VOL. 7 NO. 29
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IN THIS ISSUE Rysewyk gets new job with schools
Telethon will allow Mobile Meals
to grow
A young man has a new job with Knox County Schools. Dr. Jon Rysewyk will work on innovation and school improvement. Indya Kincannon calls him “smart and patient enough to build and sustain true grassroots reform.”
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Mobile Meals Monday will broadcast live from the center court at West Town Mall from 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 29. Special guests will appear throughout the day.
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Remembering Jenkins & Jenkins For them, the demise of the Jenkins & Jenkins name is one more marker of the end of an era. The firm that was founded in 1933 by the unrelated Ray H. Jenkins and Erby Jenkins (Erby’s brother Aubrey didn’t join up until 10 years later), has become Quist, Cone & Fisher.
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High on Charlie “Until further notice,” Marvin West writes, “Charlie High is my favorite Tennessee football walk-on. “Nobody can match his quarterback statistics – 74.4 completion rate, 10,978 yards, 131 passing touchdowns against 22 interceptions, astounding success.”
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Kendall Bielak, Neal Charlton and Merry-Reid Sheffer prepare to make a Mobile Meals delivery. As participants in the Church Street United Methodist Church College Life program, the students volunteer with several local agencies. Photos by Wendy Smith
By Wendy Smith On any given weekday, the Mobile Meals kitchen on Reynolds Avenue is buzzing with activity as CAC Office on Aging staff prepare food and load it into the cars of volunteers who deliver approximately 800 meals to Knoxville and Knox County seniors. But last week, senior nutrition program manager Alison Taylor was spinning like a top as she bounced between her office, the kitchen and meetings regarding the “Mobile Meals Monday” telethon that will be broadcast from West Town Mall on July 29. Funds
raised during the event will help the program serve an ever-increasing list of clients. While Mobile Meals currently has a client list of 800, it will be up to 900 soon. As Baby Boomers age, and people live longer in general, the list will continue to grow, Taylor says. Most clients need the program because of advanced age rather than poverty. Some have dementia and are afraid to turn on the stove. Others don’t have easy access to food because they no longer drive, she says. “It’s important that people recognize this and deal with it, because it’s not going away.”
Long cones of brass with ridges on the side are gently rubbed with a small wand to vibrate tiny bits of sand from a small opening for precise placement. Intense concentration is needed.
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Roy Firestone plans Knox visit Reach Them to Teach Them founder Amy Crawford has announced television sports personality Roy Firestone as this year’s speaker for the nonprofit’s Roy Firestone annual event in November. Any educator can attend free of charge thanks to donations from the community. “I want people to leave profoundly impacted,” said Crawford. Radio personality Hallerin Hilton Hill will also speak, and a complimentary dinner will be served. Info: www. reachthem2teachthem.org.
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A creation of impermanence By Libby Morgan Seven monks from the Labrang Tashi Kyil monastery in India, exiled from Tibet in 1967, created a sacred sand mandala at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church to share their love, compassion and beliefs. The mandala is designed to represent harmony between people and between religions, and carries, as its centerpiece, the “Four Harmonious Brothers,” the grouse, hare, monkey and elephant. These four animals, as legend goes, decided to enter the path of virtue and teach others to do
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Mobile Meals food service assistant Emil Jones helps Charles Sutton load his car for deliveries in West Knoxville. Sutton volunteers with Mobile Meals two days a week. To page A-3
Tax talk takes two tracks By Anne Hart Tennessee’s state sales tax is a hot topic for everyone from school students and their parents to politicians and business owners. The conversations focus on two separate aspects of the tax. The one that brings excitement and anticipation is the annual “Sales Tax Holiday,” which starts this year at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 2, and runs until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. The one that brings considerable stress is the tax reform measure titled the Marketplace Fairness Act and dubbed “E-fairness.” This measure, now moving through Congress, would require online shoppers to pay sales tax on purchases from Internet retailers who do business in excess of $1 million annually. Currently, sales tax is required only when an E-commerce store has a bricks-and-mortar presence within the state. Tax holiday: it offers three days of shopping for several things without having to pay sales tax. With the exception of computers, eligible items must have a price tag of less than $100. Buyers can
forget about trying to get a clerk to ring up a more expensive pair of shoes as two separate purchases. It has already been tried and is not permitted. And while the holiday is intended to help parents save money on clothing and other items their children need for school, purchases aren’t limited to school-related items and shoppers don’t have to have school children to save money. If an item is exempt, anyone can buy it. As an example, any shopper can purchase a desktop, laptop or tablet computer at up to $1,500 in price without paying sales tax, as long as the item is not for use in a trade or business. Personal digital assistants (PDAs) and electronic readers, such as the Kindle and Nook, aren’t eligible for the tax break, and neither are keyboards, software and other items that do not come pre-packaged with the computer. Computer printers and printer supplies, such as paper and ink, aren’t eligible. Any article of clothing and anything that is considered school supplies (includTo page A-3