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Belle Morris:

BUZZ 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

100 years of excellence

By Ruth B R th White Whit The crowd was big and the celebration was even bigger.

The day of remembering Belle Morris, the incredible woman and the school named after her, was filled with a Maypole dance, a proclamation, a tour of the school building at 2308 Washington Pike and a showering of confetti as the crowd sang “Happy Birthday.”

On hand were many former staff members and principals.

One extra special moment occurred when the youngest student, Karter Cunningham, presented a bouquet of roses

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.

The primary election is Tuesday, Sept. 29, with early voting to start Wednesday, Sept. 9. Candidates will meet with voters from 8 to 8:30 p.m.

All are invited.

Belle Morris students perform a Maypole dance during the school’s 100th anniversary celebration. The dance was a long-standing tradition at the school, documented back to the 1930s. Photos by R. White

Coupon books Knox County Schools will kick off its annual coupon books campaign at 1:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 3, at Carter Elementary School, 8455 Strawberry Plains Pike. The book is celebrating 27 years and is still just $10.

The 2015 goal is 160,000 books sold, which will net more than $1.4 million for classroom needs across the county. The campaign runs Sept. 3-21.

City beer board Tennessee River Bar & Grill, 1317 Island Home Ave., is set for a pre-hearing conference at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, in room 460 City County Building.

The conference will set a date for a suspension and revocation hearing before a hearing officer, said city recorder Will Johnson.

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Superintendent Jim McIntyre talked briefly about Morris and her extraordinary accomplishments. She was appointed to the school board before women were allowed to vote and lived her life as an educator, advocate for children and educational leader.

Belle Morris is recognized for saying that all schools should be places of conspicuous growth and colorful spaces.

Morris would be proud that the school building named after her is just that.

Former staff members attending the celebration include Letha Wilkins (teacher, 1952-1985), office staff members Sharon Godfrey and Barbara Golec and principal Sharon Roberts (1995-2003).

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 the health of Knoxville’s tree canopy.

The assessments were done Kasey Krouse 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 allows Krouse to target neighborhoods that are losing tree coverage. Different parts of town face different challenges in regard to the canopy.

The Parkridge neighborhood is rebounding from canopy loss through a three-year improvement strategy implemented by the city that involves planting street trees.

“Street trees are a tremendous asset because they improve aesthetics and property values. They make people want to live there,” he says.

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 2156113 or kkrouse@knoxvilletn.gov..

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The first challenge to the city’s y’s ng new sign ordinance isn’t coming from a big national franchisee seeking a flashing message center atop a tall pole alongside a busy highway. he Instead, it’s being filed by the owner of a homegrown business ess who has been told that she can’t n’t l place whimsical, cartoon-style 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.

ered 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 pre-existing 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 art bearing no advertising.

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“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 business. That would be consid-

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Missing the links Retired trooper vows strokes won’t end his golf game There’s a golf club in the trunk of Bryan Farmer’s car with his name on it. It’s a top-of-the-line driver, brand new and still in the box.

He bought it June 12, 2014, after playing 18 holes of golf. But that night, Farmer had a stroke of another kind – a blood clot on the left side of his brain – that has, so far, put his golf game on hold.

But even after suffering a second stroke 10 months later, he vows he’ll be back in the swing of things this month, thanks to the care he received at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center (PNRC) at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and Roane Medical Center.

“It might not be pretty, but I’m going to hit that driver,” declares Farmer, whose slightly drawn right arm and weakened right leg are reminders of that June night when a 3 a.m. bathroom visit was the first hint that something had gone wrong.

“When I got out of the bed, I noticed some extreme dizziness, to the point where I almost fell down,” said Farmer, a Harriman resident. “It was similar to a blood sugar spike. I have high blood pressure and diabetes, and I knew I got dizzy when that happened to me in the past.

I didn’t think a lot about it. I went ahead, got my balance back, went down the hall to the restroom, came back to bed and went straight to sleep. No sickness, no nothing.”

The following morning, he still had some dizziness, but not enough to prevent him from driving to Fairfield Glade where he works in quality assurance for the vacation resort. “I sat down at my desk and the dizziness came back,” he said. “I got up from my desk and walked down the hallway, and my right foot dragged the ground. Just one time, but it almost tripped me up, and one of the other guys I work with saw me and said, ‘Let’s go back into your office and sit down.’ ” It was then that one of the managers with nursing experience came in. Suspicious, she checked Farmer for stroke symptoms.

“I passed every one of them with flying colors,” said Farmer who, as a retired Tennessee Highway Patrol lieutenant, was familiar with the signs of a stroke. “No numbness, no

strokes are often not seen on CT scans within the first 24 hours. For this reason, an MRI of the brain was completed, and showed that he had indeed had a stroke.”

But even then, he still appeared to be unaffected. Then at about 3 a.m., Farmer arose from his hospital bed to go to the restroom and discovered his right side was paralyzed. “Paralysis had set in, and my right leg was useless,” said Farmer.

