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Thompson is principal at Farragut High Stephanie Thompson, who has been serving as interim principal, was named principal of Farragut High School on Jan. 29 by Superintendent Jim McIntyre.

Thompson Thompson most recently was a supervisor in the federal programs department of Knox County Schools. Previously, she was principal of ninth grade at Austin-East Magnet High School, a lead teacher at A-E, and a business teacher at Halls and Farragut high schools. She joined KCS in 2005 after teaching in Ocala, Fla. She holds a bachelor’s degree in human resources and management communications from Southern Christian University. Her master’s and education specialist degrees are from Lincoln Memorial University.

IN THIS ISSUE Tellico Village U! There’s a new school on the shores of Tellico Lake, and it’s called Tellico Village University. The new lifelong learning initiative is officially in business! Twenty Villagers attended the first day of the Introduction to Web Design class taught

by Villager Tom Kowaleski.

The course is the first of eight offered by TVU in its inaugural Spring 2015 semester.

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Tech for students The most compelling argument for putting computers into the hands of all Knox County students came from Vine Middle Magnet School principal Cindy White. On Sundays, her students line up along the outside walls of the school to use Wi-Fi Internet access, a commodity lacking at home for many.

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TDS goes ‘lightning-fast’

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Farragut, arragut Concord and Halls now have access to “the fastest Internet service in the nation,” according to Bruce Mottern, state government affairs manager with TDS Telecom.

Mottern announced TDS’s new 1 gigabit high-speed service in a press conference at Farragut Town Hall on Jan. 30. Customers using the service can now download a high-definition movie in less than one minute, compared to 20 minutes with 10 megabit service.

TDS started laying fiber optic cable with the service more than five years ago, and it is still expanding. The communications firm has been in business in Tennessee since 1975, serving 60,000 Tennessee customers.

Mottern said the benefits aren’t Tony Bugher and Bruce Mottern of TDS Telecom show Farragut Mayor Ralph just for entertainment. The fast- McGill, seated, the company’s high-speed Internet capabilities. Photo by S. Carey

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“Students now have the fastest Internet on the planet to do their homework,” he added. “It’s a winwin for everyone.”

State Rep. Ryan Haynes thanked TDS for investing in these communities.

“This is an exciting day,” he said. “This is a good place to live, work and do business.”

Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill said Farragut, Concord and Halls are now among “elite communities” that can offer this kind of service.

“These communities are now future-proof,” added Corey Johns of Connected Tennessee.

The service is available now for $99.95 per month with TDS television service.

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simply another day of service for Parkwest chaplain

By Betsy Pickle The day of David Bluford’s 25th work anniversary was just like any other day.

He got up last Thursday and drove from his home in Lenoir City to Parkwest Medical Center, where he is the chaplain.

No fuss. No muss. No cake. No balloons. And he was fine with that.

“My reward is when I’m with somebody and I feel like I’ve afforded them some type of service, and they were cared for,” says Bluford. “That refreshes me and invigorates me and allows me each morning to get up and come to work and appreciate what I do.”

Bluford, who was a hospital chaplain in Memphis for 10-plus years before coming to Parkwest, believes in serving. He’s a member and chaplain of the Rotary Club of Farragut. He officiates high school football games. He mentors college students from Johnson University and Tennessee Wesleyan’s School of Nursing as they do internships and practicums at the medical center.

David Bluford in the lobby of Parkwest Medical Center Photo by Betsy Pickle

For 10 years, through 2013, he sponsored a motorcycle ride as part of Parkwest’s “We Care” employee giving campaign.

“Right now I’m without a bike,” he says. “I’m debating whether or not I’ll do it this year.”

If he had taken a different path, Bluford might have been known as the “motorcycling minister.” Or something else entirely.

His father was career U.S. Air

Force, and Bluford grew up on airbases in Ohio, Michigan and California. Both his parents were from East Tennessee, so when his father retired the family moved to Lenoir City. Bluford was 15 at the time.

He wanted to be an Air Force pilot, but his eyesight wasn’t good enough. He focused instead on the ministry and earned his bachelor’s from Carson-Newman College (now University) and a master’s

and doctorate from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

While at Carson-Newman, he did a semester of chaplaincy training at Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee and decided that he never wanted to work in a hospital.

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Laser tag facility A new laser tag facility called The Arena is planned for the former Kroger building at 11238 Kingston Pike. Photo by Wendy Smith

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By Wendy Smith The old Kroger building a att 11238 Kingston Pike will soon on cater to a new clientele, if Dustin in Wyrick gets his way.

Wyrick is in the process o off opening a laser tag facility called ed d The Arena in the former grocery

store. He previously operated Battlefield Knoxville in the Market Place Shopping Center in West Knoxville.

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Understanding Insure Tennessee care. It leverages federal

By Wendy Smith Gov. Bill Haslam came dollars to provide health insurance to town last week to eduto those cate state legislators before whose ina special session being held come is less this week regarding Insure than 138 Tennessee, his proposed percent of Medicaid expansion prothe poverty gram. level, which translates to approxiBill Haslam m a t e l y Legislators aren’t the only ones who need to be $16,000 for an individual educated. Citizens need to and $27,000 for a family of have a basic understanding three. The program is exof the program so they can pected to cover roughly pass their thoughts on to 280,000 people. Over half of them have jobs. their elected officials.

This group falls into a Haslam spent two years crafting Tennessee’s pro- coverage gap because they gram to specifically address don’t qualify for Medicaid the spiraling cost of health- and they either don’t make

enough to qualify for tax credits to help them buy coverage or can’t afford it even with tax credits.

The controversy surrounding the plan comes from its utilization of federal dollars. Affordable Care Act (ACA) funds would cover 100 percent of the cost of the expansion through 2016. By 2020, the federal contribution will drop to a permanent rate of 90 percent, but Tennessee hospitals have committed to covering the state’s contribution once federal funding drops below 100 percent.

Some fear that Tennessee taxpayers will be left on the hook if federal funding dries up or hospitals don’t

follow through with their commitment. In the event of an emergency, Haslam has packed a parachute.

The two-year pilot program will automatically terminate in either case. Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and the head of the federal health department agreed last week that the state could legally opt out.

Haslam says he’s not a fan of the ACA because it didn’t do anything to address the rising cost of healthcare, as his plan does.

Here are the nuts and bolts of his plan. Those eligible for Insure Tennessee would have two options.

Under the Volunteer Plan,

participants would receive a fi xed contribution voucher that will enable them to buy into private health insurance offered by their employer. The voucher would go toward out-of-pocket expenses associated with the coverage.

The benefits of private insurance coverage include a broader range of providers and possible participation in Health Savings Accounts, which encourage healthy choices, Haslam says.

The other option, the Healthy Incentives Plan, differs from Medicaid because it has premiums and co-pays. But participants get credits for healthy behaviors, like regular screen-

From page A-1 obvious victory. Town staff is unaware of any plans on as retail space since the new the horizon for the former Kroger opened in 2008. It’s Ingles location at Kingston located in the town’s new Pike and Concord Road.

Mixed Use Town Center Town Administrator (MUTC) zoning district, David Smoak says the and town leaders have town is encouraged that a put considerable effort business wants to re-use the into creating stringent former Kroger site. design guidelines for new Another long-empty construction and significant storefront in the same redevelopment of property shopping center has a within the district. The new tenant. Jeff Comas guidelines are intended to is opening the Knoxville steer development toward Academy of Music in the that which will complement eastern corner of the a downtown area. center. He is moving from Mayor Ralph McGill says a location on the other side he thinks it’s a good thing of Kingston Pike called the to fill empty buildings. And Farragut Academy of Music. while town staff has some The new location is larger control over what buildings and well-suited to being look like, they don’t get to a music school because it choose tenants, he says. used to be a doctor’s office, Empty grocery stores says Comas. The former have long been a frustration exam rooms will be perfect to town leaders. The recent for lessons, he says. He adds grand opening of the new that he will be happy to have Perceptics headquarters in laser tag nearby. the former Food City site at “I’m all for more 11130 Kingston Pike was an neighbors.”

Farragut Wine and Spirits is located next door to the former Kroger, and manager Jimmy Swafford would also welcome the new business, even if typical laser tag customers are too young to be his customers.

“It’s more visibility,” he says.

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Laser tag facility the concept, and he hopes to get final approval any day.

Once his plan is approved, he expects to open in three or four weeks.

He’s signed a fiveyear sublease on the 50,000-square-foot site, which is still owned by Kroger. He plans to open half the space initially and eventually add video games and video gamethemed food service. The operation will require 10-12 employees, and he expects many of them to be Farragut High School students.

Being close to the high school is one of the things he likes about the space.

He hopes to provide special events for students, as well as youth groups from nearby churches.

“I love the location,” says Wyrick. “It’s one of the first ones I looked at.”

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■ “Hearth and Home: Through the Years” is the featured exhibit at the Farragut Folklife Museum located in the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. The exhibit will be on display through May 29. Info: www.townoffarragut.org/ museum; www.facebook. com/farragutfolklifemuseum; or Julia Barham, julia. barham@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057.

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ministry. But near the end of his master’s program, he explored a hands-on learning experience called CPE, Clinical Pastoral Education, that had him spending 40plus hours a week working as a hospital chaplain.

“I fell in love with the process, that opportunity to engage people in that kind of environment,” he says. “I thought, even if I stayed in the pastorate, I still needed that training of working with people in the hospital environment, caring for them in a pastoral-care role.

“So I began looking at options.”

He ended up at the Memphis Institute of Medicine and Religion in its residency program for chaplains.

When he finished, Baptist Memorial Hospital offered him a position as staff chaplain, and he took it.

Hospitals have changed during Bluford’s time as a chaplain.

“We have resources to take care of people that we couldn’t 25 years ago,” he says. But shorter hospital stays give chaplains less time to interact with patients. That’s where his

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ings, and using the health system appropriately, such as going to a clinic rather than the emergency room.

If participants make good choices, they can cover their healthcare costs with credits.

But they can also be disenrolled if they don’t cover copays or premiums, Haslam says.

From his perspective, Insure Tennessee is a win-win because it’s a step toward true healthcare reform and provides insurance to 200,000 residents who wouldn’t otherwise have it − without raising taxes.

Detractors say Haslam is supporting Obamacare by taking advantage of federal funding. You decide.

From page A-1 Air Force brat upbringing comes in handy.

“I was in environments where I … had to become acquainted with people quickly, so I’ve always been comfortable doing that,” he says.

“I’ve always thought of that as a strength of mine, to be able to be with people on a once-or-twice basis and become somewhat acquainted and familiar enough and comfortable with them and hopefully them with me to build a level of trust and a relationship, even if it’s only for a brief span in somebody’s journey of life.”

Bluford conducts a quarterly memorial service for those who’ve had a loved one die in the hospital. He ministers to Parkwest employees as well as patients, and he serves on several of the medical center’s committees.

