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Almost mayor now faces Mark Padgett on Nov. 8 See the take from Victor Ashe and Betty Bean See page A-4

Edna at 95

By Sandra Clark Clayton Park in Halls and its connecting greenways are in line for $866,602 in state, federal and local funds, but don’t expect instant results. It could take up to three years to see completion of two grant projects.

Carl Tindell, who led fundraising efforts to purchase the 11-acre park on Norris Freeway across from the old Walmart, is chairing a new group appointed by Mayor Tim Burchett.

Friends of Clayton Park met Sept. 22 at Tindell’s conference room.

Knox County Parks and Greenway coordinator Rebekah Jane Justice outlined two separate grants, funded through the state departments of Transportation (TDOT) and Environment and Conservation (TDEC).

TDOT Transportation Enhancement grant: There is a three-year timeline on this $626,602 greenway grant, which former state Sen. Jamie Woodson helped secure. The project will con-

She’s seen change in Raccoon Valley See Sandra Clark on page A-3

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Vols at the crossroads A win over Georgia gives UT’s football team a chance for a successful season, but victory over the Bulldogs is hardly a given.

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TDOT bus tour highlights future road work

By Greg Householder A warning for the good folks in Gibbs who use Harbison’s Crossroad regularly – prepare for construction headaches.

But when it’s over, the headaches should be worth it.

State Reps. Harry Brooks and Bill Dunn joined other officials and Tennessee Department of Transportation staff on a TDOT project bus tour to visit future Knox County construction projects.

Thursday’s tour included four Knox County projects.

Perhaps the most disruptive will be the Harbison’s

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Crossroad project – described as the State Route 331, Tazewell Pike, Intersection at SR-131 (Emory Road). The project will improve sight distances at the intersection which involves a straight, level approach along Tazewell Pike but a rollercoaster-like ride on the Emory Road sides.

These will be leveled out and both roads will be widened to provide turn lanes and bicycle lanes. The project will install a traffic signal. It will also add a rear entrance from Emory Road for Walgreens.

This project is unique according to Brooks, who said the county has put up about $400,000. Remaining funding will come from the state and federal governments.

The project is currently in

and discussed was the Phase II improvements to the I-640 interchange at North Broadway. This phase will add another on-ramp lane from southbound Broadway to I-640 and improve line of sight at the interchange.

The I-640 project is in the environmental phase and has $2.1 million budgeted for right-of-way acquisition.

The estimated $8.5 million construction cost has not been budgeted. The projState Reps. Bill Dunn and Harry Brooks discuss road projects ect is estimated to begin in with Paul Degges, TDOT chief engineer, and TDOT Commis2015. sioner John Schroer during last week’s TDOT bus tour. Photo by Though not technically Greg Householder scheduled, the tour visited the right-of-way acquisition SR-61 in Maynardville. the section of Emory Road phase and is scheduled to be The purpose is to widen in Powell from Gill Road let in December 2012.

SR-33 to address increased to Clinton Highway that is Another project the tour traffic demand. The project still two lanes. This project visited and discussed is the will also improve various is scheduled to begin early improvements on SR-33 side road intersections to next year and will provide from Temple Acres Drive in the highway. It is scheduled an overpass over the railHalls to the Union County to be let in February of 2012 road tracks and bypass line. This is part of larger with construction to begin Powell proper and link up with Clinton Highway at the project that involves SR-33 soon thereafter.

The third project visited Walgreens. from Temple Acres Drive to

Clerk satellite office move planned

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By Larry Van Guilder You can’t quite throw a rock from the current location of the East Knoxville county clerk satellite office to its planned new location on South Mall Road, but you could get close. County Clerk Foster Arnett hopes to make the move into the former home of Markman’s Fine Diamonds and Jewelry by next January.

The struggling Knoxville Center mall will lose another tenant, but Knox County will save nearly a quarter of a million dollars over eight years, according to Arnett.

A $156,000 reduction in rent comprises the bulk of the savings. Adding annual

The county clerk’s satellite office at Knoxville Center will be moving as early as next January to the former Markman’s location. Photo by L. Van Guilder fees of $7,427 for an HVAC maintenance agreement and $3,477 for trash removal that will no longer be required brings the total to a little more than $243,000.

Arnett anticipates a reduction in utility costs, as well. Large windows provide a great deal of ambient light, and the planned 3,573 square

foot office space is about onethird smaller than what is now occupied at the mall.

The nine-year-old building remains in excellent condition. Arnett has engaged Anthony Fuller, the original architect for the Markman’s store, to draw plans for some modest modifications.

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Justice has just mailed back the contract to TDOT and the next step is to produce an environmental document for clearance from the state to proceed to the final design and construction phases of the project.

TDEC Recreational Trails grant: This $240,000 grant will be used to build the entrance driveway into Clayton Park, a restroom and a loop greenway inside the park. Knox County can use in-kind match, labor, materials and land value to fulfill the 50/50 match requirements of this grant. Justice said Knox County Engineering and Public Works will Friends of Clayton Park committee members discuss a connector greenway. start depositing fill dirt in the area Members are (clockwise) Darren Cardwell, Travis Edmondson, Carl Tindell and where the driveway is to be built.

R. Larry Smith. Photos by S. Clark Cleanup: County Commissionnect the Halls branch library, Halls The grant is an 80/20 match. Knox er R. Larry Smith, who has worked Community Park and the shopping County must fund $125,320 as a cash with Chris Etters from Claiborne area around Food City to Clayton match (The match cannot be in the Hauling Co. to clear out underbrush Park and Halls Elementary School. form of labor or land). Director Doug at the park, said he’s obtained a The greenway will extend under Bataille made it a priority and Mayor burn permit to eliminate the debris.

Maynardville Highway along Bea- Burchett signed off on it to approve Friends of Clayton Park will meet again in November. ver Creek. the funds to match the grant.

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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY SHOPPER-NEWS • OCTOBER 3, 2011 • A-3

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‘Get him a cape!’

Jake and Jennifer are hitched

By Sandra Clark and Ruth White Jake Mabe and Jennifer VanOver were married Sept. 24 at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris.

They couldn’t have asked for more perfect weather for a wedding celebration of a couple perfect for one another. As the day lingered on, the grounds of the Museum were transformed into the setting for a ceremony that can be described as “simply sweet.”

The bride’s close friend Lori Ogden decorated the grounds and reception area with fall colored flowers in mason jars that hung from shepherd’s hooks, burlap wrapped containers and colorful fruit. Handmade wooden signs guided guests to the bride’s or groom’s side and programs made by the bride and her family

are destined to become precious keepsakes.

VanOver arrived at the ceremony in a royal blue Bronco and was escorted down the aisle by her uncle and brother. She was greeted by another brother who joined in presenting her to her groom. Jake was waiting for her surrounded by his best friends who were proud to be sharing this special moment with both of them.

Following the ceremony, family and friends gathered in the reception hall for a delicious buffet, a piece of Jake’s red velvet groom’s cake (decorated with the Boston Red Sox logo) and to toast two very special people as they begin their life as one.

The Shopper gang was there, along with Jake’s extended family and a half a churchful of friends of the bride.

Dean Harned gave the best man’s toast, extolling

■ North Knoxville Rotary Club will host its annual golf tournament to benefit the Cerebral Palsy Housing Corporation on Friday, Oct. 14, at Three Ridges Golf Course. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. Info: David Dooley, 766-3047.

■ Halls Women’s League will hold the 2011 Gala and Fantasy Casino at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at The Foundry. Silent auction begins at 6, dinner will be served at 7 and the live auction and casino will follow. Cost is $75. Tickets/info: 922-9637.

■ A Night at the Park will be hosted by Fountain City Town Hall from 5-8 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 27. Hot dogs and more will be served for $5. Everyone is invited. Info: Tyler Pavlis, 405-1567 or email tpav04@hotmail.com.

Jake Mabe and Jennifer VanOver inside the old church on the grounds at the Museum of Appalachia. Photo by Ruth White Jake’s great qualities and ending with the line: “Jake is a great American!”

Sitting nearby, Zac Carey mumbled, “Get him a cape!”

Guess Zac was looking for the Great American hero.

Jake’s dance with Jennifer was sweet, but the tear-jerker moment came when he

escorted his mom, Gail McConkey, onto the dance floor while the Oak Ridge Boys’ 1983 hit “Ozark Mountain Jubilee” played. It was a recording that Jake made with Halls guy Rick Campbell for Mother’s Day 2007. And it was their favorite song.

Gail recalled how she

would pick Jake up and dance around with him to that song when he was just 4 and 5.

Keep up with Jake and Jennifer in Hawaii on Jake’s Facebook page. He tweeted: “I’m going to kick it up a notch when we get to Honolulu – Pearl Harbor, Punchbowl, Iolani Palace, etc.”

■ Elmcroft Assisted Living, 7521 Andersonville Pike, will host a farmers market for the community 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Thursday. Honey, eggs, homemade soap, jewelry and more will be for sale. All farmers and crafters are encouraged to participate.

■ Fountain City Business and Professional Association meets at noon each second Wednesday at Central Baptist Church, Fountain City. Lunch is $10. Info: Beth Wade, 9711971, ext. 372, or bwade@ utfcu.org/

The early days in Raccoon Valley

By Sandra Clark Edna Lee Weaver Smith has worked hard all of her life. She raised five kids, farmed, did factory work and most of all she survived in often primitive conditions. Most of us hardly know how life was in these valleys just 100 short years ago.

