IN THIS ISSUEMeeting Seymour

Actor Ethan Hawke makes his documentary-directing debut with “Seymour: An Introduction,” and he seems to have absorbed powerful les-sons from his subject.

Pianist Seymour Bernstein was a star on the concert stage who decided at his peak to stop performing because he had other things he wanted to do. He was, and is, a teacher, and he wanted to compose music and write books.

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By Betsy PickleDon’t be confused: The Diva

Mountain Bike Ride during Out-door KnoxFest is not a bunch of women wearing tiaras and pedaling at a snail’s pace to protect their ped-icures. It’s simply an opportunity for women to get out and mountain bike in a supportive environment.

Outdoor KnoxFest takes place Friday-Sunday, April 24-26, at the Outdoor Adventure Center at Vol-unteer Landing and around South Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness. The Diva Ride starts at 9 a.m. April 25 from the Mead’s Quarry parking lot.

Bike enthusiasts Laura Jones and Tina Rosling debuted the ride as leaders last year and re-

Women have the trail to themselves during the 2014 Diva Mountain Bike

Ride during Outdoor KnoxFest. Photo submitted

Women fi nd support on Diva Rideturn for 2015.

“We knew it would be a great way to get women out,” says Jones. “We brought it to Outdoor KnoxFest as a way to increase women’s par-ticipation in the events and to offer more unique activities for … wom-en specifi cally.”

“It’s all about helping women feel confi dent on the bike,” says Rosling. “We hope to share the love and spread the passion and get more women out biking. It’s fun and liberating.”

Jones and Rosling both have seen women shy away from mountain biking because they’re intimidated by the idea of riding with men.

By Anne HartImagine, if you can, a breath-

takingly beautiful nautilus shell. And then imagine that it’s yours, to do with as you want. What would be your choice? Put it on a shelf and look at it occasionally? Consign it to a bank vault?

The choice was easy for local artist, woodworker and marine archaeologist Jim McNutt.

He crafted a table from Tennes-see white oak, fi nished it in shades of ocean blue, embedded the shell in the tabletop and added ten-tacles he carved from African Padauk wood that originated near where the shell was found in Madagascar, the island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of southeast Africa.

The table is just one of count-less works of art McNutt has cre-ated in more than 40 years as a woodworker. But woodworking is just one of the many talents of this

Renaissance man.His interest in marine archae-

ology has led him to the depths of the ocean in search of sunken relics that feed his passion for ancient wood, especially if it has an interesting story attached. For along with his other talents, Mc-Nutt is a skilled storyteller. Every piece of wood he owns comes with its own history.

McNutt will open his business to the public as part of Dogwood Arts DeTour 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday,

April 11.There will

be music, food, door prizes, demonstrations and an opportu-nity to visit with

the artist.Woodstream Hardwoods is at

3636 Division St., just off the west side of Liberty Street between Sutherland Avenue and Middle-brook Pike.

Info: www.woodstreamhardwoods.com or 524-0001.

Jim McNutt: local Renaissance man creates priceless works of art

Wood artist and marine archaeologist Jim McNutt points out the crystal-

lized chambers of a 200-million-year-old nautilus shell. McNutt designed

and built the table to showcase the fossil. Photo by A. Hart

By Betsy PickleThe Chapman Highway Dog-

wood Trail is getting pinker this year.

It’s not a case of pink dogwood blossoms overtaking the creamy white ones. It’s the Tennessee Pink Marble Trail guide available along with the traditional Dogwood Trail brochure.

The Chapman Highway Dog-wood Trail – this year’s featured trail – opens Wednesday, April 8, along with the other trails.

Molly Gilbert, assistant chair of the Chapman Highway Dogwood Trail, stumbled into her obsession with pink marble.

Gilbert fell in love with her home in Lake Forest because of its “cute stone arched doorway” and cottage-like construction. When she and her husband, Scott, no-ticed that the stone retaining wall along their driveway had a crack, they feared that it would fall on

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In the pink,

Scott Gilbert hangs the U.S. fl ag on the front of his pink marble home in Lake Forest. Photo submitted To page 3

and how

UT: Stop brandingWhen the talk turns to

branding, you can be damn sure somebody is about to get burned. And the hide that gets charred won’t be on the cowboy wielding the branding iron.

➤ Read Bill Dockery on page 5

‘65 Vols had no place to go

The NCAA basketball tournament has changed some through the years. Perhaps you have noticed.

In 1965, a mere 50 years ago, it involved 23 teams. They played in Bowling Green, Ky.; Lubbock, Texas; Philadelphia; Lexington; Manhattan, Kan.; Provo, Utah; College Park, Md. and fi nished in Portland, Ore.

➤ Read Marvin West on page 4

Great chessiesAlmost 10 years ago, Ta-

mara Judd Burnett wanted a loving pet for her children, who were 5 and 8 at the time. She did a lot of research and decided on a male Chessie. Her family had just visited Disney World, and the kids immedi-ately chose the name Mickey for their new dog.

This has led to a most amaz-ing South Knox business.

➤ Read Nancy Whittaker on page 9

McQueen visits South Knox

Tennessee Education Com-missioner Candice McQueen didn’t seem to want to leave South Knoxville Elementary School. McQueen was so busy asking questions about the SKE community school that her entourage practically had to drag her away.

Principal Tanna Nicely and community school site coordinator Susan Martin gave McQueen the rundown on how they started – small steps, get-ting the community involved – and the growth of the commu-nity school program.

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health & lifestyles

Pain can change you. It can drain you of your energy and rob you of your quality of life.

Cindy Tullar became a person she hardly knew when pain from a pinched nerve gripped her body. Always en-ergetic and always living life with a positive attitude, she found herself becoming more and more with-drawn as that pain took over more and more of who she was.

“I was in so much pain, I was so sick to my stomach, I was aching all the time,” Tullar says, “I wouldn’t go out.” She says depression began to close in around her because the pain was always in control, never under control.

The pain began to affect her work at Druid Hill Golf Course in Fairfi eld Glade. She had loved taking care of golf carts and meeting new friends on the course.

“I had to quit working be-cause I was in so much pain,” Tullar says. “That broke my heart.” It had been a perfect re-tirement pastime, until last fall.

“I don’t know how I did it,” Tullar says of her pinched nerve. “But I had a stiff neck in Septem-ber.” Tullar says the pain went away but then returned with a vengeance in October.

While Tullar was trying to en-tertain guests in her home, she couldn’t turn her neck to the left or the right. The pain began to worsen. It shot down into her shoulder, then it moved to her fi ngers, which began to go numb.

Tullar made an appointment with her physician, and he prescribed over-the-counter pain medication. That didn’t seem to help much, so she also saw a doctor at Fairfi eld Glade who administered medication in a shot. Still, there was no signifi cant relief. He recommended an MRI and x-rays.

Tullar returned to her physician feeling worse than ever, suffering in pain and also suffering from frailty. The pain had made her so sick that she couldn’t even eat regularly.

Tullar remembers exactly what she said that day when she was sitting in the doctor’s offi ce at the end of her rope.

“We have to do something,” she had said. “I just can’t live like this anymore.”

After the MRI and x-rays, Tullar’s doc-tor told her she needed to see a neuro-

surgeon. It was up to her to choose who would handle her case.

A friend of a friend had recently suffered a pinched nerve and very highly recommended a neuro-surgeon at the Fort Sanders Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.

