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Westwood seeks docents for tours Being a docent at Historic Westwood, 3425 Kingston Pike, doesn’t pay well, but the pleasant work environment makes up for lost wages. Westwood, one of seven Historic Homes of Knoxville, offers guided tours from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Visitors, as well as additional docents, are welcome, says Marsha Grieve, who runs the docent program for Knox Heritage.
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Frost on baseball Baseball has been very, very good to Rob Frost. Before he was on City Council, or a lawyer or a father, he was a fan. He played Little League for Rodgers Cadillac against teams like National Plastics and Copper Cellar in the Knoxville Youth Sports league. Vance Link was the commissioner; Jimmy Haslam was his coach. He has passed his Sequoyah All-Stars jersey down to his older son, Sonny.
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Pumpkin time Those grinning jack-o-lanterns and horn-of-plenty table decorations that brighten many West Knoxville homes in October and November also bring smiles 1,500 miles away. Messiah Lutheran Church, 6900 Kingston Pike, and West Emory Presbyterian Church, 1035 Emory Church Road, sell pumpkins each year from land managed by the Navajo Pride nation.
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Jean Hulsey, Kenya Flash, Cheryl Oliver and Kertesha Riley attend a recent University Women’s Club reception at the UT Welcome Center. Flash, Oliver and Riley are new members. Photo by Wendy Smith
By Wendy Smith The University Women’s Club is over 100 years old, but changes in its membership, as well as its mission, keep it relevant. The club, which now includes University of Tennessee employees, wives of employees and alumni, recently welcomed new members with a tea. The club was founded in 1912 by Katie Anderson Ayres, wife of
Business and government leaders from across the state were wowed by the 3D printing and other manufacturing innovations available in the megalab at the Strawberry Plains campus of Pellissippi State Community College.
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scheduled speakers are all female faculty and staff members. In October, the speaker is the new dean of the UT Law School, Melanie Wilson. Monthly interest groups, some of which meet in the evening to accommodate those who work days, are better attended than the lunch meetings, Duncan says. Groups include book reviews, duplicate
bridge and financial-life issues, which replaces an investment group that disbanded in May after 17 years. Spouses are invited to an international dinner group. Duncan hosts a topic lunch group at the Orangery. Members take turns making presentations on a specific topic, and the group is currently studying archaeologiTo page A-3
UT profs write ‘Inventing Custer’ Although what really happened to Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his command at the Little Bighorn remains a mystery, the man behind the myth is as inscrutable as his final battle, two University of Tennessee journalism professors claim in a new book. Their research reveals that Custer was a self-invented hero long before the fight that made him immortal, and the stories that emerged after his death served the interest of those who wanted to control his memory. A debate about the “real” Custer
was underway even before the public learned about Little Bighorn. Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown dissect the Custer myth in their new book, “Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend.” Was Custer a war hero who fell prey to incompetent associates, faulty equipment and lack of support? Or was he a reckless leader whose pursuit of glory led to the demise of more than 200 U.S. soldiers? “Custer was both heroic and reckless,” Caudill said. “It earned him acclaim during the Civil War, when he was a very accomplished field commander, winning numerous battles and clashes, including East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg.
He ended the war as a brevet major general. “That same audacity and decisiveness, though, was his undoing at Little Bighorn, where a lack of information, poor communications and unforgiving terrain were too much for even Custer’s bold élan. “The Civil War defined his life. The Little Bighorn defined his legend.” Ashdown said unraveling the Custer myth is a timely story. “The nation is in the process of purging American history of certain problematic symbols and controversial heroes as it searches for a usable past,” he said. “Custer repeatedly has been built up and torn down by the culture, and the
time for revision may again be at hand. “We’ve tried to show how popular history is first created and then shaken up by mythmakers to meet contemporary concerns. A lot has been written about Custer, but we deal more with how the press and culture have ‘invented’ him.” The book was released by publisher Rowman and Littlefield. It is the fourth in Caudill and Ashdown’s series of studies about Civil War-era military figures. They are also co-authors of “Sherman’s March in Myth and Memory” (2008), “The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest” (2005) and “The Mosby Myth: A ConfedTo page A-3
Burritt hiring signals shift in direction for PBA By Betty Bean
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UT President Brown Ayres, to help faculty wives get to know each other and the university. While the club still has a social element, educational opportunities and interest groups now draw members. For many years, speakers for monthly lunch meetings were male, says club historian and publicist Audrey Duncan. This year,
Last week, Public Building Authority board members decided to demonstrate an abundance of caution and wait a few weeks before appointing Jayne Burritt president and CEO. Instead, they voted to vote when they meet again in the regularly scheduled October meeting. Burritt’s name is the only one under consideration. Burritt, PBA’s director of property management, is well liked by board members and by both Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero. If appointed, she will fill the position Dale Smith is scheduled to vacate Jan. 1. The announcement that the PBA board will forgo a national search raised some eyebrows. Board member Lewis Cosby said it shouldn’t. “We only have two clients – the city and the county, and when we
started this process, both our clients said she was at the top of their list,” Cosby said. He gave little credence to the brief kerfuffle over Burritt’s authorization of surveillance cameras in the City County Building. “I don’t think there’s anything Jayne Burritt to that,” said Cosby, pointing out that PBA met the legal requirement of posting notification of the surveillance. Burritt, a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, came to PBA from First Tennessee Bank in 2008 and has had 23 years of experience in property management. PBA sources say she came with a strong recommendation from Larry Martin, former chief operating officer of First Tennessee Financial Services and now commissioner of
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would be co-equal tenants. The county uses more space, but the two bodies have equal status. Outgoing CEO Smith, who has held the job for nearly 16 years and draws a $196,000 annual salary, said he is delighted with the choice of Burritt as his successor. “It sends a huge, positive signal to our employees,” he said. “People don’t know where they stand when a new boss is hired.” Smith said his major charge when he came to Knoxville was to navigate feuding city and county factions. The two sides get along better now, but he said there are still “built-in conflicts with the two mayors. Sometimes our job is to tell them no.” Once Burritt takes over, PBA will be run by a triumvirate of women that will include finance director Robyn Smith and Susan Davis, acting director of property management.
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CCS introduces robot programing to elementary students Athletic Director Rob Murphy with his wife, Lindsay Murphy, attend CCS’s first home football game. Photo by Chris Smith Photography
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Concord Athletics is off to a very busy start. This is the school’s first year competing in TSSAA varsity football, and we’ve added HS girls’ soccer and MS/HS cross-country, while MS wrestling and HS tennis are coming later this year. What makes all this growth possible?
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God’s hands are on our campus and we have been blessed with incredible coaches and a great spirit of togetherness. Almost our entire CCS coaching staff has played and/ or coached at the college level. We strive for competitive success, but the purpose of our athletic program is to prepare our students for life. We do that by loving them, encouraging them and building relationships that matter. I believe that also draws others to want to be involved. CCS will offer over 36 team sports this school year. As we plan for each new sport, the budget is obvi-
ously a major consideration. Hiring coaches and purchasing equipment is incredibly expensive, and at CCS, the athletic department starts each school year with a budget of zero. An annual golf tournament is our key fundraising event for the year. With a new name this year, The Concord Classic will be held Friday, Oct. 23, at Avalon Golf Course and Country Club. We are offering two start times, and individual players or teams can go to the school’s website, www.concordchristianschool.org to register. This is our first tournament with Avalon, and we are raising the bar with delicious food, incredible prizes and goodies for all – including a Concord Classic polo. We have great sponsors such as Pilot and Knoxville News Sentinel with sponsorship opportunities still available. Questions can be directed to our Tournament Director Rikki Brandenburg at rikkib4ccs@gmail.com or myself at Rmurphy@fbconcord.org.
For six weeks, participating thirdfifth graders will be introduced to STEM Robotic Programming. Using EV3 Lego Mindstorm Robotics, they will learn the terminology, design, construction and programming of robots. This will be most of the students’ first exposure to programming robots. Fourth grader Drew Sloan says, “She is showing us the basic steps of how to program a robot. I want to continue learning about robotics.” Sloan is referring to elementary computer teacher Sherilyn Dawson, who is working with this group of eager programmers. “I get pretty emotional when I see my students being challenged and applying what
they are learning to problem-solve. I am very thankful to everyone who has played a part in getting us started. By donating money for robots, labor and materials, we will be able to participate in future First Lego League Competitions.” Grandparent Rick Davis shared, “Our fifth grader Aiden has always been drawn to robotics. I was so happy to hear they are offering it to the upper elementary students.” CCS has two Middle School Lego robotics teams. The teams travel for competitions, and in 2015, one of the teams qualified and competed at the state level. In addition to the Robotics League, a Cyber Defense Team is in development.
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University Women’s Club
A stove like the one Sallie Sneed would have used as Louise Lutz Holloway’s cook Photos by Wendy Smith
cal sites. “We need to have fun but also to be intellectually stimulated. I want to walk out feeling like I’ve learned something new,” she says. She continually learns new things by perusing 25 boxes of UWC history found in special collections at Hodges Library. The club began evolving 10 years after its founding by including female faculty. Membership widened significantly after World War II, when married G.I.s arrived at UT. The club saw another boom in the 1960s, when membership approached 1,000. Duncan thinks the increase was due to women being more involved in the The $14,000 restoration of the Lutz’s 1890s Sohmer piano is workforce and wanting to dedicated to piano tuner Frank Hambright. have activities outside the home. Interest groups were especially popular during this time, she says. She writes a story about the club’s history for its biBeyond the beautiful ar- lie lived in a cottage in the annual newsletter, and the chitecture and woodwork, backyard until she moved visitors can see family arti- into Westwood to care for August issue chronicles the facts like the restored 1890s Louise. The women became growth of the Faculty Women’s Club Chorus, which begood friends. Sohmer piano. A current docent, Kelley gan in summer 1962. The The restoration is dedicated to Frank Hambright, a Chambers, is a member of well-known Knoxville piano the family, and lived in the tuner who serviced the pia- house as a child. She knew ■ Council of West Knox no. The wedding dress and Sallie well, Grieve says. County Homeowners meets “That’s what’s interestshoes of Adelia’s and John’s 7:15 p.m. each first Tuesday, daughter, Louise Lutz Hol- ing about the house. People Peace Lutheran Church, 621 loway, are also in the family have so many stories.” N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: Docents should have an parlor. cwkch.com. A painted flourish of interest in historic pres■ Historic Sutherland Heights flowers on a wood panel in ervation and feel comfortNeighborhood Association. the dining room is the only able sharing information Info: Marlene Taylor, 951-3773, example of Adelia’s work about Westwood in front taylor8246@bellsouth.net. currently in the home. Her of groups. They should be handpainted Limoge china, available to work one or two ■ Lyons View Community Club meets 6 p.m. with 24-carat gold trim, is four-hour shifts per month. each second Monday, Lyons displayed in a built-in china Info: mgrieve1125@aol.com View Community Center, or 567-9381. cabinet. 114 Sprankle Ave. Info: Mary The restored kitchen pays Info on group tours: Brewster, 454-2390. homage to Sallie Sneed, who Mickey Mallonee of Knox ■ Third and Fourth District worked for Louise from the Heritage at mickey@knox Democrats meet 6 p.m. each 1940s to the 1970s. Sal- heritage.org or 523-8008. fourth Tuesday, Bearden
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‘Inventing Custer’ erate Hero in Life and Legend” (2002). Caudill’s research focuses on the history of ideas in the press. His published works include the book “Darwinism in the Press: The Evolution of an Idea” and journalism monograph “The Roots of Bias: An Empiricist Press and Coverage of the Scopes Trial.” Ashdown, a professor emeritus, is a Chancellor’s Teaching Scholar and a winner of both the Robert Cherry Foundation’s national award for extraordinary teachers and the Alexander Prize, which is presented
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interest group, directed by assistant professor of music education Dr. Juliaette Jones, performed at Faculty Women’s Club and university events for several years. “Some of the men have shown an interest as they would like to sing also. So far they have received sweet smiles − no invitations,” reads a Knoxville NewsSentinel story about the group’s early days. A picture of the ’60sera chorus reveals a young membership. “And they all had beautiful legs,” Duncan points out. Approximately 20 women of all ages joined the club this year. Kertesha Riley of the UT Center for Career Development moved to Knoxville this summer from Iowa, and she joined to meet other women associated with the university. Alumnus Cheryl Oliver recently joined after living in Knoxville for 30 years. It’s nice to be with likeminded women, she says. “I want to have conversations about relevant things.”
