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By Betty BeanThe fi rst challenge to the city’s

new sign ordinance isn’t coming from a big national franchise seeking a fl ashing message center atop a tall pole along-side a busy highway.

Instead, it’s being fi led by the owner of a homegrown business who has been told that she can’t place whimsical, cartoon-style butter and egg fi gures of her own design on the roof of her building because they aren’t art.

“It came down to whether the sign was art or just advertising,” said Peter Ahrens, director of Plans Review and Inspections for the city of Knoxville.

“As we looked at their website, it almost seemed that the egg and the butter became a logo, almost like a Nike Swoosh. Where you see the butter and egg dancing, you think of Magpies, and that’s how they are trying to brand their

business. That would be consid-ered advertising.”

Peggy Hambright, owner of Magpies Bakery, admits that she’s better at baking cakes than at dealing with bureaucracies. She said she’d long planned on affi x-ing porcelain fi gures to the pre-existing scaffolding at either end of her roof but put it off due to its cost. And even after passage of the new ordinance, which prohibits rooftop signs, she believed Ms. Egg and Mr. Butter could slide in under a clause exempting works of

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“I was asked to speak against the or-dinance, but I’m not

a public speaker,” Hambright said. “So I didn’t. I thought the

exemption would apply.”She said none of her neighbors

objects to her plan and said she doesn’t believe that some of the prohibitions in the ordinance are good for the 800 block of North Central Street, which hasn’t yet seen the kind of redevelopment that’s taking place a few blocks north.

Hambright – who got her start in the business with the help of her late parents, Frank and Ha-zel Hambright, who sold Magpies cookies and cakes at the Market Square Farmers Market – bought 846 N. Central St. seven years ago, spruced it up and moved the bakery there from its Old City lo- To page A-3

By Sara BarrettRight now, students’ names

from Webb School of Knoxville are fl oating in the waters of the Gulf of California.

Students signed their names last school year on an ocean cur-rent drifter designed and created entirely by Webb Middle School’s science club. Complete with a GPS transmitter, the drifter checks in hourly to a satellite that can track the device’s location on a Google map. The drifter’s waterproof sails are made from the signed canvas.

Webb freshmen Jacob Hale, Britt Lamson, Shiva Senthilkumar and Anna Bryn Williams led the project as eighth-graders and said they were thrilled to be part of a group project that didn’t involve athletics.

“After competing in the Science Bowl, the science club was started

because students wanted another academic activity, something for a group that wasn’t a sport,” said Shiva.

“From a young age, you’re pushed to do sports, and not ev-eryone is interested in athletics,” Anna Bryn added. Projects like the drifter help you fi gure out what you want to do as a career, she said.

Webb science teacher and sci-ence club sponsor Kirk Beckend-orf suggested the drifter project to the club, and what began as a weekly afterschool project quickly became a passion for the four-some.

Each student contributed to the drifter, adapted from designs they obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-istration. Anna Bryn researched which type of glue would hold a canvas material for the sail and

which tape was most waterproof. At least one of the four students stayed after school every day to complete the project, and their hard work paid off.

On July 19, the drifter was launched into the ocean by Dr. Robert Ballard and crew from the Exploration Vessel Nautilus. Bal-lard discovered the wreckage of the Titanic, and Nautilus is one of only two vessels in the world dedicated entirely to ocean explo-ration.

Ballard’s Nautilus Exploration Program was created in 2008 by his Ocean Exploration Trust to explore all aspects of the ocean in-cluding geology, biology, archaeol-ogy and chemistry.

The launch of Webb’s drifter is part of that program and is in-cluded in live interaction with stu-dents of all ages back on land.

Beckendorf is involved with

the trust and asked if the driftercould be launched from the Nau-tilus. The crew was very receptiveto the idea, he said. Jacob, Britt,Shiva and Anna Bryn led a Skypesession for the entire school withthe crew of the Nautilus while itexplored the Gulf of Mexico seafl oor.

“One of the major goals of our Nautilus Exploration Program isto inspire the next generation ofexplorers in STEM fi elds,” saidOcean Exploration Trust execu-tive vice president Dr. Katy CroffBell. “So we are very excited toprovide educators and studentswith the direct experience ofocean exploration, while allow-ing them the opportunity to sharetheir experiences far and widewith their peers.”

To track the drifter’s adven-tures, visit nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/drift_oet_2015_1.html

Webb Science Club’s drifter is thrown overboard off the California

coast by Corps of Exploration members Karen Romano Young and

Rebecca Rutstein. After throwing the drifter overboard, Romano

Young said, “After initially slipping under the ship, she bobbed

back up again, righted herself and sailed away!” Photo submitted

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The meeting will be an open forum to discuss the future direction of the Business As-sociation. This is a great time for those of you who have been asking about the Busi-ness Association to come and make your opinions known about what you would like it to become.

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To celebrate its 10th anni-versary, Legacy Parks Founda-tion has christened Sept. 7-11 Wild Week. The movie “Wild,” based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed, will be shown at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, at Regal Riviera.

The $25 ticket makes you eligible for door prizes from REI and gives you a chance to win two tickets to the sold-out Sept. 11 Legacy Luncheon, at which Strayed will speak. Moviegoers also will receive a pass for discounts at area mer-chants. Info: legacyparks.org

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cation, where it had been for fi veyears. She rented the back half ofthe building to the Glowing BodyYoga Studio, which fronts on Ir-win Street. Soon, both businesseswere drawing steady customers.

After her next-door neighbor, the iconic Corner Lounge, went out ofbusiness, Hambright and her hus-band, Scott Carpenter, bought thatbuilding, too, and eventually chefHolly Hambright (Peggy’s sister)opened Holly’s Corner there, givingthe neighborhood a trio of vibrantnew businesses.

Being turned down by the city inspectors forced Hambright tospend $250 to appeal the deci-sion to the city Board of ZoningAppeals, where she will plead hercase in October. If she is turneddown there, the next step is CityCouncil.

She says she’s feeling frustrat-ed.

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By Nancy AndersonFun was the order of the

day as the University of Ten-nessee men’s and women’s basketball teams hit the hardwood at Karns Middle School along with kids liv-ing with Down syndrome at the eighth annual “Hoops for Hope” event.

The UT players towered above the approximately 35 kids, frequently picking them up to ensure each one made a basket and causing the crowd to burst into rau-cous cheers.

Shooting hoops frequent-ly gave way to impromptu dancing, luring many in at-

tendance to join the fun on the court.

“ ‘Hoops for Hope’ is my favorite community service event,” said Jasmine Jones. “These kids all have a big heart and the best attitude. They give their all, and they do a really good job run-ning the court. They’re truly amazing kids.”

“Hoops for Hope” was the brainchild of Trey Sex-ton, who created the bas-ketball event when he was a 14-year-old Eagle Scout as a project to benefit the Down Syndrome Aware-ness Group of East Tennes-see.

UT basketball visits Karns

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Ah, technology. How ironic for me, someone who can remember, as a child, listening in on the neigh-bors on my grandmother’s crank, four-party-line tele-phone, to be sitting here at my computer pecking out words about technology with my two pointer fi ngers at the blistering rate of a page every 30 minutes. And then to send the words away through the ether to Shop-per headquarters in a 10th of a second. All that in three short generations of us mere mortals.

I had been thinking about technology lately because of fi rstly, the time of year it is, and secondly, because of a short article in this month’s Birdwatching magazine.

As to the fi rst, we are all noticing that the days are getting shorter. Also, the fall equinox will be coming upon us on Sept. 21. That is the 24-hour period when the day and night will be of equal length. But the days have been getting shorter

Science meets nature

Dr. Bob Collier

ever since the fi rst day of summer, on June 21. And sadly, they won’t bounce back at the equinox, they just trudge on, shorter and shorter, into the winter.

Well, the shorter length of days is the big notifi ca-tion for all of nature that big change is coming. Days become shorter and cooler, leaves change color, some mammals frantically store up food supplies and oth-ers fatten up for hibernation (this is the route I prefer), and the birds – many of them migrate.

