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WIVK Knoxville Christmas parade, 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, Gay Street.

Tree lighting The Bearden Christmas tree lighting in Everly Brothers Park was postponed because of weather. The special ceremony is now set for 5:30 w/tree lighting at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6.

You’re invited for fun at Stanley’s Stanley’s Greenhouse is hosting an open house 1-5 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 6, at 3029 Davenport Road with refreshments, area crafts, artists and music.

Info: 865-573-9591.

Ed and Bob At-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will ring the Salvation Army red kettle bells from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the West Town Mall entrance near Charming Charlie’s.

Everyone is invited to stop by to talk with Brantley and Thomas about items of interest. Other commissioners may join them in the fundraising effort.

IN THIS ISSUE Not bad, Vols You wanted progress. You got progress. OK, it was eight progresses instead of 10, but not bad, not bad at all.

Butch Jones pushed the right button. “We are a good football team,” he said.

Enough Volunteers believed and turned the declaration into reality. Let us salute the leaders.

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Read Marvin West on page A-4

Richard Bean’s recollections He’s worked for local government since the Coal Man, the Ice Man and Mr. Aubrey ran the show, and there’s not much Richard Bean, superintendent of the juvenile detention facility that is named for him, has forgotten.

Bean was a 1959 graduate of Powell High School – Earl Hoffmeister was the football coach, Jim Monroe his principal. It took him five years and a summer to graduate. “People ask if I went to college, I say no. I never would have got out.”

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The District in Bearden ‘thanks’ with

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By Sandra Clark

The District in Bearden is saying “Thanks” and “Happy Holidays” to customers and friends from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, with a series of open houses. The festivities extend through Saturday at most stores.

Restaurant members are providing hors d’oeuvres at the Friday events, according to Bebe Vogel, who coordinates The District in Bearden events.

holiday open houses

M.S. McClellan promises good food from Bistro by the Tracks and cocktails for a festive evening. Bob McClellan and his team have many wonderful gift ideas. The store is located at 5614 Kingston Pike in Melrose Place. Info: 865-584-3492.

G&G Interiors has created a “winter wonderland” for the holidays. During the open house on Friday, G&G will serve food from Naples. On Saturday from 10 to 3, come see Santa and his sleigh, enjoy cookies and hot chocolate. Info: 5508 Kingston Pike. Info: 865-212-5639.

Sole in the City is sponsoring 12 Days of Christmas, starting Friday, Dec. 4. Register during the open house. The winner will receive 12 days of gifts from the store. Open house food and appetizers will be presented by Holly’s Gourmet Market. The store offers upscale shoes and accessories at 5508 Kingston Pike in Cherokee Plaza.

Info: 865-249-7329.

Bennett Galleries is celebrating its 40th anniversary with music, food from Aubrey’s and selected treasures from its vault (including some works by Richard Jolley). Look for a jewelry trunk show by Robin Haley on Friday from 1-8 and Saturday from 10 to 5:30, and from-the-farm tastings by North Carolina’s Dusty Farms and Nursery all day Saturday. The galleries are at 5308 Kingston Pike. Info: 865-584-6791.

Est8te, a clothing and home décor store, will feature sparkling wine, small bites from Naples, and special holiday gifts at Friday’s open house. Also, on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 5-8 p.m. there will be refreshments and a 20 percent off sale to benefit the cancer support community. The store is at 145 South Forest Park Boulevard, next to The Grill at Highlands Row. Info: 865-588-1588.

The District Gallery & Framery will present Knoxville native Joe Parrott and his show, “From Knoxville to the Mediterranean.” Parrott will be painting on Saturday and is expected to be present during Friday’s open house which will include live music and food from Holly’s Gourmet Market. The Gallery is at 5113 Kingston Pike. Info: 865-200-4452.

Alex Haley, Knoxville’s adopted son thor of “Roots” and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” two of the most important books of the late Twentieth Century.

But instead of giving me the cussing I deserved, he invited me to lunch at his Cherokee Bluff condo, where he had adjacent townhouses – one his residence, the other an office. A UPS man was behind me when I knocked on his door. Alex ushered me in and opened the package. It was barbecued ribs from Quincy Jones.

We went next door to his residence, where he showed me his collection of identical guayabera shirts (short sleeved cotton, with

By Betty Bean

One afternoon in 1989, I picked up the phone at my desk at the Knoxville Journal and a very polite voice on the other end of the line said, “This is Alex Haley. Do you have a few minutes to talk?”

I’d just written a smart-alecky item about him in the Journal’s gossip column, so I braced for verbal abuse. I mean, this was the au-

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He and I stayed in touch until the Journal folded. He’d suggest stories, gently critique something I’d written and occasionally invite me (and half of Knoxville) out to his farm in Norris when he threw parties for people like Oprah Winfrey, who gamely attempted to clog to Rocky To page A-3

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Fantasy of Trees: A holiday ‘mashing together’ that works In the mashing together of the holidays, the one nobody should complain about is Fantasy of Trees.

Sherri Gardner Howell

A Knoxville tradition since 1985, Fantasy promotes a thankful heart and the spirit of giving that is both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Add to that formula the extreme creativity on display that showcases the talents of every age – from preschoolers to senior citizens – and that twinkle in the eyes of the-best-Santa-ever is catching.

The star on top of this tree is the money raised at Fantasy for the children of East Tennessee through Children’s Hospital. Last year’s total was more than $335,000. This year the funds are earmarked for new equipment for Children’s emergency department.

A three-time visitor to Fantasy of Trees 2015, I started with the Preview Party, continued on Friday and then went back on Sunday. Each day has its charms. This year’s Preview Party carried the theme “An East Tennessee Christmas” with the entertainment from Hillbilly Jedi and food that included Jack Daniels barbecue sauced pork sliders, Falls River Valley cornbread salad with Sweetwater Valley cheddar cheese and stone-ground grits with choose-your-own toppings.

Santa strolls around to greet the children – and adults – during the preview party. On the other days, Santa gets to sit down for photos with the children.

On Friday, Gigi (that’s me) stood in line to hold a place for my grandson, King, who wasn’t up to the 90-minute wait. He was strolled around by his parents, Trey

One of the awesome designer trees: Grinchmas by Melinda Waddell, who donates her decorated tree in memory of Anne Knight and Maria Betson.

Robby and Emily Waters choose a turkey theme for props to wear in the Fantasy of Trees photo booth.

Meg Retinger and her granddaughter, Mathis, get a big smile from Santa at the Preview Party at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital’s 2015 Fantasy of Trees. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Santa has a twinkle in his eye for King Howell, who is more interested in Santa’s beard.

and Kinsey Howell, his aunt Keela Koontz, cousins Kinley and Kanyn and their friend, Kyleigh.

There is a photo op every two feet at Fantasy of Trees. This year there were

more than 350 designer items – trees, wreaths, holiday rooms, fireplace mantels, door decorations, table centerpieces and Adopt-a-Trees decorated by area schoolchildren. The

gingerbread houses ranged from traditional to whimsical to down-right unbelievable. Thank you, King College, for putting “King” on the top of your gingerbread house. King happens to be my grandson’s name, and your creation is now sitting on my kitchen table.

You can’t leave Fantasy of Trees without carrying out a healthy dose of Christmas spirit.

Logan Crateau is only 2 years old, but this is his second year for Fantasy of Trees. Logan, son of Kevin and Meshon Crateau, enjoys the carousel with his dad. Meshon is a teacher at Hardin Valley Academy.

Hannah Feiten, right, takes a selfie with three of the Christopoulos children: Alexandra, Lambros and Vivi.

Alex Haley

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Top under a canopy on the lawn. I’d see him at the Fresh Market shopping for groceries – one of his last published stories (in Parade Magazine) was about a new friend, an immigrant who worked in the produce section there.

Alex Haley embraced this low-rise burg. He lived by his famous maxim, “Find the good and praise it,” befriending almost everyone he met.

He died of a sudden heart attack in February 1992. His family took him home to Henning, and the N.J. Ford Funeral Home in Memphis presided over his funeral. A few weeks later in Nashville, Sen. John Ford told me that Alex lay in state for two days and they changed his clothes four times. I wondered if they laid him out in a guayabera.

Shortly thereafter, longsimmering plagiarism accusations that had dogged him since the publication of “Roots” boiled over, tarnishing his legacy. They were painful to read and took on witch hunt proportions.

This week (Wednesday, Dec. 2, 6 p.m.) at the East Tennessee History Center, University of Tennessee history professor Robert J. Norrell will talk about his new book, “Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation,” which he believes could begin to rehabilitate Alex’s reputation.

I’ll be there, and I’ll buy the book. It’s the least I can do for this good man who loved us as his own and left us better because he passed our way.

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Not bad, not bad at all You wanted progress. You got progress. OK, it was eight progresses instead of 10, but not bad, not bad at all.

There was one catch.

Shopper readers, bless you, picked up on “what might have been� and said the frustration applies to this very entertaining Tennessee team.

One called it “brutal honesty� in saying the Volunteers could have been so much more, that those infamous fourth-quarter collapses knocked them down from outstanding to well above average. Stopping Florida on fourth and 17 might have meant two more wins.

Marvin West

We all applaud the successful November. Cheers.

We also see through it. The schedule was front-loaded.

The second half wasn’t as difficult. The Vols didn’t look all that great at times, but they did what they had to do – win five in a row. They competed. They never took a Saturday off. There is a wonderful connection between true grit, guts and glory.

The pivot point was the day after the painful loss to Arkansas. Heads were drooping. Confidence was fractured. Butch Jones pushed the right button. “We are a good football team,� he said.

Enough Volunteers believed and turned the declaration into reality. Let us salute the leaders.

Georgia turned out to be the swing game. That victory was good for the soul – and recruiting. The Vols peaked at Kentucky. Special teams were, to use one of Butch’s favorite words, “great.�

South Carolina almost spoiled the season. At Mis-

souri, the offense ran boldly between the 20s but the fire went out in the red zone.

Hail to Aaron Medley and hard-nosed tacklers.

Tennessee treated Vanderbilt’s so-called crusty defense as if it were a myth.

In Jones’ third season, coaching continued to evolve. The boss said Mike DeBord did an unbelievable job of setting the mentality and playing complementary football. I enjoyed his scripted opening sets.

I thought some Saturdays turned too conservative, old Michigan style.

You don’t need me to tell you the running attack was much improved. Consider-

ing injuries, the offensive line exceeded expectations.

Coleman Thomas made a difference. Kyler Kerbyson earned a lot of respect.

Downfield blocking by receivers (especially Josh Smith) was good.

As the proverbial bull in a china shop, Jalen Hurd was beautiful. He caused some DBs to consider tennis or golf. No question about it, Alvin Kamara is a genuine playmaker. Interesting that Joshua Dobbs broke a Jimmy Streater running record.

You may blame coaching, receiver injuries, drops or Pig bombing out for the mediocre passing game. OK to point a finger at Dobbs’ inaccuracy. Precise passes were the exception rather than the rule.

Tennessee’s defense had

a chance to make this a terrific season. It didn’t finish the big ones, but it did its fair share in the eight victories. The front was tough. I am an Owen Williams fan.

Hard to overlook Derek Barnett.

Jalen Reeves-Maybin was very good. Darrin Kirkland made magnificent progress. Malik Foreman confused me. I thought no way, but his hustle won the South Carolina game.

I hope Cameron Sutton stays for 2016 and becomes an all-American. I hope Brian Randolph can play in the NFL. I wish for Trevor Daniel a richly deserved scholarship. Get well soon, Shy Tuttle. Where are you, Dillon Bates?

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

Majority of commissioners in favor of Midway A survey of Knox County Commissioners revealed that most either favor or are leaning toward approving a zoning change that would allow for the creation of Midway Business Park in deep East Knox County.

Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission recommended a sector plan amendment and rezoning of the proposed 345acre business park at its Nov. 12 meeting. A vote on both requests from the Development Corporation is scheduled for a vote Dec. 21 by Knox County Commission.

Four commissioners indicated they were in favor of the creation of the business park, and two said they were leaning toward a “yes� vote. Two were unwilling to take a position, and one was against the rezoning. Two did not return calls from the Shopper News.

Eighth District Commissioner and chair Dave

Wendy Smith

Wright won’t take a position until the vote is called. But recent announcements from Advanced Munitions and Lifetime Products, along with numerous rezoning requests in the county, indicate an uptick in interest in the area, he said.

Fewer residents have expressed opposition to the business park than five or 10 years ago, and those who are opposed aren’t as adamant, Wright said. The proposed site is in his district.

Several previous concerns have been addressed.

A wastewater plan is more defined, and Interstate 40 access will be improved.

