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By Greg Householder

When Powell High School stu-dents return next Monday, parents and students will notice a few new faces. Assistant principals Mark Majors and Bob Norton are gone – Majors to the North Knox Career Technical Education Center and Norton to Farragut.

Replacing Majors and Norton are Jane Finley and Nathan Langlois.

Finley, who will focus on special education, comes to Powell after a one-year stint as an assistant prin-cipal at Karns High School. She was an assistant principal at West Valley Middle School for eight years and taught at Central High for 15 years.

Finley hails from Memphis and traveled all over the country grow-ing up. Her father worked for an oil company and she describes herself as “an oil company brat” – borrow-ing on the term used to describe children of military personnel who move frequently.

Finley graduated from high school in North Carolina and did her college time at UT.

“My blood defi nitely runs or-ange,” she says.

The Powell High School administrative team: principal Ken Dunlap and assistant principals Nathan Langlois, Denise

McGaha and Jane Finley. Photo by Greg Householder

New faces at Powell High

Langlois comes to Powell af-ter serving in the metro Atlanta area for 16 years. He was raised in Michigan and graduated from high school in Grand Rapids. He did his bachelor’s work at Western Michi-gan University and received his master’s from Jackson State Uni-versity in Jackson, Miss.

Langlois and his wife, Eiisha,

have two children, Maia, 12, and Christian, 8.

Langlois will be handling ath-letic director duties and will over-see the maintenance and grounds as well as putting together a student handbook.

Joining Finley and Langlois as newcomers to Powell this year are 12 teachers.

By Larry Van Guilder

(First in a series)

Crime doesn’t pay, but it does cost taxpayers. As Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett looks for ways to reduce government spending, it’s time to examine the high cost of in-carceration and consider expanding the alternatives.

Recently a high-ranking Knox County Sheriff’s Offi ce offi cial was lamenting the attitude of prison-ers who refuse to work even if it means an early out. Some with six-month stays at the jail were offered a chance to halve their sentences if they would join inmate work gangs. They refused, preferring to spend

Analysis

Balancing the crime budget

By Betty Bean

The damage caused by stormwa-ter runoff from the Rufus Smith-owned residential development on

the top of Copper Ridge isn’t confi ned to the property of Gary and Mar-sha Carter, whose home and land were trashed by muddy fl oodwaters when a detention pond col-lapsed in June.

Their next-door neighbors on Dawson Hollow Road, David and Patricia Dowling, have suffered water damage as well.

“When they fi rst started, I walked up there to see what they were doing,” said David Dowling, a retired steamfi tter. “They were digging on the front fi rst, and then they came around to the back where

Dowling

Stormwater damage continues on Dawson Hollow Road

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The estimate of the cost of

restoring David Dowling’s

detention pond to

functionality: $13,307.56.

These include homeless persons typi-cally jailed for minor offenses.

Like hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the nation, the KCSO fi nds itself grappling with a problem that originated more than 50 years ago and grew through the 1960s and 1970s. State facilities closed and mental patients were “deinstitution-alized” by the tens of thousands in favor of treatment at local mental health centers. As far back as 1984, Richard Lyons was writing in the New York Times that the policy was “widely regarded as a failure.”

Today, the numbers of the mentally ill have grown far beyond the capac-ity of local mental health treatment facilities, and funding for such facili-ties from state and local governments is shrinking as the Great Recession lingers. In Knox County, the entrance to the jail is a revolving door for many of the chronically mentally ill.

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their “vacation” inside.There’s little to be done in the

short run to change inmate attitudes, but there are steps that can be taken to keep down the cost of housing in-mates. One is the electronic moni-toring (ankle bracelet) program that Knox County has used increasingly for several years.

Allison Rogers of the KCSO says the current cost per day for housing inmates is $74. The electronic moni-toring bracelets are leased for $10 per day, but the offender reimburses the sheriff’s offi ce for that cost.

Currently, three KCSO employ-ees supervise approximately 1,000 offenders on the program. “The offenders are able to work and therefore lessen the tax burden on the citizens of Knox County,” Rog-ers notes.

The KCSO has dealt with a per-fect storm of issues that began in the late 1980s when a class action suit was fi led by inmates. The suit alleged overcrowding had resulted in conditions which violated inmate rights guaranteed by the Eighth and 14th Amendments to the Con-stitution. Subsequently, the court threatened Knox County with a $5,000 per inmate per day fi ne for exceeding the maximum capacity of the downtown intake center.

An additional pod for housing prisoners at the Maloneyville Road detention center alleviated over-crowding downtown, but the KCSO is also dealing with problems that originated outside the county.

According to Rogers, between 18 and 22 percent of prisoners suffer from some form of mental illness.

According to principal Ken Dun-lap, the teacher turnover this year is about par for the course. Powell is only losing one teacher to another school system. According to Dunlap, teachers don’t come back for a num-ber of reasons – spousal job trans-fers, retirements, maternity leave, health reasons or to transfer to an-

it’s a steep drop-off and they didn’t have a pond up there at all.

“Then I walked over to my neigh-bor’s house and said ‘Man, they’re gonna drown us.’ ”

Dowling said he kept watching as all the trees came down. He fol-lowed a dump truck hauling a load of topsoil to a site in Halls.

“You take a big old oak tree, it’ll soak up a lot of water.”

He said he tried talking to the Southland Excavation employees, to no avail.

“I told them this was going to happen, told them to dig a pond. But they didn’t, so I dug a detention pond to protect myself.”

His detention pond sits on the side of the hill where he keeps his goats, llamas, geese and a Great Pyrenees dog. At fi rst, it worked to perfection, he said.

“I told my wife, ‘This is gonna

work good.’ The pond would fi ll up during a rain, then slowly drain, slowing the water down.”

But that didn’t last long.“Last July, we had a heavy rain,

and buddy, here came all that mud and water. It was just gushing.”

Now, his pond, which used to be 8 feet deep, is plugged with mud and no longer drains. He estimates it’s only 8-10 inches deep now. He wants to fi x it and last week got an estimate for restoring it to function-ality: $13,307.56.

And he knows that’s a tempo-rary fix.

The water is coming down the hill in sheets now, digging gullies in his yard and washing against, under and around his house. The county has dumped loads of riprap along Dawson Hollow Road to keep the roadbed from washing away. Dowling says a friend came by the house not long ago and asked him where his yard had gone.

“I told her ‘Down the road.’ ”“Every time it rains hard for an

hour, you can look at your watch, and in 20 minutes that pond is run-ning over and coming through the yard like a creek.”

The Dowlings said they are in the process of discussing their situation with attorney Rob Frost, who repre-sents the Carters.

The Rufus Smith Properties’ in-surance company, Acuity, has now put Gary and Marsha Carter in a motel.

Sending out smilesLions Club donates

stuff ed toys for local

Girl Scout’s project

See page 3

Kaitlyn Hill, daughter

of Lion Thomas Hill,

among the stuff ed

animals donated by the

Knox North Lions Club

for Jackie Martyn’s Girl

Scout Gold project.Photo by Greg Householder

Powell High School dance team will be holding a “dog wash” at Paws Pets Supply on Schaad Road from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28.

Cost is $6 per dirty pooch and proceeds go to the dance team. Info: Paws Pet Supply at 938-7297; ask for Stephanie Cline or Dacey Hackworth.

The Fair is coming ■

The Knox North Lions had a double treat last Wednesday. Besides hear-ing about Jackie Martyn’s Girl Scout project, the Lions

also heard from Scott Suchomski, e x e c u t i v e director of the Tennes-see Valley Fair.

The fair was always a highlight

when I was a kid. I think I might have gone a couple of years ago but I defi nitely plan on going this year.

I scored a couple of tick-ets off Scott by being the fi rst to answer one of his quiz questions correctly.

The fair runs from Sept. 9-18.

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Greg Householder

What started out as a gathering of friends during the holidays is turning into a big deal.

