IN THIS ISSUE

Comfort food at Sullivan’s

This time of year, it’s not a good idea to upset your mom-ma. For that reason, I suggest that, if discussing the meatloaf you just ordered at Sullivan’s Fine Foods at Rocky Hill, you tell her it is “almost as good as yours.”

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By Betty BeanJames McMillan has been a

high-profi le, persistent critic of the way local government handles stormwater runoff issues, both city and county. Rarely has he doled out compliments.

Last week, the Shannondale farmer broke form when he heard that Knox County has hired Tony Norman to a $28,000 per year part-time position as an NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) coordinator.

“Tony will add a needed degree of honesty and integrity to Knox County’s engineering department, something they have had a very limited supply of, till now,” said McMillan.

Norman started work Nov. 3, two months after completing two terms on County Commission, where he championed teachers who have been protesting Superin-tendent James McIntyre’s reform agenda. As a science teacher with

Knox County Schools for more than 30 years, he developed an award-

winning ecology class at Farragut and continued it at West High School, where he directed hands-on studies of Third Creek. As a commissioner, he spent more than three years chair-ing the controver-

sial Joint City/County Task Force on Ridge, Slope and Hillside Develop-ment and Protection that developed new regulations to curb environ-mental damage done by developers.

Predictably, the hire has raised eyebrows.

Commissioner Sam McKenzie expressed his displeasure at a meet-ing last week, and there was grum-bling that the former commission chair, who is widely expected to be a candidate for school board in 2016, is being “rewarded” for his persis-

tent opposition to McIntyre’s poli-cies, an allegation that Engineering and Public Works Director Dwight Van de Vate said is unwarranted.

“Tony has a sound science back-ground. He has a background in environmental policy and a solid general understanding of the sci-ence behind what we are respon-sible for doing in stormwater,” Van de Vate said.

“He has good communication skills – specifi cally, the ability to write. Keeping dynamic, relevant, current web content is impor-tant. Many folks with engineering backgrounds, communication is not their forte.

“Tony is a skilled public speaker with the ability to articulate com-plicated concepts clearly. He’ll be talking to elected offi cials. He will look at how peer jurisdictions manage their bonds and letters of credit and see if we can incorpo-rate some of their practices. Not everybody can make those calls

effectively and ask the right ques-tions. I’m confi dent Tony will ex-cel with assignments like this, and we’ve started already.”

He also said there are things Norman won’t be doing:

“He won’t be involved in edu-cation outreach that involves Knox County Schools. He won’t be involved in regulation of the construction trades. I’ve got eight folks who do that very well. Our bench is deep.”

Norman said he’s not surprised that some have criticized his hiring.

“I’ve known these people (in county engineering) for 20 years,” he said. “I spent 30 years in wa-ter quality – it’s like my calling – where my heart is.”

Then he laughed and said: “I don’t want to go back into teach-ing. I don’t think I’d last a week (back in the school system). So when this came open, I said yeah, and really think my resume ought to be able to withstand (criticism).”

New job for Tony Norman Former commission chair takes PT county post

Tony Norman

Dooley, with his human, Steve Hillenbrand, on the other end of the leash, checks out

Ijams’ new dog-level water fountain at last week’s debut. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Pets welcome here

Mary Thom Adams keeps Max and Archie warm at the launch

of Ijams Nature Center’s pet welcome station. Taking note of

chilly temps and fl urries, Ijams executive director Paul James

and John Brynda, program manager for sponsor PetSafe, lim-

ited their remarks prior to Thursday’s ribbon cutting for the

station, which includes a water fountain, waste baggies and a

hitching post for dogs. In addition to several dogs and owners,

attending the event were Young-Williams Animal Center, River

Dog Bakery and Small Breed Rescue of East Tennessee, from

whom Adams adopted Archie at a previous event at Ijams.

By Betsy PickleThose expecting to see fi re-

works at last Thursday’s commu-nity meeting on redevelopment of the former Baptist Hospital site were sorely disappointed. It was as though the ’60s had returned, and the attendees decided to “make love, not war.”

Scheduled as a response to October’s contentious Board of Zoning Appeals meeting at which the Bridges at Riverwalk develop-ers asked for several variances to the hard-won South Waterfront development code, the session at Flenniken Landing exuded a po-lar-opposite atmosphere (perhaps the “polar” temperatures outside cooled down some of the pre-existing angst). Even without the appeal by moderator Bob Whetsel, from the Offi ce of Redevelopment, for attendees to be courteous, it seemed that both the developers,

Blanchard & Calhoun Commer-cial of Augusta, Ga., and the South Knoxvillians who had pushed for the meeting were making an effort to be positive.

Blanchard & Calhoun president Mark Senn and the company’s ar-

chitects defused the biggest bomb by announcing that they had revis-ited plans for the development be-tween the Gay Street and Henley bridges and had not just met but also exceeded the glazing (win-dow) requirement at street level.

Concern over that variance re-quest elicited the most negative comments at the zoning meeting in October, especially after it was stated that the company had no fi rm plans for retail development

on the site. Senn expressed hope Thursday that they would be able to attract a restaurant at the street level of the offi ce building at the east end, perhaps one that would create outdoor seating overlook-ing the Tennessee River.

He said that the site would be developed in such a way that retail could be added later, but for now the biggest portion would be devoted to 315 apartments priced similarly to residential space downtown.

A plaza adjacent to the Henley Street side of the development will be used for public events, and there will be a “pocket park” on the river side of the site, just off the riverwalk, for public use.

B&C is still asking for a setback variance on Blount Avenue to give residents more privacy and allow for more attractive landscaping. The street will be narrowed to encourage pedestrian traffi c, and

units next to the street will have their own stoops. Senn said plans also call for on-street parking.

Another variance request re-garding the requirement on per-meable-surface parking remains as most of the parking for the site will be underground.

There was little discussion of the student apartments B&C is planning on the west side of Hen-ley at Blount Avenue except to say that they would be compara-bly priced to new apartments on Cumberland Avenue but would have the advantage of being closer to Neyland Stadium.

Representatives from B&C will attend the Old Sevier Neighbor-hood Association meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 20), at South Knoxville Elementa-ry School. Updated site plans may be viewed at www.cityofknoxville.org/southwaterfront/.

Hospital-site meeting shows peace, progress

Mark Senn

IN THIS ISSUE

A winning warriorIn the front row of my music

fi le is a Ronnie Milsap record-ing of a Kris Kristofferson song, “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends.”

It popped up, unsolicited, when I thought of Jacob Gil-liam and his fi nal home ap-pearance on behalf of Tennes-see football.

I know enough. I don’t need to know the ending.

➤ Read Marvin West on page 4

Fun on wheelsIt was all fun despite the

cold at the Appalachian Moun-tain Bike Club’s Fall Festival, the club’s annual fundraiser.

Held on a private property in the Urban Wilderness, the fest drew hundreds with a schedule that included bike rides and races, food and beer, music and other entertain-ment, a silent auction and bike-vendor tents.

➤ See the story on page 3

Thunder RoadI recently voted in Farra-

gut’s early voting, and one of the controversial issues this year is allowing wine to be sold in Farragut’s grocery stores.

This issue reminded me of a similar referendum in 1961 when Knox County voted to le-galize whiskey sales in package stores and, and fi nally, liquor by the drink in 1972. Refer-enda to legalize whiskey sales in Knox County date to 1941, and the proposal was placed on the ballot fi ve times during that 20-year period until it was fi nally approved.

➤ Read the story on page 4

WATE mistakeWATE’s decision not to

renew its contract with popular longtime news anchor Gene Patterson has to be one of the dumber mistakes any televi-sion station could make.

➤ Read Victor Ashe on page 5

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health & lifestyles

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East Tennessee woman ‘still Nana’ after strokeIn January 2014, Deborah

Grantham of Jones Cove, Tenn., 59, woke up with what she feared were the symptoms of a stroke.

“I got up that morning and my left arm felt like it was asleep, numb, it just didn’t feel right,” said Grantham. “My daughter kept call-ing me, checking on me. She kept asking, ‘Do you think you’re hav-ing a stroke?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, but I’m getting a little scared.’ ”

Grantham did not want to go to the hospital, but her daughter took her anyway. They arrived at the emergency department of LeCon-te Medical Center in Sevierville, where physicians confi rmed she had indeed had a stroke.

“I didn’t want to go to inten-sive care,” said Grantham. “First, I don’t have insurance, and I also didn’t want to be away from my grandchildren. My grandson is on the autistic spectrum, and I knew he was going to be hard to handle. I’ve never been too far from him.”

But a stroke is a serious medical event. And after a week in the hos-pital, Grantham learned she would need even more intensive physical, occupational and speech therapy at a rehabilitation center.