The plan no longer calls for

grading of the site because parcels will be incorporated into existing topography.

Cemeteries within the site still need to be addressed. He thinks an additional community meeting should be held.

At-large Commissioner Bob Thomas won’t take a position yet, but most of the feedback he’s received about the business park has been positive. Residents say the county’s going to grow, he said. “It’s a fact that things change. I’m excited for East Knox County. So much is going on there.�

Thomas grew up in East Knoxville.

Randy Smith and Jeff Ownby are both leaning toward approval of the rezoning, but Ownby said his position would change if the cost of the project were to increase or significant opposition was expressed. Smith said recent announcements

of businesses moving to the area could signal a need for more space.

John Schoonmaker, Brad Anders, Mike Brown and Ed Brantley all said they planned to vote in favor of the rezoning.

Schoonmaker, who participated in Mayor Tim Burchett’s bus tour of West Knoxville business parks and attended the Nov. 12 MPC meeting, said community leaders haven’t spoken out against the East Knox business park.

Brantley said the business park’s previous hurdles have been overcome. “I think it’s time to move MPC commissioner Laura Cole talks with Developon, to move forward.� ment Corporation president Todd Napier at the Charles Busler was the public hearing at Carter Elementary School on only commissioner to say the proposed business park at Midway Road. Cole, he would not support the who opposed the rezoning initially, voted yes this zoning change. He thinks time around. Photo by S. Clark the site is too small, and he would prefer a 1,000-1,500acre site in an outlying area.

Sam McKenzie and Amy to the survey before press “People out there are not Broyles did not respond time. interested in extra traffic.�

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Richard Bean remembers He’s worked for local government since the Coal Man, the Ice Man and Mr. Aubrey ran the show, and there’s not much Richard Bean, superintendent of the juvenile detention facility that is named for him, has forgotten.

Like Sept 1, 1962, the day he went to work serving paper for domestic relations court; April 12, 1968, the day he married Lillian; Pearl Harbor Day, 1990, the day he quit drinking.

Bean was a 1959 graduate of Powell High School – Earl Hoffmeister was the football coach his senior year, Jim Monroe his principal.

He was supposed to finish in 1958, but he had other priorities in those days.

“I spent five years and one summer in high school.

Got behind – I liked to chase women. People ask if I went to college, I say no. I never would have got out.”

There were other kinds of trouble to get into, as well.

“We went on a senior trip to Daytona Beach, and everybody dyed their hair blond. I had my mustache blond, my eyebrows blond and a blond ducktail. When I got back, Earl called me out on the football field and told me they were going to expel me if I didn’t dye my hair back.”

The Coal Man and the Ice Man were Democrats Bobby Toole and Paul Nicely. Re-

Betty Bean publican Aubrey Jenkins was the junior partner in Jenkins & Jenkins, one of the most powerful law firms in town. More pragmatic than partisan, they were patronage machines, the men to see if you wanted a job.

“Aubrey, he was the master. That’s his picture, right up there next to that calendar,” Bean said, pointing at one of the hundreds of photographs that line his office walls (It’s impossible to escape his office without getting your mug shot. With him.) The calendar page marks Feb. 1, 1972: his first day at the juvenile detention center.

When he finally graduated, Bean joined the Navy, and when he got back in 1961, he worked days at Dante Food Market and weekends as a bouncer at a club on Clinton Highway.

The following year, Jenkins got Sheriff Carl Ford to hire him as a deputy.

“I went down to a pawn shop on Gay Street and bought me a badge and a slapjack, and I worked seven days. Never had an interview, just went to work.

Six months later, I met the sheriff.” He said he learned

the importance of spelling from Juvenile Court Judge Richard Douglass – the hard way.

“Judge Douglass was a mean Democrat, but he took a liking to me. He was running for re-election in ’74, and we went and bought 10,000 boxes of Band-Aids (to hand out as Election Day favors) and put his name on them but left one of the Ss off. He bought 10,000 stickers, and we had to put them stickers on the boxes. Every one of them.”

Bean’s loyalty was tested again when Mayor Kyle Testerman declared war on city sanitation workers and got himself locked into a battle to keep them from unionizing.

“At that time, we were city employees, and when he fired all the garbage men to keep them from joining the union, we all had to pick up garbage. Had to go in at 6:30 or 7 and we had (police captain) Mickey Snyder driving a big truck, with Calvin Housewright and Bobby Smithers on little satellite trucks. Me and Jimmy Kyle Davis, he was my recreation director, were on another truck. … One night, Kyle called everybody in and said he’d been getting complaints about the men running that route over on Sutherland sitting in Highland Memorial Cemetery drinking beer at lunchtime.

Kane drafts bill to restore LV name Richard Bean reveals the secret to his longevity on the job: BC Powder.

He said, ‘I’m going to put a stop to it.’ ” (Bean confesses that he and the others would stop at a convenience store to buy bologna sandwich makings and a 12-pack and find themselves a shady spot in the graveyard to have lunch.

He doesn’t sound sorry.)

Over the years, he and Lillian built the “Bean Machine” and wielded considerable influence in the courthouse and beyond. Today, things are a little quieter, and Bean doesn’t seem to be as involved as in years gone by.

When asked if that perception is correct, he grinned.

“I’m just more underground now.”

(Continued next week)

The Old Mother Hubbard effect

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To give the poor dog a bone; When she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.

Nothing comes easily for Knox County Schools.

When technology prices drop and a Chromebook can be bought for $200 or less, multiply that times 58,000 students to get a cost of $11.6 million for Knox County Schools. Ouch!

And an even more expensive problem is on the horizon. That’s the cost of personnel to keep the technology running when parent groups or businesses buy the technology.

Just last month 33 businesses kicked in $250 each to buy Chromebooks for Powell High School.

It’s happening all over the county. But the school system is not staffed to keep all the devices powered, wired and running.

School board member Lynne Fugate summed it up at a recent meeting: “Everybody wants (the technology), but it costs a lot of money.

“How do we get ahead of it?

“Our parents are demanding it and are buying

The mayor’s rage

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computers for the schools and we have to support it.

“Let’s not lead from behind.”

Gail Byard is the chief technology officer for Knox County Schools.

“Chromebooks are game changers,” she said.

She said a 4-year rollout at $1 million per year would put a Chromebook in the hands of each high school student and teacher. Oh by the way, KCS needs 63 additional technicians.

Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre said schools in economically disadvantaged areas have bought computers with Title I funds, while other schools have committed Coupon Book dollars to technology.

Board member Tracie Sanger voiced support for increased technology, but Knox County Schools has hit the Old Mother Hubbard effect.

The money cupboard is bare.

Is Victor Ashe annoying and hard to live with?

Absolutely.

But a guy who has written a column for Shopper News every week for five plus years is a columnist.

And this newspaper will support every columnist and reporter we publish.

Do we always agree with Victor? No. Will we let a politician – even one we like – get away with denying access to public information? Nope.

Madeline Rogero is suffering from a bad case of second-termitis. She’s safely re-elected and now termlimited so what’s to lose?

Let’s ban that dancing butter stick and egg from the top of Magpies Bakery, even though the sign ordinance clearly allows for art.

Let’s just tell off the former 4-term mayor because he’s a pest.

Let’s charge the Fountain City Christmas parade $1,500 for police reserve officers for the first time in 48 years.

Call it another downside of term limits.

Victor Ashe was a political writer in college. He’s got a hammering style, but

he’s also got a nose for news and the contacts to track down stories.

I recruited Victor while he was still in Poland to write a column for Shopper News. Back when everyone was speculating on what he would do next, we struck our deal.

Citizens are best served by opinions from a variety of informed sources. Lord help us all when the “news” we know comes from PR departments, be they City Hall or UT sports.

Smith is ‘all wet’ Commissioner Randy Smith was walking down Gay Street Monday en route to lunch with Mayor Tim Burchett, finance director Chris Caldwell and PR guy Michael Grider.

It was a strange sight in pouring rain. Burchett was wearing his tan Carhartt jacket (which smells like a wet dog – his words).

Grider was juggling an umbrella over the mayor when the men passed a mom and baby without protection from the rain.

“Randy Smith just handed her his umbrella,” said Burchett. “Didn’t even tell her who he was. Just said, ‘Keep it.’”

For those who thought the Lady Vols controversy over the name change has vanished, check again.

It may be back in January in Nashville when the Legislature reconvenes.

Knoxville Republican state Rep. Roger Kane is drafting legislation to restore the Lady Vols name to women’s sports at UT. He is also looking at legislation to require the UT Board of Roger Kane Trustees to hold a public hearing on any issue where 25,000 citizens sign a petition asking for one. The UT Board of Trustees failed to allow legislators or the public to speak at its meeting despite 25,000 citizens asking the name be restored.

One common criticism of the board is that very little discussion occurs in its public meetings, and all members seem to be in lockstep with each other.

If Kane introduces these two bills, they will generate strong discussion. Over one-third of the General Assembly signed a letter to UT President Joe DiPietro urging a reversal of the name change. The board and DiPietro declined to hear the matter in a public setting.

Most of this could be resolved if the board would appear interested in legislative opinions and hear them out, even if they did not adopt every proposal.

UT Board vice chair Raja Jubran is often the point man for the UT administration to convince local legislators not to support these bills. He is a close friend of Gov. Haslam. Jubran has made reduction of rising tuition costs a focus of his time on the board. He takes his duties seriously.

■ Bob Whetsel, former city development director, is back from his nine-week bike ride across the southern part of the USA from San Diego to St. Augustine, Fla. He is 30 pounds lighter and sporting a beard. The trip was managed by Adventure Cycling Association out of Montana.

Victor Ashe

Over beer at Central Flats and Taps, Whetsel, 63, reviewed the highlights of the epic trip. Whetsel has also been in the Everest region of Nepal Bob Whetsel (trekking instead of biking then), plus Cambodia and Thailand.

He said 16 started on the trip and 13 completed it. Dan Duncan, husband of Lisa Duncan, retired head of the Dogwood Arts Festival, was a Knoxville participant. Others were from Canada, the Netherlands and Australia. Each day got them at least 40 miles further along and sometimes as much as 92 miles.

Rest stops (meaning more than one day) occurred in Phoenix, Austin, Fort Davis and Silver City, to name several. The bikes had f lat tires. Overnights ranged from tents to hostels to motels. The trip started Sept. 14 and ended Nov. 16. All clothes and necessities were carried on individual bikes.

Whetsel worked for four mayors over 23 years, starting with this writer.

He said it was a memorable trip but is glad to be back in Knoxville. His next adventure is with his wife, Melynda, for a cruise in Hawaii in 2016.

■ Gov. Haslam continues to maintain high personal popularity, according to recent polls.

His challenge, with three years left as governor, is Bill Haslam to translate it into more support for his legislative proposals.

He is unlikely to bring up Insure Tennessee or a gas tax hike in the legislative session starting next month.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Cumberland Estates Recreation Center 4529 Silver Hill Drive 588-3442 Offerings include: Senior Walkers, 10:30 a.m.

Monday-Friday.

■ Frank R. Strang Senior Center 109 Lovell Heights Road 670-6693 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Offerings include: card games; exercise programs; dance classes; watercolor classes; Tai Chi; blood pressure checks; Mahjong; senior-friendly computer classes. The Knox County Veterans Services will answer questions 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 3. Beltone Hearing Aids informational session, 11 a.m.

Friday, Dec. 4.

Register for: Holiday Pot Luck Luncheon, noon Wednesday, Dec. 9; Wellness Lunch and Learn: Spinal Stenosis, noon Wednesday, Dec. 16 (541-4500).

■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center 611 Winona St. 523-1135 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Offerings include: Card games, billiards, senior fitness, book club, Senior Savvy computer classes, bingo, blood pressure checks 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Monday-Friday. “Christmas 1945” presented by the Silver Stage Players, 2 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 10; donations appreciated.

Register for: Candlelight Holiday Dinner with crafts, 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8 (RSVP by Friday, Dec. 4); Harrah’s trip, 8 a.m. departure Monday, Dec. 7 (Frankie Hicks, 525-1475); Tea Party and prescreening of “Downton Abbey” final season, 12:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11 (RSVP by Dec. 8); toenail clipping appointments, Thursday, Dec. 10.

Pumpkin munchin’ Artist Scottie Baxter, gift shop president Gail Morell and O’Connor Senior Center manager Sue Massingill pose in front of Exceptional Gifts and Crafts Shop at the O’Connor Senior Center

O’Connor gift shop is ‘exceptional’

By Cindy Taylor Located inside the O’Connor Senior Center in Northeast Knoxville is what center manager Sue Massingill refers to as “the best kept secret in town.” The secret she is referring to is an art center/gift shop featuring unique and beautiful handmade items crafted by members of the center.

