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January 7, 2015

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KUB’s PACE 10: ‘on time and on budget’

By Sandra Clark

Flapjacks heads to Halls

Get ready for some Smoky Mountain flapjacks on Emory Road near I-75.

Business reporter Nancy Whittaker says the spot vacated by Three Amigos has been leased to the Collier Group out of Sevierville and is being remodeled as Knox County’s first Flapjacks Pancake restaurant.

The stores in Sevier County are called cabins and the website talks about a guy named Brent who learned how to make flapjacks from his grandma and perfected his technique on hungry hikers and mountain visitors in the Smokies.

Opening in 2001, Flapjacks sold its first million pancakes by 2005. By 2006, it was at two million and now is over five million. That’s a lot of flapjacks.

The new store is already posted on the website at 603 East Emory Road, Suite 101, but the town is wrong.

If your ZIP code is 37849 then your town is Powell. The phone there is 865-362-7575 and, on the off-chance that it’s answered somewhere else, call about employment.

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Knoxville Utilities Board told customers in 2004 to expect rates to triple over 10 years as the utility picked up the pace on sewer system improvements to comply with a federal consent decree.

With 2014 ended, how has that worked out?

KUB has reduced sewer overflows by 75 percent, according to Bill Elmore, executive vice president and chief operating officer.

And while rates have soared, they’ve not reached the 200 percent increase originally projected. Elmore says KUB’s typical

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consent decree, Elmore said.

Approximately $70 million went toward enhancements to the wet weather treatment systems at the Kuwahee and Fourth Creek plants; however, the bulk of the work was directed at the collection system.

Six wet weather storage tanks were constructed (34 million gallon capacity), 275 miles of pipe were rehabilitated or replaced (approximately 20 percent of the system), and nearly 7,000 manholes replaced (of 30,000 systemwide).

“KUB will continue its collection system rehabilitation/

replacement program at a rate of 2 percent per year but will do so under the Century II program that addresses infrastructure improvements for each of our four utility systems,” said Elmore.

To satisfy the consent decree, KUB must complete wastewater plant upgrades at Fourth Creek (deadline mid-2018) and Kuwahee (mid-2021). “These improvements will upgrade the … systems to full biological treatment, said Elmore.

He estimates the cost at $45 million (today’s dollars).

But is the juice worth the squeeze? Stay tuned.

Learn bridge in a day

By Wendy Smith On almost any given day, the Knoxville Bridge Center, located in the Deane Hill Recreation Center (7400 Deane Hill Drive), is bustling with players. One of the attractions of contract bridge is the mental rigor of the game. According to player Brenda McSpadden, it’s no surprise to run across players of all ages at the bridge table.

“It’s the ultimate mind game,” says McSpadden.

A new class can help anyone get started on the journey of learning contract bridge, say the game enthusiasts. The Knoxville Association of Bridge Clubs will offer the Learn Bridge in a Day seminar on Saturday, Jan. 17. The class begins with a lunch at 11:45 a.m.

Certified instructor Patty Tucker of Atlanta is the teacher.

Participants will be introduced to the basics of playing and scoring.

The seminar is designed for those who have never played bridge, but players who have been away from the game and need a refresher are also welcome, McSpadden says.

This is the first time the seminar has been offered in Knoxville.

In addition to learning bridge basics, participants will find out about local opportunities to play and learn. The Knoxville area accommodates all bridge skill levels with games in Knoxville, Maryville, Alcoa, Oak Ridge and Tellico. These locations offer games for experienced players, as well as games specifically designed for those who are new to

Bill Waters, Mike Morris, Gayle Cornwell and Helen Corbett play contract bridge at the Knoxville Bridge Center. Photo by Wendy Smith the game. Some beginner games include free lessons.

“You work as hard as you want to,” McSpadden says.

In addition to the mental challenge, bridge is also a rewarding

social outlet. It’s a great way to meet interesting new people, and because there are so many local bridge centers, it’s possible to

city’s civil rights celebration

Rights march changed a nation – and a minister’s life

By Bill Dockery Four Knoxville veterans of the civil rights movement will gather for a special public screening of the new movie “Selma” as the city of Knoxville opens its celebration of the 50th anniversary of passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The celebration is called “Let Us March on Ballot Boxes,” and the program will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at Regal Cinemas Pinnacle Turkey Creek with the four civil rights leaders reflecting on the struggle for voting rights.

“Selma” is winning praise for its portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. and for its astute re-creation of the politics and personalities of the civil rights campaign.

“We encourage everyone to buy tickets in advance,” said Joshalyn Hundley, city coordinator of the program. Tickets for the PG13 film are $8 for adults and $7.50 for children and

In this AP wire photo from Feb. 15, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. greeted two Unitarian Universalist ministers when they were released from jail in Selma, Ala. Gordon Gibson (right) and Ira Blalock (left) were observing civil rights actions for their denomination when they were arrested on the steps of the Dallas County (Ala.) courthouse. AP photo

seniors. KAT buses will provide transportation from the Civic Coliseum to the theater at 2 p.m. Saturday. People using mobility devices should contact Hundley at 865-215-3867

by Friday, Jan. 9.

The panelists include Gordon Gibson, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister who was in Selma as an observer; Harold Middlebrook, retired minister who was active in Sel-

ma; Avon Rollins, who led Knoxville civil rights actions; and John Stewart, a member of Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s staff when the Civil Rights Act was passed.

Fifty years ago, Gibson was sent by the Unitarian Universalist Association to observe civil rights actions in Selma being led

by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Confer-

Judy and Gordon Gibson had been married only about 18 months in early 1965 when the Unitarian Universalist Association sent him to Selma, Ala., as a civil rights observer. The couple, now retired, live in East Knoxville. Photo by Bill Dockery

ence. With a fresh master’s in divinity from Tufts University and only 25 years old, Gibson headed to Selma without a clear sense of what was at stake personally or nationally.

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That shocked Gibson and his wife, Judy – also a minister – into having their wills written.

“In retrospect, I was thinking only a fraction of what I should have been thinking,” Gibson said. “I

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Evening of magical fun Order of the Eastern Star will host a benefit Night of Magic at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, at the Scottish Rite Temple, 612 16th Street near UT. Magicians scheduled to appear include The Great Bevarino, “Mr. Roger” Reeves, Savannah McCoy and Ed Ripley. Tickets may be purchased at the door and are $12 for adults, $6 for children 10 and under. Info: 588-9829 or 470-7919.

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That’s because customers have reduced usage and installed more water-efficient fi xtures.

“If water usage was at the higher level anticipated in the five-year report (600 cubic feet), today’s bill would be $59.20,” said Elmore.

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Movies and the Middle Ages Jadarius Jones listens intently as Ted Hatfield talks about the stars he has met. Photo

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Windsor Gardens concert The Windsor Gardens Assisted Living choir recently performed a Christmas concert. Choir members having fun singing are:

By Sandra Clark Our Sarah Moore Greene (front) Thelma Word, Prentys Word, Cecil Campbell; (back) Paul newspaper club got a treat Whaley and Claude Patterson. Photo submitted when Ted Hatfield came to visit. Teacher April Lamb even rolled out the school’s red carpet.

“There are two people From page A-1 around here who can vote in the Academy Awards,” said Hatfield, “and I’m probably the only one you’ll ever didn’t have a good grasp of all the issues around me. meet.” The other: Dolly Par“I went to Selma with an observer mentality. It took me ton. a while to overcome that mentality and figure out that the Hatfield works as film local people weren’t just observing – they were putting evmarketing director for Re- erything on the line. If they went down to the courthouse, gal Entertainment Group they were risking being arrested, beaten, fired from their based in Halls. Regal oper- job, evicted from their house or even being run out of ates 575 theaters with over town.”

