buuck says Ownby could likely cure any potential problem by disclosing his relationship with Isaacs prior to any vote (Buuck is speaking hypo-thetically, and not opining on whether Ownby in fact has a problem).
“If anyone has a problem with this, the proper proce-dure is to send it to the eth-ics committee with a signed, sworn ethics complaint,” Buuck said.
Isaacs said he can’t com-
ment on the Ownby case be-cause it’s still pending, but he doesn’t mind comment-ing on the question, which he called nonsensical and vitriolic.
“The fact that I repre-sent Commissioner Ownby
has been on the front page of newspapers and televi-sion media and had nothing to do with that, or matters pending before commis-sion. Unfortunately these people continue to attack commissioners with whom they disagree. It wouldn’t surprise me if they wanted to investigate my dogs.”
John Duncan
Late start makes (less
than) happy campers
School board members Karen Carson and Gloria Deathridge
look over a report while waiting for county commissioners. Photo by S. Clark
Karen Carson is practical.When county commis-
sioners were late for a joint meeting set for 4 p.m. I asked Carson, who chairs the school board, how long she would wait.
“If they had asked for the meeting, 10 minutes,” she said. “Since I’ve been begging for this meeting for months, probably a long time.”
At 4:49 the commission-ers drifted in. The full com-mission had been debating billboards (for what seems like the 100th time) in a non-voting workshop. Now three members, all male, walked into the small as-sembly room.
Was it coincidence that the three school board members were all women?
Carson, Gloria Death-ridge and Lynne Fugate rep-resented the schools, while Dave Wright, Mike Ham-mond and Sam McKenzie represented the commis-sion. Commissioner Amy Broyles was absent, as was school board member Doug Harris.
“We want to get to know each other and develop some ground rules for com-municating,” said Carson.
“I’d like to spend this time answering your ques-tions rather than have our conversations in the paper,” chimed in Fugate.
Mike Hammond, as com-mission chair, had reached out to the school board. That’s not so much the case with the current chair, Tony Norman, a former teacher.
Hammond said a joint re-treat was helpful, but “we’ve taken a few steps back.”
Wright said, “The things that elude us revolve around dollars.” He proceeded to say the Sheriff’s Offi ce and Health Department could be “jealous” if the school board and commission es-tablish close interaction.
“We’ve got Budget 101,” said Carson. “We know oth-ers want (budget) dollars.”
Wright soldiered on: “Dr. McIntyre doesn’t have to sell me anything. It’s the community buy-in that makes the big things hap-pen (in funding).”
Meanwhile, out in the audience, a young KNS re-porter was drifting about, looking for quotes about a Chamber poll that showed just that - community buy-in for increased funding for education.
Last year, the school board proposed a budget that found no one on com-mission willing to make a motion for. But the schools got $7 million in new money and Carson calls that “posi-tive.”
Meanwhile, Tim Bur-chett has a fi nger poised on his Robo-call machine.
SHOPPER-NEWS • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • A-5
Tom Dillard fl ashes a slightly embarrassed grin upon hearing that a lot of his peers con-sider him the gold stan-dard by which other lawyers are measured.
“I hope that doesn’t mean that gold is los-ing its value,” he said. “At a certain age, if you don’t get disbarred or prosecuted, people do give you some respect. But I sure appreciate that, and I’ve been very fortunate.”
A picture of Bob Ritchie, his late part-ner (and another gold standard attorney), sits on the sideboard next to Dillard’s desk along with pictures of Dillard’s wife and late parents. Ritchie was a couple of years ahead of him at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and as young lawyers they worked for law fi rms housed in the Hamilton Bank build-ing.
When Dillard became an assistant U.S. Attorney, he found himself on the opposite side of cases from Ritchie, whom he describes as “a superb lawyer; always a gentleman and prepared to the nth degree.”
But that’s getting ahead of the story, which begins in Alabama, where he was born to Gladys and Bill Dil-lard nine days before Pearl Harbor. He was the fi rst of three children, and the family bounced around the country – primarily in the Southeastern United States – during the war years after his father joined the Navy.
The Dillards moved to Fountain City in 1950, and Bill went into the produce brokerage business. Tom attended Smithwood Ele-mentary School and Central High and grew to be 6-3, which meant he was one of the two tallest players on the Bobcat basketball team. He went on to UT for col-lege and law school, and has a picture of himself and his sister, Susan, when he got his undergraduate degree.
“I was 21, in my cap and gown, and she was fi ve,” he said. “She graduated from kindergarten when I gradu-ated from college.”
Today, little sister is Su-san Espiritu, the much-hon-ored principal of Pond Gap Elementary School whose most recent honor is a Na-tional Association of El-ementary School Principal’s award. Dillard is very proud of her accomplishments.
“She does an incredible job,” he said. “Very dedi-cated and does great work. I’ve got two Susans I’m very proud of.”
Just the facts ■ Graduated from the UT
College of Law, 1964.
■ Served 9 years as assistant
U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of Tennes-
see, and from 1976-78 was
the district’s fi rst full-time
federal magistrate.
■ Appointed U.S. Attorney
for the Northern District of
Florida by President Ronald
Reagan, 1983.
■ Returned to Knoxville In
1987 to join the fi rm of
Ritchie, Fels & Dillard, today
called Ritchie, Dillard,
Davies & Johnson.
■ Certifi ed as a criminal trial
specialist by the National
Board of Trial Advocacy
and the Tennessee Com-
mission on Continuing
Legal Education
■ Named a Fellow of the
American College of Trial
Lawyers and the Tennes-
see Bar Foundation and
is a Master of the Bench
of the Hamilton Burnett
American Inn of Court.
■ Has served on the board
of directors of the Helen
Ross McNabb Center, the
Tennessee Association
of Criminal Defense
Lawyers, the Knoxville Bar
Association, the Knoxville
Bar Foundation, and the
Federal Defender Services
of Eastern Tennessee.
■ Is the founding president
of the Knoxville Defense
Lawyers Association.
■ Was appointed to the
Mayor’s Commission on
Police, the Tennessee Bar
Association’s Committee
on Professional Standards
and the Advisory Commis-
sion to the Supreme Court
on Rules of Practice and
Procedure.
■ Elected to the Leadership
Knoxville Class of 1998.
■ Awarded, in 2002, the
Knoxville Bar Associa-
tion’s highest honor – the
Governor’s Award – for
professional achievement
and community involve-
ment.
■ Received the Knoxville Bar
Association’s Law Through
Liberty Award in 2008.
■ Received the 2012 Joseph
B. Jones award for lifetime
achievement from the
Tennessee Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers.
■ Has instructed at the
National Institute for Trial
Advocacy, was an adjunct
professor of trial practice at
the University of Tennes-
see College of Law and
has lectured at seminars
for various national, state,
and local bar associations
and other professional
organizations.
■ Achieved the highest rating
awarded by the Martindale
Hubbell Law Directory (AV)
and is listed in Best Lawyers
in America, The National Di-
rectory of Criminal Lawyers,
and Who’s Who in American
Law.
LAW DOGS | Betty Bean
The gold standard: Tom Dillard
His wife of 38 years is also named Susan, and has a doctorate in retail mer-chandising from Florida State University.
His younger brother John, a United States Ma-rine whose career as a San Diego police offi cer was cut short by a disabling neuro-logical disorder that con-fi ned him to a wheelchair, died two years ago when his apartment building caught fi re and he was unable to escape.
Early years Dillard worked in the U.S.
Attorney’s offi ce in Knox-ville for a total of 14 years with 2 years off to serve as a magistrate. In 1983, Presi-dent Ronald Reagan ap-pointed him U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Florida, an odd occurrence since he (1) didn’t live there, and (2) is a Democrat.
He had participated in a program that assigned fed-eral prosecutors to inspect other U.S. Attorney’s of-fi ces, and was assigned fi ve offi ces in Alabama, Georgia and Florida. He was warned that the Florida offi ce had problems.
“And sure enough, they had internal problems and it was kind of a mess, so I went down and did inspec-tions for about a week in the Tallahassee and Pensacola offi ces,” he said.
It was there that he met newly-elected U.S. Sen. Paula Hawkins, an Orlando Republican.
“She found out one of her duties would be to recom-mend U.S. Attorneys, and she got the idea that she didn’t want them to be from the area where they’d been practicing, which was kind of novel, to say the least,” Dillard said.
One evening at a social event, Hawkins asked Dil-lard for his observations about the U.S. Attorney’s offi ces, and some weeks
later, he got a call from her offi ce asking if he would consent to be considered for the ap-pointment.
“This was a new concept to me, and I said ‘Sure!’ And lo and behold, I get a call a month or so later that she’d done the vetting of all the people con-sidered and she offered me the job. I had been to Tallahassee one time. … But it was a terrifi c experience and I really enjoyed it.”
He warned Hawkins that, despite having been a precinct chair for Barry Goldwater
shortly after law school, he was a Democrat.
“She just said, ‘Don’t em-barrass me.’”
Dillard held the offi ce from mid-February, 1983 until the last day of 1986.
Why did he leave?“Bob Ritchie,” he said.
Back home“You know going in that
it’s not a permanent job, and here I am an East Tennes-sean down there in Florida, and at some point I know I’m going to have to go back. Bob had come down twice, and the reason he gave me was he had a client in the federal institution in Talla-hassee …
“The next time he came down, he told me, ‘We need some help in my offi ce, and you need to come back and work with Charles (Fels) and me.’ I thought about it a very short period of time, and said ‘Yeah, you bet.’” (Charles Fels has since left the fi rm to become an Epis-copal priest, now at the Church of the Good Shep-herd.)
Ritchie, Fels & Dillard came together Jan. 1, 1987, and soon became the pre-mier criminal defense fi rm in Knoxville. Ritchie bought and remodeled a building on Main St. and moved the offi ce there in 1988. Dillard specializes in white-collar crime, but has handled a wide range of cases, includ-ing capital murder trials.
He has been a member of the Tennessee Bar Asso-ciation’s Professional Stan-dards Committee since 1995 and says the Rules of Pro-fessional Conduct bar him from saying much about past clients, but he was will-ing to talk about one of his most diffi cult cases – that of George Thomas, one of the defendants in the Chris-tian-Newsom murder trial.
Tough caseWhy did he get involved
in a case whose details are
so unimaginably gruesome that the defense attorneys became targets of public outrage?
“I’ve asked myself that,” he said, only half-joking.
“The rules of professional conduct don’t address this per se, but part of the re-sponsibility of being a law-yer is promoting and pre-serving the right to counsel, the right to due process and other related rights that we all have.
“If you’re a civil lawyer you can do pro bono work and get all kinds of acco-lades, but if you’re a crimi-nal lawyer, it’s part of your responsibility, profession-ally and morally, to not turn your back on people because of public sentiment.”
The pool of local lawyers qualifi ed to represent cli-ents facing the death pen-alty is very small, so when four people were charged with carjacking and mur-dering Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, Dillard wasn’t surprised when his phone rang.
“None of us was look-ing for that appointment,” he said. “I remember get-ting the call I was hoping I wouldn’t get from Judge (Richard) Baumgartner’s offi ce, and both profes-sionally and morally, there wasn’t any way of saying ‘No, I can’t do it, Judge.’”
Death penalty defen-dants get two attorneys, so he enlisted one of his part-ners, Stephen Johnson, as co-counsel because they’d tried a previous death pen-alty case together.
The Thomas case has been dragging on for years, and may be retried this spring.
