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BUZZ Ed & Bob’s Night Out Knox County Commissioners at large, Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas, will be ringing the bell for the Salvation Army at West Town Mall, near the Cheesecake Factory, 6-8 tonight, Dec. 14, as part of Ed & Bob’s Night Out. Residents are invited to stop by, make donations and speak with the commissioners about their concerns.

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Rocky Hill’s resident reindeer

By Wendy Smith Kyle Wilson worked in the automotive industry for years before he found a rewarding new line of work − Christmas cheer.

Wilson raises reindeer on five acres in Rocky Hill, just up the hill from the house where he grew up. After becoming weary of working long hours, he was inspired to learn more about reindeer by watching white-tailed deer cross his property.

He didn’t have an agricultural background, except for keeping chickens as a kid and raising German Shepherds as an adult. Through online research and joining the Reindeer Owners and Breeders Association, he learned enough get started.

His wife, Donna Roach, said the idea was “crazy enough that it just might work.�

His first three deer arrived at the beginning of 2000. His first baby was born in 2001, and he began showing the animals in 2002.

Wilson estimates that there are 100 reindeer breeders in the lower 48 states.

It’s an expensive operation, and he’s watched others leave the market because of lack of education and the expense of feeding, fencing, transporting and providing medical care for the animals.

Holiday Festival of Lights Knox County’s 18th annual Holiday Festival of Lights at The Cove at Concord Park kicks off at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, and runs through Friday, Dec. 30, excluding Christmas Day. The three-quarter-mile greenway trail will be illuminated from 6-9 p.m. The Cove is at 11808 S. Northshore Drive. The walk is free, but residents are asked to donate nonperishable food items for the Love Kitchen.

2020 planning for state parks Tennessee State Parks is soliciting public input for its 2020 State Recreation Plan, 5:30 p.m. today, Dec. 14, at Farragut Town Hall. This is a regional meeting, facilitated by April Johnson, TDEC recreation services coordinator, and Jamison Sliger, PARTAS consultant.

The plan documents the most critical needs facing recreational infrastructure over the next 10 years.

Read the plan at tn.gov/ environment/article/restennessee-2020-plan

Dr. Ruth Stephens Dr. Ruth Stephens taught history and international relations at UT for 35 years. After retirement, she delivered 100300 speeches a year.

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Sparky, a friendly male, will soon be sold. Kyle Wilson rents, leases and sells reindeer. Photos by Wendy Smith

Bike safety on Middlebrook is complicated

By Betsy Pickle Mitchell Connell spent a year commuting by bicycle from the Parkridge neighborhood to REI on Papermill Drive. Looking at concept drawings for new bike facilities along Middlebrook Pike near Proctor Street and University and Western avenues, he immediately spotted improvements. “This makes perfect sense to me,� said Connell, who now works downtown.

Chris Lambka of Toole Design Group showed Connell different options envisioned by his company and Kimley-Horn, which are working together as consultants for the city on four problem areas for cyclists.

In addition to Middlebrook Pike, the projects include Chapman Highway from the Henley Bridge to Woodlawn Pike across from Fort Dickerson Park; Woodland Avenue between Broadway and the existing Woodland Avenue bike lanes; and Adair Drive, linking to Old Broadway.

Jon Livengood, the city’s alternative transportation engineer, organized the meeting at the city’s Public Works Service Center, 3131 Morris Ave., to cap a week of workshops with the consultants. Public input is invaluable, he said. “The people that use this stuff every day ‌ probably think about this all the time,â€? said

Livengood. “If someone has a great idea, we’ll gladly incorporate it.�

Middlebrook and Chapman are the most complicated projects because they are state routes and require approvals from the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

Zac Dufour, a civil engineer with Kimley-Horn, said they went into the field with TDOT representatives to look at Middlebrook and Chapman. “They walked out there with us, doing a safety audit,� he said. “We’ve talked about several different things, and we’re trying to come to a good solution.�

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In defense of Joshua Dobbs “Joshua Dobbs has been criticized for not being Peyton Manning. He has been blamed for not winning championships. Alas, his worst game somehow overshadowed a dozen good to excellent performances.�

Marvin West makes the case for Joshua Dobbs.

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School rezoning could unwind ’89 their children

By Sandra Clark Knox County is poised to undo to Gibbs. much of the rezoning for racial desegregation that has affected families and even home construction for almost 30 years.

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The school board must accommodate the fall 2018 opening of two new schools – Gibbs Middle (600 students) and Hardin Valley Middle (1,200). Those 1,800 kids are currently zoned for middle school somewhere else. With several middle schools currently under capacity, the challenge is to fill the new schools while keeping the others open.

Interim Superintendent Buzz Thomas was at Gibbs Elementary School last week to hear from citizens. He got an earful, mostly from parents who do not want

zoned (and bused)

school “was a long chore ‌ 25 years of grunt work.â€? He supports The Rev. John the new school.

Butler, presiResidents of Summer Rose dent of the local said they want their kids to attend chapter of the Shannondale, Gresham and CenNAACP, said he tral High schools. “Don’t mess with understands why Fountain City,� was their mantra.

Gibbs area parents wanted their ■Looking back kids schooled near An effort to achieve racial balBuzz Thomas home. “It’s a long ance fueled the rezoning debates way out here.� of 1989-91, following the merger Butler authored the complaint of the city and county school sysunder review by the U.S. Office tems. Then-superintendent Earl of Civil Rights. The complaint Hoffmeister appointed a task criticizes new construction at the force to rezone the schools, closcounty’s edges. ing those not needed and achievHe said East Knoxville parents ing racial balance among those also want their kids to attend a remaining. No high school should modern, 21st Century school close be more than 30 percent black, he to home. said. The NAACP invited the OCR James Spears, a 1991 graduate to observe the goings-on. of Gibbs High School who is black, The plan was finalized, kicked now has five kids in Gibbs schools. around by the school board in at He said getting a new middle least three iterations and then

butchered by Knox County Commission’s refusal to fund it.

Consultants recommended closing 24 schools. Hoffmeister wanted to close Fulton and AustinEast, building a new high school in the inner city. The school board decided to close fewer schools – although it did support the new high school on a 7-2 vote – but the commission said no.

Of the five high schools recommended for closure, two remain: Austin-East and Fulton. â– Holston High was closed, becoming the middle school for an expanded Gibbs High zone. â– Rule High was closed, with kids sent to West High, where zone lines were extended into West Hills for a new, expanded zone. That gamble paid dividends as West is now an International Baccalaureate high school.

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News from Christian Academy of Knoxville

CAK Capstone Project changes lives in unexpected ways

By Kelly Norrell Olivia Scott shadowed physicians at a hospital and worked on a mission trip in Vietnam for her Senior Capstone Project at Christian Academy of Knoxville. She found that the paperwork required of physicians bored her. But the mission work was another story.

“I want to do mission work as a lifestyle. Wherever I work I can be a light for Christ,” she said, adding that she’s thinking of nursing school Chris Varnum shadowed physicians in six specialties during a youth internship program at UT Medical Center. For him, the hospital felt like home, especially the opportunity to observe surgeries of all kinds. His two favorites were a robotic gall bladder removal and a craniectomy repair.

“I realized I have the desire and ability to be a surgeon,” Varnum said.

Now he hopes to major in biochemistry in college and eventually study medicine as a career.

The Senior Capstone Project required of each CAK student is changing lives in unexpected ways.

Every student at CAK must complete a capstone project to graduate.

This is a long-term research and work undertaking that many compare to an Eagle Scout project or an internship.

The Tennessee Department of Education has recommended capstone projects for all seniors.

The process is painstaking: Students propose a topic and gain approval, get a mentor, plan an experience, write a paper and make an oral presentation that gains approval of a review panel.

The benefit, said Jim Blackwell, Capstone Project director, is that students push their comfort level and learn things about themselves.

“I call this an experiential opportunity, because students have an exChris Varnum discovered during his CAK Capstone Project a powerful attraction to surgery as a career.

Matthew Neu and Andrew Cate, who built a fire pit near the CAK tennis courts, said learning to work cooperatively was part of their challenge.

perience and learn something about themselves or a possible career. Even if they don’t like it, it is still a great capstone project because they’ve narrowed their potential choices.”

Examples are students who shadowed lawyers and found they disliked the amount of writing the profession required, and students who shadowed teachers and found they didn’t like working with children.

Sometimes the projects point students toward ministry opportunities.

“All students come out with a better understanding of themselves and how God is at work in the world,” said Pamela Neu, co-director of Capstone Projects.

There are now 116 CAK students doing capstone projects. Students are: investigating an aesthetician’s career at Tennessee School of Beauty, teaching English as a foreign language, shadowing a speech pathologist, working with a golden retriever rescue group and interning at a law firm, among many others projects.

One student, Brady Fernandez, launched a company called Patriot Threads to raise money for veterans and veterans’ organizations his sophomore year. He is now doing business in 17 states.

In a joint project, Matt Neu and Andrew Cate built a handsome and expansive fire pit near the CAK tennis courts that students will enjoy for years.

Students present every Monday before other students, teachers, and anyone the presenter wants to invite. Each presenter reveals lessons learned in the project and what each would do differently.

Before her presentation, Olivia Scott said frankly, “I am very nervous.

I hate speaking in front of people.”

“That’s why we make you do it,” Blackwell said.

Olivia Scott traveled to Ho Chi Minh City during her CAK Capstone Project and found a calling to do mission work as a lifestyle. Photos by Kelly Norrell

Find out why CAK is set apart from other schools Admissions Open House – Jan. 26, 2017 Christian Academy of Knoxville (CAK) will host an admissions open house on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at its campus at 529 Academy Way, just off Dutchtown Road near Cedar Bluff. The event is open to all prospective families who wish to learn more about how CAK is set apart from other schools in Knoxville: ■ Knoxville’s only covenant Christian private school, meaning the school partners with Christian families in building an authentic community of believers where a biblicallybased learning environment is at the core of instruction.

■ Experienced, veteran teachers who love the Lord and are committed to developing children academically, emotionally and socially.

■ Smaller class sizes and lower teacher-to-student ratios, resulting in more individualized instruction for students.

■ Multitude of extracurricular

activities, including consistently high-performing athletic teams and a robust arts program that includes worship band, marching band, concert choir, performing arts and fine arts.

■ Only Pre-K-12 school to receive Cityview’s “Best of the Best 2016” in the elementary, middle and high school private school category.

Families who are interested in learning more about the school will have the ability to tour Pre-K, elementary, middle or high school grade levels alongside CAK’s respective school principals, as well as experience a “day in the life” of a CAK student through classroom visits. Student “shadow” opportunities are available by reservation only. To schedule a shadow day or to RSVP for the Admissions Open House, please contact Director of Admission Stacey Bristow at 813-4CAK or sbristow@cakmail.org.

For more information about CAK, please visit www.cakwarriors.com.

ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSE Thursday, January 26, 2016 8:30 am - 11 am

Located at 529 Academy Way To RSVP or arrange a student shadow for that day, please contact the Director of Admissions

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Marble put Knoxville on the map

By Wendy Smith As many as 50 quarries produced jobs and pink marble in East Tennessee from the 1850s to World War II, and Knox County residents are surrounded by evidence of the industry − if they know where to look.

Susan Knowles wants them to look. The story of the region’s marble industry can be expanded if those who have marble in their homes, or inherited artifacts, will share information. Objects, records, publications, photographs, and even lawsuits helped her put together “Rock of Ages: East Tennessee’s Marble Industry,” now on exhibit at the East Tennessee History Center (ETHC).

Knowles, the Digital Humanities Research Fellow for the Center for Historic Preservation at MTSU, spoke last week at an East Tennessee Historical Society brown bag lunch. Her interest in Tennessee marble began with the stone used in the U.S. Capitol, and her research became the subject of her doctoral dissertation.

In case you don’t know, locally harvested marble is everywhere − not just in Tennessee. In addition to being in walls, columns and balustrades in the U.S. Capitol, it’s in the National Gallery of Art and the National

Susan Knowles and Molly Gilbert Photo by Wendy Smith Air and Space Museum. It’s also in the main concourse floor of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and two lion statues, “Patience” and “Fortitude,” in front of the New York Public Library, are carved from Tennessee marble.

Local examples include the Knoxville Customs House (now the ETHC), the Knoxville Post Office and the Knoxville Museum of Art. But the story of this amazing industry would’ve been difficult to piece together without the artifacts Knowles has uncovered during her research.

Handwritten records of the Capitol construction order yielded information about East Tennessee quarries, as did correspondence about

which stone would be used for the Tennessee Memorial Stone in the Washington Monument. (Visitors can ask for the elevator to stop in order to see the engraved stone.)