7,000 screens, he said.

Gibson didn’t have to wait long to find out the cost of Hatfield told the kids involvement. While standing on the steps of the Dallas about starting work at age County courthouse watching a voter-drive demonstration, 11, a small lad in Arkansas Gibson and fellow minister Ira Blalock were arrested and who decided it would be jailed for five days. When they were released on Feb. 15, more fun to work at the the- Martin Luther King Jr. was there to meet them. ater than carry newspapers.

Days later, after Gibson had returned to Massachusetts, He held jobs from usher the Bloody Sunday confrontation took place at the Pettus to concessions., from the- Bridge in Selma, and the voting rights march to Montater manager to district gomery followed. That summer, the Voting Rights Act was manager. After a stint in passed by Congress and signed into law by President LynNew York, he joined MGM don Johnson. in Los Angeles. His job “What I did did not change the world,” Gibson said of those was to arrange premieres days. “Sadly, we were newsworthy – two white ministers and promote movies and jailed in Selma …” when the jailing of black civil rights advoMGM’s stars. He traveled cates had hardly drawn media attention. with many big-name stars.

“My presence may not have changed anything about the Luckily, he saved those sto- Selma campaign, but it certainly changed me,” he said. “I ries for another time (and became less trusting of those in authority, and I insist on audience). a higher standard of proof now than I would have then.”

“Regal looks for computGibson would go on to serve almost 20 years in UU er-trained, college-educat- churches around Jackson, Miss., working in federal poverty ed employees, but we also programs there. The couple retired from their Unitarian Unihire students,” he said. He versalist ministry in Elkhart, Ind., and moved to Knoxville encouraged students to look in 2005. for internships in the indusGibson has become an expert on his denomination’s histry. And he mentioned he tory in the South, especially as it involves civil rights. In was a judge for last year’s mid-February, Skinner House will release his book “SouthDogwood Arts local movie- ern Witness: Unitarians and Universalists in the Civil making competition.

Rights Era.” The kids were most imThe Gibsons also lead spring bus pilgrimages to civil pressed with his Oscar card. rights landmarks like Selma, Montgomery and other As a voting member of the Southern sites where history was made.

Academy, he gets free ad“I do it only because it messes with people’s minds,” he mission to any theater to see said. “I’ve seen more change from the seven-day pilgrimage any film. than from 40 years’ worth of sermons.”

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The Growlers newspaper club from Sarah Moore Greene surround Ted Hatfield from Regal Entertainment. Pictured are (front) Taylor Styles, Danea Summerford; (back) Tyree Gibson, Eddys Garcia, Ivyawna Roe, Hatfield, Safari Bahiti and Destiny Woods. Everybody wanted to touch his Oscar card.

Shannon Carey of Halls (in back) leads a medieval dance with members of the SMG newspaper club. Photos by Ruth White

Dancing with the SCA Shannon and Zac Carey of the Society for Creative Anachronism provided a change of pace for the Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy newspaper club recently when they dropped by in period costume to talk about life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Shannon, who also works at Shopper-News, is known in the Barony of Thor’s Mountain as Lady Muirenn ingen Ui Dunchada, a member of the Irish nobility. Her husband, Zac, is known as Brewer, a name that suggests his ancestors’ craft.

Zac let the kids try on helmets and hold a sword of the type used in simulated combat. He talked about production methods of blending iron with alloys to make lighter-weight yet still protective armor. He said his older brother got him hooked on SCA by taking him to an event.

Shannon brought home the high death rate of the Middle Ages by having everyone stand up and then calling them to sit as members of their imagined age group died. Very few lived past 50, and 30 was con-

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Bowl was double or nothing There are good bowl games and bad bowl games and some that are irrelevant. Now and then one becomes far more meaningful than an ordinary bowl should be.

This wasn’t Tempe 16 years ago. This wasn’t part of the new national playoff.

It was just the TaxSlayer (Gator) Bowl, but it was really big for the Volunteers. It was double or nothing.

The Tennessee victory produced a winning season, the apparent end of disappointment and misery. This win sets an interesting stage for the next act. It will help recruiting, winter workouts, spring practice, the summer out-

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look, ticket sales and August preparation.

Are the Vols really back?

We’ll see. We know they are better than they were.

The 42-7 part was the best the team has played in five years.

This was an extra-large brick in the Butch Jones construction project. Now we can identify some of the stuff the coach has been talking about. The culture has changed. The outlook

Congress Inc. U.S. Rep. John J. “Jimmy” Duncan Jr. hasn’t occupied center stage in Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District for 26 years without connecting to his audience, as he demonstrates in his recent “Washington Report.”

Unlike Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report,” the “t” in Duncan’s mailer is enunciated. However, it does compare to Colbert in sheer zaniness.

Duncan wastes no time getting off a zinger. After noting the Republican majority in both chambers taking effect in January, he brings down the house with this one-liner: “I hope the next Congress will be more business-friendly and profree enterprise.”

Be honest, now. Who among you hasn’t shed a tear for BP, IBM or Citigroup

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as you think of those gallant corporations trying to surmount the obstacles thrown in their path by Congress?

Only yesterday I saw a senior citizen in a self-checkout lane at Food City weeping over her Ramen noodles and Friskies cat food paté.

When I asked what was troubling her, she choked out one word: “Exxon.”

I knew she was referring to the struggles of ExxonMobil and its Big Oil compatriots (BP, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips) to survive with only $2.4 billion in annual tax breaks to di-

has switched to positive.

Talent is developing. Nineteen starters are projected to return. Better days are out there.

Flip it around and think what a loss would have meant. It would have been deadly – a five-year losing streak. The Jones balloon would have lost a lot of air.

Just guessing, but Tennessee probably wanted to be in Jacksonville more than Iowa did. The Gator Bowl was one notch up from what the Vols deserved. It was one down from what the Hawkeyes thought of themselves.

Tennessee fought like crazy to earn a bowl bid.

Iowa staggered in below ex-

pectations.

Attitude is very significant when you have a month to improve or to fret about what might have been. Attitude may have been the winning edge. Speed helped.

The 321 first-half yards were truly spectacular.

Many football games are very much alike – 21-14, 3520, 10-7. One team or the other makes a big play or a major mistake. We file the result as a win or loss and move on.

Now and then, there is something different, a surprise, a reason to remember.

This time, Tennessee fans made the Vol Walk feel like a home game. The checkerboard end zone helped.

vide. Worse yet, their 2013 profits were an embarrassing $93 billion.

The latest budgets for the states of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi combined are a shade over $86 billion.

Budget problems, at least for these states, could be solved by selling out to the oil and gas industry. (Never mind: With fracking on the rise all over the South, the sellout is already underway.)

If Congress’ largesse to the oil industry doesn’t support Duncan’s view that a more business-friendly Congress is in order, there must be other examples of how our elected representatives spurn business.

Well …

In 2014, federal candidates for office showed their disdain for the pharmaceutical business by accepting only $16 million in contributions from the industry’s PACs. According to OpenSecrets.org, between 1998 and

2012, pharmaceutical lobbyists sweetened the pot by lavishing $2.6 billion on lawmakers.

If you’re wondering what the industry gets for its money, you haven’t filled a brand-name drug prescription lately. U.S. consumers pay more for prescription drugs than their foreign counterparts because Congress will not pass legislation limiting price increases while allowing exclusive rights to manufacture a drug for as long as 20 years.

In 2006, Medicare expanded to include a prescription drug benefit, and pharmaceutical lobbyists went to work on their buddies in Congress. Medicare, one of the largest healthinsurance programs in the world, would not be allowed to negotiate lower prices with drug makers.

