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VOL. 8 NO. 1

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Looking back

Wendy Smith has captured many wonderful stories, and today she shares her best from 2013. She writes: Nothing is as satisfying to me as a good story, and Bearden is brimming with them. When I look back at the places I’ve been and the folks I met this year, it’s tough to choose a favorite story.

But listening to each of these stories transported me, for one reason or another, to a special place. Bear with me while I reminisce.

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The Doc is in Carol Zinavage scored an interview with band leader and trumpeter Doc Severinsen at his home in Blount County.

She writes: The paint crew that’s working upstairs doesn’t know who he is.

“He’s the nice guy who hired us to paint,” they say with grins and shrugs. They agree to Google him when they get home.

Anyone who grew up watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson instantly recognizes the iconic bandleader.

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On tearing down Gibbs Hall Marvin West goes way back with UT’s Gibbs Hall. He writes: Down goes Gibbs Hall, well, soon. The old athletic dorm and Stokely Center will be mere memories as Tennessee clears the way for progress – parking garage, new dorm and three practice fields for football.

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First Tennessee to mark 150 years First Tennessee Bank’s promise is to be the best at serving our customers, one opportunity at a time. The bank was founded in 1864 when Abraham Lincoln was president, and employees have been practicing that promise ever since – even if it wasn’t written down. No financial institution could endure for a century and a half without dedicated employees earning the trust of generations of customers.

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Bob and June Whitaker stand at the edge of the property that has been in June’s family since 1935. John Huber has received county approval to build nine apartment buildings with 348 units immediately across the water from the Whitaker’s West Knox home. Photo by Wendy Smith

By Wendy Smith June Loy Whitaker moved to a 130-acre farm on Sinking Creek in 1935, when she was just 19 months old. She was the youngest of “Doc” Garfield Loy’s and Zola Loy’s 11 children, and the family moved to West Knox County after their Union County farm was condemned by TVA for Norris Lake.

June and her husband, Bob, still live in a waterfront home that Bob built on the property. Five other family members, including their son, Michael, have homes on the former farm.

It appears that June’s property will once again be condemned by forces beyond her control. Unless the Whitakers and their neighbors are successful at the Jan. 22 meeting of the Board of Zoning Appeals, John Huber will build nine three and four-story apartment buildings a stone’s throw from the couple’s home.

This is the third time that water, or a waterfront development, has threatened the Loy family

property. After leaving one farm to escape a TVA lake, the family learned that another lake would soon encroach upon their land, and they began to anticipate the rising waters of Fort Loudoun Lake as construction of the Fort Loudoun Dam began in 1940.

When they received word that the flood gates had closed in August of 1943, June and her sister ran down the hill to watch for the water. As it turned out, it took two weeks for the lake to reach their property.

The farm was so remote that the Loys didn’t have electricity until June was a Farragut High School student. Most of their needs were met by the farm, where they grew vegetables and raised cattle, hogs and chickens. To avoid driving to Bearden for items like sugar and coffee, June sometimes walked east on the railroad tracks to a small market at Ebenezer Crossing, where Pip’s Iron Works is now located.

It still seemed remote when Michael was growing up.

“Dad always called it ‘40 and plumb.’ It was 40 miles out, and plumb in the middle of nowhere,” he says.

After graduating from UT with a degree in mechanical engineering, Michael moved to Kingsport.

But he came home when he had a job opportunity in Oak Ridge.

“He said, ‘There are things more precious than money. Everything I love is here,’” June recalls.

He still loves the natural beauty of the property. Deer graze regularly in the fields, and great blue herons lurk in the shallow waters of the cove. June points out the island where the majestic birds nest together.

But the family is realistic. They knew the property across the water would eventually be developed. They’re not opposed to development, Michael says, and not necessarily opposed to apartments. But they are opposed to the number of units that has been approved by MPC and Knox County Commission.

June doesn’t want to see tall

buildings when she looks out her window and is concerned about light pollution.

Michael thinks that too many acres were included in the calculation that determined how many units could be built on the site. If property protected by the Hilltop and Ridge Protection Plan was excluded, far fewer units could be built, he says.

He is also concerned that a conservation easement that Huber says will protect nearby homeowners isn’t yet on paper.

“How will they protect it during construction if no one knows where it is?”

While several commissioners visited the Westland Cove development site from Emory Church Road, Amy Broyles was the only one who visited the Whitaker property, which is accessible from George Williams Road. June invited them all.

No matter what happens across the water, the family plans to stick around.

“We’re not leaving,” says June.

Rogero tackles homelessness, trees See http://www.cityofknoxville. org/development/homelessnessplandraft2014.pdf. Comments will be accepted for 45 days.

According to the city’s press release, the draft is the work product of a mayoral-appointed Roundtable that included the executive leadership of agencies, ministries and organizations that provide services, shelter and housing for the homeless.

“Homelessness is a complicated issue, and effective responses require collaboration among many different partners,” Rogero said.

“This plan is not a solution to any And last week Rogero rolled out single problem. It is a framework a draft plan to address homeless- that we will use to coordinate efness. She’s posted the plan online forts to address both short-term and is calling for public input. and long-term challenges for peo-

By Sandra Clark

Is Shopper-News at war with Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero?

Absolutely not, despite what you might read occasionally on Page 4.

Rogero has tackled tough issues such as the city’s underfunded pension liability. She has not called for a grape or lettuce boycott or done any other dreadful thing her campaign opponents implied when they whispered “She scares me to death.”

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The city will conduct a public input session 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the Cansler Family YMCA, 616 Jessamine Street. A city council workshop on the proposed plan will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the main assembly room of the City County Building.

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Thankfully, Rogero is not talking about a 10-year plan to end homelessness. That idea raised and then dashed hopes with unpleasant opposition from various neighborhoods where new housing might be developed.

The best we can do is mitigate the factors such as foreclosure that push people into the streets.

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Exploring South Knox’s ‘little gems’

By Betsy Pickle Hiking or walking can be fun, but to get in touch with the ground you’re covering, you really need to trek.

TREK South does just that.

“It started as a conversation between me and two of my neighbors,” says Debbie Sharp, recalling the group’s October 2011 genesis. “We were just talking about how South Knoxville has so many amazing little gems – like Fort Dickerson, Ijams Nature Center, I.C. King Park – that we had not explored.

“We said, let’s get a group together to start exploring these beautiful places.”

They came up with TREK South – Traverse Ride Explore Knoxville South – and even envisioned TREKs springing up in other parts of town.

“We just haven’t expanded yet,” Sharp says.

In the two-plus years the group has been going on monthly hikes, it has visited Fort Dickerson, the William Hastie Natural Area, Marie Myers Park, Ijams Nature Center and I.C. King Park, among others. “We do have fun,” says Sharp. “It’s a wonderful group.”

Sharp shares credit with cofounder Joanna Henning, now on hiatus, and current co-leader Terrin Kanoa, for the success. They average

10-15 hikers but have had as many as 25. Most hikes are on the third Sunday of the month.

The next one is 1 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 19, at Fort Dickerson, starting at the Augusta entrance. There is no fee, and everyone is welcome.

“We usually start at 1 o’clock and try to make sure people get back by 3,” says Sharp. “We know people are busy.”

During the summer months, TREK South tries to schedule hikes on Saturday mornings. “I can hike in this temperature any time, but when it gets to be 95 degrees, I get grumpy,” says Sharp. “We try to plan the hikes in the summertime to be earlier in the morning, but then there’s a lot of times people don’t want to get up that early.

“When it gets too hot to do a hike sometimes, we had thought that exploring some of the neat little shops in South Knoxville would be fun – maybe do two or three and then eat at a restaurant in South Knoxville that’s only in South Knoxville. We haven’t done it yet, but that’s definitely on the agenda.”

One of Sharp’s original goals was “to create community. I love hiking, walking in my neighborhood,” says the South Woodlawn resident. “People just talk more

Dogwood Arts issues call for landscape designers, interior decorators Dogwood Arts is asking the area’s top landscape designers and interior decorators to submit an application to create a featured showcase at the 36th annual House and Garden Show. The show will be held Friday through Sunday, Feb. 14-16, at the Knoxville Convention Center. Info: Alaine McBee, amcbee@dogwoodarts.com.

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Candoro celebrates 90th The New Year’s Eve dinner at Candoro Marble brought out the glamorous spirit in attendees, with many playing up the evening’s 1920s theme in their glitzy attire.

Candoro supporters and others helped celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Candoro Marble Building through the event, which aimed to raise funds to cover the cost of restoring the building’s windows.

Holly Hambright of Holly’s Eventful Dining catered the elegant dinner. Swing band Devan Jones & the Uptown Stomp provided dance music. April Burt designed Victor and Joan Ashe, Lin Christenberry and Bob Gilbertson enjoy themselves at the Candoro the décor. dinner. Photos by Betsy Pickle – Betsy Pickle

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Bearden’s best of

2013

Nothing is as satisfying to me as a good story, and Bearden is brimming with them. When I look back at the places I’ve been and the folks I met this year, it’s tough to choose a favorite story.

Wendy Smith The photo of Earnest Gill that captured the attention of his future wife, Eileen. Photo submit-

Sperry Kotsianas, Mary Kampas, Rose Captain, Judy Colocotronis, Marika Peroulas, Eleni Caracostas and Helen Kotsianas prepare pasta flora for this year’s Greek Fest. Photo by Wendy Smith

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But listening to each of these stories transported me, for one reason or another, to a special place. â– Growing up at Lakeshore Bear with me while I reminisce.

Bedford, Larry, Ava and Carolyn Peterson grew up ■The picture in surrounded by friends that the window seemed like family and I’ll confess that Eileen acres of play space. Their and Ernie Gill are friends of front yard had a swing set mine. We attend the Laurel and a plastic pontoon boat Church of Christ together. they used as a swimming But their story is so wildly pool, and they were surromantic that it begged to rounded by adults who dotbe told to a wider audience. ed on them.

