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Sometimes, even Bill Valentine is surprised by the way parts of his life have linked together. On Sunday, during the Farragut Folklife Museum’s Black History Month event “Fostering Dreams Toward Future Success,” he received a Community Service Award for his years of presenting his program “The Buffalo Soldier.”

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Rockin’ docs This Friday, some local physicians will be throwin’ down for a good cause at two Old City venues as part of the annual fundraiser “Doc Rock for Health,” a fun, rowdy event that benefits area medical charities.

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What’s in a name?

Last November, the UT Athletics Department announced the “One Tennessee” initiative, which will abolish the use of the name “Lady Vols” in all sports except basketball.

Protests have ensued.

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Laura Schoonmaker and Nick Carter marvel at the night sky in “SuperMoon,” a short film directed by Farragut High theater teacher Lea McMahan.

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serves as director and writer; he is the cinematographer and editor.

Together they’ve made nine short films, usually with a budget only big enough to pay for batteries, Cikovic says. For their latest project, howBy Betsy Pickle Lea McMahan is a theater ever, they need a little more.

“This one has been the biggest teacher at Farragut High School, one probably,” says McMahan of giving students the lowdown on “SuperMoon.”

“We’ve been more acting and filmmaking. To keep her day job fresh, she spends her ambitious about how we shot things and what we wrote. This is free time making movies.

McMahan has a production the one we’ve put the most into.”

“SuperMoon” is about three company, No Jinx, with Matt Cikovic, an adjunct instructor in lonely co-workers who make some video production at Pellissippi surprising connections when a suState Community College. She per moon takes place the night of

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wrote it as a short story, and then I adapted it into the screenplay.”

As she was writing, she “latched on to” the theme song for the female lead, Quincy: Nancy Sinatra’s classic “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.”

“We want to use it at the end of the movie to show how far she’s come, that’s she’s come through something important and that she’s going to be OK,” says McMahan.

In addition, it’s a song that people enjoy. “(This) is a romantic comedy,” To page A-3

Coffee chain may spur drive-thru approval

By Wendy Smith A proposed amendment to the recently approved Mixed Use Town Center (MUTC) zoning would allow for drive-thrus that meet a very specific set of requirements.

The Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved four ordinances related to MUTC at its Jan. 22 meeting, including one that prohibited drive-thrus in the General Commercial District (C-1) within the MUTC. But after

being shown a proposed development for the former Silver Spoon site that included a drive-thru, the board asked town staff to propose language that might allow the development to move forward.

Last week, Community Development Director Mark Shipley asked the Farragut Municipal Planning Commission (FMPC) for feedback on language that would allow for drive-thrus in the MUTC. The six-item list stipulates that

the property is a lot of record with existing frontage on a major arterial road; that the drive-thru be limited to one lane; that it be located to the rear of or behind the building and not be visible from abutting public rights of way; that it be limited to one menu board no bigger than 12 square feet and no higher than six feet; that the entrance and exit to the drive-thru lead to a parking area or service drive and not be directly connected to a public street; and that it

be designed to minimize conflicts between vehicles and pedestrians.

Noah Myers proposed that drive-thrus be limited to properties that are two acres or larger, and commission agreed.

Clint Wolford of Wolford Development in Chattanooga went before the FMPC to answer questions regarding his plan for the property at the southwest corner of Kingston Pike and Campbell Station Road. The proposed develTo page A-3

State of the schools, errr super

By Betty Bean Knox Schools Superintendent James McIntyre got some unexpected love lately, and not from the usual suspects.

Not for his recent presentation before the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, nor for his State of the Schools address Jim McIntyre nor his appearance on WBIR TV’s “Inside Tennessee.”

The gusher of gratitude erupting from students who were thrilled about the school-free week occasioned by last week’s bad weather exploded on Twitter, where McIntyre’s face got Photoshopped onto Mt. Rushmore and an “American Sniper” poster. One kid put him in an NBA uniform sinking a Pistol Pete-level trey. Teachers were pretty happy, too.

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the winter solstice. Local actors Laura Schoonmaker, Paul Simmons and Nick Carter star.

McMahan came up with the idea last summer while she and Cikovic were shooting the short film “String Theory,” which debuted at the Knoxville Film Festival last September.

“Over the summer, we kept hearing in the news about these super moons that were happening,” she says. “That gave me the idea. I had trouble getting the story together, and a friend of ours, Peter, said, ‘Why don’t you write it as a short story?’ In October, I sat down and

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got some play, and his fourth annual State of the Schools – a slick, heavily scripted event larded with fulsome praise from teachers and students for the superintendent – went off without a hitch under the watchful eye of his PR guru Melissa Ogden, who sat front and center and interrupted her Twitter updates only when she needed both hands to join in the applause lines.

Analysis He wasn’t treated as gently on “Inside Tennessee,” where he declined the opportunity to appear jointly with Lauren Hopson, president-elect of the Knox County Education Association, opting instead to have his own segment after the Hopson interview was done.

When grilled about teacher morale by panelists Mike Donila and Don Bosch, he said he doesn’t know how to measure that (apparently forgetting his 2013 survey

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that found 70 percent of teachers registering some level of dissatisfaction with his administration).

Moderator John Becker attempted to pin him down, as well.

Becker: “You were in the wings and heard Ms. Hopson’s concerns, especially about teachers and the workload and testing that continues. What do you make of what she said?”

McIntyre: “I’m sorry. I didn’t hear much of what the interview was.”

McIntyre concluded his SoS address with seven new “stakeholder conversations” to be held as part of the new five-year strategic plan.

He will double down on APEX (the controversial “strategic” compensation plan for teacher raises and bonuses), the “balanced calendar” concept (year-round school) and the Teachers Advisory Committee (which teachers have criticized for being top-heavy with administrators).

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be to assess the “inventory” of tests administered to children with the help of a $40,000 grant from Achieve Incorporated, the only such grant awarded in Tennessee.

And what is Achieve Inc.?

Here’s the short answer from an Atlanta Journal Constitution story called “Common Core as a brand name: Who is making money off the new standards?”

“Achieve Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that has been heavily involved in writing the (Common Core State) standards, receives funding from corporate titans such as Microsoft, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Chevron and DuPont.

Prediction: When it comes time for the school board to discuss the Achieve Inc. grant, count on someone (my money’s on Amber Rountree) to remind McIntyre of the advice of another titan of industry – Warren Buffett: “Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”

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Students Skype with Orthodox Rabbi

By Melissa Davenport, sixth grade teacher CAK sixth graders are starting to study Ancient Israel in social studies. To kick off our unit, we were able to Skype with an orthodox rabbi in Israel Monday, Feb. 9.

The sixth grade gathered in the library to chat with Rabbi Shmuel Bowman from his home in Israel. Rabbi Bowman works with an organization called Operation Lifeshield, which provides bomb shelters to large parts of Israel targeted by Hamas rocket attacks. He spoke at my church, Faith Promise, which is partnering with his organization to plant bomb shelters.

After some correspondence, we were able to chat via Skype live from Israel.

He spoke with the students about what we are studying in class and read to us from Genesis, explaining that the road Abraham was walking on in the Bible was the road right behind him! This elicited a “whooooaaaahhh” from the students. Students had

CAK sixth grade social studies students chat via Skype with Rabbi Shmuel Bowman in Israel. come up with questions before the call, and we were able to ask a few.

We plan to continue this relationship and Skype again

soon, this time with some Israeli students. CAK students will also have the opportunity to write emails and send video chats to Israeli students their

own age living on the other side of the world! I love the freedom to make history come alive and have personal relevance and meaning for my students.

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National Signing Day ceremony CAK Cheerleaders rank 10th at Disney Congratulations to the CAK cheerleaders. They finished 10th at this year’s national competition at Walt Disney World!

CAK held a National Signing Day Ceremony in the high school library on Feb. 4 to recognize six studentathletes who have made the commitment to play at the next level. Congratulations to all the students and their families for such a great accomplishment! Pictured are, Chris Aldmon, golf, Milligan College; Ruth Ellen Bailey, soccer, Wheaton College; Delaney Brown, softball, Carson Newman; Austin Ray, track and cross country, Lipscomb; Grant Roberts, golf, Carson Newman; Carter Steedley, soccer, Covenant College.

Bruer’s score tops worldwide The College Board has recently released the news that Grant Bruer (‘14) is one of just nine students in the world to earn every point possible on the AP Calculus BC Exam last May. Grant received the top score of a 5, answering every multiple-choice question correctly and earning full points on the free-response section of the exam.

“This outstanding accomplishment is likely a direct reflection of the top quality education being offered at Christian Academy of Knoxville,” Trevor Packer, Senior VP of AP and Instruction for The College Board, said in the letter. “We applaud Grant for his hours of hard work and also his AP teacher for the ability to engage students and enable them to excel in a college-level course.”

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she says. “We wanted something fun and light. It works on a lot of levels.”

However, using a song in a movie can be expensive, even in an independent film that will be exhibited only at film festivals. McMahan contacted Sinatra, who agreed not to charge the filmmakers for her rights, but they still needed to pay the publisher for the rights.

That’s when McMahan and Cikovic turned to the crowdfunding platform IndieGogo. They’re trying to raise $1,225: $750 for the publisher and the remaining $475 for film festival entry fees and miscellaneous fundraising fees.

Their deadline is March 17. As of Sunday, they had raised $395.

Raising money through crowdfunding is not what McMahan expected.

“It’s a lot more difficult than you’d think,” she says.

“It’s great in a lot of ways.

I think I’ve learned more in the last two weeks about

By Betsy Pickle Sometimes, even Bill Valentine is surprised by the way parts of his life have linked together.

On Sunday, during the Farragut Folklife Museum’s Black History Month event “Fostering Dreams Toward Future Success,” he received a Community Service Award for his years of presenting his program “The Buffalo Soldier.”

Valentine was taken aback when he learned he was getting the award.

“A lot of attention makes me uncomfortable,” he says.

He prefers to hide behind his character as he brings a little-known part of African-American history to life.

“I love teaching kids, telling the story,” he says.

“Buffalo Soldiers” were African-Americans who served with the U.S. Army after the Civil War. The name was originally given to members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment but later grew to include other black regiments.

Nashville native Valentine wrote a term paper about Buffalo Soldiers for a black-history class at Ferris State University in Michigan. He wanted a subject that was unusual, and after serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1967 to 1971 he was determined to find something with a military theme.

Valentine graduated with a degree in computer science and went to work for Whirlpool and then Union Carbide. He eventually joined Union Carbide in Oak Ridge, while he and his family settled in Farragut.

Buffalo Soldiers came back into his life when he was putting together a Black History Month program for his church, New Covenant Baptist. Wife Gwen made him a replica uniform.

For years, Valentine took his Buffalo Soldier show nearly everywhere he was invited. Eventually, he had to confine his engagements to Black History Month because it was too much on top of his stressful job. Now retired, he finds the requests starting to “explode again,” but it’s no easy task to transport and set up his memorabilia.

He’s not looking for awards or publicity, and he doesn’t charge anything.

“My payoff is to see people’s faces when I tell them about black people that they never heard of before,” says Valentine.

Bill Valentine at the Admiral Farragut statue at Town Hall

Photo by Betsy Pickle

putting things forward into the public than I have probably in the last year.”

Asking for money is hard work.

“It’s one of the hardest things,” says McMahan.

“Matt and I both would rather go out and make another movie than ask people for money. We’d rather go do the work.”

While they shot the film in December, they still have a lot of work ahead of them.

McMahan says they hope to be finished by April. She’s guardedly optimistic about getting the film into festivals and finding an audience.

