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West High due for ‘Banner’ year New prinicipal is ‘Rebel with a cause’

By Betty Bean

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It is unlikely that Katherine Banner consciously spent her career preparing to become principal of West High School, but sometimes things just fall into place.

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After having spent four years as assistant principal for curriculum at Austin-East, a year at Farragut High as assistant principal for 9th grade and 18 years in the Lee County, Fla., school system teaching middle school language arts, high school AP and IB English, and supervising one of the most successful IB programs in the world, this Knoxville native and University of Tennessee graduate seems a perfect fit for the coveted West High School opening created by the departure of former principal Greg Roach, who is now principal of Maryville High School.

Banner says she loved Austin-East but has transitioned from Roadrunner to Rebel with no trouble at all.

“I’m a Rebel with a cause,” she says. “I see my role as being a sup-

do believe that’s my strength coming here. I have a heart for IB, but I have just as much heart for my middle kids and my kids who need additional supports.”

Banner is a product of Knox County Schools Mount Olive Elementary and Doyle High School. Both her degrees are from UT, and she returned to Knox County from Fort Myers, Fla., to look after her ailing mother, Evelyn Banner, who passed away in 2009. Her sister, Jennifer Banner, also lives here.

She has two daughters, Chloe and Katie Akers, and three dogs “who are second only to my daughters,” she jokes.

Chloe, who is a Cornell graduate and an attorney, went through the IB program and received an IB diploma. Banner credits much of Chloe’s success to the IB experience.

“I know IB from a teacher’s perspective, an administrative perspective, and a parent and student perspective,” Banner says.

She will also draw on other expeWest High School principal Katherine Banner Photo by B. Bean riences.

“I really loved Austin-East. porter of the teachers and making so she can listen to their concerns There are so many wonderful kids sure we just continue with these and goals for the coming year. there, and you have 3 percent of good things that we have going.”

West High School will achieve a the kids causing 100 percent of the Interviewed on her second day on much anticipated milestone this fall problems. It’s a wonderful place the job, Banner was working her way as it becomes Knox County’s first IB and I had the opportunity to help down her Entry Plan’s to-do list, set- school, and Banner is looking for- put some things in place that have ting up two evenings for parents to ward to helping the program get off increased test scores and help those come meet with her and making in- to a good start. students be more successful. dividual appointments for teachers “I’m very excited. We have 60 “I have a heart for kids. I love who want to come in to talk. junior students who will be our kids, and that’s what drives my This week, she’ll have a diverse inaugural cohort group,” she says. philosophy of education. It’s doing group of 10 students in for pizza and “But I’m here for all kids. I really what’s right for kids. All kids.”

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By Wendy Smith East Tennessee lost a champion of polio eradication this year, but an upcoming fundraiser at Smokies Stadium will continue the work that was so close to Bill Sergeant’s heart.

Knoxville area Rotary Club members are selling tickets to “Bill Sergeant’s Pack the Park for Polio,” an event set for Thursday, Aug. 11.

A $10 ticket covers admission to the 7:15 p.m. game against the Jacksonville Suns, plus a hot dog, chips and soda. Four dollars from each ticket will go toward Rotary International’s PolioPlus campaign to end polio worldwide.

The Chattanooga Lookouts will host a simultaneous “Pack the Park” event during their game against the Birmingham Barons. Sergeant’s son, David, is a member of the Chattanooga Breakfast Rotary Club. Rotary Club service runs in the family.

All four of Bill Sergeant’s children are local members, and his granddaughter, Leslie Duncan, is president of the North Knoxville club.

Sergeant passed away in February at the age of 91. He was a past president of the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge and vice president of Rotary International from 1981 to 1982. In 1995, he was asked by the Rotary International president to serve as chair of the PolioPlus committee.

Sergeant, who was 75 at the time, was hesitant. He thought someone with medical experience might be best suited for the work, and he had retired as head of local security for the U.S. Department of Energy. He was given the position anyway, and he kept it for 12 years.

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Bill Sergeant, who served as chair of Rotary International’s PolioPlus committee for 12 years, speaks at the dedication of his statue in Krutch Park in 2005. An upcoming fundraiser at Smokies Stadium, “Bill Sergeant’s Pack the Park for Polio,” will support the organization’s efforts to end polio worldwide. Photo submitted Sergeant’s daughter, Kathy Sergeant, recalls how he managed the PolioPlus campaign from his office at home.

“It was just like going to a regular job. He’d work from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.”

That work has had an impact on the world. Rotary began immunizing against polio in 1985, when the disease infected more than 350,000 children annually. Because of the club’s fundraising, advocacy and volunteer efforts, 99 percent of the disease has been eradicated throughout the world.

Kathy Sergeant’s husband, Fred Heitman, is a member of the Oak

Ridge Rotary Club and is Rotary District 6780 PolioPlus chair. He remembers listening to his fatherin-law hash out plans for a vaccination campaign over the phone.

When Heitman asked for details, Sergeant said he had just arranged for fighting to stop in war-torn Yugoslavia. He orchestrated a plan that allowed one day for trucks to come into the country, one day for the vaccine to be administered and another day for the trucks to leave.

“For three days, he stopped the war,” marvels Heitman.

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Another event in honor of Sergeant’s birthday is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Oct. 17 at Krutch Park, where a statue recognizes his work to end polio.

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Dooley gets back to basics UT Head Football Coach Derek Dooley says that after the ups and downs of the past 18 months, his team needs to get back to fundamentals. That includes blocking and tackling as well as remembering why the team exists in the fi rst place – to bring spirit and pride to the school and the fans. “It’s our job to make people feel good,� he says.

Dooley spoke to a capacity crowd at the Knoxville Rotary Club’s meeting last week at the Marriott. All Knoxville-area Rotarians were invited.

To recover from the turmoil that has surrounded UT athletics since before Dooley came on board, processes have been implemented for everything from recruiting to the feeding of players. It’s an investment in the long-term, he says.

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Wayne Honeycutt of the Loudon Rotary Club and Janice Mitchell, who lives in Lenoir City but is a member of the Forsyth Sunrise Rotary Club in Illinois, meet UT Head Football Coach Derek Dooley (center) at the Knoxville Rotary Club meeting held last week.

somewhere else and get in Knoxville Lifestyle magazine, read memories of a the newspaper.� vacation her family took to ■Knoxville writers Europe while the fair was keep the past alive in town. She penned her thoughts the night before Membership in the Knox- she read to the group, and ville Writers Group, which she said she was glad to meets at Naples Restaurant have the Internet to suppleat noon on fourth Wednes- ment her memory of the days, doesn’t require its trip to Belgium, France and members to have a novel England. in process. Participants ofThe memories her nowfer support and encourage- grown children have of the ment to anyone who enjoys family’s four European exstringing words together, peditions are some of their and those who read at last most prized, she said. week’s meeting demonstratWillis Baker’s stories ed the value of writing for about his early life began self and family. as a series of letters to his Jean Ridley, who covered grandchildren, but when the 1982 World’s Fair for he shared them with his coworkers at Oak Ridge National Lab, they encouraged him to make them available Jr. Diabetes Research Foundation and Bobcat Youth Athletics to a wider audience. He is host the 2nd Annual now retired, and the letters have turned into a collection of 30 essays.

He read one titled “Saturday at the Ritz,� which recalled how, in the early 1950s, he and his friends would ride their bikes to downtown Clinton to spend the afternoon at the local theater. He’d blow his entire weekly allowance of 30 cents on a hot dog, a movie ticket, a soft drink and candy.

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For more information or to sign your team up, contact She also read the touching Steve Trewhitt 454-2199 OR Steve Waugh 257-1211 thank-you note Goddard’s also an investment. Seventy percent of the players are freshmen and sophomores. “That can bring some gray hairs,� Dooley says.

He is optimistic that choosing the right players for the team will pay off in the long run. He has implemented a program for players called “Vol for Life,� which emphasizes character education, life skills, career development and spiritual growth.

While young people will always make mistakes, an unwillingness to participate in the program can weed out troublemakers, he says. “Guys that aren’t interested in ‘Vol for Life’ can go

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Vivian Tyler of Knoxville Porcelain Artists shows samples of her painted glass to the club, which meets on fourth Thursdays at Middlebrook United Methodist Church. Photos by Wendy Smith granddaughter sent in response to the project.

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Club passes down art of china painting

The art of painting porcelain was brought to East Tennessee by Agnes Ridenour, a minister’s wife who studied under Franz Bischoff, one of the most famous ceramic artists of the early 20th century. One of the stories told by Ridenour, who moved to Campbell County in 1932, was that she had to grind paint for Bischoff for two hours before she was allowed to try her hand at painting.

After retiring as a teacher, Ridenour shared her craft with three members of the Knoxville China Painters Organization, which was

founded in 1975. The group is now called the Knoxville Porcelain Artists, and they meet on fourth Thursdays for education and a luncheon.

Founding member Ruth Widener teaches most of the group from a studio in her West Hills home. Many members travel from surrounding counties to participate in classes and meetings.

Vivian Tyler shared techniques for painting on glass at last week’s meeting. The process is the same as for painting porcelain, except that the composition of the paint is slightly different since glass is fired at a lower temperature. Tyler shared several examples of her delicate work.

Widener hopes that new members will join to help preserve the art. She entices them with this maxim: “Old china painters don’t die, they just paint away.�

‘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.�

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‘Art by the Kids, for the Kids’ The Knoxville Museum of Art will host “Art by the Kids, for the Kids� in the KMA Education Gallery through Monday, Aug. 29. The exhibition showcases artworks created by the oncology and hematology patients of East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. The exhibition is part of a yearlong effort to raise funds and awareness for the fight against pediatric cancer and other blood diseases. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free.

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Hyams: Don’t charge students for UT football tickets

By Jake Mabe Jimmy Hyams thinks the University of Tennessee made a big blunder when it began charging students admission to home football games.

“It’s leaving pockets of empty seats,” Hyams told the North Knox Rotary Club at Litton’s last week.

“If students are not impassioned about going to football games, when they graduate and get jobs and start making money, are they going to be boosters?

“I wouldn’t charge the students anything and would do everything I can to get them in the stadi- Jimmy Hyams Photos by Jake Mabe um.”

Las Vegas odds makers Hyams co-hosts “Sports (WNML-AM) and is a forTalk” on the Sports Animal mer sports writer. are predicting the Vols will

win six and a half games this season. It’s hard to know how you win half of a game, but Hyams says that’s about right.

“I’ve got them at about six or seven wins. I think they’ll win all of their nonconference games but one will go down to the wire like UAB did, probably Cincinnati.”

Hyams predicts Tennessee will beat Vanderbilt and Kentucky and might have a shot to upset Florida in Gainesville. He says the offense should be improved but sees problems with the lack of depth on the defensive line.

He says he’s heard that interim athletic director Joan Cronan is going to

‘Cool Down in the Cave’ Tours set for historic Cherokee Caverns

By Joe Rector The summer of 2011 will go into the record books as one of the hottest we East Tennesseans have endured. When sweltering 90 degree temperatures combine with infamous Tennessee humidity, people young and old are bound to suffer. The conditions look to continue into the August “dog days” of summer.

Relief for at least a brief period is on the way. On Saturday, Aug. 6, Cherokee Caverns opens for a one day special event. Tours of the cave run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and each will last at least one hour. Adults pay $7 admission, but children

6 and under are admitted free. Proceeds go toward maintaining the cave and grounds.

“Cool Down in the Cave” will allow visitors to tour the multi-roomed cave located at 8524 Oak Ridge Highway.

Jim Whidby is in charge of the event and promises a trek through this local natural wonder will cool off everyone since the yearround temperature inside is a cool and refreshing 58 degrees. Bernie’s BBQ will offer concessions, and other displays will be available. “Caves of Knoxville and the Great Smoky Mountains,” a book Whidby helped to write, will also be available.

Three science projects are currently underway at the Cherokee Caverns:

Jim Whidby talks about Cherokee Caverns at the Karns Community Fair. Photo by S. Clark two by UT and one by Oak Ridge National Labs. One UT project studies bats, which are plentiful inside the cave.

Whidby, now in his 23rd year as the cave’s historian and caretaker, tries to open it about every three months. In February he offers a tour called “Warm Up in the Cave,” and in May

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he holds an old fashion lantern tour. He sometimes makes the site available for groups such as scouts, churches and schools.

The cave opened in 1929 and is the only one in Knox County to operate as a business. In the ’60s and ’70s, it offered tours under the name of Caverns of the Ridge. A restaurant

NOTES ■ The Council of West Knox County Homeowners will meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Rd. Knox County extension agent Neal Denton will answer questions about gardening, landscaping and anything that grows in Tennessee.

be vacationing this month with UT booster Jim Haslam and his family.

“Don’t be surprised if they name Joan to that (interim) position for a year or so,” Hyams says, while the university continues to look for an athletic director. ■ West Knox Lions Club meets 7 p.m. the first and third “There’s no reason to hurry Monday of each month at (the hire) now. You want Shoney’s on Lovell Road. this to be a five- or seven■ West Knoxville Kiwanis or 10-year commitment.”

Club meets 5:30 every TuesHe likes Southern Methday at Shoney’s on Walker odist University athletic Springs Road. director Steve Orsini for the position. After Orsini’s hire, SMU went to a bowl Russell Biven game for the first time Clayfest tourney since receiving the socalled “death penalty.”

This year’s Russell Biven Summer Clayfest “If he can do that at Tournament will be held SMU, just think what he Friday and Saturday, could do at Tennessee.”

Aug. 12-13, at Chilhowee Sportsman’s Club in Maryville. There will on the site burned in 1980, be two flights on Friday and the caves closed afand two on Saturday. terwards. Local personFlight times are 10 a.m. ality Marshal Andy came and 2 p.m. The cost up with the present name for a five-person team while he worked as promois $650 and includes tions director. lunch provided by Dead End BBQ, a goody bag Before Whidby took on and use of a golf cart. In the job, vandals caused addition to awards for widespread damage to the top scores, there will be cave and surrounding land. a five-stand and longNow he and approximately bird contest, door prizes 180 volunteers work to and other activities. keep the site in good shape Info: Lisa Spegman, and to offer Knox County 329-9120 or visit www. residents a chance to take mcnabbcenter.org. tours.

Everyone is invited to “Cool Down in the Cave,” the perfect antidote for summer’s oppressive heat.

The tour also gives folks a sneak peek at some of the wonders in our own backyard for a price that’s cheaper than a movie.

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government Hope and change Knox County style During last week’s commission debate over approving an $8,000 contract with the Hope Resource Center, Hope’s faith-based counseling services for women with unplanned pregnancies were compared to the Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries’ (KARM) work with the homeless.

However, the analogy is flawed: KARM doesn’t urge its clients to remain homeless.

Hope’s location just down the street from the Volunteer Medical Women’s Clinic is no coincidence. The clinic performs abortions, and Hope provides an ideal staging area for abortion opponents.

Commissioner Amy Broyles was the first to speak against funding Hope.

“If we were talking about giving $8,000 to Planned Parenthood, there is a majority of people up here who would be opposed to it,” Broyles said.

Broyles said Hope was pushing a “political ideology” and she had been contacted by women who were “bullied and harassed” at the center.

Commissioner Sam McKenzie questioned the scope of the contract. He recalled that during budget hearings commission was told the contract would cover hepatitis testing, a service not available from the Knox County Health Department. But the contract presented last week spans a range of services including testing for sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy.

Mayor Tim Burchett defended the contract, saying the county was “getting more for our buck than we asked for.”

And the mayor showed he can hit below the belt.

“I think the question is which of these services do you not want this mother or this unborn child to receive,” he said.

“That’s not the appropriate question,” Broyles countered.

“The appropriate question is what we approved in the budget.”

Lisa Hardin, executive director of Hope, said the center is “not political.

