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Coffee Break

West Knoxville illustrator Danny Wilson has a new toy.

It’s a Wacom Cintiq 24HD, otherwise known as a really big tablet.

He’ll use it to create concept renderings, a skill he developed while working at Whittle Communications in the 1990s. Danny and his wife, Jennifer Wilson, a speech therapist who loves the great outdoors, live in Bearden.

“If it weren’t for her, I’d never do things like climb Mt. LeConte,” he says.

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Miracle Maker It’s almost time for the final bell at South-Doyle Middle School, but 6th grade social studies teacher Donna Hall looks like she’s in the middle of her day.

A big tote bag sits on the floor behind her desk. She won’t walk out to her car until it’s stacked full of student papers that she’ll work on until deep into the night.

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Who killed UT football?

The autopsy continues, but Marvin West has a guess…

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Who needs this?

TDOT is planning to dump $100 million into an extension of the James White Parkway despite opposition from Mayors Madeline Rogero and Tim Burchett and Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis.

If your daily travels include Nubbin Ridge Road or any of its narrow, twisty counterparts, you know better spots for this money.

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Parenting advice Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin, at West Hills Elementary School, relayed parenting advice he learned from his own father.

“He didn’t always have the right answers, but he hoped he’d spent enough time with his sons to overcome the things he’d done wrong.

“That’s what your kids need.

They just need you,” Irwin said.

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November 26, 2012

Bearden students tackle ambitious holiday projects T-shirts to supplement school uniforms

By Wendy Smith rather than presents during the holiday Several Bearden High School student party. groups want to help Santa fill his sleigh this Last week, SGA and leadership students holiday season, but these elves will have to met to discuss how to solicit donations at work together to meet a tight deadline. The school. Alexandra Nelson, vice president community is invited to help the students of Bearden’s senior class, encouraged stufulfill their commitments. dents to speak up on behalf of the needy SGA (Student Government Association), children served by each project.

DECA (an association of marketing stu“Be the person who chooses to step up dents), Key Club and the National Honor for these kids.”

Society are collecting toys and hygiene SGA President Madison Harmon sugproducts for Mission of Hope. The Helping gested that shopping be viewed as a social Hands organization is accepting donations event. for Toys for Tots.

“What could be more fun than having The biggest project of all comes from an excuse to go to Toys R Us? Get a couple Bearden’s three leadership classes. These of friends together and buy some toys,” she 70 students plan to provide gifts for apsaid. proximately 240 Christenberry ElemenBearden students meet in advisory tary School students, and give T-shirts groups once a week, and leadership stuand goody bags to approximately 230 Belle dent Joanna Logan has asked each group Morris Elementary School students. to buy gifts or donate money for the Leadership teacher and SGA sponsor leadership project. All students will be Rachel Harmon acknowledges that the asked to donate $2 to the school’s “four projects are ambitious, but she’s seen what Bearden students can accomplish when Bearden High School leadership teachers Cody Martin, by four” campaign, which has the potenthey work together. This fall, the school do- Rebecca Nutter and Rachel Harmon stand behind senior tial to raise $4,000 in four minutes, says nated $49,000 in cash and canned goods to Alexandra Nelson as she discusses the school’s holiday Nelson.

Rachel Harmon encouraged students to Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennes- projects with SGA and leadership class members. Photo by Wendy Smith think beyond the school by asking youth see. groups or former students who are now in “I have no doubt that we’ll pull it off,” says Harmon. “The question is, are we going to complete with presents, pizza and Santa, for sororities or fraternities to pitch in. their mentees. In 2011, they expanded the Bearden principal Dr. John Bartlett ofbe able to sleep soundly before Dec. 7?”

That’s the deadline the leadership students project by throwing the party at Christenberry fered to ask the Bearden Foundation for ashave set for their Christmas shopping. They and including students from each of the kin- sistance.

Community members are encouraged to plan to host parties at Christenberry and Belle dergarten, 1st grade and 4th grade classes with which they worked. donate money or new gifts, in the $10 to $15 Morris on Dec. 14.

This year, the leadership students men- price range, that are appropriate for children Leadership students have served as mentors at Christenberry for several years. Until last tored at Belle Morris, too. The school’s ad- in kindergarten, 1st and 4th grades. Donations year, the students hosted a party at Bearden, ministration requested that they give mentees will be accepted in the West Mall office.

Not-so-random harvest ESK garden yields veggies, learning opportunities

By Betsy Pickle As Americans were reminded last week, the Pilgrims had a feast of Thanksgiving to celebrate their first successful harvest. Episcopal School of Knoxville students and faculty give thanks throughout the year as they enjoy harvests from their own garden at their farm-totable organic lunches.

Parents are grateful, too.

“We have a lot of parents who are really surprised by what their students are willing to eat because they’ve seen it growing in the garden, and they’ve tasted it fresh,” says Mathew Luce, ESK’s farm director.

Headmaster Jay Secor and Luce, a Latin teacher at the time, started talking two years ago about the idea of vegetable garden at the school, which sits on 78 acres of rolling farmland in west Knox County.

Initially, they simply wanted to raise produce to use in meals.

“As we began to do more research,” says Luce, “we wanted to make sure that the garden … was successful for all students – that it was like the library and that students would be welcome at any time. Right now, grades 3, 4 and 5 have a garden class every other week. We have food production, and we also have the value-added educational component that is really, really important.”

Luce, who grew up in Knoxville, attended Christian Academy of

There will be beans for lunch! Adrian Jabran, Jackson Musrock, Jack Feddersen, Ashton Mayo-Beavers, Alexandra Musrock and Leoni Kunz work at the Episcopal School of Knoxville’s garden. Photos submitted

Knoxville and was home-schooled before going to Bearden High School, wasn’t just a random teacher with a green thumb when he was asked to be farm director. After graduating from Bearden in 2003, he spent a year in Kenya gaining hands-on agricultural experience as an independent volunteer through World Gospel Mission.

Luce came back to Tennessee and went to the University of the South in Sewanee, where he majored in classical languages but also studied ecology and biodiversity. His first job was teaching at

ESK, where he is now development director in addition to farm director.

The school has a part-time garden manager who takes care of the garden daily, as well as a sustainability director who helps teach garden classes. It also has chickens, and the cafeteria cooks use the eggs in preparing the school’s food.

ESK has 350 kindergarten through 8th grade students. Many of them also help take care of the garden.

“The students who have garden class every week are involved

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(physically) when they’re not studying specifically about it,” says Luce. “Sometimes it’s picking bugs off of cabbage leaves; sometimes it’s helping weed.”

Other teaching opportunities come with the garden’s 16 raised beds.

“They study very wide-ranging things – from meteorological effects to the water cycle … how to plant … even some of the harvesting techniques as well. We use a method called square-foot gardening, so it also allows us to teach multiplication tables and volume.

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Coffee Break with

Danny Wilson

West Knoxville illustrator Danny Wilson has a new toy.

It’s a Wacom Cintiq 24HD, otherwise known as a really big tablet.

He’ll use it to create concept renderings, a skill he developed while working at Whittle Communications in the 1990s. Clients describe concepts, like three-dimensional displays or even buildings, to him, and he creates colorful drawings they can use to sell their ideas. It’s a niche that’s allowed him to work for clients in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta without missing a UT football or basketball game.

Danny graduated from UT in 1984, and his love for UT sports has carried over into his professional life. His work for the UT athletic department includes the illustration of football and basketball tickets, and the design of the Competitive Smokey logo. Oak Ridge National Lab, the Scripps Networks and Bush Brothers are a few of his other local clients.

While he loves technology, Danny has been getting back to the basics by carrying around a sketchbook and starting a couple of new paintings. It’s a nice break from working on computers, he says.

“It feels good to do that, to use real art supplies.”

He has two grown children and two sons at home – one who loves sports, and one who loves art. His wife, Jennifer Wilson, is a speech therapist who loves the great outdoors.

“If it weren’t for her, I’d never do things like climb Mt. LeConte,” he says.

What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie?

“Inconceivable!” – “The Princess Bride”

What are you guilty of?

A messy office.

What is your favorite material possession?

My iPhone.

What are you reading currently?

“Windows of the Soul” by Ken Gire and “Steve Jobs”

by Walter Isaacson.

What was your most embarrassing moment?

Well, there was that time a friend and I came out of a doughnut shop at Myrtle Beach. We sat in the car and ate our doughnuts and then realized we were sitting in someone else’s car!

What are the top three things on your bucket list?

Take my wife to Europe. Illustrate a biographical graphic novel. Be interviewed for the Shopper-News Coffee Break (check).

What is one word others often use to describe you?

Weird. I don’t know why.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I wish I liked to work in the yard as much as my wife.

That would make her really happy.

What is your passion?

It’s a tie between drawing and peanut butter.

With whom, living or dead, would you most like to have a long lunch?

Other than deceased family members or biblical characters, I would say lunch with Vincent Van Gogh would be interesting. Or maybe Norman Rockwell, who was a great storyteller, and whose technical skills as a painter are, in my opinion, very under-appreciated. That would be fun. And helpful.

Other than your parents, who has had the biggest influence on your life?

I grew up near a rural airport where Moody Bible Institute trained their missionary pilots. There were five students there that I got to know, when I was in my late teens, who influenced me greatly. They introduced me to the books of Francis Schaeffer and C.S. Lewis, modern Bible translations and the music of Bob Dylan. My worldview was shaped in a big way by those influences.

My wife and kids bought me a bicycle. It wasn’t in a box when I got it, but it probably was at some point.

What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?

Get out of bed.

What is your social media of choice?

Facebook. Face-to-face conversation is my preference, but I guess that doesn’t count.

What is the worst job you have ever had?

I’m an artist. I’ve never had a real job! Well, I did bag groceries at Publix for about six months when I was 16. That is the only job I’ve ever had that didn’t involve drawing.

What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?

“The Jetsons.” It made me look forward to owning a flying car that would fold up into a briefcase.

What irritates you?

The fact that apparently my ankles are a delicacy to mosquitos.

What’s one place in Bearden/downtown that everyone should visit?

For food, Pete’s Coffee Shop on Union Avenue. For concerts, the Square Room at Market Square.

What is your greatest fear?

According to my recurring dream it must be realizing during the week of finals that I forgot to go to a class for the entire semester. Not sure why I still have that; I’ve been out of college for almost 30 years.

If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be?

Move to New York City for a year.

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I still can’t quite get the hang of …

Parenting.

What is the best present you ever received in a box?

It can be your neighbor, club leader, bridge partner, boss, father, teacher – anyone you think would be interesting to Bearden Shopper-News readers. Email suggestions to Wendy Smith, shopperwendy@comcast.net. Include contact info if you can.

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BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS • NOVEMBER 26, 2012 • A-3 Other projects she cited: ■ Neighborhood improvements, including tightening up and enforcand the 2007-08 recession ing vacant and blighted that left Knoxville with a property ordinances.

■ The $65 million shop$130 million unfunded liping complex at the old ability.

