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By Sara BarrettWhen Nancy Green was six-

years-old and living in Ohio, her grandmother in Tennessee made doll dresses as a Christmas gift for her. Green was so amazed at what could be made from fabric, she asked her grandmother for a box of scrap material.

She said, Nancy, youre the only child that would ask for a box of rags for Christmas, said Green. The box started a lifelong love of sewing for Green, who now lives in East Tennessee and cre-ates dresses from old linens, doi-lies, lace and scraps from vintage garments she fi nds at estate sales.

Greens love of sewing evolved from making doll clothes to mak-ing her own clothes in high school to creating curtains for her two daughters nurseries. At that point, the sewing machine was packed away for a number of years until she found a piece of lace about six years ago at an estate sale.

I thought it would be beautiful to wear, she said. She got her ma-chine out to make a top and hasnt stopped sewing since.

Now creating clothing under the pseudonym daniSunshine, Green has a sewing room so heavily lay-ered with vintage textiles that it has made the room virtually sound-proof. She has shown her work at area textile shows and Dogwood Arts Festival events, and shes had pieces displayed at museums. She now sells them online and at the Paris Apartment Boutique and Tea-room in Bearden, where the store owner bought every item Green brought to their fi rst meeting.

I hadnt intended on selling my pieces, said Green. Parting with the fi rst one was hard. I know

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Metropolitan Planning Commission staff will hold a public meeting from 6-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, at Middle-brook Pike United Methodist Church to discuss the MPCs northwest county sector plan.

Nancy Greens grandmother, Lily Belle McNew Lumbert, helped spark Nancys love of sewing. Photos submitted

Dresses by daniSunshine

A dress made by Nancy Green, a.k.a daniSunshine

A daniSunshine original jacket made from pieces of a vintage garment, lace and doilies.

they cant be duplicated, she said. Its like painting a picture on a blank canvas. But since selling that fi rst item, her dresses and tops have been shipped all over the world. Her top buyers are in Australia and Italy.

Green cuts embroidered images from old pillowcases and trims beadwork from wedding dresses too outdated to wear. She creates

items on a dress form freestyle, starting from scratch, without us-ing a pattern. Many of the pieces are hand-stitched. Others she dyes with coffee or tea.

Each piece takes about a day to create, working nonstop from morning to night. And she doesnt

Commissioners asked for help on Barnard RoadBy Sandra Clark

Knox County commissioners have been asked to secure funding to widen Barnard Road in north-west Knox County.

Property owner and developer Raj Sood met with District 3 com-missioner Randy Smith and at-large commissioner Ed Brantley at the Woods-Smith Market.

Sood said Barnard Road is dangerous for anyone who travels there. At less than 16-feet wide in

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Any day now Butch Jones will deliver his best bowl pep talk, how almost all of America is focused on the surging Vol-unteers and maybe millions will be lining up to secure tick-ets for 50-yard-line seats.

The coach has great enthu-siasm for this bowl game. It is the fulfi llment of a year-long goal.

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Lets pitch in to help familiesBy Sandra Clark

Its impossible to know the emptiness felt by three Knox County families this Christmas.

Two children and an adult were killed and several others injured Dec. 2 when two school buses col-lided on Asheville Highway.

When the news came, my thoughts went fi rst to the kids at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy, where some of us volun-teer each Wednesday to launch a newspaper club.

News trickled out slowly. Can you imagine the anxiety of those parents and grandparents who gathered at the old Food Lion store to await information about their child?

Finally, the names were re-leased. Dead were Zykia Burns, 6;

Seraya GlasperZykia Burns

Seraya Glasper, 7; and teachers aide Kimberly Riddle, 46, who left a husband and two young children.

Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre said, Our families and community suffered an unspeak-able tragedy, and our thoughts and prayers are with all of the families and staff members at Chilhowee Intermediate School and Sunny-view Primary School.

Both schools were closed on Wednesday, and Church Street United Methodist Church held a candlelight vigil.

TVA Employees Credit Union opened funds to receive dona-tions to help the families of Se-raya Glasper and Zykia Burns. Simply call or visit any branch location and refer to your contri-

bution as For the benefit of Se-raya Glasper or For the benefit of Zykia Burns.

Those making contributions will receive a receipt for their do-nation.

For questions or more informa-tion, call 865-544-5400 or email justask@tvacreditunion.com.

Additionally, contributions to

the family of Zykia Burns can be made at www.gofundme.com/uke-nniaarinze.

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Knox County Schools has veri-fi ed that these contribution meth-ods are valid and authorized by the respective families.

Others wishing to help can con-tact Stephanie Jeffreys with Knox County Schools at 865-594-1621.

Money cant replace their loss, but its a tangible way to show the families our sympathy and sup-port.

Ed Brantley and Raj Sood

places, the road wont allow for a center stripe, he said.

Yet traffi c engineers have been reluctant to recommend improve-ments.

The road makes a sharp curve, has elevation issues and is narrow, Brantley said. I drove that way to get here.

Sood said his land lies in three tracts on both sides of Barnard. Its the former Hollifi eld farm. The previous owner got it rezoned

for residential development, and Sood would like to construct apartments there although he has no current plans to do so.

Smith and Brantley were on a fact-fi nding mission, and both agreed to request the countys En-gineering and Public Works De-partment to take another look at Barnard Road.

Sood said the Hollifi elds donat-ed land for improvements in 1982 but nothing has been done.

Book to benefi t Childrens Hospital

A portion of the sales of a new childrens book, K-9 On Board, will benefi t the East Tennessee Childrens Hospi-tal, said author Cinthia Diane Stafford.

She will be signing books at noon Saturday, Dec. 13, at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Kingston Pike. Each book comes with a CD, and Stafford will read from the book start-ing at 11 a.m.

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COMMUNITY NOTES

Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m. each fi rst Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: www.cwkch.com/.

District 6 Democrats meet

6:15 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Karns Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: Clay Mulford, 257-6744, or Janice Spoone, 771-5920/

Karns Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each fi rst 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: http://karnslionsclub.com/.

Northwest Knox Business and Professional Associa-tion meets noon each second Thursday, Karns Community Center Building, 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: http://www.karnsbusiness.com/.

Karns Democrats undeterred

Although rain forced the Karns Community Christmas pa-rade to be rescheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday Dec. 13, the weather couldnt dampen the spirit of these intrepid mem-bers of the Democratic Party who showed up to march: Elizabeth Rowland, Beth Harwell, Dan Haney, Richard Daw-son, Janice Spoone, Willa Reister, Clay Mulford, Linda Haney (chair of Knox County Democratic Party) and Frank Schin-gle.Beth and Richard are Democratic State Executive Com-mittee members. Phil DePorter and Carolyn Greenwood are not shown. Photo submitted

Meeting GoalsBy Daron Long

As 2014 ends, we at the Karns Volunteer Fire Department believe it is

important to review the year and determine what improvements can be made to better serve you in 2015.

Im happy to report that we successfully met every goal we set for 2014:

Purchased a new re engine

Upgraded the Karns station from Basic Life

Support (BLS) to Advanced Life Support Hired a paramedic to be on-duty at

this station 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and

Increased our full-time staff by three positions.

