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IN THIS ISSUE Meeting Seymour Actor Ethan Hawke makes his documentary-directing debut with “Seymour: An Introduction,” and he seems to have absorbed powerful lessons from his subject. Pianist Seymour Bernstein was a star on the concert stage who decided at his peak to stop performing because he had other things he wanted to do. He was, and is, a teacher, and he wanted to compose music and write books.
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UT: Stop branding When the talk turns to branding, you can be damn sure somebody is about to get burned. And the hide that gets charred won’t be on the cowboy wielding the branding iron.
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‘65 Vols had no place to go The NCAA basketball tournament has changed some through the years. Perhaps you have noticed. In 1965, a mere 50 years ago, it involved 23 teams. They played in Bowling Green, Ky.; Lubbock, Texas; Philadelphia; Lexington; Manhattan, Kan.; Provo, Utah; College Park, Md. and finished in Portland, Ore.
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Jo Majors and her grandchildren, Trevor Smith and Caroline Smith, along with Matthew Ballard of Florida, sample bread from the store’s grand opening Story on page A-2 bread-breaking. Photo by Wendy Smith
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Fashionistas! Imagine, if you can, a roomful of grown men squirming in their seats and giggling like a bunch of teenagers, while winking and grinning at each other and poking fun at the apparently-now-obsolete button-down shirts and pleated trousers many of them are wearing. Mercy!
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Women of Central Baptist host Tu Dia Last weekend, after listening to a talk about health from Alexis Andino, dozens of women flocked to tables to make crafts, apply makeup or have their nails done. Volunteers from Roane State Community College’s massage therapy program offered complimentary massages while children were entertained in the Central Baptist Church of Bearden gym.
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By Sandra Clark A bridge replacement and road improvements to Westland Drive during the next six months will require lane and road closures at various times along the road between South Northshore Drive and Morrell Road, according to a city release. The project includes replacing the box culvert bridge on Westland Drive just east of Craigland Court, channel improvements and utility relocations – along with roadway improvements on Westland Drive near Rotherwood Drive.
An improved drainage channel along Westland Drive should minimize flooding near Craigland Court. Some 1,000 feet of the channel will be widened. To improve traffic safety, the new drainage channel will be shifted farther north, away from the westbound travel lane of Westland Drive, in order to provide a 10-foot shoulder along Westland Drive from Craigland Court to Craig Road. One-lane closures between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. are expected along sections of Westland Drive
Drive and Stone Mill Drive. The Mulch Company has withdrawn its request for use on review, scheduled to be heard April 9 by the Metropolitan Planning Commission. Judy Horn, secretary of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners, said the request was withdrawn as of March 24 by a letter from Mark Graham of Engineering Consultants. The Mulch Company had agreed to buy land adjacent to Creekside Nurseries on S. Northshore near Tooles Bend.
Jim McNutt: local Renaissance man creates priceless works of art By Anne Hart Imagine, if you can, a breathtakingly beautiful nautilus shell. And then imagine that it’s yours, to do with as you want. What would be your choice? Put it on a shelf and look at it occasionally? Consign it to a bank vault? The choice was easy for local artist, woodworker and marine archaeologist Jim McNutt. He crafted a table from Tennessee white oak, finished it in shades of ocean
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Wood artist and marine archaeologist Jim McNutt points out the crystallized chambers of a 200-millionyear-old nautilus shell. McNutt designed and built the table to showcase the fossil. Photo by A. Hart
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Whole Foods gives reasons to cheer By Wendy Smith Lynda Caldwell of Farragut loves everything about Whole Foods Market, and she’s more than happy to talk about it. She arrived at 7:30 a.m. for last week’s 8:45 a.m. bread-breaking, which was held in lieu of a traditional ribbon-cutting. The new store is at 6730 Paper Mill Drive. She likes the chain’s focus on sustainability, recycling and having “no garbage in food.” Her hometown of Annapolis, Md., has a store, and she’s shopped at other Whole Foods locations across the country. “This is the biggest day of my life,” she said as she filled her cart. She’s not the only fan. The line for the grand opening stretched across the parking lot. Musicians and cloggers entertained the crowd while they waited. Tasaha Delaney was near the front of the line. She’s shopped at Whole Foods in Atlanta, and she’s glad to live just eight minutes from the Knoxville store. She likes the fresh produce and baked goods. A.D. Baxter was just ahead of her. He likes Whole Foods because it’s clean and has a wide variety. It’s a nice place to shop as well as good place to sit down and have a cup of coffee, he says. Rumors of a local Whole Foods store have circulated since 2011. The company opened its first store in Austin, Texas, in 1980. According to the company website, there were less than a halfdozen natural food supermarkets in the U.S. at the time. The chain now has over 360 stores. Paul Urban, team leader here, introduced an enthusiastic group of team members. The store has 170 employees, 152 of them from Knoxville.
Cloggers from Southern Sounds Studio entertain the crowd before the opening of Knoxville’s first Whole Foods Market.
Specialty team leader Ceteka Holder staffs the Whole Foods growler station at the store’s grand opening. A Maryville native, she’s worked in Atlanta for the past 10 years. She’s thrilled to return to the area. Photos by Wendy Smith He also explained some of the store’s innovative offerings, like a growler station and a restaurant – Rocky Top Pizza and Tap. Both the restaurant and the growler station, which offers 32-ounce and 64-ounce bottles, serve local brews. As soon as wine makes it into Tennessee grocery stores, Rocky Top will also offer wine. The store held a local vendor fair before it opened in order to be able to offer local goods, he said. Urban announced that Whole Foods is partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank. Customers paid $5 for a store tour before the official opening, and the company rounded proceeds up to donate $10,000 to
Second Harvest during the grand opening. Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero said that Whole Foods has been on Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list since the list’s inception. The store, along with REI, which opened last fall, have turned an under-utilized property into a destination, she said. Ethel and Bill Castilaw were two of the first Whole Foods customers. They’d shopped at Whole Foods in Baton Rouge and were impressed with the selection of natural foods with no additives. They’re qualified to give advice. They’ve been married 55 years. “You are what you eat,” said Bill.
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Civil War presenter Gerald Augustus (below) and his wife, Sandra, (at left) present a program for those attending the Knoxville Symphony League’s Elegant Dining on March 12 at Crescent Bend House & Gardens.
Elegant dinner and lesson in history Caesar Stair, an early supporter of the Knoxville Museum of Art, reminisces with Rebecca Massie Lane, who directed the museum from 1981 to 1989 as it transitioned from the Dulin Gallery of Art to the KMA. Photos by Wendy Smith
KMA turns 25 The Knoxville Symphony League’s Elegant Dining series is a fundraiser for the orchestra. Hosts for the dinner at Crescent Bend were Char Taylor, Debby Fox, Connie Graham, Judy McLean and Patsy Ellis. Photos submitted
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search of sunken relics that feed his passion for ancient wood, especially if it has an interesting story attached. For along with his other talents, McNutt is a skilled storyteller. Every piece of wood he owns comes with its own piece of history. He has even written a book about marine salvage, detailing his and others’ adventures under the sea. “Quest for Shipwrecks” was published in 1997. It has had several updates, with another due out soon. It is a fascinating look at maritime commerce beginning in the fourth century B.C., and the resulting maritime salvage business. It is illustrated with photographs, ancient and current maps and McNutt’s own sketches of his oceanic searches. Those searches have taken him from South America to Belize to Mexico and back home to the Tennessee River, which contains riches in wood from sunken ships dating to the Civil War and before. Along the way, other interests have been piqued. McNutt has lived in and explored Mayan caves in
Belize, and he is currently working on a forestry program in Cuba, which has become a favorite place to visit. “The Cuban people are wonderful, warm and friendly,” he says. “They are also wonderful artists. There are beautiful southern yellow pine and teak plantations there, and the Cubans could be great woodworkers if they just had the equipment. “I would love to develop small woodworking operations for them.” McNutt says his own interest in wood began when he was young and working with his dad, local homebuilder Allen McNutt. “Back then, the tradesmen, carpenters, would frame a house, trim it and then build in the cabinets. I was amazed they could do all that work right on site. “And then I fell in love with some walnut lumber in a sawmill and made a bench and really fell in love.” McNutt went to the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg to learn advanced furniture design and to the Penland School in Burnsville, N.C., to study
COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m. each first Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: www.cwkch.com/. ■ Historic Sutherland Heights Neighborhood Association. Info: Marlene Taylor, 951-3773, taylor8246@bellsouth.net. ■ Lyons View Community Club meets 6 p.m. each second Monday, Lyons View Community Center, 114 Sprankle Ave. Info: Mary Brewster, 454-2390. ■ Third and Fourth District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each fourth Tuesday, Bearden Public Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Info: District 3, Suzie Coffey, 691-1075; District 4, Rosina Guerra, rosinag@earthlink.net or 588-6260, or Chris Foell, foellmc@aol.com or 691-8933. ■ West Knox Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first and third Monday, 8529 Kingston Pike. Info: http://knoxvillewestknoxlionsclub.org/. ■ West Hills Community Association. Info: Ashley Williams, 313-0282.
wood. He apprenticed for a time and did a bit of logging and sawmilling, which led to drying his own lumber and selling wood to others. All of that resulted in a business in hardwood flooring and cabinetry. McNutt’s artistry in 126 different varieties of wood is now seen in flooring, cabinetry, furniture and other examples of his creativity in private properties, in the commander’s quarters on a Navy nuclear submarine out of Norfolk, Va., in a hotel in Canada, at the Eastern Airlines desk in the Miami airport and on the teak deck of an 85-foot sea trawler traveling the Caribbean off of Belize. He has built a boat for himself and is about to embark on construction of another – a log cabin that will sit atop two huge pontoons sitting ready in his lumberyard awaiting a launch date. McNutt’s business, Woodstream Hardwoods, is a delight in itself. It’s a great place to do some exploring and learn about wood from a master. McNutt will open his business to the public as part of Dogwood Arts DeTour 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 11. There will be music, food, door prizes, demonstrations and an opportunity to visit with the artist. Woodstream Hardwoods is at 3636 Division St., just off the west side of Liberty Street between Sutherland Avenue and Middlebrook Pike. Info: www.woodstream hardwoods.com or 5240001.
