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the front of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church were beginning to show their age. All were decaying, and one badly needed wire reinforce-ment to protect worshippers who came in the front door. Simple fi xes were not enough, so the con-gregation decided to replace the columns.

The bright new Corinthian columns looked great, but they showed up the decrepit trim near-by, so a second phase of repair and painting ensued.

Thus began a two-year journey to restore the landmark church. New carpeting was the next major step, and a few weeks ago the fi nal step was fi nished; the sanctuary was completely repainted.

That’s the way Fifth Avenue minister the Rev. Don Olive tells the story as the historic early-20th-century church prepares for a new century of ministry.

“This building was given to this generation. It will either be the albatross that sinks us, or we will be the stewards of its continued ministry,” Olive said. The chair of the church deacons agrees. “Our forefathers left us a gift and a bur-den,” said Robert Bright, looking around the sanctuary.

To match the newly restored physical structure at 2500 E. Fifth Ave., the small congregation in the big building is embarking on a new model for ministry to the sur-rounding neighborhood. Fifth Av-enue Baptist looks upon its facility as a nursery for congregations in the making.

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There was a new school bus contractor at Sunnyview Primary School on Monday.

Lynch Bus Lines LLC assumed contracts for fi ve bus routes pre-viously operated by Rick Fawver, who voluntarily discontinued his transportation services contract with Knox County Schools after Superintendent Jim McIntyre said both his and Robert Burroughs’ contracts would be reviewed.

This follows the Dec. 2 colli-

sion between Fawver’s bus 57 from Sunnyview and Burroughs’ bus 44 from Chilhowee Intermediate School. Two students and a teach-er’s aide were killed and many oth-ers injured.

“We put the two school bus con-tractors on notice that their con-tracts were under review pending the outcome of the investigation. Given the catastrophic nature of the school bus crash, I think this is a prudent and necessary step,”

said McIntyre.“Fawver’s contract … has now

ended. Going forward, we will con-tinue to do everything in our power to ensure the safety of our children participating in the school trans-portation program.”

Fawver had operated fi ve school buses. Burroughs operates 10 school buses.

The review process is stipulated in the bus operator’s contract, and it is required should it be necessary

to terminate the contract, accord-ing to a release from KCS.

According to press reports, bus 44 from Chilhowee suddenlyswerved across the eastboundlanes of Asheville Highway andstruck the side of oncoming bus 57from Sunnyview, knocking it ontoits side.

Teacher’s aide Kimberly Riddle and students Zykia Burns and Se-raya Glasper were pronounceddead at the scene.

New bus contractor for Sunnyview

By Betty BeanThis fall, the Knox County De-

velopment Corporation (TDC) loaded a bunch of county offi cials and business leaders onto a bus and took them on a tour of four of the county’s eight industrial/busi-ness parks. WestBridge, Hardin, Eastbridge and the Pellissippi Cor-porate Center were on the itinerary.

Midway Road wasn’t. Nor was it included in an in-

dustrial land inventory conducted earlier in the year by TDC and the Knoxville Chamber, an odd omission in light of the nearly 20-year battle that has been waged over the county-owned parcel at the Midway Road intersection of I-40. The Development Corpora-tion has been desperately seeking a large parcel of developable land; residents of Thorn Grove and surrounding communities have fought to preserve the area’s rural character.

Chamber CEO Mike Edwards, a major player in the last round of negotiations (in 2010), said he’s no longer directly involved (the chamber has spun off TDC to become a stand-alone body) but said although Midway hasn’t been part of recent discussions, it’s now more developable because TVA has installed “a big, huge transfer station” on the parcel and KUB also has built a substation there.

“We weren’t crazy about TVA wanting to fl op its footprint on Midway, but it was an easement they’d owned for a long, long time. So now the utilities are out there, and I think a sewer system is in place, too.”

Elaine Clark, president of the French Broad Preservation Asso-ciation, is reluctant to talk about Midway (perhaps observing the old “don’t trouble trouble till trou-ble troubles you” admonition), except for expressing some skepti-

cism of Edwards’ claim about the availability of sewer for the park site, which she described as “a two-acre drip fi eld.”

She said she’d like to see the task force county Mayor Tim Bur-chett put together early in his fi rst term under the leadership of for-mer tourism head Gloria Ray res-urrected. (The task force dissolved in 2012 when Ray was forced to resign as chief executive offi cer of the Sports and Tourism Corp.)

“We were making real prog-ress,” Clark said. “That’s some-thing that should be revived.”

Todd Napier, CEO of TDC, said there was no reason to include Midway on the bus tour, which they were trying to conduct in four hours.

He said there’s really nothing to see on the parcel, which is now on the books as a $6.4 million invest-ment, down from the original $10 million after the write-down of

the TVA acquisition.Midway is in County Commis-

sioner Dave Wright’s Eighth Dis-trict. He’s also on TDC board and was interviewed just hours after its December board meeting. He said he had “the latest, greatest, most breaking news” about what’s going on with Midway.

“Nothing.“But it’s going to be something

someday. We’ve got kids graduat-ing every year from Carter (High School) and the Career Magnet Academy who’ll be looking for a job. I’d rather see them on the Midway Road exit as opposed to Hardin Valley.”

Bill Emmert, longtime Thorn Grove resident whose back porch is a stone’s throw from the bound-ary of the proposed business park, said neighbors remain vigilant.

“It’s as quiet as a mouse, but I’m sure they’re doing something,” he said. “We’re watching.”

Midway on back burner; community remains watchful

Dayspring Academy to break ground

Dayspring Christian Acad-emy will break ground for a new facility at 2:30 p.m. Thurs-day, Dec. 18, at the corner of W. Sunrise and W. Oldham.

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, City Council member Daniel Brown and city Direc-tor of Community Relations Thomas “Tank” Strickland will participate. The event is open to the public.

Dayspring Christian Acad-emy was started eight years ago to provide a Christian edu-cation for inner city children. It currently has an enrollment of 25 students in K-5 through high school. The groundbreak-ing will be for a gymnasium.

