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BUZZ Town seeks vol for health council Farragut citizens interested in being considered for the town appointment to the Community Health Council, can submit an application at www. townoffarragut.org/formcenter or at the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive across from the Farragut Branch Post Office. Completed applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday, April 17. Applications will be reviewed by the Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen with an appointment made in March. The new member will begin a three-year term in April 2015. For more information about the Community Health Council and Together! Healthy Knox, visit www.healthyknox.org. For questions regarding the town of Farragut appointment, call 966-7057.

This home on the Farragut Dogwood Trail on Georgetown Drive is decked out in natural beauty. The trails open April 8 and will be open through April 26. Photo by Nancy Anderson Story on page A-2

IN THIS ISSUE Meeting Seymour Actor Ethan Hawke makes his documentary-directing debut with “Seymour: An Introduction,” and he seems to have absorbed powerful lessons from his subject. Pianist Seymour Bernstein was a star on the concert stage who decided at his peak to stop performing because he had other things he wanted to do. He was, and is, a teacher, and he wanted to compose music and write books.

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UT: Stop branding When the talk turns to branding, you can be damn sure somebody is about to get burned. And the hide that gets charred won’t be on the cowboy wielding the branding iron. It’s time to take the branding iron off the fire and quit trying to take ownership of athletic and academic excellence we have yet to earn.

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Farragut vice mayor Dot LaMarche, town attorney Tom Hale and alderman Ron Pinchok listen to testimony during an appeal of an MPC decision at last week’s Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting. Photo by Wendy Smith

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By Anne Hart Imagine, if you can, a breathtakingly beautiful nautilus shell. And then imagine that it’s yours, to do with as you want. What would be your choice? Put it on a shelf and look at it occasionally? Consign it to a bank vault? The choice was easy for local artist, woodworker and marine archaeologist Jim McNutt. He crafted a table from Tennessee white oak, finished it in shades of ocean

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Wood artist and marine archaeologist Jim McNutt points out the crystallized chambers of a 200-millionyear-old nautilus shell. McNutt designed and built the table to showcase the fossil. Photo by A. Hart

originated near where the shell was found in Madagascar, the island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of southeast Africa. The table is just one of countless works of art McNutt has created in more than 40 years as a wood-

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ment that runs across all three parcels was submitted to MPC. It showed construction access from Chaho Drive and another access from Kingston Pike, a few feet from the Urban Engineering driveway on the property’s west side. At its Nov. 18 meeting, MPC approved the site plan except for the Kingston Pike access, which it called premature, given that there was no proposed development. Pratt argued that town ordinances don’t specifically require a “full-blown site plan” to be presented in order for access to be granted. Town attorney Tom Hale said that the three lots had been deeded in 1980, and that there has been no activity on the property since. He said the town wouldn’t

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‘65 Vols had no place to go The NCAA basketball tournament has changed some through the years. Perhaps you have noticed. In 1965, a mere 50 years ago, it involved 23 teams. They played in Bowling Green, Ky.; Lubbock, Texas; Philadelphia; Lexington; Manhattan, Kan.; Provo, Utah; College Park, Md. and finished in Portland, Ore.

The appeal of a Municipal Planning Commission decision to deny access to a Kingston Pike property before any development is planned resulted in a late night for the Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the revelation of a philosophical rift between board members. Bill Hodges submitted the appeal. He was represented by Edward Pratt of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, who recorded the proceedings. The property in question is actually three adjacent 100-foot by 200-foot parcels owned by Bill Hodges, his sister Gail Hodges, and the estate of their mother, Elsie Hodges. The property is across Kingston Pike from Ingles Marketplace. Last fall, a site plan proposing the relocation of a drainage ease-

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Dogwood Spring! By Sherri Gardner Howell The Dogwood Trails remain for many the crowning jewel of the Dogwood Arts Festival. As well they should, since the trails came first! Established in 1955, the Dogwood Trails celebrate 60 years in 2015. The festival began in 1961. Farragut’s Dogwood Trail offers much for those who want to celebrate the beauty of the area. The trails officially open on April 8 with the Dogwood Luncheon, held at Ijams Nature Center this year because the South Trail is the featured trail. The Farragut trail, which will be open through April 26, begins in Fox Den subdivision, travels a portion of Country Manor and ends in Village Green.

From page A-1 Along the way, look for: Magnolia trees on Oakmont Circle, forming an archway over the street in one area Rock gardens, dogwoods, azaleas, tulips and the ornamental Japanese maples along North Fox Den drive On East Fox Den Drive, beautiful yellow cypress and weeping willows intermingle with the dogwoods A spectacular mountain view at the hill at Russfield Drive in Village Green Weeping cherry trees on Georgetown Drive Mature dogwoods, tulips, irises and azaleas on East Heritage Drive and Dominion Circle For trail maps and dates of special events: www.dogwoodarts.com/trails-andgardens/

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grant access based on possible action on the site. “We are not required to leave common sense at the door.” Pratt called witnesses – a traffic engineer, a Realtor and a property appraiser – to testify that Kingston Pike access to the west parcel could be safe and that the parcels have no “utility” while they’re landlocked. Hale repeated his argument that access isn’t given until a site plan is approved. C o m m u n i t y Development director Mark Shipley said that access location is decided based on development-specific factors like parking and landscaping. Town engineer Darryl Smith said his biggest concerns about Kingston Pike access to the property are the close proximity of the Urban Engineering driveway and a center lane conflict with Ingles. In a discussion that followed testimony, Shipley said that access to a property couldn’t be denied, regardless of traffic

concerns, once a site plan is approved. Alderman Ron Honken expressed frustration over two hours of lost time and said he was “dumbfounded” at the applicant’s concern over the denial of Kingston Pike access. “It was never intended to be a permanent denial of access. I’ve never seen a (Farragut) board try to landlock a piece of property.” Alderman Bob Markli was angry, too, for a different reason. “We are being overtly hostile to the landowners. Why deny a property owner something that will help them market their property?” Hale said he would have a problem with granting access to the landowner unless a hardship was proven. Vice mayor Dot LaMarche spoke directly to Markli. “You know we have to grant access, and we will do that in the right place.” She made a motion to deny the appeal, and Markli was the sole dissenting vote.

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Haddie Lebenschus, 3, seems particularly fond of a fluff y white bunny at Smart Toys and Books. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Jim McNutt search of sunken relics that feed his passion for ancient wood, especially if it has an interesting story attached. For along with his other talents, McNutt is a skilled storyteller. Every piece of wood he owns comes with its own piece of history. He has even written a book about marine salvage, detailing his and others’ adventures under the sea. “Quest for Shipwrecks” was published in 1997. It has had several updates, with another due out soon. It is a fascinating look at maritime commerce beginning in the fourth century B.C., and the resulting maritime salvage business. It is illustrated with photographs, ancient and current maps and McNutt’s own sketches of his oceanic searches. Those searches have taken him from South America to Belize to Mexico and back home to the Tennessee River, which contains riches in wood from sunken ships dating to the Civil War and before. Along the way, other interests have been piqued. McNutt has lived in and explored Mayan caves in

From page A-1 Belize, and he is currently working on a forestry program in Cuba, which has become a favorite place to visit. “The Cuban people are wonderful, warm and friendly,” he says. “They are also wonderful artists. There are beautiful southern yellow pine and teak plantations there, and the Cubans could be great woodworkers if they just had the equipment. I would love to develop small woodworking operations for them.” McNutt says his own interest in wood began when he was young and working with his dad, local homebuilder Allen McNutt. “Back then, the tradesmen, carpenters, would frame a house, trim it and then build in the cabinets. I was amazed they could do all that work right on site. “And then I fell in love with some walnut lumber in a sawmill and made a bench and really fell in love.” McNutt went to the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg to learn advanced furniture design and to the Penland School in Burnsville, N.C., to study wood. He apprenticed for a

time and did a bit of logging and sawmilling, which led to drying his own lumber and selling wood to others. All of that resulted in a business in hardwood flooring and cabinetry. McNutt’s artistry in 126 different varieties of wood is now seen in flooring, cabinetry, furniture and other examples of his creativity in private properties, in the commander’s quarters on a Navy nuclear submarine out of Norfolk, Va., in a hotel in Canada, at the Eastern Airlines desk in the Miami airport and on the teak deck of an 85-foot sea trawler traveling the Caribbean off of Belize. He has built a boat for himself and is about to embark on construction of another – a log cabin that will

sit atop two huge pontoons sitting ready in his lumberyard awaiting a launch date. McNutt’s business, Woodstream Hardwoods, is a delight in itself. It’s a great place to do some exploring and learn about wood from a master. McNutt will open his business to the public as part of Dogwood Arts DeTour 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 11. There will be music, food, door prizes, demonstrations and an opportunity to visit with the artist. Woodstream Hardwoods is at 3636 Division St., just off the west side of Liberty Street between Sutherland Avenue and Middlebrook Pike. Info: www.woodstreamhardwoods.com or 5240001.

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Farragut Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m. each Wednesday, Fox Den Country Club, 12284 N. Fox Den Drive. Info: http://www.farragutrotary.org. ■ “Hearth and Home: Through the Years” is the featured exhibit at the Farragut Folklife Museum located in the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. The exhibit will be on display through May 29. Info: www.townoffarragut.org/museum, or Julia Barham, julia.barham@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057.

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The West family celebrates Jim’s award in Nashville last month. From left are Jim’s mother, Jan; wife, Nikki; Jim West; father, Bob; and daughter, Katherine. Photo submitted

Congrats to golf director He’s done it again! Tellico Village director of golf Jim West was recognized as the 2014 Tennessee state PGA Professional of the Year. The Tennessee Section of the Professional Golfers’ Association recognized Jim at a March 2 ceremony in Nashville. As I reported

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in my January column, Jim was recognized by the Knoxville Section as its Professional of the Year. The Tennessee PGA award is the highest statelevel honor bestowed upon a PGA professional, and for Jim is a culmination of more than 23 years serving

as an outstanding golf professional for Tellico Village and other prestigious golf facilities. Jim is now eligible to compete for national PGA Professional of the Year. “Congratulations, this is a great thing,” said Winston Blazer, Tellico Village Property Owners Association

general manager. “I often wondered when you (Jim) would be recognized for your hard work in the golf profession.” Many Villagers have had the pleasure of working with Jim as members of the Golf Advisory Committee (GAC) or organizing tournaments for one of the many groups in our area. “Congratulations Jim on this prestigious award. I know Nikki, and your entire staff, are so happy for you,” said Dick Parkhill, former GAC chair. “Well done sir, and well deserved! That’s my golf professional,” added Brian Whitehead, Tellico Village member. Established in 1967, the PGA Golf Professional of the Year Award is given for outstanding leadership qualities, strong moral character, substantial record of service to the Association and game of golf, and serving as a model PGA Professional. This award truly reflects well on Jim West but also on Tellico Village as a community. More info on Jim and the award: http://www. ten npga.c om/p opup/a r ticle_5120/; for the tribute, go to YouTube and search Jim West GPOY 2014. Simon helps pickleball

players Editor’s Note: A relatively new sport gaining in popularity, pickleball is a combination of tennis, badminton and ping-pong and is played on a court about one-third the size of a tennis court. Several months ago, Tellico Village’s Pickleball Club president Dan Dyer got an email about Simon, a new pickleball machine. Other Village players reviewed information on Simon and various videos of its use. They found a machine for under $900, and it is now housed near the courts in a small locked area. Simon is capable of duplicating most shots in pickleball over and over: dinks, lobs, low fast shots, slow lazy shots and serves. The 35-pound Simon can carry up to 90 pickleballs and launch one as quickly as every four seconds at speeds up to 30 mph. On a small pickleball court, when you may only be 20 feet away, that is very fast. Simon is another addition helping our club progress as a premier organization playing on eight high-quality courts (plus two shared courts). The Tellico Village Pickleball Club is the 10th largest club worldwide and can be found at www.tvpbc.org.