By Wendy Smith The Knoxville Museum of Art opened its current facility 25 years ago to the day last Wednesday. A luncheon held in honor of the anniversary paid homage to those who helped bring the vision for the museum to life. Many of the 224 luncheon attendees were involved in the project in 1990, said KMA executive director David Butler. The 53,000-square-foot building was named for Jim Clayton, the largest donor in the ambitious $11 million funding campaign, who was in attendance. The museum had some tough times after it was completed because there weren’t enough funds left to operate it, Butler said. Since then, it has grown into a beautiful facility. The anniversary also marked the completion of KMA’s Anniversary Campaign, which raised $12 million. Funds covered a comprehensive renovation of the building, construction of the North Garden and the creation of a dedicated
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Basket Vols of ’65 had no place to go The NCAA basketball tournament has changed some through the years. Perhaps you have noticed. In 1965, a mere 50 years ago, it involved 23 teams. They played in Bowling Green, Ky.; Lubbock, Texas; Philadelphia; Lexington; Manhattan, Kan.; Provo, Utah; College Park, Md. and finished in Portland, Ore. The event, such as it was, may have taken in enough money to pay travel expenses. There was no March madness. Twenty-three teams? Then, as now, NCAA committees could not count. Some regions had play-in
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games to a conventional 16team bracket. Vanderbilt, representing the Southeastern Conference, defeated DePaul and lost to Michigan. The Commodores were good. They had Clyde Lee and a 15-1 league record. The loss was at Tennessee. Ray Mears’ Volunteers were good, too: 20-5 over-
all, best UT record in 17 years, second in the SEC with no place to go. A.W. Davis, 6-7 and a flexible, leathery 185, was an all-American, eventually so chosen in a stormy U.S. Basketball Writers Association meeting (Marvin West, Southeast selector). The theme was elementary. “Doesn’t matter how good UCLA is. Vote again! We’re not leaving this room until Arvis Watsell Davis is on the team. “Yes, that is his name. Now you know why he goes by A.W.� Davis was the first Vol so honored.
That Tennessee team had a strong sophomore forward, Ron Widby, crafty Larry McIntosh, senior point guard Pat Robinette and a reincarnation of Tarzan who hung out near the basket. Howard Bayne was a splendid athlete, tight end physique, fearless, naturally combative, borderline belligerent and sometimes mistaken for an intimidator. He, Widby and Davis were significant factors in the Vols’ outrebounding opponents by an amazing average of 16.7 per game. Howard was not a great scorer and worse on free
throws. Robinette hit 89.7 percent. You don’t want to know Bayne’s percentage. I thought Tennessee at Kentucky was the game of the year. The Vols had walloped the Wildcats by 19 in Knoxville. The rematch was more exciting. Tennessee, trailing by a point, gained possession with 17 seconds remaining. Mears’ designed play called for Widby or Davis to shoot. Pat Riley overplayed Davis. The ball went to Widby. He missed. Davis got the long rebound and passed up a jump shot in favor of a drive and the hope of getting fouled. A.W. got close, put the ball up and was fouled – but there was no whistle. Keep in mind that the game was
at UK. Bayne rebounded and put it back up, but it wouldn’t go down. Eventually, the Vols willed the ball into the basket, but time had expired. Kentucky won, 61-60. Three big blue fans were carried out on stretchers. That Tennessee team probably wasn’t going to win the national championship, but it was tournament worthy and very entertaining. The NCAA got something right in growing the tournament format. Maybe, in time, Tennessee will have another team deserving of an opportunity. It probably won’t have an A.W. Davis or Ron Widby. There are no more Howard Baynes. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.
Fighting homelessness with numbers Data currently used to expedite help for those experiencing homelessness could be used to prevent homelessness as well, according to Lisa Higginbotham of Knoxville Homeless Management Information System (KnoxHMIS). KnoxHMIS, administered by the UT College of Social Work Office of Research and Public Service, is an online database used by 18 social service agencies that serve those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Clients of any of the partnering agencies can give permission to have their information entered into the database, which expedites referrals to other agencies. Notes from case managers can also be included in each profile. At a recent meeting of the Mayor’s Roundtable on Homelessness, Higginbotham, a KnoxHMIS data analyst, proposed the creation of a community dashboard that would show what
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progress has been made and goals that still need to be met. The online dashboard would give the community access to reports that could be generated from the collected data, like permanent housing placements, recidivism rates and the utilization of beds in shelters, transitional housing and permanent supportive housing. Higginbotham thinks community access to the data could help the city’s efforts to end homelessness. “The database will give us insight as to where we are and to set benchmarks as to where we need to be so we
can work collectively.� Michael Dunthorn of the city’s office on homelessness says data play an important part in assessing current efforts, and the dashboard would give the community an opportunity to keep tabs on what’s working. Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero formed the roundtable, made up of leaders from local social service agencies and ministries, in 2013 to create a plan to address the problem of homelessness. City Council adopted the City of Knoxville Plan to Address Homelessness, which draws from successful components of previous efforts, federal requirements and public input, a year ago. KnoxHMIS is cited as a key component of the plan. Dunthorn is encouraged by progress made by partner agencies since the plan’s adoption. The Helen Ross McNabb Center has opened a small apartment building for homeless veterans,
and will soon open another. The Knoxville/Knox County Homeless Coalition is working to address a shortage of housing for homeless families. An upcoming KUB program will allow customers to round bills up to the nearest dollar to help finance weatherization of affordable housing, which often comes with unaffordable utility bills, he says. During the roundtable, Family Promise of Knoxville executive director Mary LeMense spoke favorably of the information provided by KnoxHMIS but said she’d like to see more people involved in the effort to fight homelessness. She hopes to double the number of families served by the organization by its 10th anniversary this summer. Family Promise is seeking faith-based organizations that can provide overnight accommodations for four families for a week, four times a year. Info: 5842822.
Safari Bahati tackles five senses at once. Photo by Jayden Arthur
Reporters add five senses The newspaper club at Sarah Moore Greene is alive and well. Last week we added the five senses to the five Ws to round out our story-telling. Ruth White distributed an apple to each reporter, asking each to describe the apple adequately to pick it out of a barrel afterwards. “Round and red won’t get it,� she said. Then we went outside. Kids were challenged to see, hear, smell, touch and maybe taste something. We spotted a bird’s nest, and we heard a neighbor’s dog and a buzzing bee. We smelled wildflowers and tasted an herb that might
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City races shaping up as snoozefest There was little news to be had at Mayor Madeline Rogero’s re-election shindig last week, and she looked damned happy.
Betty Bean While that’s nice for the mayor, uncontested races (a guaranteed second term seems to be an unintended by-product of term limits) make life hard for reporters. One of the most interesting things about Rogero’s campaign kickoff at The Standard, a repurposed building on West Jackson, roughly across the street from the late, lamented former McClung Warehouse complex, was looking around the crowded room and wondering if the next mayor was there. Odds are s/he was. I checked in with one of my favorite city politicos, and here’s how he handicapped the field, in terms of interest – but keep in mind that four years is half an
Madeline Rogero announces for re-election. eternity, and history tells us there will surely be other candidates: Among those who are being talked about, the least likely to make a run to succeed Rogero is her deputy, Christi Branscom, who has never run for office before, my FCP said. City Council member George Wallace is up a wee notch from Branscom, interest-wise. “Potential interest,” said the FCP. “Never say never.” Marshall Stair, who at 36 is the youngest council member, is a tad more interested than Wallace, FCP said.
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Stair said he’s learned a lot in his first term, but he’s got a lot going on in his life – a new house in Old North Knoxville, a serious girlfriend – and he just doesn’t yet know what he’ll want to do in 2019. “When all you have to go home to is a can of soup and a TV, it’s a lot easier to go to all those neighborhood meetings,” he said. “Politics is a risky business. You spend a lot of time applying for a job you don’t know if you’re going to get – so the reality is, I just don’t know.” Nick Pavlis, who represents South Knoxville and UT and serves as vice may-
or, is halfway through his second term (he also served two terms as an at-large council member 1995-2003) and has confirmed his interest in serving as mayor in the past. He’s no less interested today. “Everybody expects you to say, ‘I don’t know,’ but absolutely, I’ll consider it. I will have served 16 years, and nobody else will have that experience.” But he issued a warning that 2019 is a long way away. “I will have been out of office for two years. There are two ways of looking at that – you can have time to build a good campaign, but you can also lose your base. It’s like old Randy Tyree says, will I still have the fire in the belly to do it? I’ll be 65, which is not over the hill but not a spring chicken either, so we’ll have to wait to see what unfolds.” Meanwhile, Inskip resident and R. Larry Smith ally Jennifer Mirtes has taken out a petition to run for the Fifth District council seat, making Mark Campen the only incumbent facing a potential opponent so far this year.
Put down the branding iron
In 2012, the UT Office of Communications and Marketing introduced its “BIG ORANGE, BIG IDEAS!” branding initiative. After that, every web page and publication had to have that slogan stenciled on it somewhere. Every news release had to be stamped with the BO/BI verbiage, whether it fit the facts or not. And all of it had to be papered over with the selected colors and type stylings that were crucial to the new UT brand. The students weren’t fooled. A Facebook page sprang up immediately, pointing out that the Big Orange/Big Ideas word mark looked suspiciously like the signage on the front of Big Lots Inc., the Fortune 500 retailer. Some advocated a counter-meme – “Big Orange, Big Deal.” Oak Ridger Lindsay Lee, who in 2013 became the university’s first Rhodes Scholar of the 21st century, suggested “Big Orange, B.S.” and wrote, “. . . the administration does not invest in its students but instead cares more about selling us collectively as a commodity. . . . So instead of reflecting who we are, this motto just mocks us.”
and fans who have invested emotion, energy and money into the university and its activities. Stir in misbehaving male athletes and butt-chugging frat boys and the slogan that would emerge can’t be printed in a family newspaper. It’s time to take the branding iron off the fire and quit trying to take ownership of athletic and academic excellence we have yet to earn. If UT administrators can do that, they might find that – beneath all the slogans and stencils, the brands and marketing – the University of Tennessee is a fine academic institution, where dedicated and highly qualified scholars and researchers offer students an education that will make them the match for any graduates in the world. If our young people want to seize what UT offers them, they can gain tools and intellectual resources that will witness to the best qualities of the university and our state. That’s all the branding we need.
GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Betty Bean can’t help herself, and it’s part of her charm. ■ When she noticed this blog post: Some time back the Roane County Commission decided to allow a plague to be hung on the Roane County Courthouse that declares, “In God We Trust.” The plague is self funded by contributions generated... ■ She re-posted it on KnoxViews.com, eliciting several pretty funny comments, including this one: “In vaccines we trust.” ■ Sadly, blogs don’t have editors (or sometimes writers).
Farragut’s state Rep. Ryan Haynes announced his candidacy for chair of the Tennessee Republican Party immediately following the resignation of Chris Devaney, who is leaving with a group doing humanitarian work in Haiti.
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Clearly, Haynes was alerted to the Devaney resignation as he announced within hours of Devaney’s statement. Haynes is close to House Speaker Beth Harwell, and it seems obvious he would not be seeking the position without her blessing along with Gov. Bill Haslam’s support. Haynes, if elected at the April 11 state executive committee meeting, would be the youngest person to serve as state chair of the GOP at 29 (he turns 30 May 8) and would be the first Knox Countian to serve since Susan Richardson Williams did when Lamar Alexander was governor. Devaney was only reelected over Joe Carr in November, so his early departure is a surprise. Carr represented the very conservative and antiHaslam elements of the party. Incumbent governors of either party have never failed to install their choice as the party chair, but ultimately it is up to the 66 members of the committee to choose the new leader. Haynes will have to work all 66 over the next two weeks to prevail. They will not simply take direction from the governor. Haynes has an excellent reputation as a legislator who handles complex bills and is well liked by his colleagues. He is articulate and energetic. After his first election in 2008, he has not had serious opposition from his West Knox County district. Haynes is chair of the Knox County delegation. He is viewed as having leadership potential in the House, but that will end if he is elected chair as he has said he will resign to work full-time. The job pays over $100,000 a year. As a state representative it would be legally awkward if not actually illegal to
raise funds for a political party while the Legislature is in session. Additionally, the state party sometimes adopts positions that the Legislature does not support. Ryan Haynes However, two lawmakers have done both jobs in the past. They are Beth Harwell and Jim Henry, who is now in the Haslam Cabinet. The job is to raise money for campaigns, speak to GOP groups across the state and serve on the Republican National Committee. It is very time-consuming. Haynes’ resignation creates a domino impact locally: a new chair for the legislative delegation and a new state rep. Knox County Commission will choose an interim legislator to serve for 100 days until a special election is held, just as was done when Jamie Woodson resigned and Becky Duncan Massey was ultimately elected. This could come as soon as mid-April if Haynes is chosen April 11 and resigns shortly thereafter. The commission would have to wait a few weeks to allow persons to apply and a special meeting to be called to choose the new state representative. Possible candidates include Jason Zachary, who carried Farragut in his race for Congress last August (but may have to move to establish residency) and former Farragut Mayor Eddy Ford. Other names are certain to emerge if Haynes is elected chair and then resigns. ■ Today marks the 41st birthday of Knox Heritage and the first anniversary of its move to the historic Westwood House on Kingston Pike. Led ably by Kim Trent, KH will host an open house today (April 1) at Westwood. ■ The search committee for MPC director holds its final interview today of the three finalists and is expected to recommend whomever the two mayors tell them that they want. The mayors are represented on the six-member search committee by Bill Lyons for Rogero and Dean Rice for Burchett. Lyons insisted the meetings be closed to the public.
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Nonetheless, the changes continue. The “Power T” logo is being retooled and as of June 1, 2015, will refer to all activities of the university’s Knoxville campus, whether athletic or academic. Surveys have shown the Power T is the single most recognized icon for UT. At its best, a brand emerges organically from the values an institution lives by and the experiences it makes possible for its students and faculty. Which explains why UT might be trying to graft glib slogans and new logos onto its current public identity. This is, after all, the university that has systematically scrapped the nation’s premier program in women’s sports, the machine Pat Summitt put together that has shown the rest of the world how to marry athletic and academic excellence. The same university that has been successfully sued over firings that, time and again, were the product of administrators’ bad decisions. And again, that has demonstrated a callous disregard for students, parents
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When the talk turns to branding, you can be damn sure somebody is about to get burned. And the hide that gets charred won’t be on the cowboy wielding the branding iron. Branding is at the forefront of the latest controversy plaguing the University of Tennessee Athletic Department, which announced last fall that it would do away with the Lady Vols logo for women’s sports programs. Only the basketball program would be allowed to continue that identity. Fan response was predictable: They hated it. One Bristol supporter of the Lady Vols bought a full-page ad in the Knoxville News Sentinel calling on the public to demand that the school preserve the Lady Vols name for all women’s sports. Under pressure from the News Sentinel, the Athletic Department cinched up its jock strap and released emails with Nike that reveal the worldwide manufacturer of athletic gear had played a major role in UT’s decision to end the Lady Vols distinction. About the same time, Joe DiPietro, the president of the UT System, told the UT Board of Trustees that branding decisions were none of their business. In the meantime, the women’s basketball team has continued its record of accomplishment, while the men’s team – well, they’re again in the market for a head coach.
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Eva East demonstrates some karate moves during Bearden Elementary School’s talent show. More than 30 acts presented ballet, dance, guitar, piano, comedy and a lip-sync to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Photos submitted
Human Animal Bond in Tennessee (HABIT) volunteer Jen Wright and her dog, Vegas, visit with fifth grader Aleighia Sluder, kindergartner Travis Catousse, Tennessee’s Department of Education commissioner Candice McQueen and fifth graders Michael Townes and Onika Reddish. Photos by S. Barrett
McQueen visits Pond Gap Dr. Candice McQueen, newly-appointed commissioner for Tennessee’s Department of Education, stopped by Pond Gap Elementary School last week before addressing the community at the Downtown Marriott.
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Fifth graders Onika Reddish, Michael Townes and Aleighia Sluder welcomed McQueen to Pond Gap with a handmade banner and gift bag containing a UT T-shirt. McQueen was quick to say she attended the other UT: The University of Texas.
Although some may assume that fifth graders would be star-struck by so many VIPs visiting their turf, Onika, Michael and Aleighia led the parade with McQueen at their side, calmly answering her questions along the way.
As one of Knox County’s “community schools,” Pond Gap incorporates a myriad of community resources to enhance the school program. “We can’t meet our goals in isolation,” said McQueen.
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Jack Felton channels Wilbur Wright, Beatrice Weisfeld portrays King Tut, Kate Legg dresses as Eleanor Roosevelt and Charlie Frost presents his homage to Henry Ford. Students in Hilary Hudson’s third-grade class at Sequoyah Elementary School were asked to choose an historical figure about whom to write a report. Several students also dressed as their topic on the day of the presentations. Emme Stapp was intrigued by Queen Elizabeth I’s interesting family history, and Mazie Mitchum enjoyed learning about Amelia Earhart’s career as a pilot.
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The jester emperor Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise. (1 Corinthians 3: 18 NRSV)
Veronica Douglas pampers Heriberta Hernandez during Central Baptist Church of Bearden’s fourth annual Tu Dia.
Central Baptist reaches out to Hispanic women By Wendy Smith Last weekend, after listening to a talk about health from Alexis Andino, dozens of women flocked to tables to make crafts, apply makeup or have their nails done. Volunteers from Roane State Community College’s massage therapy program offered complimentary massages while children were entertained in the Central Baptist Church of Bearden gym. This is the fourth year the church hosted Tu Dia, or Your Day, for Hispanic women. The day of pampering and education is a way for the church to reach out
to the community in a tangible way, said Joyce Wyatt. She spent years as a missionary in Spain and South America and has a heart for ministering to Knoxville’s Hispanic community. Guests were treated to a healthy snack while watching a cooking demonstration by Jennifer Waller of the Knox County Health Department. Members of the Tu Dia board also presented a panel discussion on this year’s theme, “For a Time Such as This.” “We hope to enable them to press toward being the Joyce Wyatt and Sandra Green of Central Baptist Church of women God wants them to Bearden spend time with a small Tu Dia attendee. be,” said Wyatt.
April Fool’s Day is one of our older “holidays.” It began when Constantine was emperor of Rome, in the fourth century. According to stories, some of his jesters told the emperor that they would be a better emperor than he! The emperor (to his credit) was amused rather than angered. He decreed that one jester, named Kugel, would be “emperor” for a day. Kugel, as emperor, passed an edict calling for absurdity on that day. The custom was apparently a big hit, and it stuck. There were times, however, when laughter got God’s favored people into trouble! Abraham had been promised descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens. However, his wife, Sarah, was childless, and long since past the age of childbearing. Scripture tells us that “the Lord appeared to Abraham” (Genesis 18: 1) in the guise of three men. Abraham was a good host, and he offered them water to wash their hands
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and dusty feet, and food to eat. One of the men (angels?) asked Abraham, “Where is your wife?” Abraham said, “There, in the tent.” The stranger said, “I will return to you, and your wife Sarah shall have a son.” Sarah, eavesdropping just inside the tent flap, laughed out loud. The angel took offense at her incredulity, and rebuked her, saying, in essence, “Did, too!” Zechariah and Elizabeth also found that the Lord’s messengers didn’t play jokes. Zechariah argued with the angel who predicted Elizabeth’s pregnancy, claiming that his wife was too old. For his disbelief, he was struck dumb for nine months! God, it seems, doesn’t do April Fool’s tricks!