Marble furniture, like a signed and dated pair of pier tables with marble tops on display at the Tennessee State Museum, also provides clues.

Period publications are helpful. “Stone,” an industry magazine, ran monthly lists of active quarries. In 1919, Appalachian Quarry disappeared from the list the same month an unnamed quarry was advertised for sale. Advertisements that show tools used at the time are valuable, too, Knowles said.

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Resident reindeer He now has a herd of 20.

Obviously, this is his busiest time of year. He began dropping off leased deer at the end of October, and he’ll pick them up in early January. The animals are also rented for events, and rental includes fencing and on-site care. Clients include the Memphis Zoo and Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in Nashville, as well as banks, shopping centers and garden centers.

He just chuckles when potential clients complain about his pricing. His prices aren’t flexible. He used to have competition that tried to undercut him, but they’re no longer in business.

While Christmas is the busiest season, reindeer require year-round work. Approximately 95 percent of all reindeer are born the last two weeks of April, but Wilson has to be on the lookout for early deliveries. His main job during deliveries is pacing, he says. If there are no problems, he doesn’t call the vet.

After a delivery, he has to monitor the mother’s milk.

Babies have to be bottle-fed if milk doesn’t come in right away.

Reindeer don’t mind

warm Tennessee summers, he says. They have three layers of fur but shed in the spring. He runs fans for them during hot weather.

The boys “get a little rowdy” during mating season, which sometimes requires intervention.

In temperament, they are similar to cows. They eat, sleep and chew cud on a regular cycle each day, and he shows them for only four hours at a time to allow them to nap. Some are friendly, and some aren’t.

Some travel better than others.

“Some of them love the truck. They don’t want to get off,” he says.

After 15 years in the business, Wilson has developed connections all over the world. One of his deer, Finstad, is named for a friend who’s a reindeer expert at the University of Alaska.

Another, Dr. Ray, is named for a veterinary medical officer at the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa.

Wilson has become a resource for other breeders, as well as an expert on federal and state regulations regarding reindeer.

He’s developed an ap-

tative Finbarr Saunders, whose family was in the marble industry, provided a written appraisal for Gray Knox Marble Company for the exhibition. The detailed list of assets is invaluable, Knowles said.

A Facebook page, TN Pink Marble, was created to give residents the opportunity to share artifacts or knowledge about the marble industry.

“It’s a fantastic heritage and everybody needs to know about it,” Knowles School board chair Patti Bounds talks with East Knox resident said.

Molly Gilbert didn’t learn Donna Butler, at left, after last week’s meeting on rezoning. that the wall she knocked Photo by S. Clark down at her South Knoxville From page A-1 home was pink marble until the deed was done. She has since educated herself about Transferring has become ■ South-Young High the industry, and she’s pro- was closed, becoming a easier after a U.S. Supreme moting “Rock of Ages” and middle school for an ex- Court decision not to use race soliciting information from panded South-Doyle High as a criterion in transfers. the community. Many of the zone. Black parents continThomas summarized homes in her neighborhood, ue to complain about their the Gibbs meeting: “What which is on the Dogwood kids being bused across the I’ve heard loud and clear is Trail, feature pink marble. river, while South Knoxvil- you want great community She’s produced a bro- lians grumble about disci- schools. … You want middle chure, available at the pline issues. and high school zones to ETHC, detailing the TenFive middle schools were line up.” nessee Pink Marble Trail. recommended for closure: He’s set four more 6 p.m.

Stops include Gay Street, Doyle, Beardsley, Spring meetings: Jan. 10 at Souththe Candoro Marble Arts Hill, Christenberry and Doyle Middle; Jan. 17 at and Heritage Center, for- Vine. Of those, only Vine re- Hardin Valley Elementary; mer quarry sites, and South mains open.

Jan. 24 at Holston Middle; Knox neighborhoods. and Jan. 31 at Vine Middle. “(The marble industry) ■ Moving forward Thomas wants to presis why Knoxville is on the To “unwind ’89” does not ent a rezoning plan to the map. It’s why we had the mean reopening all of those school board in May. railroad.”

County Commissioner schools. Many were in poor condition and the school-age Evelyn Gill said the county’s population has shifted to the “piecemeal approach” is From page A-1 county. But it could easily not good. She wants a commean more compact zones prehensive plan for the 14 and less busing, especially of schools in her district. Gill is the only African-AmeriAfrican-American kids.

“Can we do away with can and the sole Democrat zoning?” Cynthia Finch on the commission.

Thomas responded: “I asked Thomas.

“Probably not,” he an- understand that we are swered, “but we do have talking about children and parental choice in Knox families. We will tread very County. If we have room in carefully. They are all our a school, we’ll let you trans- kids, and we will treat them accordingly.” fer into it.”

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Rocky Hill “Reindeer Man” Kyle Wilson with Alabama, a female.

Both male and female reindeer have antlers. propriate sideline business − sleigh sales and rentals.

For those who don’t want the fuss and muss of live

Bike safety

animals, he also rents two stuffed reindeer − Donder and Blitzen. Info: www. reindeerman.com

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Dufour said Kimley-Horn had studied a variety of approaches.

“We analyzed Middlebrook Pike to see if we could do a road diet and maybe get rid of a lane in one direction, give us more room to fit in the bike lanes,” he said. They’ve also considered limiting U.S. 129 exit traffic to Sutherland Avenue instead of letting it go on to Middlebrook, where drivers notoriously ignore cyclists.

Lambka said creating a protected intersection for cyclists is key, along with moving the Jersey barriers on Middlebrook to separate cyclists from motor vehicles.

Public input is welcomed at www.

Chris Lambka of Toole Design Group talks to cyclist Mitchell Connell about options knoxvilletn.gov through the end of the for improving bike facilities on Middlebrook Pike near University and Western avyear. enues. Photo by Betsy Pickle

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ 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 Baptist-Bearden,

6300 Deane Hill Drive. Info: Shannon Remington, 9273316.

■ Family Community Education-Crestwood Club meets 10 a.m. each fourth Thursday, Grace Lutheran Church, 9076 Middlebrook Pike. Info: Ruby Freels, 6908164.

■ Fourth District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each fourth Tuesday, Bearden Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Info: Chris Foell, 691-8933 or foellmc@aol.com; Rosina Guerra, rosinag@earthlink. net or 588-5250.

■ Historic Sutherland Heights Neighborhood As-

community

sociation. Info: Marlene Taylor, 951-3773, taylor8246@ bellsouth.net.

■ Lyons View Community Club meets 6 p.m. each second Monday, Lyons View Community Center, 114 Sprankle Ave. Info: Mary Brewster, 454-2390.

Larsen Jay and Justin Bailey discuss improvements to Depot Drive in Powell. Photo by S. Clark

Potential candidate hits the road

By Sandra Clark It’s a twist on the usual political visit, but then West Knox guy Larsen Jay is not your usual candidate.

He may not be a candidate at all, but the founder of Random Acts of Flowers is moving around Knox County, meeting with community activists and sizing up his chances of winning election to Knox County Commission at-large.

Both seats 10 and 11 are expected to be open in 2018.

Bob Thomas has announced his candidacy for county mayor, and Ed Brantley is expected to help his friend Thomas organize his campaign.

Former commissioner R. Larry Smith already has announced for Brantley’s seat 11.

Powell native Cindy McConkey Cox facilitated the Powell visit. She’s working with Jay at Random Acts of Flowers since retiring early from Scripps Networks Interactive.

Justin Bailey talked about Enhance Powell and its efforts to create a façade design that Emory Road

property owners can support.

Bart Elkins, after learning that Jay’s wife came from Chicago, said there is just one important question: Cubs or White Sox? Jay showed Bart his socks with a Cubs logo. “It’s hard to take yourself seriously when you’re wearing funny socks,” he said.

“You are so my candidate,” Elkins responded.

Jay toured Powell Station Park, the campus of Powell Middle School, where a new fence and sidewalks are being installed, and the commercial area on Depot Drive where Knox County is preparing to make improvements prior to closing the railroad crossing at Commerce Street.

Jay has lived in various parts of Knox County after coming here to attend UT. But he said as he explores running for County Commission it’s important to learn as much as possible about the dynamic communities that make up the county.

He got his first lesson last week in Powell.

A-4 • DECEMBER 14, 2016 • BEARDEN Shopper news credit to his parents. I predict he will be a university ambassador for years to come. He may someday donate a million or two.

Wouldn’t it be something if he came back as president?

He is smart and tough, an excellent athlete playing quarterback. He is the epitome of a team player, unselfish to a fault. He did not complain when receivers dropped footballs and blockers missed blocks.

He never changed expressions when deployed in the shotgun formation on short-yardage plays – when all of us “coaches” knew he should have been under center.

As captains go, he was unflappable, rock-solid in his example of poise under duress.

The first thing Joshua Dobbs did for Tennessee was accept a Tennessee scholarship. He was a four-star

prep prospect, 6-3 and thinlooking but strong enough, totally dependable, never missed a day of school.

He was pledged to Arizona State when Butch swooped in and changed his thinking. Knoxville was closer to Alpharetta, Ga. UT engineering professors are among the best in the world. Dobbs’ multiple abilities made him a probable fit for whatever it is Butch runs. By the way, the Vols play in the spotlighthot SEC. Twice there were redshirt plans. Dobbs responded when called prematurely. If he was ever intimidated, it didn’t show.

Dobbs has been criticized for not being Peyton Manning. He has been blamed for not winning championships. Alas, his worst game somehow overshadowed a dozen good to excellent performances.

I say he did what he could. Joshua Dobbs can play for me.

Our lives track a parallel path. No sprouting leaves, of course. Yet we go through comparable phases enrich the garden? Return of growth, maturation, production and eventually we them to mother nature.

Hours of routine raking too fail and return to the set my mind to wandering earth. Have we contributed ... among other things about something of worth to those around us? Raised a family? the cycle of life.

Are we like the trees? Built something of ongoing What are we doing with our value? Lent a helping hand to others? Planted a tree? lives?

For oak trees, springsprouting buds force off their carapaces, shed their wiggly catkins and yellow ■ Charles Susano III is an arpollen (ugh) and cover the cheologist, we hear, and now branches in working green he’s interested in running ... chlorophyll to convert for Circuit Court clerk. That’s great training for an office sunlight into plant food. where he’s liable to find dead Fall acorns feed the squirbones and relics – and that’s rels (and germinate new among the folks who actually trees), and cascading leaves show up for work! fall to the ground and com■ Larsen Jay, founder of plete the annual cycle.

Random Acts of Flowers, is What about us?

What have we done in the spring and summer of our lives?

There are more questions than answers. Gosh, that’s heavy lifting for a leaf-raking weekend.

I’d like to think we can leave the earth a better place than we found it. I suppose only those who follow behind us can truly say.

Oh well, back to raking. ...

In defense of Joshua Dobbs Coffee shop comments and football forum exchanges may not perfectly match what a million Tennessee fans are thinking, but this is the best I can do today: The Vanderbilt game won’t go away.

The defense is still catching most of the heat, but some is spilling onto Joshua Dobbs. His fumble at the end of the third quarter launched Commodore domination of the fourth.

Criticism of Dobbs seems so unfair.

He was not a turnover machine. He threw 319 passes and suffered 12 interceptions. He handled the ball hundreds of times and fumbled 10. Four were lost.

The tragedies happened, inconveniently, at Texas A&M, South Carolina and Vanderbilt.

I understand, quarterbacks generally get too much credit for victories and too much blame for

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losses. Some fans never stopped nipping at Dobbs, even when he was player of the week.

Back in the summer, there was light chatter about Dobbs for Heisman.

Some snickered and said no way. Dobbs was not an accurate passer. He overthrew deep receivers and bounced the ball to backs in the flat. He was coached to stay in the pocket because, on the run, he couldn’t hit the proverbial broad side of a barn.

I preserved a postgame fan quote from 9-17-16: “This team is bad and the QB is terrible.

“He can’t throw. He can’t

read defenses. For a rocket scientist, he continues to make dumb decisions.”

Dobbs did start this season slowly. Health care concepts restricted runs. He looked like himself against Florida – 319 yards and four touchdown passes.

He threw the Georgia Hail Mary to the proper place.

His stats were OK against the Aggies.

When the Vols got to November and other deficient defenses, scouts started following Dobbs. He was suddenly having one of the best seasons in Tennessee history. His quarterback rating became 152.6. He completed 63.3 percent. He threw for 26 touchdowns, most in the SEC. Last Vol to lead that department was Heath Shuler.

Dobbs ran for 713 yards and nine scores. He caught a TD pass. He showed up every Saturday. Each time he was knocked down, he

got up.

