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JULY 11, 2011

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Homeowners oppose tall sign at Sherrill Hill

By Betty Bean The Council of West Knox County Homeowners voted unanimously last week to urge City Council to turn down a request for a 50-foot sign at the entrance of the Sherrill Hill development at the corner of Moss Grove Boulevard and Kingston Pike.

On Friday, attorney Arthur Seymour Jr. said the Atlanta-based property owners are “re-evaluating” their request.

“There are plenty of 50-foot signs around,” said Seymour. “We are not asking for a variance of any sort. Our request is within the city code.”

The Metropolitan Planning Commission has already approved the towering sign, which is to be located on property that was annexed into the city, but is surrounded by neighborhoods that are outside the city limits.

The neighborhood’s appeal will go to City Council on July 26, and CWKCH president Margot Kline has already written to Mayor Daniel Brown and members of City Council about it.

“Hundreds of private homes are within 300 feet of the proposed development, and people who own these homes strongly oppose this sign. Neighborhoods throughout West Knox County also oppose this sign.

We want the Kingston Pike area between Cedar Springs Church and Franklin Square to remain an attractive and viable community for those of us who live, worship, work, shop and play here. We also want the retail stores in the Sherrill Hill development to successfully attract customers from nearby as well as from all over Knox County and beyond,” Kline said.

She said commercial developers have done a good job of keeping signs below 35 feet To page A-3

The size of the proposed sign at Sherrill Hill compared to other signage in west Knoxville.

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School board OK’s school design we can move forward with a bid,” said KSC facilities manager Doug Dillingham. The school board has budgeted $17.1 million for construction and the new school is expected to open in August 2013.

By Sandra Clark Board member Lynne Fugate The Knox County school board has approved architect Lanny thanked Cope and the neighbors Cope’s design for a new elementary for working out “the best possible school at Northshore Town Cen- outcome.” And Superintendent Jim ter near Pellissippi Parkway. “Now McIntyre said, “We didn’t want to

Rework satisfies neighborhood concerns

compromise safety for children or drive up costs. We have accomplished this.”

The compromise essentially flipped the school on the site, putting the front door on the back side, away from Thunderhead Road. As the accompanying site plan shows, most of the paved parking is away from the neighborhood. Cope said the car queue will hold 60 vehicles with al-

most 100 parking spaces designed on the driveway for evening events.

The masonry will be in two colors to match the color scheme of the commercial building on Thunderhead Road at Northshore Drive.

The school will use geothermal heating.

SEE SITE PLAN ON PAGE A-9.

Now on tap New microbrewery enters Knoxville beer market

By Wendy Smith There’s a shortage of craft beer in Knoxville, but an entrepreneur from Chicago and a brewmaster from St. Louis are doing their best to meet the need.

Adam Palmer was encouraged by his cousin, Knoxville attorney Jonathon Borsodi, to partner with him on the purchase of the former space of the New Knoxville Brewing Company on East Depot Avenue.

Palmer visited town and fell in love with the area and the idea of a microbrewery.

Marble City Brewery was born, and Palmer’s first order of business was to find a brewmaster. A brewmaster is part beer connoisseur, part chemist and part engineer.

Palmer found all three skills in Jennifer Muckerman. Her grandfather worked for Falstaff, and she grew up with a deep appreciation for lager.

“We’re a Catholic family from St. Louis,” she says. “We all drink a lot of beer.”

Muckerman began her career as a hostess in a restaurant with a microbrewery. She told her boss

that she wanted to learn the trade and ended up washing kegs. While she washed, she learned. Within a year she became a brewer, and six months later she was brewmaster.

She received certification at the Siebel Institute in Chicago. Eighthour days of instruction were intense, she says, but students could always visit the beer stoop to take the edge off.

Having complete control of the brewing process and formulating her own recipes appealed to her, so she applied with Palmer. They immediately hit it off.

“I really liked Knoxville. That sealed the deal for me,” she says.

As excited as she was to begin the new venture, she wasn’t crazy about the brewing equipment that came with the job. The first thing that had to go was the open fermentation system. The old building and nearby railroad tracks made the system particularly undesirable, and Palmer agreed to install a closed system.

Other equipment had had beer or water sitting in it since the New Knoxville Brewery closed in 2006.

Muckerman, who calls herself a “neat freak,” spent months taking machines apart, cleaning them and rebuilding them. She has had to jury rig the mash tun, the vessel used to convert grain starch to sugar, to

Marble City Brewery brewmaster Jennifer Muckerman stirs grain into the mash tun, where the grain’s starch is converted to sugar. Her favorite beer is Marble City’s amber ale. Photo by Wendy Smith keep the grain from seeping into the next step of the brewing process.

The equipment is also labor intensive. Manually stirring the grain as it goes into the mash tun is exhausting, she says, but burning the extra calories allows her to enjoy more of her product.

The brewery currently produces two batches of beer a week. Each batch is about 25 barrels, and a barrel holds 31 gallons. Muckerman has a small pilot system that allows her to experiment with recipes before making an entire batch. One of her most popular recipes is a spiced

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West Knox Kiwanis wants a project David Green is Kiwanis Division 5 Lt. Governor, and at a recent division council meeting, talk centered on how most clubs are facing a shortage of members and funds.

Wendy Smith

Lumpy, phone home As a government reporter and political columnist, controversy is my red meat. So I can’t help but miss the days when Greg “Lumpy” Lambert spiced up County Commission meetings.

Lumpy brought a full suitcase of emotions along with his own peculiar brand of logic to commission.

Only Lumpy could shed crocodile tears at a commission meeting over the troubles of former Ragsdale pal Harry Sherrod. And Lumpy is probably the only commissioner to leave his seat (on at least two occasions) to confront a speaker or an audience member.

A staunch defender of the Second Amendment, he brought us the resolution to honor Charlton Heston, the late actor and one-time NRA president. Yet in 2008 he supported a Democrat, Mark Brown, for a Sessions Court judge appointment, and local Republicans were ready to boot Lumpy from the big tent.

Lumpy supplied reporters with more “money quotes” than the rest of commission combined. Of the clash between Ragsdale and Lewis Cosby, Lumpy said: “The mayor turned a ‘showboat’ into an attack sub armed with nuclear missiles.”

In a burst of righteous indignation over the plight of “the working man,” he dubbed former Commissioner Mark Harmon a “university twit.” He exchanged pleasantries with Commissioner Tony Norman over the Hillside and Ridgetop Protection Plan, although he denied Norman’s accusation that his off-camera remarks were liberally sprinkled with the “f-bomb.”

He once caused this reporter to lament: “Can Lumpy save himself from himself?”

In the end, he may have decided that – politically – he couldn’t and decided not to contest for the 6th District seat now occupied by Brad Anders after commission was reorganized into 11 members.

If you’re out there, Lumpy, phone home. It’s getting to be a dull summer.

Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

Green is a member of the West Knoxville Kiwanis Club. While the group would like to grow its membership, it has plenty of money and is looking to give it away.

The club wants to find a continuing project that will have a big impact on children in West Knoxville and attract new Kiwanians.

Members are willing to roll up their sleeves and get to work in addition to providing funds. The club made $18,000 last year from collecting parking fees at First Tennessee Bank and Covenant Health Credit Union lots on football Saturdays.

A long-running project of providing car seats to local hospitals and agencies ended last year. The club supports a number of organizations with small donations, but they want a project that will make a big splash.

“We want something that will make people say, ‘Wow! Look at what that club did!’ ” says immediate past president Mike Pak. The West Knoxville Kiwanis Club is the only local club to hold evening meetings. It meets at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at Shoney’s on Walker Springs Road.

West Knoxville Kiwanis Club members Mike Pak, David Green, John Schneiter and Cheryll Heltman are looking for a project that will allow them to serve local kids.

Amber Blakely and Katherine Setliff of Kids on the Block perform a puppet show about culture at the West Knoxville branch library. Photos by Wendy Smith

program of Child and Family Tennessee, brought a mix of education and entertainment to the West Knoxville branch library last week.

The show’s topic was culture. It featured an American teenager who is strug■ Puppets help gling to define her family’s kids stay safe culture while surrounded The Kids on the Block by kids whose families come puppet show, an outreach from other countries.

Kids on the Block performed for 10,000 kids in Knox County last year, says puppeteer Katherine Setliff.

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The group also performed in 12 surrounding counties.

The shows have a variety of subjects, including some weighty ones. A performance that focuses on child abuse is aimed at 2nd graders. Children who won’t talk to an adult might talk to a puppet, says Setliff.

“The shows help kids stay happy, healthy and safe,” she says.

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The problem with painting

It’s summer, and that means houseguests. And for most self-respecting homeowners, a houseguest means finally getting around to a long-put-off home improvement project.

That’s why I spent a good part of the holiday weekend with a paintbrush in my hand. It’s one thing for my kids to see peeling paint in their bathroom every

day, but it’s another for my old college friends to see it. As soon as we learned our friends would be passing through town, I was at Lowe’s picking out paint.

Painting is hard work, but it’s a good excuse for some peace and quiet. One of my favorite lines is, “Leave mama alone. I don’t want you breathing these fumes.”

The frustrating thing about painting is that it emphasizes the fact that I’m not perfect. Obviously, no one is perfect, and I don’t really think that I should be.

But I feel like I’m smart and talented enough to be able to do at least this one thing perfectly – and I can’t.

I should be able to paint the top of the wall without hitting the ceiling. And I should be able to spread a drop cloth in such a way that paint doesn’t drip on the carpet. And when I am careful, and work in good light, I should be able to cover the entire room without having to come back the next day and repaint.

No matter how hard I try, I can’t do any of those things.

I hate that, and not just because it fouls up an otherwise perfect paint job. I hate it because it reminds me that no matter how hard I try to catch every grammatical error or stick to the household budget or raise perfect kids, I just can’t do it.

Imperfection happens despite our best efforts, and all we can do is hope the flaws aren’t so glaring that our old college friends notice.

Next time, I’m paying someone else to paint.

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WUOT opens doors to visitors

■ The Knoxville City Council Pension Task Force will have its first meeting 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, in the small assembly room of the City-County Building. Info: 215-2075.

By Wendy Smith WUOT just ended its fiscal year, so now it’s time to party. The station will host an open house 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, at its studio in room 209 in the UT Communications Building.

The annual open house is fun because it gives listeners a chance to see “the man behind the curtain,” says Station Director Regina Dean. Staff members, likewise, enjoy the opportunity to meet listeners face-to-face.

WUOT has a few more things to celebrate since it observed its 60th anniversary in 2009. For the first time in several years, the station is fully staffed with the additions of Christine Jessel Grider and Brandon Hollingsworth.

Grider was hired to cover education with a grant provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

WUOT is part of a consortium that includes six other news organizations in the South, and each has a full-time reporter funded by the grant. Their objective is reporting on the region’s educational challenges.

Hollingsworth, the new host of “All Things Considered,” was recruited from Alabama Public Radio.

Dean is pleased that the station ended its fiscal year with almost $1 million in underwriting and memberships. While many public radio stations struggle financially, WUOT has managed to hit its target for the past several years, she says. The station’s listeners are loyal and understand that they need to do their part to keep WUOT on the air.

“It’s marvelous, because people really get it.”

That’s particularly important since the station’s federal funding,

■ The Embroiderers’ Guild of America will meet 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, July 12, at Messiah Lutheran Church, 6900 Kingston Pike. Nationally known off loom bead weaver Cynthia Rutledge will discuss “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words of Beads.” Everyone is invited. Info: 777-9535.

■ The Harvey Broome Group/ Sierra Club will meet 7 p.m.

Tuesday, July 12, at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church on Kingston Pike.

Donna Davis and Ivan Beltz will discuss their trip to the Arctic.

Chrissy Keuper, right, hosted the July 6 edition of WUOT’s talk show, “Dialogue,” which featured Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett. Such programming is a wonderful tool for education, says Keuper. Photo by Wendy Smith which is about 9 percent of its budget, continues to be in limbo. But Dean is optimistic that public radio will avoid the congressional axe. Studies have shown that most Americans think public radio is a good investment, she says.

Program Director Greg Hill was taking calls for the July 6 edition of local news talk show “Dialogue” featuring Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett when he commented that public radio is valuable for education as well as entertainment. Programming that features local and national issues en-

lightens listeners, and National Public Radio shows like “Car Talk” and “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” tickle the funny bone.

The station also offers a sense of community.

“It reflects the culture, values and interests of Knoxville and East Tennessee,” says Hill.

Chrissy Keuper, who was host of this month’s “Dialogue” and is the local host of “Morning Edition,” says public radio allows listeners to hear about things they might not be exposed to otherwise.

■ Knoxville Civil War Roundtable will meet 8 p.m.

Tuesday, July 12, at Bearden Banquet Hall on Kingston Pike. Historian and author Michael R. Bradley, Ph.D. will discuss “The Bodyguard and Staff of Nathan Bedford Forrest.” Everyone is invited. Admission is $5. Dinner at 7 p.m. is an additional $17. Deadline to register is 11 a.m. Monday, July 11. RSVP at 691-9001.