“It just got worse.”

Transferred by ambulance to the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders, Farmer began to realize the seriousness of his condition.

“I couldn’t move my right arm – it was drawn up and curled against my chest,” Farmer recalled.

Brian Farmer continues “My right leg was pretty to work toward returnmuch pointed to the right. ing to the golf course, I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t after suffering two move. I couldn’t even feed strokes in the last year. myself.”

Farmer was treated at On the fourth day of his the Comprehensive 31 days in Fort Sanders, Stroke Center at Fort Farmer was moved into the Sanders Regional and PNRC wing to begin his Patricia Neal Rehabilitingling, no headache. None of therapy. “I’m sitting there tation Center. that. Just dizziness.” in a wheelchair in a row of four or five other people Yet, despite the successful in wheelchairs, waiting FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) campaign to raise stroke symptom aware- on them to get therapy too,” he said. “I look ness, minor strokes can and do occur with- at some of these people, and the thought is out the person ever knowing it. Mild stroke going through my head, ‘You know, I could symptoms that recover after a brief period have been a whole lot worse. I’ve got to go of time may indicate a transient ischemic in here and do what they tell me to do to the attack (TIA) or “mini stroke.” While seldom best of my ability.’ ” deadly, TIAs are often precursors to a fullThat was made easy by the PNRC doctors, blown ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke that nurses and therapists, whose encouragemay follow if symptoms are left untreated. ment was always coupled with enthusiasm Stroke symptoms can also occur over a from Day One. span of hours or days. At first, the affected “I wish I could remember her name, but person may have little or no symptoms, but the girl who came to wheel me up to as time passes, the symptoms will become therapy was just bubbling with excitemore apparent as an estimated 32,000 brain ment and positivity,” he said. “From cells die each passing second. her to the doctors to the nurses to the Pressed to go to the emergency room, therapists, I can’t say enough good Farmer reluctantly agreed. At Parkwest things about those people. Of course, Medical Center, Farmer thought perhaps he I had a positive attitude from my had dodged a bullet when a CT scan came family and a special friend. Between back negative for stroke. those people, I couldn’t help but stay However, according to Dr. Daryl Harp, positive. The level of professionalism neuoradiologist, “Physicians are aware that and effort they put forth was amaz-

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The Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional delivering immediate and excellent care When a stroke happens, timely treatment is critical. The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional is well above the national average in delivering prompt treatment of life-saving medication.

Clot busting drugs are given to stroke patients through a vein to improve blood flow and minimize potential disabilities. The amount of time it takes for a patient to be brought in to a hospital until the moment medications are intravenously administered is referred to as “door to needle time.”

While the average door to needle time is a little Arthur Moore, more than an hour, the door to needle time at Fort Sanders Regional is 30 minutes. That’s half an MD hour faster than the national average.

It’s just one of the many advantages a patient has when treated at a comprehensive stroke center. The stroke center exists to provide the highest level of stroke care for complicated stroke cases.

ing. They were magnificent.”

“We’d only do three hours of therapy a day, but it seemed like 10,” Farmer added.

“It was really grueling because I started at Ground Zero. I lost every ounce of strength I had on my right side, and my left side too basically – my body was just sapped of strength. I remember them giving me a twopound weight to lift – two pounds! I couldn’t even pick that up!”

Still, 31 days after the stroke, Farmer was wheeled to the door and discharged from PNRC. He walked the last 15 to 20 feet to his ride home. “It wasn’t the prettiest or most graceful walk I’d ever taken,” he said, “but it was the most gratifying.”

His rehab continued a couple of weeks later at Patricia Neal Outpatient Center at Roane Medical Center, and he heaps more praise on the therapists there. “They were just top-notch, positive people, which was good for me because I had to help myself and I didn’t need someone who was going to bring me down,” he said. “They were just as determined here to make me better as they were in Knoxville. Their attitudes were great. They are really dedicated to their work, and enjoyed their work – and it showed.”

A second stroke last April, just months after finishing his outpatient rehab, slightly affected his speech and cognition but for the most part is undetectable. In the meantime, he goes to the gym three times weekly to lift weights and work on the elliptical bike.

“As far as real limitations, I have none,” said Farmer. “I can’t run. I can’t jog. I can walk ok. It takes me awhile to get somewhere but I can do it,” he says. “I’m not back to where I want to be – I want to be on the golf course right now. That’s where I want to be. And that’s where I will be in September.

It may not be pretty, but I’m going to be on that course.”

“It really exists to provide that next level up from what you can get at your local community hospital,” Arthur Moore, MD says.

“Strokes can often be treated at those hospitals, but finding out why the stroke occurred to prevent it from happening again sometimes takes someone who’s done a lot more work in treating stroke.”

Moore says finding out the “why” takes some digging into a patient’s background, and sometimes it’s not as obvious as the main risk factors.

“Stroke centers tend to be better and faster at treating stroke just because we see it all the time,” Moore says. “We have doctors who can go up into the brain and pull a clot out, and that’s a really specialized niche. Most hospitals don’t have access to someone who can do that.”