In 2015, we are setting even more ambi-tious goals, like the hiring of more full-time staff to provide assistance on emergency scenes. We also plan to work with the In-surance Services Of ce (ISO) to lower communities ISO classi cations, possibly leading to lower homeowner insurance pre-miums. Another big priority is to keep our re department local through expansion of

our Cadet program.Born and raised in Solway, I joined the

Karns VFD in 1992 while attending KarnsHigh School. Through the years, I havemade many lasting friends in the depart-ment and within the community. To me,keeping our department local is what keepsour community strong. Our Cadet programallows youth ages 14-18 to observe and sup-port the operations of the re departmentunder our supervision. This program, for-merly the Explorers, has fed our depart-ment with recruits for many years, thusstrengthening KVFDs strong communityties for the next generation of re ghters.

We look forward to another safe year ofserving the people of Karns, Hardin Valley,Solway and Ball Camp under the directionof our board of pastors, lawyers and com-munity leaders. We will continue to be a s-cally responsible, open and transparent redepartment that works for our communities.I can assure you that we will always be thereshould the need arise and will continue to beyour re ghters and your re department.

Important Note: December manda-tory subscription program invoices will bemailed the week of Dec. 15. Look for theShield!

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By Wendy SmithIts no surprise that those

who attended a public-input session on conceptual gre-enway routes from West Knoxville to Oak Ridge were generally in favor of the idea. But their input var-ied depending on how they would use the greenway.

Tyler Jordan, general manager of the Best West-ern at Cedar Bluff, says visi-tors regularly come to the area to eat and spend the night, and business owners want guests to be able to walk safely.

A lot of employers look at the health of employees, too. Thats really impor-tant, not just for businesses, but for the community as a whole, he said.

Robin Hill, an 86-year-old Sierra Club veteran, just wants a pleasant place to walk.

Jim Wiggins, avid cyclist and owner of Bearden Bike & Trail, is more interested in a scenic bike route than an ef cient commute to Oak Ridge. Commuters can ride on the shoulder of Pellissip-pi Parkway if theyre brave enough, he said.

Representatives from Equinox Environmental were on hand to explain the process they used to come up with two routes pre-ferred and alternate to connect the Knoxville/Knox County 10 Mile Creek Greenway, Knox Countys Pellissippi Greenway and Oak Ridges Melton Lake Greenway. The rm was hired through a grant from the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization and matching funds from the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Green-way Council.

David Tuch of Equinox said he looks at greenways as being spokes on a wheel, with the hub being the city

Jim Wiggins and Tyler Jordan provide feedback as David Tuch of Equinox Environmental, not pictured, answers questions about conceptual greenway routes from West Knoxville to Oak Ridge. The Great Smoky Mountains Regional Greenway Council, the Knoxville Regional TPO and other partners hosted a public open house to discuss the routes last week at Hardin Valley Academy. Photo by Wendy Smith

West Knox to Oak Ridge greenway routes discussed

center. There should also be connections between the spokes. The primary pur-pose is to connect residents to schools and businesses, and ful ll recreational pur-poses when possible.

Its important to be able to pull people onto the gre-enway. But its sometimes not picturesque.

The draft plan outlines the construction of the 13.7-mile green way in three phases at an estimated cost of approxi-mately $8 million. Securing funding is the projects big-gest challenge, said Shauna Godlevsky, Knox Countys parks and greenway trails coordinator, and obtaining easements is a close second.

Community support is crucial for the project to gain traction. People still dont understand the value of greenways, which provide transportation and health bene ts, as well as increased property values, she said.

Community buy-in will also affect the route of the greenway. The preferred

route would take advantage of the public land and pos-sible business partnerships by running alongside Pellis-sippi Parkway. The alternate route, which would require more private land, parallels sections of Solway Road.

While it appears on maps to be close to Pellis-sippi Parkway, the preferred route is buffered by eleva-tion and trees, said Kimbery Williams of Equinox.

You will feel like you are in the woods.

Hill suggested that Knox County follow Farraguts lead by creating an ordi-nance that requires a 20-foot easement along all roads it acquires. That would make the process of building gre-enways easier, he said.

Ive never seen a single greenway built anywhere that people didnt like.

Documents from the conceptual plan, including maps and a form for feed-back, are expected to be available this week at www.knoxtrans.org.

daniSunshine From page A-1do custom orders. It freaks me out to get a custom re-quest. I freeze in my tracks, she said.

She enjoys creating the pieces, but Green says her favorite part is hunting for materials to use. She rides around with her husband, Ray, each Saturday after breakfast and hits estate sales, looking for the next perfect piece of old lace.

To nd that next piece its just a true treasure, like nding gold. If ever there was retirement in my fu-ture, I could see myself do-

ing this, she said.Everyone needs a pas-

sion. If you just go to work and come home, then what

do you have? You need a nook to devote part of your life to yourself. It feels good to be tired because youve accomplished some-thing you love to do.

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The Gospel of John tells us Jesus was brought be-fore Pontius Pilate, the Ro-man prefect of Judaea, who signed off on his crucifi xion.

After Jesus told Pilate his mission was to bear witness to the truth, Pilate asked, What is truth?

Im not cadging material from Lynn Pitts column. Pilates words, cynical as they were, are more relevant than ever in the modern world.

The big lie, spoken loudly enough and often enough,

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becomes true, especially when embedded in a 24-hour media blitz.

Fox News understands this principle better than its competitors, but none of the major cable news networks

is an unfl inching guardian of the truth.

A PunditFact survey of 83 Fox statements found only 15 to contain some of the truth, and only eight were deemed completely true. CNN was truthful 60 percent of the time, and MS-NBC was 31 percent honest.

The hillbilly wisdom of Jed Clampett echoes down the years: Pitiful.

Television and the Web shape more opinions today than every teacher, preach-er and newspaper columnist combined.

In Idiot America, Charles P. Pierce writes of a panel discussion about the science of creationism that aired on Larry King Live.

King asked: All right, hold on, Dr. Forrest, your

concept of how you can out-and-out turn down cre-ationism, since if evolution is true, why are there still monkeys?

And, as Pierce noted, Why, dear Lord, do so many of them host televi-sion programs?

Fueled by lies from Fox, the Tea Party and assorted Obama-haters, congressio-nal Republicans did every-thing but foam at the mouth over Benghazi, the scandal that never was.

In dozens of prime-time segments, Fox commenta-tors claimed Obama gave an order to special forces soldiers at the American embassy in Tripoli to stand down.

It never happened.Two Fox News contribu-

tors claimed Hillary Clinton faked a concussion to wea-sel out of testifying about Benghazi.

False and despicable.Why repeat the lie after

its been thoroughly de-bunked? The lie sells quick-ly, and the truth is rarely easy to tease out.

Viewers and browsers have little patience for nu-ance. Unless it happens on PBS, no broadcast medium is going to carefully dissect a White House position pa-per.

Reading engages the intel-lect like television will never do, but reading by adults has been in freefall for de-cades. Last January the Pew Research Center released a report showing 23 percent of Americans had not read a

book in the past year.That number was 8 per-

cent in a 1978 Gallup poll. Is it any wonder newspapers are struggling?

No political party or phi-losophy holds a monopoly on expedient lies. Vietnam was the most tragic lie foisted upon 20th-century America, and the deepening and continuation of that war was the work of both Demo-crats and Republicans.

Communism was a monolithic entity, we were told, and North Vietnam a puppet for the ambitions of Red China and the Soviet Union. That lie ground up 58,000 American lives.

The truth is always out there. Turn off the talking heads and take a look for yourself.

