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BUZZ Festival of Lights at Concord Cove Knox County’s 18th annual Holiday Festival of Lights at The Cove at Concord Park 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.

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 EducationBearden Club meets 10 a.m. each third Tuesday, Central Baptist-Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive. Info: Shannon Remington, 927-3316.

■ Family Community EducationCrestwood Club meets 10 a.m. each fourth Thursday, Grace Lutheran Church, 9076 Middlebrook Pike. Info: Ruby Freels, 690-8164.

■ 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 Association.

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.

■ Third District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each third Thursday, Cedar Bluff Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: Liz Key, 201-5310 or lizkey1@gmail.com; Isaac Johnson, 310-7745 or ijohnso2@gmail.com.

■ Toastmasters Club 802 meets 6:30 p.m. each Tuesday, Central Baptist Annex, 6310 Deane Hill Drive. Info: 802.toastmastersclubs. org.

■ West Hills Community Association. Info: Ashley Williams, 313-0282.

■ West Knox Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first and third Monday, 8529 Kingston Pike. Info: knoxvillewestknoxlionsclub.org.

■ West Knox Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each second Monday at Red Lobster on Kingston Pike.

SHOPPER ONLINE Greenways update Betsy Pickle has details on the city’s plans to expand greenways. See South edition.

By Carol Z. Shane Sometime in the 1890s, a Knoxville Tribune reporter wrote of a Queen Anne mansion on what is now Kingston Pike: “The pleasure of a visit to Westwood begins with the first view of the house…. the pleasure grows both in kind and degree with entrance into the hall where the elegant simplicity of the arrangement of the rooms and the quiet richness of the furnishing is taken in; but the pleasure does not reach its highest point until the curtain is drawn aside for entrance into the room which is at once a library, a picture gallery and an art studio.

“There is no other such room in or about Knoxville, rich and elegant as many of them are. (The) home was planned under the influence, and is therefore an ideal home for, one who is at once a refined and cultivated woman, a devoted daughter and wife and mother, and a gifted artist. ... The refining presence of the woman pervade(s) the whole house….”

The woman was Adelia Armstrong Lutz, and Historic Westwood, just east of Laurel Church of Christ, was built for her by her husband, John Edwin Lutz.

And just as there was “no other such room in or about Knoxville,” so there was no other woman like Adelia. She was a fifth-generation Knoxvillian, born with her twin sister, Lizzie, in 1859 at Bleak House, built by her grandfather.

She demonstrated exceptional artistic talent early on; encouraged

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Home Federal Bank gets ‘Sis’ award Home Federal Bank and Knoxville Habitat for Humanity’s home maintenance team were recognized with the 2016 “Sis” Awards at Knoxville Habitat’s holiday breakfast held at The Foundry in Knoxville. This annual award is presented by Knoxville Habitat founder Ellen “Sis” Roddy Mitchell.

Home Federal Bank was honored for its longstanding partnership with Knoxville Habitat for Humanity. 2016 marks the bank’s 26th consecutive year as a covenant partner with Knoxville Habitat. Covenant partners

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Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones must be mad because he’s term-limited.

Why else would he hire Hugh Holt for a purchasing director’s job that never existed and pay him more than even the chief deputy makes?

And last week Jones was back – this time trying to get Holt protected under the Sheriff’s Merit System Council, a system designed to protect deputies and jailers from political fallout.

Merit Council members are volunteers, appointed by Knox County Commission. You don’t get appointed unless the sheriff approves. It just doesn’t happen. So it was a stunning rebuke to Jones

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“We are so grateful to have the continuous support of Home Federal Bank in this community,” said Knoxville Habitat CEO Kelle Shultz. “Their generosity and commitment has forever changed the lives and futures of 26 hardworking families in Knoxville.”

Home Federal Bank will begin sponsorship of its 27th home in February 2017.

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Knoxville Habitat’s home maintenance class is one of many class offerings that make up the ministry’s homeowner education program. Before a qualified family or individual can build and purchase their home, they must first invest 500 hours of “sweat equity” – work that is acquired through homeowner education classes and volunteer service and helps to ensure the future homeowner(s) are prepared for homeownership.

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Bob and Diana Samples are shown with Adelia Armstrong Lutz’s portrait of Diana’s grandfather Edwin Rowland Lutz, called “Ned.” “She painted him with dirty feet,” says Diana. “What redblooded American boy doesn’t have dirty feet?”

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when the three-member board tabled his recommendation on Holt, opting to leave the decision to the next sheriff.

Board chair Bill Lindsey read a list of job descriptions and salaries, saying, “These people (who earn less than Holt’s $137,500) put their life on the line and have years of service.

“Let’s not hamstring the new

sheriff. JJ is a lame duck. Let’s kick the can down the road 18 months. The history will be there then, and if the new sheriff wants (Holt), let him or her hire him and pay him. Let the new sheriff recommend putting him under the (Merit) System.”

Roy Kruse and Jim Jennings concurred, citing employee morale. It was a rare act of independence that reflected favorably on each council member.

Holt was director of purchasing for Knox County for several years until he resigned under fire.

In that role, he oversaw purchasing for the Sheriff’s Office. When Mayor Tim Burchett requested his resignation following an investigation into charges of sexual harassment, Holt was earning roughly $137,000. Jones hired him three

days later for $500 more.

In a column Nov. 9, 2016, this writer polled two potential candidates for sheriff when Holt was hired.

Lee Tramel, the sheriff’s chief administrative officer, said it’s the sheriff’s call. “It’s not my position to comment. Look at Hugh’s record six or eight months from now.

Has he saved the office money?

That will tell the tale.”

Tom Spangler, former chief deputy, said the position is not needed since the county has always handled purchasing. He would prefer to see the money divided among employees. “Some say that’s just $137 each, but I say it’s $137 they didn’t have before.

“Nothing against Hugh, but his hiring was (an affront) to every employee up there.”

A-2 • DECEMBER 21, 2016 • BEARDEN Shopper news

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 process is intensive: 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 experience 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 narChris 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.

rowed 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 Fernandes, 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.

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Participants wait for the five-mile Tour de Lights bike ride to start in Market Square.

Adelia Armstrong Lutz by her doting father, Robert Houston Armstrong, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C. She sailed to France during the height of impressionism in 1886 and embraced the style, still controversial in some circles. And she never stopped creating art, even later in life as a mother of two.

Recently, members of Knox Heritage’s Capital Campaign met at Historic Westwood to view and celebrate “Adelia’s studio,” filled with her paintings. Kim Trent, the organization’s executive director, said, “The house was occupied from 1890 through 2012,” and when it was bought by 30s. the Aslan Foundation and of temperatures in the 30s

By Wendy Smith Participants warmed donated to Knox Heritage, They came to Market Square dressed as trees, up with cocoa and cook- there were “hundreds of snowflakes, Grinches, San- ies provided by the city of thousands of documents tas and bunnies, and they Knoxville and the Knox- and paintings from the berode bicycles festooned with ville Regional Transporta- ginning of the family in the lights, ribbons, wrapping tion Organization’s Bicycle 1830s.”

Program.

Steve Cotham, Knox paper and disco balls.

Awards were given County historian and manIt was the 10th annual Tour de Lights, and par- for best costumes, bikes, ager of the Calvin M. Mcticipants took their unique helmets, groups and all- Clung Historical Collection, brand of Christmas cheer on around. Prizes were do- stepped in to help. The famthe road in the Fourth and nated by Market Square ily donated all the material to the Collection, with the Gill and Old North Knox- businesses. ville neighborhoods, in spite

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He didn’t help much with the peddling, but having Rudolph along for the ride made Kent Turnbull happy. Turnbull won a prize for best bicycle. Photos by Wendy Smith

‘Sis’ award

By Carol Z. Shane The sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church was recently alive with the sounds of music – from trumpets to tam-tams, from keys to strings, from classical to jazz and plenty more in between – when the Community School of the Arts held its 24th annual CSA Holiday Concert.

“What a glorious celebration of the arts takes place in our historic sanctuary each year with the CSA Christmas concert!” says the Rev. William Pender of First Presbyterian. “Diverse families and friends come together to support children and youth in the arts. In a time when differences are too readily used as a cause for division, the arts bring us together.”

