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Premium hotel slated for Parkside Drive

… Is having “fun with scissors” at the Red Line Gallery.

By Sandra Clark Auction Land Partnership and Kana Hotel Group want to build a 7-story Embassy Suites at 9621 Parkside Drive, on land now occupied

by Phoenix Conversions.

General Partner Jim Turner secured two variances from the county Board of Zoning and Appeals last week and was well received by the board. The land lies in Knox County, outside both the town of Farragut and the city of Knoxville.

“I want to be sure that you know this is not a done deal,” Turner said afterwards.

“We’ve secured the variances, but we’ve got a long way to go.”

Turner said the property currently produces $13,200 in annual real estate taxes, but his development would generate $188,000 and another half million in hotel/ motel taxes.

The variances dealt with the minimum lot area required per room (1,051 square feet per room rather than 1,800) and the size of parking spaces (162 square feet per space rather than 200).

“We have the land (to build without the variances), but it’s environmentally better to do less,” Turner said.

The land is currently 92 percent blacktop and building; after the development, it will be less than 80 percent impervious surface. He said the hotel itself will occupy only 24 percent of the land.

Green space will be created in the back (along the interstate) and within the hotel. It will include a covered swimming pool.

Turner got his variances without objection.

See Natalie Lester’s story on page A-2

Farragut history students … … Are making some history of their own See Lorraine Furtner’s story on page A-12

Alderman Dot LaMarche takes the oath of office for the third time. After the swearing in, LaMarche was re-elected as the town’s vice mayor by the board.

Taking the oath

FEATURED COLUMNIST MARVIN WEST

Do spring games count?

See page A-6

Burchett’s first budget Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will present his first general budget proposal to the Knox County Commission and the public today (May 2) at 9 a.m. in the Burchett City County Building main assembly room. He will then make several community presentations.

He will be at the Strang Senior Center in Farragut at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 3, and at the Cedar Bluff Branch Library at 5 p.m.

Thursday, May 5.

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Newly-elected Alderman Ron Honken takes the oath of office at last week’s meeting of the Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Photos by N. Lester

Hurry up and wait

By Natalie Lester Farragut staff and volunteers are continually working to make the town business friendly. Knox County officials crave new businesses, jobs and opportunities. Yet a road project that could boost both economies has taken two years to get off the ground, and construction hasn’t even started.

In a recent tour of the Public Market, real estate investor John Turley complained the county and town were “sitting on their hands” with the Outlet Drive and Snyder Road connection.

Design work on the project began in February 2009 and, according to Knox County Engineering and Public Works Deputy Director Jim Snowden, it is currently in the right of way acquisition stage.

Sam Furrow, who has owned 27 acres of the undeveloped property on Outlet Drive for seven years, is ready to see construction underway.

“I’m anxious,” he said, “and every day that goes by I’m losing money I’ve invested, and the town and county are losing possible sales tax dollars.

The zoning of my property allows a lot of different opportunities, and I assume it will host some sort of retail operation, but we’ll never know that until the road is there.”

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According to Snowden, construction would begin in September at the earliest.

“We have to nail down right of ways, relocate the utilities and finish the design,” he said.

The right of way acquisition is split between the town and county, but Knox County will oversee the construction.

“They (Farragut) don’t have the money allocated for construction,” he said. “I’m sure they would love to help us, and it is in their transportation plan, but they just don’t have the funds to help. So, the county will assist them in that.”

Despite the complaints, Snowden said the project has moved fairly quickly.

“It hasn’t taken a tremendous amount of time, but all projects were shelved with the new administration so they could re-evaluate the priorities,” he said.

In the worst case scenario, Snowden expects the construction will be finished in September 2013.

Furrow and other property owners will then be able to pursue the business opportunities everyone wants. For now, it’s a waiting game.

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A-2 • MAY 2, 2011 • FARRAGUT SHOPPER-NEWS

Nathaniel Galka poses in front of part of his collection, “Fun with Scissors,” at the Red Line Gallery.

Ode to Old Red We were lucky out our way last Wednesday night.

Although the hail and the wind took its toll on our property, we’re unhurt.

Compared to the devastation and the loss of life across the South, we emerged with what amounted to a couple of scratches and bruises.

Still, I’ll miss “Old Red,” my ’99 Honda Accord. With 190,000 miles behind him, Red was looking forward to a comfortable retirement, nothing more strenuous than an occasional trip to the grocery store. Mother Nature decreed otherwise, however, and it’s likely that Red never knew what hit him when the mother of all hailstorms erupted over his defenseless windows and doors.

Red had been a faithful companion for 12 years, never complaining as long as I kept him lubricated and shod in serviceable rubber. He didn’t mind when I ate my lunch or supper on the run with one hand, and he was too polite to squawk when Old Red Photo by L. Van Guilder I sloshed coffee on his seats or dribbled a few crumbs on his console.

Red was with me when I wound my way through Virginia’s Civil War battlefields several years ago. He didn’t roll his “eyes” or snicker when I stopped and photographed the site where Stonewall Jackson’s amputated arm was buried, and he reveled in getting lost on country lanes that led nowhere.

Old Red made a couple of trips to Charleston, S.C., with me. He kept me cool as I tooled along the swampy, humid byways of South Carolina’s Low Country, and he invariably guided me to the best spots for she-crab soup and gumbo.

Red was half-sled dog and half-car. Often we rolled along on snowy roads where BMWs feared to tread, Red’s four cylinders purring happily, his treads blazing a trail for the less adventuresome to follow.

Others may have complained about my musical taste, but not Old Red. Classical, rock or pop, Red churned out the tunes on his radio or CD player. Heck, he even tolerated talk radio, but he did balk at Limbaugh and Beck.

I saw a lot sunsets with Red. Happily, like me, Red was not an early riser, so he rarely insisted we hit the road in time to witness the dawn.

Now, Old Red rides that highway in the sky. I’m going to miss him.

Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

Photos by N. Lester

Dietician Breanna Ross details the effects of childhood obesity and what is being done to help to the Farragut Rotary Club.

MPC questions capital improvement plan In a few weeks the Board of Mayor and Aldermen will be voting to approve the town’s capital improvement plan. The Farragut Municipal Planning Commission recently discussed and made recommendations on several planned projects.

Members worried there is too much emphasis placed on decorative elements like the lighting at Campbell Station and landscaping on the Grigsby Chapel traffic islands.

Edward St. Clair wondered why decorative lighting was needed at Campbell Station when the town just paid for aluminum poles with the road’s improvements last year.

“I wouldn’t support half a million dollars for the looks of a few poles,” he said.

A proposed $550,000 would be spent on 20 to 30 poles.

Ron Rochelle asked if the lighting would be placed throughout the town, but Associate Town Administrator Gary Palmer explained the town would have to see how the project was received.

“This is the pilot project for that,” he said. “I could see that becoming an option as the town develops

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and funding is available.”

“This is part of the strategy for us to look like a historic town, which we are,” said Mayor Ralph McGill.

“We start here, but we don’t end here.”

Concerning the Grigsby Chapel islands, Melissa Mustard wondered how practical the landscaping is.

“It was never clear with me there was going to be a recurring costs for these,” she said.

Mustard also questioned how a feasibility study for a possible community center fit into the plan, but McGill cut short the discussion.

“Right now we’re looking at what is proposed, at what is in front of us,” he said.

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Fun with Scissors

Artist Nathaniel Galka’s “Fun with Scissors” collection at the Red Line Gallery began with a simple moss mound on another one of his paintings.

“That is how the majority of my work happens,” he

Halls Class of ‘71 Halls High Class of 1971 will hold its 40th reunion Saturday, May 7, at Beaver Brook Country Club. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. and feature heavy hors d’oeuvres and desserts and a cash bar. Cost is $30 per person. Make checks payable to HHS Class of 1971 and mail to Gene Parrott, 4410 Cabbage Road, Knoxville, TN 37938. Info: Hugh Wolfe, 922-8452.

Senior novice tennis program offered in May The 22nd annual “Never-Ever” Senior Novice Tennis Program, offered to seniors 50 and older who have never played or haven’t played tennis in a number of years, will

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said. “A haphazard mark takes me to a whole new idea. I never know where a painting will end when I sit down, but I know when a work is finished.”

The new collection recently debuted at the Red Line Gallery. It features 10 works of mixed media with oil, pen and ink, and spray paint. Each painting features an animal created from grass. Galka said the most difficult part was developing the titles.

“Titles are so important,” he said. “They develop as the painting does, and they really set the mood and give the viewer a starting place.”

Galka is no stranger to Red Line Gallery. He has been an artist of interest since the Gallery opened a year ago, but he said his work is beginning to head in a new direction. The new collection has a sense of togetherness his past work didn’t offer.

“It is more adhesive in that it tells a story where others were just a sampling of my talent,” he said.

“There is a theme here.”

Galka’s “Fun with Scissors” collection will be on display through May in the front section of Red Line Gallery.

Farragut beautification awards A team of judges from the town of Farragut’s beautification committee will make on-site visits to businesses, residential entrance areas and churches Tuesday, May 3, to officially recognize the most attractive landscaping in Farragut.

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Rotary learns dangers of childhood obesity

During the Farragut Rotary Club’s weekly meeting, dietician Breanna Ross educated the members on childhood obesity.

According to Ross, 25 million children are overweight. The figure, which has tripled over the last few years, represents a third of school age children. Health issues including type II diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol can arise come as a result of carrying extra weight.

An analysis in 2005 showed that children who are overweight may live shorter life spans than their parents, but the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act signed by President Obama in 2010 seeks to change the guidelines for meals served in schools.

Students consume between 30 and 50 percent of their daily calories in school. The act seeks to replace starches and sodium with fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

“This is the first time in nearly 15 years the school food standards have been altered,” Ross said.

tion of plant material, visual appeal and general maintenance of landscaped areas.

Winners will be notified in late May, and the awards will be presented by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen in June.

Info: Chelsey Riemann, 966-7057 or email chelsey. riemann@townoffarragut. org.

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Welcome to Phase II Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill and Marianne McGill assist granddaughter Shayleigh Pratt in cutting the ribbon opening McFee Park Phase II as Alderman Jeff Elliot, Park and Leisure Services Director Sue Stuhl and Town Administrator David Smoak watch. This phase includes the splash pad, two picnic pavilions and restroom facilities. Photo by N. Lester

Board decides retirement question Town to combine Social Security with 401(k)

By Natalie Lester The town of Farragut will match its employees’ 401(k) contributions up to 4 percent, and employees will join Social Security.

After months of discussion, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a revised retirement plan by a vote of 3-2. Alderman Jeff Elliot and Vice Mayor Dot LaMarche dissented.

The plan will increase

the town’s annual expenses by 2.2 percent, or approximately $60,000, according to Town Administrator David Smoak.

Alderman Ron Honken supported the plan from the beginning of discussion, but Alderman Bob Markli wanted to prolong the debate.

“I’d like to work on this some more,” he said. “I want to do what is right for

everyone.”

The plan, as it now stands, will not benefit the town’s longtime employees like Parks and Leisure Services Director Sue Stuhl and Public Works Director Bud McKelvey. Both spoke in support of a defined benefit plan before the vote.

“The Social Security plan won’t help long-term workers,” said Stuhl, who has worked for the town for 17 years. “It would be hard for us to dig out of the hole we’ve gotten into. I know the board has to do what

is best for the town, but when you have employees who can’t afford to retire, there is a different type of liability.”

Honken moved to approve the plan and Markli seconded his motion.

Honken also pointed out there were two different issues at play with this decision.

“We have to decide what we’re going to do for a retirement plan, and then decide what we’re going to do with others who are left in a difficult situation.”

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

The town of Farragut has announced the 30-day warning period at the fourth intersection in its Traffic Enforcement Program – Campbell Station Road at Grigsby Chapel Road/Parkside Drive – will be from Monday, May 2, through Tuesday, May 31.

Citations resulting in a $50 fine per offense will begin Wednesday, June 1.

During the testing period, drivers may see the camera flash. Info: Email Ben Harkins at bharkins@ townoffarragut.org or call 966-7057.

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The East Tennessee Historical Society’s First Friday event for May will be special screenings of the East Tennessee PBS film “The Mysterious Lost State of Franklin” 5:15 p.m., 6:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Friday, May 6, in the auditorium at the East Tennessee History Center. Info: 215-

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■ Zumba, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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■ Staff/Developer Meetings, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 3.

■ Farragut/Knox County Education Relations Committee, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

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■ Sand Volleyball, 6-9 p.m.

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■ Recycling Committee, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 3.

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government Taking it to the street Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett is presenting his first budget to County Commission today, and he’ll be looking for six votes in his favor before the new fiscal year begins July 1. But outside of seeking the necessary commission approval, Burchett says, he’s taking a new approach to the budget process – selling his vision to the people.

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The mayor has a full slate of community meetings scheduled for this week.

It’s a strategy intended to capitalize on Burchett’s strength, an easygoing, conversational manner in front of his constituents, while at the same time distancing himself from the formality and expense one came to expect under his predecessor’s administration.

“I’m going to sell the budget to the taxpayers,” Burchett said recently. “No laser show.”

What will he be selling?

First, a budget smaller than the one he inherited.

There will be some layoffs, Burchett says, but “not as draconian as some people think.”

“Return on investment” may become the guiding fiscal principle for this mayor. He signaled as much when he noted that participation in the county’s wellness program is falling short of what he’d like to see. Expect a proposal to scale back or eliminate the program.

“I’m keeping my word on not raising taxes,” the mayor said. And such job eliminations as come will not be in codes enforcement, a department that might be beefed up in FY 2013, he added.

It will come as no surprise that the fiscally conservative Burchett intends to put the county’s community grants budget on a diet.

“We’re gradually coming away from the public grants,” Burchett said, although by how much and

A-4 • MAY 2, 2011 • WEST SIDE SHOPPER-NEWS

Don’t listen to them, Mr. Brown Daniel Brown is getting high marks for his tenure as interim mayor. Except for a rookie glitch over changes to the Ten Year Plan (when he said something during a press conference that seemed to be throwing top aides Larry Martin and Bill Lyons under the trolley), he’s had a smooth ride.

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Burchett how quickly waits to be revealed.

