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Every kid needs one, says Mincey
Sometimes great educational encouragement comes outside school. I don’t know how much education my great-aunt Lidia (pronounced “Liddy”) had, but she spent endless hours reading her Bible; though suffi cient for her, she realized education’s importance.
Aunt Lidia’s husband died in 1959, and I don’t think she ever forgave him for leaving her alone. They never had chil-dren, so she closed her house and wandered from home to homexx
➤ Read Ronnie Mincey on page 7
Chuck or Weston?U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleis-
chmann is sounding a bit frantic. While he’s in Wash-ington, serving in a Congress with all-time low ratings, the energetic Weston Wamp is working throughout the 3rd Congressional District to meet people and solicit support.
➤ Read Sandra Clark on page 4
Sugar, anyone?In a nondescript storefront
on Highway 33 in Maynard-ville, Steve Thompson and his small crew send a cost-saving strategy to beverage servers everywhere.
➤ Read Libby Morgan on page 3
Richard Pickens gets a surprise
I’ll say this in a soft voice: There isn’t enough happiness in Richard Pickens’ life.
The Ol’ Vol has an assort-ment of problems. Some, estrangement from family, for example, he brought on him-self. Some descended on him like a dark cloud.
➤ Read Marvin West on page 5
Meet car guy Claude Reeder
He earned a law degree, played a large role in building the framework for the Ten-nessee Valley Fair, might have helped found the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and became a local household name selling cars, once taking a cow as partial payment for a Studebaker.
Meet Claude S. Reeder, who was born on July 14, 1886, in Knoxville, the son of Columbus Alexander and Adelia Hodges Reeder.
➤ Read Jim Tumblin on page 2
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By Libby MorganThe Luttrell Post Offi ce may be
closed, and a public hearing is set for noon Wednesday, March 19, at the post offi ce to discuss it.
“It might seem like they’ve de-signed that time for a low turnout – middle of the workday, middle of the week. We need to show them we care about our post of-fi ce, and get as many of us down there as possible. There’s power in numbers,” said Luttrell Mayor Johnny Merritt.
He met with some 35 residents to map strategy for a fi ght to keep the post offi ce.
“Why should we be punished because we are a rural area?” Mer-ritt asked.
The U.S. Postal Service letter and survey form sent to every box-holder served by the Luttrell Post Offi ce says the location is among the offi ces being evaluated under the POST Plan criteria.
Schedules on the USPS website list hundreds of meetings across the country since mid-2012.
The letter proposes cutting weekday window service hours to six per day, farming out the opera-tion to a contractor, or discontinu-ing the post offi ce altogether.
Nowhere on the survey form is a choice to leave it be, but there is a line for additional comments.
“We need to all fi ll this out and everyone can comment to keep
Luttrell Mayor Johnny
Merritt goes over the
USPS survey with Bonnie
Butler and Kathy Arroyo. Photo by Libby Morgan
Postal Service takes aim at
Luttrell P.O.
our post offi ce services as they are,” says Merritt. “Maybe they’ll listen if there are enough of us.”
In May 2012, Postmaster Gen-eral Patrick Donahoe said of the POST Plan to reduce window hours at 13,000 rural post offi ces: “This is a win-win. The bottom line is that any rural community that wants to retain their post of-fi ce will be doing that.”
According to the USPS website, the full-time position at Luttrell will be among 4,000 that will see their hours reduced to part-time, but will retain their benefi ts.
The POST Plan letter says, “… the Postal Service intends to maintain the Luttrell Post Offi ce with six hours of window service each weekday. Current Saturday window service hours and access
to delivery receptacles will not change as a result of the POST Plan realignment of weekday win-dow service hours. The Postal Ser-vice will not make a fi nal decision regarding this offi ce until after the public meeting.”
“I’m afraid this is their toe in the door to close our post offi ce. That would be very disruptive,” said Merritt.
By Libby MorganMembers of the Union County
arts community are concerned about plans to construct a block building on a county-owned park-ing lot between Union County Arts and the courthouse.
Expect discussion when Union County Commission meets at 7 p.m. Monday, March 10, in the large courtroom. A workshop at 6 p.m. will replace last week’s can-celed meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee, and bids for the building will be accepted until 6 p.m. and opened at 6:30.
Bid specs show a windowless, block building wrapped in vinyl siding. Features include a front door and metal roof.
“I had hoped it would have some ‘old time’ architectural character,” said Gloria Holcomb, a member of Union County Arts.
Another member was more blunt, but less eager to be quoted:
“Please let me make sure I’ve got this right.
“They destroyed a historic building to build a parking lot to provide more parking spaces for the courthouse and now they are going to build a block and vinyl-covered building back on that same parking lot taking up much needed parking spaces for records storage for the court.
“Does this make sense?”The records storage building
was fi rst proposed by former Clerk and Master Beluah Warwick, who secured funds for it from forfeited property and obtained an OK from former Chancellor Billy Jo White.
White’s order allowed funds for records storage and courtroom upgrades. Both courtrooms got new fl oors, but the building itself has stalled.
County Commissioner Wayne Roach stepped up to fulfi l the commission’s obligation, and he worked with Finance Director Ann Dyer to bid the project once the commission determined it was not feasible to build it with county
and/or vocational school help.Roach said the building has been
discussed for over a year. “We’ve got it marked off for the corner of the parking lot, and it will look nice. We specifi ed vinyl siding.”
Another member of the Arts Council asked about “short-term, mid-term and long-term plans for this record storage.
“What is the rate of growth of the records being stored and how long will this building accommo-date this record storage.”
She speculated that future commissions might try to add-on to the 24- by 52-foot structure.
She suggested leasing space downtown or locating new con-struction away from the down-town proper.
Just last year the city of May-nardville worked with the Com-munity Design Center to create a development plan for downtown. Several people met with designers to draft and review the plans at numerous public meetings.
“I don’t know,” said Maynard-ville city manager Jack Rhyne,
when asked why the project wasn’t included in the downtown revital-ization plans. “Some of our com-missioners were at those meet-ings.”