FAITH NOTES ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will celebrate its 200th anniversary 9 a.m. Sunday, May 3, with special services and activities. Everyone invited. Info/ schedule: -690 1060 or www. beaverridgeumc.org. ■ Christ Covenant Church, 12915 Kingston Pike, will hold Holy Week Prayer and Communion Service, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2. Easter morning worship services will be 8:15, 9:30 and 10:50. Info: www.christcov.org. ■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County will meet 10 a.m. Friday, April 3, at Shiloh Presbyterian Church, 904 Biddle St. Seasonal music will be provided by harpist Anne Jackson. Info: 525-3701. ■ 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.
UMW by April 3 to: Nancy Dayton, 8305 Shoregate Lane, Knoxville, TN 37938. Info: Pat Bellingrath, 591-6274. ■ 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. Tickets: 457-2046. Info: www. FreshGroundedFaith.com.
■ St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway, will hold the following Easter 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.
■ Oak Ridge District United Methodist Women (UMW) and Knoxville District UMW will host the Social Action Workshop, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at First Farragut UMC, 12733 Kingston Pike. Registration: $10, includes lunch. Mail check made out to Knoxville District
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Renowned pianist Seymour Bernstein talks with director Ethan Hawke during the filming of “Seymour: An Introduction.”
Serving music guides pianist-composer through life By Betsy Pickle After actor Ethan Hawke met renowned pianist-composer-teacher Seymour Bernstein at a dinner party, he became so fascinated with Bernstein that he decided to make a documentary about him. “Seymour: An Introduction” is the result. Bernstein says he never set any boundaries with Hawke. “Absolutely not at all,” he says in a telephone interview. “I just was very flattered that he wanted to make a documentary on me,” says Bernstein. “I did wonder why he wanted to do it. I kept asking all the time, ‘What’s so special about me?’ ” It turned out that Hawke had read Bernstein’s 1991 book, “With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music,” and it affected him as he was contemplating his life and work. “It was the thesis of my book that interested him,” says Bernstein. “The thesis is in the documentary, namely, a passion for an art form can actually influence your life and not just the art form.” Bernstein earned rave reviews for his performances and then shocked the music world when he retired from performing at 50. “One of the reasons why I retired from performing is because I wanted to compose and also write,” says Bernstein, who’ll turn 88 on April 24. “And if I was practicing eight hours a day and also teaching, I didn’t have time to do that. So when I felt that I was able to perform the way I wanted to, I thought it was time to call it to a halt, and I’ve been happier ever since.” Bernstein grew up in Newark, N.J., with three older sisters. There was no music in the house until he was given a piano as a young boy. “No one ever had to tell me to go over to the piano to practice,” he says. “However, they did tell me to go out and play with my friend.” He believes his discipline was (and is) genetic. “I was just devoted to the piano from the earliest possible time on,” he says. “It was a sense of honor to me. If I was going to reproduce these masterpieces in an acceptable fashion, I simply had to do a lot of
work on them. “I was never aware that I was practicing per se. I only became aware that music was something that I loved more than anything else and that in order to serve it, I had to make myself better than I was.” Bernstein, who started teaching piano himself at 15, still has students. The lack of music programs in schools bothers him. “I think our educational system is terribly flawed,” he says. “Music should be a prime subject that all students must learn. That’s how it was in Ancient Greek times. There were four subjects they felt humans could not develop without, and one of them was music.”
‘Seymour: An Introduction’ Actor Ethan Hawke makes his documentary-directing debut with “Seymour: An Introduction,” and he seems to have absorbed powerful lessons from his subject. Pianist Seymour Bernstein was a star on the concert stage who decided at his peak to stop performing because he had other things he wanted to do. He was, and is, a teacher, and he wanted to compose music and write books. “Seymour” is primarily a series of conversations and reminiscences, but Bernstein’s gentle voice and inspirational philosophy are mesmerizing. Hawke stays out of the way and lets the teacher teach. It turns out that Bernstein is a powerful exception to the disparaging maxim: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. You watch him teach students at home and in a master class and see how his words work almost like magic. The film’s messages about discipline and living life hit home no matter what profession the viewer pursues. “Seymour: An Introduction” is time well spent – and the soundtrack fills in with beauty to seal the deal. Rated PG. Opens Friday at Downtown West.
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FRIDAY-SATURDAY ■ Broadway at the Tennessee: “Guys and Dolls” at the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: Tennessee Theatre box office, 684-1200 ext. 2; Ticketmaster.com; 800-745-3000. ■ “SHREK: The Musical, Jr.,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday. Info/tickets: http://knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; 208-3677.
By Carol Shane Many tributes have already been paid to Luster William “Bill” Brewer, Pellissippi State Community College music department head and choral conductor, who died on March 18. We, too, wish to pay respects to this – in the words of one of his choristers – “radiant soul.” Over the years, I ran into Bill many times. Most of all, I remember his joyous love of music. I didn’t know him well, and that’s my loss. But others did. Perry Ward, a former Metropolitan Opera baritone who now teaches music at UT Chattanooga, was blindsided by the loss of a job in 2009. “One of the first phone calls I had was from Bill Brewer,” he remembers. “ ‘Perry? It’s me, Bill. I’m calling to see what I can do to help my friend.’ “He was so positive and encouraging; I couldn’t help but feel better as we talked.” Brewer offered Ward a job at PSCC the next fall. “I can’t really say I worked ‘for’ him; he wasn’t that kind of boss. I worked with him for two years. I will never forget what he did for me, and I can only hope I have the chance to pay it forward.” Perry’s wife, Tracy, teaches music at Sequoyah Hills Elementary School. Years ago, after a personal crisis, “I didn’t have any self-confidence left and didn’t want anyone to notice me. When
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SATURDAY ■ The Atlas Moth and Generation of Vipers will perform, 7 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info: http:// internationalknox.com. ■ Madam Chloe’s Red Hot Cabaret, 9 p.m., The Concourse, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info: http://internationalknox.com.
SUNDAY Singer and writer Leslie Massengill Cutshaw with Bill Brewer – friend, conductor and mentor to many – at a 2011 Knoxville Choral Society concert Photo submitted I finally emerged, the Knoxville Choral Society was the first thing I tried. “Bill was the one who auditioned me. He was so kind and supportive. I can’t tell you what a boost that gave me! “Bill had a knack for making people feel good about themselves, in an honest way that really made you believe in yourself. And he seemed to do that when you needed it the most.” Diagnosed with throat cancer less than two years ago, Brewer continued to teach and conduct while
receiving treatment, and was in fact on a choir tour of Portugal just before he died. “It was ‘typical Bill’ to have gone on with his students even though he was ill,” says KCS member Leslie Massengill Cutshaw. “He loved making music, and he especially loved the people he made music with, students and peers alike.” Though medically cleared for travel, Brewer had to return home before the tour was finished, going into the hospital where he eventually died. Soprano Kathleen Spill-
ane, private voice teacher at PSCC, had taken a hiatus from teaching in order to homeschool her daughter. But “Bill welcomed me back to the voice faculty with open arms. “I was feeling very vulnerable as I was living with a cyst on my vocal cord and singing was difficult at the time. Bill introduced me to his ENT surgeon and a year later I was singing again.” News-Sentinel music critic Harold Duckett notes, “Bill’s singers always seemed to perform well for him because they wanted
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him to look good as the conductor as much as for themselves.” Tina Swaggerty Collins, organist at Ball Camp Baptist Church and KCS member, agrees. “You could see the sparkle in his eyes when he talked about his choirs. There was always laughter in a rehearsal, because Bill laughed through his life.” But even more, she says, “there was a continual, abiding love.” Brewer helped her through a time of grief in her own life. “Bill pulled me
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The Soup Kitchen Italian Pasta Soup and Pimento Cheese Sandwich By Mystery Diner Sometimes the best things come in plain boxes. No one will give The Soup Kitchen high marks for presentation or plating, but the soup is divine! The Soup Kitchen has two Tennessee locations: one in Cedar Bluff at 9222 Kingston Pike and one in Oak Ridge. In business for more than 30 years, The Soup Kitchen believes simplicity and fresh ingredients are the name of the game, although some of the soups are anything but simple in concept. I remember once tasting a soup called Butternut Bisque that almost made me abandon my favorite.
Almost. Here’s the thing with The Soup Kitchen: the menu changes daily. My absolute favorite is the Beer and Cheddar soup. When they have it, I get it, no matter how tempting a Butternut Bisque or Georgia Peanut might look. Though the menu changes, the quality of the soup doesn’t. I have yet to choose a soup I didn’t like, and, if nothing tickles my fancy that day, I fall back to chili. The Soup Kitchen’s homemade breads and desserts are enough to bring repeat customers on their own. The breads, soups, sandwiches and salads are made fresh each day. I love the pimento
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aside after rehearsal, took my hands in his and told me I had found the ‘beauty of where I belonged’ and it was only a matter of time until once again my heart would be filled ‘with love as the only song.’” Last Saturday the KCS paid tribute to Bill Brewer at its annual Young Classical Musicians concert. Cutshaw says, “The thought that has kept coming to me about Bill: Life well lived, music well made, people well loved.”
The plating isn’t fancy at The Soup Kitchen, but the flavors are delicious. This Italian pasta soup went well with the half a homemade pimento cheese sandwich. Photo by Mystery Diner
cheese on cheese bread. Each day, the restaurant offers eight soups, four to six homemade breads, plus the salads, sandwiches and desserts. The Beer and Cheddar wasn’t on the menu when Mystery Diner visited, so I tried the Italian
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When the New Year started, chef Frank Aloise hit the ground running. As the new chef at Cappuccino’s, the restaurant adjacent to Copper Cellar West, 7316 Kingston Pike, he had a new menu to prepare. That menu is now ready, and Cappuccino’s features a lineup of Italian dishes with an Aloise flair. Appetizers feature arancini (rice croquettes in a trio of sauces), and house-made sausage with peppers and onions. Pasta dishes range from traditional lasagna and pasta and meatballs to braised beef ravioli and cheese and spinach manicotti. Shrimp, veal, chicken and beef are all on the entrée menu. Guests will also find a redesigned dining room. Open at 5 p.m. daily, Cappuccino’s is part of the Copper Cellar Family of Restaurants, which includes Calhoun’s, Copper Cellar, Smoky Mountain Brewery, Chesapeake’s and Cherokee Grill.