Burchett said his decisions weigh heavily on him: “I wake up in the middle of the night worrying about somebody losing their job.”

Still, Burchett and his chief of staff, Dean Rice, seem committed to reshaping county government in their vision.

“We can talk about a vision,” Rice said, “but unless you’re prepared to implement it …”

The mayor seems more than ready to implement it, holding to the maxim that you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. He says that the “85 percent” who cast votes for him were not voting for Tim Burchett as much as they were declaring for a more fiscally sound county government.

Rice said the administration plans to reduce the county debt by about $20 million over the next few years, at least by the end of the mayor’s current term.

If not this fiscal year, then certainly by the next, holding the line on taxes, reducing the debt and keeping up with the rising cost of everything from electricity to paper clips may call for cuts in personnel and services that some will consider draconian, despite the mayor’s concerns.

Today’s presentation to County Commission is a warm-up. If Burchett sells his budget when he takes it to the street, he’ll get the votes he needs from commission in May or June.

My money is on Burchett. And however painful this budget may be, no one can say that we didn’t ask for it.

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He is doing a good job filling in for now-Gov. Bill Haslam and has given his City Council colleagues no reason to regret having voted for him.

He runs a good meeting.

He hired a good police chief.

He presented a good budget.

He has an affable demeanor, a good sense of humor, is a student of history and a sharp-dressed man.

Knoxvillians are extremely proud of the way he has handled the pressures

of being our first AfricanAmerican mayor.

But that doesn’t mean he should break his promise not to run for a full term.

Brown is getting considerable encouragement/ pressure to join the fray and declare himself a candidate. That was clear at last month’s budget address, where many constituents urged him to jump into the mayor’s race.

Marilyn Roddy’s withdrawal as a candidate has seemed to ramp up that pressure. (The logic of this argument is difficult to convey because it escapes me, but it seems to be that since Roddy was an advocate of Brown’s getting the interim appointment, he somehow “owes” it to her to make the run. Or something like that.)

When City Council convened to vote for an interim mayor, five of them wanted the job. Brown prevailed after 11 rounds of voting. All of the candidates said they would serve as caretakers and would not run for election.

Now, some people are telling him that keeping his

Daniel Brown Photo by Betty Bean word doesn’t matter.

But it does matter – for reasons both symbolic and practical.

People just don’t like candidates who break their word, and Mayor Brown need look no farther than to the other local legislative body, County Commission, for an example.

When County Commissioner Scott Moore was turned out of office after a judge ruled that he had committed perjury, Michele Carringer was appointed to fill his seat until the next election. She promised not to run

Does Brown run for mayor?

Mayor Daniel T. Brown delivered his first budget message April 21 at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens and, while he said it was also his last budget message, a movement is afoot for him to reconsider his decision not to see a full mayoral term.

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This was the first time that many had heard the new mayor speak at length and it was well delivered.

He clearly had worked on it. The content was a maintenance and continuation budget which suits the public mood. There was a modest increase in paving money and individual capital projects in East and South Knoxville.

It is unlikely Council will make many changes unless there are serious questions about the $236,000 funding for David Hill on the South Knoxville waterfront.

Many have discovered that Hill, who is the fourth highest paid employee in the city at $146,000 a year (making more than the mayor and $55,000 more than the fire chief), could have his duties merged into community development under the able lead-

ership of Becky Wade and save this money.

Waterfront development is a worthy subject but very little is happening with the slow economic recovery and certainly little to justify such a high salary.

However, a Brown candidacy for mayor, which had previously been discounted, is being actively pushed by several AfricanAmerican leaders. They are pleased with his job performance to date. He helped himself with his budget address. He appeared mayoral. He likes the job as well.

A few weeks ago I would have thought the odds were heavily against him running; today those odds in favor have increased as to whether he will reconsider and qualify by June 16. Marilyn Roddy’s withdrawal from the mayoral field creates new dynamics with only three major contenders left.

About 20,000 Knoxvillians will vote in the September city primary. If Brown could pull 8,000 votes of the 20,000 voting he likely would be in the runoff with either Ivan Harmon, Mark Padgett or Madeline Rogero.

Harmon should not be underrated with his friendly appeal to blue collar working class voters. He has been elected five times in the city over the past 25 years to council or the old

city school board. Harmon will be outspent but he will not be outworked.

Rogero would be hurt the most by a Brown candidacy, as Brown would be the overwhelming choice of African-Americans as the first African-American mayor of Knoxville, and he is doing a credible job. On the other hand, Rogero also has dedicated supporters who are committed to her victory.

Padgett is still working to overcome several early missteps.

Brown could argue he is the only candidate who has been mayor and has prepared a budget. His possible entry once again would change the entire mayoral contest. If he loses, he is still on City Council. He is a very likeable person.

As mayor he keeps a busy public schedule without appearing partisan. While I am not predicting Brown will actually run, I think it is true he is now actively looking at it and hopes to find a way clear to run a credible race.

Notes: Former Council member Gary Underwood was recently elected chair of the city Civil Service Board to replace Rudy Bradley who retired.

Longtime KUB finance director Roby Trotter is retiring this summer. He is an effective and thoughtful public servant who will be missed.

for a full term, or seemed to, which became an issue when she decided to run. She argued that her pre-appointment pledge had been nullified by passage of the charter referendum that reduced the number of commissioners, and that she was seeking a “different” seat, not the one she had promised not to run for (Or something like that.)

But it didn’t work. She lost.

As a practical matter, campaigning is hard work.

Brown hardly broke a sweat getting elected to the 6th District City Council seat. Running for mayor would be very different and infinitely more difficult, given that serving as interim mayor is a job that demands his full attention.

He’d be getting into a race against three other major candidates, two of whom (Ivan Harmon and Madeline Rogero) are seasoned, tireless campaigners. The other (Mark Padgett) is a neophyte, but is also a campaigning machine. It would be a rough six months for Daniel Brown.

He shouldn’t do it.

GOSSIP AND LIES Come on home!

Scott Frith got beat out for the top job at the Elections Commission by a guy named Cliff. Charlie Daniel’s Friday cartoon showed both Democrats and Republicans p.o.’d.

The sun will come up tomorrow. Elections will be run and won. Votes will be counted.

Meanwhile, Scott should come home to Halls where we love him. Finish law school, raise kids, coach soccer, plant dogwoods and be the best dad and lawyer around.

Greg Mackay can try to land a job with a possible Rogero Administration.

■ Oh, Jeff, honey.

West Side Commissioner Jeff Ownby had a basement flooding issue, according to his Facebook page. And he got it fixed. Workers polished it off last Monday, just before torrential downpours that night and on Wednesday.

■ Oh, Dave, honey.

East Side Commissioner Dave Wright interrupted the commission’s discussion of ridge top protection Monday to announce that his wife Pat’s car had been crushed by a tree and she was trapped in downed power lines. He basically asked his colleagues to wrap up debate and vote so he could leave. They talked for another half hour.

■ Ivan Harmon posted this following a virtual tornado: “Friends, when I ring your doorbell don’t look so disappointed that it’s me and not your insurance adjustor.

We both can make things better for you! Vote Ivan Harmon for Mayor!”

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KCS recognizes leadership, service to schools Last week Knox County Schools held its annual Partners in Education spring luncheon celebration and our own Jake Mabe was there.

We hate to duplicate coverage, so we won’t, but I’d like to salute the winners of the Becky Ramsey award. Becky was a dynamo for KCS who died way too young. She is remembered with these awards (and this year’s winners): ■ U.S. Cellular, presenting sponsor of the Knox County Schools Coupon Book Campaign from 2009-2011 ■ Judy Rogers, a Teacher Supply Depot volunteer who was instrumental in the Depot’s move to its new home on the Cedar Bluff campus ■ Jennifer Brown for her role in developing the “Schooled for Success” 8th grade career program for the Knox County Schools in 1993

Wang, Farragut ■ Raven Dyer, Fulton ■ Ben Mallicoat, Gibbs ■ Josh Yow, Halls Sandra ■ Krista Covert, Hardin Clark Valley Academy ■ Lisa Black, Powell ■ Caroline Mitchell, Also, one graduate from South-Doyle each high school received ■ Mallory Ewart, West $500 in memory of Barney Thompson, a former South ■ Alves is CAO High teacher, coach and longSuperintendent Jim McIntime supporter of the Knox tyre has apCounty Schools. pointed Dr. Senior class presidents Elizabeth were recognized: Alves to be ■ Lechon Cole, Austinchief acEast countability ■ Savannah Fielder, officer. She Bearden has been ■ Hannah Bowman, the director Carter Alves of middle ■ Christopher Smity, schools and in the new role Central will report to Dr. Donna ■ Kwo-Zong Alexander Wright, assistant superin-

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Drive. Interim Mayor Brown graduated from Austin High School and Tennessee State University. He is retired from the U.S. Postal Service and is an Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Cost is $10 for heavy hors d’oeuvres and cash bar.

Pellissippi State ■ Kaylee Costner is the inaugural recipient of the Swing Big for Students scholarship, awarded to Pellissippi State students in exercise science or sport manageCostner ment. The Maryville native hopes to work as a therapist. This year’s tournament will be Tuesday, May 3, at Egwani Farms, with shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Info: Pat Myers at 5397242 or pmyers@pstcc.edu.

UT-Knoxville ■ Knoxville Mayor Daniel Brown will be honored at an alumni reception at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at the Visitor’s Center, 2712 Neyland

■ Autumn K. Tooms, professor and director for the Center for Educational Leadership, has received the 2011 William J. Davis award for outstanding research in educational administration. The Tooms 30-year award is bestowed annually to the author(s) of the most exemplary article published in Educational Administration Quarterly, the premier scholarly journal in the field.

The award was presented to Tooms in New Orleans.

AMSE calendar The American Museum of Science and Energy, located at 300 South Tulane Avenue in Oak Ridge, is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m.

Info: www.amse.org.

■ “Cold War Crisis: The U-2 Incident,” through Thursday, Sept. 1.

Details the story of Gary Francis Powers, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who completed 27 U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA until shot down by a Soviet missile in 1960. Includes photos, newsreels and personal items. AMSE lobby.

■ “Scarboro: The Early Days, 1942-1960,” through Monday, May 30.

The story of the African American community of Scarboro is told through photos, clothing and other personal items in this ex-

tendent for curriculum and instruction.

The CAO post was created through a realignment of central office and is essentially the job held by Dr. Mike Winstead, who moved to another system.

Alves will oversee test results, as well as federal programs, and will lead the curriculum supervisors in their instructional improvement efforts. She came here in 2006 from Florida where she held administrative positions with the Miami-Dade County public schools. Her doctorate is from Florida International University.

Knox County Schools Partners in Education administrative assistant Mary Kerr and supervisor of business partnerships Scott Bacon (right) honor PIE Advisory Board president Ellen Liston, who is rotating off the board, at the annual PIE Luncheon last week at the Sarah Simpson Center. Photo by Jake Mabe

Andrew Johnson Building.

Agenda items of interest include approval for: ■ West High CTE students to renovate existing ■ Board meetings bookstore to house a UT FedThe school board will meet eral Credit Union office at no at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, cost to KCS ■ Additions to high in the City County Building, with a preliminary workshop school curriculum for special at 5 p.m. today (May 2) at the courses in Robotics, Criminal

Science, Americans at War, Honors Biology II and Global Religious Studies ■ First reading of a plan for “strategic compensation.”

The work session and board meeting will be broadcast live on Comcast Cable Channel 10 and streamed live at www. knoxschools.org.

hibit. AMSE lobby.

■ Registration open for 2011 AMSE’s Science Explorer Camp through Tuesday, May 31. For rising 5th (10 years old), 6th and 7th graders. Includes handson subjects such as life science, weather and fossils.

Sessions are the second and third weeks in June. Cost is $175 for members, $190 nonmembers. Registration available online.

■ Volunteer Forum, 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, May 3.

Meet informally with representatives from community organizations, attractions and nonprofit agencies.

Barb White, volunteer coordinator for Mercy Hospital, will discuss the benefits of volunteering. AMSE lobby.

■ “K’Nex: Building Thrill Rides,” Friday, May 6, through Monday, Sept. 5. Traveling exhibit with hands-on activities about the science, math and

raphy Contest. Tickets are $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers. This is a walking tour only and space is limited. Info: 523-8008 or visit www.knoxheritage. org/specialevents.

technology behind hairraising thrill rides. AMSE second level.

■ Registration deadline for homeschool Friday program “Butterfly Bonanza” is Friday, May 13. Program will be held Friday, May 20, at Freels Bend Cabin in Oak Ridge. For grades k-2, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; grades 3-6, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Cost and registration online or at AMSE.

Knox Heritage’s Art and Architecture tour Knox Heritage will have its fifth annual Art and Architecture Tour beginning 6 p.m. Friday, May 6, at Attack Monkey Productions, 119 S. Gay St. with wine and hors d’oeuvres.

The group departs at 7 p.m. to tour locations featured in 12 winning photographs also seen on the tour, from Knox Heritage’s Photog-

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Wednesday, May 11. News Sentinel columnist Marcia Davis will discuss the history of American bird houses including gourds, modern bird houses and more. Bring a sandwich.

Drinks and desserts will be provided, and free tours of the Ramsey House will be given to those in attendance. Admission is $8 and reservations are required.

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ichard “Dick� Booher heard a military officer with a chest filled with medals say something one time that he likes very much. “I’m not a hero,� the decorated veteran said. “The real heroes did not come back.�

Booher doesn’t claim to be a hero. But, he is proud of his service in the Army during the earlyto-mid 1950s, just after the Korean War cease-fire was signed.

And he’ll never forget traveling to Washington, D.C., with 128 other World War II and Korean War vets April 13 on the HonorAir Knoxville flight. Trip of a lifetime.

Moving memories.

Booher grew up in Nashville and volunteered for duty after serving in the Army Reserves. He spent 15 months in Japan from June 1954 to September 1955, working as a battalion supply sergeant for the 1st Cavalry Division, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Battalion. For most of his hitch he was stationed near Sendai, which is the largest city located near the epicenter of the recent earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. “It was very beautiful country,�

Booher says. “As a battalion supply sergeant, I would go once a month to an ammo depot to get enough for one month. I got to see a lot of the countryside because they had a rule that ammo dumps couldn’t be near any populated areas.�

He remembers that the 5th Cavalry Regiment had a rule. Everybody regardless of position had to march 25 miles once a month.