Featured were performances by piano students of Charlyna Hamilton and Ben Maney; guitar students of Greg Horne and Jessica Watson; violin students of Mary Pulgar; a trumpet student of Joe Jordan; and the 2016-17 Percussive Arts Class of Nate Barrett, who presented one of the evening’s highlights with “Peace, Joy and Frustration,” their original ode to the delights and stresses

of the holiday season, played by six students on xylophone, snare, timbales, claves, sand block, bell tree and bulb horn – the kind you hear in Bugs Bunny cartoons. A video of the performance on the school’s Facebook page has already gotten 2,500 views.

“This concert is always an extravaganza,” says CSA’s executive director Jennifer Willard. “We edited heavily this year to keep it short. It still clocked in at an hour and 40 minutes, but no one noticed!”

In the audience was Jack Kiger, one of the school’s founding board members. He attended the first holiday concert in 1993, and says, “I remember so well those first concerts; we used to hold our breaths praying that the children would just get through their pieces! But now, this is amazing. To watch these young people making beautiful music with such poise and grace – it makes me proud to have played a role in it, no matter how small.”

Pender says, “I am delighted that our sanctuary – a place to glorify God – can be utilized on behalf of this community, the community of Knoxville.”

request that Adelia’s paintings be hung in her home.

Cotham gave a short account of the artist’s life and identified many of the paintings, including a portrait of Robert Houston Armstrong. “She loved her daddy,” he said, “and painted him over and over.”

Several of Adelia’s descendants were there, including her great-grandchildren Diana Samples, Albert Matheny, and Albert’s brother Ned’s widow Lorna.

“That’s my grandfather,” Samples said, gesturing toward a large painting featuring a small barefoot boy in a sailor suit with a very big dog. The young boy – Edwin Rowland Lutz, called “Ned” – nestles into the animal, a light-colored Newfoundland. “She used that dog in children’s paintings because he was so gentle and so good with children.” Samples remembers that members of the family would come in after a day of being out and about and gather by the portrait, as if they too were nestling into its comfort. “When I saw it hung on the wall,” she said, “it felt like they had all come home.”

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The current home maintenance class was started by volunteer Dennis Jones, a local home maintenance professional and member of Bethel Baptist Church.

Along with his business partner and fellow church members, Jones built modules as a more visual way to teach maintenance repairs in a classroom setting.

Jones and his team consider their service as an opportunity to “show God’s love through helping homeowners.”

“The home maintenance class team empowers homeowners to independently handle repair situations in their home,” says Shultz. “These homeowners have most often come from a rental situation, so a need for repairs can be an intimidating or stressful new experience. With the knowledge gained in this class, homeowners can be more confident while also saving money.”

Alana Pass, Isabella and Grace Gish, Chloe Weaver, Mekiah Gray and Noelani Fishman perform their original piece, “Peace, Joy and Frustration,” sure to become a Christmas classic.

Their Percussive Arts Class teacher, Nate Barrett, is at right.

CSA makes a joyful noise for Christmas

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A-4 • DECEMBER 21, 2016 • BEARDEN Shopper news

Bowl game is for seniors Special reader Bill Young (not THE Bill Young, he used to say, early in our correspondence) picked up on my disregard for the upcoming bowl game. He didn’t disagree that next year should have already started and is of far greater concern than salvaging and reassembling fragments from the recent mess.

Bill simply sees the bowl from a different perspective.

“When this senior class signed on, the program was in shambles. We are no longer losing more than we are winning. I really-really want these seniors to go out with a win!”

I’ll buy some of that. I respect the Tennessee seniors.

Marvin West

Ten truly hung in there. I remain offended that Vanderbilt determined where they would go for their bowl opportunity.

Regarding the seniors, large Charles Folger deserves a medium medal.

The defensive tackle walked on during the Derek Dooley disaster and never gave up.

He practiced every day and got in one game in 2014 and one in 2015. Butch Jones recognized tenacity and re-

warded it with a scholarship for this season.

Folger made three tackles against Tennessee Tech, one for a three-yard loss. Teammates cheered.

Defensive tackle LaTroy Lewis and linebacker Kenny Bynum followed the same timeline but played a lot more.

End Jason Croom played in three games in 2012, endured two season-ending injuries but never surrendered. I think I remember his first catch was a touchdown against Oregon.

Malik Foreman engaged most of the bumps and stumbling blocks in the defensive backfield but made one spectacular hustle play against Texas

A&M. He chased down Trayveon Williams on a 71-yard run late in the fourth quarter, knocked the ball loose and helped force the game into overtime. It was unforgettable but, alas, not enough.

Offensive lineman Dylan Wiesman is mental toughness personified. Minus injuries, he might have been Tennessee’s best blocker.

Memorable was his pinchhit job at center in the victory over Florida.

Opponents running away from Derek Barnett ran into Corey Vereen. He had six sacks and 10 tackles for losses this season. If the defense had stopped anybody in November, he might have been mistaken for a star.

Hopefully, some will forever remember Jalen Reeves-Maybin. The best linebacker was lost from the lineup early in the season. Four years ago, Jalen was an early commitment who helped the Vols before he arrived. He was a beacon in Butch’s first recruiting race.

Three highlights of Cameron Sutton’s career were punt returns for touchdowns. His 467 yards last year broke Bobby Majors’ school record set in 1969.

Fourth highlight was winning an Al Wilson Award for leadership. Fifth or first was what he gave in rehab to get back on the field after suffering a fractured ankle in the Ohio game.

Sutton never whined about probable NFL money lost in returning for this senior season.

Joshua Dobbs became the face of the franchise.

He played through assorted criticisms (lack of accuracy, can’t throw deep). He sometimes erred in how badly he wanted to win. He gave up interceptions he should not have thrown. He lost the final crucial fumble of the season.

Some Saturdays Dobbs performed rather well.

He threw four touchdown passes in breaking the Gators’ grip. He passed for 398 yards at Texas A&M. He ran for 190 against Missouri. He completed 31 of 34 against Vandy. He produced 8,951 career yards and 83 touchdowns. Only Peyton Manning had more.

Two more victories might have made these seniors famous.

Marvin West invites reader reactions. His address is westwest6@netzero.com

Good things come to those who accidently stumble into them We tell our kids to set goals and plan ahead. But we realize during the second half of life that some of the best stuff comes unexpectedly, or even accidently.

That was the case when I got the chance to cover local government for the Shopper News.

I was trained as a journalist, but I took a detour after college to immerse myself in the latest technology craze − desktop publishing. I hadn’t done any reporting for some time when I submitted a writing sample to my first Shopper editor, Larry Van Guilder. It was a story about my older daughter getting her hair styled.

What I really wanted to be was a columnist like Sherri Gardner Howell, who later became my editor.

My first government gig

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was the town of Farragut. I was further schooled in local politics by former city council member Barbara Pelot, who hung out with me at Long’s Drug Store every Wednesday morning. In addition to meeting a slew of city council and county commission candidates, I learned from listening to Pelot reminisce with old friends like Jean Teague and Tim Burchett.

Because of Long & Short, I saw familiar faces when I began watching city council and county commis-

sion meetings. I met more elected officials at press conferences, and Shopper publisher Sandra Clark assigned interviews with several others.

Through the process, I got educated and made a few new friends. I’m a particular fan of KnoxvilleKnox County Metropolitan Planning Commission executive director Gerald Green and his efforts to update the city’s outdated zoning ordinances. I like his ideas about mixed use development and his dogged determination to get the community involved in the planning process.

County Commissioner John Schoonmaker also impresses me with his efforts to stay in touch with constituents. As a past chair of the Board of Zoning Appeals, he makes it his business to keep West Knox

County residents up-todate on development that affects them. His monthly report on the upcoming MPC agenda to the Council of West Knox County Homeowners is always informative.

Duane Grieve, who became District 2 city council rep after Pelot, is another friend. He likes to shoot the breeze, which is helpful to reporters, and he’s willing to change his mind if a good case is made. He’s also a staunch supporter of the Bearden community.

There was a time when my youngest child, Laurel, tagged along with me to community events. In addition to getting free food and entertainment, she got to meet both mayors. Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero complimented her on her hair, and Knox County Mayor Burchett slipped her a business card and said

to call him for lunch. She’s never forgotten it.

It’s been a fun and fascinating ride, one that I never expected when I wrote about the trip to the hair-

dresser. I’ll start a new job at the beginning of the year, but I’ll always be grateful to the Shopper and its readers, who made it all worthwhile.

