NORTH / EAST VOL. 4 NO. 18
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May 4, 2016
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BUZZ Ritta leader Shawnda Ernst will be the principal of Ritta Elementary School, effective with the 2016-17 school year. She has been interim principal for much of this school year. She joined Knox County Schools as a first grade teacher at Beaumont and Pond Gap elementary schools in 1996. She was a TAP lead teacher and assistant principal at Pond Gap before joining the staff at Ritta in 2013. Ernst holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in education from UT Knoxville and obtained the educational specialist degree from LMU.
Thomas kickoff
Knox County Commissioner Bob Thomas will kick off his campaign for county mayor at the same place Tim Burchett announced his candidacy seven or so years ago. All are invited to a free baloney lunch with R.C. Colas and Moon Pies from 11:30 to 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, at Powell Auction and Realty, 6729 Pleasant Ridge Road behind the Clinton Highway Walmart. Commissioner Ed Brantley will serve as master of ceremonies for his friend and colleague Thomas. Entertainment will be provided by the Chillbillies, and Sammy “Barney� Sawyer will make the rounds.
Blueberry takes a walk.
Knoxville history in the making:
the photography of Brian McDaniel By Betty Bean Brian McDaniel remembers the day he bought his first camera – July 5, 1978. He’d had a conversation with a friend about where his life was going. “Photography came up and I opted to go with that,� he said. Nearly 38 years later, he has
By Betsy Pickle If a volunteer plants a tree in the woods, will anyone hear? They will if it’s Comcast Cares Day and the woods are at the Baker Creek Preserve in the Urban Wilderness, and it’s not one tree but 1,000. Last Saturday was the 15th annual Comcast Cares Day, and the latest addition to the UW got some cleaning, clearing, planting, trail-building and maintenance
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McDaniel, whose full-time work is at McKay’s Used Books, started his photographic career working at newspapers around East Tennessee, and in 2007 was employed at Thompson Photo Products when a customer, Jane
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– as well as decking on the Red Bud Bridge – from Comcast employees, their families, the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club and even a Girl Scout troop. Around 275 volunteers spread out to work on 10 different projects beginning at 8 a.m. With tools provided by Ijams Nature Center and Keep Knoxville Beautiful and gloves supplied by HGTV (which also donated prizes for the workers), they poured all their energy
into bringing Baker Creek Preserve closer to its official opening to the public. Russell Byrd, local senior director of external affairs for Comcast, helped plant trees on an old logging road. He also got a tour of Baker Creek Preserve (formerly known as the Wood Property) from Matthew Kellogg, president of AMBC. “This is an amazing park,� said Byrd. “I went all the way up to
the top with Matt Kellogg ‌ and looked at the trails, and it’s just amazing what they have out here. “Our employees wanted to do something that was green, and I worked with City Council member Nick Pavlis, and we came up with this project, and I’m very glad that we did. It’s beautiful.â€? Byrd estimated that there were about 65 Comcast employees, plus representatives of their partners, on the site.
Sidewalk study shows needs in school zones By Sandra Clark
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“It’s cool to think that I have a hobby that actually pays for itself – a self-supporting hobby,� he said “I’ve been able to buy a couple of cameras I wouldn’t have been able to afford, and to travel on photography trips. Bliss Home (a Market Square shop that sells his photographs) has been very kind to me.�
Comcast employees, others volunteer at Baker Creek Preserve
First Friday Nostalgia on McCalla will host a First Friday event from 6-9 p.m. Friday, May 6, with a “day after Cinco de Mayo� party with taco bar and beverages. Join us for a day after Cinco de Mayo party with taco bar and beverages. The outdoor market will open with local artisans, vintage, retro, industrial, repurposed, shabby chic and antique booths. Nostalgia on McCalla is located at 1401 McCalla Avenue. Info: about First Friday, 865622-3252; about booth space, call Jeje at 865-368-6921.
honed his photography skills and turned a hobby into an avocation that gives him great satisfaction – and turns a profit. Assisted by his wife, Carol, he is recording familiar local scenes and producing stunning images in the form of photographs, notecards and even coffee mugs.