Like many cities with Fulton Bellows site adjadefined benefits plans, the cent to the University of taxpayers are on the hook Tennessee campus. This for most of the invest- will be incorporated into ment risks (although em- the Cumberland Avenue ployees do contribute six plan that will put utilities percent annually). Rogero underground and make appointed a taskforce to the district more pedestristudy the problem, and an-friendly.

■ More parking spaces seven workshops later, City Council approved a downtown, including a parthybrid plan that was then nership with TVA to provide approved by the voters in the November election.

“If you think the first thing I wanted to deal with was pension reform, you’re The West View Historicrazy… In many cities, this cal Cemetery District was tears people apart,” Rogrecently awarded an East ero said. “But here, City Tennessee Preservation Council and city employaward as a result of the ees cooperated and it is partnership that turned important that we have a six overgrown and crimeplan that shares the risk.” ridden cemeteries into a She said she is also scenic area. pleased that issues surThe West View Comrounding tourism promomunity Action Group tion have been settled afsought the help of city ter controversy sunk the and county officials, the Knoxville Tourism and East Tennessee CommuSports Corporation. nity Design Center and “We have the tourism other local organizations initiative back on track,” to transform the historic she said.

Rogero loves her job

By Betty Bean

Connor, Ron and Jessie Carden attended Doughnuts with Dads at West Hills Elementary School last week.

Time with kids pays off, says judge West Hills Elementary School hosted Doughnuts with Dads last week for students and their fathers or father figures. Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin spoke to the near capacity crowd in the school’s gymnasium on the importance of fathers and reading.

Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin reminds fathers of the importance of spending time with their children. Photos by

Wendy Smith

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His father was a Knoxville police officer. Irwin remembers hearing a family friend ask his dad how he’d had such good luck with his sons.

He answered that while he didn’t always have the right answers, he hoped he’d spent enough time with his sons to overcome the things he’d done wrong.

“That’s what your kids need. They just need you,” Irwin said.

Reading was a part of life in his childhood home, and Irwin especially enjoyed books by Western novelist Louis L’Amour. He encouraged fathers to find out what their children love and feed those passions. Unqualified

love at home keeps kids out of trouble, he said.

“No school, no court, no government can solve the problems of the home.”

Ron and Jessie Carden attended the event with their son, Connor, who is in the 5th grade. Ron was glad to have extra time with his son before he leaves Knoxville early this week to start a new job as senior safety advisor for the Abu Dhabi Air Force.

“West Hills (Elementary School) has had a tremendous influence on our lives since we’ve been here,” he said.

■ West Knox Lions Club will meet 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 3, at Sullivan’s in Franklin Square, 9648 Kingston Pike.

One reason Madeline R o g e r o loves being mayor – which should not, she told the Fountain City Lions Club, be confused Rogero with running for mayor – is that city government is nonpartisan.

Republicans, Democrats and others work together without regard to political party.

“This is where the rubber meets the road,” Rogero said. “At the city level we get things done. We don’t run on a partisan basis and we don’t serve that way. We cooperate to get things done.”

Rogero praised City Council and her staff, saying, “I hire people who are smarter than me.”

She spoke without notes for nearly an hour, fielding questions and covering a broad range of topics from pension reform to the difficulty of getting into the hot new Market Square restaurant, Tupelo Honey, even if you’re the mayor.

(Except for the ribbon-cutting, Rogero hasn’t been able to dine there yet.)

She discussed Knoxville’s successful bid for an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Grant, which won’t bring the city any hard dollars, but will import a six-member IBM team to spend three weeks here studying the problem of weatherization and energy education for KUB customers who receive emergency assistance to pay their monthly bills. Rogero said she expects recommendations that will lead to concrete solutions.

Her first challenge was the city’s ballooning pension obligation, a legacy of past administrations

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By Sandra Clark TDOT is planning to dump $100 million into an extension of the James White Parkway in south Knoxville despite opposition from Mayors Madeline Rogero and Tim Burchett and Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis. Even the crumudgeonly columist Frank Cagle is a’gin it.

Burchett’s office responded to a request from blogger Randy Neal with three quick quotes: the extension is a bad idea because it pulls away traffic from already-struggling Chapman Highway businesses, it upsets well-established neighborhoods and the $100 mil-

lion could be better used on other local road projects.

Well said.

If your daily travels include Raccoon Valley Road in Heiskell, the 1-lane underpass in Karns, the intersection at Harbison’s Crossroads, Nubbin Ridge Road, Bob Kirby or Bob Gray out west, you know what Burchett means.

TDOT plans a public hearing 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec.6, at South-Doyle Middle School. Try to attend.

Better yet, drop a note to Gov. Bill Haslam. Knox County is past due for road improvements, but the money must be spent in the areas of greatest need.

By Jake Mabe

The Republic of Tennessee On the Saturday afternoon before Thanksgiving, a Knox County Democrat posted the following Facebook observation:

Betty Bean

“Democrats lining up to see a movie about the first GOP president; the world turned upside down ...”

And sure enough, the parking lot was full and the lobby was packed at the Carmike Ten Theater for the Saturday matinees.

Although most moviegoers were there for the latest vampire saga, there was also a pretty good crowd queuing up for tickets to “Lincoln,” many of whom were were pretty much in agreement that Lincoln would not only be well-pleased by the results of the 2012 presidential election, but that if he were alive today, he’d be a happy Democrat.

Meanwhile more than 30,000 Tennesseans (presumably not Democrats) were demonstrating their months lat- displeasure with the elecer. Lawyers, tion results by signing an who might online petition to secede be working from the union.

The Democratic movieon a similar number of goers observed many parcases dur- allels between the 16th ing the period, would only begin Steve Sword to focus on one case a month or so before the trial and would often ask for a new trial date, President Obama’s rewhich would often mean election should help TVA a delay of another eight have a quorum this January months. if his four nominees get a Now, Sword says, after committee hearing and are a defendant decides not to voted on by the U.S. Senplea, he sets the trial date. ate during the current lame “I don’t have any num- duck session when members bers or statistics to quote are trying to find a solution you, but that is working. to the financial dilemma We’re still tweaking the facing the nation. Otherpolicy.” wise, TVA is down to four Responding to a ques- board members and lacks tion, Sword said he is not in a quorum to do business favor of changing the law to starting Jan. 1. allow for the election of apHowever, confirmation pellate court judges. is not certain. Sen. Lamar “It’s a bad idea. It would Alexander says he was not introduce political concerns consulted prior to the presiand lose the independence dential appointments. One of the judiciary.” of the appointments goes Increasing integrity, back to February and his Sword said, was an “obvi- nomination has not even ous” goal in the wake of had a hearing. If these four the Baumgartner scan- or some of the four are condal. Rather than viewing firmed, it will be because Baumgartner’s resignation Sens. Alexander and Corker as a “dark day,” Sword says let it happen. he saw it as a “day of light for President Obama may our community. have two federal judgeships “There are a ton of out- to fill in East Tennessee standing lawyers and judg- as Judge Phillips in Knoxes who serve you in Knox ville has announced his reCounty. I see my job as be- tirement in 2013 and Judge ing a public servant. This is Collier in Chattanooga is exnot my courtroom. That’s pected to take senior status just where I work. These in 2014. This White House are your courtrooms. You’re personnel office does not welcome to come down any- move quickly on many aptime. If you see something pointments so one should you don’t like, call me.” not expect any nominations

Sword speeds up justice Steve Sword made one thing clear.

When Halls B&P president Shannon Carey said last week the Halls community has been especially affected by the retrials ordered for the defendants accused of the 2007 torture and murder of Halls native Chris Newsom and his girlfriend, Channon Christian, in the wake of the scandal involving former judge Richard Baumgartner, Sword didn’t mince words.

“That will not happen on my watch.”

Sword was the speaker at the B&P’s November meeting at Beaver Brook Country Club. A West Virginia native who graduated from King College in Bristol and earned a law degree from UT, Sword was appointed criminal court judge for Tennessee’s Division I by Gov. Bill Haslam following Baumgartner’s resignation.

He says that during the last 16 months he has tried to emphasize increased efficiency and integrity.

A former assistant district attorney, Sword said he prosecuted a large number of child molestation cases.

“Sometimes by the time the case came to trial, the child would be a young adult and (some cases) were tried 10 years later. Justice delayed is justice denied.”

Sword says he has initiated a policy to not assign a defendant a trial date at arraignment unless the defendant is accused of a Class A or Class B felony. Previously, Sword said trial dates set at arraignments were often scheduled seven or eight

A-4 • NOVEMBER 26, 2012 • BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS

Yellowdog moviegoers Sylvia Woods, Becky and Mark Harmon and Gloria Johnson join other Democrats for a “Lincoln” matinee. Photo by Betty Bean president and the 44th.

They were both tall, skinny Illinois lawyers who had served in Congress as well as in that state’s legislative body before running for president. They had both lost U.S. House races.

Barack Obama invited comparisons from the get-go by kicking off his presidential campaign in Springfield, quoting the Old Rail-splitter liberally.

When he won, he was sworn in on Lincoln’s bible, and he let it be known that he had drawn inspiration from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals,” which told the story of how Lincoln had co-opted former opponents like William Seward to join his cabinet, just as Obama

would appoint Hillary Clinton Secretary of State.

There were many similarities, but none has provided as much hilarity as the notion of 21st century secession.

Lincoln’s election triggered the single-file exodus of the southern states from the union, who left behind eloquent declarations of secession citing the institution of slavery as the key issue, with Mississippi’s being the most explicit.

“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery – the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions

of commerce of the earth.

These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.”

Discussing the tragedy of the Civil War and racial injustice in America in the same breath as the 30,000plus Tennesseans who have signed a secession petition since Obama’s re-election is like comparing a killer typhoon to a clown car wreck.

But there are serious points to be made: Tennessee receives more federal dollars than it contributes, which might just be a problem. On the other hand, becoming a sovereign nation could ensure UT’s chances of winning a national championship in football – if we could beat Vandy.

So maybe we better stay where we are.

Speculation on federal judge Victor Ashe

until this time next year or later, but lots of speculation on names will surface between now and then. Dawn Coppock is one, as is Sevierville attorney Cyndy Richardson Wyrick. Both have been public in their interest.

Pam Reeves has a distinguished background having been president of both the Knoxville and Tennessee Bar Associations. She is highly regarded and is married to city Law Director Charles Swanson.

It is very possible the final Obama choice has not surfaced. The choice does not have to live in East Tennessee or Knox County. In fact, Judge Charles Neese of Greeneville was from Paris, Tenn., and Knoxvillian Clure Morton became a federal judge in Nashville.

Others mentioned as a possible federal judge include former state Rep. Wayne Ritchie, Don Bosch, Greg Isaacs, Supreme Court Justices Gary Wade (also from

Sevierville) and Sharon Lee from Madisonville. All are Democrats.

Ultimately, Sens. Alexander and Corker will have to agree to whomever the White House chooses in order to secure confirmation. U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper of Nashville is the senior House Democrat and normally would have a voice in recommendations to the White House. He was an early Obama supporter over Clinton in Tennessee in 2008. However, Tennessee is not a high priority state for President Obama as there are only two Democrats in the congressional delegation. Tennessee is solid GOP territory. Cooper’s recommendations are not always followed by the Obama White House.