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Being a docent at Historic Westwood, 3425 Kingston Pike, doesn’t pay well, but the pleasant work environment makes up for lost wages. Westwood, one of seven Historic Homes of Knoxville, offers guided tours from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Visitors, as well as additional docents, are welcome, says Marsha Grieve, who runs the docent Marsha Grieve program for
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Losing to Florida is getting old This little problem with Florida is not exactly new. Going back to 1976, Tennessee has whipped the Gators six times and lost 25. Does that put the current 10-game losing streak into perspective? Does it now hurt more or less? Three consecutive setbacks in the mid-1990s may have cost Peyton Manning the Heisman Trophy. Phillip Fulmer endured 12 defeats and several nettlesome darts and arrows from Steve Spurrier. Urban Meyer started the current Florida monopoly. Lane Kiffin helped a lot. His first day on the job, he promised Tennessee fans
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that he would “sing Rocky Top all night long” after the Volunteers knocked off Florida in Gainesville the following September. You know how that turned out. Maybe it was for the best. Kiffin never learned all the words to the song. Derek Dooley followed form. He went 0-3. Florida
gained 555 yards in 2012. This was the time of Sal Sunseri’s defense. What a blunder that was. Butch Jones is 0-2. He brought that on himself. The 2013 game was marred by his worst coaching decision, starting a poorly prepared Nathan Peterman in the swamp. The Human Rights Commission still thinks that was cruel and unusual punishment. What followed after the coin toss was a nightmare in the middle of the afternoon. There was a confused handoff on the second play. Next, Nathan fumbled when sacked. He lost two interceptions, one to a defensive
Has Knoxville outgrown The smoke has cleared and the trash has been picked up following the 28th, and final, Boomsday. For me, and many of my peers, it’s a loss. Our kids grew up watching the fireworks, and we did, too. It was a spectacular and unique show, and I was proud to tell out-of-town friends about Knoxville’s Labor Day ritual that included a flaming waterfall and pyrotechnic sharks in the Tennessee River. Rituals are important to us. We like the 1812 Overture on the Fourth of July and festive lights and iceskating on Market Square at Christmas. We especially like football and all of its social accoutrements, and Boomsday has served as a giant community welcome to fall − the most hallowed season in East Tennessee. So I expected a huge public outcry at the news that Boomsday would be no
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more, and I thought local merchants would miss the event that drew an estimated 400,000 viewers. But I came up short when I called around to ask about lost revenues. Justin Daley of the Downtown Knoxville Hampton Inn & Suites reported an uptick in reservations for the evening of Boomsday, along with requests for rooms with a view of the fireworks. Beyond that, no one accepted my invitation to complain. Bart Fricks, chief operating officer for the Copper Cellar family of restaurants, which includes Calhoun’s On The River, described Boomsday as “a wash.” The Neyland Drive restaurant
lineman. If Tennessee gave that game away, Florida tried to give it back. The Gators committed three turnovers in the first half and lost their quarterback. Last year’s 10-9 defeat was more painful. It was opportunity squandered. Leaving out the adjectives, Florida wasn’t very good. The Vols might have won going away but for three turnovers, eight penalties, six sacks and four red-zone failed attempts to score touchdowns. Tennessee had 10 plays in the red zone. They weren’t very creative. The result was two field goals, 11 lost yards
and an interception. Defining moments? The Vols were leading 9-0 in the final minute of the third quarter. Justin Worley got blindsided by a corner blitz. He fumbled. Tennessee still had a 9-7 edge. A missed tackle led to a 32-yard Gator gain that set up the winning field goal. For the game, the Vols netted 28 yards rushing. There was no punch. No way can I prove it but I think that was the day Butch decided to change offensive coordinators. Tampa Bay’s opening for a quarterback coach made it easier. This rivalry once marked
by assorted excitement – post-game brawl, Tennessee plays faxed to Florida, Doug Dickey on both sides at the same time, a blink-of-theeye pass completion – has slipped toward predictability. The Gators have been clearly superior or the Vols have self-destructed. Either way, Florida wins. Well, that was then. This is the start of a new way of doing business. If Tennessee is going to grow up and become champs of the SEC East, Gainesville is a great place to begin. As cousin Clyde might say, go Vols! Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com
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stayed busy during the event, but road closures throughout the weekend meant reduced revenue for Saturday and Sunday afternoon. He’s never noticed an increase at the company’s other restaurants, either. The biggest losers are local museums that netted huge proceeds from private viewing events. Boomsday Celebration: A Night at the McClung Museum netted $18,000 this year and $12,000 at last year’s inaugural event. Replacing the income from Boomsday, Bluegrass & Barbecue at the MabryHazen House will require some work, said executive director Calvin Chappelle. This was the event’s eighth year, and it brought in at least $10,000 each year, which is “huge in the nonprofit world.” But he understands why it couldn’t continue and said he would make the same
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choice if an event he organized was losing money. He points out that Knoxville was a different place in 1988, the year Boomsday debuted. Downtown cleared out after 5 p.m., and Riverfront Landing was still nearly a decade away. People needed a reason to come to downtown, and Boomsday provided it. Now, there’s always some-
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thing to see and do, Chappelle says. People flock downtown for the farmers market, concerts and each First Friday, with or without fireworks. We’ll always be sentimental about Boomsday, like we’re sentimental about childhood birthday parties. But maybe we’ve grown up and don’t need so much flash. Maybe we’ll focus on
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Frost on baseball:
a family tradition Baseball has been very, very good to Rob Frost. Before he was on City Council, or a lawyer or a father, he was a fan.
Betty Bean He played Little League for Rodgers Cadillac against teams like National Plastics and Copper Cellar in the Knoxville Youth Sports league. Vance Link was the commissioner; Jimmy Haslam was his coach. He has passed his Sequoyah All-Stars jersey down to his older son, Sonny. “Another coach in the league was some guy named Mike Chase. He coached Copper Cellar,” Frost said. “Vance Link pitched to me and has pitched to Sonny and Charlie (Frost’s younger son) as well.” He believes that baseball
is good for kids. “Baseball teaches patience – there’s a game within the game. The different battles that go on between pitchers and batters, and how, defensively, the game is played and how the team’s got to work together. Offensively, it’s one batter against nine players. In football, it’s 11 on 11. In baseball it’s one versus nine, if you’re on offense. And in baseball, if you get a hit three out of 10 times you’re at the plate, you’re a majorleague all star.” Given all that, it wasn’t a surprise that baseball was Frost’s topic as September’s featured book reviewer for the Knox County Public Library’s “Books Sandwiched In” lecture at the East Tennessee History Center. Every audience member last week got a box of Cracker Jack. The official topic was John Feinstein’s “Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues
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of Baseball,” a poignant account of the players who chase their dreams and hope to get noticed while playing for teams like the Montgomery Biscuits or the Chattanooga Lookouts or the Omaha Storm Chasers. Only a tiny fraction ever get that call to join The Show, said Frost, who was clearly moved by the stories of players from impoverished countries like the Dominican Republic desperate to parlay their skills on the diamond into a way to deliver their families a better way of life. The foreign players weren’t the only ones who grabbed Frost’s sympathetic attention. He talked about young men from all over the USA who keep hoping for the big break that will carry them to the majors. He demonstrated that hallmark of a baseball fan – a love of statistics – via a handout listing some of the major characters fea-
Another city election, another low turnout tured in Feinstein’s book – Richard McLouth, Jean Carlos Boscan and Scott “The Podfather” Podsednik, who played for 21 teams in a career crowned by a walk-off home run for the Chicago White Sox. Two years later, he was out of baseball. Frost says he doesn’t have a favorite major-league team. Sonny, on the other hand, is a big-time Yankees fan and already shows signs that he’ll be the same kind of baseball guy as his dad. “Here’s a kid who, for his ninth birthday party had a Honus Wagner cookie cake – Honus Wagner, who last played baseball in 1917,” Frost said.
UT lobbyist will earn pay in upcoming session Dave Hart, University of Tennessee athletic director, is acting as though the Lady Vol name controversy has blown over and it is business as usual. Hart was quoted recently as saying the Athletic Department has moved on from this controversy. Little does he understand the Tennessee mindset when he says that. He can expect to see it considered in the next legislative session when respected members like Roger Kane and Becky Duncan Massey bring it up. This issue is only in remission at present and likely will come back stronger than ever in the session of the state Legislature starting Jan. 13. UT lobbyist Anthony Haynes, who is paid $180,000 a year, will have his hands full protecting Hart from himself. ■ State Rep. Bill Dunn, who chairs the allimportant House Calendar Committee, certainly struck a responsive chord with his comments a few weeks ago critical of the UT Office for Diversity and Inclusion for suggesting the use of pronouns xe and hir and zirs instead of he/she. He first thought this was a joke, and when he discovered it was true, he asked if taxpayers really pay someone to generate this stuff. UT has enough issues against it in Nashville al-
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ready without adding this to the fire. It can only worsen relations with the conservative GOP majority in Nashville. UT says this is not policy and was only informational. U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and others have blasted it. Knoxville business leader Raja Jubran is the new vice chair of the UT Board, having been tapped by Gov. Haslam to hold the post. He will have his hands full dealing with these issues not of his making. It turns out that Donna Braquet, who was quoted, is actually a part-time employee of the UT diversity office, earning $72,378 mostly for her work at the University Libraries. The annual budget of the diversity office is $436,702, with vice chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion Rickey Hall directing the office and paid $181,637 a year. Hall has other duties besides this office, according to UT’s Margie Nichols. ■ The only contest in the upcoming city election of real note on Sept. 29 is
the battle over Seat C for the at-large City Council position currently held by Finbarr Saunders. Challenging him are three persons: Kelly Absher, Paul Bonovich and David Williams. Based on activity, it has narrowed to a BonovichSaunders contest with the top two of the four candidates going on to the November runoff. Saunders, who was ousted from County Commission by Jeff Ownby in 2010, is working hard to prevent a second ouster. He has had numerous small receptions, had yard signs erected and raised over $30,000. He is clearly worried in part due to the expected low voter turnout, which could work against him in the November runoff. Bonovich is talking about Saunders’ vote for a 34-cent property tax hike, which passed seven to two with Nick Della Volpe and Marshall Stair voting no. It is unclear how damaging that vote will be to Saunders, but it is not a topic Saunders brings up. Bonovich says 34 cents on the property tax rate was too high, and Saunders is not looking for ways to cut costs. He wants to reduce the tax rate. A safe prediction seems that Bonovich, 52, and Saunders, 70, will advance to the runoff with an engaging campaign to November.
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government In case you missed it, the Knoxville city primary election is underway, and early voting is finishing up this week. On the first day of voting, 145 votes were cast. You read that correctly. In a city of about 183,000 people, only 145 folks bothered to show up on the first day of voting. You’ve got a problem when more people show up at the Shoney’s breakfast buffet than at the polling place. (In fact, voter turnout was so low that Jeb Bush thought it was a big crowd!) It’s easy to blame a slew of uncontested races for the low turnout. It’s even easier to blame voter apathy. Some politicos even go so far as to say that no one votes in city elections because folks are happy with the performance of city government. (Admittedly, there’s some truth to that. If the city were in crisis, there’d be more candidates and higher public interest.) But at some point you have to blame the system for the lower turnout. Offyear elections held in oddnumbered years have fewer voters. Low-turnout elections favor special-interest groups like government employees and neighborhood organizations that are more likely to turn out and vote. In the long run, these low-turnout elections will have a corrosive effect on city government. Politicians will inevitably favor the policy needs of city employees and neighborhood groups over the needs of the city at large. It’s not a good thing. City leaders should modify the election calendar to encourage higher turnout. ■ Next mayor of Knoxville? With Mayor Rogero unopposed for reelection and term limited, positioning for the 2019 mayoral race has already begun. City Council mem-
Saunders wants to pile up a large margin in the primary next week to propel him forward in November, when the mayor will not be on the ballot. Saunders repeatedly endorses the other three incumbent council members, but at least one incumbent, Stair, says he is running his own campaign and not endorsing or opposing anyone in the other council contests. Saunders talks about how well current council members get along, so their re-election is merited. Seems like a minor consideration to this writer. Position on issues is far more significant. ■ An interesting book on World War II and how FDR managed the war effort published recently is “American Warlords” by Jonathan Jordan, an attorney living in Atlanta. It is well researched and worth ■ State Sen. Mark Norris and reading if you have a strong his wife, Chris, from Collierville, outside of Memhis, were interest in WWII. in Strawberry Plains last week ■ John Lansing, who to tour the new megalab at lived in Knoxville a few Pellissippi State. Chris said years ago while working as Mark is interested in workpresident of Scripps Netforce development. works and was general cam■ Mike Edwards, CEO of the paign chair for United Way Knoxville Chamber and workone year, has been named force guy, was at the lab tour CEO and director of the as well. He said our picture of Broadcasting Board of Govcows by the TVA power lines ernors, which runs Voice at the proposed Midway Busiof America, among other ness Park reminded him of things. His appointment is the old slogan: “Where nature not subject to Senate confirand technology meet.” mation.
