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West High principal goes global
BUZZ Pond Gap memories Do you have fond memories of shopping at any of the dozen or so old-time neighborhood grocery stores that used to populate Sutherland Avenue from the 1930s to the ’60s in the Pond Gap and Marble City communities? In their day, stores like Noble Brook’s, Stansberry’s Market, J C Knott, Clyde King, Eula’s Cash Store, and others served their customers well. Contact David Williams, president of the Pond Gap Neighborhood Association, at 588-2268 or email dawill64@ yahoo.com
Marco Madness The Marco Madness Medieval Faire at Bearden High School looked like 14thcentury fun and games. But the event, hosted by the school, UT’s Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Tennessee Medieval Faire, was also designed to “push back against the loud talk about STEM,� said Marco Institute director Tom Burman.
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West High School principal Katherine Banner. Photo by Wendy Smith
By Wendy Smith West High School principal Katherine Banner has always emphasized to students that they’re competing globally. Next fall, she’ll serve as an example when she becomes secondary school principal for the GEMS (Global Education Management System) American Academy of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. “What better way put my money where my mouth is,� she says. Banner, who has worked for Knox County Schools for 10 years, will retire at the end of the school year. She landed the new post after deciding to pursue international job opportunities. Her husband, Joe Smallman, has lived overseas, but she never has, and she thought the time was right. She nearly changed her mind when she learned that one of her daughters, Katie Johnson, is ex-
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The other guard Read the story of the other guard, Ed Molinski, Tennessee 1938-40, two-time All-American, College Football Hall of Fame. Robert Lee Suffridge was a bit more famous, a three-time All-American, recipient of the 1940 Knute Rockne Award as the most valuable lineman in the country.
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pecting twins. But her daughters, who both live in Knoxville, encouraged her to accept the twoyear position. Being able to come home for winter holidays and summers helped Banner make the decision. She describes Abu Dhabi as being like Los Angeles without the pollution and the traffic. GEMS is a private American K-12 school with 2,000 students. Like West, it’s an International Baccalaureate (IB) school. Banner hopes to establish a partnership between the two schools. She’s been involved with IB education for 20 years. She was an IB teacher, administrator and parent in South Florida before coming to West five years ago during the first year of the school’s IB Diploma Program. She strongly believes that an IB education gives students a distinct advantage.
In addition to the implementation of the IB program, West has transitioned from being a traditional, compartmentalized high school to a Small Learning Community (SLC) high school. The change facilitated the creation of the Freshman Academy, which is designed to provide both rigor and support for new students. Pairing communities of students with communities of teachers keeps students from falling through the cracks, she says. This is the first year of West partnering with Bearden Middle School on the IB Middle Years Program (MYP), which spans grades 6 to 10. Unlike the IB Diploma Program for grades 11 and 12, which is elective, the MYP is for all students. Banner hopes MYP will result in greater participation in the diploma program.
“It builds confidence in being able to do more rigorous work. My great hope, when we got set to do MYP, was that it would level the playing field.� During her time at West, there have been continuous improvements in ACT scores, and IB scores are higher than the state average, she says. She’s also proud of renovations to the school’s lecture hall and the Doc Simpson weight training center and the new football field house. “It was a difficult decision to leave West because I love this school. It’s like turning your baby over to a babysitter.� At the same time, she feels that the school is in a good place because of the dedicated staff and parental support. “I feel like I am leaving West at a time when it is stable and on the path of continuous improvement.�
South schools: Turmoil spreads as Rountree seeks answers By Betty Bean With major problems at three South Knoxville schools, board member Amber Rountree wants answers. She also wants equity. Rountree has asked Superintendent James McIntyre for a side-byside comparison of class offerings at South Doyle Middle School and Bearden Middle School. “Our kids in South Knoxville deserve equal curriculum opportuRountree nities,� she said. A brave sixth-grader spoke on behalf of students and teachers at last week’s school board meeting in response to proposed class cuts at South-Doyle Middle School for the upcoming school year “All these classes that have been cut are classes that children look forward to during the school day,� she said. “What does this mean for the teachers who taught these classes? These beloved teachers
S.O.R. Losers Catch week two of our 14-week serial story, “S.O.R. Losers,� the story of a misfit sports team written by Newbery Award Winner Avi and illustrated by Timothy Bush. 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!
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have lost their job. Why? Because of the budget, or test scores? Have other middle schools lost their Spanish, keyboarding, music, PE, AVID, focus block, jazz band and singing groups?� She said that students “were crying or screaming from anger and surprise� when they heard the news. Meanwhile, at Mt. Olive Elementary School, parents are repeating last year’s complaints about principal Paula Brown. This year, 113 parents and relatives have signed a petition demanding Brown’s removal. The petition says that the school has lost “a number of great teachers� because of Brown’s actions, and that parents are tired of having their complaints ignored. “How many great teachers do we have to lose before someone steps up and makes a leadership change? Our parents are unhappy, and our children are suffering while our teachers are being bullied. We stand together as parents and as a community in asking for the im-
mediate removal of the principal at Mount Olive Elementary School.� South-Doyle High School has been under interim leadership since principal Tim Berry and assistant principal/head football coach/athletic director Clark Duncan were placed on administrative leave Feb. 8. They are suspended with pay pending an investigation by the Knox County District Attorney General. Rountree says these high-profile problems are overshadowing the good things happening in South Knox schools. She can’t comment on the high school situation, and expressed sympathy for the Mt. Olive parents “who are frustrated by a lack of communication� with the principal and Knox County Schools administration. “These parents came to a board meeting this time last year (with the same complaints). As a board member, I don’t make staffing decisions, but I do pass on what folks share with me.� Rountree has had plenty to say about the impending changes at
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the middle school, though, and in an email she sent to McIntyre the day after the board meeting, she makes it clear that she is not happy with SDMS principal Taiwo Sutton’s decisions nor with how he is communicating with parents. In an April 6 email to parents, Sutton downplayed the changes, which he described as adjustments in class sizes and “minor staffing and programmatic changes� that won’t impact student schedules or related arts classes. Rountree told McIntyre she is “appalled at the administration willfully painting an inaccurate and incomplete picture of the ‘minor staffing and programmatic changes’ at SDMS to students and parents. Furthermore, I find these curriculum changes unacceptable. These changes will not benefit the students. “As you heard yesterday, students are passionate about these classes and without them many of them will lose interest in school. To page A- 2
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With grandmother on her mind By Sherri Gardner Howell There was a definite chill in the air for the Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee Walk on Saturday. The setting, however, screamed “Spring,� so participants had little trouble warming up to the cause. Held at the University of Tennessee Gardens off Neyland Drive, the Alzheimer’s Tennessee Walk drew close to 1,000 walkers and several celebrities, including Alzheimer’s Tennessee champions, Coach Phillip and Vicky Fulmer and their family and Karns High School’s rising star, Emily Ann Roberts. The Fulmer family threw Emily Ann Roberts signs autographs for fans after her performance at the Knoxville Alzheimer’s their support behind the Tennessee Walk. Photos by Jonny Mocan fight against Alzheimer’s more than 10 years ago, and the coach recently shared that the cause is now personal for them as his mother battles the disease. Karns High School student and runner-up in NBC’s “The Voice,� Emily Ann can take a page from the coach’s playbook. She signed on as a Champion of the Cause in honor of her grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Emily Ann performed just before the walk began.
Emily Ann Roberts takes a break before performing at the Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee Walk.
■Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m. each first Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: cwkch.com. ■Family Community Education – Bearden Club meets 10 a.m. each third Tuesday, Central
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With a school that is already struggling with behavior issues, how do you think these curriculum changes will positively impact behavior?� In a Shopper News interview, Rountree said the changes Sutton proposes will disrupt innovative instruction taking place in SDMS feeder schools like the Arts 360 program, which integrates arts and academics. She said the changes are designed to devote more time preparing students to take tests. “They’ve decided to cut related arts programs at a school that is desperately in need of continued positive things,� she said. “Parents
were given misinformation about what the cuts are slated to be. This has nothing to do with the budget, or the school board. They’re reallocating positions to core subjects. That most recent email from the principal didn’t give all the information, and it’s important for parents and kids that we are all on the same page.� Rountree requested a side-by-side comparison of class offerings at SouthDoyle Middle School and Bearden Middle School, saying kids in South Knoxville “deserve equal curriculum opportunities.� Requests for responses from the principals were declined.
Baptist-Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive. Info: Shannon Remington, 927-3316.
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■Family Community Education – Crestwood Club meets 10 a.m. each fourth Thursday, Grace Lutheran Church, 9076 Middlebrook Pike. Info: Ruby Freels, 690-8164.
â– Historic Sutherland Heights Neighborhood Association. Info: Marlene Taylor, 951-3773, taylor8246@bellsouth.net.
â– Pond Gap Neighborhood Association will meet 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21, Coop CafĂŠ, 3701 Sutherland Ave. Info: David Williams, 588-2268.
The Roberts family came out to support Emily Ann and the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. From left are mom Kelly Roberts, Emily Ann, sister Abigail Roberts and father Tommy Roberts.
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Emily Ann Roberts sings for walkers supporting Alzheimer’s Tennessee at the UT Gardens. Photos by Jonny Mocan
â– Fourth District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each fourth Tuesday, Bearden Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Info: Chris
â– Lyons View Community Club meets 6 p.m. each second Monday, Lyons View Community Center, 114 Sprankle Ave. Info: Mary Brewster, 454-2390.
â– Third District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each third Thursday, Cedar Bluff Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: Liz Key, 201-5310 or lizkey1@gmail. com; Isaac Johnson, 310-7745 or ijohnso2@gmail.com.
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Catching reading fever at book fest By Sherri Gardner Howell
The Catapults and Sparrows team, composed of Joseph Clark, Jonathan Clark, Danny Mares and Logan McGavic, waits for medieval trivia answers.
Marco Madness at BHS The Marco Madness Medieval Faire at Bearden High School looked like 14th-century fun and games. But the event, hosted by the school, UT’s Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Tennessee Medieval Faire, was also designed to “push back against the loud talk about STEM,� said Marco Institute director Tom Burman.
Wendy Smith The event was originally intended to drum up interest in the Tennessee Medieval Faire to be held in May in Harriman. But Bearden Latin teacher Sandy Hughes hoped it would also open students’ minds to majoring in humanities, rather than STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines. The Marco Institute, one of the biggest centers for medieval and Renaissance studies in the country, offers an undergraduate major and minor, and fellowship opportunities for faculty and graduate students. “Despite all the loud talk about STEM, there’s evidence that people in hightech fields want to hire people in liberal arts fields,� says Burman. “People who are creative, who’ve studied foreign languages and have good communication skills are hugely in demand.� He points out that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter double-majored in physics and medieval history. The fair offered high school students hands-on fun like calligraphy and a catapult competition, and intellectual challenges like medieval trivia and discussions of “Game of Thrones� and “The Hobbit.� For information about the Tennessee Medieval Faire: www.TMFaire.com
Bearden High alum Mariah Helton announces the schedule for the Marco Madness Medieval Faire.
If getting the next generation interested in reading is all about fun, laughter and a few hot dogs thrown in for good measure, the town of Farragut and the Farragut Arts Council is certainly doing their part. The Ninth Annual Farragut Book Fest for Children illustrated the theme “Let Your Imagination Run Wild� in a spectacular way on Saturday, as hundreds of children, plus their parents, grandparents and guests, filled Founders Park. A Dogwood Arts Festival sanctioned event, the book fest did not disappoint in offering time-honored favorites face painting, cookie decorating and a combination storytelling/meet the author. But a new twist was added with the Bright Star Touring Theatre performing “Upcycled Cinderella� and “The Reluctant Dragon� to the delight of children and parents alike. Visiting authors included David Boyce, Bonnie Cadotte, Gayle Green, Thelma Hartigan, Charles Haun, Jennifer Madison and Adele Roberts. Crafts, free hot dogs, lemonade, popcorn and a steady parade of children dressed as their favorite storybook or superhero characters made for a full afternoon of fun and excitement. In conjunction with the event, the Friends of the Knox County Library concluded their used book sale at the Farragut Branch. The book fest was a free event, sponsored by the town of Farragut and
Adele Roberts, author of the Sammy the Skunk adventure books, introduces “Sammy� to introduce to book lovers.
