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IN THIS ISSUE One of the tenets of theChristian faith is “love thy neighbor.” For the Laurel Church of Christ that means allowing Knox Heritage to build a driveway across church property.

Historic Westwood, the future home of Knox Heritage, is on the church’s east side.

The home’s graceful entrance through a serpentine brick wall served the Lutz family well when it was built in 1890 but doesn’t meet the current needs of the nonprofit.

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Read Wendy Smith on page A-7

More on Mike Mike Stratton came uninvited from Tellico Plains to the University of Tennessee and stayed to become a first-team end in a two-way era, offense and defense. He learned a lot.

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Read Marvin West on page A-5

Where the Jobs Are The IBEW union is actively recruiting women and minorities as a new training facility has opened on Central Avenue Pike off I-75.

This week Shopper-News launches a new feature: Where the Jobs Are.

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Read Betty Bean on page A-10

Stokes: From ‘pops’ to judge His grandchildren may call him Pops, but Billy Stokes hopes you’ll soon call him Judge.

Stokes is running for the Division I Circuit Court judge seat being vacated by Dale Workman.

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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Kendall Road repairs update Work is expected to begin this week to a sinkhole that has closed a portion of Kendall Road.

Due to underlying, persistent sinkhole activity, the city of Knoxville closed the road between Gleason Drive and Twining Drive on Dec. 20. A geotechnical engineer was hired to probe the sinkhole depth and make repair recommendations.

The city has secured a contractor on an emergency basis to make the necessary repairs quickly. The work is expected to take six to eight weeks to complete, at which time the road will be reopened.

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magic The Science Lab program at Farragut Intermediate School has become as much a part of the school day as lunch – and much more important! Run by the FIS PTA under the guidance of Maureen Cianciolo, the labs bring hands-on science to each classroom at the school, four times a year. With 50 classrooms, that means labs are going on somewhere in the school every day, fulfilling the mission of helping the science curriculum come alive for the students.

Gavin Gregg sees a lesson in liquid density as parent volunteer Robin Wilde assists. For more photos by Nancy Anderson, see A-8.

Technology gap:

Middle-schooler reaches out to help seniors

By Sherri Gardner Howell In a world where we are always looking for the motive, the payoff, the reason why, Connor Shields has little explanation for his actions.

“It is something I know how to do, so I thought I might be able to help others,” was the 13-year-old Farragut Middle School student’s answer. The question? Why are you teaching lessons in how to use cell phones and notebooks to senior citizens?

Connor’s community service project isn’t in answer to any school, club or church program to teach the value of giving. It’s a Connor concept, thought up and implemented by him, with help from his parents, Robert and Pamela Shields, and grandparents, Dave and Toby Montgomery.

“I got the idea from

Alice Norris gets help with her cell phone from 13-year-old Connor Shields. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Toby Montgomery poses with her grandson, Connor Shields.

helping my family members, especially my grandparents, because they were always coming to me to show them something on their iPhones,” says Connor. “What they needed to know wasn’t hard, so I thought I could probably

parents, who are members of Farragut Presbyterian Church, put the word out that Connor would come to the church on Sunday mornings for one-on-one sessions with seniors.

Alice Norris was the first to sign up. Her cell

teach other people the basics to help them.”

Connor, who says he learned how to use his iPhone and iPad “by doing,” held a session at Echo Ridge retirement community. “It went pretty well,” he says. Then his grand-

phone wasn’t an iPhone, but Connor said he would still try to help.

“I’m a former teacher,” says Norris. “I can run a classroom and diagram any sentence you put in To page A-3

FMPC debates accessory dwelling units “It keeps coming back,” said Frazer, of Alderman Bob Markli’s proposal to allow accessory dwelling units in certain R-1 zones.

“Why not just vote it up or down?”

While FMPC support seems limited, commissioners are hesitant to release the proposed ordinance.

“We could reject it 9-0 but it goes on to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen,”

By Sandra Clark When Village Green resident Ken Frazer said he often is “mystified” by the goingson at the Fa r r a g ut Municipal Planning Ken Frazer Commission, he was not the only confused one in the room.

explained vice chair Ed St. Clair. “We’ve got to get it right.”

Commissioner Betty Dick was blunt: “I am opposed to this ordinance. I want to make that clear.”

But Commissioner Annette Brun countered: “People need choices.

(Bob) Markli’s points are spot on. I support it.”

In letters made part of the FMPC record, Markli called the proposed ordi-

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Alderman Jeff Elliott disagreed, urging commissioners to vote no. “There is no need for such a drastic change in our R-1 zoning ordinance which has worked so well for so many years,” wrote Elliott.

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ing to house “a wayward son or daughter” could simply add on or modify their existing house.

Commissioners raised enough questions to send the ordinance back to interim director Mark Shipley for revisions. On a motion by Ed Whiting, the ordinance was deferred until Shipley finishes another draft and commissioners have a chance to propose amendments.

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NEWS FROM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Student finds a place in

Subtle Clutch “Now we’ve come so far, knowing nothing of who we are.”

These lyrics from “Railroad,” one of the original songs from local folk/Americana band Subtle Clutch, are fitting considering the group is made up of four high school boys.

CAK freshman Jonathan Bailey plays the guitar, bass and mandolin for Subtle Clutch.

“This last year, I’ve probably played more music than ever,” Bailey said. “July was when the stuff with Subtle Clutch started happening, and since then we’ve just been playing gigs and doing our thing. It has been really fun.”

The other three members, Briston Maroney (guitar/vocals), Devin Badgett (guitar/

ukulele/vocals) and Eli Fox (banjo/dobro/harmonica), attended middle school together at Episcopal School of Knoxville. They first performed together in April when Eli organized a fundraiser for WDVX as part of a school project.

In June, while Maroney was out of town, Bailey joined Fox and Badgett for a street performance on Market Square.

“I remember being scared to death because I had never really done anything like that before,” Bailey said. “Even though I was scared at first, it was super fun.”

The boys made such an impression that they were asked to take the stage at the Knoxville Kuumba Festival. Bailey has been part of the group

Athletic Director Denny resigns CAK Athletic Director Steve Denny is turning the page to a new chapter.

While the future is still a bit uncertain, Steve and his wife, Rebecca (1st grade teacher at CAK) say they have sensed the Lord leading them on a new journey. Denny will finish his sixth year as AD and conclude his fifth season as the varsity girls basketball coach. Rebecca Denny will stay at CAK for the remainder of the 2013-14 school year.

“I’ve enjoyed working with Steve these past seven months,” said Head of School Bob Neu. “Steve is one of the hardest working and most organized individuals I know. I appreciate all he brings to the job, but I appreciate his commitment to the Lord the most.

Much has been accomplished at CAK under his watch. His mark will definitely be left on our campus.”

Since Denny arrived at CAK in 2008, the Warriors have boosted their athletic prowess with an all-star roster of coaches, improved facilities and a number of championships. The Warriors have accumulated 37 district, 32 regional and 14 state championships (nine state finalists) over the last five years. Most

Members of Subtle Clutch are CAK student Jonathan Bailey, and friends Devin Badgett, Eli Fox and Briston Maroney. ever since.

Their repertoire includes a few originals and some covers of radio favorites like “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons and “Gone, Gone, Gone” by Phillip Phillips.

Jonathan has played the guitar for four years and the mandolin for two.

“I would say once I got

guitar down everything else started coming fairly easily,” Bailey said. “Although I’ve only been playing mandolin for two years, it has only been in the past four months or so that I’ve really started progressing and getting into it.”

And what about that name?

“The name was suggested

by Devin’s older brother while

they were at Taco Bell,” Bailey said. “None of us are 100 percent sure of what it means, but we liked the way it sounded so we went with it.”

Just as the song states: “... knowing nothing of who we are.”

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Hammaker named to All-Tournament Team The CAK girls basketball team traveled to Naples during Christmas break to participate in the 15th Annual Naples Holiday Shootout. The tournament featured some of the nation’s top teams and top talent.

The Warriors finished sixth in the National Division, including a big win over Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.). Anna Hammaker, CAK’s junior point guard, was named to the All-Tournament Team for leading her team throughout the three-day event.

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notably, under Denny’s watch CAK won first-ever State Championship in football and cross-country, and there was a 12-month period in which every girls team made it to state.

“These years at CAK have been challenging but rewarding,” Denny said. “I believe God has honored our commitment to maintaining integrity and focusing on the process rather than the results. We will miss CAK and all of the great relationships, but we are excited about the future.”

According to Neu, the school will begin a search for a new AD immediately.

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Spelling bee winners CAK’s annual spelling bee was held in the library Tuesday, and the winners advance to the Regional Bee at North Asheville Christian School on March 7. The 5th graders have a chance to make it to the Atlanta bee if they place in the top four of the 5th grade bee and then in the top four of the 5th-8th Grade Spell Off. CAK’s winners (in order of placement) were: 1st grade, Paxton McPherson, Seth Stalcup, Leslie Teaster, Trent Valeriano; 2nd grade, Aleyah Troutt, Aiden Troutt, William Blevins, Yates Foster; 3rd grade Emma Brown, Noah McPherson, Anya Cotton, Emma Grady; 4th grade, Ellie Nath, Anna Claire Roddy, Luke Tedford, Hawkins Dunn; 5th grade, Rachel Shamblin, Alexander Nazerias, Tabb Layton, Griffin Parker.

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The University of Tennessee basketball game captured the attention of Lee and Jeff Mrazek and Julie Harkins joins April and Jason Stouffer in warming up at the Rotary Club of Farragut holiday party.

Dale and Robbie Read in the comfortable den at the Myers home.

Holiday celebration – after the fact The month of December is never long enough to squeeze in all the fun you want to have. Members of the Rotary Club of Farragut have never let that stand in the way of good, old-fashioned fellowship, however.

They just move their holiday party to January.

The Reeds, Jeff and Tracy, and O’Briens, Jim and Diane, enjoy the evening.

