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Vol. 50, No. 2 • January 10, 2011 • www.ShopperNewsNow.com • 4509 Doris Circle, Knoxville 37918 • 922-4136

What’s up (with) doc?

By Sandra Clark

D

r. Wesley Dean is, if anything, a good sport. He’s probably pretty good at time management, as well.

We caught him at the end of a very busy day. Seems his partners at Emory Family Practice had issues: one was snowbound in North Carolina, one called in sick, another was en route to Atlanta and a Falcons game, and another was on vacation.

Dean had worked steadily since 7:30 a.m. as the only physician on duty.

But that’s what a family physician does, and it’s what Wes Dean likes best about the job. It’s been 21 years since he and Dr. Ronald Barton opened their practice on a then two-lane Emory Road at I-75.

Dean was recently installed as president of the Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians; he was also named Business Person of the Year at the Powell Business and Professional Association’s recent banquet.

Funny story. Since the Powell award is a surprise, Dean didn’t have a clue. And he and wife, Tammy, had planned a trip to New York for that weekend.

The Emory Family Practice staff

While most agree that paperless records are beneficial in the long-run, that doesn’t make the initial investment of time and money (and stress on physicians) any easier.

The group also must address the declining numbers of family physicians, relative to the higher paying sub-specialties. Dean calls the system “upside down.”

He says young physicians can leave medical school owing as much as $150,000 in student loans, so it’s understandable that they would gravitate toward higher paying specialties. And while Dean doesn’t agree overall with President Obama’s health care reforms, Dr. Wesley Dean at his office in Powell. he says the Obama Administration “gets it” and is listening to family physicians about the looming prostepped up. Dr. Barton attended be there,” he said. vider shortage. the banquet and made a gracious Dean will use his bully pulpit to Dr. Dean was installed as the acceptance. Office manager Jenni- 62nd president of TNAFP at the focus on prevention in two areas fer Truan dialed Dean’s cell phone fall convention in Gatlinburg. He that impact a host of health conso he could hear it. welcomes the opportunity to lead ditions – obesity and tobacco use.

“I was standing in Times Square, in a time of economic and politi- “Ours is the first generation of kids trying to hear on the phone and shoo cal challenges. where their life expectancy is not off a guy selling bus tours, when Dean will work with Executive greater than their parents … obe(Dr. Don) Wegener started talking. I Director Cathy Dyer and a board of sity plays a role in that.” didn’t recognize his voice at first.

It’s a conversation physicians directors to support family practitio“It was a great honor and a to- ners. An initial concern is implemen- need to have with patients. “It’s tal surprise. I’m sorry I couldn’t tation of electronic health records. not like it’s a surprise to them.

Local physician heads state academy You just have to fashion it that this (weight and sedentary lifestyle) is hurting your health.”

Since it’s much easier never to start smoking than to quit, he supports programs such as Tar Wars, a national effort targeted at 4th and 5th graders. Dyer says the average age children begin smoking in Tennessee is about 11.

Physicians must get more involved with their community including knowing political leaders. “They can make better, smarter decisions if they hear both sides,” Dean said.

That’s why TNAFP provides a doctor each Tuesday that the legislature is in session. The doc hears the issues and meets legislators while helping with possible medical emergencies.

“Our (health care funding) problems are so massive, I don’t know the answer. But I do know this system cannot survive without changes,” Dean said.

Just then his cell phone rang.

It was the wife, wanting to know about dinner. “I’ve got to finish up some paperwork,” he told her.

"Give me 45 minutes."

It was just another 12-hour day at the office for Powell physician Wesley Dean.

Hard times and tragedy take toll on local builder

By Betty Bean Most days but Sunday, Roy Anderson is down on Broadway sitting in his green 1971 Chevy C-10 pickup truck in the old Fountain City Kroger parking lot, loaded down with firewood for sale. He’s got red oak, white oak and hickory plus bundles of cedar kindling.

Frequently one of his 10 children is riding shotgun. He knows he could make more money if he’d find a spot out toward Farragut, but the Chevy only gets about 11 miles to the gallon, so he stays closer to his home in Corryton and does the best he can.

He’s waiting for spring when he, his son Roy Jr. and his friend Randy Harwell will be opening up “Our Father’s Garden,” a landscaping supply, lawn maintenance, remodeling and construction business on Cunningham Road in Halls, at the site of the old Munsey’s Lawn Care.

A pewter ornament that his wife, Sylvia, gave him hangs from his rearview mirror. It says, “I love you all dearly. Now don’t shed a tear. I’m spending my Christmas with Jesus this year. In loving memory, Samuel Anderson, 2006-2010.”

The little pendant commemorates their youngest son who died of neuroblastoma – a vicious form of cancer – on Nov. 4.

Not that Roy needs reminders.

The boy is never far from his mind.

Just over three years ago, Roy Anderson was a licensed Realtor, a general contractor and a successful builder/developer who had built and sold 19 houses and started Shiloh Gardens, a subdivision on Pedigo Road. He’d built his family a house that they only owed $21,000 on (and that was for the land) and he drove a big F-350 King Ranch

Roy Anderson and his daughter, Bethany, sell firewood in the old Kroger parking lot in Fountain City. Photo by Ruth White dually that pulled a skid-steer loader. Samuel really liked that truck.

The doctors at Children’s Hospital discovered Samuel’s tumor Aug. 31, 2007, and flew him to Vanderbilt for treatment. He was desperately ill from the beginning and spent more than 70 days on life support that year. His stomach swelled up like he’d swallowed a basketball and most of his vital organs, including his eyes, were compromised. Roy and Sylvia never left his side.

“Down in Nashville they gave us a Ronald McDonald room about a quarter mile from the hospital.

Might as well have been 1,500 miles away. We appreciated it, but we couldn’t be that far away from him, so we let somebody else use it. Every day they were telling us he wouldn’t

live till tomorrow. The tumor didn’t shrink, he had breathing difficulties and they had to intubate him. But in January 2008, he went into remission, although with neuroblastoma, there’s really no remission. They just call it ‘No Evidence of Disease – NED.’ So we went back to work.

“I was working as a trim carpenter and cabinet maker and I built our house debt-free as the Lord gave me the money. We cut down trees on our property for lumber and every time I got paid, if I had any extra money, I’d put it in the house. I also built my daddy a house on the property.”

Roy had nearly finished a couple of houses in Shiloh Gardens when the bottom fell out of the market.

He mortgaged the family home for

$280,000 and used the money to pay the interest on his business debts and for living expenses. Finally, the Andersons walked away from their home and his dad let them have the house Roy had built for him. Roy got a loan on his truck to pay off the interest on a construction note, but things kept going south on him and on April 3, 2009, the repo guys pulled up to take the truck.

“That’s the one thing that bothered Samuel the most. He’d say, ‘Daddy, when are they going to bring back our truck?’ I told him that wasn’t going to happen and he’d say ‘We’ll get another truck, daddy. I got money, Daddy.’ He got a Social Security check from where he’d been sick and he wanted to give it to me, but that money was just to be used for him.”

Roy filed for bankruptcy in September, about the time Samuel’s cancer came back.

“A week before he passed away, I’d saved up $1,400 but the guy was wanting $3,000 for this truck.

Samuel had money in the bank that people had given him out of compassion, and he said, ‘Mommy, give Daddy some of my money so he can go buy that truck.’ When we got home from church on Wednesday night my wife said, ‘Why don’t you just go ahead and buy that truck,’ and handed me money from Samuel’s account,” Roy said.

The next day he and two of his other children, Joshua and Hannah, went to Sevier County to get the truck. They were on their way back when his mother-in-law called and said that Samuel had quit breathing “I told her to turn his oxygen rate up and she said she already had. ‘He’s gone, Roy.’ My wife was

crying, saying, ‘I’ve killed him. I killed him. He asked for a drink of water and he stopped breathing.’ I told her she didn’t kill him. How many times had she given her children a drink of water?

