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BUZZ Halls parade off The annual Halls Christmass Parade has fallen victim to road construction on Hwy. 33. President Pamela Johnson of the sponsoring Halls Business and Professional Associa-tion announced the decision, saying the HBPA hopes to replace the parade this year with a Christmas Festival at the Food City parking lot. Details to follow.
Traffic woes to extend a year Callers have asked about the TDOT project currently underway on Hwy. 33 in Halls. It involves relocating the southbound lane to eliminate the wide median area from roughly Emory Road going east to Afton Drive on the south. When finished, the project will provide a left turn from Norris Freeway to Hwy. 33. Mark Nagi, spokesperson for TDOT Region I, said the scheduled completion date is fall 2016. “The controlling item of work is the bridge and the focus of construction is at that location,” he said. “Due to phasing, the turn lane and signal for this location with be one of the latter items of completion.”
Historic marker at Spring Place Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will unveil a historical marker at Spring Place Park, 5201 Parker Drive, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28. The marker commemorates a grindstone from the original Buffat Mill that once stood near the park on Loves Creek. Members of the Parker family, descendants of mill owner Alfred Buffat, will attend. According to Buffat’s memoirs, the mill at one time was the largest gristmill south of the Ohio River. The Parker family donated the land for the park to Knox County in 1976 and the mill stone in 2014.
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Powell: Community theater is alive at the Powell Playhouse which recently attracted Canadian playwright Roger Cosgrove to the local performance. Ball Camp: Residents are furious about Knox County’s plans to swap eight acres including one of two youth soccer fields near Ball Camp Elementary to a Walmart grocery developer, GUSTO LLC, in exchange for 100 acres of undeveloped land in Hardin Valley.
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Stitched with love Brothers Billie and Albert Hurst each received a Quilt of Valor to honor them for their service. Both served in the U.S. Navy – Billie in Korea and Albert in World War II – emulating their Navy father, David Newton, who served in World War I. Volunteer Dennis Taylor said loving hands created each quilt and they should think of every stitch as a hug for all they have done for this country. Quilts of Valor has been distributing quality quilts to veterans since 2003. Info: qovf.com Photo by Ruth White
Bridge to honor fallen veteran Mayor Tim Burchett formally dedicated the Conner Road bridge over Bull Run Creek yesterday (Oct. 27) in memory of Cpl. Lawrence E. Lett, Navy Cross and Silver Star recipient, 1st Marine Division, U.S. Marine Corps. Family members planning to attend included Lett’s brothers: William, Sam and Horace Lett; his sister, Mary Leach; and his nephew, Mark Lett. Nicole Iddins, Horace’s adopted granddaughter, sang the National Anthem. The day was the 63rd anniversary of Cpl. Lett’s death. He was killed in action while serving in Korea on Oct. 27, 1952, at age 20. The bridge is located just north of E. Brushy Valley Drive. The program was held in the parking lot of Sunny View Baptist Church, 808 E. Brushy Valley Drive.
chine-gun fire from one emplacement, he succeeded in completely destroying the enemy position. “When his men became separated from the platoon, he gallantly continued in the attack until the enemy was forced to withdraw and then reorganized his squad to assault a second objective. Throughout this action, he constantly exposed himself to withering hostile fire and, moving into an enemy trench, courageously engaged three enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat until he fell, mortally wounded. “By his indomitable fighting spirit, valiant leadership and marked fortitude in the face of heavy odds, Corporal Lett served to inspire all who observed him To page A-3
Local leaders ‘sell’ Tennessee in Israel By Wendy Smith
Gov. Bill Haslam, Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd and 18 business leaders from Tennessee, including three from Knoxville, recently returned from a trip to Israel to “sell” Tennessee as a site for new business. The biggest challenge, Boyd says, is that the only thing most Israelis know about the state is that it’s the home of Jack Daniel’s and Elvis Presley. New York, California and even New Jersey are on the international radar. But Tennessee requires a sales pitch, and Haslam and Boyd did a great job, says Stephen Rosen, managing director of the institutional bonds division at Raymond James. Rosen, one of several Jewish community leaders who traveled with the group to give cultural guidance, says the sales pitch would’ve worked on him. “I’m ready to move to Tennessee,” he laughs.
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“The Navy Cross is presented to Lawrence Everette Lett, Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Squad Leader of Company I, Third Battalion, First Marines, First Marine Division Reinforced, in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 27 October 1952. “Participating in an attack to recapture a vitally important sector of the main line of resistance which was previously overrun by the enemy, Corporal Lett fearlessly led his squad through intense enemy artillery, mortar and smallCpl. Lawrence E. Lett arms fire to reach his portion of Lawrence Everette Lett was the objective and single-handedly born on Aug. 21, 1932, in Foun- charged several enemy bunkers, tain City. He was the son of Grant hurling hand grenades and firing and Hazel Wells Lett and attended his rifle to rout the hostile troops. “Although painfully wounded at Central High School. The Navy point-blank range by hostile maCross citation reads:
It was Rosen’s fourth trip to Israel. All members of the state delegation paid their own way. Israel is known for its large number of start-up companies, which Boyd partially attributes to an atmosphere of uncertainty created by political turmoil. “To start a business is not a big deal in that culture. Risk-taking is natural.” Hard work and innovation also influence the business culture. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education) is part of elementary school curriculum, and the military is heavily involved in research. But Israel would rather be a growth nation than a start-up nation, he says. The goal of the trip was to encourage business owners to grow their U.S. market from Tennessee. The state is welcoming, supportive, situated well logistically and economical to live in. But the biggest advantage may be Tennessee Promise. Two years
of tuition-free community college or technical school for the state’s high school graduates, which guarantees a future workforce, differentiates Tennessee, Boyd says. The trip was a success on a number of levels. Boyd is confident that numerous meetings with potential business partners will eventually pay off with new jobs in Tennessee. It was also inspiring, he says. Best practices were shared, and the group learned about Israel’s success in technology transfer. They were also impressed with Israel’s technical college system, ORT, and hope for future partnerships between ORT and the state’s Colleges of Applied Technology. He also values the relationships that developed among the Tennessee delegation. Rosen was thrilled to have the opportunity to participate in the trip. The group visited a kibbutz north of Tel Aviv where Clinton-
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based auto-parts manufacturer MAG was founded. It’s an example of how East Tennessee can successfully grow new business. “We’re part of the story, too. We’re part of the Welcome Wagon.” The delegation got the royal treatment, he says. Haslam met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli President Shimon Peres, and he rang the opening bell at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. One sight Rosen especially enjoyed was quiet streets with few soldiers. During the weeks that have passed since the trip, that’s changed, he says.
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Still foolin’ with music At 80 years old, North Knoxville resident D. Smith says that he is still “foolin’ with music.” He says he fell in love with country music when he was 5 years old.
Cindy Taylor “My two older sisters sang and played and were very good. They were offered a chance to perform on the Barn Dance show in Knoxville,” he said. “Our dad wouldn’t let them go.” Smith’s older brother went to fight in World War II and left him a guitar. He picked it up and taught himself to play. An opportunity to play publicly didn’t come along until years later. Raised on a farm, Smith worked the land with horses.
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He says when he was working in the fields he would sing down the rows and all the way back all day long. When he was 17 he thought he was going to get paid about $200 for helping his dad bring in a tobacco crop. “My dad only handed me a twenty. It was disappointing, but I didn’t say a word. As soon as I turned 18, I
moved out.” In his early years Smith opened for and played with some of the top names in country music such as Jim Ed Brown, Loretta Lynn, the Osborne Brothers and Charlie Walker. Walker was a member of the Grand Ole Opry for more than 40 years and is probably best remembered for his novelty hit “Don’t Squeeze My Sharmon.” Smith says Walker has always been his idol. He always wanted to work with Ernest Tubb but says he never got that chance. Walker wanted Smith to come down and play the Opry. Smith says he couldn’t deal with the stage fright, so he never went. He was also offered a recording contract at one time. To play in clubs, Smith says, he calmed his nerves by taking a few drinks. This continued for years until his phy-
CHS Wall of Fame Joseph B. Gorman Ph.D. (1940-1985) By Jim Tumblin Joseph Bruce Gorman was born in Knoxville on Nov. 6, 1940, the youngest of four children of James D. and Georgia Stanberry Gorman. After attending Fountain City Elementary School and Smithwood Grammar School, Joe entered Central and graduated in 1958. He then entered the University of Tennessee, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history and was inducted into two honorary fraternities, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma. Too often we associate the 1960s with “excess, hallucinogens and rock ‘n’ roll,” but those years represented much more than that. During that time, segments of corporate America, like General Electric, were effectively promoting “the brightest and best” of our young adults. The GE College Bowl competition pitted four selected university students against teams from other schools and was a highlight of Sunday afternoon television. There was spirited competition among 200 student applicants for the four positions on the UT team. Joe Gorman emerged as a member and was chosen captain of the four-person team, with Anne C. Dempster, Harold M. Wimberly Jr. and David L. Rubin. Prior to the first contest, the team members prepared themselves by group study of more than 6,000
possible questions for some 75 hours total. Then they held practice sessions with faculty members from the English, classical literature, art, history, physics, political science, economics, philosophy and music departments. The team won the first three rounds. Local fans were irate and deluged the television station with complaints when the fourth round of competition with St. Olaf College (Minnesota) was preempted by a news conference with astronaut Scott Carpenter. The UT team won and the fifth and final match was scheduled with the University of Rochester in New York City. It was preceded by a parade down Gay Street in the three buses chartered so that many of their fans could accompany them to New York. UT’s final exams occurred between the fourth and fifth rounds. The Rochester team was fresh enough and good enough to win, but Tennessee still placed with only four other fourtime winners out of the 140 schools to appear on the GE program. They had dramatized UT’s competitive ability in academic matters, and the story captivated Knox County for several months. After completing his master’s degree, Gorman taught history for three years in a Fairfax County, Va., high school, but his interest in still more education led him to apply to Har-
vard University. Gorman was accepted in the doctoral program and received his doctorate in history in 1970. He won the East Tennessee Historical Society’s prestigious McClung Award for the outstanding paper of the year, “The Early Career of Estes Kefauver,” which was printed in the 1970 Journal of East Tennessee History. His expanded dissertation was published in book form by the Oxford University Press with the title “Kefauver: A Political Biography.” Gorman’s very readable biography traces Sen. Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) from his roots in Madisonville (Monroe County) to Washington. He was the “Man in the Coonskin Cap” who battled the notorious “Boss” Crump organization to be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948. He led the Senate crime investigation and cosponsored the landmark Kefauver-Harris act of 1962, which established vitally needed standards for pharmaceutical use and safety. Kefauver was Adlai Stevenson’s vice-presidential candidate in the 1956 presidential race when the ticket lost to war hero Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon. Kefauver won stunning re-election victories to the Senate in 1954 and
sician told him he wouldn’t survive if he didn’t stop drinking. “If I had signed a contract I would have never stopped drinking,” he said. “I definitely believe there is a God up there. I haven’t had a drink in 29 years.” Smith got a barber’s license and went to work cutting hair to pay the bills. He still cuts hair on occasion. “I couldn’t make a living at that either when long hair got popular in the 1970s,” he said with a laugh. Smith continues to play guitar and sing country music professionally. His favorite style is ballads. He likes to perform songs by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Mel Tillis. He says he could once sing like Hank Williams. “Then my voice changed, and I don’t sound like nobody but me.” Smith still works shows when he gets a chance but says it’s slow right now. Those interested in hiring him for a show should call 232-2699.