“We’re there to inform. We give truth. We don’t coerce.”

Not the point, said McKenzie.

“I am a Christian,” he said. “Jesus died for my sins. (But) we have to separate these issues. These are public dollars.”

McKenzie said he was positive the budget vote was to approve a contract for hepatitis testing only.

“Let’s not make this about pro-life or pro-choice,” he said.

But it’s too late. The moment the Burchett recommended funding the Hope Resource Center it became a political question whose origins go back to Roe v. Wade.

Hardin’s straight-faced assertion Hope is not “political” is ludicrous. The center’s website first laments “a world that is increasingly hostile towards pregnancy resource centers” then praises “the generosity of so many who care about saving lives and saving souls.”

Saving souls is not a legitimate use of taxpayer money.

(To borrow from the mayor, you can find churches in the Yellow Pages.) As for hostility, it’s nearly always directed at abortion providers, sometimes murderously, and not at faith-based organizations like the Hope Resource Center.

“As the only woman on commission, (Broyles) has a perspective we can’t understand,” said Commissioner Tony Norman. And Broyles was right when she said most commissioners would reject funding Planned Parenthood.

Health department employees should update their resumes. This contract with Hope opens the door for more of the same next year.

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GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Joe Hultquist wants to dissolve KUB and make its functions a department of city government “to help with economic development.”

What planet is Joe from? And what City Council member wants to vote on the rates required to fund mandated environmental projects?

■ Granny, grab the mop!

Commissioner Richard Briggs argued vigorously for a $6.1

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Harmon goes for extra innings Remember the story about the time Larry Bird walked into the locker room before an NBA All-Star shooting contest, looked around and asked:

Betty Bean “Who’s gonna come in second?”

If this story were applied to this year’s mayor’s race, Ivan Harmon would happily step up and claim the runner-up position, as long as he denied the frontrunner the 50 percent-plus-onevote majority needed for an outright primary victory.

While heavily funded political newcomer Mark Padgett keeps trying to shoot Madeline Rogero out of the gym, Harmon, an old softball player, says he’s playing a different game.

“I’m going for extra innings,” he says. “I’ve won seven races (successfully for city school board, City Council and County Commission; unsuccessfully for mayor), and knew I was gonna struggle this time, because I’ve never been able to raise a lot of money.

I raised $85,000 when I ran against Victor (Ashe) for mayor in 1993 and got 37 percent of the vote. But when we get past September it’s a whole new ballgame. I always planned for overtime.”

Last week, Rogero caused considerable buzz when she released the results of a poll commissioned by her campaign that showed her leading her nearest rival by a 2-to-1 margin – 40 percent to 20 percent – with the third-place finisher clocking in way behind at 13 percent. The pollsters – Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C. – are reputable, and

their findings generated little skepticism among the publ ic -atlarge, probably because most d e e m e d Rogero the frontrunner from the jump ball.

The surIvan Harmon prise, if there was one, was that it wasn’t Padgett in second place – it was Harmon, who has raised $61,000 to Padgett’s $272,000 and Rogero’s $160,000.

Harmon says he’s pretty happy with where he is, knocking on doors and lying in the weeds.

“I’ve heard this all along,” he said. “A lot of people have never considered me as being in the race from the getgo. That’s fine with me. I just want to be left alone so I can get out and keep meeting people and knocking on doors.”

He’s reluctant to criticize his opponents, but he clearly doesn’t think much of Padgett’s announced intention to require Police Chief David Rausch, who was appointed in March, and Fire Chief Stan Sharp, who was appointed in August 2009, to reapply for their jobs.

“Any mayor’s got to put together a good team, but these are good men,” Harmon said.

“I told Chief Rausch, ‘The only thing I hate about it is they promoted you before I got a chance to.’ Stan Sharp, too. You don’t fi x something that ain’t tore up.’ ” Harmon says one of his major strategies is asking people he meets to “Go out there and get me five votes,” adding, “you got to be frugal with what you do and do the best you can with it. Everybody has an opinion – and my opinion is I’m going to win. I’m going to be in the runoff. When I got that bat in my hand, I always think we can win.”

Campaigning West Rob and Erin Frost host a neighborhood “meet and greet” for state Senate candidate Becky Duncan Massey (center).

Rob Frost served eight years on city council.

Photo by S. Clark

Good news, bad news in Rogero’s poll Last week, mayoral candidate Madeline Rogero released a poll by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C., which showed her substantially ahead. Check out her polling firm at www.public policypolling.com/. The poll showed Rogero at 40 percent, Ivan Harmon at 20 percent and Mark Padgett at 13 percent with 22 percent undecided.

First, be suspicious of any poll which a candidate paid for and releases. Bad polls are seldom released. Polls paid by a campaign often are overly optimistic.

Second, it is apparent from the website that the polling firm works primarily for Democrats. This is

million TIF for a hotel development at Watt Road and I-40 to the point of saying jobs will be created; jobs for seniors whose retirement investments were smashed in the current recession. Huh?

■ Eddie Mannis seriously considered running for mayor, then did not. Instead, he has endorsed Rogero, and she announced Friday that he will head a business group for Rogero.

■ Madeline Rogero is looking like our next mayor. Her chief liability is also her greatest asset: she doesn’t raise money from big donors.

They almost always want something. Maybe the little ones do too, but they’re shyer about asking.

■ Wu too? U.S. Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) will resign from Congress, after the teenaged daughter of a contributor accused him of sexual assault.

Wu earlier had posed as a tiger in a photo that went viral on the Internet.

— S. Clark

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not a nonpartisan group like www.realclearpolitics.com or Charlie Cook or Larry Sabato’s analyses. This does not mean the poll is inaccurate, but keep this in mind when assessing the objectivity of the firm’s poll.

The good news for Rogero is that she will definitely be in a mayoral runoff in first place after Sept. 27 barring a meltdown which I do not expect. It is possible she could get to 51 percent and win outright, but those last 11 plus percentage points will be the hardest for her to secure.

The bad news for her is that her combined opposition has 38 percent which is close to the 40 percent she has and within the 4 percent margin of error. She would have to get 50 percent of the remaining undecided vote to win outright on Sept. 27 if these figures are correct.

So Rogero must decide whether to spend all the available funds now to win

outright or save some for the Nov. 8 runoff. If she is in a runoff, she appears more vulnerable. It’s a tough call.

The other winner in this poll is Ivan Harmon, who seems headed to the runoff with Rogero. Having been in a runoff myself with Randy Tyree in November 1987, I know anything can happen when it is down to only two candidates. All bets are off.

The second place candidate in a runoff often gathers the support of the other losing candidates as happened to me.

The loser in this Rogero-commissioned poll is Padgett who has raised the most money by far. He has spent more than $100,000.

If he now only has 13 percent of the electorate backing him just five weeks before early voting starts on Sept.

7, he faces major hurdles and the first is to move ahead of Harmon so he can be in the runoff.

Padgett and Rogero have avoided mentioning Harmon, but that is about to end.

So what does Padgett do to be competitive and how does he spend his remaining war chest?

With this third place polling can he continue to raise large sums? Will he

continue to give Harmon a pass on any criticism or differences?

Padgett needs to rethink his strategy if this poll is accurate. It’s amazing that he keeps holding campaign events outside the city such as the July 26 Young Professionals event held at Gettysvue Country Club.

Congratulations to Mayor Daniel Brown who is marrying Cathy Smith on Saturday, Aug. 27, at First AME Zion Church on McCalla Avenue. He is the first Knoxville mayor in a long, long time (if ever) to get married while in office. Best wishes to the new First Couple to be.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has an informal personal style which has shaken the Pentagon. It seems the other day he casually and unannounced entered the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff chair, Adm. Mike Mullen, (who visited Poland while I was ambassador) asking the receptionist for “Mike.” Needless to say, the military brass in the office (all of colonel rank and above) were stunned to see the Defense Secretary wandering around on his own and were unsure how to respond to such informality.

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Let’s build Carter Elementary Both County Mayor Tim Burchett and Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre were at Lyons Creek Baptist Church last Thursday for a pep rally in support of a new school for Carter Elementary.

The sanctuary was filled with school supporters who asked thoughtful questions.

Burchett was in stand-up comic mode, while McIntyre was just listening.

Since the merger of city and county systems, Knox County has poured millions into upgrading old city facilities. As the population has burgeoned westward, the county has spent millions more trying to keep pace, most recently building a $50 million high school in Hardin Valley.

Meanwhile, Carter has waited patiently, the students and staff consistently performing at high levels.

Burchett is trying to fulfill a promise made by his predecessor. Mike Ragsdale stood at a PTA meeting and promised to build a new school. Yet he never proposed funding for it.

Burchett doesn’t like debt.

He’s set a goal to pay down the county’s $600 million debt by $100 million over five years. So he proposes to sell assets to pay for Carter Elementary – cash on the barrelhead. He’s asking the school board to reverse its earlier proposal to spend $5 million at Carter including renovations to the elementa-

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ry school and a new gymnasium for the middle school.

Here’s why the school board should accept Burchett’s proposal: Knox County owns the land on Strawberry Plains Pike where the new school will be built. Burchett’s $13.8 million budget includes money for access road work.

The school board will get the new school debt-free for a $2.5 million investment; the additional $2.5 million could be used to tear away the old structure and build the middle school gym.

Renovations almost always cost more than anticipated, especially in a building as old as Carter.

Once work begins, the entire structure must be brought up to code.

Plumbing has crumbled at Carter, causing a sewage backup in a water fountain.

“Would you drink this water,” we asked former board member Jim Williams.

Wince, frown, “no.”

The current building holds 500 students; the new one would hold 650 with core capacity for 800.

School board member Mike McMillan spoke briefly on Thursday. “Without Mayor Burchett’s commitment and support we would not be having this conversation.”

McMillan said he has no reservations on the funding.

“The money will be there if the project is approved.”

Conley Underwood, former PTA president and longtime parent leader, said the community has come this far by being “positive, polite and respectful.” Afterwards, several residents thanked McIntyre for coming.

Building a new elementary school for cash at Carter is right for kids, for teachers and staff who work in the building and for taxpayers. Burchett got this one right. Here’s hoping the school board will too.

Burchett meetings Mayor Tim Burchett has set for constituent meetings for August: ■ Tuesday, Aug. 2, 6 p.m., Corryton Senior Center, 9331 Davis Drive ■ Thursday, Aug. 11, 1 p.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road ■ Wednesday, Aug. 17, 11 a.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway ■ Tuesday, Aug. 23, 1 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road.

UPCOMING ■ School board will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10, in the Andrew Johnson Building for the regular monthly meeting including a vote on Carter Elementary School; the agenda will be discussed at a workshop at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, also at the AJ Building.

■ Ball Camp Elementary School has a ribbon cutting for additions and renovations set for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10.

■ Knoxville STEM Academy ribbon cutting at the old L&N Station will be 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 12.

■ Brad Walker Orchestra will play for a Phil Ballard fundraiser 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Knoxville Expo Center. Reservations: 3846989 or bigbandbash2011@gmail.com/. Tickets are $35 ($65couple).

■ Candidates for state Senate District 6 will participate in a forum sponsored by the Knoxville Tourism Alliance and the Arts & Culture Alliance at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3, at the Emporium Building, 100 S. Gay St. Candidates are Victoria DeFreese, Becky Duncan Massey and Marilyn Roddy. Info: 342-9133.

All in the family Mayor Tim Burchett, new state Sen. Sue Atchley and former state Sen. Ben Atchley enjoy the moment after Sue was sworn in on July 25.

She was appointed by County Commission to fill the unexpired term of Jamie Woodson in Senate District 6. Ben Atchley served more than 30 years as a member of the state House and Senate.

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Thomas shares vision for Great Schools

By Betty Bean As president of the Great Schools Partnership, it’s not sur pr ising that Buzz Thomas’ goal is to put Knoxville on the map for its great public schools.

Contrary to what some Buzz Thomas might think, he says this is not an impossible dream.

“What city of more than 100,000 in the Southeast is famous for its schools? There’s not one. Why do I think Knox County could have that?”

He points to the relatively small number of Knox County parents who have opted for private schools.

“Knoxville’s schools survived the ’60s, a time when desegregation and the white flight that followed it destroyed many school systems,” he said. “Ninety percent of the kids in Knox County are still in public schools, which means that we can do something they can’t do in New Orleans and they’ve not been able to do in Nashville.”

Thomas said initiatives like Project Grad, which awards scholarships at Austin-East

and Fulton high schools, and KnoxAchieves, which gives financial assistance to students attending community colleges inside Knox County, have already made an impact.

“At Fulton and AustinEast, graduation rates have gone from 50 percent to 84 percent. The number of kids attending college from those two schools has increased by 400 percent. KnoxAchieves will have 1,000 kids in college this fall. This is a community that is investing in education.

And the communities that are going to thrive and prosper are going to be the communities with the best schools.”

Thomas was the guest speaker at the 6th District Democratic Club’s July meeting, where he shared his vision for bringing Knox County’s schools “from good to great” with an appreciative audience.

A Baptist minister who has authored books and treatises on religion and politics, Thomas is also a lawyer whose clients included the National Council of Churches, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Children’s Defense Fund; an expert witness who has testified before Congress; a law professor; a former Maryville Board of Education

chair; an author; and a radio and television commentator.

He came to Knoxville last year from a successful decade of heading the Niswonger Foundation, a Greenevillebased educational foundation whose goal is “to create opportunities for individual and community growth through education.”

When civic leaders like Jimmy Haslam and Kevin Clayton approached him about coming to the Great Schools Foundation, he decided to find out if the Niswonger Foundation’s success could be replicated in a more urban setting.

“I left about a year and a half ago to come to Knoxville to take the Great Schools Partnership and set it up as an independent, freestanding public charity,” he said.

He praised Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre’s vision and County Mayor Tim Burchett’s help at budget time.

“You discover in your life that there aren’t a lot of things that matter that much,” he said. “But something that really does matter is education.

I learned 35 years ago as a pastor in New Orleans that next to picking a kid’s parents, the best thing I could do for children is to help them get a decent education.”

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He got three yeses. He couldn’t afford UCLA. Georgia Tech didn’t offer a master’s degree in education. The third yes was from Tennessee Tech.

Greg met with Flavious Smith, the dean of the health and physical education department, whom Greg describes as “an old crusty guy in his 60s.” At the end of the interview he was asked to be a student assistant.

But, Greg was seeking a graduate assistant’s position with the football team.

“If you want to go work with the football team,” Smith said, “you have to go talk to the football coach.” (“I thought I’d sent this letter to the football coach,” Greg says.)

Greg walked into the football office and was told that head coach Jim Ragland was out to lunch. With nothing to lose, Greg said he’d wait.

Ragland walked in a bit later and Greg went into his best sales pitch.

“Give me a topic and I can talk for 15 minutes. I told him how much I wanted to be a graduate assistant at Tennessee Tech.

I told him I’d bleed purple and gold. He told me they had somebody, but that they would stay in touch with me. I figured I’d done my best and now I was going home.”

Graduation rolled around and Greg made plans to interview with Larry Kerr about coming back to Halls.

But an unexpected phone call would begin the journey that would see him reach the pinnacle of his profession, send him reeling in the face of a stunning and controversial setback only to rediscover life’s true and rich and rewarding priorities.

To be continued next week.

Greg Vandagriff relaxes while vacationing with his family at a campground near Douglas Dam. Photo by Jake Mabe

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‘I felt like

I’d beaten the odds’ (Author’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series.) ile this one under perseverance.

Greg Vandagriff graduated from Halls High School in 1986, obsessively devoted to sports as only a 17-year-old can be. He’d enjoyed a successful senior football season under then coach Larry Kerr, one that saw the Red Devils make its first-ever appearance in the playoffs.