Mayor Madeline Rogero called for $2.7 million for sidewalks and crosswalks across the city, when she presented her budget last week, including $750,000 for sidewalks within school Parental Responsibility Zones and another $750,000 for new sidewalk construction. Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will present his budget Monday, May 9. We’ll see then what he proposes. Regardless, sidewalks present a dilemma – residents at planning meetings consistently request them; some like those in West Hills even rally at 7 a.m. to demonstrate the need for sidewalks. Yet sidewalks are a low budget priority for decision-makers, al-
Morris Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Powell Elementary, Powell High School and BrickeyMcCloud Elementary. “Using this knowledge about where the greatest pedestrian demand and/or potential exists should provide a focused starting point for pedestrian project planning,� the report concluded. Seems sensible, yet Knox County has built sidewalks over the past 3-4 years at Halls Elementary and from Karns Elementary to Karns Middle – both areas where political pressure was intense and neither was on the priority list. Just a thought, but why not drop by to chat with Burchett at one of his nine meetings over two days following his budget presentation. And we dare you to walk:
Monday, May 9: â– Budget presentation, 9 a.m., City County Building â– South Knoxville Senior Center, 11:30 a.m., 6729 Martel Lane â– Strang Senior Center, 1:30 p.m., 109 Lovell Road â– Halls Senior Center, 2:45 p.m., 4405 Crippen Road â– Carter Senior Center, 4 p.m., 9040 Asheville Highway â– Burlington Branch Library, 5:30 p.m., 4614 Asheville Highway Tuesday, May 10: â– Karns Senior Center, 1 p.m., 8042 Oak Ridge Highway â– Cedar Bluff Library, 2 p.m., 9045 Cross Park Drive â– Bearden Library, 3 p.m., 100 Golfclub Road â– Fountain City Library, 4 p.m., 5300 Stanton Road
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most at the bottom of the wants and needs list. A January 2014 study prepared for the Knox County Department of Engineering and Public Works by Transportation Consultants Inc. identified locations within the county having the greatest potential and actual usage of walk-toschool trips. The study showed 22,322 of Knox County’s 59,276 students live within the Parental Responsibility Zones where bus transportation is not provided. Using a complex formula, planners determined the top schools for walkers if sidewalks were installed. These are, in order: Cedar Bluff Elementary, Londsdale Elementary, Blue Grass Elementary, Belle
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health & lifestyles
Sign of a stroke Billboard leads Johnson University EMT to choose Fort Sanders If it had been anyone else, Perry Morin would’ve been among the first to help. Only this time, he was the one who needed help. A 52-year-old emergency medical technician who lives on the Johnson University campus where he is safety manager, Morin suddenly found himself on the receiving end of emergency care late one night last August when an ischemic stroke left him in a heap on his bathroom floor. His entire right side was powerless to move and his speech slurred as his wife, Angie, asked where he wanted the ambulance to take him. “That billboard popped into my head,” said Perry, referring to the large billboard he had seen on Chapman Highway countless times last summer. “I don’t remember the exact wording, but it was a Covenant Health and Fort Sanders billboard that said something like, ‘The Region’s No. 1 Stroke Care Facility.’ I don’t know why, but it just popped into my head. So that’s why I chose Fort Sanders.” Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center was the first in the area to earn an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification by The Joint Commission, a nonprofit organization that accredits and certifies more than 20,500 health care programs in the United States. This “gold-seal” advanced certification means that Fort Sanders is recognized as having the most advanced and effective stroke treatments available. Today, he’ll tell you that choosing Fort Sanders was one the best decisions of his life. A quick and accurate diagnosis and treatment with the clot-busting drug tPA (tissue Plasminogen Activator) resulted in Perry’s discharge two days later without any impairments. “They were terrific. They were more than professional,” Perry said of the nursing staff and emergency department physician, Dr. David Bishop. “They recognized what was going on. They assessed me quickly and took care of it. They put me in a CT and figured out that I’d had an ischemic stroke which is treatable with tPA.” It all began around 11:15 p.m. on Aug. 4, 2015, when Perry was brushing his teeth before bed. “Suddenly, I realized I couldn’t hold my toothbrush very well – it seemed heavy to me,” Perry recounted. “I thought, ‘what is this?! This is really strange.’ I think I may have recognized it was a stroke. That’s when I fell down and slammed into the bathroom door.” The racket sent the rest of the Morin family scrambling – Angie from the living room, 17-year-old Benjamin from his man cave and 13-year-old Lydia from her bedroom. “I heard a big thud so I walked in and saw Mom had already dialed 911,” said Benjamin. “My sister was upset so I went and tried to calm her down.” “So I’m just lying on the floor thinking ‘This is weird’ because I was recognizing what was going on,” said Morin. “I was cognizant, I was alert, and I was awake. It didn’t hurt -- nothing hurt. I was just lying there and I couldn’t move my right side at all.” “He was very lucid with me,” said Angie. “I don’t think he said ‘stroke.’ I don’t think I said stroke. I don’t think either of us wanted to say that word. We just waited and prayed because we don’t live very close to the hospital way out here. The ambulance service got here very quickly.”
Perry Morin is grateful for the treatment he received at the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional. It’s that treatment that allows him to continue enjoying afternoons with his wife, Angie, and daughter, Lydia.
The Seymour Volunteer Fire Department arrived first, followed closely by Rural Metro, one of Perry’s former employers and staffed by a former co-worker. While talking with his former colleague, he overheard another paramedic say that his blood pressure was more than 200 over 100. “I had been
taking blood pressure medicine for several years,” he said. “I thought it was under control. Obviously, it wasn’t. At least that day it wasn’t.” As the EMTs placed him on a stretcher and maneuvered him out of the house into the waiting ambulance, Morin saw other mem-
bers of Johnson University’s first responder team were also helping. “I would’ve normally responded to myself,” he said with a laugh. “But since I couldn’t, others in our group responded and helped the ambulance crew.” It was almost midnight when Morin was wheeled into the emergency department at Fort Sanders and taken directly to imaging where a CT scan confirmed Dr. Bishop’s suspicion of a stroke, likely caused by hypertension. He was given medication to lower his blood pressure, and after receiving Perry’s left-handed authorization, the tPA was administered around 1:30 a.m. Within 20 minutes, Angie could see her husband’s eyes brighten. Within 30 to 45 minutes, Perry was himself again. Two days later, he was discharged after passing all the physical, neurological and speech assessments. Two weeks later, he was back at Johnson University working full-time. Perry now realizes taking his blood pressure medicine alone isn’t enough – he must also check his blood pressure regularly. “I didn’t pay any attention to it all summer,” he said. “I take my blood pressure more often now and more routinely than I used to. I check it several times a week to see if it’s trending up or down or stable. I’m walking almost every day now. I feel pretty good.” That makes Lydia feel better, too. “I am glad that Dad is not sick and that he takes medicine. He’s getting stronger every day – and every night too,” she said with a laugh. Since that night, Morin has brushed up on signs of a stroke and urges others to do the same. Likewise, he hopes others will follow that other sign’s advice and choose Fort Sanders Stroke Care Center should they need it. “The neurohospitalist, Dr. Arthur Moore, was really nice. I liked him,” said Perry. “I wish I could keep him, but I don’t want to go through that again to see him. And all the nurses were great. I had the same four nurses for two days. The nurse at discharge said we were very blessed. We agree and we praise God and thank Him.”
