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By Betsy PickleOn the day after the Super

Bowl, Pastor Daryl Arnold turned on the TV expect-ing to see inter-views with the players who had fought so valiantly on the fi eld the night before. In-stead, the media was focused on the halftime show and what pop su-

perstar Beyonce wore, said and did.

At the city’s recent Neighbor-hood Awards & Networking Lun-cheon, Arnold told leaders from 100 neighborhoods across the city that he wasn’t there to talk about halftime, that he was there to “cel-

ebrate your fi ght on the fi eld.”“Because if we’re going to be

a great city, if we’re going to be a great community, if we’re going to have great neighborhoods … then you’re going to have to fi ght for those neighborhoods to be great,” Arnold told the crowd at the Knox-ville Convention Center.

Arnold, pastor of the Overcom-ing Believers Church, knows a few things about bringing community together. He took on that job in the wake of the shooting death of Fulton High School sophomore Zaevion Dobson in December.

“Zaevion’s death really just raised to the surface something that has been happening a long time,” said Arnold, a Chattanooga native and Knoxville College grad-uate who started OBC 13 years

ago. “A long time people have been dying in our communities.

“I’ve buried well over 70 people, most of them very young people, in 13 years. … The good news is that although it’s been a fi ght, the fi ght has been worth it.”

He said that two years into his Knoxville ministry he began to turn his attention “from trying to build the church to trying to build the community because as I read in the scriptures and I started thinking about the life of Christ, Christ was never trying to build a church. He was always trying to transform the lives of people in the community.”

Noting that he is a preacher, not a politician, Arnold used his strengths in his keynote address. He described certain societal ills

Daryl Arnold

Arnold tells leaders they must ‘fi ght’as “weapons of mass destruction that have been designed to destroy our communities.”

No. 1 is “a principality,” he said.“There’s a real devil that is try-

ing to destroy our communities. When children kill children, that’s the devil.”

Another “WMD” is poverty. “Within a fi ve-mile radius of my

church, 211 Harriet Tubman … the average income is $9,800 a year annual household. Something’s not right about that.

“We’ve got to fi gure out a way to bring jobs into our communi-ties. We’ve got to fi gure out a way to lift our communities up when it comes to economic success and stability.”

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“Grease” came to Powell High School last week and the

Pink Ladies – Marti, Jan, Rizzo and Frenchie – gathered

on the fi rst day of school. They are played by PHS choral

members Megan Babin, Anna Rabinowitz, Tori Caldwell

and Erin Johnson. More photos on A-8. Photo by Ruth White

By Sarah ConnatserThe Orange Pearl Salon and

Spa has been Powell’s downtown beauty center for a long time. But after owner Monica Stecker en-dured some life hardships, she began to rethink what she really wanted to do with her business – was her direction hair and nails or was something else calling her?

After a rendezvous with her friend and former employee Whit-ney Boozer, the pair decided to begin anew with Orange Pearl, turning the business into a part-nership. Their focus now, how-ever, is massage therapy, and the offi cial name change refl ects the transformation.

Welcome to Orange Pearl Mas-sage Therapeutic Wellness.

The two only began their new business venture this past winter, but the establishment has already received traction. According to Stecker, her business has grown an incredible 150 percent in rev-

Powell alumniThe Powell High Alumni

Reunion will be Saturday, April 2, at the Jubilee Banquet Facility. Registration begins at 4:45 p.m. with a buffet meal at 6 p.m. The cost is $24 per person plus alumni fees of $10. Reservations are needed by Monday, March 21.

This is Powell’s 98th anni-versary reunion – Powell High grads helping future Powell High grads.

Scholarship donations can be mailed to PHAA, P.O. Box 111, Powell TN 37849. You may donate in memory or honor of an individual or a class. Program advertising is avail-able from Vivian McFalls at 865-607-8775 or mcfalls57@frontiernet.net

Reunion reservations should be made to Lynette Brown at 865-947-7371 or LBrown8042@aol.com

Whitney Boozer and Monica Stecker at the Orange Pearl. Photo by Sarah Connatser

Orange Pearl takes new direction

enue.And what else is new? Stecker

says, “It’s a lot more serene.”Stecker and Boozer’s freshly

updated motto is now “concentrat-ing on clients,” and focusing on their “wellbeing.” The main con-cern is clients’ health, rather than

appearance, which the women call their passion. The change also al-lows them to specialize in more diverse treatments, such as differ-ent types of therapeutic massages. According to Stecker and Boozer, massage therapy helps blood cir-culation in the body, provides stress relief and improves immu-nity.

Stecker and Boozer seem to be a great team – Boozer said that Stecker was her inspiration for going to massage therapy school after leaving the nails business several years ago. “I had to do it – I had (Stecker) depending on me,” Boozer said of going back to school.

Since then, Boozer had been hoping to reconnect with Stecker to launch something different and exciting.

Stecker said she had run into serious health and family issues while operating Orange Pearl,

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‘Grease’ at Powell High Emory Road chatGerald Green, executive

director of the Metropolitan Planning Commission, will meet from 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, at the Powell branch library on Emory Road with interested residents, sponsored by the Enhance Powell commit-tee of the Powell Business and Professional Association.

Discussion items include: ■ Possible rezoning to

general commercial of the Sternberg property – 35 acres adjacent to the library. County Commission has asked MPC to restudy this after MPC’s initial rejection.

■ Site plan for 220-apart-ment units on Emory near Central Avenue Pike. Grading is underway.

■ Possible Neighborhood Conservation overlay for Emory Road business district near Powell High School and the Depot Street area. What would it include? What is the process for getting it?

Info: Justin Bailey, 947-9000, or Sandra Clark, 661-8777.

Ted Hall at Halls prayer breakfast

News anchor Ted Hall will speak at the annual prayer

breakfast spon-sored by the Halls Business and Profes-sional Associa-tion. The event starts at 7:30 a.m. Friday, March 25, at Beaver Dam

Baptist Church. Tickets are $10 and available from Sue Walker at swalker@tindells.com or 922-7751 or at the door. It is open to all.

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Back to SchoolUT Engineering staffer fi ghts pain in neck with classwork, homework

When Brian Shupe called the Fort Sand-ers Therapy Center a “school” for herniated discs, he was only half joking.

When the 47-year-old armchair quar-terback lofted his best Peyton Manning pass to his younger brother last summer, he thought he might have torn his rotator cuff. But a trip to an orthopedic specialist returned an unexpected diagnosis: a herni-ated disc in his neck.

Doubtful that the ache deep in his shoul-der, numbness in his arm and tingling in his fi ngertips could have anything to do with his neck, he sought a second opinion from a neurosurgeon.

“He told me that the herniated disc can cause pain in the shoulder and it can cer-tainly cause the numbness down to the fi ngertips,” said Shupe, director of develop-ment for University of Tennessee’s College of Engineering.

“He said surgery is an option but recom-mended treating the symptoms with physi-cal therapy because the pain is from the herniated disc. He said I need to learn how to take care of this, and get serious about taking care of it.”

“When you have that kind of moment, you realize that it is a part of the aging pro-cess and the deterioration that comes with it. You can’t go out and do things like you did when you were 25. That was the bad news, but the good news was there are things we can do to stay healthy.

“So I went to Herniated Disc School,” Shupe said with a laugh, adding that he was paired with Erin McCallum, a licensed physical therapist who holds a clinical doc-torate in physical therapy as well as being a certifi ed lymphedema therapist.

Twice a week for three weeks, Shupe and McCallum would work 45 minutes to an hour. When he was evaluated on his fi rst visit last Dec. 22, Shupe rated his pain level a 7 on the 10-point pain scale. After his last treatment Jan. 18, he assigned his pain a zero on the scale.

“I learned a lot more about how I can take better care of myself with stretching exercises and with posture,” he said. “I got the little lumbar pillow to put in the small of my back when I’m sitting for long periods of time. All of those things were conspiring to cause pain in my shoulder and subsequent numbness in my arm and fi ngers.”

McCallum said Shupe’s situation was not

Brian Shupe participated in physi-

cal therapy at Fort Sanders Region-

al to completely eliminate pain

caused by a herniated disk.

that unusual considering his job which, like millions of others, requires long periods of sitting either at a desk, in a car or passenger jet.

“We see many patients with neck pain, especially in people who work desk-type jobs where they are sitting or driving the majority of their work day, like Brian does,” said McCallum. “Posture plays a big role in this, and especially now that many people’s jobs require extended amounts of time sit-ting at a computer, or looking down at a smart phone.”

In one research study, reported in a March 2015 issue of Spine, more than 70 percent of people in their 20s had disc bulges in their neck but none had neck pain. “Many of our patients are referred to us with a diagnosis of ‘neck pain’ but not anything as specifi c as a cervical herniation,” said McCallum. “Part of our job is to determine if the patient, in fact, needs further testing, like an MRI, or a referral to a specialist if physical therapy is not having the desired results.”

The physical therapist’s goal, McCallum said, is simply to determine what functional limitations each patient has, what activities and/or positions cause them to feel worse, and devise a plan that will improve their

pain and return them to their prior level of function.

“Brian’s treatment plan included ther-apeutic exercises for range of motion, stretching, strengthening and stabilization; manual therapy for joint mobilizations, soft tissue mobilization and cervical manual traction; modalities, such as heat and elec-trical stimulation; and patient education for posture, body mechanics, and home exer-cise program,” said McCallum.