“They asked me if I would be interested in going to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center if I had

Stroke Belt keeps Knoxville doctor busyAsk Dr. Keith Woodward what life is like

in the Stroke Belt, and he’ll give you a one-word answer: “Busy!”

It’s no wonder – in 2012, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s Comprehen-sive Stroke Center treated 455 patients for stroke. In 2013, it averaged 35 to 40 strokes per month. Woodward’s department treats about 100 of those patients per year.

“Those are very high numbers,” Wood-ward said. “We are in the buckle of the Stroke Belt, and stroke volumes are high here. Of course, this is much higher than all other facilities due to Fort Sanders’ compre-hensive stroke center certifi cation and the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center being here.”

Too, the risk factors for stroke – high blood pressure, smoking, sedentary lifestyle and the Southern diet of “fried everything” – are all higher here.

When Woodward came to Knoxville, no one could perform procedures inside the arteries of the brain. He was particularly concerned when a local high school foot-ball player collapsed with a stroke and had to be sent to Asheville, N.C., because that was where the closest doctor was that could treat those disorders.

“I decided to go back and complete additional training to perform these procedures in the brain,” Woodward said. When he returned in 2005, patients no longer needed to travel to get the best stroke care.

Now at Fort Sanders Re-gional for a decade, he is cur-rently chairman of its Acute Stroke Team and Medical Di-rector of the Neurovascular Research Center of East Ten-nessee. Woodward is board-certifi ed by the American Board of Radiology and has the Certifi cate of Added Qualifi ca-tion in Interventional Radiology.

Strokes are now the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States. Strokes occur when blood fl ow to the brain is disrupted. Disruption in blood fl ow is caused when either a blood clot blocks one of the vital blood vessels in the brain (isch-emic stroke) or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, spilling blood into surround-ing tissues (hemorrhagic stroke). Ischemic strokes account for 87 percent of all strokes.

In many cases, Woodward treats those patients with a procedure known as me-chanical embolectomy.

“We place a needle in the artery in the groin and advance a catheter using X-rays as a guide, until the catheter reaches the neck,” Woodward says. “Then, we advance a smaller catheter into the brain to the clot. A pump is then attached, and the clot is sucked out of the artery.”

The procedure has come along way over the years.

“The tools are so much better – six-hour proceduresto remove clots have been re-duced to now commonly less than 30 minutes,” Wood-ward says, adding speed isvitally important when treat-ing strokes. That is because the longer the clot remains,the longer the brain is with-out blood and oxygen. As aresult, the cells in the affect-ed area begin to die, affecting whatever functions that areacontrolled.

“More often than not,stroke damage is permanent,” says Wood-ward. “However, it almost always improvesover the fi rst six months after a stroke. Re-hab is the key during that period to help thebrain recover.”

Busy though they may be, Woodward says his days are not without their re-wards. One of those, he said, is when “Ican see a person unable to walk or talk,and 24 hours later, they can go home fromthe hospital.”

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a scholarship,” she said. “I was very interested because I knew how good they were. My husband, Bill, was there seven years ago, when he had his left leg amputated below the knee. They helped him so much.”

The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center offers some scholarships for patients without insurance, provided by private donations and funds from the annual Patricia Neal Golf Classic.

So Grantham spent another week away from her family, work-ing to regain the use of her left arm. She followed up with four months of outpatient visits as well. The results have been dramatic, she said.

“They helped me learn how to do a lot of things for myself, like how to take my bath. At fi rst I couldn’t use my hand at all. But since I’ve been in therapy, I got back a good bit of use of my hand. It’s not perfect, and it’s going to take some time, but it’s so much better than it was.”

Grantham said she has focused

on doing household tasks. “I have learned to use the elec-

tric can opener; I have made mybed. I am folding clothes, but that is still a hard job. They’re not per-fect but they’re folded! I sweepmy fl oors, wash my dishes, I havemopped my fl oor – that’s noteasy.”

Grantham said the staff atPNRC tries to make therapy fun.

“You work hard, but you don’thave time to feel sorry for yourself because you’re so busy! We played games that were good for yourbrain, but you don’t think about what it’s doing for you,” she said.

“The Patricia Neal staff was wonderful to me, and I would rec-ommend them to anybody. I hadexcellent care. All the nurses camewhen I needed help. They werewonderful,” Grantham said.

Today she is back at home with her husband and enjoying her 12grandchildren who live nearby.

“My 4-year-old granddaughter says, ‘Nana, let me hold your handyou had a stroke in.’ They don’tthink any different, I’m still Nana.”

Dr. Keith Woodward says advances in stroke treat-

ment have drastically reduced the time it takes

to remove clots, often minimizing damage to the

brain.”

Deborah Grantham works with occupational therapist Tom Johnson on

strengthening her hand while grasping and releasing objects. Grantham suf-

fered a stroke in January and has made great strides in therapy at Patricia Neal

Rehabilitation Center.

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It was all fun despite the cold at the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club’s Fall Festival, the club’s annual fundraiser.

Held on a private proper-ty in the Urban Wilderness, the fest drew hundreds with a schedule that included bike rides and races, food and beer, music and other entertainment, a silent auc-tion and bike-vendor tents.

Danny Gray of South Woodlawn neighborhood won the raffl e for a $3,400 bike from Santa Cruz Bi-cycles and Harper’s Bike Shop. (Out of town on a hik-ing trip, Gray thought he was being “punked” when he got the message.)

The big attraction was a new pump track – a cir-cular dirt track of “rollers” (mounds) and berms – that cyclists of all ages obviously enjoyed. It provided a stiff workout, but everyone sur-vived.

■ Vestal park upgradesThe Vestal Community

Organization is hard at work on efforts to improve Mary Vestal Park.

At the group’s meeting last week, Gene Burr re-ported that a grant from the city would provide gravel for a pathway that will be laid and compacted by workers from Dewhirst Properties. The work is expected to be done in early spring.

Ben Epperson from the Knox County Health De-partment reported that he and city Parks and Recre-ation director Joe Walsh have met to discuss extend-ing the Mary Vestal Green-way to downtown Ves-

AMBC president Matthew Kellogg, Legacy Parks Foundation

executive director Carol Evans, Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rog-

ero and Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis huddle up for warmth at the

AMBC Fall Festival. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Brian Nicholson and Noah Nicholson ride the pump track as Sean Leader waits for an opening and Tim Lewis and Jeff Bale check

out the track at the AMBC Fall Festival. Photo submitted

Conrad Plaut and Kimberly Sims display AMBC-

wear on sale at the Fall Festival.

tal. Details are still being worked out, but it looks as though it will happen.

Debbie Sharp of the Offi ce of Neighborhoods invited Vestal representatives to at-tend the Neighborhood Con-ference, scheduled for 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, 2015, at the Knox-ville Convention Center. She also said that city grants for neighborhoods would focus on projects benefi ting chil-dren next year.

President Newman Seay announced that the Dec. 8 meeting would be the VCO’s holiday party. The group meets monthly at 6 p.m. on the second Monday at the South Knoxville Commu-nity Center.

■ Eusebia calls female pastorEusebia Presbyterian

Church has called the fi rst female pastor in the church’s nearly 230-year history.

The Rev. Jean Davidson of Maryville will begin her duties on Jan. 1, 2015, with her pastoral installation on Jan. 4. D av id s on , a South K n o x v i l l e

native, taught science in middle schools before en-tering Columbia Theologi-

cal Seminary in Decatur, Ga., where she received her master of divinity degree.

She has served the Pres-bytery of East Tennessee as director of youth ministry and has been associate pas-tor at churches in Talladega, Ala., Louisville, Ky., and Nashville.

Eusebia Presbyterian, 1701 Burnett Station Road in Seymour, was founded in 1786, 10 years before Ten-nessee statehood.

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4:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec.

4, Farragut Town Hall, 11408

Municipal Center Drive.

Presented by the Farragut

Beautifi cation Committee.

Includes numerous free

activities and performances.

Canned-goods donation

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■ Colonial Christmas Celebra-tion open house, Friday, Dec.

5, at Blount Mansion, 200 W.

Hill Ave. Candlelight tours at

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■ Breakfast with Santa,

8:30-10:30 a.m. Saturday,

Dec. 6, Norwood UMC, 2110

Merchant Drive. Pancakes,

fruit and juice with Santa

Claus. Free, but a nonperish-

able item for the church food

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■ Christmas in Old Appalachia

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 6-24 at

the Museum of Appalachia,

2819 Andersonville

Highway. Info/schedule of

events: 494-7680 or www.

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■ Christmas Candlelight Tours, 4-8 p.m. Saturday,

Dec. 13, Marble Springs

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Governor John Sevier High-

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That he recovered enough to reclaim the starting job was amazing. I considered the possibility that Butch Jones has a sentimental streak and was simply rewarding cour-age and determination. That wasn’t it. The offensive line was better with Jacob Gilliam (and Joshua Dobbs).