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Stephanie and Knick Myers kick back like family should at the Rotary Christmas party at the home of Noah and Allison Myers. Noah and Knick are brothers.

FARRAGUT FACES The “Christmas� party for 2013 was held on Jan. 11, 2014, at the home of Noah and Allison Myers. Club business was put on the back burner as members, spouses and guests brought the spirit of the season into the new year. The group enjoyed tables laden with food and goodies.

A special treat of the evening was a golf-cart ride up the hill with Luke Myers, age 10, and a “Welcome� at the door by Kate Myers, 8.

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Carole and Tom Pattison catch up with Becky Duncan at the party.

Ben Harkins and Tom Marsh enjoy the festive evening.

Technology gap: front of me, but this phone has me stumped.�

Her children insisted she get the phone after her husband died. From the moment she turns it on, she told Connor, it’s an irritation. “Somebody asked me if it was a ‘smart’ phone, and I told them it was a lot smarter than I am.�

Connor, soft-spoken and patient, let his pupil show him what her problems were with the phone. The first was that most of the time when Norris turned the phone on, the camera feature popped up. Connor showed her the button on the phone’s side that activated (and closed) the camera. Norris was pushing the sensitive button when she picked up the phone to turn it on.

The most amazing revelation for Norris was the discovery of the “home� key on the phone. “I had no idea how to get back to

From page A-1 what I needed to see on this phone. Most of the time, I just turned it off and turned it back on, hoping to get to the right place.�

Connor showed her how to unlock her screen and told her about the power save feature in explaining why the screen “just goes away.� He explained that the “End Call� that pops on the screen when she answers a call doesn’t mean the call has ended, as Norris thought, but is giving her the option to hit that button and end it. “Oh dear,� says Norris. “I have been hanging up on everybody.�

Once they practiced the basics, Connor asked Norris if there were any other features she wants to know how to use on the phone. “It has games,â€? he tells her, “and you can get on the Internet and Facebook‌â€? “Oh no, honey,â€? she tells him. “Maybe we will have

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government Opening TVA’s closed doors While TVA seldom reports or even hints at what is happening at closed board committee meetings, there has been lots of speculation since Mike McWherter broke tradition and voted no on the extension of Bill Sansom’s term as chair. It sent shock waves throughout the organization. This kind of public dissent just does not happen. Here is what I have learned from several sources.

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The recommendation to extend Sansom came from the compensation committee chaired by Barbara Haskew, 73, whose term expires in May. However, the committee had also received a request that director Joe Ritch, 63, be named chair. Ritch is from Huntsville, Ala. Since Sansom wanted to continue as chair until his term expires in May, Ritch opted not to challenge him. However, Ritch will likely be the next chair.

While the board has had a vice chair in the past (last held by Sansom in 2011) it has not been filled for two years. No reason was given for leaving it vacant.

Recently, the board determined the chair of the audit committee would be chair if the real chair could not attend the meeting, but no discussion occurred on what happens to the empty vice chair position.

It’s a safe bet Sansom will not name Mike McWherter. And it’s a safe bet that Sansom and Haskew will not be reappointed by President Obama. ■Another question being discussed privately by board members is whether all board members can attend any committee meeting including those they are not members of.

Legal counsel Ralph Rodgers has opined that if five board members attend a committee meeting it could become a board meeting.

The finance committee (the most important committee) has four members and does not allow other board members to attend. Rodgers even discourages five directors being on a TVA plane at the same time as it might suggest a meeting.

This means the nonmembers never hear what

was discussed or what was rejected. They are kept in the dark. This is one of many reasons the committees should meet in public and let ratepayers know what is happening. It’s surprising that environmental groups like Sierra Club have not taken on the issue of closed committee meetings. ■Ralph Rodgers was paid $1.9 million a year as chief general counsel for TVA in 2013. However, this is a reduction in income for Rodgers as he made $2.5 million in 2012, according to the statement TVA filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If you think this is fiction, check out the SEC filing for TVA. Only seven years ago, in 2007, Rodgers was making just $180,000 a year, so his increase is 10 times in seven years. Then-TVA general counsel Maureen Dunn (now married to former TVA director Neil McBride) made $330,000 in 2007 ... much less than $1.9 million.

Not many attorneys in Tennessee make that much in a single year. TVA could easily find well-qualified attorneys to accept Rodgers’ position for less than half that amount if he refused to pare back his excessive salary from ratepayers.

Now that this is becoming public, one wonders how long the board will remain silent. It is stunning that a quasi-governmental lawyer at TVA makes 10 times what a federal district judge makes and that this quantum leap occurred in seven years. TVA is also notorious for sending convoys of attorneys to legal proceedings.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan, when asked, said these salaries were “ridiculously excessive.� Duncan is the only member of the Tennessee congressional delegation who has spoken out for years against excessive TVA salaries. ■Gary Sousa made $140,200 a year as UT band director. He continues to make this amount, although his band duties were suspended and he has no duties at present. The investigation is still ongoing.

However, if the outcome of the inquiry results in Sousa being moved back to the faculty, his salary will be $105,050.

The 25 percent reduction is standard UT practice for persons moved from administrative to faculty positions, according to Margie Nichols of the UT chancellor’s staff. The head of the music school would assign him new duties.

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Paul Kelley’s influence continues talk all this over with him.�

Kelley was a career educator, longtime president of the Oakwood-Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association, multi-term school-board member and lifelong chamIt’s times like these when pion of inner-city children.

Steve Diggs misses Paul In 2010, the Dr. Paul L. KelKelley. ley Volunteer Academy, a nontraditional high school in the Knoxville Center mall, was named for him.

Kelley and his wife, NorBetty Bean ma, were members of Emerald Avenue United Methodist Church when Diggs, fresh out of Maryville ColNot that he doesn’t feel lege, was hired as a youth the loss of his longtime minister back in 1988. Diggs mentor almost every day took to the job with vigor since Kelley died a year ago and vision, and Kelley’s en– but now Diggs, as execu- couragement and advice betive director of the Emerald came invaluable as the EYF Youth Foundation, has gone became an inner-city-wide public with a plan to plunge youth ministry, eventually into the charter-school serving 1,400 children. business, and he wishes he Today, Diggs and his could have the benefit of family live two doors down Kelley’s sage advice. from the Kelleys’ family “He was my second fa- home, and he still sees Norther, and I wish I could sit ma frequently. He believes down in his living room and Paul Kelley would approve

Says charter school founder Diggs

of Emerald Charter Schools and the plan to enter the contentious and highly political field of education.

The first thing Diggs wants to make clear is that he is a public-school guy.

His children attend Christenberry Elementary School and Fulton High School, and Diggs is active on both campuses.

He is distressed by the low scores that Knoxville’s urban students have been getting in math and language arts and says he wants to do something to help children become college-ready by the time they finish high school. “I am a public-school advocate. In fact, we are going to increase our offerings to public schools, and we think the public charter-school option will be another strategy to accelerate the path to achievement.�

The second thing he would like to make clear is that the first Emerald Charter School will not involve a

takeover of any existing Knox County school, although he will consider any space that might be offered.

The first Steve Diggs Emerald Charter School will serve kindergarteners and firstgraders only, and the student body will consist of 75 to 100 inner-city first and second-graders.

Diggs says he has not chosen a location but anticipates that it will be near Fulton High School, perhaps on property soon to be abandoned by Physicians Regional Medical Center (the hospital that Diggs’ neighbors still call St. Mary’s). “We think we’re going to need about 20,000 square feet,� he said. “We’ll see what’s going to be available.�

He believes Paul Kelley would approve.

‘Pops’ hopes to be called ‘Judge’ His grandchildren may call him Pops, but Billy Stokes hopes you’ll soon call him Judge.

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captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

He is a founding partner of Stokes & Fansler, worked for Gov. Don Sundquist and boasts a bunch of other stuff you can read at his website. “I’ve been doing this for a long time,� Billy said, “but the most important thing is that I practice law, step in and resolve conflicts. I’ve tried cases for a long time, both for plaintiffs and defendants, and I’ve won some and I’ve lost some.�

He says he has the experience, education and temperament to do the job well. “Just keep the talk on the street and we’ll move forward and win this thing on May 6,� he said to his supporters.

Granddaughter Bailey, 3, either liked what she heard or wanted to talk to Bay and Pops ’cause she got to them before supporters could.

Surrounded by friends and family, Billy Stokes looked comfortable. He felt like a winner. Billy’s is the familiar face in the race, but sometimes voters like fresh faces.

I don’t know what’s going to happen on Election Day, but I do know this. Familiar doesn’t need a road map or a question mark.

Stokes is running for the Division I Circuit Court judge seat being vacated by Dale Workman. His opponents to date are lawyers Bill Ailor, Kristi Davis and Ray Hal Jenkins.

Like Jenkins, Stokes is a former Knox County Republican Party chair. He’s safe, familiar.

His mentor, Richard Bean, stood quietly in the corner as everybody stopped by to say hello at his campaign kickoff at Calhoun’s on the River. Duane Grieve and Gail Jarvis were chatting in another corner.

Bailey Hickerson, 3, runs up to chat with Bay and Billy “Pops�

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Stokes after Billy addresses the crowd at his campaign kickoff Rogero dropped by, as did at Calhoun’s on the River. Photo by Jake Mabe former county GOP chair Chad Tindell. visor at the East Tennessee Stokes’ wife, Bay, a for- Bruce Blakely.

Raised in Lonsdale, Regional Juvenile Center, mer educator, was saying howdy to everybody. It felt Stokes attended Maryville now named for Bean. After College to play football. receiving his J.D., he joined “Pull Up A Chair� with Jake Mabe at jakehomey, familiar.