“I feel like the story is something that people can relate to: these three lonely people who have missed chances along the way,” she says. “For whatever reason, this ‘SuperMoon’ comes about, and it’s sort of a magic something that allows them to take more chances.”

Info: www.indiegogo. com/projects/supermoona-short-film.

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opment has six storefronts facing South Campbell Station Road. The store closest to Kingston Pike would house a national coffee chain that requires a drive-thru.

Wolford asked that menu boards be limited to 15 square feet rather than 12, and commission agreed.

While the FMPC expressed general approval of the Wolford development, Shipley maintains that drive-thrus aren’t fully compatible with the character of a pedestrianoriented mixed-use town center.

“It is important to us that we don’t get a big national fast-food chain that plops down in the middle of our downtown,” he said.

In other business, the planning commission approved minor property line adjustments between Briarstone Subdivision and two other property owners. The final plat for Phase I of Briarstone Subdivision, which will include 22 detached single-family units, was approved.

Commission approved the preliminary plat for Hanover Court Subdivision after agreeing to a revision of walking trails that were originally approved in 2007.

After some discussion about clarification of masonry standards, the FMPC recommended approval of the town’s Architectural Design Guidelines, available at www. townoffarragut.org/design. Shipley reminded commission that the guidelines are not static and can be revisited.

The FMPC discussed proposed meeting rules. Ed St. Clair suggested that the list be called guidelines rather than rules, and he said he didn’t want public discussion stifled. Commission agreed that the guidelines would be printed on the back of the agenda when meetings are likely to be contentious.

Farragut Folklife Museum volunteer Zandra Wilkins and Pellissippi State Community College sociology instructor Maigaret Choka, who is originally from Kenya, explore the Knoxville College display at Farragut Town Hall.

A celebration of greatness Nathan Wood and Gwen Valentine, wife of honoree Bill Valentine, have a lively discussion at the Farragut Folklife Museum Black History Month celebration on Feb. 22. Photo by Nancy Anderson

Shirley Carr-Clowney of Alcoa, a noted historian on African-Americans, gets rave reviews for her African-inspired ensemble from Loretta Bradley, Farragut Folklife Museum committee member and event coordinator. Carr-Clowney designed and made her outfit herself.

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Hart attack Note: This story contains a term never used in the Shopper-News: Lady Vols.

Our editorial policy specifically bans the use of such gender-identified terms but will make an exception for this report on the growing controversies in the University of Tennessee Athletics Department.

Betty Bean Last November, the UT Athletics Department announced the “One Tennessee” initiative, which will abolish the use of the name “Lady Vols” in all sports except basketball. Athletics director Dave Hart said

this change was driven primarily by past and present student athletes and secondarily by Nike, which is UT’s new “apparel partner,” replacing Adidas.

He singled out four-time softball All-American Monica Abbott as approving the change.

Two days later, Abbott emailed the Tennessean newspaper debunking Hart’s claim, calling the name change “definitely disappointing” and deploring “the dollar driving all college athletics programs,” an apparent reference to Hart’s contention that Nike was pushing the change.

That was just the beginning of a growing controversy that is playing out against a background of increased scrutiny of UT’s handling of male athletes being investigated for or ac-

tually charged with sexual assaults and rapes, lawsuits filed by pr om i nent former employees of the women’s athletics depar tment, which was formally abolished Dave Hart when men’s and women’s athletics were combined.

Add that to Hart’s professional history of problems with women, including questionable handling of a rape charge against a football player at Florida State when he was there, and a gender-equity lawsuit filed (and settled out of court) by women’s basketball coach Chris Gobrecht, and it is difficult to argue against the proposition that Hart has a problem with women.

The rumble, which Hart’s supporters dismiss as driven by a small group of

people with “an agenda,” is growing.

In the past week alone, these issues have been reported, reviewed, evaluated and in some cases, debunked by the Tennessean (two stories and an editorial), the Columbia (Tennessee) Daily Herald, the Chattanooga Times Free Press (editorial column) and in a comprehensive long form story in Sports Illustrated (www.si.com/ womens- col lege -ba sketball/2015/02/18/tennesseeat h let ic s-lady-vols- endprotest).

Members of a group formed to pressure UT into restoring the women’s logo have been taking action, including writing to Nike to inquire about its involvement in the rebranding. A response on Nike letterhead signed by “Kelly of Nike Consumer Affairs” denies that the sports-apparel giant had any role in the name change:

All-time greats list without Doug Atkins Having lived a relatively sheltered life, I did not know Wall St. Cheat Sheet dabbled in sports. A treasured reader told me it listed the 10 greatest NFL defensive linemen of all time and that ex-Vol Reggie White is No. 1.

I said great. And where is Doug Atkins?

There was a long pause.

“He didn’t make it.”

Do what?

“Sorry about that.”

Kofi Bofah, a relative youngster schooled in real classes at the University of North Carolina, a former financial adviser with American Express, has become an expert generator of a few hundred Internet stories.

Kofi did this bad thing.

He obviously never saw Atkins manhandle would-

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be blockers and terrorize quarterbacks. Alas, that is an invalid excuse. He never saw some of the others he anointed: Mean Joe Greene, Deacon Jones, Alan Page, Carl Eller, Gino Marchetti and Bob Lilly.

If Bofah, being a North Carolina man, had researched Atkins’ magic moment as a Tennessee Volunteer, he would have gained understanding. It happened the first of November, 1952,

Tar Heels at Shields-Watkins Field. Their fullback, leading a sweep, came at Doug with a cross-body block.

Atkins caught this fullgrown man with his hands and forearms – and threw him, like a log, at the tailback. It was an awesome show of force. Intimidating.

Don’t come this way!

Great quarterback Johnny Unitas saw that same power play in the NFL: “One of Atkins’ favorite tricks was to throw a blocker at the quarterback, which does tend to disrupt the passing game.”

Another famous name from the past, Paul Hornung, appeared as an expert witness, free of charge: “Atkins was the best defensive

end I ever saw. He was 6-9 and maybe 275 and he could run. You couldn’t block him, and he was such a wild man that George Halas couldn’t coach him.”

That is an exaggeration. Doug is only 6-8. And, what’s more, Halas and Atkins often got along during their 12 seasons of coexistence with the Chicago Bears – when the subject wasn’t Doug’s salary. I have a book in which Halas is quoted as saying, ‘‘There never was a better defensive end.’’

Another NFL name you might recognize, Fran Tarkenton, remembered Atkins as the strongest man in football and also the biggest.

“When he rushed the

“Please know that while we support all University of Tennessee athletics, Nike has no decision-making capabilities whatsoever in the choice to phase out the Lady Volunteers nickname for all of women’s sports. This is completely and solely the university’s decision. All feedback and concerns regarding this decision (are) best directed to the university’s athletics department.”

Despite efforts by UT president Joe DiPietro and UTK chancellor Jimmy Cheek to quell the controversies surrounding their athletics director (who has also been made a vice chancellor), these issues are unlikely to die away. A discrimination lawsuit filed

by Pat Summitt’s highly regarded sports medicine director/head trainer Jenny Moshak (routinely lauded by basketball experts as “the best in the business”) and two of her associates is set for trial this spring and

is guaranteed to draw national attention. The group of former athletes and boosters opposing the logo change is growing.

(Among Moshak’s accomplishments was creating Team ENHANCE, which helped female athletes cope with eating disorders and traumatic events and has been adopted by other teams. One of the recent female assault victims was a UT athlete.)

In what might be the scariest prospect of all for Hart and his supporters, Pat Summitt’s former sports information director Debby Jennings (also frequently referred to as the best in her field), who sued UT after Hart forced her to retire and settled the suit for $320,000, has media connections all over the country.

And in a rare move for a litigant involved with UT, her settlement doesn’t contain a non-disclosure agreement.

passer with those oak-tree arms way up in the air, he was 12 feet tall. And if he got to you, the world suddenly started spinning.”

While we are talking about the past, Atkins was selected SEC Player of the Quarter Century (1950-74), ahead of such legendary heroes as John Majors, Archie Manning, Billy Cannon and Lee Roy Jordan.

Atkins was the only player to be unanimously named.

Doug never felt that he was paid what he was worth.

He said his signing bonus with the Cleveland Browns was two cheeseburgers and eight beers. His first contract was for $6,800. The numbers sounded low but I never considered challenging.

Atkins retired after 205 NFL games, then a record

for defensive linemen. He had made life difficult for blockers and those with the football for 17 seasons. He played in nine Pro Bowls.

He is in the NFL and college halls of fame.

There is an insightful hand-me-down story from Jim Parker, great offensive guard.

“I considered myself the best guard of the century and I played against some mean ones,” Parker said, “but I never met anyone meaner than Doug Atkins.

After our first meeting, I really wanted to quit football. Finally, my coaches convinced me that not every pro player was like Atkins.”

Kofi Bofah should not have left Doug off his top 10 list. What if they were to meet?

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Big birthday for Moxley Cynthia Moxley, lead partner in Moxley Carmichael Communications, turns 60 on March 2, but she celebrates with a big splash at Holston Hills CounMoxley try Club with Con Hunley performing on Feb. 27.

Moxley moved to East Tennessee in 1978, working for the Gatlinburg Mountain Press, and has stayed for the past 37 years. She was born in Rome, Ga., and moved to Columbus, Ga., in the sixth grade. She attended Catholic schools through the 12th grade.

Her father lives in Gulf Shores, Ala., as does her brother, Jimmy.

While she attended Auburn for one year, she got her undergraduate degree in journalism from the Uni-

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versity of Georgia in 1978 after starting as a classics major. In those days her degree was called newspaper management as opposed to journalism.

Her first job paid $11,000 a year; she worked for the Mountain Press in advertising and editorial. She favored writing over advertising. By her own admission, she was fired over a dispute on a rock-slide story.

But she quickly rebounded and got a job with the Knoxville Journal working for Tom Sweeten for $250 a week. She did a large amount of investigative and political reporting until 1991 when she started Moxley Communications out of

Niceley hurts low-income adults

By Mary Headrick, M.D. On Feb. 4, District 8 state Sen. Frank Niceley hurt 1,389 low-income adults of Union County (over 12,000 in the six-county district) who would have been eligible to enroll in Governor Haslam’s Insure Tennessee (IT) program.

Sen. Niceley helped kill IT even though IT would have helped people, hospitals and jobs.

Maybe enough of us can hold him and our other officials accountable and revive a March 2015 bill for Insure Tennessee.

Where affordable health insurance is concerned, Sen. Niceley is working

against us instead of helping us. Learn more about IT online at tn.gov/tenncare/ insureTennessee.

Gov. Haslam’s proposed Insure Tennessee: to insure 280,000 Tennesseans earning under 1.38 times the poverty level, to create over 15,000 jobs over 10 years, and to save 54 “at-risk-ofclosing” hospitals and their 20,000 jobs. The governor proposed IT at no cost to state government, initially paid for entirely by our own federal tax dollars and, later, with some help from hospitals.

IT could be a win-win for Tennessee but Sen. Niceley said no.

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her home. At the Journal, she covered the Butcher Bank failure and helped write the series titled “Borrowed Money, Borrowed Time.”

She met her husband, Alan Carmichael, at a party while he was working for TVA, but he had a journalism background from employment at the Tennessean in Nashville. They have been married 31 years and live in downtown Knoxville.

They work together at Moxley Carmichael in the Miller’s Building, owned by KUB, where they represent some of Knoxville’s leading institutions including Pilot Oil, KUB, Covenant Health and Summit Medical Group. At present, she has Harris Company, which figures in the E-911 controversy over radio bids.

Moxley says every member of her team is passionate about their clients. Jim Clayton described them as “street fighters.”

She is proud of their civic involvement, including sponsorship of Masterworks for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and support of the Urban League’s annual dinner.