“Head, shoulders, knees and toes…” Elliott Zierden, 4, has this game down pat. The story of “The Little Fishes and the Big Bad Shark” gets a reaction from 21-month-old Juliet Honeycutt, who is sitting in mom Emily’s lap. The Preschool Storytime at the Farragut Library is a free weekly event. Photos by Nancy Anderson

FRANK R. STRANG SENIOR CENTER Merry Shipley, Farragut Branch Library assistant branch manager, reads to a lively group at Preschool Storytime on March 26.

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Zoey Mitchell, age 4, hides her coloring sheet from her brother, Caleb, 5 months old, as mom Tiffany laughs in understanding.

Children who get to attend the variety of events offered free each week at the Farragut branch of the Knox County Public Library won’t grow up thinking of the library as a “Shhhhhh!” place. Quite the opposite, as was evident in the reading room on Thursday, March

26, when the Preschool Storytime event was in full swing. Assistant branch manager Merry Shipley led the group in songs and read fun and funny stories to the children an d adults gathered for the 30-minute weekly event. Brothers and sisters, friends and strangers all sat

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on the floor, in strollers and chairs, filling the room with ■ Friday, April 3: Closed. giggles and smiles. ■ Monday, April 6: 8:45 a.m. Preschool Storytime and advanced cardio; 9:30 a.m. watercolor; 10 a.m. cardio, Baby Bookworms are dibridge; 11:15 a.m. Tone N vided by ages and meet once Tighten; 12:30 p.m. Sit N Be a week at the library. A full Fit; 1 p.m. advanced Spanish, event calendar is available midday bridge; 1:30 p.m. at www.knoxlib.org. Zumba Gold; 2:15 beginning Spanish; 2:30 p.m. belly dance.

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Basket Vols of ’65 had no place to go The NCAA basketball tournament has changed some through the years. Perhaps you have noticed. In 1965, a mere 50 years ago, it involved 23 teams. They played in Bowling Green, Ky.; Lubbock, Texas; Philadelphia; Lexington; Manhattan, Kan.; Provo, Utah; College Park, Md. and finished in Portland, Ore. The event, such as it was, may have taken in enough money to pay travel expenses. There was no March madness. Twenty-three teams? Then, as now, NCAA committees could not count. Some regions had play-in

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games to a conventional 16team bracket. Vanderbilt, representing the Southeastern Conference, defeated DePaul and lost to Michigan. The Commodores were good. They had Clyde Lee and a 15-1 league record. The loss was at Tennessee. Ray Mears’ Volunteers were good, too: 20-5 over-

all, best UT record in 17 years, second in the SEC with no place to go. A.W. Davis, 6-7 and a flexible, leathery 185, was an all-American, eventually so chosen in a stormy U.S. Basketball Writers Association meeting (Marvin West, Southeast selector). The theme was elementary. “Doesn’t matter how good UCLA is. Vote again! We’re not leaving this room until Arvis Watsell Davis is on the team. “Yes, that is his name. Now you know why he goes by A.W.” Davis was the first Vol so honored.

That Tennessee team had a strong sophomore forward, Ron Widby, crafty Larry McIntosh, senior point guard Pat Robinette and a reincarnation of Tarzan who hung out near the basket. Howard Bayne was a splendid athlete, tight end physique, fearless, naturally combative, borderline belligerent and sometimes mistaken for an intimidator. He, Widby and Davis were significant factors in the Vols’ outrebounding opponents by an amazing average of 16.7 per game. Howard was not a great scorer and worse on free

throws. Robinette hit 89.7 percent. You don’t want to know Bayne’s percentage. I thought Tennessee at Kentucky was the game of the year. The Vols had walloped the Wildcats by 19 in Knoxville. The rematch was more exciting. Tennessee, trailing by a point, gained possession with 17 seconds remaining. Mears’ designed play called for Widby or Davis to shoot. Pat Riley overplayed Davis. The ball went to Widby. He missed. Davis got the long rebound and passed up a jump shot in favor of a drive and the hope of getting fouled. A.W. got close, put the ball up and was fouled – but there was no whistle. Keep in mind that the game was

at UK. Bayne rebounded and put it back up, but it wouldn’t go down. Eventually, the Vols willed the ball into the basket, but time had expired. Kentucky won, 61-60. Three big blue fans were carried out on stretchers. That Tennessee team probably wasn’t going to win the national championship, but it was tournament worthy and very entertaining. The NCAA got something right in growing the tournament format. Maybe, in time, Tennessee will have another team deserving of an opportunity. It probably won’t have an A.W. Davis or Ron Widby. There are no more Howard Baynes. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

No hard feelings between FBMA and MPC The appointed members of Municipal Planning Commission look at the same information, and typically listen to the same arguments, as the elected Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen. But they don’t always reach the same conclusions. That’s part of the process of making zoning decisions, says town administrator David Smoak, and not at all unusual. State law is clear that any zoning matter is reviewed by the MPC, which gives a recommendation to the FBMA, he says. The vast majority of the time, the board agrees with the recommendation. That was not the case on Feb. 12, when the FBMA approved the rezoning of a parcel on Parkside Drive that abuts Sweet Briar subdivision from office to general commercial. The board made the decision in spite of a unanimous MPC vote against the

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zoning change on Jan. 15. Commission was swayed by Sweet Briar residents who expressed concern about having another restaurant in their backyards. Residents were unaware that the rezoning had been appealed to the FBMA, which voted 3-2 in favor of the zoning change on first reading. They swarmed town hall to protest the rezoning at the ordinance’s second reading on Feb. 26, but the rezoning was approved a second time by the same vote. Mayor Ralph McGill and alderman Ron Honken also serve on the MPC. Both voted against the rezoning. McGill regrets that two board

members who voted in favor of the rezoning didn’t explain themselves during the meeting (alderman Bob Markli did, but vice mayor Dot LaMarche and alderman Ron Pinchok did not), but he doesn’t see a flaw in the system. “It’s a fact of life that I may not agree with their arguments, but that’s the way it is. You don’t always win.” One difference between the two entities is that the board is heavily invested in the town’s strategic and comprehensive plans, Smoak says. The result may be decisions made with the future in mind rather than the present. Ed Whiting, who has been on MPC for five years, said his mind was changed about rezoning the Parkside Drive property when developer Jim Nixon admitted to a verbal agreement between Turkey Creek developers and Sweet Briar residents that property adjacent to

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Reporters add five senses The newspaper club at Sarah Moore Greene is alive and well. Last week we added the five senses to the five Ws to round out our story-telling. Ruth White distributed an apple to each reporter, asking each to describe the apple adequately to pick it out of a barrel afterwards. “Round and red won’t get it,” she said. Then we went outside. Kids were challenged to see, hear, smell, touch and maybe taste something. We spotted a bird’s nest, and we heard a neighbor’s dog and a buzzing bee. We smelled wildflowers and tasted an herb that might have been thyme. We noticed a huge retain-

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ing wall that was built to protect the root structure of a towering tree (that none of us could identify). SMG magnet coordinator April Lamb thumbed her smart phone, promising a tree ID “when the leaves come out.” Then back inside we went to write our reports and eat an apple (after Ruth squirted hand sanitizer, of course). Five Ws are pretty lame without the five senses.

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the subdivision would remain zoned for offices. After that, the issue became a matter of “keeping your word.” Such decisions can’t really be communicated through minutes, he says. “The minutes only reflect actions, not feelings.” But there is no ill will when the board disagrees with commission, he says. “Everybody does the best they can. For the most part, it works very well.” There will likely be an abundance of feelings in coming months as developers look for ways to develop large parcels surrounded by subdivisions, like a proposed apartment development north of the Farragut Church of Christ. No matter what happens on that property, one thing is inevitable: Change. Many who speak before the FBMA or MPC say they want Farragut to stay the same. But that’s not possible, says McGill.

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City races shaping up as snoozefest There was little news to be had at Mayor Madeline Rogero’s re-election shindig last week, and she looked damned happy.

Betty Bean While that’s nice for the mayor, uncontested races (a guaranteed second term seems to be an unintended by-product of term limits) make life hard for reporters. One of the most interesting things about Rogero’s campaign kickoff at The Standard, a repurposed building on West Jackson, roughly across the street from the late, lamented former McClung Warehouse complex, was looking around the crowded room and wondering if the next mayor was there. Odds are s/he was. I checked in with one of my favorite city politicos, and here’s how he handicapped the field, in terms of interest – but keep in mind that four years is half an

Madeline Rogero announces for re-election. eternity, and history tells us there will surely be other candidates: Among those who are being talked about, the least likely to make a run to succeed Rogero is her deputy, Christi Branscom, who has never run for office before, my FCP said. City Council member George Wallace is up a wee notch from Branscom, interest-wise. “Potential interest,” said the FCP. “Never say never.” Marshall Stair, who at 36 is the youngest council member, is a tad more interested than Wallace, FCP said.

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Stair said he’s learned a lot in his first term, but he’s got a lot going on in his life – a new house in Old North Knoxville, a serious girlfriend – and he just doesn’t yet know what he’ll want to do in 2019. “When all you have to go home to is a can of soup and a TV, it’s a lot easier to go to all those neighborhood meetings,” he said. “Politics is a risky business. You spend a lot of time applying for a job you don’t know if you’re going to get – so the reality is, I just don’t know.” Nick Pavlis, who represents South Knoxville and UT and serves as vice may-

or, is halfway through his second term (he also served two terms as an at-large council member 1995-2003) and has confirmed his interest in serving as mayor in the past. He’s no less interested today. “Everybody expects you to say, ‘I don’t know,’ but absolutely, I’ll consider it. I will have served 16 years, and nobody else will have that experience.” But he issued a warning that 2019 is a long way away. “I will have been out of office for two years. There are two ways of looking at that – you can have time to build a good campaign, but you can also lose your base. It’s like old Randy Tyree says, will I still have the fire in the belly to do it? I’ll be 65, which is not over the hill but not a spring chicken either, so we’ll have to wait to see what unfolds.” Meanwhile, Inskip resident and R. Larry Smith ally Jennifer Mirtes has taken out a petition to run for the Fifth District council seat, making Mark Campen the only incumbent facing a potential opponent so far this year.