The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional sees patients from throughout East Tennessee, and even from Kentucky. To learn more, visit fsregional.com/stroke, or call (865) 541-1111.

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NORTH/EAST Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 • 3 Recently at lunch are Beverly LeCoultre Wilson, Wanda Neal, Margie Humphrey LeCoultre and Nancy Du Vergy Thomas.

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Penny Neal, Ellie Ferguson, Tommy Drinnen and Katelyn Kirk review paperwork before clinic hours at Hope Central. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Promoting health in Parkridge Residents in the Parkridge area have a new alternative for seeking healthcare close to home. Primary Care of Tennessee has partnered with Hope Central to provide a medical clinic in the Hope Central ministry center.

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The Rev. Tommy Drinnen has been in ministry for 28 years and the director of Hope Central for two years. A Central High School graduate, Drinnen has made the rounds from Knoxville to Ghana and back as a minister, teacher and coach. He has a master’s degree in education and early childhood reading and is currently completing his doctorate in spiritually transformative education at Biola University.

“Our goal is to be a Jesus neighbor and find ways to serve this neighborhood,” he said. “This is an underserved area. Hope Central and this clinic are opportunities to provide for people who don’t

have transportation.”

The health clinic started in August, and Drinnen is trying to get the word out to area residents. On the first day medical volunteers performed more than 15 school physicals. Paperwork is handled by medical volunteers, who are nursing students at King University.

Family nurse practitioners see patients. Primary Care of Tennessee oversees the clinic and is providing all supplies and equipment.

“This is a local ministry for those of us who volunteer here at the clinic,” said volunteer Penny Neal, a teacher at King University and pediatric nurse practitioner with Primary Care of Tennessee.

“It is a great opportunity for our students to come and get exposure to inner-city needs and a Christian ministry for us to meet the needs of the population.”

Ellie Ferguson is a student nurse volunteer at the clinic.

“I actually live in this neighborhood,” said Ferguson. “Volunteering here is a great way to make new friends.”

The clinic is open 11 a.m.1 p.m. each second Tuesday

City sign ordinance

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Pam Hambright thinks her dancing egg could brighten North Central. This is the view from her front door. 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 location, where it had been for five years. She rented the back half of the building to the Glowing Body Yoga Studio,

and 3-5 p.m. each fourth Wednesday. Insurance is accepted, but the clinic will treat those without insurance as well. All ages from birth to seniors are welcome at the clinic.

Hope Central holds an afterschool program for elementary students 4-5:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. There is a program for middle- and highschool students from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Hope Central is a nonprofit averaging 50 volunteers per week with numerous supporting churches, including New Hope Church. While many activities are geared toward children, Hope Central serves all ages. Veta Sprinkle is a leader and volunteer at Hope Central.

“We intentionally do not try to fi x problems but encourage families to find solutions,” said Sprinkle. “We help connect them with resources and assist them in overcoming obstacles.”

The current location at 1944 Woodbine Ave. serves a 50-block area and is getting tight on space. Drinnen says they are looking for a larger location.

why should the city be opposed to that? 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.”

Teacher, students meet to talk …

69 years later

By Sandra Clark Margie LeCoultre, retired principal, is still having lunch with her fourthgrade teacher.

But the teacher, Wanda Neal, is now 90, and the “kids” are 77.

“We have had a great time sitting at Puleo’s Restaurant and just chatting away. She is so precious!” says LeCoultre. Their next lunch date is for The Front Porch in Powell.

LeCoultre writes: “Wanda Neal had just graduated from Maryville College in 1946, when she was assigned a fourth-grade class of 10-year-old students at Fair Garden Elementary School in East Knoxville.

“Wanda had majored in French and definitely wanted to teach that subject. The Knoxville City Schools system was in short supply of teachers at the end of WWII and teachers were placed where the need arose.”

Wanda shares the following: “Feeling a bit unprepared for the job at hand, since my experience with nine year olds was zero, I struggled to keep the fastest learners ‘busy.’ After giving them what I considered to be enough needed work, within a few minutes little Margie Humphrey and Nancy Du Vergy would be hovering over my desk declaring, ‘We’re finished. What do you want us to do now?’

“This memory came back

Wanda Neal as a new teacher in 1946

to me after many years of teaching.

“A young first-year teacher came into my room, after about an hour on the first day of school, and asked in anguish, ‘I’ve already taught them everything I know.

What am I to do now?’ I smiled at my memory and told her it would get easier and to hang in there.

“All in all, that first year at Fair Garden was a very important learning year for me, and one I will always remember. At the time, I was engaged to be married the coming summer and did not return to teaching until after my three girls were all in school. I completed my teaching career in eighth grade English and American history at Sunnyview Elementary School. (A better fit than fourth grade.)

“In the seventies, two of my daughters began their

teaching careers at Fair Garden. Things do seem to come full circle.