In the interest of full disclosure, she employed our daughter, Martha, last summer as an intern. Martha graduates this May from the University of Richmond.

■ Gene Patterson, former WATE news anchor, has gone to work for Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, where he is a community and public affairs specialist. He works for Consolidated Nuclear Security, which manages Y-12.

Y-12 is fortunate to have a person like Patterson who

is highly respected and extremely knowledgeable about the Valley.

■ The special MPC director search committee is nearing a decision. It meets in secret at the direction of Bill Lyons, deputy mayor to Rogero. But the decision is down to three persons who are now being vetted.

■ State Rep. Ryan Haynes has secured his law degree and plans on taking the Tennessee bar exam this summer.

■ Knox GOP legislators will meet soon to recommend three persons to be election commissioners.

A Republican woman has not served in 28 years, and one is expected this year to be on the list of three.

■ Mayor Rogero is holding a late-March fundraiser for her 2015 re-election campaign. All current council members except Nick Della Volpe are on her host committee. This is designed to deter serious opponents from running.

Della Volpe says it is not his job to tell voters whom to support for mayor and he will work with whoever wins.

■ The Troy Whiteside trial for murder has been around for five years with nothing happening. It was supposed to have gone to trial Feb. 17 but has now been postponed to May 12.

Who knows if it will go to trial then?

These delays have become an embarrassment to the Tennessee judicial system. Clearly, a five-year delay is not speedy justice by any standard. Whiteside is well connected in politics.

An outside judge has been named to hear the case, and perhaps that assures its being heard. These delays only help the defendant as witnesses disappear or lose their recollection of what happened.

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Mobile Meals People all over Knox County struggled with weather woes during last week’s ice and snow extravaganza, but a few pressed pause on their own hardships to help folks who were worse off.

Mobile Meals’ volunteer coordinator Shelly Woodrick said the program welcomed more than 40 new volunteers within 48 hours when the weather was at its worst. “Our phones just rang off the hook,” Woodrick said of people calling to help.

Helpers included guys in four-wheel-drive vehicles and families with children in tow.

Judith Pelot, senior nutrition program manager for the Knox County Community Action Committee,

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Shelly Woodrick, volunteer coordinator for Mobile Meals File photo by Shannon Carey

manages the Mobile Meals program and said when the weather is bad, new volunteers are needed daily.

“We have three to four routes every day, and some of our regular volunteers are uncomfortable walking on icy surfaces to make deliveries,” said Pelot. That’s when the new folks come in handy. “We love surprise volunteers,” she said, as long as they call ahead to be included in the day’s gameplan.

“Even if you call last minute, we can fit you in someplace,” said Pelot.

Training takes about 20 minutes, and one route takes about two hours to complete.

Pelot said the “snow plan” is to make at least a phone call to every person who receives meals through the program to make sure they’re safe and warm.

Last week, one such call saved a woman’s life when a volunteer discovered a meal recipient was without power and out of oxygen.

An ambulance was sent to pick her up.

“That phone call to check on them is just as important as the meal we deliver,” said Pelot.

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WEST HILLS ELEMENTARY Kindergartner Je’Lynn Daniel solves math problems using candy in teacher Carrie Sweet’s class.

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Clip out the Box Tops and Labels for Education and drop them off at the school or mail to: West Hills Elementary, 409 Vanosdale Road, Knoxville, TN 37909.

Valentine’s Day at Northshore Elementary

By Sara Barrett Kindergartners at Northshore Elementary School celebrated Valentine’s Day with heart candy math, a valentine-themed snack and reading time with a book

about the holiday. Dressed in their pajamas, they traded valentines after lunch and compared handmade valentine mailbox bags they created themselves.

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Locals to compete in science bowl

Autism Family Day Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies and Artistic Spectrum will host Autism Family Day Saturday, Feb. 28. The event was originally scheduled Feb. 21 but was delayed because of the weather.

Ripley’s Aquarium will open an hour early the day of the event so autism families can enter before the general public and take advantage of the quieter atmosphere. Admission will be discounted, and a Quiet Room, a Sensory Scavenger Hunt and

free snacks will be available.

Autism families must register with Artistic Spectrum to get on the guest list. RSVP at info@ artisticspectrum.org.

Artistic Spectrum is a Knoxville-area nonprofit providing creative and recreational opportunities for children and adults with autism spectrum disorders, and promotes awareness of the ways people with ASD can contribute to the community.

Several Knox County high schools will compete regionally to determine which team will represent Tennessee in the national finals of the 25th annual U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s National Science Bowl. The regional event will be held Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Blount County campus of Pellissippi State Community College.

The science bowl was launched to interest students in pursuing careers in science and math.

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A vibrant campus ministry

By Carol Shane Matthew Best graduated from UT with a degree in journalism, and he works part-time as a copy editor.

But, says Best, “My fulltime gig is ministry.”

He’s part of the campus staff of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at UT. According to the website, www.ivknoxville.com, the IVCF seeks “to bring a fresh thoughtful Christian presence to the University of Tennessee and to colleges and universities around the region.”

Best leads the Collegiate Black Christian Chapter, one of three chapters serving undergraduates at UT. There are also chapters for Asian-Americans and for multi-ethnic students.

Speaking of IVCF/USA, the national organization that maintains the chapters, Best says, “We’re essentially missionaries on 600 campuses throughout the country. We are very much about evangelism.”

We believe that when students and faculty are transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ, their campus is transformed, and ultimately society as a whole comes to more closely reflect the priorities of the kingdom of God. That is why we invest ourselves in the lives of students and faculty, wherever they are on their spiritual journey.”

Here at UT, the IVCF staff trains interested students in Bible studies, as Shelly Scott, Sara Fong and Matthew Best head three local well as leadership skills chapters of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at the Universuch as conflict resolution. sity of Tennessee. Photo submitted The group meets weekly in small, student-run meetings as well as larger, staffBest stresses that the The IVCF/USA website led gatherings.

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Mitzvah Day at Arnstein Center

By Wendy Smith Slushy roads could have stopped the Knoxville Jewish Alliance’s Mitzvah Day, held on Sunday. Instead, participants were eager to get out of the house and get to work − together.

“Mitzvah” is Hebrew for good deeds. The annual event focuses on serving the community rather than serving the Jewish community, says KJA Program Manager Jesse Feld.

It’s also a way for adults to model service to children.

During this year’s event, children took treats to first responders and visited an assisted living facility. Middle school students helped out at a FISH food pantry.

“It’s vital to our community to teach the young our morals of Judaism in an enjoyable, hands-on way,” Feld says.

In the Arnstein Jewish Community Center gym, adults made paint rags for Habitat for Humanity and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Lost Sheep Ministry. Hadassah, a Jewish women’s organization, arranged flowers for Random Acts of Flowers. Others did chores like painting and building bookshelves for the AJCC preschool, and the Medic bloodmobile was on hand for donations.

Even the youngest children learned about service by making dog biscuits and listening to stories from PJ Library books. PJ Library is an international program that provides free books that emphasize the morals of Judaism to young children.

A blanket of peace For to the snow he says, “Fall on the earth” … .

Then the animals go into their lairs and remain in their dens.

(Job 37:6a, 8 NRSV) I will own up to this: I am still a kid when it comes to snow. I get excited in anticipation, and when the flakes start falling, I am mesmerized by the beauty of it all.

I love the quiet, the stillness, the peace when the world is hushed by the white blanket of snow.

I earned my driving wings one wintry eve when I left the University of Tennessee after a UT Singers rehearsal. It was clear and dry in town, but when I topped the ridge, the world changed dramatically. It took another 30 minutes or so to drive the five miles home. When I got there, I couldn’t get up the driveway, so I had to leave my car at the base of the hill and walk up.

All of this was before cell phones, so my mother was on her ear. (I have confessed before in this space that I come from a long line of champion worriers!)

Much later in my

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life, after living in Pennsylvania and the mountains of West Virginia (where it snowed right after Christmas and we didn’t see the ground again until late March!), I was back in Knoxville, driving home after work. I will admit I was not as patient as I should have been; I kept saying out loud, as if the drivers ahead could actually hear me, “Just keep moving! Slow and steady is the trick! Don’t stop!” That night it took me four hours to drive the 13 miles from downtown Knoxville to my house.

So, as I write this morning, I am loving the snow – secure in my home.

Lucy Barkan, Sylvia Miller and Barbara Mintz put finishing touches on Random Acts of Flowers donations during the Knoxville Jewish Alliance’s Mitzvah Day.

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■ Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive, will offer a Music and Creative Arts Camp from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 13-17 for kids who have finished first through sixth grades. Cost: $125. Signups continue through April.

■ 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.

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Ice + snow = bare shelves at Angelic Ministries I have had the privilege of meeting with staff and volunteers of Angelic Ministries over the past 18 months. The work they do is a vital part of our community. Families in crisis are provided with essentials to help them get back on their feet and become independent. Founder Betsy Frazier describes many of the people they help as “the working poor.”

Families who have been helped include those who have lost everything in a fire or other disaster. Those who have lost their job and are struggling, or families who are in the midst of any type of crisis, are also referred by other agencies.

This past week’s ice and snow kept the normal weekly donations to a minimum.

Shelves are getting bare, but the needs don’t stop.

I caught up with the Rev. Tony Earl to see what our readers can do to help.

Earl says the cold weather has really put a strain on the ministry. Not only

probably guess which end of that spectrum they’re experiencing right now.

So what can we all do to Nancy help?

Whittaker First and foremost, the pantry of nonperishable food needs to be restocked.

When you shop this week, were people unable to get pick up a few extra cans of out to make donations, but food. Next, take a few minexpenses are unusually utes to go through your high. Utility bills for their house and select items you 6,500-square-foot ware- are no longer using; towhouse, and group homes els and washcloths, linens, provided by the ministry, gloves and warm hats are can fluctuate as much as a top priority now. Toilet$1,000 per month. You can ries, kitchen and household

Donations, including nonperishable foods, are needed at Angelic Ministries. Photo by Nancy Whittaker

items are always needed.

Pack up everything that is in good condition, select a few canned goods and drop off between 8 and 3:30 Monday through Thursday.

There’s a drop-off site near the corner of Oklahoma Avenue and North Central.

Call 523-8884 to have large items such as furniture and mattresses picked up.

Earl says that monetary donations would also be appreciated.

The organization is run almost completely by volunteers, but there are two paid staff members.

However, with the high utility bills, a recently replaced HVAC unit at one of the group homes, plus regular operating expenses, extra funds are needed.

You can go to www.angelicministries.com and click on donate.

Located at 1218 N. Central, Angelic Ministries is a nonprofit, nondenominational ministry, helping people since 2002.

Tennova neurologist partners with Morning Pointe The Lantern Alzheimer’s and Memory Care Community at Morning Pointe of Powell is par tner ing with Tennova Healthcare.

Jose A. Cardenas, M.D., a neurologist with TenDr. Cardenas nova, takes on the role of medical advisor to the assisted living and memory care community.

“We are very excited about this new relationship with Tennova Healthcare,” says Tyner Brooks, executive director of Morning Pointe of Powell. “Dr. Cardenas will help ensure we are providing quality care to our Lantern memory care residents while serving as an educational resource to the community.”

Dr. Cardenas recently joined Tennova Healthcare.

His new medical practice is located at Tennova’s Neurology Group North in Powell.

Dr. Cardenas is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of neurological conditions including stroke, migraines, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.

He earned his medical degree from LaSalle University, Mexican School of Medicine, Mexico City. He completed an internship at New York Medical College Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York, and a residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medi-

The tin can man While channel sur ng recently I was hooked by a documentary about a group of men in Vancouver who make their living by picking Rus Hunt, CFP® up cans and bottles for recycling. Most of the group were homeless, but one of the men lived in a small camper behind some buildings. He was an older man and spent his mornings foraging for cans and bottles. He seemed very happy in his work, had plenty of friends, and enjoyed playing his guitar and growing owers in pots around his camper.

