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BUZZ Biz group to meet The Northwest Knox Business and Professional Association (NWKBPA) will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Karns Community Club building (the old library), 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. The meeting will be an open forum to discuss the future direction of the Business Association. This is a great time for those of you who have been asking about the Business Association to come and make your opinions known about what you would like it to become.

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Get ‘Wild’ and possibly win To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Legacy Parks Foundation has christened Sept. 7-11 Wild Week. The movie “Wild,” based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed, will be shown at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, at Regal Riviera. The $25 ticket makes you eligible for door prizes from REI and gives you a chance to win two tickets to the sold-out Sept. 11 Legacy Luncheon, at which Strayed will speak. Moviegoers also will receive a pass for discounts at area merchants. Info: legacyparks.org

LVW to host candidate debate WBIR news anchor John Becker will moderate a forum for Knoxville City Council candidates 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the Clinton Chapel AME Zion Church, 546 College Street. It is sponsored by the League of Women Voters and others.

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Webb Science Club’s drifter is thrown overboard off the California coast by Corps of Exploration members Karen Romano Young and Rebecca Rutstein. After throwing the drifter overboard, Romano Young said, “After initially slipping under the ship, she bobbed back up again, righted herself and sailed away!” Photo submitted Beckendorf

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By Sara Barrett Right now, students’ names from Webb School of Knoxville are floating in the waters of the Gulf of California. Students signed their names last school year on an ocean current drifter designed and created entirely by Webb Middle School’s science club. Complete with a GPS transmitter, the drifter checks in hourly to a satellite that can track the device’s location on a Google map. The drifter’s waterproof sails are made from the signed canvas. Webb freshmen Jacob Hale, Britt Lamson, Shiva Senthilkumar and Anna Bryn Williams led the project as eighth-graders and said they were thrilled to be part of a group project that didn’t involve athletics. “After competing in the Science Bowl, the science club was started

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because students wanted another academic activity, something for a group that wasn’t a sport,” said Shiva. “From a young age, you’re pushed to do sports, and not everyone is interested in athletics,” Anna Bryn added. Projects like the drifter help you figure out what you want to do as a career, she said. Webb science teacher and science club sponsor Kirk Beckendorf suggested the drifter project to the club, and what began as a weekly afterschool project quickly became a passion for the foursome. Each student contributed to the drifter, adapted from designs they obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Anna Bryn researched which type of glue would hold a canvas material for the sail and

By Betty Bean The first challenge to the city’s y’s new sign ordinance isn’t coming ng se from a big national franchise seeking a flashing message center atop a tall pole alongside a busy highway. Instead, it’s being filed by the he ess owner of a homegrown business who has been told that she can’t n’t place whimsical, cartoon-style yle butter and egg figures of her own design on the roof of her building because they aren’t art. “It came down to whether the sign was art or just advertising,” said Peter Ahrens, director of Plans Review and Inspections for the city of Knoxville. “As we looked at their website, it almost seemed that the egg and the butter became a logo, almost like a Nike Swoosh. Where you see the butter and egg dancing, you think of Magpies, and that’s how they are trying to brand their

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which tape was most waterproof. At least one of the four students stayed after school every day to complete the project, and their hard work paid off. On July 19, the drifter was launched into the ocean by Dr. Robert Ballard and crew from the Exploration Vessel Nautilus. Ballard discovered the wreckage of the Titanic, and Nautilus is one of only two vessels in the world dedicated entirely to ocean exploration. Ballard’s Nautilus Exploration Program was created in 2008 by his Ocean Exploration Trust to explore all aspects of the ocean including geology, biology, archaeology and chemistry. The launch of Webb’s drifter is part of that program and is included in live interaction with students of all ages back on land. Beckendorf is involved with

the trust and asked if the drifter could be launched from the Nautilus. The crew was very receptive to the idea, he said. Jacob, Britt, Shiva and Anna Bryn led a Skype session for the entire school with the crew of the Nautilus while it explored the Gulf of Mexico sea floor. “One of the major goals of our Nautilus Exploration Program is to inspire the next generation of explorers in STEM fields,” said Ocean Exploration Trust executive vice president Dr. Katy Croff Bell. “So we are very excited to provide educators and students with the direct experience of ocean exploration, while allowing them the opportunity to share their experiences far and wide with their peers.” To track the drifter’s adventures, visit nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/ drift_oet_2015_1.html

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art bearing no advertising. “I was asked to speak against the ordinance, but I’m not a public speaker,” Hambright said. “So I didn’t. I thought the exemption would apply.” She said none of her neighbors objects to her plan and said she doesn’t believe that some of the prohibitions in the ordinance are good for the 800 block of North Central Street, which hasn’t yet seen the kind of redevelopment that’s taking place a few blocks north. Hambright – who got her start in the business with the help of her late parents, Frank and Hazel Hambright, who sold Magpies cookies and cakes at the Market Square Farmers Market – bought 846 N. Central St. seven years ago, spruced it up and moved the bakery there from its Old City lo-

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business. That would be considered advertising.” Peggy Hambright, owner of Magpies Bakery, admits that she’s better at baking cakes than at dealing with bureaucracies. She said she’d long planned on affi xing porcelain figures to the preexisting scaffolding at either end of her roof but put it off due to its cost. And even after passage of the new ordinance, which prohibits rooftop signs, she believed Ms. Egg and Mr. Butter could slide in under a clause exempting works of

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cation, where it had been for five years. She rented the back half of the building to the Glowing Body Yoga Studio, which fronts on Irwin Street. Soon, both businesses were drawing steady customers. After her next-door neighbor, the iconic Corner Lounge, went out of business, Hambright and her husband, Scott Carpenter, bought that building, too, and eventually chef Holly Hambright (Peggy’s sister) opened Holly’s Corner there, giving the neighborhood a trio of vibrant new businesses. Being turned down by the city inspectors forced Hambright to spend $250 to appeal the decision to the city Board of Zoning Appeals, where she will plead her case in October. If she is turned down there, the next step is City Council. She says she’s feeling frustrated.

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UT basketball visits Karns By Nancy Anderson Fun was the order of the day as the University of Tennessee men’s and women’s basketball teams hit the hardwood at Karns Middle School along with kids living with Down syndrome at the eighth annual “Hoops for Hope” event. The UT players towered above the approximately 35 kids, frequently picking them up to ensure each one made a basket and causing the crowd to burst into raucous cheers. Shooting hoops frequently gave way to impromptu dancing, luring many in at-

tendance to join the fun on the court. “ ‘Hoops for Hope’ is my favorite community service event,” said Jasmine Jones. “These kids all have a big heart and the best attitude. They give their all, and they do a really good job running the court. They’re truly amazing kids.” “Hoops for Hope” was the brainchild of Trey Sexton, who created the basketball event when he was a 14-year-old Eagle Scout as a project to benefit the Down Syndrome Awareness Group of East Tennes- University of Tennessee guard Jordan Reynolds and 2-year-old see. Decker Stone

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Heather Wheeler and University of Tennessee forward Jasmine Jones during the “Hoops for Hope” basketball game at Karns Middle School Photos by Nancy Anderson

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Ah, technology. How ironic for me, someone who can remember, as a child, listening in on the neighbors on my grandmother’s crank, four-party-line telephone, to be sitting here at my computer pecking out words about technology with my two pointer fingers at the blistering rate of a page every 30 minutes. And then to send the words away through the ether to Shopper headquarters in a 10th of a second. All that in three short generations of us mere mortals. I had been thinking about technology lately because of firstly, the time of year it is, and secondly, because of a short article in this month’s Birdwatching magazine. As to the first, we are all noticing that the days are getting shorter. Also, the fall equinox will be coming upon us on Sept. 21. That is the 24-hour period when the day and night will be of equal length. But the days have been getting shorter