It was a wonderful childIn Ohio in the late 1940s, hood, says Ava, now Ava Eileen walked by a photogRandolph.

She didn’t know raphy studio on her way to school each day. She and that growing up at Eastern her cousin would gaze at a State Hospital, which later photo of a dashing young became Lakeshore Menman displayed in the win- tal Health Institute, was a dow, and she often won- unique experience. “I didn’t know these dered what he did.

On Christmas Day in people weren’t normal,� she 1952, she was engaged to says.

Their father, Dr. Bedford someone else. But when a Peterson, was superintenfamily friend dropped by with his son, a soldier re- dent at Eastern State from cently returned from Korea, 1939 to 1964, except for a short stint in the Navy. In she was smitten.

After extricating them- those days, the superintenselves from other relation- dent was required to live in ships, Eileen and Ernie what was called the Center were engaged. The night Building, which became she received a ring, they known as the Administraexchanged photos. She was tion Building.

Ava later became a nurse surprised to receive a copy of the picture from the pho- at Lakeshore Mental Health tography studio. The Gills Institute. She determined celebrated their 60th anni- her future career at age 5 because she liked the crisp, versary in February. “I still think he’s the white uniforms and playing best-looking man I ever nurse to the patients.

Fortunately, her former saw,� Eileen says.

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City planting 600 trees On a more pleasant topic, Rogero has separated urban forestry programs from horticulture operations, making each its own division within the Public Service Department.

The reorganization illustrates the priority placed on fully planning and developing all of the city’s green spaces, and it also comes as contract crews are conducting the winter plantings of

600 trees.

Kasey Krouse, urban forester, is overseeing a comprehensive inventory of the city’s trees that will be used to plan which trees should best be planted where to ensure a healthy, diverse urban forest.

Neighborhoods with fewer trees, or a narrow range of species, are prioritized for new plantings.

Parkridge is getting trees between the sidewalks and roads on Washington, Jefferson and Fifth avenues.

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his hands. The Roush family moved to Knoxville from Indiana in 1964, when Rex was 9. He was enrolled at Beaumont Elementary School, which served all of the city’s special needs students.

Jean became room mother, and she loved the camaraderie of the students.

After those students graduated from public school, they had nothing to do, so she started a craft workshop in the basement of her church, Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian.

She knew these young people were capable of working in an assembly line. It took time for them to learn their jobs, she says, but once they did, it was important to them to do well. “They had great quality control,� she laughs.

She takes little credit for her contribution to what is now Sunshine Industries.

Instead, she points to the work of other volunteers and organizations, like the Akima Club. She still looks back on the early days of the workshop with fondness. “I loved every minute of it. It took me awhile to adjust to being around normal people.�

Bedford Peterson took this picture of what is now called the Lakeshore Administration Building in the early 1950s. Photo submitted

Baklava production for home will be preserved if a proposed master plan for the September event begins Lakeshore Park is approved in May. The uncooked pastries are assembled, frozen, and funded. then baked in time to sit in â– The women of sweet syrup for a week, says Emily Wheeler.

St. George During my visit, the Koulourakia.

Loukou- women assembled 20 pans mades. Galaktoboureko. If of pasta flora, a shortcakeyou think they’re difficult type pastry topped with to pronounce, imagine bak- preserves and decorated ing enough of these Greek with latticework. This was pastries to satisfy 20,000 the 34th Greek Fest, but Greek Fest attendees. some of society members I was fortunate enough have sold pastries for 50 to spend time with mem- years, Wheeler says. bers of the Saint George I attended Greek Fest Greek Orthodox Church and purchased another box Philoptochos Society, the of pastries – just to be supgroup responsible for bak- portive. ing these yummy pastries.

That morning stands out in my mind because the women were delightful, and I left with a box of treats in my hand.

Jean Roush with the Christmas card she designed in 1972 for Sunshine Workshop employees to sell door-todoor. Photo submitted

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The beginning of Sunshine Workshop

Jean Roush didn’t know there was anything wrong with her son, Rex, until a checkup at age 2. In spite of his healthy appearance, Rex’s brain would not develop normally.

When Rex, the second of the Roush’s four children, entered school, Jean recognized that he was good with

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Last spring, Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis designated $361.47 from the 202 Fund to add trees along Chapman Highway.

Council members Mark Campen and Saunders together designated $900 from the 202 Fund to support Arbor Day educational workshops and to plant trees at Christenberry and Lonsdale elementary schools.

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Martin was Brown’s deputy when he was mayor. Also attending were Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis, council members George Wallace, Duane Grieve, Nick Della Volpe, Finbarr Saunders and Marshall Stair, along with the city’s community relations director Tank Strickland. Also attending were former state Rep. and council member Bob Booker (now director of Beck Cultural Center), state Rep. Joe Armstrong and retired pastor Harold Middlebrook.

■ Randy Boyd, Knoxville entrepreneur and unpaid higher education adviser to Gov. Bill Haslam for the past year, wraps up his time in Nashville in early February.

■ Mayor Tim Burchett is getting his fund raising for re-election started on Tuesday, Feb. 18, with a $100 a couple event at the Lighthouse on Baum Drive from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Invitations will go out two weeks before the event. Burchett does not have an opponent at this time and appears to be a sure bet for a second and final term as county mayor.

■ Neil McBride lost his seat on the TVA board today when President Obama not only failed to reappoint him but also did not name anyone else.

The 9-member board goes to eight members which will save the pay for one – $50,000 plus travel.

If the President continues to ignore expiring TVA board appointments, then two more vacancies will occur in 2014 including the chair, Bill Sansom, president of H. T. Hackney Co. and former state transportation commissioner. Barbara Haskew of Chattanooga also departs.

They will go off the board the end of this year although their terms actually end in May unless renominated and confirmed.

The board will then go to six members if Sansom and Haskew depart but still have a quorum to transact business. A new chair would be elected, too.

The departure of McBride cannot be blamed on Republicans in the U.S. Senate but totally on the White House. The seat is vacant due to White House inaction.

The seat became open in May 2013. McBride was chair of the TVA audit committee and a member of the external affairs committee. He wanted very much to be reappointed.

McBride disappointed several supporters for his low key and quiet approach to several high profi le issues such as CEO Johnson’s $5.9 million salary for nine months, closed TVA committee meetings and silence on the 2-year dress code for board meetings which triggered a federal First Amendment lawsuit. The charge was he had been co-opted by Johnson and top staff.

The President has mentioned the possibility of selling TVA, and the agency has declined to comment on whether it can be sold without congressional action which seems strange given TVA has a huge legal staff available to comment on hundreds of other issues.

Their spokespersons said the senators would have to answer that question.

■ Longtime UT Law professor Carl Pierce is retiring this summer.

He started in 1972 at the UT College of Law. He was director of the Howard Baker Public Policy Center for several years following Alan Lowe’s departure to head up the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas. He has done many interviews with former Sen. and Ambassador Howard Baker.

■ There was a large crowd Dec. 29 at the service at Canaan Baptist Church at which longtime pastor Harold Middlebrook gave his final sermon as the pastor. In addition to former Mayor Brown and this writer attending, council member George Wallace and his wife, Stephanie, attended.

To their credit, both were very engaged in the service and took copious notes.

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2014: Referendum on McIntyre?

Good-bye apathy.

Hello involvement.

There was very little interest in local politics last year and most city council incumbents ran unopposed.

Election Day was greeted with a collective yawn.

But if the growing list of potential candidates for county offices who had picked up nominating petitions by Dec. 31 is any indication, 2014 will be very different. There are county commission seats, fee offices and judgeships up for grabs, as well as races for sheriff and attorney general. The deadline to return completed petitions is Feb. 20.

School board races appear to be generating the most interest, and the question there is whether teachers can sustain the passion they demonstrated in November and December and translate it into political clout in the May primary.

If they do, the election will become a referendum on James McIntyre and his educational philosophy.

By New Year’s Eve, 16 potential candidates had picked up petitions for five school board races. Incum-

Betty Bean bents Lynne Fugate, Pam Trainor and Gloria Deathridge, all of whom voted to extend McIntyre’s contract to late 2017, are drawing opposition.

Watch for new opponents to sign up to run against first-term 9th District board member Trainor, who was elected with strong support from teachers.

This year will be a different story. In addition to the district’s menu of perpetual candidates, her potential opponents include at least two former educators – Jim McClain (a former principal, school board member and a former Trainor supporter) and Larry Clark (a retired teacher and county commissioner who now works for the sheriff as a bailiff).

Trainor’s most interesting opponent could be first-time candidate Amber Rountree, a school librarian and outspoken critic of McIntyre’s heavy reliance

Amber Rountree on data-gathering and high stakes testing.

Rountree said she will find new employment if she is elected.

“My understanding is that as an employee of the board, I would probably not be able to hold my teaching position,” she said. “But my degree is in library science, which is more versatile and not as tied to working in a public school environment. My gut instinct is to go ahead and do it. I think we need to see some change – pro-active, not reactive change. I’m going to run a very grassroots campaign.”

She has set up a Twitter account (@vote4rountree) and chosen a slogan –“Growing Great Schools”– and a logo – a tree.

Patti Bounds, a veteran teacher at Brickey-McCloud Elementary School and longtime Powell resident, may run in school board District 7 where term-limited county commissioner R. Larry Smith is a candidate.

Incumbent Kim Severance, who also voted to extend McIntyre’s contract, is not seeking re-election.

Bounds plans to retire from Knox County Schools at year’s end. She teaches kindergarten.

Another teacher, Cheri Siler, will be picking up a petition next week to run in the Democratic primary for state senate for the 7th District, the seat now held by Republican Stacey Campfield. She will be the guest of honor at a fundraiser at Central Flats and Taps 5-10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30. Her mother, Donna Edwards, will serve as her campaign treasurer, and contributions can be mailed to Cheri Siler for State Senate, 5507 Shannondale Road, Knoxville, TN 37918; or through her Facebook page (Cheri Kay Siler) or her campaign website, Cherisiler.com.