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 into 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 more than an hour, the door to needle time at Fort Sanders Regional is 30 minutes. That’s half an hour faster than the national average. It’s just one of the many advantages a
Moore says digging into a patient’s patient has when background is a key step in determintreated at a coming the cause, and sometimes it’s not as prehensive stroke obvious as the main risk factors. center. The stroke “Stroke centers tend to be better and center exists to faster at treating stroke just because provide the highwe see it all the time,” Moore says. “We est level of stroke have doctors who can go up into the care for complibrain and pull a clot out, and that’s a cated stroke cases. really specialized niche. Most hospitals “It really exists don’t have access to to provide that someone who can do next level up from Dr. Arthur Moore is the medical dithat.” what you can get rector of the Comprehensive Stroke at your local commuThe Comprehensive Center at Fort Sanders Regional. Stroke Center at Fort nity hospital,” Moore says. “Strokes can be Sanders Regional sees treated successfully patients from throughat those hospitals, but finding out why the out East Tennessee, and even from Kenstroke occurred to prevent it from happen- tucky. To learn more, visit fsregional. ing again can be tricky” com/stroke, or call (865) 541-1111.
stroke: LIKE IT NEVER EVEN HAPPENED. No comprehensive stroke and rehabilitation center in our region does more to reverse stroke’s devastating effects than Fort Sanders Regional Medical Fort Sanders performs Center. That’s why hospitals clinical trials and procedures for stroke not available across East Tennessee refer their anywhere else in our region. most complex stroke patients to
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us. And only Fort Sanders Regional is home to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, East Tennessee’s elite rehabilitation hospital for stroke, spinal cord and brain injury patients.
community
NORTH/EAST Shopper news • MAY 4, 2016 • 3
Brian McDaniel
Gay Street image of the Tennessee Theatre
“Knoxville Montage� contains 37 images of familiar local scenes.
Homes in the Fourth and Gill area feature beautiful architectural details. Photos by Cindy Taylor
After a busy day working with the home tour, Fourth and Gill resident Tim Parker relaxes with a crossword puzzle on his front porch. p p
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On April 24, 4 some som omee lucky luck cky ky folks stepped back in time with the 26th annual Historic Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes. Less than two miles from downtown Knoxville, the historic area features more than 250 residential structures. Many locals and former residents spent the gorgeous day strolling amongst beautifully restored early 1900’s Craftsman style homes and bungalows. “The Fourth and Gill neighborhood is one of Knoxville’s premier historic districts,� said Jenny Wright, president and Tour of Homes co-chair. “The tour included the Greystone mansion and Central UMC, one of the city’s most beautiful examples of Gothic Revival architecture.� Six local artists were showcased during the tour. Artist Heather Quinsey moved to North Knoxville
Cindy Taylor
from Ontario and says she loves living in the area. Quinsey works with found items to create one-of-akind collages and took the opportunity to show her art on her front porch during the tour. Homeowners Ben Lee and Lisi Schoenbach live on Luttrell Street with their three children. Their home was a featured residence on the tour. They rented for two years, then purchased the home in 2004. Lee says North Knoxville is a great place to live. “We love our neighbors and love that we have sidewalks,� he said. “We also
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Sampson, told him she was opening a downtown gallery called “Through the Lens,� and asked if he knew any photographers who might be interested. McDaniel, who had long admired the Jim Thompson historic photos on the walls at work, decided to give it a try. His first sale was a shot of the JFG sign that overlooked the Gay St. Bridge. When Sampson closed her gallery, she introduced him to Bliss Home owner Scott Schimmel. That partnership has thrived, and the shop features a wall of framed McDaniel photos, many of them of iconic Knoxville images. The best seller these days is a shot of McDaniels’ bluetick hound Blueberry (a rescue from a shelter in North Carolina) strolling across an orange
Brian R. McDaniel at work.
and white crosswalk with Neyland Stadium in the background. Additionally, a selection of McDaniel’s notecards is available at the Knoxville Visitors Center. “I look on this as a history project – my way of contributing to the historical record of Knoxville,� he said.
Fountain City Art Center celebrates 12 years By Cindy Taylor The Fountain City Art Center (FCAC) is celebrating its 12th anniversary with great plans for spring and summer programs, art exhibits and special events. The Knoxville Water Color Society’s All Media Exhibit will remain on display through Wednesday, May 4. The Central High National Art Honor Society Exhibit is May 4 through May 13. May 20 through June 16 will be the Fountain City Art Guild Spring Show and Sale. The art center will be open all day Monday, May 30, for the annual Fountain City Day in the Park held each year on Memorial Day. Sales of food, books and art will benefit the center. The summer will bring lots of opportunities for kids. Art classes will be held 10 to 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday mornings June 1-29. Classes are open to all children ages 6-11 and will be taught by Jan Bolus. Cost is $125 with art materials included. Coloring contest entries for children 6-11 will close May 18. Open House and “Make It, Take It� activities will be Monday, May 30. On Saturday, June 4, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. it’s off to Ivy Hill Farm for a late
like how close we are to downtown so we can walk down there a lot.� Tim Parker has lived in the neighborhood more than 25 years. He and wife Missy love their neighborhood. “My wife grew up in West Knoxville and never knew this part of town existed,� he said. “It is such a great place to live. We know all of our neighbors and have probably been in every house. All of us in the neighborhood buy different tools and then share them. We found this house on a Sunday stroll and have been here long enough now to see a whole new generation ■Alice Bell Spring Hill Neighmove in.� borhood Association. Info: Tour attendees walked at Ronnie Collins, 637-9630. their own pace through the ■Beaumont Community open residences or rode a Organization. Info: Natasha guided trolley. Murphy, 936-0139. Mark your calendar now ■Belle Morris Community for the 27th Anniversary Action Group meets 7 p.m. Tour of Homes to be held April 23, 2017.
