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By Betty Bean Two years out from the 2018

county elections, there’s half a gaggle of candidates thinking about running for mayor.

Don’t look for County Com-missioner Bob Thomas to run for re-election to his at-large commis-sion seat in 2018, even though he’ll be fi nishing his fi rst term. He’ll be too busy running for mayor.

Thomas is making plans to suc-ceed Tim Burchett, who is term-limited. He’s tearing a page from Burchett’s campaign book and will be the guest-of-honor at an old-timey baloney-cutting May 11. That’ll be on a Wednesday, starting at 11:30 at Powell Auction & Realty – the venue where Burchett kicked off his campaign for county mayor.

“We’re expecting 1,500,” Thom-as said. “The Chillbillies are play-ing and we’ll have R.C. Colas and Moon Pies. It’ll be a big party.”

Thomas has had a long career in radio broadcasting, once owned a hockey team and has written

Prospects ponder race for county mayoriff’s Offi ce – “Today, I’m wiring up water controls in the jail. To-morrow it’ll be computers. I’m an electronics person.”

Has he run for offi ce before?“Lord, no. I’m still debating

how sound I am for even thinking about this.

“I’ve been involved in Knox County politics for a little while, but I’ve been anonymous for a lot of years, intentionally. I’ve worked on a lot of campaigns, helped as many people as I could. Mayor Burchett is term-limited, so this is a good time for me to give it my best shot. In eight more years, I’ll be too old.”

Another county commissioner, Brad Anders, is also mulling a run for mayor. Anders, a former com-mission chair, is a lieutenant and a crisis negotiator in the Knoxville Police Department whose name used to come up as a candidate for sheriff, as well.

TV shows. He stays in close touch with his son, Jake, a TV actor who lives in Los Angeles. He says he’s anxious to take on the challenge of promoting Knox County as a tour-ism destination and has big plans to move forward without a tax in-crease.

Knox County Republican Party chair Buddy Burkhardt is also run-ning wide open. He’s got a Face-book page, “Buddy for Knox Coun-

ty Mayor,” that doesn’t have much information yet, but does display some spiffy-looking red “Vote for Burkhardt” T-shirts and shots of Burkhardt with GOP notables like Jeb Bush and Ben Carson.

On Dec. 12, he asked, “Ready for your Buddy for Mayor Apparel and Yard Signs? Coming SOON!!!”

Burkhardt is an electronics and information technology spe-cialist in the Knox County Sher-

Haynes Burkhardt Anders

Next leader?

Thomas

By Sara BarrettThis summer, a handful of

lucky Cedar Bluff Middle School students will travel to Muroran, Japan, on special invitation from the city’s mayor, Takeshi Aoyama.

In the last 25 years, only one other delegation from CBMS has visited Muroran, a small city on Japan’s northernmost island.

The relationship between Knoxville and Muroran began in 1988 after Knoxville’s then-mayor Victor Ashe facilitated the part-nership on behalf of Sister Cities International. It became offi cial in 1991.

Since then, a dozen students from Muroran visit CBMS each October in honor of the sister city relationship.

According to its website, Sister Cities International is a nonprofi t established in 1956 by the Eisen-hower administration. Its mission is to “promote peace through mu-tual respect, understanding, and

Cedar Bluff Middle School student Madi Morris and her guest from Muroran, Japan Photo by Amy Melendy

Japan by way of Cedar Bluff Middle School

the sister city connection.Bridges says the invitation

was a complete surprise, and she wasn’t sure if it would be feasible to go. CBMS students would need to fund their own way and go through an application process.

“We are a diverse school, but this is fi rst-hand experience,” says Bridges of the opportunity to trav-el abroad.

Bridges visited Muroran last summer and met with members of the Knoxville Club, a group of Mu-roran residents who have visited Knoxville and welcome Knoxvil-lians with open arms.

While there, she also visited a former delegate she hosted when her daughter was at CBMS. Her daughter is now a sophomore in high school.

“Our goal is to develop global citizens who are not only well-versed in their own country and

Aimee Bridges Amy Melendy

cooperation – one individual, one community at a time.”

SCI has matched 570 commu-nities with more than 2,300 part-nerships in 150 countries around the world.

A group of CBMS students and their families host the delegates each year and show them around Knoxville during their fi ve-day stay.

CBMS school counselor Aimee Bridges and social studies teacher Amy Melendy say the experience is life-changing and unforgettable for the host students and their families.

In addition to touring Knox-ville, Japanese delegates are hon-ored at CBMS with a school-wide assembly where the delegates themselves are welcomed to per-form.

“Eighth grade classes also host the students for a day of learning and cultural exchange,” says Me-lendy. “This way we can involve a greater number of students with the exchange.”

“These relationships continue beyond the fi ve-day stay,” says Bridges. She shares the story of a previous Japanese delegate who was accepted into UT after gradu-ating high school. Her former host family from CBMS helped her move into her dorm.

This past October, Mayor Aoya-ma accompanied the delegation to Knoxville for a day was so moved by the experience that he invited a group of Cedar Bluff students to visit Muroran this summer in honor of the 25th anniversary of To page A-3

Ed and Bob coming to Karns

Ed and Bob’s Night Out is coming to Karns. Everyone is invited.

Knox County at-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will be at We’re Cookin’ at 7664 Oak Ridge Highway from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, to meet the people of the Karns communi-ty and listen to their concerns.

S.O.R. LosersIt was good enough for

Charles Dickens and Alexandre Dumas, so we think Shopper News parents, grandparents and certainly children will like it, too. Today the Shopper News introduces a 14-week se-rial story, “S.O.R. Losers.”

The serial story – made fa-mous by “The Pickwick Papers” and “The Three Musketeers” – is a complete book that is pub-lished one segment at a time. “S.O.R. Losers,” the story of a misfi t sports team, is written by Newberry Award Winner Avi and illustrated by Timothy Bush. The fi rst chapter begins today and will be followed by 13 more chapters, bringing the story to its conclusion on July 6. Each segment can be read in fi ve to six minutes.

Sit with your child as he or she reads about the antics of Ed and Saltz. Or read the story to them, so you all can enjoy it!

– S.G. Howell

Illustration by Timothy Bush

Victor goes to CubaVictor and Joan Ashe have

just returned from Cuba.Victor writes ... “(we) joined

a Yale Alumni Tour of Cuba for 10 days. It was fascinating. As Joan says, it was a trip not a vacation.

“Also on the trip was an-other Knoxvillian, Dr. Anne McIntyre, who is a retired UT professor of psychology and lives in Sequoyah Hills.”

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“That one (sheriff) is not as prominent in the con-versation as it once was,” Anders said. “At this point, I haven’t ruled either one of them out, and I don’t know exactly what the drop-dead decision date is.”

Anders has served as a commissioner since 2008 and has been with KPD for 24 years, and said he has profes-sional and family decisions to make before he can think about running for mayor.

“A lot of things would have to click in the right way for that to happen,” Anders said.

Former state Rep. Ryan Haynes is also believed to be a potential candidate. Haynes, who resigned from the General Assembly to become state Republican Party chair, pooh-poohs that notion. When pressed he offered this statement:

“I’ll say this. I’m fl attered my name has been men-tioned, but I have a job to do, and it’s way premature to start a new campaign season when the current one isn’t even over. The last thing we need is individual interests dividing up our communities.”

And, fi nally, there’s Criminal Court Clerk Mike Hammond, who couldnot be reached for com-ment. Court clerks are not subject to term limits, and Hammond, a former county commissioner who was elected clerk in 2014, is considered an unlikely mayoral contender.

All the candidates listed are Republicans. Demo-cratic Party chair Cameron Brooks says so far no Demo-crats have expressed inter-est in the offi ce.

County mayor From page A-1

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County

Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m.

each fi rst Tuesday, Peace Lu-

theran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff

Road. Info: cwkch.com.

■ District 6 Democrats meet 6:15

p.m. each fourth Tuesday at the

Karns Library, 7516 Oak Ridge

Highway. Info: Mike Knapp,

696-8038, or Janice Spoone,

771-5920.

■ Family Community Educa-tion – Crestwood Club meets

10 a.m. each fourth Thursday,

Grace Lutheran Church, 9076

Middlebrook Pike. Info: Ruby

Freels, 690-8164.

■ Family Community Education

– Karns Club meets 10 a.m. each

second Wednesday, Karns Com-

munity Center, 7516 Oak Ridge

Highway. Info: Charlene Asbury,

691-8792.

■ Karns Republican Club meets 7

p.m. each fi rst Tuesday at Karns

Middle School library.

■ Karns Lions Club meets 6:30

p.m. each fi rst and third Monday,

Karns Community Center, 7708

Oak Ridge Highway. Info: karn-

slionsclub.com.

■ Northwest Knox Business and Professional Association

meets each third Thursday, Karns

Community Center, 7708 Oak

Ridge Highway. Meetings are 6

p.m. March, June, September,

December and noon the remain-

ing months.

Visitor from Japan From page A-1

culture, but to be open to learning and experiencing cultures different from their own,” says Melendy.

“That is why we partici-pate each year with the Mu-roran delegation visit. As we are becoming a more di-verse population within our community, we also need to be aware of the diversity of the world.”

“There are so many ad-vantages for students who go on this trip,” adds Bridg-es. “Global education, global understanding. … They will know there is something outside of their world. It will be life changing and charac-ter building.”

The cost for each student to travel is about $3,500, with a payment deadline of

June 12. Several fundraisers are being held to help defray costs including a GoFund-Me account, sushi-making classes for the community, a school dance and a choco-late sale.

Melendy says delegates will be expected to present something about American culture to the Japanese stu-dents in Muroran, and they will also prepare a presen-tation for host families of next year’s Japanese del-egation, to share what they learned.

“This makes the trip a true exchange,” she says.

To make a donation, email Amy Melendy at [email protected] or Aimee Bridges at [email protected].

When Cassandra Jones gave birth to her now fi ve-year-old daughter Lauren, she wondered if her child would be able to play like “normal” children.

Nancy Anderson

Go, Lauren, go!

Lauren was born with spina bifi da, cerebral palsy and hydro-cephalus. Doctors told Jones her daughter would be little more than a vegetable ... if she lived.

Jones fi red those doctors and today, Lauren plays with a mo-torized ride-on car like any other child. Go Baby Go-Rocky Top modifi es the cars for children with disabilities.

Jones said the car was cus-tomized to utilize Lauren’s abili-ties by adding a new bottom with pivoting front wheels, a fi ve-point positioning harness to hold her securely in place, and

easy press buttons replacing the steering wheel and pedals.

She says, “That car sparked something in Lauren that seemed to make her want to grow beyond her limitations. Small children learn through doing and play. When your abili-ties are limited … you miss out on the chance to thrive. Go Baby Go-Rocky Top changed that for Lauren by breaking those limita-tions early on when the develop-mental aspect is most important.

“Within the fi rst three times of her test driving and playing, I saw a huge change in her inter-est level. She was more inten-tional with her movements. She realized she could make things happen by using her hands! She isn’t stuck on a blanket watching other kids having fun anymore.

“Now she can go go-go too.”And how! Jones said Lauren

doesn’t qualify for a motorized chair, but Go Baby Go-Rocky Top is working on giving her indoor mobility by pairing her special needs car seat with a Segway.

Info: gobabygo-rockytop.com

Lauren Jones in her specially modifi ed ride-on car

Pete Capell experiments with pairing Lauren Jones’

special needs car seat with a Segway to give her in-

door mobility.

History award nominations soughtThe East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS)

invites nominations from across East Tennessee for Awards of Excellence in the fi eld of history. The annual awards recognize individuals and organiza-tions that have made signifi cant contributions to the preservation, promotion, programming and interpretation of the region’s history. The postmark deadline for award applications is April 8.

Info/nomination form: 215-8824; eastTNhis-tory.org; East Tennessee Historical Society, PO Box 1629, Knoxville, TN 37901. www.shoppernewsnow.com • 922-4136wwwwwwwww.w.s


Wendy Smith

Track and fi eld Volun-teers from the golden era of Chuck Rohe and Stan Huntsman will honor 50 years of Ed Murphey Award winners Friday at a country club reception and dinner.