As Wendell Potter, a former insurance executive, pointed out in a 2013 article for the Center for Public Integrity, “So not only

Seeing that reminded me of a fun day, Dec. 30, 1994, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville. It was the 50th Gator Bowl, Tennessee against Virginia Tech, played in the swamp because of stadium renovations in Jacksonville.

Tennessee fans were treated to the trademark checkerboard in the north end zone. The effect was surreal – orange and white checks on Florida’s ho me field. Think about it.

Pat Haden, once a Southern Cal quarterback, now the athletic director, was part of the TV team. He said Steve Spurrier had troubling thoughts about Vol squares painted on his grass.

“I was talking to the groundskeeper before the game,” Haden said.

The groundskeeper said Spurrier told him there

were recruits coming soon and that he wanted all traces of that dreadful (he used a more colorful word) checkerboard long gone before then.

As said at the beginning, some bowls are meaningless. Some are insightful.

They foretell things to come.

The 1994 Gator Bowl victory provided a glimpse of what was to be, a magnificent run of 45 Tennessee victories in 50 games.

In that 1994 Gator Bowl, the Vols scored 35 in the first half. They did it again against Iowa.

Wouldn’t it be exciting if this first-half romp turns into what Joshua Dobbs said, the start of something big? Do you suppose there is any connection to the checkerboard in the end zone?

did drug makers get a huge new revenue stream from taxpayers, but they pulled a fast one on us.”

If Congress becomes any

more “business-friendly,” it will have to incorporate.

Fortunately, it has 139 lawyer- and law-firm PACs from which to choose counsel.

Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Thanks for KCDC service Culver Schmid, retiring KCDC board chair, is given a commemorative plaque by David Hutchins, current board chair, to honor Schmid’s more than 20 years of service on the board. His tenure included overseeing the HOPE VI revitalization project in the Mechanicsville neighborhood and the Five Points Master Planning process in East Knoxville.

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Buswell helps seniors thrive When Buzz Buswell was serving as Knox County’s Veterans Services officer, he didn’t think he could enjoy a job more. When his role was expanded to serving seniors, he realized he was wrong.

told him that the center helped her embrace life again after spending several months at home in her bathrobe. It’s a transformation Buswell witnesses frequently when those who are dealing with loss or illness decide to get involved with other seniors.

“It’s an opportunity to become part of something Wendy bigger than yourself. As Smith soon as you become mindful of the needs of others, you realize your stuff’s not so bad.”

Buswell had been a More county residents county employee for six Buzz Buswell, center, chats with Tom Yeagle and Frank R. Strang Senior Center director Lauren will have easy access to a seyears when he asked Mike Monahan during a line-dancing class. Yeagle is the DJ for the class, taught by his wife, Evelyn. nior center when the Karns Ragsdale to “leave a note” Photo by Wendy Smith for incoming Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett recomBut he didn’t hesitate helping veterans resolve to see why the center had mending him for the Veterans Services Officer post if when Burchett requested problems with the U.S. De- such a good reputation.

Strang director Lauren it became available. When that he play a new role as partment of Veterans AfWhatever happened to it did, in 2012, Buswell interim director of veter- fairs, he thoroughly enjoys Monahan admits she was the rain tax? thought he’d “died and gone ans and senior services last having ongoing relation- initially nervous to have her ships with patrons of the boss a few feet away. But she to heaven.” It gave him the year.

“I don’t recall the mayor county’s five – soon to be six couldn’t be more pleased opportunity to help those asking me if I wanted to do – senior centers. with his management style. who’d served, he says.

Betty Burchett offered him Buswell calls it “manageHelping veterans meets a it. He said, ‘You will be inBean deep need for him. He was terim director,’ and I said, a corner office at the City ment by walking around.” an Army platoon leader ‘Yes, sir.’ It was actually a County Building, but Bus- He makes surprise visits to well didn’t think it made each of the centers, somewhen he was wounded in better job for me.”

Four years ago, Madeline While there are 35,000 sense for him to be down- times on subsequent days, Cambodia in 1970. In spite Rogero’s most vocal oppoof spending 19 months in the veterans in Knox County, town while working with to ensure that seniors are nents warned that her first hospital recovering from in- there are far more seniors. senior centers. Instead, he coming – and thriving. priority would be to levy a He tells of a Strang pajuries that still plague him, One in three county resi- opted for an office in the “rain tax.” he regrets having to leave dents is over 50, Buswell Frank R. Strang Senior Cen- tron who came into his Now, she’s entering the says. And while he liked ter in Farragut. He wanted office and wept as she his platoon. fourth year of her administration and preparing to stand for re-election, and nobody’s talking (or hearing) about a rain tax anymore. Nobody even squawked much when she asked for, and got, a 34cent property-tax increase Congratulations to the ate may hold off approv- care expansion. last spring. She (unlike her Knoxville News Sentinel ing any Obama nominees ■ Team Rogero’s me- mostly Republican predefor bringing Frank Cagle awaiting the new Republi- dia shop recently sent out cessor mayors) took the first Victor back as a regular columnist can president taking office a news release proclaiming steps toward fi xing the city’s Ashe on Wednesdays. Readers Jan. 20, 2017, when Sens. the success of the renova- pension problems. who like politics will mark Alexander and Corker will tions to the Third Creek The tax debate is unlikely Wednesday for the Shophave a pivotal voice in the Bike Trail at Tobler Road to come up again in 2015 beper and News Sentinel for selection. near West High School. cause another thing nobody at least four columns that ■ Guilford Glazer, The project was needed and (except perpetual candidate cover politics at some level.

Knoxville-born multimil- worthwhile. What was not Ivan Harmon) is talking Cagle is a thorough and it clear to the White House lionaire, died in Los Angeles needed or worthwhile was about is running against keen observer of politics that they expect to be con- at age 93 on Dec. 23. He was the pointed omission of any Rogero – or any incumbent who has a low tolerance for sulted on future appoint- reportedly worth $900 mil- mention of council mem- City Council member, for baloney from public offi- ments or they will not be lion. He once owned and op- bers Duane Grieve and Dan that matter. cials. He has his share of ad- confirmed by the new GOP- erated Glazer Steel in East Brown, in whose districts “We’re not even hearmirers and opponents, but controlled Senate.

Tennessee before moving the project is located and ing anything at the whisper you know what he thinks McBride has given up on to Southern California. He who both advocated its ad- level. Not one word,” said and why. He is no wimp being appointed to a second was a strong and generous vancement. a Rogero supporter who when it comes to voicing his term. The term of former supporter of Israel. He once Team Rogero is happy to spoke on the condition of views. He was deputy to this Oxford, Miss., Mayor Rich- applied to own the televi- proclaim success but neg- anonymity. “That’s not the mayor for several years dur- ard Howorth will expire sion franchise that became ligent in assigning credit, case looking four years out ing my 16 years as mayor.

May 18, 2015, making two WBIR-TV. His application even to two council mem- – half of City Council might ■ Jean Teague, 81, vacancies and leaving seven did not prevail, but in his bers who backed their tax be candidates (for mayor).” former veteran City Coun- members. But Howorth will day he was a player in this hike. They would do better Not diverting the mayor’s cil member, is back home in continue until the end of community. if they shared the accolades. focus from city business is West Hills after five days at this year if no new nomi■ This writer turned ■ Jeff Welch has re- a good thing, considering Park West Medical Center nee is confirmed. His re- 70 on New Year’s Day, and placed MPC Director Mark some of the thorny issues on over Christmas for tests. cord, like McBride’s, has widely known and respect- Donaldson as interim di- her plate, like figuring out She is feeling much better been modest. The bookstore ed Knoxville attorney Ar- rector. Welch will make how to get developers inand doing well. owner is seen as a nice but thur G. Seymour Jr. turns $110,000 until a permanent terested in the Cumberland ■ TVA still has one va- ineffective board member, 70 today. He is almost a director is picked by the Avenue project, advancing cancy on its nine-member which is exactly what the fi xture at City Council and search committee (Deputy the South Waterfront and board of directors, which is TVA top staff like.

