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BUZZ Lonsdale parade The annual Lonsdale Homecoming Parade will step off at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at 2700 Texas Ave. Mayor Madeline Rogero is grand marshal.

Digging dirt The Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, which was once Howell Nurseries, is the oldest continually running business in Tennessee and is now working to preserve the region’s plant life.

“In your lifetime, there will be wars fought about food and water,” Robert Hodge, the director of the Center for Urban Agriculture told Shopper News interns.

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Happy at

Read the interns’ stories on page 6

Four Way

Talking fire D. J. Corcoran’s background as a former member of the local media, combined with his long-time experience as a firefighter, gives him the perfect perspective for his current project – assembling the history of the Knoxville Fire Department (KFD).

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Read Anne Hart on page 8

Touching STEM Attention, all young brainiacs and your families!

Now’s your chance to explore STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) in a fun, lively environment made just for you!

This weekend, The Muse Knoxville presents “Robotics Revolution” at Chilhowee Park.

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the food. This reporter walked away with a tasty burger and fries for just $5.29. Hard to beat.

“End of the Ride” is the slogan for Cardin’s with a subtext: “Serving you since 1959.” The business at 8529 Asheville Highway was founded by Pauline and the late W. H. Cardin, according to a 2010 Metro Pulse story by Betty Bean.

Their daughter, Wilma Cardin,

was restaurant manager then, and her daughter, Melinda Roberts, ran the breakfast shift.

At-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas are creating monthly events at various eating establishments across the county. Moving from west to east, they’ve been at Powell, Halls, Gibbs and now Carter. At least these are the ones I’ve visited, eat-

ing at Half Time Pizza, E.B.’s Eats & Treats, Henry’s Deli and now Cardin’s.

Although Cardin’s has a sheltered, fan-cooled picnic area, most customers were eating in their vehicles, making it tough to start a conversation. We just waved to folks and kept talking among ourTo page 3

New Life hosts 2-day VBS

By Ruth White

Among the citizens who showed up for the Powell edition of Ed and Bob Show (i.e. the traveling constituent meeting road show put on by county commissioners-at-large Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas) was Chuck Ward, the “Fix it, Flip it or Skip it” radio show guy. Brantley introduced Ward to the crowd as a “probable” county commission candidate from District 9 next year.

Read Betty Bean on page 5

Tripping along Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo reprise their iconic roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold, as son Rusty, now grown, takes his family on (you know it) “Vacation.”

Rusty plans to recreate the magic of his childhood with an epic road trip in a rental car with a mind of its own.

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By Sandra Clark County Commissioner Dave Wright said just one constituent had come to talk with county officials at the monthly Ed and Bob road show held last week at Cardin’s Drive-In at Four Way in East Knox County.

“Everybody’s happy,” said Wright.

Folks certainly were happy with

Read Carol Shane on page 7

Flipping Chuck

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Carhops Codie Kiestler and Destiny Key pose with county commissioners Bob Thomas, Ed Brantley and Dave Wright outside the iconic Cardin’s Drive-In. Photo by S. Clark

Read Betsy Pickle on page 7

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New Life United Methodist Church has hosted Vacation Bible School in a two-day event for the past four years and the mini session works great for the small but growing church.

The church hosted a beach bash on a Friday night and Saturday morning and used Bible stories, games, songs and crafts to help children dive deep into God’s word.

Hosting VBS for two days allows parents to be more involved and learn alongside their children.

New Life United Methodist Church is located at 7921 Millertown Pike.

Info: 546-5153.

Josh Renfro enjoys an ice cream cone Kristyn Marie (center) and Chucky the puppet chat with children during VBS. during snack time at Vacation Bible Pictured with Marie are Caroline O’Neal, Lilianne O’Neal and Candace Floyd.

School at New Life United Methodist Chucky said that he enjoyed being able to talk with friends during VBS. Church. Photos by Ruth White

Mass shootings are not unique

By Bill Dockery Monday marked the seventh anniversary of the shootings at my church, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist on Kingston Pike. Two persons were killed and seven more wounded at a Sunday morning children’s service. An Army veteran and longtime East Tennessean is now serving life without parole for those deaths, which he confessed were generated by his hatred of liberals and gays.

Tragedies like the one at my church have become commonplace, most recently in a Charleston church, a Chattanooga strip mall and a Louisiana theater. Each

community that is hit experiences the event as a one-off tragedy – the deaths of innocent individuals, the acts of personal heroism, the gore, the physical and emotional suffering, the perpetrator driven by derangement or ideology or whatever, the public acts of mourning and above all the horror that it could happen “here” (and not somewhere else in the bigger America that – we assume – is more violent than our own peaceable community).

I was intimately involved with the response and recovery at TVUUC, handling media relations locally and nationally for the first hours, then days, then weeks, then

months following our tragedy.

Five years after the fact I was still taking media calls about similar events. And as the list of tragedies has lengthened on a weekly and daily basis, I’ve noticed something. There is nothing one-off about these occurrences.

The individual stitches may vary a bit, but they fit into an overall tapestry of violence and terror and heroism that furnishes the background before which all Americans go about our daily lives. We’re learning how to read the mass-murder narrative, and we even relish to an extent the details – the extravagant violence, the acts of unanticipated

courage, even the arguments about the roots of these kinds of events.

These shootings have become a true reality show, unscripted, with real blood and real hurt and poignantly real death.

One other thing I’ve learned: After responding professionally to our tragedy and the one that followed that and the next (et cetera to the nth power), I’m beginning to experience a slo-mo case of PTSD, not from exposure to violence in my church (as a police photographer I’d seen plenty of that) but from the way we bend our words of sorrow To page 3

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Life gets better every day Rogers finds Knoxville surgeon for life-changing procedure Moments of joy can come from the strangest of circumstances. Lori Rogers’ laundry is a perfect example.

She was going about the mundane task of folding clothes when she stopped to look at a pair of her shorts. She held them up, and that’s when she got that little burst of happiness.

“Never in my lifetime did I think I would be wearing something this small,” Rogers says.

Rogers has lost about a 100 pounds since weight loss surgery performed by board certi ed surgeon Jonathan Ray, MD. Ray and Mark Colquitt, MD, perform weight loss procedures at the Center for Bariatric Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

“It’s not about the size that I’m wearing,” Rogers explains, “but it’s about realizing where I was at, how far I’ve come, and how much better I feel because I’ve lost so much weight.”

Rogers has indeed come a long way in her weight loss journey, and she came a long way to get started. Her home is in Cleveland, Tenn., but her insurance would only cover weight loss procedures performed by a few providers in Knoxville.

Knoxville was a place where her weight had devastated her in the past. She has vivid and not-too-happy memories from the time she landed a position as an usher for the University of Tennessee’s football program.

“I’m a big UT fan, and I was really excited about getting a chance to go up there and work,” Rogers says. “I ushered about half the season, but I had to stand for ve hours at each game, and my feet would hurt so bad that I would be almost in tears on the drive back to Cleveland.”

Rogers came to terms with the fact that it wasn’t a problem that could be solved by changing shoes. There was no denying the real source of her pain and exhaustion.

“I knew it was my weight. I had to walk up lots of steps in the stadium, and I would be out of breath,” she says. “My heart would just race rapidly as I went back and forth through the stadium. That was one of the big things that helped me decide I had to do something.”

The weight rst began piling on, she says, with pregnancy and the birth of her children. She had always considered herself an average-sized person, so when her weight went above average and stayed

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there it was a problem inside and out.

First, it was her self-esteem that suffered, because she was unhappy with the way she looked.

Then the weight began to take its toll physically.

Rogers’ family loves to be outdoors, and she began to notice that she couldn’t enjoy activities like hiking or even playing in the yard. Her blood pressure and cholesterol worsened. Then there was the back pain, and the pain in her feet.

“I tried every kind of diet,” Rogers says. “I might lose a little bit of weight, but then I would gain it right back.”