Mediating the tire store wars Moyers had granted summary judgment to Corbitt, who was managing broker for Heath Shuler Real Estate LLC in October 2004 when Plaintiff Crumpton entered into a contract to purchase real estate that included a house and business from Kelly and Patsy Beeler.

Patricia Grissom was the affiliate broker for the transSandra action.

Clark Crumpton was damaged, he said, when a 5-year noncompete agreement was not included with all copies of In a decision filed Dec. the contract. He sued every23, the court overturned a one in sight. decision by Knox County Corbitt asked to be disChancellor Mike Moyers to missed, saying she was not dismiss Mary Bea Corbitt personally involved in the from a lawsuit involving plaintiff’s purchase and had Reid R. Crumpton and Kelly no knowledge of the transBeeler Tire Service. action, therefore could not When is a managing real estate broker responsible for the action of an affiliate broker? Pretty much always, according to the state Court of Appeals.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Big stories for 2014: ■ 384 files are misplaced in the Criminal Court Clerk’s office and three dozen citizens are herded off to jail. Clerk Joy McCroskey goes on cruise.

■ Ruthie Kuhlman, Herb Moncier and Brian Hornback get stranded on a desert island.

Together. Republicans everywhere rejoice ... and lay odds on which will survive.

■ Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones gets the endorsement of former Sheriff Tim Hutchison.

Hundreds of heretofore-undecided GOP primary voters start wearing those Bobby Waggoner armbands that read: “Wagg 4 (star).”

■ Competition for who can draw the most public pensions accelerates when ace reporter Snidely Whiplash discovers a former city teacher working as a bailiff for the Sheriff ’s Office after a retirement job in city government.

■ Ahh, public employment.

Where some make little and many make much.

■ Doug Harris, in voting to extend Superintendent Jim McIntyre’s contract until Dec. 31, 2017, mentioned that he serves some 50,000 meals a day. Wow! And there’s a CEO job open just up the road at Ruby Tuesday.

■ Stacey Campfield is working on gun bills, mentioning on his blog that he’s remorseful about allowing cities and counties to opt out of state

be held liable for the actions of the affiliate broker.

In an opinion written by Judge G. Michael Swiney, the court said Tennessee law created a duty on the part of the managing broker, and Corbitt failed to show that she met the standard of care sufficient to satisfy her duty. The court reversed the summary judgment and remanded the case for further proceedings.

Corbitt argued: “My duties as managing broker at Heath Shuler Real Estate did not include involvement in the day-to-day activities or review of the routine contracts of independent contractor realtors affiliated with the brokerage.”

Judge Moyers said to hold a managing broker respon-

law. “A citizen should know what is and what isn’t a state crime statewide,” he said.

■ Stacey also noted his resemblance to Jason Garrett and said he’s not a candidate for coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

■

With Cheri Siler joining Dr. Richard Jason Garrett Briggs in AP photo/Tim Sharp trying to oust Campfield, one could call it the race of the red-haireds versus the no-haired.

■ Human capital just ain’t what it used to be. When Superintendent Jim McIntyre hired

sible for “possible misrepresentation or negligence of her affiliate brokers” would create a strict liability for managing brokers for the negligent or intentional torts of their affiliates.

The appellate court held “by simply and purposefully remaining ignorant of the substance and details of an affiliate’s transactions,” a managing broker could “completely escape her statutory duty and any liability.”

In the Crumpton case, the court held, the managing broker’s liability, if any, arises from a breach of her own statutory duty – not from the actions of the affiliate broker.

It’s an interesting case with several well-known participants.

former KPD guy Gus Paidousis to head up school security and boosted its ranks to 100 or so, who vetted those hired?

We had a guard arrested recently for indecent exposure at Tyson Park. Somebody get that guy a petition to run for county commission!

■ Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey turned heads with his Christmas greeting in which he celebrated that dates are being set for executions. Finally, it’s about time and joy to the world, you-all.

■ Mike McMillan has as much chance of being school superintendent on Dec. 31, 2017, as does Jim McIntyre. So what was that extension really about? It boosted the buy-out by $225,000.

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BEARDEN Shopper news • JANUARY 6, 2014 • A-5

Down goes Gibbs Hall Down goes Gibbs Hall, well, soon. The old athletic dorm and Stokely Center will be mere memories as Tennessee clears the way for progress – parking garage, new dorm and three practice fields for football.

This dorm was built in ’64 and named in a kneejerk reaction to the death of assistant basketball coach Bill Gibbs, 35. He was lost on the morning of Feb. 3 that year, when a commuter plane crashed on takeoff in Gainesville, Fla. An entire generation may not have known or cared about Bill Gibbs. I did. That was one of the worst days in 60 years of newspaper life.

The basketball Vols were in Florida for a Monday night game. Gibbs was the advance scout who

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had charted the Gators on Saturday. He gave his report to Ray Mears and the team at the Sunday walkthrough. The next day he would be moving on to see a future foe.

When I heard about the crash, I read tea leaves. Bill wasn’t at the hotel so he almost certainly was on the flight. I hurried to the airport.

There were no survivors. I got around enough police tape to see the wreckage from a distance but couldn’t confirm anything with authorities,

Winter birding January and February can be gloomy, cold and damp. Up in Vermont they call this time of year “stick season.” Aptly named – just look at the hillsides of bare limbs and twigs – all you see are sticks.

Dr. Bob Collier

This is prime season for watching familiar yard-bird friends at our bird feeders.

So why would someone even consider going out on a cold damp morning into a world of sticks and stems to look at birds, especially since there’s nothing out there but a few cardinals and chickadees, and a bunch of little brown sparrows that all look alike, and are nearly impossible to see anyway?

Well, now, that’s a good question, but it has some good answers (or I wouldn’t have asked it in the first place). For one thing, just getting outside in the winter, birds or no birds, is something everyone should try.

Once you’ve been out and about in the winter and found that you can survive, and even be comfortable, it tends to grow on you. You will discover that all those trees and bushes and grassy fields that were there in the summer are still out there – they just look different.

Even though they’re bare and brown, they are full of bird food. All those weeds and flowers have produced zillions of seeds, and the sumacs and grapes and poison ivy vines still have dried fruits and berries. And on most days throughout the winter, lots of tiny, tasty insects are out and about on all that vegetation.

This adds up to a lot of food for the scores of species of birds that choose to winter here with us. They’re all busy making a living, foraging through the short winter days, often too busy to pay much attention to a nearby, nosy birdwatcher.

They’re generally easier to see and observe without all those pesky leaves on the trees and bushes, and you often have time to really watch some of the harder to spot ones, like the sparrows, and really get to know them.

We know there are a lot of them out there – Christmas counts have shown 80 or more species on a single day. In a good place, you’ll be amazed at the numbers of species and individual birds that you can see.

We have no end of good winter birding opportunities in these parts. Think of Tommy Schumpert Park

and Halls Community Park.

Without baseball or soccer, these parks are usually peaceful, quiet, birdy places. Having nearby streams, good open field, brushy, and forest-edge bird habitats, plus nice walking terrain and even paved walking paths, they make winter birding easy and fun. We spent a couple of hours at Schumpert Park on the morning of Dec. 19 and came up with 25

no matter how I asked the same questions.

This was another time in the news business. It was important to be first but more important to be accurate. Of course I wrote the story but the combination of personal hurt and professional frustration made for a bad-hair day.

Gibbs Hall became a focal point in my many years of covering the Volunteers.

Access to athletes was far more open then and I conducted almost daily interviews in the dorm lobby, after practice and after dinner, without Haywood Harris or Bud Ford arranging or monitoring conversations.

Steve Kiner and I once talked for two hours in his room – about life, obligations, responsibilities, ex-

pectations. The linebacker was struggling. I was a young husband and father and Sunday school teacher. I thought I had all the answers.

It was an unforgettable experience. We remain friends.

Kiner and Gibbs Hall – he was guardian of an adopted stray dog named Rabies. I believe it slept under his bed.

He and other Vols smuggled in meat scraps. Maids and janitors didn’t notice.

Kiner and Gibbs Hall – he once walloped basketball giant Rupert Breedlove over a table dispute in the dining room and had to skip a few meals as punishment.

Tim Townes, very small freshman safety, was misidentified in the dining room by assistant coach Bob Davis: “Son, this is the football section. Wrestlers sit over there.”

Gus Manning persuaded Tom T. Hall and part of his band to stop one evening as

cultural enrichment for the Volunteers. That was the first time I heard “Watermelon Wine.”

Joe Louis came to see and be seen. I tried but the former heavyweight boxing champion didn’t say much.

Bernard King lives on in Gibbs memories. Greg Phillips was second-team football but first in electrical engineering. He was studying late when loud music interrupted concentration.

He took a walk, found the sound and asked the basketball star to turn it down.

King said OK. Greg went back to books, heard more music and made another trip. Sorry about that. And there was peace and relative quiet.

Phillips seemed more determined on the third trip.

When Bernard opened the door, Greg picked him up and dumped him onto the stereo. It broke. It is good

for all of us that King didn’t.

Police, now and then, visited Gibbs Hall. Eventually doors were locked. That didn’t prevent the occasional girl incident.

The dorm was a focal point as recently as January 2010, after the sudden departure of a famous football coach.

From a second floor window, somebody screamed, “Go to hell, Lane Kiffin.”

John Ward delivered the most famous dorm mention, Vol Network, 1967, from the campus of Mississippi State. One fine guard hit free throws with seven seconds left in the third overtime to clinch the SEC championship. The big trophy belonged to the Volunteers.

Ward said: “Wrap it up, tie it in orange and white, and send it to Bill Justus, care of Gibbs Hall, Knoxville, Tennessee!”

species of birds, including four species of sparrows and a surprise flyover by three sandhill cranes. Nice, easy, pleasant birding.

In the winter, any place with water seems to offer a higher concentration of bird life. Even as small an area as the duck pond in Fountain City often comes up with a surprise wild duck or gull.