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Fashion trends buffalo Rotarians By Anne Hart Imagine, if you can, a roomful of grown men squirming in their seats and giggling like a bunch of teenagers, while winking and grinning at each other and poking fun at the apparently-now-obsolete button-down shirts and pleated trousers many of them are wearing. You could have witnessed this strange behavior firsthand if you had been at Friday’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Bearden as the males gathered there learned their dreams of sartorial splendor are pretty much outdated and incorrect. And what did the women in the audience do? Most were doubled over with laughter at the behavior of the men. Mercy! It was all in good fun, but it must be mentioned that any solemnity whatsoever belonged solely to the speaker, a young woman named Emily Miller who, mature beyond her years, maintained her decorum while her audience basically fell apart. And it must be noted that none of the unusually rowdy behavior was actually the fault of the speaker. She was merely trying to educate the uneducable. An independent personal stylist with high-end men’s clothier J. Hilburn, Miller calmly and maturely discussed current fashion trends in menswear while on a large screen behind her
flashed photo after photo of spif f ily-attired hunky guys – each approximately 19 years old. A n d while Miller was offering good advice Emily Miller about today’s styles, the men in the room held it together for a time, but then they started looking each other over to see who fit the images on the screen. The answer? No one. That’s when things started getting dicey. Turns out button-down collars are out, pleated trousers add 15 pounds to your appearance and your shirt cuff must fall no more or less than1/4 to 1/2 inch from the bottom of the jacket sleeve. Oops! J. Hilburn’s clothing is custom-made for the individual client. Every yard of fabric, every inch of thread has been designed only for a specific client. You won’t see yourself across the room at the next business meeting or social gathering in J. Hilburn clothing. And to give them credit, the guys weren’t impolite to Miller. Several went up to her to thank her for her presentation and her admirable attempt to educate those who were, after all, dressed for “casual Friday.” At least that was their story. Info: 567-1902 or emily.miller@jhilburnpartner. com.
Pictured at Victoria Falls are (sitting) Allen Pannell, Townes Osborn, Whitney Ray-Dawson, Bob Marquis, Sandy Martin, Jennifer Sepaniak, David Martin; (standing) Jim Holleman, Leslie Baugues and Channing Dawson. Kathryn and Breese Johnson were on the trip but not pictured.
Rotarians learn in Zimbabwe By Bonny C. Millard Several local Rotarians recently traveled to Zimbabwe and South Africa to observe projects of their international counterparts, and they were inspired to build relationships through those projects. Rotary Club of Knoxville president-elect Sandy Martin talked of a preschool in a South African township where she was amazed by the spirit of Thelma, who operates the school and makes sure that the poverty-stricken children are developing literacy skills. Thelma runs the school she and her husband founded, despite dealing with her own personal tragedies. Her husband, son and mother were killed in a car accident that she miraculously survived several years ago. “Thelma was my ‘aha’ moment in Rotary,” Martin said. “Her attitude was wonderful.” In addition to educating the children, Thelma also feeds them a healthy breakfast and lunch, Martin said. Martin was part of a Rotary team organized by
Townes Osborn that embarked in mid-February for 15 days. The other members of the Zsa Zsa (Zimbabwe and South Africa) team were Bob Marquis, Leslie Baugues, Jim Holleman, David Martin, Whitney Dawson, Channing Dawson, Jennifer Sepaniak, Kathryn Johnson, Breese Johnson and Allen Parnell. The Zsa Zsa team traveled in conjunction with a group of medical personnel, which included other Rotarians, who went to Zimbabwe to provide the country’s first medical trauma training and to establish a nursing school in Bulawayo. Rotarian Phil Mitchell developed and coordinated that project. Mitchell, a native of Zimbabwe who lives in Knoxville and is a practicing physician, knew the needs of his homeland and wrote a Rotary grant to underwrite the project.
During its stay, the team met with the Rotary Club of Bulawayo South and later with Stanford Rotary Club and Knysna Rotary Club, both in South Africa. “Over the years, we’ve learned that the long-term success or sustainability of any project is greatly improved if the members of the two clubs know one another,” Osborn said. While in Zimbabwe, the team toured a government run clinic for HIV/AIDS patients and a program for children living with HIV/ AIDS called Zimkids. The group traveled to a village in the Kezi district, about two hours outside of Bulawayo, to see an earthen dam that had been breached, leaving villagers without water to grow food. Osborn said the government has no money to repair the dam, so Bulawayo Rotarians want to collabo-
rate with the Knoxville club and apply for a Rotary Global grant. In addition to touring local Rotary projects, the group went to Matoba Hills, a World Heritage site. They viewed the grave of Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), who is buried at the top. After leaving Zimbabwe, the group stayed at the Mosaic Farm Sanctuary, owned by Knoxvillians Kathryn and Breese Johnson, at Stanford, South Africa. The sanctuary has 25,000 acres and is located next to a preserve. “Everyone on the trip felt inspired, and their understanding of what Rotary is able to do in the world grew exponentially,” Osborn said. “We returned with a list of 15 projects that our club could conceivably support. We’re already planning a second trip in 2017.”
Julie Massey signs copies of her new book at a recent event as Sandra Kay Goss, Lucy Gibson and LaVance Davis, from left, look on. Photo by A. Hart Investigator Allyson Beckman and office manager Renee Barletta join Kendall Investigations owner Kendall Shull and his wife, Nancy, in celebrating the ribbon-cutting.
Chamber welcomes Profile, Kendall By Shannon Carey The Farragut Chamber welcomed two members with ribbon-cuttings last week: Profile by Sanford and Kendall Investigations. ■
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Profile, a weight loss and fitness program, combines individual lifestyle coaching with meal planning. And the facility’s stylish décor and fun staff are energizing, too. “We form a meal plan around your lifestyle,” said manager Donna Taylor. “Our staff is incredibly highly trained.” Radio personality Kim Hansard was on hand to tell attendees about her experience as a Profile client. Profile by Sanford is located at 113 Lovell Road near Costco. Info: 337-8176 or ProfilePlan.net
Vicki Mosebach and Julie Predny chat with radio personality Kim Hansard about her experience with Profile by Sanford. Photos by S. Carey
perience undercover and as head of the FBI’s polygraph program. In 2001, he and his family moved to Knoxville. Kendall Investigations offers a full range of private investigator services, including background checks and polygraphs. Right now, Shull is pro■ Kendall moting the firm’s security Investigations guard service, which offers Kendall Shull, founder of both armed and unarmed Kendall Investigations, is a guards. Shull started the retired FBI agent with ex- service when First Baptist
Church of Concord asked him, as a member of the church, to provide security. With a staff of highly trained guards, many of whom are ex-military, Kendall Investigations counts three local campuses of Lincoln Memorial University, and many other businesses, as clients. Kendall Investigations is located at 11167 Kingston Pike, Suite 3. Info: 966-1494 or kendallinvestigations.com
Julie Massey’s new book showcases healthy habits By Anne Hart When it comes to guiding others toward good health, Julie Massey will tell you with her trademark huge smile that she’s “an educator, not a dictator.” She proves it in her new book, “Health is a Habit.” In it she provides a roadmap to healthy living and lets the readers decide whether to take the trip. The book is the culmination of Massey’s more than 25 years of consulting and teaching health education through workshops, seminars, lectures and consultations for corporations, small businesses, universities and colleges. Among an impressive list of clients are the Hyatt Corporation, Martin Marietta and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. A certified health education specialist, Massey is the founder of Integral Health Options. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s in guidance and counseling and has published numerous articles on health management. She says her goal in writing the book “is to educate,
motivate and support individuals who will create their own healthy lifestyle.” “Health is a Habit” is different from many healthrelated books on the market. It’s relatively short. The information it contains is concise, easy for just about anyone to understand, and organized so that it isn’t necessary to read the entire book to get to what’s of particular importance to any individual reader. In other words, it’s the ideal self-help book for anyone who wants to improve a specific aspect of their health – or all of it. Want to stop smoking? In just a few short pages, learn the easiest ways to do that, including some clever methods to trick yourself into beating the habit. Are you concerned about getting better nutrition? Massey offers helpful suggestions ranging from how to choose healthy options on a restaurant menu to mapping grocery store aisles. She points out that healthy foods (fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat and grains) are always on the perimeter of the store; processed foods
in the center. Avoid the middle of the store and you’re already on the way to better health. The book also deals with stress (coping with or avoiding) and learning creative ways to exercise, to avoid sleep deprivation, to practice good dental health and to beat addiction. Each chapter closes with the words: “Healthy choices create healthy habits. Healthy habits create heathy lifestyles.” Massey says target markets for the book are government groups and corporations. “Healthy employees reduce absenteeism, reduce costs for overtime and sick days, increase retention and create an overall healthy environment for all concerned. Employers can brand the book and give it to their employees to support healthy workers and their families.” “Health is a Habit” is available in paperback and can be purchased from Amazon or by contacting Massey at ubewell@amazon.com. Info: healthisahabit.net and integralhealthoptions.com.
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Cleveland interned with Sharla McCoy, a media relations icon, in Nashville. “Mrs. McCoy works with artists such as Garth Brooks, The Band Perry, and Carrie Underwood. It was awesome to see the other side of radio and gain wisdom from someone in the music industry.” Students who took on-campus classes were able to select from law enforcement, forensic science, hunter safety, driver’s education, teacher education, cooking and children’s ministry, just David Comfort at One Life Church to name a few. For the past twelve years, Grace Christian Academy students have been blessed to explore, experience and expand their education outside the traditional classroom setting.