Weighing 223 pounds at a height of ve feet and three inches, she took stock of her life, and where it was going. “I’ve got to do something,” she said to herself at

Lori Rogers’ transformation from before weight g. Thanks to Dr. loss surgery to after is astonishing. ariatric Surgery Jonathan Ray of the Center for Bariatric ost close to one at Fort Sanders Regional, she has lost 100 pounds.

the time, “or I’m just going to die obese.”

A good friend who was also planning to have weight loss surgery invited Rogers to go along for a visit to Dr. Ray. Rogers had a chance to see rsthand how Dr. Ray and his staff interacted with patients, and something clicked. She knew they would give her both the expertise and the personal care she needed.

“I absolutely fell in love with Dr. Ray and his staff,” Rogers says. “They were super amazing.”

She knew she had made the right choice from the rst time she met with Dr. Ray. “He gave me all the different options, everyone was so encouraging,” Rogers says.

“They are really concerned about you as a person.”

After hearing all the information, then taking some time to think and pray about it, Rogers says she opted for the gastric sleeve procedure in February, 2013.

“Since that day, things have gone for the better, every day,” Rogers says. “I went from a size 22 pants to a size ve or smaller, and from a size 2XL to a size small or medium.”

Rogers only mentions those sizes to measure the change for people who want to know. The best part of the transformation for her has been from the inside out.

“I’m healthy now, I don’t take blood pressure medicine anymore, and I’m down to one pill a day on my heart medicine instead of three,” Rogers says happily. “I can go hiking, I can get outside and play with my kids, I can stand on my feet, and I feel so much better about myself.”

She’s also able to take on Neyland Stadium, walking the steps from the bottom to the top, “and I still have breath in my lungs when I get to the top – I don’t feel like I’m going to pass out!”

Rogers advises other who are struggling the way she was to get the facts about medical procedures that can help. She realizes that the decision to undergo weight loss surgery is a very personal one. It certainly was for her. But she came to realize that living with obesity put her at greater risk than surgery ever would.

“Dr. Ray is awesome, and I would recommend him as one of the best in the United States!” she says. “I highly recommend weight loss surgery, and I would do it over again.”

The ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ of bariatric surgery Obesity has become a signi cant national health issue. Our society is overweight.

The foods we eat are often poor choices and can lead to obesity.

Morbid obesity, de ned as having a BMI over 35 and being at risk for obesity-related health issues, is closely correlated with serious medical conditions including heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

The Fort Sanders Center for Bariatric Surgery is the answer to the prayers of many who battle obesity and its accompanying issues. Bariatric surgeons Dr. Mark Colquitt and Dr. Jonathan Ray have helped more than 2,200 patients lose close to 200,000 pounds through a combination of surgical, spiritual and emotional support.

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tine is rerouted to the pouch; and sleeve gastrectomy, which removes a portion of the stomach and creates a narrower digestive tube. “The safety of bariatric surgery has improved greatly,” Dr. Colquitt said.

“Today, the surgical risk of the procedure is comparable to having a gallbladder removed.” He said in most instances, the patient goes home within 24 hours after surgery.

“But in order for bariatric surgery to succeed, people have to commit to making the lifestyle changes to support the choice,” Dr. Colquitt said. Dr. Ray added, “Our team will be there for the patient before and after the procedure. We can get them to the door, but they have to walk through it.”

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Richard “Bud� Armstrong was happy to entertain with stories of his high school adventures at Cardin’s. Bud is running for re-election as county law director in 2016. His campaign pace a year out makes it unlikely that someone will topple him.

Dave Wright was grinning from ear to ear, and it’s hard to begrudge him that. After decades of bickering and worse, District 8 has secured funding for two new schools during Wright’s tenure on the commission.

Jim Lees and Vivian Chance, longtime friends, at the Noon- Joe Hall with wife Alma Hall at post-recital luncheon day Organ and Piano Recital held at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral.

Sidey steps down at St. John’s Cathedral

Shopper-News intern Amanda McDonald at the Taj Mahal with father Tim and brother Spencer

My summer adventure Editor’s Note: Intern Amanda McDonald joined us July 14 after a two-week hiatus for an exciting trip overseas. Here is Amanda’s report of her travels.

Recently, I traveled to London and India with my dad and my brother. Our

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flight from North Carolina to London lasted almost nine hours! During the flight I could hear British people talking behind us, which made me eagerly anticipate our arrival.

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Carter Elementary School and the soon-to-be-built Gibbs Middle School are testaments to his tenacity.

School board chair Mike McMillan arrived as I was leaving. He waved to everybody. School board members and judges are not term-limited. Missing were the green-shirted advocates for Carter Elementary and the pale blue shirts of Gibbs Middle.

It was just a burger-eating bunch of East Knox Countians watching from their cars as politicians shook hands with each other.

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Organist Charles Parham and pianist Richard Sidey following the concert. Sidey recently retired as precentor after 50 years at the church in various capacities. He served with three rectors and two deans and their associates, including: the Rev. Tracy H Lamar Jr., the Rev. Frank Cerveny (now bishop), the Rev. Daniel P. Matthews, Dean James L. Sanders and Dean John C. Ross. Photos by Nancy Anderson

By Amanda McDonald

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a unique experience of London. It was tough adjusting to the five-hour time difference during the week we were there.

We were going to travel to Paris as well, but our train rides were canceled due to ongoing labor strikes in France. After London, we

and anger and condolence and gratitude around violent events that are truly “needless� and “senseless.�

Again and again we try to give redemptive meaning to that abyss so that we won’t be sucked into it, but when you’ve heard it so many took a plane to New Delhi, times, the explanations beIndia; we then traveled gin to lose their meaning.

Yet the events keep comthree hours by car to Agra, where we saw the Taj Mahal. ing because we do not have We flew out the next day the political will to rein in to Hyderabad, where the time difference from KnoxHospital Conference Room ville was 9.5 hours ahead. at UT Medical Center. Hosted It was like something I had by the UT Medical Center’s never seen before! There Healthy Living Kitchen team. were lots of homeless dogs Cost: $30. Info/registration: everywhere, wild monkeys, 305-6970 or www.utmedicalcows walking in the street, center.org/HLK. a family of five riding on ■Knox County Health Deone motorcycle, children partment will offer extended walking through the streets hours for back-to-school vacselling toys, everyone honkcinations at the following loing their horns, and nobody cations: Travel and Immunization Clinic, 140 Dameron Ave., paying attention to the traf215-5071; West Clinic, 1028 fic rules.

Old Cedar Bluff Road, 215We stayed in Hyderabad 5950; and Teague Clinic, 405 for close to a week, and I Dante School Road, 215-5500. feel that it was a good expeExtended hours are 8 a.m.rience; however, I was glad 5:30 p.m. Monday through to get back home.

Friday through Aug. 7.

After seven separate airplane trips and being gone â– UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meeting, 5-6:30 from home for 16 days, we p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, UT Hosfinally made our way back pice office, 2270 Sutherland to Knoxville! I was very Ave. A light supper is served. lucky to get to go on this trip Info/reservation: Brenda around the world and exFletcher, 544-6277. perience the different cultures. My travel to England and India has made me feel very grateful for where I live and all that I have in life.

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New Providence Presbyterian Church, 703 W. Broadway, Maryville. Hours: 3:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays through Aug. 29.

First Baptist Church, 11621 Chapman Highway. Hours: 8 a.m.-noon Saturdays through Oct. 10. Info: seymourfarmersmarket.org; on Facebook.

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HEALTH NOTES â– Caregiver Support Group meeting, 10 a.m.-noon Tuesday, Aug. 4, Room E 224 Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive. Info: 675-2835.

