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leads to transformation “The Concrete House” in West Hills has gone through a major overhaul since it was purchased in 2005 by Beth Boline. The house, designed

by Bruce McCarty, was built around 1953 to demonstrate how homes could be affordably built out of concrete.

Red Gate Rodeo The annual Red Gate Festival and Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, at Red Gate Farm in Maynardville.

Carnival starts at 5 p.m.

Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday.

Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each day. Admission is $15 for adults, $8 for kids 4-10 years old, and free for kids age 3 and under.

Info: www.redgaterodeo. com or 992-3303.

Ring found A South-Doyle High School ring engraved with the name Zane Rhodes has been found.

Info: Becky Williams Wuethrich on Facebook.

IN THIS ISSUE Suttree Landing “The park’s name pays homage to the famed fictitious son of 1950s Knoxville, the dark and rascally Cornelius Suttree, created by Cormac McCarthy 36 years ago.

“And you can still feel the presence of Suttree and his river companions all along this section of the river. It’s rare when you can stand somewhere and get such a powerful and timeless sense of place,” said Knoxville’s eloquent mayor at the ribbon cutting for Suttree Landing Park.

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Read Betsy Pickle on page A-3

Campen vs.

Mirtes for council In an election year that portends few surprises and no fireworks, the District 5 City Council race could be the only game in town – if the challenger remains as feisty in the stretch as she is out of the gate.

“I think (Mark Campen) is a great guy. I just think I could do a better job,” says Jennifer Mirtes.

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By Wendy Smith Beth Boline was smitten with the mid-century modern house on Stockton Drive in West Hills as soon as she saw it. Ten years later, she can’t say exactly what drew her to the house, except that it had a “calming energy.

“It was the ugliest house on the block.”

The first problem with the

house was that it wasn’t for sale.

But it appeared to be vacant, and when she casually trespassed, she found a For Sale sign lying in the backyard. She called the real-estate agent, who said the home had recently sold.

That’s when the stalking began.

Boline drove past the house every

Shannon Foster-Boline and Beth Boline relax in their backyard, which was featured on a DIY Network show. Photos by Wendy Smith

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Everly Brothers Park moves closer The Bearden area has a new pocket park named for the legendary Everly Brothers, who lived in the area as teenagers. The Bearden Council, which represents local neighborhoods and businesses, is planning a fundraising campaign to add landscaping, educational and biographical information.

City Council approved the naming of Everly Brothers Park last week. The small park is at the corner of Kingston Pike and Forest Park Boulevard. The land had been acquired by the state of Ten-

nessee as part of the reconstruction of the adjacent bridge across a rail line. The state Department of Transportation conveyed ownership of the parcel to the city earlier this year.

“Knoxville is proud to be the city that nurtured the Everly Brothers, and this commemorative park will be a great addition to the neighborhood,” said Mayor Madeline Rogero. “Thanks to the state for donating the land, and thanks to the Bearden Council and city council member Duane

Grieve for leading this effort.”

There will be a dedication ceremony at the park at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7.

Bearden Council is leading efforts to raise funds to complete the landscaping and features of Everly Brothers Park, including benches, bicycle racks, an artistic centerpiece and memorial plaques. The East Tennessee Community Design Center has done a conceptual design for the park. Anyone interested in contributing or learning more can contact Bearden Council

at beardencouncil@gmail.com or 865-454-9475.

The Everly Brothers grew up playing music with their parents, Ike and Margaret, and the family moved to Knoxville in 1953. They became regulars on Cas Walker’s radio program on WROL, and both brothers enrolled in West High School. It was in Knoxville that they met Chet Atkins, who encouraged their nascent songwriting efforts and told them to look To page A-3

What’s next for teacher incentive pay?

By Sandra Clark This didn’t start as a trick question.

Q: Will teachers be eligible for incentive bonuses for the upcoming school year? And is the money budgeted to pay them?

Analysis A: To be determined.

Background: When school started last fall, teachers were given their evaluation criteria (rubric) and the chance to earn extra compensation for those who jumped through the hoops appropriately.

But when the school board started forming its 2015- 2016 budget (called FY16) this spring, Superintendent Jim McIntyre gave the board a choice – pay the earned bonuses (about $3.2 million) or use that money instead to fund a pay raise for all teachers.

Angst ensued.

Mayor Tim Burchett agreed to

take $3 million from the county’s fund balance to pay the bonuses one time as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) adopted by the school board and County Commission. One time.

Based on the MOU, the questions above should be answered No and No. Issue I: Why was money earned in FY15 being paid in FY16?

McIntyre offered no explanation, but this was in his March 11 memo to board members: “This budget recommendation eliminates $3.2 million in APEX payouts in FY16 … were slated to be paid in November, but would have been fully earned by the end of the current school year.”

OK. So the money earned in FY15 was “slated to be paid” in FY16 – a budget not yet adopted by either the school board or County Commission. My math education was at Halls High School, but this looks like deficient spending of $3.2 million.

No harm, no foul though, when

Burchett rolled out his one-time $3 million.

Issue II: So what about this year?

McIntyre, again in his March 11 memo to the board, wrote, “We have committed to undertake a complete redesign of the APEX strategic compensation program this spring that would take effect in the 2015-16 school year.”

But wait!

The state Department of Education requires a board-approved strategic compensation plan for the upcoming year from each school district by June 30. The plan must state how many teachers are eligible and the cost.

Knox County has submitted a plan that looks suspiciously like the FY15 plan without even discussion by the school board.

Melissa Ogden, director of public affairs for KCS, explains: “Knox County Schools was required by the Tennessee Department of Education to submit a differentiated pay plan by June

30, 2015. Board of Education members have been informed about what was submitted, and they understand that as we review and consider redesigning the plan over the next several months, we are still obligated to meet the state requirement of submitting a preliminary plan.

“Please know that we will be able to make any edits or updates to the plan based on the feedback from the Board of Education (and this has been verified with the Tennessee Department of Education). Also please note that the differentiated pay plan will not be final until the Board of Education votes on it.”

Hmmm.

So will teachers be eligible for an incentive bonus this year?

School starts in three weeks. And has the money been budgeted to pay it?

Who knows? But if money earned in FY16 is “slated to be paid” in FY17, then I guess it doesn’t matter.

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NEWS FROM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

The Memory Project For the second year in a row, CAK’s high school Advanced Art students had the privilege to join The Memory Project, a nation-wide initiative that pairs art students with disadvantaged children all over the world. The high school artists create portraits for the children, which are then delivered in person by Memory Project staff.

Last year, the class drew portraits for children in Nepal, and this spring, students were paired up with children in the Dominican Republic.

The project was developed in 2004 by Ben Schumaker, an art teacher from Wisconsin. His inspiration came after volunteering at a Guatemalan orphanage. He noticed that adults who had grown up there did not have many mementos of their childhoods.

The Memory Project is a way to give children in situations like that a special memento of their childhoods, while at the same time being a unique way for high school students to show compassion.

The art students received

photographs of the children after Christmas. After completing a unit on portraiture, they began working on creating a likeness of each child.

Some painted, some used charcoal, and many worked in pastels.

“The memory project made me take into perspective how special it is to have photographs and memories of our childhood and to not take it for granted,” said rising senior Macy Riley. “I loved being able to give a child from across the globe the keepsake portrait of their sweet, smiling faces. This was my favorite project of the year because it made an impact on others and could bring joy and memories to someone for the rest of their life. “ According to CAK Art teacher Elaine Davis, many other students agreed that this was their favorite project from the whole year.

“It has been a privilege to watch these students use their artistic talents in a way that touches the lives of others,” Davis said.

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Artwork by Cole Welch

Natalie Renfroe named director of bands Warriors in Europe 2015 Fourteen rising 9th graders took a grand tour of Western Europe this summer. To read more about the trip, visit warriorsineurope2015.blogspot.com.

Warrior Network CAK’s student-run broadcast station, The Warrior Network, was recently announced as the winner of the TSSAA and the NFHS Network School Broadcast Program Challenge. The winner was based on highest numbers of live sporting events broadcast on the NFHS network, number of subscription passes sold and number of highlights cut from sporting events. The Warrior Network was awarded a $2,000 prize.

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Christian Academy of Knoxville is pleased to announce that Natalie Renfroe has been named the new director of bands.

“We are excited to welcome Natalie to the CAK community and look forward to where she is going to take the band program in the coming years,” said Head of School Bob Neu. Renfroe was selected from an extensive list of candidates ranging from all over the Southeast to replace CAK’s long-time band director Greg Wilson. Wilson announced his retirement from CAK earlier this year, after leading the Warriors for 35 years.

“He is going to be sorely missed, but I am confident in Natalie’s abilities,” Neu said.

“She is already working very closely with Greg and will continue to do so in the coming months. Her passion for music and the students is apparent to those who have met her.”

Renfroe received her Bachelor of Arts in Music and International Affairs at Florida State University and went on

to receive her Master of Music Education at the University of Tennessee. She served as graduate assistant of the Pride of the Southland Marching Band from 2011 - 2014 and received the UT Band Service Award in 2014. Renfroe most recently was a student teacher at West High, Bearden Middle and Bearden Elementary.

“To say that I am excited to join the CAK community is quite an understatement,” Renfroe said. “The students that I have met and the staff

that I have had the pleasure of working with thus far are a testament to CAK’s stellar reputation for excellence and Christian character. ” Renfroe, an established french horn player, has appeared in countless musical theater performances and was a part of the Wind Ensemble, Opera Orchestra, and Symphony Orchestra while at the University of Tennessee.

“As musicians, I believe we have an amazing outlet to reach masses on a very personal level,” Renfroe said. “As Christian musicians, we have an even bigger opportunity to communicate to the community Christ’s excellence and how His talents can be cultivated through CAK’s amazing young people. It is my goal that the word “Christian” will be synonymous with excellence, over-achieving, innovative, gracious, and awe-inspiring through the CAK band.”

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Kids keep focus on play at

Suttree Landing event

By Betsy Pickle Groundbreaking ceremonies generally draw politicians and executives in business suits. The groundbreaking for Suttree Landing Park on the South Waterfront had its share of those, but it also drew a younger contingent sporting the kind of attire you’d expect to see at a park.

They were children from the Boys & Girls Club at South Knoxville Elementary and Community School, happy to add another outing to their summer program.

Accompanied by South Knox Elementary principal Tanna Nicely, community school site coordinator Susan Martin and Boys & Girls Clubs director Kim Madeiros, they were well behaved, polite and excited about getting to lift shovels of dirt.

They certainly looked more comfortable during the humid morning ceremony than their more formally dressed elders.

First District City Council member and Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis kicked things off by introducing his fellow council members, including the only one who was, sensibly, wearing casual clothes: Mark Campen.

As several dozen South Knox residents and neighborhood leaders, business owners, current and former elected officials and city and county employees sought relief in the shade provided by trees on the large field, Pavlis stood at a lectern and talked about the park’s potential to drive private investment in South Knoxville.

“First, we thought that this would bring it, but now we’re just catching up with the opening of the park,” said Pavlis. “We have businesses investing all along Sevier Avenue now. We certainly have a huge investment with the former Baptist Hospital site (and) the former Kerns Bakery. The investment just keeps going on and on.”

With the skyline of the

Concrete house weekend, looking for the new owner.

“I’d never had a crush on a house,” she laughs.