Many would describe his job as full of darkness, but not Bluford.

“You get to see, sometimes, humanity at its best.

Certainly at its worst at times, but many times at its best when people care at a time of need. It’s a special time, an intimate time to be with people.”

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Farragut Folklife Museum Black History Month Event – “Fostering Dreams Toward Future Success” When: Sunday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m.: Reception. 3 p.m.: Presentation.

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Rehearsing for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” are Tellico Community Players Vern Russell as Scanlon and Daniel Judge as R.P. McMurphy.

Scott Mathout of the STAYinTV committee talks with Tellico Village University organizers at a planning meeting.

Tellico Village University celebrates first class There’s a new school on the shores of Tellico Lake, and it’s called Tellico Village University. The new lifelong learning initiative is officially in business! Twenty Villagers attended the first day of the Introduction to Web Design class taught

by Villager Tom Kowaleski.

The course is the first of eight offered by TVU in its inaugural Spring 2015 semester.

TVU owes its burgeoning status to Villager Cindy Solomon, who is a retired educator with a contagious passion for lifelong learning. She is the director for TVU and is the driving force behind getting this initiative off the ground and into the classroom.

TVU will also offer courses in French I, to be followed by French II later this summer; Disney Character Animation; Orchids; and Introduction to Photography, an eight-week course that starts in May/June.

There will also be a series of health courses offered, and Self-publishing will be scheduled for some time in May. Solomon says the first

John Cherry IT’S BETTER AT TELLICO VILLAGE day of school was a success.

The overall response to this inaugural offering of courses has been very encouraging. The first two courses were filled to their limit.

According to Solomon, classes may run for one to two hours for one week, and some may run for multiple weeks.

Tuition is extremely low to enable more to attend while building funds to grow University offerings in the future. Villagers can check details of upcoming courses by visiting the website at www.tvuniversity. org.

TVU is the most recent addition to the STAYinTV list of programs. A complete description of STAYinTV programs, a non-profit organization in the Village, is found at www.stayintv.org.

Tellico Village is very lucky to have motivated leaders who develop and implement these kinds of programs in our community.

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The Tellico Community Players, the Village’s own theater troupe, bring their next offering to their new stage in February.

TCP will present Dale Wasserman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Feb. 19-21 and 26-28 at the Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza.

All shows start at 7:30 p.m. with an additional matinee at 3 p.m. Feb. 28. Doors open an hour before the scheduled performance, and general admission tickets are $20 and will be available at the Tellico Community Playhouse on the night of the event or Village Salon, Salon Anew, the Yacht Club or the Kahite Pub & Grille in Vonore prior to the event. More information is available at tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

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A new décor welcomes diners at Tanasi Clubhouse Restaurant in Tellico Village.

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Tanasi, Toqua open for business As promised, the clubhouse restaurants at Tanasi and Toqua are open for business. Under the new management of AWE Hospitality, the restaurants are

open and offering some of the long-standing favorites and full beer, wine and liquor service.

Both restaurants benefit from beautiful renovations,

giving both locations a fresh look and feel. Come on out and enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner. Like them on Facebook to see what’s happening at the diners.

Ani and Ryan Roma operate Dirty Bird Events for folks who enjoy a different bent to sports. Photos submitted

A competitor receives encouragement from supporters during an off-road Dirty Bird Event.

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By Sara Barrett Ryan Roma is a landscape designer, and his wife, Ani, is a middle school fitness instructor. Their passions also can be seen in a business they developed about three years ago: Dirty Bird Events LLC. Through the company, whose headquarters is off Lovell Road, they design and manage outdoor sports competitions that offer alternative routes for running and multi-sport events.

Most Dirty Bird events encourage participants to take the unpaved road less traveled, which could be through a creek or around 320-foot-tall windmills on Buffalo Mountain near Oak Ridge.

Only one event, the family-friendly Stroller Derby, is on a paved surface. Ani came up with the idea after the couple had two children,

now 1 1/2 and 4 years old.

“We try to offer something for everyone,” says Ryan. He read a statistic that Tennessee is the second fattest state in America, and he feels “a lot of locals don’t realize what we have here in our backyard,” with the Smokies and the Urban Wilderness readily available.

The Romas began helping national organizations plan and manage events as fundraisers for charitable organizations. The couple wanted to include more local charities so the money would stay in town. That was the birth of the idea for Dirty Bird Events.

“We wanted to differentiate ourselves, so we started thinking of other events to host,” says Ryan. He could see the windmills at the top of Buffalo Mountain from his house and decided Dirty

road as dangerous,” says Ryan. “But if you look at the joints in your body, in general trails and dirt are better for you than being acBird’s first official event tive on pavement. And once would be the War at Wind- people get away from cars, rock, which is now in its they start seeing animals and nature and things take third year.

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Ryan says he feels Dirty takes competitors up the mountain and back down, Bird is like having another winding through the windmill farm along the way.

There is also an “abbreviated, yet punishing” 11k for folks who like the idea but aren’t ready for the entire experience.

Again this year, Dirty Bird Events will manage the Tennessee circuit of the national XTERRA trail run series. One of these events will be a focal point of the inaugural Knox Mountain Sports Festival at Ijams Nature Center on June 6-7.

The festival will also include paddleboarding and rock climbing, among other things.

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Strange story of Woody Quinn There is continuing debate about whether the chicken or egg came first, but there is no doubt about the sequence of steps to success in college football.

Recruiting precedes development. And as it relates to national signing day, be reminded that talent evaluation is almost as important as salesmanship.

Here is a touchy little story based on the fundamental truth that you can’t judge a book by the cover. It has been said that Tennessee’s Woody Quinn looked more like a big-time Southeastern Conference tight end than the big-time SEC tight ends.

He is 6-6 and 253.

Woody didn’t do much in his two years at the position but he was a contributor.

He helped the Vols maintain satisfactory academic standing in the eyes of the NCAA. He was an honor student in communications.

He earned a degree in May. He helped Butch Jones earn a bonus.

Quinn opened the 2013 season as the No. 2 tight end and played briefly in a game or three. He did not appear in the final eight. He did not play in 2014. He finished with no statistical record, but he was often in the practice spotlight.

Jones, from time to time, favored Woody with extra “coaching.� He wanted the big guy to become more explosive and provided frequent opportunities in his famous circle drill, one on one, best man wins.

On my list of unusual Tennessee stories, accumulated over more than 60 years, Woody Quinn is top 10. He was a California volleyball player, from Dana Point, high-rent district. He was nurtured at Saint Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano. He

then transferred again.

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Geoff Jones, football Marvin coach at Santa Ana ColWest lege, got a call from a friend about a big kid playing volleyball. The coach was logically skeptical – until is from an artistic athletic Woody walked through the family. His father, Tim, did office doorway. Soon therewater polo at Cal-Irvine after, he thought “Wow, so and was on Team USA. His this is what great prospects brother Johnny was an all- look like.�

College basketball playAmerican pole vaulter at ers – Tony Gonzalez, AntoUCLA. Woody played football as nio Gates, Jimmy Graham a high school freshman but – were jumping to the NFL. chose volleyball. He was so Why couldn’t a volleyball promising, Olympian Karch player make half that leap?

Kiraly spent time tutoring. The coach caught himself.

Woody was twice league Could Quinn even catch a MVP, top scholar-athlete in football? He last played at the area. Pepperdine award- age 14.

A brief tryout followed – ed a scholarship.

Woody stayed a year but in a cold rain with the wind didn’t play (he was radio blowing sideways. analyst), transferred to Cal“The kid was catching evifornia Baptist and did play, erything.�

Next question: Would he stick? Quinn seemed indecisive. “He came out to practice and got better every day.�

Quinn didn’t set records: 15 catches, 252 yards, one touchdown. One recruiting service awarded two stars.

Another said he was the 213th junior college prospect in America.

Former Tennessee safeties coach Josh Conklin is credited with discovering Quinn on behalf of the Derek Dooley staff. Upon departure, Josh left notes.

New tight ends coach Mark Elder took up the project. UT wanted a junior college tight end, somebody more mature, ready to compete. Coaches checked film on everybody available and liked Woody best. They really liked his size before they heard how little he had played.

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ing athlete with excellent academic credentials is a rare find in junior college.

Elder added a few details: Great young man, going to have a great career here.

Or maybe not.

Woody Quinn is the perfect example of an evaluation error. But he impressed me, too. He didn’t quit. He got his degree.

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Madeline for Senate John McCain’s bid for president in 2008 was serious business, though in retrospect his choice for a running mate makes the campaign appear more desperate than earnest.

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Presumably the smartest guys and gals under the Republicans’ big tent signed off on Sarah Palin.

The Wasilla Wonder became the gift that keeps on giving to Democrats, as she demonstrated with her offthe-charts lunatic speech at Iowa’s recent “Freedom Summit.�

While I wouldn’t want to – in Palin’s words – “forego a conclusion,� we probably won’t have Sarah to kick around during the 2016 presidential sweepstakes.

But her nosedive doesn’t close the door to high office for women.

If Palin could rise from mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to candidate for U.S. vice president, what’s stopping Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero?

Palin had a stint as governor along the way, but Rogero needn’t move to Nashville to outpoint a Palin on qualifications.

The Census Bureau estimates Wasilla’s 2013 population as 8,621. The estimate for Knoxville is 183,720.

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Rogero has a 30-year track record of accomplishments that include serving as a county commissioner and heading up community development for her predecessor, Bill Haslam. She’s committed to “green� development strategies.

Palin inquired about banning “objectionable� books from the Wasilla library as mayor. She’s committed to bagging grizzlies and “going rogue.�

The mayor’s qualifications allow her to stand shoulder to shoulder with nearly any Washington politician. She should consider becoming Tennessee’s U.S. Senator. The path is difficult, but doable.

The Republican-controlled Congress could be Rogero’s strongest ally. Two more years of Washington gridlock and clownish antics from the Tea Party faction might persuade a majority of Tennessee voters that change is in order.

And it’s significant that Republican Gov. Bill Haslam thought enough of Rogero to invite her into his administration. Party loyalty would prevent an outright endorsement, but powerful friends couldn’t hurt her candidacy.

Assuming re-election, Rogero’s mayoral term expires two years before Sen. Lamar Alexander’s term ends, enough time to organize and finance a statewide campaign. So, dream the impossible dream, Mayor Rogero. Let me know where to donate.

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Whatever happened to the low bid?

For old-timers, the kerfuffle over the E-911 board’s rejection of its evaluation committee’s recommendation for a new radio system begged this question:

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Whatever happened to taking bids and accepting the lowest one?

The easy answer is state law. There are a bunch of statutes governing public sector procurement, and those frustrated by the E-911 board’s refusal to accept the recommendation that the contract for radio services be awarded to Harris Corp. over two other bidders say the 18-month process (which involved a user committee setting up the scope of work and an evaluation committee vetting the proposals) followed every one of them.

