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BUZZ Budget forum Knox Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre will host a community forum regarding the fiscal year 2015-16 budget process at 6 p.m. Monday, April 6, at Amherst Elementary School, 5101 Schaad Road.

The meeting will be streamed live at knoxschools. org/kcstv and broadcast live on Comcast Channel 10 and AT&T U-verse Channel 99.

Easter egg hunts

■ Big Ridge State Park annual Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday, April 4. Includes 12,000 eggs with candy or prize tickets and four separate hunts: 10 a.m., 2 years and under; 10:30 a.m., 3-4 years; 1 p.m., 5-7 years; 1:30 p.m., 8-10 years. Info: 992-5523.

■ Fountain City Park, bounce house, magic shows, Easter Bunny.

Hunts for ages 6-8, 9:30 a.m.; ages 3-5, 10:15 a.m.; walking to two years (no parents allowed), 11 a.m.; ages 9-12, 11:45 a.m. Saturday, March 28, Hotel Avenue. Admission is free. Bring a basket. Info: www.fountaincitybusiness.com ■ Pancake Breakfast and Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday, March 28, Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway. Breakfast begins 9 a.m.; egg hunt begins 10 a.m.

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On this month’s County Commission agenda, commissioner Jeff Ownby has a proposal to modify the local animal welfare ordinance.

Ownby claims the proposal will help authorities better protect pets in extreme weather conditions.

But is County Commission ignoring humans in need?

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Maple Grove: Historic inn or clubhouse?

By Wendy Smith

An historic property in West Knoxville is for sale, and a developer has discussed preliminary plans for adding housing to the site with the board of an adjacent subdivision.

The Maple Grove Inn, located on 15 acres off Westland Drive, is currently listed with Alliance Sotheby’s International Realty.

Mark Taylor of Dominion Development Group met with the board of Plantation Springs subdivision, which is immediately east of the property, says president Julie Hembree.

His plans were “very preliminary” but included condominiums, she says. No vote was taken.

“The board is not going to endorse anything that adversely affects property values.”

Plantation Springs is composed of 44 single-family homes and 97 condominiums. The neighborhood surrounds an historic manor house that serves as a clubhouse for the subdivision.

Farrington subdivision, off Ebenezer Road, borders the Maple Grove Inn property to the south.

In a phone interview, Taylor wouldn’t say if he was considering single-family homes or multifamily development. He claims to have no plans “on paper” but a few “schematics” for what could be done with the property.

A source at the inn who did

The Maple Grove Inn at 8800 Westland Drive is for sale, and the property is being considered for development. Photo by Wendy Smith

not wish to be identified said that there have been no offers on the property, which has been on the market for a year.

According to www.trails.com, Thomas Campbell McCaughan built the home that is now the Maple Grove Inn in 1799, and the property originally consisted of 300 acres. Several members of the McCaughan family are buried in a cemetery west of the entrance to the inn. The cemetery marks the former site of Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church.

Access to the property would likely be a hindrance to development. The inn shares a driveway with Victory Chapel Baptist Church, and sight distance from the driveway is limited by a sharp curve in Westland Drive.

Mike Brusseau of KnoxvilleKnox County Metropolitan Planning Commission says development of the property would require a sight distance, in feet, of 10 times the posted speed limit.

The speed limit in front at the entrance to the property is 25 miles

By Sandra Clark Efforts by The Mulch Company LLC to obtain use-on-review approval for grinding and storing mulch on Northshore Drive has drawn opposition from nearby homeowners. The Metropolitan Planning Commission staff recommended denial in March, leading to a 30-day deferral.

The issue will be on MPC’s agenda Thursday, April 9.

“My subdivision (Cobblestone Park) and others nearby support denial of the proposed mulch business,

says Judy Horn, who represents Cobblestone Park on the Council of West Knox County Homeowners.

“We agree with all reasons to deny it that are listed in the MPC staff report. We want the planning commissioners to follow the recommendation for denial made by the MPC staff.”

The Mulch Company is asking to rezone 3.37 acres on the southeast side of S. Northshore Drive just north of Bickerstaff Boulevard in County Commission District 4.

The land now is zoned agricul-

tural and used for a nursery.

Written by planner Tom Brechko, the recommendation to deny says the sale of over half of the Creekside Nursery’s 5.8 acres for a commercial mulching operation will make the site “more nonconforming” to the minimum lot size requirement of 10 acres, although the agricultural zone allows such an operation if a plan is approved for “use on review.”

“While a commercial mulching operation may be acceptable on a major arterial road in a more ru-

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ral area, or adjoining commercial or industrial property, it is not appropriate in an area that is primarily residential development,” Brechko wrote.

MPC’s approval or denial of this request is final, unless the action is appealed to the Knox County Board of Zoning Appeals. Under current law, use on review decisions by MPC cannot be appealed to Knox County Commission.

Horn said some 36 letters of opposition were emailed to MPC and are part of the March archives.

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per hour, which would require a 250-foot sight distance in both directions.

Kim Trent, executive director of Knox Heritage, says the organization has worked with Dominion Development in the past. If the Maple Grove Inn property were developed, she would meet with the developer to discuss the preservation of the structure within the plan.

“It’s an important resource for that part of Knoxville. It’s been visited by thousands of people over the years.”

Neighbors oppose Northshore mulch operation

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“A Shayna Maidel,” by Barbara LeBow, has generated so much buzz that all performances are sold out. However, there may still be hope for those who don’t yet have tickets.

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By Anne Hart When this year’s first graduating class at Knoxville’s L&N STEM Academy decided to leave behind something memorable to inspire future generations, the seniors asked the experts at LizBeth & Co. fine art gallery for advice on who could best carry out their legacy project.

As a result, they commissioned local stone artist Bill Cook Jr., who is now busy sculpting what by graduation time will be a stunning limestone replica of a Griffin, the mythological creature that is half eagle and half lion and whose purpose is to guard priceless treasure.

When Cook completes his Artist Bill Cook Jr. uses an air hammer to chisel a piece of limestone in the sculpture, the Griffin will perch shape of the half eagle, half lion mythological figure, the Griffin, to grace the atop a stone book bearing the title front entrance to the L&N STEM Academy, a legacy gift from this year’s first “Carpe Scientiam,” which translates to “seize the knowledge.” The senior class at the school.

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Griffin and the pedestal on which it stands will be placed in the triangular-shaped garden at the school’s front door as a gift from the senior class.

This sculpture isn’t taking quite as long as Cook’s first effort. That one took five years from start to finish.

When Cook and his wife, Kelley, lived in south Florida in the 1990s, an ad in the local paper got his attention.

“It said something like ‘learn how to carve stone.’ I thought that sounded like fun. It was a community class at a school on Saturdays.

I was in my 30s, and about 40 years younger than anyone else there.

But I thought, ‘That’s good because they’ll know what they’re doing.’

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Posing for a photo before getting back to working the crowd at the VIP reception are some of the bachelors with Melissa Nance, Friends of Literacy executive director, and Marghee Jones, FOL fundraising coordinator. From left are Nephi Davis, Lance Coleman, Nance and Jones, Houston Kress, Jonathan Young and Patrick Knox.

It’s raining men ‌ Community volunteer Ann Crytser and Friends of Literacy intern Whitney Broyles make sure all the single women have bidding paddles at the 2015 Men That Give Bachelor Auction.

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At the Bachelor Auction: Knox County Commissioner Bob Thomas with wife Kim Simmons Thomas, Erin Donovan, Jerry Thomas and Taria Millsaps. Jerry, who is Bob Thomas’ brother, was one of the bachelors, and Taria, one of the bidders.

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The evening lived up to its reputation as Knoxville’s best cocktail party, thanks in no small part to the banter and energy of hosts Dino Cartwright and Lauren Davis of WVLTSherri TV and Frank Murphy of Gardner WNOX radio.

It was definitely an Howell “adults onlyâ€? event, with the big winner being Friends of Literacy. The event sold 25 FARRAGUT FACES more tickets this year –the fifth year for the event – “Ohhhh, yes ‌â€? was the and was expected to raise answer many of the bach- a record amount, said Eric elors gave at the Friends Botts, board member and of Literacy Guys That committee chair.

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Pond Gap residents share concerns

Park Day at Mabry-Hazen House

By Nancy Anderson Mayor Madeline Rogero met with friends and community members in the Pond Gap area on March 19 at Coop Café, 3701 Sutherland Ave. Hosts for the event were the Pond Gap Neighborhood Association and the café.

Citizens were encouraged to bring their concerns to the mayor and several did. Jill Sharp, who is disabled, talked about the pedestrian crossing near Cagle Terrace condominiums. “It’s terrifying to try to cross there on the corner,” she told Rogero. “The stoplight is a blinking yellow light, which no one pays attention to. The light needs to be red so we have enough time to cross safely.”

Carl Cook asked the mayor to take a look at Pond Gap sidewalks. “The sidewalks are in such disrepair that areas are dangerous to walk on,” said Cook. “Wheelchairs often get stuck, and people can easily trip and fall.”

Hospice webinar rescheduled The Hospice Foundation of America’s 2015 Annual Living With Grief® Program “Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss” has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 26. The webinar will be shown 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sevier Heights Church Apex, 3232 Alcoa Highway. Three hours of continuing education credits are available for a wide

Bill Cook sculpts

“I bought a piece of white alabaster, which is softer than marble, and started work on a female torso. Then I learned I was going to be a dad, and I decided to make the torso a pregnant woman and give it to Kelley on Mother’s Day.” That first piece took a little longer than Cook had anticipated.

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REUNION NOTES ■ Central High School Class of 1980 35th reunion, 6-10 p.m. Saturday, June 27, The Foundry, 747 World’s Fair Park Drive. Info/register: “Central High School Class of 1980” on Facebook or Melody Majors Johnson, 423-798-0880.

At Tea With the Mayor in the Pond Gap community, Jackie Bonvin, right, said she came to show her support for Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero, left. Bonvin is 93. Photo by Nancy Anderson

HEALTH NOTES ■ “Reversing, Controlling, Preventing Diabetes,” a 6-week free community service program, will start 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in the fellowship hall of the North Knoxville Seventhday Adventist Church, 6530 Fountain City Road. Must preregister by April 6. Info/ to register: 314-820) or www.

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■ UT Medical Center Healthy Living Kitchen will offer DASH

diet cooking class at noon Wednesday, April 8, in the Healthy Living Kitchen (Suite E-170) at The University of Tennessee Medical Center Heart Lung Vascular Institute. Cost is $20 and includes nutrition advice, meal and materials. Info/ to register: 305-6970 or www. utmedicalcenter.org/hlk.

■ UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meeting, 5-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, UT Hospice office, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served.

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A visit to his studio is both educational and enjoyable as he points out difBill Cook Jr.’s colorful Möbius-design ferent pieces of stone, most heart, a wedding gift for friends, made out of Tennessee Light Rose of it reclaimed, and tells the story of each. He has Marble found in Friendsville beautiful works in various Photos by A. Hart stages of completion and a shelf of not-yet-fi nished it’s just a small piece and we carvings he calls “my shelf still have it.” of lost toys.” That group Jump ahead a few more includes a likeness of Winyears. Lauren is 15 now, and ston Churchill. twins Connor and Sophie are A native of Hancock 10. The family lives in West County, Cook says he startKnoxville, and Bill Cook has ed whittling on soft cedar a studio about 10 minutes wood as a child, often joinaway from home in rented “Jump ahead five years. space on Westland Drive We had twins due in a close to Pellissippi Parkway. month, Lauren was 5 years The studio is going to old, and that piece of ala- once again be on the Dogbaster was kicking around wood Arts Studio DeTour somewhere in the garage. I of artists’ studios April 11 picked it up again, got back and 12. The event allows the to work on it and finished public to visit artists where it in time for Mother’s Day. they work to meet and talk After five years, you would with them and even purthink it would be as large as chase some of the art. Cook Michelangelo’s David, but says it’s an event he always From page A-1

Mabry-Hazen House will participate in the 18th annual Park Day 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, March 28, with almost 100 other historic sites across the country.

In conjunction with the Civil War Trust, HistoryTM and Take Pride in America, history buffs, community leaders, preservationists and other volunteers will help remove leaves and brush, mulch and do general spring cleaning. Some tools will be provided, but volunteers are encouraged to bring rakes, pitchforks, tarps

and other yard tools.

The Mabry-Hazen House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to housing three generations of the same family from 1858 to 1987, it served as headquarters for both Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War. The property will be included in the Blue and Gray Reunion and Freedom Jubilee April 30-May 3 in conjunction with Tennessee’s closing ceremonies for the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Info: www.mabryhazen.com.

Regatta to benefit Pat Summitt Foundation A canoe and kayak regatta will be held Saturday, May 2, in Tazewell to benefit the Pat Summitt Foundation.

The race will begin at the Well Being Conference Center and end 12 miles downstream at Riverside Rentals. Cash prizes will be awarded, and non-racers are welcome.

Entry fee before April 2 is $25/single and $45/tandem canoe or kayak. Return shuttles will be provided. Info: www.facebook.com/PowellRiverRegatta.

ing his grandfather on the front porch of the small family farm. “I carved a pair of cowboy boots once to see if I could do it, and I remember carving a set of golf clubs about as big as toothpicks.