He signed autographs.

He visited the sick and heartbroken. He helped old ladies across busy streets.

Joshua didn’t exactly lose the Vanderbilt game.

Incredibly, he completed 31 of 34 passes and didn’t miss a single tackle.

I never thought it would come to this, feeling a need to defend Robert Joshua Dobbs.

From my perspective, he is a model citizen, superior student and a

Reflections upon fallen leaves Nature’s cycles.

Fall means raking leaves, at least in my hilltop yard, which is surrounded by mature oak trees, as well as dogwoods and ornamentals. Those giants are not like my Chilhowee Drive neighbor’s modest-sized gingko tree. The gingko’s leaves turn a brilliant gold in the fall, then almost overnight, drop to ground, blanketing its base in gold.

Brilliant but fleeting. One session and you’re done. My oak trees demand more attention. They parcel out their brown bounty over several months, from November through year’s end.

A sea of leaves, that would mound knee deep if left un-

Many end up at the curb for the city to pick up.

But significant others are hauled back to the garden.

Nick This natural mulch will be Della Volpe turned under in spring to enrich the soil, sprinkled with lime to neutralize their acidity and left to decomattended. pose.

Not here.

Humus to break up dense Armed with blower, rake clay soil and feed summer and tarp, I roll up my sleeves tomatoes, peppers, beans, and get to work. Repetitive. herbs and other fresh proSatisfying in a certain way. duce. A biologist once told Gradually the lawn below me some 70 percent of a re-emerges. If I can get to tree’s nutrients are in the them before heavy rain and leaves. In a forest they dematting, I can blow leaves compose at the base of the into windrows, then rake tree and nurture it. Our them onto a tarp and drag lawns (such as they are) them to their final resting need sunlight … and rakplace. ing. But why not use them to

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contemplating a run for an atlarge seat on the Knox County Commission.

■ Bart Elkins of Powell asked Jay a random question when he heard his wife is from Chicago: Cubs or White Sox? Jay lifted his pants leg to show wacky Cubs socks. Bart said, “You are so my commissioner!”

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Housing needs First United Methodist Church of Gatlinburg is working to meet critical housing needs. Fire refugees in need of housing can contact the Rev. Dan Moore, 865-436-4691. Checks can be sent to First United Methodist Church, 742 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Envelopes containing checks should be marked “Relief.”

‘Did you lose?’

December meeting of the Gatlinburg Garden Club that was being planned by local eventmeister George Hawkins, who lost thousands of dollars of lights and ornaments in the fire.

He is grateful for the survival of the Castle’s employees, who had been watching the fires on the other side of Gatlinburg that night, unaware of the danger behind them.

“If they’d stayed out on that porch watching those fires in town, they’d have never gotten out. Those fires across the street would have trapped them,” Hawkins said.

The fires on the other side of town wiped out several apartment complexes that

were home to the people who make Gatlinburg work, including many immigrant families who live paycheck to paycheck and are unlikely to have the comfort of insurance to fall back on.

The concrete hulk of the Park Vista Hotel protected 40-something guests who were trapped there while flames licked the windows and scorched the exterior.

The Widder’s Knob and Turkey Nest neighborhoods were devastated.

Downtown, the sharks and the rays at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies swim unaware of how close they came to destruction.

The Aquarium staff has been stalwarts in the fire’s aftermath, serving as a community center amid the disruption.

Pigeon Forge resident Leland Wykoff, who was a Gatlinburg retailer for more than 30 years, said the Ripley employees have been heroes.

“They’ve provided a calming and stabilizing influence as they worked tirelessly, 24 hours a day, free of charge, to provide hot meals

and necessities like clean socks, Chap Stick and eye drops for first responders, firefighters, police and utility crews who worked long hours and didn’t get time off.”

There will be hard questions in the coming days.

Residents are wondering why the decision to evacuate the town came so late in a day when fires were breaking out ever closer to town. They are wondering why they got no notification and what happened to the high-decibel flood evacuation siren installed years ago. Many believe the official death count will rise.

Others are angry when state troopers use the Spur checkpoint to cite people who have lost everything for missing headlights or lacking the correct “papers.”

But amid it all, Gatlinburg residents are pulling together.

A young woman I met downtown asked me, “Did you lose?” and gave me a warm hug before I could tell her I wasn’t affected. These hills are full of people like her.

ries being increased over the next year at UT Knoxville.

■ Scott Golden, chief of staff to retiring West Tennessee U.S. Rep. Steve Fincher, was elected to chair the state GOP to succeed former state Rep. Ryan Haynes of Farragut. He won on the second ballot 33-27 over Brent Leatherwood, the party’s executive director.

■ Efforts to promote Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd are well underway with H.M. “Hash” Hashemian holding a breakfast last month at Cherokee Country Club. While the invitation said 50 community leaders were expected, more than 120 attended, including UT President Joe DiPietro and UT Chancellor Jimmy Cheek along with state Sens. Richard Briggs and Becky Massey, state Rep. Eddie Smith, UT vice chair Raja Jubran, Jim Haslam, Teddy Phillips, Laurens Tullock, Bruce Bosse, UT economist Bill Fox, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, council member Marshall Stair, attorneys Culver Schmid and Tom

McAdams, businessman Wes Stowers, former county mayor Mike Ragsdale, Ashley Capps, Hallerin Hill, Pete DeBusk, businesswoman and UT trustee Sharon Pryse and Knox Chamber CEO Mike Edwards.

While Boyd’s potential race for governor was not publicly discussed, it was certainly a strong undercurrent of private discussion among attendees. Some actually thought he might announce then.

Boyd spoke on jobs issues. He attended a barbecue for state Sen. Ken Yager in Harriman that night.

Boyd is expected to announce by March whether he will run. He would have to resign as a member of the governor’s Cabinet should he run, which means Gov. Bill Haslam would name a new commissioner of ECD to serve the remaining months left in Haslam’s term. Opposing Boyd likely will be U.S. Rep. Diane Black and state Sens. Mark Green and Mark Norris.

■ Knoxville lost a strong civil rights activist with the death of Avon Rollins last week. He was

always present and outspoken when rights were being abridged. He was especially involved in calling for creation of the police civilian review board, which this writer did by executive order as there was not majority support on City Council at the time to create it.

Council should honor him by resolution. Rollins will be missed.

■ Longtime Republican Mary Helen Byers, who lived in Sequoyah Hills over 20 years, died before Thanksgiving. Married to Buckley Byers, who was well known and active in national GOP financial circles, she moved to Knoxville after his death. She once hosted a tented luncheon at her Cherokee Boulevard home honoring Marilyn Quayle, wife of the then-vice president, when she visited Knoxville.

She was a patron of the arts and generous in her financial support.

■ Former U.S. Rep. and TVA director Bob Clement, 73, is out with a book on his life titled “Kings, Presidents and Convicts,” about growing up in the governor’s residence.

Gatlinburg Church of Christ burned to the ground.

Shared pain in Gatlinburg Byy spring, the land will willl heal. But a week after the fire, stretches of the Spur between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg looked – and smelled – like an apocalyptic vision.

Road crews had come through spraying a compound of grass seed that stained the dirt an unnatural green under the charred tree trunks and blackened vines. The jagged remains of Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort were visible on the ridgetop above the outgoing lanes. Military/police checkpoints completed the dystopian ambiance.

Anyone entering Gatlinburg from the Spur would have been tempted to believe that the stories of

pairing damage caused by gale force winds – nothing catastrophic.

Betty Two blocks from either Bean side of the Parkway, it was a different story.

The River House Motor death and destruction were Lodge on River Road, which overblown. Shops and res- overlooks a tributary of the taurants and clubs are un- Little Pigeon, has been retouched by flame. The Space duced to rubble. The mounNeedle soars over a main tain above it was completely drag that looks a lot like engulfed in the flames that took down The Castle and Christmas.

The first hint of some- other high-end homes in thing amiss was the swarm Greystone Heights.

The Castle, a 32,000of ServePro (Faster to any Disaster) trucks, painted a square-foot, five-story manslightly more chartreuse- sion perched on the side of ish shade of green than the the mountain, is owned grass seed compound on by Kent Emmons, a Hollythe Spur. Pressure washing wood-based entrepreneur crews were blasting soot who rented the place out away and roofers were re- for special events, like the

A dearth of Democrats City Council member and former mayor Daniel Brown turns 71 on Christmas Day. Brown, the first black mayor of Knoxville, might run for state representative against Rick Staples in 2018 in the Democratic primary.

Staples was chosen as the Democratic nominee by 14 people without a primary and prevailed Nov. 8 over former state Rep. Pete Drew, who ran as an independent.

Staples needs to win a seriously competitive race to consolidate his political standing.

The ranks of Democratic county elected officials have been so reduced that today there are no elected white Democrats holding partisan office in the entire county, including judgeships.

This is a dramatic change from just 20 years ago when Democrats like Howard Bozeman, Billy Tindell, Mark Cawood, Harry Tindell, Bob Broome, Madeline Rogero, Gordon Sams, Daryl Fansler, Harold Wimberly, Randy Nichols, Wayne

Victor Ashe

Ritchie, Tommy Schumpert and Mark Harmon held office.

All elected Democrats are Knoxville city officials, like Rogero, Finbarr Saunders, Barbara Palmer and Duane Grieve, who run on a nonpartisan basis and seldom show their Democratic stripes. To stage a comeback, local Democrats must have black and white officeholders.

■ New UT Chancellor Beverly Davenport will attend the Dec. 16 legislative breakfast for her first appearance on campus after being confirmed by the board on Dec. 15. It will be at 8 a.m. in the eighth-floor conference room at Andy Holt Towers and closed to the public.

Lawmakers have acquiesced to it being closed, but state Rep. Martin Daniel says, “Transparency should prevail. When UT is discussing public issues with lawmakers, the public should be there. UT would benefit from more openness.”

Daniel, who turns 60 this Saturday, is a UT graduate and holds two degrees from the university.

UT does itself a disservice by insisting on secrecy when the entire discussion among 20 legislators and UT officials will quickly become public once the meeting concludes. Furthermore, one critical mission of the university is to promote the facts and truth. Closing the door to meetings with elected officials, because of fear of negative media coverage, is inconsistent with the university’s mission.

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UT-Chattanooga basketball coach leads cheering section in wife’s cancer battle The Chattanooga Mocs may have won an exciting upset over the University of Tennessee in the Volunteers’ basketball season opener on Nov. 11, but what Mocs assistant coach Peter Gash celebrates even more is his wife Alexa’s successful completion of treatment for throat cancer.

The Gashes traveled to Knoxville each day for seven weeks so Alexa, 29, could receive proton therapy as the two continued to juggle a busy coaching schedule and life with their 17-month-old daughter after doctors found a 4.5 cm tumor on the left side of her throat in July.

Peter began researching proton therapy on the advice of a family physician, who had treated Alexa’s father for throat cancer several years prior. Because of her age, the couple wanted to find a treatment that would be most effective but also spare her from unwanted long-term side effects.

With conventional radiation, she risked permanent damage to her salivary glands, taste buds and teeth as well as the potential need for a feeding tube during and post-treatment.

After calling numerous proton therapy centers across the country, the couple scheduled a consult with Provision, just an hour and a half drive away.

“Every time we called we talked to a real person,” Peter Gash said. “And we were blown away by the level of attention and the level of care Provision staff showed us just within the first hour of meeting them.”

After seeing her father suffer serious and painful side effects from conventional radiation, Alexa was pleased to experience only mild soreness and fatigue with proton therapy – side effects that had begun to subside in the later weeks of treatment.

Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation therapy that uses a single beam of high-energy protons to treat various forms of cancer. Provision offers the most advanced form of proton therapy through pencil beam scanning, which delivers focused,

After his wife Alexa’s cancer treatment at Provision, Chattanooga Mocs assistant coach Peter Gash says he is “definitely a fan.”

high intensity doses of radiation to the cancer site while largely sparing surrounding healthy tissues and organs. This results in fewer immediate side effects and decreases long-term risk of secondary cancer due to radiation exposure.

“The best thing about proton therapy was my wife was able to maintain her normal life while she was going through this,” Peter Gash said.

The couple also appreciated the atmosphere of Provision, with its large, sunlit lobby, private treatment rooms and personalized care.

“Half the time I would forget I was here for cancer treatment,” Alexa Gash said. “You are able to focus on the process of getting better and less

on the fact that you have cancer.”

To show his appreciation for Provision and support of proton therapy, look closely at Peter’s lapel during

basketball games and you’ll see that in place of the Chattanooga Mocs pin, he now wears the Provision logo.

“I am definitely a fan,” he said.