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ber George Wallace has been running television ads for his unopposed reelection campaign, telling folks, “We’re not done, yet.” Of course, turnout for city elections is so low, Wallace could have dinner with every prospective voter between now and the 2019 mayoral election. ■ Curtain call for Boomsday? This year’s Boomsday fireworks show was reportedly the last. Event organizers report that the Labor Day weekend event runs a deficit of about $100,000 a year. Here’s hoping the annual fireworks show continues next year. Of course, $100,000 is a lot of money. However, the Boomsday budget shortfall is less than the taxpayer-funded salary of a senior director in either city or county government. Fireworks shows aren’t supposed to be “profitable.” Fireworks are affordable entertainment for cashstrapped families who can’t afford to get their kids through the gates at UT football games. A cynic might say that Boomsday doesn’t get funded because it brings a less affluent crowd downtown. Folks who don’t vote as frequently. Folks who don’t spend a lot of money. It will be a shame if Boomsday goes away. Politicians spend enough money currying favor with the well connected. They should throw a fireworks show for regular folks, too. Let’s bring back Boomsday. Scott Frith is a local attorney. You can contact him at scott@pleadthefrith.com.
GOSSIP AND LIES
■ Donald Trump’s support comes from people who don’t want a politician to be president. That’s like saying you don’t want a brain surgeon to operate on your head. ■ State Rep. Eddie Smith has filed legislation to restore some $261 million to the TDOT budget that was “raided” during the Bredesen Administration. Tennessee has a backlog of road projects totaling $6.1 billion. ■ Off to a great start, Eddie. Now where’s the other $5,839,000,000 coming from?
A-6 • SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 • BEARDEN Shopper news
SENIOR NOTES ■ Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett’s Senior Appreciation Picnic, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, John Tarleton Park, 3201 Division St. Info: 215-4007.
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■ Cumberland Estates Recreation Center 4529 Silver Hill Drive 588-3442
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Senior Walkers meet 10:30 a.m. Monday-Friday. ■ Frank R. Strang Senior Center 109 Lovell Heights Road 670-6693 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. ■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center 611 Winona St. 523-1135 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
By 11 a.m. the streets were already filling up with seniors. Photos by Cindy Taylor
By Cindy Taylor
Programs available: Card games, billiards, senior fitness, book club, Bingo, Friday night dances 7-9 p.m. each week. ■ Larry Cox Senior Center 3109 Ocoee Trail 546-1700 Monday-Friday Hours vary Wednesday, Sept. 23: 9 a.m. power walk; 11:15 a.m. free senior swim exercise (sign up); 4 p.m. Delightful Movement Line Dance with Debra from UT. (sign up). Thursday, Sept. 24: 10 a.m. Sit and be Fit; noon ceramics. Monday, Sept. 28: 9 a.m. power walk. Tuesday, Sept. 29: 9 a.m. power walk; 10 a.m. Sit and be fit; 12:30 p.m. self-portrait made out of newspaper with Kelcey (sign up). ■ One Call Club 2247 Western Ave. 595-3006 knoxseniors.org/onecall Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
Judy Breuer, Valerie Cody and Miller Dowdell learn how to make gift boxes out of Christmas cards from demonstrator Christa Keyes. Nate Bednar runs through a routine with Breeze, a four-year-old Australian Cow dog mix. All canines in the Marvelous Mutts show are rescue dogs.
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Free for seniors day at the Tennessee Valley Fair brought more than 2,500 people 65 and older to enjoy rides, games, displays and free stuff. The day was geared to those with special needs as well. Many rides were run at a slower speed to accommodate those who wanted or needed a more leisurely experience. A trolley was available to transport fairgoers from the front gate to the Pepsi community tent where seniors could take advantage of free blood pressure checks, flu shots and check out entertainment on stage all in the shade. Senior Home Assistance of Tennessee set up booths under the tent from numerous local vendors to give seniors a one-stop opportunity to compare services and senior benefits. Inside the Jacob building UT Extension and FCE partnered to offer free drinks and snacks along with culinary learning opportunities. Terri Karlson and Brandy Beene from The
Tree and Vine held demonstrations and free tastings. They explained uses for olive oil and how to tell when it is past its best date. Seniors also learned how to make their own decorative wine bottles. At the Kerr building seniors could explore beautiful displays from local crafters and participate in making many of their own to take home. As usual handmade quilts made a huge showing. “I don’t quilt but my grandmother did so I understand the work that goes into these,” said fairgoer Judith Dowell. “I am very impressed with these quilts. They are part of our history.” The Country Store featured handmade items and holiday décor for sale. The dog show, only in its second year at the fair, was well worth the stop. Nate Bednar works with the rescued canines that perform amazing tricks. Many seniors stated that it was one of the best Tennessee Valley Fairs ever.
Announcing the 39th Annual
Kerbela Shrine Circus It’s a 3-ring show your family won’t want to miss! We’d love for you to be part of this special event, and we’ll send complimentary passes for your family and friends with your paid sponsorship.
Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn. Fri., Oct. 23, 2015 ...................7pm Sat., Oct. 24, 2015 .......1pm & 7pm Sun., Oct. 25, 2015......1pm & 7pm SHRINERS ON PARADE starts 30 minutes before showtime.
The Kerbela Shriners need and appreciate your support of the circus. Your help makes it possible for us to maintain our efforts locally and give away many thousands of free tickets to disadvantaged and deserving children and worthy organizations in 17 East Tennessee counties so that they can enjoy the circus free of charge. If you haven’t already been contacted and would like more info, please contact us at: Kerbela Shrine Circus PO Box 2691 Knoxville, TN 37901 Phone: (865) 573-0446 Email: knoxville@shrineservices.com
We thank you for your continued support! Fundraising for the circus is conducted by Shrine Services, a professional solicitor on behalf of the Kerbela Shriners. Proceeds benefit Kerbela Shriners. Contributions are not deductible as charitable donations.
If you are interested in a position helping reach out to the community, we are hiring, call (865) 246-1823.
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BEARDEN Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 • A-7
God, the jeweler You have made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. You make darkness and it is night …. (Psalm 104: 19 NRSV)
My calendar tells me that today is the first day of Fall, but what does my calendar know? I knew it was Fall when I walked across the yard on a recent night and saw the moon and the stars shining like it was their job. Even the darkness that surrounded the stars was lovely and rich and deep blue – almost like lapis lazuli. If you have been a reader of this column for a while, you know that autumn is my season. The crispness of the air, the rustle of the leaves, and the sparkle of the heavens take my breath away and lift my heart with their freshness and beauty. I know there are people who dread autumn, who see it as the death of summer, who feel depressed by its onset. I can understand how someone might feel that way. That understanding – so diametrically opposed to my joy and delight in the new season – is the only thing
The pumpkins that add a splash of color to the intersection of Kingston Pike and Papermill Road as well as revenue for charities supported by Messiah Lutheran Church will be arriving on Oct. 14 and go on sale Oct. 15 at the church, 6900 Kingston Pike. This display is from a previous year. Photo submitted
From Navajos to East Tennessee, pumpkin sales serve multiple missions By Sherri Gardner Howell Those grinning jack-olanterns and horn-of-plenty table decorations that brighten many West Knoxville homes in October and November also bring smiles 1,500 miles away. Messiah Lutheran Church, 6900 Kingston Pike, and West Emory Presbyterian Church, 1035 Emory Church Road, are two local churches that sell pumpkins each year from land managed by the Navajo Pride nation. The churches get their pumpkins from Navajo Ag-
ricultural Products Industry in Farmington, New Mexico. NAPI is a thriving source of revenue for the Navajo people, and the endeavor includes growing and selling potatoes, beans, corn and wheat and other grains for their Navajo Pride food line. Messiah Lutheran and West Emory are two of more than 1,300 locations in 48 states that participate in a joint operation between NAPI and Pumpkin Patch Fundraisers, a North Carolina company run by Richard and Janice Hamby. Pumpkin Patch lease 2,000
The Knoxville Opera Gospel Choir will be featured when “Knoxville Opera Goes to Church” this weekend. Photo submitted
Gospel and opera By Carol Shane This weekend, gospel and opera will join hands for one of the Knoxville Opera Company’s most popular concerts. It’s so popular that they’re presenting it twice. “Knoxville Opera Goes to Church … A Celebration of Talent” features the Knox-
ville Opera Gospel Choir as well as cast members from the upcoming production of Boito’s “Mefistofele.” One of 75 education and outreach programs offered by the opera company each year, the concert grew out of talks between KOC maestro Brian Salesky, his staff
■ New Covenant Baptist Church, 10319 Starkey Lane, will host a Celebration of Life worship service for cancer survivors 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, at the church. Guest speaker: Ronni Chandler, cancer survivor and executive director of Knoxville Project Grad. A reception will follow in the fellowship hall. ■ Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road, holds meditation services 6:30 p.m. each second and fourth Wednesday. Includes quiet reflection, simple music and readings. Info: westsideuuc.org.
Classes/meetings ■ Norwood Church of Christ, 6001 Central Avenue Pike, will host Dr. Dale W. Manor, professor and archaeologist from Harding University, presenting three lectures on archaeology Sunday, Oct. 4. Bible class, 9:45 a.m.: “It Is Written: Inscriptions from the Ancient World”; worship service, 10:45 a.m.: “Vying for Canaan: Egypt, Philistines and Israel”; lecture, 1 p.m.: “Archaeology and David.” Potluck lunch will follow the
that makes me be patient with them instead of trying to win them over to my point of view. Sometimes I wonder if God enjoys the turning of the seasons as much as we do. Is that why the Almighty designed the universe with change? God’s creativity – that wondrous ability to create light and oceans and mountains and lakes and people and kitty cats and Irish setters and chipmunks and lapis lazuli – surely causes God to look at this little whirling blob of matter and smile. Among all the stars, the worlds we can’t even see, God is at work creating, sustaining, upholding, blessing all God’s creation. Amen, and amen.
The splashes of color along Kingston Pike and at the intersection of Emory Church Road and Westland Drive are familiar sights for many West Knoxvillians. The 18-wheelers arrive in early October – on Oct. 10 for West Emory and Oct. 14 for Messiah Lutheran. Sales open the next day. This is the tenth year for West Emory’s sale and year number 16 for Messiah Lutheran. At West Emory, unloading the pumpkins is a church and community endeavor, with “assembly
lines” passing pumpkins from truck to the church lawn. At Messiah Lutheran, help comes from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. “Ivan Harmon with Knox County helps us by getting workers through the worker release program. I’m not sure we would be able to do this without them!” says Williamson.
Each church receives between 2,000 and 2,500 pumpkins of all shapes and sizes. Last year, Pumpkin Patch Fundraisers shipped 5.5 million pumpkins and netted more than $3 million in sales, according to the company website. Info: Messiah Lutheran, 588-9753; West Emory, 690-0679.
and leaders in the AfricanAmerican community. Salesky’s wish was to make opera audiences more inclusive and diverse, while also celebrating local Knoxville talent. “After considering various ways to accomplish this,” he says, “the committee chose to form the Knoxville Opera Gospel Choir under the direction of Ms. Jeannie Melton and present that group along with local soloists and guest opera artists in a predominantly African-American church.” Melton says she is proud to conduct such eclectic repertoire. “Our performances are an inspiration both to our performers and our very enthusiastic audience.” And they are enthusiastic. Last year the house was packed to the rafters – hence this year’s second planned production. “We are privileged to
contribute to our community with this unique event that unites patrons and fans who appreciate diverse musical cultures,” says Salesky, who will accompany the solo opera artists. “We are most grateful for the support of our generous sponsors who make this concert possible.”
