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Party for Jerry Everyone is invited to help celebrate the 80th birthday of Jerry Griffey, set for 4:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, at Gentry Griffey Funeral Home and Crematory in Fountain City.

Light snacks will be served.

Halls BPA The Halls Business and Professional Association will meet at noon Tuesday, Jan. 21, at Beaver Brook Country Club.

Speakers will be Gabriel Bolas, KUB’s manager of electrical engineering and assistant to the COO, and Rhonda Garrison, Tennova fitness instructor. All are welcome. Lunch is $10.

Jet’s ahead!

Jet’s Pizza is planning a new store on Emory Road near Tennova North. Marketing manager Ashley Middlebrooks confirmed the plans at the Farragut Chamber networking event Jan. 23.

Jet’s makes a signature deep-dish square pizza. There are locations in Farragut, Maryville, Lenoir City and Bearden. Next up is the Emory Road store, then stores in the East Towne area and Oak Ridge. The Farragut store has a full bar.

Halls High art teacher Jerry Lewis stands in front of one of the two newly completed murals at the school. See more photos of the mural on page A-9. Photo

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Regal to fund greenway connector

IN THIS ISSUE More on Mike Mike Stratton came uninvited from Tellico Plains to the University of Tennessee and stayed to become a first-team end in a two-way era, offense and defense. He learned a lot.

“I learned to be friends with the tailbacks. We didn’t throw many forward passes but when we did, it was the tailback doing the throwing.”

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By Jake Mabe Knox County Commission will vote this month on whether to grant the necessary easements on the Knox County side of Beaver Creek to Regal Entertainment Group for a proposed Regal Bridge project.

The bridge would connect the Regal campus, near Doris Circle, Jim Snowden to the Halls Greenway, so that em-

ployees can access the greenway’s walking trails.

Regal is funding the project and has already commissioned design work through Barge, Waggoner, Sumner & Cannon.

Knox County Commissioner R. Larry Smith says that once it’s built, the bridge obviously can be partially accessed from the greenway side, “so kids can fish on it or if people want to take pictures or whatever.

“We just appreciate Regal being willing to do this. It will be a good asset to the community.”

Smith said that after approval,

Regal is “ready to move on the project,” projecting its completion in six to eight weeks.

Ted Hatfield of Regal calls the project “a work in progress.”

County Commission will hold its work session 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21. The regular meeting is 1:45 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, both in the Main Assembly Room at the City County Building.

Read Marvin West on page 5

Where the Jobs Are The IBEW union is actively recruiting women and minorities as a new training facility has opened on Central Avenue Pike off I-75.

This week Shopper-News launches a new feature: Where the Jobs Are.

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Read Betty Bean on page 10

Stokes: From ‘pops’ to judge His grandchildren may call him Pops, but Billy Stokes hopes you’ll soon call him Judge.

Stokes is running for the Division I Circuit Court judge seat being vacated by Dale Workman.

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PBPA launches new year with new leaders

By Sandra Clark Powell Business and Professional Association will grow and change this year, based on the energy and dedication of its members. Leadership will not be a problem based on last week’s meeting at Jubilee Banquet Facility.

Sage Kohler, a State Farm agency owner, took the reins as president. She had previously chaired the Teen Driver committee and was hesitant to relinquish the role. This is the year for the “mock crash,” and that requires all hands, she said. She’s asked her agency office manager, Rachel Wilburn, to help coordinate.

Rick Carnes, owner of Clinton Highway Wrecker Service, is vice president and chairs the program committee responsible for lining up interesting and helpful speakers. He was a founder of the PBPA, and is the one who stuck around. “We started with 11 members. We each had 10 salespeople for each other,” he said.

This year’s programs will include at least two panels led by association members.

Melissa Bingham, manager of First Volunteer Bank, is the highenergy chair of membership. “PBPA is the heartbeat of Powell,” she said.

“We’ve got to help our businesses grow.”

Those who join or renew an-

nual membership ($50) before the end of February will be listed in the directory, which is distributed through member businesses.

This committee also organizes a free spring and fall social event for members. Bingham has lined up a weekend at McCloud Mountain for a member who brings in new members prior to March. There will be a drawing at the March meeting.

Will she reach her goal of 100 members? Absolutely.

Fred Braden is assertive about his role as communications chair.

“We will see incredible activity on the website and Facebook,” he said, just as soon as Daniel Monday of Slamdot teaches Fred how to up-

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Teresa Underwood returns as chair of special events. Her committee will plan and manage the annual banquet, the club’s only fundraiser. It also sponsors the community gathering at Powell Station Park following the 4th of July Parade. This is an active committee, and Teresa solicited members to help.

So the PBPA has launched its 2014 version. Stay tuned for results.

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Serving those who served You might say that Veterans Services representative Tom Humphries has all of the answers. For veterans or surviving spouses, he just may. Humphries takes his office on the road to visit all of the senior centers in Knox County every month. He provides useful information and helps with the processing of claims for benefits.

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The Veterans Services Office is at 1000 N. Central St. Help is available regarding service-connected disabilities, pensions, death indemnity compensation, health benefits, burial benefits and more. Humphries will be back at the Halls Senior Center at 9 a.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 19.

Humphries will host a Lunch and Learn at the Halls Senior Center at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21. This brown-bag lunch event will provide information on benefits available to veterans who may have been exposed to Agent Orange. Reserve a seat by Feb. 19 by calling the Halls Senior Center, 9220416.

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Try this!

When you think of the Fountain City Art Center, think past hanging paint-

Tom Humphries chats with a veteran and answers questions. A watercolor painting of Gay Street, 1926, by Chuck Schwaner is one of many paintings on disPhotos by Ruth White play at the center.

Elaine Flaherty works on a painting during an open class time at the Fountain City Art Center. ings on the wall. Think clay, bookmaking, glass jewelry and music. The center offers a wide selection of classes for beginners to advanced crafters.

Clay: There is a basic hand-building class for age 8 to adult. The center also offers an introduction to throwing clay, using the wheel. The times for both

are relatively flexible, and more information can be obtained at the center.

Painting: Instructors teach watercolor, oil and acrylic painting. If drawing is more of an interest, a new class this year is Right Brain Drawing. Through the six-week course of innovative exercises, students overcome typical

challenges encountered in attempting to draw realistically.

Workshops: Also available are workshops on fused dichroic glass jewelry, bookmaking, oil pastels, macramé, leather working, intermediate precious metal clay, introduction to chain maille for jewelry and a collage/ mixed media.

The art center will host a tasting party, featuring recipes from its cookbook, 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25. Admission is $10, and affiliates of LeGrand Music Studio will entertain with guitar music. Dishes to be sampled will be barbecue chicken, jambalaya, chicken salad, best-ever macaroni, spicy bran muffins, chess pie, sour-cream apple squares, fudge and more.

The Fountain City Art Center is at 213 Hotel Ave. Info: 357-2787.

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What’s great about Fountain City?

I am still getting the hang of being a community reporter. It’s a challenge sometimes to find topics of interest, but the best part so far is the interesting people that I meet.

At last week’s Fountain City Town Hall meeting, I discovered it was a board meeting only, so I left. Out in the parking lot I met a gentleman who was born and reared in Fountain City.

He moved away and eventually returned.

Tom was at the meeting to propose a new assistedliving facility in Fountain City. We first talked about that, and then conversation moved to his family’s history.

His ancestors were some of Fountain City’s first settlers.

Tom graduated from Central High in 1961. He played ball at Ole Miss and I believe knows everyone in Knoxville

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Show and tell included everything from iPad carriers and purses to wall hangings and quilts.

Vice president Jennifer Grace asked members to write down their top five 2014 quilting resolutions.

Grace will hold those until the December meeting and pass them back to members so they can see how they did.

The KMQG meets monthly at various locations. The Feb. 1 meeting will be at the Bearden Branch Library and will include a Small Scrappy Swap, LRC Dice Game and a Sew-In. Info: www.modknox.ning.com.

The dead of winter only enlivens members of the Noweta Garden Club, who used petite design to bring life into the gloom at the Jan. 14 meeting.

The meeting featured miniature designs brought in by members for critique by other members in preparation for a future show.

Miniature plants and objects were used in the creations.

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His tales were so interesting that the 30 minutes we spent talking in 40-degree weather didn’t bother me. I especially enjoyed the story regarding him and his paper-route friend, Ken, and a bag of flaming manure.

I visited Jerry’s Barbershop later in the week to photograph a new barber.

While I was waiting for him to finish a haircut, the chatter in the shop was all about football, who might be the new coach at Central and about traveling to Chicago to see the Cubs play at Wrigley Field (something I want to do this summer).

There was a lot of laughter and just a great feeling inside.