Thank you.

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Survivors sing Watch the Gatlinburg-Pittman High School alumni singers video at www.ShopperNewsNow.com

Jan Lapides, Christmas elf Jean Chase and Terri Shoemaker

Survivors Sally and Mike West

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Mountain Strong people celebrate the season, persevere On the 10th day after screaming winds drove arsonists’ flames down the mountain into Gatlinburg, the city still felt like a war zone – blockaded at every entrance, strewn with rubble and charred reminders of lost lives, homes and businesses. Burned out motor lodges and shops and restaurants along East Parkway bore witness to that awful Monday night.

But just beyond the last

Betty Bean police barricade, at the far end of a little strip mall on the left, there was music and food and laughter and friendship and happy surprises at the Three Jimmys restaurant, where the steel magnolias of the Gatlinburg Garden

Club were having their annual Christmas party.

It was supposed to have happened on Dec. 7 at The Castle – the immense, fivestory mountainside mansion with the panoramic view of downtown Gatlinburg. Garden club president George Hawkins had been decorating for weeks, trucking in chairs and tablecloths and garlands and bows.

He’d engaged the Three Jimmys to cater, booked 150

reservations and arranged parking and shuttle buses to ferry guests up to the Castle.

“I was getting ready to do a 50-foot tree and had picked up the lights at Ace Hardware,” Hawkins said.

“And I thought I’d wait till Tuesday to do that. Well …”

The Gatlinburg Garden Club has a long and storied history, dating back to 1937 when it was founded by the Pi Beta Phi service fraternity-sponsored Weaver’s

Trump gets head start on TVA board Three nominees of President Barack Obama for the TVA board of directors were not confirmed by the U.S. Senate and will, consequently, depart the board in 10 days, reducing the ninemember board to six members.

The terms of two more expire in May 2017, for a total of five off the board.

The current chair, Joe Ritch, from Huntsville, is one, which means the next chair (interim or acting) will be Lynn Evans, the first woman and African-American ever to chair the TVA board.

Current bylaws provide that Evans, chair of the audit committee, becomes the TVA acting chair when Ritch leaves the board. But the board is also required to meet within 30 days of the current chair’s departure to elect a new chair, who might be Evans or one of the other remaining five board members. All are Democrats.

Two current committee chairs, Mike McWherter and Peter Mahurin, also depart, creating vacancies there. And if Evans is elected chair, then she vacates the audit committee chairmanship. Evans’ term expires in May, but she continues on the board until

filled by the end of 2017, there will not be a quorum to hold board meetings.

Victor This has happened to TVA Ashe once before and it simply means the staff (i.e. Bill Johnson) assumes full control, in reality if not in law.

This could change. The the end of 2017 unless her Wall Street Journal has successor is confirmed by been calling around about a the U.S. Senate. possible story saying Trump For the first time in mem- will name board members ory, the East Tennessee area who are coal advocates to does not have a single cur- change current TVA policy. rent board member, while As of my writing this colWest Tennessee has three umn, that story had not yet board members and Middle appeared.

Tennessee has two. TVA is, of course, headquartered in ■ KCDC opts for Knoxville. new direction President-elect Donald KCDC shocked everyone Trump can nominate three new members after Jan. 20 last week when it picked Ben and two more in May, for Bentley over Alvin Nance as a total of five – a majority its executive director to folof the board. Sen. Jeff Ses- low Art Cate.

Nance, the former direcsions, who will likely become attorney general, will tor who had been there 14 have a voice in the picks. years, was the first black Sens. Lamar Alexander and leader of KCDC. Bentley is Bob Corker will also have in his 30s, married with a strong voice, as will Ken- one child. Mayor Rogero tucky’s senators, Mitch Mc- and Deputy Mayor Bill LyConnell, the Senate major- ons had advocated Nance.

All seven board members ity leader, and Rand Paul.

Trump is expected to are Rogero appointees. name only Republicans to Nance received very positive reviews when he led the the board.

A problem for TVA will agency. be if these five seats are not What happened?

In talking with Dan Murphy, KCDC board chair and former Knox County school board chair, he said, “We May 2016: Mike McWherter, Jackson, TN; chair Joe Ritch, looked to the future. Either Alabama; Peter Mahurin, Kentucky one would have been a good May 2017: Marilyn Brown, professor, Atlanta; Lynn Evans, pick. (Bentley) is extraordiCPA, Memphis narily bright and a visionMay 2018: Eric Satz, investment adviser, Nashville ary. He is a superstar.”

May 2019: Virginia Lodge, political activist, Nashville; Ronald Asked if the vote was Walter, TV executive, Memphis unanimous, Murphy said May 2020: Richard Howorth, former mayor, Oxford, Miss. that, after all the interviews concluded, he did not ask

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for a motion to choose someone but rather a show of hands between Bentley and Nance, the Ben Bentley two finalists. He said the show of hands indicated four were for Bentley and three for Nance.

According to Murphy, the Bentley votes were Murphy, attorney John Winemiller, Jackie Arthur and Kimberly Hickman, the resident commissioner. Nance had support from Bob Whetsel, attorney and former KUB chair Bruce Anderson and Gloria Garner. All then agreed to make the choice unanimous. Had one vote switched, Nance would have prevailed, but it was not to be.

Obviously, a majority wanted a new direction for KCDC. Bentley was impressive by all accounts in his interview. While no one would mention age (due to legal considerations) it was clear Bentley’s youth in this case worked in his favor. The two black members of the commission split between Nance and Bentley.

A contract has to be drafted and salary and relocation expenses set. It will be voted on Dec. 30. This column will advise you of the salary and whether it reflects an increase over previous directors.

Condolences to state Rep. Martin Daniel, whose mother, Mary Barker, died last week in Memphis at age 86.

Newlyweds James Thomas and Laura Lee Elizabeth Adams Polk with George Hawkins (at right) officiating

Guild. Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Pi Beta Phi Elementary School are also part of that legacy. It didn’t take this mountaintough bunch long to decide that the show must go on.

“It’s like the ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ with Betty Hutton,” Hawkins said. “Remember when the circus train turned over and they decided the show must go on, bigger and better than ever? Well, we need to put our best foot forward.”

Hawkins, whose home survived, was sporting an elegant jacket and pocket square. His immediate predecessor, Mike West, was dressed in green sweatpants and a yellow sweatshirt – pretty much the sum total of his wardrobe, the rest having been lost to the fire in North Chalet Village. He and his wife, Sally, had gotten separated in the smoke and flames and confusion and each thought the other was dead.

“She grabbed the dogs and went out ahead of me while I stopped to grab my keys and wallet,” he said.

“When I went out, I couldn’t find her.”

He drove up to the clubhouse (their designated emergency meeting place) and waited. Finally a snowplow made it up Wiley Oakley Drive and brought the survivors down the mountain. He got the evacuation notice two hours after his house burned.

Meanwhile, Sally, shoeless, was running down the flaming mountain in her stocking feet, eventually meeting up with a sheriff’s deputy who piled her and the dogs into his cruiser and started looking for a way out. He thought they were trapped, but a dispatcher talked them to safety. Sally, who suffered burns on her face, was taken to the hospital, where she started calling friends – “I’m alive. Have you heard from Mike?”

She told a TV reporter that her husband was dead.

They were reunited when someone told Mike where she was and gave him a ride to the LeConte Center.

“If I’ve got him, I can take anything else that comes,” Sally said.

They lost their home and their cat, Fanny. They plan to rebuild.

The party was one for the ages. The food was bountiful and delicious (several of the Three Jimmys employees who cooked and served it were among the new Gatlinburg homeless).

Gatlinburg Heritage Club’s vice president Bill Landry and GatlinburgPittman High School’s guidance counselor Don Bohannon (who has helped local kids get scholarships worth millions of dollars over the years) spoke, and 15-year-old Tristan Laboard played the violin. Peggy Smith played the piano and a group of G-P alumni singers showed up to honor their choral director, Ruth Lewis.

The high point of the party was the surprise wedding of Laura Lee Elizabeth Adams and James Thomas Polk. Hawkins, a former Gatlinburg mayor and city commissioner, officiated (after making sure he was still legal to do so). The ceremony came at the end of the program, when Hawkins announced there was one more thing on the agenda and launched into the wedding vows.

“Laura Lee, do you take James to be your lawfully wedded husband?