Former Knoxvillian, UT graduate and Etowah native Chris Whittle, who left Knoxville after Whittle Communications collapsed in 1992, has rebounded fi nancially from his low point some 22 years ago. According to the Nov. 21 Wall Street Journal, he and his wife, Priscilla Rat-tazzi, have listed their East Hampton home including 11.2 acres on New Yorks Long Island for $140 mil-lion.

Chris Whittle thrives in the Big Apple

Named Briar Patch, its one of the most expensive residential listings in the history of the affl uent Hamptons. The house is 10,000 square feet with six bedrooms, built in 1931 right after the Great Depression.

According to the WSJ, the Whittles bought the property in 1989 and spent two and a half years reno-vating it to include a three-stories-tall great room in the main house with a sepa-rate four-bedroom guest house.

The house was previ-ously up for sale in 2002-03 for $45 million but did not sell and was taken off the market. The asking price has now jumped almost $100 million in 12 years.

Rattazzi is a photogra-pher who has her own web-site, www.priscillarattazzi.com. Whittle is her third husband, and they are the parents of two daughters.

The Whittles, according to WSJ, are embarking on a new chapter in their lives as empty nesters. They plan to spend more time in China, Europe, Palm Beach and New York.

When I was fi rst elected mayor in 1987, Whittle was being mentioned as a can-didate for governor as well as the life raft for economic development in Knoxville. He could do no wrong. He walked on water.

It was in 1989 that he renamed his company, 13-30, to Whittle Com-munications, sold a 50 percent stake to Time Inc. and razed two blocks in downtown Knoxville with city help from the previous city administration.

A few years later it all collapsed, and the city faced the unwanted acquisition of the Whittle building due to the foolish fi nancial agreement that made the city liable in case of collapse. The impossible occurred. I was looking at an unexpected and un-wanted $14 million liability as then-mayor.

Luckily, the notion of making this building the home of the new federal courthouse came into play. The late Judge Jim Jar-vis pushed it, and GSA discovered it was cheaper to acquire the Whittle com-plex than to build a new courthouse.

Just in the nick of time, city taxpayers were saved the surprise gift of a cost-ly building for which the city had no reasonable use. Whittle has emerged from every setback he encounters more nimble and fi nancially enhanced. Just amazing.

Tell homeowners to attend meetings

Knox County is a big, diverse place, and county commissioners are doing their best to represent all of it. That was one of the messages delivered to the Council of West Knox Coun-ty Homeowners (CWKCH) by three new commission-ers and their vice chair last week.

The four of us all really care, and we love to listen and hear what you have to say, said at-large member Bob Thomas.

Commission members were invited to speak at the groups holiday meet-ing. Thomas, along with at-large member Ed Brantley, District 3 member Randy Smith and District 8 mem-ber and vice chair Dave Wright, attended.

Knox County commissioners Randy Smith, Ed Brantley, Bob Thomas and Dave Wright take questions from the Council of West Knox County Homeowners. Photo by Wendy Smith

County commissioners invite feedback

Brantley said hed never appreciated the countys diversity until commission duties required him to tra-verse it. While West Knox-ville is business oriented, other areas, like Washing-ton Pike, are scenic. The Halls community is its own little world, with little traf-fi c, he said.

Thomas has lived in East Knoxville and Fountain City and has family in South and West Knoxville, so hes fa-miliar with the entire coun-ty.

We have to take care of it. We want to develop it the way it should be.

Hes concerned about

West Knoxvilles aging sub-divisions, which are pep-pered with homes that are falling apart as well as rent-als. Neighborhood associa-tions are important because they invoke pride, he said.

Brantley agreed. The se-cret to maintaining good neighborhoods is getting people involved, he said.

All four commissioners expressed a desire to hear from the community. At-tending meetings is one way to be heard, said Brantley.

When were going through zoning, we ask if there is opposition. If theres not, it gets approved.

Thomas said he thought commission would have a hard time voting against homeowners if they were opposed to a zoning change. When CWKCH members disagreed, new commis-sioners acknowledged that theres been little contro-versy in the months since theyve taken offi ce.

Wendy Smith

Wright explained that commissioners have to take off all the hats theyve ever worn to work for the coun-ty as a whole, rather than working for those in indi-vidual neighborhoods. De-velopment is ultimately the decision of property own-ers, he said.

Later, he said the county needs new middle schools in Hardin Valley and Gibbs.

The commissioners shared different perspec-tives on a proposed change to Knox County Commis-sion meeting times. Smith said hes in favor of later meetings that would allow working people to attend. When it was suggested that evening meetings might be less safe for residents to at-tend, commissioners point-ed out that City Council and school board meetings are in the evening.

They asked for feedback on the appointment of a replacement for District 5 member Richard Briggs, now a state senator.

CWKCH president Mar-got Kline asked commis-sioners to support John Schoonmaker, a past presi-dent of the organization. The Board of Zoning Ap-peals chair is a business owner who wants the area to be prosperous and attrac-tive and have good schools, but not at the expense of individuals and neighbor-hoods, she said.

UT issues RFP for former Eugenia Williams estateProposals for restoration,

care, occupancy and leasing of a 23-acre property on Ly-ons View Pike in Knoxville bequeathed to the Universi-ty of Tennessee in 1998 are being sought.

The Universitys request for proposals, or RFP, was released Nov. 24 with a

March 6, 2015, deadline to submit proposals.

Prospective bidders are invited to a pre-proposal conference at the UT Pur-chasing Offi ce, 5723 Mid-dlebrook Pike, at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 12.

At 4848 Lyons View Pike, the propertys acreage is

between the street and the Tennessee River and in-cludes a 10,000-square-foot house and two-story horse barn. The three-story brick house has been unoccupied since 1983.

Through the RFP, the University seeks to lease the property to the

individual(s) with the best plan for restoration and care of the property and who proposes the highest rental payments.

Shopper-News colum-nist Victor Ashe repeatedly called for attention to this issue.

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Last week, the school board had important business that stretched Mondays workshop into a three-hour ordeal. At Wednesdays voting meet-ing, board members burned through the long agenda: approving a contract for teachers, who have been working without one since 2011, appointing one an-other to committees, and discussing board member Karen Carsons objections to the way the vote to dis-continue the SAT-10 test for grades K-2 was conducted.

Monday workshops ex-ist to allow board members to work out differences in the sunshine and ease the process of coming to agree-ments, so its not unusual for the voting meeting to be considerably shorter. But this one was different.

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Any day now Butch Jones will deliver his best bowl pep talk, how almost all of America is focused on the surging Volunteers and maybe millions will be lin-ing up to secure tickets for 50-yard-line seats.

The coach has great enthusiasm for this bowl game. It is the fulfi llment of a yearlong goal. He gets a nifty bonus $100,000. Assistants get 8.75 percent of their salary. Young play-ers get additional develop-mental time. Everybody gets a free ride for a holiday outing and gifts galore.

There is a chance for a winning season.

The coach talks a lot because he has so much to say: new culture, brick by brick, program growth, academic progress, the end of losing.

Some see Butch as a spin doctor, capable of sticking a smiley face on a red-zone fumble. I and others who really enjoy the rhetoric see him as an exciting orator, a colorful storyteller with an interesting background, an extensive vocabulary and fantastic lung capacity. He seldom pauses for air.

Sometimes he exagger-ates just a little. On rare occasions he soars over the top.

The other day he got off on the subject of national perception of Tennessee football.

It is at an all-time high right now. The energy, the excitement, we see it every day because of recruiting and talking to high school coaches, not just in this great state, but across the country.

