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Hard work and fun Bartlett ready to tackle fourth year at Bearden High

Scout museum spruced up

By Natalie Lester

UT Interior Design students revamp headquarters for 100th anniversary See page A-2

Jason Brown and Kris Waldhauser of RockTenn and Cheryl Ball, who handles marketing for the city’s recycling program, stand in front of the star screen, which helps sort up to 70 tons of recyclables per day. Photo by Wendy Smith

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Cheryl Ball has heard all of the excuses people give for not signing up for the city’s new recycling program. Some prefer the ritual of packing up their own recycling and driving it to a nearby center. Others don’t want to bother with rolling the large cart to the curb every other week. And then there are those who just don’t like change.

But there’s a very good reason for naysayers to get on the recycling bandwagon: at least 75 percent of the city’s household trash could be recycled and used to create new products.

That means less trash in landfills and lower manufacturing costs for local and regional companies who buy recycled materials.

Ball, who handles the marketing of the recycling program, is thrilled with the level of participation so far, but she’s still hoping the city can meet its goal of having 20,000 households signed up for the program by Aug. 14. Approximately 16,000 have enlisted so far.

“The program will be more productive for everybody if we can start off with participation as high as possible,” she says.

The city’s program is singlestream, which means that recyclable plastic, metal, glass and paper can all be placed in the cart together.

The goal is to make recycling as easy as possible, says Kris Waldhauser, general manager of RockTenn’s recycling center on Procter Street.

Single-stream recycling works because of the huge, high-tech sort-

At least 75 percent of the city’s household trash could be recycled and used to create new products. That means less trash in landfills and lower manufacturing costs for local and regional companies who buy recycled materials. programs in other parts of the country, it doesn’t happen in Knoxville.

Only about 6 percent of the waste that enters the RockTenn facility ends up in the trash, says Waldhauser. And that’s because it wasn’t recyclable in the first place.

Yes, there are those who chuck things into their carts that are not on the list of recyclable items. Garden hoses, shoes and plastic bags are examples of items that cause maintenance problems for the sorter, says Jason Brown, assistant general manager at RockTenn.

That’s one reason a machine could never be solely responsible for sorting recycling. Thirteen pairs of human eyes are also required to keep the process running smoothly. Goodwill Industries supplies the employees who watch the lines and help separate materials.

The goal is to produce a clean product that can be used to manufacture other items. Cardboard bundled at RockTenn takes a trip across town to Tamko Building Products, where it is used to make roofing material.

Mixed paper is made into cereal and shoe boxes. Office paper is used to make tissue paper, toilet paper and paper towels, and plastic items have a wide range of uses from beverage bottles to car parts.

Recyclers can help keep the process clean by sticking to the list of recyclable items and rinsing out bottles and cans. Using gallons of water to wash a peanut butter jar might not be feasible, says Ball, but recycling should be clean enough that the cart doesn’t stink.

“This is not a landfill. Someone has to touch this stuff,” says Waldhauser.

The extra effort will pay off for those who “do their part with the cart.” City recycling customers, as well as Waste Connections single-stream recycling customers, can earn discounts on goods and services based on the number of pounds they recycle through RecycleBank.

To sign up for the city’s recycling program: www.cityofknoxville.org/ householdrecycling or call 311.

Balancing the crime budget

By Larry Van Guilder (First in a series) Crime doesn’t pay, but it does cost taxpayers. As Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett looks for ways to reduce government spending, it’s time to examine the high cost of incarceration and consider expanding the alternatives.

Analysis Recently a high-ranking Knox County Sheriff’s Office official was lamenting the attitude of prisoners who refuse to work even if it means an early out. Some with six-

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er the company has upgraded twice since 2009. The system can now process a whopping 70 tons of recyclables per day.

One question that haunts many recyclers is this: Will my recycling actually be recycled or will it end up in a landfill like the rest of my trash?

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Bearden High School principal Dr. John Bartlett says parents and students can expect another great year at the school.

“We will continue to do the things we are good at and push our kids academically,” he said.

Bartlett, who is beginning his fourth year as the Bearden principal, beDr. Bartlett lieves he has the best kids in the county. He hopes the school’s ACT scores continue to prove it.

“We want to have each of our students make at least a 21 on the ACT,” he said. “Last year, 65 percent of our students scored a 21 or better. I would like to see that grow by 5 percent this year.”

With the new teacher evaluation system in place, Bartlett expects to spend approximately 600 hours evaluating his teachers this year. He has confidence in the ability of the returning staff and the potential in his five new staff members.

“I have five new staff members out of about 130. My turnover is probably one of the lowest in the state. My teachers aren’t looking to go elsewhere, they want to work here. Our people make the difference and we truly have the best of the best.”

The senior class is one of the largest the school has had in recent years, with 504 seniors coming to class next week. Bartlett expects to see all 504 students walk across the stage at graduation ceremonies in May. He also has high expectations for the 485 freshmen he will greet next week.

“They’ll be just fine. We work hard here, but we’re going to have a lot of fun too. When they leave here in four years, they will be prepared to do anything they want to do. That is my mission and I am not going to fail them.”

Bartlett isn’t bashful about the rivalry with Farragut either.

“We always want to beat them in everything. Iron sharpens iron. It is a healthy relationship that makes both schools better.”

month stays at the jail were offered a chance to halve their sentences if they would join inmate work gangs.

They refused, preferring to spend their “vacation” inside.

There’s little to be done in the short run to change inmate attitudes, but there are steps that can be taken to keep down the cost of housing inmates. One is the electronic monitoring (ankle bracelet) program that Knox County has used increasingly for several years.

Allison Rogers of the KCSO says the current cost per day for housing inmates is $74. The electronic monitoring bracelets are leased for $10 per day, but the offender reimburses the

sheriff’s office for that cost.

Currently, three KCSO employees supervise approximately 1,000 offenders on the program. “The offenders are able to work and therefore lessen the tax burden on the citizens of Knox County,” Rogers notes.

The KCSO has dealt with a perfect storm of issues that began in the late 1980s when a class action suit was filed by inmates. The suit alleged overcrowding had resulted in conditions which violated inmate rights guaranteed by the Eighth and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.

Subsequently, the court threatened Knox County with a $5,000 per inmate per day fine for exceeding the

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maximum capacity of the downtown intake center.

An additional pod for housing prisoners at the Maloneyville Road detention center alleviated overcrowding downtown, but the KCSO is also dealing with problems that originated outside the county.

According to Rogers, between 18 and 22 percent of prisoners suffer from some form of mental illness.

These include homeless persons typically jailed for minor offenses.

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Steve Chastain, right, and his photography students shoot portraits of Chelsea and Hunter Woodcock during a class held last week at the UT Gardens. Photos by Wendy Smith

Michelle Krabbenhoft and Zach Myers keep the beat during Bearden High School’s band camp.

The new show is called “Clockworks.”

BHS band endures heat for love of music Wendy Smith

dium before performing in Neyland Stadium on Oct. 29.

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Scout museum gets new look

The Girl Scout Museum at Daisy’s Place is getting spruced up for the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting next year with a little help from former Scouts in UT’s interior design program.

The museum is located in the headquarters of the Girls Scouts of Southern Appalachians in the Downtown West shopping center. Gail Yook,

chair of the museum’s executive committee, mentioned to Associate Professor of Design Mary Beth Robinson that the museum could use a facelift.

Robinson was a member of Oak Ridge Troop 69, which founded the Oak Ridge Children’s Museum.

Robinson provided three rising seniors, all former Girl Scouts, to work on the museum as a service learning project. The students have spent several hours dismantling displays, painting and creating an indoor camp scene.

They hope to complete their work this week.

“It’s great to see our ideas coming to life,” says Melissa Vincent.

The museum was established in 1994 and moved to the new headquarters in 2009. It includes an archival

Exhibits Curator Norma Lowe, Museum Chair Gail Yook, and UT interior design students Deanna Olson, Cassidy Barnett and Melissa Vincent pose at the camp scene in the Girl Scout museum located in the headquarters of the Girls Scouts of Southern Appalachians in Downtown West shopping center. library and a roomful of vintage uniforms, which Scouts can try on. Some date back as far as 1927. Yook says she’d love for someone to sew replicas of the older uniforms, and she has patterns.

In preparation for the next year’s anniversary, a new patch called “Our Girl Scout Story” will be unveiled this week.

them the perfect spot for a family portrait.

That’s why professional photographer Steve Chastain, owner of Expressions Photography in Louisville, Tenn., brings his UT noncredit photography students here to practice. UT offers a photography certificate to students who complete 160 class hours in three years.

Last week, students in ■ Gardens make a Chastain’s Maternity, Newbeautiful backdrop born and Family Portraiture class brought their The UT Gardens are blazsignificant others to the ing with color, which makes gardens for practice. As each family posed, a whir of digital cameras captured the moment. The students share the pictures they take with each other, said Connie Woodcock of Athens.

Chastain offered tips to students, many of whom hope for a career in photography.

“Do whatever it takes to make them forget the camera is in front of them,” he said as he encouraged Woodcock’s teenaged children to nudge each other as they posed.

If several family members are in one photo, the photographer should try to get their noses on the same plane. That keeps everyone in focus.

When photographing small children, timing is everything.

“You’ve got to be able to grab those little bitty moments,” Chastain said.

“Don’t move the camera from your face.”

For information on the photography certificate program: www.conferencesand noncreditprograms.utk.edu.

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It’s 110 degrees in the shade and you could cook a steak on the pavement, so it must be time for band camp.

The Bearden High School marching band spent a solid week learning a new show titled “Clockworks.” According to band director Megan Christian, it’s a departure from the band’s traditional genre of jazz.

“The kids love this music.

It’s a different style of show.”

Strong leadership from students helped band camp run smoothly this summer.

In addition to performing at football games, the band plans to compete in three local competitions this fall.

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Knox Heritage’s fundraiser, Cocktails at the Station, has been evicted from its home at the L&N Station, which is scheduled to open as a high school later this month. This year, the event will take place at the Foundry at World’s Fair Park with a new title – the Scruffy City Soirée.

The name refers to a jab that Wall Street Journal writer Susan Harrington took in 1980 when it was announced that Knoxville would host the 1982 World’s Fair. She pondered how “a scruffy little city of 180,000 on the Tennessee River” was up to such a task.

That quote is not to be confused with travel writer John Gunther’s characterization of Knoxville as “the ugliest city in America” in 1947.

Rather than take offense, the preservation group has embraced Harrington’s label.

“Everything that Knox Heritage gets involved with is scruffy,” says Assistant Director Becky Hancock.

“Great old, dusty things are what make Knoxville a great place.”

The event, which is 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, will feature food, drink, entertainment, plus live and silent auctions. Purchase tickets at www.KnoxHeritage. org.

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West Knox homeowners ready for sign showdown

Just say no

By Betty Bean “How can I get rid of Bermuda grass?� a member of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners asked.

Neal Denton, UT Agricultural Extension’s Knox County director, and an expert in such matters, had a one-word answer: “Move.�

Denton was the guest speaker at the council’s August meeting and he was peppered with questions about maintaining landscaping, lawns and trees during increasingly long, hot, droughtridden summers.

Here are some of his other tips and observations: ■Don’t water your lawn and shrubbery at night. Fungal spores distribute themselves from 11 p.m. until 3 a.m., and water droplets provide them with a friendly environment. ■Don’t run over tree roots with the lawn mower. They look like they heal, but tree roots rot from the bottom and hollow out, although the signs are not visible from above.

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By Betty Bean

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Neal Denton. Photo by Betty Bean tible to toppling over. ■Don’t top trees. Older neighborhoods are full of trees that have been topped, causing them to grow “water sprouts,� which look leafy and green, but have no structural strength and will blow off in a high wind. ■Don’t prune crape myrtles in the fall unless you want to kill them. ■Don’t buy shade mix grass seed. Grass won’t grow in deep shade. ■Don’t buy Leyland Cyprus or Encore azaleas. East Tennessee is too far south of the Leyland Cyprus preferred zone and too far north for the Encore Azalea to thrive.

Introducing himself as Col. Sanders at the meeting of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners, County Commissioner Richard Briggs vowed to fight a request by some chicken owners to downzone a residential lot to agricultural: “There are people who want goats and potbellied pigs. I say absolutely not. We cannot do that.�

Photo by Betty Bean

â– And to a Seven Oaks East resident who is looking for fast-growing foliage to shield her yard from a new shopping center going up next door: just say no to bamboo, no matter how great the need for an instant barrier. Try a Green Giant Arborvitae instead.

Balancing the crime budget From page A-1

ago and grew through the 1960s and 1970s.

State facilities closed and mental patients were “deinstitutionalized� by the tens of thousands in favor of treatment at local mental health centers. As far back as 1984, Richard Lyons was writing in the New York Times that the policy was “widely regarded as a failure.�

Today, the numbers of the mentally ill have grown far beyond the capacity of local mental health treatment facilities, and funding for such facilities from state and local governments is shrinking as the Great Recession lingers. In Knox County, the entrance to the jail is a revolving door for many of the chronically mentally ill.

Per capita, the U.S. is the world’s most incarcerated nation. The failed war on drugs is a major contributor, and Knox County sees it share of arrests for minor drug offenses.

Meth cookers, cocaine dealers and pushers

of opiates such as Oxycontin must be hounded and eradicated, but laws such as Tennessee’s which can land you in jail for a year for possessing any amount of marijuana no longer make sense, especially from an economic standpoint. Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol, and it will never work for marijuana.

A 2008 study by the Justice Policy Institute concluded that of the 20 states that admit the most people to treatment, 19 had incarceration rates below the national average. Jailing drug abusers is short-sighted both economically and socially. Jail the pushers, treat the addicts and the community wins.

Next week we’ll look at the Knox County Safety Center proposal (currently tabled); the effectiveness of judicial diversion; and the role that judges and prosecutors play in maintaining a justice system that keeps the community safe and makes the best use of our tax dollars.

After a two-week postponement to allow the two opposing sides to get together to discuss the issue, City Council is again on track to consider the proposed 50-foot sign at the entrance of the Sherrill Hill development.