County Commission meet- City Mayor Bill Lyons chairs Magnolia Avenue Corridor actually the oldest current In 2016, three board ings, where he represents the group), which meets be- projects and deciding what vacancy. It was once held by members’ terms will ex- numerous clients. He is hind closed doors to make a to do with the Civic ColiOak Ridger Neil McBride, pire on May 18: Joe Ritch, considered a go-to person recommendation. No trans- seum. who was not reappointed by Peter Mahurin and Michael for local zoning issues. parency here from a mayor Add keeping an eye on President Obama in 2013. McWherter. They, too, will ■ The state Legisla- who pledged transparency. the Legislature, whose revIt has been vacant for over continue until the end of ture reconvenes on Tues- Dr. Lyons is noted for pro- enue-slashing inclinations 18 months now and is not the year, when we will day, Jan. 13, with larger- moting open processes threaten local governments’ likely to be filled for many have a new president-elect. than-ever GOP majorities. generally, but that does not revenue sources (like the more months. Sens. Alexan- Should that person be a Re- A special session will occur apply here, despite its im- Hall income tax), and Rogder and Corker have made publican then the GOP Sen- in a few weeks on health- portance. ero really doesn’t need the

center opens in the spring.

The new facility will have space and programming similar to the other centers, with a couple of upgrades.

The center’s computer lab will be stocked with tablets rather than desktop computers, and a covered outdoor kitchen will be a first for the county.

As Buswell looks back on his military se rvice and subsequent career, he sees how his military experience prepared him to serve his community through work and volunteering.

“Life prepares you for what’s next,” he says.

All quiet on the ’15 front

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distractions of running a political campaign.

(Note: The job of monitoring the General Assembly could be easier this year with the departure of Stacey Campfield, who was generally unfriendly to city concerns and elevated antieminent-domain measures to the level of a religious crusade.)

Sources close to the mayor also discount the persistent rumor that she will be offered (and will take) a job in the administration of Hillary Clinton, should Clinton be elected president in 2016.

Members at large George Wallace, Marshall Stair and Finbarr Saunders, along with District 5 council member Mark Campen, will stand for re-election this year, cementing the reality that limiting elected officials to two consecutive terms has created de facto eight-year terms.

Those who follow city politics are filling the lack of drama around the 2015 elections with longer-term speculation – who will succeed Rogero?

If past is prologue, the field will be crowded. A candidate or two will likely emerge from the business community, and, as observed above, several members of City Council are believed to be eyeing a run – most notably Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis, who has not only met regularly with his South Knoxville constituents, but also has attended neighborhood meetings all over town.

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“No. 1, it’s very flattering. I’ve been around a long time, been elected four times and I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me yet.

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Old-world print captures message of sermon series

By Wendy Smith A two-year sermon series is long by anyone’s standards. But a beautiful Christmas gift given to each family who participated at Fellowship Church should help them remember their journey through the book of John.

The sermon series is called “Live, A Study in the Book of John: Everyday People, Everyday Life.”

Communications Pastor Erik Chandler says the staff wanted members to have something tangible to help them remember what they learned from the series, which started last fall.

They decided to take advantage of the abundance of artistic talent in the congregation by commissioning a series of four prints that will each reflect a section of the series.

The idea of a physical reminder of teaching echoes a passage in Deuteronomy that directs the children of God to remember his commands by “writing them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,” Chandler says.

Sarah Pattison, who coowns The Happy Envelope with her husband, Ty Pattison, was the first artist to produce a print for the “Live” series. The couple met at the University of Tennessee while Sarah was working on a degree in graphic design.

When Sarah started the business 12 years ago, she primarily sold stationery wholesale to paper companies. When the economy turned, many of the companies folded. That’s when

Rachel Ramsey and Tonja Moss light their candles as a symbol of friendship and support in the coming year. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Lighting up the New Year

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Ty Pattison demonstrates the Vandercook cylinder press that was used to print a poster designed by his wife, Sarah Pattison. The poster is a tangible reminder of a two-year sermon series at Fellowship Church. Photo by Wendy Smith Ty, a former Young Life staff member, decided to learn a new trade − letterpress printing.

Sarah listened intently and took notes to find her inspiration for the print, but she ultimately selected one quote from Lead Pastor Rick Dunn that summed up what she’d learned: “Who you are, and who you are not, is uniquely designed to offer Christ’s life to the world. How you are gifted − and how you are not gifted − this is designed for how you’re to make Christ known to the world. What you possess and what you do not possess is uniquely designed to make him known. What you can do and what you cannot do is his design

to make himself known through you. You are uniquely designed to offer Christ and it is your lack (who you are not, what you don’t possess, what you can’t do) that is the most powerful part of the story.

That’s the gospel.”

Her design, printed one sheet at a time on a Vandercook cylinder press, was an instant hit. After copies of the 8-by-10-inch print were distributed at church, a second press run was required to meet additional demand.

A PDF file of the design is also available on its website, www.fellowshipknox.org.

The print has obvious visual appeal. Sarah’s talent for creating designs using multiple typefaces and flourishes matches perfectly

with the old-world charm created by letterpressing.

But the staff was still overwhelmed by the print’s popularity.

“We didn’t know what the response would be. We were surprised by the attachment people had to them,” says Chandler.

The Happy Envelope is selling the prints at the store, 310 W. Jackson Ave., and online at www.thehappyenvelope.com. All proceeds will go toward Fellowship’s mission programs.

Ty Pattison was surprised by the response, but he thinks the print’s message is important. “It’s OK not to be perfect.”

Graphic artist Ryan Allman will create the second piece of art for the series.

Have you ever wondered if there was something else to do on New Year’s Eve other than the standard party with hats, noisemakers and perhaps more than one adult beverage?

Knoxville Christian Center has been providing an alternative for 20 years with its annual New Year’s Eve Concert. The event brings in top-tier entertainment to partner with an intimate candlelight service, says promotions director Nancy Zeigler.

To welcome 2015, Guy Penrod, a Grammy and Dove winner who was the lead singer for the Gaither Vocal Band for 14 years, was the entertainer.

Penrod brought songs and stories and a message of encouragement. He told the concert attendees about his life and family and experiences as a gospel singer. He said he enjoys getting the chance to perform in some of the smaller venues because of the intimacy with

the audience. “I like to know that I’m making an impact, so it’s gratifying to see smiling faces enjoying themselves or contemplating the message,” said Penrod.

“I have more time to meet with folks one-on-one, and that means a lot to me.”

Self-proclaimed mega fan Sandy Barnes, who has cerebral palsy, got the opportunity to hold hands and pray with Penrod. She said meeting her hero was a high point in her life.

Penrod shared one of his favorite quotes with the audience: “I heard this saying from French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: ‘We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience.’ It’s a great quote, and it’s the truth. There’s more to this existence than what we see and feel and touch, so it’s important to surround yourself with people who feed your spirit with love, encouragement and truth. God’s love is truth.”

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Carolyn Riggs: A lifetime of miracles

By Cindy Taylor Powell resident Carolyn Riggs lives her life expecting miracles. That has been her way since 1972 when she received her first one.

“I was a heavy smoker and was diagnosed with an incurable, untreatable lung disease in 1971,” she said. “When I made one of the trips back to the doctor, he was shocked. My lungs showed scar tissue but otherwise were completely clear.”

What she didn’t know was that her husband had been fasting and praying for her. She credits God for taking away her desire to smoke. Riggs has had no further trouble with her lungs.