Places a little farther out such as Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery on the Clinch River in Clinton, the Songbird Trail along the river below Norris Dam and the

Norris State Park above the dam, Cove Lake State Park at Caryville, and Fort Loudoun Dam and the lake above it up through Knoxville, all offer the usual as well as unexpected water- and shoretype birds all winter.

With a little more time, birders try a bit farther afield, looking for birds that wouldn’t ordinarily be expected to be here.

Word recently got around that a couple of short-eared owls had been seen hunting over the tall-grass meadows of Cade’s Cove. Short-eared

owls nest in northern Canada and the Northwest, and in winter down through the middle of the U.S. They are rare for us East Tennesseans to get to see.

And so on Friday afternoon, Dec. 20, three of us set out for the Cove. The hills and fields were lovely, and traffic nearly nonexistent.

We set up our birding scopes on a grassy elevation along Hyatt Lane. Sure enough, as dusk approached, there they were, flying like big feathered moths back and forth over the fields. One was even

kind enough to perch in a leafless tree and pose for us for over 30 minutes.

The owls were accompanied by three owl-like hawks called northern harriers. We also saw wild turkeys and deer. And then, across the road came a fat, shiny mama bear with three cubs! It was a scene that will stay with us for a while.

Winter birding is a great alternative to the couch or the mall with the woods mosquito- and tick-free, and alive with birds to learn from and enjoy. Good birding!

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

A-6 • JANUARY 6, 2014 • BEARDEN Shopper news

Doc (center) jokes with the paint crew, Herman DuBose and Rob Rathbun, as Cathy looks on.

and MuĂąeca.

On a recent weekday, they were headed Cathy Leach and Doc Severinsen discuss renovations for their farmhouse in Blount County. for UT – Cathy to teach and Doc to practice. He enjoys practicing in the stairwell near Cathy’s office because of the resonance. Those lucky enough to be in the The paint crew that’s building enjoy hearing working upstairs doesn’t that big bright sound, know who he is. undiminished in over 70 “He’s the nice guy who years of playing.

Carol hired us to paint,� they say “The trumpet is wonwith grins and shrugs. They Zinavage derful,� says Doc. “It’s agree to Google him when the king of musical inthey get home. struments – that’s why In this age of 15-minthey put trumpets on the ute, viral video fame, Doc highest level when you Severinsen isn’t known to everyone. His friendly de- don’t really dress ‘like that,’� see an orchestra, because meanor and down-to-earth he says, referring to his they’re the majesty! nature make him seem like well-known habit of wear“But you can be hua regular guy. But anyone ing flamboyant clothes. He miliated beyond dewho grew up watching The still glitzes it up for concert scription. Playing the Tonight Show with Johnny tours, but “I don’t own any trumpet will keep you Carson instantly recognizes suits. All I own is jeans, work Doc likes the resonance of the stairwells in humble. About the time shirts and cowboy boots, so the iconic bandleader. you think you’ve got it the UT music building.

When a 30-plus-year if I play in church, I’m going Doc Severinsen in front of his Bount County farmmade, it’ll reach right up house, built in 1840. Photos by Carol Zinavage friendship with fellow to be wearing that.� and bite you in the rear!

Both stay busy with intrumpeter Cathy Leach “If you’re not having such One current joint project room will be my ‘cave’ where a good day and you don’t feel blossomed into romance a dividual projects. Cathy, Doc Severinsen Big Band, few years ago, Doc moved to who was the KSO’s princi- which he says is “the finest isn’t at all musical. The cou- I can practice and work on like you’re playing your best, pal trumpeter for 31 years, big band I’ve ever worked ple are restoring a rambling sewing projects. And that’s you’ve just got to keep at it. I Maryville to be near her.

The two work together plays with “Stiletto,� an all- with.� And, of course, he’s of- Blount County farmhouse Doc’s room at the end of the get kicked off the horse every on many musical projects. female brass ensemble. The ten featured on his own. This built in 1840. “I am still try- hall,� she says, gesturing to- darn day in my own practice.

They’ve appeared in Knox- group does master classes past weekend he appeared ing to find my way around ward a room literally stacked “But you’ve got to get with trumpets. ville churches in programs and concerts all over the with the Milwaukee Sympho- this place!� laughs Doc. right back on. And I do!�

Cathy’s looking forward In fact, there’s at least of “jazzed-up� gospel mu- country. Their CD, featur- ny in a series of four concerts Stay tuned. Next week to getting all the rooms one trumpet somewhere in we’ll hear about Doc’s sic. There’s always a rustle ing Doc as special guest, is over three days.

At 86, he’s fit, healthy and squared away. The busy pro- every room of the house. of excitement when Doc’s available on Amazon.com. musical upbringing and his Doc’s quintet, the San up to such a punishing sched- fessor of trumpet and direcBoth enjoy cooking in the memories of Johnny Carson lanky, jean-clad figure Miguel 5, features music with ule. “I’ve still got the mojo,� tor of undergraduate studies spacious farm kitchen, lookstrides to the front. and The Tonight Show. “People might be sur- a Latin flair, including Span- he says of his desire to per- at the UT School of Music ing at the mountain views Send story suggestions to news@ sees great potential. “One and caring for dogs Gracie ShopperNewsNow.com. prised to find out that I ish guitar. He also leads The form and delight audiences.

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The Written Word Although I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink; instead I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

(2 John 12 NRSV)

Central Baptist members Laura Smith, Eli Stryk, Ted Stryk, Larkin Bristow, Kent Bristow, Stacey Bristow and Maria Bristow walk on Gay Street during FaithWalk. Photos submitted

FaithWalk steps up for AIDS awareness

By Wendy Smith The Second Annual FaithWalk, “Knoxville Steps Up for HIV,” was held downtown recently.

Approximately 85 people participated in the walk, which benefitted Samaritan Ministry, the National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS and Smoky Mountains Lions Charities. The event was hosted by Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.

FaithWalk is an attempt to engage the faith and HIV/ AIDS communities, says Wayne Smith of Samaritan Ministry of Central Baptist Church of Bearden.

In many ways, life has improved for HIV patients.

Patients are less likely to

Greer Roberts participates in the recent FaithWalk, which was held in conjunction with World AIDS Day.

See? This is a problem.

What the author of 2 John may have said to the community of faith we will never know, because it was said and not written. If it had been written, we would likely have it recorded in Scripture.

In much the same way, I have an issue with e-mails.

Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate e-mail as much as the next person. It is quick and efficient and quite handy.

However, there are advantages to getting a letter in the mail. Let me explain.

We have, in the family archives, several letters my grandfather wrote to the young lady he would eventually marry – my grandmother Belle. She was well and truly named; Papa claimed forever that she was the prettiest girl who ever came out of Union County. His letters to her were elegant, humble, and very proper: in them, he called her “Miss Petree.” (It was a different time: as long as she lived, when she spoke of him to friends and neighbors, she referred to him as Central Baptist Church of Bearden Minister of Missions Mark “Mr. Dunn.”)

I also have one letter Moreland plays a drum during FaithWalk. written to Belle by one of her 10 brothers. It was a letter of admiration and appreciation. I have considstruggle finding jobs and rience bias from hospitals ered giving it to one of his housing, he says. “People and family members. “Peodirect descendants, but so have a better understanding ple still die from it, and pafar, have (selfishly) kept it. of how you get HIV.” tients still suffer from isolaMother still has all of But he still hears stories tion and stigma. We’re not the correspondence she exof local patients who expe- where we need to be.” changed with Daddy before they were married. She was working at Miller’s Department Store and he was in . school at Lincoln Memorial University. Those letters are filed, in order, in a Jimilee is a beautiful 9-yearcedar keepsake box. I have old domestic short hair mix not read them, considering waiting for a forever home. them private and personal.

Her adoption fee has also When my brother was been reduced to $10 for the born (not long before the holidays. Jimilee has been end of World War II), spayed, updated on vacciDaddy sent telegrams to nations and microchipped. relatives announcing the She can also be seen at birth. At least one of those Young-Williams’ Division documents was sent back Street location. to Daddy and Mother as a keepsake. It gave Warren’s

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Lynn Pitts name, date of birth, birth weight, then remarked, “Mother and son are fine; father’s condition questionable.” That telegram is still in the family archives.

When I was born three years later, Daddy made long distance phone calls. It was the new technology, very upto-date. However, I have always felt a little cheated, because I didn’t have a telegram I could hold in my hand. I don’t know what Daddy said in those phone calls, and I would love to know!

We also have all of the war correspondence from Daddy’s younger brother, who fought in the South Pacific, and who was in a foxhole on Okinawa when he learned of Warren’s birth.

All of these are documents of a different time, of a different world. They are, however, historical documents, even if they are a family history and not of great importance to anyone else. They are a little chunk of our story, and that is, after all, what history is all about: story – yours, mine, ours, our country’s, our world’s, our universe’s story.

I encourage you to find out your story, your history.

Ask your parents and your grandparents to tell you their stories. Check out old family Bibles; look at the pages between the Old and New Testaments; frequently there are pages there on which to record births, marriages, and deaths. Go to the McClung Historical Collection, 601 Gay Street. It is part of the Knox County library system, and an unimaginable wealth of genealogical information. Go to Ancestry.com.

Learn your stor y!

Father Hoan Dinh swings the thurible over the communion sacraments at the Church of Divine Mercy. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Celebrating with worship

By Sherri Gardner Howell The faithful at Church of Divine Mercy did not lounge around in front of the television on New Year’s Day – at least not between 8:30 and 10 p.m.

Eager to celebrate the new year in their new church building, approximately 75 people joined in fellowship at the church off Carmichael Road in West Knoxville.

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A-8 • JANUARY 6, 2014 • BEARDEN Shopper news

UUNIK Academy teaches respect, discipline

By Betty Bean The last day of school before the Christmas break, the big crowd in the Vine Middle School auditorium was getting rowdy while waiting for the Kwanzaa celebration to begin.

Jenkins Costumed dancers, poets and players scrambled up to the stage as the decibel level rose.

The master of ceremonies took the microphone and asked for attention. He wasn’t playing.