“The basic difference between an invitation for bids

and a request for proposals is that with invitations to bid, you know exactly what you are going to buy: a pickup truck.

“With an RFP, you know what you want to accomplish but don’t know how you’re going to do it, so you have subject matter experts sitting on an evaluation committee who rank proposals,” said Hugh Holt, Knox County’s purchasing director.

“Twenty years ago, contracting was just pushing paper, not looking at what services cost. It was doing the taxpayers a disservice.”

Marty Spears, interim assistant director of County Technical Assistance Services (created in 1973 to provide technical assistance to Tennessee’s 95 counties), agrees with Holt’s assessment.

“Counties do RFPs for the lowest and best bid,” Spears said.

“State law says ‘lowest and best,’ and almost everywhere across the state, anything over $10,000 (requires an RFP) and you’ve

got to have justification for not taking the lowest and best bid. You’ve got to say why.”

And therein lies the rub.

The members of the Knox County Emergency Communications District board of directors pretty much gave the finger to Spears’ admonition – and raised a justifiable suspicion of violating the sunshine law when they all went mute when it came time to second a motion to accept the evaluation committee’s recommendation that Harris Corp. (rather than traditional Motorola, which has held the contract for nearly 30 years) be awarded a $7.4 million to $9 million (depending on who’s talking) contract for radio services.

County mayor Tim Burchett’s proxy, Jason Lay, made the motion to select Harris, and city representatives (led by Knoxville Police Department chief David Rausch) are catching the most heat.

Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones and County Commission chair (and KPD lieuten-

ant) Brad Anders also sit on the board.

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero, also a board member, sent a proxy to the voting meeting. Burchett is ticked; Rogero is evidently stung by accusations of open meetings law violations (she’s always been an advocate of transparency) in a re-election year.

And, following what surely must be a law of nature and politics, speculation is filling the information vacuum.

One of the most popular theories – that Motorola’s hiring former county mayor Mike Ragsdale and his sidekick Mike Arms’ lobbying firm, Tennessee Strategies, tipped the process in their favor – is widely dismissed by insiders: “I could fit everybody that likes Mike Arms in a Mini Cooper,” one said.

The truth is likely closer to this: Cops have used Motorola radios for decades, they like them and feel comfortable with them, and they have bowed up to get their way.

Haslam must use political capital to pass Insure Tennessee While the odds favor Gov. Bill Haslam getting the Legislature to expand Medicaid during the current special session, it has not been an easy push. Haslam will have to use major political capital.

Senate Finance Committee chair Randy McNally of Oak Ridge, who represents part of Knox County, is clearly wary of the proposal.

He is not a bomb thrower.

His detailed questions to the state attorney general are legitimate and thoughtful.

If the Medicaid expansion should falter, it can also be brought up in the regular legislative session.

A political factor complicating matters is this: There are 73 Republicans in the House, where 50 votes are necessary to pass a bill.

Haslam could pass his bill with 26 Democrats and 24 Republicans but would leave those Republicans vulnerable to a primary challenge in August 2016 (just 18 months from now).

He really needs a majority of Republicans in the House (37) and support from Speaker Beth Harwell.

Already, very conservative groups are running radio ads attacking GOP members who are for the Haslam plan.

Harwell, who clearly

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plans on a race for governor, has not taken a position as of the writing of this column. She is scheduled to speak to the Knoxville Rotary Club on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the Marriott. She would have to be concerned that a yes vote might irk conservative GOP voters in a statewide 2018 primary.

In the Senate, Knoxville’s Rick Briggs is a strong proponent of the plan, which has been endorsed by the Tennessee Medical Association and every hospital.

However, Sen. Brian Kelsey of Collierville, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, strongly opposes it and recently held a hearing aimed at derailing it.

This is Haslam’s most difficult legislative battle since he became governor.

■ Mayor Rogero has been caught flatfooted on the recent controversy when the 911 Board did not approve a new contract for radios. It failed without discussion for lack of a

seconding motion. Rogero simply does not attend the meetings of this board of which she is a member. She sends Gary Holliday, who works for the KPD, as her proxy.

How does the mayor justify skipping the four meetings a year of the 911 Board, which impacts the health, safety and emergency planning for the entire city? She does attend city pension board meetings and TPO, but why has she decided not to go to 911? No answer. She owes the public a justification.

The law permitting the mayor to send a proxy was meant for unavoidable absences such as illness or being out of town. It is not a pass to play hooky. When I was mayor I attended the 911 meetings regularly as did Dwight Kessel and Tommy Schumpert for the county. It never occurred to me to send a proxy unless I was out of town. I met in advance with the person to give my thoughts on the upcoming agenda.

It is clear Rogero seldom speaks to her proxy and clearly did not go over the agenda prior to this recent meeting where the $9 million contract failed. A8more prudent and observant mayor would go over the agenda prior to the meeting with

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South-Doyle High School graduating junior Luke Hixson shows school board member Terry Hill how to find the approximate square footage of a new road in front of Karns Elementary School. The exercise was a demonstration of how computers are used in the classroom. Photo by Wendy Smith

Principals share 1:1 computing successes While local leaders undoubtedly benefited from a tour of South-Doyle Middle School, where computers are integrated into every classroom, the most compelling argument for putting computers into the hands of all Knox County students came from Vine Middle Magnet School principal Cindy White.

On Sunday afternoons, students line up along the outside wall of the school to take advantage of the school’s Wi-Fi Internet access because they don’t have access at home, she says. Students are hungry for technology, and her students value their computers so much that the school has the lowest repair rate in the county.

White told that story at last week’s Knox County Schools Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Showcase. Vine Magnet Middle and South-Doyle High are two of 11 Knox County schools that won the county’s 2012 Technology Challenge − now called the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Initiative. Principals from those schools met with community leaders to share how their classrooms have felt the impact of 1:1 computing (one computer per student). Leaders also toured the school to see the computers in action and participated in a computerdriven lesson themselves.

South-Doyle High math teacher Robby Howard showed the group how to use Google Earth to calculate the size of the field at Fenway Park using trapezoids. He then asked each of them to find the area of another landmark. With the help of student ambassadors armed with laptops, leaders calculated the area of such sites as Neyland Stadium and Fountain City Lake.

During the tour, leaders met teachers like Karly Stache. She showed how she could immediately see results of a math quiz and know which students had mastered a new skill. At home, students can learn by watching short videos and participating in Google

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“hangouts,” or video conferences, before tests.

After the tour, leaders watched a video featuring Mooreland Heights Elementary School instructional coach Amber Sawyer, who talked about the benefits of 1:1 computing at the elementary level. Having computers means the teacher isn’t the sole source for learning, she says. Students are learning how to go to the right source for information by themselves.

Principals discussed the “bumps” they’ve encountered during the 18 months since computers were deployed. New students who come from traditional classrooms have a steep learning curve, and students who experience 1:1 technology at the elementary or middle school level and transition to a middle or high school that doesn’t have it are frustrated. Inappropriate Internet use still concerns some teachers, and not all students have Internet at home.

But the principals were overwhelmingly positive.

West Valley Middle principal Renee Kelly says the computers are popular with teachers, students and families, and she has seen a rise in the school’s enrollment.

The cost of county-wide 1:1 technology was also discussed. Principals say that they would consider less-expensive alternatives to MacBooks, which were used in the initial deployment, now that they know what they need. The cost of equipping 11 schools with 1:1 computing was $6 million. There are 90 schools in the system.

Superintendent Jim McIntyre said that computers will undoubtedly be a part of future classrooms. “It’s where we need to be at some point, and I think we need to be there sooner rather than later,” says McIntyre.

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her proxy on how to vote on upcoming issues. That did not happen here, and Rogero did not even know the contract was coming up. The Burchett proxy had been instructed to make the motion to adopt it and the city representatives sat on their hands.

Apparently Rogero does not have regular briefings from Holliday after the meetings either. In this case she has met now with Holliday but has not told the public what she learned.

Holliday was silent at the meeting so we do not know what he thinks. Rogero does not deserve her upcoming $12,500-a-year pay raise based on avoiding 911 Board meetings.

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Inky Johnson shares message at ‘Man Up’

By Wendy Smith Inquoris “Inky” Johnson has a message for Christian men: When it comes to spiritual leadership, the process is more important than the outcome.

Johnson is the keynote speaker at the “Man Up” men’s conference this weekend at Concord United Methodist Church, 11020 Roane Drive. He knows a thing or two about staying the course, even when the desired outcome is taken off Former UT football player the table.

Johnson grew up in in- Inquoris “Inky” Johnson ner-city Atlanta in a two- Photo submitted bedroom house that was home to his family of 14. He usually slept on the floor, sleep in a bed − with five but sometimes he’d opt to others. It was a struggle,

he says, but they had one thing going for them − their Christian faith.

His grandmother was an especially strong influence. She was the calm in the middle of the storm, and he always wanted to possess what she had.

Johnson, a four-sport athlete, had something else going for him: talent. He was recruited by Phillip Fulmer to play football for the University of Tennessee. He had high hopes for a professional career. Those plans were derailed by a tackle during the UT vs. Air Force game on Sept. 9, 2006. He survived the injury that could have killed him but was left with a paralyzed right arm.

When Johnson was told he could go home to recover, he said he didn’t want to. He had promised his grandmother that he would be the first member of the family to graduate from college, so he learned to write with his left hand and persevered. He graduated from UT with a master’s degree in sports psychology and is now an inspirational speaker.

Johnson knows how important it is for men to be spiritual leaders. His own father didn’t live in the home where Johnson grew up, but they spent time working out together before Johnson left for UT. After his injury, John-

son saw who his father really was for the first time.

At first, his dad was mad at God, he says. He’d lost his own mother at 14, and he struggled with the sudden loss of his son’s athletic career. But he was impacted by the way Johnson handled his injury.

“I just said, ‘OK, God, I’m just gonna move forward and see what you manifest in my life.’”

A few months later, Johnson’s father became a Christian. Now, he’s “fired up for God,” Johnson says.

While his grandmother was a strong spiritual leader, Johnson says it would have meant more if his dad had been the family’s spiritual leader.

Men are less willing to participate in things if they don’t understand the out-

come, he says. But when it comes to faith, the process is more important than the outcome.

“The walk is a lifelong journey. You can’t be perfect in a month or two,” he says.

“You have to get up and keep moving.”

Concord United Methodist Minister of Discipleship Glenna Manning says the “Man Up” event was put together to address the problem of the growing number of men who are walking away from church nationally.

The event is 6-9 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 6, and 9-11:15 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. The cost is $10 and includes a barbecue dinner on Friday and continental breakfast on Saturday. To register: gmanning@concordumc. com.

Building community with barbecue

By Nancy Anderson Not every church function adheres to a strict program. Sometimes, it’s all about gathering together to enjoy lunch and fellowship.