We’re getting ready to say goodbye, at least for a sea-son, to such songbird friends as the warblers, vireos, wood thrushes and whip-poor-wills, the indigo buntings and hummingbirds. But by the same token, we’re all set to welcome back the more northerly nesting birds here for the winter – the white-throated sparrows and purple fi nches, the yellow-bellied sapsuckers and ruby-crowned kinglets.

It’s a busy time out there – literally billions of birds are shifting from north to south, some on relatively short trips; some on re-markably long ones. People for eons have wondered where the birds went in the winter, from stories and myths about swallows bur-rowing into the muddy bot-toms of ponds for the win-ter, to hummingbirds fl ying south on the backs of the geese. Those thousand-mile trips by tiny birds to remote places on the globe were a daunting process to study and follow.

Then – enter this tech-nology thing. Think where we’ve come from. Consider, if you will, how at one time a good stone ax was a new and marvelous piece of technol-ogy. Or a nice warm fi re to cook your food. And then,

there was the need to have the means to fi nd your ani-mals. Imagine the pride and sense of accomplishment when that fi rst cowherd slipped that fi rst cowbell on his lead mama cow. Now, by golly, when the herd dis-appeared over the hill, we knew where they were!

And then, another ad-vance: from cowbells to ra-dio collars. For years now we’ve grown accustomed to seeing the elk in the Smok-ies and up at Royal Blue fi t-ted out with their radio col-lars – space-age cowbells.

I’m reminded of the story of the intrepid Campbell County hunter, proudly driv-ing through LaFollette with one such animal draped over the hood of his truck. “Big-gest deer I ever saw!” He didn’t exactly know what the radio collar was about, but at least the TWRA fellows knew where it was.

But what about the birds? A one-ounce warbler is not an elk, and you can’t slap a radio collar on a tiny bird to see where it goes. Thus my second recent reminder about technology – an ar-ticle in Birdwatching maga-zine on the miniaturiza-tion of tracking devices for birds. One big thing about technology that keeps us all amazed (and spending money) is constant and rap-id progress. In the column of March 2013, I reported on the new and promising use of geolocator devices to follow the movement of var-ious species of birds.

Geolocators contain a clock, a light sensor and a microprocessor. They are relatively small and light and, when attached to an animal, can tell roughly when and where on earth the animal has been. The name of the developer of these devices, sure to be-come a household word, was Vsevolod Afanasyev, such an interesting name that I had to repeat it here.

The geolocators have proven very useful and have been used to study the global movements of the wandering albatross across the trackless oceans of the

world. More recently and closer to home, they have followed the heretofore nearly unknown traveling habits of the eastern popu-lation of the golden eagle, a fascinating story of its own.

But now, more progress – from bird bands and geo-locators, we’re on to Global Positioning Systems. Sat-ellite-based GPS, fully op-erational since 1995, is what brings us the voice of that pushy lady in our car dash telling us we’re lost, and to make a U-turn as soon as possible, regardless of what may be coming. Helpful? You can set it to remember where you parked your truck in the National Forest, and it will take you right back to it.

Among its many advan-tages, GPS is highly accu-rate. Rather than telling the biologist that his target bird is in this mountain or that valley somewhere in the world, GPS can pin-point locations down to 10 meters, or about 33 feet. And now we have a GPS unit that weighs in at about one gram, roughly half the weight of a penny, so that it can be safely attached to a bird that weighs as little as 20 grams, or 0.7 ounce, the size of a large warbler.

So, wildlife biologists can capture various small birds that couldn’t be studied be-fore and fi t them with the tiny GPS unit to pinpoint their locations at various times through the seasons. Obviously, this is a far cry from the old method by which we discovered the wintering grounds of the chimney swifts – natives in the Peruvian Andes smoked a bunch of them out of a hol-low tree to have for lunch, discovered the magicalbands on their legs and gave them to a missionary, and a couple of years later the bands found their way to Washington, D.C., and were identifi ed.

All the new knowledge that technology is bringing us will soon become com-mon knowledge, and then we’ll be off after a whole new set, with more new tools. May it always be so!

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Ebenezer Road. Hours: 3-6

p.m. Tuesdays through late

November. Info: on Facebook.

■ Knoxville Farmers Market,

Laurel Church of Christ, 3457

Kingston Pike. Hours: 3-6 p.m.

Fridays through late November.

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Dr. Jeffrey “Jeff” Gilbert has joined Gastrointestinal Associates (GIA). He is board certifi ed by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both internal medicine and his primary specialty, gastroenterology.

Dr. Gilbert served for six years as a physician at Oak Ridge Gastroenterology Associates, where his clinical interests in-cluded gallbladder and bile duct disorders, cirrhosis and liver disorders, and colon cancer prevention.

Dr. Gilbert is active in the community and serves as a reserve elder and Sunday school teacher at First Presbyterian Church of Knoxville. He lives in the Hardin Valley community with his wife, Amy Gilbert, and their children, Anna Grace, Lucy and James.

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City sign ordinance From page A-1

“If a business is willing to spend $10,000 of its own money to make their neigh-borhood more appealing, why should the city be op-posed?

It can only be a good thing for everyone,” she said. “There has to be a way to make an exception in the ordinance to accommodate neighborhoods such as ours and the Magnolia Avenue corridor to allow us to make our businesses stand out from the blight.”

A view down the street from Magpies’ front door.

By Wendy SmithData gathered from Ten-

nessee Division of Forestry and city canopy as-sessments, both com-pleted last year, will be used in an u p c o m i n g report on the health of Knoxville’s

tree canopy.The assessments were

done via aerial photos. Maps created from data gained from the photos are available on the urban forestry section of the city’s website. The city canopy assessment shows percentage of tree cover by neighborhood, and the state assessment shows changes in the canopy from 1997 to 2010 by city council district.

This year, Urban Forester Kasey Krouse plans to com-pile information from both

assessments into a report that details where Knoxville has healthy tree cover and where additional trees might be planted. The city has an annual tree planting budget of $50,000, and has received an additional $20,000 in state funds for each of the past three years. That allows for the planting of 500-600 trees per year, he says.

The assessments indicate that the total size of the cano-py stayed the same from 1997 to 2010, but that doesn’t ac-count for annexed property, which is generally forested.

A signifi cant change in land use, indicated by an increase in impervious sur-faces like roads, sidewalks and buildings, was indi-cated for the same period. Tree cover along roadways and in abandoned pastures increased, but further re-search is required to deter-mine if that’s a good thing. Some may be privet, rather

than new, healthy trees, and privet inhibits tree growth.

Such data allow Krouse to target neighborhoods that are losing tree cover-age. Different parts of town face different challenges in regard to the canopy.

Development is the big-gest issue in West Knox County. Trees are often planted too deep, or with too much mulch, on com-mercial property, so they don’t live long enough to provide tree cover, he says.

Trees recently planted by the city on Middlebrook Pike and Sherrill Boulevard medians should fare better.

The anticipated report will give Krouse the oppor-tunity to further educate the community about the value of trees. Trees add mone-tary value to homes because they cut cooling costs and increase property values, but people who have expe-rienced property damage

from trees, or just want to be able to mow quickly, may need more information.

Krouse is happy to share his expertise with neighbor-hood organizations. He’d like for the community to understand the risks of hir-ing non-professional tree workers to top trees. Trees that have been “topped,” or had large branches or trunks removed from their tops, are more likely to fail, especially during storms, he says. He recommends hiring profes-sional arborists to consult on proper treatment for large trees.

There is one tree species that, in his opinion, can’t be overpruned − the Bradford pear.

“Cut it down and plant an oak.”

To learn more about the city’s tree planting program or request a program, con-tact Krouse at 215-6113 or kkrouse@knoxvilletn.gov.

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Canopy assessments showwhere trees are needed

COMMUNITY NOTES

By Cindy TaylorWalta Patt sits on a horse

like a pro. But don’t call her a master rider or a profes-sional. She’ll answer to nei-ther, even though she has won seven championships, many fi rst places and hun-dreds of other awards for barrel racing. It takes an extraordinary horsewoman with an amazing horse, Lit-tleman, to accomplish this.