The Metropolitan Planning Commission has already voted to approve the towering sign, which is to be located at the corner of Moss Grove Boulevard and Kingston Pike on property that was annexed into the city. The development is surrounded by residential property that is outside the city limits.

The Council of West Knox County Homeowners voted unanimously to oppose the sign, and CWKCH president Margot Kline said she has had encouraging conversations with City Council members Joe Bailey and Nick Pavlis. “I got an optimistic statement from Joe Bailey who proposed a future amendment to the city ordinance bringing sign heights down to 25 feet,� she said, cautioning her membership that the Sherrill Hill sign would not be affected.

She issued another cautionary note: “I’d love to report that negotiations are ongoing, but we’ve heard nothing. We may have to ďŹ ght sign-by-sign at that development. Our folks are ready to do that. If we can’t reach a

Rhonda French Photo by Betty Bean compromise, we’re going to be back ďŹ ghting every one of them.â€?

She urged everyone to show up at City Council on Tuesday: “Numbers count. They were very impressed with the fact that we had numbers there (at the July 26 meeting).�

Rhonda French of Seven Oaks East has been circulating a petition and said the sign opponents have more than 400 names. “I don’t know if the opposing folks think they can wear us down, but they won’t,� she said.

NOTES ■ETCleanFuels will meet 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Copper Cellar restaurant on Cumberland Avenue. ■West Knox Lions Club meets 7 p.m. the first and third Monday of each month at Shoney’s on Lovell

Road. The annual Farragut/West Knox car show will be held Saturday, Aug. 13, in the parking lot of the old Kroger store in Farragut. ■West Knoxville Kiwanis Club meets 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Shoney’s on Walker Springs Road.

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Walls lodged a complaint of official oppression against then-Mayor Mike Ragsdale a couple of years ago that led to a highly publicized ethics committee hearing. More recently he terminated an employee who was accused of sending vulgar email messages to Commissioner Amy Broyles. Now his office is preparing to launch three successive “hot potato” audits.

First up is the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, to be followed in order by “material” audits of the Public Building Authority and the Hardin Valley Academy construction project.

The Beck audit is fallout from the debate which erupted when Mayor Tim Burchett cut the center’s funding by 92 percent in the current budget.

Commissioner Jeff Ownby requested the PBA and Hardin Valley Academy audits.

Considering that County Commission recently approved an ordinance giving that body authority to contract outside audit help for internal audits, there’s a certain irony in Walls taking on three assignments that are Walls likely to consume the better part of a year for his small staff. But for Walls it’s another day at the office.

“There are only two kinds of audits,” Walls says, “big messes and little messes.” All three of the upcoming audits have “big mess” written all over them.

Beck will require the least time to complete. Walls expects the audit to be done before the next meeting of the Audit Committee on Sept. 13. But this project begins under the shadow of thinly veiled references to misuse of public funds on the one hand and subtle charges of racism on the other.

To be sure, no public figure has made either charge directly. Still, the heated debate over Beck doesn’t make Walls’ job easier.

Walls says he’ll approach this audit in typical fashion by assessing the risks of error or malfeasance on the part of the client. He’ll look closely at cash receipts and expenses, or “money in and money out” in auditing shorthand.

Risk assessment can be formalized, although the auditor’s experience and subjective evaluation play a role in determining what areas of the books get the greatest scrutiny. When tens of millions of dollars are involved, the auditor may be tempted to change his methodology. Yet even the PBA and Hardin Valley Academy audits will be subject to the same rules used in the Beck assignment.

“They’re just different sized Kool-Aid stands,” Walls says.

Indeed.

Hardin Valley Academy soaked up about $50 million of “Kool-Aid,” and many millions have flowed through PBA since its establishment. Of special interest to Ownby is PBA’s role in the Hardin Valley project.

Sandy Loy, who owns Construction Plus Inc., has been the sharpest critic of PBA’s involvement in building Hardin Valley Academy. A certified construction manager, Loy has recommended a County Commission sponsored task force to study PBA’s practices.

Ironically, an argument in favor of outside auditors for internal audit work was to avoid suggestions that the audit process was politicized. All of these audits may be warranted, but politics is the engine driving all three requests.

Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

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Write-in candidate for 5th District race?

There could be a new candidate in the 5th District City Council race by the time this publication hits the street.

Betty Bean Last week, multiple sources confirmed that interim City Council member Charlie Thomas, appointed in January to fill the seat vacated 11 months early by Bob Becker, was preparing to declare himself a write-in candidate.

Only one candidate – Mark Campen – filed the paperwork to run by the June 16 qualifying deadline, and his will be the only name on the Sept. 27 primary ballot.

In city elections, the names of the top two votegetters in the primary go on the general election ballot, and the only hurdle a writein candidate must jump is to get at least 25 qualified voters to ask for write-in ballots.

Write-in candidates must file a declaration form 50 days before the primary – by noon Monday, Aug. 8, as confirmed by administrator of elections Cliff Rodgers.

Another hurdle Thomas could face is the pledge he made not to run for a full term.

This could turn into a speed bump if the people to whom the promise was made – his City Council colleagues – don’t relieve him of the obligation.

Third District Council member Brenda Palmer says the reason she wanted the appointee to promise not to run for the seat was to create a level playing field.

“There were so many applicants for the interim seat, I expected that one or more would step up and run. But none of those people stepped up, and I think that releases him from any pledge he made. When there’s an open seat it’s always good to have competition. I have heard from a number of people, and it’s not that they dislike

one candidate, it incites a kind of lethargy. I asked if he had considered going on and running. Since then, he’s talked to every council member. He was very concerned.”

While some might say Thomas has waited too long to start running, there is precedent for such a race.

In 1989, Gary Underwood mounted a write-in campaign for the District 1 City Council seat that unseated longtime incumbent Hoyle Charlie Thomas Photo by B. Bean McNeil, who was also the vice mayor.

Mark, they just think that Underwood – who enthe 5th District voters need joyed considerable help a choice.” from supporters of Mayor Council member Chris Victor Ashe, whom McNeil frequently defied – won the Woodhull concurs: “I feel very comfortable general election. The upwith Charlie deciding to run ending of the once-powerful and I don’t think it violates McNeil forever after served the spirit of any promise. I as a lesson in consequences was in a conversation with to other council members.

At midweek, Thomas was him about a month ago lamenting the notion that cautious about revealing his there wasn’t going to be any intentions. “I’ve been apkind of discussion in the proached, I’m listening to district about the issues in what they have to say and this race. If you only have I’m thinking about it.”

The ins and outs of write-ins Early voting in the city elections and state Senate special primary starts Sept.

7, about 30 days from now.

Many residents outside the city and some Farragut residents can vote in the Republican primary for state Senate which effectively decides who the next senator is, as Democrats have apparently decided not to contest the election to fill the Jamie Woodson seat now held in the interim by Sen. Sue Atchley.

Residents outside the city make up more than 65 percent of the population of the Senate district.

The city contestants have been determined except possibly in the 5th District (previously represented by Larry Cox and Bob Becker) where Mark Campen (who was an interim County Commissioner) is running unopposed. Currently, the seat is held by Charlie Thomas who many feel might like to continue in the position, but he feels constrained since he told Council, which appointed him, that he would not run for the full term.

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There are repeated rumors that a write-in for Charlie Thomas might occur. This has only succeeded once.

That was in 1989 when Vice Mayor Hoyle McNeil was unopposed for another council term and Gary Underwood launched an unannounced write in campaign to get on the ballot. A minimum of 25 write-in votes are required to secure a spot in the runoff, and Underwood received more than 70. Then, to the surprise of most, he defeated McNeil to become the first person to win a council seat with a write-in beginning. He served 12 years on council.

A few weeks ago, I asked Thomas directly if he was running a write-in campaign.

He said “no.” Whether he has changed his mind today I do not know. When I pressed him as to how he would respond if he received enough

write-in candidate (Louise Zirkle) who came in second and then declined to allow her name to go on the ballot against Teague who was her longtime friend. The other write-in was third and not eligible for the runoff. Who knows what will happen in the 5th District.

write-in votes to be placed on the ballot, he said he would have to think it over. However, it was apparent he has enjoyed his limited time on council and the departure of Becker has shortened council meetings considerably.

Since 1989, the law has changed to require the writein candidate to sign a form with the Election Commission declaring his/her candidacy. If someone actually won more than 25 write-in votes and was the second place winner, it is unclear if those ballots would be counted if he/she had not signed a form of candidacy. However, it seems a violation of one’s federal constitutional rights not to count one’s write-in ballot for whomever it is cast even if the recipient had not authorized the write-in effort.

This column is not advocating a write-in candidate against Mark Campen who is an able, committed person, but is simply outlining what has to happen if it does occur.

This write-in situation once occurred against Jean Teague, and she was able to thwart it by running her own

Notes ■ It seems unusual that a city judge and mayor may be elected on Sept. 27 if they receive 50.1 percent of the vote, but none of the at-large council candidates will win if they receive 50.1 percent or more of the vote. This section of the city charter ought to be changed. If a candidate for mayor and judge can be elected in the primary, then why not an at-large candidate who also wins a majority?

■ A few weeks ago we reported that the Airport Authority was having trouble getting a quorum for its meetings. Howard Vogel, the new chair, presided over a full house in July when all nine commissioners showed up for work. Congratulations to all for being present.

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GOSSIP AND LIES Roddy hosts ice cream social

Marilyn Roddy (at right) brought her campaign for the state Senate to her neighborhood pharmacy, Long’s Drug Store, on July 30 for an old fashioned ice cream social.

No, that did not mean Marilyn and Patrick cranked freezers in the parking lot, but the crew at Long’s did a great job of quick service. Talking with the candidate are Lila Cate and Jo Banner.

Photo by S. Clark

McIntyre says ‘yes’ to Carter School Ring, ring.

Hello, Knox County Schools.

Alex Harkness here.

We’d like to propose a lease/purchase deal on an old train station with limited parking for a high school. We’ll charge you $425,000 a year for 20 years, after you fix it up, but the city will pay you $200,000 of that so your net is just $225,000, or $4.5 million over 20 years.

Great! Where do we sign?

Ring, ring.

Hello, Knox County Schools.

Simon Properties here.

We’d like to give you some empty offices in our spacious Knoxville Center mall for a high school, and we’ll throw in cookies for

votes on Wednesday, there’s only one correct response: Great! Where do we sign?

To his credit, SuperinSandra tendent Dr. Jim McIntyre is Clark recommending the school board take the mayor’s deal, although he calls it a special events. There’s lots difficult decision and preof parking and possible dicts board members could after-school jobs for the come down on either side.

“If the choice were ‘Do we kids. need a new school at CartGreat! Where do we sign? er?’ the answer remains Ring, ring. clearly and unequivocally, Hello, Knox County ‘no.’ ” After all, the school Schools. board has voted four times Tim Burchett here. How that a renovation with adabout the County Commis- ditions would suffice. sion and I sell off assets to But that’s not the quesraise money for a new el- tion the board is asked to ementary school at Carter? decide, McIntyre says. The You get a new building, question posed by Mayor built to your program stan- Burchett is: “Will you acdards and debt-free. cept a new Carter ElemenWhen the school board tary School building for the

same cost of a renovation?”

The answer to this second question is “yes,” McIntyre concludes. Hopefully, a majority of the board will agree. Either way, it’s all over on Wednesday and we can debate and write about something else.

■ “Marriage is grand,” said Dave, “and divorce is fifty grand.”

■ Joe Armstrong went over to UT and talked the bookstore manager into removing some breath mints that poked fun at President Obama. Armstrong said the “disappointmints” conveyed a political message inappropriate for a university. One surprised political science professor’s response to the great mint debate? “Breathtaking!”

■ “We give advice like your grandmother gave, only we have our teeth in,” said Dave.

UPCOMING EVENTS

■ “God has three answers for prayer,” said Dave. “Yes, no and grow.”

■ Andrew and Trish Graybeal are hosting a reception for John Whitehead for residents of Nine Oaks and Timberlake from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11. Whitehead is a candidate for his old job as property assessor. Info: 922-4132.

■ John Maynard Keynes founded Keynesian Economics. But Tim Burchett is no Keynesian. Nope. Tim’s war on public debt marks him as a follower of Dave Ramsey.

So we decided to listen to Ramsey on 100.3 FM.

■ Ray Jenkins, GOP chair, wants a picnic in each sector of Knox County before year’s end. He’d better hurry or else start planning for a string of wiener roasts.

■ Dwight Van de Vate has lost the “interim” off his title of Director of Engineering and Public Works. The mulch pile is sold and the training wheels are off. Now we’ll watch the former chief deputy for Sheriff Tim Hutchison and general fix-it fellow for Mike Ragsdale oversee the filling of potholes and the inspecting of stormwater violations. It’s a big job.

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

■ Marilyn Roddy is holding a fundraiser hosted by Dr. Marek Pienkowski from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, at West Knox Plaza. Info: 217-6750.

Date set for ‘Feast with the Beasts’ The Knoxville Zoo’s Feast with the Beasts will be held from 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, with ORNL Federal Credit Union as sponsor.

Area restaurants will provide food with beverages from East Tennessee’s favorite brewing companies, wineries and distributors.

Tickets are $70 ($60 in advance) and attendees must be 21 or older. Info: 637-5331, ext. 300, or www. knoxville-zoo.org/.

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How a slammed door swung wide open

then imploded. That school had a 40 percent transient rate.”

In 2002, Greg applied along with 85-90 others to become head football coach at the newly-opened Kell High School. He got the job.

“It was an opportunity to build from ground zero.”

During its first year of varsity football in 2003, the team posted an 8-2 record. That same year, the school was rocked by an outstanding debt scandal. The principal and vice principal were forced out.

Greg says he soon learned he, too, was being investigated. He told the county school officials, “I have nothing to hide.”

Three years prior to the incident, Greg says he had brokered a deal

with a vendor and that later a group that included the man with whom he’d brokered the deal, took off on a deep sea fishing trip in which everyone split the cost of the boat.

“We used to do that in Louisiana all the time. We get down there, the seas are too high and we can’t go fishing. So he pays for dinner for all of us on that Friday night.”

Three weeks into football practice that next season, Greg was fired.