Matt Sayre, (above) manager

of the Texas Roadhouse on

Morrell Road, was presented

with a photo of the Powell

Airplane Filling Station by AF-

SPA president Tom Bruno at

the July 30 breakfast benefi t-

ing the airplane. Photos by Greg Householder

Margaret Trammell of the

Noweta Garden Club demon-

strates how to put together

an assemblage at the club’s

meeting last Tuesday.

Ray Johnson’s party is Dec. 22

Since 2009, Powell High School graduate and recent inductee into the PHS Hall of Fame Ray Johnson would come to town for the holi-days and get together with friends for a dinner. The only requirement besides the cost of admission was to bring a toy to be given to a young patient confi ned to Children’s Hospital at Christmastime.

This year’s get together is a big deal. Ray has booked Beaver Brook Country Club for the night of Dec. 22. The party begins at 6:30. Cost is $40 and proceeds will go jointly to the Powell High School Dreams Foundation and the Powell Playhouse. Ray is also planning to hand out a scholarship in honor of Nita Buell Black to a PHS band, choral, art or drama student at the gala.

Ray, who lives in Tampa, Fla., said the limit for the party is 300 and he ex-pects a sellout. His “Powell Friends” Facebook group stood at 845 members last Thursday and will easily pass 1,000 soon.

So you better let him know you’re coming. Send him a “save-the-date” email and he will send you an in-

Suchomski

vite. You can reach Ray at ray.johnson2011@yahoo.com.

Noweta studies ■

creative designsThe Noweta Garden Club

met last Tuesday at the Pow-ell Lions Club for a presen-tation on design styles. I learn so much when I attend these meetings and actu-ally fi nd that I enjoy them. The whole garden club thing with its rules for shows is fascinating.

Suzanne Sweat demon-strated illuminaries – the same thing she demon-strated a few weeks ago at the Heiskell senior program. When I wrote that story, my spell check told me that there was no such word as il-luminaries so I changed it to luminaries. But it is illumi-naries. Illuminaries use light in the design but you have to hide the light source.

Margaret Trammell dem-onstrated assemblages. An assemblage is more focused on objects rather than plants. Margaret used items such as plumbing pieces and other hardware in her design.

Carole Whited demon-strated underwater design. As you can imagine, parts of the display must be under-water, your water can’t turn yucky and you have to hide your mechanics (the stuff you use to hold your plants in place).

Interesting stuff.

Dance team to ■

hold ‘dog wash’Here’s a fundraiser you

don’t hear of very often. The

Airplane folks set ■

yard saleThe folks with the Air-

plane Filling Station Pres-ervation Association held a biscuit breakfast fundraiser at the Texas Roadhouse on Morrell Road on July 30.

The group needs to raise about $16,000 to match a grant offered by the Tennes-see Historical Commission to help restore the airplane.

On Saturday, Aug. 20, the AFSPA will hold a yard sale at the lot of Knox Used Cars, 6926 Clinton Highway. A 10-by-10 space will cost you $10. Info: Tom Bruno at 457-7895 or Rock Bernard at 933-7158.

other school where their children are perhaps attending.“The number 12 is pretty normal,” he said.Dunlap expects about 1,375 students this year – down a

bit from the 1,400 or so the past couple of years.Perhaps the most signifi cant change this year is the new

teacher evaluation program being implemented statewide in the wake of changes to tenure signed into law this year. The model is based on what is called the Teacher Assis-tance Program or TAP.

“It redefi nes what good teaching is,” says Dunlap. The new methodology insures that effective teaching methods are used.

The most noticeable change is in the frequency of teach-er evaluations. Under the new system tenured teachers will be evaluated four times during the school year versus the two times every fi ve years under the old system.

Non-tenured teachers will be evaluated six times during the school year versus the former three times per year until tenured.

Per capita, the U.S. is the world’s most incarcerated na-tion. The failed war on drugs is a major contributor, and Knox County sees it share of arrests for minor drug offenses.

Meth cookers, cocaine dealers and pushers of opiates such as Oxycontin must be hounded and eradicated, but laws such as Tennessee’s which can land you in jail for a year for possessing any amount of marijuana no longer make sense, especially from an economic standpoint. Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol, and it will never work for marijuana.

A 2008 study by the Justice Policy Institute concluded that of the 20 states that admit the most people to treatment, 19 had incarceration rates below the national average. Jailing drug abusers is short-sighted both economically and socially. Jail the pushers, treat the addicts and the community wins.

Next week we’ll look at the Knox County Safety Center proposal (currently tabled); the effectiveness of judicial di-version; and the role that judges and prosecutors play in maintaining a justice system that keeps the community safe and makes the best use of our tax dollars.

Balancing the crime budgetFrom page A-1

New faces at Powell HighFrom page A-1

Art Show is SundayThe Powell Playhouse Art

Show will present the works of 31 area artists from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, at the Jubilee Banquet Facility, lo-cated just off Callahan Road east of Clinton Highway.

Artists will include Nancy Anderson, the late Kay Atkins (her work will be presented by her husband, Joe, in her memory) Scott Brannan, Jo

Ann Cooper, Lisa Robertson Cooper, Madison Courtney, Carol Crye, Jeff Delaney, Ken Dunlap, Gale Engelke, Rhon-da Harbin, Shari Harris, Mary Haun, Jeff Huffaker, Kay Ju-risk, Marji Kirchoff, Bill Lett, Bob Longmire, Mark Long-mire, Evelyn Martin, Grace Ott, J.W. Roberts, Phil Sav-age, Danny Simmers, Marsha Sneed, Jamie Speed, Michael Speed, Jonathan Staggs, Rob-ert Taylor, Jean Weeden and

Lillian Williams. Musicians will include The

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Tickets are $5 and may be purchased by calling Mona Napier at 947-7428.

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Scout donates to charity

By Greg Householder

The Knox North Lions Club hosted Farragut High student Jackie Martyn and her mom, Jo, last week. Jackie, 15, spoke about her Girl Scout Gold project.

The Gold Award is the Girl Scout equivalent to the Eagle award for Boy Scouts. It requires a preapproved 65-hour public service project.

Jackie’s project involves stuffed animals – lots of them. She collects and do-nates them to charities such Ronald McDonald House, Mission of Hope and the Daughters of the American Revolution which sends them to soldiers overseas to give to kids in Iraq and Af-ghanistan.

Each organization has different requirements. For example, Children’s Hospi-tal requires the toys to be

Powell Elementary sets ‘Sneak Peek’

Powell Elementary School will host its annual “Sneak Peek” between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thurs-day, Aug. 11.

Parents and students are invited to drop by to meet their teacher and visit their new classroom. This is not a time for parent conferenc-es; those will be set after

school begins.Class rolls will be posted

after 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10. Info: 938-2048.

SCHOOL NOTES

Brickey-McCloudClass lists ■ posted Thursday,

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Copper RidgeOpen houses ■ : 4th-5th

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The 11th annual Powell High School Marching Pan-ther golf tournament to ben-efi t the band was held July 30 at Knoxville Golf Course with 11 teams participating.

First place went to Team Ice Bears, comprised of Jim-my Woodward, Mike Mur-ray, Bill Hogan and Kevin Herman. Second place went to Team Sutton, comprised of Michael Sutton, Keith Ar-nold, Grant Bowman and Doug Moody. Third place was claimed by Team Welch, comprised of Gary Welch, Roger Radford, Mark Tren-tham and Scott Arp.

The band would like to thank Tennessee Sport-ing Goods for the donated plaques for the tournament.

The Pot-o’-Gold winner was Stan Beeler. Longest drive winner was Kevin Her-man and closest to the pin winner was Gary Welch.

Raffl e prizes of a gas grill and a fi ve-piece Ryobi Drill set donated by Tom House-holder of the Powell Home Depot were claimed by Mark Clendenen and John Powers respectively.