“I didn’t even want the truck then, wanted to take it back. But she told me the Lord didn’t want me to be there because he knew that Josh and Hannah and I wouldn’t have been able to handle watching Samuel pass away. She told me not to throw the truck away, just fix it up.”

So he kept the old green truck and got it into working order. He kind of wished it were blue because that was the color of Tommy the Tank Engine, Samuel’s favorite cartoon. One day he was working on the passenger side door and noticed something odd in the door jam – a strip of bright blue, which he realized was the truck’s original color. Restoring it is high on Roy’s to-do list. And he wants to make something very clear: “We’re born again and we’re trusting in the Lord and we realize that there’s trials and tribulations that everybody has to go through.

This isn’t an accident that we’ve lost our business and our son. We know that we’ll see him again. We loved him as much as you could love anybody, so when we had to let him go back to the Lord, we gave him all we could.

“We’ve got clothes, groceries, a place to stay and TennCare’s paying for our medical, so our needs are all met. We’d love to have your business, but we don’t need a handout. And we’re just thankful that God picked us to be Samuel’s parents out of all the billions of people to choose from.”

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A-2 • JANUARY 10, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

Rubbing shoulders with music history Guitarist/songwriter to release CD, continue at Elvis show

That weather If there is anything more gratifying than watching local TV weather persons blow a forecast, it’s listening to them explain why they got it wrong. OK, so the latter has never happened, but it’s fun to fantasize.

Despite the pleasure they provide viewers with these public demonstrations of incompetence, weather persons (WPs) are responsible for 99.87 percent of the deterioration in intelligent use of the English language, and they must be brought to justice for their criminal promotion of inarticulate speech.

Take, for example, the phrase “your Monday” (or Friday, for that matter). In fact, I hope you do take it, because if it’s your Monday, I certainly don’t want it.

I want my own Monday, thank you, and I’d appreciate it if you’d keep your days to yourself.

Sometimes WPs will try to make amends by referring to “our Monday.” I don’t know about you, but I never agreed to share my Monday with the public. If the Monday in question belongs to the WPs and their colleagues at the station, they should say so. And if it’s their Monday, why should I care anyway?

More vexing still are the WPs profligate use of “that” and “those.” There are only so many thats and thoses to go around, and squandering these useful words in nonsense phrases like “those temperatures” (are there other temperatures we should be concerned with?) and “that rain” (if it isn’t that rain, which rain is it?) will inevitably lead to a shortage.

How bad could it get? Imagine the

simple act of explaining to an auto dealer which of two nearly identical cars you want to test drive.

“I’ll take … one.”

“Which one?”

“Uh, over there.”

“Which one over there?”

After a few more fruitless exchanges of this sort, you stalk off wondering why if we can put a man on the moon we can’t invent a synthetic “that” to fill the void created by wasteful WPs. And consider the horrifying prospect of the WPs’ language mangling extending to newspaper reporting due to creeping verbal osmosis (CVO), an incurable and invariably fatal disorder of the syntax system. A report on the mayor’s presentation to County Commission might go something like this: Today, that mayor pledged to bring those expenses under control by keeping that eye on our budget. “Your mayor is determined to try that strategy,” our mayor said in those words.

A chilling scenario indeed, but it’s not too late to do something about it. Write, email, telephone, text or telegraph your local WPs. Threaten to boycott the station’s advertisers unless they pledge to stop abusing our revered English language.

That is all for those opinions.

This week we bring you a compelling story from Betty Bean about the losses suffered by a former developer, and Wendy Smith writes of a disabled veteran who could use some help.

Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

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Ross Southerland has rubbed shoulders with music history. From country crooners to Vegas superstars to virtually anybody associated with Elvis Presley, he knows what it feels like to gab (and jam) with the greats.

Enjoying a burger and a cup of soup at Litton’s on a suddenly snowy afternoon last week, Southerland was saddened over the passing of one of them, soul singer Myrna Smith. You may not recognize the name. But chances are you’ve heard her voice.

Smith was a longtime member of the Sweet Inspirations, an R&B/soul group that at one point included Cissy Houston (Whitney’s mother), Estelle Brown and Sylvia Shemwell. In addition to having their own top 20 hit, “Sweet Inspiration,” the Sweets also sang backup on records for Aretha Franklin (“Chain of Fools”), Jimi Hendrix (“Burning of the Midnight Lamp”), Dusty Springfield (“Son of a Preacher Man”) and Van Morrison (“Brown Eyed Girl”). From 1969 to 1977, the Sweets sang backup and opened concerts for Elvis Presley.

Smith died Dec. 24 at a hospice near Los Angeles.

She had fallen ill while on tour overseas with “Elvis in Concert,” a show that features video performances by Elvis, who is projected onto a screen, to the live accompaniment of surviving members of his band.

Southerland, who can eerily channel Presley’s last lead guitarist James Burton, performed with Smith throughout the world as part of the touring group with Elvis tribute artist Shawn Klush.

“Myrna was just a good ol’ girl,” Southerland says. “She was a good woman. On tour, we’d eat breakfast together every morning. We’d laugh and tell jokes.”

Southerland says that Smith, like virtually everybody else associated with Elvis, would clam up if you started pumping her for information about the King.

“But if you don’t say anything, (stories) just come flying out. She told me secrets not known to the public.”

He says he once asked Smith what one thing she would change about her life. Unexpectedly, she told him she wished she had her friendship back with opera singer Kathy Westmoreland, who also toured with Presley in the 1970s. The two eventually had a falling out and were not on speaking terms.

A 1982 Halls High graduate who now lives in Powell, Southerland spent much of the 1980s and early 1990s in California touring with his rock and roll band, Outta Line. While in Los Angeles, on rocker Sammy Hagar’s birthday, Oct. 13, 1989, Southerland met that other Sammy – Sammy Davis Jr. – by chance when Davis’s Cadillac was stopped at a red light.

It’s a funny and poignant story. Southerland and his girlfriend had parked on Santa Monica Boulevard and

Singer Myrna Smith with guitarist/songwriter Ross Southerland.

Southerland performed with Smith, who was a longtime backup singer for Elvis Presley, at various tribute shows throughout the world. Smith died on Dec. 24. Photo submitted

Jake Mabe were walking toward a convenience store when Southerland spotted the popular singer sitting in the back of his red two-door Caddy.

“The light had turned red.

I yelled ‘Sammy!’ All of a sudden, my girlfriend, who is wearing high heels, goes running past me toward the car.

She’s holding my camera, leans up to the car and when he rolls the window down, says, ‘Oh …’ and walks on into the store. She thought it was Sammy Hagar.”

Southerland shook Davis’s hand – he remembers it felt really warm on what was a cool night – and Davis replied, “You mean a longhaired white cat like you knows who I am?”

“Of course I do,” Ross replied. “You’re the greatest singer who ever lived!”

The two talked. Southerland kept waiting for his girlfriend to return with the camera. She didn’t. The red light turned green. Davis motioned for his driver to stay put.

“Everything that I said to him was stupid. I kept saying things like, ‘Remember when you were on “I Dream of Jeannie”?’ ”

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Davis kept talking in what was by then a raspy voice ravaged by the cancer that would kill him the following year. Just before he left, Davis looked at Southerland and said, “Well, if a long-haired white cat like you knows who I am, I guess I didn’t turn out to be a Mr. Bojangles after all.”

“He shook my hand again and I told him that I loved him.”

After Davis’s death, Southerland caught a TV interview on a Jerry Lewis telethon in which Davis said, “My biggest fear in life,” (pause) “was to turn out to be a real Mr. Bojangles.”

“Chills ran up my neck.”

Outta Line had three record deals on the table from Capitol, RCA and Enigma Records when the Gulf War broke out in 1991. Southerland says that Hollywood promptly “shut down” and when things got back to normal, grunge had replaced hard rock in popularity.