He signed a football and baseball scholarship with Maryville College but lasted all of a week.

“They were going to initiate me and I decided that they weren’t.”

He enrolled at UT but admits he didn’t often find his way into the classroom, opting instead for the adventures that awaited on an area lake.

“Sports were the only thing in high school that meant anything to me and I tried to adopt the same philosophy (at UT).”

By the third quarter of the academic year, Greg says his life seemed stuck in neutral. He’d broken up with his high school sweetheart. He took a job selling fire extinguishers. It lasted

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about a week.

He called one of his old football coaches at Halls – he says it was either Kerr or Mark Duff, an assistant who now is the school principal – who suggested he enroll at Tennessee Wesleyan, a Methodist-related liberal arts college in Athens, Tenn. A former classmate, Jeff Lusby, was playing there.

“I had never even heard of it, didn’t even know where it was. I called them up and they told me to bring down my transcript to see how close I was. I think I had an overall GPA of 1.9. I hadn’t done anything.”

Greg was working part time for the old Proffitt’s department store, so he says, “I was halfway dressed up,” when he walked into the registrar’s office.

Turns out he was one hour short of being eligible to play football.

“I said, ‘If you’ll give me a chance, I’ll make it worth your time.’ ” Being spiffed up in his work clothes probably helped his cause.

“Football started in 10 days. I hadn’t touched a weight and had only been playing with a softball travel team.”

How Greg Vandagriff’s hard work paid off The summer semester had ended, but the college created a one-hour bowling class for one student. Greg showed up and started doing push-ups, situps and running one and a half miles. He finished first among free safeties during the early drilling and testing.

Greg says money was hard to come by growing up. Going to college was a big deal. He knew it was his one chance to make it.

Already behind the proverbial eight ball because of the time he’d wasted, he nevertheless set a goal to graduate in three years.

He had to repeat classes. He took summer courses at UT. But he walked across that stage on time with a degree certifying him to teach general social studies, halfway expecting somebody to pull him out of line and tell him he had more work to do.

“For myself, I felt like I’d beat-

Recruiting and other choice tidbits TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West

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ootball recruiting is high-octane fuel for passionate Tennessee fans. There are no time limits or restrictor plates. The race runs full speed, year-round.

A few weeks ago, when the Volunteers had only two commitments for next February, the faithful were on the edge of panic.

Who? When? Why not?

When bushels of apples started falling off trees, the new concern was quality instead of quantity.

What if the Derek Dooley formula is too heavy on character and too light on ability? How come Alabama and Florida and LSU are gathering pledges from four- and five-star recruits and Tennessee is taking three-star promises?

How can we possibly overcome

our toughest foes if they constantly win the recruiting race?

What happens if we get too many receivers and running backs and not enough linebackers and defensive tackles? By the way, who else wanted those guys we are getting?

Marlington, Ohio, running back Alden Hill is an example.

Tennessee offered a scholarship one afternoon. Hill accepted the next day. What could the Vols have said to make such a sudden difference?

Hill said the Vanderbilt Commodores had said “they wanted to make me the leading rusher in the SEC.” No, they did not say how they were going to do it.

Boston College talked about getting Alden drafted by the NFL. Wow! Do you suppose Tennessee mentioned the Heisman Trophy it has never won or maybe the College Football Hall of Fame? Would that be enough to beat back Vandy and Boston College?

Hill is 6-2, 225, runs track and can read and write. His foot speed is 4.6 in the 40 and his grade point average is said to be 3.6. One is very good, the next good enough, the other is better.

In calm analysis, Tennessee recruiting, six months and more before national signing day, looks OK but something less than spectacular.

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en the odds.”

The semester prior to graduation, Greg had begun to hear the big question: “What are you going to do after college?”

Greg had first thought he’d go back to Halls and coach football at his alma mater. But he’d bonded, over badminton, with Tennessee Wesleyan’s athletic director Wayne Norfleet. He suggested Greg become a graduate assistant somewhere and earn a master’s degree.

“My first thought was, ‘Are you kidding me?’ ” In January 1990, four months before his graduation, Greg sat down and wrote a letter (his mother, Linda, typed it) and “sent it to everybody in the country and to every school in Tennessee. I sent out 50 or 100 of those things. It only cost a quarter to mail a letter then. I figured somebody could tell me ‘no’ for a

some shade and relax, summer recruiting is no big deal. I say it is the very source of life for the young coach. If Dooley evaluations are correct and his sales talk is convincing, he can win. If he guesses wrong, Tennessee will be starting over in two years.

••• Joan Cronan is receiving excellent reviews as interim vice chancellor of athletics. Am I supposed to be surprised?

Dooley said he’s been in regular contact with Joan, that he outlined a few things she could help with and “she responded beautifully.”

Cronan is an open operator, cards on the table, tell it like it is. She speaks English. She is a nice, refined person but, when the need arises, she is tough as boot leather.

On the assumption that Chancellor Jimmy Cheek needs all the help he can get in filling the AD vacancy, I suggest he might avoid a mistake by slowing down even slower and leaving Joan on the job until the ashes settle from the NCAA fire.

That would allow prospective athletic directors a better view of

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On second thought, this may be entirely too logical for the University of Tennessee.

••• Concerns are growing about slumping season ticket sales. In fact, season ticket holders from a year ago who did not renew have received calls from Tennessee officials asking them to reconsider.

One former customer stopped buying a pair and offered insight but asked that I not use his name.

I do not quote secret sources but this one I have known for 50 years. He said he is unhappy with the way the athletic department has operated.

He said he stopped his donation and gave up the tickets when he added up the money spent on people leaving. The last departure was the last straw.

He is not happy with the product on the field but believes it will get better in time. He is less confident about the athletic department and the university in general.

Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

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A word fitly spoken CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without good sense.

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Photographing birds doesn’t require braving the elements NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier

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ometimes I carry my camera on birding outings, and someone will ask, “Do you photograph birds?” as if that were my main focus, so to speak. Actually, I have my camera along in hopes of firing off a lucky shot, but the target is as likely to be a bug, a dragonfly or a flower.

Professional bird photographers, as well as serious amateurs, are a different sort of person from the rest of us. For one thing, there is absolutely no limit to their patience. Their endurance of the elements would make the hardiest duck hunter look like a sissy. They sit in blinds for days, perch in precarious platforms in treetops, muck through bug-infested swamps and go wherever a challenging shot might possibly happen.

And their results can be spectacular. They come home with photographs of birds we mortals seldom see. They show us both parent birds at a hidden nest, feeding their openmouthed babies. Or an owl plunging through the snow for a mouse in sub-zero weather. Or a hawk swooping down after a panic-stricken rabbit dashes for cover.

I greatly admire such patience and persistence, and the results, and I’m glad such people do what they do. I once spent more than a day in a blind in south Texas waiting for a glimpse of a blue bunting, first cousin of our indigo buntings and rare as hen’s teeth here in the U.S. I determined then that there was a long list of activities I would be doing before I ever spent eight or 10 hours, again, sitting in a small hot blind. But it helped me to appreciate the time and effort behind some of those amazing bird photos we enjoy on TV or in the outdoor magazines.

But one of the joys we regular people have in keeping feeders and having birds around the yard, in addition to watching them and getting to know them, is the chance to photograph them from time to time. Photographing birds through the living room windows has many advantages over hunkering down in a hot, bug-filled hut for endless hours.

Cardinals in an evergreen tree on a snowy day, a dozen bluebirds splashing together in the birdbath, a red-shouldered hawk standing on the roof of the feeder with that air

about her that only comes from being the top of the food chain … you never know what will be out there next.

Backyard birdwatchers who keep their cameras handy can produce some neat bird photos, too, sometimes as good as the pros.

It’s not just every day that you can go to the dentist for an appointment and be treated to some outstanding bird photos. But at my latest visit a couple of weeks ago, my dentist’s chipper, always-busy, always-cheerful receptionist, Lisa, was lying in wait for me with some really neat photos. While the previous customer waited patiently to pay her bill and the crew in the back waited to de-plaque my choppers, Lisa switched the office computer screen to bird mode, and we admired her latest backyard bird pictures.

Lisa and husband Don live in Norris, a pleasant town whose trees and woods haven’t all been replaced with big-box malls, abandoned big-box malls and hundreds of acres of soccer fields. Various of my friends from Norris consistently report having birds in their yards, at their feeders and nesting nearby that would make many a state park proud.

Two of Lisa’s Norris yard birds are seen here, a big one and a little one.

The big one is really big. Large, loud and flashy, pileated woodpeckers are attentiongetters. They’re always a treat to see when you’re out and about, particularly when they swoop into the scene after you’ve spent the morning straining for a glimpse of some little brown bird the size of a thimble.

Pileateds are usually seen up in the trees, hammering big chips of wood away with their big bills. But they will sometimes be seen on the ground, excavating a rotten log.

And sometimes they will resort to some

acrobatics. I stood and watched a pileated woodpecker along the Cades Cove loop road late one autumn, hanging from a poison ivy vine, harvesting poison ivy berries (which happen to be a good wildlife food, by the way).

Lisa caught this one doing the same thing, hanging upside down from her suet feeder. We have lots of downy and red-bellied woodpeckers at our feeders in Halls and Powell, but a pileated visitor would have one running for one’s camera. I didn’t ask Lisa how often she has to refill her feeder.

Lisa’s little bird? By golly, it’s a yellowthroated warbler! These little guys are among our very first warblers to arrive in the spring. We listen for their song high up in the nearly-leafless spring treetops, excited to be hearing it. And the Norris area is always a good place to find them.

But they are notoriously difficult to see, even when they sit up there and sing.

And yet, here is one inches away, pecking on the glass door. And Lisa alertly nailed him with the Nikon. This is a male bird, spring hormones out of control, trying to rid the neighborhood of that other male yellow-throated warbler he sees in the window. We’ve had robins, towhees and cardinals pecking windows for days but certainly never a wood-warbler. If there were a way to entice them to do it, I surely would.

Keeping your binoculars handy to check out something interesting or different at the feeder gets to be a part of the game. But keeping the camera handy for a photo op can be very addictive also. It’s a great way to share some of your sightings with your friends.

And sometime you may come up with a real zinger – maybe the cover for Audubon magazine. Keep watching.

ime was, I was married to a man who thought the verse from Proverbs quoted above was hilariously funny. (I am no longer married to him; it is possible that these are related facts.)

We discovered this obscure verse in a 34-week Bible study that I was teaching. I think he pointed it out in class just to see what I would do with it.

No woman, beautiful or otherwise, wants to be told she doesn’t have good sense. Even if the assessment is accurate.

On the whole, Proverbs spends a lot of time talking about women.

Sometimes the writers of Proverbs (which is a group of collected sayings from several sources) warn against the wiles of women and suggest that women are dangerous creatures who cannot be trusted and are to be avoided.

On the other hand, chapters 1, 8 and 9 introduce Wisdom, which is personified as a woman, and in Chapter 3, verse 19, the writer states that Wisdom had a role in creation: “The Lord by wisdom founded the earth.”

When Princess Diana died, one of the news magazines reporting on the event spoke of her and quoted Proverbs 3:17: “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”

I first learned the very next verse in a photographic collection called “The Family of Man.” There was a picture of a woman whose body was rail-thin and whose face echoed the scarcity and harshness of her life. But she was holding a baby in her arms, and the caption said, “She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. …”

(Proverbs 3:18) And beginning with verse 10, the 31st and final chapter of Proverbs is an acrostic poem to a capable woman. (The acrostic only works in Hebrew, so don’t try to figure it out in English.)

When I was in grammar school, a friend told me that since Chapter 31 had 31 verses, every woman could claim the verse that coincided with her birth date as “her” verse. It didn’t work so well for me, because I was born on the first of the month, so “my” verse was just introductory.

But there are friends and relatives of mine whose verses seemed to fit them perfectly.

Everyone knows the “soft answer turns away wrath” quote, which is certainly important advice. “Pride goes before destruction” (16:18) is another wise saying, which I, of course, still mentally process in the language of King James: “Pride goeth before a fall.” And one of the biblical proverbs even became the basis for the old folk tale of “The City Mouse and the Country Mouse”: “Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.” (17:1) Another favorite of mine is from Proverbs 25:11: “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver,” which reminds me yet again that the “right” word is always far and away preferable to and more powerful than just “any” word.

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By Elizabeth Longmire Last week the Shopper interns arrived at the Halls office to depart on our last tour of our internship.

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We were greeted by regional data steward Greg Kalmon. He first took us to a conferGreg Kalmon ence room to preview a slide show of Kimberly-Clark values, products they have created and plans for the future.

The company was formed in 1872 and was named after two of the four founders, John A. Kimberly and Charles B. Clark. KimberlyClark has 57,000 employees and $19.7 billion in net sales, and 1.3 billion people use its products every day.

The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lead the world in essentials for a better life.â&#x20AC;? It has four core values: authentic, accountable, innovative and caring. Using these traits they are capable of developing world-renowned brands such as Kleenex, Huggies, Kotex, Depends and Scott.

With its global brands holding the No. 1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries, Kimberly-Clark is focused on innovation, continuous improvement and building talent. They believe in being responsible stewards of the environment worldwide.

Kalmon showed the interns how Kimberly-Clark employees are able to videoconference worldwide.

Following the presentation, everyone was given a gift bag filled with KimberlyClark products.

After leaving, the interns headed to Market Square,

Kimberly-Clark staff members handed out goodie bags to the interns during their final adventure of the summer. Interns pictured are Tyler Alexis Beard, Elizabeth Longmire, Caroline Longmire, Madeline Noe, Madison Lonas, Dalton Mullins, Owen Sanders, Leo Coppock-Seal and Jacob Mullins. Photo by Ruth White

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By Madeline Lonas Have you ever actually thought how much effort goes into making the toilet paper that you use every day? Most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, unlike the people at Kimberly-Clark.

The company employs 57,000 plus workers worldwide. Its world headquarters is located in Dallas and its administrative headquarters is located right here in Knoxville.

While visiting last week, we played a trivia game where each winner received a box of Kleenex and enjoyed a few bites of chocolate.

Something that caught my eye during the slide show was the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lead the world in essentials for a better life.â&#x20AC;? Following the discussion on the company, all of the girls headed into another room to have a video meeting. The room had two flat-screen TVs on the wall; one to see ourselves, the other one was used

to see the other room. A microphone was hanging down from the ceiling and they had a camera that could be moved around on the wall. In the center of the room was a square table with comfortable office chairs around it.

Next, we headed up to where the employees work. I call it the Cubic Room, because it is full of cubic office spaces. This was a peaceful place, calm and laid back.

We then headed to the area where lunch was eaten. Greg Kalmon said that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a deli or buffet because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only a block from Market Square.

Our final destination at Kimberly-Clark was the area in which printing and mailing are handled. They have a machine that could make checks, but someone said that they have to be careful with this machine to make sure that no one breaks into it and makes their own checks.

Spending pennies with a purpose Shopper-News interns Dalton Mullins, Tyler Alexis Beard, Caroline Longmire, Madison Noe, Leo Coppock-Seal and Owen Sanders help fill Richard Beanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hat with pennies to help the youth detention facility purchase underclothes. Photo by Ruth White

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Throughout this summer our 13 interns have been able to travel to nine different businesses around Knoxville to get a feel for reporting first-hand.

Each intern has a unique personality that made this inwhere we were treated to Participating in the live taping on WBIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live ternship all the more exciting. From the first week to the ice cream.

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Museum at Bethel Cemetery Mabry-Hazen House will take part in the grand opening of the Bethel Cemetery Civil War Museum from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. Everyone is invited.

Local historian Bob Booker will speak about Cal Johnson, who re-interred soldiers killed at the Battle of Fort Sanders.

Dr. Joan Markel of the Frank H. McClung Museum will talk about the Siege of Knoxville and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will cut the ribbon to the museum.