The two-concert series is presented by Home Federal Bank and is sponsored by The Fifth Commandment Fund. “Knoxville Opera Goes to Church … A Celebration of Talent” takes place at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, 2500 E. Fifth
Ave., Knoxville. The second performance will be at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Community Church at Tellico Village, 130 Chota Center, Loudon. For more information, visit KnoxvilleOpera.com, or call 5240795, ext. 28. Send story suggestions to news@ shoppernewsnow.com.
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worship service. Info: norwoodchurchofchrist. org; 687-5383.
Vendors needed ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7754 Oak Ridge Highway, is seeking vendors for the annual Craft Fair to be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21 in the family life center. Spaces: $40. Bring your own table or rent one for $10. Info/reservations: 690-1060.
Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, hosts Morning Breakfast and Afternoon Hang Out for youth each Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 690-1060 or beaverridgeumc.org. ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7754 Oak Ridge Highway, will host “Youth Service Staycation,” so parents can have an evening to themselves, 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, in the family life center. Includes pizza, games and a movie. No cost; all children welcome. Info: 690-1060 or beaverridgeumw. org.
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UT NOTES ■ Jessica Hay, assistant professor of psychology and director of UT’s Infant Language and Perceptual Learning Lab, has received a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to
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acres of land from NAPI and employ Navajo workers to grow the pumpkins, then do a profit share from the sale of the pumpkins. Mary Williamson, Messiah Lutheran’s head “pumpkin lady” this year, says the project is “absolutely a dual winner” for the church. In addition to the money that goes to the Navajo people, profits made through the sale stay local. “We always choose one or two local charities to benefit from our sale,” says Williamson.
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study how infants acquire language. Hay is seeking families from East Tennessee with children ages 6 months to 2 years to be part of the study. Info: 974-0514 or infantlanguagelab@utk.edu.
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A-8 • SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 • BEARDEN Shopper news Daniel Smith, Makayla Norvell and Kyla Faerber make music with “found instruments.”
Norwood first graders study found sounds
Hospitality for teachers Bearden Elementary School PTSO hospitality committee hosted a tailgate luncheon for faculty last week. Picnic tables were set up in the gymnasium and rows of good eats covered serving tables. Chick-fil-A in Bearden donated dozens of chicken nuggets and families brought in their favorite dishes for teachers to enjoy. Pictured are second grade teacher Pam Marcano and PTSO hospitality chair Shannon Waller.
Northshore Elementary School music teacher Allison Hendrix leads her students on the guitar.
First graders at Northshore Elementary School were really cooking in Allison Hendrix’s music class while learning about “found sounds.” Hendrix brought in a collection of objects typically found in a kitchen so students could use them to accompany the beat of a song. Hendrix asked individuals to come up and play a kitchen object behind a sheet, and their classmates guessed what the item was. “Instruments” included an oatmeal tub, a pot and lid
and a cup of beans. Hendrix played “Just from the Kitchen” on the guitar while students followed along with their chosen instruments. Other students shook dish towels in the air and sang. “The lyrics of the song are about the joy of slipping in to the kitchen and being handed a biscuit to snack on … a yummy treat!” said Hendrix. The song comes from an African-American collection compiled by Bessie Jones.
New coach for Atomic City Aquatics Club Atomic City Aquatics Club has announced Andy Wagner as its new head coach. “Wagner brings a unique skill set and energy that is the perfect match for this team,” said ACAC spokesperson Chip Fischer. “With previous experience developing championship swimmers – including former ACAC swimmers who continued swimming in college – the former ACAC age group coach has already proven to have great leadership qualities and the ability to relate to and guide his swimmers,” he said.
Returning as assistant coach is prior Olympic Trial swimmer Breanna Folk, a former University of Tennessee swimmer who has coached for ACAC more than two years. ACAC will compete in this year’s SAC Fall Kickoff Sept. 26-27 in Sevierville. “This will be a great opportunity for the swimmers to come together as a team and see how their skills are progressing, and to see if new heights can be achieved. Overall, it looks like a great year is taking shape,” said Fischer. Info: 300-2305 or www.swim4acac.com.
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Kinley Frear, Jake Mink, Amelia Powers and Harrison Smith shake dish towels while singing.
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Mooreland Heights Elementary School students Taj Wampler, Camden Huggins and Lexi Sparks try some Envy juice.
Annual food fair has tough judges This year’s annual clipboard with a list of items School Nutrition Food Fair to taste, and a highlighter to mark either for Knox County Schools a happy face was held last week at the or a sad face Expo Center, and I have next to each never seen so many game item on the faces on elementary school list. students. Acosta K-12 market specialist Paula Taylor Taylor Sara has worked Barrett these shows for the past 25 years and says she never tires of seeing the kids being the bosses for a change. A big hit is always the Kids from all over the county spent some time at pizza, Taylor says, but one the fair taste-testing po- year she remembers a fish tential additions to their nugget with confetti flour school menus. Every type sprinkled on top that disof food imaginable was tributors thought would be represented, from rolls to a hit because of the colorful ice cream, edamame to topping. It tanked big time. Another surprising adgrilled-cheese sandwiches, justment that had to be fruit juice to cookies. Each student was given a made in the Southern
states, according to Taylor, were the biscuits served in schools for breakfast. Southern kids were used to white flour biscuits, and recently when the government mandated how the biscuits were made, the new whole-grain recipe made the biscuits turn brown and the students stopped eating them. A waiver was submitted so white flour biscuits could be served, and the kids were once again happy. One popular item at the food show was SideKicks frozen fruit juice. “I always hated to see all those apples and bananas being thrown in the trash when I worked food service in school,” said Taylor. SideKicks is a good alternative with 100 percent fruit juice in each serving, and it looks like sorbet. The cutie pie judges agreed. It was a hit.
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BEARDEN Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 • A-9
Merry Olde England inin Oak Ridge By Carol Shane Head to St. George Greek Orthodox Church this weekend for the 36th Annual Greekfest. It’s a delicious Knoxville tradition that features authentic Greek food, live music, traditional Greek dancing and costumes, and shopping. As most Knoxvillians know, the entire interior of the church was destroyed by fire in April of this year. Festival guests will be invited into a temporary sanctuary, located in the gym. There will be presentations on Greek Orthodox religion and history, and items salvaged from the fire will be on display, including several icons that were, miraculously, barely damaged. The marketplace will offer imported jewelry and gifts. But the big draw is the food: roast lamb, gyro, souvlaki, pastichio, spanakopita, saganaki, and Greek salad, pizza and pastries. The 36th Annual Greekfest runs 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, and Saturday, Sept. 26; and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, at St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 4070 Kingston Pike. Admission: $2 for adults; free for children 12 and under; $3 weekend passes also available. Info:
The concert features UT professor of cello Wesley Baldwin performing Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor. Best known as the composer of several “Pomp and Circumstance” marches, the composer wrote the concerto late in life. It has been described as “autumnal, romantic, melancholy yet at times full of grandeur.” Maestro Dan Allcott, now in his sixth season with ORSO, says, “I am so excited to feature my good friend Wesley Baldwin as soloist on our opening concert. Wes and I have collaborated many times over the years.” Baldwin says he’s excited, too. “The orchestra is first rate, and Dan is a great musician and conductor, and a cellist to boot, so he is the perfect conductor to explore UT professor of cello Wesley Baldwin looks these notes with. forward to performing Edward Elgar’s Cello “Elgar said of this piece Concerto in E Minor with the Oak Ridge Symthat it in some ways was phony Orchestra this weekend. Photo submitted reflective of an older man looking over his life. Now several decades into my re522-5043 or visit www. the Knoxville Symphony lationship with this piece, greekfesttn.com. Orchestra’s “American I do feel this element in its ■ Classical music lov- Masters” season opener the genesis ever more clearly. ers are looking forward to week before, concertgoers Yes, there is lots of vigor, the Oak Ridge Symphony will hop across the pond virtuosity and excitement Orchestra’s opening con- – or at least up Pellissippi in this piece. There is also a cert of its 71st season, titled Parkway – to hear music in- kind of wisdom and mind“Merry Olde England,” this spired by that sceptered isle fulness that goes quite deep weekend. Having attended and its composers. into subtle and important
‘The Intern’ When retirement proves less than ideal to a 70-year-old widower, he applies and is hired for an internship at an online fashion site in “The Intern,” opening Friday. Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway (pictured) star.
emotional realms. I could not be more pleased at the advent of this upcoming performance. “And, as anyone who’s heard it knows, it is just flatout gorgeous.” The concert also features the Oak Ridge Chorus in a performance of G.F. Handel’s anthem, “Zadok the Priest.” The evening opens with Felix Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides Overture” and closes with Haydn’s last symphony, No. 104 in D major, often called the “London Symphony.”
Comics give bad movies new
By Betsy Pickle
No one is making people watch the staggeringly bad movies at Scruffy Science Cinepub 6000, but apparently they just can’t turn away. Offered at 8 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month at Scruffy City Hall, 32 Market Square, Scruffy Science Cinepub 6000 bears more than a passing resemblance to the late and still lamented “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” Knoxville’s distinction is that improvisational comedians are sitting in on the film, ragging on it live for the audience’s enjoyment. And there’s a “heckle mic” in the back. “We encourage audience members to bring on their best one-line zingers while the whole thing is going on as well,” says Michael Samstag, who produces the event with Victor Agreda Jr., with support from Matt Ward. “We have a gong for any really terrible groaners.” Samstag says that two troupes – Scruffy City Comedy and Full Disclosure Comedy – are already on board, and he expects Einstein Simplified to join in the fun, too. Cinepub 6000 “was born from an afternoon of drinking” with Scruffy City
proprietor Scott West and others in June, says Samstag. He found his lineup by Googling bad movies “and stuff that I could find on Amazon for cheap.” “There’s a bunch of lists of films that nobody owns, that are public-domain schlocky films that you can use for various screenings without having to worry about fees, and of course for us it’s fair-use public domain anyway because we’re improvising over it as it plays.” The series debuted in August with “Invasion of the Bee Girls.” The Sept. 23 film is “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” (1962). “It’s so funny because we do all these serious screenings, and we have to beg and cajole to get people to come out, then we can take … ‘Invasion of the Bee Girls’ – I’d like to say it’s the worst movie ever made, but there’s so many of them like that – and people just can’t get enough of it.” Upcoming films include the original “Little Shop of Horrors” (notable as Jack Nicholson’s first film), “Destination Moon” and “The Crawling Eye.” “They’re sort of indiscriminately chosen,” says Samstag. “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” was “a
Maestro Allcott promises “an enjoyable evening for all!” The Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra performs its opening concert of the 2015-2016 season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Ticket prices begin at $10 for young adults ages 18-30; $25 for adults. Children are admitted free. Info: www.orcma. org or call 483-5569. Send story suggestions to news@ shoppernewsnow.com.
life Scruff y Science Cinepub 6000 attendees watch “Invasion of the Bee Girls.” Photo submitted
MST3K favorite. That’s actually a coincidence. I’m not trying to just do stuff that’s been on ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ because then comedians could go and just watch those episodes and have all the obvious lines.” Although the Scruffy Science Cinepub 6000 is all about laughs, Samstag says he “wouldn’t call it a familyfriendly event” because alcohol plays a big role. “Drinks start at 7, and the trashing begins at 8,”
he says. But judging by August’s turnout and the he RSVPs on the Facebook k page a week in advance, e, he’s expecting fans to o create their own family over the months. “I think it’s going to be a beloved event in no time.”
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Two for the road Nadean Meredith and Carolyn Valentine have been taking their show on the road. Literally. Hope and Crosby have nothing on these two Commercial Bank employees who have almost 100 years of service between them. The two play off each other like a comedy team who have worked together most of their lives. Commercial Bank employees Nadean Meredith and Carolyn Valentine lead tours through the bank’s Golden Presidential Club.