The Exceptional Gifts and Crafts Shop is a small space filled with collections of wood carvings, oil paintings, jewelry, pottery, blown glass and an abundance of other crafts. You can pick up handmade greeting cards for about $1. Selection and price are incredible.

The art center was established more than 20 years ago. Gail Morell has managed the shop for 12 years.

“Our seniors love to display their handmade items here and shop for gifts too,” said Morell. “Profits from sales in the shop go to sup-

port the O’Connor Center.”

Senior artists can bring their work to the center to be sold on consignment.

There is a $10 fee per year to become a member of the gift shop. Artists donate one day per month to work the shop.

Currently more than 15 senior artists display and sell their work in the gift shop.

Gift shop hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring your Christmas list and cash or checks. You won’t want to leave empty-handed and they don’t take credit cards.

While you’re enjoying a shopping spree at the gift shop be sure to tour the rest of the facility. You may be amazed at what you find.

The center offers physical fitness classes, creative writing, art classes, discounted lunch, health screenings, health instruction, neurobics and too many more activities to list. An Internet café should be open on-site by the end of the year. Of

course everyone has heard of the O’Connor Singing Seniors. There is also a band and drama group.

Minimum age to participate in the activities offered at the center is 50. Anyone is welcome to tour or make purchases in the gift shop. A visit to the center will most likely afford you many new friends.

“We average more than 200 senior visitors daily,” said Massingill. “Our goal is to help seniors add life to their years.”

Upcoming holiday events include the Singing Seniors Holiday Concert - December 2; Crafts by Candlelight - Dec. 8; Christmas 1945, the O’Connor Silver Stage Players - Dec. 10; Downton Abbey Tea - Dec. 11 and a Christmas sale Dec. 15.

The John T. O’Connor Senior Center is at 611 Winona Street. Info: 523-1135. Info and a daily calendar available at www.knoxseniors. org/oconnor

Before a visit to the local pumpkin patch, residents of Morning Pointe of Powell make a quick stop at Einstein Bros. Bagel Shop on Cedar Bluff Road, where manager Terry Morris provided fresh baked (just for them) pumpkin muffins with Cream Cheese icing! Pictured are Jane Hodges (at top) and Margaret Herbison, licking icing off of her fingers.

Festival of Wreaths at Elmcroft Support Alzheimer’s Tennessee by bidding on a wreath as Elmcroft of Halls sponsors the second annual Festival of Wreaths from 3:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3. UT choral group will perform from 6-7 and winners will be announced at 7 p.m. All are invited.

Cronan to speak in Corryton Joan Cronan, former University of Tennessee women’s athletic director, will be speaking and signing her book “Sport Is Life” at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 14, at the Corryton Senior Center, 9331 Davis Drive, Corryton.

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Travel influences ministry of First Presbyterian pastor

By Wendy Smith

Meredith Loftis participates in a tribal dance by the Chewa tribe in Katete, Zambia. She is the new associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church. Photo submitted

when that career took her to Africa. A two-year fellowship with Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan included a year in Zambia. She worked with an ecumenical organization that traveled throughout the country equipping laypeople to be church leaders. The church is exploding there,

she says, and there aren’t enough trained pastors to staff the congregations.

Churches in Africa wrestle with a different set of issues than those faced in the U.S. Two of the biggest challenges for churches in Zambia are HIV and polygamy.

One of the cultural challenges she faced was being asked for money. It’s normal

Cups of hope brewed at

Spero Coffee

By Carolyn Evans There’s a lot more brewing than lattes at Spero Coffee in Farragut.

Owners Josh and Michelle Steedley aren’t trying to put a shop on every corner, but the impact of Michelle Steedley points out the name on a piece of handmade jewelry. The jewelry is made by women who have left prostitution and are finding other ways to support themselves.

Goat-leather journals sold at Spero Coffee in Farragut are made by Haitians who are trying to rise out of poverty. Photo submitted

Photo by Carolyn Evans

FAITH NOTES

Meetings/classes ■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County meeting, 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 4, Second UMC, 1524 Western Ave. Info: 524-1689.

Special services ■ Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive, will present its annual Christmas cantata 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, in the sanctuary.

This year’s cantata is Dan and Heidi Goeller’s “The Word Became Flesh.” The public is invited. Info: the Rev. Mike Stallings, mike@concordumc.com or mikestallings@charter.net.

■ Music ministries of Christ Covenant Church in Farragut and Community Evangelistic Church in East Knoxville will join for three presentations of “How Great Our Joy – a Gospel Christmas!” Presentations: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 11-12, Christ Covenant Church, 12915 Kingston Pike; 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, Community Evangelistic Church, 2650 Boyds Bridge Pike. Info: 525-1589 or cecchurch.org; 671-1885 or office@christcov. org.

■ Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road, holds meditation services 6:30 p.m. each second and fourth Wednesday. Includes

quiet reflection, simple music and readings. Info: westsideuuc.org.

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ed to open a business that would have a global effect on a variety of countries.”

Spero has been serving coffee and tea for the past year. Customers can try coffee from Ethiopia, Guatemala, Columbia, Sumatra and Brazil.

“Josh has worked with a variety of people and organizations to begin developing relationships with coffee growers,” Steedley said.

“We’ve been able to work with a couple of importers to obtain the coffee we are roasting currently. We are excited to have our first direct trade with a missionary in Sumatra. This coffee is a bright, smooth coffee, and we are excited to have it and be a part of their ministry.”

The Steedleys started by buying a roaster. They put it in their garage and spent a year learning how to use it.

“Through a lot of selfteaching, trial and error, seminars and private lessons, Josh has mastered the art of roasting. I think our house might still smell like coffee,” she said with a laugh.

Cross Currents

Lynn Pitts

September, then was the seventh (septem meaning seven), and October was the eighth. (you see how an octopus got its name – eight legs!)

November was from the word for ninth, and December from the prefi x dec, meaning 10.

All very neat and nice.

So where did the other two months come from?

In 1582, Pope Gregory (and, no doubt, his astronomers) realized that the calendar was no longer in sync with the seasons. So he fi xed it by adding July (in honor of Julius Caesar) and August (in honor of Caesar Augustus).

And that is why, although the names are a little of out sync, our calendar is correct!

Now they have a retail business and roastery at 154 West End Ave. near Farragut High School, roasting coffee they sell to Whole Foods, Earth Fare and a variety of bakeries, churches and coffee shops around town.

Children Carter, Morgan and Bennett are involved, too, working in the shop, helping source products and with social media, decoration and menu ideas.

Everything at Spero Coffee is roasted freshly and prepared in an exceptional way, Steedley said. “But more importantly, as a staff we are trying our best to pour into people, to make them feel like family.”

Steedley said the Christmas season will be a good time for people to sip a peppermint mocha with a purpose and buy their products, whether it is coffee from Sumatra, or jewelry made by women who are trying to support themselves in some way other than prostitution, or a goat-leather journal made by Haitians.

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, hosts Morning Breakfast and Afternoon Hang Out for youth each Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 6901060 or beaverridgeumc.org.

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So, if there are 12 months in a year, why is the name of the last month December, a word derived from the prefi x dec, or 10 (think decade or decathlon)?

I wonder about such things! So, being my mother’s daughter, I looked it up, and here is what I learned.

The ancient Romans insisted that all wars cease during the time between the old and new years. March (named for Mars) was the first month in the Roman calendar.

That is how the following months were named as they were: April was from the Latin for “second.”

May was named for Maia, the goddess of growing plants (seems reasonable to me!). June was named for Juno, queen of the gods, who was also the patroness of marriage, which is why June is so popular for weddings!

We will come back to July and August, because they were later additions.

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■ First Farragut UMC, 12733 Kingston Pike, will host “Breakfast with Santa,” 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. Cost: $10 per family. Includes photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus, breakfast, visit to Elf Shop and craft area, and silent auction. Proceeds go to FFUMC Children’s Ministry Program.

Info/registration: ffumc.org.

Walk-ins also welcome.

■ Second UMC, 1524 Western Ave., will host the 35th annual Christmas Handbell Concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6. The Celebration Handbell Choir and the Powell High Singers will present “Glory to the Newborn King.”

And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. …

(Genesis 1:14 NRSV)

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what they do in Farragut is reaching around the world.

Some of the coffee brewed at Spero is from coffee beans grown in Sumatra, purchased from a missionary who grows them. They import gifts made by people in third-world countries who are trying to rise out of poverty. They give local artisans a place to sell their wares and then contribute a portion of the profit to a local ministry. And they open their shop up to small church groups.

“Spero” means “hope” in Italian, Michelle Steedley said.

“My husband, Josh, is the founder and dreamer who started Spero,” she said.

“He initially was inspired by our daughter, Carter, who expressed a desire to serve in other countries. He want-

What’s in a year?

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Her desire to serve God and people has taken Meredith Loftis to several states and much of the continent of Africa. She plans to put those experiences to good use as the associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church, 620 State St. “Travel is a great teacher.

I hope to be able to use it in my ministry,” she says.

Loftis was installed last Sunday. She grew up in Dunwoody, Ga., where she was actively involved at St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church.

She began to imagine a life of ministry as a teen, and her faith was further refined at Clemson University.

She spent a summer working with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance in Gautier, Miss. − an area hit hard by Hurricane Katrina − and that experience led her to work for the American Red Cross in Pickens, S.C., for a year.

“I enjoyed it, but I couldn’t talk about my faith.”

Loftis went on to Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. The most influential pastor in her life was a woman, she says, and no one ever discouraged her from pursuing ministry as a career because of her sex.

But she admits that her parents were stunned

for Zambians to ask friends and family for money, and because she was white, she was assumed to be rich.

“I had more marriage proposals than I knew what to do with,” she says.

Before returning to Manhattan, Loftis spent time traveling in Africa and Asia, which further exposed her to different cultures.

Knoxville appealed to her because it’s a less stressful environment than New York City and closer to home. Because she’s learned how to be comfortable with people who are different from her, she hopes to serve those who are often overlooked.

“We’re called to take care of each other, even if we don’t understand each other.”

She feels called to a ministry of hospitality, she says.

Since she arrived at the beginning of September, First Presbyterian has been partnering with a Congolese family through Bridge Refugee Service.

Because the church is in the heart of downtown, it’s well situated for reaching out, she says.

She knows it’s a welcoming congregation because it has welcomed her.

“I think they’re excited to have a pastor who’s young, single, female and a millennial.”

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Correction to Veterans Day coverage Kindergarten teacher Katie Hays celebrates a good harvest with students (front) Piper Thomas, Jakobi Boshers, Caroline MacDonald, Eli Weissfeld, Grady Holder, Carson Jackson and Griffin Stiles; (back) Hansheng Liu, Liam Nguyen, Estrella Castillo, Manuel Gonzalez, Kayce Rasmussen, Owen Sayle, Honor Johnson Webb, Thomas Morgan, Grace Lawhorn, Isabella Peters, Hayes Emery, Chloe Dye and Baker Brooks.

In our Nov. 18 edition, we incorrectly identified Bearden Elementary School fifth-grader Cole Johnson. Cole’s grandfather, Navy veteran James Johnson, attended the Veterans Day program held at BES Nov. 11. Photo by S. Barrett

Growing green thumbs The cutest little garden sits behind Rocky Hill Elementary School, just outside kindergarten teacher Katie Hays’ classroom.

Sara Barrett

“I want my students to know where food comes from and emphasize healthy eating,” says Hays.

She came up with the idea for the garden last year and says this year’s class has taken complete ownership of the project. They helped plant the seeds, water the

soil and pull weeds.

Near the beginning of November, Hays’ students circled the raised beds, waiting anxiously with cupped hands to help carry the fruits of their labor.

Turnips and broccoli were at their peak and students cheered when the first head of broccoli was snipped.

After the harvest, everything was brought in and washed so students could try a bite of each. The rule was “just a bite” – everyone was encouraged to try at least a bite of both vegetables before saying they didn’t like it. Surprisingly, all but one student liked turnips, and more than half the class liked broccoli.

“We also planted kale, but it died out. What a good life lesson to show that not

Funding the garden

Chloe Dye and Grady Holder have broccoli leaves they plan to taste with their classmates.

Photos by S. Barrett

everything in life goes your way,” says Hays.

“I want these kids to see broccoli in the store and say, ‘I remember that from school, let’s get some.’ ” There are plans to plant Rocky Hill Elementary School kindergarten teacher Katie Hays red potatoes in January so cuts broccoli in the garden as students Griffin Stiles, Caroline they’re ready to eat by spring.

MacDonald and Owen Sayle watch anxiously.