again in 1960. At the height of his career, when he died unexpectedly in 1963, he had chaired the powerful Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee since 1957. In 1972, Gorman became a specialist in American government for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, where he did research and writing on subjects posed by members of Congress. His hobby in real estate development in historic Old Town Alexandria, Va., where the family lived, complemented his wife’s successful career in real estate sales. Sadly, after a brave battle with cancer, Joseph Bruce Gorman passed away at only 45 years of age on Nov. 30, 1985, in George Washington University Hospital near his home. He was sur-
community Fallen veteran From page A-1 and contributed in large measure to the success of his squad in accomplishing its mission. His great personal valor reflects the highest credit upon himself and sustains and enhances the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service. “He gallantly gave his life for his country.” He was also awarded the Silver Star for Conspicuous Gallantry during the fight for Bunker Hill in August 1952. In addition, Cpl. Lett was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Action Ribbon, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Korean War Service Medal. He is buried at Lynnhurst Cemetery.
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■ Dale Elward Gideon, 79, passed away Oct. 11, 2015. A Celebration of Life will be held 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the old fire house located at 7827 Tazewell Pike, Corryton. The family requests that attendees bring a dish and an instrument to celebrate Dale’s love of bluegrass music.
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Four outstanding alumni will be inducted into the Central High “Wall of Fame” on Saturday, Nov. 21. Mary Eleanor (Jones) Pickle (CHS 1942), Joseph B. Gorman, Ph.D. (CHS 1958), William Donald Black, M.D. (CHS 1960) and Phil Keith (CHS 1967) are the 2015 honorees. The 14th Annual CHS Wall of Fame Breakfast will be held at the Central High School Commons (5321 Jacksboro Pike) at 9 a.m., and the ceremony will follow in the school auditorium featuring a video production of interviews with the honorees. Tickets are $20 each and are available at the CHS office and from CHS Alumni and Foundation representatives. Info: R. Larry Smith, 922-5433, or Courtney Shea, 689-5730, or courtshea@aol.com
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Kentucky is a must-win game Close against Alabama was a treat, but now the scene shifts. Kentucky is another must-win football game for Tennessee. There are no ifs, ands or buts. The Vols always beat the Wildcats. That is simply how it is. A loss would be unacceptable. No matter how well it might be explained away – injuries, youth, inexperience, one misstep or just a matter of inches – it would cause thousands of fans, holding onto the bandwagon with one hand, to disengage and declare the season a disappointment or even a disaster. In addition to the trou-
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bling issue of what the Vols can and can’t do, there is a complex other side to this conflict. I am told Kentucky has identified Tennessee as a team it can whip. The Wildcats are counting on toughness, old-fashioned blocking and tackling. Oh my. For generations, Kentucky has used its underdog status as motivation.
The Wildcats have lost 29 of the past 30 games against Tennessee. You and I know some were too close for comfort. We are convinced that the old rivals are much closer than the series record implies. Things are changing. There is a new outlook in Lexington. The stadium looks great after a manymillion-dollar renovation. Coach Mark Stoops has refined the focus and generated energy. Stoops’ family ties in Ohio are paying off in recruiting. UK has 21 players that Ohio State didn’t want. There was a misstatement above, in the second
paragraph. The Vols do not always beat the Wildcats. Kentucky won in 1984. Ronald Reagan had just been re-elected president (he carried 49 states). The Russians boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics. The French identified the AIDS virus. John Majors was coach of the Volunteers. The UK score was 17-12. That was too long ago for me to remember how Kentucky did it. I do recall that Tennessee had very good players – Tony Robinson, Johnnie Jones, strong offensive linemen, big names on defense (Dale Jones) and excellent kickers, Jimmy Colquitt and Fuad Reveiz.
Butter and egg bureaucracy Red tape hinders local business
In case you missed it, Peg Hambright owns Magpies Bakery on Central Street near the old Sears building. It’s a great business that’s thriving in a long-neglected area of Knoxville. Hambright has been trying to install dancing butter and egg cartoon characters (affectionately known as Mr. Butter and Ms. Egg) on the rooftop of Magpies. No problem, right? Wrong. City officials, and most recently the Board of Zoning Appeals, have prevented Hambright from installing the butter and egg characters because it (allegedly) conflicts with Knoxville’s sign ordinance. Why do we have a sign ordinance? One reason is that Knox County has about
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100 miles of forested, undeveloped ridges. These scenic views are Knoxville’s greatest natural resource and add tremendous value. It’s tough to enjoy the views when there’s a billboard in the way. City Council was correct to try to protect these viewscapes. Of course, successful businesses like Magpies add value, too. It’s easy to support restrictions that keep the big Pilot or Weigel’s signs off local streets. But it’s more difficult to support a bureaucracy that prohibits Peg Hambright from having dancing butter and egg
characters on top of Magpies Bakery. Here’s hoping Hambright appeals the BZA decision to City Council and that council allows the signage. If not, council should amend the sign ordinance to allow rooftop signage and encourage Hambright and others to continue investing in the Central Street corridor. Five voters? Early voting in the city of Knoxville regular election wraps up this week. Only 57 folks turned out to vote on the first day of early voting. In fact, on that first day of voting, only five votes were cast at the South Knox location. Five voters. All day. The simplest solution would be to align city elections with the county election cycle. This would put the city primary election on the same ballot as the presidential preference pri-
mary election every four years. In nonpresidential, even-numbered years, the city primary election would appear on the same ballot as the May county primary election. The city general election would be held in August every even-numbered year with the county general election ballot. Moving city elections would dramatically increase voter turnout. Also, avoiding stand-alone elections would save city taxpayers nearly $500,000 every four-year cycle. Trump mania: I recently saw an early20-something-year-old guy at a rock concert wearing one of Donald Trump’s red, throwback, “Make America Great Again” hats. I didn’t have a chance to ask him whether he was wearing the hat in support or irony, but he kept getting high-fives
I suppose Kentucky had some good players, but none are in the Hall of Fame. After 26 consecutive victories, Tennessee lost to Kentucky in 2011. Oh boy, do I remember that. The end of the streak was the beginning of the end of the Derek Dooley era. The Wildcats won without a quarterback. Amazing accomplishment. Certain Volunteers did not appear particularly interested in the outcome. So much has changed since then for Tennessee. Maybe it has really changed up north. Or maybe not. My two best friends in Kentucky say the Big Blue never did like the pumpkin orange
and still doesn’t. They said unkind things about Phillip Fulmer’s physique and still chuckle. They didn’t like Bruce Pearl much at all. They still don’t sing “Rocky Top.” If Kentucky foils tradition and spoils the second half of the Tennessee season, there will be another vivid illustration of the wonderful, terrible difference in happiness and heartbreak, a joyous celebration on one side and much gnashing of teeth on the other. If Tennessee wins the must-win game, another must-win game will follow. And then another.
and laughs in the crowd. Successful political campaigns transcend politics to become cultural phenomena. Regardless of how you feel about Trump’s politics, the guy has synthesized celebrity and conservative populism in a way that
resonates with a lot of folks disenchanted with Washington. It’s going to be an interesting 2016 campaign. Make no mistake, Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States.