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I would like to take a moment and introduce you to Lily Duncan. She is a freshman at Grace Christian Academy and has been selected as the Girl of the Year for the Knoxville chapter of The Lymphoma and Leukemia Society. Lily was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) on September 30, 2013. This type of cancer attacks the white blood cells and platelets in your blood stream. The diagnosis was a shock to Lily and her family and left her asking “why did God choose to place this burden on me?” With the love and support of family and friends who rallied to her side and committed to pray for Lily and her family each day, Lily battled this disease and is now in remission. Her initial treatment lasted nearly 8 months and required Lily to visit the Hematology and Oncology Clinic at East Tennessee’s Children’s Hospital several times each week for chemotherapy treatment. Lily was very weak and unable to
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Winterim at GCA What do hiking, 3-D printing, Budapest, auto-diesel mechanics and theology camp have in common? Not March Madness, but Winterim at Grace Christian Academy! From March 9-13, upper school students at Grace had the opportunity to travel, intern with local businesses, or take elective courses on campus. Students who enjoy traveling could either choose to tour New York City, explore four cities in Central Europe, or take mission trips to places such as Honduras and Haiti. Upperclassmen interned at medical facilities, charities, UT Athletics, media outlets, and engineering and architectural firms. Senior Morgan
By Susan Wallace, mother
attend school. She dealt with many side effects. One of the most difficult times during treatment was when Lily lost her hair. Prior to her treatment, Lily had long curly hair, which she was known for. Friends and strangers alike complimented her on her hair, so losing something she so closely identified with was devastating. Lily thought of herself as an average teen just going through the motions of life and never believed she was strong enough to go through something like this. She learned by relying on her faith and the committed prayers of others, God could accomplish anything! After months of hard work over the summer, she was able to return to school last fall as a freshman and is enjoying “regular days” as a “normal teen.” Lily was selected by her classmates to be the freshman candidate for Homecoming queen. This was a huge honor and a major accomplishment as it marked the one-year point for Lily’s remission. It was amazing to see the difference a year made! Lily enjoys spending time with friends and family. She is an avid shopper and is labeled a “fashionista” by those who know her. She participates in the upper school Ensemble at GCA and is grateful to be back to her life as a teen and student. Lily considers herself blessed. She has an awesome family and a great support system. She credits her Lord, Jesus Christ and the prayer and support of so many for where she is today. She in currently in the final stage of her treatment and will receive her final chemotherapy on January 22, 2016. You can watch a brief video of Lily’s journey on YouTube by searching 2015 Girl of the Year Lily Duncan. If you would like to get involved and show your support go to www.mwoy.org/ tn. To learn more about ALL go to www.lls.org.
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Getting back to life Tullar returned to her physician feeling worse than ever, Pain can change you. It can drain you of your energy and suffering in pain and also suffering from frailty. The pain rob you of your quality of life. Cindy Tullar became a person she hardly knew when had made her so sick that she couldn’t even eat regularly. Tullar remembers exactly what she said that day when pain from a pinched nerve gripped her body. Always energetic and always living life with a positive attitude, she she was sitting in the doctor’s office at the end of her rope. “We have to do something,” she had said. “I just found herself becoming more and more withcan’t live like this anymore.” drawn as that pain took over more and more After the MRI and x-rays, Tullar’s docof who she was. tor told her she needed to see a neuro“I was in so much pain, I was so sick surgeon. It was up to her to choose to my stomach, I was aching all the who would handle her case. time,” Tullar says, “I wouldn’t go A friend of a friend had recently out.” She says depression began suffered a pinched nerve and very to close in around her because highly recommended a neurothe pain was always in control, surgeon at the Fort Sanders never under control. Center for Minimally Invasive The pain began to affect her work at Druid Hill Golf Course Spine Surgery. in Fairfield Glade. She had “So I called my doctor and loved taking care of golf carts said, ‘how about Dr. Joel Norand meeting new friends on man at Fort Sanders?’ ” Tullar the course. recalls. “They made an ap“I had to quit working bepointment and I went.” cause I was in so much pain,” Tullar’s expectations were Tullar says. “That broke my met and exceeded. Dr. Norheart.” It had been a perfect reman made her feel completely tirement pastime, until last fall. comfortable, and she was im“I don’t know how I did it,” pressed with the way he seemed Tullar says of her pinched nerve. to genuinely care about his pa“But I had a stiff neck in Septemtients. He also let her choose her ber.” Tullar says the pain went away course of treatment to relieve the but then returned with a vengeance pinched nerve. He gave her the option in October. of physical therapy or minimally While Tullar was trying to eninvasive surgery. tertain guests in her home, she Tullar had taken stock of her sitCindy Tullar’s energy and positive outlook couldn’t turn her neck to the left or uation and knew it was time to do are back after minimally invasive cervical the right. The pain began to worsen. whatever was necessary to end the fusion at Fort Sanders Regional Medical It shot down into her shoulder, then pain for good. Center. it moved to her fingers, which began “I couldn’t sleep because I was in to go numb. so much pain. It was getting worse Tullar made an appointment with her physician, and he and worse. I had to quit playing golf. I had to quit working prescribed over-the-counter pain medication. That didn’t – it was consistent pain all the time. I had no relief at all. seem to help much, so she also saw a doctor at Fairfield I had lost 15 pounds. I couldn’t eat. I was getting sicker,” Glade who administered medication in a shot. Still, there Tullar says. was no significant relief. He recommended an MRI and xTaking all this into account, Tullar knew surgery was the rays. right choice. She also knew Norman was the right surgeon.
“He’s great,” Tullar says. “I was comfortable when I went into surgery and after I came out.” Tullar prepared herself for the surgery by researching minimally invasive spine surgery on the Internet and watching online videos of the procedure performed by surgeons in other parts of the country. She knew exactly what Norman was going to do, and she was encouraged when she saw video testimonials from patients who said their pain had been relieved. “I was excited,” Tullar says. “It wasn’t scary for me, at all.” Dr. Norman made a relatively small incision on the right side of Tullar’s neck, removed a disc, inserted a plate and screws, and then replaced the disc with a cadaver bone. While Tullar was expecting the surgery to work, she wasn’t prepared for the incredible level of success she experienced at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “As soon as I woke up, my pain was gone,” Tullar says. “And then the surgical nurse told me I could start moving my neck.” Tullar had assumed she would need some sort of neck brace and that her neck would be immobile for a while. “Nope,” she laughs. “I was moving my neck that night, right away.” The recovery was seamless. Tullar was off her medication after two days, and she was outside going for a walk by the end of the week. After two weeks, Tullar was walking nine holes, and at the end of two months, she was back to the game she loves. “I’m playing golf,” Tullar says enthusiastically. “I’m doing great. I’m working out, and I am so happy!” Tullar is already recommending the surgery to others, because it made such a dramatic change in her level of pain and her quality of life. “When you’re in as much pain as I was, it affects your whole life,” Tullar says. “Dr. Norman is a great surgeon, and he really cares about patients.” When she thinks about how far she’s come and how much pain she used to be in, it still amazes her. “I woke up, my pain was gone,” Tullar says, still excited about what minimally invasive surgery did for her. “My life is so much better now!” For more information about the Fort Sanders Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, visit fsregional.com/minimallyinvasive, or call 865-5412835.
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Minimally invasive cervical fusion A compressed nerve can be a lot more than just a pain in the neck. It can be debilitating, especially when over-the-counter medication and even prescriptions don’t seem to help. If the pain shoots down your shoulder and arm, severely limits your mobility and begins to affect your everyday life, it may be time to consider other options. It’s becoming more and more common for patients in this predicament to opt for cervical fusion at Fort Sanders Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. “A cervical fusion involves placing screws and rods into the bones in the neck, in order to stabilize them,” explains neurosurgeon Joel Norman, MD. “This procedure is often performed along with a decompressive surgery to remove overgrown bone, or a bulging or herniated disc.” Norman says the most common approach is an “anterior cervical
discectomy and fusion.” This involves making a small incision in a skin fold in the front of the patient’s neck, with minimal disruption to the underlying muscles, accessing the front of the spine. “The abnormal intervertebral disc is removed with decompression of the pinched nerves and a bone graft spacer is inserted,” Norman says. “A special metal plate is then placed across the front of the spine and secured with screws into the surrounding bone.” It may seem a little backward for a surgeon to enter the front of the neck when the pain feels like it’s coming from the back side. Norman says there’s a reason for that. “Performing a decompression and fusion of the cervical spine from an incision in the back of the neck is possible, and sometimes necessary,” Norman says, “but that approach often results in more muscle spasm and neck pain in the postoperative period.”
The entire operation takes just about an hour from start to finish. Some of Norman’s patients are able to go home the day of surgery. Best of all, pain relief from the pinched nerve is almost immediate. Norman says this type of operation isn’t likely to help Dr. Joel Norman performs a procedure at the Center for Minisomeone who is sufmally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional. fering from general neck pain. This particular procedure is ideal for paNorman says the members of “Fort Sanders has a committients who suffer pain that radiates ment to excellent patient care, this team are committed to prodown into the arm or hand. That and a demonstrated excellence viding the best patient care and type of pain usually comes from a in neurosciences and neurosurgi- applying their expertise to each pinched nerve, and the relief of the cal expertise,” Norman says. “We individual treated at Fort Sanders pain comes when this procedure have a specialized team of surgical Regional Medical Center. Learn decompresses the nerve. technicians and nurses involved in more by visiting fsregional.com/ Norman says Fort Sanders Re- the care of our patients from the minimallyinvasive, or call 865gional is the right place for this time they enter the hospital until 541-2835. procedure. the time they walk out.”