Billy is a Knoxville na- A shoulder injury ended the U.S. Army, serving as a mabe.blogspot.com tive. At least two of his dreams of gridiron glory, classmates from Beaumont so he transferred to UT. He Elementary School and earned a bachelor’s degree Waggoner fundraiser set for Jan. 31 Rule High showed up to sup- in psychology and was hired Wright’s Cafeteria, 5403 N. Middlebrook Pike, port him. Billy remembered as juvenile counselor for the will be the setting for a Friday, Jan. 31, fundraiser for playing football against the Knoxville Police DepartBobby Waggoner, candidate for Knox County sheriff Dink Adams-coached Halls ment. in the May 6 Republican Primary. The spaghetti supWhen that job was elimiHigh football team and per will be 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 each and says he figured out a way to nated, Stokes attended UT will be available at the door or by calling 978-1042. deal with Dink’s offensive Law School and worked full-time as a shift supertandem of Elmo Brock and

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More Mike Stratton Mike Stratton came uninvited from Tellico Plains to the University of Tennessee and stayed to become a first-team end in a two-way era, offense and defense. He learned a lot. “I learned to be friends with the tailbacks. We didn’t throw many forward passes, but when we did, it was the tailback doing the throwing.�

That strategy led to nine receptions as a senior in 1961 and Mike’s lone experience with a professional scout.

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“Gil Brandt (Dallas Cowboys) came to see Glenn Glass, and I got to meet him.

Glenn asked about me as a prospect, and Mr. Brandt said oh yes, he would check on me.�

Brandt, ahead of the world in technical aspects of

Concord’s African-American community I was talking to my friend Loretta Bradley a few days ago and she said, “Have you ever written a column on Concord’s black community?�

Although I have mentioned the African-American community in many of my columns, I realized that I had never written a specific article on the community. And what better time to do so than the year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream� speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

From a teenager’s perspective growing up in the 1950s, I can only recall some of the people I knew – the Rev. Roy Stone, Lyman “Deck� Bacon, Mildred Miller and many others that are too numerous to enumerate.

But I cannot recall any discrimination or bigotry toward the black community from my friends. Perhaps we had not been “carefully trained.�

I shot basketball with the black kids in the Methodist church parking lot, and when it snowed, we sledded down Olive Road hill together.

Some years later, I got to know the Rev. Stone when he came by the small convenience store where I worked to buy gas. We talked about many subjects including his church and his church members.

The Rev. Stone was a caring person and I always had the feeling that he was really interested in my thoughts.

He also owned a commercial and residential painting company that did excellent work, and his company was recognized in the area as one of several premiered painting contractors.

In reflecting back on my observations now, in some ways, the African American community experienced integration at a level that would not become commonplace in the South until the decade of the 1960s.

For example, W.M. Fox, who operated the local bus service to Knoxville, insisted that his black customers occupy any seat on the bus.

In fact, one woman, Mildred Miller, always sat in the seat directly behind the driver and carried on a conversation with him during the entire trip.

Other customers recognized that the front seat behind the driver was Mildred’s seat and left it vacant.

Mrs. Miller was a colorful person who often wore brightly flowered clothes, used lots of cosmetic makeup, and she always carried a shopping bag filled with her most prized possessions.

Mildred attended my church – Concord United Methodist – for a while and made many friends there.

When it was announced

talent searches, didn’t know there was a Mike Stratton.

Buster Ramsey was the first coach of the Buffalo Bills. He had Maryville roots and had played at Knoxville High School. One of his East Tennessee connections told him that Stratton had good hands, good speed, good size and genuine potential on defense. He was added to the draft list – in pencil.

Ramsey got fired while trying to make something out of nothing, and Lou Saban became the new coach in Buffalo. “The American Football League drafted early, and it wasn’t a very big deal,� recalled Stratton. “I stopped at Sam and Andy’s on the Strip one evening, and somebody told me I had been drafted.�

The next morning, the pay phone on the second floor in the stadium dormitory was ringing its bell off.

As usually happened, the nearest Volunteer woke up enough to answer. “Hey Stratton, this one’s for you.�

It was Lou Saban. “He said I had been drafted by the Bills in the 13th round. He asked if I could come out to the airport for a meeting. I was on crutches from an ankle injury in the Vanderbilt game, but I borrowed John Bill Hudson’s car and drove out to the airport. “Coach Saban was pleasant but businesslike. He offered me $9,000 for the 1962 season and $1,000 bonus if I would sign right then. “Glenn Glass had given me some tips about negotiations. I decided to try one. If the Bills would raise

the offer to $10,000 and give me the other $1,000 as a cash advance, I said I would sign. Without a moment’s hesitation, Coach Saban said OK.�

Stratton wondered if he had sold himself short.

A little later, back on campus, there were Lou Saban and Glenn Glass on a joy ride, seeing the sights from a big convertible, talking about real money.

Stratton had hobbled to the airport to meet the coach. The coach had come to the school to pick up the tailback.

Stratton played 12 seasons of professional football, 156 games as an outside linebacker. He intercepted 21 passes. Six times he was in the Pro Bowl. He has an honored place on the Bills’ wall of fame. He was elected to the Buffalo all-time team, chosen after 50 years. He

is a legend in western New York.

Stratton had one of the historic hits in all of football. In the 1964 AFL championship game against San Diego, the great Keith Lincoln was about to catch a pass. Mike, a full-grown 6-3 and 240, and the ball arrived in about the same instant. Fans said “ooooh.�

Lincoln did not get up.

He had a rib problem.

The “Hit heard around the world� took on a life of its own. Almost everybody said it decided the championship game. Some said it became the cornerstone of Buffalo’s development as a franchise. “I never wanted to be known as a one-hit wonder,� said Stratton. “But when people asked about that tackle, I always accepted responsibility and smiled.�

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that she was ill, we cut some wood from a vacant lake lot that one of the members owned. We hauled the wood to her home where we split it and stacked it on her porch. Mildred and her daughter were very appreciative, but Mildred never got to use much of the wood.

She passed away two weeks later.

Another memorable person was Lymon Bacon, known to his friends at “Deck.� Deck owned the school bus franchise for the area and always kept several school buses on his property. He was a short, muscular man who looked like he would have made an excellent athlete in any sport.

Deck also looked after the African-American portion of Pleasant Forest Cemetery where he spent many hours improving the property.

John Campbell, a longtime president of Pleasant Forest Cemetery who passed away recently, once kidded Deck of promoting segregation by keeping the wrought iron fence intact that separated the AfricanAmerican section from the main cemetery area.

On several occasions John suggested that he consider removing the fence, but Deck wanted to maintain the separate identity.

His son, Lymon Jr., passed away recently, but we used to run into each other occasionally and always enjoyed talking about “the good old days.�

Perhaps my most vivid memory of the black community was their church, A.M.E. Zion, located on Loop Road. During the summer months, I often rode my bike over and sat on the front steps listening to their music.

Other white folks often drove over and listened from their car. I am not sure the congregation even knew we were outside, but one evening, one of the church members came in late and invited us to come inside.

We chose to sit on the back row of the sanctuary.

And as I think about it now, it’s ironic that in many areas African-Americans were still required to sit in the back of theaters and buses, but here we were sitting in the back of their church.

The difference was that we chose to sit in the rear, but in many public places they never had that choice.

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Bass Harold Bassett has unusual memories of the civil-rights Audrey Wrushen leads the choir while her husband, Xzavian, plays the piano. era.

Dr. Aaron Staple rehearses a piece.

Passion, promise and praise The atmosphere at Baptist Tabernacle Church in Knoxville was noisy and convivial on a recent Monday night as the MLK Celebration Choir rehearsed for its Jan. 19 concert at the Bijou Theatre commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Convivial, but marked with great seriousness and focused intent.

“We’ve got a lot of stuff to get through tonight,” said Dr. Aaron Staple, Knoxville College’s director of choral music and leader/pianist for the MLK choir, “so let’s get started with ‘Praise.’ ” He asked his son-in-law, Xzavian Wrushen, to lead the group in the spirited anthem. Wrushen conducted the group from his toes up,

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Later, speaking of the great civil-rights leader, Wrushen said, “Dr. King understood the concept of perfect love. Love transcends race. It transcends gender, sexual orientation, religion – love doesn’t fit in a box.”

Several choir members concurred with softly spoken “amens.”

“Martin Luther King was the voice of peace for the 20th century,” said Staple.

“Standing strong for what he believed against all odds, and using nonviolent measures, has been his greatest impact on my life.” Staple attended the funeral of the slain leader in Atlanta in 1968 and took note of the music played there. It’s influenced his musical decisions ever since. “I try to choose songs that carry his philosophy and the message he proclaimed, and songs I recall him hearing and liking.”

In addition to his Knoxville College post, Staple has been directing choirs at Baptist Tabernacle since 1963 and is retired from the Knox County school system, where he was an elementa-

Xzavian Wrushen leads the women in a spirited anthem: Diane Johnson, Sylvia Brown, Eloise Webb, Wilma Brabson, Dorothy Parks, Staffene Ocan, Vivian Dial, Krishana Forbes and Dawn Davis. ry-school teacher.

Folks who are lucky enough to attend one of his events know how much heart he throws into every performance. He specializes in collaborating with his soloists to showcase

their individual talents.

With Staple providing the piano accompaniment, singers can express their feelings of the moment.

He’s always with them, giving them room to soar.

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Wrushen, is following in his footsteps. She led the choir in a rousing new anthem, “We Sing the Praises to Our King.”

“To me, Dr. King was an example of how to be a soldier for Christ,” she said.

“He was no respecter of persons; he saw everyone the same, which is the way God sees us.

He always walked in X. Wrushen his purpose.”

Yolanda Flowers, who was reared in Birmingham, Ala., agreed.

“A l t h o u g h I did not know Dr. King, to me he meant freedom and civil rights.”

Webb B a s s Harold Bassett chimed in from across the room. “I have a somewhat different perspective,” he said. “I was raised in the county. I didn’t know I was ‘integrated’ until I heard of Dr. King’s A. Wrushen assassination. I didn’t know anything about black history, about what our people had been through. I didn’t know about freedom until I learned about Dr. King.”

S opr a no Earnestine BranBranner ner quickly agreed. “Dr. King raised my awareness of civil rights.