“James, do you take Laura Lee to be your lawfully wedded wife?”

Hawkins said later: “Both said, ‘Yes, I do,’ and everybody was so shocked. They applauded and carried on.

The girls (from the chorus) were standing near the piano and started singing ‘Hey, Big Spender,’ and the first girl grabbed James by the necktie and whirled him around, to great applause.

“It was a happy, happy luncheon. What a great way to start the healing process.”

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■ 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; blood pressure checks; mahjong; computer classes; lending library with tapes and movies. Book club meets noon each third Thursday; new members welcome.

Private one-on-one classes available for beginners: “Facebook,” “Internet” or “Digital Photos”; $10.

■ 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.; popcorn and movie each Friday.

■ Larry Cox Senior Center 3109 Ocoee Trail 546-1700 Monday-Friday Offerings include: exercise programs; bingo; arts and crafts classes.

■ Knox County Senior Services City County Building 400 Main St., Suite 615 215-4044

Alexis Williams Carr continues the family tradition beginning – first as a data entry person and then as a ‘gopher’ and a screener.

Now, I really enjoy editing.”

Originally from Seymour, Carr earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Middle Tennessee State University.

Her minor in sociology, she Carol Z. says, taught her a valuable Shane skill for an editor: to look outside her own experience objectively.

After college, she found “The journal was actually various kinds of writing started by my dad, Don Wil- assignments, including a liams,” says Alexis Williams stint at a community colCarr. Some readers will re- lege in Tallahassee, Fla., member the elder Williams and at LearnSomething, as a regular newspaper col- a Xerox company that umnist in Knoxville. “When provides educational and there was a downsizing,” training courses to corcontinues his daughter, “he porations. Her husband, took the opportunity to do Brent, managed a chain something he always want- of frozen yogurt shops ed to do and started NMW. in the Sunshine State at I’ve had my hand some- the time; when the couple where in it almost from the moved back to East TenAt New Millennium Writings, the prestigious national magazine based in Knoxville, literature and writing are family traditions.

Alexis Williams Carr runs New Millennium Writings out of her home in Fountain City.

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nessee in 2011, they found a house in Brent’s native Fountain City, and they’ve been there ever since. In 2012 she took over NMW because “Dad had already been ready to do other things and devote more time to his writing.”

Twice a year, NMW

holds a contest for entries in four categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and flash fiction – complete stories told in 1,000 or fewer words. “That’s actually my favorite category. It takes a special talent to tell the whole arc of the story in a moving and powerful way in less than 1,000 words, but when people do it, it’s just magical.”

Short stories aren’t the only magic in Carr’s life these days. A little over two months ago, she and Brent, now NMW’s webmaster and database manager, welcomed their first child, son Julius. “We call him ‘Julius Coolius,’” she says.

Since NMW is run from their home, Carr says, “we joke that we’re in ‘a different kind of 1 percent.’ Both of us get to be at home with our little guy for the first year or so. That’s the goal. It’s been

a real blessing. The busiest, weirdest, loveliest time of my life.”

Her mom, Jeanne Tredup, is also in town; she’s a high school teacher for high-level special education, helping her students to find work experience. “She’s a hero in our book,” says Carr.

Now in its 20th year, NMW employs two professional local writers to screen hundreds of entries from all over the U.S. “One of the true facets of good writing is that it shines through,” says Carr. “But it needs to be accessible; it needs to be something that people from all walks of life can look at and be moved by.

Ultimately, that’s our bar.”

NMW is updating its website, but you can find the last four contest award winners on www.newmillennium writings.org

Holiday potluck bigger and better than ever was much better organized.

“Last year there was a bottleneck that was annoying so this year we’ve numbered the tables and we’ll hit the food table by table rather than just everyone bunching up there at once. There’s plenty for everyone.

“I don’t think we’ve have so many dishes; many of them are homemade and that’s always special.

“We’ve also got more door prizes than ever before. Every year is special, but this is a good one in particular, we’re thankful for all those who donated prizes to make our seniors happy.”

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By Nancy Anderson Karns Senior Center gathered more than 60 for its annual Holiday Potluck. Many brought their best homemade dish.

All the holiday favorites were represented, from ham and turkey to sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

Pianist and Italian language teacher Charles LaLoggid played classic Christmas tunes, creating an atmosphere of Christmas cheer.

Facility coordinator Darrell Gooding called name after name of winners of door prizes, including Dollywood tickets worth $182, a $75 Sam’s Club certificate, Earth Fare certificate, gourmet nuts and pretzels donated by Arbor Terrace, first aid kits from Home Depot, and several certificates from local eateries.

Gooding said this year was by far the best event over years past as there were many more door prizes and the food queue

Facility chief Darrell Gooding with Denver Teague, who won a $75 gift card to Sam’s Club as well as a set of CorningWare.

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BEARDEN Shopper news • DECEMBER 21, 2016 • A-7

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Keep the main thing the main thing!

Chanie Wilhelm and Nesya Klausner make menorahs with help from Elizabeth Rutan. Photos by Wendy Smith

Jason and Alex Pasternak make cards for fire victims.

Winterfest is opportunity to celebrate and share

I love Christmas! I enjoy all the hurry and bustle, the planning, the preparation, the anticipation. But there is always a magic moment – almost always when I least expect it – that my heart is overwhelmed by the Good News, and my eyes well with tears, my throat tightens, and I know that Christmas has come at last.

In all the hustle of the season it is easy to forget the point; it is tempting to get so tied up in all the doing that we miss the being.

I think of Mary and Joseph, whose plans were rearranged and made difficult by this unexpected, unimaginable, unbelievable, but very real miracle. They managed to do what they had to do, that is, make the inconvenient, uncomfortable journey to Bethlehem for a government census, of all things.

As we prepare for Christmas these 20 centuries later, let’s remember that this was God’s greatest gift to His creation because He loves us – His only, his beloved Son! May your Christmas be blessed and merry!

By Wendy Smith The Knoxville Jewish Alliance’s Winter Festival was more than fun and games.

It was an opportunity for the local Jewish community to come together to help out neighbors in Gatlinburg.

The KJA had already sent a truck loaded with necessities for fire victims, but the organization asked for toy donations during the Winter Festival, an annual event that celebrates upcoming winter holidays.

Participants were also invited to make cards to send with the gifts.

The support of the Gatlinburg community will be ongoing, says KJA executive director Deborah Oleshansky. The toy drive was a major focus of the celebration, which included games and crafts for kids, holiday food and storytelling. “If we can also learn a little bit about Hanukkah, all the better,� she said.

Arnstein Jewish Community Center preschool teacher Ally Wiener coordinated the festival. She and her family recently moved to Knoxville

In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.‌ All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

(Luke 2: 1-7 NRSV)

Jennifer and Seth Rayman watch 2-year-old Jackson Rayman make a holiday craft. from Queens, N.Y., and she’s jumped into the local Jewish community with both feet.

Living in a smaller place makes it easier to connect, she said. “I love to see the community come together.�

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FAITH NOTES ■Solway UMC, 3300 Guinn Road, hosts a women’s Bible study 10 a.m. each Thursday. The group is led by Cindy Day. Info: 661-1178.

the KJA will host Menorah Madness 2016 at 1 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 26, at the Holidays on Ice skating rink at Market Square. The event will feature an ice menorah lighting and skating to Hanukkah music. Mention “Menorah Madness� for a $2 discount on skating.

Both organizations will present Jewish Heritage Night at the Knoxville Ice Bears on Tuesday, Dec. 27.

The game starts at 7:05 p.m.

There will be a menorah lighting on the ice and hot latkes available.

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A-8 • DECEMBER 21, 2016 • BEARDEN Shopper news

What’s in a name?

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By Kip Oswald Aunt Becky surprised us during Fall Break with a trip to a really cool corn maze that was a long way from our house. On the way we passed two schools named Gibbs, so Kinzy and I wanted to know more about them and what is a Gibbs.

The first Gibbs High School was built in 1913 but burned down twice before it was finally built where it is now. The building beside the high school used to be the elementary school, but a new elementary school was built just a few years ago.

Both schools are named after Nicholas Gibbs, who ran away from his home in Germany and worked his way on a ship to America in the 1700s. He fought in the Revolutionary War and was given 100 acres. The house that he built in 1793 is still in the Gibbs area, and he is buried in the old family cemetery.

We want to go back and see it so Mom is going to take us some weekend.