Don’t bother with how this story ends. It is already better than most movie plots.

This guy was good at Far-ragut High. He had scholar-ship offers to smaller col-leges. He wanted to go to Tennessee. He was thrilled when 2009 line coach James Cregg invited him over for conversation.

Alas, when Gilliam ar-rived, there was no greet-ing. Cregg was gone – with Lane Kiffi n to Southern Cal.

A very nice Derek Dooley said Gilliam could walk on. He was a redshirt in 2010. Most of 2011 was lost to a shoulder injury. In 2012, he got in for two plays at the end of the Kentucky game. He said that was very meaningful. I said he had outlasted Dooley.

Gilliam was second team last season, behind Tiny Richardson. He played brief-ly in two blowout losses.

This spring, day after day, he had to prove he was capable. He beat out Donta-vius Blair, 6-8 and 313, the

handpicked r e p l a c e -ment for Richardson. Astounding what effort and smarts and fi erce determina-tion can do.

C o a c h Jones awarded a scholar-ship. Much earlier Jacob had earned the respect of teammates. He started the season opener against Utah State. He suffered the torn ACL.

“It’s very, very unfortu-nate,” Butch Jones said. “I feel for him … I love him to death.”

Cruel conclusion? The end? Not exactly.

Cheering is not permit-ted in the press box, under threat of expulsion, but when Jacob Gilliam jogs onto Shields-Watkins Field for the last time, I’m going to risk it. Yea! Quietly.

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Don’t tell me how the story endsIn the front row of my

music fi le is a Ronnie Mil-sap recording of a Kris Kristofferson song, “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends.”

It popped up, unsolicited, when I thought of Jacob Gil-liam and his fi nal home ap-pearance on behalf of Ten-nessee football.

I know enough. I don’t need to know the ending.

Maybe Jacob will become a coach or a business leader. He is a winning warrior. I believe he will be success-ful at something. I hope he is happy. I hope he can walk.

Nothing like Jacob Gil-liam has happened in my most-of-a-lifetime monitor-ing of the Volunteers. Other walk-ons have exceeded expectations, earned schol-arships, achieved starting status. Nick Reveiz and a few others became captains. Maybe one beat out a junior college all-American and took his job, but I don’t re-member that.

I’m almost certain no-body ever played offensive tackle on one good leg and a torn knee ligament in the other.

That Jacob wanted to try was stunning. It said his

Marvin West

love of football went beyond lip service, a bit deeper than touching the motivational sign on the way from the dressing room to the play-ing fi eld and repeating the promise, “I will give my all for Tennessee.”

It said he cared more for the team than himself. Or-dinary people, when dam-aged, hobble off to a hospi-tal and hope an orthopedic magician can make neces-sary repairs. Jacob skipped the surgery and started re-habilitation as soon as the swelling went down. It may have hurt.

That Jacob made it back was a shock. He showed up on the sidelines at prac-tice. I mistook that for loy-alty. He attended meetings, keeping up with instruction.

Suddenly, he was in-volved in limited workouts. He ran slowly. He never was a speedster. He is 6-4 and 290. Half of that is heart.

By Marvin WestBehind Jacob Gilliam’s

unlikely comeback from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee are deep family faith and hours and hours of prayer.

Nathan Gilliam, Farra-gut High football senior, believed it when his older brother declared his Ten-nessee career was not fi n-ished.

“I actually thought he would make it back,” said Nathan. “We prayed so much for that.”

Three weeks after the injury, Jacob returned to the Tennessee practice fi eld.

“I remember thinking, ‘Wow!’ ” said Nathan.

Vol line coach Don Ma-honey had other thoughts – about work ethic, pas-sion and desire.

“This really is who he is and what he stands for, and it’s just hard work and tremendous charac-ter … it’s not a surprise.”

Forty-nine days after

the injury, Jacob played against Ole Miss. A week later he regained a start-ing job.

“I am so proud of him,” said Nathan Gilliam.

He said Jacob’s recov-ery “feels like a miracle.”

The Gilliam family – parents David and Mi-chelle, their three football gladiators (Alex is the baby brother) and a very special grandmother – re-lied on their faith. Honey Rock Victorious Church was the focal point. The Gilliams met with the worship leader and his family every Thursday for intensive prayer.

Nathan tells of “the laying on of hands.”

Jacob believes those prayers and support from hundreds of others led to healing. He says he has been blessed with strength and stability in the knee. He says there has been very little pain.

Teammates are in awe.“Dude’s tough,” said

tailback Jalen Hurd.

Prayer for Jacob

I recently voted in Farra-gut’s early voting, and one of the controversial issues this year is allowing wine to be sold in Farragut’s grocery stores.

This issue reminded me of a similar referendum in 1961 when Knox County vot-ed to legalize whiskey sales in package stores and, and fi nally, liquor by the drink in 1972. Referenda to legal-ize whiskey sales in Knox County date to 1941, and the proposal was placed on the ballot fi ve times during that 20-year period until it was fi nally approved.

The vote brought to-gether two interest groups that would normally oppose each other; most Christian ministers opposed legal-ization based on “moral is-sues,” and area bootleggers opposed it for economic issues. But the real losers when the vote carried were the whiskey runners. Many kids considered these fear-less drivers to be heroes, and for rural mountain boys, it was an occupation that could quickly lift them out of poverty.

Of course, one such driv-er’s adventures were the subject of the 1958 movie “Thunder Road” starring Robert Mitchum, and I dare say there were few teenagers who missed seeing this fl ick because it involved “souped up” Fords that most kids dreamed of owning.

But the real “Thunder

Malcolm Shell

Thunder Road revisited

Road” that spurred the be-ginning of NASCAR racingoccurred in 1954 when I wasa sophomore in high school,and one of my classmateswas witness to the event.

John Fitzgerald relatedthe story many times, andmany who have writtenabout the famous crashconsider John’s account themost credible.

John had stopped to airup his bicycle tires when hebecame aware of a crash justdown the road. He could seea fi re and knew somethingbig had happened. Police offi -cers related the story to him.The driver was well knownto authorities, who had nick-named him Tweedle O’Twill.

There had been two road-blocks set for the elusivedriver. Since the authoritieswere not sure which roadhe would take – Papermillor Kingston Pike – the fi rstroadblock was set up just afew hundred yards west ofthe intersection. The secondroadblock was at the pres-ent-day Gallery shoppingcenter. Through his driv-ing skills and some luck, he

Night out in Knox CountyFarragut resident Bill Deatherage, right, talks to County Commissioner Ed Brantley at Big

Kahuna Wings on Kingston Pike. At-large commissioners Brantley and Bob Thomas plan to

visit each area of Knox County to hear citizens’ concerns and will address them on the radio

the next morning. Last month’s stop in South Knoxville put the spotlight on a safety issue

with cars and school buses. After discussion on air, a police cruiser started monitoring the

situation. Next month, the duo will visit North Knox County. Photo by S. Barrett

Dr. Martha Buchanan speaks

to a civic club. File photo

By Wendy SmithSome of the best work

of the Knox County Health Department happens out-side the walls of the its three facilities, says Direc-tor Martha Buchanan.

Most people think of vac-cinations or treatment of STDs when they think of the health department. But a quick browse through the KCHD website reveals an ar-ray of services, from a school dental program to tips on how to keep well water safe.

Buchanan is most proud of the way the organization works within the community. Through recent efforts, the health department has im-proved the city’s walkability, helped people grow their own fruits and vegetables, and fos-tered a sense of community.

“We’re empowering peo-ple so they know they have a voice in their own health.”

She was a family-prac-tice doctor for seven years before joining the KCHD 11 years ago. She has been di-rector for four years.

KCHD employs 250 and has a total budget of $25 mil-lion. Local government pro-vides 75 percent of funding, and the remaining 25 per-cent comes from federal and state government and grants.

The health department includes talented, passionate staff who go into the commu-nity to develop relationships and building trust, allowing them to gauge a neighbor-hood’s health needs, like play-grounds or safe places to walk.

Health is about more

Health is more than absence of disease, says Buchanan

than the absence of disease, Buchanan says.

The staff also includes medical experts, like four epidemiologists and one epidemiological nurse. They

are public-health detectives who track down causes of infectious disease and in-vestigate patterns of illness, like cancer, she says.

One of the roles of the health department is to think through the unthink-able, like fl u pandemics or an outbreak of Ebola. Strategies are in place for such circum-stances, but prevention is the primary objective.

In the case of Ebola, the county gets information from Homeland Security about those arriving from West Africa, and they are monitored by the health de-partment, based on risk.