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“Having the conversation is my ■ New York Times best-selling favorite part. I’m not thinking about author Amy Greene will who’s listening.” teach the workshop “BeginThe open house will feature staning the Novel” 2-4 p.m. Saturtion tours, live music from Todd Steed day, July 23, at the Redeemer and Bob Deck, food from the Tomato Church, 1642 Highland Ave. Head and Magpies, caricatures, and Sponsored by the Knoxville door prizes. Free parking is available Writers’ Guild. Cost is $20 ($15 for guild members). Info: www. on Circle Park Drive. knoxvillewritersguild.org.

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high along this stretch of Kingston Pike for the past 15 years.

The homeowners have a strong ally in City Council member Duane Grieve, former president of the anti-billboard group Scenic Knoxville. In an email to Kline (and copied to his City Council colleagues), Grieve said he is working to find a compromise acceptable to both sides.

“What is being proposed on that stretch of Kingston Pike is an example of sign clutter and in my mind is unacceptable. Our ordinance

allowing seven 50 foot signs on the properties is unacceptable,” Grieve said.

In other business, mosquito infestation is a particularly noxious side effect of the housing bust, said Knox County Director of Environmental Health Ronnie Nease.

Swimming pools in the yards of foreclosed properties quickly become mosquito breeding grounds, Nease said. He cited the Cedar Bluff area as “notorious for mosquitoes since 1999.

We’ve worked on this for years.”

Nease said his department is keeping watch for the West Nile virus and is collecting mosquito samples

weekly from 10 traps located throughout Knox County.

Each of those traps contains more than 1,000 mosquitoes, which are sorted by hand – males discarded, females sorted by species.

He delivered the standard warnings about allowing standing water to stagnate in yards and recommended checking the drip pans under patio plants and changing birdbath water every couple of days.

“You got water? You got mosquitoes. They will breed in a Coke can,” Nease said.

“There’s the tiger mosquito – the black one with white stripes that came in on a boat load of tires in Texas.

They will eat you up.”

Tech help at the library A monthly computer workshop will be held at Lawson McGhee Library 5:30 p.m. Monday, July 25, and 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29. The public is invited to come with questions about computers, iPods, etc. Info: 215-8723.

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government Right hand sues the left Crary. Also present were entrepreneur Ron Watkins, attorney Jim London, state Rep. Jimmy Matlock, state Sen. Randy McNally and former City Council member Barbara Pelot. Massey also has the public backing former council member Rob Frost and state Rep. Ryan Haynes.

■ Nick Pavlis, council member, drove the Massey car in the Farragut July 4 parade.

■ Ivan Harmon’s mayoral campaign has moved into a more active phase with billboards scattered in strategic locations around the city and well produced TV ads hitting the air waves. Harmon has avoided the Rogero-Padgett attacks while campaigning steadily. People who discount his chances of forcing and being in a runoff are ahead of themselves, in my view. Harmon is definitely a factor in the campaign and both Rogero and Padgett really do not know what to do about it.

■ Heath Shuler coming to Knoxville as UT’s athletic director? Who knows?

But he did recently place himself on the host committee for a Mark Padgett fundraiser at the home of well known Democratic attorney Greg Isaacs. Most top UT officials do not endorse political candidates. Shuler’s congressional district near Asheville has been revised by the Republican legislature to remove much of Democratic Asheville making his re-election in 2012 more difficult and a high paying UT position more appealing.

■ TVA has a new director which the U.S. Senate confirmed unanimously on June 29. He is former Oxford, Miss., Mayor Richard Howorth. He owns and operates the Square Bookstore on Oxford’s main square.

Born and raised in Oxford, he just completed two terms as mayor. He grew up across the street from the William Faulkner home and comes from a well connected family with brothers who were a judge, an attorney, an architect and the retired admissions director at Ole Miss. He brings a different background than most TVA directors. Whether he will reflect a change to more accountability and transparency is yet to be determined.

City taxpayers’ money is being spent at a fast rate in the city vs. city pension board lawsuit with the latest court appearance in Chancellery Court on June 27.

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Seven attorneys, all on the meter at several hundred dollars an hour, were in court on different sides of the lawsuit with taxpayers funding most of it. Pension board attorneys are paid by the pension board insurance company as part of the policy which is paid by taxpayers.

It was an all star cast with city law director Debbie Poplin and her assistant Ron Mills in court much of the day. Also present were former city law director Michael Kelley, former deputy law director John Batson and Robert Watson, a very effective attorney on local government issues.

Chancellor Daryl Fansler set a trial date for Aug. 22.

This is a classic case of the right hand suing the left hand and adult supervision is needed to bring it to an end. Otherwise, the lawsuit, already almost a year old, can continue for years as the parties seem bent on taking it all the way to the state Supreme Court.

Larry Martin and Bill Lyons, who co-manage the day-to-day affairs of the city, should step in and attempt to resolve this matter so the next mayor does not have it sitting on the desk. A resolution will save the city thousands of dollars. Martin currently attends city pension board meetings as the mayor’s representative. He could make mediation a reality. He has the personality, persona and gravitas to make it happen if he will just do it.

Notes ■ Becky Massey, Republican candidate for the open Jamie Woodson state Senate seat, held a huge fundraiser June 28 in West Knox County with more than 250 present, including four former Knox GOP chairs: Gerald Turner, Billy Stokes, Chad Tindell and Irene Mc-

Knoxville Fleet Service gets ‘Blue Seal’ award For the third year, the city of Knoxville’s Fleet Service Department has received the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence Blue Seal Certification. This means more than three-fourths of the mechanics hold at least one ASE certification.

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Is ‘ugly’ inevitable?

People who live inside the city limits frequently wonder aloud if they get what they pay for when they pony up their county taxes. That’s an oft-told tale.

This month, a group of West Knox County residents led

by County Commissioner Richard Briggs and the Council of West Knox Briggs County Homeowners president Margot Kline are getting ready to turn that refrain inside out by asking City Council not to approve a 50-foot tall sign to be erected at the entrance to a development that has been annexed into the city but is surrounded by neighborhoods that are outside the city limits.

The sign at Sherrill Hill

Betty Bean will be even more visible because it will sit on a berm that is 10 feet higher than Kingston Pike. Kline has corresponded with City Council member Duane Grieve, the former president of Scenic Knoxville, a group that opposes unsightly billboards, and Grieve has been encouraging.

But lobbying elected officials you can’t vote for is no easy thing. Briggs says he has been working on it.

“The city has carved that property out for tax purposes and has no constituents there whatsoever,” Briggs said. “We have a hard time getting them to listen to our complaints.”

He said that States View subdivision on the backside

“Most cities have 30-foot limits. It’s kind of crazy that we’d consider a 50-foot sign,” Briggs said.

Will not getting the sign be a deal breaker? At least one major tenant-to-be is expected to threaten to pull out of the development unless the giant sign is approved. That could prove to be a powerful argument in this economy.

But when these county residents go to City Council on July 26, they could be closer to the magic five votes than they know. Council members Nick Della Volpe, Charles Thomas and Daniel Brown generally vote with neighborhood and environmental groups in arguments involving visual blight.

Chris Woodhull is often friendly to those interests, as is Nick Pavlis. Marilyn Roddy frequently positions herself as a swing vote and is involved in a tough campaign for state Senate seat in a district that contains many non-city voters.

Flash: Burchett isn’t Ragsdale At least one plank in Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett’s campaign platform could have been labeled “I’m not Ragsdale.” It was based on the sensible belief that Knox County was tired of the scandals that marked Ragsdale’s years in office.

So, Burchett isn’t Ragsdale, but who is he? Those who hoped that a new broom would sweep clean were disappointed early by the severance package fiasco. It turned out there was more theater than thunder in Burchett’s criticism of the deals offered to three departing senior employees.

Burchett rode out the storm but lost some of the luster on his shiny new administration. Anyway, no one serves in the General Assembly for nearly two decades without learning how to cut deals that might offend the pure in heart. The trick is not to get caught.

So we discovered (surprise!) that Burchett is a politician. What else?

On the role of government, we know the rhetoric is real. The mayor has only begun to rein in county government, and local nonprofits had better step up their private fundraising activities.

(In a sense, the moment and the man came together last year. Hard times are made for hard-liners – back to basics.)

Because we have two mayors around here, some forget that city residents are also county residents who pay taxes to both governments. Burchett isn’t oblivious to this, but he understands where his sup-

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port comes from, and it isn’t from the inner city.

We know from his own testimony that he isn’t a details manager. Committee meetings bore him – just give him the big picture.

Burchett literally came of age under a system of checks and balances, legislative and executive. He knows the game as well as anyone, but he hasn’t been shy about grazing in neighboring pastures, like the one staked out by the school board, where he’s

spending considerable political capital on the Carter project. The bottom line: he wants to win.

That need to win was never more evident than last month when County Commission approved his budget. The mayor and his staff stopped just short of breaking into the “Halleluiah” chorus.

In Burchett we have a mayor who wants to win and who knows where his base resides. He’s more concerned with the “vision” then the details, and he practices the politics he preaches. Not a bad mix for the top dog (especially if you agree with his politics), but we’d like to see more willingness to compromise, a skill we know he brought

with him from Nashville.

He’ll have a chance to hone it when the next budget rolls around, if not before.

Note: Tennessee now has a law which makes it a crime to post any image online that causes “emotional distress” to any individual.

Because my byline picture appears on this page every week, this law caused me some emotional distress.

Could the image of my noble countenance offend a person of reasonable sensibilities?

I’m less concerned since I learned the ACLU is challenging the law on First Amendment grounds. Still, I may consider booking a Glamour Shots session just to be safe.

Contact: lvgknox@mindspring.com.

Helping Finbarr Former school board member Anne Woodle stands with Finbarr Saunders, candidate for City Council, following a reception at her North Hills home last week.

Woodle announced the event and invited her friends on Facebook.

“Finbarr has more integrity and a genuine desire to make a contribution than almost anyone I know,” said Woodle.

Saunders is an at-large candidate for Seat C where his opponents are Terry Milligan, Ron Peabody and Sharon Welch.

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“The runoff went into these people’s backyards like a mudslide,” Briggs said.

“There are a lot of folks who have no representation,” said Kline, who counted 139 residential lots around Sherrill Hill, 136 of which were built on.

“That’s a whole lot of people not to have their voices heard,” Kline said. “It’s frustrating. The people who are most affected have no representation. The people at Seven Oaks wanted to get a berm put up, but the county can’t do it.”

“We have a choice of making it ugly or making it nice,” said Briggs, who quoted the motto of Scenic Knoxville: “Progress is inevitable. Ugliness isn’t.”

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By Larry Van Guilder One way or another, the Carter Elementary saga ends next month when the school board will accept or reject Mayor Tim Burchett’s proposal.

Most Carter residents and Burchett want a new school. Burchett says the school board can have one with minimal impact to the schools’ capital budget.

Analysis Twice the board has voted to renovate the elementary school. Feeling the heat – real or perceived – County Commission has denied the board $5 million in capital funds planned for the renovation and for building a new middle school gym.

Now, by selling county properties to raise cash, Burchett says he can pay for the $13.8 million school if the board will kick in half of the never appropriated $5 million.

“This is your decision,”

School board members Mike McMillan and Pam Trainor engage Mayor Tim Burchett at last week’s school board workshop. Photo by S. Clark Burchett said at last week’s school board workshop. “(My plan) is a way for you to get a new school for the cost of renovation.”

Kim Sepesi, 7th District board member, says the mayor has a lot riding on the board’s decision.

“The mayor has staked his reputation on coming

up with the money for this,” Sepesi said. “Coming from a design background, I’ve (always) been for building a new school. If we get into a remodel, I’m afraid we might end up spending nearly as much.”

Sepesi concedes that the board “normally operates” by getting “full disclosure up front,” referring to the

Congrats on great work!

Congratulations are in order on two fronts.

First, thanks to Gov. Bill Haslam and his Department of Education for getting the TCAP results back so quickly. In the past the school year has been half over before teachers knew the results of their previous year’s work.

Second, thanks to the teachers and leaders of Knox County Schools for tackling tougher standards and excelling. The TCAP results released Friday showed gains for grades 3-8. In Knox County, proficient and advanced scores showed:

Sandra Clark ■ Reading, up 1.5% ■ Math, up 5.8% ■ Science, up 2.8% ■ Social studies, up 1.9% Growth was higher in math because overall scores were lower; fewer than half of students tested were proficient or advanced. In social studies, 83 percent were proficient or advanced.

So there’s still a ways to go.

The school year started for me at Gresham Middle where principal Donna Parker fended off parents with virtual pitchforks who thought the higher standards were unfair to their kids.

Individual school scores were not provided on Friday, but I’ll bet Gresham did OK. Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre said he’s pleased with the progress made and grateful to the teachers, students, parents and staff for their hard work.

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lack of specifics about what properties might be sold.

“We have to do our due diligence,” she said, “(But) I would vote to accept the money at this time.”

Lynne Fugate represents the 4th District, and her expertise is banking.

“I feel really comfortable going on record saying I won’t vote for a new Carter school,” Fugate said, noting that two boards composed of different members had voted for renovation.