Riggs has had open-heart surgery, stents in her stomach and her colon removed.

She has recovered from a bacterial infection, fluid on her lungs, staph infection and an illness that put her in the hospital for two months.

She suffered a heart attack a few years ago while

Carolyn Riggs’ favorite Bible is held together with duct tape.

Photo by Cindy Taylor

driving. Her prayer at that moment was that God would keep her from having a wreck and hurting someone else. Through all the illnesses, her faith was never shaken. She says doctors consider her a walking miracle.

“God shows me his power every time he heals me,” she

said.

Riggs believes in taking every opportunity to study God’s word, praise his name and tell others what he has done for her. What she doesn’t believe is that anyone should learn everything they know from ministers. She digs deeply into the Bible and other religious

material to learn all she can about God for herself. A true prayer warrior, she is often asked by friends and relatives to pray for them.

She married a Christian but didn’t become one until God began working miracles in her life. She and husband Charles, a minister, were married for 55 years.

They had two sons and 10 grandchildren. The couple spent years ministering to others until Charles passed away two years ago.

At 75 years old, Riggs says she doesn’t get to help others as much as she once did. She has passed her legacy of service on to her sons, and they are passing it to their children. She has sound advice for any who will listen.

“People need to realize how powerful God is,” she said. “Life is short and we are in the end times. Jesus Christ is real. Our God is real. The greatest thing you can do is have faith, love others, don’t dwell on the bad stuff and keep your eyes on God.”

Lifting their candles, the congregation at Knoxville Christian Center cheers “Happy New Year!”

Lighting up the New Year

Sandy Barnes, right, says she is a Guy Penrod “mega-fan” and was excited to meet him at the concert.

Sandy, who has cerebral palsy, is accompanied by Rick Barnes, center.

Questions MILESTONE Steve Higginbotham “inquiring minds want to know.” We need to be more like those noble Bereans who “searched the Scriptures daily” to determine the truthfulness of what they were being taught. In other words, they weren’t content with unquestioned answers.

Let’s be sure that we haven’t been guilty of accepting answers to life’s most important matters, without questioning. May we all have the desire to be better students of the Bible, and may God help us to have the courage to follow our studied convictions!

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(John 1: 14 NRSV) To Bethlehem, to Bosnia, L.A. and Central Park; To where a star is needed, Since the dark is doubly dark; To where our lives require the Lord To set on them his mark. (“God Bless Us and Disturb Us,” from Cloth for the Cradle) New York police officers are gunned down in their squad car; riots and protests continue over the killing of a black man in Ferguson, Mo.; Christmas lights cause fires that kill whole families; mud slides destroy entire towns in California.

I think – sarcastically, bitterly – “Happy Holidays!” even while acknowledging the sad reality that “the dark is doubly dark” this year.

Oddly enough, I remember Rodney King, who, during the 1992 L.A. riots, implored, “Why can’t we all just get along?”

I agree with the idea from Cloth for the Cradle, quoted above: “We need a star.”

I step outside before bedtime, or in the morning, before dawn, to look at the stars. I do that because they are bright, shining; they are distant, infinite; they

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Grandparents are Gerald “Jake” and Diane Lowe and Danny and Mary Inman.

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are mysterious, beautiful.

I look for my friends Orion and Cassiopeia, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. That pretty much covers my knowledge of the stars, but it is enough for me, as long as I can count on their showing up where they belong.

“Sure on this shining night,” Knoxville poet James Agee wrote, “kindness must watch for me this side the ground.” I learned his words by singing them, and I carry them in my heart, just as I carry the starlight, because, well, in the dark, we all need a star.

FAITH NOTES Community services ■ Cross Roads Presbyterian, 4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

Guy Penrod, gospel singer and former lead singer of the Gaither Vocal Band, entertained at the New Year’s Eve concert at Knoxville Christian Center.

Unanswered questions or unquestioned answers?

Which do you believe to be more dangerous? In myy judgment, the more dangerrous of the two is “unquesstioned answers.”

I’m convinced that in n and out of the church, many have grown lazy and content with someone else doing their study for them.

Can you imagine an adult man literally being spoonfed by his wife because he’s too lazy to pick up a fork and feed himself? Preposterous!

Yet how many grown adults allow their parents, their preachers, their spouses, their Bible class teachers, and the religious media to spoon-feed them their religion. Their faith is not based on what they have searched out and found to be true, but rather on what others have told them is true.

If I may borrow a phrase,

Doubly dark

■ Dante Church of God will be distributing Boxes of Blessings (food) 9-11 a.m., or until all boxes are gone, Saturday, Jan. 10. One box per household. Info: 689-4829.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church, 7212 Central Avenue Pike, is accepting appointments for the John 5 Food Pantry. Info:

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Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each Friday. Info: Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church hosts Recovery 6 p.m. each Tuesday at 323 W. Emory Road, followed by a meal and worship at 7 p.m. Small sharing groups convene at 8:15 p.m. The recovery plan focuses on individuals and families struggling with addiction. There is no charge. Info: www. recoveryatpowell.com or 938-2741.

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Recognized for trustworthiness in grades three through five include: (front) Ty Bolden, Lucero Penafiel-Bautista, Perla Cortes, Edna Hernandez, Ava Garrett, Dakota McKenzie; (middle) Conner Proch, Bryan Cortes, Caden Earle, Vanessa Vazquez, Sierra Moyers; (back) Yesinia Vazquez, Nick Weigel, principal Angie Harrod, Yoseline Cortes, Bryson Fields and Madysen Brown.

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Members of the Adrian Character counts honorees for trustworthiness in grades kindergarten through second grade Burnett student council include: (front) Brimley Wilson, Isabella Humphrey, Bailee Sparks, Kaylee Daughtery; (middle) collected close to $225 for Briley Caldwell, Anacella Chapa, Caden Schubert, Hunter Watkins, Colby Comparato; (back) Make A Wish Foundation principal Angie Harrod, Ava Brummerstedt, Carter Shelton, Blake Allen and Macy Harrison.

in honor and memory of members could write the individuals. The group name of a special person on decorated a paper tree with each star. stars, and students and staff

Student council members Weston Moore, Megan DeRusha, Victoria Hall, Lesly Santiago and Joseph Stevens show the tree decorated for Make A Wish. Photos by R. White

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Kristin Luttrell, music teacher $349 to purchase a document projector. Her grant proposal was titled “Blowing Up to Dig Deeper,” and the projector will allow her to enlarge any type of document and use her white board for students to view.

Music teacher Kristin Luttrell’s proposal was titled “Beboppin’ Books.”

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Emaleigh Norman uses buttons and popsicle sticks to create a fun tree decoration.

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The doors of Central High Central High featured its first door-decorating contest for staff and students as a way to express creativity and to get into the holiday season.

hopes of winning top honors.

Winners of the door décor contest included: first place and staff pick, gingerbread house; principal’s pick and student pick, Learning Center; most humorous, John Alexander’s grumpy cat for lease Navidad; most tape used, Kaitlyn Scanlon’s Ruth trailer featuring Olaf with White lights and purple tinsel; Bobcat award, Elizabeth Huffman’s photo booth.

Honorable mentions went Earlier in December, to Valerie Sigmon’s snowCentral sponsored a holiday flakes and Erin Housam’s sweater day where everyone multilingual Christmas. wore the most colorful and The guidance department festive (and often tackiest) received the award for best sweaters they could find in department theme.

Cindy Blanchard, Heather Koehler and Katherine Chapman worked together to create this festive and fun door decoration. The door was given the first-place ribbon and was named the staff pick.

Eli Seay enjoys snowman bowling in Abbey Fariss’ class.

Dylan O’Dell, Eriberto Sanchez and Aden Hargreave decorate sugar cookies during their holiday party at Gibbs Elementary.