“I am certainly enjoying getting together with my first-year students. It is pleasantly different from the lunches in the cafeteria those 60-plus years ago.

We have so much more in common now, and I don’t have to think of something to keep them busy.”

Wanda’s most recent lunch with first-year students included Beverly LeCoultre Wilson, Nancy Du Vergy Thomas and Dr. Margie Humphrey LeCoultre.

LeCoultre followed her fourth-grade teacher into the classroom as she taught first, second and third grades and was principal of four elementary schools in Knoxville and Knox County.

Wanda Neal welcomed any assistance she could receive as she looked at her very active fourth-graders. Nancy Du Vergy’s mother, Gladys, also taught at Fair Garden and was very supportive of the young new teacher.

Years later, Wanda taught her student Nancy’s daughter, Laura Thomas, at Sunnyview Elementary School, which was the first generation (Nancy) to the second (Laura) for this family.

Wanda Neal Frye Weichel remains very active. She attends Eastminster Presbyterian Church, plays bridge with two card groups and immensely enjoys her family and friends.

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.

“If a business is willing to spend $10,000 of their own money to make their neighborhood more appealing,

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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.

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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

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■ 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 ■ Carter Senior Center: 9040 Asheville Highway 932-2939 Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Corryton Senior Center: 9331 Davis Drive 688-5882 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday Hours vary Wednesday, Sept 2: 9 a.m. billiards, quilting; 10 a.m. dominoes; 11 a.m. open game; 1 p.m. Rook.

Bill Dunn greets resident John Simmons.

Thursday, Sept. 3: 9 a.m. billiards, quilting; 1 p.m. pinochle; 1:30 p.m. Zumba Gold.

Friday, Sept. 4: 9 a.m.

SAIL exercise, billiards; 11 a.m. Senior Meals (must sign up); 1 p.m. card making; 1:30 p.m. Zumba Gold.

Bill Dunn talks with residents Muriel and Clayton Brewer.

Photos by Brittany Ricker

Dunn talks legislation at

Monday, Sept. 7: Closed for Labor Day. Tuesday, Sept. 8: 9 a.m. billiards; 10 a.m. Veteran Services; 10:30 a.m. Super Seniors; 1 p.m. pinochle; 1:30 p.m. Zumba Gold.

■ Larry Cox Senior Center: 3109 Ocoee Trail 546-1700 Monday-Friday Hours vary Wednesday, Sept. 2: 9 a.m. power walk; 11 a.m. Wii play exercise; 11:30 a.m. hot meals (sign up).

Thursday, Sept. 3: 9 a.m. power walk; 10 a.m. Sit N Be Fit; 6:30 p.m. community dance.

Monday, Sept. 7: 9 a.m. power walk; 7 p.m. community dance.

Tuesday, Sept. 8: 9 a.m. power walk; 10 a.m. Sit N Be Fit. ■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center: 611 Winona St. 523-1135 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Enjoy: Fitness, bingo, Friday night dances 7-9 p.m.

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.

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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.

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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-

Upcoming

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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City talks energy efficiency at Compassion Coalition Heavy lifting

By Wendy Smith The community spent millions of dollars helping people pay utility bills last year, and a big chunk of that money came from churches, according to Knoxville Sustainability Director Erin Gill.

She wants churches and community organizations, like those represented at last week’s Compassion Coalition Salt & Light Lunch, to get involved with finding permanent solutions to high utility bills, rather than the “Band-Aid” approach of handing out Louise Gorenflo of Knoxville Scores and Knoxville Sustainabilmoney. ity Director Erin Gill Photo by Wendy Smith In 2014, 14,000 Knoxville families received $3.8 million to help pay utility Rogero founded the Smart- to-read energy-saving tips, Cities Partnership, like washing clothes in cold bills. Older homes close to er the city center, which are which is making headway water and sealing air leaks often owned or rented by with education, one of around windows and doors. low-income families, tend IBM’s main recommenda- Gill provided copies of the brochure to church memto have high bills due to lack tions.

Literature about energy bers and nonprofit groups of weatherization. Federal funding provided weath- efficiency can be over- to distribute to low-income erization for just 30 homes whelming, Gill said. Terms friends and clients.

She gave details on how like “kilowatt hours” don’t last year, Gill said.

In 2013, the city was mean much to those who to apply for the Knoxville awarded $400,000 worth need energy education the Extreme Energy Makeover (KEEM) program anof technical assistance most.

In response to this, the nounced by the city last from IBM to evaluate how to connect low-income Smarter Cities Partnership week. TVA, KUB and the County populations with energy- has produced a brochure ti- Knoxville-Knox efficient services. In re- tled “Savings in the House” CAC are partnering to prosponse, Mayor Madeline that contains simple, easy- vide free weatherization up-

grades for 1,200 homes in And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will Knoxville over the next two draw all people to myself. years.