“She would walk me through all the ex-ercises and then, my homework would be to duplicate those at home with some materi-als she gave me,” said Shupe.

“It wasn’t like I went there and did it all – I had a responsibility to do some work on my own between visits. Then, every time I would come back, there would be another layer of exercises she would add to it. So I’m really equipped with the knowledge to help make this better on my own and at least slow down the degeneration which was re-ally the root cause of all my pain.

“After I started working with Erin, the pain subsided very quickly because of the work we did at the clinic and the exercises she gave me to do on my own, none of which was very time-consuming,” he added. “They (the exercises) are very easy to do on my

own, but what has really made a huge differ-ence in my confi dence level is the pain reliefI get when I keep up my routine. I have hadno numbness since I started working withErin.”

McCallum says Shupe owes much of hissuccess to himself. “Brian was very compli-ant with both attending his treatments andperforming his exercises at home,” she said.“He listened carefully to what I told him,and really made an effort to take that educa-tion back to his workplace, in order to pre-vent further injury down the road.”

Shupe says the therapy sessions with McCallum have taught him to be “more aware of myself as an agingadult, and that a lot of how we feel is up to us and how we maintainour bodies. So it was a very good experience. Erin is a great physicaltherapist. She’s very good at what she does and has a good demeanor

about her. We communicate very well andshe really knows what she’s doing. I learneda lot about how to take care of myself.”

He admits that he was a taken aback when his visit to the neurosurgeon ended in an order for physical therapy instead of adate scheduled for surgery.

“I was a little surprised by that, but I’malso really grateful that he didn’t just ear-mark me for surgery and run me through the mill,” he said.

“I appreciate that he was very thought-ful about my particular case and wanted tosee, ‘Hey, before we open this guy’s neckup, let’s try some therapy on it fi rst, and seeif that doesn’t help.’ I’m sure at some point,surgery might still be a possibility, but I’mvery grateful to not do that until I need todo it.

“Through my experience with therapy, Iactually saw some good results and I havebecome more aware of symptoms before they get severe. ... It was a really good expe-rience at the Herniated Disc School.

“I was just very impressed with the pro-fessionalism and the care that everybody took with this,” he added. “That is the high-est praise I could offer: If I encounter some-one who is having a similar issue – and I amsure I will – that if they are looking for someplace to go, I would defi nitely recommendthey go see Erin.”

For more information on the Therapy Center at Fort Sanders, call (865) 541-1300.

Fort Sanders Therapy Center turns headsWhile Brian Shupe compared

his sessions at Fort Sanders Therapy Center with attending “Herniated Disc School,” it’s re-ally much more.

As part of the Covenant Therapy Center network, Fort Sanders provides com-prehensive rehabilitation ser-vices with outpatient facilities in downtown Knoxville at the Newland Professional Build-ing, in Halls at the North Place Shopping Center on Maynard-ville Highway and in Powell at Powell Place Shopping Center on Emory Road.

With our qualified and com-passionate therapists, and an

array of rehabilitation special-ties, our goal is to provide the highest quality of care and ser-vices in the most convenient and efficient manner. Cov-enant Therapy Centers partici-pate in Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes Inc. (FOTO), the nation’s largest results database for physical and occupational therapy.

The Centers have received multiple awards for excellent patient outcomes and for ex-ceeding national averages for functional results.

Fort Sanders Therapy Center offers an array of physical thera-py areas, including:

■ Orthopedics ■ Sports Medicine ■ Manual Therapy ■ Limited Adult Neuro ■ Spinal Rehab & Back Edu-

cation ■ Arthritis

In addition, the Fort Sand-ers Therapy Centers downtown and in Powell offer treatment programs for lymphedema, a swelling usually occurring in one arm or leg and the result of an accumulation of lymphatic fluid in the superficial tissues just below the skin. Lymphede-ma can be caused by congenital malformations of the lymphatic system or by secondary reasons

such as following trauma, sur-gery, radiation, inflammation or infection. All patients receive individual instruction on a home program to improve and reduce their swelling, including self-manual lymph drainage and self-bandaging.

All three Fort Sanders Ther-apy Center locations also offer vestibular rehabilitation, an ex-ercise-based approach aimed at eliminating or minimizing bal-ance deficits and dizziness asso-ciated with vestibular disorders such as vertigo, dizziness, light-headedness, motion sensitiv-ity, nausea, imbalance or falls. Sometimes, the problems are

the result of an inner ear infec-tion, but many times the causeis a vestibular, or inner ear dis-order.

This type of rehab is providedby a specially-trained physicaltherapist. The therapist assistsa person in compensating for aloss in the vestibular system. Theexercise program may includebalance exercises, eye exercises,a technique called the Epley ma-neuver, and repetitive exercisesto reduce vertigo symptoms. Therehab program is individuallydesigned to meet each person’sneeds. Treatment is typicallyshort-term, with goals achievedwithin a few sessions.

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Arnold From page A-1

Arnold, the youngest of fi ve children raised by a sin-gle mother, said parenting is another landmine.

“We all know that people who are raised up in (single-parent) homes … are more likely to go to jail, … more likely to fl unk out of school, … more likely to enter into gangs and into violence. We understand that.

“But you know what? My child is your child, and your child is my child because we’re supposed to be a com-munity.”

Pain is another thing wracking neighborhoods, especially in the inner city. Arnold said that after talk-ing with a Vietnam War veteran who suffers from PTSD, he thought about the trauma imposed on young-sters routinely subjected to gun violence.

“Don’t you know that that’s going to follow our young people throughout their lives? So we’ve got to be very careful about judg-ing people because they have not reached the status that we think they should reach. You don’t know what they’re dealing with. I be-

lieve that all of our children can succeed as long as they start in the same place.”

Making sure young people fi nd their purpose is crucial, Arnold said. They need to un-derstand “that there’s some-thing great inside of them. That they were not just creat-ed to live and to die, but every person that God created, He created them with purpose.

“The moment you fi nd your purpose, you stop ex-isting and you begin to live.”

Arnold’s fi nal “p”oint was “place.”

“We’ve got to have a safe place for these children be-cause if you don’t feel safe, you can’t love, you can’t learn and you can’t live.”

When people ask what they can do to help, Arnold said he tells them “to con-nect with organizations that are already doing it.”

He cited 100 Black Men of Knoxville, Girl Talk, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Unique Academy.

“There are so many or-ganizations that are doing great things for the city of Knoxville; it’s just not mar-keted well or the media just doesn’t portray it.”

Orange Pearl From page A-1

and had to quit for several months before being capable of running a business again.

“I lived here all the time,” she said. “I took back my life.” Now that she’s healthy and lively, she’s found motivation and reinvigorating energy to continue her venture on the path of massage therapy.

Orange Pearl Massage Therapeutic Wellness cur-rently does not have set busi-ness hours and instead runs

mostly on appointments. However, walk-ins are wel-come, since Stecker and Boozer often spend their day at the Orange Pearl.

To celebrate Boozer join-ing the business, the March special is 10 percent off of a 1-hour massage, or a 15-minute chair massage for $15. The business is located across from Powell High School, at 2161 W. Emory Rd. Info: 865-947-5050.

HEALTH NOTES ■ Alzheimer’s seminar,

6-7:30 p.m. April 14, Wallace

Memorial Baptist Church, 701

Merchant Drive. Presented by

East Tennessee Personal Care

Service and Andrew Dough-

erty, president of Medinteract.

Topics include: testing, pre-

ventative treatment options

and how to improve overall

cognitive function. Free event.

Info/registration: 688-4343.

■ “Caring & Coping” Caregiv-ing Conference, 8 a.m.-3:30

p.m. Tuesday, March 29,

Rothchild Conference Center,

8807 Kingston Pike. Presented

by Alzheimer’s Tennessee.

Info/registration: 544-6288 or

alzTennessee.org.

■ Peninsula Lighthouse Group of Families Anony-mous meetings, 6:15-7:15

p.m. each Tuesday, 1451 Dow-

ell Springs Blvd. Newcomers

welcome; no dues/fees; no

sign-up; fi rst names only.

Info: Barbara L., 696-6606 or

PeninsulaFA2@aol.com.

■ UT Hospice Adult Grief Sup-port Group meeting, 5-6:30

p.m. Tuesday, April 5, UT Hos-

pice offi ce, 2270 Sutherland

Ave. A light supper is served.

Info/reservation: Brenda

Fletcher, 544-6277.

CALL FOR ARTISTS ■ The Arts & Culture Alliance

of Greater Knoxville is seek-

ing nomination for Poet Laure-

ate for the city of Knoxville.

The deadline for nominations

to be received is Friday, April

1. Info/nomination forms:

knoxalliance.com/poet.html,

or send an SASE to Liza Zenni,

Arts & Culture Alliance, PO Box

2506, Knoxville, TN 37901.

■ Knoxville Photo 2016 Exhibition: juried exhibition

of photographic works to be

held June 3-24 in the main

gallery of the Emporium Cen-

ter, 100 S. Gay St. Entries must

be original works completed

within the last two years. En-

try deadline: Sunday, April 17.

Info/application: knoxalliance.

com/photo.html.