Buchanan won’t say wheth-er anyone in Knox County is currently being monitored. It’s a balancing act between

privacy and public concern, she says. It’s important to err on the side of caution, but if someone has no symptoms, there is no risk of infection.

The health challenges in Knox County are the same as those across the state. Obe-sity is one. Another is mak-ing sure that everyone, from inner-city families to wealthy suburbanites, can be healthy if they choose to be. It’s a problem that can only be addressed through engage-ment, which requires reach-ing out to decision-makers as well as the community.

We’re changing how we view healthcare, and every-one needs to be better in-formed, Buchanan says.

“There’s a learning curve there.”

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WATE’s decision not to renew its contract with pop-ular longtime news anchor Gene Patterson has to be one of the dumber mistakes any television station could make.

Looks like the SAT-10 exam, defunct since Nov. 3, is going to stay defunct, despite the best efforts of Superintendent James Mc-Intyre’s administration and its allies.

RIP SAT-10, again

Betty Bean

SAT-10 is the most dis-liked of the many assess-ments administered by Knox County Schools, pri-marily because of the ten-der age of the students to whom it is given – kinder-garteners through second-graders.

It is not state-required, and its abolition became a priority for the two new board members who had fi rsthand experience with

its effects – Amber Roun-tree, an elementary school librarian who proctored the exams, and kindergarten teacher Patti Bounds.

Rountree pushed the board to vote at a special called meeting the night before the election when Tracie Sanger (who was per-ceived to be a potential Mc-Intyre ally based on a strong endorsement from Indya Kincannon) was elected.

The vote came over the objections of McIntyre’s administrators and the pro-McIntyre board members and ended up 6-3 with vice chair Doug Harris saying he voted for ending the test so he could bring it up again at a more propitious time in the future.

Within days of the elec-tion, KCS Accountabil-ity Offi cer Nakia Towns announced that teachers were letting her know they

were afraid their evaluation scores would suffer without the SAT-10 numbers, and she compiled numbers con-fi rming their worst fears.

This would be one of Towns’ last chores for Knox County before the an-nouncement that she had taken a job as an assistant to state Commissioner of Education Kevin Huffman, who shortly thereafter an-nounced that he, too, was leaving, causing speculation among some that McIntyre would soon be joining Towns in Nashville as Huff-man’s replacement (smart money was on former state Sen. Jamie Woodson, head of Bill Frist’s education think tank, SCORE).

On Nov. 5, Dogwood El-ementary School principal Lana Shelton-Lowe sent her teachers an email warning them of possible negative impacts of ending SAT-10.

VictorAshe

Christmas is only fi ve weeks away, and politicians everywhere are writing let-ters to Santa.

Dear Santa: Please bring us 60 votes in the U.S. Sen-ate. We’d also like some new ideas. On second thought, make that any ideas.

We hope you like the lat-est redistricting map that incorporates the North Pole into Texas’ 17th Congressio-nal District. Enclosed you will fi nd several hundred voter registration applica-tions for your elves.

P.S. Love the red suit!– Republican Party

Dear Santa Claus: Our supply of crying towels is dwindling, so please throw some on your sleigh for us. We urgently need several dozen Bill Clinton clones as well as backbones for our candidates in the next mid-term election cycle.

This letter is being hand-delivered by a representa-tive of the UEW (United Elves of the World) who will hand out union-member ap-

LarryVan

Guilder

plications to your workers.Have you considered

wearing a blue suit to match those twinkling eyes? Mer-ry Christmas!

– Democratic Party

Greetings, Mr. Claus, my fellow American: I have quite a list for you. Let’s see: (1) unemployment rate un-der 6 percent, (2) a booming stock market, (3) an agree-ment with China to reduce carbon emissions, (4) af-fordable health insurance for an additional 7 million Americans, (5) an increase in domestic oil production and (6) lower gas prices. Give my best to the Claus family!

– President Barack Obama

Dear Santa Claus: Yes-

terday poor Barack inadver-tently mailed you last year’s Christmas list. (He’s had a lot on his mind recently.) Since you already fulfi lled those wishes, perhaps you could give him a majority of American citizens who get their news from some-place other than Fox. Merry Christmas, Santa!

– Michelle Obama

Dear Santa: Anything but turtleneck sweaters! Darn you, Jon Stewart!

– U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell

Hi, Santa: My daughter, Bristol, and my husband, Todd, could really use box-ing lessons. (Bristol has promised to learn to write so next year she can send her own letter.)

Can you see Russia from your house? You betcha I can!

– Sarah Palin

Dear Santa Claus: Win-ning the election was a great present, but I see my name in lights on the big screen with your help.

My motto, “Make ’em squeal,” fi ts perfectly with a sc reenplay I’ve written.

“Alien Deliverance” is sure to be a blockbuster. With the tagline, “In space, no one can hear you squeal,” how can it lose? Sigourney Weaver will jump at the part!

Merry Christmas from your Iowa elf!

– U.S. Sen. Jodi Ernst

Dear Santa: What’s up? Seems like all my rowdy friends have been term-limited, and I’m next. How about giving that Duncan fellow a nudge toward the door? It’s time for Tim in 2018!

– Mayor Tim Burchett

Dear Santa Claus: My family has always respected your work, but I’ve been hearing troubling rumors. Is it true the elves are form-ing a union and that you’re expanding Medicaid to the North Pole? Say it isn’t so, Santa!

– Gov. Bill Haslam

WATE makes dumb mistake on Patterson

WATE is now owned by Media General, which has its corporate offi ce in Rich-mond, Va. WATE ratings are down, so their solution is to terminate the most popular newscaster they have. This shows the corporate offi ce in Richmond is clueless about its Kno xville market.

If your ratings are down why do you cut costs by let-ting one of your top news-casters go? Their ratings are only likely to sink fur-ther. No doubt they will hire someone under 35 and pay him/her half of what Patter-son was paid and think the ratings will increase. Think again. WATE has no idea (or does not care) how unhappy its audience is.

Also think about a corpo-ration that makes a valued employee depart right at Christmastime. Again, insen-sitive and clueless. So much for the Christmas spirit.

■ State Rep. Rick Womick has challenged Speaker Beth Harwell for the GOP nomination for House Speaker to be de-cided by the GOP caucus in December.

Womick represents the anti-Haslam faction of the House GOP caucus. This writer contacted all six Knox Republican law-makers as to whom they planned on supporting at the December caucus. With the exception of Bill Dunn, all said they were voting for Harwell. They are Harry Brooks, Ryan Haynes, Ed-die Smith, Martin Daniel and Roger Kane.

Dunn said he simply did not disclose his vote. However, he added that he thought Harwell had done an excellent job as speaker and thought she would be

re-elected. That is Dunn’s way of saying (without say-ing) that he is for Harwell.

■ Gloria Johnsonshould not be counted out as a future candidate just be-cause she lost the state rep-resentative race. Her loss actually occurred in two precincts outside the city at South-Doyle and Mount Ol-ive, whereas she carried the city portion of her district by 900 votes.

She could easily be a vi-able candidate for City Council in the November 2015 city elections. The four council seats up are the three at-large seats, held by George Wallace, Finbarr Saunders and Marshall Stair, or the district seat held by Mark Campen.

Campen has the lowest profi le of the four incum-bents and had no opponent in the last election. If she ran for the Campen council seat, she would be a very strong contender.

However, Johnson wants to be chair of the state Democratic Party, but that would not prevent her from serving on City Council, which currently only has one woman, Brenda Palmer, who is term limited in 2017. She is not alone in wanting the state position. Former U.S. Senate candidate Terry Adams is mentioned along with Linda Sherrill, who op-posed U.S. Rep. Scott Des-Jarlais on Nov. 4.

■ One consequence ofthe Johnson defeat may be that Tammy Kaousias leaves the Knox County Election Commission in April. The current law provides that the Democratic lawmakers from Knoxville recommend the two Democratic elec-tion commissioners. When Joe Armstrong and John-son were the two lawmak-ers, they simply picked one each, and Kaousias was the Johnson choice. With John-son gone, Armstrong will get to recommend both po-sitions. He is free to choose Kaousias again, or he might choose someone else as it is totally his choice.

■ Tony Hernandez, who covers Knoxville city issues for the News Senti-nel, is departing for Oregon. He will be missed.

On Nov. 6, Mooreland Heights Elementary School principal Roy Miller sent a similar email to a group of teachers warning them of the consequences of not having SAT-10 numbers to enhance their scores.

On Nov. 10, board mem-ber Karen Carson, Mc-Intyre’s strongest board ally, shot off an email to board chair Mike McMil-lan objecting to the Nov. 3 vote because she believed the motion on the fl oor was broader than the meeting notice and therefore fatal-ly fl awed – “Please let me know when I can expect res-olution to this unfortunate error in procedure.”