He went on to earn a degree in art and architecture from the University of Tennessee. Today he has a fulltime job in architectural sales and says sculpting is “a hobby that has become more of an obsession.”

Cook’s work has appeared in juried exhibi-

tions, and he has numerous awards to his credit.

Dorothy Parker, the clever writer, poet and humorist of New York’s literary Algonquin Round Table, famously decreed that her tombstone should bear the words “Excuse My Dust.”

Those visiting Cook’s studio will see a good amount of dust from all that chiseling and sculpting, but there are no tombstones, and no excusing is necessary. It’s all a part of his art. And Bill Cook Jr.’s art is truly remarkable.

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Josh Richardson is a winner I’m not as good as I used to be at determining which college stars will make a living in the NBA. I was certain Bernard King would cash in big if he avoided trouble. I would have bet the house on Dale Ellis. I thought Ernie Grunfeld would be an extra coach on the floor. If they didn’t hide the goal, Allan Houston was going to hit it.

Tom Boerwinkle surprised me. He got more rebounds than points in a 10-year career and rattled dentures with giant-oak picks. Chicago loved Michael Jordan but realized Boerwinkle was a very valuable Bull.

I guessed right on Scotty

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Hopson. He was marginal but may yet … .

When Chris Lofton didn’t make it, I started losing confidence. He had the shooter’s touch and was great from long range. Maybe he wasn’t strong enough or fast enough. Something blocked the NBA path.

Now is the time to say yes or no on Josh Richardson, 6-6 guard who can run and jump. He is a terrific athlete

with a burning desire to excel. Coaches say he is the type who can and will do whatever you need. One said he is the best all-around Tennessee basketball player in years and years.

Much was made over Josh having to play the point as a senior Volunteer. That was no big deal. He was a point guard in high school.

Asked as a Tennessee freshman what he thought his greatest strength was, he said handling the ball.

Hard-nosed defense being the cornerstone of Cuonzo Martin’s philosophy, the coach turned Richardson into a defensive stopper and role-player on offense.

Josh was fourth scoring op-

tion behind Jordan McRae, Jarnell Stokes and Jerome Maymon.

Josh broke out of that shell in tournament play last year. This year, he was heart and soul for Donnie Tyndall’s ragtag team.

Josh is good, better than two or three people on Tennessee’s all-century team.

You don’t hear much about it, but he may be a better man than basketball player.

Shawn Schenk, coach at Santa Fe High in Edmond, Okla., said something like that four years ago.

He talked about Josh being a bright student with great understanding of the game, about versatility, that he could play anywhere on

the floor, that he was an unselfish star and would contribute in all aspects – score, rebound, lead the offense, block shots, steal the ball, stop the best opponent.

I remember thinking that scouting report was 100 percent pure coach talk, smoother than mountain honey on fresh-baked bread. If he was that good, where were Kentucky and Kansas?

Schenk had it right. Richardson did all that and more as a senior at Tennessee.

The high school coach offered one other assessment for my believe-it-or-not notebook. He said something else separates Josh from the crowd, that as great a player as he is, “He may be an even better kid.

He lives right. He’s not out

at night partying and drinking. I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s living a clean and moral life.”

The coach left out some things. He didn’t mention that Josh could make lasagna, play the piano and was a daredevil on a skateboard.

He didn’t say anything about Alice Richardson, retired Air Force colonel and Baptist minister who knows exactly how long Josh’s hair should be.

Coach Schenk didn’t say Michael Richardson, retired firefighter who owns a remodeling business, might not miss even one of his son’s games.

I do believe Josh can play pro ball. If that doesn’t happen, he’ll succeed at something else. He’s a winner.

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Pet ordinance reflects misplaced priorities On this month’s County Commission agenda, commissioner Jeff Ownby has a proposal to modify the local animal welfare ordinance.

In media coverage, Ownby claims the proposal will help authorities better protect pets in extreme weather conditions.

Of course, pets already have legal protections.

State law prohibits a person from failing to reasonably “provide necessary food, water, care, or shelter for an animal.” If you fail to do so, the police can issue you a citation and seize the animals until the matter can be addressed in court.

Even further, Knox County has an ordinance making it unlawful for a person to fail to provide an animal “sufficient shelter and protection from the elements” and medical attention “when it is sick, diseased or injured.”

A cynic might say that the commission’s current pro-

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posal is more about politics than pets. Helping abused and neglected animals is politically popular, and politicians (especially those with an election next year) rarely miss the opportunity for some good publicity.

Unfortunately, too many local leaders seem more interested in vulnerable animals than vulnerable people.

In recent years, county officials have continually stalled the development of a proposed safety center for low-risk criminal offenders and inmates who suffer from mental illness. Keeping the mentally ill in jail is expensive, and law enforce-

ment officials and mentalhealth advocates believe a safety center can not only save money in the long run, but can also result in better outcomes for the most vulnerable folks in our community. County commissioners could have already passed a budget to build and operate a safety center.

They haven’t.

Remember the proposed Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness? The joint city-county proposal, published (ironically) 10 years ago this October, outlined recommendations to local officials to address the community’s homeless problem. As the proposal itself explains, “many homeless individuals and families go largely unseen … there are others who are very visible, sleeping on streets and suffering from sickness and mental illness.”

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a chronically homeless individual is able to quickly obtain stable, appropriate, permanent housing,” the plan argued, “then the issues of mental illness, chemical addictions, education and employment become eminently more manageable.” County commissioners could have already implemented those recommendations.

They haven’t.

(By the way, in case you were wondering, Knox County has an operating budget of more than $700 million. Don’t be misled into believing it’s just about the money. It’s also about priorities.)

Now don’t get the wrong idea. I have nothing against helping animals. In fact, we adopted our dog Ollie from Young-Williams Animal Center last year. Ollie is part of the family, goes hiking with us, and we love her. But when politicians

jump at any opportunity to It’s time for County Comhelp pets but shy away from mission to do more to help helping the most vulnerable people and not just pets. people in our community, Scott Frith is a local attorney. You can contact him at scott@pleadthefrith.com. enough is enough.

Neighborhood Conference: Crime and safety Note: The city’s recent Neighborhood Conference drew more than 700 citizens to the Knoxville Convention Center to gather information on how to improve their communities.

With 30-odd breakout sessions in three time slots, no one could possibly absorb everything, but the Shopper will be offering a look into three workshops that offered some of the basic and most popular subjects.

Concern about crime unites neighborhoods in every geographic and economic area of Knoxville and

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Allen sets low bar for ‘tough on crime’ Lots of folks are wondering how former Knox County Trustee Mike Lowe got such a light sentence after pleading guilty to theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from county taxpayers.

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While he got 10 years, he serves only one year, which will be reduced to seven months assuming good behavior. He was assessed a $200,000 fine, but no schedule was announced for paying it over the next 10 years. What happens if he fails to pay in a timely manner or at all?

Frankly, I do not have a credible explanation for why District Attorney General Charme Allen, in her first major policy decision, proudly proclaimed her pride in the Lowe settlement at a news conference.

Lowe did not just steal.

He also hired ghost employees including Delbert Morgan, who was convicted by a jury but will serve only one month for his crime. Misde-

meanors get tougher penalties than this.

Lowe showed no remorse when the media found him, and he described it all as “unfortunate.”

Not once did he apologize to the people who elected him. What Lowe regrets is that he got caught. Entering the City County Building with a smile on his face makes a mockery of his regret.

Allen, the new DA, is unknown to most Knox County citizens as she was unopposed and waltzed into the office via an unopposed election last August. Her official website says she is “tough on crime and strong on prevention.”

If the best she can secure for an admitted thief is seven months, then that is a new definition for “tough on crime” and sends a signal, along with the Morgan one-month sentence, that the penalty for public corruption in Knox County is pretty low.

She owes the public an explanation as to why this matter did not go to trial.

This plea bargain was a bargain only for the guilty in this case.

Lowe was smart to have Greg Isaacs as his attorney. Isaacs got the trial postponed several times over three years just as he

has done with Troy Whiteside, whose trial has been delayed almost six years now. Was the DA fearful she would be outgunned by Isaacs in the courtroom?

Surely not. She states publicly it was the “most significant public corruption case in Knox County history.”

What does this say for other public corruption cases if seven months in the local jail is the result? Does she honestly think the time that her news release says went into investigating this case has been justified with this sort of wrist slapping?

With only six months in office, General Allen has been a major disappointment on this case.

■ Mark Brown: Friday night, March 20, was a bittersweet moment at the Beck Cultural Center as many friends and admirers of Knoxville’s former vice mayor, Mark Brown, and his wife, Chenile, gathered to wish them well as he moves to Nashville to be closer to his new wife and to go to work for TennCare.

Brown has been an important figure in the community for years and made positive contributions going back to serving on the Bernstein Commission, which recommended the police civilian review board be es-

tablished.

He was chosen twice by the GOP-dominated County Commission to be a magistrate while he is Democrat.

His ability was more important than partisanship. He will be missed.

■ House Speaker Beth Harwell acted quickly and wisely to halt the ill-advised practice of holding unannounced legislative meetings prior to the official meetings to discuss legislation. The practice never should have happened, and Harwell stepped up quickly to end it. This shows leadership that will help her in a potential 2018 race for governor.

■ MPC: Three finalists for MPC director are being interviewed through April 1. They are Alan Travis from Atlanta, who once worked for MPC; Steve Park from Skokie, Ill.; and Gerald Green from the Asheville area.

Green and Travis went to the University of Tennessee. Park met with mayors Rogero and Burchett. MPC pays their travel costs, but the choice is made by the two mayors. The process is being conducted in secret at the direction of Rogero aide Bill Lyons. A decision is expected in mid-April. There has been little transparency in this matter.

The hard-working Jim McIntyre Jim McIntyre is the hardest-working guy in Knox County. Check.

He needs to be because he has so many personal traits that keep him from connecting. Check.

“So, do you always work during spring break?” I asked when he finished speaking to a Halls business club last week.

“Just three days (of five),” he answered, looking puzzled at the question.

McIntyre was in Halls to sell his proposed budget, which the school board will vote on in April and Mayor Tim Burchett will tear apart in May. The superintendent of schools made a rare admission in response to a question from Carl Tindell.

“We could have done

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some things better,” he said.

After years of turmoil fueled by Race to the Top federal funds (for which McIntyre wrote the grant for former Gov. Phil Bredesen), the money is gone.

Also gone are most of the TAP schools, where teachers were eligible for extra compensation; McIntyre is pulling back from strategic compensation, another name for merit pay based on dubious evaluation tools; and he’s asking for a 4 percent across-the-board raise for teachers.

Problem is, the raise will cost about $10 million with just $4.4 million coming from the state.

So the school board will ask the mayor for a 3.7 percent increase in a $444 million budget.

Now, flash forward.

Tim Burchett is not the hardest-working guy in Knox County. Check.

He doesn’t need to be because his personal traits keep him connected with the people he serves. Check.

Burchett doesn’t have to dig into McIntyre’s budget, and he won’t. He just needs a couple of hot-button topics to rail against to keep from funding the requested increase. It will play out like this: “Shucks, they’ve got the money right now to give this

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raise if they would just manage their resources better. …

“Why just last month Dr. McIntyre layered another top administrator onto a bloated bureaucracy. …

“Why do they need a chief of staff (Clifford Davis), a chief operating officer (Russ Oaks) and an assistant superintendent for administrative services (Bob Thomas)?”

That’s a good question.

government ‘Monster computers’ scientist returns The man who brought Jaguar and Kraken to East Tennessee is coming back to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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ORNL has announced that Thomas Zacharia will return to the lab as deputy director for science and technology, a post he left in 2012 to become executive vice president of Qatar Foundation.

Zacharia was deputy director for science and technology when ORNL became a world power in high-performance computing in the first decade of this century.

On his first watch, the U.S. Department of Energy funded the installation of Jaguar, a machine that was for a time the world’s fastest supercomputer. It has since been upgraded and renamed Titan.

In the meantime, the Oak Ridge area has become home to other supercomputers, including facilities for the National Security Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Zacharia was also the rainmaker when the University of Tennessee won $65 million from the National Science Foundation in 2008 to build and operate Kraken, which was billed as the fastest academic supercomputer in the world when it was completed in 2009. The NSF award was also the largest grant the university had received to that time.

Kraken employed technology developed by supercomputer maker Cray Inc., and at its peak was ranked third fastest among the world’s high-performance computers. By 2010 it had fallen to eighth as newer, faster machines were developed worldwide.

Improvements in tech-

Crime and safety be a Neighborhood Watch.

The panelists recommended getting the pulse of the neighborhood to see if there is interest in such a group.

Captains responsible for 10 to 18 houses should be recruited. Food is a good enticement to get people to come to meetings.

Katy Davis, education coordinator/crime prevention for the Knox County Sher-

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iff’s Office, said there are 300 neighborhood watches in the county, and they are the eyes and ears of the community. They are the ones who see what’s going on and can communicate with their neighbors and with officers.

Davis suggested creating a neighborhood directory, but many people don’t feel they know their neighbors

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nology ultimately doomed Kraken. More modern processors used just a fraction of the electrical power needed by Kraken (its electric bill was roughly $300,000 a month), and in April 2014 it was officially taken offline. Cray Inc. recently agreed to haul away the scrapped components of the machine.