The greatest gifts he gave us are peace, perseverance and faith.”

“To me, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. epitomizes our past, our present and our future,” said Benn Dr. Eloise Webb. “We’re still clinging to his words and hoping we’ll have a better tomorrow.”

Lawrence Washington, a bass who’s been with the choir for many years, nodded. “He’s one of my heroes,” he said quietly.

Pat Benn wrapped it all up succinctly. “Passion, promise and praise. That’s it. That’s what Dr. King represented.”

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The Holmes family adopted four older siblings recently through the Childhelp Foster Family Agency. Photo submitted

Staying together Childhelp finding success for sibling groups

By Betsy Pickle Childhelp Foster Care Agency has been so busy beating the odds that staff members didn’t even notice that they’ve arranged adoptions for a record number of multiple-sibling groups.

“Nineteen foster families have adopted sibling groups of three or more children within the past four or five years,” says Childhelp director Hugh Nystrom, noting that at least two families have adopted five children each.

“That’s a big deal. It’s hard to find a home for one kid to

get adopted, much less to find 19 families adopting sibling groups of three or more kids.

“It’s just a remarkable accomplishment that snuck up on us. We didn’t realize we had done it till we had done it. It’s been a really cool run.”

The Childhelp Foster Family Agency, based in Seymour, has been serving children in the state of Tennessee since 2004.

It has been recognized for having one of the highest adoption rates of any foster-care provider in Tennessee.

“Nearly 90 percent of the children placed in our care in the last five years have found forever homes either through adoption or reunification with (non-offending) family members,” says Nystrom.

The foster agency is separate from Childhelp’s Child Advocacy Center, which serves youngsters involved in child-abuse cases being investigated.

However, “all of these kids have come to us because of abuse, neglect or endangerment,” says Nystrom.

“There’s a ton of either opiate

or methamphetamine abuse happening out there. You see a lot of kids that come into foster care who maybe have been in a home that’s had drug abuse taking place.

“All of the nightmares that people hear or imagine that could happen to children … happen here in East Tennessee, and those can result in a child being removed from their home and being placed in a safe foster home.”

Whether children are biological offspring or fosters, the basic tools of parenting apply.

“Foster kids bring with them the fun of just being a parent,” Nystrom says. “But they usually come with some history and some experiences that some of us have been so lucky not to experience.

There are some different behaviors that you have to manage or just be understanding of. The numbers show that we’ve had a lot of success in helping our foster parents be successful. Our case managers try their best to be proactive, to help our foster parents be ready for anything.”

There aren’t hordes of people coming forward, offering to foster and adopt children.

“We work our tails off to find good, safe, loving foster homes and folks who we feel are doing it because their heart is in it,” says Nystrom.

“When you see the outcomes that we’ve gotten with all these kids adopted, that comes from a lot of work on the front end of finding the right folks to work with us to be foster parents.”

Childhelp is hosting a foster parenting/adoptive class this month. To learn more, call 579-5498.

A new sidewalk and driveway on the property of the Laurel Church of Christ will allow Historic Westwood visitors to take advantage of ample parking and the traffic light at Cherokee Boulevard and Kingston Pike. Westwood is the future home of Knox Heritage. g Photo by Wendy Smith

Sharing the light

By W Wendy end dy Smith Smi mith th One of the tenets of the he C Christian hristi hr tian an faith is “love thy neighbor.” For the Laurel Church of Christ at 3457 Kingston Pike, that means allowing Knox Heritage to build a driveway across church property.

Historic Westwood, the future home of Knox Heritage, is next door on the church’s east side. The home’s graceful entrance through a serpentine brick wall served the Lutz family well when it was built in 1890 but doesn’t meet the current needs of the nonprofit. Westwood will serve as a regional center for preservation education as well as headquarters for the historic-preservation group.

The cooperation between Knox Heritage and the church was initiated

by Dan Brewer and Anthony Fuller of Brewer Ingram Fuller, the architectural firm hired to renovate and design an addition for Westwood. The men are also elders at the Laurel church.

The in init itiiall ag agreem emen men entt wa w as for fo or the the The initial agreement was side dewa w lk to to b church to allow a si sidewalk bee built that would provide access to Westwood via the church’s parking lot. But the MPC and fire department required a second entrance to the property for emergency vehicles due to heavy traffic on Kingston Pike, says Knox Heritage executive director Kim Trent.

Laurel Involvement Minister Mike Buckley knows how dangerous that particular stretch of Kingston Pike can be. He has seen numerous accidents from his office window. Church offices are in a house between the church building and Westwood.

The new driveway, which is for emergency and service vehicles only, is being built behind the Laurel offices. Those who use the driveway and the sidewalk, which will be in front of the offices, will benefit from the traffic light at Cherokee Boulevard and Kingston Pike.

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Buckley says improvements at Westwood benefit the church, too. “It’s good for us because it’s an enhancement to the Sequoyah Hills area, and Knox Heritage will be a good neighbor to us.”

He expects that new lighting and landscaping, provided by Knox Heritage, will improve church grounds, too.

The church strives to be neighborly.

Recent community outreach includes hosting the weekly Farmer’s Market on Fridays during warm weather, providing parking for GreekFest at St. George Greek Orthodox Church and hosting the Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee Walk.

Trent expects the driveway and sidewalk to be completed by Knox Heritage’s April 1 move-in date, which is also the nonprofit’s 40th anniversary.

faith The language of the soul But I trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

(Psalm 13: 5-6 NRSV) Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.

(Bob Dylan) Which is why we have songs of praise, songs of love, songs of sorrow. (“And Bob Dylan Too,” Mary Oliver) I was never particularly a Bob Dylan fan. He wrote some great music, but as a singer, in my opinion, he left much to be desired.

However, Dylan was absolutely on target when he said, “Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.”

Take, for example, the children’s song “Ring Around the Rosy,” which is actually a song about the Black Death. Or those Kilkenny Cats, who fought until “instead of two cats, there wasn’t any.”

On the far other end of the spectrum is my all-time favorite, hands-down winner as the best single piece of music ever written, J.S. Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”

I have made music as long as I can remember.

One of my earliest memories is sitting at the piano playing the keys with no particular song in mind, which was not, please note, making music. But I was fascinated with the sounds, and I wanted to make music.

I was amazed, one day in the first grade, when a sophisticated second-grader came to my classroom to inform my teacher that I was to go to another room for my piano lesson. Piano lesson?!? I knew nothing about a piano lesson! He led me to the correct room, where I had a lesson, received my first music book, and was, quite simply, a goner.

I was never a great pianist, just a competent one.

I was a good singer, never a great one. I have made my living mostly through church music, entertained my mind with folk music and ballads, fed my soul through singing with the Knoxville Choral Society, and kept babies happy with lots of lullabies.

Most of the Scripture and poetry I have memorized is

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in my head because I sang it. I can sing the lyrics of many songs I learned in the ’60s (who can explain that, except to say that a younger brain is a more trustworthy repository than an older one?).

I turn to music when I am sad. The day my father died, when I was 10, I sat down at the piano and played my sorrow. Someone suggested to Mother that maybe that was not appropriate – music in a house of bereavement – but she had the wisdom, even in the midst of her own shock, to say, “No. Let her play; that’s how she is expressing her grief.”

I was pleased beyond all reason when I learned that the universe sings as well. There are, I am told

by Those Who Know, vibrations humming out there, echoes of the Big Bang (which I understand as God’s voice saying, “Let there be light!”). That sound created the universe and began the “music of the spheres,” as the poets call it.

One of my music professors made a statement that I shall never forget: “Music is the only art form that is ephemeral. It is here and gone; performed and dies away; exists only in its moment and ceases to be.”

Except in the human heart.

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Turtle Tots for toddlers The Knoxville Zoo has started a program for children ages 2-3 to help introduce them to the animal world.

Turtle Tots is a weekly series of classes that encourages toddlers to interact with new friends, both human and animal alike. Zoo staff will introduce animal concepts through handson activities that include games, songs, dancing, crafts and animal visitors.

Classes are offered 10:30-11:30 a.m. each Thursday for six weeks, and each one focuses on a highlighted topic. Each program builds on the previous week so attending all classes in a series is recommended, but not required.

The spring semester includes series one, Animal Magic, through Feb. 20; series two, Animal Fami-

lies, Feb. 27 through April 10, and series three, Head, Knees and Paws, April 17 through May 15.

All classes are held in the Log Cabin. Cost is $15 per class per child. Receive a discount by purchasing a full six-week series for $75. The program fee does not include admission to the zoo. If you are not a zoo member, you must purchase general admission tickets before attending the class.

FHS dance team members Amanda Beavers (in back) and Peyton Burkey pass out plates and pancakes. All 14 members of the Preregistration is pre- dance team showed up to help out at the event. ferred although walk-ins are welcomed if space permits.

Walk-in participants will be charged $5 for on-site registration. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Info: knoxvillezoo. org. To register, call Jessica Hurley at 637-5331 or email her at jlhurley@ Farragut High School knoxville-zoo.org. dance team members

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Peyton Burkey, Isabella Burdette, Amanda Beavers; (back) Victoria Ogier, Emily Bisping, Sarah Krueger and Schuyler Green helped serve pancakes at a recent breakfast fundraiser to help fund a trip to Orlando for a national competition. The event was held at Aubrey’s in Farragut. Photos

Top speller at Ball Camp Sara Meghabghab won the spelling bee at Ball Camp Elementary School by spelling the word “expunge.” She will advance to the countywide bee in March. Her spelling ability runs in the family, as both mom and dad are excellent spellers.

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Davis signs to play basketball with King Webb School of Knoxville senior Madison Davis has signed to play basketball at King University in Bristol next year.

She was a four-year starter for Madison Davis the Spartans and helped lead her team to its

third state championship in 2012, picking up All-District and All-Region Tournament team and All-Region Tournament MVP honors along the way.

Last season she was the team’s third highest scorer with 273 points.