She knocked on the door when she detected signs of life inside. The new owner told her how much he’d paid for the house, and that he planned to paint it white and rent it out. With little forethought, Boline offered him the price he paid – plus $7,000. The owner said he wasn’t interested, but three hours later, he called her.

She began renovations so quickly that she barely remembers the original floorplan. She knocked down the interior walls and took out a dropped ceiling that obscured the original vaulted ceiling. She enlarged the kitchen and built an airy, modern master bathroom.

She replaced 34 large, dangerous single-pane windows with double-panes that filled the house with natural light.

She kept the original terrazzo floors and freshened the white gravel roof.

Boline was just beginning to research the home’s history when a van pulled up while she was working in the yard. The driver asked if she’d like to meet the architect who designed the house, and Bruce McCarty stepped out of the van. The driver turned out to be his employee, architect Brian Pittman.

McCarty, founder of McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects, designed such Knoxville landmarks as Lawson McGhee Library, the City County Building and the UT Art and Architecture Building. He was hired by builder Martin

community Everly Brothers Park

him up if they got to Nashville. After Don graduated from West High in 1955, the family moved to Middle Tennessee so the brothers could pursue their musical career. Two years later, they had their first pop smash with “Bye Bye Love.”

The Everly Brothers went on to sell more than 40 million records, with 35 Billboard Top 100 singles and 12 Top Ten hits. Their vocal harmonies influenced generations of rock and country performers, and they were particularly revered by the Beatles. They are one of the few acts to be inducted into Mayor Madeline Rogero, right, gives a big smile to Susan Martin, Tanna Nicely and kids from the both the Rock and Roll Hall Boys & Girls Club at South Knoxville Elementary School after all hit the target at the ground- of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame. breaking ceremony for Suttree Landing Park. Photo by Betsy Pickle Council member Grieve

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.

Kids from the Boys & Girls Club at South Knoxville Elementary School, along with SKES Community School site coordinator Susan Martin and SKES principal Tanna Nicely, join Mayor Madeline Rogero and members of City Council for the official groundbreaking for Suttree Landing Park. north shore of the Tennessee River visible behind him, Parks and Recreation director Joe Walsh called it “a great day for a groundbreaking.”

“We haven’t had a groundbreaking in a while,” said Walsh, who listed some of the future amenities of the 8-acre park: a playground, a boat dock, a launch for kayaks and canoes, and a halfmile greenway.

Mayor Madeline Rogero

From page A-1 Bartling Jr. and the owner of Southern Cast Stone to show that an affordable home could be built entirely out of concrete.

Boline invited McCarty in to see her renovations, and he approved. He was incredibly humble, she says.

When she asked him to sign a copy of the 1955 Parade of Homes magazine that featured her house, he couldn’t understand why.

Concrete houses never took off.

“As it turned out, it was not that affordable,” Boline says. Plus, the patented concrete blocks filled with cork don’t provide much insulation.

Neither fact dampens her enthusiasm for the house, which now has a long list of admirers. One is her wife, Shannon Foster-Boline, who is responsible for the home’s vibrant landscaping.

While Boline was renovating, passersby – and McCarty fans – would sometimes knock on the door. One was a TV producer who used the home’s interior twice before asking if he could feature the backyard in a show called “The Stone Age.” The resulting waterfall and whimsical iron sculptures complement a breathtaking pool that was empty when Boline moved in.

Last weekend, the home gained a new set of enthusiasts when the couple hosted a Knox Heritage Summer Supper.

Boline is amazed at the transformation of the house. It’s gone from the ugliest house on the block to one of the nicest, she says.

“It’s like taking the glasses off a librarian.”

gave kudos to City Council for approving the funds for the park.

“This first phase of park construction and the building of the Waterfront Drive, which … is the half-mile, treelined road providing direct access to the park – altogether that’s a $6.6 million commitment,” she said. “It’s a significant investment. We couldn’t do that without council agreeing to that in the budget.”

Rogero bragged on the 2,000-foot-long riverwalk in the park.

“The bigger dream is that this riverwalk will con-

nect to the greenways and the bike-path system both north of the river and over time to the almost 50-mile network of trails through the South Knoxville Urban Wilderness.”

Rogero reminded the crowd that the name for the park came from an online public opinion poll.

“The park’s name pays homage to the famed fictitious son of 1950s Knoxville, the dark and rascally Cornelius Suttree, created by Cormac McCarthy 36 years ago.

And you can still feel the presence of Suttree and his

■ 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

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said, “This park will be a real jewel for the Bearden Village area. It is a great collaborative effort between the neighborhoods, the state, the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, Visit Knoxville and other partners.”

“Bearden Council considers it a privilege to pay tribute to one of the most influential and successful duos in musical history,” said Bearden Council member Dennis Owen. “Everly Brothers Park is a publicprivate initiative that celebrates local history and encourages the community to learn about the formative years of rock ‘n’ roll.”

– Compiled from press reports

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.

■ Toastmasters Club 802 meets 6:30 p.m. each Tuesday, Central Baptist Annex, 6310 Deane Hill Drive. Info: www.802. toastmastersclubs.org.

■ West Knox Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first and third Monday, 8529 Kingston Pike.

Info: http://knoxville westknoxlionsclub.org/.

■ West Hills Community Association. Info: Ashley Williams, 313-0282.

REUNION NOTES

river companions all along this section of the river. It’s rare when you can stand ■ Halls High multiyear reunion: somewhere and get such a Classes of 1976-1981 will be powerful and timeless sense 6:30 p.m.-midnight Saturday, of place.

Sept. 26, Red Gate Farm, 2353 “This park and this rivMaynardville Highway, Maynardville. erfront are important because they’ll help future ■ Powell High School Class of generations … understand 1985, 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, Southern Depot, 306 W. Dewhat Knoxville is and how it pot Ave. Cost: $35 each or $60 came to be. couple; includes dinner, music “It’s easy to envision chiland cash bar. Make checks dren playing in the playto “PHS Class of 85 Reunion ground and families enjoyFund.” Mail to: Krista Sapp, P.O. ing events on the festival Box 31523, Knoxville, TN 37930. lawn. And I’m looking forInfo: Stacey Berry, 441-3539. ward to being able to put my Additional information kayak … in right here.” at ShopperNewsNow.com.

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Who is No. 2?

sergeant (nowhere near a general). He is 6-4 and 213 and working to get stronger by the day. This son of a Critical question that reTexas high school coach got ally needs an answer before a head start on the Tennesthe second Saturday in Sepsee playbook and will know tember: Who is No. 2? how to run the offense.

Marvin We know about No. 1.

Jennings, 6-4 and 190, West Joshua Dobbs is Tennessee’s has a burning desire to be quarterback. The benefia quarterback but admits ciary of a forced promotion he still has a lot to learn. He is the more athletic runner saved last season, directed and a potential star at some the bowl romp and now is famous, even ranked ahead Butch Jones has multiple other position if he falls of his accomplishments. choices, the finest crop of short of his goal.

Hype helps in the race young quarterbacks in the Jones could be the best for a Heisman. It would also country. Amazing it is. Tal- combo, good passer, fleet help to complete a few pass- ented they are, four stars afoot, a genuine dual-threat es down the field and win all. Experienced they are quarterback from a very some really big games. competitive league in Calinot.

Even though Dobbs is Some high school stand- fornia. He is 6-3 and 190, nimble and quick, most outs shy away from competi- about the size of Dobbs scrambles and called run- tion. Quinten Dormady, Jau- when he arrived, a more acning plays end with a hit. an Jennings and Sheriron curate passer but similar in Because the line still has Jones showed no fear. Each several ways. flaws, we can assume he probably believes he is the Sheriron does come with will be hit hard if he just best, or soon will be. one scar. He committed to stands there. Either way, It is little more than a Florida before he wised up the Volunteers must have a guess at the moment but and switched to Tennessee. satisfactory replacement – Dormady appears to have Enjoy the thought of just in case something bad more polish and is probably three fine freshmen – while happens. the better passer and field it lasts.

When Mike DeBord wears his August quarterback coaching cap, he will have two primary jobs. He must help Dobbs refine his skills. Joshua is a junior who has started nine games. He’s nowhere near his potential peak. Superior intelligence makes him easy to teach. He is a good athlete for the position.

Perhaps more important for DeBord and the team is preparation of an adequate replacement before the Oklahoma game. Not having a satisfactory reserve has been a Tennessee weakness.

Think how the Vols looked against Florida in 2013.

Don’t bother recalling how they looked last season. That might cause indigestion.

The race for No. 2 figures to be one of the most interesting aspects of pre-season practice. Want to test your foresight? Write your pick on a sticky note and put it where you can find it.

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

Work ahead on Jackson Avenue As the city of Knoxville prepares to seek a master developer to oversee development of publicly owned properties along West Jackson Avenue, consultants are conducting a market study to provide guidance on potential commercial and residential uses of the properties.

The properties, which include the cleared sites of the former McClung Warehouses, run along West Jackson between Gay Street and Broadway.

They are owned by Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation on behalf of the city.

KCDC has contracted with The Communities Group and Thomas Pointe

Associates to conduct the market study.

“This is really the next step toward redeveloping Jackson Avenue,” said Bob Whetsel, the city’s director of redevelopment.

“The market study will give us a clearer picture of potential uses along that corridor.”

Mayor Madeline Rogero included $150,000 in this year’s budget to hire a master developer to oversee Jackson Avenue redevelopment.

The market study is expected to be complete by the end of the summer.

The city will then begin working on a Request for Qualifications for a master developer.

A ‘sign’ of progress for Knoxville After a series of amendments and amended amendments, City Council voted to make significant changes to a proposed sign ordinance.

The changes, approved last week on first reading, will limit the height of new signs to 35 feet within 500 feet of Interstate exchanges, 30 feet on roads adjacent to Interstate right-of-way, 20 feet on federally designated highways and 10 feet everywhere else.

The numbers originally proposed by the Sign Task Force were 40, 30, 30 and 30 feet. The city’s current code allows 50-foot signs on any road.

The lower numbers are good news for those who would rather look at green

bers. Knoxville Chamber president Mike Edwards described the Sign Task Force’s proposed limit on Wendy sign heights (40, 30, 30 and Smith 30 feet) as “a major hit.”

This caused me to wonder if any business ever folded due to limits on signage. mountains and blue sky I called Edwards the day afthan a jumble of advertis- ter the vote to see if he knew.

No surprise: No such ing. And that would be everybody, excluding a few data exist. There have advertising execs and sign been studies on the failure manufacturers.

Business of businesses after road owners love their own signs changes, but none on sign but could probably do with- height changes.

From Edwards’ perspecout the rest.

Before approving lower tive, it’s not about having the sign heights suggested by biggest sign – it’s about becouncil member George ing fair. State law has grandWallace, a business own- fathered the 50-foot signs, er himself, council heard so it’s wrong to limit new from community mem- businesses to 10-foot signs.

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Those in favor of lower signs point to Turkey Creek shopping area, which is wildly successful, even with strict limits on sign height.

Turkey Creek can’t be compared to the rest of Knoxville because it was developed all at once with a uniform standard, which meant all tenants played by the same rules in regard to signage.

Research shows that signage is very important for businesses, Edwards says.

Brand repetition is crucial, and signs provide that.

Still, there is ample evidence within the community that big signs aren’t required for big business.