Twelve and one-half miles out, eat a little chow and 12.5 miles back.

“I always made it, but some guys didn’t. They had ambulances waiting by.�

He’ll never forget serving with three guys from West Point, Neb. He came back home – two weeks at sea – with one of them. “I always said if I ever got out to West Point, Neb., I’d look those guys up. But that’s pretty far away and I never did.�

After mustering out of the Army in September 1955, Booher had three days to get from Fort Smith, Ark., to UT to begin college. He said he wouldn’t have been able to afford it were it not for the GI Bill.

He also sold Bibles door-to-door for the Northwestern Company out of Nashville.

He earned a degree in secondary education with a major in social studies. From 1966-70, he taught 7th grade geography and 8th grade U.S. history at what was then Halls High School. (Halls Middle opened in 1970.) His first year, he split duty with Judy Sharp. During his remaining time at Halls he co-taught with Frank Galbraith. Leland Lyon was chair and Paul Williams and Hubert Lakin rounded out the department. J.W. Phifer was principal.

Booher and his soon-to-be wife, Pat, were involved in a car accident on Western Avenue in the spring of 1974. He used a settlement to help pay for graduate school, earning a master’s degree in history from Middle Tennessee State in 1977. “That was the greatest learning experience I ever had.�

He became a foster care counselor for the Department of Human Services in Knox and Blount

Korean War era vet and former school teacher Richard “Dick� Booher (far right) with World War II vet Richard May and his son, Allen “Wolfie� May, before the HonorAir flight to Washington, D.C., on April 13. Photo submitted

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ennessee spring football games either do or don’t matter.

In the case of exciting Volunteer quarterback Tyler Bray, the absolutely awful five completions in 30 pass attempts added up to no big deal because it was just the spring game and the wind was blowing.

Coach Derek Dooley chose to put more stock in the previous 14 practices and said Tyler had done very well, thank you.

In the case of beginning cornerback Justin Coleman, early enrollee who really should be enjoying the final weeks of his senior year in high school, back in Brunswick, Ga., shrimp capital of the world, the spring game was supposedly a launch toward fame and fortune.

Oh no, it was not just an exhibi-

tion, an excuse to dress up and pick the pockets of enthusiastic fans. It was the real deal when high-jumping Justin Hunter twice ran fade routes and Coleman twice denied touchdown completions. No fear.

Rare athletic ability. Perfect timing.

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Hunter is 6-4. Hunter snagged seven Tennessee TD passes that counted last season, tied for tops among all freshmen in NCAA football. That’s the whole country, including Alaska.

Coleman is 5-10. About this time last spring, he was finishing fifth in the Georgia 4A 110 high hurdles.

He ran second in intermediates. He has come a long way, baby, in a very short time. On the summer depth chart for Tennessee football, he is a

counties, retiring in 1994. To supplement his income, Booher worked as the midnight supervisor at the Haslam residential treatment center until 2004 and continued working part time until March 2008. He left to take care of Pat, who was recovering from a hip replacement surgery. She died in June 2009. He lives in the house they shared in a subdivision off Ball Camp Pike.

Booher calls the HonorAir trip “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.� “It makes you feel like people appreciate the service you gave to your country. It gives you a good feeling. I’m grateful to (Eddie) Mannis for providing an opportunity for Korea and World War II vets to go.�

Although he didn’t serve in combat there, Booher was particularly moved by the Korean War Memorial. It depicts men on patrol, wearing ponchos, carrying various weapons or a radio. Booher says he talked to one Korean War vet who once saw the memorial in dense fog. “He said it was almost surreal.

And the looks on their faces are so life-like. It makes you stop and think about what those guys did for our country.�

He remembers talking to another Korean vet, back in Japan in the ’50s, who’d fought in the Chosin Reservoir. “There was one road out of there and the Communists kept firing on them. Korea (in season) was extremely cold. He said they’d have to keep the trucks running all the time.�

Korea is unfortunately known as The Forgotten War. Booher recalled that 36,594 Americans were killed in action, 103,284 were wounded and 8,177 are still missing in action. The Korean War has never officially ended. It’s a story that no one should ever forget.

During the HonorAir visit, Booher was particularly moved by seeing the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. He says the reverent silence was deafening. “When you witness that, if you’re not proud to be an American, there’s something wrong with you.�

Booher says those on the HonorAir flight wanted for nothing.

Guardians were assigned to a group of two or three vets. Doctors rode aboard all four buses while in Washington. The buses were given a police escort through the city.

Both Knox mayors and Covenant

Health CEO Tony Spezia were on hand at McGhee Tyson Airport to see them off and a welcoming committee waited at Reagan Airport in D.C. The vets saw the Air Force, Lincoln, Korean War, Vietnam, World War II and Marine memorials and drove by the Navy Memorial. Booher says the trip ran like a welloiled machine. Each vet was given a HonorAir ball cap.

At the Knoxville welcome back ceremony, people lined each side of the airport walkway, balloons arching overhead, while a 5-year-old girl sang “You’re A Grand Old Flag.�

Booher received a letter from Gibbs Elementary 5th grader Matthew Trent, who told him that he plays wingback for his football team and intends to join the Air Force after he graduates from high school. Matthew had something else to say, too. “Thank you for your service.�

first-team cornerback. That may not hold in August.

What you do in spring games either does or doesn’t matter. *** In three of the past four Decembers, the Heisman Trophy was awarded to Southeastern Conference stars: Tim Tebow, Mark Ingram, Cam Newton. Such dominance dictates that the SEC is a proper place to look for 2011 trophy prospects.

There is an interesting list. Alas, no Volunteer is under consideration.

South Carolina has two Heismantypes, wideout Alshon Jeffery (88 catches, 1,517 yards, nine TDs) and running back Marcus Lattimore (1,197 rushing and 17 touchdowns as a freshman). Neither will win. They will split the vote.

Trent Richardson is now the running back at Alabama. Multitalented Jeff Demps of Florida supposedly has a chance if he gets the football often and if the Gators win a surprising number of games. Michael Dyer of Auburn ranks high for a youngster.

He gained 1,093 last season, broke a Bo Jackson record and made the 37-yard run that set up the winning

kick in the national championship game. Heisman voters may consider past accomplishments.

There are other All-Americans in the SEC. Tennessee has none. *** Ben Still, large offensive lineman, prep star in Memphis, mechanical engineering enthusiast with a 3.8 core GPA, says his football future is at Ole Miss. Ben is the son of former Tennessee All-American Eric Still but nobody is publicly complaining that DD did not offer a scholarship. UT has many young offensive linemen.

Some of us get a warm, fuzzy feeling when high school athletes follow family ties to Tennessee. On the horizon is Maryville quarterback Patton Robinette, among the favorite grandchildren of Pat Robinette, Vol basketball guard in the mid-1960s, smart student, career educator, exceptional human being. Keep an eye on developments. *** Ah yes, basketball is again in season. The Vols are enjoying individual skill sessions and getting acquainted with new coaches.

In one such workout, players

played without a basketball. They did interesting, little defensive slides from sideline to sideline while holding aloft 10-pound medicine balls.

This can become strenuous work.

Rumor has it that a few knees buckled. One player finally caught his breath and whispered that it was boot camp worthy of Marines. Did anything like this happen in the Bruce Pearl era? *** Pity on Bob and Bert. Tennessee is talking to post prospect Yemi Makanjuoloa at Word of God Academy in Raleigh, N.C. Help me as I ponder how that name would sound on the Vol Network.

Yemi is 6-9 and a developmental project. He came to the United States from Nigeria and was going to grow at famous Oak Hill Academy but has relocated. UT coaches visited.

For the sake of our favorite basket announcers, maybe Yemi will attend Loyola Marymount or Siena or Hofstra. On the other hand, if he is good enough, maybe we’ll all learn how to say Mak-an-juo-loa.

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couple of weeks ago, Grandma and I decided to go up and get a much-needed Cades Cove fix. The weather was sunny, temps in the upper 70s and the wildflowers were coming on strong.

We hadn’t tried out the newlypaved Loop Road, and we hadn’t given it our stamp of approval, either.

And, in rummaging through some stuff, I had come upon a Cades Cove Auto Tour Guide booklet that was published in 1965, which I’m sure we acquired around 1970. So, we packed a lunch and headed for the hills, to see if we could get a newer version of the tour book to compare with our 40-year-old one.

A brochure put out by the Smoky Mountains Association makes a striking statement: even if Cades Cove were to secede from the rest of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it would still be on the list of the 10 most-visited national parks! With no waterslides, bumper cars, bungee jumps, or fast-food restaurants, no motels or casinos, and still with 2 million visitors a year, you’d think there must be something pretty good going on up there. There is.

Taken together with its rim of massive mountains, millennia of natural history and centuries of people history, Cades Cove is a spell-binding place. The Smoky Mountain coves – Cades, Wear, Tuckaleechee, Cataloochee – are geologically unique places. Their flat, level floors are made of younger limestone rocks, surrounded by overlying, older, acidic shales and sandstones making up the mountains. This situation gives the cove floors sweeter, less acid soil than the rocky hillsides, excellent for growing corn, wheat, vegetables and grass for grazing and for hay. It’s potentially a great place to settle.

There is no evidence that the Cherokee had ever set up actual residence in the Cove; the first permanent white settlers were John and Lucretia Oliver, who arrived in 1818.

The area was very remote. The nearest town was Maryville, a threeday round trip. Many of the early folks lived their entire lives without ever leaving the Cove. Never very crowded, the Cove population rose

Purple Phacelia people how life was lived in those mountains nearly 200 years ago.

So now, as Grandma and I meander through the Cove, the forested mountains look down on a new and nicely-improved Loop Road with paved turnoffs and smooth stream crossings. We can see and visit half a dozen beautiful old log homes, a couple of magnificent cantilevered barns, a working grist mill and four “modern” frame buildings dating from the early 1900s – the three churches and the Becky Cable house at the Cable Mill area.

And what’s the main difference between the 1965 Auto Tour and the present one? In 1965, the Cove’s fields were leased out by the park service to fortunate individuals to cut hay and graze cattle, supposedly to maintain the farm-like atmosphere of the place. There were three residences for those people listed on the Auto Tour, and along the road, fenced fields full of fat

cattle grazing on imported fescue grass. They are gone now, people, residences and cows. The fields are being carefully restored, one at a time, to the way they would have looked in the 1800s.

The Park staff is planting the fields in native warm-season grasses, from seed found to remain in a few areas of the Cove. These grasses make excellent food and cover for the creatures that have lived in the Cove for centuries. People complain that the native grasses make the landscape look “weedy.”

River otters, wiped out of the Smokies early on for their fur, once again swim in Abrham’s Creek. Peregrine falcons, once extinct east of the Rockies because of DDT, again fly over the Cove and raise a couple of young up on Duckhawk Ridge every year. A “Day Hikes” guide we got along with our new Auto Tour Guide lists 28 species of birds you should see in the Cove. Deer and

and fell through the years, peaking at around 685 in 1850 and at 708 in 1900. There were still about 100 families living in the Cove when Tennessee began buying up the land for the national park in 1928.

Which brings us to the present – sort of. One of the most fascinating parts of the history of the park, to me at least, is the difficulty the founders and early leaders had in deciding what to do with the park once they had it. Some people wanted to make it another great wilderness park like the ones out West, complete with dude ranches and lots of horses. They imported rainbow trout and stocked the streams with the nonnative fish so that anglers could experience real trout fishing, like out West.

Others wanted a network of paved roads throughout the park so everyone could experience every part of it from their car windows. They wanted big, multistory, rustic hotels like those in Yellowstone, Yosemite and Glacier national parks, with plenty of restaurants and amenities.

And the one that really gets me, and it CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton was seriously considered and debated and Jesus said to (Thomas), “Have you believed because favored by the first you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen park superintendent, and yet have come to believe.”

(John 20: 29 NRSV) J.R. Eakin – dam up I see his blood upon the rose Abram’s Creek, flood And in the stars the glory of his eyes, Cades Cove into a His body gleams amid eternal snows, lake 3.4 miles long His tears fall from the skies. and a mile wide, have a huge lodge on the I see his face in every flower; lakeshore with a carThe thunder and the singing of the birds illon bell tower and Are but his voice – and carven by his power paddle boats for the Rocks are his written words. visitors. Good grief!

All pathways by his feet are worn, Thank goodness His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea, much more farsightHis crown of thorns is twined with every thorn, ed and wiser heads His cross is every tree. prevailed. They de(“I See His Blood Upon the Rose,” cided to preserve Joseph Mary Plunkett) the Cove in such a

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s is so often the case with words I know by heart, I first learned the words of Plunkett’s poem by hearing them sung. I was in junior high school

and my social studies classroom was across and just down the hall from the room where the senior high Advanced Chorus rehearsed. Day after

turkeys abound.

And flowers? We saw some 25 species that day, showy orchis, crested dwarf iris, bouquets of yellow trilliums with red fire pinks.

An amazing natural flower garden.

As we destroy our ridge tops, muddy our streams and fill the landscape with abandoned bigbox stores (think Knox County), it’s a comfort to know that there are yet a few sanctuaries where the natural world can go on as it was intended. The 800 square miles of mountains, streams and forests preserved within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park serve to show us what nature can create if given a few thousand years here and there.

And a little time spent in Cades Cove can serve to show how independent and determined people can adapt to such a world, and live in it successfully for their whole lives.

Spend a day in the Cove.

day during that spring, I heard these words by the British mystic poet, and understood them with as much depth of spirit as a 13-year-old can bring to bear.

It was years later that I understood with more mature depth the meanings of his imagery. And longer still before I stood beside the Grand Canyon and saw “carven by his power” his written words.

I am grateful to Plunkett for reminding us that all creation is a love letter from God. On Easter Sunday an Armenian clergy pointed out on the PBS radio show “On Being” that in the Creation story in Genesis 1, when it says “God saw that it was good,” the Hebrew could as easily be rendered “God saw that it was beautiful.”