Chris Brock and Andy LeGrand will be playing at the Cocktail Party/Concert at Ivy Hill Farm June 4 and at Fountain City Day in the Park May 30. spring cocktail party/concert and fundraiser. Rain date is June 11. The Fountain City Art Center Par-3 Golf Tournament fundraiser will begin at 10 a.m. June 18 at Beverly Park Golf Course. Info: spkknoxville@yahoo.com or 689-7688. The Fountain City Art Center 11th Annual Open Show will be June 24-July 21. Opening reception will be 6:30-8 p.m. at the center. To close out the summer there will be an Open Photography Competition and
Exhibition July 29-Aug. 26. This will be the first photography show of its kind at the center and is open to all photographers. In addition to ongoing free admission and free exhibits, the FCAC offers year-round classes and workshops. For info, visit www. fountaincityartcenter.com, email fcartcenter@knology. net or call 357-2787. Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@ gmail.com
COMMUNITY NOTES each second Monday, City View Baptist Church, 2311 Fine Ave. Info: bellemorris. com or Rick Wilen, 524-5008.
â– Town Hall East. Info: Eston Williams, 406-5412 or eston_williams@yahoo.com; facebook.com/townhalleast/ info.
Aaron Pennington, Erin Donnell and Brendan Pitz tour the home of Ben Lee and Lisi Schoenbach.
Lola Jean Lundy, Emma Lane and Athen York work their own fresh-made lemonade stand during the home tour.
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Making them cry, leaving them laughing
What do we do and why do we do it? Betty Bean spoke last week to Dr. Mark Harmon’s UT journalism class. She brought the final copy of the old Knoxville Journal. There’s a staff picture on the front page. Bean stands alone, far in the back, not quite part of the gang but still there as the proud old daily coughed and folded. “Tell those kids to study for a job with a future,� I advised; but I know she didn’t. Bean is a true believer. Also last week, a reader from Halls wrote in part ... “Please forward – as I type this through the tears still on my cheeks – my thanks and appreciation to Betty Bean for her article, ‘A Killing at Danny Mayfield Park.’ “Not being a Knoxville native, I found it to be not only an outstanding piece of history but an opportunity for my own heart’s reflection on faith, gratitude, compassion and caring.� I forwarded the email to Bean with a note: “You’ve made another one cry.� Bean later said she had expected readers to cry: “I was crying when I wrote it.� So for every person who calls to complain about our delivery system, another calls to request delivery or extra copies. Very few write to thank us, and that’s OK. We’re already out chasing the next story.
What we do The Shopper News team publishes eight unique newspapers weekly. Roughly half of the content is consistent, while the rest is unique to each zone. I’m the overall editor and “last eyes� on each page before it’s printed.
deep in the food section). Additionally, the Shopper wraps the TMC –Total Market Coverage – delivery of various pre-prints and grocery circulars in Knox and Union counties.
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A sample of this week’s work: North, South, East, West
What’s next? Also, I coordinate government and business coverage, manage the columnists and go boldly where most reporters fear to tread: MPC sector meetings. North: Shannon Carey coordinates local content for Halls/Fountain City (our oldest paper), Powell, Union County and North/East (our newest zone). Ruth White, a Shopper veteran, covers our North kids beat, takes most cover photos and generally gets around the area, assisted by Cindy Taylor. West: Sherri Gardner Howell coordinates local content for Bearden, Farragut, Karns/Hardin Valley and South Knox. Sara Barrett covers the West kids beat, takes photos and fills in when Sherri travels. Betsy Pickle covers South, while Wendy Smith covers Bearden. Newer writers are Carolyn Evans, Farragut, and Nancy Anderson, Karns/Hardin Valley. Graphics: Carol Springer, Kathryn Woycik and Jodi Littleton put the pages together. In addition, Jodi manages our website. Ad sales: Coordinated by the News Sentinel team headed by Steve Bowman, the Shopper sales manager is Amy Lutheran, assisted by Patty Fecco, Tony Cranmore and Beverly Holland. Circulation: Shoppers are distributed inside the News Sentinel for Knox County subscribers each Wednesday (actually buried
As the former Scripps papers are assimilated into the USA Today network, we will change. Shopper pages will be produced by p a g i n at ion software. The classified pages already are. The web site will be more robust with easyto-search digital archives. We will always be c h a l lenge d to do more with less. L u c k i l y, the Shopper does that well – having started with a pencil and a drop box.
Shopper News is leading efforts to develop Powell Station Park. At top, seniors enjoy a school-sponsored cookout at the park. Home Depot guys donate picnic tables. Halls High principal Mark Duff captures the pride of all parents at graduation as he hugs his daughter, Morgan.
So what? You keep reading and we’ll keep writing. That’s our bargain.
Betty Bean features Brian McDaniel, who crafted the Knoxville montage above; and yes, that’s the MPC northwest county sector plan meeting at right.
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Bearden controversy highlights KCS malaise The school year is limping toward the finish line with much unresolved.