Payment rates for ap-pointed work have not changed since 1994 – the lead counsel in death pen-alty cases gets $100 an hour for in-court appearances and $75 for out-of-court work; co-counsel gets $80 and $60 – a fraction of the fees normally commanded by elite law fi rms (and not
nearly enough to compen-sate for at least 800 attor-ney and staff hours.)
“At one point, I thought about fi guring that up, but then thought, ‘No thanks; I’ll be in a blue funk for years to come,’” he said.
He tries not to think about the vilifi cation of the defense attorneys in this case, but it clearly troubles him, particularly “the nameless, faceless and sometimes completely cra-zy” critics on Internet blogs and message boards.
He says he and Johnson haven’t had as much of that
as attorneys David Eldridge and Doug Trant, who repre-sent the alleged ringleader of the murder plot.
“Believe me, they did not pick their client,” he said. “But I admire them.
“Both the federal consti-tution and the state consti-tution specifi cally state than an individual has the right to effective counsel. We’re just doing our job.”
Meanwhile, Dillard says his wife has begun to ask him about retirement, and he thinks about it some. But mostly, he stays busy – just doing his job.
On his offi ce wall, the young Tom Dillard with his friend, former U.S. Sen. Paula Hawkins.
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A-6 • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • KARNS/HARDIN VALLEY SHOPPER-NEWS
By Theresa EdwardsKarns Church of Christ
held a golden age banquet, “A Night in Paris,” hosted and served by the youth group.
“They are our ‘young at heart’ seniors group,” said youth minister Justin Mor-ton.
French music and scen-ery added to the Paris theme along with a menu of Parisian cheese, French onion soup, chicken cordon bleu, green beans, garlic bread and the fi nest Paris desserts.
For entertainment, French trivia and battle
of the minds games were played, followed by the youth singing “To Canaan’s Land.”
Morton thanked the youth, parents and other volunteers who made the evening possible to “honor those who deserve to be honored.”
‘A Night in Paris’
Allen and Marlene Monroe
James and Beverly Meadows Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com Wilma Smith with granddaughter Sarah Smith Samuel Cox serves soup to Carrol and Anette Street.
By Ashley BakerDamon Kelly, youth pastor
at Cedar Springs Church, has never been intimidated by the front pew.
Having a life-long history with church attendance, Kelly sits on the front row every Sunday and has at-tended the same church for eighteen years.
Kelly recalls how his se-nior pastor Ross Rhodes in Charlotte, N.C., made a deep impression on him as a child. “I was in the front row with my friends,” Kelly said. “And our senior pastor would come and sit and talk to us. He would always ask us what hymn we wanted to sing that night. And one of
the hymns would always be one that we suggested.”
That encounter made a life-long connection for a young Kelly. He felt the signifi cance of a pastor’s time and atten-tion and knew that he would spend his life in God’s service, ministering the way Rhodes ministered to him.
Straight out of Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn., Damon and his wife, Lea, moved to Knoxville. He got a job at Cedar Springs as a middle school pastor, where he worked with the youth for eight years. In 1998, the Kel-lys moved for a short time to Dallas, and then to Athens, Ga. In 2003, Cedar Springs called Kelly and asked him
Up front: Youth leader impacted by pastor’s attention
The Kelly family is all smiles. From left are Trent, 18; Lea and Damon; Trey, 12; and Taylor, 20. Da-
mon has been a youth leader at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church for ten years. Photo submitted
to interview to be their new high school pastor. Kelly was given the job, and he has been working as what he calls a “high school shepherd” for the last 10 years.
Kelly is now responsible for leading the youth on both Sundays and Wednesdays, teaching the students about the life of Jesus through song and worship. On Sun-
day nights, the youth divide into small groups of about six to 10 students and encour-age one another by reading good books and by praying together.
Kelly also spends time working with leaders in his church, including leading a two-year intern program. Interns learn the dynam-ics of middle school, high school and college ministry through this program and can decide if it is a good ca-reer path for them.
Kelly also helps adult lead-ers build relationships with students and has 35 adult volunteers who work with the students. “I want kids to encounter Jesus through the connection of an adult friend,” Kelly said, “because we see the value of coming alongside families.”
Kelly pastors students but also spends time getting to know their families. He puts an emphasis on par-ents and said their roles are pivotal in a student’s life. Kelly said he loves serving the church that he calls “a beautiful, messy place.”
News from SOS
Marvin West
It’s still early, but how would you like to be an NFL scout assigned to evaluate Tyler Bray?
Premature speculation from self-appointed ex-perts has him going every-where in the April 25 draft, late first round, mid-sec-ond, fifth — Jon Gruden will know.
Indeed, several pros are asking questions and taking notes: Great arm. Bold, gun-slinger mentality. Immature behavior at times. Potential exceeds production.
High-octane emotions with tendency to go up or down with the team.
Expectations? He was on the Heisman checklist and a Maxwell Award possibility.
Sorry about that.Immaturity? Don’t let
the f lamboyant tattoo, beer-bottle barrage and jet ski incident trouble you too much. Yelling back at
Tyler Bray may confuse NFL
coaches bothered me.Among the positives,
please print ARM in large letters. Such a tool is rare.
Twenty-four career starts, 59 percent comple-tions, 7,444 yards with favorable touchdown-to-interception ratio, 69 to 28. OK, the weak sisters of the poor puffed up those stats. Memphis, Montana, Buffa-lo, Georgia State, Akron and Troy contributed 25 TDs.
The pros will study hours of Tyler tape and wonder how he could rif le a 30-yard strike between a trailing corner and con-
verging safety, hitting Jus-tin Hunter in full stride —and then bounce a pass to the left f lat.
They will notice his 13-11 won-lost record and the ugly 5-9 against South-eastern Conference foes and conclude that he never won a truly meaningful game. Surely they won’t blame Bray for all that mess. Derek Dooley hired Sal Sunseri.
Best games? Cincin-nati 2011, four touchdown passes, 405 yards, winning pitcher in a 22-point romp. South Carolina 2012, four scores, 368 yards but not enough to win.
Worst performances? Five-of-30 fl op in that windy Orange and White game and the miserable 2011 fi nale at Kentucky. No way to tell if he really cared.
The scouting report will list Bray’s trim 6-6 phy-
sique and limited mobility and wonder about survival and longevity. Will wicked blitzers slam him in the mid-dle and break him in half? Didn’t happen in the SEC.
The report might say Bray didn’t take many big hits. There were reasons. He was coached to stay well and avoid sacks. Of-fensive linemen dedicated life and limb to protecting the quarterback.
The pros have heard that Bray senses pressure before there is any. He gen-erally unloaded at the first hint of danger.
Long, long ago, Dewey Warren won some Tennessee games and a lot of respect by hanging tough in the pocket. The Swamp Rat would defy the rush, keep looking for re-ceivers and fi nally fi re a fast-ball just as a helmet struck him under the chin.
Bray? Not so much.Two NFL observers dis-
cussing Bray last Novem-ber supposedly started with throwing velocity, then “heavy feet” that were
slow to reset when he had to move. They said accu-racy was better than judg-ment. One had seen Tyler as a freshman and was not particularly kind to offensive coordinator Jim Chancy on the subject of fundamental development.
Still locks onto receiv-ers too often. Lead shoul-der still f lies open when he gets in a hurry. Drops his eyes quickly when try-ing to elude pressure. Poor handler of the football.
They had heard of Dool-ey’s threat to bench Bray if he didn’t take better care of the ball.
I concede Tyler Bray is not Andrew Luck or Rob-ert Griffin III. He is a more typical QB prospect with f laws. But to me, just an old sportswriter, most shortcomings appear cor-rectible. NFL coaches, with time and patience, can do that.
Only God can make a man 6-6 and bless him with a cannon. Marvin West invites reader reaction.
His address is [email protected]
Something singsCross
Currents
LynnHutton
Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”
(Luke 22: 19-20 NRSV)
You ask of us fair linen, and that our hands would tremble just a little as we setthe table for the Holy Mysteries. …So in the silence of the love that springsWhere least expected but where most desired,We touch with trembling hands the holy things;And all of life is grace, and something sings.
(“Means of Grace,” by Jennifer L. Woodruff)
I grew up in a tradition that passed the communion plates through the pews. The wafers were tiny pillows
of tasteless crunch, and the grape juice came in minia-ture glass cups. It was years before I learned about fair
linen and a loaf and chalice.I have received the sac-
raments in various places: around a campfi re, in a cathe-dral, in a hospital room, in a church fellowship hall. I have had the privilege of assisting at the table, and of helping to serve the congregation.
I have been served chal-lah and wine, dinner rolls and Welch’s grape juice, and sandwich bread and Coke.
But no matter the setting, no matter the elements, no matter which side of the com-
munion rail I am on, I am always moved and touched by the mystery I hold in my hands.
In the understanding of my head and heart, the ele-ments themselves are not the point. The point is that these elements we can see and touch and smell and taste show us a great unfathom-able mystery: that God loves us, draws near to us, feeds us, and communes with us. God, in the person of Jesus, gave his body and blood for us; in the moment of receiving the elements of communion, God once again gives us the body and the blood of Christ, to our salvation.
No matter what your un-derstanding of the sacrament may be, it is God’s gift to us, God’s feeding us like a baby,
God’s nurturing us in love.Wars have been fought
over these understandings. Churches and families and nations have been torn asun-der because they could not agree on what the sacrament is or what it means. Kings have been deposed, dynas-ties have fallen, countless books have been written, denominations have come into being because folks dis-agreed on these matters.
Like any parent who wants peace at the table, God grieves when we fi ght over the feast. But when we turn our atten-tion to Christ and his love for us, poured out in these ele-ments, then we are family—God’s family. We are fed, we are blessed, we are loved.
“And all of life is grace, and something sings.”
This afternoon (Feb. 25) at 2
p.m., County Commission will
consider a resolution that sup-
ports the election of school
superintendents. Please attend
that meeting if you can, and by
all means, let them know you
oppose such a move. Commis-
sioners can be contacted by
email at commission@knox-
county.org. Citizen input is cru-
cial at this time.
LET’S KEEP AN APPOINTED
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
For two decades, local
school boards across Tennes-
see have appointed school su-
perintendents. The Tennessee
Improvement Act of 1992 stated
that local school superinten-
dents “should be accountable
to a local board of education
which is elected by the public,”
and hired based upon “profes-
sional qualifi cations and skills,
not on political savvy.” Hiring
superintendents allows for “a
larger pool of qualifi ed appli-
cants” and better ensures that
a local school board can hold a
superintendent “accountable”
for his/her actions.
The law off ers other reasons
to appoint the most important
leader in our schools:
* Continuity of leadership
versus the potential for change
every four years;
* Incentives for the local
school chief and elected Board
of Education to cooperate;
* Strong enforcement of
goals and standards;
* Avoidance of political pa-
tronage, or its appearance, in
the school system.
Some commissioners have
spoken in support of Tennessee
SB 916 and HB 741 which would
permit a local option for elect-
ing school superintendents
“upon two-thirds vote of county
or city governing body and ap-
proval in an election on the
question by the voters.”
Support Our Schools strong-
ly urges commissioners to op-
pose this legislation which, in the
past, was associated with politi-
cal cronyism and patronage.
The concern about school
security provides a good ex-
ample of the effi cient and ef-
fective way an appointed su-
perintendent works in tandem
with elected offi cials, the School
Board and County Commission.