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Happy Birthday to Wanda U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan and his wife, Lynn, at right, were among a group of friends who gathered to surprise longtime educator and former Knox County Commissioner Wanda Moody, second from left, with a birthday party. Former Knox County Republican Party chair Mike Prince presented the birthday cake. Photo by Anne Hart
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New DA tries new anti-truancy approach Tears, excuses and a dose of public humiliation were the main features of the periodic parent roundups that used to be a staple of local TV news. The district attorney general would send out threatening letters to parents – typically single mothers – of chronically truant kids and require them to come in and explain why their children were missing so much school. Today, there’s a new DA in town, and she’s trying a new approach. T h e shiny green bicycle sitting in the front lobby Charme Allen of Maynard Elementary School is tangible proof of Charme Allen’s change in direction. The sign on the handlebars – “Perfect Attendance = Free Bike” – is enticing, and Maynard principal Kim Wilburn-Cullom says that 66 of her students are on target to win one of these if they get through the fall semester without missing a day of school. “We’re encouraging kids to have perfect attendance, and they look at that bike every morning when they’re coming in,” said WilburnCullom, who wants it known that attendance is already pretty good at her school (from 94.2 percent three years ago, to 92.4 the following year to 95.4 per-
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cent last year). Nonetheless, she appreciates Allen’s efforts. “Students need to be in school, and at this age, attendance is a parental issue, not a student issue, and there’s a domino effect – if you don’t go to school, you’re probably not going to be a productive citizen – and I admire anyone who’s trying to break that cycle.” Allen and Wilburn-Cullom both serve on a Knox County Schools-sponsored committee that is studying disparities in educational outcomes. The committee Maynard Elementary School is also studying a number of shows off a prize bicycle. issues, including why more minority students are suspended for disciplinary isare made by juvenile court. sues. The Tennessee Depart“We’re looking for solutions to a bigger problem. ment of Education considParents need to have de- ers students truant when cent-paying jobs, get up in they have five or more unthe morning and get their excused absences. Knox kids off to school, and kids County Schools allows parneed to be here every single ents and guardians 10 writday,” Wilburn-Cullom said. ten excuses for illness each Knox County no longer year, and Allen’s office conhas a stand-alone “truancy ducts meetings for parents center” like the grant-fund- of students whose absences ed facility run by Allen’s exceed that number. Final note: Videotapes predecessor, Randy Nichols, although there is a Sat- of City Council, County urday School for students Commission, school board with attendance problems and both city and county at the Boys and Girls Club. zoning boards have long Assignments to this school been available to the pub-
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lic, either through Community TV or the agency itself (Knox County Schools maintains school board videos). Metropolitan Planning Commission has been the only holdout. Citizens or journalists who wanted to review past meetings were required to order specific tapes and pick them up at the MPC office. Soon after MPC’s new executive director took over in July, he announced that the archaic policy will change, and now the videotapes are available online. Way to go, Gerald Green!
Young Life offers teens support, joy The banquet sponsors were a who’s who of Knoxville. The table hosts looked like a Finbarr Saunders endorsement ad (not the same names, necessarily, but a huge bunch of them). More than a thousand folks gathered at the Knoxville Convention Center for roast beef and potatoes at the 2015 banquet for Knoxville Young Life. If you’ve not heard of this group, you’re obviously not in high school. I learned about it through my friend Justin Bailey. He’s a volunteer leader and his wife, Kristin, is on the 12-member staff. Amazingly, the annual budget is more than $1 million and the group raised over $700,000 of it at the October banquet. Gov. Bill Haslam speaking did not hurt. Bill and Crissy Haslam were Young Life kids in high school and remain adult leaders, I learned, and Bill has served on the national board. He said Young Life was there for him as a 16-yearold student at Webb School
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whose mother died unexpectedly. He came to appreciate the group even more as a parent. “Forty-one years ago I began an adventure,” said Haslam. In a pointedly nonpolitical speech, he told the assembled adults what he’s learned: ■ The power of a volunteer. “We’ve got 200 volunteers in Knoxville and you could have found them last Friday night standing in the rain at a football game.” God teaches us in uncomfortable situations, he said. “Crissy and I have had a front row seat to Young Life.” ■ People giving back. “This is a different town because of Young Life.” And the ministry continues to grow, now reaching from Moscow to Madrid. He recalled a teen telling
a volunteer, “Every time it mattered, you showed up.” ■ Outreach. Knoxville Young Life has the largest ministry to pregnant teens; it has an outreach to students at Tennessee School for the Deaf. ■ Government can fix potholes, but not hearts. “Forty-one years ago I never knew I’d have a government job,” Haslam joked. Mindy Meyer followed the governor, putting a gentle squeeze on attendees to open their checkbooks. “You help decide whether we grow, maintain or decline,” she said. Checkbooks flew out. The governor, TV guy Russell Biven and some other Young Life leaders did an impromptu dance on stage to conclude the show. Sadly, I didn’t get a picture. Bart Elkins later said he was surprised at the lack of politics in Haslam’s talk and at his willingness to share personal details. The Young Life members have a secret handshake, it seems. With shared history and a shared vision, they simply stand and give their
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Knoxville has had only one citizen be a member of the U.S. Supreme Court – Edward Terry Sanford. If you would like to learn more about him, you should attend the symposium at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. John Scheb, former dean of the UT Political Science Department and current professor of political science, will speak. Meeting is open to the public and sponsored by the U.S. District Court Historical Society and the East Tennessee Historical Society. Sanford was born in Knoxville in 1865 at the end of the Civil War. He graduated from the University of Tennessee and Harvard Sanford Law School. Justice Sanford served on the court from Jan. 29, 1923, appointed by President Warren Harding on the recommendation of then-Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Both Taft and Harding were from Ohio, and Taft was the only president to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Unlike today’s lengthy Senate confirmation process, Sanford was nominated on Jan. 23, 1923, and confirmed six days later on Jan. 29. Previously, he had been a district federal judge for both the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee, having been nominated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. In that case he was nominated on May 14, 1908, and confirmed four days later on May 18. Such swift confirmations simply could not happen in today’s world. He died unexpectedly from uremic poisoning from a tooth extraction on March 8, 1930, the same day that Chief Justice Taft died. He is buried in Knoxville’s Greenwood Cemetery.
story. No need for introductions. Will Acker, who seemed to be in charge, said the tradition of Knoxville Young Life is to tell teens they are loved just as they are by the God of the universe. Young Life also has a tradition of adventure and laughter, he said. “High school kids live in a dark place. We take the light into dark places. “Each high school has its own club. “We go where high school students are – ballgames, practices, recitals, rehearsals, work, wherever kids are – all in an effort to get to know students. “These relationships are the foundation of Young Life.” With 18 clubs, the nonde■ Politicians were out Sunday, nominational group plans shaking hands and enjoying to expand to Union County the day as the city closed this year. Central Street from the Happy How can you not pitch in? Holler Freezo to the Old City. I wrote a check, prob- ■ Finbarr Saunders was camably the smallest one there. paigning hard, standing with That mildly warm roast neighborhood guy Ronnie beef dinner cost more than Collins in the middle of the the prime rib at O’Charley’s, street. but I came away humming a ■ Saunders lost his county happy tune. commission seat to Jeff
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■ Oftentimes, it is the men and women who labor their whole adult careers for government who make it work and are the holders of institutional knowledge. Such is the case at the Knox County Election Commission, where top staff can change due to the political winds, but there are three employees who have a combined 84 years of service. They are Lorrhonda Myers with 30 years in January, plus Linda Colquitt and Ingrida Campbell, who have served 27 years each. They are there day in and day out. They will make sure the Nov. 3 election goes smoothly. ■ Phil Keith, Knoxville’s longest-serving police chief in the past 70 years, was recently awarded the John and Reve Walsh Award in Tallahassee, Fla., at the Missing Children Day ceremony. Gov. Rick Scott was present. Keith is the former director of the Amber Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program of the U.S. Department of Justice. Amber Alerts directly aided in the rescue of 61 children in 2014. ■ The recent city primary had candidates in all three at-large City Council contests winning over 50 percent of the vote. So why does the city force these people to run a second time five weeks later when fewer people may vote? It is possible, if not probable, that the second-place person on Sept. 29 becomes first place on Nov. 3 with less total voting. Well, the simple answer is that it is required by the city charter. The writers apparently never thought about it. It is time for a charter amendment to change this.