The band boosters would like to thank sponsors and donors who contributed to the door prizes and goody bags. They are: O’Reilly’s Auto Parts, the Home Depot at East Towne, Knoxville Wholesale Furniture, Fresh Market, Kmart in Halls, Ap-plebee’s, Bel-Air Grill, Gondo-lier, McAlisters, O’Charley’s,

Ruby Tuesdays, Texas Road-house, TGI Friday’s, Braz-erios, Little Caesars in Halls,Auto Zone, Olive Garden,Famous Daves, TVA CreditUnion in Halls, Cookies byDesign, Ripley’s Aquarium,Dixie Stampede, Titanic Mu-seum, Chick-fi l-A, Bojangles,Cracker Barrel, Dick’s Sport-ing Goods, Knoxville IceBears and Target Golf.

Hole sponsors were: theTVA Credit Union, Joe Neu-bert Collision Center, Cook’sPest Control, Harper Volk-swagen, ORNL Credit Union,Attorney Greg Coleman, Mi-chael Cohan Investigations,Sports Locker, Dr. ThomasPattison and Airport AutoAuction.

Jackie Martyn sits with her new friend Kaitlyn Hill among the

stuff ed animals donated by the Knox North Lions Club for Jack-

ie’s Girl Scout Gold project. Photo by Greg Householder

Lions help collect 1,400 stuff ed animals

And they’re off ! Golfers head out to their holes to start the 11th annual PHS Band golf tourna-

ment on July 30. Photo submitted

Ice Bears win Marching Panther golf tourney

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Since beginning her proj-ect in March, Jackie has collected more than 1,400

stuffed animals and is now getting them distributed. The Knox North Lions glad-ly added several bags of do-nated animals to her collec-tion. Her project winds up Sept. 1.

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Messing with the ‘messes’Walls prepares for three audits

Knox County internal auditor Richard Walls is no stranger to controversy.

Walls lodged a complaint of offi cial oppression against then-Mayor

Mike Ragsdale a couple of years ago that led to a highly publicized ethics

committee hearing. More recently he terminated an employee who was

accused of sending vulgar email messages to Commissioner Amy Broyles. Now his offi ce is preparing to launch three successive “hot potato” audits.

First up is the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, to be followed in order by “material” audits of the Public Build-ing Authority and the Hardin Valley Academy construction project.

The Beck audit is fallout from the debate which erupted when Mayor Tim Burchett cut the center’s funding by 92 percent in the current budget. Commissioner Jeff Ownby requested the PBA and Hardin Valley Academy audits.

Considering that County Commission recently approved an ordinance giving that body authority to contract outside audit help for internal audits, there’s a certain irony in Walls taking on three assignments that are likely to consume the better part of a year for his small staff. But for Walls it’s another day at the offi ce.

“There are only two kinds of audits,” Walls says, “big messes and little messes.” All three of the upcoming audits have “big mess” written all over them.

Beck will require the least time to complete. Walls expects the audit to be done before the next meeting of the Audit Committee on Sept. 13. But this project begins under the shadow of thinly veiled references to misuse of public funds on the one hand and subtle charges of racism on the other.

To be sure, no public fi gure has made either charge di-rectly. Still, the heated debate over Beck doesn’t make Walls’ job easier.

Walls says he’ll approach this audit in typical fashion by assessing the risks of error or malfeasance on the part of the client. He’ll look closely at cash receipts and expenses, or “money in and money out” in auditing shorthand.

Risk assessment can be formalized, although the auditor’s experience and subjective evaluation play a role in determin-ing what areas of the books get the greatest scrutiny. When tens of millions of dollars are involved, the auditor may be tempted to change his methodology. Yet even the PBA and Hardin Valley Academy audits will be subject to the same rules used in the Beck assignment.

“They’re just different sized Kool-Aid stands,” Walls says.Indeed.Hardin Valley Academy soaked up about $50 million of

“Kool-Aid,” and many millions have fl owed through PBA since its establishment. Of special interest to Ownby is PBA’s role in the Hardin Valley project.

Sandy Loy, who owns Construction Plus Inc., has been the sharpest critic of PBA’s involvement in building Hardin Valley Academy. A certifi ed construction manager, Loy has recommended a County Commission sponsored task force to study PBA’s practices.

Ironically, an argument in favor of outside auditors for internal audit work was to avoid suggestions that the audit process was politicized. All of these audits may be warrant-ed, but politics is the engine driving all three requests.

Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

VictorAshe

Betty Bean

There could be a new can-didate in the 5th District City Council race by the time this publication hits the street.

Early voting in the city elections and state Senate special primary starts Sept. 7, about 30 days from now.

Many residents outside the city and some Farragut residents can vote in the Re-publican primary for state Senate which effectively de-cides who the next senator is, as Democrats have ap-parently decided not to con-test the election to fi ll the Jamie Woodson seat now held in the interim by Sen. Sue Atchley.

Residents outside the city make up more than 65 per-cent of the population of the Senate district.

The city contestants have been determined except possibly in the 5th District (previously represented by Larry Cox and Bob Becker) where Mark Campen (who was an interim County Com-missioner) is running unop-posed. Currently, the seat is held by Charlie Thomas who many feel might like to continue in the position, but he feels constrained since he told Council, which ap-pointed him, that he would not run for the full term.

Charlie Thomas Photo by B. Bean

Write-in candidate for 5th District race?

Last week, multiple sources confi rmed that in-terim City Council member Charlie Thomas, appointed in January to fi ll the seat vacated 11 months early by Bob Becker, was preparing to declare himself a write-in candidate.

Only one candidate – Mark Campen – fi led the pa-perwork to run by the June 16 qualifying deadline, and his will be the only name on the Sept. 27 primary ballot.

In city elections, the names of the top two vote-getters in the primary go on the general election ballot, and the only hurdle a write-in candidate must jump is to get at least 25 qualifi ed voters to ask for write-in ballots.

Write-in candidates must fi le a declaration form 50 days before the primary – by noon Monday, Aug. 8, as confi rmed by administrator of elections Cliff Rodgers.

Another hurdle Thomas could face is the pledge he made not to run for a full term.

This could turn into a speed bump if the people to whom the promise was made – his City Council col-leagues – don’t relieve him of the obligation.

Third District Council member Brenda Palmer says the reason she wanted the appointee to promise not to run for the seat was to create a level playing fi eld.

“There were so many ap-plicants for the interim seat, I expected that one or more would step up and run. But none of those people stepped up, and I think that releases him from any pledge he made. When there’s an open seat it’s always good to have competition. I have heard from a number of people, and it’s not that they dislike

Mark, they just think that the 5th District voters need a choice.”

Council member Chris Woodhull concurs:

“I feel very comfortable with Charlie deciding to run and I don’t think it violates the spirit of any promise. I was in a conversation with him about a month ago la-menting the notion that there wasn’t going to be any kind of discussion in the district about the issues in this race. If you only have

one candidate, it incites a kind of lethargy. I asked if he had considered going on and running. Since then, he’s talked to every council member. He was very con-cerned.”

While some might say Thomas has waited too long to start running, there is precedent for such a race. In 1989, Gary Underwood mounted a write-in cam-paign for the District 1 City Council seat that unseated longtime incumbent Hoyle McNeil, who was also the vice mayor.

Underwood – who en-joyed considerable help from supporters of Mayor Victor Ashe, whom McNeil frequently defi ed – won the general election. The up-ending of the once-powerful McNeil forever after served as a lesson in consequences to other council members.

At midweek, Thomas was cautious about revealing his intentions. “I’ve been ap-proached, I’m listening to what they have to say and I’m thinking about it.”

The ins and outs of write-ins

There are repeated ru-mors that a write-in for Char-lie Thomas might occur. This has only succeeded once. That was in 1989 when Vice Mayor Hoyle McNeil was un-opposed for another council term and Gary Underwood launched an unannounced write in campaign to get on the ballot. A minimum of 25 write-in votes are required to secure a spot in the run-off, and Underwood received more than 70. Then, to the surprise of most, he defeated McNeil to become the fi rst person to win a council seat with a write-in beginning. He served 12 years on council.