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Meredith and Valentine are in charge of senior travel for Commercial Bank. They, along with other Commercial Bank employees, spoke to Heiskell seniors this month about the advantages offered by the bank to Golden Presidential Club members. The game was to see who could get the microphone and keep it the longest. “I’m never at a loss for words,” said Meredith. “I have been with the bank for
52 years and have done a little bit of everything. Things have changed so much that now I can’t do anything. So they put me in charge of the travel program. Carolyn is a barrel of monkeys all day long. We can’t pick you up at your door but we make it easy for you to come to us.” “We promise we won’t let you get sick but if you do we will take care of you,” said Valentine. “We have so much fun and sometimes we get so tickled our bladder has a hard time keeping up with us. This is a service, not a money maker. We focus on quality and safety
but we always have fun.” Meredith and her husband will be hosting a dinner at their home for seniors going on the upcoming Panama Canal cruise in October. Info: nmeredith@cbtn. com or cvalentine@cbtn. com or call 606-248-4584. There is still time to register for the fan quilt to be given away in December at the Heiskell senior meeting. Tickets are two for $5. All funds raised will go toward the new senior center. Flu shots have been rescheduled for the October meeting. Blankets are almost com-
plete for Safe Harbor and will be delivered in December. Totes of Love donations are being accepted now. Needs are personal hygiene products and school supplies. The seniors deliver these to Copper Ridge and Powell Elementary, Powell Middle and Powell High. More than 150 students will receive the totes. Janice White announced that the annual Raccoon Valley Bluegrass Festival will be held this Saturday, Sept. 26, on the Patt farm. Gate opens at 9:30 a.m. The event is free to visitors and vendors.
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By Sandra Clark Marketing and sales guru Tim Petree spoke last week to the North K nox v ille R o t a r y Club. The K nox v ille native has a background Tim Petree in television and now heads a company with clients nationwide. Be Media Savvy Inc. promises to deliver “big time marketing strategies that work for small budgets.” Petree says the Internet has made it possible for any sized business to find and retain customers. “Turn those clicks into cash,” he said. Have a system to corral the people who click on your website or “like” you on Facebook. He suggested a lead magnet (sometimes called a hook). Offer something free – just one idea or suggestion – to get potential
a new one), and even Gibbs Middle School (signing off on a bond to build it). So if he and the folks opposed to a business park at Midway can come to agreement, folks should count on him to honor his promise. Those kids in the megalab at Pellissippi State, just one exit down from Midway, would be thrilled with hightech jobs nearby. Problem is the distance between developers and the distrustful residents of East Knox County. If anybody can bridge it, Burchett can. He’s got the votes on County Commission to rezone the land. You could see it in their eyes at the picnic. But can Burchett glide through this mess unscathed? If so, his political future should be secure, regardless of the next job he seeks.
The cows seemed unsettled as a big bus descended on the Thorn Grove community packed with skeptics and promoters of a business park at Midway. The power lines are part of a TVA easement on the county-owned site. Photo by S. Clark
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SCHOOL NOTES ■ The Episcopal School of Knoxville is hosting three admissions events in the month of October: admissions open house, 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7; Sixth Grade Night, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, for
Claudia Dean & Dan Feller Chantelle & Randy Fields Thomas F Fine Christine Griffin & Joe Finucane Louise Frazier Seat C Ashley Capps & Dr Maria Birgitta Clark Bob Alcorn Louise Frazier J &K C K th & P l A b Robert E Freeman Bob Alcorn Lisa & Alan Carroll Lynne & Scott Fugate Kathy & Paul Ambrose Joe & Karen Carson Margaret Fuller Walt Smith & Gina Anderson Jeff & Vicki Chapman Margaret & Felix Gaiter Gail & Gerald Anderson Brooks & Karen Clark Mike Anderson Ashley Capps & Dr Maria Birgitta Clark Maria & David Gall Dan Gammon Barbara & Steve Apking Linda & Pete Claussen John Gill Pat & Jane Armstrong Mike Cohen Joyce Feld & Charles Glisson Steve Backiel Arnold G Cohen Glenn & Caroline Graber Leslie Badaines Steve Cotham Marsha & Duane Grieve Odessa & Bruce Baker John Cotham Barbara & Eric Haralson Calvin & Mary Alice Balch Larry & Brenda Cox Julie & Patrick Hardin Ann Barker Chris Craig Becky & Mark Harmon Dan Barnett Anne Craig Joe & Clarke Harrison Chip Barry Robert B Cunningham Laura & Mark Heinz Susan Beider Marleen & TK Davis Debbie Helsley James A H Bell Wes Goddard & Randall Deford Grace Henderlight Kate Benson Gary Deitsch Chris & Sheila Hill Sam & Nancy Bills Ann Delap Mary & Dan Holbrook Jenny & Rick Blackburn Donna & John Dempster Ray & Linda Holton Deedee Blane Judith Meyer & David Denton Kerry Howland Kathy & John Bohstedt Marg Dietz Emma Huddleston Brian & Jean Bonnyman Polly & Howell Doka Andie Ray & Noel Hudson Regis Ann Borsari Susan & Boyce Driskell Bitsy & Lee Ingram Cameron Brooks Anne Dungan Gloria Johnson Chris & Mari Brooks Jennifer & Greg Dunn Breese & Kathryn Johnson Cathy & Daniel Brown Stephanie Durman Jane & Bob Jones Amy Broyles Martha Earl Maribel Koella & Chuck Jones Fred & Gina Buffum Karen Eberle Stephanie Welch & Mark Jones Betsey Bush Ghada & Faris Eid Tammy Kaousias Christian Cain Phyllis & John Eldridge Richard & Barbara Kelly Emily & Mark Campen Terry & Charlie Faulkner
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Burchett tour takes us halfway to Midway Mayor Tim Burchett blessed the food and folks dug in to the country cooking of Henry’s Deli from Gibbs. “Somebody said to call Rothchild Catering, but I said to get somebody from the district,” Burchett said on the side, sighing as the weight of the world settled on his shoulders. It’s become Burchett’s job to sell the Midway Business Park to the folks who: 1) live nearby; 2) worry about pollution in the French Broad River; and 3) are still annoyed over the sneaky tactics of those who bought 300 acres or so of farmland and then sold it to Knox County for a tidy profit. Into his second (and final) term, Burchett is cleaning up unfinished business. The land at Midway is certainly that. “We should develop it or divest it,” is essentially Burchett’s position. The county’s got $10 million tied up in property on which the former owners at least paid taxes. Burchett says people trust him to keep his word. He’s done it on taxes (not raising them), Carter Elementary School (building
Sue Nicely registers for the fan quilt to be given away at the Heiskell Seniors December meeting. Photos by Cindy Taylor
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rising fourth through sixth grade students for 2016-17; admissions open house, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. Info: Alice Harris, 218-4494, or esknoxville.org.
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business Childhelp work ‘rewarding’ By Bonny C. Millard
Bill Freshour, (center, light blue shirt) a teacher at the Career Magnet Academy, trains future mechanical engineering technicians.
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Business and government leaders from across the state were wowed by the 3D printing and other manufacturing innovations available for training in the megalab at the Strawberry Plains campus of Pellissippi State Community College. The lab houses equipment for advanced manufacturing, homeland security and sustainable living courses. The unique setup makes the lab available to PSCC students as well as students of the Knox County Schools Career Magnet Academy and the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Knoxville. Randy Boyd, Tennessee
commissioner of economic and community development, said, “I was blown away by this space when I walked in. Students in Tennessee, through the Tennessee Promise and Tennessee Reconnect, can now go to college free of tuition, but students need modern equipment and modern, great facilities. “This facility is such a blessing for this area. It’ll be even more exciting when students go in there and begin to learn,” Boyd said in a prepared release from the college. Boyd should know. The lab is located in the Jenny and Randy Boyd Building. Tim Wilson, who works
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Chris Stokes is the business area sales manager for U.S. Cellular in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. The Hardin Valley resident has been with U.S. Cellular since 2003, most recently serving as the senior manager for multi-channel performance. In 2012, he was awarded the U.S. Cellular Enterprise Dynamic Excellence Award.
Childhelp deals with some of the most serious issues involving children – sexual and physical abuse as well as children in foster A display of items created by care – but Hugh Nystrom, 3D printing shows a range director of community relafrom artistic to practical. tions, says it is a rewarding experience. Childhelp is a national nonprofit that operates the Knox County Children’s Advocacy Center and the Childhelp Foster Family Agency of East Tennessee. Nystrom spoke to the Rotary Club of Farragut about how the organization helps abused and displaced children. “In spite of what we deal with every single day, it’s a very positive place to work,” he said. Nystrom worked for the Walt Disney Company for 14 years before returning State Sen. Becky Massey jokes with Career Magnet Academy home to Knoxville for famstudents Kyle LaJouness of Gibbs and Alex Smoot of the Fulton ily reasons. Even though it High area. CMA draws students from across Knox County. Pho- was a dream career, he said tos by S. Clark his journey with Childhelp has also been deeply satisfying. in Pellissippi’s business and to create lattice-work and “It’s been just an incredcommunity services depart- three-dimensional writing. ible 10 years,” he said. ment, said companies can Pellissippi students can The advocacy center train existing staff “either obtain certificates, degrees opened 20 years ago and onsite or at our place.” He or other credentials in a provides a safe and comsaid Pellissippi is currently variety of fields including fortable environment for working with Fresenius, a welding, automated induschildren during the investiGerman-based company trial systems, industrial with offices in Knox County. maintenance, cyber secuPellissippi’s president, L. rity or even agri-economics. Anthony Wise, called the National associations and megalab “a place of shared corporations such as the ■ Thursday, Sept. 24, 8-9:30 vision in how to create edu- American Welding Society, a.m., networking: Tennessee cational and economic op- FANUC Robotics and the Strategies, We’re Cooking portunities in this area of National Institute for MetAll American Grill, 159 North East Tennessee.” alworking Skills will offer Peters Road. State Sen. Mark Norris credentials to students who ■ Thursday, Oct. 1, 5-6:30 p.m., came over from Collierville learn in the lab. networking: Springhill Suites to see the lab. His wife, Chris, talked with students such as Katie Stallings, who would have attended Carter High School had she not transferred to CMA. “You don’t have to program it,” CMA sophomore Kyle LaJouness told state Sen. Becky Massey about the 3D pencil he was using
gative stage of abuse cases. Before the center was established, children had to tell their stories several times to different officers, doctors and others. SomeNystrom times the interviews were done in the house where the abuse took place with the abuser nearby. “Just through that process of an abuse investigation, you’ve further traumatized the child,” Nystrom said. Childhelp has a large playroom filled with toys and other activities to put children at ease. During an investigation, a forensic interviewer talks to a child in a room with a two-way mirror that allows law enforcement officials to observe unobtrusively. He said every expert in Knox County who works on child abuse cases meets weekly to review “every single case of child abuse in Knox County and make a determination on how we’re going to move forward on it. … of what is in the best interests of the child.”
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Celebrating with Boys Night Out It may be football time in Tennessee, but a group of lucky boys got to think ahead to the coming days of “round ball” when the Boys & Girls Club of Tennessee Valley hosted “Boys Night Out with UT coach Rick Barnes.” The head coach of the University of Tennessee men’s basketball team gave a motivational speech to the
group, which was followed by games, food, entertainment and door prizes. After some great fun, an awards party honored the progress the guys have made over the summer and celebrated their accomplishments. The event was held at the Middlebrook Boys & Girls Club, 8831 Middlebrook Devon Perryman, 11, collects his new bicycle from Jason Gille- William Pate, 8, surfs an inflatable slide at Boys Night Out for Pike. ran. Devon won the bike in a random drawing. the Tennessee Valley Boys & Girls Club. Photos by Nancy Anderson
Devon Eddington and Jain Fadhil, both age 10, clown around with some of the club’s staff. At back is Josh Yarbrough, director of operations; Jason Gilleran, executive director for Haslam Family Club; Benton Williamson, university mentor; and John Lewis, senior director of workforce development.
Knox County tactical flight officer Sam Lindsey (left) and pilot Tim McClelland (right) give a helicopter tour to Isaiah Whaley and Dominic Durst.