Betty Bean
The last-minute ditching of the year-end tests, ironically known as TNReady (and before that, TCAP), has angered and confused parents from Memphis to Mountain City, and here at home, the impending superintendent swap of James McIntyre for interim Buzz Thomas will happen against a backdrop of long-running turmoil at schools like Bearden High as controversy over the once-stellar girls softball program enters year two. A formal ethics hearing is scheduled for June 6 to deal with a complaint filed by two former Bearden softball booster club parents who have gotten stuck with the cost of a new indoor batting facility, and the Shopper News has learned that a second complaint, triggered by an email principal John Bartlett sent to faculty members accusing former softball team members of ridiculing and booing the coach and team at scrimmage games, is being prepared by another parent. This complaint will allege that Bartlett’s accusation is false and that at least one
student who is a former team member has been harassed by a teacher as a result. The complaints came in the wake of the abrupt and unexplained forced resignation of coach Leonard Sams, two weeks after he The practice facility for the led his team to Bearden High School softball team Bearden’s firstever state tournament run. Filed by Randy Susong tion had not allowed other and Adam McKenry, the first entities to construct facilicomplaint says the boosters ties on school property, but would never have agreed to accepted donations from take on the task of building these entities to go toward a new batting facility if board-constructed facilities Bartlett had informed them through the board’s normal it was not legal for them to purchasing and construcdo so. They say the problem tion process.� Sams was hired as an aswas aggravated when the popular Sams, for whom sistant coach in 2007 and the facility was named, became head coach in 2011. was booted from his job, He has been appointed to crippling their fundraising coach USA Softball’s 18-unability and leaving the two der team in Spain this sumof them on the hook for a mer, and several student$700 monthly payment. athletes transferred into The school board signed off Bearden to play for him. The Bearden and KCS on the plan. A state audit, released in administrations at first atearly April, found several tempted to pass his deparirregularities in the bid and ture off as a mutual decibuilding process, and said sion, but it quickly became the booster club should not evident that Sams did not have been allowed to take leave willingly. And when it on the construction project: became clear that the deci“The deficiencies noted sion was final, only two of above may have been avoid- 15 returning players stayed ed if the Board of Educa- with the team.
Rogero lags on MPC choices
At the end of last week, Bearden’s record (excluding practice games) was 1-15. Meanwhile, many former players with hopes of playing in college have joined the Tennessee White Lightning, a travel team that plays against high-level competition in North Georgia and is coached by Sams. Their record stands at 15-71. In addition to Bartlett, the first ethics complaint names Superintendent James McIntyre, Bearden athletic director and assistant principal Nathan Lynn and KCS director of facilities management Doug Dillingham. Speaking through KCS’s office of public affairs, Bartlett said he sent the email to his staff “to address concerns brought to him and the administration by parents and players.�
Worrying about Battle at Bristol No doubt you have been worrying for weeks about the upcoming Battle at Bristol. What if the Hokies upset the Volunteers and derail the exciting run toward the national championship before it really begins? Oh, you say the big game hasn’t even entered your mind? You have been wondering if somebody can catch the ball if Joshua Dobbs throws down the field? And you are somewhat interested in how bad is Jalen Reeves-Maybin’s bum shoulder and whether Tennessee can win the fourth quarter against Florida and Alabama? OK, be that way. Virginia Tech people are probably losing sleep over the big BB (that’s short for Bristol Battle). “We are aware of the big game on our schedule,� said Chester R. Henderlight, my favorite Hokie. “We’ve never played Notre Dame before. Does it snow before Thanksgiving in South Bend?� Well, imagine that. With the countdown to the really big September kickoff in days-hours-minutes-and-seconds mode, in
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flashing lights no less, are we to believe the Pilot Flying J Battle at Bristol is an incidental novelty, a gimmick game, largest crowd in the history of football, great video hub named Colossus, a massive show that few will see up close and in person – without a telescope? This can’t be. Bristol Motor Speedway is expecting 150,000 paying customers. Think about that – parking, gate receipts, concessions, souvenirs, extra for seat backs. Curiosity about football in the middle of a race track guarantees ESPN/ABC a worldwide TV audience. Performance Racing Network will scatter the radio broadcast to all four turns and far beyond. Multitudes will undoubtedly be up on the edge of their beds or recliners, depending on the hour of the day or night (to
be determined). There will be a variety of promotional links – NASCAR drivers talking about end sweeps, lavish charity dinner, Phillip Fulmer and ex-Vols in a golf tournament, large displays in 650 fuel stops, a really big deal. Big Jim Haslam, chief Pilot, will no doubt discuss his connections if asked, tackle times as a Volunteer and how his first gas station just happened to be in Gate City, Va., not far from Bristol. I’m telling you, this is a major event. Combatants are expecting to race home with more than $4 million per school (to apply toward campus safety and women’s sports). Tennessee fans have every reason to be excited about the upcoming season. It projects as the best in a decade, top 10 ranking, SEC East plaque all but inscribed. Butch Jones has brilliant playmakers, experience at most every position and finally decent depth. He has supposedly strengthened his staff. No excuses, this is it. Optimism abounds at Virginia Tech for other rea-