Genny Davis and her goldendoodle, Tilly, promote the Ruff Reading Program. Tilly goes to Northshore Elementary where first graders read to her.
the Farragut Arts Council, with support from Farragut Shopper News, Lenoir City Utilities Board, Elm Hill Meats and Akima Club of Knoxville. Students from area high schools helped out, too, most of them dressed as storybook characters interacting with the children.
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Casey Thornton gets her face painted by fellow Bearden High student David Tapia. Photos by Wendy Smith
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The other guard This is the story of the other guard, Ed Molinski, Tennessee 1938-40, twotime All-American, College Football Hall of Fame. Robert Lee Suffridge was a bit more famous, a three-time All-American, recipient of the 1940 Knute Rockne Award as the most valuable lineman in the country. Later, Suffridge was a first-11 honoree after the first hundred years of football, selected from an estimated 2.5 million former players. He had credibility. Robert R. Neyland said Suff was the best he ever saw. Mo was close. The two guards played in a golden era for the Volunteers, 17 consecutive games without permitting a point. Their
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teams won 31 and lost two. They will be recognized again on Saturday at the Orange and White game when the school presents an inaugural version of its athletic hall of fame. Cheers. Suffridge and Molinski meshed flawlessly in Neyland’s single wing and the 6-2-2-1. They were devastating blockers and devilish defenders. They were opposites as people. What’s more, they didn’t like each other.
We are told that Molinski thought the happy-go-lucky Suffridge was irresponsible or worse. We know what Suff thought of laws, rules and regulations. You may have read in one of my books about the ol’ Vol visiting the newspaper on a very cold night and walking away with a sportswriter’s overcoat. Neither man came from upper-crust. Bob was born in Union County, moved to Fountain City, played brilliantly at Central High. Ed, born in Scranton, Pa., of Polish immigrants, spent time in an orphanage because his mother died young. He grew up in Massillon, Ohio. The father wanted the son to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world. The legendary Paul Brown wanted him to play football. Then high school
coach and father compromised. Ed was a great guard and boxing champ of Ohio. He was an excellent student at UT. He earned his master’s while still playing. He became an assistant coach at Memphis State and a professor in history and geography. He joined the Marines during World War II and became a second lieutenant. Ed returned to coaching and teaching, this time at Mississippi State, and decided he wanted to be a doctor. He needed a specific chemistry credit to get into med school. It wasn’t offered in Starkville. To keep him on the football staff, the athletic director persuaded the president to create the course. This was a life-changing moment. Molinski later enrolled at UT med school, assisted various Memphis high
school football programs and worked as a security guard at the veterans hospital to pay the bills. When he started his medical practice, he became team doctor for Memphis State and several high schools. In his spare time, he was the professional boxing doctor in town. “He truly loved the medical profession,� said son Chuck Molinski. “He worked at it until his death in 1986.� He was 68. There are dozens of Molinski tales and tidbits. He barely survived a copperhead bite at age 5. As a redshirt sophomore with the Vols, he was a volunteer policeman in Ohio – during the infamous 1937 steel mill strikes. Three people died. Hundreds were injured. His father was a striker. There was a MolinskiSuffridge fight that never
happened. Neyland vetoed it. Ed was captain of the UT boxing team. There was a late evening when Molinski and Suffridge reconnected for a minute, long distance, in an identity crisis. Chuck Molinski remembers it well. “The sheriff’s office in an East Tennessee county called our home and Mom answered. The caller said Ed Molinski was in jail for hitting a restaurant waitress. “Mother looked over at Dad and said ‘My husband is right here next to me. There must be some mistake.’� Upon further investigation, it was found that Suff had told the police he was that famous Tennessee guard, Ed Molinski. If there was a book about the other guard, would you read it? Marvin West invites reader response. His address is westwest6@netzero.com
Airport attorney Foster keeps his feet on the tarmac Bruce Foster Jr. came by the legal profession naturally. His grandfather, E.G. Foster, and his father were both attorneys. But the younger Foster didn’t know anything about representing airports before he was hired as attorney for the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority in 1987. He learned on the job, he says. Bruce Foster Sr. settled in Knoxville after law school, and Bruce Foster Jr. was a member of the second class to graduate from West High School. He went on to UT for his bachelor’s and law degrees. He hoped to learn to fly during his Army service, but never had the opportunity. Signing on as airport authority attorney didn’t increase his time in the air. One of the first things he wanted to know after taking the position was if he’d get
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to fly for free. The answer was no. Changes at McGhee Tyson Airport during Foster’s 29-year tenure have impacted the entire region. Renovations to the terminal, completed in 2000 at a cost of $78 million, were complicated because the airport had to operate while the new terminal was being built on the same footprint. But construction wasn’t complicated from a legal standpoint, he says, and he’s pleased with the final product. The airport’s fountains, crab orchard stone and
He’s also worked on glass etched with tulip the $110 million airport poplar leaves echo the modernization proarea’s natural charms. gram, which includes “It’s a tribute to the several renovations to board at the time. They the airport’s runways were determined that and taxiways. Constructhe airport should retion began in 2014 and flect the local culture is expected to be comand be a gateway to East pleted in 2020. Tennessee.� Foster will retire Aircraft maintenance from his airport authorhangars, built for Contiity post in October, but nental Airlines in 2000 will continue to practice and Northwest Airlines with Bass, Berry and in 2002, were more difSims. He hopes to have ficult. Multiple state more time to fish, and if and federal regulations, along with local building Bruce Foster Jr. with his grandfather’s law books at Bass, Berry and he can get his wife, Betsy, to retire from M.S. and electric codes, made Sims Photo by Wendy Smith McClellan, he’d like to it a challenge to meet the needs of the airlines. frequently that there was a eyed� about the upcoming travel. He also plans to visit old “We wanted for them running joke about the air- Smoky Mountain Air Show to have what they wanted, line “du jour.� That’s settled on April 16 and 17. They friends at the airport. “It’s been a privilege to within reason.� down some, he says. likely don’t understand Foster prepares contracts Changes continue at their grandfather’s role in work with some of the best, for airlines when they begin McGhee Tyson, and Foster preparing contracts for the most professional and most offering service from Mc- is involved with exciting many performers, vendors accomplished people I can Ghee Tyson. At one time, future events. He has two and staff required for the imagine being gathered into one organization.� the companies changed so grandsons that are “wild- event.
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Beavers may chair GOP delegation A view of Neyland Stadium from high above Knoxville.
Veterans The 20th HonorAir flight was scheduled to depart Knoxville this morning (April 13) carrying a plane filled with veterans and volunteers on their way to Washington, D.C. Mike Pettit is one of the veterans on board and is thankful for the opportunity to make the trip. He was at a recent presentation when LifeStar donated a Zoll E Series cardiac monitor to Eddie Mannis of HonorAir for the trips. HonorAir takes veterans, free of charge, to the nation’s capital to see the memorials built to recognize the sacrifices they made for their country. The equipment will allow the paramedics, nurses and physicians who fly with Honor Air to quickly diagnose and treat cardiac emergencies before the arrival of an ambulance. LifeStar personnel ac-
Vietnam veteran Mike Pettit gets ready to take flight in a LifeStar helicopter over Knoxville. Photos by R. White
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company the group on each trip. Since HonorAir began in 2007, more than 2,500 WWII, Korea and Vietnam veterans have taken the free, one-day trip. Medics Matt Owens, Rocky Walker and Kay Kirkland represented LifeStar at the event. Following the presentation, I had the opportunity to chat with Pettit briefly. When asked what he wanted to see the most while in Washington, Pettit got choked up and said that seeing the memorials means a lot to him. He talked a little bit about his service in Vietnam. I learned that he was a graduate of West High
GOSSIP AND LIES ■Beth Harwell will be in Maynardville on Saturday, speaking to the Union County Lincoln/Reagan Day Dinner at 6 p.m. at the high school. ■It’s not often that the third most powerful person in the state visits Union County.
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■Wonder if she will mention state Rep. Jeremy Durham? He’s being investigated by a House committee and the state attorney general for inappropriate contact with women – staff, interns, lobbyists, etc. ■Harwell’s response to AG Herb Slatery saying Durham may pose a continuing risk to unsuspecting women was to move his office out of the War Memorial Building to a space across the street. ■Durham, meanwhile, has filed for re-election. I guess U. S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais has benchmarked a new low for personal accountability. Don’t resign and load up opponents to win a primary plurality. – S. Clark
School and the University of Tennessee who learned to fly planes in Knoxville before joining the Air Force, in which he served five years. In Vietnam, Pettit flew a C7A Caribou and remembers flying in dangerous zones, often right at the tops of the tree line. He said Vietnam was a beautiful place but not an ideal place to be in war time. Pettit was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service. Pettit left home when his youngest was just nine months old. His wife would send tapes of the baby and the family talking for him to listen to while overseas. When he finally returned, an older child mentioned dad being home, and that once-young-baby went and
grabbed the tape player – her only knowledge of her dad. And that’s when I choked up. At the end of the donation event, LifeStar gave veterans an opportunity to ride in the helicopter over Knoxville. Pettit jumped at the chance to ride in the cockpit, having flown an aircraft during his military service. I jumped at the chance to ride along and capture pictures of him and of Knoxville so he could remember the day for a long time. When we landed back at the hanger, Pettit and I said our goodbyes and shared a hug. It was truly an honor to have met Mike Pettit and to say thank you for his service to this country.
Studying war and other tales Scholars at the University of Tennessee are preserving war stories from veterans of A m e r i c a ’s conf licts, not from the “top down,� but from Cynthia Tinker the “bottom up,� making UT a national center for the military records of people who actually participated in America’s battles. The Center for the Study of War and Society is collecting letters, diaries, photos, memoirs and small unit histories. Interviewer Cynthia Tinker says it’s a labor-intensive project with World War II research available online at dlxs.lib.utk.edu/f/fa_spc She spoke recently to the North Knoxville Rotary Club at Litton’s. The office is headed by Vejas G. Liulevicius, history professor who also attended. But Tinker, the program coordinator, got both laughs
and maybe a few tears as she read transcripts of the interviews with veterans. She told of one “Forrest Gump� interview – a UT grad in geology who happened along at juncturepoints in history. He was working in Iran and got out just one week before the hostage takeover. He was helped by the Canadians. On his travels he met Queen Frederica, Orson Welles and the Beatles. He ended most statements with, “But I didn’t know who (they) were.� Since the project began in 1984, the UT scholars have received thousands of contributions. “We are always looking for more donations,� said Tinker. To preserve items in UT’s collection, phone 865-9740128 or email csws@utk. edu/ The Center is based in room 220 Hoskins Library. Donors are always welcomed. A special fund memorializing Hop Bailey Jr. has been established.
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Most recently, the Center launched a digital veterans oral history project. Audiotapes of 25 years of interviews were digitized and mounted online for the broadest possible dissemination by UT Libraries. The data are available to all, from professional military history authors to high school kids working on a class project. Information can be searched by interviewee, subject, geographic region or other keywords. The Center’s staff have recorded more than 300 hours of veterans’ interviews. It’s history that’s getting away as veterans die. There’s a sense of urgency on the part of the scholars to talk with as many veterans as possible.