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Miraculous spring NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier
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other Nature seems to be teasing us with the promise of spring … at first, little tantalizing bits for a day or so, and then weeks of fits and starts. In addition to the deliciously warm sunshine we’re beginning to feel, there are, more and more, the sights and sounds of spring, with seemingly miraculous things going on behind all of them. Take the spring peepers, for example. Tiny frogs, the size of your thumb. They spend the winter hibernating under logs and leaf litter, showing no signs of life, sometimes frozen solid. Then at the first hint of spring, there they are in every puddle and ditch, peeping by the thousands, sometimes with snow and ice still around the edges of their wetland. And just like the peepers, everything else out there seems to be champing at the bit, eagerly waiting to burst forth into song or blossom. Our cardinals and tufted titmice have been singing for weeks. Their spring hormones kick in when the days begin to reach some mystical length, snow or not. And for thousands of years now, they seem to have gotten along pretty well with the way things have been set up. From a perspective of many, many years, I have come to regard the many
happenings of spring as – this year’s young birds nothing short of miracu- head south, on their own, lous. When you stop and guidance systems in operathink about it, just the fact tion, to a place they’ve never that birds can fly is miracu- been: the wintering areas lous, and a lot of them do from which their parents it spectacularly well. The headed north earlier in the little shore bird called the year. red knot, a world champion Of course bats can fly, of flyers, comes 7,000 miles too, and they’re really good They’re actually singing to each spring from its win- at it. And so can thousands establish their individual tering grounds in southern of bugs and butterflies. So nesting territories and to atSouth America to nest and birds don’t have exclusive tract a mate. Presumably the best raise its young in the tun- rights to flying. singer gets dra of far northern the best terCanada. ritory and the Our rubyJust like the peepers, everything else out best mate. It throated humhappens that, mingbirds, very there seems to be chomping at the bit, years ago, tiny creatures eagerly waiting to burst forth into song I got a very compared to the good mate, red knot or even or blossom. but I’m rea robin, fly nonally thankful stop across the that the proGulf of Mexico each spring to show up at Birds can claim exclusive cess didn’t depend upon my our hummingbird feeders bragging rights to a couple singing. We humans have and raise their young in of other miraculous things, worked out a somewhat difour neighborhoods. Mi- though: feathers and sing- ferent system for courtship, raculous? Consider this: ing. Those amazing, com- but the birds’ remarkable All these countless miles of plex structures, the feath- system is one that fills our travel are guided by amaz- ers, give the birds all those springtime with music. One thing that not everying skills built into their really neat spring colors, little bird brains. They can and they keep them warm one realizes: Each species navigate by the position and enable them to fly. But of birds has its own specific of the sun, compensating singing? Well, frogs and ka- song or set of songs, recogautomatically for the time tydids sing, but not melodi- nizable in the field. Most of day. They fly by night, ous songs like a robin or a good birders have learned to “bird by ear.” They know guided by the stars. Clouds wood thrush. and fog? They have the Right now, the robins, car- which of their feathered wired-in ability to navigate dinals, titmice and mocking- friends is around just by lisusing the Earth’s magnetic birds are going at it for hours tening to the songs around field, a feat a human could every day, soon to be joined them. It’s also very helpful do only with an airplane in the chorus by a very vocal when the bird in question and a sophisticated guid- bunch of migrants. Now, I’m is high in a leafy tree, or ance system. sure that most of you know tucked into some dense unAnd then – a fall miracle that they aren’t singing just derbrush. Some folks are a lot betto follow the spring ones to entertain us humans.
ter than others at remembering and recognizing bird songs and calls. Some gifted few can remember thousands of them. But everyone can learn a bunch of the familiar ones – robin, cardinal, bluebird, mockingbird – and then progress from there, a few at a time. Birding by ear opens up a whole new dimension for enjoying the outdoors, being able to know who’s around you by just listening. There are lots of other springtime miracles happening now. Bloodroots will come up through the snow, and bloom for us along the Norris Riverbluff Trail even when it’s really too chilly for us to want to go out. They are being joined by a dozen other species of beautiful little early spring flowers, including a few thousand trout lilies carpeting the floor of the woods. And how about those butterflies? People have regarded the caterpillar’s strange transformation into a spectacular spring butterfly as miraculous for centuries. We still don’t understand the details, but it is definitely a wonder of nature.
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Those tiny Eastern tailed blues and little white moths are already flitting about on warm, sunny afternoons, and the heavy-hitters like silver-spotted skippers and tiger swallowtails will be along soon. Speaking of insects, thousands of tiny gnats, flies, caterpillars and inchworms are emerging, just in time to feed the waves of warblers, vireos, swifts and swallows, even now on their way up from South and Central America to Sharp’s Ridge, Norris Songbird Trail, and your backyard. The birds will eat literally tons of them. It all seems to work out in miraculous fashion. And we all need to take a lot of care to let it keep on happening. The annual Sharp’s Ridge spring bird walks are here again, on the last three Thursdays of April and the first Thursday of May. We start at 8 a.m. from the parking area at the old rangers’ residence. There will be experienced birders and novices alike, and hopefully you can start your day with a scarlet tanager, or half a dozen spring warblers. Join us!
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Opening reception for Art Market Gallery April Featured Artists: Marilyn Avery Turner and Gray Bearden, 5:30 p.m., 422 South Gay St. Info: 525-5265; artmarketgallery.net; facebook.com/Art.Market. Gallery.
Auditions for “The Lion King Jr.” 6:30 p.m., Studio ETC, 180 W. Main St. in Morristown. Looking to cast approximately 25-30 students ages 6-18. For casting breakdown of roles available: www. studioetc.org. Info: 423-318-8331 or www.etcplays. org.
THROUGH TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Online registration open for the Wildflower Pilgrimage, to be held Tuesday-Saturday, April 21-25, at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Registration fees: $75 for two or more days, or $50 for a single day; students, $15 with valid student ID. Info/to register: http://www.springwildflowerpilgrimage.org or 4367318, ext. 222.
THROUGH MAY 20 Applications accepted for the Great Smoky Mountains Trout Adventure Camp for middle school girls and boys, sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Trout Unlimited to be held June 15-20 at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info/applications: http://www.tntroutadventure.org.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 “Books, Libraries and the Digital Future” lecture, 4 p.m., Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Blvd. Free and open to the public. Presented by Robert Darnton, Carl Pforzheimer University Professor and university librarian, Harvard University. Faculty Senate Book Sale, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley Campus, Goins Building College Center, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Community is invited. Funds raised go to student scholarships. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.
Sport Utility Vehicles Transportation
Automobiles for Sale BUICK PARK AVENUE Ultra 2003. 113K actual miles, white, w/lthr., like new. $4650. (865)661-1865. CADILLAC CTS 2007. Loaded. Exc. cond. Garaged. 75k mi, silver. $11,900. (865)588-6860; 399-8792 CHEVROLET IMPALA - 2004. V6, AT, leather, new tires, 1 owner, smoker free, $6000. (865)523-8736. CHEVROLET IMPALA - 2013. LT 41K miles, all power, remote start. Sharp! $9850. Call (865)522-4133. DODGE MAGNUM RT- 2005. 1 owner, 114K mi., blue, new tires, exc. cond. $9,000. (865)924-9616. FORD FUSION 2006. SEL, Sedan V6, fully loaded, runs perfectly. $4755. Call (865) 640-5404. FORD MUSTANG GT CONV. 2002, loaded, gar. kept, exc. cond. 40K mi., $8,700, Best Offer. (865)394-9684. MAZDA TRUCK - 2005. Manual, 6 cyl, rwd, extended cab, split rear window, bed liner, CD player, well maintained - one owner 56,300 mi., $13,500. (865)414-1639.
Sports and Imports AUDI A4 - 2004. 1.8 T Quatro, silver w/leather, 4 dr sedan, AT, garaged, good cond. $2650. (865)938-1732. 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. 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 MX-5 MIATA - 2007. 6 speed, true red, black interior, Grand touring, PRHT, retractable hard top convertible, MP3, leather heated seats, premium wheels, garage kept, excellent condition. 40,598 mi., $15,500. (865)740-3541. MGB Roadster 1976 Red w/red/black int., restored eng. & int., new tires, wheels, radio, 4 spd. w/OD, $9,750. 423-923-0966, 423-345-3049. SUBARU BAJA 2003. 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. 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.
4 Wheel Drive HONDA RIDGELINE RTL- 2011. 4WD Crew Cab w/Navi, grey/grey, low miles, warranty, clear title, $17,500 mi., $9700, dgsberry@gmail.com (877)443-4978. LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER - 2004. White Range Rover HSE with Tan Interior. New Tires and all service done at the dealer. Very Clean like new!!! 104,040 mi., $11,500. (865)622-2255.
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.
FORD EXPLORER - 1993. V6, AT, 4WD, every day driver, $2900. (865) 216-5387. GMC Terrain 2014, 5,000 mi, all power, aluminum wheels, bluetooth, $18,900. 865-660-9191 HONDA PILOT Touring 2011, loaded, exc. cond., 45K mi., $21,500. 423-295-5393.
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FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 3-4 Flea market at Westview Tower, 7823 Gleason Drive. Art, crafts, household and unique items.
SATURDAY, APRIL 4 Easter Weekend Breakfast, 6:30-10:30 a.m., Beaver Ridge Lodge #366, 7429 Oak Ridge Highway. Cost: free with a donation to the Beaver Ridge Charity Fund.
SUNDAY, APRIL 5
MONDAY APRIL 6 Blount Mansion History Supper, 6 p.m., The Grill at Highland’s Row, 4705 Old Kingston Pike. Speaker: James R. Knight. Topic: John Bell Hood and the Civil War in Tennessee. Info/RSVP: 525-2375 or info@blountmansion.org. Making Continuous Bias-Cut Binding Strip Class, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/ profile/monicaschmidt.
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FORD HARD TOP 1966 VICTORIA. Compl. restoration. 300 mi. on rebuilt eng. $15,000. (865)333-0615. MGB - 1977 $1500. 865-705-6123
Commercial Vehicles FORD F700 1983, - dump flat bed w/ sides, gas mtr., needs some work. $1500. (865)216-5387. FREIGHTLINER 2000 - Mid Roof, 1999 East Covered wagon, 1 owner, exc. cond. $36,500/b.o. (865)922-8694
Auto Parts & Acc Nitto M/T 35x12.50R20LT Trail Grappler, 800 mi, 4 @ $350 ea. 239-2005191
Recreation
Boats/Motors/Marine 18’ BOW RIDER 8-pass., only 38 hrs, 215 HP, Challenger 180 SE, gorgeous, w/trailer. $12,750. 865-250-8079. 2007 21’ WAR EAGLE - center console alum. boat, 115HP Yamaha, 2 cycle & trailer, new Hummingbird 859 CI HD Sonar GPS, new boat cover, lots of strg, 12/24 motor guide elec. trolling motor, extra jet drive, exc. cond. $12,000 obo. 865-809-0167 or 681-9992. 2009 18’ TRACKER Tournament V-18 w/90 HP Mercury OptiMax, 24 volt MinnKota Maxxum foot control elec. motor, 2 Hummingbird 788ci graphs. This is virtually a new boat, motor & trailer (10 hours or less). Runs strong & smooth. Health issues. $15,995. 865-740-9300 BAY BOAT - Exc. cond. 23’ Ranger, 230C, twin 200 HP Johnsons, $15,000. New alum. trlr, $5000. (865)333-0615. Boat 2000 Four Winns 268 Vista, exc shape, radar arch, full canvas, low hrs, on lift, reg. gas, Tellico Village. $35,000. Alan, 423-371-9050.