But Roach said, “This is a coun-ty project, and our courthouse of-fi ces need storage.”
Carol Pratt of the Arts Council worries about space for future Art on Main events: “We are working to bring an art festival that brings positive exposure to (the county).
“It was so successful last year that people encouraged us to keep the festival in downtown May-nardville. Now that we have a good location the threat of losing it to a storage building is not what people want. The festival brings people to Historic Downtown Maynardville from all over Ten-nessee and Kentucky.”
Unless the storage building is somehow delayed, stopped or changed, it’s coming to a parking lot near you … a vinyl-wrapped plain block building, right smack dab in Historic Downtown May-nardville.
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History lesson at Lincoln Day Dinner
State Sen. Frank Niceley talks with
Union Countians following the
March 1 Lincoln Day Dinner. State
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at left. Photo by S. Clark
By Sandra ClarkState Sen. Frank Niceley says
it’s easy to tell the difference be-tween Republicans and Demo-crats in Nashville. Democrats raise taxes; Republicans cut taxes.
Niceley entertained the home crowd March 1 as speaker at the Lincoln Day Dinner.
Niceley is a farmer who likes practical legislation. Republicans, he said, passed a bill to “let you kill and sell up to 20,000 chickens.”
And he’s expecting some new laws on hemp and grape growing.
“Now these bills might not mean much to you, but they mean a lot to farmers,” he said to chuck-les. Rick and Donna Riddle of Seven Springs Farm seemed par-ticularly happy.
In 1850, he said, grapes were the top agricultural product in Union County. Niceley also has sponsored a bill to make it easier to slaughter horses, although he did not mention it at the dinner.
One other Niceley-sponsored bill has caught the attention of Washington lawmakers. That’s
his plan to revert to a modifi ed version of pre-1913 practices of having the Legislature nominate United States senators.
Sen. Bob Corker called House Speaker Beth Harwell to protest Niceley’s bill. “We don’t need it,” said Corker.
“Well, Frank’s bill has one thing going for it,” responded Harwell.
“What’s that?” said Corker.“It got you to call me. I haven’t
heard from you in a couple of years.”
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He earned a law degree, played a large role in build-ing the framework for the Tennessee Valley Fair, might have helped found the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and became a local household name selling cars, once taking a cow as partial payment for a Studebaker.
Meet Claude S. Reeder, who was born on July 14, 1886, in Knoxville, the son of Columbus Alexander and Adelia Hodges Reeder. Co-lumbus Reeder was a prom-inent Knox County farmer and held several political offi ces in the county, includ-ing sheriff from 1876-80.
Claude graduated from old Girls High School, the predecessor of Knoxville High School, and enrolled at UT, where he played half-back on the football team and also lettered in basket-ball and track. He received his bachelor’s degree in elec-trical engineering in 1908 and promptly enrolled in the College of Law. Although he never practiced, he felt the knowledge enhanced his skills in business.
On June 10, 1909, Claude married Ella McKee Dur-ham (1886-1982). They had four children: Claude S. Jr, John Alexander, Richard Durham and Betty McKee (Houston).
Col. Reeder fi rst worked as a clerk in the Knox Coun-ty Tax Assessor’s offi ce but later resigned to found the Cherokee Motor Co., the lo-cal seller of Studebakers.
He earned his nickname “Tradin’ Claude” when he advertised, “We trade for anything but a rattlesnake.” His photograph with the cow taken as partial pay-ment made the local papers and was picked up by the national NEA service.
A promoter of the Appa-lachian Exposition in 1910 – the forerunner of the Ten-nessee Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair – Reeder remained interested in the fair through his life. There were many good years and some very lean ones, but eventually that fair became the “father” of today’s Ten-nessee Valley Fair.
An apocryphal story, to
HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin
Lynnhurst-Resthaven
Cemetery was estab-
lished in 1922, but Col.
Claude S. Reeder (left)
became president in
1929 and expanded it. Photos courtesy of the C.M. McClung Historical Collection
Tradin’ Claude’s remarkable life
which many lend credence, credits Reeder for infl uenc-ing Gov. Austin Peay to take an interest in efforts to es-tablish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. As the two sat on the porch of Reeder’s summer home in Kinzel Springs, Claude said, “Governor, these mountains would make the fi nest sce-nic park in the world. Why don’t you ask the legislature to acquire the land?”
Coincidence or not, in 1925 the legislature enacted the Little River Lumber Co. Purchase Act, one of the fi rst moves toward estab-lishing the park.
Late in life, Reeder cal-culated that he had served on 47 corporate boards over the years including: chair of Reeder Chevrolet Co.; chair of Cherokee Oil Co., which he founded in 1928; direc-tor of White Star Bus Lines; chair of several Seven-Up Bottling Cos. (Washington, D.C., Rochester, N.Y., Rich-mond and Winston-Salem, Va., and Asheville and Char-lotte, N.C.); president of Morris Plan Bank, president of the East Tennessee Fair Association and president of Lynnhurst-Resthaven Cemetery Co.
Lynnhurst Cemetery had been established in 1922, when its fi rst presi-dent, James Lyle Humphrey (1870-1925), bought the initial acreage west of First Creek near Greenway. Soon, the property north of Adair Drive was purchased from the Sanders estate, heirs to a portion of the original
Adair land grant. Later, with Claude Reeder as president, the corporation bought the old mill property near the cemetery entrance from O.W. Sweat. Reeder presided over the corporation from 1929 until 1938, when he was succeeded by W.B. Hatcher.
Reeder also owned Park Amusement Company, which operated rides and concessions at Chilhowee Park. His real estate hold-ings included several U.S. Post Offi ce buildings, which he leased to the government.
In addition, he served in many civic and fraternal or-ganizations: the Knoxville Kiwanis Club, Elks Lodge (life member), the Masons (32nd Degree), Kerbela Tem-ple, Chamber of Commerce (director), the Wonderland Park Club and Cherokee Country Club. He and Ella were also active at Church Street Methodist Church.