When Edna, 95, was a kid, Raccoon Valley Road was a muddy, rutted wagon road to Heiskell and typhoid fever swept through the community. There was no medicine for it. Antibiotics hadn’t come along.

“Daddy took care of us.

He said it was in the water.

We just stayed in bed and he gave us Castor oil.” Edna and her brother, Barnabus “Barney,” survived.

Edna’s mind is sharp and so is her tongue. A visit with her is a treat, especially when she serves up apple dumplin’s.

She remembers carrying water from a nearby spring. The whole family drank from one dipper. She started school in 1921 or ’22 in a one-room school named Fairview within walking distance of her home.

Teachers had to board with families in the community.

She remembers one teacher

Edna Lee Weaver Smith who married her student, the son of the family where she boarded. School hours were 7:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. with recess at 9 and 2.

“We went from September to March, and then they put us in the fields to work,” she says.

The late Racy Brady was her first cousin (his mother and Edna’s dad were siblings), and they often walked to school together.

It was only when cars, then school buses, came in the 1930s that the Raccoon Valley kids were able to attend Green Hill Elementary (now Copper Ridge).

Edna would have gone on to high school but the county didn’t run a bus and it was

too far to walk to Halls.

Edna learned to recognize the “run of their car,” so she could tell who was coming down the road simply by sound.

Men in the community “paid their taxes” by giving one day a month to working the roads, she said. “We didn’t have road graders.

They would hitch up a team and level out the road.”

Her dad, Ulysses Weaver, operated a portable saw mill and threshing machine.

“He would leave out early in June and come back in August. He’d be so greasy and nasty that we couldn’t touch him.”

Edna married Clyde Smith (their mothers were friends) and they had five children during 61 years of marriage: Don, Betty Rae, Shirley, Pauline and Vaughan. The kids went to Green Hill for eight years and on to Halls High School.

They still live in the community, except for Pauline “Polly” who married and moved to Florida.

As a kid, Edna once set fire to Santa’s whiskers because she “wanted to know who he was.” As an adult, she chased baby skunks out from under her house and killed a “polecat” near the

garage door.

She walked barefoot to school in spring and fall, and she frequently skated on a frozen pond. Once she detoured for a quick skate on her way to school. The ice broke. She fell in, climbed out and had to dry off in front of a pot-bellied stove.

Hard to do when you’re wearing “two or three pairs of long underwear.”

Edna remembers the Brock family riding horses to school. She remembers riding a school bus driven

by Luther Lewis, and later by his son, Trent. The late Barbara Carden, who taught at various area schools, was Luther’s daughter. “She was too little to go to school, but Luther would take her with him on the bus.”

Edna joined the 4-H Club, which featured (for girls) cooking. She learned cooking techniques from Florence Lewis and Myrtle Clark (this writer’s grandmother).

Seems Myrtle came to Green Hill one day, where her husband, E.O., was teacher/principal, and took the girls over to her house and taught them to cook biscuits. Attendance policies were a bit lax in the good ol’ days.

Knoxville square dance The Jubilee Community Arts will present traditional Appalachian dance with Allison Williams at 7:30 p.m. each second Thursday at the Laurel Theater. Tickets are $7 ($5 for students and JCA members). Info: 5237521.

Paula Poundstone in concert Comedian Paula Poundstone will perform 8 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 7, at the Bijou Theatre. Proceeds will Aunt Lizzie Irick, her father’s benefit Friends of the Knox great aunt, owned many acres County Public Library. on Raccoon Valley Road. She Tickets are $30. Poundnever had kids and gave land stone will hold a book to Edna for her home and signing after the show. Info: farm. This portrait hangs in www.knoxbijou.com or call Edna’s living room.

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Election night notebook – Rogero headquarters Jill Powell and Joanne Hall arrive early to stake out a good table at Madeline Rogero’s election night get together at The Foundry. They say this night is déjà vu, only better.

Betty Bean Powell: “I was here eight years ago (when Rogero lost a close race to Bill Haslam).

It feels a lot better this time around.”

Hall: “I have been excited all day.”

At 8:10, early returns light up Powell’s smartphone.

Editor’s note: “Barney” is not this man’s real name, but he Rogero’s 53 percent majority asked that we use a pseudonym “to keep me out of trouble – she’d need 50 percent plus one to take the election in the on the unemployment line.”

I been a Republican all my life. My pappy said FDR was primary – gets Powell and Hall (and the rest of the big, durn near the ruin of this country, and I always listened crowded room) even more to pappy, even after he begun drawin’ that Social Security excited. The band cranks up. that Roosevelt put in.

Dancing ensues.

Anyway, last week I went down to vote me for a new state Powell and Hall both senator. I don’t take the newspaper no more nor listen to praise Rogero’s ability to work them liberal medias like NBC and CBS. (I reckon ya’ll know across party lines with people CBS stands for the Communist Broadcasting System?) So, I from diverse backgrounds. figured I’d jest ask around down at the school house where They say they like her plans I was to cast my ballot so’s I could figure out who was best for economic growth and “greening” the city. for the job.

And the fact that she would It were kind of a shock to see they was all women a-runnin’ for the office. Now, I never did have no truck with be the first woman mayor?

“Delightful,” Powell says. them womens libbers, but I ain’t what you’d call prejudiced “It’s high time,” Hall adds. against ’em. If it weren’t for a woman, bless Ma’s soul, I “It speaks to how Knoxville wouldn’t be a-standin’ here!

Barney’s election day story

They was folks holdin’ signs ever which way I turned at the school house, so I jest walked up to the first one I seed and asked what his candidate stood for. Well, this young feller says she’s pro-life.

I studied that a minute, then I says, “Well, now I ain’t agin livin’ myself, so that ain’t no great shucks.”

Then this feller says he means his candidate is agin abortions.

I reckon he got mad when I said I sure weren’t about to have no abortion, but if I was to I’d sell my story to that National Enquirer and me and the missus would retire.

Anyway, after I got to checking around, wouldn’t you know that all them Republican candidates was sayin’ how they was agin abortion, so I couldn’t see no difference in ’em.

I picked me a young gal who was handin’ out some papers and asked about her candidate. I told her right up front don’t tell me about abortion ’cause you can see I ain’t built right for one.

So she says her woman is agin government regulation.

Fact, said if a new regulation gets passed they ought to be two took off the books.

I studied that-un for a spell, then I ask her what regulations she was talkin’ about. She couldn’t give me no exact regulation, jest says they’s too many of ’em, and we got to cut the govmint down to size.

Pappy’s Social Security comes from the govmint, I says.

Fact is, right now, about the only thing I got comin’ in since I got laid off is my unemployment and I reckon it come from the govmint.

Anyway, this gal says it’s them govmint regulations that’s keeping me from finding a job. All I know is nobody yet has said they couldn’t hire me ’cause of regulations.

They was one more woman handing out stuff for her candidate, but when she told me they wanted to impeach the president I jest walked off. I ain’t a college graduate, but even I know that’s somethin’ only them Washington politicians can do.

I voted for Gloria Johnson. Don’t tell pappy.

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has grown as a community.”

At that moment, Jerry Rivers and his wife, Dr. Denise Rivers, come by with their daughter Katy June, 8.

Denise Rivers, who is a transplant nephrologist, can’t contain her enthusiasm.

“Madeline? I think she’s fabulous. She’s a wonderful, genuine individual. Everyone else rode her coattails on my ballot. She’s passionate not about the office, but about the job – and she’s a woman.

That’s why we brought Katy.

We take her to vote every time, and tonight she was saying ‘She’s really going to be here?’ ” Meanwhile, Rogero family and close friends are gathering in the back room. Word filters back through doublesecret back channels that the race has gotten incredibly tight.

Frustration grows. Droids and iPhones are getting error messages from the Election Commission’s website. Vote totals stall. With 85 percent of the precincts reporting, Rogero’s down to a skinny 50.2 percent.

Grumbling ensues. Democrats mutter that such things didn’t happen on former election administrator Greg Mackay’s watch.

When returns finally started trickling in again, Rogero falls below 50 percent. Word from the back room has her at

Madeline Rogero 49.91 percent. Further word is that there are 29 (potentially flawed) provisional ballots left to be counted, making it statistically impossible for her to meet the magic number.

Chad Tindell eases the tension by cracking some hanging chad jokes. The band keeps playing. The mood grows somber. The doors to the back room stay closed.

Sweet-faced elderly women start discussing kicking Joe Hultquist’s nether parts and giggle when word goes out that his vote total is hung at 666.

Coincidence?

Rogero emerges arm-inarm with her very nonpolitical husband Gene Monaco, surrounded by her huge extended family. She’s says she’s ready for six more weeks of campaigning. The next morning, she and opponent Mark Padgett started going at each other on radio and TV. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

NOTES ■ Knox County Law Director Joe Jarret was invited to present his paper “Local Government Crisis Communications” during the 2012 Southeastern Conference of Public Administration in New Orleans. The conference was attended by public administration academicians, practitioners and students from around the southeastern United States.

■ Knox County Republicans will gather for a $5 light buffet dinner of Petro’s at Kitts Café, 4620 Greenway Drive, 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6. Sponsored by the 7th and 8th District Republican clubs, all are welcomed. Info: 689-4671.

School board this week Knox County school board will meet at 5 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the main assembly room of the City County Building. Agenda items include approval for the design of the new Carter Elementary School.

Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre is recommending approval.

The board’s workshop is at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in the boardroom of the Andrew Johnson Building, 912 S. Gay St. Both meetings will be broadcast live on Comcast Cable Channel 10, AT&T U-verse Channel 99 and streamed live at www. knoxschools.org/.