On Saturday, the Uni-versity of Tennessee track program will recognize a lifetime of contributions by Terry Hull Crawford, for-mer champion runner and women’s coach at UT, Texas and Cal Poly-San Luis Obis-po. She evolved into coach-ing coaches for USA Track and Field.

Terry, many track alum-ni and guests will be treat-ed to a reunion dinner in a showplace segment of Neyland Stadium. Coach Beth Alford-Sullivan will discuss current Volunteers. A few good men lifted Ten-

Honors weekend for Tennessee trackMarvin

West

nessee to third place at the recent NCAA indoor cham-pionships. Women ran sev-enth.

Alas, there will be no serious running, jumping or throwing at Tom Black Track this weekend. It is bogged down in a rehabili-tation project that was sup-posed to have been fi nished months ago. Critics say big buildings have been built faster. Optimists say, if all eventually goes well, there will be a home track meet or three next spring.

The Murphey Award does not struggle with such chaos. It is presented each year for the outstanding performance by a Volunteer. It originated in 1965 as a gift from the legendary Ed Mur-phey.

What a story he was.In the mid-1950s, Mur-

phey played trumpet in the Pride of the Southland band. He was manager for the basketball team, re-sponsible for clean practice uniforms and dry towels.

He asked coach John Sines, also the track coach, if it would be OK to go out for track.

Sines’ response was his-toric: “OK Murph, just don’t get in anybody’s way.”

He didn’t. He ran the fastest mile ever on the cin-der track around Shields-

Watkins Field. He set a Southeastern Conference record in cross-country. He won the SEC mile three consecutive years. He won all-America recognition.

“Ed Murphey was a champion when champions were few at Tennessee,” said the late Tom Siler.

You may have heard of some who received Mur-phey Awards: Richmond Flowers, Willie Gault, Law-rence Johnson, Justin Gat-lin, Aries Merritt and Justin Hunter.

Terry Hull Crawford has a national prize named for her – the Terry Crawford Women’s Program of the Year Award.

Terry goes back to the late 1960s, the beginning of women’s sports at UT. Charlie Durham bought a

newspaper ad announcing that the Knoxville Track Club was forming a wom-en’s team. About 50 girls and women, ages 10 to 20, responded. Terry, 17, out of Greeneville High School, was in the group.

She became a three-time Volunteer all-American, winning the national 220 and 440 in 1969 and the 880 in 1970. She competed in the World University Games and Pan-American Games and twice got close to Olympic teams.

Terry came back as coach of women’s track. Her 1981 team won the national championship, fi rst in any women’s sport at Tennes-see. Among her other dis-tinctions was the recruit-ment of sprinter and jumper Holly Warlick from Bearden High. Holly also wanted to try basketball. The rest is history.

There came a time when Texas offered Terry a better coaching opportunity (more money). Tennessee athletic director Bob Woodruff lis-tened as Terry explained. He could have countered. He didn’t.

Terry went to Austin. Her Longhorns won fi ve NCAA championships and 18 Southwest Conference ti-tles. Her 1986 team was the only triple winner in history – indoors, outdoors and in cross-country.

Terry reappeared at the World and Pan-Am games as coach of U.S. teams. She was America’s coach at the 1988 Olympics. She won enough meets and produced enough all-Americans to coach 17 years at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo.

The track world and I see her as a national treasure.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is [email protected]

The parents who attended Karen Carson’s meeting at Farragut High School were calm, but when they spoke, the tension of dealing with four separate school threats was evident.

They voiced concerns about who was in charge during a crisis − the school or the sheriff’s offi ce? They questioned whether kids should be locked down in classrooms if there was potentially a bomb in the building. One was upset about not being able to help a child who got sick while on lockdown in the football stadium.

Mostly, they were frus-trated over a lack of trust-worthy communication. What kind of threats were being made, and how were students being kept safe?

Farragut junior Viktoria Ohstrom

speaks as principal Stephanie

Thompson, left, looks on.

Trust hard to come by during school threats

While the safety of stu-dents is the highest priority, there’s a delicate balance be-tween enough and too much information, explained Dis-trict 5 school board member Carson. Too little info frus-trates parents; too much in-spires copycats.

It’s a legitimate con-cern. Threats at Farragut Intermediate, Hardin Val-ley Academy and Hardin Valley Elementary schools followed the Farragut High threats.

Knox County Schools

Chief of Security Gus Paid-ousis explained why com-municating during a crisis is a challenge. The only thing worse than no infor-mation is bad information, and when things are con-stantly changing, it’s dif-fi cult to provide accurate information, he said. Too much information could also allow someone who intends harm to anticipate strategy and do more dam-age.

Carson asked parents not to call the school during a crisis, but to trust that staff are doing everything they can to protect kids. Superin-tendent Jim McIntyre said schools need to communi-cate with parents, but after that, parents need to trust that the best decisions are being made.

sage on the wall. But, as Carson said, every threat has to be treated as if it’s real, which calls for lock-downs, bomb squads and bomb-sniffi ng dogs. Those things can make any parent less than rational, less able to trust.

Parents are not the only ones affected. Farragut High School junior Vikto-ria Ohstrom spoke up at the meeting to say that she

didn’t know what was hap-pening during last week’s threat, and it seemed like teachers didn’t know, either.

“That’s what scares peo-ple. Not the threats.”

Communication is im-portant, but the only thing that parents and students really want to hear is that the crisis is over and all is well. Until that’s the mes-sage, it will be hard to trust. We’ve seen too much.

That’s a tall order for par-ents. Those of us with teen-age children remember the shock of Col-umbine. We were horrifi ed by the mur-ders at Virginia Tech, and we grieved with the parents of the innocents killed at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary.

Local inci-dents like shootings at Cen-tral High School and Inskip Elementary School have also impacted us.

We know, rationally, that these are rare events. But all of us have imagined hearing the news that there’s been an incident at our child’s school.

It’s easy to imagine a student plotting to cancel classes for a day or two by writing a threatening mes-

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Betty Bean

Two years ago, life looked grim for Mike Blankenship.

Three weeks ago, my wife Joan and I, along with my sister-in-law Kathy Ashe from Atlanta, joined a Yale Alumni Tour of Cuba for 10 days. It was fascinating. As Joan says, it was a trip not a vacation.

Also on the trip was an-other Knoxvillian, Dr. Anne McIntyre, who is a retired UT professor of psychology and lives in Sequoyah Hills.

We fl ew into Santiago from Miami on the east-ern end of the island not far from Guantanamo Bay where the United States has a military facility. For the next six days we journeyed across the island and ulti-mately arrived in Havana two days after President Obama’s visit.

While the people were friendly and genuinely seem to want an improved rela-tionship with the U.S., the economy and lifestyle were clearly third world. Cuba is longer than Tennessee (about 700 miles) and the eastern end has been ne-glected by various regimes. Deferred maintenance is the order of the day as many historic buildings were col-lapsing or close to it. Carts were pulled by oxen or hors-es including carts used as taxis to transport people.

Dr. Anne McIntyre, former Mayor Victor Ashe and

Joan Ashe at the Ernest Hemingway house in Havana

on a recent trip to Cuba with Yale Alumni Travel. Both

Victor Ashe and McIntyre are Yale graduates and live

in Knoxville.

Ashes, McIntyre (not that one) tour Cuba

The cars are in large part holdovers from the 1950s which have been con-tinually restored due to the embargo and lack of new vehicles being imported. On the other hand, the bus we rode in was brand new as were most buses for tour-ists. Internet service was spotty at best and expensive for Cubans ($2 an hour).

Hotels outside Havana were clean but basic in their service. Parts of Havana it-self were modern and cur-rent and other parts were collapsing. The drive we took from Ernest Heming-way’s home outside Havana to the central part of the city passed several highly im-poverished areas.

Havana itself has an in-credible old city which ex-ceeds San Juan in Puerto Rico in size but has been neglected since the Castro revolution.

While President Obama made overturns to the Cu-ban people, he had not been gone more than one day be-

fore his remarks were blast-ed by Fidel Castro who stills lives and appears from time to time in well-planned ven-ues. But it was Fidel’s broth-er, Raul, the current presi-dent, who hosted Obama.

It was also clear that change is coming to Cuba, but at a very measured pace. In terms of infrastructure and advancing into this century for their economic well-being the country is 30 years behind. In terms of democratic processes, it’s not there in any meaningful way.

■ Blount Mansion

is hosting a dinner talk on Molsey Blount, wife of Gov. William Blount, by Dr. Nancy McEntee at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at Holly’s Gourmet Market. Tickets, $60 each, can be reserved at 865-525-2375. Proceeds go to Blount Man-sion.

Not a lot is known about her, but like many wives, she was very infl uential af-ter she moved here in 1792. This year, which is the 225th birthday year of the Knoxville, is also the 90th anniversary of the Blount Mansion Association which

Career Magnet Academy FFA members at their fi rst

state convention this spring: (front) Paul Stiles, Lauren

Williams, Brittany Read, Darby Swanson; (back) Josh

Rutherford, Tylor Gann and Tobias DuBose.

Revered Ag teacher blooms in new garden

of the school day at North Knox, so Cox, Dunn and their classmates could fi n-ish their agriculture studies and continue to participate in FFA.

It involved a lot of driv-ing, but Blankenship says the commute was a snap compared to his fi rst 12 years of teaching when he made a 50-mile round trip to and from his home in Gibbs to Doyle High School (he has been a teacher with Knox County Schools for 37 years).

This year, he’s at CMA full-time, and has found a

niche in the school’s Sus-tainable Pathway, where 13 students – most from north and east Knox County – en-rolled in the program. One has moved, so he’s down to 12, still twice the number he was teaching at the Halls campus. He is proud that 11 of them will be headed “upstairs” next year to take college-level classes (CMA is housed on the ground fl oor of the Strawberry Plains Pike branch of Pellis-sippi State), and he’s proud of the brand-new FFA Chap-ter TNO337 he’s established there.

His teaching day starts with an agricultural science class, and he’s added an agricultural business and fi nance class in the second term and hopes to expand into business fi nance.

“Our pathway is a little different from any other program in the county. This is all so new, like building a plane – you look out and we’re working on this wing. We’re always in transition. No two days are alike.”

Blankenship is also teaching college and career readiness to ninth-graders, beginning the process of preparing them for the fu-ture. He is proud that his students will be able to en-roll in dual-credit (college level) courses that will put them far along the path to college degrees.

But one thing he misses is having a greenhouse like the one he built on the Halls campus, where he main-tained an annual Christmas tradition of raising and sell-ing poinsettias.

“Oh, I miss it. But we’re working on that. It’s still in the talking stage, but we’ve ID’d potential locations.”

Overall, Blankenship is grateful for the new chal-lenge and optimistic about the future.

“I am not an ax grinder,” he said. “Whatever is put in front of me, I’ll do my best to reach young people. I’m still standing.”

Blankenship

saved this historic house from being turned into a parking lot in 1926.

Dr. McEntee has writ-ten a book titled “Molsey Blount: Colonial First Lady of Tennessee.”

■ Grou ndbre a k i ng for the new $160 million State Museum in Nashville is today with Gov. Haslam and author Jon Meacham leading the ceremony.

The new facility is need-ed, but its design has been roundly criticized by sev-eral architects. The fi rm employed is from Minne-sota with little knowledge of Tennessee as several

Tennessee fi rms, including Knoxville’s McCarty Hol-saple, were rejected.

The Nashville Scene has described it as “a dumb box of a porch with no time or place and mute to the ex-pressive powers of architec-ture.” The Museum Com-mission on which I serve had no role in the design of the building. The fi nal say was made at a higher level.

I hope the governor takes another look at this design after the ground is broken so that like our State Capitol it is seen as an iconic build-ing 50 to 100 years from now.

Mayor Tim Burchett with Jackie Booker Griffi n at Jackie’s

Dream.

Burchett boosts Jackie’s Dream Café The place was packed,

but no one was complaining when Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and his peo-ple came to lunch at Jackie’s Dream.

Jackie’s Dream Café opened March 6, 2015, at 2223 McCalla Avenue. It was a life dream for owner Jackie Booker Griffi n.

“I come from a family that cooks,” she writes on her website. “It’s what my mother, grandmother and uncles taught me.

“We made our own jelly, chow-chow, pickles. My grandfather had chickens

so we had fresh eggs. We hardly ever went to the store. We made everything from scratch, and I con-tinue to do it that way. Ev-erything is peeled, cut and chopped here. We eliminate cans whenever we can. I had fresh green beans and corn all summer long.”

