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Miracle Maker Meet Alisha Hinton, Powell native and principal at Sequoyah Elementary School, who stepped into the job with the strong support of her predecessor, Martha Hill. Join them as Sequoyah celebrates being in the state’s top five percent.

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Caryn Marlowe is well known for leading Karns High musicals, including 2012’s “Oklahoma.” Now the singers are preparing for “Hello Dolly,” scheduled for April 25-27. Caryn studied piano for 10 years and began singing in high school. In 2003, she and husband Phillip moved to Knoxville and earned master’s degrees in voice performance at UT. They enjoyed the town so much they bought a house and stayed. Sit a spell and get to know Caryn Marlowe.

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A family tradition since the 1940s, descendants of Martha Stanley and John Russell Black held their annual family reunion at the Rhyne homestead which sits next to Black’s original 1890 house. Descendants include the Black, Rhyne, Jennings, Marshall, Lucas and West families. Among those present were George Thomas Black, Elizabeth Black Wendelken, Kelly Black, Sue Black Watson, William Richard Black, James R. Black and Gene Black, seven sisters and brothers whose parents were Buford and Irene Longmire Black. “Everybody was kin on Descendants of Martha Stanley and John Russell Black hold their annual family reunion. Shown are: Trey Black, Len Stanley Road. I had a great Black, Deborah Baker, Dillon White, Elizabeth Black Wendelken, Whitney Brown, Lynette Black-Brown, Mitzi Black, childhood,” said John Rhyne. Barbara Black and Mary Rhyne. Photo by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com J.B. Watson told stories of the fun the cousins had riding four-wheelers, roasting hot dogs at Halloween, and hunting Easter eggs. The youngest generation playing “It was a wonderful place to after lunch include: (front) Molly raise my family with kinfolk all Rhyne, Jacob Rhyne, Georgia around. The kids could get out Rhyne, Haven Black; (back) and play and go from place to Courtney Hatcher, Hannah Belue place. It was nice to know your and Reagan Black. family was being watched over and taken care of,” said Watson.

Carter’s gym Why should you care if Carter Middle School gets a new gym? Sandra Clark says because it’s over-budget, unneeded and gobbles up resources that could be better spent elsewhere. But, hey! What’s $2.75 million among friends?

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On to Florida! Marvin West likes football. And the old reporter has forgotten more Vol history than most commentators know. This week, Marvin takes us down the trail to Florida games great and greater.

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Index Coffee Break A2 Theresa Edwards A3 Government/Politics A4 Marvin West/Lynn Hutton A5 Anne Hart A6 Faith A7 Kids A8 Miracle Maker A9 Business A13 Health/Lifestyles Sect B Calendar B4

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What makes Tony tick? By Betty Bean After helping Tony Norman get elected County Commission chair, Amy Broyles congratulated him and said she was leaving. She’s been suffering an itchy allergic reaction to a spider bite and the hives were breaking out again. Before she was out of her seat, Norman put his hand on her arm, closed his eyes and prayed for healing, serenely ignoring a snickering onlooker who was comparing him to televangelist Ernest Angley. Norman is a serious man and a walking contradiction – a Republican who commands respect in the “green” community, a career educator best known for his fierce opposition to the school board budget. The notion of handing this guy a gavel gave developers, public school activists and Chamber leaders equal shares of the heebie-jeebies. So what does a retired high school science teacher whose wife was a high school business education department head have against the school system? As in most matters, all you have to do is ask him. “I worked directly under some

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of the central office employees at the building level before they were elevated, and they were some of the worst people I ever worked for,” he said. “I am not associating these things with Dr. (Jim) McIntyre, and I’m not saying any names. But if you can’t administer a building, how can you administer a system?” The son of the late Rex Norman, an old-school politico who served two terms on commission, Tony was elected in 2006 after being recruited by supporters of thenSheriff Tim Hutchison to “take out” his nemesis, 3rd District Commissioner Wanda Moody. They soon discovered Tony was not a chip off the old block. “I told them, ‘You wanted me to knock Wanda out of that seat, and I did. I just paid you in full.’ After the primary, they dropped me like a cold biscuit.” That’s hardly surprising. By primary night, it had become apparent that Tony actually believed all that environmentalist stuff. Before the end of his first year, he was saying that Moody had been right about a lot of things. During his first term, he started working

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Tony Norman’s wife, Janie, congratulates him after he was elected County Commission chair. Photo by B. Bean on the Hillside and Slope Protection Plan, which would consume three years and further alienate him from traditional Republicans, developers and the Chamber. He got into the leadership race late. His opponent, Brad Anders, had been campaigning for months. “The only reason I got in is because I thought the commission needed an alternative … somebody needed to step up.”

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my grandparents. But he was the one who left me first.

Other than your parents, who has had the biggest influence on your life and why? My high school choir director, Camille Blackburn. She has always been like a second mom. Maybe that is what I strive to do for my students as well, and why they sometimes refer to me as “Mamma Marlowe.” Camille still lives in my hometown, so I love talking with her every time I go to visit my parents. It is great to have a mentor to go to for musical questions, and especially someone who has been doing the job I do so well for so many years. She has had a lot of trials and been an incredibly strong example to me for 20 years. I love her very much.

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Caryn Marlowe’s passion is music. The director of choral activities at Karns High School is well known for leading KHS musicals, including 2012’s “Oklahoma” which was a hit with the community. The art students, led by Andy Haury, will paint over the cornfield backdrop of the KHS auditorium stage with a Central Park landscape as Caryn prepares for this year’s production of “Hello Dolly,” scheduled for 7 p.m. April 2527. “I am excited about the crop of talent we have this year,” she said. Caryn’s love for classical music was instilled at an early age when her dad, who loved to sing, brought the family each month to Salt Lake City from Idaho Falls where they enjoyed symphonies. Caryn studied piano 10 years and began singing in high school. She portrayed Alice for the musical “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” That is when she decided, “I think when I grow up, I’ll be a choir director and direct musicals.” In 2003, Caryn and her husband, Phillip, moved to Knoxville and earned their master’s degrees in voice performance at UT. “We had a fabulous experience and loved Knoxville,” she said. “So much so that we bought a house at the end of our first year of grad school and decided to stay. We’ve been here nine years.” Caryn and Phillip travelled as opera singers for several years. They have been married almost 12 years and have two beautiful daughters: Iris, 5, and Lucy, 2 1/2. Sit and have a coffee break as you get to know Caryn Marlowe:

What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie? “It’s all relative” from “Friends.”

What are you guilty of? Chocolate and Mountain Dew. ... I know I shouldn’t but they just make me so happy.

What is your favorite material possession? My wedding ring designed by my husband. It is a thick platinum band with a princess cut diamond set diagonally – 11 1/2 happy years of marriage.

What are you reading currently? Music for my classes. I go through huge piles each

I still can’t quite get the hang of … Playing other instruments besides piano. Though I am certified to teach K-12 band, orchestra and choir, I would not have the first clue how to teach band. I am so proud of my band and orchestra teachers here at KHS.

What is the best present you ever received in a box? night picking music for their current skill level and some that will challenge them and be exciting to perform.

What was your most embarrassing moment? In my first year of teaching, I took Iris to the All State Choir Concert. She was about 18 months old, and I should have known better. I was in the balcony of a huge performance space in Nashville with about 5,000 people. She started fussing and I scooped up all my stuff and tried to quickly exit, when I tripped on the stairs and fell on my back. I couldn’t brace my fall because my arms were full, and this was while a group was performing something that was being recorded. It seemed like all eyes were on me as we fell, and a large gasp erupted from the audience followed by a huge scream from baby Iris. As soon as I was able to convince everyone I was fine, I got straight into my car and drove home to Knoxville. Lesson learned: babies can’t be quiet during concerts.

What are the top three things on your bucket list? Visit Italy, Hawaii and the Bahamas – again. These are by far my favorite vacation spots.

What is one word others often use to describe you? “Mamma Marlowe” – Probably because I have two beautiful children and a very nurturing personality.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I have always wanted to be taller. I am 5-foot-4 and I would really love to be 5-foot-7.

About the fourth Christmas I spent with my husband, he surprised me with our wedding china. We had registered for something pretty expensive, and only received one saucer – without the tea cup. So to get everything in a set of four was quite special.

What is the best advice your mother ever gave you? “You are beautiful. You can accomplish anything.” I always believed her and have been quite successful because of that.

What is your social media of choice? I resisted Facebook for a long time, but I am on it now and I do like it. In my opinion, the best way to spend time with friends is playing games on a weekend, laughing and enjoying good snacks. We have been very fortunate to have great friends here in Knoxville.

What is the worst job you have ever had? I haven’t had a bad job.

What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon? “The Smurfs” ... probably because it was just that one girl to so many boys.

What irritates you? Whining.