“I am so blessed,” she said. “This is what I do for fun.”

The Powell community knows Patt as a master in fl ower design and home decorating through her business, Powell Florist. The business is more than 50 years old, and Patt has owned it for half that time. That is her work, which she loves. But her farm, fam-ily, horses and barrel racing are also major parts of her life. Patt was raised around horses thanks to a mom who loved them.

“We were in diapers rid-ing ponies. My mom’s love for horses came from her fa-ther, and I inherited that. It

Walta Patt takes her stallion, Littleman, through the paces on her farm in Powell. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Walta Patt: Powell business owner prepares for family festival

is a part of who I am.”Patt raced when she was

growing up, but after mar-riage she wanted to invest time in her family and busi-ness. She says she is blessed with a wonderful husband, Tim, and son, Andrew, 24.

“God brought me back

to barrel racing through a unique set of events,” she said. “When I decided to start racing again, I called my friend Jackie Cooper. She took me to see Little-man, a horse she had owned when he was a colt. He was 6 years old when we went to see him and had just started on the barrels.”

Patt and Littleman had an instant rapport. Patt brought him home, rode and trained him daily. Twenty years old now, the stallion has won races with Patt for 10 years. Patt says there are great horses out there like Littleman, but they need to be loved, nourished and trained; then the horse will

want to do whatever their master asks of them.

“Littleman is considered a freak of nature. He is little and has short legs, but he’s got grit. He wins with his heart and wins consistent-ly.”

Patt says she always prays for the others who are racing and that God will put His feet in her stirrups and His hand on her reins. She takes nothing for granted.

“I am so grateful to Godfor the life He has allowedme to live.

“There are so many peo-ple He has put in my life –my husband, my son andso many friends and family– that help me and make itpossible for me to live thelife I love.”

Patt family members willhost the Raccoon ValleyBluegrass Festival on theirfarm Sept. 26.

Peg Hambright

Dr. Gilbert

Gilbert joins GIA

■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets

7:15 p.m. each fi rst Tuesday,

Peace Lutheran 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.

■ Karns Republican Club

meets 7 p.m. each fi rst Tues-

day at Karns Middle School

library.

■ Karns Lions Club meets 6:30

p.m. each fi rst and third Mon-

day, Karns Community Center,

7708 Oak Ridge Highway.

Info: karnslionsclub.com.

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

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Country-boy football coaches, since the days of Bowden Wyatt, have used the same expression to de-scribe this time of year.

“The hay is in the barn.”This is obviously a farm-

ing summation, the alfalfa matured, was cut, pitched or baled and put away for later use.

Applied to football, it means August anguish is fi nished, growing season has ended, the plan is in place, basic preparation is past. What remains is to run through the T, tighten up the chinstrap and play the game.

It is a very exciting time for Volunteers – with a so-bering thought lurking in the background. Did I do

Hay is in the barn

enough?All the good ones will ask

themselves: Did I put in the hours, do the work, focus sharply on details, leave little to chance? Am I really ready for the proverbial mo-ment of truth, the opening kickoff, giant games to fol-low, a season of high expec-tations?

They will check to see if they are s uffi ciently con-fi dent, totally committed,

dedicated to the cause.Is the hay safely in the

barn? Nobody knows to-day. But we’ll all fi nd out later. How the team looks is relevant – and I’m not talk-ing about Nike or alternate uniforms. Can we recog-nize improved strength and speed in action? Was coach-ing so crisp as to eliminate hesitation and confusion?

What really matters are results. Wins and losses. How and where and beating betting odds are secondary.

There was a time when excuses were justifi ed. Butch Jones inherited a depleted roster. Lane Kif-fi n committed too many recruiting blunders. Derek Dooley didn’t do much of

anything. We think Butch Jones has excelled.

Talent was below SEC standards. Too many people were too slow. Those fl aws ap-pear to have been corrected.

There was a shortage of ex-perience. Butch dared to play young guys. That those who stayed are now sophomores and juniors is his reward.

Turnovers? Stuff hap-pens. The solution is to be mentally and physically strong enough to overcome the shock.

Injuries? Inevitably, there will be some. The bur-den on coaches is to have a replacement ready. This has been a past weakness. If it happens again, don’t try to explain it away.

No matter who tells you otherwise, an improved de-fense will depend on having a capable middle linebacker. The front looks better. The secondary seems secure. Count special teams as a probable plus.

Key to Tennessee offen-sive success? The quarter-back, of course. And receiv-ers. And running backs. Big plays, sustained drives, more punch in the red zone.

The key to skill players gaining a few yards and scoring an occasional touch-down? Same as always. The offensive line determines the width of the doorway. It is the primary component of victories – and defeats.

If you are keeping score, Tennessee’s offensive line has been a little less than over-whelming in recent years.

This is where Mike DeBord comes in. For orga-

nizational purposes, a touch of glamour and pay justifi -cation, he is offensive coor-dinator. It says in the book that he, in his spare time, is also supervisor of quarter-back instruction.

DeBord is really an old line coach. He has techni-cal skills and bulldog de-termination to assist Don Mahoney in the critical pro-duction of a real, live offen-sive line.

I recall questioning, back in the winter, why Butch would hire his old (59 or 60, not 80) buddy with so much at stake. I have rethought the situation.

Wouldn’t it be some-thing if Mike DeBord turns out to be the win-ning edge, the guy with the pitchfork or high-lift that puts the hay in the barn. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com

Three city members of MPC had their current terms end June 30 but May-or Rogero has not acted to replace them two months later. Since all have served two terms, Rogero will not reappoint them.

They are Bart Carey, Michael Kane and Jack Sharp. When the new mem-bers are named, they will have a few months shaved off their term due to Rog-ero’s tardiness in naming replacements.

The current city mem-bers will probably continue at least until October as the mayor has not sent any pa-perwork to the state to re-place them.

■ If yard signs could vote, Finbarr Saunders and Paul Bonovich would be fairly close competitors for City Council seat C with Kelly Absher and David Williams behind in the yard sign battle. The Saunders

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and Bonovich signs are actually in real yards and not right of ways which is a compliment to both.

■ Mayor Rogero and City Council deserve praise for working to restore Foun-tain City Lake. The iconic landmark is part of our city’s history. It will take a long time to correct the dif-fi cult issues there but the wait is worth it if success is the result.

■ Several new person-nel moves in the city were announced last week and (as is the practice of the Rogero Administration), salaries were not included in the announcement. How-

ever, they are public record.David Brace moves to

senior director of public works, and his salary jumps from $109,870 to $135,000. He is a top-notch public ser-vant and earns every dollar he receives. He lives in Is-land Home in South Knox and start in 2002 with the city.

Chad Weth, who becomes service director, sees his salary jump from $75,742 to $95,000 plus a $5,830 an-nual car allowance. Sheryl Ely starts works at $75,742 as a deputy director, coming from Oak Ridge city government. She does not get a car allowance.

■ Dean Rice, chief of staff to Mayor Tm Burchett, married Natalie Maneava on May 6. She is from Belar-us and is seeking U.S. citi-zenship while working on her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee.

■ David Massey, who

sends out an excellent weekly neighborhood ad-visory newsletter from the city website, last week stat-ed that Mayor Rogero (for whom he works) was unop-posed for her second term. While she will be the only name on the printed ballot Sept. 29, she does have a qualifi ed write-in opponent named Jack Knoxville.

To Massey’s credit, he sent out a correction when notifi ed of the error. While rare, it has happened that a write-in prevails. Former three-term council mem-ber Gary Underwood was fi rst elected by a write-in vote against the late Vice Mayor Hoyle McNeil in 1989. However, Jack Knox-ville will fall far short of the goal line in this writer’s opinion.

■ There really is a new greenway in Knoxville which has not been offi -cially dedicated/opened

but it is there and ready for use. It is a city secret. This one is right along the river which stretches from the Buck Karnes Bridge to Ma-rine Park on Alcoa Highway. There is not a sign to it but I can assure you it is there. Park at Marine Park and you can use it. Round trip it is almost a mile long.