Case in point − the Bearden Chick-fil-A, owned by Ed-

die Halliday. When neighbors and other concerned citizens learned that the corporate office intended to put a 50-foot sign in front of the store, built in 2012, they pleaded with Halliday to install a monument sign instead. He did, and long drive-through lines are a testament to the store’s success.

The same is true of businesses along Kingston Pike west of Cedar Bluff Road.

A group of self-appointed “sign cops” have made a habit of asking businesses along the corridor to keep signage low, and they’ve complied − and thrived.

Edwards didn’t have an answer for how the Internet – cell phones in particular

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– affects the need for signage. He did point out that it’s illegal to use cell phones while driving.

On our family vacation, I booked my hotels online and located my favorite fast-food restaurant with my phone (while someone else was driving, of course).

Signs helped me see those businesses as I approached, but played no role in my choosing them.

These days we use the Internet or local newspapers to find our insurance agent, tire store or a guy to fi x the dishwasher. Big signs for stores may go the way of the Burma Shave signs.

Thank you, council members who voted for lower signs. Please do it again.

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Campen vs.

Mirtes: In an election year that portends few surprises and no fireworks, the District 5 City Council race could be the only game in town – if the challenger remains as feisty in the stretch as she is out of the gate.

Betty Bean

“I have nothing against Mark,” said Jennifer Mirtes.

“I think he’s a great guy. I just think I could do a better job. Not to seem conceited, but once you’re elected, you have to speak for the people, and once I’m elected – and I will be – my opinion won’t matter anymore.

“My main goal is to make sure that I stand up and speak for the people. If my community comes to me and says, ‘Hey, we have this issue,’ I’m going to stand by them. I’m not one of these people that doesn’t have a backbone.”

Incumbent Mark Campen is opening his campaign with an issue-specific approach and offered the example of his meetings with North Knoxville neighborhood residents as well as with a representative of the Hutton Company from Chattanooga to discuss plans for building a Walmart on the historic Howard House property on

The only game in town

North Broadway. He said he urged the developer to meet with the neighborhood.

“I told them it’s in their best interest to meet with the neighborhood and try to find a compromise. It’s important to point out the two main issues at hand: historic preservation and the plans of the Broadway Corridor Taskforce. Most folks I’ve Mark Campen with wife Emily and son Parson heard from would like to see a mixed use for the area.

“I’ve got unfinished business. No magic recipe – I just want to keep doing the work I’ve been doing, and I’ve got a great record of talking to people and listening to neighborhoods wherever issues come up, whether it’s Inskip or Oakwood Lincoln Park.”

The fifth district is large and multicultural and en- Jennifer Mirtes and husband Chris compasses a big chunk of the northside out to Foun- growing up in foster care death of Howard Baker Sr. Yarbrough ran against tain City west of Broadway. and moving to Knoxville to It includes Inskip, Lonsdale escape a bad marriage. She John Duncan Sr. in the next made the unusual move of election and put on a credand Happy Holler as well.

Mirtes lives in Inskip listing her party affiliation ible showing, considering with her husband, Chris; (Republican) even though he was a Democrat running works part-time for Smart city offices are nonpartisan. for a seat that had been in Campen, in some ways, Republican hands since Home Technologies; and cares for her father, who is a mirror opposite. Both Reconstruction. Campen’s has Alzheimer’s disease and sides of his family have aunt, Pat Campen Medley, Parkinson’s disease. She is been Knoxvillians for gen- a Republican, served on active in the Inskip Com- erations and were involved County Commission.

Unlike Mirtes, Campen, munity Association and is a in local politics. His grandpast president of the Central father, Willard Yarbrough, who was appointed to serve was a political reporter for a six-month term on CounHigh School PTSO. Her campaign will em- the News Sentinel, served ty Commission after Black phasize her military service on County Court and ran Wednesday, claims no party (she enlisted in the Air Force unsuccessfully for U.S. Con- affiliation and said he believes during Desert Storm), and gress against Irene Baker for he serves his constituents betshe speaks frankly about the seat made vacant by the ter as an independent.

Rogero has some fun at KAWE meet “Yippee!”

Knoxville’s customarily calm, cool and poised mayor hollered out at a meeting where she was the guest speaker last week.

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Her audience loved it.

Madeline Rogero was in her element when the Knoxville Association of Women Executives gathered at The Orangery. The KAWE even has a permanent name tag for Knoxville’s 68th mayor, labeling her an “honorary member.”

So what was that shout of enthusiasm all about?

Three and a half years into her first term, and with no opposition in this fall’s mayoral race, other than the possibility of a late-tothe-game write-in candidate who would have little to no chance of unseating her, Rogero told her audience, “As a political science graduate I can tell you there should be other candidates, but as an incumbent, I say ‘yippee!’ ”

ing aplenty in counA former Knox ty government, that County commishasn’t been the sioner, Rogero has case in city governhad some tough ment under Rograces in the past. ero. The reason She has won and is simple: She’s a lost, but she never consensus builder. stayed down for She is quick to give long, and she conthe credit to othtinued to learn how ers, though, telling the game is played.

KAWE, “Any sucBill Haslam beat her at the polls Mayor Madeline Rogero with Mary Beth Ramey, cess we have is because of the people in the 2003 may- president of KAWE. who work with me or’s race but then turned around and hired crat in a heavily Republican and because of a fabulous her as the city’s community stronghold, Rogero was en- City Council. We don’t aldevelopment director in abled by the job at city hall, ways agree, but we work 2006. That’s when Rogero’s working for a Republican well together. Our initiapolitical future became a mayor, to make new friends, tives are usually successful, impressing influential peo- although sometimes they fait accompli.

It was a smart move for ple in the Republican Party need some tweaking.”

Rogero discussed nuHaslam, not only for po- who grew to like and respect litical reasons – Rogero her personally and to ad- merous city projects at the meeting, many of them incarried with her an incred- mire her work ethic.

As a result, when she ran volving road improvements ibly strong Democrat voting base that likely served for mayor four years ago, and other traffic-inhibiting Haslam well when he sought she walloped the opposi- construction.

She asked the group if the governorship – but also tion – both Republican and they were aware there is a because she is smart, ac- Democrat.

Her popularity has con- new city flower – “the orcomplished and highly respected and would do a lot tinued to grow during her ange cone” – which marks to make his administration first term as mayor, even city construction sites from among Republicans who one end of town to the otha success.

Although Knoxville city disdain her apparent close- er, adding with a smile, “If elections are nonpartisan, ness to the Obama adminis- you haven’t been inconveanyone who pays attention tration, because her record nienced yet, you will be.”

Expect lots of sightings knows which candidates of achievement as Knoxbear allegiance to which ville’s mayor is unassailable. of that city flower in Mayor And while there is bicker- Rogero’s second term. party. A committed Demo-

Dashcam restrictions catch mayor off guard The recent backtracking by the city on second-tier efforts to restrict access to the dashboard cameras in police cruisers was justified and underlines several administrative issues within Team Rogero.

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This is the third time the mayor has been caught publicly unaware of something the police department was doing. The first occurred early in her administration when Police Chief David Rausch called for hiring 30 new police officers that were not contained in the mayor’s budget on the eve of her budget message. She had no notice of the public statement.

Second, Rogero’s three-year absence from 911 Board meetings might never have occurred had she met regularly with her police chief and been briefed on issues. She was caught unaware of bids for a new communications system.

This time she, as well as her communications office, was uninformed on the work Deputy Law Director Ron Mills was doing to push new protocols that could have limited public access to the dashcam videos. No one had told her.

Once informed, Rogero quickly buried the matter.

It will not be back on her watch.

Two of Rogero’s most able directors are Police Chief Rausch and Law Director Charles Swanson.

She would benefit by holding regular meetings with them. She would benefit from regular meetings of her entire cabinet where all could hear directly what was going on and where the priorities stand.

Any city in the United States would be glad to have Swanson and Rausch in leadership positions, but one has the distinct impression this mayor does not seek out regularly information on what is happening under the surface at city hall.

If she did, she would avoid these issues and be a far more effective, can-do mayor in her final term.

Her legacy would be enhanced, and she would see more accomplished.

But for News Sentinel reporter Jamie Satterfield’s

sources at city hall who led her to this information on the dashcams in cruisers, it might be full steam on more limited access. Satterfield is an able, veteran NS reporter on judicial and law enforcement issues.

■ Businesses along Cumberland Avenue are continuing to lose business.

Starbucks and Panera have cut some regular employees from 40 to 26 hours per week – a major pay cut.

Other businesses also have fewer customers, which is lost revenue and sales tax for the city.

Anne Wallace, a city employee who is widely quoted in news releases regarding closed streets, earns $74,280 a year.

What is interesting is that she received a 20 percent bump ($12,000) in August 2014; her salary was then at $60,000 after her 2.5 percent hike the previous month. She takes the bullets for much of the Cumberland Avenue construction woes.

When asked why she would get such a generous raise (which few other city employees received), city spokesperson Eric Vreeland said it was approved by the mayor as it had been recommended by Director of Redevelopment Bob Whetsel and Deputy Mayor Bill Lyons “due to her leadership on multiple projects.” No explanation of what those multiple projects were was forthcoming from Vreeland or Jesse Mayshark, his boss.

■ On a more positive note, the city broke ground on the new Suttree Landing Park last week; it will be a great asset to the city. The name of Suttree Landing was chosen in 2009 from a Cormac McCarthy novel.

It was the top name in an online poll. This new park will be a great addition to the city’s park system.

■ U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate will not increase the gas tax this year for the highway trust fund. One wonders if Tennessee will plow ahead in six months with a gas tax hike when national leaders have pronounced a federal gas tax hike dead for now. It will be an uphill climb.

■ Both Jason Zachary and Karen Carson, who oppose each other for state representative in the Aug. 12 GOP primary, say they favor reversing the removal of the Lady Vols name from UT sports. Most fans and UT supporters agree with them.

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Farragut native Lee Winfrey, renowned TV critic For a small area of several thousand people, Concord-Farragut has produced some renowned people in both politics and the military – two governors and the famous first admiral for whom the town is now named.

But one standout Farragut native, Lee Winfrey, is perhaps known locally only to those who grew up in the area. During his 44year career in journalism, he covered Washington politics, Castro’s Cuba and coal-mining disasters, and he finally was a television critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Winfrey’s ability as a writer was evident at the beginning of his career when he served as editor of the University of Tennessee’s student newspaper, the Orange and White, now known as the Daily Beacon.

A dear friend and former colleague, Bob Wesley, who served as sports editor

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for the Orange and White, worked with Winfrey four years on the student newspaper and has fond memories of those early years.

Bob also recalls that Winfrey had a great sense of humor and wrote some of the comedy skits for his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, for Carnicus competition, the annual tradition at UT in which fraternities and sororities compete for the best comedy skit.

Winfrey graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and was one of the pioneer reporters for the fledgling WBIR-TV station.

He decided he wanted to work for the News-Sentinel,

and Bob took his place as news director for the station.

After leaving Knoxville, Winfrey joined the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, and in keeping with his sense of humor, he once quirked that he began his career on April Fool’s Day. In 1962, Winfrey joined the Miami Herald, for which he covered Central America and later traveled to Cuba to file stories on life in that country. He became the Herald’s Washington correspondent and served as Washington bureau correspondent for Knight Newspapers. Winfrey joined the Detroit Free Press in 1966 and reported on subjects as diverse as the mob and environmental issues.

Tom Wark, a former Detroit Free Press and retired Philadelphia Inquirer managing editor, remembers that, “Everybody wanted Lee to be on their projects.