Since taking offi ce, Bur-chett has used the occa-sional Dutch-treat lunch with the mayor to showcase locally owned restaurants. This one is known for its soul food and hot chicken. Hours and menu are online at jackiesdream.com

The District 6 Democratic Party is always angling to get pictures into the Shopper. There are the frequent trash pick-ups, the various parades, the frequent guest speakers. But the March meeting takes the prize.

Seems county commission candidate Donna L ucas was guest speaker. Janice Spoone said some members arrived early to fi nd a fi re truck at the Karns Middle School, smoke everywhere and their library meeting place closed.

Mike Knapp rushed to “We’re Cooking” to arrange a meeting space while Spoone and the school librarian found paper, markers and tape to post notices of the meeting change. The smoke was from a new heating/air system and all is well.

“You would have loved the excitement,” wrote Spoone. “Other than the fact that I probably smelled like smoke, we had a good group for the Lucas cam-paign meeting.”

We’re cooking!

At a time when he was facing serious family ill-nesses, he was notifi ed that his agricultural program at North Knox Career Tech-nical Education Center in Halls was being disbanded because of declining enroll-ment. His students were distraught.

“2014 was a very tumul-tuous time. My son passed

away, then my dad p a s s e d away three m o n t h s later. Two deaths in the family – plus the spi-raling down p r o c e s s

at work. Anytime you’re RIFed, it’s tough.”

But his students, particu-larly rising seniors Ryan Cox and James Dunn, decided to fi ght for their Future Farm-ers of America club and their teacher. When CTE su-pervisor Don Lawson found a spot for Blankenship at the Career Magnet Academy in East Knox County, their ef-forts spurred him to allow Blankenship to spend part

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Karns Senior Center

8042 Oak Ridge Highway951-2653knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Off erings include:

card games; dance classes;

exercise programs; mah-

jong; art classes; farkle

dice games; dominoes;

a computer lab; billiards

room; outdoor grill and

kitchen area.

Register for: Wildlife

photographer Larry Perry

presentation, 1 p.m. Thurs-

day, April 7. Hamburger

and Hotdog Cookout, noon

Tuesday, April 12; bring

side dish. Spring Tidings

potluck, noon Tuesday,

April 26; bring a healthy

covered dish to share.

Diabetic Education: Sweet

Spot Grocery Guide, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, April 26.

■ Frank R. Strang Senior Center109 Lovell Heights Road670-6693knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Off erings include: card

games; exercise programs;

dance classes; watercolor

classes; Tai Chi; blood pres-

sure checks; Mahjong;

senior-friendly computer

classes; “Senior Services”

resource wall.

Register for: Lunch

and learn: Skin care, Aging,

Cosmetic Injectables and

more, noon Wednesday,

April 13; RSVP by Friday,

April 8. Veterans Offi ce visit,

11 a.m., Thursday, April 14;

registration: 215-5645.

■ CAC Offi ce on Aging2247 Western [email protected]

■ Knox County Senior ServicesCity County Building400 Main St., Suite 615215-4044 Monday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Spring has burst onto the scene with a dazzling array of color. For the past two weeks breath-taking blooms in purple, pink and white have covered the trees, have brought smiles to even the dourest of curmudgeons.

Flowering pears, redbuds and cherry blossoms let us know that those dogwood buds are closely behind. Soon the Dogwood Trails and Festival will begin, with multiple venues and varied events to visit.

And yet, something is missing...

I remember the Dog-wood Festivals from sim-pler times, as a festival celebrating our East Ten-nessee heritage on Market Square. The bluegrass com-petition, with fi ddlers and banjo players, along with steel guitars and wash-board players and mando-lins, jamming in the door-

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ways around the square until they got their turn on the center stage.

Can you picture your neighbor doing a bit of do-see-do-ing? Or gawking at craftsmen like Jesse Butch-er and women from Tellico Plains, weaving soaked oak slats into butt baskets and such, while Alex Stew-art and his grandson were riving cedar staves with draw knives, on raw wood snugged by that foot-driv-en work bench, into butter churns and pidgins right before your eyes?

There were gals in ging-ham dresses plucking feath-

ers from nervous geese while smiling seamstresses stitched quilts and coverlets ready for stuffi ng.

Not to mention the drift-ing smells of warm stack cakes layered with apple-sauce and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Yum!

Hey, what about that blacksmith shaping hot iron with a hammer and anvil? Or them ol’ knife swappers and whittlers in the corner?

A little nostalgia is a good thing. And, while you are at it, Knoxville, why not bring some of that genuine heri-tage back to the Dogwood Festival?

“Down through the corn leading down through the river,

Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun.

She took all the love that a poor boy could give her,

And left me to die like a fox on the run...”

Authors talk books

Clayton Brewer, published

poet, and Sam Venable,

local author and colum-

nist, swap books when

Venable visits residents

at Morning Pointe Senior

Living and Alzheimer’s

Memory Care of Powell.

Venable has written

several books – mostly

comedies. Brewer holds

Venable’s book titled

“Warning! This Book Con-

tains Nuttiness: A Look at

the Bizarre World in Which

We Live.” Venable holds

Brewer’s book of poems

called “Pathways Ahead.”

Pellissippi State schedules choral concert, design showcase

Pellissippi State Commu-nity College will hold its fi -nal musical performance of the year Thursday, April 28.

The Spring Choral Con-cert will feature musical per-formances by the college’s students in Concert Chorale and Variations Ensemble. The free concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the Clayton Per-forming Arts Center, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

The concert is part of The Arts at Pellissippi State, which brings to the commu-nity cultural activities rang-ing from music and theatre to international celebra-tions, lectures and the fi ne arts.

The work of Pellissippi State students in the Com-munication Graphics Tech-nology program will be on display at the CGT Student Design Showcase April 18-May 1.

A reception will be held from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, April 21, giving community members the opportunity to meet students and discuss their design work. The free exhibit and reception will be held in the Bagwell Cen-ter for Media and Art, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Info: www.pstcc.edu/arts or call 865-694-6400.

KARNS/HARDIN VALLEY Shopper news • APRIL 6, 2016 • A-7 faith

Yes, Easter is past, but I am convinced that Eas-ter is like Christmas: it is never “over.”

I am still processing something I wrote last week: “Isn’t it odd that not one of that blood-thirsty crowd bothered to stand at the foot of the cross and actually witness the agony of their victim?”

The 11 disciples who remained (Judas com-mitted suicide after his betrayal of Jesus) were in hiding, fearful of the Jew-ish leaders. Simon Peter – who had declared his allegiance to Jesus, prom-ising to die with him, if need be – hid, cowering behind closed doors.

However, the women who followed Jesus were at the foot of the cross. The Gospels give differ-ing accounts of which women, exactly, but Mary, the mother of James and Joseph (who was argu-ably also the mother of Jesus), Mary Magdalene, Salome, the un-named mother of the sons of Ze-

Many women were also there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for him. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Jo-seph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

(Matthew 27: 55 NRSV)

Let them see what they’ve done!

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bedee, and Mary, the wife of Clopas are mentioned.

It is fair to point out that women counted for nothing in that culture, so they were no threat to the Roman soldiers who were carrying out the execu-tion. Women were of no consequence in the eyes of the soldiers.

Still, I am reminded of what Jacqueline Kennedy said after the assassina-tion of her husband.

When they were fi nally aboard Air Force One, fl y-ing to Washington, some-one gently suggested to Mrs. Kennedy that she change out of the blood-spattered pink suit she was still wearing.

“No,” she said emphati-cally. “Let them see what they’ve done!”

FAITH NOTES

Meetings/classes ■ Sequoyah Hills

Presbyterian Church, 3700

Keowee Ave., will host Grief

Care, a weekly grief support

group for people grieving

the death of a loved one,

6-7:30 p.m. Mondays through

May 16. Info: 522-9804 or

sequoyahchurch.org.

Music/performances

■ Heska Amuna Synagogue,

3811 Kingston Pike, will host

“Freedom Song,” a transfor-

mative musical that inter-

weaves a Passover Seder with

personal stories of addiction,

8 p.m. Thursday, April 14.

The cast is made up of actual

addicts who have broken off

the shackles of drugs, alcohol,

gambling and other destruc-

tive behaviors. Suggested

donation: $5.

Special services ■ Westside Unitarian

Universalist Church, 616

Fretz Road, holds meditation

services 6:30 p.m. each second

and fourth Wednesday.

Includes quiet refl ection,

simple music and readings.

Info: westsideuuc.org.

Vendors/consignors wanted

■ Central Baptist Church-Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill

Drive, is seeking consignors

for its children’s consignment

sale, to be held Friday-Satur-

day, April 15-16. Fee: $10, non-

refundable. Proceeds go to

West Hills Elementary School

Back Pack Program. Registra-

tion: cbcbearden.org/events.

Info: cbbclothingsale@gmail.

com or 588-0586.

Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, is accepting

registration for its Summer

Weekday Programs for PDO

(children 1 year old and walk-

ing) and for TNT (elementary

school-aged children). Also

accepting registration for

Fall Preschool and Fall PDO.

Forms available in the pre-

school offi ce. Info: 531-2052.

By Nancy AndersonPastor Todd Stewart and Mike

Brogdon, Lonsdale community min-istry leader, led a team of 40 mem-bers of Grace Baptist Church on April 2 for their monthly mission to make a difference in the Lonsdale community.

The Adopt-A-Block team meets the fi rst Saturday of each month, visiting 150-200 homes to give small gifts and offering prayer or minor house re-pairs.

“We usually have a small practical gift to offer, like 9-volt batteries for their smoke alarms or light bulbs. If they’re elderly or unable, we’ll replace it for them. If they need minor repairs and own their home, we’ll make a note

of that and refer it on to The Crew, a ministry of folks at the church who will come out to do those repairs.”

Stewart said they don’t perform the repairs as acts of charity.

“We are not a system that just gives things away. We ask them if they have a friend or family member who can help us with the work or if they can help purchase materials. We’re about empowering people for life transfor-mation so they can accomplish the things they want and the things God wants.”

There are big things on the horizon for the Adopt-A-Block program.

A Lonsdale house was donated to the church, and the city of Knoxville has a building they’re willing to rent

for $1 a year.Stewart hopes to start a medical

clinic in the front part of the building and possibly conduct English as sec-ond language and job skills training in the back.

The house will be renovated and offered for rent with the funds going toward the purchase and renovation of another house in the area.

“We’d like to help provide them a beautiful, safe place to live – some place they can be proud to call home where the rent is fi xed and affordable. There seems to be a gap between pro-grams like Habitat for Humanity and other housing programs. We’d like to fi ll that gap with safety and security,” Stewart said.

At the Lonsdale worksite are Spanish translator Benatto Lazo, Cindy Zimbrich, Colbi Young, Mike Wright, Tina Brogdon; (back)

John Tapp, Todd Stewart, Mike Brogdon and Brody Young.

Making a diff erence one block at a time

By Carol Z. ShaneKnoxville is bursting

with Rhythm ‘n’ Blooms this weekend, and music and art of all types abound.

One fairly “new kid on the block” is the Scruffy City Orchestra, Knoxville’s fi rst and only community orchestra. They’ll be pre-senting their very fi rst con-

A new orchestra in the Scruff y City cert, “Old Friends, New Faces,” this Friday.

The orchestra will be led by two local conductors, Ace Edewards and Matt Wilkin-son, who’ve been on board from the beginning.

Wilkinson, a cellist, vet-eran of the Knox County “Strings in the Schools” program and currently director of the Maryville High School Orchestra, says, “A group of commu-nity members that played in the Maryville commu-nity orchestra while I was the conductor contacted me about starting a Knoxville community orchestra, and after a night at Central Flats and Taps we formed the Scruffy City Orchestra and

board. The idea is creating an atmosphere for amateur musicians to have a place to perform quality classical music.”

Edewards, a singer and conductor with a distin-guished international pedi-gree, moved here last year to be with his wife, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra vio-linist Ruth Bacon (the two recently celebrated their fi rst anniversary.) He con-ducted the highly successful production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, and in the past few months has taken on conducting projects in South Carolina, Arizona and Mexico.