Knoxville resident Susan Richardson Williams, a Jeb Bush candidate for delegate on March 1, was appointed as an alternate for Donald Trump by the GOP state committee at its April 2 meeting. Williams has served on the UT Board of Trustees, TVA Board of Directors and as commissioner of personnel under Gov. Lamar Alexander. She will serve along with former state Sen. Stacey Campfield as an alternate for Trump. Other Knoxville residents going to the GOP national convention as delegates and alternates include former Sheriff Tim Hutchinson for Trump, Sam Maynard for Trump, Ken Gross for Trump, Karen Brown alternate for Cruz, this writer for Rubio, Michael Hensley for Rubio, Party chair Ryan Haynes for Rubio, Ted Hatfield alternate for Trump, Mike Arms alternate for Rubio and Gov. Bill Haslam for Rubio. Former Knoxville resident and UT student body president Steve Gill is a Cruz delegate. The convention opens on July 18 in Cleveland. State Sen. Mae Beavers, from Sumner County (Middle Tennessee) or state Sen. Bill Ketron are being widely discussed Mae Beavers as the possible chairs of the Tennessee delegation. Beavers is a Trump delegate who won the most votes statewide. She would be the first woman to chair a Tennessee Republican delegation at a national convention. The chair is elected by the full delegation and a majority are delegates pledged to Trump. Ketron is also a Trump delegate. â– Meanwhile on the Democratic side, Mayor Madeline Rogero, after staying silent for months on her preference between Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has now come out in favor of Clinton by seeking to be a delegate for her. Knox County Democrats in the March 1 primary split almost evenly between Clinton and Sanders with Clinton carrying Knox County by only 900 votes. If Clinton is elected President, Rogero is expected to take a position in her Ad-
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ministration in 2017 or 2018. Her term as mayor expires in December 2019, and she is ineligible to seek a third term. Being a delegate for Clinton would be a political boost for her to win a job with Clinton. ■Some Knox County Democrats are disappointed and unhappy over Rogero forcing Tank Strickland to resign his position with the city after working for four mayors. Strickland has been an active Democrat over the years, the first African-American to chair the Knox County Commission and a Democrat elected by a bipartisan coalition. He also had a kidney transplant and is in his 60s. Rogero had never voiced any dissatisfaction with Strickland’s job performance during her first term but apparently had not forgiven Strickland for supporting Haslam over her for mayor in 2003. ■Hugh Nystrom, GOP County Commission nominee, had a backyard barbecue at his Westmoreland home a few days ago to thank supporters for his substantial primary victory and to encourage them to continue the effort to the Aug. 4 general election against Democrat Marleen Davis. Over 100 persons attended including county Trustee Ed Shouse and Ann Bailey, sister of Gov. Bill Haslam. ■One really has to admire Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey’s willingness to depart on his own from the second highest office in Tennessee state government after 24 years of service. John Wilder never did it. Many public officials overstay their time. Ramsey leaves on a high note and the voters had not discharged him from further service. Ramsey made a difference in government and has been a very effective leader of the Senate. Sen. Randy McNally, who represents part of Knox County, is mentioned as the likely next Speaker of the Senate. He would be the first Anderson Countian to be lieutenant governor and a heartbeat away from the governor’s office. ■The Legislature is expected to adjourn for the 2016 session by the end of next week at the latest.
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SENIOR NOTES ■Cumberland Estates Recreation Center 4529 Silver Hill Drive 588-3442 Offerings include: Senior Walkers, 10:30 a.m., Monday-Friday. ■Frank R. Strang Senior Center 109 Lovell Heights Road 670-6693 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Offerings include: card games; exercise programs; dance classes; watercolor classes; Tai Chi; blood pressure checks; Mahjong; senior-friendly computer classes. Register for: Veterans Office visit, 11 a.m. Thursday, April 14; registration: 215-5645. Successful Aging/Dementia Issues, noon Wednesday, April 20. Covenant Health Lunch and Learn: “Understanding the Most Recent Advances in Cancer Treatment,� noon Wednesday, April 27; $5 includes boxed lunch; RSVP to 541-4500. ■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 10:3011:30 a.m. Monday-Friday. Spring Fling and Bake Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, April 14. Register for: Smokies Baseball Game and Brunch, Wednesday, April 20; register before Wednesday, April 13. Galaxy/Android Phone or Tablet class, 10 a.m.noon Monday-Tuesday, April 18-19; cost: $25. Pinterest/Twitter/Instagram class, 10 a.m.-noon Monday, April 25; cost: $15.
Lewis Frelan Goddard, was born on May 9, 1924, in Proctor, Vermont. His parents were Carlyle J., then employed in the Vermont marble industry, and Elva Emmons Goddard. The Goddards moved to Knox County in April 1927 and Carlyle Goddard was employed as a draftsman and later as an engineer for a series of marble and construction companies. Frelan first attended grade school at Park City Lowry but completed eighth grade at Smithwood Grammar School. He became active in Harry Metcalf’s Boy Scout Troop 25 when he became 12 years old. An early interest in bird study soon made him an expert in identification of many species and he even developed an ability to nurse sick and injured birds back to health. He matriculated at Central High School in 1939 and continued his interest in the outdoors by his membership in the Hiking Club each of the four years, serving as its president for two years. With World War II capturing the attention of high school seniors in 1942-1943, he joined the enlisted reserves in the Army Signal Corps. In January 1943, he was sent to the Lafayette Trade School in Lexington, Ky. Upon completion of the course in July, he was assigned to Camp Crowder, Mo. In their long-range planning for the largest seaborne invasion in history, cross-channel invasion of Europe which would occur on D-Day, Tuesday, June 6, 1944, the Allied commanders realized the French Resistance movement, the
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HISTORY AND MYSTERIES Maquis, could greatly assist just before and just after the landings. They could stymie the German defenses by destroying the highways, bridges and railroads needed to rapidly move reinforcements to the front. One of the first clandestine branches of the infant OSS (Office of Strategic Services), the predecessor of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), was an operation code-named Operation Jedburgh. Some of the “Jeds� later became CIA directors, including William “Wild Bill� Donovan and William Colby. Recruiters were sent out far and wide to ask for volunteers. Eventually the elite group would number 92 teams with 276 men, 83 of them Americans. Each three-man team was made up of an American or British officer, a French officer and an enlisted radio operator to maintain communications and to coordinate with the central command back in Britain. The teams would parachute into German-occupied France and rendezvous with the Maquis and re-supply them with arms, ammunition, food and other supplies. Although they were told they were to be a top-secret group assigned to extremely dangerous missions, they
recruited their quota of dard prepared to jump. volunteers, Tec 3 L. Frelan When ordered “Go!� he Goddard among them. Godjumped at the very moment dard and his compatriots that the canister detached reported for very rigorous and flew across the back paramilitary training outof the plane entangling itside Washington, D.C., at self in Goddard’s parachute what was once the picturlines. esque Congressional CounSgt. L. Frelan Goddard try Club. fell to his death on Aug. 7, The training included 1944, at only 20 years of a crash-course in converage. sational French to enable French villagers hid his them to communicate readbody from the German ocily with the Resistance and cupation forces until they to “pass� for a French native could bury him with a propif confronted by the Ger- Lewis Frelan Goddard er service by their Maquis mans. chaplain. After a rough trans-AtBecause the mission of lantic crossing on the Queen lowing the June 6 invasion, the Jedburghs was top seMary, the officers were sent the Jedburghs were active cret, the Goddard family to Scotland for further as the Allied armies estab- received a notice from his training and the enlisted ra- lished a foothold and then Adjutant General on Aug. dio operators went to Hen- moved through the almost 21, reading “Sgt. Goddard ley on the Thames for ad- impenetrable hedgerows was performing duties that vanced radio training with of France to annihilate the make it imperative that no their British counterparts. German defenders. publicity be given to his They then were sent to Team Ivor, a three-man death. It is therefore reparachute school near Man- team of British Capt. J.H. quested that this informachester where they were Cox, French Lt. R. Colin and tion be divulged to no one required to jump first from Sgt. L.F. Goddard, was the outside of your immediate a balloon gondola and then first of three teams assigned family.� make two jumps from an to central France to orgaIt was months until the airplane, moving in a “stick� nize the French resistance Goddards received a comof five or six men to the door there and to screen the right munication from his comfrom which they jumped. or southern flank of Gen. rade Capt. Cox and learned Each Jed carried an M-1 George S. Patton’s Third the details of his death. LatCarbine across his chest, Army as it raced across er, his body was exhumed a .45 pistol in his belt with France. and re-interred in the U.S. extra clips of ammunition, They boarded their plane Military Cemetery at Draa bag full of emergency ra- in England, flew over the guignan, near Cannes, tions, a first aid kit, a com- Channel and over Norman- France, with about 800 othmando knife and his bin- dy and approached the drop ers killed in action. He was oculars. zone at low level. awarded the Purple Heart The teams jumped from The plane slowed, posthumously. low-flying planes at night to banked in a wide circle and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenavoid detection and assem- the jumpmaster shoved out hower would later observe bled at a pre-arranged area the weapon and equipment that, by arming more than under the observation of the containers. 100,000 young resistance Maquis. Just before the men Unknown to the Jeds or fighters, the Jedburghs had jumped, large metal con- the jumpmaster the chute played a major role in detainers of grenades, plas- and static line of one of feating the Nazis, assemtic explosives, submachine the containers did not de- bling a force equivalent to guns, radios and boots – the tach and the heavy canister 10 Infantry Divisions. paraphernalia of guerilla whipped back and forth on Note: Sgt. Frelan Godwarfare – were pushed out the side of the plane. dard was one of three conof the plane ahead of them. The jumpmaster shouted temporaries of Dr. Tumblin In June and July, fol- “Action stations!� and God- who died in World War II.
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Freedom Song uses Passover story to address addiction
By Wendy Smith A musical that draws parallels between being a slave in Egypt and being a slave to addiction will be staged at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, at Heska Amuna Synagogue, 3811 Kingston Pike. “Freedom Song” was written in 2005 as part of a Music in Recovery program at Beit T’Shuvah, a nonprofit addiction treatment center in Los Angeles. It tells the story of a Jewish family’s struggle with an addicted daughter during Passover, as well as the story of a group of Jewish addicts who are each on a personal exodus from the slavery of addiction. The performers are part of a revolving cast of recovering addicts. After the show, performers share their stories and facilita-
The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, … and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail. (Isaiah 58:11 NRSV) April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. (“The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot)
The cast of “Freedom Song” is composed of recovering addicts.
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tors engage the audience in a discussion. Heska Amuna Rabbi Alon Ferency saw the production several years ago and is thrilled that it’s coming to Knoxville. “I love the music. It’s a
ciated with addiction. The message of the musical is that any family can struggle with addiction, no matter what faith they practice or how normal they seem. A $5 donation is suggested.
beautiful production, and you walk away singing it.” He thinks the message of the story is important for everyone in the community. A promotional video for “Freedom Song” points out that Jews are rarely asso-
Hope for the Lakota
By Nancy Anderson
West Towne Christian Church members held their annual Wheels and Deals fundraiser on April 9. While the “wheels” portion suffered in numbers (down nearly 20 entries from last year due to biting cold) the “deals” portion (held in the gym) drew an estimated crowd of over 1,000. Proceeds will help cover traveling expenses for a youth mission trip to the Lakota reservation in Wamblee, South Dakota, this June. Approximately 23 teens and adults will travel two days by bus to the reservation, the most povertystricken county in America. They will bring with them balls, kites and teddy bears in an effort to lift spirits and deliver messages of hope. “Last year was our first year going and it was really kind of shocking to see the level of poverty and hopelessness these people live with every day,” said youth minister Marshall Barnett. “There are 2.2 million acres and there are only
Spring heartbreak
T. S. Eliot was right. April will break your heart. There are, so I’m told, people who are sad in the autumn. Death, they claim: the dying year. The leaves turn gold and russet and scarlet, and then fall to the earth. Winter will be next, they say. I am a child of the autumn, so it is life to me: sparkling skies and rustling leaves and cool evenings and a fire in the fireplace. April, on the other hand, always makes me sad. I have no idea why that is. There have been many happy occasions in April throughout my life – my brother Warren’s April birthday, the birth of my daughter Eden, my marriage to my wonderful Lewis and his own April birthday – but there is an ache around the heart that I can’t define. Maybe it is the beauty of the reborn world, the
West Towne Christian Church youth minister Marshall Barnett and members of the youth ministry attend the annual Wheels and Deals fundraiser held at the church April 9. Pictured are (front) Joseph Toro and Barnett; (back) Noah Redmond, Alec Bean, Abby Green and Emma Everence.