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ever since the first day of summer, on June 21. And sadly, they won’t bounce back at the equinox, they just trudge on, shorter and shorter, into the winter. Well, the shorter length of days is the big notification for all of nature that big change is coming. Days become shorter and cooler, leaves change color, some mammals frantically store up food supplies and others fatten up for hibernation (this is the route I prefer), and the birds – many of them migrate. We’re getting ready to say goodbye, at least for a season, to such songbird friends as the warblers, vireos, wood thrushes and whip-poorwills, the indigo buntings and hummingbirds. But by the same token, we’re all set to welcome back the more northerly nesting birds here for the winter – the whitethroated sparrows and purple finches, the yellowbellied sapsuckers and rubycrowned kinglets. It’s a busy time out there – literally billions of birds are shifting from north to south, some on relatively short trips; some on remarkably long ones. People for eons have wondered where the birds went in the winter, from stories and myths about swallows burrowing into the muddy bottoms of ponds for the winter, to hummingbirds flying south on the backs of the geese. Those thousand-mile trips by tiny birds to remote places on the globe were a daunting process to study and follow. Then – enter this technology thing. Think where we’ve come from. Consider, if you will, how at one time a good stone ax was a new and marvelous piece of technology. Or a nice warm fire to cook your food. And then,

there was the need to have the means to find your animals. Imagine the pride and sense of accomplishment when that first cowherd slipped that first cowbell on his lead mama cow. Now, by golly, when the herd disappeared over the hill, we knew where they were! And then, another advance: from cowbells to radio collars. For years now we’ve grown accustomed to seeing the elk in the Smokies and up at Royal Blue fitted out with their radio collars – space-age cowbells. I’m reminded of the story of the intrepid Campbell County hunter, proudly driving through LaFollette with one such animal draped over the hood of his truck. “Biggest deer I ever saw!” He didn’t exactly know what the radio collar was about, but at least the TWRA fellows knew where it was. But what about the birds? A one-ounce warbler is not an elk, and you can’t slap a radio collar on a tiny bird to see where it goes. Thus my second recent reminder about technology – an article in Birdwatching magazine on the miniaturization of tracking devices for birds. One big thing about technology that keeps us all amazed (and spending money) is constant and rapid progress. In the column of March 2013, I reported on the new and promising use of geolocator devices to follow the movement of various species of birds. Geolocators contain a clock, a light sensor and a microprocessor. They are relatively small and light and, when attached to an animal, can tell roughly when and where on earth the animal has been. The name of the developer of these devices, sure to become a household word, was Vsevolod Afanasyev, such an interesting name that I had to repeat it here. The geolocators have proven very useful and have been used to study the global movements of the wandering albatross across the trackless oceans of the

world. More recently and closer to home, they have followed the heretofore nearly unknown traveling habits of the eastern population of the golden eagle, a fascinating story of its own. But now, more progress – from bird bands and geolocators, we’re on to Global Positioning Systems. Satellite-based GPS, fully operational since 1995, is what brings us the voice of that pushy lady in our car dash telling us we’re lost, and to make a U-turn as soon as possible, regardless of what may be coming. Helpful? You can set it to remember where you parked your truck in the National Forest, and it will take you right back to it. Among its many advantages, GPS is highly accurate. Rather than telling the biologist that his target bird is in this mountain or that valley somewhere in the world, GPS can pinpoint locations down to 10 meters, or about 33 feet. And now we have a GPS unit that weighs in at about one gram, roughly half the weight of a penny, so that it can be safely attached to a bird that weighs as little as 20 grams, or 0.7 ounce, the size of a large warbler. So, wildlife biologists can capture various small birds that couldn’t be studied before and fit them with the tiny GPS unit to pinpoint their locations at various times through the seasons. Obviously, this is a far cry from the old method by which we discovered the wintering grounds of the chimney swifts – natives in the Peruvian Andes smoked a bunch of them out of a hollow tree to have for lunch, discovered the magical bands on their legs and gave them to a missionary, and a couple of years later the bands found their way to Washington, D.C., and were identified. All the new knowledge that technology is bringing us will soon become common knowledge, and then we’ll be off after a whole new set, with more new tools. May it always be so!

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Canopy assessments show where trees are needed By Wendy Smith Data gathered from Tennessee Division of Forestry and city canopy assessments, both completed last year, will be used in an upcoming report on Kasey Krouse the health of Knoxville’s tree canopy. The assessments were done via aerial photos. Maps created from data gained from the photos are available on the urban forestry section of the city’s website. The city canopy assessment shows percentage of tree cover by neighborhood, and the state assessment shows changes in the canopy from 1997 to 2010 by city council district. This year, Urban Forester Kasey Krouse plans to compile information from both

assessments into a report that details where Knoxville has healthy tree cover and where additional trees might be planted. The city has an annual tree planting budget of $50,000, and has received an additional $20,000 in state funds for each of the past three years. That allows for the planting of 500-600 trees per year, he says. The assessments indicate that the total size of the canopy stayed the same from 1997 to 2010, but that doesn’t account for annexed property, which is generally forested. A significant change in land use, indicated by an increase in impervious surfaces like roads, sidewalks and buildings, was indicated for the same period. Tree cover along roadways and in abandoned pastures increased, but further research is required to determine if that’s a good thing. Some may be privet, rather

than new, healthy trees, and privet inhibits tree growth. Such data allow Krouse to target neighborhoods that are losing tree coverage. Different parts of town face different challenges in regard to the canopy. Development is the biggest issue in West Knox County. Trees are often planted too deep, or with too much mulch, on commercial property, so they don’t live long enough to provide tree cover, he says. Trees recently planted by the city on Middlebrook Pike and Sherrill Boulevard medians should fare better. The anticipated report will give Krouse the opportunity to further educate the community about the value of trees. Trees add monetary value to homes because they cut cooling costs and increase property values, but people who have experienced property damage

from trees, or just want to be able to mow quickly, may need more information. Krouse is happy to share his expertise with neighborhood organizations. He’d like for the community to understand the risks of hiring non-professional tree workers to top trees. Trees that have been “topped,” or had large branches or trunks removed from their tops, are more likely to fail, especially during storms, he says. He recommends hiring professional arborists to consult on proper treatment for large trees. There is one tree species that, in his opinion, can’t be overpruned − the Bradford pear. “Cut it down and plant an oak.” To learn more about the city’s tree planting program or request a program, contact Krouse at 215-6113 or kkrouse@knoxvilletn.gov.

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“If a business is willing to spend $10,000 of its own money to make their neighborhood more appealing, why should the city be opposed? It can only be a good thing for everyone,” she said. “There has to be a way to make an exception in the ordinance to accommodate neighborhoods such as ours and the Magnolia Avenue corridor to allow us to make our businesses stand out from the blight.” Peg Hambright

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Walta Patt: Powell business owner prepares for family festival want to do whatever their master asks of them. “Littleman is considered a freak of nature. He is little and has short legs, but he’s got grit. He wins with his heart and wins consistently.” Patt says she always prays for the others who are racing and that God will put His feet in her stirrups and His hand on her reins. She takes nothing for granted.