Rocky Hill first-grader Will Scott decided as a kindergar tner in Katie Hays’ class that he wanted to help fund the garden Hays had talked about. He Will Scott opened a lemonade stand and singlehandedly raised $900 to help purchase supplies.

“People think helping other people is a lot of work, but not really,” said Will.

“You can enjoy the labor. I was afraid Ms. Hays might run out of money to build (the garden), so I told my mom I wanted to help. I’ve tried broccoli before, but I don’t really like it.”

Best friends making a difference Pond Gap Elementary School fifth-graders, neighbors and best friends Monica Mendoza, Tsion Haileselassie, Sharda Johnson, Tyriauna Kyles and Shannon Fugate are spearheading a fundraiser to help people in Africa.

The girls plan to raise money by selling candy bars to purchase livestock through Heifer International. The livestock, such as Pond Gap Elementary School fifth-graders Tsion Haileselassie, chickens, Monica Mendoza, Sharda Johnson and Tyriauna Kyles create will be deposters for their fundraiser. Not pictured is Shannon Fugate. livered to an African village where according to

Tsion, “some people don’t have food or an economy.

The villagers can care for chickens, sell the eggs and build up the village economy.”

“The people will also live longer,” added Sharda.

The idea for a fundraiser came from Tyriauna, who saw a television show about something similar. Monica remembered watching people in Mexico sell candy to make money if they were poor, so she suggested the idea to the group, and it was a hit.

“We made up this saying that ‘Some people have their needs but want more

wants, while some people don’t even have their needs,” said Monica.

“It’s kind of disrespectful to buy food you’re not going to use when other people need it,” added Sharda.

The friends are also collecting items including toys and clothing for new families who move to Pond Gap but don’t have many belongings. You don’t have to attend Pond Gap to donate.

Next on the girls’ list: a fundraiser for people in Mexico. To help the girls out, contact Sarah Hamilton at 909-9040.

–Sara Barrett

SCHOOL NOTES ■ Breakfast with Santa, hosted by various Karns High School clubs and organizations, will be held 8-11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, at the school, 2710 Byington Solway Road.

Crafts, reading, carolers, pancakes and Santa. Donations will be accepted for the Alzheimer’s TN Association. Info: khsleadership. wordpress.com.

■ West Hills Elementary participates in the following programs to help raise money for the school: General Mills “BoxTops for Education,” Campbell’s “Labels for Education,” and linking Food City ValuCards, Kroger Plus Cards and Target Red Cards to the school for points. Info: 539-7850.

Double the drama at West High School The West High School Troop 20101 members Hutton Johnson, Ava Wilson, Ani Larsen, Caitlyn Bellis, (middle) Janey Austin, Olivia Hailey, Bella Ilagan, Theatre Department will Kaya Larsen, Abby Borth, (back) Camille Gabetta, Maddie Borth, Sydney Boswell, Suzanne Stone, Sara Boyd, Delaney Phillips, host two plays on consecuRilee Rowland, Ella Blaire Bibee and Natalie Newman present a check to Mission of Hope executive director Emmett Thompson. tive nights, a first in the Photo by S. Barrett school’s 64 years.

Student-directed “Steel Magnolias” will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday, they know at that time how “You’ll be doing some- common call to Mission of Dec. 4, and the award-winBy Sara Barrett Girl Scout troop 20101 quickly three nickels could thing for a group that more Hope when kerosene heat- ning drama “Anon(ymous)” than likely will never be able ers are turned on during will be presented at 7 p.m. voted in January to decide add up.

Saturday, Dec. 5, in the Mission of Hope ex- to say ‘thank you,’ so thank cold weather. who to help with a portion ecutive director Emmett you from us,” said ThompThompson said his foun- WHS auditorium. of its cookie sales.

The Southern classic accepted a son. dation helps 18,000 kids in As part of earning a Thompson “We’ve had two requests 27 schools, and the troop “Steel Magnolias” is being philanthropic badge, troop check from the troop for members decided to give 15 $750 from more than already for clothing from was “making Christmas directed by WHS Internacents from every box sold to 5,000 boxes of cookies families whose trailers have possible for a lot of kids” tional Baccalaureate senior Ike Hannah. Ike will be burned down,” he said, a with its cookie sales.

Mission of Hope. Little did sold.

Troop 20101 helps Mission of Hope

the first IB student in Knox County history to direct a main-stage production.

The award winning “Anon(ymous)” is a modernday retelling of Homer’s “The Odyssey” written by Naomi Iizuka. WHS theatre director Lisa Nelson is directing.

Both casts will feature WHS advanced theatre students. Tickets are $7 ($5 students) with a $1 discount the second night if you bring your ticket stub from the first show. Info: Lisa Nelson, lisa. nelson@knoxschools.org.

– Sara Barrett

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News from the Rotary Guy

Knoxville Rotary salutes silent hero Sam Beall

By Tom King Education

has always been among the primary focus areas of Rotary International. The Rotary Club of Knoxville is celebrating its Tom King 100th anniversary year in 2015, and as part of that they heard recently from an old friend – Sam Beall.

It was in 1937 when the club presented Sam with a Rotary scholarship for $500 a year during his first two years at the University of Tennessee. That scholarship propelled him to a fascinating and very significant career.

Sam’s father had died during the Great Depression, and after Sam graduated from high school in Georgia, his mother moved him and his kid brother to Knoxville, her former home. Her father had built the first bellows for the Fulton Bellows Co. Sam was befriended by Rotarians Tom McCroskey, president of the Limestone Company, and Leonard Jones of Knox Litho. Sam wanted to go to UT but was virtually penniless, he said at a recent meeting. Knoxville Rotary came to the rescue with a scholarship. He graduated in 1942 with a degree in design engineering.

Charles Ferris, then head

Knoxville Rotary president Sandy Martin and Sam Beall of UT’s Engineering School, took a special interest in Sam. World War II was underway, and DuPont was recruiting engineers for the top-secret Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago. With help from Ferris, Sam got a job working with the Chicago team and worked daily with Enrico Fermi, called the “Father of the Bomb.”

From that springboard, Sam became director of the Reactor Division and the newly formed Energy Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. When Sam retired in 1978 he was ORNL’s director of the Reactor and Energy Divisions … and it all began with that $500, two-year scholarship from Knoxville Rotary.

And today, 100 years after its founding, the club still awards scholarships to deserving students.

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Turkey Creek food pantry

The Rotary Club of Turkey Creek Sunset is into the holiday spirit, making a $500 donation to the Shepherd of Hope Food Pantry at Faith Lutheran Church in Farragut. The pantry helps support 100 families. The club meets weekly at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the church.

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Videotaping meetings

The Rotary Club of Bearden is now videotaping its Friday noon meetings at Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall. The club’s technology guru, Leo Knight, who owns Neighborhood Nerds, spearheaded this effort.

One of the Nerds’ interns, Nathan Diambra, is handling the taping.

Tom King is a retired newspaper editor, a Rotarian for 27 years and past president of the Rotary Club of Farragut. He can be reached at tking535@gmail.com.

FARRAGUT CHAMBER EVENTS ■ Thursday, Dec. 3, 5-6:30 p.m., networking: Morning Pointe Assisted Living of Lenoir City, 155 Morning Pointe Drive, Lenoir City.

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BIZ NOTES ■ Edwin Spencer M.D. has creates a rigid internal scafperformed fold, stabilizing the fractured a surgical bone fragments from the implant for a inside. patient with ■ Russell Betcher M.D. of a fracture to Knoxville the upper Orthopaedic arm bone Clinic is the which conmedical nects to the honoree for shoulder. this year’s The device Dr. Spencer Knoxville was apJingle Bell proved by the FDA in April Run/Walk 2015. It is made of a nickelfor Arthritis titanium alloy that forms a as the 2015 Dr. Betcher mesh-like structure, similar corporate to a coronary artery stent. chair. The Jingle Bell Run/ The device is implanted Walk is nationally sponsored through a small incision in

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■ Premier Transportation has acquired Chattanoogabased All Aboard USA, bringing the Knoxville company’s total fleet to nearly 40 motor coaches stationed throughout East Tennessee.

Nick Cazana is the Premier Transportation owner.

Randy Ingram, All Aboard owner and operator, has joined Premier to manage the Chattanooga location, which brings the Premier Transportation team to 85 employees.

UT NOTES ■ C. Neal Stewart Jr., a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences who also holds the Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in Plant Molecular Genetics, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Stewart was elected as a member of the Biological Sciences Section for his distinguished contributions to the field of plant molecular Stewart genetics, particularly bioenergy and biotechnology.

■ Dean Victoria Niederhauser has announced the College of Nursing at UT Knoxville received the maximum 10 years of continuing accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education following an extensive self-study and March accreditation visit. The College of Nursing has held national accreditation since 1974, when full Niederhauser accreditation was granted by the National League of Nursing for an eight-year period.

CALL FOR ARTISTS ■ Dogwood Arts Festival: juried artists are selected to exhibit and sell their original work in mixed media, clay, drawing/pastels, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, painting, photography, sculpture and wood in April.

Info/application: dogwoodarts.com.

■ Scruff y City Art Contest: a juried art exhibit competition celebrating Knoxville’s blend of Southern history and modern development on the banks of the Tennes-

see River. Free and open to all artists. Submissions deadline: Feb. 15. Info: lizbeth.com/contest.

■ Arts in the Airport: juried exhibition allows regional artists to compete and display work at McGhee Tyson Airport secured area behind the security gate checkpoint March 17-Oct. 12.

Theme: “Smoky Mountain Air Show.” Entries deadline: midnight Sunday, Feb. 7.

Info/application: knoxalliance.com; Suzanne Cada,

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■ Gallery of Arts Tribute: a juried exhibition developed to recognize local artists and honor the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Artwork should be delivered 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 4-5. Entry form: knoxalliance.com/MLK.htm; or SASE to Arts & Culture Alliance, P.O. Box 2506, Knoxville TN 37901. Info: Suzanne Cada, 523-7543 or sc@knoxalliance.com.

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By Carol Shane Looking for more ways to be Santa’s helper?

Join the party at “Holiday Sparkles and Spirits,” a gala evening to benefit The Joy of Music School, which provides music lessons to area kids who wouldn’t otherwise be able to have them.

The event combines the warmth of a holiday gathering with the sound of children’s voices, plus delicious food and drink. There are also silent and live auctions.

It’s a great evening for a great cause.

“Holiday Sparkles and Spirits” takes place 6:309:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, at Cherokee Country Club, 5138 Lyons View Pike. Info: 525-6806.

■ On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of Knoxville musicians gathered in the bowels of the Tennessee Theatre for their first and only rehearsal with the music directors of the touring company of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.”

The company is based in New York, where the theater world’s best come to sing, dance and play music with the best talent on the planet.

They’re accustomed to the highest standards.

The rehearsal went smoothly, and when it came

Doc Severinsen chose the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra to tour with him in September. The KJO presents “Swingin’ Christmas” Thursday, Dec. 10, at the Tennessee Theatre.

Shown top to bottom are Will Boyd, Mark Tucker, David King, Brad McDougall, Greg Tardy, Keith Brown, Tom Johnson, Bill Swann, Michael Spirko, Michael Wyatt, Nathan Warner, Tommy Sauter, Tom Lundberg, Vance Thomspon, Severinsen and Don Hough. Photo submitted

time to rehearse the finale of the first act, the conductor, Michael Horsley, gave the downbeat. As the music built in intensity, his conducting gestures gradually stopped; they weren’t needed.

Horsley, smiling widely, was simply enjoying the music. As the last note rang through the marblelined space, he exclaimed, “Whaddaya know! Knoxville can PLAY.” The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, who’d just blown the roof off of “Blue Skies,” hung their heads sheepishly and grinned.

In an age when much popular music relies on electronic wizardry rather than hard-earned musical prowess, these guys are the real deal. If you haven’t heard them, you’re missing one of the premiere performing groups in the region.

Founded in 1999 by trumpeter Vance Thompson, they’ve appeared at jazz festivals in the United States and Europe, released four critically acclaimed CDs and presented scores of concerts, many featuring world-renowned guest artists.

Their most popular annual concert happens next week. And this year, “A Swingin’ Christmas” will feature jazz vocalist Cécile

McLorin Salvant.

“I’ve actually been trying to get her for several years now,” says Thompson, who adds that, in his opinion, Salvant is “the most important female vocalist to come along in jazz in the last few decades.”

“Although she is well known to the jazz community around the world, she is still unknown to the general public.”

He’s excited to introduce her to Knoxville audiences, along with some of the brightest, brassiest Christmas music you’ll hear all season.

Tickets go fast, so if you want to hear those horns, you’d better get on the horn.