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Halls Middle School science teacher Andrea Souza critiques a project for Olivia Bell prior to the school science fair. Photo by Ruth White
By Jake MabeAndrea Souza calls herself an
“accidental” science teacher. She earned a bachelor’s degree
from UT in language arts and even-tually taught the subject for three years at Bearden Middle School.
Just before becoming pregnant with her first child, she’d almost completed a degree in geology. She and her husband, Peter, raised four boys. After the youngest entered pre-K, Andrea decided to return to UT to earn a master’s degree in K-8 education.
She started teaching sci-ence after coming to Halls Middle from Bearden a little more than two years ago.
“And I love it,” she says. Souza is one of 18 Tennessee
science teachers selected for the National Science Teachers Associ-ation’s New Science Teacher Acad-emy fellowship program, designed for educators who have been teach-ing science for three years or less.
According to a press release, the year-long professional develop-ment program is designed “to help promote science teaching, enhance teacher confidence and classroom excellence, and improve teacher content knowledge.”
Several companies co-sponsor the fellowship. Souza is sponsored by Dow Chemical.
“For almost the entire school year, mentors work with mentees to do two or three explorations and
design a lesson plan around a student
progress indi-cator. Seasoned teachers help us
beef up our lesson plans and help us dig deeper. We can do a
webcam observation if we choose to and attend the national confer-ence in San Antonio in April, at which you get to take certain class-es and have opportunities for a few other ancillary events.”
Souza says making the transi-tion from language arts to science wasn’t too difficult, but required
intense preparation. “It was a little uncomfortable at
first just because I had to relearn everything. I spent the whole sum-mer studying the curriculum.”
Souza, who teaches honors sci-ence at Halls Middle, also spon-sors Odyssey of the Mind, a prob-lem-solving club that meets after school.
“It applies music, writing and engineering to the scientific meth-od,” Souza says, in an effort to help students improve analytical and critical thinking skills.
Right now, the group meets on Thursday afternoons and is work-ing to solve two problems involving robotics and engineering.
“They are fun problems, not the typical ‘read a problem in a book and answer it.’ It’s more ‘color out-side the lines,’ and that’s the type of thinking where we make our gains.”
She says one challenge about teaching science is not having enough resources, such as ade-quate lab space and equipment.
“But there’s also confusion
about what exactly science literacy is,” she says. “Some hear ‘literacy’ and think that just means to be able to read and comprehend, but there’s also a scientific cultural literacy. So the struggle between reading and application is the big-gest challenge.”
When interviewed for this story, Souza was busy preparing for her first science fair at the school.
“It was stressful getting it or-ganized, but what the kids get out of it is priceless. Teaching honors kids, I was asked to increase the rigor and challenge them more, and I thought holding a science fair was one way to do more of that.”
Souza says providence played a role in her path toward education. Both her paternal grandparents were teachers, and her grandmoth-er told Andrea when she was 14 that she was going to be a teacher.
“And I said, ‘But I don’t even like kids!’ And, no matter how often I turned my head away from it, it was kind of like being at a cross-roads, and the obvious choice was the one that led to education.”
‘Accidental’ science teacher loves the job
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Parker Jenkins wins the
Byington-Solway CTE Idol
competition singing “Glit-
ter in the Air” by Pink. Pho-tos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
Hariell
and Jenkins
are CTE Idols
Brooke Hariell wins the Karns CTE Idol competition singing
“Travelin’ Soldier,” popularized by the Dixie Chicks.
Karns High School senior Mat-
thew Chesney, son of Mike
and Cissy Chesney, signed to
play football for the Universi-
ty of the Cumberlands in Ken-
tucky. “We had some injury
issues this season (with two
quarterbacks) and Matt was
able to come in from wide
receiver and played as quar-
terback for us this year. He has
really done a great job for us,”
said coach Derek Witt.
Chesney signs withUniversity of the
Cumberlands
Lane signs with Carson-Newman
Karns High School senior Elis-
sa Lane, daughter of Mark and
Ange Lane, signed to play
soccer at Carson-Newman
University. She plans to major
in exercise science and occu-
pational therapy.
Cedar Bluff Elementa-ry School recently induct-ed members for its Excep-tional Scholars Club.
The inductees are: An-drew Anderson, Nadine Awad, Tyler Blair, Rachel Boyd, Natalie Broyles, Kyra Cole, Justin Col-lard, Stephen Dai, Ean Dalton, Bayley Dew, Re-gina Enneking, Kenny Hoang, Joey Leo, Jenny Liu, Ethen Loveday, Jack
O’Gorman, Amelia Par-rott, Nathan Pitcher, Cheyenne Rae, Logan St. Clair, Hanna Selimic, Ja-cob Smith, Logan Uhrig, Amelia Van Peborgh and Claire Wyatt.
The ceremony included a pin presentation to each student and a candlelight ceremony by the Junior Honor Society class offi -cers at Cedar Bluff Mid-dle School.
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at Cedar Bluff
Spelling bee champsCedar Bluff Elementary School spelling bee winners are Jona-
than Kelley, third place; Susie Peter, fi rst place; and Stephen
Dai, second place. Photo by S. Barrett
The basketball team at Grace Christian Academy Middle School won the Area 3 AA TM-
SAA championship in Pigeon Forge. The team beat Harriman 47-29 for the title. Pictured
are (front) Chase Cunningham, Grant Ledford, CJ Gettelfinger, Dawson Bristow, Justin New,
Bryce Hodge; (back) assistant coaches James Jones and Mike Kelley; Ryan Lane, Chase Kue-
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Cedar Bluff Middle ■ A counselor from Bearden
High School will visit 8:30-10
a.m. Friday, March 8.
■ A school dance will be held
4-6 p.m. Thursday, March 14.
■ Bearden High School Cur-
riculum Night will be held
5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March
12.
Greenway School ■ Open house will be held 2-4
p.m. Sunday, March 2, for
interested families. Currently
enrolling for fall grades 6-8.
Info: www.greenwayschool.
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SCHOOL NOTES Karns High ■ Parent night for current 8th
graders who are zoned for
Karns High School will be
held 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Feb. 26. Meet the staff, learn
about sports and clubs,
and get a general idea of
what freshman year will be
like for your child. Parents
are welcome to bring their
upcoming freshmen.
■ There will be a Medic blood
drive Tuesday, Feb. 26, in
the choir room.
■ The Tennessee Achieves mandatory meeting has been rescheduled to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in the new commons.
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Mardi Gras at Farragut High SchoolFarragut High School French students celebrated Mardi Gras last
week with king cakes, dancing, music and making masquerade
masks. Pictured at the celebration are freshman Jordan Wells,
French teacher Melissa Weaver and sophomore Weston Stokes. Photo by S. Barrett
By Theresa EdwardsSaving the lives of young
drivers is what StreetSafe is all about, and it is coming to Hardin Valley Academy Sat-urday, March 9, with ses-sions 9 a.m -1:30 p.m. and 2-6 p.m.
“We recommend online registration at www.StreetSafeUs.com,” said Susan Per-ry of the PTSA. Registration will be available on-site a half hour prior to the session, sub-ject to space availability.
Perry has two teenage sons. “I think this is a very worthwhile program to put
my children through because they need to learn not only how to operate the car safely, but also how to drive defen-sively,” she said.
“This program makes a difference in saving teens’ lives and the lives of other people they encounter on the roads,” said sponsor Mike Lewis. “State Farm has been be-
hind this program in North
Carolina, and this is the sec-ond time it has come to Ten-nessee.
StreetSafe uses hands-on exercises that are realistic, practical presentations of-fered by law enforcement and fi re personnel.
“They learn skills – that is what saves lives,” Lewis said. “So the next time someone pulls into their lane, or their car loses traction, maybe they turn the right way instead of the wrong way and avoid a bad accident.” Info” www.StreetSafeUs.com/.
Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Perry learn driving safety. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
‘StreetSafe’ can save lives
By Rob WebbThis month, Rural/Metro
Fire De-p a r t m e nt , along with K n o x v i l l e Fire Depart-ment, the Knox Coun-ty Fire Pre-vention Bu-reau, Karns Vo l u n t e e r
Fire Department and Sey-mour Volunteer Fire Depart-ment, received more than 2,000 pieces of burn preven-tion materials from the Ker-bela Temple Shriners to mark February as national Burn and Scald Awareness month.
These English- and Span-
ish-language materials are designed for ages 3-12. The local fi re prevention agencies will pass out the brightly-col-ored, fun materials in schools and at community events to get the word out about the serious dangers of burns and scalds in young children.
Each year approximately 15,000 children younger than 14 are hospitalized for burn or scald injuries, and this donation is aimed at reducing that number sig-nifi cantly. In partnership with the Kerbela Shriners and local fi re departments, Rural/Metro is providing parents and children with the information to avoid these injuries.
Burn prevention starts with education
Webb
News from Rural/Metro
Pictured are Shriners Ferman Bumgarner and Wayne Bell; Knox County fi re prevention special-
ist Colin Cumesty; Shriner Don Nicholson; Karns Volunteer Fire Department chief Ken Marston;
Shriner Charlie Claussen; Rural/Metro fi re chief Jerry Harnish; Mayor Tim Burchett; Kerbela Shri-
ners Potentate Bill Gentry, and Seymour Volunteer Fire Department chief Jim Reagan.
■ Supervise your child at all
times. Most scalds occur from
daily activities, such as cooking
and bathing.
■ When cooking on a stovetop,
keep handles of pots and pans
pointed inward to make it
harder for little ones to grasp.
Make sure the stove burners
are turned off immediately
when not in use.
■ Follow instructions on how
to heat your meal properly,
especially when cooking it
in the microwave. Check the
temperature of your child’s
food fi rst and allow additional
time to cool if necessary.
■ When bathing your son or
daughter, pay attention to the
temperature of the bath water
and place the child in the tub
facing away from the faucet
as far back as possible. 100 de-
grees Fahrenheit is considered
safe. At 130 degrees Fahren-
heit, a child under 5 can receive
third-degree burns in about 15
seconds. A basic rule of thumb
is: if it feels hot to you, it’s too
hot for them.
■ To prevent scalds from running
water, adjust the temperature
of your water heater to around
120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Burns most often oc-cur in the kitchen, but you should also be aware of other
potential hazards around the house, such as gasoline stored in the garage. Gas, along with other dangerous and fl ammable materials, should be stored out of reach and out of sight of children.
In the unfortunate event that a serious burn or scald occurs, seek immediate med-ical attention. You can learn more about preventing and treating scalds and burns at www.burnawareness.org/.
By Sherri Gardner HowellIf you put it all down on
a fact sheet and look at it logically, the upstart revolu-tionary forces should never have won the American Revolution. The magic and mystery is that they did.
That was the message brought by Ron Jones, his-torical author, genealogist and public speaker, to the members of the Rotary Club of Farragut on Feb. 20 at Fox Den Country Club.
Jones, author of “War Comes to Broad River” and “The Road to Rock Island,” painted a picture of just how remarkable was the perse-verance of the soldiers of the American Revolution and how improbable it was that the Americans won the war.
“At every turn, something happened that shouldn’t have,” said Jones. For ex-ample, when Gen. George Washington needed to re-treat across the East River to Manhattan, with the Brit-ish camped only a few hun-dred yards away, a dense fog rolled in and hid the last of the boats – and their com-mander – as they retreated to fi ght another day.
Crossing the Delaware
A revolutionary tale of
George Washington
Ron Jones brought a history les-
son and a message of just how
remarkable it is that the United
States came to be to members
of the Rotary Club of Farragut. Photo by Sherri Gardner Howell
to engage the Hessians at Trenton was also an im-probable feat, said Jones.