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sons. The Hokies traded in old-time coach Frank Beamer for bright, younger Justin Fuente, the man who made Memphis the talk of his town. For years, Tech people had wanted an innovative offense. Fuente brings it. Enthusiastic followers say the Hokies will no longer be boring, predictable and reluctant to adjust. I had no idea Virginia Tech was that bad. I had not followed closely. I was aware that the Hokies won the Independence Bowl in overtime. It seems to me the Battle at Bristol demands sharper focus. It will be a once-ina-lifetime presentation. To the best of my knowledge, in the history of college football, there has never been a big game in the middle of a steep-banked, concrete race track. Could be nothing like this will ever happen again. Do what? You say East Tennessee State and Western Carolina are going to play on the same field a week later? Oh my. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com
Has Mayor Rogero forgotten the Metropolitan Planning Commission? Or does she care? It is now 10 months since three city vacancies occurred on MPC (starting July 1, 2015). Those are the city seats held by former Knoxville Vice Mayor Jack Sharp, Michael Kane and MPC vice chair Bart Carey. These three continue as holdovers with no knowledge of Rogero’s plans. She can reappoint, replace or do nothing as she is doing now, which continues them month to month. While filling MPC seats may not be Rogero’s most important duty, it directly impacts neighborhoods. Why has she not acted? It is expected she will replace as all three have served two or more terms. Rogero is committed to term limits, but by allowing them to continue for 10 months she is effectively giving them a partial third term. If a replacement is ever named on the Rogero watch then he/she will have a shorter term than the normal four years. All three are men and Rogero is expected to add at least one or two women as replacements. But when, if ever, will these replacements occur? Rogero owes the public a reason for her almost year-long delay. What is also surprising is that one of the public reasons for hiring Indya Kincannon was to assist the mayor in making appointments. Obviously with MPC, Rogero has been slow to act on whatever Kincannon suggested. ■Wayne Christensen has retired as head of Knox Youth Sports after 20 busy and productive years. He and his wife, Sara, moved to Knoxville for ChrisChristensen tensen to work for Whittle Communications in 1983. They came from Minneapolis. By 1996 when he started with KYS, Whittle had folded in Knoxville and he had worked on a Baseball Parent newsletter. But the KYS executive committee that year, consisting in part of Charlie Anderson, Caesar Stair III and Jimmy Haslam, hired Christensen as executive director. During those two decades, he grew the program including adding 3- and 4-year-olds, middle school
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baseball and lacrosse. KYS reached 2,000 youth a year in the program. KYS also includes baseball, softball, flag football and basketball. The KYS budget has been from $500,000 to $750,000 a year. KYS helped rebuild the soccer fields at Lakeshore Park and Ruggles Field was added. He says it was “the best job of my life.� Christensen says “retirement� is not part of his future. He is simply moving from one phase of his life to the next. He wants to be involved in something that impacts Knoxville. KYS has been a major player in youth activities in Knoxville and Christensen was a pivotal part of making that happen. ■Mike Chase, founder and owner of Calhoun’s, Copper Cellar and Chesapeake’s, says that the city revamping of Cumberland Avenue, which will last another year and a half, is costing his Copper Cellar restaurant on Cumberland over $1 million in sales. This does not include the lost city, county and state sales tax that could have been generated by customers. ■Rickey Hall, UT vice chancellor for diversity, is searching for a new job anywhere. He has been a finalist at three places. Clearly his UT days are numbered. With Chancellor Cheek expected to retire this year as he reaches 70, Susan Martin is retiring as provost Aug. 1, and Margie Nichols is leaving the chancellor’s office. In a month it will be a new operation by the start of 2017. Can Athletic Director Dave Hart, who instigated the Lady Vols name change, be far behind? Phil Fulmer is speculated as a new UT athletic director. ■State personnel held an explanatory meeting on the new $160 million state museum in Nashville here in Knoxville at Pellissippi State on April 12. It was poorly attended with only 18 citizens showing up who were not state employees or consultants. Notice of the meeting was spotty. People were surprised to learn that the new museum has 11,000 less square footage in exhibit space than the current one being replaced. Advocates of the new museum say it will be much better configured.
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Fulton High senior Courtney Rader shared her thoughts with the group following supper at the Project GRAD scholars celebration. She reminded seniors that they are more than just test scores, report cards and numbers. “Many times Fulton and Austin-East students are looked at as less than, but we are more than, always,” she said.
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Project GRAD honors scholars The Project GRAD scholars celebration dinner was a time to honor 126 seniors from Austin-East Magnet High School and Fulton High School. GRAD chairman Buzz Thomas spoke, sharing that GRAD is in the dreambuilding business, and this year more than 2.5 million dollars in scholarship money will be awarded to deserving seniors. “No group has invested more in Project GRAD than the Knox County Board of Education.” He also mentioned major sponsors Pilot, Home Federal Bank, Clayton Bank and Clayton Homes, all of which help make dreams
Austin-East scholar Max Davenport receives his certificate from Fulton principal Rob Speas at the celebration. Davenport spoke to the group and gave his reflections, sharing that “although life may be hard, it will be well worth it.”
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of going to college come true. Former GRAD scholars gave words of wisdom to the group, including: “Embrace fear. It’s going to come, but don’t let it paralyze you.” “Make smart decisions and remain true to yourself.” “Treat every day like a job interview – you never know who you’ll meet.” “Take part in community
service and give back.” “Go to college with a goal and graduate.” Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre was given the “Takes a Village” award for his support of Project GRAD and Knoxville City’s business liaison Patricia Robledo received the “Caught Doing Right” award. Ronni Chandler said that lives are changed and futures are different because Robledo chose to care. Following the dinner, the seniors received medallions and certificates in a formal procession and then headed to the lobby for a group selfie with Lori Tucker.