Remarkably, the crowd hushed.

Afterward, Reggie Jenkins explained how he knew what to do: “A few people asked me to try to help calm the crowd down, and for me, it’s just the way I was raised – kind of like when I was growing up in church.

Even if nobody’d been in my ear, I was going to say something because a lot of people put their heart and soul into that program and sometimes you just have to remind folks of where they are, who they are and what they represent.”

A graduate of the University of Tennessee with degrees in math and statistics, Jenkins learned the value of hard work and respecting his elders from his father, who owned a barbershop.

“I watched how he ran the shop – ‘Come in, take your hat off, pull your pants up.’ He was like the community father,” said Jenkins, whose volunteer work has made him well known at Vine and other schools in the heart of the city.

His day job is in sales, but his heart is in the work he does with young people – primarily with boys – as executive director of UUNIK Academy, a mentoring program for young AfricanAmerican males. The name is an acronym for the seven principles of Kwanzaa, which promote unity and responsibility among fam-

ily, friends and community.

“I have always had a passion for young people,” Jenkins said. “I worked in the school system for three years after I graduated, and after that at the YMCA. I always dreamed of having my own afterschool program – so many youth programs are just babysitting and don’t get a lot of these young people ready for the world. I just really wanted something where children were really getting something.”

He started UUNIK Academy in September 2003. It operates 5:307:30 p.m. Thursdays and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays.

UUNIK Academy sponsors College Careers Week for Vine students in February, a “Calling all Males” citywide conference in the fall and a “Calling all Females” conference in the spring.

“My 5-year goal is to run Monday through Saturday.

We work on academics, enrichment and counseling.

We teach them how to correctly act out and come up with solutions. We go on field trips and try to find out what their talents and interests are, outside of athletics. We deal with cultural enrichment, history, and build on that for self esteem and self respect.

We emphasize personal etiquette.”

Parenthetically, Jenkins helps kids whose career dreams involve professional athletics work on backup plans.

“I break that reality down,” he said. “I’m not going to deter them, but I inform them that in the past 40 years, only one person from Knoxville (Elston Turner) has made it to the NBA and only 15 to the NFL.” Jenkins and his wife of 17 years, Kamesha, have a 7-month-old son, Jabari.

To contact Reggie Jenkins, go to http:// uunikacademy.org or email uunik.academy@ gmail.com or call 865384-4475.

Students from West Valley who participated in this year’s junior clinic band are (front) Nikhil Patel, Ben Collins, Morgan Post, Colin Patton, Gage Pagodin; (second row) Emily Chung, Hibah Javed, Josh Duzan, Megan Malone, Caris Morgenegg; (third row) Justin Edaugal, Audrey Plescia, Kelsey Shockley, Samantha Raymond, Sheyenne Johnson; (fourth row) Ethan Gossage, Aaron Lively, Tyler Chan, Travis Roberts, Garrett Coppock, Brandon Jacoby. Not Pictured is Ryan Petersen. Photo submitted

Band students raise the bar A select group of middle school band students from all over East Tennessee were chosen as members of this year’s regional junior clinic.

The clinic is considered tryouts for two regional bands, Gold and Silver.

West Valley Middle School had 21 students who tried out, some of whom were hand-picked by their instructors. Half made the Gold band and half made Silver.

Musical selections for both Gold and Silver included a range of classical music, and the bands had only Sara a day and a half to rehearse Barrett together before the official performance.

Jennifer Jacoby, mother of WVMS student and Gold band member BranParticipants who made don Jacoby, said in general the cut performed at Oak band helps build character, Ridge High School on Dec. but being in the regional 7, the bands’ only perfor- bands kicks things up a mance. notch.

Sammy Anderson, Cameron Kriesher and Garrett Estes show the toys they picked out at the Candy Cane Cottage.

“(Regional band) gives them a whole new taste of music and a whole new appreciation of the arts,” said Jacoby.

“They’re more challenged than in the regular band program. Music in general is a totally unique experience, and it exposes them to an experience away from testing. It is very rewarding for the kids to work so hard and perform the pieces regionally.”

Harrison Atkins, 3 1/2 years old, shakes a snowball ornament while shopping with his mom.

Candy Cane Cottage at Rocky Hill Shannon Dishner volunteers at the Candy Cane Cottage while her daughter, Zoey, shops for the family.

Volunteer Jennifer Quinley takes pictures for the school yearbook while Candy Cane Cottage chair Wendy Mangum Piper Woodall, Adriane Crocker and Michael Messer pick out takes a much deserved break with room parent coordinator gifts for their pets at Rocky Hill Elementary School’s annual Deborah Noe. Candy Cane Cottage held in the gym. Students at the school shopped with their families and friends during the event. All proceeds went towards the school’s benevolence fund and community outreach program. Photos by S. Barrett Mountain dulcimer player and singer Sarah Morgan Sarah will perform with hamMorgan mered dulcimer player Dan Landrum in an informal Baccalaureate program are concert at Union County Bearden High invited to attend an informa- Arts in Maynardville at 7 ■ The school store needs tion session followed by p.m. Friday, Jan. 31. Resvolunteers for the 7:4 5-8:30 a brief tour of the school ervations are required and a.m. shift. Info: email Katie Fridays at 2 p.m. To register can be made by calling MorWalsh at krw1066@comcast. or see available dates, visit gan at 865-278-3975. net. wesths.knoxschools.org and This is the art center’s click on the prospective first “house concert” that is students link. Info: email West High School planned for the upstairs galSarah Bast, sarah.bast@ ■ Students and parents interlery with room for about 30 knoxschools.org. ested in the International people.

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Landrum’s hammered dulcimer playing has taken him from street performing in Chattanooga to Olympic ceremonies, presidential inaugurations, and onto major stages in the Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Garden. He’s often a featured soloist with recording star Yanni.

He also publishes a quarterly magazine, Dulcimer Players News.

Morgan, a Sharps Chapel resident, is the 2012 Na-

tional Mountain Dulcimer Champion, having won the honor at age 18. She has also won multiple titles including Mid-Eastern Regional Mountain Dulcimer Champion, Kentucky State Champion and Southern Regional Champion.

This month, Morgan will instruct at Dulcimer U, a winter workshop at Western Carolina University, and will perform concerts in Asheville and Johnson City.

– Libby Morgan

BEARDEN Shopper news • JANUARY 6, 2014 • A-9

The Rotary Club of Knoxville packed the back room at Naples for a special New Year’s Eve celebration honoring the club’s international ties.

Happy New Year … at 6 p.m.

By Sherri Gardner Howell There was no waiting for the stroke of midnight for members of the Rotary Club of Knoxville on New Year’s Eve. Approximately 50 members gathered in the back room at Naples restaurant at 5 p.m. so they could be ready to count down to the New Year – at 6 p.m.

“We welcomed in the new year with a toast to our Rotary partners in Hungary,” explains Townes Osborn.

“This is our 11th annual New Year’s Eve party at Naples. Every year we toast our international partner clubs in Hungary and South Africa. The toast to Hungary is at 6 p.m., when it is a new year there.”

The party has given birth to the Unicum Society,

named for the traditional drink that is found in most Hungarian homes. “Unicum is an elixir that every home in Hungary keeps on hand because it helps one digest the rich Hungarian food,” says Osborn, adding, “but the taste of Unicum is an acquired taste.”

The toast isn’t easy for newcomers as the Rotarians take a drink of Unicum and yell, “Egeszegedre,” which roughly means “Cheers!

Here’s to your health” in Hungarian.

The Hungarian connection has a serious side. The club has partnered with the Hungarian Rotary Club in Mateszalak for 18 years on humanitarian projects. In

October, for example, Rotary Club of Knoxville collected $5,000 to send to the Mateszalak club for them to buy Christmas gifts for the children in a nearby orphanage.

Knoxville Rotary also partners with two clubs in South Africa, and they toasted the New Year in their honor as well. The toast was with Amarula, which goes down much smoother, says Osborn.

A new toast was added this year to the Hungarian portion of the celebration. It is a mixture of the Unicum, which is made by the Zwack company, and Jack Daniel’s whiskey. “We call it Zwack Jack,” says Osborn, “and when we drink it, we raise

Back to work after holidays The old post office and bait shop on Knox Lane behind the Fountain City McDonald’s are gone.

Coming soon is Speedy Cash, a title and installment loan company, being built by HL Construction.

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Larry Rossini, director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center, will speak at the Fountain City Business and Professional Association at noon Wednesday, Jan. 8, in the fellowship hall of Central Baptist Church. He will discuss business checkup, new license requirements and new micro loan opportunities.

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Rebecca Williams, director of sales and marketing at the Knoxville Convention Center, was named Supplier of the Year by the East Williams Tennessee Meeting Professionals.

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By Pam Fansler First Tennessee Bank’s promise is to be the best at serving our customers, one opportunity at a time.

The bank was founded in 1864 Fansler when Abraham Lincoln was president, and employees have been practicing that promise ever since – even if it wasn’t written down. No financial institution could endure for a century and a half without dedicated employees earning the trust of generations of customers.

Next March, First Tennessee will celebrate its 150th anniversary. We’re planning an array of events to honor our customers, employees and communities.

It’s not every day that an institution reaches that milestone, and we want to show our pride in our history.

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signs and banners, an advertising campaign, a book and more will proclaim that First Tennessee is Tennessee’s bank, as it has been for 150 years.

First Tennessee is the largest bank headquartered in the state, and thanks to our customers, we’re staying number one. First Tennessee has the leading market share for all of Tennessee, according to the latest Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. figures. Our deposits grew faster than the market statewide and in each of our three regions in Tennessee.

Such success might not have been foreseen when we were founded. But through the years we expanded into most markets in the state.

In East Tennessee, milestones included the acquisition of United American Bank in 1983 and Valley Fidelity Bank in 1991. Most recently we completed the conversion of Mountain National Bank to First Tennessee, giving us an expanded presence and new options

for our customers.

Our legacy of trust and service gives us perspective.