What’s one place in Karns everyone should visit? The KHS auditorium when we are performing. Choir concerts are 6 p.m. Oct. 11, Dec. 13, March 4 and May 9 or come see the musical “Hello Dolly” at 7 p.m. April 25-27.

What is your greatest fear?

What is your passion? I am sure this is no surprise, but I really love to make beautiful music.

Being trapped underwater in a car.

If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be? Spoil myself with a massage or a pedicure. – Theresa Edwards

With whom, living or dead, would you most like to have a long lunch? My Grandpa Thornbrue, who died when I was 8. He was very personable, and as a kid I liked him the best of

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Bud Armstrong speaks to GOP Law Director Bud Armstrong spoke to the Karns Republican Club Sept. 4 at the middle school library. “We’re here to represent the people. That is the main thing we are doing,” Armstrong said.

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Kelley Grabill will be the 2013 Karns Fair president since former president Roger Kane will be sworn into office as state representative Jan. 8 representing the new 89th District in Nashville. Rebecca Broom, prop master for the Powell Playhouse, was a special guest at last week’s meeting of the Karns Community Club. She distributed schedules of upcoming plays to be presented at the Jubilee Center, including “Arsenic and Old Lace” on Oct. 2528. Info: www.powellplayhouseinc.com. Carolyn Greenwood said Karns High School needs updated computers. Many of theirs are 10 years old and won’t run software used for state-mandated tests.

Party chair Ray H. Jenkins encouraged the group to visit the new Mitt Romney campaign headquarters at 5410 Kingston Pike where people can buy caps and Tshirts and get free bumper stickers when they volunteer to help with the campaign. Ruthie Kuhlman and Tim Newlon, who are running for positions of chair and vice ■ ABWA Bunko chair for the Knox County business network Republican Party, were introduced. Newlon was Roger The American Business Kane’s campaign manager. Women’s Association is-

KARNS NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets at 7:15 p.m. each first Tuesday at Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: www.cwkch.com/. ■ Greater Karns Business Association meets at noon each second Thursday at the Karns Community Club building on Oak Ridge Highway. Guest speaker Sept. 13 will be Bob Headley of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Info: Alisa Pruett, 603-4273, or www.karnsbusiness. com/. ■ Karns Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each first Tuesday at Karns Middle School library. Info: Lorraine Coffey, 660-3677. ■ Karns Community Club meets 7:30 p.m. each first Tuesday at Karns Community Center building on Oak Ridge Highway. Info: Don Gordon, 938-1655. ■ Karns Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each first and third Monday at the Karns Community Club building on Oak Ridge Highway. Info: www. karnslionsclub.com/. ■ West Knox Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each first and third Monday at Sullivan’s in Franklin Square at 9648 Kingston Pike. ■ District 6 Democrats will meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the Karns Library. Info: Janice Spoone, 560-0202, or Clay Mulford, 257-6744.

sponsoring a Bunko business networking party 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, at the Karns Community Club Center at 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. It is open to anyone 18 and older, men and women. Come for fun, snacks, refreshments and door prizes, and bring plenty of business cards for networking opportunities. RSVP not required, but appreciated. Email Alisa Pruett at apruett@bellsouth.net. ■

Lions pancake breakfast Sept. 15

The West Knox Lions Club invites you to a pancake breakfast 8-10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at Applebee’s restaurant, 261 N. Peters Road. Tickets will be on sale at the door, $5 adults and $3 children under 12 for all-you-can-eat pancakes and sausage. Proceeds will benefit the West Knox Lions sight conservation programs.

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Talent show and dinner Sept. 18

Karns High School invites the community to a talent show and dinner Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the school. The soup dinner is 4-7 p.m. and the talent show begins 6 p.m. Come support this choir fundraiser. ■

Ruthie Kuhlman is running for Knox County Republican party chair.

Roger Kane, new 89th District representative-elect.

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Mobile Meals is looking for volunteers in the Hardin Valley area. Volunteers will serve noon meals five days a week and holidays. This helps the very old and frail Bud Armstrong, new Knox continue to live indepenCounty law director Photos by T. dently in their own homes. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com Their numbers, especially those over 85, are growing quickly. Mobile Meals needs volunteers, especially ■ Self-help night for Thursday and Friday Knoxville Multiple Scledeliveries. To volunteer, call rosis self-help night group 524-2786 or email jennifer. oakes@knoxseniors.org. will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tues-

Tim Newlon, who was Roger Kane’s campaign manager, is running for Knox County Republican Party vice chair.

day, Sept. 11, at Associated Therapeutics, 2704 Mineral Springs Ave. Info: Judy Moyers, 9222281.

Spreading sunshine through dance By Sherri Gardner Howell They will warm your heart like a summer day, so the Sunshine Ambassadors Inc., are well named. The goal of the organization is “to enrich the lives of individuals with disabilities through dance and to raise the public awareness of their disabilities,” says co-founder Lurley Noe, who started the group with her husband, Charles. Sunshine Ambassadors practiced recently at The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints in Farragut where they have a weekly class. Lurley told the story of how she and her husband began the Ambassadors in their garage, responding to a need in their own family with their daughter. They now have groups in Farragut, Fountain City, Powell, Maryville, Morristown, Lafollette, Sevierville and Dickson County. There are approximately 50 in the dance program, all with volunteer teachers. Lurley says, “We have designed this program to be ‘replicatable.’ It is the type of program that can be started when you have two dedicated teachers (who don’t have to have dance experience), a free space and an interest from community. It is for children and adults with disabilities.” Through the group, Lurley and Charles provide training, DVDs, insurance, ideas to help with fundrais-

Anthony gets some personal instruction from Mary Alford at Sunshine Ambassadors. ing and help with public performances. “Our public performances are important for the Sunshine Ambassadors,” she says. “We use them to help bring awareness to the community and to give the dancers as chance to shine.” They have performed at Fantasy of Trees, with the K-Town Youth Empowerment Network, at the Tennessee Disabilities MegaConference in Nashville and will entertain at an upcoming state convention for Parks and Recreation groups in Knoxville. “We want more dancers in Farragut,” says Lurley. “A donation is suggested, but the class is basically free. The dances are choreographed

specifically for those with disabilities. It is a fun way to exercise, build self-esteem and develop social skills.” Dancers who benefit include people with intellectual disabilities, autism, CP and other disabilities. People with mental disorders who are not physically challenged can help as peer tutors, as can siblings. For information about joining the Sunshine Ambassadors or scheduling a performance, contact the Noes at lurley@bellsouth.net.

Sunshine Ambassadors founder Lurley Noe and teacher Emily Sacco lead the class in dance.

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government Race close in District 13 House District 13 will be a battleground for the next 57 days. This district stretches from northeast Knoxville to Sequoyah Hills and across the river to Mount Olive and South Knox County.

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With the exception of the Steve Hall-Anthony Hancock race, it is the only political game in town. The other Knox districts either have only one candidate or the competition is weak. Rep. Jimmy Duncan and Sen. Bob Corker will clearly carry Knox County in their races for the U.S. House and Senate. However, Gloria Johnson and Gary Loe are in a toe-to-toe battle. The Democrats are determined to hold the Harry Tindell seat and Republicans are anxious to add it to their column. Both candidates are working hard. Johnson, 50, the Democrat, has a bachelor’s degree in special education from UT Knoxville. She was previously married, lives on Brice Avenue and teaches in South Knoxville. If 10,000 vote in the district (compared to just 2,800 in the August primaries), then 5,000 votes will elect in a three-way race. It’s hard to tell who independent Nick Cazana will take votes from. Johnson claims support from numerous officials such as council member Finbarr Saunders, state Rep. Joe Armstrong, County Commissioner Amy Broyles and school board members Indya Kincannon and Pam Trainor. Mayor Madeline Rogero is a $500 donor which is $300 more than she gave Hancock. Johnson hopes to have Rogero host or co-host events. She said her first bill will be one to give preference to Tennessee contractors. She wants to serve on the education and transportation committees. She supports President Barack Obama, saying, “He has done a good job creating jobs (despite) a do-nothing Congress.” Johnson criticized Gov. Bill Haslam for “signing the Gateway (sexual activity) Bill and not standing up on other bills.” She agreed with Haslam on pre-K proposals.