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government Opening TVA’s closed doors While TVA seldom reports or even hints at what is happening at closed board committee meetings, there has been lots of speculation since Mike McWherter broke tradition and voted no on the extension of Bill Sansom’s term as chair. It sent shock waves throughout the organization. This kind of public dissent just does not happen. Here is what I have learned from several sources.

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The recommendation to extend Sansom came from the compensation committee chaired by Barbara Haskew, 73, whose term expires in May. However, the committee had also received a request that director Joe Ritch, 63, be named chair. Ritch is from Huntsville, Ala. Since Sansom wanted to continue as chair until his term expires in May, Ritch opted not to challenge him. However, Ritch will likely be the next chair.

While the board has had a vice chair in the past (last held by Sansom in 2011) it has not been filled for two years. No reason was given for leaving it vacant.

Recently, the board determined the chair of the audit committee would be chair if the real chair could not attend the meeting, but no discussion occurred on what happens to the empty vice chair position.

It’s a safe bet Sansom will not name Mike McWherter. And it’s a safe bet that Sansom and Haskew will not be reappointed by President Obama.

■ Another question being discussed privately by board members is whether all board members can attend any committee meeting including those they are not members of.

Legal counsel Ralph Rodgers has opined that if five board members attend a committee meeting it could become a board meeting.

The finance committee (the most important committee) has four members and does not allow other board members to attend. Rodgers even discourages five directors being on a TVA plane at the same time as it might suggest a meeting.

This means the nonmembers never hear what

was discussed or what was rejected. They are kept in the dark. This is one of many reasons the committees should meet in public and let ratepayers know what is happening. It’s surprising that environmental groups like Sierra Club have not taken on the issue of closed committee meetings.

■ Ralph Rodgers was paid $1.9 million a year as chief general counsel for TVA in 2013. However, this is a reduction in income for Rodgers as he made $2.5 million in 2012, according to the statement TVA filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If you think this is fiction, check out the SEC filing for TVA. Only seven years ago, in 2007, Rodgers was making just $180,000 a year, so his increase is 10 times in seven years. Then-TVA general counsel Maureen Dunn (now married to former TVA director Neil McBride) made $330,000 in 2007 ... much less than $1.9 million.

Not many attorneys in Tennessee make that much in a single year. TVA could easily find well-qualified attorneys to accept Rodgers’ position for less than half that amount if he refused to pare back his excessive salary from ratepayers.

Now that this is becoming public, one wonders how long the board will remain silent. It is stunning that a quasi-governmental lawyer at TVA makes 10 times what a federal district judge makes and that this quantum leap occurred in seven years. TVA is also notorious for sending convoys of attorneys to legal proceedings.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan, when asked, said these salaries were “ridiculously excessive.” Duncan is the only member of the Tennessee congressional delegation who has spoken out for years against excessive TVA salaries.

■ Gary Sousa made $140,200 a year as UT band director. He continues to make this amount, although his band duties were suspended and he has no duties at present. The investigation is still ongoing.

However, if the outcome of the inquiry results in Sousa being moved back to the faculty, his salary will be $105,050.

The 25 percent reduction is standard UT practice for persons moved from administrative to faculty positions, according to Margie Nichols of the UT chancellor’s staff. The head of the music school would assign him new duties.

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Paul Kelley’s influence continues Says charter school founder Diggs

talk all this over with him.”

Kelley was a career educator, longtime president of the Oakwood-Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association, multi-term school-board member and lifelong chamIt’s times like these when pion of inner-city children.

Steve Diggs misses Paul In 2010, the Dr. Paul L. KelKelley. ley Volunteer Academy, a nontraditional high school in the Knoxville Center mall, was named for him.

Kelley and his wife, NorBetty Bean ma, were members of Emerald Avenue United Methodist Church when Diggs, fresh out of Maryville ColNot that he doesn’t feel lege, was hired as a youth the loss of his longtime minister back in 1988. Diggs mentor almost every day took to the job with vigor since Kelley died a year ago and vision, and Kelley’s en– but now Diggs, as execu- couragement and advice betive director of the Emerald came invaluable as the EYF Youth Foundation, has gone became an inner-city-wide public with a plan to plunge youth ministry, eventually into the charter-school serving 1,400 children. business, and he wishes he Today, Diggs and his could have the benefit of family live two doors down Kelley’s sage advice. from the Kelleys’ family “He was my second fa- home, and he still sees Norther, and I wish I could sit ma frequently. He believes down in his living room and Paul Kelley would approve

of Emerald Charter Schools and the plan to enter the contentious and highly political field of education.

The first thing Diggs wants to make clear is that he is a public-school guy.

His children attend Christenberry Elementary School and Fulton High School, and Diggs is active on both campuses.

He is distressed by the low scores that Knoxville’s urban students have been getting in math and language arts and says he wants to do something to help children become college-ready by the time they finish high school.

“I am a public-school advocate. In fact, we are going to increase our offerings to public schools, and we think the public charter-school option will be another strategy to accelerate the path to achievement.”

The second thing he would like to make clear is that the first Emerald Charter School will not involve a

takeover of any existing Knox County school, although he will consider any space that might be offered.

The first Steve Diggs Emerald Charter School will serve kindergarteners and firstgraders only, and the student body will consist of 75 to 100 inner-city first and second-graders.

Diggs says he has not chosen a location but anticipates that it will be near Fulton High School, perhaps on property soon to be abandoned by Physicians Regional Medical Center (the hospital that Diggs’ neighbors still call St. Mary’s).

“We think we’re going to need about 20,000 square feet,” he said. “We’ll see what’s going to be available.”

He believes Paul Kelley would approve.

‘Pops’ hopes to be called ‘Judge’ His grandchildren may call him Pops, but Billy Stokes hopes you’ll soon call him Judge.

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captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

He is a founding partner of Stokes & Fansler, worked for Gov. Don Sundquist and boasts a bunch of other stuff you can read at his website.

“I’ve been doing this for a long time,” Billy said, “but the most important thing is that I practice law, step in and resolve conflicts. I’ve tried cases for a long time, both for plaintiffs and defendants, and I’ve won some and I’ve lost some.”

He says he has the experience, education and temperament to do the job well.

“Just keep the talk on the street and we’ll move forward and win this thing on May 6,” he said to his supporters.

Granddaughter Bailey, 3, either liked what she heard or wanted to talk to Bay and Pops ’cause she got to them before supporters could.

Surrounded by friends and family, Billy Stokes looked comfortable. He felt like a winner. Billy’s is the familiar face in the race, but sometimes voters like fresh faces.

I don’t know what’s going to happen on Election Day, but I do know this. Familiar doesn’t need a road map or a question mark.

Stokes is running for the Division I Circuit Court judge seat being vacated by Dale Workman. His opponents to date are lawyers Bill Ailor, Kristi Davis and Ray Hal Jenkins.

Like Jenkins, Stokes is a former Knox County Republican Party chair. He’s safe, familiar.

His mentor, Richard Bean, stood quietly in the corner as everybody stopped by to say hello at his campaign kickoff at Calhoun’s on the River. Duane Grieve and Gail Jarvis were chatting in another corner.

Bailey Hickerson, 3, runs up to chat with Bay and Billy “Pops” Knoxville Mayor Madeline Stokes after Billy addresses the crowd at his campaign kickoff Rogero dropped by, as did at Calhoun’s on the River. Photo by Jake Mabe former county GOP chair Chad Tindell. visor at the East Tennessee Stokes’ wife, Bay, a for- Bruce Blakely.

Raised in Lonsdale, Regional Juvenile Center, mer educator, was saying howdy to everybody. It felt Stokes attended Maryville now named for Bean. After College to play football. receiving his J.D., he joined “Pull Up A Chair” with Jake Mabe at jakehomey, familiar.

Billy is a Knoxville na- A shoulder injury ended the U.S. Army, serving as a mabe.blogspot.com tive. At least two of his dreams of gridiron glory, classmates from Beaumont so he transferred to UT. He Elementary School and earned a bachelor’s degree Waggoner fundraiser set for Jan. 31 Rule High showed up to sup- in psychology and was hired Wright’s Cafeteria, 5403 N. Middlebrook Pike, port him. Billy remembered as juvenile counselor for the will be the setting for a Friday, Jan. 31, fundraiser for playing football against the Knoxville Police DepartBobby Waggoner, candidate for Knox County sheriff Dink Adams-coached Halls ment. in the May 6 Republican Primary. The spaghetti supWhen that job was elimiHigh football team and per will be 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 each and says he figured out a way to nated, Stokes attended UT will be available at the door or by calling 978-1042. deal with Dink’s offensive Law School and worked full-time as a shift supertandem of Elmo Brock and

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More Mike Stratton Mike Stratton came uninvited from Tellico Plains to the University of Tennessee and stayed to become a first-team end in a two-way era, offense and defense. He learned a lot. “I learned to be friends with the tailbacks. We didn’t throw many forward passes, but when we did, it was the tailback doing the throwing.�

That strategy led to nine receptions as a senior in 1961 and Mike’s lone experience with a professional scout.