Marathon seeks volunteersThe Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon needs

volunteers for the April 2-3 race weekend. Duties range from distributing race packets, passing out wa-ter to runners, giving directions along the route, serv-ing as course marshals, providing support at the post-race party, working at the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon Health and Fitness Expo, and cheering on runners at the start and fi nish lines. Volunteer regis-tration: knoxvillemarathon.com/volunteer. Race info: knoxvillemarathon.com or 684-4294.

■ Request for Proposals:

permanent work of art to be

located on the west wall of

the underground section of

The Emporium Center. Open

to all artists. Deadline for

applications: 5 p.m. Monday,

May 2. Application: knoxal-

liance.com/underground.

html. Info: 523-7543 or lz@

knoxalliance.com.

By Bonnie PetersMany of you may not know

there is a chapter of the Na-tional Association of Watch and Clock Collectors that meets bi-monthly at Brad-bury Community Center at Kingston. Now you know!

For many years the group met at the old Ramsey’s Cafeteria near UT. Several members are nationally and perhaps internationally known for their knowledge and expertise in building and repairing timepieces. In February we were thrilled to have William “Bill” Smith, 94, present a program on Morse code.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engi-neering from UT Knoxville. He is a Fellow in the Brit-ish Horological Institute and a Silver Star Fellow in the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC).

In addition, he holds multiple qualifi cations from the American Watchmaker-Clockmaker Institute. He is also an avid radio amateur (W4PAL). He was awarded

Bill Smith with his daughter, Donna Griffi th.

examples of the equipment used in the early days in-cluding a straight telegraph key and a sounder.

He reminisced about the telegraph key practice set his father gave him as a young boy more than 80 years ago and then used the same set to send the audi-ence a message using Morse code. He concluded by shar-ing a unique Mecograph telegraph key designed in 1917 that had been restored to factory condition for pos-terity by his good friend Russ Youngs, also a member of Chapter 42, NAWCC.

Bill was assisted in get-ting to the meeting and with the presentation by his wife, Judy, and his daughter and son-in-law, Donna Smith Griffi th and Craig Griffi th. Bill and Judy live in Powell.

Anyone interested in clocks and watches should contact Patricia Manley at 865-675-7246 or pmanley@charter.net to obtain more information about meeting dates and times and mem-bership in NAWCC.

For a good time … Call Bill Smith

The Emory Road and other Knoxville DAR chap-ters came together Feb. 20 to celebrate George Wash-ington’s birthday.

Cindy Taylor

Emory Road Dar member Martha Raper, guest speaker Gen. Terry Haston and Emory Road DAR

member Martha Cummings. Photo submitted

DAR honors George and more

tions to Knoxville, especially in establishing HonorAir.

“When I started HonorAir I had no idea what the future held,” said Mannis. “I didn’t anticipate that after that fi rst fl ight in October of 2007 we would be embarking on our 20th fl ight in 2016.”

Mannis said HonorAir has served more than 2,600 WWII, Korea and Vietnam veterans.

“Community support such as this DAR contribu-tion has been the driving force behind us being able to reach this milestone,” said Mannis. “We are grateful to the DAR for the fi nancial support and encouragement they give to this program. We couldn’t do it without folks like them.”

Diana West is a member of the Emory Road DAR

chapter.“The annual luncheon

is a national DAR event to honor the life and service of George Washington,” said West. “It is a great opportu-nity for area DAR chapters to come together.”

The Emory Road Chapter DAR will meet at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 19, at the Powell branch library.Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.

com

During the event, the local chapters presented a check for $1,000 to the Guardian Trust Campaign, a permanent endowment to support the DAR Constitu-tion Hall. More than a half million people visit the hall every year.

HonorAir Knoxville got a check for $8,500, the fi rst donation from DAR. Found-er Eddie Mannis spoke briefl y. HonorAir is a non-profi t organization that fl ies veterans to Washington, D.C., at no cost to them.

Mannis recently received the 2015 FBI Director’s Com-munity Leadership Award for his outstanding contribu-

mative and entertaining from start to fi nish. To get our attention and in jest, Bill began by singing the fi rst stanza of “How Great Thou Art.” It worked and got a good laugh. He then described the start of teleg-raphy in the early 1800s, the development of the in-ternational Morse code by Samuel Morse and the criti-cal importance of both to the railroads and to overall communication. He shared

the Legion of Merit by Gen. Douglas MacArthur for air-craft instrument work that put grounded New Guinea fi ghter planes back into the air quickly during WWII.

He received the NAWCC 2012 Dana J. Blackwell Clock Award and received the Metalworking Crafts-man of the Year 2000 Award by the Joe Martin Founda-tion for exceptional Crafts-manship.

Smith’s talk was infor-

Mabry-Hazen House to host park day Volunteers are needed

for Saturday, April 2, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mabry-Ha-zen House, 1711 Dandridge Ave. Rain date is April 16. Activities will include leaf and brush removal, mulch-

ing, and general spring-cleaning. Tools will be pro-vided, but volunteers are encouraged to bring rakes, pitchforks, tarps and simi-lar yard tools.

Mabry-Hazen House is

located on six acres atop Mabry’s Hill. It served as headquarters for both armies during the Civil War.

RSVP: 865-522-8661 or mabryhazenhouse@gmail.com

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The program:Powell Business and Profession-

al Association members have come through again to support the club’s signature project – the Teen Driver Awareness program at Powell High School.

PBPA committee chair Sage Kohler announced the need for sponsors at Tuesday’s PBPA meet-ing.

“The deadline is tomorrow,” she said.

Just look at the sponsors list-ed above. These businesses have kicked in to pay for prizes like gaso-line cards and scholarships totaling $6,000 for graduating seniors.

Kohler says this year’s program is unique. Students will be asked

to sign commitment cards to drive safely (wear a seatbelt, no texting while driving, etc.). These stu-dents will then be eligible for prizes through a random drawing.

Seniors only can compete for scholarships (details below).

The program runs March 23 to April 6, and a letter will be sent home to parents explaining the pro-gram in detail.

To learn more, contact Kohler or Wilburn at rachel@sage.kohler.com or 865-938-2800.

The schedule: ■ Wednesday, March 23: All

PHS students will watch a 15-min-ute video in their advisory class and then given a chance to sign a com-

mitment card. ■ Wednesday, March 30:

Assembly for freshman and sopho-mores in which a speaker will talk about teen driving and the scary sta-tistics. Prizes will be awarded from signed commitment cards. Past prizes have included $50 gas cards, Dollywood tickets, movie passes, gift cards, etc.

■ Wednesday, April 6: As-sembly for juniors and seniors with same speaker and then drawing for similar prizes.

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Women are winning. It is not even close, as in no con-test.

Women have the undi-vided attention of the Uni-versity of Tennessee athlet-ics department. Behind the walls, the immediate goal is no more controversy. Enough already. Maybe you noticed how the AD tiptoed around the new Athletics Hall of Fame by precisely equalizing the number of men and women to be hon-ored.

Simple system. Just leave out A.W. Davis and Heath Shuler and a few dozen oth-er stars.

The hall is part of the One Tennessee merger of men’s and women’s sports. Generally speaking, the women did not appreciate

Marvin West

Women are winning

the watering down of their identity. There had been a Lady Volunteers hall of fame since the turn of the century.

The women’s hall of fame was always politically cor-rect. It inducted former UT president Edward J. Boling in the inaugural class. Soon thereafter selectors saluted Dr. Joe Johnson and Dr. Howard Aldmon.

Dave Hart is not a hall of famer. It isn’t because the women don’t like him.

It’s because he is still here. Eligibility didn’t begin until fi ve years after departure.

How strange it is that the combined hall has equal numbers. Volunteer foot-ball men were grinding out full seasons, one without permitting a point, when college women were still re-stricted to “play days.”

Indeed, there was a time when competitive sports were thought to be entirely too rigorous for the fairer sex. No sweat. No bruises. Heaven help us, they can’t be crashing into each other.

It is mostly a secret but UT women dabbled with basketball in 1903. They lost both games. The opener was a 10-1 setback at the hands of Maryville College. There was a time when I knew who

scored that one point.There were worse embar-

rassments. Tennessee lost four years in a row to Far-ragut School of Concord. There was a humbling de-feat at the hands of Central High of Fountain City (be-fore annexation).

University women fi nally won a game in 1910, aban-doned basketball for a de-cade, tried it again for a few years and surrendered to nationwide hostility toward women’s sports. Victorian notions of docile femininity forced some great athletes into cheerleading, badmin-ton and croquet. Line danc-ing came later.

Sports for UT women were reborn quietly in 1958. A volleyball team appeared. Few noticed. Basketball resumed in 1960 but they didn’t even keep records.

Ann Baker stirred some excitement in 1964. She was

a really good golfer – on the men’s team. She was also a really good student, fi rst re-cipient of a Robert R. Ney-land Academic Scholarship.

Overall, there was calm or disinterest. In a year’s worth of Daily Beacons, campus newspaper, 1967-68, there were just two mentions of women’s ath-letic contests.

U.S. Reps. Patsy T. Mink of Hawaii and Edith S. Green of Oregon kindled the fi re. They co-authored legis-lation that became Title IX, an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

President Richard Nixon signed it into law on June 23, 1972. The noble intent was to end gender discrimi-nation in federally funded educational venues. College women seized the athletic opportunity and ran with it.