■ Tank Strickland (Rogero mayoral assistant and former chair of Knox County Commission) was hospitalized a few weeks ago with breathing issues. He has been home on Gardenia for over a week but says he is improving and looks forward to getting back to work.

■ State Rep. Ryan Haynes, who is chair of the Knox County legislative delegation, has reached out to

newly-elected Democratic state Rep. Gloria Johnson, offering to introduce her to Speaker Harwell and assisting on committee assignments. Haynes, an active Republican, is one who works with members of both parties. Harwell has sole discretion on what committees all House members serve.

■ Nick Della Volpe has decided to seek a second term on city council in the 2013 council elections, which means all five of the current district council members will be on the city ballot next November. Besides Della Volpe, they include Brenda Palmer, Daniel Brown, Nick Pavlis and Duane Grieve.

■ Coliseum Director Bob Polk, who has had recurring back issues, is still looking at retirement but may delay it until 2013.

Nownes to speak The Third and Fourth District Democratic clubs will host UT professor Dr. Anthony Nownes speaking on the recent election at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Rd. Info: Dr. Lorraine Hart at 637-3293.

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BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS • NOVEMBER 26, 2012 • A-5

Out of the shadows Woman seeks to raise epilepsy awareness

By Jake Mabe They are called grand mal seizures.

Heather Webb says when one happens, her body becomes rigid. Her heart beats rapidly. She falls like axed timber, losing consciousnesses. Her eyes roll back into her head. She jerks violently.

Heather has epilepsy.

She was diagnosed with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy when she was 12.

“I was on my way to school and suddenly dropped my books and papers on the school bus,” she says. “I blacked out. I just wasn’t there. My sister Krissy was taking (health occupational) classes at the time and just happened to have been studying seizures. The teacher told her I needed to go straight to the hospital.”

Doctors told Heather she had a 50/50 chance of growing out of it. She didn’t. Her epilepsy worsened.

“I went through so many medicines. I was a guinea pig for a long time.”

She and her doctors have found a trio of medications that help control her epilepsy as well as possible.

In 2000, she had a vagus nerve stimulator installed, a computerized electrical device similar in size, shape and implant location to a heart pacemaker that connects to the vagus nerve in the neck. She carries a magnet with her that can be swiped near the implant to stop a seizure.

“It basically saved my life.”

Heather says she witnessed another person have a grand mal seizure while she was working in a restaurant.

“It can be very scary for a person who witnesses it.”

Some with severe epilepsy, Heather says, often live “in the shadows,” as she puts it, fearful they might lose their job.

Heather has not been able to drive for eight years.

She admits that epilepsy has made some relationships difficult. According to the Epilepsy Foundation of East Tennessee’s website, “People with epilepsy may be embarrassed or fearful about their seizures and they may have to contend with the ignorance and fear of other people.

Some people work through these issues on their own, and others may need some help from a nurse or a professional counselor to deal with them effectively.”

Heather is on a mission to bring the disorder out of the shadows. She has

Epilepsy facts

■ More than three million Americans have epilepsy and 200,000 cases are diagnosed annually.

■ Seizures can last from a few seconds to a few minutes.

■ If someone is experiencing a seizure, do not try to restrain them or put any object (especially a finger) in their mouth.

■ Remove any nearby dangerous objects and, if the person has fallen, turn them on their side and place something soft under their head.

For more tips and info, visit www. efeasttn.org, call The Epilepsy Foundation of East Tennessee at 522-4991 or visit www.akfus.org.

shared her story through traditional and social media during November’s Epilepsy Awareness Month.

She would love to talk to middle or high school health students about epilepsy.

In 2010, she was named an ambassador for the Knoxville region of The

Anita Kaufmann Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public not to fear epilepsy and seizures.

It also raises money for medicinal research and to hopefully find a cure.

Heather is planning to organize a benefit concert or some other event for the

Foundation’s Purple Day on March 26.

Heather enjoys singing in church and says her faith sustains her. But, she admits that some days are just plain rough.

“Any seizure can kill a person. You always wonder if this is the day you’re going to have your last seizure. Once, I fell and hit my head on concrete blocks. I busted my head open and lost control of my bodily functions. I woke up

in the hospital two hours later and for an hour after I awakened, my body was paralyzed.”

She says some days she asks “why?”

“But then, I get back up.

I keep on going. If you stay down, you’re not going to get anywhere.”

Anyone interested in helping Heather raise epilepsy awareness or help organize the local Purple Day event should email her at callmefeather@gmail.com.

Heather Webb

Photo courtesy Heather Lynch/Life’s Little Stories

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Retirement sell-off furniture liquidation Name brand furniture will be sold at a fraction of the original value!

Mynatts Furniture is celebrating the retirement of Tommy and Jewell Walker, the owners of the company.

After proudly serving the furniture industry since 1957, Tommy and Jewell are moving in a new direction.

It’s the end of an era. To send them off in style, come join us for the biggest retirement sale in the history of Mynatts Furniture starting Thursday, Nov. 29, at 10 a.m.

As a special thank you to their loyal customers, every living room, every dining room, every bedroom & every piece of premium bedding will be offered at the biggest discounts in our history!

This event is anything but ordinary with 30,000 plus sq.ft. of unexpected values throughout the store. Truck loads of new merchandise are arriving daily for this one-time sale event.

Never before and never again will you be able to purchase name-brand furniture and mattresses at unbelievable prices.

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Doors open Thursday, Nov. 29, 10 a.m. sharp.

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It’s going to be a total and absolute wall-towall sell off!

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of furniture and bedding will be offered to the public at prices far below what you would expect to pay.

Don’t miss out! You can still pick up your lay-a-ways and special orders and make your monthly payments at this location until further notice.

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A-6 • NOVEMBER 26, 2012 • BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS

Who killed Tennessee football?

In lieu of flowers, please send memorial donations to the University of Tennessee athletics department, PO Box 15016, Knoxville, TN 37901. *** Autopsy results are pending.

Investigations continue. Official explanations and excuses are under deep cover. Leaks are scarce but most of us think we already know who killed Tennessee football.

Here is the plot: Five consecutive seasons with six or more losses is the absolute worst in the colorful history of the Volunteers. This is plain and simple awful. It is also inexcusable.

Here are the principal characters (note which names appear frequently): Dr. Joe Johnson started

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this mess by retiring as university president. Leadership has never been the same.

Athletic director Doug Dickey returned to Florida to play more golf.

Dickey’s replacement, nice guy Mike Hamilton, set world records as a fundraiser. He built great buildings. He lost touch with the primary mission, winning games. He may have never been in touch.

Phillip Fulmer, legendary coach, was unable to win national titles on a reg-

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ular basis. He had the Vols in the 2007 SEC championship game but was said to be drifting toward decline.

Too loyal, assistants on cruise control. Recruiting was slipping, league running away from him. Fans were distressed.

Strange sequence: Hamilton awarded Fulmer a raise and contract extension and promptly fired him. How it was handled, on homecoming week, was brutal. Fulmer’s record looks pretty good in retrospect.

So, who killed Tennessee football? Fulmer didn’t.

Hamilton, listening to former UT student manager and current super agent Jim Sexton, hired Lane Kiffin.

Al Davis, godfather of the Oakland Raiders, said the boy coach would destroy the

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calendar don’t bother some people, but I have spent so much of my life working in the church that I pay close attention.

I always felt a trifle For all that has been, thanks. cheated when the Saturday For all that will be, yes. after Thanksgiving was (“Markings” Dag Hammarskjöld) spent at the church hanging banners and setting up As I write this, I am still paper after Thanksgiving Advent wreaths because making lists and perusing and before the first Sunday the season of expectation recipes and planning for in Advent. (and the new church year) I am thankful for that.

Thanksgiving. But this began on the Sunday of The vagaries of the Thanksgiving weekend. column will appear in your

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UT program and take the university down with him.

That was an exaggerated forecast. Well, somewhat.

Young Kiffin spent $2 million Tennessee dollars to bring along daddy Monte as defensive guru. Neither knew the first thing about stopping spread formations.

The Arkansas wildcat was a total mystery.

Young Kiffin said and did wild and reckless things. He, Ed Orgeron and/or unscrupulous associates caught the eye and ear of the NCAA. Violation police were closing in when the gang fled west, to Southern Cal. The mattress fire may not have been Hamilton’s fault. I will say probation is really embarrassing for losing teams.

What happened next was a blunder. Hamilton chose Derek Dooley and told us

good times would follow.

Derek was very lucky to land a lucrative, long-term contract for one of the better reconstruction jobs in the country on the strength of availability, family name, Southern lingo, law degree, 17-20 record at Louisiana Tech and earlier affiliation with Nick Saban.

The aforementioned Mr. Sexton negotiated the deal.

We now know Dooley was also unlucky. He was overmatched and the victim of several unfortunate incidents. Losing quarterback, receiver and safety to injury was hurtful. Counting to 11 was troublesome.

So was Da’Rick.

October schedules were overloaded. The inexplicable loss to Kentucky last year was deadly. Considerable pain was self-inflicted.

Dooley’s scramble of assistants contributed to con-

fusion. Worst mistake was turning the defense over to Sal Sunseri. Let me say this politely: It didn’t work.

Dooley and helpers, coming and going, recruited reasonably well but failed to gain on superior foes. Talent evaluation was fuzzy. Tennessee secured several players who can’t play.

Precise measurables? To quote the former coach, you are what the record says you are, 4-19 in the SEC. He did improve the culture.

Who killed Tennessee football? Hamilton is most often mentioned in this sad postmortem. Hamilton fired Fulmer without a plan.

Hamilton hired Kiffin – and Dooley on the rebound.

Hamilton is the prime suspect.

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek?

Is he a person of interest?

Not much.

I suppose I selfishly wanted more time with family, but it was more than that. I wanted Thanksgiving to have its own time and then just a little space before we were ready to dive right into Advent and Christmas.

That may be the reason I always want to put up the Chrismon tree and leave it bare and dark the first Sunday in Advent, then add the Old Testament Chrismons the next week, and the New Testament symbols the next, and finally on the Sunday before Christmas—TaDa, TaDa!—to turn on the tiny white lights.

In my mind, at least, it

is one way to live out the season of expectancy, the time of waiting, the looking and leaning forward in time to a new thing that is about to happen.

So, this year I am pleased that Advent begins in December, right where it belongs. (See, it really doesn’t take much to make me happy!) We will begin a new season in a new month, and we will sing the old songs that are always new and God will do a new thing!

And as I clean and plan and prepare for Thanksgiving, I do so with my heart still planted firmly in that season of remembering the blessings

of the past year. Some of them were disguised, some of them were revealed only in retrospect, but some were realized in wondrous joy, others in catch-yourbreath amazement and a few were received with tears of humility.

It pays to remember, as we enter this season of tradition and long memories, that God is always doing a new thing.

We need to be attentive, to be watchful, to be in tune with God. So for now, enjoy your Thanksgiving feast, enjoy time with friends and family, give thanks for God’s goodness, and then be ready to “Prepare ye the way of the Lord!”