“There seemed to be a

need for a community or-chestra in Knoxville,” says Edewards. “We put out the word to everyone we knew, and we had quite a few peo-ple show up on the fi rst night. Little by little we’ve fi lled out the ranks. Everyone is a mu-sic-loving amateur.”

The program includes the well-known, well-loved fi rst movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, a stately selection from Sir Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations” and a medley from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Op-era.”

Anyone who is inter-

ested in playing on future rehearsals and concerts is urged to contact the SCO. “All are welcome” says Edewards. “Having a lot of people wanting to play is a good problem to have, and we will certainly do our best to give all who are willing an opportunity to participate.”

The Scruffy City Orches-tra’s spring concert, “Old Friends, New Faces,” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, April 8, at First Bap-tist Church, 510 W. Main St. in Knoxville. General admission is $5 at the door, and credit/debit cards are accepted.


SCHOOL NOTES ■ West Hills Elementary participates in the following pro-

grams to help raise money for the school: General Mills “Box-

Tops for Education,” Campbell’s “Labels for Education,” and

linking Food City ValuCards, Kroger Plus Cards and Target

Red Cards to the school for points. Info: 539-7850.

SPORTS NOTES ■ Registration open for the

Challenger Baseball season.

Cost: $15. Season begins

Monday, April 11. All games

Lakeshore Park, 6410 S. North-

shore Drive. Registration

form: http://bit.ly/1Vrgcr2.

Josh Current and

Jane Ann Foncea re-

hearse for Christian

Academy of Knox-

ville’s “Thoroughly

Modern Millie” with

fellow performers

(back) Olivia Wil-

liams, Chloe Rhodes,

David Woody, Har-

rison DeBord and

Matthew Meschen-

dorf. Photos by S. Barrett

‘Millie’ takes the stage at CAK

“Singing is a whole other way to connect to people. It’s exhilarating. I can’t de-scribe it,” says Josh Current, a junior at Christian Acade-my of Knoxville.

“And on stage, you get to be someone completely dif-ferent,” adds Jane Ann Fon-cea, a senior.

The talented duo has lead roles in CAK’s upcoming performance of “Thorough-ly Modern Millie.”

Josh plays Jimmy Smith to Jane Ann’s Millie. This isn’t the fi rst time they’ve shared the stage; they were king and queen in last year’s “Cinderella.” They admit the chemistry from their friendship helps their char-acters’ chemistry on stage.

“And there’s just some-thing about dancing on stage with your dear friends,” adds Jane Ann.

Both performers have been in theater since at least middle school, and they

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both hope to continue act-ing or performing in some fashion during college.

As for the upcoming performance, they promise lots of “fast-paced, high-energy fun stuff” with a few light-hearted, cheesy moments tucked in here and there.

“Thoroughly Modern Millie” will be presented 7 p.m. Thursday through Sat-urday, April 14-16, with an added 2:30 p.m. matinee on Saturday.

Tickets will be available at the door. Info: 690-4721 ext. 191 or visit https://w w w.c a k wa r r iors .c om/arts/musical-theatre.

“Where’s Kelly?” Mr. Lester’s face was pale. “How can we practice without Kelly? Doesn’t anyone know where he is? It’s two-thirty.”

Mr. Lester was our history teacher. I thought he was going to cry. For myself, I felt like laughing, laughing hysterically.

There were 11 of us standing behind the South Orange River Middle School, near the playing fi eld, feeling silly in brand-new red shorts and yellow T-shirts with “S.O.R.” on our backs. If any dogcatchers had come around, they would have swooped us up for a bunch of stray mutts. On the fi eld, kids were running, tossing, kicking, all that stuff.

During two practice sessions we had

done two things. Since none of us knew soccer rules, Mr. Lester read them to us. Then we ran around in circles while he read the rules again, to himself. He didn’t know them either.

Second practice? We tried kicking the ball. Wasn’t easy.

“Gentlemen,” pleaded Mr. Lester. “We have our fi rst game tomorrow. Doesn’t any-one know something about Kelly?”

No one said a word. The truth was going to hurt, and no one wanted to hurt Mr. Les-ter. He was a nice guy.

“We have to play tomorrow,” he said, as if we didn’t know. We knew it too well.

It was my special buddy, Saltz, who let it out. “Mr. Lester, Kelly no longer goes to

our school. His father’s job was transferred somewhere. Kelly tagged along.” I don’t think we’d had our new uniforms on for more than 30 minutes, but Saltz, a natural slob, looked like he’d slept in his for 20 years.

And he, like the rest of us, was only 12.

“No longer in school?” said Mr. Lester, who had ac-tually volunteered to be our coach. “But what about our fi rst game?”

“He wanted to be with his fam-ily,” said someone. I think it was Elis-cue.

The coach sighed. He was a history teacher, and we were not what they write history about. If our school had a worse collection of ath-letes than the 11 of us, they were on display in the museum mummy section.

But there we were Hays, Porter, Dorman, Lifsom, Saltz, Radosh, Root, Barish, Elis-cue, Fenwick, and me, Sitrow. In a school that was famous, positively famous, for its teams and all-stars, we were not considered typical. Walk in the front door and the fi rst thing you’d see was a wall of trophies – all for sports. It was as if we were a sports club. Not a school.

“Doesn’t he understand you can’t play soccer without a goaltender? He should have told me.” Mr. Lester said that the way he might explain the sinking of the Titanic.

“His father probably got the job because Kelly didn’t want to play,” said Dorman.

When Mr. Lester got red in the face from frustration, he looked like an over-ripe tomato. His round face puffed and the few bits of topside hair were like old, dead leaves. It was clear he already regretted be-ing coach just as much as we regretted the thought of playing.

For example, me. I was so bad I was des-ignated as the only sub. I didn’t expect to play at all. But then, none of us expected to play. The point was, our school had a requirement that you had to play at least one team sport each year. We had slipped through the fi rst year. None of us had played. None of us wanted to. But once they caught on, they invented a team just for us.

“Let’s go back to the locker room,” sug-gested Mr. Lester.

Glad to skip practice, we followed him. Luckily, the locker room was empty. Every-one else was either playing or practicing.

I sat on a bench next to Saltz. “Let’s hear it for Kelly,” he whispered.

“Maybe they’ll call the whole thing off,” I thought out loud.

He shrugged. Saltz and I had been pals since kindergarten. So I knew what he’d rather be doing: writing poetry.

“How many do we have here?” asked Mr. Lester.

“Two,” said Root. He was our math genius.“Gentlemen,” said Mr. Lester, “this is not

a joke. Please line up.”Our cleats clicking like bad pennies on

the cement fl oor, we went up against the wall, all 11 of us. Porter was on one side of me, Saltz on the other.

“Maybe we’ll get shot,” said Porter.

“Only if we’re lucky,” said Fenwick.“Gentlemen, quiet please,” said Mr. Les-

ter. He stood there looking miserable. You could tell he didn’t like what he saw. But

then, considering what we saw in the future, starting the next day, we didn’t like it either.

“Gentlemen,” he said softly. When Mr. Lester shouted, his voice got softer. “Gentlemen, you know why you’re here.”

No one said a word. Seventh-grade boys don’t make good farewell speeches, not in front of execution squads.

“Do you?” he asked. My guess is that he was wondering himself.

“It’s good for us,” Lifsom said, as if de-scribing someone’s need for a head trans-plant.

“South Orange River Middle School has a fi ne sports tradition,” continued Mr. Lester. “‘Everybody plays, everybody wins.’ That’s our motto. And you, gentlemen, have been here a full year without being on any team.”

“That’s because we’ve got better things to do,” said Barish.

Mr. Lester’s face turned purple. But he went on, even softer. You had to strain to hear. “That’s exactly the point. You are all – each one – nice, smart boys. You, however, have avoided sports. Too much desk work.”

“Nanotechnology,” slipped in Hays. “The big future.”

Mr. Lester’s face made the ultimate transformation. He turned deathly white and spoke as though from the grave. “S.O.R. believes in the whole person. We’ve cre-ated this team for your good. From now on, you’re going to play. Sport is a major part of American life. Starting tomorrow, we’ve got a season to play. Six games. Let’s do it with honor.”

“What about ability?” asked Radosh.Mr. Lester passed over that with a sigh.

“We need a goaltender.” I saw his eyes travel up and down the line. To my horror, they landed on me.

“Ed,” he said to me, the way a kindly pi-rate might ask the next victim to walk the plank. “You’re the tallest. You’ll be goal-tender.”

“Me?” I said, pointing to my narrow, weak and unformed chest. I couldn’t be-lieve it.

“Yes, you.”“Sir,” I said in a panic, “I never played

goalie before. I never played soccer before. I never played anything before.”

“Neither have your teammates. But we are going to give it our best, aren’t we? We’ll gain pride by trying. Game tomorrow. You all have permission to be out of your after-noon classes. Be ready, here, tomorrow at one-thirty for the bus. In uniform. We don’t want to be late. It makes for a poor start.”

And that’s how I became goalie for the South Orange River Middle School Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team. I happened to be tallest.

Talk about talent.On second thought, I’d better not. Not

when you see what happened.To be continued next week

Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be

reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

CHAPTER ONE: The new team at South Orange River Middle School

“a breakfast serials story”S.O.R. Losers Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

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Pictured are (front) Tiger-Rock students Ari Church (gold medal), Gavin Ralston (gold medal and titlist winner), Myles Burgin

(gold medal), Nazar Gluschenko (gold medal and titlist winner), Brayden Allin (gold medal), Bosung Choi (gold medal and titlist

winner), Lillian Van Brunt (gold medal winner), Yevdokiya Gluschenko, Radek Molchan (gold medal and titlist winner, current

World Champion); (back) instructor Joshua Hazelip and students Olivia Henderson (gold medal), Brycen Hazelip (gold medal),

Gus Burgin (gold medal and titlist winner), Michael Bowling (gold medal and titlist winner), Amilian Clemes (gold medal) and

Ragan Oliver (gold medal). Not pictured is current World Champion, gold medal and titlist winner Kaitie Kurdziel. Photo submitted

Hardin Valley Academy sophomores Mikaela Chavis, Leora

Boyd and Sophia LaSorsa place third in the C-SPAN regional

competition. Photo by S. Barrett

KINDERGARTEN ROUND-UP IS APRIL 12

Kindergarten Round-up for the 2016-2017 school year will be

held in all Knox County elementary schools Tuesday, April 12.

To enter kindergarten, children should be 5 years old by Aug.

15. To enroll their children in kindergarten during round-up,

parents need to bring the child’s birth certifi cate, proof of up-

to-date immunizations and health/physical examination, and

proof of residency within the school zone.

■ Amherst – 3-5 p.m. Info: 560-7001

■ Ball Camp – 3-6 p.m. Info: 539-7888

■ Hardin Valley – 3-6 p.m. Info: 470-2088

■ Karns – 3-6 p.m. Info: 539-7767 (W) or 539-7772 (E)

More than 50 competitors repre-sented Tiger-Rock Martial Arts at the national tournament in Chattanooga, and eight of those competitors will move on to the Master’s Invitation at the World Tournament in Baton Rouge July 22-23.

“To receive a Master’s Invitation for an opportunity to compete to be a

world champion, you must meet the strict Tiger-Rock taekwondo stan-dards, says Tiger-Rock owner and instructor Josh Hazelip. “You must win a gold medal in forms or spar-ring at either a sanctioned regional or national tournament, must be a titlist and must receive a Master’s invitation.

“While the world tournament draws entrants from all over the world, only a few are allowed to compete for the title of World Champion and must beat out all other titlists with Master’s In-vitations.”

Tiger-Rock Martial Arts is located at 9111B Executive Park Drive. Info: www.WestKnoxTigerRock.com.

Tiger-Rock to compete at world tourney

C-SPAN held its annual StudentCam Documentary Contest, and a trio of girls from Hardin Valley Academy were surprised to fi nd out their entry took third place.

This year’s theme asked entrants what they feel is the most important topic that the presidential candi-dates should address.

Sophomores Leora Boyd, Mikaela Chavis and Sophia LaSorsa say they immedi-ately chose racial injustice not only because it is so prevalent in today’s media and society, but because they see signs of racial injustice in their own community.