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Four seniors from Austin-East and Fulton High schools won a drawing for laptops at the celebration dinner. Pictured after the selection are Lori Tucker, Project GRAD executive director Ronni Chandler, Fulton High winners Laken Bradshaw and Benjamin Miller, and Austin-East winners Mylieza Cannon and Damarquise Nelson. Photo by R. White
Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush
CHAPTER FIVE:
Story So Far: The special soccer team of non-athletic boys, practice for their next game by finding a way not to practice. But the second game looms. Our second game was at Shoreham. If South Orange River had a reputation for being great in sports, so did Shoreham. In fact, the schools were rivals. I always wondered who makes up rivalries. Principals probably cook it up. Maybe they hated each other. Or maybe the school board—any-
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thing to avoid talking about budgets—got it going. I didn’t even know anyone from Shoreham. Didn’t even care. We did get in another practice after the practice when we did not practice. Wasn’t bad. That is, I think we kicked the ball around a bit. The next day we went to a big museum and saw a neat film. In fact, on the bus to Shoreham, Saltz, Radosh and I got into this long discussion about some of the dinosaurs we saw in the
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museum. A guide told us no one knows exactly why they died off. We were trying to figure out why. Saltz had the best idea. “Probably got into sports,” he suggested. “Right,” I said, “The Mastodon Mothers versus the Tyrannosaurus Tiddlywinkers.” In other words, by the time we got out of the bus at Shoreham, we were in a good mood. Being in the bus alone helped. That happened because after the first game, they gave us -- and us alone — a small bus to use when we needed one. For the whole season. I think they thought that the way we played might be catching. As for my being captain, that hadn’t amounted to much, except a little kidding. But as we got near the field, Saltz slipped up to me and said, “Remember, the captain always goes down with his ship.” Actually, it was another beautiful day, one of those early fall days that make you remember summer and wish it were back. Mr. Lester was all smiles. The team was loose. Positively jangling. As we closed in on the field, we could see the Shoreham players working out. We got ourselves ready. Mr. Lester beckoned me over. “When the referee calls, you’re supposed to go out and meet the opposing captain.” “What for?” He looked blankly at me, blushing slightly. “I can’t say I read that,” he admitted. After a bit, the referee did call. I went out to the middle. The Shoreham captain was a big guy for a seventh grader, at least twice as wide as me. He held out his hand and we shook. He nearly busted my fingers. It’s a wonder he didn’t stomp my foot. “How’s it going?” he said, dancing up and down as if his shorts were itchy. “Okay,” I said, putting my hand in my armpit to get back some feeling. “You got a nice field.” “Little chewed up from our last game.” “Oh? Who with?” “Buckingham.” “Really,” I said, pretending that was the least interesting thing in the world. “How’d you guys do?” “We beat them six–zip.” “No kidding,” I said, sorry I asked. In fact, I decided that my first official duty as team captain was not to tell my teammates that we were about to play the team that had beaten, by 6–0, the team that beat us 32–0. Meanwhile, the ref was telling us he wanted a good, hard game, but no rough stuff. I felt like saying, “Don’t worry, we do best at bad, soft and easy.” But I didn’t. “Good luck,” the Shoreham captain said to me. “Thanks,” I replied, “we’ll need it.” He looked at me a little funny. Probably
thought I was kidding. I wasn’t. I can’t tell you about the whole game. Just the highlights. Or rather, the lowlights. It wasn’t all that different from the Buckingham game. I do remember being impressed because they didn’t score right away. Not in the first ten seconds, anyway. In fact, I think we had the ball on their side of the field briefly. What is worth telling about is our first goal. It came about this way. They were on the attack. Actually, they were always on the attack. Just as we were always on the defense. But in this case, they had brought the ball nicely down the left line, passed it to the middle guys, pretty much in front of me — that is, in front of the goal. Meanwhile, my trusty buddy Saltz, as well as Root and Hays, were right in there, flailing away, hacking with their feet, rear ends, heads, whatever they found useful and close to the ball. It didn’t work. The ball kept getting closer. To me. I crouched, ready to miss. The ball squirted loose. Hays was right there and gave it a kick with the swift instinct of a true player. Right into our goal. Point for them. The best part was when the ball went in and the Shoreham team all lifted their arms. That’s a soccer tradition, airing your armpits after all that footwork. Anyway, I saw Hays lift his arms too, with this great idiot’s grin of success on his face. Eliscue tipped him off, delicately. “Wrong side, Bozo,” he said. Hays’s grin dropped like lead weights. He stood there, truly shaken. At another furious part of the game, I remember looking across the field and noticing that their goaltender was lying flat on his back, hands beneath his head, taking a sunbath. That really made me mad. I was still glaring at him as their twenty-second goal went whizzing past my eyes. Final score: 47–0. Guess who won? I wondered, did that make them better than Buckingham, or us worse? “Well,” said Dorman, as we dragged into our bus for the ride home, “they said we couldn’t get worse, but we showed them. Lot of points.” “Yeah, but I scored one of them,” Hays reminded us. We applauded with slow, regular beats, “Yeah! Hurray!” Mr. Lester, sitting up front with the driver, was doing his best to pretend he didn’t know us by reading one of his books, How to Be a Successful, Winning Coach. He never did tell me what a captain was supposed to do. (To be continued.)
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The world with us Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. (Psalm 33:8 NRSV) The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours. We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon. (“The World Is Too Much with Us,” William Wordsworth)
The Rev. Jerry Vittatoe, senior pastor at Clear Springs Baptist Church, delivers his first sermon, titled “The Search for Something New,” in the church’s new building. Photo by Suzanne McNeil Photography
Clear Springs Baptist celebrates new building By Shannon Carey
More than 1,000 attendees gathered May 1 to celebrate the first church service in Clear Springs Baptist’s new building and sanctuary near Harbison’s Crossroads in Gibbs. The church family met that morning at their former location on Thompson School Road and paraded in cars to the new campus. “As we passed by Fairview Baptist Church, Pastor Jeff LaBorg and his entire congregation were standing outside cheering us on,” said Bobbie Wyatt, the church’s media director. “It was an incredible, awesome sight to
see. Tears overflowed in both church families.” Once they arrived at the new church, Clear Springs had a true worship service, with the Rev. Jerry Vittatoe bringing the message. Four people joined the church that day. “Most importantly, we witnessed one precious lady give her heart to the Lord in salvation,” said Wyatt. “Even though our church is 119 years old, and we have seen thousands of people over the years be saved, this was a very special moment for us and the history of our church. The first in our new building and on our new campus.”
The new $8 million worship center is situated on 30 acres near the intersection of Emory Road and Tazewell Pike. It is the first part of a threephase building plan, to eventually include a family life center and an education facility. “We believe God planted this vision for a new church in our hearts, and he has opened each door we’ve walked through at just the right time,” said Vittatoe. “We are an exciting family of believers who have a heart for sharing Christ, both globally and here at home.”