It remains to be seen whether Zacharia will be affiliated with UT again. When the university was preparing its Kraken proposal for the NSF, one of the requirements was that its principal investigator – Zacharia – be tenured at UT. In a rather parochial move the university’s department of electrical engineering and computer science refused to grant him the necessary status because – even though he was busy architecting one of the most powerful computing complexes in the world – his Ph.D. is in materials science.

To forestall the loss of the $65 million award, the UT System stepped in to create a systemwide tenure for Zacharia and a couple of other key personnel that let the university meet the NSF requirements.

In recent years, UT’s links to high-performance computing have weakened.

Because of the budget sequestration and other congressional dithering over the past two or three years, the NSF has had to narrow the scope of its large grants for supercomputing, and the few that have been made have been won by powerhouses like the University of Illinois and the University of Texas.

And Zacharia may not have time for a university connection. ORNL insiders speculate that he is a likely prospect for lab director when and if current director Thom Mason moves on. After all, lab watchers note that though he moved halfway around the world to take a new job, he never sold his house in East Tennessee.

and might be hesitant to cast a wide net. She pointed out that people establishing a Neighborhood Watch aren’t obligated to invite everyone to join.

Most neighborhood crimes are crimes of opportunity, she said. Generally, criminals are not professionals and are looking for a quick in and out to steal items such as pre-

scription drugs, guns and electronics while people are at work.

Davis said residents should acknowledge any knock at the door, even if they don’t open the door, so that would-be intruders will know someone is at home.

Deterrents such as lighting, landscaping, not letting mail or newspapers pile up, keeping garage doors shut

and locking vehicles are also good strategies.

Susan Stewart of Riverbend Peninsula Homeowners Association said raidsonline.com is a good resource for finding out what crimes are taking place in your neighborhood.

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Record holders and current reigning national champions Lucy Marret, Maggie Gordon and Perian Reese with the trophy they won during this year’s TSA competition Asal Alkhuwaiter’s speech earns a win, making this the second year in a row she’s placed for TSA.

Bryson Morrell, Miles Rioux and siblings Wesley and Maggie Jones win the robotic VEXIQ competition for TSA. “It would be cool if we could program (the robot) to pick up the trophy!” said Miles. Photos by Sara Barrett

TSA member Ana Bruce holds a bridge she made similar to the one she created during competition. This is her second year winning, to which she credits her longtime interest in bio-engineering and architecture.

Bearden Middle TSA rules the roost Members of Bearden Middle School’s Technology Student Association took top honors at this year’s Sara state championships with Barrett 22 awards including 10 state championship titles.

Team trio Maggie Gordon, Lucy Marret and Perian Reese set a record for Bearden Middle School’s Oh, and they’re the reigning team with a third consecu- national champions.

The eighth graders had tive year winning first place.

15 minutes to come up with a solution to a real life problem before presenting it to the judges. “Find events you really like that interest you,” said Perian Reese of how she found her niche. All three said all students should try TSA. “You won’t regret it,” said Lucy Marret. “Don’t listen to anyone who tells you differently.”

Jones ■

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Reflections represented at West Valley

Several students at West Valley Middle School were recognized for their talent and creativity in this year’s Knox County PTA Reflections contest. The theme “The World Would Be a Better Place If ...” inspired students to express themselves in a number of ways.

Lauren Hall choreographed a dance number to Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror,” and Dane

Morgan wrote a musical composition with “a sequence of positive sounds in a happier key” similar to ragtime.

Abby Ramsey submitted photography of litter in Cades Cove with the thought that a cleaner environment would improve people’s mindsets, and Audrey Jones produced and directed a short film where patrons on Market Square were asked

Bearden High School robotics team members Christina Paris, Bennett Croft, (back) Alex Skwarczynski and Husain Juwaid tempt passers-by with pizza to benefit their team. Christina and Alex both competed on Farragut High School’s team last year and were instrumental in starting the team at BHS. ■

Morgan

Eating pizza for robots

Bearden High School’s inaugural robotics team socialized and fundraised recently at Blaze Pizza on North Peters Road to help cover expenses. Including robots, parts and travel, annual fees run about $40,000.

Team captain Alex Skwarczynski participated in the robotics program at Farragut High School last year and was instrumental in getting the BHS team off the ground. “It’s a lot harder getting a lot of new people involved at once like we did this year,” said Alex of the

team at BHS. “At Farragut, a small group gets involved each year as freshmen and there is a large group of other team members to help them,” he said. “It is the opposite at Bearden because this is our first year.”

The FIRST Robotics Smoky Mountains Regional will take place Friday and Saturday, April 3-4, at the Knoxville Convention Center. Alex would like to invite everyone to see the robots in action and learn more about the program. Info: tnfirst. org.

what would improve the world around them.

Alexander Yarkhan’s essay explained how the world would improve if people learned to trust one another, and Marina Siegel illustrated her feelings on paper, winning in the special artist category.

The national winners of the competition will be announced May 1. Info: www. pta.org.

New state education chief coming to Knoxville Candice McQueen, newly appointed Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education, will visit two of Knox County’s “community schools” and discuss her vision for the future of education in Tennessee. McQueen will visit Pond Gap Elementary and South Knoxville elementary schools Thursday, March 26, before her 7 p.m. public presentation at the Downtown Marriott.

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Of mamas and babies She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.

(Proverbs 3: 18 NRSV)

Chocolate Punch finishes off the table stocked with chocolate goodies at the Ebenezer United Methodist Church Chocolate Fest.

At the Ebenezer United Methodist Church Chocolate Fest: Nancy Reddy and the Rev. Ann Robins.

Upholding a chocolate tradition

By Sherri Gardner Howell Plans involving chocolate can be postponed but not abandoned. When icy weather forced the United Methodist Women of Ebenezer United Methodist Church to call off the fourth annual Chocolate Fest in February, there was little doubt that the event would be rescheduled.

March 17 was the chosen date, and – St. Patrick’s Day notwithstanding – the stars of the show remained chocolate.

EUMC women invited the men to join them for this tasty event and expanded the invitations to “your favorite Sweetie,” so children, grandchildren and siblings could all join the fun. Favorite chocolate dishes abounded, includ-

I considered saving these stories for Mother’s Day and decided (a) that I couldn’t wait, and (b) that they were not in the spirit of Mother’s Day. So here we are.

I walked to the mailbox the other day and discovered a sad sight. There, lying on her back, eyes open, mouth gaping (with all those sharp teeth showing) was a mother opossum.

Now, the Lord knows why He created possums (as we call them in East Tennessee), but I can’t imagine.

The creatures aren’t attractive by any stretch of the imagination, and I am not sure they serve any purpose.

However, I was stopped in my tracks because this poor mama was dead and her tiny babies, all pink and hairless, were still attached to her nipples. (I have always declared that baby anythings are cute, but I may have to reconsider!)

One of the gallant men in the office removed the sad little scene, and I was grate-

Cross Currents

Lynn Pitts ful. I didn’t have the heart to ask him how he disposed of it.

Then, two days later, on “Today,” I heard the story of a mother who was driving and ran off the road into a river. She apparently lost consciousness and drowned, but her baby was strapped into a car seat in the back, and out of the water. Some 16 hours later, rescuers came in search of her, and as they approached the car, they heard, “Help me, help me.”

The mother had been dead for 16 hours; the baby was too young to talk. Who was crying “Help me”?

In my opinion, that question has a theological answer.

The facts of life I can think of four facts that pretty much sum up what we need to know about life. They are:

Doris Stooksbury, Melanie Eskridge and Jean Baird Photos by Justin Acuff ing puddings, pies, cakes, cookies, brownies and bundts. Creamy chocolate punch was the drink of choice.

The Rev. Ann Robins

is the lead pastor at Ebenezer United Methodist, 1001 Ebenezer Road. The church has a Glow-inthe-Dark Easter Egg Hunt for third-, fourth- and

fifth-graders at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 27, and a communitywide Spring Festival and Egg Scramble from 4-6 p.m. Sunday, March 29.

Volunteers for The Lighthouse at Austin Homes, Jeanette Witt and Annette Napier, answer questions about the nonprofit organization.

■ Life is short.

Steve Higginbotham

■ Death is certain.

■ Judgment is sure.

■ Eternity is long.

I don’t wish to oversimplify the complexity of life.

There are many unexpected twists and turns. What we plan for ourselves and for our future is often never realized.

I have had, on a few occasions, the opportunity to speak to a few graduating high school seniors. They are so full of hopes and dreams!

None of them could, at that point, imagine their future in any way other than success, good health and happiness. Yet, experience tells me that such an outcome won’t be realized by all.

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How has life turned out for you? Have your dreams been realized? Are you happy and fulfilled? Are you where you thought you would be? Or has life been difficult for you? Has it been racked with illness, losses, pain and failures? Friends, whether your dreams have come true or turned to nightmares, it matters not so long as we can keep before us these four facts of life: ■ Life is short.

■ Death is certain.

■ Judgment is sure.

■ Eternity is long.

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Central Baptist Church Consignment Sale

By Bonny C. Millard The Lighthouse at Austin Homes recently teamed up with Central Baptist Church’s annual children’s consignment sale to raise funds to support the nonprofit’s programs for children and adults.

Stephanie Noble, chairman of the clothing sale committee, said 25 percent of the proceeds from the two-day sale earlier this month goes to The Lighthouse. The other 75 percent goes to those who brought clothing items. Noble said the committee will give The Lighthouse a minimum of $2,500 from this year’s proceeds.

Jeanette Witt and Annette Napier, who both volunteer at The Lighthouse and are also members of the church, were on hand with a display board and information sheets about The Lighthouse.

The organization provides spiritual, educational and recreational activities for the residents of the housing development, which has about 150 apartments, on Summit Hill Drive.

Witt said volunteers provide afterschool tutoring for students and Bible Studies for women. In addition, they prepare meals for the children three days a week after the tutoring sessions and also make lunch for the

women once a week.

During the summer, children participate in field trips and other seasonal activities.

Volunteers have a “common goal of building relationships in order to introduce people to a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ,” the sheet said.

The volunteer ministry is small, so any donations help with its activities, Witt said.

Central Baptist Bearden provides the most financial support and the largest number of volunteers. Donations are welcome and tax deductible, she added.

The clothing sale also benefits customers looking for deals. Sylvia Core picked out several items for her two granddaughters and said she likes the bargains she finds, which this year included goods from about 50 consigners including several new ones.

Events like this one are beneficial for the community, Noble said. Parents can find clothes in good shape at reasonable prices, and parents whose children have outgrown their own clothing can clean out their closets.

“We’re just really excited,” Noble said. “I think it’s a great way to raise money for a good cause.”

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Convicted of fraud, hedge-fund manager James (Will Ferrell) works out to prepare for his upcoming jail term, with clueless Darnell (Kevin Hart) as his adviser, in “Get Hard.”

Misfits abound on the big screen also star for first-time director Etan Cohen,

By Betsy Pickle Figuring out where you belong is a per- best known for co-writing “Tropic Thunder.” vasive theme in this week’s new movies.

The weirdest pairing of the week has to Will Ferrell starts with how to belong as he joins forces with Kevin Hart for “Get belong to Jim Parsons (TV’s “The Big Bang Theory”) and singer Rihanna in “Home.”

Hard,” a comedy about going to prison.

To be precise, the R-rated comedy is With animation, anything is possible.

Parsons provides the voice of Oh, an about preparing to go to prison. Ferrell plays James, a millionaire hedge-fund alien who’s being hunted by his own kind.

Rihanna voices Tip, an manager who is livadventurous Earthling. ing the good life and They end up changing each They end up changthen some. When he’s ing each other’s worlds caught with his hand in other’s worlds and realizing and realizing the true the cookie jar and conmeaning of home. victed of fraud, James the true meaning of home.

The vocal cast also is frantic. includes Steve MarHe has 30 days to put his affairs in order, but his biggest con- tin, Jennifer Lopez and Matt Jones (TV’s cern is finding out how to survive a stint “Mom”). The director is Tim Johnson, who in San Quentin. He assumes that Darnell co-directed “Over the Hedge” and “Antz.”

(Hart), a car detailer who works in his office Knoxville-based filmmaker Paul Harbuilding’s garage, is familiar with the penal rill’s acclaimed feature-film debut, “Somesystem because he has an apparently lousy thing, Anything,” was released on Netflix job and, well, he’s black. last Friday. It is also available on iTunes, Darnell is incensed by James’s racist as- Vimeo and Googleplay. sumptions, but he figures getting paid is the “Something, Anything,” which debuted best revenge, so he cooks up an incarcera- last fall at the Knoxville Film Festival, is tion-readiness program for James. It turns about a young woman (Ashley Shelton) out that some of his assumptions are also whose life takes a sharp turn after a tragerroneous. edy. The film was shot primarily in the Craig T. Nelson, Alison Brie, Tip “T.I.” Knoxville area and also stars Bryce JohnHarris, Paul Ben-Victor and Greg Germann son and Linds Edwards.

Tip and Oh embark on a global adventure in “Home.”

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By Carol Shane Clarence Brown Theatre productions are always top-notch, but right now the venerable organization is experiencing a phenomenon.

The CBT lab theatre’s current production of “A Shayna Maidel,” by Barbara LeBow, has generated so much buzz that all performances – including some extra ones that were added – are sold out.

