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Sue Spicer: volunteer

Halls to host 42nd annual

wrestling tournament

Sue Spicer didn’t allow breast cancer to slow her down; instead, she has used her experience to provide comfort to others who are going through the same diagnosis.

Spicer volunteers at Tennova Cancer Resource Center, where she and other volunteers logged 33,000 hours last year providing information to patients, answering questions and, many times, just lending an ear or a shoulder to cry on.

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‘American Sniper’ Director Clint Eastwood knows war movies. His “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” are two of the best in recent years.

“American Sniper” had the potential to make it a trifecta, but Eastwood can’t figure out what kind of war movie he’s trying to make.

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Mary Boyce Temple “Along with Lizzie Crozier French, Mary Boyce Temple organized the Ossoli Circle in 1885 and was elected its first president.

Ossoli is the South’s oldest federated women’s club.”

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Butter and love The most important ingredients for baking are real butter and love. This is according to Powell resident and baker Alexandria Heimerman.

“I started out in college getting my business degree but just couldn’t wait to go to culinary school, so I dropped out and moved to California.”

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Berry Strong “Eric Berry is already a model for younger players, an example of how to do it. Before that, he was just a model citizen. I remember a high school story of him volunteering as a helper in a dentist’s office. I always suspected the receptionist was pretty.

“I recall, at UT, him showing up in the equipment room the night before a game to help team managers clean and polish helmets. Think about that, star with a scrub brush.”

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Halls wrestler Joe Fox is ranked among the top six in Tennessee at 145 pounds. Fox is pictured with Powell opponent Nathan Russell at a recent match. Photo by R. White

By Ruth White Back in 1968, Halls wrestling coach Ed Simmons had the idea to host a tournament, inviting teams to attend and compete against some of the best in the area. Each year the tournament has grown, and this weekend 17 teams will gather at Halls High School to participate in one of the toughest one-day tournaments in the state.

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A railroad crossing marks the boundary between residential Cedar Lane and the commercial corridor of Merchant Drive and the I-75 interchange to the west, but City Council is halfway to enacting a rezoning that will not only change that demarcation, but also has one prominent neighborhood activist predicting negative repercussions all over town.

“I’m shocked that City Council would do something like this to one of the most stable neighborhoods in North Knoxville,” said Lynn Redmon, president of the Norwood Homeowners Association, who didn’t go to the council meeting to speak out against the rezoning because, “I didn’t think it would be necessary.

“Breaking open this residential zoning will have long-term effects on Cedar Lane and other neighborhoods in this town, and they did it because they could. This was not City Council’s finest hour.”

The rezoning, approved on first reading by a 5-4 vote, consists of three Metropolitan Planning Commission-recommended measures (including city and sector plan amendments plus a conditional rezoning).

The property owner is Cindy Bradley, a real estate agent and former MPC commissioner who bought the former church building at the corner of Cedar Lane and Rowan Road in 2012 after MPC rejected the former owner’s request to rezone it to office, resulting in the asking price being slashed al-

Wrestling begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17, and will last until around 9 p.m., says coach Sayne.

Duals for elementary and middle school wrestlers will be held on Friday, Jan. 16, to kick off the weekend, and a junior varsity tournament will be held on Monday, Jan. 19, all in the HHS gym. Wrestling will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday and will last until 4 to 5 p.m.

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Cedar Lane rezoning

most in half. Churches and schools are permitted inside residential zones on use-on-review.

Bradley wants the property rezoned from civic institutional to office and low density residential and says she was forced to make this request because the city will not allow her tenants to have signage for their businesses. MPC has imposed four conditions regarding parking spaces and street access.

Bradley was supported by Inskip Neighborhood Association president Betty Jo Mahan, who is an MPC employee. Mahan said her membership prefers Cindy Bradley’s proposed dance studio and office uses to apartment buildings, of which the area has a plethora.

On the other side was Ryan

Bradley (no relation), the property’s next-door neighbor, who presented a petition with the signatures of 30 other close neighbors who oppose the rezoning and want to preserve the residential character of their neighborhood.

“We all bought here knowing we were in R1,” Ryan Bradley said.

“I don’t know why we’re talking about multi-family (not an allowed use in R-1 zones).”

Fifth District City Council member Mark Campen, who represents the area, opposed the rezoning request, saying that Cindy Bradley bought the property at a greatly reduced price because of its zoning issues and should not benefit from her gamble at the expense of her To page A-2

A great day to stay home

By Sandra Clark Knox County Schools will be giving a state-mandated “writing assessment” to children in grades 3-11 in February. The mom of a thirdgrader contacted Shopper-News.

Analysis The tests will be given on computer, and third-graders will be required to type their answers, she said. The teacher wrote: “This is an online assessment, which means they will read two articles online and then TYPE their 5 paragraph response.”

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dergriff and his son, John; current coach Shannon Sayne; and middle school wrestling coach Cody Humphrey, to name a few. Four of the teams attending the tournament are coached by former HHS wrestlers: Page High School coach is 2000 graduate Benji Gray; Powell High is coached by Larry Neely (1977); Seymour High coach is Alex Cate (2004); and Halls coach Sayne is a 1998 grad.

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Central, Wilson Central and McCallie (some of the top teams in Tennessee), plus Pisgah, N.C., and Abingdon, Va., as well as Tennessee teams from Blackman, Beech, Cane Ridge, East Hamilton and Red Bank. Area teams include Alcoa, Maryville, William Blount, Powell and Seymour.

Halls High School has produced its share of outstanding wrestlers, including former coach Chris Van-

The kids will have an hour and a half to complete the test with a 30-minute break “in between,” according to the teacher.

Dr. Elizabeth Alves, chief academic officer for Knox County Schools, said this is the first year the test will be administered in grades 3-11. “In the past, it was only given in grades 5, 8 and 11.

The test was piloted across the state last year. Our teachers opted not to participate in the pilot.”

Alves said the writing test for grades 5, 8 and 11 was administered by computer last year and grades 8 and 11 have been tested

on computer for two years.

She said student performance will be reported, but it will not count for teacher evaluation or system accountability purposes.

My final question: In what grade are children taught to type and expected to be proficient in the skill?”

Alves said: “Instruction in the use of technology and typing varies from school to school. Currently, there is no curriculum from the state for teaching typing at the elementary levels; however, there are state standards at each grade level that identify performance expecta-

tions. Elementary students are not graded on proficiency in typing.”

The parent who contacted Shopper-News is concerned that her 8-year-old will be typing a fiveparagraph response in a timed format. She said her kid visits the tech lab every six days, hardly enough to become proficient at keyboarding.

The teacher who contacted her said typing practice at home would be helpful because, “Capitalization, punctuation and indentions will be taken into consideration on their assessment grade.”

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Argie Hilbert: Living the good life

Argie Hilbert in the same spot in 2014.

By Sandra Clark Argie Hilbert has many friends and a daughter who will stick with her always.

Ginger Branch says, “I want no regrets.”

Recently she took her mom back to Rule High School, where Hilbert reigned as Miss Rule High in 1943. Back then, Hilbert had posed on the front steps, and Branch snapped another shot in the same spot, 71 years later. “I liked to never got her up those steps … or back down

them,” Branch laughs.

She then photographed the school’s exterior and through the windows that weren’t boarded up inside classrooms with blue- and gold-painted walls. “It was eerie,” she says.

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett wants to get the Rule High School property back on the tax rolls.

“We are waiting for Knox County Schools to surplus Rule to Knox County,” said spokesperson Michael Grid-

er. “Hugh Holt (purchasing director) said that’s expected to happen in the fall.

“At that point, Knox County will evaluate our options and determine whether there is a viable, private way to save the building. The mayor would like to see something productive done with that facility. As for a timeline, however, there isn’t one beyond what I described.”

Meanwhile, Argie Hilbert has great memories of growing up in Lonsdale and attending the old school. “I’ve lived in the same town and worked at the same bank,” she says. “I’m pleased with how everything went.”

Ginger now lives with Argie on Dutchtown Road in the Cedar Bluff area. She says church has always been a big part of her mom’s life, including her initiative as a charter member of Grace Covenant Baptist Church.

In Argie’s high school days, transportation choices were limited to walking or riding the streetcar. Argie’s

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home. Ice was delivered for morphed into United Amerthe ice box, and cook- ican Bank and then First ing was done on the Tennessee. woodstove. The Customers called her sisters had few everything from “Aggie” to dresses, so “Orggie,” and she answered their mom to every name. Her mother would wash had named her for her faand iron one ther’s initials. He was Rufus each eve- Glenmore Arnwine, so she ning, heat- became Argie. ing the iron The family lived with on the stove.

Argie’s grandparents for a “We were while. They had chickens poor but didn’t and hogs, right in town. know it,” says Ar- Grandmother Hale read gie. Supper was of- from the Bible after supper ten heated milk poured as the kids sat mesmerized. over bread.

Grandfather Hale had built Argie Hilbert, Miss Argie’s husband, Bill a long table with benches.

Rule High in 1943 Hilbert, was a class ahead Everyone knew when supat Rule. She got a job at the per was served, and the mom had to transfer three main office of the Hamilton whole family was invited. times just to get across town National Bank and stayed “We didn’t cook extra, but to her job at Standard Knit- until retirement as the bank shared what we had.” ting Mills.

Argie and her friends walked to churches, once as From page A-1 far away as Ball Camp Baptist. Attending revivals and neighbors. He also chided ed existing neighborhoods, even funerals was a social his colleagues for giving Ma- appeared to be a rare Seypastime. han’s nascent Inskip Neigh- mour misstep after he was Gus Manning was a high borhood Association more chided by Frost (who called school classmate. Playing credence than Ryan Bradley Seymour’s letter an “ad hofootball, he earned and kept and the 30 neighbors who minem” attack) and later by a reputation for toughness. signed his petition. council members like Vice Boys would play baseball The issue is further com- Mayor Nick Pavlis, who at the Knoxville Iron Com- plicated by four conditions said he didn’t appreciate pany on Texas Avenue after MPC tacked onto its rec- “an attack on City Council’s school until suppertime. ommendation, something attorney.”

“Nobody had watches; we that Cindy Bradley’s lawyer In the end, the counjust knew when it was time Arthur Seymour Jr. homed cil appears poised to give to go home.” in on with a letter he sent Cindy Bradley’s request John S. Humphreys was to council members the day the final stamp of apprincipal at Rule High, and of the meeting, pointing out proval next week. Council when the boys left early to council attorney Rob Frost’s members Brenda Palmer, enter World War II, he pre- votes for rezoning “condi- George Wallace, Daniel sented the seniors with ear- tions” when he was a coun- Brown, Marshall Stair and ly diplomas. Jim Bowman, cil member.

Pavlis voted to approve now deceased, was Argie’s Singling out Frost’s long- the rezoning. Nick Della counterpart as Mr. Rule ago votes, which dealt with Volpe, Duane Grieve, FinHigh in 1943. landscaping and screening barr Saunders and Campen The Koontz grocery store requirements that benefit- voted no. on Delaware Avenue allowed neighbors to pay by the week. At school, Argie and her sister, Edna, got free lunches by working in the cafeteria. in Halls and Fountain City There was no electricity at www.shoppernewsnow.com www ww.s w.sh • 922-4136

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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JANUARY 14, 2015 • A-3

MILESTONES Chase Gregory celebrated his fifth birthday on Jan. 5 with family and friends.

Chase attends Wallace Memorial Preschool and lives in Halls.

His parents are Michelle and Rob Gregory, and he has one sister, Gracie.

Chase’s grandparents are Bob and Gloria Gregory and Pat Sisson.