Uh, maybe never?Meanwhile, Sanger told

Channel 10’s Mike Donila that she won’t vote to rein-state SAT-10.

Without Sanger’s vote, there won’t be a majority willing to reinstate the con-troversial testing of Knox County’s youngest stu-dents.

GOV NOTES ■ Karns Republican Club

Christmas party will be

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2,

at Karns Middle School.

■ Knox County Republican

Party Christmas/Hanukkah

Gala will be 6 p.m. Monday,

Dec. 12, at Rothchild Cater-

ing and Conference Center,

8807 Kingston Pike. Tickets:

$25. Collecting for Toys for

Tots. Info/tickets: alexan-

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was able to get around the fi rst roadblock and prob-ably thought he was in the clear, but when he saw the second block, he knew this one would be much harder to break.

The road and grade have been altered since the early ’50s, when a steep red clay bank was on the south side of the Pike. His intent was to jump a ditch, climb the bank and somehow bring his car back to the road past the roadblock. But jumping the bank broke the tie-rods on his car, making it impos-sible to steer. The car ca-reened across the road and

ran through a chain-link fence surrounding an elec-trical substation. Sparks from the substation ignited the broken whiskey bottles, creating an inferno.

And as the song says: “The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.”

During my youth, Dixie Lee Junction was a favorite gathering spot after a foot-ball game. And part of the entertainment was watch-ing whiskey haulers come through at high speeds.

A widely-known bootleg-ger owned a fl eet of black Mercurys. The cars had ex-haust headers that could be

heard several miles down U.S. Highway 70. Running out of Nashville, they always ran four or fi ve together and maybe only one or two actu-ally contained bottled whis-key. The other cars were used as decoys or to block police cars so the cars with the whiskey could get away.

The moonshine usually came out of North Caro-lina or Kentucky, while the bottled whiskey came from Nashville or Bristol, Va. The border between Tennessee and Virginia runs through Bristol, but whiskey was le-gal in Virginia and illegal in Tennessee. So the bootleg-

ger could simply buy whis-key by the case in Virginia and deliver it to Tennessee.

Today, diners can enjoy cocktails at most restaurants. I suspect the younger gen-eration would fi nd it amusing that liquor was so hard to get not so long ago. Private clubs often sold whiskey at high prices. Some restaurants al-lowed you to bring your own bottle but supplied expensive setups. And I bet the younger generation would fi nd it even more amusing that 60 years ago, people risked their lives to deliver whiskey to markets that are now served by dis-tributing vendors.

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The phenomenon rolls on as “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I” opens in theaters at 8 p.m. tomor-row.

Betsy Pickle

‘Mockingjay’ lands early, off ers marathon

According to Fandango and MovieTickets.com, the third fi lm in the “Hunger Games” saga has racked up the highest advance tick-ets sales of 2014. Tickets went on sale Oct. 29. Don’t be surprised to fi nd sev-eral showings sold out this weekend.

The story, based on the third and fi nal novel in Su-zanne Collins’ trilogy, picks up where “Catching Fire” left off. Having destroyed the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Law-rence) reluctantly becomes the face of the rebellion in Panem.

Katniss continues on her quest to kill Panem Presi-dent Snow (Donald Suther-land), but meanwhile she has serious trust issues with District 13 President Coin (Julianne Moore), as well as with several allies.

Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrel-son, Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Stanley Tucci and Jeffrey Wright also star. The second part of “Mockingjay” will be re-leased in November 2015.

To prepare fans for the latest entry in the “Hunger

Games” series, several the-aters will have a “Hunger Games” marathon Thurs-day, showing “The Hunger Games” and “Catching Fire” before culminating with “Mockingjay – Part I” at 8 p.m.

Regal’s Pinnacle, Riviera and West Town and Cin-emark’s Tinseltown in Oak Ridge will start the event at 2:30 p.m. But those itch-ing to be fi rst should go to Carmike’s Foothills in Maryville, which will start the marathon at 2 p.m.

Two special screenings will take place at West Town Mall 9 in the next few days.

The Metropolitan Op-era’s live production of “The Barber of Seville” will be shown at 12:55 p.m. Sat-urday, Nov. 22. Tickets are $24 for adults, $22 for se-niors and $18 for children.

“Queen Rock Montreal,” aka “We Will Rock You: Queen Live in Concert,” will have one showing on the big screen, 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, at West Town. The docu-mentary shot in 1981 shows the band at its peak during a tour stop in Canada. Tickets are $12.50.

Special screenings:

‘Barber,’ Queen

Commander Paylor

(Patina Miller),

Gale Hawthorne

(Liam Hemsworth),

Boggs (Maher-

shala Ali), Katniss

Everdeen (Jennifer

Lawrence) and Pol-

lux (Elden Henson)

stay on their toes

in “The Hunger

Games: Mocking-

jay – Part I.”

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■ “The Crucible” presented by the Powell High School Drama

Department, 6:30 p.m., at the school. Tickets: $6. Public is

invited. Info: 938-2171.

FRIDAY ■ “Tellabration! 2014, A Worldwide Celebration of Storytell-

ing,” 7 p.m., Graystone Presbyterian community room, 139

Woodlawn. Suggested donations: $7 adults, $5 students and

seniors. Info: 429-1783 or smokymtstorytellers@juno.com.

■ Alive After Five concert: “Tribute to Donny Hathaway” fea-

turing Donald Brown with Evelyn Jack, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville

Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5

for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

■ Bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent in concert, 8 p.m., Bijou

Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Info/tickets: http://www.knoxbijou.

com.

■ Red Shoes & Rosin CD Release party for “Longleaf Pines,”

8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some

discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

■ Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” performed by the

Knoxville Opera, 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St.

Tickets: http://KnoxvilleOpera.com. Info: 524-0795, ext. 28.

■ Dinner theater featuring: “Tennessee Smith and the Quest

for the Golden Relic” presented by the Freedom Christian

Academy drama club, 4615 Asheville Highway. Tickets: $10.

Dinner: chili, chips, cheese, drink, dessert. Dinner: 5:45-6:45

p.m.; show: 6:30 p.m. Info/tickets: 525-7807.

■ Lost & Found lunch presented by Knox Heritage, 11:30

a.m., Historic Westwood, 3425 Kingston Pike. Guest speaker:

David Madden reading from his book “The Last Bizarre Tale.”

Free lunch buff et. Reservations required. Info/reservations:

Hollie Cook, 523-8008 or hcook@knoxheritage.org.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY ■ Christmas Craft Sale, 5-9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat-

urday, Church of the Good Shepherd, 5409 Jacksboro Pike.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ World premiere of “Server Alley,” a comedy/drama by

playwright Alex Gherardi, Clayton Performing Arts Center on

Pellissippi Community College Hardin Valley Campus, 10915

Hardin Valley Road. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Sat-

urday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $12; seniors and students, $10.

Info/tickets: www.pstcc.edu/tickets.

SATURDAY ■ Community Arts & Craft Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Jubilee

Banquet Center, 6700 Jubilee Center Way. Hosted by Powell

Playhouse. Free admission. Donations to Powell Playhouse

appreciated.

■ Dinner-Dance, 7-10 p.m., Dance Dimensions studio, 8373

Kingston Pike. Multi-course dinner, dancing and entertain-

ment. Cost: $25. Reservations: DanceDimensionsTN@gmail.

com or 692-2220.

■ “Telebration! 2014” storytelling celebration, 2-4 p.m.,

Sweet Fanny Adams, (Light #3) 461 Parkway, Gatlinburg.

Fundraiser for Smoky Mountain Storytellers. Suggested

donations: $7 at door, $5 for seniors, students and groups.

Info: www.smokymountaintellers.com; 429-1783; 984-0246;

cuznjan@juno.com; katmav212@gmail.com.

■ The Captain W.Y.C. Hannum Chapter #1881, United

Daughters of the Confederacy meeting, 10:30 a.m., TN Bank

of Maryville, 1311 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway. Program:

“Celebrating Christmas in November with a Silent Auction.”

Visitors welcome. Info: Debra, 856-9300, or Shirley, 531-1467.

SUNDAY ■ Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” performed by the

Knoxville Opera, 2:30 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St.

Tickets: http://KnoxvilleOpera.com. Info: 524-0795, ext. 28.

■ Concert of Gospel and Jazz featuring keyboardist Wendel

Werner and gospel singer Yolanda Treece, 3 p.m., Second

Presbyterian Church, 2829 Kingston Pike. Concert and recep-

tion free and open to the public.

■ Vegetarian Thanksgiving potluck supper, 6 p.m., First

Seventh-day Adventist Church, 3611 Kingston Pike. Spon-

sored by the Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee. Cost: $6,

or $20 per family plus a vegetarian dish to feed eight to 10.