Put down the branding iron When the talk turns to branding, you can be damn sure somebody is about to get burned. And the hide that gets charred won’t be on the cowboy wielding the branding iron. Branding is at the forefront of the latest controversy plaguing the University of Tennessee Athletic Department, which announced last fall that it would do away with the Lady Vols logo for women’s sports programs. Only the basketball program would be allowed to continue that identity. Fan response was predictable: They hated it. One Bristol supporter of the Lady Vols bought a full-page ad in the Knoxville News Sentinel calling on the public to demand that the school preserve the Lady Vols name for all women’s sports. Under pressure from the News Sentinel, the Athletic Department cinched up its jock strap and released emails with Nike that reveal the worldwide manufacturer of athletic gear had played a major role in UT’s decision to end the Lady Vols distinction. About the same time, Joe DiPietro, the president of the UT System, told the UT Board of Trustees that branding decisions were none of their business. In the meantime, the women’s basketball team has continued its record of accomplishment, while the men’s team – well, they’re again in the market for a head coach.

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In 2012, the UT Office of Communications and Marketing introduced its “BIG ORANGE, BIG IDEAS!” branding initiative. After that, every web page and publication had to have that slogan stenciled on it somewhere. Every news release had to be stamped with the BO/BI verbiage, whether it fit the facts or not. And all of it had to be papered over with the selected colors and type stylings that were crucial to the new UT brand. The students weren’t fooled. A Facebook page sprang up immediately, pointing out that the Big Orange/Big Ideas word mark looked suspiciously like the signage on the front of Big Lots Inc., the Fortune 500 retailer. Some advocated a counter-meme – “Big Orange, Big Deal.” Oak Ridger Lindsay Lee, who in 2013 became the university’s first Rhodes Scholar of the 21st century, suggested “Big Orange, B.S.” and wrote, “. . . the administration does not invest in its students but instead cares more about selling us collectively as a commodity. . . . So instead of reflecting who we are, this motto just mocks us.”

Nonetheless, the changes continue. The “Power T” logo is being retooled and as of June 1, 2015, will refer to all activities of the university’s Knoxville campus, whether athletic or academic. Surveys have shown the Power T is the single most recognized icon for UT. At its best, a brand emerges organically from the values an institution lives by and the experiences it makes possible for its students and faculty. Which explains why UT might be trying to graft glib slogans and new logos onto its current public identity. This is, after all, the university that has systematically scrapped the nation’s premier program in women’s sports, the machine Pat Summitt put together that has shown the rest of the world how to marry athletic and academic excellence. The same university that has been successfully sued over firings that, time and again, were the product of administrators’ bad decisions. And again, that has demonstrated a callous disregard for students, parents

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Betty Bean can’t help herself, and it’s part of her charm. ■ When she noticed this blog post: Some time back the Roane County Commission decided to allow a plague to be hung on the Roane County Courthouse that declares, “In God We Trust.” The plague is self funded by contributions generated... ■ She re-posted it on KnoxViews.com, eliciting several pretty funny comments, including this one: “In vaccines we trust.” ■ Sadly, blogs don’t have editors (or sometimes writers).

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and fans who have invested emotion, energy and money into the university and its activities. Stir in misbehaving male athletes and butt-chugging frat boys and the slogan that would emerge can’t be printed in a family newspaper. It’s time to take the branding iron off the fire and quit trying to take ownership of athletic and academic excellence we have yet to earn. If UT administrators can do that, they might find that – beneath all the slogans and stencils, the brands and marketing – the University of Tennessee is a fine academic institution, where dedicated and highly qualified scholars and researchers offer students an education that will make them the match for any graduates in the world. If our young people want to seize what UT offers them, they can gain tools and intellectual resources that will witness to the best qualities of the university and our state. That’s all the branding we need.

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government Haynes’ new job to create ripples Farragut’s state Rep. Ryan Haynes announced his candidacy for chair of the Tennessee Republican Party immediately following the resignation of Chris Devaney, who is leaving with a group doing humanitarian work in Haiti.

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Clearly, Haynes was alerted to the Devaney resignation as he announced within hours of Devaney’s statement. Haynes is close to House Speaker Beth Harwell, and it seems obvious he would not be seeking the position without her blessing along with Gov. Bill Haslam’s support. Haynes, if elected at the April 11 state executive committee meeting, would be the youngest person to serve as state chair of the GOP at 29 (he turns 30 May 8) and would be the first Knox Countian to serve since Susan Richardson Williams did when Lamar Alexander was governor. Devaney was only reelected over Joe Carr in November, so his early departure is a surprise. Carr represented the very conservative and antiHaslam elements of the party. Incumbent governors of either party have never failed to install their choice as the party chair, but ultimately it is up to the 66 members of the committee to choose the new leader. Haynes will have to work all 66 over the next two weeks to prevail. They will not simply take direction from the governor. Haynes has an excellent reputation as a legislator who handles complex bills and is well liked by his colleagues. He is articulate and energetic. After his first election in 2008, he has not had serious opposition from his West Knox County district. Haynes is chair of the Knox County delegation. He is viewed as having leadership potential in the House, but that will end if he is elected chair as he has said he will resign to work full-time. The job pays over $100,000 a year. As a state representative it would be legally awkward if not actually illegal to

raise funds for a political party while the Legislature is in session. Additionally, the state party sometimes adopts positions that the Legislature does not support. Ryan Haynes However, two lawmakers have done both jobs in the past. They are Beth Harwell and Jim Henry, who is now in the Haslam Cabinet. The job is to raise money for campaigns, speak to GOP groups across the state and serve on the Republican National Committee. It is very time-consuming. Haynes’ resignation creates a domino impact locally: a new chair for the legislative delegation and a new state rep. Knox County Commission will choose an interim legislator to serve for 100 days until a special election is held, just as was done when Jamie Woodson resigned and Becky Duncan Massey was ultimately elected. This could come as soon as mid-April if Haynes is chosen April 11 and resigns shortly thereafter. The commission would have to wait a few weeks to allow persons to apply and a special meeting to be called to choose the new state representative. Possible candidates include Jason Zachary, who carried Farragut in his race for Congress last August (but may have to move to establish residency) and former Farragut Mayor Eddy Ford. Other names are certain to emerge if Haynes is elected chair and then resigns. ■ Today marks the 41st birthday of Knox Heritage and the first anniversary of its move to the historic Westwood House on Kingston Pike. Led ably by Kim Trent, KH will host an open house today (April 1) at Westwood. ■ The search committee for MPC director holds its final interview today of the three finalists and is expected to recommend whomever the two mayors tell them that they want. The mayors are represented on the six-member search committee by Bill Lyons for Rogero and Dean Rice for Burchett. Lyons insisted the meetings be closed to the public.

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Money for the kids Students in Jennifer Semishkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spanish class thoroughly enjoy studying for exams.

Sara Barrett This may seem unusual since Semishko teaches high schoolers, but they have good reason to get excited. Semishko knows what works and how to keep her classes interested in learning. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called Kahoot! and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got her classroom buzzing. The online game-based classroom response system allows students to stay engaged instead of reading from a textbook, but they need a cell phone or laptop to participate, and that is often an issue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most students bring their own technology, but for whatever reason there are still those who do not have their own device,â&#x20AC;? said Semishko. She often lends students her own laptop and personal cell phone, but says thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an ideal situation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They ask every day when they can play Kahoot!,â&#x20AC;? she said with a laugh.

In addition to studying with electronic devices, Semishko uses them to verbally test studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; language skills by recordSemishko ing them. She can then go back and review or make notes at a later time. Semishko said there was a time when students were asked to pay fees to help cover classroom expenses, but now a school-wide fee has replaced them, and teachers canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t access those funds for use in their classrooms. So sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken matters into her own hands. Semishko has signed up on donorschoose.org for folks to chip in whatever they can to help purchase two iPad Minis. The bill is just over $600, and the fundraiser ends June 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social media is what kids do,â&#x20AC;? said Semishko. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why not use something theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re familiar with? I know parents are hard-working and they have other children â&#x20AC;Ś $10 or $20 would help.â&#x20AC;? To make a donation, visit www.donorschoose. org/mrs.semishko or email jennifer.semishko@ knoxschools.org.

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Saint John Neumann Catholic School students Kate Gleason, Alexandra Dally, Eleni Christopoulos and Olivia Escher research ideas for their next history project. Photos by S. Barrett

History buffs go the extra mile(s) There are students who go above and beyond, and then there are students like Kate Gleason, Alexandra Dally, Eleni Christopoulos and Olivia Escher who go way above: All the way to Michigan. The seventh graders competed at the regional level for Tennessee History Day, an annual competition among middle and high school students to encourage an interest in all things historical.

Entries include research papers, documentaries, websites and a number of other media, with special awards given to those students who excel on a specific part of their project. The girls at SJNCS created the documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trumanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leadership and Legacyâ&#x20AC;? about President Harry S. Trumanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desegregation of the military. Eleni and Olivia traveled to Michigan to interview one of the last remaining Tuskegee Air-

men, a group of AfricanAmerican military pilots who fought in World War II. Because of their initiative, the girls won a Dan and Mary Shannon Award for Outstanding Use of Primary Sources. Only 33 of the students who compete each year win special awards. Although the girls competed as a team, they were each recognized for their outstanding efforts.

Dr. Candice McQueen, newly-appointed commissioner for Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Education, stopped by Pond Gap Elementary School last week before McQueen addressing the community at the Downtown Marriott. Commissioner McQueen toured the school with state and county representatives, media professionals and school faculty. Three students were selected by school administration to share with McQueen what they love most about their home away from home. Fifth graders Onika Reddish, Michael Townes and Aleighia Sluder welcomed McQueen to Pond Gap with a handmade banner and gift bag containing a UT T-shirt. McQueen was quick to say she attended the other UT: The University of Texas. Although some may assume that fifth graders would be star-struck by so many VIPs visiting their turf, Onika, Michael and Aleighia led the parade with McQueen at their side, calmly answering her questions along the way. As one of Knox Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;community schools,â&#x20AC;? Pond Gap incorporates a myriad of community resources to enhance the school program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet our goals in isolation,â&#x20AC;? said McQueen.