So Southerland headed home. By chance his old friend Jay Thomas, who at one point moved to California with Outta Line, was working the lights at Memories Theatre in Pigeon Forge. The show was looking for a new lead guitarist to play for Eddie Miles’s Salute to Elvis. Thomas recommended Southerland and he got the job. It was a position he would hold, on and off, until Memories shut its doors Jan. 1.

Along the way, Southerland played for Miles and Elvis tribute artists Pete Willcox, William Stiles and Lou Vuto, and met and befriended Elvis’s best buddy, Charlie Hodge (the guy who would hand the King water and scarves on stage). They became close and Southerland served as a pall bearer and delivered a eulogy when Hodge died in March 2006.

“He really taught me how to sing harmony. He taught me the high harmony parts on ‘Peace in the Valley.’ ” While at Memories, Southerland also played with country legend Johnny Paycheck, sang with Elvis’s backup quartet J.D. Sumner and the Stamps, and, on one great night, was visited by country singer Johnny Russell (“Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer”), who said he showed up just to hear Ross play.

Southerland will continue to perform with the Memories show, which is relocating to a new theater in the coming months at the former site of Eddie’s Heart and Soul Café, next door to Country Tonite in Pigeon Forge. He is also touring with Klush (another South American trip is on tap for the fall) and putting the finishing touches on his second album, which he hopes to release in late summer or early fall.

“My first album, I was more of a singer/songwriter, writing songs for other people. But that ain’t me. I’m going back to my Southern roots.” Southerland promises it will be guitar-oriented and influenced by his heroes, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Waylon Jennings, and by the 1970s outlaw country music he loves.

“I hate sounding like everybody else. I have passed up several (recording) opportunities. I might be hardheaded, but I would rather save face and be proud of something I do than jump on the same ol’ cookie-cutter bandwagon and wear a big cowboy hat. I’m gonna say what I want!”

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The arts honor MLK Knoxville Symphony Orchestra resident conductor James Fellenbaum and the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, along with the Holiday Celebration Choir, MLK Children’s Chorus, Night With the Arts Players and the Austin-East Chamber Ensemble, will

perform East Tennessee’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Night with the Arts Celebration Concert 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16, at the Bijou Theatre. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Illuminate the Dream: Enlighten the World.” The concert is free and open to the public.

Info: Jennifer Barnett, 521-2305.

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POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • JANUARY 10, 2011 • A-3

Powell Lions learn of LCIF Foundation is far reaching

By Greg Householder One normally doesn’t think of the Lions Club as doing large-scale humanitarian projects such as disaster relief. After all, aren’t Lions a group of folks who get together for lunch or dinner a couple of times a month and maybe do some kind of small, local project?

Not exactly.

One of the most important ways that Lions make a difference in their communities is through the Lions Clubs International Foundation, the official charitable organization of Lions Clubs International. With funding from LCIF, Lions carry out large humanitarian projects in their communities.

Every dollar donated to the foundation goes directly for projects. Program expenses are paid for through

Ron Riehn, Lions District 12N coordinator for the Lions Clubs International Foundation, presents a video about LCIF for the Powell Lions Club.

Photo by Greg Householder

return on investments.

The Powell Lions Club heard from Lions District 12N coordinator for the LCIF Ron Riehn of the West Knox Lions Club about all the programs done by the foundation.

The six-meal menu

By Dr. Donald G. Wegener Continuing with the discussion of insulin and weight loss ‌ Your five or six meals per day should consist of lean meats and low-fat fish such as tuna, salmon or sea bass.

Swordfish is also a good source of protein with an adequate supply of “good fats.�

Most of your carbohydrates should come from the low glycemic fruits, vegetables and whole grains. If you keep the carbohydrates in the low or “acceptable� glycemic index range then this will keep the blood sugar down and consequently the amount of insulin down.

Once again I recommend that you keep your protein to carbohydrate ratio at approximately two or three grams of lean protein for every three or four grams of low glycemic carbohydrates.

Since the LCIF began in 1968, it has awarded more than 10,000 grants totaling more than $700 million.

The foundation focuses on sight, youth and humanitarian initiatives. Through the sight initiatives the LCIF and Lions have collaborated with the World Health Organization to address childhood blindness. The Lions Eye Health Program is a community-based education program to promote healthy vision and to raise awareness of the causes of preventable vision loss. SightFirst China, Sight for Kids, River Blindness and Trachoma are other programs supported by the LCIF. Lions Quest is the major youth initiative funded by the LCIF. Lions Quest is a school-based life skills program for children from kindergarten to 12th grade.

Disaster relief initiatives are a good deal for Lions in Tennessee according to

Riehn; Lions in Tennessee often receive more in grants than contributed. Recently, Tennessee Lions received a $75,000 grant from LCIF to assist with the Morristown Lions Volunteer Blind Industries building expansion. In recent years, Lions have received grants for disaster relief for tornadoes in Morgan and Roane Counties, floods in Nashville and Elizabethton, and the Braille Trail in Kingsport and others. Total grants received since 1988 in Tennessee total more than $2.2 million.

The next event for the Powell Lions is the club’s Pancake Breakfast at Applebee’s on Cedar Lane on March 12. Tickets are $5 and are available from any Powell Lion.

The Powell Lions meet at 7 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at the group’s clubhouse on Old Clinton Pike.

Remember to stay away from processed foods and foods that are labeled “fat-free� since they are usually laden with sugar. I also suggest that you eat your carbohydrates with some fats and protein so you seem fuller and slow the movement of glucose into your bloodstream which will also decrease the spikes of insulin.

Good exercise helps maintain a proper insulin level.

Both aerobic and weight lifting-resistance exercises have been shown to reverse insulin resistance and make you more sensitive to the insulin which allows your body to remove the sugar from your blood at a more efficient rate. The more you burn fat for energy during your aerobic training, the more sensitive your body becomes to the insulin that it produces. The more sensitive your body is to insulin the more efficiently it uses it and the less it has to produce it, giving your pancreas a huge break.

Next week we will continue our discussion on insulin and how it affects fat loss. And remember as Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said “Let food be your medicine and let medicine be your food.�

Dr. Donald G. Wegener, board certified chiropractic orthopedist, is at Powell Chiropractic Center, 7311 Clinton Hwy., Powell. Info: www.keepyourspineinline.com or 938-8700.

Back to normal Lots of stuff coming up As much as I enjoyed the holidays, it’s good to get back to some semblance of normalcy. The tree has been down for a while and carted to the “Christmas Tree graveyard� to begin its journey to becoming worm food. The decorations are put away – well, pretty much, still a few to get packed away – but for the most part the house is back to normal.

This week is a busy week.

First there is tonight’s election meeting for Powell Recreation at Lighthouse Christian Church at 7 p.m.

If you have a kid who is playing or cheering in any of the rec leagues at PowellLevi, you need to come to the meeting and give your input. The board for Powell Rec will be elected as well as the commissioners and boards for the sports.

I have a lot of respect for the folks who spend their time making sure kids have leagues and places to play.

It’s a thankless job, and if you volunteer it’s inevitable that you will make someone mad. All I have to say to that is that if you’re a parent of a player and you don’t show up tonight, you should hold your tongue down the road if you don’t like something going on at Powell-Levi.

The Powell Business and Professional Association meets at noon on Tuesday at the Jubilee Banquet Facility. Lunch is $12.50, and this is the first meeting of the year. Guests are always

Greg Householder welcome, and if you have a business interest in Powell it is a good way to make contacts.

The Powell High School PTA meets at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday. The PTA is always looking for volunteers to help out at the school. The weather wreaked havoc with some fundraising plans last month, so if you have a kid at Powell High, come on over to the school Tuesday evening.