â– Alice Bell Spring Hill Neighborhood Association. Info: Ronnie Collins, 637-9630. â– Beaumont Community Organization. Info: Natasha Murphy, 936-0139. â– Belle Morris Community Action Group meets 7 p.m. each second Monday, City View Baptist Church, 2311 Fine Ave. Info: www.bellemorris.com or Rick Wilen, 524-5008. â– Chilhowee Park Neighborhood Association meets 6:30 p.m. each last Tuesday, Administration Building, Knoxville Zoo. Info: Paul Ruff, 696-6584. â– Edgewood Park Neighborhood Association meets 7 p.m. each third Tuesday, Larry Cox Senior Center, 3109 Ocoee Trail. Info: http://edgewoodpark.us. â– Excelsior Lodge No. 342 meets 7:30 p.m. each Thurs-

the gun industry, or help the people with mental-health needs or those whose poverty of spirit and engagement leaves them with nothing to value in their lives except pain and grudges and anger they don’t know how to cope with.

I am no longer shocked or sad or angry – I’m bone weary. But I don’t see an end to it.

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Info: Bill Emmert, 933-6032 or w.emmert@att.net. â– First District Democrats meet each first Monday, Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: Harold Middlebrook, haroldmiddlebrook@ gmail.com; Mary Wilson, marytheprez@yahoo.com. â– Historic Fourth & Gill Neighborhood Organization meets 6:30 p.m. each second Monday, Central UMC, 201 Third Ave. Info: Liz Upchurch, 898-1809, lizupchurch1@gmail.com. â– Inskip Community Association meets 6 p.m. each fourth Tuesday, Inskip Baptist Church, 4810 Rowan Road. Info: Betty Jo Mahan, 679-2748 or bettymahan@ knology.net. â– Oakwood Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association meets 6:30 p.m. each first Monday, Community Club House, 916 Shamrock Ave. Info: Bill Hutton, 773-5228 or s_wlhutton@ yahoo.com. â– Old North Knoxville meets 6:30 p.m. each second Monday, St. James Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 1101 N. Broadway. Info: Andie Ray, 548-5221. â– Parkridge Community Organization meets 6:30 p.m. each first Monday except holidays, Cansler YMCA, 616 Jessamine St. Info: Jerry Caldwell, 3299943. â– Second District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each second Thursday, New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 2504 Cecil Ave. Info: Rick Staples, 385-3589 or funnyman1@ comic.com. â– Thorn Grove Rebekah Lodge No. 13 meets 7:30 p.m. each second and fourth Monday, 10103 Thorn Grove Pike. Info: Mary Jo Poole, 599-7698 or mjp1101@aol.com. â– Town Hall East. Info: Eston Williams, 406-5412 or eston_ williams@yahoo.com; https:// www.facebook.com/town halleast/info.

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What’s up, Doc? Sue Hamilton, director of the University of Tennessee Gardens, discusses current projects at the gardens with members of the Chapman Highway Garden Club. The UT tour served as the club’s July meeting and drew four new prospective members. It also brought out several representatives from Stanley’s Greenhouses, who wanted to get the scoop on what’s up and coming. Club members were especially interested in the hosta garden, which was dedicated in June, has more than 600 varieties and soon will be up to around 800 varieties.

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Hole in the middle of Tennessee defense Little people sing about the hole in the bottom of the sea.

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The hole in the middle of the Tennessee defense is not a fun thing.

Tommy Thigpen, coach of Volunteer linebackers, faces a very large void with five or six or seven possible fillers but no obvious solution.

Middle linebacker, quarterback of the defense, is a critical position in this era of complex offenses doing all sorts of exciting things at warp speed. It requires comprehensive preparation, reading accuracy, ability to think and adjust on the fly, skill and strength to ward off big, hairy blockers and a

up front and more speed in the secondary. Jalen Reeves-Maybin might be all-American at outside Marvin an linebacker.

West Alas, games can be won or lost in the middle.

Unless there is a radical reassignment, here are Thigpen’s choices: boldness to discourage runKenny Bynum, 6-1 and ning backs and receivers who 250, has been around four dare invade the territory. years and knows more. He Those old enough to re- is tough enough against the member Jack Reynolds can run but not very fast. He did grasp what one looks like. not forfeit the job in spring OK, the position was less practice. demanding then. Al Wilson Darrin Kirkland was redid it well. A.J. Johnson was cruited to be the middle doing OK until … linebacker of the future. He Those who don’t recog- arrived in January to get a nize the current deficiency head start but needed medithink Tennessee’s defense cal repairs and spent spring will be much better than drills watching instead of last season. There is more doing. He is 6-2 and 235. available talent and depth Jacob Johnson, 6-4 and

240, may be a slender end but played MLB against Vanderbilt last November.

To put it sweetly, the Commodores liked him a lot.

Johnson is shaped like a football player, has size, strength and decent speed, hits hard and might be really good someday. He grew up in Germany. He lacks football background and experience.

Gavin Bryant, redshirt freshman, hurts people. He is 6-0 and 236 and a natural hitter. He is also a work in progress.

Dillon Bates, 6-3 and 225, probably should be an outside linebacker but may be a middle man out of necessity. Like Kirkland, Bates lost precious development time to injury. Tennessee has not yet seen the real Dil-

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Very secret weapons (nobody has heard much about ’em) are sophomore walk-on Colton Jumper and one or more athletic freshmen.

Thigpen may have a couple of aces up his sleeve.

Curt Maggitt plays more as an end because of his relentless pursuit. But, if nobody fills the vacancy, if the need is deemed serious enough, he could switch. He’d do it in a minute, too. He is a team-first guy. Butch Jones says so.

The big win with ReevesMaybin as an outside backer is speed. He is a former safety who got bigger. If he

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GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Tom Jones, a former chair of the KUB board, has surrendered his law license, we hear. On Monday, his law firm’s website had a blank spot where Jones once stood.

■ Gary Wade says he will leave the state Supreme Court, to which he just won re-election to an 8-year term, and may become dean of the John J. Duncan Jr. School of Law.

■ Where’s Foster? County Clerk Foster Arnett is no stranger to controversy although his missteps tend toward the absurd rather than more traditional folly.

■ This makes no sense but gives Bill Haslam a chance to put his friend Herb Slatery on the high court.

■ Arnett skipped town last week rather than respond to a KnoxViews blog post headlined, “Hacked or Unhinged? You Decide.”

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There is a glaring contradiction between the middle linebacker dilemma and tall talk about winning the East division of the Southeastern Conference. Really good teams rarely go into August with such uncertainties.

But, wait, there is another alternative. Really good coaches solve such problems before the middle of September. By the middle of October, we may have forgotten all about this one.

■ Slatery has been on a career fast track, serving as Haslam’s legal counsel before the Supreme Court appointed him as attorney general in 2014.

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The best moments of my summer were not the days spent at the beach; they were my two weeks at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. I just completed my second summer as a Volunteen and had even more fun than the summer before.

That first summer I walked into the hospital nervous and unsure what to expect. I was excited to have the opportunity, but I did not know anyone. It can be super awkward and nerveracking to sit in a room with 15 other people and not know a single name.

Then a woman named Kathi walked in and immediately made all of us feel at home. She had a bright smile and warm personality. I didn’t know then how amazing she truly was.

The first day I was assigned to Child Life, asked to visit patients’ rooms to ask if they need anything, want to play or do crafts. A few of us went with an adult volunteer to learn the ropes.

At first it was awkward.

Most of these kids weren’t feeling great and were rightfully scared to be in a hospital. But I soon learned that the only way to make a child feel comfortable was to relate to them and be genuinely interested. That day I entered a little girl’s room and asked if she would like to play a game in the playroom or maybe do a craft.

She looked at me with fear in her eyes and shook her head no. I glanced around the room and noticed that she had owl balloons, an owl blanket and an owl stuffed animal. I asked if I could sit and started to talk to her about how much I loved the blanket, balloons and stuffed animal. She smiled and said, “Owls are my favorite animal. What’s yours?”

I realized I had an opening, so I suggested we go to the playroom and paint an owl. When she enthusiastically shook her head yes I could feel tears in my eyes.

In that moment I knew I had made her day better, a little brighter.

The next day I couldn’t wait to come back. I did everything in those two weeks from playing Xbox

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for hours (and losing nine out of 10 times) with a boy who couldn’t get out of bed to trying to get a little girl to stop crying by walking her around the hallway a billion times.