However, there may still be hope for those who don’t yet have tickets.

According to the CBT website, the drama is “a powerful and deeply affecting portrait of a family in the aftermath of the Holocaust: Two sisters, one a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, the other brought up as an American, meet in 1946 after a separation of almost 20 years.”

The play opened in 1985 and quickly became a nationwide hit. A 1992 television adaptation, “Miss Rose White,” featured Kyra Sedgwick, Maureen Stapleton and Maximilian Schell.

Referring to a 1992 production by Massachusetts’ New Repertory Theatre, critic William Chuang wrote, “The ability to appreciate this powerful drama is not limited to the Jewish community, as some may believe. This play will appeal to people of all ages and religions.”

The CBT production is directed by Terry Silver-

■ Big Ears Festival, featuring contemporary classical music, indie rock bands, leading jazz greats, visionary folk artists, and more. Info/tickets and weekend passes: bigearsfestival. com; all Ticketmaster locations.

■ Funny Ears Fringe Festival, featuring local rock ’n’ roll bands and performers. Info: 524-2224; scruff ycityhall.com; Funny Ears Fringe Festival on Facebook.com.

FRIDAY ■ Big Ears Festival Kick Off, 5:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Info/tickets: bigearsfestival. com; all Ticketmaster locations.

■ Bijou Theatre Big Ears Festival performances, 803 S. Gay St.: The Bad Plus, 7 and 8:45 p.m.; Demdike Stare, 11:30 p.m.

■ Knoxville Museum of Art Big Ears Festival performances, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive: Hildur Guðnadóttir, 10:30 p.m.; Tyondai Braxton, midnight.

■ Tennessee Theatre Big Ears Festival performances, 604 S. Gay St.: Harold Budd & Keith Lowe, 7:30 p.m.; Kronos Quartet, 9 p.m.

■ The Square Room Big Ears Festival performances, 4 Market Square: Ryley Walker, 8 p.m.; SQÜRL, 9:15 p.m.; Steve Gunn, 10:45 p.m.

■ The Standard Big Ears Festival performances, 416 W. Jackson Ave.: Rival Consoles, 7:30 p.m.; Nosaj Thing, 8:30 p.m.; Clark, 10:15 p.m.; Jamie xx, midnight.

■ Preservation Pub Funny Ears Fringe Festival performances, 28 Market Square: Maps Need Reading, Stryplepop, Three Star Revival, Grandpa’s Stash. Doors open 4 p.m.; music, 5 p.m.

Rachel Finney and Sophia Shefner play sisters united by blood but separated by life experience in Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of “A Shayna Maidel.” Photo submitted Alford, who can usually be found on the podium in the orchestra pit. The multitalented Silver-Alford is in his 10th year as CBT’s music director.

“A Shayna Maidel” will play in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s lab theatre March 26 to April 12. A wait list

will be in effect for all of the sold-out performances, as tickets are often turned back in and may be available for those shows. An open captioned performance will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 29. A talkback with the cast is scheduled for Sunday, April 5, immedi-

ately following the matinee.

Free and convenient parking is available in the McClung Tower garage on Volunteer Boulevard. The production is sponsored by WUTK and WUOT. Info: clarencebrown theatre.com or 974-5161.

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By Mystery Diner Novices want to pick up a barbecued rib and have the meat fall off the bone. True connoisseurs will tell you that “falling off the bone” is a sign of an overcooked rib.

Melt-in-your-mouth goodness, however, is a sign that all is right in heaven.

Calhoun’s is famous across the country for barbecue, and the pinnacle of barbecue is ribs. A plate of ribs – whether half-slab or full – at the restaurant leaves no doubt that the reputation is well-deserved.

There are now eight Calhoun’s in East Tennessee: the original at Kingston Pike and Pellissippi Parkway, Bearden Hill, Turkey Creek, On the River (down from Thompson-Boling Arena), Fort Loudoun (Lenoir City), Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Maryville.

The restaurant began in Octo-

ber 1983 as Calhoun’s Rib Barn.

Shortly after opening, the barbecue team traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, and brought home the title of Best Ribs in America at the 1984 National Rib Cookoff.

The restaurants are part of the Copper Cellar Family of Restaurants, which now includes the eight Calhoun’s, two Copper Cellars, Chesapeake’s, Cherokee Grill, four Smoky Mountain Brewery establishments and a Calhoun’s Banquet/Copper Cellar Catering facility. Several of the Calhoun’s now include microbreweries in the restaurants.

Choosing between ribs and pork barbecue was difficult, but the opportunity to check out whether accolades from barbecue contests would translate into onthe-plate greatness was just too tempting. My companion chose the sampler platter that included

chicken strips, ribs and smoked sausage and declared each dish to be “delicious.”

My half-slab of baby-back ribs was tender and meaty. The sauce was smoky, with just the right combination of spice and sweetness. The ribs passed the gnawthe-bone test, and the sauce passed the lick-your-fingers test.

(I guess watching Mystery Diner eat ribs might not be a pleasant endeavor.)

Side dishes are a pleasure at Calhoun’s, for the choices are plentiful and all very good. Slaw is a must to accompany ribs, so that left one choice from the dozen offered. Tennessee Corn Puddin’ was the perfect selection, although something green would have been prudent. Starches aside, the corn pudding was lip-smacking good.

Gosh. I guess I’d better work on my table manners.

■ Scruff y City Hall Funny Ears Fringe Festival performances, 32 Market Square: Wesley, Sang Sarah, DAMS, Red Is Blood, Far Far Away, The Tom Pappas Collection, Skytown Riot, Senryu, Magma Blood. Doors open 4 p.m.; music, 5 p.m.

SATURDAY ■ Bijou Theatre Big Ears Festival performances, 803 S. Gay St.: SQÜRL, 1 p.m.; Tanya Tagaq, 4:15 p.m.; Max Richter, 8:30 p.m.; Sam Amidon, 10:45 p.m.; Ben Frost, 12:30 a.m.

■ Knoxville Museum of Art Big Ears Festival performances, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive: Loscil, 1 p.m.; Coupler, 3 p.m.; Jozef Van Wissem, 5 p.m.; Tyondai Braxton, 9 p.m.; Bing & Ruth, 10:30 p.m.; Harold Budd & Keith Lowe, midnight.

■ Tennessee Theatre Big Ears Festival performances, 604 S. Gay St.: Kronos Quartet: Folk Songs with Rhiannon Giddens & Sam Amidon, 1:30 p.m.; Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet, 7 p.m.; tUnE-yArDs, 10 p.m.

■ The Square Room Big Ears Festival performances, 4 Market Square: Wu Man, 12:30 p.m.; Nels Cline & Norton Wisdom, 3:30 p.m.; William Tyler, 7:45 p.m.; Hildur Guðnadóttir, 9:30 p.m.; Grouper, 11 p.m.

■ The Standard Big Ears Festival performances, 416 W. Jackson Ave.: A Winged Victory For The Sullen, 4 p.m.; Holly Herndon, 5:30 p.m.; Amen Dunes, 9:15 p.m.; Omar Souleyman, 11:45 p.m.; Tyondai Braxton, 1 a.m.

■ Preservation Pub Funny Ears Fringe Festival performances, 28 Market Square: Corn Bred, Sidecar Symposium, Zach and Kota’s Sweet Life, R.A.L.F., Dank. Doors open 4 p.m.; music, 5 p.m.

■ Scruff y City Hall Funny Ears Fringe Festival performances, 32 Market Square: Ghost Cab, mare vita, BOXSET, O Youth, The New Romantics, Yung Life, Faux Ferocious, EX GOLD. Doors open 4 p.m.; music, 5 p.m.

SUNDAY ■ Bijou Theatre Big Ears Festival performances, 803 S. Gay St.: Rhiannon Giddens, 2 p.m.; Bill Frisell & Bill Morrison, 5:30 p.m.; Little Annie and Swans, 8 p.m.

■ Knoxville Museum of Art Big Ears Festival performances, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive: Tyondai Braxton, 2:30 p.m.; Terry Riley with Gyan Riley & Tracy Silverman, 4 p.m.

■ Tennessee Theatre Big Ears Festival performances, 604 S. Gay St.: Perfume Genius, 6:30 p.m.; Max Richter with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra & the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, 8 p.m.

■ The Standard Big Ears Festival performances, 416 W. Jackson Ave.: Kronos Quartet, 3 p.m.; Zs, 5:15 p.m.; Silver Apples, 7 p.m.; Kronos Quartet with Nels Cline, 10 p.m.

■ Preservation Pub Funny Ears Fringe Festival performances, 28 Market Square: Hans Stein Und Zee Yodelers, Kukuly and the Romani Fuego, Bliss on Tap, King Super and The Excellents. Doors open 4 p.m.; music, 5 p.m.

■ Scruff y City Hall Funny Ears Fringe Festival performances, 32 Market Square: Glazzwvrks, Keep Quiet, Demon Waffle, The Royal Buzz, Ulaanbastards, Yak Strangler, Ebony Eyes, Fire at the Marquee. Doors open 4 p.m.; music, 5 p.m.

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Ramsey, DiPietro push for UT budget UT president Joe DiPietro was joined by financial adviser Dave Ramsey and members of the board of trustees at UT Day on the Hill in Nashville. DiPietro’s message: The University of Tennessee is heading into uncharted territory, seeking to cut costs while maintaining excellence in the face of projected funding gaps, and successful navigation can secure the state’s future.

At a breakfast gathering, DiPietro told legislators that an analysis based on UT’s current funding structure projects a funding gap of $377 million developing over the next 10 years.

“We don’t want to rely on tuition increases to close the gap, so we’ll find ways to cut costs and increase revenue, but as we go through this process, we will need your support,” DiPietro said. “That’s because this is about securing Tennessee’s future. The University of Tennessee is critical to our state’s future and economic success.”

Ramsey, who earned a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1982, noted that about 50 percent of UT students graduate without student debt, and those who graduate with debt have levels of debt below the national average.

Ramsey, wife Sharon and their three children are UT

Michelle Carr of Pinnacle Financial Partners joins Chamber members Vicki Mosebach, Arlene Weinstein and Lynne Overton. The Farragut branch of Pinnacle is located near Kroger at 241 Brooklawn Street. Info: (865) 766-3070 UT graduate Dave Ramsey and UT president Joe DiPietro at UT Day on the Hill in Nashville Photo provided by UT

grads, as are several nieces and nephews. Ramsey said he and his family are proud of their UT legacy and he supports DiPietro’s efforts to lead change needed to resolve funding shortfalls.

“Leading is willingness to fight for what’s right,” Ramsey said, challenging elected officials to fight for education.

While DiPietro praised Gov. Bill Haslam’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year and said he hopes to see it approved by the legislature, a long-term approach to achieve sustainable funding remains critical.

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“We’re very grateful for the budget Governor Haslam has proposed,” DiPietro said.

“This would be a good budget year, and if it is, it will make this the second good year I’ve seen in almost a decade. “The problem is, we can’t continue to pass on tuition increases to cover funding gaps that accumulate in all the years that aren’t good budget years.

“We have to solve this problem. Doing so is critical to the future of Tennessee because I believe a better UT leads to a better life for all Tennesseans.”

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By Sara Barrett

The March of Dimes held Knoxville’s inaugural Breakfast for Babies at Gourmet’s Market in Bearden March 17, and there wasn’t a yellow egg in the house.

Green eggs and ham were served up next to cinnamon rolls covered in gooey green icing, with a portion of the proceeds helping to fund research to improve the health of pregnant mothers and babies.

Adam Tyler, chef and general manager at Gourmet’s Market and his wife, Carrie, were this year’s Ambassador Family of the event with their son, 2-and-

1/2-month-old Jackson Cash. The Tylers lost their first baby, daughter Memphis Grace, in 2014 after a premature birth.

“When we lost Memphis Grace, we wanted to be a voice for her,” said Carrie.

“The March of Dimes is a perfect fit.”

March of Dimes’ community director Kim Severance said the Tylers are great ambassadors because “Carrie did everything right, and her baby was born at 27 weeks.”

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Childhelp: Finding forever homes

Reducing youth violence

By Bonny C. Millard

The playroom at the Childhelp advocacy center

By Anne Hart The sign on the door tells the Childhelp story in just seven words: “All who enter here will find love.”

The children who walk through the doors of Childhelp for the first time may find those words difficult to believe. After all, these are children who have suffered abuse and neglect at the hands of adults they should have been able to trust. They have forgotten what love is – if they ever knew.

And so they are sent by the legal system to this place – also known as the Children’s Advocacy Center of Knox County – to find out what love is all about and to find a forever home where love lives and abuse and suffering are strangers.

Childhelp of East Tennessee was founded 20 years ago to serve children in dire need. Its success stories are heartwarming,

and the numbers of children helped is astounding. More than 10,000 children have passed through the doors at Childhelp since 1995.

Over the next couple of months alone, 16 children will be placed in adoptive care – not foster care, but permanent homes. Over the last five years, Childhelp has helped 19 sibling groups of three or more children find adoptive homes with their forever family. Each group of siblings was kept together. Each had been removed from their birth homes because of abuse or neglect.

Hugh Nystrom, director of Childhelp Tennessee, says the organization has two facets.