(John 12: 32 NRSV) Income-eligible homeI was carried to church owners and renters, with when I was two weeks landlord permission, who old, and mostly, have Cross live within city limits can Currents been there ever since. apply for KEEM and other There are advantages Lynn weatherization programs 8 and disadvantages. At a Pitts a.m. to 4:45 p.m. through young age, we learn with Friday, Sept. 4, at the L.T. our limited understandRoss Building, 2247 Westing. If we never re-think ern Ave. or re-consider our youth- that picture, considering Louise Gorenflo of Knoxful understandings, we the concept of “lifting up” ville Scores also spoke at the when it dawned on me don’t grow in the faith. luncheon. The faith commuthat our job as Christians So, I was startled on a nity should care about the is exactly that: to “lift up” recent Sunday morning to gifts of creation and want to Christ. realize that to be “lifted avoid wasting what’s been Not physically, but up” could have various given to us, she said. metaphorically.

And not meanings.

Knoxville is one of 50 only with our mouths.

There is the literal incities nationwide that are We are called to live terpretation that witnesscompeting in the two-year, our lives in such a way es of the crucifi xion saw $50 million Georgetown that Christ is lifted up. in painful clarity.

Jesus University Energy Prize was lifted up on a cross, We are to shine (in his contest. The contest meaand the purpose of that reflected glory) so that all sures energy savings in elevation was torture, the world can look at us municipal buildings, public agony, and a slow death at and see Christ. We are to schools and residences, and the hands of the Roman be the body of Christ in the Knoxville Scores team soldiers, who were – to the world. encourages homeowners to My friends, we can’t do be fair – only doing their weatherize homes and inthat alone. We need each duty. crease energy efficiency.

But there is another other, because together, One goal is to get 1,000 way in which Jesus can be we are smarter and bethomeowners to get TVA eSter and richer and holier lifted up. core energy audits by the than any one of us can be The small, country end of the year. So far, 733 alone. church where I worship households have received Lift Christ up by how these days has a picture audits. Knoxville is curof the Christ above the you live and love and rently in 13th place in the pulpit. I was looking at work in this world! contest, Gorenflo said.

She recommended that churches set a goal of having 10 percent of members sign up for energy audits.

Weatherized homes are ■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County meeting, 10 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 4, Bethel A.M.E. Church, 3811 Boyds Bridge Pike. Bible more comfortable, have study led by Rela White to follow at 10:30. better resale value and help the environment, and TVA ■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County meeting, 10 a.m. offers rebates for some upFriday, Sept. 4, Bethel A.M.E. Church, 3811 Boyds Bridge Pike. Bible study led by Rela White to follow at 10:30. grades. Info: www.Knox villeScores.org.

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Rich and Pat Hunt of Fall Creek Apiary stand with two of the 12 honey-producing beehives on their farm. Photo by S. Carey

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“We met so many nice people, and we have so many repeat customers,” said Pat. Rich is willing to help new beekeepers learn the skills they will need to care for the bees. Each bee has an assigned job, he said. He stops gathering honey in July so the hives will have nourishment through the winter.

“They are the most awesome creature on this Earth,” Rich said. “It shows how wonderful God is to give a creature like that that we can work with.”

Pat pointed out that honeybees are in danger from certain chemicals, and their role as pollinators is vital to agriculture.

“They call them the vanishing bees,” she said.

The Hunts try to shop in Union County when they can, so they buy their foundations and frames from the Union County Farmers Coop, which recently started stocking beekeeping supplies.

Pat thanked everyone who has purchased honey from Fall Creek Apiary, and all who will in the future.

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Rich and Pat Hunt’s herd numbers more than 700,000 head of livestock.

That sounds like nonsense until you realize they’re talking about bees.

The Fall Creek Apiary (the official term for a bee farm) has 12 hives, each with around 60,000 bees.

The Hunts harvest the honey from spring to July and sell it at the Union County Farmers Market.

But life wasn’t always so sweet. The Hunts moved from Florida after they retired, and they brought with them a son who was dying from multiple sclerosis. Within two months, he passed away.

Their neighbors, many of them strangers, brought food for the family.

“I couldn’t believe it. People were so wonderful,” said Pat. Four years ago, the Hunts went to a 4-H speech contest with their granddaughter and met a family that raised bees for honey.

They went to a bee club meeting in Knoxville and won a state grant for beginning beekeepers, including a hive, a smoker and a protective suit.

“It was kind of a Godsend after our son died,” said Pat. “It gave us something to focus on besides our grief.”

Now, they belong to four bee clubs, including Bee Friends in Tazewell. This is their first year selling honey at the Farmers Market, and they’re getting close to

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Cheering on the Carter Hornets this year are: (front) Caroline Allen, Alyssa Dutton, Leanna Luttrell, Lacey Russell, Baylee Phillips, Shelby Shields; (back) Ayana Jones, Bri Miranda, Kelsey Pollard, Gemma Pierce, Emma Hill, Chloe Sherrod, Abby Hudson and Macy Meredith. Photo by R. White Christenberry Elementary student Nevaeh Cannon (with Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero) was on hand to greet guests at the school’s recent announcement for its community schools program. Photo by R. White

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Christenberry’s community school

Tennova Healthcare has announced a major donation to the community school at Christenberry Elementary. Dr. Jerry Askew, Tennova’s vice president of external relations, said Tennova is pleased to support the school’s successful work on the building blocks of health – family and community engagement.