“Not only was cross-ing treacherous, but they brought the cannons with them. That proved to be very important, but once across, they had to drag the cannons up and down the ravines on the 10-mile march to Trenton. They arrived three hours later than they intended and a
full hour after daybreak.”Miraculously, the Hes-
sian army was still asleep. “It was Christmas Day, but most encampments would have been stirring by then,” explained Jones. “Then there was the fact that the Hessian soldiers couldn’t get their powder to fire, while Washington’s men – after crossing the river and marching in rain and mud – had kept their powder dry and could fire their guns.
“Looking back at it, it was incredible,” said Jones, “almost like a fairy tale.”
Jones concluded with food for thought on the war that freed this country to be independent:
“We have much to be thankful for because of some of the truly remark-able things that happened during the Revolutionary War. It is really implausi-ble and improbable that we are here today!”
Rotary Club of Farragut meets every Wednesday at noon at Fox Den Country Club. Info: www.farragutro-tary.org.
Mike Lewis
Tappin’ at the Strang CenterThe Tellico Tappers performed a patriotic
number during the Strang Center’s 15th an-
niversary celebration last week. Upcoming
events at the center include a presentation
by Parkwest Medical Center on aortic steno-
sis and valve replacement noon Wednesday,
Feb. 27.
Info: www.knoxcounty.org/seniors.Photo by S. Barrett
FARRAGUT NOTES ■ Farragut Rotary Club meets
at noon each Wednesday at
the Fox Den Country Club.
■ Free budget classes are
held from noon-1 p.m. each
third Thursday at the Good
Samaritan Center, 119 A. St.
in Lenoir City. Everyone is
invited. No preregistration
is required. Info: annaseal@
credibility.org.
■ Memoir Writing Group
meets 7 p.m. each second
Thursday at Panera Bread,
733 Louisville Road.
■ West Knox Lions Club
meets 6:30 p.m. each first
and third Monday at Sul-
livan’s in Franklin Square,
9648 Kingston Pike.
GFWC helps animals in needGFWC Knoxville Women’s Club donated more than 400 pounds of pet food to local shelters.
Pictured are members Catherine Sebby, Mary Frances Edwards, Betty Burnette, Michele Jen-
kins and Martha Stiles. Photo submitted
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Knoxville insurance agency grows with acquisition
The Insurance Group LLC, an in-dependent insurance agency based in Knox-ville, will grow by 25 percent after purchas-ing Associated Insurors Inc.
“We are tremendous-ly excited about this acquisition,” said Josh Witt, chief operating of-ficer for The Insurance
Group. “It provides the clients of As-sociated Insurors with access to insur-ance markets that previously weren’t available and allows our agency to grow.”
The Insurance Group has made nu-
merous other acquisitions over the years, including a purchase of First Century Insurance in July 2011 that grew the company by 20 percent. Other past acquisitions include The Copeland Agency, The Wood Agency, Kotsianas Insurance, Lebo-Truesdel Insurance and numerous others.
“It’s very exciting to be in a growth mode during a time when all we hear about is a struggling economy,” Witt said. “We hope we can continue to grow and provide jobs in Knoxville and sur-rounding areas.”
Associated Insurors was owned by Bill Wallace. Bill, his son, Alan, and another employee, Beth Bolden, will re-main with the Insurance Group.
Josh Witt
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Bettye Sisco, CEO of the Farragut West Knox Chamber of Com-
merce, gets her morning started with coff ee yogurt at Orange
Leaf Frozen Yogurt’s grand opening and ribbon-cutting. Photosby Sherri Gardner Howell and Justin Acuff
Yum! Most grand open-ings and ribbon-cuttings have refreshments for the dignitaries and Chamber members who come to help celebrate the big day, but the offer of a taste of 16 fl avors of frozen yogurt was a spe-cial treat.
Sherri Gardner Howell
New business adds another touch of orange
Olivia Feiten models a fl ower
balloon hat at Orange Leaf
Frozen Yogurt’s fun day on
Feb. 16, following its grand
opening on Friday.
Carson Phillips enjoys the re-
actions to the spider he had
painted on his forehead dur-
ing the grand opening cel-
ebration at Orange Leaf.
Kenna West smiles at her uni-
corn artwork in the mirror.
Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill and his wife, Marianne, learn
about the 16 fl avors of yogurt available at Orange Leaf from
the store’s assistant manager, Kyndra Breeden.
Orange Leaf Frozen Yo-gurt sandwiched a ribbon-cutting in the middle of a week’s worth of special ac-tivities to celebrate the com-pany’s fi rst store in Tennes-see. Orange Leaf is located at 11689 Parkside Drive, near Einstein Bros. Bagels, with plans to open two more stores soon in Knox-ville. The second location on Market Square should open by the end of March, with the North Cedar Bluff Road location following.
Bill Potter, chief operat-ing offi cer for Orange Leaf, came to help kick-off the grand opening festivities
and introduce the manage-ment of the Farragut store. He touted the differences in Orange Leaf yogurt, saying it had the taste “of hand-cranked ice cream.”
“I don’t know about you,” he told gathered guests, town offi cials and Farragut West Knoxville Chamber of Commerce members, “but when I was a kid, Fridays were the day we got out the old wooden ice cream churn. Three hours and sore mus-cles later, we would have homemade ice cream. Our yogurt is made fresh every morning and churned in a way that gives it that home-made taste and consistency.”
The store showcases sixteen f lavors every week. “We always have no-sugar-added choices and nearly all our f lavors are gluten-free,” said Potter. “Calorie count is always between 26 and 42 calories per ounce.”
Toppings can add to that calorie count, and there are a wide variety of them – including syrups, nuts, fruits, candy and even Cap’n Crunch cereal. Cus-tomers fill a medium or large cup with the yogurt or yogurt combinations of their choice, add toppings and pay by the weight of their creation.
“We had a Farragut High School student break the corporate record this week with a 55-ounce cup of yogurt,” said Potter. “And it was all yogurt – no toppings. Luckily for him, his buddies chipped in and paid for it!”
Yogurt f lavors on grand opening day included such temptations as coffee, car-amel apple, birthday cake and white chocolate rasp-berry. I know it sounds like a cliché, but don’t leave without trying the orange.
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By Paul S. Dudrick, MD, FACS, Premier Surgical Associates
Melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, has increased in frequency at epidemic rates in the past 20 years. We now know that avoiding sunlight and tan-ning beds is an important step in preventing the disease, but for many baby boomers the damage was done long ago.
That’s where early detection comes in. If detected at Stage I, its earliest stage, the fi ve-year sur-vival rate for melanoma is 97 percent. If the dis-ease progresses to its most advanced stage, Stage IV, the fi ve-year survival rate drops to 15-20 percent. So, what’s the best way to fi nd mela-noma at its earliest stage, when the
prognosis is most favorable?A recent study found that
physician-based screening leads to higher rates of physi-cian-detected melanoma and detection of thinner melano-ma. The Memorial Sloan-Ket-tering Cancer Center, where I completed my fellowship in surgical oncology, conducted a 10-year study of 394 patients diagnosed with 527 cutane-ous (skin) melanomas and cat-egorized the patients as either
new or established.Over the course
of the study, phy-sicians detected 63 percent of melanomas in
new patients and 82 patients of melanomas in established patients, while patients self-
Increase Your Odds of Surviving Melanoma with Physician ScreeningsNEWS FROM PREMIER SURGICAL
“Patients and physicians need to work together so that melanomas can be detected and treated as early as possible.” –Dr. Paul Dudrick, Surgical Oncologist
detected only 18 percent of all melanomas. The study authors concluded that a combined strategy of physician detection and patient participation must continue to be used to ensure early melanoma diagnosis.
The article is in line with pri-or recommendations and what I’m seeing in my Premier Sur-gical Associates practice. My recommendation to patients is: stay informed, continue month-ly self exams and bring to your physician’s attention any suspi-cious moles. If your doctor tells you it’s nothing but you still fi ll uneasy about it, seek a second opinion. I often see patients who say, “The doctor didn’t think it would be anything, but it turned out to be a melanoma.”
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A-12 • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • SHOPPER-NEWS
THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 1Restaurant Week
The third annual Knoxville Restaurant Week con-tinues through Friday, March 1. More than 30 local restaurants are offering special $25 or $35 three-course meals with $5 of each fi xed-price dinner going to Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee.
Last year’s Restaurant Week raised more than $30,000 and provided meals for more than 60,000 needy East Tennesseans.
Among the restaurants participating are the Chop House, Connors Steak & Seafood, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, Northshore Brasserie, Restau-rant Linderhof and Seasons Café.
Most of the restaurants are accepting reservations, which are highly recommended due to the popularity of the event. For more info, visit www.knoxvillerestaurantweek.com.
MONDAY, FEB. 25Empty Bowls event
Einstein Bros. Bagels and the Farragut High School National Art Honor Society will host Empty Bowls, a charity event focused on raising awareness for hunger in the community, from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, at Einstein Bros., 11693 Parkside Drive.
For a $15 ticket, which must be purchased in advance at Farragut High, participants will receive a ceramic bowl handcrafted by an NAHS member to be fi lled with soup and served with bread during the open-seating event.
Proceeds will benefi t Sister Martha’s Food Pantry. Last year’s event raised more than $1,000 for charity.
TUESDAYS, FEB. 26-MARCH 26Pilates classes
The Town of Farragut is offering a fi ve-week series of Pilates classes from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 26-March 26, in the Community Room of the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Registration and pay-ment deadline is Monday, Feb. 25.
Pilates is a mind-body exercise that works the whole body. It focuses on correct use of core muscles, spinal alignment and proper breathing. Pilates helps to reduce injury, recover from injury and promote muscular bal-ance. The class mixes in some yoga poses to enhance fl exibility, strength and breathing. Simon Bradbury is the instructor. Cost is $50. To register and for more info, call 865-966-7057.
WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, FEB. 27-MARCH 8Primary school art show
The Town of Farragut will host the 2013 Farragut Primary School Art Show Wednesday, Feb. 27, through Friday, March 8, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Cen-ter Drive. Young artists from Farragut Primary School and Concord Christian School will be represented.
There will be a reception for the artists and their families from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5.
The show is open during regular business hours, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. It is free and open to the public.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2Whisperings concert
The Whisperings Solo Piano Radio Concert Series will come to the American Piano Gallery, 11651 Parkside Drive, at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 2.
Solo pianists Michael Logozar, Joseph Akins and Philip Wesley will perform their original compositions in this evening of contemporary piano music.
Door prizes will be awarded, and autographed CDs and sheet music will be available.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $7.50 for students and those under 18 through March 1. Seating is limited. Advance tickets are available at http://solopiano.brownpapertickets.com.
At the door, tickets will be $20 for adults, $10 for students and those under 18.
SUNDAY, MARCH 3Young keyboard artists
“Emerging Young Keyboard Artists” Carolyn Craig and Simon Hogg will perform at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at Farragut Presbyterian Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd.
The concert is the fi rst in a Spring Concert Series presented by the church’s music ministry in conjunc-tion with the University of Tennessee Music Depart-ment.
Upcoming concerts will be presented by “The Son Trio” at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 7, and UT’s contemporary a cappella groups reVOLution and VOLume at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 21.
All of the concerts are free and open to the public. They will be held in the church’s sanctuary.
SUNDAY, MARCH 3Bryan College Chorale
The Bryan College Chorale and Chamber Singers will present a free concert of sacred choral music at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church, 12915 Kingston Pike.