Opera ahead at 5th Avenue Baptist By Bill Dockery Songs from classical operas and Broadway shows, mixed liberally with spirituals and gospel tunes, are coming to one of East Knoxville’s historic early-20thcentury churches on Saturday. The Knoxville Opera will stage a concert-style performance in the sanctuary of 5th Avenue Baptist Church, 2500 E. 5th Avenue, on Sept. 26 at 3:30 p.m. Admission is free. The program will feature
artists and selections from the company’s upcoming 2015-16 season, as well as local singers and the Knoxville Opera Gospel Choir. “The concert features singers performing all kinds of music,” said Michael Torano, the opera’s director of marketing and public relations. “Our notion was to celebrate all the vocal talents.” Torano said the Knoxville Opera was inspired by the Cincinnati Opera, which invented the “Opera Goes to
The program includes seven gospel numbers, including “Nothing is impossible,” “God’s on your side,” and “Jesus is real,” sung by Michael Rodgers, Evelyn Jack and Ernest Woods. Scott Bearden will perform the “Te Deum” from “Tosca,” and Donovan Singletary will Singletary Bearden Jack sing “Give me Jesus.” Singletary, a bass/bariChurch” performance sev- they believe is the only Operal years ago. era Gospel Choir in the na- tone, is affiliated with the “We borrowed from their tion. The performance at 5th Metropolitan Opera and will concept and then went even Avenue Baptist will mark the also perform music from further,” Torano said. The seventh year the local group the company’s upcoming performance of Boito’s “MeKnoxvillians boast what has “gone to church.”
fistofele.” He will be joined by Julia Lima and Cody Austin for a trio from Gounod’s “Faust.” Jeanie Turner Melton and Brian Salesky are the music directors for the concert, which is sponsored by Home Federal Bank. Salesky is also the group’s executive director. Though the sanctuary seats an audience of 800, based on attendance in previous years Torano recommends that concertgoers arrive early.
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FCA at CAK
It was a late start that morning. Students could have decided to sleep in a little bit longer. Instead, they gathered in the Campus Center to participate in the first Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting of the school year at CAK. It was a dream that Tyler Young had had since his days at Halls Mid-
dle School, where he really enjoyed being a part of such a ministry. “One day I felt God calling me to start an FCA Chapter here at CAK,” said Young. “While talking about this to Grayson Rule, we realized that this was something we wanted to start and had a heart for this ministry.”
After contacting Dean Craig, area director of the Greater Knoxville FCA, Craig guided the two through the process of starting it at school. Jay Smith, campus pastor at Concord Baptist Church and 2006 CAK graduate, spoke to approximately 70 students about living out their faith in everyday life.
“Our vision is for FCA at CAK to impact the student-athletes and strengthen their faith so they may become leaders on and off the field,” Young said. “Our plan is to pass this organization down to future CAK students to continue the ministry and leave a legacy at CAK.”
Congratulations
Congratulations to CAK seniors Courtney Ferren and Lauren Joy. The two (pictured in the center) made the 2015-2016 Tennessee Cheerleading Coaches Association (TCCA) All-State cheerleading squad. Each of the 18-member all-state squad was selected based on his/her academic performance, honors and
achievements, community service, essay, and his/her scores from the interview and tryout. The all-state squad will receive recognition at the 2015 TSSAA State Cheerleading Championships at MTSU’s Murphy Center on Nov. 14 and will perform at the Toyota Tennessee All-Star football game in December.
Grayson Rule, Brandon Kennedy (FCA Area Representative), Tyler Young and Ty Green (speaker at second meeting, September 16)
CAK represented in Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra
Warrior Network earns ‘Select’ distinction
The Warrior Network is a studentrun organization that broadcasts all of CAK’s football and basketball games, and a variety of sports and other events around campus. The Warrior Network recently won second place in the nation for production of a live sports broadcast and is one of 85 schools in the country to
earn the distinction of “Select” for the 2015-16 school year. CAK is one of the first two schools in the nation to broadcast in high definition. “They know we are serious about it,” CAK Warrior Network advisor Jim Blackwell said. “This takes our whole production quality to the next level. It’s really exciting!”
PreGame Preview High School Admissions Open House Thursday, October 8; 5:00 p.m. (CAK vs. Clinton football game to follow) This is an RSVP event! For details, visit: cakwarriors.com/admissions/events. SERVANTS | SCHOLARS | DISCIPLES
Drew Dixson Congratulations to CAK senior Drew Dixson, who recently auditioned and earned a spot in the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra. This is Dixson’s second year performing in the KSYO, and this year he will serve on the Youth Orchestra
Association’s Student Representative Committee. “We look forward to working with these talented students this season and hope that the knowledge they gain through KSYO will help strengthen their musical skills and contributions to each of (their school) programs,” said Jennifer Harrell with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. The Youth Orchestra this season is made up of students from 10 East Tennessee counties. Seventy percent of our Youth Orchestra students participate in their schools’ instrumental music program, and six percent participate in chorus or general music. KSYO will perform three concerts this year at the Tennessee Theatre: a fall concert on Nov, 16, a winter concerto concert on Feb. 15, and a spring concert on May 2. All concerts are free and open to the public. CAK senior Annalise Carroll is also involved in the Knoxville Youth Orchestra Association and performs with the Chamber Orchestra.
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Balloon sinuplasty a breath of air for sinus sufferers Nasal steroids. Nasal antihistmaines. Decongestants and antibiotics. If all these things are in your medicine cabinet and you’re still battling recurring sinusitis, Dr. Mark Overholt says you may want to consider balloon sinuplasty. Much like angioplasty opens coronary arteries, balloon sinuplasty utilizes a nonlatex balloon to open the sinuses. First approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2005, the balloon is delivered via a small catheter up the nasal passageway where it is gently in ated to widen sinuses closed by swelling and in ammation. Once the balloon is de ated and removed, the sinus is clear to drain. “It’s a neat procedure. I was dubious when I rst started,” said Overholt, an otolaryngologist with Parkwest Medical Center. “I said I would have to see the data and nd out whether this is real or not.” That data, collected via a threeyear randomized, controlled trial sponsored by Entellus Medical, was overwhelmingly convincing. Looking at placebo, traditional endoscopic sinus surgery and balloon sinuplasty at six-month, one-year and three-year intervals, the study concluded that balloon sinuplasty not only works in most cases, but also lessens the risk of recurrence. “The way to look at balloon sinuplasty is that it’s another tool,” said Overholt. “It forces us to look at our sinus patients in a little different manner. There is a patient population that, in the past, may have been under-treated in an attempt to not be overly aggressive.
Mark Overholt, M.D. reports that balloon sinus dilation is an increasingly preferred choice among patients searching for a minimallyinvasive choice with a fast recovery. Now, we have another tool in our toolbox to help treat those people.” Overholt says many are prescribed steroids, antihistamines, decongestants and antibiotics by primary care physicians hesitant to steer patients to a surgical solution. “In many of those cases, I would imagine that the balloon procedures would eliminate their illnesses – put them back in the normal population,” said Overholt. While the success rate of sinuplasty vs. traditional sinus surgery is virtually identical, the sinuplasty patients recover 70 percent faster, require little debridement or removal of cut or damaged tissue (8 percent vs. 74 percent) and
feel better faster (59 percent vs. not subject to recurring infections like you were before because when 38 percent). Perhaps even more telling is you got an allergy attack or a cold that balloon sinuplasty can some- or u in the past, if you had a realtimes be performed in the doc- ly narrow neck that was ventilattor’s of ce under local anesthesia. ing the sinus cavity, just a little bit “In the past, when we’ve done of swelling would close it off and sinus operations, we had to take leave the potential for a secondpatients to the operating room to ary infection,” he explained. “But do them. But one of the nice things now, if you balloon dilate it, there about this new balloon procedure is a much more of a safety margin. So if you is that it opens get a cold or an up potential for allergy attack us to do of ce procedures for or something, you are open people in some enough that circumstances,” you probably said Overholt. won’t obstruct “We still do a fair number of that area with just normal these in the opswelling so you erating room, don’t have that some of which secondary risk is because they of developing a are paired with Much like angioplasty opens coronary sinus infection other procearteries, balloon sinuplasty utilizes a as frequently as dures which nonlatex balloon to open the sinuses. you did before.” require general Once the balloon is deflated and That’s not to anesthesia. But removed, the sinus is clear to drain. say, however, this is some- Illustration courtesy of Entellus. that the balthing that will loon sinuplasty offer a patient an opportunity to do some of ce- is the end-all answer for all sinus based procedures as well. It’s nice sufferers. In fact, certain sinus because it’s minimally invasive. conditions disqualify a patient From a patient’s perspective, re- from balloon sinuplasty. “It’s not for everybody,” said covery is super quick. When you do the balloon procedure, you are Overholt, adding that patients just dilating up the natural drain- who have chronic infections of the age pathway, or ostium, that God ethmoid sinuses between the eyes put there to allow the sinuses to and patients with polyps are not eligible for the balloon procedure. ventilate.” “The ethmoid sinus is just outAnother major bene t of the balloon sinuplasty, Overholt said, side the path of normal surgery,” is the lack of recurring infections. he explained, showing a diagram “By dilating that area, you are of how the ethmoid sinus is ana-
Heiskell woman breathes easy after balloon sinuplasty Just a breath of air and fewer headaches. That’s all Mae Jacks wanted. But when the Heiskell grandmother broke her nose in a fall in September 2013, she had no idea that the injury would lead to a chain of events that would not only give her back the ability to breathe freely, but also eliminate her migraines, stop her snoring, and return the sense of smell and taste she thought was gone for good. “I wasn’t looking for a miracle, but it looks like I got one,” said Jacks less than a month after Dr. Mark Overholt performed a septoplasty and balloon sinuplasty under general anesthesia at Parkwest Medical Center. It took about a half hour for Overholt to perform the operation in which he not only straightened Jacks’ deviated septum, but also used a catheter to deploy a nonlatex balloon into her sinus passage to open up her nasal airway. Her breathing improved almost immediately. And within a week of the surgery, Jacks said, her long-forgotten sense of smell returned. “I knew this had to be sinus-related because I used to have a great sense of smell,” she said. “But it had gotten to where I couldn’t smell at all. Now I look forward
Mae Jacks describes balloon sinuplasty as “a miracle.” An unexpected side effect of the surgery for Jacks is that her sense of smell returned. to things like when someone says, ‘Let’s have a big dinner.’ Before, I would go, ‘Yeah, yeah’ because I liked to cook. But now, my joy is back because I can smell the food again. I teased Dr. Overholt that now I have to watch what and how much I eat now because everything tastes so good!” Of course, the restored sense of smell also means that she can again detect those less-than-
pleasant odors her husband brings into the house from his workshop. “If I’m in the living room and he comes in through the garage, he can’t even get into the house before I’ll be telling him, ‘You smell like gasoline!’ ” Jacks laughed. “He’s fascinated that I can smell things again. He got away with it for years.” While the restored sense of taste and smell were unexpected gifts, Jacks is elated that she can now breathe easily and has not had a migraine headache since the surgery. She had battled the headaches for years, but they had become worse over the last ve. The headaches, usually centered on the right side of her head and accompanied by nausea, were so bad that she would retreat to bed. “I would just ice it, just freeze it,” she said. “It was the only way I could fall asleep. My husband would ask, ‘Is there anything I can do for you?’ And I would say, ‘No, it’s just got to run its course.’ And I probably took too many antibiotics because of it and that’s not good for you either.” In fact, Jacks says the yearslong search for an answer to her recurring sinus infections and headaches was an exasperating journey lled with decongestants, antihistamines, phenegren and over-thecounter migraine medicine.
Most often she found herself in an allergist’s of ce. “I took allergy shots for many years, and they would give me medicine for my sinuses and stuff. They would try to change my medicine, and a couple of times they would do a CT scan,” she said. “But they always said, ‘Your sinuses look ne.’ Of course, they were not ne.” She even quit wearing her CPAP machine because she felt that it was contributing to her sinus infections. Of course, now that she’s had the surgery, she feels she no longer needs it, particularly since her snoring is gone. Ironically, it took a fall and a broken nose for her to nd relief. Overholt says it will take about six weeks for Jacks to fully recover from her surgery because the septoplasty requires follow-up of ce visits to keep the nasal passages clear of scabbing. Had she only required balloon sinuplasty, Jacks’ recovery would only have been about two days. Regardless, she’s happy with the outcome. “I got a lot more out of this procedure than I ever thought possible,” she says with a laugh. “I thought I was going to have to endure these headaches the rest of my life.”
tomically inaccessible. “If you have chronic sinus infection up here, dilating this area doesn’t do anything for that … that requires a traditional operation to clean out the little honeycombed air cells in the ethmoid cavity that lead to recurring or chronic infection in people.” Polyps, Overholt said, actually form because of recurring infections which in ame the sinuses and cause swelling. “We used to think that was probably allergydriven but most people who have polyps just have a very hyperactive immune system,” he said. “They have an inability to regulate in ammation in the sinus cavity. As a result, as their immune system runs amok trying to ght off invaders, it creates super swelling in the sinus tissue and these little sac-like clusters of swelling that we call polyps, and those polyps end up being physical obstructions of the sinus cavity. They will hold infectious material back in the sinus cavity and prevent you from clearing. And balloon sinuplasty simply doesn’t get rid of the polyps.”