Formal opening has been delayed until an entrance can be built to link it to the bridge. I had thought the opening was being delayed to coincide with the city primary election Sept. 29, which would have been a rational if political rea-son. Now the ribbon cut-ting may come after the city primary which suggests the delay is due to leader-ship failing to complete it in a timely manner.

■ State Rep. Jason Zachary turned down state health insurance for himself as he signed papers

on becoming a state repre-sentative. Zachary opposes the Insure Tennessee pro-gram.

Zachary had a full room at his swearing in at First Baptist Church of Concord Aug. 24 including Mayor Tim Burchett, Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill, state Reps. Bill Dunn, Eddie Smith, Jimmy Matlock and M artin Daniel; state Sens. Frank Niceley and Richard Briggs. House Speaker Beth Harwell, fi rst woman to hold that position, adminis-tered the oath of offi ce after County Commission elected Zachary to the position. There still is a special elec-tion in the district Sept. 29 to elect Zachary.

By winning in a special election necessitated by Ryan Haynes’s resignation, Zachary secured incredible media attention which he could never have achieved in a normal cycle.

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Legacy Parks Foundation scored a coup in landing “Wild” author/protagonist Cheryl Strayed as speaker for its Sept. 11 luncheon. The $100-a-plate event at UT’s Holston River Farm is sold out with 1,000 partici-pants.

But its real accomplish-ment as it celebrates its 10th anniversary is the ever-expanding list of parks in Knoxville and Knox County.

Executive Director Carol Evans has helped commu-nities raise money for parks across the county.

Her fi rst big project was in Halls, where the community raised almost $500,000 to purchase 11 acres at the intersection of Norris Freeway and High-way 33. The big donor was Jim Clayton ($300,000), who got naming rights.

Legacy Parks collected donations, purchased the land, put conservation re-strictions on the deed and conveyed title to Knox County.

Donors are disappointed that Clayton Park is not yet open, but the foundation is not to blame.

“We learned how to do it better (with that project),” Evans now says.

Next, Evans helped Foun-tain City Town Hall develop a skate park on city-owned land just off Broadway. Cen-tral High School students created a video to show the benefi ts of a neighborhood skate park.

Legacy Parks recently helped with the Everly Brothers Park in Bearden. Terry Faulkner, president of the Bearden Council, says the foundation’s support was invaluable.

“I’m not sure we would have gotten the project go-ing if they had not been so

Betsy Pickle

Wilma Jordan, Jim Clayton and Kay Clayton sport Halls Has It! shirts to celebrate the start

of construction on the Clayton Park.

In this 2009 photo, Carol Evans leads Lamar Alexander and Bill Haslam on a

walk at River Bluff in South Knoxville. Photos courtesy of Legacy Parks Foundation

Legacy Parks makes its mark

supportive,” she says. “Leg-acy Parks has been a god-send to us.”

The Harrell Road storm-water park in Karns is a Legacy Parks project.

Legacy was behind the scenes when Pete Claussen conveyed some 400 acres on the French Broad River to Knox County for Seven Is-lands Wildlife Refuge. And Gov. Bill Haslam showed state support at the 2013 Legacy Luncheon when he announced that Seven Is-lands would be added to the state’s park system and renamed the Seven Islands State Birding Park.

But it’s in South Knox-ville where Legacy Parks has been most active – fi rst

with the development of the 1,000-acre Urban Wilder-ness, including preserva-tion of Civil War forts and a battlefi eld, and later by facilitating the donation of 100 acres by the Pat Wood family to connect the Urban Wilderness trail system to nearby neighborhoods and South-Doyle Middle School.

The foundation was sug-gested by Doug Bataille, Knox County’s senior di-rector of Parks and Recre-ation, who heard the idea at a workshop. He and Mark Field, then president of the Knoxville Chamber and chair of the county’s parks advisory board, fi rst tested community interest.

Field and Bataille then recruited former Knox County Executive Tommy Schumpert to serve as the fi rst board chair. They took him out to lunch and told him the position would be easy and he wouldn’t “have to do anything.”

“He knew we were ly-ing, but he agreed to it any-

way. It really took off from there,” says Bataille.

Schumpert credits Evans with the foundation’s suc-cess. “With her leadership we have done some very outstanding projects for the people that will last a long time.”

Evans became executive director when Sandy Hull left after about a year and a half.

“Carol’s done a tremen-dous job of moving the foundation forward,” says Bataille, who also praises the work of the board over 10 years.

“The Urban Wilderness was a fantastic example of multiple partnerships,” he says. “You had the city, the county, the state, private landowners getting in-volved. It was a great vision created by Carol through the foundation, but a lot of people pitched in to make it happen, especially the Ap-palachian Mountain Bike Club, with a huge amount of sweat equity.”

Mayor plays ballKnoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero poses w ith local softball players as part of the U.S.

Conference of Mayor’s initiative “Play Ball.” Photo submitted

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Sleepy commuters awoke

with a start last week when

NPR linked a familiar name

with a familiar drug.

■ John Duncan, this one a

60-year-old hunk called “a

crusty sea-dog” by the Gold

Coast (Austraila) Bulletin,

watched police raid a nearby

boat and confi scate cocaine

worth some $17 million.

■ Duncan says he had pegged

the sailors as phony when the

bloke in charge wore a suit

jacket and dress shoes.

■ “They just didn’t look like

boaties. It was really suss,”

said Duncan.

■ Meanwhile, Knoxville’s own

John Duncan III was vacation-

ing on the beach with his

wife and two kids (photos on

Facebook).

– S. Clark

Betty Bean

Jeff Ownby

Three years ago, I fi g-ured Jeff Ownby was a dead man walking.

But now, I’m not so sure. And I changed my mind even before I saw the “Thank you, Commissioner

Ownby for your sup-port” sign out front of West Hills Elementary School.

Although we’re in the throes of city

elections, those races are weakly contested and pretty boring. As a result, county elections, which aren’t on the calendar until 2016, appear to be drawing as much attention as those to whom this season alleg-edly belongs, and District 4 is one of the most interest-ing.

I doubt I’m the only one surprised that incumbent Ownby is not only still standing, but also chugging steadily forward.

Ownby, 48, is built like a fi replug and sports an old-fashioned crew cut. He was a loud, proud and relatively unknown Tea Party Republican when he took on incumbent Finbarr Saunders in 2010. Saunders (Webb School, Class of ’62) is a moderately conserva-tive Democrat with deep roots in the Bearden area. A retired banker, he was well funded and well established in business and in the com-munity.

Ownby won a six-year term (the terms were being realigned that year because the commission was cut from19 to 11 members) by 358 votes in what was wide-ly considered a stunning upset. And although it was a Republican “sweep” year, locally and nationally, the tally shocked the political establishment and whittled the number of County Com-mission Democrats to two. Ownby immediately locked down a reputation as one of the most conservative com-missioners.

Jeff Ownby keeps on walking

Then, in the spring of 2013, the news that he and another man had been arrested for indecent exposure in a Sharp’s Ridge sting operation rocked the local political fi rmament. Ownby lost his day job and embarrassed his family, and common wisdom was that he was toast, politically speaking, despite his public apology.

It didn’t take long for well-known, well-funded fourth district opponents to emerge. Hugh Nystrom (Webb School, Class of ’85) made it offi cial last spring, and Janet Testerman (Webb School ’87) kicked off her campaign this sum-mer.

Despite his public hu-miliation, it became clear that Ownby wasn’t going away. I started noticing him for something other than Tea Party rhetoric. Maybe he’d been doing it all along.

When there was a cause to be championed that other elected offi cials dis-dained, there he was, call-ing out state offi cials over the closing of Lakeshore Institute (which he believes has increased the numbers of homeless), opposing the closing of the former St. Mary’s Medical Center in North Knoxville and ques-tioning the rezoning that cleared the way for Ten-nova to move the facility to Middlebrook Pike. He even wore a red shirt in solidar-ity with protesting teachers. Few other elected offi cials asked these questions.