Volunteers at Tennova’s Cancer Resource Center were recognized for Best Practices by the American Cancer Society. Featured at the ceremony are (front) Pat Collier, Evelyn McWilliams, Sue Spicer; (back) Sheila Brown, Jackie Kirk, Fran House, Sue Boyle, Gail Cox, volunteer chair Janet Kendrick and American Cancer Society representative Scott Evans. Photo submitted

Katie Russell, a 2011 graduate of Central High, has been named to the Union University president’s of 1,000 ACS brochures list for the fall 2014 and 233 consolations. The semester. The president’s group provided 180 totes list includes full-time filled with information students who achieve a 4.0 for infusion and radiation grade point average on a patients. four-point scale.

Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer can contact Janet Kendrick at Artists’ works on display 865-567-1434. Training is Three artists are feaprovided.

Being a volunteer isn’t tured during January at the easiest job you might the Parkside Gift Shop, take on, but it might be one formerly known as the Parkside Open Door Galof the most rewarding. lery in Fountain City.

Denae Oglesby has handcrafted silver jewelry, and Kate McCullough is featuring watercolors; both are Fountain City residents.

Mary Secrist of Halls also is featuring watercolors.

The gift shop is at 213 Hotel Ave. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wednesday and Friday; and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday.

Artists throughout the area are juried into Parkside Gift Shop. Info: 357-7624 or 357-2787.

Volunteers make a difference Thanks to the volunteer spirit of many individuals, Tennova North’s Cancer Resource Center was recently recognized for making a difference in the lives of cancer patients.

American Cancer Society representative Scott Evans recognized the group for its efforts. The group has been instrumental in community outreach, thanks in part to cancer survivor Sue Spicer, who has spoken to eight organizations regarding

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During the past year, the volunteers have worked with Tennova to simplify a checklist to service all patients and guests, resulting in the distribution

Russell makes Union University president’s list

Sue Spicer: The heart of a volunteer Sue Spicer didn’t allow breast cancer to slow her down; instead, she has used her experience to provide comfort to others who are going through the same diagnosis.

Spicer volunteers at Tennova Cancer Resource Center, where she and other volunteers logged 33,000 hours last year providing information to patients, answering questions and, many times, just lending an ear or a shoulder to cry on.

“Life is not a spectator sport,” said Spicer, who hopes that by giving her time she can help eliminate some of folks’ stress. One of her favorite sayings: Volunteers don’t necessarily have the time, but they have the heart, so they make the time (Anonymous). Seeing gratitude in the eyes of those she has helped keeps her coming back every week.

Spicer had the opportunity to speak with an 83-year-old woman who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. “The first line of defense is the doctor, but patients often need someone to talk with,”

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Fountain City Lions Club meets 6 p.m. each first and third Monday, Lions Community Building, 5373-5377 N. Broadway.

■ Halls Community Lions Club meets 7:15 p.m. each second and fourth Monday, Shoney’s, 343 E. Emory Road.

■ Halls Republican Club meets

Volunteer Sue Spicer doesn’t slow down. Photo by R. White

she said. Spicer shared her own experience with breast cancer, and as the conversation ended the woman was thankful for her time and just wanted a hug from her newfound friend.

Tennova Cancer Resource Center volunteers are friendly and eager to help. Anyone interested in volunteering can contact Spicer at 235-3730. Volunteer hours are flexible, and training is provided.

7 p.m. each third Monday at the Boys & Girls Club of Halls/ Powell, 1819 Dry Gap Pike.

The speaker for Jan. 19 will be Mike Donila, investigative reporter for WBIR-TV. Info: www.knoxgop.org.

■ Seventh District Democrats meet 6:30 p.m. each fourth Monday, Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road.

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Carolyn Wells, Christy Rutherford and Chuck Denney “practice” for Jan. 17’s night of improv coming up at Powell High School. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Powell Playhouse set for ‘improv’

By Cindy Taylor It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s whatever you want it to be!

As long as you can come up with the prop and a threeminute skit. This may present a challenge for actors with the Powell Playhouse, but it can only mean fun for the audience.

PPH will present the inaugural rendition of “A Night of Improv” 7-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, in the Nita Buell Black Auditorium at Powell High School.

Skits will be unrehearsed and created the moment

they are performed. Playhouse regulars will be provided with scenarios and must grab props and come up with skits on the spot.

The evening will kick off with an original play written by former Playhouse vice president and artist Bob Longmire titled “Happy Holly Day.” “We are excited to have our first-ever improv night and to present our first original short play,” said playhouse president Gina Jones. “This is exactly what the playhouse is all about:

lifting up all the different talent we have in our area.”

Admission to “A Night of Improv” is $10 at the door.

Next up at the Powell Playhouse will be the courtroom drama “The Night of January 16.” The play will involve jurors selected from the audience. Auditions will be 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, Tuesday, Jan. 27, Monday, Feb. 2, and Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Powell library.

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Prayer meeting time I do believe it is prayer meeting time.

The sports forums I follow, starting with Scout’s VolChat and Rocky Top Board, tell me Tennessee people are praying for one of our favorite sons, Eric Berry.

So are Georgia people and Kentucky people and some from Florida and even Alabama. Out in Kansas, concern for Berry is big.

Eric is 26, a two-time All-American Volunteer, recipient of the Jim Thorpe Award as the nation’s best collegiate defensive back.

The Chiefs selected him fifth in the 2010 draft. He has been that good or better in the NFL. That was then.

The now part is a fight for his life against Hodgkin lymphoma. He is favored to win – a high percentage do – but he is too special and this is too serious to take for granted.

Peyton Manning has checked in. He sees this as a tough fight, understands the treatment is challenging, but says Eric is a fighter.

“I reached out to him and told him he’s in a lot of peo-

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ple’s prayers and thoughts.”

Phillip Fulmer is optimistic.

“He was always up to the challenge. I believe he will be in this case.”

Ex-Vol Inky Johnson, inspiration for many, close friend to Berry, says Eric is doing well.

“He’s doing great. He comes from a great family. Most importantly, Eric knows who’s in control of his situation, and that’s God. When you know who’s in control, you’re at peace with it. So Eric will be fine.”

Maybe you know that Berry chose Kansas City number 29 in recognition of Inky. He was 29 at Tennessee.

We don’t know when the cancer started, but we know when it was found. Quirky story. Late November, Berry put a big hit on Oakland running back Marcel Reece.

‘H’ is for hypocrite A more fitting name for the Harvard Crimson might be the fortuitously alliterative “Harvard Hypocrites.”

behind the red faces of Harvard faculty members.

Turns out they’re indignant about being introduced to the reality of health-care reforms many of them supLarry ported.

Ivy League, meet The Van Rest of Us. Guilder Confronted with increases in out-of-pocket costs for health care, resulting in part from provisions in As the New York Times the Affordable Care Act, recently reported, it isn’t the agitated academics are love for the Crimson that’s questioning the university’s

The other safety, Husain Abdullah, came flying in to get a piece. He also got some of Eric.

Berry got up clutching his chest.

“You all right?” Abdullah asked.

“I’m good,” Berry replied.

Later, his shoulder wasn’t so good. An X-ray didn’t show anything, but when orthopedic physician Cris Barnthouse examined him, things didn’t add up. Berry hurt when he moved his arm but was not sensitive to touch, nor was his strength affected. If his chest was bruised, he would have felt pain in all three tests. Barnthouse recommended an MRI. There it was, the intruder, a mass that didn’t belong.

Eric chose Atlanta as the battleground, Emory’s cancer institute. Dr. Christopher R. Flowers, a Stanford man, is calling the plays. He says the affliction is potentially curable with standard chemotherapy. Radiation is a secondary approach. Stem cell implants are out there somewhere, if needed.

Flowers did not discuss future football. Or hair loss.

I lack the wisdom to explain why really bad things sometimes happen to really good people. I do know the

NFL generates a bunch of ugly headlines. None belong to Eric. He is considered a rock-solid pillar among the Chiefs, a natural leader who plays the game the right way and didn’t flaunt his wealth or honors.

Eric is already a model for younger players, an example of how to do it.

Before that, he was just a model citizen. I remember a high school story of him volunteering as a helper in a dentist’s office. I always suspected the receptionist was pretty.

I recall, at UT, him showing up in the equipment room the night before a game to help team managers clean and polish helmets. Think about that, star with a scrub brush.

I never saw Eric turn cartwheels or otherwise celebrate an interception or touchdown. He just handed the ball to the nearest official. He has always been substance over style.

BerryStrong is the getwell theme, but Kansas City defensive end Mike DeVito tweeted a verse from Psalms that I’m going to keep handy, just in case: “O Lord, my God, I cried to You for help, and You have healed me.”

data. Some have gone so far as to devise spreadsheets to crunch the numbers – no mean feat for professors more at home with Aphrodite than annuities.

One Harvard veteran called the changes “deplorable, deeply regressive,” while another said the outof-pocket costs were “equivalent to taxing the sick.”

As a member of the unwashed masses who has forked over my “sick tax” for years, it’s hard to overlook their hypocrisy, much less generate sympathy for them.

The new Harvard health

plan carries an annual deductible of $250 for an individual and $750 for a family.

Those are small fractions of what’s paid by most people who purchased insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The yearly out-of-pocket limit is $1,500 for individuals and $4,500 for families.

In sum, Harvard says the plan will pay 91 percent of health-care costs for enrollees. Don’t bother looking for a plan through the federal or state exchanges that pays as well.

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

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Pavlis: Time to give mayor more money Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis is looking for co-sponsors for an ordinance to raise the mayor’s pay, a measure he says is long overdue. The mayor and four of his City Council colleagues will be up for re-election this year.

Betty Bean “The mayor makes $130,000 a year, and I am going to propose raising it by $12,500, to $142,000. It would take effect at the end of 2015, the day after the next swearing-in. This is the appropriate time to do it,” he said.

“The last increase was voted on in 2003 and didn’t take effect until ’06 – and here it is, 2015. Sure, $12,500 is a big one-time catch up, but if you amortize it over a nine-year period, it’s not that big a catch up. I just think our city should be in line with other cities and with county officials.”

Most mayors in other cities and County Mayor Tim Burchett make more than Rogero, said Pavlis, whose great-uncle Jack Dance was mayor of Knoxville when he died in 1959.

He said he doesn’t want to see this office become the preserve of the very rich, and said that since city employees are required to be on the job for 10 years before vesting in pension benefits and mayors are limited to two four-year terms, mayors will generally be ineligible for pensions (Rogero, if re-elected, would be an exception since she served for four years as city development director

under Mayor Bill Haslam before resigning in 2010 to run for mayor). County employees vest in eight years.

“I worry that we’re making it an exclusive club and knocking out the vast majority of citizens of Knoxville from consideration,” he said. “If you’re a reasonably intelligent person with a reasonable job with a pension and benefits, the salary has to be up there because you’re giving up your benefits. We’ve been surveying salaries and benefits, and I think this is a good path for us to go down and I think we should look at this more frequently than we have.

“Madeline had no idea this was coming. She wouldn’t be a party to that, anyway – that’s political suicide.”

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Burke makes $151,000. Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton makes $162,925, and Knox Count y Mayor Tim Burchett gets $167,687 annually.

Metro Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s $136,500 makes him a bit of an outlier (in November, the Metro Council turned down a proposal to raise his salary to $180,000).

State law requires the county mayor’s salary to be the highest in the county, but at least six city employees, including Janet Wright (director of information systems) at $168,230, Bill Lyons (deputy to the mayor) at $160,130, Christi Branscom (deputy to the mayor) at $153,120, Charles Swanson (law director) at $152,980, David Rausch (chief of police) at $139,080 and Stephen King (deputy director of engineering) at $133,150 make more money than Rogero.

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The case for tuition-free college By now, everyone in the world and the astronauts in outer space know that President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, visited Pellissippi State Community College last week to announce a national plan of two years of tuition-free community college for anyone willing to work for it.

The plan will be based on Tennessee Promise, a program with the same incentive offered for the first time ever to the class of 2015 throughout our great Volunteer state.