We found other schools who send students to Gibbs High School have names linked to early settlers, too! Corryton Elementary, which was near the maze, is named after Corryton Woodbury, who named that whole area after himself when he purchased the railroad station and all the land around it. Holston Middle School is near the Holston River, which is named for Stephen Holstein, a settler

who built a cabin on the river in 1746.

■ Last week, I wrote about spending time with family during the holidays and how we were trying to help Mom save money. Here are some free activities we are going to do in the next few days.

Chilhowee Park drivethrough light tours, through Dec. 31. Drive through the park to view the lights and decorations.

Holiday Festival of Lights at the Cove, through Dec. 30, 6-9 p.m. See Concord Park light up each night on a walk around a 3/4-mile loop!

New Year’s on the Square: Downtown Knoxville Market Square, Dec. 31, 10:30 p.m. Celebrate the coming of 2017 with a countdown, ball drop and fireworks.

Next week, we look at the history behind West High School and its schools!

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Mike Capps (center) cuts the ribbon on Capps Court at the Boys & Girls Club with assistance from current and former players at the Sports Camp. Photo by Ruth White

Mike Capps teaches skills, behavior

By Ruth White To know Mike Capps is to respect and yes, love him. He has been part of the Boys & Girls Club in Knoxville since 1961 when he joined the organization as a boy.

Capps was named Youth of the Year in 1969, became a volunteer, part-time staff member, a member of the advisory board and was later a full-time employee of the Sports Camp program.

His philosophy is simple – he teaches kids about life and he holds true to that practice. Parents of all ages know Mike Capps has taught several generations of players the fundamentals of sports and how to behave.

Mike was honored recently at the new facility off Baxter Avenue as one of the courts was named after him. Family, friends, former coaches and players gathered at the gym to say thank you

and officially open the facility.

Former CEO and president John Lee said it best: “Mike taught us as parents how to behave, not just the players.”

Any parent who has been part of Capps’ teams knows exactly what Lee means. Parents were instructed to cheer for their child, but he never allowed parents to yell at players, coaches or referees from the stands.

Webb basketball coach Shelley Sexton Collier called Capps a “huge blessing.” She said that some people come into your life and leave a mark.

One of Collier’s favorite memories of working alongside Capps was when one of the girls teams was playing in a tournament against a team that was undefeated. As that team began to pull ahead, it had the attention of all the fans. During a timeout, Capps

reminded his young team that “pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what you’re doing. And you know what you’re doing.” The team returned to the court and handed their opponent its first loss in a couple of years.

Say what you will, but this is for sure – Mike Capps has spent his lifetime caring about kids, as athletes and as individuals. Once players go through the program, he continues to follow their successes in life and celebrates, often, from the sidelines. All three of my children played basketball for Mike Capps, and my sons played baseball on his teams. They have carried lessons learned through the Boys & Girls Club’s Sports Camp program that they continue to use in their adult lives and will pass those qualities down to their own children.

Miller to see expanded duties as pre-K coordinator

By Sandra Clark When school resumes after the winter break, Darlene Miller will become supervisor of early childhood programs for Knox County Schools. Miller is a veteran teacher and principal, having served for the past nine years as principal at Karns Elementary School where she oversaw four pre-K classrooms.

ments for pre-K, “The state is takkindergarten and ing a strong look first grade teachers at pre-K, and we – a change sought need to show how by teachers who the voluntary prewant to be evaluK program supated on their own ports kindergarten students’ work rathand grades 1-2,” er than lumped into she said. “Funding is going to become Darlene Miller the overall school outcomes. more competitive.”

“By the end of third grade, In addition, Miller will oversee portfolio assess- we need kids on grade level

in reading,” she said. “Knox County Schools must have a consistent, high quality early learning model.”

While Miller is excited about her new challenge, she said the change is bittersweet because she’s leaving her school family at Karns.

“They will be in great hands, but I will miss them.”

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Their shopping bags filled with purchases, Micah Dewald and Joseph Martin stopped to buy candy canes at a booth manned by Finn Moore. This was the sixth year Concord Christian School’s second-grade classrooms have staged a Project Christmas Stores benefiting a charity.

Patricia Aguilar and her daughter, West High School junior Patricia Aguilar, pick up a new Chromebook at last week’s computer deployment. Photo by Wendy Smith

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Only $1, that’s what Joey Mitchell was calling out to attract buyers to his booth. His candy canes were threaded through a story about the meaning of the candy cane.

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Pint-sized market delivers for charity

By Suzanne Foree Neal It was a record-breaking effort made possible by a lot of mini business moguls at Concord Christian School.

Four second-grade classrooms raised $2,292.75 for the Ronald McDonald House selling a lot of holiday spirit.

Buyers were other students who perused booths selling candy canes, lollipops, popcorn, Christmas ornaments and more.

Project Christmas Stores closed out its sixth year of students creating then selling their own products.

Teacher Aja Grimes said textbooks didn’t address consumerism, producers or basic economics. So a store was created to make real money to support families

living at the Ronald McDonald House. The charity offers families a place to stay while children are receiving hospital treatment. “We hope students will learn that it doesn’t take a lot of effort to make a big difference in someone’s life,� Grimes added. The children will take a field trip to Ronald McDonald House sometime in February to present their check.

Jackson Kuhn said it made him feel good to help people who are sick. He worked hard to get students to buy his star-shaped ornaments made from wooden craft sticks decorated with shiny jewels.

Kaitlyn Zalk and Lizzy Franklin were peddling

paper cups of popcorn, a very popular purchase with classmates. “This is a really nice thing to do,� said Lizzy.

Kaitlyn said of the Ronald McDonald House, “It’s a really cool place and it’s neat to raise money for it.�

Mia Crider clutched her cup of popcorn as she dug through her shopping bag with the other hand to see what she bought. “A snowman ornament, cookies, a brownie ‌ I bought so fast I don’t remember,â€? she said, shyly.

Parent volunteer Sheila Perryman described the chaos in her son Bryson’s room as “Black Friday on steroids!� It was her first experience with the holiday stores.

Atomic City swimmers excel at meet

By Chip Fischer The Atomic City Aquatic Club recently competed at the Excel Meet of Champs.

Their performance lived up to the meet’s name.

Forty-six swimmers competed and 45 obtained personal bests. Tais Brown (12) led the charge for ACAC with seven victories and seven Southeastern qualifying races. He also took seventh in the men’s open 200 Fly, competing against older swimmers and earning points for the team.

Stephen Zhukov (10) made Southeastern cuts in all nine of his events, winning the 200IM and taking top-three in all other events.

Andrew Chou (10) and Ethan Chou (14) also had great performances. Andrew earned Southeastern cuts in six

races, bonus cuts in three, and top-eight finishes in nine races. Ethan won the 200 Free, earned cuts in five events, and a bonus in another, with top-eight finishes in seven events.

Logan Hall (10) made Southeastern cuts in five events, placing second in the 100 Back and top-six in all events. Abigail King (12) made Southeastern cuts in six events, winning the 500 Free and also, notably, taking second in the 1650 Free.

Zach Telep (14) made four Southeastern cuts and three bonus cuts, taking second in the 100 Fly and top-seven in all events he swam. Sarah Walker (14) and Kendal Goodman (14) earned the right to swim four events at Southeasterns. Creed Loy (12) made cuts in four events.

Mason Fischer (12) made cuts in three events. Nathan Benko (17) and Sydney Ragsdale (17) made cuts in two events. Grant Groscost (17) and Paul Greene (12) each made a Southeastern cut.

Younger swimmers also performed very well. Samuel Campbell (8) was in the top four of all six of his races.

William White (8) placed in the top seven in all six events he swam.

Landon Hall (7) finished in the top eight in all six of his races.

Next for ACAC will be the TNAQ Invitational in January.

For more information about ACAC, contact Dean Gerchar by email at dmg5829@gmail.com or go to swim4acac.com.

After last week’s deployment, West High School juniors and seniors have brand new Chromebooks that can be utilized at school and at home. West is the first high school in the county to undertake a campaign to raise a large portion of funding for computers through private donations.

Plans to implement one-to-one computing at the school began under previous principal Katherine Banner in 2015. A $100,000 Haslam Family Foundation gift, given to each of the county’s 13 high schools in 2015, funded the first 400 computers.

They were deployed to seniors in October.