Info: Bob, 546-5643 or bobgrimac@gmail.com.

This time of year, it’s not a good idea to upset your momma. For that reason, I suggest that, if discuss-ing the meatloaf you just ordered at Sullivan’s Fine Foods at Rocky Hill, you tell her it is “almost as good as yours.”

You’ll be lying, because my momma made the best meatloaf in the world, and Sullivan’s is better than hers.

Here’s the thing about meatloaf. It’s either school-cafeteria bad or slap-yo-momma good. There really isn’t anything in between. For all its façade of simplic-ity, meatloaf is hard. It can be “too” on so many levels: too mealy, too dense, too soupy, too tomatoey.

Then, even if you get it right, you have to deal with the essential topping. Brown gravy or tomato? If brown, mushrooms or pep-pers? If tomato, ketchup or

Mystery Diner

Plate it

Sullivan’sHomemade Meatloaf

Sullivan’s Fine Foods at Rocky Hill has a slap-yo-momma meat-

loaf, served here with sweet potato casserole and green beans. Photo by Mystery Diner

sauce? Here’s where Sul-livan’s excels. They get the meatloaf right in density and spices, and they use ground chuck for the right fat content. They don’t over-cook it.

And then they sidestep the whole “sauce” issue by doing both. The top of the meatloaf is slathered with a thick layer of tomato ketch-up that has been baked just enough to stick to the meat. Then the whole slice is cov-ered in a rich brown mush-

room sauce.Sullivan’s has a large se-

lection of “made for meat-loaf” sides, including bour-sin mashed potatoes, green beans, fried corn on the cob

and sweet potato casserole. The whole meal is delicious comfort food.

But Thanksgiving is com-ing up, so I’m warning you: Don’t tell your momma.

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As we move into the holi-day season, it’s important to remember that all the spar-kle is not on the tree. This weekend two “sparkling” productions are opening. Both are full of music and fun. Steven Condy,

Donata Cucinotta

and Sean Anderson

rock the fl oorboards

in Knoxville Opera

Company’s produc-

tion of Gilbert and

Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pin-

afore.” Photo submitted

Sparkle on the stage

Carol Shane

First, the Oak Ridge Play-house presents “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.” Those of a certain age will remember the 1965 produc-tion with Lesley Ann War-ren being waltzed around the ballroom by Stuart Da-mon as both sang, “ten min-utes ago I saw you …”

Those of an even – ahem – more certain age may re-member the same scenario with Julie Andrews and Jon Cypher in 1957.

Featuring such songs as “In My Own Little Corner” and “When You’re Driving Through the Moonlight,” this show is a joy from start to fi nish. My own favorite is the “Stepsisters’ Lament,” sung by the disgruntled sib-lings after the prince has been taken with Cinderella’s beauty:

“She’s a frothy little bub-ble with a fl imsy kind of charm; and with very little trouble, I could break her little arm!”

“Rodgers & Hammer-stein’s Cinderella” begins Friday, Nov. 21, and runs through Sunday, Dec. 7. For tickets and info, www.or-

playhouse.com or call 865-482-9999.

Knoxville Opera presents its fi rst production of the 2014-2015 season with Gil-bert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore.”

“This classic comedy is known for its familiar melo-dies as well as clever word-play that dares to poke fun at politics and authorita-tive fi gures in a delightfully provocative way,” says KOC maestro and executive di-rector Brian Salesky. “Peo-ple of all ages will enjoy the music, characters, elaborate stage setting and costumes.”

The plot plays out aboard a naval ship and centers on the confl icts of love between people from different social classes. The opera takes jabs at the British class system, party politics, the Royal Navy and the ironic rise of unqualifi ed people into authority; even the title injects humor by using the name of the female pinafore garment in reference to the masculine naval warship.

Brian Deedrick of Ed-monton Opera in Alberta, Canada, directs the show. He’s well known and loved by Knoxville Opera Com-pany fans and participants. Production manager Don Townsend says, “Deedrick is hilarious as always to work with and has even written some snappy new dialogue for the cast … adding in lo-cal gags dealing with UT football, etc.”

Townsend is also up-beat about the cast. “Sean Anderson, who sang here recently, is back as a be-fuddled Captain Corcoran, and Donata Cucinotta is his daughter, Josephine, who is in love with Ralph, tenor Josh Kohl.

“But the real star of the show is old friend Steven Condy, who helped inaugu-rate the fi rst Rossini Fes-tival back in 2002 as Don Magnifi co in Rossini’s ‘La Cenerentola.’ Condy is won-derful as the British Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Jo-seph Porter, who has come

to claim Josephine as his bride.”

Local luminaries include University of Tennessee voice professors Lorraine DiSimone and Andrew Wen-tzel, as well as a 16-member chorus.

Having worked for Knox-ville Opera Company myself in the past, I can tell you that opera singers – con-trary to their “diva” image – are actually some of the nicest, most fun-loving people you’ll ever come across. They’ll be throwing themselves full-tilt into this spectacular production, and you’re invited to join in.

Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, at the Tennessee Theatre. Maestro Salesky will host a special opera preview session 45 minutes prior to each performance. For tickets and info, visit www.knoxvilleopera.com or call 865-524-0795. Send story suggestions to news@shop-

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By Betsy PickleBonny Kate Elementary

School fourth-graders made sure the veterans in their families and in the commu-nity felt appreciated as Vet-erans Day approached.

The students presented a program on Nov. 6 that in-cluded musical and visual symbols of gratitude.

Under the direction of music teacher Debbie Moore, the 65 students led the 30-minute program twice – during the school day for the student body, school staff and guests and again in the evening for the community. In addition to veterans, they included po-lice offi cers, fi refi ghters and rescue workers in their trib-ute.

A total of about 80 vet-erans and service members attended the two presenta-tions. The printed program

included the names of vet-erans and fi rst responders connected to the fourth-graders and Bonny Kate staff.

The students also created a Wall of Names in the gym, listing the name, the branch of service and the student or faculty member to whom they belonged.

Students began learning the music for the program in September, rehearsing both during class time and after school. All of the fourth-graders participated, some in small ensembles or as trumpet player or drummer.

Moore described the music as “songs of appre-ciation, gratitude, remem-brance and patriotism.” The repertoire included “Eleven, Eleven March,” “Allegiance Rap,” “Thank a Vet,” “A Candle for Remembering,” “The Lights of Freedom,” “A

By Betsy PickleKnoxville’s own Disney

princess, Mary Costa, made a lot of little girls very happy last week.

Costa, who provided the voice of Princess Aurora in Disney’s 1959 animated fi lm “Sleeping Beauty,” hosted a free screening of the classic as a gift to the children of her longtime church, First Baptist. The packed house of 350 included mostly girls and their parents – includ-

ing friends of church mem-bers who’d driven morethan an hour to attend.

The legendary opera divaand inspirational speakershared the story of her lifeand faith with the audiencebefore the movie startedFriday night, and she stayedlong after the screening tosign autographs and takephotos with her fans.

It was defi nitely a dreamcome true for fans old andyoung.

Quintaia King, a fourth-grader at South Knoxville Elementary,

receives a hug from Mary Costa after getting the singer’s auto-

graph. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Bonny Kate fourth-graders show patriotism and gratitude as they sing for veterans and guests. Photos submitted

One of the popular attractions at the celebration was the Wall of Names created by Bonny Kate

fourth-graders to honor veterans in their families.

Friends Audrey Car-

michael, Anna Claire

Carmichael, Callie

Santel and Josie Miller

are dressed for the oc-

casion.

Cousins Morgan Shope

of Seymour and Eliza Roe

of Cleveland, Tenn., enjoy

the storybook evening.

Bonny Kate students create musical thank-you for veterans

Storybook night for

Grateful Nation” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Prior to the event, the fourth-graders drew patri-otic pictures for and wrote thank-you notes to all the veterans. They made a booklet including the pic-tures and thank-you notes and named the veterans in their families.

■ Bonny Kate book fairBonny Kate Elementary School will

hold a book fair Monday-Friday, Dec. 1-5, in the library. Hours are 7:30 a.m. to

3 p.m. daily, with extra hours from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, during Family Reading Night.

This is the library’s only annual fun-draiser.

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COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Colonial Village

Neighborhood Association.

Info: Terry Caruthers, 579-

5702, t_caruthers@hotmail.

com.

■ Knoxville Tri-County Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each

second and fourth Monday,

Connie’s Kitchen, 10231 Chap-

man Highway, Seymour. Info:

https://www.facebook.com/

TriCountyLions/info.

■ Lake Forest Neighborhood Association. Info: Molly

Gilbert, 209-1820 or mollygil-

bert@yahoo.com

■ South of the River Demo-crats (9th District) meets

6:30 p.m. each third Monday,

South Knoxville Commu-

nity Center, 522 Maryville

Pike. Info: Jim Sessions, jim.

sessions@comcast.net or

573-0655.