By Cindy Taylor Walta Patt sits on a horse like a pro. But don’t call her a master rider or a professional. She’ll answer to neither, even though she has won seven championships, many first places and hundreds of other awards for barrel racing. It takes an extraordinary horsewoman with an amazing horse, Littleman, to accomplish this. “I am so blessed,” she said. “This is what I do for fun.” The Powell community knows Patt as a master in flower design and home decorating through her business, Powell Florist. The business is more than 50 years old, and Patt has owned it for half that time. That is her work, which she loves. But her farm, family, horses and barrel racing are also major parts of her life. Patt was raised around horses thanks to a mom who loved them. “We were in diapers riding ponies. My mom’s love for horses came from her father, and I inherited that. It

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m. each first Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: cwkch.com. ■ District 6 Democrats meet 6:15 p.m. each fourth Tuesday at the Karns Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: Mike Knapp, 696-8038, or Janice Spoone, 771-5920. ■ Karns Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each first Tues-

“I am so grateful to God for the life He has allowed me to live. “There are so many people He has put in my life – my husband, my son and so many friends and family – that help me and make it possible for me to live the life I love.” Patt family members will host the Raccoon Valley Bluegrass Festival on their farm Sept. 26.

Gilbert joins GIA Dr. Jeffrey “Jeff” Gilbert has joined Gastrointestinal Associates (GIA). He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine Walta Patt takes her stallion, Littleman, through the paces on her farm in Powell. Photo by Cindy in both internal medicine and his primary Taylor specialty, gastroenterology. Dr. Gilbert served for six years as a Patt and Littleman had to barrel racing through a is a part of who I am.” physician at Oak Ridge Gastroenterology Patt raced when she was unique set of events,” she an instant rapport. Patt Associates, where his clinical interests ingrowing up, but after mar- said. “When I decided to brought him home, rode and cluded gallbladder and bile duct disorders, riage she wanted to invest start racing again, I called trained him daily. Twenty cirrhosis and liver disorders, and colon time in her family and busi- my friend Jackie Cooper. years old now, the stallion cancer prevention. Dr. Gilbert ness. She says she is blessed She took me to see Little- has won races with Patt for Dr. Gilbert is active in the community with a wonderful husband, man, a horse she had owned 10 years. Patt says there are and serves as a reserve elder and Sunday school teacher when he was a colt. He was great horses out there like at First Presbyterian Church of Knoxville. He lives in the Tim, and son, Andrew, 24. “God brought me back 6 years old when we went to Littleman, but they need Hardin Valley community with his wife, Amy Gilbert, and see him and had just started to be loved, nourished and their children, Anna Grace, Lucy and James. trained; then the horse will on the barrels.”

day at Karns Middle School library. ■ Karns Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each first and third Monday, Karns Community Center, 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: karnslionsclub.com. ■ Northwest Knox Business and Professional Association meets noon each second Thursday, Karns Community Center. Info: karnsbusiness. com. Evening meeting in September.

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Hay is in the barn Country-boy football coaches, since the days of Bowden Wyatt, have used the same expression to describe this time of year. “The hay is in the barn.” This is obviously a farming summation, the alfalfa matured, was cut, pitched or baled and put away for later use. Applied to football, it means August anguish is finished, growing season has ended, the plan is in place, basic preparation is past. What remains is to run through the T, tighten up the chinstrap and play the game. It is a very exciting time for Volunteers – with a sobering thought lurking in the background. Did I do

dedicated to the cause. Is the hay safely in the barn? Nobody knows today. But we’ll all find out Marvin later. How the team looks is West relevant – and I’m not talking about Nike or alternate uniforms. Can we recognize improved strength and enough? speed in action? Was coachAll the good ones will ask ing so crisp as to eliminate themselves: Did I put in the hesitation and confusion? What really matters are hours, do the work, focus sharply on details, leave results. Wins and losses. little to chance? Am I really How and where and beating ready for the proverbial mo- betting odds are secondary. ment of truth, the opening There was a time when were justified. kickoff, giant games to fol- excuses low, a season of high expec- Butch Jones inherited a tations? depleted roster. Lane KifThey will check to see if fin committed too many they are sufficiently con- recruiting blunders. Derek fident, totally committed, Dooley didn’t do much of

anything. We think Butch Jones has excelled. Talent was below SEC standards. Too many people were too slow. Those flaws appear to have been corrected. There was a shortage of experience. Butch dared to play young guys. That those who stayed are now sophomores and juniors is his reward. Turnovers? Stuff happens. The solution is to be mentally and physically strong enough to overcome the shock. Injuries? Inevitably, there will be some. The burden on coaches is to have a replacement ready. This has been a past weakness. If it happens again, don’t try to explain it away.

No matter who tells you otherwise, an improved defense will depend on having a capable middle linebacker. The front looks better. The secondary seems secure. Count special teams as a probable plus. Key to Tennessee offensive success? The quarterback, of course. And receivers. And running backs. Big plays, sustained drives, more punch in the red zone. The key to skill players gaining a few yards and scoring an occasional touchdown? Same as always. The offensive line determines the width of the doorway. It is the primary component of victories – and defeats. If you are keeping score, Tennessee’s offensive line has been a little less than overwhelming in recent years. This is where Mike DeBord comes in. For orga-

nizational purposes, a touch of glamour and pay justification, he is offensive coordinator. It says in the book that he, in his spare time, is also supervisor of quarterback instruction. DeBord is really an old line coach. He has technical skills and bulldog determination to assist Don Mahoney in the critical production of a real, live offensive line. I recall questioning, back in the winter, why Butch would hire his old (59 or 60, not 80) buddy with so much at stake. I have rethought the situation. Wouldn’t it be something if Mike DeBord turns out to be the winning edge, the guy with the pitchfork or high-lift that puts the hay in the barn. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com

New members ahead for MPC Three city members of MPC had their current terms end June 30 but Mayor Rogero has not acted to replace them two months later. Since all have served two terms, Rogero will not reappoint them. They are Bart Carey, Michael Kane and Jack Sharp. When the new members are named, they will have a few months shaved off their term due to Rogero’s tardiness in naming replacements. The current city members will probably continue at least until October as the mayor has not sent any paperwork to the state to replace them. ■ If yard signs could vote, Finbarr Saunders and Paul Bonovich would be fairly close competitors for City Council seat C with Kelly Absher and David Williams behind in the yard sign battle. The Saunders

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and Bonovich signs are actually in real yards and not right of ways which is a compliment to both. ■ Mayor Rogero and City Council deserve praise for working to restore Fountain City Lake. The iconic landmark is part of our city’s history. It will take a long time to correct the difficult issues there but the wait is worth it if success is the result. ■ Several new personnel moves in the city were announced last week and (as is the practice of the Rogero Administration), salaries were not included in the announcement. How-

ever, they are public record. David Brace moves to senior director of public works, and his salary jumps from $109,870 to $135,000. He is a top-notch public servant and earns every dollar he receives. He lives in Island Home in South Knox and start in 2002 with the city. Chad Weth, who becomes service director, sees his salary jump from $75,742 to $95,000 plus a $5,830 annual car allowance. Sheryl Ely starts works at $75,742 as a deputy director, coming from Oak Ridge city government. She does not get a car allowance. ■ Dean Rice, chief of staff to Mayor Tm Burchett, married Natalie Maneava on May 6. She is from Belarus and is seeking U.S. citizenship while working on her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. ■ David Massey, who

sends out an excellent weekly neighborhood advisory newsletter from the city website, last week stated that Mayor Rogero (for whom he works) was unopposed for her second term. While she will be the only name on the printed ballot Sept. 29, she does have a qualified write-in opponent named Jack Knoxville. To Massey’s credit, he sent out a correction when notified of the error. While rare, it has happened that a write-in prevails. Former three-term council member Gary Underwood was first elected by a write-in vote against the late Vice Mayor Hoyle McNeil in 1989. However, Jack Knoxville will fall far short of the goal line in this writer’s opinion. ■ There really is a new greenway in Knoxville which has not been officially dedicated/opened