Present at the signing were her parents, Jason Davis and Jill Davis, brother Bryson and grandparents Gary and Joyce Davis.

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Mike Marlowe stands in the electrical closet of the new IBEW training center. Photo by Ruth White

Apprentice electricians earn while they learn

By Betty Bean There’s a door immediately to the right of the entrance of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ shiny new $2.5 million training facility (excluding land cost) at 6107 Central Avenue Pike. The room on the other side of the door makes a statement.

The first door to the right in the IBEW Local 760 Training Center leads to the building’s electrical service and telecommunications hub, housed in a spacious room with stainless steel panel covers, fully-finished walls and floor-to-ceiling windows that fill the space with natural sunlight.

“We are making a statement because we do excellent work,” said Michael Marlowe, an IBEW business development and community relations specialist who also serves as a fifth year instructor in the apprenticeship program housed in the IBEW 760 Training Center.

“Normally, when you get

to an electrical closet, they don’t even paint the walls.

This is our dream of an electrical closet,” Marlowe said.

Straight ahead is program administrator Cindy Sanderfur’s desk. Around the corner in the administrative suite is the office of training director A.J. Pearson, who has come home to East Tennessee after retiring from the National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC).

He served as director of the NJATC for 18 years.

Down a shiny hallway are five separate classrooms and a computer lab where 85 apprentices take evening classes.

Annual tuition of $600, which covers books, lab fees and materials, covers only a fraction of the cost. The IBEW kicks in the rest – around $2,500 per year.

Apprentices become union members and pay dues of $37.50 per month.

The IBEW places them in day jobs where they receive on-the-job training and earn half the starting wage of a journeyman electrician

Despite the limiting lan– about $11.50 per hour.

They also receive health in- guage in job descriptions, surance and are enrolled in there are two women enthree retirement plans – two rolled in Marlowe’s fifth year traditional pension plans class, and several more in plus a defined contribution the apprenticeship program. plan– the costs of which are The union is actively recruitnot deducted from their pay. ing more, Marlowe said.

“Women and minorities They finish the program as journeyman are traditionally unwiremen with WHERE derrepresented in a minimum the constructhe tion indusof 900 hours try, but we of classroom are working inst r uc t ion and 8,000 to change hours of onthat.”

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The case for case managers

By Alvin Nance With financial support from the city of Knoxville and Covenant Health, we recently renewed a w onde r f u l partnership with the Community Action Nance Committee (CAC) to provide full-time case managers at each of our four high-rise buildings: Isabella Towers, Cagle Terrace, Northgate Terrace and Guy B. Love Towers.

We began this partnership in 2008 to prevent homelessness and help residents succeed in their housing, and because of the program’s proven success, I am excited to be able to continue and expand this program.

Since 2008, nearly 459 residents have received case management services.

None of our residents participating in case management have been evicted to the streets, but instead have maintained stable housing at KCDC or been assisted by the case workers in finding alternate housing situations.

“The program’s benefit is

homeless program because it is compassionate, cheaper than other approaches and more likely to be successful than any other intervention.”

The case managers assist residents with budget training, housekeeping, transportation, physical and mental health ailments and mediation issues with neighbors.

They will even assist with finding housing with other programs better equipped to Community Action Committee case managers Eric Johnson of serve their particular needs.

Guy B. Love Towers, Rene Eastern of Northgate Terrace, Yolan- KCDC high-rises serve prida Grant of Isabella Towers and Scott Bennett of Cagle Terrace. marily an elderly and disabled population, so access seen in the lives of the resi- pitfalls of life that can lead to these services is crucial dents who now have knowl- to homelessness,” said CAC to our residents being able to edgeable and caring case executive director Barbara enjoy a full, healthy life.

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“Prevention is the best find the best place for the independently and avoid the

Sara Hedstrom Pinnell joins KUB board Sara Hedstrom Pinnell, president of Hedstrom Design, a landscape architecture firm, is the newest member of the KUB board of commissioners. She succeeded Pace Robinson, whose term expired.

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Pinnell joins fellow KUB commissioners Bruce Anderson (chair), Celeste Herbert (vice chair), Joe Connell, Kathy Hamilton, Nikitia Thompson and Eston Williams.

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“Having case managers is a dealmaker,” said Steve Ellis, senior asset manager for Love Towers. “The CAC case managers allow us to be proactive in addressing needs as they arise before they become major problems. They help us develop our community to its potential.”

Thanks to KCDC, the CAC, the city of Knoxville and Covenant Health, our residents will continue to able to receive the individualized attention they need to succeed at our properties.

Alvin Nance is executive director of KCDC.

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Stopping for a photo op after Community’s First Words are, from left, Stan Boling, vice president of senior services for Covenant Health; Theresa Henslee, community relations director for Morning Pointe, sponsors of the seminar; Patricia Caron, regional vice president of operations for Morning Pointe; and Jim Brannon with Shopper News.

Hearing from the seniors

By Sherri Gardner Howell

The holidays are over, and like it or not, the cold winter months are upon us.

If you have started experiencing muscle weakness or bone pain this winter, you might be dealing with a Vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiencies are most common in winter months, and some studies suggest an association between low Vitamin D levels and certain mood disorders including Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which can cause mood changes and unhappiness due to the lack of sunlight.

In order to combat discomfort associated with seasonal change, Sharon Roth Maguire, a geriatric nurse practitioner for BrightStar, recommends integrating the following into your daily routine: 1. Get outside: Yes, it is cold out, but even a walk around the block on a sunny day will help keep your muscles, bones, and joints strong and flexible.

2. Vitamin D (the sunshine vitamin): Naturally produced by sunlight (which is scarce in winter due to longer nights and more clouds), Vitamin D is beneficial for increasing a sense of wellbeing, improving sleep patterns and contributing to bone health. Vitamin D supplements may improve symptoms of depression associated with SAD. 3. Vitamin B6 & B12: These two vitamins help to maintain serotonin lev-

els. Taking B6 and B12 may help reduce irritability, weakness, insomnia and nervousness, all of which can be worse during the gloomy winter months. Consult your health care provider regarding appropriate doses and to ensure that other supplements and medications you may be taking will not be a concern when also taking Vitamin D. 4. Natural Light Boxes: Light therapy serves to keep the body’s “internal clock” in sync – alert and awake during the day, but ready to sleep at night.

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Great things can happen when people listen to each other. Organizers of a community seminar at Strang Center on Jan. 15 are hoping the power of listening got a shot in the arm with Community’s First Words.

Sponsored by Morning Pointe, an assisted living community in Lenoir City, Powell and Clinton, the seminar turned the tables on area leaders, putting them in the “listening” chairs to hear what seniors had to say.

“It was a unique concept because people who are used to being asked to be

Catching up before the seminar are Kim Olen with Big Hair Marketing and Lauren Monahan with the Strang Center, where the event was held. Photos by K.Olen

the ‘speakers’ at an event were asked to come and be the listeners,” says Lauren Monahan with Frank R. Strang Senior Center, 109 Lovell Heights Road. “They got to hear from five seniors on a wide range of topics and got to hear it from the seniors’ perspectives.”

Representing the community leaders were Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, WBIR-TV anchor emeritus Knox County Mayor Tim Bur- Bill Williams, Chancellor chett gets a minute at the Emeritus of the University podium during Community’s of Tennessee Dr. Bill SnyFirst Words before taking a der, Heartland Series direcseat to listen to area seniors tor Bill Landry, UT forensic anthropologist Bill Bass, discuss the issues.

Covenant Health Vice President for Senior Services Stan Boling and radio personality Hallerin Hilton Hill.

Speaking for the seniors were George Hannye, Kaye Hensen, Jim McEvers, Alex Dumas and Buz Monahan.

“The topics covered everything from needing more senior centers in the area to taxes to the metropolitan planning commission to thoughts about the future,” says Lauren Monahan.

Turnout from the community was good, says Monahan. “It was a very successful day, and we plan to make this an annual event.”

Linda Bonds at her new business, The Rock Shop and More on Bearden Hill. Photo by A. Hart

Hearts and more for your Valentine

By Anne Hart If you’re in pursuit of the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day, you may want to consider beautiful heartshaped treasures straight from Mother Earth.

And the best thing about it? You don’t have to do the digging. Someone else has already done that, along with the hand-carving and polishing to a state of perfection.

At The Rock Shop and More, located at 6712 Kingston Pike on Bearden Hill, you will find heart-shaped rocks in every size and color imaginable – small enough to be a charm on a bracelet or large enough to use as a paperweight or place in a special garden spot – and

each is hand-carved. Some are a solid color; others are rainbow hued.

A retired Knox County teacher and former real estate agent who also dipped a toe in the political waters a time or two, store owner Linda Bonds has created a gift shop for collectors of rocks for sure, but also for admirers of art, pottery and jewelry, especially the work of local artists and artisans.

And while everything in the shop is for sale, from the huge rocks filled with brilliant amethyst formations to the tiny, elegant birds and other creatures handcarved from colorful stones, there is so much to admire that the space also func-

tions as a gallery.

Bonds says she was first attracted to colorful rocks as a child, and that she knew the time had come to find homes for her treasures when there was no room left in her closets for her clothes. “Rocks were everywhere. There was just no space left. It was time to start sharing them,” she says with a laugh.

Store hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. This committed collector spends a lot of time out doing what she does: collecting, so it’s always a good idea to call first to make certain the shop is open. Bonds can be reached at 414-8958.

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NEWS FROM TEMPLE BAPTIST ACADEMY

Royal Crusaders look for strong finish The Temple Baptist Academy high school basketball team netted a 10-4 record with a 54-26 win over the Seahawks of Cedar View Christian School in Kingsport, Tenn., on Jan. 14.

The team travelled to Springfield, TN on Thursday, January 16 to compete in the Middle Tennessee Classic Invitational Basketball Tournament. Temple won their first two games of the tournament and hope to advance beyond the semi-finals to the championship game.

With eight regular season games left, Temple looks to seize as much momentum as possible going into post-season tournament play. The Royal Crusaders hope to improve on last year’s final-four finish in the TAACS State Tournament.