Mayoral runoff unpredictable Madeline Rogero came agonizingly close to winning the mayor’s office outright last Tuesday – just 16 votes short. Eight years ago she stunned Knoxville with a close race against Bill Haslam. She has been running for mayor ever since.

Building on that record and on Haslam hiring her as the city’s community development director, she almost made it. With only 16 more votes needed, her shortfall could be credited to several factors. Joe Hultquist received just 700 votes, but surely more than 16 of those votes came directly off Rogero’s total, since both are residents of South Knoxville.

Voter turnout was embarrassingly low with 12,000 fewer voters in 2011 than in the Haslam-Rogero contest of 2003. The election was greeted with a yawn by most voters.

What happens now in the Rogero-Padgett race for mayor?

First, another 5,000 to 6,000 residents will vote Nov. 8, upping the total to

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21,000 to 22,000. Second, each candidate will raise another $100,000 or more and there will be countless more joint appearances, but this time limited to only the two candidates. Each will recalibrate their campaign strategy. While one may think Rogero needs only 16 more votes, she will actually need several thousand more as voter turnout will increase by 30 percent.

On the other hand, because of the increased turnout Padgett will need to almost triple his vote to overtake Rogero.

Both candidates are contacting the three who did not make the runoff – Ivan Harmon, Bo Bennett and Hultquist – to secure their backing. Smart money will be on Rogero winning, but a Padgett win, while not prob-

able, is not impossible.

Here are some imponderables which will impact the final outcome. Will Harmon encourage his supporters to back Rogero or Padgett or will he remain neutral? Will Harmon’s active supporters follow his lead? Will financial backers of Padgett, who gave him $400,000, continue to bankroll his runoff effort? Padgett spent almost $100 per vote, which sets some sort of record for the city. Will the prominent Republican backers of Padgett continue to back him openly?

Will Padgett sharpen the issues with Rogero and spell out and challenge her on precisely where they differ? Will Rogero run simply on experience or will she sharpen and broaden the issues now that it is down to two candidates? Both are Democrats, but they come from different wings of the local Democratic Party.

They have already shadow boxed, but now it is for real and a four-year term as mayor is the prize.

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I was in the last one with Randy Tyree. I had 42 percent in the primary and Tyree polled 23 percent.

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The runoff before 1987 was 12 years earlier in 1975 when Kyle Testerman fell 150 votes short of winning outright and Tyree was only a few votes behind Testerman. The runoff then was only two weeks off (not six weeks) and Tyree defeated Testerman in Knoxville’s closest mayoral contest with another 5,000 increase in voters.

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Naturally nice Becky Massey says there might have been a bigger turnout in the Republican primary for state senator if the candidates had drawn contrasts more sharply, if they had been meaner. But that didn’t happen because “we’re just naturally nice women.”

Massey’s campaign peaked at the right time as she ran away with election day voting to win the GOP nomination with 49.35 percent of the vote in a threeway contest. Her major challenger was City Council member Marilyn Roddy, who polled 38.9 percent.

Victoria DeFreese barely registered.

“The race stayed on the

20 odd years. That’s where their kids went to public school. That’s where she said all along she would run Sandra well.

Clark But Massey showed strength in all quadrants of the sprawling 6th senatorial district. She carried the issues and everyone was city wards and the county respectful,” Massey said. precincts. She carried Halls “We all worked hard. I ap- and Fountain City. She plaud them for running. won in East Knox County and South of the River. She It’s not easy.”

Massey was jubilant on came within 44 votes of takelection night, greeting ing Roddy’s home precinct, family and friends at her Sequoyah Hills.

Massey says she visheadquarters. She handily carried her home precinct ited 1,500 homes and her of Deane Hill and the neigh- volunteers visited 2,000 boring Rocky Hill. That’s during the primary. “One where she and husband of the fun things was makMorton coached softball for ing really neat new friends

Guess who came to deadline?

Shopper-News publisher Sandra Clark said during her newspaper career she had always gone to the source for her stories. Last Friday, the source came to her when Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre and Director of Public Affairs Melissa Copelan stopped at our Halls office.

Yes, it was deadline af- Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre “tutors” Sandra Clark and ternoon, but the chance for Larry Van Guilder on the state of education in Knox County. some face time with the su- Photo by Ruth White perintendent was too good to postpone until a more other parent who says mold analytical skills in preparing sedate day. may be the cause of her next year’s budget. Missing McIntyre spent some in action even before the first daughter’s health issues. time giving us his perspecbudget meeting, planned for McIntyre ticked off the tive on where Knox County mid-October, is $7 million in measures taken to detect schools are and where they one-time federal funds that need to go. Academic stan- and remove the mold, inbolstered the current budget. cluding bringing in the Knox dards are rising he said, and Passage of President County Health Department. the school system has set Obama’s proposed jobs bill “We feel like we’ve taken it ambitious goals. could inject cash into school very seriously and met it We wanted to hear more systems across the country, about a matter that has head on.”

The superintendent “likes but McIntyre isn’t pinning parents at Shannondale Elementary concerned: mold. to use data” to back up his his hopes on politicians.

– L. Van Guilder We recently heard from an- decisions. He’ll need all his

Becky Massey with her husband, Morton, and their daughter Courtney Kohlhepp at the headquarters victory celebration. Photo by D. Smith

and reconnecting with old friends, folks I hadn’t seen in awhile.”

Both Roddy and DeFreese have pledged their support to Massey for the Nov. 8 general election, when she will face Democrat Gloria Johnson.

Massey says her core issues, jobs and fiscal management, are nonpartisan. She won’t be working on what she calls “fringe issues,” but on broad policy items and constituent service.

She will go to Nashville with friends. On election

night, she quickly received calls from Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and several Senate Republicans. Former Sen. Jamie Woodson texted congratulations.

People won’t have to dig to find her message, she says. “My message is how I live my life.”

Becky and Morton have been married for 35 years.

Morton is exploring his new role as a senatorial spouse.

“We had lunch with Victor and Joan Ashe,” he said. “I asked Joan how she decided which events to attend.”

Hey, Morton. There are events every night!

The Massey for Senate headquarters is located at 5710 Kingston Pike across from Bearden Elementary School. Info: 357-7956 or www.BeckyMassey.com.

Note: Congratulations to the candidates who will advance to the Nov. 8 city general election: Madeline Rogero and Mark Padgett; Mark Campen; George Wallace and John Stancil; Finbarr Saunders and Sharon Welch; and Marshall Stair and Bill Owen.

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Passion flower

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NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier

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he official first day of autumn was Friday, Sept. 23. The length of the day and night were equal, but after that, the days keep getting shorter, on into the gloom of winter.

But for now, we have October!

Fall colors began a couple of weeks ago in New England, and in the higher elevations of our Smokies. We saw a couple of single, spectacular red maples up there at about 5,000 feet elevation on Sept. 16.

And our dogwoods and sumacs are in full fall color now.

As I was thinking about fall colors for this October column, I remembered a drive we took up over the Cumberland Plateau to Nashville, about this time of year about two years ago. It happens that the scenery along the interstate highways amounts to a long, nearly endless clearing or forest edge for hundreds of miles, easily seen from cars, and featuring a lot of typical woodland-edge stuff.

One of these features is vines.

Vines like forest clearings and edges. They have figured out that

the best way to make a living, rather than spending all their energy growing a big strong stem like a tree trunk, is to use their resources to get up to the life-giving sunlight the fastest way they can – by growing spindly stems rapidly toward the treetops, using the trees for support. The vines take advantage of all the sunlight that falls on them at the forest edges, growing up into the tops of the trees and covering the bare trunks with another whole set of foliage.

On one spring drive down I-59 through Mississippi, I remember admiring the trees all along the highway covered to their tops with the sunny flowers of the yellow jasmine vines. It certainly helped ease the boredom of driving that last two or three hours through southern Mississippi on the way to the Gulf Coast.

But that fall drive over the Plateau was of a different color scheme.

Most of the tree leaves had fallen, and yet there were still a lot of reds and purples – on the tree trunks.

Red Virgina creeper with berries

The vines were shining through with their fall colors, keeping fall going in spite of most of the tree leaves having ended their season. A closer look revealed that they were mostly the bright reds of the Virginia creeper vines, with a boost from that other good local vine, the poison ivy.

Incidentally, both of those vines produce a crop of berries that are an important source of fall food for the birds, migrants and locals alike. In fact, a flight of fall warblers, including magnolias, chestnut-sideds, Tennessees and redstarts, as well as scarlet tanagers, a wood-peewee and a downy woodpecker, are feasting on the Virginia creeper berries in a tree outside my back porch as I write these words.

Maybe vines aren’t the first thing that pops into your mind when you’re thinking of wildflowers, but consider this: the official wildflower of the state of Tennessee is a vine! The passionflower, or maypop as some call it, is a vine if there ever was one, using its tendrils to climb whatever support it can get to find full sunlight and producing that amazing, complex purple-and-white blossom. And then there are the morning glories, and what about wisteria?

We have some vines that are bad actors, mostly alien invaders.

Take the notorious kudzu, for example. Or Japanese honeysuckle, although we have some nice, attractive native honeysuckles, too, that are better-behaved. Oriental bittersweet, winter creeper and English ivy are all problem plants that can get out of hand.