“It made headlines day after day in the local paper. Kids were holding protests. It was ugly. You know, I’d always been hard-driving in my career and I wondered, ‘OK, God, what are you teaching me here?’ ” He went home and got to spend

more time with the two children he and his wife, Kelly, had at the time.

“Normally, in the fall, I’m on the football field. It was a wake up call.”

He looked at other careers and tried to figure out what he was going to do with the rest of his life.

“During a storm, sometimes you can’t tell whether the light in front of you is a (beacon from a) lighthouse or a train coming. You have to be still. Don’t make rash judgments.

I had to look at how this was going to affect my family.”

He learned that Woodward Academy, the largest private school in the United States, was looking for a linebacker coach.

“I talked to them on a Wednesday, interviewed on Thursday and was offered the job on Friday.”

The school, which is located on the south side of Atlanta, has a long and proud history. It was founded in 1900 as the Georgia Military Academy and became a co-ed school in the 1960s. Its tuition is roughly $20,000 per year and it has a student population of 2,700 in grades Kindergarten through 12.

Greg earned an Ed.S and a doctorate. He is now the team’s defensive coordinator and teaches physical education for grades 4 through 6. Several years ago he began speaking at Frank Glazier Mega Clinics, an educational coaching seminar, and was named one of the top seven speakers in the country last year. This summer, he’s worked four camps for the National Football Academy, one at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

“It turned out to be the best thing that ever happened. Being the No. 2 guy, it allows me the freedom to focus on my family. This fall, all of my kids will go to school there. My kids wouldn’t have had the opportunity to go to such a great private school otherwise.”

The Vandagriffs now have three children: Brock, 9; Anna Greer, 7; and Audrey, 5.

“It all goes back to those small decisions, listening to advice that was given to me by my high school coach, by my (college’s) athletic director and listening to God’s still, small voice.”

One door closes. Another opens.

Just ask Greg Vandagriff.

leaving. I could ease the boxes from one step to the next, and so on, all the way down the stairs.

Her best friend from college came to help us move the couch out of the upstairs office, and the three of us wrestled it downstairs. Another friend in the neighborhood helped dismantle the antique armoire that had belonged to Jordan’s paternal greatgrandmother. It is more than 9 feet tall and put together with pegs. When its top is lifted off, the whole thing becomes as unstable as Jell-O. Taking it apart (or putting it together, for that matter) is a daunting task.

When Moving Day arrived we went to rent a truck. This young woman – who just yesterday, surely, I wrapped in a yellow blanket and carried home from the hospital in my arms, the West Virginia snow falling all around us – climbed in that 15-foot truck and

drove it home like a pro. Jordan backed it into her old driveway and was so mad at herself that it took two tries. (For the record, on the next trip, she did it in one!)

Her new next door neighbors were moving out on the same day Jordan was moving in, and two of them came over and offered to help carry in the couch. Feminine pride and independence extends only so far in the Memphis heat, so we accepted the offer with alacrity.

When all was said and done, we were exhausted, and both of us had bruises on arms and legs to prove that we had worked like longshoremen. But, as one friend of mine had predicted, there were “moments of delight.”

As we worked, we talked about the fact that we had spent more time alone together in that week than we ever had before. When Jordan was living at home, growing up, there were always other

family members around. After she left for college, her sister, Eden, and I had some years together, just the two of us, but Jordan and I had never experienced that.

We laughed together, shared hurts, hopes and dreams, told each other things that neither of us had ever told anyone. We worked together, teaming up to figure things out. We shopped some, for things she needed in her new place. We made copious lists, and sometimes remembered to consult them.

When the church bells of St. John’s Episcopal Church (right across the street from Jordan’s house) summoned me to worship on Sunday morning, I slipped into a pew and knelt there in heartfelt thanksgiving for all of God’s mercies, for blessings beyond counting and in fervent prayer for my Jordan: my firstborn, my daughter, my friend.

PULL UP A CHAIR … | Jake Mabe (Author’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part series about Greg Vandagriff, a 1986 Halls High School graduate who played football at Tennessee Wesleyan and went on to coach in Louisiana and Georgia.)

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on’t tell Greg Vandagriff that the phrase “when one door closes, another one opens” is just a cliché.

One got slammed in his face after he’d reached the pinnacle of his profession. He says it proved to be the best thing that ever happened to him.

After hearing that Tennessee Tech didn’t have a graduate assistant position open, Greg graduated from Tennessee Wesleyan that May and figured he’d keep an appointment with Larry Kerr, his high school football coach, about returning to Halls High School as an assistant.

Then the phone rang. It was Tech.

The grad assistant had backed out.

“Are you still interested?”

Greg was on campus by July 1990 and ultimately earned a master’s degree in education with a concentration in health and physical education.

“It might as well have been nuclear engineering the way they made it,” Greg says. “But with my background in history, I was able to handle the writing.”

As a graduate assistant, he worked with defensive coach Mike Smith, who now coaches the Atlanta Falcons.

“The best piece of advice I can give anybody who wants to be a football coach is to be a graduate assistant. I found out that I really had zero idea about football until I became one. You work 12-15 hour days during the season, so you can’t help but learn football. I coached outside linebackers. It was a wonderful experience.”

After earning his master’s, Greg got the opportunity to go to Christian Life Academy in Baton Rouge, La. He knew it was the right move

for several reasons.

“It was God tapping me on the shoulder saying, ‘Hey, you need to go get your life straight.’ I needed to be in a Christian environment.”

Phil Ironside, who had played quarterback at Halls, came to Christian Life during Greg’s second year.

In Greg’s five years as defensive coordinator and head baseball coach, the football team went 50-13 and the baseball team went 97-37.

At left: Greg Vandagriff today is defensive coordinator at Woodward Academy in Georgia. Above, Brock and Greg Vandagriff pause for a grin after a game. Photos submitted “We got beat in the state championship my last year.”

That last year, Greg also served as assistant principal. He jokes that he was “starving to death” and briefly took a job working for Primerica.

“I made more money than I’d ever made in my life but I couldn’t sleep a wink, worrying about commission.”

So, in the fall of 1997, he headed to Cobb County, Ga., where he took a job at Wheeler High School, spending two years there before becoming head football coach at Campbell High. He inherited a program that had won two games in three years.

During his three seasons at Campbell, the football team posted records of 1-9, 3-7 and 4-6.

“We were 4-3 at one point and

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Jordan, who was an English major and whose first job out of college was at Davis-Kidd Booksellers, owns more books than the Library of Congress (which may be a slight exaggeration, but it certainly felt like it when I was packing them). “Gravity works” was my mantra as I hauled books down the staircase in the house she was

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The extraordinary architect HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

David Getaz (1849-1912)

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lthough the 100th anniversary of the architect’s death occurs next year and although most of his buildings were built well more than a century ago, many Knox Countians pass some of them daily and experience their timeless elegance.

His was one of the French-Swiss families who were so influential in the development of businesses in the city and in North Knox County, especially in the Smithwood/Beverly area – including the Babelay, Berney, Buffat, Chevannes, Dovat, Gouffon, Guinard, Rochat, Sterchi, Truan and other families.

The architect, David Getaz, was born at Tullins, France, on Nov. 22, 1849, the son of Louis David Getaz (1816-1888) and Henriette Lavanchy (1816-1883). When the religious revival of the 1840s swept through Vaud, Switzerland, Louis David Getaz was called to become a minister of the Free Protestant Church.

He soon fled to France to escape religious persecution and was chosen to manage the grounds of the Turettini estate at Jussy near the French Alps, where his eight children were raised. He also continued to minister to local Protestants.

Young David served an apprenticeship as a carpenter there but, in about 1871, he moved to Paris, where he studied architecture. He could not find employment in Paris so he decided to immigrate to America. He arrived in Knox County in 1874 and soon found employment with Daniel Felix, another French-Swiss immi-

In 1889 Getaz designed and built this home at 505 E. Scott Ave. The family occupied the 11-room Victorian mansion with stable and carriage house until 1894 when they moved to 315 E. Fifth Ave. David Getaz (1849-1912). After studying architecture in Paris, Getaz immigrated to Knox County in 1874 and pursued a career as an architect and builder. Photos courtesy McClung Historical Collection

grant in the Smithwood community.

The two soon formed a partnership with Alfred G. Buffat, a prominent North Knox County miller, business owner and public servant.

In 1881 he became a partner with Christopher T. Stephenson in the firm of Stephenson and Getaz, Architects and Builders. Stephenson (1841-1908), a native of Yorkshire, England, immigrated to the U.S. in 1870. After he left the partnership, he built several structures in upper East Tennessee and Virginia.

Stephenson was on a business trip in Elizabethton when he developed food poisoning and died on Sept.

8, 1908. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery with his wife, Mary Maud, and his only daughter, Adah.

Stephenson and Getaz built the old Knox County Courthouse (1885), reportedly from drawings prepared

Best athlete?

Good question TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West

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ernard King was back in town the other evening as keynote speaker for the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame. Sarah remembered that I once considered him the best athlete ever at Tennessee.

And elsewhere?

There have been some other good ones here and there in six and a half decades of watching hundreds of college games, several Olympics, many Super Bowls, World Series baseball games, NCAA Final Fours and assorted lesser extravaganzas.

Perspective? When you think of how many play from Little League up through high school and how few become college starters and how few of those become pros and how few of those become world superstars, “best athlete” takes on serious significance.

On the assumption that the once-

in-a-lifetime greatest would play more than one sport, I missed him.

Jim Thorpe was before my time. He won two races in the 1912 Olympics, finished fourth in the high jump and seventh in the long jump. He was twice an All-American halfback for the Carlisle Indians, offense and defense, punter and place-kicker. He played pro football eight years and major league baseball for six. He hit .327 for the 1927 Boston Braves. He is featured in three halls of fame, college football, pro football, and track and field.

Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis were better than average runners and jumpers, winners of an entire collection of Olympic gold medals.

Jesse dominated at Berlin but didn’t get invited to the White House.

I saw Bo Jackson run and I saw Tennessee knock his block off when

by Palliser & Palliser, an architectural firm in New York City. The building cost $82,000, a large sum for the time. Wings were added to both the east and west sides in 1919.

Other local buildings they designed and built were the Girls High School (circa 1886); Shannondale Presbyterian Church (1886); the Fountainhead Hotel and Resort in Fountain City (1886), which burned in 1920 after it had become the Goetz Sanitarium; and the First Methodist Episcopal Church (1893).

The successor to Stephenson and Getaz, Getaz and Co., was the general contractor collaborating with the Baumann Brothers Architects to construct the Knoxville Market House (1897). In 1884 Getaz also built the handsome Tazewell Pike mansion of Major R. C. Jackson, the retired superintendent of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, along with many other residential properties.

On Oct. 12, 1881, Getaz married Margaret R. “Maggie” Murphy (1854-1939). They were the parents of four children: James, Marguerite, Louise and David Jr. James

married Carrie Coffin, daughter of Hector Coffin, who was prominent in local business.

David Getaz Sr. earned his U.S. citizenship on Feb. 10, 1886. Later in that same year, he and Maggie and their 4-year-old son David Jr. visited Getaz’ father in France and relatives in Switzerland, the only trip they ever made back to Europe.

In 1889 Getaz designed and built his home at 505 East Scott Ave. The family lived in the 11-room Victorian mansion with stable and carriage house until 1894 when they moved to 315 E. Fifth Ave. The architect’s courtly European manner was enhanced by the top hat and gold-headed cane that accompanied him around town. Desiring the same Old World image for his two daughters, he made a beveled full-length mirror for each of them and advised them, “Before you leave your room, look yourselves over carefully. See that you are pleased with your appearance. Then, forget about yourselves and think about the persons you are with.”

From 1890 to 1892 Getaz was

superintendent of the Southern Car Company, which built eight to 10 freight and mining cars each day and employed 150. He also helped organize the Knoxville Mantle and Cabinet Company in 1893.

In 1906 his oldest son, James, came into the architectural firm and they built several large projects, including the Carnegie Concert Hall in Lewisburg, W.Va., and the Blue Ridge Conference Center in Black Mountain, N.C. A long-time member and elder of Fort Sanders Presbyterian Church, David Getaz passed on to his reward at home on Sept. 19, 1912, at age 62.

Margaret survived him by 26 years and died on June 12, 1939, at age 84.

They are buried in the family plat in Greenwood Cemetery.

(Author’s Note: Thanks to the late David Babelay, Vicki Bills, Kathy Manning and Sally R. Polhemus of the McClung Historical Collection for their assistance with the text and photographs.

Additional information and photographs may be found at www. fountaincitytnhistory.info/.)

he was an Auburn Tiger. Bo knows he got tagged.

Jackson won the 1985 Heisman Trophy and was first to be an all-star in two pro sports and Nike commercials. He played baseball for the Royals (MVP of the ’89 All-Star Game) and football for the Raiders.

Maybe you remember the Monday night madness when Bo ran over Brian Bosworth of the Seahawks on his way to 221 rushing yards.

I saw Deion Sanders, alone as a Super Bowl and World Series player, exciting cornerback and outfielder, nine times all-NFL, league recordholder with 19 touchdowns on interceptions and kick returns, speedster who stole 57 bases one season and led the National League in triples.

He hit .304 in his best year. Fitting nickname: Neon Deion.

Michael Jordan was a pretty fair basketball player but mediocre in minor league baseball and poker.

Danny Ainge could play baskets but hit only .220 with the Blue Jays.

Bob Hayes ran fast in the 100 and scored 71 NFL touchdowns. Dave Winfield, Minnesota all-everything, was drafted by pro football, basketball and baseball.

Best ever in orange? After Bernard, it is a close call. Maybe Condredge Holloway or Doug Atkins or Willie Gault or Ron Widby or Rich-

mond Flowers or Tom Pappas?

Pappas was twice NCAA decathlon champ, a world champion and an Olympian. His 10 tough events involve a wide range of skills – running, jumping and throwing things.

Atkins at 6-7 and 240 was a basketball Vol one season and a football legend, one of the best defensive ends in NFL history. More remarkable were his track feats.

With almost no practice, he high-jumped 6-6 and placed second in an SEC meet in Birmingham. That much man clearing a bar was astounding. Motivation? Travel money.