“We still have some tough games ahead, but our team has worked hard and I think they are up for the challenge,” says coach Larry Nicely.

Come watch the Royal Crusaders at one of their remaining home basketball games.

Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for students. Children 4 and under are free. See the remaining game schedule at TempleBaptistAcademy.com.

U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. meets Angie Tomlinson (back) and her children, Lance and Lydia Tomlinson, both of whom are students at Temple Baptist Academy.

Duncan commends Temple and students Temple Baptist Academy faculty, students and families appreciate all those who serve our great community. Recently, U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. offered some very kind words regarding the work being done at TBA in the Powell community.

“I often run into young people who attend or have attended Temple Baptist Academy throughout the year and have been out to the school many times. I always find the students to be polite, compassionate, and very patriotic. Temple Baptist teaches our young people the importance of family and community and to be proud of their faith. East Tennessee is a better place because of the work of Temple Baptist Academy,” Duncan said.

Temple students set sights on college

Royal Crusader Adam Cate goes for a layup.

Congratulations to the 2014 graduating class of Temple Baptist Academy as they have achieved a class average ACT score of 24.66. As academic scholarship offers from various colleges and universities come in, students and their families are prayerfully seeking God’s wisdom for taking the next step. Each senior hopes to take full advantage of every opportunity to excel as they set their sights on entering college in just a few months.

Homecoming at TBA

Temple student Philip Thompson performs.

District Academic and Fine Arts Competition Thursday and Friday, Feb. 6-7, the TACS District Academic and Fine Arts Competition will be hosted on the campus of Crown College in Powell. Students from Christian schools in the Knoxville and Tri-Cities areas will come together for two days of competition in a variety of categories in art, music, and academics. For a competition schedule, contact the academy office at 938-8181.

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Parkwest’s new chief of cardiology beams over staff Like a young boy proudly flipping through his collection of baseball cards, Dr. Gregory Brewer is beside himself.

“It sounds like hero worship, but I’ve got their picture right here,” he says as he scrolls through his cell phone’s camera library. “Ah! Here it is! Here are those guys.”

But “those guys” aren’t baseball players – they’re doctors, doctors whose superior cardiology skills have not only helped make history as Covenant Health’s first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) team, but have made Brewer’s own heart proud.

Brewer smiles broadly as he scans the group photo of Drs. Chadwick Stouffer, Lee Collins, Nicholaos Xenopoulos, Mike Ayres and Thomas Pollard wearing their scrubs inside the hospital’s $2.6 million hybrid operating room.

“I gravitate toward people I admire, and I admire my colleagues,” says Brewer, as he sat outside the operating room minutes before a New Year’s Day heart catheterization.

It was on this day, the start of a new year and his first day as the hospital’s chief of cardiology, that the 6-foot-7 native Texan took a moment to look back on Parkwest’s many accomplishments in cardiac care and ahead to its future.

At the forefront of those accomplishments, of course, was the TAVR team which closed 2013 with its 91st transcatheter aortic valve replacement, a relatively rare procedure that has extended the lives of those deemed unsuitable for open heart surgery.

Parkwest was the first and, for a while, the only area hospital to offer the life-saving operation. Yet, it’s not the only “first” for Parkwest …

■ The first MRI-safe pacemaker

Dr. Greg Brewer is so confident in the expertise of his Parkwest colleagues that he brings his immediate family members all the way from Texas to be Treated Well. Well Treated.® in the United States was implanted in 2011 at Parkwest by cardiologist Dr. J. Rod Gimbel who was instrumental in the device’s development.

■ Parkwest was also the first hospital in the Southeast to offer the Cutting Balloon™ heart catheter tool which enabled doctors to open blockages with less damage to the innermost lining of the coronary artery wall while reducing the percentage of re-narrowing that can occur in the artery.

■ It was the first area hospital to offer beating-heart bypass, and the first to offer a drug-eluting stent and other cardiac stent technologies for keeping clogged arteries open.

In fact, it was Brewer, an interventional cardiologist who im-

planted Parkwest’s first heart stent.

Today, he performs roughly 300 heart catheters a year, about a third of which require intervention. “My part is very simple,” he says modestly. “I hate to say that but it’s run of the mill. I cath people. I do intervention.”

That’s not to say, however, that Brewer has become bored. Far from it.

“It’s still interesting. I still have a wonder about it,” he says. “I like that we as cardiologists, or as doctors, are able to go to a family and say, ‘Whew!

Bad prognosis, but it worked out great!’ and they’re able to go home.”

With cardiac disease being the nation’s No. 1 killer and growing each year, Brewer has developed

more than a passing interest in diet’s role in cardiac disease. Two years ago, his reading and research led the barbecued brisket-eating Texan to become a vegetarian, a healthy eating lifestyle that he urges his patients to follow. He zealously promotes the CNN documentary “The Last Heart Attack,” hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, to his patients. “I tell them, ‘Do what the experts do,’ ” he says with a smile. “I really promote it, but I try to tone it down a bit because I want the patient to educate themselves.”

Brewer came to Parkwest in 1993 from a residency in Loma Linda, Calif., but crossed paths with three colleagues – Pollard, Dr. Lacy Harville and Dr. Bill Hall – while in medical school at the University of Texas at San Antonio. “We’re the San Antonio connection,” he says. “So here we all are in Tennessee!”

While his roots are in Texas, he says Knoxville is home, the place he loves sharing with his wife, psychiatrist Dr. Kathleen Goyne; his 15-year-old twin son and daughter; and soon-to-be 17-year-old son.

“When I first looked at coming here, the recruiter said there was this cardiology group that was run by a teddy bear. In those days, it was Dr. Rob Gentry. And I interviewed here twice and I really liked these guys.”

He says it is that collegiality among colleagues that makes practicing here such a pleasure. “I can go to any one of my colleagues from the last 20 years and say, ‘Could you look at this case with me? What do you think?’ ” he says. “That is such a healthy environment for patient care.”

“Dr. Stephen Marietta is largely responsible for cultivating this collegial environment,” Brewer continued. “He is the former chair of cardiology and a personal mentor of mine.

For some 25 years, Dr. Marietta has been a ‘thought leader’ at Parkwest.

He is the ‘go to’ guy when you need to bounce an idea or get advice. Some of our newer cardiologists even call him ‘Uncle Steve,’ ” he said.

“The cardiologists here are so friendly!” he added. “Dr. Pollard is a friendly guy. He’s a smart guy. Super smart guy. He’s nationally known for a different kind of vascular switch procedure. His patients love him.”

“And Stouffer? Stouffer is so enthusiastic about everything he does.

Then you’ve got the senior guy on staff, Dr. Mike Maggart. He’s like Cool Hand Luke – he sizes up the situation and does what it takes. Dr. Gimbel is nationally known for the MRI-safe pacemaker, and Dr. Xenopolous was the top interventionalist in Louisville, Ky., before he came here. I have a lady I discharged last night that Dr. William Hall rescued for me seven years ago, and here she was celebrating her 81st birthday and there was Dr. Hall who saved her life. I was there to see that. These guys take on some tough cases.

They’ve been known for that for years. They are a very approachable group of people and they are technically superior. They have pulled some rabbits out of the hat.”

Perhaps the greatest praise, however, came a few years ago when matters of the heart brought his own family to Parkwest.

“I don’t mind telling you that I brought my Dad from Texas to Parkwest for his defibrillator and brought him two other times after his bypass surgery for heart caths,” he said.

“My grandmother got her pacemaker here, too. My Dad passed in 2011 from a massive stroke, but I felt confident that I could trust my colleagues with my family’s care. That’s a big deal. That says something.”

Complex heart surgery marks Parkwest’s expertise Dr. Greg Brewer says it was one of those cases that makes you wonder how things ever got that bad. But it was also one that underscored just how good Parkwest Medical Center is at providing quality cardiac care.

The elderly patient had shown very little signs of heart trouble but had apparently suffered a “silent heart attack” (medically referred to as silent ischemia or lack of oxygen to the heart muscle).

Referred to Brewer, an interventional cardiologist, for a heart catheterization, the patient was found to be in much worse condition than first thought.

“Every artery in the heart was (blocked) 90 percent plus!” an incredulous Brewer exclaimed. “You could see some kind of aortic enlargement on the X-rays, but when I angiogrammed it, the thing was huge! It was a huge aortic aneurysm, blowing out like a blister on a tire. How is it that people can have such severe coronary disease and this is the first time we see them?”

More importantly, could they help a patient with so much heart disease?

Brewer didn’t know, but he knew who to ask – Dr. Chadwick Stouffer, a leader on the hospital’s esteemed TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement) team. “Of all our doc-

tors here, Chad is specifically an aortic guy,” said Brewer, Parkwest’s chief of cardiology. “He was the man who could help this patient.”

Brewer, however, did not know how that help would come. In fact, he had never heard of brachiocephalic debranching, the complex procedure Stouffer would utilize to save the patient’s life.

“The patient not only had bad blockages in the coronary arteries, but also had a fairly sizable ascending aortic aneurysm in danger of rupture or dissection,” Stouffer explained. “In order to repair all these things, based on what the aneurysm looked like, we not only had to bypass the arteries to the heart, but also repair the aneurysm. The size of the aneurysm, the shape of the aneurysm, made the operation fairly challenging and technically demanding. It’s one of those surgeries that only gets done a handful of times a year in a city this size. A lot of them get done at bigger institutions like Stanford or Houston but they don’t have to be – we have the capabilities to do those operations right here, and with the training, staff and facilities we have, we can do them with just as much success as those places can.”

In a prolonged, seven- to eighthour surgery, Stouffer used grafts to

bypass the coronary artery blockages, replaced the patient’s aorta with a surgical cloth tube of Dacron and “debranched,” or bypassed the arteries to the arms and brain.