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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • OCTOBER 28, 2015 • A-7
By Cindy Taylor More than 230 attended a performance by Lulu Roman Oct. 17 at Christ United Methodist Church. The singer/comedian wowed audience members with her voice and quieted them with stories from her childhood, recounting physical and emotional abuse followed by years of drug abuse. Church member Phil Campbell set up the plan to get Roman to Knoxville. Campbell and Christ UMC choir members held a potluck dinner Friday night to welcome her. Roman is best known as a regular on the music/ comedy show “Hee Haw.” After the meal Roman and Campbell sang an impromptu version of “PFFT You Were Gone,” a song Archie Campbell, Phil’s father, sang frequently on the show. Roman sang the verses. Campbell joined in on the chorus. “I had six kids and you had 11, we had 10 more and they’re bloomin’ like flowers. “I wish you’d come home, you dirty old rascal, ’cause your kids and my kids are beatin’ up ours.” If you don’t know the
Travelers Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. (Genesis 26:3, RSV) This may sound like a book report, and in a way, it is. I found The Sojourner on my mother’s bookshelf and decided it was time to read it. I knew nothing about it, except that it was written by Marjorie K. Rawlings, author of The Yearling. The story is of two brothers, one who stays on the family farm, even though he longs to travel and see more of America. The other goes west, and makes a fortune prospecting for gold. The story is told from the homebody brother’s perspective. Given the title of the book, however, I kept expecting the traveling brother to come home, to take up his share of the responsibility on the family farm. He did come home, but only for a visit, and only to urge his brother to join him in his search for riches. The brother declined, choosing to stay on the farm. He loved the land, and he loved the life he
Lulu Roman and Phil Campbell sing a rousing chorus of “PFFT You Were Gone”
Lulu Roman with a prayer blanket made by women of Christ UMC. Photos by Cindy Taylor chorus you haven’t seen enough episodes of “Hee Haw.” Look it up. Roman shared the story of how she came to be on the long-running series. “I was raised in an orphanage and was an angry little soul,” she said. “When I got out, my bucket list was to learn how to cuss. I got that down real well.” Originally from Dallas, Roman says her whole life has been a survival game. She worked for the telephone company but was let go due to her language. She often went with friends to exotic dance
clubs. One night she stated she could match what any female could do on the pole. She was bet that she could not. Roman hit the stage the next week. She was 300 pounds at the time. Her routine was to make fun of pole dancing. She won the bet, and her comedy career was born. She met Buck Owens in a nightclub but had no idea who he was. They became good friends. Owens predicted that Roman would become a big star and he would have something to do with it. Roman says “Hee Haw” producers wanted stars and a few character actors. “They were looking for a fat, dumb woman. Next thing I know I’m in my hip-
pie clothes on my way to Hollywood,” she said. “The first person I met was Carol Burnett, and my mouth dropped open. She told me, ‘Shut your mouth, child, you’re fi xing to be one of us.’” Roman’s story included heartbreaking background from her childhood. She ended the evening with her testimony of how God changed her life once she gave it to Jesus. “There’s so much to tell, I have to ask the Lord what He wants me to say. God’s got a plan for your life, but the devil does, too,” she said. “The synopsis of my past life is this: If you have no concept of what love is, you have no fear because there is nothing to lose.”
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 Avenue Pike, is accepting appointments for the John 5 Food Pantry. Info: 938-2611. Your call will be returned.
SENIOR NOTES ■ Corryton Senior Center: 9331 Davis Drive 688-5882 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday Hours vary
■ Ridgeview Baptist Church, 6125 Lacy Road, offers Children’s Clothes Closet and Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m. each third Saturday. Free to those in the 37912/37849 ZIP code area.
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, 323 W. Emory Road, hosts Recovery at Powell at 6 p.m. Tuesdays. The program embraces people who struggle with addiction, compulsive behaviors, loss and life challenges. Info: recoveryatpowell.com or info@ powellchurch.com.
Vendors needed ■ Ball Camp Baptist Church, 2412 Ball Camp Byington Road, is seeking vendors for its “Holiday Bazaar” to be held
9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. Booths are $30 and $50. Application deadline: Oct. 31. Info/application: Amanda, Awright5237@gmail.com. ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7754 Oak Ridge Highway, is seeking vendors for the annual Craft Fair to be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21 in the family life center. Spaces: $40. Bring your own table or rent one for $10. Info/reservations: 690-1060.
Oakwood Senior Living residents give high fives to kids from the neighborhood who visited to sing and brought baked goods.
Offerings include: exercise classes; card games; billiards; Senior Meals program, 11 a.m. each Friday; Haunted Dominoes Costume Party, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28. ■ Halls Senior Center: 4405 Crippen Road 922-0416 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday Hours vary Offerings include: card games; exercise classes; dance classes; craft classes; Tai Chi; movie matinee each Tuesday; Senior Meals program, noon each Wednesday. Register for: “Party in Pink,” noon, Wednesday, Oct. 28, includes prizes, refreshments and a special balloon release ceremony; Humana seminar, 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30; AARP Safe Driver Class, noon-4 p.m. Thursday-Friday, Oct. 29-30 (382-5822). ■ Senior Citizens Information and Referral Service 2247 Western Ave. 524-2786 knoxseniors.org
Residents settle in at By Sandra Clark
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Oakwood Senior Living has opened with 22 residents and 63 rooms, said executive director Amy Wise. Staff are quickly forming partnerships with community groups who are reaching out to support the facility. The former Oakwood Elementary School has returned to its glory as the focal point of the Christenberry community. Emerald Youth Foundation is one such partner.
““We We have havee ccreated reatted d iintergenntergenerational activities and a lot of summer programs,” said Wise. Oakwood Baptist Church brings Sunday services to the facility and leads Bingo on Fridays. The UT College of Social Work has an internship program at Oakwood, sending college students to work with the senior residents. Programming includes Zumba and tai chi instruction and art.
Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, hosts Morning Breakfast and Afternoon Hang Out for youth each Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 6901060 or beaverridgeumc.org. ■ Inskip UMC, 714 Cedar Lane, will host a Noah’s Ark Animal
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and his wife had built together. There was sadness, to be sure. More than one baby was born to them and died within hours. There were other losses, other disappointments. But there was a son who lived, and who went off to get an education. Again the farmer saw his own dreams lived out by a relative, someone who was not tied to the land. It was only at the end of the book, that I realized who the sojourner was. The one character who had grown, had moved beyond himself, had come so far as to be a totally different person, was the farmer, the one who had sacrificed and loved and given. It’s a lesson well worth the learning.
workshop 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. Cost: $30. Includes: choosing a furry pal, stuffing it, tucking in a wish, personalizing a T-shirt for it, naming it and creating a birth certificate. Noah’s Ark mascot Mogo Monkey available for pictures. Proceeds benefit Partners for Children. Info/registration: 689-9516.
Carolyn Cottrell, a local pianist, performed for residents of Morning Pointe of Powell. She performs throughout the community, but mainly for churches and East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. Cottrell, pictured here with resident Harry “Doc” Ogden, played show tunes and hymns. She also brought some CDs for the assisted living residents.
Emerald Avenue United Eme Methodist Church brings weekly Bible study. On Friday, Oct. 30, residents are set to hand out trick or treat candy to costumed visitors from Christenberry Elementary School and Emerald Youth Foundation. “Come on over,” says Wise. It’s from 6:30-7:30 p.m. “That’s an activity both the kids and the residents ■ Morning Pointe offers trick or treating will enjoy.” Kids are invited to Morning Pointe of Powell, 7700 DanInfo: Amy Wise at 540- naher Drive, for safe trick or treating 6-8 p.m. Thursday, 6243. Oct. 29. Info: 865-686-5771.
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Residents of Oakwood Senior Living play Bingo, hosted by volunteers at Oakwood Baptist Church. Photos by Melissa Hensley
Family Night at Elmcroft of Halls
All are invited 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, to Elmcroft of Halls, 7521 Andersonville Pike, for an open house and family night. Meet the new executive director, Chris L. Tharp, and medical director Dr. Jeffrey Summers. Learn about the new on-site house physical, speech and occupational therapy, available for residents and the community too. Health care providers and Elderlaw professionals will be available to answer questions and provide information for families exploring senior care. Info: 865-925-2668. ■ Super Senior Bingo is played at 2 Chris Tharp p.m. each third Thursday at no cost to attendees. RSVP to 865-925-2668. ■ Alzheimer’s Support Group meets 6-7 p.m. each third Thursday. RSVP to Rose Davis, 865-925-2668.
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Tarver scholars honored at Halls Three former Halls High athletes were recently honored as Buddy Tarver Scholarship recipients. Pictured prior to kickoff are Edith Tarver, Susan Tarver and athletes Riley Patton, Blake Lawson and Grant Wilds. Patton attends Tennessee Technological University, and Lawson and Wilds attend the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Tarver is remembered as a great athlete at Halls and a friend to the community. Photo submitted
Central honors senior cheerleaders Central High School senior cheerleaders were recently honored at a home football game and recognized for their love and dedication to the Bobcat Nation. Pictured are Brelyn Spears, Kelsey Varner and Te’a King. Photo submitted
Students at Adrian Burnett Elementary were recognized for being responsible students in and out of the classroom. Representing kindergarten through second-grade students are (front) Yio Sanchez, Zoe Helton, Megan Martinez Barreto, Britton Caldwell, Alyssa Wiles, Ella McElyea; (back) Brimley Wilson, Lilly Webb, Braylynn Smart, Logan Hindenburg, Ryley Konas, Colby Comparato and Katelynn Hults. Students are pictured with principal Angie Harrod. Photo by R. White
Recognizing responsibility at Adrian Burnett
Girl Scouts enjoy Disney World Girl Scout Troop 20355 went on an educational and fun trip to Disney World over fall break. Enjoying some Florida sunshine are Wendy Sneed, Ethan Sneed, Ella Sneed. Grayce Barnes, Kendal Patty, Gabby Barnes; (second row) Jennifer Stooksbury, Gracie Stooksbury, Jaedyn Sobota, Lee Horner; (third row) Regina Overton Barnes, Isabelle Kroner, Janda Atchley, troop leader Carrie Kroner and troop leader Amanda Atchley. Photo submitted
Adrian Burnett Elementary students in the third through fifth grades who were recognized for responsibility include (front) Allison Gonzales, Bryson Allen, Bobby McCurry, Brianna Smith, Cameron Weaver; (back) Kaylee Ramsey, Elissa Weaver, principal Angie Harrod, Sierra Moyers, Ty Bolden and Amelia Gresham. Not pictured are Kalie Lane, Maddox Brackfield, Roman Vazquez, Madison Bolding, Rosa Linda Parra-Zambrano, Carlos Martinez and Bryan Cortes.