“So I called my doctor and said, ‘how about Dr. Joel Nor-man at Fort Sanders?’ ” Tullar recalls. “They made an ap-pointment and I went.”

Tullar’s expectations were met and exceeded. Dr. Nor-man made her feel completely comfortable, and she was im-

pressed with the way he seemed to genuinely care about his pa-

tients. He also let her choose her course of treatment to relieve the

pinched nerve. He gave her the option of physical therapy or minimally invasive surgery.

Tullar had taken stock of her sit-uation and knew it was time to do whatever was necessary to end the pain for good.

“I couldn’t sleep because I was in so much pain. It was getting worse

and worse. I had to quit playing golf. I had to quit working – it was consistent pain all the time. I had no relief at all. I had lost 15 pounds. I couldn’t eat. I was getting sicker,” Tullar says.

Taking all this into account, Tullar knew surgery was the right choice. She also knew Norman was the right surgeon.

“He’s great,” Tullar says. “I was comfortable when I wentinto surgery and after I came out.”

Tullar prepared herself for the surgery by research-ing minimally invasive spine surgery on the Internet andwatching online videos of the procedure performed by sur-geons in other parts of the country. She knew exactly whatNorman was going to do, and she was encouraged when shesaw video testimonials from patients who said their painhad been relieved.

“I was excited,” Tullar says. “It wasn’t scary for me, atall.”

Dr. Norman made a relatively small incision on the right side of Tullar’s neck, removed a disc, inserted a plate andscrews, and then replaced the disc with a cadaver bone.

While Tullar was expecting the surgery to work, shewasn’t prepared for the incredible level of success she expe-rienced at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

“As soon as I woke up, my pain was gone,” Tullar says.“And then the surgical nurse told me I could start movingmy neck.” Tullar had assumed she would need some sort of neck brace and that her neck would be immobile for a while.

“Nope,” she laughs. “I was moving my neck that night,right away.”

The recovery was seamless. Tullar was off her medica-tion after two days, and she was outside going for a walk by the end of the week. After two weeks, Tullar was walking nine holes, and at the end of two months, she was back to the game she loves.

“I’m playing golf,” Tullar says enthusiastically. “I’m do-ing great. I’m working out, and I am so happy!”

Tullar is already recommending the surgery to others,because it made such a dramatic change in her level of painand her quality of life.

“When you’re in as much pain as I was, it affects your whole life,” Tullar says. “Dr. Norman is a great surgeon, andhe really cares about patients.”

When she thinks about how far she’s come and how much pain she used to be in, it still amazes her. “I woke up, my pain was gone,” Tullar says, still excited about what minimally invasive surgery did for her. “My life is so much better now!”

For more information about the Fort SandersCenter for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, visitfsregional.com/minimallyinvasive, or call 865-541-2835.

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a regional referral hospital where other facilities

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Cindy Tullar’s energy and positive outlook

are back after minimally invasive cervical

fusion at Fort Sanders Regional Medical

Center.

Getting back to life

Dr. Joel Norman performs a procedure at the Center for Mini-

mally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional.

Turning headsMinimally invasive cervical fusionA compressed nerve can be a lot

more than just a pain in the neck. It can be debilitating, especially when over-the-counter medica-tion and even prescriptions don’t seem to help.

If the pain shoots down your shoulder and arm, severely limits your mobility and begins to affect your everyday life, it may be time to consider other options. It’s be-coming more and more common for patients in this predicament to opt for cervical fusion at Fort Sanders Center for Minimally In-vasive Spine Surgery.

“A cervical fusion involves plac-ing screws and rods into the bones in the neck, in order to stabilize them,” explains neurosurgeon Joel Norman, MD. “This procedure is often performed along with a de-compressive surgery to remove overgrown bone, or a bulging or herniated disc.”

Norman says the most common approach is an “anterior cervical

discectomy and fusion.” This in-volves making a small incision in a skin fold in the front of the pa-tient’s neck, with minimal disrup-tion to the underlying muscles, ac-cessing the front of the spine.

“The abnormal intervertebral disc is removed with decompres-sion of the pinched nerves and a bone graft spacer is inserted,” Nor-man says. “A special metal plate is then placed across the front of the spine and secured with screws into the surrounding bone.”

It may seem a little backward for a surgeon to enter the front of the neck when the pain feels like it’s coming from the back side. Nor-man says there’s a reason for that.

“Performing a decompression and fusion of the cervical spine from an incision in the back of the neck is possible, and some-times necessary,” Norman says, “but that approach often results in more muscle spasm and neck pain in the postoperative period.”

The entire opera-tion takes just about an hour from start to fi nish. Some of Norman’s patients are able to go home the day of surgery. Best of all, pain re-lief from the pinched nerve is almost im-mediate.

Norman says this type of operation isn’t likely to help someone who is suf-fering from general neck pain. This par-ticular procedure is ideal for pa-tients who suffer pain that radiates down into the arm or hand. That type of pain usually comes from a pinched nerve, and the relief of the pain comes when this procedure decompresses the nerve.

Norman says Fort Sanders Re-gional is the right place for this procedure.

“Fort Sanders has a commit-ment to excellent patient care, and a demonstrated excellence in neurosciences and neurosurgi-cal expertise,” Norman says. “We have a specialized team of surgical technicians and nurses involved in the care of our patients from the time they enter the hospital until the time they walk out.”

Norman says the members of this team are committed to pro-viding the best patient care andapplying their expertise to eachindividual treated at Fort SandersRegional Medical Center. Learnmore by visiting fsregional.com/minimallyinvasive, or call 865-541-2835.

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Diva Ride From page 1

“Some women feel intim-idated because they feel like they can’t keep up or they’re not as strong as the guys,” says Jones, an account rep-resentative for Keen shoes. “It can be an excuse not to go.”

“The women who I work with, we’ve all had this simi-lar experience of, you cannot begin mountain biking with your husband because you will just become frustrated,” says Rosling, who in addi-tion to her day job co-owns Tennessee Valley Bikes. “That laid the groundwork for bringing women together to teach each other how to ride bikes because it’s just a different approach.

“Women understand the vulnerabilities that other women have, whereas your husbands don’t, generally.”

Last year, the ride had about 30 participants, and it divided organically into be-ginner, intermediate and ad-vanced riders. This year, the divisions will be purposeful.

“We’re trying to take down

all the barriers,” says Jones. “We want to show them that Knoxville has easier trails that are fun, and as you get better you can ride on inter-mediate to advanced trails.”

Women can surprise themselves on the Diva Ride.

“Last year, I had a moth-er-daughter team that had never mountain biked,” re-calls Jones. “The mother really wanted to do it, and she was dragging along her daughter, and they just had a fabulous time.”

Rosling led the advanced riders last year and felt re-warded at the end.

“The joy on their faces was amazing: ‘We accom-plished this!’ ” says Rosling. With mountain biking, “they get a lot of confi dence, and it bleeds over into other parts of their lives.”

Riders should bring wa-ter bottles, a helmet and, if desired, a snack for energy. Wear weather-appropriate athletic attire, not blue jeans.

Bikes will be available at the site.

In the pink From page 1

their two young children.“It was not going any-

where, but I didn’t fi nd that out till we were already tearing it down,” says Molly Gilbert.

Several months later, she saw that Susan Knowles, Ph.D., Digital Humani-ties Research Fellow at the Center for Historic Pres-ervation at East Tennessee State University, was going to be at Ijams Nature Cen-ter. Knowles hoped to fi nd people who had worked at Mead’s Quarry. Gilbert went to the meeting, armed with a rock from her former re-taining wall.