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Collaboration key to medical mission Pharmacy tech Kelly their babies weighed regu- bags of clothes for children By Wendy Smith diagnosed with scabies. Hayes says the team saw In early March, a team of larly. Sequoyah Hills Presby- Local businesses and orga- few people on the bumpy medical practitioners and skilled helpers organized terian member Dan Cauble, nizations donate medicine, ride into each village. But by Sequoyah Hills Pres- an emergency room physi- eyeglasses, soccer balls and when they arrived, there byterian Church travelled cian, accompanied Mut- even luggage tags for the would 200 people in line, wearing their Sunday best. to Léogâne, Haiti. For five ter to Haiti in 2009. Mut- team. Holy Cross Hospi- Hayes and Valerie Coleman, ter encouraged Cauble to days, they packed up return the following tal, a mission hospital in a nurse, were amazed at the trucks with medical year with a group, Léogâne, provides lodging patience of those who came equipment and but Cauble want- for the group. The travelers to the clinic. Even small rode into remote ed another year feel fortunate to have run- children waited quietly in villages to proof orientation. ning water and electricity. multiple lines. At the end of vide exams, When they Electricity in Haiti is shut the day, the children played medicine, came back in off at 6 p.m., but the hospi- games with the team. eyeglasses Hayes also went on the 2010, it was tal has a generator. Cooks and dental a few weeks prepare delicious meals of trip in 2013, and she thinks care. This after Haiti’s goat, conch, chicken, rice the health of the area popuyear, they lation is improving. Two devastating and beans, and fresh fruit. treated 700 Each year, the group years ago, many patients earthquake. people. C a u b l e relies heavily on Haitian had diabetes; this year, she T h e y took his first translators and drivers. Be- saw far fewer cases. returned Taylor says it was comteam from cause they use many of the knowing S e q u o y a h same translators each year, mon to see people with that they Hills Presby- relationships have devel- missing limbs after the made a difterian in 2011 oped. It’s counter-cultural earthquake, but now most ference. But and has taken for Haitians to dream of a have prosthetics. Infant their success a group every better future because it’s mortality has dropped from was due to the year since. This simply not realistic, Tay- 25 percent to less than five collaborative year’s team con- lor says. The team makes percent since CNP began effort of a sisted of 13 a point of encouraging the working in the area. host of partCauble hesitates to call doctors, nurs- young men to set goals. ners in both Sequoyah Hills pastor They also receive help the annual trip “fun,” but it es and supKnoxville Mark Lampley cares for porters. Six from the montrices, who is rewarding, he says. and Haiti, a child. Photos submitted “You do see things you were church travel through the vilsays the Rev. lages announcing upcom- can’t do anything about. members. Mark Taylor, Knoxville collaborators ing clinics with a bullhorn. But after seven years, I can who has made the trip five include other church mem- This year, a Haitian dentist see a difference in people. times. They’re happier.” “The partnerships go on bers who count pills or pack worked with the group. and on,” he says. The congregation might never have worked in Haiti if not for former member Mitch Mutter. The cardiologist, who now lives in Chattanooga, had participated in medical missions in the Caribbean country for nearly three decades when a toddler he’d cared for died from malnutrition. The preventable death inspired him to found Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti (CNP). The program utilizes Haitian montrices, or female nutrition workers, to provide nutritional supplements to children in remote villages and educate women on health-related topics like hygiene and clean water. The montrices use visits from medical teams as an Dan Cauble, Valerie Coleman, Becky Guyton, Mark Lampley, Mary Bettis and Kelley Hays gather incentive for villagers to get during a recent Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church medical mission trip to Léogâne, Haiti.

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By Wendy Smith Last weekend, after listening to a talk about health from Alexis Andino, dozens of women flocked to tables to make crafts, apply makeup or have their nails done. Volunteers from Roane State Community College’s massage therapy program offered complimentary massages while children were entertained in the Central Baptist Church of Bearden gym. This is the fourth year the church hosted Tu Dia, or Your Day, for Hispanic women. The day of pampering and education is a way for the church to reach out to

the community in a tangible way, said Joyce Wyatt. She spent years as a missionary in Spain and South America and has a heart for ministering to Knoxville’s Hispanic community. Guests were treated to a healthy snack while watching a cooking demonstration by Jennifer Waller of the Knox County Health Department. Members of the Tu Dia board also presented a panel discussion on this year’s theme, “For a Time Such as This.” “We hope to enable them to press toward being the women God wants them to be,” said Wyatt.

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Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise. (1 Corinthians 3: 18 NRSV) April Fool’s Day is one of our older “holidays.” It began when Constantine was emperor of Rome, in the fourth century. According to stories, some of his jesters told the emperor that they would be a better emperor than he! The emperor (to his credit) was amused rather than angered. He decreed that one jester, named Kugel, would be “emperor” for a day. Kugel, as emperor, passed an edict calling for absurdity on that day. The custom was apparently a big hit, and it stuck. There were times, however, when laughter got God’s favored people into trouble! Abraham had been promised descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens. However, his wife, Sarah, was childless, and long since past the age of childbearing. Scripture tells us that “the Lord appeared to Abraham” (Genesis 18: 1) in the guise of three men. Abraham was a good host, and he offered them water to wash their hands

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and dusty feet, and food to eat. One of the men (angels?) asked Abraham, “Where is your wife?” Abraham said, “There, in the tent.” The stranger said, “I will return to you, and your wife Sarah shall have a son.” Sarah, eavesdropping just inside the tent flap, laughed out loud. The angel took offense at her incredulity, and rebuked her, saying, in essence, “Did, too!” Zechariah and Elizabeth also found that the Lord’s messengers didn’t play jokes. Zechariah argued with the angel who predicted Elizabeth’s pregnancy, claiming that his wife was too old. For his disbelief, he was struck dumb for nine months! God, it seems, doesn’t do April Fool’s tricks!

■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County will meet 10 a.m. Friday, April 3, at Shiloh Presbyterian Church, 904 Biddle St. Seasonal music will be provided by harpist Anne Jackson. Info: 525-3701. ■ Concord UMC 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. ■ New Covenant Baptist Church, 10319 Starkey Lane, will host The Watoto Children’s Choir from Africa presenting a new choir production, “Oh What Love,” 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2. All performances are free and open to the public. Info: 813-849-0076 or amber@design4.org. ■ Oak Ridge District United Methodist Women (UMW) and Knoxville District UMW will host the Social Action Workshop, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at First Farragut UMC. Registration: $10, includes lunch. Mail check made out to Knoxville District UMW by April 3 to: Nancy Dayton, 8305 Shoregate Lane, Knoxville, TN 37938. Info: Pat Bellingrath, 591-6274. ■ Second Baptist Church, 777 Public Safety Drive, Clinton, will host Jennifer Rothchild Fresh Grounded Faith area-wide women’s event from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 1-2. Tickets: 457-2046. Info: www.FreshGroundedFaith.com.

■ New Covenant Baptist Church, 10319 Starkey Lane, will host The Watoto Children’s Choir from Africa presenting a new choir production, “Oh What Love,” 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2. All performances are free and open to the public. Info: Amber Sakis at Design 4 Media, 813-849-0076 or amber@design4.org.

■ St. James Episcopal Church plans Easter services: April 2: Maundy Thursday Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar, 7 p.m. April 3: Liturgy, noon and 7 p.m.; Stations of the Cross, 1 and 3 p.m. April 5: Holy Eucharist, 7:30 and 10:30 a.m.; breakfast, 9:15; Egg hunt, 12:30 p.m.

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Renowned pianist Seymour Bernstein talks with director Ethan Hawke during the filming of “Seymour: An Introduction.”

Serving music guides pianist-composer through life By Betsy Pickle After actor Ethan Hawke met renowned pianist-composer-teacher Seymour Bernstein at a dinner party, he became so fascinated with Bernstein that he decided to make a documentary about him. “Seymour: An Introduction” is the result. Bernstein says he never set any boundaries with Hawke. “Absolutely not at all,” he says in a telephone interview. “I just was very flattered that he wanted to make a documentary on me,” says Bernstein. “I did wonder why he wanted to do it. I kept asking all the time, ‘What’s so special about me?’ ” It turned out that Hawke had read Bernstein’s 1991 book, “With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music,” and it affected him as he was contemplating his life and work. “It was the thesis of my book that interested him,” says Bernstein. “The thesis is in the documentary, namely, a passion for an art form can actually influence your life and not just the art form.” Bernstein earned rave reviews for his performances and then shocked the music world when he retired from performing at 50. “One of the reasons why I retired from performing is because I wanted to compose and also write,” says Bernstein, who’ll turn 88 on April 24. “And if I was practicing eight hours a day and also teaching, I didn’t have time to do that. So when I felt that I was able to perform the way I wanted to, I thought it was time to call it to a halt, and I’ve been happier ever since.” Bernstein grew up in Newark, N.J., with three older sisters. There was no music in the house until he was given a piano as a young boy. “No one ever had to tell me to go over to the piano to practice,” he says. “However, they did tell me to go out and play with my friend.” He believes his discipline was (and is) genetic. “I was just devoted to the piano from the earliest possible time on,” he says. “It was a sense of honor to me. If I was going to reproduce these masterpieces in an acceptable fashion, I simply had to do a lot of

work on them. “I was never aware that I was practicing per se. I only became aware that music was something that I loved more than anything else and that in order to serve it, I had to make myself better than I was.” Bernstein, who started teaching piano himself at 15, still has students. The lack of music programs in schools bothers him. “I think our educational system is terribly flawed,” he says. “Music should be a prime subject that all students must learn. That’s how it was in Ancient Greek times. There were four subjects they felt humans could not develop without, and one of them was music.”

‘Seymour: An Introduction’ Actor Ethan Hawke makes his documentary-directing debut with “Seymour: An Introduction,” and he seems to have absorbed powerful lessons from his subject. Pianist Seymour Bernstein was a star on the concert stage who decided at his peak to stop performing because he had other things he wanted to do. He was, and is, a teacher, and he wanted to compose music and write books. “Seymour” is primarily a series of conversations and reminiscences, but Bernstein’s gentle voice and inspirational philosophy are mesmerizing. Hawke stays out of the way and lets the teacher teach. It turns out that Bernstein is a powerful exception to the disparaging maxim: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. You watch him teach students at home and in a master class and see how his words work almost like magic. The film’s messages about discipline and living life hit home no matter what profession the viewer pursues. “Seymour: An Introduction” is time well spent – and the soundtrack fills in with beauty to seal the deal. Rated PG. Opens Friday at Downtown West.