But a bunch of our native wildflower vines are dandies. Two of

them are big favorites of the hummingbirds: trumpet creeper and its similar but less common cousin, the cross vine. They both have big, showy trumpetshaped flowers and are a good addition to any landscape where you are Trumpet creeper Photos by Dr. Bob Collier interested in attracting hummers.

There are several versions of Pipevines have another remarkwild clematis, and you will see it out able relationship with insects. in the forest edges, growing over They are the food plant for the catshrubs and low trees, and covered erpillars of the pipevine swallowwith showy white flowers, and later, tail butterfly, a locally common, with peculiar wispy seeds. There lovely black butterfly with shimare lots of fancy garden varieties mering blue on the hindwings. of clematis, too. Folks like to grow The caterpillars ingest toxins them over their mailboxes. from the pipevine plant that make Dutchman’s pipe, or pipevine, is them, as butterflies, distasteful to one of our most unusual wildflower predators, just as monarchs do with vines. It grows mostly in the Appala- milkweeds. It works so well for the chians, from Pennsylvania to north pipevine butterflies that six other Georgia, in forests and forest edges. species of butterflies have adapted It can produce large vines, growing themselves to mimic the black and 60 feet or more up into the trees, blue coloration of the pipevines, and has big, heart-shaped leaves, and lessen their chances of being producing a jungle-like scene where eaten, too. it grows. Its flowers are an inch and Think of the pleasures that vines a half or so long and curved up like have put into our lives. Pumpkins an old-fashioned smoking pipe with and cucumbers grow on vines. And a small opening at the end. what would life be without pole The pipevine flowers attract beans? But, ah, vines with flowers small insects with the yummy – an arbor of sweet-smelling wistescent of rotting meat. Once inside, ria, a tree-trunk full of red Virginia they are trapped for a day or so to creeper leaves, morning glories, ensure that they are well-coated maypops. Vines add a little somewith pollen and then released, to thing extra to our lives that, left to fly off to another pipevine flower our own devices, we may never even with their load of fertilizing pollen. have thought of.

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sound advice in various quotes attributed to him.

Here are two of my favorites: “Preach the Gospel at all Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those The suffering he saw during times, and when necessary, who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to the war and his subsequent use words.” the faith of Jesus.

(Revelation 14:12 NRSV) imprisonment caused him “If God can work through to consider the meaning and me, he can work through Joseph Martin, noted Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; purpose of his life. composer and pianist, anyone.” where there is hatred, let me sow love; brings his In 1205, he saw a vision of St. Francis finished his where there is injury, pardon; talents to Jesus, an experience which prayer (partially quoted where there is doubt, faith; the sanctuchanged Francis’ life forev- above) this way: where there is despair, hope; ary of First er. He disowned his father, where there is darkness, light; Baptist rejected his inheritance, O Divine Master, and where there is sadness, joy. grant that I may not so Church of and began serving the poor (St. Francis of Assisi, Italy, 13th century) much seek Knoxville at and rebuilding churches. to be consoled as to con7 p.m. SunHe is perhaps best known sole; day, Oct. 9, Tomorrow (Oct. 4) is the among Protestants as the to be understood, as to feast day of St. Francis of author of a prayer (partially Joseph Martin as part of understand; the church’s Assisi, and though much of quoted above) and the hymn Cross to be loved, as to love; annual Concert Series.

Currents Christendom does not cel“Canticle of the Sun,” which for it is in giving that we Martin has performed solo ebrate the lives or feast days appears in our hymnals as Lynn receive, piano recitals and has been of saints, here is one we “All Creatures of Our God Hutton it is in pardoning that we the featured artist with should all notice. and King.” are pardoned, symphony orchestras in the Francis was born about He is known also as and it is in dying that we United States and Mexico.

1181, in Assisi, to a prospersomeone who truly loved are born to eternal life.

As a winner of the Nina ous textile merchant. He and cared for “all creagrew up with privilege and a church overlooking the tures.” He famously fed the The truth and simplicity Plant Wideman competitook an active role in the vast valley floor below. It is animals, and statues of the of his words are in perfect commercial, political and breathtaking, even today. gentle saint surrounded by harmony with the truth and He fought in a war be- small animals are frequent- simplicity of his life. We give social life of his home town – a small town perched high tween Assisi and Perugia, ly placed in gardens. thanks for this blessed, lovon a hillside, with wind- was captured and imprisIn addition to his poetry, ing soul, this instrument of ing medieval streets, and oned for almost two years. the gentle saint left us some God’s peace.

John L. Shepherd will

An instrument of God’s peace

Martin to perform tion, he performed with the Guadalajara Symphony Orchestra, a solo recital in Exconvento del Carmen that was broadcast nationally.

Though Martin continues to perform in concert, he focuses much of his efforts to playing in churches and for conferences of church musicians.

Martin’s first solo piano recording, “American Tapestry,” was nominated for a Dove Award.

First Baptist Church of Knoxville is located on Main Street, next to the City County Building. Info: www.fbcknox.org or 5469661.

Shepherd to speak at KFL

REUNIONS ■ USS Albany Association will hold its 22nd annual reunion Sunday through Friday, Oct. 9-14, at the Glenstone Lodge in Gatlinburg. The association is currently looking for shipmates who served on one of the USS Albany ships (CA123, CG10, SSN753). Info: Dick Desrochers, 603-594-9798, or www.ussalbany.org.

■ The Shoffner family will have a reunion starting at 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at the Sharps Chapel Community Center beside Sharps Chapel School. Everyone is invited.

Bring a covered dish. Lunch served at 12:30 p.m.

CONDOLENCES ■ Stevens Mortuary (524-0331): Jack E. Adams June Spear Rutherford Evelyn L. Walker ■ Mynatt Funeral Homes Inc. (922-9195 or 688-2331): Darlene V. Anderson Irene M. Burleson Juanita E. Daniel

the Second Harvest Food Distribution 8-10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8. Everyone is invited to stop by to receive free food including canned goods and perishables. The church also has a food pantry open 1-2 p.m. each Monday. Info: 690-0160.

■ Dante Church of God will distribute Boxes of Blessings (food) 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 8, or until the boxes are gone. One box per household and you must be present to receive a box. Info: 689-4829.

■ Faith UMC on Dry Gap Pike will host a coupon workshop 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, with blogger Gabrielle Blake of “Couponing in Critical Times” as the speaker. A $5 donation for the church will be accepted at the door. Everyone is invited. Info: 688-1000 or visit www.faithseekers.org.

■ Powell Presbyterian Church, 2910 W. Emory Road, will host a Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantry 8 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 8, for everyone in the community. First come, first served. Volunteers should arrive between 7-11 a.m. Info: 938-8311.

Fall festivals

Ethel Frazier Davis Herbert S. Dukes Robert Leonard “Bob” Hickman Virgil Gibson “V.G.” Kennedy Jr. Mary Ruth Knight Letner Mable C. McLemore Carl Edward Rush Sr. Dorothy “Dot” Smith

WORSHIP NOTES Community services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will sponsor

■ Fellowship Christian Church will have a fall festival starting at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8.

There will be gospel singing on the porch, food, games, antique cars and crafts. All are welcome.

■ Fairmont Presbyterian Church at the corner of Whittle Springs and Fairmont Boulevard will have a fall rummage and bake sale 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7-8.

■ Fairview Freewill Baptist Church in Heiskell will have a rummage sale 8 a.m. to noon and a fall festival 5-9 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 15. During the festival, there will be a marshmallow roast, puppet show, dinner, auction and more.

Info: 705-9751.

■ Mt. Hermon UMC, 232 E. Copeland in Powell, will have a rummage and bake sale 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8. Info: 938-7663.

■ Northside Christian Church, 4008 Tazewell Pike, will host a fall bazaar 2-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7 and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 8. Lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and dinner will be served from 5-8 p.m. Vendors, crafts, baked goods and more will be available.

Homecomings ■ Bells Campground UMC, 7915 Bells Campground Road, Powell, will hold homecoming Sunday, Oct. 16. Service starts at 10:30 a.m. with covered dish dinner to follow. Bring a favorite dish to share. Special music provided by The Chords Quartet. Info: 686-1516.

■ Son Light Baptist Church, 6494 Son Light Way, will have its fall festival 4-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15.

■ Broadway Baptist Church, 815 N. Broadway, will hold homecoming Sunday, Oct. 9.

Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m. and the worship service begins at 11. A covered dish lunch will follow. Info: 524-2575.

Fundraisers, sales

Revivals

■ Dante Baptist Church, 314 Brown Road, needs vendors for a craft fair Sat., Oct. 8.

Table rental is $20. Info: Vivian Baker, 938-1378.

■ Walridge Baptist Church, 3020Walridge Road, will hold revival 7 p.m. through Wednesday, Oct. 5. The Rev. Bob Daugherty will bring

the message. Everyone is welcome. Info: 278-7660.

Women’s programs

be the guest speaker for the Knoxville Fellowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Oct. 4. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the John L. Shepherd Golden Corral in Powell.

■ Knoxville Day Women’s Aglow Lighthouse will hold an outreach meeting 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, at New Covenant Fellowship Church, 6828 Central Ave. Pike.

Info: Diane Shelby, 687-3687.

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Central dancers take first place at fair

By Betty Bean If the Central High School dance team has an extra bounce in its collective step, that’s probably because the dancers dared to dream big and worked hard to make the dream a reality.

The eight-member team placed first at the Tennessee Valley Fair competition in dance and cheering. Teams from Gibbs and Powell High schools were runners up.

The Central High team did a pom routine and danced to one of their regular songs in the competition.

They are excited to have achieved this important milestone.

“I cried,” said sophomore dancer Amanda Mitchell.