He was so good.”

Wark recalled the time

Winfrey was sent to West Virginia to cover a mine disaster. He arrived at the site at 4 p.m. and had to file by 6:30 p.m. to meet deadline.

“It was like he had worked on the story for weeks,” Wark recalled.

His lead was: “Once again in West Virginia, there is frost on the mountain and blood on the coal.” He had also managed to interview each of the victims’ survivors and weave their stories into his file.

But Winfrey is most remembered as the Philadelphia Inquirer’s television critic, a position he held for 27 years and one that often earned him references on late-night shows, including Jay Leno’s show. Prior to joining the Inquirer, he took some time off and earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa and studied English literature on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard. In his On Television column, he incorporated a

Bill Kidwell (1934-2015) Fountain City lost a good friend when acclaimed artist William Van “Bill” Kidwell Jr. passed away on July 7 in Columbia, Tenn. Bill was born in Fountain City on July 27, 1934, the son of W.V. Kidwell Sr. and Alma Kidwell.

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His aptitude for art dates to his first project, a Crayola mural on his Grandmother Collins’ front door on Ocala Drive in Old Fountain City, where he spent much of his early childhood. He was only 2 years old at the time.

He attended Fountain City Grammar School and Central High School, where he graduated in 1954. He credited the late Virginia Wilson Monroe, Central High School art teacher, with assisting him in developing his early technique.

After high school, Kidwell served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 3 1/2 years, then

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Bill Kidwell, a nationally recognized artist, passed away July 7.

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“Hotel Avenue (1950)”: This nostalgic piece is one of a series of 12 Kidwell paintings of historic Fountain City scenes that he created in 2004. Courtesy of the artist

entered the University of Tennessee, where he majored in painting with a minor in art history. Soon C. Kermit Ewing, UT professor and widely known local artist, hired him as an assistant in the art department.

Then, for two years, he taught science and art and coached basketball at Vestal Junior High School. Desiring to pursue a career as an artist, however, he moved to Florida briefly before moving to Los Angeles, where he became a technical illustrator for Lockheed Aircraft.

He was soon promoted to department manager and by his fourth year was working on the top-secret SR-71 Blackbird Project.

In 1964, seeking a more creative approach to art, he moved to Mazatlán, Mexico, for a time but soon returned

to UT to take more art courses. In 1966, he traveled the Eastern United States painting in several locations and photographing scenes for future works.

After a sojourn in New Orleans, he moved to Berkeley, Calif., where his work was published in several Bay Area periodicals. He was living on a 40-foot sailboat, and the harbor scenes he painted were met with an enthusiastic reception.

Then he moved to Santa Ana in Southern California before moving to Taos, N.M., where he established a gallery connection and experienced robust sales of his Southwest work.

Eventually, his roots in Knoxville brought him home to establish a studio on Fort Loudoun Lake. Soon a one-man show attracted

attention at UT, and he was asked to teach design and figure drawing and did so for the next two years. During this time, Kidwell and his friend author Cormac McCarthy completed an awesome project in downtown Maryville, a 15-foot section of mosaic sidewalk. It was valued so highly that it was later moved to the plaza in front of the Blount County Library at a cost of $8,800.

When the opportunity came to become an artist and photographer for a National Geographic expedition to Yucatan, Mexico, he signed on. After the project ended, he leisurely traveled north to the U.S. border, painting and filming future subjects along the way. His inspired Mexican paintings called for an exhibit, and all the works were sold on opening day.

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poetic rhythm that was the trademark of his writing style.

He once noted that when he was a child his parents often warned about misspending his youth, and he wondered as a TV critic whether he was misspending his adulthood. As Inquirer staff writer Sally A. Downey noted, Winfrey concluded that more families own a TV than own a bathtub or shower, and if Americans care more about TV than being clean, then it must be an important area for criticism.

In 1978, he became president of the newly formed Television Critics Association (TCA) and immediately introduced changes in protocol that he felt called TV critics’ ethics into question.

Prior to the formation of TCA, networks financed reporters’ expenses to travel to Los Angeles and view screenings of new shows and interview television stars. Lee

contended that this practice made it appear that the critics might be influenced by the networks sponsoring their travel. Association members insisted that they or their employers defray their own expenses, a policy that was soon adopted.

Throughout his career, Winfrey never lost his “Southern drawl or manners.” After filing his “millionth” word as a TV critic, he retired in 2001.

He was an accomplished guitarist and composed country songs as a pastime.

He also loved New Orleans jazz.

Winfrey passed away at age 70 in 2003. He was returned to Farragut and is buried in Pleasant Forest Cemetery just 200 yards from where he grew up and played as a child. And although his career took him many places and included a diversity of reporting assignments, he never forgot his Southern heritage.

Always open to new challenges, Kidwell moved to 47 acres in Williamson County in Middle Tennessee in 1973.

He designed and constructed his three-story passive-solar timber-framed house. It drew so much admiration that he was asked to design and build homes for three separate clients in Nashville.

After 13 years of managing his own construction business he wanted to get back to art full time and returned to the Knoxville area.

Following his successful 49th one-man show in Townsend, he moved back to Middle Tennessee near Columbia, where he lived with his wife, Lizabeth, also an accomplished artist. Their three-story house sits in an idyllic setting on one of the highest elevations in Maury County with a 360-degree view of the surrounding lawn, pasture and forest.

Nostalgia for the Fountain City he knew during his teen years led Kidwell to paint a series of 12 historic scenes and, in 2004, he donated the very valuable original of Hotel Avenue (1950) to Fountain City Town Hall and authorized 200 signed and numbered reprints. Through his generosity and his willingness to personally autograph the prints at a oneman show and later at Honor Fountain City Day, the Town Hall Heritage Fund now has

a considerable fund balance, which it is hoped will be used to construct a “Welcome to Fountain City” monumenttype sign at the new Greenway intersection.

Kidwell’s painting style proceeded from realism to non-objectivity over the years. In recent years, he began a “stream of consciousness” technique that was only 4x4 inches in size. He studied and corrected the pencil drawing, then colorized it. Eventually the drawings were expanded to 8x8 inches and 8x12-inch acrylics, and favorites were again expanded to large scale for sale in galleries in Ventura, Calif., and on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Recognizing his contribution to preserving local history, the Central High School Foundation and the CHS Alumni Association placed Bill Kidwell on the CHS Wall of Fame on Nov. 8, 2014.

After a courageous battle with cancer, William V. Kidwell passed away on July 7, survived by spouse Lizabeth, son Alexander, stepchildren Evan and Laurel, and brother Ben. A friend observed that he was “a renegade that knew where he was supposed to be all along and became the man he was along the way.” The family will announce the time for a celebration of life service at a later date.

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Uncle Walter, Cali and fringe benefits

By Marvin West Ninety years ago, a young Cumberland Presbyterian preacher put down missionary roots in South America.

Walter Swartz went in with minimum Spanish and no contacts and stayed to start churches and organize a bilingual school in Cali, Colombia.

Seventy years ago, a favorite niece, Sarah Jane Blackburn, listened in awe to an hour of missionary adventures and told Uncle Walter that she would like to visit Cali some day and “see what you and God have done.”

Last month, along with hundreds of Cumberland Presbyterians gathered there for their general assembly, Sarah Jane Blackburn West revived the memory of Uncle Walter at Colegio Americano. Her stories earned a rousing ovation.

Indeed, Sarah has insight.

She is a lifelong Cumberland Presbyterian. She was a youth leader as a Cleveland youth and was elected the first woman elder at Beaver Creek church in the Powell area. She was also elected president of Tennessee PTA and served as an advocate for youth and public education in Washington – but that’s another story.

At Cali, she told “Uncle Walter” stories, hand-me-

downs, going b back his d k to h Chicago childhood, including how he played “preacher” in home reruns of Sunday services, complete with hymns and another collection (mostly marbles, bottle tops and pet rocks).

“He would stand on a foot stool so he could look down on the ‘congregation,’ his younger brothers and sisters,’” said Sarah.

“Sometimes he ‘preached’ a long time. The Swartz group sang ‘Bringing in the Sheets.’ Only much later did they learn that the key word was SHEAVES.” Sarah told about Walter’s billy goat and little red wagon and how they moved up from a paper route and other deliveries to political invitations to lead Chicago parades.

“Uncle Walter was a celebrity in our family,” said Sarah. “My mother (Laura Swartz Blackburn) convinced us he was very special. Most of my other uncles and aunts were fun people, very entertaining at family gatherings. One was a ventriloquist. Uncle Walter was pleasant but more serious. He didn’t talk as much but when he said something, it was usually very meaningful.”

Missionary memories were the highlights in Cali but there was an unbelievable sidelight. During an

The valley of dry bones

Sarah West, Angelica Paris and Marvin West share lunch and conversation in Cali. outgoing delay at the Miami airport, two college-age women struck up a conversation with Sarah – where you from, ever been to Cali, we live there.

Victoria and Angelica Paris had gone to school in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Their father, a geology professor, insisted they learn English. They were enthusiastic about Cali. They offered a tour. They had a nice car. They were great guides.

During a long lunch break, conversation turned to family. Their brother is a peanut farmer. Their dad does international seminars. As if it didn’t really matter too much, their grandfather was once president of Colombia.

Do what?

Gabriel Paris Gordillo, former army general, commander of the Colombian military, was chosen as

president in 1957 after the coup d’etat. He restored order in the country. He secured a very large grant from the U.S. to keep the lights on. He led the constitutional change that allowed women to vote. His memory is revered. There are statues.

We must have made a fuss over the presidential news. The granddaughters laughed and called their parents. They wanted to meet Sarah. How about another lunch, tomorrow, at their home? Yes, I could come along.

That lunch lasted three hours and could have gone longer. The food was excellent. Conversation was spirited. Goodbyes were finally said, punctuated with hugs.

Señor Gabriel Paris vowed and declared they will return the visit – to Union County.

Is this amazing, or what?

Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your grave, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live….

(Ezekiel 37:12-14 NRSV) We forget that God was in the resurrection business centuries before the resurrection of Jesus.

As is often the case, I first learned this story by singing it. Poet James Weldon Johnson’s famous spiritual “Dry Bones” is well known, especially among Southern musicians. In it, Johnson connects, then disconnects “dem bones,” and the recurring refrain is “Now hear the word of the Lord!”

Aside from bodily resurrection, I am more interested in the way God raises us up day by day.

We are reborn, renewed, resurrected, many times over the course of our lives. That is, we are if we are willing to stay in touch with God, allow God to work on us, to mold and shape us. If we are willing to obey, to listen.

Cross Currents

Lynn Pitts

I have never told this story to a living soul. Not one. But I am going to tell you, and I hope you understand the mystery of it as I have tried to do.

One night years ago, as I slept, a question I had been carrying around for quite a while was answered in a dream. I startled awake, and then I heard (perceived?) the reply: “I speak to you in many voices.”

I don’t understand what happened there. I only know it is true.

God raises us up! Hallelujah! Amen!

Two Rivers missions reach New Hampshire, downtown Knox

By Carolyn Evans Summer missions for the high school and middle school kids at Two Rivers Church, 275 Harrison Lane, have reached from the New England to downtown Knoxville.

First, 70 high school students and 15 adults rode a bus to New Hampshire to work as lumberjacks, construction workers and elementary school leaders.