He loved the outdoors and particularly enjoyed hunting and fi shing with his friend W.R. Kennerly. They often went to South Dakota for pheasant and to Canada
for moose and deer h u n t i n g and mus-kellunge fi shing. In addi-tion to the summer home in Kinzel Springs, where the community considered him the honorary mayor, the Reeders later enjoyed a win-ter home in Fort Myers, Fla. When Norris Dam was built and the lake impounded, Reeder built a lodge on the lakeshore, where his per-sonal friend, Army Gene. Mark Clark, was a guest.
But, most of all, he en-joyed his old family home place, 316 West Hill Ave., currently the site of the City-County Building. The picture window in his den overlooked the Tennes-see River (Fort Loudoun Lake). A mounted buffalo head hung over the great stone fi replace, while other trophies of pheasant, elk, Rocky Mountain sheep and game fi sh were hung around the room.
Col. Reeder suffered a fatal heart attack while at-tending a reception in hon-
or of Sen. Herbert S. “Hub” Walters in Morristown on Oct. 17, 1964. Knoxville Mayor John Duncan had asked him to read a procla-mation and present the keys to the city of Knoxville to Sen. Walters.
After services at Mann’s Mortuary, he was interred in the Reeder Mausoleum in Lynnhurst Cemetery. He was survived by his wife Ella Durham Reeder; a daughter Betty (Jack) Houston; two sons, Claude Jr. and Richard D.; four sisters, Wanda C. (Roy) Roth, Fay T. (James) Dempster, Mary J. (Roscoe) Word and Elma P. (Howard E.) McClellan; two brothers Columbus A. “Lum” Reeder and Ross Reeder; 10 grand-children and fi ve great-grandchildren.
Author’s note: Thanks to Ted Baehr Jr., Jeff Berry, Robert McGinnis and the McClung Historical Collec-tion for assistance with the text and photographs.
■ State Rep. Dennis “Coach” Roach could not at-tend. He was coaching his Grainger County girls bas-ketball team in the regional tournament. They lost to Fulton.
■ Proposed state consti-tutional amendments were written in “plain language that even a lawyer can un-derstand,” said Niceley.
■ Billy Breeding, can-didate for sheriff, bought
a table, as did candi-date Chad F a u l k n e r . Sheriff Earl Loy Jr. did not attend. County rac-es are non-p a r t i s a n .
Breeding warned anyone who might see him running up Hwy. 33, he’s in training for an Iron Man triathlon.
■ Jeff Brantley said he’srunning for county mayor, while the current mayor, Mike Williams, eased out the door before the speak-ing started.
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In a nondescript store-front on Highway 33 in May-nardville, Steve Thompson and his small crew send a cost-saving strategy to bev-erage servers everywhere.
“We invented this thing, but we never patented it. We were at it too long before we tried to get a patent,” says Thompson.
Thompson’s company, Beverage Solutions Group, sends out Cream and Sugar Stations to sit on counters
Libby Morgan
Fishing guide Josh Pheifer and veteran Howard “Buck”
Jenkins practice the art of fl y fi shing through Project Heal-
ing Waters, a pet project of Thompson’s. Photo by Randy Frank
Steve Thompson with his company’s
fl agship product, the Cream and
Sugar Station. Photo by Libby Morgan
Aurora Harrison-Bull with her painting,
“Makin’ Molasses,” at Fountain City Art Cen-
ter. Photo by Libby Morgan
Subway’s marketing direc-
tor Barbara Thompson, Me-
gan Wood (in the sandwich
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missioner Wayne Roach,
customer Billy Corum and
Chamber rep Neva Kitts at
the grand opening of the
Maynardville Subway. Photo by Libby Morgan
at convenient stores, offi ces and cafeterias.
“It’s a great niche. When we tell our potential cus-tomers they’ll have no more thefts of packets, it’s a sale. Except we don’t sell the station. We give that to them, then we sell them the bulk sugar, sweetener and creamer to go in it,” he says.
Thompson and his wife, Zan, came to Union County when they purchased a farm in Sharps Chapel a few years ago, and relocated BSG to Maynardville. They also own and run the laundromat next door to the business.
BSG had so many deliv-eries and pickups for FedEx that the business is now an offi cial location for the
package delivery company.Thompson dove in to
community service short-ly after moving to Union County, and has been active in the Chamber and the B & P, sponsors a Little League team and the Union County Children’s Charities’ Under The Tree program.
But his focus of service has changed recently. He discov-ered a program founded in 2005 for injured soldiers.
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It’s a nationwide organi-zation with 160 chapters, and Thompson’s chapter meets often at Bass Pro Shop in Sevierville to tie fl ies, make rods and build friendships.
“We were able to get an agreement with Clinch River Trout Unlimited so we’d have some experienced fi shing guides involved, and then our chapter was begun in 2012,” says Thompson.
All fl y fi shing and tying equipment is provided to the participants at no cost. Fish-ing trips, both one day and multi-day, are also provided free of charge to participants.
“It’s a feel-good thing for everyone involved. Our program has 70 volunteers and 15 veterans. Some of our vets need more help, so it’s good we have extra vol-unteers. We recently fi shed in Norton Creek up near
Gatlinburg. We’ll be hav-ing more outings when the weather warms,” he says.
■ Lighting up the canvas“Makin’ Molasses,” an oil
painting by Aurora Harrison-Bull, brought home an hon-orable mention at the Foun-tain City Art Center’s themed open show, “Illumination.”
The show was judged by Ann Birdwell, a former Cen-tral High School art teacher who now teaches at the John T. O’Connor Senior Center in Knoxville.
Art center director Syl-via Williams says, “We had really good participation at this show with 88 entries, and had several new artists submit their work.”
Harrison-Bull’s painting depicts her husband, Earl Bull, and friends skimming
molasses at their farm in Hickory Valley.
She teaches several weekly classes at her home and at Fountain City Art Center. Info: Fountain City Art Center 865-357-2787
■ Subway makes opening offi cialSandy Bailey, manager
of Subway in Maynardville since it opened 19 years ago, and her staff celebrated their new building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and specials.