New columns fl ank the Rev. Don Olive, pastor of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. The columns were the fi rst step in the

congregation’s two-year program to spruce up its building.

Lights fantastic at Chilhowee Park

Take a minute to tour Chilhowee Park after dark to see a forest of lighted trees fl oating on the lake. You never leave your car. The exhibit will continue until Jan. 1. It’s sponsored by Xfi nity, WVLT Channel 8, Knoxville News Sentinel, 93.1 WNOX, Krispy Kreme, Cheerwine, and The Muse Knoxville.

Tour de LightsOn Friday, Dec. 19, bring a

bike and go to Market Square to enjoy Tour de Lights – a fun, free, casual 5-mile bike ride that starts from Market Square and tours downtown, 4th and Gill and Old North Knoxville. Ride starts at 7 p.m. but judging begins at 6 p.m. and prizes are awarded after the ride in several categories, including Best-Decorated Bike, Best Decorated Person, and Best Group Theme. Mast Gen-eral Store and Three Rivers Market will provide hot cocoa and cookies for participants. Helmets, white front light, and red rear refl ector are required and all ages and skill levels are welcome.

Info at www.knoxtrans.org/.

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Olive compares Fifth Av-enue to a nurse tree, a tree that in its own maturity nurtures other beginning organisms.

“We have a beautiful, comfortable place of wor-ship, and we want to share,” he said.

Fifth Avenue has already had a taste of that sharing. Seven years ago, a young Chattanooga minister start-ed his own community of faith in the building. That congregation – Overcom-ing Believers Church – grew till it fi lled the Fifth Avenue Baptist sanctuary to over-fl owing.

This fall, OBC moved to its own newly refurbished warehouse church not many blocks away and has en-rolled 2,500 members, with some 750 at Sunday-morn-ing services.

Those numbers are as-tonishing to current Fifth Avenue members, though the church in its heyday saw similarly robust growth. Founded in 1917, the church erected its main building in 1921 and in its prime num-bered between 800 and 1,300 members.

Demographic changes in the neighborhood led to its decline, but the congrega-tion voted in the 1960s not to move to the suburbs. It became the fi rst Southern Baptist church in Knoxville to integrate. Love Kitchen founders sisters Helen Ashe and Ellen Turner are long-time members.

“When I look out from the pulpit on Sunday morn-ings, I see about equal num-bers of black and white fac-es,” Olive said.

“As I was growing up, the church was large,” said Ed

Dorothy Chumley reads from scripture as she prepares to light the Candle of Peace at Fifth

Avenue Baptist Church.

The Upshaw home is hard to miss.

At the corner of McDon-ald Road and Sylvan Street, a chain-link fence glowing with icicle lights surrounds a modest house. The yard is densely populated with na-tivity fi gures, angels, Santas and other lighted icons of the Christmas season. Elec-trifi ed deer graze among trees tangled with multicol-ored lights. And a heavenly host of pop-culture fi gures including Mickey Mouse and Snoopy join in the fes-tivities.

The yard is among the most extravagant Christ-mas displays in Knoxville, and local television sta-tions often visit to capture a little holiday B-roll for their viewers.

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Decorations crowd the Upshaw yard in a landmark display that has become an East Knoxville holiday tradition.

Behind it all – and in the middle of it, too – is tiny Cari Upshaw, who has staged this display for most of the past 34 years. Cari and her husband, Willie Up-shaw, have lived at the same location since they moved from California in 1979.

“People say I’m crazy,” Cari Upshaw said. “But I just love to do it. If I don’t, the neighbors ask if I’m OK. I just love to share Christmas.”

Cari came to the United States from the Philippines in

1968 with her fi rst husband, who was in the military. When that marriage ended, she and Willie met and mar-ried. Upshaw, a Knoxville na-tive, brought her home when he retired from the Air Force. He said that decorating is her passion.

“Oh, no, he started it,” she said. “He put lights on the roof and bushes, and we’ve been doing it ever since.”

“She does it all now,” he said. Willie, who is 79, is a deacon at Rogers Memorial Baptist Church in Mechan-icsville.

She’s gotten the work down to a science and has done the project in as little as a week. The decorations fi ll four storage sheds be-hind the house. She said

she is very organized about putting everything away, using transparent storage containers so that she can see what she needs. This year she did not put up the infl atables that she usually displays.

“The electric bill goes up about $100 during the sea-son,” Cari said.

“Two hundred,” Willie re-sponded.

Through the years, Cari has spread her illuminated

good cheer to neighbor-ing yards. Sometimes two or three nearby houses are ablaze, though not so much this year. And last year the decorations stayed in the sheds.

“I always clean my house before I start putting up the lights,” Cari said. “I was cleaning in the dining room and fell off a stepladder, hurt my back.” The yard was dark a couple of other years, when the couple visited

family in California.When after-Christmas

sales start on Dec. 26, Cari is out of the house at 5 a.m. to hit all the big-box stores. While everyone else is go-ing for clothes and gadgets, she makes her move on the remaining Christmas lights, which she has scoped out before the holiday.

“He won’t get up at 5 o’clock,” she said of Willie. “I take the truck and come back with it full.”

Shipe, whose mother en-rolled him in the nursery in 1947, when he was seven weeks old. “But even now, once people step through those doors, they feel they are home. This congrega-tion remains open, warm and nonjudgmental.”

The Rev. Olive, who came to the church in 2009 as in-terim minister, found Sun-day-morning attendance at 25 or so.

He admits now that he fi rst expected to preach a fu-neral for Fifth Avenue Bap-tist and lock the doors for good, but after eight months he was asked to take the job permanently. Sunday at-tendance is now averaging around 60 people.

Despite decades of down-sizing, the church has con-tinued its established min-istries. It hosts a child-care operation that has been ac-tive for more than 40 years. Its Awana program for kids from kindergarten through high school regularly at-tracts 40-plus youngsters from the surrounding blocks.

Olive, a retired philoso-phy professor from Car-son-Newman University, proposed formalizing Fifth Avenue’s role as a nurse for startup churches. “We place

no restrictions on their theology, just that they be Christian in inspiration.”