Not every day was I in a patient’s room. There were days I would sit at the information desk and direct people to their appointments, cut out puppets for kids to color and clean DVDs for the movie cart. Some may say those days didn’t make an impact, but I believe they did. If I could help a frazzled parent find the ER, or make puppets so a child waiting for bloodwork would have something to do other than worry, and even have clean DVDs in case a child wanted to watch “Finding Nemo,” then I made an impact.

There was not a day that I didn’t help someone.

This program not only allowed me to make a difference in the lives of sick children, but I made so many lifelong friends. The first day no one was speaking, but by the end of the first week we couldn’t be quiet! It was amazing to meet people who had the same passion that I did, and it made every day so much more enjoyable when you got to work with amazing people.

On the last day I bawled my eyes out. I couldn’t believe it was over. I was going to miss all my new friends and particularly Ms. Kathi.

The volunteer program would be nothing without her. Her constant smile and laughter can brighten anyone’s day, and she would do anything for you.

As I excitedly came back for my second summer I knew that there would be more friends to make and, most importantly, more children to make smile. I am so thankful for a program that allows me to give back and all the people that made my summer 10 times better.

I love you all!

NORTH/EAST Shopper news • JULY 29, 2015 • 5

Will Ward flip or skip commission race?

Among the citizens who showed up for the Powell edition of Ed and Bob Show (i.e. the traveling constituent meeting road show put on by county commissioners-at-large Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas) was Chuck Ward, the “Fix it, Flip it or Skip it” radio show guy.

Brantley introduced Ward to the crowd as a “probable” county commission candidate from District 9 next year.

was being interviewed by telephone on his way to a real estate agent’s office to pick up a gift he’d been told would be waiting for him at the front desk. When he walked in, he remarked that the place seemed deserted, yoo-hooed and got a terse response from some guy in the back.

“That’s funny. They don’t have a clue who they’re talking to. I could be Vice President Gore’s son,” he said.

“This font desk hasn’t been used in years …”

A few seconds later, the Betty Realtor he was looking for Bean materialized with the gift and Ward was back in his car on his way to deliver a refrigerator, explaining By the time the Shopper- the house flipping business News caught up with Ward, while he drove. a busy guy who’s always on “I’d have been a superstar his way to somewhere else, if I’d had somebody to marhe’d downgraded his can- ket me five years ago,” he didate status from prob- said. “I’ve flipped over 800 able to just the other side houses in 27 years – ain’t of possible. He’s just got nobody in the nation done too many irons in the fire, that.” he said, which was why he He started small, with

a house in Colonial Village that he moved into.

“As I was working on that house, I realized that I enjoyed it and it was fun, and thought to myself I could make Ward some money doing this, so I bought a flip home to sell on Martin Mill pike, just past Bonnie Kate, and it went well – $12,000 on that first flip. So I was kinda hooked, as my dad used to say …”

After that, he’d buy maybe two or three houses a year, sometimes in partnership with friends, and the number grew to 10 or 12 a year, and kept going. Over the last 10 years, he’s averaged between 30 and 40 a year, and for a while held down a fulltime job as stage manager at the Civic Coliseum. He left the job five years ago, but still does freelance

stage managing at the coliseum, Thompson-Boling Arena, the Tennessee Theatre and Gatlinburg venues.

He’s kept some houses as rentals, but says flipping is his first love.

“There’s nothing like taking a house and transforming it into a desirable property,” he said.

Add that to his weekly “Fix it, Flip it or Skip it” radio hour, the script he’s preparing for a TV show, the offer he’s mulling to start flipping mobile homes, and it doesn’t leave much room for politics.

“I was out at Powell supporting Bob and Ed, and I mentioned that several people have approached me. I ran a few years ago, and got beat by 300 votes. Another time I started to run and Paul Pinkston jumped back in at the last minute, and I decided not to do it. But I’m 49, still young enough so I can say I’ll never close my doors, and I’ll always try to keep my options open.”

Foster in line to be city’s new redevelopment director Dawn Michelle Foster, who will soon step into K nox v ille Redevelo p m e n t Director Bob Whetsel’s shoes, do e sn’t mind being a woman in an industry Foster typically dominated by men. She spent 22 years as a senior transportation planner and construction project manager for Wilbur Smith Associates (now CDM Smith) before her career with the city.

“This will be the first time I’ve ever had a woman boss,” she says, referring to Mayor Madeline Rogero.

Foster, who is also African American, will work closely with Anne Wallace, who will fill Foster’s previous role as deputy director of redevelopment. It’s a sign of a forward-thinking city that the office is so diverse, as is the sheer number of current redevelopment projects.

The south waterfront has been Foster’s primary focus since she was hired by the city three years ago, and she’s enthusiastic about the changes that are happening in that part of town. In early July, ground was broken for Suttree Landing Park − part of a 750-acre redevelopment project across the Tennessee River from downtown and the University of Tennessee.

Updates to Sevier Avenue are creating interest in ex-

date of August of 2017.

She is grateful to have “In a couple of years, had the opportunity to work we’ll be skipping down the with Whetsel. He’s been a Wendy sidewalk with smiles on our great mentor, and she apSmith faces because of the new preciates the leadership streetscape.” style he developed during One of the benefits of his former career as a high Foster’s new job will be get- school football coach. She isting structures from local ting to work with other city is glad to continue to work developers, she says, and departments, since the proj- with Wallace, who is also plans for apartments at the ects require so much cross- well-respected. former Baptist Hospital site over, she says.

“We’ll make Bob proud.” and the Island Home area are coming along. The realignment of the entrance of Fort Dickerson Park is finished, and further enhancements should be completed by the end of the year.

Such improvements, paired with the city’s Urban Wilderness, will revitalize South Knoxville.

“All that vibrancy is starting to take place,” she says.

Now Foster will have other major projects on her plate, like Magnolia and Cumberland Avenues and Downtown North. She recognizes that R.B. and Susan Schumpert stand with John Fugate (center) at redevelopment calls for resi- his campaign kickoff. Photo submitted dents to be open-minded − and patient. Concept plans don’t always look like the “cake on the box,” and they require enormous amounts of time and money, she says.

But the ultimate payout is blighted property that is made useful again.

Redevelopment yields other resources. There have been hundreds of millions of dollars of private investment around Cumberland Avenue, and Foster expects more to come. That’s another good reason for residents to be patient until the project’s anticipated completion

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 How To Study Smart workshop: Organization and Time Management Skills, 2-3:15 p.m. or 5-6:15 p.m., Cafeteria Annex of the Goins Administration Building, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Free and open to the public; space limited. Info/RSVP: 539-7160 or gwood@pstcc.edu.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Sponsored by the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers.

First visit free. No partner or dance experience required. Adults and children accompanied by an adult welcome. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; www. oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, JULY 30 Deadline for early registration discount for Downtown Dragon, Drum and Paddle Dragon Boat Race, to be held 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, Volunteer Landing. Registration fee before July 30: $1,000 for corporate teams and $850 for nonprofit organization teams; $1,250 and $900 after. Proceeds go to Tennessee Clean Water Network. Info/registration: www.tcwn.org.

How To Study Smart workshop: Classroom Study Skills for Academic Success, 2-3:15 p.m. or 5-6:15 p.m., Cafeteria Annex of the Goins Administration Building, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915

Fugate launches campaign John Fugate of Fountain City has launched his campaign for the Republican nomination for Knox County Commission from District 2. The seat is currently held by Amy Broyles, a Democrat who has opted not to seek a third term.

Fugate served briefly on the school board as an appointee of County Commission when Indya Kincannon resigned and before Tracie Sanger was elected.

He said some 150 people attended Saturday’s kickoff in Fountain City Park. Notables included Mayor Tim Burchett, Law Director Bud Armstrong, Property Assessor Phil Ballard and commissioners Dave Wright, Jeff Ownby and Bob Thomas.

Michele Carringer is also a candidate for the GOP nomination. The primary is in May 2016 with the general election in August.

Hardin Valley Road. Free and open to the public; space limited. Info/RSVP: 539-7160 or gwood@pstcc.edu.