We have players com-ing in from all over. We are going to have another great, great recruiting class, individuals that fi t our pro-fi le. It is a matter of time. People know that. They see the energy, they see the vision.

Jones has recruited well. Only four SEC schools did better last year. By Tennes-sees recent standards, the 6-6 record is modest prog-ress. Kentucky and Vandy were worse.

Peak of perception? All-time high? Maybe not.

Even in the context of a

Butch sometimes exaggerates

sales pitch, suggesting the national view of Tennessee football is atop the moun-tain is a stretch, consider-ing everything that hap-pened in those so-so years from 1989 to 2004. Sorry the national championship run wasnt more exciting.

Jones speaks of Volun-teer history with great rev-erence. He gets it each and every day. I dont think he was deliberately step-ping on the last third of the John Majors era or the best years of Phillip Fulmer or the pageantry of the Peyton Manning show.

Butch was just talking.Here is a historical

refresher, for evaluating national perception only:

1989: 11-1, SEC champs, AP rank No. 4; 1990: 9-2-2, SEC champs, AP rank 8; 1991: 9-3, 5-2 in SEC; 1992: another 9-3 and 5-3 and the conclusion of the Majors years.

1993: 10-2, 7-1, loss to Florida, symbolic of the Fulmer era; 1994: 8-4, 5-3, romped past Virginia Tech in Gator Bowl; 1995: 11-1, 7-1, AP rank 3, lost to Florida, defeated Ohio State in Citrus Bowl; 1996: 10-2, 7-1, AP rank 9, lost to Florida, beat Northwestern by 20 in Citrus Bowl.

1997: 11-2, 7-1, AP rank 7, SEC champs, lost to Flor-ida, naturally; 1998: 13-0, national champs; 1999: 9-3, 6-2, AP rank 9; 2000:8-4, 5-3, lost to Kansas State in Cotton Bowl; 2001: 11-2, 7-1, lost to Georgia, beat Florida, AP rank 4, mauled Michigan in Citrus.

2002: 8-5, 5-3, lost to Maryland in Peach Bowl; 2003: 10-3, 6-2, AP 15, lost to Clemson in Peach; 2004: 10-3, 7-1, lost to Auburn twice, defeated Texas A&M in Cotton; AP 13.

Ah yes, those were the days and the numbers, with little or no exaggeration.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Trying week frays tempers, loosens tongues

bus crash that took the lives of two children and a teach-ers aide and sent more than 20 others to the hospital, the nuts and bolts of school governance somehow didnt appear quite as urgent. That doesnt mean that the meet-ing wasnt emotional. It was memorable for unusual oc-currences:

The fi rst came after the usual non-sectarian mo-ment of silence, in the form of a prayer delivered by Great Schools Partnership CEO Buzz Thomas (also an ordained minister) begging Gods help in the aftermath of the tragedy.

The second came after a

public forum dominated by pleas from parents of spe-cial-education students who say Knox County Schools is not meeting its legally man-dated obligations to their children. A couple of teach-ers spoke, too, hammering home their view that the inherently unfair SAT-10 is not only developmentally inappropriate but produces bad data that is then used to evaluate not only student progress but also teacher effectiveness. Knox Coun-ty Education Association president Tanya Coats cried as she expressed her thanks for the boards approval of the Memorandum of Un-derstanding that was three years in the making.

The fi nal jolt came from former board chair Lynne Fugate, who acknowledged that board members nor-mally do not respond to

speakers at public forum but said that handing over the gavel to successor Mike McMillan this fall gave her the freedom to say things she couldnt say when she sat in the big chair.

And then she had a How-ard Beale* Im mad as hell and Im not going to take it anymore moment:

This board has been at-tacked for over a year as if we dont give a darn and we dont care ... Dont patronize and treat us like idiots. We have gone through hell in this community We are all here because we are try-ing to do the right thing, so please.

Do not insult me and as-sume I am a bitch. Thank you.*Howard Beale was the fi ctional news an-chor in the 1976 movie Network whose epic on-air rant against his network struck a chord with the public and won actor Peter Finch an Oscar.

By Betty BeanPicking out poinsettias

offered by the Future Farm-ers of America at the North Knox CTE Center (they cant call it a sale) is a tradition for residents of Halls and Foun-tain City, but six months ago, many feared the poinsettias had gone the way of Christ-mas past. Knox County Schools was Scrooge.

The role of Bob Cratchit was admirably fi lled by longtime agriculture teach-er/FFA sponsor Mike Blan-kenship, who had been in-formed that his program was being disbanded be-cause it wasnt attracting enough students. It was a grim time for the Ag kids and for Blankenship, who found himself facing the possibility of an abrupt end to his award-winning, 37-year career with KCS.

But his students, led by rising seniors Ryan Cox and James Dunn, decided to fi ght for their teacher, their club and their future.

Cox, who will attend UT next year (and is waiting to hear about scholarship money), started bombard-ing administrators with emails. Heres an excerpt from one he sent to Super-intendent James McIntyre and Halls High School prin-cipal Mark Duff:

I feel that the Knox County School District should review its policy on teacher cuts. Positions should not only be quali-fi ed to be cut based on stu-dent enrollment, but by the quality and importance of the education received in the course. For instance, a class offered at Halls High consists merely of watching movies, and writing reviews on them. I challenge the fact that this class has a higher educational value than an Agriculture class.

Ag students are 2014 Persons of the Year

Cox wore out Duff, Mc-Intyre and school board members. He contacted the media. He started an online petition. He and Dunn, a Gibbs High School senior and FFA president, went to the June school board meeting and spoke at the public forum. Dunn recited a partial list of the honors the club has won under Blankenships guid-ance.

We will no longer be able to compete in career devel-opment events, he said. We as a class and a chapter are very disappointed. This closure will take away many opportunities.

What he didnt say that night is that one of the lost opportunities could be his chance to go to college through an FFA scholarship.

Before long, Blankenship was offered a job at the new Career Magnet Academy on Strawberry Plains Pike, which should have surprised nobody, given his long list of

professional and community accolades, not to mention the fact that CTE supervisor Don Lawson had been one of his fi rst students, back at the old Doyle High School.

Moved by what hed heard from Cox and Dunn at the school board meeting, Law-son started working on a plan. Would Blankenship be inter-ested in teaching one class a day on the Halls campus so these seniors could fi nish out the credits they needed? Blankenship agreed, and the Ag class was restored.

The FFA crew is having a good year, winning awards and raising nearly $2,000 for homecoming candidate Casey Jo Mitchell. It hasnt been easy; Blankenship commutes from Halls to Strawberry Plains every day at a time when his family has suffered terrible losses. His son, Mark, developed a brain tumor and died, and his father is under home hospice care, but he stays on the road and keeps on

teaching. His students ap-preciate it and say their fi ght was worthwhile.

Im not really positive that Mr. Blankenship will be back at North Knox next year, but theyve got a biol-ogy teacher who went on the fi eld trip with us who took the test to get Ag cer-tifi ed. Shes hoping to teach biology, Ag and a computer class, and continue FFA. Meanwhile, shes got the best instructor in Tennessee to learn from, Cox said.

Dunn concurs.Hes the same old Mr.

Blankenship. Hes a good one, said Dunn, who has applied for a Tennessee Promise scholarship and hopes to attend Pellissippi State. Everything was worth it. Everybody learned a little something from it, and I think it showed some people that were more than just farmers with pitch-forks.Note: Each year reporter Betty Bean selects her favorite story/people and names them her POY.