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Proton therapy is NOT experimental Proton therapy was approved by the FDA in 1988 Medicare/CMS have reimbursed proton therapy since 2000 More than 100,000 patients have been treated with proton therapy worldwide Provision Proton Therapy Center has treated approximately 1,400 patients to date.

■ Provision Proton Therapy Center has treated patients from nine different countries, including more than 1,000 Tennesseans. 20% of those patients are from Knoxville.

■ 1.6 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed each year ■ Tennessee ranks fifth in the nation for deaths from cancer

Provision welcomes new medical director ‘Incredible opportunity’ brings Dr. Wilkinson to Knoxville

Dr. Ben Wilkinson has experience in the field of proton therapy, both in his practice as a radiation oncologist and as part of clinical research studies exploring the benefits of protons in a variety of cancers.

He came to Provision Proton Therapy Center from the Willis-Knighton Cancer Ben Wilkinson, and Proton Therapy Center in Shreveport, MD La., where he served as a radiation oncologist and assistant professor of radiation oncology for the Louisiana State University School of Medicine.

Wilkinson was familiar with Provision Proton Therapy Center, since it opened shortly before the Shreveport facility. He came to Knoxville-based Provision Healthcare because of their global excellence in cancer treatment, innovation, research and care, as well as their development of next-generation proton therapy equipment.

“There’s no other proton therapy center in the world that is as closely linked with a proton therapy manufacturer,” he says. “It’s an incredible opportunity.”

As medical director, Dr. Wilkinson oversees patient care at the proton therapy center at Provision CARES Cancer Center, where he also practices conventional radiation and serves as principal investigator for proton therapy-focused research studies.

He graduated from Texas A&M University with his medical degree and completed residency at Oakland Cancer Institute in Royal Oak, Mich.

He received specialized training in

Radiation oncologist and researcher Dr. Ben Wilkinson is enthused by the “culture of care” at Provision. He is pictured in one of Provision’s state-of-the-art proton therapy treatment rooms. proton beam therapy at University of Pennsylvania and the Paul Scherrer Institutes in Villigen, Switzerland. He also completed training in GammaKnife stereotactic radiosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh and BrainLab stereotactic radiosurgery at the University of Chicago.

He has authored multiple articles, book chapters and reviews. His research has focused primarily on

treatment of breast cancer.

He serves on committees of the American Society for Radiation Oncology and the American College of Radiation Oncology. He is a board member of Radiating Hope, a nonprofit that provides radiation treatment equipment to developing countries.

Wilkinson said he identifies closely with Provision’s “culture of care,” and is impressed with the atmosphere

Visit Provision online at ProvisionProton.com or call 865-862-1600.

and treatment patients receive here.

He says patients can expect him to set aside as much time as needed to answer questions and make them feel comfortable with the process.

“Education, I think, is the key to providing the best patient care,” he says.

“If a patient says, ‘Oh, wow, I understand this now,’ then I’ve done my job.”

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Bearden churches offer special Christmas Eve services

By Carol Z. Shane Yuletide is traditionally a season of hope and joy, but with recent events, many in our area are hurting. The horror of the Gatlinburg wildfire has certainly affected us all. Though our children are as excited as ever and looking forward to Santa’s visit, many area adults are looking inward – cherishing their homes, their families, friends and pets, when so many have lost so much.

Few things express hope more than the light of a single candle. Eleanor Roosevelt suggested that, rather than curse the darkness, it’s better to light a candle.

Those who practice meditation often focus on a candle’s warm pinpoint of light.

And this time of year, Christians gather in darkness on Christmas Eve, each holding a single candle.

Many Bearden churches are offering Christmas Eve candlelight services. A list, including times, addresses and phone numbers, follows. Even if you’re not part of a congregation, you’re welcome to take part.

■ Bearden United Methodist Church Christmas Eve candlelight service, 5 p.m., 4407 Sutherland Avenue, 865-588-6562 ■ Calvary Baptist Church Christmas Eve candlelight service, “Carols and Communion,” 6 p.m., 3200 Kingston Pike, 865-5239419 ■ Central Baptist Church Christmas Eve candlelight services, 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., 6300 Deane Hill Drive, 865-588-0586 ■ Church of the Savior, UCC Christmas Eve candlelight service, 7 p.m., 934

faith cross currents Lynn Pitts, lpitts48@yahoo.com

A perplexing greeting In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent

by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.

(Luke 1: 26-29 NRSV)

Christmas Eve candlelight services, like this one at Church Street United Methodist Church, are uniquely comforting events. Churches all over Knoxville will continue the tradition this Dec. 24.

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Weisgarber Road, 865-5847531 ■ Church Street United Methodist Church, traditional Christmas Eve candlelight and communion services at 12, 5, and 10:30 p.m., child-friendly family service at 3 p.m., 900 Henley St., 865-524-3048 ■ Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist services, 5, 8 and 11 p.m. with choral prelude beginning 20 minutes before each ser-

vice. 800 S. Northshore, 865-588-0589 ■ Erin Presbyterian Church, Christmas Eve candlelight service, 6:30 p.m., 200 Lockett Rd., 865-5885350 ■ Laurel Church of Christ Christmas Eve candlelight service, 6:30 p.m., 3457 Kingston Pike, 865524-1122 ■ Middlebrook Pike United Methodist Church Christmas Eve candlelight communion traditional ser-

vices, 4 p.m. and 11 p.m.; contemporary service 7 p.m., 7234 Middlebrook Pike, 865-690-8641 ■ Second Presbyterian Church, Christmas Eve “Carols and Candlelight” service, 7 p.m., 2829 Kingston Pike 865-2189 ■ St. Mark United Methodist Church, Christmas Eve candlelight services, 4 and 6 p.m., 7001 S. Northshore, 865-588-0808 ■ Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church,

The story of the birth of Jesus unfolds in layers: jumping forward to the future, backtracking into prophetic history, generally creating confusion and consternation. Perhaps the most confused person in the Bible is Mary: a virgin betrothed to Joseph, who finds herself being visited by the angel Gabriel.

Now an angel showing up suddenly is disconcerting, to put it mildly! We think of angels as beautiful creatures sporting halos, but almost invariably, angels have to begin their conversations with humans by saying, “Fear not!”

Is it their size, their radiance, their voices, their faces? The suddenness of their appearance? The brush of wings?

Luke says Mary was “perplexed.” (Apparently, Luke was given to understatement!) Angels were disconcerting enough, but a woman in that culture who was found to be with child before marriage was subject to death by stoning. “Perplexed” doesn’t begin to describe Mary’s fear, horror and confusion!

Imagine having to tell your parents, let alone your betrothed, “Oh, by the way, even though I’m a virgin, I am going to have a baby, and I know this because an angel told me so.”

Fortunately, God provided a haven for Mary: her cousin Elizabeth and Elizabeth’s husband, Zechariah, who lived in a Judean town in the hill country.

Another miracle: Elizabeth, who had been barren all her life, was now pregnant!

Christmas Eve candlelight service, 7 p.m., 2829 Kingston Pike, 865-523-2189 ■ Solway UMC, 3300 Guinn ■ Westminster PresbyteRoad, hosts a women’s Bible rian Church, Christmas Eve study 10 a.m. each Thursday. candlelight services, 5 and The group is led by Cindy Day. 7 p.m., 6500 Northshore, Info: 661-1178.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ All Knox County Senior Centers will be closed Friday-Monday, Dec. 23-26.

■ 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; computer classes; lending library with tapes, movies.

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

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

Monday-Friday. Fun Film Fridays, 12:30 p.m.

■ Larry Cox Senior Center 3109 Ocoee Trail 546-1700 Monday-Friday Hours vary

Tucker Busbee, 3, and Ivy Grace King, 3, tell Santa Claus their Christmas wishes at the annual Sherrill Hills Retirement Community Christmas parade last Thursday. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Delane McCandless as Frosty and Geraldine Watson as Christmas Tree collect giggles as they dance down “Main Street.”

Laughter reigns at Sherrill Hills Christmas parade

By Nancy Anderson Nearly 100 residents and staff members gathered at Sherrill Hills Retirement Community for their annual Christmas parade.

Christmas favorites from “The Grinch” to a dancing tree sauntered down “Main Street” yelling “Merry Luise Woodby is all smiles as Christmas!” and passing she channels her inner “Ruout candy to delighted on- dolph.” lookers.

Community managers “The response of the resEd and Sheri Ring said they idents is just outstanding. were thrilled to see every- They’re all in costumes; but one having such a good time best of all, they’re all wearat the parade. ing smiles.

Offerings include: exercise programs; bingo; arts and crafts classes.

■ Knox County Senior Services City County Building 400 Main St., Suite 615 215-4044 Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

■ CAC Office on Aging 2247 Western Ave. 524-2786 knoxooa@knoxseniors. org

Peggy Cummings and Sandi Simpson as Christmas Nutcracker soldiers.

Penny Bandy as “The Grinch” reveals her heart “grew three sizes” by handing out candy to onlookers and mugging gleefully for the camera.

“I don’t think I can ask for more than that,” said Ed Ring.

“It’s not just the residents. We’re all loving it.

Main Street is just filled

with laughter, and that makes me happy,” added Sheri Ring.

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Helen “Bubbles the Clown” Cooke delights onlookers with her silly antics.

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By Kip Oswald

Over the next few weeks, I am going to complete some of the “What’s in Name” series for our school names.

I have friends who go to Powell Middle Kip School, and the whole area of Powell has a very cool history.

The area that became Powell was settled in 1789, two years before Knoxville was established. Powell was settled by Stockley Donelson – Andrew Jackson’s brother-in-law – and Donelson’s house is still in Powell. The Powell community was named after Columbus Powell, who donated land for the Powell train station. His house still stands as well, near the current high school.

The train was important to the Powell area because it hauled bricks made from the mud in nearby Beaver Creek to other areas.

Several schools are in the Powell area, but the main ones I am writing about today are Powell High, Powell Middle, Powell Elementary and Copper

Ridge Elementary.

The first high school in Powell was established in 1874 and was called Perkins School. It was a two-room schoolhouse with one room to house grades 1-4 and a “big” room to house grades 5-10.

In 1916, it was renamed for the founder of Powell, Columbus Powell.

In 1949, the elementary and high schools were separated, and a high school was constructed on Emory Road where it is now. The current Powell Elementary School was built on what was the original site of Perkins School, constructed to house grades 1-8.

In 1969, Powell Elementary underwent a major expansion, allowing grades 1-6 to move into the new wing, while grades 7-8 remained in the old wing until the completion of Powell Middle School.

Copper Ridge Elementary was built in 1979 to meet the needs of the Green Hill and Heiskell communities.

The first Heiskell School and Green Hill School were both built in the 1800s with Green Hill near the present day Copper Ridge Elementary site.

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Knox County Museum of Education Honor Roll inductees and their proxies include: (seated) Patricia Hunter, Norma Kelley (for Dr. Paul Kelley), Connie Ramsey; (standing) D.M. Miller (for Mary Halsey), Dr. Sam Bratton, Roy Mullins, Tom Underwood, David Huntsinger, Jody Davis, Beecher Clapp, Benna van Vuuren and Jack Williams. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Museum of Education turns 10

By Betsy Pickle The Knox County Museum of Education celebrated its 10th birthday with cake, punch and a stroll down Memory Lane.

Visitors – many of them current or retired teachers – dropped by the Sarah Simpson Professional Development Center, 801 Tipton Ave. in South Knoxville, throughout the afternoon of Dec. 1 to view exhibits and chat with friends. The museum moved to the Simpson Center in 2013, about seven years after it was created at the Historic Knoxville High School building.

The official program included guest speaker Robert Booker and the induction of the first Honor Roll – volunteers and board members whose efforts led to the formation and success of the museum.

Booker shared the history of public education in Knoxville and Knox County using information he had researched in the museum’s archives.

“It is a real museum with books, photographs, documents and memorabilia,” Booker said, describing the museum. “It is a repository of more than 200 years of educational progress.”

The march to public education early on was slow, but it sped up after the Civil War, Booker said, especially after the state enacted a law creating the position of county school superintendents. The first schools opened in 1867.

“By September 1869, the county had 126 schools that were mostly built by private enterprise and were crude structures,” he said. Booker said a report he found in the museum noted that schools were open about 70 days a year, and less than 30 percent of the school-age population attended.

That had improved by 1876, when 10,075 students within Knox County – 8,425 white, 1,650 black – were attending. School was in session 82 days a year. Teachers were paid an average of $36 a month, and the superintendent made $600 a year. The system’s budget was less than $34,000.

Meanwhile, the city launched its own school system in late 1870 and stayed in the education business until residents voted to merge with the county in 1986.

