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S.O.R. Losers It was good enough for Charles Dickens and Alexandre Dumas, so we think Shopper News parents, grandparents and certainly children will like it, too. Today the Shopper News introduces a 14-week serial story, “S.O.R. Losers.� The serial story – made famous by “The Pickwick Papers� and “The Three Musketeers� – is a complete book that is published one segment at a time. “S.O.R. Losers,� the story of a misfit sports team, is written by Newberry Award Winner Avi and illustrated by Timothy Bush. The first chapter begins today and will be followed by 13 more chapters, bringing the story to its conclusion on July 6. Each segment can be read in five to six minutes. Sit with your child as he or she reads about the antics of Ed and Saltz. Or read the story to them, so you all can enjoy it! – S.G. Howell
Fay Adams plays during a break from teaching at her office in the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center. Photo by Wendy Smith
Garden visits the gardens By Shannon Carey Students in Garden Montessori School’s lower elementary class took a field trip to the ECO Garden at Knoxville Botanical Gardens for the Every Child Outdoors program. Students went on a nature scavenger hunt through the gardens, exploring the bamboo grove and dogwood trail. Volunteers led the children in gardening crafts and planting, fertilizing and watering pansies, carrots and lettuce. The students were encouraged to return to the garden to see their crops’ progress and even to harvest some to take home. Additional crops will be donated to Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries and a local food pantry. Info: knoxgarden.org
Secrets of flowers Florist Melissa Timm of Melissa Timm Designs shared the Victorian language of flowers at a Vintage Victorian Tea held at Crescent Bend House and Gardens.
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Correction The chair of the Symphony Show House is Elizabeth Grant, not Elizabeth Garner, as we misstated in a previous issue. We regret the error.
Victor and Joan Ashe have just returned from Cuba. Victor writes ... “(we) joined a Yale Alumni Tour of Cuba for 10 days. It was fascinating. As Joan says, it was a trip not a vacation. “Also on the trip was another Knoxvillian, Dr. Anne McIntyre, who is a retired UT professor of psychology and lives in Sequoyah Hills.�
By Betty Bean Two years out from the 2018 county elections, there’s half a gaggle of candidates thinking about running for mayor. Don’t look for County Commissioner Bob Thomas to run for re-election to his at-large commission seat in 2018, even though he’ll be finishing his first term. He’ll be too busy running for mayor. Thomas is making plans to succeed Tim Burchett, who is termlimited. He’s tearing a page from Burchett’s campaign book and will be the guest-of-honor at an old-timey baloney-cutting May 11. That’ll be on a Wednesday, starting at 11:30 at Powell Auction & Realty – the venue where Burchett kicked off his campaign for county mayor. “We’re expecting 1,500,� Thomas said. “The Chillbillies are playing and we’ll have R.C. Colas and Moon Pies. It’ll be a big party.� Thomas has had a long career in radio broadcasting, once owned a hockey team and has written TV shows. He stays in close touch
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Adeline Sellers and Zoe Hull weed a garden bed at the ECO Garden.
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Few have stuck with a single career for over 40 years. Fewer still can say they owe such a career to their mother. But that’s exactly what Fay Adams says of her 44year position as a teacher at UT’s School of Music. What’s even more remarkable is that she loves her job. She teaches piano, and teaches students how to teach piano. She’s good enough to have received recognition multiple times, and this week, she’ll be named Music Teacher of the Year by the Music Teacher National Association in San Antonio, Texas. Like any good piano teacher, she’s not crazy about being in the spotlight. But it’s nice to be recognized for something you love to do, she says. The award will be the finale of her university career. At the end of the semester, she’ll retire and leave her beautiful corner office in the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center that’s roomy enough for two grand pianos. Her love for the piano came about because her mother wanted her to play. She was particularly inspired by a teacher, Mary Beth Grise, who lived adjacent to the East Tennessee State University campus in Johnson City. Adams, a student at the ETSU University School, walked to her house for lessons during recess. As much as she loved playing, she needed extra encouragement to practice during her teen years. Her father once disconnected the family telephone when he thought she was spending too much time talking on it. Both parents encouraged her to pursue music as a career, so she attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. But her focus was always on teaching rather than performance.
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Redbud trees, bugs and bees We’ve been having a redbud season that must rank up there among the best. The past couple of weeks have given us abundant sunshine, steady warmish temperatures, and frequent rain showers, and our wonderfully native and widespread redbud trees have responded with a huge flower show. Last week I was walking around the grounds enjoying all those exuberant blossom – filled trees with their pea-type flowers (they are in the legume family – notice those pea-pod fruits later on) when I was stopped at one big redbud in particular. There amongst the blossoms was a little yellowrumped warbler, not 10 feet away, briskly checking out every twig nook and bark cranny for whatever tiny insects it could capture. It was finding a steady supply of minute, mobile bits of protein, so small that I couldn’t even see what it was catching. Just what a hyperactive, carnivorous little bird needs to build up for spring courting, nest-building, brood-raising activities. But as I watched the bird feeding on all those invisible critters, something else struck me about that tree full of blossoms: it was alive with bigger things too, a cloud of flitting, buzzing, flying things, all working over the tree’s flowers and – lucky for them – apparently not on the bird’s menu. Bugs! The entomologists divide the enormous world of insects up into various orders and families, and in the precise way that they do it, “bugs,� or as they like to say, “the true bugs,� are one specific group of insects, with leathery wing covers
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and piercing and sucking mouthparts (yuck!). They include the likes of bedbugs, stink bugs, squash bugs, and those flashy orangeand-black milkweed bugs. But to us mere mortals, “bugs� is a wonderfully useful word for any small crawly thing we might encounter, and probably look upon with suspicion, distrust, or fear: bees, beetles, spiders, ticks and mosquitoes, even crawfish (mudbugs), and viruses (the flu bug). And as my redbud tree demonstrated, springtime brings them out in droves. I’m sure you’ve heard someone say “what we need is a good cold winter to get rid of all those bugs.� That won’t happen, friends, unless we were to have another Ice Age around here. This past December, we had a nice mild day when I watched a hatch of swarming little mosquito-sized gnats outside our front window, then a hungry phoebe out there nipping them out of the air. The bugs are safe and sound, ready to go on a moment’s notice. But back to the redbud tree – all that buzzing and flitting got me to looking around to see what else was going on. And sure enough, there was a lot more. Not just in the air, but on the ground, and under it. As I trudged farther along, I noticed scattered here and there a bunch of newly-constructed ant communities. Not just a hill, but a spreadout operation with piles of
excavated earth over maybe a couple of feet of real estate. Quarter-inch businesslike black ants were going about, some carrying loads of stuff three times their size. The March/April issue of The Tennessee Conservationist has an article by Lizzie Wright, entitled The Ants of Tennessee. She relates that of the 13,000 species of ants on earth, some 127 species live in Tennessee. And that doesn’t include those dreaded invaders from South America, the fire ants, spreading ever northward and now here in Tennessee. More different ants than you can imagine! But mostly, except for occasional visitations into our kitchens or our picnics, we almost never notice all those millions of ants there beneath our feet. The flickers surely do, though. Our local woodpecker most likely to be seen on the ground, flickers like nothing better than to sit beside an ant colony and pick them off, one by one. Back to the air, though. As far as big hard-working families go, the bees are the flying counterparts to our underground friends, the ants. And like the ants, there are a lot more of them than you might think, too. Of course, there are our familiar honey bees. They aren’t native to North America; they are immigrants to North America, like most of our ancestors. In fact, many of our ancestors brought colonies of honey bees with them from their Old Countries. It turns out, though, that there were a lot of other bees already here in North America when those newcomers arrived – a lot more. There are 20,000 species of bees in the world, 4,000
native to the United States. They range in size from a tiny 1/12 inch bee to a morethan-inch-long behemoth. Over 90 percent of the species are solitary – they have a family consisting of one momma bee and her few offspring. The rest live in various-sized, but bigger, colonies that we’re more familiar with. And what good are those bees? Well, they pollinate over 75 percent of all our food crops. Without bees, no fruits, berries, vegetables, nuts, chocolate or coffee. And our honey bees continue to alarmingly decline, due to disease, insecticides and herbicides. In a major apple-growing area of China, they are having to use people on ladders, hand-pollinating each apple Redbud is abundant in Lakemoor Hills, but other shades of blossom, one by tedious pink and red beautify the neighborhood as well. Photo by Betsy one, to produce apples. Pickle They’ve sprayed all their local bees into extinction! In can contain as many as 32 some bugs make a lifetime our country, all those native million flying insects! Good profession of eating aphids, bees are shouldering more for the birds, and very good for example. And others of the load on crop pollina- for us earthlings here below, spend their waking hours tion. Farmers are learning that the birds are up there eating mosquitoes. Buttermore about how important consuming zillions of bugs flies, dragonflies, crickets and katydids – they’re here they are (and actually, al- daily. There are a lot more now or soon will be, adding ways have been) and are taking measures to protect bugs we haven’t mentioned, a splash of color and some and encourage them. It’s many that make our world lovely evening music. All look, feel and sound more part of that big Web of Life working. How about all those like home to us. There are unfolding out there in April. bugs as major bird food? bugs that eat the bugs that It’s really worth a closer Of course the birds eat tons would be eating our stuff- look! of caterpillars and grasshoppers. We wouldn’t have many leaves left on anything if it weren’t for the birds. But in the air? Those ■Alzheimer’s seminar, 6-7:30 p.m. April 14, Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, 701 Merchant Drive. Presented by East Tennesswifts, swallows, nightsee Personal Care Service and Andrew Dougherty, president of hawks, kingbirds and phoeMedinteract. Free. Info/registration: 688-4343. bes aren’t swooping around up there just for the exer- ■Free Health Fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 16, Tennova Inpatient Hospice, 7447 Andersonville Pike. Presented by South cise. Some curious scienCollege School of Pharmacy’s Student Society of Health Systems tists have rigged up various Pharmacists and students from the Physician Assistant and Nursflying machines with variing programs. ous bug traps, and come up ■Peninsula Lighthouse Group of Families Anonymous meetwith the astonishing figure ings, 6:15-7:15 p.m. each Tuesday, 1451 Dowell Springs Blvd. that one square mile of air Newcomers welcome; no dues/fees; no sign-up; first names only. there just over our heads
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Secret language of flowers revealed at Crescent Bend
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Long before social media brought about a complete loss of scruples, flowers were used to say things that couldn’t be spoken in polite society. Florist Melissa Timm of Melissa Timm Designs shared the Victorian language of flowers at a Vintage Victorian Tea held at Crescent Bend House and Gardens. Each variety of flower carries a secret meaning, like tulips, which are a declaration of love. A bridal bouquet with hydrangea? A bad idea, says Timm, if you care about its secret meaning: dispassion. The color of roses also carries meaning. Red Bride-to-be Grace Hanna, seated with family friend Deena Romer and mother Yvonne Hanna means love and romance, while matron of honor Leia McNair stands, will be able to employ the secret language of flowers while yellow means “just at her October wedding. friends.â€? Each guest took home her own tussie mussie, a small, fragrant bouquet used to ward off Victorian-era smells, which were many. April is the most popular month to visit Crescent Bend, says event coordinator Judy McMillan. The final high tea of the season, to be held on Wednesday, April 13, will feature teacup gardens. Info: 637-3163 â–
High tea guests Heidi Berg and Natalea Riley pose in the Crescent Bend gardens. Photos by Wendy Smith by local and regional artists, from 6-9 p.m. at the Atrium at Cherokee Mills, 2220 Sutherland Avenue. Tickets are $40 and include one drink ticket and hors d’oeuvres. For $25, guests can create their own silk scarf in ■ARTitude! an onsite Ebru workshop The Cancer Support by Scarves by Design. ProCommunity of East Ten- ceeds will benefit CSC’s pronessee is partnering with gramming for those impactDogwood Arts to host ARTi- ed by cancer. Info: 546-4661 tude, a silent auction featur- or www.CancerSupportET. ing “upcycled� items created org. area will feature garden accessories and art. Tasty treats are available at the Kudzu Cafe and Sugar Shack Baked Goods. Proceeds from the event are donated to local nonprofits.