A few weeks ago, I asked Thomas directly if he was running a write-in campaign. He said “no.” Whether he has changed his mind today I do not know. When I pressed him as to how he would re-spond if he received enough

write-in votes to be placed on the ballot, he said he would have to think it over. How-ever, it was apparent he has enjoyed his limited time on council and the departure of Becker has shortened council meetings considerably.

Since 1989, the law has changed to require the write-in candidate to sign a form with the Election Commis-sion declaring his/her candi-dacy. If someone actually won more than 25 write-in votes and was the second place winner, it is unclear if those ballots would be counted if he/she had not signed a form of candidacy. However, it seems a violation of one’s fed-eral constitutional rights not to count one’s write-in ballot for whomever it is cast even if the recipient had not autho-rized the write-in effort.

This column is not advo-cating a write-in candidate against Mark Campen who is an able, committed person, but is simply outlining what has to happen if it does occur.

This write-in situation once occurred against Jean Teague, and she was able to thwart it by running her own

write-in candidate (Louise Zirkle) who came in second and then declined to allow her name to go on the ballot against Teague who was her longtime friend. The other write-in was third and not eligible for the runoff. Who knows what will happen in the 5th District.

NotesIt seems unusual ■ that

a city judge and mayor may be elected on Sept. 27 if they receive 50.1 percent of the vote, but none of the at-large council candidates will win if they receive 50.1 percent or more of the vote. This sec-tion of the city charter ought to be changed. If a candidate for mayor and judge can be elected in the primary, then why not an at-large candidate who also wins a majority?

A few weeks ago ■ wereported that the Airport Authority was having trou-ble getting a quorum for its meetings. Howard Vogel, the new chair, presided over a full house in July when all nine commissioners showed up for work. Congratulations to all for being present.

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GOSSIP AND LIESJohn Maynard Keynes ■

founded Keynesian Econom-

ics. But Tim Burchett is no

Keynesian. Nope. Tim’s war

on public debt marks him as

a follower of Dave Ramsey.

So we decided to listen to

Ramsey on 100.3 FM.

“Marriage is grand,” ■ said Dave,

“and divorce is fi fty grand.”

“We give advice ■ like your

grandmother gave, only we

have our teeth in,” said Dave.

“God has ■ three answers for

prayer,” said Dave. “Yes, no

and grow.”

Ray Jenkins ■ , GOP chair,

wants a picnic in each sector

of Knox County before year’s

end. He’d better hurry or else

start planning for a string of

wiener roasts.

Dwight Van de Vate ■ has

lost the “interim” off his

title of Director of Engineer-

ing and Public Works. The

mulch pile is sold and the

training wheels are off . Now

we’ll watch the former chief

deputy for Sheriff Tim Hutchi-

son and general fi x-it fellow

for Mike Ragsdale oversee

the fi lling of potholes and

the inspecting of stormwater

violations. It’s a big job.

Joe Armstrong ■ went

over to UT and talked the

bookstore manager into re-

moving some breath mints

that poked fun at President

Obama. Armstrong said the

“disappointmints” conveyed

a political message inappro-

priate for a university. One

surprised political science

professor’s response to the

great mint debate? “Breath-

taking!”

UPCOMING EVENTSAndrew and Trish Graybeal ■

are hosting a reception for

John Whitehead for residents

of Nine Oaks and Timberlake

from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug.

11. Whitehead is a candidate

for his old job as property

assessor. Info: 922-4132.

Brad Walker Orchestra ■

will play for a fundraiser for

Property Assessor Phil Ballard

from 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

13, at the Knoxville Expo

Center. Reservations: 384-

6989 or bigbandbash2011@

gmail.com/. Tickets are $35

($65couple).

Marilyn Roddy ■ is holding

a fundraiser hosted by Dr.

Marek Pienkowski from 5-7

p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, at West

Knox Plaza. Info: 217-6750.

Ring, ring.

Hello, Knox County Schools.

Alex Harkness here. We’d like to propose a lease/purchase deal on an old train station with limited parking for a high school. We’ll charge you $425,000 a year for 20 years, after you fix it up, but the city will pay you $200,000 of that so your net is just $225,000, or $4.5 million over 20 years.

Great! Where do we sign?

Ring, ring.

Hello, Knox County Schools.

Simon Properties here. We’d like to give you some empty offices in our spa-cious Knoxville Center mall for a high school, and we’ll throw in cookies for

McIntyre says ‘yes’ to Carter School

Roddy hosts ice cream socialMarilyn Roddy (at right) brought her campaign for

the state Senate to her neighborhood pharmacy,

Long’s Drug Store, on July 30 for an old fashioned

ice cream social.

No, that did not mean Marilyn and Patrick cranked

freezers in the parking lot, but the crew at Long’s

did a great job of quick service. Talking with the

candidate are Lila Cate and Jo Banner.Photo by S. Clark

special events. There’s lots of parking and possible after-school jobs for the kids.

Great! Where do we sign?Ring, ring.Hello, Knox County

Schools.Tim Burchett here. How

about the County Commis-sion and I sell off assets to raise money for a new el-ementary school at Carter? You get a new building, built to your program stan-dards and debt-free.

When the school board

votes on Wednesday, there’s only one correct response:

Great! Where do we sign?To his credit, Superin-

tendent Dr. Jim McIntyre is recommending the school board take the mayor’s deal, although he calls it a diffi cult decision and pre-dicts board members could come down on either side.

“If the choice were ‘Do we need a new school at Cart-er?’ the answer remains clearly and unequivocally, ‘no.’ ” After all, the school board has voted four times that a renovation with ad-ditions would suffi ce.

But that’s not the ques-tion the board is asked to decide, McIntyre says. The question posed by Mayor Burchett is: “Will you ac-cept a new Carter Elemen-tary School building for the

same cost of a renovation?”The answer to this sec-

ond question is “yes,” McIn-tyre concludes. Hopefully, a majority of the board will agree. Either way, it’s all over on Wednesday and we can debate and write about something else.

Date set for ‘Feast with the Beasts’The Knoxville Zoo’s Feast

with the Beasts will be held from 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, with ORNL Federal Credit Union as sponsor.

Area restaurants will provide food with beverages from East Tennessee’s fa-vorite brewing companies, wineries and distributors.

Tickets are $70 ($60 in advance) and attendees must be 21 or older. Info: 637-5331, ext. 300, or www.knoxville-zoo.org/.

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(Author’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part series about Greg Vandagriff, a 1986 Halls High School graduate who played football at Tennessee Wesleyan and went on to coach in Louisiana and Georgia.)

I helped my daughter move into a new house last week. Jordan had found the cottage

of her dreams, complete with ivy, roses and a white picket fence. It even came with a fenced backyard so that Emma and Zoe, the Labs, would have a place to romp, lie in the sun and chase imaginary (or real) rabbits.

Jordan, who was an English major and whose fi rst job out of college was at Davis-Kidd Book-sellers, owns more books than the Library of Congress (which may be a slight exaggeration, but it cer-tainly felt like it when I was pack-ing them). “Gravity works” was my mantra as I hauled books down the staircase in the house she was

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leaving. I could ease the boxes from one step to the next, and so on, all the way down the stairs.

Her best friend from college came to help us move the couch out of the upstairs offi ce, and the three of us wrestled it down-stairs. Another friend in the neighborhood helped dismantle the antique armoire that had be-longed to Jordan’s paternal great-grandmother. It is more than 9 feet tall and put together with pegs. When its top is lifted off, the whole thing becomes as unstable as Jell-O. Taking it apart (or put-ting it together, for that matter) is a daunting task.