Flowers for a time was the best hurdler in the world. As good as he was in football, he probably had more courage than ability. He had enough of both to play in the NFL. Gault was borderline All-American in football, spectacular in hurdles and sprints, Super Bowl champ with the Bears and producer of the Super Bowl Shuffle, doorknob for a Hollywood fling. He got involved with Winter Olympics as a bobsled pusher. He can still dance and run fast in middle age.

Widby won letters in four sports – football, basketball, baseball and golf. He led the baseball Vols in batting as a sophomore, later led the SEC in basketball scoring and

the country in punting average. He played pro baskets briefly, punted in the NFL for a living and earned tip money playing golf.

Holloway was Tennessee’s most exciting quarterback. The Artful Dodger made many tacklers miss.

He bounced off others. He had the guts to throw with blitzing linebackers in his face. He scampered all over Canadian pro football. He was better in baseball, good enough as a prep senior to have been No. 1 in the MLB draft. John Wooden of UCLA thought basketball was Holloway’s best game.

Todd Helton was great as a Tennessee baseball player and good enough in football to start at quarterback – in a pinch. He almost hit .400 for the Colorado Rockies.

Carl Pickens? Stanley Morgan?

Many talents.

In three seasons at Tennessee, King, quick as a blink, was three times an All-American with a career average of 13.2 rebounds and 25.8 points while sharing the ball with Ernie Grunfeld and Mike Jackson.

I thought King was better in the NBA than Larry Bird, Magic and Kobe. His fierce fight back from a terrible knee injury to all-star status is the stuff of legends.

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

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WORSHIP NOTES Fundraisers and sales â– The St. Mark United Methodist Women (UMW) will host a rummage sale 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 13, in the fellowship hall of the church at 7001 Northshore Drive. All proceeds will benefit projects of UMW. No early sales and no admission until 8 a.m. â– Beaver Ridge UMC will host a Mothers of Multiples Fall and Winter Consign-

ment Sale 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 20. Clothes, furniture, toys and more.

Cash payments only.

Special Services â– Beaver Ridge United Methodist Church, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will have a Sunday school class for adults beginning 10 a.m.

Sunday, Aug. 14. Jim Bacon will lead the discussion based on the International Bible Lesson Series. Info: 690-1060 or visit www. beaverridgeumc.com. â– Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike, will host GriefShare Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. Get support from the group while recovering from a loss and rebuilding your life.

Registration: Laura, 470-9800.

Women’s groups ■Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection will

SPORTS NOTES

host the luncheon “Celebrating the Years� 10:45 a.m.

Thursday, Aug. 11, at Buddy’s Banquet Hall in Bearden.

The special feature will be Deanna Hurd, owner of Lulu’s Tearoom in Powell. The inspirational speaker will be Babs Hawks from Woodstock, Ga., who was crowned Ms. Senior Arizona in 2002.

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

â– Baseball tournament , Friday through Sunday, Aug. 12-14. Open to everyone, Tee ball and 6U coach pitch and 8U-14U, Halls Community Park. Info: 992-5504 or email hcpsports@msn.com. â– Fall baseball league, 4U-12U, bring your own team plus individual signups, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Saturday through Aug. 13 at Halls Community Park. Info: 992-5504 or email hcpsports@msn.com. â– Baseball tournament , Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 20-21.

Open to everyone, Tee ball and 6U coach pitch and 8U14U. Info: 992-5504 or email hcpsports@msn.com.

Youth â– West Park Baptist Church , 8833 Middlebrook Pike, will host a free clothing giveaway for children from birth to 12th grade 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13. Back packs and school supplies will also be given out while supplies last. â– Beaver Ridge UMC , 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, has open gym for middle and high school students 7-9 p.m. every Thursday. All invited. No sign-ups or fees.

Russell Biven Clayfest tourney This year’s Russell Biven Summer Clayfest Tournament will be held Friday and Saturday, Aug. 12-13 at Chilhowee Sportsman’s Club in Maryville. There will be two flights on Friday and two on Saturday. Flight times are 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The cost for a fiveperson team is $650 and

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Civil War genealogy workshop The East Tennessee History Center will host the workshop “How to Find Your Civil War Ancestor�

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Featured event 1964 “The Tribute,” a Beatles tribute band formed in 1982, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at the Historic Tennessee Theater. Doors open at 7. “The Tribute” members strive for authenticity in their portrayal of the Beatles, paying just as much attention to clothes and musical equipment as they do the music. The group has won many national awards, and Rolling Stone magazine called 1964 “The best Beatles tribute ever.” Tickets are $27 and are on sale now at all Knoxville Tickets locations and the Tennessee Theatre box office.

Info: www.tennesseetheatre. com.

This month ■ Shakespeare on the Square will present the Bard’s “Othello” and “Comedy of Errors” on Market Square. The performances are free, but $5 donations are welcome. Bring your own chair or blanket to watch the performance under the stars. “Comedy of Errors,” one of Shakespeare’s first and funniest plays, will be performed at 7 p.m. Aug. 11 and 13. The tragedy “Othello” will be performed 7 p.m. Aug. 12 and 14. Info: www. tennesseestage.com.

■ The work of artist and elementary school art teacher Ryan Blair will be featured at Bliss Home on Market Square throughout August.

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

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

Exhibits run through Friday, Aug. 26. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Info: 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance. com.

Exhibits at the Art Market Gallery on Gay Street: ■ Works by artists Jay Hollopeter and Kathy Seely through Sunday, Aug. 28.

■ “Who, What, Where in East Tennessee,” through Sunday, Aug. 21 (in conjunction with this year’s East Tennessee History Fair, presented

by the East Tennessee Historical Society on Saturday, Aug. 20).

■ “Reflections of an American Tragedy,”

by Marie Merritt through Sunday, Aug. 28 (also in conjunction with the history fair).

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.

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.

■ Up the Chain, Matt Bauer and Dana Falconberry, Monday, Aug. 8.

■ Little High Little Low, Tuesday, Aug. 9.

■ Dirty Bourbon River Show, By and By Stringband, Wednesday, Aug. 10.

■ Matt Otis, Wide Old River, Thursday, Aug. 11.

■ Balsam Range and Michael Reno Harrell, Friday, Aug. 12.

■ Dark Water Rising, Several Devils, Saturday, Aug. 13.

Bags come in a rainbow of green

By Wendy Smith It’s a lucky milk jug indeed that finds its way into a JulieApple bag.

Julianna Applegate designs bags made from recycled and local materials and sells them out of her shop at 121 South Gay St. But don’t be fooled by the “green” label. The silky feel and stylish details of her purses, totes and travel bags measure up against high-end brands.

The funky fabrics she designs for her bags sets them apart. She finds inspiration for her patterns in vintage textiles and her children’s artwork. She developed her skills while working for LeSportsac, a career that took her from New York City to Dandridge, where the company had a factory, and eventually back to New York when she became vice president of design.

In 2007, Applegate started formulating plans for her own company. She came up with a business model based on sustainable manufacturing and fair trade.

Through her experience in the field, she knew that recycled fabrics could be printed with a method that uses air rather than water, thus reducing pollution and saving energy.

She also wanted to be sure that anyone who touched her bags – those who helped make them and those who bought them – would be treated fairly.

By 2009, Applegate had moved to Knoxville with her husband and ordered her first batch of bags from a factory in the Dominican Republic. Her online store, www.JulieAppleStore.com, was up and running.

She takes samples of new designs to the factory and works closely with the employees to make sure that they are in a good situation, she says.

“Everyone who works all day should have something to show for it. People shouldn’t be working endless hours to stay in desperate poverty.”

Her product line is limited by her commitment to fair labor. Customers have

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First Baptist goes HD It’s not the burning bush, but First Baptist Church is now broadcasting in high definition widescreen.

First Baptist has broadcast for 36 years and reaches most of East Tennessee and parts of Virginia and Kentucky at 11 a.m. each Sunday on WTNZ Fox 32.

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The Knoxville Chamber has been named Chamber of the Year for 2011 by the American Chamber of Commerce Executives.

Cheers for Mike and Rhonda and Mark and Melissa and Doug and Robert and Garrett and Jennifer and Lisa and the gang!

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Knoxville has been recognized as the most dog-friendly city in the Southeast by Dog Fancy Magazine according to a press release from the Knoxville-based PetSafe.

In 2009, the magazine recognized the city’s Dogwood Park in its “America’s Best Dog Parks” contest. PetSafe has donated $500,000 for the development of dog parks here. Info: www.most petfriendlycommunity.com/.

Greenway under Henley Bridge reopens Designer Julie Applegate sells bags that are made from recyclable and sustainable products from her store at 121 South Gay St. Photo by Wendy Smith asked for wallets, but she hasn’t yet been able to find a way to manufacture them without charging what she feels would be an unfair price.

She opened her Gay Street shop in April of 2010. In addition to her bags, the store showcases the work of other artists. Katie Walberg’s illustrations from a graphic novel titled “Traveling Trashball” currently hang on the studio’s walls. Applegate plans to display the work of a new artist each month.

She doesn’t miss her days of big design in the Big Apple. Even though her previous career allowed her to work with the likes of Gwen Stefani and Stella McCartney, she

likes running a company that’s good for both the planet and its inhabitants.

She also likes Knoxville. It’s a great place to raise kids, she says, and she has an abundance of friends here, which helps with the stress of running her own business. She’s even found kindred spirits.

“I love the do-it-yourself personality of Knoxville. Everybody I know who wants to do something just does it.”

Applegate hopes to encourage local recycling with a RecycleBank coupon. Waste Connections recycling customers and those who participate in the city’s recycling program can redeem points earned for a 25 percent off coupon.

The section of the Neyland Greenway beneath the Henley Bridge reopened last week. It had been closed since May 6 because of bridge construction.

The 3-mile Neyland Greenway is part of a near 10-mile section of connected greenways running east to west from Morningside Park to Bearden Elementary School. It travels along the Tennessee River. Info: www. cityofknoxville.org/greenways/.

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Parkwest and Covenant HomeCare get retiree back to bowling Just 35 days after having a knee replacement at Parkwest Medical Center, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Ken Jones was able to bowl competitively. The quick return to activity was made possible by inhome therapy at his Tellico Village home by professionals from Covenant HomeCare.

Jones and his wife, Sally, who has been a registered nurse for nearly 40 years, say they are very impressed with both Parkwest and Covenant HomeCare. “The pain was no where near what I thought it would be and my recovery period was much better than expected,â€? said Jones. “Everyone worked together like clockwork,â€? Sally said. “I was impressed with the continuity of care – from the physician’s ofďŹ ce, to the joint replacement class, surgery, recovery and therapy – you could see how seamless and streamlined the care is.â€?

Originally from Macon, Ga., Jones initially injured his knee in 1980 while playing volleyball.

Over time, his knee problem continued and he had multiple scopes done to mend it arthroscopically; however, it wasn’t the long-term solution he needed.

Retiring after 21 years’ service in the Air Force, Jones worked another 11 years with a company that allowed him to travel abroad. Even though he had persistent knee pain, he assumed surgery would cause him to miss too much time from work. After his second retirement, he consulted with Dr. Harold “Hal�

Cates per the recommendation of his friends to have his surgery through the Parkwest Joint Center – The Retreat.

As a total knee replacement patient at Parkwest, he was enrolled into The Retreat which is personalized for total knee and total hip replacements. He was given a guidebook for the program at Dr.

Variety’s Katerpillar Kids Camp

Covenant HomeCare Hospice will present its Variety’s Katerpillar Kids Camp at Camp Wesley Woods in Townsend on Sept. 10-11.

Variety’s Katerpillar Kids Camp is a special weekend day camp for children grades 1-12 who are grieving the death of a loved one. The camp is a free community service provided by Covenant HomeCare Hospice and sponsored by Variety – The Children’s Charity.

Children can register for camp through Friday, Aug. 19.

Camp enrollment is limited.

For a camp application or to volunteer at camp, call Valerie Smith, camp director, at 865-374-0864.

What is Covenant HomeCare?

When you are discharged from Parkwest Medical Center, your doctor may recommend that you continue your recovery at home. Covenant HomeCare can help your transition from the hospital to home be as easy as possible.

Covenant HomeCare offers a complete range of services for transitional or continued care including, but not limited to: N Skilled Nursing Care N Certified Nursing Assistants N Physical Therapy After in-home physical therapy with Covenant HomeCare, Ken Jones returned to his passion of bowling.

Cates’ ofďŹ ce in preparation for this surgery. It included information on his procedure and what to expect along with places for him to keep his own notes and appointment information. As part of his pre-admission, he attended a Joint Education Class to meet the staff members that would be caring for him and to learn what he could expect during his hospital stay.

Covenant HomeCare visited the Joneses in Tellico Village to continue Ken’s therapy. This provided him a smooth transition from the hospital to his home and complimented his recovery because its physical therapists are familiar with the Parkwest Joint Center program and knew how to continue the same level of care he received at the hospital in his home. “Having Covenant HomeCare visits also helped me care for Ken,�

Sally said. “I’m still working, so it

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Ken Jones enjoys being able to get in and out of his corvette after his total knee replacement at Parkwest Medical Center. was nice that they could provide his therapy in our home.�

Just six weeks after his procedure, Jones gets in and out of his Corvette – something his aching knee had hampered. Other activities that he is enjoying again

include golf, swimming, climbing stairs and bowling.� “Have your knee replacement as soon as your physician recommends it,� he advised. It’ll allow you to get back to what you enjoy doing most – without the pain.�

Insurance preauthorization is required. Your individualized care path is recommended by your physician and delivered

by Covenant HomeCare’s professional staff who aim to help people live with comfort, dignity and independence.

For more information, call 865-374-0690 or visit www.covenanthomecareand hospice.com.

Couple prefers Parkwest, recommends Covenant HomeCare Junior and Marilyn Scott of Loudon County do most everything together. Coincidently, they were also both patients at Parkwest Medical Center.

After 31 years of marriage, they will tell you they have been blessed with good health and haven’t required much hospital care. However, two separate events resulted in them being at Parkwest recently.