Talahi Plant Sale
The 52nd Annual Talahi Plant Sale, hosted by the Knoxville Garden Club and the Garden Study Club, is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at Lakeshore Park. The sale offers perennials, wildflowers, annuals and herbs harvested from Knoxville Garden Club members’ gardens, and a marketplace consignment
County mayor them out, and I don’t know exactly what the drop-dead decision date is.� Anders has served as a commissioner since 2008 and has been with KPD for 24 years, and said he has professional and family decisions to make before he can think about running for mayor. “A lot of things would have to click in the right way for that to happen,� Anders said. Former state Rep. Ryan Haynes is also believed to be a potential candidate. Haynes, who resigned from the General Assembly to become state Republican Party chair, pooh-poohs that notion. When pressed he offered this statement: “I’ll say this. I’m flattered my name has been men-
Adams In her early days at UT, she was influenced by music department head William Starr, one of the founding fathers of the Suzuki method. Starr brought the teaching method to the U.S. after Betty Byrne receives a tussie mussie from Melissa Timm while Caneta Gentry looks on at a living in Japan for 18 months. Crescent Bend High Tea. Adams trained with Starr’s wife, Connie, and is now director of the Suzuki Piano School of Knoxville. non Remington, 927-3316. You learn a lot from From page A-1 ■Family Community Educateaching, like how to work tion – Crestwood Club meets with different learning 10 a.m. each fourth Thursday, tioned, but I have a job to styles and deal with parents, Grace Lutheran Church, 9076 do, and it’s way premature ■Council of West Knox she says. Middlebrook Pike. Info: Ruby to start a new campaign County Homeowners meets “I can’t imagine a career Freels, 690-8164. 7:15 p.m. each first Tuesday, season when the current being any more stimulating Peace Lutheran Church, 621 ■Fourth District Democrats one isn’t even over. The last and exciting. You’re just N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: meet 6 p.m. each fourth thing we need is individual dealing with all kinds of cwkch.com. Tuesday, Bearden Library, interests dividing up our people.� 100 Golfclub Road. Info: Chris ■Family Community Educacommunities.� Her favorite thing to teach Foell, 691-8933 or foellmc@ tion – Bearden Club meets And, finally, there’s Crimis pedagogy – teaching how aol.com; Rosina Guerra, 10 a.m. each third Tuesday, inal Court Clerk Mike Hamto teach. Even performance rosinag@earthlink.net or Central Baptist-Bearden, 6300 mond, who could not be majors will supplement their 588-5250. Deane Hill Drive. Info: Shanreached for comment. Court clerks are not subject to term limits, and Hammond, a former county commissioner who was elected clerk in 2014, is considered an unlikely mayoral contender. All the candidates listed are Republicans. Democratic Party chair Cameron Brooks says so far no Democrats have expressed interest in the office.
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From page A-1 careers by teaching, she says. To keep young students interested in piano, Adams recommends apps they can use to hone musical skills. She also tries to be positive and show personal interest in them. “Everybody can work hard if they just have a few words of encouragement.� She expects hard work from her students because she works hard herself. She “practiced fanatically� for a recent recital at Church Street United Methodist Church. One of the things she’s looking forward to in retirement is having more time to play. She also hopes to spend more time with her grandchildren. Some of it will, undoubtedly, be in front of a piano.
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Honors weekend for Tennessee track Track and field Volunteers from the golden era of Chuck Rohe and Stan Huntsman will honor 50 years of Ed Murphey Award winners Friday at a country club reception and dinner. On Saturday, the University of Tennessee track program will recognize a lifetime of contributions by Terry Hull Crawford, former champion runner and women’s coach at UT, Texas and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. She evolved into coaching coaches for USA Track and Field. Terry, many track alumni and guests will be treated to a reunion dinner in a showplace segment of Neyland Stadium. Coach Beth Alford-Sullivan will discuss current Volunteers. A few good men lifted Ten-
The Murphey Award does not struggle with such chaos. It is presented each year for the outstanding Marvin performance by a Volunteer. West It originated in 1965 as a gift from the legendary Ed Murphey. What a story he was. nessee to third place at the In the mid-1950s, Murrecent NCAA indoor cham- phey played trumpet in pionships. Women ran sev- the Pride of the Southland band. He was manager for enth. Alas, there will be no the basketball team, reserious running, jumping sponsible for clean practice or throwing at Tom Black uniforms and dry towels. Track this weekend. It is He asked coach John bogged down in a rehabili- Sines, also the track coach, tation project that was sup- if it would be OK to go out posed to have been finished for track. months ago. Critics say big Sines’ response was hisbuildings have been built toric: “OK Murph, just don’t faster. Optimists say, if all get in anybody’s way.� He didn’t. He ran the eventually goes well, there will be a home track meet or fastest mile ever on the cinthree next spring. der track around Shields-
Trust hard to come by during school threats The parents who attended Karen Carson’s meeting at Farragut High School were calm, but when they spoke, the tension of dealing with four separate school threats was evident. They voiced concerns about who was in charge during a crisis − the school or the sheriff’s office? They questioned whether kids should be locked down in classrooms if there was potentially a bomb in the building. One was upset about not being able to help a child who got sick while on lockdown in the football stadium. Mostly, they were frustrated over a lack of trustworthy communication. What kind of threats were being made, and how were students being kept safe?
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While the safety of students is the highest priority, there’s a delicate balance between enough and too much information, explained District 5 school board member Carson. Too little info frustrates parents; too much inspires copycats. It’s a legitimate concern. Threats at Farragut Intermediate, Hardin Valley Academy and Hardin Valley Elementary schools followed the Farragut High threats. Knox County Schools
Chief of Security Gus Paidousis explained why communicating during a crisis is a challenge. The only thing worse than no information is bad information, and when things are constantly changing, it’s difficult to provide accurate information, he said. Too much information could also allow someone who intends harm to anticipate strategy and do more damage. Carson asked parents not to call the school during a crisis, but to trust that staff are doing everything they can to protect kids. Superintendent Jim McIntyre said schools need to communicate with parents, but after that, parents need to trust that the best decisions are being made.
Watkins Field. He set a Southeastern Conference record in cross-country. He won the SEC mile three consecutive years. He won all-America recognition. “Ed Murphey was a champion when champions were few at Tennessee,� said the late Tom Siler. You may have heard of some who received Murphey Awards: Richmond Flowers, Willie Gault, Lawrence Johnson, Justin Gatlin, Aries Merritt and Justin Hunter. Terry Hull Crawford has a national prize named for her – the Terry Crawford Women’s Program of the Year Award. Terry goes back to the late 1960s, the beginning of women’s sports at UT. Charlie Durham bought a
That’s a tall order for parents. Those of us with teenage children remember the shock of Columbine. We were horrified by the murders at Virginia Tech, and we grieved with the parents of the innocents killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Local incidents like shootings at Central High School and Inskip Elementary School have also impacted us. We know, rationally, that these are rare events. But all of us have imagined hearing the news that there’s been an incident at our child’s school. It’s easy to imagine a student plotting to cancel classes for a day or two by writing a threatening mes-
newspaper ad announcing that the Knoxville Track Club was forming a women’s team. About 50 girls and women, ages 10 to 20, responded. Terry, 17, out of Greeneville High School, was in the group. She became a three-time Volunteer all-American, winning the national 220 and 440 in 1969 and the 880 in 1970. She competed in the World University Games and Pan-American Games and twice got close to Olympic teams. Terry came back as coach of women’s track. Her 1981 team won the national championship, first in any women’s sport at Tennessee. Among her other distinctions was the recruitment of sprinter and jumper Holly Warlick from Bearden High. Holly also wanted to try basketball. The rest is history.
There came a time when Texas offered Terry a better coaching opportunity (more money). Tennessee athletic director Bob Woodruff listened as Terry explained. He could have countered. He didn’t. Terry went to Austin. Her Longhorns won five NCAA championships and 18 Southwest Conference titles. Her 1986 team was the only triple winner in history – indoors, outdoors and in cross-country. Terry reappeared at the World and Pan-Am games as coach of U.S. teams. She was America’s coach at the 1988 Olympics. She won enough meets and produced enough all-Americans to coach 17 years at Cal PolySan Luis Obispo. The track world and I see her as a national treasure. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com
Farragut junior Viktoria Ohstrom speaks as principal Stephanie Thompson, left, looks on.
sage on the wall. But, as Carson said, every threat has to be treated as if it’s real, which calls for lockdowns, bomb squads and bomb-sniffing dogs. Those things can make any parent less than rational, less able to trust. Parents are not the only ones affected. Farragut High School junior Viktoria Ohstrom spoke up at the meeting to say that she
didn’t know what was happening during last week’s threat, and it seemed like teachers didn’t know, either. “That’s what scares people. Not the threats.� Communication is important, but the only thing that parents and students really want to hear is that the crisis is over and all is well. Until that’s the message, it will be hard to trust. We’ve seen too much.
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Revered Ag teacher blooms in new garden Two years ago, life looked grim for Mike Blankenship.