The juniors received their computers last week, and a goal has been set to raise an additional $120,000 by mid-January to provide Chromebooks for sophomores and freshmen, says West High School PTSO president Jennifer Yates. The devices are approximately $250 each.

Assistant principal Jonathan East told parents and students who attended last week’s deployment that the Chromebooks

will support a personalized learning environment that will meet individual instructional needs.

Schools are typically the last place new technology is utilized, he said. Laptop computers will allow students to leverage the power of the internet and other online resources.

Students will have access to a help desk before and after school and during lunch if they encounter technical problems.

Chromebooks run the Google suite of software, which is accessed online. Evan Smith, the school’s computer technician, said that students who don’t have internet at home can work in the school’s library after school or take advantage of other locations with free internet, like restaurants or public libraries.

Junior Charles Dupree said he thinks the computers will save time because students won’t have to go to the library to access the internet anymore. His mother, Karen Dupree, said having another computer at home will be helpful to their family of five.

HOLIDAY NOTES â– Holiday Festival of Lights at The Cove at Concord Park, 6-9 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 30, excluding Christmas Day. The Cove is at 11808 S. Northshore Drive. Pets on leashes are welcome.

The event is free, but Knox County will collect nonperishable food items for The Love Kitchen. ■New Year’s Eve on the Square, 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, Market Square. Includes live music and ball drop at midnight. Info knoxvilletn.gov/christmas. ■Knoxville’s Holidays on Ice, Fridays-Sundays, through Jan. 8, Market Square. Admission: $10 adults, $7 children 12 and younger; includes skate rental and tax. Info: knoxvillesholidaysonice. com or 215-4423.

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A-10 • DECEMBER 21, 2016 • BEARDEN Shopper news

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Race Against Hunger aids food pantries

By Sandra Clark Food pantries in Food City’s distribution area received almost $400,000 from the 2016 Race Against Hunger, a promotion that enables Food City customers to donate $1, $3 or $5 by adding it to their grocery bill.

Store officials met last week with nonprofit hunger relief representatives at the store on Western Avenue.

Mickey Blazer, executive vice president of operations for Food City’s Knoxville division, saluted the sponsors and customers who raised $399,500 collectively.

Major donations in Knox County went to Second Harvest, $17,000; Empty Stocking Fund, $4,000; Mission of Hope, $3,500 and Emerald Youth, $3,500.

Other recipients were: Powell Presbyterian Church, Grace Baptist Church, Glenwood Baptist of Powell, St. James Episcopal, Heiskell Community Center and Temple Baptist Church.

Others were: Good Shepherd Center, Faith Fellowship, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Hardin Valley Church of Christ, Lost Sheep Ministries, Angelic Minis-

tries, Parkwest Church of God, Eternal Life Harvest Center, Cokesbury United Methodist Church, Norwood United Methodist Church, Cumberland Baptist Church, Rocky Hill Baptist, Knoxville Christian Center and Fountain City Food Pantry at Central Baptist.

It was a busy time.

Also coming in were: New Hopewell Food Pantry, Metropolitan Community Church of Knoxville, Lonsdale United Methodist, Fountain City United Methodist, North Acres Baptist, Christ Methodist, Halls Welfare Ministries at Cross Roads Presbyterian and Eastminster Presbyterian.

The holiday promotion was co-sponsored by Kellogg’s.

Tom King, tking535@gmail.com

North Knox Rotary huge help to residents

Roman Nichols, manager of the Food City on Western Avenue downtown, with deli/bakery manager Tammie Brown. Nichols said the entire staff pitches in to help the department serve its customers, especially at lunch time. “Sometimes the food line is way back here,” he said, pointing to the deli meat counter.

Party trays and catering are also popular during the holidays.

Mickey Blazer (at right) and Emerson Breeden (center) of Food City talk with a couple from Gatlinburg (at left) who were among the dozens of food bank representatives who received cash from Food City’s Race Against Hunger. Photos by S.

The Highland Group Home in Fountain City is a unique home to 10 Knoxvillians born with cerebral palsy. The home is staffed by the Cerebral Palsy Center of Knoxville and governed by the Cerebral Palsy Housing Corp. Its annual budget is approximately $200,000.

For the past 20-plus years the home has been adopted and loved by the North Knox Rotary Club.

On Thursday, Dec. 22, the Rotarians will treat the home’s residents and staff to pizza at Harby’s Pizza and present a check in the $15,000 range to Bob Sexton, the longtime executive director of the Cerebral Palsy Center, during its Merry Christmas party.

Bob puts it bluntly: “This accounts for about 16 percent of the home’s budget and we could not keep it open without Rotary. If you take this away, the home could not pay its bills.” The club has a golf tournament each fall at Three Ridges Golf Club and the money raised goes to the group home.

Rotarian Chris Rohwer, a past president of the club, says they are now working to raise an additional $15,000 to rebuild and renovate the kitchen and make other improvements. Knox County has committed $7,500 through a defined service contract and the club is matching that, said Rohwer.

The Highland Home has been in Fountain City for 34 years. “The home and the residents receive no state or federal funding and without the Rotary Club our residents would be in nursing homes,” Sexton said.

“They could not work, could not be a part of the community or go to church or really have hobbies. What the Rotary Club does is very special.”

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Thank you, Bearden Rotary!

Bearden Rotarians recently enjoyed getting more than 50 sweet thank you notes from Sequoyah Elementary School third-graders. The notes were thanking the club for the new dictionaries delivered by Rotarian Turner Howard, who also played a Word Find game with the kids to help them learn new words.

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Busby leads Knoxville Bar Association Amanda M. Busby, founding member of the law firm of Anderson Busby PLLC, assumed the presidency of the K nox v ille Bar Association at the close of its Busby recent annual meeting. Newly elected officers for the association are: Keith Burroughs, president-elect; Wynne CaffeyKnight, treasurer; and Hanson Tipton, secretary.

Dwight L. Aarons, Kathryn St. Clair Ellis, Stephen Ross Johnson and Mary D. Miller were elected to fill positions on the Board of Governors.

Roane State to offer business-related courses

Merry Christmas from all of us at CANTRELL’S HEAT & AIR “Cantrell’s Cares”

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Roane State Community College will offer several business-related classes in three locations. Classes in Oak Ridge will be held at the college’s Oak Ridge campus, 701 Briarcliff Ave. Clinton courses are held at the Clinton Higher Education and Workforce Training Facility, 214 Nave St. Courses in Roane County are held on the college’s main campus, 276 Patton Lane in Harriman.

Technology: Excel Level 1, 6-9:30 p.m. Jan. 17 and 19, $149, Oak Ridge campus; Word Level 2, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Jan. 12, $169, Clinton; Power Point Level 1, 1-4:30 p.m. Jan. 10-11, $149, Oak Ridge; Access Level 1, 9 a.m.3:30 p.m. Jan. 26-27, $199, Oak Ridge; and QuickBooks Level 1, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Feb. 17, $169, Oak Ridge.

Business: SHRM-CP/ SCP, 6-9 p.m. March 7-May 23, $999, Harriman; Leading Teams to Success, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Jan. 31, $139, Oak Ridge; Ability to Work and Lead Multigenerational Employees, 6-9 p.m.

Jan. 17, $99, Oak Ridge; Business Writing, 6-10 p.m.

Feb. 27-28, $99, Oak Ridge.

Indust r y-specif ic: Introduction to Injection Molding, Jan. 17-April 27, $750, Clinton.

Other: ACT Prep, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. April 1, $59, Harriman.

Info/registration: 4812031 or roanestate.edu/ workforce.

BEARDEN Shopper news • DECEMBER 21, 2016 • A-11

News from Rather & Kittrell

Count your blessings, not your pennies ence in your life. So how can you start practicing gratitude in your daily routine without it feeling like a chore? Make it a point each day to pick three things you’re grateful for and write them down, then share it with your family around the dinner table or in bed with your partner before you turn out the lights. These activities take only a few minutes and can quickly become habit. Before you know it, you’ll start reaping the rewards.

By Wes Brown Our house is abuzz with holiday excitement. My three children are each on (at least) their third draft of their Christmas list. It seems as though there’s something new to add almost every day.

It’s difficult not to want to buy our kids the things they want, to resist the “cultural fraud” behind the idea that having more Wes Brown will make them happier.