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By Carol Shane Many tributes have already been paid to Luster William “Bill” Brewer, Pellissippi State Community College music department head and choral conductor, who died on March 18. We, too, wish to pay respects to this – in the words of one of his choristers – “radiant soul.” Over the years, I ran into Bill many times. Most of all, I remember his joyous love of music. I didn’t know him well, and that’s my loss. But others did. Perry Ward, a former Metropolitan Opera baritone who now teaches music at UT Chattanooga, was blindsided by the loss of a job in 2009. “One of the first phone calls I had was from Bill Brewer,” he remembers. “ ‘Perry? It’s me, Bill. I’m calling to see what I can do to help my friend.’ “He was so positive and encouraging; I couldn’t help but feel better as we talked.” Brewer offered Ward a job at PSCC the next fall. “I can’t really say I worked ‘for’ him; he wasn’t that kind of boss. I worked with him for two years. I will never forget what he did for me, and I can only hope I have the chance to pay it forward.” Perry’s wife, Tracy, teaches music at Sequoyah Hills Elementary School. Years ago, after a personal crisis, “I didn’t have any self-confidence left and didn’t want anyone to notice me. When

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SUNDAY Singer and writer Leslie Massengill Cutshaw with Bill Brewer – friend, conductor and mentor to many – at a 2011 Knoxville Choral Society concert Photo submitted I finally emerged, the Knoxville Choral Society was the first thing I tried. “Bill was the one who auditioned me. He was so kind and supportive. I can’t tell you what a boost that gave me! “Bill had a knack for making people feel good about themselves, in an honest way that really made you believe in yourself. And he seemed to do that when you needed it the most.” Diagnosed with throat cancer less than two years ago, Brewer continued to teach and conduct while

receiving treatment, and was in fact on a choir tour of Portugal just before he died. “It was ‘typical Bill’ to have gone on with his students even though he was ill,” says KCS member Leslie Massengill Cutshaw. “He loved making music, and he especially loved the people he made music with, students and peers alike.” Though medically cleared for travel, Brewer had to return home before the tour was finished, going into the hospital where he eventually died. Soprano Kathleen Spill-

ane, private voice teacher at PSCC, had taken a hiatus from teaching in order to homeschool her daughter. But “Bill welcomed me back to the voice faculty with open arms. “I was feeling very vulnerable as I was living with a cyst on my vocal cord and singing was difficult at the time. Bill introduced me to his ENT surgeon and a year later I was singing again.” News-Sentinel music critic Harold Duckett notes, “Bill’s singers always seemed to perform well for him because they wanted

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him to look good as the conductor as much as for themselves.” Tina Swaggerty Collins, organist at Ball Camp Baptist Church and KCS member, agrees. “You could see the sparkle in his eyes when he talked about his choirs. There was always laughter in a rehearsal, because Bill laughed through his life.” But even more, she says, “there was a continual, abiding love.” Brewer helped her through a time of grief in her own life. “Bill pulled me

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The Soup Kitchen Italian Pasta Soup and Pimento Cheese Sandwich By Mystery Diner Sometimes the best things come in plain boxes. No one will give The Soup Kitchen high marks for presentation or plating, but the soup is divine! The Soup Kitchen has two Tennessee locations: one in Cedar Bluff at 9222 Kingston Pike and one in Oak Ridge. In business for more than 30 years, The Soup Kitchen believes simplicity and fresh ingredients are the name of the game, although some of the soups are anything but simple in concept. I remember once tasting a soup called Butternut Bisque that almost made me abandon my favorite.

Almost. Here’s the thing with The Soup Kitchen: the menu changes daily. My absolute favorite is the Beer and Cheddar soup. When they have it, I get it, no matter how tempting a Butternut Bisque or Georgia Peanut might look. Though the menu changes, the quality of the soup doesn’t. I have yet to choose a soup I didn’t like, and, if nothing tickles my fancy that day, I fall back to chili. The Soup Kitchen’s homemade breads and desserts are enough to bring repeat customers on their own. The breads, soups, sandwiches and salads are made fresh each day. I love the pimento

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aside after rehearsal, took my hands in his and told me I had found the ‘beauty of where I belonged’ and it was only a matter of time until once again my heart would be filled ‘with love as the only song.’” Last Saturday the KCS paid tribute to Bill Brewer at its annual Young Classical Musicians concert. Cutshaw says, “The thought that has kept coming to me about Bill: Life well lived, music well made, people well loved.”

The plating isn’t fancy at The Soup Kitchen, but the flavors are delicious. This Italian pasta soup went well with the half a homemade pimento cheese sandwich. Photo by Mystery Diner

cheese on cheese bread. Each day, the restaurant offers eight soups, four to six homemade breads, plus the salads, sandwiches and desserts. The Beer and Cheddar wasn’t on the menu when Mystery Diner visited, so I tried the Italian

Pasta. It was delicious, filled with good-for-you vegetables in a rich and savory tomato broth. The pasta didn’t overwhelm, which is what I like. Paired with a pimento cheese sandwich, it was a hearty meal and, alas, I had no room for dessert!

When the New Year started, chef Frank Aloise hit the ground running. As the new chef at Cappuccino’s, the restaurant adjacent to Copper Cellar West, 7316 Kingston Pike, he had a new menu to prepare. That menu is now ready, and Cappuccino’s features a lineup of Italian dishes with an Aloise flair. Appetizers feature arancini (rice croquettes in a trio of sauces), and house-made sausage with peppers and onions. Pasta dishes range from traditional lasagna and pasta and meatballs to braised beef ravioli and cheese and spinach manicotti. Shrimp, veal, chicken and beef are all on the entrée menu. Guests will also find a redesigned dining room. Open at 5 p.m. daily, Cappuccino’s is part of the Copper Cellar Family of Restaurants, which includes Calhoun’s, Copper Cellar, Smoky Mountain Brewery, Chesapeake’s and Cherokee Grill.

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Vicki Mosebach and Julie Predny chat with radio personality Pictured at Victoria Falls are (sitting) Allen Pannell, Townes Osborn, Whitney Ray-Dawson, Bob Marquis, Sandy Martin, Jennifer Kim Hansard about her experience with Profile by Sanford. Pho- Sepaniak, David Martin; (standing) Jim Holleman, Leslie Baugues and Channing Dawson. Kathryn and Breese Johnson were on tos by S. Carey the trip but not pictured.

Chamber welcomes Profile, Kendall By Shannon Carey The Farragut Chamber welcomed two members with ribbon-cuttings last week: Profile by Sanford and Kendall Investigations. ■

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Profile, a weight loss and fitness program, combines individual lifestyle coaching with meal planning. And the facility’s stylish décor and fun staff are energizing, too. “We form a meal plan around your lifestyle,” said manager Donna Taylor. “Our staff is incredibly highly trained.” Radio personality Kim Hansard was on hand to tell attendees about her experience as a Profile client. Profile by Sanford is located at 113 Lovell Road near Costco. Info: 337-8176 or ProfilePlan.net ■

Kendall Investigations Kendall Shull, founder of

Kendall Investigations, is a retired FBI agent with experience undercover and as head of the FBI’s polygraph program. In 2001, he and his family moved to Knoxville. Kendall Investigations offers a full range of private investigator services, including background checks and polygraphs. Right now, Shull is promoting the firm’s security guard service, which offers both armed and unarmed guards. Shull started the service when First Baptist Church of Concord asked him, as a member of the church, to provide security. With a staff of highly trained guards, many of whom are ex-military, Kendall Investigations counts three local campuses of Lincoln Memorial University, and many other businesses, as clients. Kendall Investigations is located at 11167 Kingston Pike, Suite 3. Info: 966-1494 or kendallinvestigations.com

Rotarians learn in Zimbabwe By Bonny C. Millard Several local Rotarians recently traveled to Zimbabwe and South Africa to observe projects of their international counterparts, and they were inspired to build relationships through those projects. Rotary Club of Knoxville president-elect Sandy Martin talked of a preschool in a South African township where she was amazed by the spirit of Thelma, who operates the school and makes sure that the poverty-stricken children are developing literacy skills. Thelma runs the school she and her husband founded, despite dealing with her own personal tragedies. Her husband, son and mother were killed in a car accident that she miraculously survived several years ago. “Thelma was my ‘aha’ moment in Rotary,” Martin said. “Her attitude was wonderful.” In addition to educating the children, Thelma also feeds them a healthy breakfast and lunch, Martin said. Martin was part of a Rotary team organized by

Townes Osborn that embarked in mid-February for 15 days. The other members of the Zsa Zsa (Zimbabwe and South Africa) team were Bob Marquis, Leslie Baugues, Jim Holleman, David Martin, Whitney Dawson, Channing Dawson, Jennifer Sepaniak, Kathryn Johnson, Breese Johnson and Allen Parnell. The Zsa Zsa team traveled in conjunction with a group of medical personnel, which included other Rotarians, who went to Zimbabwe to provide the country’s first medical trauma training and to establish a nursing school in Bulawayo. Rotarian Phil Mitchell developed and coordinated that project. Mitchell, a native of Zimbabwe who lives in Knoxville and is a practicing physician, knew the needs of his homeland and wrote a Rotary grant to underwrite the project.

During its stay, the team met with the Rotary Club of Bulawayo South and later with Stanford Rotary Club and Knysna Rotary Club, both in South Africa. “Over the years, we’ve learned that the long-term success or sustainability of any project is greatly improved if the members of the two clubs know one another,” Osborn said. While in Zimbabwe, the team toured a government run clinic for HIV/AIDS patients and a program for children living with HIV/ AIDS called Zimkids. The group traveled to a village in the Kezi district, about two hours outside of Bulawayo, to see an earthen dam that had been breached, leaving villagers without water to grow food. Osborn said the government has no money to repair the dam, so Bulawayo Rotarians want to collabo-

rate with the Knoxville club and apply for a Rotary Global grant. In addition to touring local Rotary projects, the group went to Matoba Hills, a World Heritage site. They viewed the grave of Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), who is buried at the top. After leaving Zimbabwe, the group stayed at the Mosaic Farm Sanctuary, owned by Knoxvillians Kathryn and Breese Johnson, at Stanford, South Africa. The sanctuary has 25,000 acres and is located next to a preserve. “Everyone on the trip felt inspired, and their understanding of what Rotary is able to do in the world grew exponentially,” Osborn said. “We returned with a list of 15 projects that our club could conceivably support. We’re already planning a second trip in 2017.”

Knox County Sheriff’s Detective Chris Wallace with his dog, Rocco, and Detective James Troutt with his dog, Argo Photo by Bonny C. Millard

Canine cops By Bonny C. Millard A recent demonstration by two Knox County Sheriff’s detectives and K-9 handlers showed how canine officers serve the sheriff’s office and the community, and “Rocco” and “Argo” wowed the audience. Det. Chris Wallace and Det. James Troutt, both with the Narcotics Interdiction Unit, recently visited the Rotary Club of Farragut and explained the valuable services the dogs provide and the training they undergo. Both Rocco and Argo are Belgian Malinois. Wallace, who is Rocco’s handler, laid out several items and gave him orders

to find the questionable pouch, which didn’t contain any drugs but once had. Rocco, as trained, stayed with his find until Wallace gave new orders. Then Wallace donned a protective sleeve while Troutt gave the bite command to Argo, who lunged at Wallace, and then stopped at Troutt’s command. The dogs are used to apprehend and bite a suspect when necessary, but that is only about one percent of the work the dogs do, Wallace said. These units patrol the interstates in search of people who are trafficking illegal drugs, large sums of cash used in the drug trade, ille-

gal weapons and counterfeit goods. “All that stuff is coming through I-40 and I-75,” Wallace said. “It’s our job to try to identify the vehicles. It’s been pretty successful. For the past three months, my dog has seized over $250,000 in cash as well as almost eight pounds of crystal meth.” Troutt said one of his largest cash seizures was $345,000 and occurred on I-40 at Lovell Road several years ago with his first dog. The dogs and handlers go through about 300 hours of initial training and then receive ongoing monthly training to keep both the handler and the dog sharp.