Team captain Heather McElroy, a junior, said the group practices hard for up to two hours at a time and went to camp this summer at Premier Athletics on Callahan Road to perfect their routine.

“We’ve stayed late, it’s true,” she said.

This is the dance team’s third year at Central and the first year for sponsors

Gray said. “For every semester.”

Training in dance is helpful, but not compulsory.

“A few of us have taken dance, but for a lot of us, it’s our first time ever to dance,” Heather said.

“A lot of us have been doing this since middle school,” Amanda Mitchell said.

“We get along really Alyssa Bell, Amanda Mitchell, Natalie Oakley, Heather McElroy well,” said Alyssa Bell. and Heaven Forister. Back: Mary Ullom, Haley Easterday and The dance team memCassie Petersen. Photo submitted bers also dance at home football games and attend Amanda Gray and Eliza- ing to do something differ- away games as a group to ent after school.” beth Huffman. support the team. They Gray said that she gets sometimes dance and do a Gray teaches biology and forensic science, and a lot of satisfaction from routine at pep rallies, and Huffman is the attendance working with the team. they regularly hit Market “Being around them and Square on Saturdays to do secretary and administrative assistant to assistant seeing them work hard to face painting as a fundprincipal Nadriene Jack- win something, that’s one raiser. They also have car son. They both say coach- of the best parts of the job,” washes and sell candles. ing the dancers is an enjoy- she said.

They have a homecomThe team holds tryouts ing queen candidate – able way to do something different and contribute to in the spring, and 15 or sophomore Natalie Oakley so students came out this – and are hoping to win for the students.

“They’re good girls and I year. the second year in a row.

“It was a pretty good enjoy working with them,” “Last year we won Huffman said. “We put in number,” Gray said. “We’re homecoming, and we’re as much time as the girls hoping it grows, though.” still fundraising so we Dance team members so we can win it again,” do. This is a voluntary position, and I deal with a have to keep their grades Heather said. “We act as a different set of kids in my to C’s and above. team and we do everything “And we want ‘above,’ ” together.” regular job, so it’s refresh-

Ivey is Fairest of Fair Savannah Ivey, a senior at Halls High School, made history at this year’s Tennessee Valley Fair. She was crowned Fairest of the Fair on Sept.

10 and is the pageant’s first double crown winner. In 2007, Ivey was crowned Junior Fairest of the Fair. This year she also was named Miss Photogenic.

Ivey continued to volunteer with the Tennessee Valley Fair since winning in 2007. She says, “This is the place where my love for volunteering in the community began.” She currently serves as the youth ambassador for Alzheim-

er’s Tennessee and recently she was invited to speak at TVA’s Fundraising Kickoff about her personal experience with the disease. She also works with Children’s Hospital on their nutrition campaign.

She will serve as an official fair representative throughout the year and will represent the Tennessee Valley Fair in the state competition in Nashville in January.

Hannah Sluss of Powell Halls High senior Savannah was chosen as the Junior Ivey was crowned Fairest of Fairest of the Fair. She was the Fair this year at the Tennes- also named Miss Photogenic in her competition. see Valley Fair. Photo submitted

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Hall, Kramer head to state golf tournament Halls High seniors Andrew Hall and Austin Kramer will head to Murfreesboro for the state golf tournament Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 4-5.

The pair tied for third place as individuals in the regional tournament last week and will participate at the state tournament level for the first time in each of their high school careers. The Halls golf team missed advancing to the state tournament with a second place win at the regional tournament.

Kramer has signed to play golf next season at Austin Peay University.

Countywide band exhibition to be at Farragut This year’s All County Marching Band Exhibition will be held at Farragut High School beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11. All 14 Knox County high school marching bands will perform.

Admission is $5. Tickets can be purchased from any Knox County high school band member or at the gate.

Gibbs candidates vie for crown These students have been hard at work raising money in hopes of being crowned homecoming queen at Gibbs High. Candidates are: (front) Ciara Dobbs (dance), Hayley Tipton (tennis), Emily Henry (Skills USA); (back) Alissa Keener (band), Darian Massengill (wrestling), Dystny Bowlin (soccer) and Alejandra Villaueva (ROTC). The queen will be crowned during halftime of the Gibbs/Austin-East game Friday, Oct. 7. Photo by Ruth White

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SCHOOL NOTES Halls Middle kicks off soccer season The Halls Middle School “A” soccer team kicked off their season with three wins at the middle school jamboree played at Tommy Schumpert Park. Team members are: (front) Taylor Stephens; (middle) Hayley Stephens, Abril Gallegos, Taylor Grabner, Mackensie Criswell, Mackenzie Brantley, Courtney Tourville, Laura Beeler, Quince Haughton; (back) Celine Hughes, Ashton Moore, co-captain Kaleigh Bray, Mariana Diaz, captain Kaitlyn Lay, co-captain Madison Taylor, Emma Robertson, Olivia Campbell, Julia Cornett and coach Chris Mott. Not pictured is assistant coach Steve Tourville. Photo by Rob Taylor

Food show features healthy, tasty lunch items Bobcats honor senior volleyball players The Central High volleyball team honored five outstanding senior players last week. Pictured are: Courtney Taylor, Chloe Cox, floor captain Megan Settle, Kaitlyn Walker and co-captain Sara Haun. Coach Heather Lovett described her seniors as great leaders and assets to the team. Photo

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‘Music, Music, Everywhere’ The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will present the family-friendly concert “Music, Music, Everywhere” for kids ages 3 to 8 and their families 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at the south campus of Cokesbury United Methodist Church. Tickets are $5 for children, $15 for adults. Info: www.knoxvillesymphony.com.

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Halls Elementary ■ PTA Book Fair will be Oct. 2428 and volunteers are needed to help at the event. Contact Joy Satterfield, 803-7940.

Halls High Members of the student advisory board Paige Parker (Central High), Savannah Kirby (Halls High) and Haylie Lam (Bearden High) chat with PepsiCo representative Chelsea Jones at the annual Knox County Food Show. Photo by Ruth White in school lunch menu were not the students, but those lovable “lunch ladies” in the cafeteria. During the show, several talked about the evolution of the cafeteria food and noticed an increase in students returning to the lunch line, thanks to new, tastier items.

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Gibbs Elementary School students Brooke Brantley, Madison Sunday, Oct. 9, at Clarence Pollock and Winter Snyder plant pinwheels as a symbol for Brown Theatre. Info: www. world peace. Photo by Ruth White gocontemporarydance.com.

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Peace is defined as a “state of calm and serenity, with no anxiety, the absence of violence, freedom from conflict or disagreement among people or groups of people.”

Students around the world gathered to plant Pinwheels for Peace and to help their community imagine ‘whirled’ peace.

Students at Gibbs Elementary had the opportunity to create a unique pinwheel and wrote out their personal thoughts on war, peace and living in harmony on one side and drew illustrations to express feelings on the other. Once the art project was complete, students and teachers gathered outside of the building and planted pinwheels in the front lawn of the school as a public statement and art exhibit.

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■ College Fair for juniors and seniors will be held 9 to 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the cafeteria. Choral concert is 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the cafeteria. Sophomores will be screened for BMI and blood pressure Thursday, Oct. 6. Midterms will be given Tuesday, Oct. 11, for first and second block and Wednesday, Oct. 12, for third and fourth block. The band is going to The Corn Maze at Oakes Farm, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13. Cost is $9 (which includes maze, hayride, bonfire and a pumpkin) and money will be collected at the maze. Bring assigned s’mores fixings, roasting sticks/coat hangers for marshmallows. Info: Shari Splane, 679-2476.

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By Ruth White Knox County Schools hosted a food show at Central High School last week and more than 50 vendors filled the cafeteria area to show off new lunch menu items.

The food show is coordinated to allow students to try out new food items and provide feed back to vendors and to the school’s nutrition program director. Students from all around Knox County were invited to attend the event and sample products.

“Several items from last year’s food show are on the school menus this year,” said Jon Dickl, Director of School Nutrition for Knox County Schools.

Many of the foods mirror restaurant items but have “hidden healthy” features.

Many are made with whole grains. Sodium content has been lowered, but with high quality and taste, the sodium isn’t missed.

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Crossroads time in Tennessee I do believe this is the crossroads. A victory over Georgia would give Tennessee a chance to develop into a successful team. A loss will mean more of that “remember November” stuff.

Don’t count this one just yet. Defeating Georgia is not a given. It is a possibility. This is the conference foe most likely to fall to the Volunteers in October. Give that some thought.

The crossroads seems an appropriate time to tell

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you some of what I know about football. It is a game of fundamentals, blocking, tackling, running, throwing, catching, kicking – oh yes, the kicking part is very important.

So is the center snap.

Getting the ball to the quarterback is one of the elementary basics, somewhere soon after being able to tie shoes and line up properly.

In another world, Bob Davis passed the ball to tailbacks and fullbacks for an entire career without one errant snap. Robert R. Neyland expected no less.

Football is a game of speed and spirit and strength and courage. Almost everybody gets knocked down. Winners rise up to fight again.

Football is a game of inches, fingertips, two blades of grass between in and out of bounds, one more link of chain for a first down. Little things often make big dif-

ferences. There is a prize for attention to details.

Of course football is coaching, preparation, conditioning, strategy, communications, motivation. Coaching is sound judgment, critical insight, intuitive decisions or good guesses. It may or may not be quick quips or fancy pants.

Oops, almost forgot the most important part: Coaching is recruiting.