The first is the Children’s Advocacy Center, where counselors work with the Knox County District Attorney’s office, the sheriff’s office, police department, the state Department of Human Services, Knox County Ju-

venile Court and other organizations to help investigate cases of both sexual abuse and severe physical abuse of children in Knox County.

Childhelp serves as a single location, far away from the actual scene of abuse, that children can be taken for conversations about the horrific things that happened to them. “If you’re trying to build a case, it’s just not appropriate to ask a child about what happened in the location where the abuse occurred. That would just add additional trauma,” Nystrom says.

“We bring the child into a friendly location that is nowhere near the perpetrator.

“In this process, Childhelp has two clients: the child and law enforcement.

We want the investigation to be very child-friendly and we also want to help law enforcement gather good evidence.”

The second aspect of

The death of a 16-yearold shooting victim made the Nashville orthopaedic trauma surgeon who tried to save him resolve to find a way to prevent youth violence.

Dr. Manny Sethi, an emergency room surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, spoke to the Rotary Club of Knoxville and explained how seeing the results of constant violence changed the course of his life.

“Here’s the issue: when it gets to me, when it gets to the operating room, when it gets to the hospital, it’s too late,” he said. “We need to treat these problems on the front end. We need to get ahead of this.”

He believes the way to reduce youth violence is through community action and school-based intervention. Sethi started looking at violent crime injuries of Vanderbilt patients over a 10-year period to better understand the situation. In 2011, he brought together about 80 of his patients who had recovered from these injuries and, with a moderator, explored what had happened and what the individuals could have done differently.

Sethi, director of the Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy, created a conflict r e s olut ion program along with other coll ab or ator s Dr. Sethi called “Aggressors, Victims and Bystanders” that is now being taught in middle schools after a successful pilot program. The 12-class strategy addresses different conflicts, teaching students how to resolve disagreements without violence.

The program was taken to 10 Nashville schools where one-fourth of the students improved their behaviors in post-tests and one-third had a better understanding of how to resolve problems. After it was launched in Nashville, the program was offered in Memphis, and Sethi is now talking with Knox County officials.

In addition to working to prevent youth violence, Sethi and his wife have created a nonprofit, Healthy Tennessee, to promote healthier lifestyles statewide.

Childhelp’s service is the Childhelp Foster Family Agency of East Tennessee which recruits, certifies and trains foster families to receive children needing a stable home environment.

Nystrom says the 16 children who will be permanently adopted during March and April “are the culmination of a couple of years of hard work by our team of social workers. But the need is great, and we always know that as soon as we get a bunch of adoptions, the doorbell will start ringing again and we will start finding homes for a whole new group of children.”

Childhelp of East Tennessee is funded through a combination of private donations, fundraisers and contracts with government agencies. Its major annual fundraiser is Oysterfest, scheduled this year for May 9 at Concord Marina.

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Surgery Relieves Rare Swallowing Disorder Entry to the Childhelp advocacy center

By Kimberly O’Neal Wilson For years, every bite or sip Steve Abbott took was a struggle. Food and liquids wouldn’t go down his esophagus, instead they would back up into his throat, causing pain and nausea.

“It felt like everything I ate was stuck in the top of my neck Steve Abbott says his surgery to treat a rare in my throat,” says the swallowing disorder was North Knoxville man.

“Even when I drank a lifesaver. tea or water, it would fill up in my throat and I would have to wait for it to eventually go down. It was very uncomfortable.”

has extensive fellowship training in laparoscopic surgery. He performed a laparoscopic Heller myotomy on Abbott in January at Fort Sanders Regional. The procedure involves releasing a layer of muscle from Joel F. “Trey” Bradley, III, the lower esophagus and upper stomach MD, Surgeon that causes it to be too tight. This is all done with minimally invasive techniques using only a few small incisions. This allows the patient to recover faster with less pain and discomfort.

“It’s essentially the opposite of what we do with laparoscopic acid reflux surgery

“I was losing weight and swallowing was painful, so my doctor suggested I talk with a surgeon at Premier Surgical about surgery” ~ Swallowing disorder patient Steve Abbott After multiple diagnostic tests, Abbott’s Gastroenterologist, Dr. Jeffrey Brown, diagnosed the 57-year old with a rare disorder called achalasia. It is a condition in which the valve at the bottom of the esophagus, the lower esophageal sphincter, doesn’t completely relax and food can’t easily move into the stomach.

The normal propulsion of food down from the mouth through the esophagus to the stomach is also reduced with the disease. Achalasia does get progressively worse and affects an estimated five out of every 100,000 American adults.

Over time Abbott tried medication and underwent three balloon dilation procedures to stretch his esophageal sphincter, but the treatment only gave him temporary relief.

“I was losing weight and swallowing was painful, so Dr. Brown suggested I talk with a surgeon at Premier Surgical about surgery,” explains Abbott. “I was relieved that I could have the surgery here in Knoxville, because my other choice was to go to the Cleveland Clinic.”

Abbott met with Dr. Joel “Trey” Bradley, III, of Premier Surgical Associates, who

where we make the sphincter tighter,” explains Dr. Bradley.

“With achalasia the sphincter is too tight, so you have to loosen it and allow it to relax.”

Now, food is able to pass from Abbott’s esophagus to his stomach without getting stuck.

For Abbott, it’s made all the difference. “The surgery has been a lifesaver. Dr. Bradley was great and explained everything to me before and after,” says Abbott.

“I’m not having the swallowing problems I did before – I’m doing fine now.”

For more information about this and other procedures performed by Premier Surgical physicians please visit www. premiersurgical.com.

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The Contact Care Line offers a sympathetic ear, no matter what pain you may be experiencing.

A listening ear Jackson Northrop, Cindy Lou, Ernest and Rebekah Emery pause before their Sunday school lesson. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Lending a hand to Bible stories

By Nancy Anderson “The kids are very well behaved. A few of them are monsters, but they’ve had their shots so I don’t worry about them.” said Ernest, a principal puppet actor known to incite giggles.

From the days of Sesame Street to today, puppets have tickled our funny bones and taught us important lessons on a wide variety of subjects from the letter “A” to how to thwart the devil.

Dottie Culberson explained that while puppet shows are commonplace among churches with strong children ministries, few seem to be a consistent teaching tool used every Sunday. For the last 28 years, Knoxville Christian Center has been committed to presenting their puppets at 11 a.m. every Sunday so the kids become familiar with the characters and have fun while learning.

“The puppet ministry

here presents tragedy, humor, action and education to children from first to seventh grades each and every Sunday. The puppets are so popular and effective that we built a permanent stage with colors, lights and lots of action to capture and hold the attention of children as well as adults who visit.

“The goal is to touch children’s hearts and keep their attention. We make them laugh while teaching them the stories of the bible and important life lessons,” said Culberson.

Few would argue that puppets are both entertaining and captivating. These fun and colorful animated characters live in an imaginary world, but they can express, talk and sing about real issues too. Culberson, a former teacher, combines the bible stories with lessons on behavior, kindness and compassion with an emphasis discipline.

“It’s important to keep

order so that everyone has a chance to listen and enjoy the show. You can’t stop and yell at each each kid. You have to teach them all at the same time how to sit down, be polite and pay attention.

I use prizes to gently teach school manners that will help them be successful in the future. I learned long ago to reward good behavior rather than punish bad behavior.

“I look for the children who sit up straight and listen, don’t talk out loud, and don’t kick the kid in front of them. That child gets to pick a prize from a box of goodies after class. It’s a big deal to get a prize and I try to find things they’ll really like. It’s very effective too. I’ve been able to give prizes to the whole class before.

“Those are behaviors that will help them be successful in life … and they get to learn cool Bible stories like David and Goliath.”

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Talk, talk, talk. There’s no shortage of it. It seems as though we’re bombarded with an overload of information – sound bites, celebrity gossip and scandal, political punditry – wherever we go.

Carol Shane

But what if you need someone to listen? Or to call you daily to see if you’re alright?

The Contact Care Line is there for folks who just need a listening ear. Serving Anderson, Blount, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Roane, Sevier and Union counties, the CCL offers invaluable help for those in psychological or emotional pain.

According to a CCL phone volunteer I spoke with recently who wishes to remain anonymous, the organization was started in 1973 by an Australian minister who had received a phone call from a suicidal person. After he calmed the person down, they made arrangements to meet. Sadly, the meeting never happened; the suicide had been

successful.

It occurred to the minister that a system of laypeople, trained in the art of listening and immediately available by phone, could help to alleviate a lot of suffering. The Contact Care Line was born of this vision.

Bob Cunningham, retired UT professor of political science and current CCL board member, confirms this story. He speaks with concern about keeping the organization active. “Older retired people have been the mainstays of our program,” says Cunningham. Through illness and death, he says, “we’re losing our core: our longtime phone responders. We need more people coming down the pipeline, especially for our reassurance calls.”

He’s referring to the daily “check-in” calls to the old and infirm, or to those who need daily reminders about medications. Though training is required for any CCL volunteer, Cunningham says that these are “easy calls to make. They don’t require as much prep. Within a two-hour time slot you can make many such calls.”

There’s also the crisis line, which is available seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. for those who need someone to listen, no

matter the problem. Cunningham has put in plenty of phone time and listened to many hurting folks. “The stories that I hear are just heartbreaking,” he says.

Sometimes volunteers encounter problems that cannot be helped by phone, so they turn to the CCL’s professional backups: certified psychologists and others in the helping professions.

Cunningham and fellow CCL board member Helen Morton will speak about the organization at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 29, in the media room of the Spitzer Education Building at Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3700 Keowee Ave. All are invited.

If you or your church are looking for a meaningful way to positively and directly impact people’s lives, consider attending the talk and becoming involved with the Contact Care Line. Call the office at 312-7450, or visit contactcarelinetn.org.

The Contact Care Line crisis line is 584-4424.

“Most people can find the answer themselves,” says the anonymous volunteer, “if they can only sort through the problem.”

Bob Cunningham agrees.

“People just want to be heard.”

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■ Central UMC, 310 Hickory Creek Road in Lenoir City and First Farragut UMC will host a Mobile Pantry food giveaway 9 a.m. Saturday, March 28, at Central UMC. Gently used children’s clothing will also be available.

■ Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive, will offer a Music and Creative Arts Camp from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 13-17 for kids who have finished first through sixth grades. Cost: $125. Signups continue through April.

■ New Covenant Baptist Church, 10319 Starkey Lane, will host The Watoto Children’s Choir from Africa presenting a new choir production, “Oh What Love,” 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2. All performances are free and open to the public. Info: Amber Sakis at Design 4 Media, 813-849-0076 or amber@ design4.org.

■ Second Baptist Church, 777 Public Safety Drive, Clinton, will host Jennifer Rothchild Fresh Grounded Faith Area-wide Women’s Event from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, May 1-2.

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■ Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church will host Monday movie matinee featuring “Sense and Sensibility” 3 p.m.

March 30 in the multimedia room. Info: 522-9804.

■ St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway, will hold the following special services.

April 2: Maundy Thursday Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar, 7 p.m. April 3: Good Friday Liturgy, noon and 7 p.m.; Stations of the Cross, 1 and 3 p.m. April 5: Holy Eucharist, 7:30 and 10:30 a.m.; Easter breakfast, 9:15; Egg hunt, 12:30 p.m.

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Still losing weight – ‘and that’s cool!’

It’s been more than three years since Pat Benn of Knoxville, 49, underwent weight loss surgery with Dr. Jonathan Ray, a bariatric surgeon now practicing at the Fort Sanders Center for Bariatric Surgery.

In May 2011 Benn had gastric bypass surgery, a procedure in which the stomach is made smaller, Down more than causing food to bypass part of the small intes230 pounds and tine. This enables her to feel full quickly very active, Pat is and eat far less. “The moment I start wearing clothes to feel full, I stop eating. I never she couldn’t wear overeat, and I think that’s a tool before and is takthey gave me,” she said. ing center stage Benn eats several small, highsinging in her protein meals each day. At first, the church choir! weight came off quickly – 100 pounds in the first three months. “But then it slows,” Benn said. “Surgery helps with 70 percent of what you need to lose, but what people don’t realize is you have to put effort into it. Weight loss surgery does not change you, you have to change you! It takes work and dedication to stay changed. Actually, I’m still losing weight, which is a really cool thing.”

A big part of that is her dedication to an active lifestyle. “I try to get more exercise. I drink more water than I used to and I don’t drink soda at all.

I also like to walk, swim and dance. I like moving, period.”

Benn has lost more than 230 pounds off her highest weight of 392 and has reduced her risk for major health problems. “I’m a nurse, and I come from a family with a history of diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. I knew it was only a matter of time before that was present in my life. I didn’t want to go down that road,” Benn said.

Benn chose Dr. Ray based on a recommendation from a friend. “I just fell in love with him and the whole staff. Walking into the office is like walking into a family home. They’re so loving and welcoming.”

“Pat has done excellently with her surgery. She is full of life and can do more As a nurse, Pat Benn knew she was than she used to do. Her outlook on life headed for major health problems. She is greatly improved,” said Dr. Ray. “It’s decided to undergo gastric bypass sura privilege for us to see people’s lives gery with Dr. Jonathan Ray. change for the better.”