“In essence, it’s a way to repair the ascending aorta and the part of the aorta where the blood vessels to the brain and arms originate,” said Stouffer. “It’s a way to repair all of that and restore blood flow to the arteries to the head and arms with separate grafts.”

Brewer simply shakes his head in wonder, amazed by Stouffer’s surgical skill. “I can’t emphasize enough the complexity of putting in a cloth graft and to sewing it into the heart! The design of the product is that you can sew vein to it to create the bypasses to the heart. That’s an extensive amount of surgery for one surgeon to do. And it’s no slam dunk – you’ve got to get it right the first time.”

Stouffer did just that and the patient, says Brewer, is happy to be “back in the bosom of a very large and loving family.”

Stouffer says coronary artery bypasses are the majority of Parkwest’s cardiac cases “just because it’s the most prevalent disease process.”

However, he says, the hospital is seeing a growth in the surgical

Dr. Chad Stouffer performed a rare, complex procedure called brachiocephalic debranching to save the life of a patient with severe coronary disease. treatment of valvular heart disease.

“Short of a heart transplant or having a ventricular assist device put in, there’s really nothing in the realm of cardiac surgery that we can’t do at Parkwest,” Stouffer said.

“We are able to perform and have the staff, technology and capability to perform very cutting edge and advanced procedures, both in

the interventional realm in the cath lab and also in the operating room.

From a cardiac surgery standpoint, we can really provide all of the services that can be provided at major institutions like the Cleveland Clinic or Vanderbilt.”

A big reason for Parkwest’s success, Stouffer says, is the teamwork he finds.

“From the second the patient walks in the door to the second they leave the hospital, we have an excellent team of staff to help care for these patients,” he said.

“Nursing staff on the floor and in the ICU; the staff in the operating room; the physical, occupational and speech therapists; the respiratory therapists; the ICU doctors; all of our consultants – it’s a very collegial environment, it’s very friendly. The patients are always raving about their nursing care, and I think it’s the people that make this such a great place. As we do more and more complex operations, I think patients are starting to realize that they can get the same quality care and operative care here in Knoxville without having to drive hours away and be away from family and friends, and I think that really does help in their recovery, not only in the hospital but once they leave.”

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Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett isn’t happy about the size of the fish he caught. All kidding aside, Burchett participated in a family education day last year. He put on waders and jumped into Beaver Creek with kids of all ages.

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MLK Week: annual parade, lineup 8:30 a.m., step-off 10 a.m. from YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze St. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

MLK Week: Memorial Tribute Service, 11:45 a.m., Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church, 3800 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Info/parade registration: www.mlkknoxville.com.

Tennessee Shines featuring Josh Oliver and poet Susan Underwood, 7 p.m., WDVX studio, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Hosts: Bob Deck and Paige Travis. Broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets: $10, at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Info: www.WDVX. com.

TUESDAY, JAN. 21 PK Hope Is Alive Parkinson Support Group of East TN meeting, 11:30 a.m., Kern UMC family life center, 451 E. Tennessee Ave. in Oak Ridge.

Program: “Circle of Care. Help is Around the Corner at Home and away from Home.” Light lunch provided

by Amedisys Home Health Care and Covanant Health Hospice. Info: Karen Sampsell, 482-4867, or e-mail: pk_hopeisalive@bellsouth.net.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22 Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike.

Speaker: Knoxville New Sentinel columnist Leslie Snow – “The Writing Life.” All-inclusive lunch, $12.

RSVP by Friday, Jan. 17: 983-3740.

Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 2 and 7 p.m.,” Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

Health care enrollment, 3-7 p.m., South Knoxville Community Center, 522-Maryville Pike.

THURSDAY, JAN. 23 Concerts at the Library: Jack Renfro and The Apocalypso Quartet, 6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JAN. 23-24 AARP Smart Driving class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Community Room at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Registration deadline: Tuesday, Jan. 21.

Info/to register: 966-7057.

FRIDAY, JAN. 24 Clyde Davenport & Friends concert, 8 p.m.,

12 West

21 Cemetery Lots

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Home Builders Association of Greater Knoxville Home Show, Knoxville Convention Center.

Hours: noon-8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday; noon-6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: adults, $10; children free.

Discounted tickets: www.hbaknoxville.com or www. therealhomeshow.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 25 Chris Jones and the Night Drivers in concert, 8 p.m., The Laurel Theater, corner of 16th and Laurel Ave. Tickets: http://www.knoxtix.com; 523-7521; at the door.

Info: 522-5851 or email concerts@jubileearts.org.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Baby guru Charlene Ellis, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Dinner, hosted by The Longstreet-Zollicoffer Camp 87, Sons of Confederate Veterans, The Foundry on the World’s Fair site. Doors open 6 p.m.; dinner 7 p.m. Cost: $30 per person; $15 for children 12 and under. Reservations/ payment deadline: Wednesday, Jan. 22. Send payments to: Lee/Jackson Dinner, SCV Camp #87, P.O. Box 943, Knoxville, TN 37901. Info: Scott Hall, 428-9900; Brian Fox, 986-5259; John Hitt, 689-4592; Ron Jones, 9473394; or Earl Smith, 687-2732.

Turkish cooking demonstration, 2-4 p.m., The Atlantic Institute-Knoxville, 7035 Middlebrook Pike.

Fee: $ 20 per person. Info/register: knoxville@theatlanticinstitute.org.

Book signing and reading with Craig Dilworth author of “Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecological predicament of Humankind,” 2 p.m., Union Avenue Books. 517 Union Ave. Info: 951-2180.

Muslim Journeys: Points of View – “Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood,” second of five scholarfacilitated reading and discussion program, 6-8 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive.

Tennessee Shines featuring Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin; poet RB Morris, 7 p.m., WDVX studio, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Hosts: Bob Deck and Paige Travis. Broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets: $10, at WDVX and www.

BrownPaperTickets.com. Info: www.WDVX.com.

“Adventures in Self-Publishing” with Jody Dyer, 6 p.m., Sequoyah Branch Library, 1140 Southgate Road. Dyer will discuss her experience self-publishing “The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby,” a memoir of the adoption of her second son. Light refreshments will be served. All ages are welcome.

TUESDAY, JAN. 28 Sports Illustrated Sportswriter and Commentator Frank Deford lecture, 630 p.m., King University’s Maclellan Hall dining room, in Bristol. Tickets: $30 per person or $200 per table of eight; available through Jan. 24. Proceeds to benefit Scholarships and Programs fund for King students. Info/tickets: 423-6524864 or email jibrown@king.edu.

Computer Workshops: Excel 2007, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. To register: 215- 8700.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29 Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” 2 and 7 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

THURSDAY, JAN. 30 GriefShare group meeting, 7-8:30 p.m., Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike. Continues meeting every Thursday. Info: care@fellowshipknox.org.

Concerts at the Library: Nancy Brennan Strange, 6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

SUNDAY, JAN. 26

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 30-FEB. 1

Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” 2 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series Concert, featuring award-winning, internationally acclaimed pianist Tanya Gabrielian, 2:30 p.m., Clayton Center for the Arts, Lambert Recital Hall, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Maryville. Tickets at the door: $5 students, $15 adults. Free parking. Info: 408-8083 or www. youngpianistseries.com.

Abner Baker Chapter 1404 Daughters of the Confederacy meeting, 2:30 p.m., the East Tennessee History Center. Program: “Barnacle Bryan the Sailor” presented by Bryan Green. Info: 274-9842.

Fundraising dinner to benefit Post 2 building fund, Echo Bistro and Wine Bar, 5803 Kingston Pike.

Three seatings: 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m. Tickets: $75 per person, includes tax and tip. Info/ tickets: Bill Tuggle, 680-0525.

Waynestock 4, 7 p.m., Relix Variety Theatre, 1208 N. Central St. Featuring performances by local musicians, as well as a songwriter symposium. Admission: $5 nightly. Proceeds go to the E.M. Jellinek Center.

25 1-3 60 7 $140 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic Cable. No Lse.

865-548-8267 www.ttrei.com

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ADOPT: LOVING, 2 NICHES, Greenwood professional couple Cemetery, $1700. eager to add to our Call 865-546-7295 ask growing family. Our for Gail. warm, nurturing home is waiting to welcome your baby. Expenses paid. Anne & Colin.

1-877-246-6780 (toll-free)

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Mandolin workshop, 7-9p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, MainStay Suites, 361 Fountain View Circle, Alcoa. Presented by guitarist Steve Kaufman. Fee: $90 per person. Preregistration required.

Info/registration: 982-3808 or email steve@flatpik.com.

FRIDAY, JAN. 31 Fifth Friday Community Dance, 8-10:30 p.m., Concord UMC gym, 11020 Roane Drive. Hosted by the Farragut Lions Club. Doors open 7:15 p.m.; line dance lesson 7:30. Admission: $5. Info: dancingfriendstn@ yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, FEB. 1 Saturday Stories and Songs: Emagene Reagen, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave.

40w Real Estate Wanted 50 Apts - Furnished 72 Houses - Unfurnished 74 Dogs 141 Household Furn. 204 ATV’s WE BUY HOUSES 3BR/2BA- 1 LEVEL. MOVING SALE. 2008 YZ WALBROOK STUDIOS PUPPY NURSERY Any Reason, Any Condition Fully Remodeled.

Dinnerware, cookware, hours.

2 TICKETS Keith Urban, 4BR, 4BA, 1 bonus, exc. seats. Face 4300 SF, fully updated value $153 for both w/granite, hdwd. flrs., 901-626-3376 pool w/prof. landscape.

Agents welcome. $639,900. 865-693-4779. ***Web ID# 354234***

Adoption

Sunday Screenings presents “Woman in Hiding,” 3 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave.

MONDAY, JAN. 27

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 24-25

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 24-26

MONDAY, JAN. 20

Tickets

Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12 (discount for JCA members, students and seniors); at www. knoxtix.com, 523-7521 and the door.