but it is there and ready for use. It is a city secret. This one is right along the river which stretches from the Buck Karnes Bridge to Marine Park on Alcoa Highway. There is not a sign to it but I can assure you it is there. Park at Marine Park and you can use it. Round trip it is almost a mile long. Formal opening has been delayed until an entrance can be built to link it to the bridge. I had thought the opening was being delayed to coincide with the city primary election Sept. 29, which would have been a rational if political reason. Now the ribbon cutting may come after the city primary which suggests the delay is due to leadership failing to complete it in a timely manner. ■ State Rep. Jason Zachary turned down state health insurance for himself as he signed papers

on becoming a state representative. Zachary opposes the Insure Tennessee program. Zachary had a full room at his swearing in at First Baptist Church of Concord Aug. 24 including Mayor Tim Burchett, Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill, state Reps. Bill Dunn, Eddie Smith, Jimmy Matlock and Martin Daniel; state Sens. Frank Niceley and Richard Briggs. House Speaker Beth Harwell, first woman to hold that position, administered the oath of office after County Commission elected Zachary to the position. There still is a special election in the district Sept. 29 to elect Zachary. By winning in a special election necessitated by Ryan Haynes’s resignation, Zachary secured incredible media attention which he could never have achieved in a normal cycle.

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Jeff Ownby keeps on walking

In this 2009 photo, Carol Evans leads Lamar Alexander and Bill Haslam on a walk at River Bluff in South Knoxville. Photos courtesy of Legacy Parks Foundation

Wilma Jordan, Jim Clayton and Kay Clayton sport Halls Has It! shirts to celebrate the start of construction on the Clayton Park.

Legacy Parks makes its mark Legacy Parks Foundation scored a coup in landing “Wild” author/protagonist Cheryl Strayed as speaker for its Sept. 11 luncheon. The $100-a-plate event at UT’s Holston River Farm is sold out with 1,000 participants. But its real accomplishment as it celebrates its 10th anniversary is the everexpanding list of parks in Knoxville and Knox County. Executive Director Carol Evans has helped communities raise money for parks across the county. Her first big project was in Halls, where the community raised almost $500,000 to purchase 11 acres at the intersection of Norris Freeway and Highway 33. The big donor was Jim Clayton ($300,000), who got naming rights. Legacy Parks collected donations, purchased the land, put conservation restrictions on the deed and conveyed title to Knox County. Donors are disappointed that Clayton Park is not yet open, but the foundation is not to blame. “We learned how to do it better (with that project),” Evans now says. Next, Evans helped Fountain City Town Hall develop a skate park on city-owned land just off Broadway. Central High School students created a video to show the benefits of a neighborhood skate park. Legacy Parks recently helped with the Everly Brothers Park in Bearden. Terry Faulkner, president of the Bearden Council, says the foundation’s support was invaluable. “I’m not sure we would have gotten the project going if they had not been so

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supportive,” she says. “Legacy Parks has been a godsend to us.” The Harrell Road stormwater park in Karns is a Legacy Parks project. Legacy was behind the scenes when Pete Claussen conveyed some 400 acres on the French Broad River to Knox County for Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge. And Gov. Bill Haslam showed state support at the 2013 Legacy Luncheon when he announced that Seven Islands would be added to the state’s park system and renamed the Seven Islands State Birding Park. But it’s in South Knoxville where Legacy Parks has been most active – first

with the development of the 1,000-acre Urban Wilderness, including preservation of Civil War forts and a battlefield, and later by facilitating the donation of 100 acres by the Pat Wood family to connect the Urban Wilderness trail system to nearby neighborhoods and South-Doyle Middle School. The foundation was suggested by Doug Bataille, Knox County’s senior director of Parks and Recreation, who heard the idea at a workshop. He and Mark Field, then president of the Knoxville Chamber and chair of the county’s parks advisory board, first tested community interest. Field and Bataille then recruited former Knox County Executive Tommy Schumpert to serve as the first board chair. They took him out to lunch and told him the position would be easy and he wouldn’t “have to do anything.” “He knew we were lying, but he agreed to it any-

way. It really took off from there,” says Bataille. Schumpert credits Evans with the foundation’s success. “With her leadership we have done some very outstanding projects for the people that will last a long time.” Evans became executive director when Sandy Hull left after about a year and a half. “Carol’s done a tremendous job of moving the foundation forward,” says Bataille, who also praises the work of the board over 10 years. “The Urban Wilderness was a fantastic example of multiple partnerships,” he says. “You had the city, the county, the state, private landowners getting involved. It was a great vision created by Carol through the foundation, but a lot of people pitched in to make it happen, especially the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club, with a huge amount of sweat equity.”

Three years ago, I figured Jeff Ownby was a dead man walking. But now, I’m not so sure. And I changed my mind even before I saw the “Thank you, Commissioner Ownby for your support” sign out front of West Hills Elementary School. Although we’re in the throes Jeff Ownby of city elections, those races are weakly contested and pretty boring. As a result, county elections, which aren’t on the calendar until 2016, appear to be drawing as much attention as those to whom this season allegedly belongs, and District 4 is one of the most interesting. I doubt I’m the only one surprised that incumbent Ownby is not only still standing, but also chugging steadily forward. Ownby, 48, is built like a fireplug and sports an old-fashioned crew cut. He was a loud, proud and relatively unknown Tea Party Republican when he took on incumbent Finbarr Saunders in 2010. Saunders (Webb School, Class of ’62) is a moderately conservative Democrat with deep roots in the Bearden area. A retired banker, he was well funded and well established in business and in the community. Ownby won a six-year term (the terms were being realigned that year because the commission was cut from19 to 11 members) by 358 votes in what was widely considered a stunning upset. And although it was a Republican “sweep” year, locally and nationally, the tally shocked the political establishment and whittled the number of County Commission Democrats to two. Ownby immediately locked down a reputation as one of the most conservative commissioners.

Betty Bean Then, in the spring of 2013, the news that he and another man had been arrested for indecent exposure in a Sharp’s Ridge sting operation rocked the local political firmament. Ownby lost his day job and embarrassed his family, and common wisdom was that he was toast, politically speaking, despite his public apology. It didn’t take long for well-known, well-funded fourth district opponents to emerge. Hugh Nystrom (Webb School, Class of ’85) made it official last spring, and Janet Testerman (Webb School ’87) kicked off her campaign this summer. Despite his public humiliation, it became clear that Ownby wasn’t going away. I started noticing him for something other than Tea Party rhetoric. Maybe he’d been doing it all along. When there was a cause to be championed that other elected officials disdained, there he was, calling out state officials over the closing of Lakeshore Institute (which he believes has increased the numbers of homeless), opposing the closing of the former St. Mary’s Medical Center in North Knoxville and questioning the rezoning that cleared the way for Tennova to move the facility to Middlebrook Pike. He even wore a red shirt in solidarity with protesting teachers. Few other elected officials asked these questions. So a year out from county elections, Ownby, who has ditched his Tea Party affiliation, is facing two well-connected, well-known opponents whose financial resources he cannot match. And he keeps moving forward. I’m starting to believe he has a chance.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Sleepy commuters awoke with a start last week when NPR linked a familiar name with a familiar drug.