On Thursday, the Heiskell seniors meet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the community center at Heiskell United Methodist Church. Knox Williams from the trustee’s office is scheduled to speak on tax freezes and other programs for seniors. He will also help out with applications, so if you’re interested bring proof of household income (2009 tax return), proof of age, and if you live in a mobile home bring the title or bill of sale. And lunch will be homemade hot tamales, chili and a salad bar – all free to seniors, of course.

Also on Thursday, the Powell High School Dreams Foundation meets at noon at the school. Again, if you have a kid at the high school, you need to get involved with the foundation.

So yes, the holidays were great. But I’m glad to get back to normal.

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A-4 • JANUARY 10, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

New holidays you can’t live without

Haslam bids Knoxville adieu If Bill Haslam had a detectable mean streak, the audience at his farewell address might have thought that a portion of his speech was aimed straight at the guy sitting squarely in before him in the front row, center section – Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett:

Betty Bean “We must continue to find the best practices to effectively deal with homelessness. It is a major issue for our city and our community. I believe that permanent supportive housing is the right approach. We must not forget, however, that it is not the only tenet of the Ten Year Plan. The plan has given us better ways to work at effectively dealing with the problem of homelessness in our community. And it is working. It is essential that we continue to search out and implement methods to prevent and address the

day to day challenges homelessness presents, and we must not let homelessness become an issue that divides us and appeals to the worst of our impulses.”

But Haslam, who is so religious that he once contemplated becoming a minister, doesn’t have an abundance of malice in his makeup, so he probably wasn’t calling Burchett out over the threat to end county support of the Ten Year Plan if residents of permanent supportive housing are allowed to drink in their apartments – success rates, scholarly research and respect for the law be damned. And nobody seemed to take it that way, even though Haslam followed up his defense of the Ten Year Plan by sort of channeling Lincoln’s plea to the better angels of our nature and not to look for wedge issues to divide us: “Finally, one of the greatest challenges we face is to keep from pitting one area against another and one group against another. If we look at success as a zerosum game, where one’s gain

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is only at another’s loss, we all eventually lose. …”

The governor-elect singled out and commended the contributions of his estimable deputy Larry Martin, who, along with policy wonk-in-chief Bill Lyons, has kept the city’s wheels turning while Haslam barnstormed the state in pursuit of higher office. He started to choke up when he described marching in his last Christmas parade and struggled for composure when he said that his heart would never be far from Knoxville.

After the speech, he waded into the friendly crowd,

shadowed by two hard-eyed men who make up the security contingent assigned to him on election night. They watched intently as the hugging commenced. Someone warned him to watch out for Stacey Campfield. Current members of City Council (most of whom want to become interim mayor) were there to see and be seen.

The most perfect plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose moment of the morning came when he couldn’t make it out of the room without being buttonholed by former City Council member Joe Hultquist.

Former mayor gives advice Cherokee Country Club?

Are you a member?

What is the right answer if you are a candidate for mayor? Two candidates belong to Cherokee, a gathering place for past and present civic leaders, and were recently asked about it by Betty Bean.

Marilyn Roddy quickly asserted that she does not belong but it is her husband, Patrick, who has the membership. This response is disingenuous. It ignores the question of whether Marilyn regularly uses the club on her husband’s membership, which, of course, she does and has done for years.

Foster Arnett proudly told us that his great-grandfather helped found the club and he thinks Cherokee now has three black members.

That was his total response.

Both also told us they want to continue Bill Haslam’s record as mayor.

Part of the Haslam record includes resigning from Cherokee in 2003 when he decided to run for mayor. He has not rejoined. When Winfield Dunn ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1986, his membership in Nashville’s Belle Meade Country Club was an issue. He eventually resigned. There is a reason these resignations occurred.

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Roddy and Arnett might want to ask why.

For the record, I belonged to Cherokee 27 years ago but resigned in 1984.

There is a reason both Haslam and I resigned (and it was not inability to pay the dues). In 1984 Cherokee still had de facto policies of exclusion based on gender, religion and race. Women were not voting members at that time and certainly African-Americans were not members nor were Jews.

Remember the stunning and unfortunate quote from Doug Dickey that membership for Wade Houston was not an option when UT coaches were being given complimentary memberships at the club?

I did not feel I could ask all Tennesseans to support me for U.S. senator if I belonged to a club where most Tennesseans could not enter.

Today, that is no longer true at Cherokee. People willing to pay the price can apply and be considered

without regard to race, creed or gender. Perhaps today’s Cherokee membership is no longer an issue in a Knoxville mayor’s race. Cherokee members today certainly would strongly oppose the discrimination the club once practiced. Nevertheless, the issue comes up. Candidates are asked.

Both Arnett and Roddy missed the chance to deplore discrimination with their poorly conceived answers.

Roddy should not have tried to escape the issue by acting like it was just her husband who belonged and, by inference, only he uses it. Voters are not that naive. Arnett claiming Cherokee today has three black members and that somehow resolves the matter insults voter intelligence.

Eight years ago Cherokee demolished the historic J. Allen Smith House across Lyons View Pike from the main club house. In litigation, they successfully prevailed on property rights while incensing many historic preservationists with the manner in which they approached the issue. This is a very different issue from the one of exclusion.

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for fair treatment of all. This is sad as our mayor must be prepared, willing and enthused in fighting discrimination in all its ugly forms.

Both should have said they deplored past practices at Cherokee. Both should have said that they and their spouse would not belong to a club which condoned or practiced discrimination.

In fact, neither said a word in their interviews on the whole issue of discrimination – a missed opportunity for both. Meanwhile, the other four current mayoral candidates have not rushed to secure a membership application.

Long distance? For those wondering why Roddy would list a RSVP phone number located in New Hampshire (area code 603) for her Jan. 6 Hot Jazz party, don’t get alarmed. She is not outsourcing jobs to the Granite State.

The number belongs to a volunteer friend of her daughter who attends college there. But does it count as a long distance call? Could no one in Knoxville handle this? Next time better to use a local 865 number and use Knoxville city voters as primary volunteers if you are running for mayor or city council.

Christmas is history, New Year’s Day has faded in the rearview mirror, and many of you are saying to yourselves: “I wouldn’t wear that tie to a dogfight.”

Some among you, indeed, are taking a most uncharitable view of holidays, happy to be back in your workplace where excessive tinsel decorating is frowned upon and possession of eggnog is grounds for termination. To you I’m pleased to say that you’re wrong, that a few more holidays on the local calendar are just what’s needed.

Sure, the 4th of July and Boomsday are fine for plastic surgeons and emergency room physicians paid by the finger, but what of the many deprived of a medical school education? For their benefit I propose the following: The Running of the Bull: This is destined to become everyone’s favorite holiday season. During election years, beginning with the primary season and continuing until the day of the general election, candidates and voters will assemble at Market Square on Sundays. Using (what else?) a bullhorn, Stacey Campfield or a reasonable facsimile thereof will proclaim, “Let’s get ready to r-r-r-umble,” and the fun begins! While shouting campaign slogans (examples: “I’ll eliminate waste!” “Me too!” “No tax increase!”), candidates will chase voters around the square. The first candidate to gore or trample a majority of the fleeing voters will be declared the winner and henceforth be known as “El Toro.” Required dress: candidates, three-piece pinstriped law suits; voters, a bright red polo called the “complete bull shirt.” (Holiday not observed in the town of Farragut, where wearing a complete bull shirt is prohibited by ordinance.)

Cinco de Midway (literally, “a fifth of Midway”): This holiday derives its name from the now well-

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established fact that only 20 percent of the population in the vicinity of the proposed Midway business park favored the project, and of that number all were either deceased or had moved to Hamilton County in 1957.

Gaily decorated road signs reading “7-4” are erected in the Thorn Grove community at sunrise on Cinco de Midway. These remain in place until The Running of the Bull begins or until pigs fly, should the latter occur first.