Ryan Cox, James Dunn, Mike Blankenship, Jessica Costner and Jonah McMahan File photo by B.Bean

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By Wendy SmithLast week, Veta Sprinkle

wasnt thinking about her to-do list, which is typically fi lled with the management of Hope Central, a ministry that serves the Parkridge community. She was just thinking about a young boy who walked away from Knox County Schools bus No. 57 and the family of a girl who didnt.

The boy attends Hope Central programs, and the girls extended family lives in the neighborhood. Sprinkle knows both families through her longtime investment in the area. She doesnt just serve there. She loves there.

She got to know Parkridge 20 years ago when a small group from the Farragut Church of Christ served there through Volunteers of Amer-ica. When she had another opportunity to reach out to the neighborhood through the Central Church of Christ at 1932 Woodbine Ave. she jumped at the chance.

Four and a half years ago, that effort evolved into a stand-alone ministry that serves a 50-block area bordered by Hall of Fame Drive, Cherry Street, Mag-nolia Avenue and I-40. The ministry is primarily run from a house next door to the church.

Hope Centrals vision is to be a neighbor like Jesus would be, says Sprinkle.

Theres no sign in the yard. We want to be seen as just another neighbor on the

block. Were not coming in to save the day.

When the ministry began, it was primarily about shar-ing resources. But gradu-ally, relationships began to form. Much of the outreach was aimed at kids, but soon, mothers and grandmothers became part of the mix. A culture of mutual support de-veloped, Sprinkle says, and blessings, as well as diffi cul-ties, were shared both ways.

Now, the goal is to in-volve, include and empower parents and help families to become what God wants them to be.

This philosophy will be evident when Hope Central hosts its annual Christmas shopping event this week-end. Supporting churches have donated new toys at $25, $15 and $10 price points. Parents pay $5 per child to be able to pick a toy from each category, and vol-unteers wrap the gifts. More than 100 children will be served this year.

Sprinkle credits Daniel Watson, executive director of Restoration House, with the idea for the Christmas store. Parents can honestly say they purchased and se-lected the gifts in a process that builds dignity and re-spect, she says.

Family portraits are also part of the tradition, and fathers typically come in order to be in the picture. It creates a lifelong memory they dont want to miss.

Hope Central offers a

three-day-a-week after-school program for kids and a weekly Bible study for moms. Craft events, to help moms create family treasures, are held once a month. The ministry organizes clothing-share events, where neigh-bors choose from donated items and donate their own outgrown items.

Parents also help out with neighborhood parties, like the Spring Fling, when moms hide Easter eggs. The neighbors are planning their fi rst New Years Eve party this year.

The ministry even has its own church service on Sun-day afternoons at the Grace and Peace Church on Mag-nolia Avenue.

Its a ministry that takes time but pays off with heal-ing.

Many of the neighbors have had lives filled with episodes of pain, hopeless-ness, challenges, betrayals and rejection. Those hurts dont heal easily. Quick-delivery ministry opportu-nities fulfill tangible needs and are valuable, but al-lowing God to heal deep, life-long hurt takes time and relationships, Sprin-kle says.

The benefi ts go both ways. Because Sprinkle has an abundance of resources, God doesnt have to show up in the same way he does for those in poverty, she says.

When you are living in parched area, God showing up is spectacular!

Sisters Breanna and Alexis McClendon make snowfl akes with help from Paul Phelps, minister of the Farragut Church of Christ, during Hope Centrals after-school program.

Jacobi Garrett grins as volunteers cut out circles to make snow art. Photos by Wendy Smith

Hope Central where God shows up

Knoxville churches join to battle addiction

By Bill DockeryAs the time for New Years resolutions

edges ever closer, John Gargis is counting on that life-renewing urge to bring new people into a recently formed fellowship that promotes recovery from addiction.

Gargis is one leader in Celebrate Recov-ery North Knoxville, a Christian commu-nity offering spiritual support to people battling substance abuse and addictions of all sorts.

Every Tuesday at 6 p.m., Celebrate Re-covery opens for an hour of supper, fol-lowed by a worship celebration and a break-out into small group counseling sessions.

Its like a funnel, Gargis said. We in-vite everyone to a meal, followed by a high-energy worship service, and we hope that they will stay for small group talks and ul-timately commit to our 12-step program.

He has helped forge a connection among eight mostly United Methodist congrega-tions in North Knox neighborhoods: Lin-coln Park Community UMC (which he pas-tors), Norwood, Lonsdale, Fountain City, Inskip, Emerald Avenue and Oakwood. The eighth church is Fellowship Church on Mid-dlebrook Pike, which contributes program space at its north campus on Tazewell Pike, in the old Smithwood School building.

Celebrate Recovery North Knoxville began with an August meeting of 21 area churches.

In January, Celebrate Recovery will kick off its next 12-step study. Modeled on the iconic 12-step program developed by Alco-holics Anonymous, the North Knox program takes a more Christian approach to recovery. That approach was pioneered by the Saddle-

back Church in California. Several other groups have also brought the Celebrate Re-covery ministry to the wider Knoxville com-munity.

Gargis enthusiasm for this work has very personal roots.

My dad died of alcoholism when I was 17, he said. And I have been sober for 12 years.

Another Celebrate Recovery North Knox-ville pastor also is in recovery, he said.

Gargis is a licensed local pastor and for about two and a half years has been at Lin-coln Park, where his small congregation focuses on the spiritual needs of its neigh-borhood. The joint ministry with the other churches has been a way to reach more people. Pastors from each of the churches rotate speaking and teaching duties.

Randy Fry, another key leader in the ministry, said he is encouraged by folks commitment.

We hope to help people make their resolutions stick, said Fry, who is pastor of Fountain City United Methodist Church. Celebrate Recovery is one of the most transforming ministries we have to offer.

We hope to see many people turn their lives around, but we are focused on getting one person to commit to a better way of liv-ing.

Gargis agrees: We all struggle. People often get stuck in their efforts to change their lives. We are here to help them under-stand that Life hurts. God heals.

North Knox Celebrate Recovery is held at the North Knoxville Fellowship Church campus, 3203 Tazewell Pike. Info: northknoxcr.org.

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Christmas Candlelight Tours, 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 West Governor John Sevier Highway. Suggested donation: $2. Info: 573-5508 or info@marblesprings.net.

Christmas in Old Appala-chia through Wednesday, Dec. 24, at the Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Anderson-ville Highway. Info/schedule of events: 494-7680 or www.museumofappalachia.org.

Christmas Lantern Express Trains will run Fridays through Sundays through Sunday, Dec. 21. Reservations now available. Features holiday treats, storytime with celebrity readers, and a visit with Santa. Info/schedule/reservations: www.ThreeRiversRambler.com.

Christmas Tours of Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Ave., will be held 5-8 p.m. Sat-urday, Dec. 13, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14. Light refresh-ments will be served. The tours are free; donations are encouraged. Info: 522-8661 or www.mabryhazen.com.

East Tennessee History Center Holiday Open House, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13. Holiday music, refresh-ments, craft demonstrations, storytelling, ornament-mak-ing for kids, book signings and free museum admission. Info: www.eastTNhistory.org or 215-8824.