I am not usually one to follow politics, but I think this is a great idea if we can all make it through the red tape without getting stuck in it.

This is why I support the president’s plan: When covering school news, every

Sara Barrett

day I visit at least one public school and meet students who blow me away with their ideas.

Students of all ages have shown me projects they’ve created, fundraising they’ve planned and hosted themselves, goals they’ve achieved and dreams they would like to follow upon graduating from high school.

Without Tennessee Promise, many of them would never be able to afford college.

I can’t speak for the rest of the country, or even for

everyone else here in Tennessee, but I know when I hear a kindergartner tell me an idea she has to help the homeless or I interview a student in the fifth grade who already has a business plan to start his own company, I am so glad they will have the support they’ll need right here at home. Not only will they have the potential to better themselves, but they’ll better their world – mine and yours – in the process.

During his announcement, the president said he hopes to level the playing field among the haves and the have-nots. “We don’t expect everybody to make it,” he said, “but we do expect everybody to get an equal shot.”

It shouldn’t be about what you look like, how you worship or your last name,

he said. I couldn’t agree more. There are many gifted children who may not be given the same opportunities because of the area they live in or how much money their parents make.

“No one with drive and discipline should be left out,” the president continued.

“Two years of college will be as free as high school is today.” Once students complete the two years of college, they could transfer those credits to a university and essentially get half of a bachelor’s degree free.

The students I meet and write about are a glimpse of the talent thriving in today’s schools.

With a national plan to give them a hand up, their possibilities are endless.

Sara Barrett is West Knox school beat reporter for Shopper-News.

MPC − better than a soap opera I used to think that sitting through a multi-hour government meeting would be approximately as enjoyable as having my toenails trimmed with a jackhammer. But as I’ve become a grownup, the things that interest me have changed.

Thank goodness. Otherwise, I’d still be watching soaps with my girlfriends, MPC chair Rebecca Longmire and commissioner Bart Cary recas I did when I was 14. ognize retiring MPC executive director Mark Donaldson, center, at last week’s meeting. Photo by Wendy Smith

Wendy Smith

During my process of educating myself about local government, I’ve watched a few meetings online and attended a few in person.

Last week was my first inperson encounter with the Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC), and I was transfi xed.

Before the meeting began, I examined the audience and found I could pick out the developers, lawyers and concerned citizens.

Most of the lawyers I knew by name because a relatively small pool represents

most local developers and citizens. The developers generally had a similar look − jeans, a sport coat and longish hair. Hip. The citizens wore their stress like a garment. They sat in groups and whispered together. I understand their fear. Some are facing development that could have a very real negative impact on their property and, maybe, on their lives.

This is where the drama happens. People don’t like change. Nobody ever says, “I’ve always enjoyed this wooded lot behind my house, where squirrels and birds play. But I don’t mind if someone knocks down the trees and grades with loud equipment in order to build a new hospital/shopping

Larry Van Guilder The “platinum” plans come close, covering 90 percent of costs on average, but are prohibitively expensive for many. “Silver” plans, covering 70 percent, are the most purchased.

Hypocrisy in academia is at least a change of pace from rampant political hypocrisy. But with the latter on full display in East Tennessee last week, it couldn’t

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be ignored.

Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, Tennessee’s full complement of U.S. senators, were eager to be seen with President Barack Obama as he visited Big Orange Country.

Neither made an appearance during Obama’s earlier treks to Tennessee (Nashville and Memphis), so is it growing admiration for his

center/apartment complex behind my house.

“I understand that development is part of the natural order of things in a growing city like Knoxville.”

To be honest, I tend to side with those citizens − all of them. Our homes are overwhelmingly personal.

They are our refuge. It’s cruel to deprive people of the things they love best about their homes for the sake of progress, especially if a developer profits from the loss.

Still, I have to admit that, after watching several hours of meetings, I’m beginning to understand the other side.

No matter how surrounding property owners feel, sick people benefit from

hospitals. People buy things they need at shopping centers, which supports jobs and produces tax revenues that pay for stuff like schools and pothole repair.

People live in the apartments, and they’re more likely to be young professionals, like my son, than drug dealers.

It comes down to those who serve, without pay, on the MPC, to make decisions about where such things will be built.

And here’s the good news − they take their jobs seriously. They ask questions, and they seek input from citizens, even when the agenda is long and each side has spent its five minutes of talk time.

They’ll never be popular, except maybe with the developers. They will, more often than not, approve development, even if it hurts the little guy. It’s done, in theory, for the greater good.

It’s what they did when your subdivision, your grocery store and your office building were approved.

Whenever two opposing forces come together, there’s high drama. That’s what makes MPC meetings interesting. They’re better than a soap opera.

leadership that drew them this time?

During a Nov. 20, 2014, interview on Fox, Corker, riled over Obama’s decision to take executive action on immigration, called his presidency the “worst in modern history.” Obama is “weak,” Corker said, and acting like “a 13-year-old.”

I don’t hear the Carpenters singing “Close to You” in that rant. They must want to praise his signature legislation.

“The health-care law is an historic mistake that should be delayed, dismantled, repealed and replaced,” Alexander said in a speech before the Senate on Sep. 27, 2013.

Oops.

Corker? He voted against passage of a continuing resolution that included funding Obamacare and instead supported U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s bill to repeal it.

No denying that ignoring one’s own hypocrisy can

government Remembering Edward Brooke asking that his trial be moved out of Knox County through his attorney, Greg Isaacs. Without commenting on the merits of the case, I know Lowe has an expert attorney when it comes to advocating delays in trials.

Isaacs is also the attorney for Troy Whiteside, who was indicted over five years ago for homicide, and his case has not yet gone to trial due to a variety of Victor delays. It is currently set Ashe to start next month, but no one is holding their breath it will happen.

If this motion for Lowe is successful, that The next oldest livtrial is delayed several ing former senators are, more months. in order of age: Ernest If the city of Boston Hollings, 93, from South can find a jury to deCarolina; Jocelyn Burdick cide the trial of Dzhokhar of North Dakota, 92; Paul Tsarnaev, one of the susLaxalt from Nevada, 92; pects in the Boston MaraJames Buckley from New thon bombings, with all York, 91; and Bob Dole the international publicity from Kansas, 91.

Tennessee’s Bill Brock is it has generated, surely Knoxville can provide an now the 37th oldest living objective jury and a fair U.S. senator at age 84. He trial for both Mike Lowe lives in Annapolis, Md. and Troy Whiteside for I had the privilege of their respective charges. knowing Edward Brooke The truth is, probably when I worked for Sen. Howard Baker in 1967 and more than two-thirds of the people of Knox both were freshman senaCounty have never heard tors and Republicans at that time. Both staffs were of Lowe, which means they do not have an opinion of friendly, and Lamar Alexhim. ander was Baker’s legislaFewer than half could tive aide that year. identify Lowe or Whiteside Brooke had been attorif shown a photo. ney general of Massachu■ Georgia Varlan setts prior to being elected Man, daughter of Danni to the Senate in 1966, the and U.S. District Judge same year Howard Baker Thomas Varlan, is the Jr. was elected to the Senassociate general counate from Tennessee. The sel for the new Republican two staffs played softball governor of Illinois, Bruce against each other in the Rauner, effective this summer. week.

I met up with Sen. She is a Phi Beta Kappa Brooke in 1973 when I was on a private trip to Athens, graduate of the University of Tennessee and a 2012 Greece, and he was meetgraduate of the University ing with Greek leaders.

We were both staying at of Virginia School of Law. She has been an attorthe Grande Bretagne Hotel on Athens’ famed Constitu- ney at Kirkland and Ellis in Chicago and will work tion Square and ended up at the governor’s Chicago having breakfast together. legal office.

■ Mike Lowe, former Knox County trustee, is The death of Edward W. Brooke, first AfricanAmerican elected to the U.S. Senate (Massachusetts), makes astronaut John Glenn the oldest living former U.S. senator at 93.

He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and has an office at Ohio State University.

be politically useful. And, while sharing a platform with the president, some of the “weakness” that has

steered the country clear of economic and diplomatic disaster for six years might rub off on our senators.

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Schoonmaker will resign from the Board of Zoning Appeals. Briggs was elected to the state Senate in November.

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If you recently upgraded your computer system, iPad or tablet during the holidays and want to donate your old equipment, the East Tennessee Technology Access Center (ETTAC) will accept XP Windows computers or newer, as well as all iPads, iPods, other mobile devices and tablets.

All computers and iPads must be in good working condition.

ETTAC is a regional nonprofit agency that helps people with disabilities. The staff adapts computers with specialized software and hardware that are then given or loaned to clients to enable them to pursue their educational or employment goals. Hard drives will be wiped clean before distribution. All donations are tax deductible.

ETTAC also has a reuse program for durable medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, lifts and shower seats, which are given to people who cannot afford them.

Computers and medical equipment can be dropped off at ETTAC’s Knoxville office, 116 Childress St., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.\ Info: 219-0130 or www.ettac.org.

By Wendy Smith Jewish clothing designer Hedy Strnad was all but forgotten after her death in the Holocaust. But dresses created from a handful of her designs give insight into a world where even talented, professional Jews with American connections couldn’t escape the Nazis.

The story began in Prague and continued to Milwaukee. Now, thanks to a Knoxville connection, it will be told here.

Ellie Gettinger and Ellen Iroff grew up worshipping together at Heska Amuna Synagogue. Gettinger, influenced by a scholarship trip to Israel, chose a Jewish professional career and became the educator of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee (JMM). Iroff, who was active in Bearden High School’s drama department, studied costume design at the College of Charleston and eventually became the school’s costume shop manager. That makes them the perfect duo to tell Hedy’s story.

A letter from Hedy’s husband, Paul Strnad, was discovered in the basement of a home in a Milwaukee suburb in 1997. The letter, mailed to Paul’s American cousin in 1939, included a photo of the couple and eight of Hedy’s dress designs. The package was intended to prove that the couple could support themselves if granted a visa to the U.S.− their only possible escape from a situation that was growing increasingly dire for Jews in Czechoslovakia.

In spite of the cousin’s efforts, the Strnads didn’t escape.

The letter and designs were put on display at the museum in 2008. Interest in the material led to further research on the couple and a commission for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s costume shop to recreate Hedy’s designs.

Five people worked on the dresses for over a year. They even silk-screened fabrics to match the prints in the designs, says Barb Levin, Ellie Gettinger’s mother.

The result is an exhibit at JMM called “Stitching History from the Holocaust.” The dresses are especially poignant because they demonstrate Hedy’s remarkable talent, Levin says.

“When you walk into the room (with the dresses), there’s a loud noise because they are really loud and chattery.”

The community is invited to hear Gettinger and Iroff speak about the exhibit at two events at the Arnstein Jewish Community Center, 6800 Deane Hill Drive.

HEALTH NOTES ■ Community Health Alliance Marketplace Open Enrollment for Health Coverage, 1-5 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 17, Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive.

■ Community Health Alliance Marketplace Open Enrollment for Health Coverage, 1-5 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 24, Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road.

■ “Exploring Music for Health,” 1-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 14, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Hosted by Sara Matayoshi, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra violinist.

Info/RSVP: 546-4661.

One of Hedy Strnad’s designs, as seen in the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.

At 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18, they will show a 30-minute PBS documentary on the exhibit, and Iroff will discuss the skills used to replicate the historical dress designs. At 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19, both women will discuss the role of dressmaking and tailoring in the Jewish experience.

Paul and Hedy’s story isn’t just about one couple, Levin says. It’s about two brothers

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who each raised a family − one in Prague ■ Healing Through Art: Vision Board, 1-3 p.m. and one in Milwaukee. The American side Friday, Jan. 16, Cancer Support Community, of the family is alive and well, while the 2230 Sutherland Ave. Instructor: Cheri Pollack.

