KARNS/HARDIN VALLEY
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VOL. 6 NO. 44
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October 29, 2012
Rowing is growing
Calling all Knox County principals, teachers, students, supervisors and superintendents: Do you have a miracle maker at your school? Know somebody in the system whose good work deserves to be highlighted? Nominate them as a candidate for our ongoing Miracle Maker series by sending an email to news@ ShopperNewsNow.com.
IN THIS ISSUE
Coffee Break
“Batman” aka Dave Nance will be giving candy to costumed kids from 3-9 p.m. on Halloween at the new Al’s Market at 6335 W. Emory Road north of the Butler farm, site of the former Duke and Dutchess Cleaners. “We all love kids you know,” Dave said. “So we want to help make Halloween fun for them.” Get to know Dave over a Coffee Break.
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Haunted house? Lori Tucker led the way into the employee break rooms on the third floor of Greystone, the stately Victorian mansion that houses WATE-TV. It was designed and built in 1885 by Civil War veteran/ U.S. Attorney/coal baron/ landholder Major Eldad Cicero Camp, who for a time used the upper floor as Camp’s Home for Friendless Women. “This is where most of us who work at night don’t come,” Tucker said. “It gives us the heebie-jeebies.”
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See Betty Bean’s story on page A-6
Basketball time! Cuonzo Martin and Marvin West and several players and possibly you anticipate solid improvement in Tennessee basketball this winter. Those who do national polls and predictions are not convinced.
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Hardin Valley Academy student and team co-captain Peyton Jollay and Oak Ridge High student Lloyd Adler-Lombardi row with the Atomic Rowers. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
By Theresa Edwards Rowing is growing as a popular sport among students at Hardin Valley Academy, with about a dozen students rowing with the Atomic Rowers. “It is an incredible sport that has rounded Peyton in so many ways and brought him to the dearest friends of his life,” said the team captain’s mom, Stacy Jollay. “They work hard, a minimum of five to six days a week, while taking advanced high school and college-level courses. They are smart, ambitious, humorous, hard-work-
Sprouts of success Idea grows into calling for teenager By Suzanne Foree Neal As a volunteer at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital one summer, Alexandra Christopoulos, 16, was haunted by the newborn babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome, a condition of newborns whose mothers have taken certain drugs, particularly opioids, while pregnant. “Their first breath begins a withdrawal from drugs,” says Alexandra, who is a junior at Hardin Valley Academy. “They cry constantly, have high temperatures, seizures and vomiting. Withdrawal for an adult is a hard process; just imagine what a baby goes through. They are in pain.” One source of comfort is for the babies to be swaddled in blankets. “You have to be 18 to swaddle the babies, and I can’t swaddle them yet,” says Alexandra. So the enterprising youth looked for another way to help and came up with Project BeanSprout. The
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ing kids with a huge love for each other and their team. “They travel to several states every year, from Boston to Florida to do what they love to do – row,” she said. Kate Abernathy is the men’s varsity coach. She rowed for UT as a student majoring in communications. “What I love about rowing, particularly for young athletes, is that it is such a team sport. It is the HVA co-captain Samuel Shadwell and Oak Ridge student John Hardy row. most collaborative sport in the enThe rowers participated in the Chattanooga Saturday, Nov. 3, in tire world. It’s not about one person, it’s about putting work in so every- Secret City Head Race in Oak the second largest regatta in the body can achieve one goal,” she said. Ridge on Oct. 27. They will race in country, “The Head of the Hooch.”
name came from brainstorming with her mother. Alexandra’s parents are Xrisanthe and Christos Christopoulos. Alexandra started Project BeanSprout as part of working on her Gold Award for the Girl Scouts. “Neonatal abstinence syndrome is a national problem, but has reached epidemic levels in East Tennessee.” The organization’s goal is to educate the community, especially pregnant women, about the dangers of taking drugs during pregnancy. Alexandra quotes statistics that say that every 48 hours, a baby is admitted to Children’s Hospital with NAS. NAS babies usually stay longer in the hospital than other newborns and get special attention in the hospital’s intensive care unit. Sometimes the hospital will have a shortage of blankets to swaddle the babies, and that was where Alexandra
Sen. Lamar Alexander meets with Alexandra Christopoulos to discuss the problems of narcotic abuse and neonatal abstinence syndrome. Alexandra, a junior at Hardin Valley Academy, began an organization call Project BeanSprout to bring attention to the problem. Photos submitted thought Project BeanSprout ers and burp cloths from donatcould do the most good. ed materials, many sewn by a Now a legion of volunteers helps create blankets, crib linTo page A-3
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