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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • OCTOBER 28, 2015 • A-9
Halls High crowns Miss Red and White Halls High School hosted the fifth annual Miss Red and White competition, and this year the competition was open to girls from Halls Middle School.
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Contestants are scored on these categories: interview, presentation of red and white outfit, talent, onstage question and poise/ presentation in evening wear. Prior to the event and during intermission, family members were able to select the People’s Choice winner through donations. The first award for the evening was given to Miss Congeniality, voted on by the participants and given to Savannah Frost. The People’s Choice award was given to Shelby Brown. Named Most Photogenic included Shelby Brown (Young Miss division), Raelyn Green (Junior Miss division) and Alyssa Bales (Miss division). Runners-up for the Miss Red and White divisions included Young Miss (middle school) Macie Pierce, Junior Miss (ninth and 10th grade) Audrey Brown and Miss (11th and 12th grade) Elaina Fields. Earning the crown and representing Halls Middle and Halls High for the upcoming year include Young Miss Shelby Brown, Junior Miss Brianna O’Dell and Miss Red and White Savannah Frost.
Halls High hosted the fifth annual Miss Red and White competition, and for the first year, Halls Middle School students competed. Walking away with the titles were Miss Red and White Savannah Frost, Junior Miss Red and White Brianna O’Dell and Young Miss Red and White Shelby Brown. Photos by R. White
McNeal crowned Gibbs queen Escort Trey Lawson holds the plaque for Brianna McNeal, who was crowned Gibbs High homecoming queen at halftime of the Gibbs/Carter game. Representing the wrestling team, she raised $11,334.21. Photo by R. White
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Halls High players of the week for the game against Powell include Andrew Davis (#1) and Jordan Biliter (#9). Players are selected by the coaching staff for their hard work and effort during Friday night’s game. Runners-up in the Miss Red and White competition were Junior Miss Audrey Brown, Miss Elaina Fields and Young Miss Macie Pierce. Raelyn Green was named Most Photogenic in the Junior Miss division.
Alyssa Bales was named Most Photogenic in the Miss division.
Pie day at Wesley House By Ruth White
Wesley House student Victor Haynes tosses a pie at a staff member as part of a reading incentive. Photos by R. White
The staff at Wesley House Community Center knows how to motivate kids to read. Program director Anderson Olds and staff members put out a challenge telling the kids that for every 25 pages read in September they would be able to “pie” a staff member of their choice. Little did the staff know how big an incentive this would be. For every 25 pages read the student had to write a paragraph or talk to a staff member about what they read. The kids had to be able to tell about the main character or subject, what was happening, main ideas, key details and be able
to show text evidence to support their report. By the end of September the staff realized they probably should have made the required number of pages a bit higher! Here are the results by grade: kindergarten and first grade: 3,650 pages (146 pies); second grade: 1,925 pages (77 pies); third grade: 75 pages (three pies); fourth grade: 775 pages (31 pies); and fifth through eighth grades: 225 pages (nine pies) At the end of the challenge, 6,650 pages were read and 266 pies were tossed at the faces of Wesley House program staff members. Wesley House is at 1719 Reynolds St.
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Festival prize makes director’s goal ‘easier’ By Betsy Pickle In between directing grisly true-crime TV shows and shooting wedding videos, Chad Cunningham is thinking about his latest and most ambitious project. He has approximately 10 months to make his first feature film. Cunningham won the grand prize at the 7-Day Shootout at September’s Knoxville Film Festival with his film “Space Cadet.” The festival and the Visit Knoxville Film Office came up with $20,000 to help the winner turn his or her short into a feature. Participants in the shootout were allowed a month for preproduction, and the traditional requirement to work within a specific genre was removed. When Cunningham won, many weren’t surprised because
he had received the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2014 festival for the short “Daisy.” But considering Cunningham first picked up a camera just a couple of years ago, the feat is pretty amazing. Cunningham moved to Knoxville four years ago not as a film-school graduate but as “a regular college dropout.” The Charleston, S.C., native had attended Charleston Southern University for three years and still was undecided on a major. “Didn’t know what I wanted to do, what I was passionate about, so I stopped going into debt for school,” he says. “A couple of years ago I picked up a camera for the first time and figured out that was what I loved.” Cunningham, who
works at Central Baptist Church of Fountain City as a Family Life Center assistant, was going on a church mission trip to Romania, and he was given an old camera to document the group’s activities. Once he came back and edited the highlights, he started notching new jobs on his resume, including wedding videography for JoPhoto and freelance directing for Jupiter Entertainment (the grisly TV shows). He also formed his own company, Wild Heart Studios, to produce music videos and his own films, including “The Son,” which won third place for narrative short in the main section of last month’s festival. He was hesitant about entering the 7-Day Shootout this year until the $20,000 prize was announced. He
Our Brand Is Crisis In “Our Brand Is Crisis,” opening Friday, broken-down political strategist Jane (Sandra Bullock), with campaign manager Nell (Ann Dowd), will sell her soul to beat her archrival as she tries to help a presidential candidate lagging in the polls in a war-torn South American country. Billy Bob Thornton, Antony Mackie and Joaquim de Almeida co-star for director David Gordon Green.
had already set a goal for himself of shooting a feature film in 2016. “This kind of made that goal a little easier and put it on a timeline,” he says. So far, Cunningham has created an outline and a framework for his script. He hopes to get the OK on them and finish the script by the end of the year so he can start preproduction in January. In the short, young Anna (Izzy Fenech) is obsessed with space and with seeing her astronaut father again. Cunningham’s idea for the feature is to take Anna about 20 years into the future, when she is a 30-year-old with her own daughter, struggling with her dreams of adventure and her responsibility to her family. The short will be “an important piece of history to my main character,” says Cunningham, who hopes to recast Fenech – who won an acting award at the shootout – as adult Anna’s daughter. He’s grateful to have Curt Willis of the Visit Knoxville Film Office and Keith McDaniel, executive director of the KFF, as his executive producers. “They’ve both produced numerous feature-length films, and … it’s great to have such experienced guys to lean on and ask questions and be a sounding board,” he says. “Right now they’re just giving me my freedom to write and be creative and come up with the best story I can.” Cunningham hopes this feature is just a start. “My goal is to get to the place where all I’m doing is directing movies. That’s my end-all, be-all goal.”
Director Chad Cunningham with star Izzy Fenech on the set of the award-winning short film “Space Cadet.” Photo submitted
And while he doesn’t mind relocating, he thinks it’s possible to carve out his career in Knoxville. “I think it’s becoming easier and easier to be a filmmaker where you are or travel where you need to be,” he says. “I’d love to be part of Knoxville becoming
a film hub and really growing this area. “I’m gonna try my best to do the best I can with my film because I want the opportunity to be there for another filmmaker next year and hopefully get some more money, make a bigger film.”
Two musical Knoxville summers By Carol Shane
One of the best Halloween costume parties in town happens at the Knoxville Museum of Art this Friday when the popular “Alive After Five” series hosts “Boys’ Night Out.” The 11-member band, still going strong after 30 years together, plays brassy arrangements of good-time dance music. There will also be food available from Gus’s Grill, so put on your best creepy couture and come on down to the KMA. The show starts at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30. Tickets/info: 865-934-2039, or mgill@knoxart.org. This weekend the University of Tennessee School of Music and Department of Theatre will present a landmark program that has nothing to do with Halloween and everything to do with Knoxville.