In April, Junior experienced some chest pain that increased his worry throughout the night. He asked his wife to call 911 and he was immediately taken to the Emergency Care Center at Parkwest. “I was so worried about him,� said Marilyn. “The responders were kind and allowed me to ride with him in the ambulance so I didn’t have to leave Junior’s side.�

He was quickly admitted. Testing conďŹ rmed that he had signiďŹ cant blockages in several areas of his heart that would require him

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They called 911 and requested to be taken to Parkwest because they were pleased with the level of care Junior received. Results conďŹ rmed that she had broken her femur bone just below her hip and would require surgery. “They took really good care of her,â€? said Junior. “From the moment we arrived, she got what she needed and they kept her as comfortable as possible. She got all she needed at the touch of a button.â€?

To aid with her recovery, her care team arranged for her to have Covenant HomeCare visit their home to provide her physical therapy. “HomeCare was just as good to me in my home as the care I received Marilyn and Junior Scott of Loudon County. at Parkwest,â€? said Marilyn. “I would to have four bypasses in open Marilyn broke her leg. deďŹ nitely recommend them.â€? heart surgery. “We were expecting company She is now able to get around her They were able to get him home to visit at our home one day after home again with Junior, who is aland quickly settle back into their church. When I got up from my ways nearby to lend a hand whenroutines together, just before chair to answer the door, I fell,â€? ever she needs one.

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Three to get ready … go cat, go There are three really great little personalities at the Cat Clinic waiting for some new friends to come along. No matter what your

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Critter Tales style – reserved and quiet or loud and adventurous – these guys (and a gal) are for you.

Found wandering by themselves at a local park, these cuties were abandoned and in need of some medical attention and TLC.

These siblings would like new Photo by S. Barrett

They have been nursed back to good health by the folks at the Cat Clinic in West Knoxville and are

tered yet because they’re still too young, but they are old enough to be taken home. The adopters can bring them back in about a month or so for surgery which will be paid for by the clinic. The only thing the clinic staff asks is that you consider making a donation to the Savannah Fund, which helps cover the cost of care for homeless cats they shelter.

All three kittens have had their first round of shots and have been dewormed. They were pretty puny in appearance when homes, together or separate. they first arrived but have since fattened up and have now ready to find forever kept everyone smiling with homes. their antics.

None of these kittens Info: Cynthia Webster, have been spayed or neu- 531-2287.

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■ The Knoxville Civil War Roundtable will host attorney, historian and author Sam D. Elliott at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, at Bearden Banquet Hall on Kingston Pike. Elliott will discuss “Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris and the Secession Crisis of 1861.” Everyone is invited. Admission to the discussion is $5; dinner will be served at 7 p.m. for $17 ($15 members). RSVP for dinner at 691-9001 by 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 8.

■ 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.

■ ETCleanFuels will meet 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Copper Cellar restaurant on Cumberland Avenue.

■ Longstreet-Zollicoffer Camp 87, Sons of Confederate Veterans, will host former Tennessee division commander Ed Butler, who will present “As Southerners You Have Nothing to be Ashamed Of” 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, at the East Tennessee Historical Society. Everyone is invited.

■ Fort Loudoun Lake Association will host the fifth annual Paddle for Clean Water on Saturday, Aug. 27. The paddle will be a fivemile stretch from Ned McWherter Park to Sequoyah Hills Park, with booths and activities after the event. Info: www.fllake.org.

■ 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 Avenue.

Info: Rebecca Gill, 602-7807 or www.namiknox.org.

SENIOR NOTES AARP driver safety class For registration info about this and all other AARP driver safety classes, call Barbara Manis, 922-5648.

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

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

■ 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.

Meet Henry, a 2-year-old male orange and white cat.

Like many male kitties, Henry is a bit of a snuggle bunny. He also has a silly side, too. He is available for adoption at the main center at 3201 Division St. Center hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Hours at Young-Williams Animal Village, 6400 Kingston Pike are noon to 6 p.m. daily. See all of the center’s adoptable animals at www.knoxpets.org.

Greene joins Premier Surgical Associates

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Marcella J. Greene, M.D., has joined Premier Surgical Associates as a general surgeon in the group’s Mercy St. Mary’s and Mercy North offices. Greene lives in West Knoxville with husband Danny and their two dogs. Premier is East Tennessee’s largest surgical group.

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. Dr. Lou Gross, volunteer sound engineer for the Laurel Theater will lead the workshop.

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.

‘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.

Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free.

Info: Angela Thomas, 934-2034 or visit www.knoxart.org.

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Salem is a 13-year-old Palomino mare. She's approx.

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Huggy competed successfully in our May “Trail Challange” competition and enjoys being out in the woods.

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WEST SIDE SHOPPER-NEWS • AUGUST 8, 2011 • B-3

Freedom School makes learning fun

Roane State offers weekend college

By Wendy Smith

At Roane State Community College’s Oak Ridge campus, students are now able to enroll in a “weekend college” option. Each semester, the college will offer one course on Thursday night, one on Friday morning, one on Friday afternoon and one on Saturday morning.

A student who took all of the available classes each semester should finish the general education courses in about four semesters. Fall classes begin Aug. 27. Prospective students who have not applied for admission are encouraged to contact the Student Enrollment and Recruitment Office at 8824554.

It may be school, but it looks more like a party.

There’s singing, dancing and music loud enough to make a red-blooded American mother yell, “Turn that noise down!” And it’s all happening at 8:30 in the morning.

It’s called Harambee, and it’s the way every school day starts at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School at Tribe One. The six-week summer program is designed to help underserved kids in grades 3 through 8 fall in love with reading, feel good about themselves and have a positive attitude about school.

“Harambee” is the Swahili word for “pull together.” As the 50 students, or “scholars,” dance around the room and interact with their young teachers, or “servant leaders,” it’s clear that this school is a fun, and safe, place to learn.

This year’s Freedom School ended July 29, but the experience will have a lasting impact. The program’s integrated reading curriculum immerses kids in books.

By the end of the summer, elementary-age students read 23 books, including a chapter book, and middle schoolers read six novels. Participants don’t suffer learning loss over the summer, and some will start the new school year with better reading skills. But the benefits go beyond academ-

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4.33 acre Lake Lot BROADWAY/Close to Campus, 4BR, 2BA, with 200 ft of dockable shoreline. all appls. includes W/D, fenced in yard, "Build your Dream $1200 mo. Amanda, Home on the Lake" 865-363-9190.

3 miles off I-75 exit 72. ***Web ID# 836767*** All underground utilities, protective covenants.

Can build two homes on this tract. $299,900 OBO. Buy direct from developer, CUMBERLAND no commission or ESTATES buyer's premium to For Sale or Rent: pay. Call Rick at 3BR/2BA 865-300-7791 for $800/mo + 800/dep. directions & more info.

660-1193, 986-3975 ***Web ID# 818164*** BEST DEAL ON WATTS BAR, $250K furn. w/dock.

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

FARRAGUT AREA, Log Cabin, 3 BR, 2 BA, sunrm, gar., $900/mo. 865-966-9846 ***Web ID# 836522***

NORTH, NEW, 1 br, 4 LAKEFRONT CONDO. room house. KCDC Deeded boat slip, priok, washer, dryer, vate pool, in a gated cent h/a, appl furn. community. Reduced $425/mo. 865-219-8669 $199,000. 100% financ- ***Web ID# 836430*** ing available 5% APR. WEST 2 BR, 1 BA, of866-434-8969, ext 111 fice, carport, CH&A Level Norris Lakefront Lots $800/mo. + dep. No pets or smoking. $29,900 865-922-6000 693-5007 or 599-2954 ***Web ID# 836417***

2,200 S.F. Norris Lake Home $69,900 865-922-6000

WEST 2 story, 3BR, 2 1/2 BA, LR, DR, Kit (eat-in), Den w/FP, 2 car gar., $1,125 mo. Move in ready.

NORRIS - LAKEFRONT Call 414-7616.

LOT, $79,900 w/deeded boat slip, private pool, WEST, KARNS, nice and gated community, 2 BR, 1 BA, appls., 90% financing, 5% fixed $475/mo. Call APR. 866-434-8969, ext 111 938-1653 West Knox, Cabin Home, 3 BR, 2.5 BA, loft, detach. 3 car gar. $1400. 865-719-8676

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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.

SHORT SALE. Watts Bar lakefront, 3 / 3 1/2 Townhome @ Lakeside Village, hist. Loudon. 2 story, hdwd, granite, stainl. Condo Rentals 76 kit, dockage, 2 yrs old, most recent sales @ 279,900$ curr. leased 1 BR condo, close to UT off Lyons View mo to mo @ 1300$ short Pk. $625/mo. Call sale @ $227,500.

423-295-5077 865-924-0791 ***Web ID# 825318*** 2 BR, 2 full BA, W/D conn., Halls area, 1 lease, $650 & Cemetery Lots 49 yr. $300 DD 865-771-3933 SEQUOYAH HIGHLAND SOUTH, SQUARE CONDO (2) plots (includes open/close), $1800/ 2BR, 2BA, hrdwd. flrs, ground floor w/terrace. both. 865-257-2562 W/D, Refrig. incl. $975 MAUSOLEUM for 2, mo. Call 865-804-8371.

2nd level, Sherwood Memorial Gardens. $10,500. 865-579-0275 Rooms-Roommates 77

Real Estate Service 53

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2 acres zoned Adoption 21 commercial. Will divide. 865-567-5788 ADOPTION: Loving married couple seeks Office Space - Rent 65 newborn for a lifetime of love and happiness. Expenses 1500 SF Offices, Private.

Paid. Call Robert & 5 min. - Court House Theresa 1-800-369-4461 $800 mo. negotiable.

865-771-3099; 938-1651.

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Condos- Townhouses 42

New Luxury Condos on Gay Street Downtown Knoxville

Apts - Unfurnished 71 SOUTH, 2 BR, 1 BA, 1200SF, appls. furn, priv. $750/mo + dep No pets, 865-577-6289

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Free computer recycling at Goodwill

Why pay to recycle when you can do it for free? Residents throughout Goodwill Industries-Knoxville Inc.’s 15-county service delivery area are now able to recycle their computers and computer equipment free of charge. Goodwill Industries and Dell have teamed-up Montina Jones, Knox County Schools Senior Advisor for High Needs Schools, (right) dances with to offer the Reconnect servant leader intern Thuy Pham during Harambee at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom program which will allow School at Tribe One. Jones read “Our Enduring Spirit: President Barak Obama’s First Words to consumers to drop off their America” to the program’s 50 participants. Photo by Wendy Smith computers and computer ics, says Tribe One Executive the program. In addition to Gardens and the Knox County Smoky Mountain equipment at any Goodwill Director Stephanie Davis. supporting their student, they Public Library.

Industries-Knoxville retail “It’s an extremely impor- are expected to participate in The Tribe One Freedom Harmony Show Chorus location or attended donatant program, and not just evening workshops. This sum- School wouldn’t have been plans concert tion center for recycling. for improvement in reading mer’s sessions included infor- possible without commuEven though Goodwill The Smoky Mountain and language. The kids are mation about healthy eating, nity partners like the Boys & will not be reselling comstrengthening themselves to breast exams and the county’s Girls Clubs, the YWCA and Harmony Show Chorus will puters in its stores, it is imcelebrate our armed forces juvenile justice system. beat the odds.” the library, says Davis. The portant to remember that it “It’s important for them to program’s $50,000 price tag with its “Until Everyone This is the second year is each individual’s responComes Home: A Salute to Tribe One has hosted Free- understand national statis- was covered entirely by local sibility to delete all private dom School. Students are reg- tics about black boys. One in grants. She’d like to see other the USO” concert on Satand personal information urday, Aug. 20.

The chorus istered on a first-come first- 3 born in 2001 or after will be Knox County organizations for their protection. will perform at the Pellissipserved basis and come from incarcerated at some point in host Freedom Schools in the For more information pi State Clayton Performing several different schools. their lives,” Davis says. next few years, but acknowlregarding the Reconnect Arts Center at 7 p.m. The Half of last year’s students edges that it would require The program also emphaProgram and/or to find show will also include spereturned this year, and some sizes that the scholars are teamwork. a computer recycling cial guest performances by brought friends.

“It really is the best sumpart of a larger community, Goodwill location Dream, an award-winning “The biggest compliment is and regular field trips allowed mer program in the county, near you, visit www. when parents refer friends to students to experience places but we need continued sup- quartet, and the Sound of reconnectpartnership.com Tennessee, the former Dixie our program,” says Davis. they might not otherwise vis- port to make sure we can conor www.gwiktn.org.

District Championship Parents play a big role in it, like the Knoxville Botanical tinue to operate.”

12 Lakefront Property 47 Houses - Unfurnished 74 General

UT FOOTBALL TIX lower level, 50 yrd line, sec U, row 37, seats 18/19, 423-762-0995

men’s chorus. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for seniors and students. Armed Forces personnel will be admitted for free. Tickets are available at the door or in advance from Judy Linn at 966-8690.

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CEDAR BLUFF AREA 4BR town home, 2BA, laundry rm, 1 yr lease, $780 mo. $250 dam. dep.

216-5736 or 694-8414

Houses - Unfurnished 74 4228 CROSBY DR. Bearden, 4BR 3 BA, 3500 sf, appls, comp remod., hdwd flrs, fenced yd, $1150/mo. + $1150 DD. Pets ok. 865-705-5234

Private, gated parking 428 SHELBYVILLE on site. 865-661-9038 RD. near schools. ***Web ID# 831856*** 2500 SF, 4BR, 3.5BA, fnsh bsmt. patio, fncd 2 car gar, scrn'd Acreage- Tracts 46 by sun rm. No pets. $1500/mo. 270-933-6626.

MUST SELL 22 Acres ***Web ID# 830048*** with modular, city water, great loc.

Powell/ Knoxville. $175,000. Motivated seller. 865-388-9656

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GERMAN Shepherd PUPPIES, White, AKC, $300 each.

Clinton, 865-457-9097.

Roommate wanted to share 2 BR 2 BA condo.