The students lined up lo-cal professionals and com-munity leaders to interview on camera. They planned to show both sides of the issue but say they were surprised at which side of the issue some of their interviewees took.

“We didn’t expect our video to win,” says Leora. They were afraid technical issues would detract from

the subject matter.“I think C-SPAN looks

more at the content than the quality of the video,” adds Sophia.

The girls won $750 to split and $150 for the school to purchase technology needs.

“The competition was a good thing, but it was very, very, very time consuming,” says Mikaela. “These two lived at my house until it was done.”

They worked on the fi lm from August to December and received an in-class grade on their work as well.

C-SPAN received more than 2800 entries from 45 states, Washington D.C., the Virgin Islands, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates, and the team from HVA was among the 150 winners.

HVA students Megan Cox, Bryce Stiles, Abigail Williams, Ryan Hart, Tarv-er Nicely, Seth Maxwell, Si-mon Jolly, Drew Freshour and Jake Brown received Honorable Mention for their entries.

Family Fun Night at Karns High SchoolKarns High School will host a Family Fun Night for all

ages 6-8 p.m. Friday, April 8, at the school.Activities will include crafts and games sponsored by

various KHS clubs and sports teams. Admission is free, but donations of school supplies and travel toiletries will be accepted for the Karns Closet for students in need. Info: [email protected].

Trio’s video places third with C-SPAN

HEALTH NOTES ■ Free Health Fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 16, Tennova

Inpatient Hospice, 7447 Andersonville Pike. Presented by South

College School of Pharmacy’s Student Society of Health Systems

Pharmacists and students from the Physician Assistant and Nurs-

ing programs.


Adeline Sellers and Zoe Hull weed a garden bed at the ECO

Garden.

By Shannon CareyStudents in Garden

Montessori School’s lower elementary class took a fi eld trip to the ECO Garden at Knoxville Botanical Gardens for the Every Child Outdoors program. Students went on a nature scavenger hunt through the gardens, exploring the bamboo grove and dog-wood trail.

Volunteers led the chil-dren in gardening crafts and planting, fertilizing and watering pansies, carrots and lettuce. The students were encouraged to return to the garden to see their crops’ progress and even to harvest some to take home. Additional crops will be donated to Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries and a local food pantry.

Info: knoxgarden.org

Garden visits the gardensElla Stiles plants a pansy at the ECO Garden at Knoxville Botani-

cal Gardens.

History award nominations soughtThe East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) invites nom-

inations from across East Tennessee for Awards of Excellence in the fi eld of history. The annual awards recognize individu-als and organizations that have made signifi cant contributions to the preservation, promotion, programming and interpreta-tion of the region’s history. The postmark deadline for award applications is April 8.

Info/nomination form: 215-8824; eastTNhistory.org; East Tennessee Historical Society, PO Box 1629, Knoxville, TN 37901.

Call for artists ■ Knoxville Photo 2016 Exhibition: juried exhibi-

tion of photographic works to be held June 3-24 in the main gallery of the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. En-tries must be original works completed within the last two years. Entry deadline: Sunday, April 17. Info/application: knoxalliance.com/photo.html.

■ Request for Proposals: permanent work of art to be located on the west wall of the underground section of The Emporium Center. Open to all artists. Deadline for applications: 5 p.m. Monday, May 2. Application: knoxal-liance.com/underground.html. Info: 523-7543 or [email protected].

REUNION NOTES ■ Halls High classes of 2005

and 2006 combined reunion,

7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30,

Knoxville Hilton. Tickets:

Eventbrite.com.

■ Knoxville High School Alumni Association will host the Classes of 1910-1951, 11:30 a.m. Saturday,

May 30, Bearden Banquet

Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike.

Info: Wayne, 696-9858; Sara,

588-6098.

■ Sultana Descendants Reunion, 7-9 p.m. Friday,

April 22, Mount Olive Baptist

Church, 2500 Maryville Pike.

Includes speakers and music.

Public welcome. Banquet,

7 p.m. Saturday, April 23,

Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806

Kingston Pike. Cost: $22.

Info: Norman, shawclan4@

bellsouth.net.

■ Woodhill School reunion,

6 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at

the Pleasant Gap Fellowship

building. Info: Betty Effl ery,

982-0174, or Phyllis Summers,

922-2884.

UT NOTES ■ Admissions Director Kari

Alldredge has

been named

associate

provost for

enrollment

management,

having served

as the interim

associate

provost since

June 1, 2015,

following

Richard Bayer’s retirement.

■ New inductees into the Col-

lege of Education, Health, and

Human Sciences’ Educators

Hall of Honor Class of 2016

are: David Madden, a UT

graduate, novelist and Civil

War historian; Bill McKee,

a UT graduate and vice

president for academic aff airs

at Cumberland University

in Lebanon, Tenn.; David Northington, a UT profes-

sor of piano; Elinor “Pat” Payne, a UT graduate and

music educator; Tom Rakes,

a UT graduate and former

chancellor of UT Martin; and

Marianne Woodside, profes-

sor emeritus of counselor

education at UT Knoxville.

Kari AlldredgeAddison Gideon (center) watches as Yuma Livesay and Daniel Carey play a nutrition board game at the ECO Garden at

Knoxville Botanical Gardens. Photos by S. Carey

Shopper news • APRIL 6, 2016 • A-11

By Sherri Gardner HowellThe Dogwood Arts Festi-

val will kick off the 2016 sea-son on Friday, April 15, with a gala Dogwood Luncheon at Holston Hills Country Club, which is on this year’s featured trail. The Farragut Dogwood Trail also opens that day and will welcome visitors through May 1.

Farragut’s 7.9 miles of featured streets and neigh-borhoods is part of the 60 miles of trails that stretch all across Knox County. The Farragut trail showcases 487 homes throughout Fox Den, Country Manor and Village Green subdivisions. Residents and guests are in-vited to enjoy the trail with a walk, bicycle ride or drive, following the dogwoods and pink arrows along the trail.

The Farragut trail offi -cially begins at the entrance to Fox Den subdivision on Fox Den Drive and ends just off Old Colony Parkway and Campbell Station Road.

Featured gardens and camera spots for 2016 on the Farragut trail include:

Home of Mark and Lisa Caldwell, 11617 Georgetown Drive in Village Green – camera spot only

Founders Park at Camp-

Fox Den Drive, one of the main thoroughfares for the Dogwood Arts Festival’s Dogwood Trail in Farragut, is ready with dogwood

trees in full bloom. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Getting ready for the spotlight

Tulips add color along a walkway on Fox Den Drive.

Dorry Floyd tends to an azalea bush near her porch as residents

along Farragut’s Dogwood Trail get ready for opening day on

April 15

Everyone helps out when your home is on the Dogwood Trail. Jeremy Floyd pick up sticks as his

son, Rowan, gets the mowing started.

bell Station, 405 N. Camp-bell Station Road – public garden; daylight hours

Farragut Town Hall’s Me-morial Plaza, 11408 Munici-pal Center Drive – daylight

hoursHome of Michael and

Mary Bates, 513 Altamira Drive – featuring woodland and perennial garden with many mature white and

pink dogwoods, azaleas and rhododendron.

This is the 56th year for the Dogwood Arts Festival. For a calendar of events: www.dogwoodarts.com

Delivering more … reaching homesin Farragut

www.shoppernewsnow.com • 922-4136


By Wendy SmithE-commerce is growing,

but the majority of consum-ers still prefer shopping in brick and mortar establish-ments, says Lacy Beasley of Retail Strategies. Then, they like to go out to lunch.

Retail Strategies was hired to market the town of Farragut to prospective retailers in 2014. The com-pany “plays matchmaker” by making connections between municipalities and national retailers, she told developers during a meeting hosted last week by the Economic Devel-opment Committee (EDC). She spoke at noon to the Far-ragut Rotary Club.

A focus on retail leads to higher sales tax revenues

and more v i b r a n t c om mu n i -ties, she said. Roof-tops no lon-ger follow m a n u f a c -turing jobs. Now, peo-ple choose

where to live based on as-sets in the community.

One in four jobs in Amer-ica is now retail-based, and many of those are high-pay-ing jobs.

Even small retail devel-opment can be a big win. A fast-food restaurant can generate $1-$2 million dol-lars per year, or $27,000 is sales tax revenue, she said.

The millennial genera-tion, which Retail Strate-gies defi nes as those born between 1982 and 2004, is driving the market, and millennials like to shop on-line for mid-priced items, like books and offi ce sup-plies. But they don’t like to wait for merchandise, so they also shop in stores.

Retail outlets for health products, technology and sporting goods are thriving. Baby boomers are very fo-cused on pets, so pet supply retail is growing. Millenni-als don’t want their parents’ stuff, so furniture retail is booming.

A 40 percent expansion in restaurants, primar-ily in fast casual and quick

service (fast food) is also noteworthy.

Farragut has the demo-graphics that retailers crave − high home values, low un-employment and consum-ers that are more interested in quality than price point, Beasley said.

Retail Strategies will help market Farragut during RE-Con 2016, a global conven-tion for the shopping center industry held in Las Vegas in May. Town staff and local business leaders typically attend the convention.

The town has a three-year contract with Retail Strategies with the op-tion to renew for two more one-year terms at a cost of $25,000 per year. The Far-

Lacy Beasley

It’s a powerful combi-nation of forces that The-

resa Carl is a part of these days. She is the president of the Gover-nor’s Books from Birth Foundation that works h a n d - i n -

hand with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and with Imagination Li-brary’s local affiliate pro-grams in all of Tennessee’s 95 counties.

One of the other forces involved in this major lit-eracy project are Rotarians in Knoxville, around the state, and even nationally in many states. In fact, when it comes to Theresa Carl, Ro-tary is for sure part of this. She stays busy with her other job as the president of the Rotary Club of Nash-ville. On March 29 she was

Tom King

Theresa Carl

Reading and Rotary: a powerful combo

in Knoxville as the speaker for the Rotary Club of Knox-ville’s noon meeting at the Marriott Hotel.

The Foundation’s mission is simple: To prepare chil-dren in Tennessee for lifelong learning through reading.

“This partnership be-tween the Foundation and Imagination Library is a dy-namic public-private part-nership unlike any other in the United States today,” she said. “This is all about al-lowing each of our children to have an educational jour-ney that is successful. They are three to four times more likely to stay in school if they can read from an early age.”

Each of the 95 affi li-

ate programs enrolls chil-dren between the ages of birth to 5 years old to re-ceive books at no cost each month – or 12 books a year for fi ve years. The affi liates and the Foundation provide the money for the program. Imagination Library man-ages the selection, the pric-ing and the distribution of the books and they are dis-tributed from here in Knox-ville. The cost of each book, including delivery, is $2.15, she explained.

“Why do we do it?” Carl said. “It’s about the devel-opment of the brain. By the age of 3, 80 percent of the brain is formed and by age 5 it’s 90 percent, so we have to start reading early to our children.”

There is a “Welcome Baby Initiative” and a “Child Pov-erty Initiative” to reach those children born to par-ents who are struggling and to reach the children in fos-ter care. There is a “Birth-

ing Hospital Initiative” to gift each child born a copy of “The Little Engine That Could” prior to discharge.

“Early literacy matters for our children and now we have to start engaging our parents to start read-ing to their children,” she said. “It makes a huge, huge difference.”

Info: GovernorsFounda-tion.org or 1-877-992-6657

Newsy notes: Two clubs have a pair of very interest-ing and well-known speak-ers coming up. Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. James McIntyre, who re-cently resigned, will speak at Bearden Rotary at noon, Friday April 29, at Buddy’s Banquet Hall….On Tuesday, May 31, the Rotary Club of Knoxville will hear from Gov. Bill Haslam at its noon meeting at the Marriott.Tom King is a retired newspaper editor, a

Rotarian for 28 years and past president

of the Rotary Club of Farragut. He can be

reached at [email protected]

FARRAGUT CHAMBER EVENTS ■ Thursday, April 7, 8-9:30 a.m., networking: Kids 1st Advocacy

Center, 887 US-70, Lenoir City.

■ Thursday, April 14, 5-6:30 p.m., networking: Casual Pint – North-

shore, Thunderhead Road.