Gilbert learned that the rock was Tennessee pink marble. Meanwhile, as she reviewed her homeowner’s policy with her insurance agent, she also learned that her home was considered ir-replaceable because of the materials and craftsman-ship it took to build it.

“Between the wall ex-perience and the State Farm experience and talk-ing to Dr. Knowles – and Mead’s Quarry, which had just opened – everywhere I would go, I would see pink marble,” says Gilbert.

She began researching the area’s marble history and found that Tennessee pink marble was part of not only many downtown build-ings but also important buildings and monuments in other states and in Wash-ington, D.C., including the National Gallery of Art and the National Air and Space Museum.

Candoro Marble Co. had contributed to countless buildings and monuments.

But what was even more exciting to Gilbert was dis-covering that many homes in her neighborhood – in-cluding her own – that are on the Chapman Highway Dogwood Trail also featured Tennessee pink marble.

“They’re made from the crumbly leftovers of big chunks that were taken out,” says Gilbert. “The ir-regular-shaped rocks were put together with grapevine mortar.”

She loves the connectiv-ity of South Knoxville and marble – from the quar-ries where it was cut to the heritage of craftsmanship at Candoro Marble to the ar-chitectural legacy in many houses.

The Tennessee Pink Mar-ble Trail map featured in the brochure she created has 10 points of interest along a 34-mile loop that overlaps with the Chapman trail.

“It hits the best examples of pink marble that can be seen,” she says. “Once you recognize it, you can see it anywhere.”

Gilbert seems particu-larly amused by the fact that pink marble was used in lo-cal high school rest rooms for many years.

“My joke is, it’s so abun-dant we take it for ‘granite,’ ” she quips.

In addition to the Dog-wood Trail info boxes, the brochure can be found at Visit Knoxville and loca-tions featured on the loop, including Ijams, Marble Springs and Ramsey House. More info is available on the TN Pink Marble Trail Face-book page and at tnpink-marble.com.

Betsy Pickle

The South Woodlawn Neighborhood Association must love preparing for emergencies.

South Woodlawn gets prepared

Last year the group had David Massey, director of

the Offi ce of Neigh-b o r h o o d s , speak on emergency p r e p a r e d -ness for the home. Last month they wel-comed Griff

Ashooh, a disaster pre-paredness specialist from Massey’s offi ce.

Ashooh, an AmeriCorps

Griff Ashooh

member, said that while people usually have heard preparedness messages on the individual and national levels, advice for neighbor-hoods has been scarce.

His mission is to get neighborhoods to devise their own disaster prepared-ness plans. His role has him working with the city’s ver-sion of the Federal Emer-gency Management Agency – KEMA – as well as with the Knoxville Police Depart-ment, the Knoxville Fire De-partment, the Knox County Health Department, Knox-ville Utilities Board and the American Red Cross.

“This isn’t replacing fi rst responders or the Red Cross,” said Ashooh. “It’s what you do in that fi rst hour, often called the Golden Hour (before fi rst responders arrive), that makes the difference.”

A large area like South Woodlawn would need to

be split into many neighbor-hood Disaster Action Teams; the recommendation is to have 10 to 30 homes under a block captain. There would be one person to handle communications to 911 in the event of an emergency; that way the agency isn’t overloaded with calls from the same neighborhood.

Ashooh said a team should keep a list of resi-dents so they’ll know if any-one is missing after an event. Some teams might have info on health problems indi-viduals may have and if they need regular medication.

Knowing what resourc-es – including tools – are available can be a big help, although attendees chuck-led when vice president Danny Gray pointed out that he might come across as a questionable character if he knocked on a neighbor’s door to ask if he had a chain saw.

To fi nd out more about

the Neighborhood Disaster Preparedness Program, visit http://www.cityofknoxville.org/development/neighbor-hoods/prepared.asp.

■ Knox Heritage seeks Giffi n buyerNow that Knox Heritage

has taken Giffi n School off the county’s hands, the non-profi t historic preservation group is looking for a buyer to renovate and develop the building in a way that blends with the surrounding South Haven neighborhood.

The deadline for submit-ting a proposal is 5 p.m. Monday, April 27, 2015. For details visit http://knoxher-itage.org/news/request-for-proposals-giffi n-school/.

Knox Heritage has start-ed the process to deter-mine if the property at 1834 Beech St. is eligible for the National Register of His-toric Places.

The South Woodlawn Neighborhood Association had offi cer elections at its March meeting. They are (front) Debbie Sharp, third

district representative; Sylvia Woods, fi rst district rep; Dara Hitson, secretary; Rosie Collins, treasurer; Marianne Hitchcox, second

district rep; Janice Tocher, at-large rep; (back) Steve Madden, at-large rep; Danny Gray, vice president; and at-large representa-

tives Raymond Aldridge and Danny Blanchard. Not pictured is Shelley Conklin, president. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Litter be goneCarl Hensley, Patti Berrier and Janice Tocher wrap up the

South Knoxville Alliance’s Dogwood litter cleanup day. On

March 21, SKA members and friends cleaned up stretches of

Blount Avenue, Maryville Pike, Edington Road and Cherokee

Trail and fi lled a pickup truck bed twice with bags of garbage.

SKA also had its regular monthly cleanup at Fort Dicker-

son last Saturday. Anyone for a cleanup this weekend? The

Dogwood Trails, featuring the Chapman Highway Trail, open

one week from today, and there’s still a lot of trash on SoKno

streets.

SOUTH KNOX SENIOR CENTER

■ Wednesday, April 1: 7:30

a.m. free swim; 8:30 a.m.

guitar lessons; 9 a.m. painting;

10 a.m. quilting; 11 a.m. Water

Peeps; noon bridge.

■ Thursday, April 2: 7:30 a.m.

free swim; 9 a.m. water aero-

bics, South Knox Opry; 12:15

p.m. ballroom dance; 1 p.m.

Rook, water aerobics; 1:30

p.m. line dance; 2 p.m. Water

Pilates.

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Sandra Clark

Wendy Smith

Data currently used to expedite help for those ex-periencing homelessness could be used to prevent homelessness as well, ac-cording to Lisa Higginbo-tham of Knoxville Homeless Management Information System (KnoxHMIS).

KnoxHMIS, adminis-tered by the UT College of Social Work Offi ce of Re-search and Public Service, is an online database used by 18 social service agencies that serve those who are homeless or at risk of be-coming homeless. Clients of any of the partnering agen-cies can give permission to have their information entered into the database, which expedites referrals to other agencies. Notes from case managers can also be included in each profi le.

At a recent meeting of the Mayor’s Roundtable on Homelessness, Higginbo-tham, a KnoxHMIS data analyst, proposed the cre-ation of a community dash-board that would show what

Marvin West

The NCAA basketball tournament has changed some through the years. Perhaps you have noticed.

In 1965, a mere 50 years ago, it involved 23 teams. They played in Bowling Green, Ky.; Lubbock, Texas; Philadelphia; Lexington; Manhattan, Kan.; Provo, Utah; College Park, Md. and fi nished in Portland, Ore.

The event, such as it was, may have taken in enough money to pay travel ex-penses. There was no March madness.

Twenty-three teams? Then, as now, NCAA com-mittees could not count. Some regions had play-in

Basket Vols of ’65 had no place to go

games to a conventional 16-team bracket.