Bethel Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 1,600 Confederate soldiers and still has the caretakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cottage from 1886.

Buses will shuttle visitors from Mabry-Hazen House to Bethel Cemetery starting at 9 a.m. Ceremonies will begin at 10. Info: 522-8661 or www.mabryhazen.com.

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Crop drop: good for the heart and soul

By Larry Van Guilder Nothing says summer in East Tennessee quite like fresh green beans. And nothing is better for the heart and soul than volunteering to sort and pack 20 tons of green beans for the needy under a blazing summer sun.

Around 70 volunteers gathered on a recent Saturday morning at Concord United Methodist Church to fill bags with green beans destined for kitchens as far away as Claiborne County. Linda Tozer, program coordinator for the Tennessee Gleaning Network, explained the process.

“These are the culls,” Tozer said. “Too long or split, maybe broken, but still perfectly good beans.”

Tozer said the beans – 20 tons of them – were trucked from Hughes Farm in Crossville the previous night. Spread out in heaps in the church parking lot, the beans required conVolunteers sort and pack green beans at Concord United Meth- stant watering in the heat to prevent drying out. odist Church. Pass the cornbread! Photos by L. Van Guilder

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She coordinated the Saturday “crop drop” with United Methodist men of the Oak Ridge district.

Locally, agencies like the Knox Area Rescue Ministries and The Love Kitchen benefit from the gleaning program.

“I was picking tomatoes Gary Kuhn, Mike Smith and Linda Tozer take a brief break duryesterday, and I’ll be pick- ing the crop drop. ing peas tomorrow,” Tozer said, as a pickup loaded with bags of beans drove slowly past the toiling volunteers.

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By Wendy Smith William Shakespeare died almost 400 years ago, but his humor and insight are celebrated on Market Square each summer by the Tennessee Stage Company.

Founding Director Tom Parkhill says Shakespeare’s influence is so profound that author Harold Bloom calls him the inventor of personality. That’s debatable, but there’s no doubt the Bard can spin a tale.

“He wrote good plays,” says Parkhill.

“His comedies are funny and his tragedies are full of insight into darker human impulses.”

The Tennessee Stage Company is performing both during the Shakespeare on the Square festival. “Comedy of Errors” and “Othello” play at 7 on alternate evenings Thursday through Saturday on Market Square.

The company was founded in 1989, and its first Shakespeare performances were at the Tennessee Amphitheater in World’s Fair Park. Market Square has been the summer venue since 2003.

It’s a steamy time for actors to work outside in layers of Elizabethan garb. But the sun sets quickly, and the soft light and the low hum of human activity around the square create the perfect ambiance for drama. Microphones on the actors help modern folk work through the eloquent dialogue. Storms sometimes create an unexpected intermission, but it’s been four years since a production was completely washed out by rain, says Parkhill.

“We generally find a way to play.”

The actors are a dedicated bunch. Auditions for the summer productions are in the winter, and participation requires seven weeks of rehearsal, six evenings a week. But it’s what they love, and there’s a paycheck in it.

“Actors want to act most any place where actors can get paid to be actors,” he says.

Featured event Shakespeare on the Square will present the Bard’s “Othello” and “Comedy of Errors” on Market Square.

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Dromio of Ephesus (Joe Casterline) gets his first look at his twin, Dromio of Syracuse (Kevin Velasco), in the Tennessee Stage Company’s “Comedy of Errors,” which is currently playing on Market Square. Photo by Wendy Smith Shakespeare on the Square typically features one comedy and a work that’s a tragedy, a history or a romance. Plays are chosen to match the company’s current talent. Most performers are experienced, but the company also uses college-age interns who play small parts and help backstage.

Two Maryville High School students, Chase and Chandler Condrone, appear in “Comedy of Errors.” The play’s cast of characters includes two sets of twins, so the twin brothers auditioned. Parkhill chose older actors for the lead roles, but cast the teenagers in smaller parts for an extra dose of comedy.

Cast members did double takes when the real-life twins appeared together on stage.

In addition to Shakespeare on the Square, the Tennessee Stage Company hosts a new play festival each spring, which

This month ■ The work of artist and elementary school art teacher Ryan Blair will be featured at Bliss Home on Market Square throughout August with an opening reception during First Friday, 6-9 p.m. Aug. 5. Info: email Anne at anne@ shopinbliss.com.

Exhibits by the Arts and Culture Alliance at the Emporium Center on Gay Street: ■ “Painted Memories” by the O’Connor Senior Center Painters

features public readings and staged readings of new work.

The company also works with at-risk youth who are referred by the public defender’s office. An after-school program uses theater to teach decision-making skills. Additionally, it works with the Silver Stage Players at the John T. O’Connor Senior Center.

Knoxville is a tremendous arts town, says Parkhill, given the number of local theater groups, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Knoxville Opera and a strong public library system.

“Many people don’t realize it, but the arts here are even bigger than UT football.

That’s really only six days a year, while the arts are year-round.”

For information about scheduled performances: www.tennesseestage.com.

this year’s East Tennessee History Fair, presented by the East Tennessee Historical Society Saturday, Aug. 20).

■ “Reflections of an American Tragedy,” by Marie Merritt through Sunday, Aug. 28 (also in conjunction with the history fair).

An opening reception will be held 5:30 to 9 p.m. Aug. 5, with live music by Grayson Dagnan.

Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Info: Call 525-5265 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

■ “A Day in the Life: Observations and Obsessions” by Diana Rogers.

WDVX Blue Plate Special The WDVX Blue Plate Special is a live performance held at noon Monday through Saturday at the Knoxville Visitors Center on the corner of Gay Street and Summit Hill Drive. Info: www.wdvx. com.

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■ “Enlightenment,” a metaphysical, spiritual and energy art show.

Exhibits open with a reception 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5 and run through Friday, Aug. 26. A holistic fair will be held during the reception as part of the “Enlightenment” exhibit. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Info: 5237543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

and 13. The tragedy “Othello”

Exhibits at the Art Market Gallery on Gay Street:

■ Homesick Elephant and Josh Lavendar Thursday, Aug. 4.

■ Works by artists Jay Hollopeter and Kathy Seely through Sunday, Aug. 28.

■ Barry and Holly, Tashian and Jill Jack Friday, Aug. 5.

■ “Who, What, Where in East Tennessee,” through Sunday, Aug. 21 (in conjunction with

■ The Riverbreaks Saturday, Aug. 6.

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

will be performed 7 p.m. Aug. 4, 6, 12 and 14. Info: www. tennesseestage.com.

■ Lovechild Zombie Tuesday, Aug. 2.

■ Lowell Thompson and Four Leaf Peat Wednesday, Aug. 3.

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BEST VALUE: Knoxville has been included in Kiplinger’s “10 Best Value Cities for 2011.”

K-Town ranked fifth on this year’s list that “focuses on metro areas with vibrant economies, reasonable living costs and great amenities.”

Mayor Daniel Brown celebrated with a Smoky Mountain Market “dog” and a Rita’s Italian Ice. BRIGHT LIGHT: Elizabeth Eason Architecture has won some “green” awards for work done at the WROL building, 524 South Gay St. “We have successfully achieved LEED certification for our clients, with many more projects on track to be certified, so it’s only fitting that our space would achieve a LEED Gold rating as well,” said Beth Eason.

MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC: The We R Indie & Indiegrrl International Music Conference returns to Knoxville on Aug. 18-20, with three days of music workshops, a vendor expo and panels offering professional instruction, all designed to enhance the careers of independent artists. Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park and Convention Center will host. Knoxville singer/ songwriter Emily Shane will perform in the Songwriter Showdown.

Tickets are $5. Info: www.WeRIndie.org/.

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Sevier County woman puts suicide attempt in the past Marjorie Diefenbach, Sevier Wellness Recovery Center, is the winner of the seventh annual Penny Driver Achievement Award.

The award is given each year to a current or former patient of any Peninsula program who is recognized as a role model by staff and peers, and who has been diagnosed with a major mental illness of a long-term, chronic and debilitating nature, learned to effectively manage the symptoms of the mental illness and thus significantly decreased the need for psychiatric hospitalizations, reintegrated himself/herself effectively back into the community by going to work, going to school or becoming a volunteer, and who has developed an effective social support network outside the mental health delivery system. The award is named for longtime Peninsula employee and mental health advocate Penny Driver.

Now helps others heal at Peninsula It felt as if the very fabric of Marjorie Diefenbachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life was coming apart at the seams in 2003. Five years prior, she, her husband and their four children moved their business from New York state to the Smoky Mountains. They built their dream home in Sevier County and for a while, things were good. As time passed, the couple grew apart and the marriage disintegrated, with the divorce being settled in February 2009 after six years of legal battle.

Marjorie was no longer employed, was forced in the midst of the recession to sell her home, and was even without a place to live for a few weeks. Two of her children had grown up and moved out. (Victor, the oldest, joined the Air Force and is now in Iraq. Emma got married and lives in Middle Tennessee.) Every day presented a new challenge for Marjorie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything had changed and I was having a really hard time with life,â&#x20AC;? Diefenbach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being on my own was new because I went from my parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; care to my husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s care and here I was by myself for the ďŹ rst time. I was extremely depressed.â&#x20AC;?

To complicate matters in 2005, she was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma on her arm and faced surgery with no insurance or ďŹ nancial resources. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the time, I was working for about $50 a day with no beneďŹ ts. I did not take the recommended follow-up chemotherapy. I had to keep working; I had kids who depended on me,â&#x20AC;? Diefenbach said.

She had a car accident that resulted in injuries to her back. This affected her functioning. She was also diagnosed with ďŹ bromyalgia and Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS), issues which are ongoing today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All these things sent me into a tailspin. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why I was around. I felt so alone and so worthless,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I turned to food as my comfort and then I felt even worse; I had no energy and found it hard to even get out of bed.â&#x20AC;?

The pressure was too much for Diefenbach, who says she always had a low selfesteem and tried to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;as invisible as possibleâ&#x20AC;? in group situations. In fact, the stress of her situation caused a series of unpleasant memories from her past to ďŹ&#x201A;ood her mind, resulting in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in addition to severe clinical depression. She would â&#x20AC;&#x153;disassociate,â&#x20AC;? which means to escape reality in ways that are involuntary and unhealthy. Persons with Disassociative Disorder develop coping mechanisms to keep difďŹ cult memories at bay.

Diefenbach began to drink and cut her arms, and tried twice to end her life. She spent time in a mental health hospital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Guess what happened then?â&#x20AC;? she asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was sent home to an empty house because my kids were with their father.â&#x20AC;?

Diefenbachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Dwight and daughter Mary were the only ones at home to care for their Mom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dwight helped food shop and took on the protector role,â&#x20AC;? said Diefenbach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was determined to make sure I would not hurt myself again.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mary parented me,â&#x20AC;? Diefenbach insisted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you how incredible she was, although it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy for her. She was my rock.â&#x20AC;?

Diefenbach wanted help, but found she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;not sick enoughâ&#x20AC;? for some programs, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;too sickâ&#x20AC;? for others. Peninsula Outpatient CenterSevier recommended the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at Peninsula Lighthouse, and it was a great ďŹ t for Diefenbach.

The Lighthouse Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a ďŹ ve-day-a-week program which specializes in the treatment of cooccurring disorders, but is appropriate for individuals with any mental illness diagnosis. A typical treatment day is three hours in duration and consists of group therapy and educational sessions.

The length of treatment is usually four to six weeks; however, length of stay is determined on an individualized basis in order to meet the unique needs of each client. Lighthouse treatment involves support and accountability,

These factors include: genetic and biological, reproductive, hormonal, abuse and oppression, interpersonal, and certain psychological and personality characteristics.

Symptoms of depression include: N Little interest or pleasure in doing things N Feeling down, depressed or hopeless N Trouble falling or staying asleep or sleeping too much N Feeling tired or having little energy

Talking to a woman with depression

the things I have learned, I have conquered my fear of the unknown,â&#x20AC;? she explained.

Approximately six months later, when an opening became available to work in the Sevierville Wellness Recovery Center, Diefenbach applied and got the job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I enjoy learning new things and continuing education is a must,â&#x20AC;? Diefenbach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love working here,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People with mental illness deserve to be cared for and they deserve happiness. If I can help give them tools to achieve their goals, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth everything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been through.â&#x20AC;?

Diefenbach says the stigma associated with mental illness is prevalent in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society and is a huge obstacle to overcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most believe that all people who suffer from mental illness are violent and to be feared, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not true,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In fact, the opposite may be true. They need help. The people who come here are good people who have encountered difďŹ cult times throughout their lives,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not everyone has that white-picket-fence existence.â&#x20AC;?

Diefenbach has put action behind her words. She has started a task force called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mission: Possibleâ&#x20AC;? and went to shelters and into the streets, telling people how WRAPÂŽ can help give them independence. One of her â&#x20AC;&#x153;recruitsâ&#x20AC;? was present to see Diefenbach receive the Penny Driver Award. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was so happy to see her. This young woman now has a place to live and is no longer on the streets, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because of the skills she has learned,â&#x20AC;? Diefenbach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seeing her there is worth it all.â&#x20AC;?

A tattoo that says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faithâ&#x20AC;? marks a spot where Diefenbach cut her arm in a suicide attempt. She feels remorse for what her illness put her children through, but has forgiven herself and moved on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thinking correctly then,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t me.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Life is a gift and is worth living. â&#x20AC;ŚI thank God I am still here,â&#x20AC;? Diefenbach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If anyone out there sees themselves in my story, I want to tell them, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK. What you are feeling is real, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope beyond that dark hole.â&#x20AC;?

Everyone experiences disappointment or sadness in life. When the â&#x20AC;&#x153;downâ&#x20AC;? times last a long time or interfere with your ability to function, you may be suffering from a common medical illness called depression.

Major depression affects your mood, mind, body and behavior. Nearly 15 million Americans â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 in 10 adults â&#x20AC;&#x201C; experience depression each year, and about two-thirds donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the help they need.

Women experience twice the rate of depression as men, regardless of race or ethnic background. An estimated 1 in 8 women will contend with a major depression in their lifetime.

Researchers suspect that, rather than a single cause, many factors unique to womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives play a role in developing depression.

If a friend or loved one has depression, you may be trying to figure out how you can talk to her in a comforting and helpful way. This may be difficult for many reasons. She is probably feeling isolated, emotionally withdrawn, angry or hostile and sees the world in a negative light.

Although you may feel your efforts are rebuffed or unwelcome, she needs your support. You can simply be someone she can talk to and let her share her feelings.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to remember that depression is a medical illness. Her symptoms are not a sign of laziness or of feeling sorry for herself. She canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just â&#x20AC;&#x153;snap out of itâ&#x20AC;? by taking a more positive outlook on life.

Helpful responses include, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am sorry youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in so much painâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like for you. It must be very difficult and lonely.â&#x20AC;? Instead of simply disagreeing with feelings she conveys, it is more helpful to point out realities and hope.

A woman with depression often expects to be rejected. You can reassure her that you will be there for her and ask if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything you can do to make her life easier.

If your loved one is not diagnosed or not in treatment, the most important thing you can do is encourage her to see a health care professional.

Never ignore statements about suicide.

Even if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe your loved one is serious, these thoughts should be reported to your friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doctor.

Source: National Alliance on Mental Illness.

For more information visit www.NAMI.org.

teaching skills, and assisting clients in achieving personal change goals. Treatment groups are facilitated by masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s level therapists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My therapist, Jo Willey, was wonderful,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I ďŹ rst began going, I was scared of my own shadow. Slowly, I felt myself change and become calm.â&#x20AC;?

The correct combination of therapy, education and medication helped Diefenbach turn the corner.