Mayor plays ball Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero poses w ith local softball players as part of the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s initiative “Play Ball.” Photo submitted

■ John Duncan, this one a 60-year-old hunk called “a crusty sea-dog” by the Gold Coast (Austraila) Bulletin, watched police raid a nearby boat and confiscate cocaine worth some $17 million.

the sailors as phony when the bloke in charge wore a suit jacket and dress shoes. ■ “They just didn’t look like boaties. It was really suss,” said Duncan. ■ Meanwhile, Knoxville’s own John Duncan III was vacationing on the beach with his wife and two kids (photos on Facebook).

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Karns Senior Center: 8042 Oak Ridge Highway 951-2653 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2: 8 a.m. Rise-N-Shine walkers; 9:30 a.m. Zumba; 10 a.m. party bridge; 11 a.m. SAIL exercises; 1 p.m. Rook. Thursday, Sept. 3: 8 a.m. Rise-N-Shine walkers; 9 a.m. Scrabble; 9:30 a.m. Tone & Tighten; 10 a.m. genealogy; 2:30 p.m. yoga.

Bill Dunn greets resident John Simmons.

Friday, Sept. 4: 8 a.m. Rise-N-Shine walkers; 10 a.m. Farkle, Tai Chi. Monday, Sept. 7: closed for Labor Day. Tuesday, Sept. 8: 8 a.m. Rise-N-Shine walkers; 9:30 a.m. Tone & Tighten; 10 a.m. PC tutoring; 11 a.m. SNAP education program; 12:30 p.m. pinochle; 2:30 p.m. yoga. ■ Frank R. Strang Senior Center: 109 Lovell Heights Road 670-6693 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2: 8:45 a.m. advanced cardio; 9:30 a.m. watercolor; 10 a.m. cardio, social bridge; noon Caring for the Alzheimer’s Caregiver seminar; 1 p.m. Spanish club, Mah Jong; 2 p.m. beginning line dance. Thursday, Sept. 3: 8:45 a.m. Tai Chi 1; 9-11 a.m. flu shots; 9:45 a.m. Tai Chi 2; 10 a.m. duplicate bridge; 12:30 p.m. Sit N Be Fit; 1:30 p.m. chorus first meeting. Friday, Sept. 4: 8:45 a.m. advanced cardio; 9:30 a.m. Canasta Club; 10 a.m. cardio, social bridge; 11 a.m. hearing test by Bridgewater; 11:15 a.m. Pilates; 12:30 p.m. yoga; 1 p.m. midday bridge; 2 p.m. ballroom dancing. Monday, Sept. 7: closed for Labor Day.

Bill Dunn talks with residents Muriel and Clayton Brewer.

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Dunn talks legislation at Bill Dunn poses with Morning Pointe resident Bill Jones.

By Sandra Clark About 25 residents of Morning Pointe of Powell hosted state Rep. Bill Dunn in their community room last week. Dunn recapped the recent legislative session and received limited feedback. That could mean everyone agreed with him or no one did. Dunn was warmly received. He brought a huge watermelon that he had grown in a garden he works at Brickey-McCloud School, where his daughter is a teacher. Ironically, Earl Hoffmeister, the man Dunn defeated in his first election (1994), now lives at Morning Pointe. Hoffmeister was present but merely smiled amicably. Dunn said Hoffmeister, a four-term elected school superintendent, is “smart as a fox.”

“Tennessee is one of the lowest-taxed states in the nation,” Dunn said. And Tennessee is adding jobs from other states where taxes are higher. Dunn said “a lot of politicians would bribe people with their own money” by passing legislation to benefit citizens. “At least they had to occasionally vote to increase taxes,” he said. “Now we’re seeing politicians, not me, making businesses do things.” These politicians will pass minimum-wage bills, etc. to benefit people without a negative effect on the politician – no requirement to raise taxes. But finally the businesses can’t compete and just move to states like Tennessee where restrictions are fewer. Dunn then drifted to a discussion of tort reform,

Republican-style. “The American culture is suehappy,” he said. Now Tennessee allows those who are injured to be “fully compensated on real costs,” but has attempted to cap payouts for “the murky area” of pain and suffering. “A judge overruled that.” So Dunn moved into a discussion of activist judges, saying he’s very concerned with the increasing power of judges to overturn decisions of the Legislature. ■

Leadership change ahead

Tyner Brooks, administrator at Morning Pointe of Powell since its opening, has transferred with the company to a facility outside of Nashville where his wife has secured a job. Brooks said he will miss

dent majoring in therapeutic recreation, who is doing a 120-hour practicum at Morning Pointe. She is a native of Hohenwald, Tenn. ■

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the residents and their families as he leaves Powell. Meanwhile, Brittany Ricker has joined Morning Pointe of Powell as life enrichment director. In that role, she will plan events and activities while assisting with marketing. A native of Greeneville, Tenn., Ricker is a 2011 graduate of the University of Tennessee and a former schoolteacher. Her husband is Travis. Ricker is assisted by Hayden Rawdon, a UT stu-

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Erin Bates Paine, a member of the Bates family of Rocky Top, Tenn., will visit Morning Pointe of Powell at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, to entertain on the piano. Ricker said residents are looking forward to the visit. On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the facility will observe National Assisted Living Week, with Fall Festival activities 5-7 p.m. There’s Balloon Magic from 5:15 to 6 p.m. and a concert by Charlie Katts from 6:15 to 7 p.m. Throughout the event, residents and guests will share refreshments and view classic cars while kids enjoy a bounce house.

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Heavy lifting And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. (John 12: 32 NRSV)

A Pasta Cook-Off for Family Promise of Knoxville brought out a host of volunteers, including Steve Krupski, in the blue shirt. Krupski and his wife, Jeanette, represent First Farragut United Methodist Church and have been part of Family Promise of Knoxville since its inception more than 10 years ago. In the front right is Mark Moreland, minister of missions and pastoral care at Central Baptist Church of Bearden. Photo submitted

Catching up with Family Promise: 10-year anniversary finds need still strong that soon gets old.” Family Promise of Knoxville is one of more than 195 affiliates of Family Promise Inc. The organization provides a way for families to stay together when they’ve lost everything, says Mary LeMense, director. In Knoxville, 47 churches and congregations are part of the network, and it is truly an interfaith effort. While some provide housing for the night, others bring in dinner and stay to fellowship with the families. Krupski, who is retired from Watts Bar Nuclear Facility, was a key player in establishing the ministry here and getting his own church involved. He and his wife, Jeanette, have been involved since the organization began under the name Interfaith Hospitality Ministry. “I’m very committed to the efforts of this organization because I firmly believe that

these families are kind of left out. They’re on the fringe.” Unlike shelters that separate men and women, Family Promise provides a way for the family to stay together. The average stay is 70 days, LeMense says, but the program can last for up to three months. Local congregations have been taking turns providing beds for families in distress for the past 10 years. Families spend seven nights at one church and then move to another. Church members stay with them during the night. During the day, the families move to the Family Promise Day Center on Middlebrook Pike, where laundry and shower facilities are provided. Those who are not working or in school spend their days at the center, where they can take classes in basic life skills. “It’s at the center that we assist them with making the proper housing applications

that picture, considering the concept of “lifting up” when it dawned on me that our job as Christians is exactly that: to “lift up” Christ. Not physically, but metaphorically. And not only with our mouths. We are called to live our lives in such a way that Christ is lifted up. We are to shine (in his reflected glory) so that all the world can look at us and see Christ. We are to be the body of Christ in the world. My friends, we can’t do that alone. We need each other, because together, we are smarter and better and richer and holier than any one of us can be alone. Lift Christ up by how you live and love and work in this world!