40,000 people left, because the life expectancy is only 45 years or so. “The suicide rate is ridiculously high. Between December 2014 and June 1, 2015, there were nine teen suicides and over 150 attempted suicides. “With 90 percent unemployment there’s nothing
Cross Currents
Lynn Pitts
freshness and the promise, the flowers and the budding trees. I love the dogwoods, with their nail-scarred petals, and the redbuds which flower into the purple of the mocked King’s robe. Maybe part of my ache is our own American history: the Civil War began in April, and ended four years later in April. I spent two years of my life just outside Gettysburg, steeped in the reality of those haunted battlegrounds. My father’s younger brother learned of my brother’s April birth while in a foxhole on Okinawa. Eliot was right!
their present circumstances. “It starts with a little bit of laughter and grows into a full-on belief that there is hope, there is a future out there for them.” Information: www.follow jesus.org
for them to strive for. Even if they do graduate from high school, there are no jobs for them. “We want them to know that what’s going on right there immediately around them is not the end. There is something so much better out there for them if they’ll hang on and look beyond
FAITH NOTES Fundraisers ■ Ebenezer UMC, 1001 Ebenezer Road, will hold a Mission Day fundraising event 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 16. Includes UMC Women’s rummage sale; Men’s Club Barbecue and “Roots” Youth ministry. Info/order barbecue: 691-8330 or eumcknox.org.
Meetings/classes ■ 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.
Includes quiet reflection, simple music and readings. Info: westsideuuc.org.
Vendors/ consignors wanted ■ Central Baptist ChurchBearden, 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.
Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, hosts Morning Breakfast and Afternoon Hang Out for youth each Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 6901060 or beaverridgeumc.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 addiction, 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. ■ Knoxville Christian Arts Ministries will present “Emmanuel” 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in the Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church Sanctuary, 9142 Kingston Pike. Free concert. Info: knoxcam.org.
Special services ■ Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road, holds meditation services 6:30 p.m. each second and fourth Wednesday.
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A date with the dads at Bearden Elementary By Sara Barrett Bearden Elementary School student council hosted its first father/daughter dance March 31, and dads were tearing it up with their little girls on the gymnasium floor. A DJ spun hits fit for both generations, and dads rested on the sidelines at times
while their girls danced the conga to Justin Bieber. Refreshments and craft projects were available. Admission was one dollar per person, and each daughter received a longstemmed red rose. All proceeds will help fund a new BES logo planned for the gym floor.
CALL FOR ARTISTS ■ Knoxville Photo 2016 Exhibition: juried exhibition of photographic works to be held June 3-24 in the main gallery of the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Entries must be original works completed within the last two years. Entry deadline: Sunday, April 17. Info/application: knoxalliance.com/photo.html. ■ Request for Proposals: permanent work of art to be located on the west wall of the underground section of The Emporium Center. Open to all artists. Deadline for applications: 5 p.m. Monday, May 2. Application: knoxalliance.com/underground.html. Info: 523-7543 or lz@knoxalliance.com. ■ The Tennessee Arts Commission is accepting application for its Arts Build Communities (ABC) grants until 4:30 p.m. (CST) Friday, July 1. The grants will be distributed throughout all arts disciplines as recognized by the Tennessee Arts Commission, including dance, music, opera/musical theatre, theatre, visual arts, design arts, crafts, photography, media arts, literature, interdisciplinary and folk arts. Info: Suzanne Cada, 523-7543 or sc@knoxalliance.com.
REUNION NOTES ■ Halls High classes of 2005 and 2006 combined reunion, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, Knoxville Hilton. Tickets: Eventbrite.com. ■ Historic Knoxville High School all classes reunion, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 30, at Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Guest speaker: Rick Dover of Dover Development Company, current renovator of the Farragut Hotel, will speak on the development of the Historic Knoxville High School building into Senior Living Units. Info: Wayne Smith, 696-9858. ■ Powell High Class of 1962, 2-6 p.m. Saturday, April 16, Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 7225 Old Clinton Pike.
Sariyah Hayden and her dad, Jordan, are color-coordinated for their special evening out. Photos by S. Barrett Cindy Ye gets some assistance from her dad, Pinghao, at the craft table during the father/daughter dance.
S.O.R. Losers
Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush
CHAPTER TWO: Story So Far: South Orange River Middle School has created a special seventhgrade soccer team for a bunch of guys who have no interest in sports. Ed Sitrow, unwillingly designated goaltender, tells what happens. The ride to Buckingham Junior High’s soccer field the next day was strange. We were not the only team going. Two other soccer teams, our regular eighth-grade team as well as the sixth-grade team, were on the bus. Everyone sat with their own group. The other kids were all moody, worried, like they were playing the game in their heads. As for us, we were relaxed, looking out windows, telling jokes, talking about this and
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that. I mean nobody wanted to even think about what was going to happen. Then, when we arrived, the other kids jumped to their feet all excited, with lots of laughing, shouting, pounding each other on backs, like they wanted to get out. Now it was our turn to sit moody and glum. The bus driver turned around and looked at us. We were the only ones left. “Hey, guys, this is it.” “Can’t we go to the next stop?” asked Porter. The bus driver thought the remark was a joke. We didn’t. So it was that on a chilly, gray September afternoon we stepped from the bus and
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■ Sultana Descendants Reunion, 7-9 p.m. Friday, April 22, Mount Olive Baptist Church, 2500 Maryville Pike. Includes speakers and music. Public welcome. Saturday, April 23 events: Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Sultana monument, 3 p.m., at the monument; banquet, 7 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Cost: $22. Info: Norman, shawclan4@bellsouth.net.
slouched toward the Buckingham field. The leaves were just beginning to turn. Our stomachs already had. Right then and there, I knew why I was opposed to capital punishment. I not only wanted to live, I firmly believed I was innocent. We all were. Our only crime was that we didn’t like sports much. Worse, we actually preferred other things. Not everything. Some things. For example, Saltz was keen on his writing, and only okay in biology. Lifsom was gung-ho about art, but his grades were generally just so-so. Fairly normal. Or so we thought. Watching football, rooting for teams, stuff like that, just wasn’t important to us. True, Fenwick was a whiz at poker, and claimed that was a sport, but he didn’t get much support. You’d think not being into sports was antihuman, or worse, un-American. How? By the notion that playing sports isn’t fun. Fun. It reminded me of a class trip to the A.S.P.C.A. Someone asked a woman there if they ever had to kill an animal. “Oh, no,” she said with a big smile, “we just put them into a long, long sleep.” After two practices, we could tell that we were heading into a long, long sleep. When we got to the field, the Buckingham team was already lying in wait. Mr. Lester went to speak to the other coach. Maybe to warn him. As he left, he said, “Get yourselves ready.” Get ready? Get lost is what we wanted to do. Out in the middle of the field, the referee was showing off, kicking the soccer ball up in the air with alternate feet and never once letting it touch the ground. We watched. “Think he’s open to a bribe?” wondered Hays. “Why not just get him for our team?” Saltz said. “Do an exchange,” offered Radosh. “We’ll ref. He’ll play.” “Sure,” said Porter, “but then we’d have to know the rules.” Porter had a point. Then we watched the Buckingham team. They were kicking the ball to each other as if it were on a guide wire. “I think they know how to play,” said Root, clearly upset by the possibility. “Maybe we should ask for lessons, instead of a game,” put in Dorman. With that, we all started to laugh. And couldn’t stop. Mr. Lester hurried back. When he saw us in the midst of our fit, he got worried. “Is something the matter?” he asked. “Root here,” said Hays, “had this idea that we were going to play those guys. It broke us up.” “Why, yes,” said Mr. Lester, perfectly serious. “They are the opposing team.” “What are they, all-stars?” asked Eliscue. “Oh, no,” said Mr. Lester, alarmed. “It’s their third-string seventh-grade team. Perhaps, gentlemen, you should warm up.”
“When you’re cold, you’re cold,” said Barish. It was such a bad joke we stopped laughing. “Does everybody know what position he is playing?” asked Mr. Lester. We did, sort of. During the second practice, book in hand, he had placed us around, but I wasn’t sure of the position names, except goaltender. “Now,” said Mr. Lester, “remember the important thing is to . . .” Then, so help me, he forgot what he was going to say. But Mr. Lester was, if nothing else, prepared. Right off, he went to his pocket and pulled out some papers. Notes. “Ah, yes,” he said, and began to read. “It’s important to concentrate. Learn to meet the ball. And, gentlemen, the most important thing of all is—” We never did learn the most important thing of all. The referee blew his whistle. The Buckingham team gathered, their blue jerseys merging into a storm cloud. Out came a thunderous cheer. If that cheer was meant to show us that, although a third-string team, they were real and strong and feeling victorious, that we had every reason to expect defeat, it worked. “How about us doing a cheer?” suggested Mr. Lester. “Shazam,” said Lifsom. Not only was he the only one who said anything, it didn’t work. We were still us. We sort of backed onto the field. Lifsom, who was playing up front in the middle, shook hands with the opposite Buckingham players. Maybe they decided to be nice to us. Anyway, it was our ball for starters. As for myself, I was strolling around in the goal area trying to remember everything I knew about the rules, which wasn’t much. How far could I go? I felt certain I could kick the ball, but on second thought, as well as third through seventh, I wasn’t sure. Was I allowed to touch the ball with my hands or just my elbows? Did knees count? Things like that. In fact, I was pacing along the newly chalked goal lines, with my back to the field, when the whistle blew. I looked up, wondering what had gone wrong. What had gone wrong was, the game had begun. Now, the way it works, I think, or is supposed to work, is that Lifsom, being up front and middle, sort of kicks the ball back toward our side — at the moment it was Barish who was behind him — and away we would go. But to give you a full sense of how the game went, all I can say is that somewhere, somehow, between the time the ball touched Lifsom’s foot — I think it was his foot, because, as I said, I hadn’t been watching — and the time it was supposed to reach Barish, Buckingham had already stolen the ball. They didn’t just steal it. They kept it. Forever. When I looked up, I saw this wall of storm-blue shirts rolling down the field, in my direction! (To be continued.)
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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SCHOOL NOTES ■West Hills Elementary participates in the following programs to help raise money for the school: General Mills “BoxTops for Education,� Campbell’s “Labels for Education,� and linking Food City ValuCards, Kroger Plus Cards and Target Red Cards to the school for points. Info: 539-7850.
Kindergartners Tori Caithness, Morgan Franklin, Yuta Oku and Sofya Ievleva can’t contain their excitement before running laps in the Leopard Glow Run.
SPORTS NOTES
UT volleyball players Taylor Johnson and Kayleigh Moody visit with kindergartner Macy Morgan while volunteering at the Glow Run.
â– Hardin Valley Academy Baseball is hosting a golf tournament fundraiser at Gettysvue Country Club on Monday, April 25. Fees: $125 per person or $500 per team. Deadline to enter: April 18. Info/registration: 518-1286 or shaneparks08@att.net.
Glow Run helps A.L. Lotts If the students have anything to say about it, A.L. Lotts Elementary School’s first Leopard Glow Run will be the first of many. The school parking lot was converted into a track during the fundraiser, complete with an inflatable finish line courtesy of Knoxville Track Club. PTA president Janet Morgan says each student took pledges from friends and family to run a maximum of
Sara Barrett 25 laps. Turner Orthodontics supplied a DJ, Kroger supplied fresh fruit and Costco donated bottled water. Proceeds will help cover teachers’ classroom expenses, playground upkeep, etc.
In addition to the monetary benefits, though, Morgan says the run also teaches students about fitness and treating your body right. Gym teacher Chad Cross walked the students through stretches prior to their laps with the help of UT’s ROTC members. “Remember to smell the roses and blow out the candles,� said Cross, of the proper way to breathe while completing laps.