After a recent Sunday-morning worship service, the congregation held a brief business meeting. The single item on the agenda was permitting a new con-gregation to use one fl oor in one of their buildings.

“The new group is Signs and Wonders Apostolic Ministries,” Olive told the members.

“They want to make a $300 monthly donation to use the second fl oor of the Magnolia Building.”

After a few questions and a little discussion, the con-gregation approved the ar-rangement without dissent. Two more starter congrega-tions also have made inqui-ries about coming under the shelter of Fifth Avenue Bap-tist Church.

“We have learned how to make this work,” Olive said. “This is our next step in the stewardship of our facili-ties.”

Lights of the holiday blazearound East Knox home

Willie and Cari Upshaw have lit up their yard at the corner of

McDonald and Sylvan streets for most of the past 34 years. Pho-tos by Bill Dockery

Traditional religious fi gures share space with pop-culture images – anything with a Christmas

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For docents at the Far-ragut Folklife Museum, one of the most frequently asked questions – posed by both newcomers and longtime residents – is this: “Tell me something about the stately old home on the corner.” Of course, they are inquir-ing about the Avery Russell home at the intersection of Campbell Station Road and Kingston Pike.

The original home was built in the Federalist style that was common on the frontier in the late 1700s. There has always been some question about when the home was built and who built it. It was fi rst thought that Col. David Campbell, the co-founder of Camp-bell’s Station, built the home as early as 1810. Perhaps this misconception came from the fact that locally it was called “Campbelton,” prompting many to assume the Campbell family had built it.

However, Col. Campbell sold the land and about 300 acres in 1823 to Samuel Martin, and it is now be-lieved that Martin built the home sometime between 1823 and 1835. Unfortu-nately, deed transfers at the time did not disclose whether there was an im-provement to the property that would indicate a struc-ture. The Russell family purchased the home shortly before the Civil War, and six generations of the family lived there until it was pur-chased by the town of Far-ragut in 2012.

We do know that Mar-tin built an inn just east of the home on present-day Campbell Station Road. And we know that it was a popular staging area for set-tlers moving on to the Cum-berland settlements and ultimately to Nashborough (Nashville). Sometimes as many as 60 families would gather there to be escorted through the wilderness by the Cumberland Guards, and we know that Mar-tin was a member of the Guards. We now know that while the structure was not the actual Campbell Station Inn, it probably housed its guest overfl ow.

Martin was a well-ed-ucated man, a bit unusual for the frontier at the time, and we know he owned an extensive library in the style of Thomas Jefferson. He was also a very close friend of Andrew Jackson, with whom he shared a com-mon interest in fi ne race-horses. In fact, the two went into partnership to build a racetrack, probably located somewhere on present-day Concord Road. This was not a relationship that would seem likely, since the two men were at the opposite ends of the political spec-trum.

Perhaps the most in-teresting thing about the

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home is the colorful array of guests who stayed there. Among those were G.W. Featherstone, the famed British geologist; Andréa Michaux, the French bota-nist; and Louis Philippe, who would become King of France and rule from 1830 to 1848.

One account is that Featherstone and his son had been working in the area and were quite dirty. As they approached the inn they saw President Jackson sitting in front of a window smoking a long-stem clay pipe. They were hesitant to approach the president in their untidy condition, but Jackson quickly comment-ed, “Don’t worry son, your dirt will easily wash off, but if you were in politics, you might fi nd it harder to wash away.” We also know that Featherstone had a confron-tation with a man that night who was armed with two pistols and a dirk knife, and that he relieved the man of all his weapons and threw him out the door.

Another colorful guest was Louis Philippe, the so-called “Citizen King,” who lived four years in Phila-delphia during Napoleon’s reign, and during those four years toured the Southern states and spent four nights at the inn. It is reported that a trade envoy from Camp-bell’s Station visited France during Philippe’s reign, and when one of the members told the king where he was from, Philippe answered: “Ay, yes, Campbell’s Station. Do they still sleep four in a bed at the inn?”

We can surmise that the inn must have been a “swinging place” because shortly after building it, Martin advertised in the Knoxville Gazette for 2,000 gallons of good whiskey in new kegs with each keg not to contain more than 36 gal-lons. He also advertised for coppersmiths, promising steady work with good pay. Of course, copper was used for tubing and vessels in distilling alcohol, so Martin probably planned to make his own whiskey.

The town of Farragut’s intent is to restore the home to its original condition. When completed, visitors to “Campbelton,” who now can only drive by the struc-ture and wonder about its history, will be able to take guided tours with knowl-edgeable docents in period dress. Reliving the stately old home’s colorful past, guests will walk in the footsteps of presidents and kings.

Reading on the Santa TrainNick Pavlis, Knoxville vice mayor and City Council mem-

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Time marches on, except when it sprintsNo sense in denying my

innate charm any longer. In the past few months I’ve gained many friends, and the only thing that’s changed is the approach of my 65th birthday.

It could be that air of wis-dom that surrounds us el-der statesmen, even though most of my new friends want to sell me something. But, heck, we all have to make a living, and if you can’t count on your friends to buy your product, who can you count on?

Strangely, an inordinate number of my new pals work for, are affi liated with or tout insurance compa-nies. All sell Medicare sup-plement plans, and they all want to make sure I choose a plan that’s right for me.

I haven’t been treated to such consideration since my drill sergeant showed me the “right” way to align items in my foot locker.

The grocery stores and drugstores have been my buddies for a while now, offering me regular senior discounts.

Now if they would only offer me discounts on things I really need, like astronomically expensive prescription medications. I guess you shouldn’t expect too much, even from such thoughtful friends.

My good buddies at AARP (that’s American As-sociation of Retired Persons

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Happily, just when I thought the federal govern-ment no longer loved me (except for the “tough love” shown by the IRS), the So-cial Security Administra-tion has become my BFF.

The SSA demonstrates their undying devotion by making a monthly deposit into my checking account!