Betty Bean At a time when he was facing serious family illnesses, he was notified that his agricultural program at North Knox Career Technical Education Center in Halls was being disbanded because of declining enrollment. His students were distraught. “2014 was a very tumultuous time. My son passed away, then my dad p a s s e d away three m o n t h s later. Two deaths in the family – plus the spiraling down Blankenship process at work. Anytime you’re RIFed, it’s tough.� But his students, particularly rising seniors Ryan Cox and James Dunn, decided to fight for their Future Farmers of America club and their teacher. When CTE supervisor Don Lawson found a spot for Blankenship at the Career Magnet Academy in East Knox County, their efforts spurred him to allow Blankenship to spend part
Career Magnet Academy FFA members at their first state convention this spring: (front) Paul Stiles, Lauren Williams, Brittany Read, Darby Swanson; (back) Josh Rutherford, Tylor Gann and Tobias DuBose.
of the school day at North Knox, so Cox, Dunn and their classmates could finish their agriculture studies and continue to participate in FFA. It involved a lot of driving, but Blankenship says the commute was a snap compared to his first 12 years of teaching when he made a 50-mile round trip to and from his home in Gibbs to Doyle High School (he has been a teacher with Knox County Schools for 37 years). This year, he’s at CMA full-time, and has found a
niche in the school’s Sustainable Pathway, where 13 students – most from north and east Knox County – enrolled in the program. One has moved, so he’s down to 12, still twice the number he was teaching at the Halls campus. He is proud that 11 of them will be headed “upstairs� next year to take college-level classes (CMA is housed on the ground floor of the Strawberry Plains Pike branch of Pellissippi State), and he’s proud of the brand-new FFA Chapter TNO337 he’s established there.
His teaching day starts with an agricultural science class, and he’s added an agricultural business and finance class in the second term and hopes to expand into business finance. “Our pathway is a little different from any other program in the county. This is all so new, like building a plane – you look out and we’re working on this wing. We’re always in transition. No two days are alike.� Blankenship is also teaching college and career readiness to ninth-graders, beginning the process of preparing them for the future. He is proud that his students will be able to enroll in dual-credit (college level) courses that will put them far along the path to college degrees. But one thing he misses is having a greenhouse like the one he built on the Halls campus, where he maintained an annual Christmas tradition of raising and selling poinsettias. “Oh, I miss it. But we’re working on that. It’s still in the talking stage, but we’ve ID’d potential locations.� Overall, Blankenship is grateful for the new challenge and optimistic about the future. “I am not an ax grinder,� he said. “Whatever is put in front of me, I’ll do my best to reach young people. I’m still standing.�
Ashes, McIntyre (not that one) tour Cuba Three weeks ago, my wife Joan and I, along with my sister-in-law Kathy Ashe from Atlanta, joined a Yale Alumni Tour of Cuba for 10 days. It was fascinating. As Joan says, it was a trip not a vacation. Also on the trip was another Knoxvillian, Dr. Anne McIntyre, who is a retired UT professor of psychology and lives in Sequoyah Hills. We flew into Santiago from Miami on the eastern end of the island not far from Guantanamo Bay where the United States has a military facility. For the next six days we journeyed across the island and ultimately arrived in Havana two days after President Obama’s visit. While the people were friendly and genuinely seem to want an improved relationship with the U.S., the economy and lifestyle were clearly third world. Cuba is longer than Tennessee (about 700 miles) and the eastern end has been neglected by various regimes. Deferred maintenance is the order of the day as many historic buildings were collapsing or close to it. Carts were pulled by oxen or horses including carts used as taxis to transport people.
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The cars are in large part holdovers from the 1950s which have been continually restored due to the embargo and lack of new vehicles being imported. On the other hand, the bus we rode in was brand new as were most buses for tourists. Internet service was spotty at best and expensive for Cubans ($2 an hour). Hotels outside Havana were clean but basic in their service. Parts of Havana itself were modern and current and other parts were collapsing. The drive we took from Ernest Hemingway’s home outside Havana to the central part of the city passed several highly impoverished areas. Havana itself has an incredible old city which exceeds San Juan in Puerto Rico in size but has been neglected since the Castro revolution. While President Obama made overturns to the Cuban people, he had not been gone more than one day be-
Dr. Anne McIntyre, former Mayor Victor Ashe and Joan Ashe at the Ernest Hemingway house in Havana on a recent trip to Cuba with Yale Alumni Travel. Both Victor Ashe and McIntyre are Yale graduates and live in Knoxville.
fore his remarks were blasted by Fidel Castro who stills lives and appears from time to time in well-planned venues. But it was Fidel’s brother, Raul, the current president, who hosted Obama. It was also clear that change is coming to Cuba, but at a very measured pace. In terms of infrastructure and advancing into this century for their economic well-being the country is 30 years behind. In terms of democratic processes, it’s not there in any meaningful way. ■Blount Mansion
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is hosting a dinner talk on Molsey Blount, wife of Gov. William Blount, by Dr. Nancy McEntee at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at Holly’s Gourmet Market. Tickets, $60 each, can be reserved at 865-525-2375. Proceeds go to Blount Mansion. Not a lot is known about her, but like many wives, she was very influential after she moved here in 1792. This year, which is the 225th birthday year of the Knoxville, is also the 90th anniversary of the Blount Mansion Association which
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Mayor Tim Burchett with Jackie Booker Griffin at Jackie’s Dream.
Burchett boosts Jackie’s Dream CafÊ
The place was packed, but no one was complaining when Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and his people came to lunch at Jackie’s Dream. Jackie’s Dream CafĂŠ opened March 6, 2015, at 2223 McCalla Avenue. It was a life dream for owner Jackie Booker Griffin. “I come from a family that cooks,â€? she writes on her website. “It’s what my mother, grandmother and uncles taught me. “We made our own jelly, chow-chow, pickles. My grandfather had chickens
so we had fresh eggs. We hardly ever went to the store. We made everything from scratch, and I continue to do it that way. Everything is peeled, cut and chopped here. We eliminate cans whenever we can. I had fresh green beans and corn all summer long.� Since taking office, Burchett has used the occasional Dutch-treat lunch with the mayor to showcase locally owned restaurants. This one is known for its soul food and hot chicken. Hours and menu are online at jackiesdream.com
We’re cooking! The District 6 Democratic Party is always angling to get pictures into the Shopper. There are the frequent trash pick-ups, the various parades, the frequent guest speakers. But the March meeting takes the prize. Seems county commission candidate Donna Lucas was guest speaker. Janice Spoone said some members arrived early to find a fire truck at the Karns Middle School, smoke everywhere and their library meeting place closed. Mike Knapp rushed to “We’re Cooking� to arrange a meeting space while Spoone and the school librarian found paper, markers and tape to post notices of the meeting change. The smoke was from a new heating/ air system and all is well. “You would have loved the excitement,� wrote Spoone. “Other than the fact that I probably smelled like smoke, we had a good group for the Lucas campaign meeting.�
saved this historic house from being turned into a parking lot in 1926. Dr. McEntee has written a book titled “Molsey Blount: Colonial First Lady of Tennessee.� ■Groundbreak ing for the new $160 million State Museum in Nashville is today with Gov. Haslam and author Jon Meacham leading the ceremony. The new facility is needed, but its design has been roundly criticized by several architects. The firm employed is from Minnesota with little knowledge of Tennessee as several
Tennessee firms, including Knoxville’s McCarty Holsaple, were rejected. The Nashville Scene has described it as “a dumb box of a porch with no time or place and mute to the expressive powers of architecture.� The Museum Commission on which I serve had no role in the design of the building. The final say was made at a higher level. I hope the governor takes another look at this design after the ground is broken so that like our State Capitol it is seen as an iconic building 50 to 100 years from now.
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SENIOR NOTES â– Cumberland Estates Recreation Center 4529 Silver Hill Drive 588-3442 Offerings include: Senior Walkers, 10:30 a.m., Monday-Friday.
Spring has burst onto the scene with a dazzling array of color. For the past two weeks breath-taking blooms in purple, pink and white have covered the trees, have brought smiles to even the dourest of curmudgeons. Flowering pears, redbuds and cherry blossoms let us know that those dogwood buds are closely behind. Soon the Dogwood Trails and Festival will begin, with multiple venues and varied events to visit. And yet, something is missing... I remember the Dogwood Festivals from simpler times, as a festival celebrating our East Tennessee heritage on Market Square. The bluegrass competition, with fiddlers and banjo players, along with steel guitars and washboard players and mandolins, jamming in the door-
■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. Register for: Lunch and learn: Skin care, Aging, Cosmetic Injectables and more, noon Wednesday, April 13; RSVP by April 8. Veterans Office visit, 11 a.m., Thursday, April 14; registration: 215-5645. ■John T. O’Connor Senior Center 611 Winona St. 523-1135 knoxseniors.org/oconnor. html Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Offerings include: Card games, billiards, senior fitness, computer classes, bingo, blood pressure checks 10:30-11:30 a.m. Monday-Friday. Free tax preparation available 9 a.m. Wednesdays through April 13. Flower Lovers Club meeting, 2 p.m. Thursday, April 7. Spring Fling and Bake Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, April 14.
Authors talk books Clayton Brewer, published poet, and Sam Venable, local author and columnist, swap books when Venable visits residents at Morning Pointe Senior Living and Alzheimer’s Memory Care of Powell. Venable has written several books – mostly comedies. Brewer holds Venable’s book titled “Warning! This Book Contains Nuttiness: A Look at the Bizarre World in Which We Live.� Venable holds Brewer’s book of poems called “Pathways Ahead.�
Register for: Lunch and Learn: “Heart Rhythm Disorder� presented by Dr. Lawrence Lee, noon Monday, April 11; RSVP to 523-1135 by Thursday, April 7. Smokies Baseball Game and Brunch, Wednesday, April 20; register before Wednesday, April 13.
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ways around the square until they got their turn on the center stage. Can you picture your neighbor doing a bit of dosee-do-ing? Or gawking at craftsmen like Jesse Butcher and women from Tellico Plains, weaving soaked oak slats into butt baskets and such, while Alex Stewart and his grandson were riving cedar staves with draw knives, on raw wood snugged by that foot-driven work bench, into butter churns and pidgins right before your eyes? There were gals in gingham dresses plucking feath-
ers from nervous geese while smiling seamstresses stitched quilts and coverlets ready for stuffing. Not to mention the drifting smells of warm stack cakes layered with applesauce and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Yum! Hey, what about that blacksmith shaping hot iron with a hammer and anvil? Or them ol’ knife swappers and whittlers in the corner? A little nostalgia is a good thing. And, while you are at it, Knoxville, why not bring some of that genuine heritage back to the Dogwood Festival? “Down through the corn leading down through the river, Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun. She took all the love that a poor boy could give her, And left me to die like a fox on the run...�
Pellissippi State schedules choral concert, design showcase Pellissippi State Community College will hold its final musical performance of the year Thursday, April 28. The Spring Choral Concert will feature musical performances by the college’s students in Concert Chorale and Variations Ensemble. The free concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the Clayton Performing Arts Center, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. The concert is part of The Arts at Pellissippi State, which brings to the community cultural activities ranging from music and theatre to international celebrations, lectures and the fine arts.
The work of Pellissippi State students in the Communication Graphics Technology program will be on display at the CGT Student Design Showcase April 18May 1. A reception will be held from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, April 21, giving community members the opportunity to meet students and discuss their design work. The free exhibit and reception will be held in the Bagwell Center for Media and Art, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Info: www.pstcc.edu/arts or call 865-694-6400.