Connor Ramey runs laps around the parking lot while waiting for his older sibling to arrive for the Glow Run.
International Club helps bridge the cultural gap that is associated with their country and eat ethnic foods.� This year, student presentations have included Puerto Rico, Mexico, Honduras, China, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Columbia. We’ve had parents help talk about Poland and Vietnam,� adds Meidl. “We’ve also had school staff explain Japan and Bosnia/ Herzegovena. We are starting to see more interest from native English speakers, and that is exciting to see.� Besides “just having a safe place to have fun and to eat great food,� Meidl says the primary benefit of the International Club is relational. “Often, but not always, immigrant and refugee children have a difficult time finding their place in school, especially while their language skills are developing.
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International Club member Vivian Ton works on an art project. Photo by BMS student Elise Kersch
International Club is a place to develop friendships within and across cultures.� More than 50 students have attended at least one club meeting this school year. Meidl says he would recommend starting an International Club to other schools, especially middle and high schools. Farragut Middle School has since started an International Club and Meidl’s youngest son, Timothy, has
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Fleetwood Photo & Digital offers everything for ‘life events’ By Carol Z. Shane “There are a lot of good card shops in Knoxville,” says Frank Distefano, owner/operator of Fleetwood Photo & Digital on Bearden Hill in Knoxville. “But we’re one of the few who offer our own inhouse production team.” Though Fleetwood offers every conceivable type of photographic service – from printing to archiving to framing and much more – Distefano emphasizes his company’s outstanding ability to provide one-of-a-kind notifications for any life event. “We’re working on some sorority recruitment packages now,” says Distefano, pointing to an array of cheerful cards with bright graphics. With his wife, Doris, he’s run the business since 1985. They started out in 1982 as FStop Photo Finishing near West Town Mall and have grown and expanded with changes in the industry. Fleetwood employs its own in-house designer, Alyssa Koontz. “She’s excellent,” says Distefano. The company does occasionally work with other fulfillment houses, but clients can always choose their own custom products, carefully tailored to individual personalities and needs. Fleetwood also offers plenty of ways to “do it yourself” – from printing photos to creating memory books and more. “And if you don’t know what you’re doing they have people all the time to help you!” says West Knoxvil-
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Young Alicia Spiers is one of the helpful assistants found at Fleetwood Photo & Digital. Fleetwood Photo & Digital offers a large selection of custom announcement cards, all designed and made in-house. lian Melody Owen, who sits nearby, working on her own photos at one of four individual kiosks. But in this season of graduations and upcoming summer weddings, those who need “save-thedates” and other similar types of announcements would do well to look to Fleetwood Photo & Digital. “We like the one-onone with the client,” says Distefano. Fleetwood Photo & Digital is open from 10
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native Sarah Moore has always been interested in art, but she didn’t realize she wanted to be a full time artist until Sarah Moore she was half way through graduate school. When working on architectural drawings, Moore says she would find herself thinking about her passion for painting and drawing. “There’s never a moment
when I’m painting that I’d rather be drawing a building,” she says with a laugh. She decided to switch her focus and she hasn’t looked back. She now works for a nonprofit in South Carolina while nurturing her career as an artist. Envision Gallery in Bearden at 4050 Sutherland Avenue will host Moore’s solo exhibition “Find Ourselves” April 22 through May 20. An opening reception will be held 5-8 p.m. Friday, April 22. Refreshments and wine will be served, and a violinist will perform. Moore’s paintings are done in acrylics and feature
nature, people and travel. “I learned to paint in oil like most artists, but it didn’t dry quickly enough for me,” she says. Moore also creates drawings from India ink and fine art markers. They will be included in the show as well. It isn’t a coincidence the show’s opening falls on Earth Day. “Find Ourselves’ reminds us that the root of our existence is the natural environment, and the celebration of that existence is the tie we spend with those we love,” says a press release about the exhibition. Info: envisiongallery.com and smoorestudio.com
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Rotarians team with PSCC choir Dr. Allen Edwards and Dr. Anthony Wise have a few things in common. Edwards is president emeritus of Pellissippi State Community College. Wise is the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current president. Both are members of the Rotary Club of Knoxville. Both accompanied the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choir, Variations, on an eight-day trip to Lima, Peru, and helped raise money for a project for the Lima Sunrise Rotary Club. Rotary is about making connections at home and abroad and this was a 3,345-mile connection between Knoxville and Lima Rotarians. It was the ninth
the benefit raised $1,000, a huge sum for such a small club, Edwards said. Tom The Lima Sunrise Rotary King is an English-speaking club. The choir also did a benefit concert for the Union Church of Lima for its organ fund. The choir is directed trip for the 34-voice college by Meagan Langford, interchoir, there from March im choral director. 4-12. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The students had wonOne of the choirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seven derful experiences. They performances was a benefit learned a lot about Rotary concert for the Lima Sun- and about service projects,â&#x20AC;? rise club. The club is help- Edwards said. ing establish a rural cenThe choirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s repertoire ter outside of Lima to help consists of classical reliyoung boys with behavioral gious music, American folk problems. The Lima club music, popular music, and has only 25 members and African American spiri-
tual music. They have performed at some famous locations in their nine years of travel â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, The BasĂlica of La sagrada Familia in Barcelona and the Berlinerdom in BerlĂn. They have been to Portgual, China, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Germany, France twice and now Peru. Both Edwards and Wise were overwhelmed by the hospitality of fellow Rotarians, including Lima club president Dario Gastelo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The entire tour was a great success with large audiences of school children and adults throughout the week. One of the highlights was the trip to Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan ceremonial site which has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO,â&#x20AC;? Edwards said.
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Vascular surgery helps Knoxville resident step out with confidence She had always enjoyed walking, but last summer Mary Hurt had to slow her pace considerably. The Knoxville resident had begun having extreme pain in her calves. “I had problems walking any distance, and I thought I was out of shape – so I tried to walk more,” the Knoxville resident said. “But my calves would cramp after two blocks, and then one block.” A physician friend of hers noted that her problem might be intermittent claudication, Hurt said. “And he said I should see a doctor about it.” Intermittent (meaning the pain comes and goes), and claudication (from the Latin “claudicare,” meaning “to limp”) is a condition in which pain and cramping in the leg is induced by exercise. It is typically caused by obstruction of the arteries. Like the arteries of the heart, small arteries in the legs can develop clots that block the flow of blood. This robs the muscles of oxygen and the result is tired, painful legs. The condition typically gets worse with exercise and better with rest. The reduction in blood flow may be caused by a temporary spasm of the artery or by a permanent artery narrowing due to a build-up of fatty deposits in the blood. The condition is quite common, affecting about one to two percent of the population under age 60 and five percent of people over 65. Hurt went to a vascular surgeon who performed angioplasty in her right leg. An angioplasty is a procedure in which an inflatable balloon is inserted in the artery to improve blood flow. But, within months of the procedure, the pain in Hurt’s legs returned. “I missed going on a trip because I couldn’t feel my toes; they were getting numb every time I walked. I wasn’t getting
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s new “hybrid” operating room, a space that combines a traditional surgical suite with real-time CT and X-ray imaging equipment to bring a state-of-the-art experience to surgery patients. blood circulating to my lower extremities. I could not walk to my mailbox without being in so much pain, remembers Hurt. Hurt sought another surgeon and received a recommendation for Deanna Nelson, MD, a vascular surgeon on staff at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “I went to see her almost immediately,” Hurt said. Dr. Nelson scheduled Hurt to be the first patient at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s new “hybrid” operating room, a space that combines a traditional surgical suite with real-time CT and X-ray imaging equipment to bring a state-of-the-art experience to surgery patients. Among other things, it features the Artis zeego multiaxis imaging system, which delivers highdefinition 3D images for the surgeon. Before her procedure began, Hurt said she was able to look around the new room. “The hybrid operating room is really some-
Q & A with Deanna L. Nelson, MD Q
Who is at risk for claudication? ◊ Smoking ◊ Diabetes ◊ Overweight ◊ Sedentary lifestyle ◊ High cholesterol
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– I am originally from Asheville, N. C., but I went to undergraduate school in Vermont, and medical school and residency at the University of Vermont Medical Center. I did a fellowship in vascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. My husband’s family is still outside Asheville. So we wanted to come to Knoxville to get out of the snow! Actually, I really enjoyed our one snow this year.
◊ High blood pressure ◊ Family history of atherosclerosis or claudication ◊ Older age (55 for men, 60 for women)
Knowing your risk factors to any disease can help to guide you into the appropriate actions, including changing behaviors and seeing your doctor.
What are the symptoms related to claudication? Claudication itself is a symptom of a narrowing or blockage of an artery. Typical characteristics of claudication include:
Q – What’s your clinical expertise? A – I am board certified in general
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high.” Hurt said she would recommend Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center to anyone facing vascular surgery. “The nurses and staff were extremely caring, careful, conscientious and very professional. And I’m not saying that for any other reason than it’s true,” said Hurt. “I’m walking way more than before, and I had not been able to walk any distance at all for four months. It had gotten very limiting, but I’m doing everything normally now,” she said. “My father always said to get a second opinion. I’m glad I did. Dr. Nelson has courage. Her spirit and attitude were so ‘cando,’ – and I love that!” For more information about vascular surgery at Fort Sanders Regional, please call 673-FORT.
Risk factors for claudication include:
– Tell us a little bit about yourself. What brought you to Knoxville?
– I had used the Artis zeego system at Cleveland Clinic, and in my opinion it’s the best system. It’s top of the line, and was installed last fall. It’s fairly complicated to use, but the imaging is wonderful, it allows
thing else to see. It’s incredible,” she said. “My father was chief of staff at Fort Sanders Presbyterian Hospital in the 1970s and it was so wonderful to see this new technology.” Hurt’s procedure lasted more than four hours, with Dr. Nelson placing a total of five stents, tiny tubes to prop the artery open, in her legs. “She was just so determined to really fi x the problem,” said Hurt. “When I woke up I had stents in both my legs, and she had opened up my arteries in my calf area with angioplasty.” Hurt stayed just 12 hours in the hospital and was home that evening. “I was so much better just one week later. I’m like a new person,” Hurt said. “It’s huge – it’s absolutely miraculous! I think very highly of Dr. Nelson; she is something wonderful. Her excellence level is amazingly
us to do a lot of special things and yet exposes patients and staff to much less radiation. The hybrid operating room allows us to be faster, more precise and less invasive, which is better for patients.
◊ Pain, a burning feeling, or a tired sensation in the legs and buttocks while walking ◊ Shiny, hairless, blotchy foot skin that may get sores ◊ Paleness in the limb when elevated and reddened when lowered
◊ Cold feet ◊ Impotence in men ◊ Leg pain that occurs at night when in bed ◊ Pain that occurs at rest may be a sign of increasing severity of arterial disease in the leg(s)
The symptoms related to claudication may look like other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
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MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS - 1998. Public Auction. 2924 Asbury Rd Knoxville TN 37914. April 29 2016. VIN: 2MEFM74W1WX619141. 156,463 mi., $800. (865)523-6230. TOYOTA CAMRY HYBRID - 2009. Very good condition; one owner; heated leather seats; moonroof; current tank average 36 mpg. 123,000 mi., $6,600. (865)771-3644.
Sports and Imports CAMARO 2011, 2SS, 47,600 mi, 426 HP, gray metallic finish, orig owner, like new cond throughout, $19,750. (865) 388-4161 HONDA ACCORD - 2015. Honda Accord EXL Hybrid 2015. 8K mi., fully loaded, 50 MPG, like new, $17,900. Call 423-295-5393. (423)337-0224. Mercedes SL500 2001, Conv. w/hdtop & cover, non smoker owner, gar. kept, 53K mi, $14,500. (865)804-3520 Mini Cooper S 2006, manual trans., 1 owner, gar. kept, all serv. records, like new, 112K mi, loaded, $7400 firm. No trades. Serious inquiries only. (865) 719-0761. NISSAN ALTIMA SV - 2014. 20k mi, sunroof, loaded, alloys, $13,800. (865)660-9191. Scion XB 2006, approx 113K mi, AT, cold AC, white w/black int., good tires & brakes, just fully serviced. Pics on request. Asking $5550. Great grad gift. (865)986-9463. SUBARU LEGACY2016. 3.6 (mid sz. sedan), brand new! 1350 mi. Garaged. Owner must move to CA ASAP. $32k. 931-456-5417 (Crossville).