■ South Haven Neighborhood Association meets 10 a.m.

each third Saturday, Roundup

Restaurant or Hillcrest UMC,

1615 Price Ave. Info: Pat Har-

mon, 591-3958.

■ South Woodlawn Neigh-borhood Association. Info:

Shelley Conklin, 686-6789.

■ Vestal Community Organi-zation meets 6 p.m. each sec-

ond Monday, South Knoxville

Community Center, 522 Old

Maryville Pike. Info: Newman

Seay, 577-4593.

SOUTH KNOX SENIOR CENTER ■ Wednesday, Nov. 19: 7:30

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

guitar lessons; 9 a.m. painting,

Tiny Stitches craft and bake

sale, toenail trimming by ap-

pointment; 10 a.m. quilting;

11 a.m. Water Peeps; noon

bridge.

■ Thursday, Nov. 20: 7:30 a.m.

free swim; 9 a.m. Tiny Stitches

craft and bake sale, water

aerobics, 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.

■ Friday, Nov. 21: 7:30 a.m.

free swim; 8:45 a.m. advanced

senior cardio fi tness; 9 a.m.

water aerobics; 11 a.m. rook,

Water Peeps, SAIL exercises;

1 p.m. water aerobics, begin-

ning art.

■ Monday, Nov. 24: 7:30 a.m.

free swim; 9 a.m. water aero-

bics; 11 a.m. quilting, Water

Peeps; 1 p.m. bridge, water

aerobics.

■ Tuesday, Nov. 25: 7:30 a.m.

free swim; 8:45 a.m. senior

cardio fi tness; 9 a.m. water

aerobics; 10 a.m. crafts/bead-

ing, SAIL exercises; 11 a.m.

water aerobics; Tai Chi I; 12:30

p.m. Tai Chi II; 1 p.m. rook,

water aerobics; 2 p.m. water

Pilates, yoga.

■ Info: 573-5843.

Site preparation is under-way for Freedom Senior Liv-ing on Boyds Creek High-way in Sevierville. Grant Hensley with Parkside Con-struction has been working on getting this project going for several years, and with the help of state Rep. Dale Carr, his dream is becoming a reality.

Celebrating the offi cial opening of Suzy Q’s on Chapman Highway are Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, store owner Susie Gor-

don, Knoxville Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis and Patricia Robledo, business liaison for Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero. Photo by Shannon Carey

Grant Hensley stands on the site where Freedom Senior Living

will be built. Photo by Nancy Whittaker

Artist’s rendering of Freedom Senior Living now under construction in SeviervilleNancy

Whittaker

New assisted living on Boyds Creek

Several years ago, Hens-ley’s grandparents were in assisted living. During vis-its, he became aware of nu-merous services that he felt needed improvement. With the increasing senior popu-lation, Hensley sees a huge

demand for seniors to have a special place where they can feel at home.

Freedom Senior Living will be more like a mini-resort, with numerous ame-nities uncommon to many assisted-living centers. Hensley’s wife, Nancy, a physician assistant in South Knoxville, will be the facili-

ty’s director. “We will be the only locally owned assisted-living home in the area,” says Grant. “We will be here to take care of it.”

An anticipated open-ing date of September 2015 will depend on the winter weather. There will be 40 rooms available: one-bed-room suites, companion

rooms and studio apart-ments. Twelve rooms will be “memory care” in a separate area with their own dining room.

With a chef on staff, residents can order off the menu for three meals per day. There will also be an activities director and shut-tle service, although resi-

dents are welcome to have their own car if they are still driving. Front and rear cov-ered patios will offer beauti-ful views.

Three months prior to opening, applications will be accepted at the onsite

offi ce at 2951 Boyds Creek Highway. Room layouts will be available for review, and all questions will be an-swered. Hensley anticipates residents to be primarily from Seymour, South Knox-ville and Sevierville.

By Sandra ClarkSusie Gordon sure knows

how to promote her busi-ness, herself and her self-selected part of town.

South Knox residents should welcome Suzy Q’s Boutique and Consignment shop to 3913 Chapman Highway. City and county offi cials did so with a rib-bon-cutting and cash mob last week.

Gordon rented a space that was previously vacant for eight years. With bright-ly colored walls and inven-tory jam-packed through the store, the shop is a warm and welcoming place to shop for good-quality clothes for adults.

“We did have a CSI-ani-mal moment,” Gordon told the visitors. While cleaning up, she discovered skin and bones from an unidentifi -able animal, possibly a rac-coon. “Rats gotta eat, too,” quipped Knox County May-or Tim Burchett.

Gordon, a South Knox resident, came from cor-porate America where she says she got tired of hear-ing “You’ve got to quit say-ing y’all” on her annual review.

Now it’s on her to make a business work, and she’s certainly got a great start.

Her inventory is var-ied from top-end designer fashions to jeans and work shirts for both men and

women. She has plus sizes and youth clothes from size 6 up. Also for sale are shoes and purses.

“Stop meeting in dark parking lots waiting on people to show up,” her pro-motional material reads. “Bring your gently used clothing and accessories to us and we will sell them for you.”

She takes in consign-ments on Mondays, so the inventory is guaranteed fresh on Tuesdays. She holds items for 90 days and offers a 50/50 split with do-nors.

She’s been open for six months and says she’s been able to “pay my bills” each month. “Next is to pay my-self,” she laughed, express-ing the priorities of many small-business owners.

Gordon says she is origi-nally from Kingsport, but “I got here as fast as I could.”

Pavlis and Burchett were very supportive. Several friends and neighbors were on hand to enjoy refresh-ments and shop the store.

“It’s awesome that you chose to live here and to open a business here,” said Pavlis. “Anything that we can do, don’t hesitate to reach out.”

The store is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Info: su-zyqs.yolasite.com or 865-337-5958.

Suzy Q’s brings life to the southside

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THROUGH SUNDAY, NOV. 23

Online registration for Regal Entertainment Group Autumnfest 5K and Little Gobbler Run, to be held Thursday, Nov. 27. Race day registration will be available 6-7:45 a.m., Southern Railway Depot. Info/to register: www.ktc.org; Ray Wilson, runrayrun@outlook.com; or Kristy Altman, kaltmanruns@gmail.com.

THROUGH MONDAY, DEC. 8

“Big Red Bow Project” donation collection for individuals facing Alzheimer’s and dementia in Knox, Anderson, Blount and Loudon counties at Lexus of Knoxville, 10315 Parkside Drive. Info/wish list: www.alzTennessee.org/big-red-bow-project or 544-6288.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19

Books Sandwiched In: “The Infi nite Resource: The power of ideas on a fi nite planet” by Ramez Naam, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Speaker: Susanna Sutherland. Public is invited. Info: 215-8700 or www.knoxlib.org.

Young Professionals of Knoxville membership meeting, 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park, 525 Henley St. YPK Impact Awards recipients will be announced.

KSO Musical Storytimes for Kids, 10:15 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. For pre-school aged children and their caregivers. Info: 588-8813.

Free dance classes, Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Schedule: noon-1 p.m., line dancing; 1-2 p.m., advanced ballroom; 2-3 p.m., beginner ballroom. Bring a friend. Open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

WEDNESDAYS, NOV. 19-DEC. 10

“Beyond Basic Digital Photography” non-credit community course, 6:15-8:15 p.m., Pellessippi State Community College Hardin Valley Campus. Cost: $109. Info/to register: www.pstcc.edu/bcs or 539-7167.

THURSDAY, NOV. 20

AARP Driver Safety Course, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/reg-istration: Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964.

Joint lecture by Roberta Smith, senior art critic for The New York Times, and Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York Magazine, 7:30 p.m., UT’s Univer-sity Center auditorium. Free and open to the public. Info: 974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu.

KSO Musical Storytimes for Kids, 10:30 a.m., Howard Pinkston Branch Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike. For pre-school aged children and their caregiv-ers. Info: 573-0436.

White Elephant B I N G O, 10-11 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Free Movie and Popcorn: “The Fault in Our Stars” with Willem Dafoe, 11:15 a.m., Humana Guid-ance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

FRIDAY, NOV. 21

Knit and Crochet Caps for the Homeless, noon-1:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Supplies provided. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

SATURDAY, NOV. 22

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.

SUNDAY, NOV. 23

Hard Knox Roller Girls intraleague bout featuring Black Bettys vs Lolitas Locas, 6 p.m., Smoky Mountain Skate Center, 2801 E. Broadway, Maryville. Open skate, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Ticket prices include skate rental. Info: www.hardknoxrollergirls.com.