Johnson thinks it is more important to take the state sales tax off groceries than repeal the Hall income tax for seniors. She said she is opposed to the voucher program for schools and lifting the cap on class sizes. Loe favors immediate repeal of the Hall Income tax for persons 65 and older. She declined to take a position on party registration and a closed primary saying there are good arguments on both sides. She said she will vote her convictions regardless of how the Democratic caucus might vote. Johnson has held numerous neighborhood receptions and plans more including one to be hosted by former architecture dean Marlene Davis. Loe has catching up to do in that area. Both have numerous yard signs. Johnson has secured free publicity worth thousands of dollars because the Republican-controlled election commission closed the Belle Morris precinct. Johnson wants a series of debates which should be interesting if they materialize and both candidates will need to prepare carefully for them. They could determine the winner. ■ Ray Lee Jenkins is term limited as Knox GOP chair. Ruthie Kuhlmann is actively seeking the position. Her front yard is well located on Kingston Pike near Western Plaza. Each election cycle it sprouts yard signs for various Republican candidates. She is intensely active in GOP internal politics and is conservative. No one else has surfaced as a candidate at this time. ■ Steve Hall could benefit from a “sleeper” campaign by teacher and former Vol Anthony Hancock, who has not raised enough money to wage an effective media campaign. Speaker Beth Harwell will host a reception for Hall at the home of former Vice Mayor Joe Bailey on Sept. 18. This is a major event for Hall who is normally a very low key candidate and officeholder. As an eight-year City Council member, he said the least of all nine members. He is a solid conservative vote.

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Carter Middle gets a gym I’m still mumbling about the school board. It approved an over-budget contract for $2.75 million for a new gym at Carter Middle School. The gym was necessitated by a plan to renovate the present Carter Elementary School. When Tim Burchett jumped in and found funding to build a brand new elementary school down the road, the need for a new gym at Carter Middle evaporated. Then the bid came in at $3.1 million instead of the budgeted $2.5 million. Officials whittled it down to $2.75 million and brought it back to the school board. The board initially deferred it for a month setting up last week’s showdown.

approved,” he said. Thomas Deakins, Indya Kincannon and Gloria Deatheridge raised concerns and wanted the vote delayed. But bid-winner Merit Construction helped lobby the board and suddenly people who’ve probably never been to Carter lined up to support the gym. And 8th District school board member Mike McMillan, the luckiest guy alive, won again. The st raight-talking Pam Trainor said it best: “Quite frankly, I don’t want to see Carter on the agenda again. We didn’t see any green shirts at that budget meeting (when the school board tried to get additional funding from County Commission.)”

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Property Assessor Phil Ballard even showed up. He said he played basketball in that Carter gym and, well, since it’s only 80 feet long (instead of the standard 94 feet), he was one of “a few little Hornets” who couldn’t run the length of the floor when the team played at newer, more modern gyms. “The gym was built in 1950. My father played there; I played there. It’s time for this project to be

Then, inexplicably, she voted yes. Kincannon said: “We should consider this gym in context with other schools.” Deakins agreed: “I’d like to look at all (capital) needs at one time.” New member Doug Harris said, “Let’s not stop with this gym. Every one of your kids needs an iPad.” Then he voted for the gym. In a world where funds are limited and sometimes nonexistent, the school board has to choose: a STEM middle school or band equipment; a history teacher or a math coach; iPads or a gym. The best ones know it’s all about money and it’s always a choice. May the best gym win.

Bedelle recalls Knox desegregation Almost immediately after the end of the Civil War, Tennessee, along with other states, declared that education for blacks and whites “must be equal.”

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Just a year after that, however, the Tennessee state constitution was amended to say that while the education provided would be equal, the two races must be taught in separate schools. It was almost a century before that all began to change as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case. In 1954 the high court held that “separate but equal” was inherently unequal and ordered school systems nationwide to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.” Nothing was done right away in Knoxville to comply with the court’s decision. Quite the contrary. A vocal and majority white population bitterly opposed it, and the all-white board of education dug in its collective heels and waited. Former Knoxville City Schools Superintendent Dr. Fred Bedelle, who is writing a book about the integration of the local system, told West Knox Rotarians at their meeting last week that it was still another 20 years after that 1954 ruling before the very last court case involving equal education in the Knoxville city schools was finally closed. He said the story of school integration in Knox-

ville “is a part of our history that shouldn’t be lost.” Bedelle recalled that while the court had mandated that the schools be desegregated “with all deliberate speed,” in Knoxville, blacks focused on the word “speed,” while whites latched on to the word “deliberate,” choosing the verb form, which is defined as “to discuss, ponder, consider, etc.” And deliberate they did, through the district, circuit and federal court systems on numerous aspects of desegregation. At the same time, scattered attempts were made by black parents to enroll their children in the white schools that were closer to their homes than the allblack schools their children had been attending. They were consistently turned away and told to complain to the board of education if they were unhappy. Most parents declined that option for fear of losing their jobs or other forms of reprisal if their names were made public. The exception was the father of Josephine Goss, who owned his own barbershop and thus didn’t have to worry about being fired. In 1959, he and 16 others filed a suit titled “Josephine Goss et al v. The Board of Education of the City of Knoxville, Tennessee.” One of the 17 was Theotis Robinson, who would later be elected to Knoxville City Council. Bedelle worked with the city schools for 32 years, and as the school administration’s liaison with the courts and attorneys, he had a front row seat for the Goss proceedings and others as they dragged through the justice system. Bedelle recalls that in 1960, Frank Fowler was

Dr. Fred Bedelle at the West Knox Rotary. Photo by Charles Garvey

hired as legal counsel in the Goss case. Many different plans were discussed, but the one proposed that year was a “Grade a Year” desegregation plan. It was approved by federal Judge Robert Taylor and in 1960 the first grade was desegregated in city schools. But that was only the beginning. Struggles continued over things like vocational schools, how to racially balance faculty, transfers from one school to another, whether to bus students, and the matter of brothers and sisters of varying ages not being able to attend the

same school because not all grades had yet been desegregated. The issue was further complicated in 1963, when the city annexed 56 square miles of Knox County which included 18 schools. Somehow, by the time the Civil Rights Act of 1964 went into effect, Bedelle says all grades, programs and facilities of the city schools were fully integrated. Still, those pesky court cases dragged on for another 10 years until the U.S. Supreme Court finally denied the last appeal Jan. 21, 1974. As Bedelle puts it: “Case closed.”

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Tennessee Virtual Academy had test scores in the bottom 11 percent statewide, yet enrollment continues to grow. Principal Josh Williams told Union County commissioners last week that more than 3,000 students have signed up. Last year the academy enrolled students all year at a clip of 300 to 400 per month. ■ Figure the state sends almost $6,000 BEP money per student to Union County which it passes through to K12 Corporation, a Virginia-based firm founded by junk bond guy Michael Milken. It’s not hard to see 4,000 kids by school year’s end and a tidy $24 million going to Virginia. Less, of course, the 4 percent administrative fee retained by Union County. ■ Union County Commission had one question: “What do we get, money-wise?” Not enough, guys.

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Florida is a monster foe TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West

nce upon a time, Tennessee versus Florida was THE September game in the Southeastern Conference. It drifted down to become just a game, relevant to combatants. Suddenly, it is again the biggest game of the year for Tennessee. Win and all things are possible. Lose and you start over with Akron. From the perspective of UT fans, losing and losing magnified the importance of this one-sided rivalry. The Gators have won seven in a row and 16 of 22 since they became every-year opponents. They spoiled several seasons. If the Vols hear the Saturday crowd, they might gain an emotional edge. This game generates purple passion. Alabama is a respected foe, a historical yardstick. Georgia is sassy. Fans long ago picked Florida as a team to hate. Sometimes Florida has had better ideas. Often it seems to have better players. Remember Danny Wuerffel and Tim Tebow

and Heisman trophies? Jabar Gaffney had magic hands. He caught a touchdown pass so fast, we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even on replay. Brandon James was a perfect punt returner. Alex Brown was master at beating the snap count. There are so many memories, starting with espionage and the unbelievable Jack Sells fax. There was great joy in seeing a disgusted Steve Spurrier spike his visor. There was pain in his verbal jabs. Urban Meyer helped put Phillip Fulmer out to pasture but failed to punch out the punk. Florida defeated Tennessee in 2009 but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t by 50. CBS pointed post-game cameras at Lane Kiffin, brash boy coach. Urban was traumatized. My favorite games? The overtime triumph in 1998 stopped a five-game fade. The Gators endured six turnovers. Al Wilson, linebacker on a rampage, delivered devastating blows. He hit one guy so hard, I fumbled my Coke in the press box.