In 1976, UT christened the women’s athletic de-

partment and set aside money for scholarships. You are aware of what happened after that? Football paid the bill.

Summitt is the signifi -cant history of UT women’s athletics – 38 years as bas-ketball coach, 1,098 victo-ries, eight national titles, Presidential Medal of Free-dom, plaza and statue, name on the fl oor.

Even without Summitt, UT women go right on win-ning, no matter the sport or score. Petitions are deadly. Re-branding became a blunder and a mismatch. The logo compromise was a forfeit.

The new hall of fame is a walk on egg shells. In less than half the time, women have achieved equal repre-sentation. Hail to the cham-pions.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com

NickDella Volpe

There have been several controversial road projects in recent years that have stirred different parts of northeast Knoxville neigh-borhoods to rise up in arms, often on opposite sides of each other. Many are still pending.

Road fi xes like the pro-posed widening of Wash-ington Pike east of I-640, the possibility of traffi c controls at the intersections of Tazewell Pike and Briar Cliff, or at Beverly Road, or Shannondale Road where a school sits, inviting turns near a vision-obscuring hill.

What’s going to happen at the rush-hour-congested Millertown Pike exit? ... or at the intersection at Jacks-boro and Tazewell Pike? It’s time to step back and survey the entire fi eld from 10,000 feet.

Planning for traffi c growth

Change is tough. And any signifi cant road project stirs up angst. But piecemeal so-lutions are akin to plugging holes in a leaky dike with a fi nger. If you are not care-ful, you may soon run out of fi ngers.

Finite budgets mean road building must be undertak-en in a “piecemeal” or proj-ect-by-project manner. The important question is where are we going over time? Hopefully, we are guided in our actions by observing a master plan, attuned to demographic changes and

trends. Eventually the puz-zle pieces interlock.

What should we do? We know from the 2010 Cen-sus that there has been substantial residential population growth in the northeast quadrant of the city and county. More peo-ple means more cars. The 2008 recession slowed that growth somewhat – but the economic wheels have started to turn again. East-west routes are limited. The normal pattern is for the residents to travel west to Broadway, the interstate or the mall shopping area. More cars means more con-gestion.

MPC Director Gerald Green agrees we should plan ahead, not just put out fi res.

Remember reading “Al-ice’s Adventures in Wonder-land.” When Alice emerged

from the magical house, she asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, the key question: “which way should I go?” Flashing his smile, the Cat replied: “It depends on where you want to end up.”

Likewise, from our perch, a Small Area Plan is needed to fi nd our way.

The small area plan should cover transpor-tation management and population-related growth from Tazewell south to Mil-lertown, and generally east of Broadway and I-640 into the county where open farm land entices housing devel-opers to build.

MPC planners working with traffi c engineers can create an effi cient roadmap for the future. Individual projects will thereafter mesh nicely like gears in a

Swiss timepiece.One diffi culty: MPC is

currently understaffed. Often desirable “extra projects” languish behind day-to-day zoning and site plan review. We could fa-

cilitate MPC action by add-ing modest funding to hirea temporary consultant orstaff member to prepare theSmall Area Plan.

The cars are coming,plan or no p lan.

AAA pays tow bill for wrecks“Recently a Shopper News article titled ‘Brantley

wants relief for towing customers’ displayed a quote stating that AAA members involved in a crash are charged full price for a tow dispatched by AAA Road-side Assistance,” wrote Stephanie Milani of AAA.

“AAA members receive the same roadside assis-tance benefi ts in crash situations as they do with a mechanical breakdown. If they are driving – or a pas-senger in – a type of vehicle covered by their member-ship plan, the tow dispatched through AAA is paid for by the club up to the number of miles covered on their membership.

“For instance, a AAA Plus member’s passenger car involved in a crash could be towed up to 100 miles from the crash scene with no out-of-pocket expense to the member. In addition, if the member in this situa-tion is a passenger, and the owner is not a member, the vehicle can still be towed under the member’s plan.

“Members and nonmembers alike can see the full AAA Roadside Assistance plans at AAA.com/Benefi ts, then click on Compare Benefi ts.”

POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • MARCH 16, 2016 • A-5 governmentA couple of days after the

primary, an East Knoxville friend called to ask if I knew what the heck had happened in the First District County Commission race. This po-litically savvy woman was shocked that Evelyn Gill had beaten out Rick Staples in the Democratic primary.

“Rick did everything right,” she said. “He was everywhere, but I didn’t see much of Evelyn. Plus, she had a blonde-headed white girl on her signs.”

Having not yet looked at the numbers, I had no an-swer. Gill beating Staples was the second-biggest pri-mary election surprise – af-ter Jennifer Owen’s beating out the big money in the District Two school board race – but when I followed the advice of another friend who told me to go look at the individual precincts, the an-swer was clear as a Smoky Mountain stream:

The Bernie Sanders ef-fect.

That seems a little odd, at fi rst blush, since the First District is tradition-ally dominated by African American voters, a demo-graphic that is going for Hillary Clinton by pretty wide margins, particularly in the South. But except for the Eternal Life Harvest Center on Western Avenue, where Clinton beat Sanders 73-53 (and Staples eked out a 55-50 margin over Gill), the western end of the dis-trict was feeling the Bern, and Gill and her husband, the popular entertainment promoter Michael Gill, have been full-on Sanders sup-porters for months. Her vote totals closely tracked those of Sanders.

The west end trend started with Staples getting wiped out at Sarah Moore Greene, where downtown-ers vote. The tally there was Sanders 196 – Clinton 147, Gill 224 – Staples 68.

At Fort Sanders it was Bernie 256 – Hillary 56, Gill 204 – Staples 55.

At the O’Conner Center where Parkridge residents vote, Gill beat Staples 227-98, outperforming Sanders, who prevailed 193-161 over Clinton. Moving eastward from the gentrifi ed neigh-borhoods in the west end, Clinton and Staples fared much better.

At Eastport, Clinton wiped Sanders out 333-63 and Staples beat Gill 238-125. The result was similar at Fairgarden, where Clin-ton won 340-90 and Staples prevailed 244-141. At Aus-tin-East, Clinton won 65-25, Staples 126-45.

And so it went, with Gill’s success tracking that of

The Knox County prima-ry is now two weeks behind us, but there are several results worth noting which have not received much notice.

While former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received over 62 percent of the Democratic vote state-wide, in Knox County, she only won 51 percent, while Sen. Bernie Sanders won 48 percent and in some pre-cincts such as downtown Knoxville, Fort Sanders and 4th & Gill, Sanders exceed-ed 70 percent of the vote.

At the Larry Cox Rec Center, Sanders beat Clinton 444 to 333 while in the predominantly African American precincts in East Knoxville, Clinton was get-ting 70 percent of the vote. In fact, Clinton only won over Sanders by 903 votes in all of Knox County. Clin-ton got 13,137 votes while Sanders had 12,234 votes.

It certainly shows that Knox County Democrats are more liberal than their counterparts across the state and are not enthused over Clinton.

While many thought the Hugh Nystrom, Ja-net Testerman and Jeff Ownby contest for County Commission would be close between Nystrom and Tes-terman, it was not. Nystrom won an outright majority of the total vote and won by large margins in Sequoyah and Deane Hill Rec Center. Testerman beat him in Pond Gap by only 7 votes.

Nystrom had started campaigning over a year before Testerman joined the race and it was impos-sible for her to overcome the commitments Nystrom had secured. The contest was never on policy issues as Nystrom and Tester-man were similar on poli-cies.

Marleen Davis, former dean of the UT Art and Architecture School, will be a credible candidate for the Democrats against Nystrom on Aug. 4, but she faces an uphill battle to prevail.

Evelyn Gill defeated Rick Staples 1,703 to 1,506 for the Democratic nomination in County Commission Dis-trict 1 – a race most picked Staples to win. This district is racially mixed with pre-cincts both overwhelmingly black and overwhelming white. Staples carried the largely African American precincts which Clinton also carried. In the 12th ward, where Clinton beat Sanders 333 to 63, Staples beat Gill 238 to 125. At Fort Sanders, where Sanders

Gov. Winfi eld Dunn signed the Natural

Areas Preservation Act into law in 1971

(at right) and the event was re-enacted

March 11 in Nashville at the Tennessee

Green banquet. Dunn is now 88. Senate

sponsor Bill Bruce (left) is now 80; and

House sponsor Victor Ashe is 71. At right

in both photos is career Conservation Department employee Bob Miller, now 75, who

drafted the bill. Take-aways: Bruce is still tall, Ashe has gained some fashion sense, Dunn

remains the best looking guy in the room, and nobody remembers Miller.

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Betty Bean

Election Day in the rearview mirrorParkway extension in remission, not dead

won 256 votes over Clin-ton’s 56 votes, Gill won 204 votes to Staples’ 46.

Clearly, there was a rela-tionship between the Sand-ers votes and the Gill votes. Staples never saw this train coming down the track and Gill was shrewd and wise to link her campaign to Sand-ers. It paid off handsomely for her.

While Cheri Siler had withdrawn her candidacy for the Democratic nomina-tion for Commission in Dis-trict 7, her name remained on the ballot and Laura Kildare (her opponent) only got 56 percent of the vote for 1,797 votes over Siler’s 1,374. In fact, Siler won the 11th ward 217-212 despite having withdrawn from the race weeks before. Kildare has lots of work to catch up with Republican Michele Carringer in August to hold the seat now occupied by Amy Broyles for the Demo-crats.