Tips for social eating success For everyone trying to lose weight, attending a social event can often cause anxiety. Whether it is dinner with friends or a girls/ guys night out, remember, being social and overeating don’t have to go hand-in-hand. Here are some tips to consider:

inhibitions, making “bad choices” hard to resist.

Chew gum. Chewing sugarfree gum can satisfy your oral fixation and curb your appetite.

Chew slowly. Eating a meal quickly inhibits the release of horNever arrive hungry. Eat ev- mones in the stomach that induce ery three to four hours, and al- feelings of being full, resulting in ways have a healthy snack with overeating. you such as a protein bar or raw Put your food on a plate. almonds, so you don’t arrive feelPicking foods from one plate to the ing famished. next can add up quickly. Seeing Eat protein first. Protein helps how much you eat will allow you with metabolism, keeps you full better control your caloric intake. longer and may help you cut down Remember, socializing is about on those carbs that are so temptfamily and friends instead of eating. ing. If you end up overindulging, Drink water or other non- give yourself a break. Get right caloric beverages. Coffee and back on track the next meal – not tea, which are very low in calories, the next week – by recommitting are staples. Avoid alcohol and sug- to healthy eating and regular exerary drinks. Alcohol can lower your cise.

Learn the facts about bariatric surgery Informational seminars will be held in Classroom 1 on the Lobby level at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, 1901 Clinch Ave., in Knoxville. Dates and times are as follows:

Thursday, March 26, 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 9, 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 23, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 14, 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 28, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 11, 6 p.m.

Thursday, June 25, 7 p.m.

A Life Changing Decision For many patients, making the decision to undergo a bariatric procedure is a process. Some are driven by health concerns while others are seeking changes that will enhance their life experiences – playing with their children, traveling comfortably or enjoying the great outdoors. Patients must weigh the benefits of the surgery with the lifetime changes they will need to make in order to be successful.

Anyone who undergoes weight loss surgery will tell you –the actual surgical procedure is only a small part of the puzzle to regaining a life of health and happiness. A lot of the hard work actually comes into play prior to and after surgery.

Each potential patient begins by attending a free educational seminar to learn about surgical weight

loss options. Upcoming seminar dates, times and locations are listed above, and on our website www.fsregional.com/bariatrics.

If, after attending a seminar, you decide to begin your bariatric journey you will have appointments with your surgeon, a financial counselor and patient advocate.

Please note that every insurance company is different in their coverage of bariatric procedures.

Meeting with a financial counselor on the front end of the procedure helps

you understand your financial responsibilities.

The actual surgical procedure is fairly quick and, with no complications, patients will be in the hospital one night for a sleeve gastrectomy and two nights for a gastric bypass procedure.

Follow-up care for bariatric patients will continue for several months. Our certified bariatric nurses will lead support groups and coordinate nutritional counseling to help you navigate your continuing journey. We also offer a free, six-month fitness center membership to help jump-start your exercise goals.

Though the decision to have bariatric surgery may be a difficult one, just ask anyone who has been successful if they’d do it again. The answer will be an overwhelming YES!

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Been thinking about Weight Loss Surgery?

Get the Facts. Ashley did.

865-673-FORT www.fsregional.com/bariatric-surgery

Ashley lost 115 pounds!

B-2 • MARCH 25, 2015 • Shopper news

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LOTS & ACREAGE

Jason McMahan 257-1332 • 922-4400 lolton123@aol.com EAST

$49,900 Almost 3 acres in Halls 350'+ of rd frontage perfect for 3-4 duplexes located just 1/2 mile off Broadway.

POWELL

$99,900 8.3 acres mostly rolling pasture w/spring on property close to Norris Freeway in the Halls High School zone.

PRICED UNDER APPRAISAL! 2BR, lg bonus rm, fenced lot gar, roof, window, & water heater new in 2007, current VA appraisal done last year. Won’t last at $42,900! MLS# 916687 HALLS

SADDLEBROOK S/D! All brick, over 2700 SF, 3BR/2.5BA w/huge bonus rm, tray mstr w/jacuzzi & sep shower, FP, hdwd dining rm, office & much more. $189,900 MLS#908318

1-LEVEL CONDO! 2BR/2BA w/gar, new laminate hdwd, cathedral fam rm w/gas FP, eatin kit w/new appliances, looks new ready to move into. Close to Emory Rd and I-75. $89,900 MLS# 914084 EAST

GREAT INVESTMENT! 2 homes on 3 lots, zoned commercial, close to Knoxville Center Mall, main home needs a little TLC 2nd home needs a lot of work, 1.4 total acres, priced to move fast. $99,900 MLS# 914142

$99,000 5 restricted acres w/120' of river front on the Clinch, this is a trout fisherman’s dream close to I-75 in Anderson Co. $34,900 almost 2 acres just minutes from Walmart in Halls, lots of large hardwoods a perfect place to build your dream home.

COMMERCIAL! 1.4+ acres on Dry Gap rd beside the Boys & Girls Club across from Weigels. Perfectly flat & cleared. $499,900 COMMERCIAL! Maynardville. 1.25 acres w/road frontage on all 4 sides located across from Union Co Court House. $249,900

HALLS: All brick, 2-story with many upgrades including: Granite counters in kitchen, island, plantation shutters thru out, beautiful tile in master bath suite, cathedral ceilings/hardwoods in great room-awesome fireplace, large breakfast area + formal dining w/hardwoods, 3FULL baths, office, custom gabled~roof back porch, fenced yard, Community has clubhouse, pool, walking trail, lakefishing, playground, basketball, and tennis! $359,900 MLS# 914506

Do you have lots or land you are looking to sell?

LET ME HELP! Call (865)218-1117 and I can discuss the state of the market and help find the best options for your property!

Rhonda Vineyard 218-1117

www.rhondavineyard.com

NEW LISTING! Over 2300 sqft Rancher with bonus room. 3br 2.5 bth on level corner lot with oversized 36x22 2 car garage/workshop area. Home is truly move-in ready! Qualifies for 100% RD financing. A must see! Priced @ $229,900 MLS# 916744

Broadacres Subdivision – 7845 Keswick Road, Powell, TN 37849 – All brick, basement rancher with many updates! Hardwood floors, LR, formal DR, kitchen with new Corian countertops, new appliances,tiled backsplash & tiled floor. Spacious family room w/gas jog FP, PLUS 3BRs on main with plush, updated BA & granite countertops!

Lower level recroom, BR PLUS full BA! Retreat outdoors & enjoy the park-like setting of the back yard! This is absolutely a gorgeous home & a must see! Call today!

PLENTY OF PRIVACY! All brick rancher on almost 2 acres. Lots of updates incl hdwd & tile floors, 2-yr old roof, W/I shwr in master BA, 19x11 sunroom, oversized 2-car gar & much more. Only the 2nd owners & property was surveyed & appraised in Jan 2015. Priced below appraisal @ $249,900 MLS# 911806

It’s the experience that counts!

MLS#904476 18 ACRES IN HALLS! Wonderful opportunity on an amazing piece of property just off Norris freeway & Emory Rd. Basement Rancher home included with acreage. So many options for the owner of this breathtaking property! Come & see just one more reason why “Halls does have it all” Priced @ $550,000

2 HOMES ON 2 ACRES! Located less than 2 miles to Big Ridge State Park & Norris lake boat launch is a great opportunity. 14x48 mobile home & 12x56 mobile home both in good shape & ready for new owners on 2 acres of privacy. Priced @ $44,900 MLS#899239 MLS#903449 PRIVATE, QUIET, INCOME PRODUCING! All that describes this 5 acres of beautiOAK RIDGE CONVENIENCE! Rare find in ful property with great area. Home in great shape having been 3 rented mobile freshly painted, new carpet downstairs, hdwd on the property. Almost 5 acres with space floors on main level, 29x12 main level great homes for 4 homes permitted. Mobile homes do not room, 24x18 attached carport. All priced for convey. Great opportunity to own land & have only $118,900 MLS# 901332 immediate income too! Priced @ $90,000

CHARACTER & CHARM! In this 2-story, all brick EMORY ESTATES SUB! Convenient location is just the beginning in this almost 5000 sqft home in the historic district of North Knoxville. Over all brick, 2 -story home w/ full unfinished basement. 5-car garage+ space. Larger than 1700 sqft with unf basement,3BR & 20x14 master. imaginable rooms, all situated on 1 acre with 2 additional acres available. This home has it all Priced @ $159,900 MLS# 904019

including being custom built & one owner. Priced @ $669,000 MLS#896764

“THE PRICE IS RIGHT”

Tausha Price

Debbie Holloway, Broker, ABR, GRI HollowayRealtor@gmail.com 865-777-9191

REALTOR®, Broker Multi Million Dollar Producer

947-5000 • 389-0740

tausha@taushaprice.com

110 Legacy View Way, Knoxville, TN 37918

HEADS UP FOR THIS BLUE RIBBON PROPERTY

HALLS – Beautiful “NINE OAKS” Deborah Black • 687-1111 • 567-2615 Broker, GRS, CRS • 38 years experience

OPEN HOUSE • SUNDAY, MARCH 29 • 2pm - 5pm HALLS, “NINE OAKS” 3518 Hubbs Crossing – Absolute quality construction, excellent room size, peaceful setting. (Backs up to gentleman’s farm).

COME SEE FOR YOURSELF AT “OPEN HOUSE” SUNDAY! 4 levels but total living on main if necessary. Master on main + 2nd master up. 3 jacuzzi tubs. ONE OWNER, CUSTOM HOME, EXTREMELY LIGHT & OPEN. Quality moldings & judge’s paneling. All hdwd & tile on main and up also except bonus room & hobby/studio. Over 3700 SF of living space. 3.5 tiled BAs w/4th plumbed in walk-out, unfin bsmnt. Walk-up floored attic. Strg everywhere. Sellers left total home “white-glove” clean. High ceilings in unfin bsmnt show quality construction – copper pipes, etc. Gas heat, central air, (2 systems for efficiency), ceiling fans throughout. In immediate area of S/D on same street.

Homes closed at $347,500-$368,200. Yard terraced for complete mowing on riding mower. $359,900 MLS#899870. Deborah Black 567-2615 Directions: I-75N, right on Emory Road, left on Pelleaux, right into Nine Oaks.

Shopper news • MARCH 25, 2015 • B-3

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 Brown Bag Lecture: Medal of Honor Quilt Project with Kit Brown and Quilting Team, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Free. Info: 215-8801.

Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike.

Speaker: Irish author Glenn Meade. All-inclusive lunch, $12. RSVP by Monday, March 23: 983-3740.

Luncheon to celebrate Knoxville Museum of Art’s 25 years in the Clayton Building, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the KMA. Cost: $75. Info/reservations: Denise DuBose, ddubose@knoxart.org.

“Rockin The Runway,” 6 p.m., Scruffy City Hall, 32 Market Square. Tickets: $10. a Collaboration of fashion and local music to benefit Joy Of Music School.

Tickets available in advance and at the door.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, MARCH 25-26 Faculty Senate Book Sale, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Division Street Campus, Room 208, 3435 Division St. Community is invited. Funds raised go to student scholarships. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.

THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Documentary Film Premiere: “Conspicuous

Gallantry: The 2014 Medal of Honor Convention,” 7 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Documentary was a service learning collaboration between the 2014 Medal of Honor Convention and the UT School of Journalism and Electronic Media. Free and open to the public. Info: 215-8801.

Pellissippi State’s bluegrass, jazz ensembles will perform, 7 p.m., Clayton Performing Arts Center, Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. The event is free and the community is invited. Info: pstcc. edu or 694-6400.

FRIDAY, MARCH 27 Knoxville Economics Forum, 7:30 a.m., Club LeConte, atop the First Tennessee Building, 800 S. Gay St. Guest speaker: Randy Boyd, an entrepreneur and Tennessee economic and community development commissioner. Cost: $20, payable on the day of the event. Space is limited. Info/reservations: knoxvilleeconomicsforum.org.

Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers performing traditional bluegrass, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $20, some discounts available.

Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS, MARCH 27-APRIL 12 “Shrek: The Musical Jr.,” Knoxville Children’s

Sport Utility Vehicles Transportation Automobiles for Sale BUICK LESABRE - 2001. Custom, x-clean! blue, 3800 V6! 65,000 mi., $6,450. (865)988-4133.

CHEVROLET IMPALA - 2013. LT 41K miles, all power, remote start.

Sharp! $9850. Call (865)522-4133.

CHEVROLET IMPALA LT - 2012. 22 k, 1 owner, rear spoiler, dual clim. cont.

Loaded. Orig. in/out. $15,400/bo.

(865)382-0365.

DODGE MAGNUM RT- 2005. 1 owner, 114K mi., blue, new tires, exc. cond. $9,000. (865)924-9616.

FORD MUSTANG GT CONV. 2002, loaded, gar. kept, exc. cond. 40K mi., $8,700, Best Offer. (865)394-9684.

TOYOTA CAMRY - 2002. 101k miles , clean title , no accident , 4 cyl , call or text at 2693390825 (269)339-0825.

TOYOTA SIENNA - 1999. LE Mini Van, Power windows,seats, etc.Looks good and runs Good. 250,000 mi., $3,150. (865)332-7378.

HONDA PILOT Touring 2011, loaded, exc. cond., 45K mi., $21,500.

423-295-5393.