“Kale in December and Carrots in January … no problem!” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Marsha Lehman. Free and open to the public.

Info: 329-8892.

FRIDAY, JULY 31

government Harwell idea delays vote on gas tax House Speaker Beth Harwell has urged that part or all of the $400 million in additional state tax collections should go for new roads and existing road repairs. This is new money coming into the state treasury that was not anticipated when the state budget was enacted a few months ago.

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What is significant here is that Harwell is voicing a game plan for the Legislature to tackle the road issue in a way that would enable it to avoid a gas tax increase vote in the 2016 session starting in five months. This would be new money one time for roads and would allow the lawmakers to skip a gas tax vote in an election year.

Harwell is considered a potential candidate for governor and has been traveling the state. She did a Rotary Club talk in Knoxville and appeared for state Rep. Roger Kane over the past few months.

She is expected back in East Tennessee several times this fall.

Gov. Haslam with a new chief of staff, Jim Henry, may wish to avoid this contentious issue where success is not assured coming on top of the Insure Tennessee loss last January. Most observers see increasing the gas tax as a high mountain to climb in 2016 when many lawmakers ran on a program of lower taxes.

It is hard to explain a vote for a higher tax if within the recent past you have pledged backing for lower taxes.

■ MPC has been sued in federal court over gender discrimination by its former finance director, Dee Ann Reynolds, who lives in Union County.

The new director, Gerald Green, inherits this from his predecessor Mark Donaldson, who terminated Reynolds and was himself then pushed out the door after neighborhood activists across the city called for his ouster.

This will be a fascinating lawsuit as it plays out or is settled, but expect it

to go on for months. The plaintiff’s attorney, David Burkhalter, is a pro in these personnel discrimination lawsuits.

The new MPC director no longer works for the Metropolitan Planning Commission but for the two mayors, Burchett and Rogero.

■ David Collins, former chair of the Knox County Commission and city architect, is getting married to Kirby Bell, community volunteer.

Wedding will be in June 2016.

■ Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will hold a fundraiser Aug. 4 in Williamson County cohosted by Gov. Haslam’s parents, Jim and Natalie Haslam. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was in the same county 10 days ago.

Williamson County is a popular fundraising spot for national GOP candidates.

■ Art Clancy, 85, former international president of Rotary (the first from Knoxville) and founder of Clancy Optical, is recovering well from open-heart surgery and is now at home. His wife is Sue Clancy, former director of special events for the city of Knoxville.

■ The dedication of Everly Brothers Park will be 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at the corner of Kingston Pike and Forest Park Boulevard. This happened due to the work of the Bearden Council, Dennis Owen, Terry Faulkner plus City Council member Duane Grieve. Don and Phil Everly attended West High School near this site. Public is invited to the dedication. It should be a great occasion.

■ When Jack Sharp is replaced on MPC this summer, he will complete 40 years of public service to the city of Knoxville with 28 years on City Council (14 years as vice mayor) plus 12 years on MPC. Sharp turns 81 on Aug. 10.

■ Gov. Haslam will host a luncheon for state Sen. Doug Overbey’s reelection on Thursday, July 30, at Cherokee County Club at $1,000 a person.

■ Karen Carson and Jason Zachary will debate at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, at Farragut Town Hall.

Public is invited. They are candidates for GOP nomination for state representative from District 14.

Churchwide bazaar, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Dutch Valley New Life Church of God, 1416 Breda Drive. Food will be available for purchase also. Info: 688-8711.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road.

Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Yoga instruction from Angela Quillen, 9-10:15 a.m., Narrow Ridge Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road in Washburn. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or www.narrowridge.org.

Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., 1009 Main St., Maynardville. Fresh produce, meat, plants, cut flowers, artists and craftsmen. New vendors welcome. Info: 992-8038.

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Silent Meditation Gathering, 11 a.m.-noon, Narrow Ridge Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or www.narrowridge.org.

“Cabaret, The Musical” presented by Encore Theatrical Company, Walters State Community College, Morristown. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m.

Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $20 adults, $17 seniors, $12 students. Info/tickets: etcplays.org or 423-318-8331.

MONDAY, AUG. 3

SATURDAY, AUG. 1 Church rummage sale, 8 a.m., Emory Valley Baptist Church, 6124 E. Emory Road. Clothes for all ages; household and holiday items. Proceeds go to youth fund.

American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.

How To Study Smart workshop: Effective Note-Taking Skills, 2-3:15 p.m. or 5-6:15 p.m., Cafeteria Annex of the Goins Administration Building, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

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Shopper-News interns get a sneak peek at the under-construction visitor center at Knoxville Botanical Gardens. The center is slated to open in August. Photo by Amanda McDonald

Preventing an agriculture apocalypse

Martha Ashe stands in the garden dedicated to the memory of her grandmother, for whom she was named. Ashe is the daughter of former Knoxville mayor Victor Ashe and works in the Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum visitor center.

Photos by S. Carey

Beauty and sweat equity

Then, they got a personal tour of the gardens from Martha Ashe, daughter of former Knoxville mayor Victor Ashe. Martha is working in the visitor center this summer, just yards away from a beautiful area dedicated to the memory of her grandmother, also named Martha Ashe.

“I like it,” she said. “I feel like I’m part of the place.”

Martha gave the interns a sneak peek at the Botanical Gardens’ new visitor center, scheduled to open in August.

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“In your lifetime, there will be wars fought about food and water,” Robert Hodge, the director of the Center for Urban Agriculture told interns. The center is located on the grounds of the Botanical Gardens.

In the last two years, Hodge explained, there has been a 40 percent loss in the honeybee population. Honeybees are integral to the pollination of the world’s food supply, and their steady decline can cause substantial food reduction. The herbicides and pesticides used in both large-scale farming and in the average backyard

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INTERESTED? are culprits in the honeybees’ demise.

In today’s culture, where few Americans have fruit and vegetable gardens and 80 percent of America’s produce is shipped from California, native species of plants and produce are dying off. Consumers may think they are eating locally when in fact they are not.

Stores may label produce as “locally grown” as long as that produce is local in one of the store’s locations.

Consequently, a national store may label tomatoes from California as “locally grown” in a Tennessee store.

The primary focus of large farms is to produce food that can withstand crosscountry shipment, not taste or species preservation.

Hodge said Tennessee once had more than 5,000

Have you every been to the Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum?

Well, it is a gorgeous place.

The gardens were originally the Howell Family Nursery, which was founded in 1786 and was Tennessee’s oldest business. The nurseries were in business for

By Charlie Hamilton types of apples. Today, this is not so. In the years to come, fewer and fewer variations of apples, potatoes, zucchini, and other fruits and vegetables will be available for consumption, because most Tennesseans have stopped growing regional produce.

This means that the children and grandchildren of today’s adults will never taste many of the fruits and vegetables they loved growing up.

Hodge explained how everyone has the ability to aid in current agricultural issues.

With the decline in honeybee population, it is important to cease using herbicides and pesticides in the yard.

To prevent the extinction of local plants, network with friends and gardeners to find heirloom seeds, ask them to share, plant them,

about 216 years.

The Knoxville Botanical Gardens span about 50 acres.

Here they have almost 50 different types of dogwoods on their and focus mostly on plant native species.

On the property they have the estate that was built by the Howell family and is now the visitors center. The trails

and pass the seeds on. Websites like rareseeds.com and slowfoodusa.org provide an online way to obtain heirloom and endangered seeds.

The Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum provides additional resources for those who want to help.

“Families can get plots here for free,” said Hodge.

Those interested can call to reserve a free plot on which to garden. The Center for Urban Agriculture also provides classes on how to create community gardens at churches.

By eliminating the use of herbicides and pesticides and by planting an heirloom garden, anyone can help preserve the world’s food supply.

Info: 862-8717 or find Center for Urban Agriculture on Facebook

Botanical Gardens show history, beauty

property, twisting around the house like

By Emma Dale Wandering through the Knoxville Bo- the arms of the windmill, guarding the gartanical Garden and Arboretum feels like dens from the busy street that bisects the stepping from postcard to landscape paint- property, slicing up the garden into neat ing to a period movie based off of a Jane little squares overflowing with branches and flowers.