MONDAY, NOV. 24

Tennessee Shines: Ellis Paul and poet Jack Rentfro, 7 p.m., Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Tickets: $10, free for students with valid ID and children ages 14 and under. Info/tickets: WDVX.com.

TUESDAY, NOV. 25

“The Most Popular of Sciences: Natural History Through the Centuries” lecture, 5:30 p.m., McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Speaker: UT assistant professor in history Denise Phillips. Free and open to the public. Info: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

Happy Travelers’ Thanksgiving luncheon, 10:30 a.m., North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Miller-town Pike. Music and song provided by Eternal Vision. Reservation requested. No charge, but $7 contribution suggested. Info/reservations: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 26-DEC. 21

“A Christmas Carol,” Clarence Brown Theatre Mainstage, UT campus. Info/tickets/ performances: 974-5161 or clarencebrowntheatre.com/.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 28-29

Christmas Gift Bazaar, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., The Yarn Haven, 464 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Featuring hand-craft-ed items from local artisans. Info: 694-9900 or www.theyarnhaven.com.

MONDAY, DEC. 1

Deadline to reserve an adapted battery-operated toy from East Tennessee Technology Access Center and for holiday party to be held 4-6 p.m. Monday, Dec, 8 at ETTAC’s offi ce, 116 Childress St. Info/to register: 219-0130.

Tennessee Shines: The Howlin’ Brothers and au-thor Lisa Soland, reading from “The Unmade Moose,”7 p.m., Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Tickets: $10, free for students with valid ID and children ages 14 and under. Info/tickets: WDVX.com.

“Dec. 7, 1941 – A Day of Infamy,” 7 p.m., board room of the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Cen-ter Drive. Presented by retired Farragut Middle School history teacher Frank Galbraith. Free; no registration required. Light refreshments served. Info: 966-7057.

TUESDAY, DEC. 2

UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meet-ing, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice offi ce, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

Deadline to reserve tickets for “Traditional fam-ily Christmas dinner at the Historic Ramsey House,” to be held 7-10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, Dec. 7-11, 2614 Thorngrove Pike. Cost: $125. Limited seating. Info/reservations: 546-0745 or judy@ramseyhouse.org.

Special holiday show to benefi t Alzheimer’s Tennessee, 8 p.m., Smoky Mountain Opry in Pigeon Forge. Includes: the area singers, dancers and musicians, along with aerialists, acrobats and majestic live animals. Alzheimer’s Tennessee will receive $10 of each $35 ticket sold for this performance. Tickets: www.SmokyMountainOpry.com or 800-908-9018; must mention or include ticket code: ALZTN.

THURSDAY, DEC. 4

Holiday Spectacular concert performances, 6 and 8 p.m., Clayton Performing Arts Center on the

Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Space limited; arrive 30 minutes before performance for complimentary ticket. Free event; donations accepted at the door for the Pellissippi State Foundation on behalf of the Music Scholarship fund. Info: 694-6400 or www.pstcc.edu/arts.

Free preview screening of “Evolution of a Criminal,” followed by a panel discussion, 6 p.m., Scruffy City Hall in Market Square. Free event. Info: www.EastTennesseePBS.org.

FRIDAY, DEC. 5

First Friday Gallery and Kwanzaa Holiday Marketplace, 6-9 p.m., Downtown African American Art Gallery, Suite 106, The Emporium Building, 100 S. Gay St.

Opening reception for the Arts & Culture Alliance 2014 Members Show, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. On display through Dec. 23. Info/hours: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

Opening reception for Chasing Light: New Works by Kathie Odom, 5-8 p.m., The District Gallery, 5113 Kingston Pike. Meet the artist, holiday cuisine from Gourmet’s Market, live music by Michael Whitesides. Exhibit runs through Dec. 30.

SATURDAY, DEC. 6

First Saturday, Gallery Open, International Fine Arts Academy with KWANZAA Presentation and Kuum-ba Watoto Parent Booster Club Fundraiser, Downtown African American Art Gallery, Suite 106, The Emporium Building, 100 S. Gay St.

Nutcracker Breakfast, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Studio Arts for Dancers, 1234 Rocky Hill Road. Cost: $25. For ages 6-12. Reservations required. Info/reservations: 539-2475 or www.gocontemporarydance.com.

Dor L’Dor, Klezmer: Music for Hannukah, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Winter Concert, 8 p.m., Princess Theatre in down-town Harriman. Features: Roane State Community College Concert Choir, Jazz Band, Celebration Singers, faculty and guest musicians. Donations will be accepted at the door. Info: Brenda Luggie, 354-3000, ext. 4236; or luggieb@roanestate.edu.

Candle making workshops, 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 West Governor John Sevier Highway. Reservations are required; space is limited. Cost: $10. Info/reservations: 573-5508, info@marblesprings.net, www.marblesprings.net.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 6-7

“The Nutcracker” presented by the Appalachian Ballet Company with the Knoxville Symphony Orches-tra, Knoxville Civic Auditorium. Performances: 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: 982-8463 or Knox Tickets 656-4444.

SUNDAY, DEC. 7

Hard Knox Roller Girls intraleague bout featuring Black Bettys vs Lolitas Locas, 6 p.m., Smoky Mountain Skate Center, 2801 E. Broadway, Maryville. Open skate, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Ticket prices include skate rental. Info: www.hardknoxrollergirls.com.

MONDAY, DEC. 8

Tennessee Shines: Wade Hill and poet Liam Hys-julien, 7 p.m., Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Tickets: $10, free for students with valid ID and children ages 14 and under. Info/tickets: WDVX.com.

TUESDAY, DEC. 9

Harvey Broome Group Holiday Photograph Show, 7 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universal-ist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: Ronald Shrieves, ronaldshrieves@comcast.net.

Reception and awards ceremony for the East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition, 6-8 p.m., the Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Free and open to the public. On exhibit Nov. 28 through Jan. 11. Info: Angela Thomas, 934-2034 or www.knox-art.org.

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Let’s ‘friend’ people with dementiaBy Bill Dockery

Knoxville goes by a lot of la-bels: “Big Orange Country” for UT sports, or “Scruffy City,” an insult that has turned into a point of pride.

Now a group of health care pro-fessionals is de-termined to paint Knoxville purple, making it the na-tion’s fi rst offi cial de-mentia-friendly city.

Carolyn Pointer Neil unveiled the broad outline of the Purple Cities Alli-ance to a Town Hall

East meeting on Nov. 11. Neil, who is president of Elder Advocates in Knoxville, is one of the public fronts for the project, which aims to alert Knoxville organizations and indi-viduals to the needs of people with brain-related illnesses.

“The Purple Cities Alliance wants to make our community

aware of the people with dementia in our midst and educate everyone to respond in ways that are help-ful and compassionate,” Neil said. The project uses purple from the “Purple Angel” icon, developed in Europe as a marker for dementia awareness and concern.

Neil told the Town Hall East gathering about a recent incident that shows the need for the pro-gram.

“A little lady drove into the parking lot at Kroger’s,” Neil said. “When she was ready to go into the store, she couldn’t remember how to get out of her car. Soon a crowd gathered around, all trying to tell her how to unlock the doors.

“Then the fi re truck showed up.”Neil called that a dementia emer-

gency that stresses the sufferer, confuses bystanders and burdens family caregivers. She said the al-liance’s developing programs will help address these concerns.

“We need to be teaching our com-munity the basics of dementia and how to respond,” Neil said. “I call it CPR for brain disease.” The pro-grams being developed will train businesses, churches, police, fi re-fi ghters and other emergency per-sonnel to be aware of and to respond to someone suffering a public crisis.

The kickoff celebration is sched-uled for May 11, 2015, on Market Square in downtown Knoxville. Both Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero and County Mayor Tim Burchett are committed to support-ing the effort. By then, the alliance task force plans to have 100 or more businesses, agencies, community organizations and civic groups en-rolled. The alliance has posted a Facebook page at https://www.face-book.com/dementiafriendlycom-munity

The alliance is already drawing on a wide complement of people and organizations who serve the

aging population, including the Pat Summitt Foundation, Alzheimer’s Tennessee, the East Tennessee Al-zheimer’s Association, the area Agency on Aging and Disability and the Knoxville Offi ce on Aging. All three Knoxville-based hospital/health systems are involved, as are Courtyards Senior Living, Trinity Hills Senior Living, and other area senior care facilities.

Some 80 percent of dementia cases involve Alzheimer’s disease, with vascular dementia making up much of the remaining 20 percent. Worldwide, about 44 million people have brain disease.

Neil, a native of Norris, Tenn., is a licensed nursing home administra-tor with degrees from Berea College and the University of Tennessee, and additional studies with Johns Hopkins University. She worked at UT Medical Center and the Hill-crest nursing homes in Knoxville before founding her own company.

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