“I just love our new set up. The drive-thru is just great, and I am proud of the perfor-mance of my staff. We have a real good team,” says Bailey.
Regional Subway mar-keting director Barbara Thompson was on hand to give out Subway cloth bags and Frisbees.
BSG delivers sweetener, fl y fi shing
Agriculture teachers at Union County High School – Linda Baxter, John Fugate and Matt McGinnis –spon-sored a series of apple tree grafting demonstrations throughout the school day on Feb. 25.
Actually, this has been occurring every year for 17 years, but this is the fi rst year the class has been opened up to the commu-nity.
A lesson in grafting has been on my to-do list for years, but this was my fi rst real opportunity to partici-pate. I joined Rick King, Ike Stooksbury and Ron Hat-maker for our session.
The next class was buzz-ing with students, both boys and girls. I know (Linda) Baxter is a great role model for these girls interested in agriculture. She told me she’s been teaching 24 years, 17 of those years in Union County.
Joe McNew, who is now a young 84, has been coming down from his farm, Echo Acres in the Cave Springs Community in Claiborne County, to teach this class. Echo Acres is a fi fth gen-eration farm on the South-erland family line that
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Apple Tree Grafting Class: Agriculture teacher Joe McNew, Rick King, Ike Stooksbury and Ron
Hatmaker. Photo by Bonnie Peters
Apple tree grafting: There’s an app(le) for that
transplant in your yard or orchard.
McNew concluded the class by cautioning us not to take our food supply for granted and stressed the importance of pollination. Much has been said and written about the concern for our bees and the disas-trous effects of lack of pol-
lination.McNew stressed our
need to preserve our honey bees as well as the little black bee that superseded the honey bee in America. McNew, who is so knowl-edgeable about growing fruit trees, gave us a couple of other valuable tips: As an insect repellant, pour 1
cup vinegar and 1 cup sugar into a gallon jug and place a banana peel into the jug as well. Fill with water and hang in your fruit tree. For fi re blight, he mixes a fi ve to one solution of Clorox and water and sprays his trees.
Again, this opportunity for continuing education is greatly appreciated.
Weston Wamp Chuck Fleischmann
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleis-chmann is sounding a bit frantic. While he’s in Wash-ington serving in a Con-gress with all-time low rat-ings, the energetic Weston Wamp is working through-out the 3rd Congressional District to meet people and solicit support.
Aug. 7 is do-or-die for young Wamp. There is lit-tle political future for the guy who loses twice. The son of former U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp fi nished third two years ago, when Fleis-chmann eked out a win with less than 50 percent of the
vote. The other candidate was Scottie Mayfi eld who is not running this time.
“I waited to see if Scottie was running,” Wamp said in a casual interview at last Saturday’s Lincoln Day Din-ner.
It was easy to talk to Wamp since organizers
seated him in the far back corner of the room. He and his wife, Shelby, settled in and ate roast beef. The food was fantastic – roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans and banana pudding. All right!
Fleischmann talked twice, sandwiching Wamp’s two minutes, which were interrupted by party chair Jimmie Knight asking him to “wrap it up.”
Wamp wasn’t upset. “There are advantages to being the seated Member of Congress,” he said.
Fleischmann, mean-while, forgot he wasn’t the main speaker. With his fi rst chance to talk, he made a blatant appeal for votes. After Frank Niceley’s main speech, Knight let all candi-dates speak for two minutes. After Wamp, Fleischmann jumped up again.
“I want you to know,” he said, gesturing to the head
table, “everyone here has endorsed me.” He named Niceley and state Rep. Den-nis Powers.
Fleischmann said he car-ried every precinct in Union County in 2010. He wants re-election to fi ght Presi-dent Obama. “We say NO to Obama. We say NO to his executive orders. I say to Obama: ‘I will fi ght you ev-ery step of the way.’
“I lead on social issues. I don’t back off. I have voted 100 percent pro-life.
“I know I’m only one of 435, but I am your one.”
Wamp said it’s most im-portant to be about the fu-ture. “The clock is ticking down on (the Obama Ad-ministration),” he said. “I want to go to Washington to have impact. I want to make government smaller, but also better.”
Wamp’s card said the best way to fi x Congress is to replace it. “With $17 tril-
lion in debt, high unemploy-ment and the least produc-tive Congress in history, we deserve more than repre-sentation content with the status quo. With your help, we can turn the page.”
How do you get a clear choice in a Republican Pri-mary?
Listen closely to Chuck Fleischmann and Weston Wamp.
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has come to th e McNews through his wife. They have 200 apple trees including 80 varieties including a number of heritage apples.
This is what I took away from the grafting lesson:
One must have “root stock” from some type of apple tree. McNew had or-dered crab apple root stock from Washington State. Un-til recently he could order these for less than a dollar each, but this year the price exceeded $1, and the ship-ping has become pretty hor-rifi c.
When the root stock ar-rives, place in damp saw-dust until grafting day. While the sap is down in December or early Janu-ary, cut scion wood (water sprouts) from the apple tree variety that you wish to graft. These pieces were cut in about 6-inch lengths and about 1/4- to 1/2- inch in di-ameter.
Place these pieces in zip lock bags by variety – McIn-tosh, Winesap, Wolf River, Cheese Apple or whatever and place in the refrigerator.
When you are ready to graft, place your hand just above the roots as a mea-surement for where to cut. Take a sharp knife and cut the rootstock at an angle. Then take a piece of the scion wood with the buds facing upward and cut a matching angle. Slide the two together and tape.
McNew uses paraffi n fi lm which is self-healing. However, any type tape can be used. Healing takes about two weeks. If these substitute tapes are used, slit the tape after two weeks in order not to choke your new tree. If the roots on the root stock were really long, he trimmed those back to about 4 inches.
When choosing a piece of scion wood, make sure it has at least two or three buds.
Each student in the class was given a grafted tree to take home and plant. To keep damp until you pot the little tree, wrap in damp pa-per towel. Plant in a 6-inch pot until about Easter, then
UNION COUNTY Shopper news • MARCH 8, 2014 • 5
I’ll say this in a soft voice: There isn’t enough happiness in Richard Pick-ens’ life.