First Tennessee was founded when the American Civil War was raging, and we’ve served customers through World Wars and social upheaval, through the Great Depression and the Great Recession. First Tennessee has been a part of the state’s history. We’ve provided financial services, jobs and community investment.

We’re First Tennessee and we put Tennessee first.

We are very proud of our strong presence in East Tennessee. We will continue to invest in the communities we serve, supporting education, economic development, health and the arts.

When our communities prosper we do too. That’s been our guiding principle for 150 years and will be into the future. At First Tennessee, we’re ready for our next 150 years of serving customers, one opportunity at a time.

Pam Fansler is president, East Tennessee Region, First Tennessee Bank.

News from Moxley Carmichael

The Moxley Carmichael Method

By Cynthia Moxley Many East Tennesseans are planning for the New Year, setting resolutions to save money, lose weight, kick a bad habit or cross a few items off bucket lists.

Jan. 1 marks a time for planning in the public relations industry as well. At Moxley Carmichael, we’ve been working with clients for weeks to prepare for 2014. Our clients have big goals and need plans to achieve them.

C. Moxley We recommend preparing a strategic communications plan for the year that outlines not only your company’s objectives but also the strategies and tactics you’ll use to get your messages out and enhance your reputation.

Whether we’re working with businesses in health care, professional services, education, consumer goods or nonprofit, we start with a few key areas. Any local business can benefit from focusing on these recommendations as we kick off 2014.

Branding: What is your brand? Is it consistent? Recognizable? Effective? Consider gathering your executive team for a branding session focused on defining – or redefining – your brand. Make sure your strategy is effective in representing your organization to customers, potential customers and other stakeholders.

Digital presence: How are you using technology and digital media to promote your business? Examine your website, blog, email marketing and social media pages.

Do they reflect your brand and use consistent messaging? Companies are expanding their digital presence in 2014 with strategic

moves like adding a mobile-friendly website or using Facebook advertising.

Media and presentation training: When you talk to local news outlets or civic groups about your business, how effective will you be? Take time to train key staff to serve as successful spokespersons whose messages resonate – while also providing value so they’re invited back.

Crisis communication: Update your crisis plan so your team is ready to handle emerging situations. Fast, accurate and effective communication is critical in overcoming a crisis if your organization faces one in 2014.

In 2013 Applebee’s fired an employee for posting a photo to Reddit showing the sales receipt of a pastor who refused to pay the automatic 18 percent gratuity the restaurant had added, and thousands flooded Applebee’s Facebook page in her support.

Applebee’s posted impersonal responses and was accused of deleting negative comments and blocking users. This defensive approach angered customers and tarnished Applebee’s reputation.

In contrast, when an insensitive tweet about President Obama’s grandmother was accidentally posted to the KitchenAid account instead of the employee’s personal Twitter page, the head of the KitchenAid brand started tweeting 15 minutes later to apologize and assure followers that the staffer would no longer tweet for KitchenAid. The immediate, honest approach was well received, and damage was minimized.

With our top PR tips, you can enter 2014 with a purpose and a plan. We love doing business in East Tennessee, and we know those who work and own companies here share that love. We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year.

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Grace students help Mission of Hope

By Shannon Morris In the spirit of Christmas cheer, a handful of our middle school students had the opportunity to spread some peace, love and joy to a group of students from Huntsville, TN., on Dec. 5.

For the last four years, students at Grace Christian Academy have been involved in a cooperative effort with Mission of Hope to assist children from impoverished backgrounds during the Christmas season. This year, a group of eight students from the Middle School Worship Arts

class, along with four staff members, went to Huntsville School to help in this annual project.

Once the students arrived on-site, they helped unload the delivery truck and unpacked dozens of boxes of toys, which were designated by age group.

The gymnasium at Huntsville was filled with more than toys, as the GCA students performed two short programs for the kids during the day. In addition, the students played games with the children, led the boys and girls in the singing of Christmas carols, and spent time encouraging each child as they met with them and

spoke to them.

GCA staff and students, along with other volunteers, walked with the Huntsville students through the Christmas “store,” giving these children the opportunity to choose two toys. It was a tremendous opportunity to interact with students, some of whom have come from a very difficult background. It was an inspiring way to kick off the Christmas season and to show the love of Jesus to our neighbors north of us through a spirit of giving. We look forward to tak- Grace middle schooler Dexter Reasons (right) helps a stuing part in Mission of Hope again dent at Huntsville School choose items from Mission of Hope. next year!

Photo by Teri Rash

Soccer balls for Haiti

By Julie Pointer Why would a group of 72 third graders willingly choose to eat black beans and rice instead of pizza? If it means being able to provide soccer balls for kids in Haiti who have nothing to play with, it’s an easy choice for the 3rd graders at Grace Christian Academy.

The Thursday before Thanksgiving, GCA 3rd graders brought in their $4 like they always do to pay for their pizza lunch, but this day they gave their money to provide for kids in Haiti. They were able to talk to a college student from Haiti to learn more about his country. They experienced a typical Haitian meal to replace the normal pizza lunch.

The 3rd grade classes are excited about the partnership they have developed with Blackmon Pediatrics and Harvest Field Ministries this year to provide supplies for a joint

mission effort in Haiti. In September, they collected boxes of medical and dental supplies for the clinics in Haiti.

After the Friends and Family Campaign at GCA, in which students began asking for donations to help fund the new playground at Grace, their thoughts turned to their partners in Haiti. Students realized that children there did not have anything to play with, so they stepped up to meet the need.

Sixty-one MacGregor soccer balls were purchased with donations from “Have a Ball for Haiti.” Many students brought in above and beyond the $4 they were asked to donate. They were so excited when the balls arrived and they got to see all that their sacrifice had provided for others.

When asked if their sacrifice that day was worth it, the response from most was, “When can we do it again?”

Grace 3rd graders Jake Blankenship, Gracie Coffey, Hayden Whitehead, Marlee Giles, Pierce Browning, Maggie Blackmon, Sydney Thompson and Ian Setzer hold soccer balls that will be sent to children in Haiti.

Grace 3rd graders Lillie Peterson and Ian Setzer enjoy a lunch of rice and beans instead of pizza to help buy soccer balls for children in Haiti.

Photos by Kim Giles

New Year’s reflections

By Rachel M. Hannon, Grace Christian Academy teacher The coming of a new year traditionally brings a time for reflection and resolution. It is a stepping stone in one’s life: an opportunity to appreciate the blessings and accomplishments of the past and determine to make the future better. The lists of New Year’s resolutions are often long, but contain a common theme of personal improvement. Most of us resolve to lose weight, exercise or learn something new.

As a classroom teacher of high school freshmen and seniors, I wonder how teenagers view the new year. First, one has to understand the significance of a new year for a high school student. To them, it is more of a transition than an end. The school year is half over. The pressures

of midterm exams are past and Form), commit to a college and important chapter in their lives students have had several weeks make concrete plans for the is about to close. It is also a time to relax. With the start of a new future. This time of year brings of anticipation of having to face semester everyone has a perfect a sense of excitement as an the unknown. Ultimately, the start of the year allows grade in every subject. an opportunity to finish Students are focused on strong. One senior stated the distant approach of that now is the “time to summer, knowing that go as hard as you can. It’s May represents the end a chance to start proving of the year for them. who you really are.”

Perhaps the best analogy shared by one student is When asked about that New Year’s is like their resolutions, halftime. You know the responses of my where you stand based students were varied. on the first half, but you However, there was one now have an opportunity underlying theme. While to pull ahead or stage a adult resolutions focus comeback. on self-improvement, For seniors, the new the vast majority of my year is the beginning of Grace teacher Rachel Hannon (standing) chats students’ resolutions the end. It is now time with students Madison McMullen, Shelby Green, concerned others. To to complete the FAFSA Lori Lower, Morgan Jackson and Miranda Pratt. the students, New Year’s (Federal Student Aid Photo by S. Morris is an opportunity to

decide to do something different, make improvements and correct mistakes. For them, this is a time to improve relationships with parents, siblings, classmates and the Lord. Many teenagers resolved to do something good— give of their time, encourage a friend or help someone in need.

It seems adults can learn a lot about what really matters from a teenager. Looking at our list of resolutions and plans, maybe it is time for us to look out and up instead of in. As one student put it, “A new year means a new start, a fresh beginning. The old year is gone, and no matter what you do, you can’t get it back.

The good times, the bad days, the experiences, are in the past.

New Year’s is a time to reflect, to laugh, to cry, but also to move on.”

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLES NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Treatment for prostate cancer leads retired professor to Thompson Cancer Survival Center As a retired professor of industrial engineering, John Hungerford of Knoxville, 74, is used to taking a methodical, scientific approach to solving problems. When he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in April 2006, Hungerford used the same logic to make decisions about his treatment.

“I used all that good training to plot my treatment plan,” said Hungerford. “But at first, I had kind of a sense of panic about the whole process. You think you have to do something right away.”

But Hungerford’s cancer was in an early stage, giving him some time, and, like many prostate cancers, was relatively slow growing.

“At first you think, ‘I’m going to die.’ But then you find out that’s not the case if the cancer’s not aggressive. Yes, you’re going to die, but not necessarily from that,” he said.

Hungerford attended a prostate cancer support group at the Cancer Support Community of Knoxville – formerly called the Wellness Community. “I found that group amazingly helpful because a lot of men had a good reservoir of technical knowledge,” he said.

Hungerford considered many current treatment options for prostate cancer.

“Then I heard about this alternative at Thompson Cancer Survival Center, called tomotherapy.

It’s basically a very focused kind of radiation that is limited to the cancerous cells and a small area around them,” he said.

Tomotherapy delivers radiation slice-by-slice, a tiny bit at a time, as opposed to hitting the entire prostate at once.

Hungerford went to the Thompson Cancer Survival Center in the summer of 2006 and met Dr. Daniel Scaperoth, a radiation oncologist.

“Right from the outset I liked Dr. Scaperoth,” said Hungerford.