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Catch A Great Rate at Judges Bryson Rosser, Tracy Poulsen and J.D. Lambert have fun in the photo booth created by secretary Elizabeth Huffman. The booth was given the Bobcat Award for creativity.

SCHOOL NOTES ■ Webb School of Knoxville will host an admissions open house for grades 6-12, Sunday, Jan. 11, for both parents and students. The program will begin at 2 p.m. in Webb’s Central Building.

Info/to RSVP: Christy Widener, 291-3830, or www.webbschool.org/ openhouses6-12.

■ Episcopal School of Knoxville is expanding its junior kindergarten in August 2015, according to director Nancy Laurence. This academic program is designed for 3-and 4-year-olds who would be ready for junior kindergarten 4 in the fall of 2016. The day is from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with extended hours available. Info: 865-777-9032.

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Sparrows offer books, computer learning

By Sandra Clark Home Edge Learning Center is a book store and resource center that offers books and manipulatives for students from preschool to 12th grade.

Owners Todd and Laura Sparrow have assembled more than 3,000 used books – both fiction and non-fiction – and many Todd Sparrow samples of over 10,000 new titles. Todd says there is something for every age.

Home school families may exchange gently used curriculum for store credit.

Todd and Laura have home schooled their three children for 13 years.

“We would love to share our experience and offer suggestions on how to begin,” for parents who are considering home schooling, said Todd.

Deborah Scott has also joined Home Edge Learning Center and comes with over 20 years of retail homeschool experience. She can offer great guidance on the many different curriculum options that are available today.

“The education of our children is the most important responsibility we have as parents,” Todd said. “Our mothers are both retired public school teachers and we have seen first-hand the value of a life-long invest-

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“Whether our children are in public school, private school or homeschooled, ultimately the responsibility for their success in life lies with us. We hope to help encourage those around us by sharing what we know and learning from others.”

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Tutoring is also available.

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If you haven’t visited Cancun Mexican Restaurant lately, make a New Year’s resolution now to check out the new menu items.

I recently met with two of the three partners who own this popular establishment. Roberto Ruiz and his cousin, Luis Ruiz, really understand the meaning of a family business. Their third partner, Jose Perez, is a longtime family friend.

Roberto Ruiz has lived in Knoxville since 1993, and says he’s been in the restaurant business, “All my life!”

As a young man he was a busboy at a steak house.

He worked his way through every position, learning the restaurant business inside and out and eventually becoming the regional vice president based out of Atlanta.

Busy Roberto and his two partners now own and operate the Halls and South Knoxville Cancun locations as well as Señor Taco on North Broadway.

They founded Cancun on Chapman Highway over 22 years ago with the idea of serving quality Mexican food in a fun, family environment. The Halls location was opened 3 1/2 years ago.

Roberto says, “Cancun has become a fun place to enjoy a great menu that extends from tacos, burritos, grilled shrimp and carnitas … and of course our famous margaritas!”

The new menu items sound delicious. Molcajete is a combination of grilled chicken, steak, shrimp, chorizo and carnitas, served in a hot stone with a special red sauce. A new seafood soup contains seven different types of seafood.

Sample the eight differ-

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ent types of tacos, which offer something for everyone. For fish lovers, ceviche, a tilapia dish cooked in lime juice mixed with onions, tomatoes, cilantro and spices, has been added to the menu.

The tacos gringos consist of two flour tortillas, one filled with shredded chicken and one filled with shredded brisket, deep-fried and covered with cheese dip served with rice, beans and guacamole.

Cancun offers a variety of lunch specials from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Both locations have a full bar and happy hour specials, which despite the name are available all day, every day.

The Halls restaurant has a private banquet room that can accommodate up to 40 people.

The South Knoxville location has a separate section that can also be booked for parties. Catering is available from both locations, with the Halls store now offering home delivery.

Cancun in Halls offers live music every Tuesday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. yearround.

Live music is offered at the South Knoxville location out on the patio from March through November, weather permitting.

Multiple big-screen TVs allow sports enthusiasts to watch their favorite games.

What makes Cancun so

Cousins Luis Ruiz and Roberto Ruiz own the South Knoxville and Halls locations of Cancun (not pictured: third partner, Jose Perez). Photo by Nancy Whittaker special? Roberto says if you don’t see what you want on the menu, just ask. “There is no limit to what we will do to please a customer.”

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Roberto and his staff say they are still as proud today as they were when they first opened to serve quality Mexican food and will work hard to remain open for years to come.

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‘Inherent Vice’ stays in a haze Joaquin Phoenix would seem the perfect actor to play a stoner private eye in a ’70s-set mystery, and in many ways he is the right man for the job in “Inherent Vice.” But the twist on film noir – “Chinatown” with hippies – never feels comfortable in its own skin.

Betsy Pickle Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball (Reese Witherspoon) lets boyfriend and private eye Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) explain his case in “Inherent Vice.”

Director Paul Thomas Anderson adapted Thomas Pynchon’s novel about Larry “Doc” Sportello (Phoenix) and his misadventures as he makes his way through L.A.’s seedy sections and shiny corridors. It’s a long, strange trip with only occasional humor. It feels as though there ought to be more in the laugh-inducing department. The film is a study in absurdity, though the offbeat surface covers a disturbing underbelly.

Doc lives the laidback

life at Gordita Beach, enjoying his herb (which he also sells) and working when he has to. When his former girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), shows up asking for help, he can’t refuse.

Shasta is now the mistress of a big-time developer who has disappeared, and she asks Doc to track him down. To do so, Doc winds his way through massage parlors and pricey dental

Soloists prep for When Aaron Apaza brings Mozart’s bassoon concerto to Knoxville audiences this coming Sunday, he’ll be thinking quite a bit differently about the piece than he usually does.

“It’s music instead of a job interview,” he laughs.

Apaza, who won the principal bassoon position in the Knoxville Symphony and Chamber orchestras in 2013, has often played the piece for auditions.

Just as prospective candidates for employment have to demonstrate mastery of a certain skill set, professional musicians looking to be hired by an orchestra have a set of pieces – especially the more difficult, showy excerpts within them – that they’re required to know. French hornists must be able to perform certain tricky horn calls. Trumpeters spend many hours practicing well-known solo passages.

And bassoonists need to know the Mozart bassoon concerto.

Written when Mozart was 18, it is the composer’s first stab at a concerto for a wind instrument. And it’s the piece most often performed and studied in the entire bassoon repertory.

“It’s been an interesting experience working on this piece for the purpose

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of actual performance,” says Apaza. “Until now I’ve only ever worked on it for auditions. It’s been difficult letting go of the idea that anything short of technical perfection would result in some sort of disqualification. I’ve had to get out of that box in order to free myself up to actually make music!

“Once I clarified my musical mission, it actually became enjoyable rather than a chore to work on it.”

Apaza grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He started playing alto saxophone at age 11, picking up the bassoon a few years later. He’s the most musical member of his family, though he says, “my dad dabbles in Irish fiddle.”

The talented teen spent his last two years of high school at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute and his master’s at Yale University.

Now he’s at home in

offices, through bungalows and private sanitariums.

Along the way, he picks up some side missions, including tracking down a musician (Owen Wilson) who may or may not be dead and whose rehabbed wife (Jena Malone) is frantic.

The film’s characters are a weird and colorful bunch, beginning with Doc. Aside from his handling of illicit drugs, he seems to be the purest and most ethical one

in the bunch.

Josh Brolin is delightfully but dangerously wacky as Lt. Det. Christian F. “Bigfoot” Bjornsen, one of L.A.’s finest. He steamrolls over civil liberties with abandon – when he’s not working as an extra on cop shows.