Sport Utility Vehicles GMC Yukon XL 2014, 4WD, loaded, leather, DVD, 47K mi, exc cond, $31,900. (423)295-5393. TOYOTA RAV4 - 2007. SUV automatic Color Silver/Black 4WD,abs,cc, clean title,non-smoker, for more info please call 673,200 mi., $3,800. (321)405-3914.
Trucks CHEVROLET 3/4 TON PICKUP - 1984. Scottsdale 20, 81k mi., 9.5’ self-cont. camper, $5200. (423)721-5922. CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 2004. 60,600 miles, 2nd owner, exc. shape. $12,000 obo. (423)663-2722. GMC SIERRA 2013. Ext. cab. Loaded, leather, 20” wheels, fiberglass bed cover, 41k mi, Onstar, black, $24,500. (865)607-2228.
SEARAY Sedan Bridge 31’, 2 state rms, twin 5.7 Mercruisers, Westerbeke gen., heat & AC, $25,000. 865-690-9090 VOL NAVY TIME APPROACHING! Go in style with 29 ft. Crownline Cruiser, two Volvo Penta V8’s 250 HP each I/O, galley, head, swim platform, cabins for 4 plus kids quarters, many extras. Lake Loudon, covered slip. $16,900. (423)639-3095 or 423-620-1850.
Campers & RV’s 2004 DAMON LX-400 ESCAPER. 400 Hp Cummins diesel pusher. Only 42K miles. Excel cond. 2 slides. 2 A/C units. 2 baths w/tub. Upgraded flat screen TV’s. Satellite. Dishwasher. W/D. New microwave/conv oven. Kept under cover. Priced to sell at $75,000. 865-567-4542. 2005 Hitch Hiker 29.5’, 3 slides, frpl, 2 flat screen TVs, many access. $17,000 obo. (931) 267-6562. 2013 JAYCO ULTRA LITE travel trailer, 26-foot, fiberglass, two entry doors, one slide, queen murphy bed, bunk beds, lots of extras! $18,900. Call or text for pictures and/or additional information. Call (865)771-0691. 2016 Wilderness 3175RE Travel Trailer. Like new, most options. Slide out, covers. $22,500. 423-257-8307
CAMPERS WANTED
WE BUY CAMPERS • Travel Trailers • 5th Wheels • Popups • Motorhomes
WILL PAY CASH (423)472-3035 FOREST RIVER LEXINGTON GTS 2008 Class B+ 31.5’, Ford E450 V10, Only 15K mi., 12’ slide out, sleeps 6, Onan Gen., satellite ready, exc. cond. $43,000 neg. 865-368-5260. FOUR WINDS RV 2006 - 29’, 2 slides, 36k mi, ext. warr. Very clean. Exc. cond. $29,900. (865)657-9402.
NEW & PRE-OWNED CLEARANCE SALE ALL 2015 MODELS MUST GO!!!!
Vans
NANNY/CHILDCARE PROVIDER - for 3 kids. Looking for someone who will engage with our kids in play, reading, exercise, projects, etc. Boys are currently enrolled in baseball and soccer. Kids love playing outside, riding their bikes/scooters, Normal hours will be 8am-5pm. send your resume and salary expectations to: raymondsnow2@aol.com.
Driver/Transport DRIVERS: CDL-A - Drivers: CDL – A 1 yr. exp., Earn $1,250 + per week, Great Weekend Hometime, Excellent Benefits & Bonuses, 100% No Touch/70% D & H 888-406-9046
(817)462-0798 erlkj@gmail.com DRIVERS: CDL-A - Drivers: CDL – A 1 yr. exp., Earn $1,250 + per week, Great Weekend Hometime, Excellent Benefits & Bonuses, 100% No Touch/70% D & H 888-406-9046
Services Offered General Services
ADVANTAGE REMODELING & HANDYMAN SERVICE JIMMY THE PROFESSIONAL HANDYMAN!!
Can fix, repair or install anything around the house! Appliances, ceramic tile, decks, drywall, fencing, electrical, garage doors, hardwoods, irrigation, crawlspace moisture, mold & odor control, landscape, masonry, painting, plumbing. Any Remodeling Needs you wish to have done or completed!
EMERGENCY SERVICE 24/7 Retired Vet. looking to keep busy.
Call (865)281-8080
DREAM GARDENS
Beautiful & affordable garden designs! Professional installation, exciting outdoor lighting, bed remodeling, topnotch weeding, pruning & mulching. dreamgardens.us Call (865)680-2076
POPUP camper 2010 Starcraft, heat & AC, 1 king & 1 full bed, exc cond, $3800. (865)497-2692.
HONDA ODYSSEY - 2014. Honda Odyssey 2014 Touring, like new, fully loaded, leather, DVD, 31K mi, $26,900. (423)295-5393.
REDUCED. 32’ JAYCO EAGLE Pull behind, bought new 2011, used 4 times, must see, selling due to health $17,000. (865) 696-5153
BARNS - SHEDS GARAGES - CARPORTS PATIO COVERS
SPRINTER KEYSTONE 303 BHS Norris Lake large deck with cover $16500 call-text (423)523-4339.
BUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY FREE ESTIMATES!
MUSTANG 1965, 289 4 spd, 4 barrel carb, rebuilt Jasper eng. w/less than 5K mi, $12,000. (865)588-3064.
2004 HARLEY-DAVIDSON HERITAGE SOFTAIL CLASSIC $8500- SILVERONE OWNER; LIKE NEW! 19,115 MILES. KURYAKYN LEDS, VANCE & HINES PIPES, LIFT, CHROMED OUT! TEXT 865-660-5993 OR EMAIL AT PETEHICMAN@HOTMAIL.COM. Harley Davidson 2007 Custom Deluxe black & silver, exc cond, numerous add-ons, $10,900. 865-679-8334
STREET ROD NATIONALS SOUTH May 6, 7, 8
3000 street rods, muscle cars & classics CHILHOWEE PARK Manufacturers exhibits, arts & crafts, vintage parts swap meet & much more.
HONDA VTXR 1300 2005, 15K mi., Excellent! many extras - VH Pipes, WS & bags. $4400. (865)216-5045. KAWASAKI Ninja ZX1400 2007, only 4400 mi, $8,000 nego. (865)382-8775.
Off Road Vehicles
Farmer’s Mkt/ Trading Post
Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330
763 BOBCAT SKID LOADER, runs strong, good tires, nice machine! $10,900. (865)475-1182.
CONSIGNMENT AUCTION Farm & Construction Equip. Sat. May 7th 10:00 am Andrew Johnson Hwy At intersection of 139. In Strawberry Plains 93% OF OUR EQUIP. WAS SOLD IN OUR FALL AUCTION!
Call to consign your equipment www.edstallings.com TAL 733 Ph: (865) 933-7020
Farm Products
865-986-4264 FANNON FENCING LOADED STARTING @ $9,999 WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER!
FAST $$ CASH $$ 4 JUNK AUTOS
Save some of your hard-earned money without sacrificing speed or quality.
GOAD MOTORSPORTS
865-216-5052 865-856-8106
East Tennessee’s largest
CFMOTO DEALER
Auto Parts & Acc 4 2002 4-RUNNER MAG wheels w/ Michelin LTX tires. $500. (865)556-3722. (4) 19” all chrome Ford wheels with 255x45 tires off Taurus Ltd. $700. (865)806-3648.
Mechanic On Duty Full Service Center Parts & Accessories I-75, EXIT 134 Just Behind Shoney’s
Call 423-449-8433 www.goadmotorsports.com
Hunt/Fish Supplies
AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD PUPS Toy / Mini, champion bloodline. (865) 322-5545. www.dollsanddogs.com
Jewelry: Costume/Fine
CHIHUAHUA pup, female, 7 wks, shots, dewormed, reg., very playful, $250 cash. (865)240-3254
GREAT SELECTION OF FINE JEWELRY AND GEMSTONES - symbolicbeginnings.com (865)406-1857
Apartments - Furnished
Lawn & Garden
WALBROOK STUDIOS 865-251-3607 $145 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV, Ph, Refrig, Basic Cable. No Lease.
JOHN DEERE X475 - 192 hrs, 48” deck, like new. $5495 obo (865)599-0516
Apartments - Unfurn.
Dachshunds Mini, AKC, M&F, Various colors. Long hair. $500-$700. 865266-0237 DOBERMAN PUPS, AKC, Sire XL natl & intl champ - 125 lbs. Great protection, good with kids. $875. Credit cards accepted. 615-740-7909 ENGLISH BULLDOG /OLD ENGISH BULLDOG puppies, females, shots & wormed, $300 each. (423) 271-5129 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS AKC, West German bldlns,3 M, 3 F, vet ck’d. health guar. $700. 865-322-6251. GOLDENDOODLE - precious puppies, great temperament, no shedding or doggie odor, 1st shots & wormed, $875. (865)466-4380 GOLDENDOODLES F1 & F1B pups, CKC reg, UTD on shots, health guar. $700. (423)488-5337. HAVENESE PUPS AKC, home raised, health guar. 262-993-0460. noahslittleark.com
NEWFOUNDLAND PUPS AKC reg., 2 M, 1 F, choc. (brown), exc. quality, $1300. (865)924-2180; 865-230-3049.
PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles, Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots & wormed. We do layaways. Health guar. Go to Facebook, Judys Puppy Nursery Updates. 423-566-3647 SCHNAUZER mini pups, 6 wks, shots, dewormed, reg, $400 cash each. (865)240-3254 SHELTIE PUPPIES - AKC reg., parents on site, 6 wks. old. $200. Call (865)984-4770. SHIH TZU puppies, AKC, beautiful colors, Females $600; Males $500. Taking deposits. 423-775-4016 YORKSHIRE TERRIERS CKC - 1 male, 1 teacup fem. Black & tan. $600-$800. (865)201-1390
We build all types of Farm Fencing and Pole Barn. *WOOD & VINYL PLANK *BARBED WIRE *HI-TENSILE ELECTRIC *WOVEN WIRE, *PRIVACY FENCING, ETC.
(423)200-6600 WANTED TO BUY STANDING SAW TIMBER 865-719-1623
Livestock & Supplies STOCK COW SALE . 42 HD most Angus & bred to Reg. Angus Bull. Sat April 16 @ 1pm. Farmers Livestock in Greeneville, TN. 423-552-3278
Real Estate Rentals
1 BR APARTMENT TALIWA GARDEN South (off Chapman Hwy) Ground level, new carpet $495 577-1687
Med Equip & Supplies POWER MOBILITY CHAIR never used, $3000 frm. (865)689-4452
Merchandise - Misc.
1 BR POWELL SPECIAL
CLOSING HAIR SALON - All equipment for sale incl: washer & dryer. Call for details. (865)660-4016.
• No Pet Fee • Water Paid, • All appls, $520/mo. Phone 865-938-6424 or 865-384-1099
KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS! Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers/KIT Complete Treatment System Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com (618)351-7570
1,2,3 BR $355 - $460/mo.