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money for him, he said, “If you are going to make more than twenty dollars a day you better know what you are going to do with the money.”

The lm moved on to another scene but I could not stop thinking about that statement. Here was a man living on $150 per week who looked at making more money as a burden not a blessing. It is possible that the “tin can man” is the only person in North America that feels that way. He seemed to be content and enjoyed each day without a lot of worry about the future. Most of us think if we can just reach some level of wealth, get that raise and promotion, or hit the lottery then we will be content and worry free. Maybe, but personal experience and observation of others teach us that more money often leads to the opposite of contentment.

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Dr. Cardenas also completed fellowship training in vascular neurology/stroke at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Amy New to push rural development Tennessee Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd has reorganized his department to “double down” on aid to rural counties.

Amy New He promoted Amy New as the department’s first assistant commissioner for rural development.

New, a native of Monterey, Tenn., had previously headed the department’s ThreeStar program.

Jody Sliger is Tennessee’s new ThreeStar director. He was most recently the interim president and tourism and marketing director of the Sparta-White County Chamber of Commerce.

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Hallsdale Powell Utility District is relocating sewer lines on Highway 33 in preparation for a major road project in Halls.

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By Sandra Clark Maynardville Pike from Afton Drive to Emory Road is being relocated. No need to check your calendar. This is not April 1.

The project, designed by CDM Smith, calls for moving the southbound lane of Highway 33 adjacent to the northbound lane, eliminating the green-space median.

There will be two lanes each way with a center turn lane.

On Nov. 17, Knox County Commission appropriated a second supplemental payment, this one for $118,800, to CDM Smith. In all, the engineering firm has made in excess of $1 million – Knox County’s contribution to this joint local/state project.

The problem being solved is the current inability to make a left turn to Maynardville from Norris Freeway. The new intersection should alleviate congestion on Emory Road at Andersonville Pike where traffic stalls during school.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation awarded a contract for $10.7 million in December to APAC-Atlantic for the project. Its technical name is “the grading, drainage, construction of a box beam bridge and paving on S.R. 33 from Afton Drive to Emory Road and on U.S. 441

UT Law offering free tax help As part of the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, UT Law students will offer free tax preparation help and electronic filing to qualifying members of the community. The program is available to those who generally make $53,000 or less, persons with disabilities, the elderly and limited-English-speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns.

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TDOT has no word on a schedule, but Hallsdale Powell Utility District is moving lines to get ready.

Mark Nagi of TDOT says the bids were: ■ APAC-Atlantic –$10,782,090.95 ■ Charles Blalock & Sons Inc. – $11,091,380.85 ■ Highway Inc. – $11,229,686.17 ■ Potter South East LLC – $11,395,989.30

Hallsdale CEO Darren Cardwell said, “The sewer and water line relocation and improvement is because of the TDOT project that has been awarded and will start in a month or two.”

Cardwell said water lines were enlarged from the Norris Lake Water Plant to Halls before TDOT started on a separate project to widen Highway 33 from Temple Acres to the Union County line. That project is now underway.

“We are up-sizing the sewer line and relocating it under Maynardville Highway,” he said.

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By Bonny C. Millard A fitness consultant who has worked with the Portland Trailblazers and the Seattle Seahawks said the only way to get fit is to make it a lifestyle choice.

Motivational speaker and fitness expert Ogie Shaw told the Rotary Club of Farragut that people need to make exercise part of their daily regimen and that when his son turned three years old, he got him started exercising.

“At my house, exercise is a daily health habit like brushing your teeth,” he said.

After his presentation, Shaw demonstrated the Isorobic Exerciser that his company, Ogie Shaw Fitness, sells and markets.

Although Shaw is in the sales business, it’s clear from his presentation that he has had a lifelong passion about fitness and nutrition.

“Every day you get up, you get to make a decision about how you’re going to spend your 1,440 minutes in that day,” Shaw said. “You

can do it doing things that will strengthen your body and improve the quality of your life, or you can do things that will speed up the deterioration process.”

Shaw said studies show that changing behavior is more important to reducing heart attacks than improved medical services. Those changes include stopping smoking, controlling stress, controlling blood pressure and getting exercise.

Another study showed that walking helps the elderly prolong their lives by a significant percentage. An 80-year-old person physically fit enough to walk a mile in 17 minutes has an 86 percent chance of reaching 90 years old.

“All you gotta do is just walk a little faster. That’s it. And that’s what I keep learning about exercise.

I’ve been studying this stuff since I was 11 years old. I’m as fascinated today with the benefits of exercise for our health as I was back then.”

Info: www. ogieshawfitness.com.

Howard Robb accepts the Tennessee division award from Food City CEO Steven Smith. Photo submitted Each year Food City recognizes employees for their volunteer efforts in the community. Ten district winners are selected from store winners; two divisional winners are then chosen.

This year Howard Robb, a meat cutter at the Fairfield Glade store in Crossville, won the Tennessee division, while Doris Banks, floral manager of the Whitesburg Food City, won the Kentucky division.

Food City donated $250 to a nonprofit supported by each district winner and another $500 to those supported by divisional winners. One overall winner will receive the Claude P. Varney Humanitarian Award with an additional $1,000 charity contribution made on their behalf.

Local store winners and their nonprofits included: ■ Seymour, Kennedy Melson, Meridian Baptist Church ■ Strawberry Plains, Rebekah Brown, The Love Kitchen ■ N. Broadway, Terri Lynnhott, Friends of Wool, Project Linus ■ Mountain Grove Drive, Josephine Jurkovac, Clothe My Children, Live It Ministries ■ Fountain City, LeeAnn Johnson, United Methodist Women’s organization, Fountain City UMC ■ Millertown Pike, Kris Keahey, Young-Williams Animal Center

Bearden Rotary gets new members

■ Halls, Autumn Brooks, AYSO, FOTL, Fantasy of Trees and GHS community service

New members of the Rotary Club of Bearden and recent gradu- ■ Hardin Valley, Haley Powell, ates of Rotary College are: Rebecca Wilson, director of Development at Choices Senior Care; Ray Fisher of Fisher Tire Co. and attorney Andy McCall. Photo by Charles Garvey

East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, The Love Kitchen, The Water Angels Ministry ■ Middlebrook Pike, Larry Holtz, Cornerstone Church of God ■ Bearden Center, Kathy Davis, East Tennessee Bloodhound Rescue ■ College Homes, Marcia Hickerson, Knoxville Fellows ■ Clinton Highway, Rosline Waller, AYSO soccer, American Breast Cancer Association, Association for the Blind ■ Cumberland Estates, Cynthia VanRiet, KARM ■ Deane Hill, Keri Neston, American Diabetes Association ■ Powell, Mona Napier, Powell Playhouse, Sharon Baptist Church

Lunch for growers Food City’s luncheon to honor local growers has been reset to noon Friday, March 6, at the Jack C. Smith Conference Center in Abingdon, Va. This year’s Wayne Scott Memorial Grower of the Year award winner will be announced.

Beth Cayo receives a rose on Valentine’s Day from Thomas Walkley, client service professional with H&R Block in Bearden.

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New home for H&R Block H&R Block in Bearden has moved from Knox Plaza to Mercedes Place, 4841 Kingston Pike.

The new facilities feature a more professional style and enhanced privacy for clients and tax preparers,

NEWS FROM PREMIER SURGICAL

Walking a Mile in their Shoes When Tim Muncy gets dressed for a day on the job at Premier Prosthetic Center in Knoxville, the most important thing he puts on isn’t his medical scrubs uniform, it’s his prosthetic left leg. Muncy, like the patients he works with, is an amputee.

As a Prosthetist Assistant, Muncy helps fit those who have lost a leg or an arm with

FARRAGUT CHAMBER EVENTS ■ Wednesday, Feb. 25, 4-5 p.m., ribbon-cutting, I Love Juice Bar, The Pinnacle at Turkey Creek, 11681 Parkside Drive.

■ Thursday, Feb. 26, 8-9:30 a.m., networking, Dale Skidmore Agency, 10816

Kingston Pike.

■ Tuesday, March 3, 1-2 p.m., ribbon-cutting, The Bingham Group, 11921 Kingston Pike.

■ Wednesday, March 4, 2-3 p.m., groundbreaking,

said client service leader Lori Smith. She and her staff of 10 tax professionals and three client service professionals are equipped to prepare a variety of tax returns and amendments.

Info: 865-584-1040.

American Family Care, 9203 Kingston Pike.

■ Thursday, March 5, 8-9:30 a.m., networking, FHS Education Foundation, The Chop House, 9700 Kingston Pike.

and the fit,” explains Muncy. “Since I was a new amputee, I didn’t know there were different types of foot options for different activity levels.”

When Muncy and his family moved to Knoxville in 2013, he learned of the Premier Prosthetic Center and consulted with Prosthetist Carey Bunch to develop a lighter socket and foot system that better suited his lifestyle.

“Tim is an incredibly active guy. He hikes and spends time outdoors with his family,” explains Bunch. “His prosthesis was a good everyday foot, but was not designed for active use. Tim isn’t satisfied with a sedentary life and wanted to be able to run in races. So we looked for a foot system that would allow him to reach his goals.”

Muncy is reaching goals. In October, he and his family completed the Komen Race for the Cure, participating on the Premier Surgical Associates team. And, in addition to getting a new leg, Muncy has also found a new career, working with patients at Premier Prosthetic Center. For Muncy, it’s a perfect fit.

“I tell patients, ‘Don’t let your amputation hold you back.’ It’s too easy to stay in a wheelchair or recliner. Don’t give up. Keep moving and your possibilities are endless.”

Tim Muncy demonstrates his new AllPro foot prosthetic with Prosthetist Orthotist Carey Bunch.

a prosthetic limb that will allow them to best meet their mobility and activity goals.

He also helps encourages patients as they adapt to life as an amputee. It’s a journey Muncy knows well.

“From a peer support perspective, it’s definitely a benefit to patients,” explains Premier Prosthetic Center Prosthetist Orthotist Carey Bunch. “Tim has personally been through that process.”

While living in Kentucky February of 2009, Muncy’s leg was severely injured in a car crash when he swerved to miss a deer. He didn’t lose his leg immediately.

“I kept hoping it would heal. I had eleven surgeries and fought for three years to save it,” remembers Muncy. “Basically, I had a dead foot and it was eventually amputated.”

After the amputation, Muncy was fitted with a prosthetic leg, but it wasn’t a good experience.

“I wasn’t happy with the heavy socket

Tim reached his goal of completing the Komen Race for the Cure with his son Jordan and wife Denise.

For more information about Premier Prosthetic Center, please visit

www.premierprosthetic.com or call 865-474-7096.

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Lakeshore Park will soon be ‘blank canvas’

By Wendy Smith Last week, most Lakeshore Park visitors were toting sleds, and they weren’t thinking about sunny picnics overlooking Fort Loudoun Lake. But changes to the park, which was donated to the city by the state in 2013, may surprise those who visit only in warm weather.

Seventeen buildings that were part of Lakeshore Mental Health Institute have been removed since NEO Corp. began demolition work last fall. Over 80 percent of removed building material has been recycled.

It hasn’t been an easy task, but the work will provide a “blank canvas” for upcoming improvements, says Knoxville Parks and Recreation Director Joe Walsh.

“I think people will be amazed if they go out there this spring. It will look like a park.”