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at its meeting on Thursday, January 9, 2014 adopted the following ordinances on second and final reading: Ordinance 13-25, ordinance to amend the text of the Farragut Municipal Code, Title 4, Chapter 3. Personnel Committee, to delete Section 4-308 in its entirety.

TOWN OF FARRAGUT 358139MASTER LEGAL NOTICE Ad Size 2 x 2.5 bwFARRAGUT W BEER BOARD <ec> JANUARY 23, 2014 6:00 PM I. Approval of Minutes A. November 19, 2013 II. Approval for an On-Premise Beer Permit for: A. Taco Boy, 747 N. Campbell Station Road B. China Pearl, 115 Brooklawn Street III. Hearing to address Dixie Lee Shell beer permit violation(s) of Town of Farragut Code of Ordinances § 8-201 et seq IV. Hearing to address Farragut Market beer permit violation(s) of Town of Farragut Code of Ordinances § 8-201 et seq

Apts - Unfurnished 71 1 BR, $425, less than 5 min. to Interstate / Broadway. 1 yr. lease.

No pets. 865-604-7537

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SOUTH, 3BR, 1BA w/ C-H&A, deck, bsmnt., laun., $550 mo. + 1 BR Ftn City, 1/2 rent. dep. 865-963-8645.

Water pd. Very nice,

priv., big deck, stove/ref., W/D conn. $100 DD. $425 mo. 384-1099; 938-6424

Houses - Unfurnished 74

KARNS AREA, 1 or 2 & 3 BR Houses with 2BR, stove, refrig., appls. for rent in DW, garb. disp., 2 Knoxville starting at 1/2 BA, no pets. $625 mo. Pets ok. $600-$925.

865-691stevensrentals.com 8822; 660-3584.

866-493-5527

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 Beer Board Meeting • 6:00 PM BMA MEETING • 7:00 PM I. II. III. IV. V.

Silent Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Roll Call Approval of Agenda Mayor’s Report Citizens Forum Approval of Minutes A. January 9, 2014 VI. Business Items A. Approval of Resolution R-2014-02, Declaring Certain Town Property to be Surplus Property B. Approval of Resolution R-2014-03,

Renaming of Campbell Station Park C. Approval of Contract for Retail Strategies VII. Town Administrator's Report VIII. Attorney’s Report It is the policy of the Town of Farragut not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public Law 93-112 and 101-336 in its hiring, employment practices and programs. To request accommodations due to disabilities, please call 865-966-7057 in advance of the meeting.

Sterchi Hills Subd., 2 Car Garg., Modern Updates, Large Kitchen, Tons Of Closets, Level Backyard. New: Carpet, Vinyl, Light Fixtures, Paint, Gas FP, and much more! No furry friends. $1050 per mo.

Call 924-2536.

Many different breeds Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles, Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots & wormed. We do layaways. Health guar.

Div. of Animal Welfare State of TN Dept. of Health.

Lic # COB0000000015.

423-566-3647 judyspuppynursery.com

HHold furnishings.

Priced to move fast. 865-922-9419

Exercise Equipment 208 VPX 2000 Great cond.

Selling $700 865-312-4071

Halls. Solomon Place, brick, 3 Br, 2 Ba, very SHELTIE 210 PUPPIES, Tanning Beds nice, $865 mo + DD & purebred, exc. quality, cr ck. 865-661-7576 full white collars, Wolff Sun Vision Pro, $300 cash. 865-376-4233 28 bulb, exc cond., $2,000. 48 bulb stand Condo Rentals 76 YORKIE PUPS up $3500. 423-721-4205 Black & tan, adorable, tiny, AKC, shots & wrmd, North, 2 BR, 2 full BA $500. 865-740-6322 Sporting Goods 223 1 car garage. Quiet!

YORKIES, 10 wks old, 865-712-8326. family raised, shots, POOL TABLE, brand new, fully assembled, dewormed, vet ckd, quality, F $500, 7 1/2 ft. All access.

Trucking Opportunities 106 AKC $350 firm. 901-626-3376 M $400. 931-337-9349 ***Web ID# 355764*** DRIVERS: CDL-A. Dedicated Routes Campers 235 Solo & Team. Great Free Pets 145 Pay/Benefits & BoCOACHMAN nuses! Home Weekly, FREEDOM EXPRESS ADOPT! No Slip Seat, Toy Hauler, 2010, 19' Looking for an addiNo Touch, Pd. $17,000 asking tion to the family?

Newer Equipment. $10,900. 865-856-0098 Visit Young-Williams (855) 219-4838 Animal Center, the official shelter for DRIVERS: Make Travel Trailer 2014 Knoxville & $63,000.00/year or 32', sleeps 8, master Knox County. more, $2,500 driver bedroom in front, referral bonus & Call 215-6599 bunk beds in rear, $1,200 orientation 1 elec. side out, fully or visit completion bonus! self contained. 1/2 ton CDL-A OTR Exp. knoxpets.org towable. Lots of trunk Req. Call Now: space, must sell by 1-877-725-8241 Cost $25,000 Farmer’s Market 150 1/23/2014. new, asking $19,700 obo. Sevierville TN, Dogs 141 ORCHARD GRASS 865-202-1821.

TIMOTHY HAY Australian Shepherd Puppies, 4 Male, 1 50+ lb bales No rain. $4/bale. Halls area.

Females, non-reg.

865-922-9426 $300. 865-789-4965 ***Web ID# 355992*** RED 6 WEEK OLD YOUNG HENS, $12 JAYCO 1991 pop up DACHSHUNDS, Mini, camper, clean, good each. Phone 865-208M&F, reg., Eng. cream, cond., $925 obo. 8656286 choc., choc dapples, 922-9419 $450-$750. 865-216-5770 ***Web ID# 355655*** Shop Tools-Engines 194

Utility Trailers 255 UTILITY TRAILERS All Sizes Available 865-986-5626 smokeymountaintrailers.com

GOLDEN DOODLE Puppies, vet ck, home raised, S & W, 3 left. 423-733-9252 Golden Retriever puppy, 7 wk old M, AKC, all shots & wormed, $200. 423-585-7837 ***Web ID# 356990*** Labradoodle Puppies!

CKC reg, mom & dad on site, cream colored 423-312-7331 Knoxv. area ***Web ID# 356809***

261 Flooring

330

Mazda Miata 1999 Ltd Edition, 81K mi, 6 spd, new tires, hard top, immaculate. ^ $8200. 423-519-2699

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TOYOTA Solara 2000, SLE, V6, sunrf, alloy 922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378) whls, 106K mi, runs CERAMIC TILE inVans 256 exc., $5800. 865-898-1390 stallation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 TOYOTA YARIS 2012, yrs exp, exc work!

Honda Odyssey 2011 45K mi, AT, 4 dr., John 938-3328 Touring Elite, top black. $11,000. of the line, 33K mi, Phone 865-471-0099 $24,500. 423-295-5393 Guttering 333

CROSSROADS Z1 Trucks

Goldendoodle Puppies, CKC, vet checked, health guar., S&W, ready to go. $550.

931-528-2690; 931-261-4123

238a Sport Utility

450 F, Low HONDA PILOT 2010 Brand new EXL, leather, DVD, ASV levers, carb 43k mi, exc. cond. hoses, radiator $19,500. 423-295-5393 hoses, motor ran through yr & a half MERCEDES R350 2007, V6, loaded, clean, ago. Everything to like new, $14,750. spec, ridden 3 times 865-577-4069. since. Runs like new - just don't have time to ride.

262 $3750. Call Jacob Imports 865-964-0078 HONDA ACCORD 1997, 4 dr, AT, sunrf, all Autos Wanted 253 maint. records, $1,999.

Call 865-566-4636 A BETTER CASH INFINITI G37 2009.

OFFER for junk cars, 4 dr. Loaded. trucks, vans, running 62K mi. $15,900 or not. 865-456-3500 423-295-5393

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FORD RANGER 1994 XLT, 2.3 5 spd., air, low mi., all orig, very nice. $3650. 865-643-7103

Domestic

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CAMARO Z28 1980 hi performance, $2500.

Call 865-622-0539

DODGE INTREPID 2002, appx. 145k mi, new radials, looks good, need to sell. $1000. 865-384-9925 GMC 2500 1997, 350 eng., AT, long bed, MERC. Grand Marquis 1 owner, good truck 2004, exc shape, $4200. 865-300-6840 47,412 mi, $6500. 865588-3724 JEEP WRANGLER 1995, new top, new tires, $4900 obo. 865- Cleaning 318 933-3175 or 388-5136.

HAROLD'S GUTTER SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up.

Quality work, guaranteed. Call 288-0556.

Roofing / Siding

4 Wheel Drive 258

CHRISTIAN LADY CLEANING SERVICE. Dependable, refs, Call Charlotte FORD 1929 Model A PU, at 705-5943.

Chev. Roadster, Motorcycles 238 1931 1960 Chev. Impala 2 dr. hardtop w /348 YATES American Fencing 327 MOTORCYCLE eng. & 3 carburators. combination 8" table HONDA 2006, call for more 304-363-7131 saw, jointer & disc information.

FENCE WORK Instalsander, includes lation & repair. Free 865-908-3941 Dadoo set, molding Sport Utility 261 est. 43 yrs exp! Call set & extra blades, $250. 865-579-9738.

ATV’s 238a Dodge Durango 2005, 689-9572.

5.7 Hemi, 3rd row Music Instruments 198 '04 YAMAHA seats, lthr, DVD, alloy whls, pwr sunrf, towing pkg, exc BOSTON by Steinway DIRT BIKE cond. $7,990. Book: ebony upright, model Y2450F $8-$9K. 423-884-2608 118E, pristine cond, $3200. 865-773-8313 Newer tires. FORD EXPLORER 2002 Eddie Bauer, PIANO, Upright $2100.

4WD, 128K mi., 3rd Cable Nelson, exc. cond. seat, dual air, $5000. $700 obo. Morristown, Call Rob at Call 865-591-0249.

TN, 423-581-2095 or 274-9651 ***Web ID# 357810*** 865-577-0240.

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