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“Gil Brandt (Dallas Cowboys) came to see Glenn Glass, and I got to meet him.

Glenn asked about me as a prospect, and Mr. Brandt said oh yes, he would check on me.�

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A memorable character I suppose most people have met someone who tends to linger in their mind and surfaces from time to time when certain events or observations trigger a remembrance.

And, in 70-plus years, I have met a lot of people who fall into that category. But one in particular seems to stand out when I see street people, and I cannot help but wonder what event in their lives resulted in their becoming homeless.

As part of a Christmas event, several members of our church decided to cook breakfast for the homeless at a homeless ministry center. After the event, we gathered at the Cracker Barrel to enjoy breakfast together, and we decided to make this outing a permanent ministry. I doubt that many of us knew what we were getting into, or we may never have made the commitment. Certainly we never realized that it would continue for nine years.

So we made arrangements with the ministry center director to cook breakfast every Wednesday at 7 a.m. We served pancakes with hot syrup, link sausage and scrambled eggs, and soon word got around that the place to be for breakfast was the Volunteer Ministry Center. Sine the preparation time took about two hours, we got up at 4 a.m. and met at the local barber shop, crowded into a Suburban and were usually ready to start cooking by 5 a.m.

I met many people during the nine year period, and soon got to know the locals by their first names.

But on one particular morning I had some business to conduct downtown and drove by myself. I parked in an adjacent parking area and walked up to the entrance. It was dark and as I approached I noticed a man standing in the doorway. I was a bit hesitant to approach because he was not someone I recognized. He asked if I had eaten there before and I explained that I was one of a crew who would be cooking his breakfast.

We had only talked a few minutes when I realized this man was not a run-of-themill street person. Our subject matter quickly made me realize that he was educated and had an in-depth knowledge of many subjects. He carried a pack which he had set down in the doorway. He reached down and pulled a cylindrical container from the pack that contained his law degree from the University of Chicago. This diploma was apparently the only thing he had kept to remind him of who he once was. He said that if he were found

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dead, someone might take the diploma and trace down his relatives.

I asked him if he would like to share his experience that led to this, and he seemed anxious to do so. He was a full partner in a prestigious law firm, and certain events in his life resulted in his gradually taking money from the firm. His partners soon discovered the theft.

Rather than prosecute him, they simply asked him to leave. From that point, his wife divorced him and his two daughters refused to even talk to him. At that point, he gathered some clothes and a small amount of money and left his home during the night.

When the rest of my crew arrived, we opened the door and invited him in out of the cold. There was a spinet piano down on the dining floor. He sat down and started playing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.� I told him that he could get a job at one of the local hotel’s piano bars, and that we would help him get some clothes. He thanked me for the offer, but said he was doing exactly what he wanted to do.

And it became apparent that what he wanted to do was just live for his next drink. A previous experience taught me that giving a homeless person money almost always worked to their further detriment. I never pushed the offer further, but during the week I thought a lot about my experience and was anxious to see him again the following Wednesday. But he never came back, and for several weeks I hoped he would show up. But he apparently found that next drink further down the road.

His story is like many others I heard over the nine-year period. There was some cataclysmic event that happened in their life that resulted in their addiction to alcohol. And from that point, the slide was downward.

But the thing that made him different is that he had the credentials and talent to turn his life around. He probably could have landed a position of law clerk in some law firm in spite of his past history, and he certainly could have played the piano in some capacity.

He made a bad choice to solve a problem, and I can only hope that somewhere further down the road he might have made a right choice.

But I doubt it.

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talent searches, didn’t know there was a Mike Stratton.

Buster Ramsey was the first coach of the Buffalo Bills. He had Maryville roots and had played at Knoxville High School. One of his East Tennessee connections told him that Stratton had good hands, good speed, good size and genuine potential on defense. He was added to the draft list – in pencil.

Ramsey got fired while trying to make something out of nothing, and Lou Saban became the new coach in Buffalo. “The American Football League drafted early, and it wasn’t a very big deal,� recalled Stratton. “I stopped at Sam and Andy’s on the Strip one evening, and somebody told me I had been drafted.�

The next morning, the pay phone on the second floor in the stadium dormitory was ringing its bell off.

As usually happened, the nearest Volunteer woke up enough to answer. “Hey Stratton, this one’s for you.�

It was Lou Saban. “He said I had been drafted by the Bills in the 13th round. He asked if I could come out to the airport for a meeting. I was on crutches from an ankle injury in the Vanderbilt game, but I borrowed John Bill Hudson’s car and drove out to the airport. “Coach Saban was pleasant but businesslike. He offered me $9,000 for the 1962 season and $1,000 bonus if I would sign right then. “Glenn Glass had given me some tips about negotiations. I decided to try one. If the Bills would raise

the offer to $10,000 and give me the other $1,000 as a cash advance, I said I would sign. Without a moment’s hesitation, Coach Saban said OK.�

Stratton wondered if he had sold himself short.

A little later, back on campus, there were Lou Saban and Glenn Glass on a joy ride, seeing the sights from a big convertible, talking about real money.

Stratton had hobbled to the airport to meet the coach. The coach had come to the school to pick up the tailback.

Stratton played 12 seasons of professional football, 156 games as an outside linebacker. He intercepted 21 passes. Six times he was in the Pro Bowl. He has an honored place on the Bills’ wall of fame. He was elected to the Buffalo all-time team, chosen after 50 years. He

is a legend in western New York.

Stratton had one of the historic hits in all of football. In the 1964 AFL championship game against San Diego, the great Keith Lincoln was about to catch a pass. Mike, a full-grown 6-3 and 240, and the ball arrived in about the same instant. Fans said “ooooh.�

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Passion, promise and praise

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The atmosphere at Baptist Tabernacle Church in Knoxville was noisy and convivial on a recent Monday night as the MLK Celebration Choir rehearsed for its Jan. 19 concert at the Bijou Theatre commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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“We’ve got a lot of stuff to get through tonight,” said Dr. Aaron Staple, Knoxville College’s director of choral music and leader/pianist

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for the MLK choir, “so let’s get started with ‘Praise.’ ” He asked his son-in-law, Xzavian Wrushen, to lead the group in the spirited anthem. Wrushen conducted the group from his toes up, giving strong cues and commanding the singers with passion and precision.

Later, speaking of the great civil-rights leader, Wrushen said, “Dr. King understood the concept of perfect love. Love transcends race. It transcends gender, sexual orientation, religion – love doesn’t fit in a box.”

Several choir members concurred with softly spoken “amens.”

“Martin Luther King was the voice of peace for the 20th century,” said Staple.

“Standing strong for what he believed against all odds, and using nonviolent measures, has been his greatest impact on my life.” Staple attended the funeral of the

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slain leader in Atlanta in 1968 and took note of the music played there. It’s influenced his musical decisions ever since. “I try to choose songs that carry his philosophy and the message he proclaimed, and songs I recall him hearing and liking.”

In addition to his Knoxville College post, Staple has been directing choirs at Baptist Tabernacle since 1963 and is retired from the Knox County school system, where he was an elementary-school teacher.

Folks who are lucky enough to attend one of his events know how much heart he throws into every performance. He specializes in collaborating with his soloists to showcase their individual talents.

With Staple providing the piano accompaniment, singers can express their feelings of the moment.

He’s always with them,

Xzavian Wrushen leads the women in a spirited anthem: Diane Johnson, Sylvia Brown, Eloise Webb, Wilma Brabson, Dorothy Parks, Staffene Ocan, Vivian Dial, Krishana Forbes and Dawn Davis. giving them room to soar.

His daughter, Audrey Wrushen, is following in his footsteps. She led the choir in a rousing new anthem, “We Sing the Praises to Our King.”

“To me, Dr. King was an example of how to be a soldier for Christ,” she said.

“He was no respecter of persons; he saw everyone the same, which is the way God sees us. He always walked in his purpose.”

Yolanda Flowers, who was reared in Birmingham, Ala., agreed. “Although I did not know Dr. King, to me he meant free-

dom and civil rights.”

Bass Harold Bassett chimed in from across the room. “I have a somewhat different perspective,” he said. “I was raised in the county. I didn’t know I was ‘integrated’ until I heard of Dr. King’s assassination. I didn’t know anything about black history, about what our people had been through. I didn’t know about freedom until I learned about Dr. King.”

Soprano Earnestine Branner quickly agreed.