Czech side was extinguished.

No experience necessary. Info/RSVP: 546-4661.

But it’s also a story of hope. Even ■ “Knit Your Way to Wellness,” 1-3 p.m. Thursthough Hedy lost her life, she has been day, Jan. 15, Cancer Support Community, 2230 immortalized through the exhibit.

Sutherland Ave. Hosted by Shelley Hecht of Loopville and Beth Hamil, CSC. For beginner “It’s a remembrance, not only of what was and advanced knitters. Info/RSVP: 546-4661. lost in the Holocaust, but of the potential for life beyond that,” says Levin.

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Words for 2015 from pastor Alan Price

By Cindy Taylor “Like individuals, churches take stock as a new year begins,” said the Rev. Alan Price of Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

“We think back with gratitude on what we were able to accomplish during the previous 12 months, knowing that each acAlan Price complishment came by the grace of God, and we look forward with renewed hope and prayers for what will be done in and through us during the coming year.”

Price says the New Year at Beaver Dam begins with an old mission.

“We believe we exist to make and mature believers. Of course we un-

derstand that we don’t actually ‘make’ believers. God alone can change the heart, but He chooses to use us in that process.”

Price says the church makes a concerted effort to reach the community for Christ. He says it is a mission field and needs to be treated as such. During the past few years, Beaver Dam has started many new ministries such as Jeans for teens, a prison Bible study and minors’ care for single mothers.

A group of young women began a ministry to the students at Adrian Burnett Elementary: feeding 40 children each week in the summer, providing Christmas for 48 students from 15 families and providing school supplies.

“These are just a few of the ways

faith

we are trying to show our love for the Halls community and the people who call it home.”

BDBC’s big project for 2015 will be the renovation of the church sanctuary. That portion of the campus is more than 20 years old. Plans for reFor everything there is a season and time for every placing the pews and flooring and apmatter under heaven. ... plying a fresh coat of paint are set to (Ecclesiastes 3: 1 NRSV) begin after Easter.

“This will not only beautify our faMy old clock used to tell the time cility, but will keep it functioning for And subdivide diurnity; years to come. Yes, even buildings But now it’s lost both hands and chime play a part in fulfilling the mission.

And only tells eternity.

We at Beaver Dam believe that your (“Out of Time (A Holiday Thought),” Piet Hein) 2015 will be much more enjoyable if you make worshipping Christ with His You understand as well body, the church, a weekly priority.”

Beaver Dam Baptist Church is at as I do that time flows in Cross 4828 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2322 one direction, and nothing Currents we can do, say or think will or www.bdbc.org. change that. On reflection, I Lynn am grateful for that; otherPitts wise, I might possibly have to live some days over and over until I get them right!

Even so, the turning of you do differently? What Christ to our community Glenwood’s plan for 2015 is the year is a gift. Because is one aspect of your life and the world greater than threefold: praying together, we have chosen to “subdi- that you would most like to we ever have before.” studying God’s word and vide diurnity,” as Danish change? (If there isn’t someHenderson hopes that serving in a greater way poet/philosopher/architect/ thing you need or want to city designer Piet Hein de- change about your life, then Glenwood Baptist can help than ever before.

“I hope we can show that scribes it, we can deal with you are most singularly people find what they are church is not a place you time in chunks, rather than blessed!) searching for in life.

“People search in differ- come to, but is God’s people be overwhelmed by its imWhen my mother was ent ways: through money, gathered together to wor- mensity. a stay-at-home mom, her I am willing to take my annual January gift to herpower, relationships, pos- ship and honor Him. We sessions, etc. My hope is want Glenwood to glorify days, my blessings and my self was to put away all the that we can tell about, show God by loving and serving woes one at a time!

Christmas paraphernalia There is something fresh and then settle in to re-read and lead them to the only our community. We want to thing that can fill the void in show that God’s love, grace and promising about a new “Gone with the Wind.” (Her their lives – a relationship and mercy are available to year. We have a chance to copy of that book eventuall who would believe from start over. A new year places ally fell apart and had to be with Jesus.”

The congregation at our doorsteps to the ends of us at a new starting line: we rebound; it sits in a place of have a clean slate; we can honor on my bookshelf toGlenwood wants to show the earth.”

Glenwood Baptist Church change ourselves, our bod- day.) people that church is not a closed community, a coun- of Powell is at 7212 Central ies, our habits, our outlook.

What will you give yourSo, this year, what will self in the New Year? try club or a place of judg- Avenue Pike. Info: 938-2611 www.glenwoodpowell. ment. It is not about a style or of music, what you wear or com. the programs. He says that

Subdividing time

Words for 2015 from pastor Travis Henderson

By Cindy Taylor “2014 was a year of blessings for me and the congregation at Glenwood Baptist,” said the Rev. Travis Henderson. “My youngest daughter came to know Christ and I had the honor of baptizing her.”

Henderson says God worked in the lives of many others as well.

“I saw people who had never been involved in church develop a deep love for Christ.”

Henderson says Glenwood Baptist Church of Powell had a great year of serving the community through the John 5 food pantry, which usually serves 20-25 families each month. In November they were blessed to

be able to cook, serve and sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with the families who come to the pantry.

T h e c h u r c h started a new Sunday school class Henderson for young adults, and it is now the largest and fastest growing class.

Henderson says 2014 was a good year, but he’s even more excited by what God has in store for 2015.

“My hope and prayer for Glenwood is that we can proclaim the word of God and extend the love of

HALLS SENIOR CENTER

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.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church, 7212 Central Ave. Pike, is accepting appointments for the John 5 Food Pantry. Info: 938-2611. Your call will be returned.

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, fol-

lowed by a meal and worship at 7 p.m. Small sharing groups will convene at 8:15 p.m. The recovery plan focuses on individuals and families who are struggling with addiction. There is no charge. Info: www. recoveryatpowell.com or 938-2741.

Special services ■ First Presbyterian Church, 620 State St., will host an Interfaith Prayer service at noon Wednesday, Jan. 14, to begin the week of celebration honoring the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Featuring leaders from a variety of faith groups, musical selections underlining the interfaith theme and lunch following the service, offered free of charge. Info: Interfaith@MLKKnoxville. com.

■ Wednesday, Jan. 14: 10 a.m. bingo, hand & foot; 12:30 p.m. bridge; 1 p.m.

Rook, SAIL exercise.

■ Thursday, Jan. 15: 10 a.m. line dance, pinochle, quilting; 11 a.m., exercise; 1 p.m. Ballroom Dance class, Beginning Knitting class; 2 p.m. Snack and Learn: Identity Theft.

■ Friday, Jan. 16: 9:30 a.m. Pilates, Art Club; 10 a.m. euchre; 11 a.m. SAIL

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exercise; 11:30 a.m. art class; noon Mexican Train dominoes.

■ Monday, Jan. 19: Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ■ Tuesday, Jan. 20: 10 a.m. canasta; 11 a.m. exercise; 12:30 p.m. Mexican Train dominoes; 1 p.m. Memoir group; 1:30 p.m. hand & foot; 2 p.m. movie time.

■ Info: 922-0416.

CORRYTON SENIOR CENTER ■ Wednesday, Jan. 14: 9 a.m. billiards, quilting; 10 a.m. dominos; 11 a.m. crochet, open game; 1 p.m. Rook.

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I was in fourth grade when the Chicorelli brothers announced they were going to beat me up afterr school.

I didn’t know why they’d d want to do a thing like that. t. stt I was a sweet little boy, just ask my mother. They were both a year older than me, and I didn’t really even know them. Anyway, I had the rest of the day to think about what was going to transpire after school.

My mind began to race.

How could I avoid this fight?

Then it came to me. When school let out, I’d make sure that several of my friends were with me, and we’d walk home together. The bullies would never try anything against all of us together.

And I was right. I never had that confrontation with the Chicorelli brothers.

But now, here’s the point.

As a fourth grader, I knew

Steve Higginbotham what to do when I was facing trouble: surround myself with friends. However, let the devil start picking on someone and what’s the first thing they do? They quit attending worship services.

They isolate themselves from their friends. They play right into the hands of the devil.

Take it from the experience of a fourth grader who knows. If you’re having trouble, don’t isolate yourself. Instead, surround yourself with friends who will give you strength when you are weak.

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The family of Emily Barger was recognized at the pink out, including sister Megan, mom Misty, sister Blair and dad Brian.

HMS dance team member Maddie Conner performs a halftime routine with the squad.

Senior Baily Hammett performs a cheer during a timeout for the Central Bobcats. Central’s boys team defeated Powell 64-59 in an action-packed matchup.

Basketball reboots after holiday

Halls Middle goes pink for Emily and Saxon Halls Middle School dance team hosted a pinkout game last week to raise Ruth money for The Butterfly White Fund in memory of Emily Barger and Saxon Cochran.

The basketball teams wore specially-made pink T-shirts for the day, and the cheerleaders wore pink team dressed up their socks and used pink poms sequined black outfits with during the game. The dance pink flowers in their hair.

Austin-East to host youth symposium The MLK Commission Youth Symposium team is partnering with the Knoxville Chapter of Jack & Jill of America to host a day of youth development and leadership training, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at Austin-East High School.

Jack and Jill will present an oratorical contest concurrent with the breakout sessions for middle and high school students. The Jack and Jill program is designed to inspire and encourage teens ages 13-18 to embrace and value the art of public speaking. An online registration form for the event is available at www.MLKknoxville.org.

The event will feature a day packed with activities, food and entertainment and is intended to nurture and develop the next generation of leaders.

Austin-East High School is located at 2800 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. Info: youth@MLKKnoxville. com.

CHS baseball lead-off banquet Central High School Baseball is hosting a leadoff banquet with head coach Matt Byrd at 5 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 31, in the

Family Life Center of Central Baptist Church of Fountain City.

The 1990 state championship team will be honored as part of the 25-year anniversary celebration of that season.

Members of the team, along

Halls Middle School player Sheldon James shakes hands with Misty Barger, whose daughter, Emily, lost her battle with cancer.

Emily’s love for butterflies is the reason for the foundation’s name, The Butterfly Fund. Photos by R. White

Central High player Matt Randolph sports a shirt in support of Mabry Kate at the Powell game last week. Mabry Kate is the daughter of PHS girls basketball coach Christin Webb and suffers from Krabbe disease. Photo by R. White

Dance team members Jaida Duthu and Aloria Beason (top) perform during halftime at a Halls Middle School game.

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Sales of specialty license plates in North Carolina and Tennessee support priority projects in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Projects include Student Conservation Association internship positions, Parks as Classrooms and Appalachian Trail Ridgerunner programs in both states.

Seasonal environmental student interns gain a deeper understanding of park ecology while conducting scientific research, assisting with resource management projects and eradicating non-native plants and pests.

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Josh Neely of Powell (220 lbs.) defeated Lucas Wright of Halls at the recent match at Gibbs. Neely and Wright will both participate in the Halls Invitational Tournament on Saturday, Jan. 17 at Halls High School. Photos by R. White

Luke Harp of Halls battles with Antonio Herrara of Karns in the 170 lb. weight class at a recent match.

Herrara pinned Harp for the win.

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■ All Halls High 1975 grads who are interested in a 40-year reunion are encouraged to send contact information to Cathy Hickey-Johnson at hallshighclassof75@gmail.com. Those interested in serving on the planning committee should email Tim Witt at hallshigh75@yahoo.com.

SPORTS NOTES Baseball signups for 3U-14U will be held 10 a.m.2 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 17, 24, 31 and Feb. 7, at Halls Community Park. Info: hcpark.org or hcpsports@msn.com.

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Chris “Thor” Hemsworth plays a hacker in “Blackhat.”

The title character learns about plumbing in “Paddington.”

Josh Gad and Kevin Hart star in “The Wedding Ringer.”