So a year out from county elections, Ownby, who has ditched his Tea Party affi liation, is fac-ing two well-connected, well-known opponents whose fi nancial resources he cannot match. And he keeps moving forward. I’m starting to believe he has a chance.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Karns Senior Center:

8042 Oak Ridge High-

way

951-2653

knoxcounty.org/seniors

Monday-Friday

7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 2: 8

a.m. Rise-N-Shine walkers;

9:30 a.m. Zumba; 10 a.m.

party bridge; 11 a.m. SAIL

exercises; 1 p.m. Rook.

Thursday, Sept. 3: 8 a.m.

Rise-N-Shine walkers; 9 a.m.

Scrabble; 9:30 a.m. Tone &

Tighten; 10 a.m. genealogy;

2:30 p.m. yoga.

Friday, Sept. 4: 8 a.m.

Rise-N-Shine walkers; 10

a.m. Farkle, Tai Chi.

Monday, Sept. 7: closed

for Labor Day.

Tuesday, Sept. 8: 8 a.m.

Rise-N-Shine walkers; 9:30

a.m. Tone & Tighten; 10 a.m.

PC tutoring; 11 a.m. SNAP

education program; 12:30

p.m. pinochle; 2:30 p.m.

yoga.

■ Frank R. Strang Senior

Center:

109 Lovell Heights Road

670-6693

knoxcounty.org/seniors

Monday-Friday

8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 2: 8:45

a.m. advanced cardio; 9:30

a.m. watercolor; 10 a.m.

cardio, social bridge; noon

Caring for the Alzheimer’s

Caregiver seminar; 1 p.m.

Spanish club, Mah Jong; 2

p.m. beginning line dance.

Thursday, Sept. 3: 8:45

a.m. Tai Chi 1; 9-11 a.m. fl u

shots; 9:45 a.m. Tai Chi 2; 10

a.m. duplicate bridge; 12:30

p.m. Sit N Be Fit; 1:30 p.m.

chorus fi rst meeting.

Friday, Sept. 4: 8:45

a.m. advanced cardio; 9:30

a.m. Canasta Club; 10 a.m.

cardio, social bridge; 11 a.m.

hearing test by Bridgewa-

ter; 11:15 a.m. Pilates; 12:30

p.m. yoga; 1 p.m. midday

bridge; 2 p.m. ballroom

dancing.

Monday, Sept. 7: closed

for Labor Day.

By Sandra ClarkAbout 25 residents of

Morning Pointe of Powell hosted state Rep. Bill Dunn in their community room last week. Dunn recapped the recent legislative ses-sion and received limited feedback. That could mean everyone agreed with him or no one did.

Dunn was warmly re-ceived. He brought a huge watermelon that he had grown in a garden he works at Brickey-McCloud School, where his daughter is a teacher.

Ironically, Earl Hoff-meister, the man Dunn de-feated in his fi rst election (1994), now lives at Morn-ing Pointe. Hoffmeister was present but merely smiled amicably. Dunn said Hoff-meister, a four-term elected school superintendent, is “smart as a fox.”

“Tennessee is one of the lowest-taxed states in the nation,” Dunn said. And Tennessee is adding jobs from other states where tax-es are higher.

Dunn said “a lot of poli-ticians would bribe people with their own money” by passing legislation to ben-efi t citizens. “At least they had to occasionally vote to increase taxes,” he said. “Now we’re seeing politi-cians, not me, making busi-nesses do things.”

These politicians will pass minimum-wage bills, etc. to benefi t people with-out a negative effect on the politician – no requirement to raise taxes. But fi nally the businesses can’t compete and just move to states like Tennessee where restric-tions are fewer.

Dunn then drifted to a discussion of tort reform,

Republican-style. “The American culture is sue-happy,” he said. Now Ten-nessee allows those who are injured to be “fully compen-sated on real costs,” but has attempted to cap payouts for “the murky area” of pain and suffering.

“A judge overruled that.”So Dunn moved into a

discussion of activist judg-es, saying he’s very con-cerned with the increasing power of judges to overturn decisions of the Legislature.

■ Leadership change aheadTyner Brooks, admin-

istrator at Morning Pointe of Powell since its opening, has transferred with the company to a facility out-side of Nashville where his wife has secured a job.

Brooks said he will miss

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Bill Dunn talks with residents Muriel and Clayton Brewer. Photos by Brittany Ricker

Dunn talks legislation at

Bill Dunn poses with Morning Pointe resident Bill Jones.

Bill Dunn greets resident John Simmons.

the residents and their fam-ilies as he leaves Powell.

Meanwhile, Brittany Ricker has joined Morning Pointe of Powell as life en-richment director. In that role, she will plan events and activities while assist-ing with marketing.

A native of Greenev-ille, Tenn., Ricker is a 2011 graduate of the University of Tennessee and a former schoolteacher. Her husband is Travis.

Ricker is assisted by Hayden Rawdon, a UT stu-

dent majoring in therapeu-tic recreation, who is doing a 120-hour practicum at Morning Pointe. She is a na-tive of Hohenwald, Tenn.

■ UpcomingErin Bates Paine, a mem-

ber of the Bates family of Rocky Top, Tenn., will visit Morning Pointe of Powell at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, to entertain on the piano. Ricker said residents are looking forward to the visit.

On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the facility will observe Nation-al Assisted Living Week, with Fall Festival activities 5-7 p.m.

There’s Balloon Magic from 5:15 to 6 p.m. and a con-cert by Charlie Katts from 6:15 to 7 p.m. Throughout the event, residents and guests will share refreshments and view classic cars while kids enjoy a bounce house.

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There are advantages and disadvantages. At a young age, we learn with our limited understand-ing. If we never re-think or re-consider our youth-ful understandings, we don’t grow in the faith.

So, I was startled on a recent Sunday morning to realize that to be “lifted up” could have various meanings.

There is the literal in-terpretation that witness-es of the crucifi xion saw in painful clarity. Jesus was lifted up on a cross, and the purpose of that elevation was torture, agony, and a slow death at the hands of the Roman soldiers, who were – to be fair – only doing their duty.

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By Nancy AndersonHeavy rains didn’t

dampen the spirit at All Saints Catholic Church as over 1,200 congregants gathered on the front lawn for an outdoor mass Sun-day, Aug. 23.

In deference to the weather, Father Michael Woods gave an abbreviated message of thanks, goodwill and hope for a blessed year to come as he stood beneath a rain-soaked umbrella.

Woods holds the outdoor mass, rain or shine, as the culmination of a weeklong church event meant to bring seven Catholic communities together as one Parish.

This year’s event was a week of prayer when church members gathered before the Blessed Sacrament in one-hour increments 24 hours a day for seven days to pray for the church and the community at large.

“We invited people to come to pray before the Blessed Sacrament where Jesus is present. We had over 1,000 people who came to pray for the needs of All Saints Parish for the coming year,” said Woods.

“The mass is something I do every year, but atten-dance was dwindling. I made a special appeal for people to come, and there were more people here this year than last year.”

Everyone showed amaz-ing acceptance of the rain, and it was a grace-fi lled ex-perience.

“There was a tremen-dous atmosphere of com-munity and togetherness at the mass and the meal afterward. Of course, some people went home, but the lines were still long.

“It was a simple fam-ily day of love, laughter and community.”

By Carolyn EvansWhile church members

are safely tucked into their own beds at night, other families are bedding down in rooms used for Sunday school and worship at the church down the street.

Why? Because they’ve lost their homes, says Steve Krupski, who helped bring an organization to Knoxville 10 years ago to help families in need. Krupski is a mem-ber of First Farragut United Methodist Church, one of 19 host congregations that provide temporary housing through Family Promise of Knoxville.

“Many families live one paycheck away from losing homes,” said Krupski, “and then something happens – an illness, an injury or the loss of a job. They don’t have anything to fall back on and quickly get into a situation where they lose their home. Then they live with a friend or relative for a while, but

that soon gets old.”Family Promise of Knox-

ville is one of more than 195 affi liates of Family Promise Inc. The organization pro-vides a way for families to stay together when they’ve lost everything, says Mary LeMense, director.