“Dr. King raised my awareness of civil rights. The greatest gifts he gave us are

peace, perseverance and faith.”

“To me, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. epitomizes our past, our present and our future,” said Dr. Eloise Webb. “We’re still clinging to his words and hoping we’ll have a better tomorrow.”

Lawrence Washington, a bass who’s been with the choir for many years, nodded. “He’s one of my heroes,” he said quietly.

Pat Benn wrapped it all up succinctly. “Passion, promise and praise. That’s it. That’s what Dr. King represented.”

Bass Harold Bassett has unusual memories of the civil-rights Audrey Wrushen leads the choir while her husband, Xzavian, plays the piano. era.

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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JANUARY 20, 2014 • A-7

A healthier, more vibrant Knoxville

By Ruth White If you are looking for a way to eat healthier or reduce/prevent/reverse heart disease or diabetes, check out the cooking classes at the North Knoxville Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Kathy Reid and Pat Kaufmann have coordinated a series of classes that will show individuals how to cook healthier while not sacrificing taste. Kaufmann is certified in teaching cooking classes, and each month a variety of samples will be made and tasted. Asked why they were sponsoring the classes, Reid replied, “We want a healthier, more vibrant North Knoxville.”

The introductory class featured the documentary “Forks Over Knives” and discussed the need to adopt a whole-foods/plant-based diet for healthier living.

On Feb. 11, the class will feature making healthy soups, salads and sandwich fillings. Participants will learn to make these items and will sample the delicious results.

The March 11 class will feature chef/author Melody Prettyman, and on April 8 Reid and Kaufmann will create desserts that are healthy and tasty. Each class begins at 6 p.m. and is free. Preregistration is required for planning and can

The language of the soul Ed Reid discusses the reasons for eating a vegetarian/vegan diet. Photo by Ruth White

Kathy Reid co-hosts the healthy living cooking classes at North Knoxville Seventhday Adventist Church.

be done by calling 314-8204 or visiting www.KnoxvilleInstep.com.

The church will begin a Breathe Free program Tuesday, Jan. 21, that will help individuals stop smoking.

“We are here to help, not criticize,” said Ed Reid, who holds a master’s degree in public health. Info/register:

314-8204 or www.KnoxvilleInstep.com.

Also available at the church are free blood pressure checks 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. No appointment is necessary.

North Knoxville Seventhday Adventist Church is at 6530 Fountain City Road.

HALLS SENIOR CENTER ■ Monday, Jan. 20: Center closed for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

■ Tuesday, Jan. 21: 9 a.m., Tai Chi; 10 a.m., Canasta; 11 a.m., Exercise; 12:30 p.m., Mexican Train dominoes; 1:30 p.m., Hand & Foot; 2 p.m., Movie time, “Don’t Bother To Knock”.

■ Wednesday, Jan. 22: 10 a.m., Bingo; 10 a.m., Hand & Foot; 12:30 p.m., Bridge; 1 p.m., Rook; 1 p.m. SAIL exercise.

■ Thursday, Jan. 23: 10 a.m., Line dance; 10 a.m., Pinochle; 10 a.m., Quilting; 11 a.m., Exercise; 1 p.m. Ballroom dance class.

■ Friday, Jan. 24: 9:30 a.m., Pilates; 9:30 a.m., Art club; 10 a.m., Euchre; 12:30 p.m., Mexican Train dominoes; 1 p.m., SAIL exercise; 1 p.m., Western movie.

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Mission-team members from First Baptist Powell: Brad Neal, Darrell Vandergriff, Ronda Vandergriff and Billy Varner. Photo submitted

Getting acquainted with Africa

By Cindy Taylor A four-member team from First Baptist Powell headed to Salama, Kenya, last week.

Brad Neal, First Baptist Academy high school principal; Darrell Vandergriff, FBA administrator; and Ronda Vandergriff, FBA 3rd grade teacher, flew out Jan. 16 for Africa. It isn’t the first time the church has

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■ Friday, Jan. 24: 9 a.m., SAIL; 11 a.m., Open game play; 1 p.m., Movie time.

■ The Corryton Senior Center features a fully equipped gym open daily. Info: 688-5882.

But I trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

(Psalm 13: 5-6 NRSV) Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.

(Bob Dylan) Which is why we have songs of praise, songs of love, songs of sorrow. (“And Bob Dylan Too,” Mary Oliver) I was never particularly a Bob Dylan fan. He wrote some great music, but as a singer, in my opinion, he left much to be desired.

However, Dylan was absolutely on target when he said, “Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.”

Take, for example, the children’s song “Ring Around the Rosy,” which is actually a song about the Black Death. Or, those Kilkenny Cats, who fought until “instead of two cats, there wasn’t any.”

On the far other end of the spectrum is my all-time favorite, hands-down winner as the best single piece of music ever written, J.S. Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”

I have made music as long as I can remember.

One of my earliest memories is sitting at the piano playing the keys with no particular song in mind, which was not, please note, making music. But I was fascinated with the sounds, and I wanted to make music.

I was amazed, one day in the first grade, when a sophisticated second grader came to my classroom to inform my teacher that I was to go to another room for my piano lesson. Piano lesson?!? I knew nothing about a piano lesson! He led me to the correct room, where I had a lesson, received my first music book, and was, quite simply, a goner.

I was never a great pianist, just a competent one.

I was a good singer, never a great one. I have made my living mostly through church music, entertained my mind with folk music and ballads, fed my soul through singing with the Knoxville Choral Society,

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and kept babies happy with lots of lullabies.

Most of the Scripture and poetry I have memorized is in my head because I sang it. I can sing the lyrics of many songs I learned in the ’60s (who can explain that, except to say that a younger brain is a more trustworthy repository than an older one?).

I turn to music when I am sad. The day my father died, when I was 10, I sat down at the piano and played my sorrow. Someone suggested to Mother that maybe that was not appropriate – music in a house of bereavement – but she had the wisdom, even in the midst of her own shock, to say, “No. Let her play; that’s how she is expressing her grief.”

I was pleased beyond all reason when I learned that the universe sings as well. There are, I am told

by Those Who Know, vibrations humming out there, echoes of the Big Bang (which I understand as God’s voice saying, “Let there be light!”). That sound created the universe and began the “music of the spheres,” as the poets call it.

One of my music professors made a statement that I shall never forget: “Music is the only art form that is ephemeral. It is here and gone; performed and dies away; exists only in its moment and ceases to be.”

Except in the human heart.

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trip” and will involve construction and caring for students at the orphanage, working alongside Tunawajali Christian Baptist Academy in Salama. First Baptist Powell was instrumental in starting the Salama academy, and the mission team will spend 10 days working with the school.

■ Wednesday, Jan. 22: 9 a.m., Billiards, Quilting; 10 a.m., Crochet, Dominoes; 11 a.m.,

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been on a mission to Kenya, but this trip is different.

For the first time, a student from First Baptist Academy accompanied the team. Senior Billy Varner headed across the ocean to experience many “firsts” for him: first time on an airplane, first time on a mission trip and first time to leave the United States.

This is Varner’s “senior

CORRYTON SENIOR CENTER ■ Monday, Jan. 20: Center closed for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

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A-8 • JANUARY 20, 2014 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news “Nearly 90 percent of the children placed in our care in the last five years have found forever homes either through adoption or reunification with (non-offending) family members,â€? says Nystrom.

The foster agency is separate from Childhelp’s Child Advocacy Center, which serves youngsters involved in child-abuse cases being investigated.

However, “all of these kids have come to us because of abuse, neglect or endangerment,â€? says Nystrom. “There’s a ton of either opiate or methamphetamine abuse happening out there. You see a lot of kids that come into foster care who maybe have been in a home that’s had drug abuse taking place. “All of the nightmares that people hear or imagine that could happen to children ‌ happen here in East Tennessee, and those can result in a child being removed from

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get adopted, much less to find 19 families adopting sibling groups of three or more kids. “It’s just a remarkable accomplishment that snuck up on us. We didn’t realize we had done it till we had done it. It’s been a really cool run.�

The Childhelp Foster Family Agency, based in Seymour, has been serving children in the state of Tennessee since 2004.

It has been recognized for having one of the highest adoption rates of any foster-care provider in Tennessee.

Childhelp Foster Care Agency has been so busy beating the odds that staff members didn’t even notice that they’ve arranged adoptions for a record number of multiple-sibling groups. “Nineteen foster families have adopted sibling groups of three or more children within the past four or five years,� says Childhelp director Hugh Nystrom, noting that at least two families have adopted five children each. “That’s a big deal. It’s hard to find a home for one kid to

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Pink Out at Halls Middle Halls Middle School basketball teams will host a Pink Out in memory of Saxon Cochran on Thursday, Jan. 23 Donations will be accepted for the Butterfly Fund. The girls game begins at 4:30 p.m. and the boys game will follow.