LEGAL NOTICE The Board of MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF FARRAGUT, at its meeting on THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 adopted the following ordinance on second and final 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.
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Motorcycles/Mopeds
THURSDAY, APRIL 9 Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” 2-4 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is composed of five women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, dmorton3@charter.net.
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Antiques
Classic Cars CHEVROLET CAMARO - 1978. Rally Sport LT, 350 mtr, AT, runs & drives. $1500. (865)216-5387.
GARAGE SALE - Wed. Apr 1 through Fri, Apr 3, 9am-4pm, and Sat, Apr 4, 9am-1pm. 4220 Solomon Drive. Lots of stuff! Great prices! NO early sales. Rain or shine!
2013 MONTANA HIGH Country 36’ 5th wheel, deeded resort lot, East of Gatlinburg. $73,000. 3 slide outs, smoke/ pet free, has not been towed. RV is in pristine condition, Lot has new asphalt parking and a new large concrete and flagstone patio. 865-964-8092.
DUTCHMAN TOY HAULER 2005, 32 ft. Good condition, lots of room. Call 865-776-1991; 865-992-3547.
AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., American Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook Pike. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822. Faculty Senate Book Sale, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Magnolia Avenue Campus, Lobby, 1610 E. Magnolia Ave. Community is invited. Funds raised go to student scholarships. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.
Tools
TRITON 2000 - 21 ft., 225 HP Mercury mtr., garage kept, exc. cond. $19,760. (865)966-2527.
COACHMAN 2004 23’ travel trailer, sleeps 6, exc. cond. $8,635. (865)966-2527.
Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is composed of five women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, dmorton3@charter.net. Lewis Nash in concert, 8 p.m., the Square Room on Market Square. Presented by the Knoxville Jazz Festival. Info/tickets: 688-6096 or www.knoxjazzfest. org.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7-8
The Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee meeting, 6 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Program: class on egg alternatives by Linda Wade. Potluck supper follows. Cost: $4. Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com or 546-5643.
2005 Winnebago Sightseer 29R, V-10 Ford on a workhorse chassis & Allison trans., 2 new flat screen TVs & sound bar, 2 slides, dinette & sleeper sofa, queen bed in rear, sleeps 6, plenty of bsmt storage, awnings on all windows. Super nice. Mint cond. 42K mi. $43,900. 423-851-1152
TUESDAY, APRIL 7
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health & lifestyles NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK
Praises for BIG & LOUD
Pastor says program gives tools to fight Parkinson’s It was a very awkward position for a preacher, and there was no doubt that it would raise more than a few eyebrows. But there he was – Pastor Charlie Harkleroad standing in a laundry basket! As strange as it may seem, there was a reason for it – the senior pastor of Leadvale Missionary Baptist Church in White Pine was working on his golf swing. Honest. It was one of the more creative tasks cooked up by occupational therapist Janel Bell to help the 65-year-old pastor slow the progression of the Parkinson’s disease that was causing his gait to slow, joints to stiffen, arm to tremble, balance to wobble, writing to shrink and voice to weaken. “It was getting progressively worse,” said Harkleroad, who said he first thought his unnatural arm swing was because of a shoulder surgery four years ago. “Even my congregation started noticing. I’ve been with them for 14 years so they notice small changes.” Diagnosed last September by Fort Sanders Regional Neurologist Dr. Timothy Braden, Harkleroad was referred to Parkwest Therapy Center at Fort Sanders West where he went through a four-week, 16-session therapy program called BIG & LOUD. BIG & LOUD sprang from the acclaimed Lee Silverman Voice Training (LSVT) technique established in 1987 and named after a Parkinson’s patient in Arizona. The hour-long sessions (and homework that comes with them), which seek to improve the motor skills Parkinson’s patients lose because of a lack of dopamine, help recalibrate the brain through a regimen of exaggerated motions and speech. According to Bell, each BIG session features seven standard exercises in which the goal is not only to get the maximum range of motion for a particular move, but to also get maximum effort from the patient. “So we have to rate this motion on a scale of 0 to 10, and our target is for them to be working at an 8 or above,” said Bell. “So if they get the motion to full range
Charles Harkleroad and therapist Janel Bell practicing some BIG movements.
and it’s not an 8, then we crank up the complexity of it.” “Amen!” exclaimed the preacher in agreement before adding, “They make work fun because I consider what I was doing work!” In addition to the exercises each visit, patients also must perform five functional tasks that they would do in their daily lives. “Those are things that they have told me, ‘This is how Parkinson’s is affecting me,’” said Bell. “So I look at all the things they tell me, and we sit down and list the five things that are most important in their life because these will become something that they use every day. Sit-to-stand is always one of those five because everyone does that every day. “Then, they always have a carryover task. Every day I would give him a task and he would go home and try to work just that little piece. I always try to make it, ‘What are you going to be doing between now and tomorrow?’ ”
Because Harkleroad’s day might include preparing for a sermon, his carryover assignment might be to practice writing his sermon notes large enough that he can see them from the podium. Working with children’s activities might include
Big & Loud & growing With an estimated 10 million people worldwide living with Parkinson’s disease and 60,000 Americans diagnosed with it each year, it’s little wonder that the clinically proven BIG & LOUD program continues to grow in popularity. So popular, in fact, that Covenant Health encourages its physical, occupational and speech therapists from throughout the system to obtain the required certification to meet the growing demand. Currently, Covenant has 29 therapists certified – and two more in training – to teach either BIG or LOUD at eight clinics throughout East Tennessee. “The waiting period for an appointment is down now because Covenant Health has been training as many therapists as we can,” said Janel Bell, a therapist at the Parkwest Therapy Center at Fort Sanders West who received her certification last fall. “When I went to my course, there were
three physical therapists from Fort Loudon Medical Center in Lenoir City and a couple from LeConte Medical Center in Sevierville. Covenant Health has done a good job of seeing that we have enough therapists for that one-on-one training.” Bell is such a believer in the program that she urges physicians to refer patients as soon as they’re diagnosed rather than waiting. As evidence, she points to Charlie Harkleroad, the White Pine pastor who came into the program soon after his diagnosis in September. “Charlie is young and very active – that’s the time we need to be able to teach someone these exercises – not wait until they are on a walker or in a wheelchair. It definitely still can help no matter what stage they are, but if we can get patients doing the exercises sooner it can slow the progression of Parkinson’s down. The sooner that we can
some exercises for rising from a low sitting position without using his hands. Going to a grandchild’s basketball game might be exercises to maneuver the bleachers. Likewise, homework is a large component of the LOUD program. “LSVT focuses on teaching strategies on how to be loud,” said Tonya Connell, the LSV T-certified speech language pathologist who works with patients in the LOUD portion of the program. “There are several ways we do that, but patients don’t have to learn them all at once. “We give them homework each day – specific tasks for them to practice: loud speaking, conversations with people in public who
don’t know you have Parkinson’s, phone conversations at work, etc.,” added Connell. “We don’t just focus on the rote exercises we do here but conversation – tell me about your business, tell me about this, pretend I’m a client, that kind of thing. From day 1, they are getting assignments to practice outside the clinic.” Although 89 percent of Parkinson’s patients will develop speech problems ranging from low volume to monotone speech and vocal tremor, denial about those issues is just as common, said Connell. “Most patients feel like they are talking loudly enough – it’s just that everyone else needs a hearing aid,” she said, adding that “only 4 percent will seek treatment.” “The primary thing was the softness of my voice, and I had not noticed it,” said Harkleroad. “I told Tonya – and I still believe it – ‘To me, I sound like I’m yelling.’ But that’s the new norm, and that’s what I’m trying to get accustomed to. The congregation had noticed it some but when I’m on a speaker system and a headset mic, even if I speak too softly, the sound people can keep that up. But I have noticed a difference in the projection.” The LOUD program utilizes a software program in which the patient can actually see their voice on a computer screen as they talk. A graph shows the undulations in speech and pitch. “Part of the program works on strengthening vocal muscles and breath endurance by holding speech sounds as long as possible,” Connell explained. “There are also exercises that require the patient to try to make low and high pitches in effort to strengthen and teach control of changing vocal pitch so patients lose the monotone voice quality.” “I had made up my mind that I was going to do whatever was necessary,” said Harkleroad. “I like challenges, and that’s the way I approached it: It was a challenge and I’ve got to see what I can do with this. I can’t combat Parkinson’s by myself but if I’ve got some tools to work with and learn what they are, then maybe I can slow things down.”
Covenant Health supports expansion of BIG and LOUD In order to meet the high demand for the BIG and LOUD program in East Tennessee, Covenant Health has paid to bring 10 new LSVT- certified therapists on staff. Additionally, more software was purchased to serve the growing numbers of patients receiving treatment. Covenant Health now has 29 staff therapists trained in LSVT.
teach people what they can do, it will help them stay on a good regimen and keep their movements BIG.” “I saw people every time I came in that were struggling more than I was,” said Harkleroad. “I guess that was my motivation. I didn’t want to get to that point.” Ask about BIG & LOUD programs at
Parkwest Medical Center, Fort Loudon Medical Center, Cumberland Medical Center, Fort Sanders Therapy Center in Powell, Patricia Neal Outpatient Therapy Center at Roane Medical Center, LeConte Therapy Center in Sevierville and Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge or visit us online at www.covenanthelath.com/therapycenters.
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