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Rummage sales in Bearden By Carol Z. Shane It’s the time of year to head out the door for one of Knoxville’s favorite activities: shopping at rummage sales. Two that you won’t want to miss are in the Bearden area this weekend. Fellowship Church of Knoxville invites you to its large indoor sale with free admission, free parking and lunch for sale on site. Church members have been collecting furniture, household items, toys, appliances, tools, cars, electronics, jewelry, clothing and other items for the entire month of March, so you’re sure to find a large selection of things you could use and things you didn’t even know you wanted! “We sell everything,� says Joan Whiteside, missions project coordinator for the church. Volunteers are still taking donations today and tomorrow (Thursday), until 9 p.m. If you have items to donate but can’t get there until Friday, call first to coordinate drop-off. All proceeds go to fund global mission trips such as the middle schoolers’ annual trip to Tijuana, Mexico. There they provide food and services to severely impoverished families. They also serve “Ciudad de Refugio,� or “City of Refuge,� the local orphanage. While the Fellowship youth play, sing, have vacation Bible school and make crafts with the youngsters, the Fellowship adults carry out building maintenance and landscap-
This “off-the-grid� lawnmower will be one of the many offerings at TVUUC’s rummage sale this weekend. Fellowship Church of Knoxville is also presenting a huge rummage sale. Photo by Valeri Horner
ing projects. “Dios te bendiga,� the middle schoolers tell the kids. “God loves you.� Other areas included in Fellowship Knoxville’s glob-
al missions program are Zimbabwe, Uganda, Southeast Asia and Poland. Any leftover items will be donated to KARM and Angelic Ministries.
That same day, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church (TVUUC) will offer six different sale areas with a wide range of merchandise. “You are talking about a church that does things a little differently,� laughs sale organizer Valeri Horner. “The typical ‘rummage’ description isn’t quite enough.� No clothes except vintage items will be sold, and no books, movies or CDs, but you’ll be able to pick from a mind-blowingly diverse selection in every other category, and kids will delight in walking into their very own “toy box� – normally the church’s “quiet room.� The TVUUC youth will also be holding a bake sale to fund their Heritage trip to Boston, where they will learn about the birthplace of their faith and their nation. Leftover items will be donated to Random Acts of Flowers, Young-Williams Animal Shelter and Shoes for Haiti, as well as local Scout troops and marching bands. Both sales happen from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, April 9. Fellowship Church of Knoxville is located at 8000 Middlebrook Pike. Info: fellowshipknox.org or 470-9800. Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church is located at 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: tvuuc. org or 523-4176.
By Carol Z. Shane
FAITH NOTES Meetings/classes â– Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3700 Keowee Ave., will host Grief Care, a weekly grief support group for people grieving the death of a loved one, 6-7:30 p.m. Mondays through May 16. Info: 522-9804 or sequoyahchurch.org.
Music/ performances ■Heska Amuna Synagogue, 3811 Kingston Pike, will host “Freedom Song,� a transformative musical that interweaves a Passover Seder with personal stories of addic-
The orchestra will be led by two local conductors, Ace Edewards and Matt Wilkinson, who’ve been on board from the beginning. Wilkinson, a cellist, veteran of the Knox County “Strings in the Schools� program and currently director of the Maryville High School Orchestra, says, “A group of community members that played
in the Maryville community orchestra while I was the conductor contacted me about starting a Knoxville community orchestra, and after a night at Central Flats and Taps we formed the Scruffy City Orchestra and board. The idea is creating an atmosphere for amateur musicians to have a place to perform quality classical music.�
tion, 8 p.m. Thursday, April 14. The cast is made up of actual addicts who have broken off the shackles of drugs, alcohol, gambling and other destructive behaviors. Suggested donation: $5.
Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive, is seeking consignors for its children’s consignment sale, to be held Friday-Saturday, April 15-16. Fee: $10, nonrefundable. Proceeds go to West Hills Elementary School Back Pack Program. Registration: cbcbearden.org/events. Info: cbbclothingsale@gmail. com or 588-0586.
Special services â– 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.
Vendors/ consignors wanted â– Central Baptist Church-
Youth programs â– Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, is accepting registration for its Summer Weekday Programs for PDO (children 1 year old and walking) and for TNT (elementary school-aged children). Also accepting registration for Fall Preschool and Fall PDO. Forms available in the preschool office. Info: 531-2052.
Many women were also there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for him. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. (Matthew 27: 55 NRSV) Yes, Easter is past, but I am convinced that Easter is like Christmas: it is never “over.� I am still processing something I wrote last week: “Isn’t it odd that not one of that blood-thirsty crowd bothered to stand at the foot of the cross and actually witness the agony of their victim?� The 11 disciples who remained (Judas committed suicide after his betrayal of Jesus) were in hiding, fearful of the Jewish leaders. Simon Peter – who had declared his allegiance to Jesus, promising to die with him, if need be – hid, cowering behind closed doors. However, the women who followed Jesus were at the foot of the cross. The Gospels give differing accounts of which women, exactly, but Mary, the mother of James and Joseph (who was arguably also the mother of Jesus), Mary Magdalene, Salome, the un-named mother of the sons of Ze-
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A new orchestra in the Scruffy City
Knoxville is bursting with Rhythm ‘n’ Blooms this weekend, and music and art of all types abound. One fairly “new kid on the block� is the Scruffy City Orchestra, Knoxville’s first and only community orchestra. They’ll be presenting their very first concert, “Old Friends, New Faces,� this Friday.
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Edewards, a singer and conductor with a distinguished international pedigree, moved here last year to be with his wife, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra violinist Ruth Bacon (the two recently celebrated their first anniversary.) He conducted the highly successful
production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors� at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, and in the past few months has taken on conducting projects in South Carolina, Arizona and Mexico. Anyone who is interested in playing on future rehearsals and concerts is urged to contact the SCO. “All are welcome� says Edewards. “Having a lot of people wanting to play is a
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bedee, and Mary, the wife of Clopas are mentioned. It is fair to point out that women counted for nothing in that culture, so they were no threat to the Roman soldiers who were carrying out the execution. Women were of no consequence in the eyes of the soldiers. Still, I am reminded of what Jacqueline Kennedy said after the assassination of her husband. When they were finally aboard Air Force One, flying to Washington, someone gently suggested to Mrs. Kennedy that she change out of the bloodspattered pink suit she was still wearing. “No,� she said emphatically. “Let them see what they’ve done!� good problem to have, and we will certainly do our best to give all who are willing an opportunity to participate.� The Scruffy City Orchestra’s spring concert, “Old Friends, New Faces,� will be presented at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, April 8, at First Baptist Church, 510 W. Main St. in Knoxville. General admission is $5 at the door, and credit/debit cards are accepted.
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KINDERGARTEN ROUND-UP IS APRIL 12 Kindergarten Round-up for the 2016-2017 school year will be held in all Knox County elementary schools Tuesday, April 12. To enter kindergarten, children should be 5 years old by Aug. 15. To enroll their children in kindergarten during roundup, parents need to bring the child’s birth certificate, proof of up-to-date immunizations and health/physical examination, and proof of residency within the school zone. ■ A.L. Lotts – 3:30-6 p.m. Info: 539-8611 ■ Bearden – 3-6 p.m. Info: 9099000 ■ Blue Grass – 4:30-6:30 p.m. Info: 539-7864 ■ Cedar Bluff – 3-6 p.m. Info: 539-7721 ■ Northshore – 3:30-6 p.m. Info: 670-4104 ■ Pond Gap – 4:30-6:30 p.m. Info: 909-9040 ■ Rocky Hill – 3-6 p.m. Info: 539-7844 ■ Sequoyah – 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 594-1360 ■ West Hills – 4-6 p.m. Info: 539-7850
fill empty bowls at BMS By Sara Barrett
food for students in need to help get them through the weekend. BMS has 100 students who benefit from the program. An Empty Bowls fundraiser was planned, and students volunteered to serve on committees and organize the entire event from decorating soup bowls to marketing the event and recruiting entertainment. Students decorated the inside of each bowl so people would have to eat everything they were given before seeing which bowl they received. Langley says the idea came from a student who didn’t think it would be fair if there were leftovers while there were children who needed food. The event was held March 28, and about 150 people were served in the first hour alone. Community leaders and business owners showed their support by lending supplies, offering advice and donating money.
Sometimes a school assignment can become more than just a learning experience. Bearden Middle School teacher Julie Langley asked her students to enter a national photo essay competition about hunger and was surprised when she received essays about students’ personal experiences with the issue. “I was surprised, not because I’m naïve enough to think it doesn’t exist,” says Langley, “but I was now in a situation where I had to do something about it. I also knew that one essay not just represented what one child was experiencing, but what a number of children were experiencing. As a teacher and as an American citizen, it is unacceptable that any child in this country, much less in my school, should be hungry.” With Langley’s support, students decided to host a fundraiser to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank, which supplies backpacks of
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done two things. Since none of us knew soccer rules, Mr. Lester read them to us. Then we ran around in circles while he read the rules again, to himself. He didn’t know them either. Second practice? We tried kicking the ball. Wasn’t easy. “Gentlemen,” pleaded Mr. Lester. “We have our first game tomorrow. Doesn’t anyone know something about Kelly?” No one said a word. The truth was going to hurt, and no one wanted to hurt Mr. Lester. He was a nice guy. “We have to play tomorrow,” he said, as if we didn’t know. We knew it too well. It was my special buddy, Saltz, who let it out. “Mr. Lester, Kelly no longer goes to
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our school. His father’s job was transferred somewhere. Kelly tagged along.” I don’t think we’d had our new uniforms on for more than 30 minutes, but Saltz, a natural slob, looked like he’d slept in his for 20 years. And he, like the rest of us, was only 12. “No longer in school?” said Mr. Lester, who had actually volunteered to be our coach. “But what about our first game?” “He wanted to be with his family,” said someone. I think it was Eliscue. The coach sighed. He was a history teacher, and we were not what they write history about. If our school had a worse collection of athletes than the 11 of us, they were on display in the museum mummy section. But there we were Hays, Porter, Dorman, Lifsom, Saltz, Radosh, Root, Barish, Eliscue, Fenwick, and me, Sitrow. In a school that was famous, positively famous, for its teams and all-stars, we were not considered typical. Walk in the front door and the first thing you’d see was a wall of trophies – all for sports. It was as if we were a sports club. Not a school. “Doesn’t he understand you can’t play soccer without a goaltender? He should have told me.” Mr. Lester said that the way he might explain the sinking of the Titanic. “His father probably got the job because Kelly didn’t want to play,” said Dorman. When Mr. Lester got red in the face from frustration, he looked like an overripe tomato. His round face puffed and the few bits of topside hair were like old, dead leaves. It was clear he already regretted being coach just as much as we regretted the thought of playing. For example, me. I was so bad I was designated as the only sub. I didn’t expect to play at all. But then, none of us expected to play. The point was, our school had a requirement that you had to play at least one team sport each year. We had slipped through the first year. None of us had played. None of us wanted to. But once they caught on, they invented a team just for us. “Let’s go back to the locker room,” suggested Mr. Lester. Glad to skip practice, we followed him. Luckily, the locker room was empty. Everyone else was either playing or practicing. I sat on a bench next to Saltz. “Let’s hear it for Kelly,” he whispered. “Maybe they’ll call the whole thing off,” I thought out loud. He shrugged. Saltz and I had been pals since kindergarten. So I knew what he’d rather be doing: writing poetry. “How many do we have here?” asked Mr. Lester. “Two,” said Root. He was our math genius. “Gentlemen,” said Mr. Lester, “this is not a joke. Please line up.” Our cleats clicking like bad pennies on the cement floor, we went up against the wall, all 11 of us. Porter was on one side of me, Saltz on the other. “Maybe we’ll get shot,” said Porter.