The County Commissioners who voted in favor of the project (dubbed “The Four Horsemen of the Chamber” during Cinco de Midway) are mounted on ponies and paraded through the Thorn Grove area until dark. The commissioners are then directed to The Development Corporation’s mostly idle existing business parks and ordered not to return until they’ve recruited three hightech companies and a Starbucks.

The Ten Year Plan Bowl: What holiday calendar would be complete without a bowl game to enjoy? The TYP Bowl game pits County Commissioners and City Council members against not only one another, but the citizens of Knox County at large. The game will be divided into halves, one each in the county and the city.

Posturing, grandstanding and pandering are worth three points each, and a successful NIMBY six points. If tied at the end of regulation, teams will be allowed one week to see which can evict the most tenants from Minvilla and convert the apartments into luxury condos.

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Televised inauguration East Tennessee Public Broadcasting System (PBS) will air the “2011 Tennessee Inaugural: Governor Bill Haslam” noon Saturday, Jan. 15. The live broadcast from Nashville will include the inauguration ceremony and parade.

The arts honor MLK Knoxville Symphony Orchestra resident conductor James Fellenbaum and the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, along with the Holiday Celebration Choir, MLK Children’s Chorus, Night With the Arts Players and the Austin-East Chamber Ensemble, will perform East Tennessee’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Night With the Arts Celebration Concert 6 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 16, at the Bijou Theatre. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Illuminate the Dream: Enlighten the World.” The concert is free and open to the public.

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Week of decisions A casualty of printing a Monday paper on Friday evening is this writer’s previously stellar power of prediction.

So no predictions this week, just hopes.

Here’s hoping Jim McIntyre sticks around. He’s got some good work underway and the programs deserve his leadership. To leave for Nashville now is akin to birthing a litter of wolf cubs in the woods and leaving them to fend. Some will make it; others won’t.

And here’s hoping McIntyre and his pals at the Great School Partnership (or whatever they’re calling it now)

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can come up with the money to put the STEM high school in the old L&N Station.

Somebody asked why I want to blow up an old building in favor of new construction at Carter Elementary while supporting renovation of a train station/restaurant for a high school downtown.

Hey, at Carter we’ve got a badly-built-to-start-with cave

where we’re stuffing little kids in classrooms too small.

At the L&N we’ve got nothing less than a cathedral to the commerce and technology of its time where we can enable our nerds – you-all know who we, errrrr you, are – to do more with high school than simply survive it.

School board meets Wednesday at 5. Watch it on Comcast Cable Channel 10. It’s the best reality show around.

On the agenda are approvals for: ■ A special audit at Powell Elementary (did something go missing?)

■ A site for the STEM high school ■ A contract with Community Tectonics Architects Inc. for roof upgrades at Bearden High, $94,500 ■ A batting cage for Halls High softball, $20,200 (from softball account) ■ Contract with Studio Four Design for roof upgrades at West High School, $80,000 ■ Halls Elementary to buy and install ActivBoards, $12,709, funded by PTA ■ Brickey-McCloud Elementary to purchase an Apple MacBook, Promethean ProMobile and more, $51,598, funded by Regal Foundation.

Powell students reach out to soldiers Seventh grade students in Donna Jett’s social studies classes spread holiday cheer this year.

One of the school’s parents, Sr. Airman Keaton, who had recently returned from Iraq, identified soldiers for the students to adopt. The goal was to provide words of encouragement along with a little touch of home, hoping to alleviate some of the emotion of being away from home during the holidays.

Students collected essentials like soap, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, beef jerky and individual water flavor packets. They also collected playing cards, books, magazines and Christmas decorations. They made cards and wrote letters to include with the packages.

Lance Keaton, Dillon Lane, Keegan Loy, Powell Middle principal Gary Critselous, Jordan McGill and Hannah Maner accept a plaque for their service in adopting a soldier overseas this year. Photo submitted

Col. Timothy Dearing of the 134th Air Refueling Wing sent students a plaque thanking them for their kindness and generosity by providing a touch of Ten-

nessee. Students presented the school principal, Gary Critselous, with the plaque which is displayed in the school office.

The students were recog-

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Medicine cabinet clean out The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) suggests an annual medicine cabinet cleanout as a New Year’s resolution. The APha recommends proper disposal of all unused and expired medications that have accumulated over the previous year.

Hanging onto old, expired or unused medications can increase

China: the culture, the country, the language. The Defense Department’s senior language authority has identified Chinese as one of the languages most in demand, and an estimated 100 million people worldwide are learning to speak Chinese.

To meet demand, Pellissippi State is expanding Chinese language course offerings. Applications will be accepted through Feb. 1 for the school’s Global Ambassadors program, a summer study program.

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Race relations: It’s been 50 years since three African-American students enrolled at UT. The public is invited to campus at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, to launch a yearlong anniversary celebration.

The group will march from the Torchbearer to Ayres Hall where Theotis Robinson Jr., one of the first black undergrads, and Benita Fitzgerald-Mosley, a UT grad and Olympian, will speak.

Powell Rec to hold elections Powell Recreation, the organizers of youth football, cheerleading, baseball and softball at Powell-Levi Park, will hold its annual election 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 10, at the Lighthouse Christian Church in Powell.

The church is located at 8015 Façade Lane in Powell. Take Emory Road to Conner Road (between Wendy’s and CVS). Take Conner Road and turn left on East Copeland Road and cross over I-75 then left on Façade Lane.

At the meeting, officers for Powell Recreation will be elected as well as officers for football, cheerleading, baseball and softball. The presidents of the respective sports will also serve on the board of Powell Recreation.

Ice carving at the Titanic World-class professional ice sculptors will compete at the Titanic Museum’s 2011 kick-off 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Vet needs a hero While much of West Knoxville was basking in the warm glow of the holidays, Fred Johnson was just wishing somebody would listen to him.

Johnson joined the Navy in 1969 to avoid getting drafted by the Army.

He served on the final tour of the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard, and was able to live out a childhood fantasy of riding in a rickshaw in Hong Kong. He had stops in Singapore, the Philippines and Japan, and says his service during the Vietnam War was one of the best adventures he ever had.

But it wasn’t all fun and games. Johnson’s job required him to go ashore to remove unexploded ordnances from carrierlaunched aircraft. During every night he spent at an airbase, he was fired on at 3 a.m. He eventually learned not to sleep until after the nightly trip to the bunker.

He planned to stay in the Navy, and attended flight school. But he opted out of flying when he learned he

Wendy Smith Johnson, a Vietnam veteran, lives in the same house in which he grew up on Duncan Road. But he’s had a long string of bad luck that has left him weary of staring at its walls.

He attended Rocky Hill Elementary School and was in the final class that graduated from Bearden High School when it was located on Kingston Pike. The class motto was “The greatest of the great – the class of ’68.”

Precious cargo It is odd feeling simultaneously excited and depressed. I was happy leaving the sub-zero temperatures of Brunswick, Maine, to move home to Tennessee in time for Christmas. On the other side of that coin I faced a six-month separation from my fiancé Chuck, who was in the Navy. His ship was built and would make her maiden voyage to her new homeport in San Diego, Calif.

We were both lost in thought, packing quietly.

That suddenly changed.

“Honey, where are my Mamaw’s canned green beans?” I asked.

I was talking about two

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quart jars of Blue Lake green beans that my grandmother had given me when I moved to Maine. They represented the end of an era to me.

“Mamaw Elsie” grew Blue Lake green beans for as long as I could remember. My uncle Keith says no one could get them to produce like she did. She canned enough for herself,

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alcohol. The hardest part of the war was feeling like he couldn’t help when so many soldiers were losing their lives, and it made him angry. Pills helped dull the anger, he says. He eventually sought treatment at the V.A. hospital in Johnson City.