Christenberry launched the community school program two years ago, starting with tutoring. The program has since grown to 290 students and families receiving tutoring, medical services, enrichment and parent education. While many of

today’s students face challenges such as poverty, disabilities and language barriers, community schools make the schools a hub of learning.

Three new programs have been launched this year, including Beaumont Magnet, Dogwood Elementary and Northwest Middle School.

“The community school program has led to better outcomes for kids,” said Stephanie Welch, vice president of operations at the Great Schools Partnership. “Kids in community schools are more likely to miss fewer days and improve academic outcome.”

Love those Friday nights There is something almost magical about Friday nights during football season. Is it the game itself or the activities beyond the field that create excitement?

to happen.

At the beginning of the season, the playing field is level. Everyone has the same record, and the possibility of having a winning season is on everyone’s wish list. Some teams will make it to the playoffs and Ruth possibly win a state chamWhite pionship. Others may win a couple of games during the season, having given their all for the team they love.

The sounds from a high The first of every season school stadium are always is always an exciting time loud and proud with stufor me for several reasons: 1) dents exclaiming that they the smell of freshly cut grass believe in their team. Shopand the slight drop in tem- per News intern Annie peratures; 2) the marching Dockery attended a high band, led by the sounds of school game with me durthe drumline; 3) the cheers ing the first week of play from the stands that erupt and was impressed with with every great play; and the amount of activity. At 4) promises of great things one moment we were talk-

ing with students in the end zone ready to get the game started, then we quickly moved to the field as the band lined up for the team run-through and then to the sidelines to watch the activity off the field. Add in the band playing the school fight song and the cheerleaders and dance team members performing a sideline routine, cheers from the student section and a little football and that might have been the best $8 spent in a long time.

If you haven’t been to a game in a while, grab your seat cushion, pick up a couple of shakers and head out to your favorite school’s next game. It sure beats any Friday night television reruns I’ve seen in a while.

Games in the area this

Carter High drum major Noah Fawver leads the band high atop the platform at a football game

Friday, Sept. 4, include Austin-East at Tellico Plains, Carter hosting Union County and Fulton hosting Anderson County. Kick-off is at 7:30 p.m.

Central honors top Bobcat athletes/coaches

By Ruth White Central High School has inducted five former Bobcats (coaches and athletes) at the school’s first Sports Hall of Fame breakfast.

Tommy Schumpert, a 1956 graduate of CHS, returned to the school to teach and coach. Judge Tim Irwin was a football player for Schumpert. In a video interview, Irwin called his former coach “more than just a coach” and talked of how Schumpert taught team members life skills. He also called Schumpert “fair and compassionate, someone who set an example through leadership.”

“Coach is a name that I treasure,” said Schumpert.

“Central High School means a lot to me, and I am humbled to be an inductee.”

Lorie Compton Rheinecker was a standout athlete for the Bobcats 1980-83.

She excelled in softball, basketball and volleyball and

was called “one of the greatest in all sports.” One of Rheinecker’s best memories from high school is being taught how to work as a team.

She went on to Lincoln Memorial University to play basketball and softball and now is the physical education teacher at Sterchi Elementary. “I was highly competitive in high school,” she said to laughter from the crowd. “I used to think winning was the only thing, but the team bond we formed will always remain in my heart.”

Rheinecker remembers wanting a new softball glove her senior year. The glove cost quite a bit, and she was told that she had to decide between the glove and a senior ring. “I still have that glove,” she said.

Bud Bales spent 30 years teaching and coaching at Central and racked up a ton of awards, including Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame, East Tennessee Baseball Hall

Honored at Central High School’s Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony were Joel Helton (represented by his daughter Alison and son Zach), Bud Bales, Lorie Compton Rheinecker, Tony Cosey and Tommy Schumpert. Photo by R. White of Fame, 17 district baseball championships, eight baseball regional championships and the 1990 baseball state championship.

Former player Andy Bolton remembers the excitement of playing for a coach like Bales. “He taught his team humility and life skills that went way beyond the baseball field.” He added that everyone left the program a better person because of Bales.

Tony Cosey is a 1991 CHS grad. He graduated a five-time state champion in track and cross country and set many state records.

Cosey went to the University of Tennessee, where he was a seven-time All American in his four years at school.

His success on the track led him to the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

Cosey excelled as a runner and was humbled to be named to the Hall of Fame.

“A lot of great athletes came through Central. This is where it all began.”

Cosey considers his success a blessing and talent from God, and he gives Him all of the praise for his career. He also credits all of the people that poured into his life and believed in him.

Joel Helton was inducted posthumously, and his children, Alison and Zach Helton, received the honor in his memory. Helton was described as a winner in every sport he ever coached but will be most remembered for the way he treated his players. Many times Helton would take players home when they didn’t have a ride, would make sure they had food to eat and was a father figure to them.