For the cynics who say the feds are only paying back the money I loaned them over lo these many years, that’s more than some friends do. (Roger Needham: You still owe me $5 for your drive-in theater ticket and hot dog.)

For all these acts of kind-ness and more, I intend to write thank-you notes as soon as my AARP-recom-mended vitamin and min-eral memory-enhancing pills kick in and I remember what I did with those ad-

dresses.Until then I can content-

edly ponder the big ques-tions that surround reach-ing 65. These include:

What the heck happened? Yesterday I was 40!

Do I really need to change my socks every day? Will anyone notice?

When did pickle jars be-come so hard to open?

Why are those other driv-ers honking at me?

For answers to these questions, stay tuned to this column.

Marvin West

A white man and a black man, more than lunch-counter acquaintances, per-haps co-workers, were talk-ing Tennessee football.

ball integrated? He knew just enough about Lester McClain to be dangerous in this discussion.

“Long before Lester,” said I.

That was the introduc-tion to William Henry Lewis, Amherst College, center, captain and class orator, 1891. This son of a preacher man went on to Harvard Law School and played some more foot-ball, which made him the fi rst black athlete at two schools.

After that, he coached at Harvard for 12 seasons. He racked up a 114–15–5 record because a lot of other teams didn’t know what they were doing.

Walter Camp named Lewis to his all-time All-America team as of 1900. This was the beginning of diversity.

A personal friend, President Theodore Roo-sevelt, who just happened to be a Harvard alum-nus, decided in 1903 that Lewis was the best man in America to serve as U.S. Assistant Attorney General. Critics tried to explain away the appoint-

ment by saying Lewis was “so light in color that only his intimate friends know him to be a negro.”

The New York Times did not capitalize Negro in 1903.

The memory of Wil-liam Henry Lewis lives on. In 1980, the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame re-membered that he grew up in Berkley and Ports-mouth. Bingo, you’re in.

In 2009, Lewis was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

My audience was prop-erly impressed.

“So, you do know some-thing,” said the white guy.

I told them some of what I know about Les-ter McClain. The Nash-ville receiver was No. 2 in Doug Dickey’s integration plan, roommate for Al-bert Davis of Alcoa. The university chose not to admit Albert.

Kentucky signed two black football players before Tennessee signed Lester, but he was fi rst to play a signifi cant role in the Southeastern Confer-ence.

He arrived in August

1967, 13 years after the Su-preme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education deci-sion. I was out front at Gibbs Hall when his father and brother helped him move his belongings from the family car to the dorm. I said hello to him and good-bye to them.

Lester remembers that when they drove away was the fi rst time it hit him. He was the fi rst black, the only black, in a strange, new world.

“Lester McClain, what have you done?”

He did great. He caught a pass from Bubba Wyche in the fi rst UT game on artifi -cial turf.

Condredge Holloway, in “The Color Orange,” says ev-erybody needs to know who Lester McClain is.

“We all owe him a great deal of respect and honor because he went through a lot of adversity for us. After him, it became easier.”

Lester made it look easy. He caught 70 passes. He scored 12 touchdowns. He won respect. He maintained dignity. He still does.Marvin West invites reader reactions. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

The white man said the Volunteers are mostly black. To be politically correct, he said African-Americans.

The black man chuckled, disagreed gently and start-ed listing white positions: the kickers, a receiver with promise, some offensive linemen and two quarter-backs.

“And most of the coach-es.”

The white guy grinned and said something about trading in one or two for another Tommy Thigpen, zesty recruiter.

I pretended not to hear such heresy, but both knew I had been listening since the fi rst mention of Tennessee. The white man asked, point-edly, when was college foot-

Shopper news • DECEMBER 17, 2014 • 5 government

On Dec. 2, Tennessee At-torney General Herb Slat-tery shot a hole through the provision in Superintendent James McIntyre’s contract requiring six votes – a su-permajority of the nine-member board of education – to fi re him.

Opinion 14-102 came in response to a question from Oak Ridge Sen. Randy Mc-Nally (who also represents a sliver of Knox County) asking whether such a con-tract provision can over-ride state law, which calls for local school boards to conduct their business by a

Five votes rule at school board

Betty Bean

Both law director and state AG opine

simple majority vote.The newly appointed

Slattery, who previously served as Gov. Bill Haslam’s general counsel, said no.

“A board of education may not, by contract, limit its statutory decision-mak-ing authority by requiring a supermajority vote to ap-prove termination of a di-rector of schools when the

statute provides for termi-nation by majority vote. The supermajority voting requirement is unenforce-able.”

In an interesting coinci-dence, school board mem-ber Doug Harris had asked Knox County Law Director Bud Armstrong to research this question:

“Is a simple majority vote required for the Knox County Board of Education to transact business?”

Armstrong’s memo, dat-ed the same day as Slattery’s opinion, came to the same conclusion:

We’re not the biggest city in the region, or even the state. But Knoxville has de-veloped a national reputa-tion for being energy-savvy, and, according to Depart-ment of Energy chief of staff Kevin Knobloch, we’re uniquely positioned to at-tract energy business.

DOE chief of staff Kevin Knobloch recognizes Mayor Madeline Rogero for Knoxville’s designa-

tion as a Climate Action Champion. Photo by Wendy Smith

DOE chief recognizes Knoxville’sbright energy future

Wendy Smith

Knobloch was in town last week to speak at a work-shop on fi nancing options for advanced energy proj-ects. He recognized Mayor Madeline Rogero for the city’s recent Climate Action Champion designation by the Obama administration.

Knoxville received the award for its goal of reduc-ing greenhouse gas emis-sions to 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The city already has reduced emissions from municipal operations by 13 percent and emissions from the community by 7.75 percent, Rogero said.

“We’re on our way, but there’s still more to do.”

Of the 16 communities chosen as the fi rst round of Climate Action Champi-ons, only two were from the Southeast: Knoxville and

Broward County, Fla. She hopes other communities in the Southeast will compete, and win, in the future.

Rogero credited Offi ce of Sustainability director Erin Gill with seeing the big pic-ture while working on the details.