Motorcycles/Mopeds - 2010 Harley Davidson FLHXSE CVO. This Harley Davidson is a limited-production version of the popular Harley-Davidson hot-rod bagger. Powered by the 110 cubic inch V-twin engine. Loaded with chrome and Spiced Rum paint with gold leafing. This bike has several added features, the Harley Davidson LED headlamp, Harley Davidson ipod interface with relocation kit, 7” speakers and amp. Road pegs, Kuryakyn Crusher exhaust pipes with Trident Tips, leather Mustang lid covers, V-stream windshield.

Tires have 2000 miles on them, CVO brass key, Harley Davidson cover.

Currently has 16,699 miles and is in excellent condition, 865-209-7636 serious inquiries only.

FORD F150 2002. 4WD, ext cab, low miles, good cond., 1 owner, 865414-3058 NISSAN TITAN 2008. extra cab LB 4x4, all options, new tires, 101K mi., priv. owner. $15,800 obo. 423-721-5555

Sports and Imports HONDA ACCORD EX 2014. AT, New car warr., 600 mi., dual climate, power sts, SR, fully equip., beautiful crystal black fin. $23,995. (865)382-0365.

Trailers UTILITY TRAILERS All Sizes Available 865-986-5626 smokeymountaintrailers.com

HONDA CIVIC - 2002. Sunroof, loaded, air, 129k miles. Fin. avail. $4450.

(865)308-2743.

HONDA CIVIC 2001, AT, AC, 4 dr., super nice car. $3990. 865-308-2743 (865)308-2743.

MAZDA 3 TOURING 2013, like new, 4 dr, gray, 16,000 miles, $14,350. 865457-4492 SUBARU BAJA2003. Immaculate cond., AWD, pwr sunrf, leather, prem. stereo, CD. Below avg mi., NADA $8300. A steal for $7600. 1st person to see will buy. Guaranteed!

(865)282-9815. Must sell.

TOYOTA AVALON XLE 2014. V6, pearl white, w/tan/brwn/choc. inside, Bluetooth, heated seats, backup camera, FWD, 14K mi. $26,900 obo.

(828) 835-3921; cell 828-557-4879.

VOLKSWAGEN GTI - 2013. Red w/blk int; Autobahn pkg - leath, sunrf, prem audio; blk whl; many VW acc.

14,000 mi., $24,900. (865)776-0146.

Sport Utility Vehicles CHEVROLET SUBURBAN - 2008. LT, Z71 pkg, 4x4, loaded, lthr., 2nd row bucket seat, 106K mi., white w/blk. int., private seller, $21,000.

865-382-0064 (865)382-0064.

Boats/Motors/Marine JON BOAT 13’ w/7 HP Evinrude motor, $400. 10’ AIR BOAT $50.

865-776-4748 TRITON 2000 - 21 ft., 225 HP Mercury mtr., garage kept, exc. cond. $19,760. (865)966-2527.

Campers & RV’s 2000 PACE ARROW VISION - 36’, 2 slides, twin air & heat, W&D, ref w/ ice maker, all opt. 23K mi, $35,000.

(865)850-9613.

CAR TOW DOLLY - 2015, all cars/pu Swivels, tilts, never used, new ret. $2750. 1st $1050 cash. 864-275-6478

CHEVROLET G30 - 1995. Cargo Van, shelving, ready to work. $3,000.

(865)216-5387.

HONDA ODYSSEY EXL- 2012. EXL, sunroof, lthr., exc cond. 40K mi., $19,900 423-295-5393

Classic Cars CHEVROLET CAMARO - 1978. Rally Sport LT, 350 mtr, AT, runs & drives. $1500. (865)216-5387.

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2009 Ultra Classic, 1250 mi, $4500 in upgrades. $15,800. (423)404-2862.

HONDA GOLDWING 2010, yellow, ext warr, many extras, 8K mi, $16,000.

865-310-0519 after 6pm YAMAHA V STAR 650 CLASSIC - 1998, Runs well, babied & gar. stored, New tires, only 11,143 mi. Windshield, saddlebags, back rest & helmet incl. $3,250 obo. (865)310-0794.

MERCEDES BENZ 560 SL 1989 Convertible, dark maroon, like new. 25,500 mi, $24,500. 865-453-6344

27’ Fleetwood 2007 Pioneer, 4 jacks, tow pkg., awning, $99 per day. $15 off per day with referral. Tentative booking. No rainouts. Dep. req’d.

865-983-7186

DRIVERS: CDL-A - CO & O/Op’s $2500 SIGN ON! Awesome New Pay Packages! Excellent Benefits! Driver Referral Program! O/OP’s Plate Program! 855-252-1634

Merchandise Antiques

HONDA CR-V 2011 SE, 33k mi, tract. control. Loaded. New, 75k tires, immac. in/out. $17,400/bo.

(865)382-0365.

FREIGHTLINER 2000 - Mid Roof, 1999 East Covered wagon, 1 owner, exc. cond. $36,500/b.o.

(865)922-8694

WANTED Military antiques and collectibles 865-368-0682

I. II. III. IV. V.

Silent Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Roll Call Approval of Agenda Mayor’s Report Citizens Forum Approval of Minutes A. March 12, 2015 VI. Ordinances A. Public Hearing & Second Reading 1. Ordinance 15-02, an Ordinance to amend the text of the Farragut Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 86-16, as amended, pursuant to authority granted by section 13-4-201, Tennessee Code Annotated, by amending Chapter 3.

Specific District Regulations, Section XII. General Commercial District (C-1), F., Mixed Use Town Center, Subsection 2. B., by providing for a drive through under certain conditions B. First Reading VII. Business Items A. Approval of bids and award of Contract 2005-05, Street Resurfacing B. Approval of Contract 2015-12, Auditing Services C. Appeal of access determination for the Hodges property, Parcels 1.00, 1.01 and 1.02, Tax Map 152-C, located at the southwest corner of Kingston Pike and Chaho Road, 1.37 Acres VIII. Town Administrator’s Report IX. Town Attorney’s Report It is the policy of the Town of Farragut not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public Law 93-112 and 101-336 in its hiring, employment practices and programs. To request accommodations due to disabilities, please call 865-966-7057 in advance of the meeting.

Consolidation Loans FIRST SUN FINANCE 1ST LOAN FREE We make loans up to $1000. We do credit starter & rebuilder loans. Call today, 30 minute approvals.

See manager for details.

865-687-3228

Collectibles KNOXVILLE COIN SHOW Mar 14th & Apr 4th Info: 865-660-8692 Time: 9am - 4pm Adm is Free Loc: Rothchild Center 8807 Kingston Pike Knoxville, TN 37923

Real Estate Sales

Heavy Equipment Condos-Unfurn

GROUND LEVEL CONTAINERS

8’wx9’hx40’ Store tools, equipment, feed, cars, etc. $1395-$1795.

966-9400 x 412

HALLS AREA, Bethany Springs, 7805 Bailey Bridge Way, All brick, 3BR, 3BA, FSBO, asking $205,000.

(865)922-8742; 865-804-0329.

Mobile Homes/Lots

Lawn & Garden JOHN DEERE X475 - 2005 model, 192 hours, 48” deck, like new condition.

Call 865-599-0516.

VOLUNTEER VILLAGE Pool, Club house.

Lots -- $99/mo. (865)250-4205

KENSINGTON FOREST APTS. 404 Tammy Dr. Powell, 938-4200 BELLE MEADE APTS. 7209 Old Clinton Pk., Knoxville, 938-4500 CREEK WOOD APTS. 612 4th St., Lake City, TN 426-7005 Call to receive info. about being placed on a waiting list.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider & employer.

MONDAY PLAZA - 1BR & STUDIOS AVAIL. ON THE STRIP. Starting at $395 mo. For more info (865)219-9000 SOUTH KNOX/UT/DOWNTOWN 2BR, 700 Sq. Ft. APT, Call about our $299 move in special! 865-573-1000.

WEST - GREAT location & schools, 2 BR, 2 BA, W/D conn, $650/mo. $500 DD. No pets. More. 865-588-3433

Homes Unfurnished WEST - Fox Run Subd. Exec home 4 BR, 2.5 BA, lrg kit., fam rm, LR, DR, office, fncd level backyard. 865803-7978

There’s no place like...here!

For Sale By Owner

Metal Buildings

GROUND LEVEL CONTAINERS

8’wx9’hx40’ Store tools, equip., feed, cars, etc. $1395-$1795 966-9400 x 412

Tools GENERATOR - BIG 8500 watt, 2015, Honda elec. start. Batt. & wheel kit incl. Never used. New retail $4995.

Wholesale $3750. 1st $1850 cash.

864-275-6478

CHARMING HOME PRICED TO SELL 1966 Clove, 3BR, Don’t miss this move-in ready ranch home with a desirable open floor plan. Located at the end of a private street, this home features a walk-in, tiled shower in the master bath, new energy-efficient windows and vinyl wood floors throughout the main living areas. Located 7 minutes from downtown and UT campus.

Comes with: *Stainless kitchen appliances *Front load washer and dryer *Freshly painted walls *Maintenance-free vinyl siding *Large covered front porch and open back deck. (865)385-6837.

Real Estate

WEST. 2 BR, 1 BA w/bonus rm, 2 sundecks, W/D, C H/A, off Northshore near Concord Park & YMCA. $900 mo. 865-599-4617

Duplx/Multplx UnFurn Real Estate Rentals

Driver/Transport

FORD F700 1983, - dump flat bed w/ sides, gas mtr., needs some work. $1500. (865)216-5387.

FARRAGUT BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN March 26, 2015 WORKSHOP CIP WORKSHOP 6:00 PM BMA MEETING, 7:00 PM

CEMETERY LOTS - 4 lots Lynnhurst Cemetery.

Monument rights. $8,000, (865)922-5227

Announcements

GMC Terrain 2014, 5,000 mi, all power, aluminum wheels, bluetooth, $18,900. 865-660-9191

AGENDA

Financial

Jobs

MGB - 1977 $1500.

865-705-6123

Commercial Vehicles

2 PLOTS AT SHERWOOD - Memorial Gardens in the Garden of Victory. $3500/both. (865)919-0755

Recreational Rental

FORD MUSTANG - 1989. HB, 5.0, new transm., AC, New tires, Pony whls. $4100. 865-687-3905.

LINCOLN TOWN CAR - 1996.

Signature edt., lthr., exc. cond. $3000. (865)457-4955.

Book signing by Joe King, noon, McKay Books, 230 Papermill Place Way. Featuring his book: “Human Ants.” Available for purchase through Sarah Book Publishing, Amazon, Barnes and Noble. Info/to order a copy: sarahbookpublishing.com or “Joe-King-Poet-andNovelist” on Facebook.

CFA Cat Show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Jacob Building at the Tennessee Valley Fairgrounds, Chilhowee Park.

Presented by Tennessee Valley Cat Fanciers Inc. All cats are invited to enter. The public is invited. Tickets: $20.

Info/to enter: catshows.us/tennesseevalley.

Hardin Valley Community Spring Litter Clean Up, 9 a.m.-noon. Volunteers meet at the Hardin Valley Food City Parking lot. Gloves, vests and bags provided by Knox County through the Adopt-a-Road program. Volunteers needed.

Histories and Mysteries Men’s Book Group, 10:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Bring a favorite book you’ve recently read, with a brief excerpt to share. Does not have to be a history or mystery. Coffee and donuts provided. Free and open to the public. Info: 777-1750.

Apartments - Unfurn.

Motorcycles/Mopeds

YAMAHA V-STAR 1300 - Exc. shape. Low mi. 2007. $5850. (616)260-6584.

Vans

SATURDAY, MARCH 28

Cemetery Lots Recreation

COACHMAN 2004 23’ travel trailer, sleeps 6, exc. cond. $8,635. (865)966-2527.

Trucks

Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m.

Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m.

Sundays. No performance Sunday, April 5. Tickets: $12.

Info/tickets: 208-3677, knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com or info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

Apartments - Unfurn.

Adoptions ADOPT: A loving couple longs to adopt your newborn into a home filled with unconditional love, warmth & security. Expenses paid. Kim & Werner @ 1-888-416-5056 ADOPTION LOVING, professional couple eager to add to our growing family. Our warm, nurturing home is waiting to welcome your baby.

Expenses paid. Anne & Colin.

1-877-246-6780 (toll-free) ADOPTION: Loving couple promises your baby a secure home. Denise & Nick.

1-888-449-0803

$0 DEPOSIT!! - 2BR Garden Apts. w/all amenities include SALT Pool & W/D conn.

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Blood clots and your veins Your veins pump blood across your body Deep Vein Thrombosis: What you and to the heart as part of your circulatory system. When a clot forms in a vein, it can need to know cause major issues, including immediate WHAT: Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) death. You can lower your risk factor for occurs when a blood clot develops in a vein blood clots through lifestyle changes and deep inside the body. medication.

These clots develop most often in the lower What is vascular disease? legs or thighs.

“Very rarely does Vascular disease is a condition that afDVT occur in both fects the arteries and/or veins. Most often, legs,” C. Scott Callicutt, it affects blood flow, either by blocking or MD, FACS, Parkwest weakening blood vessels or by damaging surgeon, said. “If you the valves that are found in veins. Organs are having swelling and other body structures may be damaged or pain in one leg, you by vascular disease as a result of decreased should seek treatment. or completely blocked blood flow.