Sinusitis symptoms Sinusitis – also known as rhinosinusitis – is an in ammation of the tissue lining of the sinuses that af icts millions of people each year.
Common symptoms ■ Facial congestion/fullness ■ Nasal obstruction/blockage ■ Nasal discharge ■ Fever ■ Headaches ■ Fatigue ■ Dental pain ■ Bad breath Normally, sinuses are lled with air, but when sinuses become blocked and lled with uid, pathogens (bacteria, viruses and fungi) can grow and cause an infection. Structural issues such as narrowed drainage anatomy are often associated with sinusitis.
Affected sinuses There are four types of sinuses – maxillary (behind the cheek bones), ethmoid (between the eyes), frontal (in the forehead) and sphenoid (behind the eyes). All of these sinuses can be affected by sinusitis. The majority of cases involve the maxillary and ethmoid sinuses. Source: EntellusMedical.com
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AGENDA Farragut Board of Mayor & Aldermen, September 24, 2015 BMA MEETING: 7:00 PM I. Silent Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Roll Call II. Approval of Agenda III. Mayor’s Report A. Presentation of Donations to the Knox County Schools B. Constitution Week & DAR Day Proclamation
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9:00 a.m. Discussion and public hearing on a preliminary plat for Phase 3 of the Briarstone Subdivision (formerly the Villas at Anchor Park Subdivision property) located on the north side of Turkey Creek Road across from Anchor Park, a portion of Parcel 59, Tax Map 152, 7.22 Acres, 19 Lots, Zoned R-1/OSMR (Rackley Engineering, Applicant)
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9:30 a.m. Discussion and public hearing on a request to rezone a portion of Parcel 78.01, Tax Map 142, located at 200 Boring Road, from R-2 to R-1 (Ryan Lynch, Applicant) 10:00 a.m. Discussion and public hearing on a site plan for the Farragut Chili’s Restaurant, Parcel 191.17, Tax Map 130, Zoned C-1 and B-1, 11454 Parkside Drive, 2.212 Acres (Chili’s, Inc., Applicant) 11:00 a.m. Discussion and public hearing on a concept plan of the Cottages at Pryse Farm Subdivision, Parcel 047, Group C, Tax Map 162B and Parcel 8.01, Tax Map 162, 30.81 Acres, 45 Lots, Zoned R-1/OSMR (Robert G. Campbell & Associates, Applicant) Discussion and public hearing on a final plat for Phase 2 of the Cottages at Pryse Farm Subdivision, Parcel 047, Group C, Tax Map 162B and Parcel 8.01, Tax Map 162, 23.94 Acres, 34 Lots, Zoned R-1/OSMR (Robert G. Campbell & Associates, Applicant)
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Farragut Food Festival, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Renaissance | Farragut. More than 25 restaurants expected to participate. Advance tickets: farragutbusiness.com. Info/advance tickets: farragutbusiness.com; 307-2486; info@farragutbusiness.com; Facebook. Movies on Market Square: “Night at the Museum” (PG, 2006); movie begins at dusk. Hosted by the Knox County Public Library. Bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on; well-behaved dogs are welcome. Info: knoxlib.org/movies or 215-8767. Recovery Awareness Fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Market Square. Hosted by Helen Ross McNabb Center. Fair emphasizes the importance of seeking physical and mental wellness each day throughout the recovery process. Prevention, treatment and recovery information will be available. Info: mcnabbcenter.org/ event/12th-annual-recovery-fair.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 25-27 Art Fair KMA, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Friday: A Vernissage/Opening Preview and Sale, 6-9 p.m. Tickets: $95, knoxart.org/ events/art-fair-kma.html. Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, noon-4 p.m.: artist booths featuring original art, art and craft activities for children, and photo booth. Free and open to the public. Info: knoxart.org; artfairkma@gmail.com. Greekfest, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 4070 Kingston Pike. Admission: $2 for adults, children 12 and under are free; weekend pass, $3. Features authentic Greek food and pastries, live music, traditional Greek dancing and costumes, shopping.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 26 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-4:40 p.m., AAA Maryville office, . Eight-hour course helps reduce points for traffic offenders. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252. Alzheimer’s Association Walk To End Alzheimer’s®, 8 a.m., UT campus. Includes: two-mile walk, vendor booths, door prizes and a special tribute to those who have experienced or are experiencing Alzheimer’s. To start/join a team: alz.org/walk. “Cover Crops: Great Winter Blankets for Your Garden” class, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Demonstration Garden at All Saints Catholic Church, 620 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Presenter: Master Gardener Marsha Lehman. Free and open to the public. Info: 215-2340; knoxcountymastergardener.org. Dale Jett & Hello Stranger in concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org. Financial Workshop: Retirement income planning, 10:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Presented by Darrell Keathley from COFFE (Community Outreach For Financial Education). Registration required. Info/registration: 777-1750. The Great Smoky Mountains Salamander Ball, 6:30-10 p.m., the Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive. A masquerade ball and fundraiser for Discover Life in America. For adults and kids of all ages. Come dressed as a favorite Smoky Mountain critter. Info/registration: Todd Witcher, 430-4757 or todd@dlia.org; dlia.org. “Knoxville Opera Goes to Church: A Celebration of Talent!,” 3:30 p.m., Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, 2500 E. Fifth Ave. A mix of gospel and opera performed by local and guest artists. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Home Federal Bank. Info: knoxvilleopera. com/schedule/kochurch. Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info:
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 26-27 HoLa Festival, Market Square. Free and open to the public; free parking in the adjacent city parking lots. Info: holafestival.org or 335-3358.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 27 Annual Headrick Chapel Singing and Dinner on the Grounds, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Wears Valley Road in Sevier County. Info: David Sarten, 428-0874; Bruce Wheeler, 428-2239. Celebrate Your Parks – A National Public Lands Day event, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Founders Park at Campbell Station. Featuring a variety of activities for all ages. Info/schedule of events: townoffarragut.org/ publiclandsday; Lauren Cox, lcox@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057. “Children in the Arts,” 2:30 p.m., the Amphitheater at the World’s Fair Park. Presented by the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble. Adult tickets: $7; children’s tickets: one penny. Info: 584-9636. “Squawk the Show” bird show, 3 and 6 p.m., Historic Grove Theater, 123 Randolph Road in Oak Ridge. Tickets: Knoxville Tickets outlets, 656-4444, knoxvilletickets.com.
MONDAY, SEPT. 28 West Knox Book Club: “What Alice Forgot,” 10 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Info: 588-8813.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 29 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., AAA Maryville office. – Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffic offenders. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252. Binding the Quilt Edge class, 1-4 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info/registration: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail. com, myquiltplace.com/profile/monicaschmidt. Computer Workshops: Word II, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 215-8700. Food Allergy Awareness Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Sequoyah Branch Library, 1140 Southgate Road. Presented by Melissa Mastrogiovanni, vice president of the Food Allergy Community of East Tennessee, for children. Info: 525-1541. New series of Taoist Tai Chi® beginner classes, 8:45-9:45 a.m., Strang Senior Center, 109 Lovell Heights Road. Classes meet each Tuesday and Thursday for three months. Nominal participation donation requested. Info: 482-7761 or taoist.org.
THURSDAY, OCT. 1 AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Second Presbyterian Church, 2829 Kingston Pike. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822. Garden and Gallery Membership Party, 5:307:30 p.m., Blount Mansion, 200 W. Hill Ave. Free event. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. Info: 5252375 or info@blountmansion.org.
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Bypassing go Cleveland woman gets energized after bariatric surgery by gain: more energy, better sleep, fewer body aches, “great” blood pressure and best of all, a new life. “My worst days now are what I thought were my best days before,” she said. “I still love food. I think it tastes good. That’s why I eat it! But now I love yard sales – that’s my addiction now. I can wear my friends out shopping now. They’ll be ready to quit and I’m saying, ‘C’mon! I’m bigger than you! C’mon, let’s go!’” She doesn’t mind getting her picture taken anymore either. But when she looks at her “before” pictures, Ayala says, “I think, ‘Lord have mercy! How did I ever let myself get like that?’ It’s not because I was in a car accident and was bedridden and I couldn’t get around. It’s because I kept putting that food in my mouth and I didn’t stop. I really do recommend this surgery. It’s not an easy way out, but for some of us, it’s the only way out.”
Learn more about bariatric surgery Register for informational seminars conducted by surgeons from the Fort Sanders Regional Center for Bariatric Surgery by calling 865-673-FORT (3678). Seminars will be held on these Thursday evenings throughout the remainder of 2015: Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center 1901 Clinch Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37916 Classroom #1, Lobby Level
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Like so many others, Robin Ayala has seen a dramatic change after weight loss surgery. Thanks to Dr. Jonathan Ray of the Center for Bariatric Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional, she has lost 279 pounds.
la’s Body Mass Index, the most common weight-to-height metric for identifying obesity, measured 79.5 – more than double the morbid obesity marker of 35-plus. That meant she couldn’t qualify for surgery unless she first lost 50 to 55 pounds. It seemed an almost impossible task. Yet, she knew something had to be done. “I was 477 pounds and almost immobile,” Ayala said. “I had diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea. I could hardly walk and I wasn’t getting any smaller. I kept getting heavier and heavier and heavier, and I felt I had to do something and it had to be something drastic.” “I didn’t really have a life,” she added. “I’d drive the kids to school and come back and sit on the couch and fall asleep. I’d just conk out. I had to sleep on the couch, too, because my back hurt and my knees killed me. I had to sit in a chair to load the dishwasher because my legs couldn’t support me. Taking a shower wore me out – I would be more wet from sweating than from the shower. My feet were as high as they were wide and ached so bad that I would literally wait until it was almost too late before I would go to the bathroom. It hurt that much to walk.” So, Ayala decided to follow Dr. Ray’s instructions, attending four required nu-
trition classes to help her shed the needed pounds to qualify for the surgery. “If you don’t go to the classes, you don’t have your surgery – period,” she said. By the day of her surgery, Ayala had lost 77 pounds. When she was discharged from the hospital two days later, she began life anew. “Your stomach is just like a baby, a newborn – it’s been ‘reborn,’” she said. “The first two weeks, it’s liquids only. And you don’t even want the liquids because you’re not even hungry. You’ve got to force yourself to do that but you’ve got to have it or you will starve to death.” The pounds began falling off quickly. Although she began to reach a plateau at nine months, Robin shed 155 pounds by the 10-month mark. Then, over the next few months, she lost another 65. Today, the 5-foot-6 Ayala weighs 204, and hopes to lose about 30 more pounds. “I’ve almost been at a standstill for about 15 months, but I can lose more if I just do better,” she said. “I would love to be 170. I wouldn’t mind being at 180. I never wanted to be tiny – I think it’s better to be 10 over than 10 under, but I’ll be a decent size anyway. I’m pretty happy where I am now if it was just firm.” But the loss has also been accompanied
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She never liked having pictures taken but after losing 279 pounds via gastric bypass, Robin Ayala of Cleveland, Tenn., might want to reconsider that one photo she loathes most: the one on her driver’s license. “I’ve had to show people my driver’s license and they won’t accept it!” Ayala said recently. “They don’t believe it’s me. I ask them, ‘Why would I show you that ugly picture if it’s not me?!’ I have changed a lot.” Indeed. Not only has her shoulder-length hair been traded for a short ‘n’ sassy cut, but the 45-year-old mother of four is noticeably thinner – in her face, stomach, arms, legs and even her feet. So much so that friends do a “double take” when they see her. What made the difference? The Rouxen Y gastric bypass surgery performed by Dr. Jonathan Ray, a surgeon at the Fort Sanders Center for Bariatric Surgery. Roux-en Y gastric bypass is the current gold standard for weight loss surgery. The stomach is reduced in size by stapling a smaller stomach pouch. The outlet from this new pouch empties directly into the lower portion of the small intestines, “bypassing” calorie absorption. The key to successful weight loss via the Roux-en Y gastric bypass is the early sense of fullness and satisfaction. Ayala, who had put on most of her weight during her four pregnancies and was suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure, was referred to Dr. Ray by her primary care provider in Cleveland, TN, who had told her that she “wouldn’t be around for her kids” if she didn’t do something soon. She searched the Internet and found a schedule for Dr. Ray’s evening bariatric surgery seminars held at various locations throughout Covenant Health. There, she found not only the answers she needed, but the doctor she wanted as well. “The seminars were very informative,” she said. “There was a slideshow, and he would point out things and tell you exactly what was what. Instead of just telling you, ‘You need to get it done’ and that’s it, he tells exactly what you need to hear. I like to be informed. Listening to him and talking to him one-on-one really helped, because I like a doctor who will talk to you and has a good bedside manner.” For Ayala, the January 2013 surgery marked a turning point in her life, helping her not only lose weight, but realize the seriousness of her health risks. “I knew I was big. I knew I was very big, but I couldn’t be weighed because there wasn’t anything to weigh me on,” said Ayala. So when the scales at Dr. Ray’s office rose to 477 pounds, even Ayala couldn’t believe it. “When they weighed me I just cried,” said Ayala. “I just couldn’t believe I was almost 500 pounds! I thought maybe I weighed 400 because 400 is big, but I didn’t know I was almost 500! I just didn’t see it. I told Dr. Ray, ‘There is something wrong with your scales!’ I didn’t believe it. My husband didn’t believe it either. I guess him seeing me every day he didn’t think I gained that much.” Even more devastating was that Aya-
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mber Davis, currently working to earn her degree in ultrasound technology, admits that “Eight weeks ago I was about ready to quit.” Earning a second degree later in life can be difficult. The demands of adulthood can certainly get in the way. Especially if you’ve just lost your house and everything in it. On Saturday, July 18, at 1:50 p.m., the condo Davis shared with her husband, Jeremy, and their dogs Reese and Lily was one of two West Knoxville homes hit by lightning in a violent storm. “I was home, working on homework” says Davis. Jeremy had just returned from a 55-mile bike ride and was headed for the shower. “A thunderstorm suddenly popped up in the area and lightning was striking everywhere.” Just as Jeremy was starting to unplug the electronics, “lightning struck the house and an extremely loud pop erupted in the living room.” Following a trail of smoke and electrical smell, Jeremy discovered flames in the attic. He yelled, “Call 911, the house is on fire!” “It took five to six minutes to grab purse and dogs and get out,” Davis says. Jeremy went to check on the neighbors and their pets. And then the couple stood and watched as fire and water destroyed their home and “all the stuff.” Both Davises are medical professionals. Jeremy is database administrator for Vista Radiology, and Amber has been an administrator in patient services. Born in El Paso, Texas, she’s lived in such far-flung places as Jedda, Saudi Arabia; New Hampshire; California, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from California State in San Bernadino; and Long Island, N.Y. In 2006, she moved to Knoxville to “be near family and slow down.” She met Jeremy at work. “He is a good ol’ To page 2
Jeremy and Amber Davis’ shared sense of humor got them through many rough times in the past two months. Of dogs Reese and Lily, Amber says, “These are our children!”