Then, 52 middle school students and eight adults slept in a downtown Knoxville church so they could be on the job early to work with Hispanic children, organize inventory at a local mission store and do some landscaping and painting at the church.

The New Hampshire project, under the direction of high school resident director Ryan Conlon, took the high schoolers to Lake Spofford in Chesterfield, N.H., from June 19-28. They moved fallen trees, split logs and gathered 2,000 pounds of pine needles and debris to help clear and clean a Christian camp. Not only did they work outdoors at the camp, they also worked in the basement of a nearby church where they put up sheetrock, demolished and replaced an old stage and painted. Then they worked in a children’s Vacation Bible School-type program at the church.

Each of the 70 students got to help in all areas as they rotated through the

High school students from Two Rivers Church stand at Lake Spofford where they worked at a camp and a local church as part of summer missions. Photos submitted three projects.

Joely Gruhn, a rising ninth grader at Farragut High School, said the work in New Hampshire “definitely made me want to work with kids more and do more work with the church.”

Nathan Chandler echoed Joely’s thoughts. “I got to work with the kids the first day, and that was incredible,” said Nathan, a rising ninth grader at Christian Academy of Knoxville. He also enjoyed the basement project. “From when we started to when we finished, it looked so much better.”

John Taylor, a rising ninth grader at Farragut High School, said working with the kids and being at the evening worship service at the camp were the high points for him. “The first day I helped with construction at the church,” said John. “We cleaned out

the room, degreased the walls, caulked, mudded and primed. And we took down the old stage and stairs.”

Conlon said the best part of the trip was how the group bonded. “There was a certain unity among the students,” said the youth leader, “more than I’ve seen on other trips. Working together allowed a real community to develop among the kids.”

Middle school pastor Tim Tullis took the middle school students to downtown Knoxville to spend four days at Central United Methodist Church. The mission was to help the students develop a love for the city, said Tullis. They stayed at the church and spent the days helping three different ministries: Centro Hispano, Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries (KARM) and Water Angels.

Ashlyn Hodges, Kinsley Baker, Nathan Chandler and Nolan Phillips get ready to paint at a downtown Knoxville church as part of Two Rivers Church summer missions.

At Centro Hispano, off Sutherland Avenue, they helped with landscaping, painting and organizing rooms and classrooms. At KARM, students worked in three area stores, helping organize inventory in the

back and setting up merchandise. At Water Angels, they worked in a summer program designed for children in the downtown area.

The kids came to hang out, have lunch and hear the gospel.

Katherine Chandler will be a seventh grader at CAK this fall. She said she liked working with the kids, but she also liked the evening service. “I loved the worship,” she said. “We went into the church where we were staying and got to connect with our Lord. It’s just a time when you get to run away. You feel the presence of God there. It’s overwhelming.”

Tullis said the trip should have residual effects for the church community. “The best part of the trip for me was just being able to see the kids be the hands and feet of Jesus in the downtown community,” said Tullis. “They got into it and are able to bring that back to West Knoxville, Farragut and Lenoir City.”

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Collaboration is key at NTRC

By Shannon Carey

Jianlin Li discusses the process of creating batteries with the interns. Photo

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Going the distance

By Charlie B Ch li H Hamilton ilt You know when you go buy a new car at a dealership how on the window sticker it shows how many miles per gallon it gets and its fuel economy? These are two of the biggest questions when buying a car.

Well, by 2025 the average fuel efficiency of all new cars sold in the U.S. will have to be 54.5 miles per gallon, or the automaker gets a hefty fine. Right now, a new mid-sized car usually gets around 20 to 25 miles per gallon.

The U.S. has some of the most strict emissions regulations in the world. I have to say that we are about halfway to the 54.5 mpg goal, and we have 10 years to do it. With advancements each and every day by the National Transportation Research Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, we can reach that milestone.

NTRC has top-notch scientists and engineers working with new technology for

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There is even a program called FEERC that stands for Fuel, Engines and Emissions Research Center that focuses on emissions control and the advancement in combustion engines.

In America, we use about 135 billion gallons of gas a year. At NTRC they want to use “less fuel to go the same distance,” which is great considering the price of gas on today’s market. Lighter cars, higher octane grades of gas, and compression on a motor can boost a car’s fuel economy.

NTRC is working with Ford, GM, Cummins and other automakers to improve the fuel economy and emissions of their cars.

With all of this research and advancement, automakers won’t have to worry about the regulations, and maybe someday we will have a car that puts out no emissions at all.

The professionals at ORNL’s National Transportation Research Center have teamwork down pat.

“When we do research and development here, it’s very seldom that we do it all by ourselves,” Claus Daniel of NTRC’s Sustainable Transportation Program told Shopper-News interns July 7.

NTRC houses scientists and engineers from a multitude of disciplines, men and women, with 81 nationalities represented.

These folks work with vehicle manufacturers, universities, and a variety of other stakeholders to push the United States into the forefront of efficient and sustainable transportation technology.

Interns heard from Madhu Chintavali about fast, wireless charging for electric cars, from Brian West about cleaner, more efficient gasoline engines, from Dean Deter about improvements in heavy-duty truck engines, and from Jianlin Li about making batteries smaller, longer-lived and less toxic.

But the team at NTRC doesn’t just span nationalities. It spans ages as well.

NTRC interns Matt Love and Michael Goin are just out of high school at Hardin

Valley Academy. Their focus is 3-D printing. These two prodigies were on Hardin Valley Academy’s first robotics team. Many parts for their award-winning robots were 3-D printed right there at NTRC. Love said 3-D printing is changing vehicle manufacturing for the better, making it “much faster, cheaper and more effective.”

NTRC houses 3-D printers for both plastics and metal, from the huge “Big Bertha” model, capable of printing a whole car, to desktop-size models.

“It’s a very young busi-

A finished product from the 3D printer at the National Transportation Research Center. Photo by Maddie Ogle ness, but the technology has actually been around for a number of years,” said Love.

Shopper-News interns even got to see the first all-

electric 3-D printed car. It took 44 hours to print, “to show that it’s possible to make personal vehicles,” said Love.

The Division 1 experience

By Shannon Carey Jamal Johnson of the D1 training facility in Hardin Valley told Shopper-News interns about the first time he met Vols football legend Peyton Manning.

Johnson, a University of Florida alum, said “How’s it feel not ever beating us?”

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After blowing out his knee in professional football, Johnson went on to coach and work at D1, which Manning founded.

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“There was nothing like this,” said Johnson. “Nowhere you could get the Division 1 experience. They felt like athletes should not be the only ones privileged with that level of training.”

D1’s headquarters are in Nashville, and there are locations in multiple states.

Johnson is also a nonfaculty strength and conditioning coach for Central High School’s football team, and he spoke reverently about the legacy of coach Joel Helton, who recently passed away.

“We as a team now believe that we are going to finish what he started,” Johnson said. “He wasn’t just about football. He was about developing student athletes and bringing them up as young men. I’ve had good coaches and I’ve had

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FRIDAY Alive After Five: The Streamliners Swing Orchestra, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Midnight Voyage Live: Josh Wink, 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info/tickets: www.intlknox.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY Red Gate Festival and Rodeo, Red Gate Farm, 2353 Maynardville Highway, Maynardville. Info: 992-3303 or RedGateRodeo.com.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY Chad Wood as Macduff fights it out with Joe Casterline as the title character in the Tennessee Stage Company’s current production of “Macbeth.”

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on the Square

By Carol Shane There’s an old theatrical superstition that forbids actors backstage to mention a certain Shakespeare play by name, having them refer to it instead as “The Scottish Play.”

The rules seem to be different, however, when the play itself is actually being performed. And beginning this Friday, the Tennessee Stage Company will bring “Macbeth” to Market Square in this year’s Shakespeare on the Square.

The famous tale of ambition, murder and madness is “a show that people love,” says TSC artistic director Tom Parkhill. “It’s one of the simpler plays – easy to follow.” This is TSC’s third production of “Macbeth,” having presented it in 1995 and 2005.

Director Greg Congleton has been acting all his life and has been involved with the TSC since the early 1990s, but this is his first time directing Shakespeare.

“Everybody puts their own twist on ‘Macbeth,’” he says. “This is medieval Scotland about to be invaded by

Norwegians, N rw No rw rwegians so we’re going with broadswords, banners and lots of blood.”

For the three “bubble, bubble, toil and trouble” witches, Congleton takes a cue from this description: What are these So wither’d and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth, And yet are on’t?

“My concept is that they’re evil time travelers,” he says. The witches will be adorned with symbols of evil from throughout the ages, and they’ll look different every time they appear.

Carolyn Corley plays Lady Macbeth. “She’s such a complicated villain,” Corley says. “I think that everything she does comes out of love for her husband – she just goes about it in the absolute wrong way.”

As for the title character, actor Joe Casterline says that he is “the first Shakespeare character I’ve encountered that I actually had no blueprint for. It’s not in the stage descriptions; you have to find it yourself.”

Parkhill remembers see-

ing the actor in a particular role years ago that called for depths of anger. “He’s the sweetest guy you’d ever want to meet, but he was just downright scary in that scene. I didn’t know he had that much in him. He’s been a very versatile player for us for a long time.”

Providing some comic relief to the dark drama will be “The Taming of the Shrew,” running in Market Square on alternate nights.

This classic tale of the battle of the sexes was the TSC’s very first show, performed in the World’s Fair Park amphitheater in 1990. “We performed it again for our 10th anniversary, and now it’s our 25th, so it seemed fitting to include it,” says Parkhill.

In addition, you can brush up on your Shakespeare at “Shakesology: A Shakespeare Study Day” hosted by the TSC at Lawson McGhee Library on the last weekend of the run.

The Tennessee Stage Company’s 2015 Shakespeare on the Square begins this Thursday with “The Taming of the Shrew,” per-

formed July 16, 18, 24, 26, 30 and Aug. 1, 7, 9, 13, 15. “Macbeth” will be performed July 17, 19, 23, 25, 31 and Aug. 2, 6, 8, 14, 16. All performances begin at 7 p.m.

“Shakesology: A Shakespeare Study Day” will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, for “ Macbeth” and 2 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 16, for “The Taming of the Shrew.” The 2 ½ hour presentations take place at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: tennesseestage.com or 546-4280.

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The Lake Junaluska Singers will perform at 7 p.m. Monday, July 20, at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 4014 Garden Drive. The popular 14-voice professional ensemble has performed nationally and internationally. Their music ranges from classical choral style to gospel, folk, pop and musical theater. Admission is free, and a nursery will be provided.

Amy Schumer hits the big screen

By Betsy Pickle Laughs should be plentiful in “Trainwreck,” with comic Amy Schumer as star and writer and Judd Apatow as director. It’s one of two wide-release films opening on Friday.

Schumer plays a commitment-phobic woman whose life of serial dating switches gears when she meets a possible Mr. Right (Bill Hader).

With Schumer playing a magazine writer and Hader the sports-medicine guru of the moment, the Rrated comedy features such sports-world celebrities

as LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudemire, Chris Evert and Marv Albert. But the rest of the cast includes both acting luminaries such as Tilda Swinton, Norman Lloyd, Daniel Radcliffe, Marisa Tomei and Ezra Miller and comedians Colin Quinn, Dave Attell and Mike Birbiglia.

The other Friday opener is the latest entry in the Marvel movie universe, “Ant-Man.” Word is, this little superhero gets stronger as he gets smaller. Fine.