Not to decide is to decide CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. (Romans 7: 15 NRSV)

Since the days of coach Steve Spurrier, Florida has been a monster foe for the Vols. In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier yells to his team during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Vanderbilt in Nashville. Spurrier said afterwards what matters is the Gamecocks played hard down the stretch and opened SEC play with a 17-13 road victory over the Commodores. AP Photo/John Russell, File That was the night Deon Grant gave us a one-handed pick and Jeff Hall hit the clutch three-pointer and Florida missed and the goal posts came tumbling down. The hurricane game, 2001, postponed from September until December, was an absolute delight. The Vols were 18-point underdogs but nobody told Travis Stephens. I enjoyed 1990. Dale Carter returned the second-half kickoff for

The questions we ask our neighbors (and ourselves!) are these, among others: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can we recognize our part in the problem this time?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;How can we choose differently next time?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Will we choose differently next time?â&#x20AC;? In the course of all this consideration of decisionmaking, I began to wonder about the word itself. What

a touchdown and that was the beginning of the end. The final was 45-3. Oh my. Two years later was the cloudburst and a 31-14 rout. Florida had plane trouble on the way home. One player quipped that the Sunday headline would say Gators Killed Twice. Not so much fun was 1994-9596 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; lowlights included a 31-0 rout, 48 unanswered points and five

does it mean to decide, and where in the world did such a funny word come from? According to Webster, it literally means to cut off, and implies the cutting off of debate, doubt, or wavering; arrival at a solution that ends uncertainty. It came by the same route as so many of our wonderful words: from Latin, through French, then Middle English. I was asked on one oc-

Florida touchdowns in less than 20 minutes with 107,608 in the house. The next year, 1997, wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all that great. At the peak of frustration, a Peyton Manning pass turned into a Tony George TD. One of the worst was 2007. The Vols rushed 22 times for 37 yards. This Saturday will be much better, maybe even good enough. Marvin West invites reader response. His address is westwest6@netzero.com

casion, in front of hundreds of people, including three adjudicators, what was my worst fault. I was 17 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; young, but not stupid â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so I hesitated, unwilling

to confess my faults to the crowd before me. I finally saw an escape route. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indecision,â&#x20AC;? I answered. Decisively, I might add.

aul is a thorn in the side of many Christians (to use his own metaphor). He was a Pharisee of the Pharisees â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a Law-(as in Torah)-abiding citizen of the Jewish faith. He was also a bundle of contradictions. He was a proud man who learned humility, but he was proud of it. On the other hand, Paul was also honest about his struggles, about his doubts and fears, about his sinfulness. Most honest Christians admit to having a love-hate relationship with Paul, because we see ourselves in his ambiguity. We know what is right and good and just and merciful. And sometimes we choose to do the exact opposite, even knowing that we will feel miserable after the fact. I have seen dogs and small children, not to mention otherwise intelligent grown-ups, make a similar decision. Myself included. I am reminded of Red Skeltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mean Widdle Kidâ&#x20AC;? who said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I dood it, I get a whippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;? Then he decides, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I dood it!â&#x20AC;? The other day, I mused aloud to a friend that we are â&#x20AC;&#x201C; every one of us â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the sum of our decision-making (good and bad). Likewise, decision-making is at the center of every conversation I have in my day -to-day work. Folks find themselves in a bad situation (sometimes, though not always, because of bad decision-making) and come to us for help (a good decision).

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Caldwell recalls history of homeowners group By Anne Hart Don Caldwell, a longtime advocate of the rights of homeowners and a familiar figure at meetings of Knox County Commission and MPC in years past, presented an overview of the history of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners at last week’s meeting of the organization. Caldwell, who is now in his 80s, was in his 40s when the council was formed in 1972 by then UT professor Frank Leuthold,

who was later elected to the County Commission, and citizen advocate Lillian Mashburn. “This organization was founded to deal with zoning issues during the rapid development of west Knox County,” Caldwell told the group. “At that time, there were just three men who decided zoning issues in the county.” In 1972 Knox County operated under a form of government which consisted of a County Judge

(Howard Bozeman at the time) and three commissioners. Bill Tallent was commissioner of finance, John Beeler was commissioner of welfare and Jim McBee was commissioner of highways. In 1980 the form of government changed to an elected county executive (Dwight Kessel was the first) and a 19-member county commission. The county executive position has since been renamed county mayor and the

county commission has shrunk to 11 members – nine district members and two at-large members. Caldwell said Leuthold was a major force in making certain that zoning rules were adhered to. “He memorized the zoning regulations. There was nothing about them he didn’t know.” “Over the years, subdivision residents came to us for advice on how to deal with developers. Sue Mauer (head of the Crestwood Hill

Don Caldwell homeowners group) was always ready to hand them a

list of county commissioners and MPC members and their telephone numbers so they would know who to call about their issues.” With its approximately three dozen member subdivisions, representing thousands of residents on the west end of town, the council has always been recognized as a fierce advocate for homeowners, and that advocacy continues today under the leadership of president Margot Kline.

Montessori School gets new roof By Anne Hart The hail storms of April 2011 destroyed many roofs around town, but perhaps none with quite the history or the longevity of the one that topped “the castle school,” located next to Western Plaza shopping center on Kingston Pike. The slate roof on what was built as a private residence in 1928 and is now the Knoxville Montessori School was original to the classically styled Tudor building with a central tower. Amazingly, the roof was 83 years old when the hail storm damaged it to the point of no return. Passersby this summer have watched with interest as the old slate was pulled off and the new installed along with shiny copper f lashing. The school’s operations director, Charlie Biggs, says because slate is such an unusual roofing material, it took more than a year to negotiate payment from the school’s insurance company, find a contractor to do the work (Allen’s Roofing Inc.) and arrange a time for the work to be

done when the school was empty. “We knew we couldn’t have workers throwing big pieces of slate onto the playground when there were children around.” The new roof cost about $75,000, paid for almost entirely by insurance. Biggs says maintaining the integrity of the building’s appearance was an important factor in school officials’ determining to replace the damaged roof with slate. “It would have been much easier and less expensive to use asphalt shingles,” Biggs noted, “but our board, staff and parents all wanted to keep the look of the original building.” Biggs said the roof replacement is part of a multiyear effort by KMS to improve its facilities. Other projects will include upgrading classrooms, making the building more energy efficient and transforming the playground into a more natural play space. KMS is a private, nonprofit school founded in 1966 to provide high-quality education to 55-60 children each year from preschool through 5th grade.

Knoxville Montessori School with its new slate roof. Off with the old slate roof and on with the new. Photos by Charlie Biggs

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â&#x2013; Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3700 Keowee Ave., will host GriefShare, a weekly grief support group for people grieving the death of a loved one, 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, for eight weeks. Info: 522-9804 or www. sequoyahchurch.org. â&#x2013; Glenwood Baptist Church of Powell, 7212 Central Ave. Pike, will open the John 5 Food Pantry from 9:30-11:15 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14. For an appointment: 938-2611. Your call will be returned if you leave a message. â&#x2013; Bookwalter United Methodist Church is

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SPORTS NOTES ■ Baseball tournaments at Halls Community Park, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 15-16; and Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22-23. Open to all. T-ball, 6u coach pitch and 8u-14u. Info: 9925504 or hcpsports@ msn.com. ■ The Dr. Tom Kim Charity Golf Tournament will be held Wednesday, Sept. 26, at Egwani Farms Golf Course in Rockford. All proceeds will benefit the Free Medical Clinic of America. Info: www/ charitygolftournament. com or 777-1490. ■ Karns High School girls’ basketball workouts will start Monday, Sept. 10, in the gym after school until 5 p.m. ■ Knox Youth Sports fall lacrosse registration for boys age 9-14 (no high school students). The registration fee: $175. Info: 584-6403. To register: www.KnoxYouth Sports.com. ■ Knox Youth Sports basketball offers two leagues for boys and girls. The recreational draft league, for ages 4-12. Recreational team leagues, coaches bring their own teams, age 7-12. KYS also organizes a Challenger League for players of all ages who are physically or mentally challenged. Challenger league info: 922-1418 or 637-1403. Draft and team leagues info: www.Knox YouthSports.com.

School coupon time By Theresa Edwards Hardin Valley Elementary School held a special safari-themed coupon kickoff rally Sept. 6. A special safari-themed movie made at the Knoxville Zoo was shown, where principal Tod Evans and colleagues went to get clues on how to get feathers for their mascot hawk who lost its feathers. The answer: for each 25 coupon books sold, the hawk will get back one feather. The movie also featured many zoo friends – the red-tailed hawk, Komodo dragon, prairie dogs, elephants, zebras, lions, baboons – and the new splash pad. Prizes were announced, including a free zoo ticket for each person selling 25 coupon books. “Our goal this year is to sell 6,700 coupon books,” Angela Morones, Jonah Presley, Cadence Malone and Austin Roach cheer as prizes are announced. said Evans. The funds raised will be used to purchase iPads for each classroom. “We raised $50,000 last year,” he said. A big celebration party is planned after the sales. Each child selling four coupon books will throw a water balloon at the principal. When the goal is met, the children will also get to watch the movie “Lion King.” Top sellers will get their faces painted like animals. There are many prizes every day. Coupon books are $10 each, $7.90 of which stays at the school where sold, and Chanley Nagle, Lily Swenson, Clara Hsieh and Kenzie Mansell sell the first four coupon books at are on sale through Sept. 24. Hardin Valley Elementary School. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

Remembering, reconnecting By Ruth White The Boys and Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley is hosting an alumni reunion Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the Caswell Avenue location. The event will run from 6:30-9 p.m. with a program at 7:30. The reception is open to former members, staff and participants of the athletic programs. The goal of the event is to reconnect with people who attended the club and to give them an opportunity to reﬂect on their experiences there. “Come back to the future and enjoy old friends and memories,” said Sports Camp director Mike Capps. Judge Tim Irwin fondly remembers “learning to swim, playing basketball for Elliott Stroupe, making

gifts for my mother in the shop and never wishing I was somewhere else when I was at the club.” The event is free for club alumni and they are encouraged to stop by and walk the halls, reminisce and reconnect. This is a great opportunity to meet president/ CEO Lisa Hurst, who replaced John Lee when he retired with more than 40 years of service. Dress for the evening is casual attire. Those interested in attending the event are encouraged to RSVP and to share a memory of their time at the club. Info: 232-1073 or email alumni@bgctnv.org. Check out the club’s Facebook page at facebook.com/ bgctnv.