The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra’s “A Swingin’ Christmas,” sponsored by Merrill Lynch, takes place at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, at the Tennessee Theatre downtown. Info: knoxjazz. org or 573-3226.

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Animal lover Hendrix brightens 2016

By Betsy Pickle Elaine Hendrix has been a stocking stuffer before – her character in “Inspector Gadget 2” inspired a variety of Happy Meal toys – but all fans will want for Christmas is a 2016 calendar featuring Hendrix showing vintage attitude – and a lot of leg.

It’s the Girls for Animal Rights 2016 calendar, and it benefits the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Illinois Birddog Rescue and Hendrix’s own The Pet Matchmaker.

“I’ve got a new PSA out for the Animal Legal Defense Fund,” says Hendrix.

“They’re the ones who got me involved with the calendar. I love them. But I also love the gals who are doing the Girls for Animal Rights.”

(Find the calendar at girlsforanimalrights.com.)

Born in Oak Ridge and reared in Knoxville, Morristown and Atlanta, Hendrix is a passionate animal activist. She spent Thanksgiving taking care of homeless people and pets in Los Angeles.

“It’s a funny thing being a ‘celebrity’ … I know that there are a lot of people who worry about their image and what they’re attached to.

For animals, I do whatever I can do.”

When she’s not rescu-

ing animals or promoting their rights, Hendrix stays busy with her day – and night – job. She stars on the new FX series “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll” with Denis Leary, Elizabeth Gillies and John Corbett, which recently concluded its first season.

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“It’s amazing,” says Hendrix. “So fun. Best job I’ve ever had. We work long, hard hours, but it’s worth it. We all get along. We love each other. We’re having a blast.”

Fortunately, even working 12- to 16-hour days, Hendrix doesn’t have to worry about saving her voice.

“Thankfully, it’s ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll.’ If you have a (trashed) voice, all the better.”

The second season will East Tendebut on FX in 2016. nessee naThis week, Hendrix is tive Elaine getting ready to start shootHendrix ing a political satire called takes a “Swing State” with Jon breather Gries, Taryn Manning, Anfrom her gela Kinsey from “The Offilm and fice” and Sean Astin. animal “I play sort of an Ann work. Photo Coulter-type character,” submitted says Hendrix.

She worked this summer with Noah Wyle and Xander Berkeley on the drama ly say that.”

“Shot.”

And the sex and drugs?

“It’s what happens when “I’ll say ‘no comment’ on a young boy accidentally those!”

The show is about a vet- shoots a man, and what eran rock ’n’ roller, Johnny happens immediately afRock (Leary), whose dream ter that, and by the end the of resurrecting the career consequences of it,” she he flushed down the toi- says. “It’s really making a let hinges on the daughter, statement on senseless gun Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies), he’s violence, which I was very never known. Hendrix plays happy to be a part of. It’s a Ava, Johnny’s longtime live- heavy film. It’s a very dra-

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Making a movie with a message is something that appeals to Hendrix.

“My life is so cause-oriented,” says Hendrix. “When my work aligns with my beliefs, that’s the ultimate.”

Hendrix, who got her start in guest roles on TV shows before breaking out in “Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion” and “The Parent Trap,” has been working steadily as an actor for more than 20 years and has also produced several features and shorts. The industry-wide conversa-

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Famed Knoxville restaurateur Bill Regas has many reasons to smile at Les Trois Chefs, and the food hadn’t even been served yet! With Bill are the stars of the 20thh anniversary of Childhelp Tennessee: Yvonne Fedderson, Sara Buckner O’Meara, Mary Costa, Janet Testerman Crossley, Emily Tinsley, Barbara Aston-Wash, Mary Alice Tucker and Sis Mitchell. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

A bright evening for Childhelp Tennessee

By Sherri Gardner Howell The stars were shining brightly when Childhelp Tennessee celebrated its 20th anniversary. The annual gala, Les Trois Chefs, looked back at the history of the organization that serves as a refuge and one-stop place where victims of child abuse can tell their stories and get help.

In doing so, Childhelp USA founders Sara Buckner O’Meara, who grew up in Knoxville, and Yvonne Fedderson came from Arizona to thank supporters and toast those who helped

bring Childhelp to town.

The two Hollywood stars honored opera star and the voice of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Mary Costa, Moll Anderson, Jimmy and Muffet Buckner, Emily Tinsley, Janet Testerman Crossley, News Sentinel columnist and feature writer Barbara Aston-Wash, Sis Mitchell, Mary Alice Tucker and Childhelp executive director Hugh Nystrom.

It was hard to know what to like best about Les Trois Chefs! Cherokee Country Club looked dazzling but still ran second

to the gorgeous gowns and party dresses of the women guests. The tributes to the Childhelp ambassadors were heartfelt and heartwarming. The entertainment, a quirky and humorous show by Hypnotwist of New York City, was lots of fun. The food, prepared

by Cherokee Country Club Chef David Pinckney and his team, was scrumptious.

Farragut’s David and Robin Purvis, of Farragut Wine & Spirits, were the founders of Les Trois Chefs and have been involved in the planning for the event’s

entire 16 years as a fundraiser for Childhelp. Wines were expertly paired with the appetizers and four courses.

Farragut Wine and Spirits was joined by Constellation Brands, Knoxville Beverage

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And, just when everyone

thought all the fun had been had, Hugh Nystrom and the Childhelp team served coffee and set off fireworks on the country club’s patio, lighting up the scenic landscape in celebration.

David and Robin Purvis hosted a table for friends and family: Standing are Yvonne Macias, David Purvis, Julia Purvis, Robin Purvis and Omar Jubran; seated are Danny Macias, Mike Marcum, Pepper Marcum, Angela Howard and Rick Stone.

At home up north Jeff and Shelia Galler and Carole and Sam Malek were on hand to represent corporate sponsors This column comes to Regal Entertainment. you from New England, not so very far from where Thanksgiving began.

Grandma and I have family way up here, 60 miles from Canada. More often than not it snows for us on this, our traditional visiting week, but not this year.

So far, only a few scattered flakes have sprinkled down, falling as we were looking at loons and gulls on a cold windy day along the edge of huge Lake Champlain, which separates the states of Vermont and New York.

Of course being with much-loved and hospitable family, providing lots of wonderful eats and catching up on the past year’s news is a warm and comfortable time. Also of interest to someone who is aware of their outdoor environs, such as an elderly birdwatcher, is the comfortable feeling of being in an area where the outdoors are familiar and welcoming, too.

Northern New England has a good feel about it – Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, a thousand road miles from East Tennessee, has a feel that makes you glad that you’re glad you’re there. An experience some years ago helped explained to me why it feels that way.

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National Park literature that driving from Knoxville to the top of Clingman’s Dome is equivalent to driving from Knoxville to Maine, as far as the natural scene of plants and animals was concerned.

That mountain ash growing by the sea confirmed it.

If you’re a tree or a salamander, how high you are above sea level is about as important to your life as how far north you live. Your genes are adapted to let you thrive in a certain niche, decided largely by latitude above the equator and elevation above sea level. So if you’re a northern species, but want to live in the South, you’ll have to live in a place where it’s cool, damp, and shady, somewhere up high.

Our East Tennessee and western North Carolina mountains are high. Mount Mitchell in North Carolina, in fact, is the highest point east of the Mississippi River, measuring 6,684 feet above sea level. Haywood County, N.C., is the highest county in the East, with 18 peaks over 5,000 feet. In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Clingman’s Dome is the highest point at 6,643 feet. Mt. Guyot is second at 6,621 feet, and Tennessee’s own Mt. LeConte checks in at 6,593 feet.

At around 3,500 feet in elevation climate and life begin to change. Things really change about the 5,000 foot line, a vague and variable boundary between “down here” and “up there.”

At those highest elevations, the damp, dark, cool New England feel takes over, and that is where there dwell all the organisms whose ancestors moved south ahead of the ancient glaciers, and then who were left behind when the last great glacier retreated from the Ohio Valley, 10,000 years ago.

Some plants and animals are more particular than others about where they live. You’ll find the laid-back robins, for example, or the crows, hopping around in Halls, and you’ll find them a mile higher at Newfound Gap. But a lot of others are very picky and specific about such matters.

They obey the urging of their northern genes and insist upon living up in the 5,000- to 6,000-foot-plus zone, or else on up farther north, as far as southern Canada. Living down lower in the valleys is not an option for them. Good examples of these include the Clinton’s lily with its porcelain-blue berries, the mountain ash mentioned earlier, the mountain maple, and the firs and spruces.

Bird-wise, Tennessee is home to a nice batch of highelevation birds found elsewhere only farther on north up into Ontario and Quebec.

These include the common raven, brown creeper, winter wren, and such woodwarblers as black-throated blue, black-throated green, Blackburnian, and Canada.

Lots of other things, great and small, live up there too, like the scarce northern flying squirrel and the endangered, tiny, spruce-fir moss spider.

Needless to say, birders and other interested nature-lovers enjoy seeing their favorite birds, flowers and other foci of study in the Smokies rather than travelling 1,000 miles north to find them.

So when I walk along a Vermont road amongst the big dark spruce and fir trees, it’s only natural to feel the same comfort as I do when I leave the traffic, crowds and malls behind and ascend the mountains to stroll in our Great Smoky Mountains north woods.

Our East Tennessee outdoor types know what a real treasure we have here in the high country of East Tennessee and western North Carolina.

We have New England, 50 miles from home.

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Retired trooper vows strokes won’t end his golf game There’s a golf club in the trunk of Bryan Farmer’s car with his name on it. It’s a top-of-the-line driver, brand new and still in the box.

He bought it June 12, 2014, after playing 18 holes of golf. But that night, Farmer had a stroke of another kind – a blood clot on the left side of his brain – that has, so far, put his golf game on hold.

But even after suffering a second stroke 10 months later, he vows he’ll be back in the swing of things this month, thanks to the care he received at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center (PNRC) at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and Roane Medical Center.

“It might not be pretty, but I’m going to hit that driver,” declares Farmer, whose slightly drawn right arm and weakened right leg are reminders of that June night when a 3 a.m. bathroom visit was the first hint that something had gone wrong.

“When I got out of the bed, I noticed some extreme dizziness, to the point where I almost fell down,” said Farmer, a Harriman resident. “It was similar to a blood sugar spike. I have high blood pressure and diabetes, and I knew I got dizzy when that happened to me in the past.

I didn’t think a lot about it. I went ahead, got my balance back, went down the hall to the restroom, came back to bed and went straight to sleep. No sickness, no nothing.”

The following morning, he still had some dizziness, but not enough to prevent him from driving to Fairfield Glade where he works in quality assurance for the vacation resort. “I sat down at my desk and the dizziness came back,” he said. “I got up from my desk and walked down the hallway, and my right foot dragged the ground. Just one time, but it almost tripped me up, and one of the other guys I work with saw me and said, ‘Let’s go back into your office and sit down.’ ” It was then that one of the managers with nursing experience came in. Suspicious, she checked Farmer for stroke symptoms.

“I passed every one of them with flying colors,” said Farmer who, as a retired Tennessee Highway Patrol lieutenant, was familiar with the signs of a stroke. “No numbness, no

strokes are often not seen on CT scans within the first 24 hours. For this reason, an MRI of the brain was completed, and showed that he had indeed had a stroke.”

But even then, he still appeared to be unaffected. Then at about 3 a.m., Farmer arose from his hospital bed to go to the restroom and discovered his right side was paralyzed. “Paralysis had set in, and my right leg was useless,” said Farmer.

“It just got worse.”

Transferred by ambulance to the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders, Farmer began to realize the seriousness of his condition.

“I couldn’t move my right arm – it was drawn up and curled against my chest,” Farmer recalled.

Bryan Farmer continues “My right leg was pretty to work toward returnmuch pointed to the right. ing to the golf course, I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t after suffering two move. I couldn’t even feed strokes in the last year. myself.”