But when they come up with a cockroach superhero, I’m bailing.

New to the screen but not to Marvel fans, Ant-Man has been around in the comic books since the early 1960s. Paul Rudd plays Scott Lang, a master thief who gets out of prison and finds himself forced Amy Schumer and Bill Hader start with back into his laughs but head toward a serious relacriminal life to tionship in “Trainwreck.” come up with money for child support. Scientist Hank recruits Scott to steal the Pym (Michael Douglas) technology he created, but

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“Bambi: A Life in the Woods,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: 208-3677 or www. knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.

SATURDAY Comedian Killer Beaz, 7 and 9:15 p.m., the Square Room, 4 Market Square. Info/tickets: www. killerbeaz.com.

Front Page Follies, 6 p.m., Knoxville Convention Center. Presented by the Front Page Foundation. Honoree: John Adams, senior sports columnist, Knoxville News Sentinel. Proceeds will fund journalism scholarships at UT and Pellissippi State Community College. Info/tickets: www.

FrontPageFoundation.org.

Family Fun Day: Plants and Animals of Tennessee, 1-4 p.m., McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Free. Info: 9742144.

Shakespeare on the Square: “The Taming of the Shrew,” 7 p.m., Market Square. Info: 546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com, tennesseestage@comcast. net.

TnT Superhero 5k and 1-mile fun run, 8 a.m., West High School, 3300 Sutherland Ave. Benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. To sign up: https://runsignup.com/Race/TN/Knoxville/ TnTSuperHero5kandfunrunwalk. Info: 556-5385; or Sofie Bell, sofienbell@yahoo.com.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY Discover the Dinosaurs, Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St. Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday. Info: 522-5669.

SUNDAY Family Friendly Drum Circle, 4 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Free. Info/registration: 577-4717 ext.110.

Jazz at Ijams, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Featuring the Old City Buskers at 5:30 and Swing 39 at 7. Cost: $2; kids under 10 free. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. Info: 577-4717.

Shakespeare on the Square: “Macbeth,” 7 p.m., Market Square. Info: 546-4280; www. tennesseestage.com tennesseestage@comcast.net.

Smoky Mountain Blues Society: Blues Cruise, 5-8 p.m., Tennessee Riverboat Co., 300 Neyland Drive. Featuring Uptown Stomp with Devan Jones. Tickets: 525-7827; http://tnriverboat.com/ event/blues-cruise. Info: 288-0672; sfkrempasky@ gmail.com; www.smokymountainblues.org.

it’s for a good cause – to save the world. Who hasn’t heard that one before?

The cast is full of appealing actors. In addition to Rudd and Douglas, it includes Evangeline Lilly, Co-

rey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Michael Pena, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Wood Harris, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery, Martin Donovan and Garrett Morris. Peyton Reed (“Bring It On”) directed.

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News from UT Federal Credit Union

SBA recognizes business lending For the third consecutive year, the U.S. Small Business Administration has recognized UT Federal Credit Union with an award for helping small businesses.

This year, the credit union was recognized for being the top credit union in the state of Tennessee for both dollar At Knoxville Rotary are Michelle Hankes, Lori Marsh and Mary and volume of SBA loans.

Business lending has traAnn Mulhern. Photo by Bonny C. Millard ditionally been associated with big banks; however, over the past decade, UT Federal Credit Union has completely changed that misconception. The credit union staff’s hard work and dedication to its customer base has long been recogcluding Denso, a large manBy Bonny C. Millard The recent CSX train de- ufacturing facility, Walmart nized by the hundreds of railment in Blount County and Second Harvest were businesses it helps, and the serves as good reminder for in the evacuation area. Al- SBA confirms what memresidents and businesses to though she wasn’t speaking bers knew all along.

“UT Federal Credit Union be prepared in case of an directly about those busiis enabling small businesses emergency, an American nesses, Marsh said most to grow in Tennessee,” said people and businesses don’t Red Cross official said.

Lori Marsh, major gifts have a plan in place to deal Walter N. Perry, Tennessee district director for SBA, officer with the East Ten- with emergencies.

Everyone needs emergency plan

nessee Chapter of the American Red Cross, spoke to the Rotary Club of Knoxville recently about the humanitarian organization. The chapter’s executive director, Michelle Hankes, is a Rotarian and club member.

The East Tennessee chapter will celebrate its centennial in 2017. Nationwide, the Red Cross responds to 70,000 disasters every year including the recent evacuation in Blount County.

Marsh’s presentation was scheduled before the July 2 incident when more than 5,000 people were evacuated and multiple businesses shut down.

“So here’s the real question. Is your business, organization, your home, are you prepared for the next emergency?”

Several businesses in-

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when presenting the award.

“They are the top credit union SBA lender in the state, and their commitment to the business community is something UT Federal Credit Union set out to do, worked hard to accomplish and is demonstrated by their SBA lending results.”

Also, UT Federal Credit Union has announced four promotions and new hires.

Alison Coffey has been promoted to assistant vice president of operations. A 16-year employee, Coffey received the Accredited ACH Professional (AAP) designa-

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tion in 2013. She will oversee and direct all daily back-office operations for depositrelated activities and card services.

Myra Hamilton has been named assistant vice president of business services. An employee since 1998, she has served as consumer loan services manager for the past 15 years. She has helped grow the credit union’s business services, including its first SBA loans. UT Federal Credit Union has funded over $1.5 million in SBA loans to small businesses.

Stephanie East has

been promoted to assistant vice president, controller.

East earned a bachelor’s degree in business and a master’s in accountancy from the University of Tennessee and has been with UT Federal Credit Union since 2008.

She is a Certified Public Accountant and oversees all of the credit union’s accounting functions, vendor management programs and payroll processing.

Hanna Gomez has been hired as assistant vice president of marketing. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication and a master’s with honor in corporate communication from Austin Peay State University. She has worked for six years in marketing, sales and integrated marketing communication for other financial institutions.

Info: www.UTFCU.org or 800-264-1971 or 865-9711971.

“What’s your plan if your day is disrupted by disaster?

That’s a huge part of what the Red Cross mission is: Sean Gilbert, senior vice president of housing at KCDC, education and training.” was elected to a two-year term as senior Marsh displayed a numvice president of the Southeastern Reber of items that are congional Council of the National Association sidered emergency essenof Housing and Redevelopment Officials tials: flashlights, batteries, during the organization’s 75th anniversary candles, matches, necessary annual conference in Kentucky. medicines, water, snacks, In two years, Gilbert is poised to be first aid kit, change of elected president of the association. clothes and weather radio.

At KCDC, Gilbert directs the manageBusinesses should have a Gilbert ment, maintenance and renovation of more list of contacts that is accesthan 3,700 affordable housing apar tments sible off premises in case of and other duties.

Marcelle Hazari at her new business, Postal Annex+. evacuation, she said.

Photo by Bonny C. Millard “Being Red Cross Ready is all about what the Red Steven M. Herzog, 20-year owner of a Cross needs to do. We need Sandler Training franchise in Knoxville, to make sure that you know has attained Sandler’s highest level of what emergencies, what dicertification. Only nine global Sandler sasters could happen in this Trainers hold this Silver Level. Now Hercommunity,” Marsh said. zog’s clients will be both Sandler-trained “You need to have a busispent time thinking and

By Bonny C. Millard and Sandler-certified. ness plan and your family When Marcelle Hazari researching businesses she disaster plan.”

Herzog retired from Wal-Mart after might like to own. A friend working 31 years in three and former co-worker at states, she decided to launch Wal-Mart put her in touch her own business. In April, with someone who helped she opened Postal Annex+ her explore the possibiliService Center, 9255 Kings- ties.

Last September, she ton Pike, in Landings at Cestarted the process with Andar Bluff.

The service center offers nex Brands, and she signed shipping and shipping sup- a contract in December. The plies, works with the major next step was finding a locacarriers (USPS, UPS, Fe- tion, and the building near dEx, DHL), sells some office the new Kroger at Cedar supplies and stamps, makes Bluff offered great access passport pictures and pho- and plenty of parking.

“It’s a really good locatocopies, and provides notary services. Postal An- tion,” she says, adding that nex+ is a franchise of Annex it’s convenient for people who want to drop off a Brands Inc. The business had a soft package for shipping or to opening in late April but pick up stamps or greeting will have a grand opening cards.

Hazari spent two weeks and open house 4:30 to 6 in San Diego, where Annex p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6.

Hazari’s years at Wal- Brands has its headquarMart taught her the tools ters, for training.

“This is what I wanted to she would need to run a business: customer service, do. I have to try it,” she says accounting, invoicing, retail of her decision. “I have to sales, merchandising and give myself the chance, and that’s what I’m doing.” management.

After she retired, she

Gilbert on national board

Herzog gets award

Postal Annex+ is new business near new Kroger

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NEWS FROM CONCORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Head of School Q:

Q&A

This has been a busy summer at Concord. It seems like we just were celebrating the accomplishments of our graduating class and we are now only one month away from the first day of school.

Can you share some of what happens on the CCS campus during the summer months?

#ConcordSummer

The CCS Summer Lions have been spotted all over the world …

Stephanie Mason and Vanessa Mills at Notre Dame in Paris

Grand Tetons

UT Coach Butch Jones with Brooke Welton Isaac Newsome is ready for school to start

The Pierce family at Seabrook Island, SC.

A:

Teachers and students love having their summers off for all the fun family things to do that come with the summer. Administrators enjoy that too, but also love the anticipation of a new school year. I’m so excited for this fall and what God is doing at CCS. From continued exceptional growth in enrollment to additional new faculty, it’s a very exciting time to be at CCS. I love coming to school during the summer and feeling the energy already growing on our campus. Our full-time preschool, athletic practices and constant camps, marching band practice and fine arts/academic camps happening all over campus create the excitement and anticipation for the fall. It seems crazy to say we are one month away from school starting, but at the same time I have never been more ready for a school year to start. I can’t wait to see how the Holy Spirit will use CCS this year!

Ready for take-off !

Aaron and Joshua Lane at the Farragut July 4 parade

Stooksbury and Jennings families at Berry College with Concord Summer Camp

Claire Newsome at McFee Park Splash Pad

Jennings family at an Atlanta Braves game

Paris, France

Ashton Beatty, William Mason and Raymond Wysmierski

Trinity Luman rock climbing at High Point Climbing

Madrid, Spain

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Amelia Goodlett, Gracie Walter, Natalie Hobbs, Noah Goodlett, Seth Kenny, Parker Hobbs

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Joy in Antigua Knoxville Medical Mission ‘a miracle’ for Guatemalans in need Antigua, Guatemala, is a place where a birth defect can send a child to the orphanage, and a broken leg can be a death sentence.

But because of Obras Sociales del Santo Hermano Pedro, it’s also a place of hope, miracles and thanksgiving.

This is what draws Dr. Paul Naylor, co-director of Parkwest Medical Center’s Joint Center, to the Catholic church at Antigua twice a year as the Knoxville Medical Mission continues its medical outreach to the poor residents of the Central American city.

“If you don’t shed a tear there, you don’t have a heart,” says Naylor, who has not only organized the trips for the last 15 years, but also seeks funding and donations from individuals and medical equipment suppliers. Plus, he jokingly adds, he’s also president, vicepresident, secretary and treasurer of the not-for-pro t organization.

According to Naylor, the Knoxville Medical Mission was born out of Parkwest physicians’ desire to give back to the community.