West. $450 mo + 1/2 util. 865-209-2241

GERMAN Shepherd Pups AKC, 7 wks., European bloodlines, 1st shots, 2M, 3F, $400. 865-4262623 or 313-550-7631 ***Web ID# 833215***

Manf’d Homes - Sale 85 I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES. 1990 up, any size OK. 865-384-5643 LOOKING FOR A BARGAIN? Nice 2BR conv. to Knox, Blount, UT, Topside Rd. Move-in ready. All App. AC. $6,500 firm. For details, 423-836-6216

Trucking Opportunities 106

141 Dogs

141 Household Appliances 204a Vans

35-YR EST'D CO. now BORDER COLLIE YORKIE PUPS AKC, KENMORE sXs Refrig hiring smiling, asserpuppies. M & F, 1st health guarantee. $200; Kenmore elec tive outbound call censhots & wormed. Ready now. Visa/MC. Stove $150; Kenmore ter agents for charita$250/ea. 865-216-0284 Sara 423-562-4633 dishwasher $125; ble fund-raising. or 865-216-4041 ***Web ID# 836179*** Patio table w/4 chairs ***Web ID# 833961*** $45; Recliner $100.

We offer: Gas grill $75. 776-7919 $8-$16/hr BOXERS, AKC champ flexible FT/PT hrs accepting deposits. no weekends Blk, brindle, flashy, 3 Collectibles 213 professional, comfortwks, 865-705-5004 able work environment ***Web ID# 836757*** COKE COLLECTION. Call 865-246-1823.

Old & new. Call 865Cavalier King Charles 934-8181;865-719-8181 puppies, 2 M, 1 F, ***Web ID# 833324*** ready to go. $500.

865-304-5622 ROUTE SALES CHIHUAHUAS, CKC. Medical Supplies 219 CMI seeks energetic, 10 wks. Fem. Quality outgoing & dependable breed. Shots. $300.

DAV Chapter 24 has Call/text 865-919-8167 people. Make $800FREE RENTAL OF ***Web ID# 833761*** $1000 a week. Must be POWER WHEEL 21. Valid license.

CHAIRS available for Collie Puppies, AKC reg, YORKIES AKC males & females, health Call 865/237-9910 any area disabled vetlong haired, 1st shots, guar., S/W, Visa/MC eran or members of dewormed, born 6/11/11. welcome. 865-386-4111 their immediate family. $350. 865-607-7547. www.tnyorkie.com Manually operated Healthcare 110 ***Web ID# 835566*** ***Web ID# 828059*** wheel chairs also available. Call 765COON HOUNDS, 6 0510 for information. wks old, dewormed, YORKSHIRE / SHIH TZU MIX. $125 ea. $100. 865-384-1120 or cash. Shots/wormed. FREE JAZZY 865-573-4497 Call 423-627-4517.

WHEELCHAIR. ***Web ID# 835158*** (Doesn't run) Call 686-1681.

Dachshund AKC mini 145 pups, red & choc/tan, Free Pets shots, family raised, Sporting Goods 223 $199 & up. 865-712-2366 ***Web ID# 833703*** ** ADOPT! * * Golf Cart, electric, Looking for a lost pet or a new DACHSHUND great cond., head/ Miniature Pups, light one? Visit Young-Williams tail lights, more! brown, 4 F, $250. 1 M, Animal Center, the official $1700. 865-740-1196 $200. Call 865-237-2164. shelter for the City of ***Web ID# 833225*** ENGLISH BULLDOG Knoxville & Knox County: 3201 Division St. Knoxville.

PUPPIES Boats Motors 232 Call Benny Blair www.knoxpets.org 423-519-2468 * * * * * * * * 16' JON, 35 elec. start, ***Web ID# 835967*** all new int./batts & ENGLISH BULLDOG electronics, new Minkota PUPS, $1250. VISA & M/C Farmer’s Market 150 Motor Drive, must accepted. 423-775-6044 see to apprec., $3200 blessedbulldogs.blogspot.com 145 MF & 265 MF w/ obo. 865-659-1572 ***Web ID# 833305*** loaders, cultivator, ***Web ID# 833526*** misc sm tools. 865ENGLISH BULLDOG 705-6516 Floating Cottage pups, AKC reg, 1st & ***Web ID# 834167*** 46x16, HS, Norris 2nd shots, vet chk.

Lake, must sell, $30k/ 750 laying $1,000 cash 865-966-2238 OVER obo. 865-389-4552 hens, many breeds, ***Web ID# 825877*** ***Web ID# 834805*** ^ the best eggs will English Mastiff puppies, from your G3 – Bass boat, 17’-6”, Retail 119 AKC. Ch. bldln. ONLY 2 come backyard flock.

‘06 w/ lifetime warr, LEFT! (Greco, GropAlso meat chickens Yamaha 50-hp mopetti, Briarcreek) 9 wks. & turkeys. Wisner tor, ‘08 w/ 2-yr. warr, $1000, S/W. 865-387-7617 Farms, 865-397-2512 Minn Kota trolling ***Web ID# 832608*** mtr; Pedestal & PEACHES & CREAM bench seats, aerGERMAN Shepherd corn $3/doz., okra ated live well, and Puppies, WHITE, $2/lb., homegrown accessories. Garage ONLY 2 LEFT, 865-250-1480, 250-0389 kept, excel. cond.

AKC, shots, parents $10,500 firm.

Ph. on site, $400. Call 865-310-3059.

423-763-8526 Lawn-Garden Equip.

190 ***Web ID# 836995*** ***Web ID# 833250***

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Open Your Own Wholesale Overstocks Store

Six Figure Income, Recession Proof. Low Capital Req. of $100,000. Includes training, setup, initial inventory and Contracts from a National Retailer! tapp@sesalvage.com 843-697-3177

German Shepherd Pups, AKC F. 9 wks. S&W. Vet ck. Ready. Fantastic bldln. Sable & blk & tan. $250-$350. 865-376-1226 ***Web ID# 835671*** GERMAN Shepherd purebred, black & tan F, 1 4-mos. 2-8 wks. $150 ea. 865585-6614, 423-300-3840 LAB PUPPIES, choc.

AKC reg, 4 M, 4 F, shots/wormed, born 7/2, ready 8/20. $300.

865-354-4966 ***Web ID# 836470***

Driver GREAT STARTING PAY! WEEKLY HOME TIME! Flatbed Opportunities MALTI-POO Puppies, ready to go., 4-6 lbs. $25 Tarp Pay Call or text $25 Extra Stop Pay 865-253-4917 $1,000 Per Week Avg ***Web ID# 834101*** Cats 140 CDL-A, 1 Yr. T/T Exp. Within Last 3 Yrs. Req. Pit Bull bully puppies, HIMALAYAN Kittens, Purple Ribbon, UKC Think RED Flatbed!

Baby doll faces, 6 reg.

423-489-1442; 888.461.3580 wks, reg., vet ck'd, 606-273-4152 AVERITTcareers.com $250 cash only, 865Equal Opportunity RAT TERRIERS, 247-4964; 773-6012.

Employer AKC/FSS, 4 boys, 2 ***Web ID# 834892*** girls, 1st shots, vet Persian & Exotic Short chckd, champ. sired Local Driving/Delivery 106a Hair black male & $300. 931-738-9605 red tabby male. 5-8 ***Web ID# 834833*** mos, neutered & VOLUNTEER microchipped. Show Rottweiler AKC PupAss is ted pies & Adults, Gerquality. $300-$350.

Trans port at io n man bldln, sell or 865-556-2904 CAC's Office on Aging trade, 423-663-7225 is seeking volunteer ***Web ID# 836269*** drivers for their VolunSCHNAUZERS SELKIRK REX teer Assisted TransMINI, AKC, 2 boys, The cat in sheep's portation program.

Call for more info. clothing.

Curly fur like Volunteers utilize 865-882-0205; 748-4052 agency-owned hybrid a Poodle. Retired CFA ***Web ID# 835142*** sedans while accom- show cats, 10-11 mo old $200-$250.

865-556-2904 panying seniors or SHIH TZU AKC reg. persons with disabili- ***Web ID# 834256*** female gold & wht, ties to appointments, Male Imperial blk & shopping, and other wht, $250 ea. 865-680-8759 Dogs 141 errands. Training is ***Web ID# 835577*** provided. If you are BICHON FRISE, YORKIE PUPS, ACA, interested, please contact Nancy Welch at: AKC, M&F, 2 sizes, 13 wks, 3 M, shots, 865-524-2786 or 1st shot, non-shed, vet chk'd, $400/up. $400-$550. 865-216-5770 Rhea Co. 423-365-0041 nancy.welch@ knoxseniors.org ***Web ID# 833473*** ***Web ID# 835027***

TROYBILT RIDING MOWER 42", 19 HP. ONLY 3 YRS OLD, HARDLY USED. $750.

CALL 603-5358.

Buildings for Sale 191 SAVE THOUSANDS on Steel Buildings! Summer Clearance 20' x 24', 25' x 34', others. More CASH SAVINGS with display program! Free shipping thru Sept. Call now!

1-866-352-0469

Machinery-Equip. 193

20 TON FLOAT

Pintel hook, $1,000.

865-585-6338

Shop Tools-Engines 194 CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS CLOSING 20' Box Van, Chevy 3/4 ton truck, New metal brake, air tools, tile cutter, Saws, Planer, Pressure washer, Ladders, Stands, small tools, plumbing & electrical parts, 10x40 roll rubber w/glue & fasteners, 6' acrylic whirlpool tub w/14 jets, much more.

423-377-5843.

Apparel/Acc.

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Formalwear Sale Downsizing Business.

New Prom, little girl pageant wedding & bride maids gowns, Also slightly used gowns.

Call 606-248-9300 days, 606-248-2699 nights.

Household Furn. 204 5 MOS OLD qn. size mattress, box spgs. & bed, complete, $475. 865-523-9482.

Horn Sewing Cabinet, model 2078, white, 48Wx63x39 1/2x29 3/4 $600. 865-898-7442 ***Web ID# 835615***

256 Domestic

265 Pressure Washing 350

FORD Club Wagon Chevy Malibu Max, Van 1992, 170K mi, 2004, Great Commuter V8, great work van Car. Low mi, 42k, $1500 obo. 865-256-9348 $8,000/obo. 865-314-9801 ***Web ID# 834967***

Trucks

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CHEVY Avalanche Z-71, 2002. PDL, PW, sunroof, $10,500 OBO. 865-621-3634 ***Web ID# 828990***

FORD Crown Victoria police car 2001, 57K mi., new paint, $5000 firm. 865-621-4040.

Cleaning

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DODGE DIESEL 2500 CHRISTIAN CLEANING LADY SERVICE. De1997 PU, HX-40 pendable, refs, Call turbo, ATS diesel 705-5943. performance trans. & torque converter, 5 Torque curve plate, Aero Enter- Contracting / Gen. 320 prises 55 gal. fuel tank. Call me for an BLDG REPAIR & update 865-206-6538.

MAINT. Lic'd/ins'd, $3,750 OBO. comm/res, metal roofs, concrete, TOYOTA TACOMA bobcat, masonry, ^DUKE'S PRESSURE 2006, 4 cylinder, black, doors, stucco reWASHING Affordgar. kept. 39,900 miles. pair, ret. walls, etc. able Rates, satisSHARP! $13,500.

30 yrs exp! 250-0496 faction guaranteed!

423-341-3012;865-828-3379.

258-6830

TOYOTA TACOMA 2009, dbl. cab, TRD off road pkg. 29K mi. Factory warr.

Forest green, gray int., beautiful cond. $23,250. 865-806-9868 ***Web ID# 836402***

4 Wheel Drive 258

Fencing

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FENCE DOCTOR

Remodeling

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All types fencing & repair. I also haul off junk. 6 0 4 -691 1

Flooring

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CERAMIC TILE installation.

Floors/ DODGE RAM 1500 walls/repairs. 32 yrs SLT, 2006, quad cab exp, exc work! bedliner, step bar, John 9 3 8 -3 3 2 8 $15,500. 423-258-4981 ***Web ID# 835563*** FORD BRONCO 1989, 4x4, 2 dr., new paint, great tires, Must sell. $4900. 865-679-2100.

Furniture Refinish. 331

DENNY'S FURNITURE REPAIR. Refinish, reglue, etc. 45 yrs exp!

FORD F250 2002, 922-6529 or 466-4221 7.3L, diesel, 4x4, super cab, XLT, $14,500. 865-859-9051 Guttering 333 ***Web ID# 835421*** HAROLD'S GUTTER Will clean Antiques Classics 260 SERVICE. front & back $20 & up. ^STUCCO / STONE Quality work, guaranrepairs, new const, teed. Call 288-0556.

1975 Corvette Stingfireplaces, water ray, new paint & damage, ret. walls, tires, nice orig int., columns, gates. 20 339 runs good. 74,400 orig Lawn Care yrs exp! 250-0496 mi, real sharp car! $13,500. 865-310-4840 ***Web ID# 833864*** Roofing / Siding 352

CHRYSLER Windsor 1950, $4,850/bo; 1947 Studebaker Commander $4,700/bo; both completely restored.

JAVELIN SKI & FUN 865-859-0332, 274-1229 1999, 115HP Evinrude motor, $6,250 OBO. 865-621-3634 Sport Utility 261 ***Web ID# 828975*** DODGE DURANGO SEA NYMPH Vhull, SXT 2002, exc. cond.

1993, alum. 16 ft fish127k mi. V8, new ing boat, trlr, trolling brakes, new shocks, mtr, 50 HP Johnson $8000/b.o. 546-1165 mtr.

Exc. cond. ***Web ID# 833725*** $4900. 865-300-6301 ***Web ID# 833495*** Jeep Grand Cherokee Lmt'd 2006, 5.7 Hemi mi, $13,995.

Campers 235 53,700 nego, 865-406-0844. ***Web ID# 833602*** CAMPERS WANTED We buy travel trailers, JEEP WRANGLER ^ 2008 Unlimited, 4 5th Wheels, Motor dr, 2WD, AT, PW, Painting / Wallpaper 344 homes & Pop-Up PDL, 3rd row seat, Campers. Will pay 29k mi, $16K/obo. cash.

423-504-8036 AA PAINTING 305-785-4141 Int/Ext painting, ***Web ID# 829857*** staining, log homes, Motor Homes 237 Nissan Pathfinder 1995, pressure washing.