“You’ll hear from us about that fi nancial assis-tance,” she said to Knobloch before his keynote address on fi nancing opportunities available through DOE.

Innovative ventures are important because they af-fect the way we live and work, he said.

He listed assets that make the area attractive to energy businesses. Innovative busi-nesses, like Local Motors, which recently produced a 3-D printed car, capture the public’s attention. Partner-ships between UT and Oak Ridge National Lab, like the Cherokee Farm Innovation Campus and the Joint Insti-tute for Advanced Materials, offer top-notch talent and research capabilities.

DOE has a 98 percent success rate at helping in-novative technology into the marketplace and currently has $30 billion in loan con-tracts. DOE fi nanced the fi rst fi ve photovoltaic proj-ects in the U.S., and an ad-ditional 17 have commenced since then with no public funding.

“That’s the way it should work. We have to show the

private sector that projects are viable.”

There’s no single energy solution, he said, but the country needs a portfolio of energy options.

Loan offi cer Patrick Thomas said DOE loan programs are available for clean-energy projects and manufacturers of advanced technology vehicles and components. Many proj-ects reach the demonstra-tion scale but can’t move forward without fi nancing, which is diffi cult to obtain for unproven technology.

“We’re willing and able to take that risk,” he said.

Knobloch and Thomas spoke at “Opportunities in Energy: Public/Private Financing Options to De-ploy Advanced Energy and Manufacturing,” a work-shop presented by UT, DOE, Cherokee Farm and Tennes-see Advanced Energy Busi-ness Council (TAEBC).

Local innovators Jay Rogers of Local Motors and Jay Speight of Cathedral In-novation Group gave brief presentations on their com-panies and the challenges facing innovative manu-facturing, and other local business representatives described successful energy and technology projects.

TAEBC was launched this year to foster the growth of the state’s advanced energy technologies, companies and jobs.

Jeff Welch, who will be interim director of the Met-ropolitan Planning Com-mission come Jan. 1, will receive an $11,000 pay raise for total salary of $110,000. He will receive a car allow-ance of $4,300, prorated on a monthly basis.

This pay was determined by Mayors Tim Burchett and Madeline Rogero, for whom Welch will work.

Under the new MPC sys-tem, Welch reports to the two mayors. He presents is-sues to the MPC, but those commissioners do not hire

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or fi re him. If you think that is weird, you are right. The full story on how the Legis-lature changed the system has not been written.

Meanwhile, the MPC di-rector search committee continues to meet in secret, with their next meeting set

GOV NOTES ■ City Council Sign Task Force will meet 4-6 p.m. Wednesday,

Jan. 7, at the KCDC board room, 910 N. Broadway.

■ Knox County Democratic Party will host its holiday cel-

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“A majority of the board shall be required to conduct all business before it in both regular and special called meetings …

“Thus the section of the policy, rule or contracted action would be supersed-ed by statute and void by operation of law. It takes only five (5) votes for the Knox County Board of Ed-ucation to implement any action.”

Armstrong said he start-ed working on the opinion after hearing the question of whether adding agenda items requires unanimous consent.

“It turned out that this was ‘policy’ they’d come up

with. I’d said that the legis-lature says, ‘Five votes, you can do anything; all busi-ness will be conducted by a majority.’

“That didn’t fi t their vi-sion, and one board member asked for a written opinion. I fi nally got it done and sent it to Doug Harris on Tues-day,” Armstrong said.

“Two days later, out of the clear blue comes this attorney general’s opinion, and it was right on point. It takes fi ve votes to termi-nate, and you cannot con-tract around it. You cannot create a policy or a contract to circumvent the majority vote requirement by saying it only takes fi ve votes to

hire and six to fi re.“The statute prevails.”Last December, during

the heat of teacher com-plaints about McIntyre’s policies, the school board voted 8-1 to extend his con-tract by an additional year (until 2017), fanning the fl ames of discontent during an election year.

By year’s end, the su-perintendent would see his majority whittled to 5-4. The county is contractually obligated to pay McIntyre his $220,800 annual sal-ary plus benefi ts until its expiration date unless he resigns or is terminated for cause.

for Jan. 13 and led by Bill Lyons, deputy city mayor. Responses from applicants to date are dismal. Only four out of 30 applications meet basic requirements for the job. Many of the other applicants are clearly not qualifi ed for the director-ship.

The process is directed largely by Lyons.

■ If you like to hike or walk, you would be amazed and pleased to learn about all the walks available right here in Knox County. If you are looking for that

last-minute Christmas gift, this might be the one for you. It is “Urban Hikes in Knoxville and Knox Coun-ty, Tennessee,” written by Ron Shrieves, Mac Post and Christine Hamilton. It is a project of the local Harvey Broome Group of the Sierra Club. These three writers are devoted outdoors people who know their subject.

You can get it from Leg-acy Parks by calling 525-2585 or going by their offi ce on Volunteer Landing. Cost is $25, of which $15 goes to Legacy Parks. At a recent book-signing at Mast Gen-eral Store, the supply sold out in two hours. However, more are available.

This writer wrote the foreword to the book, and Will Skelton wrote the in-troduction. The number, va-riety and diverse locations of so many trails in an ur-ban area are truly remark-able and part of what makes Knoxville an incredibly spe-cial place to live. This 163-page guide will be the “go to” book for anyone wanting to walk, bike or hike in and

around Knoxville. There should be one in every Knox County public library.

It is no secret that as mayor, one of my proud-est accomplishments was expanding the parks and greenways. I wanted a good-size park within an eight-minute drive of ev-ery city resident. I wanted green ways everywhere.

My goal was to add three to four miles of greenways to the system every year for the 16 years I served as mayor. The success depend-ed on having a mayor and council totally committed to making it happen.

The pace at which the greenways were built by the city has slipped to less than one mile a year since I left

offi ce 11 years ago. Legacy Parks (which is not the city)has helped to fi ll the gap un-der the dynamic leadership of Carol Evans. Tennes-see Clean Water Network has worked along Williams Creek, too, under the equal-ly determined leadership of Renee Hoyos.