“A bunch of us were in the doctor’s lounge at Parkwest one day, and Dr. Lytle Brown, a general surgeon at Parkwest, said we should do something to give back,” Naylor recalled. “We all agreed but we didn’t know how. We asked, ‘What can we do?’ and Dr. Brown said, ‘We’re surgeons – we can operate somewhere.’ We came up with all kinds of crazy ideas like going to the Philippine jungle, but you can’t operate in the jungle. We realized that wouldn’t work because we had to have equipment, and we had to bring it somewhere that we can y into.”

Overhearing their conversation, a nurse anesthetist from Guatemala suggested they consider Antigua where a church was operating an orphanage and offering mental healthcare and eye care, yet wanting to do more.

It sounded perfect.

Tucked away in the central highlands of Guatemala, the 472-year-old city is known for its well-preserved Spanish Baroque architecture, coffee farms and volcanoes. But it is at Obras Sociales del Santo Hermano Pedro, a large Catholic church that stretches for a city block, where the missionaries would be doing their work.

After contacting the church’s Padre, the missionaries made their rst trip in 2000. But when Naylor and his volunteer army of 25 surgeons, nurses, anesthe-

The 2015 general and gynecological surgery team. anesthesia services in conjunction with anesthesia personnel from LSU. Also, Dr. Wayne Hat eld, a urologist at Fort Sanders Regional who has been helping us for many years, went with Dr. Naylor in the fall to screen urology patients.”

Naylor said, “I’ll go down there in September or October and screen about 500 people and decide who we are going to operate on. Then, I’ll come back to Knoxville and tailor our supplies to the patients we’ll have. I’ll call up different vendors and say, ‘I need so many total knees’ or ‘I need so many total plates for broken arms, Drs. Willard Campbell and Kenneth O’Kelley are all smiles during a break so many plates for legs.’ And I’ll call up our pediatric guy and say, between procedures.

‘We’ve got 20 club feet. We need tists and scrub techs arrived, they worked with them until it is truly to bring along supplies for 20 club found that the church’s bare “hos- state-of-the-art in Guatemala and feet, the right pins and plates. pital” rooms were in such disre- the hospital is operating 36 to 40 Once I nd out the number of patients we’ll operate on, I go to all pair that they could see through weeks a year.” the ceiling.

The Knoxville Medical Mission the vendors and ask if they’ll do“We were pretty naive,” Nay- makes back-to-back, weeklong nate.”

On average, the group will oplor recounted in a 2009 interview trips to the church twice a year, with the Knoxville News Senti- usually bringing about 30 medi- erate on 140 to 150 cases in the nel. “We went down thinking, cal professionals with them each two-week period.

“We try to do as many as we ‘OK, we’re going to x people.’ We time along with supplies. This didn’t have enough supplies. We year’s trips were Jan. 17-24 and can,” Naylor added. “We work didn’t have the right equipment. It Jan. 24-31 and included Park- from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, was pretty backward.” west General Surgeon Dr. Willard and we usually go until we run out But thanks to the Knoxville Campbell and ObGyn Dr. Kenneth of supplies. At the end of the week, Medical Mission, countless medi- R. O’Kelley, as well as ve nursing cal supply companies, private and staff from various departments at corporate donors and other mis- Parkwest Medical Center.

The work they do when they arsion-minded physician groups, that is no longer the case. rive is mostly determined by Nay“We’ve since built it up until lor in the fall ahead of the January they have four of the best operat- visits. ing rooms in the whole country,” “Our week this year consisted said Naylor. “Joint instruments, mainly of gallbladder surgeries, trauma instruments – we’ve got hernia repairs, hysterectomies all kinds of stuff. Between us and and prostate surgeries,” said another group out of Texas called O’Kelley. “We have friends from Faith in Practice, we have brought Lexington, Ky., who came to do the tons of supplies there. So we’ve urology procedures and provided

I’m telling the Padre, ‘Go nd me a broken arm – I’ve got one plate left for a broken arm.’ So he goes wandering out into the streets and comes back with somebody who’s had a broken arm for weeks.

Or, I’ll say, ‘I’ve got one more arti cial knee left for a very small person,’ and he’ll come back with someone. If I tell him that I’ve got something available, he will nd a patient for it.”

That’s because there is always a need.

“For many people in Guatemala, medical care is very dif cult and expensive to get, so many people go without treatment,” said Campbell. “The capital city is more modern, but you don’t have to step far to see the poverty.”

“We do a lot of broken arms and legs, a lot of kids with club feet, dislocated hips, arti cial knees,” Naylor said. “We get a lot of people with broken bones and they’ve had nobody to x them. The injuries may be three or four months old and they’ve just got sticks with strings or rags wrapped around them. They have no healthcare. If you are 30 years old and break your femur, they’re like, ‘Well, Jose is going to die because he broke his leg.’ That’s just normal for them. If a kid is born with some defect like a club foot which we can easily x here in the States, for them it’s, ‘We’ll have to put them in an orphanage because we can’t take care of them.’

“It feels so good taking care of somebody who has no other chance of getting better,” he added. “You can’t believe the feeling you get when you x a little kid who you know was going to an orphanage and the parents are there crying and hugging you and they are all saying, ‘It’s a miracle! It’s a miracle! You are the hand of God!’ It’s very moving. They are so appreciative. For them, it’s like winning a lottery.”

How you can help Mail: Knoxville Medical Mission 932 Historic Ferry Way Knoxville, TN 37922 Call: 865-567-1845 Dr. Willard Campbell and Parkwest staff during a surgical procedure in Antigua.

0813-1498

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Furniture 2 Seat Glider - Brown. $75.

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Apartments - Unfurn.

BROADWAY TOWERS 62 and OLDER Or Physically Mobility Impaired 1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site.

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Condos-Unfurn 3 BR, 2 BA, 2 parking spaces.

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Lake Property Lake House, Watts Bar Lake 244 Lakeville Dr, Lake House, On Watts Bar Lake, 150ft shoreline, level lot, boat dock with roof and boat lift.

1,125sqft home. Near Arrowhead Marina. Great weekend get-away. Lake depth at end of dock 3 1/2ft. Back porch, Living room with fireplace. Dining room, kitchen, laundry, 3bedrooms, two full baths.

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Mobile Homes/Lots VOLUNTEER VILLAGE Pool, Club house.

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Norwood Manor Apts.

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New Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit, the Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Ave., Oak Ridge.

Info: 482-1441.

ville Association of Bridge Clubs. Cost: $20. Includes three follow-up beginning lessons. Info/registration: Jo Anne Newby, 539-4150, KnoxvilleBridge@gmail.com or bridgeinaday.com.

Old College Annual Harp Singing, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, 522 W. Madison Ave., Athens, Tenn. Dinner on the grounds at noon. Free; all invited and tune books provided. Info: Cora Sweatt, 423-745-0248.

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

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

The Secret City Excursion Train, Heritage Center, Oak Ridge. Departure times: 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.

Dinner train ride, 6 p.m. Choice of four entrees. Info: www.secretcityrailroad.com or 241-2140.

THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT. 22

MONDAY, JULY 20

Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memories” show featuring Pat Boone backed by Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Proceeds go to the Oak Ridge High School music department. Info/ tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

Appalachian dulcimer mini-lesson and demonstration, 6-8 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College, Hardin Valley campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

Cost: $29. Limited space. Info/registration: www.pstcc. edu/bcs or 539-7167.

Field day for grades 3-5, 9-10 a.m., Anchor Park, 11730 Turkey Creek Road. Cost: $3. Registration deadline: Friday, July 17. Features: sack, three-legged and relay races; softball throw; kickball; wiffle ball. Healthy snack and water provided. To register: 218-3375, www. townoffarragut.org/register, in person at the Town Hall.

Info: Lauren Cox, lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057.

“Kale in December and Carrots in January … no problem!” 1-2 p.m., Davis Family YMCA, 12133 S. Northshore Drive. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Marsha Lehman. Free and open to the public.

Info: 777-9622.

Knoxville Zoomobile, 10:30 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

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THROUGH SUNDAY, AUG. 9

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 6900 Kingston Pike. Info/ registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

Books Sandwiched In: “Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route” by Saidiya Hartman, noon. East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 215-8801.

Karns Volunteer Fire Department visit, 11 a.m., Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway.

Info: 470-8663.

Mindfulness and the Alexander Technique, 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd.

Cost: $35. Preregistration required. Info/ registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.

AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Super Hero Cape Craft, 2 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

Tennessee Shines: JP Harris & the Tough Choices and poet Dawn Coppock, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10; available online or at the door. Info/tickets: http://jigandreel.ticketleap. com or WDVX.com.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, JULY 20-21 “IPad/iPhone Basics for Seniors” class, 10 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $45.

Info/registration: 218-3375; www.townoffarragut.org/ register; in person at Town Hall.

TUESDAY, JULY 21

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road.

Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Open auditions for new members to Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble, 2 p.m., Dancers Studio, 4216 Sutherland Ave. Any Tennessee resident 8-14 years old is eligible. Prepare one-minute dance composition without music demonstrating modern dance and ballet technique. Info: 584-9636.

Performance, Presence and Poise with the Alexander Technique, 11:45 a.m.-5:15 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $85. Preregistration with confirmation required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

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

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

SUNDAY, JULY 26 Franklin Monthly Old Harp Singing, 3 p.m., Greeneville Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 210 N. Main St., Greeneville. Free; all invited and tune books provided. Info: Jeff Farr, 423-639-8211.

MONDAYS, JULY 27-AUG. 31 Zumba class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Karen McKinney. Cost: $45. Info/registration: 218-3375; www. townoffarragut.org/register; in person at Town Hall.

TUESDAY, JULY 28 Tellico Community Players auditions for “An Evening with Jo,” 6-7:30 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Three female and one male role. Info: Nancy Paule, 458-6984.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 Mindfulness and the Alexander Technique, 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd.

Cost: $35. Preregistration required. Info/ registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.

AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Tennessee Shines: Bear Medicine and poet Joshua Lavender, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10; available online or at the door. Info/tickets: http://jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

“Attracting the Good Guys with Herbs,” 3:154:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by an Extension Master Gardener. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

Free concert by the UT Chamber Singers, 8 p.m., Farragut Presbyterian Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd. Kicks off their upcoming England trip to perform in some of the country’s most historic and best-known cathedrals. The community is invited.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt. tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profile/ monicaschmidt.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info/registration: 215-8700.

Firefighters to the Rescue, 6:30 p.m., Howard Pinkston Branch Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike. Info: 573-0436.

Old College Monthly Harp Singing, 6 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 123 S. Jackson St., Athens, Tenn. Free; all invited and tune books provided. Info: Cora Sweatt, 423-745-0248.

Sevier County Monthly Old Harp Singing, 7 p.m., Middle Creek UMC, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge. Free; all invited and tune books provided.

Info: David Sarten, 428-0874.

Street Hope Summer Prayer Gathering, 6 p.m., Travel America Truck Stop/Transport for Christ Chapel, 615 Watt Road. Food, music, prayer, testimony and Hope for Fighting Sex Trafficking in Tennessee.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 16-17

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JULY 31-AUG. 1

Auditions by appointment, beginning at 6:30 p.m., held by WordPlayers of Knoxville. Seeking adults of all ages for “Walking Across Egypt.” Seeking African-American adults for “Oh Freedom.” Info/ appointments: www.wordplayers.org, wordplayers@ comcast.net, 539-2490.