After that, he worked as a technician for several years, but liked having some variety in his work. He was a cook at Cracker Barrel when he had a heart attack in 2004. In 2008, he had a stroke that left him numb on his left side. His military training has helped him Fred Johnson stands outside of the Duncan Road home his fa- adapt, he says. ther built. Photo by W. Smith Johnson’s only source of income is $243 per month of disability for his expowould be expected to par- not proud of the way he lived sure to Agent Orange. He’s ticipate in the bombing of at the time, and his marriage pursuing full V.A. benefits, Haiphong Harbor, which failed after three years. and hopes to start receiving he considered a suicide mis“You got to learn as you checks by summer. But he’s sion. As retribution, he “got go,” he says sadly. “There’s struggling to pay his propevery dirty job” until his en- no instruction book for this erty taxes, and in the past listment ended in 1973. life.” several months, his car, his After his Navy days, In 1976, Johnson re- television and even his miJohnson took a job, and a turned to Knoxville, where crowave have died. There’s wife, in San Jose, Calif. He’s he struggled with pills and no money to replace them. her kids’ families and the neighbors, besides. But, 40 years of gardening had taken their toll: her knees needed replacing.

She surrendered the pressure cooker to my aunt and trimmed the garden back to a lone zucchini, one cucumber vine and a couple of tomato plants.

Mamaw Elsie was one of a handful of people who supported my decision to move cross-country for love (perhaps because she’d done the same during World War II).

When I was 27 I shocked everyone. I quit my job and moved from Tennessee to coastal Maine for Chuck, a divorced sailor, nine years my senior. We’d only dated for three months long distance – I’d seen his face a total of 28 days – yet I knew he was “the one.”

When I told Mamaw Elsie he’d proposed and I was leaving, she shrieked and hugged me. She ran to the back porch and retrieved two of the last quarts in

her pantry for me to “start housekeeping.” Those jars might as well have been filled with gold.

I took the beans back to Brunswick but hadn’t cooked them because I was saving them for something special. I assumed they’d accompany me to San Diego, but since they were both necessary and precious cargo (like my curling iron and jewelry) they’d stay with me in Tennessee until I joined Chuck in July.

Chuck solved the case of the missing beans: “I gave those to the guy next door.”

My hands reached the dangerous level of my hips.

I said, “You go over there and tell him I want them back.”

Chuck argued. They might get broken. Couldn’t we just buy green beans in California? There wasn’t room in the car. He could have suggested there wasn’t room for the hair on my head. Some things are

not negotiable.

When we moved to into our apartment in San Diego, you better believe those green beans were on my shelf. It was comforting having them there.

Christmas arrived, my first as Mrs. Furtner, and the first Christmas Eve in 28 years that I was not at Mamaw Elsie’s house. It was “sunny and 70” with holiday lights wrapped around palm trees. I needed to cook those green beans (complete with fatback) and serve them with sweat tea and cornbread.

Fourteen years have passed and I’m back in Tennessee, and I never buy fatback. I’ve even given up sweet tea. But the one thing I’d really love to have is not available anymore, anywhere. No, matter where I go or how hard I look, I’ll never find another quart of my Mamaw Elsie’s Blue Lake green beans.

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Customers with utility emergencies or other immediate needs will still be able to contact KUB by phone Jan. 17 by calling 524-2911. Online payments can be made anytime at www.kub.org and secure payment drop boxes are also available at each payment center location.

Powell Recreation to hold elections Meeting to elect officers is tonight Powell Recreation, the organizer of youth football, cheerleading, baseball and softball at Powell-Levi Park, will hold an annual election at 7 p.m. tonight (Monday, Jan. 10) at the Lighthouse Christian Church in Powell.

The church is located at 8015 Façade Lane in Powell.

Take Emory Road to Conner Road (between Wendy’s and CVS). Take Conner Road and turn left on East Copeland Road and cross over I-75. then left on Façade Lane.

At the meeting, officers for Powell Recreation will be elected as well as officers for football, cheerleading, baseball and softball. The presidents of the respective sports will also serve on the Powell Recreation board.

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He now depends on his 77-year-old mother to drive him on errands. He wishes he could at least watch his favorite show, “The Simpsons,” to take his mind off his troubles.

He’s grateful for Christmas gifts he received from his church, Cumberland Presbyterian, but doesn’t expect more.

“Times are tough for everybody. They can’t do much to help.”

Johnson applied for the state’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program two months ago, but hasn’t heard back. He’s also contacted AMVETS, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans for help, but it seems like no one’s listening, he says.

“I’m so tired of asking for help.”

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The Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Commission has announced two religious leaders will participate in this year’s celebration events.

The Rev. Otis Moss III will speak at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. awards luncheon noon Thursday, Jan. 13, at the Knoxville Marriott Hotel ballroom. Moss is senior pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Chicago and is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions.

Dr. Eric L. Leake will speak at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. memorial service noon Monday, Jan. 17, at the Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church where he was pastor from 1993 to 2009. He currently serves as pastor of Martin Temple AME Zion Church in Chicago and is chair of the Board of Christian Education for the Michigan Annual Conference of the AME Zion Church.

Both events are open to the public. The memorial service is free but there is a charge for the awards luncheon. Info: www. mlkknoxville.org.

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What child is this?

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor.

(Luke 2: 52 NRSV) Jesus is our childhood’s pattern; day by day, like us he grew; he was little, weak, and helpless, tears and smiles like us he knew; and he feeleth for our sadness, and he shareth in our gladness. (“Once in Royal David’s City,” Cecil Frances Alexander, 1848) The Gospel writers drive me crazy sometimes.

They take us straight from Jesus as a baby in a manger to Jesus ready to begin his ministry at the age of 30. With the exception of Luke, who lifts the curtain on Jesus’ childhood just for a moment to give us that tiny glimpse of the Child in the Temple at the age of 12, we hear nothing about Jesus the boy.

I understand that writing in those days was difficult and expensive. They didn’t have computers and printers and flash drives. They didn’t

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Lynn Hutton even have paper! One can forgive them for getting right to the heart of the story.

So we are left to our imaginations.

Especially at this time of year, when the Babe in the manger is still fresh in our minds, I wonder about the years in Egypt, the days at his mother’s knee, the hours

in the carpenter’s shop, the teen years.

I wonder if he remembered anything about Egypt?

Did he carry memories of the pyramids, the Sphinx, the Nile? How had Joseph and Mary explained that sojourn to him?

I wonder what he thought about when he climbed to the rim of the cup that is Nazareth and looked out over the valley below. What did he dream of when he lay on the roof of the carpenter shop on a summer night and watched the stars wheeling above him?

Who were his playmates?

His friends? What games did they play? Did they play jokes on each other? What secrets did they share? Did he ever see snow? (Jerusalem lies on the same latitude as Brunswick, Ga., but it does occasionally snow in Israel.) Did he make up stories for his younger brothers and sisters (prelude to his mastery of the parable form)?

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Sabra Graves Jones When did he realize his Fred Carroll Leamon destiny? How early did he Wanda Nelson feel the weight of his specialness? When did the first sense of foreboding arrive?

Ridge Highway, Chancel Choir I wonder about these will host an evening of dining things because the whole and music 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, in the family life point of the Incarnation is center. Music will be performed that Jesus came to be with by the band Retrospect during us, to be one of us, to be a four-course dinner of beef for us, as well as to be an or chicken. Tickets are $18 example for us. I think it (children 12 and under, $5) with behooves us to consider the a maximum of $50 per family baby, the child, the teenager, unit. RSVP by Monday, Jan. 17: the man.

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And I know it is helpful ■ Parents’ Day Out is now open to remember what poet Ceat Graveston Baptist Church cil Alexander taught us: that 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and “he feeleth for our sadness, Thursdays for children ages and he shareth in our glad11 months through pre-k.