“Whether the school board pays for it or the county pays for it, it’s still taxpayer money,” she added. “I can’t justify it no matter whose budget it comes out of.”

Fugate said the only reason County Commission asked the board to reconsider its position on renovation was that it had been told a new school could be built for $7 to $8 million. The board’s own estimate was about $13 million.

“I have three schools in my district that are as old or

older than Carter,” Fugate said. “They’ve been renovated and they’re fine.”

Sepesi and Fugate represent the extremes for the school board, a solid “yes” and a solid “no.” Mike McMillan certainly, and Cindy Buttry probably will stand with Sepesi. Fugate’s likely allies are board chair Indya Kincannon and vice chair Karen Carson. Deadlock, 3-3.

The mayor’s challenge is to sell his plan to two of the three remaining board members, Gloria Deathridge, Pam Trainor and Thomas Deakins.

Trainor seems unconvinced, willing to listen to more specifics but wondering why a new school for Carter is more important than New Hopewell in her district. Deathridge and Deakins have been carefully noncommittal.

Best guess on next month’s vote – 5-4, and if the mayor has 5, the Hornets will have a new nest.

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Architect Lanny Cope must have gulped when David Collins showed a design for the new Carter Elementary School at last week’s school board workshop.

It looked a lot like the Cope-designed Gibbs Elementary School. Collins even said, “This is not unlike Gibbs Elementary.”

Then Cope showed his design for the new southwest elementary. “This is Gibbs Elementary only bigger,” said schools guy Doug Dillingham.

■ Joe Jarret will name independent counsel to represent the school board in analyzing Tim Burchett’s plan to finance a Jarret new school at Carter. Jarret said board chair Indya Kincannon made the request and he’s phoned several lawyers but none has called back.

Maybe lawyers are smarter than we thought!

■ The NEA says Teach for America’s alternative certification program takes away jobs and is anti-union.

Gov. Bill Haslam hired an education commissioner who last worked for Teach for America.

■ Charlie Daniel drew a cartoon in the early ’80s of a barrel of apples with one stinking to high heavens. “Why don’t you throw it out?” asked a guy. “Got tenure,” said the other.

■ Stacey Campfield is a rodeo clown, acting silly while the real Republican agenda is implemented elsewhere. TEA union busting heads the list.

■ Jim McIntyre has named his strategic compensation plan: Advance, perform, excel. “Ape?” asked Karen Carson. Nope.

It’s APEX and there’s a logo.

■ Tim Burchett thanked the school board for being “forthright,” saying, “After 16 years of where I’ve been, it’s appreciated.”

Burchett, of course, was in the state Legislature.

■ Ivan Harmon wants support as the “only Republican running” for Knoxville mayor so why was he at the Boyd Cloud Democratic Club recently?

Just to say howdy, we guess.

– S. Clark

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The Tabernacle. Built especially for the Billy Sunday Crusade by the local arrangements team, the spacious building was located on North Gay Street between Magnolia and West Fifth Ave. The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is in the background.

Photo courtesy C.M. McClung Historical Collection

When Billy Sunday came to Knoxville

William A. “Billy� Sunday (18621935). After an eight-year career in major league baseball, Sunday was called to preach and became the Rev. Billy Graham of his day.

HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin I was eight years old when our family attended the Billy Sunday Crusade. I was too young to understand or remember Billy’s preaching, but I have a vivid memory of the sawdust below my dangling legs. (The path repentant sinners walked to the confessional altar at crusades was commonly known as the “sawdust trail.�) – Lowell Giffin, 1994

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t the height of his popularity, the Rev. Billy Sunday held a six-week crusade in Knoxville from Jan. 7 to Feb. 19, 1923, in a tabernacle built for the crusade in seven weeks at a cost of $15,000. There were seats for 7,000 congregants and for a choir of 1,013. The total Knoxville attendance rivaled the almost 480,000 that had attended a similar crusade in Columbia, S.C., that same year.

William Ashley “Billy� Sunday was born in poverty on Nov. 19, 1862. His first generation German immigrant father, originally named William Sonntag, lived near Ames, Iowa, and had anglicized his name

before enlisting in the 23rd Iowa Infantry during the Civil War. He died of disease in Missouri just five weeks after the birth of William, his youngest son.

After his mother, Mary Jane Sunday, was deserted by a second husband, 10-year-old Billy and his older brother were sent to the Iowa’s Soldier’s Orphan Home. There he learned orderly habits and received a decent primary education. At 14, he became a farm hand and horse handler for Col. John Scott, a former state lieutenant governor. The family provided him a good home and enabled him to attend high school, although he never graduated.

Because of his athletic ability Billy relocated to Marshalltown, Iowa, to work for a fire brigade team, compete in brigade tournaments and play for the town baseball team. In 1883, Marshalltown native and future Hall of Famer “Cap� Anson recommended him to A.G. Spalding, president of the Chicago White Stockings, the defending national champions.

With speed as his greatest asset,

A lion she was CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion, like a lioness – who dares rouse him up?

(Genesis 49: 9 NRSV)

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met her on Easter Day this year, and we liked each other immediately. Her eyes danced with spice and mischief, and a smile was never far from her lips.

Her name was Arial (a variation, I assumed, on the biblical Ariel, which means “lion of God�), and she was well and truly named. A lion she was.

Sunday would play with National League teams in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia from 1883 to 1890. His sparkling personality and athleticism made him popular with the fans. Although his lifetime batting average of .248 and total home runs of 12 in 499 games was not that impressive, he also had 170 RBIs and stole 246 bases. Playing in the outfield, he made spectacular catches after long sprints and athletic dives and enhanced his reputation as a fan favorite.

One Sunday afternoon in 1886 in Chicago, Sunday and some teammates were out on the town and Billy stopped to listen to a street corner preaching team from the Pacific Garden Mission. He began attending services at the mission and a former society matron working there convinced him, after some struggle, to become a Christian.

After his conversion, his changed behavior was noticed by both teammates and fans, and he soon began speaking at churches and the YMCA. In the spring of 1891, Sunday turned down a baseball con-

She pronounced her name Ay-rul when she introduced herself to me, and the implied invitation was for me to call her that. It was only implied, however, and not offered outright, so I used the more formal “Mrs. Minor.�

We shared a lot of things: love of the church, love of music, love of good food, love of her son.

Sixteen days after I met her she had a wreck, which left her with injuries she could not recover from. The next time I saw her, her eyes were closed. They never fluttered as I held her hand and sang to her.

She improved enough to be moved from the trauma center where she had been taken immediately after the

tract for $3,000 a year to take position with the YMCA at $83 a month.

This was good preparation for his future evangelistic work since he visited saloons to invite men to prayer meetings, visited the sick and prayed with the troubled.

In 1893, he became an assistant to the Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, one of the best known evangelists in the U.S. at the time. His job as an advance worker required Sunday to organize prayer meetings and choirs and take care of the necessary premeeting details, often assisting to erect tents when they were used.

When the Rev. Chapman decided to return to a regular pastorate in 1896, Sunday struck out on his own. For the next 12 years he preached in approximately 70 communities, mostly in Iowa and Illinois. He took advantage of his reputation as a baseball player to organize local businesses into teams and to schedule games.

Dressed in his professional uniform, Sunday would play on both sides to the delight of the fans.

When his revivals began to attract crowds larger than rural churches or town halls could accommodate, he rented large canvas tents, often helping set them up and sometimes

accident to another hospital’s rehab center. Her eyes were open now, and bright as ever. She was frustrated that she could only mouth words: the vent that was breathing for her kept her from making any sound. We tried hard to read lips, with varying degrees of success, and she would frown at us as if to say, “Do better!�

She never complained, not once, except to wrinkle her nose or twitch one foot (the only part of her extremities she could move) to get our attention.

Her children were faithfully by her side, teasing with her and making jokes to keep things as normal as possible.

But as the days wore on, her body was gradually losing

sleeping in them for security.

Sunday was immediately smitten when he met Helen Amelia “Nell� Thompson, daughter of the owner of the city’s largest dairy products business, at Chicago’s Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church. He married the helpmate who would share in his ministry for the remainder of his life on Sep. 5, 1888. They would become parents of four children.

By 1905, the ministry had grown enough to hire its own advance worker while Nell took over the administration. Freewill offerings typically were the source of income.

When an October 1906 snowstorm in Colorado destroyed his tent early in a meeting, Sunday began to insist that cities build temporary tabernacles. They were comparatively expensive to build but much of the lumber could be resold at the end of the meeting. At first the giant barn raising effort with Sunday assisting the volunteer townspeople proved to be valuable public relations. It was also a status symbol as previously only major evangelists like Chapman had built them.

By 1917, the team was traveling to larger cities and the paid staff had grown to 26 – custodians, an advance team, Bible teachers and musicians. Homer A. Rodeheaver (1880-1955), who lived in Jellico, Tenn., during his childhood, became the team’s exceptional trombone-playing song leader and choir director from 1910 to 1930.

The 1923 Knoxville crusade was typical. Rodeheaver first conducted congregational singing, interspersed with solos, duets and special selections by the more than 1,000-member choir. Then the charismatic Sunday launched into the message, punctuated by his rapid movement across the stage, his dynamic verbal expressions and his exaggerated gestures.

More than 9,000 conversions were reported for the six-week Knoxville crusade with two services each day (except Monday), leading local minister the Rev. Richie Ware to observe, “Those of us who were instrumental in bringing him here have every reason to feel grateful when we see the great spiritual awakening which has resulted from the meetings.�

Author’s Note: Thanks to J. Steven Cotham, Ted Baehr and Martha Rosson of the C.M. McClung Historical Collection for their assistance with the research for this article. Additional information and photographs may be found at www.fountaincitytnhistory.info/.

the battle she fought so valiantly.

The amazing thing was that, even as her body was failing, her eyes were still bright. She was there, with us, fully aware, fully conscious.

It was a cruel irony, when so many live with degenerative diseases of the mind in otherwise healthy bodies, that here was a woman, trapped in a failing body, whose cognitive powers were intact.

The doctors and nurses were wonderful, caring for her at first with utmost professionalism, and toward the last with great love. Finally, the doctor talked to her family and explained that there was not a great future ahead.

The family, knowing their mom, opted to let her make

her own choice.

She made it with little hesitation, declaring to the doctor, “I’m miserable.�

She made the decision to be weaned from the vent. It was her choice, and she made it, clearly, decisively. Modern medicine made her comfortable during the hours that were left to her.

Her three children were with her, and her brother Ray, who had been present when she was born, was there when she breathed her last.

Her memorial service was a wonderful mixture of tears and laughter, of music and faith, of Scripture read and proclaimed, of honest memories, of friends and family.

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BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS • JULY 11, 2011 • A-7 Two-year-old Julianne Newton enjoys playing in the surf at Dewees Island, S.C. Her extended family often had the entire beach to themselves while vacationing June 19-26. Photos by L. Furtner

Wild sand dunes provide a natural barrier against storm surges on Dewees Island. Dunes are off-limits for playing or shelling as they also provide nesting areas for loggerhead sea turtles.

Where to get away from it all Vacationing at Dewees Island LORRAINE’S CORNER | Lorraine Furtner

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ood news. Getting “away from it all” is not that far away. If your idea of a vacation is finding a great fishing spot or strolling on an empty beach, flanked by wild dunes and a maritime forest, then consider Dewees Island, S.C. A nature center and pool are also located on the property.

I came across this privately owned island while searching for beach houses to accommodate my husband, Chuck’s, family. Even Chuck’s siblings who reside in South Carolina had not heard of it.

“We are the East Coast’s best kept secret,” said Judy Fairchild, halftime resident and former Dewees Island environmental board chair.

Fairchild compares a vacation here to a “luxury family camp.”

Dewees Island is only accessible by boat. Golf carts are the primary form of transportation; there are no cars except security or emergency vehicles. Visitors travel to the island via ferry from Isle of Palms, S.C., and must have prior arrangements through an owner or rental agency.

My sister-in-law Tara Newton said it felt a little too much like “roughing it.” Her idea of a vacation includes ordering drinks by the pool and does not involve cooking or laundry.

While excursions to nearby historic attractions, restaurants and golf courses are possible, a vacation to Dewees Island is best for nature lovers. I saw dolphins every day, and spotted bald eagles, snowy egrets, a great horned owl and one lanky raccoon haunting our access to Lake Timicau and our garage.

Alligators, sharks, jellyfish and snakes were also seen on the island, but we were only attacked by bugs. Mosquito repellant is as necessary as sunscreen on this beach get-away.

Don’t let the predators frighten you. Lori Sheridan Wilson, current environmental generalist/naturalist on Dewees, said the most com-

mon jellyfish seen are cannonball jellyfish, with a distinctive maroon band, whose sting is barely detectable to most people, or moon jellies which are one of the least toxic types of jellyfish.

“I wouldn’t let those keep you out of the water,” said Sheridan Wilson.

Sheridan Wilson advised not swimming in the ocean at dusk, dawn or if you see a school of “bait fish,” or observe pelicans or other birds retrieving a lot of fish, as that’s when sharks are most likely to be present.

Fairchild suggests giving alligators a wide berth – not just if you encounter them walking or driving your golf cart, but also when fishing or crabbing.