The Ol’ Vol has an assort-ment of problems. Some, estrangement from family, for example, he brought on himself. Some descended on him like a dark cloud.
Since retirement as a railroad executive, he’s been in the fourth quarter for what seems like a long time. It could be he is in
overtime. He has suppos-edly been diagnosed with “amyotrophic lateral scle-rosis and secondary frontal temporal dementia with pseudobulbar palsy.”
Since my medical exper-tise is in bruises and abra-sions, this is out of my pay grade. Some old teammates are convinced the affl iction goes back to too many hits with the helmet, too many concussions treated with smelling salts.
Pickens was a Tennessee fullback in 1966-68, part battering ram, part bowling ball, leading rusher in the Southeastern Conference as a senior, 736 tough yards, then the most by a Vol since Hank Lauricella in 1951.
Going back to Young
I have always taken a dim view of people who use euphemisms for death: passing away, gone to glory, gone to his reward, etc. I was of the opinion that it was an attempt to avoid the truth, which is bluntly and unavoidably, “She died.” I thought people should just say so.
When the phone call came, at an hour on a Sat-urday morning when no one makes a phone call for a friendly chat, I knew what it was. I was already up and
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Pickens is a Vol for lifeHigh School, Pick was nev-er a tip-toe runner. He was nimble and quick but did not rely on fancy moves. He butted people who got in his way, broke many tackles and probably cre-ated some running lanes with intimidation.
Pickens still “plays” foot-ball with his wonderful collection of friends who (occasionally) stop by his home at Clarity Pointe in Farragut. Sometimes they just talk about big plays, magic moments, precious memories that need to be refreshed. Sometimes they watch old games on Vol Network DVDs. Sometimes they and Richard go places, to lunch or to see things, and talk some more, going and coming.
Mike Miller, Mike March-ant, Larry Brown, Randy Webb, Van Fillingim, Sam
Venable and Bobby Wag-goner have been part of this support system.
Dick Williams, Char-lie Rosenfelder and Dewey Warren are in the informal group. There may be a doz-en others. Jim McDonald, a teammate at Young High and UT, is a mainstay. He manages Pickens’ pensions and fi nancial matters.
McDonald and Pickens go back to the beginning. Their competition to see which was best probably made both better. That their relationship has last-ed so long provides a peek into something called “Vol for life.”
That smart term was cre-ated as a recruiting tool to help convince prep pros-pects that Tennessee play-ers are all in this together, once a Vol always a Vol, for-ever and ever, amen.
Several fans embrace the idea. Alas, their lasting commitments sometimes fl uctuate, depending on Saturday scores.
With former players, it tends to be real. Ol’ Vols hang in there. There is a genuine bond. Former tackle Jerry Holloway has a mailing list of hundreds who share the ups and downs, fi shing tales, obitu-aries, anniversaries, ac-complishments by children and grandchildren, news of knee replacements, and other hard-earned aches and pains.
They remain bound to-gether by fellowship, loyalty and the color orange.
Pickens was the focal point of such love last week. Distinguished artist Alex-ander Dumas initiated it.
As the story goes, Pick-ens commissioned a paint-
ing 15 or 20 years ago of a favorite play. When he came to claim the fi nished prod-uct, it wouldn’t fi t inside his Volkswagen.
“Later” was somehow forgotten and Dumas fi led his handiwork in a stack of other treasures. He found it in time for the current art exhibition at Clarity Pointe. Of course it was a delightful surprise for Pickens.
Ol’ Vols and several oth-ers shared in the celebra-tion. A fun time was had by all.
Blessings on the good man Dumas, an unexpected ray of sunshine in Richard Pickens’ life.
Full disclosure: Alexan-der Dumas once gave me a print of his very best snow leopard. I thought it was Smithsonian quality.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
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A capable wife who can fi nd? She is far more pre-cious than jewels. Strength and dignity are her clothing … Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband too, and he praises her… Many women have done excel-lently, but you surpass them all. Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her a share in the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the city gates.
(Proverbs 31, selected verses)
Graduation weeks, possibly days.
I answered the phone and the gentle voice on the other end of the line said, “Lynn, your mother passed this morning.”
There it was, the euphe-mism. She “passed.” No, I thought, sadly. She died.
I called my daughters, both of whom had made travel plans to get here in time. Jordan was on the road already, and Eden had plane tickets for later in the week.
In the next few hours, there was much to be done: people to notify, arrange-ments to set in motion, de-cisions to make. It wasn’t until we were on the road that it hit me.
She passed. How apt for someone
who had been a teacher! It is true: she passed. She has graduated into heaven.
Do not misunderstand me: I still believe that we are saved by grace and no one of us can earn our way into heaven. But maybe,
just maybe, God grades on the curve.
As I write this, we are in that short and, at the same time, interminable limbo between a death and a buri-al. Nothing else can go for-ward, no future plans can be made, no other work is so important as the mourn-ing the loss of my mother and my children’s grand-mother.
Mother was known for her love of red. She wore red well and often, and after she entered the nursing home, exclusively! It was Eden who, about an hour after I notifi ed her of Mother’s death, called me back and said, “I have an idea. I think we should all wear red at the service.”
I laughed out loud, in spite of my grief, and said, “What a great idea! Moth-er would love it!” And so, spurning any sign of mourn-ing – no black allowed – we will send her to eternity, all of us dressed in red.
For the past 40 years, a
framed motto hung in Moth-er’s house. It sums up her ap-proach to life perfectly.
I have to live with myself, and so
I want to be fi t for myself to know.
I want to be able, as days go by,
Always to look myself in the eye.
I don’t want to stand in
the setting sunAnd hate myself for
things I’ve done.I want to go out with my
head erect;I want to deserve my
own respect.I feel sure the Lord has
already told her, “Well done, thou good and faithful ser-vant. And, by the way, love the red!”
Sharps Chapel FCE servesPat Blackburn and
Lynn Prichard hosted the Sharps Chapel FCE Club in February.