Mindfulness and the Alexander Technique, 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd.

Cost: $35. Preregistration required. Info/ registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.

AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Tennessee Shines: Bombadil and poet Marianne Worthington, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10; available online or at the door. Info/tickets: http://jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

“Ladies of Broadway,” 7:30 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Info: www. tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

THURSDAY, JULY 16

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, JULY 16-18 “An Evening of Laughter,” 7:30 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Tickets: $20. Info: www.tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

FRIDAY, JULY 17

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, JULY 22-23 AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

“How to Use Facebook for Seniors” class, 10 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30. Info/registration: 218-3375; www.townoffarragut. org/register; in person at Town Hall.

The Best of the Best Teacher Workshop, 9-10 a.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Showcasing the best new books for children and young adults from the past year. Continuing education credit.

Info/registration: www.knoxlib.org/best.

“Kale in December and Carrots in January … no problem!” 6-7 p.m., Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Marsha Lehman. Free and open to the public. Info: 966-6728.

Knoxville Fire Department visit, 10 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Info: 5888813.

SATURDAY, JULY 18

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 23-26

Ballet/Tap Clinic, 9-11 a.m., The Studio by Premier Athletics, 11250 Gilbert Drive. For ages 3-5. Cost: $25. Info/registration: 671-6333.

Free Your Voice with the Alexander Technique, 11:45 a.m.-5:15 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $85. Preregistration required.

Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.

AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

“Get free plants … making more of your favorite plants,” 1-2:30 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Lisa Churnetski. Free and open to the public. Info: 470-7033 or knoxlib.org.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road.

Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

“Learn Bridge in a Day” workshop, noon-5 p.m., the Knoxville Bridge Center, 7400 Deane Hill Drive. Presented by Kevin Wilson; hosted by the Knox-

“An Evening of Laughter,” Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $20. Info: www.tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

THURSDAY, JULY 23

SATURDAY, JULY 25 Beginning Genealogy, 1-4 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration required.

Info/registration: 215-8809.

Golden Dragon Acrobat Show, 7 p.m., Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Tickets: $25 adult; $10 for child 12 & under. Info/tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

“Kale in December and Carrots in January … no problem!” 10:30 a.m.-noon, Master Gardener Demonstration Garden at All Saints Catholic Church, 620 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Free and open to the public. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Marsha Lehman. Info: 215-2340.

THURSDAY, JULY 30 “Kale in December and Carrots in January … no problem!” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Marsha Lehman. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 30-31 “Samsung Galaxy Phone/Tablet Basics for Seniors” class, 10 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $45. Info/registration: 218-3375; www. townoffarragut.org/register; in person at Town Hall.

SATURDAY, AUG. 1 Robotics Revolution, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Jacob Building, Chilhowee Park. Featuring: Lego building competitions, robotics and technology demonstrations, handson activities with The Muse and more. Admission: $6; family passes, $24; ages 5 and under, free. Info: www. themuseknoxville.org.

Second annual cornhole tournament to benefit Angelic Ministries. 12:30 p.m., under the big top at The Ministry, 1218 N. Central St. Info/registration: angelicministries.com.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 Tennessee Shines: Blue Moon Rising and humorist Judy Lockhart DiGregorio, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10; available online or at the door. Info/ tickets: http://jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, AUG. 5-6 AARP Driver Safety class, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Oak Ridge Senior Center, 728 Emory Road, Oak Ridge.

Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY, AUG. 7 Deadline to apply for “Introduction to Farragut” program, 3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Classes to begin 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26. Open to any interested person. Info/registration: www.townoffarragut.org/ introduction; at the Town Hall; 966-7057.

SATURDAY, AUG. 8 Appalachian dulcimer mini-lesson and demonstration, 10 a.m.-noon, Pellissippi State Community College, Hardin Valley campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Cost: $29. Limited space. Info/registration: www. pstcc.edu/bcs or 539-7167.

B-4 • JULY 15, 2015 • BEARDEN Shopper news

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Saving Captain Riley Appreciative soldier bestows honor upon ER doctor The last time Dr. James Kirksey saw Matthew Riley, the 32-year-old Army captain was in the emergency room at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, desperately pleading for relief from a horri c, paralyzing pain.

Nine months later, the emergency doctor and the Army soldier, working on his doctorate in microbiology, stood face to face in a hallway of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department, the main characters in a dramatic story of patriotism, perseverance and gratitude.

In his hand, Riley held a “challenge coin� that he presented to Dr. Kirksey. The gift was a thank-you for a life-saving diagnosis Dr. Kirksey had made eight months earlier: a spinal epidural abscess that had left Riley unable to walk and threatened to end not only a promising military career, but his very life. “I was truly humbled, but don’t think I deserved it. It wasn’t like I stopped a bullet for him or pushed him out of the way of a runaway car,� said Dr. Kirksey.

Capt. Riley disagrees. “I would not be walking without him,� said Riley, who himself had been presented the very same coin from a high-ranking of cial while at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. “I believe he saved my life.�

Riley had undergone a laparoscopic lumbar microdisectomy at another hospital to correct mild but chronic sciatica pain in his left leg. But after the surgery, he grew worse – much worse. He eventually lost mobility in his legs and was unable to manage his pain even with medication.

He repeatedly sought emergency treatment from other medical facilities, but went undiagnosed as his health continued to decline. “I woke up [on a] Saturday night, drenched in sweat, my sheets were soggy, my hair was dripping. I took my temperature and it was 102.5. I was getting chills, I’m sweating like crazy but I’m freezing and couldn’t stop shaking. Then, I started vomiting,� Riley recounted.

Capt. Riley knew his fever was the sign of something wrong, likely life-threatening. As the vomiting started, he decided to call 911.

As an Army microbiologist who is involved in infectious disease research, he knew this was indicative of an infection. “I decided I was going to go to every clinic and hospital in Knoxville if that’s what it took to nd out what was going on,� he said.

By the time he arrived by ambulance at Fort Sanders that Sunday, the young soldier was pleading for help. “I said, ‘Do anything you can do to alleviate this pain! Please just help me!’ The pain was so extreme I begged them to give me something to knock me out. Within minutes Dr. Kirksey was there and he asked me a few brief questions, and in about two minutes he said, ‘CT and MRI.

soldier for accomplishments not recognized by other of cial means. “When I was presented that coin, he said it was because, number one, you are actually walking again, which is frankly a miracle, and number two, your dedication to at least make the attempt to stay in the military is the right thing to do, regardless of the consequences,� said Riley. “My chances are looking pretty good and I attribute much of my survival and recovery not only to the Army, but also to Dr. Kirksey.

I gave him the coin that was given to me because I believe that’s what Dr. Kirksey was doing – the right thing, even though it con icted with what I had been instructed to do by other health professionals. “He reminds me of military doctors – they are in it to help soldiers, to do the right thing whatever the consequences are. That’s what I saw in him,� added Riley, unaware at the time that Dr. Kirksey is a retired Army captain. “He not only did the right thing, but he fought for me. He found what was wrong, he treated me with care, and he wanted assurances that I would be taken care of in the right way. He and the ER staff, including the nurses, technicians, each of Army Captain Matt Riley, left, presents Dr. James Kirksey, emergency medicine physician at Fort Sand- them, really went above and beyond.�

Dr. Kirksey says he was “truly humbled� ers Regional Medical Center, with the “challenge coin� Riley received while at Walter Reed National to receive Capt. Riley’s “coin challenge.� “I Military Medical Center. Riley credits Kirksey for providing a life-saving diagnosis. just did what I was supposed to do,� he said.

Now!’� was, but I knew we needed to get antibiotics “Thank goodness he had whatever it took to say, ‘I am going to get another opinion for With more than ve decades of ER expe- in him.� what’s going on.’ If he waited some period rience, Dr. Kirksey immediately suspected After Riley received emergency care at of time after that, no matter what I had that, based on his initial examination, the Fort Sanders Regional, Dr. Kirksey took done might not have made any difference. young soldier had an infection called an steps to assure appropriate follow-up care, Thank goodness he had the fortitude to epidural abscess. A short time later, bloodincluding the correct antibiotic treatment. say, ‘Something’s not right and I need to be work and the MRI and CT results Riley was transferred back to his seen.’ con rmed it. previous hospital for several ad“I could tell it was emotionally important “I couldn’t make the ditional surgeries to drain and to him to do what he did, and because of diagnosis just on the treat the abscess. He was exam,� said Dr. Kirkthen transferred to Walter that, it made it all the more important to me,� Dr. Kirksey continued. “Any physician sey, “But from the Reed National Military worth their salt should appreciate a paget-go I had a strong Medical Center, where tient’s gratitude. I’ve had patients thank me, suspicion that he had doctors were hopeful I’ve had them give me a smile, give me a an infection. It wasn’t that he would recover, touch, give me a letter, probably almost any just that he had the but would likely be way you can. But never, in the 43 years I’ve fever and epidural medically retired from done this, has anyone done what Captain abscess – he was septhe military.

Riley did. I am really humbled by it.� tic. It was hard to miss Determined to remain Since Riley’s treatment, he has returned because he was so sick. in the Army, Riley worked to Knoxville and continued outpatient Some patients, all they’ve alongside combat-injured solgot is localized pain – they’re not diers to take his rst step by the end physical and occupational therapy at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center. sick and they don’t have fever. His was of his rst week. Before long, he was walk“While at WRNMMC, I had the privilege beyond just pain.� ing loops around the ward with a Catholic to be treated by some of the best physical “Sometimes you see a patient that’s so priest while reciting the Rosary to give him and occupational therapists in the world,� sick you need to go ahead and intercede,� strength.

Riley said. “My recovery has continued to Dr. Kirksey added. “This is what all emerAlthough he had not yet fully recovered go better than I ever expected it to, meetgency doctors who know their stuff do – we and his Army career remained in doubt, ing the most optimistic outcomes. I cannot have to react and treat what we’re seeing, his dedication was recognized by one of his overstate the care, attention to detail, even though we don’t know all the reasons physicians and reported to a high-ranking determination and individualized programs why [patients] are that way. In [Riley’s] of cial familiar with his case. Riley was that my therapists at Patricia Neal have situation, he was so sick that I knew he presented with the WRNMMC “challenge needed antibiotics. I didn’t know for sure given me, and I am unmeasurably grateful coin,� traditionally used in the military as what type of infection he had or where it a way of expressing gratitude to a fellow to them.�

Epidural abscess requires prompt action What exactly is an epidural abscess? It’s usually a bacterial infection that forms in the space between the bones of the spine and the membrane lining the spinal cord (spinal epidural abscess) or between the skull bones and the brain lining (intracranial edpidural abscess).

An epidural abscess results in a pocket of pus that builds up and causes swelling. It can

press against the bones and the meninges, the membranes that protect the spinal cord and brain. This swelling and the underlying infection can affect sensations and physical movement.

Typically, an epidural abscess is caused by Staphylococcus aureus, but in Capt. Matt Riley’s case, it was the bacteria Klebsiella. “Unrecognized and untreated, you worry

about irreparable local damage to nerves, to the spinal cord, etc., just because of the size and compression, and obviously, there’s the potential of spreading should it rupture or leak,� said Dr. James Kirksey, emergency physician at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “So to some degree, Captain Riley had the worst of both. He was really lucky [the infection was found and treated.]�

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