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second Tuesday and from 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

The Welfare Ministry will be providing food baskets and toys at Christmas for the Halls community.

Community services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, takes orders for Angel Food Ministries by phone, 228-9299, or in person the Saturday before each distribution. The distribution of the food is usually the third Saturday of each month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Info: 228-9299 or the church office, 690-0160.

■ Dante Church of God, 410 Dante School Road, will distribute Boxes of Blessings food boxes 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 8, at the church. All are welcome to come and receive a box. You must be present to receive a box. One box per household. Info: 689-4829.

■ Beaver Ridge UMC Food Pantry hands out food to local families in need 1-2 p.m. every Monday and 7-8 p.m. every first Monday. Donations and volunteers are welcome. Info: www.beaverridgeumc.com or 690-1060.

Music services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry from 6-8 p.m. each

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will begin a new exercise class in the

■ Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Pike, sponsors bluegrass each second Sunday during the 8:45 a.m. service.

Rec programs

Family Life Center gym at 9 a.m.

Tuesdays and 4 p.m. Thursdays beginning Jan. 11. The ZUMBA program fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program. Cost is $2 per class; the first two classes are free. Low-Impact Aerobics Classes will continue to meet 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Info: 690-1060.

■ Clear Springs Baptist Church, 8518 Thompson School Road, will host Winterfest noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22. Children ages 3 years through 5th grade (and their parents) are welcome to attend a day of fun and fellowship, featuring games, crafts, puppets and more! Info: 688-7674.

■ Trinity UMC, 5613 Western Ave., will host a Book Club 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, in the church library. “Always Time to Die” by Elizabeth Lowell will be

discussed. Book club is open to the public. Info: Pat Land, 5252700 or phland@comcast.net.

Revivals ■ Community Baptist Church will have revival services at 7 p.m. through Wednesday, Jan. 12. Evangelists will be the Rev. Mike Viles and the Rev. Tim Inklebarger. There will be special singers each night. All are invited to attend.

Senior programs ■ First Lutheran Church, 1207 Broadway NE, will host senior group 55 Alive noon Thursday, Jan. 13. Lunch will be served followed by a presentation by local chef John Snyder. Cost is $6.

Reservations required, 524-0366.

Special services

■ Bell Road Worship Center, 7321 Bell Road, offers Cafe Connection at 6 p.m. Sundays, a time of fellowship, snacks, coffee, tea and informal Bible Study.

Women’s programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will resume Women’s Bible Study 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the church library on Tuesdays and Wednesdays starting Jan. 11 and 12 (same class either day). The upcoming

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five-week study will be Henri Nouwen’s “The Return of the Prodigal Son – A Story of Homecoming.” Info: call the church office and ask for the Rev. Glenna Manning, 690-1060; www. beaverridgeumc.com.

■ MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meets 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the third Monday of each month at Fairview Baptist Church for devotional, food and fellowship.

Child care provided. Info: Anne, 621-9234.

Workshops and classes ■ MAPS meets noon Fridays at First Comforter Church “for the soul purpose of their children.”

Info: 688-8390.

■ New Hope Baptist Church, 7602 Bud Hawkins Road in Corryton, hosts Celebrate Recovery adult and youth classes 7 p.m.

Tuesdays and 12-step class 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Info: 688-5330.

■ Fairview Baptist Church, 7424 Fairview Road off East Emory Road, hosts a Celebrate Recovery program 7-9 p.m. Thursdays.

BOGO at the zoo Through Monday, Jan. 31, visitors can present an outdated phone book at the Knoxville Zoo and receive one free admission ticket with the purchase of another.

Since the zoo is currently celebrating Penguin Discount Days when admission is half-price, visitors who bring an outdated phone book can get two admissions for half the price of one regular admission.

Info: 637-5331, ext. 300.

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Nutrition to the rescue Food City partners with Healthy Living Kitchen to increase healthy choices

By Natalie Lester Jim and Betty Fox are the first of hopefully many success stories to come out of the Healthy Living Kitchen program at UT Medical Center.

The couple lost almost 100 pounds in five years after their involvement in the Healthy Living Kitchen cooking classes.

“We brought back information from the class and started trying to add food items to our diets.”

Now, the Healthy Living Kitchen will expand its programs through a new partnership with Food City. Chief executives of the two companies announced their joint efforts at a lunch conference.

“Food City teaches you how to buy healthy food and the Healthy Living Kitchen shows you how to prepare it,” explained Dr. Jerry Punch.

Food City president and CEO Steve Smith explained how his company

Steve Smith, CEO of Food City, and Joseph Landsman, CEO of UT Medical Center, announce their new partnership. Photos by Ruth White

and the Healthy Living Kitchen share the same priorities.

“These people have a true passion for what they do and we think we have a true responsibility to our community. This program can work hand-in-hand with our NuVal system to help our customers make the right decisions about what to eat. With

combined resources, we hope to increase the reach of both the NuVal and Healthy Living Kitchen.”

UT Medical Center president Joe Landsman acknowledged how easy the decision was, because of the shared goals.

“We knew we needed to serve our community and expand this educational program. We believe Food

City is uniquely equipped to help us enhance it.”

The next cooking class will be offered in March.

Smith said the partners would begin with the immediate area, but hope to expand their efforts in the future.

“This is important to Knoxville, but it’s also im- Bill Gorman’s daughter Jane Kelly is a Cardiac Nurse Specialist portant for a lot of the out- who works the Healthy Living Kitchen. Above, Bill is sampling the turkey and low fat stuffing roulade. lying areas.”

Transfers show December surge Following a brief decline in sales during NovemSherry ber, property transfers in Witt Knox County experienced Register of a moderate upswing in DeDeeds cember. The month ended on Thursday, Dec. 30, saw 620 parcels of land sold in the county, representing a total land value of $144.2 sition their holdings for the million. This was a notable upcoming tax year. increase from the $107 The largest transfer of million in sales recorded in the month was a sale of an November.

Interest rates continued to have an effect on the lending market as well. There was approximately $315 million loaned against property in Knox County during December. This figure topped the amount loaned in December of 2009 by some $50 million. Transfer numbers lagged slightly behind those noted from last December.

December does typically see a few more property transfers than the other winter months, as individuals and companies seek to po-

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Allen Leath to speak at KFL Group to offer online Bible study of Revelation Allen Leath will be the guest speaker for the Knoxville Fellowship Luncheon at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 11.

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The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.

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Top 10 ways to meet your weight loss goals in 2011:

By Nicole Yarbrough, Executive Fitness Manager, Mercy Health and Fitness

1. Make exercise part of the normal day’s routine. Aim to do a minimum of 20-30 minutes everyday or 45-60 minutes most days of the week. Pack your gym bag and hit the gym on the way to or from work. Schedule it in your calendar. Be consistent at least three days a week and it will truly become part of your routine.

2. Set realistic short term goals and avoid yearlong resolutions.

It is easier to stick to exercise programs and reach exercise goals when measurable changes can be seen, so have a fitness evaluation every three to six months. The results can help you set realistic goals enabling you to make a more effective plan to meet those goals.

3. Exercise with a friend or join a group with similar goals. Group fitness classes and small group training allow direction of a fitness professional for reasonable prices. Mercy Health & Fitness Center offers more than 85 hours a week of group fitness classes and small group training programs like Training for Life. Keep exercise effective, social and fun.

4. Try something new. Break up your current fitness program by doing a different type of cardio each day or circuit train by alternating bouts of cardio and weights. Shock your system and avoid the insanity many face with their programs. If you do the same program you did last year and the year before, you should expect the same results. Variety is imperative to seeing results with exercise. Especially every six to eight weeks, your program should have changes.

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vegetables help you stay full-feeling for longer because of their fiber content. This should also help you eat less fat in your meals.