Movie hodgepodge should satisfy most tastes Pardon the cliché, but this weekend’s new movies offer something for practically everyone.

For Oscar bait and warmovie fans, there’s “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood. (Please see review, this page.)

For the moviegoing mainstream, there’s “Blackhat,” a timely thriller starring Chris “Thor” Hemsworth.

Hemsworth plays a jailed hacker recruited by the government and furloughed to help stop another hacker who’s trying to collapse the world’s financial markets.

Viola Davis and Wei Tang co-star in the thriller directed by Michael Mann, whose last big-screen directing gig was 2009’s “Pub-

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lic Enemies.”

For families, there’s “Paddington,” based on the beloved books by Michael Bond. The lovable Peruvian bear is alone in a London train station until the kindly Brown family finds him and takes him home. It looks like a happy ending for Paddington until an evil museum curator (Nicole Kidman) finds out about the unusual talking bear.

A top-notch British cast

– Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Michael Gambon and Imelda Staunton – stars. Ben Whishaw provides the voice of Paddington, who is entirely computer generated. Paul King directed.

Finally, for lovers of raunchy comedy, “The Wedding Ringer” fills the void.

Kevin Hart plays a bestman-for-hire who attempts to save the day for a shy young groom trying to impress his in-laws.

Josh Gad, Kaley CuocoSweeting, Josh Peck, Jorge Garcia, Cloris Leachman, Mimi Rogers and Jenifer Lewis round out the eclectic cast. Screenwriter Jeremy Garelick makes his featuredirecting debut.

Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sets his sights on a target in “American Sniper.”

Cooper impresses, but ‘Sniper’ misses mark

By Betsy Pickle Director Clint Eastwood knows war movies. His “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” are two of the best in recent years.

“American Sniper” had the potential to make it a trifecta, but Eastwood can’t figure out what kind of war movie he’s trying to make.

Based on the story of Chris Kyle, whose liketitled autobiography spent months on the best-seller lists, “American Sniper” has a strong central performance but little nuance otherwise. The one thing that’s inarguable is that Bradley Cooper makes a tremendous physical transformation and powerfully conveys the growing inner disconnect between military and home life.

Eastwood and screenwriter Jason Hall jump around in time at first, but even that gives way to a mostly orthodox chronology.

Chris Kyle (Cooper) is a Texas rodeo rider who decides it’s his duty to defend his country. He joins the Navy SEALs and soon after his training is finished he is deployed to Iraq.

Trained as a sniper, he proves exceptionally good at his job, gaining the nickname “Legend” for his record number of kills. But when he goes home to his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller), he keeps his feelings and experiences to himself.

Chris returns for tour after tour, passionately dedicating himself to protecting his brothers in arms. But he can’t save everyone, and unless he finds a way to address his inner demons, he may not be able to save himself, or his marriage.

“American Sniper” feels right in the details of the Iraq war: the danger, the difficulty, the tunnel vision of trying to kill the enemy before he or she kills you. It also shows how Chris tries – and fails – to keep his work life separate from his home life with Taya and their growing family.

But each aspect starts to seem redundant, especially Taya’s pleas for Chris to open up to her. And while the script – rightly – refuses to let in any political or historical revisionism, that only adds to the simplistic nature of the film.

“American Sniper” doesn’t foreshadow – it

blares. His father preaches a message of defending others, so Chris joins the military. Young Chris showed a talent for hunting, so he becomes a sniper. Macho cowboy Chris discovers his girlfriend being unfaithful, so macho SEAL Chris finds an attractive woman, gently woos her and starts making plans for his version of their perfect life.

Chris never questions the mission, and he takes it as inevitable that a colleague who does should die.

If that’s how it went down, that’s fine. But after the lengthy buildup to Chris’s inner torture, the solution comes at warp speed. The breakthrough seems too convenient.

Cooper’s bulked-up giant deserves better. The intensity he creates is palpable. The pain within him is wrenching.

Simplistic in so many ways, “American Sniper” denies the audience the light-bulb moment that ensures a connection.

It robs the story of the catharsis it should have earned and makes the denouement feel like an afterthought.

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The power of

By Carol Shane January isn’t typically thought of as the cheeriest month, what with the brightness of the holidays over and done with and tax season looming. Add in the usual cold, gray weather, and you’ve got a prescription for downheartedness.

But there’s plenty of color around if you know where to look.

The Arts and Culture Alliance of Knoxville is currently presenting the works of seven East Tennessee artists in “New Group Exhibition in the Balcony,” which opened with a warm, convivial reception at the Emporium Center on Jan. 9.

Visitors mingled, snacked on treats from the Melting Pot, viewed the artwork and visited with participating artists.

Lynn Corsi Bland from Gatlinburg mixes wax with oil to create her colorful, blocked abstracts. She says the wax “gives the oil body so you can move it around.”

She uses various tools, including a palette knife and a brayer (a type of hand roller) to manipulate the paint.

Bland has taught at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts along with another featured artist, Jennifer Willard, whose fabric works borrow from fairy tales. Using embroidery on hand-dyed material, Willard incorporates darker, more ambiguous aspects of the stories to add an intriguing conceptual layer to

the hand-stitched pieces.

Tony Sobota’s brilliant draftsmanship takes center stage in his paintings, most of which feature some kind of industrial presence: a spark-spitting smelter, a conveyor belt tower, steel girders, coal-mining apparatuses. The viewer can almost hear the clang and feel the weight of these immense machines. “I love the architecture of industry,” says Sobota, “and I’ve become a downright factory junkie of late.”

Sobota is also interested in “manmade versus living realities,” so human elements are often included: a rumpled coal miner, a musing face.

Tony Henson’s big, vivid abstract-expressionist works dominate much of one wall of the exhibit.

Eight years ago, he broke his

Painter and caricaturist Tony Sobota draws a customized “doodle” for Amy Simmerman of Farragut. In the background, South Knoxvillian Barry Jenkins gives his wife, Maria, an affectionate peck on the shoulder.

right hand – yes, he’s righthanded – in three places in “a stupid accident.” Henson, who up until then had been a representational artist, found that he could no longer hold a brush or pen, even after a period of recovery. He experimented with applying paint to canvas directly with his hands.

As he healed, he moved on to using tools such as squeegees and palette knives and, eventually, brushes.

He now says the accident “was a blessing because my paintings got better!”

The Shopper’s own copy editor, Emily Shane, has seven pieces in the show.

Shane uses discarded book covers with bright graphic designs to create optical flights of fancy. “Oasis,” an installation consisting of nine squares, appears to contain many layers. Some

viewers see a pool in the depths; others imagine that they’re gazing through the piece to the sky. “I like making art that doesn’t try to tell a story,” Shane says. “Ten people can look at the same piece and see it 10 different ways.”

Beth Meadows’ paintings superimpose a punked-out model in unlikely settings like the great hall from “The Sound of Music.” Her work has been shown at Old City Java and Relix Variety Theatre. A transplant from Memphis, Meadows runs The Salvage Room for the nonprofit Knox Heritage and is also the director of the 17th Street Studios.

Terina Gillette teaches art classes for all ages in her Holston Hills home.

Her pieces show a love for texture. “I call them wall sculpture,” she says. Gillette

Amy Porter, music director at Redeemer Church of Knoxville, enjoys the evening with her outgoing 9-year-old daughter, Fiona. “Did you know I play the violin?” asks Fiona. The two stand in front of Tony Sobota’s “Heat Source.” Photos by Carol Shane also provides chalk art for various local businesses, including the popular Dean’s Restaurant in Fountain City. Like all seven artists featured in the show, she is driven by her creative vision.

“I like to say that she has an affair with a guy named ‘Art,’” says Gillette’s hus-

band, Daniel, “and if she doesn’t see him occasionally, she gets irritable!”

The “New Group Exhibition in the Balcony” runs through Jan. 31 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Hours and info: www. knoxalliance.com.

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THURSDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 15-17

Plate it

The Grill at Highlands Row I can never enter The Grill at Highlands Row without a flashback to Andrew Morton’s Fine Gifts, one of Knoxville’s premier gift shops that operated at the location.

Folks older than I, however, will quickly point out that The Grill at Highlands Row has actually returned the building at 4705 Old Kingston Pike to its original use. The Highlands Grill was one of Knoxville’s finest dining establishments from the early 1930s to the early 1960s.

The new restaurant was opened in 2010 by Knoxville developer Tom Weiss, Chad Barger and Pat McMullan.

They feature sophisticated Southern cuisine and strive to buy locally whenever possible. Steaks and seafood are favorites on the menu, and guests are always eager to see what culinary twists the chef has put on traditional Southern favorites.

■ “Love Letters” presented by the Tellico Community Players, 7:30 p.m., the new Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 at Village Salon, Salon Anew, the Tellico Village Yacht Club in Loudon; Kahite Pub & Grille in Vonore; and at the door. Info: http://tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

FRIDAY, JAN. 16 ■ Alive After Five concert: Tennessee Sheiks, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Mystery Diner

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 16-18 For my night out at Highlands, I went for the grilled pork tenderloin. I was having a hard time deciding between the tenderloin and the mountain trout, primarily because I don’t like collard greens, which was one of the side dishes with the tenderloin. The kind waiter let me substitute the collards for the roasted acorn squash, which came with the trout, so I was happy.

The master griller knew what he or she was doing with the pork tenderloin.

Beautifully presented with grill marks and cooked perfectly with just a whisper of pink, the pork was fork-tender and delicious. The dark

■ “Huckleberry Finn” presented by Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m.

Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info: 208-3677, knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com or info@ childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

The pork tenderloin is grilled to perfection and fork-tender at The Grill at Highlands Row. On this plate, the sides are rum sweet potatoes and roasted acorn squash. Photo by Mystery Diner

rum whipped sweet potatoes and aforementioned acorn squash were incredible accompaniments to the pork.

My only complaint was the brandy peppercorn sauce under the pork tenderloin. I was really look-

ing forward to that sauce, expecting the warm, dark sweetness of brandy with just a hint of heat from the peppercorns. The peppercorns stole the show, however, and I found myself avoiding the sauce as I gobbled up the wonderful tenderloin.

SATURDAY, JAN. 17 ■ A Night of Improv, 7-8:30 p.m., Nita Buell-Black Auditorium, Powell High School, 2136 W. 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.

■ Wade Hill in concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

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Making connections at Volunteer Knoxville

By Bonny C. Millard

A new center in Knoxville is helping connect people who want to volunteer their time to nonprofit organizations in need.

Volunteer Knoxville was created last year, and after a nationwide search, Alexandria Brownfield was hired as the first executive director. Brownfield, who was managing a volunteer center in St. Louis, shared information with the Rotary Club of Knoxville about Volunteer Knoxville’s mission.

The organization now has about 75 nonprofit partners, and that number is increasing. A new website lists the partners, along with

brief profiles so that people can learn about different organizations and find volunteer opportunities in Brownfield real time, Brownfield said.

Both individuals and organizations can sign up at the website. Those looking for opportunities can search using keywords and/or enter how far they’re willing to travel.

Brownfield said that one Tennessean in four currently volunteers for a total of

149.5 million hours of service worth $3.4 billion.

“There are many benefits of volunteering,” Brownfield said. “Not only to your personal satisfaction, but you’re making a difference to your community. You’re sharing your time and talents to truly solve community problems.

You’re also strengthening your community. You’re improving lives of local clients of nonprofit organizations, and you’re connecting to others.”

Rotarian Frank Rothermel, who introduced Brownfield, chaired a Leadership Knoxville commit-

tee to create a project for its 30th anniversary, and the result was the volunteer center, which is an independent organization, he said.

The Volunteer Knoxville website keeps a civic transcript of each volunteer’s efforts so they have a record. Young people can boost their resumés and sometimes have to do community service as part of their educational requirements, Brownfield said.