Principal Tod Evans in his safari outfit rides the prize bike to greet the children.

Farragut Scout collects for Red Cross Farragut High School student Landon Ebbert is collecting items for emergency care kits for the Red Cross as part of his Eagle Scout project. Items needed include small shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, comb, soap, razors and one-gallon zip lock bags. All items can be dropped in a specified box inside the entrance of Farragut High School. Eight-ounce jars of peanut butter are also being collected for Manna House. Items will be collected through Sunday, Sept. 30. Landon will be assembling some of the kits for Red Cross during the Emergency Preparedness Fair from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at Cokesbury United Methodist Church.

SHOPPER-NEWS • SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 • A-9

Shopper-News Presents Miracle Makers

Big shoes to fill Leadership Academy grad is new principal at Sequoyah

By Wendy Smith

equoyah Elementary School principal Alisha Hinton is young, energetic and a prime example of the type of leadership produced by Knox County Schools Leadership Academy. She’s also home-grown. During her fi rst week on the job, she received flowers from Annie Hendrix, her 3rd grade teacher at Powell Elementary. Hinton still lives in Powell within a five-mile radius of both sets of grandparents. One grandmother, Ruth Mayes, was Knox County’s fi rst female school bus driver. (She also was the fi rst person to land a plane at the Powell Airport when she took a break from a flying lesson to milk the cows. But that’s another story.) “My grandparents taught me that I could do anything,” says Hinton. She worked at Vaughn Pharmacy during her teens and toyed with the idea of being a pharmacist. Ultimately, she realized she loved being around kids and chose to be a teacher. While at UT, Hinton interned at Halls Elementary School. Upon graduation, she accepted a job teaching 3rd grade at New Hopewell Elementary in South Knoxville. The small school turned out to be a perfect fit for her. “I knew every child in the building. It was four really good years. I took on a leadership role that wouldn’t have been possible in a big school.” Hinton completed an Education Specialist degree at Lincoln Memorial University while teaching at New Hopewell. She then jumped into the bigger pond of Brickey-McCloud Elementary. In spite of its large enrollment, Brickey-McCloud felt like a community school, she says. By 2009, Hinton was ready to take on a new role in a new part of town. She was hired as assistant principal at A.L. Lotts Elementary. In 2010, she became part of the inaugural class of the Leadership Academy. The 12-member class included a wide range of education professionals, like curriculum coaches, guidance counselors and teachers from Kindergarten through 12th grade. It created a rich place for conversation, she says. “We got to see all the working parts of a huge district.” Leadership Academy fellows spend Monday through Thursday at their schools and Fridays in class at UT. Personnel from Knox Coun-

Sequoyah Elementary School students Milana Borrelli and LeoTheodor Lasso-Nedkov cheer for their school with fellow classmates after it was recognized statewide for both performance and progress. Photos by Sara Barrett

ty Schools team with UT staff to teach the classes, and those practicing partners make the program unique, says Hinton. One of her biggest career accomplishments is the student leadership team she put together while at A.L. Lotts. The school doesn’t have a safety patrol or student council, and she thought it was important for students to have a voice. She’ll face new challenges at Sequoyah Elementary, the biggest being value-added growth, given the school’s academic excellence. The task is made easier by the Sequoyah Elementary Foundation, which provides funding for extra personnel, like math and literacy coaches. “It’s nice to have parents who are backing academic progress, not just hosting parties,” Hinton says. According to Knox County Schools, Sequoyah has the smallest percentage of economically disadvantaged students of any school in the county. Only 11.5 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. But Hinton says that all Knox County schools are rich with excellent administrators, many of whom have participated in the Leadership Academy. “The academy provides a great bank for (Knox County Schools

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Sequoyah Elementary School principal Alisha Hinton and former school principal Martha Hill. state for being in the top 5 percent in annual growth and academic achievement last year. Hill has been a cheerleader to Hinton through emails and phone calls. The new principal acknowledges that she has big shoes to fi ll. “I’m not even looking at those shoes.”

Superintendent Dr. Jim) McIntyre to pull from. There’s such a wealth of leadership in this district.” Hinton is following in the footsteps of another great leader, Martha Hill, who was principal at Sequoyah for 13 years before retiring in May. The school was recently named a Reward School by the

Knox County Schools Leadership Academy graduates

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Young-Williams’ closure is extended Last week, Young-Williams Animal Center on Division Street temporarily closed its dog adoption area because of a contagious upper respiratory virus circulating among the residents. A reopening was initially scheduled for last Wednesday, but at press time the reopening had been pushed to the following Saturday, Sept. 8. Jana gets a surprise 32nd birthday party at the Knoxville Zoo, complete with edible balloons and “cake.” Photo

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Critter Tales This means two things for the dogs staying at the facility: they will need even more TLC than initially expected, so those of you looking for a pet need to step it up; and there will be a larger number of animals available at the Bearden Hill location since the Division Street location has been closed. Upper respiratory in a dog is similar to the flu for a human with symptoms that may include lethargy, loss of appetite and/or low grade fever. Can you imagine feeling that crummy after becoming homeless and being brought to an unfamiliar place by

Edie helps Jana celebrate her birthday, eating “candles.”

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Artists needed The Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave., is looking for artists to participate in this year’s Art-a-palooza to be held Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 4-6. Indoor spaces are $125 for the entire show, and outdoor booth spaces are $50 for Saturday only. Brochures and applications are avail-

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‘Doc’ Long honored by Rotarians By Anne Hart West Knox Rotarians have honored their founding member and first president, Clarence “Doc” Long, by presenting his daughter, Janet Long Testerman Crossley, a certificate and pin citing the longtime pharmacist’s devotion to Rotary. Club member Gary Ricciardi, who organized the special ceremony, noted that Long had made a permanent commitment to the future of Rotary. “Doc Long chose to make a generous gift of lasting value – a gift to the Rotary Foundation’s Permanent Fund, and he is now among the ranks of Foundation Benefactors,” Ricciardi said. Ricciardi explained that contributions to the Permanent Fund are not spent, only invested. The earnings from the investments are used to support the foundation’s programs. “Doc Long understood

and generosity over the years. Untold numbers were provided free meals and other kindnesses when they were in need. Long was also known for cashing checks for some students and advancing funds against paydays for others. Bob Ely, who was also one of the founding members of the club back in 1959, called Long “a bosom buddy of mine and a friend to all.” Long later moved west and opened Long’s Drug Store on Kingston Pike in Bearden. Rotarian Art Pickle told Long’s daughter: “He knew I loved Coke f loats. He’d see me come Bob Ely, at left, joins Gary Ricciardi in presenting a special Rotary award to Janet Long Testerman Crossley in honor in the door and he’d holof her late father, Clarence “Doc” Long. Photo by Charles Garvey ler ‘Fix this man a Coke f loat.’ ” Crossley told the group that we live in a world to save and change lives, that will provide an in- store, which was on Cumwhere millions suffer we must continue to seek come stream to meet these berland Avenue on the her dad “was very, very from war, disease, pover- ways to bring the world urgent human needs well corner where the student proud of being a Rotarian, and I’m certain he is smilcenter now stands. ty, poor medical resources closer to peace and under- into the future.” Generations of stu- ing down on us right now. For many years Long and inadequate educa- standing.” Ricciardi said Long’s was the pharmacist at the dents and others benefit- I thank you on his behalf. tional opportunities. He understood that if we are commitment “is a legacy old Ellis and Ernest drug ted from his friendship He would have loved this.”