To the romantic, football is Saturdays, pigs in blankets and boiled shrimp on a tasty tailgate menu, full stadium, crisp marching band, color, pageantry, excitement and fewer commercials on the Jumbothon.

To the realist, football is results.

As these Volunteers approach the crossroads, you ask what is Tennessee football? Obviously, it is not what it once was.

Last year, inexperience and lack of depth and shortage of talent were valid excuses. A few sideline mistakes contributed to the losing season.

The weak link, the offensive line, is a year older. In my infinite wisdom, I told you in August that it might not be a year better. Offensive line play, a unified effort, is more complicated than it appears.

A pancake, two knockbacks and a whiff can result in a fractured play.

Tennessee’s running attack is a myth. There is none, no matter what Buffalo said. The Vols might push around little leaguers but they can’t go against the big boys. That’s what Derek Dooley calls SEC rivals. In fact, they are not bigger, just tougher.

This is not yet a wellcoached team. It does have heart. Some of those orange shirts have gladiators inside. They do not always run to the correct places or lock up on hits but they do compete. That is encouraging.

Maybe this week they will get more things right.

This is the crossroads.

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Johnnie Jett give PHS head football coach Matt Lowe a hug and the keys to a badly needed new utility vehicle before the Karns game on Sept. 23. The vehicle was dedicated in the memory of J.D. Jett, longtime Panther football supporter and “get back coach” who passed away Aug. 30. Photo by Greg Householder

J.D. Jett honored at Powell

By Greg Householder I couldn’t help but think that nothing could be more fitting – a new utility vehicle given to the Powell High School football team in honor of J.D. Jett.

On Sept. 23, just before the Karns game, the Jett family led by J.D.’s wife, Johnnie, presented head coach Matt Lowe with keys to a brand new utility vehicle to replace the pretty much worn out John Deer Gator the team had been using for who knows how long.

The vehicle, which came from the Home Depot in Powell, is orange and has

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“Powell Panthers” and “In Memory of J.D. Jett” emblazoned on the front.

Football teams use such vehicles to haul water to the practice field, equipment and sometimes as an ad hoc ambulance to get a wounded Panther into the

dressing room. In other words, as a workhorse to do those unglamorous but necessary jobs that are needed to support a football team – kind of like J.D. used to do.

So it was a fitting tribute.

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Seeking preventative health care may not be at the top of most folks’ “to do” lists, but for Dr. Far (as he is known by his patients) it is one of the most important aspects to achieving a longer, healthier life.

Dr. Mahmoud Farkhondeh has long been an advocate for good nutrition and healthy lifestyles that can benefit children and aid them in Dr. Mark Far becoming healthy adults.

“If we can educate parents and stop the mindless eating that we as a nation have fallen into, it would go a long way toward improving the health of our children,” said Far. Far, who has been recognized as one of America’s top pediatricians on two different occasions, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and has been practicing medicine for 10 years. Makzy Pediatrics in Maynardville was established in 2005, has been in the current location since 2008 and now has more than 4,000 patients in the practice.

The office is more like a child’s playground than a medical office, with themed rooms such as Outer Space and Nemo, bright colors and a homey atmosphere.

A fairly new parent himself with a 10-month-old, Far now has even more reason to be concerned about children’s health.

“We have to start from the beginning,” he said.

“We need to introduce fruits and vegetables early and teach children how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

You should enjoy your food, but health comes fi rst.”

Far is a self-taught cook and would like to introduce classes in the future to teach patients what foods to rely on for their health.

“I would like to see people practice good nutrition for good health,” he said.

“I’m not into having a practice where patients have to keep coming back because of health issues. I would like to heal any health issues they are experiencing and then see them mostly for well checks. I would like to see my patients have a balance of prevention and medication so hopefully they won’t have to be on permanent medications.

These add expense, can cause other side effects and interfere with school and life.”

The practice treats ages from birth to 18 years and is open six days a week. The office will fi le all insurance and attempt to work with patients who may not have full coverage. Their mission is to care for all children. Far believes vitamin supplements, especially vitamin C, are components to leading a healthy life and takes them himself.

“Nutrition is the key to preventing a lot of illnesses and having good energy,” he said. “Children can be started on multivitamins at 2 years of age. Your body will expel what it can’t use.”

Far received his training in large cities but is happy to be practicing medicine in a small community.

“I want to give back something to society,” said Far. “Kids like to learn things in a fun way. If I can help them learn one thing that makes a difference in improving their health, then I have achieved my goal.”

The office is located at 147 Oakland Lane in Maynardville and can be reached at 992-9977.

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October 3, 2011

HEALTH & LIFESTYLES NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Knox newsman appreciates caring staff at Fort Sanders As a broadcast journalist for more than 40 years, Dave Foulk is used to expecting the unexpected. The Knoxville radio news anchor and trafďŹ c reporter never knows where a story may take him on any given day. But, Foulk never expected to suddenly go from being live on the air one day this summer to being a patient in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “I had started my afternoon trafďŹ c reporting shift as normal and thought maybe I was coming down with a cold,â€? remembers Foulk. “But within an hour and a half, I had uncontrollable shaking and chills, a high temp and very low blood pressure.â€?

Foulk’s wife took him to the Emergency Department at Fort Sanders Regional where doctors worked furiously to stabilize his deteriorating condition.

“I can’t remember being this sick in my life,� says Foulk. “I fell out of the sky twice with helicopter crashes, ran over myself and was on a ventilator after gastric bypass surgery, but I’ve never been this sick.�

Fort Sanders physicians discovered that Foulk’s body was reacting to a severe prostate infection that had turned septic. He spent four days in Fort Sanders Regional receiving strong antibiotics and uids. “I had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel,â€? quips Foulk.

Foulk says he was impressed by the care he received at Fort Sanders. “We live in South Knox County and had a Knoxville radio news personality Dave Foulk is grateful for the treatment he received at Fort choice of several hospitals, but I wanted to Sanders Regional when he was sidelined with go to Fort Sanders.� a serious infection.

From the Emergency Department, to

the Critical Care Unit, to the nursing oor, Foulk says there was a consistency of care. “The staff always told me who they were; they said, ‘Mr. Foulk, I’m so and so.’ That adds a bit of personality and humanity to it,â€? Foulk explains. “You know this is another human being and you’re not just a piece of meatâ€?

After he was released from the hospital, Foulk also spent time at home recuperating. He is now back on the radio anchoring trafďŹ c and news every day. He says, while he plans to stay out of hospitals, he would deďŹ nitely chose Fort Sanders again. “A hospital is more than just a place where people come in sick and people go out well,â€? says Foulk. “It’s a healing, comforting place. Some hospitals don’t get that. But Fort Sanders does, I can honestly say that.â€?

Kudos from Fort Sanders patients

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To the Cardiac Cath La b Staff, I was in Fort Sanders for an ICD battery replacement. I would lik e to thank the Cardiac Cath Lab Services. From the time I check in, the lad y was very nice and would do anything to help us. I cannot say enough about the ladies in the prep area.

Th ey were polite and asked if I was hurting. It was gre at service.

In the Operating Ro om , the staff helped me in every way they could. Dr. Je ffrey Baerman is alway s a great doctor. He went to talk to my wife about the operation and explained what to do when I got home. Sh e says Dr. Bearman took time to answer her questions.

I would also lik e to sa y a special ‘thank you’ to the nurse in the Recovery Ro om. My wife told her I was having trouble with a me dicine and losing weigh t. The nurse talked to Dr. Ba erman about it. When I got home tthat evening, they called and said to stop taking the medicine. That helped a m great deal. I thank her very much. m If you go to the hospi tal, this is the one to go to. I ccan sum it up: great, po lite and they do everythi ng to hhelp you from the time you walk in the do or un til you lea le e ve. My wife and I appreciate everything yo u did for us. The cake will be on u the way!

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ElderWatch discusses fraud October is Fraud and Financial Abuse Awareness Month in Tennessee and Knox County ElderWatch is spreading the word to senior adults on how to not be a victim of this widespread abuse.

Ruth White

The Tennessee Vulnerable Adult Coalition (TVAC) has put together tips for senior adults on how to protect themselves from scams and what to do if they become a victim of identity theft.

To protect yourself and your family from identity theft, individuals should never give out personal information on the phone, through email or on the Internet. It is also important to protect Social Security numbers, credit/debit card numbers and passwords.

Other tips include shredding financial documents, opting out from receiving pre-screened offers for insurance and credit cards, and keeping a close eye on bank accounts and credit card statements.

If a person suspects they (or a friend/relative) may

CORRYTON SENIOR CENTER Feature events for the week of Oct. 3: ■ Monday, Oct. 3: 8:45 a.m. Exercise; 9 a.m., Quilting; 10 a.m., Chicken Foot dominoes; 6:45 p.m., Exercise.

■ Tuesday, Oct. 4: 9 a.m., Billiards; 1 p.m., Pinochle ■ Wednesday, Oct. 5: 8:45 a.m., Exercise; 9 a.m., Quilting; 10 a.m., Crochet; 10 a.m., Dominoes.

■ Thursday, Oct. 6: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Fall Festival, craft sale, bake sale and quilt display. Event to feature entertainment, food and fun for all. Admission is nonperishable food items for the Corryton Food Pantry. Info: 688-5882.

■ Friday, Oct. 7: 9 a.m., Billiards.

■ Dates to remember: ■ Monday, Oct. 10: Mammograms ■ Tuesday, Oct. 11: 10:30 a.m., Super Seniors Luncheon ■ Monday, Oct. 24: Trip to Carver’s Apple Farm in Cosby. Call center to register.