The group is involved in service projects, educa-tional presentations and trips.
On April 19, members will sponsor an Easter egg hunt in Sharps Cha-pel. Several are involved in the upcoming June Art on Main Festival in down-
town Maynardville.FCE continues to sup-
port the Union County Food Pantry by donating items.
Sharps Chapel FCE Club meets on the third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. at Sharps Chapel Se-nior Citizens Community Center.
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getting dressed to go see my mother in the nursing home.
We had known for sev-eral days that the end of her journey was near. The last time I had seen her, just days before, I knew that it was a matter of
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By Libby MorganCircuit Court Judge
John D. McAfee spoke to the ICare (Union County’s drug coalition) meeting last week, and Union County leaders in attendance in-cluded: Maynardville May-or Smiley Richardson, City Manager Jack Rhyne, Chief of Police Brian Smith and Sheriff Earl Loy, among oth-ers.
McAfee addressed the process in his home county of Claiborne in dealing with juveniles who exhibited trouble with schoolwork or home life and tested posi-tive for drug use during his stint as juvenile judge from 1998 until 2004.
Recent ICare meetings have revolved around a pro-posed plan for identifying juvenile drug users.
McAfee states, “When I
was juvenile judge, our sys-tem in Claiborne County depended on us working closely with the school sys-tem. Our teachers are put under a lot of pressure. If we could help them deal with the three percent of stu-dents who cause the most disruption, then they could teach the other 97 percent who were there to learn in the classroom.
“Our youth services offi -cer was in the schools, and at times, kids were brought to me before any offi cial paperwork was fi led, and I explained to them what the consequences could be if things escalated.
“This is an effective de-terrent.
“When a parent initiated contact with our offi ce, they were given the option to fi le an ‘unruly petition.’ That is
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ICare hears from McAfeethe point when a judge can take control of the case.
“I strongly suggest that when ICare initiates a drug testing program, that a clear protocol be in place. If counseling sessions are the next step, then you must fol-low through, and the money for counseling has got to be in place.”
Mike Miller, ICare co-ordinator, says, “We would hope that drug testing sim-ply opens the door to get di-rect contact with a student and their family to enact a counseling program in or-der to take preventive steps to keep a child out of the court system.
“We are looking for input from parents – their opin-ions to formulate a program of this type. At this point we do not have enough input from parents to initiate stu-dent drug testing.”
■ Medicine disposal at city hallThe Maynardville Police
Department and ICare are providing a drug drop box location at the Maynardville City Hall during business hours, Monday through Fri-day, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
How to Drop Off Your Medicine:
Drop-off is safe and anonymous. No ID is re-quired and no questions will be asked.
Keep medicines in their original container and place them in a sealed, clear plas-tic bag (pills can remain in their blister packs).
Use a marker to cross out your name on the medicine containers.
Place medicine that is no longer in its original con-tainer in a clear plastic bag and write the name of the medicine on the bag.
Medicines Accepted from Households:
Medicines from house-holds are accepted in any form, including prescrip-tion, over-the-counter, and pet medications.
No medicines from busi-nesses, including health care facilities, long-term care facilities, pharmacies, doctors’ offi ces, and vet-erinary clinics can be ac-cepted.
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March is National Nutri-tion Month. Here are some tips for healthy family eat-ing.
school nights are too hectic for a family dinner, make it a leisurely weekend break-fast or lunch. After a few weeks, add another family meal to your schedule.
■ Plan tasty menus to-gether. “Putting together a family meal does not have to be complicated or time-consuming. Let every mem-ber choose a favorite item and build simple, delicious meals around them. Even small children can pick a main dish like tacos or pas-ta, a vegetable like a green salad or cooked carrots and sliced apples or fruit salad for dessert.”
■ Set the right mood. “Food is just one important part of mealtime. Your table setting can improve the mealtime mood with very little expense: a candle, colored napkins and wipe-clean plastic tablemats for children,.”
■ Talk! “Conversations have a huge impact, as you share experiences and ideas, and pass along family values. Pick topics that are positive and allow everyone to talk. Even toddlers like to discuss topics like ‘What is your favorite color?’ or ‘What made you laugh to-day?’”
■ Turn off the TV, phones and anything else that makes noise. “They create distractions that can throw off any mealtime routine. Declare mealtime a TV- and phone-free zone, except for emergencies, of course. Put on some background music, played at low volume, to add a relaxing atmosphere.”
Helpful websites: www.KidsEatRight.org or www.eatright.org/.
Info: Union County Ex-tension Offi ce, Rebecca Hughes 865-992-8038 or [email protected]
Rebecca Hughes
Nutrition tips
Make mealtime a fam-ily time. If you can get to-gether for meals even a few times a week, family meals mean healthier eating – and more. For National Nutri-tion Month, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics encourages all families to make a commitment to eat-ing more meals together and “Enjoy the Taste of Eat-ing Right.”
“Research shows that family meals promote healthier eating – more fruits, vegetables and fi ber; less fried food; and often fewer calories,” says regis-tered dietitian nutritionist and Academy spokesperson Angela Ginn. “This year’s national theme reminds families to return to the ba-sics of healthful eating by returning to the family din-ing table.
“And family meals do much more than put healthy food on the table. Beyond preparing the meal itself, mealtimes offer time to talk, listen and build fam-ily relationships. And it’s a chance for parents to be good role models for health-ful eating.”
Ginn offers ideas for add-ing more family meals to any family’s routine:
■ Start slowly. “However many meals you eat as a family now, add one more to your weekly schedule. If
Funeral services were held March 2 for Nita Buell Black, retired teacher and founder of the Powell Play-house. She is survived by husband Jim Black and many relatives and friends. She was a lifelong member of Sharon Baptist Church.
At Powell High School for 35 years, she was the drama
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N a n c y A n d e r s o n wrote, “She was a beau-tiful soul.
“ E v e r y g r e e t i n g b r o u g h t
a smile and a hug; every goodbye ended with ‘I love
you,’ and she meant it.“Nita had the magical
ability of making everyone feel special. If you were her friend, you were her best friend. If you were her stu-dent, you were her favorite student.