When Moving Day arrived we went to rent a truck. This young woman – who just yesterday, surely, I wrapped in a yellow blan-ket and carried home from the hospital in my arms, the West Vir-ginia snow falling all around us – climbed in that 15-foot truck and

drove it home like a pro. Jordan backed it into her old driveway and was so mad at herself that it took two tries. (For the record, on the next trip, she did it in one!)

Her new next door neighbors were moving out on the same day Jordan was moving in, and two of them came over and offered to help carry in the couch. Feminine pride and independence extends only so far in the Memphis heat, so we ac-cepted the offer with alacrity.

When all was said and done, we were exhausted, and both of us had bruises on arms and legs to prove that we had worked like longshoremen. But, as one friend of mine had predicted, there were “moments of delight.”

As we worked, we talked about the fact that we had spent more time alone together in that week than we ever had before. When Jordan was living at home, grow-ing up, there were always other

family members around. After she left for college, her sister, Eden, and I had some years together, just the two of us, but Jordan and I had never experienced that.

We laughed together, shared hurts, hopes and dreams, told each other things that neither of us had ever told anyone. We worked to-gether, teaming up to fi gure things out. We shopped some, for things she needed in her new place. We made copious lists, and sometimes remembered to consult them.

When the church bells of St. John’s Episcopal Church (right across the street from Jordan’s house) summoned me to worship on Sunday morning, I slipped into a pew and knelt there in heartfelt thanksgiving for all of God’s mer-cies, for blessings beyond count-ing and in fervent prayer for my Jordan: my fi rstborn, my daugh-ter, my friend.

At left: Greg Vandagriff today is defensive coordinator at Wood-ward Academy in Georgia. Above, Brock and Greg Vandagriff pause for a grin after a game. Photos submitted

How a slammed door swung wide open

Don’t tell Greg Vandagriff that the phrase “when one door closes, another one opens”

is just a cliché. One got slammed in his face af-

ter he’d reached the pinnacle of his profession. He says it proved to be the best thing that ever happened to him.

After hearing that Tennessee Tech didn’t have a graduate assis-tant position open, Greg graduated from Tennessee Wesleyan that May and fi gured he’d keep an appoint-ment with Larry Kerr, his high school football coach, about return-ing to Halls High School as an as-sistant.

Then the phone rang. It was Tech. The grad assistant had backed out. “Are you still interested?”

Greg was on campus by July 1990 and ultimately earned a mas-ter’s degree in education with a con-centration in health and physical education.

“It might as well have been nuclear engineering the way they made it,” Greg says. “But with my background in history, I was able to handle the writing.”

As a graduate assistant, he worked with defensive coach Mike Smith, who now coaches the Atlan-ta Falcons.

“The best piece of advice I can give anybody who wants to be a football coach is to be a graduate as-sistant. I found out that I really had zero idea about football until I be-came one. You work 12-15 hour days during the season, so you can’t help but learn football. I coached outside linebackers. It was a wonderful ex-perience.”

After earning his master’s, Greg got the opportunity to go to Chris-tian Life Academy in Baton Rouge, La. He knew it was the right move

for several reasons. “It was God tapping me on the

shoulder saying, ‘Hey, you need to go get your life straight.’ I needed to be in a Christian environment.”

Phil Ironside, who had played quarterback at Halls, came to Chris-tian Life during Greg’s second year. In Greg’s fi ve years as defensive co-ordinator and head baseball coach, the football team went 50-13 and the baseball team went 97-37.

“We got beat in the state champi-onship my last year.”

That last year, Greg also served as assistant principal. He jokes that he was “starving to death” and briefl y took a job working for Primerica.

“I made more money than I’d ever made in my life but I couldn’t sleep a wink, worrying about com-mission.”

So, in the fall of 1997, he headed to Cobb County, Ga., where he took a job at Wheeler High School, spend-ing two years there before becom-ing head football coach at Campbell High. He inherited a program that had won two games in three years.

During his three seasons at Campbell, the football team posted records of 1-9, 3-7 and 4-6.

“We were 4-3 at one point and

then imploded. That school had a 40 percent transient rate.”

In 2002, Greg applied along with 85-90 others to become head foot-ball coach at the newly-opened Kell High School. He got the job.

“It was an opportunity to build from ground zero.”

During its fi rst year of varsity football in 2003, the team posted an 8-2 record. That same year, the school was rocked by an outstand-ing debt scandal. The principal and vice principal were forced out.

Greg says he soon learned he, too, was being investigated. He told the county school offi cials, “I have nothing to hide.”

Three years prior to the incident, Greg says he had brokered a deal

with a vendor and that later a group that included the man with whom he’d brokered the deal, took off on a deep sea fi shing trip in which every-one split the cost of the boat.

“We used to do that in Louisiana all the time. We get down there, the seas are too high and we can’t go fi shing. So he pays for dinner for all of us on that Friday night.”

Three weeks into football prac-tice that next season, Greg was fi red.

“It made headlines day after day in the local paper. Kids were hold-ing protests. It was ugly. You know, I’d always been hard-driving in my career and I wondered, ‘OK, God, what are you teaching me here?’ ”

He went home and got to spend

more time with the two children he and his wife, Kelly, had at the time.

“Normally, in the fall, I’m on the football fi eld. It was a wake up call.”

He looked at other careers and tried to fi gure out what he was going to do with the rest of his life.

“During a storm, sometimes you can’t tell whether the light in front of you is a (beacon from a) light-house or a train coming. You have to be still. Don’t make rash judgments. I had to look at how this was going to affect my family.”

He learned that Woodward Academy, the largest private school in the United States, was looking for a linebacker coach.

“I talked to them on a Wednes-day, interviewed on Thursday and was offered the job on Friday.”

The school, which is located on the south side of Atlanta, has a long and proud history. It was founded in 1900 as the Georgia Military Acad-emy and became a co-ed school in the 1960s. Its tuition is roughly $20,000 per year and it has a stu-dent population of 2,700 in grades Kindergarten through 12.

Greg earned an Ed.S and a doc-torate. He is now the team’s de-fensive coordinator and teaches physical education for grades 4 through 6. Several years ago he be-gan speaking at Frank Glazier Mega Clinics, an educational coaching seminar, and was named one of the top seven speakers in the country last year. This summer, he’s worked four camps for the National Football Academy, one at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

“It turned out to be the best thing that ever happened. Being the No. 2 guy, it allows me the freedom to fo-cus on my family. This fall, all of my kids will go to school there. My kids wouldn’t have had the opportunity to go to such a great private school otherwise.”

The Vandagriffs now have three children: Brock, 9; Anna Greer, 7; and Audrey, 5.

“It all goes back to those small decisions, listening to advice that was given to me by my high school coach, by my (college’s) athletic di-rector and listening to God’s still, small voice.”

One door closes. Another opens. Just ask Greg Vandagriff.

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Bernard King was back in town the other evening as keynote

speaker for the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame. Sarah remem-bered that I once considered him the best athlete ever at Tennessee. And elsewhere?

There have been some other good ones here and there in six and a half decades of watching hundreds of college games, several Olympics, many Super Bowls, World Series baseball games, NCAA Final Fours and assorted lesser extravaganzas.

Perspective? When you think of how many play from Little League up through high school and how few become college starters and how few of those become pros and how few of those become world su-perstars, “best athlete” takes on se-rious signifi cance.

On the assumption that the once-

in-a-lifetime greatest would play more than one sport, I missed him. Jim Thorpe was before my time. He won two races in the 1912 Olympics, fi nished fourth in the high jump and seventh in the long jump. He was twice an All-American halfback for the Carlisle Indians, offense and de-fense, punter and place-kicker. He played pro football eight years and major league baseball for six. He hit .327 for the 1927 Boston Braves. He is featured in three halls of fame, college football, pro football, and track and fi eld.

Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis were better than average runners and jumpers, winners of an entire collection of Olympic gold medals. Jesse dominated at Berlin but didn’t get invited to the White House.