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The Howells apparently did so well That may be due in part to the that, even after all this time, fact that the site of the garden the walls need virtually no was once home to the lonhelp from their current gest running business caretakers, and conin Tennessee: a plant tinue to stand just as nursery started in steadily as they did 1776 by the Howfor decades. ell family, who The entire owned and opproperty reads erated it until it like a physiclosed in 2001. cal timeline.

After beThe age of the ing in busiBotanical Garness for 225 dens seems to years, it was have slipped forced out due into the timeto competiline with little to tion with chain no disturbance, stores like Home putting benches Depot and Lowe’s. under the Cedars Originally, it was of Lebanon planted slated for developin the 1880s, alment; an apartment lowing the rooms building, maybe a under the Howfew strip malls, posIntern Maddie Ogle peeks through a stone ells’ 1950s-built sibly a Walmart, but wall in the Knoxville Botanical Gardens. home to be used enough people were for their original able to raise enough funds to save all 47 acres of it, and the nurs- purpose: garden club meetings. Even the ery became the Knoxville Botanical Gar- tall, dark, modern-looking welcome center set to open Aug. 14 features long windows, dens and Arboretum.

In some places, there’s still evidence that making the garden just outside of it the plants were meant to be sold here, not just main focus.

After nearly 240 years, whether it be admired. A long row of the same type of tree that’s the only remainder of an orderly called a nursery or a Botanical Garden, the forest of them that once went on for miles. land still performs its original job of bringA sprawling pile of rocks that Joe Howell, a ing nature and beauty to people’s busy evstonemason, once used for materials. Said eryday lives.

Info: www.knoxgarden.org walls pop up at various points all over the

Enjoy the gardens

feature old stone walls that were built by Joe Howell who was a landscaper and stone mason. They also offer a center for urban gardening and encourage people to plant and garden different heirloom plants. This is a wonderful place to walk. Go walk the trails and enjoy some of the nature in this area.

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A technology wonderland

By Carol Shane Attention, all young brainiacs and your families!

Now’s your chance to explore STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) in a fun, lively environment made just for you!

This weekend, The Muse Knoxville presents “Robotics Revolution” at Chilhowee Park.

Formerly known as The Discovery Center, The Muse Knoxville is “a newly reimagined space designed for kids from 1 to 101,” according to its website. The organization’s fun, interactive exhibits provide opportunities for kids to discover and explore the physical sciences. “With almost 4,000 square feet of exhibit and play space, you are sure to find something that will inspire the love of learning in you!”

At “Robotics Revolution” young techies can see, and maybe participate in, such things as the Lego Tower Challenge, where Lego cities are built by teams and then shook on an “earthquake table” to see which city survives. There’s a Sumo Bot wrestling match and many other robotics and technology demonstrations.

A new and very exciting addition to the lineup is a live Skype call with NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps. El-

Young techies will enjoy “Robotics Revolution,” presented by The Muse Knoxville at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park this weekend. Photo submitted lie Kittrell, executive director of The Muse Knoxville, says, “Dr. Epps will join our event to help further inspire children to pursue a path in STEM. Her background as an astronaut, aquanaut, CIA technical intelligence officer, and as a technical specialist for Ford Motor Company is a spectacular example for young children.

Her voice, particularly for young women, is one that we hope will make a lifelong impression.

“We feel very fortunate to have this opportunity to speak with her.”

There’s plenty of fun to be had at “Robotics Revolution,” but this is cutting-edge, real-world stuff, and adult participa-

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tion is highly valued. “Are you a FIRST [”For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”] coach, mentor, or parent?” asks the website. “At the World FIRST Championships this year in St. Louis, FIRST founder Dean Kamen challenged everyone in attendance to ‘Grow FIRST Faster,’ to reach more kids in more communities. Help build relationships with new and emerging teams in our area as we support the growth of FIRST programs to new schools and neighborhoods. Volunteers will staff information tables to meet visitors who are interested in learning more about FIRST, and have the opportunity to create advisory connections with new coaches and mentors.”

“Robotics Revolution” happens from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday, August 1 at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park. Admission is $6 per person, with family passes available for $24.

Children ages five and under are admitted free. Tickets can be purchased at the event or online in advance at www.themuseknoxville. org, or by calling 594-1494.

Parents who wish to become involved as FIRST mentors are urged to visit http://goo. gl/forms/FP65W5LMd7.

■ Alive After Five: Jazzspirations Live with Brian Clay, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ Kayak, SUP & Hydro-Bike Moonlight Tour, 8:30-10:15 p.m., Norris Dam Marina, 1604 Norris Freeway, Andersonville. Info: 498-9951.

■ Summer Movie Magic: “Gone With the Wind,” Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Showings: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: all Ticketmaster outlets, Tennessee Theatre box office and 800-745-3000.

■ “Sealed for Freshness” by Doug Stone, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: http://www. theatreknoxville.com.

SATURDAY ■ 2015 Knox Classic Bodybuilding, Figure, Bikini and Physique, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Knoxville Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Info/tickets: www.knoxvillecoliseum. com or 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877995-9961.

■ Back to School Princess & Pirate Party, 1-2:30 p.m., Grassy Valley Baptist Church, 10637 Kingston Pike. Tickets: $10, available at the door. For all ages; open to the public.

■ Robotics Revolution, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park. Hosted by The Muse Knoxville. Features: Lego building competitions, robotics and technology demonstrations, hands-on activities with The Muse, live Skype call with NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps and more. Info: themuseknoxville.org.

■ Second annual corn-hole tournament to benefit Angelic Ministries. 12:30 p.m., under the big top at The Ministry, 1218 N. Central St. Info/registration: angelicministries.com.

■ Shakespeare on the Square: “The Taming of the Shrew,” 7 p.m., Market Square. Info: 546-4280; www.tennesseestage. com tennesseestage@comcast.net.

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SUNDAY ■ Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Jam, 4-6 p.m., the Emporium, 100 S. Gay St. Free. Open to any and all who wish to play or listen. Info: 573-3226.

The Griswold family – James (Skyler Gisondo), Kevin (Steele Stebbins), Debbie (Christina Applegate) and Rusty (Ed Helms) – gets ready for fun in “Vacation.”

■ Native American Flute Circle, 4-5:30 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Info/registration: 577-4717 ext. 110.

■ Party in the Park, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., World’s Fair Park, 525 Henley St. Food, games, bounce houses, live music and more.

Free. Info: knoxpartyinthepark.com.

■ Shakespeare on the Square: “Macbeth,” 7 p.m., Market Square. Info: 546-4280; www.tennesseestage.com, tennesseestage@comcast.net.

‘Vacation’ rides again; plus one more impossible ‘Mission’

By Betsy Pickle Old friends return in this week’s new movies, beginning with today’s opening of “Vacation.”

Not a remake of the 1983 fan favorite “National Lampoon’s Vacation” but more of a sequel, this “Va-

cation” focuses on the next generation. Griswold son Rusty (Ed Helms) is grown up and has a family of his own: wife Debbie (Christina Applegate) and sons James (Skyler Gisondo) and Kevin (Steele Stebbins).

When Rusty finally re-

alizes that his wife and sons aren’t as happy as he thought they were, he plans to recreate the magic of his childhood with an epic road trip to the adventure theme park Walley World. Rusty’s selective memory clears the way for

disaster after disaster as the Griswolds make their way across the country in a rental car that has a mind of its own.

Time spent with sister Audrey (Leslie Mann) and her irritatingly perfect husband, Stone Crandall (Chris

Hemsworth), is just part of the punishment Rusty must suffer. Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo reprise their iconic roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold.

Supporting players include such familiar faces as Ron Livingston, Norman Reedus, Charlie Day, Keegan-Michael Key, Regina Hall, Michael Pena, David Clennon, Colin Hanks and Sports Illustrated swimwear model Hannah Davis. “Horrible Bosses” scribes Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley wrote the script and make their feature-directing debut with the movie.