C. Scott Callicutt, MD DVT carries the risk of limb loss and death.

What causes vascular disease?

The clot could get so extensive, the blood in Causes of vascular disease include: your leg may back up to a point at which the ■ Atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis leg can no longer be used.” is the most common cause of vascular disRISKS: Several factors can increase a ease and may start as early as childhood.

However, the disease has the potential to person’s likelihood of developing DVT, but progress rapidly in adulthood. It is gener- they do not cause the disease. Risk factors ally characterized by the accumulation of include: ■ Obesity fatty deposits along the innermost layer ■ Genetic tendency for blood clots of the arteries. If the disease process pro■ Surgery in the hip, leg or abdomen gresses, plaque formation may take place.

■ A long period of rest This thickening narrows the arteries and ■ Use of birth control pills can decrease blood flow or completely block ■ Pregnancy the flow of blood to organs and other body ■ Certain diseases and conditions intissues and structures.

■ Embolus/thrombus. A blood vessel cluding varicose veins, cancer and inflammay be blocked by an embolus (a tiny mass matory bowel disease ■ Previous blood clot of debris that moves through the blood-

DIAGNOSIS: In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for DVT include: ■ Duplex ultrasound.

This test uses high frequency sound waves to look at the speed of blood flow and the veins. Because this procedure is noninvasive and doesn’t involve radiation, it is the most common test for DVT. ■ Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This diagnostic procedure uses a combination of large magnets, radio frequencies and a computer to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body, and is particularly effective in diagnosing deep vein thrombosis in the pelvis.

■ Venogram. This test uses X-rays and IV contrast dye to visualize the vein. Contrast dye causes the blood vessels to appear opaque on the X-ray image, allowing the doctor to visualize the blood vessels being evaluated.

All diagnostic testing for DVT is available through the Imaging Department at Parkwest.

stream) or a thrombus (a blood clot).

SYMPTOMS: DVT occurs with symp■ Inflammation. In general, inflam- toms about half the time. When symptoms mation of blood vessels is referred to as vas- do occur, they typically include: culitis, which includes a range of disorders.

■ Swelling in the leg Inflammation may lead to narrowing and/ ■ Red, discolored or white skin or blockage of blood vessels.

■ Rapid heart beat ■ Trauma/injury. Trauma or injury ■ Slight fever involving the blood vessels may lead to in■ Warm skin flammation or infection, which can dam■ More visible surface veins age the blood vessels and lead to narrowing ■ Dull ache, tightness, tenderness or and/or blockage. pain in the leg

TREATMENT: For patients with DVT, treatment will be determined by your doctor based on: ■ Your age, overall health and medical history ■ Extent of the disease ■ Signs and symptoms The goals of treatment are to prevent the clot from growing and to ensure that it doesn’t break off and travel through the veins to the lungs. Treatment also helps re-

duce the possibility of another blood clot forming, and can include anti-coagulant medications and blood thinners. In some cases, a filter may be inserted into the vena cava, which is the large vein that returns blood from the body to the heart. The filter, also called a clot catcher, is used in patients who can’t take medication or are not benefiting from blood thinners.

PREVENTION: “If you have a history of clotting disorders in your family, obesity or a sedentary lifestyle, you can take simple measures to help prevent DVT and pulmonary embolism,” Callicutt explained.

“Before you sit for a long time or travel, walk around for 30 minutes and stretch. Contract your muscles in your legs, because gravity will work against you when you’re sitting and decrease blood flow. Keep your blood moving back toward the heart by flexing your calf muscles.”

DVT may also cause damage to the veins and valves that allow blood to flow to the heart. “A clot can damage the valves that send blood to your heart and cause them to become leaky,” Callicutt said. “You can end up with postphlebitic syndrome, which includes chronic swelling and ulcers, even years later. Not only is it important to take anti-coagulant medication to treat DVT, but it’s also essential to wear compression garments to prevent swelling and pressure on the skin.”

For more information on treatment for DVT or other vascular diseases, call (865) 374-PARK.

What is a pulmonary embolism?

To prevent bleeding, the body makes blood clots and then breaks them down. Under certain circumstances, the body may be unable to break down a clot, which may result in a serious health condition.

Abnormal blood clotting in the veins is the result of a combination of several problems including sluggish blood flow through the veins, an abnormality in clot formation or an injury to the blood vessel wall.

A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that develops in a vessel elsewhere in the body that travels to an artery in the lung and forms a blockage. An embolism to the lung may cause serious life-threatening consequences and, potentially, death.

Deep vein thrombosis is the most common cause of a pulmonary embolism. Other less frequent sources of pulmonary embolism are a fat embolus, amniotic fluid embolus and air bubbles. Clots may also form on the end of an indwelling intravenous (IV) catheter, break off and travel to the lungs.

As a home healthcare worker, Evelyn Steele of Madisonville has a lot of heart. The 56-year-old cares for some of East Tennessee’s most vulnerable patients, including elderly men and women with Alzheimer’s disease. When she needed cardiac care, Steele chose Naresh Mistry, MD and Parkwest Medical Center. Steele has entrusted the Parkwest team for both stenting and an open heart procedure.

“Dr. Mistry is really good – he’s taken really good care of Naresh Mistry, MD me,” said Steele.

Despite Steele’s praise, Mistry said, “I certainly don’t feel like a hero. I just did what I was able to do.”

For Steele, renewed strength and stents have allowed her to stay on her feet and continue to care for patients. “Parkwest is the best hospital I have ever been in,” she said. “I think the world of the people there, because they really do care.”

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ou don’t have to look very far these days to find glitz and glamour. Sometimes it seems as though everything’s gotten a bit more “showbiz-y.” As per Andy Warhol, it’s truly the age of 15-minute fame, where everyone seems to be trying to outdo, out-acquire and out-bling everyone else.

But Bob Deck and Kate Spillane don’t care much about that anymore.

The couple decided long ago to give up the theatrical life for the simple one.

They met in the early ’80s when Spillane was appearing at the Cumberland County Playhouse, but the two didn’t click until they met a second time, months later. “It wasn’t love at first sight,” she says, “but it WAS forever.”

Spillane, who received her master’s degree in vocal performance from UT in 1991, continues, “Our lives changed when I graduated. We had to make a decision about theater: We needed to either do it, or get out. We got out.

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“I’ve always wanted to have goats,” says Kate Spillane. “The plan was to make goat’s milk soap, but the reality was that we didn’t have time. So they’re pets!” Photo by Carol Shane

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pringtime is here! Warmer weather, fragrant blooming trees, and perennial flowers signal the start of this wonderful season with Easter not far behind. To celebrate this season, Bobby Todd is hosting the fifth annual “Spring Sip and See” on Friday and Saturday, March 27 & 28 from 10 to 5 daily in Historic Downtown Sweetwater.

Bobby and Todd have just returned from another gift and antique market, and the store is stocked full with wonderful spring merchandise for your soul, home, and garden. After an incredibly busy holiday season, Bobby Todd has again transformed … this time into a springtime shopper’s dream, just in time to freshen up your home.

Unique home accessories, whimsical Easter decorations, classic outdoor statuary, and colorful scarves are just a sample of the items you will see.

Also just in is a shipment of antique furniture and accessories that blend in seamlessly with the new pieces, just like they will in your own home. Bobby and Todd have been traveling to numerous antique markets and auctions to find unique treasures at incredible prices. Value is just as important as the look at Bobby Todd.

To add even more fun to the “Spring Sip and See,” please wear your favorite spring hat or Easter bonnet to receive 15% off all regular non-sale merchandise purchased on Friday and Saturday only. All customers wearing Spring hats or Easter bonnets will also have the opportunity to enter our “Best Spring/Easter Hat” contest with the winner receiving a $100.00 Bobby Todd gift certificate.

Bellinis and Southern peach tea will be served along with Sweetwater Valley cheese and sweet treats. Be sure to sample the treats, register to win wonderful door prizes and look for many sale items throughout the store. We hope you make the Bobby Todd “Spring Sip and See” a part of your springtime tradition. Please feel free to bring your spouse and friends … and by all means, don’t forget your hat!

If you like Christmastime at Bobby Todd, you are going to love the fresh look at Bobby Todd for Spring.

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From page 1 “It was the right decision.”

Married 34 years, the couple now lives in a 100-year-old farmhouse off of Strawberry Plains Pike. Together they manage an organic farm, woodland, a small herd of goats and a flock of chickens. They’ve been there for 10 years, and they couldn’t be happier.

They’ve found their perfect life.

“We’re both introverts. We like quiet. And there’s an unending supply of things that need doing around here. We’re never bored!”

Their home is furnished simply, with small rooms spreading out around a larger central area. The dining area consists of a long wooden table with benches. A few carefully-selected rugs dot the bare wood floor. A small pantry holds staples, including farm fresh eggs gathered that morning.

“When we first moved here, we didn’t Bob Deck breaks up the ground in the kitchen Kate Spillane takes a stroll with some of her best friends. even have any furniture,” laughs Spillane. garden. Photos by Corey Seaton “People kept asking, ‘where is your stuff?’

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“ They did manage to find a few items they liked, but stopped when the basic requirements were met.

“We have what we need,” she says. That’s been their credo ever since.

They raised their daughter, Olivia, there.

Currently a freshman attending the Sewanee University of the South, she’s interested in international global studies.

On a recent sunny day, Spillane, who teaches voice and music appreciation at Pellissippi State Community College, mucks out the goat stalls in the barn. “You don’t have to think,” she says, referring to farm work. “You just do.” Wielding a pitchfork, she points out the two-feet-thick layer of shredded hay and manure in one of the stalls. “It’s like lasagna.”

It’s also, as any gardener knows, worth its weight in gold. Hence the mucking out.

“We grow everything,” says Spillane, “and everything we eat is organic.” A large vegetable plot waits to have some of that goat-made goodness tilled into it. One hillside is studded with apple, cherry and pear trees. Further down the hill are blueberry bushes. A smaller kitchen garden is near the house.

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From page 2 “This time of year we’re cleaning up,” says Spillane. She and Deck have marked a few trees, damaged by the ice storm, with spray paint. Deck does the heavy cutting, but “He’s not allowed to cut anything by the house – or by ME,” Spillane says with a grin, recounting a near-miss once when Deck misjudged the angle of a falling tree.

You may know Bob Deck as the popular host of “Tennessee Shines” on WDVX radio. Described by his wife as a media “jack of all trades,” he’s also hosted a TV talk show and written and produced commercials for the cable industry. Currently he runs AK Consulting, a local media relations firm.

“He loves being outdoors and doing physical stuff,” says Spillane. “He’s in the office all day with computers and he loves coming home and chopping wood.”

They’ve found their perfect life. “We’re both introverts. We like quiet. And there’s an unending supply of things that need doing around here. We’re never bored!”

Spillane and Deck installed the stone steps leading up to the 100-year-old farmhouse. Photo by Carol Shane

Bob Deck plies his ax. “You don’t have to think – you just do.” Photo by Corey Seaton

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visit to Mark Biagi’s house is a treat for anyone who likes collecting pieces of history.

Even if his taste isn’t identical to yours, the stories of Biagi’s collecting triumphs will stoke the flame that burns inside everyone who’s ever prowled the aisles of an antique mall.

“The real lure is the hunt,” he says.

The popular Fountain City dentist has many passions: gardening, reading, cooking, music, UT sports and travel.

But on a dreary March Biagi says that he likes traveling day, Biagi is excited to show off his collection better than anything, and he’s of English transferware looking forward to visiting and the cabinets in which it is housed.

Spain, France and Italy later in Transferware is a the year. “It’s all about unique style of ceramics that uses transfer printing, experiences,” he says. a decorative technique To page 5

One cabinet is filled with travel mementos. “I don’t like cheap souvenirs,” says Biagi. “I like something that represents the country.”

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From page 4 which was developed in England in the mid-18th century.

Each piece is a work of art.

“This pattern is called Caledonia,” he says, bringing out a striking black and white platter. “At one time, Caledonia meant Scotland. This particular pattern always shows something to do with the hunt: a stag, or a hunting party on horseback.

It’s usually black, but sometimes green or red.” Though Biagi’s surname is Italian, he proudly claims Scotch-Irish heritage on his mother’s side, and says that he likes the look of an English cottage.

Biagi treasures all of his pieces, but he attaches special memories to a few of them. A platter depicting England’s Durham cathedral is particularly meaningful. He was in Durham the day after his beloved grandfather – who taught him everything he knows about gardening, among other things – died. “I climbed that very tower,” he says softly, pointing out the detail. “I went up there to reflect upon my grandfather’s death. He taught me so much. He was just a wise man.”

A few years later, Biagi came across the platter and bought it. Now it’s a real touchstone for him.

Biagi says that he likes traveling better than anything, and he’s looking forward to

An embroidered pillow celebrates the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

visiting Spain, France and Italy later in the year. “It’s all about unique experiences,” he says.

As for any more souvenirs, he admits he may have some winnowing-down to do.

“Keep the best,” he says, quoting one of his antique-dealing relatives, “and get rid of the rest!”

An English architectural cabinet is Mark Biagi’s pride and joy. The piece, made in the early 1700s, was originally built into a house and is now filled with English red and green transferware from the 1830s.

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