And God said, “That’s beautiful.”

Which, of course, is exactly what we say when we can breathe again after having been amazed by the wonders of this world, which bear God’s own thumbprint.

I am grateful, too, to John the Evangelist for recording Jesus’ words to Thomas. Thomas is, I suppose, everyone’s favorite agnostic, the one who couldn’t believe until he had seen for himself. It was a week after Easter before Thomas saw Jesus. When Jesus offered for Thomas to touch him (a privilege he had denied to Mary on Easter morning), Thomas no longer needed proof, but declared his faith by exclaiming, “My Lord and My God!”, which was as real and succinct an Affirmation of Faith as any that has been written in subsequent centuries.

It was in that moment that Jesus mildly upbraided Thomas for having to see to believe. But in so doing, Jesus also offered us our own personal, universal, once-and-for-all beatitude: “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”

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The ‘Star’ is rising Fun abounds at revamped resort

By Cindy Taylor Union County has a new offering for fine food with casual dining. Nordstrom’s Galley reopened at Hickory Star Resort and Marina April 21, and folks couldn’t wait to taste Linda Nordstrom’s cooking once again.

Nordstrom left a few years ago to pursue other options, and when the resort changed hands in January she was asked to return.

Nordstrom did not hesitate.

“I’m happy to be back here,” said Nordstrom. “Hickory Star is under completely new ownership, and the guys running it have great plans for this place. Some places are beer joints that also serve food. We’re a dining establishment that offers some beer. We have fine dining with American fare, a casual atmosphere with family prices and really good food.”

Nordstrom does a lot of the cooking but also has chefs whom she has trained personally to prepare her own recipes. Everything is made in-house and prepared on-site.

Nordstrom’s Galley is open 4-10 p.m. Thursdays,

Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 6 p.m. Sundays.

The Galley will offer daily specials like prime rib and catfish and Nordstrom’s famous homemade desserts.

Hickory Star’s new owners, Johnny and David Parton and Dean Knuckles, have a number of plans in the works to revamp the resort and make it the place to be once again. They also manage Old Hickory Water Company.

A new dock that can hold about 28 boats has been established for restaurant parking only, and the motel has reopened, offering nine remodeled units. The Parton brothers from Kentucky and Virginia, also known as the Blue Jean Boys, have private property in the area and are excited about all of the renovations that are in the works for their newly purchased property at the resort.

“We have done a lot of renovation, but we still have a lot of work to do,” said Johnny. “We have worked on it steady since we bought it in January. We can offer outdoor and indoor boat storage and have short-order food and gas at the dock. We plan

Change comes to Union County Union County is growing, as shown by this bridge project now underway on Highway 33 at Norris Lake. The TDOT project is about 25 percent complete and replaces the two-lane bridge shown at left. Photo by C. Taylor

to have the pool ready to open by the end of May, and the motel is open now. When you go to the lake, you go for fun. You don’t want to have problems. If you do, we’re here to fix it.”

Denise Helms is the resort manager and has worked in the office for 26 years.

“I am so excited to come to work every day now,” said Helms. “These guys get out and work with you and give you the tools you need to do your work.”

Local resident Bob Allen brought a crew to eat at the restaurant and commented on the new ownership.

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Mother’s Day will soon be here. If you’re a mother, you will (hopefully) receive thoughtful cards and gifts.

But there’s one present you may eventually want to give yourself, and it’s a gift that truly does keep on giving: a strategy for your retirement. Of course, it’s important for everyone to Wendy build adequate financial Schopp resources for retirement – but the challenge is even greater for women. Largely due to family responsibilities, women spend, on average, 12 years less in the workforce than men, according to the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement. Less time in the workforce equates to lost earnings, missed promotions, smaller and fewer raises and reduced retirement plan benefits. In fact, men have, on average, about $91,000 in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), including all IRA types and the amounts rolled over from other retirement accounts into IRAs, compared to just $51,000 for women, according to a recent report issued by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Whether you’re married, divorced, widowed or single, you’ll want to build financial resources of your own and be prepared to manage your finances during your retirement years. You’ll be helping yourself, and, by becoming financially independent, you’ll also avoid the possibility of depending on your grown children for support.

To help ensure a financially secure retirement, consider these ideas: ■ Fully fund your IRA each year. As the numbers above show, women are way behind men when it comes to funding their IRAs. And IRAs, with their tax advantages, are great retirement-savings

vehicles. A traditional IRA have the potential to grow on a tax-deferred basis, while Roth IRAs have the potential to grow tax-free, provided you’ve had your account at least five years and you don’t start taking withdrawals until you’re 591/2. So make it a priority to “max out” on your IRA each year. In 2011, you can put in up to $5,000 to a traditional or Roth IRA, or $6,000 if you’re 50 or older.

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Put in as much as you can afford to your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement plan. At the very least, contribute enough to earn your employer’s match, if one is offered. (In 2011, you can put in up to $16,500, or $22,000 if you’re 50 or older.) Your earnings have the opportunity to grow tax-deferred and you have a range of investment options, so your 401(k) or other retirement plan can be an effective, flexible way to put money away for the future.

■ Invest in an annuity. If you’ve reached the contribution limits of your IRA and 401(k), you may want to consider purchasing an annuity, which can be structured to provide you with regular payments for the rest of your life. And this lifetime income source is especially important to women, who, at age 65, can expect to live, on average, almost 20 more years, compared to slightly over 17 for men of the same age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As a mother, you willingly spend a great deal of time and effort on your children.

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WORSHIP NOTES Men’s groups ■ Concord Woodcarvers will meet the first and third Friday mornings of each month at Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive. Info: www. concordumc.com.

■ Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 800 Northshore Drive, will host “The Brotherhood of St. Andrew” 7-8 a.m. each Thursday for prayer and study. Info: www. knoxvillascension.org.

Rec programs ■ First Farragut UMC, 12733 Kingston Pike, invites everyone to “Wednesday Night Live,” 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. each Wednesday. Enjoy a homecooked meal with your family and have some fun and fellowship. A family of four can have dinner for only $22. Info: www.ffumc.org.

Special Services ■ Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike, will host GriefShare at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays. Get support from the group while recovering from a loss and rebuilding your life.

Registration: Laura, 470-9800.

■ Bearden UMC , 4407 Sutherland Ave., invites everyone to “Praise and Worship” 5 p.m. every second Sunday in the fellowship center. Park in the back of the church and enter through the gym. Fellowship and a snack-supper follow the service. Info: www. beardenumc.org.

■ Two Rivers Church, 275 Harrison Lane, Lenoir City, will host “the Launch” 5-7 p.m.

Sundays in the Fireside room.

Come experience community and connect with others in a Growth group. Info: www. tworiverschurch.org.

Women’s groups ■ Concord UMC , 11020 Roane Drive, will host a “Morning Moms” group 9:15 to 11:30 a.m. each Friday in room 296. Bible or book studies will be discussed relating to women’s lives in general.

Child care is provided. Info: www.concordumc.com.

Youth ■ Rocky Hill Baptist Church, 7409 Northshore Drive, invites kids to the Word of Life Club on Sundays at 5:45 p.m.

There will be games, Bible study and more. Info: www. rockyhillchurch.org.

■ Concord Christian School is now enrolling for the 2011/2012 school year. Info: 288-1617.

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, has open registration for summer and the 2011-2012 school year sessions of preschool and Parent’s Day Out. Info: Lori or Lisa, 531-2052.

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“We’re hoping women heighten the awareness of are called to donate their women around the world.”

Each table will have a time, money and prayer for other women,” Sallas said. mission partner who will The Senior Adult Group at Grace Covenant Baptist Church on Dutchtown Road recently wel- “I think this will affect lead the discussion of what a comed the Rev. George Gilbert as a guest speaker. The 81-year-old Gilbert surprised the group participants in three ways. day in the life of those womwhen he pulled out his Bible, loaded onto a Kindle. The group’s next meeting will be Monday, First, they will realize how en is like. The event is a joint blessed they are and then effort between the missions May 9, for a trip to Rikard’s BBQ for lunch and music in Caryville. Info: 607-9899. Photo submitted gain motivation to pray. Out ministry and women’s minof that prayer, I hope many istry at the church.

“Our focus is on all womare led to volunteer with the Traumatic brain injury workshop Shriners to hold annual one of the organizations.” en, and we seek to help each The East Tennessee Technology Access Center will On May 13, participants of the missions and minis‘Rod, Bike and Kustom host a two-day workshop on traumatic brain injury and will gather in the student tries,” Zallas said. brain trauma Thursday and Friday, May 5-6, at the UT- Nationals’ Zallas said the night gym at FBC Concord’s Battelle Information Center, 1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike.

The Kerbela Shriners’ Kingston Pike campus at would be appropriate for all Dr. Timothy Urbin, a neuropsychologist from QuilSmoky Mountain Rod, Bike 6:30 p.m. Robin Garner, ages, and every woman in len College of Medicine, will speak from 9 a.m. to 4 and Kustom Nationals will whose husband serves as Knoxville was welcome. p.m. Thursday on understanding changes to the brain, be held 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. the church’s missions pas“We want any and all the person, the family and the future when the brain Saturday, May 7, at Music tor, will give the keynote women from teens to seniors receives an injury.

Road Hotel, 303 Henderson speech. Then, women will and everyone in between to Chapel Road, in Pigeon Elizabeth Power, the CEO of EPower and Associates travel to different tables be there,” she said.

Inc., will speak from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Friday about Forge. Preregistration is $15 and $20 on the day how organizations, families and individuals can create of the show. Trophies will a caring and supportive environment for people with AARP driver safety classes be awarded near the end brain trauma.

For registration info about these and all other AARP of the day. All proceeds From 1 to 3:30 p.m., Alice Wershing, educational driver safety classes, call Barbara Manis, 922-5648. benefit the Kerbela technology coordinator for ETTAC, will demonstrate ■ Monday and Tuesday, May 2-3, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Cedar Shine Temple. Info: Paul assistive technology supports for people with brain Springs Presbyterian Church, 9132 Kingston Pike.

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ARTS CALENDAR Technical theater workshops Foothills Community Players will host a series of five technical theater workshops every other weekend in multiple Blount County venues. The workshops will include talks by members of the East Tennessee theater community and will feature topics including set construction and lighting. Free admission. RSVP: 712-6428 or email mail@foothillscommunityplayers.com.

Palace Theater The Palace Theater, 113 West Broadway in Maryville, will present the following performances beginning at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted and all tickets are $13 ($15 at the door) unless otherwise noted: ■ Montana Skies, Saturday, May 7.

‘Beauty and the Beast’ William Blount High School drama and music students will perform excerpts from the musical “Beauty and the Beast” 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, at Blount County library. Free admission. Info: 982-0981.

The Ramsey House Plantation, 2614 Thorngrove Pike, will host “A Living History Weekend: A Timeline from The French and Indian War to the Civil War” Saturday and Sunday, May 14-15. Info: 546-0745 or visit www.ramseyhouse. org.

May at the Art Market Gallery The Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St., will present an exhibit of works by artists Genie Even and Cynthia Patrick from Tuesday, May 3, through Sunday, May 29. Even renders a variety of subjects using transparent watercolor on paper.

Patrick fashions unique jewelry from lampworked glass beads she creates. A First Friday reception will be held for both artists 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 6. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m.

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‘Puss In Boots’ The Primary Players Children’s Theatre Group will present “Puss In Boots” 7 p.m. Friday, May 6; 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7; and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 8, at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville. Tickets are $10 ($5 ages 5-13, free for children under 5). Info: 981-8590.

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‘Dude, you rock!’

It’s not often that a middle school performance will have the audience on its feet – particularly if the audience is predominantly other students.

Lorraine Furtner

If American Idol’s Randy Jackson would have judged Farragut Middle School’s talent show, he might have quipped that it was “a little pitchy in places,” but I think overall he would have concluded: “Dude, you rock!”

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To raise money to sponsor an American Cancer Society (ACS) Relay for Life team, Farragut Middle School held a talent show April 21.

Afterwards the FMS Service League hosted a “Cuts for the Cure” event.

Thirty students paid $15 to get “buzz cuts” and teacher and FMS Service League club sponsor Mark Taylor raised $200 to cut his hair in a “reverse Mohawk.” Local area businesses helped: Great Clips, Ross the Boss, Salon Euphoria and Sport Clips sent stylists for no charge to do the cutting.

Teacher and FMS Service League club sponsor Lauren Byrd estimated FMS raised $2,000 for the ACS. According to Byrd, FMS is the only middle school in Knox County to sponsor a Relay for Life team. This is their third year supporting ACS.

La Rhonda Forsyth is Farragut Intermediate School’s 4th grade Teacher of the Year.

Rockers Luke Smith, Justin Costanzo, Cooper Brewer, Nick Reeves and Justin Richwine perform at Farragut Middle The “Ultimate Grand Su- School’s Talent show. preme” talent show winner was Lexi Williams, who had many on their feet after her soulful rendition of “Who’s ter of ceremonies along with Forsyth.

Now, the teacher who Loving You” by Michael Olive Martin. Steed Clark provided technical support. didn’t intend to teach is Jackson. mentoring intern student There were three “Grand ■ ‘Didn’t feel teachers like Kayla BrackSupreme” winners: Chesney ins. like a job’ Harrison, singing “I Told Brackins said that ForYou So” by Carrie UnderAnyone who’s had a secsyth is good to learn from wood, the group of Alex ond career can identify with Thomas, Henry Pack and writer George Eliot who said, and particularly likes the Nick Carerreta played “An- “You are never too old to be classroom atmosphere that Forsyth maintains with a eurysm” by Nirvana, and what you might have been.” wide variety of individuals.

Thomas Lancaster with Farragut Intermediate Forsyth said she balances Connor Craig performed a School’s Teacher of the Year those needing extra instrucmedley of different music.

La Rhonda Forsyth knows: Other awards included she reinvented herself 10 tion with those needing “Mr. and Ms. Congeniality” years ago, switching gears challenging by allowing eiJerry Zhou and Nora Gross, from corporate trainer with ther set of students to work and the “Rising Star” Brady a background in human ser- in groups alone while she focuses her attention on Thayer. vices to becoming a special the other set. She also inteEvents that the students education teacher. grates technology whenever called “awesome” and “epic” “I never intended to bedon’t happen by themselves. come a teacher,” laughs the possible.