Vanderbilt, representing the Southeastern Confer-ence, defeated DePaul and lost to Michigan. The Com-modores were good. They had Clyde Lee and a 15-1 league record. The loss was at Tennessee.

Ray Mears’ Volunteers were good, too: 20-5 over-

all, best UT record in 17 years, second in the SEC with no place to go.

A.W. Davis, 6-7 and a fl exible, leathery 185, was an all-American, eventually so chosen in a stormy U.S. Basketball Writers Associa-tion meeting (Marvin West, Southeast selector). The theme was elementary.

“Doesn’t matter how good UCLA is. Vote again! We’re not leaving this room until Arvis Watsell Davis is on the team.

“Yes, that is his name. Now you know why he goes by A.W.”

Davis was the fi rst Vol so honored.

That Tennessee team had a strong sophomore forward, Ron Widby, crafty Larry McIntosh, senior point guard Pat Robinette and a reincarnation of Tar-zan who hung out near the basket.

Howard Bayne was a splendid athlete, tight end physique, fearless, natu-rally combative, borderline belligerent and sometimes mistaken for an intimida-tor. He, Widby and Davis were signifi cant factors in the Vols’ outrebounding op-ponents by an amazing av-erage of 16.7 per game.

Howard was not a great scorer and worse on free

throws. Robinette hit 89.7 percent. You don’t want to know Bayne’s percentage.

I thought Tennessee at Kentucky was the game of the year. The Vols had wal-loped the Wildcats by 19 in Knoxville. The rematch was more exciting.

Tennessee, trailing by a point, gained possession with 17 seconds remaining. Mears’ designed play called for Widby or Davis to shoot.

Pat Riley overplayed Da-vis. The ball went to Widby. He missed. Davis got the long rebound and passed up a jump shot in favor of a drive and the hope of get-ting fouled.

A.W. got close, put the ball up and was fouled – but there was no whistle. Keep in mind that the game was

at UK. Bayne rebounded and put it back up, but it wouldn’t go down.

Eventually, the Vols willed the ball into the bas-ket, but time had expired. Kentucky won, 61-60. Three big blue fans were carried out on stretchers.

That Tennessee team probably wasn’t going to win the national championship, but it was tournament wor-thy and very entertaining.

The NCAA got something right in growing the tour-nament format. Maybe, in time, Tennessee will have another team deserving of an opportunity. It probably won’t have an A.W. Davis or Ron Widby. There are no more Howard Baynes.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Fighting homelessness with numbers

progress has been made and goals that still need to be met.

The online dashboard would give the community access to reports that could be generated from the col-lected data, like perma-nent housing placements, recidivism rates and the utilization of beds in shel-ters, transitional housing and permanent supportive housing.

Higginbotham thinks community access to the data could help the city’s ef-forts to end homelessness.

“The database will give us insight as to where we are and to set benchmarks as to where we need to be so we

can work collectively.”Michael Dunthorn of the

city’s offi ce on homelessness says data play an important part in assessing current efforts, and the dashboard would give the community an opportunity to keep tabs on what’s working.

Knoxville Mayor Mad-eline Rogero formed the roundtable, made up of leaders from local social service agencies and min-istries, in 2013 to create a plan to address the prob-lem of homelessness. City Council adopted the City of Knoxville Plan to Address Homelessness, which draws from successful compo-nents of previous efforts, federal requirements and public input, a year ago.

KnoxHMIS is cited as a key component of the plan.

Dunthorn is encouraged by progress made by part-ner agencies since the plan’s adoption. The Helen Ross McNabb Center has opened a small apartment build-ing for homeless veterans,

and will soon open another. The Knoxville/Knox County Homeless Coalition is work-ing to address a shortage of housing for homeless families. An upcoming KUB program will allow cus-tomers to round bills up to the nearest dollar to help fi nance weatherization of affordable housing, which often comes with unafford-able utility bills, he says.

During the roundtable, Family Promise of Knoxville executive director Mary Le-Mense spoke favorably of the information provided by KnoxHMIS but said she’d like to see more people in-volved in the effort to fi ght homelessness. She hopes to double the number of fami-lies served by the organiza-tion by its 10th anniversary this summer.

Family Promise is seek-ing faith-based organiza-tions that can provide over-night accommodations for four families for a week, four times a year. Info: 584-2822.

Reporters add fi ve sensesThe newspaper club at

Sarah Moore Greene is alive and well.

Last week we added the fi ve senses to the fi ve Ws to round out our story-telling.

Ruth White distributed an apple to each reporter, asking each to describe the apple adequately to pick it out of a barrel afterwards.

“Round and red won’t get it,” she said.

Then we went outside. Kids were challenged to see, hear, smell, touch and may-be taste something.

We spotted a bird’s nest, and we heard a neighbor’s dog and a buzzing bee. We smelled wildfl owers and tasted an herb that might

have been thyme.We noticed a huge retain-

ing wall that was built to protect the root structure of a towering tree (that none of us could identify).

Teacher April Lamb thumbed her smart phone, promising a tree ID “when the leaves come out.”

Then back inside to write our reports and eat an apple (after Ruth squirted hand sanitizer, of course).

Safari Bahati tackles fi ve senses at once. Photo by Jayden Arthur

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When the talk turns to branding, you can be damn sure somebody is about to get burned. And the hide that gets charred won’t be on the cowboy wielding the branding iron.

Branding is at the fore-front of the latest controver-sy plaguing the University of Tennessee Athletic Depart-ment, which ann ounced last fall that it would do away with the Lady Vols logo for women’s sports programs. Only the basketball pro-gram would be allowed to continue that identity.

Fan response was pre-dictable: They hated it. One Bristol supporter of the Lady Vols bought a full-page ad in the Knoxville News Sentinel calling on the public to de-mand that the school pre-serve the Lady Vols name for all women’s sports.

Under pressure from the News Sentinel, the Athletic Department cinched up its jock strap and released emails with Nike that re-veal the worldwide manu-facturer of athletic gear had played a major role in UT’s decision to end the Lady Vols distinction. About the same time, Joe DiPietro, the president of the UT System, told the UT Board of Trust-ees that branding decisions were none of their busi-ness. In the meantime, the women’s basketball team has continued its record of accomplishment, while the men’s team – well, they’re again in the market for a head coach.

Farragut’s state Rep. Ryan Haynes announced his candidacy for chair of the Tennessee Republican Party immediately follow-ing the resignation of Chris Devaney, who is leaving with a group doing humani-tarian work in Haiti.

Haynes’ new jo b to create ripples

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raise funds for a political party while the Legislature

is in ses-sion. Addi-tionally, the state party sometimes adopts posi-tions that the Legis-lature does not support. However,

two lawmakers have done both jobs in the past. They are Beth Harwell and Jim Henry, who is now in the Haslam Cabinet.

The job is to raise money for campaigns, speak to GOP groups across the state and serve on the Republi-can National Committee. It is very time-consuming.

Haynes’ resignation creates a domino impact locally: a new chair for the legislative delegation and a new state rep. Knox County Commission will choose an interim legislator to serve for 100 days until a special election is held, just as was done when Jamie Woodson resigned and Becky Duncan Massey was ultimately elected.

This could come as soon as mid-April if Haynes is chosen April 11 and resigns shortly thereafter. The commission would have to wait a few weeks to allow persons to apply and a special meeting to be called to choose the new state representative.

Possible candidates include Jason Zachary, who carried Farragut in his race for Congress last August (but may have to move to establish residency) and former Farragut Mayor Eddy Ford.