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Dowell Springs, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, Provision Center for Proton Therapy, 6450 Provision Cares Way. Free and open to the public. Performances by Halls High School Madrigals, Holston Middle School Show Choir, Clear Springs Baptist Church Childrens Choir and Brickey-McCloud Elementary School; refreshments; visit with Santa. Info: Gretchen Church Craw-ley, 321-4554 or gretchen.crawley@provisionhp.com.

Historic Cherokee Caverns, 8524 Oak Ridge Highway, will be open for public tours 5:30-9 p.m. Friday through Sunday, Dec. 12-14 and Dec. 19-21, during Christmas in the Cave. Admission: $8, ages 5 and up. Photos with Santa: $10. Wheelchair and stroller accessible. Includes music, vendors, kids activities. Info: www.cherokeecaverns.com.

Holidays on Ice presented by Home Federal Bank through Sunday, Jan. 4, on Market Square. Hours: 4-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday through Dec. 18; 1-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, Dec. 19-Jan. 4; 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 1-9 p.m. Sundays. Info: www.knoxvillesholidaysonice.com.

Its a Wonderful Life, 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Free, but seating is limited. Info: www.homefederalbanktn.com.

Knoxville Chamber Chorale Christmas Concert, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, First UMC, 1350 Oak Ridge Turnpike in Oak Ridge. Free.

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By Nancy AndersonNona Platillero battles the increas-

ing commercialism of Christmas with a Birthday Party for Jesus. The retired missionary has been hosting the party for 25 years now, each year with a dif-ferent non-profi t benefi ciary.

We cant leave Jesus Christ out of his own birthday celebration, said Platillero.

The event is for children, and this year it was in support of Karns Girl Scout Troop 20148 which is support-ing Christmas for 54 kids at Karns El-ementary School. Platillero collected

some $500 toward the cause.Before retiring, Platillero worked

in Florida with Cuban refugees. The family now lives in Karns. Platillero was run over by her own vehicle two weeks ago and was released from the hospital just hours before the party.

She had stopped to put an encour-aging note in her neighbors mailbox, but forgot to put her vehicle in park.

Amy Reed has attended these par-ties for 12 years, even hosting them at her house. Shes become a cosponsor with Platillero who two years ago gave the younger woman the apron she tra-

ditionally wears at each party. Reed intends to continue the tradition as long as shes able.

Nona giving me that apron meant a lot because shes done so much for this community. Everywhere she goes, she spreads good will and love, said Reed. The accident personifi es Nona. She stopped to put a note of inspiration in a neighbors mailbox. Her car slipped out of gear as she was crossing in front of it. It rolled over her breaking her cheek-bone along with other injuries. She got up and put that note and a candy bar in the mailbox (before seeking help).

Retired missionary Nona Plattillero, 87, smiles with co-organiz-er Amy Reed at the 25th annual Happy Birthday Jesus party held at Beaver Ridge United Methodist Church. Photos by NancyAnderson

Girl Scout Joanna Reed helps fi ll party favors with colorful sand art ornaments.

Surrounded by family and friends, Plattilleros son, Paul, lights the candles on the castle-shaped birthday cake. Nona Plattillero says the cake is castle-shaped in honor of Jesus, The King of kings. Pictured are Paul Plattillero, Amy Reed, Annie Plattillero, Nona and Ellie Plattillero.

Birthday party for Jesus

I dont know of many words that inspire us and help us to aspire to greater things than the two words, Well done. All of us long to hear words of acceptance, and when they are spoken, we cherish them.

When I was in sixth grade, I received a test back from one of my teachers. At the top of it was my grade, but next to the grade were the words, Super! Steve, you did a great job! Im now 40 years old and I still have that test paper folded up in a drawer. Why? Because of the encouragement and praise it offered. I doubt if Mr. Glass ever thought that such a brief comment could mean so much, but it did.

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And heres the point. Howlong does it take for you tosay, Well done, or Greatjob, or Super? Not long atall. While it may take only asecond to speak them, thosewords may be cherished fora lifetime. Friends, lets notget lazy. With so little effortwe can accomplish so much.

Pursue the things thatmake for peace and where-by we might edify one an-other. (Romans 14:19).Steve Higginbotham is pulpit pastor ofKarns Church of Christ.

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Pictures with Santa Claus at Cool Sports, 110 S. Watt Road. Schedule: 2-6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14; 8-10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19; 3:30-6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec 20. Photos by No Dud Photography. Info: 218-4500 or www.coolsportstn.com.

Santas Workshop Ice Show, 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, Cool Sports, 110 S. Watt Road. Info/tickets: 218-4500 or www.coolsportstn.com.

Share Your Sweater holiday contest is being hosted by Goodwill Industries-Knoxville. To enter for a chance to win a $50 Goodwill shopping spree, purchase a Christmas sweater

at any Goodwill store and submit a photo of the sweater with info naming the store where purchased by Sunday, Dec. 28, by posting to Good-will Industries-Knoxvilles Facebook Page, facebook.com/gwiktn; Twitter and tag @GWIKTN; on Instagram and tag @goodwillknoxville; or email-ing to marketing@gwiktn.org. Info: www.gwiktn.org/events.

Xfi nity Christmas in Chil-howee Park, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, Chilhowee Park. Live music, lighting of the tree, kids activities, and more. Info: www.cityofknoxville.org/Christmas.

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By Sara BarrettKarns High School junior

Joe Crookham has always had an interest in the medi-cal fi eld. He tore his ACL last year and was intrigued by the surgical procedure it took to repair it.

Im fascinated with how the body works, and how we are created to move, he said. How your hand is moving as you write this down

Joes anatomy teacher recommended him for a two-week internship this past summer at UTs De-partment of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology Center. More than a dozen students from Knox County Schools worked with profes-sors and advanced graduate students in more of a real-world setting, according to information from UT.

The fi rst week, students were taught how to estimate the age of a human pelvis. The second week, students chose a question based upon what they had learned

so far. Joes group wanted to know whether different procedures would be more accurate when estimating the age of bones from differ-ent ancestral backgrounds. They determined different procedures would be nei-ther more nor less accurate.

Toward the end of the program, Dr. Bill Bass spent some time with the interns and shared some favorite cases and artifacts. The skull from an embalmed body, with pieces of skin and hair still intact, was a favorite of Joes.

The bones you work with dont look like a real body, so it helps take away the creepy factor. Its cool to feel the texture of real bones, said Joe, as opposed to the plastic skeleton on display in his anatomy class.

The internship has piqued Joes interest in the medical fi eld even more, although he is currently torn between becoming an orthopedic surgeon or an aerospace engineer.

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Scott Bacon was honored at a reception last week marking his retirement from Knox County Schools. Bacon is pictured with Ellen Liston, who served with him on the Partners in Education board. Photos by R. White

Mary Kerr and Alvin Nance share their favorite memories of Scott Bacon.

Former Sarah Moore Greene principal Blenza Davis and Carol Strevel browse through memorabilia.

Tommy Schumpert signs a banner at the reception.

By Ruth WhiteFriends and co-workers

gathered to bid farewell to Scott Bacon, who after 24 years is retiring from Knox County Schools. Bacon has been called many things over the years, including a book peddler, coupon book commander and tireless campaigner.

Bacon is best known for heading up the annual school coupon book cam-paign and has been the driving force for its growth for 20-plus years. He is also the supervisor of Partners in Education (PIE), a pro-gram designed to create working relationships be-tween community organiza-tions, schools and programs in Knox County Schools.