“Only if we’re lucky,” said Fenwick. “Gentlemen, quiet please,” said Mr. Lester. He stood there looking miserable. You could tell he didn’t like what he saw. But then, considering what we saw in the future, starting the next day, we didn’t like it either. “Gentlemen,” he said softly. When Mr. Lester shouted, his voice got softer. “Gentlemen, you know why you’re here.” No one said a word. Seventhgrade boys don’t make good farewell speeches, not in front of execution squads. “Do you?” he asked. My guess is that he was wondering himself. “It’s good for us,” Lifsom said, as if describing someone’s need for a head transplant. “South Orange River Middle School has a fine sports tradition,” continued Mr. Lester. “‘Everybody plays, everybody wins.’ That’s our motto. And you, gentlemen, have been here a full year without being on any team.” “That’s because we’ve got better things to do,” said Barish. Mr. Lester’s face turned purple. But he went on, even softer. You had to strain to hear. “That’s exactly the point. You are all – each one – nice, smart boys. You, however, have avoided sports. Too much desk work.” “Nanotechnology,” slipped in Hays. “The big future.” Mr. Lester’s face made the ultimate transformation. He turned deathly white and spoke as though from the grave. “S.O.R. believes in the whole person. We’ve created this team for your good. From now on, you’re going to play. Sport is a major part of American life. Starting tomorrow, we’ve got a season to play. Six games. Let’s do it with honor.” “What about ability?” asked Radosh. Mr. Lester passed over that with a sigh. “We need a goaltender.” I saw his eyes travel up and down the line. To my horror, they landed on me. “Ed,” he said to me, the way a kindly pirate might ask the next victim to walk the plank. “You’re the tallest. You’ll be goaltender.” “Me?” I said, pointing to my narrow, weak and unformed chest. I couldn’t believe it. “Yes, you.” “Sir,” I said in a panic, “I never played goalie before. I never played soccer before. I never played anything before.” “Neither have your teammates. But we are going to give it our best, aren’t we? We’ll gain pride by trying. Game tomorrow. You all have permission to be out of your afternoon classes. Be ready, here, tomorrow at one-thirty for the bus. In uniform. We don’t want to be late. It makes for a poor start.” And that’s how I became goalie for the South Orange River Middle School Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team. I happened to be tallest. Talk about talent. On second thought, I’d better not. Not when you see what happened. To be continued next week
Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.
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Josh Current and Jane Ann Foncea rehearse for Christian Academy of Knoxville’s “Thoroughly Modern Millie� with fellow perSurra Rashed formers (back) Olivia Williams, Chloe Rhodes, David Woody, Harrison DeBord and Matthew Meschendorf. Photos by S. Barrett
‘Millie’ takes the stage at CAK “Singing is a whole other way to connect to people. It’s exhilarating. I can’t describe it,� says Josh Current, a junior at Christian Academy of Knoxville. “And on stage, you get to be someone completely different,� adds Jane Ann Foncea, a senior. The talented duo has lead roles in CAK’s upcoming performance of “Thoroughly Modern Millie.� Josh plays Jimmy Smith
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to Jane Ann’s Millie. This isn’t the first time they’ve shared the stage; they were king and queen in last year’s “Cinderella.� They admit the chemistry from their
friendship helps their characters’ chemistry on stage. “And there’s just something about dancing on stage with your dear friends,� adds Jane Ann. Both performers have been in theater since at least middle school, and they both hope to continue acting or performing in some fashion during college. As for the upcoming performance, they promise lots of “fast-paced, high-
energy fun stuff� with a few light-hearted, cheesy moments tucked in here and there. “Thoroughly Modern Millie� will be presented 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 14-16, with an added 2:30 p.m. matinee on Saturday. Tickets will be available at the door. Info: 690-4721 ext. 191 or visit https:// w w w.c a k w a r r ior s .c om/ arts/musical-theatre.
SPORTS NOTES â– Registration open for the Challenger Baseball season. Cost: $15. Season begins Monday, April 11. All games Lakeshore Park, 6410 S. Northshore Drive. Registration form: http://bit.ly/1Vrgcr2.
Bearden Middle School eighth grader Surra Rashed’s flag design won first place statewide in the Tennessee Youth Art Month competition, middle school division. Surra received a certificate of achievement during a reception at the Andrew Johnson Building where her work was displayed throughout March.
Fulford to head CAK middle school Current West Valley Middle School assistant principal Rich Fulford will begin the 2016-2017 schoolyear as Christian Academy of Knoxville’s middle school principal. Fulford has been at WVMS since 2013. He will replace current CAK middle school principal Debbie Moye who will retire at the end of this school year. After receiving his masters in Sport Administration from UT in 1995, Fulford taught middle school and coached high school track and field in Virginia. After completing the Education Specialist, Educational Leadership and Administration program at George Washington University in 2005, Fulford became assistant principal at the same middle school where he taught.
In 2007, he accepted the position of assistant principal at Farragut Middle School before his current role as Rich Fulford assistant principal of West Valley. Regarding his upcoming role at CAK, Fulford says “I am humbled, honored and excited to be selected for this position. I feel strongly that God is leading me into a position where I can be used to expand His kingdom through education, vision and the spirit of achievement He has placed in my heart.� Fulford and his wife, Marteal “Teal,� have been married for 19 years. They have four sons: Gabel, Ethan, Silas and Owen.
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our students that they can make a difference,� says Langley. “When adults answer
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Reading and Rotary: a powerful combo It’s a powerful combination of forces that Theresa Carl is a part of these days. She is the president of the Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation that works Theresa Carl hand-inhand with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and with Imagination Library’s local affiliate programs in all of Tennessee’s 95 counties. One of the other forces involved in this major literacy project are Rotarians in Knoxville, around the state, and even nationally in many states. In fact, when it comes to Theresa Carl, Rotary is for sure part of this. She stays busy with her other job as the president of the Rotary Club of Nashville. On March 29 she was
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in Knoxville as the speaker for the Rotary Club of Knoxville’s noon meeting at the Marriott Hotel. The Foundation’s mission is simple: To prepare children in Tennessee for lifelong learning through reading. “This partnership between the Foundation and Imagination Library is a dynamic public-private partnership unlike any other in the United States today,� she said. “This is all about allowing each of our children to have an educational journey that is successful. They are three to four times more likely to stay in school if they can read from an early age.� Each of the 95 affili-
ate programs enrolls children between the ages of birth to 5 years old to receive books at no cost each month – or 12 books a year for five years. The affiliates and the Foundation provide the money for the program. Imagination Library manages the selection, the pricing and the distribution of the books and they are distributed from here in Knoxville. The cost of each book, including delivery, is $2.15, she explained. “Why do we do it?� Carl said. “It’s about the development of the brain. By the age of 3, 80 percent of the brain is formed and by age 5 it’s 90 percent, so we have to start reading early to our children.� There is a “Welcome Baby Initiative� and a “Child Poverty Initiative� to reach those children born to parents who are struggling and to reach the children in foster care. There is a “Birth-
BIZ NOTES â– Danielle Hemsley recently joined Johnson Architecture Inc. as director of business development. The Knoxville native brings her broad professional experience in Hemsley architecture, interior design and construction to the firm to identify new opportunities and bolster client relationships. â– Wallace & Wallace Inc., a property management firm, is joining the Coldwell Banker global network. It will remain in its current location at 813 S. Northshore Drive and
ing Hospital Initiative� to gift each child born a copy of “The Little Engine That Could� prior to discharge. “Early literacy matters for our children and now we have to start engaging our parents to start reading to their children,� she said. “It makes a huge, huge difference.� Info: GovernorsFoundation.org or 1-877-992-6657 Newsy notes: Two clubs have a pair of very interesting and well-known speakers coming up. Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. James McIntyre, who recently resigned, will speak at Bearden Rotary at noon, Friday April 29, at Buddy’s Banquet Hall. ... On Tuesday, May 31, the Rotary Club of Knoxville will hear from Gov. Bill Haslam at its noon meeting at the Marriott. Tom King is a retired newspaper editor, a Rotarian for 28 years and past president of the Rotary Club of Farragut. He can be reached at tking535@gmail.com
Grand opening for PT Solutions Members of the Farragut West Knox Chamber gathered at the new location of PT Solutions Physical Therapy of Farragut, 11135 Kingston Pike, for a grand opening ribbon-cutting March 29. Physical therapist and clinic director Enid Tate said PT Solutions specializes in the treatment of pain while increasing strength and function through manual physical therapy, therapeutic exercise and trigger point release. “Recent research shows that therapeutic exercise and manual therapy give the most benefit. We’re so excited to offer these services and to be part of the Farragut community,� said Tate. Photo by Nancy Anderson
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become the sixth area office of Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace, Realtors. The office broker is Katie McHargue, who oversees a staff of seven. â– Crye-Leike has opened an East Tennessee regional headquarters in Knoxville. CEO Harold E. Crye said he intends to grow Crye-Leike by adding two to three more branches in Farragut and Oak Ridge. Its headquarters office is now located at 9539 Kingston Pike in the Franklin Square area. This headquarters building, previously a law office, was purchased by Crye in January 2016 for $1.05 million. Its leased office space at 731 Campbell Station Road in Farragut is now closed.
By April Timko
Knoxville Habitat for Humanity hosted its inaugural Sporting Clay Tournament at Chilhowee Sportsman’s Club in Maryville with 29 teams filling two flights for the all-day event. The top three teams of each flight were awarded prizes as well as the top shooter of each flight. Winners include East Tennessee radio personality Phil Williams, who hosted the popular NewsTalk 98.7 program “The Phil Show� live from the event. Tournament sponsors included NewsTalk 98.7, Dayton’s Pest Control, Allcor Staffing and Waste Connec-
A team representing Citizens National Bank won first place in the morning flight of the Knoxville Habitat Sporting Clay Tournament in March. Pictured are Ken Campbell, Doug Swaggerty (CNB Board Member), Nick Swaggerty and Paul Law. tions Inc. Proceeds raised will help low-income families in Knox County achieve strength, stability and selfreliance through homeownership.
In the first flight, the winning team represented Citizens National Bank. Second place was claimed by the NewsTalk 98.7 team, led by Phil Williams. In the afternoon flight, a
team from Brunton Masonry won first place, while the “Over the Hill Gang� came in second. April Timko is director of marketing and communications for Knoxville Habitat for Humanity Inc.