Upon completion of the IOP, Willey encouraged Diefenbach to participate in the Recovery Education Center (REC) program as the next step in healing. The REC is also a ďŹ ve-day-a-week program which helps individuals put into practice the skills they have learned in the IOP. While participating in the REC, Diefenbach took a Wellness Recovery Action PlanÂŽ (WRAP) class.

WRAPÂŽ is a system that strengthens recovery by identifying how to maintain wellness

and deal with potential problems by using tools to formulate personal crisis management plans to achieve and maintain wellness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One day I was in WRAPÂŽ and Linda Estridge was teaching. Day after day, I was wondering why I was even there. Then, Linda started talking about triggers for certain behavior, and it started making sense. Everything clicked with me,â&#x20AC;? Diefenbach said.

Peninsula Outpatient Manager of Recovery Services Dr. Mary Nelle Osborne urged Peninsula Wellness Recovery Center Diefenbach to continue healing and growing by participating in Peer Support Train- Locations ing (PSST). PSST is an 80-hour interactive N Blount County N Sevier County course that prepares graduates to achieve 1431 East Harper Ave. 509 High St. their goals in employment, schooling and/or Maryville, TN 37804 Sevierville, TN 37862 volunteerism. During training, students de865-379-6030 865-705-2054 velop personal skills to enhance their person- N Knox County 1451 Dowell Springs Blvd. al recovery and professional skills to promote Knoxville, TN 37909 their success in the work environment.

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Women experience twice the rate of depression as men

About Wellness Recovery Centers Peninsula Wellness Recovery Centers (WRCs) offer support for hundreds of individuals in Blount, Knox and Sevier counties. Men and women age 18 and older who have a mental illness are eligible to apply to participate.

WRCs supplement participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mental health services by providing socialization opportunities as well as education and support groups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each student will have the choice to develop his or her own Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) that strengthens recovery by helping identify potential problems and related management plans,â&#x20AC;? said Mary Nelle Osborne, Peninsula Outpatient Manager of Recovery Services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;An equally important aspect is healthy socialization,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through the WRCs, participants can enjoy a wide variety of recreational activities in the community such as bowling, picnics, museums and area attractions.â&#x20AC;?

Osborne said that WRCs also structure opportunities for volunteering so that participants may give back to the community.

A meal and snacks are offered daily, and transportation may be provided. All services are free because the centers operate on a grant from the state of Tennessee.

For more information about Peninsula WRCs, contact Sheryl McCormick at 865374-7109.

If she was physically ill, she would see a doctor.

One in every four women will develop clinically significant depression during her lifetime. Most try to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;go it aloneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and hope things get better.

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‘Pooch’ stimulus package

When summer gets hairy In recent weeks I’ve written about the dangers to your pet of the summer heat. Now let’s talk about something fun.

The WaterDog Outdoor Pet Waterer lets your pet hydrate themselves on their terms.

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Critter Tales

Grip Tex Dog Boots could work wonders for your furry friends’ manicure and pedicure. Photo courtesy of seniorpetproducts.com

For the critters who are sun worshippers and don’t realize how bad the heat can be for their furry little bodies, there are some great heat relievers out there that can make the season more enjoyable.

The PETCool Therm-ASSURE System is a wonderful addition to your loved one’s home. With cool air blowing in the summer and warm air blowing in the winter, they will be the talk of the neighborhood in their “mammal cave.” With a price tag of about $375, the units are irresistible and currently on back order.

I’ve lost track of the times my pets’ water bowl has turned over, only to leave them panting in small bits of shade until I’m home from work.

With the WaterDog Outdoor Pet Waterer by Contech, your pet will never again suffer from a dry water dish. It automatically releases water

from the faucet when it senses your pet is nearby. It’s a deal at $65 and completely worth the peace of mind you’ll have when away from home.

If your four-legged buddy has sensitive tootsies and can’t bear the thought of walking on searing hot pavement in 95 degree weather, then Grip Tex Dog Boots are perfect for him or her. Not only do they soften the blow of stepping on hot walkways and asphalt, but they also protect against cuts and insect bites.

At $60, they cost no more than a pair of your own tennis shoes – and you get FOUR of these!

All joking aside, these are all real and very useful products for your pets.

Although it’s great to make light of a scary situation, we should never forget our four legged friends when it comes to their comfort and safety.

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■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 1-2, Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church, 9132 Kingston Pike.

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PETCool Therm-ASSURE keeps your pet’s house cool in the summer and cozy in the winter.

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Pupcicles To refresh your furry friend 2 cups low salt beef or chicken broth 2/3 cup water 2 or 3 ice cube trays Small rawhide sticks Mix water with beef or chicken broth and pour into ice cube trays. Place in freezer and serve cold. Add a rawhide stick halfway through the freezing.

Ridge Senior Center, 728 Emory Valley Road, Oak Ridge.

■ Noon to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 11-12, Sevier County Senior Center, 1220 W. Main St., Sevierville.

■ 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, Blount Memorial Health Center, 220 Associates Blvd., Alcoa.

For registration info about this and all other AARP driver safety classes, call Barbara ■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday Manis, 922-5648. and Thursday, Aug. 3-4, Oak

■ Noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 17-18, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

Meet Riley, an 8-month-old female fancy rat. YoungWilliams Animal Center has many rats available for adoption. They are clean, often preferring to use a litter box, playful and affectionate. Although they like to live with a rat friend, they do form close bonds with their caretakers. Rats enjoy a varied diet of fruit, vegetables and protein, and they like to stay busy making nests, running on wheels and exploring. They make great family pets and get along well with other animals as long as there is careful supervision during visits. Riley and her friends are available for adoption at the main center at 3201 Division St. Hours there are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. You can also visit potential pets at Young-Williams Animal Village, 6400 Kingston Pike, noon to 6 p.m. daily.

Info: www.knoxpets.org.

HEALTH NOTES ■ A monthly series for those effected by autism will begin 6 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 15, at Lawson McGhee Library. The three authors of “I Might Be …You” – a parent, a woman diagnosed with autism and a practitioner – will discuss their individual views of autism.

Free admission. Info: 215-8767.

■ Cancer survivor support groups, Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings and Tuesday evenings, at the Cancer Support Community of East Tennessee (formerly the Wellness Community), 2230 Sutherland Ave. Support groups for cancer caregivers, Monday evenings. Cancer family bereavement group, Thursday evenings. Info: 546-4661 or www.cancersupportet.org.

■ Lung cancer support group meets 6 p.m. the third Monday every month at Baptist West Cancer Center, 10820 Parkside Drive. No charge, light refreshments served. Info: Trish or Amanda, 218-7081.

■ Stop Smoking: 215-QUIT (7848) is a program of the Knox County Health Department. The hotline is answered 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

■ Support group meeting for family members or caregivers of an adult with a mental illness is 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at Cherokee Health Systems, 2018 Western Ave. Info: Rebecca Gill, 602-7807 or www.namiknox.org.

■ UT Hospice conducts ongoing orientation sessions for adults (18 and older) interested in becoming volunteers with its program.

No medical experience is required. Training is provided. Info: 544-6279.

■ UT Hospice Adult Grief Support, for any adult who is suffering loss, meets 6 to 7:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of every month in the UT Hospice office, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info or to reserve a spot: 544-6277.

Young-Williams Animal Center has a surplus of adult dogs right now and is offering a “Priceless Pooches Stimulus Package” through Wednesday, Aug. 31. Any dog age 6 months or older can be adopted for $50. This fee covers spaying or neutering, vaccinations and a microchip with registration.

Folks who buy a pet from a pet store or breeder can expect to pay for these expenses themselves, which can reach $645. Info: www. knoxpets.org.

The Man Ride The second annual Man Ride for Prostate Cancer Awareness will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at Smoky Mountain Harley-Davidson in Maryville. Former UT football coach Phillip Fulmer will be on hand for a meet and greet and will take part in the ride.

Preregistration ($25 single, $40 couple) by Saturday, Aug. 6, guarantees participants a free T-shirt and lunch at The Shed.

In conjunction with the ride, Smoky Mountain Harley-Davidson and the UT Medical Center Cancer Institute will sponsor a free prostate cancer screening event 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24.

Info: 305-6970 or visit www.utmedicalcneter.org/ themanride.

Sound workshop Jubilee Community Arts will host a two-session workshop on audio setup, equipment and mixing for concerts 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 23-24, at the Laurel Theater presented by the Theater’s volunteer sound engineer Dr. Lou Gross. Admission is free, but participants will be expected to volunteer six hours of time over the next year to aid production of Jubilee Community Arts activities. Info: 522-5851.

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A healthy heart is a happy heart Dealing with coronary heart disease can be confusing and even frustrating. What can I eat that is healthy? How can I reduce cholesterol? How do I know if I am having a heart attack? What do I do if I think I’m having a heart attack?

Ruth White

Darrell Brackett from Parkwest Medical Center visited senior adults at the Strang Senior Center last week to discuss coronary heart disease and heart attacks.

Heart disease is the No 1 killer and affects 12 million Americans. Heart attacks affect more than 1.1 million individuals each year. According to Brackett, heart attacks occur not

only in elderly adults. He has seen younger people come through the hospital doors with heart problems recently.

A heart attack can often be tricky to diagnose, but quick action and medical treatment are key to saving the heart muscle. Some symptoms can be chest pains, pain in the arm and shortness of breath. Heart attacks can be caused by arteries that are blocked and do not allow blood Ruth Barkley and Lucy Mae Jarnagin are ready to party at flow to the heart muscle. the annual Windsor Gardens Assisted Living Fourth of July Kendra Schnoor, RN at celebration. Photo submitted Parkwest, recommends that people who think they may be suffering from a heart attack or are with someone having a heart attack should immediately call 911. “Calling emergency help will allow EMTs an opportunity to send an EKG to the doctor while in Parkwest Medical Center Director of CCU/Special Services Dar- transit so that approprirell Brackett demonstrates using a portable AED to Ardell Di- ate medical help is in place etzler, Linda Collins and Annabelle Harvey at the Strang Senior and ready to help save the Center. Photos by Ruth White patient.”

Seniors celebrate in style

Civil War genealogy workshop

Art gallery seeks new members

The East Tennessee History Center will host the workshop “How to Find Your Civil War Ancestor” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13. Admission is free.

The Art Market Gallery on Gay Street will be jurying artists for membership Sunday, Aug. 21. Prospective members should deliver four pieces of work with an applica-

Tickets

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UT FOOTBALL Season Tickets, 4 or 6 together in dry.

Sec. X 5, Row 49.

Info 865-376-7236

40w Apts - Unfurnished 71 Trucking Opportunities 106 Dogs

OPEN HOUSE SUN. 2 BR West Hills tnhse, $1000 - $1250 - $1500 7/31, 12-5PM WEST1.5 BA, lg. laundry Sign on Bonuses!

MORELAND HILLS, rm, patio, No pets.

Hiring Over the Road 4 BR, 2.5 BA, lg. bon.

Cr Ref. $625/mo. rm, newly renov. kit., $400 DD. 567-5004 Drivers: Van, Flatbed, new hdwd-LR/DR/FR, CITY, 2BR, Refrigerated openings. scr porch, corner lot/ FTN. 1BA, clean, carport fenced bk, 2 car gar, AA/EOE. Call Roehl & pool. W/D in unit, lndscp lgtg, 2,737 SF, $575 mo. 865-671-6139 1-888-867-6345 $359,900. 7200 Rutgers Dr 37919 865-691-7200 ***Web ID# 827342*** Karns Area, 1 or 2 Br, Stove, Refrig., DW, Garbage Disposal, W/D Conn. $650-$850. Driver 691-8822 or 660-3584.

GREAT STARTING PAY! WEEKLY HOME TIME! MUST SEE! No Pets Flatbed Opportunities 865-230-7279, Westcliff $25 Tarp Pay

by Cherokee Condos- Townhouses 42 Condos CC. Elevator & pool. $25 Extra Stop Pay 1800 SF, 3BR, 2BA apt, $1,000 Per Week Avg XL balcony, kit & pntry CDL-A, 1 Yr. T/T Exp. & laun. XL LR/DR. Near Star ti ng @ $159,900 Within Last 3 Yrs. Req. $1200.

For sale or lease to purch. UT/shops/parks.

Think RED Flatbed!

3 BR, 2 1/2 BA. For details ***Web ID# 828797*** 888.461.3580 865-567-5788; 898-4558 SOUTH, 2 BR, 1 BA, AVERITTcareers.com 1200SF, appls. furn, Equal Opportunity priv. $750/mo + dep Employer No pets, 865-577-6289

HALLS

New Luxury Condos on Gay Street Downtown Knoxville

Private, gated parking on site. 865-661-9038 ***Web ID# 831856***

Lost & Found

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LOST DOG Tomahawk View area, "Bear", silver w/ blk face, M, 9-10 lb, long haired, afraid of men. $400 REWARD 330-497-2235 ***Web ID# 832943***

Special Notices

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DAV Chapter 24 has FREE RENTAL OF POWER WHEEL CHAIRS available for any area disabled veteran or members of their immediate family.

Manually operated wheel chairs also available. Call 7650510 for information.

IF YOU USED THE ANTIBIOTIC DRUG

LEVAQUIN

AND SUFFERED A TENDON RUPTURE, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727

Homes

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WE BUY HOUSES Cash….Fast 865-365-8888 www.TNHouseRelief.com

For Sale By Owner 40a

OPEN HOUSE

Sun., Aug., 7, 2p-5p Halls, 6230 Oak Tree Ln. 37938. 1.89 ac. 6169 sf, 4 br, 4 ba, gourmet kit, Mother-in-law suite. Tons of extras! $629,900. 865-922-7042 ***Web ID# 832862***

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FSBO Alice Bell Rd. Bsmt rancher, 4 BR, 2 BA, almost 2 ac, big front yd, gar. & carport,

Priced for Quick Cash Sale Next 2 Wks Only. $85,000. 865-924-0484

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Doll House, 3 BR, 1 BA, compl. remod., 4424 Pinehurst Dr. $74,900/bo 865-523-8874 ***Web ID# 830090***

WEST. APT. 2 BR 1 1/2 BA, W/D conn., Cent H/A, $585 mo.

No pets 865-690-5418; 414-0054

Lakefront Property 47 Apts - Furnished 72 BEST DEAL ON WALBROOK STUDIOS WATTS BAR, $250K furn. w/dock.

Call 865-335-8771. ***Web ID# 829192***

25 1-3 60 7 $130 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic Cable. No Lse.

LAKEFRONT CONDO. Deeded boat slip, private pool, in a gated Houses - Unfurnished 74 community. Reduced $199,000. 100% financing available 5% APR. 1 BLOCK across river from UT. 4-5 br, 2 ba.

866-434-8969, ext 111 Nice. Complete. $850/ LAKEFRONT Estate mo. Vouchers ok. 865546-0995 or 865-680-8606 Lot on Ft. Loudoun ***Web ID# 830394*** Lake near Pellissippi & Northshore.

3910 Oakland Dr. 37918.

Covered dock, 3 BR, 2 BA, new conbeautiful view. struction, cent elec. $799,000. 865-293-5474 heat/air, W&D, refrig, stove, DW, $795 mo. + $500 dep. Ready to NORRIS - LAKEFRONT move in. Destiny 423LOT, $79,900 w/deeded 438-9095 boat slip, private pool, and gated community, 3 BR, 2 ba, freshly 90% financing, 5% fixed updated, trash incl.

APR. 866-434-8969, ext 111 $825/mo. 2216 Deerwood Rd. 865-966-9846 ***Web ID# 820915*** SHORT SALE. Watts Bar lakefront, 3 / 3 1/2 3 BR county living, 2 Townhome @ 1/2 ba, lrg yard.