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Mural depicts clubs, shows pride in Halls High Halls High School is continually finding ways to connect students and help build a sense of pride in the school and community.

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Last semester a teacher asked art instructor Jerry Lewis about painting a mural near the entrance of the building. Lewis pitched the idea to his Art II advanced class, and the rest is history.

The mural, which was a student-driven project, depicts all of the clubs and activities available at the school. There are 70 clubs currently offered at Halls High, and they cater to a variety of interests.

“Not everyone is involved in athletics or cheerleading,” said Lewis. “With a

The skateboard club painting depicts the sponsor, principal Mark Duff, in a suit and tie on a board. wide range of clubs, we are able to have something for everyone.”

Lewis wasn’t kidding!

There are a skateboarding club (facilitated by principal Mark Duff), a sci-fi club and groups for reading, pet lovers, martial arts, beekeeping, Nascar, “Duck Dynasty,” sports and many more.

The clubs allow students with similar interests to get together and discuss their favorite subject or newcomers to learn more about an activity.

Davis signs to play basketball with King Webb School of Knoxville senior Madison Davis has signed to play basketball at King University in Bristol next year.

She was Madison Davis a four-year starter for the Spartans and helped lead her team to its

third state championship in 2012, picking up All-District and All-Region Tournament team and All-Region Tournament MVP honors along the way.

Last season she was the team’s third highest scorer with 273 points.

Present at the signing were her parents, Jason Davis and Jill Davis, brother Bryson and grandparents Gary and Joyce Davis.

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The space mural is at the entrance of Halls High School, facing the commons. Photos by Ruth White The mural took the students approximately four weeks to complete. Each student was required to submit a sketch of his or her idea for the mural, and the theme was voted upon by the art students. Two themes stood out above the rest, and according to Lewis the class was divided and neither group would budge.

So Lewis decided to allow two themes – iPad and space – to be used to represent the clubs.

One of Jeff McMurray’s building and trades classes built panels for the project, and the students worked on them in the classroom.

“The students really came together on the project and took ownership of it,” said Lewis.

For the most part they worked together well, and only a time or two did Lewis have to step in to facilitate. The most memorable time was when both groups wanted the skateboarding club on their wall. “We ended up flipping a coin to see which mural would represent the skateboarders.”

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“The fact that they fought over who would get to paint this club really shows the type of leader Mark is,” said Lewis. “The kids really respect him.”

The project brings a vibrant splash of color to the muddy yellow tile and is a great conversation piece The band’s club is just one of 70 clubs that Halls High students for students as they walk have shown an interest. through the commons area.

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“We are making a statetrance of the International Brotherhood of Electrical ment because we do excelWorkers’ shiny new $2.5 lent work,” said Michael million training facility (ex- Marlowe, an IBEW business development and cluding land cost) community relaat 6107 Central WHERE tions specialAvenue Pike. the ist who also The room serves as a on the other fifth year side of the instructor door makes a in the apprenstatement. ticeship program The first door housed in the IBEW to the right in the IBEW Local 760 Training Center 760 Training Center.

“Normally, when you get leads to the building’s electrical service and telecom- to an electrical closet, they munications hub, housed don’t even paint the walls. in a spacious room with This is our dream of an elecstainless steel panel covers, trical closet,” Marlowe said.

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Mike Marlowe stands in the electrical closet of the new IBEW training center. Photo by Ruth White gram administrator Cindy Sanderfur’s desk. Around the corner in the administrative suite is the office of training director A.J. Pearson, who has come home to East Tennessee after retiring from the National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC).

He served as director of the NJATC for 18 years.

Down a shiny hallway are five separate classrooms and a computer lab where 85 apprentices take evening classes.

Annual tuition of $600, which covers books, lab fees and materials, covers only a fraction of the cost. The IBEW kicks in the rest – around $2,500 per year.

Apprentices become union members and pay dues of $37.50 per month.

The IBEW places them in day jobs where they receive on-the-job training and earn half the starting wage of a journeyman electrician – about $11.50 per hour.

They also receive health insurance and are enrolled

in three retirement plans – two traditional pension plans plus a defined contribution plan– the costs of which are not deducted from their pay.

They finish the program as journeyman wiremen with a minimum of 900 hours of classroom instruction and 8,000 hours of onthe-job assignments.

“Every one of our benefits is in addition to the onthe-check wage. And once they enter the program, we find them jobs through our

hiring hall service and our electrical contractor partnerships,” Marlowe said.

“It’s our solution to the problem of how do you get a good job with no experience, and how do you get experience without a job.”

Despite the limiting language in job descriptions, there are two women enrolled in Marlowe’s fifth year class, and several more in the apprenticeship program.

The union is actively recruiting more, Marlowe said.

“Women and minorities are traditionally underrepresented in the construction industry, but we are working to change that.”

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News from Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation (KCDC)

The case for case managers

By Alvin Nance With financial support from the city of Knoxville and Covenant Health, we recently renewed a w onde r f u l partnership with the Community Action Nance Committee (CAC) to provide full-time case managers at each of our four high-rise buildings: Isabella Towers, Cagle Terrace, Northgate Terrace and Guy B. Love Towers.

We began this partnership in 2008 to prevent homelessness and help residents succeed in their housing, and because of the program’s proven success, I am excited to be able to continue and expand this program.

Since 2008, nearly 459 residents have received case management services. None of our residents participating in case management have been evicted to the streets, but instead have maintained stable housing at KCDC or been assisted by the case workers in finding alternate housing situations.

“The program’s benefit is

Community Action Committee case managers Eric Johnson of Guy B. Love Towers, Rene Eastern of Northgate Terrace, Yolanda Grant of Isabella Towers and Scott Bennett of Cagle Terrace. seen in the lives of the residents who now have knowledgeable and caring case managers to help them live independently and avoid the

pitfalls of life that can lead to homelessness,” said CAC executive director Barbara Kelly.

“Prevention is the best

homeless program because it is compassionate, cheaper than other approaches and more likely to be successful than any other intervention.”

The case managers assist residents with budget training, housekeeping, transportation, physical and mental health ailments and mediation issues with neighbors.

They will even assist with finding housing with other programs better equipped to serve their particular needs.

KCDC high-rises serve primarily an elderly and disabled population, so access to these services is crucial to our residents being able to enjoy a full, healthy life.

The ultimate goal is to find the best place for the

resident to thrive. And according to our property managers, case managers make this happen!

“Having case managers is a dealmaker,” said Steve Ellis, senior asset manager for Love Towers. “The CAC case managers allow us to be proactive in addressing needs as they arise before they become major problems. They help us develop our community to its potential.”

Thanks to KCDC, the CAC, the city of Knoxville and Covenant Health, our residents will continue to able to receive the individualized attention they need to succeed at our properties.

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Clarkes partner at John Bailey Company Brandon Clarke has joined his father, John Clarke, as partner in John Bailey Company, one of Knox County’s oldest insurance agencies, founded in 1946. Both are graduates of the University of Mississippi, and Brandon graduated from Farragut High School.

Nancy Whittaker Brandon Clarke is cofounder of the Young Professionals of Knoxville and co-chaired the 2011 Dogwoods Arts Festival. He was recognized as a young leader by The Knoxville Business Journal’s 40 under 40 and was instrumental in developing a website to show what makes Knoxville great. Check this out at www.knoxify.com.

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Pinnell joins KUB board Sara Hedstrom Pinnell, president of Hedstrom Design, a local landscape architecture firm, is the newest member of the KUB board of commissioners. She succeeded Pace Robinson of Modern Supply, whose term expired in December 2013.

Pinnell received her bachelor’s degree from Temple University in 1996 and was part of the Introduction Knoxville Class of 2009. She formerly Pinnell served on the Knoxville Tree Board and KUB Tree Trim Policy Review Panel.

Pinnell joins fellow KUB commissioners Bruce Anderson (chair), Celeste Herbert (vice chair), Joe Connell, Kathy Hamilton, Nikitia Thompson and Eston Williams.

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Car show promoters Mike Berry and Troy Beeler by one of their favorites – a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird owned by Larry Farmer. Photo by Cindy Taylor

The weather was perfect for drawing a crowd to the 30th annual Cabin Fever Car Show Jan. 11-12 at the Knoxville Expo Center.

Co-promoters Mike Berry and Troy Beeler brought in more than 150 vintage and “muscle” cars and motorcycles galore for the enjoyment of the hundreds in attendance.

“This is set up for the whole family,” said Berry. “We lost one of our partners last year, Charlie Rogers, so we are honoring him this year.” Berry and his family are longtime owners of Halls Auto Parts.