What can one say about the law director contest except Bud Armstrong is popular and well liked. County Mayor Tim Bur-chett’s TV endorsement of him was very effective. Rowell’s slogan of being a professional not a politician had little impact. Arm-strong won over 60 percent of the vote and could be a viable candidate for county mayor in two years if he wanted to be.

Rowell suggested he may run again in 2020 for law director. If so, he will need to retool his campaign and become active in GOP circles over the next four years.

This election proved that the candidates with the most funding do not neces-sarily win; witness Rowell and Grant Standefer for school board.

■ Mayor Rogero thought she had buried the James White Parkway extension, but last week the state TDOT commissioner, John Schroer, slipped into town and urged its revival at a luncheon to which the mayor was not invited. Schroer sees himself as a potential governor.

Rogero must wonder if this project has nine lives. Legacy Parks and others that opposed this should be alert that the project is only in remission. It is not dead.

Sanders across the district. ■ On the Republican

side, the most frequent complaint had to do with the long lines on Election Day, and most of the blame was heaped on the Hart In-tercivic voting machines, which use a dial system to cast the votes. In some of the larger precincts, voters were still lined up as late as 10 p.m.

Election administrator Cliff Rodgers said expedit-ing the process wasn’t his main concern.

“The main things I was concerned about were, are they secure? Are they ac-curate? Nobody’s ever com-plained before.”

Rodgers (and others) said that the biggest problem was on the Republican side of the ballot, where there were 14 presidential can-didates and 140 would-be delegates to the Republi-can National Convention to choose from. And after each vote, the machine defaulted back to the top of the list, forcing endless scrolling. Democrats simply voted for a presidential candidate and left delegate selection to a party caucus.

Knox County Democrat-ic chair Cameron Brooks thinks the Republican way is silly:

“They’re putting voters through a big rigmarole by having them sift through a ballot with x names on it for the ego trip of a few. The average voter could care less whether Brian Hornback or Susan Williams goes to the

RNC. For these poor voters to have to sit out there till after 10 o’clock in Farragut is ridiculous. It was a really long ballot. Scrolling down looking for a certain name has to spend a lot of time.”

There’s another factor in the plethora of convention delegate candidates: last year, the General Assembly voted to reduce the signa-ture requirement on quali-fying petitions from 100 to 25. State GOP party chair

Ryan Haynes, a former state representative from the Far-ragut area, is having second thoughts about the change, which he thinks he might have voted for.

“I don’t think anybody imagined that we were go-ing to have this result when we reduced the number of signatures, and as party chair, I’d like to see it go back to 100. Funny how your perspective changes as you go through life.”

School bus driver who crashed at Safety City with busload of kids jailed for DUI

By Betty Bean The driver who crashed a bus loaded with 26 Green

Magnet School second graders on a fi eld trip to Safety City Thursday, March 10, has been arrested and charged with

DUI. No children were injured, but the bus crashed into an entrance gate

Hollis Clay Walker, 78, of Powell, was taken to Ft. Sanders Regional Medical Center after the crash. He was arrested upon his release on March 13. The warrant says he was unsteady on his feet, “thick tongued, slurred speech” following the in-cident.

A post on the Knoxville Police Depart-ment Facebook page says Walker was ar-

rested and charged with DUI, reckless endangerment and simple possession.

The day of the incident, Walker was in possession of 69 of 90 Kolonapin pills (a sedative used to treat seizures, panic disorders and anxiety) from a prescription fi lled earlier in the day. The warrant says he couldn’t remember whether he’d taken pills that morning.

The prescription was not in his name. Walker is being held on a $4,500 bond.

After the crash, the bus rolled onto a small grassy area near the front door of Safety City, and employees there got the children off and moved them to a safe place. Before they could return to the bus, Walker pulled away, sideswiped a fence and came to a stop in the parking lot. Emergency personnel found Walker slumped over the steering wheel and incoherent.

This is not Walker’s fi rst brush with the law. In 2014, General Sessions Court Judge Geoff Emery ordered him to stay out of Walmart and dismissed a theft charge against him after he completed diversion. A charge of DUI by con-sent incurred in 2014 was dismissed last year.

Hollis Walker

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Senior Centers will be

closed Friday, March 25.

■ Karns Senior Center

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

Off erings include: card

games; dance classes; exer-

cise programs; mahjong; art

classes; farkle dice games;

dominoes; a computer lab;

billiards room; outdoor grill

and kitchen area. Veterans

Services, 9-10 a.m. Friday,

March 18.

Register for: Memoir

Writing Workshop, 1 p.m.

Friday, March 18; fee: $20.

Spring Time Potluck, noon

Tuesday, March 22; bring

side dish to go with pulled

pork barbecue. Wellness

Lunch and Learn: knee

replacement, noon Thurs-

day, March 24: 541-4500.

Beginning Computer Class,

1-3 p.m. Monday, March 28;

fee: $5.

■ Halls Senior Center

4405 Crippen Road922-0416knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-FridayHours vary

Off erings include: card

games; exercise classes;

quilting, dominoes, dance

classes; scrapbooking,

craft classes; Tai Chi; movie

matinee 2 p.m. each Tues-

day; Senior Meals program,

noon each Wednesday.

Veterans Services, 9-10 a.m.,

Wednesday, March 16.

Register for: “Being

Mortal” luncheon and

movie, 11:30 a.m. Monday,

March 21. Craft class: set

your Easter table with style,

1 p.m. Thursday, March 24.

■ Knox County Senior

Services

City County Building400 Main St., Suite 615215-4044 Monday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Community center gears up for openingBy Ruth White

The Heiskell seniors are enjoying their brand new meeting spot and, thanks to Janice White and a host of volunteers, the Commu-nity Center on Emory Road just east of Bojangle’s will be ready for daily activities to begin on Monday, April 4.

To kick off the March meeting, Pam Epperly with Omni Visions discussed her work with the agency and with foster children. Ep-perly has fostered over 90 children in the past 14 years and has adopted fi ve chil-dren herself. She told the group that full- and part-time foster parents are al-ways needed.

She also mentioned items that are always needed by foster families, including brushes/combs, hair prod-ucts, toothbrushes/tooth-

Pam Epperly, home

study writer/recruiter

for Omni Visions, shares

with the Heiskell seniors

the work of the organi-

zation. Photos by R. White

Janice White prepares to hand

out prizes to the winners of

the word game played at the

center.

Powell Florist donated fl oral

decorations and greenery to

the Heiskell seniors for their

monthly meeting.

paste, diapers/pull-ups, tote bags, make up and school supplies. The senior adults will be collecting items and donations may be brought to the community center.

Prior to lunch, which was sponsored by Thrivent Fi-nancial, White handed out calendars fi lled with tons of activities for area senior adults to enjoy. Every Mon-day a line dancing class will

be held from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Cost is $3 per class. Every day seniors can enjoy playing cards, working puz-zles, board games, browsing the library or just hanging out and visiting with friends.

The calendar for April includes: Thursday, April 7: crafts/cards/games with a light lunch served; Thurs-day, April 14: senior lun-cheon with guest speaker, lunch and bingo. The theme will be April in Paris; Tues-day, April 19: Veterans Ser-vices offi ce representative will be at the center from 10:30-11:30 a.m. for one-on-one assistance to veter-ans and family members; Thursday, April 21: bingo marathon, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with lunch served for $3. Bingo is free and partici-pants don’t have to attend the entire time.

Support groupMorning Pointe of Powell sponsors a

free group for those with a loved one ex-periencing Alzheimer’s or dementia on the last Monday of each month at 1 p.m. Led by professionals, it features guest speakers. It’s a time to fi nd answers and

support and to relax. Light refreshments served.

Morning Pointe of Powell is located on the campus of Tennova North at 7700 Dannaher Drive. Info: morningpointe.com or 865-686-5771.

Robbins’

jewelry box

Potato jewelry is topsBy Sandra Clark

Mary Nelle Robbins is a hoot. She’s also extremely creative. Robbins worked at UT for 22 years before retir-ing, but she’s created jewel-ry since she was “a kid.”

Now living at Sherrill Hills in West Knoxville, Robbins participated in a recent “show-n-tell.”

Her potato jewelry was a hit. She takes a regular Irish potato, cuts it into cubes and inserts a toothpick into each cube. Then she wraps the cubes to draw out moisture. After about two weeks, the cubes are half the size and contorted into odd shapes.

She then paints the cubes and removes the toothpicks, leaving a hole for the string. She strings the potatoes with various art elements to create col-orful necklaces and brace-

Mary Nelle Robbins

Robbins’

potato jewelry

lets.And, she says, if all else

fails, she’ll just eat them!

POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • MARCH 16, 2016 • A-7 faith

CrossCurrents

LynnPitts

There is a painting of Je-sus that hangs in the chan-cel of the church where I worship. The text quoted above is printed underneath it.

I don’t know who painted it, my research online not-withstanding. There are some six thousand paint-ings of Christ available on line, and frankly I gave up the search after looking at about 600.

I have worshipped in that church for almost three years, but it was only last Sunday that I read that quote with new understanding.