“He was very straight-forward with me and answered all my questions

Prostate cancer survivor John Hungerford enjoys a daily walk with the family dog, Gertrude. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2006, Hungerford researched a treatment that was right for him and that led him to Thompson Cancer Survival Center.

“From the time my wife and I to my satisfaction. I felt like he was great deal of honesty between him in it for the patient’s benefit, and and me.” went to Thompson, we had a good he was trying to respond to what He said the Thompson Center feeling about the place,” he said.

“It’s a light and airy atmosphere, the patient needed. There was a impressed him as well.

Weighing your options for prostate cancer Of all the cancers, prostate is one of the slowest growing. If caught early, patients typically have plenty of time to decide on the best treatment option for their particular situation.

“People can die of prostate cancer, but it’s also very treatable and, for the most part, curable,” said Dr. Daniel Scaperoth, a radiation oncologist at Thompson Cancer Survival Center.

Each of the treatments currently available for prostate surgery has a similar success rate, with a variety of side effects. In general, they fall into two main categories: radiation Dr. Daniel or surgery.

Scaperoth “Usually men will go to a urologist or radiologist and get a couple of different opinions,” said Scaperoth. “There are support groups in town, and men will share their stories about what went well and what didn’t go well.”

“And the decision depends a little bit on age,” he added. “Younger patients in their 50s and 60s will lean a little toward surgery because they can always add radiation later. People over 70 might lean more toward radiation.”

There are so many options it can be difficult to choose, Scaperoth said. If it’s an early stage of disease, men can even choose not to do anything at all.

“Watchful waiting is also OK, with active surveillance of PSA levels,” Scaperoth said. PSA, prostate specific antigen, is a blood test that can detect the disease at an early stage. “The PSA test is what gives you lot of options,” said Scaperoth.

The American Urological Association recommends that men talk to their physicians about when to have a first PSA screening and how often they should be screened after that. In general, men ages 55 to 69 should be screened every two to four years.

“It’s really something you should talk to your doctor about, based on your own risk factors,” said Scaperoth.

and the people were the same way.

I just had a really good feeling about it.”

Starting in mid-July, Hungerford had 39 tomotherapy treatments, one per weekday, until the end of summer.

“They do precise CT (computed tomography) scans to locate the prostate,” he said. “There’s no pain. I was just lying there maybe 20 to 30 minutes each time. You don’t really feel anything, actually.”

“Toward the end of the treatment series you feel a little bit of fatigue,” said Hungerford. “The last couple of weeks I felt sluggish and slow, like I was walking through mud.”

But over the weeks, Hungerford’s PSA tests showed that the cancer was being destroyed. A PSA test is a blood test that detects the prostate specific antigen, an indicator of cancer.

“I’d say the treatment was very successful,” he said. “My PSA level started coming down to well below where it needs to be, and I’m pleased with that,” he said. “I haven’t had any problems since.”

Hungerford said he would recommend Thompson Cancer Survival Center to anyone facing prostate cancer treatment.

“The personnel are just great, and the technicians that worked with me when I was going through treatment were terrific too. Everyone was so helpful,” he said.

Hungerford said his wife, Ruth, met friends in the waiting room each time they went for treatment.

“She’s outgoing and got to know most of the people in the waiting room, and we’ve stayed friends with a lot of those people after treatment. It was really kind of neat to have that social aspect, unanticipated,” he said.

“I thought the care was outstanding, and it’s been that way ever since,” said Hungerford. “I’ve been treated really well.”

Prostate cancer treatment choices Surgery – Removal of the prostate either with an open incision or with a less invasive robotic system that uses several smaller incisions. The risks of surgery would include infection and anesthesia problems and a slightly higher risk of incontinence afterward.

Radiation – Radiation treatment is done either from the outside, bombarding the prostate with radiation beams, or from within the prostate, by implanting radioactive seeds inside the prostate. Tomotherapy is one type of external radiation, which applies the radiation in thin, precise slices. Risks of radiation would include a higher irritation to the bowel and rectum than surgery. Seed implants can cause swelling that can cause difficulty urinating.

Cryosurgery – A technique for freezing and killing abnormal cells, cryosurgery is being tested for very early stage cancers. It is a one-time procedure performed under anesthesia.

Hormone therapy – Male sex hormones can cause prostate cells to grow. Drugs that suppress hormones can slow the growth of cancer, but they have some serious side effects. These drugs are only used in more advanced cancers.

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‘Ring out the false, ring in the true’ BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. – It’s about 11 on the Monday morning of a holiday week, and Jeremy Burke is unpacking books.

Jake Mabe MY TWO CENTS He runs a small bookstore here in this charming city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast that still bears scars from Hurricane Katrina.

“This Christmas was better than last year, which was better than the year before,” Jeremy says of his store, and that seems to sum up the city’s resolve.

I scan the shelves, finding an award-winning book

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about the town’s triumph over tragedy, a marvelous Molly Ivins and a discarded ex-library book that looked like it needed a home. I’m a sucker for a stray.

Jeremy knows my friend, writer Rheta, and says, “I Everybody knows your name (or at least your game) at The keep telling her she needs to Blind Tiger. write another book.”

On the wall are some words by resident DP Dagle, read on NPR in 2011: “The Soul of Bay St. Louis isn’t hard to find if you know what you’re looking for in downtown BSL. “Geographically, it’s off Highway 90, and is most active between Carroll and Union, centered around main street (sic) overlooking the Gulf. Metaphorically, it’s located between Bloody Mary Mornings and Sunday strolls in seersucker suits, centered around Southern Living overlooking a troubled past and a promising future.”

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He is very affectionate and likes to be petted and rubbed. He loves to be the center of attention and sometimes I think he thinks he’s a dog.

He can entertain himself but also likes to play with other cats and toys. He’s negative for feline leukemia and aids, has been spayed, wormed, vaccinated, and vet checked.

Bay Saint Louis, Miss., still shows scars from Hurricane Katrina.

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the attention, so naturally I fell in love with BSL. About the only thing out of place is a cacophonous casino, the best part of which is a big filet and a photo of Bob Hope.

If you look carefully amid the cranes and the construction, you can find the art galleries, inns, boardwalks and bars.

Everybody knows your name (or at least your game) at The Blind Tiger, which overlooks the bay. It’s busy, so I eat at Purple Banana, a place that boasts that its customers are good guessers. Good for business, I guess.

Willie Nelson comes on the radio, singing Sinatra.

“When I was 17, it was a very good year…”

I smile, both at that voice and the incredible incredulousness of Willie working his way through the words of that rhyme. As usual, he pulls it off to perfection.

Who knows whether 2013 was a good or a lean year or an in-between year, so I thought of Tennyson.

“Ring out the old, ring in the new/Ring, happy bells, across the snow; the year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

“Pull Up A Chair” with Jake Mabe at jakemabe.blogspot.com.

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About Squash

Squash is a darling short haired classic gray tabby female kitten about 4 months old. Her coat is quite strikingly beautiful and unique.

She's very outgoing and social and gets along well with cats. She loves to play and wrestle with other cats or toys and is never bored.

She's negative for feline leukemia and aids, had her first distemper vaccine, been wormed, vet checked and had Advantage for fleas. She’s healthy, happy, loves to snuggle and is as cute as a button, and ready for a permanent home.

About Xena

Xena, the warrior princess, is a cute short haired dilute tortie (gray with gold mix through) female kitten, about 8 months old. Born in foster care, she is very social, playful and outgoing. She continues to nurse on her own belly, which is very endearing. She loves to play with toys or other cats and likes to be held and snuggled. Gets along well with cats, and should be great with dogs and kids.

She's negative for feline leukemia and been wormed, had Advantage for fleas, aids, had two distemper vaccines, has and been vet checked and spayed.

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MONDAY, JAN. 6 Job Resources Group meeting, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive.

Newly Bereaved casual workshop by Amedisys Hospice of Knoxville, 5:30 p.m., Cozy Joe’s Café, 2559 Willow Point Way. Free. To preregister: Sarah Wimmer, 689-7123 or 1-866-462-7182.

Beginning Tai Chi class, open house, 7-8:30 p.m., Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road.

Classes taught by the Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA. Info: 482-7761 or www.taoist.org.

Ossoli Circle meeting, Ossoli Clubhouse, 2511 Kingston Pike. 9:45 a.m., coffee; 10:30, program: “History of Jews in America” by Mimi Pais and husband Art; 11:30, business meeting followed by lunch. Visitors welcome. Info: 577-4106.

TUESDAY, JAN. 7 Caregiver Support Group meeting, 10 a.m.noon, Room E-224, Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive.

Guest speaker: Yvonne Marsh, CPA. Refreshments provided. Info: 675-2835.

Newly Bereaved casual workshop by Amedisys Hospice of Knoxville, 5 p.m., Panera Bread, 4855 Kingston Pike. Free. To preregister: Sarah Wimmer, 689-7123 or 1-866-462-7182.

“Computer Workshop – Introducing the Computer,” 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center. Info/register: 215-8700.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8 Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Big,” 2 and 7 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

“Video Pioneers: A History of Early Television,” A Brown Bag Lecture by Julian Burke, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay St. Free.

Info: 215-8824 or www.EastTNHistory.org.

Bonny Kate Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution meeting, noon, Second Methodist Church, 1524 Western Ave. Speaker: Lisa Duncan, director of Dogwood Arts Festival.

THURSDAY, JAN. 9 Knoxville Children’s Theatre auditions for “Charlotte’s Web,” KCT, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Auditions by appointment: email Dennis Perkins, dennis@ childrenstheatreknoxville.com, with name, age, gender and preferred audition time Artist in Residence Biennial opening reception 7-9 p.m., Ewing Gallery, UT Art & Architecture Building. Works by Patricia Treib, Michael Berryhill, EJ Hauser and Jaya Howey will be on display through Feb. 6.