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Cleveland interned with Sharla McCoy, a media relations icon, in Nashville. “Mrs. McCoy works with artists such as Garth Brooks, The Band Perry, and Carrie Underwood. It was awesome to see the other side of radio and gain wisdom from someone in the music industry.” Students who took on-campus classes were able to select from law enforcement, forensic science, hunter safety, driver’s education, teacher education, cooking and children’s ministry, just David Comfort at One Life Church to name a few. For the past twelve years, Grace Christian Academy students have been blessed to explore, experience and expand their education outside the traditional classroom setting.

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I would like to take a moment and introduce you to Lily Duncan. She is a freshman at Grace Christian Academy and has been selected as the Girl of the Year for the Knoxville chapter of The Lymphoma and Leukemia Society. Lily was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) on September 30, 2013. This type of cancer attacks the white blood cells and platelets in your blood stream. The diagnosis was a shock to Lily and her family and left her asking “why did God choose to place this burden on me?” With the love and support of family and friends who rallied to her side and committed to pray for Lily and her family each day, Lily battled this disease and is now in remission. Her initial treatment lasted nearly 8 months and required Lily to visit the Hematology and Oncology Clinic at East Tennessee’s Children’s Hospital several times each week for chemotherapy treatment. Lily was very weak and unable to

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Winterim at GCA What do hiking, 3-D printing, Budapest, auto-diesel mechanics and theology camp have in common? Not March Madness, but Winterim at Grace Christian Academy! From March 9-13, upper school students at Grace had the opportunity to travel, intern with local businesses, or take elective courses on campus. Students who enjoy traveling could either choose to tour New York City, explore four cities in Central Europe, or take mission trips to places such as Honduras and Haiti. Upperclassmen interned at medical facilities, charities, UT Athletics, media outlets, and engineering and architectural ﬁrms. Senior Morgan

By Susan Wallace, mother

attend school. She dealt with many side effects. One of the most difficult times during treatment was when Lily lost her hair. Prior to her treatment, Lily had long curly hair, which she was known for. Friends and strangers alike complimented her on her hair, so losing something she so closely identified with was devastating. Lily thought of herself as an average teen just going through the motions of life and never believed she was strong enough to go through something like this. She learned by relying on her faith and the committed prayers of others, God could accomplish anything! After months of hard work over the summer, she was able to return to school last fall as a freshman and is enjoying “regular days” as a “normal teen.” Lily was selected by her classmates to be the freshman candidate for Homecoming queen. This was a huge honor and a major accomplishment as it marked the one-year point for Lily’s remission. It was amazing to see the difference a year made! Lily enjoys spending time with friends and family. She is an avid shopper and is labeled a “fashionista” by those who know her. She participates in the upper school Ensemble at GCA and is grateful to be back to her life as a teen and student. Lily considers herself blessed. She has an awesome family and a great support system. She credits her Lord, Jesus Christ and the prayer and support of so many for where she is today. She in currently in the final stage of her treatment and will receive her final chemotherapy on January 22, 2016. You can watch a brief video of Lily’s journey on YouTube by searching 2015 Girl of the Year Lily Duncan. If you would like to get involved and show your support go to www.mwoy.org/ tn. To learn more about ALL go to www.lls.org.

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Pastor says program gives tools to fight Parkinson’s It was a very awkward position for a preacher, and there was no doubt that it would raise more than a few eyebrows. But there he was – Pastor Charlie Harkleroad standing in a laundry basket! As strange as it may seem, there was a reason for it – the senior pastor of Leadvale Missionary Baptist Church in White Pine was working on his golf swing. Honest. It was one of the more creative tasks cooked up by occupational therapist Janel Bell to help the 65-year-old pastor slow the progression of the Parkinson’s disease that was causing his gait to slow, joints to stiffen, arm to tremble, balance to wobble, writing to shrink and voice to weaken. “It was getting progressively worse,” said Harkleroad, who said he ﬁrst thought his unnatural arm swing was because of a shoulder surgery four years ago. “Even my congregation started noticing. I’ve been with them for 14 years so they notice small changes.” Diagnosed last September by Fort Sanders Regional Neurologist Dr. Timothy Braden, Harkleroad was referred to Parkwest Therapy Center at Fort Sanders West where he went through a four-week, 16-session therapy program called BIG & LOUD. BIG & LOUD sprang from the acclaimed Lee Silverman Voice Training (LSVT) technique established in 1987 and named after a Parkinson’s patient in Arizona. The hour-long sessions (and homework that comes with them), which seek to improve the motor skills Parkinson’s patients lose because of a lack of dopamine, help recalibrate the brain through a regimen of exaggerated motions and speech. According to Bell, each BIG session features seven standard exercises in which the goal is not only to get the maximum range of motion for a particular move, but to also get maximum effort from the patient. “So we have to rate this motion on a scale of 0 to 10, and our target is for them to be working at an 8 or above,” said Bell. “So if they get the motion to full range

Charles Harkleroad and therapist Janel Bell practicing some BIG movements.

and it’s not an 8, then we crank up the complexity of it.” “Amen!” exclaimed the preacher in agreement before adding, “They make work fun because I consider what I was doing work!” In addition to the exercises each visit, patients also must perform five functional tasks that they would do in their daily lives. “Those are things that they have told me, ‘This is how Parkinson’s is affecting me,’” said Bell. “So I look at all the things they tell me, and we sit down and list the five things that are most important in their life because these will become something that they use every day. Sit-to-stand is always one of those five because everyone does that every day. “Then, they always have a carryover task. Every day I would give him a task and he would go home and try to work just that little piece. I always try to make it, ‘What are you going to be doing between now and tomorrow?’ ”

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Big & Loud & growing With an estimated 10 million people worldwide living with Parkinson’s disease and 60,000 Americans diagnosed with it each year, it’s little wonder that the clinically proven BIG & LOUD program continues to grow in popularity. So popular, in fact, that Covenant Health encourages its physical, occupational and speech therapists from throughout the system to obtain the required certification to meet the growing demand. Currently, Covenant has 29 therapists certified – and two more in training – to teach either BIG or LOUD at eight clinics throughout East Tennessee. “The waiting period for an appointment is down now because Covenant Health has been training as many therapists as we can,” said Janel Bell, a therapist at the Parkwest Therapy Center at Fort Sanders West who received her certification last fall. “When I went to my course, there were

three physical therapists from Fort Loudon Medical Center in Lenoir City and a couple from LeConte Medical Center in Sevierville. Covenant Health has done a good job of seeing that we have enough therapists for that one-on-one training.” Bell is such a believer in the program that she urges physicians to refer patients as soon as they’re diagnosed rather than waiting. As evidence, she points to Charlie Harkleroad, the White Pine pastor who came into the program soon after his diagnosis in September. “Charlie is young and very active – that’s the time we need to be able to teach someone these exercises – not wait until they are on a walker or in a wheelchair. It deﬁnitely still can help no matter what stage they are, but if we can get patients doing the exercises sooner it can slow the progression of Parkinson’s down. The sooner that we can

some exercises for rising from a low sitting position without using his hands. Going to a grandchild’s basketball game might be exercises to maneuver the bleachers. Likewise, homework is a large component of the LOUD program. “LSVT focuses on teaching strategies on how to be loud,” said Tonya Connell, the LSV T-certiﬁed speech language pathologist who works with patients in the LOUD portion of the program. “There are several ways we do that, but patients don’t have to learn them all at once. “We give them homework each day – speciﬁc tasks for them to practice: loud speaking, conversations with people in public who

don’t know you have Parkinson’s, phone conversations at work, etc.,” added Connell. “We don’t just focus on the rote exercises we do here but conversation – tell me about your business, tell me about this, pretend I’m a client, that kind of thing. From day 1, they are getting assignments to practice outside the clinic.” Although 89 percent of Parkinson’s patients will develop speech problems ranging from low volume to monotone speech and vocal tremor, denial about those issues is just as common, said Connell. “Most patients feel like they are talking loudly enough – it’s just that everyone else needs a hearing aid,” she said, adding that “only 4 percent will seek treatment.” “The primary thing was the softness of my voice, and I had not noticed it,” said Harkleroad. “I told Tonya – and I still believe it – ‘To me, I sound like I’m yelling.’ But that’s the new norm, and that’s what I’m trying to get accustomed to. The congregation had noticed it some but when I’m on a speaker system and a headset mic, even if I speak too softly, the sound people can keep that up. But I have noticed a difference in the projection.” The LOUD program utilizes a software program in which the patient can actually see their voice on a computer screen as they talk. A graph shows the undulations in speech and pitch. “Part of the program works on strengthening vocal muscles and breath endurance by holding speech sounds as long as possible,” Connell explained. “There are also exercises that require the patient to try to make low and high pitches in effort to strengthen and teach control of changing vocal pitch so patients lose the monotone voice quality.” “I had made up my mind that I was going to do whatever was necessary,” said Harkleroad. “I like challenges, and that’s the way I approached it: It was a challenge and I’ve got to see what I can do with this. I can’t combat Parkinson’s by myself but if I’ve got some tools to work with and learn what they are, then maybe I can slow things down.”

Covenant Health supports expansion of BIG and LOUD In order to meet the high demand for the BIG and LOUD program in East Tennessee, Covenant Health has paid to bring 10 new LSVT- certiﬁed therapists on staff. Additionally, more software was purchased to serve the growing numbers of patients receiving treatment. Covenant Health now has 29 staff therapists trained in LSVT.

teach people what they can do, it will help them stay on a good regimen and keep their movements BIG.” “I saw people every time I came in that were struggling more than I was,” said Harkleroad. “I guess that was my motivation. I didn’t want to get to that point.” Ask about BIG & LOUD programs at

Parkwest Medical Center, Fort Loudon Medical Center, Cumberland Medical Center, Fort Sanders Therapy Center in Powell, Patricia Neal Outpatient Therapy Center at Roane Medical Center, LeConte Therapy Center in Sevierville and Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge or visit us online at www.covenanthelath.com/therapycenters.