Info: 688-5882. For a complete calendar of weekly events, visit www.knoxseniors.org/seniors or call the Halls Senior Center.

TRAK festival

County Mayor Tim Burchett proclaims October to be Fraud and Financial Abuse Awareness Month The Therapeutic Riding Academy of Knoxville (TRAK) at a recent Knox County ElderWatch meeting. Chair Jeanie Fox and Kathy Sergeant with Knox will host its fall festival 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, at Dr. ButCounty Office on Aging were on hand to welcome Burchett to the meeting. Photo by Ruth White ler’s farm, 7316 W. Emory Road. There will be live music, a silent auction, pony rides, food and more. Info: www. be a victim of identity theft, your credit reports imme- should be checked. Always traktn.com or call 922-8223. they should report fraudu- diately. Individuals should get a firm quote in writing lent activity to law enforce- also close accounts they with detailed explanation of ment and other appropriate know or suspect have been work to be performed at your Donate blood, save lives During October, one donor will win a weekend getaway agencies. Many fraudulent tampered with or opened residence and then wait sevactivities go unreported fraudulently and fi le a po- eral days before proceeding. in the Smoky Mountains. The winner will be announced because people feel foolish lice report.

Individuals should not be Tuesday, Nov. 1. Those who enter must be over 21 years of for falling for a scam. ActBasic guidelines to ob- pressured into signing any- age.

Donors can stop by one of two donor centers: 1601 ing promptly and reporting serve to protect yourself thing on the spot. the incident can help keep include never allowing a Remember that taking Ailor Ave. or 11000 Kingston Pike in Farragut. a bank account from being stranger access to your extra measures to protect Other sites: drained and can also alert home, know that there is no yourself, your home and ■ 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, Knoxville Civic others to the scam. such thing as “something your finances will pay off in Coliseum.

In the event that you are for nothing” or a deal that is the long run. Use common ■ 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, Webb School a victim of identity theft, “too good to pass up.” Legiti- sense. Protect your belong- of Knoxville in the gym. place a fraud alert on your mate public service employ- ings as if your life depended ■ 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, Books-A-Million, credit reports and review ees should wear a badge and on it … it does.

8507 Kingston Pike, Bloodmobile.

■ 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, inside the Meschendorf Room.

Caring for aging parents Donors must be at least 17 years old (16 years old Advice for adult children caring for aging parents is on weighing 120 pounds with parental consent), weigh at tap from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Faith Lutheran least 110 pounds and have positive identification. Info: Church, 239 Jamestowne Parkway in Farragut. Present524-3074 or visit www.medicblood.org. ers include Susie Stiles, LCSW; Monica Franklin, CELA; Diana Nelson, GNP; and the Rev. Dr. Bob Stelter.

Buildings & Call or Free Flu Shot Saturday raises $24K Topics range from physical and cognitive changes to Carports of all come see Free Flu Shot Saturday immunized 6,072 East Tenlegal and financial issues. The program has various sponsizes. us before sors including the Knox County Office on Aging “One Call nesseans on Sept. 24 and raised more than $24,000 for Log, metal you buy! the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Empty Stocking Fund. and wood Club.” RSVP: 524-2786.

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■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 5-6, Oak Ridge Senior Center, 728 Emory Valley Road, Oak Ridge.

■ Noon to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 13-14, Halls Senior Center, 4410 Crippen Road.

■ 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 19, and Friday, Oct. 21, Morristown Senior Center, 841 Lincoln Ave., Morristown.

■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 24-25, Chota Recreation Center, 145 Awohli Drive, Loudon.

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Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 26-27, Cheyenne Conference Room, 944 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge.

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All veterans are invited to an open house sponsored by American Legion Post 212, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Tri-County Veterans Honor Guard and the American Legion Auxiliary from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. Entertainment and refreshments will be provided.

This is an opportunity for veterans and family to meet each other or join these organizations. No alcohol allowed on the premises.

Clinch River Antiques Festival

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Saturday, Oct. 8, in historic downtown Clinton. Info: 457-2559 or visit www. clinchriverfallfestival.com.

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY SHOPPER-NEWS • OCTOBER 3, 2011 • B-3

Changing lives Powell First Baptist reaches into inner city Western Heights is one of those places that fits the adage – “nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.�

Actually, it’s not that nice of a place to visit either.

Greg Householder Richard Brittain of the Western Heights ministry for First Baptist Church of Powell spends a lot of time there.

His story collection is almost limitless.

Last Tuesday, Brittain told a few of his stories to the church’s motorcycle ministry at the group’s monthly meeting.

Earlier in the day, motorcycle ministry members Don Wadley, Rick Violet and Tony Shultz delivered 75 refurbished bicycles to the Western Heights Baptist Center.

Tuesday’s delivery brings the

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Brittain told the bikers about a man they met – “Don� and his wife “Mary.� Don and Mary have been homeless for 21 years and live in a tent in the homeless camp in the woods near downtown Knoxville.

Don and Mary collect and sell aluminum cans for money. In December 2010, during the snow and ice storm, Brittain first met Don and Mary as they were searching for cans in a dumpster near the Baptist Center. When he asked what they were doing, they told him that they were hunting cans to sell so that they could buy kerosene to heat their tent.

Don can’t read. His father died when Don was a youngster. His mother remarried and his stepfather used to beat him. After his encounter with Brittain – who arranged to buy them kerosene on that snowy and icy day – he began coming to Bible study at the Info: 546-4661.

■Alzheimer’s caregiver support group meets 6-7 p.m. each third Thursday at Elmcroft Assisted Living and Memory Care in Halls. Light refreshments. RSVP appreciated. Info: 925-2668. ■Alzheimer’s support group meets 6:30 p.m. each first Thursday at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 7225 Old Clinton Pike. Info: 938-7245. ■Cancer survivor support groups, Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings and Tuesday evenings, at the Wellness Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Support groups for cancer caregivers, Monday evenings.

Cancer family bereavement group is Thursday evenings.

■Chronic Pain and Depression support group meets at noon to 1:30 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at Faith Promise Church off Pellissippi Parkway. Info: Paula, 945-3810, or 748-1407. ■Free prostate screening will be held by The University of Tennessee Medical Center’s Cancer Institute throughout September at different locations across East Tennessee.

Appointments are required.

Info: 605-6970 or 1-877-UTCares. â– Grief support groups at Fort Sanders Sevier Hospital 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

Rick Violet, a member of the motorcycle ministry at First Baptist Church of Powell, unloads bicycles at the Western Heights Baptist Center last Tuesday. Photo by Greg Householder center and worship services at Grace Community Church, the FBC Powell church plant where Brittain serves as pastor.

Last Tuesday, Don helped hand out bikes and received one of his own. A simple bicycle can help Don work – he does odd jobs and works construction when he can get it. Don pedaled off to his and Mary’s home with two garbage bags of cans hanging from the handlebars and talked of rigging a light trailer to his “new� bike.

Don is introducing Brittain to the approximately 2,000 people who live in the 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– 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– October screening mammogram specials will be held Tuesday, Oct. 4, and Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Mercy North Breast Center, 7551 Dannaher Dr. Chocolate-covered strawberries, massages, gifts and more. To schedule, call 545-7771. â– Stop Smoking: 215-QUIT (7848) is a program of the

homeless camp.

Brittain also told the group about “Rayshon� – a young man the bikers also met on Tuesday. Rayshon is being raised by his grandmother who has had to sell her blood plasma to pay her utility bill in the past. “I can’t think of any families where there is a father and mother raising their kids,� says Brittain.

The Western Heights Baptist Center serves about 30,000 people per year through its food pantry. It serves about 10,000 per year through its clothes closet program.

Five-year-old Boston terrier/beagle mix Washington is a delightful girl who would make a wonderful companion for an individual or family. She is small in size but big in personality.

Boston is available for adoption at the main 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 is also open from noon to 6 p.m. daily at 6400 Kingston Pike. Visit www.knoxpets.org to see photos of all of the center’s animals, or call 215-6599 for more information.

So the FBC Powell motorcycle ministry’s bikes for Western Heights program is not just about getting bikes for kids. Last Tuesday, about a dozen adults received bikes which will serve as their only means of transportation.

Anyone wishing to help this ministry by donating an old bicycle, clothing, money for the food pantry or to help in any way should contact the church office at 947-9074.

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The following films will be playing at Halls Cinema through Thursday, Oct. 6. All times are p.m. unless otherwise noted. Tuesday is Matinee Madness when children ages 3-11 and seniors 60 and over are admitted for $4.75 all day. Some exclusions apply. Half-off nachos and $1 drinks and popcorn. Advance tickets are on sale now. Movieline: 922-2187; website: hallscinema7.net. ■Killer Elite (R) 1:05, 3:55, 6:25, 8:45 (No Passes) ■Warrior (PG-13) 1, 3:40, 6:20, 9 (No Passes) ■The Help (PG-13) 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9 ■Dream House (PG-13) 1:25, 4:05, 6:40, 9:05 (No Passes) ■Abduction (PG-13) 1:20, 3:55, 6:20, 8:55 (No Passes) ■Dolphin Tale (PG) 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 (No Passes) ■What’s Your Number (R) 1:10, 3:50, 6:35, 9:10 (No Passes)

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Inlaws, outlaws, grannies and returning kids Finding extra space in a full house.