I have understood it liter-ally, in reference to Jesus’ being lifted up on the cross, which is not incorrect. John, the Gospel writer, certainly understood it that way, be-ing the only disciple with courage enough to be pres-ent at the crucifi xion. Now I think that perhaps Jesus intended it with a double meaning as well.

Because last Sunday, I read it again, and thought with utter surprise and con-

Heavy liftingAnd I, when I am lifted up …, will draw all people

to myself. He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.

(John 12: 32-33 NRSV)

viction, “That’s our job! We should be lifting up Jesus to the whole world!

If we don’t let people know about Jesus and what He means to us – not only with words but by our ac-tions as well – we have failed as disciples.

I don’t mean we need to tackle strangers on the sidewalk and convert them on the spot. But we should not be afraid to speak His name, either; we should not hesitate to lift Him up, to say what He means to us, when given the opportunity.

I am reminded of the fa-mous motto of Boys Town, USA: “He ain’t heavy; he’s my brother!”

Because to a Christian, “He ain’t heavy; He’s my savior!”

FAITH NOTES

Community services

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church,

6125 Lacy Road, off ers

Children’s Clothes Closet and

Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

each third Saturday. Free to

those in the 37912/37849 ZIP

code area.

Special services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753

Oak Ridge Highway, 9 and 11

a.m., Palm Sunday, March 20.

All children are invited to par-

ticipate in the Palm Parade,

which begins both services.

Info: beaverridgeumc.org;

690-1060.

■ Bookwalter UMC Chancel

Choir, 4218 Central Avenue

Pike, will present the Easter

cantata “Champion of Love” 6

p.m. Sunday, March 20. Every-

one welcome. Info: 689-3349.

■ Faith UMC, 1120 Dry Gap Pike,

will host the choirs of Faith

and Inskip UMC presenting the

Resurrection musical “The Day

He Wore My Crown,” 6 p.m.

Sunday, March 20. Visitors wel-

come. Potluck supper follows.

Info/reservation: 688-1000.

■ Fountain City Presbyterian Church, 500 Hotel Road in

Fountain City, will hold Palm

Sunday services 8:30 and

10:30 a.m. March 20; Easter

services 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday, March 27. The annual

Palm Sunday churchwide

Easter egg hunt will be held

4 p.m. Info: fountaincitypres.

org or 688-2163.

■ Mount Hermon UMC, 235 E.

Copeland Road, will host Eas-

ter Sunrise service 7:30 a.m.

Sunday, March 27. Following

the service, breakfast will be

served. Everyone welcome.

■ Powell Presbyterian Church, 2910 W. Emory Road,

will host the following special

services: Sunday, March 20,

Palm Sunday Worship, 10:30

a.m.; Thursday, March 24,

The Last Supper Worship, 7

p.m.; Easter Sunday, March 27,

Pancake Breakfast, 9:30 a.m.,

Worship, 10:30 a.m., Com-

munity Easter Egg Hunt, 11:30

a.m. Info: 938-8311; www.

powellpcusa.org.

■ St. James Episcopal Church,

1101 N. Broadway, will host

the following services:

Maundy Thursday, March 24,

Walk with Jesus at Powell Church

By Cindy Taylor If you’re looking for an

event that will inspire and engage your family this Easter look no further than Powell Church.

The church will sponsor “Walk with Jesus” 3-5 p.m. on Palm Sunday, March 20. The event is in its sec-ond year. It is an interactive time of storytelling and en-couragement based on the fi nal week in the life of Je-sus Christ.

Stations will be set up throughout the church. Vis-itors will be greeted at the door then escorted through each individual experience. The initial idea for the dif-ferent stations was a col-laboration between church members Kristie Pittman and Frankie Holt.

“Last year there was an overwhelmingly positive response,” said Pittman. “Families and children in particular learned a lot about Holy Week and the traditions associated with each day.”

Pittman says the ma-

jority of the work done by herself and Holt in the be-ginning each year is talking and praying through God’s plan for the event.

“Being fl exible is ex-tremely important since we know that for God’s plan to come to fruition we have to let go of our plans for the event.”

Once major decisions are made the two begin recruit-ing volunteers. Many mem-bers will use vacation days to help out with the plans. Holt is also in charge of cos-tume design.

Pittman says volunteers are essential to the success of the experience. They staff the registration table and then assign guides to those attending. The guide sets the scene. Guests will walk through the last moments of Jesus’ life as though they were actually there, com-plete with scenery. Actors (volunteer church members) will be at the stations in pe-riod dress, telling their sto-ry from a fi rst person point of view and will interact

Powell Church member Dave Locke portrays Jesus entering

the gates of Jerusalem as volunteers wave palm branches dur-

ing last year’s Walk with Jesus at Powell Church. Photo submitted

with guests.Stations will include

Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, the Last Supper in the upper room, Jesus taken away in the Garden of Gethsemane and the Resurrection by the empty tomb.

Each station will feature an activity to help guests remember what happened during that day in the life of Jesus. Pittman says this is intended to help them apply the experience to things go-

ing on in their own lives.“Our prayer is that after

walking through this event families will not only have a better understanding of what Easter is about but have the tools to be able to talk about it with one an-other. We hope to create a wonderful experience for everyone who attends. This is truly a community event.”

Powell Church is at 323 West Emory Road. Info: pow-ellchurch.com or 938-2888.

By Cindy Taylor The Rev. Dr. Hollie Miller

will bring the message at the 2016 Midland-Northern Evangelism Conference, set for 6 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at Clear Springs Baptist Church, 8518 Thompson School Road. The Rev. Mi-chael Viles is the director of missions for Midland-Northern Association.

“We were hoping that the

Generating excitementnior pastor at Sevier Heights Baptist Church. He accepted the call to preach at age 25 and has since earned Doc-tor of Ministry and Master of Divinity degrees. Miller and wife Paula have three children, all of whom serve in ministry capacities.

The Rev. Jerry Vittatoe is evangelism director for the Midland-Northern Associa-tion. Viles said he and Vit-

tatoe spend time in prayer each year before the confer-ence seeking God’s will for whom the speaker should be. He said Miller spoke last year and there were many requests to have him return for the 2016 conference.

Viles says the conference objective is threefold.

“This is a great oppor-tunity for our pastors and church members in the as-sociation to come together for worship and for fellow-ship. And of course a main goal is evangelism.”

Viles says church mem-bers are encouraged to bring the un-churched with Holy Eucharist Rite II and Foot

Washing, 7 p.m.; Good Friday

Liturgy, noon and 7 p.m. with

Stations of the Cross, 1 and 3

p.m. Info: 523-5687.

■ Easter Sunrise Mountain Top Service, 6:30 a.m. Sun-

day, March 27, Ober Gatlin-

burg. Led by local pastors

of the Gatlinburg Ministerial

Association. The off ering col-

lected during the service will

be used by the Association

in assisting those in need.

A breakfast buff et will be

available at Ober Gatlinburg’s

Seasons of Ober Restaurant,

7:15-10:30 a.m. Info: 436-5423;

fun@obergatlinburg.com;

obergatlinurg.com.

Classes/meetings ■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory

Road, hosts Recovery at Pow-

ell at 6 p.m. Tuesdays. The

program embraces people

who struggle with addiction,

compulsive behaviors, loss

and life challenges. Info: re-

coveryatpowell.com or info@

powellchurch.com.

them to the conference and many have come to the Lord during past gatherings.

As the largest facil-ity in the association, Clear Springs has hosted the conference since its begin-ning in 2006. The Mid-land-Northern Association ranges from Blount to Han-cock counties. More than 15 churches are usually repre-sented and more than 500 guests are expected to at-

tend this year’s event. Viles says the conference has grown through the years and is always a great oppor-tunity to worship with other believers and non-believers alike. The community is in-vited to share this special time of worship.

“We need to be brighter and bolder witnesses for Christ. This conference al-ways generates excitement for sharing our faith.”

Hollie Miller

new Clear S p r i n g s b u i l d i n g would be ready in time for the conference but that isn’t going to happen,” said Viles.

Dr. Miller is fast ap-proaching 30 years as se-

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Powell Middle School student Anna Kimsey was named as one of 100 students who qualifi ed to compete in the National Geographic State Bee on Friday, April 1, in Nash-ville. This is the second level of the National Geo-graphic Bee competition, which is now in its 28th year.

School bees were held in schools with fourth- through eighth-grade students throughout the state to determine each school champion, who then took an online qual-ifying test. The National Geographic Society has invited up to 100 of the top-scoring students in each of the 50 states, District of Columbia, Department of Defense

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Social studies teach-er Mary Ann Edwards taught Anna in sixth grade and was thrilled to have her again in the seventh grade. She called Anna “the perfect stu-dent.” Anna is excited for the opportunity to represent her school in the state geography bee, calling it “very cool.” Edwards will attend the competition in Nashville with Anna.

‘Grease’ comes to Powell High

The Pink Ladies make fun of Sandy and sing a song mocking

her during a sleepover at Marti’s house.Danny and Sandy (Grant Leonhardt and Meghan Rivera) in the

opening scene of “Grease” Photos by Ruth White

Doody (Brendan Holbert)

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Ladies how he learned to play

the guitar over the summer. Danny and Sandy (Grant Leonhardt and Meghan Rivera) are reunited at Rydell High after meet-

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Pickleball tournament By Carol Z. ShaneIn our town, where Vols

football and “cradle of coun-try music” lore reign su-preme, it’s good to remem-ber that Knoxville is also very much a jazz mecca. Some of the planet’s fi nest players live here, the Knox-ville Jazz Orchestra and UT jazz faculty are both world-class, and the Knoxville Jazz Festival has its home here.