Fairchild said this gets tricky when she shows up at a fishing/ crabbing spot and there’s an alligator wanting to eat there, too. Being environmentally conscious so that alligators won’t associate humans with food means that she might have to leave if the alligator doesn’t.

“It’s a good policy, but it means I might occasionally get irritated,” laughed Fairchild, who spends all summer and nearly every weekend at her island property.

Dewees Island Property Owners Association (POA) manager Kim Knight said most properties are a second or third home for most owners, with only a dozen families calling the island home full time.

Anne Anderson lives at Dewees most of the year and finds it an adventure, including the extra step of unloading groceries onto the ferry before bringing them home. The solution? Don’t buy too much at once.

But how fun is the “adventure” of forgetting items when you went to the grocery store? That’s an hour’s round trip not to mention ferry fare ($7 each way for visitors, billed following your stay).

Anderson said, “residents utilize the ‘neighbor network’ if you desperately need an egg. We are a

Writing about writers TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West

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his is an old trick. When sportswriters run a little short on material, they sometimes write about other writers.

Even with that fair warning, you may still want to know that something called Pigskin Press, supposedly staffed by knowledgeable, insightful journalists named Brad, Rick, Ken and Louie, predicts a Cincinnati upset of Tennessee on Sept.

10 on the ground floor of Neyland Stadium.

The PP logic? Ten Bearcats return from a defense that gave up 26.7 points per game while losing seven of 11 last season.

Orlando Sentinel college expert Matt Murschel, previously a page designer for the South Bend Tribune, ranks teams based on such reasonable criteria as return-

ing lettermen, returning starters, 2010 performance, coaching staff changes, strength of schedule and strength of the conference.

For all the right reasons, uncertainty at linebacker, fuzziness in the secondary, lack of depth in the defensive front, loss of key receivers, etc., Matt says Tennessee is No. 49 among national powerhouses in the United States of America.

Can’t you just hear the Tennessee cheering section, “We’re number 49, we’re number 49!”

Incidentally, Murschel says East Carolina is No. 48.

Dennis Dodd, blessed with a journalism degree from Missouri and rich experience in the Midwest, speaks for CBSSports.com when he says Derek Dooley is already sitting on a medium hot seat

A Calico crab – just one of many species spotted on Dewees Island, S.C. Other species include blue, sand, fiddler, purse, hermit, ghost and horseshoe crabs.

Tips for a Dewees Island stay Chuck Furtner holds a young shark for examination before releasing it back into the ocean at Dewees Island. community in the old-fashioned sense of the word,” said Anderson.

The community consists of only 63 (out of a potential 150) homes on the 1,200-acre island which is committed to environmental preservation. The island has its own utility company, fire station and water purification facility.

“We are like a mini-town,” said Knight, “managing our own roads, utilities, trash and sewage.”

If you are planning a vacation during hurricane season be aware that water, electricity, sewage and transportation off the island could be shut down in the event of a hurricane watch. (Both Dewees Rentals and Island Realty that rents homes on Dewees offer vacation insurance to cover vacation losses due to hurricanes).

Fairchild, owner of Dewees Rentals, said most of the properties have beach equipment: towels, umbrellas and chairs. Homeowners or renters may have also left items for fishing such as casting nets or crab traps.

“We strongly discourage crab traps because they can devastate terrapin populations if males follow a female into them. You can catch crab just as easily with crab lines,” said Fairchild.

Fairchild has written a photographic and vacation guidebook

that is available to purchase or to read for free online at http://www. blurb.com/books/1801959.

One thing Fairchild loves about island life is that any of her three children aged 9-15 are capable of catching dinner and have taught others how to as well.

Sharon Lewis of Island Realty said occasionally the Dewees Island POA will have “wild weekends,” where the islanders come together preparing a meal from the food caught on the island. Lewis suggests checking the POA website (listed below) or postings at the ferry landing for events during your stay.

Staying on Dewees Island is not cheap, but is comparable in price to other South Carolina beachfront rentals and offers a memorable, unique experience, if nature, quiet beaches, fishing or “luxury camping” sound appealing to you.

Island Realty’s two properties rent from $2,175 to $2,940 during winter rates to $3,972 to $4,734 in the summer. Dewees Rentals property rates vary from $1,495 to $3,195 and can be rented by the night (three-night minimum) anytime except June 6 through Aug. 15, which are reserved for weekly rentals only.

Tips on Dewees Island transportation: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=3TTq_ty1rjg.

as coach of the Volunteers, temperature 3 on a scale of 1 to 5, Nick Saban being a zero.

Dodd didn’t spell out his thermometer reasoning but I think it is that spotty 6-7 record of last season, insufficient recruiting stars, a toughenough schedule and traditional Tennessee impatience.

What I am hearing in reaction from Vol fans is No way, Jose!

No way will Tennessee lose to Cincinnati. It just isn’t going to happen. That win is an absolute must in carrying the large Orange to an improved season.

No way could there be 48 teams better than Tennessee. I have it on good authority. A guy who works with my grandson says he heard we might actually win the East division of the SEC. A wizard in Las Vegas announced the odds are just 80 to 1 on the Vols winning the national championship.

No way is Dooley on the hot seat. He just got here. He is still installing his Vol for Life program, teaching team hygiene and assisting assistants in getting the correct number of players on the field. This is still the early stages of a rehabilitation project.

Expectations for this fall are modest – clobber everybody with worse problems, knock off starting-over Florida in Gainesville, bop Georgia on the pug nose and stun one of the big boys, Alabama, LSU or South Carolina.

Almost forgot, expect to go to a better bowl than Music City and just win, baby.

As for writing about other writers, I doubt that Brad, Rick, Ken and Louie could find Tennessee in a Rand McNally atlas. I am not totally convinced that Matt Murschel is a genuine expert or has ever been to Knoxville, ever seen the Vol Walk or the band forming the power T. He may or may not know the words to “Rocky Top.” Dennis Dodd should know better than to strike a match under Derek Dooley unless he is just trying to start an argument.

What matters more than those foreign opinions is what I think: Cincinnati is a worthy foe with a better reputation and better personnel than Montana and Buffalo. Not long ago, the Bearcats had a famous coach and were in a major bowl.

They are to be taken seriously.

As for No. 49 in the country,

■ Pack lightly and wash a load while you’re there.

■ Don’t forget insect repellant, sunscreen or your camera.

■ Bring refillable water bottles and fill at the island reverse osmosis station (versus lugging it on the ferry and creating waste). Ice is also available on the island.

■ Fishing anywhere on the island requires a saltwater fishing license available online at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources http://www.dnr.sc.gov/.

■ Bring and unload luggage, return for groceries rather than bring it all at once.

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Tennessee is somewhere near the middle of the SEC pack. If the Vols can generate a running attack and if Tyler Bray grows up some and takes care of business, this team can outscore several opponents.

As for Dooley on the hot seat, the Tennessee job is always hot, the focal point inside a giant glass oven.

Of course there is a fire in there, fed, in this case, by the fumes of Lane Kiffin, he who made a bad matter worse.

Young fans, spoiled rotten by the best of the Fulmer years, think they are entitled to instant gratification. Need a linebacker? Get a linebacker! We don’t want excuses, we want results.

Dooley does face a challenge.

It has been so long since the Vols won something. Indeed, the multitude is hungry. Informal polling says there are more optimists than pessimists but the coach must show progress.

All kinds of writers, good and bad, home and away, will tell you that Dooley is not ahead of schedule, no better than even with expectations.

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■ Click Funeral Home (675-8765): Ethel Lydia Anspaugh Dr. Oran Louis Culberson Larry A. Hutcheson Accalia Marie LeTourneau D. Louise Pittman ■ Stevens Mortuary (524-0331): Freddie Ray Bunch

■ Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike, will host GriefShare Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. Get support from the group while recovering from a loss and rebuilding your life.

Registration: Laura, 470-9800.

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WORSHIP NOTES Fundraisers and sales ■ Beaver Ridge UMC will receive 10 percent of the total purchases made 5-8 p.m. each Thursday at the Sonic restaurant in Karns. Info: www.beaverridgeumc.com.

Special Services ■ Concord Adult Day Enrichment Services (CADES), will have a caregiver support group 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive in room 226. The group is affiliated with East Tennessee Alzheimer’s Association and anyone in the community who gives care to an elderly

■ Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection will host the “Red, White and Blue Forever” luncheon 10:45 a.m.

Thursday, July 14, at Buddy’s Banquet Hall on Kingston Pike. The special feature will be “Celebrating America” with music by Sarah Holloway and Beverly Kerr. Guest speaker will be Shirley Craddock from Woodbury, Tenn.

Complimentary child care is by reservation only. Admission is $10. RSVP by calling Connie at 693-5298 or email dick3234@bellsouth.net.

Youth ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, has a number of summer events scheduled for the youth. There will be Bible study, fun days, road trips, community service days and more. Info: 690-1060 or www.beaverridgeumc.com.

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, has open gym for middle and high school students 7-9 p.m. every Thursday. Everyone is invited. No sign-ups or fees.

Providence Church shuts down, serves community

By Natalie Lester On Sunday, July 17, as other congregations listen to their pastors’ encouragement and instruction, Providence Church’s doors will be closed. Instead of the church gathering for a morning service, members will spend the day throughout Knoxville tackling multiple service projects from landscaping and home repair to serving meals at Knox Area Rescue Ministries.

“A church isn’t a building,” said executive pastor Greg Greer. “It is a group of people and this is our way to emphasize that. IT is a tangible way of ministry and definition of what the church is supposed to be.”

The event, titled Worship Serve, is in its fourth year at the church. The idea for the project came from another church, but Greer did not remember which one.

“We had heard it was done years ago by someone else,” he said. “We thought it was a novel way to put feet to your faith.”

Because the church’s members are spread throughout the county and surrounding areas, there is

no way to gage how many people participate. However, with 25 adult small groups and 16 student groups, Greer estimated close to 500 people will work to make a difference.

He was quick to add that the day really benefits those serving as much as those who are served.

“When you serve, you grow and gain new experiences that teach valuable lessons,” he said.

This year, the church is encouraging participants to do more than the physical labor of the day.

“We really want them to interact with the people whose lives they affect and put a face to their ministry,” Greer said.

Greer said the church would have a full report on the day in the weeks after the event, and the ultimate hope is to see God’s Kingdom grow.

“We pray some who see us working will be drawn to our doors when they are open again,” he said. “This is how we love and care for the community around us and bring others to know our God.”

Providence member Andy Bray builds a wheelchair ramp for an elderly couple during Worship Serve 2010. His small group spent the day making the home completely handicap accessible. Photo submitted

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The 2011-12 Rotary Club of Knoxville board of directors are: front) Ken Knight, Bob Marquis, Sam Weaver, Suzan Carriere, Brooks Clark; (back) Dr. Roy King, Jason Hamilton, Brown Wright, Wes Stowers, Ed Anderson and Allen Pannell. Not pictured is Robert Crawford. The board was installed during the group’s meeting June 28. Photo

KSO's Pop Series The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced the schedule for this year's News Sentinel Pops Series. The series begins with "The Sinatra Project" with Michael Feinstein 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1. Series tickets start at $103.

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Brown Bag Lecture A Brown Bag Lecture will be held noon Wednesday, July 13, at East Tennessee History Center on Gay Street.

Guest speaker Ethiel Garlington, director of Preservation Field Services for Knox Heritage will discuss the regional preservation efforts of the East Tennessee Preservation Alliance. Attendees are encouraged to bring their lunch.

Soft drinks will be available.

Info: 215-8824 or visit www.easttnhistory.org.

‘Personal Perspective’ The Clayton Center for the Arts on the Maryville College campus will host the exhibit “Personal Perspective” throughout the month of July. The show will feature works by local artists with developmental disabilities and physical limitations who have utilized groundbreaking techniques to express themselves through art. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. The artists will host a reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday, July 14, in the gallery. Info: 694-9964.

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SPORTS NOTES ■ Larry Simcox-Diamond Baseball Summer Camp, ages 6-11, 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Wednesday, July 18-20. Info: Larry, 567-9082 or www.diamondbaseballtn.com.

■ Basketball and SAQ Summer Camps, 8 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday, July 18-22, and Monday through Friday, July 25-29, at Performance Training Inc. at Fort Sanders Health and Fitness Center. Ages 6-13. Cost is $120 for members, $145 nonmembers.

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■ Hardin Valley Academy softball tryouts will be held 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 28, at the school’s softball field. Open to all girls who will be attending HVA for the 2011-2012 school year.

AMSE calendar The American Museum of Science and Energy, located at 300 South Tulane Ave. in Oak Ridge, is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. Info: www.amse.org.

■ “Nikon Small World” through Sunday, Aug. 7.

Travelling exhibit includes 20 award winning photomicrographs showing life through a microscope. AMSE lobby.

■ Department of Energy Oak Ridge facilities public bus tour through Friday, Sept. 2, with guide commentary once daily noon to 3 p.m. Stops include Spallation Neutron Source lobby and Graphite Reactor.

Participants must be U.S. citizens 10 years of age or older.

Photo ID is required. Seating is limited. AMSE lobby.