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“Research and Practice in Mass Grave Exhumations: Current International Projects at the Anthropology Research Facility,” a lecture by Dawnie Steadman of the UT Anthropology Department, 7:30 p.m. McClung Museum. Free.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Week: Gallery of Art Tribute, 5-7 p.m., Community Forum, 6:30 p.m., Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave. In conjunction with the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

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Harvey Broome Group of the Sierra Club, 7 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Paul and Barbara Akers will cover Appalachian Trail Through Hiking and a Top 5 Gear “Show and Tell.”

Computer Workshops - Word 2007 II, 2 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215-8700.

P.R.A.Y. Conference for women, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., West Park Baptist Church, 8833 Middlebrook Pike.

Led by national speaker and author Debbie Taylor Williams. Cost: $10. Registration deadline: Jan. 12. Info/to register: www.westparkbaptist.org.

Farragut Skate Date, 4-6 p.m., Cool sports: Home of the Icearium, 110 S. Watt Road. Info: 218-4500.

YWCA Race Against Racism, 11:30 a.m., YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze St. Info: www. ywcaknox.com.

Wallace Coleman concert, blues harmonica, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14 (discount for JCA members, students and seniors); at www. knoxtix.com, 523-7521 and the door.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Charlene Ellis, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Laurie Fisher, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Introductory Internet Genealogy, 1 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration, a valid email address and good Internet searching capabilities required. Info/to register: 215-8809.

Certifiably Organic, 10:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Presented by Knox County Master Gardener Stephanie Sayres and her husband, Tom. Free and open to the public.

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Piano-trumpet concert featuring pianist Ryan Fogg and trumpeter Glenda Cloutier, 5 p.m., American Piano Gallery Recital Hall, 11651 Parkside Drive. Free.

MLK Week: A Night With the Arts featuring the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, 6 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Info: www.mlkknoxville. com.

Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” 2 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

Shakespeare Out Loud: Richard II, 2 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 2158750.

MONDAY, JAN. 13 Job Resources Group meeting, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive.

Muslim Journeys: Points of View – “In the Country of Men” first of five scholar-facilitated reading and discussion program debut, 6-8 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive.

Ossoli Circle meeting, Ossoli Clubhouse, 2511 Kingston Pike. 9:45 a.m., coffee; 10:30, program by Dr. Fred Bedelle Jr., author and former Superintendent of Knoxville City Schools; 11:30, book study by Wayne Zurl followed by lunch. Visitors welcome. Info: 577-4106.

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Diagnosed with breast cancer

Area woman finds a ‘mountaintop experience while in the valley’ Amy Carr did eeverything verything right right.

She took good care of herself; and she’d had annual mammograms for eight years. Yet there she was, sitting in a medical office after having an ultrasound, facing the realization that she may have breast cancer.

She says the doctor had been very comforting and explained that what the results showed could be an infection mimicking cancer.

“But my mind was racing, and I immediately began thinking about my husband and kids,” Carr says.

It was just too much to take in.

She fainted.

“The nurses were right there with a Sprite, fans and cold towels,” she laughs.

Carr, now 49, is a living and breathing example of why every woman should take ownership of her health and listen to her own body. If she hadn’t, she might not be alive today.

Carr says she noticed a bumpy patch of skin on her breast in March 2011, just a couple of months after having a clear mammogram. When it was still there after her family’s spring break vacation, she reluctantly scheduled an appointment with her physician.

“He’s going to think I’m a worrywart,” Carr says of her thoughts at that time. However, when her physician saw that bumpy patch of skin, he was immediately concerned.

“He knew what he was looking at,” Carr says. “His response was, ‘I’m very concerned. I’m going to send you to where I send all my tough breast patients.’ ” An ultrasound followed at Parkwest Comprehensive Breast Center, then an MRI at Parkwest Medical Center. At first, all indications were that Carr had cancer in her left breast, but further testing revealed cancer in both breasts.

Biopsies showed that Carr had Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma, one of the most commonly diagnosed breast cancers. She had stage III on the left side, stage II on the right. A PET scan at Thompson Cancer Survival Center later revealed that the cancer had also reached her lymph nodes on the left side.

Breast cancer had already struck Carr’s family twice in her lifetime, so she had always taken the threat seriously and was judicious about annual mammograms. She’d even taken the initiative to undergo genetic testing, which showed she did not have the gene that would make her most vulnerable.

Still, long months followed as Carr went through the process that has become so familiar to so many, undergoing treatment and surgery for breast cancer. Carr held on tightly to her faith in God and to her family. She continued to work,

ment. ment It was an incredible inccred iin credible time of reflection, gratitude and celebration.”

“Now, I just take my little white pill every day and return to Thompson Oncology Group every three months for blood work,” Carr explains. “If it resurfaces somewhere, I know they will do everything in their power to stop it again.”

Oncologist Daniel Ibach, MD, says having Carr as a patient inMembers of the choir at Carr’s church donned scarves and the color pink in a show of support as she sang “Trust,” spired everyone who came into a song written by the church minister of music. Carr now contact with her at Thompson tells her story to various groups, telling women “it’s in the West, where she received her valley that the most beautiful lilies grow.” chemotherapy.

“Cancer is a fierce battle, with scary, life threatening situations, but it is in the trenches of the war against cancer that heroes shine, Diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer and Amy Carr is truly one of those (both breasts at the same time), Amy heroes.”

Carr refused to let cancer define her life.

She continued to sing even while going Carr had endured multiple surthrough chemotherapy. geries, chemotherapy, antibiotics and radiation. It was a hard fought battle, but she won. “I truly felt like To celebrate her recovery, Carr (short God was showing me how to truly hair, pink headband, behind the poster) and a dozen of her friends and live, not how to die.” family members participated in the Dr. Ibach says his staff was inKomen Race for the Cure in 2012. spired by Carr not only through her cancer treatment, but by how she through her port were not helping. openly leaned on her faith in God Carr ended up having three more to get her through it. “I would leave surgeries within 30 days. Lab re- the room inspired,” he says, “and sults finally revealed she had a very she was the one going through cherare type of infection that would re- motherapy.”

Carr says she learned so much on quire six months of a different type her journey that now she’s writing of antibiotic.

From January to June 2012, a book about it. When she talks to Carr took chemo and antibiotics other cancer patients, she encourevery day, more than 2,500 pills ages them to be authentic, the best in all. She then began 35 radiation version of themselves they can be. stayed involved in the day-to-day while recovering from surgery in “Yes, I had a wig that I wore, but lives of her husband and children, October 2011. It was Breast Cancer treatments at Thompson Cancer Survival Center downtown over the there were also times that I wore and continued to sing in her church Awareness Month. choir.

“Everything on TV was pink,” summer. Carr had her final treat- bandanas and ball caps,” Carr says.

Carr was determined to walk in says Carr. She hadn’t asked to be faith, not fear. part of this pink world of breast In the middle of the time period cancer and wasn’t ready to be a part during which she underwent che- of this sisterhood. Messages were motherapy, Carr performed a song everywhere about the importance written by her music minister titled of early detection and having mam“Trust.” To show their support, the mograms, something that she’d ment Sept. 11, 2012.

“That’s when I learned some wonladies of the choir wore scarves on done without fail.

Through it all, Carr had con- derful things,” she explains. Other their heads, just like Carr, and the “I was confused and a little anmen donned pink ties and shirts. gry when I thought about how I tinued her full-time job as a social survivors would notice her, introduce “It was an emotional day, an ex- had just had a clear mammogram, worker, and she had stayed actively themselves and share their own surperience that my family and I will yet the cancer was there, and had involved in the lives of her fam- vival stories and encouragement. never forget,” Carr says. been there for probably nine to 12 ily and friends. She only stopped “I want others to realize that Carr endured two separate, six- months,” Carr says. “I encourage singing in the choir for a short time there are many things cancer canmonth rounds of chemotherapy women now to ask for an ultra- while recovering from surgery. not take from you and to embrace Cancer had been unable to define during her 18 months of treatment; sound.” the support from others,” Carr says. however, she says she never looked Then, at a post surgery appoint- her life. With the long journey be“No one should ever face a trial like hind her, she was ready to celebrate. at chemo as poison. She never ment with her oncologist, Carr this alone. I’m so thankful for my hesitated about having the double received news that seven of the 11 When October 2012 came, Carr felt mastectomy either. “The fear of lymph nodes removed from her left very differently about Breast Can- family and friends who walked this road with me.” living with cancer in my body was side still tested positive for cancer. cer Awareness Month.

“I can honestly now say that I “I not only accepted being part much greater than the fear of living Six more months of a different cheof the pink sisterhood, I now em- am thankful for the journey,” Carr without ‘my girls,’ ” Carr says of her mo would be in her future. breasts.

As if that were not enough, Carr braced it,” Carr says. “Twelve of says with a smile. “When I speak to But the process of fighting can- had also developed a serious infec- my friends and family even joined ladies groups or churches, I remind cer can exhaust even the heartiest tion in her chest wall, and the anti- me in doing the Komen Race for a them that it’s in the valley that the of souls. She remembers a low point biotics she was self-administering Cure, just weeks after my last treat- most beautiful lilies grow!”

“Cancer is a fierce battle, with scary, life threatening situations, but it is in the trenches of the war against cancer that heroes shine, and Amy Carr is one of those heroes.”

– Daniel Ibach M.D.

“I felt like God was showing me how to truly live, not how to die.”

– Amy Carr, cancer survivor

Schedule your screening at Parkwest The Parkwest ComprehenThe center supports individsive Breast Center is recognized ual health needs in all ages and as a Breast Center of Excel- walks of life, including: lence by the American College ■ Digital mammography of Radiology. It offers a com■ Breast ultrasound prehensive, multi-disciplinary ■ Steriotactic biopsy program, including screenings, ■ Bone density screenings breast cancer diagnosis, treatIn addition, the center has a ment and counseling. designated Breast Health Co-

ordinator, and more than 50 skilled physicians are affiliated with Covenant Health Breast Centers.

“A woman shouldn’t wait until she’s in the middle of a crisis,” says center supervisor Aundrea Gregory. “She deserves to be equipped with the

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