This weekend brings a rare opportunity for jazz fans when the inaugural “Women in Jazz Jam Fes-tival” takes place in down-town Knoxville and sur-rounding areas.

The lineup is truly im-pressive. Featured artists include vocalists Katy Free, host of the weekly Singer Series at the Red Piano Lounge; Brooklyn trans-plant and versatile vocal-ist Jeanine Fuller; Lettie Andrade De La Torre, who sings both classical and jazz music; Sarah Clapp-Gilpin, a veteran not only of jazz

but of many stage musicals; Yasameen Hoffman Shahin, lead vocalist for the band “Electric Darling,” known for her vocal sass and soul; Dara Tucker, the national-ly-recognized vocalist and songwriter who has to her credit many appearances in New York City, New Or-leans, San Jose and the PBS show “Tavis Smiley”; local favorite Evelyn Jack, a member of the Knoxville Opera Gospel Choir and an-nual soloist for the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame; and Maria Williams, famil-iar to Knoxville audiences for 20 years.

Also performing will be guitarist/vocalist/bandleader Kukuly Uri-arte, well-known locally as a force for Django-Rein-hardt-inspired hot jazz and Hispanic culture through music and song; Nashvillian Christina Watson, who will be bringing her world-class jazz quartet; Oak Ridge’s Deidre Ford, director of the 17-piece Ensemble Swing

Time, in which she also sings and plays baritone sax; “Venus,” a quintet con-sisting of voice, bass, guitar, drums and keyboard; and local jazz luminary Kelle Jolly, host of WUOT’s “Jazz Jam with Kelle Jolly” and, along with her husband, saxophonist Will Boyd, 2015 recipient of the MLK Art Award.

It’s Jolly, in fact, who has brought the whole thing together. She started sing-ing jazz in high school, and became a fan of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Austin and Dianne Reeves. “Sarah Vaughan especially made an impres-sion on me. She sang with such warmth and control. Her voice was velvety and rich.”

She’s been singing and promoting the art of jazz ever since. “Singing jazz has given me purpose.” In ad-dition to hosting her radio show and performing regu-larly, she and Boyd have traveled to Japan for the

last 10 years as jazz ambas-sadors. “All of our fondest memories together are con-nected to jazz.”

The festival offers much more than great jazz per-formances. On Saturday morning, there will be ven-dors and workshops at the Emporium Center on Gay Street. WDVX’s “Jazz Me Blues” host Bradley Reeves will present a talk on wom-en in the 1920s and 30s jazz era. Children will be en-couraged to write their own blues lyric and sing it live. “Children have great ideas,” says Jolly. “We have to show them the options they have for creativity.”

The “Women in Jazz Jam Festival” begins at noon this Friday, March 18, at the Knoxville Visitors Cen-ter, 301 South Gay Street, and runs through Sunday, March 20. Tickets/info: call 622-7174, visit http://wom-eninjazzjamfestival.com or email womeninjazzjamfes-tival@gmail.com.Send story suggestions to news@

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The “Women in Jazz Jam Band” will take part in the festivities at this weekend’s “Women in Jazz Jam Festival.” Shown are Maria

Williams, Kelle Jolly, Sarah Clapp-Gilpin, Evelyn Jack, Deidre Ford and Lettie Andrade De La Torre. Seated is Jeanine Fuller. Photo submitted

Women in jazz

By Sherri Gardner HowellIf you are still on the shelf when it comes to pickleball,

you need to know that the game is a pretty big dill.Sorry. Couldn’t resist.That’s the problem with pickleball. Its name keeps new-

comers confused: Is it real or a Nickelodeon challenge game?

The masses aren’t that confused. Pickleball has taken the area by storm, and the city of Knoxville is hosting its fi rst-ever pickleball tournament April 15-17.

The tournament is open play with both singles and dou-bles divisions. Single tournaments begin on Friday, April 15, with doubles beginning on Saturday and mixed doubles on Sunday. Age brackets are 18-plus, 50-plus, 60-plus and 70 and older. Registration fee is $30.

The tournament will be played on Knoxville’s 18 pickle-ball courts – 12 indoor and six outdoor – with West Hills Park courts being the host area.

A mixture of tennis, badminton and ping pong, pickle-ball appeals to a wide age range of participants. The city has courts at West Hills Park, Christenberry Community Center, Deane Hill Rec Center, Inskip Rec Center, Lonsdale Rec Center, Milton Roberts Rec Center and South Knox-ville Community Center.

Tournament info: https://registration.knoxvilletn.gov. Click on Athletics and then Adult Pickleball.

By Sylvia Williams Make time to come by the

Fountain City Art Center to experience the new and very visually engaging ex-hibit of handmade books and professional-quality nature photography. This early spring show has been an annual event for the past fi ve years. All FCAC exhib-

its are free to the public year-round. This show runs through March 31.

The Southern Appala-chian Nature Photography artists hold a judged salon every February just before the FCAC exhibit. Half of the photographs are stun-ning black and white prints while the other half are in

Nature photographyhighlights art show in

Fountain City

Knoxville Book Arts Guild. The

books are the perfect 3-D com-p a n -ions to the p h o t o s . They are always vi-sually fas-

cinating and can move the

viewer to expe-rience a display of

wit or humor, an emo-tional reaction to a pictorial and verbal tale, or outright amazement at the clever-ness of the a particular book design concept.

The collection is large and boasts a wide range of

found objects and recyclable materials. For example, one book is “rescued” from fall-ing apart, but now features artfully torn-back layers of its pages and a wire tor-nado-like structure coming out of the book as well as a wire person struggling to escape the book as well.

How about an aluminum can from an uncommon brand of tomatoes with a book made of cut out and connected paper tomato slices? Another eye-catcher is an apothecary’s shelves with bottles and books in miniature.

Info: 865-357-2787 or fcartcenter@lknology.com Sylvia Williams is executive director of

the Fountain City Art Center.

glorious color. Not all of the subject matter is limited to the Appalachian area. Some of the photographers in the group have traveled beyond the United States. The high quality of the photography

is immediately apparent to those viewing the show. The categories include wildlife, scenic and travel.

Paired with the photog-raphy exhibit are handmade books by members of the

coming in April

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THROUGH SUNDAY, MARCH 20“Monty Python’s Spamalot” production,

William H. Inman Humanities Theatre, Walters State Community College Morristown campus. Presented by Encore theatrical company. Performances: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: etcplays.org or 423-318-8331.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16Computer Workshops: “Internet and Email

Basics,” 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Ashe-ville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, MARCH 17Family Pajama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Halls

Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552. Plainview 7th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Plainview Community Center. Info: 992-5212.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 18-20“Printmaking” class, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Appala-

chian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: John Allen. Part of the Featured Tennessee Artist Workshop Series. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

SATURDAY, MARCH 19AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-4:30

p.m., AAA offi ce, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Eight-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $40 mem-bers/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/regis-tration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

Arbor Day celebration, 1-5 p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 West Governor John Sevier Highway. Free; donations appreciated. Info: marblesprings.net; 573-5508; info@marblesprings.net.

Camp Sam Hike and Volunteer Day, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Norris Dam State Park, 125 Village Green Circle, Rocky Top. Meet at the Camp Sam Trailhead, located at TVA’s picnic shelter/across street from Powerhouse Road. Bring water and lunch; gloves and tools pro-vided. Adults only. Leader: Ranger Lauren Baghetti. Info: 426-7461.

East Tennessee Kidney Foundation’s Lucky Kidney Run and Irish Festival, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Market Square. Festival features: live music, dancing, vendor booths, and kids’ infl atables and midway games. Info/Run or walk registration: etkidney.org.

Free beginning beekeeping class, 1-3 p.m., Treadway Fire Hall on Highway #131. Presented by Clinch Valley Beekeeping Association. Info/registra-tion: Wanda Coleman, 423-944-3230.

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

“A Night in Old Havana” ETTAC fundraiser, 6:30-10 p.m., Lighthouse Knoxville Event Center, 6800 Baum Drive. Includes: authentic Cuban food and music, a Latin dance showcase, casino game tables, a silent auction, a coffee and dessert bar, cigars bar and door and raffl e prizes. Tickets: $25. Tickets: ettac.org/nohregistration2016.html; 219-0130, ext. 221. Info: Mat Jones, 219-0130, ext. 228, or mjones@ettac.org.

Spring Hike, 10 a.m.-noon, Big Ridge State Park, 1015 Big Ridge Road, Maynardville. Meet at park offi ce. Leader: Ranger Scott Ferguson; hike: 1-3 miles. Info: 992-5523.

Yard sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway. Spots are $10 or donate items to the youth section of the sale. Info: 690-1060.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 19-20“The Secrets of Fine Art Photography” pre-

sented by J Way Photography, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Cost: $200. Info/registration: 214-6364.

MONDAY, MARCH 21“Introduction to Beekeeping” class, 6-9 p.m.,

Clinton Community Center in Clinton. Open to anyone interested in beekeeping. Sponsored by the Anderson County Beekeepers Association. Info/registration: 463-8541 or clowden@comcast.net.