According to the ticket count, the event drew the largest crowd in the show’s history.

The show included vendors selling vehicles, parts and memorabilia, plenty of food, live music and hours of strolling fun. And if anything or anyone got out of hand, Deputy Barney Fife (Sammy Sawyer) was there to “Nip it in the bud.”

Hamm returns to Halls clinic Physician’s assistant Ryan Hamm has returned to the Halls Walk-in Clinic. Hamm is board certified in family practice, has 28 years’ experience and is a retired warrant officer with the U.S. Navy. He has been working in Lenoir City to help build a practice. The clinic is at 7000 Maynardville Highway. Info: 9221400. Photo by Ruth White

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Irene’s times

By Libby Morgan Ninety-five years ago, Irene Tolliver was born in a log cabin that was 80 years old. Irene and the cabin are both aged but doing well, under the care of her daughter, Betty Bullen.

Irene’s birthplace has been lovingly restored by Betty and her husband, Stan, and it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the HamiltonTolliver Complex. The property is on a steep curve on Kettle Hollow Road just off Highway 33 north of Maynardville.

On a recent day, Irene reminisced about her many years at the homeplace, where, over the years, the family ran a grocery store, a tomato-canning operation and the farm. Across the road from the cabin, the old store stands with crumbling tarpaper siding and a rusty sign promising Pepsi.

Irene ran the store for decades, during the war and up into the 1960s. She tells of the “OPA days,� when the government was controlling prices at the onset of World War II.

“They came around and told you what you could sell and what you couldn’t sell,� she says, and leans over to say, “But I’d put stuff back, ya know, ’cause I took care of my neighbors. I wasn’t going to let them tell me I couldn’t sell my neighbors what they needed – not if I had it! “Everything was rationed during the war. We used stamps for trade. Salt and sugar came in 100-pound sacks, and I’d sell it by the pound. We used the sacks for hand towels. That’s how poor we were. “I remember when they built the big dam (Norris).

When you went over the dam during the war, there were guards right in the middle checking every vehicle. “We grew everything we ate. In the winter we’d dig a big hole and line it with straw to store our ‘arsh’ (Irish) potatoes.�

Irene remembers her granny’s stories about having to run into the corn patch to hide from the Indians. During restoration in the 1980s, Betty says, they

found gunports beside the upstairs windows. “We found flints (arrowheads) everywhere, all the time,� says Irene.

The cabin, built in the 1830s, is actually two structures set about four feet apart, with a connecting roof and a doorway between. The larger side has an upper story for sleeping, and the smaller side is the kitchen.

The home has never had any indoor plumbing at all.

With the Bullens’ eightyear-long restoration, the place is stabilized, and the Bullens continue to lovingly care for the grounds and structures. “The complex shows the evolution of farming. One day it could be a living museum,� says Betty.

Betty is active in Preservation Union County, a group dedicated to saving historic structures and preserving natural land and historic and cultural resources.

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Other Union County sites on the Register of Historic Places are the Booker Farm on Tater Valley, the Hamilton-Lay Store at Walker’s Ford (the first settlement in Union County), the Maynardville State Bank building next to the courthouse, and the Baite Ousley House in Sharps Chapel.

Betty, Union County historian Bonnie Heiskell Peters and Robert Ellison form the board of directors of Preservation Union County, and there are over 75 members and volunteers.

Membership is $10 per

year, and the group meets once a quarter. Meeting announcements are published in this newspaper’s Community Calendar. “We will assist anyone in Union County with getting property on the National Register and Century Farm Register and basically assist anyone with historic preservation. “We’d like to place more historic markers, too,� says Betty.

Irene’s property is a portion of an original land grant of more than 1,600 acres, settled in the 1790s

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NEWS FROM TEMPLE BAPTIST ACADEMY

Royal Crusaders look for strong finish The Temple Baptist Academy high school basketball team netted a 10-4 record with a 54-26 win over the Seahawks of Cedar View Christian School in Kingsport, Tenn., on Jan. 14.

The team travelled to Springfield, TN on Thursday, January 16 to compete in the Middle Tennessee Classic Invitational Basketball Tournament. Temple won their first two games of the tournament and hope to advance beyond the semi-finals to the championship game.

With eight regular season games left, Temple looks to seize as much momentum as possible going into post-season tournament play. The Royal Crusaders hope to improve on last year’s final-four finish in the TAACS State Tournament.

“We still have some tough games ahead, but our team has worked hard and I think they are up for the challenge,” says coach Larry Nicely.

Come watch the Royal Crusaders at one of their remaining home basketball games.

Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for students. Children 4 and under are free. See the remaining game schedule at TempleBaptistAcademy.com.

U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. meets Angie Tomlinson (back) and her children, Lance and Lydia Tomlinson, both of whom are students at Temple Baptist Academy.

Duncan commends Temple and students Temple Baptist Academy faculty, students and families appreciate all those who serve our great community. Recently, U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. offered some very kind words regarding the work being done at TBA in the Powell community.

“I often run into young people who attend or have attended Temple Baptist Academy throughout the year and have been out to the school many times. I always find the students to be polite, compassionate, and very patriotic. Temple Baptist teaches our young people the importance of family and community and to be proud of their faith. East Tennessee is a better place because of the work of Temple Baptist Academy,” Duncan said.

Temple students set sights on college

Royal Crusader Adam Cate goes for a layup.

Congratulations to the 2014 graduating class of Temple Baptist Academy as they have achieved a class average ACT score of 24.66. As academic scholarship offers from various colleges and universities come in, students and their families are prayerfully seeking God’s wisdom for taking the next step. Each senior hopes to take full advantage of every opportunity to excel as they set their sights on entering college in just a few months.

Homecoming at TBA

Temple student Philip Thompson performs.

District Academic and Fine Arts Competition Thursday and Friday, Feb. 6-7, the TACS District Academic and Fine Arts Competition will be hosted on the campus of Crown College in Powell. Students from Christian schools in the Knoxville and Tri-Cities areas will come together for two days of competition in a variety of categories in art, music, and academics. For a competition schedule, contact the academy office at 938-8181.

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLES NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Nightmare reality Morristown teacher awakens to rare kind of stroke It was between 1 and 2 a.m. on July 18 – when Amy Guinn of Morristown awakened to a nightmarish reality.

Thrashing about in the bed so wildly that it awakened her husband, Terry, the 42-year-old mother of two was in the grips of a stroke caused by the inexplicable tearing of her carotid artery.

There had been no warning, no symptoms, nothing to point to a stroke that would rob her of her speech and paralyze her left side. An ambulance rushed Guinn to Lakeway Hospital, where she underwent several tests. She was diagnosed with spontaneous carotid artery dissection, a rare condition that normally affects women 30 to 40 years of age. Aside from her gender and age, she had none of the other risk factors.

It didn’t take long for medical professionals at the hospital to know they needed to send Guinn to the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center for specialized care. Recognized by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for its ability to care for stroke patients, Fort Sanders is a referral center for complex stroke cases. It is also home to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, which is nationally known as one of the top rehabilitation facilities in the nation.

The Fort Sanders staff immediately began evaluating the extent of Guinn’s stroke,

asking such questions as “Where are you?” and “How many kids do you have?”

“I held up three fingers, but I meant that I only had two,” Guinn said. “I knew what my mind was saying, but I couldn’t get it to go along with my mouth.”

That’s no surprise to Dr. Keith Woodward, the neuro-interventional radiologist who examined Guinn at Fort Sanders Regional that morning. “She’s lucky to be alive,” Woodward said as he pointed to a monitor where a black-and-white image showed a tangle of arteries resembling a road map. “The carotid artery had a tear of about 10 centimeters (roughly 6 inches), and had caused a clot that was preventing blood from getting to this whole side of her brain.”

According to Woodward, the clot-busting drug tPA (tissue plasmogenic activator) could not be administered in her case.

Based upon the external exam, she was sent straight to the neuro-interventional lab for removal of the clots.

“I distinctly remember Dr. Woodward saying we can do three things: One, you can get worse. Two, you could have surgery and have a chance to get better or three, we can Amy Guinn of Morristown said she felt blessed that there was a stroke center so close to home.

NOT do the surgery and this is what you have,” said Guinn. “So, I said, ‘No! no! Do the surgery!’ ” The surgery, Woodward said, involved using a tube-like catheter that acts as a suction device. While the surgery successfully removed all the clots, the road to recovery remained.

Looking forward to starting a new job as a teacher’s assistant just two weeks before the stroke, Guinn suddenly found that she couldn’t do simple math or read, and writing was next to impossible as her writing hand – the now paralyzed left hand – remained fixed in a half clench.