Farmer was treated at On the fourth day of his the Comprehensive 31 days in Fort Sanders, Stroke Center at Fort Farmer was moved into the Sanders Regional and PNRC wing to begin his Patricia Neal Rehabilitatingling, no headache. None of therapy. “I’m sitting there tion Center. that. Just dizziness.” in a wheelchair in a row of four or five other people Yet, despite the successful in wheelchairs, waiting FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) campaign to raise stroke symptom aware- on them to get therapy too,” he said. “I look ness, minor strokes can and do occur with- at some of these people, and the thought is out the person ever knowing it. Mild stroke going through my head, ‘You know, I could symptoms that recover after a brief period have been a whole lot worse. I’ve got to go of time may indicate a transient ischemic in here and do what they tell me to do to the attack (TIA) or “mini stroke.” While seldom best of my ability.’ ” deadly, TIAs are often precursors to a fullThat was made easy by the PNRC doctors, blown ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke that nurses and therapists, whose encouragemay follow if symptoms are left untreated. ment was always coupled with enthusiasm Stroke symptoms can also occur over a from Day One. span of hours or days. At first, the affected “I wish I could remember her name, but person may have little or no symptoms, but the girl who came to wheel me up to as time passes, the symptoms will become therapy was just bubbling with excitemore apparent as an estimated 32,000 brain ment and positivity,” he said. “From cells die each passing second. her to the doctors to the nurses to the Pressed to go to the emergency room, therapists, I can’t say enough good Farmer reluctantly agreed. At Parkwest things about those people. Of course, Medical Center, Farmer thought perhaps he I had a positive attitude from my had dodged a bullet when a CT scan came family and a special friend. Between back negative for stroke. those people, I couldn’t help but stay However, according to Dr. Daryl Harp, positive. The level of professionalism neuoradiologist, “Physicians are aware that and effort they put forth was amaz-

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The Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional delivering immediate and excellent care When a stroke happens, timely treatment is critical. The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional is well above the national average in delivering prompt treatment of life-saving medication.

Clot busting drugs are given to stroke patients through a vein to improve blood flow and minimize potential disabilities. The amount of time it takes for a patient to be brought in to a hospital until the moment medications are intravenously administered is referred to as “door to needle time.”

While the average door to needle time is a little Arthur Moore, more than an hour, the door to needle time at Fort Sanders Regional is 30 minutes. That’s half an MD hour faster than the national average.

It’s just one of the many advantages a patient has when treated at a comprehensive stroke center. The stroke center exists to provide the highest level of stroke care for complicated stroke cases.

ing. They were magnificent.”

“We’d only do three hours of therapy a day, but it seemed like 10,” Farmer added.

“It was really grueling because I started at Ground Zero. I lost every ounce of strength I had on my right side, and my left side too basically – my body was just sapped of strength. I remember them giving me a twopound weight to lift – two pounds! I couldn’t even pick that up!”

Still, 31 days after the stroke, Farmer was wheeled to the door and discharged from PNRC. He walked the last 15 to 20 feet to his ride home. “It wasn’t the prettiest or most graceful walk I’d ever taken,” he said, “but it was the most gratifying.”

His rehab continued a couple of weeks later at Patricia Neal Outpatient Center at Roane Medical Center, and he heaps more praise on the therapists there. “They were just top-notch, positive people, which was good for me because I had to help myself and I didn’t need someone who was going to bring me down,” he said. “They were just as determined here to make me better as they were in Knoxville. Their attitudes were great. They are really dedicated to their work, and enjoyed their work – and it showed.”

A second stroke last April, just months after finishing his outpatient rehab, slightly affected his speech and cognition but for the most part is undetectable. In the meantime, he goes to the gym three times weekly to lift weights and work on the elliptical bike.

“As far as real limitations, I have none,” said Farmer. “I can’t run. I can’t jog. I can walk ok. It takes me awhile to get somewhere but I can do it,” he says. “I’m not back to where I want to be – I want to be on the golf course right now. That’s where I want to be. And that’s where I will be in September.

It may not be pretty, but I’m going to be on that course.”

“It really exists to provide that next level up from what you can get at your local community hospital,” Arthur Moore, MD says.

“Strokes can often be treated at those hospitals, but finding out why the stroke occurred to prevent it from happening again sometimes takes someone who’s done a lot more work in treating stroke.”

Moore says finding out the “why” takes some digging into a patient’s background, and sometimes it’s not as obvious as the main risk factors.

“Stroke centers tend to be better and faster at treating stroke just because we see it all the time,” Moore says. “We have doctors who can go up into the brain and pull a clot out, and that’s a really specialized niche. Most hospitals don’t have access to someone who can do that.”

The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional sees patients from throughout East Tennessee, and even from Kentucky. To learn more, visit fsregional.com/stroke, or call (865) 541-1111.

Stroke

When it comes to stroke, time lost is brain lost, so it’s important to understand the warning signs and how to reduce your risk.

If you or a loved one experience any of these symptoms, call 911.

Sudden severe headache with no known cause Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination Sudden numbness or weakness, especially on one side of the body Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes

stroke: LIKE IT NEVER EVEN HAPPENED. Leading the region’s only stroke hospital network www.covenanthealth.com/strokenetwork

Certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission and accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

0094-0093

No comprehensive stroke and rehabilitation center in our region does more to reverse stroke’s devastating effects than Fort Sanders Regional Medical Fort Sanders performs Center. That’s why hospitals clinical trials and procedures for stroke not available across East Tennessee refer their most complex stroke patients to anywhere else in our region. us. And only Fort Sanders Regional is home to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, East Tennessee’s elite rehabilitation hospital for stroke, spinal cord and brain injury patients.

B-2 • DECEMBER 2, 2015 • Shopper news

Campers & RV’s

Transportation Automobiles for Sale BUICK LESABRE - 2004. Limited, 3800 V6, Like New! Silver, Loaded, Must see! 64,000 mi., $7,485. (865)9884133.

CHRYSLER PT CRUISER 2008. 1 owner, 75k mi, AC, AT, PW, pwr drs, mirrors, FM CD, anti-theft remote entry, ruby red w/silver int. $6495/b.o. (865)687-1234 DODGE CHARGER - 2013. V6 8spd automatic fully loaded factory warranty and clean car fax call pete 33,000 mi., $22,900. (865)643-0036.

FORD CROWN VICTORIA LX - 2002.

75,000 actual mi, green, leather int.

Clean car fax. Very nice. $5000.

(865)806-3648.

Sports and Imports

NEW & PRE-OWNED SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE ALL 2015 MODELS MUST GO!!!!

Check Us Out At Northgaterv.com or call 865-681-3030

Motorcycles/Mopeds 2008 HONDA CBR600RR Graffiti Edition Black Excellent shape 1st Owner $4000 (857)209-4341.

Honda Accord LX 2002. loaded, good tires, clean, leather sts, looks/ runs great. All extras. 135k. $4995.

(865)308-2743.

Jaguar X type 3.0, AWD, 2006, silver w/blk lthr, 104K mi, very nice, clean car fax, $7,000 total. (865)806-3648.

KIA SOUL+ 2012. Silver, AT, all power, alloys, cruise, Blue Tooth, 20K mi., like new, $11,900. 865-919-2292.

LEXUS IS 250 2014, 11K mi. Beautiful, Silver w/burg. int., fully loaded.

Take over lease, Lease pymnt. $368 mo. including tax, $200 transfer fee to Lexus Financial OAC. Exceptional credit is a must to qualify. 19 mo. lease left. (865)458-2112.

NISSAN SENTRA SR 2010. Loaded, like new. 68k mi., new Yokohoma 75K tires, recent svc. $8995. 382-0365.

TOYOTA CAMRY - 2003. Blue, Good Condition, 194,754 mi., $3,000.

(865)748-1083.

Sport Utility Vehicles Honda Pilot 2014, EXL, white, w/running boards, sunrf, leather, like new, 24K mi, clean $27,500. 423-295-5393.

INFINITI EX35 - 2012. loaded, sunrf, leather, 34K mi, exc cond., $20,500.

423-295-5393

Driver/Transport DRIVERS! - 1yr. Guaranteed Home Time. $1250 per wk & benefits.

Monthly Bonus Program usually $500-$650. No touch. 855-454-0392

DODGE RAM 2500 - 1997. Cummings 12 valve w/5 speed manual. $9850.

(865)705-7077.

Vehicles Wanted

FAST $$ CASH $$ 4 JUNK AUTOS 865-216-5052 865-856-8106

WAR EAGLE BOAT, 16’ 35 HP Johnson, foot cont., trol mtr, swivel sts, great shape. $3200. For pix (865)740-7146.

5” INSULATION, fascia board repair, gutter guards, gutter cleaning.

Call (865)936-5907

HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICE Will clean front & back, $20 & up. Quality work, guaranteed.

(865)288-0556

Miscellaneous

TUPPERWARE Independent Consultant Denise Beeler denisembeeler@gmail.com www.my.tupperware.com/ denise beeler or (865)803-1271

Farmer’s Mkt/ Trading Post

AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL

865-986-4264 Logs2Lumber.com

(423)200-6600 HAY 4x4 rolls, mixed grass, Blaine area. $15. (865) 216-5387

Livestock & Supplies GRAIN FED HOGS - 250 to 500 lbs.

Prices .80 to $1.00 per lb. live weight. (865)250-4576.

Pets

We Buy Campers

Travel Trailers, 5th Wheels, Popups, Motorhomes.

Will pay Cash (423) 504-8036 HOLIDAY RAMBLER IMPERIAL 37’, 350D, 1 slide, WELL MAINTAINED. Below BB at $28k or $31k w/tow car.

(865)250-8252.

SMALL BREED DOG GROOMING UNDER 50 LBS. Reasonable prices.

Flexible times & dates.

(865)377-4749 YORKIE PUPPIES, M&F, viewer & black/tan, $900-$1200. Taking deposits for Christmas (865) 216-5770

Dogs BISHON POOS, MALTI POOS - Beautiful puppies, shots, $350-$400.

(865)717-9493 BLOODHOUND PUPPIES AKC reg., black & tan, red & liver & tan, $500 each. (865)680-2155.

BOSTON TERRIER puppies, reg., black & white, UTD on shots, dew claws & wormed, small, (423)295-4476 DOBERMAN PUPS, AKC reg., blacks, Xlg Euro Sire 128 lb. Natl & Intl champ. $800. 615-740-7909 ENGLISH BULLDOG AKC Puppy, 1 fem. left. $1600. www.floreskennels.com.

Vet ck, 1 yr. health guar. Microchipped. Shots UTD. Very healthy.

Full of wrinkles. Raised w/kids & other pets. 865-385-0667

UTILITY TRAILERS ALL SIZES AVAILABLE 865-986-5626 smokeymountaintrailers.com

Musical PORK PIE LITTLE SQUEALER, like new, used very little. $1200 (865)640-6617.

WANTED Military antiques and collectibles 865-368-0682

Appliances

GOOD AS NEW APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-9053

2001 E. Magnolia Ave. Building Materials INSTALL SOLID WALNUT WALLS RODNEY ALLEN (865) 494-9748

Collectibles 1950 Wurlitzer juke box $4500; 1957 Rockola $800; 1985 Seeburg, plays CDs, $1,000. (865) 689-2424

BUYING OLD US COINS

90% silver, halves, quarters & dimes, old silver dollars, proof sets, silver & gold eagles, krands & maple leafs, class rings, wedding bands, anything 10, 14, & 18k gold old currency before 1928 WEST SIDE COINS & COLLECTIBLES 7004 KINGSTON PK CALL 584-8070

Exercise Equipment SCHWINN AIRDYNE EXER. Bike, cost $710, exc. cond. sell for $450.

(865)803-3015

Furniture 2 BR complete BR suites, DR tbl, 4 chrs, hutch, 2 wing back chrs, & misc. FURN & HH. (865) 455-8933 GREAT FAMILY ROOM - 8’ sofa & matching chair, $450. Handsome 2’x4’ coffee table & match. 2’x2’ End table $150. 2 beautiful match.

5’ loveseats, $175 ea. (865)690-2406 HUTCH TV - Cherry TV Hutch 40x23x74 tall has 3 drawers for storage.

Excellent cond. $900. (865)661-6715

Heavy Equipment Yale Forklift 5,000 lb lift, pneumatic LP; Daewoo, 6,000 lb lift, pneumatic LP; Daewoo, 6,000 lb lift, pneumatic diesel. (865) 216-5387

2 BR, mtn view, water/yd maint. furn. Great for elderly & others.

Nice & quiet. Carport. F&B decks.

W&D. Dr. Berry (865)256-6111

BUYING SEC CHAMP

SHORT SALE. Watts Bar lakefront.

3 BR townhome. Dock, hdwd flrs, granite, S/S appls, 25 min to Turkey Creek. 3 units pre-approved at $199,900 each. (865)924-0791

CASH PAID UT FOOTBALL UT BASKETBALL PARKING PASSES

(865)687-1718

selectticketservice.com All Events - Buy - Sell

SEC CHAMP WANTED

(865)384-6867 UT Season Men’s Basketball Tickets, 2 together, Sec. 121, $750 each. (865) 356-5802

CANDY CRANE MACHINE - Nice running machine. Needs key for cash box. Easy to replace. $1.00 /.25 (865)933-8717

Farms & Acreage 140 acres in the heart of Townsend Minutes to Lilly Barn. 1 mile of road frontage thru property. Great building sites, adjoining state park property. $750,000 OBO. Call owner 770-598-6999

HORSE FARM 50 acres of beautiful pasture with 1 mile of 4-board fencing +/-, with new custom 8,000 SF barn. Fronting 2 black-top roads, across from Rarity high-end home community & minutes from historic downtown Sweetwater. Unbelievable building site with views.