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Hall, Mack on ‘Great American Heroes’ GAC broadcast set for Wednesday

Candlelight vigil on Market Square Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light recently held a candlelight vigil on Market Square. The group advocates for a spiritual response to climate change, and is working with other Tennessee organizations to encourage TVA to adopt a one percent annual energy efficiency target. That would require the power company to capture enough energy efficiency to equal one percent of its annual energy sales. Photo by Wendy Smith

Practice for Thanksgiving Day Parade The Bearden High School band practices for the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade last week. It was one of 18 high school marching bands invited to participate in the parade, which is the oldest in the country. More than 100 band members travelled to Philadelphia before touring New York City for two days. Photo by Wendy Smith

Compassion Coalition is one of three Knoxville nonprofits that will be featured on the final episode of the television show ”Great American Heroes with Trace Adkins” which airs on the Great American Country (GAC) television network.

The broadcast date is Wednesday Nov. 28, at 8 or 9 p.m., depending on the area. Stuart Hall with the Restorative Justice program and Charlotte Mack with the Furniture Ministry are featured on the show and represent Compassion Coalition.

“We were humbled and thrilled to be nominated as a Hometown Hero,” said Grant Standefer, executive director of Compassion Coalition.

“Stuart Hall is a fulltime truck driver, and he’s all over the map each week. When he’s home in Knoxville on the weekends, he gives himself to his work with the Restorative Justice kids and the volunteers that work with him. I can’t think of a more deserving hometown hero.”

This episode will air just three days after the Watson Family and The Restoration House of East Tennessee is featured on the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” Thanksgiving special.

The Restorative Justice Program is an intervention initiative for at-risk youth who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes and can be sentenced to community service in lieu of jail. This

Stuart Hall, a volunteer with the Restorative Justice program of Compassion Coalition, with TV host Trace Adkins Photo submitted

“all volunteer” ministry serves an average of 120 juveniles per month while helping 20 non-profit sites.

The youth average 12,500 community service hours per year. The recidivism rate for these youth is less than 10 percent, compared to the national rate approaching 75 percent.

This ministry brings hope and light to troubled youth. Info: Stuart Hall at 599-9078 or stuart-hall@ hotmail.com.

Compassion Coalition’s Furniture Ministry unites church teams, and referring ministries, agencies and case managers to collect and deliver quality, used furniture to those in crisis.

The Furniture Ministry has been meeting this basic need since 2001 in collaboration with KARM Thrift Stores.

Info: Charlotte Mack at 251-1591, x3 or charlotte@ compassioncoalition.org.

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Rocky Hill holds Turkey Trot Rocky Hill Elementary School kindergartners Reese King and Joey Rebholz spread some turkey love before going on stage with their class at this year’s Turkey Trot. The annual performance gives the students a chance to shine with hand-painted turkey tails and laminated drawings of “turkey feet” tied to their shoes. Photos by S. Barrett

A.L. Lotts Elementary School kindergartners Isaac Ratliff and Taylor Bergner stand next to a swing the school is currently borrowing from Karns Elementary School. The plan is to raise enough money to replace it.

Swingin’ at A.L. Lotts Elementary Students at A.L. Lotts will soon be able to enjoy a new addition to their playground.

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Rocky Hill Elementary School kindergartners Spencer Vance, Christian Jett and Christopher Bobo display their handmade headbands and necklaces before trotting off to perform in the Turkey Trot. Students made their way to the stage through the middle of the audience before singing Thanksgiving songs and reciting holiday poetry.

More than enough money has been raised by students and faculty to purchase new equipment designed to allow children with special needs to swing alongside their classmates. A special swing currently installed on the playground has been borrowed from Karns Elementary School for the last two years.

Kristen Lewis, the school’s PTA volunteer coordinator for children with special needs, said the purchase of a

new swing will cost approximately $570. That amount has been exceeded by the fundraising efforts.

According to Lewis, A.L. Lotts is a hub school for children in west Knoxville with special needs. Students can receive physical and speech therapy while attending their regular classes throughout the day.

Even if a special needs student is zoned for another school, she or he can receive permission to attend A.L. Lotts.

Currently, 114 special needs students attend the school.

Each year, the school hosts a hat day fundraiser, in which proceeds have always been given to a group outside the school such as the local Down syndrome group.

This year, the money went toward the purchase of the new swing.

Learning Spanish at Greenway School The Greenway School’s Spanish program is treated to monthly visits by Teresa Murphy de Vidal, shown here with students wearing colorful costumes from her native Peru. Pictured are Jayah Reeves, Murphy de Vidal, Havah Anovitz and Made Harrell. Photo submitted

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Hall has it!

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By Betty Bean

It’s almost time for the final bell at South-Doyle Middle School, but 6th grade social studies teacher Donna Hall looks like she’s in the middle of her day.

A big tote bag sits on the floor behind her desk.

She won’t walk out to her car until it’s stacked full of student papers that she’ll work on until deep into the night.

“A lot of people think teachers have such an easy job – ‘Oh, you’re off for the whole summer’ – but there aren’t too many nights when I don’t go home with this bag full,” said Hall, who has taught for 30 years. She has built a reputation for caring for her students, colleagues and community.

She also has a reputation for making her world history classes fun.

“I’ve been known to wear a Julius Caesar outfit when we study Rome or a toga when we take up Greece.

“When we studied Mesopotamia, I let them know this is present-day Iraq.

I try to bring it back to them, to help them understand how it affects their lives.”

The daughter of the late Frances and Bill Sarrett, Hall studied education at UT, graduating from Holston High School with a degree in education. She’d always known she wanted to teach, but such jobs were hard to come by, so she went to work with her father at International Harvester.

She married and moved to Nashville and Alabama and North Carolina over the next few years, eventually picking up some substitute teaching work. When she finally returned to Knoxville, she got a job teaching at Sunnyview Primary School, then Ramsey Elementary until it closed and she was moved back to Sunnyview. Her daughters Renee and Emily went with her.

In 2001, her friend and co-worker Emily Hurst decided to transfer to South-Doyle and wanted Hall to go with her.

“I told her, ‘I can’t. They’re too big, too mean. …’ But she talked me into

South-Doyle Middle School teacher Donna Hall Photos by Betty Bean

it and there’s no difference. They’re just taller. That’s the only difference between middle school and elementary school. And they still don’t come with paper and pencil.”

It was a big year – she sold her house, changed schools and remarried. Her husband is former Knox County Register of Deeds Steve Hall – “The original,” she said, explaining that there are 13 Steve Halls in Knox County.

“I want to have a dinner and invite all the Steve Halls to come.”

Hall is known as South-Doyle’s “Sunshine Lady” because she keeps track of weddings, births, deaths,

years, to colon cancer because she was 52 and had not had a colonoscopy. So, when everybody turns 50, I present them with this little (dark blue rubber) bracelet and tell them they have until summer to get their colonoscopy done.

I make them wear it and give it back to me after they get their test.”

There’s a picture of Emily’s memorial service on Hall’s wall.

Much as she loves teaching, she’s begun to dream about having time to travel to places she’s been to in books – particularly Rome, which she says is on her “bucket list,” and to Egypt, which fascinates her.

“I would probably go on another five or six years, but Steve is wanting to retire and I don’t want to work if he’s not working.

One day I think I’m going to retire, but the next day I think ‘What would I do?’

“I want to stay with the kids until I can’t remember stuff.”

illnesses, retirements and baby showers.

She attends school athletic events and participates in all kinds of fundraisers and charity events.

And there’s one more job she’s taken on: “I’m the Colonoscopy Queen – I lost Emily Hurst, my friend of 32

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‘The Rock’ fuels creativity at Rocky Hill

Sequoyah Elementary holds breakfast challenge Sequoyah Elementary 3rd grader Laylo Usmonova and 4th grader Hayes Buehler enjoy a meal with principal Alisha Hinton. Knox County Schools partnered with Coordinated School Health to challenge all schools to increase breakfast participation. Each school developed a plan. Sequoyah Elementary School’s idea came in second place countywide. The plan allows each student who eats breakfast at the school to enter his name into the Breakfast Challenge Box, where it may be drawn to win an opportunity to eat breakfast with a member of the faculty. Next month the winners will have breakfast with their homeroom teacher. Photo submitted

SCHOOL NOTES Bearden Elementary ■ A chorus holiday concert will be performed 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the gym.

■ Holiday Helpers will be held 8 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the gym.

■ The school’s PTSO will meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the library.

■ Spelling bee will be held Wednesday, Dec. 12, in the gym.

a.m. the second Wednesday of each month in the library.

All parents are encouraged to attend.

Webb School ■ An admissions open house for grades K-5 will be held 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the lower school commons.

To RSVP or for more info, call Deborah Gross at 291-3864.

■ An admissions open house for grades 6-12 will be held 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the central building. Info: Christy Widener, 291-3830.

West Hills Elementary ■ Box Tops for Education from General Mills’ products and Labels for Education from Campbell’s products are being collected to purchase supplies for the school.

Labels can be dropped off in the silver collection box at the front of the school or can be mailed to: West Hills Elementary School, 409 Vanosdale Drive, Knoxville, TN 37909. Info: email Jill Schmudde at jschmudde@ gmail.com.

Rocky Hill Elementary School’s yearbook team gives a thumbs down as instructor Janet Shomaker reveals the first proof of the yearbook’s cover. Originally requested to be tiedyed, the background turned out a beige color. Pictured are (front) 4th grader Lucy Sword, (second row) 4th grader Rebecca Robinson, 3rd grader Max Harper, 5th grader Hannah Bhakta; (back) 5th graders Meg Doyle and Abigail Smith.

When asked what she liked about The Rock, Meg said, “You get to hang out with your friends in a totally different way.”

Rocky Hill Elementary School 2nd grader Aurora Cruze adds metallic paint to an autumn painting in Karen Bertollini’s art class during the school’s afterschool program, The Rock.

Several six-week classes were offered this fall including movie making, baton twirling and a yearbook program.

The Rock kicked off in April 2011 and has become so popular several classes have a waiting list.

Photos by S. Barrett

■ The AR store will be open Wednesday, Dec. 12.

Greenway School ■ A visitor’s open house will be held 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, for interested families.

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Here’s to Cyber

By Anne Hart

Monday … and more Wonder when it happened that the string of days immediately following Thanksgiving Day acquired flashy new names?

We all know about Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving is so named because for many retailers it’s their biggest sales day of the year, turning balance sheets from red to black.

This is a day that historically – if you can refer to a decade or so as “history” – belongs to the bricks and mortar retailers, rather than to online merchandisers.

Next up is “Small Business Saturday” or “Small Saturday,” a nationwide reminder to us all to support local entrepreneurs who have put their hearts and souls into the small businesses they own and operate. As their businesses thrive, so do the communities they serve. Their success is ours.

And now we’re told that the next day on the calendar is to be called “Sofa Sunday” because of an iPad app containing about a bazillion retailers’ catalogs.

The idea is that we’ll all sit on our sofas on the Sunday after Thanksgiving and order stuff from our iPads.

That’s questionable. Some of us find the sofa more useful as an ideal napping place as we try to recover from Thanksgiving leftovers.