TUESDAY, MARCH 22“A Focus on Fashion” fashion show benefi tting the

Historic Ramsey House, noon, Cherokee Country Club. 5138 Lyons View Pike. Boutique shopping open 10:30 a.m.-noon. Reservations deadline: March 16. Info/reser-vations: 546-0745.

AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., AAA offi ce, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

Auditions for “Snow White & Rose Red,” 4:30-7:30 p.m., Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. By appointment only. Fourteen available roles; ages 9-18. For appointment: email Dennis Perkins, dennis@childrenstheatreknoxville.com, including name, age gender and preferred time.

Homeschoolers at the Library Part 2: Everyday Expressions, 2 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emo-ry Road. Presented by East Tennessee Historical Society. Registration required. Info/registration: 922-2552.

“Passionate for Pasta” cooking class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/registration: avantisavoia.com or 922-9916.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23Bits ’N Pieces Quilt Guild meeting, 1 p.m., Com-

munity Building, Norris. Speaker: Joyce Morgan of The Quilt Patch in LaFollette. Guests and new members welcome. Info: Mary Jane Berry, 494-7841.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clin-ton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, MARCH 23-24AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m.,

O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registra-tion: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, MARCH 24“Raised Beds: Build ’Em and Fill ’Em,” 3:15-

4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Michael Powell. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

SATURDAY, MARCH 26Cat Fanciers Association Cat Show, 9 a.m.-5

p.m., Chilhowee Park Jacob Building. Tickets: $6 adults, $4 seniors and students; available at the door.

“Name Your Price” rummage sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Lighthouse Christian Church, 8015 Facade Lane. Lim-ited exceptions. Benefi ts LCC Youth Group.

Saturday Lego Club, 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Special stage version of the Lantern Tour, 4:30 p.m., Historic Rugby’s Rebecca Johnson Theater. Tick-ets: $10; reservations recommended. Info/reservations: 423-628-2441.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29“Glass Fusing Workshop” class, 6-8:30 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Kathy King. Part of the Featured Tennessee Artist Workshop Series. Registra-tion deadline: March 22. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

Happy Travelers Lunch and Gathering, 10:30 a.m., North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. Cost: $7. Entertainment: Fredda Valentine. Reser-

vation deadline: Saturday, March 26. Info/reservations: Derrell Frye, 938-8884 or 254-8884.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m.,

Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clin-ton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

“Spring Fling,” 5:15 p.m., Christ UMC, 7535 May-nardville Highway. Includes: entertainment by The Blair Experience, silent auction, raffl e of an Archie Campbell print and dinner. Cost: $7, or $24 for family. Reserva-tion deadline: March 25. Info/reservations: 922-1412.

FRIDAY, APRIL 1First Friday Comedy, 7-9 p.m., Saw Works Brew-

ing, 708 E. Depot Ave. Free comedy showcase featuring Atlanta comedians Ian Aber and Hayley Ellman.

SATURDAY, APRIL 2AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., West-

minster Presbyterian Church, 6500 South Northshore Drive. Registration: Paul Johnson, 675-0694. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

“Maximizing Your Social Security” workshop, 10:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Presented by Darrell Keathley, COFFE. Info: 922-2552.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 2-3Auditions for Shakespeare on the Square,

Emporium Building, 100 S. Gay St. Hosted by Tennes-see Stage Company. Times: 1-3 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. All auditions by appointment only. Info/appointments: 546-4280; tennesseestage@comcast.net; tennesseestage.com.

MONDAY, APRIL 4American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St.,

Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.

MONDAYS, APRIL 4-25QED Experimental Comedy Lab, 7:30-9:30 p.m.,

The Pilot Light, 106 E. Jackson Ave. Free comedy show blending stand-up, improv, sketch and other perfor-mance styles. Donations accepted.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5Casual Comedy, 7-9 p.m., Casual Pint-Hardin Valley,

10677 Hardin Valley Road. Free stand-up comedy showcase featuring Derek Sheen from Seattle. Host: Shane Rhyne.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m.,

Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clin-ton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.

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

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, APRIL 7-8AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., First

Baptist Church of Seymour, 11621 Chapman Highway, Seymour. Registration: Diane Lewis, 982-1887. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12Happy Travelers Trip: “The Nerd,” 1 p.m. CST,

Cumberland County Playhouse. Bus leaves North Acres Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m.; Expo Center, 10 a.m.; Flying J, 10:30 a.m. Lunch: Cumberland Mountain State Park. Reservation deadline: Monday, April 4. Info/reserva-tions: Derrell Frye, 938-8884 or 254-8884.

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By Sandra ClarkHallsdale Powell Utility

District is about to launch its biggest project yet. A $30 million investment will replace the district’s main sewer line from I-75 to the wastewater treatment plant on Beaver Creek Drive.

President Darren Cardwell said the 48-inch main line will be roughly 27,000 lin-ear feet or almost fi ve miles of pipe. Design is underway, and HPUD representatives are seeking easements now, Cardwell said. “We hope to start construction behind the new Kroger store on Emory Road next summer.

HPUD is under a con-sent order to improve water

This tank, under construction by Hallsdale Powell Utility Dis-

trict on Dry Gap Pike at Brickey-McCloud School, will hold fi ve

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By Sandra ClarkU.S. Cellular donated

$500 to three members of the Boys and Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley last week at Northwest Middle School. They were customer-selected winners of the Black History Month Art Contest.

Caleah Flemmings took fi rst place and a $250 Visa gift card; Noah Jones took second place and a $150 gift card; Erica Cooper, who could not attend the presen-tation, claimed third place and a $100 card.

Scott Bacon, chief devel-opment offi cer for the Boys and Girls Club, told the as-sembled youngsters that, “We talk a lot about citizen-ship. Well, there is also cor-porate citizenship and U.S. Cellular is as good as it gets.”

Knoxville City Council member and former mayor Daniel Brown told the kids, “There’s a great history of African-American leaders. Your creativity in this art-work is impressive.”

Bacon was proud to show off the after-school club at

Northwest Middle. Using the gym and cafeteria, the Boys and Girls Club has at-tracted one-third of enrolled students, some 300 mem-bers with about 100 to 150 attending daily, Bacon said.

Thomas White, the area sales manager for U.S. Cel-lular, presented the gift cards. In a prepared release, Nathan Waddell, director of sales for U.S. Cellular in Tennessee, said this is the fi rst year of the promotion, designed to honor infl uential African-Americans and in-spire students’ creativity and knowledge of these heroes.

“Our store associates in Knoxville loved sharing the artwork with our customers and others who came in to vote.”

The top 10 fi nalists were chosen by a panel of judges. Their entries were displayed at area U.S. Cellular stores where the public voted for their favorites during Feb-ruary.

Following the presenta-tions, staff carried in boxes of pizza to share.

Noah Jones and Caleah Flemmings hold their prizes from U.S.

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promoted to

president of

Credit Union

Service Organi-

zation. At ORNL

FCU, Boler has

served as the mortgage sales

manager and recently as vice

president of sales and service.

Boler graduated from Carson-

Newman University and attends

a regional credit union school.

Fountain City Business

and Professional Associa-

tion meets 11:45 a.m. each

second Wednesday, Central

Baptist Church fellowship

hall. President is John Fugate,

jfugate43@gmail.com or

688-0062.

■ Halls Business and Profes-

sional Association meets

noon each third Tuesday, Bea-

ver Brook Country Club. Info:

Carl Tindell or Sue Walker,

922-7751.

■ Powell Business and Profes-

sional Association meets

noon each second Tuesday,

Jubilee Banquet Facility.

The Vickie Bailey Team has been recognized as the 2015 top team for Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wal-lace, Realtors. The award is based on adjusted gross commission income.

“This is an extraordinary distinction that can only be accompli shed through the highest level of dedication and professionalism,” said Gina Mills, principal broker at Wallace & Wallace North.

The Vickie Bailey Team: Brittney, Vickie, Chuck and Clark Photo by Hob3 Photography

Local team is tops for Coldwell Banker“Vickie Bailey Team’s con-sistency and commitment to excellence are what set them apart across Tennes-see.”

Vickie Bailey, a native of Clearwater, Florida, earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She moved to Knoxville with her family in 2000. Also on the team is Bailey’s husband, Chuck, a licensed agent. They have

been married for more than 30 years. Their two adult children, daughter Brittney and son Clark, are both li-censed agents, and play an integral role in the team as well, working with buyers and sellers, and overseeing marketing and advertising efforts.

Vickie Bailey has been the No. 1 Coldwell Banker agent in the state of Tennes-see for the last fi ve years.

quality in Beaver Creek. The new sewer trunk line

will help by moving more wastewater to the treat-

ment plant faster, especial-ly during heavy rains.

A storage tank now under construction on Dry Gap Pike is another way HPUD is tackling the problem of sewer system overfl ows.

The tank will hold up to fi ve million gallons of waste-water, Cardwell said. “We’ll set up automated controls so that as sewer pipes fi ll up, some of the wastewater will be pumped into the storage tank.”

It will be held and re-leased back into the pipeline when the rains abate.

Cardwell expects the tank to be fi nished by Octo-be r. It will be painted with a dome roof.

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