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Panthers start the year with victories Football overachievers Powell returns to regular season action

By Greg Householder The Powell High School boys and girls basketball teams opened the new year with solid wins on the road last Tuesday at Anderson County.

The Panther girls downed the Mavericks 43-34, led

by Shea Coker and Alexis Gillespie with nine points each.

The Powell boys knocked off Anderson County 7362. Steven Parsons led the Panthers with 17 points, including sinking three from beyond the arc. Also scoring in double figures for Powell were Tres Palmer with 15 and Zach Miracle with 13, including two 3-pointers.

Powell was scheduled to host Halls last Friday. Results of Friday’s games were unavailable at press time.

On Tuesday, Jan. 11, the Panthers travel to Fulton.

On Friday, Jan. 14, the Karns Beavers pay a visit.

In other high school girls hoops action last Tuesday, CAK beat the Knoxville Ambassadors 37-33; Halls topped Central 49-38; Hardin Valley Academy fell to Oak Ridge 49-47; Maryville beat Bearden 54-40; West downed William Blount 5852; Webb rolled over Kings Academy 65-14; Catholic fell to Lenoir City 48-44; Karns was mauled by Fulton 6829; Grace Christian Academy lost to Tellico Plains 67-36, and Gibbs fell to Austin-East 44-41.

In boys play, Central beat Halls 91-81; Karns lost to Fulton 71-47; Gibbs lost to Austin-East 70-45; Catholic topped Lenoir City 47-39; Bearden downed Maryville 64-46; West beat William Blount 72-50; Webb downed Kings Academy 45-31; CAK topped the Knoxville Ambassadors 78-47; Hardin Valley Academy fell to Oak Ridge 70-51, and Grace Christian Academy topped Tellico Plains 100-80.

Games scheduled for last Friday: Karns was to visit Central; Gibbs was to travel to Pigeon Forge; Hardin Valley Academy was to host Clinton; Farragut was to visit Bearden; Catholic was to host West; CAK was to

Tres Palmer jumps for the opening tip last Tuesday at Anderson County. Photo by Greg Householder visit Scott; Webb was to host Donelson Christian Academy and Grace Christian Academy was to entertain Midway. Results of Friday’s scheduled games were unavailable at press time.

Webb was scheduled to host the Webb School of Bell Buckle last Saturday. The result was unavailable at press time.

On Tuesday, Jan. 11, Halls hosts Oak Ridge; Hardin Valley Academy visits Central; Gibbs travels to Cosby; Karns hosts Campbell County; Farragut travels to Maryville; Bearden entertains Lenoir City; West hosts Heritage; Catholic travels to

William Blount; CAK hosts Alcoa; Webb travels to McMinn Central. and Grace Christian Academy travels to Berean Christian.

On Thursday, Jan. 13, Gibbs travels to Anderson County. and CAK entertains Kingston.

On Friday, Jan. 14, Halls travels to Campbell County; Gibbs hosts Grace Christian Academy; Hardin Valley Academy travels to Anderson County; Farragut hosts West; Bearden visits Catholic, and Webb entertains CAK. On Saturday, Jan. 15, Central visits Austin-East and Webb visits Mount Juliet Christian Academy.

It sure is fun trying to determine where Nick Reveiz fits among Tennessee’s alltime overachievers.

I’ve been working on this for years. Nick and I go back a long ways. I voted for him when the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame selection committee was choosing a prep player of the year 2006. He won and looked sharp in a tux.

At Farragut High, Nick was really strong in citizenship, wrestling and football.

Good student. Exemplary character. Polite. Considerate. Refined.

Tough guy, too. He wanted to be a college linebacker.

Alas, he was too short. And maybe too slow. Coaches all over America agreed. Nobody – nobody – offered him a scholarship.

You know what happened. He defied the odds and fooled a bunch of us.

He walked on at Tennessee. He hit famous Vols so hard, Phillip Fulmer felt compelled to call him down.

Cool it, kid, you’re going to hurt somebody.

In private confusion, Reveiz wept. At 5-8 and a fraction, playing hard was all he had.

You know what else happened. Nick made the team.

In kick coverage, he knocked opponents for a loop. He moved up a notch and got to play some defense. He became a starting linebacker.

He overcame the despair and pain of a terrible 2009 knee injury. He led the 2010 team in tackles. He led it in heart and soul and closing comments: “I know I gave Tennessee everything I had. I worked as hard as I could and there’s no way I can look back and say there’s anything else I could have done.�

Reveiz said there was no other place in the world he would have rather been than at Tennessee, playing football. “It meant the world to me. I’m all Vol and just very blessed.�

Trusting memory, Nick was the first former walkon to become a captain since J.J. McCleskey in ’92.

So, where does Nick rank among overachievers?

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team strong safety – on the freshman team. Townes recalls praying that he might do his best and if that was good enough, fantastic. If it wasn’t, at least he would know he had tried.

Tim made it. He was a hitter. He became a starter. I thought he was a co-star. One play remains symbolic of his career. A Georgia Tech tight end, 270 pounds, caught a pass behind a linebacker and in front of Tim Terrific. “I got a pretty good head of steam and make a good hit.�

Indeed he did. The giant tight end fell backwards, took a long time getting up and wobbled off in the wrong direction, into the Tennessee defensive huddle.

Years later, Steve Sloan, former offensive coordinator at Tech, and Gary Wyant, former Vol secondary coach, were discussing that spectacular 1972 knockout. Sloan asked Wyant: “Who was that cold-blooded killer?�

The killer became a lifesaver. Townes received three degrees from UT, including a master’s in zoology and a doctorate in microbiology.

As chair of the biochemistry and molecular genetics department at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, he is a world-renowned tackler of cancer and, specifically, sickle cell anemia.

went from career scrimmage resistance to first-team offensive linemen in 2009. Billy Ratliff does not fit the typical format but he didn’t have a lot of recruiting stars by his name back in Magnolia, Miss.

His overachievement was in never giving up.

Ratliff endured three reconstructive knee surgeries.

He had a terrifying spinal cord injury and lost all feeling in his body for several hours. He made the winning play against Arkansas in the national championship season of 1998.

The next year, as a senior, Billy suffered a fractured leg against Auburn.

He was finally finished but he didn’t give up. He was a captain. He came to the sideline on crutches. He wore his helmet. Others got the message. Never say die.

Chris White was an overachiever or a very late discovery. He came from Cleveland as a walk-on and, to tell the truth, I didn’t really notice him until he was a fifth-year senior.

In 1985, White made his There are other Tim Townes stories in first career start, safety in Marvin West’s first book, “Tales of the Vols.� Signed copies are availthe opener against UCLA, Tennessee able from WESTCOM, P.O. Box 28, Mayas an injury replacement. nardville, TN 37807. The cost is $20.

Three interceptions later, he had a regular job. He picked off six more that season to lead the NCAA. He had a whole bunch of tackles and three fumble recoveries.

He was honored as an All- ■Naturals 12u team will be American. He didn’t think of having tryouts to complete its spring roster. Info: 742-9911 or himself as an overachiever. e-mail cardinal22899@tds.net.

He thought he could have been doing it all along. â– CYF Warriors tackle youth football will hold a parent-onOverachievers always ly information meeting 7 p.m. exceed expectations. Daryl Tuesday, Jan. 18, at Christian Dickey? Bill Bates? Jim Academy of Knoxville High Maxwell?

School. Parents of potential Tim Townes was the players ages 7-11 are encourultimate. He came from aged to attend. Info: Jeff Bearden as a 168-pound Taylor, 765-2119. walk-on. ■Team Nitro 12U needs expeNot very big. Not very rienced players for the 2011 fast. Nobody offered him spring/summer season. Some anything. local tournament play. League play at Willow Creek Ball Park. “Other than that, I thought Experienced pitcher needed.

I had a pretty good chance.�

Info: Rick, 389-1482 or Dawn, He arrived in the Doug 659-4257.

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