Opening on Friday is

“Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) must reunite his IMF team to eradicate an international band of terrorists known as the Syndicate. Highly trained operatives determined to create a new world order through their terror attacks, Syndicate members may or may not include a skillful British agent named Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson).

The cast also includes Alec Baldwin, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg and Simon McBurney. Christopher McQuarrie (“Jack Reacher”) directed and wrote the screenplay.

REUNION NOTE ■ Central High School classes of 1957-1964 will be held 6-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, at The Grande Event Center,

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business Food City expands in Chattanooga Food City officials have announced their intent to purchase 29 BI-LO Supermarkets (i nc lud i n g 21 pharmacies) in the Chattanooga market area.

The locations Steve Smith range from 25,000 to 63,000 square feet in size and include eight stores in North Georgia.

No price was given for the acquisition, which is expected to be complete by early fall. It will bring Food City to 122 stores and 15,000 employees.

In a press release, company president/CEO Steven Smith said Food City will invest more than $40 million in capital improvements to the former BI-LO stores during the first year.

John Jones, executive vice president for store operations, said BI-LO associates will be “welcomed to our team” and allowed to retain their years of service.

Jesse Lewis, senior vice president and chief operations officer, is familiar with the BI-LO stores that were previously Red Foods. He worked for Red Foods in Chattanooga prior to joining Food City.

Also, Drew Hembree

REUNION NOTE Powell High School Class of 1985, 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, Southern Depot, 306 W. Depot Ave. Cost: $35 each or $60 couple; includes dinner, music and cash bar. Make

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Evans gives Legacy Parks update

By Beverly Holland

Carol Evans is seriously associated with South Knoxville as an architect of the Urban Wilderness, but the Fountain City resident was listed as advertising got her start in Halls. Raisdirector. He had previously ing money to purchase the land at Clayton Park was the served as interim director. first big project of Legacy Parks Foundation, now celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Evans spoke last week Food Marketing Institute to the Halls Business and (FMI) presented its most Professional Association. distinguished award in pub- She said the nonprofit’s goal lic affairs, the Glen P. Wood- is to “leave East Tennessee ard Jr. Award, to Food City better than we found it.” president/CEO Steven C. Legacy Parks has raised Smith at FMI Connect, the more than $5 million in 10 industry’s premier event. years, Evans said. Its goals Smith was recognized for are to preserve ridges and his 36 years with Food City, views, connect greenways, a grocery chain started by his father, Jack Smith, and for his advocacy for the food retail industry.

“Perhaps one of Smith’s

By Anne Hart most creative and hardD. J. Corcoran’s backfought victories was completed last year – getting wine in ground as a former member grocery stores in Tennessee,” of the local media, comsaid FMI senior vice presi- bined with his long-time experience as a firefighter, dent Jennifer Hatcher.

“Steve won’t take ‘no’ for gives him the perfect peran answer when it comes to spective for his current projchange that will benefit his ect – assembling the history customers, his associates, his of the Knoxville Fire Department (KFD). company or his industry.”

A captain with the At the federal level, Smith was one of the first KFD now, Corcoran FMI members to agree that worked his way up the battle over swipe fees through the ranks was one the food retail in- and now handles the dustry had to engage, as ev- media for the department, idenced by his testimony on in addition to this latest Capitol Hill in 2007 before project.

What he has turned up the House Judiciary Antitrust Task Force, Hatcher to date makes for a fascinating look back at one of said.

Knoxville’s premiere and certainly most enduring institutions.

Corcoran shared his knowledge and a captivatchecks to “PHS Class of 85 Reunion Fund.” Mail to: Krista ing slide presentation with Sapp, P.O. Box 31523. KnoxBearden Rotarians at their ville TN 37930. Info: Stacey recent meeting at Buddy’s Berry, 441-3539.

Banquet Hall.

Smith cited by Food Marketing Institute

maintain health and access to waterways, develop recreational opportunities for the underserved and push Knox County to exceed the national average for green space.

Legacy Parks coordinated fundraising $625,000 to purchase 11 acres in Halls for Clayton Park. The land was deeded to Knox County after conservation easements were added. A smaller but still neat project was coordinating funding for the skate park in Fountain City.

Across the county, Legacy Parks aided in adding 100 acres to Ijams Nature Center through acquisition of the Georgia Marble Quarry; promoting the state’s

Carol Evans at Halls BPA. Times bestseller list and the film adaptation earned Academy Award nominations for stars Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

Info: 865-525-2585.

Corcoran brings KFD history to life

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He traced the history of KFD from its beginning on March 17, 1885, when it replaced an all-volunteer organization that had operated for the previous 31 years.

Slides from those early days showed horse-drawn wagons loaded with firefighting equipment, and then later a modern steam engine that rolled along city streets carrying a stoker whose job it was to keep the steam coming.

The first fire hall was in the old Market House, where City Hall was located upstairs, and on the main level, the fire department was located at one end of the building and fresh meat and produce brought in daily by area farmers was sold at the other end.

In 1897 the department faced its largest challenge of that century when an entire block of Gay Street caught fire. KFD was joined by firefighters from around the area, including Chattanooga, whose department commandeered a train, stopped not a single time along the

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D.J. Corcoran takes to the microphone at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Bearden.

Photo by Charles Garvey

way, and made it to Knoxville in an hour to help battle the blaze which eventually destroyed an estimated $1 million in property.

Corcoran also discussed the KFD’s iconic monument of a fireman holding a child.

Erected in 1904, he said it originally stood at the old Courthouse and was surrounded by a water trough where passersby could water their horses.

In 1916, the statue was moved to Emory Place, off Broadway, where in the late

1940s, it was struck by a drunk driver.

In 1977, the monument was again moved, this time to the fire hall on Summit Hill Drive, across from the old City Hall, where it stands today in tribute to firefighters who have died in the line of duty.

Each fire station has its own unique history, but none quite as interesting as Lonas Fire Hall on Old Kingston Pike, which was donated to the city early in this century with two stipulations: that a portrait of a patriarch of the Lonas family would always hang in the building and that firefighters would always rake the leaves from the huge old oak tree on the property.

“And still today, you can drive by in the fall and see the firemen raking those leaves,” Corcoran said.

Corcoran said ambulances were added to the KFD in 1947 and the first female firefighters joined the department in 1988.

Today, KFD has 70 pieces of firefighting equipment and answers more than 30,000 calls annually.

Hallerin Hill tells his own story

By Anne Hart

It’s a common problem people seldom talk about, but something that affects at least half the population by age 50: hemorrhoids. And many people, like Sarah of Knoxville, live with hemorrhoids for years or even decades out of fear that the treatment may be a painful, uncomfortable ordeal.

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Sarah was surprised and relieved to learn that pain and a difficult recovery is no longer a side effect of hemorrhoid treatment. “Relieved is the right word,” says Sarah. “It was minimally invasive with no side effects – you don’t have the long recovery.”

Sarah’s doctor referred her to Dr. C. Stone Mitchell at the Premier Hemorrhoid Treatment Center in Knoxville after she complained of severe pain and Dr. C. Stone itching during a Mitchell yearly physical exam.

“Dr. Mitchell immediately knew what it was – I had a severe yeast infection that combined with the hemorrhoids to create almost unbearable symptoms,” says Sarah.

Dr. Mitchell addressed both issues by treating the infection with an antibiotic cream and alleviating the source of the hemorrhoids with a gentle laser procedure called Infrared Coagulation. Sarah had four hemorrhoid treatments over the next five months.

first birding park at Seven Islands; and facilitating the 22-acre Harrell Road Park on Beaver Creek off Emory Road between Powell and Karns.

Evans struck gold, though, in developing 1,000 acres of urban wilderness in South Knoxville, along with 70 acres of river bluff property and preservation of Civil War forts.