Sacrifice $275,000 Firm.

Call owner 770-598-6999

Manufactured Homes

Adoptions

ADOPT:

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

Immediate housing if qualified.

Section 8-202.

865-524-4092 for appt.

TDD 1-800-927-9275

NORTH KNOXVILLE 3 BD 2 BA - 4206 Plummer Dr, 3BR, North Knoxville 3Bd2Ba Townhouse10 Minutes from Downtown$900/month865-314-0142 (865)314-0142

Homes Furnished 2BR, 2BA in Laurel Valley, Townsend TN, Quiet, peaceful, no smoking, Please call 865-448-6867.

Homes Unfurnished 3 BR , 2 BA, 1800 SF, Holston Hills, private lot, no pets. $750 mo + dep.

(865) 679-7612 East. 3 BR, off Asheville Hwy close to interstate. Clean, new stove & refrig & bathtub. $625 mo + $675 DD. (865) 933-8344 NORTH - 4 BR, 2 1/2 BA, Incl all s/s appls, shows like model. In subd. w/ lrg comm. pool & amenities. $1375.

Call Lydia 865-804-6012 RENTAL/SALE/OWNER FINANCE 4/3/2 Tellico Village, Panoramic Lake View. Clean! $339K, (774)487-4158.

WEST 3BR, 2BA UPSC CONDO, NEW APPL, GRANITE, T ILE RAINSHWR, LG CLOSETS, LOTS STG, 1+ CAR GAR, 10 MIN TO OR, HVLY, TCRK. NO PETS, NS, LSE REQ. AVAIL 2/1,POSS SNR LSE REQ $1350 865.387.5524

Condos Unfurnished CONDO - WEST. Colonies. Brick 2 BR, 1.5 BA, frpl, carport, pool, tennis cts., grt view of Smoky Mtns. $795/ mo + dep. Avail Now. (865) 216-8053

Real Estate Rentals

RENT TO OWN 3 BR, 2 BA - in park. $750/mo. 199 Betty Lou Lane, Maynardville. (865)556-6244

Manufactured Homes

Apartments - Furnished

A loving Mom, a devoted Dad, and a bright future are waiting to welcome your baby! Expenses paid.

Anne & Colin.

1-877-246-6780

EFFIC. Apt. Furn. w/ utilities in North Knoxville. $600 mo., $200 dep.

865-789-0415

ADOPT: Married couple seeking a newborn baby. Family oriented, fun loving, religious. Attends church weekly. Home filled with love and happiness. All expenses paid. Call Mary & Bill 1-877-882-2475 or our attorney James Greenberg 1-888676-9015.

1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS BEHIND WEST TOWN MALL - 7823 Gleason Drive, 1BR, 1 BR apts for rent. Must be 62 & older or disabled. Income restrictions apply.

Vouchers accepted. (865)691-8551. (865)6918551

ADOPT: My greatest wish is to adopt a baby. A loving, secure home awaits with happy, financially secure, educated woman. Expenses paid. Call Anne-Michele 1-877-246-1447 Text 516-305-0144, www.amadopt.info.

Apartments - Unfurn.

I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES. 1990 up, any size OK. 865-384-5643

Announcements

Apartments - Unfurn.

1 BR POWELL SPECIAL no cr. ck, no pet fee, water paid, All appls, $520/mo. Phone 865-9386424 or 865-384-1099.

Real Estate Commercial Commercial Property /Sale 3.03 ACRES at Light #1 in PIgeon Forge on Sugar Hollow Rd, east side of Cracker Barrel. 865-604-4247

Offices/Warehouses/Rent 4000 SF Office/Warehouse with dock & drive in, prime location Middlebrook Pk. $3,000 mo.

2000 SF Office/Warehouse drive in bay, Papermill, $1,300 mo.

865-544-1717; 865-740-0990

1,2,3 BR $355 - $460/mo.

GREAT VALUE

Financial

RIVERSIDE MANOR ALCOA HWY 970-2267 *Pools, Laundries, Appl. *5 min. to UT & airport

Consolidation Loans

FIRST SUN FINANCE

We make loans up to $1000. We do credit starter & rebuilder loans. Call today, 30 minute approvals.

See manager for details.

865-687-3228

Real Estate Sales Open Houses 3 BR, 2 BA 4370 Wallerton Ct. $172,900 Open House 11/28 & 29 11AM-4PM. 865-384-5096

Landscaping/Lawn Service

www.riversidemanorapts.com BEST DEAL OUT WEST! 1BR from $375. 2BR $550-$695.

No pets. Parking @ front door.

(865)470-8686 BRICK TOWNHOUSE - Turkey Creek area. 2 BR, 1.5 BA, W/D conn., $650 mo. + $350 dep. No pets. No vouchers. Cr. ck. (865)986-0905

Public Notices

Public Notices

LEGAL NOTICE The Board of Mayor & Aldermen of the Town of Farragut, at its meeting on Thursday, November 12, 2015, adopted the following ordinances on second & final reading: 1. Ordinance 15-17, an Ordinance to Amend the text of the Farragut Municipal Code, pursuant to authority granted by Section 13-4-310, Tennessee Code Annotated by adding Title 14, Chapter 7., Farragut Vested Property Rights Ordinance.

TABLE WITH 4 CHAIRS - Good Cond. $275.

(865)523-9482

75% OFF RETAIL. LIKE NEW heavy duty Power wheelchair, $1000. Elec. hospital bed incl. Stryker air mattress $1,000. (865) 671-0041

SEYMOUR ON PRIV. FARM

Lake Property

Household Goods

Med Equip & Supplies

Duplex/Multiplex-Unfurn

Tickets/Events

Toys & Games Antiques

Farm Products

Campers & RV’s CAMPERS WANTED

HAVENESE PUPPIES, M&F many colors, non shedding. $900-$1100.

Taking deposits for Christmas.

(865) 216-5770

Home Maint./Repair

*WOOD & VINYL PLANK *BARBED WIRE *HI-TENSILE ELECTRIC *WOVEN WIRE, *PRIVACY FENCING, ETC.

HOUSEBOAT ON FONTANA -1994 Sumerset. 80’x16’.Aluminum Hull, 2 350cu ft Chevy engines.2 docks.

Shore power.City water. $155k FIRM. 865.414.1099. (865)591-4064.

GOLDEN DOODLES rare dark black & chocolate, a couple with spots, family raised with all papers & vet ckd.

5 F & 2 M. Ready to go 12/3. $1950.

(423) 817-2953

Merchandise

We build all types of Farm Fencing and Pole Barn.

Boats/Motors/Marine

GERMAN SHEPHERDS Puppies, M&F, 1st shots & wrmd, great watch dogs. $250. (865)933-0053; 933-5894

Services Offered

FANNON FENCING

Recreation

Condos-Furn FARRAGUT OFF PARKSIDE DR. 2 BR, 1 BA, 1100 SF, secure, priv., move in ready, $99,900. (865) 368-2375

YORKIES AKC - Born 8/26, Ch. line. 2 Females, 1 Male, shots, wormed. $1000. (865)256-7660

Trucks Dodge Dakota 1999, 111K mi, new tires, V8 318, runs well, uses no oil, has salvage title. $3750. (423)494-7909

Merchandise - Misc.

GENERATOR BIG 8500 watt, 2015, Honda elec. start. Batt. & whl kit incl. Never used. New retail $4995.

Wholesale $3750. 1st $1850 cash, 864-275-6478.

Lab puppies, ready for Xmas, AKC reg yellows, MH QAA X SH parents, 1st shots & wormed, parents have hip, elbow & eye clearances done. $750.

Taking deposits. (865)621-2613

Jobs

CADILLAC XLR-V - 2006. All options, adult driven, mint, 38k mi, $31,500.

865-304-0227

Dogs English Bulldog puppies, AKC, champ bldline, show potential, M&F, shots & worming UTD, raised in my home, great personalities, have shown Bulldogs for 15 years. Healthy & ready for forever homes. 9 wks old. $1500. Text or call (931)397-1368

Leaf removal, gutter cleaning, landscape installation, outdoor lighting & more!

865-356-9276

www.meesetotallawncare.com

2. Ordinance 15-18, an Ordinance to Amend the text of the Farragut Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 86-16, as amended, pursuant to authority granted by section 13-4-201, Tennessee Code Annotated, by amending Chapter 4., Section XXIII., Site Plan Regulations, Subsection B., Validity, to clarify the procedure for approval of plans as it relates to the Vested Property Rights Ordinance.

ACTION ADS 922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378)

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Shopper Ve n t s enews

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Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6 p.m., with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmers Market.org or NourishKnoxville.org.

Tennessee Schmaltz, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14, some discounts available. Info/ tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmers Market.org or NourishKnoxville.org.

Wreath workshop, 12:30 p.m., Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorngrove Pike. Cost: $35. Bring a pair of small garden shears and garden gloves. Other materials provided. Info/reservations: 546-0745 or ramseyhouse. org.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 5-6

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 12-13

Christmas Tours of the Historic Bleak House Mansion, 3148 Kingston Pike; 2-8 p.m. Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday. Includes: a yule fire with Christmas carols, tables of artists and authors, storytelling and more. Info: Diane Green, 993-3397.

Santa train rides, Secret City Excursion Train.

Departures: 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday; 1 and 3 p.m.

Sunday. Info: 241-2140 or secretcityrailroad.com.

Mabry-Hazen House Christmas Tours and Book Signing, 5-8 p.m. Saturday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday, 1711 Dandridge Ave. Book signing by Jane Van Ryan, author of “The Seduction of Miss Evelyn Hazen.” Free event; light refreshments. Donations accepted.

Whittington Creek Holiday Art Sale and Show, 9 .m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, 1800 Whittington Creek Blvd. Free and open to the public. Info: WhittingtonCreekArtShow.com.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2 Jazz Lunch series: “Tribute to Woody Shaw with Trumpeter Alex Norris,” noon-1 p.m., Square Room, 4 Market Square. Admission: $15; includes lunch buffet served by by Café 4. Info/tickets: www.knoxjazz.org or at the door.

THURSDAY, DEC. 3

SATURDAY-THURSDAY, DEC. 5-24

AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., AAA office, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffic offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254; Stephanie, 862-9252.

Knoxville Writers’ Guild meeting/potluck dinner, 7 p.m., Central UMC fellowship hall, 201 E. Third Ave. A $2 donation requested at the door.

FRIDAY, DEC. 4 “Amahl and the Night Visitors” by Gian-Carlo Menotti, 7:30 p.m., St. John’s Cathedral, 413 Cumberland Ave. Performed by Marble City Opera. Family friendly production with free admission. Info/tickets: 525-7347.

Holiday Greens Tea and open house, noon-3 p.m., Ivan Racheff House and Gardens, 1943 Tennessee Ave. Free event. Holiday wreaths, tabletop designs, amaryllis and baked goods will be available for purchase. Info: 522-6210.

Matt Brown and Greg Reish in concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www. jubileearts.org.

Opening reception for Art Mart Gallery December’s featured artists, pastel painter Fran Thie and ceramic artist Bob Conliffe, 5:30 p.m., Art Market Gallery at 422 S. Gay St. Info: 525-5265; artmarketgallery. net; facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.

Opening reception for an exhibition of recent photographs by Dean Rice, chief of staff to Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. The exhibit will be on display through Dec. 23. Info: 523-7543 or knoxalliance.com.

Opening reception and awards night for new exhibit about food, 5-9 p.m., Broadway Studios And Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway. Guests for the reception are asked to bring a canned of food for donation to local food bank. Exhibit on display through Dec. 31. Info: Jessica Gregory, 556-8676; BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com.

Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble benefit, 6 p.m., Holston Hills Country Club. Featuring: a performance by TCDE, a silent auction and live auction, heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine and spirits; DJ and dancing until 10:30. Tickets: $75. Info/tickets: 584-9636.

A Tennessee Evening Gala, 6-11 p.m., Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, 461 W. Outer Drive, Oak Ridge.

Live music, an auction and more. Info/tickets: 4821074 or childrensmuseumofoakridge.org.

THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS, DEC. 4-20 “Cinderella and Ebenezer,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@ childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

Christmas in Old Appalachia, Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway, Clinton. Info: 494-7680 or museumofappalachia.org.