9 9 2 -4 0 0 2 white, 5 spd, 4WD, 242K or 6 1 7 -2 2 2 8 WINNEBAGO, 1998, mi, runs great, $2,200.

32' DL, fully loaded W. Knox 270-860-0514 w/new equip. Twin ***Web ID# 836094*** Paving 345 XL beds. Sleeps 4.

Needs nothing. $18,500. 606-269-2925 Imports 262 ***Web ID# 834774*** MAZDA MIATA 1999, Winnebago Journey lthr, loaded, only 2000 asking $42,500 47K mi, great car (NADA value 56,000$) $7200. 865-306-2697 Health issues, must sell, make offer.

Mercedes 350 SD 1991, 865-679-8721 smoked silver, 270k mi good cond. Reduced $2900. 865-705-8312 Motorcycles 238 ***Web ID# 808566*** HD 2005 Sportster, blk Nissan Sentra GXE w/lots of chrome, 1997, AT, AC, 35 mpg, custom whls, 3800 mi Michelins, exc. mech. $5200. 865-405-3588 $2495. 865-397-7918 ***Web ID# 836091*** Toyota Corolla S, 2005, HONDA Valkyrie 2001 107k mi, 1 owner, 4 21k mi, blue/wht, lots cyl, $8920. (value of chrome, exc cond. $11,570) 865-776-6651 $6795. $200 under KBB. ***Web ID# 836662*** 865-248-8433 TOYOTA Supra 1998 ***Web ID# 829407*** auto, all pwr., targa top, lthr., very rare. ^ obo. 865-300-9576.

Autos Wanted 253 $21,000 ***Web ID# 835601*** Plumbing 348 A BETTER CASH GREG MONROE OFFER for junk cars, Domestic 265 PLUMBING trucks, vans, running Licensed & bonded. or not. 865-456-3500 Chev Monte Carlo SS Senior & Military 2007, black, lthr, loaded, We pay cash for cars or discounts. 363-6046 On-Star ph, 45K mi, trucks, running or not. last of its kind!

We buy alum. whls, rad., $21,000. 423-895-4427 converters. 865-556-8956

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Tree Service

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

523-4206, 789-8761

B-4 • AUGUST 8, 2011 • BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS

health & lifestyles NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Sleep study pinpoints accountant’s sleep problem Afternoon meetings were brutal for Gail Wilson, 47, of Knoxville. She was sleepy and tired all the time, and she drank continual cups of coffee and caffeinated beverages to stay awake for her job in finance.

“Nobody said anything, but my coworkers would keep an eye on me because they knew I would fall asleep,” says Wilson. “They would kick me under the table! It was embarrassing.”

Everyone feels sleepy sometimes during the day, but for Wilson, her tiredness was impacting her work and life. So Wilson’s doctor recommended she get to the root of the problem by having a sleep study conducted at the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center.

Hooked up to monitors recording her heart rate, breathing patterns and brain waves, Wilson spent a day and a night in the center in November of 2009 under the care of Dr. Thomas Higgins, a neurologist and sleep medicine physician at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

“If you’re struggling to stay awake, it makes it very difficult to focus.”

– Gail Wilson, Sleep Center patient which is excessive daytime sleepiness.

Hypersomnolence, also called hypersomnia, is a disorder of the central nervous system. It’s not considered narcolepsy, in which a person can reach the deepest, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep during the day. In hypersomnolence, patients take frequent naps during the day but do not reach REM sleep. They may even fall asleep at inappropriate times like meals or while talking with someone. However, these naps don’t leave Since treatment at the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center, Gail a person feeling refreshed, Wilson (pictured with Rosie the Teacup Yorkie) isn’t fighting the and a patient with hypersomnolence is still sleepy afternoon ZZZZs any longer. afterward.

After recording her sleep cessively when she slept The causes of hypersompatterns, Higgins diag- on her back, keeping her nolence aren’t fully known. nosed Wilson with posi- from resting well at night. It does tend to run in famitional sleep apnea, which Wilson was also diagnosed lies, and it may be triggered means that she snored ex- with hypersomnolence, by certain medications,

weight gain and a number of viruses or other neurological illnesses. Hypersomnolence commonly affects people first in their teens or young adulthood and is found in less than 5 percent of the population.

“It made it very difficult to focus,” explains Wilson.

“If you’re struggling to stay awake, you can’t pay attention as well. I had had issues off and on for the last 20 years, but I just figured it was from working all the time, from everyday life.”

Dr. Higgins evaluated Wilson’s medications and put her on a medicine called Nuvigil (armodafinil), a prescription medicine to improve wakefulness. He also advised her to cut down on caffeinated drinks. She also joined a gym and has lost 20 pounds.

The combination of new medication and lifestyle changes has made a difference to Wilson. “So far it’s working. I’m doing a lot better,” she smiles.

Wilson says her sleep apnea went away on its own as she lost weight, and the medication helps her stay awake better during the day. “I’ve got more energy, I don’t have to struggle with the sleepiness,” she says.

Wilson says she would recommend the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center for anyone struggling with sleep problems.

“It was a very pleasant experience. I was pretty nervous because I didn’t know what to expect, but the people are very friendly,” she says. “They just really made me feel comfortable. I highly recommend doing a sleep study for anybody who suspects they have issues.”

For more information about treatment at the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center, call (865) 541-1375.

Rest easier with Fort Sanders Sleep Center

When you need some z’s Insomnia is a common condition in which a person either has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. It affects 1 in 3 adults occasionally, and 1 in 10 adults frequently, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Odd work hours, long distance travel, stress, depression, certain medical conditions or medications and a lack of exercise can all increase your risk for insomnia. Here are some tips for falling and staying asleep: N Avoid caffeine, tobacco and other stimulants at least eight hours before bedtime. Avoid alcohol as well. While it may make you sleepy, it tends to trigger light sleep.

N Avoid medications that can disrupt sleep (some cold and allergy medications, for example).

N Maintain good bedtime habits. Read a book, listen to soothing music or wind down by taking a warm bath.

N Exercise early in the day, at least five or six hours before going to bed.

N Don’t eat or drink before bed.

N Don’t watch TV or work on a computer right before bedtime.

N Make sure your bed is comfortable and the room is dark and quiet.

N Have pets and children sleep elsewhere.

If insomnia persists, talk to your doctor about having a sleep study. An accurate diagnosis of your sleep problems can lead to proper treatment and a good night’s sleep.

There’s nothing quite like waking up after a good night’s sleep – feeling healthy, invigorated and ready to tackle the day.

Conversely, poor quality or not enough sleep can cause grogginess, irritability and impaired thinking.

Long-term sleep deficits can increase your risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and other medical conditions.

Typical signs of a sleep disorder include difficulty falling asleep at night, waking many times during the night, pauses in breathing while asleep and fatigue during the day.

More than 70 million Americans – from children to teens, adults to senior citizens – suffer from sleep disorders. Far too few seek treatment.

“Successfully treating a sleep problem can change your life,” says Dr. Thomas Higgins, medical director of the nationally accredited Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center. “I strongly encourage anyone exhibiting signs of a sleep disorder to come see us. We can pinpoint the problem.”

Treatment begins with an individual patient evaluation.

The nationally accredited Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center features luxurious Tempur-Pedic mattresses.

“Successfully treating a sleep problem can change your life.”

– Dr. Thomas Higgins, Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center “Our comprehensive evaluation includes a complete medical and sleep history, a physical exam and, if needed, monitoring during sleep,” explains Dr. Higgins. “By digitally recording a patient’s brain, heart and air flow during sleep, we can often determine what’s causing the sleep

difficulties and work together toward a solution.”

The Sleep Disorders Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep/ wake disorders. The Center uses a multidisciplinary approach to treatment, with

physicians, expert consultants, experienced staff and nurse practitioners working as a team to deliver excellent patient care.

To learn how the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center can help you rest easier, call (865) 541-1375.

Get Your Life Back Chronic sleep deprivation or poor quality sleep can leave you feeling exhausted, irritable and unable to focus. It can also lead to serious health problems.

The professionals at the nationally accredited Fort Sanders Regional Sleep Disorders Center can help you get a refreshing night’s sleep – and get your life back.

Fort Sanders Professional Building 1901 Clinch Avenue, S.W., Suite 303 Knoxville, TN 37916

For more information, please call the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center at (865) 541-1375.

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‘Forrest Gump’ had nothing on Sue Batten. This woman has been there, done that!

See her story on Page C-3

Move over, mauve!

Modern’s Millie gives tips on how to select paint colors.

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News from The District

Welcome three new members to The District: ■ Ironic, a retail store offering unique iron home decor and gifts.

Info: 588-3131 or holly@ ironichomedecor.com/.

■ Mind Body Kinetics, Alex Seen, 584-8414.

■ Spirited Art, 5841010, spiritedartknoxville@ gmail.com/.

News from Franklin Square

■ Shopper-News joins with the Franklin Square Merchants Association to host kids from Cedar Springs Day Care for lunch at Sami’s Cafe and a tour of businesses. See us Tuesday, Aug. 9, starting at 10:30 a.m.

■ Coachman Clothiers has new Polos from Southern Tide, Coast, Southern Point and Southern Proper.

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Exterior rendering of the new Harper Volkswagen, prepared by Cityscape Architects Inc.

Harper Volkswagen to expand

By Sandra Clark Harper Volkswagen is expanding its West Knox dealership located at 9901 Kingston Pike.

Vice President Shannon Harper said his family was spurred to invest by the “growing excitement about the new 2012 Passat that will be built in East Tennessee.”

Shannon is certainly excited. A new member of the Rotary Club of West Knoxville, he delivered Mobile Meals last Friday in a Passat.

The Harper family will invest more than $1 million into the dealership, a bold affirmation of the local and national economy at a time when many investors are hiding in the weeds.

“We understand the magnitude of the investment that Volkswagen has made in Tennessee and know

It’s got automatic climate control and Bluetooth connectivity.

Harper Volkswagen will be doubling the size of their showroom to 5,100 square feet and hiring adShannon Harper ditional staff. The dealership has and his dad, Tom partnered with the Clayton iHouse Harper, at Harper team to house their sales staff durVolkswagen.

Photo by N. Lester ing the construction process.

Harper Volkswagen was founded

by Tom Harper in 1983 and is the exclusive dealer for Volkswagen in East Tennessee. Family owned and operated, it has employees who have this is the opportune time to invest around 150,000 new vehicles an- been with Volkswagen for more in the Volkswagen brand,” he said. nually. The midsize sedan market than 40 years. “Customer service is Passat is a derivative of the German is the largest car segment in Knox- the top priority and every employee word for “trade wind.” ville (per Urban Science data) and is empowered to ensure every client The Passat, which is made in the the new Passat is the class leader has an excellent experience at our new Chattanooga assembly plant, in standard features, fuel economy, dealership,” Shannon Harper said. will have an initial planning volume design and space, Harper added. Info: www.HarperVW.com/.

Can you say ‘Yum’?

If someone walked you through the door of a certain Kingston Pike establishment blindfolded, you might have a really tough time guessing where you were. You can’t always trust your senses.

The aroma of home baked goods could indicate a fancy bakery. The sounds of running water and a blow dryer might suggest a beauty salon. Wrong on both counts. Despite what you might be thinking, you have arrived at puppy nirvana.

The sounds and smells are real, but the home baked goods are for man’s (and woman’s) best friend.

And the salon elements?

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

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

I know I have lots to learn and I’m glad I’ve got time to learn it. Any ideas?

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

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

Anne Hart

They’re part of the selfserve doggy spa at the popular River Dog Bakery.

Owners Pam and Brian Trainor, who started their business as just a bakery of dog treats nearly six years ago, relocated to 5201 Kingston Pike in Bearden from the Rocky Hill area in May. The front door hasn’t stopped swinging open to customers and their fourlegged buddies since then.

And yes, pets are welcome

and quickly make friends with the owners’ lovable golden retriever, Cooper.

Pam says the idea for the store evolved from the couple’s experience with Nicholas, their golden retriever who lived to the ripe old age of 15. “He had severe allergies, so I cooked special food for him. I had always cooked special treats for the family dogs for Christmas. When we would go out-of-town, we would often see neat little doggy shops, but we really didn’t have anything like that in Knoxville.”

The Trainors decided to remedy that situation.

Initially, River Dog BakTo page C-2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cooper, the store dog, waits for a treat from the boss, Pam Trainor.

July Fun Facts ■ National Ice Cream Month, National Hot Dog Month ■ Hug Week third week in July ■ July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both driving forces of the Declaration of Independence, died 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed ■ 1850 – First underwater telegraph was laid. It stretched 1950 miles and lasted 2 months

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Hometown author portrays heart of Israel

Ronda Robinson visits Long’s Drug Store with her father, Al Robinson, who has lived in West Hills for 55 years. Ronda, who now lives in Atlanta, has written a book, “Beyond Politics: Inspirational People of Israel,” which features the stories of 18 fascinating folk she has met through the years. She spent the summer of 1997 in Israel writing for the Jerusalem Post and now has dual citizenship. The book showcases colorful characters like Clara Hammer, the “chicken lady of Jerusalem,” who ran a charity that provided chickens for poor families to eat on the Sabbath. Such people are a contrast to the violent headlines often associated with Israel, she says. For info: www.israelbeyondpolitics.com.

Bulldogs overrun Rebels

Kelly Riemer, Cassidy Smith, Tasha Saunders, Gabrielle Gianeselli and Ellen Dickinson visit Long’s to cool off after morning soccer practice. Their current schedule calls for “two-a-days,” which means an hour and a half practice in the morning and three hours in the evening. All play for Bearden High School, except Saunders, who plays for West High School.

When a vote was taken for which team is best, Bearden won. The Bulldogs made it to the state playoffs last year. Photos by Wendy Smith

Pond Gap kids served by UT

UT professor Bob Kronick, center, catches up with old friends Barbara and Nib Pelot. Their son, Buddy Pelot, was a student of Kronick’s during his undergraduate days. This summer, Kronick is working with the University-Assisted Community School Project at Pond Gap Elementary School. Each year, he takes a group of at-risk elementary school students on a tour of UT, and Pond Gap students were chosen this year. The highlights of the tour are always the seven-story library and an American Sign Language lesson, he says.