Grand opening for PT SolutionsMembers of the Farragut West Knox Chamber gathered at

the new location of PT Solutions Physical Therapy of Farragut,

11135 Kingston Pike, for a grand opening ribbon-cutting March

29. Physical therapist and clinic director Enid Tate said PT So-

lutions specializes in the treatment of pain while increasing

strength and function through manual physical therapy, thera-

peutic exercise and trigger point release. “Recent research

shows that therapeutic exercise and manual therapy give the

most benefi t. We’re so excited to off er these services and to be

part of the Farragut community,” said Tate. Photo by Nancy Anderson

Focus on retail could benefi t town ragut contact for the compa-ny is Tiffany Kilpatrick. She can be contacted at [email protected]

Community Develop-ment Director Mark Shipley gave an update on changes in the planning department. About 15 projects have been reviewed this year using the town’s Architectural Design Standards, adopted just over a year ago. The stan-dards were applied during improvements to West End Center, and have gotten pos-itive feedback, he said.

Changes to zoning dis-tricts refl ect an effort to implement the 2012 Com-prehensive Land Use Plan. Amendments to the com-munity service district (S-1) allow for low-impact el-derly care development, and town planners are in the early stages of developing a Mixed Use Neighborhood commercial zoning district. Town property was rezoned to Town Center District for the fi rst time last year, and Shipley hopes that project will move forward this year.

Shopper news • APRIL 6, 2016 • A-13 business

East Tennessee Com-munity Design Center has added fi ve new directors. Each will serve a three-year term: Lucinda M. Albiston, attorney; Bill Bruce, CRJA-IBI Group; Scott Busby, AIA, Smee + Busby Architects; Mary Kathryn Durr, Gregar-ious Media; and Georgiana Vines, political columnist.

Board offi cers elected for 2016 include: Jan Evridge, president; Rick Blackburn, fi rst vice president; Nathan Honeycutt, AIA, second

vice president; Katharine Pearson Criss, treasurer; Sheryl Ely, secretary; and Mary Wells Holbrook, past president. Jason Young,AIA, UT Knoxville College of Architecture & Design, is an ex-offi cio director.

“The Design Center has served East Tennessee for many years, through the work of strong, committed volunteers. Our new direc-tors are great examples of this ‘volunteer spirit’ at work,” said Evridge.

By Sandra ClarkUnion County resident

and school board member Marty Gibbs is directing a

major new c o n s t r u c -tion project at the Uni-versity of Tennessee. The Moss-man Build-ing is sched-uled to open for fall

semester 2018, and Rent-enbach Constructors Inc., where Gibbs is vice presi-dent and general manager, is the contractor.

Designed by McCarty Holsaple McCarty Archi-tects Inc., the futuristic building will house fl exible laboratory space, a vivar-ium and general purpose classrooms for UT depart-ments of microbiology, bio-chemistry, cellular and mo-lecular biology, psychology and nutrition.

Ground-breaking was Oct. 29 at the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 13th Street. The facility is named for the late Ken and Blaire Mossman, who met when they were students in 1968 and stayed connected to UT throughout their lives. The couple also en-dowed a professor in micro-biology, a position currently held by Steven Wilhelm.

Ken Mossman’s younger brother, Michael, also a UT graduate, attended the ground-breaking. He said, “At the heart of things they were good people who were interested in education, in-

Design Center gets new directors

Labs and gradu-

ate student work

area (architect’s

rendering) Photos provided by University

of Tennessee

Marty Gibbs

First fl oor of 228-person audi-

torium

Gibbs’ team heads UT construction project1050-car parking garage at the corner of Volunteer and Lake Loudoun boule-vards. The garage, open for fall semester, will offer ad-vanced parking technology that lets users of the UT app

Architect’s

rendering of

the 6-story

Mossman

Building

now under

construction

at UT.

terested in paying things forward.”

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said having state-of-the-art facilities is critical to re-cruiting and retaining the best faculty and students. “We’ve grown our research awards and expenditures and raised our national pro-fi le, particularly in science and engineering. We’ve

made great strides in re-cruiting more students into STEM majors,” Cheek said.

Dave Irvin, associate vice chancellor for facilities ser-vices, recently updated UT supporters on the campus improvements underway:

■ The Mossman Building – seven fl oors (six occupied levels plus a mechanical penthouse); 220,935 square

feet; total project cost: $102 million

■ The Student Union with a portion open and completion expected in 2018

■ The fi rst two buildings in the West End residence hall development are rising on 20th Street and are set to open this fall

■ New residence hall and

see empty and full spaces in real time.

■ Facilities Services getsa new home on the site of an old industrial complex at 2000 Sutherland Avenue at Concord Street. Irvin said a part of the building is struc-turally reinforced with its own power, which will allow Facilities Services to stay operational during the most severe weather conditions.

Work continues at Tom Black Track; the old smoke-stack at the UT Steam Plant was removed over the De-cember break, marking a visible milestone in the campus’s switch from coal to natural gas; and the for-mer Sophronia Strong Hall continues its transforma-tion into a large and modern science class and laboratory facility. Set to open in 2017, it will house anthropology and earth and planetary sci-ences departments and will provide laboratory and in-struction space for the gen-eral biology and chemistry departments.

With all the work under-way at UT, it’s great to see a Union County guy in the middle of the mix.

BIZ NOTES ■ Danielle Hemsley recently

joined John-

son Archi-

tecture Inc.

as director

of business

development.

The Knoxville

native brings

her broad

professional

experience in

architecture,

interior design and construc-

tion to the fi rm to identify

new opportunities and bol-

ster client relationships.

■ Wallace & Wallace Inc., a

property management fi rm,

is joining the Coldwell Banker

global network. It will remain

in its current location at 813

S. Northshore Drive and

become the sixth area offi ce

of Coldwell Banker Wallace &

Wallace, Realtors. The offi ce

broker is Katie McHargue,

Hemsley

who oversees a staff of seven.

■ Crye-Leike has opened an

East Tennessee regional

headquarters in Knoxville.

CEO Harold E. Crye said he

intends to grow Crye-Leike

by adding two to three more

branches in Farragut and

Oak Ridge. Its headquarters

offi ce is now located at 9539

Kingston Pike in the Franklin

Square area. This headquar-

ters building, previously a

law offi ce, was purchased

by Crye in January 2016 for

$1.05 million. Its leased offi ce

space at 731 Campbell Sta-

tion Road in Farragut is now

closed.


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Hips to HoopsDad’s still in the game after MS leads to hip surgery

Kendrick Tate picks up a bas-ketball, slowly dribbles his way to the far side of the court just be-yond the three-point circle. In one smooth, arching fl ick of the wrist, the ball strips the net. Whoosh!

What’s better than a three-pointer with your 9-year-old son watching? Not much.

“He’s the best shooter I know,” a grinning Preston McLeskey says of his Dad.

“Good answer,” his father re-sponds with a smile.

They have the court all to them-selves this afternoon as Tate, a 41-year-old single father of three, teaches his son the fundamen-tals of a game he so loved not that many years ago at Austin-East High School. Tate’s youthful ap-pearance and broad smile belies the agony he was in just months earlier before he had both hips re-placed at Parkwest Medical Cen-ter by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Hal Cates.

“Oh, I love Dr. Cates,” Tate says without hesita-tion. “I’ll be for-ever grateful. He’s just a good man, and I’m not just saying that to build him up. But when you are going to have a serious proce-dure done, you

want somebody you can trust and somebody who is going to be hon-est with you. And he was that from Day One. He just had that com-forting effect, so I was not ner-vous about the surgery. I felt like I was in good hands. So I prayed and prayed about it, and I was just at peace with him. I mean, if you can convince me to have both of my hips replaced at the same time, you have done something. So I have to give him his kudos. I’ll be forever grateful for that man.”

“The bottom line on Mr. Tate was that he was a young man with a severe loss of motion in his hips due to his multiple sclerosis,” said

With his new hips, Kendrick Tate is

able to play basketball with his son

again.

What is multiple sclerosis (MS)?Thought to be an autoimmune disorder, multiple

sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central ner-vous system. It can be relatively benign, disabling or devastating. Some individuals with MS may be mild-ly affected, while others may lose their ability to see clearly, write, speak, or walk when communication be-tween the brain and other parts of the body becomes disrupted.

Patients with MS lose myelin, a fatty tissue that sur-rounds and protects the nerve fi bers, causing scar tis-sue (also called sclerosis, plaquesor lesions) in multiple areas with MS. When damaged in this way, the nerves are unable to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain.

The exact cause of MS is unknown, although genet-ics, environmental factors and viruses are possible culprits. Because there is no defi nitive test available to diagnose multiple sclerosis, a probable MS diagnoses can be made by following a careful process to uncover symptoms consistent with MS while ruling out other causes and diseases.

Trouble is, however, that MS symptoms vary widely from patient to patient. They may be mild or severe, of long duration or short. They may appear in various combi-nations, depending on the area of the ner-vous system affected. About 50 percent of all people with MS experience cognitive impairments related to their disease. The effects of these impairments may be mild, often detectable only after comprehensive testing, and may include diffi culty with concentration, attention, memory and/or poor judgment.

Specifi c treatment for MS will be determined by your doctor based on:

■ Your age, overall health and medical history ■ Extent of the disease ■ Your tolerance for specifi c medications, proce-

dures or therapies ■ Expectations for the course of the disease ■ Your opinion or preference

Treatments for the conditions associated with MS may include:

■ Medication ■ Clinical trials ■ Assistive technology ■ Rehabilitation activities

There is no cure yet for MS. However, there are strat-egies to modify the disease course, treat exacerbations, manage symptoms and improve function and mobility.

Dr. Cates. “It was diffi cult for him to walk, to go up steps, to turn, to do any type of daily living activity with his son. It’s unusual for pa-tients to get bilateral hip replace-ments done simultaneously, but if the patient is healthy enough like he was, it’s actually easier to get them both done at the same time.”

The surgery, Tate says, was “life-changing,” permitting him to still enjoy the teaching sessions with his son Preston and spend-ing time with daughters Larah, 16, and Kyla, 10.

He himself had hoped to play college ball, but life has a habit of unfolding in unexpected ways. “I realized that basketball was not going to be my avenue as far as making a lifestyle,” he said. “I was good but I wasn’t that good.”

Instead, Tate found his calling as a probation offi cer and director of the Community Service pro-gram of the Knox County Juvenile Court. “I enjoy it,” he says. “I like working with kids. That was my calling. That’s why I’m not in the NBA. That’s what He [God] in-

struct-ed so that’s where I am.”

But his life took another turn about six years ago when he be-gan experiencing numbness in his hands and arms. “I knew some-thing was going on, but I shrugged it off for a long time,” he said. “But I knew ultimately I had to go see what it was.”

The neurologist’s diagnosis – multiple sclerosis (MS), an unpre-dictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the fl ow of information within the brain and between the brain and body – left Tate stunned.

“It was a shock because I had been relatively healthy, and this meant I couldn’t play basketball so that was a killer,” he said. “So hearing that news and not know-ing what exactly MS was all about – I was thinking, ‘Is it like can-cer?’ – I didn’t know.”

Fortunately, his MS had been caught early, perhaps as soon as three months after its onset. “They

did some tests and found lesions on my brain and spinal cord,” he said. “They put me on steroids for about a month and said that would deteriorate the lesions.”

The steroids did just that, but not without cost. A couple months later, while playing a game of pickup basketball, he felt some “slippage” in his hips and noticed he couldn’t slide his feet later-ally, as in doing defensive drills. “At fi rst, I thought it was the MS, that it was moving rapidly and it was taking its course,” said Tate.

“I couldn’t fi gure it out. Then, I thought maybe I had

just played too long that day. But I knew

something wasn’t right so I went back to my doc-tor.”

That’s when he learned that the

steroids had caused both hip joints to de-

teriorate. Fearful of sur-gery, he procrastinated. “I

was thinking ‘I’ll deal with this until I’m 70,’ not grasping the re-alization of the situation,” he said. “During that whole time, my hips were deteriorating. It went from me doing a casual sprint to not be-ing able to run at all. My hips pret-ty much folded. I couldn’t spread my legs apart. We’re talking just a minor separation. I could not lift my legs up. Anything to do with the legs, I could not do. At one point, it hurt to walk. Out of a pain scale of 1 to 10, it was like a 15. That’s how bad it was.”

