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Since she was a child, Farragut High School teacher Wanda Lacy has had a passion for math. “I love it. I love how things connect,” Lacy said. Because of that love, she changed her course of study in college from engineering to teaching.
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Meet Pamela Two businesses are enough to keep anyone busy. Pamela Wisecarver Bull has just added a third. The entrepreneur who already has dual businesses under one roof with 3 Dimension Relaxation and 3D Laser Allergy Relief has opened another business she calls her “sweet” hobby: Pie Of Course.
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Soccer scores! Sherri Gardner Howell says the Farragut High School boys soccer team pancake breakfast March 9 was a tribute to teamwork.
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
PlanET comes to Farragut The Town of Farragut will host a PlanET “Meeting in a Box” after the regularly scheduled Farragut Municipal Planning Commission meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Throughout March, PlanET is hosting a public-participation series focusing on how the people who live, work and play in the five-county region of Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon and Union counties think the region should grow. This is the third round of community input since November 2011 to explore community members’ priorities and look at options for growth as new people and new jobs come to the area. The FMPC meeting and PlanET presentation are open to the public. For more info, visit www.planeasttn.org.
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VOL. 7 NO. 11
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March 18, 2013
‘All great schools’ By Sandra Clark It’s got a principal and 20 teachers. It’s got a website, and it’s even got a PTA. It already has several Partners in Education. It just needs a name. Deadline is Friday, March 22, to submit a vote or suggestion for the name of the new southwest sector elementary school which will open in August 2013. Principal Susan Davis has already received 500 submissions at nametheschool@knoxschools.org/. (That compares favorably with the 100 or so suggestions for the L&N STEM Academy.) “There’s a lot of support for this school and real excitement in the community,” said Davis. She’s working out of an office at the Andrew Johnson Building until the school is finished. The school is located on Thunderhead Road in the Northshore Town Center off Northshore Drive at Pellissippi Parkway. The school zone, adopted in December after extensive public meetings, includes an area west of Pellissippi and south of Farragut. Susan Davis at work in the Andrew Johnson Building Photo by S. Clark Students will come from Farragut Primary, Farragut Intermediate, Davis recalled a comment made know the school’s culture. “Do you A.L. Lotts and Blue Grass elementary schools. Zone lines were impacted by a parent: “They’re all great have Pajama Day?” asked one. “Can we have pizza (in the cafeteria),” for Cedar Bluff and Hardin Valley as schools.” She said the kids are eager to asked another. well.
Community based: By Suzanne Foree Neal Third of a three part series. Autumn Care II on Canton Hollow Road near Kingston Pike is the only locally-owned business of the three new ones opening in Farragut. It will offer both assisted living and dementia/Alzheimer’s care and is scheduled to accept residents in April. There’s no separate wing or floor for Alzheimer’s patients at Autumn Care II. Owners Mari and Peter Falk believe those residents do better when exposed to a mixed group of people.
Because the facility offers care for Alzheimer’s and assisted living, “Resident can change their care plan as they progress in the disease and stay with the same people,” Mari Falk says. “Residents help each other out. We need to keep things as normal as possible and not lock up people with Alzheimer’s.” With only 41 residents, Falk says she can offer more personalized care. While there’s access to outdoor areas, they’re all secure. Some rooms open onto a large patio. Another favorite place is likely to be the covered porch
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Registration for children entering kindergarten or first grade at the new southwest sector school (if not currently attending a Knox County school) will be 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the cafeteria at West Valley Middle School. Packets may be picked up in advance at area elementary schools. Details are available on KCS website at www.knoxschools.org/.
“It didn’t take them long to connect,” said Davis. Fifth graders will help establish customs for the new school. “They will have projects from day one,” said Davis. “Working together on a project will help them bond.” The new school will have a safety patrol and a student council. The students will help select school colors and a mascot. If left to Davis, they might be named the “trotters” or “stampede.” That’s because she grew up on a farm and continues to raise horses in East To page A-3
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Autumn Care II, an assisted living facility on Canton Hollow Road near Kingston Pike, is scheduled to open in April. Photos by Suzanne Foree Neal with rocking chairs that fronts Canton Hollow. “Residents tend to like to sit and watch the traffic,” Falk says. There’s a large common area as you come in the door that has an open
Going to extremes During the 2012 national elections, there was talk about a Republican War on Women. In 2013, Tennessee’s 108th General Assembly widened the battle into a multi-front conflagration, hitting hot-button themes that used to work so well as wedge issues when the GOP was in the minority. Now that they are a supermajority, the only significant obstacle in their way is Gov. Bill Haslam, a cautious man not inclined to extremes. Showdown No. 1: Medicaid expansion. These lines were drawn when the United States Supreme Court left Medicaid expansion up to the states. Some Republican governors (Rick Scott of Florida, Jan Brewer of Arizona) have opted in;
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others (Rick Perry of Texas, Scott Walker of Wisconsin) have opted out. Haslam is being heavily lobbied by the state’s major hospitals, who want to offset looming Medicaid cuts with billions of federal dollars available under the new law. Showdown No. 2: It may not rise to the level of war, but few school boards or PTAs support diverting public money to private schools via vouchers. Haslam supports vouchers, but his bill is limited to 5,000 needy students in failing school districts during the first year, and gradually increases thereafter. Cultural conservatives favor a competing bill to make vouchers available in all districts immediately. Showdown No. 3: Some call Haslam’s workers’ compensation
reform initiative a War on Workers. Others call it a War on Lawyers. Whatever it’s called, there isn’t much daylight between Haslam and the most conservative elements of his party, who share a common distaste for organized labor and trial lawyers. This one will create a state agency run by a Haslam-appointed administrator to hear workers’ compensation cases, replacing courts and lawyers. It will negatively impact collections from fee offices as a revenue source for county governments. Showdown No. 4: Clerks hate this Stacey Campfield-sponsored bill because it will force them to shoulder half of the burden of notifying creditors when garnished debtors change jobs. Senate Bill 243 will make work for clerks, but will be far worse for debtors, who will be subject to contempt of court if their creditors aren’t notified – re-establishing debtors’ prisons in Tennessee.
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Showdown No. 5: The War on Vanderbilt, Part 2, is too good to skip. Last year, Haslam vetoed a bill outlawing Vanderbilt University’s “All Comers” rule, which requires student groups to allow any interested student to join. Social conservatives complain that this rule violates the rights of religious organizations to keep undesirables out, but Haslam came down on the side of keeping the state out of the business of private institutions. The issue is back this year, in the form of Sen. Mae Beavers’ bill requiring the state to de-certify the police forces of private institutions that violate the civil rights of religious organizations. Haslam’s 2012 veto stood because he waited until the General Assembly concluded its two-year session, too late for legislators to override it. The 108th session won’t end until 2014.
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