The recent 34-cent Rogero property tax hike contains some money for greenways. However, the challenge for our mayor will be whether she turns her attention and focus on getting them built. She has less than a year left in this current term and only four more years after that if she is re-elected.

I hope she makes this part of her legacy, too.

6 • DECEMBER 17, 2014 • Shopper news

By Betsy PickleThis week is the calm

before the storm, with only three major fi lms opening before next week’s Christ-mas deluge, and all of them with a familiar lineage.

The weekend starts today with the offi cial opening of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.” Director Peter Jackson fi nally fi nish-es the Middle-earth sojourn he started with “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” with the fi nal en-try in his “Hobbit” trilogy, based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide whether to unite or be destroyed in this epic fantasy-adventure. Martin Freeman returns as the central character, Bilbo Baggins, with a cast that in-cludes Ian McKellen, Rich-ard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bil-

ly Connolly, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving and Orlando Bloom.

Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and Oscar nominee Quven-zhané Wallis (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) star in “Annie,” the latest incarna-tion of the story about the little orphan who fi nds an unlikely home.

This time, Annie is a fos-ter kid living with a mean foster mom (Cameron Diaz) while waiting for her par-ents to return. A business tycoon (Foxx) with ambi-tions to become New York’s mayor takes Annie in to improve his image, but his plan doesn’t count on An-nie’s own independence and resilience.

The movie also stars Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and David Zayas. Will Gluck co-wrote the script and di-rected.

This week’s other fi lm closes a couple of chapters. “Night at the Museum: Se-cret of the Tomb” is the fi nal fi lm for both Robin Wil-liams and Mickey Rooney and is presumably the last entry in the “Night at the Museum” franchise.

This time, the museum that comes alive after hours is seeing some strange things happening.

The Tablet whose magic allows the past to live again is dying, and to fi nd out how to save it, Larry (Ben Stiller) must travel with his son and his unlikely pals to the Brit-ish Museum in London.

Themes of father-son bonding and moving on come with the comedy this time.

Shawn Levy directs a cast that also includes Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens, Ben Kingsley, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Rebel Wil-son and Skyler Gisondo.

Atilla the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) and

Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek) react to an unexpected turn of events in “Night at the Museum: Secret

of the Tomb.”

Ian McKellen plays the wizard Gandalf in “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.”

Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) and Stacks (Jamie Foxx) take Sandy for a walk in “Annie.”

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Shopper news • DECEMBER 17, 2014 • 7 weekenderTHROUGH 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:

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THURSDAY-SATURDAY, DEC. 18-20 ■ Modern Dance Primitive Light 2014 presented by Circle

Modern Dance, Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Perfor-

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FRIDAY, DEC. 19 ■ Merry Merry! Santa’s on his way, 10:15 a.m., Fountain City

Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

■ Tour de Lights bike ride, 7 p.m., Market Square. Helmets

and headlights required; all ages and skill levels welcome.

Info: www.knoxtrans.org or 215-6100.

SUNDAY, DEC. 21 ■ Winter Solstice Celebration, 7-9 p.m., Strawbale Lodge,

Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road,

Washburn. Led by Marcus Keyes. Info: Mitzi, 497-3603 or

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The food at the French Market Crèperie, which now has two locations in Knoxville, is la nourriture délicieuse. The crèpes are the crème de la crème. Both the savory and sweet of-ferings are chef d’oeuvre. Throw in bon voyage, which I’m not ready to say yet, and you have the extent of my knowledge of French.

Crèpes and I, however, go way back. I fi rst met them in Atlanta at what became my favorite restaurant, The Magic Pan. Any trip to At-lanta included lunch or din-ner at The Magic Pan.

Your Knoxville Sympho-ny Orchestra has been very busy lately.

Carol Shane

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Holiday fun with the KSO

By the time you read this, the KSO will have fi nished up two weekends of perfor-mances of “The Nutcracker” in collaboration with the Appalachian Ballet Com-pany, one in Knoxville at the Civic Auditorium and the other in Maryville at the Clayton Center for the Arts.

Also, string quartets from the orchestra have vis-ited North City and Rogers Creek elementary schools in Athens, Tenn., and Cedar Bluff and Dogwood elemen-tary schools here in town.

And there have been holiday concerts at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate and First Baptist Church in Dandridge. Many seasonal favorites were per-formed, including Leroy Anderson’s popular “Sleigh Ride.” Principal trumpeter Phillip Chase Hawkins has played it countless times. And boy can he make that horse “neeeeeiiiiggghh” at the end!

Here’s why: Seems that Phillip once played the piece in Kentucky – where they know how horses sound – and was taken down a peg by an audience member for his unrealistic whinny.

When’s the last time you were told that your horse impression wasn’t very good? Those folks up there in Bluegrass Country are mighty particular. Chase did some woodshedding, and now his neigh is well-nigh perfect.

Sundays on WUOT.So bundle up the

kids and get on down to the Civic Auditori-um this weekend for the biggest and best holiday concert in town. And this year it’s “An Olde English Christmas,” so get ready to raise a glass of wassail and sing merrilie!

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Clayton Holi-day Concerts will be pre-sented at 7:30 p.m. Friday,

Dec. 19, at 3 and 7.30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium. Tickets range from $14 to $45, and children’s tickets start at less than $8. Groups of 10 or more can purchase tickets at a discounted rate by calling 521-2337. For tickets and info, call 291-3310 or visit http://www.knoxvillesymphony.com.Send story suggestions to news@shop-

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Plate it

Mystery Diner The Goat Cheese with Walnuts savory crêpes at French Market

Crèperie are best when topped off with a side of fi g jam.

I have eaten at both loca-tions of French Market Crè-perie – the one downtown at 526 S. Gay St. and the new one at 161 Brooklawn St. in Farragut – and they offer a touch of France in the décor and ambience. The food far outshines the setting, how-ever. Go hungry, and plan

French Market Crèperie

to eat from both the savory and the sweet menu. Don’t plan on a doggie bag, for two reasons: First, they don’t re-heat well; and second, you won’t want to stop eating.