Goodwill reigns at rainy mass By Nancy Anderson

Heavy rains didn’t dampen the spirit at All Saints Catholic Church as over 1,200 congregants gathered on the front lawn for an outdoor mass Sunday, Aug. 23. In deference to the weather, Father Michael Woods gave an abbreviated message of thanks, goodwill and hope for a blessed year to come as he stood beneath a rain-soaked umbrella. Woods holds the outdoor mass, rain or shine, as the culmination of a weeklong church event meant to bring seven Catholic communities together as one Parish. This year’s event was a week of prayer when church members gathered before the Blessed Sacrament in one-hour increments 24 hours a day for seven days to pray for the church and the community at large.

At the Back to School Bash at Faith Promise Church of Hardin Valley, Anna Grindall puts her muscle into giving the junk car a good bashing. Photos by Justin Acuff

“We invited people to come to pray before the Blessed Sacrament where Jesus is present. We had over 1,000 people who came to pray for the needs of All Saints Parish for the coming year,” said Woods. “The mass is something I do every year, but attendance was dwindling. I made a special appeal for people to come, and there were more people here this year than last year.” Everyone showed amazing acceptance of the rain, and it was a grace-filled experience. “There was a tremendous atmosphere of community and togetherness at the mass and the meal afterward. Of course, some people went home, but the lines were still long. “It was a simple family day of love, laughter and community.”

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and identifying what caused the homelessness in the first place so we can overcome that barrier and provide education,” LeMense says. “We facilitate their job search. Someone exiting the program successfully means they’ve found housing with a one-year lease.” Even with 19 churches providing beds, there is a waiting list. “We have at least 22 families on the waiting list. We need several more congregations to join with us as hosts for our families, and then we’ll be able to assist eight families at a time instead of four.” LeMense says Family Promise needs help not only Father Michael Woods delivers a message of goodwill and with housing and dinners hope at an outdoor mass held at All Saints Catholic Church but also at the day center. Sunday, Aug. 23. Photo submitted “Like a ‘normal’ household, we are constantly running out of much-needed supplies,” she says. Info: 584-2822 or director@fa mi ly promisek nox ville.org.

Bashing good time at Faith Promise When Faith Promise Church of Hardin Valley says it’s having a Back to School BASH, take it literally. The church provided a junker car and sledgehammer for middle school-age students to hammer out any frustration at summer being over. It was the first schoolyear meeting of the church’s regular Wednesday night services for high school and middle school students. The church regularly welcomes 500 to 600 middle and high school kids for fun, conversation and worship on Wednesday nights. The rain didn’t seem to deter the car bashing, but for those who didn’t want to bash – or get wet – there was plenty to do under shelter at the carnival-style party. Once the worship service started, the lights glowed and strobed, and the music had the students in full praise, song and crowdsurfing mode!

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By Carolyn Evans While church members are safely tucked into their own beds at night, other families are bedding down in rooms used for Sunday school and worship at the church down the street. Why? Because they’ve lost their homes, says Steve Krupski, who helped bring an organization to Knoxville 10 years ago to help families in need. Krupski is a member of First Farragut United Methodist Church, one of 19 host congregations that provide temporary housing through Family Promise of Knoxville. “Many families live one paycheck away from losing homes,” said Krupski, “and then something happens – an illness, an injury or the loss of a job. They don’t have anything to fall back on and quickly get into a situation where they lose their home. Then they live with a friend or relative for a while, but

I was carried to church when I was two weeks old, and mostly, have been there ever since. There are advantages and disadvantages. At a young age, we learn with our limited understanding. If we never re-think or re-consider our youthful understandings, we don’t grow in the faith. So, I was startled on a recent Sunday morning to realize that to be “lifted up” could have various meanings. There is the literal interpretation that witnesses of the crucifi xion saw in painful clarity. Jesus was lifted up on a cross, and the purpose of that elevation was torture, agony, and a slow death at the hands of the Roman soldiers, who were – to be fair – only doing their duty. But there is another way in which Jesus can be lifted up. The small, country church where I worship these days has a picture of the Christ above the pulpit. I was looking at

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Conner Gable, Devin Uyhazy, Jon McColl, Austin Holbrook and (back) Jake Shafer can’t contain their excitement as their favorite songs are played.

If you’re happy and you know it … Chaperones Tylor Hill, Kristina Sims, coach Tracy Eaton, Jeanni Daugherty, Ara Langford and Zelda Dotson “raise the roof” at the Karns Middle School dance held Aug. 21. This year’s sixth-grade class is the biggest yet for KMS. Photos by Nancy

Sixth-graders Lilliann Gashe and Emily Shaver are all smiles at their first school dance. The PTSA raised about $3,500 with the event.

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Also new at Karns Elementary Speech language pathologist Debbie Smith, speech language pathologist Christina Mandaleris, instructional coach Valerie Bronson and social worker Courtney Courtney are new additions to the staff at Karns Elementary School this year.

Blessing the school year Knoxville lle Catholic High School welcomed Bishop Richard Stika for the official start of the school year, the Mass of the Holy Spirit. Bishop Stika visits annually for the event and to visit and bless as many classrooms as time allows. KCHS seniors Tim McCready and Connor Wike sing in the Irish Ensemble and performed during the bishop’s visit. “It means a lot to us for

th he bishop bi to come visit and the take his time to bless the school,” said McCready. “It’s cool of him to show his respect,” agreed Wike. “People say children are the church of the future, but they’re the church of today,” said Stika. “I enjoy visiting with young adults very much, and I would tell them to believe in themselves Knoxville Catholic High School seniors Tim McCready and Conand to behave,” he said with nor Wike visit with Bishop Richard Stika before the annual Mass a smile. “I would tell the of the Holy Spirit officially kicks off the school year. Photos by S. Barrett adults that, too.”

Sarah Brengle: Same school, new role Sarah Brengle finished last school year as assistant principal of Ball Camp Elementary School. She welcomed students back from summer vacation as principal. “I already knew lots of folks, so that has helped with the transition,” said B r e n gle. The toug he st part, she Brengle said, has been finding a balance between tasks. “It’s been a challenge, but not a surprise.” Prior to her duties at Ball Camp, Brengle was at Hardin Valley and Karns elementary schools, where she taught fifth grade. “In that role, I knew 27 kids really well. Now,

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as principal, I try hard to get to know 600 of them. As a teacher, I just looked at my classroom. But now I look at the bigger picture.” With a second-grader already at Ball Camp Elementary, Brengle will have a kindergartner beginning next school year. In addition to principal, she is a “dance mom and a soccer mom.” “I want students to know their teachers love them. We have exciting things planned this year, and we want to make sure our students have what they need to be successful.”

New faces at Sequoyah Elementary Sequoyah Elementary School welcomes two new faces to the classrooms this school year. Rachel Reyes will teach first grade after transferring from Lonsdale Elementary School. This is her 12th year teaching, and she says she enjoys her students’ excitement and enthusiasm the most. “I like connecting with what’s important to them,” she said. Reyes baked a lot with her students when she taught fourth grade. She saw one of her students when they were

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in the eighth grade, and the student asked her if she was still cooking in her classroom. “Seeing that student inspired me to write a grant for a countertop oven for my classroom,” said Reyes.

“I want to do things with my students that they can go home and talk with their families about.” Lindsey Price is teaching special education this year, her sixth year with Knox County Schools. Previously, she was a teaching assistant at Ridgedale Alternative School and Knoxville Adaptive Education Center. “I love watching kids develop and learn,” said Price. “I love helping people, and I’ve always loved children. I started babysitting when I was 11 years old. I can’t see myself doing anything else.”