By volunteering, they are building skill sets for future employment.

For info: www. volunteerknoxville.org.

The Flour Shoppe: Baking with butter and love

By Cindy Taylor The most important ingredients for baking are real butter and love. This is according to Powell resident and baker Alexandria Heimerman.

“I have k n o w n since I was 13 years old that I wanted to go into the food i n d u s t r y,” she said. “I started out Heimerman in college getting my business degree but just couldn’t wait to go to culinary school, so I dropped out and moved to California.”

There Heimerman enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu, got her culinary degree and ended up working at St. Regis Hotel and with greats such as Wolfgang Puck. She worked in his catering business at red carpet events like the Grammys.

“It was very nerve-wracking when he was there, because I was still a student.”

But her heart was in creating pastries and desserts.

After a while, dealing with the cost of living in California became too much, and she really missed her family.

Two years ago Heimerman moved back home to Knoxville to be closer to them and to start The Flour Shoppe.

The Flour Shoppe is operated out of Heimerman’s home and relies on word-ofmouth for clients.

She is searching for a storefront in Powell so she can really get her business off the ground.

“I am working on my business plan. I mainly want to do pastries, cakes and cookies,” she said. “But I really miss the ocean and hope to have a second store near a beach.”

While we talked, Heimerman prepped a batch of white chocolate cherry

cookies. Once they were in the oven, the delicious scent filled the bakery, currently set up in the basement of her house.

She also bakes glutenfree and diabetic-friendly desserts.

Heimerman has cherished recipes handed down from her great grandmother Marie Morton (who is still living at 93) and her great, great grandmother. Two of their recipes, chocolate pie and crème puffs, are Heimerman’s best sellers today.

Most of her favorites have been tweaked from the beginnings of other recipes.

She is currently working on her own special chocolate chip cookie recipe.

“My mom always made sure we had special, amazing cakes for our birthdays that she made, but I am the only professional baker in my family.” Heimerman said the memories of those special cakes were probably what got her interested in

baking.

“I hope to start a company where my children want to work in the family baking business and it can be passed down to them.”

The Broadacres Homeowners Facebook page was blowing up over the holidays with posts from Heimerman’s clients. Without fail, everyone bragged about the quality of her creations.

Heimerman says one of the secret ingredients in all of her baking is her own homemade vanilla.

Heimerman has won numerous awards for her pies and pastries including first place trophies at the 2014 Great Cake Bake and the 2014 Southern Woman Pie Contest.

Quite a list of accomplishments for someone who is only 23 years old.

To read more about Heimerman or to order one of her special creations, visit her Facebook page or call 949-325-4680.

Touring with Harold and company Harold Cox of Harold’s Tours and David Sharp discuss an upcoming tour to Black Hills, South Dakota, at a recent gathering of individuals who have toured with Cox in the past. Upcoming tours planned for 2015 include Savannah/Charleston in April, Nova Scotia in May, Black Hills in June, New York City in July and the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas in August. Info: 688-3580.

News From The Register Of Deeds

Good tidings for real estate

By Sherry Witt A strong December closed the 2014 calendar for both real estate and lending markets in Knox County.

For Sherry Witt the month, there were 866 property sales in Knox County, comparing favorably to the 729 transfers from last December, as well as the 735 sales registered in November 2014.

The total value of property sold during December came in at just a fraction over $200 million – an improvement of some $43 million over sales from December 2013. Mortgage lending also finished with a surge.

The month of December saw nearly $341 million loaned against real estate in Knox County, the most since July, and $34 million more than in December 2013.

The largest property transfer involved the Hampton Inn & Suites in West Knox County. The parcel sold for $11,725,000.

The largest real estate loan of the month was a $31 million trust deed financing the Sherrill Hills Retirement Community.

Initial analysis of data from 2014 indicates a modest improvement in the overall value of property sales. The year produced 9,989 transfers valued at $2.29 billion, compared with $2.1 billion in 2013.

Mortgage lending in 2014 was well off the pace set the previous year, as $3.27 billion was loaned against property compared with $3.74 billion in 2013; however, a strong fourth quarter did help close the gap.

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Blue Harbor Senior Living

By Bonny C. C Millard Two former Wellspring facilities, purchased last fall by Fortress Investment Group, provide residential units for people needing services in memory care and assisted living. The properties are under the management of Blue Harbor Senior Living, whose headquarters are in Portland, Ore. Regional sales leader Caroline Wilder said the properties were renamed: Maple Court Senior Living in Powell and Raintree Terrace Senior Living in Bearden. Fortress has 24 properties nationwide, but these are the only two in Tennessee, she said.

Maple Court is a 56-bed memory-care facility for those with dementia or Alzheimer’s who need secure living conditions. Wilder said in the industry it is known as a “standalone memory-care neighborhood.” It offers residents both security and interior freedom to move about the building. Dementia behaviors include wandering, so this facility gives residents the space to do that, she said.

“What I love about Maple Court is that it doesn’t feel like a memory-care neighborhood,” Wilder said.

“Typically speaking, memory care is kind of closed off and away from – and secured from – everything.

The fact that it’s a specialty built-alone memory-care (facility) means that once you walk in the secured doors in the front of the building, everything’s open.

There’s a beautiful indoor courtyard.”

The enclosed courtyard gives residents a safe place to go outside and even work

ETBA kicks off New Year

Raintree Terrace Senior Living activities assistant Mary Magyar visits with resident Mary Rust during a recent afternoon tea party.

Photos by Bonny C. Millard

Raintree Terrace Senior Living health services director Crystal Murphy, Maple Court Senior Living maintenance director Jim Williams and receptionist LaVonne Murray

in raised-bed gardens.

Raintree Terrace is different from Maple Court in that it offers both memorycare and assisted-living units. The memory-care unit has 16 beds while the assisted-living area is larger, with 48 beds.

Wilder said Raintree Terrace has a condo-like atmosphere because of the amenities.

“When you walk into the dining room, there’s a large stacked-stone fireplace that’s just gorgeous. Off the dining room, there are two doors that go to a covered deck. That’s upstairs, and even downstairs in our memory care, there’s a pri-

vate secured patio so that the residents who are in memory care can enjoy the outdoors in a secured environment.”

Both facilities offer individual or double-occupancy rooms, which provide socialization and lower residency costs.

“We offer companion suites, or shared suites, as an alternative,” she said.

“It’s particularly helpful in memory care because studies show that individuals with Alzheimer’s or dementia do better socially when they have a roommate.”

Amanda Spencer is the executive director at Raintree, and Cindy Winegar,

Historian Danial to visit Braden’s Fans of the Arts and Crafts movement will get a special treat at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, when Stickley Furniture historian Mike Danial visits Braden’s Lifestyles Furniture in Turkey Creek.

Stickley Furniture was founded in the early 1900s

by Gustav Stickley and his brothers. The Missionstyle furniture line quickly gained recognition due to solid construction and quality. The Stickley brothers also partnered with architects William Morris and Harvey Ellis, becoming forerunners of the American Arts and Crafts movement.

While Stickley Furniture is now owned by the Audi family of New York, the company’s integrity and commitment to quality remain. While at Braden,

Danial will speak about the Arts and Crafts movement as well as the “rescue” of Stickley Furniture by the Audi family. He will also speak about furniture restoration, care and construction.

Braden’s Lifestyles Furniture is at 11105 Turkey Drive. Info: Carrie Grey, 382-8530.

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who started this month, is the executive director of Maple Court. Both directors have been in the business for years, Wilder added.

The two senior living residences have full-time dining services and available 24-hour nursing care, and each has about 30 employees, including activities directors. Residents go for group outings such as a recent trip to Gatlinburg to see the Christmas lights.

Wilder said the centers also hold family nights and holiday dinners.

Info: www.raintreeterraceseniorliving.com and www.maplectseniorliving. com.

Justin Sterling, president of the East Towne Business Alliance, welcomed business leaders, politicians and new members to the January meeting last Wednesday. Short-term goals were shared among attendees, some serious and some quite humorous.

Guest speaker was Samantha Lane, territory manager at King Universit y.

Lane discussed how the average age of students is climbing and why Lane “working adult programs” are so important. She explained the necessity for a more qualified workforce and how these adult programs affect the East Towne area. Lane also talked about the Drive to 55 and Tennessee Promise programs and how they can help all age groups as they enter college.

It is time for existing ETBA members to renew

Nancy Whittaker

their membership. Dues are only $50 per year. The group is also seeking new members. The next meeting will be at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, at the New Harvest Park Community Center. Come a little early for breakfast.

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Those of you who have tried the delicious food at Flyers Pizza in the food court at Knoxville Center Mall will be happy to know Flyers is now offering home delivery within a five-mile radius of the mall.

Hours are from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and from 11 a.m. until midnight Friday and Saturday.

Call 865-363-9123 or order online at Orderspoon.com/ flyerspizza.

BIZ NOTES ■ Fountain City Business and Professional Association meeting, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, Central Baptist Church of Fountain City, 5364 North Broadway. RSVP encouraged. Speaker: Wes Needham with Capital Risk Management Group. Topic: “Affordable Care Act: What Business Owners Need to Know for 2015 and Beyond.” Lunch: $10.

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■ Tennessee Veterans Business Association Dual-Purpose Expo, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, Holiday Inn – World’s Fair Park. Open to the public with free admission.

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Friendsville woman finds friends, mobility at Patricia Neal Progressive myelopathy. Cauda equina syndrome. Thoracic disk herniation. Peripheral polyneuropathy.

You name it – Phyllis Kirksey seemed to have everything – except the ability to move her legs. “It really wasn’t pain – it was inability to do anything,� she recalls. “Your mind tells you to lift your leg and go up the stairs, but it won’t do it. It was just like I weighed 400 pounds. I just couldn’t move.�

Nobody knows what caused this latest in a long history of back problems, but it set the retired pharmacist on a path to her sixth surgery followed by two weeks of rehabilitation as a spinal cord injury patient at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center.

It happened soon after returning from her son’s wedding that Kirksey, wife of Dr. Jim Kirksey, an ER physician at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, suddenly found herself unable to climb any of the stairs in their Friendsville tri-level home.

Soon, Dr. Merrill White, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Parkwest Medical Center, was laying out her options: Undergo an extensive 12-hour multi-level spinal decompression and reconstruction or spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. “Dr. White shoots straight from the hip,� said Mrs. Kirksey. “He said, ‘You’ve got a 50 percent chance of getting better, a 10 percent chance of getting worse and a 40 percent chance of being just like you are. But being like you are is better than what you will be if you don’t have surgery because you will continue to get worse.’ It wasn’t a pretty picture to paint.

So, I gambled on 50 percent and I won.�

Of course, it wasn’t an easy victory.

After the July 3 surgery by Dr. White and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Brent Grishkin, Mrs. Kirksey recovered at Parkwest for a week. “I was the Pillow Lady,� she said with a laugh. “I had a pillow here, a pillow in front, a pillow in back, pillow between my knees. I was pillowed up – and don’t move me!�

But White had other plans. The next day, he had Mrs. Kirksey to stand on her own two feet.

Walking, however, would take awhile longer.

Discharged from Parkwest a week after surgery, she was sent to Patricia Neal Reha-

“It was not just a hospital where you are treated as an individual but you made friends, made friends for life,� said Phyllis Kirksey of her experience at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center in Knoxville.