For the main course sa-vory crèpe, I chose the Goat Cheese with Walnuts in a buckwheat crèpe. The fi lling was delicious – creamy goat cheese with chopped wal-nuts mixed in and evenly folded into the crèpe. The French Fig Jam on the side topped off the fl avors. The crèpe was light and soft in the middle, with just the right amount of crunchy on

the outer edges, and had a delicious fl avor that made it more than just a vehicle to deliver the fi lling.

For dessert, the choices are many. From the simple – Sugar and Butter Crèpes – to the classic – Crèpes Su-zette with Grand Marnier Cognac, butter, sugar, cara-mel and whipped cream – to the simply sublime – Salted Caramel with imported French caramel with sea salt and butter on buck-wheat.

I chose the Blueberries with Lemon Curd, and they were melt-in-your-mouth

delicious. My friend, who had chosen the ham and cheese crèpe for the main course, went with Strawber-ries and Cream for dessert, which was good, but not lick-your-plate good like the blueberries.

The restaurant has spe-cials every day, and you can get omelets or sandwiches

on baguettes or croissants, but really, why? That’s like ordering a burger at Cap-tain D’s. Try the crepes. You will be saying bon voyage toboring entrees in no time.

That’s the end of my foray into the French language, but I’ll be back for more of the food.

And you can hear it start-ing this Friday, when the KSO will present its Clay-ton Holiday Concerts at the Knoxville Civic Audi-torium. It’s Maestro Lucas Richman’s last time on the podium during the holiday season here.

“It has been my honor to be part of this beloved Knoxville tradition for the 12 years in which I have served as music director for the Knoxville Symphony,” he says. “As this will be the last time I’ll be leading the festivities in this capacity, we’ve made sure to include several selections that have become an important and meaningful part of this an-nual program, including Le-roy Anderson’s ‘Christmas Festival Overture,’ my own ‘Hanukkah Festival Over-ture’ and our annual Christ-

mas sing-along.”Also joining in the fun

are the Knoxville Choral Society, Go! Contemporary Dance Works, the Webb School Madrigal Singers, the Church Street United Methodist Treble Choir, the University of Tennessee Herald Trumpets and Santa Claus.

As for the man in the red suit – well, I’ve spoken with a close pal of his. Baritone Kevin Richard Doherty will be taking part in this year’s KSO Holiday Concerts for the second time, and he has a lot to say about his friend, everyone’s favorite Jolly Old Elf.

“Santa and I are old, old friends and I am thrilled to be working with him once again on the KSO Clayton Holiday Concerts,” says Doherty. “Santa’s a great

guy. Always laughing and telling jokes. He’s incredibly humble – you’d think that kind of celebrity would let the fame get to his head. But he’s just an ordinary guy.

“It’s a blast to be work-ing with the Knoxville Sym-phony,” he continues, “and I’m also honored to be a part of Lucas’ fi nal Holiday Concert. Knoxville is los-ing a great conductor and a great guy. But I’m excited for him as he moves on to new things!”

Doherty’s own pedigree includes performances with Knoxville, Asheville and Shreveport operas. He’s ap-peared with the KSO, the Symphony of the Mountains and Rapides Symphony Or-chestra in Alexandria, La. He’s currently the host and producer of the Early Morn-ing Concert, Saturdays and

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Proceeds will go to the families of victims from Sunnyview Primary School who were killed Dec. 2. Info: Marie Roberts, 228-9697; Niki Lucas, 566-1247.

■ Austin-East fi lm earns Emmy nominationA film produced at Austin-East Mag-

net High School has earned a regional Emmy Award nomination through the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Midsouth Chapter. The film promotes the performing-arts pro-gram at the school and is in the award category Information/Instructional Program.

The fi lm premiered in December 2013 during an Austin-East arts showcase event to promote the performing-arts program at the school. It was co-written and produced by Olivia Riggins, magnet coordinator and dance teacher at Austin-East, and co-written and directed by Tyler Hays, local cinematographer and owner of Tyler Hays Creative. To view the

fi lm, visit the Austin-East page of knox-schools.org and click on “AE Showcase Video.”

The regional Emmy Award compe-tition will be held Jan. 31, 2015, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. The Midsouth Chapter serves North Carolina, Tennessee and northern Alabama. Other nominees in the Infor-mation/Instructional Program category include Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Peabody College and WZTV Fox 17 in Nashville.

The performing-arts program at Aus-tin-East Magnet High School includes a competitive theater team, marching band, choir, dance company and West African Dance and Drum Ensemble.

For the third year in a row, the Fulton football team has brought home the gold football trophy for win-ning a state championship.

Coach Rob Black and his staff have built a tough pro-gram, but, more important, they have built a family. “The coaching staff initi-ated the family feel, and the

Fulton football team ‘like family’The Falcon team celebrates following its third straight win at the state championship. Photos by Steve Morrell/FulCom

players have embraced it,” said Black. “They play for each other.”

The family effect starts at the top with Black, who feels blessed to have worked alongside his father, legend-ary coach Bob Black, for the past 24 years. “It’s spe-cial for me to work with my dad,” he said.

Next season will put Maryville on the Falcon schedule, and Black is ex-cited for the matchup. “It’s something that both com-munities have wanted for a while and will give us the chance to play the best and get better from the experi-ence.”

The team will take a break until after the winter holidays, with the excep-tion of the eight members that headed straight to play basketball for the Falcons and the three who went to Cookeville to play in the Toyota East/West All-Star game.

Black was selected to coach the East team, and Fulton players K.J. Roper, Jonathan Roth and D.J. Campbell suited up for the game that was played last Friday. Dominique Wil-liams also made the team, but due to a concussion dur-ing the championship game he was unable to play.

Assistant coach Bob Black does the Falcon dance following the state championship win.

Courtney Rader uses an iPad and the Aurasma app to get in-

formation on the instruction off ered through FulCom at Fulton

High School.

Graham Baer interviews Sarah Emory on-air during the FulCom

showcase.