“Knoxville: Summers of 1915 and 2015,” an evening of music, poetic readings and historical reflections, has been months in the making. Among its highlights is the performance of Ellen Reid and Royce Vavrek’s “Knoxville: Summer of 2015.” Both Reid, an internationally known composer and sound artist originally from Oak Ridge, and Canadian-born Vavrek, highly regarded as an operatic librettist, playwright and filmmaker, visited Knoxville “a year ago,” according to James Fellenbaum, UT’s director of orchestras. Vavrek wrote a libretto and delivered it to Reid, who composed the music during the actual summer of 2015. The piece, of course, has its inspiration in American composer Samuel Barber’s
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wistful, evocative “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” with text by James Agee, which will also be performed. Though plans are not yet finalized, the Reid/Vavrek work is intended to be premiered by a major U.S. orchestra during 2016. But it’s been developed at UT and will receive its academic premiere there. Fellenbaum has enjoyed the process of working directly with the composer, helping to bring the composition into its final form. “Since August we’ve read drafts of the piece, made revisions, added, subtracted,” he says. “It’s been a great environment.” Fellenbaum will conduct the UT Symphony Orchestra and singers in both “Knoxville” pieces, as well as music from Aaron Copland’s opera “The Tender
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The UT theatre and music departments will collaborate this weekend in a historic “Knoxvillecentric” event. Photo submitted Land.” Katy Wolfe, best known to Clarence Brown Theatre audiences as an actress and singer, is producer for the event as well as soloist on the 2015 piece. Other performers include actress Carol Mayo Jenkins and UT professor emeritus of history Bruce Wheeler, who
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Knoxville Zoo is economic driver By Sandra Clark Halls resident Alison Travis brought the Knoxville Zoo’s message to the Halls Business and Professional Association. The Zoo has a huge economic impact, she said, rivaled only by UT football. With 53 acres, 146 on staff, 900 animals and more than 400,000 visitors per year, the zoo is “the best product” to market. Travis should know. She has 20-plus years in zoo marketing. This year’s big news was the birth of two baby gorillas. Their actions are broadAlison Travis, marketing professional with the Knoxville Zoo, cast daily with a webcam inholds a Polish hen called Phyllis Diller by zoo staff. Photos by S. Clark stalled by WBIR-TV. “They
are starting to be toddlers,” said Travis. Next up, the zoo will demolish the old rhino building to build an Asian exhibit. The best time to see animals is early, she said in answer to a question. The big cats sleep about 21 hours in a 24-hour cycle. The zoo offers a night safari each month, and special tours can be arranged through the development office. Notes: State Rep. Bill Dunn suggested a zoo membership as a family Christmas gift. “My grandkids can go any time and then come home and tell me what ani-
Alison Travis holds a leopard gecko named Butch. mals they saw.” ■ HBPA president Pamela Johnson said his year’s banquet will be held Friday, Dec. 4, at Jubilee Banquet Facility with Bill Landry as speaker. ■ The Christmas Parade has been cancelled this year
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Gerdau celebrates longtime employees Representatives of steel ees,” said Johnny Miller, recycler Gerdau’s Knoxville vice president and general mill recently manager of Gerdau’s Knoxgathered on ville steel mill. the Star of “These men have seen Knoxville to a tremendous amount of celebrate six change in our plant, as e mplo y e e s our steel manufacturing who have process has moved from a been with manual operation to a very the compa- technical, highly automated ny 40 years process, and as our indusSteve Nash or longer. try has moved from heavily Home Federal Bank’s “Justice League” team won the Best Overall Uniform award at the United Way of Greater Knoxville’s inauRecognized were: Charlie supervised work crews to gural Dodgeball Invitational tournament. Team members include: (front) Jeb Mynatt, administrative services; Patrick Abbott, Bryant of Powell, caster, 41 self-managed work teams,” Halls branch manager; (back) Alicia Graves, loan servicing; Julie Crutchfield, commercial lending; Brian Norris, real estate lending; years; Scott Dietz of Louis- Miller said. “They have Robert Blackorby, Market Street branch; and Billy Mason, Gibbs branch manager. ville, caster maintenance, not only successfully made 41 years; Paul Hannah of these transitions, but also Maryville, melt shop, 40 have trained and developed years; Dana Hooks of Clin- hundreds of new employees News from the Rotary Guy ton, furnace maintenance, in our processes and new 42 years; Wayne Lowe of technologies.” Gerdau employs more Maryville, furnace facilitator, 42 years; and Steve than 240 people at its mill in Calhoun’s and the Cop- Nash of West Knoxville, Knoxville’s Lonsdale neighagain coordinated the event the book fair or workday, By Tom King borhood. The company curper Cellar Family of Res- rolling mill, 40 years. email Elaine McCulloch at for the club, the 12th one she The Farragut Rotary “As the workforce land- rently is seeking applicants the RCK office at kxrotary@ taurants are raising money Club’s 15th has directed. for the American Cancer scape in America becomes for electrical and maintebellsouth.net a n n u a l Society and to fund breast increasingly transient, it is nance positions. To learn ■ RCK Helps Wine Tastan honor for us to celebrate more, visit gerdaucareers. cancer research. ■ Turkey Creek plays ing & Silent Beaumont’s library “Making Strides For these six longtime employ- com Auction last fantasy football The Rotary Club of KnoxMore Birthdays” will have T h u r s d a y ville (RCK) is working with The Rotary Club of Tur- raised nearly $100,000 e v e n i n g the staff at Beaumont Mag- key Creek Sunset is having at South- net Academy to help the fun this fall with its novel when this year’s promotions East Bank school’s library. On Tuesday fundraising vehicle – Fanta- end since its launch in 2011. Bart Fricks, chief opera t t r a c t e d the RCK presented the school sy Football. Using the NFL. Tom King ating officer, said the 1,100 more than with $10,000 to buy 600 new com system, the club has East Tennessee employees 150 people who enjoyed books. The club’s Community 20 members playing in two of Calhoun’s and the Copper tasting wines from Dixie Service Committee volun- leagues. Cellar group are invested in Lee Wine & Liquors. The teers are working with book Members pay $50 to join various components of the club raised approximately clubs at the school – Grades a league, and club president promotion. $14,000 to be split between K-1 and Grades 2-3. Paul West said that they re“We employ a large numRotary International’s End The Beaumont Book Fair cently presented 160 new T- ber of people, and most Polio Now campaign and lo- is Nov. 11-13, and they need shirts to Vine Middle School of them are female,” said cal projects. lots of volunteers to help students. Fricks. Farragut Rotarian Sam staff the book fair! The club He said they want to ex“Since a large number of Comcast will double its customer care staff in Knoxville, adding Taylor donated all of the is also volunteering for a port this to the other local our employees have been 250 jobs over two years. To accommodate the expansion, Comwine from his Dixie Lee workday in the library on clubs next year for a big impacted by breast cancer, cast is making significant renovations to its Knoxville facility, store and Rotarian Sam Mi- Saturday, Nov. 21. Rotary league competi- either personally or through located at 5720 Asheville Highway. At last week’s announceshu covered the food costs – Club members will be tion as fundraisers for all an immediate family mem- ment are Mayor Madeline Rogero, Comcast VP Russell Byrd, so 100 percent of the money unloading, sorting books clubs. The Turkey Creek ber, we wanted to do some- Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis, Knoxville Chamber VP Rhonda Rice and raised will go toward the and putting a Rotary stamp Club meets each Tuesday at thing as a company to help.” County Commissioner Jeff Ownby. projects the club supports. or sticker in each book. If 5:30 p.m. at Faith Lutheran Dr. Stephanie Myers you’d like to volunteer for Church in Farragut.
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Coal minerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doctor Kentucky mine inspector on move after cervical fusion
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hen Adron Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coveralls caught on a metal plate bolted to the ceiling of a Kentucky coal mine, it jerked him out of a fastmoving mantrip and through a tiny hole that left him breathless and bruised but nothing broken. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It jerked me so hard that I had lost my breath,â&#x20AC;? he said, recalling the 1990 accident when he was safety director of the Four Aces Mine in Arjay, Ky. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move my neck at all, not to the left and not to the right or up and down. It had pulled my neck so hard that it had bunched my breast muscles up and bruised them so bad they turned black. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only time that I knew that I ever really, really, really hurt my neck.â&#x20AC;? But whether that incident was what led Wilson years later to the of ces of Dr. Barrett Brown, a neurosurgeon at the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Dr. Barrett Fort Sanders ReBrown gional Medical Center, is anybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody really knows why our bodies get hit with bulging discs, degeneration and osteophytes (bone spurs),â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Brown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of it is normal aging. Everybody has at least some degree of it, and some of us have more than others. Since it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a real obvious cause-effect relationship, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say that it caused the condition, but it could certainly contribute to it. Any type of wear, tear or trauma above the normal would contribute more to it. I would think Mr. Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job is more physical than a lot, and crawling around in coal mines probably causes more wear
Dr. Barrett Brown performs a procedure at the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional. Adron Wilson found relief from years of pain thanks to Dr. Brown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like I am 35,â&#x20AC;? Wilson said. and tear on his joints than most of the general population.â&#x20AC;? The only thing for certain is that the neck pain that had plagued Wilson for the past ve years had grown worse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It got to the point where it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just my neck that was hurting,â&#x20AC;? said Wilson, who now represents mine safety inspectors in conference litigation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I would lift my chin up to shave, it would cause my left arm to start tingling. It got to the point where I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t crawl in a mine and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t extend my arms out and ride my motorcycle. I just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t extend my arms and raise my head at the same time because my left arm would start tingling really hard. It was like a thousand electrical bees going down my arm and attacking my index nger and
my thumb. I knew then that I had to have it checked out.â&#x20AC;? Referred by his primary care providerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pineville, Ky. of ce to Dr. Brown, Wilson took his Xrays to the young doctor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He totally impressed me as soon as he walked in,â&#x20AC;? said Wilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew that this guy knew what he was talking about. He was con dent.â&#x20AC;? After an MRI con rmed Dr. Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy, Wilson was told he needed an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion of the C5 and C6 vertebrae. Dr. Brown explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What that involves is making an incision in one of the skin folds in the front of the neck off to the side a little bit, and using the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural planes to separate the tissues, we work our
way back to the front of the spine and clean out the disc material to open up the passageways where the nerves run. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the anterior decompression part. Then, to stabilize it, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll put in a piece of cadaver bone. That gives it a little scaffolding for the body to lay down new bone and develop a fusion between the two vertebral bodies, and while thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s healing we use a plate that is held in place with two screws above and below â&#x20AC;&#x201C; two screws are placed
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Relief much closer than you might think One is we do education-based marketing; we take ads out in the paper and we do articles such as this for patients to know about us,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Brown, who partners with Dr. Joel Norman in spinal, cranial, stroke and pituitary tumor surgeries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It not only creates business, but also lets patients know what is available in their area or what is nearby.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Norman and I also have clinics in a couple of different areas of the state, not too far from Knoxville but within a reasonable drive that we know we can always meet the patient quality that we expect, as well as making it convenient,â&#x20AC;? added Dr. Brown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then, if a patient does decide to have surgery with us, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do that at Fort Sanders Regional and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not hours away for the patient and their families.â&#x20AC;? Dr. Brown, for example, recently opened a new of ce in Suite 230 of the Roane Professional Of ce Building at 8035 Roane Medical
Center in Harriman, Tenn. That clinic will be open on the rst and third Thursdays of every month. Likewise, Dr. Norman, has an additional of ce in Suite 208 of the Robert F. Thomas Building at 744 Middle Creek Road in Sevierville where he works twice monthly. They alternate of ce times at their Maryville/Alcoa clinic at 205 Corporate Place in Alcoa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we have clinics in these other locations twice a month, kind of broken up in the month so that if something develops, people have a couple of options to get in to see us,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Brown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can always get them in at one of the other clinics if it is an immediate need.â&#x20AC;? For more information about the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional, call 865-541-2835 or go to fsregional.com/ minimallyinvasive
Back pain, leg pain, neck pain, arm painâ&#x20AC;Ś the root of the problem is often a pinched spinal nerve. The good news is that now Fort Sanders Regional Medical Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physicians use state-of-the-art minimally invasive techniques to perform spine surgery. Compared with traditional open surgery, minimally invasive surgeries offer patients many advantages, including a smaller incision, less postoperative pain, faster recovery and improved outcome. Non-surgical treatments such as physical therapy and medication should always be tried ďŹ rst. If those donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help, surgery may be the best option.