Next up for Legacy Parks Foundation is the annual fundraiser Sept. 11 at UT’s Holston River Farm. Tickets are selling out fast, Evans said, to hear speaker Cheryl Strayed, whose book “Wild” chronicled her solo hike on the Pacific Coast Trail. The book topped the New York

Anyone within listening distance of a radio or viewing distance of a TV around East Tennessee knows that local on-air personality Hallerin Hilton Hill is an adept gatherer of other people’s stories.

Not many know that his own story, which he shared with members of the Rotary Club of Bearden recently, is every bit as fascinating as the tales he skillfully pulls out of others.

A former member of a Rotary club in the Virgin Islands, where he lived for a brief time, Hill said the first time he spoke to a Rotary Club in Knoxville – the Downtown Rotary – many years ago now, he was wearing a $10 suit and a $1 tie, both purchased at a local Goodwill store.

Hill said that during his talk that day he kept nervously opening one side of the suit coat to glance in-

side it, “because some other guy’s name was in there.”

Hill’s dip down close to the poverty line had been preceded by a successful career as an up and coming broadcaster who made a precipitous journey to the Virgin Islands to accept a job as general manager of a religious radio station with the call letters WGOD. Hill had been promised plenty to take the job: a condo on the beach, student loans and other debts paid off, a new car and a great salary. He and his young wife made the move.

A few days later, Hurricane Hugo struck the island and the radio station, the condo and the new vehicle were all gone. WGOD radio was off the air and Hill was out of a job.

The couple moved back to Knoxville and lived with Hill’s sister.

“The only thing I had to

Hallerin Hilton Hill carry me when I got here were the values my parents had taught me: respect, responsibility and resiliency. I didn’t want sympathy. All I wanted was an opportunity.

Jim Dick hired Hill at WIVK on a 90-day trial. It was just the opportunity he needed. He’s been a success in the broadcast field ever since and also works as a motivational speaker and trainer.

TDS expands VolP services Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services market will expand nearly 10 percent each year until 2021––nearly doubling the market’s size, according to research by Transparency Market Research.

To help more organizations transition to VoIP, TDS Telecom, which serves Halls and Farragut with land lines in Knox County,

is offering a price break on the VoIP phones used with the company’s managedIP solution.

The global VoIP services market was valued at $70.9 billion in 2013 and is expected to grow to an estimated $136.76 billion by 2021, with a subscriber base of roughly 348.5 million.

To help businesses expand into the VoIP market,

TDS is offering businesses who buy a Polycom VVX500 phone to use with their new managedIP hosted service, a second phone for a penny.

With managedIP comes remote office teleworker, an intuitive online web portal and simultaneous ring to help make employees more mobile, flexible and reliable.

Info: www.tdsvoip.com or 1-866-448-0071.

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NEWS FROM EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE

The Knoxville Force women’s team, pictured at Emerald Youth Sansom Sports Complex, are Southeast Conference Champions, finishing the season 8-1-1.

Pictured at Chicago’s Midway Airport are EY Fellows (standing): Jaron Mack, Jerrion Joy, Qkirajah Robinson, Dijon Andrews, Nesha Jackson, Ayanna Troutman, Jasmine Jackson and Zachary Sain; and (kneeling) Adam Diggs, Elicia Faulkner, Jasmine Wilson and Simmone Smith. Not pictured: Ashley Toepfer.

EY Fellows visit Chicago, learn about giving back Learning about building community and giving back was the focus of a recent study trip to Chicago by urban Knoxville teens.

Twelve of the 2015 Emerald Youth Fellows, a select group of young adults accepted in Emerald Youth’s annual leadership program, traveled to the Windy City in June to learn about the significant challenges in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood.

There they studied successful community development measures that have taken place in the last 25 years.

Of special interest, said Fellows Director Cedric Jackson, were the Lawndale Community Church and the initiatives it helped launch:

the Lawndale Christian Health Center which now provides health care to more than 100,000 low-income patients annually, and the Lawndale Christian Development Corporation which provides economic empowerment programs, access to safe and affordable housing, educational enrichments and community advocacy.

Jackson said the Knoxville teens were particularly impressed by the health center. “It has three separate clinics now and its administrators are looking for more space. It was powerful seeing people in need getting care — good medical care, good dental care and good eye care.”

“The kids also came away seeing how people in the community had made decisions,” Jackson said. “The original leaders saw things that needed to be addressed and then they went about doing that. Now, 25 years later, our youth were able to see the difference they had made.”

He said the annual trip helps young people see their own leadership potential.

The students also enjoyed the highlights of Chicago — the Willis Tower Skydeck, Millennium Park and Chicago’s Museum Campus.

And, oh yes: Chicago pizza.

“They liked the pizza best,” Jackson said. “No one believes you when you tell them about Chicago pizza!”

A Message from Steve Diggs, Emerald Youth President and CEO

Summer fun brings the best kind of growth What a summer it has been at Emerald Youth, as we’ve been in relationship with more than 700 urban children and teens just since the end of Steve Diggs May. Often, our city’s young people end up fending for themselves during the long summer days, but through the dedication of our staff and volunteers, many enjoyed fun, healthy preparation for the future, and meaningful faith enrichment with the theme, “Discipleship with Fruits of the Spirit.”

Highlights included high school students’ trips to Laguna Beach Christian Retreat and to Lawndale Christian Community Center in Chicago; middle and elementary students participation in Camp Week June 15-19, which allowed each to immerse in an area such as acting, cooking, biking or outdoor adventures (just to name a few offerings!); and the two-week Royal Explorers Science Camp offered in partnership with Johnson University.

But just as fun were the days with our neighborhood church ministries when we served lunch at Volunteer Ministry Center, painted houses with Operation Backyard, made trips to the pool and soccer

field, spent afternoons in art projects, and enjoyed fellowship and worship.

Additionally, more than 450 participated in our sports, including soccer, swim and track, as well as performance training in the new Emerald Youth Sansom Sports Complex.

It is important for kids to have fun in the summer and to grow through their experiences. I love the description of Godly growth in Galatians 5:23 — “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”

I pray for those things for all our children as we conclude our summer schedule and begin to look toward the fall.

Knoxville Force concludes season The Knoxville Force, our city’s amateur soccer team owned and operated by Emerald Youth Foundation, concluded the summer season earlier this month.

The women’s team,

coached by Pepe Fernandez, achieved a remarkable 8-1-1 season, including the Southeast Conference Championship, but lost in the regional tournament to Oklahoma City FC. The men’s team

struggled to gain traction and ended with a 2-7-3 record.

Thank you, fans, for the tremendous support and to title sponsors Provision Health and Peformance and Pro2Serve.

to July 10 to gain valuable experience in a variety of sciences.

The special two-week camp was created and implemented by Johnson University’s Dr. Nikki Votaw and made possible by a grant from Home Federal Bank.

The students learned about water quality and waste water treatment at Knoxville Utilities Board, cattle farming and agriculture at Kyker Farms in Sevierville, wildlife at Ijams Nature Center, supercomputing and robotics at Oak Royal Explorers Science Camp included a trip to KUB’s water Ridge National Laboratory, and veterinary practices at quality lab. the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine.

A daylong kayaking trip on the Holston and Tennessee Rivers concluded the camp, with the kids stopping at Volunteer Landing A group of middle school ers,” traveled throughout and then having dinner at youth, aka “Royal Explor- the Knoxville area June 29 Café 4 to celebrate.

Kids experience science as ‘Royal Explorers’

‘BOGO’ for Emerald Youth A one dollar donation to Emerald Youth will earn you a cold treat at Knoxville-area Pilot locations through Aug. 3.

As part of its “Give a Buck to Emerald Youth” campaign, Pilot is offering a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a 20-ounce fountain drink or ICEE to customers who donate one dollar to Emerald Youth.

“This is the seventh year Pilot has partnered with Emerald Youth to help our city’s young people,” said Emerald Youth spokesperson John Crooks. “Last summer Pilot customers generously donated $10,000, with the funds supporting our faith, education and sports programs that serve nearly 2,000 youth throughout Knoxville’s urban neighborhoods.”

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