I saw Bo Jackson run and I saw Tennessee knock his block off when

David Getaz (1849-1912)

Although the 100th anniversary of the architect’s death occurs

next year and although most of his buildings were built well more than a century ago, many Knox Coun-tians pass some of them daily and experience their timeless elegance.

His was one of the French-Swiss families who were so infl uential in the development of businesses in the city and in North Knox County, especially in the Smithwood/Bev-erly area – including the Babelay, Berney, Buffat, Chevannes, Dovat, Gouffon, Guinard, Rochat, Sterchi, Truan and other families.

The architect, David Getaz, was born at Tullins, France, on Nov. 22, 1849, the son of Louis David Getaz (1816-1888) and Henriette Lavanchy (1816-1883). When the religious re-vival of the 1840s swept through Vaud, Switzerland, Louis David Getaz was called to become a min-ister of the Free Protestant Church. He soon fl ed to France to escape re-ligious persecution and was chosen to manage the grounds of the Turet-tini estate at Jussy near the French Alps, where his eight children were raised. He also continued to minis-ter to local Protestants.

Young David served an appren-ticeship as a carpenter there but, in about 1871, he moved to Paris, where he studied architecture. He could not fi nd employment in Paris so he decided to immigrate to America. He arrived in Knox County in 1874 and soon found employment with Daniel Felix, another French-Swiss immi-grant in the Smithwood community.

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The extraordinary

architect

David Getaz (1849-1912). After study-

ing architecture in Paris, Getaz immi-

grated to Knox County in 1874 and

pursued a career as an architect and

builder. Photos courtesy McClung Historical Collection

In 1889 Getaz designed and built this home at 505 E. Scott Ave. The family occupied the 11-room Victorian mansion

with stable and carriage house until 1894 when they moved to 315 E. Fifth Ave.

The two soon formed a partnership with Alfred G. Buffat, a prominent North Knox County miller, business owner and public servant.

In 1881 he became a partner with Christopher T. Stephenson in the fi rm of Stephenson and Getaz, Ar-chitects and Builders. Stephenson (1841-1908), a native of Yorkshire, England, immigrated to the U.S. in 1870. After he left the partnership, he built several structures in up-per East Tennessee and Virginia. Stephenson was on a business trip in Elizabethton when he developed food poisoning and died on Sept. 8, 1908. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery with his wife, Mary Maud, and his only daughter, Adah.

Stephenson and Getaz built the old Knox County Courthouse (1885), reportedly from drawings prepared by Palliser & Palliser, an architec-

tural fi rm in New York City. The building cost $82,000, a large sum for the time. Wings were added to both the east and west sides in 1919.

Other local buildings they de-signed and built were the Girls High School (circa 1886); Shannondale Presbyterian Church (1886); the Fountainhead Hotel and Resort in Fountain City (1886), which burned in 1920 after it had become the Go-etz Sanitarium; and the First Meth-odist Episcopal Church (1893).

The successor to Stephenson and Getaz, Getaz and Co., was the gen-eral contractor collaborating with the Baumann Brothers Architects to construct the Knoxville Market House (1897). In 1884 Getaz also built the handsome Tazewell Pike mansion of Major R. C. Jackson, the retired superintendent of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, along with many other residential properties.

On Oct. 12, 1881, Getaz mar-ried Margaret R. “Maggie” Murphy (1854-1939). They were the parents of four children: James, Margue-rite, Louise and David Jr. James

married Carrie Coffi n, daughter of Hector Coffi n, who was prominent in local business.

David Getaz Sr. earned his U.S. citizenship on Feb. 10, 1886. Later in that same year, he and Maggie and their 4-year-old son David Jr. visited Getaz’ father in France and relatives in Switzerland, the only trip they ever made back to Europe.

In 1889 Getaz designed and built his home at 505 East Scott Ave. The family lived in the 11-room Victo-rian mansion with stable and car-riage house until 1894 when they moved to 315 E. Fifth Ave.

The architect’s courtly European manner was enhanced by the top hat and gold-headed cane that accom-panied him around town. Desiring the same Old World image for his two daughters, he made a beveled full-length mirror for each of them and advised them, “Before you leave your room, look yourselves over carefully. See that you are pleased with your appearance. Then, forget about yourselves and think about the persons you are with.”

From 1890 to 1892 Getaz was

superintendent of the Southern Car Company, which built eight to 10 freight and mining cars each day and employed 150. He also helped organize the Knoxville Mantle and Cabinet Company in 1893.

In 1906 his oldest son, James, came into the architectural fi rm and they built several large projects, including the Carnegie Concert Hall in Lewisburg, W.Va., and the Blue Ridge Conference Center in Black Mountain, N.C.

A long-time member and elder of Fort Sanders Presbyterian Church, David Getaz passed on to his reward at home on Sept. 19, 1912, at age 62. Margaret survived him by 26 years and died on June 12, 1939, at age 84. They are buried in the family plat in Greenwood Cemetery.

(Author’s Note: Thanks to the late David Babelay, Vicki Bills, Kathy Manning and Sally R. Pol-hemus of the McClung Histori-cal Collection for their assistance with the text and photographs. Additional information and pho-tographs may be found at www.fountaincitytnhistory.info/.)

he was an Auburn Tiger. Bo knows he got tagged.

Jackson won the 1985 Heis-man Trophy and was fi rst to be an all-star in two pro sports and Nike commercials. He played baseball for the Royals (MVP of the ’89 All-Star Game) and football for the Raiders. Maybe you remember the Monday night madness when Bo ran over Brian Bosworth of the Seahawks on his way to 221 rushing yards.

I saw Deion Sanders, alone as a Super Bowl and World Series player, exciting cornerback and outfi elder, nine times all-NFL, league record-holder with 19 touchdowns on inter-ceptions and kick returns, speedster who stole 57 bases one season and led the National League in triples. He hit .304 in his best year. Fitting nickname: Neon Deion.

Michael Jordan was a pretty fair basketball player but mediocre in minor league baseball and poker. Danny Ainge could play baskets but hit only .220 with the Blue Jays. Bob Hayes ran fast in the 100 and scored 71 NFL touchdowns. Dave Winfi eld, Minnesota all-everything, was drafted by pro football, basket-ball and baseball.

Best ever in orange? After Ber-nard, it is a close call. Maybe Con-dredge Holloway or Doug Atkins or Willie Gault or Ron Widby or Rich-

mond Flowers or Tom Pappas?Pappas was twice NCAA decath-

lon champ, a world champion and an Olympian. His 10 tough events involve a wide range of skills – run-ning, jumping and throwing things.

Atkins at 6-7 and 240 was a bas-ketball Vol one season and a football legend, one of the best defensive ends in NFL history. More remark-able were his track feats.

With almost no practice, he high-jumped 6-6 and placed sec-ond in an SEC meet in Birming-ham. That much man clearing a bar was astounding. Motivation? Travel money.

Flowers for a time was the best hurdler in the world. As good as he was in football, he probably had more courage than ability. He had enough of both to play in the NFL.

Gault was borderline All-Ameri-can in football, spectacular in hur-dles and sprints, Super Bowl champ with the Bears and producer of the Super Bowl Shuffl e, doorknob for a Hollywood fl ing. He got involved with Winter Olympics as a bobsled pusher. He can still dance and run fast in middle age.

Widby won letters in four sports – football, basketball, baseball and golf. He led the baseball Vols in batting as a sophomore, later led the SEC in basketball scoring and

the country in punting average. He played pro baskets briefl y, punted in the NFL for a living and earned tip money playing golf.

Holloway was Tennessee’s most exciting quarterback. The Artful Dodger made many tacklers miss. He bounced off others. He had the guts to throw with blitzing line-backers in his face. He scampered all over Canadian pro football. He was better in baseball, good enough as a prep senior to have been No. 1 in the MLB draft. John Wooden of UCLA thought basketball was Hol-loway’s best game.