Because the demolition work came in under budget, City Council recently approved a $116,755 increase in NEO’s contract for hazardous material abatement in the former administration building. Using a company that’s already on-site is the cheapest way to get the work done, says Knoxville Director of Engineering Jim Hagerman.

install all new utilities on the park campus, and that work is expected to begin March 1.

Lakeshore Park Inc. has hired Cardin Bradley as director of development, and the group is in the process of putting together a fundraising committee. A capital campaign for park improvements is expected to begin within 60 days, and the goal is $25 million to $30 million, says board member Tom McAdams.

People from all over town have expressed interest in contributing, including several former Lakeshore Mental Health Institute employees, he says.

Construction of the first addition to the park, the Hank Rappe Memorial Universal Playground, is expected to begin March 1. Knoxville Youth Sports (KYS) raised funds for the project, named in memory The Lakeshore Mental Health Institute’s former administration building, shown before renovations began, will house the city’s of a 3-year-old KYS T-ball Parks and Recreation Department. Photo by Wendy Smith player. The goal is for the playground to be completed The administration and an appropriate location leased to the Helen Ross significant cracking indi- by the end of May. building, which dates back for his staff of 20. A large McNabb Center, the general cated the structure was Renovations to the chato 1886, is one of five build- conference room on the first services building, which unsafe. pel should also begin this ings that have been pre- floor will be available to the will be used by the city as Walsh anticipates that spring. The facility will be served. When restored, general public, he says. warehouse space, and the demolition will be complet- converted to a multi-use the building will house the The other structures chapel. ed by the end of March. City event space that will be apcity’s Parks and Recreation that will be preserved are The city originally Council also recently ap- propriate for meetings, conDepartment. Walsh thinks two residential buildings planned to preserve the proved an agreement with certs and weddings, McAdit’s a wonderful building still owned by the state and institute’s smokestack, but Knoxville Utilities Board to ams says.

HEALTH NOTES ■ The Alexander Technique, An Introduction, 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, Knoxville Healing Center, 313 N. Forest Park Blvd.

Cost: a donation to the Alzheimer’s Association. Preregistration requested. Info/ to register: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or www.

AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

■ “Back Pain – Using the Alexander Technique for Self-Care,” noon Wednesday, March 4, 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $30.

Preregistration required. Info/to register: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.Alexander TechniqueKnoxville.com.

■ “Prevention and Relief of TMJ Pain,” noon-2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, Knoxville Healing Center, 313 N. Forest Park Blvd.

Cost: $30. Preregistration required. Info/ to register: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or www.

AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

■ Saturday Brunch Social with Live Music, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Featuring the Luv Muffins. Info/RSVP:

546-4661.

■ Spring Cleaning with Herbs and Natural Ingredients, 1-2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Instructor: Kathy Mihalczo. Info/RSVP: 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 through 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.

Bojangle, Meadow and Lola Bunny Bojangle is a five-yearold male coonhound mix, Meadow is a three-year-old female domestic mediumhair mix and Lola Bunny is a beautiful two-yearold female Californian/ American Rabbit mix. Each animal has been spayed or neutered, vaccinated and micro-chipped. They are available for adoption at Young-Williams Animal Center’s 3201 Division Street location. Info: 215-6599 or www.youngwilliams.org.

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Farragut mayor visits fifth grade

Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill visits with the fifth grade class at CCS. The class took the opportunity to pray for him.

The fifth grade students have been learning about praying for our leaders. It is both an honor and a responsibility we have as Christians to uphold our leaders in prayer.

Recently, we had the opportunity to pray for one of our local leaders, the mayor of Farragut, Ralph McGill. Twelve students used scripture to pray for him to create and uphold just laws and make wise decisions with guidance from God. They also prayed for his health, family, and for him to be bold in his faith.

McGill brought each fifth grade classroom a copy of “Full Speed Ahead,” which details the founding of the town of Farragut. The students were

A very special Grandparents Day

Terry and Mary McNatt spend the morning with their granddaughter, CCS first grader Katelyn Stooksbury, and their daughter, CCS second grad teacher Melody Stooksbury.

Grandparents make the world a special place with the love they give, and recently Concord Christian School elementary students had the opportunity to shower love on their grandparents.

Nearly 400 grandparents came from far and near to spend the morning on campus for CCS’s Annual Grandparents Day Celebration. The students performed for the packed house and then spent the morning with their special guests visiting classes and doing fun activities together.

Jake and Alex Baldwin enjoy the morning their grandparents, Irene and JR Baldwin.

First grader Jackson Krahl has fun making a craft with his grandfather, Tom McCall.

Heath Shuler to share at Concord Christian School’s Big Orange Evening Concord Christian School’s Big Orange Evening is coming Friday, March 6th at 6:30 pm.

Friends of CCS will gather at Thompson-Boling Arena for the school’s first ever annual fundraising gala. The objective of Big Orange Evening is 3-fold: raise needed funds to support further expansion of Concord Christian School, create awareness in the community of the incredible offerings available at CCS, and hold a fun community event that anyone would enjoy. As we move toward a new high school building it is imperative that events like Big Orange Evening help drive an aggressive building plan.

Thompson Boling Arena is the perfect backdrop to host many former Vols and guest speaker Heath Shuler. We are excited to hear Heath’s testimony as he will describe his faith journey. It’s also an incredible venue to share an exciting, high-energy evening with the community. Any person would enjoy this time that includes dinner, a live auction, great photo opportunities, CCS testimonials, and Heath Shuler. Table reservations are still available.

Please contact ccsdevelopmentteam@ fbconcord.org for reservations and additional information.

very interested to hear the story of how God called him into office. We were blessed to pray for this humble servant of God. Fifth grade Bible teacher Dawn McGuire said, “This year I have encouraged all of the fifth grade students to intercede for others as both a privilege and responsibility as a Christian. I was humbled to watch them volunteer to pray for an adult who is a leader in our community.

They passionately prayed with conviction, faith, and boldness - confident that God hears their requests and answers them according to His will. They are wonderful prayer warriors!”

CCS 6th grade student, Sebastian Borthwick (front center) holds a check awarded by the West Knoxville Commercial Bank Branch for his role in saving Charles Lewis’s life.

Also pictured are: Natalie Hall, Loraine France and Dean LaRue all of Commercial Bank; Diana Lewis, CCS computer teacher Sherlyn Dawson, Charles Lewis, Kelvin Borthwick, Susan Borthwick, Aaron Borthwick, CCS Elementary Principal Leigh Ledet, CCS Middle and High School Principal Amanda Lane and Bill Bayless, FBC Sports Outreach.

Commercial Bank rewards student hero Computer teacher Sherlyn Dawson spends the week of Valentines Day to cover heart safety for her students, providing instruction on what to do in the case of a heart attack including CPR, AEDs and calling 911. That lesson was a life-saver.

Sebastian Borthwick was instrumental in saving Charles Lewis’s life last May. Lewis

suffered a heart attack while participating in a men’s league basketball game at First Baptist Concord. Sebastian, who had learned about AEDs in his computer class, brought the closest unit to the gym floor where Lewis had collapsed.

Loraine France said, “When we heard of Charles having a heart attack, as his bank family we were saddened but at the

same time elated that Sebastian was present to assist him.

I felt that Sebastian needed to be shown the appreciation for saving Charles, so a call was placed to his Bank family for donations. The response was overwhelming and this was just one way we could thank Sebastian for saving a member of our Bank family. We will forever be grateful.”

Is your child ready for kindergarten?

It’s that time of the year when parents of four- and five-year-old children begin thinking about kindergarten.

Elementary Principal Leigh Ledet shares tips and insights for parents as they decide if their child is ready to start school. “Kindergarten can be an exciting time for families!

It sets the stage for a child’s school career.”

Ledet indicated that age is only one factor to consider when making the decision about kindergarten.

“There is no single factor that determines whether a child is ready for kindergarten. Instead, look at the whole child and focus on their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development.”

Kindergarten Readiness takes into account where the child is in the process of being able to learn. Concord Christian School conducts a Kindergarten Readiness Assessments

Kindergartener Lia Fleming joins her teacher Linda Wantland to lead the class in a fun activity. for all potential students to be certain they are truly ready for Kindergarten.

To help families, Concord Christian School has put together a Parent’s Guide to Kindergarten Readiness. This helpful resource includes a “School Visit Checklist”. Each child and family has different needs and requirements when choosing a school and the checklist is meant to aid you in your decision making.

Ledet encourages families to access this tool from www.

concordchristainschool.org.

“Children come to kindergarten with a variety of experiences and our teachers accept each one at their level of development. From there, we work hard to help students develop the necessary building blocks for school so they will experience success, not only in kindergarten, but for years to come.”

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Young at heart Sylvia Countess was walking her dog one day last summer when she happened to cross paths with one of her neighbors. They exchanged greetings, and then Countess couldn’t help sharing what was on her mind.

“I said, ‘Do you know I had heart surgery on Monday and I’m walking my dog today?’ ” Countess laughs.

It had been just five days since that surgery.

Countess underwent Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) at Parkwest Medical Center last summer. Like so many other TAVR patients, she now marvels at the outcome.

“Dr. [Thomas] Pollard and the rest of the team at Parkwest were wonderful,” said Countess.

“I couldn’t have asked for better Thomas care.”

Pollard, MD During a TAVR procedure, a stent is used to insert a replacement valve, as opposed to opening the chest through traditional surgery. To qualify for TAVR, patients must be considered ineligible for tradiWilliam tional open heart Hall, MD procedures.

Countess had already had surgery for heart problems in the past, and TAVR turned out to be a perfect fit for her.

“Most patients who undergo TAVR are deemed high Milan risk because of their frailty or mulSheth, MD

No longer a patient, Sylvia Countess now works as a hospital volunteer. Countess had triple bypass surgery at Methodist Medical Center in 2010 and a TAVR procedure at Parkwest Medical Center last year.

Sylvia Countess celebrated her birthday working in Palestine in 2010. Thanks to cardiac care at Covenant Health hospitals, she’s been able to continue traveling and doing the work she loves.

tiple medical problems. This was not the case with Sylvia. She actually led a very active lifestyle prior to becoming limited by her heart valve disease. Traditional heart surgery was just too high risk for her because of her previous history of heart surgery and the development of vascular calcification,” Pollard said.

Four years ago, Countess was pulling her luggage through an airport when she noticed traveling

Covenant Health TAVR procedure results ‘very favorable’ When Parkwest CAO Rick Lassiter first heard about TAVR, his interest was piqued.

The proposal to bring TAVR to Covenant Health was brought forth by cardiothoracic surgeons. It meant a new hybrid operating room would have to be built at a significant investment. It also required that the surgeons performing the procedure must be trained in Irvine, Calif.

Lassiter, who has been in healthcare for more than two decades, felt this revolutionary procedure would not only save lives, but improve the quality of life for patients who have run out of options. He supported the physicians’ proposal.

“After hours of discussions with our physicians and our clinicians, a strategic plan was developed and the rest is history,” Lassiter said.

Between June 6, 2012, and Dec. 31, 2014, the Covenant Heath TAVR team performed 152 TAVR surgeries at Parkwest, at an average of 59 cases per year. This volume compares to a median average of 30 surgeries per year at the 223 other medical centers that participated in the PARTNER (Placement of AoRtic TraNscathetER) Valves Trial.

“The data is very favorable,” Lassiter stated. “We do nearly twice as many TAVR procedures on average, and our mortality rate for the procedure is well below the national median. We also have lower rates of major vascular injury, valvular leakage and bleeding.”

wasn’t as easy as it used to be. She loved that her job had allowed her to travel for years, but suddenly it seemed to exhaust her.

“I was huffing and puffing,” says Countess, who was 70 at the time. “I just thought I was getting old, and maybe I was pushing myself too hard.”