Alison Helton said that Central was her dad’s life, and he would have been honored to be part of the Hall of Fame. “He taught us

that there was always someone we could help out and to love people well.”

Zach Helton said his dad was his hero, and he dreamed of playing football at CHS for him. “Dad loved talking to former players or getting letters from them.

He loved being a Bobcat, and he loved Central High School,” said Alison.

Fountain City Exxon owner Alvin Frye was honored as a friend of Central High School. For Frye, it’s not about pumping gas or fi xing cars … it’s about being there for the community.

More from Belle Morris’ 100th anniversary celebration

Ruth Snelson, 99, was recognized as the oldest living former student.

Fulton High football players Johnny Hutchinson and Arshon Geter shoot confetti during the celebration at Belle Morris Elementary School. Also helping out were teammates Presley Carver and Corban Carver. The players are former Belle Morris students. Geter also sang the National Anthem.

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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 works are her lively, colorful is forced into a revenge plot that has to do with a Russian criminal 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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Don’t trip on ‘The 39 Steps’

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

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.

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captioned performance is Sunday, Sept. 27, at 2 p.m.

Cast members are David Brian Alley, Katie Cunningham, Brian Gligor and David Kortemeier. Ticket info: 865-656-4444 or clarence browntheatre.com.

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Science meets nature 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

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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 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 notifica-

Imperial eagle with GPS tracking device

tion 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-poor-wills, 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 white-throated sparrows and purple finches, the yellow-bellied sapsuckers and ruby-crowned

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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.

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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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Envision Art Gallery: a dream come true

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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

Alex Brownfield of Volunteer Knoxville with Frank Rothermel of Farragut Rotary Photo by Bonny C. Millard

Opportunities to volunteer

By Bonny C. Millard 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.

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SEEKING VENDORS The Union County Heritage Festival is seeking arts-and-crafts vendors, food vendors, demonstrators and nonprofit booths for the festival, to be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Wilson Park in Maynardville. The festival draws more than 4,000 people each year. Info/booth pricing: Marilyn Toppins, mtoppins51@comcast.net.

THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPT. 6 Tickets on sale for Mabry-Hazen House Boomsday, Bluegrass and Barbecue celebration, 6 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 6. Info/tickets: mabryhazen.com or 522-8661.

THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT. 22 Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memories” show featuring Pat Boone and Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Info/tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2 Tennessee Shines: The Lonetones with poet Brian Griffin, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 3 Goodwill Vintage Fashion Show and Sale, 6 p.m., Hilton Knoxville, 501 W. Church Ave. Tickets: $40; includes dinner, fashion show and entrance to the Vintage Boutique. Info: goodwillknoxville.org/vintage; 588-8567.

Knoxville Writers’ Guild meeting, 7 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Program: David Payne will read from his newly released memoir, “Barefoot to Avalon.” Open to the public. A $2 donation requested at the door. Info: KnoxvilleWritersGuild.org.

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.

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.

Movie and Popcorn: “Elsa and Fred,” 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 4 Grand opening: Broadway Studios & Gallery, 5-9 p.m., 1127 N. Broadway. Featuring “Gaudy Gold Frame Show.” Info: BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com.

Opening reception for Art Market Gallery’s Featured Artists, 5:30 p.m., Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St. September’s featured artists: painter Gary Dagnan of Knoxville and potter Larry Gabbard of Kingston.

Exhibit on display through Sept. 27. Info: 525-5265; artmarketgallery.net; on Facebook.

Opening reception for “Conversations: Portraits & Other Work” by Emily Taylor, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Exhibit displayed in the Balcony gallery Sept. 4-25. Info: 523-7543; theemporiumcenter. com.

Opening reception for “Fine Arts Blount” exhibit, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Exhibit on display Sept. 4-25. Info: 523-7543; knoxalliance.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, SEPT. 4-5 Biodiversity Hike to Mount Le Conte. Cost: $275. Includes guided hike up Alum Cave Bluff Trail, picnic lunch, evening sunset program about the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) at Clifftops, handmade note cards from Discover Life in America (DLIA) and lodging with dinner and breakfast. Info/registration: Todd, todd@dlia.org or 430-4757.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 5 Financial Workshop: understand Social Security and maximize its benefits, 10:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Presented by Darrell Keathley from COFFE (Community Outreach For Financial Education). Registration required. Info/ registration: 777-1750.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info: feralfelinefriends.org.

Opening reception for “The Love of Art” exhibit by members of the Tennessee Art Association, 5-8 p.m., Envision Art Gallery (Bearden Art District) 4050 Sutherland Ave. On display through Sept. 30. Info: kay@ kaylistart.com or 438-4154.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 6 Wears Valley UMC Old Harp Shape Note Singing, 2 p.m., 3110 Wears Valley Road in Wears Valley.

All invited; tune books provided. Info: Bruce Wheeler, 428-2239.