Booker drew laughs – rueful chuckles, mostly – when he noted that male teachers made more than female teachers in the mid-20th century.

“These stories and many more live and continue to illuminate the public in this County Museum of Education,” Booker said. “It will surely continue to expand and offer even greater enlightenment to our citizens, thanks to you.”

The Honor Roll included 15 people, including museum director and cofounder Benna Van Vuuren. Other members are: David Armstrong, Jim Boyer (deceased), Sue Boyer, Dr. Sam

Bratton, Beecher Clapp, Jody Davis, Mary Halsey, Patricia Hunter, David Huntsinger, Dr. Paul Kelley (deceased), Roy Mullins, Connie Ramsey, Tom Underwood and Jack Williams.

There are plans to add more to the honor roll over the next few years.

Semi-Scrooge Booker Among his many accomplishments, Robert “Bob” Booker is noted for releasing his first CD this year. But don’t look for a recording of Christmas songs from him.

“I hate Christmas music!” he says. “Unless you’re singing out of a hymn book – you know, ‘Adeste Fidelis’ or ‘It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.’

“But all this stuff people do drives me crazy. They bastardize Christmas music so it drives me insane. After Thanksgiving, every radio station’s got to play Christmas music, so I have to turn the radio off. I can’t stand it!”

He makes an exception for “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

“Well, everybody loves a shiny nose. That’s one of the few that I can appreciate because it’s a fun song. It has meaning, too.”

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Coding fun at Bearden Middle School

By Wendy Smith

Third-graders Cawood Rose and Yale Arambula-Chavez, Rocky Hill Elementary School principal Cory Smith and Great Schools Partnership interim president Stephanie Welch get excited as teacher Jordan Haney (in red) receives a grant to pay for video equipment for his classroom.

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Rocky Hill teacher receives grant from Great Schools Partnership

By Wendy Smith Jordan Haney, a thirdgrade teacher at Rocky Hill Elementary School, was surprised to receive a $3,708 TeacherPreneur grant from Great Schools Partnership last week. He plans to use the funds to purchase equipment to make short videos of kids doing real-world math.

The grant will cover a Sony 4K HD Video Recording Handycam Camcorder Bundle, a MacBook Pro, and FinalCut Pro software.

Haney’s grant application included a “Part B� where he asked for $800 for the camera if he couldn’t get the entire amount, he said.

Until now, he’s been using

his cell phone to shoot the videos that are intended to be “lesson openers� to show kids the importance of math in everyday life.

He was especially excited about receiving the full amount because he received a TeacherPreneur grant last year to purchase a MacBook Air and microphones to make music about math standards.

Officials from the Great Schools Partnership and Knox County Schools made surprise visits to 14 teachers last week to award over $100,000 in grants. This is the third year the organization has offered teachers funding to pursue creative ideas in the classroom through its TeacherPreneur

Grant Program. “Each project represents the creativity of KCS teachers in bringing innovative, out-of-the-box thinking to their instruction,� says Great Schools Partnership interim president Stephanie Welch.

The program received a record number of requests this year − 54. The Great Schools Partnership worked with Knox County Schools’ Office of Innovation and a team of teacher/peer grant reviewers to vet the applications, interview finalists and choose this year’s winners.

All full-time Knox County teachers are eligible for the awards.

Dreidel sculpture part of ‘STEAM Out Hunger’ exhibit Students from the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School built a Chanukah dreidel out of canned food for the school’s third annual “STEAM Out Hunger� exhibit at The Muse Knoxville, 516 N. Beaman Street.

STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math education.

Students worked with local scientists, engineers and architects to design their sculpture from concept to construction. ConAgra Foods and Bush’s Beans donated the 1,600 canned-food building blocks for the sculpture.

As part of the “STEAM Out Hunger� exhibit, The Muse Knoxville is offering reduced admission during a food drive this weekend, Saturday, Dec. 17, and Sunday, Dec. 18. Admission will be $1 off per canned food item for visitors with no limit on the number of cans. All food collected and the cans from the sculpture will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank.

Knowing how to create code is becoming a necessary job skill, so Bearden Middle School teachers integrated computer science education into as many classes as possible during Computer Science Education Week.

It took several months of planning, says Bearden Middle School technology, pedagogy and content knowledge coach Kayla Canario, but the hope is that students will come away from Computer Science Education Week with a desire to learn more.

Bearden Middle is in its second year of one-to-one computing. The school received 1,200 iPad Air 2s last year through the federal Digital Promise initiative, and the devices have been incorporated into classroom activities. But that doesn’t mean students understand how the applications that run on their devices are created.

Last year, the school participated in One Hour of Code, a global initiative to give all students a one-hour introduction to computer science that would demystify coding, which is defined

by Canario as “commands given to a computer to get it to do anything you want.�

One Hour of Code takes place during Computer Science Education Week, and this year, the timing of the event conflicted with preparation for end-of-year exams. Instead, the school opted to incorporate computer education in a broader way.

One of the more attentiongrabbing projects conducted last week was robot painting. Students covered small robot balls, called Spheros,

Ella Outland, Allison Shuler and Ava Salvilla use a robotic ball to paint. Photo submitted

with paint and created code to roll the robots on paper to make compositions.

The project was highly experimental, Canario says.

The robots are supposed to be watertight, but they’d never been covered with water-soluble paint before, and staff didn’t know if kids would be engaged. But it was a success, and there’s talk of allowing visitors to participate in a community art piece using Spheros at an upcoming Night of the Arts at the school.

That was an art project.

Incorporating computer science education into other classes was more challenging. In 6th-grade social studies, a study of ancient India took a detour into coding when students learned that the concept of zero originated in India. Teachers took the opportunity to teach a lesson on binary code, which uses the digits zero and one.

Canario thinks integrating information into several classes could have a longerlasting impact on students than a single hour of computer science education.

The nation is dealing with a learning gap, she says. “You can’t work in a job without being exposed to some kind of computer science.�

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But the immediate focus after the fire was taking care of employees who lost homes, cars and belongings.

Fortunately, many Alamo employees could be placed in other restaurants in the Johnson Family of Restaurants chain, and because of the community’s willingness to help, all have found short or long-term housing. “We will rebuild. The Alamo will be back and better than ever.�

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News from Mission of Hope

Mission of Hope lights up children’s lives at Christmas schools. So abilities of all kinds are needed.

For the guys working in the MOH “bike shop” on a recent weekday morning, the particular ability needed comes under the heading of “brawn.”

“Get on up at the top of the ladder,” says Brad Butcher to his son Colby, as he hands a two-wheeler up. The other men – Ray Fisher, owner of Fisher Tire Company, Jim Montgomery, and MOH executive director Em-

By Carol Z. Shane This time of year, Mission of Hope’s (MOH) offices and warehouses off Middlebrook Pike are a hive of activity, with volunteers busily preparing shipments of toys, food and hygiene products for economically distressed Appalachian communities in Northeast Tennessee, Southeast Kentucky and Southwest Virginia.

There’s a food station, with conveyor belts and shelves stacked full of canned goods. There are

racks and racks of clothing, as far as the eye can see. There’s a whole warehouse devoted to toys.

And MOH’s familiar blue collection barrels line a wall, some still unloaded.

This year MOH is serving children and families from 28 elementary

The “bike crew” has just finished stacking more than 100 bikes into multi-level storage. Shown are Brad and Colby Butcher, Emmette Thompson, Ray Fisher and Jim Montgomery.

mette Thompson – observe. There are so many brightly-colored bicycles that they require multilevel storage.

“We don’t advertise for bikes,” says Thompson, referring to the lists of suggested donations found in MOH’s brochure and on the organization’s website. Instead, the Fountain City Lions Club Laura Peck and Amanda Perryman are happily elbow-deep in pledged to buy toys. Peck, MOH’s assistant director of operations, began two four bicycles years ago as a volunteer toy coordinator. She says that MOH per elementary traditionally runs short on items for 10- to 12-year-old girls. school per year “People like to buy for the little ones,” she says. “But we’re in honor of Mialways short on things for that older age group.” Perryman, chael Dell Wila firefighter/paramedic, has volunteered at MOH for “at least liams, the son of fi ve years. My husband grew up poor in Appalachia, with no WBIR’s beloved plumbing or electricity, and that’s what drew me to MOH.” anchor Bill Williams – himself a supporter of MOH since its 1996 inception – and Bill’s wife, Wanda. Michael lost his battle with cancer in 2004. “That’s four bicycles times 28 schools,” says Thompson of the current count.

Elsewhere in the warehouse, Joe Adams sorts canned food at a counter. His brow furrows as he tries to decide where to put a singular item.

Nearby, Ron Mouser, Kay

Bradley, Tom Almonrode, Mona Wallace and Mary Miller load boxes full of the cans from rows and rows of packed shelves.

Miller is thrilled with a new addition to their area.

“This conveyor belt makes it so much better than last year!” she says.

Thompson likes to bestow lighthearted honorary titles on his volunteers. “This here is the Toy

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Thompson says the two women are the “Heroes of the Hope.” It turns out that Perryman actually is a real-life hero. She’s a firefighter/paramedic in Gatlinburg.

MOH extends a helping hand not only at Christmas but throughout the year, providing clothing, furniture, household and office items; back-toschool backpacks filled with school supplies; health supplies; and home repair and construction projects such as handicap ramps. They have established scholarship endowments at Lincoln Memorial University and 13 rural high schools in Tennessee, and at Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky.

But now it’s time for the big holiday push. “There are 18,000 children and family members that we touch this Christmas,” says Thompson. Joe Adams, still sorting cans nearby, says, “It’s just a very special ministry at a needy time of year.”

Thompson’s philosophy is “We truly believe as a ministry there will never be anything we deliver in a truck that is more important than telling all those we serve that there is hope and God loves them.”

Mike and Mary Emma Bunch work with MOH coordinator Mildred Queen (not shown) to find what items are missing among donations.

Their church group, the Legacy Builders at First Baptist Church of Concord, has adopted Burchfield Elementary School in Oneida, Tenn.

“People are asked to buy one pair of shoes and six pairs of socks,” says Mary, “but many people buy more. So if we have several items of clothing that go together, we will fill in to make sure they get the whole outfit.”

Thompson calls Mary Emma “the Clothing Queen.”

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Dr. Ruth Stephens made history clear Lindsey Nelson (19191995) was perhaps best known nationally as an American sportscaster who had a long career as a playby-play announcer for college football and the New York Mets baseball team.

However, many Vols for life will remember him at a much earlier time when he announced UT football games for the Vol network.

Nelson was a 1941 University of Tennessee graduate who served as a captain in the U.S. Army in World War II in North Africa and in Europe. One of his history professors at UT was Dr. Ruth Stephens. He kept up correspondence with her while overseas and in one long letter he described things he had witnessed and places he had been.

Dr. Stephens wrote back to say how furious she was that she was not there in his place to witness history being made. She wrote, “Just think what value such experiences would have (been) for me.” Nelson interpreted that to mean that she felt he did not have the background to absorb what he was seeing. He agreed and realized he should have paid closer attention in class.

Those who remember Dr. Stephens’ civic club presentations, radio broadcasts and later her television commentaries will recall that she “told it like it is (was)” and “minced no words” as she discussed world events and the implications they held.

Ruth Stephens was born in Kevil near Paducah in western Kentucky on Oct. 2, 1889, and received her B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University. For a while she taught high school in Paducah (1921-24).

Dr. Stephens joined the University of Tennessee faculty in 1925, became the first woman in the UT College of Liberal Arts to obtain a full professorship and would eventually serve a total of 35 years there. Later, her interest in international relations led to a Carnegie Fellowship for World Peace and she took a one year leave of absence (1931) to study international law at George Washington University and

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Many students had Dr. Stephens for two subjects during their undergraduate years since she taught both history and international relations. Carson Brewer, longtime Knoxville News Sentinel reporter and author of several books on local history, was one of her students.

In an article titled “How Long Do I Remember the Personal Wrath of Ruth Stephens” (Knoxville News Sentinel, Dec. 25, 1983) he wrote: “She didn’t teach history.

She relived it. She made you go with her back through those wars and intrigues that led us to where we are. She always used the big wall map behind her in reliving those marching armies and changing national boundaries. She peppered the map with small blows with her pointer.

“We went with her and that pointer with Napoleon into Russia. We plotted with her and Elizabeth I. She and we warred with the Chinese Communists, the Kuomintang and the Japanese all over the map of China.

“Maybe we did not greatly like Mao Tse-tung, but we learned to respect him and the peasant communists he took with him on the long march across China in the middle 1930s. Dr. Stephens’ enunciation was so nearly perfect that every word was as clear as boxcar letters.