SUNDAY, DEC. 6 “Amahl and the Night Visitors” by Gian-Carlo Menotti, 3 p.m., St. John’s Cathedral, 413 Cumberland Ave. Performed by Marble City Opera. Family friendly production with free admission. Info/tickets: 525-7347.

Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee meeting, 6 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Cost: $4 at the door. Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com, or 546-5643.

MONDAY, DEC. 7 Crocheted Oblong Shawl class, 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway.

Cost: $25. Info: Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/ profile/monicaschmidt.

TUESDAY, DEC. 8 Free motion quilting class, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profile/monicaschmidt.

Harvey Broome Group Holiday Photograph Show, 7 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: Ronald Shrieves, ronshrieves@gmail.com.

Holiday Sparkles & Spirits, 6:30 p.m., Cherokee Country Club, 5138 Lyons View Pike. Benefits The Joy of Music School. Info: 525-6806.

“Sharing the Holidays with Individuals with Dementia,” 5 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Free presentation; no registration required. Info: 966-7057.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, DEC. 9-10 AARP Driver Safety classes, 1-5 p.m., Cheyenne Ambulatory Center, 964 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, DEC. 10 Authors Guild of Tennessee social, noon, Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road.

Members bring snacks and drinks. Visitors welcome.

Authors will be available to talk about marketing books.

Info: Sam, 254-3054.

Knoxville Square Dance, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Live old-time music by the Hellgrammites; calling by Stan Sharp, Ruth Simmons and Leo Collins. Admission: $7, $5 for students and JCA members. Info: on Facebook.

FRIDAY-TUESDAY, DEC. 4-8

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, DEC. 11-12

Christmas Dinner with the Ramsey’s, 6:30 p.m., Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorngrove Pike. Features candlelight tour of the home and dinner prepared by Rosa’s Catering. Tickets: $125.

Reservations required. Info/reservations: 546-0745 or ramseyhouse.org.

“The Nutcracker,” presented by the Appalachian Ballet Company and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville.

Tickets: 981-8590.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 11-13

SATURDAY, DEC. 5 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., AAA office, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Eight-hour course helps reduce points for traffic offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: 40 members/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254; Stephanie, 862-9252.

Cookie walk and craft fair, Faith Lutheran Church, 225 Jamestowne Blvd. Craft fair, 8:30 a.m.noon; cooker walk, 9 a.m. until sold out. Proceeds to benefit the Shepherd of Hope Food Pantry. Info: faithcookiewalk@yahoo.com.

Craft show and sale, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Summit Towers, 201 Locust St. Items include: paintings, drawings, wood art, crocheted items, ceramics, Christmas crafts, baked goods and more.

Holiday Market, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Historic Jackson Square, Oak Ridge. Shopping, live music, photos with Santa and more. Proceeds to benefit ADFAC (Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian). Info: www.

“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” performed

by The WordPlayers, 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Clayton Performing Arts Center, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Info/tickets: wordplayers.org.

SATURDAY, DEC. 12 Breakfast with Santa hosted by various Karns High clubs and organizations, 8-11 a.m. at the school, 2710 Byington Solway Road. Crafts, reading, carolers, pancakes and Santa. Donations will be accepted for the Alzheimer’s TN Association. Info: khsleadership. wordpress.com.

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

Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6 p.m.,

SUNDAY, DEC. 13 Free drop-in art activities for families, 1-4 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Docent Tours in English, 2 p.m., and in Spanish, 3 p.m. Info: knoxart.org.

Historic Ramsey House Candlelight Tour, 6-8 p.m., 2614 Thorngrove Pike. Featuring: holiday treats, Christmas carols and tours of the decorated, candlelit historic home. Admission free; donations appreciated.

Info: 546-0745 or www.ramseyhouse.org.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, DEC. 14-15 AARP Driver Safety classes, noon-4 p.m., American Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook Pike. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

TUESDAY, DEC. 15 Auditions for Knoxville Children’s Theatre’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” 4:30-7:30 p.m., Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Eighteen roles available for ages 9-18. Info/appointment: Dennis Perkins, dennis@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16 Dine and Discover, noon-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Adam Alfrey, East Tennessee History Center, and Steve Cotham, manager of McClung Historical Collection, will present: “An Inside Look at Lloyd Branson.” Free and open to the public. Info: knoxart.org.

Knoxville Writer’s Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike.

Speaker: Judy DiGrgoria will speak on her latest book, “Tidbits.” Lunch cost: $12. RSVP deadline: Monday, Dec. 14. Info/RSVP: Mary McKinnon 983-3740.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, DEC. 17-19 24th annual Modern Dance Primitive Light, 8 p.m. Thursday and 7 and 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Laurel Theatre, 1538 Laurel Ave. Info/tickets: circlemoderndance.com.

SATURDAY, DEC. 19 Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6 p.m., with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmers Market.org or NourishKnoxville.org.

TUESDAYS, JAN. 12, 19, 26, FEB. 2, 9, 16 “Reflections, Light and Magic” class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $150/nonmembers $175.

Materials list provided. Info/registration: knoxart.org.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 27 “Beautiful, Vibrant Alcohol Inks” class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $50/nonmembers $65.

Info/registration: knoxart.org.

“Mosaics Keepsake Box” class, 2-4 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $50/nonmembers $65. Info/registration: knoxart.org.

SATURDAY, JAN. 30 The Del McCoury Band with Sierra Hull, part of WDVX’s World Class Bluegrass concert series, 7 p.m., Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Info/tickets: 981-8590; ClaytonArtsCenter.com; Clayton Center box office.

MONDAYS, FEB. 1, 8, 15 “Mask Making and Face Jugs” (clay sculpture) class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $90/nonmembers $110. Info/registration: knoxart.org.

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Patient is ready to dance again after foot surgery As soon as the weather warms, you’ll likely find Susan Young of Knoxville in her garden, or maybe dancing with her granddaughter, Amelia, 3. Someday, she’s sure they’ll dance again while Young is wearing high heels.

“I love high heels!” said Young.

“When I wear high heels I feel like I’m standing on the mountain, I can do anything. I feel like I’m younger than ever at 60, I am so happy.”

Young is glad to laugh today, because last year was full of sorrow. Her beloved brother was in the last stages of cancer, in their native Taiwan.

At church one Wednesday night, Young got a phone call that she should come to be with him.

As she ran to her car in the rain, she fell and broke her foot. She wore a special shoe to Taiwan, but the foot did not heal properly.

“In Taiwan, you have to walk a lot. It’s easier than driving a car.

I walked a lot, ignoring my needs.

I just concentrated on taking care of my brother … focusing on him, not my foot.”

In Taiwan the pain grew worse, and when she returned, Young knew she needed to see another doctor. “The pain was sharp. I could see the swelling, it was obvious. I had to walk on the other side of my foot.”

She found podiatrist Dr. Cindy

Susan Young frequently arranges flowers from her garden and enjoys decorating for weddings and events at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church, where she attends.

Caplan after a coworker at Whirlpool Inc., recommended her.

“I was so happy to see her. She always asks me about my brother,” said Young. “She does not just target the problem, she treated me

“(Dr. Caplan) is just like a gardener. She cannot give me a complete new foot, but she really takes care. My life will be like flowers, prettier, easier to live.”

– Susan Young

like I am a whole person.”

Young recommended surgery at Parkwest Medical Center, using small screws and plates to hold the bones together. Unfortunately, Young fell again after surgery and a screw came out. Caplan performed a second surgery this past December.

Both outpatient surgeries at Parkwest went smoothly, Young said. “They treated me so well. I did not stay there long, but before the surgery they always came to bring me everything,” she said.

Now her pain is almost gone, although Young said she is not quite up to wearing high heels.

“I always ask Cindy (Dr. Caplan), ‘Can I wear high heels?’ I want to have hope. She always says, ‘Not yet!’

“I was anxious before, but now I feel it’s OK; I have a good doctor here to take care of me,” said Young, who compared Caplan to a careful gardener.

“Can gardeners change the season? No, they can only make the flower grow prettier for the season,” Young said. “Doctors can’t change the laws of nature, but what they can do is help me go through this a little easier.

“Cindy is just like a gardener.

She cannot give me a complete new foot, but she really takes care.

My life will be like flowers, prettier, easier to live.”

The road to happy feet Treatment options for common foot problems The foot is one of the most complex parts of the body, consisting of 26 bones connected by numerous joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments. Given that our feet bear all our body weight, they’re susceptible to many stresses. Foot problems can cause pain, inflammation or injury, sometimes resulting in limited mobility.

Cindy Caplain, DPM, a podiatrist at Parkwest Medical Center, explains that some foot problems have a medical origin, while others can be caused or worsened by improper body dynamics or poorly fitted shoes. Shoes that fit properly and give good support can prevent irritation to the foot joints and skin.

Here are some of the most common foot problems and treatment options: A bunion is a protrusion of bone or tissue around a joint. Bunions may occur at the base of the great toe or at the base of the little toe and often occur when the joint is stressed over a period of time.

“You can also develop bone growth on the top of the toe joint because of limited motion and jamming the foot into tight shoes,” says Caplan. Women are more frequently affected because of tight, pointed and confining shoes. Bunions can also result from arthritis.

Treatment varies depending on the pain and deformity and may include: ■ Wearing comfortable, wellfitting shoes that conform to the

shape of the foot and don’t cause pressure areas ■ Applying pads around the affected area ■ Medications such as ibuprofen ■ Orthotic control ■ Surgery Corns are callus growths that can be painful. They develop on top of the toes, often where a toe rubs against a shoe or another toe. Treatment may include shaving the layers of dead skin or applying pads around the corn area. To avoid developing corns, Dr. Caplan suggests wearing shoes with a large toe box to accommodate your foot without rubbing.

A hammertoe is a condition in which the toe buckles, causing the middle joint of the affected toe to poke out, “or you may develop a lesion at the end of the toe,” Dr. Caplan explains. Treatment may include a toe pad positioned over the bony protrusion, changing footwear to accommodate the deformed toe or surgical removal.

A heel spur is a bone growth on the heel bone, usually on the underside of the bone where it attaches to the plantar fascia, a long band of connective tissue running from the heel to the ball of the foot. If the plantar fascia is overstretched from running, wearing poor-fitting shoes or being overweight, pain can result from the stress and inflammation of the tissue pulling on the bone. Over time, the body builds extra bone

in response to the stress, resulting in heel spurs. Treatment includes rest, cold packs, anti-inflammatory medication, proper stretching before activity, proper footwear or shoe inserts, corticosteroid injections or surgery.

Morton neuroma is a buildup of benign tissue in the nerves running between the long bones of the foot. It occurs when two bones rub together and squeeze the nerve between them, usually between the bones leading to the third and fourth toes. Morton neuroma often causes swelling, tenderness, tingling, numbness and burning in the toes. Treatment may involve rest and/or a change in footwear that does not restrict the foot. If the problem persists, cortisone injections or surgery may be considered.

Plantar fasciitis is characterized by severe heel pain, especially when standing after resting. The condition is an overuse injury of the sole surface (plantar) of the foot and results in inflammation of the fascia, a tough, fibrous band of tissue that connects the heel bone to the base of the toes.

“Plantar fasciitis affects both women and men,” Dr. Caplan says. It’s more common in people

who are overweight, have flat feet or high arches, or whose work requires walking or standing on hard surfaces. Walking or running, especially with tight calf muscles, may also cause the condition. Treatment includes rest, ice pack applications, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, and stretching exercises of the Achilles tendons and plantar fascia.

The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the body, connecting the calf muscle to the heel bone. This tendon is also the most common site of rupture or

tendonitis, an inflammation of the tendon due to overuse. Symptoms may include mild pain after exercise that worsens gradually, stiffness that disappears after the tendon warms up, and swelling.

Treatment options include rest, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory

medications, supportive devices and/or bandages, stretching, massage, ultrasound, strengthening exercises and surgery.

With 26 bones in the foot, almost any of them can be broken.

The type of fracture determines the course of treatment: Ankle joint fracture usually requires a cast and may require surgery if the bones are too separated or misaligned.

Metatarsal bone fractures, in the middle of the foot, often don’t require a cast. A stiff-soled shoe may be all the support needed as the foot heals. Sometimes surgery is needed to correct misaligned bones or fractured segments.

Sesamoid bone fractures affect two small, round bones at the end of the metatarsal bone of the big toe.

Usually padded soles can help relieve pain, but sometimes the bone may have to be surgically removed.

Toe fractures can usually heal with or without a cast.

To learn more about foot and ankle structure and common problems, go to www.treatedwell.com and click the Health Information Library link. If you are suffering from foot or ankle pain, call 374-PARK for help finding a doctor who can develop a treatment plan that’s right for you.

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