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Chamique Holdsclaw in “Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw,” which will play at the Knoxville Film Festival

Holdsclaw using documentary as outreach By Betsy Bet etsy s Pickle Pic icklle ickl From tth F the h courts t off h her high school in New York to the University of Tennessee to the WNBA, Chamique Holdsclaw built excitement about basketball. Now she’s trying to build understanding about mental illness – through movie theaters. “Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw” will play on two screens at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Knoxville Film Festival at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8. Holdsclaw plans to attend the screenings. Holdsclaw’s stellar career under coach Pat Summitt led to her pro career, beginning with the WNBA’s Washington Mystics. Her career seemed destined for brilliance, but cracks in her tough-as-nails demeanor began to break open after the death of the grandmother who raised her. Holdsclaw was diagnosed with clinical depression and later with bipolar disorder II. Although mental illness derailed her basketball career, she welcomes the path her life has taken. “I’ve been doing mental health advocacy work since 2007,” Holdsclaw says by phone from Atlanta, where she makes her home. “I am in a position to really help people with my story.

““It It’s It ’s very very er y humbling, humbl h bliing bl ng ng, g b bu ut “It’s but also also I know k no now w that that it it is what wha hatt I am supposed to be doing. I could be coaching. I could be doing a number of things. But I am most passionate about this because I know how it’s affected me.” Documentary filmmaker Rick Goldsmith read a New York Times article about Holdsclaw and became intrigued by her story. Coincidentally, he was an old friend of her manager, Lon Babby. “He was drawn to how candid I was,” says Holdsclaw. She still needed to be convinced that a documentary was a good idea. “I had to see what the direction was.” Once she trusted Goldsmith, the project was on. Holdsclaw saw that the film could mesh with her advocacy work. “I felt like it was one of my purposes to move forth and use my platform to draw people so they can understand what people struggling with this illness go through,” she says. “The things that I was dealing with emotionally – the highs and the lows – it’s been an emotional rollercoaster ride. To see that on film and hit these different festivals and to watch it over and over, I started to see growth; I started to see different parts of me.

“It was a real eye-opener. I watch it now, and I’m like, wow, even at my weakest I was so strong. There was a strength about me. I think it has empowered me like it has empowered some others.” She’s grateful for two strong women she’s had in her life: her grandmother June and Summitt. “My grandmother said, ‘I trust this woman (Summitt). You’re going to play for the best, and you’re going to get your degree.’ Coach Summitt said, ‘You’re going to meet some amazing people, and you’re going to have a sisterhood that extends beyond the years

of you playing.’ I’ve got everything that both of them promised. “Me and Coach Summitt have always had a very close relationship. She’s always been very supportive of me, through everything. … She’s an amazing, amazing woman. I’m glad to have her in my life.” She has good memories of her college years. “Knoxville is a very familiar place to me. I always feel welcome; I feel loved. It was just the right choice. I came from New York City, and I’ve got a street on the University of Tennessee campus. I never envisioned that.”

The Arts & Culture Alliance will feature paintings and other works by local artist Emily Taylor beginning this First Friday, Sept. 4. Photo submitted

Conversations in paint By Carol Shane

The Arts & Culture Alliance of East Tennessee excels at showcasing notable artists in our region. This coming Friday will be no exception when the ACA presents its opening night for “Conversations: Portraits and Other Work” by Emily Taylor. Part of Knoxville’s monthly First Friday event, the show includes recent and former portraits and portrait-like paintings and drawings. As an artist, Taylor is intrigued by “the complex interaction and negotiation characteristic of both painting and human interaction.” Hence the title, “Conversations.” Taylor grew up in 1970s and ’80s New York City but eventually found her way to Knoxville “for school and life reasons,” she says. She holds an MFA in painting Opening in theaters Friday, “The Transporter Refueled” brings and an MA in art education Frank Martin back to the screen but with Ed Skrein (the original from the University of TenDaario Naharis in “Game of Thrones”) in the role instead of Ja- nessee. Some of her most popular son Statham. The special-ops guy turned extreme limo driver is forced into a revenge plot that has to do with a Russian crimi- works are her lively, colorful nal and human trafficking. Ray Stevenson co-stars. The action pet portraits. “There will be some dog portraits in the thriller is rated PG-13. show, almost entirely all of the same dog – mine!” says Taylor. “Most of the others were commissions.” Anyone interested in commemoratThe Clarence Brown The- of theater. atre opens the season with a “This production cele- ing a pet in oil is invited to farce, “The 39 Steps,” Sept. brates the film noir dramas view Taylor’s work and com9-27 on the CBT mainstage. of the 1930s and specifically mission a portrait. The popular, two-time Tony Alfred Hitchcock’s film of and Drama Desk Award- the same name,” said diwinner is packed with non- rector Kate Buckley. “But stop laughs, more than 100 it also honors the complex- preview performance will be zany characters played by a ity of the actor’s craft. The held Wednesday, Sept. 9; a cast of four, inventive stage- theatrical dance going on tech talk with the designers craft, handcuffs, missing behind our soundstage door will take place Sunday, Sept. fingers and even some good is zanily complex, requiring 13, following the matinee; old-fashioned romance! It’s inventiveness, dexterity and a talkback with the cast is fun for all ages and great for precision from all.” Sunday, Sept. 20, following anyone who loves the magic A “Pay What You Wish” the matinee; and the open-

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David Kortemeier, David Brian Alley, Katie Cunningham and Brian Gligor are actors in Hitchcock’s farce “The 39 Steps,” opening Sept. 9 at the Clarence Brown Theatre. Photo by Liz Aaron

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The opening reception features chocolate fondue from the Melting Pot, as well as hors d’oeuvres. There will be a jazz jam session in the Black Box Theatre hosted by Vance Thompson and Friends. And there will be a flamenco dance performance by Pasión Flamenco dancers from the Tennessee Conservatory of Fine Arts in West Knoxville. Yes, flamenco dance is alive and well in Knoxville. It’s taught by native Romanian Lucia Andronescu, and it really deserves its own feature story. Judging from the gorgeous women in festive costume and the guitar/cajon trio pictured on the website, it’s a spectacle not to be missed. Beautiful art, beautiful dance, great jazz and tasty treats all make for an outstanding First Friday. The opening reception for “Conversations: Portraits and Other Work” by Emily Taylor is from 5-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Pasión Flamenco performs at 6 p.m., and the jazz jam begins at 7 p.m. The art exhibition will be on view through Sept. 25. Info: knoxalliance.com or 5237543. Send story suggestions to news@ shoppernewsnow.com.