Phoenix’s “Walk the Line” co-star Reese Witherspoon appears as a buttoned-down beehived deputy D.A. who reveals her true self when she’s alone with Doc. Maybe.

Martin Short is uber creepy as a dentist with a penchant for young talent.

Eric Roberts puts a little haze on his usual oily persona, and Benicio Del Toro perks up his too-infrequent scenes.

Wilson creates an intriguing aura and more than once may strike the viewer as the person who should have been in Doc’s shoes.

Either he or Matthew McConaughey might have provided that spark that Phoenix is missing, the glimmer of humorous self-awareness that would give Doc an edge and turn “Inherent Vice” into something more than an interesting mess.

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Ralph Abernathy (Colman Domingo), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo), Andrew Young (Andre Holland) and John Lewis (Stephan James) press forward in their quest to obtain equal voting rights in “Selma.”

‘Selma’ tops week of big movies

By Betsy Pickle

Early January is when studios start spreading out the films they opened in New York and Los Angeles for Oscar consideration in late December.

That’s the case with a couple of movies this week, “Selma” and “Inherent Vice” (see review, this page).

“Selma” (which the Shopper was unable to screen before deadline) arrives on a wave of positive buzz. Director Ava DuVernay’s film tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights for African-Americans in 1965, despite an overwhelming amount of violent opposition.

The historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., was the straw that broke the camel’s back, leading President Lyndon Baines Johnson to sign the Voting Bassoonist Aaron Apaza looks forward to performing on Sun- Rights Act of 1965. day, Jan. 11. Photos courtesy Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Knoxville’s Bearden area, and he’s gearing up for Sunday, when the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra will be at the Bijou Theatre.

Also on the program is the Trumpet Concerto in D Major by Johann Stamitz, or possibly by Johann Georg Holzbogen. That’s right.

Scholars still can’t agree on the composer of this piece!

You didn’t know classical music was so controversial, did you?

At any rate, it’ll be played to the rafters by the KSCO’s fabulous principal trumpeter, Phillip Chase Hawkins.

Hawkins, who’s currently based in Kentucky, is active in many performing groups, including the University of Kentucky Faculty Brass Quintet, Saxton’s Cornet Band and the Lexington Brass Band. He’s also the adjunct Professor of Trumpet at Centre College in Danville, Ky., and is currently pursuing a doctorate

Rising star David Oyelowo (“Interstellar,” “A Most Violent Year”) plays King, with Tom Wilkinson as LBJ. The cast also includes Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Roth, Cuba Gooding Jr., Carmen Ejogo, Lorraine Toussaint, Common, Martin Sheen, Alessandro Nivola, Dylan Baker and Oprah Winfrey.

The indestructible Liam Neeson returns for a (supposedly) final outing as ex-covert operative Bryan Mills in “Taken 3.” Accused of a vicious murder, Mills must fight to clear his name and protect the only thing that still matters to him.

Starring with Neeson are Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Dougray Scott, Jon Gries and Leland Orser. Screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen complete the trilogy they started with 2008’s “Taken.”

Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has to clear his name when he’s accused of murder in “Taken 3.”

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of musical arts at the University of Kentucky.

He’s played all over the world, in such locales as New York’s Carnegie Hall; the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China; Tianjin Concert Hall in Tianjin, China; Stefaniensaal in Graz, Austria; and Brucknerhaus in Linz, Austria.

And he excels at playing Baroque trumpet pieces, like the one he’ll be performing on Sunday.

If you want to hear a future star, you should come hear this young man. He’s destined for a big, big career.

Also on the program is Richard Strauss’ lively, entertaining and virtuosic suite, “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” based on a satire by the French playwright Moliere. The play, which was first performed in 1670 for the court of Louis XIV, pokes fun at social climbers and vain, snobbish aristocrats. Strauss’ vivid, bump-

tious adaptation, written during the early part of the 20th century, features various players in “bit parts” and will be well worth hearing.

The Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra will present “Orchestra Soloists” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, at the Bijou Theatre. Tickets can be purchased by calling 865-656-4444 or 877-9959961, or by visiting www. knoxvillesymphony.com.

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After thyroid cancer scare, Englewood man keeps his voice and life Mike Williams of Englewood, 63, uses his voice constantly in his job as director of employee communications and development at Heil Trailor International Co. “Not only for that, but I’m a minister (at Liberty Hill Church of Christ) as well,” said Williams.

“Pretty much my life is built around my voice.”

This fall, both Williams’ voice and health were on the line when he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

“I had a lump on the side of my neck that my dermatologist thought perhaps was just a fatty tumor. But I have a little history of melanoma, so to be on the safe side, he said he’d go ahead and get that out,” said Williams.

But the dermatologist quickly realized the lump was something more and referred Williams to Dr. Michael Kropilak and Dr. Troy Kimsey, who specialize in endocrine procedures at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

The endocrine system includes glands like the thyroid and parathyroids, located in the neck. After undergoing a number of tests, including a biopsy and ultrasound,

In November at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Mike Williams had surgery to treat his thyroid cancer. The 63-year-old is now back home after a successful procedure by Dr. Michael Kropilak and Dr. Troy Kimsey.

Williams was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, which affects nearly 60,000 adults each year in the United States.

“All the bad things we thought it could be, it was not,” said Williams. “It was not lymphoma, not melanoma, but it did turn

out to have some papillary cells,” which is an indication of thyroid cancer.

Thyroid cancer is one of the most treatable forms of cancer, although surgery on the neck can involve a long incision and requires an experienced surgeon.

Endocrine services at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center offers the latest and most comprehensive care available for a wide range of endocrine diseases affecting the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands.

From biopsies to more extensive surgeries, Drs. Michael Kro- Michael Kropilak, pilak and Troy Kimsey MD work as a team at Fort Sanders, consulting on cases and assisting each other with complicated surgeries to provide the highest level of care available.

Dr. Michael Kropilak went to Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and did a residence in general surgery at The Cleveland Clinic. He is board certified

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He was named one of Knoxville Cityview Magazine’s “Top Docs” in 2014.

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“This kind of surgery is extensive,” said Kropilak. “It’s a difficult surgery, which is why it’s important to have surgeons working together, to provide care for these kinds of complicated cases.”

On Nov. 5, Kropilak and Kimsey worked together to remove Williams’ thyroid gland and nearly four dozen lymph nodes.

The surgery required a long incision, stretching from Williams’ left shoulder blade to the center of his neck.

Williams said that despite this, he only stayed one night at Fort Sanders and was able to go home the next day.

“The care was excellent, the staff is good and they were constantly very proactive, checking with me about what my needs were,” Williams said. “Everything went just fine.

“My neck’s a little stiff, but I’m getting more and more movement with it,” Williams said.

“In the beginning my voice was affected; it was weak, but it’s a whole lot better now and is pretty much back to normal,” he said. “I was very relieved that even though they did all that around my neck, it

didn’t seem to have a lasting effect on my voice.”

Williams underwent one follow-up treatment with radioactive iodine to eliminate any remaining cancer cells in his body. The thyroid absorbs iodine, so any remaining thyroid cancer cells in his body will absorb the radiation and be destroyed, without affecting the rest of his body.

“I was radioactive for Christmas,” said Williams, with a laugh.

This treatment means he should not be around pregnant women and young children for 10 days.

Williams has 21 grandchildren and one on the way.

“So I quarantined myself.

Which is really more of a concern for my wife,” he said with a laugh.

“I appreciate everything everyone at Fort Sanders has done,” Williams said. “Everybody has been so professional, and both myself and my wife, we just felt like everyone was real supportive.

“I wouldn’t want anyone to go through that, but if you’re going to, Fort Sanders has proven to be a great place to go through it.”