■ “Cold War Crisis: The U-2 Incident,” through Thursday, Sept. 1. Details the story of Gary Francis Powers, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who completed 27 U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA until shot down by a Soviet missile in 1960. Includes photos, newsreels and personal items. AMSE lobby.

Summer reading program still kickin’ Although Knox County Public Library’s summer reading program is halfway over, there is still time to sign up and participate. Children and teens can register online or at any library location. Registration is not necessary for the Adult Reading Challenge. Reading logs are available online and at all library locations, and all reading logs need to be turned in by Sunday, July 31, to receive their prize for Knox County Public Library’s summer reading programs. Info: www.knoxlib.org.

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Knoxville retail location or attended donation center for recycling.

Even though Goodwill will not be reselling computers in its stores, it is important to remember that it is each individual’s responsibility to delete all private and personal information for their protection.

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Knox County Public Library and UT’s Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature will host a workshop to highlight the best new books of the year 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, July 22, at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. The day will be divided into two sessions focusing on different age groups. Each session will cost $25 to attend. Participants should bring their own lunch. Certificates of attendance will be available for professional development purposes. Register online www.knoxlib.org.

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TAMIS archivists Bradley Reeves and Luisa Trott display part of the archive’s collection. Photo by B. Bean

2011 season with performances of “Othello” and “Comedy of Errors” on Market Square. The performances are free, but $5 donations are welcome. Bring your own chair or blanket to watch the performance under the stars. “Comedy of Errors,” one of Shakespeare’s first and funniest plays, will be performed at 7 p.m. July 14, 16, 22, 24, 28 and 30; Aug. 5, 7, 11 and 13. The tragedy “Othello” will be performed at 7 p.m.

July 15, 17, 21, 23, 29 and 31; Aug. 4, 6, 12 and 14. Info: www. tennesseestage.com.

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UT senior Brad Blackwell says Knoxville is the perfect place to grow a musical career. Photo by Wendy Smith

Brad Blackwell packs the Square Room

By Wendy Smith Up close, Brad Blackwell is disarmingly attractive. But when he took to the Square Room stage two weeks ago for his first appearance accompanied by a band, his laid-back style and accessibility made him seem more like a friend’s kid brother.

He’s not flashy. A plain white T-shirt and blue jeans carried him through the show.

And he’s not deep and poetic. He sings about new love, the girlfriend he never got over and his mother. He does it all with an infectious energy that draws a loyal fan base to every show he plays.

There are many opportunities for fans to “chill” with Brad. He currently has 15 Knoxville area shows booked for the month of July. That’s what it takes to build a fan base that will attract a record label, which is the next step in his music career.

The story goes that Blackwell, who grew up in Kingsport, was disappointed when he received a guitar for Christmas at the age of 17. He would’ve preferred an Xbox, he says.

But he taught himself to play, and by the time he arrived at UT, he was determined to make a living as a musician. Even his ma-

All this month ■ Artist Ocean Starr will have her work displayed during July at Bliss Home on Market Square. Info: www.oceanstarr.com.

■ Multimedia exhibit throughout July at the Art Market Gallery on Gay Street. Artists are Marjorie Horne and Lisa Kurtz. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and

jor – advertising – was chosen so he could better promote himself. He will graduate next spring.

As soon as he arrived in Knoxville, he introduced himself to Jim Denton. A family member attends church with Denton, who had his own taste of fame when he co-wrote “Rope the Moon,” a top 10 hit for country artist John Michael Montgomery in 1994.

Blackwell played for Denton, who decided the young musician had potential, and became his manager.

Many of Denton’s Nashville connections are still intact, which has made it easier for Blackwell to meet music industry executives.

“We’ve never had a door slammed in our faces,” says Blackwell.

His career has gotten a nudge from Jeff and Cindi Alpert, owners of 106.1 The River. The Alperts invited Blackwell to perform live in the studio and began to play a single called “She’s My Rainbow” from his first record, “Blue Sky.” The song is a fan favorite. Blackwell appreciates the regulars who come out to local restaurants, like Mulligans and Wild Wing

1-5 p.m. Sunday. Info: 525-5265.

■ An exhibit of local artists will be held in the balcony of the Emporium Center on Gay Street throughout July. Featuring watercolor, digital photography and more. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

■ “Summer Solstice Show” featuring works by the Fountain City Arts Guild during July at the Emporium Center on Gay Street. Gallery hours

Café, to hear him perform. He also appreciates it when those fans tell their friends, so he can pack a venue like the Square Room.

Social media is incredibly important to a budding musical career, and Blackwell is utilizing it to the best of his ability. He’s active on Facebook, but says he’s a “bad tweeter.” He prefers creating clean copy on his laptop to dashing off thoughts on his phone.

While most aspiring musicians head straight to Nashville, that market is so saturated with talent that it’s difficult to get the attention of fans, he says. He has advice for those who are starting out.

“I’d tell anybody to move to Knoxville.

You can cut your teeth here, pay your dues and get paid for performing.”

He says he feels “incredibly lucky” for the circumstances and relationships that have helped him reach this point in his career. He spent the past weekend in Nashville recording a new CD called “Fresh.”

The name coincides with his outlook.

“We’re seeing things play out the way we want them to,” he says. “I’ve had to be patient – but not that patient.”

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At the Bijou Theatre ■ The Bijou Theatre will host the Psychedelic Furs at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 12; and Hellogoodbye at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 14. Info: www.knoxbijou.com.

Many East Tennesseans entrust their family treasures to the care of the McClung Collection.

Fewer know that two floors down, in the basement of the East Tennessee History Center, there’s a place that preserves old recordings, home movies and tapes.

It’s the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, domain of archivists Bradley Reeves and Luisa Trott, who tend the vast collection of moving images, tapes and videos assembled there.

“Lots and lots of lost history,” Reeves said. “We’ve got home movies showing downtown Knoxville that go back to 1915, plus tapes of the old WNOX Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round, Jim Clayton and Cas Walker shows and some more obscure ones like Little Jimmy Hartsook. These have existed in private hands, and now we’ve been able to get our hands on them.”

TAMIS has stockpiled obsolete equipment necessary to play a 1945 Chet Atkins wire recording or a cylinder recording from the 1890s. Its most recent project is preserving thousands of hours of “Heartland Series” outtakes donated by WBIR. Cas Walker fans should be on the lookout for an October retrospective show with David West at the Ritz Theater in Clinton.

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Double delivery at Parkwest Sisters give birth on same day Growing up, sisters Kodi Dupuy and Chesni Bullman shared almost everything.

On April 21, 2011, they shared something else – they both delivered their ďŹ rst child at Parkwest Medical Center, three and a half hours apart.

They hadn’t intended things to work out that way.

Dupuy and her husband, Jason, had been married four years and had been trying for the last two to conceive their ďŹ rst child. After undergoing fertility treatment, they ďŹ nally got the news they’d been waiting for – Kodi was pregnant and due on April 25. “We were ecstatic,â€? said Dupuy. “We were still on cloud nine when a week later we found out that Chesni was pregnant too.â€?

Bullman and her husband, Joe, had just gotten married a few months prior and weren’t trying to start a family quite yet. Bullman said she felt a bit sheepish sharing her news with her family knowing how long Kodi and Jason had been trying to conceive. Especially since her due date was only two days after Kodi’s. “My ďŹ rst question to her was ‘Does mom know yet?’ â€? laughed Dupuy.

Dupuy was already an established patient with Parkwest physician Kori Cottam at Generations ObGyn. She encouraged her sister to become a patient of Dr. Cottam’s as well.

Kori Cottam, MD (center) with Dupuy and Bullman at their six-week check-up.

Sisters Kodi Dupuy and Chesni Bullman hold Maci and Alex at Parkwest Medical Center the day after delivery. “I knew Parkwest had an excellent reputation so when I was researching OB/GYNs before selecting Dr. Cottam, I knew I wanted someone who practiced there,� said Dupuy.

While neither sister experienced some of the more common side effects of pregnancy such as morning sickness or strange cravings, both were complicated in their own way. Dupuy suffered from gallbladder issues and had a gall stone attack over the Thanksgiving holiday. Bullman was in constant pain and began having contractions at 25 weeks. She ended up having to quit her job and rest to

see the pregnancy through to term. “I have been practicing obstetrics in Knoxville for 12 years. Pregnancies and labors can be quite different, even among sisters. The opportunity to care for and then deliver Kodi and Chesni on the same day was a very exciting and special experience for me,� said Dr. Cottam.

Approximately two to three weeks before their late April due dates, Bullman saw Dr. Cottam for a regular check up. Given her history of early contractions, Dr. Cottam recommended scheduling an induction for April 21 and offered to in-

duce Dupuy the same day. “At ďŹ rst Kodi was against it,â€? said Bullman. “But then we got to thinking about how neat it would be for our babies to share a birthday so she decided to join me.â€?

Elective inductions are offered to patients after 39 weeks gestation if the cervix is favorable – dilated and thinned – and the baby is head down. “The induction is continued unless the baby doesn’t tolerate labor or there is no progress in either the dilation of the cervix or the descent of the fetal head,� Dr. Cottam said.

The sisters arrived with husbands and families in tow at 6 a.m. on April 21.

They were settled into rooms directly across the hall from each other, hooked up to IVs and monitors, and began to wait. Both seemed to progress well throughout the morning and, in fact, were joking about it being a competition to see who would deliver ďŹ rst.

However, the afternoon did not go as smoothly for either expectant mother.

Neither continued to progress as expected and decisions were made for both to undergo cesarean sections later that night.

Alex Ryce Bullman arrived at 6:48 p.m. weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces and cousin Maci Claire Dupuy arrived at 10:13 p.m. weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces. “I thought it would be fun but it was really stressful,’ laughed Melishia, the

however many women do not realize they are pregnant before 28 days. Therefore, folic acid intake should begin prior to conception and continue through pregnancy. Your physician will recommend the appropriate amount of folic acid to meet your individual needs.

Most physicians will prescribe a prenatal supplement before conception, or shortly afterward, to ensure all of the woman’s nutritional needs are met. However, a prenatal supplement does not replace a healthy diet.

Nutrition before pregnancy N Becoming healthy before becoming pregnant Pre-conception nutrition is a vital part of preparing for pregnancy. “Factors such as a woman’s weight and what she eats can play an important role in her health during pregnancy and the health of her developing baby,� said Sheila Chadwick, Nurse Manager of the Parkwest Childbirth Center.

N Pre-pregnancy weight A mother’s pre-pregnancy weight has a direct influence on her baby’s birth weight. Studies show that underweight women are more likely to give birth to small babies, even though they may gain the same amount in pregnancy as normal weight women. Overweight women have increased risks for complications in pregnancy such as gestational diabetes or high blood pressure. Consult your physician about whether you need to lose or gain weight before becoming pregnant.

N Pre-pregnancy nutrition “Many women do not eat a well-balanced diet before pregnancy and may not have the proper nutritional status for the demands of pregnancy,� said Chadwick. Generally, a pregnant woman needs to add about 300 extra calories to meet the needs of her body and her developing baby.

However, those calories, as well as her entire diet, need to be healthy, balanced and nutritious.

The commonly known food guide pyramid has been replaced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2011 with MyPlate (www.myplate.gov). The plate is a more realistic image to help you eat a healthy diet.

new grandmother. “Watching both of my girls going through that at the same time and trying to be there to support them both was tougher than I thought it would be.�

Both families are learning that parenthood in general is much tougher than they thought. Alex and Maci both struggle with acid reux and are now taking medication and supplements to help. “We never knew a poopy diaper would be so important,â€? said both new moms.

They have some words of wisdom for other expectant parents as well: N Get an epidural N Have someone spend the night with you the ďŹ rst night N Enjoy it – they grow overnight “Be ready for your wife’s emotions; she’ll cry and you can’t ďŹ x it,â€? said Chesni’s husband, Joe.

N Iron Many women have low iron stores as a result of monthly menstruation and diets low in iron. Building iron stores helps prepare a mother’s body for the needs of the baby during pregnancy. Good sources of iron include the following: t Meats – beef, pork, lamb, liver and other organ meats

N Grains: make at least half of your grains whole

t Poultry – chicken, duck, turkey and liver (especially dark meat)

N Vegetables: vary your veggies

t Fish – shellfish, including clams, mussels, oysters, sardines and anchovies

N Fruits: Focus on increasing fruits

t Leafy greens of the cabbage family, such as broccoli, kale, turnip greens and collards

N Dairy: Get your calcium-rich foods, but watch out for fat content N Protein: Go lean with protein In addition to the five basic food groups, the following nutrients should be included in a woman’s pre-conception diet and continued into pregnancy: N Folic acid The U.S. Public Health Service recommends that all women of childbearing age consume 400 micrograms (0.4 mg) of folic acid each day. Folic acid, a nutrient found in some green, leafy vegetables, most berries, nuts, beans, citrus fruits, fortified breakfast cereals and some vitamin supplements can help reduce the risk of birth defects of the brain and spinal cord. Folic acid is most beneficial during the first 28 days after conception,

t Legumes – lima beans pinto beans, green peas, black-eyed peas and canned baked beans t :FBTU MFBWFOFE whole-wheat bread and rolls t Iron-enriched white bread, pasta, rice and cereals

N Calcium Preparing for pregnancy includes building healthy bones.

