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South-Doyle Middle School principal Beth Blevins is fired up. Blevins was chosen, along with principals Alisha Hinton of Sequoyah Elementary, Cindy Bosse from A.L. Lotts Elementary and principals from eight other districts across the state, to pilot a program known as TPEG – Teacher Professional Educator Groups – funded from a grant through Race to the Top.
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Seth Hammond is talking about the challenges and benefits of modern technology, and his cell phone is in his pocket. It’s on, too, for good reason. The assistant pastor at Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church is expecting a phone call “anytime” from his wife with the message that, “It’s time.” The Hammond family will welcome a new daughter this week, if doctor’s predictions are right. Get to know Seth in this week’s Coffee Break. See Coffee Break on A-2
Open dates are great for UT This week is an open date. Open dates are great. Tennessee almost never loses. Time off from regularly scheduled programming offers the opportunity to catch up with burning issues, whether to pay college football players by the hour, game or touchdown, whether they will unionize and go on strike if no cash is forthcoming and whether Arian Foster committed heresy in admitting he received under-the-table tacos as a Volunteer.
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Lacy is 2013 Tn Teacher of the Year By Shannon Carey Wanda Lacy, a 30-year veteran teacher at Farragut High School, was named Tennessee’s Teacher of the Year for 2013 at a ceremony Oct. 3, in Nashville. Lacy, who chairs Farragut’s math department, was still in Nashville at press time, but Farragut High was already abuzz with the news. Principal Michael Reynolds gathered some students from Lacy’s AP Calculus class to talk about Lacy’s achievements. “She’s awesome,” said senior Peyton Crawford. “She loves (Calculus) and she makes sure we love it, too. It’s a great class, and she’s a great teacher.” Another senior, Ethan Young,
Farragut High School students Maddie Strnad, Lam Tran and Akshay Soni review a recent test with math department chair and teacher Wanda Lacy. Lacy was named 2013 Tennessee Teacher of the Year. Shopper-News file photo called Lacy “passionate, a phe- erybody gets it.” nomenal teacher, and incredibly Reynolds, who attended the good with all math.” Thursday night ceremony in NashJamie Pratt said, “She loves ville, called the event “exciting.” what she does and makes sure ev“Something like this is just in-
credible,” he said. “She is a shining example of what education is all about. She is outstanding. She’s one of those people you want your child to have.”
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Pink attitude: Fox Den for a Cure keeps growing By Betsy Pickle Fox Den for a Cure has flipped the old saying: If at first you do succeed, try, try again. In 2007, members of Fox Den Country Club decided to raise money for the Knoxville chapter of Komen for a Cure by having a tennis pro-am event, Volley for a Cure. With the fundraising campaign now in its seventh year, “we’ve grown it up to eight different events,” says Bill Enser, Fox Den for a Cure committee chair. This year, they started with a swimathon in June. They held a walk and junior tennis round robin in September. Last Friday, they staged the 5th annual Girlfriends Pink Party & Trash to Treasures Auction. The big finish comes this week with the Rally for the Cure on Thursday, the Silent Auction & Dinner Dance on Friday, and the Volley for a Cure Tennis Pro-Am and Golf Challenges on Saturday. “Last year we netted $44,000,” says Enser. “Since 2007, we’ve raised about $123,000.” That’s something Alicia Gross likes to hear. “I’m a survivor, so I feel very passionate about this whole cause,” says Gross. She
Heins Laning is pleased that 75 percent of the funds Fox Den for a Cure raises stays local; the remainder goes to national research. “The money goes to people who are having mammograms and need cancer supplies right here in Knoxville,” says Laning, former director of the school of nursing at Fort Sanders. Enser hails Laning as one of the heroes of the committee. She’s in charge of cajoling merchants and members into providing items for the silent auction. “It’s hard to talk people into doing that,” she says, “but I have a whole collection of people who are supportive, and I go back to them every year.” She downplays the struggles Everything is coming up pink as Fox Den Country Club members she’s gone through trying to get reach the grand finale of their efforts to raise money for Fox Den for people to contribute. “It is such a a Cure this week. Photo submitted horrible disease, if we have helped anybody, it has made my work jokes that she’s the committee’s 35 to when she finished treatment worthwhile,” she says. Gross says that while the cause “token breast-cancer survivor.” at the end of June 2001. “I wasn’t “Luckily, I don’t mind,” Gross having mammograms,” she says. is serious, it’s good to have fun says. “I’m very proud of the fact “I didn’t have any family history, events and put a positive spin on I’m a survivor. Some people are so I wasn’t in that risk group. More things. “Everybody knows somejust more shy about it, and that’s and more people are getting diag- body who’s had breast cancer,” nosed younger and with no family she says. “Some haven’t survived; fine.” It was about eight months from history.” To page A-3 the time Gross was diagnosed at Committee member Margaret
Luncheon offers fashion with a purpose By Wendy Smith
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