Young Adult and College Pastor Steven Moldrup says Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church hosts a lunch for college-age members and guests before each semester and in the summer just to let them know they are loved.

“We just gather them together and feed them,” says Moldrup. “They seem to like that. We just want to let them know that we appreciate them, welcome them, and we’re glad they’re here.

There’s no agenda, no set program. It’s basically just 250 or so kids who came out to hang with each other. It isn’t really an intentional outreach. It’s just a fun time to come and be loved.”

The college lunches do

Youth and college pastor at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church Steven Moldrup (left) has a big smile for those providing the barbecue for the college lunch, including Joe Bryant (center) owner of Black Eye’d Joes BBQ, and volunteer Robert Fair. Photos by Nancy Anderson

UT students Abbie Fisher and Amy Mclaughlin have a good time at the barbecue lunch on Jan. 25. serve an important function, however. The students get the opportunity to meet people from other colleges and discuss anything and everything.

“We love to see them connect and build friendships

not only with people they see on their own campus, but with youth from other campuses and even foreignexchange students. It gives them the opportunity to learn there are people very different from them who be-

Michael Lown and Beini Chen say they enjoy the college gatherings at Cedar Springs. “I’ve met many people and grown closer to God,” says Chen.

lieve in God. They’re different, but God bridges the gap and brings them together,” says Moldrup.

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Super help for the Super Bowl

By Cindy Taylor Super Bowl XLIX was an exciting event for many, but for those with addiction issues, it’s often more challenging than fun.

Powell Church hosted a Super Bowl Party Feb.1 for Recovery participants that provided a safe atmosphere free of charge and more importantly, free of addictive substances.

Four local Recovery groups combined efforts for the party: Powell Church, Cokesbury, Celebrate Recovery of North Knoxville and “Word for the World.”

“The Recovery Super Bowl Party hosted by Powell Church had a simple design: to provide a sober, safe relaxed place for anyone who wanted to enjoy a gathering with no worries,” said Mark Beebe, Cokesbury UMC director of Recovery. “The idea was generated from Recovery at Powell, a location of the Recovery at Cokesbury Network.”

A group of volunteers went to work after the Sunday morning service to transform the worship center into a party room.

The game was projected on the two large screens in the church, and the worship team led a musical halftime show. A fried chicken dinner with all the trimmings plus dessert was provided

Hide me For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will set me high on a rock.

(Psalm 27: 5 NRSV)

Recovery team leader Jamie Bauknight stands with Tara Hurley, who was in charge of refreshments. by volunteers.

“We love to throw parties at Powell Church because of what Jesus is doing in our community,” said Powell Church member Jamie Bauknight. “We gathered with family and friends on Super Bowl Sunday, watched the game, ate great

Building community

food, enjoyed rockin’ music and celebrated the presence and love of Jesus.”

Powell Church has hosted Recovery at Powell for the past six months. Groups meet at 6 p.m. every Tuesday for refreshments, Recovery worship, sharing groups and other activities.

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Youth ministry staff members and friends at Cedar Springs: From left, interim high school ministry director Joel Brimer, Elizabeth Steimer, Kathryn Welch and Julianna Steimer long way to find God. Chen visited the United States when she was 16, and she was introduced to the gospel at a summer camp in Georgia. When she returned to China, she had to worship in secret.

“We have churches in China, but they are government-run,” says Chen.

“Studying many things, like Revelations, is forbidden.

We can only study what is allowed, so we have ‘house

FAITH NOTES ■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County will meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, Second Presbyterian Church, 2829 Kingston Pike. Info: 577-5835.

■ Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive, will host “Man Up,” a men’s conference, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6-7. Guest speaker: Inky Johnson. Topic: “What Do Real Men DO When God Says No?” Cost: $10, includes dinner, breakfast and program. Info: www. concordumc.com.

■ Consignors needed for clothing consignment sale to be hosted by Central Baptist Church Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive, on Friday and Saturday, March 6-7. Deadline to register: March 1. Info: cbbclothingsale@gmail. com.

■ Knoxville Day Aglow Lighthouse weekly Bible

The program embraces people struggling with addiction issues, compulsive behaviors, life challenges and loss. The program foundation is a 12-step model with a focus on Jesus and the Bible. All are welcome.

Info: 938-2741.

You will be reading this just after Groundhog Day, which is appropriate, since the groundhog is famous mostly for checking the weather and deciding whether to hide in his burrow for a few more weeks.

Today, however, I’m thinking of more serious things.

As I write, about a week before you will read this, it is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most infamous death camp of Nazi Germany.

So, even though the groundhog is still sleeping and not yet ready to determine whether the world is a place where he can survive, it is an appropriate day for the world to come out of hibernation, open its eyes to the horrors that were perpetrated on fellow human beings, and prayerfully remember the 6 million who did not survive.

We should also be aware of those amazingly sturdy souls who did survive and who are still with us to-

Cross Currents

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day. One survivor, now in his 90s, was interviewed on the anniversary of his liberation. These 70 years later, he wept, and it was obvious that he wept for so many reasons: tears of gratitude for his freedom, tears of anguish for his ordeal, tears of sorrow for those who did not live to tell their stories, tears of regret for the utter waste of so many lives.

Humanity – we – must never forget the horrors of the Holocaust. It is incumbent on us to remember, to tell the story, dreadful as it is, to the next generation and enjoin them to tell the next and the next.

We cannot, we must not forget.

Dirty laundry & dirty souls I’ll never forget when I went off to college for the first time. Like most young people my age, this was thee n.. first time I was on my own.

There were so many changges and adjustments. all One of the more critical adjustments was learning to do my own laundry. I was clueless. That’s why I treasured a handwritten note from my mother. It was a step-by-step list of “washing instructions.” It told me what to wash in warm and cold water, told me when to add the fabric softener, and other needed matters. I val-

Steve Higginbotham ued this sheet of paper and kept it folded up in my wallet for quick and easy reference.

Now let’s shift from doing the wash to being a Christian. It’s not easy to be a Christian. There are things we must and must not do.

Fortunately for us, God

loved us enough to leave us a list of instructions – a book of guidelines that, if followed, will tell us everything we need to know in order to be a faithful Christian (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

My question is, “To what extent do we cherish God’s list of instructions?” When’s the last time you’ve consulted his list of instructions, the Bible? Could it be that we are more concerned with removing stains from our clothing than we are removing the stains of sin from our souls? Give it some thought.

churches’ where we can meet in secret to study anything we want.”

Chen is now a chemical engineering major at the University of Tennessee and says she has made lots of friends through the lunch gatherings at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church.

“We’re all just members of the same community, and we know that’s what worshiping God is all about. It’s about community,” says Chen.

study, 9:30-11:30 a.m. beginning Thursday, Feb. 12, New Covenant Fellowship Church, 6828 Central Ave. Pike. Topic: “Game Changers” by Graham Cooke; instructor: Jeannine Courtney. Info: 687-3687.

■ Knoxville Jewish Alliance Friendshippers group will meet at noon Tuesday, Feb. 10, at Sherrill Hills Retirement Community, 271 Moss Grove Blvd. Program begins 12:45 p.m. Guest speaker: Rob Heller, professor of Journalism and Electronic Media at UT. Lunch: $8.

No cost for attending the program alone. Info: Laura Berry, 690-6343 ext. 18 or LBerry@jewishknoxville.org.

■ Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road, will host “Compassionate Communication” seminar Friday and Saturday, Jan. 30-31. Cost: $20, includes materials, Friday dinner and Saturday lunch. Info: westsideuuc.org.

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A crowd listens as poet Ben McClendon reads his poems during the kickoff of the 2015 Reading Series of the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Photos by Bonny C. Millard

Poet Luci Brown reads some of her latest poems.

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Sundress Academy for the Arts sponsors reading series

By Bonny C. Millard A windy and cold January afternoon didn’t deter a crowd of about 40 people from gathering to hear two local poets read their work during the kickoff of the 2015 Reading Series of the Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Poets Luci Brown and Ben McClendon shared their poetry to an attentive audience at the Birdhouse, a community center in the Fourth and Gill neighborhood.

Brown has a forthcoming chapbook, “Home Brew,” from Finishing Line Press in Kentucky and is managing editor of “Stirring: A Literary Collection,” an online literary journal. A chapbook is a publication, usually poetry, of up to about 40 pages, ranging from lowcost productions to expensive. McClendon is working on his doctorate in creative writing at the University of Tennessee, and his poetry has been published in numerous journals.

Erin Elizabeth Smith, creative director of the

Reading Arts series, said it originated in November 2013 and received national recognition by LitBridge as the Best Reading Series in the South in 2014.

Smith has been involved in literary endeavors for many years, founding Sundress Publications in 2000, and the reading series grew in part from her work there.

She said she developed a strong network of writers over the years including those she’s worked with at the publishing house, contributors and readers.

A lecturer at UT who teaches poetry writing and literature, Smith said writers on book tours and others often asked her about local reading series. The university has one, but it is booked a year and half in advance, she said.

“I looked at other reading series in town,” Smith said. “(They) are more slambased or the spoken word, which differs in the kind of tone and type of writing. A lot of people I knew were writing for the page.”

A customer ordered these special cookies and then never picked them up. “I just couldn’t bear to throw them away,” said Ruth White, “So I stuck them in my freezer.” Photo by Wesley Mills Erin Elizabeth Smith, creative director of Sundress Academy for the Arts, and poet Ben McClendon The idea to create a new reading series grew from a conversation between Smith and T.A. Noonan, now SAFTA’s literary arts director. They opened the series with a writer from Massachusetts, but the series offers a mix of local and national writers.

The series runs monthly throughout the year, but the date changes according to writers’ schedules. However, the event is always at 3 p.m. on a Sunday at the Birdhouse. The next reading is Feb. 8, and more information can be found on the website. The series fo-

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cuses primarily on poetry but does include fiction and nonfiction.

“I love the fact that we have so much spoken word poetry available and so many open-mike slams,” Smith said. “But there wasn’t really, outside of the university, a series that was created for people who weren’t doing particularly slam poetry or spoken word poetry…. Or work that isn’t necessarily performancebased as well as fiction writers and nonfiction writers who are kind of excluded from that genre of writing.”

In 2013, Smith along with Joe Minarick created SAFTA as a nonprofit to encourage and support artists in different genres and serve as a bridge between different arts organization.

Sundress Academy for the Arts at Firefly Farms serves as a retreat for artists from all over the country who can apply to do short-term residencies or take workshops.

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By Sandra Clark Ruth White started making cookies as a little girl in Oklahoma, filling her mom’s cookie pans with mud and “baking” them in the sun.

She was hooked.

“In college I majored in food and nutrition,” she told reporters in the newspaper club at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy.

“I used mom’s rolling pins and spices. It was an expensive hobby.”

White held up various cookie cutters (she has 400) and asked the kids to guess what each shape makes.