Todd Helton was great as a Ten-nessee baseball player and good enough in football to start at quar-terback – in a pinch. He almost hit .400 for the Colorado Rockies.

Carl Pickens? Stanley Morgan? Many talents.

In three seasons at Tennessee, King, quick as a blink, was three times an All-American with a career average of 13.2 rebounds and 25.8 points while sharing the ball with Ernie Grunfeld and Mike Jackson.

I thought King was better in the NBA than Larry Bird, Magic and Kobe. His fi erce fi ght back from a terrible knee injury to all-star sta-tus is the stuff of legends. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is

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WEST – This 3BR/2.5BA fea-tures: Lots of room w/LR w/gas FP & vaulted ceiling, bonus rm & 17x11.6 loft/office up. Mstr suite on main w/tray ceilings, 10x14 mstr BA. Kit corian tops & island. Many updates include: new tile in kit, new cabinets in laundry, new induction fan on HVAC, pull down attic stg shelved & decked, new 20x12 deck. Motivated seller $279,900 (740532)

POWELL – Private wooded set-ting. All brick 3BR/2BA rancher w/2-car attached & 1-car detached gar/workshop. Enjoy the yard with-out the work, HOA fees included lawn care. Vaulted ceilings in LR & kit, formal DR & 15.6x11 screened porch. Transferable home & pest control warranty. $242,900 (768752)

POWELL – 9.74 acres in private wooded setting w/2 ponds, 1 shared, public water & elect available. A rare find for the Powell area. Will owner finance. $230,000 (762332)

POWELL – Great 3BR/2.5BA rancher w/park-like setting. This home features: Newer carpet, bonus/sun rm, brick FP in LR, for-mal DR & lg level backyard. HOA dues include mowing. Reduced to $169,900 w/$2500 allowance w/acceptable offer. (725228)

POWELL – Great 3BR/2BA ranch-er w/lg level backyard. This home features: Formal DR, LR, fam rm off kit, laundry rm w/utility sink. Many updates including: Roof, car-pet, BA remodel & much more. A must see. $169,900 (762749)

KARNS – 4BR/1.5BA bsmt ranch-er. This home features: 3BR on main & 4th BR, rec rm & half BA/laundry down. Fenced yard & 1-car gar. Many updates includ-ing: Laminate flooring, tile back splash in kit, energy efficient heat pump, water heater, wired smoke detector & new lighting & plumb-ing fixtures. New 3-ton AC unit & exterior painted 6/2011. Reduced $118,900 (752919)

POWELL – Country setting! 2BR/2BA ranch end unit. Featur-ing: 1-car gar w/extra side park-ing, lots of common area great for children & pets. Eat-in kit w/pass-through to LR w/gas FP. Many updates including: New paint, ceil-ing fans, lighting fixtures, water saver toilet in mstr, new kit sink & garbage disposal & much more. $104,900 (763927)

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WORSHIP NOTESCommunity services

Beaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, takes orders

for Angel Food Ministries by

phone or in person the Satur-

day before each distribution.

The distribution of the food

CONDOLENCESMynatt Funeral Homes, Inc. ■

(922-9195 or 688-2331):Donald A. Blakley

C. L. Boles Sr.

Dewey Cliff ord Cabage

James D. “Jim” Edmonds

Bert Farmer

Anthony Francis Jessing

Onloe Lester Perkey

William Joe Smith

Kaleb Isaac Thurman

Barbara Williford

Shirley “Jane” Young

MILESTONES

Birthdays

Duggan to celebrate 91 years

Trula Duggan of Powell will celebrate her 91st birth-day Aug. 26 with family and friends at NHC Fort Sanders. Through the years, Duggan has made many birthday and wedding cakes for people in the community.

Ella Faye Riggs celebrated her second birthday May 4 with a party at Bell’s Campground Baptist Church in Powell. Her parents are Chad and Denise Riggs. Grand-parents are Delores Jones and the late Fred Allen Jones of Powell, Mike Riggs, and Dr. Ron Barton and Debbie Waters. Great-grandparents are Carroll and Barbara Barnes of Crossville.

Eli Allen Jones Riggs celebrated his fourth birthday June 28 with a “Cars 2” movie party at Halls Cinema 7. His parents are Chad and Denise Riggs. Grandparents are Delores Jones and the late Fred Allen Jones of Powell, Mike Riggs, and Dr. Ron Barton and Debbie Waters. Great-grand-parents are Carroll and Barbara Barnes of Crossville.

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Bookwalter UMC ■ , 4218

Central Ave. Pike, is looking for

vendors for its fall festival to be

held Oct. 1. Info: 584-2995.

Branville Baptist Church ■ ,

7716 Millertown Pike, will have

a garage sale 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Aug. 12-13.

All proceeds benefi t the youth

department.

Cornerstone Worship ■

Center, 6750 McFall Road, will

have an indoor rummage sale

starting at 8 a.m. Thursday

through Saturday, Aug. 11-13.

All proceeds will go to the

church building fund.

Christ UMC ■ , 7535 Maynardville

Highway, will hold a Children’s

Consignment Sale 8 a.m. to 3

p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17.

Dante Church of God ■ , 410

Dante School Road, needs

crafters for its Fall Festival to be

held Saturday, Sept. 17. Space

rental is $25. Info: Lena Coker,

693-2688 or email lenacoker@

yahoo.com.

Rutherford Memorial UMC, ■

7815 Corryton Road, will have

its annual rummage sale 9 a.m.

to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday,

Aug. 11-12.

Rec programsNew Covenant Fellowship ■

Church, 6828 Central Ave. Pike,

will host an open scrapbook

night 6-10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12,

in the fellowship hall. Bring pic-

tures and scrapbook supplies

to work with, and bring a snack

to share. RSVP or to request

child care at 689-7001.

North Acres Baptist Church ■

Happy Travelers will see “Unto

These Hills” Thursday, Aug.

11. Cost is $58 and includes

transportation, dinner and

admission. Info: Derrell Frye,

938-8884.

Women’s programsShepherd of the Hills Baptist ■

Church, 400 East Beaver Creek

Drive, will host the Beth Moore

“Living Proof Live” simulcast

event 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Satur-

day, Sept. 10. Admission is free;

seating is limited. Register by

calling 484-4066 or emailing

events@sothbchurch.org.

Include name, address, phone

number and the number in

your party.

Knoxville Christian ■

Women’s Connection will

host the luncheon “Celebrat-

ing the Years” 10:45 a.m.

Thursday, Aug. 11, at Buddy’s

Banquet Hall in Bearden.

The special feature will be

Deanna Hurd, owner of

Lulu’s Tearoom in Powell. The

inspirational speaker will be

Babs Hawks from Wood-

stock, Ga., who was crowned

Ms. Senior Arizona in 2002.

Complimentary child care by

reservation only. Cost is $10.

RSVP by calling Connie at

693-5298 or email dick3234@

bellsouth.net.

Workshops and classes

Smithwood Baptist Church ■

will have basic computer class

10 a.m. to noon Tuesday and

Thursday, Aug. 9 and 11, and

Tuesday and Thursday, Aug. 16

and 18. The class will cover an

introduction to Windows 7 and

how to edit text, create and

arrange fi les and folders and

use the paint program. Cost is

$20. Info: Shirley or Earl Walker,

687-9429 or email ewwalker@

bellsouth.net.

Beaver Ridge United ■

Methodist Church, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, will have a

Sunday school class for adults

beginning 10 a.m. Sunday,

Aug. 14. Jim Bacon will lead the

discussion based on the Inter-

national Bible Lesson Series.

Info: 690-1060 or visit www.

beaverridgeumc.com.

Youth programsBells Campground Baptist ■

Church, will have registration

for AWANA 6:30 p.m. Wednes-

day, Aug. 17.

Fountain City United ■

Methodist Church Preschool has openings available for

the upcoming school year.

Info: director Susan Todd,

689-7535 or email stodd@

fountaincityumc.org.

is usually the third Saturday

of each month from 9:30 to

11:30 a.m. Info: 228-9299 or the

church offi ce, 690-0160.