After a series of surgeries, Kirksey is now on her feet and walking thanks to the excellent rehabilitation experienced at the facility.

bilitation Center where she was immediately impressed by the staff. “When I was ďŹ rst admitted, everyone came in and introduced themselves and explained their job position and if there was anything I needed related to their expertise, just let them know,â€? she said. “Everybody had a smile on their face. It was a very uplifting, encouraging atmosphere. “Of course, Day One they are going to get

you to your feet. They let you know from the very beginning that, ‘You’re not here to be waited on!’ � she said with a laugh. “That was the whole atmosphere. They present you with challenges, then you go in and you do it, and you don’t think you will be able to accomplish, but by golly, after a few days, I was doing exactly what they said. Everybody was very encouraging.�

By the end of the ďŹ rst of two weeks at PNRC, she was walking the full length of an exercise bar and climbing steps, well on her way to meeting her personal goal of caring for herself and getting in and out of her multi-level home.

She was also learning to maneuver her wheelchair, taking part in an obstacle course

throughout different oors of Fort Sanders Regional. “I look at people in wheelchairs in the mall or wherever now in a whole different perspective,â€? she says. “I know what they are going through because I’ve been there even if was for a short period.â€?

Perhaps just as important were the lessons learned in group sessions with new-found friends in similar situations. “There was camaraderie there,� she said. “I learned everyone’s name. It was interesting to see the change each other went through. In the beginning, some were real withdrawn and focused on their own pain, but by the end of two weeks, they were more concerned about how others were feeling. You really got to know one another. “It was not just a hospital where you are treated as an individual but you made friends, made friends for life,� she added. “And you take your own problems in a new perspective.

OK, I’ve got this condition and I’m having trouble walking, but you know what? I didn’t really have a choice in the surgery because, if I hadn’t had the surgery, I would have been in a wheelchair for life. That was my option, and I didn’t want that. So you deal ‌ thank God there was an alternative!�

Today, Mrs. Kirksey moves about her home with the aid of a cane and can climb any ight of stairs in her home. If she is going a long-distance, she uses a walker.

But the wheelchair she took home from Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center sits at a dining table, unused except by a son-in-law who says it’s comfortable to his own bad back.

The surgeons, rehabilitation physicians or physiatrists, therapists and nurses have done their part. The rest, she says, is up to her. “It’s easy to say, ‘Why is this happening to me?’ But if you really, really search your heart and take in these experiences and use them for a better good, then so be it. It is what it is. I am just thankful that I can do what I can do.� “I would not wish anybody to go through what any of us at Pat Neal had to go through,� she added. “But if life deals you an unfortunate circumstance where you are in that position, then you couldn’t go to a better place for rehab.

They have the ability to reach any type person.

They were wonderful. They were great in every way.�

Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center serves Covenant and beyond patient well enough that they could make the 24-hour ight home with this new disability. Then, coordinating with international, socialized medicine was also quite a learning experience.�

Navigating the many twists and tangles of red tape, however, is hardly new to the scores of health professionals involved in caring for PNRC patients. Since 2010, the government-mandated guidelines for admission to rehabilitation centers have become increasingly stringent, making it more challenging for patients to get the care they need. “When a patient is admitted for inpatient rehabilitation at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, they have to meet admission requirements established by the government for ‘medical necessity’ as well as rehab needs,� said Dr. Dillon, a physiatrist. “You have to be sick enough to require a hospital level of care but well enough to participate in an intensive, multiple-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary therapy program.�

Helping smooth that process is the relationships Dr. Dillon and her team have built with physicians throughout the Covenant network, a network that continues to grow and now serves 23 counties in East Tennessee. As new facilities are added, such as Cumberland Medical Center in Crossville and Claiborne Medical Center in Tazewell, Dillon and her team work to develop relationships with the new facilities to better understand their capabilities as well as offer PNRC’s services when needed.

Another important role in maneuvering government guidelines is that of the admissions liaison, specially trained registered nurses and social workers assigned to each Covenant hospital to evaluate and process referrals from those facilities to PNRC. “That’s a vital role,� said Dillon. “We have licensed persons in that role to collate the referral data. The ultimate decision for admission or not admitting, however, has to be made by a physician with training in rehabilitation. A lot of it is seman-

tics. It’s knowing how to capture the medical intensity of the care needed.

The goal is to get the patient to the level of care in the post-acute continuum that will best meet their needs and best utilize their resources.�

Each year about 750 to 800 patients with a variety of illnesses or injuries are admitted to PNRC. About 80 percent of those come from Parkwest Medical Center, University of Tennessee Medical Center and Fort Sanders Regional with the balance mostly coming from other Covenant facilities although referrals often come from Nashville, Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities in Tennessee and many other states as well.

Countless others, whose condition does not qualify for inpatient care, receive help as a PNRC outpatient or may be referred back to a Covenant therapy center closer to home. Still others may be referred to a skilled care nursing facility or home health care.

But for those who do qualify for

admission to PNRC, quality care is a hallmark. The nationally acclaimed facility has won numerous national awards, including four Crystal Awards, the top award given for patient satisfaction by Professional Research Consultants, a nationally known health care research company. What’s more, PNRC’s rate of readmission within 30 days of discharge is lower than the regional and national averages. “Our goal is to provide excellent care to everyone,� said Dr. Dillon. “We strive to restore abilities and rebuild lives. We maximize their functional independence. Patients admitted to PNRC tend to come in sicker, get home sooner and stay home longer with fewer readmissions. While changes in health care are making it more challenging to get into PNRC, once you are admitted, we’ll provide you with excellent care, among the best rehabilitation in the nation.�

For more information and a virtual tour video, visit PatNeal.org or call 865-541-1446.

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It’s a place for those whose lives were changed forever in the blink of an eye. It’s where the sickest of the sick come to be treated, and where each year, hundreds of people come to have their lives rebuilt and abilities restored.

It’s Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, the 73-bed acute care rehab hospital Mary Dillon, MD, that serves PNRC not just Fort Sanders Regional within which it is located, but all Covenant Health facilities, East Tennessee and beyond.

Way beyond. “We had a patient from Australia who was in an accident while visiting this country and had a spinal cord injury,� says Dr. Mary Dillon, medical director of PNRC since 2003. “We were able to rehab the

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Mary Boyce Temple (1856-1929) HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin Those who followed the Washington count of the events leading up to Tennesscene in the 1950s, particularly during see’s secession, the Bridge Burning Incident President Truman’s administraand the Great Locomotive Chase. tion, will remember Perle MesFrom 1862 to 1865, the Temple family lived at Melrose ta. She was the socialite who Estate, among the finest in gave the parties that evKnox County, where they eryone aspired to attend.

When Truman appointentertained many visited her U.S. Ambassaing dignitaries. Now dor to Luxembourg, the site of UT’s Hess she continued her Hall, Temple’s 20 acres contained the lavish parties there. impressive Melrose Long before that time, Knoxville’s mansion, experiMary Boyce Temple mental flower and moved into either vegetable gardens, an extensive fruit Washington’s Mayorchard and an outflower or Willard hotel standing collection of during each winter’s ornamental shrubs and social season. There she trees. practiced the skills Philanthropist, socialite and suffragMary Boyce atthat had made her ist, Miss Mary Boyce Temple (1856tended local schools mother famous for 1929) was active in Knoxville, Nashhosting at her Melbut obtained much of ville and Washington. Photos courtesy of rose Estate, enterher education from the C.M. McClung Historical Collection taining celebrities frequent travel with such as Gov. William her family, as well as G. Brownlow, presidential candidate John from the family’s extensive library. She maBell, and Civil War generals John G. Foster triculated at Vassar College, then an excluand Ulysses S. Grant. sive school for women only, and graduated Born on July 6, 1856, Mary Boyce Tem- with a bachelor of arts degree in 1887, the ple was the only child of Judge Oliver Perry first Southern woman to graduate from the Temple (1820-1907) and Scotia C. Hume college. Founded in 1861 in Poughkeepsie, Temple (1832-1889). O.P. Temple was a N.Y., Vassar is on the banks of the Hudson staunch Unionist in the days leading up to River, halfway between the capital, Albany, the Civil War and became one of the most and New York City. No doubt its location in a center of so much of America’s history encelebrated jurists of his day.

He was a busy practicing attorney before hanced her interest in the subject. he became chancellor of the Eighth ChanWhen she returned to Knoxville, she cery district (1866-1870) and of the Second found her mother in ill health, and the two District (1870-1878). At one point he had traveled widely seeking a physician or clithe highest personal income of anyone in mate that would help her. However, Scotia Knox County. As a member of the Univer- Hume Temple passed away in May 1889 sity of Tennessee board of Trustees for 54 while they were in New York City. Her body years, he was an early and persistent pro- was returned to Knoxville and interred in moter of improvements in agriculture and Old Gray Cemetery where a tall obelisk was placed in her honor. transportation.

Miss Temple lived with her father for Of his four published books, “East Tennessee and the Civil War” (1899) has been many years in a home at the southeast corthe most influential, with its detailed ac- ner of Market and Cumberland. The house

Adair Monument in Lynnhurst Cemetery. On Oct. 26, 1926, Mary Boyce Temple represented the Bonny Kate Chapter of the DAR at the dedication of John Adair’s monument. In the front are Sarah Smith Sanders, J. Harvey Smith, Temple and Sarah Smith McCampbell.

also became a center of Knoxville’s social life, where Mary Boyce assisted her father with hosting and with the research and writing that would result in the publication of his four books. Her father passed away in 1907, and she completed the editing of his fourth book, “Notable Men of Tennessee (1833 to 1875),” which was published in 1912.

Along with Lizzie Crozier French, Temple organized the Ossoli Circle in 1885 and was elected its first president. Ossoli, the South’s oldest federated women’s club, chose promotion of its members’ intellectual and moral development as its first goal.

Later, they chose projects that would aid in the education of mountain children and in other social, economic and civic activity.

In 1893, she organized the Bonny Kate Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), named for the second wife of John Sevier. She served as regent of the chapter for many years and also served as vice president-general of the national DAR (1898-99). Eventually she was named life regent of the chapter. She always attended the national congresses; she was often called upon to preside and was said to have a “particular genius” in conducting the meetings.

In recognition of her work at the local, state and national level, Gov. Benton McMillan appointed Temple to represent Tennessee at the Paris Exposition in 1900. She would later represent the state in Stockholm and Rio de Janeiro. She attended the

St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 as the lone woman on the Jury of Higher Education, and in 1913 she helped organize Knoxville’s National Conservation Exposition.

When developers threatened to raze Blount Mansion in 1925, Mary Boyce wrote her personal check for $100 to secure the option for the DAR She became the first president of the Blount Mansion Association and means were found to save the mansion. An ardent suffragist, Temple became president of the Knox County chapter of the League of Women Voters in the 1920s.

In 1922, Mary Boyce moved to 623 Hill Ave. and lived there until her death.

Originally occupied by the Chambliss family, the house had several owners and underwent many structural changes after her death and was scheduled for demolition. Fortunately, Brian Pittman, a local architect, purchased it in 2006 and has expended much effort in its authentic restoration. The two-story house includes a Colonial Revival-style porch, bay windows in the parlor and master bedroom and original exterior brick and iron. The interior features elegant woodwork, including an oak staircase and two impressive pocket doors.

A lifelong member of Second Presbyterian Church, Mary Boyce Temple passed away on May 16, 1929, leaving a lasting legacy as a welfare worker, preservation activist, philanthropist, historian and author.

Her services were conducted by Dr. Clifford Barbour, and she was interred with her parents in Old Gray Cemetery.

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THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 10 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.

WEDNESDAY, JAN.14 Computer Workshops: Internet and Email Basics, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 525-5431.

Dance classes, Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Line dancing, noon-1 p.m.; intermediate ballroom dancing, 1-2 p.m.; beginner ballroom dancing, 2-3 p.m. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Scrapbooking techniques, 3-4 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Tea Time and “Good for the Brain Games,” 9-10:30 a.m. Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

THURSDAY, JAN. 15 Dressing Girls for Charity, 3-4:45 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 17 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., AAA Office, 100 W 5th Ave. Cost: $40 members; $50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Brianna Hanson, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

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

Info: 947-6210.