And then we come to Cyber Monday – today – the largest e-commerce shopping day of the year – unless, of course, it is overtaken this year by Sofa Sunday.

Anne Hart

Online sales in cyberspace today are expected to be in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion.

And Tuesday? That’s the day you need to be worried about. Really worried.

“Red Tuesday” it has been dubbed by the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies, who warn it will hit shoppers who go into debt on Black Friday and Small Saturday and Cyber Monday like a ton of bricks when they check their finances and learn that their personal balance sheets turned from black to red during the holiday shopping spree.

That takes care of six days. No mention yet of Wednesday. I have a suggestion. How does Weary Wednesday sound to you?

Or better yet: “Worn-out just thinking about it all Wednesday?”

Holiday networking Farragut West Knox Chamber’s annual Holiday Open House will be 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, at the Chamber office, 11826 Kingston Pike.

Attendees are asked to bring donations for Mission of Hope.

Construction is almost complete on Knoxville’s newest Bojangles restaurant, this one located at the intersection of Middlebrook Pike and Weisgarber Road, across the street from the main post office. Until just a few years ago, the 1.7 acre site was occupied by Judy’s, a busy West Knoxville nightspot. Photo by A. Hart

New Embassy Suites coming July 11, 2013. If all goes as planned, that’s the date the first guests will stay at the new Embassy Suites, now under construction at 9621 Parkside Drive between Sherlake Drive and Hayfield Road – about halfway between Cedar Bluff Road and Pellissippi Parkway.

Guests will find themselves in a plush hotel that offers only two-room suites.

The suites will boast several pieces of movable furniture, so guests will be able to use some of the space for meetings or conferences if they choose.

Each suite will have everything from a refrigerator to a wet bar, microwave, two HDTVs and an iron and ironing board, in addition to other amenities.

Complimentary breakfast at the hotel will be fullservice, cooked to order.

In the evenings, guests can enjoy a reception with complimentary cocktails and hors’doeuvres.

The multi-story hotel’s design features a central

atrium, with rooms located around it. There will also be an indoor pool and a fitness center that will be open 24 hours. A flexible 9,000 square foot meeting/banquet space will offer catering service.

A couple of items to note: there will be no smoking in the hotel, and service dogs will be the only pets allowed.

Thanks, Arby’s!

What a deal!

If you’ve been to Arby’s lately your order-taker asked, “Would you like to contribute a dollar to Alzheimer’s and receive an Arby’s coupon book worth $20?”

That’s a no-brainer, for sure.

The nice young man who patiently answered my questions after handing over my salad at the drive-through window at the Cedar Bluff Arby’s last week, told me he thinks about 85 percent of customers bought the coupon book at first; now that number is down to about 50 percent.

He’s guessing the number dropped because so many people have already bought the book.

Arby’s has about 150,000 of the books to sell. It’s for a great cause. Sure would be a terrific stocking stuffer.

Where else can you get a $20 gift for a buck?

The Rotary Foundation has always done its work around the world without a lot of fanfare. Rotarians don’t stop to pat themselves on the back for their good deeds; they just keep on thinking up new good works.

Once a year they get a report detailing just how effectively the dollars they have contributed have been spent, and it’s an eye-opener.

Worldwide, Rotarians donate millions of dollars every year. While that is careJohn Bailey fully accounted for, there’s no actual count of how many volunteer hours members contribute. That figure would be mind-boggling.

Knoxville’s John Bailey, past district governor for Rotary’s District 6780, is this year’s chair of the District Rotary Foundation Major Donor Committee and brought members of West Knox Rotary up to date on some of the ways their donations are used worldwide at last week’s meeting.

Bailey said that since 1947 Rotary has helped educate 41,000 scholars in 130 countries with $542 million in scholarships, making Rotary the largest single provider of scholarships in the world.

He said that Rotarians have provided 34,000 matching grants totaling $430.2 million in 200 countries.

Since 1965 some 70,000 people on 15,000 teams have been sent abroad for group study exchanges, and since 2002 Rotary has sponsored 591 Peace Fellows in 42 countries.

The major focus of Rotary International has long been its PolioPlus project which has almost almost succeeded in eliminating polio worldwide. The late Bill Sergeant, a member of the Oak Ridge Rotary Club, chaired the effort for many years with amazing results. Last year there were fewer than 200 new cases of the disease worldwide.

Bailey had high praise for members of the West Knox club. “Your passion for the work of the Foundation is evident,” he said.

Keasling, Home Federal honored Home Federal Bank president Dale Keasling, wife Barbara Keasling and Olympic Gold Medalist Davis Tarwater gather at the Emerald Youth Foundation’s Legacy Dinner at the Knoxville Convention Center Nov. 15. Dale Keasling was the event’s Legacy Award honoree, recognizing his years of outstanding civic service, especially to the community’s youth; Tarwater works with the organization’s swimming programs.

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Steven Herzog, owner of the Sandler Training franchise in Knoxville, offered solid tips to improve sales to members of the Powell Business and Professional Association in November.

“A lot of people can tell you no; fewer can say yes or no,” he said, urging sales reps to get past gatekeepers.

“Learn to call at the top.”

Herzog spoke from experience, fielding questions from the group. To retailers he said: “You spend a lot of money to get customers to walk through your door.

Don’t run them off.

“Don’t say, ‘May I help you?’ Instead, say, ‘Welcome.

Have you been here before?’

Steve Herzog at the Powell Business and Professional Association. Photos by S. Clark “They will say yes or no.

Either way, you say, ‘And what brings you in today?’

“People like to buy, but

they don’t like to be sold to.

Help them through the process of buying, then get out of their way.”

Herzog listed three components of success: technique, attitude and behavior. Of these, he said the most important is behavior.

“Try to level out your ups and downs. Be consistent.

Set conservative goals, but be consistent.”

Herzog recalled visiting the PBPA about 12 years ago when Rockies star Todd Helton spoke. He’s always interested in guiding prospects into his training program. Info: www.firstinsales.com or 470-4224.

Crown College offers CTE Crown College vice president C. Scott Pauley gave a spirited explanation of programs at the college.

Michael Mabe was introduced as the school’s new director of the School Michael Mabe of Trades and Technology, “where targeted education meets employment opportunities.”

Mabe is an experienced diesel mechanic who owned and operated an automotive business for 15 years. He worked for U.S. Airways for 22 years. In 2005, he joined the Bob Jones University School of Applied Studies, teaching aviation and auto-diesel courses.

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News from Rural/Metro

Safe travel this holiday season

By Rob Webb

Alan L. Hill, AT&T regional director of external affairs; Marie Ryan, education coordinator for Junior Achievement; state Rep. Joe Armstrong and Fred Waters, AT&T manager, discuss the advantages of fiber wiring.

AT&T boosts ‘Aspire Mentoring’

By Theresa Edwards Students from Austin-East Magnet School participated in job shadowing at AT&T, 9733 Parkside Drive, as part of Junior Achievement’s “Aspire Mentoring” program, learning about career options and ways that schooling translates to onthe-job success.

“This is especially good for college preparation, for the students to figure out what careers they want to pursue.

They did an interest inventory on the Junior Achievement website earlier. The job shadowing will help them match up their interests with possibilities out there, seeing how things work in real life,” said computer applications instructor Clark Foster.

“We want to encourage students to further their education in college, and let them know there are great job opportunities in science, math and technology,” said AT&T manager Fred Waters.

“We give them several views of different careers at AT&T,” said Alan L. Hill, regional director of external affairs.

These careers included discussions on engineering services, mobility team, public and government relations, sales, fiber installation and maintenance work.

“It is important we expose our students, especially those from AustinEast, to see role models like Alan Hill and Fred Waters,” said Rep. Joe Armstrong. “I think they sparked a lot of interest in the students here.”

Over the holidays, we look forward to spending quality time with our loved ones, some of whom we may not see during the rest of the Webb year. AAA estimated that 43.6 million people traveled more than 50 miles this Thanksgiving weekend, and 90 percent did so by car. And the holiday season has just begun!

As Christmas approaches, even more people will hit the road, and with more vehicles on the highways, that unfortunately means increased risk of car accidents. More than 30 percent of these accidents are alcohol-related. If you host a gathering at your

house, it is your responsibility to make sure your friends don’t leave impaired. Designate sober drivers and offer nonalcoholic beverage options. And remember: Even if you’re completely sober, that doesn’t mean the other drivers are.

As you travel for the holidays, keep these safety tips in mind: ■ Get a good night’s sleep before you travel. Fatigued driving is dangerous. Coffee and other caffeinated beverages are not substitutes for sleep.

■ To avoid drowsiness while driving, take a break every few hours.

■ Give yourself plenty of time to reach your destination. When planning your trip, make sure you allot time for breaks and for potential delays.

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are more vehicles on the road.

Increase the distance between you and the car in front to allow ample stopping time.

■ Pay attention while driving. Put your phone away, never text and drive, and have a passenger operate the GPS. ■ Make sure you have plenty of fuel. Don’t cut it close or you may find yourself on the side of the road.

■ Don’t drive late into the night. Plan your trip to arrive early or split your trip into two days.

■ And remember yearround, if you see lights, pull to the right. Always pull completely over to the right if you see the lights of an emergency vehicle.

With a few safe driving tips, you can keep your family safe on the roads. Rural/ Metro wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season!

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MONDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 26-DEC. 1 The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St., presents two new exhibitions of recent paintings: “Collection/ Re-Collection” by Marcia Goldenstein and “Place” by Jean Hess. Info: www.marciagoldenstein.com and www.jeanhess.com. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; closed Nov. 22-23.

Exhibition will conclude its tour with an exhibit on display through Jan. 6, 2013, at the Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. A selection of paintings from the society’s 33rd juried exhibition will feature works by East Tennessee artists George Brooke, Lee Edge, Genie Even, Dot Galloway, Fran Henley, Judy Lavoie, Brenda Mills and Jim Stagner. Museum hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

Free admission.

TUESDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 27-JAN. 13 The Seventh Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition will feature 1,500 juried pieces of artwork created by middle- and high-school students from 32 counties across East Tennessee at the Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive.

The Best in Show winner will receive a $500 Purchase Award. A reception and awards ceremony will be 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27; it is free and open to the public.

Museum hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free.

MONDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 26-DEC. 16 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28 Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd., is hosting the exhibit “Quadrivium” featuring the work of the four most recent addictions to the faculty of the School of Art at the University of Tennessee. The artists are Joshua Bienko, drawings; Evan Meaney, transmedia design; Althea Murphy-Price, printmaking; and Karla Wozniak, painting. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Monday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday; and 1-4 p.m. Sunday.

MONDAY-THURSDAY, NOV. 26-JAN. 3 The Knoxville Watercolor Society will exhibit an all-media show through Jan. 3, 2013, at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. Info: www.Knxvillewatercolorsociety.com.

MONDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 26-JAN. 13 The Museum of East Tennessee History, 601 S. Gay St., is hosting the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission’s official traveling exhibition “Common People in Uncommon Times” along with the tie-in exhibit “In Death Not Divided: Civil War Tombstones and the Stories They Tell,” organized by the East Tennessee Historical Society. Museum hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays; and 1-5 p.m.