Hers was one of the first Byrd said she owed a huge second time Teacher of the thanks to “superstar Far- Year. “I took a job with the classrooms at FIS with an Acragut parent volunteer” Ter- school system so I could re- tivBoard, because she helped write a grant to receive it. ri Brabston. ally get a feel for the schools Forsyth uses technology Terri’s sons, Chase and here and fell in love,” said from games to interactive Tyler Brabston, helped with Forsyth. learning using wireless Acdirection, judging and the “(The students) gave me sound system, while her as much as I gave them. It tiVote, because that is the daughter, Mandi, was mas- didn’t feel like a job,” said way to reach today’s student.

“We can’t expect kids to sit, stare and listen for an Farragut Middle School student Angela Waldorf dances to “Jar hour. We aren’t reaching of Hearts” by Christina Perri during the FMS Talent Show on them if we do,” said Forsyth. April 21. Photos by L. Furtner

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History students win, make history themselves

Farragut High School senior Anna Z e t ter berg was awarded the Barney T h omp s o n Memor ia l Scholarship at the annual Knox County Schools Partners in Education Luncheon held last week at the Sarah Simpson Center.

By Lorraine Furtner It seems fitting that the two Farragut High School seniors who founded the Farragut High School History Club should also make Knox County School history.

Nick Russell and Amy Prosise were the top two state winners for individual exhibits in the Tennessee History Day competition April 2. They will both participate in the National History Day (NHD) competition at the University of Maryland June 12-16.

According to Angela Breeding, FHS history teacher and humanities academy advisor, this is the first time Knox County Schools has been represented by two individual entries in the NHD competition.

Breeding and other FHS faculty members Valarie Cagle, Shasta Todd and Laura St. Clair will accompany the students and their families to Washington, D.C. The winners will tour the Congressional Building with Tennessee legislators and treated to an after-hours dinner and tour of the Smithsonian, in addition to the national competition.

The NHD 2011 competition theme is “Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.”

Students could present their topic’s debate or diplomatic significance regarding the topic in a paper, website, documentary, performance or exhibit.

Nick took first place in both the state and regional competitions for his exhibit “Dismantling an Empire,” about the reorganization of Europe after the fall of Napoleon and the events at the Congress of Vienna.

Nick, who will major in either the history of Europe, or historical human geography at George Washington University, said he was drawn to the topic because he is “obsessed with maps” and interested in the territorial changes that drew regional lines across cultural identities after the Congress of Vienna.

“This was a watershed moment in history,” said Nick, “because it laid the foundation for diplomacy and the result is similar to the modern UN Securities Council. Both of our exhibits fit the contest theme perfectly.”

Amy’s exhibit “The Letter that Changed History,” based on the letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt regarding the creation of the atomic bomb, placed second in the state.

Amy’s interest in her topic was personal: one grandfather was a cold war patriot and the other worked for Tennessee Valley Authority in nuclear regulations. She got the idea after reading a Pulitzer Prize winning book that her father, a former employee of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, recommended: “The Making of the Atomic Bomb”

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Farragut High School senior Nick Russell won first place in both state and regional Tennessee History Day competitions for his individual exhibit entry “Dismantling an Empire.” He will compete in National History Day in Washington, D.C., in June. Photos submitted

■ A baseball tournament will be held Friday through Sunday, May 13-15, at Halls Community Park. 5U-14U. Open to all. 992-5504 or email hcpsports@msn.com.

■ Skills Development Basketball Clinic II, boys and girls ages 6-12. Info: 242-3354.

Weather impacts spring sports schedules Farragut’s Madison Gray retrieves a ball that made it to the outfield fence in a weather-shortened game against Gibbs last Monday. Photo by Justin Acuff

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Farragut High School senior Amy Prosise will present her individual exhibit “The Letter that Changed History” at National History Day in Washington, D.C., in June. She placed second in the state and third in the regional Tennessee History Day competitions.

ing a nuclear energy source that would produce world peace, that wound up leading to the creation of the nuclear bomb, that still affects us today,” said Amy. The NHD website details what the Farragut students can expect at the competition. They will give interviews regarding their months of research, competing against more than 2,000 state winners and groups from American Samoa, Guam, China and Department of Defense Schools in Europe. Junior and senior divisions medaling in the categories listed

above will receive prizes.

Gold medalists receive $1,000, silver earns $500 and bronze $250. Winning seniors in the documentary category receive $5,000 from the History Channel instead of the $1,000 prize.

Breeding credits fellow teacher Melissa Glover as saying, “the humanities academy and participation in History Day provides students with the research skills they will need in their college and professional lives.”

Nick said, “Winning would look good on my resume’.”

Info: www.nhd.org.

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Fearing cancer, woman gets mammogram “Fortunately, my tumor was noncancerous,� said Collins. “I was relieved and impressed to have results so quickly.�

Collins stays active. She home schools her two daughters, Taylor, 12, and Kristin, 15. She exercises daily and prepares meals for her family, which also includes her husband, Chad, whom Collins calls her best friend. “We have been very blessed, and I knew that Chad would be supportive, especially during a time like this.�

The Collins family lives on a 25acre farm where they raise cattle and catďŹ sh. They enjoy spending time together outdoors, which helps them maintain a healthy lifestyle. “Regardless of age or previous testing results, it’s important for women to seek medical attention anytime they experience a change in their health,â€? said Dr. Squires. “Only proper screenings can detect if a tumor is cancerous or noncancerous.â€? “I don’t want to have any regrets, so being proactive where my health is concerned is important,â€? said Collins. “Cancer can spread so quickly, early detection is the only sureďŹ re way to make the most impact.â€?

Schedule your mammogram with the Parkwest Comprehensive Breast Center today by calling 865-373-7010.

Cause of breast lump turns out to be fibro-fatty tissue Jennifer Collins, 32, of Oakdale has a family history of breast cancer. During a routine breast exam in 2007, her physician was concerned about a spot and referred her to the Parkwest Comprehensive Breast Center for evaluation.

Collins’ worry was compounded by a childhood memories. “As an only child, I spent a good deal of my childhood being raised by my mother while we lived with my aunt who had breast cancer,� explained Collins.

At the Breast Center, Collins’ mammogram was read by Dr. Amanda Squires, a radiologist who has completed a fellowship in breast health imaging. Squires was able to get a closer look at the area to pinpoint the spot digitally.

Collins then had an ultrasound to help determine if the lump was uid ďŹ lled or a solid mass which could indicate cancer. The mass was further evaluated with a core biopsy where a hollow needle is inserted to obtain a sample of the tissue for the laboratory.

Results conďŹ rmed that Collins had ďŹ bro-fatty breast tissue with ďŹ broadenomatous features, a common noncancerous breast condition. Because of hormonal changes

Jennifer Collins, above and right with her family, believes being proactive is critical where your health is concerned. during childbearing years, it’s fairly common and doesn’t increase the risk for breast cancer. “This year, I had another scare when I found another spot in the same general area as before,� said Collins. “I’d rather be safe than sorry, so I followed back up with the breast center for evaluation.�

Within 24 hours, the center was able to evaluate the area and compare her results with those she had previously. Collins was relieved when she received the same results, indicating the area was benign.

Save your Ta Tas Attend our Girls Night Out Mammogram Party on May 10 Mammograms are a girl’s breast friend. They save lives, but some women risk their health because “mammograms are not fun.�

Not any more.

A special Girls Night Out Mammogram Party will be held at the Parkwest Comprehensive Breast Center on Tuesday, May 10, in observance of Mother’s Day. You are invited to attend with your mom, your daughter, your best friend or someone else whose health you care about. “Keeping you in good health is important to us, so we hope those who are in need of their annual mammogram will join us,� said radiologist Amanda Squires.

Appointments are not necessary, but preferred. Drop by from 5-7 p.m. for complimentary wine and dessert – and a mammogram!

Dr. Amanda The event will also offer free bone density and Squires carotid artery screenings available for those who are interested.

Although there are an estimated 2.3 million breast cancer survivors among us in the United States, breast cancer continues to plague nearly 40,000 women each year. Early stage detection is essential for survival and the Parkwest Comprehensive Breast Center offers a wide variety of services to provide a complete assessment of your breast health that allows you to do just that.

For more information about the Breast Center at Parkwest, call 865-373-7010 or visit www.treatedwell.com/breastcenter.

“Keeping you in good health is important to us, so we hope those who are in need of their annual mammogram will join us.� – Radiologist Amanda Squires

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Byron Turkett

The American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) has announced the induction of Byron Turkett, PA-C, MPAS, FCCM, as a Fellow. Turkett, the chief physician assistant with The University of Tennessee Medical Center’s Trauma and Critical Care Services, is the only practitioner in the region to be recognized with this distinction.

Melanoma Monday Monday, May 2, has been declared Melanoma Monday by the American Academy of Dermatology in order to raise awareness of this potentially fatal skin cancer and to encourage early detection.

Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer and one of the fastest growing cancers in the United States. “Early detection is critical,� reminds Premier Surgical Associates surgical onc olo g i s t Dr. Paul S. Dudrick. “A c c o r d ing to the A merican Paul Dudrick Cancer Society, when detected at Stage I, its earliest stage, the five-year survival rate for melanoma is 97 percent,� he said.

If the disease progresses to its most advanced stage IV, the five-year survival rate drops to 15-20 percent.�

The best way to find melanoma at its earliest stage is by conducting self-exams at

least once a month to look for changes in moles, freckles or other marks on your skin.

The American Cancer Society’s “ABCD� system helps identify potentially dangerous moles. Asymmetry: one half of the area does not match the other.

Border: the edges are irregular. Color: the color is not the same all over and may include shades of brown or black. Diameter: the spot is larger than about 1/4 inch, although melanomas can be smaller than this.

In addition to the “ABCDs,� also watch for a sore that does not heal, spread of color from the area’s border to the surrounding skin, redness or swelling beyond the border, itchiness or pain and change in the surface of the mole.

Ways to prevent skin cancer include applying sunscreen of at least a 30 SPF; seek shade when appropriate; use extra caution near water, snow and sand as they reflect the sun’s rays; do not use tanning beds; and do not get sunburned.

Jay Clark and Jeff Barbra Folk, bluegrass and country musicians Jay Clark and Jeff Barbra will perform 8 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Laurel Theater. Tickets are $12 ($11 in advance, $10 JCA members and seniors).

Beautiful Violet Anne is as lovely in appearance as she is in name. This 2-year-old female shepherd mix has soft fur and dazzling blue eyes. She is a little shy at the Animal Center, but having fun with her new owners should do the trick. She is housetrained and bonds very quickly with people. Violet is available for adoption at Young-Williams Animal Center at 3201 Division St. Hours there are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday.

Young-Williams Animal Village, 6400 Kingston Pike, is open to visitors noon to 6 p.m. daily. See all of Young-Williams’ adoptable animals at www.knoxpets.org.

Golf for a good cause Beaver Brook Country Club, 6800 Beaver Brook Drive, will host a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, May 9. A game of 18 holes and a golf cart rental will cost $25, of which $10 will be given to the American Cancer Society. A hole-in-one contest will also be held for a chance to win a car. To sign up, call Casey Van De Griff at 689-4479.

May is Foster Care Month Child and Family Tennessee would like to raise awareness of May being Foster Care Month.

Foster parents must be at least 21 years old, pass background checks, be financially and emotionally stable, take foster care training classes and have a valid driver’s license and car insurance. “You don’t have to be married, have other children, own a house or be rich. People tend to not foster as much during bad economic times, but the child’s food and clothing expenses are covered through a board payment,� said foster care parent recruiter Terrin Kanoa.

She said it is especially difficult to find foster homes for ages 10 and older and that there is a tremendous need for foster parents for teenagers.

Info: Terrin Kanoa, 524-7483 or email tkanoa@childfamily.org.

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Friday, May 13, at Mercy Health and Fitness Center Outdoor Track with a special Survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lap for those who have defeated cancer. The rest of the participants will surround the track to cheer them on. Info: 558-4053 or visit www.relayforlife.org/ northknoxville.

Alliance membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; show and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;First Friday Facesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Arts and Culture Alliance will kick off its 2011 Member Show and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;First Friday Facesâ&#x20AC;? photography exhibit by Barry McManus 5-9 p.m. Friday, May 6, with a First Friday reception at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. The exhibits will run through Friday, May 27. The membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; show will feature photography, mixed media, sculpture and more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First Friday Facesâ&#x20AC;? will showcase more than 40 photographs of people who have attended First Fridays over the past year. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with additional hours 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7. Info: 523-7543 or visit www. knoxalliance.com.

Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandfather, my father-in-law Max Carey, passed away April 23, after a long battle with cancer.

His struggle started almost exactly two years ago when Daniel was almost 1 year old.

Sometimes, I think he held on as long as he did just so Daniel could know him, just so he could hear the little guy say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love you, Poppy,â&#x20AC;? which heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d finally started to do during these past few months.

Daniel loved going to his Nana and Poppyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house. He loved listening to Poppy play guitar while he still could.

He loved sitting with them on the couch and sharing his snacks with Poppy, even if Poppy didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always want them.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve struggled in these weeks with how to explain to Daniel that Poppy was sick and might die. How do you tell a 3-year-old that someone they know and love isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be around anymore? How could I tell him about sickness and death without scaring him?

How much could he really understand?

No one whom Daniel knew well and saw on a regular basis has died before.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had deaths in the family, but Daniel was too young and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the people well enough to really need an explanation.

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He seemed to understand, talking about needing medicine to get better.

On the morning of April 23, I came home from the hospice needing to tell Daniel something of what had happened.

I knelt down to his level, looked him in the eye and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddy, you remember that your Poppy was very sick. Well, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not sick anymore, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone to heaven to stay.â&#x20AC;?

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s asked a few times since then where Poppy is, and each time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve said that Poppy isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sick anymore, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in heaven.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably never know exactly how much of that sank in, and my husband and I both worry that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough. One day, we will have to give a more detailed explanation. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to tell Daniel about death and faith and spirituality.