But I know that the opposite is actually true – that having an attitude of gratitude is the key to happiness and that having too much impedes our ability to be grateful.

And not only will being grateful make my kids happier, it may also help them make better financial decisions.

Here’s how: Whether it’s chasing the performance of last year’s hot funds, overspending on credit cards, or simply going for the immediate gratification that comes from spending today what you should have saved for tomorrow, literally hundreds of academic research papers say the same thing: the impatience will cost investors a fortune.

By contrast, investors who have the personal discipline to start saving young and invest strategically end up rich.

But what makes one investor patient and another impatient? In the past, the answer was willpower. But researchers just couldn’t explain why one investor had it and another didn’t. Now, researchers from Northeastern University, Harvard and the University of California at Riverside seem to have found the key: Gratitude.

Put simply, grateful investors were willing to wait for rewards. Those who were merely happy or neutral were more likely to live for today, according to the research. The study came to this conclusion by asking 75 individuals to write about a personal experience before being presented with an economic choice.

One group wrote about a happy experience; one group wrote about experiences that were emotionally neutral; and the third group wrote about an

REMEMBER, NON-MATERIAL WEALTH COUNTS, TOO Wealth takes many forms. Part of it is the amount in your bank account, sure.

But part of it is also your health, your relationships, your enjoyment of life and your feeling of fulfillment. When you’re taking a look around your life for signs of abundance to be grateful for, don’t leave out your physical well-being, your amazing friends, your loving family and other forms of abundance that are nonmaterial. When we put our attention on the ways we’re wealthy outside our bank account (while not ignoring our material wealth), it’s a lot easier to feel satisfied.

RE-EXAMINE HOW YOU DEFINE “RICH”

experience likely to generate emotions of gratitude.

The implications: If you have trouble with financial willpower, whether it’s an inability to pass up the shoe sale at the mall or the compulsion to chase yesterday’s hottest stock, you might want to meditate on something that makes you grateful before you act. It just might provide the necessary strength.

There are a lot of tried-and-true strategies for increasing your wealth:

capitalizing on compound interest, spending less than we make, and investing wisely. However, the profound and immediate effects of gratitude shouldn’t be overlooked.

Here are three gratitude exercises that can benefit your financial life and your overall well-being:

START BY ACKNOWLEDGING WHAT YOU’RE GRATEFUL FOR EACH DAY No activity you do only once in a while will make a worthwhile differ-

Abundance is a mindset, not a dollar amount. Cultivating gratitude for the things you have now will make everything that is added feel like a bonus.

No amount of money will ever make you wealthy. When you realize that you already have the resources you need to bring your vision of financial freedom into reality, you look at the world differently, you make different decisions, and you do the kinds of things that actually put you on the path toward the wealth you desire, without fear or doubt that you will reach your goals.

CFP® Wes Brown can be contacted at wbrown@rkcapital.com

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N EWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE ’ S H EALTHCARE LEADER • T REATED WELL .COM • 374-PARK

Holiday letter to the community from Parkwest CAO Neil Heatherly I became the CAO of Parkwest Medical Center last August, and am so appreciative of your support for the hospital and so grateful to be here. Being at Parkwest is deeply personal for me. My father, Wayne Heatherly, was the first administrator of the hospital and to date, served the longest tenure. I worked here as a surgical orderly while in high school, and have admired Parkwest’s growth from outside the organization throughout my professional career. Parkwest is truly a facility that puts patients first, expects excellence from all members of our team, and continuously strives to be the first and best choice for healthcare in our community.

We’ve come a long way since the early 1970s, when a group of visionary physicians recognized the growth potential for West Knoxville and decided to build a hospital in the middle of what was then an empty field. The Cedar Bluff area has grown exponentially and has changed to meet the community’s needs. So has Parkwest.

Because of your support, Parkwest continues to grow.

We consistently offer more innovative new services for cardiac care including MitraClip procedures, Chronic Total Occlusions (CTOs), multiple methods of valve repair, dissolving scaffolds and traditional stents, expanded options for Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib), and we were the first in our region to offer Transaortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) – now with more than 400 successful procedures performed.

In addition to cardiac services, Parkwest has performed the highest number of total joint replacement surgeries in our region during the last year. Parkwest also offers comprehensive behavioral health services for our community through Peninsula. All while continuing to provide awardwinning care and customer service.

Treated Well. Well Treated.® is more than our slogan. It is the foundation for our business model. We strive for Parkwest’s clinical and service excellence to make us the first and best choice for patients, employees, physicians, employers, volunteers and the community. In fact, our goal is to provide exceptional care to every patient, every time by putting our

patients first in all that we do. When you let us know what we are doing well, or suggest ways that we can improve, it moves us closer to meeting this goal. Starting this fall, we implemented a Patient and Family Advisory Council to help us continue to improve our services to you, our community.

I can’t thank you enough for all of the CARES comments and handwritten notes you send. I personally read every one of them and share them with our staff.

Wishing you and yours the happiest of holidays,

Neil Heatherly Parkwest CAO

Thank You for Entrusting Us With Your Care

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B-2 • DECEMBER 21, 2016 • Shopper news

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Toy Poodle Puppies (100% PURE) 2 M, choc., hypo-allergenic, Reduced for Christmas $500. 865-221-3842

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YORKIES - M&F. Parti and trad. $800 each. 6 weeks on 12/23. (865)3767644/(865)399-3408.

LOWERY Festival organ, good cond, $990. (865)882-6527

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423-566-3647 SCHNAUZERS, 7 WKS, shots, reg., dewormed, $400 cash. 865-240-3254 SHIH TZU PUPPIES, AKC REG. vet ck. $385. Home raised.

(865)318-3702 SHIH TZU puppies, AKC, Females $700; Males $500. Shots UTD. Warranty. 423-618-8038; 423-775-4016

HUMMINBIRD HELIX 7 - SI,DI,GPS. $425. (865)258-4511. Credit card accepted.

Farms & Acreage HORSE FARM 50 acres of beautiful pasture with 1 mile of 4-board fencing +/-, with new custom 8,000 SF barn. Fronting 2 black-top roads, across from Rarity high-end home community & minutes from historic downtown Sweetwater. Unbelievable building site with views.

Sacrifice $275,000 Firm.

Call owner 770-598-6999

Manufactured Homes I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES 1990 up, any size OK 865-384-5643 Land/Home Package in Sweetwater, 32x60 3 BR, 2 BA, on 3/4 acre lot, only $65,000 cash. Chris 865-207-8825

Lots/Acreage for Sale 7700 SF level lot, no trees. road frontage, 5511 Ridgefield Rd. Knoxv.

37912 $20,000. (865) 919-3327

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WALBROOK STUDIOS 865-251-3607 $145 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV, Ph, Refrig, Basic Cable. No Lease.

Adoptions

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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 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.

DOUBLE-DEPTH VETERAN PLOT, HIGHLAND CEMETERY - $3975 - -(865)567-8920

Collectibles

COCKER SPANIELS - Pups. AKC. 7 weeks. 2 solid choc. males. Parents on property. $400. (865)322-2618

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We make loans up to $1000. We do credit starter & rebuilder loans. Call today, 30 minute approvals.

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

Any information or donations are appreciated. Contact through mail.

P.O. Box #129, 118 N. Peters Rd., Knoxville, TN., 37923.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED FINANCING OF EQUIPMENT BY: - NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karns Volunteer Fire Department located in Knoxville, TN will meet on January 5, 2017 at 6:00pm for the purpose of holding a public hearing pursuant to the requirements of Section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, on a proposal that the issuer enter into a Lease-Purchase Agreement in order to finance (1) Sutphen Aerial Truck and (1) Sutphen Pumper Truck, to be located at 3224 Meadow Run Lane.

To finance the costs of such equipment and to pay costs and expenses incidental to the financing, the Issuer proposes to enter into a loan agreement in the maximum aggregate principal amount not to exceed $1,300,000. The rental payments due pursuant to the loan agreement will be secured by a security interest in the equipment.

The meeting will be held at: Karns Volunteer Fire Department 3224 Meadow Run Lane Knoxville, TN 37931 All interested may appear and be heard at said time and place or may file written comments with the issuer prior to the date of the hearing set forth hereinabove.

BY ORDER OF Karns Volunteer Fire Department

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BROADWAY TOWERS 62 AND OLDER Or Physically Mobility Impaired 1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site.

Immediate housing if qualified.