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

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 17-18 Sets class, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris.

Instructor: Anderson Bailey. Part of the Featured Tennessee Artist Workshop series. Info: 494-9854 or www. appalachianarts.net.

MONDAY, JAN. 19 Heart Healthy Eating, 1-2 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 3298892, TTY: 711.

Luttrell seniors luncheon, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Luttrell Community Center off Tazewell Pike. Fried chicken is main dish; bring sides and desserts.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 3:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24.Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com or myquiltplace.com/

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TUESDAY, JAN. 20 Chef Arnold’s Pasta and Noodle Making class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/to register: 922-9916 or www. avantisavoia.com.

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

Honor Guard meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans invited. Info: 256-5415.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, JAN. 21-22 AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY JAN. 23 Beginner Crochet class, 4-7 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24.

Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt. tn@gmail.com or myquiltplace.com/profile/ monicaschmidt.

EVOO and Balsamic Vinegar Tasting, 6:30-7:20 p.m. or 7:45-8:35 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $5. Info/to register: 922-9916 or www. avantisavoia.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 23-24 Unwanted medicine collection and used mercury thermometer exchange, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Healthy Living Expo at the Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St. Residents turning in medications or thermometers will receive one free entry to the Healthy Living Expo.

SATURDAY, JAN. 24 Saturday Stories and Songs: Brianna Hanson, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road.

Info: 947-6210.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Melissa Mastrogiovanni, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

MONDAY, JAN. 26 Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 3:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway.

Cost: $24.Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com or myquiltplace.com/profile/ monicaschmidt.

21 Apts - Furnished 72 Dogs 316 Guttering 333 Tree Service 141 Wanted To Buy 222 Imports 262 Imports 262 Air Cond / Heating 301 Childcare Husky AKC BUYING COMIC BMW 2013 328i TOYOTA Highlander LITTLE PEOPLE GUTTER CLEANING WALBROOK STUDIOS Siberian pups. Health guarantee, books, small or lg.

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2012 exc. cond. 55K PRESCHOOL NOW & repairs. Gutter

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For Sale By Owner 40a 3 BR, 1 BA. Kitch w/ appliances & dining area.

11,000 sq ft. New roof, central H&A, water heater. 1 car gar. level 105X151 lot w/ fenced rear. washer/dryer conn. 10X20 deck. near schools & shopping.

GREAT VALUE. $115,000. 689-5848

25 1-3 60 7 $140 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic Cable. No Lse.

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mi., $18,900.

Call 423-295-5393.

SIBERIAN HUSKY Sporting Goods 223 Puppies NKC, vet ck, 1st shot, wormed, PROFORM TREAD$275 ea. Breeders MILL. like new. cost for 28 yrs. 865-992-9709 $650 .Reduced to $225. JAG 2000 S Model, 4.0 EAST 2BR 1BA, 1612 ***Web ID# 507541*** 687-4373 eng., very good E. Glenwood, Close cond., owner, 865to downtown. $600.

233-3352 Call 865-687-1140.

Free Pets 145 Campers 235

Condo Rentals

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3BR/3BA or 4BR/4BA Condos near UT Campus/ Medical Center. Full kitchen, living/dining area, walk-in closets, W/D. Gated community. Shuttle service. Amenities galore.

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DRIVERS-O\OP'S & CO: CDL-A. Round trip Dedicated Lanes and Get Home Weekly! Top Dollars, Great Benefits, Newer Equipment! Bonus Programs Available! 855-200-3671

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Motor Homes

237

MAZDA MIATA MX5 2007 sport, 9100 orig. owner mi. Burgundy w/blk int. $12,000.

865-242-8021 ***Web ID# 507224*** SUBARU OUTBACK wagon 2006, blue, 110K mi., exc. cond. lthr, 5 spd. $7250. 865-494-8012.

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Toyota Camry 1996, 4 BUICK PARK Ave. Pick up your copy of the 36', 2 slides, twin air & cyl AT, new tires, 1998, light gray, heat, W&D, ref w/ice 176K mi, dependable, good cond. New AC, maker, all opt. 23K mi, $2900. 865-936-6715 $2200 obo.

865-661-1865 Farmer’s Market 150 $35,000. 865-850-9613 TOYOTA CAMRY LE every Wednesday!

2011, 4 dr sedan, 100% Alfalfa Hay, Motorcycles 238 43,102 mi, $12,700. square bales, $6 bale.

865-693-8459 Alterations/Sewing 303 865-466-7052; 865-363Black leather interior, RUSH Muffler Set for 5364 Sweetwater 138,000 mi. Sell $7995.

Harley Davidson. New. Toyota Corolla LE 2001, sunrf, fully loaded, ALTERATIONS Must see!

Ryan: Fits last several year FARM EQUIPMENT 4 new Michelin tires,

BY FAITH 252-902-5410. models of FL series.

MX 5000 Kubota $3990. 865-308-2743 Men women, children. $250.

865-805-8038 tractor, 176 hrs, 2 WD Custom-tailored CHEVY Impala SS 6' rotary cutter 1996, 72K mi, very clothes for ladies of all 6' rotary tiller sizes plus kids! good cond. Asking Vans 256 Fertilizer spreader Faith Koker 938-1041 $8800. 865-691-2336 922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378) Sprayer w/12' arms 6x10 2 wheel trailer Dodge Grand Caravan All $12,500. 865-924-1440 1998 Sport ramp van. Domestic 265 Domestic 265 Domestic 265 Exc. cond. 33,600 orig. mi. $16,500/bo. 865-258-3404 TO-30 Ferguson farm tractor, new paint, 4x4 16K miles, Extra c lean .............................

257 good tires, runs great, Trucks $2600. 865-475-1182 DODGE RAM 2014 1500 Express Quad Air Cond/Heating 187 cab 4x2, bedlnr, bed cover, side rails, tow 4700 mi, $29K Generator, Honda pkg, King CAB 2wd 32K miles ..................................................

GX390, 13.0, Sell obo. 865-250-4056 $400. Paid $710. 865919-3201

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ENROLLING. Children ages 2-12 yrs of age. 1st week is free. 3 star program. pick-up from local schools. lunch & snack provided. full & parttime space avail. competitive rates. scholarships avail.

CAC certificates accepted. call 9221335

2000 Pace Arrow Vision

LAND FOR SALE. 2 vacant pristine properties for sale Business Opp. 130 on Shook Branch Road in Hampton, CONVENIENCE STORE TN. Great area for Lease. 6233 Westland hunting and hiking. Dr. next to Gettysvue 2 minutes from Country Club. Branded Watauga Lake, 60 Shell. 865-560-9989 seconds from Appalachian Trail, 45 minutes to ski slopes Dogs 141 in Banner Elk, NC. Would make an excellent home site for AUSSIE-DOODLE MINI, 922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378) those seeking peace 1 male apricot, 9 wks. old, S & W. 865-463and solitude. Call Household Furn. 204 FORD F150 1986, 2 2049; 865-227-3723.

Jason if interested WD, V8, 5.0, AT, at 423-543-5959 Basset Hound Puppies FRENCH DESK W/ Short bed, $1500.

AKC, parents on Call 865-216-5387 CHAIR. Beaut. offprem., 1st shot. Ready. white or cream.

ReCemetery Lots 49 FORD RANGER XLT $600. 865-622-0726 duced to $525. 687-4373 2011, 25K mi., Exc. ***Web ID# 507183*** cond. $17,877. Call 2 Cemetery lots in MONNOSSEN Fireplace 931-456-9385. beautiful Sherwood BORDER COLLIES, Insert mod.

Mem. Gardens side- reg., red & white, 3M, DIS33PTC, nonvent, 1 F, POP, $300. by-side in Garden of new, 33"W, LP gas, Antiques Classics 260 Last Supper. Below 423-869-4014; 423-626-0857 $400. 931-484-3468 market value at ***Web ID# 510006*** $2000 ea. Transfer small dining table w/ 4 1974 F250 super cab, English (Olde) Bulldog fee $195. 865-988-7680 long bed, 360 HD chirs. $75. A wooden Puppies, ready to go, custom, strong old youth bed w/ matparents on site, $800 4 adj. plots in Lynntruck, needs electress $25. tan suede each. 931-625-7234 hurst Cemetery, trical work, $1250. couch $150. small ***Web ID# 508976*** $1800 ea or $6,000 865-694-0175 lv msg corner cabinet $20. for all 4. 865-321-5602 large wooden desk Golden Doodle puppies, CAMARO Rally Sport $75. chest of drawers CKC, M&F, shots & $15. coffee table $25. LT 1978, 350 mtr., AT, UTD, $800.

Apts - Unfurnished 71 worming runs & drives. $1500.

925-1906 423-967-3906 Call 865-216-5387.

LAB PUPPIES, AKC, black & yellow, Antiques 216 Sport Utility 261 SENIOR or champ. bldln. Ready 1/14. $500. 865-207-2874 2 PARLOR STYLE DISABLED HONDA PILOT 2011 chairs & sm. table.

HIGH RISE Labrador Retriever Touring, fully loaded, Reduced to $475. pups, yellow, 3 M, 4 exc. cond. 40k mi.

FACILITY 687-4373 $20,500. 423-295-5393 F, vet ckd, S&W, 7 wks, $500-$600. 8651 BR APTS. 356-6081; 865-387-4721 262 ***Web ID# 507472*** Medical Supplies 219 Imports Oak Ridge, TN

865-482-6098

Like new. 9K mi. $28,500. 423-295-5393 BMW 335i CONV. 2007 6 sp, grey, loaded, turbo mod. 92k, $18,900. 865-271-7303

Houses - Unfurnished 74

Trucking Opportunities 106

Acreage- Tracts 46

shots. Most colors. $500$600. 865-256-2763. ***Web ID# 509143***

ROLATOR, ACURA 1999 RL, exc.

Wheelchair & Walker, cond. in/out. Loaded all like new. $150. incl. snrf. $3495. 865Call 865-690-4066.

397-7918; 865-898-8825.

RAY VARNER FORDXLT LLC ’07 Ford Explorer 592090MASTER Ad Size 3 x 4 $25,930 4c N TFN <ec> ’05 Nissan Frontier

We're growing! Looking for child care teachers. Must be 18+ w/high sch diploma or GED. FT/ PT avail. Call 922-1335 or stop by 6630 Tice Ln, Knoxville 37918.

Pay starts at $7.50$8.50/hr.

Electrical VOL

323 Electric

I ns tal l ati on Repair Maintenance Service Upgrades Cab l e P h on e L i n es S ma l l j o b s welco me.

License d/Ins ured Ofc : 9 4 5 -3 05 4 Cell: 705-6357

guards plus installation of 5" guttering. Call 936-5907.

Handyman

335

CARPENTRY, PLUMBING, painting, siding.

Free est, 30+ yrs exp!

Call 607-2227.

HONEST & DEPENDABLE! Small jobs welcome. Exp'd in carpentry, drywall, painting, ^ plumbing. Reasonable, refs avail. Call Dick at 947-1445.

Lawn Care

339

FRED'S LAWN CARE Mowing, weed-eating & blowing.

LOW RATES! Also minor mower repairs.

679-1161

Plumbing

348

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Stump Grinding Topping /Trimming Take Downs Hazardous trees We have Bucket Trucks.

Bobcat Climbers Dump Truck Service 22 years experience References provided

Excavating/Grading 326

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CROSS CONNECTION PLUMBING SERVICES for all your plumbing needs. 865-484-6093 ^ Bobcat/Backhoe. Small dump truck. Small jobs welcome & appreciated!

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Firewood

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Flooring

330

CERAMIC TILE installation.

Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 yrs exp, exc work!

John 938-3328

Remodeling

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Licensed General Contractor Restoration, remodeling, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, sunrooms, garages, etc.

Residential & commercial, free estimates.

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Stump Removal

355

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