Yes, the outcome depends on the icing and the eye of the baker. Eddys Garcia found 10 or so uses for one cutter, just by tilting it ever-so-slightly.

“How much do you get paid?” asked one reporter.

“Not enough,” said White.

She might spend a half-

day to make a dozen cookies, depending on the complexity.

Jarmarion Chambers spotted a kangaroo cutter.

“No, I’ve not used it,” said White. “It’s a souvenir.”

Photographers for the day were Wesley Mills and Shautasha Glenn.

The W’s were easy until the “why?”

Eddys was quick to suggest “Because she enjoys it” as Ruth White’s reason for baking cookies. And she added, “And she wanted to show off.” Well, that too.

Then we shared four dozen cookies from Rita’s Bakery in Fountain City.

It was a yum-yum day for the SMG newspaper club.

Madison Thomas noticed White’s preference for baseball and wrote: “She (doesn’t) like football. She made 500 (dozen) x 12 = 6,000 cookies last year.”

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100 days at Farragut Primary Farragut Primary School students marked the 100th day of school Jan. 22 with festivities celebrating things totaling 100.

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Students created crowns with 100 stickers, stacked 100 plastic cups into sculptures and picked up 100 puffballs with a grabber before placing them in a box.

Each student in Melissa Bumgardner’s class brought a collection of 100 items from home and weighed them against their classmates’ collections to see which one was heaviest.

Lisa Garner’s sign states the reason for the day’s festivities at Farragut Primary.

Charlie Hughes takes a break after creating a “100” hat.

Afterward, they completed Most kindergarten class100 jumping jacks before es also enjoyed a snack of attempting to stand still for 100 items including raisins, 100 seconds.

Cheerios and M&Ms.

Jackson Hearn completes a sculpture with his share of 100 plastic cups as Allie Weber and Dallas Jarboe work in the background.

SPORTS NOTES ■ KSY baseball for ages 3-12: tryouts, Feb. 28; team drafts, March 2-4; games begin April 6. Fees: $125-$205. Register online by Friday, Feb. 6. Info/ to register: KnoxYouthSports. com.

■ KSY softball for girls ages 7-14: tryouts, Feb. 28; team drafts, March 2-4; games begin April 6. Fees: $175. Info/to regis-

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■ KSY boys lacrosse for ages 8-14, excluding high school students: games are March 5 through May 9. Fee: $175.

Register online by Friday, Feb. 6. Info/to register: Denis Tippo, dtippo@gmail.com or KnoxYouthSports.com.

■ KSY girls lacrosse for ages K through fourth grade: games are March 2 through April 30. Fees: $125.

Register online by Friday, Feb. 6. Info/to register: coach Peter Koepen, peterkoeppen@comcast.net, or KnoxYouthSports.com.

■ KSY girls lacrosse for fifth-eighth grade: Games are through April 30. Fees: $215. Register online by Friday, Feb. 6. Info/to register: coach Peter Koeppen, peterkoeppen@comcast.net, or KnoxYouthSports.com.

Luke Javors, Ajdin Obradovac and Eli Bohanan anxiously await the results of weighing their 100-item collections against others’ in the class.

Charlotte Chandler creates a 100-piece Fruit Loop necklace while dressed as a centenarian. Photos by S. Barrett

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February 13-15

Caine Wise (Channing Tatum) and Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) learn to trust each other in “Jupiter Ascending.”

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Marion Cotillard is on a quest to save her job in “Two Days, One Night.”

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Jeff Daniels and Ben Barnes keep an eye out in the fantasy adventure “Seventh Son.”

Oscar contenders hit local screens James Farmer Author &

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A couple of films with an (Channing Tatum), a geOscar spotlight on them are netically engineered tracker due to arrive in Knoxville on sent from a far-away planet Friday. by one of three siblings bent Betsy Marion Cotillard, who on gaining control of their Pickle won the Best Actress Oslate mother’s intergalactic car for playing Edith Piaf holdings. Jupiter stands bein 2007’s “La Vie en Rose,” tween the siblings and vast is nominated in the same power. category for “Two Days, One Night,” a film The cast also includes Eddie Redmayne, from Belgian directing brothers Luc and a Best Actor Oscar nominee for “The TheJean-Pierre Dardenne. ory of Everything,” Sean Bean, James Cotillard plays Sandra, a factory worker D’Arcy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Douglas Booth, who is informed that she’s been laid off due Tuppence Middleton and Terry Gilliam. to downsizing. But actually, her co-workers This is Andy and Lana Wachowski’s first were forced to choose between getting their feature since 2012’s “Cloud Atlas.” annual bonuses and letting Sandra keep A world of witches, boggarts and ghouls her job. Her boss tells her that if she can comes to life in “Seventh Son.” Jeff Bridges convince her co-workers to change their plays Master Gregory, the local spook, who votes, she can stay, but she has only a week- protects the countryside from all sorts end to get them to reconsider. of evil. But Gregory happens to be away “Song of the Sea,” a nominee for Best when the powerful Mother Malkin (JuliA nimated anne Moore) Feature, is escapes coninspired finement, by Irish and the masand Scotter’s young tish legapprent ice, ends about Tom Ward creatures (Ben Barnes), called selkmust retrieve ies. Saoirse, her.

The cast a little girl, also includes is the last of D j i m o n the selkies, Hounsou, which live The last selkie puts herself at risk in “Song of the Sea.” Olivia Wilin the sea liams, Jason as seals and take human form on land. Saoirse escapes Scott Lee and David Cubitt. Sergei Bodrov from her grandmother’s home and heads to directed. the sea to save fairies trapped in the modEverybody’s favorite animated sponge ern world. returns in “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge The vocal cast includes Brendan Glee- Out of Water.” It’s been a little more than son and Fionnula Flanagan. The film was a decade since SpongeBob made his bigdirected by Tomm Moore, who co-directed screen debut, but you can’t keep a good “The Secret of Kells” (2009) and wrote the sponge down. original story for both “Kells” and “Song.”

This time, SpongeBob visits our world to Another set of sibling co-directors – the track down a stolen secret recipe and winds American Wachowskis, this time – brings up tangling with a pirate (Antonio Banus “Jupiter Ascending,” a space-trotting deras). The vocal cast includes Tom Kenny, epic in which a young woman may change Clancy Brown, Bill Faggerbakke and Slash. the course of the cosmos.

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Mila Kunis plays Jupiter Jones, whose Downtown West is supposed to open a life is a drudge, despite her big dreams. program of Oscar shorts on Friday. No deThings change when she meets Caine Wise tails were available.

Patrick Star and SpongeBob SquarePants come up against Bigfoot – or something like that – in “SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge Out of Water.”

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Shopper news • FEBRUARY 4, 2015 • A-11

FRIDAY, FEB. 6 ■ Ken Waldman in concert, 7:30 p.m., Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Tickets: $15 for seniors and students, $20 for adults. Info/tickets: Box Office, 981-8590, or claytonartscenter.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, FEB. 6-7 ■ “Flashdance – The Musical,” 8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: Tennessee Theatre box office, Ticketmaster.com, 800-745-3000.

SATURDAY, FEB. 7 ■ KSO Pops presents: “Broadway Romance,” 8 p.m., Knoxville Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

■ “PUSH Physical Theatre,” 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Info/tickets: Box Office, 981-8590, or claytonartscenter.com.

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Bryant Bentley as Willie, Rico Bruce Wade as Sam and Eric Sorrels as Hally in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of “ ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys.” Photo by Liz Aaron

Powerful play touches today’s issues In “ ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys,” the Clarence Brown Theatre’s offering for the month of February, things are not often what they seem. A black South African waiter in a tea room is actually a father figure to a white teenager.

Another waiter’s harsh treatment of his girlfriend is a metaphor for his own frustrated sense of ownership and entitlement.

And a ballroom dance becomes the world, fraught with racial tension and uneasy alliances. As one of the characters says: “We’re bumping into each other all the time.

Look at the three of us this afternoon: I’ve bumped into you, you’ve bumped into your mother, she

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bumping into your dad … None of us knows the steps, and there’s no music playing. And it doesn’t stop with us. The whole world is doing it all the time.”

Written by Athol Fugard, the drama is “one of those plays that has lasting relevance and can triumphantly survive any test of time,” according to the New York Post.

Director Jayne Morgan saw it “many years back,”

but this is her first time in the director’s chair.

“As with any play, you see it through the filter of your own experience,” says Morgan. “I find myself very moved and surprised by the show. When I saw it before, it wasn’t long after apartheid was dismantled in South Africa, and so that was very present in the play.

“Now, I see it much more in terms of what’s going on in America right now, with our stumbling toward a way to talk about race in some reasonable and sensitive way. The play has powerful things to say about that and also about what it means to be a man and a father. About how we forgive ourselves

for thoughtlessness we are capable of. It asks us how we are to behave as responsible adults in a complicated and challenging world. And it does so with such compassion and grace and humor.”

Morgan, widely known as an actor for more than 25 years in regional theaters in the Southeast and at Clarence Brown, says that the play seems easy, with a cast of only three and a simple set, but that there are, literally, “a lot of moving parts.” The two older actors must occasionally speak their lines while doing ballroom dance steps, an area in which neither has had any previous experience.

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his performing career as a hip-hop dancer, and Rico Bruce Wade has martialarts training,” Morgan says, “so they both move very well, but ballroom has a lot of rules! They’ve been doing the quickstep and foxtrot every night for a couple of weeks now and are getting good at it.”

Both actors are visiting professionals. Eric Sorrels, who plays the part of the young man, is a University of Tennessee undergraduate, and choreographer Kody Rowe is a recent UT graduate.

Morgan concludes, “This is a powerful and moving play. I think the audience will fall in love with the characters and can find moments to iden-

tify with no matter what their background.

“It’s so much about how we care for one another despite our differences, about the struggle to find the best in ourselves in spite of our worst moments.” “ ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys” opens Thursday, Feb. 5, and runs through Sunday, Feb. 22. All performances take place at the Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre, on the UT Campus next to the Clarence Brown Theatre. To see a full list of performance times and purchase tickets, visit www. clarencebrowntheatre.com or call 865-974-5161.

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Boyd’s Jig and Reel The good folks at Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 101 S. Central St. in the Old City, would like for you to think the food is an afterthought at the Scottish pub. Their dedicated mission is “to celebrate and preserve our region’s musical heritage in the only way it can be done: playing the tunes and passing them on from musician to musician.”

But don’t be fooled, me laddies! The cuisine is far

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from a back-burner, justcome-for-the-music quality. We happened to wander in during a jam session where no fewer than 10 mu-

sicians were gathered in a circle with fiddles, guitars and bass in their capable hands. The music was inviting, and the talent level was first-class. It was a great addition to our dining experience.