Lakeside Village, East Knox Co. Non hist. Loudon. 2 story, smoking. $1100-1200 hdwd, granite, stainl. nego. 865-363-1358 kit, dockage, 2 yrs old, ***Web ID# 832617*** most recent sales @ 279,900$ curr. leased FARRAGUT AREA, mo to mo @ 1300$ short Log Cabin, 3 BR, 2 sale @ $227,500.

BA, sunrm, gar., 865-924-0791 $900/mo. 865-966-9846 ***Web ID# 825318*** ***Web ID# 820913*** WATERFRONT NORTH, CONV. to CLOSE-OUT SALE, downtown & UT, 3 August 13th, 9AM – BR, 1 BA bsmt, 1PM – Lakefront lots W/D conn, fenced from $99,000, lake yd. $650/mo. $500 view lots from $9,900. dep. 865-406-6752 Beautiful 1+ acre waterfront estate lots North. Norris Freeway.

Priv. 2 BR 2 BA. Sec. w/rip rap in place and pre-approved for boat dep. 1st & last. $750.

865-256-9501; 494-7785 dock, will be sold with ***Web ID# 826670*** no buyer’s premiums or sales commissions.

NW, 3 BR, 1 1/2 BA, This upscale Loudon hdwd. flrs., fenced community is near yrd, $1025/mo. with west Knox, 3 mi. off appls. 2007 WinterI-75. These lots will green Dr. 742-6918 sell fast so call Rick @ 865/300-7791 for appt Powell, 355 Ashworth ***Web ID# 818164*** Trl., 3BD/2.5BA, No Pets/Smoke, $1175/mo 865-776-9628 Cemetery Lots 49 $1175/dep, ***Web ID# 824468*** HIGHLAND SOUTH, STRAW PLAINS, (2) plots (includes newer, lrg exec open/close), $1800/ villa. 2 br, 2 full ba, both. 865-257-2562 2 car gar, fncd bk yard, pets ok. $795/ mo. 770-639-9754 Real Estate Service 53 ***Web ID# 832371*** STOP FORECLOSURE WEST. 1905 Marty Cir. 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, lrg Free Report / Free Help bonus rm, starting at 865-365-8888 $1040. 865-622-9705 PreventForeclosureKnoxville.com ***Web ID# 828965***

Local Driving/Delivery 106a

tion form and $30 jury fee to the gallery between 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Aug. 16-20. Info and application: www.artmarketgallery.net/jury/ index.

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East TN Vein Clinic is dedicated to the diagnosis & treatment of all aspects of Vein Disease.

We are currently seeking an experienced PT Ultrasound Technologist (RVT/RDMS) to work at our clinic in Knoxville, TN. Responsibilities include: Perform patient evaluation & assessment prior to ultrasound exam.

Perform ultrasound examination of patients to create a Venous Flow Map for purposes of recommending a safe, effective treatment plan.

Requirements: RVT or RVS required Strong Communication, Interpersonal and Organizations skills Send resume, salary requirements and references to: clarnold@etveinclinic.com or fax to: (865) 357-8346 Attn: CLArnold Search "Ultrasound Tech" on Monster.com for further information.

Musical

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ORGANIST NEEDED for an historic interdenominational community church in Norris, TN. PT 11a Sun church service Call 865-494-7131 www.norrisrf.org

Retail

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Investment Prop-Sale 61 Condo Rentals 76 FULL TIME retail position open, 9-5 M-F. ExFSBO - 2 yr. old home cellent math and cuson 3.3 acres located at HALLS. CRIPPEN RD. 2BR, 2BA, BEARDEN tomer service skills reTurn at Wendy's, 723 Archer Rd., Luttrell.

5 min. UT, Pool, quired. Design and acHouse is apprx. 1,056 property on right.

Security. Large unit, counting skills a plus.

2 acres zoned SF w/2BR & 2BA. no pets. $750.

Send resume to: commercial. Will Asking $99,900 & Call 423-608-0605 jobapp865@yahoo.com owner will finance with divide. 865-567-5788 ***Web ID# 829270*** $5,000 down or if you are USDA qualified, CONDO/WEST, Colothen 100% financing Comm. Prop. - Rent 66 141 nies. 2 BR, 1.5 BA, Dogs with no money down.

Frpl, pool, tennis Call Bill at KNOXVILLE DISABLED cts. View of Smoky BOXER PUPS, AKC, 877-488-5060 ext. 323.

AM. VETS Chapter 24 Mtns. $795/mo. + S&W, fawn/brindles, Chapter home building dep. No pets. Avail. $250 each. 865-828is available for rent.

7/31. 865-216-8053 8883 or 865-235-8200 West 40w Newly renovated in***Web ID# 825658*** side! Ideal for birthday Cavalier King Charles parties, reunions, 1 LEVEL, 3 br, 2 ba, pups, tri color, 4 M, group mtgs, etc. Free W. Knox, Brentmoor CKC reg, wormed & parking right outside Subd, new roof/paint 1st shots, $700. 865the door! Call 524before closing, 556-9462 or 661-1838 4840 or 803-2159 to $159,900. 865-966-7572 ***Web ID# 831800*** check out this facility! ***Web ID# 827996***

Roswitha Haas (center) receives a floral arrangement by Random Act of Flowers from Mandy Souleyrette and Teresa Lucke with Home Instead Senior Care. Employees of Home Instead delivered more than 100 floral arrangements designed

by East Tennessee Professional Florists Association members.

Photo by Ruth White

141 Exercise Equipment 208 Motor Homes

237 Imports

CHIHUAHUA PUPS, SHIH TZUS, AKC, TREADMILL, Precor Winnebago Journey no papers, $100. 1 small blk & wht 9.55 w/heart mon., 8 2000 asking $42,500 male, 2 fem. 865puppies, S & W. yrs. old, $2,000 (pd (NADA value 56,000$) 556-9404. or 556-0812. $250-$350. 925-2761.

5,000$). 865-694-9796 Health issues, must ***Web ID# 832680*** sell, make offer.

COCK-A-POO PUP865-679-8721 PIES, 2 precious SIBERIAN HUSKIES, Say: full blooded, 1st shots, males $450. 1st S&W 865-466-4380 6 wks old, blue eyes, 4 F, $400. 865-556-4939 ***Web ID# 829467***

I SAW IT

CORGI PUPPIES, AKC, vet ck'd, adorable bundles of fur. $450. 423-733-9851.

SIBERIAN Husky AKC Pups, champ lines, shots, $300 to $500.

865-995-1386 ***Web ID# 829840***

in the Motorcycles

ENGLISH BULLDOGS 3M, 2 F, exc. WEIMARANER Pup- Sewing Machines 211 pies AKC, beautiful, bloodline, red & white, red brindle. silver gray, show UNUSUAL VINTAGE quality, $475 ea.

Call 865-354-1654.

Sewing Machine.

Tails docked, dew Cinderella model.

English Mastiff puppies, claws removed. 1st $220. 865-584-5046.

AKC. Ch. bldln. ONLY 3 shots incl. 865-661LEFT! (Greco, Grop4509 or 865-681-8484 petti, Briarcreek) 8 wks. ***Web ID# 829441*** Collectibles 213 $1000, S/W. 865-387-7617 ***Web ID# 825763*** YORKIE POOS, 3/4 Yorkie, Males - $300, VINTAGE JUKEBOX German Shepherd pup, 1982 Rock-Ola 160 very small, 865-426AKC 1 M, vet ck., All 8317; 963-1965 selections, 45 RPM, shots. Fam. raised. Mili- ***Web ID# 831470*** perfect working cond. tary/police disc. 924-4301 $2499 obo. 865-323-9558 ***Web ID# 829893*** YORKIE PUPPIES, AKC Reg. 7 wks. 2 M, GERMAN SHEP1 F, $400 males, $500 Coins 214 HERD PUPPIES, Fem. 865-291-8428 4 M, 1 F, $150. AKC reg. Black & tan. YORKIE PUPS, ACA, 865-740-2633 11 wks, shots, vet chk'd, $450/up. Rhea GERMAN SHEPHERD 678 Bank Rolls Co. 423-365-0041 pups, AKC, 13 wks., 2 ***Web ID# 829000*** 116-$25.00 mint M, blk. & tan, exc. pedigree, shots to date. bags includes $300. 865-742-1450.

Free Pets 145 GA, TN, KY, ***Web ID# 829326***

VOLUNTEER 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, GERMAN Shepherd Pups AKC, 6 wks., shopping, and other European blooderrands. Training is lines, 1st shots, 3M, provided. If you are 4F, $400. 865-426interested, please con2623 or 313-550-7631 tact Nancy Welch at: ***Web ID# 828778*** 865-524-2786 or nancy.welch@ GOLDEN Retriever knoxseniors.org pups AKC, 2M, 3F, beautiful litter $250.

865-933-2032, 789-5648 110 ***Web Healthcare ID# 832846*** PT ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGIST (RVT/RDMS)

Flowers to brighten a day

STATE QUARTERS

** ADOPT ! * * Looking for a lost pet or a new one? Visit Young-Williams Animal Center, the official shelter for the City of Knoxville & Knox County: 3201 Division St. Knoxville. www.knoxpets.org

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WI, IL. $13,000.

For List, Send SASE to Quarters - PO BOX 608, Harriman, TN 37748.

DAV Chapter 24 has FREE RENTAL OF POWER WHEEL CHAIRS available for any area disabled veteran or members of their immediate family.

Manually operated wheel chairs also available. Call 7650510 for information.

90 Day Warranty Call 637-1060

Scottish Terriers

MERCEDES SL500, 1991. 90K mi., both tops, burg w/blk top $9,990. 865-947-4626

Sports

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CAMARO IROC-Z 1986, black, t-tops, all orig. $5500/best offer. 865-882-0350 ***Web ID# 830258***

HARLEY Sportster 1992 lowered & balanced, Bored 1200, Fatboy tank, glider front end, well MERCEDES SL 500 maint., great bike, $6,500. Poss. trade 2004, 17K mi. Absolutely new! Asking $41,000. for auto 865-539-9153 Call 865-247-4538. ***Web ID# 829015*** HD SUPER GLIDE 2009, back seat w/ ^ sissy bar, detachable Domestic 265 DUKE'S PRESSURE windshield 10,600 mi, WASHING Afford$9,000. 865-414-5502. able Rates, satisChev.

MONTE faction guaranteed!

HONDA Valkyrie 2001 CARLO 1997, Cus258-6830 21k mi, blue/wht, lots tom, great car, of chrome, exc cond. $3,000. 865-437-7219 $6795. $200 under KBB. FORD FOCUS Station Remodeling 865-248-8433 351 Wagon 2003, low ***Web ID# 829407*** miles, exc. cond., KAWASAKI ZRX1100 $7,250. 865-588-8446 2000, 35K mi, Corbin LINCOLN TOWN seat, looks/runs good $2850. 865-691-5669 5-9p CAR 2004, Signature, dark gray, 62K mi.

NEW 2008 Scooter $12,500. 865-257-0205 250cc, 86 mi., new batt., remote start $2300. 865-237-1922 318 Cleaning YAMAHA 125CC Scooter 2007; 2002 Yamaha 50CC scooter; 1989 Yamaha 250cc motorcycle. 615-330-1375

Medical Supplies 219 Autos Wanted 253

MALTI-POO Puppies, Farmer’s Market 150 11 wks. old, Merle colors, 4-6 lbs. Call 7 REG. Angus Heifers. or text 865-253-4917 Good EPD's & low ***Web ID# 828649*** birth weight. 865983-9681 or 755-2030.

MALTI POO Pups, various colors, JOHN DEERE tractor health guar, $350/up 2001, low miles, 423-317-9051 garaged, $20,000.

Garage Sales 225 ***Web ID# 828907*** 865-494-0712 MALTI-ZU Puppies, ***Web ID# 831090*** MULTI-FAM YARD SALE. 7wks old. male and Fri/Sat Aug 5 & 6, 8afemale vet checked, noon. Glastonbury Rd first shots. $500.00. Lawn-Garden Equip. 190 off Emory Rd, Karns.

Cll or text 865-228-9917 ***Web ID# 831062*** TROYBILT RIDING 232 MOWER 42", 19 HP. Boats Motors MINI SCHNAUZERS, ONLY 3 YRS OLD, show breeder, black HARDLY USED. $750. 43 Californian Diesel M, S&W, health CALL 603-5358.

Trawler, 1984, guar. 865-922-0522 or Motivated seller!

865-207-6199 Paul 954-591-7342 Buildings for Sale 191 ***Web ID# 827732*** MTN FEIST Puppies, NKC reg, M & F, 6 Floating Cottage SAVE THOUSANDS on wks on 8/10. $200/ 46x16, HS, Norris Steel Buildings! Summer ea. Call 423-912-1304 Lake, must sell, $30k/ Clearance 20' x 24', 25' x ***Web ID# 830304*** obo. 865-389-4552 34', others. More CASH PIT BULLS. 1 yr brwn SAVINGS with display pro- ***Web ID# 825877*** & wht & 3 yr blk & gram! Free shipping thru JAVELIN SKI & FUN wht females, $500 Sept. Call now!

1999, 115HP Evinboth. 865-306-4543 1-866-352-0469 rude motor, $6,250 ***Web ID# 830028*** OBO. 865-621-3634 ***Web ID# 828975*** Pomeranian Puppies, CKC, 3 mo. old, 1 Music Instruments 198 SOMERSET 1976 boy, 1 girl. Call Beth Steel Hull Cruiser, 865-604-6585 details.

KIMBALL BABY Grand 12x40, with 12x30 dock ***Web ID# 831017*** Piano $1500. Toshiba on Norris Lake. wide-scrn console TV $8,500. 423-566-5693 POODLE NURSERY, 50x30 $500.

All- ***Web ID# 826835*** We Have All Sizes, leather 2-seat reclining all colors. Pups are reg., couch $700 obo. Call WELLCRAFT 1997, have shots, health 332-9158.

26', AC, swim platguarantee & wormed. form, new bottom Our nursery is full. paint & carpet, $175 & up. 423-566-0467 Household Appliances 204a $13,750. 865-322-5079 ***Web ID# 826995*** POODLE PUP, phantom, M, all shots, exc health, 16 wks, Campers 235 $400/obo. 865-310-8323 ***Web ID# 829484*** 2007 Fleetwood Sun Valley popup, 12' box, POODLES 2 king beds, AC, STANDARD Puppies, $8200. 423-869-4529 AKC, $150.

Call 865-230-3242 1716 E. Magnolia Ave. CAMPERS WANTED We buy travel trailers, PUGGLES, 1/2 Beagle, 5th Wheels, Motor 1/2 Pug pups. Blk. & homes & Pop-Up fawn color, S&W, Games/Toys 206 Campers. Will pay $100 ea. 423-235-2106. cash.

423-504-8036 TRAIN SET. O gauge ROTTWEILER Amtrak AA w/5 PUPS, ch. bldln. Stud psngr cars.

New. Motor Homes 237 svc. 404-433-7371 $390. 865-977-9024 tennrottweilers.com ***Web ID# 831648*** Fleetwood Discovery 36T 1999, Diesel slide SCOTTISH TERRIER Exercise Equipment 208 out, 46k mi, fully Pups, AKC, 10% off loaded, W/D. $59,000.

1st 2 pups. $400. 423Multi Station Plate 865-573-2872 or 659-9849 280-6919; 423-240-0912 Loaded Home Gym ***Web ID# 832236*** ***Web ID# 832875*** Includes adjustable Newmar Dutchstar bench & 300 lb plate 1994 DSL Pusher, set w/rack & Olympic AKC, black females, bar. Features include Cummins 235, Allison lat pull, leg press, curl 6 spd, 6.5 KW gen set, $225. 423-562-0723 2 TV's, 2 satellite rec. station, leg extension\ ***Web ID# 832526*** Surround snd, 1000 curl, bench press\ SHIH TZU puppies, shoulder press station. watt inverter. Exc rare colors, vet ckd, Body Solid brand. cond. Must see! shots/wormed, $250. $400 OBO. Buyer must Selling due to health.