Swiss miss: Veronica Eres shares experiences as exchange student By Sherri Gardner Howell

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There was not much that came easy for Veronica Eres during her year as a Rotary exchange student in Switzerland. She lived with four different host families, was exposed to one of the coldest winters in 30 years, had classes where some of her teachers spoke only German and found the education system in the international school to be very different. To sum up her year, Veronica says, “It was absolutely a great experience.” Veronica spoke to the Rotary Club of Farragut on Sept. 5 at Fox Den Country Club, then entertained the group with a classical guitar number before rushing back to Webb School of Knoxville for class. Switzerland, Veronica told the group, is about half the size of Alabama. “I was in Biel/Bienne, which has a population of approxi-

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Veronica Eres plays a classical guitar piece for the Rotary Club of Farragut’s Sept. 5 meeting. Veronica, a senior at Webb School of Knoxville, spent a year in Switzerland as a Rotary exchange student. classmates and I visited every country that borders Switzerland except Italy – in one day.” Switzerland is bordered by Austria, Liechtenstein, France, Germany and Italy. “My town was very industrialized, which is different for Switzerland. It is the watch-making capitol of the world and the world headquarters for Swatch,” Veronica said. While there, Veronica, who is a classical guitarist, also studied at the conservatory in Biel and audi-

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Diamonds shine in Knoxville Noel Roberts owns Diamonds All-Stars, Knoxville’s newest cheering and tumbling facility. Located off Dutchtown Road, Diamonds All-Stars offers cheerleading and tumbling classes for all ages and levels, preschool classes, camps, birthday parties, open gym time and more. The facility is home to Diamonds All-Stars, a nationally recognized all-star cheerleading program made up of boys and girls of all ages and levels. Info: 805-1959. Photo by D. Moss

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University scheduling for K-3 The goal of Paideia Academy is to be a tool in the hands of parents, assisting them in their job of nurturing and instructing their children. The school uses a unique format that partners with committed parents while also providing expert instruction. Kindergarten through third grade operate on a university schedule. This involves a combination of classroom and at-home instruction each week. Complete lesson plans and materials are provided for these at-home days. Fourth grade and up are on a full ďŹ ve-day schedule. This integration of home and school in the early years increasing to greater classroom time in the upper grades, and a commitment to low student-teacher ratios throughout, provides an optimal environment for learning. The end result is a quality educational experience which serves as an extension of the Christian home and teaches students to become life-long learners, no matter what vocation they pursue. Students on the university schedule attend class at Paideia on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and complete their school work at home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Families receive lesson plans and assignment packets for these at-home days. The packets provide all of the instructions, assignments, and details for the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. The ďŹ rst couple of years, parents get to do a lot of handson work with their children, while parents of second and third graders often act as monitors for more independent study. By the end of their third grade year, students are conďŹ dent and prepared to transition into the full ďŹ ve-day program the following year.

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Paideia Academy parents enjoy the extracurricular activities and adapt to support. They also gain the opportugradual transition their children make their childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s particular interests. nity to develop independent study and to a full-time school schedule. While this These students benefit greatly from work habits that follow them on their schedule does have its challenges, parents their parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; active supervision and future endeavors. appreciate the ability to nurture their relationship with their child through academic involvement and to grow the childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paideia Academy is one of hundreds of schools across the U.S. that use this combination character by imparting their own familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of expert teachers plus parental involvement and guidance to help students develop faith and values. Flexibility in scheduling strong Christian character and excellent academic skills. also allows them freedom to supplement

Paideia teacher blasts off! Melanie Unruh, Paideia Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Rhetoric science teacher, attended a ďŹ ve day Space Academy for Educators at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., this summer. The week included a simulated shuttle mission and Mars Orion mission. The Mars Orion mission used simulator trainers of the Atlantis Shuttle and Orion shuttle mock-up. Participants where assigned roles in the shuttle or at mission control and were given scripts and procedures to follow. In the Atlantis Shuttle mission, Unruh was EVA2 - one of the astronauts assigned to simulate repairs to external tiles on the International Space Station. On the Orion mission, she was CAPCOM - communications ofďŹ cer in earth mission control. Other activities included challenge zip-line, 1/6th

Paideia teacher Melanie Unruh fulfills her duties at a simulated mission control station. Photos submitted

gravity chair, Manned Maneuver Unit simulator, and three degrees of freedom ring trainer. The academy also included many sessions focusing on the history and future of space exploration. Speakers included astronauts and experts, like Ed Buckabee who

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Study: Hospital’s culture may affect your health

Parkwest patients are often greeted by these smiling faces in the Admitting/ Registration Department: From left, Lauren Foster, Dedria Fritts, Tracy Williams, Raven French and Director of Patient Registration Valerie Ellis.

Doris King of Parkwest Medical Center’s Environmental Services department, reacts after being named recipient of the hospital’s 10Foot Award in 2010. The award commemorates a hallmark of former Parkwest CAO Wayne Heatherly’s administration that no employee should come within 10 feet of another employee, volunteer, patient or visitor without acknowledging them in a pleasant manner. Presenting the Award is Heatherly (center) and current CAO Rick Lassiter (right). interaction with patients, visitors and employees. After Heartherly’s retirement, both of his successors – first, Barbara Blevins, and now, current CAO Rick Lassiter – recognized the value of this approach and utilized the Studer Group, an outcomes-based healthcare consulting firm that echoed his “country boy philosophy.” “The Studer Group supported Wayne’s work in that our first, No. 1 role as an employee is to always reduce the anxiety of our guests, whether they be patients, family members or visitors,” said Randall Carr, Vice President of Learning and Leadership Development. “We’re in a business where just about everybody who comes through our doors doesn’t want to be here and so they are anxious about something. The whole premise behind Studerr and Wayne’s work is that our cusustomers or visitors are anxiouss about something and before you do anything else, you do everything you can reduce their anxiety with a personal touch.” Of course, the study that was in the Annals of Internall Medicine was dealing with issues of greater significance than a smile. Specifically, the study cited organizational values and goals, senior management involvement, broad staff presence and expertise, communication and coordination among groups, and problem solving and learning as factors that contribute to a team spirit that can cause patient death rates to vary as much as twofold between the highest- and lowest-performing hospitals. But that’s a team spirit that is nurtured daily in a variety of ways and, in turn, contributes to a happier, better employee which means better patient outcomes.

It starts, Carr said, with employee selection. Parkwest is slower, more deliberate in selecting its employees to ensure a good “cultural fit.” Nurses, in particular, must pass a cultural fit assessment, a battery of 212 questions before they even get a chance to interview for an opening. The result is that it has successfully screened out 40 percent of all nursing applicants. The use of personal written thank-you notes to employees in recognition of good work, strong employee communication efforts, employee rounding, mechanisms for sharing ideas and innovations on process improvements are all tools that build an organizational culture where employees feel engaged. “Our employees view their relationship inside the organization at a much higher level than a typical American employee,” Carr said. “The average is plo 2 to 1, but ours are almost five times better than that.” One reason for that is the reason cited in the study – senior management involvement, says Parkwest psychiatrist Dr. Reginald Raman. “I’ve “I been working for Covenant Health for the last 12 years and H I’ve seen from the top to the bottom that there is a culture of people respecting each other,” he said. “No matter what position they are in, everyone is approachable. You can talk to Tony (Spezia, Covenant CEO). You can talk to Rick (Lassiter). The people in the highest positions are very approachable.” Too, Raman said, the leadership has been one of stability. “People like stability in leadership,” he said. “Look at Covenant leadership – we have had the same leaders on the top for many many years, which explains a lot. If there is high turnover, that

flows down. But having consistent leaders helps maintain that comfortable work environment.” Raman is right. According to Carr, Parkwest shows a voluntary turnover rate of well below 10 percent – significantly better than the national norm in the healthcare industry. Even then, Carr said, there are no guarantees. “It’s easy for healthcare workers to get jaded,” said Carr. “It’s hard work. You’re dealing with a lot of high emotions, stressful situations, people pulling you on all sides – family members, patients, doctors – healthcare reform stuff, and you’re often dealing with life and death as well. So healthcare workers are under a lot of stress and it’s difficult for a lot of workers to maintain upbeat spirits and smile in tough situations. It’s a calling as much as anything. It’s kind of like being a fireman, a policeman – it’s stressful, it’s absolutely essential to society that we deliver but it’s not easy.” Yet, in the days when healthcare is becoming increasingly competitive and reimbursements hinge on successful outcomes, those smiles are going further and further. “Overall admission rates have been dropping for hospitals the last couple of years,” said Carr. “So how do you get patients to lock into you from a loyalty standpoint and select you? So that when you are in the back of that ambulance, and you’re saying, ‘Take me to Parkwest. I don’t want to go anywhere else. Take me to Parkwest.’ Or that patient is having elective surgery or whatever and we want them to have a good experience and love the care they get, that’s when those smiles mean a lot.” For more information or physician referral, visit TreatedWell.com or call 374.PARK.