The food, however, was still the star of the show for Mystery Diner. The menu offers starters, soups and salads, sandwiches, main entrees and desserts. Traditional Scottish dishes are

there, including Scotch Egg and Haggis Neeps and Tatties. For those who want something different but aren’t quite ready for haggis, try a meat pie.

The Steak and Ale Pie was a great choice for a blustery winter night. It is stick-to-your-ribs food with a hearty aroma that gets the taste buds ready at the first crack of the crust. The pie is chunks of tender beef and vegetables simmering in a

Steak and Ale Pie joins such Scottish traditions as Scotch Egg and Haggis Neeps and Tatties on the menu at Boyd’s Jig and Reel. Photo by Mystery Diner traditional broth made with Scottish ale. The whole delicious, thick stew is topped with a crispy puff pastry and baked to a golden brown in a plate-size iron skillet.

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A-12 • FEBRUARY 4, 2015 • Shopper news

Doug Scarlett visits Rotary

By Bonny C. Millard Doug Scarlett recently shared his experiences as presidential chef, as well as his volunteer work with the American Red Cross, with the Rotary Club of Farragut. He has supervised kitchens at 51 disasters and fed 41,000 people a day after Hurricane Sandy.

Describing former Doug Scarlett President Lyndon B. Johnson as friendly and direct, and former President Richard M. Nixon as quiet and secretive, Doug Scarlett recalled his time as an Air Force One chef in the late ‘60s.

Scarlett served from 1965-1969, working for Johnson and then for Nixon for a short time. The Vietnam War was at its height, and the U.S. was still involved in the Cold War with Russia. He overheard disagreements between Johnson and Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev.

“I remember when that red phone rang.

You know what the red phone is. Him Tamara Smith uses a state-of-the-art embroidery machine at Threds. Photos by S. Carey

Susan Phillips visits her son, Threds co-owner Keith Phillips, at the Threds open house.

Threds displays custom work Knoxville-based business Threds welcomed friends and business partners alike to an open house event Jan. 30. Threds provides custom-printed and embroidered apparel and promotional items to businesses in 36 countries, including Salsarita’s and Mellow Mushroom.

The business is even planning a 10,000 square foot expansion to its Lexington Drive facility this spring.

Co-owners Keith Phillips and Kelby Shymlock held the open house to display new products for 2015 and to thank customers.

“It’s a great opportunity to show that we have so many things other than Tshirts,” said Shymlock.

Info: www.threds.com

(Johnson) and Khrushchev would have words. I tell you it was scary. It was very scary back then what was going on in this country. People had no idea …. We were so close to pushing buttons.”

Scarlett’s culinary journey wasn’t something he planned. He enlisted in the Air Force in hopes of avoiding Vietnam and ended up at the Army’s cooking school.

After receiving a call from the Pentagon, he accepted a position as a general’s assistant that turned out to be Johnson’s chef. “ ‘From now on, everything is classified. You don’t tell your wife. You don’t tell your family. You don’t tell anybody,’ ” Scarlett recalled the commander at Andrews Air Force Base telling him. “ ‘You will be assigned to Air Force One …. Feed the president.’”

When he had the opportunity, he left his position with Air Force One. “They offered me a $30,000-something bonus and a jump in rank if I stayed, and I said no. This is too boring.”

Scarlett, a member of the Rotary Club of Crossville, operates a catering company with his wife.

Interesting assortment at Jackpot I ventured into The Jackpot Antiques and Uniques in South Knoxville last week and was impressed with the cleanliness and extensive inventory there. I was also impressed with owner Tony Vick.

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Tony Vick, owner of The Jackpot Antiques and Uniques Photo by Nancy Whittaker

Vick inherited his interest in antiques and collectibles from his grandparents.

Carl and Mary Smart of Powell were widely known antique-lovers; Vick says their house was like a museJason Fields of Threds demonstrates how to screen-print a um. His dad, retired Army shirt.

Sgt. Maj. John D. Vick, and mom, Brenda Anderson Vick, were stationed in Germany when Tony was born.

After graduating from high school in 1988, Tony moved from Maryland back to Knoxville.

Vick says being in the car business for 27 years had left him “ … going broke and pretty torn up.” He had no idea how much a text would change his life when a friend invited him to a revival at Dante Church of God, but he knew he needed to make a change. “I was

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tired of being tired,” says Vick.

During the revival, the preacher told Tony, “God is going to prosper your business in more ways than you can imagine.” That was mid-September 2013. In addition to his car lots, he owned a Jackpot on Broadway at the time and didn’t know how he could switch “from selling $8,000 cars” to just “$200 sofas.”

Nevertheless, Vick’s last day in the car business was Sep. 27, 2013.

In November 2013, Vick moved The Jackpot to 5001 Chapman Highway after the Broadway store’s lease expired. His business has consistently grown. After doing some advertising, he quickly had a huge inventory of furniture. The Jack-

pot has antiques as well as assorted new and used furniture at great prices. Vick laughs and says he sells “anything that doesn’t eat.”

Lamps, collectibles, DVDs, CDs, tools and artwork are plentiful, and there’s a special “thrift room” in the back.

“I now realize God had to take me through it to get me to it. He supplies my every need,” says Vick.

So what does he do in his spare time? In February 2014, Vick was called to the ministry. He is an evangelist, works with a prison ministry and preaches on the radio at 8 p.m. Saturdays on 900 AM. He says he used to work 90 hours per week, but now he works 40 hours a week at the store and 40 hours a week for God. Vick buys, sells and trades. Delivery is available, as is layaway. Located between The Mattress Place and Basement Records, The Jackpot Antiques and Uniques is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Visit www.jackpotknox ville.com or the Facebook page Jackpot Antiques and Uniques. For more info about the store or if you are interested in having Vick speak at your church, call 454-3261.

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Grapes and hemp can set us free I got to thinking the other day about sustainable agriculture. Don’t ask why.

Beef production is problematic. Cattle farming is dirty work and expensive.

Cattle require tons of grain and grass to grow from birth to table. They pollute creeks and emit greenhouse gasses. Cattle might look like an easy buck, standing there on the hillside munching grass, but I know from experience there’s gotta be a better way to make a dollar.

I decided to raise beef cattle once on a 5-acre minifarm on Brickyard Road in Powell. Brevity demands that I relate only key words: Summer sweat, balky steer, borrowed trailer, brother’s truck, stuck in mud, cousin’s tractor, caravan down Emory Road.

Lonely steer, neighbors’

Sandra Clark fence, cut a hole, share the grass, Sunday call, not a steer!!?? Threatened mayhem, find quick buyer, sell steer on the hoof.

What’s a body to do?

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is accepting applications from farmers and producers interested in growing industrial hemp. State law says growers can get a license for “research” or a pilot project.

So you folks growing the vile weed in the woods, get on down to the library computer and dial up w w w.tn.gov/agriculture/

regulatory/industrialhemp. shtml.

A friend in upper East Tennessee once grew recreational hemp in a plot of tomatoes. She went on vacation and returned to find the tomatoes wilted brown and the hemp standing proudly about seven feet high for the world to see.

She quickly harvested it and hung it in the barn to dry, like tobacco. Her dog, Fuzz, was quick to grab the stalks and carry them around the yard, a pleasant smile on his face.

If producing cannabis is not your cup of tea, the Ag people encourage you to try grapes.

Get set for an all-day conference Thursday, Feb. 26, in Marshall, N.C., on “cold-hardy grape growing and some winemaking

tips.” So run back over to the library and dial www.

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I’m not lying.

Economic development is ours for the asking. We don’t need to recruit those dirty factories. Just grow grapes and hemp and sell them to your neighbors. We’ll all be poor, but, like Fuzz, we just won’t worry about it.

■ Will Gov. Bill Haslam muster the votes to pass Insure Tennessee this week? You’d think a governor would count noses before calling a special session of the Legislature to consider just one item. Everybody says the vote will be close.

If I had a vote, it would be “yes.” But I don’t have high regard for the GOP supermajority. Will Insure Tennessee pass this week?

My prediction is no.

Community school enhances Pond Gap

By Anne Hart Pond Gap’s community school program, which is designed to meet the social and economic needs of the neighborhood in which the school is located, is Dr. Kronick functioning well at the West Knoxville elementary school.

School principal Shelly McGill, assistant principal Arrin Alaniz and local educator Dr. Bob Kronick described the benefits of the program to members of the Rotary Club of Bearden, which partners with Pond Gap on numerous projects.

McGill said Pond Gap School has 335 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Some 87 percent are economically disadvantaged enough to qualify for Title 1 status. Almost two dozen countries are represented in the student population.

Many of the children enter the school unable to speak English; some are refugees fleeing horrendous conditions in other countries.

“It’s good for students to have a chance to see diversity, but it also presents its challenges,” McGill said. Just one example is the need for a fulltime ESL (English as a second language) teacher.

McGill said many of the boys in the school lack positive male influence in their

Pond Gap School principal Shelly McGill and assistant principal Arrin Alaniz lives, and thanked the Rotarians who visit the school regularly to read to the students.

“U.S. Department of Education statistics show boys scoring worse than girls in every age group in reading every year. We thank you for being our literary role models.

You’re showing our students that it’s OK for men to read. You’re also role models for commitment because you keep showing up.”

Dr. Kronick said he first became interested in the community school concept in 1998, when he tried to counsel young men housed at Brushy Mountain State Prison and realized efforts to keep young people out of state custody must start at a much earlier age.

“We are spending about $50,000 a year to jail these young people. “We spend about $14.42 daily at Pond

Mitchell is medical director Premier Surgical Associates has named C. Stone Mitchell, MD, FACS, as medical director of the K nox v i l le based surgical practice.

His duties will include directing quality initiatives, Dr. Mitchell suppor ting patient safety through analysis of quality data, ICD-10 implementation, strategic planning, and referring physician outreach.

Mitchell, a board-certi-

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He practiced at the group’s Oak Ridge location until 2011. He currently heads the Premier Hemorrhoid Treatment Center on Papermill Drive.

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FARRAGUT CHAMBER EVENTS ■ Thursday, Feb. 5, 5-6:30 p.m., networking, Clarity Pointe Knoxville, 901 Concord Road.

■ Friday, Feb. 6, 1-2 p.m. ribbon cutting, Edward Jones: Meredith Tilson, 9217 Parkwest Blvd., Ste F-3.

■ Wednesday, Feb. 11, 4-5

p.m., ribbon cutting, I Love Juice Bar, 11681 Parkside Drive, The Pinnacle at Turkey Creek, 11681 Parkside Drive.

■ Thursday, Feb. 12, 5-6:30 p.m., networking, Episcopal School of Knoxville, 950 Episcopal School Way.

Gap School.”

At Pond Gap, the entire family is a part of the school’s emphasis and the

needs are widely varied.

Kronick said a family might need to have a utility bill explained so costs can be kept down. A proper diet is another big issue.

“You won’t see many chubby kids at our school,” Kronick said. “We have a garden and we feed them what’s good for them, and in addition, we involve them in a lot of physical exercise. And we do lots of fun things, too.