The fledgling organization Volunteer Knoxville is hosting an expo on Sept. 9 to bring together nonprofit organizations 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

TUESDAY, SEPT. 8 Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting, 7 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Program at 8 p.m. Speaker: Dennis E. Frye, chief historian at Harpers Ferry National Park. Topic: “September Suspense, Lincoln’s most tenuous time.” Lecture only: $3; dinner and lecture: $17. RSVP deadline: noon Monday, Sept. 7, to 671-9001.

Open enrollment for beginner’s square dance class, 7 p.m., Square Dance Center, 828 Tulip St. Lessons $5; first lesson free. Info: R.G. Pratt, 947-3238.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9 Tennessee Shines: Handsome & the Humbles, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10.

Info/tickets: jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 10 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., AAA office, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffic offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254; Stephanie, 862-9252.

“Composting: Hot and Fast or Cold and Easy” class, 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presenter: Master Gardener Rita Carter. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892; knoxcountymastergardener.org.

Knoxville Square Dance, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Live old-time music by the Hellgrammites; calling by Stan Sharp, Ruth Simmons and Leo Collins. Admission: $7, $5 for students and JCA members. Info: on Facebook.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, SEPT. 10-11 AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Fort Sanders Senior Center, 1220 W. Main St., Sevierville.

Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11 Country Dancing for Seniors, 6:30-10 p.m., RiverView Family Farm, 12130 Prater Lane. Lessons, 6:30-7. No alcohol, no smoking. Featuring: two step, swing, line, couples, disco, waltz, mixers and more. Info: 988-8043; 966-1120.

“How To Use Facebook for Seniors,” 10 a.m.noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30. Info/registration: 218-3375; townoffarragut.org/ register; in person at Town Hall.

Legacy Parks Foundation Luncheon, Holston River Farm at the head of the Tennessee River. Speaker: Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times bestselling author of “Wild.” Info/reservations: legacyparks.org or 525-2585.

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NEWS FROM SOUTHEASTERN RETINA ASSOCIATES

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outheastern Retina Associates, with 10 locations serving the Knoxville region, recently won the Top Site Award for clinical research from the National Eye Institute’s Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research network.

Southeastern Retina also has 8 other offices throughout East TN, Southwest VA and Northern GA. This marks the third year that Southeastern Retina Associates has won this prestigious national award.

The award means that Southeastern Retina Associates has demonstrated outstanding performance out of the 115 US participating sites of the DRCR network.

The award doesn’t just mean that they’ve signed up the most patients for clinical trials. It means that they provide the highest level of cutting-edge care to the patients enrolled in their clinical trials.

For 20 years, Southeastern Retina Associates has been at the forefront of clinical trials to treat various eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular disorders, and other ocular conditions.

These trials have helped bring life-changing treatments to those who need them most.

“By actively participating in clinical trials, Southeastern Retina physicians can provide their patients with access to sight-saving treatments not available at other practices in the region,” said Dr. Nick Anderson.

Over the years, Southeastern Retina Associates has become a center for challenging case referrals, and their top-notch physicians and cutting-edge technology make it the ideal choice.

“I was the second person in the group,” said Dr. Joseph

Googe Jr. “I have watched the group grow. One of the great things we’ve succeeded in is recruiting really good doctors who trained at the top programs in the country. It has been very gratifying.”

Southeastern Retina Associates boasts an all-star staff of physicians with an impressive list of credentials. With medical schools and ophthalmology residencies like Duke, Emory and Vanderbilt, and retinal fellowships at facilities like Wills Eye Hospital and the Massachusetts Ear and Eye Infirmary of Harvard University, the depth of knowledge is some of the best in the country.

According to Dr. Googe, advances in technology have made fundamental changes in the way Southeastern Retina Associates treats patients.

“The technology just exploded and changed how we treat a lot of eye disease, es-

“By actively participating in clinical trials, Southeastern Retina physicians can provide their patients with access to sight-saving treatments not available at other practices in the region.”

– Dr. Nick Anderson pecially in the last 10 years,” he said.

“When I first started, we didn’t have much treatment for what we diagnosed. Now, new treatments have been developed. We see a lot of patients with macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, and now we have better treatments for those conditions.”

Much of these better treatments are due to clinical trials conducted at Southeastern Retina Associates.

Dr. Keith Shuler says, “We are always looking at potential new therapies by participating in national clinical trials, it is just part of what we do.”

SERA is currently enrolling patients in trials for agerelated macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease and retinal vein occlusions.

To ask about clinical trials now enrolling, patients and referring physicians may call 1-888-KnoxRet (566-9738).

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James H. Miller, Jr., M.D.

Tod A. McMillan,, M.D.

Stephen L. Perkins, M.D.

Nicholas G. Anderson, M.D.

R. Keith Shuler, Jr., M.D.

Providing comprehensive Retina Care in East Tennessee for over 35 years. Nationally recognized as the Most Experienced Retina Team in East Tennessee.

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