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“If you have to get rushed to the hospital, you’d better hope it’s one where everyone is smiling.” That’s the advice Alexandra Levit offered on the workplace website OPEN Forum last fall as she wrote about a two-year study to determine why heart attack patients at some hospitals fare far better than those at others. The study, as reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine, concluded: “High-performing hospitals were characterized by an organizational culture that supported efforts to improve AMI (acute myocardial infarction) care across the hospital. Evidence-based protocols and processes, although important, may not be sufficient for achieving high hospital performance in care for patients with AMI.” Or, as Levit more simply put it, patients do better in a hospital where the staff is smiling because they take pride in the care they deliver. Welcome to Parkwest Medical Center where M smiles have been a part of the corporate culture since first opening its doors in 1973, largely because of the “country boy philosophy” of its first p chief administrative officer. Wayne Heatherly knew before he graduated high school that he wanted to become a hospital administrator and began visiting hospitals to learn how they functioned and why some functioned better than others. “It was then that I realized there was a difference in the personality and temperament of each and every hospital,” said Heatherly, who remains on Covenant Health’s board. “It was from that realization that I gave more thought and study of what environment patients do the best. This was just my own country boy philosophy that I thought was pretty rational – an environment that was warm and helpful and friendly and caring and sensitive would certainly be more conducive to a patient getting well and getting well faster.” So when Heatherly became Parkwest’s CAO, he brought that philosophy with him in a big way. “As the very first employee of Parkwest, I had the privilege of setting the tone,” Heatherly said. “I hired people I thought whose own philosophy, approaches, management styles would be at least somewhat consistent with mine in creating a helpful and friendly environment.” “We were the new hospital in Knoxville, and we were competing against very good hospitals so we had to do things a little differently, and I would even suggest, a little better,” Heatherly continued. “So, it was part of our early start-up philosophy of being helpful and friendly.” That friendliness extended right to Parkwest’s front door where Heatherly stationed managers to take turns greeting visitors, giving directions, answering questions and even accompanying them to wherever they needed to go. He carried that philosophy a step farther – actually 10 steps farther – by requiring employees and volunteers to acknowledge in a pleasant manner anyone who came within 10 feet of them. Heatherly retired in 2005, but the “10Foot Rule” not only became a hallmark of his administration, but lives on today as the “10-Foot Award,” one of Parkwest’s more coveted employee awards, recognizing employees who strive to demonstrate one of the hospital’s Standards and Behaviors to provide excellent service in daily

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Dor L’Dor performs at Musical Monday. Ken Brown plays clarinet, daughter Rachel Brown sings and Jon Walton plays trombone. Photos by T. Ed-

Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle are played by Sammy Sawyer and son Logan Sawyer. Sprinkling rain didn’t dampen the spirits of the crowd at Tennessee Theatre’s James A. Dick Mighty Musical Monday program featuring performers Dor L’Dor on Labor Day. Dor L’Dor performs Klezmer music – traditional Jewish folk and dance music played at weddings, bar mitzvahs and other festive occasions. “Dor L’Dor” is Hebrew for “generation to generation,” a name describing the band.

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Healthy Eating Series Four classes in the Healthy Eating Series are set for September: (HES) Artificial Sweeteners: Should they stay or should they go? Artificial sweeteners seem like a great alternative to sugar, but there are two sides to this story. Learn to make the best decision for you! Monday, Sept. 17, 5:15-6:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, noon to 1 p.m. Good Food = Great Medicine: Are you looking for the fountain of youth? A well stocked pantry is a great place to start. Approaching food as medicine can help you get the most out of your golden years. Wednesday, Sept. 26, noon to 1 p.m. 10-Day Fat Blaster Bootcamp: Your Fat Blaster adventure will consist of 10 days of cardio, strength, sprinting and more – all in just 30 minutes! You will be working at your strongest with the energy of a group. It’s easy, it’s fun and you will get the results you’ve been looking for! Starts Monday, Sept. 10, through Sept. 20. Weeknights at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. LiveWELL MiniSeries: How to be your best SELF (surroundings, exercise, lifestyle, food). The gift of good health is not free; it is something we all have to work for every day. This series looks at how food, fitness, environment and lifestyle impact your health. We look at the effects – both positive and negative – of each of these aspects and their relationship to your health. Also includes 2 individual coaching sessions. Wednesday afternoons (noon to 1 p.m.), Sept. 19 through Oct. 10.

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By Sandra Clark A special day for children ages 5-12 and their parents is planned for Friday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. until noon at Provision Health & Wellness Center in Dowell Springs. This is a school holiday, and the event is free. “Join us for a fun morning of scavenger hunts, obstacle courses and great information for families,” said managing director Lisa Wolf. “Learn how to plan and prepare healthy snacks and meals from our Registered Dietitians.” The event is in celebration of Family Health & Fitness Day USA, part of National Childhood Obesity Awareness month. “Family Fun Day will involve kids and their parents in sessions together and apart,” said marketing manager Juli Urevick. Exercise specialist Mike Wigger will coordinate movement and physical activities for the kids, while Registered Dietitian Casey Peer will work with parents and kids together to plan and prepare healthy snacks and meals.

Feeling overwhelmed by all the mixed messages out there about food? Frustrated and just wanting to ﬁgure out what works for you? Every person’s body is unique. Each of us have a different biochemistry that determines how our bodies use food and what food we like and don’t like. Ultimately, our bodies are communicating with us all the time, and our job is to listen, identify what they’re asking for, and respond appropriately. We work with people who are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired - be that chronic headaches, digestive upset, low energy levels, extra weight, or generally not feeling good. Together, we’ll unravel the complexity around food, listen to your body’s signals, and give it what it needs to heal itself, shed pounds, and truly thrive!

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FARRAGUT LIBRARY EVENTS The Farragut Branch Library is located at 417 N. Campbell Station Road. A parent or guardian must accompany each child, except for older preschool, during Storytime and events. Info: 777-1750. ■ Monday, Sept. 10, 10:30 a.m., Preschool Storytime for ages 3-5. ■ Tuesday, Sept. 11, 10:30 a.m., Older Preschool Storytime for ages 4-6. ■ Wednesday, Sept. 12, 10:30 a.m., Baby Bookworms for infants to age 2. ■ Thursday, Sept. 13, 10:30 a.m., Toddler Storytime for ages 2-3. ■ Friday, Sept. 14, 10:30 a.m., Preschool Storytime for ages 3-5.

SATURDAYS, THROUGH OCTOBER Food, crafts at Dixie Lee Market From 9 a.m. to noon every Saturday through Oct. 29, the Dixie Lee Farmers Market is open with fresh, locally grown produce and handmade crafts. The market is at Renaissance in Farragut, 12740 Kingston Pike. Local farmers and Tennessee artisans provide the products for the market. In season, offerings include peaches, berries, grapes, melons, apples, tomatoes, peppers, beans, corn, greens and a host of other fruits and vegetables, plus grass-fed meats, honey, potted plants, fresh-cut flowers, herbs and cheeses. There are also baked goods and crafts by local artisans.

THROUGH WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12 ‘Masks of Michoacan’ Pellissippi State Community College and the Tennessee Consortium for International Studies will host a special traveling art exhibit from Mexico, “Masks of Michoacan,” through Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Bagwell Center for Media and Art gallery at Pellissippi’s Hardin Valley campus. Regular exhibit hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. The Michoacan collection includes 40 wooden masks from the Mask Museum in the Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita in Patcuaro, Mexico. Mesoamerican cultures used masks in rituals and indigenous ceremonies, both secular and religious. For more info or to schedule a group tour, contact Linnette Legg, 865-539-7064 or llegg@pstcc.edu. To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of human resources, 865-694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 Tennessee Valley Fair The Tennessee Valley Fair continues at Chilhowee Park on Magnolia Avenue. Rides, concerts, exhibits, contests and fireworks will keep things hopping at the annual fair. Hours are 10 a.m.-midnight Sept. 10, 11, 15; 3 p.m.-midnight Sept. 12, 13, 14; and noon-midnight Sept. 16. Rides open one hour after gates open. A fair admission ticket is required to attend concerts, which offer free general-admission tickets and some paid reserved tickets closer to the stage. Performers include Kip Moore at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10; Josh Thompson at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11; Easton Corbin at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12; David Nail at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13; Night Ranger at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14; Con Hunley at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15; and Sawyer Brown at 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16. For more info, visit http://tnvalleyfair.org.

THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Clarence Brown “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” the Tony Award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical, will play on the mainstage of Clarence Brown Theatre through Sunday, Sept. 16. Remaining shows are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, through Friday, Sept. 14, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16. Dale Dickey, a Knoxville native and University of Tennessee alum, will play Mrs. Lovett. TV/film veteran Jeff Austin will play Sweeney Todd. Joining the large cast will be 38 musicians from the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. For tickets, call 865291-3310 or 865-974-5161 or visit www.knoxvillesymphony.com or www.clarencebrowntheatre.com.