The program will feature a variety of sacred literature, including classical, spiritual and gospel music. Bryan Col-lege is a Christian liberal-arts institution in Dayton, Tenn.
Directed by David Luther, the chorale includes 46 singers representing 11 states. The group has toured throughout the United States and has performed fi ve tours in Europe.
The Chamber Singers are an 18-voice ensemble select-ed from within the chorale.
MONDAY, MARCH 4Job Resources Group
The Job Resources Group will meet from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at Concord United Methodist Church, 11020 Roane Drive.
The group provides assistance in preparing for inter-views, revising resumes and fi nding employment.
MONDAY, MARCH 4Home remodeling info
The Town of Farragut Community Development Department will host an information session on home remodeling at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.
The seminar will be led by the Town’s codes offi cials Steve Coker, John Householder and Elliott Sievers, fi re marshal Dan Johnson and fi re inspector Colin Cumesty. Any Farragut resident or homeowner interested in learning about permitting requirements for home re-modeling or improvements may attend.
The session will provide answers to questions about building codes, permits and inspections. In addition, Johnson will discuss the importance of installing a resi-dential sprinkler system.
For more info, contact the Community Development Department, 865-966-7057.
TUESDAY, MARCH 5Pellissippi honors recital
The annual Student Honors Recital will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, in the Clayton Performing Arts Center at Pellissippi State Community College’s Hardin Valley Campus. The recital will feature the best student performers who are taking private instruction in voice or instrument.
Each of the 18 selected musicians will perform one piece, with musical genres ranging from bluegrass to classical. The soloists were selected by a panel of Pellis-sippi State faculty members based on talent, skill level and academic achievement in traditional courses.
The recital is free, but donations will be accepted at the door for the Pellissippi State Foundation on behalf of the Music Scholarship Fund.
SATURDAY, MARCH 9Consignment sale
Concord United Methodist Church is sponsoring a children’s consignment sale from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 9, at the church, 11020 Roane Drive. A half-price sale will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
The sale will feature quality, gently used clothing, toys, books, furniture and other items for children from babies through teens. For more info, call 865-996-6728 or visit www.concordumc.com.
SUNDAY, MARCH 10Steinway anniversary event
Steinway & Sons 160th anniversary will be celebrated at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 10, at the American Piano Gal-lery, 11651 Parkside Drive.
Knoxville Choral Society Young Pianist winner and Nashville International Piano Competition winner Carolyn Craig will perform. Craig is a junior at West High School and a piano student of Fay Adams and David Brunell.
The event also will include a presentation of “The Secrets of Steinway” and a discussion of the history of Steinway & Sons, which dates back to March 5, 1853 when the company was offi cially founded.
TUESDAY, MARCH 12Caregiver workshop
Caring and Coping, a caregiver workshop for fami-lies and professionals offered by Alzheimer’s Tennes-see, will be held Tuesday, March 12, at Concord United Methodist Church, 11020 Roane Drive.
Nationally renowned experts will share practical tips and provide a better understanding of Alzheim-er’s, its process, common behaviors, caregiving strate-gies and available treatments.
Registration starts at 8 a.m., with the program running from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Lunch and snacks will be provided during breaks.
Cost is $20 for family caregivers and $40 for health-care professionals (six hours of CEU credit). Register on-line at www.alztennessee.org or mail checks to Alzheimer’s Tennessee Inc., 5801 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919.
TUESDAY, MARCH 12Energy-code info session
The Town of Farragut Community Development De-partment will host an information session on the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.
The seminar will be led by Farragut codes offi cials John Householder, Steve Coker and Elliott Sievers, plus an energy auditor and the owner of a local build-ing performance testing agency.
Any Farragut developer, designer or resident is welcome to attend. For more info, call the Community Development Department at 865-966-7057.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 15-16John Dominic Crossan lectures
Author, historian and biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan will speak as part of St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church’s Distinguished Scholar Speaker Series on Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16, at the Episcopal School of Knoxville, 950 Episcopal School Way.
Crossan is an Irish-American New Testament schol-ar, historian of early Christianity, and former Catholic priest known for co-chairing the controversial Jesus Seminar. He is a major fi gure in the fi elds of anthropol-ogy of the ancient Mediterranean and New Testament studies. He has appeared in television documentaries about Jesus and the Bible and is a key fi gure in research into the historical Jesus.
Crossan will deliver four 90-minute lectures: The World of Jesus, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 15; and 9 a.m. The Life of Jesus, 11 a.m. The Death of Jesus, and 1:30 p.m. The Resurrection of Jesus, all on Saturday, March 16.
The cost for all four lectures is $45 and includes lunch on March 16. To register, visit www.stelizchurch.org.
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ger,” says Nutt. “With ArtXtravaganza, we have the opportunity to support the arts in the community at large.”
This year’s show and sale will also include a student art exhibit, featuring works by Webb’s Lower, Middle and Upper School grades as well as pieces created by children from Mooreland Heights Elementary.
Doors to ArtXtravaganza open at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 8. The art sale contin-ues Saturday, March 9, from 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 10, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information, go to www.artxtravaganza.org or call (865) 291-3846.
NEWS FROM WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE
Webb’s Upper School will pres-ent Anton Chekhov’s Russian clas-sic, “The Cherry Orchard,” with the audience and performers sharing the stage, March 7-9 and March 14-16 at 6:30 p.m., and March 10 and March 17 at 3 p.m. All performances will be in Webb’s Bishop Center auditorium on the Webb campus. Admission is free and open to the public.
In the play, Madame Ranevskaya and her family are on the verge of los-ing their ancestral home, including the famed cherry orchard, but friends and family seem oblivious to the grave reality of the situation. Lopakhin, a former servant and now a shrewd businessman, offers to help them by chopping down the cherry orchard and selling the land. Will the family adapt and embrace progress or cling to their vanishing past?
First performed in 1904 and Chek-hov’s fi nal play, “The Cherry Orchard”
continues to resonate with audiences as it focuses on issues like foreclosure and the struggles to keep pace with economic, social and political change.
Webb’s production will be a unique experience for the audience, which will be seated on stage for the entire perfor-mance. “This represents a fi rst for us,” says Webb Upper School drama teach-er Patrick McCray. “But having a close-knit audience on all sides of the stage heightens the sense of intimacy fi rst experienced by Chekhov’s audiences.”
The long run of the production – eight performances in all – is also a fi rst, but a bonus for the Webb cast. “The long run allows the actors to grow with their parts,” notes McCray. “An ensemble learns best from the experience of interacting with an au-dience, and no great show should ever be the same on closing night as it was when it fi rst opened.”
The Webb student performers are
excited to present the work of Chek-hov, who, along with Shakespeare and Ibsen, is considered to be one of the-ater’s greatest and most revolutionary authors, according to McCray.
Chekhov wrote some of the fi rst “real” characters to appear in theater, McCray explained. “They spoke in simple, if poetic, language, and many of their more crucial life events would happen off-stage,” he said. “This kind of writing has led to the observation that movies are about action while theater is about the aftershocks. So revolutionary was Chekhov’s writing that an entirely new system of acting had to be invented, and it is the system that we still use today.”
Seating at Webb’s “The Cherry Orchard” is limited to 40 people per performance. To reserve your seat(s), go to www.webbschool.org and select the US Play Reservations button at the bottom of the homepage.
At this year’s ArtXtravaganza Art Show & Sale, March 8-10, visitors can ex-
pect a visual feast of artworks by 70-plus acclaimed artists, hailing from across the Southeast and beyond. More than 2,000 pieces of art will be available for purchase in Webb School’s Lee Athletic Center. From oil paintings to sculptures, photography to woodworks, glass and metal works to jew-
elry, ArtXtravaganza promises something for everyone’s budget. The event is open to the public; admission and on-site parking are free.
Knoxville-based sculptor Daniel Lai is ArtXtravaganza’s featured artist. Lai has been recognized for his innovative art piec-es. His works have been published in books and magazines, and have earned awards
ArtXtravaganza 2013spotlights myriad works by
leading artists
Audience, cast share the stage for Webb’s ‘The Cherry Orchard’
both nationally and internationally. He is represented by Aurora Photos in Portland, ME, Glasshouse Images in New York City, NY, 16 Patton Gallery in Asheville, NC, and G&G Interiors in Knoxville, TN.
Daniel Lai was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and moved to the United States in 2000. He received his Bachelor of Arts in linguistics and a master’s in art stud-ies/art history from Montclair State University. Currently, he is working on his doctorate in sociology at the University of Tennessee.
ArtXtravaganza is one of the premier art shows in the Southeast and has played a major role in es-tablishing Knoxville as a commu-nity aligned with the arts, and fur-thering the careers of prominent artists. Echoing Webb School’s staunch commitment to excel-lence in the arts, proceeds from ArtXtravaganza not only support Webb’s visual and performing arts program, but also the arts at Mooreland Heights Elementary School, an arts-integrated public school supported by the Tennes-see Arts Commission.
ArtXtravaganza’s partnership with Mooreland Heights broad-ens Webb’s tradition of fostering community by enhancing lives through art education and appreciation – a tradi-tion that’s not isolated to just the Webb community, according to ArtXtravaganza chair, Danielle Nutt. “We as a school rec-ognize that we’re part of something big-
Refl ecting Webb School’s staunch commitment to excellence in the arts and fostering community by enhancing lives through art education and appreciation, ArtXtravagan za not
only supports Webb’s visual and performing arts program, but also the arts at Mooreland Heights Elementary School.
The featured artist for ArtXtravaganza 2013 is Knox-
ville-based sculptor Daniel Lai. His sculpture, “Webb
of Thoughts,” will be off ered by silent auction during
this year’s event.
Webb’s Upper School will present Anton Chekhov’s Russian
classic, “The Cherry Orchard,” with the audience and per-
formers sharing the stage, March 7-9 and March 14-16 at 6:30
p.m., and March 10 and March 17 at 3 p.m. All performances
will be in Webb’s Bishop Center auditorium. Admission is free
and open to the public. (l to r) Seniors Neal Jochmann and
Mary Kate Heagerty, and sophomore J.B. Crawford rehearse
a scene from Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”
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Nurse delays delivery until 39 weeks for baby’s health
Sarah and Jeremy Johnson proudly pose with their son, Levi,
shortly after his birth. Johnson utilized several labor-delaying
techniques to make it to 39 weeks before delivering.
Sarah Johnson is a Labor and Delivery Nurse at Parkwest. With fi ve years of experience on the unit, she understands the health importance of full-term pregnancies.
With her third child, Johnson started having contractions at 17 weeks gestation. She went to OB/GYN Kori Cottam, M.D. They decided that Johnson could keep working with extra appointments and ultrasounds to monitor her condition. Then at 30 weeks, it was necessary for Cottam to put her on bed rest.
“It was hard because we have two girls; Annie is 4 and Maggie is 2,” Johnson explained. “My husband, Jeremy, and our friends and family were so great about taking care of them and everything around the house.”
After six weeks of strict bed rest and medication to halt her contractions, Johnson was permitted to return to work on light duty.
“I mainly just handled paperwork,” she said. “I couldn’t be on my feet enough to work with the active labor or post-partum patients.”
“I needed to try to make it to39 weeks for baby Levi to have the best chance at a healthy delivery,” she said.
She made it. At 39 weeks gestation, on Nov.
19, 2012, Levi James Johnson was born at 11:35 a.m., weighing 8 pounds. He had no medical problems.