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Envision Art Gallery: a dream come true

Opportunities to volunteer By Bonny C. Millard The fledgling organization Volu n t e e r K nox v ille is hosting an expo on Sept. 9 to bring together nonprofit organizations Brownfield and potential volunteers. Alex Brownfield, executive director of the organization, spoke to the Rotary Club of Farragut about the upcoming expo and about Volunteer Knoxville’s growth since its launch last year. The club met at Costco Wholesale, where Rotarian Todd Galanti is warehouse manager. “We just celebrated our first birthday in June,” said Brownfield. “We’re so proud of the progress that we’ve (made) this far. A Leadership Knoxville committee created Volunteer Knoxville to celebrate LK’s 30th anniversary. Volunteer Knoxville is one of 250 HandsOn Volunteer Action Centers internationally, Brownfield said. Next Wednesday’s expo will offer information about many nonprofits and volunteer opportunities. “This is a first annual event in partnership with Leadership Knoxville and United Way of Greater Knoxville and the University of Tennessee,” said Brownfield. “The Thompson-Boling Arena will have more than 50 nonprofit organizations on

Sept. 9 from noon to 6 p.m. This is a real fun way (for people) to meet and talk face to face with the organizations that are hosting their volunteer experiences on volunteerknoxville.org.” Volunteer Knoxville partners with 130 nonprofits – almost double the number since the beginning of the year. Those partner organizations and their volunteer opportunities are listed on the website. “If you have youth in your family, this is a great opportunity for folks to also find out about internships and other ways that they can serve,” Brownfield said. Volunteer Knoxville provides a central location to make connections and also provides support for the organizations. “We serve as the convener of those nonprofits,” she said. “We bring together volunteer coordinators every month to talk about best practices, how to work with volunteers and all aspects of volunteer management.” Info: volunteerknoxville. org

I-640 exit update Fountain City Business and Professional Association will host the Tennessee Department of Transportation to discuss a project underway to redesign the intersection of Broadway and I-640. The meeting is at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Virginia College. Lunch is $10, and the public is invited.

By Anne Hart Artist Kay List is finally living her dream, and she is joyfully sharing the adventure with others at her new Envision Art Gallery in the heart of the Bearden Art District. The cute cottage at 4050 Sutherland Ave., at the corner of Sutherland and Carr Street, has been freshened throughout with gleaming white walls and woodwork – the perfect complement to the lovely old hardwood floors. Parking is conveniently located behind the gallery. While Envision has been open to the public since May, the gallery’s first major art show will be Sept. 5-30 when List opens the doors to the talented artist members of the Tennessee Art Association for a show titled “The Love of Art.” The opening reception will be 5-8 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 5, and will offer refreshments, wine, live music and an opportunity to chat with the artists whose work is on display and to visit with friends and neighbors. List says the show will feature “a wonderful selection of subject matter, media and styles.” Also available will be art note cards and both framed and unframed prints. An accomplished artist herself, List says her love of creating art began when she was handed her first set of crayons as a child. As a teenager, she worked mainly in pencil, charcoal and pastels, taking art classes throughout high school. A resident of California, she continued her art studies at Santa Ana Junior College, adding training in oils, ink washes, watercolors and mixed media to her artist’s

Kay List with one of her paintings of Tennessee’s historic barns. Photos by A. Hart tool box. List says the dream of owning her own gallery began when she was in college, “but I wondered if I could turn out consistently good work – consistent enough that I could fill a gallery with my work.” Married soon after graduation, she and husband Skip had two children, but she never gave up painting, and she always kept alive the dream of someday becoming a gallery owner. In 1993, after the children were grown, Kay and Skip moved from California to Grainger County. List, whose many collections of her oil paintings include landscapes as well as historic old barns, smiles when she says, “We moved here for the green, but we had to take the rain with it.” After a move to Kingston in Roane County, in 2010 the Lists finally settled in West Knox County, and her dream moved still closer to reality as she continued painting.

An ethereal painting by artist Kay List. Last November, Jim Wells, owner of Jim Wells Productions, “a phenomenal printmaker,” List says, told her he knew of a property that might be for sale. It was the cottage on Sutherland Avenue that artist Larry Cole had been using as a studio and gallery. The two artists met, and within a few months List had bought the property and begun renovations.

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We could say “and the rest is history,” but that isn’t the case. List has only begun. She has big dreams for her gallery and how it might help other local fine artists showcase and sell their work, including a major show scheduled for the holiday shopping season. But that’s a story for another day. Info: kaylistart.com or 438-4152.

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Regan and Allie Dunn, Ashley and Olivia Ellison, Ruthie and Tinsley Knight

Soccer trifecta! By Danielle Taylor At GCA this fall, girls’ soccer is a family affair as not one, not two, but THREE sets of sisters can be found on the team’s roster. Holding six of the team’s spots this year are Tinsley and Ruthie Knight, Regan and Allie Dunn, and Ashley and Olivia Ellison. Led by Coach Donnie Green, the team, currently 2-0, deﬁnitely recognizes the unique circumstances it has inherited. “I’m honored and blessed to be able to be part of something that is extremely rare, and we may be the only team in the state in any sport to say that,” Green said. With experience beginning in youth soccer for one set of sisters and this being the ﬁrst year for another set, the addi-

tion of these young women to the roster brings a new level of interest for coach Green. “Each set of sisters is different in their own way, which makes it even more exciting for me,” Green says. So how do these sisters’ unique relationships translate to the soccer field? You might be surprised by their responses. “Tinsley is always encouraging towards me on and off the soccer field. She has taught me to always try my best and never give up even when someone gets by me,” says Ruthie. “Ruthie has great ball skills and is super aggressive. She has taught me to fight for the ball,” says Tinsley. Because of the relationship between each set of sisters, being on the same team means

more than just being teammates; there are life applications as well. “Regan has inﬂuenced me to be a leader, play with passion, and persevere through hard games, and even through life,” says Allie. “I have always wanted to be like her.” “We work really well together on the ﬁeld and we spend a lot of time together doing what we love. We try to be encouraging and keep a good attitude even during tough games,” Regan says. But Grace Christian Academy is more than just a private school; it’s a private Christian school. With that comes even more expectations for these athletes. Sisters Ashley and Olivia share a common goal in regards to their representation of GCA.

“We always try and encourage others and follow Colossians 3:23, which says, ‘Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not for men.’ Even though we are very

competitive, we always try and show love to our teammates as well as opponents.” For GCA, the girls’ soccer team is always a great program. But with the addition of these three sets of sisters, it’s certain to make for a special season. However, coach Green understands how limited this opportunity is for him as a coach. “Since two are seniors, this dream will not be possible next year. So I know that this fall will be very special for me and a season that I will surely remember.” To follow the progress of the GCA Rams girls’ soccer team, please visit the Grace Christian Academy website at www. gcarams.org/athletics.

The Pursuit of Excellence As we enter a new school year at Grace Christian AcadExcellence. The word im- emy, we are embracing our mediately creates a picture school year theme, BE EXCELin the reader’s mind -crossing the finish line first, receiving the highest GPA, being named to a prestigious position, or successfully completing a project with a team. Each of these outcomes is a final destination or the ending to a pathway. I LENT. As Christ-followers, we would say that excellence is should pursue excellence in all best described as what happens we do, all the time. As 1 Coralong the path, instead of the inthians 10:31 reminds us, “So ending point. whether you eat or drink, or

By Alisha Hinton

Head of Lower/Middle School

whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.” This pursuit is our outward expression of love for Christ while utilizing the gifts He’s given us as educators. Excellence is found in the small details, the behind-thescenes moments, the preparation for the day’s lessons. At GCA, we are focusing on the details within our classroom instruction, personal relationships, and professional practice to ensure that our teaching is done in a way that brings glory to God and prepares our

students for the academic and professional challenges which lie ahead. As a team of educators at GCA, we are committed to making each part of the educational and spiritual development process the best it can be for our students. Each teacher plays an important role in developing the best learning opportunities available and fostering a Christ-centered relationship with each student. At the heart of GCA is our mission to be excellent as we lead students to Christ, build up their knowledge in Him, and

equip students to serve Him as educated disciples. As I enter my ﬁrst semester as the new Head of Lower/ Middle School, it is my honor to serve with a faculty and staff at GCA who truly believe in honoring God with their gifts. This year will bring with it many great outcomes, but it’s the small details, the dayto-day grind and preparation done with excellence at the core, which will bring about outstanding outcomes for our students. Excellence is in the details! BE EXCELLENT!

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