Fort Sanders Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Not every one is a candidate for minimally invasive approach to spine surgery. To learn more about minimally invasive spine surgery, please call 541-2835 or visit fsregional.com/ minimallyinvasive.
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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as much a mystery as what caused Adron Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neck pain: How did his primary care provider in Pineville, Ky., know about Knoxville neurosurgeon Dr. Barrett Brown? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a clue,â&#x20AC;? said Wilson, who was referred to Dr. Brown at the Minimally Invasive Spine Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville for treatment of his cervical radiculopathy. Dr. Brown said he was unfamiliar with the referring physician but was glad that the doctor and Wilson were able to nd him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a couple of patients from Kentucky, and it may be word of mouth,â&#x20AC;? Dr. Brown speculated. Such â&#x20AC;&#x153;word of mouthâ&#x20AC;? referrals are common in medicine, but perhaps less noticeable are the efforts specialists like Dr. Brown make to bring care to underserved areas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do that a couple of ways.
in C5 and two screws are placed in C6 in this case to stabilize everything while the fusion takes place.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I woke up, my tingling was gone!â&#x20AC;? exclaimed Wilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It went very well. Fort Sanders Regional was just fabulous. All the nurses, the cleaning staff, everybody was so nice. But to be honest, since I was released, I did hard, hard manual labor that if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d told Dr. Brown what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been doing, he probably would have slapped my head off. But I felt so much better doing things. I went right back to working on the deck, I went right back to work on this big wall fence that I was putting up made with crossties, I went right back on my backhoe. Not only did it not slow me down, it greatly enhanced everything I could do for the summer.â&#x20AC;? And despite having hours of accrued sick leave, Wilson was back on the job in no time at all. Since his surgery, he has already made visits to six coal mines in his district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today I feel like I am 35,â&#x20AC;? the 59-year-old Wilson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want everybody to know that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not saying good things about this guy because I can. Dr. Brown did a dandy, dandy thing for me and if I need to do something medically, Fort Sanders is where I am going to go to, and Dr. Brown is who Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to recommend. In fact, I have recommended Dr. Brown to two or three other guys here at work, and I do it because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honest. He did what doctors are supposed to do: he took care of me. Dr. Brown has actually given my life back.â&#x20AC;?
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2 SIDE BY SIDE LOTS - in Lynnhurst Cemetary - Masonic section. Valued at $5100. Selling for $3500. Call 865687-8018 & leave message. HIGHLAND MEMORIAL W SEC. 4 - 3 Lots together. $1500/ea. 50% off retail. Prime lots. (256)431-2226 LYNNHURST CEMETERY - 2 plots, sideby-side. $2,000 or best offer. Valued at $3,500/ea. Serious inquiries only. (865)705-5877
Collectibles
BUYING OLD US COINS
90% silver, halves, quarters & dimes, old silver dollars, proof sets, silver & gold eagles, krands & maple leafs, class rings, wedding bands, anything 10, 14, & 18k gold old currency before 1928 WEST SIDE COINS & COLLECTIBLES 7004 KINGSTON PK CALL 584-8070
GLASS-TOP TABLE - with 4 metal chairs. Beautiful, like new. $100. Call (865)922-9637
Heavy Equipment YALE FORKLIFT newmatic, 5000 lb lift capacity, L.P., new motor & more. $8900. (865)216-5387.
Lawn & Garden JOHN DEERE GX 335 - 291 hours, 54” deck, like new. $4895 obo (865)5990516
Merchandise - Misc. 42” RIDING LAWNMOWER $150. - Gas grill $50. Nine-ft. lighted Christmas tree $150. 2003 Mazda Tribute LX V6 $3,295. Call (865)938-2589 BUYING COMIC BOOKS small or large collections. Phone 865-368-7499
Metal Buildings
Farm Buildings
Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330
BUY/SELL SEASON TICKETS PARKING PASSES ALL GAMES Cash Paid
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BUYING TICKETS Parking Passes All Single Games
865-986-4264 FANNON FENCING We build all types of Farm Fencing and Pole Barn.
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(423)200-6600 Wanted to Buy WANT TO BUY STANDING TIMBER, Hardwood & Pine & Land Clearing. 865-982-2606 & 865-382-7529.
I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES. 1990 up, any size OK. 865-384-5643
For Sale By Owner FARMINGTON / BLUEGRASS 1809 Penwood Dr, Remodeled Split/Foyer, new roof, 3BR 2.5BA Frpl, new appls., fenced yard, kids play fort, Garage. 1604 SF. $174,900. (865)705-4955. HOME IN KINGSTON on 11+ acres, unrestricted Subd., 3BR, 2BA, city water, shown by appt. only, (865)376-7681; 865-617-1272.
Real Estate Rentals Apartments - Unfurn.
1,2,3 BR $355 - $460/mo. GREAT VALUE RIVERSIDE MANOR ALCOA HWY 970-2267 *Pools, Laundries, Appl. *5 min. to UT & airport www.riversidemanorapts.com BEST DEAL OUT WEST! 1BR from $375. 2BR $550-$695. No pets. Parking @ front door. (865)470-8686 BROADWAY TOWERS 62 AND OLDER Or Physically Mobility Impaired 1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site. Immediate housing if qualified. Section 8-202. 865-524-4092 for appt. TDD 1-800-927-9275
NORWOOD MANOR APTS. Accepting Applications 1, 2, & 3 BR. On busline Equal Housing Opportunity 865-689-2312 WESTVIEW TOWER APARTMENTS 7823 Gleason Drive, 1 BR apts for rent. Must be 62 & older or disabled. Income restrictions apply. Vouchers accepted. (865)691-8551.
Homes Unfurnished FARRAGUT CROSSING 4BR, 2 1/2 BA, 3000 SF, 2 car gar., subd. has salt water pool, Avail. Dec. 1st, $1900/ mo. + dep. (865)622-7777. NORTH - 4 BR, 2 1/2 BA, Incl all s/s appls, shows like model. In subd. w/ lrg comm. pool & amenities. $1395. Call Lydia 865-804-6012
Condos Unfurnished CONDO - WEST. Colonies. 2 BR, 1.5 BA, frpl, pool, tennis cts. View of Smoky Mtns. $795/mo + dep. No pets. Avail Now. (865) 216-8053
Tickets/Events
Farm Products
Interior Pruning, Complete Removal, Power Stump Grinding
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Cemetery Lots 2 LOTS - Highland Memorial, value $2500 each. Sell $1300 each. 865414-4615
METAL BUILDING SHED - 20’x40’ Long, complete with beams, perlins, siding, roofing and all self tapping screws, front hgt. 15’4”, back hgt. 11’4”. (865)803-3633.
EDWARDS TREE SERVICE
Will beat written estimates w/ comparable credentials. All types of Tree Care and Stump Removal
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Farmer’s Mkt/ Trading Post
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Furniture
3-FAMILY ESTATE/YARD SALE - Fri & Sat, Oct 30-31, 9am-5pm. at 7207 Agatha Rd, Harbison Plantation s/d off Thompson School Rd. Don’t miss out! Lots of nice HH items incl. furn, kitchen, pix & much more! If raining, will reschedule - watch for next listing.
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Men, women, children. Custom-tailored clothing for ladies of all sizes, plus kids! Faith Koker (865)938-1041
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Manufactured Homes
WANTED Military antiques and collectibles 865-368-0682
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HOUSE CLEANING
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Merchandise
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HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICE Will clean front & back, $20 & up. Quality work, guaranteed. (865)288-0556
Small jobs welcome. Exp’d in carpentry, drywall, painting, plumbing. Reasonable, refs avail. Call Dick at (865)947-1445
Condos-Unfurn FARRAGUT OFF PARKSIDE DR. 2 BR, 1 BA, 1100 SF, secure, priv., move in ready, $99,900. (865) 368-2375
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Pruning • Logging Bush Hogging Stump Removal Insured
40 Years Experience Licensed & Bonded
FORD Econoline E150, 2013 great cond., 30K mi, White, $19,000. (865)617-6478.