Sundays. Info: 215-8830, eths@eastTNhistory.org or www.easttnhistory.org.

MONDAY, NOV. 26 Tennessee Shines will feature alt-country band Kelsey’s Woods and roots rocker Adam Hill at 7 p.m. at the WDVX studio at the Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St.; broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets are $10 and are available at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door, while supplies last.

Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Children 14 and under accompanied by a parent are admitted free. Info: www. kelseyswoods.com and www.AdamHillSongs.com.

TUESDAY, NOV. 27 Kritter Kids Tiger Tots Tuesday for 2- and 3-year-olds will be held 9:30-11 a.m. at the Tiger Tops building at the Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive. The program is “Animal Opposites.” The hands-on learning session includes stories, crafts and visits from zoo animals, plus a snack and drink. Each child must be accompanied by an adult; $20 per child (adults free with paid child). Preregistration: 637-5331, ext. 350. Info: www.knoxvillezoo.org.

Gallery Nuance, 121 S. Gay St., a combination of art gallery and teaching and event facility, will hold its grand opening 6-9 p.m.

TUESDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 27-JAN. 6 The Tennessee Watercolor Society Traveling

KSO Storytime will feature the numbers/counting program “How Many Cats?” at 10:30 a.m. at the Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Members of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Quartet combine stories about music with classical selections, sound effects and hands-on learning for preschool children and their parents.

The Knoxville Writers’ Group will meet 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike.

Guest speaker is Mark D. Harmon, University of Tennessee professor, county commissioner and author of the nonfiction book “Crashing the Commission: Confessions of a University Twit.” All-inclusive lunch is $12. RSVP by Monday, Nov. 26, 983-3740.

The Museum of East Tennessee History, 601 S. Gay St., will present a Brown Bag Lecture by East Tennessee Historical Society director Cherel Henderson at noon. Henderson will speak about the exhibit “In Death Not Divided: Civil War Tombstones and the Stories They Tell,” based on the ETHS Civil War legacy project “Burial Places of East Tennessee Civil War Soldiers.”

THURSDAY, NOV. 29 “A Hobbit’s Holiday: The Extraordinary Journey of Bilbo Baggins” will be presented as part of the Faculty Lecture Series at 7 p.m. at the Clayton Performing Arts Center at Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Keith Norris, associate professor of English, will present the lecture. The new film “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” based on the novel “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien and directed by Peter Jackson, opens in theaters on Dec. 14.

at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Formed in 1999, Dor L’Dor, a Knoxville klezmer band, includes about a dozen musicians from a variety of musical backgrounds.

Tickets $12; www.knoxtix.com, 523-7521 or at the door.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 1-2 “The Nutcracker” will be performed by the Appalachian Ballet Company, with live music by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, at 8 p.m. Dec. 1 and 2 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium. School matinees will be presented at 10 a.m. Thursday-Friday, Nov. 29-30, at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium; teachers may call 865-982-8463 for reservations. Tickets: ABC, 982-8463; Knox Tickets, 656-4444.

SUNDAY, DEC. 2 “It’s a Wonderful Life” will be screened at 1 and 5 p.m. at the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Home Federal Bank is sponsoring the free screenings. Doors open one hour before each screening. Seating is limited to capacity. Moviegoers also will receive $2 discount coupons to the Holidays on Ice rink on Market Square, good Dec. 2-16.

The UT Chamber Singers with the Farragut Presbyterian Church Choir, accompanied by the UT Chamber Orchestra, will present Handel’s “Messiah, Part the First,” at 3 p.m. at Farragut Presbyterian, 209 Jamestowne Blvd.

The Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee will host a class on preparing “sarma,” Turkish stuffed grape leaves, at 6 p.m. at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Ogun and Yasemin Adebali are the featured chefs. Cost is $3 per person. Info: Bob, 546-5643 or grimac@DiscoverET.org.

Jazz for Tots, featuring jazz ensembles performing holiday songs, will be held at 7 p.m. at the James R. Cox Auditorium in the UT Alumni Memorial Building, 1408 Middle Drive.

SUNDAY-MONDAY, DEC. 2-3 The Foothills Community Players will hold open auditions for Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever” 2-4 p.m. Dec. 2 and 6-8 p.m. Dec. 3 at the Chilhowee Club, 223 Clarion St., Maryville. Performances will be Feb. 21-24, 2013, at the Haslam Family Flexible Theatre at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville. Info: www.FoothillsCommunityPlayers.com.

SUNDAY-TUESDAY, DEC. 2-4 The Knoxville Nativity Pageant will be held at 3 p.m. Dec. 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 3-4 at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. Info: www.knoxvillenativity.com or the pageant’s Facebook page.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 29-DEC. 23 MONDAY, DEC. 3 “A Christmas Carol,” featuring new costumes, sets and adaptation, will be presented on the main stage of UT’s Clarence Brown Theatre. Preview is Nov. 29. Regular performances are Friday-Sunday, Nov. 30-Dec. 2; Wednesday-Sunday, Dec. 5-9 and 12-16; and ThursdaySunday, Dec. 20-23. Sunday shows are at 2 p.m.; all others start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $5 to $40 and are available at 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444 or www. clarencebrowntheatre.com.

FRIDAY, NOV. 30 Morris Ardoin, a Creole fiddler and accordionist, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. A dance lesson will be offered 5:45-7:45 p.m. by the Knoxville Cajun Dance Association. Tickets $12; www. knoxtix.com, 523-7521 or at the door.

SATURDAY, DEC. 1 Marble Springs Historic Site, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway, will host a candle-making workshop at 11 a.m. Participants will learn how to make beeswax candles by the open hearth. Hot drinks provided. Reservations required. Fee: $10 for materials. Info: 573-5508 or www.marblesprings.net.

Dor L’Dor will perform a Hanukkah concert at 8 p.m.

Tennessee Shines will feature Knoxville singersongwriter Karen Reynolds, host of the Wednesday night Writer’s Block show on WDVX, songwriter Amanda Williams and singer-songwriter-radio host Scott Southworth at 7 p.m. at the WDVX studio at the Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St.; broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets are $10 and are available at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door, while supplies last. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Children 14 and under accompanied by a parent are admitted free.

TUESDAY, DEC. 4 Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive, will hold Chanukah storytime at 6 p.m. with books, music, crafts and fun.

The University of Tennessee Holiday Choral Concert will be held at 8 p.m. at the James R. Cox Auditorium in the UT Alumni Memorial Building, 1408 Middle Drive.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5 The East Tennessee Association for Female Executives will meet at 11:30 a.m. at The Orangery, 1145 Kingston Pike.

Jeannie Anderson, founder, president and executive director of the nonprofit LifeSigns, will be the speaker. Reservations: www.etafe.org.

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NEWS FROM WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE

Webb School places a priority on community service and seeks to instill in its students a lifelong commitment to service.

Webb’s community service program regularly connects with more than 40 local charitable agencies that provide services in East Tennessee and beyond, and Webb School has had ongoing relationships with many of these organizations for decades. (left) For several years now, Webb Upper School students and faculty have helped out with Ijams’ River Rescue effort. Webb Middle School students (below) lend a hand with the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign.

Leading through Service

By Scott Hutchinson, Webb School President

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foundational characteristic of being an effective leader is possessing the willingness and the ability to serve others, and service to the wider Knoxville community and beyond is right at the heart of the Webb School student experience.

From kindergarten through 12th grade, opportunities for service abound; and Webb students are Hutchinson expected to participate in community service with the intent both to help others and to more fully develop as individuals.

In terms of working with others, Webb’s community service program regularly connects with more than 40 local charitable agencies that provide services in East Tennessee as well as globally, and Webb School has had ongoing relationships with many of these organizations for decades.

A partial list of Webb’s community service directory includes Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, Rotary International, Challenger Baseball, Empty Stocking Fund, FISH Hospitality Pantry, Habitat for Humanity, Knox Area Rescue Ministries, Love Kitchen, Mobile Meals, the Knoxville Zoo, Ronald McDonald House, Salvation Army, Second Harvest Food Bank, Sertoma Center, the Helen Ross McNabb Children and Youth Center, Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding, Young-Williams Animal Shelter, as well as several assisted living

facilities, schools, and more than a few hospitals.

In terms of further developing the individual, important attributes of personal responsibility, selflessness, compassion, and respect for others are all fostered and reinforced through positive participation in the school’s community service program. Webb students learn to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, age groups, and life experiences, and this challenge to collaborate successfully with others provides real-life opportunities for our students to put into practice skills they’ve learned from their experiences on campus.

Webb divides the types of community service into two categories. Direct service entails working with an approved entity that immediately benefits from students’ efforts. Through direct involvement, students gain greater awareness of the individual needs of the community. Examples include tutoring children, serving meals, visiting and serving the elderly, working at Special Olympics, or building houses for Habitat for Humanity.

Indirect service refers to advocacy and behind-the-scenes assistance for an entity, and includes work within the Webb School community and/ or work with the student’s church or religious community. Indirect service is also important, as there is great value in serving well within a student’s immediate circle.

In our Lower School and to a large extent our Middle School, the bulk of community service is done in groups, often class-wide or division-wide.

That is especially true in direct service

experiences for the younger ages. For example, Middle Schoolers provide individual tutoring after school at the Boys & Girls Club’s Caswell Avenue branch.

The tutoring is one-on-one, but that interaction is in the context of a group visit. In the Upper School, on the other hand, more service opportunities are pursued by individual students because of their past relationships with an organization and/or they need the flexibility in scheduling to go and serve when they can.

To be a leader in today’s world, having compassion, empathy, and

respect for others is critical. At Webb we believe that cultivating that empathy and understanding is, in part, the result of participating in experiences that directly shape one’s ideas about serving others. By choosing to be involved in a vibrant and diverse menu of service opportunities, Webb students learn first-hand the rewards and satisfaction of helping others, and they acquire a deeper understanding of what it means to have community service in their lives.

‘My Own Friend’ After one of Webb Middle School’s annual parties for the children at the Haslam Family Club University, formerly the Caswell Boys & Girls Club, one little girl from the Club summed up the evening: “The pizza was great, the dance contest was fun, even though I didn’t win. But the most important thing is that I had my own friend for almost two hours.”

“My own friend.” Those words most aptly define how, for more than 20 years, Webb’s Middle School has helped make a positive difference in the lives of the young people served by the Haslam Family Club. Under the guidance of Middle School science teacher and former basketball coach Elliott Stroupe, Webb 6th through 8th grade students have hosted parties at the Caswell unit, donated birthday money, organized book drives, sorted Angel Tree gifts, and even cleaned the Club’s building. When the Club started a tutoring program,

Webb students eagerly jumped on board, giving up their Tuesday evenings to travel to the North Knoxville branch to work with the Club’s youth.

At the core of the Middle School’s partnership with the Haslam Family Club are the personal relationships. “It’s that face-to-face on a regular basis that makes working with the Boys & Girls Club so unique,” says Stroupe. “The key element is just having time to have a positive, personal relationship with a kid.

And that’s so, so important.”