THROUGH FRIDAY, NOV. 16 Tennessee Basketball exhibit The Farragut Folklife Museum will host the exhibit “Pride and Traditions of Tennessee Basketball” Monday through Friday through Nov. 16, at the museum, housed in the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. The exhibit features items from the personal collection of Knox County Commissioner R. Larry Smith and includes vintage uniforms and shoes, championship memorabilia, and programs, pictures and pamphlets spanning the entire history of the University of Tennessee men’s basketball team. Smith will give a free lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, discussing the history of UT basketball and sharing player stories and interviews. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Admission is free.

MONDAY, SEPT. 10 Election primer at Pellissippi Keith Norris, associate professor of English at Pellissippi State Community College and a self-proclaimed

political junkie, will discuss all things electoral in a lecture from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, in the Goins Building Cafeteria Annex on Pellissippi’s Hardin Valley campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. His lecture, “The Gnosis Election Primer,” kicks off Pellissippi’s firstever Civic Engagement Week, Sept. 10-17. The free talk is sponsored by the Gnosis student organization, and the community is invited. Norris will discuss some famous past presidential elections and how they compare to this year’s race. He will also explain the Electoral College, swing states, polling data and more. For more info, call Pellissippi at 865-694-6400 or contact Annie Gray, Pellissippi English professor and Civic Engagement Week coordinator, at ajgray@pstcc.edu.

MONDAY, SEPT. 10 Steel Wheels, Caroline Herring on Tennessee Shines The Steel Wheels and Caroline Herring will perform at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, at the WDVX studio at the Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. The performance will be broadcast on the Tennessee Shines Radio Show on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Virginiabased Americana band The Steel Wheels boasts impressive picking and rapturous four-part harmonies. The group’s latest CD, “Lay Down, Lay Low,” was released in March. For more info, visit www.thesteelwheels.com. Herring’s songs vividly bring to life everyday characters from the Southern landscape; her 2009 recording “Golden Apples of the Sun” was named one of the year’s Top 10 Folk Albums by the Boston Globe. Her latest CD is the brand-new “Camilla.” For more info, visit www. carolineherring.com. A limited number of tickets to be in the studio audience for the live show are $10 and are available at WDVX and at www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door, while supplies last. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Children 14 and under accompanied by a parent are admitted free.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 11 Senior Citizens Day at fair

“Shake, Rattle & Role,” will start “Duels & Desserts 2” by performing several fight scenes. A swashbuckling one-act play inspired by “The Three Musketeers” and written by WTP fight choreographer Mark McGinley starts at 8. There will be a silent auction and a bake sale. The event will benefit the Wild Thyme Players, but a portion of the proceeds will go to TribeOne, a community leadership development organization based in East Knoxville. Admission is free with a suggested $5 donation or bake sale purchase. For more info, visit www. wildthymeplayers.org.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 W. Knox Lions pancake breakfast The West Knox Lions Club will have a pancake breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at Applebee’s, 261 N. Peters Road. Proceeds benefit the club’s sight-conservation programs. Tickets are $5 adults, $3 children 12 and under. They will be on sale at the door. For advance tickets, call Georgia Cancillerie, 865-382-1903.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 Samuel Frazier Chapter, DAR The Samuel Frazier Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will meet at 11 a.m. at the Chop House, 9700 Kingston Pike, in Franklin Square. The program will be “A Visit to Greece and Turkey” by Amy Melendy. The chapter also will commemorate the 225th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution and the 11th anniversary of 9/11. For more info, call 865-675-6420 or 865-966-4048.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 15-16 Hair at the Fair Hair at the Fair will take place Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 15 and 16, at the Tennessee Valley Fair at Chilhowee Park. Great Clips Salons will provide free haircuts to fairgoers in exchange for donations to benefit the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. The fair opens at 10 a.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 16

The Tennessee Valley Fair will host its annual Senior Citizens Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, with free admission all day for persons 65 and up. There will be free entertainment, health checks and access to community resources including senior center activities, volunteer opportunities, home health care, senior fitness and senior nutrition. Activities in the Pepsi Community Tent will include: 10 a.m. – community displays and prize registration; 11:15 a.m. – Silver Sneakers senior fitness workshop; noon – Marshall Andy; 1 p.m. – music, recognition awards and door-prize drawings; 2 p.m. – magician Dave Vaught; and 2:30 p.m. – comedic juggler Dale Jones. After the festivities, seniors are encouraged to stay for Praise 96.3 FM Gospel Night. Live gospel music will begin at 6 p.m. in the Pepsi tent with a lineup including Voices of Mercy, Justin Terry, Dave Seratt and Dallas West. To request a Senior Day brochure, contact 865-2151471 or fair@tnvalleyfair.org.

The Farragut Folklife Museum will show the 2003 film “Gods and Generals” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, in the Farragut Town Hall Board Room as a free “Civil War Afternoon at the Movies.” Based on Jeffrey M. Shaara’s bestselling book, “Gods and Generals” follows Joshua Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels), “Stonewall” Jackson (Stephen Lang) and Robert E. Lee (Robert Duvall) through their participation in the battles of Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. The movie is PG-13 and is three hours and 39 minutes; there will be an intermission. Free tickets will be available 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. through Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the front desk of the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Seating for the movie will begin at 1:45 p.m., and ticket holders will be seated first. For more info on the Farragut Folklife Museum, contact Julia Jones, julia.jones@townoffarragut.org or 865-966-7057.

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The Harvey Broome Group of the Sierra Club will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Tiffany Beachy, citizen science coordinator at the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont, will discuss citizen science projects at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and opportunities for everyday people to assist with them. For more info, contact Mac Post, mpost3116@aol.com.

Hometown Heroes Day at the Fair will celebrate East Tennessee’s heroes – current and past military, police officers, deputy sheriffs, firefighters, first responders and current teachers – Sunday, Sept. 16, at the final day of the Tennessee Valley Fair at Chilhowee Park on Magnolia Avenue. Fair hours will be 3 p.m.-midnight. Heroes receive $1 admission all day. A portion of the proceeds from each ticket sold to the 8 p.m. Sawyer Brown concert will benefit HonorAir Knoxville. HonorAir Knoxville’s goal is to fly as many East Tennessee World War II and Korean War veterans as possible to Washington, D.C., to see the memorials built in their honor.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 11 Civil War Roundtable Historian Phillip Seyfrit will speak on “The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky” at the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable at 8 p.m. at the Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. The public is invited. Seyfrit is director of Madison County Historical Properties in Kentucky and serves on Kentucky’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. Cost for the lecture only is $5; free for students with ID. At 7 p.m., there will be a buffet dinner priced at $17 ($15 for members), including the lecture. Dinner reservations must be made to 865-671-9001 by 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 10.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 ‘Despicable Me’ on Square Knox County Public Library’s popular Movies on Market Square will show “Despicable Me” (PG, 2010) on Friday, Sept. 14. The free event will begin with pre-show activities including pet tips and advice at 6:30 p.m. followed by the movie screening at dusk. Attendees should bring their own seating. Well-behaved dogs on leashes are welcome.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 ‘Duels & Desserts 2’ The Wild Thyme Players will present the “Duels & Desserts 2: Back for Seconds!” fundraiser at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, at the World’s Fair Park Amphitheater. Students from WTP’s stage combat training program,

‘Gods and Generals’ at museum

MONDAY, SEPT. 17 Blount Mansion’s Constitution Day Blount Mansion will celebrate Constitution Day on Monday, Sept. 17, with two events. Ian Hennessey will give the lecture “From Philadelphia to Knoxville: Tennessee’s Role in the Constitutional Experiment” at noon at the J.L. Goins Administration Building at Pellissippi State Community College’s Hardin Valley campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. A discussion of Catherine Drinker Bowen’s book “Miracle at Philadelphia” will be held at 5:30 p.m. at Blount Mansion, 200 W. Hill Ave. Refreshments will be provided. Email info@blountmansion.org about joining the group. Blount Mansion was the home of William Blount, Tennessee’s only signer of the U.S. Constitution, as well as where the Tennessee State Constitution was drafted and signed. It is the oldest house museum in Knox County. For more info, call 865-525-2375.

MONDAY, SEPT. 17 Free Day of Putt-Putt The 21st annual Free Day of Putt-Putt will take place Monday, Sept. 17, at Putt-Putt Golf & Games, 164 West End Ave. Players can enjoy Putt-Putt at no charge from noon to 9 p.m. The Town of Farragut is sponsoring the event with Putt-Putt in order to build community and provide a safe, entertaining activity for families. For more info, contact Lauren Cox, 865-9667057 or lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org.