Other names are certain to emerge if Haynes is elected chair and then resigns.

■ Today marks the 41st birthday of Knox Heritage and the fi rst an-niversary of its move to the historic Westwood House on Kingston Pike.

Led ably by Kim Trent, KH will host an open house today (April 1) at West-wood.

■ The search com-mittee for MPC director holds its fi nal interview today of the three fi nalists and is expected to recom-mend whomever the two mayors tell them that they want.

The mayors are repre-sented on the six-member search committee by Bill Lyons for Rogero and Dean Rice for Burchett.

Lyons insisted the meet-ings be closed to the public.

Ryan Haynes

Put down the branding iron

In 2012, the UT Offi ce of Communications and Mar-keting introduced its “BIG ORANGE, BIG IDEAS!” branding initiative. After that, every web page and publication had to have that slogan stenciled on it some-where. Every news release had to be stamped with the BO/BI verbiage, whether it fi t the facts or not. And all of it had to be papered over with the selected colors and type stylings that were cru-cial to the new UT brand.

The students weren’t fooled. A Facebook page sprang up immediately, pointing out that the Big Or-ange/Big Ideas word mark looked suspiciously like the signage on the front of Big Lots Inc., the Fortune 500 retailer. Some advocated a counter-meme – “Big Or-ange, Big Deal.”

Oak Ridger Lindsay Lee, who in 2013 became the university’s fi rst Rhodes Scholar of the 21st century, suggested “Big Orange, B.S.” and wrote, “. . . the ad-ministration does not invest in its students but instead cares more about selling us collectively as a commodity. . . . So instead of refl ecting who we are, this motto just mocks us.”

Nonetheless, the changes continue. The “Power T” logo is being retooled and as of June 1, 2015, will refer to all activities of the uni-versity’s Knoxville campus, whether athletic or academ-ic. Surveys have shown the Power T is the single most recognized icon for UT.

At its best, a brand emerges organically from the values an institution lives by and the experiences it makes possible for its stu-dents and faculty. Which explains why UT might be trying to graft glib slogans and new logos onto its cur-rent public identity.

This is, after all, the uni-versity that has systemati-cally scrapped the nation’s premier program in wom-en’s sports, the machine Pat Summitt put together that has shown the rest of the world how to marry athletic and academic excellence.

The same university that has been successfully sued over fi rings that, time and again, were the product of administrators’ bad deci-sions. And again, that has demonstrated a callous dis-regard for students, parents

and fans who have invested emotion, energy and money into the university and its activities.

Stir in misbehaving male athletes and butt-chugging frat boys and the slogan that would emerge can’t be printed in a family newspa-per.

It’s time to take the branding iron off the fi re and quit trying to take own-ership of athletic and aca-demic excellence we have yet to earn. If UT admin-istrators can do that, they might fi nd that – beneath all the slogans and stencils, the brands and marketing – the University of Tennessee is a fi ne academic institu-tion, where dedicated and highly qualifi ed scholars and researchers offer stu-dents an education that will make them the match for any graduates in the world.

If our young people want to seize what UT offers them, they can gain tools and intellectual resources that will witness to the best qualities of the university and our state.

That’s all the branding we need.

Madeline Rogero announces for re-election. Photo by Chad Tindell

City races shaping up as snoozefest

eternity, and history tells us there will surely be other candidates:

Among those who are be-ing talked about, the least likely to make a run to suc-ceed Rogero is her deputy, Christi Branscom, who has never run for offi ce before, my FCP said.

City Council member George Wallace is up a wee notch from Branscom, in-terest-wise. “Potential inter-est,” said the FCP. “Never say never.”

Marshall Stair, who at 36 is the youngest council member, is a tad more in-terested than Wallace, FCP said.

Stair said he’s learned a lot in his fi rst term, but he’s got a lot going on in his life – a new house in Old North Knoxville, a serious girl-friend – and he just doesn’t yet know what he’ll want to do in 2019.

“When all you have to go home to is a can of soup and a TV, it’s a lot easier to go to all those neighborhood meetings,” he said. “Poli-tics is a risky business. You spend a lot of time applying for a job you don’t know if you’re going to get – so the reality is, I just don’t know.”

Nick Pavlis, who repre-sents South Knoxville and UT and serves as vice may-

or, is halfway through his second term (he also served two terms as an at-large council member 1995-2003) and has confi rmed his inter-est in serving as mayor in the past. He’s no less inter-ested today.

“Everybody expects you to say, ‘I don’t know,’ but absolutely, I’ll consider it. I will have served 16 years, and nobody else will have that experience.”

But he issued a warning that 2019 is a long way away.

“I will have been out of offi ce for two years. There are two ways of looking at that – you can have time to build a good campaign, but you can also lose your base. It’s like old Randy Tyree says, will I still have the fi re in the belly to do it? I’ll be 65, which is not over the hill but not a spring chicken ei-ther, so we’ll have to wait to see what unfolds.”

Meanwhile, Inskip resi-dent and R. Larry Smith ally Jennifer Mirtes has taken out a petition to run for the Fifth District council seat, making Mark Campen the only incumbent facing a potential opponent so far this year.

While that’s nice for the mayor, uncontested races (a guaranteed second term seems to be an unintended by-product of term limits) make life hard for reporters.

One of the most interest-ing things about Rogero’s campaign kickoff at The Standard, a repurposed building on West Jackson, roughly across the street from the late, lamented former McClung Ware-house complex, was looking around the crowded room and wondering if the next mayor was there.

Odds are s/he was.I checked in with one of

my favorite city politicos, and here’s how he handi-capped the fi eld, in terms of interest – but keep in mind that four years is half an

Clearly, Haynes was alerted to the Devaney res-ignation as he announced within hours of Devaney’s statement. Haynes is close to House Speaker Beth Harwell, and it seems obvi-ous he would not be seeking the position without her blessing along with Gov. Bill Haslam’s support.

Haynes, if elected at the April 11 state executive committee meeting, would be the youngest person to serve as state chair of the GOP at 29 (he turns 30 May 8) and would be the fi rst Knox Countian to serve since Susan Richardson Williams did when Lamar Alexander was governor.

Devaney was only re-elected over Joe Carr in November, so his early departure is a surprise.

Carr represented the very conservative and anti-Haslam elements of the party.

Incumbent governors of either party have never failed to install their choice as the party chair, but ultimately it is up to the 66 members of the committee to choose the new leader. Haynes will have to work all 66 over the next two weeks to prevail. They will not simply take direction from the governor.

Haynes has an excellent reputation as a legislator who handles complex bills and is well liked by his colleagues. He is articulate and energetic.

After his fi rst election in 2008, he has not had serious opposition from his West Knox County district. Haynes is chair of the Knox County delegation.

He is viewed as having leadership potential in the House, but that will end if he is elected chair as he has said he will resign to work full-time. The job pays over $100,000 a year.

As a state representative it would be legally awkward if not actually illegal to

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‘Seymour: An Introduction’Actor Ethan Hawke makes his doc-

umentary-directing debut with “Sey-mour: An Introduction,” and he seems to have absorbed powerful lessons from his subject.

Pianist Seymour Bernstein was a star on the concert stage who decided at his peak to stop performing because he had other things he wanted to do. He was, and is, a teacher, and he want-ed to compose music and write books.

“Seymour” is primarily a series of conversations and reminiscences, but Bernstein’s gentle voice and inspira-tional philosophy are mesmerizing. Hawke stays out of the way and lets the teacher teach.