If there is not enough calcium in the pregnancy diet, the baby may draw calcium from the mother’s bones, which can put women at risk for osteoporosis later in life. The recommended daily intake for most women is 1,000 milligrams and an additional 400 milligrams is needed during pregnancy. Three or more servings of milk or other dairy products each day equals about 1,200 milligrams of calcium.

Always consult your physician regarding your healthy diet and exercise requirements before, during and after pregnancy.

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STRANG SENIOR CENTER Events for the week of July 11: ■ Monday, July 11: 9:30 a.m., Watercolor; 10 a.m., Cardio; 12:30 p.m., Sit N Be Fit ■ Tuesday, July 12: 8:45 a.m., Tai Chi 1; 9:30 a.m., BB Bridge; 10 a.m., Oil painting; 11:15 a.m., Pilates; 12:30 p.m., Canasta; 2 p.m., EZ Spanish ■ Wednesday, July 13: noon, Snack Series “Healthy Living” Mind, Body & Spirit. Lunch $3 ■ Thursday, July 14: 8:45 a.m., Tai Chi 1; 10 a.m., Tai Chi 2; 11:15 a.m., Mind & Body; 12:30 p.m., Sit N Be Fit class ■ Friday, July 15: 8:45 a.m., Advanced Cardio; 9:30 a.m., Canasta; 10 a.m., Cardio; 10:30 a.m., Social Bridge; 12:30 p.m., Yoga; 1 p.m., Rummikub; 2 p.m. Ballroom Info or to register for classes: 670-6693.

Caregivers in Knox County were recently honored for their “caring hearts” and the compassion shown when caring for individuals and families affected by Alzheimer’s. Photo submitted

Top caregivers honored for service The Eastern TN Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association recently honored a record number of unsung heroes – caregivers who go above and beyond when caring for individuals and families affected

by Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.

Caregivers who were nominated for the award were described as “committed” and “compassionate” and are known to possess a kind and loving spirit to each person in their care.

Nominee Joseph Amatangelo of Elmcroft of West Knoxville was described as “kind, considerate, respectful, loving and unselfish” and was recognized for treating residents at Elmcroft with the dignity they deserve.

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crest North complimented nominee LaQuesha Thompson for always having a pleasant and helpful attitude. “She puts her residents first,” said Coffman.

Individuals honored as “Caring Hearts” include: Suzanne Allred (Home Instead Senior Care), Joseph Amatangelo (Elmcroft of West Knox), Jamie Beeler (Camellia Home Health of East TN), Laura Big Eagle (FSRMC Transitional Care Unit), Josalyn Bradley (Hillcrest South), Jamye Branner (Smoky Mountain Hospice), Judy Brock

(Williamsburg Villas), Eva Brooks (Trinity Hills Assisted Living), Tonya Cheatham (NHC Knoxville), Angie Crawford (Visiting Angels), Cameron Dake (NHC HomeCare), Virginia Darden (Senior Citizens Home Assistance Services Inc.), Harriett DeVault (Howard Circle of Friends Adult Day Program), Judy Harper (Courtyards Senior Living, Inskip), Florence Hayden (UT Hospice), Marita Hopkins (Manorhouse Assisted Living), Sharon Ivey (Mercy Residential Hospice), Cindy McGill (Samaritan Place), Margaret McMahon (Renaissance Terrace Assisted Living), Connie Meister (Elmcroft of Halls), Denise Meredith (Courtyard Senior Living West Parkway), Courtney Mostella (Atria Weston Place), Heather Mueller (Maxim

Healthcare Services), Kaitlyn Okae (Ability Health Services), Pearl Page (Hillcrest West), Cherain Patterson (Aid and Assist at Home), Jody Rickels (Amedisys Home Health Care), Merrie Roy (Home Watch Caregivers), Rachel Ryan (Concord Adult Day Enrichment Services), Maria Salamone (Kay Senior Care Center), Lisa Scharff (Comfort Keepers), Karen Swanney (ResCare HomeCare), LaQuesha Thompson (Hillcrest North), Stephen Warren (Shannondale Healthcare Center), Paula Westerdahl (Eastern Tennessee Personal Care Service), Anita Wilson (Amedisys Hospice of Knoxville), Sierra Winton (Shannondale Assisted Living), Cheryl Wolfe (Senior Companion Program) and Barbara Wrenn (Arbor Terrace of Knoxville).

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Donate blood, save lives Medic has teamed up with the Tennessee Smokies and Chick-fil-A to help save lives this summer. Donors will receive a free Smokies T-shirt and a coupon for a free chicken sandwich, and they will be entered into a drawing for two tickets good for any regular season Smokies home game.

Those interested can donate at any of seven daily mobile sites or one of two fi xed sites: 1601 Ailor Ave. and 11000 Kingston Pike in Farragut.

Other sites: ■ 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, Benjamin Moore Paints, 9717 Kingston Pike, Bloodmobile.

■ Noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, Southside Baptist Church, 1620 West Governor John Sevier Highway, inside fellowship hall.

■ 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, July 14, KCDC, 901 N. Broadway, inside training room.

■ 1-5 p.m. Thursday, July 14, Pattison Sign Group, 410 N. Cedar Bluff Road, Bloodmobile.

■ 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 15, KPA/Clinch Avenue, Bloodmobile.

■ 1:30 to 5 p.m. Friday, July 15, KPA/Cross Park, 9017 Cross Park Drive, Bloodmobile.

■ 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, July 15, Park West Church of God, inside church.

■ 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, July 15, St. Mary’s Health Systems, 900 E. Oak Hill Ave., inside Emerald room.

Donors must be at least 17 years old (16 years old weighing 120 pounds with parental consent), weigh at least 110 pounds and have positive identification.

Louie Bluie Festival is accepting vendors This year’s Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival will be Saturday, Oct. 1, at Cove Lake State Park in the Cumberland Mountains. Vendor applications postmarked Aug. 1 or later will have a $40 booth fee.

There will be musicians, storytellers, workshops, drama, children’s activities, a crafters’ village and more. Info: www.louiebluie.org or call 423-871-2097.

Roscoe needs a home!

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He will be very easy to train and definitely would benefit from some obedience training.

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Mutual curiosity

Critter quickies

I remember a time when it was rare that I would stumble across the path of a deer.

Lately, they seem almost as common as squirrels!

Jimmy, the Knoxville Zoo’s resident African lion, went on a blind date last week when a new zoo resident was introduced. African lioness Zarina made her debut and

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Critter Tales is currently having “howdy” time with Jimmy where they are able to interact with each other through a mesh barrier. Zarina is about 2 years old and is originally from the Virginia zoo. Jimmy is ready to start a family and Zarina seems to be the perfect girl for him.

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Acupressure for dogs … sort of

Anxious dogs (and their humans) can now rest assured, and rest peacefully, thanks to the makers of the “Thundershirt” – a wrap-style, vesttype article your dog wears which applies gentle pressure to calm his nervous system.

Fear of loud noises and upsetting goodbyes, according to the product’s website, will be a thing of the past. Info: www. thundershirt.com.

African lioness Zarina has caught the eye of the Knoxville Zoo’s lion, Jimmy. Photo submitted

one weekend, there are some animals that could use your help. Volunteers are needed to drive one or more dogs or puppies to new forever homes in the area. Transports go through this area every week, but there could be even more with your help. Gas money would be your only expense.

What a great way to be a part of an animal’s second chance at life. Info: 548-8215.

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Young-Williams Animal Center team member Cody enjoys a few moments with Louie, a 2-year-old male Rottweiler mix.

Louie is a smart, loyal dog who would make a wonderful companion. Rotties are often seen as gentle giants, but they do need obedience training and structure just like every other breed of dog. You can meet Louie and his friends at the main center, 3201 Division St., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Other adoptable animals are available for meet and greet at Young-Williams Animal Village, 6400 Kingston Pike, noon to 6 p.m. daily. See all of the center’s adoptable animals at www. knoxpets.org.

Meet and greet

AgriFeed Pet Supply on Middlebrook Pike hosts meet and greet events each Saturday for local rescue groups. This coming Saturday, Belly Rubs Basset Rescue will have their fosters at the store from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Other adoption events can be found on AgriFeed’s ■ Hitchhikers website at www.agrifeed Lilly has been in an abusive situation and needs to find a forevpetsupply.com/happenings. er home. She is a sweet-natured dog estimated to be about 8 need a lift Do you have animal news? Call Sara months old. The person who rescued her will pay for her mediIf you have an available ve- at 218-9378 or email her at barretts@ cal attention (vaccinations, spaying, etc.). Info: email Deborah hicle and a few hours to spare shoppernewsnow.com. at rescueme_tennessee@yahoo.com.

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OPEN HOUSE Sat. 7/9 thru Sun. 7/17 9-6pm "IMMACULATE" All brick 3BR, 3BA, full basement ranch style home on 4 acres.

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Thousands of acres avail for hunting leases in area. $135,000. 423-784-5077 MUST SELL. 20 Acres with house, city water, great loc. Powell/ Knoxville. $175,000.

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13.7 ACRES, private waterfront, Sharps CONTEMPORARY Chapel area, very FURNISHED 2BR APTS level to water. $0 Application fee $150,000. 423-626-1222 $150 Reservation fee 32' Coachman camper, 2BRs starting at $560/per full hookups, bed Free parking included permanently set on Utility flat rate of $35/per leased lot on Douglas bed. Awesome views & Lake, Flat Creek great amenities. Located area. 865-256-3766 at the edge of UT campus.

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Volu nteer Ass is ted Trans port at io n CAC's Office on Aging is seeking volunteer drivers for their Volunteer Assisted Transportation program.

Volunteers utilize agency-owned hybrid sedans while accompanying seniors or persons with disabilities to appointments, shopping, and other errands. Training is provided. If you are interested, please contact Nancy Welch at: 865-524-2786 or nancy.welch@ knoxseniors.org

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This particular deer was grazing on some shrubs along the roadside one evening about dinner time.

I pulled over, had my camera ready and slowly walked up to it. Instead of darting away like they usually do, this one started to take a few steps toward me. It seemed as inquisitive about me as I was about it.

Never seeming threatened, it just continued to watch me and allow me as many pictures as I could take.

As I drove off thinking how lucky I had been to get that close to the animal, I realized how often I see deer now. With a little research I learned the deer population in Tennessee has grown from about 2,000 back in the 1940s to an estimated 900,000 in 2005. Most are in Middle to West Tennessee.

The growth rate is expected to continue at 1 to 2 percent a year.

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The white-tailed deer is the most popular of the game animal. Many people do not realize the positive impact of deer hunting. Not only does it help control the population, but it also benefits the economy in Tennessee. The latest figure I was able to find estimated that in 1996 deer hunting generated more than $9 million for our economy. Info: www. tn.gov/twra/deermain.

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health & lifestyles NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Celebrating service at Fort Sanders Regional Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center recently honored more than 275 employees who are celebrating a five-year employment milestone with the hospital. The milestone staff members were treated to a special reception.

Among the Fort Sanders employees recognized for their long tenure are: 45 years: Sallie Bush and Lola Dyer; 40 years: Armentha Eskridge, Elizabeth Koogler, Sandra Riley, Anne Rodgers and Steve Jones; 35 years: Jobina Roach, Sharon Reed, Darrel Phillips and Leanne Minor; 30 years: Carolyn Ray, Lisa Noojin, Eula Mills, Ellisa Carver, Douglas Young, Pamela Mealer, Jennifer Vessell, Elizabeth Daniels and Nedra Cook.

Twelve Fort Sanders staff members were honored for 25 years of service: Joseph Smith, Jo Synders, Sandra Russell, Robert Richmond, Shelia Vess, Brenda Brown, Kimberly Smith, Yolanda Manning, Therese Woods, Linda Payne, Tamra King and Kathy Fry. Those celebrating 20 years at the hospital include: Dr. Thomas M. Ayers, Judy Lee, Lisa Townsend, Wendy Pittman, Sandra Crowe, Mark Ellison, Brenda West, Patty Shelton, Leslie Wolfenbarger, Melissa Burgess, Shelley King, Evelyn DeMarcus, Carl Beeler, Alice Thomas, Juanita Woods, Nancy Granger, Jodie Wankerl, Cecilia Lohr, Lora Woods, Susan Murphy, Judith Shaw, Janet Brown, James Troutt, Ida Hill, Sherri Anderson, Jan Adam, Linda Michel, Jane Jenkins, Nancy Morgan, Julie Dougherty and Kelly Hudson.

The honorees collectively have 3,495 years of work experience.

Congratulations and thank you for your dedication to Fort Sanders Regional!

Celebrating years of service at Fort Sanders Regional are: Leanne Minor (35 years), Pamela Mealer (30 years), Sandra Riley (40 years) and Eula Mills (30 years).

Fort Sanders employees marking 50+ years!

Honored for a service milestone are: Therese Woods (25 years), Shelley King (20 years), Linda Michel (20 years) and Julie Dougherty (20 years).

Lisa Noogin is marking 30 years and Yolanda Manning is honored for 25 Ida Mae Hills is honored for years.