After six days in the ICU, she was able to raise her foot half an inch. After two days in a step-down unit, she was sent to Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center.

“I was up and walking in no time,” Guinn said. “I was really happy with the care … I felt blessed that we had a stroke center so close.”

Today, almost four months after her stroke, Guinn has made remarkable strides.

The biggest obstacle facing her is writing.

After 42 years of being a lefty, she’s now learning to write with her right hand.

Guinn, however, remains optimistic.

“I believe in positive thinking.” she says.

“I have many people praying for me. We live in a small community, and the show of love that’s been made is just awesome.”

Recognize the signs of a stroke FAST! The early symptoms of stroke are often overlooked or ignored. If you suspect that you or a loved one is having a stroke, think FAST:

Fort Sanders Regional is ‘Stroke Ready’ When you have a stroke, the care you receive immediately after it happens is critical. Fort Sanders Regional, along with its sister facilities within Covenant Health, have been deemed “Stroke Ready” by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program. This means these hospitals are qualified to give patients the best initial care at the onset of a stroke. The hospitals of Covenant Health are working together to provide state-of-theart emergency treatments and the most advanced stroke care in the region.

Also, Fort Sanders Regional is a comprehensive Stroke Center, and for patients recovering from the effects of stroke, the nationally renowned Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center offers a full spectrum of rehabilitation services.

To learn more about stroke prevention, risks and treatment through Fort Sanders Regional, visit fsregional.com, or call 865-673-FORT.

F – FACE: Look at your face. Is one side sagging?

A – ARMS: Hold out your arms. Is one arm lower than the other or harder to hold in place?

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T – TIME: Time is critical when trying to minimize the effects of stroke.

Call 911 and get to a hospital as quickly as possible. And be sure your hospital is a stroke-ready, Comprehensive Stroke Center, like Fort Sanders Regional.

Stroke Belt keeps Fort Sanders Regional doctor busy Ask Dr. Keith Woodward what life is like in the Stroke Belt, and he’ll give you a one-word answer: “Busy!”

It’s no wonder – in 2012, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s Comprehensive Stroke Center treated 455 patients for stroke. In 2013, it averaged 35 to 40 strokes per month.

Woodward’s department treats about 100 of those patients per year.

“Those are very high numbers,” Woodward said. “We are in the buckle of the Stroke Belt, and stroke volumes are high here. Of course, this is much higher than all other facilities due to Fort Sanders’ comprehensive stroke center certification and the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center being here.”

Too, the risk factors for stroke – high blood pressure, smoking, sedentary lifestyle and the Southern diet of “fried everything” – are all higher here.

When Woodward came to Knoxville, no one could perform procedures inside the arteries of the brain.

He was particularly concerned when a local high school football player collapsed with a stroke and had to be sent to Asheville, N.C., because that was where the closest doctor was that could treat those disorders.

“I decided to go back and complete additional training to perform these procedures in the brain,” Woodward said. When he returned in 2005, patients no longer needed to travel to get the best stroke care.

Now at Fort Sanders Regional for a decade, he is currently chair of its Acute Stroke Team and Medical Director of the Neurovascular Research Center of East Tennessee. Woodward is board-certified by the American Board of Radiology and has the Certificate of Added Qualification in Interventional Radiology.

Strokes are now the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States.

Strokes occur when blood flow to the brain is disrupted. Disruption in blood flow is caused when either a blood clot blocks one of the vital blood vessels in the brain (ischemic stroke) or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, spilling blood into surrounding tissues (hemorrhagic stroke). Ischemic strokes account for 87 percent of all strokes.

In many cases, Woodward treats those patients with a procedure known as mechanical embolectomy.

“We place a needle in the artery in the groin and advance a catheter, using X-rays as a guide, until the cath-

Dr. Keith Woodward says advances in stroke treatment have drastically reduced the time it takes to remove clots, often minimizing damage to the brain. eter reaches the neck,” Woodward says. “Then, we advance a smaller catheter into the brain to the clot. A pump is then attached, and the clot is sucked out of the artery.”

The procedure has come a long way over the years.

“The tools are so much better – six-hour procedures to remove clots have been reduced to now commonly less than 30 minutes,” Woodward says, adding speed is vitally important when treating strokes. That is because the longer the clot remains, the longer the brain is without blood and oxygen.

As a result, the cells in the affected area begin to die, affecting whatever functions that area controlled.

“More often than not, stroke damage is permanent,” says Woodward.

“However, it almost always improves over the first six months after a stroke.

Rehab is the key during that period to help the brain recover.”

Busy though they may be, Woodward says his days are not without their rewards. One of those, he said, is when “I can see a person unable to walk or talk, and 24 hours later, they can go home from the hospital.”

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Jake at Graceland to visit Elvis at Christmas.

The best job in town

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett isn’t happy about the size of the fish he caught. All kidding aside, Burchett participated in a family education day last year. He put on waders and jumped into Beaver Creek with kids of all ages.

PULL UP A CHAIR … | Jake Mabe met a person from whom I couldn’t learn something.

Of course, usually it was something not to do.”

Sandra Clark and I fight over who’s got the best job.

Truth is, we both do. We get paid to have fun, tell jokes, observe others and, we hope, churn out a newspaper you either love or y boss accuses me of hate and, in all seriousness, boost the communities we liking everybody.

With the possible excep- serve. tion of Victor Ashe (no baseball in Knoxville), I plead ■ The beginning guilty.

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I was a weird kid, though.

Grew up liking Ted, old TV shows, newspapers, radio, baseball, books and balladeers. I dressed up like a Red Devil at football games.

I wanted to be Jack Benny, Al Kaline, Elvis, Sherlock Holmes, the Oak Ridge Boy with the long beard or Walter Cronkite. Since those jobs were taken, I learned how to impersonate them instead and went to school to become a history professor. Some of you might know two of my mentors (if they’ll claim me): Steve Ash (his wife,

Jean, was Old Man Schultz’s dance partner in the good ol’ WIVK days with Claude Tomlinson) and Dr. Paul J. Pinckney of Sequoyah Hills.

I graduated summa cum laude from UT but really wanted to write. I kept begging Sandra for a job until she gave up and said yes. To make sure I stayed, I parked my car in the office – literally. (Don’t ask.)

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I cut my teeth writing features, first in Union County and then primarily in North Knox County.

Somewhere along the way, I learned how to herd words,

Jake Mabe cracks a bad joke while guitarist Ross Southerland watches in either amusement or pity. Jake, Ross and others performed charity Elvis Presley concerts in Halls 1992-96. They were reunited on the WDVX-FM “East Tennessee Quiver” this month. Southerland, a former member of the rock group Outta Line, also performed at Memories Theatre in Pigeon Forge for 13 years. got married, started writing my first book.

Somebody called me the John Boy Walton of Halls.

That’s fine. Charles Kuralt is another hero. I spent the first part of my career telling his kind of tales, good ones, about your friends and neighbors and the kids at school. The Halls B&P gave me something better than a Pulitzer – the Halls Man of the Year plaque in 2011. (I still think the first two choices said no.)

I come from a family of teachers and was mentored by many. Education is a passion, and I covered that beat a while.

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Sandra says she’s the luckiest person in Knox County. Not so fast.

I’ve got the best job in town.

The serious part of what we do is advocating for your community. We might be positive, negative, silly, serious, but never, ever boring.

I’m covering county government now. Sandra’s keeping an eye on me (that beat is her baby), but I’m taking my storytelling style and learning to throw analysis into the mix.

Hang on for the ride, y’all.

“Pull Up A Chair” with Jake Mabe at jakemabe.blogspot.com

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Vans 256 $8200. 423-519-2699 TOYOTA Solara 2000, SLE, V6, sunrf, alloy AFFORDABLE, REOdyssey 2011 Music Instruments 198 Honda LIABLE thorough whls, 106K mi, runs Touring Elite, top cleaning svc for a exc., $5800. 865-898-1390 of the line, 33K mi, happy & healthy BOSTON by Steinway $24,500. 423-295-5393 home. Schedule now TOYOTA YARIS 2012, ebony upright, model for refreshing New 45K mi, AT, 4 dr., 118E, pristine cond, Year! Refs avail. $11,000. $3200. 865-773-8313 Trucks 257 black.

Patricia 922-0343 Phone 865-471-0099 PIANO, Upright RANGER 1994 Cable Nelson, exc. cond. FORD XLT, 2.3 5 spd., air, Electrical 323 $700 obo. Morristown, low mi., all orig, very Domestic 265 TN, 423-581-2095 or nice. $3650. 865-643-7103 865-577-0240.

DODGE INTREPID V O L E l e c t r i c 2002, appx. 145k mi, I ns tal l ati on radials, looks Repair Misc. Items 203 4 Wheel Drive 258 new good, need to sell.