Thyroid cancer: What you should know Thyroid cancer begins in your thyroid gland, which is located in your neck. The thyroid gland is found under your Adam’s apple and above your collarbone. You usually are not able to see or feel your thyroid. It faces the front, but it’s underneath your skin. It’s shaped like a butterfly, with two lobes (a right and left lobe) connected by a bridge of tissue, called the isthmus.

Statistics from the American Cancer Society regarding thyroid cancer: ■ Doctors will diagnose about 56,460 new cases of thyroid cancer.

■ Thyroid cancer occurs more often in women. Three in four cases occur in women.

■ About 43,210 cases of new thyroid cancers will be diagnosed in women. The other 13,250 will be found in men.

■ Thyroid cancer rates have risen sharply in recent years. It is the fastest-increasing cancer in both men and women.

■ Thyroid cancer has a 97 percent survival rate at the five-year mark. This means that out of every 100 people treated for thyroid cancer, 97 of them will be alive five years after treatment. Survival, however, is affected by many factors, including stage at diagnosis, the subtype of cancer and patient age.

■ About 1,000 women and 780 men will die of thyroid cancer every year.

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Keeping Knoxville

By Betsy Pickle Note: South Knox Shopper-News reporter Betsy Pickle wants everyone to clean it up.

As South Knoxville gets busier, it’s also getting trashier. The amount of litter along major and secondary roadways is reaching alarming levels. The subject of trash and litter comes up at nearly every community meeting across South Knox.

It was a focus at the December meeting of the Chapman Highway Garden Club, where Allison Teeters, executive director of Keep Knoxville Beautiful, spoke about litter eradication and how to clean up South Knoxville before April’s Dogwood Arts Festival, which will spotlight all of SoKno. Teeters thanked the garden club members for their role in beautifying the community.

“You guys help greatly to make Knoxville more beautiful,” she said. “But Keep Knoxville Beautiful is about more than planting flowers.”

The organization began in 1978 as the Greater Knoxville Beautification Board, formed to help the city clean up for the 1982 World’s Fair.

The name was changed in 1997 to strengthen the branding of all Keep America Beautiful affiliates.

“Our general vision is a cleaner, greener, more beautiful community,” said Teeters.

Powell resident Roy Arthur chairs the board of Keep Knoxville Beautiful, and the late Mary Lou Horner of Halls was an active member since its formation.

Teeters, who has been the director for seven years, and Ariel Allen, program coordi-

nator through AmeriCorps who started last year, are the only staff members at Keep Knoxville Beautiful. They depend heavily on volunteers.

“We typically have about 3,500 volunteers per year,” Teeters told the group gathered at Woodlawn Christian Church. “Last year they picked up over 97,000 pounds of litter off our roadways.”

While that’s an impressive figure, it’s also “kind of sad,” she said. “Litter gets there either on purpose or by accident. We’ve all seen somebody throw something out of their car, which is really just sad because they’re littering God’s creation. We are treating it like a trash can.”

Much of the problem is that “we are a disposable society” – throwing away everything from fast-food packaging to refrigerators, and not always in landfills or designated trash receptacles.

In addition to educating and encouraging people not to litter, Keep Knoxville Beautiful focuses on waste reduction.

“We’re talking about reuse; we’re talking about recycling,” said Teeters. KKB has a recycling trailer that can be borrowed by any organization, free of charge.

The 6x10-foot trailer comes with metal holders that can be set up and outfitted with clear bags to collect recyclables at events of any size.

On average, Americans accumulate 4.4 pounds of trash per day, she said.

“You can imagine a family of four – that’s almost 20 pounds of trash a day.”

As a twist on traditional beautification projects, KKB has started organizing “beautification mobs.” The

beautiful

There’s plenty of litter on Brown Road, just across from Charter Doyle Park. Photos by Betsy Pickle All kinds of trash ends up in local waterways. Some of it is deliberately tossed there. This shot was made at Goose Creek along Maryville Pike.

first took place at the corner of Central and Summit Hill in the Old City and took all day. At another “mob” in the fall, about 20 volunteers planted 1,000 daffodil bulbs in an hour at the off-ramps from I-275 to Woodland and Oldham avenues.

Cleaner, greener streets make people feel safer and thus more inclined to stop at nearby businesses, Teeters said.

“We want to make a good first impression,” she said.

“We want people to come here. We want people to stay here. We want people to spend money here because it helps our economy.”

To volunteer with KKB or to inquire about the recycling trailer, call 865-5216957 or email info@keepknoxvillebeautiful.org.

Allison Teeters, executive director of Keep Knoxville BeauTo report littering, call tiful, and Ariel Allen, KKB program coordinator from Ameri1-877-8LITTER. Corps Photo by Betsy Pickle

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Movie and Popcorn: “Earth to Echo,” 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

No-Sew Pillows: Make a Pillow for the Children, 3-4 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

FRIDAY, JAN. 9

Tickets available for Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival, on stages set exclusively along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Features firsttimers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Info/tickets: www. rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

Brain Games, 10-11 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Crochet and Knit for Charity, noon-1:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

January Birthday Celebration, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7

SATURDAY, JAN. 10

AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Knoxville AAA Office, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Cost: $30 members; $35 nonmembers. Must preregister.

Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info/to register: 525-5431.

Dancing lessons: Line Dancing, noon-1 p.m.; Ballroom Dancing: Intermediate, 1-2 p.m.; Ballroom Dancing: Advanced, 2-3 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Bring a gift win a gift. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Java and “Good for the Brain games,” 9-10:30 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Bring a gift win a gift. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Journaling 101, 3-4 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Bring a gift win a gift. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Presentation of Harold’s Tours available in 2015 from, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Halls Senior Center, Crippen Road. Presentation by Harold Cox. Bring a covered dish.

All welcome.

Run 4 Their Lives race, 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, Market Square. The race raises awareness and funds for sexually exploited women and children. Registration deadline: Thursday, Jan. 8. Info: www.freedom424.org/ r4tl/races/.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Faye Wooden, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road.

Info: 689-2681.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Laurie Fisher, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road.

Info: 947-6210.

Taoist Tai Chi Society open house, 11 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Tai Chi Center, 1205 N. Central Ave. Features demonstrations and a free lesson. Info: 546-9222 or www.taoist.org.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.

Bingo, 10-11 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Bring a prize, win a prize.

Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Defrost Your Life luncheon hosted by the Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection, 10:45 a.m., at Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall at 5806 Kingston Pike. Cost: $12 inclusive. Complimentary child care by reservation only. Info/reservations: 315-8182 or knoxvillechristianwomen@gmail.com.

Halls Middle “Pink Out” basketball game.

Donations to The Butterfly Fund will be accepted during the school day and at the basketball game that afternoon. Info: Jill Wright, jill.wright@knoxschools. org or 922-7494.

Heiskell seniors meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road.

Lunch: Johnnies’ famous hot tamales and chili plus soup bar. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

Knoxville Choral Society auditions for all voice parts, 6-8 p.m. To schedule an audition time: 312-2440 or membership@knoxvillechoralsociety. org. Once a time is set, location and other details

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Diabetes Support Group meeting, 10-11 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

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A Night of Improv, 7-8:30 p.m., Nita Buell-Black Auditorium, Powell High School, 2136 West Emory Road. Presented by the Powell Playhouse. Tickets: $10, ages 5 and under free. Featuring a special Powell Playhouse performance. Ticket info: 947-7428, 256-7428.

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II concert, 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Part of the Knoxville News Sentinel Pops Series. Tickets: $35-$89. Tickets: 291-3310 or www.knoxvillesymphony. com.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Brianna Hanson, Benefit concert by Ellie Holcomb, 6 p.m., First Baptist Church of Knoxville, 510 W Main St. To benefit Com- 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681. passion Coalition and the Volunteer Ministry Center.

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