Finally, Tate sought out Dr. Cates. “I just trusted him from Day One,” he said. “We just had that rapport. He was like, ‘You want to stop hurting? You need to have the surgery. It’s that plain and simple.’ After talking with him, I got that reassurance. I was tired of hurting. I had gone from being in good shape to be-ing like a 75-year-old man. That just wasn’t working. I got tired. I wanted to stop hurting.”

On April 8, 2015, Kendrick Tatewas rolled into an operating roomat Parkwest Medical Center. Whenhe emerged, he had two new hipsand a new outlook on life.

“Now I’m fl ying and bouncingaround. Now, I walk just to bewalking. I’m back to being my oldself,” said Tate. “Before, you couldsee the grief, the strain, the stress,the pain on my face, but now it’slike total happiness. To me, it’s anew lease on life. I’m going to en-joy these hips for the rest of mylife. I’m going to get my usage outof them.”

As for his MS, Tate says it’s un-der control with medication. “Tobe honest, I can’t tell I have it any-more,” he said. “Since they put meon medication, it doesn’t hinderme and I still work out and I canstill play basketball – maybe notas well as I want to, but I can stillplay. And that’s enough for me.”

That includes, of course, work-ing with Preston on “just the fun-damentals, just learning the game,why you are out there, and under-standing what you are doing andwhy you are doing it as opposed tojust being on the court,” he says.“It makes it much more fun whenyou know what you are doing.”

No wonder Tate’s son calls hima “fun teacher.”

“He tries to tell me how to drib-ble with two basketballs and alsotries to teach me how to do dribblebetween my legs or behind myback,” Preston said.

Dad has learned some lessons,too.

“If you are thinking about hipreplacement surgery, and knowyou need to have it and you’rehaving a lot of pain that’s af-fecting your daily living, go haveit done,” he said. “Things youwould normally do you won’t do. Iwouldn’t go to basketball games, Iwouldn’t go to football games, be-cause it was hard for me to climbthe bleachers. It’s life-changing.Get your life back because no-body should be forced to live inpain.”

Dr. Hal Cates

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1961 - 1975 Jaguar XKE, or a Porsche 911, 912 or a 1970s or 1980’s Ferrari. I am willing to buy running or not run-ning. Any Condition. I’m a local guy living in Grainger county. If you have

one or know of one please call Call (865)621-4012.

STREET ROD NATIONALS SOUTH

May 6, 7, 83000 street rods, muscle cars &

classicsCHILHOWEE PARK

Manufacturers exhibits, arts & crafts, vintage parts swap meet &

much more.

VW Beetle 1979, Conv., very orig., bumblebee yellow, beautiful, 75K mi, $12,500. (865) 257-3338.

WANTED 1946-75 Chevy Conve.; 1946-75 GM Conv.; 1970-76 Chevy or GM 2dr.; 1967-73 Camaro. Any condition. Fast cash. (330) 722-5835.

Vehicles Wanted

FAST$$ CASH $$

4 JUNK AUTOS

865-216-5052865-856-8106

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

2002 LUND Pro v 1800, Honda 130, to many features to list. Very niceboat. Asking $16,500, Call with questions, 865-773-6708.

Boats/Motors/Marine

2014 Hustler Pontoon Trailer, 22-24’,exc cond., $1,000. (865)803-2408.

COBALT 220 1997, boat & trailer, exc.cond. Shown by appt. $16,900 or will consider an offer. (423)745-3013.

SEA RAY SUNDECK 240 2006 - 250 hrs.,26’, 5.0L V8 260HP, gas Mercruiser,black w/tan int., blk. cover, blk bimi-ni, boat lift optional, slip in Concord Marina. $33,000. (865)803-7979.

SEARAY Sedan Bridge 31’, 2 state rms, twin 5.7 Mercruisers, Westerbeke gen., heat & AC, $25,000. 865-690-9090

Campers & RV’s

2004 DAMON LX-400 ESCAPER. 400 HpCummins diesel pusher. Only 42Kmiles. Excel cond. 2 slides. 2 A/Cunits. 2 baths w/tub. Upgraded flat screen TV’s. Satellite. Dishwasher. W/D. New microwave/conv oven. Kept under cover. Priced to sell at $75,000. 865-567-4542.

2005 Hitch Hiker 29.5’, 3 slides, frpl, 2 flat screen TVs, many access. $17,000 obo. (931) 267-6562.

2006 27’ SUNSET Creek Camper, 12’ slide out w/qn. bed, new awning & camper cover, $10,500, (865)933-6114.

2013 JAYCO ULTRA LITE travel trailer, 26-foot, fiberglass, two entry doors, one slide, queen murphy bed, bunk beds, lots of extras! $18,900. Call or text for pictures and/or addition-al information.

Call (865)771-0691.

COLEMAN STONEY CREEK 12’ pop upcamper, Exc cond/in gar. Sleep 9. Screen rm + extras. 865-690-5965 or [email protected].

FOREST RIVER LEXINGTON GTS 2008 Class B+ 31.5’, Ford E450 V10, Only 15K mi., 12’ slide out, sleeps 6, Onan Gen., satellite ready, exc. cond. $43,000 neg. 865-368-5260.

FOUR WINDS RV 2006 - 29’, 2 slides, 36k mi, ext. warr. Very clean. Exc. cond. $29,900. (865)657-9402.

MONTANA HIGH COUNTRY 2013 5th wheel, 3 slideouts, in pristine condi-tion. Includes a beautiful deeded lot Gatlinburg. 865-964-8092. $65,000or best offer. (865)964-8092.

REDUCED. 32’ JAYCO EAGLE Pull behind, bought new 2011, used 4

times, must see, selling due to health $17,000. (865) 696-5153

Motorcycles/Mopeds

2004 HARLEY-DAVIDSON HERITAGE SOFTAIL CLASSIC $8500- SILVER-

ONE OWNER; LIKE NEW! 19,115 MILES. KURYAKYN LEDS, VANCE & HINES PIPES, LIFT, CHROMED OUT!

TEXT 865-660-5993 OR EMAIL AT [email protected].

Harley Davidson 2007 Custom Deluxeblack & silver, exc cond, numerous add-ons, $10,900. 865-679-8334

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2009 Super glideCustom FXDC exc. cond. 6500 mi., gar. kept, $7400. 865-268-9431.

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2009 Ultra Classic, FLHTCU 1 owner, show rm cond. Gar. kept. Black pearl. 10,400 mi. Highly accessorized. 103 CI, fully serviced. Factory security syst. $16,400. Serious inquiries only. Can send pictures (865)274-0007.

HONDA VALKYRIE TOURER 2003,1520cc. Very low 9600 mileage for this well regarded motorcycle.No rust or dings, good tread andrecently serviced by Honda techs.2nd set of pipes w/original tips.Priced at $7,250.00. Phone 865397 8445 - leave msg if no answer. (865)256-8099.

KAWASAKI VULCAN 750, 2005 - Looks& runs like new. Little over 7000 mi. $3800/b.o. (865)690-4228.

Moto Guzzi Griso 1100 2007, like new,only 5420 mi, many extras + allstock equip., $6,000. (865)360-7838.

Off Road Vehicles

LOADED STARTING @ $9,999WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER!

Save some of your hard-earned money without sacrificing

speed or quality.GOAD MOTORSPORTSEast Tennessee’s largest

CFMOTODEALER

Mechanic On DutyFull Service Center

Parts & AccessoriesI-75, EXIT 134

Just Behind Shoney’s

Call 423-449-8433www.goadmotorsports.com

Personal Watercraft

2012 GTXS 155 SEA DOO exc. cond. garage kept, Less than 10 hours, Call 423-258-4641 $12.000 obo.

Jobs

Driver/Transport

DRIVERS: CDL-A - Drivers: CDL – A 1 yr. exp., Earn $1,250 + per week,Great Weekend Hometime, Excel-lent Benefits & Bonuses, 100% No Touch/70% D & H 888-406-9046

DRIVERS: CDL-A - Drivers: CO & O/Op’s: Earn great money Running Dedicated! Great Hometime and Benefits. Monthly Bonuses. Drive Newer Equipment! 855-582-2265

(817)462-0798 [email protected]

ServicesOffered

Cleaning Services

AFFORDABLE,EXPERIENCED

Reliable residential cleaning.Call Kathy at (865)363-4388 .

General Services

ADVANTAGEREMODELING &

HANDYMAN SERVICEJIMMY THE PROFESSIONAL

HANDYMAN!!Can fix, repair or install anything

around the house! Appliances, ceramic tile, decks,

drywall, fencing, electrical, garage doors,

hardwoods, irrigation, crawlspace moisture, mold & odor control, landscape,

masonry, painting, plumbing. Any Remodeling Needs you wish

to have done or completed!

EMERGENCY SERVICE 24/7Retired Vet. looking to keep busy.

Call (865)281-8080

Landscaping/Lawn Service

DREAM GARDENSBeautiful & affordable garden designs! Professional installa-tion, exciting outdoor lighting,

bed remodeling, topnotch weeding, pruning & mulching.

dreamgardens.us Call (865)680-2076

Garage Sales

North

NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE - Bar-rington S/d. Off W. Emory Rd. Sat,April 9th 8am-2pm. Several families participating.

Farmer’s Mkt/Trading Post

Farm Buildings

BARNS - SHEDSGARAGES - CARPORTS

PATIO COVERSBUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY

FREE ESTIMATES!

Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330

Farm Equipment

763 BOBCAT SKID LOADER, runs strong, good tires, nice machine!

$10,900. (865)475-1182.

NEW HOLLAND 1411 Mower Condi-tioner. 10’ cut. Good cond. $10,500.(865)922-6075

Farm Products

AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER

USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL

865-986-4264

Logs2Lumber.com

FANNON FENCING

We build all types of Farm Fencing and Pole Barn.

*WOOD & VINYL PLANK*BARBED WIRE*HI-TENSILE ELECTRIC*WOVEN WIRE,*PRIVACY FENCING, ETC.

(423)200-6600

Farm Products

WANTED TO BUY STANDING SAW TIMBER

865-719-1623

Pets

Dogs

AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD PUPS - Toy / Mini, champion bloodline.

(865) 322-5545. www.dollsanddogs.com

Chia Poo puppies, adorable, tailsdocked & dew claws removed, willbe small. F $200. 423-271-5129

Dachshunds Mini, AKC, M&F, Various colors. Long hair. $500-$700. 865-266-0237

DOBERMAN PUPS, AKC, Sire XL natl & intl champ - 125 lbs. Great pro-tection, good with kids. $875. Credit cards accepted. 615-740-7909

ENGLISH BULLDOG /OLD ENGISHBULLDOG puppies, females, shots & wormed, $300 each. (423) 271-5129

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS AKC, WestGerman bldlns,3 M, 3 F, vet ck’d. health guar. $700. 865-322-6251.

GOLDENDOODLE - precious puppies, great temperament, no shedding or doggie odor, 1st shots & wormed,$875. (865)466-4380

GOLDENDOODLES F1 & F1B pups, CKC reg, UTD on shots, health guar. $700. (423)488-5337.

HAVENESE PUPS AKC, home raised, health guar. 262-993-0460.

noahslittleark.com

LABRADOODLES F1 PUPPIES CKC reg.UTD on shots, health guar. $700 Call (423)488-5337

Labrador Retriever pups, 9 wks, yel-low, block head, parents on prem. $450 w/papers. (423)244-6676

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles, Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos,

Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots & wormed. We do layaways. Health guar.

Go to Facebook, Judys Puppy Nursery Updates.

423-566-3647

SHIH TZU puppies, AKC, beautifulcolors, Females $600; Males $500. Taking deposits. 423-775-4016

YORKSHIRE TERRIERS CKC - 1 male, 1 teacup fem. Black & tan. $600-$800. (865)201-1390

Merchandise

Appliances

GOOD AS NEW

APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-90532001 E. Magnolia Ave.