Once a month we have Science Saturday, and 40 to 60 kids show up to learn. It’s very exciting.”

From 1998 to 2009, the community school at Pond Gap operated on individual contributions. Since 2009 it has also received an annual contribution from United Way.

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Jim Burns, a member of the Rotary Club of Bearden, delivers a very special dictionary to Brickey-McCloud Elementary School third-grader Vanessa Weaver as her teacher, Brittney Winn, looks on. Photo submitted

Rotary delivers a special dictionary

By Anne Hart It was a first for the Rotary Club of Bearden – a request for a dictionary quite unlike any the club has ever donated before.

Since 2006, the club has given a free dictionary to every third-grader in a Knox County public school.

Some 4,700 students received the dictionaries this year.

Over time, the number of the free dictionaries, which are always personally delivered to the classrooms by the Rotarians, has amounted to 43,788. That number recently increased to 43,789 with an unusual request.

Rotarian Jim Burns says he was presenting the dictionaries to students at Brickey-McCloud Elementary School when a teacher, Brittney Winn, asked if the club could provide a Braille

dictionary for one of her third-graders who is vision impaired.

Burns says he checked with Todd Wolf, who chairs the project for the club, “and he ordered one right away.”

Burns went back to the school to deliver the dictionary to third-grader Vanessa Weaver. “She was so excited and thankful. She asked to shake my hand and then gave me a hug.

And the whole class applauded. It was pretty special.”

Club members are justifiably proud of their ambitious dictionary project, which has far-reaching effects. For many of the students, it is the only book they have ever owned. For all of them, it can open a world of wonders as they search and learn new words and their meanings.

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Pencil trees Our cedars are high on my list of favorite trees.

Maybe it’s because they’ve been such a nice, dry refuge in times when I’ve been caught in a sudden shower.

You catch your breath, look around – everything’s getting wet, but there under your cedar tree, it’s still nice and dry. And the good memories go back even further.

Our family Christmas trees were always cedars, selected and cut after a great deal of discussion at my grandmother’s place, and brought home to fill the living room with that wonderful, memorable cedar smell.

Now, the fact that our local birds – cardinals, chickadees, titmice, sparrows – can manage to survive the rigors of wintertime seems nothing short of miraculous to me. So when my latest issue of National Wildlife magazine arrived containing the article “Helping Birds Cope with the Cold,” I was on it. And to my surprise, it was about those very cedar trees and how they are an ideal wintertime environment for birds. The author quotes a Clemson biology professor saying that cedars are among the top 10 plants for wildlife!

Those familiar, widespread evergreens that we call cedars are properly called Eastern red cedars.

They aren’t really cedars (like the cedar of Lebanon) but are actually in the juniper family; their scientific name is Juniperus virginiana. And just so you know, the Eastern red cedar became the official Tennessee state evergreen tree in 2012, so I presume that somebody besides just me thinks they’re cool.

Our cedars are widespread, not just in Tennes-

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see, but all across the eastern half of the country from the Atlantic coast to the Great Plains, native to 37 states. In our area they can grow to 100 feet tall and live to be 300 years old. They can grow in most any type of soil other than an actual swamp and can thrive in any environment other than in the shade. They are early and abundant invaders of abandoned fields, a fact known to many a farmer trying to keep pastures clear of unwanted vegetation.

As for their value to our birds and other wildlife, they provide both food and shelter. Their dense foliage makes a natural haven for nesting, used by many species of birds in the spring, as well as for concealment and nightly roosting. They are favorites for owls to hide in by day, hawks by night. And they provide livestock with winter shelter good enough for them to be referred to as “outdoor barns.”

Cedars are dioecious, which means each gender is a separate plant. Only the female trees produce fruit: small blue berries borne abundantly every two or three years. They are a favorite food for their namesake bird, the cedar waxwing, as well as for bluebirds, turkeys, grouse and numerous other species, “helping pull wildlife through tough times,” as the Clemson professor puts it. In warmer weather, the juniper hairstreak butterfly

Red cedar is “pencil tree.” depends exclusively upon the cedars for egg-laying and caterpillar-feeding; I’ve seen them in my cedarfilled back field.

One downside of Eastern red cedars is that they harbor a fungus that spreads to apples, infecting trees with an economically serious disease called cedar-apple rust. After the apple trees are infected, the spores of the fungus spread back to the cedar trees to start

HEALTH NOTES ■ The Alexander Technique for Better Balance, Less Stress, noon Wednesday, Feb. 4, Knoxville Healing Center, 313 N. Forest Park Blvd.

Cost: donations accepted for Alzheimer’s Association.

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■ Exploring Music for Health, 1-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Instructor: Sara Matayoshi, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra violinist. No experience needed. Info/to register: 546-4661.

■ Free Diabetes Management Series, noon, Thursdays, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26 and March 5, Knox County Health Department auditorium, 140 Dameron Ave.

the cycle anew. This phenomenon led to a major conflict in the early 1900s in Virginia’s apple-heavy Shenandoah Valley.

With the slogan “cedars or cider,” the apple people got a state law passed that permitted orchard owners, with the consent of any 10 neighbors, to cut down cedars in the vicinity of an apple orchard, even against the will of the cedar trees’ owner.

It reminds one of the range wars out West between the cattle people and the sheep people. I doubt that such a law would have worked out well here in East Tennessee.

The aromatic wood of the red cedar had been known for its striking color and good working qualities since the first European landed on the coast of Virginia. It made countless fence posts, buildings, and pieces of furniture. But our Tennessee cedars reached national prominence be-

cause of quite another use discovered for them.

From that same 2012 Senate bill proclaiming Tennessee’s state evergreen: “… one of the earliest forest industries in the state of Tennessee was the cedar pencil industry.” Check the tree books: an alternate name for the red cedar is “pencil tree.”

Lead pencils remain important in everyday life; even today, more pencils are sold around the world than ballpoint pens. And back when the British quit exporting pencils to the young United States due to the War of 1812, Yankee ingenuity kicked in, machines were invented, and by 1861 the first U.S. pencil factory was open in New York City.

Lead pencils required wood that was light in weight, dense yet soft enough to be easily sharpened but not splinter, affordable and easy to mill. It turned out that the knot-free heartwood of big, old Eastern red cedars filled the bill.

It became the pencil wood of choice, and the big cedars of Tennessee and Kentucky

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■ Stepping into Health in the New Year, 1-2:30 p.m..

Wednesday, Feb. 4, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Instructor: Holly Frantz, Med. Info/to register: 546-4661.

■ Knit Your Way to Wellness, 1-3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Instructors: Shelley Hecht, Loopville, and Beth Hamil, CSC. Beginners welcome. Info: 546-4661.

■ Tai Chi for Health is offered at Tennova Health & Fitness Center, 3-4 p.m. or 5-6 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, Feb. 17-March 26. Class may be done standing or seated. Cost: $10 per lesson for members; $15 per lesson for nonmembers. Info/to register: 859-7900.

■ Nutrition Ammunition: Finding Phytochemicals, noon-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Speaker: Beth Booker, MS, MPH, RD. Info/to register: 546-4661.

■ UT Hospice, serving patients and families in Knox and 15 surrounding counties, conducts ongoing orientation sessions for adults interested in becoming volunteers. No medical experience required.

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■ Oak Ridge Breast Cancer Networker, 6-7:30 p.m.

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were the best. So much so that by 1912, over one billion pencils per year were being made from it, and by 1920, Tennessee’s supply of red cedar was nearly wiped out. Timber cruisers were haggling with farmers for their cedar windbreaks and old cedar buildings, even swapping new woven-wire fencing for their old cedar fencerows.

Today, U.S. pencil production exceeds 2.5 billion annually. Fortunately for our cedar trees, manufacturers have found satisfactory alternatives to old-growth cedar. They are using a number of western species of juniper, and even plainer woods like basswood, dying it and giving it a cedar-like scent. There is still a healthy cedar timber industry here in Tennessee, but fortunately the supply exceeds the demand. Our cedars are hanging in there, abundant and green in the winter and useful in lots of ways year-round. And I’m glad for them – the cedar waxwings and I really enjoy having them around.

UT NOTES ■ Landscape architect Drew Wensley has been appointed a visiting professor of practice in the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design.

Drew Wensley Wensley is chief executive officer of Canadabased Moriyama & Teshima, a globally recognized planning and landscape architecture firm. He will visit the College of Architecture and Design numerous times a semester and work remotely with faculty and students on various projects. Info: https://tiny. utk.edu/landscape-faculty.

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THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 27 Call for local authors of children’s books for “Farragut Book Fest for Children” to be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Founders Park at Campbell Station. $25 fee includes tent, table, two chairs and lunch at the event; authors will supply their books, decorations and signage. No fee: bring own set-up materials, which must include a tent fitting a 10’x10’ space. Info/to register: www.townoffarragut.org/register and click the Programs tab; Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive; 966-7057.

THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Tickets available for Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival, on stages set exclusively along downtown Knoxville’s Jackson Avenue. Features first-timers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Info/tickets: www. rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4 Brown Bag Lecture: “Clans, Septs, and Surnames in the Highlands of Scotland” by Graeme Mackenzie, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Admission: free. Bring a “Brown Bag” lunch; soft drinks available. Info: 215-8824 or www.EastTNHistory.org.

U.S. Air Force Shades of Blue Jazz Ensemble concert, 7 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Concert is free; ticket is required.

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The Flower Lovers Garden Club meeting, 2 p.m., John T. O’Connor Senior Center. Program: Valentine’s Day Tea with a craft activity. Info: 687-0744.

KSO Musical Storytimes for Kids, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. For pre-school aged children and their caregivers. Info: 215-8750.

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Say It Loud! documentary, 5 p.m., Murphy Branch Library, 2247 Western Ave., LT Ross Bldg. Info: 521-7812.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, FEB. 5-22 Athol Fugard’s “ ‘Master Harold’… and the boys” in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Carousel Theatre, UT campus. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Free parking: McClung Tower Garage on Volunteer Boulevard. Info/tickets: Clarence Brown Theatre box office at 865-974-5161, Tickets Unlimited at 865-656-4444 or order online 24/7 at www.clarencebrowntheatre.com.

FRIDAY, FEB. 6 Alive After Five concert: Aftah Party, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 9342039.

Opening reception for Art Market Gallery February Featured Artist exhibit, 5:30 p.m., Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St. Artists: architectural painter Dede Christopher of Maryville, and pen and pipe maker Ron Smith of Dandridge. Info: 525-5265, artmarketgallery. net or facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.

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Needle Tatting Class, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profile/monicaschmidt.

Tennessee Shines: The John Myers Band and poet Rosemary Kitchen, 7 p.m., Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Tickets: $10, free for students with valid ID and children ages 14 and under. Info/tickets: WDVX. com.