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At Parkwest ‘Healthy babies are worth the wait’Elective induction – sched-
uling labor and delivery – is an increasingly popular option for new parents, but research shows it may not be the best health choice for your baby.
“Induction can lead to com-plications, including increased risk of a Cesarean section (C-section), harm to your baby and increased healthcare costs,” said Parkwest obstetrician Dr. Ken-neth O’Kelley.
The March of Dimes launched a campaign in 2010 called “Healthy babies are worth the wait” to raise awareness and reduce the number pregnancies that are ended early by elective induced labor or C-section when there is not a clear medical rea-son to do so. The steady rise in
elective deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation prompted the campaign.
At Parkwest, efforts to reduce elective inductions and C-sec-tions began in 2009, ahead of the March of Dimes recommen-dations.
Parkwest physicians were ed-ucated about the latest research and more emphasis was placed on efforts within the hospital. Quality tracking and reporting to physicians specific to their rates was started and these rates are reported monthly both inter-nally and externally. Since 2009, Parkwest has seen a significant decrease in the rate of elective inductions or C-sections before 39 weeks.
“First-time mothers who un-dergo elective induction of la-bor are twice as likely to have a C-section as those who go into
labor on their own. C-sections increase the mother’s recovery time, increase the cost of de-livery and are associated with surgical complications not seen with vaginal deliveries,” O’Kelley said.
In some circumstances, a doctor may choose to in-duce labor before the due date for medical reasons. For example, an induc-tion may be indicated if the mother has high blood pressure, if tests show the baby has stopped growing at the expected pace or if there is not enough amni-otic f luid surrounding the baby.
“There are still some very good reasons to in-
duce labor,” said O’Kelley. “Everypregnancy is different. Talk withyour doctor about the best deci-sion for you.”
Let us help you prepare for babyTo help you learn as much as possible about
childbirth and how to care for your newborn and yourself once you return home, Parkwest offers special educational courses. Nearly every aspect of pregnancy and labor is covered through “Teddy Bear University.”
All classes are held in the Ocoee Room on the second fl oor of Parkwest Medical Center unless otherwise indicated below. NOTE: Class dates are subject to change.
BreastfeedingTake this class in your 7th or early 8th month
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started, correct positioning and technique, tips for returning to work, and an overview of breast pumps. Fathers-to-be are encouraged to attend! Fee: $25 (Breastfeeding book included.)
Wednesday Evenings (6-9 p.m.): Feb. 27 March 20 April 10 and 24 May 15 and 29 June 26 July 17 and 31
Aug. 28 Sept. 11 and 25 Oct. 23 Nov. 6 and 20 Dec. 4
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Sibling ClassTargeted for siblings ages 4-10This class is designed to include brothers and
sisters in the excitement surrounding the birth of a new baby. Family bonding is promoted to help reduce jealous feelings. A tour of the birthing facility is included in this class. A parent must stay with the child. Please indicate the number of children and parents attending. Fee: $10 per child
Saturday Afternoons (12:30-2 p.m.): April 6 June 8 Aug. 24
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Birth and Babies TodayBegin this series during your 6th or 7th month.This multi-week series covers topics including
variations of labor and birth, breathing and relaxation, tips for your support person, pain relief and care for the new mom and baby. Recommended for fi rst-time parents. A tour of the Childbirth Center is included. Fee: $75
Monday Five-Week Series Start Dates (6:30-9 p.m.): Feb. 18 April 1 May 13 July 1
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Tuesday Five-Week Series Start Dates (6:30-9 p.m.): Feb. 19 April 2 May 7 June 18
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the Birth and Babies Today series into an all-day Saturday class. This is a good option as a refresher course, or for those who would have diffi culty attending fi ve weekly sessions. (Not recommended for fi rst-time parents.) A tour of the Childbirth Center is included. Fee: $75
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Learn and practice massage techniques that alleviate the principal complaints of pregnancy and labor. Participants will also see how to perform infant massage and learn the benefi ts of massage for a new baby. This class is taught by a certifi ed massage therapist and includes practice time and mommy massage. Fee: $30 per couple
Sunday Afternoons (2-5 p.m.): March 3 May 5 July 14
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Ced. Bluff - Gall. View. 3 BR, 1 1/2 BA ranch, eat in kit, gar., no smk/pets, 1073 Roswell. $950 + dep. 865-693-1910
LUXURY WATER-FRONT Home for Rent, Rarity Pointe Community, Lenoir City, TN. 423-745-0600
WEST. Exec. home. 820 Rising Mist, 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, 2 car gar.,
fenced yard, AL Lotts Elem. & Farragut
HS. $1350 mo., refs. req. 865-414-0392.
***Web ID# 210805***
WEST, near Lovell Rd. nice 3BR, 2 BA, cent. H&A, appls., $565/mo. 865-938-1653
Condo Rentals 76KARNS AREA, 2 or 3 BR, stove,
refrig., DW, garbage disp. WD conn., no pets. $650-$1150. 865-691-8822
or 865-660-3584.
N.E., New 3BR, 2 1/2 BA condo, 2 car gar., vaulted ceil., hrdwd & tile. $950 mo. 865-599-8174 or 938-7200.
NORTH Knoxville, 2 BR, 2 BA, garage, $750/mo. + $500 damage. 865-389-8244
Trucking Opportunities 106TRANSPORT SER-
VICE CO. has an immediate need for class A CDL drivers out of LOUDON, TN. We offer OTR (10-14 days out) po-sitions, competitive pay, medical bene-fits for you and your family, paid training on product handling, paid uni-forms, paid vaca-tions, 401K & MORE! Require-ments: 2 yrs Trac-tor-Trailer exp, Tank & Hazmat en-dorsements (or ability to obtain) & Safe Driving Re-cord. APPLY NOW at TheKAG.com or call Recruiting at (800) 871-4581
Local Driving/Delivery 106a
DELIVERY SERVICE
TECH DRIVER
Local deliveries in Knoxville. No CDL req'd Mail/Email Resume:
PO Box 460 Erwin, TN 37650 info@healthand
homecareinc.com
Musical 116ST. MARK UMC seeks
a musician for their 11:00 A.M. blended traditional worship svc. Exp in piano, organ & elec keybd pref. Includes Wed eve choir rehears-als & occasional special svcs. Send resume to: St. Mark UMC, Attn. Dave Petty, Chair, Staff-Parish Rela-tions Committee, 7001 Northshore Drive, Knoxville, TN 37919 or
Dogs 141Australian Cattle dogs,
AKC reg., reds & blues, $175 & up. 423-733-2857; 423-300-9043
***Web ID# 213011***
BOXERS AKC Reg., will adapt well. 1F 3 yrs old, 1M 2 1/2 yrs old. 865-579-6028
***Web ID# 210761***
CADOODLE Puppies, CKC reg., 1st shots, dewormed, vet ckd,
great family pets. $350 615-765-7628
***Web ID# 213087***
CAVALIER KING CHARLES Spaniels, CKC reg., 2 M left, 7 wks, very healthy, $750. 423-442-4520
CHIHUAHUA Pups, 7 wks, very small, blondish fawn, shots, wormed
865-932-2333. ***Web ID# 210860***
Dachshund Minis, CKC 7 wks/up. S & W, all colors $275. 423-619-8626 or 423-365-9591 ***Web ID# 210016***
Eng Bulldog Pups Ch lines, 5M, 2F, 8 wks old, 1 yr guar., UTD shots, $1400-1800. 423-871-1408
***Web ID# 211501***
ENGLISH BULLDOG Pups NKC, $1100. Visa
& M/C. 423-775-6044 blessedbulldogs.blogspot.com
***Web ID# 210210***
LABRADOR Puppies, AKC, black, 2F, 2M, $550/BO, must go! 865-389-7351, 256-9789
Dogs 141German Shepherd
older puppies & adults, AKC, M&F, Call 865-856-6548
***Web ID# 212195***
MIN. DACHSHUND puppies, $250. CKC. Born 12/23/12. Call or text 865-335-8573
***Web ID# 210454***
MIN PIN PUP AKC, female, black/rust, tail
docked, dew claws, $400. 865-573-9468
***Web ID# 210033***
ROTTWEILER PUPS AKC, German bldln, tails docked, dew claws, shots, ready 3/10. F $450 M $500. 865-659-8272
***Web ID# 212152***
SHIH TZU PUPPIES AKC. 423-566-0851
SHIH TZU pups, AKC registered, vet checked. Small type. 865-637-4277
SIBERIAN HUSKY AKC Pups, champion
lines, shots, $500. 865-256-2763
***Web ID# 212725***
Horses 143POA leopard gelding,
7 yr, 2012 high point halter/pleasure, loves to jump, $3800. 256-228-3370
***Web ID# 208386***
POA mare, 7 yr., 52", Ala. overall halter & pleasure 2012 state champ. POA pts. $8500. 256-228-3370 ***Web ID# 210912***
Free Pets 145
ADOPT! Looking for an addi-tion to the family?
Visit Young-Williams Animal Center, the official shelter for
Knoxville & Knox County.
Call 215-6599 or visit
knoxpets.org
Building Materials 188SOLID BRAZILIAN
cherry hardwood flooring, 2700 SF, will divide. $2.90 SF. Call 843-727-1115
Lawn-Garden Equip. 190MOWER, Bobcat, 48",
hydro walk behind w/sulkey. 17 HP Kawasaki, appx 150 hrs, great cond. $3500. 865-679-3484
***Web ID# 211097***
Buildings for Sale 191METAL BUILDING,
new, never erected, 60x90, 5400 SF, $30,500, new cost $62,900. Also 4 roll up doors, also new, 12x14, $2000 for doors. Call 865-803-3633.
Household Furn. 204BIG SALE!
B & C MATTRESS, NEW - $125 PILLOW TOP QUEEN SIZE.
865-805-3058.
QUEEN PILLOW TOP MATTRESS. $90. Must sacrifice.
New. $90. 865-640-4600.
Household Furn. 204QUEEN PILLOW Top
Mattress Set. $125, brand new. Call 865-804-4410.
Exercise Equipment 208FOR SALE: Nordic-
Track C2200 tread-mill. $215. Call after 12 noon: 691-2613.
Antiques 216OAK REFRIGERATOR,
75"H, 25"D, 86"W. $2800. 865-376-5366 aft. 5pm.
Auctions 217
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Medical Supplies 219DALTON ELECTRIC
wheel chair/scooter lk new, holds 300 lbs $800. 865-661-6408
Home Decor Acc 220BOOKCASES. One 3 bay unit mated with
one 2 bay unit mounted on respective 3
and 2 base cabinet units, together form-ing a 5 bay unit with 4
shelves each bay. Approx. dim. L13'4", H 6'10", shelves 12" and base 18" deep. Items on shelves NOT
included. $2,100.Dandridge H: 865-940-1191, M 865-712-9104
Sporting Goods 223Last of personal rifle
collection. Prices are firm. Serious inquiries only. Proof of ID to purchase. Call Mon-Sun 8am-6pm only, 865-924-7519
Fishing Hunting 224COLT AR 7.62 X39,
very rare, blue label. pre-ban, NIB. $3000 firm. 423-312-4011.