20 years of service at Fort Sanders Regional.

Betsy Mays is celebrating 15 years of employment at Fort Sanders, while Janet Brown is honored for 20 years.

Jan Adam has worked at Fort Sanders for 20 years, while Doug Young is marking 30 years.

Gail Brown (center) is Fort Sanders Regional’s longest tenured employee.

Women’s Services Director Bernie Hurst (left) and hospital President and CEO Keith Altshuler celebrate Gail’s 57 years of service.

Recognized for their dedication to the hospital are: Robert Richmond (25 years), Nancy Granger (20 years), Reginald Butler (10 years), Jennifer Vessell (30 years) and Jane Jenkins (20 years).

Traveling to the moon, electronic mail and cell phones were far in the future when four employees joined the staff of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center (then, Fort Sanders Presbyterian Hospital) at least half a century ago.

Dwight Eisenhower was the President of the United States when Fort Sanders’ longest tenured employee, Gail Brown, came to work at the hospital in June of 1954. Brown, who works in the Women’s Services department, remembers when patients were housed in wards, with one room that held 16 beds for men on one side and 16 beds for women on the other. In her 57 years Brown has watched the downtown Knoxville hospital grow from having just one table in the emergency room to a 541-bed regional referral facility.

Jo Anne Thompson, who joined Fort Sanders Regional in October of 1960, recalls doing the hospital’s payroll painstakingly by hand. She has spent her 50-year career in the Payroll and Business Jo Anne office. Jo Anne Thompson says she never expected to work at a hospital for so many decades because she “hates the site of blood,” but she enjoys the job and the people with whom she works.

Since June of 1961, J.C. Farmer has been an important part of the Facility Services Department at Fort Sanders. With his talent for wood working, Farmer crafted countless doors and beautiful pieces of furniture in the hospital’s wood shop. During the 1982 World’s Fair, Farmer also helped build a giant Fort Sanders display that was seen by thousands of fair visitors. Farmer came up with the idea of placing a lighted Christ-

J.C. Farmer recently celebrated his 50th anniversary at Fort Sanders Regional. mas tree on the hospital’s roof to celebrate the holiday season. The rooftop Christmas tree tradition continues today and has been adopted by many other Knoxville businesses.

Ed Rymer says his love of Fort Sanders Regional is still strong, even after 50 years. Rymer came to work at the hospital in October of 1961, renting portable televisions to patients. He went Ed Rymer on to work in the business office. As technology advanced over the decades, Rymer transitioned into computer work and the Information Services department. Rymer remembers when the hospital’s business office got it’s first IBM accounting machine that used punch cards and was programmed by wiring large boards that fit into the machines.

Fort Sanders Regional salutes Gail, Jo Anne, J.C. and Ed for their wonderful contributions to the hospital and their combined 208 years of experience!

NURSING EXCELLENCE Fort Sanders Regional salutes the nearly 1,500 nursing professionals who provide excellent care for our patients around the clock, every day of the year.

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Building a home Home Federal Bank employees Gracie Bishop (left) and Jennifer Baker (right) work with Habitat for Humanity home recipient and co-worker Shelley Burgstiner to build the home she will share with her 2-yearold daughter. Following Burgstiner’s acceptance into the Habitat program, the bank arranged for their employee volunteers to build the home, which will be the bank’s 21st. Home Federal Bank is Knoxville Habitat for Humanity’s longest standing covenant partner, which involves providing $30,000 and significant volunteer manpower per residence.

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CAK seeks coaches Christian Academy of Knoxville is actively seeking varsity tennis and track and field coaches, an assistant swimming coach and an assistant softball coach. Applicants should contact Steve Denny at sdenny@cakmail.org or 690-4721, ext. 142.

Applications for employment at CAK can be found at cakwarriors. com. Send resumes and completed applications to Christian Academy of Knoxville, Attn: Athletic Department, 700 Academy Way, Knoxville, TN 37923.

Wear Else! now open in Powell, too

By Anne Hart If ever a dynamic, energetic and smart business woman was born, it has to be Kim Cook.

Anne Hart A couple of years ago she opened her Wear Else! consignment store in the Rocky Hill Center on Northshore Drive. Business was great.

Last October the store burned to the ground. Everything was lost.

Just a few months later, like the mythological Phoenix rising from the ashes, Kim opened the doors to a brand new and fully restocked store in the same location.

Business has always been brisk at the store, which carries men’s, women’s and children’s clothing; medical scrubs; maternity clothes; wedding dresses and attire for the entire wedding party; shoes; handbags; jewelry; and the like.

But Kim, being the savvy business woman she is,

Dear Uncle Fred Thanks for your column. Glad you’re here to answer our money planning questions. I’m a 60 year old single female and I’m starting to look at Social Security and all it means.

I have friends who “turned it on” at 62 and just as many friends who advise me to wait. What’s this about being able to get my ex-husband’s amount if it’s more than mine? Will that take away some of his? Also, if I don’t start taking mine at 62 and things “go south” for me at 62 ½, do I have to wait until my next birthday to request my money?

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60 and Still Learning Dear Still Learning, My mother often said that just because your friends do it, it doesn’t mean you have to! There is wisdom in that regarding investing. Too often we take advice from friends, neighbors and even strangers but what is good for one isn’t always right for another. There are many individual factors to consider when deciding when to “turn on” your own social security…your personal savings, pensions, current earned income, and even your life expectancy!

Regarding the question about your ex-husband, yes, you can take his amount if it turns out to be

wanted a way to track her customer base. While chatting with them, she learned they weren’t coming just from West Knoxville, but from other areas of the county as well.

She explained all of this to her equally savvy ShopperNews advertising representative, Paige Davis, who devised a right clever scheme to get the answers Kim needed.

Wear Else! started running store coupons in the zoned editions of the paper, using a different color for each part of town where the paper is delivered.

The plan worked like a charm. Of the first 20 coupons customers redeemed, 18 were from Powell residents.

“That was the sign I had been looking for,” Kim says.

“I knew that was where I needed to locate next. My sister and I got in the car and drove straight to Powell.”

The new location, at 7550 Brickyard Road, right behind the Bojangles on Emory Road, had been the location of a bread store. You would never know it now. It has been completely transformed.

“I called the owner the day I saw the place, then I called

Kim Cook readies for the grand opening at the new branch of her Wear Else! consignment shop on Brickyard Road in Powell.

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my contractor and we started moving walls, building dressing rooms, painting and putting down new carpet. From the day I saw it until the day we opened was just six weeks, and I took off a week in there somewhere to go to Florida.”

The remodeling didn’t quite go off without a hitch, though.

“We fought a few storms,” Kim says. “The night before

more than yours. What you do will not affect the amount he draws, although since he’s an ex, maybe that would have been fun!

Once you reach your early retirement benefit (ERB) date at 62, you can “turn on” your social security at any time during the year, whether or not things “go south” for you. It’s always good to evaluate your situation periodically with a financial professional and a social security representative.

I’m glad you’ve started your education process.

Please join us for a “Social Security Sundae Social” that your Uncle Fred is hosting on Tuesday, July 12 at 5:30 PM. It will be a great time to enjoy the ultimate comfort food while participating in an informative discussion about social security’s important impact on your life. The “Social” will be at 9040 Executive Park Drive, 2nd floor training room. Rsvp 865-6921513 or tsommer@nextrep.com See you there!

Sincerely, Uncle Fred Now, who is this Uncle Fred character who is starting a regular column of free financial advice? Uncle Fred is the “nom de plume” of Thierry Sommer, Financial Professional with Thierry V Sommer & Associates. Please send your questions to Tsommer@nextrep.com. He’s here to help.

How did he decide upon his pen-name, Uncle Fred? All parents will understand … his high school daughter, having decided she’s embarrassed by his car, jumps out as he drops her off and says, “Thanks for the ride Uncle Fred.”

the June 24 opening I had 15 people in there working when the power went out.

We pulled our cars up to the front windows and turned the headlights on so we could see what we were doing. We worked until 4 a.m. and were back at 8 a.m. to finish up.

The power finally came back on at 9:30 that morning.”

The new store opened right on time at 10 a.m.

Kim says business is “wonderful” at the new location.

“When we opened up that first morning, we had people waiting in line. We have been covered up ever since.”

To thank the Powell community – and anyone else who wants to stop by – there will be a grand opening at the new location from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. this coming Saturday, July 16, with hot dogs, ice cream, cold drinks and music. From noon to 3 p.m. there will be face painting for children. There will also be someone there doing fancy hair braiding with feathers and hair extensions.

In addition, there will be hourly drawings for $25 gift certificates good at both store locations and special hourly pricing on various groups of items.

Hours at both stores are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The stores are closed on Sunday.

The moral of this story: Kim is one smart cookie, and so is Paige Davis. You just can’t beat a couple of clever businesswomen on a mission.

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While there were some notable commercial transactions in Knox County, the month of June produced fewer property sales than the month before – and considerably less than the same period of 2010. For the month that ended on Thursday, June 30, there were 711 land transfers in the county, representing a total property value of about $172 million.

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Neighbors should work together Clara Bell and City Council candidate Sharon Welch drop

by Long’s to thank Barbara Pelot for the publicity Welch has received in the Shopper-News. She’s been amazed by the folks she’s met at neighborhood association meetings. The common thread is concern about speeding motorists and drug-related crime. “You don’t want to think about those things, but they’re happening,” she says.

She encourages neighbors to work together and bring concerns to city officials. Pelot points out that Knoxville’s Office on Neighborhoods was created to help address such concerns. Its website, www.ci.knoxville.tn.us/development/ neighborhoods, has a list of associations and a weekly newsletter. Photos by Wendy Smith

Breakfast with grandma Ruthie Kuhlman takes a break from her responsibilities as City Council candidate Ron Peabody’s treasurer to enjoy breakfast with her 10-month-old grandson, Browning.

He is the son of Hannah and Matt Gard, and he loves his pancakes.

West Knox Republicans to host picnic Barbara Pelot is joined by West Knoxville Republican Club president John Gabriel, who visited Long’s to publicize the club’s annual picnic, which is 5-7 p.m. Monday, July 11, at the Deane Hill Recreation Center. The free event will feature barbecue from Rothchild Catering. Elected officials and candidates will offer up their best cakes for auction, and funds raised will support the club and its candidates. Gabriel credits Haywood Harris and Wallace McClure for keeping the tradition alive. “When you talk about the West Knox Republican Club, you have to think of those two.”

Stratton talks football

By Sandra Clark Mike Stratton played a little football at UT, arriving on campus from his home in Vonore in 1958.

“We were the first fouryear class since 1928 that did not go to a bowl game,” he said.

Stratton played for Bowden Wyatt in the Neyland tradition of single-wing Mike Stratton football and players going on both offense and defense. In fact, Stratton said Neyland had a rigid pairing. The tailback always played safety, for instance.

Stratton excelled as a linebacker and went on to play 12 years in professional football,

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J.T. Carver introduced his friend of 40 years. “His playing weight was 240 and he weighs 210 now,” reported J.T. Then he handed Stratton a list of questions to answer.

Stratton spoke with selfdepreciating humor, and he remembered Steve Chancey’s dad, Ralph.

He praised coach Buster

Ramsey, a Knoxville native who was head coach of the Bills and drafted Stratton.

“Buster went to old Knoxville High School and he really wanted to play for UT, but Gen. Neyland would not give Buster a scholarship. So he went to William & Mary where he made All-American.”

Buster was a defensive genius who left a stellar linebacker crew at the Bills. The team won the division in 1963 and the AFL championships in 1964 and 1965, Stratton said. But not for a loss to Kansas City, the team would have played in the first Super Bowl in 1967.

“Bowden Wyatt was a fine person,” Stratton said in response to a question. “We had a lot of good players, but the game was changing. We were still single wing and most

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These figures show a slight drop from the activity during the month of May, which produced 738 transfers. But when compared to June 2010, the numbers look even less impressive. A year ago in June, some 944 parcels changed hands in Knox County. The value of property sold was actually up in June from about $138 million in May and was only about $5 million below the June 2010 figures.

Lending actually showed improvement during the month. The amount of money loaned against property in June was approximately $220 million, or about $40 million more than the amount loaned in May. June 2010 saw loans totaling about $260 million against property in Knox County.

There were some bright spots as the month produced several large commercial and residential transactions. The largest transfer was for a commercial parcel located in the Turkey Creek complex at just more than $14 million. The most notable residential transaction was the sale of the Villa Colina estate on Lyons View Pike for $8.5 million.

It seems hard to believe, but we have reached the halfway point of 2011.

Preliminary analysis of the data still indicates that 2011 real estate activity is running slightly behind but fairly comparably to that of 2010. The total value of property sold in Knox County during 2011 has been approximately $748 million, compared to $772 Roy Diakitar shows off Rotary banners he acquired on re- million a year ago. Around $1.3 billion has been cent travels. loaned against property in 2011 so far, compared to teams were going to the T- for players with dementia. formation.”

Highlight games? Stratton about $1.43 billion at this He recalled John Mackey, listed beating then-national time last year. who died last week after suf- champions LSU with the goalfering from dementia follow- line stop of Billy Cannon and ing an outstanding profes- the win over Auburn which sional football career. The broke their 18-game win It’s what we do.