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Gibbs’ team heads UT construction project By Sandra Clark Union County resident and school board member Marty Gibbs is directing a major new construction project at the University of Tennessee. The Mossman Building is scheduled to Marty Gibbs open for fall semester 2018, and Rentenbach Constructors Inc., where Gibbs is vice president and general manager, is the contractor. Designed by McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects Inc., the futuristic building will house flexible laboratory space, a vivarium and general purpose classrooms for UT departments of microbiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, psychology and nutrition. Ground-breaking was Oct. 29 at the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 13th Street. The facility is named for the late Ken and Blaire Mossman, who met when they were students in 1968 and stayed connected to UT throughout their lives. The couple also endowed a professor in microbiology, a position currently held by Steven Wilhelm. Ken Mossman’s younger brother, Michael, also a UT graduate, attended the ground-breaking. He said, “At the heart of things they were good people who were interested in education, in-
business UT app see empty and full spaces in real time. ■Facilities Services gets a new home on the site of an old industrial complex at 2000 Sutherland Avenue at Concord Street. Irvin said a part of the building is structurally reinforced with its own power, which will allow Facilities Services to stay operational during the most severe weather conditions. Work continues at Tom Black Track; the old smokestack at the UT Steam Plant was removed over the December break, marking a visible milestone in the campus’s switch from coal to natural gas; and the former Sophronia Strong Hall continues its transformation into a large and modern science class and laboratory facility. Set to open in 2017, it will house anthropology and earth and planetary sciences departments and will provide laboratory and instruction space for the general biology and chemistry departments. With all the work underway at UT, it’s great to see a Union County guy in the middle of the mix.
and 1050-car parking garage at the corner of Volunteer and Lake Loudoun boulevards. The garage, open for fall semester, will offer advanced parking technology that lets users of the
First floor of 228-person auditorium Architect’s rendering of the 6-story Mossman Building now under construction at UT.
Labs and graduate student work area (architect’s rendering) Photos provided by University of Tennessee
terested in paying things forward.� Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said having state-of-the-art facilities is critical to recruiting and retaining the best faculty and students. “We’ve grown our research awards and expenditures and raised our national profile, particularly in science and engineering. We’ve
made great strides in recruiting more students into STEM majors,� Cheek said. Dave Irvin, associate vice chancellor for facilities services, recently updated UT supporters on the campus improvements underway: ■The Mossman Building – seven floors (six occupied levels plus a mechanical penthouse); 220,935
square feet; total project cost: $102 million â– The Student Union with a portion open and completion expected in 2018 â– The first two buildings in the West End residence hall development are rising on 20th Street and are set to open this fall â– New residence hall
Design Center gets new directors
East Tennessee Com- vice president; Katharine munity Design Center has Pearson Criss, treasurer; added five new directors. Sheryl Ely, secretary; and Each will serve a three-year Mary Wells Holbrook, past term: Lucinda M. Albiston, president. Jason Young, attorney; Bill Bruce, CRJA- AIA, UT Knoxville College IBI Group; Scott Busby, AIA, of Architecture & Design, is Smee + Busby Architects; an ex-officio director. Mary Kathryn Durr, Gregar“The Design Center has ious Media; and Georgiana served East Tennessee for Vines, political columnist. many years, through the Board officers elected for work of strong, committed 2016 include: Jan Evridge, volunteers. Our new direcpresident; Rick Blackburn, tors are great examples first vice president; Nathan of this ‘volunteer spirit’ at early stages of developing Honeycutt, AIA, second work,� said Evridge. a Mixed Use Neighborhood commercial zoning district. Town property was rezoned to Town Center District for the first time last year, and ■Thursday, April 7, 8-9:30 a.m., networking: Kids 1st Advocacy Center, 887 US-70, Lenoir City. Shipley hopes that project will move forward this year.
Focus on retail could benefit town By Wendy Smith
E-commerce is growing, but the majority of consumers still prefer shopping in brick and mortar establishments, says Lacy Beasley of Retail Strategies. Then, they like to go out to lunch. Retail Strategies was hired to market the town of Farragut to prospective retailers in 2014. The company “plays matchmaker� by making connections between municipalities and national retailers, she told developers during a meeting hosted last week by the Economic Development Committee (EDC). She spoke at noon to the Farragut Rotary Club. A focus on retail leads to higher sales tax revenues and more vibrant communities, she said. Rooftops no longer follow manufacturing jobs. Now, people choose where to live based on assets in the community. One in four jobs in America is now retail-based, and many of those are high-paying jobs. Even small retail development can be a big win. A fast-food restaurant can generate $1-$2 million dollars per year, or $27,000 is sales tax revenue, she said. The millennial generation, which Retail Strategies defines as those born between 1982 and 2004, is driving the market, and millennials like to shop online for mid-priced items, like books and office supplies. But they don’t like to wait for merchandise, so they also shop in stores. Retail outlets for health products, technology and sporting goods are thriving. Baby boomers are very focused on pets, so pet supply retail is growing. Millennials don’t want their parents’ stuff, so furniture retail is booming. A 40 percent expansion in restaurants, primarily in fast casual and quick service (fast food) is also noteworthy. Farragut has the demographics that retailers crave − high home values, low unemployment and consumers that are more interested in quality than price point,
Beasley said. Retail Strategies will help market Farragut during RECon 2016, a global convention for the shopping center industry held in Las Lacy Beasley Vegas in May. Town staff and local business leaders typically attend the convention. The town has a threeyear contract with Retail Strategies with the option to renew for two more one-year terms at a cost of $25,000 per year. The Farragut contact for the company is Tiffany Kilpatrick. She can be contacted at tiffany@ retailstrategies.com Community Development Director Mark Shipley
gave an update on changes in the planning department. About 15 projects have been reviewed this year using the town’s Architectural Design Standards, adopted just over a year ago. The standards were applied during improvements to West End Center, and have gotten positive feedback, he said. Changes to zoning districts reflect an effort to implement the 2012 Comprehensive Land Use Plan. Amendments to the community service district (S1) allow for low-impact elderly care development, and town planners are in the
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Dorry Floyd tends to an azalea bush near her porch as residents along Farragut’s Dogwood Trail get ready for opening day on April 15 Fox Den Drive, one of the main thoroughfares for the Dogwood Arts Festival’s Dogwood Trail in Farragut, is ready with dogwood trees in full bloom. Photos by Nancy Anderson
Getting ready for the spotlight By Sherri Gardner Howell The Dogwood Arts Festival will kick off the 2016 season on Friday, April 15, with a gala Dogwood Luncheon at Holston Hills Country Club, which is on this year’s featured trail. The Farragut Dogwood Trail also opens that day and will welcome visitors through May 1. Farragut’s 7.9 miles of featured streets and neighborhoods is part of the 60 miles of trails that stretch all across Knox County. The Farragut trail showcases 487 homes throughout Fox Den, Country Manor and Village Green subdivisions. Residents and guests are invited to enjoy the trail with a walk, bicycle ride or drive, following the dogwoods and pink arrows along the trail. The Farragut trail officially begins at the entrance to Fox Den subdivision on Fox Den Drive and ends just off Old Colony Parkway and Campbell Station Road.
Tulips add color along a walkway on Fox Den Drive.
Featured gardens and camera spots for 2016 on the Farragut trail include: Home of Mark and Lisa Caldwell, 11617 Georgetown Drive in Village Green – camera spot only Founders Park at Campbell Station, 405 N. Campbell Station Road – public garden; daylight hours Farragut Town Hall’s Memorial Plaza, 11408 Munici-
pal Center Drive – daylight hours Home of Michael and Mary Bates, 513 Altamira Drive – featuring woodland and perennial garden with many mature white and pink dogwoods, azaleas and rhododendron. This is the 56th year for the Dogwood Arts Festival. For a calendar of events: www.dogwoodarts.com
Everyone helps out when your home is on the Dogwood Trail. Jeremy Floyd pick up sticks as his son, Rowan, gets the mowing started.
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HEALTH & LIFESTYLES NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Leg Work Bypass gives Louisville woman legs to stand on There was no pain, nor was there any pulse in her feet. Except for feeling as if each of her legs weighed 200 pounds, Cathy Robinson felt just fine. But the lack of pulses in her ankles told her doctor something was wrong. “I have gone to the same primary doctor for almost 20 years, and she knows my whole family history,” said Robinson, whose mother died at 62 of heart disease. “She said, ‘Cathy, I’m not getting a good pulse in your ankles. We need to get this checked out.’” Testing revealed that Robinson had severe aortoiliac occlusive disease, or more simply, plaque blockage of her lower aorta and proximal leg arteries. With peripheral artery disease (or PAD), the plaque builds up in the arteries, causing them to harden and narrow and restricting the flow of oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the legs. If that blockage is severe enough it can lead to limb threat if not treated. “I could’ve lost my legs!” said the 63-year-old Louisville woman. “I don’t have very long legs and I wanted to keep ’em so I had the surgery.” Robinson underwent an operation called an aortobifemoral bypass. The surgery was performed by vascular surgeon Dr. Richard Young at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center this past January. Since surgery Robinson is once again enjoying shopping and playing with her grandson. “Yesterday was my first trip to the grocery story on Senior Day,” she said, seven weeks out from the surgery. “I used to have to stop in an aisle and rest a minute. I didn’t get short of breath but I had to let my legs settle down before I could do the rest of my grocery shopping. But yesterday, I was just going through the store and I thought, ‘Oh, I’m not hurting.’ This is great!’” Prior to the surgery, however, Robinson said, “It’s strange – it’s not pain. They don’t hurt. They don’t ache. They just feel like each of my legs weighed 200 pounds if I walked any distance.” That was particularly true of Robinsons’ driveway, which is pitched at a 45-degree incline. “I was fine going down to the mailbox for the newspaper. Coming up? I had to
stop halfway up. I didn’t really think much about it. I just thought, ‘Well, you’re an old woman and you’re out of shape.’ But then you realize it wasn’t the kind of feeling where you’ve exercised and your muscles get all sore.’ For me, it was just a heaviness.” That “heaviness” or claudication, is one of the symptoms of PAD. Other symptoms might include weak or undetectable pulse in the leg, muscle atrophy, discolored or smooth shiny skin that is cool to the touch, non-healing ulcers or sores in the legs or feet, and cold or numb toes. As much as 40 percent of patients have no leg pain. “PAD is very common,” said Dr. Young, noting it is believed that anywhere from 8 to 12 million people in the United States currently have it. “The majority of cases can be treated with angioplasty and stents, but Mrs. Robinson had an extensive amount of advanced disease that was better treated with a bypass. Her aorta and common iliac arteries were nearly occluded, reducing blood flow to her lower extremities.” “Dr. Young told me that it wasn’t an ‘emergency situation by any stretch,’” said Robinson. “But when I got to the point where I couldn’t play baseball with my grandson, I couldn’t run with him, and that’s just
heartbreaking … I said, ‘Let’s just get it done. If I’m going to have to have it, I don’t want to wait until I’m 73 instead of 63.’” Aortobifemoral bypass has been around for at least four decades and is the preferred therapy for severe blockages of the aorta. With this bypass, a polyester tube (graft) is used to go around the blocked arteries connecting the aorta to the femoral arteries. The aorta is the body’s major artery out of the heart. Near the belly button level, the aorta branches to form the two iliac arteries. At groin level, the iliac arteries become the femoral arteries. Despite the extensiveness of the surgery, it took only about 90 minutes before Robinson was wheeled back into intensive care. She was back home five days later. “I don’t think I had an idea in mind about what it would be like. I knew it was serious surgery, but I didn’t realize truly how serious it was and what all he would have to do. But you get through it, you get over it. There was a time, I will admit, when I was all drugged up that I would cry and tell me husband I really wish I hadn’t had this done, but I don’t feel that way now. “The Fort Sanders hospital was very good to me, they were all really good,” she added. “Dr. Young was a blessing because he was so good and explains things in a way that a non-medical person can understand. He’s very positive with you even though it’s bad news. “You don’t want to go in and hear that you’re going to have to have a bypass! Who wants to hear that? But he’s still very positive when he’s talking about it, even though he tells you everything that could go wrong. He’s still very positive about it, and I really did like that. I can’t say enough good things about him. I would recommend him to anybody. Anybody.”