She also colored every word with her feelings—scorn, love, admiration, humor.”

When she reached mandatory retirement age in 1960, she hardly slowed down. Civic and fraternal organizations all over East Tennessee asked her to speak and she made from 100 to 300 speeches a year.

She also had a regular radio program until television arrived and afforded her the perfect platform to express her always enlightened views on world affairs. Her

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Dr. Ruth Stephens (1889-1975) taught both history and international relations at UT for 35 years. Even after her retirement, she delivered from 100 to 300 speeches a year to civic and fraternal groups, in addition to her regular TV commentary. Photograph courtesy of the McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville Journal Collection

television program “The History Behind the News” was among the most popular weekly commentaries of its time.

When there was sentiment for withdrawing from the United Nations, she spoke to the combined meeting of the Women’s Press and Author’s Club and the Tennessee Pen Women in Gatlinburg and voiced this cogent opinion: “I shudder when I hear people say the United States should withdraw. … If there were no UN, we would be seeking frantically to create one. The world needs the UN. From the platform, in the corridors and cloakrooms, our representatives can detect the currents that exist in 111 member states.

Where else can we gain such information? How else can we shape our policy so that we can grasp even the smallest opportunity to advance world peace?”

After a lifetime of imparting knowledge to university students and extending her positive influence into the community, Dr. Ruth Stephens passed away on Dec. 15, 1975, at 86 years of age at University Hospital of an apparent heart attack. After services at Mann’s Mortuary conducted by Rev. Julian Spitzer, she was interred in Highland Memorial Cemetery.

During her lifetime she had received many awards

for her service: Knoxville Woman of the Year (Beta Sigma Phi, 1940), Faculty Member of the Year (Volunteer Year Book, 1952), Outstanding Service in Protecting Our Constitutional Republic (Daughters of the American Revolution, 1954), and the Outstanding Educator Award (Greater Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, 1969).

Her memory lives on at UT in two active memorial funds: the Ruth Stephens Scholarship Fund for undergraduate political science majors with particular interest in the area of international politics and the Ruth Stephens International Relations Award Fund, which supports an annual cash award to an undergraduate political science major whose principal interest is in the field of international relations.

Dr. Jim Tumblin’s latest book, Fountain City: Those Who Made a Difference, is available at Page’s Pharmacy, Pratt’s Country Store, Long’s Pharmacy, the East Tennessee History Center, Union Avenue Books and online.

Rotarians from the five clubs in Sevier County – Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Sevierville Sunrise and Seymour Breakfast – are the volunteers staffing and operating the Rotary Distribution Center and “free store” at Boyd’s Bear in Pigeon Forge. They are being helped by Rotarians from Knoxville and from clubs throughout District 6780 across East Tennessee.

“You can’t fathom what’s going on here unless you see it,” District Gov. Fred Heitman said. “It is utterly fantastic and an incredible testimony about what Rotary is all about and how we can respond and get things done. It’s amazing.”

To date the center has served more than 15,000 victims, and when asked how many Rotarians have volunteered, he said: “Hundreds, literally hundreds, and they are unloading trucks, sorting items, getting them into the warehouses and helping the victims get what they need … they need all kinds of non-perishable food items, shovels, work gloves, clothes, especially warm coats for kids, shoes, trash bags. You name it and they need it. We need financial donations to help pay for the victims who lost their medications in the fire.”

He said they do not need canned beans – Bush Brothers has covered that item.

Here are a few other things happening here … the Turkey Creek Sunset Club is donating $500 to a family … the Knoxville Breakfast Club is making financial contributions, volunteering at the Boyd’s Bear center, and its president, Joe Jarret, is part of a group of attorneys (through the Sevier County Bar Association) providing free legal clinic to victims … the Webb School Interact Club raised $2,771 from the Pre-K through 12th grades … Farragut is auctioning items left over from a recent fundraiser and matching the funds raised with $500 more, and many members are making financial donations, as are many other Rotarians.

The district has set up the “Oak Ridge Community Rotary Fund” – a 501(c)(3) – and you can send your tax-deductible contribution via mail to the Oak Ridge Community Fund, ATTN: Firestorm, PO Box 4183, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 or you can visit this website to make your contribution: https://portal.icheckgateway. com/RotaryCommunityFund/ Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self” and there’s a ton of Rotary service going on right now in Sevier County!

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News from Office of Register of Deeds

Real estate market stays strong in November

By Sherry Witt The onset of winter may be only a few days away, but so far local real estate and lending markets seem largely u na f fec ted by the Sherry Witt changing seasons. During November, there were 1,005 property transfers in Knox County, representing a mere six percent decrease from October’s activity, and far outperforming the 779 sales recorded in November of last year.

The aggregate value of

properties sold was around $211.5 million. While that was a robust amount for late fall, it was only $4 million ahead of last November’s figure, which was bolstered by some large commercial transactions.

While mortgage lending activity did experience a drop of about $100 million from its October levels, the $346 million loaned in November represented an increase of more than $50 million over November of 2015. It should also be noted that November is not only the month when activity often slows with the approach of winter, but is also the shortest business month

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of the year with the Veterans Day and Thanksgiving holidays.

There were two large real estate transfers of note in November. The first involved the $9.6 million sale of a residential development at 414 North Forest Park Boulevard off Sutherland Avenue. The other was the much anticipated sale of the estate on Lyons View Pike known as Villa Collina, which sold for $6,375,000.

I hope everyone enjoyed a blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends, and on behalf of all of us at the Register of Deeds office, I would like to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas.

Accepting nominations for the 2017 Orchid Awards Keep Knoxville Beautiful is now accepting nominations from the public for its beautification awards, the Orchids. Since 1979, Keep Knoxville Beautiful has presented Orchid Awards to Knoxville and Knox County buildings and outdoor spaces that beautify and elevate the local landscape. Deadline for nominations: Dec. 16. Info/ nominations: keepknoxvillebeautiful.org or 521-6957.

“We left here about 10 o’clock last night,” says Frank Distefano, happily frazzled during one of his busiest times of year. He and his wife, Doris, have run Fleetwood Photo & Digital since 1985, and the business continues to grow and change with the times.

“During the holidays, we turn from a photo store into a gift shop.” Cards, framed prints, photos on canvas, memory books, DVDs – “all the things,” as staff designer Alyssa Bryant says – are There’s still plenty of time before available for one-of-a-kind Christmas to transfer your home movies Christmas gifts. “Why buy onto DVD and Blu-ray discs. art when you can make your own?” asks Distefano.

And with Fleetwood Photo & Digital, you’re assured of the best product.

“You know, people take photos on their phones, and they’re done, the main expense is over. You can maybe not the best photos, and they make duplicates for everyone. They’re want to make cards or framed pieces great stocking stuffers.” And that stack out of them,” says Distefano. “They take of clunky VHS tapes will be gone, once them to a card shop. And a lot of those and for all. places make a fine product, but they Though this is one of Distefano’s bussend their photo finishing out to an off iest seasons, he says things don’t slow site contractor. They don’t have the pho- down that much in January, what with to expertise to make a marginal photo brides’ shows starting up, college sororlook really good.” ity rush recruitment packages being asFleetwood Photo & Digital, however, sembled, and even New Year’s cards bedoes. ing ordered. “People just decide to do a Now with two degreed designers on holiday card after the madness.” staff, Distefano says, “we’re expanding Fleetwood Photo & Digital welcomes the photo-centric product.” it all. Distefano smiles. “We can sleep in Family photo books are a great gift February!” idea, and your advantage at Fleetwood Photo & Digital is that of having not only those trained designers but other helpful staff members within reach. You can turn those dusty piles of archival photos into a gift that will be cherished for generations.

And there’s still plenty of time to 6504 Kingston Pike transfer your videos and old movie 584-4554 film, too. “Duplicates are affordable and make great gifts,” says Distefano. www.fleetwoodphoto.com “Once the initial cost of the transfer is

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Elizabeth Farr’s music students gather for a recent picture. “I don’t like to call it a recital,” says Farr. “I call it a party. The parents bring goodies, the students play, then we all visit. It’s very crowded in here with all those harps!” Shown are Caitlin and Courtney Haggard, Mario Conway, Roxanne and Nicholas Nagle, Leslie Ann Johnson, Claude Abbott, Niamh Schumacher, Charlotte and Emma Stark, and Farr. Photo submitted

Elizabeth Farr: music-maker for a lifetime

By Carol Z. Shane If you’ve lived in East Tennessee for any length of time you’ve surely run across the instrumental trio Farr Horizons and, in particular, their Christmas CD titled “Winter Reveries.”

A collection of seasonal selections and classical music played by the harp, flute and cello, the recording is a yuletide favorite. “People tell me they listen to it every year when they decorate their tree,” says the group’s founder, Elizabeth Farr.

From her cozy home in a 1929 apartment building, situated right next to the 1926 Farr family home on Kingston Pike’s “church row,” Farr reflects upon her life spent as a musician.

Born in Knoxville, she spent her first years in Oak Ridge. Her family moved to Knoxville when Farr was in elementary school. Demonstrating early musical talent, she was quickly guided toward piano and violin lessons. But when it came time to choose a college and a major, she entered the University of Tennessee as a voice major – a lyric coloratura soprano – studying under famed teacher Edward Zambara. After receiving her bachelor’s degree at UT,

she went on to earn a master’s degree in voice at the Peabody Conservatory, part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Along the way, she met John Farr, a hornist with the Air Force Band during the Vietnam years. They married and moved to New York City, where Elizabeth found a place with the renowned Gregg Smith Singers, an elite vocal ensemble consisting of just 16 singers. In addition, she says, “I got to do a solo at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Choral Society.”

When John was tapped for the faculty at UT Chattanooga, the couple moved to Tennessee. Elizabeth found voice students at UTC and joined the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra as a violinist. Before eventually moving back to Knoxville, she also spent a year in Germany because “I wanted to see about the opera world over there,” she says.

Obviously multiply gifted, Farr has always been curious about exploring all the possibilities available to her in music. “When I was 8 years old, they passed out a little book in school,” she says. “We filled it in. One page listed, ‘instruments’ and I wrote ‘piano, violin.’

Then I wrote ‘harp.’ In an-

swer to the question, ‘Do you play this instrument?’ I wrote, ‘not yet.’” She laughs at the memory. Though she’d always loved the harp, it took a few years for her to get around to playing it.

“In 1983 I sang the role of Gretel in a Knoxville Opera Company production of ‘Hansel and Gretel,’” she says. “I took the check from that and bought a Celtic harp,” a small triangular harp traditional to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Almost overnight, Farr was playing the instrument professionally.

“I learned on the job!” she says. “Six months after I bought the harp I was hired to play at the Hilton five nights a week. I had had a couple of lessons and went to some workshops, but I never really studied. My technique is a little nuanced, I guess, but it works for what I do.”

She was hired in 1986 to play harp for the wedding of another local musician, multi-instrumentalist Rachel Schlafer. The two had never met, but they hit it off. Along with D. Scot Williams, she and Schlafer – now Rachel Schlafer-Parton – formed the trio Farr Horizons. Later, after Williams left the group, cellist Stacy

Nickell stepped in.

Farr has been a violinist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra since 1964, starting under conductor David Van Vactor. “The orchestra has changed,” she says. “It’s like playing in the Chicago Symphony now, compared to what it was then!” In 1990, during the first KSO “baby boom,” she and John welcomed their daughter, Bonnie, who is now a yoga teacher and oboe instructor in Cincinnati.

This time of year, she’s looking forward to the 29th annual Clayton Holiday Concerts. “When I looked at the list of music, it looks like it’s going to be music everyone will like.” She’s played every “Clayton” except one.

“One year I was so busy playing harp I missed one. I had too many parties!”

Farr is also looking forward to Christmas at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Farragut, where she has been music director

A violinist in orchestras since 1964, Farr first played with the KSO under conductor David Van Vactor. since 2009. “I just love St. E’s!’” she says. “Every year we do a big music event – the St. Cecilia Festival – on Nov. 22. I hire symphony players.

We just did the Poulenc Organ Symphony with our organist, Josh Sumter. So now I’m a conductor too!” She’ll be directing her choir for the Christmas Eve service.

“We always do really good stuff,” she says, “and they love that I bring in all these great players.”

Of her favorite seasonal music, she admits that she’s partial to “The Christmas Song,” with “all those great chords,” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”

Farr has played “literally thousands of weddings,” and occasionally arranges music for them. She plays a petite pedal harp for Knoxville Early Music Project

(KEMP), and she stays so busy throughout the fall months getting ready for her church festival that Christmas often catches her by surprise. “I always find it a bit jarring when all of a sudden it’s Christmas and I have to start playing all these Christmas songs that I haven’t been able to practice because life was going on everywhere else,” she says. “Of course, I start my students on their Christmas pieces in October.” Now in the midst of the holidays, she has a few things she’d like her listeners to know about musicians, traditionally very busy during Christmastime.