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Engineers serve state organization David Harrell, PE, regional vice president of the Te n n e s s e e operat ions of Vaughn & Melton Consulting Engineers Inc., and Joseph A. “Joe” Ledford, PE, David Harrell manager of the Knoxville office of Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon Inc., will serve as officers of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Tennessee.

Harrell was elected first vice president and Ledford was elected treasurer. The organization represents more than 100 engineering firms in Tennessee.

Steve Bostic, PE, of Lamar Dunn & Associates Inc., is the immediate past president of ACEC of Tennessee.

Harrell, who has been associated with Vaughn and Melton since 2005, has more than 22 years of experience in civil engineering. He has been associated with numerous high-profile projects, including the redevelopment of the 100 and 200 blocks of Gay Street in Knoxville, the SR-840 bypass around Nashville and the redevelopment of the South Knoxville waterfront.

He chaired the 2008 ACEC of Tennessee Engineering Excellence Awards Committee. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering. A resident of Powell, he is a member of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers.

Ledford is vice president of Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon and a member of its board of directors.

A structural engineer, he

‘Anne Wilson: Local Industry’ The Knoxville Museum of Art will present “Anne Wilson: Local Industry” through Sunday, Aug. 7. This is the first public exhibition of the Local Industry Cloth, produced in 2010 by 2,100 volunteers alongside 79 experienced weavers at the Knoxville Museum of Art. The cloth, 75 feet 9 inches long, was created over the course of three months during the artist’s project “Local Industry”, part of the exhibition “Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave”. Info: www.knoxart.org.

joined BWSC in 1985 and has worked in its Knoxville office for 24 years. A 1980 graduate of the Un iver sit y of Tennessee, he is a registered engineer in six states.

Joe Ledford He is a member of the advisory board of Knoxville Habitat for Humanity and is an active member of the Tennessee Economic Development Council and the East Tennessee Industrial Council.

He is a member of Cokesbury United Methodist Church.

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Bostic has more than 26 years of engineering experience. After graduation from Tennessee Tech with a bachelor’s degree in civil eng ineer ing, he was employed by Steve Bostic the Johnson City Water and Sewer Department for five years. He has been associated with Lamar Dunn & Associates for 21 years, providing consulting engineering services to private and public clients.

Currently a resident of Farragut, Bostic is a native of Campbell County.

Registration required.

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Tuesday, Aug. 9.

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■ Chamber Member MD Lab, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

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■ Chamber Member MD Lab, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

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FARRAGUT WEST KNOX CHAMBER ■ Ambassador Meeting, 8 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 12, Pinnacle Financial, 241 Brooklawn St.

■ New Member Reception, 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, July 12.

■ Ribbon Cutting, 4 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, July 18, New York Life, 265 Brookview Centre Way, Suite 102.

■ Ribbon Cutting, 3 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, Garrett Hill/ Metlife, 11826 Kingston Pike, #210.

■ Business After Hours, 5-7 p.m. Thursday, July 21, Peerless restaurant, 320 N. Peters Road. Sponsored by Ideal Exteriors.

■ Knoxville City Mayoral Candidate Debate, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, July 28, Knoxville Civic Auditorium.

■ Networking, 8 to 9:30 a.m.

Thursday, July 14, Einstein Bros. Bagels, 1049 N. Cedar Bluff Road.

■ Networking, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 21, Brixx Pizza, 10978 Parkside Drive.

LMU expands nursing program at Cedar Bluff Lincoln Memorial University Caylor School of Nursing will expand its Master of Science in Nursing offerings at LMU-Cedar Bluff to include the Family Nurse Practitioner concentration. LMU already offers a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner concentration at the extended learning site.

Dean Mary Anne Modrcin said all of East Tennessee is “medically underserved” and the family nurse practitioners

serve a vital role in fighting that health care shortage.

The first class will enroll in January 2012, and the program will prepare nurses in an advanced practice role with competencies in family health promotion and culturally competent clinical management of common conditions across the life span.

The program can be completed in 17 months and requires 43 semester hours of graduate course work includ-

ing 720 clinical hours, Modrcin said.

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Duncan School of Law sets open house

The LMU John J. Duncan Jr. School of Law will welcome prospective students and the general public to an open house at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 19. The program will include a presentation on the application process,

as well as financial aid information and an opportunity to meet faculty, staff and current students.

The school will waive the application fee for prospective students who apply during the open house.

Tennessee’s newest law school is recruiting for both full- and part-time students to begin in August. The college is located in the old City Hall building downtown.

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By Anne Hart

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he Tennessee Valley Fair is a place where fairgoers of every age and walk of life come together for plenty of old-fashioned fun and lots of activities that are new.

This year the fair will celebrate 92 years of tradition with its annual Seniors Day which offers those 65 years of age and older the opportunity to share old memories and create new ones.

The special day for seniors, sponsored by Mercy Health Partners, will be Sept. 13. Events will start at 10 a.m. at the Fairgrounds at Chilhowee Park.

There is no charge for seniors on this special day.

Seniors will be treated to the agriculture exhibits, culinary creations and all of the events, contests, activities and attractions that fairgoers enjoy. Entertainment will last throughout the day.

Fair personnel estimate that more than 3,000 seniors take advantage of the program annually.

“The overall goal for Senior Day is

to improve the well being of senior citizens by providing informational resources, recognition awards and entertainment,” says Scott Suchomski, executive director of the fair. “It is in the best interest of our community to

unteer opportunities, senior nutrition, senior housing and much more.

There will also be fun contests and cash prizes, including recognition of the couple married the longest, the Seniors enjoy Senior Day at the fair. largest group, the oldest man, oldest woman and the couple who travelled the greatest distance to attend Senior Day. Seniors will also meet East Tennessee’s own Barney Fife, enjoy live music and participate in interactive games like Wheel of Fortune and bingo.

Senior Day brochures are available by calling 215-1471 or via e-mail, fair@ tnvalleyfair.org.

The Tennessee Valley Fair is one of the state’s largest multiday events, attracting almost 140,000 people each year. The fair begins the Friday after Labor Day and runs Sept. 9-18.

Known for its innovative exhibits, livestock shows, concert series, action sports, exciting rides and a variety of unique foods, the Tennessee Valley Fair offers entertainment for the entire family. Nightly fireworks are spondo all we can to keep seniors healthy, sored by the Tennessee Lottery. happy, productive and involved.”

Adult admission is $9 if purchased During the day, participants can at the gate and $7 if purchased in adreceive free health checks and inforvance. Children ages 5 and under are mation on community services, area admitted at no charge. senior centers, home health care, vol-

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A treasure in her own right If you’d like to take an entertaining walk down memory lane, ask Nancy Walls if she’ll let you take a peek at what she calls her “celebrity book.”

By Anne Hart

I Nancy Walls looks through the decades of memories collected in her celebrity book. Photo by A. Hart

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more, especially to Nancy.

Each autograph comes with a memory, and many of those memories have wonderful stories attached to them.

But a bit about Nancy first, just in case you’re one of the relatively few Knoxvillians who haven’t met her.

Nancy is a Knoxville native. A graduate of Carter High School and the old Draughon’s Business College, she had a long career in both Knoxville City and Knox County governments. For many years she was a fi xture in Republican Party politics, working in the campaigns of numerous candidates for public office.

She started out working in the Knox County purchasing and finance department, then worked for Knox County Trustee C. Edwin Graves. She finished her 15 years with the county back in purchasing and finance working for Commissioner Bill Tallent.

She was hired by Mayor John J. Duncan Sr. as secretary to the manager at McGhee Tyson Airport where she stayed for many years before returning to the CityCounty Building as secretary to then city recreation director Maynard Glenn. She retired after working for the city for 28 years.

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Along the way she married the man she calls “the perfect husband,” Dr. James G. Walls Jr., a native of New Hampshire who was a UT geology professor for nearly 50 years and who taught nearly 40,000 students during his tenure there. Dr. Walls also made a foray into city government, working as welfare director under Mayor Duncan for 10 years. The couple had been married for 25 years at the time of his death in 1995.

It was while working at the airport that Nancy began accumulating those autographs and notes. And there isn’t just one celebrity book, there are two. Nancy compiled one for herself and one for the city of Knoxville. She still has hers, but doesn’t know what happened to the other. “I left it at the airport when I left there,” she says.

There are hundreds of signatures in Nancy’s book. She says gathering them was great fun. “I couldn’t wait to get to work every morning, wondering who I’d meet that day,” she laughs. “The airline people would let me know when a celebrity was coming in. They would hold them on the plane until everyone else got off and then they would take me to meet them. You couldn’t do that kind of thing today.”

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Among the dignitaries who signed the celebrity book is Chen Cheng, who was governor of Taiwan Province, and vice president and premier of the Republic of China.

And that’s just for starters.

Each autograph comes with a memory, and many of those memories have wonderful stories attached to them.

Other political figures who signed the book are President Gerald R. Ford; Dean Rusk, U. S. Secretary of State under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; Peggy Goldwater, wife of presidential candidate Barry Goldwater; Tricia and Julie Nixon, daughters of President Richard Nixon; Martha Mitchell, the outspoken wife of John Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General under Nixon, who gained worldwide recognition for revealing secrets about the Watergate break-in; Gov. George Wallace of Alabama; Sen. Estes Kefauver; and

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a lot of comparative newcomers, including former Sens. Bill Frist and Fred Thompson.

And then there are movie stars, TV stars, popular singers, opera singers and sports heroes.

There’s Liberace, whom Nancy met so many times he finally took her an autographed picture. There’s the whole cast of stars of “The Beverly Hillbillies” (Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas and Max Ryan), big band leaders Victor and Guy Lombardo, Dick Clark of “American Bandstand” fame, Paul Anka, Perry Como, Victor Borge, Anita Bryant, Mary Costa, Eddie Arnold, Peter Nero, Art Linkletter, Chet Atkins, Robert Preston, Polly Bergen, Betty Grable, Homer and Jethro, Roberta Peters, Boots Randolph, Al Hirt and many, many others.

Sports notables include football Hall of Fame legend Paul Hornung, sports announcer Pat Haden, Hank Lauricella and Doug Atkin.

And some folks just stand out from all the others, like Princess Catherine of Romania, astronaut Alan Shepherd, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

Nancy Walls’ celebrity book is a true treasure, just as she is.

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Aging in place Matching your home to your years

By Anne Hart

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here’s a good reason onelevel houses and condos are always in high demand. A maturing population wants to “age in place” and looks for the situation that will allow them to stay in their own homes as long as possible.

Aging in place is a relatively new term, but the idea is anything but new. As we grow older, we start to think about things like how many stairs we have to climb to get to our bedroom on the second floor, how far we have to carry groceries from the car to the kitchen,

how long we will feel safe on that stepladder we use to reach items on the top shelves in the closet, and perhaps most troubling of all, how we will manage it all if we are ever wheelchair bound.

Universal design is another fairly new term that describes techniques to make homes safer and more comfortable and liveable for seniors. Even if there is no actual disability, movement becomes increasingly limited for most of us as we age, and universal design adapts housing in ways that serve all ages.

Here are some universal design features and products that can be added to the home: ■ In the kitchen – cabinet shelves no more than 10 inches deep, pull-out shelves, oven doors that swing to the side, cooktops with easy-toreach controls at the front,

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knee space under the cooktop and the sink, side-by-side refrigerators, easy-access kitchen storage with adjustable-height cupboards that swing out and down from the wall, multilevel kitchen countertops with open space underneath enabling the cook to work while seated, easy-tograsp “D” shaped cabinet pulls.

■ In the laundry room – front-loading clothes washers and dryers.

■ In the bathroom – non-slip floors throughout, including the tub and shower; low or no-threshold shower stalls with built-in benches and shelves, raised comfortlevel toilets, hand-held shower sprayer, grab bars near the toilet and shower.

■ In the closet – rods that pull down to a comfortable level, closet organizers that keep items within reach and plenty of light.

Throughout the home, doorways and hallways should be wide enough to accommodate a walker or wheelchair, handrails should extend beyond the top

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the kitchen counter can be a great help with food preparation and clean-up.

A covered entryway to protect homeowners and visitors at the front door from rain and snow is always welcome, as are windows that require minimal effort to open and close and task lighting throughout the home that is directed to specific areas.

Many of the “fi xes” that enable seniors to age in place in two-story homes are wellknown: ramps built over exterior steps leading to the house, “stair chairs” added to provide access from the main level to the second story or basement level, and small elevators that can often be added where there is an existing closet on the main level with another above it on the second floor.

If there is no bedroom on the main level, sometimes it is possible to turn a dining room, study or family room into a bedroom, but ideally, as we age we want to be certain to have a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living space all on one level.

and bottom of the stairway, all stairs should have a slipresistant surface, floors should have low-pile carpeting with a firm pad underneath, electrical outlets should be at about 27 inches from the floor, door handles and water fixtures should be lever style that operate with just a gentle push.

For the hard of hearing, there are now smoke detectors with strobe lights, and for those with limited vision, under-the-cabinet lights above

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