Greg 865-556-5818 $24K. 865-691-8523 move. Call 865-330-1107 ***Web ID# 828777*** ***Web ID# 828359*** ***Web ID# 831668***

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262 Pressure Washing 350

Mercedes 350 SD 1991, smoked silver, 270k mi good cond. Reduced $2900. 865-705-8312 ***Web ID# 808566***

CHRISTIAN CLEANING LADY SERVICE. Dependable, refs, Call 705-5943.

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WILL ASSIST w/personal care 2002 MERCEDES E430 needs, cook, clean 4matic, w/low mi. & do errands. 15 yrs Will pay top market exp, refs avail. 2 0 8 price. 865-216-2924.

99032 0 32 A BETTER CASH Fencing 327 ^ OFFER for junk cars, trucks, vans, running or not. 865-456-3500 Roofing / Siding FENCE DOCTOR All types fencing & repair. I also haul Trucks 257 off junk. 6 0 4 -691 1

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CHEVY 2006 3500 LT 330 4x4 dually, 86k hwy Flooring mi, grille guard, step bars, LineX CERAMIC TILE inbedliner, new tires, stallation.

Floors/ $24,500, min. hail walls/repairs. 32 yrs damage. 812-528-3461 exp, exc work! ***Web ID# 821726*** John 9 3 8 -3 3 2 8 CHEVY Avalanche Z-71, 2002. PDL, Furniture Refinish. 331 PW, sunroof, $10,500 OBO. 865-621-3634 FURNITURE ***Web ID# 828990*** DENNY'S REPAIR. Refinish, reglue, etc. 45 yrs exp!

GMC 3500, 2005, yel922-6529 or 466-4221 low box truck, 70K mi., exc. cond. $8000. 865-318-5678.

333 Guttering NISSAN TITAN 2009, black, LB, 4 WD, HAROLD'S GUTTER less than 20K mi.

SERVICE. Will clean $21,500. 865-318-5678 front & back $20 & up.

Quality work, guaranteed. Call 288-0556.

Antiques Classics 260

1970 FORD RANGER LWB F-100, 302 eng, standard shift, 85,600 mi., same owner for 35 yrs! Show truck potential, $3,200.

865-689-4688

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GMC Envoy, 2002, 4 WD, exc. cond., fully loaded, leather, Bose sound. $7700/bo. 865-671-4006 ***Web ID# 832229*** JEEP WRANGLER 2008 Unlimited, 4 dr, 2WD, AT, PW, PDL, 3rd row seat, 29k mi, $18K/obo.

305-785-4141 ***Web ID# 829857***

Imports

Painting / Wallpaper 344 AA PAINTING Int/Ext painting, staining, log homes, pressure washing.

9 9 2 -4 0 0 2 or 6 1 7 -2 2 2 8 O N E R O OM AT A TI ME P AI N TI N G Int/ext, wallpaper removal, faux finishes. 15 yrs exp, refs avail. Call Sue at 689-7405 .

Paving

^ BRITT'S ROOFING CO. All types roofing. 15+ yrs exp, free est, lic'd/ins'd.

865-686-7660

Tree Service

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BMW M3 '10 5K $62K, '09 30K $50K, '99 128K $6K. 865-310-3228 INFINITI I35 2004, white, tan lthr. int., new tires, brakes, Garmin nav. $9300.

Call 865-539-6089.

LEXUS LS430 2006, 48K mi, extra clean, no accidents, nonsmkr, loaded. $27,900. 865-679-4721. ***Web ID# 828853*** Mazda Miata MX5 Touring Ed. 2006. ^ Bose, leather, 6 sp, 32k mi. Exc. cond. $14,300. 865-482-3921

^ COOPER'S TREE SVC Bucket truck, lot cleaning, brush pick-up, chipper. Ins'd, lg & sm jobs.

523-4206, 789-8761

B-4 â&#x20AC;˘ AUGUST 1, 2011 â&#x20AC;˘ BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS

health & lifestyles NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Fellowship Center provides home base for Virginia couple When an April 2010 heart attack left Virginia attorney Fred Adkins with a traumatic brain injury, he lost his ability to walk and speak. Fred and his wife, Pat, were devastated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All we had was adrenaline and hope,â&#x20AC;? remembers Pat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The prognosis was not good. But luckily God brought us to Knoxville.â&#x20AC;?

After months in Virginia hospitals, Fred was accepted for treatment at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center (PNRC) in Knoxville, a godsend, but two and a half hours away from their home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The care at Patricia Neal was just what Fred needed,â&#x20AC;? smiles Pat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within two weeks he was walking, he began learning to shower, to dress, to do so many things again.â&#x20AC;?

Although she was encouraged by the progress Fred was making with Patricia Neal therapists, Pat realized Fred needed longer rehabilitation through the Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Pat and Fred Adkins of Big Stone Gap, Va., stayed at the Fellowship Center for months while he was treated at Knoxvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center.

Brain Injury Day Treatment Proâ&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew he was going to have gram. She worried about being so therapy three times a week,â&#x20AC;? says far from home.

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ing do this? What was I going do?â&#x20AC;?

Friends of the Adkins told them about the Fellowship Center, located next to Fort Sanders Regional and the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center. The Fellowship Center is a free outpatient family lodging center for those traveling from more than 30 miles outside Knoxville for medical treatment.

Pat was relieved to receive help from the Fellowship Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Fred was released from the hospital, we were given a room here at Fellowship Center,â&#x20AC;? she remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a room, it was an apartment, a place that we could call home. And it became our home.â&#x20AC;?

The Fellowship Center became Fred and Patâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home base in Knoxville while he continued therapy at PNRC. Their stay was extended when Fred was also diagnosed with cancer and treated at Thompson Cancer Survival Center. During their many months at the lodging

house, the couple formed lasting friendships.

Pat says she will always be grateful for the care and kindness they received from the staff at the Fellowship Center, Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center and Thompson Cancer Survival Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every person we have encountered here has made a profound impact on our life,â&#x20AC;? says Pat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been forever changed as a result of their kindness, generosity, compassion and love during such a difďŹ cult time.â&#x20AC;?

Fred and Pat are now back in Virginia, but are still frequent visitors to their adopted home base of Knoxville. Pat regularly volunteers with Thompson Cancer Survival Center.

For more information about the services provided at the Fellowship Center, call (865) 541-1725 or log on to www.fellowshipcenterknox. org.

Patients find special home away from home A unique respite for those traveling long distances to Knoxville for medical treatment, the Fellowship Center offers fully furnished apartments, a family room and laundry, a food pantry, and, most importantly, comfort and support during stressful times.

The Fellowship Center, located on Laurel Avenue next to Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, is a free outpatient lodging center. Since 1984 this â&#x20AC;&#x153;little bit of homeâ&#x20AC;? has aided families coping with serious ill-

nesses. In 1992, through the generosity of the Lucille S. Thompson Family Foundation, the program was expanded from four to 18 furnished apartments. These apartments are provided free of charge through the generosity of former guests and community donors who support the Center with their charitable gifts.

Most guests who beneďŹ t from the Fellowship Center are patients at Thompson Cancer Survival Center, the Patricia Neal Reha-

The Fellowship Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 18 apartments are fully furnished and provide a home-like atmosphere for people receiving outpatient medical treatment far from home.

Knoxvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fellowship Center offers all of its services free of charge to patients and families who need them. The Center is totally sustained through the generosity of its guests and friends. Through gifts of money, furnishings, time and talent, our friends have made this service possible. If you would like to learn more about contributing your time and support to the Fellowship Center, contact Fellowship Center manager Wanda Witt at (865) 541-1725 or go to www. fellowshipcenterknox.org.

Hospitality is always available to Fellowship Center guests, offered in many ways through the generosity of volunteers and donors. One important key to hospitality, especially here in the South, is food. Community groups stock a pantry which is available for all guests, and kitchen volunteers often cook weekly meals for guests.

Fellowship Center lodging requests may be made by calling (865) 541-1725.

Covenant marathon proceeds benefit disabled athletes The 2011 Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon recently donated a portion of its proceeds to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Innovative Recreation Cooperative (IRC).

The IRC is a local program that encourages people with disabilities to pursue leisure and sports activities including hand cycling, which is one of the races included in the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon.

Since starting in 2005, the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon has become the largest competitive road race in Tennessee.

Al Kaye of PNRC and the IRC (at left) accepts a $5,000 check from Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon executive director Jason Altman.

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bilitation Center and Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, but this caring program is also open to patients from other area hospitals as space permits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Generally, the people who stay at the Fellowship Center come from 30 or more miles away,â&#x20AC;? explains Fellowship Center Manager Wanda Witt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had people from all over the United States, and we love making them feel at home.â&#x20AC;?

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Y has openings for after-school care

By Sandra Clark

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Changing with the times Webb School transitions from textbooks to iPad2 See C-3

Lori Humphreys is a busy woman. In addition to overseeing child care services for all area Ys, Lori also is the director of the West Side Y, the system’s largest.

The West Side Y is at capacity for the summer program and while those Humphreys kids splash in the indoor or outdoor pool or work out in the kid-sized fitness center, Humphreys is at work on enrollment for the after school classes this fall.

“Registration begins Monday, Aug. 8, and the program starts Aug. 15 at 13 locations,” she said.

On the West Side, afterschool Y programs are available at Bearden Elementary, Hardin Valley Elementary, Blue Grass Elementary, Pleasant Ridge Elementary and the West Side Y. Rates are reduced for Y members and scholarships, funded by United Way and internal fundraising, are available. Humphreys has an open door. If you want to enroll your child in Y after school, come

MacKenzie Humphreys enjoys quiet time at the Y. Photo submitted

see her. This year’s program will include a Junior League supported “Kids in the Kitchen” class on nutrition and a NFL Recharge fitness regimen offered in conjunction with the Knox County Health Department.

“The classes are voluntary,” said Humphreys. Kids can participate or simply work on school projects. “We’re looking for nontraditional ways to get kids active.”

The program serves both boys and girls in kindergarten through 6th grade.

Hours are after school until 6 p.m. weekdays and 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. on days of school inservice. All are licensed by the state and are 3-Star (the highest) rated.

Humphreys has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and elementary education from UT. She’s a Knoxville native with two daughters, ages 3 and 1. Most of her staff are college students, majoring in special education or elementary education. All have significant training along with law enforcement background checks and work references.

Participants at the West Side Y will have swimming once a week. Info: 546-0600.

Paying it forward in a classic way Wellness Center partners up

It was just six years ago that Trae Wieniewitz and his wife left their home and what had once been a successful financial services business in storm-ravaged Louisiana to move almost 600 miles north to Knoxville – a town

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Trae Wieniewitz’s ’66 fastback GT Mustang.

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where they didn’t know a soul – to rebuild their lives.

It was a huge leap of faith.

The community has embraced the couple and they have done well here. Trae’s businesses, Wieniewitz Financial and Affordable Tax Solutions, both with offices on Executive Park Drive in Cedar Bluff, have prospered. He has decided it’s time to give back.

“This community has been so good to us in so many ways while we started over from scratch. I wanted to find a way to give

back that was specific to the community that has been instrumental in our business’ success and in our family’s life.”

A few months ago the couple watched ABC’s “Secret Millionaire” program which featured Special Spaces, a Knoxville based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that installs dream bedrooms for children facing life-threatening illnesses. It is funded by private donations, and the work of building those dream bedrooms is done by volunteers.

Trae decided to help the organization and is busy planning a classic car show, Crusin’ for a Cause, scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 20, at West Town Mall, with all proceeds going to the charity.

Those wanting to show off their cool cars will pay a $20 registration fee. There will be no admission charge to the public, but all donations will, of course, be welcomed. It costs between $3,000 and $4,000 to outfit one of the Special Spaces rooms, and Trae is hoping

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sale, and drawings will be held for other merchandise.

Trae is still looking for businesses and individuals to contribute items to the drawings, and is hoping someone will donate a weekend getaway at a cabin in the Smokies or in another vacation spot.

But the real stars of the day will be those beautiful old classic cars – always a crowd pleaser. If you have one and want to show it off or if you just want to learn more about the event, give Trae a call at 691-2433, go to his company website, www. traew.com, or to the event website, www.cruisinfora cause.net.

If you have a car you want to show off and can’t be there on Aug. 20, in return for a donation to Special Spaces Trae will put a picture of your car on his website, along with pictures of the cars entered in the show.

The website will stay online for a year.

Trae will be there the day of the event showing off his own classic: a ’66 fastback GT Mustang. Pretty cool.

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Candidate hopes to leave a legacy Paul Berney (right), candidate for City Council at-large seat A, and UT College of Architecture former dean Marleen Davis discuss how his experience as an architectural consultant could benefit the city. Berney wants to streamline the permitting process by putting it online. The current system of driving downtown to complete paperwork at several different locations is a disincentive for development, says Davis. As a child, Berney lived in Rocky Hill, Halls, Island Home and Fountain City. He has lived in Mechanicsville since 1992. “There’s a different cultural vibe in different parts of the city,” he says. He’s been active in community organizations for years, but becoming a parent influenced his decision to run for office. “Having a kid makes you want to leave a place in better shape than you found it.”

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Long’s is a family affair Hank Peck and his dad, Jim Peck, owners of Long’s Drug Store, enjoy a rare breakfast together. Hank’s children, Katie and James, are a pleasant topic of conversation. Katie will study linguistics at UT in the fall, and James will be a senior at West High School. James knows how to earn big tips waiting tables at the drug store, according to his grandfather, but he’d rather be fishing. (Wouldn’t we all.)

River City’s got nothing on Knoxville UT students Tyler Anthony, Jonathan Sessions and Jay Snyder catch up over breakfast. The friends met through involvement in Reformed University Fellowship campus ministry and further bonded by watching the TV series “Lost.” Though they didn’t meet until they came to Knoxville, all three are from the Memphis area. Sessions says he likes Knoxville because it has a big city atmosphere with a small-town feel. Anthony appreciates the city’s art and music scene. Photos by Wendy Smith

Physicians join Summit Two physicians have joined Summit Medical Group. Both live in West Knox County.

UT sets tech event The 2011 Innovation Valley Technology and Resource Showcase will be held from 8 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3, in the James A. Haslam Business Building at UT. The showcase will be hosted by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in UT’s College of Business Administration and will feature representatives from UT, the Oak Ridge National Lab and the Y-12 National Security Complex.

To learn more and to register, visit www.knoxvilleoakridge. com/technology-resourceshowcase/.

Knoxville native, he earned his M.D. degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis in 2008. He received his undergraduate degree from UT Knoxville.

Dr. Luke E. Chesney is a family medicine physician practicing at Summit’s Deane Hill and Northshore locations.

He joins Summit after completing his residency at Dr. Adams Dr. Chesney UT Medical Center. Chesney Dr. George Andrew earned his M.D. degree from “Andy” Adams is a physi- the East Tennessee State cian at Fort Sanders Cen- University College of Mediter for Advanced Medicine, cine in 2008. He received 1819 Clinch Ave., Suite 114. his undergraduate degree in Adams joins Summit af- philosophy and religion from ■ Networking, 5 to 6:30 p.m. ter completing his residency Samford University. He, too, Thursday, Aug. 4, Smoky Mounat UT Medical Center. A is a Knoxville native.

Bills to chair THDA Gov. Bill Haslam has named Brian Bills of Maryville to chair the Tennessee Housing Development Agency, effective July 1. With more than 17 years’ exBrian Bills perience in management and business, Bills most recently served as regional line of business manager and senior vice president for SunTrust Mortgage in Knoxville.