“Nita gave us the most important tool needed to be successful. She taught us how to become fearless in the face of insecurity. ‘Act as
if, and you become.’“The last time I spoke
with her, she said, ‘I’m 76 years old! Met and married the love of my life at 66, kept the home fi res burn-ing at my family farm, had the best friends I could ever hope for, saw my life’s dream come alive, and raised thou-sands of children. I’ve had a charmed life. Oh yes, God is good.’ ”
UNION COUNTY Shopper news • MARCH 8, 2014 • 7 kids
The body is full of joints, the hinges that let us move about and be fl exible. Two of them are the sacroiliac joints, which are on either side of the base of the spine. The sacroiliac joint is where the ilium, the wide, fl at upper portion of the pelvis, meets the sacrum, a triangle-shaped bone at the bottom of the spine. These joints assist the pelvis in distributing weight and absorbing shock. Problems with the sacroiliac joint can lead to lower-back pain. Trauma
like a fall or the sudden jolt of a landing from a jump can injure the joint.
But problems can also result from less obvious sources like bad posture or having one leg that is shorter than the other. (This is one of the reasons why in a fi rst visit to a chiropractor the doctor is likely to measure the length of your legs.) A leg-length disparity can usually be corrected with use of an orthotic device, a custom-made insert for a shoe.
Chiropractic treatment, particularly manipula-
tion, has been shown to be effective in easing the pain that stems from a sacroiliac joint problem. In addition, the doctor may recommend exercises that strengthen the muscles that support the joints. Brisk walking has also produced favorable results. If you’re bothered by lower back pain, see a chiroprac-tor for an examination.
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The sacroiliac joints
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Sometimes great edu-cational encouragement comes outside school. I don’t know how much edu-cation my great-aunt Lidia (pronounced “Liddy”) had, but she spent endless hours reading her Bible; though suffi cient for her, she real-ized education’s importance.
Aunt Lidia’s husband died in 1959, and I don’t think she ever forgave him for leaving her alone. They never had children, so she closed her house and wan-dered from home to home with two brown-paper grocery bags that held ev-erything she needed. She visited our home often. We never knew when or how long she would stay, but few things ever fi lled me with more joy than a visit from Aunt Lidia.
I was as tall as Aunt Lidia when I was seven, but she couldn’t have been more impressive to me if she had been a giant. She and I shared a bed when she vis-ited, and she would tell me stories that made us both laugh until Dad yelled at us to go to sleep.
In one tale there were a couple of rogues who spied a garden full of beauti-ful beets in someone else’s garden. They decided they
would return after dark and help themselves to the beets. Unfortunately, beets and red-hot pepper look alike after dark, and the rogues stole and ate the wrong vegetable, after which they found themselves face-down in the spring trying to fi nd relief. The moral – no good comes from ill-gotten gain.
In another tale there was this boy whose mother in-vited the preacher to Sun-day dinner. The boy was bad to “rip off gas” at the table, and his mother threatened him within an inch of his life should he do this while the preacher was present; instead, she instructed him to let it “slip out.” Dur-ing dinner, the boy started squirming, and his moth-er shot him an evil look which subdued him to a point. When that point was reached, the boy soiled him-self, reached into his pants, and while holding a handful
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of feces over the table said to his mother, “Now, see, that’s what your d !@# ned slip outs done!”
The moral (I suppose) – bad things can get worse.
After a few such stories sleep came, and next thing I knew Dad would be tell-ing me to “hit the fl oor” and get ready for school. I would begin moaning and groan-ing, and Aunt Lidia would always say, “Yeah, honey, get up and go get you an education. Education’s the only thing you can get that a man can’t take away from you. You get money, a man can steal it. Get a house, a man can burn it. But educa-tion’s in your head, and no man can take that.”
Thus encouraged, I was able to face the day.
Every child needs an “Aunt Lidia” to encourage them to get a good educa-tion. Think about it – per-haps you are or can be some child’s “Aunt Lidia.”
Next week I’ll share how telling a tongue can be even when not speaking.
Richard Phillips with his Grinch hat delights students in Mary
Kitts’ class. Photos by Libby MorganAlley Parker dressed as Cindy Lou-Who and Cheryl Bowman
appear as Viola Swamp from “Miss Nelson Is Missing.”
Luttrell celebrates Dr. Seuss
Jill McNeal, WATE anchor, reads Cat in the Hat to a class at
Luttrell Elementary.
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By Wendy SmithNew York Times best-
selling author Amy Greene claims Morristown as her hometown, but in fact, she hails from an area so ob-scure that she calls it “near Bull’s Gap.” Her parents were natural story-tellers, and her writing, and life, have been deeply infl uenced by those stories, she says.
“Storytelling and writing are my way of sort of mak-ing sense of the world. If I couldn’t fi gure something out, I wrote it down.”
The Knoxville Writ-ers’ Guild hosted a book launch party for Greene’s second novel, “Long Man.” Her nationally successful debut novel, “Bloodroot,” was published in 2010. The
heart-wrenching tale of family dysfunction, set in the hills of East Tennessee, is particularly memorable because of the depth of the characters, who each par-ticipate in telling the story.
Since childhood, Greene has written her stories long-hand, in a notebook, while sitting in bed. She was mar-ried at 18 to her childhood
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grateful and surprised by the support she’s received.
“Long Man” began with the story. Long Man is the Cherokee name for the Ten-nessee River, which is about to fl ood the tiny town of Yuneetah. A TVA dam has condemned the town, and all but a few residents have evacuated their homes. One holdout is Annie Clyde Dod-son, who wants her 3-year-old daughter, Gracie, to in-herit the family land. As the fl oodgates prepare to close, a storm rages, and Annie and her husband realize that Gracie is missing.
Greene grew up hearing family stories about TVA and the dams that covered much of East Tennessee with water, and it was a topic she embraced. But as
sweetheart, Adam, who un-derstood that she would al-ways need time to write. She had a son at 20, and began her undergraduate degree at Vermont College when her daughter was 1.
