VOL. 7 NO. 30
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Back-to-school Check out the Shopper’s annual back-to-school feature with ads from area merchants and a complete school calendar for 2013-14.
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‘Educator at sea’ Noelle Turner says she “lucked into” teaching marine ecology at Bearden High School. And she “lucked into” two summer stints working on the E/V Nautilus, a ship of exploration that took her to the Mediterranean Sea in 2012 and the Gulf of Mexico in 2013. But at some point, luck had to be superseded by Turner’s personal qualities – her passion for educating and her drive to learn. And her students are the lucky beneficiaries of her adventures.
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New technology for the classroom Summer’s officially over for the teachers at Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School as they embark on learning about the school’s newest device – a Promethean ActivTable. Students took the touchscreen table for a test run before summer break and approved of the device, says Head of School Miriam Esther Wilhelm. The beauty of the table design is that it allows for several students to work together on learning games.
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Bulb sale this week Knoxville Green’s Holland bulb and bare-root fruit plant sale and giveaway will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3-4, at Windsor Square, Suite 290, at Kingston Pike and N. Seven Oaks Drive, west of Cedar Bluff Road and adjacent to Bailey’s Sports Grille. Each person, including children, will be given free bulbs. Varieties of bulbs and fruit plants such as raspberry will be available for purchase. Proceeds will be used to plant additional daffodils along Pellissippi Parkway and for beautification projects of Knoxville Green, founded by the late Maria Compere. Compere oversaw the planting of two million daffodils on the Pellissippi Parkway, including 60,000 planted in 2012 near the Dutchtown Road and Northshore Drive exits.
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Morgan Brown, sophomore at Bearden High, takes center stage as the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble performs for the Knox County Commission.
By Wendy Smith After the bad news that the cost of insuring Knox County’s new trustee will triple, Knox County commissioners were treated to some good news, and a moving performance, from the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble. The company, made up of dancers ages 10 to 17, performed at last week’s chair’s lunch. TCDE is an official Tennessee Ambassador of Goodwill. This summer, as part of its mission of “children helping children,” 22 dancers performed for residents of Newtown, Conn., where 26 people were killed in a school shooting on Dec. 14. “As soon as it happened, we knew we needed to go there,” says company member Lexi Rebmann,
a rising freshman at Bearden High School. Reaching out to a community that was overwhelmed by grief, and the media, wasn’t easy. But through the nonprofit Healing Newtown, which provides healing through the arts, the Knoxville dance company was able to offer a performance six months after the tragedy. The concert was held at Newtown High School, the site of Barack Obama’s address to the country following the shooting. After the concert, the dancers were asked to perform at the Lighthouse Festival, a fundraiser for Ben’s Lighthouse, a nonprofit named for shooting victim Ben Wheeler. They also performed at two church services. Rebmann says the dancers were surprised by the openness
of the community, given all it has endured. “Everyone was just so nice, so welcoming. We didn’t expect that.” Since Newtown has been flooded with donations from across the country, the community provided teddy bears for the children of Union Beach, N.J., which was devastated by Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29. The dancers delivered the bears to students at Memorial School, a kindergarten through 8th grade school that was badly damaged by the storm. Tags attached to the bears read: “With love, from Newtown, via TCDE.” Memorial students, who had been farmed out to four different schools, returned to the rebuilt school just days before the dancers arrived. The youngsters were de-
lighted by the bears – even the boys. “You might think boys don’t like teddy bears, but you’d be wrong,” says TCDE director Irena Linn. The dancers performed twice in Union Beach, and taught eight classes for Memorial students. TCDE artistic director Amy Wilson presented a slide show of the trip at the chair’s lunch. The company receives a grant from Knox County each year, and the performance, as well as speeches from four company members, demonstrated the level of professionalism exhibited by the dancers in remote locations. Wilson says that the dancers like helping others and teaching even more than performing. “More than anything else, they really enjoy interacting with other children.”
Beauty, glamour headed to The Gallery By Anne Hart The Gallery shopping center on Kingston Pike is getting a big makeover, but it doesn’t have anything to do with new construction. Instead, it has to do with two major new tenants, leaders in the beauty and fashion business, who will be opening locations in the center in the fall. And it also has to do with friendship. The well-known players are Belinda and Frank Gambuzza and Diana Warner. The Gambuzzas are bringing to town the BeStyled hair lounge so wildly popular in major East Coast cities. Warner, a Knoxville native who owns a fashionable women’s boutique in New York City, is opening a Knoxville version of her store. The two businesses will be
opening next door to each other at The Gallery and at the same time by agreement. The story really starts back in 2011, when the Gambuzzas, who knew Warner was headlining Knoxville Fashion Week just a couple of days later, stopped by her New York shop to introduce themselves. The next day Warner was in Knoxville having her hair colored by Belinda and cut by Frank. Since then, the three have become fast friends, and so when they were all looking for a new venture, discussion led to becoming business neighbors. The Gallery looked like a good place to settle. Frank Gambuzza calls it “the perfect location.” BeStyled won’t require appointments, and will offer an Frank Gambuzza with Tracie Wofford, a partner with the Gambuzzas in a To page A-3 new concept hair lounge in The Gallery shopping center.
velopment on 2.5 acres, despite what he called “vociferous opposition” from MPC staff. He argued that the area has land that formerly held the subdi- changed dramatically since Boxvision’s pool and tennis courts. wood was built in the mid-1960s. Arthur Seymour Jr., represent“It’s time for the planning coming the developers, secured a 90- mission to look at higher density day postponement on a proposed residential outside of the core of high rise condo or apartment de- the city,” Seymour said. “You have
Parkside high rise delayed By Sandra Clark The folks in Boxwood Hills will have to visit the Metropolitan Planning Commission once more to discuss a proposal by Choto Partners to build up to 87 units on
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