“Probably when you hear us play it’s not the first thing we’ve played that day,” she says. “And we’re always trying to play our best.”

Suit collection/giveaway helps veterans Veterans and military personnel, do you need a new business suit for work?

Anyone else have a business suit you don’t wear?

The Farmers Insurance agency in West Knoxville is holding its “Suits for Soldiers” event 8-10 a.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 218 S. Peters Road, Suite 100.

Insurance agents and local businesses are donating

new and used suits for service members who are transitioning into the civilian workforce or for any veteran in need of a new suit.

A tailor will be on site to measure and fit the perfect suit.

Those wanting a free suit, please have one of the following with you: Military ID, your DD214, or anything that shows you served

in the military.

Veterans from surrounding counties and the Tri-Cities are also welcome.

Donated suits are being accepted at the same location until Monday, Dec. 19. Gently used or even new suits can be dropped off Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

The drive is sponsored by East Tennessee Military Affairs Council.

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News from Paradigm Wealth Partners

The true gift of Christmas Provided by Paradigm Wealth Partners Christmas is here … a season of meaning, a season of joy, a commemoration of the birth of Jesus and the truth, love, and salvation He offers us.

Sometimes, our culture can make Christmas seem so secular, so much about the mall and pretty paper and material things. But we know that Christmas is not about buying and acquiring, it is about giving. God gave this world His only son; Jesus gave His life for us on the cross; and we have given Him our hearts so that we may be saved.

These are trying times, and some of us are being tested right now. But it’s important to remember that even if we were to receive nothing this Christmas, we have already received the most profound gift imaginable – a gift we should share, a gift that can truly open the eyes of the heart.

At Paradigm Wealth Partners, our independence enables us to establish working relationships with a number of well-known companies whose products we can leverage to create customized client portfolios. We recommend only those products and services that can be tailored to suit our clients’ unique needs: ■ Stocks

Let us remember – and remind those we know – what Christmas is all about. The headlines may be all about the troubles in the economy, but if we look above them, we are reminded how rich we really are.

■ Bonds ■ Trusts ■ Brokered CDs ■ Mutual Funds ■ Fixed Annuities ■ Variable Annuities

I wish you the very best this holiday season. Should you have any particular financial needs or questions, please feel free to call or simply send an email.

Have a wonderful Christmas.

Jonathan P. Bednar II may be reached at 865-251-0808 or mail to: JonathanBednar@ ParadigmWealthPartners.com www.ParadigmWealthPartners.com

■ Retirement Plans ■ Estate Plans

■ 529 College Savings Plans ■ Life Insurance ■ Long-Term Care ■ Alternative Investments ■ Fee-Based or AssetManaged Accounts ■ Other investment strategies

Many people need to update their financial plans each year to help ensure that it is in step with any changes in their employment, income, or other aspects of their lives. In addition, market and legal modifications can have an impact on the effectiveness of any financial strategy, so a regular consultation with your planning partner at Paradigm is a good idea.

About Paradigm Wealth Partners

Paradigm Wealth Partners is an independent investment advisory firm that offers unbiased and comprehensive financial planning.

We serve individuals, families, and businesses near Knoxville, Tennessee. Professional financial planning services include investment planning, retirement planning, insurance, and estate planning. We invite you to schedule a free consultation to get a second opinion on your financial plan. To learn more about our team, visit our website, read our blog, or contact our office at 865-251-0808.

Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA / SIPC. Investment Advice offered through Paradigm Wealth Partners, a Registered Investment Advisor and separate entity from LPL Financial.

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ARTS! recap: Artsclamation! featured original works by more than 30 noted regional and local artists who work with a variety of media, including oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylics and photography, as well as an exclusive grouping of three-dimensional artists displaying jewelry, pottery, woodwork and sculpture.

Participating artists included: Amy Crews (Featured Artist), Hugh Bailey, Lynda Best, Kathy Bradley, Pat Clapsaddle, Lil Clinard, Amy Collins, Sam Collins, Vicki Denaburg (Founders’ Award Artist), Wendy Ervin, Gordon Fowler, Larry Gabbard, Edie Greer, Betsy Heerdt, Ronald Lewis, Kay List, Sharron Mallison, Kate McCullough, Mike Naney, Charles “Chico” Osten, Amber Anne Palo, Leila Platt, Janis Proffitt, Dennis Sabo, David Swanagin, Kristine Taylor, Debbie Toney, Jyl Walker, and Heather Whiteside.

Where does the money go?

Funds raised during Artsclamation!’s 15-year history have benefitted a number of Peninsula’s programs, including emergency assistance with discharge medications for inpatients, therapeutic weighted blankets, reference books, art supplies, relaxation CDs and karaoke equipment for patient therapy. Proceeds from this year’s event total more than $45,000 and will be used to construct a new outdoor courtyard for the men’s unit at Peninsula Hospital.

Want to be a VIP? Parkwest and Peninsula seek new volunteers Interested in becoming a volunteer? Endless possibilities abound at Parkwest Medical Center and Peninsula!

Discover why more and more people are putting their skills to use by helping others as a Parkwest or Peninsula volunteer. About 150 people currently volunteer at

Parkwest and Peninsula, in both direct patient care support and administrative/clerical roles. The need is greatest for people who can work early morning shifts (must be at least 18 years of age).

For information, call volunteer manager Becky Boyd at 865-373-1556 to request an

application or download an application online at www.TreatedWell.com/volunteers.

Covenant Health’s vision is that our clinical and service excellence will make us the first and best choice for patients, employees, physicians, employers, volunteers and the community.

Parkwest volunteers by the numbers ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

$839,725 dollar value of hours volunteered 36,399 total hours 9,130 hours in Surgery Waiting 7,194 hours at Information Desk 6,019 hours (miscellaneous areas) 3,588 hours in Critical Care Waiting 3,400 hours in Endoscopy/Outpatient 1,465 hours in Admitting/Registration 1,820 hours in Patient Call Center 808 hours in Gift Shop 394 hours in Joint Replacement Center 584 hours in Emergency Department 515 hours in Childbirth Center 250 hours as Unit Aide/Companion 661 hours assisting Patient Representative 18 retired volunteers 1 common goal: Making a difference every day!

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Parkwest Medical Center is seeking people who enjoy helping others to join its current network of about 150 volunteers.

Parkwest strives to be recognized as the first and best choice for patients, employees, physicians, employers, volunteers and the community.

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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Transportation

Jobs

Automobiles for Sale

Employment

CADILLAC CTS - 2006. Light silver/gray.

3.5 V6. 71k miles. Have all records.

No trades. $10,000. (865)604-0448.

DRIVERS -CO & O\Op’s. Earn Great Money Running Dedicated! Great Benefits. Home Weekly. Monthly Bonuses. Drive Newer Equipment!

855-582-2265.

TOYOTA TACOMA - 1999. 4x4, 5-speed, std. Needs some body work. Reliable work truck. $900. (865)696-0650.

Sports and Imports CHEVROLET CORVETTE - 1999. Excellent condition, Garage kept, Coupe, Automatic, Blue Exterior, Tan leather interior. 66,000 mi., $16,500. (865)531-8372.

Mazda 6 2011, bought new with hail damage, 86K mi, very nice car, $7,000. (865)774-9791.

PORSCHE- 2002. 911 4/s Coupe. Silver. Auto. 128k. Very nice. $19,900.

(865)806-3648.

THINK SPRING. 2001 Jaguar XKR Super Charge, Low Miles 77,564. $11,950 obo. (865)521-9112.

Toyota Supra 1989 turbo, 1 owner, 115K mi, AT, targa top, orig., $6900.

(865) 984-1782.

Sport Utility Vehicles BMW X5 2005, white, 136K mi, good cond, new brakes & Michelin tires, $5500. (865) 599-6540.

HORSE TRAINER Thunderchase Farms (Karns) needs an individual to work and train horses. Send experience or resume to Tgraham7000@gmail.com.

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!

Retired Vet. looking to keep busy.

HYUNDAI SANTA FE - 2011. 4 cyl, 48,650 miles, silver with light gray interior, $12,000 in very good condition. Call (865)539-9631.

Home Maint./Repair

Trailers

Adoptions ADOPT: Down to earth couple, who love to share their joy of sports and theatre with family, wish to adopt a newborn. Expense paid. Mary and Bill 1-877-882-2475; maryandbilladopt.com

French Bulldog puppies, AKC reg, 3 wks old, ready to go Christmas week, will be vet ckd, 1st shots, worming, blue & white pie-bald female, blue w/white chest male.

Applehead Chihuahuas, teacups, blue fawn. Taking deposits. (423) 368-6731 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES - Full blooded.

Parents on premises. 1st shots and wormed. $350 each. 865-933-3621/865-933-5894.

GOLDENDOODLE PUPS - no shedding, great temperaments, good with children, $800. (865)466-4380.

GREYHOUND ADOPTION PetSmart, Morrell Rd., Sat, Dec. 10, 12-2pm, www.greyhoundrescue.org 865-690-0009 or 865-539-9942.

HAVENESE PUPS AKC, home raised, health guar. 765-259-7337 noahslittleark.com LABRADOODLES, AUSSIE DOODLES STANDARD POODLESM, YORKIES. Beautiful pups. Can hold till Christmas. Call or text 865-591-7220 MALTESE puppies, AKC, little white snowballs, shots UTD, ready now, $500 & $600. (865)659-5875

MALTI POOS Beautiful Toy puppies, $350-$450.

Tiny snow white female $600. Shots.

865-717-9493 MINI SCHNAUZERS. CKC. Salt & peppper, and solid white. 1st shots & dew claws, $650+. Taking deposits. (423) 736-0277.

PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI puppies, AKC, adorable & loving, 2 M, 1 F. vet ckd. (423) 418-3108 No texts.

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Many different breeds Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles, Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu. Shots & wormed. We do layaways. Health guar.

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Will clean front & back, $20 & up. Quality work, guaranteed.

SCHNAUZERS, 6 WKS, shots, reg., dewormed, $400 cash. 865-240-3254

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OLDSMOBILE EIGHTY-EIGHT - 1966.

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Cemetery Lots MAUSOLEUM, Lynhurst Cemetery, companion crypt, heart level. If interested call (865)922-7002

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GMC ACADIA - 2014. Lthr loaded nav sys remote start 55 mi., $25,550.

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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 ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS NKC, $1200. blessedbulldogs.blogspot.com.

Visa-MC Accepted. (423)775-6044.

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Garage Sales North CREATIVE ENDEAVORS SPECIAL EVENT SALE FOR THE PUBLIC - Fine unique gifts and crafts. O’Conner Center, 611 Winona St., Wed., Dec. 14th, 8:30am-2:30 pm. Contact 865-5231135 for more info.

SHIH TZU PUPPIES, AKC REG. vet ck. $450. Home raised.

(865)318-3702

Vehicles Wanted

Farmer’s Mkt/ Trading Post Farm Products

YORKIES, CKC REG. 1 Choc. parti male, $1200; 1 solid choc M $1200; 1 choc parti fem. $1600. UTD shots & home raised. (423) 268-0615

Cats CATS & KITTENS! - Fully vetted & tested.

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FANNON FENCING

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King size pillow top Excellent Cond.

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Heavy Equipment MILLER D-40 GENERATOR WELDER, DIESEL. $3,000.

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Pet Supplies SMALL BREED DOG BED w/therapeutic mattress, $75 cash only.

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Merchandise

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Includes 40 blk & stainless steel jets, JBL am/fm/cd w/marine spkrs, illum ftn jets & LED underwater lighting & comfort headrests. Used 2 seasons- includes cover & steps.

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Appliances FRIDGE AND STOVE - 25 cub. ft. side by side fridge. $550. Ceramic top stove. $200. (865)483-9208

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2001 E. Magnolia Ave. Cemetery Lots 6 PLOTS IN MASONIC SECTION HIGHLAND CEMETERY $3500 - 5315 Kingston Pike. $3500 buys all six. Mark Sherrod executor (706)847-6134

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BEST DEAL OUT WEST! 1BR from $395-$425. 2BR $550-$750.

No pets. Parking @ front door.

(865)470-8686.

ELDERLY CHRISTIAN WIDOW - needs help please with repairs for her car.

Any information or donations are appreciated. Contact through mail.

