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VOL. 6 NO. 39
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September 24, 2012
Running runs in the Shankles family
Asked to describe Knox County Schools’ Partners in Education program in 10 words or so, Scott Bacon smiles and quotes retired educator Reuben Hunter. “It’s the community coming into the schools and schools going out into the community.”
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Rezoning meetings set Knox County Schools will hold public meetings about elementary school rezoning that will result from the construction of the new school at Northshore Town Center. Current attendance zones of A.L. Lotts Elementary, Farragut Primary, Farragut Intermediate, Hardin Valley Elementary, Blue Grass, Ball Camp and Cedar Bluff elementary schools will be primarily affected, although some other schools may experience a lesser impact. The meetings are designed to provide a zoning overview and garner insight prior to developing an attendance zone proposal. The schedule: ■ Hardin Valley Elementary School, 11445 Hardin Valley Road, Monday, Sept. 24 ■ Farragut Intermediate School, 208 West End Boulevard, Tuesday, Oct. 2 ■ Cedar Bluff Elementary School, 705 North Cedar Bluff Road, Tuesday, Oct. 9 ■ First Baptist Concord Westlake Campus, 9635 Westland Drive, Thursday, Oct. 11 Meetings will be hosted by the PTAs of A.L. Lotts and Blue Grass elementary schools. All are from 6-8 p.m. A series of followup meetings will be scheduled to discuss the attendance zones developed based on information garnered during these meetings.
Index Coffee Break A2 Wendy Smith A3 Government/Politics A4 Marvin West/Lynn Hutton A5 Jake Mabe A6 Faith A7 Kids A8 Miracle Maker A9 Business A11 Calendar A12 Health/Lifestyles Sect B
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Bearden High School cross-country and track coach Steve Prince, fifth from left, poses with the seven Shankles children – Peter, Charlie, J.J., Andrew, Stephen, Molly and David – after Stephen’s wedding last year. Photo submitted
By Wendy Smith Fourteen years ago, Charlie Shankles joined the Bearden High School cross-country team as a freshman. Every year since then, Bearden track and cross-country coach Steve Prince has had at least one member of the family on his team. The youngest is David, a freshman. He follows in the footsteps of six impressive siblings. Charlie graduated from Bearden in 2002, Stephen in 2004, Andrew in 2006, Peter in 2008, Molly in 2010, and Jonathan “J.J.” will graduate in 2013. All ran cross-country except for Peter, who was a shot putter and discus thrower on the track team, as well as a football player. All participated in track, and David plans to participate in the spring. But he doesn’t feel any pressure.
“I want to do well, but it doesn’t feel like I have to,” David says. It helps that his time in a recent 5k race was 17:58.8 – the fastest a Shankles has run as a freshman, according to his coach. The kids come by running naturally. Mom Karen Shankles also ran for Bearden. She ran the longest distance a girl could run at the time – 880 yards – and still enjoys running. Dad Roland is also athletic. Karen was pregnant with David when Charlie began running for Bearden. It’s been a family affair ever since. “After the first one, everybody else ran. It’s what we did,” she says. They did it well. A member of the Shankles family has been on the first, second, third, sixth and seventh-best cross-country teams
in the school’s history. Stephen went on to run for Maryville College, and Andrew ran for David Lipscomb University in Nashville. J.J. has set himself apart by competing well in the 2,000-meter steeplechase, a race that includes hurdles and water jumps. David began running with the high school cross-country team the summer after he finished 7th grade. He was invited by J.J., who thought the middle-schooler could stick with the older runners. He was right. The brothers support each other, but they’ve always competed. “When you grow up with boys, everything’s a race,” says J.J. Charlie is 29 now, and the siblings still enjoy competitive games when they’re together for holidays. Participating in cross-country
and track has been a positive experience for the whole family. Prince has been a good influence and a good coach, Karen says. Plus, it’s an economical sport for a large family. “All you need is shoes and a pair of shorts.” The family offers the team something, as well. Roland and Karen enjoy providing transportation to out-of-town meets in the “Shank Tank,” their 12-passenger van. If David continues to run until he graduates in 2016, Prince will have coached the family for 18 straight years. To his knowledge, that’s unprecedented in Knox County. He’s glad that the Shankleses, who homeschooled their children when they were younger, opted to send them to Bearden. “They’ve been very consistent, very good runners for me.”
Cedar Bluff Center renovation attracts new anchor tenant By Anne Hart Cedar Bluff Shopping Center, located on Executive Park Drive at Cedar Bluff Road, is undergoing a major facelift and remodeling effort, and as a result has already attracted a major new anchor tenant. Public records show that Integra Construction was issued a building permit earlier this month in the amount of $1,529,869 for “renovation of the former Food City to be ITT Technical Institute” at 1923 Executive Park Drive. Officials at ITT Technical corporate headquarters in Indianapolis confirmed that the ITT Technical Institute, which opened in Knoxville in 1988 and has been in operation at 10208 Technology Drive since 1994, will relocate its campus to the Cedar Bluff center before the end of the year. Lauren Littlefield, ITT
corporate director of communications, said the new 32,000-square-foot location will house administrative offices, classrooms, laboratories, a student café and other amenities. “We have had great success with our students in Tennessee, and we are looking forward to the added conveniences this location will offer them,” she said. “This is an excellent location for many reasons, including easy access, ample parking and great visibility.” Littlefield said the school’s curriculum will remain the same, adding, “Nothing will change except the physical address. The course schedule for our students will be uninterrupted.” The ITT Technical Institutes are a leading private college system focused on technology-oriented pro-
Architect’s rendering of Cedar Bluff Shopping Center after renovation. grams of study. There are more than 140 ITT schools in 38 states, offering predominately career-focused, degree programs to more than 70,000 students. While declining to identify the new anchor tenant by name, Jerry Bodie,
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executive vice president of White Realty and Service Corp., did say that Davis Overton, White Realty vice president for leasing and management, gets credit for inking the deal. Bodie said there is also a deal pending for the space
at the eastern end of the center that was formerly occupied by First Tennessee Bank but has been vacant for several years. The center has 100,000 square feet of space, with To page A-3
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