He is also known for his ear-to-ear grin and bound-less energy. Mary Kerr, who worked closely with Bacon on the coupon book cam-paign until her retirement last year, commented that he was wonderful to work with and that he had a keen sense of humor. We worked as a team and complement-ed each other. I was never comfortable talking in front of a crowd, but Scott could. He always wanted to help kids have a better educa-tion.

Anita Loy said she knows that he will be successful at whatever he does in the fu-

ture. He is the same every day. He always has a smile on his face and is very ener-getic.

Blenza Davis, former principal at Sarah Moore Greene, recalls how Bacon always got her ready for the challenge of selling coupon books. He was hilarious and perfect for the cam-paign.

Carol Strevel called him energetic, fun and depend-able. Hes a good one, she said.

Scott had a great ability connecting with the chil-dren, and he gave parents opportunities to give back to the community, said Alvin Nance, who has known Ba-con since his children were at Spring Hill Elementary. When Nance fi rst met him, he thought Bacon was the P.E. teacher. He was this young, energetic guy that seemed to be everywhere at the school, so I thought he was a teacher.

PIE board member Ellen Liston called Bacon a great friend to the community. Its a loss that he wont be here to continue to cultivate partnerships, but he has left a legacy that will continue. Hes a good man and a good friend.

Whatever Bacon chooses to do during retirement, rest assured it will be with enthusiasm and success.

Farewell to the book peddler

The UT Culinary program will host an information session 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, on the fourth fl oor of the UT Confer-ence Center, 600 Henley St. for those interested in sharpen-ing their culinary arts skills or taking them to the next level. Classes begin Monday, Jan. 12. Info/to register: 974-3181.

HEALTH NOTES American Red Cross Nurse

Assistant Training 20-year anniversary and open house, 3-6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, 6921 Middlebrook Pike.

Community Health Alliance Marketplace Open Enrollment for Health Coverage, 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive, 470-7033; Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road, 689-2681; and Lawson McGhee Library, 500

W. Church Ave., 215-8750.

Enrollment assistance for the Aff ordable Healthcare and Medicaid and the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP): 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, South Knox Com-munity Center; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, Mount Cal-vary Baptist Church; 3-7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12, Montgomery Village, 4530 Joe Lewis Road. Info: www.healthcare.gov.

Living with Diabetes: Put-ting the Pieces Together, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday,

Dec. 11, Fountain City Branch Library. Topics include: What is Diabetes?, treatment op-tions, blood sugar monitor-ing, understanding your A1C, stress management, sick day guidelines, barriers to control, behavior changes and goal setting. Info: 689-2681.

UT Hospice Adult Grief Sup-port Group meeting, 5-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, UT Hos-pice offi ce, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

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Farragut High School Madrigal singers overcome wind and bubbles to sing carols at FranklinSquare. Pictured are Kyle Waters, Drew Holbrook, Nathan Kitner and Josh Cullota.

FARRAGUT CHAMBER EVENTS

Dec. 11, 4-7 p.m., Chamber holiday open house, Cham-ber offi ces, 11826 Kingston Pike.

Dec. 12, 4-5 p.m., open house, Slamdot, 2053 Thun-derhead Rd.

Farragut Rotary elects offi cersDale Read is president of

the Farragut Rotary Club for the upcoming Rotary year. Other offi cers are: Da-vid Smoak, president-elect; Chris Camp, vice president; Patty Daughtrey, secretary; Glenn Bates, treasurer; Jim Dodd, sergeant-at-arms; and Lee Mrazek, past presi-dent.

Members of Farragut Rotary and Farragut High School Interact Club will be bell-ringing for Salvation Army at the Kroger Market-place on Saturdays, Dec. 13 and 20, from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Mike Singletary is the boss bell ringer, according to newsletter reporter Tom King.

Brandywine bluegrass fi lled the air at Franklin Square as the merchants hosted Holiday on the Square. Performing are Ryan Hardison, Pamela Thomas and vocalist Cecil Thomas.

Barbara McQuade of Smart Toys and Books helps youngsters design crafts. Photos by S. Clark

Christmascomes to Franklin Square

By Sandra ClarkHorses plodded around the square

and students sang carols. Over by Sa-mis Deli a bluegrass band played de-cidedly unseasonal ballads. It was the once-a-year festivities of Holiday on the Square.

Smart Toys and Books was packed with kids eyeing every box and playing with the trains while parents, grandpar-ents and assorted kinfolks scoured the store for Santa-type surprises.

Chop House was brimming with the sights and smells of well-prepared holi-day fare, and Samis Deli was standing room only during an extended lunch (11 until 2).

David Smith and the folks at the UT Fed-eral Credit Union drew a crowd with a bubble machine, spewing bubbles all the way over to a new store, Bricks 4 Kidz, a place to learn, build and play with Legos.

Chris and Maria Howard, manag-ing directors, may have a gold mine for there are generations of folks who claim addiction to the colorful squares that stick together to form miracles.

Chris Howard resembles a big kid with his Lego toys, and hes not denying it. Hes got a

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the Farragut High School Madrigals: Rachel Liske, Nora

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Santa digs for a peppermint cane to give to a youngster. Santa moved indoors this year, but the kids still found him. The Santa pho-

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the Mathnasium crew have moved a couple of doors away to a bigger space.

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Rosario Dawson and Chris Rock make a connection in Top Five.Christian Bale plays Moses in Exodus: Gods and Kings.

Moses vs. Chris Rock: Who will be the winner?By Betsy Pickle

Exodus: Gods and Kings has drawn contro-versy for casting Welsh-born Christian Bale and Aussie Joel Edgerton as its leads. I say the biggest issue is, why is Hollywood show-casing an Old Testament story during the Christmas season?

Anybody out there have an infl atable or light-up Moses in their yard? I think not.

Out-of-season thinking aside, Exodus is exactly the kind of epic studios like to debut during the holidays, when some people have a little more free time on their hands for longish movies.

It tells the story of Moses defying Pharaoh Ramses and leading 600,000 Jew-ish slaves away from Egypt and some very unpleasant plagues. With Ridley Scott Bard (Luke Evans) prepares for battle in the fantasy adventure The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

as the director and Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Paul and John Tur-turro in the cast, the fi lm has a solid pedigree.

Top Five promises a whole bunch of funny and early reports say it delivers that along with some hilari-

ous cameos and great per-formances from the leads.

Chris Rock wrote, direct-ed and stars in this comedy about a comedian turned movie star whos trying to prove himself as a serious actor. As he prepares for his wedding to a reality-TV star

(Gabrielle Union), he fi nds himself baring his soul to a reporter (Rosario Dawson) who has always trashed his movies.

Part of the story involves revisiting his old neighbor-hood and friends who nur-tured his comedic start. But

the fi lm is about more than comedy and celebrity it touches on recovery, reality and whats important in life.

Theres another little movie opening on Wednes-day actually Tuesday night that you might have heard of: The Hobbit: The

Battle of the Five Armies. To prepare for the epic con-clusion of Peter Jacksons epic trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkiens epic book, fans are being offered an epic Hob-bit marathon on Monday.

The nine-hour program begins with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, followed by The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and concluding with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, a full day be-fore its offi cial opening.

The marathon starts at 1 p.m. at Knoxville Center, Pinnacle, Riviera, Wynn-song, Tinseltown in Oak Ridge and The Forge in Pigeon Forge. It startsat 2 p.m. at Foothills in Maryville. Tickets for the individual movies will not be sold. If you buy tickets on Fandango, you can get a free Nook ebook down load of Tolkiens book.