It turns out that Bernstein is a powerful exception to the disparag-ing maxim: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. You watch him teach students at home and in a master class and see how his words work almost like magic.

The fi lm’s messages about discipline and living life hit home no matter what profession the viewer pursues. “Sey-mour: An Introduction” is time well spent – and the soundtrack fi lls in with beauty to seal the deal.

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By Betsy PickleAfter actor Ethan Hawke met renowned

pianist-composer-teacher Seymour Bern-stein at a dinner party, he became so fas-cinated with Bernstein that he decided to make a documentary about him. “Seymour: An Introduction” is the result.

Bernstein says he never set any boundar-ies with Hawke.

“Absolutely not at all,” he says in a tele-phone interview.

“I just was very fl attered that he wanted to make a documentary on me,” says Bern-stein. “I did wonder why he wanted to do it. I kept asking all the time, ‘What’s so special about me?’ ”

It turned out that Hawke had read Ber-nstein’s 1991 book, “With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music,” and it affected him as he was contemplat-ing his life and work.

“It was the thesis of my book that inter-ested him,” says Bernstein. “The thesis is in the documentary, namely, a passion for an art form can actually infl uence your life and not just the art form.”

Bernstein earned rave reviews for his performances and then shocked the music world when he retired from performing at 50.

“One of the reasons why I retired from performing is because I wanted to compose and also write,” says Bernstein, who’ll turn 88 on April 24. “And if I was practicing eight hours a day and also teaching, I didn’t have time to do that. So when I felt that I was able to perform the way I wanted to, I thought it was time to call it to a halt, and I’ve been happier ever since.”

Bernstein grew up in Newark, N.J., with three older sisters. There was no music in the house until he was given a piano as a young boy.

“No one ever had to tell me to go over to the piano to practice,” he says. “However, they did tell me to go out and play with my friend.”

He believes his discipline was (and is) genetic.

“I was just devoted to the piano from the earliest possible time on,” he says. “It was a sense of honor to me. If I was going to reproduce these masterpieces in an ac-ceptable fashion, I simply had to do a lot of

Renowned pianist Seymour Bernstein talks with director Ethan Hawke during the fi lming of

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work on them.“I was never aware that I was practicing

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Bernstein, who started teaching piano himself at 15, still has students. The lack of music programs in schools bothers him.

“I think our educational system is ter-ribly fl awed,” he says. “Music should be a prime subject that all students must learn. That’s how it was in Ancient Greek times. There were four subjects they felt humans could not develop without, and one of them was music.”

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By Carol ShaneMany tributes have al-

ready been paid to Lus-ter William “Bill” Brewer, Pellissippi State Community College music department head and choral conductor, who died on March 18. We, too, wish to pay respects to this – in the words of one of his choristers – “radiant soul.”

Over the years, I ran into Bill many times. Most of all, I remember his joyous love of music. I didn’t know him well, and that’s my loss.

But others did.Perry Ward, a former

Metropolitan Opera bari-tone who now teaches mu-sic at UT Chattanooga, was blindsided by the loss of a job in 2009. “One of the fi rst phone calls I had was from Bill Brewer,” he remembers. “ ‘Perry? It’s me, Bill. I’m calling to see what I can do to help my friend.’

“He was so positive and encouraging; I couldn’t help but feel better as we talked.” Brewer offered Ward a job at PSCC the next fall.

“I can’t really say I worked ‘for’ him; he wasn’t that kind of boss. I worked with him for two years. I will never forget what he did for me, and I can only hope I have the chance to pay it forward.”

Perry’s wife, Tracy, teach-es music at Sequoyah Hills Elementary School. Years ago, after a personal crisis, “I didn’t have any self-con-fi dence left and didn’t want anyone to notice me. When

Cappuccino’s reopens with new menu

When the New Year start-ed, chef Frank Aloise hit the ground running. As the new chef at Cappuccino’s, the res-taurant adjacent to Copper Cellar West, 7316 Kingston Pike, he had a new menu to prepare.

That menu is now ready, and Cappuccino’s features a lineup of Italian dishes with an Aloise fl air. Appetizers feature aran-cini (rice croquettes in a trio of sauces), and house-made sausage with peppers and on-ions. Pasta dishes range from traditional lasagna and pasta and meatballs to braised beef ravioli and cheese and spin-ach manicotti. Shrimp, veal, chicken and beef are all on the entrée menu. Guests will also fi nd a redesigned dining room.

Open at 5 p.m. daily, Cap-puccino’s is part of the Copper Cellar Family of Restaurants, which includes Calhoun’s, Copper Cellar, Smoky Moun-tain Brewery, Chesapeake’s and Cherokee Grill.

Singer and writer Leslie Massengill Cutshaw with Bill Brewer – friend, conductor and mentor to

many – at a 2011 Knoxville Choral Society concert Photo submitted

Music well made

I fi nally emerged, the Knox-ville Choral Society was the fi rst thing I tried.

“Bill was the one who au-ditioned me. He was so kind and supportive. I can’t tell you what a boost that gave me!

“Bill had a knack for making people feel good about themselves, in an honest way that really made you believe in yourself. And he seemed to do that when you needed it the most.”

Diagnosed with throat cancer less than two years ago, Brewer continued to teach and conduct while

receiving treatment, and was in fact on a choir tour of Portugal just before he died. “It was ‘typical Bill’ to have gone on with his students even though he was ill,” says KCS member Leslie Mas-sengill Cutshaw. “He loved making music, and he es-pecially loved the people he made music with, students and peers alike.”

Though medically cleared for travel, Brewer had to return home before the tour was fi nished, going into the hospital where he eventually died.

Soprano Kathleen Spill-

ane, private voice teacher at PSCC, had taken a hiatus from teaching in order to homeschool her daughter. But “Bill welcomed me back to the voice faculty with open arms.

“I was feeling very vul-nerable as I was living with a cyst on my vocal cord and singing was diffi cult at the time. Bill introduced me to his ENT surgeon and a year later I was singing again.”

News-Sentinel mu-sic critic Harold Duckett notes, “Bill’s singers always seemed to perform well for him because they wanted

him to look good as the con-ductor as much as for them-selves.”

Tina Swaggerty Collins, organist at Ball Camp Bap-tist Church and KCS mem-ber, agrees. “You could see the sparkle in his eyes when he talked about his choirs. There was always laughter in a rehearsal, because Bill laughed through his life.”

But even more, she says, “there was a continual, abid-ing love.” Brewer helped her through a time of grief in her own life. “Bill pulled me

aside after rehearsal, took my hands in his and told me I had found the ‘beauty of where I belonged’ and it was only a matter of time until once again my heart would be fi lled ‘with love as the only song.’”

Last Saturday the KCS paid tribute to Bill Brewer at its annual Young Classi-cal Musicians concert.

Cutshaw says, “The thought that has kept com-ing to me about Bill: Life well lived, music well made, people well loved.”

By Mystery DinerSometimes the best things

come in plain boxes. No one will give The Soup Kitchen high marks for presentation or plating, but the soup is divine!

The Soup Kitchen has two Ten-nessee locations: one in Cedar Bluff at 9222 Kingston Pike and one in Oak Ridge. In business for more than 30 years, The Soup Kitchen believes simplicity and fresh ingredients are the name of the game, although some of the soups are anything but simple in concept. I remember once tasting a soup called Butternut Bisque that almost made me abandon my favorite.