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ing us with how to just take the first steps.” Davis made it through her “I Southern boy and he is a rock. Just give up” moment. Even with an epically amazing man!” the overwhelming grief and The couple were married endless list of tasks to be in 2010, “barefoot, on the completed for the inbeach, in Antigua.” surance company, she Davis had become was back in class the stalled in her career. following Thursday “I knew that I wanted with a new sense of more. I’ve always had purpose. a fascination with the “It’s easy to take body. I didn’t want to the easy way out, but be a doctor or nurse, but I’ve worked too hard I loved computers. And and I’ve finally figured there was a longing to help out what I want to be people at a deeper level when I grow up – of than what I was doing.” course I’m going to Leaning on each other in the days She became intercontinue; of course after a fire destroyed their home ested in sonography I’m going to study,” was “a testament to our marriage,” and enrolled at South she says. “And that’s says Amber Davis, here with husCollege. Though still the silver lining in band Jeremy and Boston Terrier Lily. unsure about her life’s this disaster – the big path, Davis was enjoypicture of what I was ing her studies. Then trying to do became painfully clear.” came that fateful Saturday. The couple are temporarily settled in an Immediately after the disaster, the couple clung to each other in shock. “We had apartment with the dogs. Friends and supto guide each other through. It’s a surreal porters are pitching in to help with expensexperience. There were two dimensions: es at www.youcaring.com. hysterical laughing and hysterical crying – Davis is looking forward to finishing nothing in between.” her degree. She’s very proud to be among Jeremy’s parents and sister came to help. the ranks of those who wield the scanner. And “the Knoxville Fire Department, Ru- “In case you don’t know,” she says with a ral/Metro, Fire Investigation Bureau, Red twinkle in her eye, “we sonographers are Cross and ServPro were amazing in assist- the original ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’!” From page 1
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raduation season, an oft-emotional time of great celebration and reflection, is on the horizon. Though soon-to-be graduates are about to have one set of challenges firmly behind them, other important life decisions and experiences are looming in the not-too-distant future. Although there’s no magic set of rules for post-graduation, the following advice can help graduates transition from the classroom to the ceremony and then life after school. ■ Attend the graduation ceremony. Graduating students may debate whether or not to attend their graduation ceremonies. Such ceremonies tend to be lengthy, and outdoor affairs can be hot and uncomfortable. However, graduation is a milestone moment that you won’t get to enjoy again. Attending graduation allows you one last academic experience, and even if that may not seem meaningful right now, you might regret skipping the ceremony down the road. ■ Enjoy graduation but buckle down once the dust settles. Accord-
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wisely, but be prepared to buckle down when the time comes to start repaying loans. ■ Join an alumni association. Regardless of the size of your school, chances are strong they have a local alumni association and several chapters across the country. Take advantage of these organizations to connect with fellow alumni, who can be invaluable sources of information and provide connections that may help you find a job in your field. ■ Read and learn new skills. If you have yet to land that first job, use some of your down time to re-
acquaint yourself with reading for pleasure instead of reading as part of an assignment. You also can use extra time to explore new skills, such as learning certain software or applications that may help you stand out in a competitive job market. ■ Before you decide what you want to do, you may have to figure out what you don’t like. Another way to use free time is to volunteer or apply for internships in fields you may want to work in. These experiences can help you determine your career options and find a career you find both challenging and exciting. But such opportunities can also help you determine when a given line of work isn’t for you. Oftentimes, finding the right career path takes some trial and error. Don’t get too down if an opportunity doesn’t pan out. Instead, keep your head up and take advantage of the next opportunity that comes your way. Graduation is a time of mixed emotions. Graduates can not only use graduation season to make lasting memories with friends but also to take the first steps toward the next phase of their lives.
Tips for making school more affordable
ew expenses worry parents as much as the rising cost of education. Whether a child has just entered a preschool program or is about to enroll in college, the cost of that education figures to be considerable. School expenses vary depending on the school, but parents who enroll their children in private schools can expect to pay several hundred dollars per month for their youngsters’ education. When those kids are ready to head off to college, those expenses will rise considerably. Although public education is less expensive, it is not without expenditures. Supplies and fees associated with extracurricular programs may stretch parents’ budgets even further. Parents commonly look for ways to mitigate education costs, and the following are a few ways to do just that. ■
ing to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the job market for new graduates is improving marginally. But the Institute for College Access and Success notes that many college graduates will be saddled with around $25,000 in debt upon earning their degrees. Many student loans have a six-month repayment grace period after graduation, so new grads who don’t already have a job lined up may want to use some of that grace period to travel, visit distant relatives or relax and recharge before their first payment comes due. Use the time
Need- and merit-based aid
Education costs can be staggering, but the sticker price is not necessarily what families will have to pay out of pocket. Many students receive financial aid, which may come in the form of grants, scholarships or low-interest loans. Students who want to be considered for financial aid
will have to apply and provide information about the family’s finances. Scholarships are typically awarded for academic achievement and are not exclusive to those people with limited financial means. Schools may offer scholarships directly, or students may need to apply through private organizations. Certain groups may sponsor education grants that help students who meet certain criteria finance their educations. Financial aid may even be available to younger students. Many private high schools and K-12 academies have their own assistance programs, and it never hurts to speak to administrators about payment options and if there are any available programs to make tuition more affordable. ■
Work ahead
High school students may be eligible for advanced placement, or AP, courses that count for college credit. That means being able to take college-level classes in high school without having to pay college-level costs. AP courses may be more challenging, but students who qualify for AP courses can save time and money.
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Students transferring into college after military training or directly from the workforce may be able to earn college credits for such experience. The more credits a student earns through such opportunities the less that student has to pay to earn his or her degree.
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Get a job
Many school employees are entitled to discounts or even free tuition for their children. Working for a local high school, college or university can alleviate the concerns parents have about paying for their kids’ educations. And teachers are not the only professions in demand. Schools need ■ Budget in advance administrative staff, IT professionals, reIt’s never too early for parents to begin cruiters and marketing personnel. saving for their children’s educations. Ask friends and family members to contrib- ■ Sibling discounts ute to college funds when giving holiday Schools often offer discounts to parents or birthday gifts instead of providing toys who enroll multiple students in a school at or other material items. Establish tax-dethe same time. Consider having children ferred or tax-free educational savings accounts that will accrue through the years attend together to qualify for these disand make schooling costs more afford- counts. In addition, determine if a parent able. For example, 529 plans in the United or grandparent’s alma mater offers tuition States allow relatives to set aside money discounts to future family members who to help children or grandchildren save for attend the same school. college. Parents should consult with financial ■ Apply online Some institutions waive application planners to determine the best ways to create educational savings accounts. Financial fees if paperwork is filed online. Costs experts will understand tax loopholes and can quickly add up, and avoiding applicaprograms that make it easier for parents to tion fees is another way to trim education costs. save money for their kids’ educations.
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Creating your household budget
tretching every dollar is a reality for many families. A higher costof-living coupled with financial uncertainty has inspired many families to scale back their spending, a process that’s much easier when families create a household budget. Creating a household budget is often more complicated for families than it is for individuals. That’s because families not only tend to have more monthly expenses, but also because families tend to pay more mind to their financial futures than men and women living on their own. The following are a few tips for individuals hoping to create a household budget for their families. ■ Get a grip on your finances. Before setting a family budget, heads of the household should first get a firm grasp of their finances. Determine household income, fixed monthly expenses (i.e., mortgage, car payments, etc.), luxury expenses (i.e., cable television service, dining out, etc.), and outstanding consumer debt. Once you get a clear picture of what’s coming in and what’s going out, you can determine where you’re making sound decisions and where you’re not.
■ Set a goal. Once finances have been examined, you can then set a goal. Goals will change as your financial situation changes, but let your existing financial situation influence the goal you initially set. For example, if an examination of your financial situation revealed a considerable amount of consumer debt, then a goal of eradicating that debt is a great place to start, and part of setting the goal is developing a course of action to make it a reality. When trying to free up money to pay down consumer debt, examine the expenses you listed as luxuries and determine which ones you can cut so you can pay down your family’s debts. Dining out less and cutting back on entertainment expenses are great ways to free up money to pay down debt. If an examination of your finances indicates little or no consumer debt but lots of money being spent frivolously, allocate funds for daily expenditures like a morning cup of coffee or lunch into your budget and do your best to avoid exceeding that amount. ■ Establish a weekly budget. Many families find it easier to manage their money and stay within their budgets if they live on weekly, as opposed to monthly, budgets. This can
be tricky, as many of your more significant expenses, including mortgage and car payments, are likely collected on a monthly basis. But establishing a weekly budget for your family allows you to monitor your monthly expenses more closely, reducing the likelihood that you’ll get to the end of the month and realize you exceeded your budget. Budget for those weekly expenses that are not fi xed, like grocery bills and gas. Staying within budget for such expenses every week can lead to substantial savings by the end of each month, and it’s far easier to save that money when you’re monitoring those expenses every seven days instead of every 30 days. ■ Consider long-term goals. Long-term goals should be considered when establishing a family budget. Even if money is tight, you likely can still find room in your budget to save for your future. The goal of establishing a family budget is to ensure money is being well spent, and contributing to your family’s financial future is money well spent. Allocate funds for retirement account contributions and future educational expenses as well. Even small contributions can add up to a significant amount of money over time.
Examining monthly expenses, including grocery bills, is an important step for families when establishing household budgets.
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