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Miraculous spring NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier

other Nature seems to be teasing us with the promise of spring … at first, little tantalizing bits for a day or so, and then weeks of fits and starts. In addition to the deliciously warm sunshine we’re beginning to feel, there are, more and more, the sights and sounds of spring, with seemingly miraculous things going on behind all of them. Take the spring peepers, for example. Tiny frogs, the size of your thumb. They spend the winter hibernating under logs and leaf litter, showing no signs of life, sometimes frozen solid. Then at the first hint of spring, there they are in every puddle and ditch, peeping by the thousands, sometimes with snow and ice still around the edges of their wetland. And just like the peepers, everything else out there seems to be champing at the bit, eagerly waiting to burst forth into song or blossom. Our cardinals and tufted titmice have been singing for weeks. Their spring hormones kick in when the days begin to reach some mystical length, snow or not. And for thousands of years now, they seem to have gotten along pretty well with the way things have been set up. From a perspective of many, many years, I have come to regard the many

happenings of spring as – this year’s young birds nothing short of miracu- head south, on their own, lous. When you stop and guidance systems in operathink about it, just the fact tion, to a place they’ve never that birds can fly is miracu- been: the wintering areas lous, and a lot of them do from which their parents it spectacularly well. The headed north earlier in the little shore bird called the year. red knot, a world champion Of course bats can fly, of flyers, comes 7,000 miles too, and they’re really good They’re actually singing to each spring from its win- at it. And so can thousands establish their individual tering grounds in southern of bugs and butterflies. So nesting territories and to atSouth America to nest and birds don’t have exclusive tract a mate. Presumably the best raise its young in the tun- rights to flying. singer gets dra of far northern the best terCanada. ritory and the Our rubyJust like the peepers, everything else out best mate. It throated humhappens that, mingbirds, very there seems to be chomping at the bit, years ago, tiny creatures eagerly waiting to burst forth into song I got a very compared to the good mate, red knot or even or blossom. but I’m rea robin, fly nonally thankful stop across the that the proGulf of Mexico each spring to show up at Birds can claim exclusive cess didn’t depend upon my our hummingbird feeders bragging rights to a couple singing. We humans have and raise their young in of other miraculous things, worked out a somewhat difour neighborhoods. Mi- though: feathers and sing- ferent system for courtship, raculous? Consider this: ing. Those amazing, com- but the birds’ remarkable All these countless miles of plex structures, the feath- system is one that fills our travel are guided by amaz- ers, give the birds all those springtime with music. One thing that not everying skills built into their really neat spring colors, little bird brains. They can and they keep them warm one realizes: Each species navigate by the position and enable them to fly. But of birds has its own specific of the sun, compensating singing? Well, frogs and ka- song or set of songs, recogautomatically for the time tydids sing, but not melodi- nizable in the field. Most of day. They fly by night, ous songs like a robin or a good birders have learned to “bird by ear.” They know guided by the stars. Clouds wood thrush. and fog? They have the Right now, the robins, car- which of their feathered wired-in ability to navigate dinals, titmice and mocking- friends is around just by lisusing the Earth’s magnetic birds are going at it for hours tening to the songs around field, a feat a human could every day, soon to be joined them. It’s also very helpful do only with an airplane in the chorus by a very vocal when the bird in question and a sophisticated guid- bunch of migrants. Now, I’m is high in a leafy tree, or ance system. sure that most of you know tucked into some dense unAnd then – a fall miracle that they aren’t singing just derbrush. Some folks are a lot betto follow the spring ones to entertain us humans.

ter than others at remembering and recognizing bird songs and calls. Some gifted few can remember thousands of them. But everyone can learn a bunch of the familiar ones – robin, cardinal, bluebird, mockingbird – and then progress from there, a few at a time. Birding by ear opens up a whole new dimension for enjoying the outdoors, being able to know who’s around you by just listening. There are lots of other springtime miracles happening now. Bloodroots will come up through the snow, and bloom for us along the Norris Riverbluff Trail even when it’s really too chilly for us to want to go out. They are being joined by a dozen other species of beautiful little early spring flowers, including a few thousand trout lilies carpeting the floor of the woods. And how about those butterflies? People have regarded the caterpillar’s strange transformation into a spectacular spring butterfly as miraculous for centuries. We still don’t understand the details, but it is definitely a wonder of nature.

Those tiny Eastern tailed blues and little white moths are already flitting about on warm, sunny afternoons, and the heavy-hitters like silver-spotted skippers and tiger swallowtails will be along soon. Speaking of insects, thousands of tiny gnats, flies, caterpillars and inchworms are emerging, just in time to feed the waves of warblers, vireos, swifts and swallows, even now on their way up from South and Central America to Sharp’s Ridge, Norris Songbird Trail, and your backyard. The birds will eat literally tons of them. It all seems to work out in miraculous fashion. And we all need to take a lot of care to let it keep on happening. The annual Sharp’s Ridge spring bird walks are here again, on the last three Thursdays of April and the first Thursday of May. We start at 8 a.m. from the parking area at the old rangers’ residence. There will be experienced birders and novices alike, and hopefully you can start your day with a scarlet tanager, or half a dozen spring warblers. Join us!

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THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 3

MONDAY-TUESDAY, APRIL 6-7

Duck-Duck-Goose consignment event, 10 a.m.8 p.m., Knoxville Expo Center, 5441 Clinton Highway.

Opening reception for Art Market Gallery April Featured Artists: Marilyn Avery Turner and Gray Bearden, 5:30 p.m., 422 South Gay St. Info: 525-5265; artmarketgallery.net; facebook.com/Art.Market. Gallery.

Auditions for “The Lion King Jr.” 6:30 p.m., Studio ETC, 180 W. Main St. in Morristown. Looking to cast approximately 25-30 students ages 6-18. For casting breakdown of roles available: www. studioetc.org. Info: 423-318-8331 or www.etcplays. org.

THROUGH TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Online registration open for the Wildflower Pilgrimage, to be held Tuesday-Saturday, April 21-25, at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Registration fees: $75 for two or more days, or $50 for a single day; students, $15 with valid student ID. Info/to register: http://www.springwildflowerpilgrimage.org or 4367318, ext. 222.

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.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 “Books, Libraries and the Digital Future” lecture, 4 p.m., Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Blvd. Free and open to the public. Presented by Robert Darnton, Carl Pforzheimer University Professor and university librarian, Harvard University. Faculty Senate Book Sale, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley Campus, Goins Building College Center, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Community is invited. Funds raised go to student scholarships. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.

Sport Utility Vehicles Transportation

Automobiles for Sale BUICK PARK AVENUE Ultra 2003. 113K actual miles, white, w/lthr., like new. $4650. (865)661-1865. CADILLAC CTS 2007. Loaded. Exc. cond. Garaged. 75k mi, silver. $11,900. (865)588-6860; 399-8792 CHEVROLET IMPALA - 2004. V6, AT, leather, new tires, 1 owner, smoker free, $6000. (865)523-8736. CHEVROLET IMPALA - 2013. LT 41K miles, all power, remote start. Sharp! $9850. Call (865)522-4133. DODGE MAGNUM RT- 2005. 1 owner, 114K mi., blue, new tires, exc. cond. $9,000. (865)924-9616. FORD FUSION 2006. SEL, Sedan V6, fully loaded, runs perfectly. $4755. Call (865) 640-5404. FORD MUSTANG GT CONV. 2002, loaded, gar. kept, exc. cond. 40K mi., $8,700, Best Offer. (865)394-9684. MAZDA TRUCK - 2005. Manual, 6 cyl, rwd, extended cab, split rear window, bed liner, CD player, well maintained - one owner 56,300 mi., $13,500. (865)414-1639.

Sports and Imports AUDI A4 - 2004. 1.8 T Quatro, silver w/leather, 4 dr sedan, AT, garaged, good cond. $2650. (865)938-1732. HONDA ACCORD EX 2014. AT, New car warr., 600 mi., dual climate, power sts, SR, fully equip., beautiful crystal black fin. $23,995. (865)382-0365. HONDA CIVIC - 2002. Sunroof, loaded, air, 129k miles. Fin. avail. $4450. (865)308-2743. HONDA CIVIC 2001, AT, AC, 4 dr., super nice car. $3990. 865-308-2743 (865)308-2743. MAZDA MX-5 MIATA - 2007. 6 speed, true red, black interior, Grand touring, PRHT, retractable hard top convertible, MP3, leather heated seats, premium wheels, garage kept, excellent condition. 40,598 mi., $15,500. (865)740-3541. MGB Roadster 1976 Red w/red/black int., restored eng. & int., new tires, wheels, radio, 4 spd. w/OD, $9,750. 423-923-0966, 423-345-3049. SUBARU BAJA 2003. Immaculate cond., AWD, pwr sunrf, leather, prem. stereo, CD. Below avg mi., NADA $8300. A steal for $7600. 1st person to see will buy. Guaranteed! (865)282-9815. Must sell. VOLKSWAGEN GTI - 2013. Red w/blk int; Autobahn pkg - leath, sunrf, prem audio; blk whl; many VW acc. 14,000 mi., $24,900. (865)776-0146.

4 Wheel Drive HONDA RIDGELINE RTL- 2011. 4WD Crew Cab w/Navi, grey/grey, low miles, warranty, clear title, $17,500 mi., $9700, dgsberry@gmail.com (877)443-4978. LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER - 2004. White Range Rover HSE with Tan Interior. New Tires and all service done at the dealer. Very Clean like new!!! 104,040 mi., $11,500. (865)622-2255.

Sport Utility Vehicles CHEVROLET SUBURBAN - 2008. LT, Z71 pkg, 4x4, loaded, lthr., 2nd row bucket seat, 106K mi., white w/blk. int., private seller, $21,000. 865-382-0064 (865)382-0064.

FORD EXPLORER - 1993. V6, AT, 4WD, every day driver, $2900. (865) 216-5387. GMC Terrain 2014, 5,000 mi, all power, aluminum wheels, bluetooth, $18,900. 865-660-9191 HONDA PILOT Touring 2011, loaded, exc. cond., 45K mi., $21,500. 423-295-5393.

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

Vans CHEV. G20 CONV. VAN - 1988. new transm., new tires, runs exc., lots of extras. $2200/b.o. (865)408-9701. CHEVROLET C30 - 1995. Cargo Van, shelving, ready to work. $3,000. (865)216-5387. HONDA ODYSSEY EXL- 2012. EXL, sunroof, lthr., exc cond. 40K mi., $19,900 423-295-5393

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 3-4 Flea market at Westview Tower, 7823 Gleason Drive. Art, crafts, household and unique items.

SATURDAY, APRIL 4 Easter Weekend Breakfast, 6:30-10:30 a.m., Beaver Ridge Lodge #366, 7429 Oak Ridge Highway. Cost: free with a donation to the Beaver Ridge Charity Fund.

SUNDAY, APRIL 5

MONDAY APRIL 6 Blount Mansion History Supper, 6 p.m., The Grill at Highland’s Row, 4705 Old Kingston Pike. Speaker: James R. Knight. Topic: John Bell Hood and the Civil War in Tennessee. Info/RSVP: 525-2375 or info@blountmansion.org. Making Continuous Bias-Cut Binding Strip Class, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/ profile/monicaschmidt.