■ Fulton showcases communications departmentFulton High hosted a

magnet showcase last week, and parents and community members were able to see what the communications department (FulCom) has to offer students.

Upon entering, individu-als were given an iPad to ac-cess information using the Aurasma app. When a bar-code was scanned, the app opened a video featuring an instructor who spoke about the programs. FulCom of-fers instruction in web de-sign, broadcast radio, jour-nalism, digital art, video production and more.

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Ringing bells for the Red Kettle Home Federal Bank employees Christa Bibbs and Nissa Wil-

liams volunteer for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign

on Market Square. The Red Kettle campaign helps provide

Christmas dinners, clothing, toys and basic necessities for

those in need, and the bank’s volunteers again this year com-

mitted to staffi ng this location at lunchtime Dec. 8-23. Info:

www.homefederalbanktn.com. Photo submitted

Keith Carver, executive assistant to the president of

the Univer-sity of Ten-nessee, has been cho-sen by the Ten ne s s e e Chamber of Commerce and Indus-try to serve as a mem-

ber of its board of directors. Carver’s three-year term on the board begins Jan. 1.

The Tennessee Cham-ber advocates for the state’s business community, works with other trade organiza-tions and serves the Ten-nessee Manufacturers As-sociation in also supporting industry. Board members set policy, guide the organi-

zation’s course and serve as the voice for business.

Carver joined Joe DiPi-etro’s staff as executive assistant on Jan. 3, 2011, following positions at UT’s campuses in Knoxville, Martin and Memphis. He was interim vice chancellor for development and alum-ni affairs at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis from April to December 2010 and assistant vice chancellor for development at UT Martin from 2006 to 2010.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology at the University of Memphis, a master’s in college student personnel and educational leadership at UT-Knoxville, and a doctorate in philoso-phy at UTK.

Keith Carver

Carver on state Chamber board

Bobbie Wyatt of Provision

Health Partners gives Santa

her Christmas wish list.

The Provision Center for Proton Therapy hosted a family holiday gathering Dec. 11. In the center’s spa-cious yet cozy lobby area, complete with fi replace and

Christmas tree, guests weretreated to refreshmentsand performances by localchoirs. Santa himself evenpaid a visit.

– Shannon Carey

Provision welcomes families

Halls High School Madrigals Kristin Smith

and Mariah Hensley sing songs of the

season at Provision. Photo by S. Carey

Caden Robinson waits for his

chance to visit with Santa.

Pinnacle at Turkey Creek general manager Darryl Whitehead and marketing manager Kiley Flee-

nor talk to Mission of Hope’s executive director, Emmette Thompson, and his wife, Valarie, at the

check presentation. Photo by S. Barrett

By Sara BarrettWest Knoxville retailers

and their customers helped distant neighbors in a big way this year.

A check for $8,548.47 was presented to Mission of Hope’s executive direc-tor Emmette Thompson on behalf of the businesses and patrons of the Pinnacle at Turkey Creek. This is an in-crease of more than $2,000 from last year’s collection.

Folks donated money during the Lights Up! tree lighting ceremony held Nov. 21, which coincided with the Mission of Hope’s holiday fundraising kickoff.

Pinnacle marketing manager Kiley Fleenor said the nonprofi t’s big blue bar-rels have also been available at Turkey Creek businesses for donations of toys and clothing.

“Most of the shoppers here are lucky enough to have a bright Christmas,” said Fleenor. “It’s nice to stop and think of those less

By Alvin NanceSylvia Cook, a senior res-

ident at The Residences at Eastport, has been a lifelong ad-vocate of n e i g h b o r -hood watch pr og r a m s. Growing up in Chatta-

nooga, her parents were al-ways involved in the neigh-borhood’s watch program, and Cook has volunteered at local police departments since she was a teenager.

When Cook moved to KCDC’s newest premier property more than two years ago, she brought with her that passion for a neigh-borhood organization that would create solutions for community issues. Recent-ly, The Residences at East-port/Lee Williams Neigh-borhood Watch, which Cook led the effort in forming, held its fi rst anniversary celebration at Dr. Lee L. Williams Senior Complex.

“I decided I’m going to step out to do the things that can be done,” Cook said. “The Neighborhood Watch works with anyone having a problem and connects them with KCDC or the Knox-ville Police Department to resolve it. We’ve cleared a lot of problems in the past year.”

Cook said the neighbor-hood watch started with just a few members from The Residences at Eastport. The group has grown and now includes members from its adjacent property for se-nior citizens, Dr. Lee L. Wil-liams Senior Complex.

“It’s not always easy talk-ing to someone, especially for the seniors,” Cook said. “It’s less intimidating talk-ing to your neighbors in the watch program.”

Cook said the members who attend the neighbor-hood watch sessions are very dedicated. A core group of approximately eight or nine individuals attends almost every meeting. Dar-lene Bunch won an award

Neighborhood Watch gives voice to Five Points residents

Nance

News from Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation (KCDC)

Sylvia Cook

Turkey Creek helps Mission of Hope

fortunate during the holiday season.”

Mission of Hope is a year-round Christian min-istry delivering clothing, toys, food and school sup-plies to rural Appalachian

families. Thompson said toys and clothing are al-ways needed, but right now there is a shortage of winter coats. “Because of the warm weather, coat sales are in the tank, so we’re experi-

encing a shortage of them as well,” he said.

One generous patron donated $4,000 at this year’s event, which should buy a coat or two. Info: www.missionofhope.org.

at the anniversary celebra-tion for perfect attendance.

KCDC se-nior asset m a n a g e r Beth Bacon and a KPD representa-tive regu-larly attend meetings.

In addi-tion to dis-

cussing community issues, the group also provides neighborhood-building ac-tivities, such as computer

training, exercises classes, fi re safety and Social Secu-rity information.

“I think we are doing a lot of good in our neighbor-hood, and it’s going to be even better in the coming year,” Cook said. “People have said, ‘You are our voice.’ I just try to help with the things I can and tell them where they can get help.”

Being a Chattanooga na-tive as well, I must say I’m very proud of my “home girl.”

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