Almost. Here’s the thing with The Soup Kitchen: the menu changes daily. My absolute favor-ite is the Beer and Cheddar soup. When they have it, I get it, no matter how tempting a Butternut Bisque or Georgia Peanut might look.

Though the menu changes, the quality of the soup doesn’t. I have yet to choose a soup I didn’t like, and, if nothing tickles my fancy that day, I fall back to chili.

The Soup Kitchen’s homemade breads and desserts are enough to bring repeat customers on their own. The breads, soups, sandwiches and salads are made fresh each day. I love the pimento

The plating isn’t fancy at The Soup Kitchen, but the fl avors are delicious.

This Italian pasta soup went well with the half a homemade pimento

cheese sandwich. Photo by Mystery Diner

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Cheese Sandwich

cheese on cheese bread. Each day, the restaurant offers eight soups, four to six homemade breads, plus the salads, sandwiches and desserts.

The Beer and Cheddar wasn’t on the menu when Mystery Din-er visited, so I tried the Italian

Pasta. It was delicious, fi lled with good-for-you vegetables in a rich and savory tomato broth. The pasta didn’t overwhelm, which is what I like. Paired with a pimento cheese sandwich, it was a hearty meal and, alas, I had no room for dessert!

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By Bill DockeryErnie Roberts is a man

who is comfortable with an audience.

Throughout his career, he has stood in front of Knox County high school students and guided them through the intricacies of math, from the simple prin-ciples of arithmetic to the complexities of geometry and statistics.

Last August he took on a new, invisible audience when he became the host of “Mathline,” a call-in show on East Tennessee PBS that puts him in front of a cam-era instead of a classroom.

“I never see a face,” said the retired teacher, who gave up his full-time role as a Bearden High School math teacher in 2009. “And I never know what to ex-pect. It’s a rush to go on-air.”

Weekdays for 30 minutes starting at 6 p.m., Roberts fi elds cold calls from stu-dents who are looking for help with math problems they are struggling with in school. With no prior knowl-edge of what questions he’ll be asked, Roberts writes out the problems and goes through the steps needed to solve them. His writing is captured by a camera that broadcasts it through the television as he solves the problem.

“It’s rather low-tech,” Roberts said. “We don’t have time to type in their

questions, so I just write them out. No one is expect-

ing me to have every single an-swer.”

If there is a backup of callers, R o b e r t s will contin-ue to take their calls

even after the show is off the air. On days when calls are sparse, he always has prepared problems ready to present. Since students rarely do homework on Fri-days, the end-of-week show is usually a math review.

“We have a lot of young-er callers,” he said, “and a number of repeat callers.

“It forces me to relate to kids that I usually take for granted.”

Calls have come in from all over the eastern por-tion of the state, includ-ing Hawkins, Sullivan and Cumberland counties. He’s had one caller from south-west Virginia and, inex-plicably, one from Gulf Shores, Ala. Roberts said he would love to take the program statewide. “Math-line” has drawn signifi cant local sponsors, including SunTrust Bank and the American Society of Civil Engineers. By the end of the school year, “Mathline” will have aired some 200 times.

Roberts is a Central High

School graduate. He earnedan undergraduate degree inRomance languages fromthe University of Tennesseebefore moving over to math-ematics for his master’s.

“I took math with theengineers,” Roberts said.“They couldn’t understandwhat a teacher was doing intheir courses.”

After a short stint teach-ing math for the KnoxvilleJob Corps, he moved fi rstto Fulton High School andthen to Bearden.

Almost everything Rob-erts does involves an audi-ence of one sort or another.On Sundays, he can be foundleading worship at Fifth Av-enue Baptist Church in EastKnoxville. He’s a member ofthe Knoxville Opera chorusand is director of the Knox-ville Nativity Pageant.

“I had a mother whocould sing and play, and Isang in church,” he said. “Itook music theory at UT andplay the piano by ear.”

Even though he is re-tired, he continues hisconnections with BeardenHigh, where he teaches acouple of advanced mathcourses and announcesbasketball games for theBulldogs. He is a memberof the West Knoxville Ki-wanis Club and was activein revitalizing the BeardenKey Club. He is vice presi-dent of the Knoxville NewsSentinel Charities and theLove Kitchen.

By Betsy PickleTennessee Education

Commissioner Candice Mc-Queen didn’t seem to want to leave South Knoxville Elementary School last Thursday. McQueen was so busy asking questions about the SKE Community School that her entourage practi-cally had to drag her away.

McQueen, who was to speak that night at a public meeting at the Marriott, got an earful during her late-afternoon visit. Knox Coun-

ty Schools established the system’s ninth community school at the elementary school last fall.

Principal Tanna Nicely and community school site coordinator Susan Martin gave McQueen the rundown on how they started – small steps, getting the com-munity involved – and the growth of the community school program – a steering committee, regular interac-tion with parents and fam-ily, adding and adjusting

Ernie Roberts

Knox County Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre watches as Candice McQueen chats up fu-

ture student Teddy, son of school board member Amber Rountree. Behind Rountree is Boys &

Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley president and CEO Lisa Hurst.

Recycling for animalsSouth Knoxville Food City eco-

coordinator Amanda Lunsford and

assistant Lauren Newman accept

a donation of newspapers from

New Hopewell Elementary School

student Adalynne Keathley. Every

week, Lunsford picks up newspa-

pers the school has collected to take

to Young-Williams Animal Center,

where the papers are used to line

cages. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Candice McQueen introduces herself to SKES fi rst-grader and

Boys & Girls Club member Ra’Shya Lee. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Getting the scoop on community schools

Math teacher adds PBS watchers to his audiences

programming for the kids.After a fl urry of introduc-

tions, McQueen was guided to the school’s playground, where the bike club was busy following instructions while wheeling around.

Superintendent Jim Mc-Intyre gamely hopped on a bicycle to see how his skills compared with the stu-dents’, but his trip was short as he couldn’t get a handle on the traffi c pattern and caused a small wreck.

McQueen met some of the school’s younger students in the cafeteria, where they were playing games. They seemed more impressed by her height than by her title, but they were happy to give their opinions on local edu-cation.

McQueen got a good look at the school’s computer lab and the converted class-room where Martin and Boys & Girls Club director Kim Madeiros base their efforts. Nicely and Martin talked about learning from the success of other com-munity schools and benefi t-ting from neighbors – such as Monte Stanley and other members of the Old Sevier Community Group – who have helped beautify the grounds and are working with students to create a monarch butterfl y garden. They also boasted about the teachers who stay past their regular shifts to volunteer in the community school, along with other members of the community.

Girls have been allowed to join STEM Scouts, and other tech-oriented groups have plans to come to the school. McQueen said there’s an emphasis now on promoting career options, particularly those of the region, with children of el-ementary age.

McIntyre praised the county’s community schools, most of which are run by the Great Schools Partnership (Pond Gap is operated by the University of Tennessee). But he em-

phasized that community schools are not “one size fi ts all.” Programming needs to be tailored to each commu-nity, he said.

McQueen asked if there were plans to have more community schools, and McIntyre said yes, “some-where between eight and 90 schools.”

“I’d like to see us do quite a few more, but I think we’re at that stage where we need to make sure that we learn the lessons that we need to learn, get it right fi rst, at

this scale, before we go to the next step,” he said.

McQueen complimented McIntyre and the other leaders in the community school program for being fl exible because so much that is happening “feels like it’s not controlled.”