That connection is illustrated by the Middle School’s one-to-one tutoring effort. This past year, Webb Middle School students posted more than 450 tutoring hours at the Caswell unit and traveled to the Club to tutor for 34 of the 38 weeks in the school year. In addition, through their experience tutoring or volunteering at the Club, many students have chosen to forgo

Webb’s Middle School has helped make a positive difference in the lives of the young people served by the Haslam Family Club, providing weekly tutoring at the Caswell branch, hosting parties, donating birthday money, organizing book drives, and sorting Angel Tree gifts. (above) Webb Middle Schoolers lead a parachute activity with Haslam Family Club members. birthday presents for donations to the Haslam Family Club’s education department. Most recently, six Webb 7th graders donated about $1,400 to the Caswell branch, which will go toward the purchase of four iPads,

cases and software. Over the past 10 years, Webb students have donated over $17,000 to the Club in lieu of birthday gifts.

Webb School defines leadership as “being aware of what is happening around you and

choosing positive behaviors that benefit the community.” By that definition, Webb Middle School students have truly been leaders in their capacity to positively influence the lives of those served by the Haslam Family Club.

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From angry victim to survivor Former foster child eyes college degree to help others

Kim Matherly (second from left) celebrates graduation from Peninsula Recovery Education Program with people she considers to be her “family at heart.”

Ronnie and Wendy Edgemon (second from right and right) were parents to Kim longer than any of her other 21 foster placements. Also pictured are Wendy Edgemon’s mother and their granddaughter.

Peninsula psychiatrist. “They do it to release tension and try to calm themselves, and to temporarily give the child the illusion that it helps relieve emotional pain, but afterward, self-harm is usually a shameful secret.”

“Angry was not the word for it,” Matherly said. “It was full-fledged rage.”

“I now know that I cut because the physical pain overrides the mental and emotional pain,” she explained.

Matherly was in and out of the hospital as a child and stayed in the mental hospital in Virginia after adoption.

She also developed epilepsy.

“When I would have seizures, some of my foster parents and social workers thought I was just acting out or making up something to get attention,” she said.

Unjust actions and disappointments seemed to be Matherly’s constant companions.

After six years in the home of Wendy and Ronnie Edgemon, who

also foster parented Kim’s brother, Wally, the state approached the couple, asking if they would adopt.

They declined because they were unable, but offered to be permanent foster parents. The offer was not accepted and about four months later when the social workers came

“Anger was not the word for it. It was full-fledged rage.”

– Kim Matherly

to take the foster children to camp, the social workers also returned to came to pick up the children’s belongings.

“I never got to say goodbye,” she lamented. “They were my Mommy and Daddy.”

Matherly didn’t know if she would ever have contact with them again. This was the summer after fourth grade.

When Matherly was in seventh

The nature of anger Anger is “an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage,” according to Charles Spielberger, PhD, a psychologist who specializes in the study of anger.

Anger can be caused by both external and internal events. You could be angry at a specific person or event, or your anger could be caused by worrying or brooding about your personal problems.

Why are some people more angry than others?

Jerry Deffenbacher, PhD, a psychologist who specializes in anger management, says some people really are more “hotheaded” than others are; they get angry more easily and more intensely than the average person does. There are also those who don’t show their anger in loud spectacular ways but are chronically irritable and grumpy. Easily angered people don’t always curse and throw things; sometimes they withdraw socially, sulk or get physically ill.

People who are easily angered generally

have what some psychologists call a low tolerance for frustration, meaning simply that they feel that they should not have to be subjected to frustration, inconvenience or annoyance. They can’t take things in stride, and they’re particularly infuriated if the situation seems somehow unjust: for example, being corrected for a minor mistake.

What makes these people this way? A number of things. One cause may be genetic or physiological: There is evidence that some children are born irritable, touchy and easily angered, and that these signs are present from a very early age. Another may be sociocultural. Anger is often regarded as negative; we’re taught that it’s all right to express anxiety, depression or other emotions but not to express anger. As a result, we don’t learn how to handle it or channel it constructively.

Research has also found that family background plays a role. Typically, people who are easily angered come from families that are disruptive, chaotic and not skilled at emotional communications.

- American Psychological Association

logical grandmother was nearby.

Below, Denise Anderson, program coun“I learned through selor at Peninsula, explains how the Nathe love of my grandtive American Medicine Wheel has been mother, Rebecca Lowe, adapted for use in the Recovery Educathat I needed help,” she tion Program. In Native American spirisaid. tuality, the Medicine Wheel, which repreShe sought help at sents the sacred circle of life, symbolizes Peninsula Hospital and harmony and connections and is considwas referred from there ered a major symbol of peaceful interacto Peninsula’s Recovery tion among all living beings on Earth.

Education Program.

“I did get angry and quit, but when I came back, I was willing to accept the help that had been offered,” Matherly said. “I learned so much – I have a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) that will keep me from running on the hamster wheel of fear and anger that makes me self-harm.”

“I also learned that although I don’t have a substance abuse addiction, the self-injury for me is just as dangerous because for so long I have compulsively acted on it and allowed it to control me,” she said.

“I’ve learned to accept myself grade, “something special” happened in the classroom of her math and that recovery never ends. Like treatment for an illness such as diateacher, Carl Matherly.

“I would sit in class and day- betes, there is ongoing stabilization. dream about having a father like The same is true for mental illness.”

“Peninsula REC helped me to see Mr. Matherly while he told me about that falling isn’t failure because it is time with his family,” she said.

“He was a Christian man, and he often on one’s knees that one truly had a dream that he went to Heaven learns to stand, so I use the falls as and my hand was placed with his a lesson and get back up.”

In March 2012, Matherly moved and he was told he was meant to be my father, and I his daughter,” she into an apartment. This was the first time in her life that she has lived insaid.

The Matherly family did adopt dependently and not had to share a Kimberly and she still carries their bedroom with another person. name; however, her self-injuring “I want to work with kids in the behavior and mental health symp- System who are 11 to 17 because I toms were scary to them. They believe they are often forgotten and didn’t understand the problems I can make a difference,” Matherly or how to cope. Out of fear, they said. placed Matherly in a state hospital, Matherly, 27, is optimistic about and then in a group home for girls. her future. She begins college this She never returned to live in the fall and wants to be a Licensed Matherlys’ home.

Clinical Social Worker so she can For four years she went back become a counselor while pursuing and forth from the group home to a psychology degree. the hospital. At 18, she found her “I’ve climbed out of the victim’s biological mother and returned to role and into a survivor’s role. Now I live with her in Tennessee. Her bio- can show others the way.”

Are you too angry?

There are psychological tests that measure the intensity of angry feelings, how prone to anger you are and how well you handle it. But chances are good that if you do have a problem with anger, you already know it. If you find yourself acting in ways that seem out of control and frightening, you might need help finding better ways to deal with this emotion.

How is your anger level? Take an online assessment at www.peninsulabehavioralhealth.org.

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Outside forces are sometimes linked to mental illness – for example, a traumatic brain injury or exposure to viruses or toxins while in the womb. Mental illness is common, affecting one in four adults.

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Born in Cocke County, Kim Matherly was a healthy baby until a prolonged ear infection led to spinal meningitis at six months.

Acute bacterial meningitis is an infection of the meninges (the system of membranes which envelops the brain and spinal cord) that often causes hearing loss and is fatal in 5-40 percent of children and 2050 percent of adults despite treatment with antibiotics.

“I stayed in the hospital six months, and during that time, I ‘died’ twice,” Matherly said. “The doctors told my mother to expect behavioral problems from me because the meningitis had damaged the frontal lobe of my brain which controls emotions.”

“I was released from the hospital when I was around 18 months old, and it was also at this time I had my first seizure,” she explained.

When Matherly was four, her biological mother was having some issues of her own and soon was unable to care for Matherly and her brother. Following a short stay with her paternal grandmother, Matherly was released to “protective care” of the state of Tennessee because of abuse in the home. In the years that followed, Matherly moved to 22 different locations – both foster care and state-run group homes. She endured multiple abusive environments as a small child and this is believed to be what led to her selfharming behaviors.

“I would bite my hands and my knees until they bled and I would bang my head against the wall,” she recalled. “I was five when my social worker recognized that I was hurting myself in response to being abused, and she took me to a psychiatrist to get help.”

Matherly’s chosen instruments of self-harm were pencils, scissors and her own fingernails.

“Self-injury in children is a huge red flag that they are demonstrating unhealthy ways to cope with emotional pain, anger and frustration,” said Dr. John Kupfner,

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Yoga dance instructor Diane Gardner

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Yoga dancing at Strang Yoga dancing is the newest thing, not only at the Strang Senior Center, but in Tennessee. Diane Gardner teaches “shake your soul” classes 1:30 p.m. Mondays at Strang.

Vocalist Jo Ludwig will present “music in the afternoon,” accompanied by pianist Jean Osborne at the Strang Senior Center 1 p.m. Wednesday, The Knox County Retired Teachers Association honored six promising educators at a recent lunNov. 28. cheon. Each was selected to receive a $1,000 scholarship through an essay process. Scholarship winners are: (front) Kayla Gass (student teacher at West High), Crystal Roark (student teacher in Greenville), Sara Tait (student teacher at Powell High), Haley Mynatt (CAK graduate and student teacher at Farragut Intermediate), Shelly Jenkins (student teacher at Pond Gap Elementary); (back) Brett Coleman (Bearden High graduate and student teacher at Hardin Valley Academy.

Retired Teachers Association awards scholarships

Photo by Ruth White

Welcome the furry season Christmastime is upon us, and the Humane Society would like to make it a little easier to find something nice for those you love – or to find someone to love.

Theresa Edwards

“The rhythm and expression come from inside,” said Gardner. “It’s learning how to get in touch with it, channel it and feel comfortable enough to let it out so you truly shake your soul.

“Another thing that makes it special is how it is part of a community, so when you have a group of people who dance together numerous times they learn the expressive movement together which is pretty powerful to observe and Sarah Davis feel.

“There are several movements ranging from very didn’t dance in my younger joyful and fun to lyrical and erybody.”

“I’ve really enjoyed this years and this is a good class spiritual with a wide variety of music, something for ev- class,” said Sarah Davis. “I to learn how to. It’s fun.”

Puppies, puppies, puppies!

Meet Repo, a male Jack Russell mix, 5-months-old

Sara Barrett

Critter Tales The Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley will host a holiday open house 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8. It is located at 6717 Kingston Pike.

There will be lots of gift ideas for friends of both the furry and human variety and many family-friendly activities including face painting, ornament painting and a silent auction.

Pet adoptions will be

Help your pet get into the holiday spirit and help the Humane Society in the process at its open house Saturday, Dec. 8. Photo submitted reduced all weekend, and hours will also be extended Sunday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. This is a great opportunity to meet adoptable animals and find a new addition to your family.

If you can’t wait until the 8th to spread some animal-friendly Christmas cheer, bring your pet

Tank is a five-month-old bulldog mix currently staying at Young-Williams Animal Center’s main facility on Division Street. His adoption fee is $75.

Meet Tank and Tifa at Young-Williams

Smokey is a male, min pin mix, 3-months-old

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A portion of the value of the shirt will be given to Second Harvest Food Bank. Each declined shirt can provide nine meals.