Metal Buildings 8X10 Metal Shed $200 865-258-5687
Beautiful toy puppies, apricot or white, $350-$450. Shots. 865-717-9493
GREAT VALUE RIVERSIDE MANOR ALCOA HWY 970-2267
Tickets/Events BATTLE AT BRISTOL TRANSFERS Roundtrip bus transfers to Bristol Motor Speedway 9/10/16 - UT vs VT - $85. Hotel/ticket packages available. ActionJacksonSportsTours. com (888)346-7226
Tools CRAFTSMAN band saw $250; Gershner machinist tool chest & tools $1800. (865) 661-4011
*Pools, Laundries, Appl. *5 min. to UT & airport www.riversidemanorapts.com BROADWAY TOWERS 62 AND OLDER Or Physically Mobility Impaired 1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site. Immediate housing if qualified. Section 8-202. 865-524-4092 for appt. TDD 1-800-927-9275
Wanted MORNINGSIDE GARDENS I BUY DIABETIC TEST STRIPS! - OneTouch, Freestyle Lite, AccuChek, and more! Must not be expired or opened. Call Daniel today for Local Pickup: (865)383-1020
Merchandise
1 BR Apt Now Available ELDERLY OR DISABLED COMPLEX A/C, Heat, Water & Electric Incl, OnSite Laundry, Computer Center & Resident Services Great location! On the Bus Line! Close to Shopping! Rent Based on Income, Some Restrictions Apply Call 865-523-4133. TODAY for more information
Adoptions Antiques ASIAN Antiques exquisitely handcarved High Dresser w/Mirror, Twin Beds (2) w/Night Stand, $3100. Mint cond. 865-249-3175 French Antique Louis XV queen/king bed, ivory, antiqued gold, new uphol, $3100. French Antique Louis XV arm chairs (2), ivory, antiqued gold, new uphol., $600. Mint cond. French Antique lamp table, inlaid wood, 27” dia., $275. 865-249-3175
Appliances
GOOD AS NEW APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty
865-851-9053
2001 E. Magnolia Ave. Cemetery Lots 2 CEMETERY PLOTS, Highland Memorial, Sutherland Ave. Veterns Garden sec., $5000 obo. (865)933-1793. 2 LOTS & 1 open & close at Highland Memorial Cemetery. $7500. (865)933-1700 2 lots together in Oak Ridge Memorial Gardens in Garden of Devotion. $2,000 each obo. (865) 255-7947 4 LOTS together in Highland Memorial on Sutherland in Gospel Garden sec. $2300 each nego. 865-361-7952 CEMETERY LOTS - Spaces 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Lot 29 Section C Family Burial Estate in the Garden of Moses, Eastview Memorial Gardens 1320 Andrew Johnson Hwy, Strawberry Plains, TN 37871 $4,400 or $1,100 per space. (720)272-1399
Collectibles TENNESSEE LICENSE PLATES 1941 thru 1953, good cond. $65 each. Others avail. (423)244-7039.
Logs2Lumber.com
Vehicles Wanted
WE BUY HOUSES Cash Paid, Immediate Closing No Home Inspections Call David Cate, (865)257-3338.
SAGE flyrods, lengths 8’6” thru 9’0”, line wts 5 thru 9, total 6 rods, $325 each. Ray (865) 389-4495
Farm Equipment
USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL
WANTED 1946-75 Chevy Conve.; 194675 GM Conv.; 1970-76 Chevy or GM 2 dr.; 1967-73 Camaro. Any condition. Fast cash. (330) 722-5835.
TALL KITCHEN TABLE W/BAR STOOL CHAIRS - 8 chairs with drop leaf in table. brown top black legs. good condition (865)964-1320
AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD MINI PUPS, black tri male, $700, Blue Merle fem. blue eyes, $1000. Good bloodlines, can be registered. 865-924-4579.
Farm Buildings
AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER
VW Beetle 1979, Conv., very orig., bumblebee yellow, beautiful, 75K mi, $12,500. (865) 257-3338.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY Large tracts of land for development. Farms, timber or recreation property OK; CASH PAID; Decisions made quickly. Confidential response to David Alley OA 865-389-7361.
Announcements
FORD FREESTAR 2004 X-Clean, $2200. Call (865)806-9933.
Motorcycles/Mopeds
AIREDALE PUPPY WANTED No papers needed (865) 621-8221
LLOYD & Flanders 6 pc set of green wicker. $1500. 865-573-8627; 865414-1969
Landscaping/Lawn Service
Check Us Out At Northgaterv.com or call 865-681-3030
I WOULD LIKE TO BUY a 1970 or 1971 Mercedes 280SL, or a 1961 - 1975 Jaguar XKE, or a Porsche 911, 912 or a 1970s or 1980’s Ferrari. I am willing to buy running or not running. Any Condition. I’m a local guy living in Grainger county. If you have one or know of one please call Call (865)621-4012.
Dogs
Real Estate Wanted
MALTI POOS
CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY 2005. 166K mi., new tires, wipers, battery, new fluids, good vehicle, $3500. (865)405-7629.
Classic Cars
Pets
Furniture
Exercise Equipment Sit & Cycle bike $150; Stand up bike $150; Nordictrak power stand, $275. All brand new. (865) 382-8775
Furniture ALL LEATHER LOVESEAT & CHAIR W/ OTTOMAN - Beautiful dark chocolate Thomasville made. For details call. $990 CASH ONLY (865)250-1130 ANTIQUE SOLID WALNUT BUFFET $400; MIRROR, PINE, HUGE W/SHELVES $150 CLAW FOOT DUNCAN PHYFE MAHOGANY DINING TABLE & CHAIRS, $350 (865)604-7349 AFT 6PM LIVING ROOM corner cabinet, 7’H x 30” W, exc cond. $195. (865)288-0374
ADOPT - Raising your baby in our loving home would be a dream come true! Exp Pd. MikeJoannaAdopt. com or 1-888-902-0062
SENIOR OR DISABLED HIGH RISE FACILITY 1 BR APTS. Oak Ridge, TN 865-482-6098
ADOPT: Happily married and family oriented couple, seeks bundle of joy to love unconditionally, cherish forever and completer our family. Expenses paid. Please call Jeff and Jenn 877-440-5111. OUTDOOR, LOVING, ENERGETIC, MARRIED COUPLE Wishing to create our family through adoption. We would love to hear from you. 1-800-691-6309 or text (516)-308-2849 website-lizandtomadopt.com
Homes Unfurnished 3BR, 2BA RANCHER. LR, large eat in kit., deck, carport, off Merchants Rd. near Pleasant Ridge, No pets, $900 per mo. $900 dep. 1000 sq. ft. (865) 254-8417
Real Estate Sales
Blaine/Luttrell. 3 BR, 1 BA, central H/A, country living, no pets, $600 mo + dep. (865) 679-7612
Lake Property
NW. Remod. 2 BR, 1 BA, LR, DR, kit w/ appls, laun w/W&D, $900 mo $900 sec dep. No pets. (865) 806-2731
NORRIS SUNSET BAY LAKEFRONT LOT - Lot #593 Russell Brothers Rd, 0BR, Norris Sunset Bay .69 Acre Lakefront Lot 593 Priced to Sell$104,900. (606)832-4570 UNBELIEVABLE DEAL! Louisville side main channel, deep water, lake front, 3BR, 2BA, 2100 SF w/dual boat slip & hugh party deck above, needs a few updates, Paid 470K in 2007, asking $420,000. Will not last. Call (865)300-5262.
Manufactured Homes
Condos Unfurnished West. Palisades. 3 BR, 2.5 BA, 1750 SF, no pets, 1 yr lease. $900 mo + sec dep & 1st mo rent. (865)539-1589
Duplx/Multplx UnFurn WEST - family neighborhood, w/d connection, 2 bdrm, 1 bath, $680.00 monthly 1 year lease 865-216-5736
EXCELLENT SHAPE 16x70 3 BR, 2 BA, set up in local park. Only $16,900. Call Chris 865-207-8825
I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES 1990 up, any size OK 865-384-5643
For Sale By Owner 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA 2 STORY, 2012 SF, 2 car gar., Farragut Schools, Built in 2004. Yard irrigation, corner lot. Move in ready. $249,900. (865)675-3394. LAKE HOUSE - 4303 Guinn Road, 4BR, MELTON HILL LAKE FRONT 4303 Guinn Rd 4br 3ba on 1.17 ac. 5665111/806-7660 www.eaheerdt.wix.com/lake-house. (865)566-5111 or (865)806-7660. LOUDON, STOCKTON VALLEY RD., 3BR, 2BA Rancher, w/part. finished bsmnt, formal LR & DR, lg. kit, w/ dining area, lg. fam. rm., detached gar. w/shop, huge bldg. 24x24 w/dbl. gar. doors, $240,000. (301)752-3568 .
Real Estate Commercial Commercial Property /Sale NORTH 17,000 SF bldg on 2.25 acres, needs repair. Ideal for entertainment center or church. $275,000. 865-544-1717; 865-740-0990
Wanted to Buy IMMEDIATE ACQUISITION Apartments, commercial income producing Offices READY; INVESTORS seeking 1031 exchange or purchase of income producing real estate, contact AKP properties. David Alley OA 865-389-7361
Commercial RE Lease
NORTH KNOX OFF CEDAR LANE Holirose Lane, 3BR, N.KNOX off CedarLn $127,500. Fenced yard, new flooring, appliances, 3 bdrm. 805.6743 (865)805-6743
672 SF, remodeled, office space or small retail. Off Broadway near I-640. Special incentive for long term lease. $550 mo. (865)696-9555
Lots/Acreage for Sale
Offices/Warehouses/Rent
AVAIL. 15+ ACRES (3) 5 acre tracts, sold together or sep. MPC approved, all util. Halls area. (865)922-7952.
4000 SF Office/Warehouse with dock & drive in, prime location Middlebrook Pk. $3,000 mo. 2000 SF Office/Warehouse drive in bay, Papermill, $1,300 mo.
BEAUTIFUL WOODED LOTS 18 MIN. W OF KNOXVILLE. 3 to 50 acres. $6000 per acre and up. (408)829-7398
865-544-1717; 865-740-0990
ACTION ADS 922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378)
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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.
THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 16 Online registration open for the Marine Mud Run, to be held Saturday, Sept. 17. Individual waves, 8 a.m.; team waves, 11:30 a.m. Course: 3 miles of offroad running, which entails some obstacles, hills and mud pits. Registration deadline: Friday, Sept. 16, or until total registrants reaches 3150. Info/registration: knoxmud.org.
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, noon-1 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,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Janie Bitner. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892. Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection luncheon: “Celebrate Your Birthday in Fashion,” 10:30 a.m., Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Featuring a spring fashion show from the Silk Purse Studio. Speaker: Rhonda Weaver will present “A Lawyer’s Search for Truth.” Cost: $12 inclusive. Complimentary child care by reservation only. Info/reservations: 315-8182 or knoxvillechristianwomen@gmail.com. “Landscaping with Native Plants,” 6:30 p.m., UT Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Ave. Presented by horticulturalist Hank Bruno. Free event; donations are welcome to help support the UT Arboretum Society and its programs. Info: 483-3571. 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, 3825822.
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. Cyndis Genealogical Source List, 1-3 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Instructor: Eric Head, BA, Knox Co. Archives and/or Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD. Info/registration: 215-8809. 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: knox-earthfest.org. Emi Sunshine 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. Saturday Stories and Songs: Robin Bennett, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033. 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. Spring rummage sale, 8 a.m., Seymour First Baptist Church, 11621 Chapman Highway. Proceeds go to support the church’s missions ministries. Donations may be brought by the church 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday or 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday. For large item pickup: Jeff Sovastion, 719-4145, or Frank Enter, 474-0199. Info: 577-1954.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 16-17 Dogwood Arts’ Art DeTour weekend, 10 a.m.4 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Admission free. Ten resident artists will open their studios for live demonstrations. On Sunday, Emporium will also host a Jazz Jam with Vance Thompson & Friends, 4-6 p.m. in the Black Box. Info: Suzanne Cada, 523-7543 or sc@ knoxalliance.com.
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. “Pre-Engineered Wood Products” contractor workshop, 5:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall board room, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Free workshop for contractors, builders, designers, homeowners and the general public. No registration required. Info: Adam Price, aprice@townoffarragut.org; John Householder, jhouseholder@townoffarragut.org; 675-2384.