In Knoxville, 47 churches and congregations are part of the network, and it is tru-ly an interfaith effort. While some provide housing for the night, others bring in dinner and stay to fellow-ship with the families.

Krupski, who is retired from Watts Bar Nuclear Facility, was a key player in establishing the ministry here and getting his own church involved. He and his wife, Jeanette, have been involved since the organiza-tion began under the name Interfaith Hospitality Min-istry.

“I’m very committed to the efforts of this organization because I fi rmly believe that

these families are kind of left out. They’re on the fringe.”

Unlike shelters that sepa-rate men and women, Family Promise provides a way for the family to stay together. The average stay is 70 days, LeMense says, but the pro-gram can last for up to three months. Local congrega-tions have been taking turns providing beds for fami-lies in distress for the past 10 years. Families spend seven nights at one church and then move to another. Church members stay with them during the night.

During the day, the fami-lies move to the Family Promise Day Center on Mid-dlebrook Pike, where laun-dry and shower facilities are provided. Those who are not working or in school spend their days at the center, where they can take classes in basic life skills.

“It’s at the center that we assist them with making the proper housing applications

Father Michael Woods delivers a message of goodwill and

hope at an outdoor mass held at All Saints Catholic Church

Sunday, Aug. 23. Photo submitted

At the Back to School Bash at Faith Prom-

ise Church of Hardin Valley, Anna Grindall

puts her muscle into giving the junk car a

good bashing. Photos by Justin Acuff

A Pasta Cook-Off for Family Promise of Knoxville brought out a host of volunteers, including Steve Krupski, in the blue shirt. Krup-

ski and his wife, Jeanette, represent First Farragut United Methodist Church and have been part of Family Promise of Knoxville

since its inception more than 10 years ago. In the front right is Mark Moreland, minister of missions and pastoral care at Central

Baptist Church of Bearden. Photo submitted

Goodwill reigns at rainy mass

Catching up with Family Promise:10-year anniversary fi nds need still strong

and identifying what caused the homelessness in the fi rst place so we can over-come that barrier and pro-vide education,” LeMense says. “We facilitate their job search. Someone exiting the program successfully means they’ve found hous-ing with a one-year lease.”

Even with 19 churches providing beds, there is a waiting list. “We have at least 22 families on the waiting list. We need sev-eral more congregations to join with us as hosts for our families, and then we’ll be able to assist eight families at a time instead of four.”

LeMense says Family Promise needs help not only with housing and dinners but also at the day center. “Like a ‘normal’ household, we are constantly running out of much-needed sup-plies,” she says.

Info: 584-2822 or direc-tor@family promiseknox ville.org.

When Faith Promise Church of Hardin Valley says it’s having a Back to School BASH, take it liter-ally.

The church provided a junker car and sledgeham-mer for middle school-age students to hammer out any frustration at summer being over.

It was the fi rst school-year meeting of the church’s regular Wednesday night services for high school and middle school students. The church regularly welcomes 500 to 600 middle and high school kids for fun, con-versation and worship on Wednesday nights.

The rain didn’t seem to deter the car bashing, but for those who didn’t want to bash – or get wet – there was plenty to do under shel-ter at the carnival-style party. Once the worship service started, the lights glowed and strobed, and the music had the students in full praise, song and crowd-surfi ng mode!

Bashing good time at Faith Promise

FAITH NOTES ■ Church Women United

Knoxville-Knox County

meeting, 10 a.m. Friday,

Sept. 4, Bethel A.M.E.

Church, 3811 Boyds Bridge

Pike. Bible study led by

Rela White to follow at

10:30.

■ Sequoyah Hills Presbyte-

rian Church, 3700 Keowee

Ave., will host GriefShare, a

weekly grief support group

for people grieving the

death of a loved one, 6-7:30

p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, for

eight weeks. Info: 522-9804

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Sara Barrett

Speech language pa-

thologist Debbie Smith,

speech language patholo-

gist Christina Mandaleris,

instructional coach Valerie

Bronson and social worker

Courtney Courtney are

new additions to the

staff at Karns Elementary

School this year.

kids

Sarah Brengle: Same school, new roleSarah Brengle fi nished

last school year as as-sistant principal of Ball Camp Elementary School. She welcomed students back from summer vaca-tion as principal.

“I already knew lots of folks, so that has h e l p e d with the t r a n s i -tion,” said B r e n -gle. The toughest part, she said, has

been fi nding a balance between tasks. “It’s been a challenge, but not a sur-prise.”

Prior to her duties at Ball Camp, Brengle was at Hardin Valley and Karns elementary schools, where she taught fi fth grade.

“In that role, I knew 27 kids really well. Now, Knoxville Catholic High School seniors Tim McCready and Con-

nor Wike visit with Bishop Richard Stika before the annual Mass

of the Holy Spirit offi cially kicks off the school year. Photos by S. Barrett

Knoxville Catholic High School welcomed Bishop Richard Stika for the offi cial start of the school year, the Mass of the Holy Spirit.

Bishop Stika visits annu-ally for the event and to visit and bless as many class-rooms as time allows.

KCHS seniors Tim Mc-Cready and Connor Wike sing in the Irish Ensemble and performed during the bishop’s visit.

“It means a lot to us for

the bishop to come visit and take his time to bless the school,” said McCready.

“It’s cool of him to show his respect,” agreed Wike.

“People say children are the church of the future, but they’re the church of today,” said Stika. “I enjoy visit-ing with young adults very much, and I would tell them to believe in themselves and to behave,” he said with a smile. “I would tell the adults that, too.”

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Blessing theschool year

Also new at Karns Elementary

If you’re happy and you know it …

Sixth-graders Lilliann Gashe and Emily Shaver are all smiles at

their fi rst school dance. The PTSA raised about $3,500 with the

event.

Conner Gable, Devin Uyhazy, Jon McColl, Austin Holbrook and (back) Jake Shafer can’t contain their excitement as their favor-

ite songs are played.

Chaperones Tylor Hill,

Kristina Sims, coach

Tracy Eaton, Jeanni

Daugherty, Ara Lang-

ford and Zelda Dotson

“raise the roof” at the

Karns Middle School

dance held Aug. 21.

This year’s sixth-grade

class is the biggest yet

for KMS. Phot os by Nancy Anderson

After seeing two senior boys run with fl ags down the football fi eld at Farragut High School

home games, a group of senior girls decided to make their own fl ag.

Any senior girl could chip in a few dollars and add their name to a star on the banner. The

fi nished product will hang in front of the student section at each home game. Any money

left over after covering expenses will help pay for pre-game tailgating supplies.

A banner year

Sequoyah Elementary School welcomes two new faces to the classrooms this school year.

Rachel Reyes will teach fi rst grade after transferring from Lonsdale Elementary School. This is her 12th year teaching, and she says she enjoys her students’ excite-ment and enthusiasm the most.

“I like connecting with what’s important to them,” she said.

Reyes baked a lot with her students when she taught fourth grade. She saw one of her students when they were

Price

New faces at Sequoyah Elementary

Reyes

in the eighth grade, and the student asked her if she was still cooking in her classroom.

“Seeing that student in-spired me to write a grant for a countertop oven for my classroom,” said Reyes.

“I want to do things withmy students that they cango home and talk with theirfamilies about.”

Lindsey Price is teachingspecial education this year,her sixth year with KnoxCounty Schools. Previously,she was a teaching assistant atRidgedale Alternative Schooland Knoxville Adaptive Edu-cation Center.

“I love watching kids de-velop and learn,” said Price. “Ilove helping people, and I’vealways loved children. I start-ed babysitting when I was 11years old. I can’t see myselfdoing anything else.”

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as principal, I try hard to get to know 600 of them. As a teacher, I just looked at my classroom. But now I look at the bigger pic-ture.”

With a second-grader already at Ball Camp El-ementary, Brengle will have a kindergartner be-ginning next school year. In addition to principal, she is a “dance mom and a soccer mom.”