Maintenance $1000. 865-384-9925 2500 1997, 350 Service UpSAVE MONEY! BUY GMC eng., AT, long bed, grades AVON. Linda CAMARO Z28 1980 1 owner, good truck Hammond, Avon hi performance, Cab l e $4200.

865-300-6840 Independent Sales $2500.

P h on e L i n es Rep. Call 932-8079. JEEP WRANGLER Call 865-622-0539 S ma l l j o b s 1995, new top, new welco me. tires, $4900 obo. 865- MERC. Grand Marquis L i c e n s e d / I n s u r e d 2004, exc shape, Household Furn. 204 933-3175 or 388-5136.

Ofc : 9 4 5 -3 05 4 47,412 mi, $6500. 865588-3724 Cell: 705-6357 MOVING SALE. Dinnerware, cookware, Antiques Classics 260 HHold furnishings.

Air Cond / Heating 301 Excavating/Grading 326 Priced to move FORD 1929 Model A PU, fast. 865-922-9419 1931 Chev. Roadster, 1960 Chev. Impala 2 hardtop w /348 Exercise Equipment 208 dr. eng. & 3 carburators.

304-363-7131 VPX 2000 Great cond.

Sport Utility 261 Selling $700 865-312-4071 Dodge Durango 2005, Hemi, 3rd row Tanning Beds 210 5.7 seats, lthr, DVD, alloy whls, pwr sunrf, towing pkg, exc Wolff Sun Vision Pro, cond. $7,990. Book: 28 bulb, exc cond., $8-$9K. 423-884-2608 $2,000. 48 bulb stand up $3500. 423-721-4205 FORD EXPLORER 2002 Eddie Bauer, 128K mi., 3rd Sporting Goods 223 4WD, seat, dual air, $5000.

Call 865-591-0249.

POOL TABLE, brand ***Web ID# 357810*** new, fully assembled, 7 1/2 ft. All access. HONDA PILOT 2010 $350 firm. 901-626-3376 EXL, leather, DVD, 43k mi, exc. cond. ^ ^ Bobcat/Backhoe. Small Campers 235 $19,500. 423-295-5393 dump truck. Small MERCEDES R350 2007, jobs welcome & V6, loaded, clean, COACHMAN appreciated!

Call like new, $14,750.

FREEDOM EXPRESS 688-4803 or 660-9645.

865-577-4069.

Toy Hauler, 2010, 19' Pd. $17,000 asking $10,900. 865-856-0098

CROSSROADS Z1

Travel Trailer 2014 32', sleeps 8, master bedroom in front, bunk beds in rear, 1 elec. side out, fully self contained. 1/2 ton towable. Lots of trunk space, must sell by 1/23/2014. Cost $25,000 new, asking $19,700 obo. Sevierville TN, 865-202-1821.

JAYCO 1991 pop up camper, clean, good cond., $925 obo. 865922-9419

Motorcycles

238

HONDA MOTORCYCLE 2006, call for more information.

865-908-3941

Domestic

265 Domestic

265 Domestic

265

RAY VARNER FORDXLT LLC ’07 Ford Explorer 4x4 16K miles, Extra c lean .............................

592090MASTER Ad Size 3 x 4 $25,930 4c N TFN <ec> ’05 Nissan Frontier King CAB 2wd 32K miles ..................................................

327 Plumbing

ADOPT!

Call 215-6599 or visit knoxpets.org

Farmer’s Market 150 ORCHARD GRASS TIMOTHY HAY 50+ lb bales No rain. $4/bale. Halls area.

865-922-9426

DIRT BIKE Y2450F Newer tires. $2100.

Call Rob at 274-9651

2008 YZ 450 F, Low hours. Brand new ASV levers, carb hoses, radiator hoses, motor ran through yr & a half ago. Everything to spec, ridden 3 times since. Runs like new - just don't have time to ride. $3750. Call Jacob 865-964-0078

348 Tree Service

Flooring

330

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Remodeling

^ CERAMIC TILE installation.

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

John 938-3328 VINTAGE FLOORING Hdwd our specialty!

Family-owned & operated, 20+ yrs exp! Jon 936-8516

351

CARPENTRY, VINYL windows, drs, siding, flr jacking & leveling, painting, plumbing, elec, bsmnt waterproofing, hvac repair, insulation, tree work.

Cleanout basements/ attics. Sr. Citizen Discount. 455-5042 Licensed General Contractor Restoration, remodeling, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, sunrooms, garages, etc.

Residential & commercial, free estimates.

922-8804, Herman Love.

SPROLES DESIGN CONSTRUCTION *Repairs/additions *Garages/roofs/decks *Siding/paint/floors

938-4848 or 363-4848

Guttering

333 Roofing / Siding

352

1st CHOICE TREE SERVICE

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

Bobcat Climbers Dump Truck Service 22 years experience References provided

HAROLD'S GUTTER SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up.

Quality work, guaranteed. Call 288-0556.

Handyman

335

CARPENTRY, PLUMBING, painting, siding.

Free est, 30+ yrs exp!

Call 607-2227.

Discount If You Mention This Ad

LICENSED -- INSURED -WORKMAN'S COMP Guaranteed to meet or beat any price.

25 Years Experience 865-934-7766 OR 865-208-9164

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

Lawn Care

339

’05 Lincoln Navigator Ultimate, 4x4, Loaded, 24KSAVE $$$ SPECIALS OF THE WEEK!

BREEDEN'S TREE SERVICE

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Over 30 yrs. experience!

$33,150

'11 Lincoln MKZ, loaded, leather, moon roof, low miles, MUST GO! R1463 ........................ $19,996 miles..................

Trimming, removal, stump grinding, brush chipper, ALL TYPES roofing, guaranteed to fix any leak. Special coating for metal roofs, slate, chimney repair. Sr. Citizen Discount. Call 455-5042.

Price includes $399 dock fee. Plus tax, tag & title WAC. Dealer retains all rebates. Restrictions may apply. See dealer for details.

Prices good through next week.

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Travis Varner

Dan Varner

2026 N. Charles Seivers Blvd. • Clinton, TN 37716

457-0704 or 1-800-579-4561 www.rayvarner.com

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GUTTER CLEANING & repairs. Gutter guards plus installation of 5" guttering. Call 936-5907.

$18,630

Ray Varner

357

FENCE WORK Installation & repair. Free est. 43 yrs exp! Call 689-9572.

'13 Ford Escape SE, 2.0 ecoboost, AWD, below book value! R1459 ............................... $21,900 ’06 Ford Escape 4x4, 15K miles..................................................................

'12 Ford Edge Sport, loaded, nav, roof, 22" wheels! R1526 ...................................... $31,900 ATV’s 238a $17,436 '12 Ford Expedition LTD 4x4, moonroof, nav, pwr, running boards! R1531................$38,500 145 '04 YAMAHA

1 car garage. Quiet!

865-712-8326.

DRIVERS: CDL-A. Dedicated Routes Solo & Team. Great Pay/Benefits & Bonuses! Home Weekly, No Slip Seat, No Touch, Newer Equipment.

(855) 219-4838

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29

109 Farmer’s Market 150 Autos Wanted 253 Imports

North Knoxville Office/Shop 1120 sq ft. $395/mo Chris 922-3675 Worley Builder,s Inc.

Lost & Found 13 Apts - Unfurnished 71 Small male 1 BR, $425, less than black dog 5 min. to Interstate / Broadway. 1 yr. lease.

FOUND on No pets. 865-604-7537 Rifle Range 1 BR Ftn City, 1/2 rent. pd. Very nice, Road. Info: Water priv., big deck, stove/ref., 687-6547 W/D conn. $100 DD. $425 Special Notices

SATURDAY, JAN. 25

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

LOW RATES! Also minor mower repairs.

679-1161

ROOF LEAK SPECIALIST. I repair shingle, rubber, tile & slate roofs. All types remodeling, chimney repair, floor jacking, carpentry, plumbing.

All work 100% guar.

Day/night. 237-7788.

Stump Removal

355

TREE WORK & Power Stump Grinder. Free est, 50 yrs exp!

804-1034

aerial bucket truck.

Licensed & insured.

Free estimates!

219-9505

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Free No-Impact Exercise Program for Senior Adults & Persons with Physical Limitations M, W, & F • 10:30-11:15 a.m.

Central Baptist Church of Fountain City 5364 N. Broadway

■ Info: Call 688-1206 ■ Or visit: cbcfc.org > activities ministry > FLC Aerobics, Yoga & Pilates offered morning & evening. Calendars available on the website.

Weight Room Strength Training Zumba Racquetball Courts Fit Ball Yoga Core Strength Cardio Step Kickboxing Pilates Bosu