Boats Motors 232Bennington Pontoon
2009, 27 ft, trailer, 90 HP Yamaha, 45 hrs, like
new. $29k. 865-202-0177
ODYSSEY 2007 PONTOON BOAT, 22', Evinrude 115, exc. cond., new
trailer, many access. $17,500. 865-922-1105,
865-607-5912 ***Web ID# 211257***
Campers 2352005 Travel Star 18',
great cond., all opts., $5800 obo. 865-556-5897
***Web ID# 207644***
2011 COACHMAN Catalina 38 BHDS, 38' trailer, 2 slides, 2B/1B, 865-717-1999
Motor Homes 237CLASSIC BLUEBIRD
40', 1985, V6 Detroit Diesel, 5 spd Allison trans., $30,000 obo. Will trade 865-457-7933
HOLIDAY RAMBLER Endeavor 37 ft, 1999. Kit. & LR slide. Die-sel. Loaded. Gar. kept. $45,000. 865-908-0858 ***Web ID# 210767***
Motorcycles 238HARLEY 2004 FLSTFI
FatBoy Softail, Copper w/Blk Leather Boss Bags, Hwy bars, and W/S. Very good condition with only 26,500 mi. $11,000. 865-607-3320
HONDA XR100, 2002, exc. cond., low hrs, recent service, new rear tire, $850 OBO. 865-387-3904
***Web ID# 209035***
Autos Wanted 253A BETTER CASH
OFFER for junk cars, trucks, vans, running
or not. 865-456-3500
I BUY JUNK CARS & TRUCKS.
865-307-3051 or 865-938-6915.
Vans 256DODGE Grand
Caravan 2003, 153K mi. AC, PW, tinting, $3270. 865-207-3649.
***Web ID# 207680***
Trucks 257FORD F150 Heritage
2004, reg. cab LB, 4.6L, AT, 105k mi, needs bed, $3000. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 207175***
FORD F250 1990, 460 ext cab, 67K act mi, very clean, $5,300. Call 865-966-9580
***Web ID# 210561***
Toyota Tacoma 2007, Crew Cab, V6, AT, AC, PW, PDL, silver, 50K mi, gar. kept, $21,000. 865-617-9904
***Web ID# 211571***
4 Wheel Drive 258CHEVY SILVERADO
2005 ext. cab, 5.3 V8, AT, 4x4, 153K mi. $8500. 865-828-8398.
***Web ID# 209928***
4 Wheel Drive 258DODGE 2500 2001 SLT
truck, quad cab, long bed, 5.9 turbo diesel, 243k mi, lots of chrome. $8000. Chris 865-599-7706.
***Web ID# 210238***
Antiques Classics 2601931 A-MODEL
(Victoria) 2 dr sedan Exc. cond. $14,850
865-250-8252 ***Web ID# 211600***
LINCOLN MARK VII 1990, white, garaged 133K mi. Loaded. $7250/bo 865-457-7933
***Web ID# 207929***
MUSTANG 1964 1/2 convertible, restored 289 HP, $26,500 obo. Call 865-458-1934.
MUSTANG 1966 Coupe, 289, AC,
original. $15,900 obo. Call 865-458-1934.
Sport Utility 261Ford Explorer 2004
V6, 80K mi, Exc price @ $6,000 Call 865-250-8252
***Web ID# 211602***
NISSAN Pathfinder 2005, 4 WD, clean, good cond. $10,800. 865-363-9018
***Web ID# 209045***
Imports 262ACURA RSX Type S
2004, slvr, 6 spd. 137K mi. FUN! Local srvc. $6900. 865-696-7469.
***Web ID# 207827***
BMW 328i 2011, X drive AWD 4 dr sedan. Exc. cond. 50k mi. $27,000. 423-581-5889
***Web ID# 212570***
BMW 740il 1998 luxury sedan, leather, loaded, clean, 110k mi, $5450. 865-577-4069
***Web ID# 211604***
BMW Z4 2.5, 2005, 52.5K mi., auto., Black/Tan int. $14,500. 205-368-4008
HONDA ACCORD 1990, 145k mi, lots new parts, runs good. $1800. 865-599-2556
JAGUAR 2000 S-type, 3.0L, 82k mi, silver & black, $5000 obo. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 206673***
SUBARU WRX LTD 2011, 21k mi, mint. Silver. Warr. All opt. $24,700. 865-691-4271
***Web ID# 207681***
TOYOTA AVALON XL 1999, loaded, sunroof, leather, exc. in/out. $3795. 865-397-7918
***Web ID# 210120***
Sports 264CHEVY CORVETTE
1978 orig. Pace Car, AT, w/53K mi., exc. cond. $21,750. Day, 865-983-4672 or night, 865-856-3273.
Domestic 265CADILLAC 2006 CTS,
sport pkg, all opt., svc records, black / black, $10,975. 865-680-2656.
***Web ID# 210877***
Domestic 265CADILLAC Eldorado
1998, beautiful, exc. in/out, $5,000. 865-689-4984, 865-850-2822
***Web ID# 211328***
CHEVROLET Cavaliar 2005, 4 dr, 73k mi, Clinton, $5300/bo. 859-893-3074
***Web ID# 210959***
CHEVY COBALT LT 2007, silver metallic sun/moonroof, low mi., AT, gray lthr., new Michelins, be-low Kelly blue book @ $7800. 865-414-0187
***Web ID# 210518***
Cement / Concrete 315
^STEVE HAMNER
CONCRETE & BLOCK 25+ yrs exp. Drive-ways, sidewalks, all types pours, Versa-lock walls, excavat-ing. Call 363-3054.
Elderly Care 324COMPANION/SITTER for elderly, 4/5 days a
wk, North or West. Will do light meal prep, light house-keeping, doctor appts., hair appts, etc. No heavy lift-ing. Compassionate caregiver. Refs furn. Marie 947-1063
Fencing 327AAA FENCING Re-
pairs & More. You buy it, we install it! Call 604-6911.
B&W FENCE. Installa-tions & repair. Free est. 43 yrs exp! Call 689-9572 or 237-8090.
Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE in-
stallation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328
Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER
SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.
Lawn Care 339STRIPER LAWNCARE Affordable rates with a professional touch! Mowing, weed-eating,
blowing, mulching, pruning, cleaning. We are a cut above the
rest! 382-3789
Roofing / Siding 352
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By Sara BarrettDixie Johnson moved to
Memphis from the Wash-ington, D.C., area during the 1950s to be closer to her deceased husband’s relatives. “I wanted to be closer to someone who I knew would take good care of my kids while I worked,” she said.
In addition to working as a secretary for the govern-ment, Johnson also played the piano in clubs up and down the East Coast. She started playing in her par-ents’ club in Maryland, in a town with the only legal-ized slot machines in the country at that time except for those in Nevada.
While visiting with friends one day, Johnson met Elvis Presley and some of his friends. “He wasn’t outgoing at all when I first met him, I didn’t know if he was shy or snobby,” said Johnson. “After I got to know him, he wasn’t quiet at all.”
Johnson and Presley built a friendship that would last until Pres-ley’s death in 1977. “I was shocked when I heard the news,” she said. She hadn’t seen him in a couple of months when he passed away.
“Everyone thinks it’s such a big deal that I knew Elvis,” she said. “I treated him like a normal human
Piano-playing Dixie
NHC resident Dixie Johnson Photo by S. Barrett
Carol Zinavage
Carol’sCritter Corner
There’s an Iraq war veteran in Loudon County who is liv-ing life a little easier today. His name is Richard (last name withheld), and he served with the U.S. Army’s 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division.
Distinguished service
Copper, best friend of a very brave man Photo by Elaine Lintner
In 2003, while on a com-bat mission out of Bagh-dad, he was thrown from a Bradley Armored Vehicle and the resulting traumatic brain injury left him unable to use the left side of his body. After returning home he became reclusive, suf-fering from PTSD as well as the original injury. His fam-ily suffered, too. It seemed Richard’s life was over.
The other night, however, he took his wife out to the movies.
It’s all due to his new “battle buddy,” Copper, an 80-pound yellow Labrador retriever.
This dog can do just about anything Richard needs. He helps him out of bed in the morning with a tow rope. He fetches meds. When Richard has an oc-casional blackout, Copper wakes him by licking his face. Copper’s stability har-ness makes it possible for Richard to stand and walk.
Richard’s VA doctors say that since he’s been with Copper, his overall health, attitude, and mobility have improved. His sleep pat-
being. We would sit in the park and talk for hours. We were just good friends.”
Johnson said she enjoys playing the piano because it relieves her stress. If she has a bad day, she can pound away at the keys. Friends and family also ask her to play. She will perform at a local fund-raiser in March.
Johnson said she wasn’t stereotypically shy growing up.
“The life women had at that time was their own fault. Women were not out-going.”
Johnson attributes much of her life’s experiences to the fact that she was outgo-ing.
“You have to be,” she said.
HEALTH NOTES ■ UT Hospice, serving patients and families in Knox and 15 surrounding counties, conducts
ongoing orientation sessions for adults (18 & older) interested in becoming volunteers with our
program. No medical experience is required. Training is provided. For more information call
penny Sparks, Volunteer Coordinator @ (865) 544-6279.
■ UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meets 5-6:30 p.m. each fi rst and third Tuesday in the
UT Hospice offi ce at 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info or reservation: Brenda
Fletcher, 544-6279.
terns are returning to nor-mal. His children say that he no longer yells at them.
All of this feels like a big “paycheck from the heart” for Mike Kitchens, a Viet-nam-era Army vet and the man responsible for intro-ducing Copper to Richard.
Kitchens chairs the board and is spokesper-son for Smoky Mountain Service Dogs, a Tennessee non-profi t whose motto is “Facilitating a Better Life Through Canine Compan-ionship and Service.”
SMSD exists to help disabled war vets, autistic children, and other dis-abled people.
Since starting the organi-zation late in 2010, Kitchens and his all-volunteer staff have contracted with Heath-er and Darrell Wilkerson of Savannah Springs Kennel in Lenoir City, who provide puppies (mostly golden or Labrador retrievers) and training. Each dog is trained for approximately two years, or 1,200 hours. The last 7-10 days are spent in tandem training with the recipient.
This particular pairing of Copper and Richard started
with two very special people. Dee and Fuzzy Hughes of Clarksville, Tenn., chose to honor the memory of their deceased son, Marine Sgt. Keith Hughes, by sponsoring Copper as a puppy.
It’s the fi rst time the young organization has paired a dog with a disabled war vet, which is why all the folks at SMSD are celebrating.
And sometime this week, Alexander Armor of John-son City, who sustained de-bilitating injuries from three tours in Iraq, will begin his tandem training with Jet, a black Lab. Other veterans in the application process in-clude a young double-ampu-tee Marine, a Vietnam vet-eran, and a soldier who was shot fi ve times while serving in Afghanistan. Clearly, the ball is rolling.
Although nothing can fully restore these val-iant young men physically, Kitchens and his staff are dedicated to making their lives better through the service of some exceptional canines.
Puppy sponsorships start at $2,500. Info: www.smo-kymountainservicedogs.org.
SHOPPER-NEWS • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • B-3
NEWS FROM PROVISION HEALTH & WELLNESS
Introduction to Yoga Series
Yoga can have wonderful health benefits. Provision’s new six-week Intro to Yoga series will enable you to improve f lex-ibility, strength and balance. The series will begin with basic postures and continue to build throughout the course. This series will include one-hour sessions and Q&A time with instructor, Laura Henry. It is time to let your body feel the way it deserves to feel!
Two Upcoming Start Dates:
■ Tuesday, Feb. 26, 10 a.m.
■ Wednesday, Feb. 27, 6 p.m.