Beaver Ridge UMC Food ■

Pantry hands out food to local

families in need 1-2 p.m. every

Monday and 7-8 p.m. every

fi rst Monday. Donations and

volunteers are welcome. Info:

690-1060 or www.beaverridge

umc.com.

Cross Roads Presbyterian ■

hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry

food pantry from 6-8 p.m. each

second Tuesday and from 9-11

a.m. each fourth Saturday.

Dante Church of God ■ will

distribute Boxes of Blessings

(food) 9 a.m. to noon Saturday,

Aug. 13. Everyone is welcomed

to come. Info: 689-4829.

Fundraisers Beaver Ridge UMC ■ will host a

Mothers of Multiples Fall and

Winter Consignment Sale 8

a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

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otherwise noted.

New Member Reception ■ , 4-6 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 9.

Chamber Member MD Lab ■ , 2:30

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Knoxville Twisters opens in HallsKnoxville Twisters, the area’s newest tumbling and cheer gym, has opened in Halls at 6808

Maynardville Highway near Grocery Outlet. On hand at the grand opening were Laura

Brown, Micah Petty, owner Rebekah Chait and Courtney Roach. The gym will be open 8:30

a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to noon

for Mom’s Morning Out on Friday. Knoxville Twisters is also available for birthday parties.

Beginning in September, the gym will feature adult exercise classes, including Zumba and

Pilates. Info: 377-3783. Photo by Ruth White

According to the U.S. Small Business Administra-tion, small businesses (those businesses with fewer than 500 employees) represent 99.7 percent of all employer fi rms, employ just more than half of all private sector em-ployees and have been re-sponsible for creating 64 per-cent of all net new jobs over the past 15 years.

The importance of small businesses in our economy is indisputable. That’s why First Tennessee Foundation is proud to support the Tennes-see Small Business Develop-ment Center (TSBDC) and its work going back to the early 1990s – an investment that has paid exponential returns in terms of economic impact in the 16-county region it serves. The TSBDC coun-seled 839 people and helped launch 56 new businesses in 2010 alone.

The mission of the TSBDC, located on Market Square, is to provide free counseling and training for those inter-

Fountainhead College of Technology has added two degree programs to its online offerings.

Beginning fall semester, Online Network Security & Forensics as well as Information Technology pro-grams will join Application Development and Com-puter Programming online. Fountainhead’s online programs have the same academic requirements, rules and policies as the resident courses.

Online programs require students to visit the cam-pus for up to two days at the end of each semester for course assessments. Online students study at their own pace in a learning environment that fi ts their schedule and study habits. Fall classes start Aug. 29.

Fountainhead College is accredited by the Accred-iting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges. Info: www.fountainheadcollege.edu/programs/on-line-programs or phone Joel Southern at 688-9422.

College onlineFountainhead adds two programs

Small business boosts economy

First Tennessee donates $5,000 to Pellissippi State Foundation for the support of Knoxville’s

TSBDC. On hand to receive the donation are: Mercedes Campbell, TSBDC Internet training spe-

cialist; Jane Shelton, TSBDC administrative assistant; Bruce Hayes, TSBDC senior business spe-

cialist; Pam Fansler, First Tennessee East Region president; Larry Rossini, TSBDC director; Marilyn

Cobble, TSBDC senior business specialist; Julia Wood, PSCC marketing and communications di-

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ested in starting or improving a small business, whether it’s brick-and-mortar or strictly online.

Classes available for free to the public cover such topics as e-commerce, marketing, pre-paring fi nancial statements for small business, starting and managing a small busi-ness, and writing a business plan. First Tennessee Foun-dation’s contribution is ear-marked for purchasing com-puter supplies, equipment and software for the resource center.

By taking advantage of the resource center and free counseling, Deborah Sell-ers, chief operating offi cer of InBalance Hormone Re-placement Center on Chap-

man Highway, created a new business plan, organizational chart and job descriptions for her two-year-old business, in-creasing gross receipts by 37 percent in the next month.

Through working with Rob Karpick, senior business specialist at the TSBDC, Sell-ers identifi ed two areas of op-portunity for improvement that generated immediate re-sults and is continuing to look for additional improvements. “We’ve seen huge changes, and we’re only into Week 3,” said Sellers.

We’re honored to be able to support organizations like the Tennessee Small Business Development Center that, in turn, help so many in our community to be successful, allowing them to contribute to our local economy through new job creation. Small busi-ness will be key in returning our economy to prosperity. Kudos to the folks at TSBDC for all they do.

Info: 246-2663 or www.tsbdc.org/.

17th Street Studiosto host free artistportfolio workshop

On Aug. 10, 17th Street Studios will host a free workshop on how to put together an artists portfolio and resume 6 to 7:30 p.m. Brian Jobe, local artist and co-manager of 17th Street Studios, will open the workshop. Other artists from the studio will be present to answer any questions and discuss portfolio ideas.

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The trainers at Mercy Health and Fitness Center don’t believe in diet plans. They believe in mak-

ing the kinds of changes that can im-prove your entire life – and that takes a lot more than counting calories.

859-7900• www.Mercy.com7540 Dannaher Drive, Powell

(Located on the campus of Mercy North off Emory Road)

Here is what some of the trainers say they think is great about Training for Life:

Katie Depersio – ■ “In a group setting, your teammates are counting on you to give 100 percent. I hope to make exercising something you enjoy doing so it can become a lifestyle change.”

Bree House – ■ “You will learn to eat healthy on the go and at home. Plus, you’ll have a lot of new, healthy recipes that taste great. You will be stronger, healthier and happier.”

Jake McKinnie – ■ “Group training is great because everyone motivates one another and holds one another accountable, instead of just relying on the trainer. When the group sees one person working very hard, that encourages everyone else in the group to work just as hard.

Team members also build new, life-long friendships.”

Annie Goodwin – ■ “The cama-raderie is great, as is fi nding a workout partner for after the program ends. You will take away some very impor-tant tips for years to come.”

Shaunee Wolfe – ■ “One of the greatest benefits is the relationships and friendships you create. I have had winning teams where the weight loss averaged around 30 pounds for the women and around 20 pounds for the men.”

Free information sessions for Training for Life are being offered noon to 1 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. Mon-day and Tuesday, Aug. 8 and 9. There is a discount for those who register before August 15. The program starts August 22. For additional informa-tion or to register, call 859-7900.

Members of the team with the best overall results at the end of the 12 weeks will each win a one-hour relaxation massage.

That’s why they have named one of their most popular programs “Training for Life.” The program’s motto: “It’s not a diet plan; it’s a way of life!”

Training for Life is the center’s small group weight management program and it encompasses 12 weeks of train-ing with three to fi ve other people and a personal trainer who will guide you every step of the way toward achieving a healthier lifestyle.

Results the center’s trainers say are possible and realistic for each individual: 10 to 20 pounds of weight loss, an overall loss of 10 to 30 inches, a 50 to 80 percent

increase in muscular strength, a 50 to 80 percent increase in cardiovascular endurance, a marked gain in energy and an improvement in metabolism.

And just like those popular TV programs we have all seen, there are rewards.

Years of experience have convinced the folks at Mercy Health and Fitness Center that a little friendly competition yields motivation, so your team will be competing with other teams. Mem-bers of the team with the best overall results at the end of the 12 weeks will each win a one-hour relaxation mas-sage. The individual with the greatest improvement will win a three-month free membership to the center.

All those who complete the program will receive a free Training for Life t-shirt; participants who attend all 36 sessions will get a free gym bag.

The total Training for Life program involves 32 hours with a trainer and eight basic classroom style nutri-tional sessions and food log reviews. The workouts involve high calorie-burning weights and cardio to build lean muscle mass and help improve metabolism, cardiovascular health and strength. Workouts are set to the intensity each individual needs.

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