Over the last two years, approximately $20,000 has been donated to Second Harvest thanks to the support of blood donors.

All blood types are needed. Donors can donate at a number of daily mobile sites or one of two fixed sites: 1601 Ailor Ave. and 11000 Kingston Pike in Farragut. Other blood drives in your area: ■ 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, Advanced Auto Parts, 8424 Kingston Pike, Bloodmobile.

■ 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, West Towne Christian Church, 9300 Middlebrook Pike, inside the gym.

■ 2-8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, Clear Springs Baptist Church, 8518 Thompson School Rd. ■ 2-8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, West Park Baptist Church, 8833 Middlebrook Pike, Bloodmobile.

■ 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Christian Academy of Knoxville, inside the library.

Donors must be at least 17 years old (16 years old weighing 120 pounds with parental consent), weigh at least 110 pounds and have positive identification. For a complete list of drives, visit medicblood.org or www. facebook.com/medicblood.

Tifa is a 4-year-old domestic cat available at Young-Williams’ Kingston Pike location. Her adoption fee has been taken care of thanks to the Furry Friends program. See all of Young-Williams’ adoptable animals online at www.young-williams.org.

Bijou awards celebrate high school talent The first Bijou Awards will be held 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at the Bijou Theatre presented by the Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union. Local high school students can compete for a chance to perform at the ceremony and win prizes worth $1,500.

The competition’s categories include male and female solo singing, ensemble singing, male and female acting and creative writing.

Auditions for the singing and acting categories will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, at South-Doyle High School; Saturday, Jan. 19, at Webb School, and Saturday, Feb. 2, at Central High School.

The deadline for creative writing entries is Friday, March 1.

The entry fee is $15 for a single category and $10 for each additional category. For more info and applications, visit www. bijouawards.com.

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Dickl gets national honor Jon Dickl, director of school nutrition for Knox County Schools, has been elected as the southeast regional director of the School Nutrition Association. The nonprofit professional organization represents more than 55,000 members in Virginia, South and North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.

Barefoot benefit Students from the University of Tennessee and their professor present a check for $5,000 to the Samaritan Place, a senior emergency shelter and residential program of Catholic Charities of East Tennessee. The students raised the money with the Barefoot Benefit 5k, an annual fundraiser that is also part of a service-learning course at the school. Pictured are Samaritan Place residents Cletus

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141 Dogs

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CKC, parents on site, $375-$475. 865216-5770 Cats 140 ***Web ID# 174321***

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Victory 2001 Black Deluxe, custom seat & bags, Bub pipes, 16K mi., $4500. 865-577-0001

YORKIES, CKC Reg. 7 weeks, S&W, F $350, M $300. Phone 931-319-0000.

VICTORY NESS VEGAS 2005, black trimmed in blue, 8,100 mi., Cory Ness Edition, exc. cond. $10,400. 865-281-8009

2604 Crosslane, Karns.

5 acres w/Beaver Creek running thru, 3 BR brick ranch.

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German Shepherd Alpine Drive (South puppies, AKC reg., Knox) 6 Rms, 2 BR’s, parents on prem. 3 1 bth, CH&A, Range, McCARTT ESTATE D/W, Refrig., No pets, M, $300. 865-242-5154 ***Web ID# 173359*** ABSOLUTE AUCTION Ref. Req, 1 mo sec SATURDAY, DEC 1st, 2 PM EST dep, $625/mo. 688-3946 JACK RUSSELL Pups, 31 Acres Divided Into NKC, 3 mo, M & F, JOHN SEVIER/Alcoa 4 Tracts & Older Home 2nd shots & wormed Hwy., 2 BR, 1 BA, Check out our website for a $250. Call 865-680-9738 appls, $450/mo. or 423-333-1223.

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FORD ESCAPE XLT HAROLD'S GUTTER 2006, V6, 4 door, silver SERVICE. Will clean ext., gray int., 63,530 front & back $20 & up. miles, PS, PB, PW, Quality work, guaranPDL, 4 spd, AT, power teed. Call 288-0556. sunroof, luggage rack, 4 new tires (less than 200 miles), Audiophile Painting / Wallpaper 344 Premium Sound System w/multi-disk CD, ONE ROOM excellent cond, $10,000.

Selling due to death in AT A TIME family.

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Yorkshire Terrier Puppies, AKC, tiny teacup traditional Yorkies. Family ATV’s 238a raised & loved. S&W. Males $500; Females CLAW FOOT tub, por- HONDA 4 wheel dr 4 celain w/hardware, $600. 865-394-9054 262 wheeler, $2,250. Imports exc. cond. B.O. Twin Good condition. power bed, exc. cond.

Phone 865-483-7995 NISSAN ALTIMA Free Pets 145 B.O. 865-249-8054 2002, 3.5, SE, 1 owner, loaded, Autos Wanted 253 leather, 107K mi., exc. cond.

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OFFER for junk cars, VOLVO C30 R-Design $800. Also Karastan 2009, 1 owner, dealer Visit the folks at Medallion Red Kirman trucks, vans, running maint. 28,000 mi. Exc. or not. 865-456-3500 Young-Williams rug, 8.8 x 10.6. Asking cond. $23,500/negot.

Animal Center, the $250. Call 423-442-5009.

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health & lifestyles

Avoid a diet disaster this holiday season

By Beth A. Booker, Fort Sanders Regional Registered Dietitian/ Nutritionist You don’t have to pack on the pounds to enjoy holiday parties.

Making healthy eating choices can help keep you slim and trim year-round. Fort Sanders Regional Registered Dietitian Beth Booker shares some strategies for having a tasty, terrific holiday.

■ Plan ahead. Planning is paramount during the holiday season. You need a course of action: think about what to do when you’re offered foods you feel you shouldn’t eat; what to eat instead; and ways to enjoy the season that aren’t food-related.

If you have a plan, you won’t be caught off-guard. Make your plan real. Don’t just think about it, write it down. The more concrete it is, the more likely you will stick to it.

■ Practice mindful eating.

When you sit to enjoy your meal or snack (yes, sit), take a moment to look at the food on your plate. Take a deep breath. Relax. Look at the colors. Think about the textures.

Is there a food on your plate that reminds you of a special time or person in your past? Spend a little time before your pick up your fork.

Your hips and your digestive tract will thank you.

■ Be a picky eater. We all have foods that we love and others that we may simply eat because they are there. Save your fat/ calories/carbs – whatever you’re

watching – for your favorite foods only. Reserve your “budget” for foods that you feel you simply can’t get through the season without. Don’t feel guilty when you partake, but at the same time, don’t over indulge. Savor your favorite dessert or side dish, but not with wild abandon – portion size is crucial. If you’re going to eat something you consider “bad,” don’t berate yourself while you are eating it, or after. It was a decision, own up to it, move on.

■ Go “veg” for a day. Many

families have vegetarians or vegans in their midst these days.

Chances are your hosts will have prepared a special dish or two just for them. Take advantage of the healthier fruit and vegetable-based fare (but watch out for cheesy entrees.) Why not try those veggie Buffalo wings (yes, they do exist) or “garden” breakfast patties? They are low-fat, lower in calories and delicious. While not all vegetarian dishes are necessarily lower in fat or calories, they will provide you with the extra nutrients that

other foods on the table might not contain.

■ Don’t run on empty.

Whatever you do, don’t go to a party hungry and don’t “save up” for a big end-of-day meal at the family’s. Eat a mini-meal before the office get-together or make yourself healthy snacks throughout the day over the holiday weekend at Mom’s. If you face a buffet table on an empty stomach, you’ll have little chance of avoiding a diet disaster.

If you arrive overly hungry, you’re likely to appreciate everything

on the table with little regard for portion size and you won’t be very thankful for what your scale says a few days later!

■ Can I get that to go? Playing holiday host or hostess? While the guests are mingling, pack up leftovers in portable “doggie bags” for them. If you get the leftovers out of the house, you can’t overeat them again later on.

■ If you booze it, you won’t lose it. Alcohol can be very fattening. Whether you’re sipping a glass of wine or having a frosty cold beer, those empty calories are going to add up! Drinking will not quell your appetite either. In fact, it may loosen your determination and cause you to binge on foods you might never have touched sober. If you do choose to imbibe, try making some switch-offs, like having a wine spritzer instead of a whole glass of wine.

■ Avoid seconds.

Take modest portions of the foods you’re interested in eating and don’t make a second trip to the buffet. If you need to hold something after you’ve enjoyed your first helpings of holiday foods, hold a cup of tea, coffee or other nonalcoholic beverage.

■ Think of your plate as being divided into four quarters. Fill one quarter with lean protein, one quarter with something starchy, and about one half with fruits and nonstarchy vegetables. This rule works well year-round at any meal.

Stove-Top Rice Pudding Can rice pudding be both glamorous and healthy? Yes, it can. In this version, traditional rice pudding gets a boost of health from whole-grain brown rice and a lower fat content from use of evaporated skim milk instead of cream. The dose of glamour comes from the garnish of antioxidant-packed pomegranate arils and a shower of dark chocolate curls. You can have your dessert and eat it too!

Healthier holiday cooking made easy!

One way to cut your calorie intake and beef up beneficial nutrients during the holiday season is to modify traditional recipes. Try to increase the nutrition available in your holiday favorites with these ideas: 1) If you’re making stuffing or dressing from scratch, replace 1/2 of the bread in the recipe with whole grain bread. Add some vegetables and a bit of softened dried fruit (apricots or apples are nice) to increase the volume of the stuffing while upping the nutritional display.

2) Make your mashed potatoes with sweet potatoes or 1/2 white and 1/2 sweet. You can

add some applesauce to the sweet potatoes to increase the sweetness and cut the calories while adding a creamy consistency.

3) Stir some wheat germ or nuts into stuffing or sprinkle on top of casseroles to add nutrients and crunch.

4) Add some Grape-Nuts cereal to the pecan pie topping. You can also add cranberries to a pecan pie to cut the richness and add bright color.

5) Make your beverages count by adding cloudy apple juice, pomegranate or Concord grape juice to the list of options. Add club soda to make a festive spritzer.

1 1/2 cups cooked brown Basmati rice (or other brown rice of choice) 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 can (12 ounces) fat-free evaporated milk (not condensed sweetened milk) 1/2 cup skim or low-fat milk 4 large eggs 7 tablespoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1/2 cup pomegranate arils (the tiny red fruits from inside the shell) 2 tablespoons dark chocolate shavings or curls In a medium saucepan, beat eggs and 1/2 cup milk together until well combined.

Add sugar and evaporated milk. Stir to blend well. Cook over low heat until mixture thickens and coats the back of a wooden spoon. Remove from stovetop and stir in nutmeg and vanilla.

While pudding is cooking, heat rice in the microwave with butter until butter melts.

If using freshly cooked brown rice, add butter to hot rice and let stand until melted.

Stir buttered rice mixture into pudding. Let stand for 30 minutes to cool slightly.

May be served warm or chilled. Garnish each serving with a few pomegranate arils and a few chocolate shavings.

Serves 6-8

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