I just hope weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re up to the task.

Contact Shannon Carey at shannon@ ShopperNewsNow.com.

HEALTH NOTES â&#x2013; Free anxiety clinic and depression screening day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 5, at the Psychological Clinic, 227 Austin Peay Building, 1404 Circle Drive. Walk-ins only. â&#x2013; The 15th annual Mercy Nautical Mile, now called River Song at Mercy Nautical Mile, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, with the Little River Band at Two Rivers Pavillion. Tickets are $250 or a table of 10 for $2,250. Proceeds benefit the Compassion In Action Fund at Mercy Cancer Centers. Info: 632-5678. â&#x2013; Cancer survivor support groups, Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings and Tuesday evenings, at the Cancer Support Community of East Tennessee (formerly the Wellness Community), 2230 Sutherland Ave. Support groups for cancer caregivers, Monday evenings. Cancer family bereavement group, Thursday evenings. Info: 546-4661 or www.cancersupportet.org. â&#x2013; Chronic Pain and Depression support group meets noon to 1:30 p.m. the first and third Thursday of every month at Faith Promise Church off Pellissippi Parkway. Info: Paula, 945-3810, or 748-1407. â&#x2013; Fibromyalgia screenings are held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wednesdays at the Fibromyaligia Clinic located at Total Rehab Physical Therapy. Also support group meetings and several classes are held on the third Wednesday of each month. No charge. Info: 548-1086. â&#x2013; Grief support groups at Fort Sanders Sevier Hospital at 6 p.m. the first Thursday of each month, 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Home Care Knoxville office and 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Home Care Oak Ridge office. Registration is required. Info or to register: 541-4500. â&#x2013; Lung cancer support group meets 6 p.m. the third Monday every month at Baptist West Cancer Center, 10820 Parkside Drive. No charge, light refreshments served. Info: Trish or Amanda, 218-7081. â&#x2013; Stop Smoking: 215-QUIT (7848) is a program of the Knox County Health Department. The hotline is answered 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. â&#x2013; Support group meeting for family members or caregivers of an adult with a mental illness is 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at Cherokee Health Systems, 2018 Western Avenue.

Info: Rebecca Gill, 602-7807 or www.namiknox.org. â&#x2013; UT Hospice conducts ongoing orientation sessions for adults (18 and older) interested in becoming volunteers with its program.

No medical experience is required. Training is provided. Info: 5446277 or 544-6279. â&#x2013; UT Hospice Adult Grief Support, for any adult who is suffering loss, meets 6 to 7:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of every month in the UT Hospice office, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info or to reserve a spot: 544-6277. â&#x2013; YWCA Club W, 420 W. Clinch Ave., offers a hula hooping class 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays, and a belly dancing class 5-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

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Brown Bag, Green Book A new season of the Brown Bag, Green Book lunch and learn series begins this month at the East Tennessee History Center: â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living Downstream: a Scientistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environmentâ&#x20AC;? by Sandra Steingraber will be discussed by Edye Ellis, host of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Good Lifeâ&#x20AC;? on HGTV, former anchor with WBIRTV and breast cancer survivor, on Wednesday, May 18. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainabilityâ&#x20AC;? by James Gustave Speth will be presented by Metro Pulse columnist Frank Cagle on Wednesday, June 15.

Reading the book is optional but encouraged. Copies of the books are available at the library. Info: Emily Ellis, 215-8723.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Little Bitty Quilt Showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Appalachian Arts Craft Center in Norris will host a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Bitty Quilt Showâ&#x20AC;? throughout July with the theme â&#x20AC;&#x153;Summer Fun.â&#x20AC;?

The maximum size of quilts that will be accepted is 24 inches on the longest side.

Submitted quilts, entry fees and $5 per quilt must be turned in by Monday, June 20. Ribbons will be given including one for Best of Show. Info: 494-9854 or visit www.appalachianarts. net.

WEST SIDE SHOPPER-NEWS • MAY 2, 2011 • B-3

Powell professor named co-chair of VolsTeach program

By Valorie Fister With approximately $1.8 million in grant money, co-chair Dr. Susan Benner to work with, a newly renovated floor in Greve Hall and backing by the University of Tennessee, Dr. Susan Riechert is starting a new adventure.

“I’m excited about what we’ve accomplished already, and I’m really excited about what this means for the state of Tennessee,” Riechert said.

The longtime Powell resident will work with Benner in launching VolsTeach, UT’s new teaching program designed to prepare more mathematics and science teachers for the workforce. This comes after Riechert worked to secure funding for the new program.

And it also comes at a time when the well-known professor was named the university’s 2011 Macebearer. That is UT’s highest faculty honor. It represents the award winner’s commitment to the university’s students, academics and scholarship, and society in general.

Dr. Susan Riechert, a longtime Powell resident and a well-known professor at the University of Tennessee, is now stepping in a new direction. She’s cochair of UT’s new VolsTeach program.

Photo by Valorie Fister

The award is given to someone with a solid history of service to the university.

Riechert has a long history of service at UT. And she has a long list of honors and offices she’s held over the years. Now her focus is on

Folk and bluegrass artists Jay Clark and Jeff Barbra will perform 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 7, at the Laurel Theater. Tickets are $12. Info: 523-7521.

May 6, through Friday, May 27, in the Balcony of the Emporium Center. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

Info: 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

‘Vignettes’

Summer camp at AMSE

The Arts and Culture Alliance will present “Vignettes,” an exhibit of new works by local artists Richard Foster, Sara Martin and Denise Retallack Friday,

The American Museum of Science and Energy will host Science Explorer Camp 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, June 6-10, and Monday through

Folk and bluegrass

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DAV Chapter 24 has FREE RENTAL OF POWER WHEEL CHAIRS available for any area disabled veteran or members of their immediate family. Manually operated wheel chairs also available. Call 690-7690 for information.

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For Sale By Owner 40a 2.3 AC. LAKEVIEW HOME, Kingston, indoor pool, 4 BR, 3 BA, FPS, DR/LR, FR, Below Appraisal $295,000. 865-414-9634 ***Web ID# 775621*** 3/4 BR, 2 full BA, appx.

2400 SF, Harriman TN, fin. bsmnt. For info.

865-604-2405; 748-6599 ***Web ID# 777601***

East 40e 3,500$ Down, 827/mo.

3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, remodeled, 1450 SF. $114,900. 7413 Kilbridge. 865-680-2211 ***Web ID# 774937***

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FSBO OR LEASE PURCHASE, Ftn. City area, 4 BR, 3 1/2 BA, 2800 SF, 3 car gar., fenced back yard. Priced below appraisal at $250,000. 865-898-2232 ***Web ID# 775541*** HALLS, on cul-de-sac, 1400 sf, 3 br, 1 1/2 ba, lrg kit w/new ceramic flrs, comp remod, new carpet, new roof, $99,900.

865-250-9458; 237-0139 ***Web ID# 773830*** OPEN HOUSE SAT/SUN 2-4 3313 Forestdale Ave. 2 BR, 1 BA, 100x250 fenced lot, full bsmt. $80,000 or shown by appt. 865-687-1275 ***Web ID# 775825***

RENT TO OWN 3BR, 2BA, Built in 2004. Beautiful Halls Subd., $1100/mo. + dep. 865-254-5464

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OWNER FIN., 3 BR, 1 1/2 BA w/Jacuzzi, newer home, W/D conn., lg. deck, level yard, 2 mi. to UT, river, park, & tennis, $5,000 down, $689/mo. 865-405-5472 ***Web ID# 773330***

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3 BR RANCH, comp remod, hdwd, ceramic tile, granite.

Pellisippi/Dutchtown $249K, 865-898-3672 ***Web ID# 775387***

growing the new program that will provide schools with the teachers that are now in high demand.

VolsTeach is a conversion from a former five-year math and science teaching program into a newer four-year program. It offers field experiences during each year of the program. VolsTeach is a replica of UTeach, a program created by the University of Texas.

Riechert said UT was graduating good math and science teaching students through the former program, but only 20 students completed it each year.

In the new VolsTeach program, Riechert said officials hoped for 50 students to sign up. In fact, 93 students have joined the program that has room for 200.

“We’re real excited over that,” Riechert said. “We would love to have as many as we can.”

Riechert’s name resounds in the academic and the education worlds as a distinguished professor of science. Her specialty is ecology and evolutionary biology,

Friday, June 13-17, at Freels Bend Cabin in Oak Ridge.

Explorations will include insects, habitats, water, weather and more. Cost per week is $175 for AMSE members, $190 for nonmembers.

Info: www.amse.org.

Chase Rice in concert “Survivor: Nicaragua’s Chase Rice will perform an acoustic set on his “Best Damn Country Tour”

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and she has done much work with spiders.

Locally, she’s known for her Biology in a Box outreach project that was actually started in Powell schools.

“We’re up to 84 school systems now,” Riechert said of the project.

The program is free to schools except for a $300 charge for an initial workshop. The sets, which are housed in wooden trunks, are valued at around $6,000 each, and some schools have as many as six sets, Riechert said.

Money for the project comes from at least seven grant funds and organizations, including the Howard Hughes Foundation, the J.R. Cox Fund and the Dwight D. Eisenhower fund.

And as for Riechert’s choice of Powell as a place to live, that had to do with four acres of land and the countryside.

“I like being in the mountains and out in the country,” she said.

“The thing about Powell is it’s growing up so fast.”

Thursday, May 12, at the Tin Roof, 1915 Cumberland Ave. Tickets are $5.

Tour of seven private gardens The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program will be held rain or shine 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 7, beginning at the Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, 2743 Wimpole Ave. No reservations are required

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for these self-guided tours.

Tickets are $5 per garden, $30 for all seven gardens.

Children 12 and under are free. Info: www.opendays program.org.

‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral’ A1 LabArts will kick off its spring member show “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral” 7 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, May 6, at 8 Shooters Gallery, 1202 N. Central St.

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LR, gas heat, AC, LAB PUPPIES now $6500. Must 742-6551 Household Furn.

204 conn, carport, Residence Lots 44 W/D AKC reg., Yellow & see! Call 687-2372. $495 mo. $250 DD. Black $250.

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AKC, yellow, parOff Middlebrook heater, outside $500/obo.

865-258-9210 OPENINGS ents on site. M&F. Lot 1 - 1 1/2 AC shower, inside toilet, ***Web ID# 777276*** $300. 865-828-3716 Lot 2 - .75 AC $4,800. 925-3154.

3 br, 1 1/2 ba, W/D ★ Operations Coor/CFO ***Web ID# 777250*** Lot 3 - .75 AC conn, new carpet, See it at : ★ Workshop Center Mgr Zone: Apts, Single fresh paint. Priv fleetwoodutah.com LAB PUPS, yellow, Household Appliances 204a ★ Bookkeeper (PT) Family, Residential, entrance & drive. Cr AKC reg., Available MF6 Homes chk & ref. $700/dep, R-VISION TRAVEL Highlander is a social now. For more info. COMPACT Priced from MINI$700/mo, 1st & last @ Cruiser 2003, 28' call 865-206-8347. justice education center $39,900 to $54,900 FRIDGE, 18" great signing. 6815 Adrian travel trailer w/slide ***Web ID# 776960*** in New Market. condition. $25.

925Call Brackfield & Road. 865-922-3847 out and stabilizer 4985 For detailed information: MORKIE PUPPIES, Associates 691-8195 pkg. A/C, furnace, **Web ID#778285** www.highlandercenter.org fridge, freezer, (Maltese & York- MICROWAVE, stove, microwave, /n-job-openings.asp shire Terrier Mix) SHARP Carousel, Farms & Land 45 NEAR I-75 Ftn. City/ water heater, dinette cute & cuddly. F large. $50. 925-4985 & shower. Exc cond, Inskip, modern 2 $300; M $250. 1st S/W extra clean.

PRIVATE, 4 bdrm, BR, W/D conn., no Business Opp. 130 6 wks, 423-337-2588 STOVE: HOT POINT $5500/obo. 865-494-8174 pets $495, 2 yr lse, 2 ba, 1932 sf, bsmnt white Electric with ***Web ID# 778574*** PUPPY SALE! Puppy cr ck, 865-522-4133 rancher on 38 ac, of self-cleaning oven, P/T BUSINESS from Zone at 8235 Kingmixed pasture / wood$150. Call 925-4985 home. Nets $65K. SPARTAN 25', heavy ston Pike next to land on creek. 2 ponds, Christian themed duty, dual axle, new Chuck E Cheese. Call 2 barns, MUST SEE! Houses - Unfurnished 74 publication. No exp.

AC/fridge/water heater 865-690-5252 or come 1153 Coal Hill Rd in Collectibles 213 $3800. 423-442-8174 nec. Clients estab. by for more info.

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Acreage- Tracts 46 BA, counters, dock, maint. ***Web ID# 776852*** ***Web ID# 775068*** BEAVER Monterey free. $1340 mo., may COMMERCIAL Grade 2005 40' Class A, 15 ACRES. Hines Val- apply all rent to purFile Cabinets, used.

SHIH TZU PUPS, no 400HP Cat C-9 eng., ley Rd, Lenoir City. chase option @ $279,900 2 drawers $25. 4 drawbreeding right, $300. Medical Supplies 219 3 slides, auto. air 865-924-0791 Creek, woods, pasers $50. 865-363-3904.

313-4565. susp., Hydro-Hot, ture. Water, elec, ***Web ID# 774899*** Chapter 24 has cent. vac, W/D, auto STORE FIXTURES, Shih Tzu/Yorkie Pups, DAV gas. Lrg barn, priv., FREE RENTAL sat. dish, 45K mi., showcases, gondolas, MERCHANTS DR. / beautiful. Pics avail Reg., S/W, 8 wks, OF POWER non-smoking, auto. wall shelving. Buy all beautiful, will be small. upon request. $285K CLINTON HWY Area: WHEEL CHAIRS door & patio awnor part. 250-7303.

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1M flamepoint, vet chairs also availOBO. 901-275-9077 BRAVE 32' 2003 Pk/Murphy Rd area, ckd, dewormed, $200 ***Web ID# 774996*** able. Call 690-7690 $37,995. 45K mi., 2 slides, Newly Built Condo, cash only, 247-4964 for information.