UT Church Lecture Series: Jenny Sabin, 5:30 p.m., McCarty Auditorium of the UT Art and Architecture Building, 1715 Volunteer Blvd. Topic: “Between Architecture and Science: Elasticity and Networks.”

Free and open to the public.

TUESDAY, FEB. 10

Flea market at Westview Tower, 7823 Gleason Drive. Art, crafts, household and unique items.

SATURDAY, FEB.7

WEDNESDAY, FEB.11

AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. or 8 a.m.-noon, AAA Maryville Office, 715 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway. Preregistration required. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

Family Fun Day, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Free. Event focuses on Black History Month and the upcoming 25th anniversary of the museum. Info: 525-6101.

Family Search in Detail, 1-3 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration, a valid email address, Internet searching capabilities required.

Info/to register: 215-8809.

Inside Flea Market, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Christus Victor Early Childhood Development Center, 4110 Central Ave. Pike. Tables available: $30, $35 with electricity. Proceeds go to the Early Childhood Development program.

Info: 687-8228 or cvlcecdc@yahoo.com.

Malcolm Holcombe in concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Nourish Knoxville’s Winter Market, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Central UMC, 201 Third Ave. Features pastureraised meats, eggs, winter produce, honey, baked goods, artisan foods, handmade items, food trucks and other vendors from the Market Square Farmers Market.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Faye Wooden, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

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

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 2 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info/to register: 215-8700.

Organizing Your Kitchen, 2 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Presented by professional organizer Karen Sprinkle. Info: 4707033.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, FEB. 6-7

SUNDAY, FEB. 8 Auditions for WordPlayers production of “The Spitfire Grill. 2-5 p.m. Seeking four female actor/singers ages 20-60 and three male actor/singers ages 25-50. Appointment/location of auditions: 539-2490. Info: www. wordplayers.org.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 12 AAA Safe Driving for Mature Operators, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., John T. O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Cost: $10. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

AARP Driver Safety class, 8 a.m.-5 pm., East Tennessee Medical Group (ETMG), 266 Joule St., Alcoa.

Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

55 Alive Seniors meeting, noon, First Lutheran Church meeting room, 1207 N. Broadway. Cost of hot luncheon: $8. Speaker: Chris Pluger, a Lutheran Bible Translator and Missionary. Topic: his life in Petauker, Zambia. Public invited; reservations required. Info/reservations: 524-0366.

FRIDAY, FEB. 13 Alive After Five concert: “Fat Friday Mardi Gras” with Roux Du Bayou, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Valentine dinner fundraiser, 6 p.m., the Old Southern Terminal, 306 W. Depot St. Hosted by the Grace Christian Academy baseball team. Music: The Lore Family. Speaker: Tim Lovelace. Dinner served by The Foundry. Tickets: $125. Info/tickets: coach Mitchell Turner, mturner@gcarams.org; Dave Dunaway, dhdunaway@aol.com; staff of Legal Properties Inc., 524-3670; Grace Christian Academy baseball team, 5914 Beaver Ridge Road, Knoxville TN, 37939; 691-3427.

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Computer Workshops: Word Basics, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215-8700.

Harvey Broome Group meeting, 7 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Program: “Birds – Listing, Education and Conservation” by John O’Barr, Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society. Info: Robin Hill, 9669435 or robin.hill8@gmail.com.

The Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting, 7 p.m., Buddy’s Banquet Hall , 5806 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Myron J. Smith, author and professor at Tusculum College. Topic: “Six Navy Captains on Western Waters.” Deadline to RSVP: noon Monday, Feb. 9. Info/ to RSVP: 671-9001.

ADOPTION: LOVING EAST 2BR 1BA, 1612 COUPLE promises E. Glenwood, Close your baby a secure to downtown. $500. home. Denise & Call 865-687-1140.

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

Sing Out Knoxville meeting, a folk singing circle open to everyone, 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike.

Song book provided. Info; bobgrimac@gmail.com or 546-5643.

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LARGE RECORD $3500.

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German Short haired Pointer puppies, AKC 1941 FARMALL A, $2600, 1947 Farmall reg., liver colored, ready to go. 3 F. H $2800. Both great shape. 865-475-1182 $500 ea. 931-484-9065

Hammered Dulcimer, made by Song of the Wood, $225 with case. 865-405-0726

Household Furn. 204 Green Gold & red full sz sleeper sofa. $125.

Must sell, new furn. coming. 865-201-9930 Large 7' Armoire & Bakers Rack. Cost Over $4K each. Will sacrifice for $500 ea.

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SOFA, LOVESEAT, 2 recliners & oak coffee tbl w/bev. glass, $750. 865-717-3547.

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Ford Explorer 2000, 6 SCION tC 2015, cyl 5 spd, 2 dr Sport, bought in Nov. at 36', 2 slides, twin air & new tires & brakes, RWT, 900 mi, red, heat, W&D, ref w/ice $2900. 865-936-6715 spoiler, panoramic maker, all opt. 23K mi, roof, new cond, $35,000. 865-850-9613 $22,000. 865-659-1191 GMC ENVOY XL 2003, 1 owner, EXC. cond.

Toyota Camry 1998, loaded, 170K mi., black, loaded incl $4700 obo. 865-458-6127. sunrf, new Michelins, Tow Dolly, Stehl, exc cond. $2995. 865$800.

Generator GMC TERRAIN 2014 397-7918; 898-8825 Honda EU2000, SLE, 2.4L, 22/32 $800. 865-368-2814 mpg, 4k mi, $19,500.

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238a HONDA CRV EX-L 2014, 24K mi, AWD, exc cond, $25,500.

POLARIS 1000XP Call 865-748-4306 2015 Sportsman 4-Wheeler Exc. Cond., Power steer, auto, HONDA CR-V SE winch, box, 4 yr.

2011, 33k mi, AT, warr., $9800. 603-7043.

AC, FM/ST/CD, all VOLVO S60 2.4T 2002, pwr $17,995. 865-382-0365 115K mi. VG cond. sunrf., taupe.

Comm Trucks Buses 259 INFINITY FX-35 2003 lthr., $3250. 865-691-1049. luxury crossover, Super Beetle sport model, MUST VW CHEV. 2500 2007, AlliConvertible 1979, SELL, WON'T LAST son AT, 2 wh. dr. sea blue paint, new LONG! 1 owner, Duomax diesel. 4 new top, brand new rebuilt exc. cond., new tires. Extra clean. eng. w/less than 50 tires, rare liquid $8500. 865-308-2743 mi.

Exc. cond. copper color, preBoats Motors 232 $19,000. 812-679-8598 mium sound, 153K mi, $7900.

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865-382-0365 SL 1995 V6, cold air, Call 865-216-5387. super nice, gd. mileage.

OFF SEASON SALE $2990. 865-308-2743.

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V8, AT, air, low Limited Time Only cond. $32,000. 812miles, new Michelins, Flooring 330 679-8598 2015 MODEL SALE new int., LB, must Check Us Out At see, $5500. 865-643-7103 Northgaterv.com KIA RONDO 2007, CERAMIC TILE inor call 865-681-3030 MGB 1971, nice driver, silver, V6, 135k mi., stallation.

Floors/ lots new & restored. exc. cond. Under KBB walls/ repairs. 33 $4990 obo. 865-202-4748.

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B-4 • FEBRUARY 4, 2015 • Shopper news

NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Discovering Grace The faculty and staff at Grace Christian Academy frequently have the opportunity to meet families who are visiting the campus at admissions events or during personal tours. Sometimes these families are relocating to the area; others live locally but are interested in learning more about GCA. Some families have children currently enrolled in public school, but feel compelled to learn more about Christian education.

One family who is new to GCA for the 2014-15 school year is the Nichols family. Ryan and Devon Nichols, long-time Knoxville residents, were already familiar with GCA campus through the Pre-K and Mother’s Day Out programs where their daughter, Camryn, attended. After Camryn had attended their local school for several years, the Nichols decided to schedule a tour at Grace Christian Academy to consider a possible transfer for Camryn. As Devon commented, “We felt so welcomed and encouraged from the beginning!”

Because Ryan and Devon Nichols are deeply rooted in their

community and highly supportive of their local public school, the decision to transfer was not one that they took lightly. After weeks of discussion and prayer, they began the admissions process for Camryn.

After transferring to GCA in the 2014-15 school year, Camryn quickly found her niche and became involved in the music department. Camryn “loves to act and sing,” according to her mother, Devon, and she auditioned for and earned a position in the Fifth Grade Honors Choir. Camryn performed her first solo during the Christmas performance, to the delight of her proud parents and other family members there to support her. She is “definitely thinking ahead” to Middle School, and plans to audition for upcoming musicals and possibly the volleyball team.

When asked for their thoughts on Grace Christian Academy and their experience here, Ryan and Devon had a lot to share. “I honestly cannot say enough good things about it,” Devon said.

“The feeling of family and the presence of God working in ev-

ery person in the school is amazing. You become friends with so many different people and everyone pulls together for the benefit of your child. There is always an open door approach and I love that.”

The Nichols family is just one of many new families that have joined our school community this year. In fact, because the experience has been overwhelmingly positive for their family, they are in the process of enrolling their younger son for the 2015-16 school year.

We encourage your family, as well, to visit our campus and experience Grace Christian Academy for yourself. The sense of community, approachability of the leadership, and the friendly environment are often the qualities that families mention to our staff after they’ve been here in person. Make plans now to attend a Preview Day or Open House event at Grace Christian Academy, or call the Admissions office to schedule a personal tour during school hours. We’d Ryan, Devon, Camryn, Rhett and Colt Nichols love to meet you!

GCA Annual Fund Updates

New tables and computers in the lower & middle school computer lab.

New, permanent bleachers in the lower and middle school gym.

Freshman, Emery Webb testing out new upper school science lab equipment.

The 2014-2015 Annual Fund Drive kicked off back in November, and because of generous gifts and offerings from board members, parents, grandparents, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of GCA, we have almost reached our goal of $175,000! Giving to the Annual Fund each year provides an immediate impact on our students, by ways of facility and equipment improvements, and this year is no different!

Since November, exciting updates have begun! Our lower and middle school gym has

received permanent bleachers to replace the portable stands that once existed. The lower and middle school computer lab has received a complete overhaul of new tables and computers to better equip our students in the technology world. And our upper school science lab is receiving all new equipment to fully outfit their needs for a better learning environment!

Without this additional support, tuition becomes the only financial support of the school, thereby transferring the entire burden of facil-

ity renovations and improvements to current parents through tuition increases.

The participation of our donors demonstrates their belief in the school’s mission, which is to Lead, Build, and Equip our students to serve Him for future generations to come.

We would like to extend our gratitude to those who believe in this mission and have given to our Annual Fund this year!

If you would like to make a donation, please contact kbryant@gcarams.org or visit www.gcarams.org and click on the “Make a Gift” button!