“I want students to know their teachers love them. We have exciting things planned this year, and we want to make sure our students have what they need to be success-ful.”

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The Clarence Brown The-atre opens the season with a farce, “The 39 Steps,” Sept. 9-27 on the CBT mainstage. The popular, two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winner is packed with non-stop laughs, more than 100 zany characters played by a cast of four, inventive stage-craft, handcuffs, missing fi ngers and even some good old-fashioned romance! It’s fun for all ages and great for anyone who loves the magic

of theater.“This production cele-

brates the fi lm noir dramas of the 1930s and specifi cally Alfred Hitchcock’s fi lm of the same name,” said di-rector Kate Buckley. “But it also honors the complex-ity of the actor’s craft. The theatrical dance going on behind our soundstage door is zanily complex, requiring inventiveness, dexterity and precision from all.”

A “Pay What You Wish”

David Kortemeier, David Brian Alley, Katie Cunningham and

Brian Gligor are actors in Hitchcock’s farce “The 39 Steps,”

opening Sept. 9 at the Clarence Brown Theatre. Photo by Liz Aaron

Don’t trip on ‘The 39 Steps’

By Betsy PickleFrom the courts of her

high school in New York to the University of Tennessee to the WNBA, Chamique Holdsclaw built excitement about basketball.

Now she’s trying to build understanding about men-tal illness – through movie theaters.

“Mind/Game: The Un-quiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw” will play on two screens at 3 p.m. Satur-day, Sept. 19, at the Knox-ville Film Festival at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8. Holdsclaw plans to attend the screenings.

Holdsclaw’s stellar ca-reer under coach Pat Sum-mitt led to her pro career, beginning with the WNBA’s Washington Mystics. Her career seemed destined for brilliance, but cracks in her tough-as-nails demeanor began to break open after the death of the grandmoth-er who raised her.

Holdsclaw was diagnosed with clinical depression and later with bipolar disorder II. Although mental illness derailed her basketball ca-reer, she welcomes the path her life has taken.

“I’ve been doing mental health advocacy work since 2007,” Holdsclaw says by phone from Atlanta, where she makes her home. “I am in a position to really help people with my story.

“It’s very humbling, but also I know that it is what I am supposed to be do-ing. I could be coaching. I could be doing a number of things. But I am most pas-sionate about this because I know how it’s affected me.”

Documentary fi lmmaker Rick Goldsmith read a New York Times article about Holdsclaw and became in-trigued by her story. Coin-cidentally, he was an old friend of her manager, Lon Babby.

“He was drawn to how candid I was,” says Hold-sclaw. She still needed to be convinced that a documen-tary was a good idea. “I had to see what the direction was.”

Once she trusted Gold-smith, the project was on.

Holdsclaw saw that the fi lm could mesh with her advocacy work.

“I felt like it was one of my purposes to move forth and use my platform to draw people so they can understand what people struggling with this ill-ness go through,” she says. “The things that I was deal-ing with emotionally – the highs and the lows – it’s been an emotional roller-coaster ride. To see that on fi lm and hit these different festivals and to watch it over and over, I started to see growth; I started to see dif-ferent parts of me.

By Carol ShaneThe Arts & Culture Alli-

ance of East Tennessee ex-cels at showcasing notable artists in our region. This coming Friday will be no ex-ception when the ACA pres-ents its opening night for “Conversations: Portraits and Other Work” by Emily Taylor.

Part of Knoxville’s month-ly First Friday event, the show includes recent and former portraits and portrait-like paintings and drawings. As an artist, Taylor is intrigued by “the complex interaction and negotiation characteris-tic of both painting and hu-man interaction.” Hence the title, “Conversations.”

Taylor grew up in 1970s and ’80s New York City but eventually found her way to Knoxville “for school and life reasons,” she says. She holds an MFA in painting and an MA in art education from the University of Ten-nessee.

Some of her most popular works are her lively, colorful pet portraits. “There will be some dog portraits in the show, almost entirely all of the same dog – mine!” says Taylor. “Most of the others were commissions.” Anyone interested in commemorat-ing a pet in oil is invited to view Taylor’s work and com-mission a portrait.

The opening reception features chocolate fondue from the Melting Pot, as well as hors d’oeuvres. There will be a jazz jam session in the Black Box Theatre hosted by Vance Thompson and Friends.

And there will be a fl a-menco dance performance by Pasión Flamenco dancers from the Tennessee Conser-vatory of Fine Arts in West Knoxville. Yes, fl amenco dance is alive and well in Knoxville. It’s taught by na-tive Romanian Lucia An-dronescu, and it really de-serves its own feature story. Judging from the gorgeous women in festive costume and the guitar/cajon trio pictured on the website, it’s a spectacle not to be missed.

Beautiful art, beautiful dance, great jazz and tasty treats all make for an out-standing First Friday.

The opening reception for “Conversations: Por-traits and Other Work” by Emily Taylor is from 5-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Pasión Flamenco performs at 6 p.m., and the jazz jam begins at 7 p.m. The art exhibition will be on view through Sept. 25. Info: knoxalliance.com or 523-7543.Send story suggestions to news@

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‘The Transporter Refueled’Opening in theaters Friday, “The Transporter Refueled” brings

Frank Martin back to the screen but with Ed Skrein (the original

Daario Naharis in “Game of Thrones”) in the role instead of Ja-

son Statham. The special-ops guy turned extreme limo driver

is forced into a revenge plot that has to do with a Russian crimi-

nal and human traffi cking. Ray Stevenson co-stars. The action

thriller is rated PG-13.

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“It was a real eye-opener. I watch it now, and I’m like, wow, even at my weakest I was so strong. There was a strength about me. I think it has empowered me like it has empowered some oth-ers.”

She’s grateful for two strong women she’s had in her life: her grandmother June and Summitt.

“My grandmother said, ‘I trust this woman (Sum-mitt). You’re going to play for the best, and you’re going to get your degree.’ Coach Summitt said, ‘You’re going to meet some amaz-ing people, and you’re go-ing to have a sisterhood that extends beyond the years

of you playing.’ I’ve got ev-erything that both of them promised.

“Me and Coach Summitt have always had a very close relationship. She’s always been very supportive of me, through everything. … She’s an amazing, amazing wom-an. I’m glad to have her in my life.”

She has good memories of her college years.

“Knoxville is a very fa-miliar place to me. I always feel welcome; I feel loved. It was just the right choice. I came from New York City, and I’ve got a street on the University of Tennessee campus. I never envisioned that.”

preview performance will be held Wednesday, Sept. 9; a tech talk with the designers will take place Sunday, Sept. 13, following the matinee; a talkback with the cast is Sunday, Sept. 20, following the matinee; and the open-

captioned performance is Sunday, Sept. 27, at 2 p.m.

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A-10 • SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 • Shopper news businessBy Anne Hart

Artist Kay List is fi nally living her dream, and she is joyfully sharing the ad-venture with others at her new Envision Art Gallery in the heart of the Bearden Art District.

The cute cottage at 4050 Sutherland Ave., at the cor-ner of Sutherland and Carr Street, has been freshened throughout with gleaming white walls and woodwork – the perfect complement to the lovely old hardwood fl oors. Parking is conve-niently located behind the gallery.

While Envision has been open to the public since May, the gallery’s fi rst major art show will be Sept. 5-30 when List opens the doors to the talented artist mem-bers of the Tennessee Art Association for a show titled “The Love of Art.”

The opening reception will be 5-8 p.m. this Satur-day, Sept. 5, and will offer refreshments, wine, live music and an opportunity to chat with the artists whose work is on display and to visit with friends and neigh-bors.

List says the show will feature “a wonderful selec-tion of subject matter, me-dia and styles.” Also avail-able will be art note cards and both framed and un-framed prints.

An accomplished artist herself, List says her love of creating art began when she was handed her fi rst set of crayons as a child. As a teenager, she worked main-ly in pencil, charcoal and pastels, taking art classes throughout high school.