In January, Cathy Robinson underwent an aortobifemoral bypass. The procedure performed by Dr. Richard Young at Fort Sanders Regional has given Robinson the ability to enjoy life and play with her grandson.
Smoking ‘worst culprit’ in vascular disease She had tried to quit countless times That was Nov. 7 – almost three months before she underwent without success, but when doctors told an aortobifemoral byCathy Robinson her smoking could cause pass at Fort Sanders Reher to lose her legs she listened and, with gional Medical Center the help of step-down nicotine patches, with vascular surgeon gave up smoking. Dr. Richard Young per“I know that smoking is not good for you, I’ve known it all my life,” said Robforming the surgery. inson, who had smoked for 40-plus years. “Dr. Young told me “My Dad smoked but I never ever assothis was not going to ciated smoking with vascular problems get better,” said Rob– just cancer because that’s all you hear. inson. “He said, ‘Yes, But it was either that or, if I continued to I’m proud of you for smoke, the healing would be slower, the Dr. Richard Young quitting smoking, but grafts or the bypass may not heal corquitting is not going rectly or last like it should, or I could’ve to improve it.’ Plus, it’s hereditary too. But lost my legs.” hopefully, it won’t get worse.”
The first step in preventing Peripheral Artery Disease is recognizing the risk factors, and changing those within your control. “Smoking is by far the worst culprit,” said Dr. Young, noting that tobacco usage dramatically increases your PAD risk and makes symptoms of PAD worse. “Your risk can be lowered by doing several things: don’t smoke, optimize your glucose control if you’re diabetic, control and manage your blood pressure and cholesterol. You can’t pick your parents, so you can’t do anything about family history.” “I take a cholesterol pill too. It wouldn’t matter if I went days without eating, I would still have high cholesterol because my mother and brother had that too,” said
Robinson who is also on hypertension medicine. At 5-foot-1 and 110 pounds, Robinson’s weight is not a risk factor for her. But if you are overweight, lose the extra pounds through a healthy diet and exercise program. “By controlling your risk factors and walking, PAD can often be managed nonoperatively,” said Dr. Young. “When management fails, interventions can be considered. Intervention is mandatory if a limb is threatened.” For more information about vascular surgery at Fort Sanders Regional, please call 673-FORT.
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THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 15 Selected works by artist Kay List on exhibit, Envision Art Gallery, 4050 Sutherland Ave. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday. Info: kaylistart.com; envisionartgallery.com; 438-4154.
THROUGH SUNDAY, APRIL 17 “Annie, Jr.,” 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: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@ childrenstheatreknoxville.com.
MONDAYS THROUGH APRIL 25 QED Experimental Comedy Lab, 7:30-9:30 p.m., The Pilot Light, 106 E. Jackson Ave. Free comedy show blending stand-up, improv, sketch and other performance styles. Donations accepted.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Jazz Lunch at the Square Room featuring “Mike Baggetta plays Patsy Cline,” noon-1 p.m., 4 Market Square. Admission: $15 includes Café 4 lunch buffet. Info/tickets: knoxjazz.org or Café 4.
THURSDAY, APRIL 7 The Author’s Guild of Tennessee (AGT) meeting, 11:30 a.m. Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Open to the public. Info: authorsguildoftn.org. Celebrate National Poetry Month with Rose Klix, noon, Halls Senior Center, 4405 Crippen Road. Participants receive complimentary poetry book from Klix. Info: 922-0416. “How to Use Facebook for Seniors” class, 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30. Registration/payment deadline: Thursday, April 7. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; 2183375; in person at the Town Hall.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, APRIL 7-8 AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., First Baptist Church of Seymour, 11621 Chapman Highway, Seymour. Registration: Diane Lewis, 982-1887. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Alive After Five: SoulfulSounds Revue, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Admission: general, $10; museum members and students, $5. Info: knoxart.org. Jay Clark & the Tennessee Tree Beavers, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts. org. Reception for new Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit, 6:30-8 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Exhibit on display through May 4. Info: 357-2787. Scruffy City Orchestra inaugural concert, 7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Knoxville, 510 W Main St. Program: “Old Friends, New Faces.” Admission: $5 at the door. Debit and credit cards accepted. Info: facebook.com/scruffycityorchestra.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 8-9 Friends of the Library Used Book Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750. Gatlinburg Wine Fest Weekend. Includes Gatlinburg Wine Tour, 5 p.m. Friday, Courtyard by Marriott; and Wine Fest, 1-6 p.m. Saturday, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Tickets: $20 each event or $35 for combo ticket. Tickets/ registration: Gatlinburg.com/Winefest.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 8-10 “Hands On Gatlinburg” Arts & Crafts Weekend. Includes more than 40 classes/workshops in more than 15 studios throughout the Arts & Crafts Community. Info/tickets: Gatlinburg.com/Events. Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival, various venues in downtown Knoxville. Info/schedule: rhythmnbloomsfest.com.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., AAA office, 715 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. 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, or Stephanie, 862-9252. The Dismembered Tennesseans, 8 p.m., Laurel
Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org. Farragut Book Fest for Children, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Founders Park, located next to the Farragut Branch Library on Campbell Station Road. Free event includes: a storybook character parade, art activities, face painting, cookie decorating, the Ruff Reading Program, two performances by the Bright Star Touring Theatre and more. Info/schedule: townoffarragut.org/bookfest. 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. Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee WALK, 9 a.m., UT Gardens. Performing will be Knoxville native Emily Ann Roberts, recently seen on NBC’s “The Voice.” Info/registration: AlzTennessee.org/KnoxWalk2016. Maya Festival, 1-4 p.m., UT McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Free and open to the public. “Music of Led Zeppelin,” 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Part of the KSO News Sentinel Pops Series. Info/tickets: knoxvillesymphony.com. Northside Kiwanis Pancake Jamboree and Bake Sale, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Saint John’s Lutheran Church, Broadway at Emory Place. All proceeds support the club’s community service activities. Tickets available at the door: $12 for a family of four; $5 for individuals. Info: Bill Larson, 693-8845. Saturday Stories and Songs: Dancing Spider Yoga, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. For ages 3-9. Info: 470-7033. Talahi Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Lakeshore Park, at the corner of Northshore Drive and Lyons View Pike. Presented by the Knoxville Garden Club and the Garden Study Club. Theme: “Let it Grow.” Free admission. Info: on Facebook.
SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Sing Out Knoxville, a folk singing circle open to everyone, will meet 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com or call 546-5643.
MONDAY, APRIL 11 AARP Driver Safety class, 7:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m., South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane. Info/ registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822. All Over the Page: “The Truth According to Us,” 6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Facilitated by Travis Tidwell, school librarian for Sevier County Schools. Info: 215-8750. “Topiary Arrangement” class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $20. Registration/payment deadline, Monday, April 4. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; 218-3375; in person at the Town Hall.
MONDAY-TUESDAY, APRIL 11-12 “Advanced iPad/iPhone Basics for Seniors” class, 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $45. Registration/payment deadline: Monday, April 11. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; 2183375; in person at the Town Hall. Student Scholarship Book Sale, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Pellissippi State Magnolia Avenue Campus front lobby. All types of books available for purchase. Proceeds go directly to student scholarships. Info: 6946400, pstcc.edu.
TUESDAY, APRIL 12 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., AAA office, 715 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. 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, or Stephanie, 862-9252. Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 5:30-7:45 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration required. Info/registration: 215-8700. Drop Everything and Read Party, 3:30-5 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Celebrate Beverly Cleary’s 100th birthday. Info: 215-8750. Einstein Simplified Comedy Improv troop, 8 p.m., Scruffy City Hall, 32 Market Square. Free admission. Happy Travelers Trip: “The Nerd,” 1 p.m. CST, Cumberland County Playhouse. Bus leaves North Acres Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m.; Expo Center, 10 a.m.; Flying J, 10:30 a.m. Lunch: Cumberland Mountain State Park. Reservation deadline: Monday, April 4. Info/ reservations: Derrell Frye, 938-8884 or 254-8884. Harvey Broome Group Sierra Club meeting, 7 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Program: “What’s Next for Greenways?” presented by Ellen Zavisca, Senior Transportation Planner, Knoxville Regional TPO. All programs free and open to the public. Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting, 8 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Scott Mingus. Topic: The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign. Dinner, 7 p.m. Cost: $5 lecture only; $17, dinner and lecture. RSVP by noon Monday, April 11 to 671-9001. “Packing and Shipping Artwork” professional development seminar, noon-1 p.m., the Emporium, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $5 members of Arts & Culture Alliance/$8 nonmembers. Info/registration: 523-7543; sc@knoxalliance.com.
TUESDAYS, APRIL 12-MAY 17 Pilates class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $60. Registration/ payment deadline: Monday, April 11. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; 218-3375; in person at the Town Hall.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 “DIY: Learn how to make eco-friendly home cleaners,” 2-3:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711. Knoville’s WNOX-Radio: The Cradle of Country Music, a Brown Bag Lecture with Bradley Reeves, noon1 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 215-8824.