MONDAYS, APRIL 18-MAY 2 Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Program, 5-9 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Course is free; participants must attend all three classes. Preregistration required. Registration: townoffarragut.org/register; in person at the Town Hall; 218-3375. Info: Lauren Cox, lcox@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057.
MONDAY-TUESDAY, APRIL 18-19 AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Valley Grove Baptist Church, 9600 Sevierville Pike. Registration: Diane Lewis, 982-1887. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822. “Samsung Galaxy Phone/Tablet 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 18. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/ register; 218-3375; in person at the Town Hall. Student Scholarship Book Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Pellissippi State Strawberry Plains Campus lobby. All types of books available for purchase. Proceeds go directly to student scholarships. Info: 694-6400, pstcc.edu.
MONDAYS, APRIL 18-MAY 2 “Rape Aggression Defense Program,” 5-9 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Course is free; participants must attend all three classes. Registration required by Friday, April 15. Registration: townoffarragut.org/register; 218-3375; in person at the Town Hall. Info: 966-7057.
TUESDAY, APRIL 19 Computer Workshops: Word Basics, 5:30-7:45 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration required. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 2158700. “Eat this, not that” followed by a Healthy Cooking demonstration, 11 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711. Einstein Simplified Comedy Improv troop, 8 p.m., Scruffy City Hall, 32 Market Square. Free admission. “Energy Mandalas: Create a Lotus Mandala” class, 10 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $33. Registration/ payment deadline: Friday, April 15. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; in person at the Town Hall; 218-3375. “The Good Feeling with bassist Christian McBride” presented by the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, 8 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Tickets: $33.50 adult, $15 student. Info/tickets: knoxjazz.org; 684-1200; Tennessee Theatre Box office. “How to Buy a Healthy Plant,” 11 a.m.-noon, Cansler Family YMCA, 616 Jessamine St. Presented by Master Gardener Barbara Emery. Free and open to the public. Info: 637-9622. Reception and awards presentation for Farragut High Schools Art Show, 5-6 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Featuring art students’ works from Farragut High School and Concord Christian School. Free and open to the public. Info: 9667057. Soloist auditions for the 47th annual Nativity Pageant of Knoxville, 6 p.m., Central Baptist Church of Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive. Auditions will consist of 1st Sopranos and Tenors singing “O Holy Night” in D flat. Walk-ins welcome. Info: Shannon Thackston, shannonthackston@comcast.net or 6592315.
TUESDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 19-23 Annual Wildflower Pilgrimage, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info/registration: 436-7318, ext. 222 (9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday), or springwildflowerpilgrimage.org.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 Books Sandwiched In: “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Discussion led by the Rev. Christopher R. Battles Sr., Tabernacle Baptist Church, and Chris Woodhull, former Knoxville City Council member. Sponsored by Friends of the Library. Info: 2158801. “Grieving: finding the new normal,” 2:303:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 3298892, TTY: 711. “Harry Potter and the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child,” 5 p.m., UT Medical Center’s Health Information Center Conference Room, 1924 Alcoa Highway. Presented by guest speaker Dr. Amy Billone as part of the “Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine” exhibit. Exhibit on display through May 21. Info: 305-9525. Scenic Knoxville reception, 7 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Celebrating eight years of advocacy and accomplishment in Knox County. President Mary Tracy will present: “Taking the Long View - A Vision for Realizing America the Beautiful.” Wine and refreshments served. No admission charge, but seating is limited. RSVP: mgrieve1125@aol.com. Info: 567-9381.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21 Writing a resume to get the interview – interviewing to get the job, 4 p.m., Murphy Branch Library, 2247 Western Ave., LT Ross Bldg. Info: 5217812.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22 Alive After Five: The Streamliners Swing Orchestra, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Admission: general, $15; museum members and students, $10. Info: knoxart.org. Cafe Mortel, 1:30-4 p.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Everyone welcome. Info: 588-8813. Opening reception for “Kathie Odom: Along the Way” exhibit, 5-8 p.m., The District Gallery, 5113 Kingston Pike. Exhibit on display April 22 through May 31. Info: 200-4452. Opening reception for solo exhibit “Find Ourselves” by Sarah Moore, 5-8 p.m., Envision Art Gallery, 4050 Sutherland Ave. Exhibit on display through May 20. Info: envisionartgallery.com.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 22-23 Sultana Descendants Reunion, 7-9 p.m. Friday, Mount Olive Baptist Church, 2500 Maryville Pike. Includes speakers and music. Public welcome. Banquet Saturday, 7 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Cost: $22. Info: Norman, shawclan4@bellsouth.net.
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Peninsula Clothes Closet helps patients in need For Susan Bourdeau, working with clothes is a perfect fit. Bourdeau is the volunteer coordinator for the Clothes Closet at Peninsula, a division of Parkwest Medical Center, and it’s turned out to be a great way for her to use her natural talent. A wardrobe stylist and makeup artist by trade, Bourdeau has worked on video and stage projects in various areas of the southeast, most frequently in Knoxville and Miami. On a shoot for a commercial, for example, she expertly applies the actors’ make up to work with the lighting, or pulls together outfits that give them just the right “look.” “I have worked with a lot of famous people,” says Bourdeau, “I just worked with Dale (Earnhardt) Jr. for a big project, and I’ve worked with most of the HGTV cast, including Paula Deen and the House Hunters.” It’s very clear that Bourdeau enjoys her work, so when an email hit her inbox one day expressing the need for a volunteer to work with the Peninsula Clothes Closet, it was of immediate interest to her. The neighborhood volunteer who had been managing the Clothes Closet for several years was getting ready to step down. Bourdeau decided to step up. “I thought it was a wonderful opportunity, because it was right up my alley,” Bourdeau says. She also liked option of working flexible hours, and that it was close to her home. “We try to find a good match when placing volunteers in various areas, using their skills and expertise,” says Parkwest Medical Center volunteer manager Becky Boyd, “and with Susan’s background as a make-up artist and
wardrobe stylist, she’s a perfect fit for the Clothes Closet.” Bourdeau didn’t waste any time putting her talents to work. “I reorganized the entire place,” she says. “I threw everything in the floor, and started over.” Today, donated clothing hangs neatly in rows. She knows exactly where to find what needs to be found. The clothing is divided into two separate rooms at Peninsula. One room is loaded with clothing, shoes, and accessories for adults, and the second room is devoted to children. It warrants mentioning here that the Peninsula Clothes Closet is something of a hidden treasure. It doesn’t get a lot of publicity, and you probably won’t see its beneficiaries featured on the local news much. That’s because this particular charity benefits Peninsula patients in a very personal and private way. When mental health patients are at their lowest, sometimes the simplest acts of kindness can make a big difference, bringing encouragement and bolstering self-esteem. Bourdeau explains, for example, that a large number of patients at Peninsula are homeless. Donated clothing is more than just a kind gesture. It’s a deeply appreciated gift. Meanwhile, many patients who come to Peninsula are recovering from traumatic life events. A patient may have been suicidal before treatment, had a break down, or lost all connection with family and friends because of chemical dependency. To be able to walk into a room filled with clothing and walk out with something clean, in good condition, and appropriate for life
Thanks to volunteer Susan Bourdeau, neatly organized rows of clothing are ready for patients who are embarking on a new life after treatment at Peninsula.
outside the hospital is an important part of a new beginning. It’s preparation for a first step out into the real world, made a little less daunting by the kindness of strangers. Bordeau says she never knows from one day to the next what kind of donations she’s going to receive, but somehow they always turn out to be the right ones. She becomes emotional when she talks about it. “Some days I’ll have nothing,” Bourdeau says. “I’ll say a little prayer, I’ll come in, and something will be here, and it’s just the size I need.” “It makes me feel good,” Bourdeau says. “It makes me really happy.” Bourdeau is always in need of donations for the Peninsula Clothes Closet, particularly casual clothing in smaller and larger sizes. Dress clothing isn’t needed, because the primary purpose of the Clothes Closet is simply to outfit patients to return home. “I’m always looking for T-shirts, jeans, sweaters and sweats,” Bourdeau says. Clothing items for children and teenagers are needed, as well as clothing for adults. While there’s no need for dona-
tions of underclothes, shirts with built in bras for women are welcome. Shoes should be practical, easy to walk in, clean and in good condition. Donations of clothing for the Peninsula Clothes Closet can be dropped off at Peninsula, or at Parkwest Medical Center, where Boyd says this particular charity has become one that many hospital employees donate to. “When the Clothes Closet is getting low or specific items are needed, Susan gives me a call to request assistance with donations from our
Pet therapy brings smiles who have a variety of health concerns. The dogs came to Peninsula by way of H.A.B.I.T. (Human-Animal Bond in Tennessee), a nonprofit program that sponsors animal-assisted therapy. Both Cord and Jamie are rescue dogs, Cord having been adopted at six weeks, and Jamie after two long months in a shelter. “It’s quite a redemptive story for her to have come from being unwanted to now being a successful therapy dog for almost two years,” Easley says. Indeed, it is ironic that these rescue dogs are in a sense providing rescue for humans. “The response is amazing,” Easley says. “Patients frequently mention how much they are missing their own pets, and at almost every visit, at least one patient says that spending time with Cord or Jamie has been the highlight of their day.” Easley says he had known about animal-assisted therapy for years, but thought he was too busy to get involved. “At some point I just decided to make the time, and it’s been one of the better decisions I’ve made,” Easley says. “My dogs do a lot to lift me up, and I’m proud that they’re now out there doing Volunteer Brian Easley along with his dogs Cord and Jamie are much anticipated the same thing for visitors at Peninsula Hospital. others, as well.” An energetic dog bounces through the doors at Peninsula Hospital. A mixture of beagle and Jack Russell terrier, Cord is friendly by nature, and can hardly wait to spread that friendliness to patients. A combat veteran mentions that his mood is improved thanks to Cord’s visit. Later, Cord gently props his head on the wheelchair of a patient who is on oxygen. “Oh, you’re back!” she says happily. In the children’s unit, a young patient begins to have a seizure. Cord is given the job of distracting the other children, keeping them happy and calm during the crisis. Cord is one of two dogs that have become frequent visitors at Peninsula guided by volunteer Brian Easley. He also brings Jamie for visits, an Australian cattle dog mix. The dogs have a very simple mission at Peninsula – to be petted and talked to. And while it may be a simple mission, it’s also an important one. Animal assisted therapy has been shown to help reduce pain, anxiety, depression and fatigue in patients
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Parkwest Medical Center is seeking people who enjoy helping others to join its current network of about 170 volunteers. Parkwest strives to be recognized as a model of excellence where every healthcare employee wants to work, every physician wants to practice, and every community member wants to receive care. If you are interested and would like to know more about volunteer opportunities at Parkwest or Peninsula, a Division of Parkwest Medical Center, contact Becky Boyd at (865) 373-1556.
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Parkwest volunteers, and donations they get!” says Boyd. “The Parkwest volunteers take this opportunity to clean out their own closets, knowing the clothing will help someone at Peninsula. It’s a win-win.” To learn more about the Peninsula Clothes Closet or how to donate, call 865-9709800. For information about volunteer opportunities at Peninsula or Parkwest Medical Center, visit treatedwell. com/volunteers, or call 865373-1556.
Cancer Support
As a service of Peninsula’s Peer Support Academy, a free-of-charge cancer support group is being offered for residents of East Tennessee. The cancer support group deals with the emotional aspects of living with cancer. Cancer survivors connect and support each other as peers with a unique insight into what living with the condition is like. The cancer support group is also open to supporters and family members of cancer survivors. The group meets on the first Tuesday evening of every month from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Gatlinburg. The cancer support group uses elements of the BRIDGES (Building Recovery of Individual Dreams and Goals through Education and Support) support group training and guidelines as well as the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. It is part of an innovative holistic approach to serving the community with unmet needs relating to emotional wellness. For more information contact Peninsula Peer Support Academies at 865-970-9800.