Cemetery Lots

2 BURIAL LOTS, West, Berry Highland Memorial, Christus Garden section. Both for $6500 obo. (954)740-9120.

2 CEMETERY PLOTS, Highland Memo-rial, Sutherland Ave. Veterns Garden sec., $5000 obo. (865)933-1793.

2 LOTS & 1 open & close at High-land Memorial Cemetery. $7500.(865)933-1700

2 lots together in Oak Ridge Memori-al Gardens in Garden of Devotion. $2,000 each obo. (865) 255-7947

TWO LOTS SECTION 18 LOT 285 SPAC-ES 1,2. - Berry Hghlnd Mem Kingstn pke. 2 side by side lts for 7000 firm sec 18 lt 285 spc 1,2 (423)323-2999

Collectibles

LITTLE RASCALS - Porcelain doll set in boxes, exc. cond. 5 dolls, 1 dog, 1plate, Hamilton collection, cost over $700, will sell for $200. (865)981-8846

Furniture

ALL LEATHER LOVESEAT & CHAIR W/OTTOMAN - Beautiful dark choco-late Thomasville made. For details call. $1290 CASH ONLY (865)250-1130

LIFT RECLINERBurgundy, good cond. $275.

Call (423)502-3416.

RECLINING SOFA & LOVESEAT - in great cond. Light camel. $550 for both. 865-983-1680; 865-548-0842

Hunt/Fish Supplies

SAGE flyrods, lengths 8’6” thru 9’0”, line wts 5 thru 9, total 6 rods, $325 each. Ray (865) 389-4495

Lawn & Garden

John Deere riding mower LT155, 3 Honda tillers, 2 Stihl weedeaters, 75big tall tomato baskets, (50) 5’ metalstakes, 1 lrg stand up freezer, 75 gal. of paint, (1) 40’ ladder. Billy Goatcomm. slit seeder. (865) 705-8886

Lawn & Garden

SCAG COMMERCIAL MOWERS SCAG 61” Turf Tiger, 35HP, exc. cond.

$7500. SCAG HYDRO Walk Behind,52” Cut, 21HP elec. start, $3700.SCAG HYDRO 36” Walk Behind, 15HP, $2500. Call (865)691-5296.

Merchandise - Misc.

KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS! - Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers/KIT Complete Treatment System Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com (618)351-7570

TAXIDERMY RED FOX, mounted, very nice, $125.

Call (865)981-8846.

Musical

NEW PORK PIE 5 PC. DRUMSETdw double kick pedals, Gibraltarstands with Zildjan AHT cymbals: ride cymbal, two crash, & splash cymbal. Beautiful burgundy drumset. $1200obo. (865)640-6617.

Tickets/Events

BATTLE AT BRISTOL TRANSFERS - Roundtrip bus transfers to Bristol Motor Speedway 9/10/16 - UT vs VT- $85. Hotel/ticket packages avail-able. ActionJacksonSportsTours.com (888)346-7226

Tools

OAK wood boards, diff. sizes; Deltadust collector vac system; Crafts-man router table; Delta band saw;Delta planer w/work table. (865) 382-9617

Wanted

I BUY DIABETIC TEST STRIPS! - One-Touch, Freestyle Lite, AccuChek,and more! Must not be expired oropened. Call Daniel today for Local Pickup: (865)383-1020

Announcements

Adoptions

OUTDOOR, LOVING, ENERGETIC, MARRIED COUPLE

Wishing to create our familythrough adoption.

We would love to hear from you. 1-800-691-6309 or text (516)-308-2849

website-lizandtomadopt.com

Misc. Announcements

REWARD FOR INFO OR RETURN - of lg. concrete HORSE HEAD taken frommy yard. (865)603-5413

Real EstateSales

West

FARRAGUT. 2 stry, 3-4 BR, 2.5 BA, 3 cargar., prof. landscaping w/irrigation, fncd bkyard, great family nghbrd. comm. pool, $299,000. 865-388-2387

OPEN HOUSE SUN. 2-5 12605 Comblain Rd, Fox Run Subd., 3375SF, master on main, 4 BR, 3.5 BA.$459,700. (865)226-9805

ROCKY HILL 3BR, 1 1/2 BA, hrdwds,encl. gar., lg. dwnsts den w/wood stv, cul-de-sac, $121K, (865)573-5206

Lake Property

UNBELIEVABLE DEAL! Louisville side main channel, deep water, lake front, 3BR, 2BA, 2100 SF w/dual boat slip & hugh party deckabove, needs a few updates, Paid 470K in 2007, asking $420,000. Will not last. Call (865)300-5262.

Manufactured Homes

EXCELLENT SHAPE 16x80 3 BR, 2 BA, set up in local park. Only $12,995.Call Chris 865-207-8825

I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES1990 up, any size OK

865-384-5643

For Sale By Owner

$121,9008 year old house and 44 acres at 1245 Snake Hollow Road, Sneedville. House has 3 bedrooms 2 baths, total of 1,056 square feet. New hardwood laminate floors in living area, new interior paint, and a new wood burning stove. Owner will finance with $6,100 down. Call Bill at 877-488-5060 ext 323

LOUDON, STOCKTON VALLEY RD., 3BR, 2BA Rancher, w/part. finished bsmnt, formal LR & DR, lg. kit, w/dining area, lg. fam. rm., detached gar. w/shop, huge bldg. 24x24 w/dbl. gar. doors, $240,000. (301)752-3568 .

Lots/Acreage for Sale

AVAIL. 15+ ACRES (3) 5 acre tracts, sold together or sep. MPC approved, all util. Halls area. (865)922-7952.

Lots/Acreage for Sale

BEAUTIFUL WOODED LOTS 18 MIN. WOF KNOXVILLE. 3 to 50 acres. $6000per acre and up. (408)829-7398

Real EstateRentals

Apartments - Furnished

WALBROOK STUDIOS 865-251-3607$145 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV,

Ph, Refrig, Basic Cable. No Lease.

Apartments - Unfurn.

1 BR APARTMENT TALIWA GARDEN

South (off Chapman Hwy)Ground level, new carpet

$495 577-1687

1,2,3 BR

$355 - $460/mo.

GREAT VALUE

RIVERSIDE MANORALCOA HWY 970-2267

*Pools, Laundries, Appl.*5 min. to UT & airport

www.riversidemanorapts.com

BEST DEAL OUT WEST! - 1BR from $375. 2BR $550-$695. No pets. Parking @ front door.

(865)470-8686

BROADWAY TOWERS62 AND OLDER

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

Immediate housing if qualified.Section 8-202.

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

SENIOR OR DISABLED HIGH RISE FACILITY

1 BR APTS.Oak Ridge, TN865-482-6098

Homes Unfurnished

2 BR, 1 BA brick, Knox Co. area.. newcent H&A, private lot, 1st & last mo. rent $750 + $300 DD. Full sz bsmt, Cr.ck. Refs req. (865) 208-6286.

Cedar Bluff/Middlebrook. 4 BR, 3 BA,2 story, 2400 SF, newly remodeled,2 car gar., nice area. Fenced yard.$1100 mo. (865) 257-3338

NORTHEAST, 2 BR, 1BA, laun. room,Large yard, caport, deck, small porch, $450 mo. + DD, no pets, goodref. Call (865)661-3997.

Condos Unfurnished

2 BR, 2 BA CONDO - North Knox, $800/mo. + security dep., 1st mo. rent,credit ck. No Pets. No Smoking.(865)556-5691

SEQUOYAH SQUARE 3636 Taliluna Ave., Sequoyah Hills,1BR condo, appx. 750 SF, great ngh-brhd., close to downtown & UT, $750 mo., 1 yr. lse. 865-607-1747.

Duplx/Multplx UnFurn

LINCOLN PARK AREA. NORTH. 1 BR effic., W/D conn, No pets or smok-ing. $400 + dep. (865)922-2325

Real EstateCommercial

Wanted to Buy

IMMEDIATE ACQUISITION Apartments, commercial income

producing Offices READY; INVESTORS seeking 1031 exchange or

purchase of income producing real estate, contact AKP properties.

David Alley OA 865-389-7361

Commercial RE Lease

672 SF, remodeled, office space or small retail. Off Broadway near I-640. Special incentive for long term lease. $550 mo. (865)696-9555

Offices/Warehouses/Rent

4000 SF Office/Warehousewith dock & drive in, prime location

Middlebrook Pk. $3,000 mo.2000 SF Office/Warehouse

drive in bay, Papermill, $1,300 mo.

865-544-1717; 865-740-0990

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THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 15

Selected works by artist Kay List on exhibit, Envision Art Gallery, 4050 Sutherland Ave. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday. Info: kaylistart.com; envisionartgallery.com; 438-4154.

THROUGH SUNDAY, APRIL 17

“Annie, Jr.,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. Info: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; [email protected].

MONDAYS THROUGH APRIL 25

QED Experimental Comedy Lab, 7:30-9:30 p.m., The Pilot Light, 106 E. Jackson Ave. Free comedy show blending stand-up, improv, sketch and other performance styles. Donations accepted.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

Jazz Lunch at the Square Room featuring “Mike Baggetta plays Patsy Cline,” noon-1 p.m., 4 Market Square. Admission: $15 includes Café 4 lunch buffet. Info/tickets: knoxjazz.org or Café 4.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

The Author’s Guild of Tennessee (AGT) meeting, 11:30 a.m. Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Open to the public. Info: authorsguildoftn.org.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Rose Klix, noon, Halls Senior Center, 4405 Crippen Road. Participants receive complimentary poetry book from Klix. Info: 922-0416.

“How to Use Facebook for Seniors” class, 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30.

Registration/payment deadline: Thursday, April 7. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; 218-3375; in person at the Town Hall.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, APRIL 7-8

AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., First Baptist Church of Seymour, 11621 Chapman Highway, Seymour. Registration: Diane Lewis, 982-1887. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Alive After Five: SoulfulSounds Revue, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Admission: general, $10; museum members and students, $5. Info: knoxart.org.

Jay Clark & the Tennessee Tree Beavers, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Reception for new Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit, 6:30-8 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Exhibit on display through May 4. Info: 357-2787.

Scruffy City Orchestra inaugural concert, 7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Knoxville, 510 W Main St. Program: “Old Friends, New Faces.” Admission: $5 at the door. Debit and credit cards accepted. Info: facebook.com/scruffycityorchestra.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 8-9

Friends of the Library Used Book Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

Gatlinburg Wine Fest Weekend. Includes Gatlinburg Wine Tour, 5 p.m. Friday, Courtyard by Marriott; and Wine Fest, 1-6 p.m. Saturday, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Tickets: $20 each event or $35 for combo ticket. Tickets/registration: Gatlinburg.com/Winefest.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 8-10

“Hands On Gatlinburg” Arts & Crafts Weekend. Includes more than 40 classes/workshops in more than 15 studios throughout the Arts & Crafts Community. Info/tickets: Gatlinburg.com/Events.

Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival, various venues in downtown Knoxville. Info/schedule: rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., AAA offi ce, 715 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Eight-hour course helps reduce points for

traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

The Dismembered Tennesseans, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Farragut Book Fest for Children, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Founders Park, located next to the Farragut Branch Library on Campbell Station Road. Free event includes: a storybook character parade, art activities, face painting, cookie decorating, the Ruff Reading Program, two performances by the Bright Star Touring Theatre and more. Info/schedule: townoffarragut.org/bookfest.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee WALK, 9 a.m., UT Gardens. Performing will be Knoxville native Emily Ann Roberts, recently seen on NBC’s “The Voice.” Info/registration: AlzTennessee.org/KnoxWalk2016.

Maya Festival, 1-4 p.m., UT McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Free and open to the public.

“Music of Led Zeppelin,” 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Part of the KSO News Sentinel Pops Series. Info/tickets: knoxvillesymphony.com.

Northside Kiwanis Pancake Jamboree and Bake Sale, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Saint John’s Lutheran Church, Broadway at Emory Place. All proceeds support the club’s community service activities. Tickets available at the door: $12 for a family of four; $5 for individuals. Info: Bill Larson, 693-8845.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Dancing Spider Yoga, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. For ages 3-9. Info: 470-7033.

Talahi Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Lakeshore Park, at the corner of Northshore Drive and Lyons View Pike. Presented by the Knoxville Garden Club and the Garden Study Club. Theme: “Let it Grow.” Free admission. Info: on Facebook.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

Sing Out Knoxville, a folk singing circle open to everyone, will meet 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: [email protected] or call 546-5643.

MONDAY, APRIL 11

AARP Driver Safety class, 7:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m., South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

All Over the Page: “The Truth According to Us,” 6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Facilitated by Travis Tidwell, school librarian for Sevier County Schools. Info: 215-8750.

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