“I appreciate that you have allowed that freedom and fl exibility from all the leadership. … It’s such a nice way to engage the commu-nity, one, but you’re actually helping every kid’s need.”

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UT Law off ering free tax help

As part of the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, UT Law stu-dents will offer free tax preparation help and electronic fi ling to qualifying members of the community. The program is available to those who generally make $53,000 or less, persons with disabili-ties, the elderly and limited-English-speak-ing taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns.

The services are available 5-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays through April 15 in Suite 157 of the College of Law, 1505 W. Cumberland Ave. Appointments not required. Visit www.tiny.utk.edu/vita to learn what documents are needed. Info: Morgan, 974-2492 or rmorgan2@utk.edu.

BUSINESS NOTES ■ Art Cate is the new execu-

tive director of Knoxville’s

Community

Development

Corporation

(KCDC). He

was elected

by the board

of commis-

sioners to

replace Alvin

Nance, who

resigned.

Cate has served as KCDC’s

chief operating offi cer since

2001. He currently serves as

president of the North Knox-

ville Business & Professional

Association (NKBPA). He and

wife Cammie live in Fountain

City.

■ Misty Cunningham is now

vice president of business

development

and market-

ing for IT 4

the Planet, a

provider of

integrated IT

solutions to

businesses in

the Southeast.

She previously

was vice presi-

dent of corporate marketing

for Regal Entertainment

Group. Prior to joining Regal,

she worked for the News Sen-

tinel in advertising sales.

■ Tyler Abbott has been

named

partner of the

year for 2014

and Leaders

Council mem-

ber for 2015

at FirstBank

Investment

Partners. Ab-

bott has been

with FirstBank

since 2005

and has become a major

producer for the investment

division over those 10 years.

■ Home Federal Bank has

announced the re-election of

four board members: Joseph

Johnson, president emeritus,

University of Tennessee; Dale

Keasling, president and CEO

of Home Federal Bank; T.

Michael Rentenbach, retired,

Rentenbach Engineering

Co.; and David Sharp, retired,

Home Federal Bank. Each will

serve a three-year term.

By Betty BeanInterested citizens, po-

tential future residents and c u r i o u s n e i g h b o r s c r o w d e d into Oak-wood Senior Living last Thursday to have a look around the refurbished former Oak-

wood Elementary School and eat some barbecue at the facility’s open house.

Knox County’s unoffi cial/offi cial photographer Jon Gustin was there to record the event, taking pictures of a shiny new interior that will stand in stark contrast to the spooky, caved-in

I fell in love last week when I visited Tamara Judd Burnett’s Chesapeake Bay Retrievers. These AKC registered and champion bloodline dogs are incred-ible.

Tamara proudly says, “All of my Chessies have several titles as far back as the fi fth generation.” The only problem I had was de-ciding which of her Chessies I loved best. Located near Seymour, Tamara has pro-vided a beautiful environ-ment for these dogs.

Almost 10 years ago, Ta-mara wanted a loving pet for her children, who were 5 and 8 at the time. She did a lot of research and decided on a male Chessie. Her fam-ily had just visited Disney World, and the kids im-mediately chose the name Mickey for their new dog. Soon, a female Chessie was brought into the family, so

Cunningham

CateTrentham

Rick Dover

County commissioners Jeff Ownby and Ed Brantley at the Oak-

wood Senior Living bar

Abbott

‘Soft’ opening attracts interest at Oakwood

wreck he photographed in 2012, when the county was on the verge of giving up on

the 100-year-old building.The crowd gathered in

the spacious, high-ceilinged

entrance room, which fea-tures a big chandelier, a cozy bar and a shiny Ameri-can maple fl oor that used to be in the school gymna-sium. Many took individual tours of the 63 suites, most former classrooms and each featuring at least one huge window. Suites range in size from 350 to 600 square feet, and some will include kitchenettes as well. Memory-care units will be secured and more intensely staffed. Inclusive monthly rates range from $2,895 to $3,995.

“We’ve still got a hundred things to do,” said developer Rick Dover, CEO of Dover Development, who took on the project that nobody else wanted. “But at least we’re

Tamara Judd Burnett with Minnie, her “retired” Chesapeake

Bay Retriever Photo by Nancy Whittaker

Tamara Judd Burnett and

Mickey, her fi rst Chesapeake

Bay Retriever Photo submitted

Love of dogs becomes fun ‘job’

Nancy Whittaker

down to a hundred. We’re not trying to be the fastest.”

Dover, who special-izes in repurposing his-toric structures, has trans-formed the old school at 232 E. Churchwell Ave. into a showplace. He developed a special interest in senior living facilities after the experience of trying to fi nd care for his grandfather. Historic Knoxville High School will be the next project on his agenda.

Once built, Dover’s fa-cilities are managed by Se-nior Solutions, whose CEO, Chris Sides (wearing a shirt identifying him as “the BBQ Doctor”), was on hand pre-siding over the preparation of 700 barbecue dinners. Proceeds from the lunch

will benefi t Mobile Meals. Oakwood Senior Liv-

ing executive director Amy Wise (who was once a stu-dent at Oakwood Elementa-ry School) said that 10 suites have already been reserved. These residents will become members of the Founders Club and receive benefi ts in-cluding a fi xed monthly rate for 2015, 50 percent off the community fee, a “welcome home” basket and one free beauty or barber shop ser-vice quarterly for the fi rst year. Wise is an LPN and works for Senior Solutions.

Residents should be able to start moving in in late April, and when fully occu-pied, Oakwood Senior Liv-ing will accommodate some 80 occupants.

of course they named her Minnie.

When Minnie was 2 years old, she had her fi rst litter of puppies. Tamara soon learned how many people wanted to give a lov-ing home to this rare breed. “Never in a million years did I ever think I would be raising puppies for a liv-ing,” says Tamara. The day I visited, not only did I get to meet Minnie, but I also met Maddie, Marley and Mar-shall.

Tamara’s love for these dogs is obvious. Even though she is a breeder, the

environment these dogs are raised in is nothing like a puppy mill. Each has a heated “home” with its own water and food area. Marley is expecting her fi rst litter on April 4 and even has her own birthing center.

During the past nine years, more than 150 pup-pies have been spoiled and loved by Tamara. She enjoys training them, so they are well behaved when they go to live with their new fami-lies. “Chessies are a rare breed but are so trainable and coachable. They have excellent temperaments and love to play. Owning a Chessie is a lifestyle choice,” says Tamara. She describes them as “gentle giants.”

The lucky puppies have gone to some incredible homes. Although some of the people who want a Chessie use them as bird dogs, many others just want

a great pet for their fam-ily. These dogs are designed to tolerate hot and cold weather, and they love wa-ter. “They make great out-side dogs but are also good inside pets as long as they have a place to exercise,” says Tamara.

Many new owners keep in touch with Tamara and send pictures to her. Wheth-

er frolicking on the beach, enjoying a boat ride or be-ing introduced to their new family, Tamara always en-joys the opportunity to keep up with her “babies.” Many new owners come to her to select their new puppy, while others are introduced online. Tamara has shipped to people all over the United States including Arizona,

Montana and Oregon.“I eat, sleep and breathe

this every day of my life,” say Tamara. Each female has one litter per year for six years, and then they “retire.” Additional infor-mation and pictures can be seen at www.greatchess-ies.com. Contact Tamara at info@greatchessies.com or at 865-257-1045.

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