65 ACRES, wood & YORKIE PUPPIES every option, back up 3BR, 2BA, 1550 SF, ***Web ID# 778479*** pasture. Beautiful.

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412-884-3598 + dep. 865-546-3713 16K mi. 865-712-2147 with trailer & Free Pets 145 2000, $1,200. 423-314-5731 equipment, very LAKEFRONT HOME WEST, 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA ***Web ID# 774895*** Yamaha 1700 Road low time, eng. 5.0L, on Watts Bar w/rec rm, 2 car gaStar Silverado 2007, 225HP Mercury with dock. $269k. rage, fenced yd. ENGLISH Bulldogs 8 ** ADOPT! * * blk, 8k mi, exc cond.

Cruiser I/O with 236 wks., 2 F, 1M, NKC Call 865-335-8771 $1100 mo. 865-556-8963 $7500. 865-376-3350 total hours, asking reg. UTD on shots. Looking for a lost pet or a new KNX756063 ***Web ID# 778230*** $14,000. 865-804-0872 $1,000. 865-254-9941 WEST 4 BR, 3 BA, 2 one? Visit Young-Williams ***Web ID# 773789*** car gar., fenced yd, ***Web ID# 777318*** Animal Center, the official Office Space - Rent 65 $1100/mo. + dep. ENGLISH Bulldogs, shelter for the City of Autos Wanted 253 Houseboat, Stardust 865-693-7120 Knoxville & Knox County: 1971, slps 6, Attached NKC reg, 5 F, 2 M, 3 OFFICES Dock, Norris Lake dewormed, 1st shots 3201 Division St. Knoxville.

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KSO Chamber Season finale The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will conclude this year’s Chamber Classics season with an afternoon of Baroque 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 8, at the Bijou Theatre. Tickets are $23.50. Info: 656-4444 or www. knoxvillesymphony. com.

Spring show for Knoxville Watercolor Society The Knoxville Watercolor Society will host a spring show and sale through Sunday, May 15, at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Info: Wilda Clark, 588-6828.

Free performance

by KSO youth orchestra The Knoxville Symphony’s Youth Orchestra Association will present its last performance of the season 7 p.m.

Monday, May 2, at the Tennessee Theatre.

All five orchestras in the association will be performing. Admission is free. Info: 291-3310.

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CAROL'S CLEANING SERVICE 20 yrs exp, comm & residential.

Bonded & insured, refs avail. Call for quote 323-9105

16' HEAVY DUTY EQUIPMENT trailer tandem wheels, electric brakes, new floor, $1250 obo. 865-689-5011

Vans

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CHEVY 1500 Express Cargo Van 2008, only 43,400 mi, exc cond. $15K. 865-748-6571 GMC SAFARI 2003, well maint, great cond. 200k hwy mi, $3800. 865-405-4308 ***Web ID# 777546***

Trucks

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CERAMIC TILE installation.

Floors/ walls/repairs. 32 yrs exp, exc work!

John 938-3328

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992-4002 $6500. 423-884-2399 or 617-2228 ***Web ID# 775867***

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FORD Explorer 2000, red, 98K mi. V6, all pwr.

CD, good tires, cold AC. $4500. 423-836-8798.

Nissan Pathfinder 2004 Platinum Ltd LE, 4WD, CD, 6 cyl., htd seats, gray black lthr, low miles, new tires, immac. cond.

By owner. $13,800 OBO. 865-924-0791 ***Web ID# 778293*** TOYOTA 4-RUNNER 1995, large wheels, runs well-body good $3800/bo 865-938-1393

Imports

BMW 2007 750Li, white w/beige int., loaded, 36K mi, cert. to ^ 100K mi transferable, non smoker, gar Remodeling kept, hand washed, exc cond. $39,000.

423-337-1545 days; 423-746-0530 nites ***Web ID# 774990***

Domestic

^ COOPER'S TREE SVC Bucket truck, lot cleaning, brush pick-up, chipper. Ins'd, lg & sm jobs.

523-4206, 789-8761

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BUICK Regal Custom 1995, Loaded, Very Good Cond In/Out. $2495/B.O. 865-397-7918 ***Web ID# 775418*** CHEVY Malibu 2005, 4 dr., auto, air, V6, silver, 65,700 mi., $6,500. 865-637-0760.

MERCURY GRAND Marquis LS 1999, 136k mi, golden ext, tan lthr int, prem whls, CD MP3 radio $3350. 865-804-3729 ***Web ID# 776521***

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Shop for Mom! Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 8, you-all. Say thanks to your mom and all those other women who have acted like your mom over the years.

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Modern Supply donates lighting to the Labor of Love Modern Supply Company, a kitchen, bath and lighting distributor located off Lovell Road in Farragut, donated indoor and outdoor lighting and ceiling fans to the Labor of Love home remodel project for Knoxville’s Helen Ashe, co-founder of The Love Kitchen.

Ashe and her twin sister, Ellen Turner, founded the Love Kitchen which provides meals, clothing and emergency food packages to homebound, homeless and unemployed persons.

The volunteer project was a way of saying thank you for their valuable contribution to the area.

Modern Supply CEO Pace Robinson said, “In the true Volunteer spirit, the community has come together to return Helen’s and Ellen’s generosity. We’re honored to have helped.”

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By Sandra Clark Parkwest Medical Center is gaining national and statewide recognition for efficiency and quality of care. That’s the report CAO Richard Lassiter brought to the Rotary Club of West Knoxville when he spoke at the behest of club vice president Richard Bettis.

“We are trying to drive world class quality,” Lassiter said.

Parkwest recently earned a Level 4 Malcolm Baldrige award, one of 28 companies in Tennessee to be so honored, he said. The Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U.S. organizations in the business, health care, education and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence.

It was also recognized by the Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) with a Leadership Excellence Award.

Two of the 28 hospitals that received this award were in the Knoxville area and both are members of Covenant Health. The other was Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.

Based upon the government’s definition of quality, Parkwest is in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide, and was one of 28 hospitals nationwide to earn recognition for “valued based pricing.”

is watchword at Parkwest

Quality Recognitions ■ Designated six times as a Top 100 Heart Hospital by Solucient ■ Recipient of two Tennessee Quality Awards ■ 4-star awards for outstanding patient satisfaction from Professional Research Consultants, outpatient services, emergency department, outpatient surgery, 2005 ■ Gold Award, outstanding patient satisfaction, PRC, inpatient cardiology, 2005 ■ Level 5 Award (the highest award possible) from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for prompt emergency care ■ VHA Leadership Award for operational performance ■ Posted near perfect laboratory scores in its most recent Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) surveys Source: Parkwest website

“We are growing in an era of depression,” Lassiter said. Parkwest has grown by an average 4 percent annually since 2005.

The Q&A session sparked lively discussion. Lassiter had no apologies for the ex-

cavation visible from I-40 at Cedar Bluff.

Excavation: “We are landlocked with only one way to grow – north – so we purchased 33 acres from the Parker family and have started leveling and creating three lots.” There are not specific plans for land use, although parking is a good bet.

“ObamaCare:” Speaking as a hospital administrator, not personally, Lassiter said, “Health care is 16 percent of (the country’s) Gross National Product and we’re heading toward 20 percent. (Providers) need to decrease costs and (the country) needs to move from 82 percent of patients with a payer (health insurance or government program) to 94 percent.”

He said the reform bill was a compromise, yet 26 governors have challenged the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance.

That provision “is the reason the American Hospital Association supported the bill.”

About 60 percent of the patients at Parkwest are on Medicare and another 5 percent are on TennCare, he said, and their reimbursement is below cost, subsidized by patients with insurance.

Staff: Parkwest and Pennisula, which it operates, have about 2,000 employees.

Richard Lassiter speaks to West Knox Rotary. Photo by Charles Garvey Free care: A tough problem. One uninsured patient requiring dialysis can cost a hospital $20,000 a day.

Beds: Before Baptist Riverside closed, we had too many beds. Right now we may be “a little overbedded.”

Advertising: Why advertise? To grow market share. Parkwest favors targeted marketing with an education component.

Killer infections: Several bugs are growing because of our overuse of antibiotics. It’s a concern

because we’re running out of therapies.

Tort reform: We’ve pushed hard for reform. The state of Mississippi got down to four practicing OB/GYNs delivering babies because of lawsuits, malpractice insurance and jury awards. It really affects physicians.

Cost of reform: Lassiter expects the federal reform to cost $1 trillion with hospitals providing $400 billion (in savings).

Results: Let’s look back at this “huge social experiment” in 10 years and see.

Name the pup: And the winner is …

Never, in my wildest dreams, could I have imagined that more than 100 readers – 111 to be exact – would respond to last week’s Name the Puppy contest.

Thank you, one and all. I

Anne Hart hope now you understand why I haven’t responded to your emails. I would have had to hire an assistant!

A lot of you sent entire lists of names, and there wasn’t a dud among them. Honestly, choosing just one of those names for my new Dalmatian puppy is one of the toughest jobs I’ve ever had.

Many of you sent sweet personal stories about your

band, Allen Burt, are psychologists who have been Farragut residents since 1993. Their daughters are Miranda, who is 13 and a 7th grader at Farragut Middle School, and Ariane, who is 9 and a 3rd grader at Farragut Intermediate.

Sharon’s winning name for the puppy is Macbeth, probably to be quickly shortened to ‘Mac’ – also appropriate because he races through my house somewhat like a Mack truck.

And yes, as an Elizabethan English major, I do Sharon Bryant with husband Allen Burt and their daughters realize that Shakespeare’s Ariane and Miranda meet little Macbeth Hart. Sharon won the play was a tragedy. I don’t Name the Puppy contest. anticipate any tragedies for the puppy, unless he just own beloved animals. Some wish you could all win the wiggles himself to pieces did a lot of research into prize. with sheer happiness, which the breed and into specific But, as in any contest, seems a real possibility about now. names. I’m impressed with there has to be a winner. the amount of thought and But back to the name. I Her name is Sharon Bryenergy you put into this and ant, and she and her hus- have always loved Shake-

speare and even have a small painting of the family home of his wife, Anne Hathaway, near Stratford-on-Avon, that my mother brought back to me from a trip there. So there’s also a sentimental attachment of sorts.

All of that aside, what really grabbed me was Sharon’s reference to the most famous line from the play: “Out, out, d... Spot,” which seems eerily close to what I find myself saying to the puppy every hour or so.

And in addition to all that, I just liked the name.

Thank you, Sharon, for both your contribution to the cause and your sense of humor. And thanks to all the rest of you who entered the contest. I hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me. In my book, you’re all winners!

Contact: annehartsn@aol.com.

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Celebrating Knoxville’s next generation of artists Once again, First Tennessee Foundation was the proud sponsor of the Student Art Exhibition of the Dogwood Arts Festival. Remarkable works of gifted art students from kindergarten through the 12th grade were on display during

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firstforward April at the Emporium Center for Arts and Culture downtown. If you missed it, please be sure to mark your calendars for next year’s show. I could not have been more impressed by these students’ artistic aptitude and can assure you it is a wonderful exhibition year after year.

On April 1, there was a very special opening reception that included an awards and scholarships ceremony. For the third consecutive year, it was my pleasure to hand out award checks from First Tennessee Foundation to winners from each grade level: Kindergarten – Audrey Kosman, Sterchi Elementary; Grade 1 – Emma Price, Gibbs Elementary; Grade 2 – Berkeley Bowers, Sterchi Elementary; Grade 3 – Brianna Marcopulos, Linden Elementary; Grade 4 – Cian Bell, Fountain City Elementary; Grade 5 – Rachel Anderson, Carter Elementary; Grade 6 – John Beil, Cedar Bluff Middle; Grade 7 – Esther Sither, Bearden Middle; Grade 8 – Makenna Wood, Powell Middle; Grade 9 – Victoria Bailey, Oak Ridge High School; Grade 10 – Bonnie Simmons, Oak Ridge High School; Grade 11 – Hee Soo Chung, Farragut High School; Grade 12 – Lindsay Carson, Hardin Valley Academy. Larger awards went to the Best of Show student, Noelle Grimes of Bearden High School, and her teacher, Flowerree W. Galetovic.

The Dogwood Arts Festival is a treasured community asset that is made a reality not only through the generosity of hundreds of sponsors and organizations, but also through the donations of service hours from hundreds of volunteers, and there are two individuals I’d like to thank for going above and beyond to support the Student Art Exhibition.

Richard Riveras, owner of Fast Frame, so generously provided custom matting and framing for every twodimensional art work in the show – approximately 68 pieces – for a most professional presentation of these students’ worthy works. Jim Dodson, art teacher at Jefferson Middle School, served as the Student Art Exhibition chair.

Dodson is an enthusiastic and extraordinary teacher who spends countless extra hours in and out of the classroom to see that students get the best arts education possible. It is through his efforts that this Student Art Exhibition has come to include scholarships. Last year, one student was awarded a fine art college scholarship with $7,000 per year for four years. This year, three students were awarded the same generous scholarship to the Memphis College of Art, and Jim Dodson is determined to grow the number of scholarship schools for next year’s event.

Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t also commend the leadership of Dogwood executive director Lisa Duncan and her staff, especially Lynda Evans, in making the Student Art Exhibition such a special component of the Dogwood Arts Festival, along with 2011Festival co-chairs Janet Testerman and Brandon Clarke and 2011 Festival honorary co-chairs Natalie Haslam and Sam Furrow.

April in East Tennessee would not be the same without the Dogwood Arts Festival; if you missed it this year, get out and enjoy it next year!

Africa-bound Greg Trevathan, Jarrod Justice, Walt Bain, and Kely Braswell, staff members at Antioch Community Church, have their weekly accountability and Bible study session at Long’s Drug Store. The church, which meets at Christian Academy of Knoxville’s high school, is preparing to send two teams to Uganda to follow up on a church that was planted there two years ago. The men are all participating, except Bain, whose wife is expecting a baby.