He is a Michigan native who has made his home in Tennessee since 1979. Bills holds a bachelor’s degree in management from Maryville College.

Wine tasting to benefit MS group Liz-Beth & Co. will host a wine tasting event, Raise Your Glass to a World Free Emerson Breeding holds a check to cue John Jones, Food City of MS, on Thursday, Aug. executive vice president of operations, to the amount the com- 11, at the gallery on Park pany raised for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. West Boulevard. Proceeds During the “sneaker” sales program, 46 stores raised a total from a silent auction and a percentage of all sales at $53,222.10 for JDRF. Photo by N. Lester the gallery during the event will benefit the East Tennessee Mid South Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. A VIP ■ Ribbon Cutting, 12:30 to 1 leigh Bluff, 350 Amberleigh tasting will be 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, HampBluff Way. p.m. (ticket is $75), and ton Inn and Suites, 11340 ■ Ribbon Cutting, 10 to 10:30 Campbell Lakes Dr. the main event is 6:30 to a.m. Friday, Aug. 12, Turkey 8:30 (ticket is $50). Info: ■ Networking, 8 to 9:30 a.m.

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THE HEART OF A SCHOOL

By Scott Hutchinson, President Webb School of Knoxville There are more than a few factors that contribute to a successful education equation, but that equation is still a relatively simple one.

Schools need to select meaningful and relevant Hutchinson material to teach, and schools need to possess the resources and refine the methodologies that have proven effective in teaching that material. Students need to be willing and able to learn. And parents need to support both the school and their children in the learning process.

All of those pieces are critical to sustaining an optimal learning environment, but first among all factors is the quality of the adult leader in the classroom, on the field, or in the rehearsal room.

Teachers are at the heart of successful schools.

At Webb School of Knoxville, faculty play the single largest role in perpetuating the brand of excellence for which the school has become known. Their leadership in that key intersection of learning – between the material, the student and the teacher – is the core business of the school, and having highly educated adult leaders who are lifelong learners and intimately familiar with the culture of the school has proven foundational to Webb’s success over time. Of the 100 teachers who work at Webb, 75 percent hold an advanced degree and their average tenure at the school is 12 years.

Webb School takes particular pride in recruiting, developing and supporting its teachers. Each prospective teacher has the opportunity to

Webb moving students from textbooks to iPad 2

By Anne Hart

Webb Upper School students using iPads in their AP Music Theory class.

NEW HIRES 2011-2012 UPPER SCHOOL Veena Krishnan (Math) B.E., University of Pune, India M.S., North Carolina State University Ph.D., Rutgers University

Brenda Royal (Science) B.S., M.S., Ed.S., Middle Tennessee University

As Webb School teacher Amanda Rowcliffe puts it, “Webb has given us the proverbial teacher’s apple. It’s a wonderful thing the way the school supports its teachers.”

In this case, the apple is spelled with a capital “A”.

It’s the Apple iPad 2, which all students in grades four through senior year will be using – often in the place of actual textbooks – when school starts this month.

“It’s going to be a very interesting and exciting year,” Rowcliffe says. “Most of our textbooks will be online, as we try to move away from hard copies.” Just as a precaution – such as an internet failure – there will be one hard copy of everything.

Students will download their textbooks, and Rowcliffe says handwritten notes will be permitted, “but we will encourage them to do everything on line.”

Rowcliffe and several of her fellow teachers recently attended a conference in Nashville entitled “iSummit 2011,” and sponsored by the Coalition of Lighthouse Schools, of which Webb is a member. They spent several days in seminars taught by Apple instructors who brought them up-to-date on the latest Apple technology to support the new iPad 2 learning environment, including instructional strategies and networking opportunities.

A website for the conference gave this as its purpose: “Now that everything is digital, mobile and social, it is essential that we think outside the box and outside the book when it comes to teaching and learning. With a focus on learning, not lessons, and with the world as our classroom, we’ll inspire students to communicate, collaborate and create with their peers.”

Rowcliffe points out two additional advantages: the cost to families of the iPad 2 is partially offset by what hard copy textbooks would have cost, and students will no longer be laboring under the weight of what can often be a 60 pound backpack.

In addition to Rowcliffe, Webb teachers who attended are Carol Hill, Ben White, Hannah White, Doug Bright, Ryan Welch, Debbie Bryant, Julieanne Pope, Terri Ward, Scott Gilbert, Margaret Ritchie and Veena Krishnan.

… first among all factors is the quality of the adult leader in the classroom, on the field or in the rehearsal room. Teachers are at the heart of successful schools. interview with all of the teachers within their department as well as administrators. In addition, each prospective teacher teaches demonstration lessons to Webb students.

Once hired, the teacher is required to construct an annual, individual professional development plan and the successful completion of elements of that plan becomes a part of the criteria, along with formal evaluation, for contract renewal and merit pay decisions.

Extensive funding for professional development allows all Webb teachers to have school-purchased laptops, school-funded Internet access, and in many cases an additional school-purchased iPad 2. Funding to pursue advanced degrees and professional conferences is widely available.

Webb Upper School chemistry teacher Bob Brown works with students during a lab in Webb’s Jim and Kay Clayton Science Center.

Webb School’s faculty provide six key services to the school community: N They consistently exercise wise judgment in their interactions with colleagues, students and parents that supports and strengthens the culture of the school.

N They are passionate about their subject matter and inspire others through that passion.

N They are highly educated and experienced in how to create learning environments that maximize student understanding.

Kevin Catlett (Math) B.A., Carson Newman College M.S., Lincoln Memorial University

Cameron Sisson (Math) B.A., Winthrop University M.S., University of Connecticut

MIDDLE SCHOOL David Haines (English) B.A., M.A., Baylor University Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Webb Lower School science teacher, Lisa Davis, uses her classroom’s Smart Board to talk about simple machines to third grade students.

N They are adult models for the highest standards of honor in our community.

N Faculty work together to provide a real and living model of successful collaboration within the community.

N Faculty initiate and receive communication with parents regarding the progress of students in their charge.

Webb School exists to create generations of educated, ethical, balanced adults who live fulfilling and productive lives. The development of these attributes within Webb graduates begins with, and continues to develop through, healthy and positive relationships between students and their teachers.

On this page we celebrate Webb’s faculty and the powerful role they play at the school.

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By Sandra Clark

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No pain, no gain? No way!

Exercise can be intimidating – not knowing what to do with dumbbells, resistance bands and sometimes confusing pieces of cardio equipment can discourage people from exercising. It is unfortunate that something so beneficial to our overall health is so under-utilized.

There is hope however; research shows consistent daily exercise is one of the best (and most affordable!) ways to maintain a healthy weight, improve overall function and increase your energy level.

And the best part, exercise is not meant to be painful!

Exercise is beneficial because it enables you to better perform activities of daily living by not only strengthening your muscles, but also increasing your flexibility and range of motion. However, we must rid ourselves of the no pain, no gain mentality. While there

While there is some level of discomfort sometimes associated with exercise, it is important to know that feeling pain during your workout is not normal. is some level of discomfort sometimes associated with exercise, it is important to know that feeling pain during your workout is not normal. In fact, it can be a sign of damaged muscles or injury to a joint. As a trainer at The Wellness Center, I have the advantage of working closely with Provision Physical Therapy to create a cautious and safe exercise environment in which individuals feel comfortable pushing their bodies to meet their goals.

Our close relationship results in more than just recovery from an ailment or injury, it helps individuals get back even better than they were before!

So forget about exercise being painful! Exercise should be a fun and enjoyable way to relieve stress and be healthy. Abraham Lincoln once said, “It’s not the years in your life, it’s the life in your years.” Exercise increases one’s quality of life and the collaboration between The Wellness Center and Provision Physical Therapy is one team that is making a big difference in the lives of its clients!

A message from Provision’s physical therapists Are you starting to notice more aches and pains? Having difficulty with tasks that were easy a few months ago?

Loss of function can lead to muscle and joint stiffness. If you suffer from osteoporosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, general health and/or musculoskeletal dysfunctions, lack of attention to mobility can lead to disability.

Take charge and request a physical therapy evaluation from your physician.

We specialize in individualized treatment plans to help you get back on track to a healthier lifestyle. You will meet with a physical therapist to evaluate your needs.

Recommendations may include participating in fitness classes, nutritional consultations and health educational classes, as well as learning ways to gently ease back into exercise.

LIVEWELL LIFESTYLE CHANGE PROGRAM ARE YOU READY? To reclaim your body For a better life To get moving To be healthy The choice is yours to be happy and healthy…YOU make the choice today and we will help you reach your potential.

The Wellness Center at Dowell Springs offers a beginner friendly, unique, comprehensive program combining nutrition and fitness to influence positive and healthy lifestyle changes. This multidisciplinary approach also helps you learn how to manage the stressers in your life to improve your ability to focus on achieving a more balanced and healthy lifestyle.

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Concerned about cost?

Don’t let today’s insurance restrictions worry you. Provision Physical Therapy PostRehab Program allows you an affordabe way to continue on your own to reach the goals that you and your physical therapist have set.

This program allows each individual to build strength and to progress beyond their “plateau.” You will be monitored by our fitness specialists as you progress. You must be able to perform the exercises independently. If you need extra assistance, you can have someone from your home assist or rely on our personal trainers.

You must have participated in our physical therapy program. If you recently had therapy elsewhere, call us and we can talk with your therapist to set up a program for you. Upon completion of the Provision Physical Therapy program, patients may continue to use The Wellness Center for one month at no charge. They may then join our world class facility.

t’s really a perfect fit.

Physical therapists Dean Douglass and Wes Franks own and operate a physical therapy facility as an affiliate of The Wellness Center at Dowell Springs. Both are available to answer quick questions from personal trainers and nutritionists.

In return, the full range of facilities of The Wellness Center is available for use by patients of Provision Physical Therapy.

“The clinic is unique in its location,” said Douglass. “We have lots of space here and the availability of the fitness equipment and classrooms of The Wellness Center. Once our patients reach the point where they can work out (without assistance), we can transition them into group exercise such as Functional Fitness.”

On the other hand, Douglass said if a patient has a condition such as diabetes that might affect their rehab, he can get a quick word with chief dietitian Casey Peer. It’s all about helping each individual achieve their goals.

Franks and Douglass founded Provision Physical Therapy about a year ago, when The Wellness Center at Dowell Springs opened.

“Wes came from UT and I had been in private practice,” Douglass said. “Our practice has an orthopedic focus and we both have advanced degrees in manual therapy, so there’s a continuity of care.”

Dean Douglass attended Samford University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in exercise science. He continued his education in Northern Ireland, earning a BSe with honours in physiotherapy from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown. After returning to the United States, he pursued a degree with the Ola Grimsby Institute, focusing on orthopedic manual therapy. His special interests include the treatment of spinal dysfunctions, orthopedic ailments and general conditioning.

Wes Franks graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s in biology and a master’s in biomechanics and sports medicine. He developed an interest in human movement, culminating in a master’s of physical therapy degree from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. While at St. Augustine, he studied under Stanley Paris and became certified in manual physical therapy in 2000. His interests include sports biomechanics, arthritis and upper extremity neurovascular disorders.

Both are area natives and lifelong residents of the Knoxville community.

Juli Urevick, marketing manager, said The Wellness Center has used both Wes and Dean to talk with clients. “Often they schedule appointments.”

It’s a good partnership.

“We’re about education,” said Douglass.

“With whiteboards in every exam room, we’re committed to equipping every patient with the information they need to recover quickly.”

Provision Physical Therapy Open Monday through Friday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Kids A Shopper-News Special Section

August 1, 2011

Back-to-school essentials Teacher gives shopping tips

By Shannon Carey

T

he back-to-school aisles at retail stores can be overwhelming.

There are widgets and gadgets and “essentials” galore, but what are the real back-to-school essentials? What does you child really need to start the school year right?

Kelly Fawver teaches 2nd grade at Adrian Burnett Elementary School, and she’s a mom. With a 10-year-old son and a daughter in high school, Fawver has experienced back-to-school buys from both sides of the teacher’s desk.

According to Fawver, parents should check their schools’ supply lists Kelly Fawver first. Many stores already have the lists available for parents. Some are available on the school websites. Otherwise, they’re given out the first day of school. These supply lists can be different for each school and grade.

For the first day of school, Fawver says the most important thing an elementary school student needs is a way to get home, especially since the first half day may require different arrangements than usual. Parents should send a note letting the teacher know how the child is getting home.

For supplies on the first day, most elementary school kids need No. 2 nonmechanical pencils with erasers, 24-48 count crayons, safety scissors or Fiskars brand scissors, glue sticks, a water bottle and a backpack.

Why Fiskars? Fawver says most stores have them, they’re good quality with a good, rubber grip, and they cut well.

A water bottle comes in handy if there’s not a water fountain on the playground. Most schools don’t let kids run in and out of the building for a drink of water because of security concerns.

As for bags and backpacks, Fawver recommends that parents get something with a zipper to keep items from falling out and getting lost.

Fawver said elementary school kids typically don’t need magic markers at school. Kindergarten through 2nd grade doesn’t need big packs of notebook paper or spiral notebooks since the students use workbooks and special writing paper.

Optional items for most classrooms are Clorox wipes, facial tissues and hand sanitizer or antibacterial hand soap. Parents should wait before buying items like rulers, calculators and pencil sharpeners until they see them on the teacher’s supply list.

For clothing, “they’ve got to have tennis shoes,” Fawver said. “Sandals and Crocs are really not safe on the playground.” Other clothing requirements are listed on the Knox County Schools website.

Be sure to label everything with the child’s name or initials, and keep checking with your children to make sure they have what they need throughout the year.

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Scott Hutchinson, president of Webb School of Knoxville, has dedicated his life to creating great educational options for students across the nation. At Webb, he built the elementary school 15 years ago and stayed to administer the campus. Hutchinson says the choice of school is one of the most important decisions parents make for their children.

“It’s entirely possible that school and school experiences will take up the bulk of the waking hours in high school,” he said. “Take it seriously. It’s a big deal. It’s not a $500 flatscreen. Be vigilant on every front.”

Hutchinson recommends that parents approach the decision like they would the choice of a doctor or other important service provider. Start with expectations. What are the family’s needs and wants? Is a religious education important?

Does the student want a good sports or music program?

“Have a good discussion,” he said. “Get a good understanding for what you want in a school partner.”

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“Having a nice facility isn’t the same as having a good school, but at some level the facility reflects the school’s commitment to the program,” said Hutchinson. If a school advertises excellent science courses but has no labs, that’s a bad sign.

It’s also important to make sure your child can access the programs they need or want.

“It doesn’t do any good to have an Advanced Placement program if your kid can’t get in it,” said Hutchinson. “If there are 2,000 kids in the school and only eight are in the school play, how does that benefit your kid?”

But, what about that alphabet soup of accreditations you’ll find on a private school’s website?

“I don’t know that it matters unless you know what the accrediting organization is in charge of doing,” said Hutchinson. “There are a million different organizations that do accreditations. Some of them have very specific standards.

Some organizations don’t judge the school’s mission. They just ensure that the mission is congruent with the experience.

I don’t know of anybody who’s not accredited by somebody.”

The big accreditations to look for, Hutchinson said, are the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS).

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The first day of school is Aug. 15, there’s still two weeks to keep your kids active and having fun. Here are a few events around the area to add some “Wow!” to the last days of summer.

■ Mommy & Me Art Classes will continue at Smart Toys and Books with finger painting 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon Friday, Aug. 5. Classes are for ages 2 and up. Cost is $5, and the class must be paid for in advance. Info or to register: 691-1154 or www. smarttoysandbooks.com.

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■ Chess for Kids will be held at the Bearden Branch Library at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. Kids of all skill levels are invited to come for a game or learn to play. Info: www.knoxlib.org.

“Megamind” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 8. Info: www.knoxlib.org.

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