Suspension Core and
Strength Training
This six- week class can benefit people of all fitness levels and delivers a fast and efficient total-body workout. Learn proper positioning and tech-niques to train safely and effectively with suspension training. Integrating bootcamp-style exercises with the suspension trainer, you will improve muscular endurance and recovery time for everyday activi-ties as well as athletic competitions. Morning and evening classes are available. Call 865-232-1414 for details.
1400 Dowell Springs Blvd., Suite 100, Knoxville, TN 37909
(865) 232.1414 · livewellknoxville.com
FEBRUARY IS HEART MONTH!It’s time to live the way you deserve and take care of your heart.
Get moving with specialized fitness classes like Pump and Power Burn to boost your heart health.
From personalized nutrition plans to educational resources, learn to live well at Provision Health & Wellness.
SUPPORT ENERGYMIND-BODY NUTRITION
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New healthy living series
honors National Nutrition MonthBy Shana Raley-Lusk
March is National Nutri-tion Month, and this year’s theme is “Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day.” In keeping with that theme, the profes-sionals at Provision Health and Wellness are offering a two-part healthy living series by the same name. It will focus on incorporating balance and moderation for optimal nutrition and long-term success.
“Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day” Series Schedule:
Part 1 ■ March 18, 5:15 p.m. ■ March 21, 12 p.m.
Part 2 ■ April 15, 5:15 p.m. ■ April 18, 12 p.m.
Info: www.livewellknoxville.com or 865-232-1414.
Casey Peer, Provision Health and
Wellness Managing Director and
Chief Dietitian.
A healthy diet is essential to keeping your body in op-timum condition. Provision chief dietitian Casey Peer stresses that a balanced diet can still include your favorite foods.
“It is very possible to eat right and incorporate the foods that you enjoy,” Peer says. The series will discuss the value of certain lifestyle changes in terms of nutrition.
Peer emphasizes the importance of creating a strategy for success first.
“We are each unique and have unique needs,” she says. “The desired outcome may be similar, but the method in which we accom-plish the goal is unique for each individual.”
In the spirit of eating “your way,” this series will offer insight and advice on including healthy choices that fit with your lifestyle rather than work against it.
Provision offers a one-on-one approach to nutri-tion and wellness. By creat-ing an individualized plan, they can streamline the process of reaching nutri-tion goals.
“I break it down and make it very simple,” says Casey. “You’ll get that ‘Aha’ moment. People tell us all
the time, ‘I cannot believe it is that easy.’”
This series will provide an overview of how to include smart nutritional choices in any lifestyle. It is free to Provision members. Non-members are welcome and may participate for a small fee.
B-4 • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • SHOPPER-NEWS
By Libby MorganOne thousand feet above the Tennessee
Valley f loor, a few blocks from Broadway, strong mountain bikers are blazing a trail on the south f lank of Sharp’s Ridge.
Brian Hann, president of Appalachian Mountain Bike Club, says the group is di-recting its on-going efforts toward trail building and ma intena nce in several ar-eas this year.
For the past few years, they have focused on Knoxville’s Urban Wilder-ness South Loop in and around Ijam’s Nature Center, and are now turning their attention to Sharp’s Ridge, Concord Park and Haw Ridge in Oak Ridge.
“The plan on Sharp’s Ridge creates a loop by digging a trail below and parallel to the old hiking trail.
“Hikers and mountain bikers will be able to travel for over two miles without having to backtrack. We will also be help-ing to install signage designating the trail entrances,” said Hann.
Legacy Parks director Carol Evans de-scribes her involvement as following a neighborhood’s wishes for green space, and helping to make connections.
“Legacy Parks is really the dot connec-tor. We are able to bring together individ-
uals, funds, city govern-ment and groups such as the Knoxville Track Club, m o u n t a i n bikers, bird-watchers and other outdoor e n t h u s i a s t s to help create these incred-ible outdoor r e c r e at ion a l o p p o r t u n i -ties that are close to home.
The new Sharp’s Ridge trail being cre-ated by the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club is the perfect example of adding more places to play in all corners of our community. It truly will enhance the use of this park,” Evans said.
Newspaper accounts of Sharp’s Ridge Me-morial Park topics tell a 60-year-old story of ebb and f low of scrutiny and neglect,
A Shopper-News Special Section Monday, February 25, 2013
OutdoorsBy Libby Morgan Legacy Parks director Carol Evans de-
Blazing a trail along Sharp’s Ridge
From atop Sharps Ridge is Knoxville’s best vista.
Carol Evans, executive director of the Legacy Parks Foundation, works closely with the bike club and this day brought her dogs to help oversee the trail work. Brian Hann and his buddy, seven-year-old Landon, get ready to put their hazel hoes to good use. Photos by Libby Morgan
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SHAKING UP THE COMMUNITYWHAT IS ZUMBA®?It’s an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow,
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help you keep at least one New Year’s resolution.
Childcare will be available: $5.00/childParents are encouraged to bring their children to participate in the Zumba® demos and drop them off for child care prior to the Zumbathon®.
Parking: Free (at Locust Street garage).The doors will open at 1:15 for demos for different types of Zumba®. Example: Zumba®, Zumba Tone® and Zumbatomic®.
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STRONG COMMUNITIESA YMCA Initiative
MY-2 • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • SHOPPER-NEWS
public outrage and optimistic plans. In 1964, Mayor John Duncan and city
recreation director Maynard Glenn pro-posed a 28-foot observation tower, simi-lar to the Clingman’s Dome structure in the Smokies. Lack of funding kept the plan from becoming a reality.
In the late 80s, problems with van-dalism and other unsavory behavior prompted city officials to propose devel-oping the park for housing. Veterans and birdwatchers raised vehement opposi-tion, and the plan was dropped.
In 1990, the city asked Knoxville land-scape architect David Kendall to draw up plans for improvements to the park. Kendall’s designs included several picnic areas, an interpretative center, veterans’ memorials and overlooks. A covered pic-nic area and an overlook deck were built.
Through it all, the birdwatchers have taken advantage of the ridgetop summit, a place where the late newspaper col-umnist J. B. Owen, a name synonymous with Knoxville birdwatching and who wrote about watching birds all over the world, declared Sharp’s Ridge his favor-ite spot to watch birds.
Owen also wrote, “Maynard Glenn told of his counterpart from Memphis exclaiming ‘If Memphis had something like Sharp’s Ridge we would make it the
crown jewel of the city.’”
The overlook is named, appropriately, for Owen.
Knoxville Police Officer Jeff Pappas is credited with restoring a family atmo-sphere to Sharp’s Ridge. He was honored in 2001 with Officer of the Year for his efforts there. He was quoted as saying that he often drove his police unit slowly to the end, and all the shady characters would be gone on his trip back down.
Pappas’ attention to the ongoing prob-lems with negative use spurred the city to install an entrance gate and signage addressing rules and hours.
Hann said, “Positive use of the park is already crowding out the negative use. We’d like to see the trails up there get used by everyone who wants to enjoy get-ting outside.”
Evans and Hann hope to see the trails in Sharp’s Ridge Memorial Park extend-ed to loop around the north slope of the ridge. The property there is owned by several different broadcasting compa-nies, where they maintain their ridgetop antennas.
To find the entrance to the park, begin on Broadway a few blocks south of I-640 and head for those antennas. You can’t miss ’em.
Randy Conner, wielding a chainsaw at the forefront of recent trail work on Sharp’s Ridge, is also the group’s mapmaker. His day job sends him traveling, giving him opportunities to enjoy mountain bike trails all over the country. Photo by Libby Morgan
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By Shana Raley-LuskSeveral months ago, dog
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“I did an Internet search for lo-cal dog play dates and found this dog meet-up group. In July, we started attending,” said Lin.
The purpose of the group, cre-ated by Diana Horenzy, is to help dog owners connect through or-ganized outdoor activities, par-ticularly scenic hikes.
“One of the outings that we re-cently participated in was at Nor-ris Dam. There are a lot of really great trails there,” said Jade.
The group has met for dog-friend-ly hikes at Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge, Forks of the River Wildlife Management Area and Ijams Nature Center to name just a few.
The group is growing in popu-larity and offers a fun way to get some moderate exercise while enjoying some of East Tennes-
see’s most beautiful places. The difficulty level of the hikes ranges from very easy to slightly more intense.
“Some of the easier hikes last about an hour. The harder ones could be up to a three or four hour walk,” said Lin. “I enjoy the exercise for both myself and the dogs.”
Aside from its fitness benefits, the group offers participants an opportunity for socializing and making new friends, both hu-man and canine.
“This is a very friendly group. I have gotten to know the people and all of the dogs really well,” said Lin.
Some of the group’s members will also be participating to-gether in the Mardi Growl event, which benefits Young-Williams Animal Center in Knoxville. Their next outdoor event will be held at Melton Hill Park, where the dogs and their owners can enjoy a walk by the water.
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Legend, Nery Lliteras with Daysi; (standing) Andrew Erath with Spencer, Laura (last name withheld) with Cheeky and
Pippi, Karen Pickens and Jade Lin with Lucy and Toby. Photo provided by Jade Lin
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MY-4 • FEBRUARY 25, 2013 • SHOPPER-NEWS
By Cindy TaylorMichael and Robin Nyderek left their
busy lives on Lake Michigan in Chica-go for the wilds of Tennessee and Nor-ris Lake, bringing a sailboat with them. Shortly after the move they picked up a wooden canoe, and both vessels make frequent trips on Norris and Fort Loudon lakes.
When the two met in 2002, each was ready to seek life outside of Chicago. A need for quiet and open spaces drove them towards a calmer environment where they could roam in natural areas and in a yard larger than their home. After considering many other locations, Tennessee is where they decided to hang their hats. Literally.
During a weekend trip from Chicago to view properties in Knoxville, Robin hung her hat on the coat rack in a house and forgot it. Turned out that was the home they purchased, and her hat was still there waiting for her when she moved in.
Trekking the trails of Tennessee “Knoxville was a place I was familiar
with,” said Michael. “I would drive here in the summer to camp in the Smokies.”
“One visit for me and I was hooked, too,” said Robin. “We are both fall fowl, the opposite of spring chickens, so we ran for the hills.”
In 2004, the couple purchased two acres in Halls, proclaimed their vows and began an exploration of the area. On a clear day they can see Mount LeConte from their deck. In the winter, the view often affords snow-capped peaks. Mi-chael is retired, and the couple takes in as much nature as they possibly can on Robin’s days off.
“At least once a week we hike either in the Smokies, Cumberland Gap, House Mountain and Big Ridge or Norris Dam State Park,” said Robin. “We make a game of it by choosing trails recommended from a newspaper, neighbor or books.”
Seeking new trails sometimes takes them toward Chattanooga and Nashville.
The pair consider themselves boring peo-ple who are fortunate to live in paradise. Though never stationary for long, one of their favorite pastimes is to relax in a pri-vate oasis they created on their deck to take in the immediate surroundings.
“We never heard mockingbirds in Chi-cago and are quite smitten with them,” said Robin. “There are cows grazing in pastures as far as the eye can see near our house.
They are sharing life with their neigh-bors, another thing that was rare in the big city.
“We have great neighbors and have learned to make eye contact with people,” said Robin. “In the city where everyone moves quickly and with purpose, there wasn’t much of that. We thought you would have to be a millionaire to afford this kind of solitude and beauty. We are grateful every single day to live here. We sail, canoe, walk, hike, climb, hobble, groan and do it again.”
Michael and Robin Nyderek followed their love of nature from Chicago to Tennessee. Photo by Cindy Taylor
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