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NORTH, 1 BR APT. Very clean & quiet, dishwasher, water incl. $500 + sec. dep. No pets. 865-531-7895

Homes Unfurnished Home for Rent - 2518 Jones Street, 1BR, 1BA. Cottage. $550 mo. $550 deposit. (865)679-1616.

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

Duplx/Multplx UnFurn 2 BR DUPLEX South (off Chapman Hwy) Convenient to Downtown & UT No Pets $565 - $575 (865) 577-1687

Seasonal/Vacation Rentals Gatlinburg in Arts/Crafts Community.

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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. 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 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.

MONDAY, DEC. 26 Menorah Madness 2016, 1 p.m., Market Square Skating Rink. Presented by the Chabad of Knoxville and the Knoxville Jewish Alliance. Features an ice menorah lighting, sizzling hot latkes and skating to Chanukah music. Program free. Mention “Menorah Madness” for $2 off skating.

TUESDAY, DEC. 27

Cost: $26 or $49 for two in the same family. Info/registration: Bob Grimac, 546-5643 or bobgrimac@gmail. com.

SUNDAY, JAN. 1

necessary. Info: 546-4280.

TUESDAY, JAN. 10

“Lessons from Ansel Adams in the Digital Age” workshop, 5:30-6:30 p.m., the Emporium Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee meeting, Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $5, Arts & Culture Alliance 6 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, members; $8, nonmembers. Info/registration: 2931 Kingston Pike. Matthew Blondell will demonstrate knoxalliance.com or sc@knoxalliance.com. black-eyed pea hummus, and steamed greens with sesame rice will be served. A potluck supper follows.

Cost: $4, $10 per family. Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com or 546-5643.

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 situaThird annual New Year’s Walk, 9:30 a.m. UT tions that may develop in the wilderness. Must have Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Ave., Oak Ridge. Easy walk completed professional-level CPR training. Info/regison the trails and is suitable for all ages. Free. Info: tration: gsmit.org/wfr.html or 448-6709. utarboretumsociety.org.

SUNDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 15-22

MONDAY, JAN. 2

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.

Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 7 p.m., Central UMC, 201 E. Third Ave. Speaker: New York Times bestselling author Bob Mayer. Admission is a suggested $2. The public is invited.

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

Opening reception for Art Market Gallery’s January featured artists exhibit, 5:30 p.m., 422 South Gay St. Featured artists are mixed-media artist Lynnda Tenpenny and fiber artist Julia Malia. Exhibits on display Jan. 3-30. Info: 525-5265 or artmarketgallery.net.

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.

Jewish Heritage Night at the Knoxville Ice Bears, 7:05 p.m., Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Presented by the Chabad of Knoxville and the Knoxville Jewish Alliance. Features a menorah lighting on the ice after the first period and hot latkes at the Southeast Corner. Tickets: $14; buy.knoxvilletickets.com/promo/online/article/ knoxvilleicebears, use promo code “Chanukah.”

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

FRIDAY, DEC. 30

MONDAY-TUESDAY, JAN. 9-10

Kaleidoscope-Making Workshop, noon-3 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. For adults and children 9 and older.

Auditions for the Tennessee Stage Company’s New Play Festival, 7-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Auditions will consist of cold readings. No appointments

SATURDAY, JAN. 7

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SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 21-22 The Great Smoky Mountains Outdoor Expo, Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets: $10 at the door; kids 12 and under are free. Info: 414-6801.

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

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 “Stepping Off the Edge” workshop, 5:30-7 p.m., the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $7, Arts & Culture Alliance members; $10, nonmembers. Info/registration: knoxalliance.com or sc@knoxalliance.com.

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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Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center receives awards for outstanding cancer and cardiac care

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, a member of Covenant Health, has been named to the 2016 list of “100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs,” released by Becker’s Hospital Review. The list includes hospitals and health systems leading the nation in cancer care.

According to Becker’s, “Hospitals included on this list offer patients comprehensive cancer care involving teams of specialists, participation in clinical trials and personalized treatment programs. Many organizations on this list are driving forces in the fight to end cancer as we know it.”

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center offers comprehensive cancer care, including inpatient services at the downtown Knoxville medical center and advanced technology such as Fort Sanders Regional Gamma Knife Center at the adjacent campus of Thompson Cancer Survival Center.

Thompson Cancer Survival Center offers medical and radiation oncology, chemotherapy, clinical trials and innovations in “Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center Becker’s,” said Keith Altshuler, president specialized cancer treatments at locations is pleased to receive this recognition from and chief administrative officer of the medthroughout East Tennessee.

ical center. “Our physicians and staff work very hard to provide excellent care and supportive resources for patients and families facing cancer.”

In addition to Becker’s cancer recognition, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s cardiology department is the recipient of the 2016 GWTG Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award with Honor Roll status as an Elite Stroke Care Center from the 2016 American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry®. It is the second year that the medical center has received the recognition from the Foundation, and Fort Sanders Regional is one of only a small number of hospitals nationwide to earn the designation.

The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and is based on a hospital’s compliance with seven best practice measures in cardiac care. These best practices ensure that all cardiac patients are treated quickly with the most effective treatment plan and are given tools to improve their health upon discharge.

Individuals and departments of Fort Sanders Regional honored for a great 2016 Each year, the Covenant Health Performance Excellence Awards are presented to recognize outstanding achievements throughout the health system. The awards event includes two categories: the Everest Awards, recognizing individual peak performers, and the Performance Excellence Awards, for projects supporting the health system’s Journey to Excellence.

This year, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center was well represented by two Performance Excellence Awards and three Everest Award winners.

Winning Performance Excellence projects included: Innovation in Stroke Education: Can My Dog Have a Stroke?

Fort Sanders Regional’s Comprehensive Stroke Center often provides community education at health fairs and senior centers, to help people recognize the signs and symptoms of stroke.

This year, the team reached out to third- through fifth-grade students to help them understand stroke risk factors and learn what to do if someone close to them showed symptoms of a stroke. The team wrote a book, “Can My Dog

The stroke team at Fort Sanders Regional created a book, “Can My Dog Have a Stroke?,” to educate elementary school children about stroke symptoms.

Have a Stroke?,” to help convey this valuable information.

The team also continued to demonstrate excellence in stroke care through increasingly effective use of the clot-busting drug tPA and rapid treatment of patients who arrive at the ED with stroke symptoms.

Wound Care: Moving From Reporting to Healing – Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center Inpatient rehabilitation facilities must stay vigilant about monitoring patients for possible development of pressure ulcers,

which can occur when patients are bed-ridden for a significant length of time. The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center was recognized for processes that have prevented pressure ulcers among PNRC inpatients in 2016.

technologist, Thompson Oncology Group. Fowlen was instrumental in creating and implementing a plan to routinely monitor adherence to new clinical laboratory regulations with consistent standards and staff training.

She helped develop an audit tool, Fort Sanders Regional which she completes on a routine basis at each office-based lab. BeEverest Award winners cause of her diligence, planning Fort Sanders Regional employ- and regular auditing, the TOG’s ees honored for outstanding per- most recent lab inspection had formance of their job responsibili- no deficiencies and lab processes were commended by the surveyor. ties: Fowlen Anders, medical Her co-workers say, “She does not just identify problems. She identifies solutions.”

Yasheta “Pinky” Hardin, RN, has worked on Fort Sanders Regional’s Transitional Care Unit for 15 years. As a case manager, she works with insurance companies to get hospital patients who need additional care approved for efficient transfer to the TCU. She serves on the hospital’s continuum of care committee, falls prevention team and pressure ulcer prePatricia Neal Rehabilitation Center was recognized for processes that vention team. Pinky goes out of have prevented the occurrence of pressure ulcers among patients.

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center wishes you and your family a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. fsregional.com • (865) 673-FORT

her way to answer call lights and assist patients. She checks in often with new employees to welcome them to the unit and help them in their new roles.

Joel Morrison, inpatient oncology specialist, pharmacist, is one of only 26 in Tennessee to be board certified in oncology through the Board of Pharmacy.

He is very dedicated to his patients and is recognized by patients, nurses, physicians and support staff as the clinical expert for any medication-related issues. He is proactive in working with prescribers to find alternative medications to those that are costly or difficult to acquire.

Joel shares medication information with patients and nurses and trains resident and student pharmacists. According to his peers, Joel is “the perfect example of teamwork at its best.”