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THROUGH SUNDAY, DEC. 14 The Games Afoot by Ken Ludwig presented by Theatre

Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. Performances: 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: theatreknoxville.com or at the door. Info: theatreknoxville.com.

THROUGH SUNDAY, DEC. 21 A Christmas Carol, Clarence Brown Theatre Mainstage,

UT campus. Info/tickets/ performances: 974-5161 or clarencebrowntheatre.com/.

THROUGH SATURDAY, JAN. 3 The Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit at the Rose

Center, 442 W. Second North St., Morristown. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Thursday until 7:30 p.m. Info: www.knxvillewatercolorsociety.com.

FRIDAY, DEC. 12 Alive After Five concert: Holiday Dance Party with The

Streamliners Swing Orchestra and The Kayley Farmer Project, 6-9:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 Worlds Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Holiday Sparkles & Spirits!, an evening to benefi t The Joy of Music School, 6:30 p.m., Cherokee Mills, 2220 Sutherland Ave. Music, heavy hors doeuvres and cocktails, live and silent auctions. Admission: $75. Info/tickets: 525-6806.

John McCutcheon in concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $20, some discounts available. Info/tick-ets: www.jubileearts.org.

SATURDAY, DEC. 13 Candoro Arts and Heritage holiday open house, 4:40-8 p.m.,

Candoro Marble Company, 4450 Candora Ave. Info: 470-9344 or http://candoromarble.org.

The Nutcracker presented by the Appalachian Ballet Company with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Clayton Center for the Arts, Maryville. Tickets: 982-8463; Clayton Center, 981-8590.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 13-14 The Christmas Song presented by the Beaver Dam Bap-

tist Church Worship Choir, 6:30 p.m., in the church sanctuary, 4328 E Emory Road. Everyone invited.

The Living Christmas Tree, 3 and 6 p.m., Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, 701 Merchant Drive. For free tickets: WMBC.NET; from Wallace church members; and at the church dur-ing offi ce hours.

SUNDAY, DEC. 14 Candlelight Tour of Historic Ramsey House, 6-8 p.m.,

Ramsey House Plantation, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Admission free; donations accepted. Info: 546-0745 or www.ramseyhouse.org.

Ernie Roberts knows the Knoxville Nativity Pageant well, having been its assis-tant director for the past four years.

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The Knoxville Nativity Pageants players include David McDaniel, Karen Robinette and J.T. Sharp. The show opens this Saturday afternoon at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. Photo by Leah Berry

Now hes in the directors chair.

Its a big job, overseeing the cast and crew of this enormous annual produc-tion. There are large sets, many costumes both humble and opulent hun-dreds of cast members and singers, an orchestra and quite a few animals.

I get the best view of all from the crows nest at the top of the coliseum where I can see the entire fl oor and choir, Roberts says. I can see how beautiful the in-teraction is among our cast members. Every villager, shepherd, wise man, soldier and angel has the specifi cs of each role in mind and de-velops the character, telling his or her story as the events leading up to the birth of Je-sus unfold.

I am in awe, says Rob-erts, of the ownership that each individual puts into this production.

During his time with the pageant, Roberts says, I have gotten to know the cast, musicians, technical folks and board of direc-tors, which allows me to trust in them as each does a phenomenal job. This is defi nitely a wonderful team production.

One part of that team is the orchestra, led by Mark Hill. Mary Ann Fennell, who is in charge of con-tacting and securing the talented musicians each year, remembers going to

the very first Nativity Pag-eant, held in the courtyard of the Civic Coliseum. The animals were outside, and it was cold and muddy probably just like the real thing would have been! she laughs.

Fennell has played vio-lin in the pageant for many years, and even she is at a loss to count them. When asked if she can name any enjoyable details about the show, she immediately answers, ev-eryone loves the donkey. But hes not always a sweetie.

The pageant will have many humorous mo-ments, in many cases cour-tesy of the sheep, goats and the infamous donkey, Rob-erts says. Having animals in the cast, he feels, adds a touch of realism. The sheep and goats sometimes like to play, and we use an animal

wrangler dressed as a shep-herd to get them on and off stage on time. The don-key, however, is front and center and many times will have a mind of its own.

The plan is always to get Mary to come in on the donkey with Joseph lead-ing it to the gate. Sometimes the donkey has been known to tell its side of the story with some braying. There have been times, continues Roberts, when the animal has stopped in its tracks or begun to make some side steps to force Mary to walk to the gates of the city alongside Joseph.

We will get Mary to her destination, he confi rms with a grin, but each year with each performance, the trip is never a dull moment!

In addition to fi ne acting and glorious music, each

performance also includes beautiful lighting, says Rob-erts.

I am always amazed how everything comes together, but then again I have faith and know that the actors and crew will be ready because they love, cherish and be-lieve in what they are doing.

The Knoxville Nativity Pageant will be presented at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, and 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. Admission is free. All shows begin in darkness, and audi-ence members are request-ed to come early in order to fi nd seats and get settled. Each performance lasts ap-proximately one hour. Info: www.knoxvillenativity.com or 258-9985.Send story suggestions to news@shoppernewsnow.com.

Swansons was famous when I was a child for one reason: chicken pot pies. My mother did not buy many meals that were heat and eat. She always felt they were too expensive because the serving sizes were so small, and my mother only knew how to cook for an army. Things that came in individual portions, like TV dinners or chicken pot pies, were considered a luxury.

One of the few exceptions was Swansons chicken pot pies. She really liked them and would comment about how good the chicken was and how fl aky the crust was. Kids liked them be-cause they were individual

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Today, chicken pot pies are considered comfort food because they bring back memories of home and hearth and warm dinners on cold nights. Restaurants try a variety of ways to pres-ent pot pies, from gourmet pies where the fi lling is

poured over a puff pastry to more traditional renditions with top and bottom crust holding the creamy chicken and veggies inside.

Parkside Grill, 338 N. Pe-ters Road, slips somewhere in the middle and has one of the best chicken pot pies I have ever eaten. There is no bottom crust, but the top crust is fl aky and delicious. And they serve it in a big skillet so that the crust-to-fi lling ratio is spot-on. Noth-ing is worse than coming to

the end of your pot pie and having fi lling left with no crust to sop it up! There is nothing exotic in the Park-side chicken pot pie, just the basics: chicken, creamy and thick broth, onions, corn, celery, carrots and just a few peas, which is a plus for me because I dont have to pick them out!

So Parkside has avoided all the pitfalls of taking a comfort food and putting it on a restaurant menu. They havent tried to glam it up

A delicious puff -pastry crust tops the old-fashioned yummi-ness of Parkside Grills chicken pot pie.

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Parkwest Medical Center has been recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Mea-sures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States. Parkwest was included in The Joint Commissions 2014 an-nual report Americas Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety for attaining and sustaining excel-lence in accountability measure performance for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and sur-gical care. The report recognizes hospitals for exemplary perfor-mance in providing evidence-based interventions in the right way and at the right time.

Parkwest is one of 1,224 hospi-tals in the United States to achieve the 2013 Top Performer distinc-tion, which was announced in

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The Top Performer program recognizes hospitals for improving performance on evidence-based interventions that increase the chances of healthy outcomes for patients with certain conditions, including heart at-tack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgi-cal care, childrens asthma, stroke, venous thromboembolism and perinatal care, as well as for inpatient psy-chiatric services and immuniza-tions.

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