“That’s when I knew I was Appalachian,” she laughs.
Greene compares pub-lishing books to pregnan-cies – no two are alike. She worked on “Bloodroot” for a year without letting anyone read it, not even Adam. But she screwed up her courage to allow novelist Jill Mc-Corkle to read the story dur-ing a writing conference, and within a few months, Greene had an agent and an editor from Knopf Publish-ing.
she followed the plot she’d created, she got stuck be-cause she didn’t know the characters well enough, she says. So she returned to the process that worked for “Bloodroot” and fully devel-oped each one.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 8Benefi t for Mary Cooper Cox, 5-8 p.m., Union
County High School. Gospel singing, live auction and dinner: hot dogs and fi xins, $5 each or $8 couple. All proceeds to help with medical expenses.
Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 6 p.m., WMRD 94.5 FM, 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All pickers and singers welcome.
Clapps Chapel UMC’s mens club meeting, breakfast at 8 a.m. and program at 9. Guest speaker: Knox County mayor Tim Burchett. Everyone invited.
Easter Craft Show, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Boys and Girls Club of Halls/Powell, 1819 Dry Gap Pike. 35+ vendors. Fundraiser for Adrian Burnett Elementary School’s 5th grade Safety Patrol trip to Washington, D.C.
Soup and chili supper, 6 p.m., Faithway Baptist Church, 4402 Crippen Road. Silent auction donations welcome. Info: 254-4605.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 8-9“The Last Stop at the End-Of-The-Road
Café” mystery dinner theater presented by Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway. Performanc-es: 6:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. All proceeds support Hands-On Missions at the church. Info/tickets: Leslie, 804-6642, or the Church office, 690-1060.
SUNDAY, MARCH 9Singing featuring the Washams, 11 a.m., Union
Missionary Baptist Church, Ailor Gap Road. Everyone invited.
SUNDAY-TUESDAY, MARCH 9-11Church revival, Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville
Highway. Guest speaker: The Rev. Rosemary Brown. Info: 922-1412.
SUNDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 9-16The 2014 annual Used Book Sale organized by
the Friends of the Knox County Public Library, at the Knoxville Convention and Exhibition Center in the Holiday Inn, World’s Fair Park. Schedule/info: www.knoxfriends.org or 215-8775.
SUNDAYS, MARCH 9-JUNE 8GriefShare grief recovery group, 3-5 p.m., room
104, Fountain City UMC, 212 Hotel Road in Foun-tain City. Cost: $15 for materials. Child care available through 5th grade: $5 per child per session. To register: 689-5175.
MONDAY, MARCH 10Bobby Welch, Associate Executive Director
of Tennessee Baptist Convention, will be guest speaker, 6:45 p.m., Sharon Baptist Church, 7916 Pedigo Road. Part of March Gladness series. Info: www.Sha-ronknoxville.com.
Registrations accepted for 2014-15 school year for Little Creations Parent’s Day Out program, 9 a.m.-noon, Beaver Dam Baptist Church, 4328 Emory Road. Info: 922-7529.
MONDAY-TUESDAY, MARCH 10-11Foothills Craft Guild Jury Fest submissions
accepted, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Foothills Craft Guild offi ce, Emporium Building, 100 S. Gay St. The Jury Fest will be March 12. Info/application: www.foothillscraftguild.org or Ann Lacava, 938-4180.
TUESDAY, MARCH 11Sushi 101 cooking class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti
Savoia’s La Cucina, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $60. Info/reservations: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia.com.
Healthy Choices, a plant-based free cooking class, 6 p.m., North Knoxville Seventh-day Adventist Church fellowship hall, 6530 Fountain City Road. Guest speaker: Melody Prettyman, gourmet chef as seen on 3ABN TV. Preregister by March 8 to: Kathy, 314-8204 or www.KnoxvilleInstep.com.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12The Bonny Kate Chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution meeting, noon, Second UMC, 1524 Western Ave. Guest speaker: Sharon Davis, state chair for women’s issues.
THURSDAY, MARCH 13Free Music Jam: country, bluegrass, etc.; pickers
and grinners, acoustical only; 7-9 p.m., Escapee’s RV Park, 908 Raccoon Valley Road.
Parent to Parent Support meeting for parents of children with mental health diagnoses, 6-8 p.m., K-TOWN Youth Empowerment Network, 901 E. Summit Hill Drive. Info: Alicia, 474-6692 or [email protected].
The Appalachian Arts Craft Center Spring Porch Sale begins. Features marked down stock, seconds, student crafts and unjuried work by members of the Craft Center. Located at 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.
The Heiskell Community Center Seniors Monthly meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Commu-nity Center, 9420 Heiskell Road. Program: “Meet the Candidates” with candidates running for various offi ces in Knox County. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Jan-ice White, 548-0326.
First Lutheran Church senior group 55 Alive meeting, noon, First Lutheran Church meeting room, 1207 N Broadway. Hot lunch: $7; reservations requested. Guest speaker: Susan Spicer will talk about the Stephens Ministry program. Info/reservations: 524-0366.
“Put A Spring in Your Step” luncheon hosted by Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection, 10:45 a.m., Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall on Kingston Pike. Cost: $12 inclusive. Complimentary child care by reservation only. Reservations/info: Marie, 382-1155 or [email protected].
Dining with Diabetes, 2 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Last class in a series for people with diabetes and their family members. Topics include learning how to manage diabetes, food demon-strations and tasting of healthy foods Info: 922-2552.
Registrations accepted for 2014-15 school year for Little Creations Parent’s Day Out program, 9 a.m.-noon, Beaver Dam Baptist Church, 4328 Emory Road. Info: 922-7529.
FRIDAY, MARCH 14Pizza Pizzazz cooking class, 6:30-8:30 p.m.,
Avanti Savoia’s La Cucina, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/reservations: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia.com.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 14-15Spring Craft Show, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and 9
a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Lions Club Building at Fountain City Park. Fundraiser for Adrian Burnett Elementary School’s 5th grade Safety Patrol trip to Washington, D.C.
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