It was the first sign that something was wrong, but it was a sign she ignored. Later, when she blamed

her breathing problems on allergies, her doctor recommended a stress test to see if her heart might be the real cause. The results couldn’t be denied.

“I was surprised to hear I needed triple bypass surgery,” Countess says.

However, Countess wasn’t afraid.

She had confidence in cardiac surgeon William Hall, MD, and Methodist Medical Center.

It’s safe to say the average person doesn’t enjoy hospitals the way she does, but Sylvia Countess is not the average person.

For most of her adult life, Countess has been involved in hospital work, either on the payroll or as a volunteer. For several years while she was teaching advanced placement French at Oak Ridge High School, she worked nights as a certified nursing assistant (CNA). While she traveled on behalf of her church to train teachers in the United States and in Palestine, she was also working as a hospital chaplain in Knoxville.

“There’s just something special about being in a hospital,” Countess says.

The bypass surgery was expertly performed, and she got back to her busy life. All was going well for a few years, until she started to experience an old familiar feeling. She began to be fatigued too easily, and her breathing became labored again.

Countess followed her doctor’s orders after her surgery at Methodist. She had regularly scheduled appointments with her cardiologist, Milan Sheth, MD. He kept tabs on the condition of her heart, and when those old symptoms started to reappear, she had quick access to care.

“When I had my triple bypass in 2010, there had been some talk about

The right mix of expertise There’s an old saying: “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” However, that is definitely not the case when a patient’s treatment plan calls for TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement).

With TAVR, the patient benefits from the expertise of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, all of whom play essential roles.

The first TAVR was performed at Parkwest in June 2012. The procedure gives new hope to patients who suffer from a progressive life-threatening condition called aortic stenosis but who are not candidates for traditional open heart surgery. As of the end of 2104, 152 patients have received this life-saving procedure at Parkwest.

TAVR is a minimally invasive procedure that involves placing a catheter into the femoral artery or through a small incision between the ribs and deploying a collapsible prosthetic aortic valve into a beating heart.

At Parkwest, the multidisciplinary TAVR team includes physicians specializing in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, interventional cardiology and cardiac anesthesiology, along with nurses and technicians with specialized training. The team also in-

problems with my aortic valve,” Countess says. “The decision was made not to do anything about it at the time, and that was fine with me.”

After four years of careful monitoring and less invasive treatment options, Sheth determined the time was right to get that valve taken care of. Because Countess had chosen healthcare through a doctor associated with Covenant Health and a Covenant Health hospital in Oak Ridge, she was already connected to the wide variety of services available through the healthcare system.

Being part of the Covenant Health network allowed Sheth to offer several options for his patient. After further testing and consultation with Dr. Hall, it was decided that the TAVR procedure at Parkwest would be best for Countess.

She says the whole experience at the hospital was very positive, and she managed to make a return trip to Palestine just a few months later.

Asked how she’s doing now, Countess quips, “I think I’m excellent. Parts of me may be perfect!”

Now 74 years young, Countess has returned to her love of hospitals and has joined the Covenant Health team. She’s a volunteer at Methodist, the same Covenant hospital where she had her first heart procedure.

When she’s not busy with that, she’s volunteering as a deaconess with the Lutheran church.

“Life is too precious to be spent sitting around feeling bad,” Countess says. “If there is something you can do to improve your quality of life – and thereby improve the quality of life of the people around you – then you go for it.”

To learn more about TAVR at Parkwest Medical Center or to learn more about the cardiac services of Methodist Medical Center visit covenanthealth.com, or call 865-541-4500.

Multidisciplinary approach benefits TAVR patients

The Covenant Health TAVR team pictured (L to R) are: Nicholaos Xenopoulos, MD; Ayaz Rahman, MD; Sonya Brown; Chad Stouffer, MD; Thomas Pollard, MD; Mike Ayres, MD; and Sheilah Vartan (missing from photo: G. Lee Collins, MD, Samuel McIlrath, MD and Jeff Ollis, MD). cludes a nurse navigator who provides education, a plan of care, emotional support and guidance through the TAVR experience.

A patient is referred to one of the interventional cardiologists or cardiovascularsurgeons who perform TAVR by his or her own cardiologist or primary care physician. The patient first undergoes a work-up that includes extensive outpatient tests, which are presented at a weekly TAVR conference.

Even the operating room used for TAVR procedures at Parkwest is multidisciplinary in design. A unique surgical room, known as a hybrid op-

erating room, combines the resources of a cardiac catheterization lab and an operating room, including the imaging equipment needed for minimally invasive procedures.

While the operating facilities are located at Parkwest Medical Center, the team includes physicians from across Covenant Health and patients who come from other hospitals in the area to have this procedure.

To learn more about TAVR and the cardiac services available through Covenant Health, visit us online at www.covenanthealth.com/heart or call 865-541-4500.

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weekender FRIDAY ■ Danú 20th Anniversary Tour, 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

■ Lexus Luxury Performances featuring Kacey Musgraves, 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tennessee Theatre box office; Ticketmaster.com, 800-745-3000.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble Spring Concert, Knoxville Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: Civic Auditorium Box Office, 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ “Schoolhouse Rock Jr.” presented by Primary Players, Lambert Recital Hall, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets. com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

■ “Venus in Fur” presented by Maryville College Theatre, Haslam Flexible Theatre, Clayton Center, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Adult content, no children please.

Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

SUNDAY ■ “Appalachian Spring,” 2:30 p.m., Bijou Theater, 803 S. Gay St. Performances by Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra and GO! Contemporary Dance Works. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

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A prescription for fun Jackson Browne sang “Doctor My Eyes.” Aretha Franklin praised “Dr. Feelgood.” The Beatles told us about “Doctor Robert.”

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This Friday, some local physicians will be throwin’ down for a good cause at two Old City venues, and they won’t be using their usual medical instruments.

They’ll be part of the annual fundraiser “Doc Rock for Health,” a fun, rowdy event that benefits area medical charities.

Hosted by the Knoxville Academy of Medicine Alliance (KAMA), the event features local medical providers onstage playing roofraising rock. Second Opinion, Funk and Awesome, Remedy and South River Trail are some of the bands on the roster.

“This is the 10th anniversary of ‘Doc Rock,’ and it continues to grow more successful every year,” says Jenny Bushkell, a past KAMA president who now handles social-media publicity for the event.

The whole thing started “with a random meeting at a pharmaceutical dinner,” Bushkell says. The diners found themselves tossing around the idea of combining the musical talents of several physician bands with fundraising for local health agencies. “It reminds me of the Margaret Mead quote: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.’ ” Over the past 10 years, “Doc Rock for Health” has

Second Opinion rocks the crowd at last year’s “Doc Rock for Health.” Pictured are Larry Sheumaker (back to camera,) Melissa Carter, Todd Wright and Tim Comer. Photo by Jenny Bushkell

Founder of “Doc Rock for Health” Jacque Prince (with gold mask) joins revelers Michele Carringer, Sharon Griffin, Jenny Bushkell and Shanna Lehman. Photo by Sandra Ange Photography

raised more than $50,000.

Bushkell credits this year’s event coordinator, Jacque Prince, with founding the popular fundraiser.

Prince’s husband, Marty, plays guitar and sings with two bands and has been in on the fun from the very beginning.

“The music is always really good, and the charities are truly awesome!” he says.

Prince, who is a pulmonary critical care physician with StatCare Pulmonary Consultants, lists the Beatles, Elton John and Paul Simon among his influences, along with “a bunch of alternative

and country acts my kids have made me listen to over the past 30 years.”

Audience members will get to vote for their favorite band. They’ll also cast votes for their choice of six charitable organizations, and proceeds will be divided accordingly. This year’s charities are St. Mary’s Mobile Medical Clinic, Hospitality House, Hope Resource Center, Vine Middle School Clinic, KAPPI (Knox Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Initiative) and Interfaith Health Clinic.

“For everyone who has come before, please come

again this year, and if you have never attended you will have a great time, so don’t miss it,” says Dr. Prince.

“Doc Rock for Health” will take place this Friday, Feb. 27, at NV Nightclub and the Bowery, located side by side at 125 E. Jackson Ave., across from Barley’s in the Old City. Doors open at 7 p.m., with the first band onstage at 7:30. Tickets, available at the door, are $15. For limited $100 VIP seating, contact Susan Brown at kamalliance@ gmail.com.

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Will Smith cons; Olivia Wilde aims for creep-out This weekend, you can The smoky flavor of the Applewood duck at Connors Steak & expect some of Sunday’s Seafood is a perfect complement to the dark cherry glaze. Photo Academy Award winners to

by Mystery Diner return to or make their debut at local theaters.

The two concepts at Connor Concepts bring diners to expect great quality beef Mystery and seafood at the estabDiner lishments of the locally owned restaurant family.

With The Chop House and Betsy Connors Steak & Seafood Pickle names on the doors of 15 locations in six states, the Connor restaurants are I am now, however, a huge known for beef – from fan of this dish. The persteaks to burgers. fectly proportioned slices Otherwise, there are two Venture off that track of breast were a beauti- wide releases that probably for an incredible dish re- ful pink with expert grill won’t be getting any love at cently added to the menu at marks. The glaze made the next year’s Oscar ceremony.

Connors Steak & Seafood, whole dish glisten and my “Focus” stars Will Smith 10915 Turkey Creek Drive. mouth water. as a con man who’s looking The Applewood Smoked The Applewood Smoked for a big payday in the highDuck Breast will make you Duck Breast has just the stakes world of auto racing. a duck fan if you aren’t and right amount of smoky fla- When the apprentice (Marcement your love of the bird vor. When dealing with got Robbie) he once loved if you are. meats that might lean to- turns up in his life again, his Getting the duck wasn’t ward having that slight plans are put in jeopardy. in the plan when Mystery “gamey” flavor, it’s easy to Rodrigo Santoro, BD Diner walked into the res- try to mask that with too Wong and Gerald McRaney taurant. The battle of the much smoke. The chefs at also star for directors Glenn taste buds was between Connors did not fall into Ficarra and John Requa, two of the restaurant’s sig- that trap. Topping the ten- the team that brought us nature dishes: crab cakes der breast slices with a dark “I Love You Phillip Morris” and the boursin fi let. cherry demi-glace gives the and “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”

But a wait for a table put meat a flavor combination Olivia Wilde stars in me near the grill where the that should not be missed.

“The Lazarus Effect,” which chefs were preparing the The dish is served over reads like an unholy mashfood. As the plate of smoked mashed potatoes with a up of “Flatliners” and “Pet duck breast slid down the side of grilled asparagus. Sematary.” line, I was intrigued. By Both accompaniments were Wilde plays a university the time the chef was add- good, but nothing was tak- researcher whose team is ing the sauce, I was asking ing the attention away from working on bringing the what was on the plate, and the star of the show. If you dead back to life. They’re the decision was done. have ever considered trying excited when their first exThis is unusual because duck, this introduction is periment, on an animal, I am not a huge duck fan. starting you at the top. works, but the university’s dean isn’t pleased. He shuts them down and confiscates their materials.

When they decide to try to start up again in secret, things go terribly wrong.

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Will Smith connects with Margot Robbie in “Focus.”

Mia Wasikowska and Julianne Moore both have troubled pasts in “Maps to the Stars.”

Olivia Wilde and Donald Glover get into creepy science in “The Lazarus Effect.”

Naturally. Evan Peters, Donald Glover, Mark Duplass and Sarah Bolger also star for director David Gelb.

A third film with some awards cred should be arriving in limited release either this week or very soon.

“Maps to the Stars” earned praise at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, with star Julianne Moore winning Best

Actress and director David Cronenberg nominated for the Palm D’Or. (Moore won the Best Actress Oscar for “Still Alice” Sunday night.)