JUNK CAR MAFIA Buying junk vehicles any condition. 865-455-7419
Licensed and insured Over 30 yrs. experience
HANDYMAN
CARPENTRY, PLUMBING, painting, siding. Free est. 30+ yrs exp! (865)607-2227
Plumbing
Air Cond/Heating
Vehicles Wanted
Aerial bucket truck Stump grinding Brush chipper Bush hogging Trimming & removing
Roger Hankins
Landscaping/Lawn Service
DODGE 1/2 ton 1992, LWB, runs good, $1095. (865)659-6397.
JAGUAR E-TYPE - 1961-1975. I would like to buy a 1970 or 1971 Mercedes 280SL, or a 1961 - 1975 Jaguar XKE, or a Porsche 911, 912 or a 1970s or 1980’s Ferrari. I am willing to buy running or not running. Any Condition. I’m a local guy living in Grainger county. If you have one or know of one please call Call (865)621-4012.
Small dump truck. Small jobs welcome & appreciated! Call 6884803 or 660-9645.
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CHEVROLET AVALANCHE 2006. Southern Comfort Conversion, exc. cond. Low mi. $18,600. (865)281-8009.
CHEV EL CAMINO 1976 $14,500. Professional black w/tan int., new 350 crate eng., tires & many parts to numerous to list. It is Beautiful! (865)388-4161.
BOBCAT/BACKHOE
We light up your night! Custom 12v outdoor landscape lighting, design and installation. Call (865)680-2076
Experienced home caregiver will do light housekeeping, errands. Nancy (865)214-3518
Classic Cars
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GMC ENVOY SLE XL, 2003 4 wheel drive, 3rd row seats, 88k mi. $6950. (865)740-1735.
Breeden's Tree Service
Home Maint./Repair
KIA SOUL 2011. white, AT, power, alloys, Bluetooth, 45k mi, cruise, spoiler, $9500. (865)660-9191.
VOLVO V70 Wagon 2004, immaculate, lthr, Michelins, new battery/brakes, serviced by Fisher Tire, $6900. (865) 256-3917.
Tree Services
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Duplx/Multplx UnFurn WEST - family neighborhood, washer/dryer connection, 2 bedroom , 1 bath, $700 monthly, 1 year lease 865-216-5736
Acreage/Land Rent 70 acre riverview pasture, lrg barn water & elec., 4 BR updated MH, Close to I-40 exit in Kingston, TN. Lease $1995 mo+dep. (865)376-1030
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LOCATED 1 BLOCK OFF SUTHERLAND AVE. 970 SF Office Bldg. Cent. gas heat, 3 lg. offices, reception area, break area & lg. storage room. $850 mo. Lease, Lg. fenced outside storage avail. $250/mo. 865-765-1123 or (865)539-1145.
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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS The Knoxville Challenger, set for Nov. 8-15 at the UT Goodfriend Indoor Tennis Center, is calling for volunteers to help with the region’s largest professional tennis event. Must be 15 or older; hours are flexible. Event benefits Helen Ross McNabb. Info/registration: knoxchallenger.com.
CALL FOR VENDORS Christ UMC is seeking vendors for its fall arts and crafts festival, to be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. Info/application: bsstair@comcast.net or Sherry, 776-1100.
THROUGH SUNDAY, NOV. 8 “Quoth The Raven: Tales Of Poe,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays; 1 p.m. show only on Halloween. Info/tickets: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28 Computer Workshop: Internet and email Basics, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431. Fall fest, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Central Baptist Church of Fountain City, 5364 N. Broadway. Games, door prizes, candy, cake walk, Trunk or Treat. Fall fun fest, 6-8 p.m., Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Highway. Hosted by Christ UMC’s Men’s Group. Games, food, prizes, best carved or decorated pumpkin contest for kids under 12. Pumpkins must be done at home. Info: 922-1412. Fall festival, 6-8 p.m., Glenwood Baptist Church, 7212 Central Avenue Pike. Free food, games, candy. The community is invited. Info: 938-2611. International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook. “Salvage Jewelry Creations” workshop, 6-8:30 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Cost: $20. Info: 577-4717.
THURSDAY, OCT. 29 “Winter is Coming ... what’s a gardener to do?,” 315-415 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speakers: Extension Master Gardeners Don Cathey and Brian Townsend. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, OCT. 29-30 AARP Driver Safety Class, noon-4 p.m., Halls Senior Center, 4410 Crippen Road. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY, OCT. 29-31 Costume shop inventory reduction sale, 2-7 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge. Full costumes, partial costumes, vintage, formal, bridal, holiday and many one-of-a-kind items available. Nothing over $15. Info: 482-9999 or orplayhouse.com.
FRIDAY, OCT. 30 Karaoke, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub & Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091. Men’s Health group: “How To Get the Most Out of Doctor Visits,” 12:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711. Opening reception: “Fountain City Art Guild Annual Holiday Show and Sale,” 6:30-8 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Also on exhibit: “Oil paintings by the Students of Aurora H. Bull.” Artwork on display through Nov. 30. Info: 357-2787; fcartcenter@ knology.net; fountaincityartctr.com. Union County Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., 1009 Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.
Free movie night featuring “St. John in Exile,” 7 p.m., Beaver Dam Baptist Church education building, third floor, 4328 E. Emory Road. Free popcorn and drinks.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 6-7
Rummage sale/Christmas shop/sweet shop, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Christus Victor Lutheran Church, 4110 Central Avenue Pike. Info: 687-6622.
Rummage sale, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. Info: 228-4910. Rummage sale, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Beulah Baptist Church, 1138 Raccoon Valley Road off Loyston Road. Featuring: $3 per bag, furniture, and odds and ends. Info: 992-5833.
SATURDAY, OCT. 31 Benefit singing, 7 p.m., Mount Harmony Baptist Church, 819 Raccoon Valley Road NE, Heiskell. Featuring: Barry Rowland & Deliverance. Love offering will be taken to help Melissa Dake Aldridge with medical expenses. “Sugar Skull Halloween” workshop, 10 a.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Cost: $12. Info: 577-4717. Trail or Treat, 5-7 p.m., Luttrell Park. Volunteers or participants welcome. Info: Margaret, 318-2175.
SUNDAY, NOV. 1 Natural Burial Preserve Gathering and Dedication Ceremony, 2-3:30 p.m., Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Info: Mitzi, 497-3603, or community@ narrowridge.org. Silent Meditation Gathering, 11 a.m.-noon, Narrow Ridge’s Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Inclusive of people of all faiths as well as those who do not align themselves with a particular religious denomination. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or community@narrowridge.org.
MONDAY, NOV. 2 American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 3875522.
MONDAYS, NOV. 2, 9, 23 “Basic Hand Building” class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $90/nonmembers $110. Info/ registration: knoxart.org.
TUESDAY, NOV. 3 Noweta Garden Club meeting, 10 a.m., Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Old Clinton Pike in Powell. “Salt Block Cooking” class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/ registration: avantisavoia.com or 922-9916.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4 International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.
THURSDAY, NOV. 5 AAA Driver Improvement course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., AAA office, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffic offenders and teaches how
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NOVEMBER 1 Hardin Valley Elementary RACE STARTS AT 2:00 pm Go to vmcinc.org or call 524-3926, Ext. 230 to find out more!
Volunteer Ministry Center
FRIDAY, NOV. 6
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, OCT. 30-31
VMC Dunkin’ Donuts
Abby Ham & Russell Biven, Honorary Chairs
to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252. Bee Friends bee keeping group meeting, 6:30 p.m., Walter State University Tazewell campus auditorium. Program: free honey tasting. Info: 617-9013. Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.
SATURDAY, NOV. 7 AAA Driver Improvement course, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., AAA office, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Eight-hour course helps reduce points for traffic offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252. Chili cook-off hosted by Boy Scout Troop #13, 5-8 p.m., Lions Club Building, 5345 N. Broadway. Cost: $5. Happy Travelers trip to Cumberland County Playhouse: “In-laws, Outlaws, and Other People (That Should Be Shot)” departs 12:45 p.m., North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. Cost: $35; includes ticket and transportation only. Deadline to register: Oct. 23. Info/registration: Derrell Frye, 9388884. Holiday Market and Craft Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 6900 Kingston Pike. Featuring: guest artisans, local crafters, baked goods, a silent auction and Fair Trade items. Info: 300-7490. Spaghetti supper, 5-7 p.m., Alder Springs Baptist Church, 556 Hickory Star Road, Maynardville. Includes: spaghetti, salad, garlic toast, dessert and drink. Donations go to WMU projects.
SATURDAYS, NOV. 7, 14, 21 “Beginning Drawing,” 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: John Allen. Registration deadline: Oct. 31. . Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.
SUNDAY, NOV. 8 Free drop-in art activities for families, 1-4 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Docent Tours in English, 2 p.m., and in Spanish, 3 p.m. Info: knoxart.org. Silent Meditation Gathering, 11 a.m.-noon, Narrow Ridge’s Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Inclusive of people of all faiths as well as those who do not align themselves with a particular religious denomination. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or community@narrowridge.org. Step Out: Walk To Stop Diabetes, 1-4 p.m., UT Gardens. One-day fundraising walk benefiting the American Diabetes Association.
TUESDAY, NOV. 10 Benefits to Work training, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., East Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116 Childress St. Two counselors available to answer questions and discuss how working will affect Medicare and Medicaid health benefits. Free; reservations required. Info/ reservation: Steven Glowicki, 423-433-7616 or 1-888839-5333.
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