Boats/Motors/Marine Garage Sales

Campers & RV’s

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CAR TOW DOLLY - 2015, all cars/pu Swivels, tilts, never used, new ret. $2750. 1st $1050 cash. 864-275-6478

WANTED Military antiques and collectibles 865-368-0682

FORD HARD TOP 1966 VICTORIA. Compl. restoration. 300 mi. on rebuilt eng. $15,000. (865)333-0615. MGB - 1977 $1500. 865-705-6123

Commercial Vehicles FORD F700 1983, - dump flat bed w/ sides, gas mtr., needs some work. $1500. (865)216-5387. FREIGHTLINER 2000 - Mid Roof, 1999 East Covered wagon, 1 owner, exc. cond. $36,500/b.o. (865)922-8694

Auto Parts & Acc Nitto M/T 35x12.50R20LT Trail Grappler, 800 mi, 4 @ $350 ea. 239-2005191

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine 18’ BOW RIDER 8-pass., only 38 hrs, 215 HP, Challenger 180 SE, gorgeous, w/trailer. $12,750. 865-250-8079. 2007 21’ WAR EAGLE - center console alum. boat, 115HP Yamaha, 2 cycle & trailer, new Hummingbird 859 CI HD Sonar GPS, new boat cover, lots of strg, 12/24 motor guide elec. trolling motor, extra jet drive, exc. cond. $12,000 obo. 865-809-0167 or 681-9992. 2009 18’ TRACKER Tournament V-18 w/90 HP Mercury OptiMax, 24 volt MinnKota Maxxum foot control elec. motor, 2 Hummingbird 788ci graphs. This is virtually a new boat, motor & trailer (10 hours or less). Runs strong & smooth. Health issues. $15,995. 865-740-9300 BAY BOAT - Exc. cond. 23’ Ranger, 230C, twin 200 HP Johnsons, $15,000. New alum. trlr, $5000. (865)333-0615. Boat 2000 Four Winns 268 Vista, exc shape, radar arch, full canvas, low hrs, on lift, reg. gas, Tellico Village. $35,000. Alan, 423-371-9050.

LEGAL NOTICE The Board of MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF FARRAGUT, at its meeting on THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 adopted the following ordinance on second and ﬁnal reading: 1. Ordinance 15-02, an Ordinance to amend the text of the Farragut Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 86-16, as amended, pursuant to authority granted by section 13-4-201, Tennessee Code Annotated, by amending Chapter 3. Specific District Regulations, Section XII. General Commercial District (C-1), F., Mixed Use Town Center, Subsection 2. B., by providing for a drive through under certain conditions.

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Motorcycles/Mopeds

THURSDAY, APRIL 9 Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” 2-4 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is composed of five women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, dmorton3@charter.net.

GENERATOR - BIG 8500 watt, 2015, Honda elec. start. Batt. & wheel kit incl. Never used. New retail $4995. Wholesale $3750. 1st $1850 cash. 864-275-6478

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Adoptions

Antiques

Classic Cars CHEVROLET CAMARO - 1978. Rally Sport LT, 350 mtr, AT, runs & drives. $1500. (865)216-5387.

GARAGE SALE - Wed. Apr 1 through Fri, Apr 3, 9am-4pm, and Sat, Apr 4, 9am-1pm. 4220 Solomon Drive. Lots of stuff! Great prices! NO early sales. Rain or shine!

2013 MONTANA HIGH Country 36’ 5th wheel, deeded resort lot, East of Gatlinburg. $73,000. 3 slide outs, smoke/ pet free, has not been towed. RV is in pristine condition, Lot has new asphalt parking and a new large concrete and flagstone patio. 865-964-8092.

DUTCHMAN TOY HAULER 2005, 32 ft. Good condition, lots of room. Call 865-776-1991; 865-992-3547.

AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., American Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook Pike. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822. Faculty Senate Book Sale, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Magnolia Avenue Campus, Lobby, 1610 E. Magnolia Ave. Community is invited. Funds raised go to student scholarships. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.

Tools

TRITON 2000 - 21 ft., 225 HP Mercury mtr., garage kept, exc. cond. $19,760. (865)966-2527.

COACHMAN 2004 23’ travel trailer, sleeps 6, exc. cond. $8,635. (865)966-2527.

Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is composed of five women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, dmorton3@charter.net. Lewis Nash in concert, 8 p.m., the Square Room on Market Square. Presented by the Knoxville Jazz Festival. Info/tickets: 688-6096 or www.knoxjazzfest. org.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7-8

The Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee meeting, 6 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Program: class on egg alternatives by Linda Wade. Potluck supper follows. Cost: $4. Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com or 546-5643.

2005 Winnebago Sightseer 29R, V-10 Ford on a workhorse chassis & Allison trans., 2 new flat screen TVs & sound bar, 2 slides, dinette & sleeper sofa, queen bed in rear, sleeps 6, plenty of bsmt storage, awnings on all windows. Super nice. Mint cond. 42K mi. $43,900. 423-851-1152

TUESDAY, APRIL 7

Merchandise

Building Materials 1 new metal bldg. 120’ L x50’ W, complete, never erected. 9’ sidewalls to 14’ center walls. 865-803-3633

ADOPT: A loving couple longs to adopt your newborn into a home filled with unconditional love, warmth & security. Expenses paid. Kim & Werner @ 1-888-416-5056 ADOPTION LOVING, professional couple eager to add to our growing family. Our warm, nurturing home is waiting to welcome your baby. Expenses paid. Anne & Colin. 1-877-246-6780 (toll-free) ADOPTION: Loving couple promises your baby a secure home. Denise & Nick. 1-888-449-0803

5 New Rolltop Metal Doors: (1) 16’x14’H, (2) 14’x8’H, (2) 14’x14”H. 865-458-5164

Cemetery Lots 2 PLOTS AT SHERWOOD - Memorial Gardens in the Garden of Victory. $3500/both. (865)919-0755 CEMETERY LOTS - 4 lots Lynnhurst Cemetery. Monument rights. $8,000, (865)922-5227 HIGHLAND Memorial, Gospels Sec. 2 lots side by side, $1200 each. 865588-0567

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Heavy Equipment

Manufactured Homes

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2009 Ultra Classic, 1250 mi, $4500 in upgrades. $15,800. (423)404-2862.

Household Goods

HD ROAD KING CLASSIC 2007, Odometer has 11,500 mi., Like new. $10,750. Call (865) 208-2290. YAMAHA V STAR 650 CLASSIC - 1998, Runs well, babied & gar. stored, New tires, only 11,143 mi. Windshield, saddlebags, back rest & helmet incl. $3,250 obo. (865)310-0794. YAMAHA V-STAR 1300 - Exc. shape. Low mi. 2007. $5850. (616)260-6584.

GROUND LEVEL CONTAINERS

8’wx9’hx40’ Store tools, equipment, feed, cars, etc. $1395-$1795. 966-9400 x 412

3 KNITTING MACHINES - Serger & Sewing Machines. Best offers. 865335-3465 (865)984-5411

JOHN DEERE LT155 Riding Mower, scraper blade & bagger. 15 HP, Kawasaki eng., 38” cut. 850-8672

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Jobs

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Home Maint./Repair

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I-40 (3 min from Exit 412). 16x80 $9741. Needs repairs. Setup in small park. Cash or 50% down. 865-386-7451 M-F

Mobile Homes/Lots

VOLUNTEER VILLAGE Pool, Club house. Lots -- $99/mo. (865)250-4205

For Sale By Owner Lawn & Garden

8’wx9’hx40’ Store tools, equip., feed, cars, etc. $1395-$1795 966-9400 x 412

Musical GRETSCH COUNTRY GENTLEMAN Guitar, $3500. Grodin Freeway guitar $375; Fender 212R amp, $275. (865)806-1252

Apartments - Unfurn. $0 DEPOSIT!! - 2BR Garden Apts. w/all amenities include SALT Pool & W/D conn. Close to Ftn. City. Call Tayna, 865-688-7531. Professionally managed by Garland Management Co. 2 BR POWELL - Special 1/2 Rent NOW. Water paid, all appls, no pet fee, $570 mo. 384-1099; 938-6424. BROADWAY AND TOWERS 62 AND OLDER Or Physically Mobility Impaired 1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site. Immediate housing if qualified. Section 8-202. 865-524-4092 for appt. TDD 1-800-927-9275

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Consolidation Loans

- 2010 Harley Davidson FLHXSE CVO. This Harley Davidson is a limited-production version of the popular Harley-Davidson hotbagger. Powered by the 110 cubic inch V-twin engine. Loaded with chrome and Spiced Rum paint with gold leafing. This bike has several added features, the Harley Davidson LED headlamp, Harley Davidson ipod interface with relocation kit, 7” speakers and amp. Road pegs, Kuryakyn Crusher exhaust pipes with Trident Tips, leather Mustang lid covers, V-stream windshield. Tires have 2000 miles on them, CVO brass key, Harley Davidson cover. Currently has 16,699 miles and is in excellent condition, 865-209-7636 serious inquiries only.

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CHARMING HOME PRICED TO SELL 1966 Clove, 3BR, Don’t miss this move-in ready ranch home with a desirable open floor plan. Located at the end of a private street, this home features a walk-in, tiled shower in the master bath, new energy-efficient windows and vinyl wood floors throughout the main living areas. Located 7 minutes from downtown and UT campus. Comes with: *Stainless kitchen appliances *Front load washer and dryer *Freshly painted walls *Maintenance-free vinyl siding *Large covered front porch and open back deck. (865)385-6837.

Lots/Acreage for Sale 5 1/2 ACRE LOT with lake view on Norris, in Sharps Chapel, Pinnacle Point. $25K. (601)297-8312.

MONDAY PLAZA - 1BR & STUDIOS AVAIL. ON THE STRIP. Starting at $395 mo. For more info (865)219-9000

NORWOOD MANOR APTS. Accepting Applications 1, 2, & 3 BR. On busline Equal Housing Opportunity 865-689-2312 SOUTH KNOX/UT/DOWNTOWN 2BR, 700 Sq. Ft. APT, Call about our $299 move in special! 865-573-1000.

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WEST - GREAT location & schools, 2 BR, 2 BA, W/D conn, $650/mo. $500 DD. No pets. More. 865-588-3433

Homes Unfurnished COUNTRY SETTING - 10 min. from Halls, Hwy 33, 4BR, 3BA, FP, 2 car gar. on an acre lot. $1000 mo. + $1000 DD. 865-776-3621. No Pets WEST - Fox Run Subd. Exec home 4 BR, 2.5 BA, lrg kit., fam rm, LR, DR, office, fncd level backyard. 865803-7978

Duplx/Multplx UnFurn WEST - Newly rentivated, granite counter tops, spacious 2BR, 2BA, family room & fireplace, W/D Conn, $875 mo., 1 year lease, (865)216-5736

Real Estate Commercial Commercial Property /Sale 701 NORTH CHERRY ST. 6,000 SF, $175,000. 865-544-1717; 865-740-0990

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HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICE

Will clean front & back, $20 & up. Quality work, guaranteed. (865)288-0556

ESTATE SALE at 7900 Greenwell Rd, Halls. Fri Apr 3, 8a-6p and Sat Apr 4, 8a-? Antiques, furn, HH items, misc.

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