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A different kind of Game Time Clara Bell, Roberta Potter and Sharon Welch give Barbara Pelot, second from left, a poster for Game Time in Tennessee, which is May 14 at Neyland Stadium. UT student athletes approached Fellowship of Christian Athletes Chaplain Roger Woods with the idea for the event, and Potter and Welch are co-chairs. Bell is in charge of prayer for the event, which will include children’s activities, speakers and a concert featuring Superchick and Group 1 Crew. Some kids’ activities require preregistration by May 11 at www.gametimetn.com.

You’re never ever too old for tennis Bob Rony, Ray Weeden and Betty Joyce visit Long’s to promote the 22nd annual Never Ever Senior Novice Tennis Program, which is May 16-26. Classes are 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Tyson Family Center, and 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at West Hills Park. The lessons are appropriate for new players and those with rusty skills. “The main thing is, for seniors, if you want to stay alive and enjoy the rest of your life, you need to get off the couch and do something,” says Weeden, who took up tennis at age 60. For info: Bob Rony, 971-5896

Donna Bass promoted at Y-12 FCU Donna Bass was promoted to the position of education services manager at the Y-12 Federal Credit Union. She previously was a financial Donna Bass counselor and led numerous seminars with topics ranging from

identity theft to saving and budgeting for college.

She was integral in establishing Y-12 FCU’s two inschool branches at Eagleton Middle School and Anderson County High School and will be opening four new school branches in 2011.

New directors at UT FCU UT Federal Credit Union has elected two new directors and retained incumbent Mike McNeil.

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Clayton Building Solutions is the commercial building arm of Clayton Homes and engages in myriad projects throughout the U.S. including military, multifamily, student housing and light commercial construction. This year’s recognitions came for projects in Texas.

Bogartz opens BBQ lunch spot Chef Bruce Bogartz has opened The BBQ Shack at RouXbarb, a new barbecue experience located behind his signature restaurant, RouXbarb, at 130 S. Northshore Drive.

The BBQ Shack is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for lunch and catering orders. Info: 212-0024.

KNOXVILLE CHAMBER Info: 637-4550. All events are held at the Knoxville Chamber unless otherwise noted.

■ 2011 Pinnacle Business Awards, 6-10 p.m. Friday, May 6, Knoxville Convention Center. Admission is $130 nonmembers, $100 members.

■ Chamber Member MD Lab, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 10.

■ New Member Reception , 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, May 10.

■ Bright Ideas Seminar: “Leading with the Brain in Mind: The Neuroscience of Leadership”, 11:30 am. to 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 11. Admission is $35 nonmembers, $25 members.

■ Business After Hours with MetroPulse Best of Knoxville Winners, 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, Latitude 35, 16 Market Square.

■ Ribbon Cutting for Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union, 10-11 a.m. Friday, May 13, 4611 Kingston Pike.

■ The Knoxville Area Urban League (KAUL) will host a Microsoft Excel class 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Monday, May 2, through Friday, May 13. The class will cover topics including Excel basics, organizing a worksheet and worksheet formulas. There will be a $10 fee for instructional materials. Info: 524-5511.

■ KAUL will also host an all-day homeownership workshop 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 7.

The workshop is open to anyone preparing to purchase their first home and covers selecting, purchasing, financing and maintaining a home.

It also meets all requirements for FHA loans.

There will be a $20 fee for a take-home workbook.

Info: 524-5511.

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■ Networking: REO, 5 p.m.

Thursday, May 5, 10915 Anchorage Circle.

■ Ambassador Meeting , 8 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 10, Pinnacle Financial, 241 Brooklawn St.

David and Kristi Hickey cut the ribbon at the grand opening of their consignment store, Consign to Design, April 19 surrounded by family and friends, including members of the Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce. The store is located at 10420-D Kingston Pike.

■ Networking , 8 to 9:30 a.m., Thursday, May 19, Edward Jones: David Brown, 2099 Thunderhead Road, Suite 202, Northshore Town Center.

■ B.O.D. Meeting , 8:30 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 24, Child Advocacy Center, 887 Highway 70 West, Lenoir City.

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■ Networking , 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 26, Calhoun’s at the Marina, 4550 City Park Drive, Lenoir City.

Rotary sets picnic The Rotary Club of West Knoxville will enjoy a potluck picnic Saturday, May 14, at Concord Marina, catered by Big Fatty’s. Members are asked to bring a covered dish for the 5:30 p.m. event.

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his wife, Phoebe, moved to Knoxville in 1995. Their West Knox Rotary son, Drew, will graduate from Hardin Valley AcadeShopper SPot my in May and their daughter, Audrey, is a sophomore there.

Paul holds a bachelor’s ■ Meet the degree in finance from members Loras College in Dusbuque Paul Jaeger joined Ro- and has been in the trust tary in April, sponsored by business for 30 years, J.T. Carver. He’s a native of specializing in retirement Iowa who moved to South planning and investments.

Bend, Ind., in 1986. He and Paul is a member of the

Tennessee Valley Estate Planning Council, the Pellissippi State Business Advisory committee and serves as treasurer for The Restoration House of East Tennessee.

Dr. Conrad Vaughan also joined Rotary in April, sponsored by David Hales.

He was born in Knoxville and graduated from Farragut High School and UT with a bachelor’s in zoology and psychology. He earned a doctorate in chiropractic from Life University School in Atlanta, graduating cum laude.

He is a staff physician at Hosenfeld Chiropractic and is team physician for the Knoxville Rugby team, the Possums. His wife is Shannon and children are Austin, Felisha and Bryce.

At Westwood Antique and Design Market, 5020 Whittaker Drive, just off Kingston Pike in Bearden, owner Scott Bishop adds the finishing touches to a gorgeous spring floral arrangement.

Westwood has many items to enhance your spring decor.

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Parkview West: A loving tribute to Moms M

other’s Day serves as a gentle reminder of the especially close bond between mothers and daughters. So when it’s time for Mom to give up the responsibilities of home ownership and move to a senior living community, who better than a daughter to help select the new home?

And what better place than Parkview West to assure that Mom is happily settled in a new home where she will thrive surrounded by a friendly, helpful staff and other residents, many of whom become close friends?

Three of those motherdaughter duos gathered last week to talk about why Parkview West was the best choice for them.

For Corinne Pennington, who lived in Kentucky, and her daughter, Rose Wilkes, who lives here, it was an easy choice.

“After we looked here she said ‘I don’t want to look any place else. This is it,’ ” Wilkes says. “It has been great for all of us. I had to travel so far to see her before, but I’m on Kingston Pike all the time, so it is very convenient. My sister lives in Jefferson City, so it’s a lot better for her, too.”

Pennington, who has lived at Parkview for about a year and a half, adds, “We are like family here. We care about each other.”

Visitors and newcomers are always struck by the building’s architectural features and lovely furnishings. “It’s like a resort here,” comments Joy Fender, whose Mom, Ruby Avans, has been a resident for just a month. “The grandsons helped Mom move in, and they looked around and said ‘Wow. This isn’t what we expected.’ ”

Mother-daughter duos are, from left, Rose Wilkes and Corine Pennington, Joy Fender and Ruby Avans, and Jane Moats and Jeneal Wood.

Avans says, “The nice part is that I can walk out of my room and have someone to talk to.

Before, it seemed like all winter long I sat in my house and looked at the snow. Here everything is inside one building, and they drive you to the doctor and to other appointments.”

Jeneal Wood has lived at Parkview for almost two years.

She says the things she likes best are “the cloth napkins in the dining room, the chandeliers and the fact that I could bring my Shih Tzu, Lou. I just love the ambiance here.”

Daughter Jane Moats adds the two looked at three or four places before making a decision. “This just seemed to fit perfectly.”

All of these folks spoke enthusiastically about the food at Parkview. Breakfast and dinner are served in an elegant

“The grandsons helped Mom move in, and they looked around and said ‘Wow. This isn’t what we expected.’”

– Ruby Avans, Parkview West resident dining room, and there is also a private dining room that can be used by residents when they have visitors.

The facility also has a beauty salon, a well-equipped workout room, a library and a theatre where movies are shown several times a week, church services are held and residents gather to hear community news.

Parkview West opened almost three years ago and is located at 10914 Kingston Pike, just west of Lovell Road and minutes from restaurants, shopping and theaters in Turkey Creek. It is equally close to hospitals, doctor’s offices and

community parks. A driver is available to take those residents who no longer drive for doctor’s visits or on shopping excursions, and in addition, there are group trips in Parkview’s bus for a wide range of activities.

Apartments are available for rental in four different floor plans, all with full-size refrigerators. Some come equipped with a full-size kitchen, while others have balconies or patios available. Seating areas are interspersed throughout the facility, including areas with tables for playing bridge, working puzzles and the like.

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munity balcony and a community patio. The balcony, complete with rocking chairs, overlooks a lovely courtyard with plants and flowers, a fountain and a walking trail that rounds out the beautifully designed facility. The patio has tables and umbrellas and is great for lunches.

It’s easy to see why Parkview quickly becomes home to its residents. It’s a cozy and comfortable place, and offers each individual the experience of a nurturing community.

Parkview’s slogan that “It’s all about security and peace of mind” shows in the enthusiastic response of the residents when they talk about their new homes. They all agree that for those who no longer want the burden of keeping up their own home, it’s the best possible place to be.

For more information about Parkview West, its programs, costs and availability of apartments, call Lori Banther, Director of Sales and Marketing. She’ll gladly schedule a visit for you!

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Doing the Smokies with kids

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hat a blessing it is to live in East Tennessee with a wonderful place like the Great Smoky Mountains National Park practically at your doorstep. If you’re looking for something to do with the kids this summer, look no further than the Smokies.

With beautiful trails, abundant wildlife, lovely views and cool mountain streams, a trip to the Smokies can be fun and relaxing, even with the kids in tow. Children of any age can enjoy and benefit from a jaunt through the wilderness.

When planning your trip, keep in mind the ability levels of everyone involved, then go online or pick up a guide book and pick a trail accordingly.

Abram’s Falls is a good starter trail, but you might want to save the Chimneys until the kids (and you) have a little more hiking experience.

If you have small children, a baby backpack, like the one make by Kelty, is an excellent investment. Your small child can ride when he or she gets tired and can even take a nap in the backpack. Just be ready for lots of comments from other hikers about how much they’d like to ride in one!

Safety first, but don’t let it keep you from enjoying the trail. Be wise, but

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Zachary and Daniel Carey hike the Abrams Falls trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo by S. Carey

remember that any trip into the wild has risks. Pack a good first aid kit, even on the easiest hikes. Each adult and older child should carry his or her own food and water and a change of clothes, especially socks. Adults and kids old enough to be responsible should also have a source of flame and small knife.

Sturdy shoes are also a must for everyone.

Before heading out, be sure to check the Great Smoky Mountains National Park website, www.nps.gov/grsm/index. htm, to see if there are any bear warnings or closures on your chosen trail. Educate yourself on what to do if you see a bear, and educate your children, too. Remember that you’re a guest in the national park, and the wildlife you see are the residents.

On your hike, take it slow. Let your children stop and examine what they find by the trailside, but remind them to never go off the trail. Take plenty of breaks for snacks and water. In fact, it’s OK if you don’t make it to the end of the trail as long as everyone has a fun, relaxing time.

Also, hiking isn’t the only way to see the Smokies. Try touring Cades Cove by bicycle or Fontana Reservoir by canoe.

You can even rough it with your family and try backcountry camping at one of the parks backcountry sites or shelters, some of which are just a few miles from where you park.

If you haven’t taken advantage of everything the Smokies have to offer your family, make this your year to get out, get active and enjoy nature!

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‘Saving’ grace Coupon blog is ministry for Blake

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ou may think of a ministry as something that saves souls, but for Gabrielle Blake, her ministry is to help people save money and eat healthier, hopefully bringing peace, health and prosperity to their daily lives.

Blake is the author of the blog “Couponing in Critical Times,” and she gives free workshops on everything from couponing to canning to making your own yogurt and mozzarella.

It all started back in 2008, when people were re-

Gabrielle Blake, author of the blog “Couponing in Critical Times,” at the Knoxville Coupon Fair. File photo

was 10 years old, her mother passed away. Her grandmother and father, whom Blake calls “the most influential people in my life,” along with the aunts and uncles in her large extended family, taught her about frugal living and selfsufficiency.

Later, when Blake was in her teens, her father’s business went bankrupt. As the oldest of two girls, Blake took on the shopping duties and used coupons to make the dollars stretch. Later, after marrying her husband, Aaron, and giving birth to her daughter, Hannah, Blake started learning the many ways to make couponing easy.

“I’ve been very blessed in my life to have a lot of people who have taken the time to teach me things,” Blake said. “This is my way of paying it forward. It’s a ministry to me.”

ally feeling the pinch of the recession. Blake’s church, Faith United Methodist in the Sterchi area, was hearing from more and more people in need. Blake, a couponing veteran, knew she could get many items for free matching coupons and sales, so the church started Coupons for Christ. Church members brought Blake all the coupons they weren’t using, and Blake used the coupons to keep the church’s food pantry full.

In May 2009, the pastor’s wife at Faith suggested that Blake teach a workshop on money-saving strategies and couponing. Blake called it “Couponing in Critical Times,” and shortly thereafter the blog was born.

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■ Do what works for your family. You get the Knoxville Coupon Fair, a well-attended couponing extravaganza, off the ground.

And, while she certainly supports other couponing bloggers who make money off their blogs, Blake has made the decision to keep “Couponing in Critical Times” free and ad-free.

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■ Gametime in Tennessee is a free event at Neyland Stadium noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 14. Let your young sports fans participate in sports drills and activities while meeting former and current UT players. The south end zone will be a children’s zone with inflatables, crafts and activities, along with entertainment for young and old alike. Info: info@ gametimetn.com.

■ Children’s Festival of Reading, sponsored by Knox County Public Libraries, will be held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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■ Secret City Festival is Oak Ridge’s free, awardwinning two-day event celebrating the history and culture of Oak Ridge.

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■ The Grainger County Tomato Festival celebrates everything that’s great about East Tennessee’s famous ’mater. Held Friday through Sunday, July 22-25, the festival has something for everyone, including great food, activities for kids, arts and crafts, live music, a 5k run and a Civil War encampment. Don’t forget the famous Tomato Wars, held 10 a.m. Saturday, July 30, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 25. Info: www.graingercountytomato festival.com.

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