A resident of California, she continued her art stud-ies at Santa Ana Junior Col-lege, adding training in oils, ink washes, watercolors and mixed media to her artist’s

Kay List with one of her paint-

ings of Tennessee’s historic

barns. Photos by A. Hart

Envision Art Gallery: a dream come true

An ethereal painting by artist Kay List.

tool box.List says the dream of

owning her own gallery be-gan when she was in college, “but I wondered if I could turn out consistently good work – consistent enough that I could fi ll a gallery with my work.”

Married soon after grad-uation, she and husband Skip had two children, but she never gave up painting, and she always kept alive the dream of someday be-coming a gallery owner.

In 1993, after the chil-dren were grown, Kay and Skip moved from California to Grainger County. List, whose many collections of her oil paintings include landscapes as well as his-toric old barns, smiles when she says, “We moved here for the green, but we had to take the rain with it.”

After a move to Kingston in Roane County, in 2010 the Lists fi nally settled in West Knox County, and her dream moved still closer to reality as she continued painting.

Last November, Jim Wells, owner of Jim Wells Productions, “a phenom-enal printmaker,” List says, told her he knew of a prop-erty that might be for sale. It was the cottage on Suther-land Avenue that artist Lar-ry Cole had been using as a studio and gallery. The two artists met, and within a few months List had bought the property and begun ren-ovations.

We could say “and the rest is history,” but that isn’t the case. List has only begun. She has big dreams for her gallery and how it might help other local fi ne artists showcase and sell their work, including a ma-jor show scheduled for the holiday shopping season.

But that’s a story for an-other day.

Info: kaylistart.com or 438-4152.

By Bonny C. MillardThe fl edgling organiza-

tion Vol-u n t e e r K n o x v i l l e is hosting an expo on Sept. 9 to bring to-gether non-profi t orga-n i z a t i o n s and poten-

tial volunteers.Alex Brownfi eld, execu-

tive director of the orga-nization, spoke to the Ro-tary Club of Farragut about the upcoming expo and about Volunteer Knoxville’s growth since its launch last year. The club met at Costco Wholesale, where Rotarian Todd Galanti is warehouse manager.

“We just celebrated our fi rst birthday in June,” said Brownfi eld. “We’re so proud of the progress that we’ve (made) this far.

A Leadership Knoxville committee created Volun-teer Knoxville to celebrate LK’s 30th anniversary. Vol-unteer Knoxville is one of 250 HandsOn Volunteer Ac-tion Centers internationally, Brownfi eld said.

Next Wednesday’s expo will offer information about many nonprofi ts and volun-teer opportunities.

“This is a fi rst annual event in partnership with Leadership Knoxville and United Way of Greater Knox-ville and the University of Tennessee,” said Brownfi eld. “The Thompson-Boling Are-na will have more than 50 nonprofi t organizations on

Sept. 9 from noon to 6 p.m. This is a real fun way (for people) to meet and talk face to face with the organiza-tions that are hosting their volunteer experiences on volunteerknoxville.org.”

Volunteer Knoxville part-ners with 130 nonprofi ts – almost double the number since the beginning of the year. Those partner organi-zations and their volunteer opportunities are listed on the website.

“If you have youth in your family, this is a great oppor-tunity for folks to also fi nd out about internships and other ways that they can serve,” Brownfi eld said.

Volunteer Knoxville pro-vides a central location to make connections and also provides support for the or-ganizations.

“We serve as the con-vener of those nonprofi ts,” she said. “We bring together volunteer coordinators ev-ery month to talk about best practices, how to work with volunteers and all aspects of volunteer management.”

Info: volunteerknoxville.org

Opportunities to volunteer

Brownfi eld

I-640 exit updateFountain City Business

and Professional Associa-tion will host the Tennessee Department of Transpor-tation to discuss a project underway to redesign the intersection of Broadway and I-640.

The meeting is at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Virginia College. Lunch is $10, and the public is in-vited.

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

The Pursuit of Excellence

Regan and Allie Dunn, Ash-

ley and Olivia Ellison, Ruth-

ie and Tinsley Knight

By Alisha HintonHead of Lower/Middle School

Excellence. The word im-mediately creates a picture in the reader’s mind -- crossing the fi nish line fi rst, receiving the high-est GPA, being named to a prestigious position, or successfully completing a project with a team. Each of these outcomes is a fi nal destination or the ending to a pathway. I would say that excellence is best described as what happens along the path, instead of the ending point.

As we enter a new school year at Grace Christian Acad-emy, we are embracing our school year theme, BE EXCEL-

LENT. As Christ-followers, we should pursue excellence in all we do, all the time. As 1 Cor-inthians 10:31 reminds us, “So whether you eat or drink, or

whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.” This pur-suit is our outward expression of love for Christ while utilizing

the gifts He’s given us as educators. Excellence is found in the small details, the behind-the-scenes moments, the preparation for the day’s lessons. At GCA, we are focusing on the details within our classroom

instruction, personal relation-ships, and professional prac-tice to ensure that our teach-ing is done in a way that brings glory to God and prepares our

students for the academic and professional challenges which lie ahead.

As a team of educators at GCA, we are committed to making each part of the edu-cational and spiritual develop-ment process the best it can be for our students. Each teacher plays an important role in developing the best learning opportunities available and fostering a Christ-centered re-lationship with each student. At the heart of GCA is our mis-sion to be excellent as we lead students to Christ, build up their knowledge in Him, and

equip students to serve Him as educated disciples.

As I enter my fi rst semes-ter as the new Head of Lower/Middle School, it is my honor to serve with a faculty and staff at GCA who truly believe in honoring God with their gifts. This year will bring with it many great outcomes, but it’s the small details, the day-to-day grind and preparation done with excellence at the core, which will bring about outstanding outcomes for our students. Excellence is in the details!

BE EXCELLENT!

Soccer trifecta!By Danielle Taylor

At GCA this fall, girls’ soccer is a family affair as not one, not two, but THREE sets of sisters can be found on the team’s ros-ter.

Holding six of the team’s spots this year are Tinsley and Ruthie Knight, Regan and Allie Dunn, and Ashley and Olivia Ellison.

Led by Coach Donnie Green, the team, currently 2-0, defi -nitely recognizes the unique circumstances it has inherited.

“I’m honored and blessed to be able to be part of something that is extremely rare, and we may be the only team in the state in any sport to say that,” Green said.

With experience beginning in youth soccer for one set of sisters and this being the fi rst year for another set, the addi-

tion of these young women to the roster brings a new level of interest for coach Green.

“Each set of sisters is dif-ferent in their own way, which makes it even more exciting for me,” Green says.

So how do these sisters’ unique relationships translate to the soccer fi eld? You might be surprised by their respons-es.

“Tinsley is always encourag-ing towards me on and off the soccer fi eld. She has taught me to always try my best and never give up even when someone gets by me,” says Ruthie.

“Ruthie has great ball skills and is super aggressive. She has taught me to fi ght for the ball,” says Tinsley.

Because of the relationship between each set of sisters, be-ing on the same team means

more than just being team-mates; there are life applica-tions as well.

“Regan has infl uenced me to be a leader, play with passion, and persevere through hard games, and even through life,” says Allie. “I have always want-ed to be like her.”

“We work really well togeth-er on the fi eld and we spend a lot of time together doing what we love. We try to be encourag-ing and keep a good attitude even during tough games,” Re-gan says.

But Grace Christian Acad-emy is more than just a private school; it’s a private Christian school. With that comes even more expectations for these athletes.

Sisters Ashley and Olivia share a common goal in regards to their representation of GCA.

“We always try and encourage others and follow Colossians 3:23, which says, ‘Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not for men.’ Even though we are very

competitive, we always try and show love to our teammates as well as opponents.”

For GCA, the girls’ soccer team is always a great program. But with the addition of these three sets of sisters, it’s certain to make for a special season.

However, coach Green un-derstands how limited this opportunity is for him as a coach. “Since two are seniors, this dream will not be possible next year. So I know that this fall will be very special for me and a season that I will surely remember.”

To follow the progress of the GCA Rams girls’ soccer team, please visit the Grace Christian Academy website at www.gcarams.org/athletics.

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