THURSDAY, APRIL 14 Appalachian family square dance, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Sponsored by Knoxville Square Dance. Music by The Hellgramites. Callers: Leo Collins, Stan Sharp and Ruth Simmons. No experience necessary. Admission: $7, $5 students and JCA members. Info: jubileearts.org. “Freedom Song,” a transformative musical that interweaves a Passover Seder with personal stories of addiction, 8 p.m., Heska Amuna Synagogue, 3811 Kingston Pike. Instead of actors, the cast is made up of actual addicts that have broken off the shackles of drugs, alcohol, gambling, and other destructive behaviors. Suggested donation: $5. “Ginseng: Gold in the Smoky Mountains,” 3:154:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Janie Bitner. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892. Pizza Ha’s, 8-9:30 p.m., Pizza Hoss, 7215 Clinton Highway. Free monthly stand-up comedy showcase featuring local and regional comedians on the second Thursday of each month.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, APRIL 14-15 AARP Driver Safety class, 1-5 p.m., Asbury Place, 2648 Sevierville Road, Maryville. Registration: Diane Lewis, 982-1887. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
FRIDAY, APRIL 15 Alive After Five: Kukuly & The Gypsy Fuego, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Admission: general, $10; museum members and students, $5. Info: knoxart.org. Introduction of Sundress Academy for the Arts exhibit: “Scruffy ’Scrapes and Sonnets,” 6-8 p.m., Preservation Pub’s second floor Speakeasy. Exhibit on display through May 5.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 15-16 Children’s consignment sale, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Central Baptist Church Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive. Proceeds go to West Hills Elementary School Back Pack Program. Info: cbbclothingsale@gmail.com or 588-0586. Friends Mini Used Book Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: knoxfriends.org.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 15-17 Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. Featuring: vendors, family activities, live animal displays, fiber arts demonstrations and classes. Info/class registration/schedule: smokymountainfiberartsfestival.org.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16 Arty Party, a fine arts and crafts show, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Design Studio & Woodstream Hardwoods, 3636 Division St. Live music, food, door prizes. Info: 5240001. “Beethoven 9!,” 7:30 p.m., Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center. Featuring: Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra and Oak Ridge Chorus, led by Maestro Dan Allcott, along with Pellissippi State Chorus, South Doyle High School Choir, Sound Company and international guests, the Swiss Youth Choir Stimmwerkbande. Info/tickets: ORCMA.org or 483-5569. EarthFest, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., World’s Fair Park. Free, “zero-waste” event. Featuring food, fun and entertainment for family and pets. Info: knoxearthfest.org. EmiSunshine performing, noon, Disc Exchange, 2615 Chapman Highway. Celebration of Record Store Day. Info: 573-5710. 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. Spring Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., UT Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Ave., Oak Ridge. “Members Only” sale, 5-7 p.m., Friday, April 15. Memberships available Friday for early-bird shopping opportunity. Info: utarboretumsociety.org. Spring rummage sale, 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1:30-3 p.m., Bearden UMC, 4407 Sutherland Ave. Hosted by the United Methodist Women of Bearden UMC. Bag Sale begins 1:30 p.m.: receive a brown grocery bag and whatever fits in the bag is $5.
SUNDAY, APRIL 17 An Afternoon of Piano Music with David Morgan, 3 p.m., First Farragut UMC, 12733 Kingston Pike. Program: “The Spiritual Power of Music.”
MONDAY, APRIL 18 “How to Buy a Healthy Plant,” 1-2 p.m., Davis Family YMCA, 12133 S. Northshore Drive. Presented by Master Gardener Barbara Emery. Free and open to the public. Info: 777-9622.
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Hips to Hoops
Dad’s still in the game after MS leads to hip surgery Kendrick Tate picks up a basketball, slowly dribbles his way to the far side of the court just beyond the three-point circle. In one smooth, arching flick of the wrist, the ball strips the net. Whoosh! What’s better than a threepointer with your 9-year-old son watching? Not much. “He’s the best shooter I know,” a grinning Preston McLeskey says of his Dad. “Good answer,” his father responds with a smile. They have the court all to themselves this afternoon as Tate, a 41-year-old single father of three, teaches his son the fundamentals of a game he so loved not that many years ago at Austin-East High School. Tate’s youthful appearance and broad smile belies the agony he was in just months earlier before he had both hips replaced at Parkwest Medical Center by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Hal Cates. “Oh, I love Dr. Cates,” Tate says without hesitation. “I’ll be forever grateful. He’s just a good man, and I’m not just saying that to build him up. But when you are going to have a serious proceDr. Hal Cates dure done, you want somebody you can trust and somebody who is going to be honest with you. And he was that from Day One. He just had that comforting effect, so I was not nervous about the surgery. I felt like I was in good hands. So I prayed and prayed about it, and I was just at peace with him. I mean, if you can convince me to have both of my hips replaced at the same time, you have done something. So I have to give him his kudos. I’ll be forever grateful for that man.” “The bottom line on Mr. Tate was that he was a young man with a severe loss of motion in his hips due to his multiple sclerosis,” said
With his new hips, Kendrick Tate is able to play basketball with his son again. Dr. Cates. “It was difficult for him to walk, to go up steps, to turn, to do any type of daily living activity with his son. It’s unusual for patients to get bilateral hip replacements done simultaneously, but if the patient is healthy enough like he was, it’s actually easier to get them both done at the same time.” The surgery, Tate says, was “life-changing,” permitting him to still enjoy the teaching sessions with his son Preston and spending time with daughters Larah, 16, and Kyla, 10. He himself had hoped to play college ball, but life has a habit of unfolding in unexpected ways. “I realized that basketball was not going to be my avenue as far as making a lifestyle,” he said. “I was good but I wasn’t that good.” Instead, Tate found his calling as a probation officer and director of the Community Service program of the Knox County Juvenile Court. “I enjoy it,” he says. “I like working with kids. That was my calling. That’s why I’m not in the NBA. That’s what He [God] in-
structed so that’s where I am.” But his life took another turn about six years ago when he began experiencing numbness in his hands and arms. “I knew something was going on, but I shrugged it off for a long time,” he said. “But I knew ultimately I had to go see what it was.” The neurologist’s diagnosis – multiple sclerosis (MS), an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body – left Tate stunned. “It was a shock because I had been relatively healthy, and this meant I couldn’t play basketball so that was a killer,” he said. “So hearing that news and not knowing what exactly MS was all about – I was thinking, ‘Is it like cancer?’ – I didn’t know.” Fortunately, his MS had been caught early, perhaps as soon as three months after its onset. “They
did some tests and found lesions on my brain and spinal cord,” he said. “They put me on steroids for about a month and said that would deteriorate the lesions.” The steroids did just that, but not without cost. A couple months later, while playing a game of pickup basketball, he felt some “slippage” in his hips and noticed he couldn’t slide his feet laterally, as in doing defensive drills. “At first, I thought it was the MS, that it was moving rapidly and it was taking its course,” said Tate. “I couldn’t figure it out. Then, I thought maybe I had just played too long that day. But I knew something wasn’t right so I went back to my doctor.” That’s when he learned that the steroids had caused both hip joints to deteriorate. Fearful of surgery, he procrastinated. “I was thinking ‘I’ll deal with this until I’m 70,’ not grasping the realization of the situation,” he said. “During that whole time, my hips were deteriorating. It went from me doing a casual sprint to not being able to run at all. My hips pretty much folded. I couldn’t spread my legs apart. We’re talking just a minor separation. I could not lift my legs up. Anything to do with the legs, I could not do. At one point, it hurt to walk. Out of a pain scale of 1 to 10, it was like a 15. That’s how bad it was.” Finally, Tate sought out Dr. Cates. “I just trusted him from Day One,” he said. “We just had that rapport. He was like, ‘You want to stop hurting? You need to have the surgery. It’s that plain and simple.’ After talking with him, I got that reassurance. I was tired of hurting. I had gone from being in good shape to being like a 75-year-old man. That just wasn’t working. I got tired. I wanted to stop hurting.”
On April 8, 2015, Kendrick Tate was rolled into an operating room at Parkwest Medical Center. When he emerged, he had two new hips and a new outlook on life. “Now I’m flying and bouncing around. Now, I walk just to be walking. I’m back to being my old self,” said Tate. “Before, you could see the grief, the strain, the stress, the pain on my face, but now it’s like total happiness. To me, it’s a new lease on life. I’m going to enjoy these hips for the rest of my life. I’m going to get my usage out of them.” As for his MS, Tate says it’s under control with medication. “To be honest, I can’t tell I have it anymore,” he said. “Since they put me on medication, it doesn’t hinder me and I still work out and I can still play basketball – maybe not as well as I want to, but I can still play. And that’s enough for me.” That includes, of course, working with Preston on “just the fundamentals, just learning the game, why you are out there, and understanding what you are doing and why you are doing it as opposed to just being on the court,” he says. “It makes it much more fun when you know what you are doing.” No wonder Tate’s son calls him a “fun teacher.” “He tries to tell me how to dribble with two basketballs and also tries to teach me how to do dribble between my legs or behind my back,” Preston said. Dad has learned some lessons, too. “If you are thinking about hip replacement surgery, and know you need to have it and you’re having a lot of pain that’s affecting your daily living, go have it done,” he said. “Things you would normally do you won’t do. I wouldn’t go to basketball games, I wouldn’t go to football games, because it was hard for me to climb the bleachers. It’s life-changing. Get your life back because nobody should be forced to live in pain.”
What is multiple sclerosis (MS)? Thought to be an autoimmune disorder, multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system. It can be relatively benign, disabling or devastating. Some individuals with MS may be mildly affected, while others may lose their ability to see clearly, write, speak, or walk when communication between the brain and other parts of the body becomes disrupted. Patients with MS lose myelin, a fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the nerve fibers, causing scar tissue (also called sclerosis, plaquesor lesions) in multiple areas with MS. When damaged in this way, the nerves are unable to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain. The exact cause of MS is unknown, although genetics, environmental factors and viruses are possible culprits. Because there is no definitive test available to diagnose multiple sclerosis, a probable MS diagnoses can be made by following a careful process to uncover symptoms consistent with MS while ruling out other causes and diseases.
Trouble is, however, that MS symptoms vary widely from patient to patient. They may be mild or severe, of long duration or short. They may appear in various combinations, depending on the area of the nervous system affected. About 50 percent of all people with MS experience cognitive impairments related to their disease. The effects of these impairments may be mild, often detectable only after comprehensive testing, and may include difficulty with concentration, attention, memory and/or poor judgment. Specific treatment for MS will be determined by your doctor based on: ■ Your age, overall health and medical history ■ Extent of the disease ■ Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures or therapies ■ Expectations for the course of the disease ■ Your opinion or preference
Treatments for the conditions associated with MS may include: ■ Medication ■ Clinical trials ■ Assistive technology ■ Rehabilitation activities There is no cure yet for MS. However, there are strategies to modify the disease course, treat exacerbations, manage symptoms and improve function and mobility.
ORTHOPEDIC EXCELLENCE Patients who undergo elective orthopedic surgeries at high-volume, regional hospitals have better surgical outcomes and experience fewer complications than those who undergo those surgeries at local hospitals.* Ask how many joint replacement surgeries your surgeon does and trust your care to the experienced orthopedic surgeons at Parkwest.
TreatedWell.com | 374-PARK Source: Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City) in an analysis of more than 974,000 orthopedic patients. HSS is nationally ranked in orthopedics by U.S.News & World Report and is a multi-year recipient of the HealthGrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award.
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