Moore plays an aging actress who wants to do a remake of the movie that made her mother a star. She becomes entangled with the family of her analyst (John Cusack), which includes

a stage mom (Olivia Williams), a bratty child star (Evan Bird) and a troubled daughter (Mia Wasikowska) who has befriended a limo driver (Robert Pattinson) who wants to break into the film industry.

This is Cronenberg’s first film since 2012’s “Cosmopolis,” which helped Pattinson shed his “Twilight” image.

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THROUGH SATURDAY, FEB. 28 “Buy One, Get One Free” admission tickets available for Knoxville Zoo. Tickets can be purchased at the zoo ticket window during regular zoo hours.

Info: 637-5331, ext. 300 or knoxvillezoo.org.

CLO Arts Academy for Kids art exhibition, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Presented by the Knox County Public Defender’s Community Law Office (CLO). Features art work by children ages kindergarten through fifth grade.

Free admission to the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center in Townsend, near the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and is closed on Sunday. Info: www. gsmheritagecenter.org.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25

SATURDAY, FEB. 28

AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., AAA Knoxville office, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Must preregister.

Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

African-American Read-In, a recitation celebrating the works of African-American authors, all day, Pellissippi State Community College Division Street campus. Info: www.pstcc.edu/diversity or 694-6400.

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

Program: UT Professor Emeritus Dr. Bruce Wheeler will talk about “Knoxville, Tennessee – A Mountain City in the New South.” Lunch: $12. Info: 983-3740.

Performance Salon, 7-10 p.m., Remedy Coffee, 125 W. Jackson Ave. Features: Yissy Garcia and her band from Cuba. Presented by Carpetbag Theatre and Arts & Culture Alliance. Cover charge: $5. Info: Joe Tolbert, 806-0451 or thejoet@gmail.com.

STAR Junior Volunteer Training, 5-7 p.m., Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding, 11800 Highway 11E, Lenoir City. For ages 10-12. Horse experience not necessary. Info: Melissa, 988-4711 or www.rideatstar.org.

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

Info/to register: 215-8809.

Dialogue workshop, noon, Remedy Coffee, 125 W. Jackson Ave. Instructor: Pamela Schoenewaldt. Sponsored by the Knoxville Writers’ Guild. Cost: $35 for KWG members, $40 for nonmembers. Info/to register: www.knoxvillewritersguild.org or send check to KWG Workshops, P.O. Box 10326, Knoxville TN 37939-0326.

Historic Hauntings VIP session, 5:30 p.m., Ramsey House, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. The results of the paranormal investigation by Haunted Knoxville Ghost Tour’s J-Adam Smith and video by Patrick Watson of Mapletree Productions. VIP admission: $35;.

Additional tours: $25. All proceeds benefit Historic Ramsey House. Info/reservations: 546-0745; judy@ ramseyhouse.org; Kathy@ramseyhouse.org.

Open actor auditions for the Tennessee Medieval Faire, 2-5 p.m., 125 Barrie Lane, Kingston.

Rescheduled from Feb. 21. The Faire will run May 16-17, 23-25 and 30-31 at 550 Fiske Road, Harriman. Info: DarkhorseLLC@comcast.net or 466-1902.

“Pottery for Entertaining” pottery show and sale, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Tellico Village Yacht Club, 100 Sequoyah Road, Loudon. Features handmade pottery and clay art of Terra Madre: Women in Clay. Free and open to the public.

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

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

STAR Lesson Volunteer Training, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding, 11800 Highway 11E, Lenoir City. For ages 13 and up. Horse experience not necessary. Info: Melissa, 988-4711 or www.rideatstar.org.

Tennessee Stage Company New Play Festival Readings: “American Farce,” 1 p.m., Lawson McGhee Branch Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Tennessee Stage Company New Play Festival Readings: “Cast List,” 3 p.m., Lawson McGhee Branch Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

THURSDAY, FEB. 26

Call for entries for the next “Arts in the Airport,” a juried exhibition to run April 16 to Oct. 7 at McGhee Tyson Airport. Info/applications: www.knoxalliance. com/airport_entry.html or send an SASE to Suzanne Cada, Arts & Culture Alliance, PO Box 2506, Knoxville, TN 37901.

Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Clarence Brown Theatre Mainstage.

Performances: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. “Deaf Night at the Theatre,” 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3. Tickets: box office, 974-5161; Tickets Unlimited, 656-4444; www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. Info: www. clarencebrowntheatre.com or Clarence Brown Theatre on Facebook.

Caribbean Festival, 5:30-8 p.m., Goins Administration Building at Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

Features performances by the Carib Sounds Steel Band and the Caribbean Dancers of Atlanta; Caribbean foods, including jerk chicken and rice and beans. Info: www. pstcc.edu/diversity or 694-6400.

Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee Walk Kickoff Luncheon, noon, Buddy’s BBQ Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Walk will be held Saturday, April 18, at UT Gardens. Info/reservations: Kay Watson, 544-6288 x225 or kay.watson@TNalz.org.

“Savvy Social Security Planning: What Baby Boomers Need to Know to Maximize Retirement Income” non-credit course. 6:30-8:30 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Blount County campus. Full schedule of class times and locations: www.pstcc.edu/ bcs. Info: 539-7167.

Yissy Garcia in concert, 7 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Tickets: $15; museum members, students and seniors $10. Info/tickets: www.

KnoxTIX.com or 523-7521.

THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 27

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, FEB. 26-28

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. Info/to register: www.townoffarragut.org/register and click the Programs tab; Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive; 966-7057.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” presented by the Tellico Community Players, 7:30 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon.

Additional performance: 3 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $20; available at Village Salon, Salon Anew and The Tellico Village Yacht Club in Loudon and Kahite Pub & Grille in Vonore; or at the door. Info: http:// tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

THROUGH SUNDAY, MARCH 8

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, chartclimbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Info/tickets: www.rhythmnbloomsfest. com.

THROUGH MAY 20 Applications accepted for the Great Smoky Mountains Trout Adventure Camp for middle school girls and boys, sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Trout Unlimited to be held June 15-20 at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info/applications: http://www.tntroutadventure.org.

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BMA MEETING, 7:00 PM I. Silent Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Roll Call II. Approval of Agenda III. Mayor’s Report IV. Citizens Forum V. Approval of Minutes A. February 12, 2015 VI. Ordinances A. Public Hearing & Second Reading 1. Ordinance 15-01, to rezone Parcel 191.17, Tax Map 130, located at 11454 Parkside Drive, from O-1-3 and B-1 to C-1 and B-1, 2.2 Acres (Farragut Lands Partners, LLC, Applicant) B. First Reading 1. Ordinance 15-03, to amend the Farragut Municipal Code by adding Title 14, Chapter 6., Farragut Architectural Design Standards, and authorizing the Farragut Municipal Planning Commission to be the Design Review Commission VII. Business Items A. Approval of Salt Purchases from Morton Salt B. Approval of Replacement of the Existing Old Stage Hills Entrance Sign C. Appeal of access determination for the Hodges property, Parcels 1.00, 1.01 and 1.02, Tax Map 152-C, located at the southeast corner of Kingston Pike and Chaho Road, 1.37 Acres VIII. Town Administrator’s Report IX. Town Attorney’s Report It is the policy of the Town of Farragut not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public Law 93-112 and 101-336 in its hiring, employment practices and programs. To request accommodations due to disabilities, please call 865-9667057 in advance of the meeting.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 27 Alive After Five concert: Devan Jones & The Uptown Stomp with special guest Robinella, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive.

Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Dirk Powell and Riley Baugus, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $15, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Doc Rock 2015, 8 p.m.-midnight, on two stages: NV Nightclub, 125 E. Jackson Ave. and The Bowery.

Doors open at 7. Ultimate battle of physician bands.

Presented by Knoxville Academy of Medicine Alliance.

Bands include: Second Opinion, Remedy, Patriot Rising, Funk and Awesome, STD-Spinal Tappin’ Docs; South River Trail. Info: https://www.facebook.com/ DocRockForHealth/timeline.

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Prospective bidders may obtain Bidding Documents from the Town of Farragut website or at 11408 Municipal Center Drive on or after 8:00 a.m., Thursday, February 26, 2015. Sealed bids will be accepted until bid opening at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

The Town of Farragut reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids. Contact Bud McKelvey at 388-5247 for further information.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 Computer Workshops: Excel, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215- 8700.

Needle Tatting, Beaded Josephine Bracelet Class, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/ profile/monicaschmidt.

“Preventing Home Improvement Pitfalls – A General Code Overview for Homeowners and Builders” hosted by town of Farragut Community Development Department, 6 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Free and open to the public; no registration required. Info: 675-2384.

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‘Recycling Games’ event, 1-3 p.m., Wilderness at the Smokies Waterpark Resort, Sevierville. Oneday tickets to Wild WaterDome indoor waterpark: $15.

Waterpark will remain open until 8 p.m. Proceeds to benefit Keep Sevier Beautiful and Sevier County Food Bank. Kids will learn important tips about recycling and helping the environment.

Tennessee Stage Company New Play Festival Readings: “The Third Proposal” by Dennis Duff., 2 p.m., Lawson McGhee Branch Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

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Antiques Classics 260 1966 Pont. Catalina, 4 dr, western car, 389 AT, posi rear, good cnd. $2695. 865-250-2639

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February 25, 2015

A big mountain to climb New mom drops weight, gets healthy

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By Carol Shane

ll parents will tell you that their lives were changed by their children.

For mother of triplets Erin Tipton Archer, the changes were broad and sweeping. Her life today is completely different than it was pre-children, and not just because of all the time involved in child care.

The Hardin Valley resident now heads Team Archer, a motivational website for people who want to achieve better health and fitness.

“When I experienced a triplet pregnancy, I had no idea what my body was capable of handling,” she says. “It made me appreciate and understand I was taking my health for granted.

“It also taught me how strong I was and that I would never allow myself to think otherwise.”

Pre-motherhood, Archer had led a very different kind of busy lifestyle. A violist, violinist and conductor, she taught music full-time during the week and toured on the weekends. “I was a workaholic,” she admits. “I was doing all the things I really enjoyed but just too much of them.”

As for diet and exercise, “I relied on convenience foods and turned to comfort with wine almost every evening. Exercise was hit or miss as it was not a priority of mine.”

She and her husband Carey, who works in music industry special-event and VIP planning, had

Megan, Christopher and Samantha are happy to be at home on mom Erin Archer’s lap in this 2012 shot by dad Carey Archer.

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dreamed of having a family. But they weren’t successful at first. They struggled for a long time to conceive.

When they finally did, the news of a multiple pregnancy wasn’t that surprising; Erin herself has a twin. But “it was such an extreme that it forced me to stop everything.” Four months along, Archer was put on modified bed rest and then, a month later, on complete bed rest up until the delivery.

“I sacrificed my body and my life to get them here.

Daily I was thankful to be pregnant and prayed to get my babies to a point where it was safe for them to enter the world, and with that focus we were given three beautiful and healthy children.”

The triplets – two girls and a boy – were delivered eight weeks premature by C-section. They spent the first months of their lives in the NICU. “Life was very stressful,” says Archer. “We had lots of help from friends and family – that was what saved us.”

The family got through the crisis and the babies came home. Little Megan, Samantha and Christopher settled in, and mom and dad started learning how to be parents to their brood.

Exhausted after her ordeal and focused on her kids, Archer couldn’t immediately address her own physical needs.

At 225 pounds post-delivery, she found herself “at ground zero physically. I had developed gestational diabetes. I had no muscle strength, no core due to bed rest. My back was a mess; everything was a mess. It took me a good six months to even consider any kind of exercise.”