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4 level acres in North Hills w/mature hdwds & lots of privacy, 2 mi. from dwntwn. 3 BR, 1 1/2 BA, 1700 SF remod. bsmt rancher, hwd flrs & granite. $239,900. 865-368-2443 Emory Rd & I-75. 4 BR, 2.5 BA, oversized lot, in Teagues Grove, new appls, granite, shows like model, 3,000 SF, subd pool, A+ Powell schools, by owner, $259,900 or lease to own. (954) 547-2747

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POWELL CLAXTON. 3 BR, 2 BA, no pets, private, convenient, $700 mo + 1st, last, DD. 865-748-3644

LAKE HOME - 120 Shore Loop, 4BR, Norris Lake! Level lot. Year-round water. Appt only. $725,000. 865-4948817 or 865-850-5086

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COUPLE LOOKING TO ADOPT - A loving couple dreams of adopting your newborn, promising a secure life and forever love. Expenses paid. 800-7057768. Tara and Christopher.

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THROUGH FEB. 28 “Buy One, Get One Free” admission tickets are being offered by Zoo Knoxville during Kroger BOGO Days. Tickets can be purchased at the zoo tickets window or zooknoxville.org. Discounted tickets must be used by Feb. 28. Info: zooknoxville.org.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14 Cedar Bluff Library Holiday Celebration, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

“Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!” production, Clayton Performing Arts Center, Pellissippi State Community College. Performance for public, private and home school students: 9:15 a.m. Tickets: students, $5; adults, $8. Reservations required.

Info/tickets: 539-2490 or wordplayers@comcast.net.

KSO Quartet Storytime, 10:15 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Theme: “On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!.” Info: 588-8813.

THURSDAY, DEC. 15 Holiday Concert and Spaghetti Dinner hosted by the Carter High School Band. Spaghetti dinner, 6 p.m.; cost: $6 at the door. Holiday concert, 7 p.m.; free.

Proceeds from cash and carry gift area, silent auction and live auction go toward the purchase of new band uniforms.

KSO Quartet Storytime, 4 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Theme: “On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!.” Info: 470-7033.

Santa Visits the Library, 9-10 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, DEC. 15-17

No fees. Bring a project to work on or a finished model to show. Info/signup: Kurt, 932-1166.

SUNDAY, DEC. 18 Additional performance of Clarence Brown Theatre’s all new “A Christmas Carol,” 7:30 p.m.

The $10 children’s tickets can only be purchased by calling or stopping by the Box Office at 974-5161. Info: clarencebrowntheatre.com.

Family Wildlife Series: Owl-ology 101, 2-4 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Fee: $5 members; $8 nonmembers. Info/registration: 577-4717, ext. 110.

MONDAY, DEC. 19 West Knox Book Club: “Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury, 10 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Info: 588-8813.

TUESDAY, DEC. 20 “Music for the Mountains,” a benefit concert to support the Gatlinburg disaster relief, 7 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Performers: musicians of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Free, but donations encouraged. Info: Jeffery Whaley, Jeffery.whaley@gmail.com or 931-529-4676.

Ornament Craft Party for Kids, 10 a.m.-noon, Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 2158750.

“Social Media for Museums and Organizations” workshop, 1-3 p.m., the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $10, Arts & Culture Alliance members; $16, nonmembers. Info/registration: knoxalliance.com or sc@knoxalliance.com.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21 CAC Beardsley Community Farm Winter Solstice Supper, 6-9 p.m., OliBea in the Old City, 119 S Central St. Tickets: wintersolstice2016.bpt.me.

Ornament Craft Party for Kids, 10 a.m.-noon, Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

THURSDAY, DEC. 22

FRIDAY, JAN. 6 Opening for “Opportunity Knocks” art exhibit, 5-9 p.m., Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway. Info: BroadwayStudioAndGallery.com or BroadwayStudiosAndGallery@gmail.com.

Public reception for three new exhibits, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Exhibits include: The O’Connor Senior Center Painters: “Breaking Ground – What You Want to See,” Appalachian Area Chapter of Blacksmiths: “Beautiful Iron” and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission Gallery of Arts Tribute. Exhibits on display through Jan. 27. Info: 5237543 or knoxalliance.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 7 Oz with Orchestra, 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will play the live score I accompaniment with the “Wizard of Oz” film on the big screen. Info/tickets: knoxvillesymphony.com.

TUESDAY, JAN. 10 “Lessons from Ansel Adams in the Digital Age” workshop, 5:30-6:30 p.m., the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $5, Arts & Culture Alliance members; $8, nonmembers. Info/registration: knoxalliance.com or sc@knoxalliance.com.

SUNDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 15-22 Roane State’s Wilderness First Responder course, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.

Meets Tennessee EMS standards and national standards for first responder training. Focuses on special situations that may develop in the wilderness. Must have completed professional-level CPR training. Info/registration: gsmit.org/wfr.html or 448-6709.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JAN. 26-27 AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registration: 3825822.

Modern Dance Primitive Light 2016, Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Performances: 8 p.m.

Thursday; 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: circlemoderndance.tix.com. Info: 309-5309 or CircleModernDance@gmail.com.

Ornament Craft Party for Kids, 10 a.m.-noon, Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Sugar High!, 8:30-10 p.m. Sugar Mama’s, 135 S. Gay St. Free monthly stand-up comedy show featuring touring and local comedians. This month’s show features Jake Head, along with Atlanta comedians Paige Bowman and Andrew Michael.

FRIDAY, DEC. 16

FRIDAY, DEC. 30

Suzy Bogguss’ Swingin’ Little Christmas, 7:30 p.m., The Standard, 416 W. Jackson Ave. Tickets: $25, plus applicable service fees, in advance or $30 at the door. To purchase tickets: 544-1029. Info: info@ wdvx.com.

Kaleidoscope-Making Workshop, noon-3 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. For adults and children 9 and older. Cost: $26 or $49 for two in the same family. Info/registration: Bob Grimac, 546-5643 or bobgrimac@gmail.com.

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SUNDAY, JAN. 1

Clayton Holiday Concert, “A World of Joy,” presented by Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday; 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m.

Sunday. Info/tickets: knoxvillesymphony.com.

Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee meeting, 6 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Matthew Blondell will demonstrate black-eyed pea hummus, and steamed greens with “Stepping Off the Edge” workshop, 5:30-7 p.m., sesame rice will be served. A potluck supper follows. the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $7, Arts & Cost: $4, $10 per family. Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com or Culture Alliance members; $10, nonmembers. Info/reg546-5643. istration: knoxalliance.com or sc@knoxalliance.com.

SATURDAY, DEC. 17 Christmas Tales of long ago and far away, 7-9 p.m., Vienna Coffee House, 212 College Ave, Maryville.

Presented by Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association. Donations benefit Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association. Info: smokymountaintellers.org or 4291783.

Model car club meeting, 10 a.m.-noon, Maryville Hobby Lobby at Foothills Plaza. No dues.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 27-29 Refresher course for Wilderness First Responder, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.

Satisfies the requirements to renew certification in First Responder on the national registry. Info/registration: gsmit.org/wfr.html or 448-6709.

TUESDAY, FEB. 7 “The Power of Video and Photo to Tell Your Story” workshop, noon-1 p.m., the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $5, Arts & Culture Alliance members; $8, nonmembers. Info/registration: knoxalliance. com or sc@knoxalliance.com.

TUESDAY, MARCH 21

THURSDAY, JAN. 5 Auditions for all voice parts with the Knoxville Choral Society, 6-8 p.m. Location will be provided when appointment scheduled. Appointment: 312-2440 or membership@knoxvillechoralsociety.org. Info/audition form: knoxvillechoralsociety.org.

TUESDAY, APRIL 11 “Social Media and Branding” workshop, 5:306:30 p.m., the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $5, Arts & Culture Alliance members; $8, nonmembers.

Info/registration: knoxalliance.com or sc@knoxalliance. com.

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Gatlinburg man thankful

for East Tennessee’s largest stroke network He heard a voice. Someone was asking questions. As Albert Hernandez began to regain consciousness, he realized the voice was coming from a robot.

It sounds like a scene from a science fiction movie, but it’s a modern day wonder used today at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. The tele-stroke robot is advanced technology that helped save a Gatlinburg man’s life.

Hernandez was on the job at Ober Gatlinburg one day last summer when he noticed that a trash bin needed to be emptied out. He began the very common and simple task of moving trash to a cart so it could be wheeled away when something uncommon happened.

“I started shaking and sweating,” Hernandez recalls, “and I just dumped it.”

Hernandez told his supervisor he “felt funny.” Assuming it was a result of the summer heat, she took him to the administrative offices to let him cool down, rehy-

drate, and have his blood pressure checked. After about 30 minutes, Hernandez felt much better, and decided to get back to work.

But it happened again. He was overwhelmed with a strange sensation of dizziness and shaking.

Hernandez didn’t understand what was happening, but he knew something wasn’t right. With permission from his supervisor, he left work so his wife could take him to a clinic.

By the time Hernandez got off the tram to meet his wife, he felt even worse. “I looked at her and I said, ‘I don’t think I’m going to make it,’” he says. Suddenly, what was intended to be a simple visit to a clinic turned into an urgent drive to Covenant Health’s LeConte Medical Center in Sevierville. On the way, Hernandez complained that he couldn’t feel his left arm.

He turned to his wife and said, “Honey, I love you.”

Hernandez lost consciousness.

Kelly Hernandez tried to keep her

WARNING Signs of Stroke

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

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

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

Albert Hernandez lost his mother to a series of strokes. He’s thankful that advanced medicine and technology like the tele-stroke robot were available to give him a better chance of survival.

composure as she raced her husband to the hospital.

“I’ve never seen him unresponsive,” she says. “Just seeing him lie there, that was hard.”

When Hernandez woke in the emergency department he learned he had suffered a stroke, and a team was already in place to help him. LeConte Medical Center is part of Covenant Health’s stroke hospital network and recently has been certified by The Joint Commission as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center.

“They had a robot there next to my bed and there was some person in there asking me questions,” Hernandez says. Stroke medicine was administered, and Hernandez heard the voice in the robot

say, “Bring him to Fort Sanders Regional, immediately.”

Hernandez was experiencing the benefits of the tele-stroke robot network, which allowed a neurologist to virtually be in the same room as Hernandez at LeConte Medical Center in Sevierville via a video monitor, offering quick and early consultation that can make a critical difference in a patient’s chances of surviving a stroke with minimal effects.

“The next thing I knew I was being taken to Fort Sanders Regional,” Hernandez says.

Because of the tele-stroke robot network, medical staff at Fort Sanders Regional were completely up to speed on Hernandez’ case.

They were in place and ready to

care for him the very moment the ambulance arrived.

In the event of a stroke, minutes matter. Brain cells can die quickly, and that can easily lead to permanent brain damage.

“They were all there waiting for me, working there, asking me questions,” Hernandez says.

“There was always somebody there talking to me. They never left me alone.”

While his wife waited for reports on his progress throughout the process, she was comforted by comments she overheard in the lobby. People around her were saying Fort Sanders Regional is the best hospital for stroke patients.

Hernandez’ care team included a Fort Sanders Regional neurohospitalist specializing in stroke, as well as a representative from the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, who arranged for followup treatment to help him recover from the effects of the stroke.

“Fort Sanders Regional, Patricia Neal – I was surprised at how quickly they helped me come back,” Hernandez says. “Within a week or two I was already out of there and back at work.”

Once in a while, Hernandez still feels a few effects of his stroke.

But he has a clean bill of health from his doctor and his heart is strong. He may never understand what caused his stroke, but that’s okay. He’s just glad it’s part of his past, and that he still has a future to invest in the people he loves.

“I just want to be here for my wife and kids, and to live for as long as God lets me stay in the world,” Hernandez says. “I thank Fort Sanders Regional and Patricia Neal for helping me come back to my wife and my family, and for allowing me to be with them, hopefully many years to come.”

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

Clot-busting drugs are given to stroke patients through a vein to improve blood flow and minimize potential disabilities.

The amount of time it takes for a patient to be brought into a hospital until the moment medications are intravenously administered is referred to as “door-toneedle time.”

While the average door to needle time is a little more than an

hour, the door-to-needle time at Fort Sanders Regional is 30 minutes. That’s half an hour faster than the national average.

It’s just one of the many advantages a patient has when treated at a comprehensive stroke center.

The stroke center exists to provide the highest level of stroke care for complicated stroke cases.

“Finding out why the stroke occurred to prevent it from happening again sometimes takes someone who’s done a lot more work in treating stroke,” says Dr. S. Arthur Moore, medical director of the Fort Sanders Regional stroke program. He says finding out the “why” takes some digging into a

patient’s background, and sometimes the reason is not as obvious as typical risk factors.

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

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

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

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

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