Small business boosts economy According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses (those businesses with fewer than 500 employees) represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms,

Pam Fansler er n East Region President,, see First Tennessee Bank

firstforward employ just more than half of all private sector employees and have been responsible for creating 64 percent of all net new jobs over the past 15 years.

The importance of small businesses in our economy is indisputable. That’s why First Tennessee Foundation is proud to support the Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) and its work going back to the early 1990s – an investment that has paid exponential returns in terms of economic impact in the 16-county region it serves. The TSBDC counseled 839 people and helped launch 56 new businesses in 2010 alone.

The mission of the TSBDC, located on Market Square,

First Tennessee donates $5,000 to Pellissippi State Foundation for the support of Knoxville’s TSBDC. On hand to receive the donation are: Mercedes Campbell, TSBDC Internet training specialist; Jane Shelton, TSBDC administrative assistant; Bruce Hayes, TSBDC senior business specialist; Pam Fansler, First Tennessee East Region president; Larry Rossini, TSBDC director; Marilyn Cobble, TSBDC senior business specialist; Julia Wood, PSCC marketing and communications director; and Rob Karpick, TSBDC senior business specialist. Photo submitted is to provide free counseling and training for those interested in starting or improving a small business, whether it’s brick-and-mortar or strictly online.

Classes available for free to the public cover such topics as e-commerce, marketing, preparing financial statements for small business, starting and managing a small business, and writing a business plan. First Tennessee Foundation’s contribution is earmarked for purchasing computer supplies, equipment and software for the resource center.

By taking advantage of the resource center and free counseling, Deborah Sellers, chief operating officer of InBalance Hormone Replacement Center on Chapman Highway, created a new business plan, organizational chart and job descriptions for her two-yearold business, increasing gross receipts by 37 percent in the next month.

Through working with Rob Karpick, senior business specialist at the TSBDC, Sellers identified two areas of opportunity for improvement that generated immediate results and is continuing to look for

additional improvements.

“We’ve seen huge changes, and we’re only into Week 3,” said Sellers.

We’re honored to be able to support organizations like the Tennessee Small Business Development Center that, in turn, help so many in our community to be successful, allowing them to contribute to our local economy through new job creation. Small business will be key in returning our economy to prosperity.

Kudos to the folks at TSBDC for all they do.

Info: 246-2663 or www. tsbdc.org/.

Dr. William C. Gibson, a surgeon with Premier Surgical Associates, is one of nearly 30 clinical and administrative leaders from the United States and abroad selected to participate in one of Dr. Gibson the nation’s foremost leadership development programs in patient safety.

The AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship is an intensive, yearlong professional development program for senior practitioners sponsored by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF).

Program participants gain skills, knowledge, and leadership capabilities to establish and implement long-term strategic plans for patient safety and quality improvement.

“Participating in this fellowship is a huge honor and an excellent opportunity,” said Gibson. “I look forward to expanding my knowledge of the patient safety discipline and developing relationships with fellow practitioners from across the country.”

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ery sold only baked goods for dogs, including such specialty items as birthday cakes – bone shaped-treats decorated like a cake and bearing the pet’s name – but now has expanded to offer many tasty delights for pets and a whole lot more.

Pam says both she and Brian do all the baking themselves and use only natural ingredients – no preservatives. They use no sugar in their treats, only honey or sorghum.

Pam regularly travels up to Muddy Pond, the Mennonite community on the Cumberland Plateau, where she buys the sorghum, 20 gallons at a time.

“It’s a much better product than you can get anywhere else.”

All the baked treats are hand-scooped and handrolled, and come with free information. “Lots of dogs have allergies, and we like to be able to give people a decent amount of knowledge about what they’re feeding their dogs. We even have students from the UT vet school who come in and seem to be comfortable asking questions.”

River Dog sells everything from leashes and beds to clothing, supplies, food and water bowls, and lots of cute decorative items. And yes, there are a few items for the feline members of the family.

Pam says they carry more cat things during the holiday gift season.

And about that doggy spa? At the back of the store is a well-equipped private room with a large, fancy wash tub, shampoo, fluffy towels and blow dryer, all provided at no charge to the store’s customers.

Sometimes the Trainors are helped in the store by their children – daughter Craven, who attends UTC, and son Liam, a rising senior at South-Doyle High School.

And if Pam’s name sounds especially familiar, it may be because she is a member of the Knox County Board of Education and the immediate past president of the Knox County Council PTA. One trip to River Dog Bakery and you know she loves dogs as much as she does children.

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Living the good life Sue Batten: From Mulberry Creek to Knoxville

Thursday, Aug. 11 â– 1:30 p.m., Concord Baptist Mission Trip

By Sandra Clark

S

ue Batten’s aptitude for adventure is obvious.

After a lifetime of traveling around the United States, she’s settled into home at NHC at Farragut.

And does she have the stories to share.

Lady Bird Johnson was a childhood friend.

Born Claudia Alta Taylor, Lady Bird got the nickname in infancy when her nurse said she was as pretty as a ladybird (ladybug). Although she lived in Texas, Lady Bird visited relatives in Autauga County, Ala., every summer until she was grown. “That meant watermelon cuttings, picnics at the creek and a lot of company every Sunday,� she told a biographer.

Sue was along for many of those creek adventures. The women remained friends, “kept up,� Sue says, and when Mrs. Johnson spoke about flowers at the Peabody Hotel, the friends found time to reminisce about the red bugs and life’s slower pace on Mulberry Creek.

While Lady Bird went to the University of Texas for a degree in journalism, Sue enrolled at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa where she earned a degree in home economics.

Paul “Bear� Bryant was a football star and BMOC (big man on campus) during Sue’s college days and she had a biology class

AUGUST EVENTS AT NHC

Monday, Aug. 15 â– 3 p.m., Turnover card game with prizes Sue Batten, center, with son-in-law and daughter, Dr. Charles Gholson, gastroenterologist; and Helen Gholson.

Tuesday, Aug. 16 â– 2-5 p.m,. Crocheting and Knitting Club meeting

Thursday, Aug. 18 â– 1:30 p.m., Methodist Communion Service

Sunday, Aug. 21 Sue Batten, at home at NHC.

with the woman who later became the Bear’s wife. “We operated on a little pig together,� Sue recalls.

While it was rare for a woman of that time to earn a college degree, it was even less common for one to seek post-graduate training. Yet Sue headed to New York City where she earned a master’s in retailing from New York University. She lived in Greenwich Village “at the foot of Fifth Avenue.�

Sue moved to Montgomery, Ala., after graduation and was employed as high school coordinator for Distributive Education. In this capacity, she placed students with businesses where the students could gain work experience.

Millicent Emery Stair enjoys Tellico Lake with Sue.

While it was rare for a woman of that time to earn a college degree, it was even less common for one to seek post-graduate training. Yet Sue headed to New York City where she earned a master’s in retailing from New York University.

She met and married career soldier Baxter Batten and the family moved to Memphis. Although they lived in several cities during his career, Memphis was home. Sue continues to subscribe to the Commercial Appeal.

Along the way, the family spent one year in Knoxville. Sue remembers it fondly. “I’ve always liked East Tennessee,� she says.

“It’s very different from Memphis. It has an Early American avor, a pioneering spirit.â€?

She made friends here including attorney Richard Stair Sr. and his wife, Millicent.

Sue and Baxter had two daughters; one continues to live in Memphis but frequently travels to Florida and Colorado, and the other lives in Knoxville.

The family agreed that Sue would be best off in Knoxville, and she moved here four years ago.

Daughter Helen and son-in-law Dr. Charles Gholson look after her, but she is quite happy at NHC. Her studio apartment is on the ground oor and has windows, even in the bathroom. â–

Bingo!

NHC resident Nancy Hendrix shows off her winning Bingo card. Photo by N. Lester

Career in education

Sue worked with the Memphis Board of Education for many years and retired as reading specialist for the school system.

She chaired a statewide committee in 1979 which developed a handbook on reading content, a copy of which she still has.

What’s changed about teaching? Not so much, Sue says. “It boils down to taking a child and having

them master each skill as they go along. That’s very elementary, but it’s true.�

She said kids today should spend more time studying.

And what about computers? “I don’t know much about them, but Bill Gates used computers and has done well.�

Sue is proud of her family. Her mother and father gave good advice which she tried to follow. “My mother was ambitious (for her children),� Sue says.

Her mom encouraged her to ride her bicycle and to practice piano. She supported her education, even that adventure in New York City.

And Sue’s own children? “When you have children you settle more on them than yourself.�

Her daughters also graduated from college, one from LSU and the other from UT. â–

â– 10 a.m., Pie Making Class

Wednesday, Aug. 24 â– 2 p.m., National Waffle Day

Thursday, Aug. 25 â– 2 p.m., August Birthday Party

On the horizon

Sue would like to visit Alabama sometime to see the places where she lived and the cemetery where her parents are buried.

She misses being able to drive after being “so independent� in Memphis.

She talks about trips to Sewanee, “a beautiful place,� and visits to the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg.

She also talks about ďŹ shing and red bugs and those slow summer days on Mulberry Creek in Autauga County, Ala. Somehow you know Sue Batten could be plunked down most anywhere and would soon see its special beneďŹ ts and call it home.

NHC golf tourney today The Foundation for Geriatric Education, supported by NHC, is hosting its annual golf tournament today (Aug. 8) at Gettysvue.

Participants paid $95 to play 18 holes and have lunch. The Foundation funds several local projects including donations to the nursing program at Roane State Community College.

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Patience: The key to remodeling If you’re planning a remodeling project, patience is key. Remodeling can be stressful and full of surprises. Focusing on your completed vision makes it all worthwhile. Modern Supply’s clients, Pete and Hiral Lloyd-Jones, can testify to the challenges of living through a kitchen remodeling project.

Modern’s Millie Modern Supply’s design consultant + remodeling expert

Tips on choosing kitchen paint colors Hot and spicy or warm and delish?

What’s your fav kitchen color? There are zillions of paint colors and paint is your easiest decorating tool.

Bunches of super smart folks study the psychology of color and how it affects us. Color sways mood, our appetite and energy levels. It’s one of the first things you notice and pulls together furniture, accessories and cabinetry.

What ambiance fits your style? Relaxing, energizing or sassy? Trendy or timeless? Start by building around the color and style of cabinetry, countertops, flooring and appliance finish.

2011 kitchen paint trends lean toward shades of gray, yellow, red, blue and purple. Takes sass to go with shades of purple! A dark plum is a good choice for the less feisty.

Grays are totally flexible and create a super sleek, contemporary look, industrial flair or a calm, timeless look. Like a beloved pair of black slacks, gray jives with everything!

Reds are always vogue and a powerful color that shouts out energy, passion and stimulates the appetite. There are oodles of red shades.

Yellow is cheery and a great choice for small spaces or areas needing reflective light. Gold tones create a rich, warm Tuscan feel. Chianti anyone?

Blue is America’s fav color and essentially timeless. Shades of blue come and go. Goodbye country blue and mauve; may you never return! The color of the sky and sea, blue suggests a feeling of spaciousness, height and depth.

Green: ah, the color of nature. Green is a soothing color, great for an earthy, shabby chic or touch of country feel. Lime greens and brighter shades add pizazz!

White and Black – nothin’ to be said here. They totally go with everything!

Select washable paint that stands up to water splashes, grease, stains and kitchen yuck. Remember, paint is like a bad haircut: it can always be changed! Happy painting! millie@modernsupplyco.com

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The Lloyd-Joneses’ 1970s kitchen needed an update – especially the dated appliances. The project evolved from updating appliances to a complete remodel when they discovered the built-in oven size was no longer available.

Hiral commented, “I had a vision of my dream kitchen.� She considered their lifestyle, likes and dislikes of the existing kitchen, budget and future resale value when developing her design. After doing online research and talking with Modern Supply’s designer Debbie Johnson, design objectives included: ■Lighten the kitchen ■Mix a cozy, country style with contemporary elements ■Create a warm, earthy feel ■Improve space functionality ■Maximize budget by doing some work themselves.

Cabinetry is a kitchen’s focal point and the foundation of a remodel. “I was tired of dark wood and paint.

I wanted a lighter ďŹ nish, to add color and incorporate unique elements,â€? Hiral said.

A maple wood ďŹ nished in vanilla cream with a caramel glaze detailing was perfect.

For a cozy, earthy touch, a second ďŹ nish of mossy green was incorporated. Granite countertops in peacock green – a dark, rich color – pulled the two ďŹ nishes together. A backsplash of white subway tiles with dark green accents continued to complement the cabinetry and granite.

Hiral enjoys cooking.

A farmhouse sink accommodates large pots while providing another element of subtle country charm. A pull-down stainless steel faucet provides movement exibility, height and a clean, uncluttered look.

Pete took on the task of researching appliances. “I looked for the best value in quality, features and price,� Pete said. “This resulted in selecting different appliance brands that best suited our needs.

We chose the clean look of stainless steel.�

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‘Purchase the best quality cabinetry your budget will allow. Features like dovetail joints make a difference.’ – Hiral Lloyd-Jones

Earthy, brown slate flooring, complete with a cable heating system, complements the overall design while increasing winter comfort. Lighting includes a mix of new recessed lights and pendants. Oil-rubbed bronze pendant lights inserts a classic touch.

Pete and Hiral share advice for homeowners

considering a remodeling project. “The best advice is to have patience,�

Hiral says. “A remodel doesn’t happen overnight and can be stressful for everyone.

Be prepared for dust – it was everywhere. Expect the unexpected. You don’t know what lies behind the wall or under the flooring. Also, purchase the best quality cabinetry your budget will allow. Features like dovetail joints make a difference.�

Pete adds, “If you’re trying to stretch the budget, choose the projects you undertake carefully. Make sure you’re up for the

task. We removed the old tile, painted and laid the heating cables ourselves. I also sold our old cabinetry online.�

Would they do anything differently? Hiral states, “I love all of my choices and would not change anything. We enjoy the kitchen and spend more time in it.

It’s rewarding to see our friends’ reactions when they see the kitchen for the first time.�

Congratulations to the Lloyd-Jones’ on the birth of their baby girl!

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