She started with walking CDs by Leslie Sansone.

“It was liberating to know that I didn’t have any expectations. I literally took one step at a time and

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Eventually, I can’t even walk because of the pain in my feet. My blood pressure and heart rate are sky high! I’m admitted to the hospital, where they do every test they can think of, and the doctors still can’t say what’s wrong. I’m terrified that I may never walk again. After two weeks in the hospital, I’m only getting worse.

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From page 1 built myself from that.”

She put out a cry for support from her many Facebook buddies, posting a video and speaking frankly about the low point she’d hit and her desire to work toward true fitness. “I knew I had a big mountain to climb,” she says.

While a lot of people offered “likes” and other cheers, Archer really treasured the ones who sent private messages saying that they’d been inspired by her honesty and had found themselves in a similar place. Some wanted to know if she would consider helping them.

As she started to gain strength and endurance through her walking program, she decided to up her game a bit. “I was introduced to Beachbody programs about a year and half after I had the kids. I had some success losing some of the weight from my pregnancy, but got stuck. I had three babies to care for and I was 40 pounds overweight. I felt unhealthy and had low energy.”

Realizing that she needed more than a grueling workout, she started to address her nutritional needs.

She discovered a program called FocusT25. “It appealed to me because it was only for 25 minutes a day, and it included a clean eating meal plan as well as a super-

Now fit and healthy, mom Erin Archer has the energy to keep up with Megan, Christopher and Samantha, who will celebrate their third birthday in March. Photo by Carol Shane

food nutrition-packed meal replacement made of whole foods called Shakeology.”

She started getting results again and now orders the Shakeology meals regularly.

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healthy cooking,” Archer grins. “Don’t get me started.”

As she progressed in her fitness goals, she was made aware of online support groups. “These challenge groups changed my life,” she says. She thought of the Facebook friends who’d asked her for help.

So she started Team Archer. And you won’t find a more positive place on the web.

“I describe my page as a place where people can go to receive daily motivation, exercise and nutrition tips and opportunities to grow in their own physical and mental health and fitness,” she says.

Friends chime in daily with their successes and challenges. Some post pictures of their own healthy meals. Motivational and “tough love” posts are everywhere: “Sweat is just fat crying.” “What you eat in private you wear in public.”

And “On the other side of your fear is your freedom.”

Now an exercise coach herself, Archer takes a moment to reflect. “I chose health for my kids, my family and for me. We all have a story and a mountain to climb. No matter the elevation, we can always use support, and I am there to offer it to those who want it.”

For more information, visit Team Archer on Facebook.

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CYCLING PROVIDES

By Wendy Smith The wind in your hair, the sun n your face, the empowerment on of self-locomotion – these are the joys of bicycling, and everyone should have the opportunity to feel them, whether or not they can see.

A blind cyclist herself, Sue Buckley helps visually impaired young people experience the thrill and physical challenge of tandem cycling. She does it through a mentoring organization she founded five years ago: Club Vibes.

Sue began losing her sight as a child due to Von HippelLindau disease. But she played team sports as a teen and had a 25-year career with the YMCA, so she’s a fitness advocate. Getting exercise is especially challenging for those who are visually impaired, she says.

She bought her first tandem bike in 2008. On a tandem, the front rider is called the pilot and the rear rider is called the stoker. The summer of 2010, Sue and pilot Dave Penegar participated in the 200-mile, three-day Cycling for Sight ride in San Diego, Calif. The ride was a fundraiser for the San Diego Center for the Blind.

She founded Club Vibes the same year. While the primary mission of the organization is to help visually impaired young people lead independent and productive lives, tandem cycling has always been a regular club activity. Members ride once a month in all but the coldest weather.

Cycling benefits members two ways. It’s a workout with built-in motivation because stokers don’t want to disappoint their pilots by taking it easy, Sue says. It’s also a way to develop new friendships.

Club Vibes pilots are volunteers from the community, and conversations about careers and hobbies are valuable to young club members who may have led sheltered lives due to their disability.

“They teach important things while they’re riding.”

Last summer, Sue returned to San Diego with a group of 12 to participate in the Cycling for Sight ride, now a 150-mile, two-day event. In addition to the ride, she arranged for the group to receive surfing lessons from the Challenged Athletes Foundation. The club raised funds for the eight-day trip for a year and a half, and local partners, like Cycology Bicycles in Maryville, donated jerseys.

Club Vibes has 10 college-age members, and approximately 30 school-age children from Knox and Blount Counties have participated since its inception.

Sue and her husband, former UT professor John Buckley, who is also blind, show families how visually impaired kids can live independently.

Sue’s influence reaches beyond Knoxville. Last year, during the annual American Council for the Blind conference in Las Vegas, her brightly-colored outfit and matching sunglasses caught the attention of the audio description project manager for Netflix. Sue spent a couple of hours talking to her about how to best weave description into television and movie dialogue.

She’s also consulted with groups in Kansas and Georgia about how to establish tandem cycling programs to serve the visually impaired.

“Cycling opens the world for a lot of kids,” she says.

For more information: www. club-vibes.org

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Ed Flanigan, David Hoffman and Jim Wachter pilot Club Vibes riders during the 2014 Cycle for Sight in San Diego. Stoker McKenzie Ayers rides behind Wachter.

Leah Smith pilots for Club Vibes founder Sue Buckley.

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Are your toenails yellow, thick, cracking, crumbling or painful? You might be eligible to participate in a study for an investigational drug for the treatment of toenail fungus.

We are currently enrolling qualified participants in a clinical research study with a new investigational drug.

To qualify, you must be between the

Are you between the ages of 18-70?

ages of 9 and 45, haver acne pimples

Do you have at least one big toenail that looks like it has fungus?

health. Health insurance is not need-

on your face and be in good general ed to participate and you may receive compensation for time and travel.

Participants must be willing to make six site visits.

For more information and to find out if you qualify, please contact us at 865-251-9963.

Kimberly K. Grande, M.D.

To see if you or someone you know qualifies, please call 865-251-9963

Kimberly K. Grande, M.D.

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Forget fad diets and focus on I

f you recently committed to managing your weight or dieting, it may be time to change your approach. For long-term results, ditch fad dieting and adopt a balanced approach to eating with a focus on healthy foods.

Being healthy isn’t just about fitting into skinny jeans. According to a recent national survey, there are many reasons why women consider dieting: 68 percent want to improve their health, 51 percent want to look their best, and 39 percent want to have more energy.

With these goals in mind, it may not come as a surprise that survey participants reported being on an average of nine diets in their lifetimes. In fact, 76 percent of American women who have dieted admit to having tried a fad diet.

However, nearly two out of

three women believe fad diets are difficult to maintain.

What’s more, these diets may even be unhealthy, according to the Weight-control Information Network (WIN).

Some fad diets fail to provide your body with the nutrients your body needs. In addition, sustained rapid weight loss can increase your risk of gallbladder problems, and heart problems can result from consuming too few calories for too long.

To maintain a healthy weight and healthier lifestyle, the experts at WIN suggest focusing on establishing these healthy habits: ■ Choose healthy foods, with a diet rich in fruits and veggies.

■ Manage calorie intake and portion size. Keep on track by using a smaller plate, paying close attention to nutrition labels and weighing portions on a scale.

■ Make exercise part of your daily life. Even activities such as gardening or taking the stairs can make a difference.

Managing your metabolism – how your body uses calories – is another key to healthy eating. Eating foods that deliver plenty of protein and fiber are all keys to maximizing your metabolism.

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A balanced approach to eating, coupled with a few lifestyle changes, are all the tools you need to succeed on your weight control quest.

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Keep up the good work this winter Pro basketball star Skylar Diggins shares her indoor fitness game plan

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hile the winter may make for a tempting time to curl up on pting your routine is essential for year-round the couch, adapting well-being, whether you’re a professional athlete or an average person looking to stayy on top of your game. m just like everyone else – when it’s dark and “As an athlete I am cold outside it can be harder for me to stay motivated to kouts,” said women’s professionkeep up with my workouts,” ylar Diggins. “But hibernating al basketball star Skylar in the off season isn’t an option for me, nor should it be for anyone who wants to stay in shape yearround.”

As the days grow colder, follow this advice from Diggins to stay fit: Power up with protein. It’s important to give your body the proper protein to fuel your workout – both before and after exercise. Protein drinks nks are one way les and power to reward your muscles your body for intensee exercise.

Made with real milk, Rockin’ Refuel Lean Builder, available in chocolate and vanilla illa varieties, is the protein drink Diggins prefers. It’s a delicious low carb, low sugar ugar option that has 20 grams ams of high quality protein n and only 150 calories..

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Maximize your time by doing little things when you can, like calf raises in the shower, choosing the stairs, or repeating lunges until you get to the other side of a room.

need a gym, just a little bit of floor space. One of Diggins’ favorite ways to keep a toned stomach is alternating reps of sit-ups with bicycle crunches and side planks. You can also incorporate jumping rope and doing an “indoor run” by walking up and down the stairs.

Don’t make excuses. This time of year is busy for everyone. Maximize your time by doing little things when you can, like calf raises in the shower, choosing the stairs, or repeating lunges until you get to the other side of a room. Keep a light set of hand weights under the couch for a quick arm workout during your favorite TV show.

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Count on better eye health I

f you’re like many Americans, when it comes to your regular health care regimen, your eyes get overlooked.

In fact, you may only pay attention to your eye health when something goes wrong. Actually, preventive and routine eye care should be a top priority.

“Too many people fail to grasp the value of routine vision care, only seeking treatment for eye-related problems after they occur,” said Stephen Shawler, president of Essilor Vision Foundation. “Although 80 percent of vision problems are preventable, we still have significant work to do to prevent vision problems before they start.”

Impact of poor vision Clear vision is a crucial tool in experiencing life to its fullest potential, but according to Essilor, an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide see poorly and don’t possess adequate access to vision correction.

From an economic perspective, the Vision Impact Institute (VII) estimates as much as $745 million in productivity is lost every single day as a result of uncorrected vision problems in 33 percent of the world’s working population.

Extensive social consequences are

also a risk. According to the VII, some 30 percent of the world’s children experience vision problems that have a significant impact on their longterm health, school performance and emotional/social development. Given that 80 percent of children’s learning is through visual information processing, poor vision can hinder not only their academic performance, but also how they interact with peers and integrate into society.

Beyond the economic and social consequences, ignoring eye health can also have disastrous outcomes in other

areas. For example, elderly individuals with poor vision are seven times more at risk for falls and hip fractures, and poor sight is linked to 59 percent of road accidents.

Eye health by the numbers From a medical standpoint, eye exams do more than correct vision problems. They also can help detect conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, multiple sclerosis, strokes, hypertension and eye tumors.

To minimize the risks associated with poor eye sight and achieve bet-

ter sight for better life, the experts at Essilor recommend knowing the numbers that add up to healthy eyes: 1: Adults should have a comprehensive eye exam every year. For kids, don’t settle for the vision screenings at school; schedule a comprehensive annual eye exam with an eye doctor.

3: If you wear contact lenses, prevent the risk of bacteria and infection by replacing your lens storage case once every three months.

20: Staring at a computer monitor for too long can fatigue the eyes, leading to painful side effects like dry eyes and even headaches. Every 20 minutes, look away for about 20 seconds at a space 20 feet away from you. This simple trick can reduce eye strain and help you safely refocus.

25: Age-related macular degeneration is a serious eye condition that affects the elderly, causing visual impairment, damage to the retina and even blindness. Taking high levels of zinc in addition to antioxidant vitamins can reduce your risk by up to 25 percent.

90: When selecting sunglasses, find a pair that not only blocks out invisible ultraviolet light, but also blocks up to 90 percent of visible light, as well.

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