By Anne Hart

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n “The Death of the Hired Man,” Robert Frost described home as “the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

The idea of home is changing for many American homeowners. Frost’s words have taken on new meaning as homeowners try to find space in their homes for aging parents, for collegegraduate children who have yet to find a job and become self-supporting, or for down and out relatives hard hit by the economic downturn.

And then there are elderly homeowners who want to age in place and need space for a caregiver. And there are homeowners who are struggling to hold onto their homes or who are seeking

additional income for other reasons, who need the rental income extra space could provide.

The reasons for turning one home into two are many – and so are the solutions.

The solution for returning children is probably the easiest – as long as they are willing to return to their old bedroom.

For the others, it gets a little more dicey, as what is needed is a fair amount of additional living and sleeping space, a bath, a kitchen, some storage and that all-important separate entrance.

Additional parking space may also be needed, and don’t forget to check zoning regulations and building codes.

Basements are probably the most common conversion and may be the most cost-effective, since plumbing and electrical may already be in place or as close as just upstairs. Many basements already have an outside entrance.

One thing to think about with basement conversions, though, is that many homes with basements that open to the outside are built on sloping ground. If

the garage is on the main level, adding a second driveway and additional parking to serve the basement can present a problem.

Sometimes the best apartment conversion may be a two-car garage. Both attached and detached units can be converted for comfortable living, and each has distinct advantages and disadvantages. As an example, an attached space may be less costly to convert because of proximity to plumbing in the house. The detached conversion can have its own appeal as perhaps a more private space.

Another way to add more space is an addition called a “bump-out,” which involves knocking out an existing wall in the home and adding the needed living space. And if ease of accessibility is not an issue, sometimes an attic can be converted to a small apartment with the addition of exterior stairs.

Some jobs can be done by amateurs, but these sorts of conversions really call for professionals – starting with an architect who is familiar with everything from design to building codes.

It is a move that can save you money in the long run.

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“It used to be that when the parents died, the children would come take what they wanted and we would sell the rest. Now it seems the children have enough of their own things and don’t want anything else, or they have moved to another city and just don’t want to deal with getting rid of their parents’ belongings, so they hire us.”

Austin says changes in lifestyle may have something to do with that lack of interest on the part of the chilBy Anne Hart dren, too. “Many older people have antiques and fancy at Austin has been conducting estate sales for so long things, maybe Victorian furniture. Those are things that she has become something of an anthropolo- that just aren’t much in demand today. Families today gist, an historian, a demographer, a predictor of trends have great rooms, not rooms that are just decorated to and styles, and an expert reader of human nature. She’s look pretty and sit there unused. Furniture we sell today seen it all, and then some. has to be usable.”

Austin started her business about 20 years ago, but Frequently, estate sales are held when homeowners the last 10 have been her busiest by far. She doesn’t see want to downsize to a smaller space after the children demand for her services slacking off any time soon, es- have left home. Austin says she often hears from those pecially as the economy continues to tighten and people clients a second time – when they are moving to assisttry harder to hang on to their money. ed living and need to downsize once again.

Austin says the reasons people want the sales haven’t But her job is far from gloom and doom. She has loved changed much over the years, but buying trends and watching the trends change over the years and remains buyers have. amazed at just what people will buy.

In most cases, estate sales are held to get rid of items “I tell my clients not to throw anything away before after the death of a homeowner, and that’s one area in which Austin has seen a major change.

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the sale, including rolls of toilet paper. People will buy just about anything from used cleaning supplies and gardening supplies to unopened bottles of makeup and vitamins. And they especially love wrapping paper, ribbons and those sorts of things, and holiday decorations.

These are things that people will buy at some point anyway, and they can get them greatly discounted at an estate sale.

Austin says for certain groups, estate sales have become a sort of recreational activity. “People used to come for a specific thing, like a dining room suite. Now we see entire families coming together, groups of college age kids and older folks coming in groups.

The students are often looking for items to use to furnish a first apartment – dishes, pots and pans. Older folks are frequently looking for exercise equipment to use in their homes. And the families? They’re just looking for a deal on things they can use, and they frequently leave loaded down with many items purchased on home shopping networks and never used – including fancy cooking gadgets like crème brulee pans and their accompanying tiny torches.

People still are buying vintage clothing, and items from World War II remain especially popular, particularly with folks from Oak Ridge who participate in reenactment events commemorating that city’s history.

And the vintage clothing? Austin says people love those psychedelic polyester shirts from a few decades ago, “but I can’t sell a polyester quilt.”

A surprise group making an appearance lately is a lot of 11- and 12-year-old girls, and Austin says, “they’re buying crochet and knitting supplies and old sewing machines. All of that used to be something for grand-

mothers, but these young girls have found there are now videos that teach you how to sew, knit and crochet, and they’re a new customer group for us.”

Another fairly recent trend Austin has seen is groups from social service agencies and churches “who will buy all the sheets and towels and things of that sort we have to give to the poor and homeless people they are helping.”

Over the last two or three years, Austin has started seeing a lot of hoarding. “We’ll go into a house and there will be so much stuff we can’t walk through it. In one house we had to pitch a tent outside, in another we had to have a separate sale on each floor of the house a few days apart just to get things inventoried. We often see literally hundreds of boxes of Kleenex. At another home it was Fostoria glassware – hundreds of pieces of it.”

Another recent trend she has spotted is shoplifting. Austin says the culprits aren’t the people we would expect. “It’s usually nicely dressed older people, and I believe they’re people who used to have enough money to buy whatever they wanted. They can’t do that now, but they still want something new. With the women it’s usually jewelry; with men, it will be a pocketknife, a CD, something of that sort.

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11th Annual CLINCH RIVER FALL

ANTIQUE FESTIVAL

Rain or Shine!

Festival Kick-Off

SATURDAY, OCT 8 9AM - 5PM 80+ Antique Dealers & Artisans Antique Appraiser: John Case Historical Re-enactment: Burr-Hamilton Duel Carriage Rides • Kid’s Corner Live Entertainment Antique Car/Tractor Exhibit

Antique & Specialty Shops Local Eateries Live Entertainment Carriage Rides Characters In Period Dress Sponsors

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865-688-8813 5014 N. BROADWAY • KNOXVILLE, TN

Antique S treet Festival

Historic Downtown Clinton, TN

FRIDAY, OCT 7 6PM - 9PM

& PILLOWS

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Preparing the fall and winter garden ’Tis the season for preparation

By Anne Hart

F

ran Scheidt didn’t have time to relax and enjoy the last day of summer. The Master Gardener was too busy making lists of what to do to get her West Hills gardens and lawn ready for fall and winter.

“Fall is my second favorite time of year, after spring, but it’s a very busy time. There’s a lot to do to prepare for the fall and winter months, and we also need to look ahead to next spring and summer and start planning for that, too,” Scheidt says.

“Right now I’m loving watching the hummingbirds getting fat and

Fran Scheidt removes a hummingbird feeder to be cleaned and stored away until next spring. Photo by Natalie Lester buzzing around getting the last of the nectar before they move on to their winter homes. The holly berries and leaves are changing color, and the nights are so much cooler.

After the stifling heat of last summer, it’s just a blessing to be able to breathe air again without feeling burned to a crisp.”

Scheidt says the first chore she will tackle is “deconstructing” her

OPEN HOUSE October 22 • 8am - 1pm

outside pots and containers.

“Some of them have holly as the main plant and others have red twig dogwood. There are lots of other things, including annuals, planted in there, too. I’ll take tip cuttings from some of those annuals, like coleus and begonia, and bring them inside to root in water. After the roots have developed, I’ll pot them and overwinter

them inside until warm weather returns.”

The hollies were a gift to Scheidt from a holly grower up East and will eventually grow to a height of about 40 feet. She plans to repot them in three-gallon containers. They will overwinter at the UT Arboretum greenhouse and next year will be added to the school’s Elmore Holly Collection, named in honor of the late Harold Elmore, a past president of the UT Arboretum Society.

Sometime this month, Scheidt will transplant the red twig dogwood and japonica from those pots to her perennial garden.

This is also the time of year to clean out the birdhouses so they will be ready for spring visitors and to locate last winter’s suet feeders and refill them so woodpeckers will have something to eat during cold weather.

It’s also time to start putting away outside furniture, water-

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ing hoses, and terra cotta pots, garden accessories and sandcasted bird baths that are not winter hardy.

October is the best month to shop for and plant spring flowering bulbs and azaleas for even more spring color.

And what better time to clean, sharpen and oil all of your pruners before storing them away until spring?

Scheidt say there are some “don’ts” for this season, too. “Do not be pruning anything now, and don’t fertilize now. You want the plant’s roots to go to sleep for the winter and the plants to go into dormancy.”

So after all of this hard work, what does this Master Gardener plan to do next? “Just what I would advise anyone else to do: Make a date with a friend and go for a drive on the Foothills Parkway and enjoy the fall foliage.”

RAFFLE! We will be raffling off a fireplace and water feature!

Experts will be on hand to assist you with ALL your outdoor living projects and doing product demos!

Fireplace

Fireplace

FPL-200

FPL-100-REM

$1199

$700

Square Fire Pit FPS-100

$300 Round Fire Pit FPR-100

$300

Garden Column

Water Feature

Water Feature ture $1699

WTR-250-SS

$1250

COL-100

$159

Pizza O Oven Garden Bench BC-100

Masony Pede Pedestal Base 3 CBO-750, 3-pc. kit

$3720 $372

$219

Pizza Oven en Masony Pedestal al Base pc. kit CBO-500, 3-pc.

$2760

Wood Box Wo WBX-200 W

$240 $

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