VOL. 7 NO. 30
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Back-to-school Check out the Shopper’s annual back-to-school feature with ads from area merchants and a complete school calendar for 2013-14.
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‘Educator at sea’ Noelle Turner says she “lucked into” teaching marine ecology at Bearden High School. And she “lucked into” two summer stints working on the E/V Nautilus, a ship of exploration that took her to the Mediterranean Sea in 2012 and the Gulf of Mexico in 2013. But at some point, luck had to be superseded by Turner’s personal qualities – her passion for educating and her drive to learn. And her students are the lucky beneficiaries of her adventures.
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HVA grad attends science camp Hardin Valley Academy’s class of 2013 graduate Palmer Gleason was one of 121 high school grads from around the world to attend National Youth Science Camp held in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. Learn about her experiences includinhg the opportunity to explore music, art and the outdoors.
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Proton power
Provision packs a punch medically, economically
By Sherri Gardner Howell Dr. Marcio Fagundes, a boardcertified radiation oncologist, believes in the power of proton therapy and is sharing both his knowledge and his passion with the Knoxville community. Fagundes, medical director of the Provision Center for Proton Therapy and a physician with Provision Medical Group, spoke to a packed room on July 23 as the keynote speaker for the Farragut West Knox Chamber Speaker’s Breakfast. He explained the benefits of proton therapy over conventional radiation therapy and outlined how the Provision Center for Proton Therapy will work when it opens in 2014. Setting the stage for Fagundes’ presentation was Terry Douglass, CEO of ProNova Solutions and chair of the Provision Center for Proton Therapy. Douglass, who was president and CEO of CTI Molecular Imaging from its formation until it was bought by Siemens in 2005, put it very simply in his introduction of Fagundes: “Protons change everything,” Douglass said. Fagundes said the use of proton therapy is a game-changer both for what it does and what it does not do. “In proton therapy, the radiation is so controllable, so precise,” said Fagundes. “Protons are physically superior because they can be concentrated to one area and controlled. Proton therapy uses a single beam of high-energy protons aimed at the tumor or cancer cells. It delivers the radiation with accuracy with very little involve-
Dr. Marcio Fagundes and his wife, Luciana Valentini, enjoy breakfast at Fox Den Country Club before the doctor’s presentation to the Farragut West Knox Chamber. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell
ment of healthy tissue surrounding the cancer.” Fagundes became interested in proton therapy during his internship and residency at the University of Miami hospital, where he had the opportunity to guest intern at Harvard University. When he finished his residency, he was accepted at Harvard Medical School for a fellowship. It was then, in 1993,
Les Fouts with Pellissippi State Community College and Merri Lou Minor with Business Machines Company catch up before the chamber breakfast. See more photos in Farragut Faces on A-3
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Bulb sale this week Knoxville Green’s Holland bulb and bare-root fruit plant sale and giveaway will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3-4, at Windsor Square, Suite 290, at Kingston Pike and N. Seven Oaks Drive, west of Cedar Bluff Road and adjacent to Bailey’s Sports Grille. Each person, including children, will be given free bulbs. Varieties of bulbs and fruit plants such as raspberry will be available for purchase. Proceeds will be used to plant additional daffodils along Pellissippi Parkway and for beautification projects of Knoxville Green, founded by the late Maria Compere. Compere oversaw the planting of two million daffodils on the Pellissippi Parkway, including 60,000 planted in 2012 near the Dutchtown Road and Northshore Drive exits.
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Knoxville to Newtown By W By Wendy end en dy Smith dy Smi mith ith h After the bad news that the cost of insuring Knox County’s new trustee will triple, Knox County commissioners were treated to some good news, and a moving performance, from the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble. The company, made up of dancers ages 10 to 17, performed at last week’s chair’s lunch. TCDE is an official Tennessee Ambassador of Goodwill. This summer, as part of its mission of “children helping children,” 22 dancers performed for residents of Newtown, Conn., where 26 people were killed in a school shoot-
ing on Dec. 14. “As soon as it happened, we knew we needed to go there,” says company member Lexi Rebmann, a rising freshman at Bearden High School. Reaching out to a community that was overwhelmed by grief, and the media, wasn’t easy. But through the nonprofit Healing Newtown, which provides healing through the arts, the Knoxville dance company was able to offer a performance six months after the tragedy. The concert was held at Newtown High School, the site of Barack Morgan Brown takes center stage as the Tennessee Children’s Dance EnsemTo page A-3 ble performs for the Knox County Commission. Photo by Wendy Smith
Parkside high rise delayed By Sandra Clark Development is cranking up on the West Side, ready or not. In a July meeting dominated by discussion of Tennova’s request to rezone land on Middlebrook Pike for a hospital, three items of interest to West Knox homeowners landed on the agenda of the Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission. Choto Partners: Arthur Seymour Jr. secured a 90-day postponement on a proposed high rise condo or apartment development
on Parkside Drive, despite what he called “vociferous opposition” from MPC staff and an array of nearby residents. Seymour represents the developer, Choto Partners, which wants to build up to 35 dwelling units per acre on a 2.5-acre tract that adjoins the Boxwood Hills subdivision. He argued that the area has changed dramatically since Boxwood was built in the mid-1960s. “It’s time for the planning commission to look at higher density residential outside of the core of
the city,” Seymour said. “You have every retail and commercial service that anyone could imagine available nearby.” Opponents argued traffic problems (the land lacks direct access to Parkside Drive) and surface water runoff. The owners have been cited by the city of Knoxville for violations resulting from their clear-cutting on the banks of a stream on the property. Seymour said even high density residential is preferable than commercial development on the land which now holds just one home. MPC was not swayed, but approved Seymour’s request for a 90-day delay.
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