Just to be clear, the psalmist and Wordsworth were talking about two different worlds. The psalmist was talking about the earth, the whole of the known creation. Wordsworth was referring to civilization: the affairs of men, the powers that rule, the day to day business of life. Lewis and I had a chance recently to get away from business to enjoy the beauty of the earth. After tax season was officially over (well, except for the extensions – all those folks who somehow needed more time to render unto Caesar), we went to our favorite campground in the mountains. We left the world of business behind in order to soak up the beauty and quiet and peace of God’s world. We had time to listen to the laughing creek, to watch the mallards sail across the lake, to marvel at the moon rising over the mountains. It soothes and heals the soul, I assure you. But, as always, we return to the routine. The trick, however, is this: we – all of us – need to learn to pay attention to this dear little planet, to love it, treasure it, protect it, enjoy it, honor it, preserve it for generations yet unborn. In so doing, we honor and revere the Creator who thought it all up, and gave it to us to be our home. Let us do the job God gave us.
FAITH NOTES ■ Alice Bell Baptist Church, 3305 Alice Bell Road, Clothes Closet will be open 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 7. Each family member will receive one shopping bag for clothes. Everyone is welcome. Everything is free.
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Charles E. Stallings, M.D., age 74, of Atlanta, formerly of Knoxville, passed away ■ City View Baptist Church, 2311 Fine Ave., will host a churchwide yard sale, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 23 at Parkwest Medical Center. He was of the Episcopal faith and was a retired May 7, in the front and side parking lots. Booth space is available. Proceeds go to van fund, the Passion psychiatrist with the state of Georgia and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Preceded in death by trip and other church activities. Info: cityview-knox.org or 522-2364. parents, Amos and Lulla Stallings. Survivors include brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Dick ■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each and LeeAnn Stallings; nephew, Charles Stallings; niece, Katie Stallings. Memorials may Friday. Info: Edna Hensley, 771-7788. be made to Alzheimer’s Tennessee, 5801 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Stevens ■ “Moms Across the Generations” event for all grieving mothers will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7, Mortuary served the family. at Christus Victor Lutheran Church, 4110 Central Avenue Pike. The event is hosted by Listening Hearts. Info: 679-1351 or listeningheartsmoms@gmail.com.
SENIOR NOTES ■ The Pointe at Lifespring Senior Living open house 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, 3016 S. Mall Road. RSVP: Heather Haley at LifespringDSM@islllc. com or 687-5353. Info: ThePointeSeniorLiving. com. ■ Carter Senior Center 9040 Asheville Highway 932-2939 Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Offerings include: card games; exercise programs; arts and crafts; movie matinee Fridays; Senior Meals, noon Wednesdays. Mayor’s Budget Presentation, 4 p.m. Monday, May 9. ■ Corryton Senior Center: 9331 Davis Drive 688-5882 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday Offerings include: exercise classes; cross-stitch, card games; dominoes, crochet, quilting, billiards; Senior Meals program, 11 a.m. Fridays. Register for: Veterans Services visit, 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 10; RSVP: 2155645. Field trip: Sweetwater Valley Farms, 11 a.m. Friday, May 13; RSVP by May 6. ■ Larry Cox Senior Center 3109 Ocoee Trail 546-1700 Monday-Friday Hours vary Offerings include: exercise programs; bingo; arts and crafts classes. ■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center 611 Winona St. 523-1135 knoxseniors.org/oconnor. html Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Offerings include: Card games, billiards, senior fitness, computer classes, bingo, blood pressure checks 10:30-11:30 a.m. Monday-Friday.
Wallace Memorial Baptist Church’s clown troupe visited Morning Pointe of Powell. Rose Albers, as Penelope the Clown, leads the troupe. She is pictured with resident Alice Bivens.
Susie Cox, now a resident, is sharing her talents for all to enjoy at the assisted living community. Cox sang for many years with The Gospel Victory Singers, a group that performed for area churches. Originally from Claiborne County, Cox shared her group’s album, recorded in the 1960s.
Knoxville artist Alexander Dumas and Morning Pointe resident Dwight Patterson discuss Dumas’ painting “Saipan-1944.” Dumas presented paintings from his “War Series,” featuring accurate depictions of real soldiers who served in World War II. Patterson is a veteran of World War II whose friend, a Marine, was injured in the Battle of Saipan.
Happenings at Morning Pointe
Who’s Who Two residents at Beverly Park Place Health and Rehab have been named by the Tennessee Health Care Association (THCA) to its annual “Who’s Who in Tennessee Long-term Care.” The program has honored more than 2,300 residents since 1983 who have made noteworthy contributions and helped shape history through their actions. Frank Hall has always loved music. In his teens, he hosted parties where he imitated Elvis. He later became a “roadie” and met the Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks. He remembers being present when the band wrote some of their first songs. Clara Harris worked as a baker for Knox County Schools to support her five children and six other children she took in. A longtime member of Roseberry Bap-
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tist Church, she sang in the choir, cooked and did service projects. Nell Hamilton, 100, a resident of Willow Ridge Center in Maynardville, will also be included in the Who’s Who honors. Hamilton is retired from the Union County Public Schools where she worked in the cafeteria. She is a member of First Baptist Maynardville, and credits her longevity to “hard work.” All will receive their “Who’s Who” certificate during National Nursing Home Week, May 8-14.
Morning Pointe residents Doris McCurdy, Betty Sibert, Adelyn Mays, Renee Bryant, volunteer Denise O’Rourke, Terry Kanopka, Margaret Herbison, Jane Hodges and Gene Woods shop at Mayo’s Garden Center to purchase flowers for the raised-bed gardens at the assisted living facility.
Open house The Pointe at Lifespring Senior Living will host a preview open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Satur-
day, May 7, at 3016 S. Mall Road, near O’Charleys and Cracker Barrel. Situated in northeast Knoxville off Washington Pike, the
community is expected to open in fall 2016. RSVP to Heather Haley at LifespringDSM@islllc. com or 865-687-5353
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Everything Mushrooms lives up to its name By Carol Z. Shane
When you walk into Everything Mushrooms on Sevier Avenue in South Knoxville, you walk into a whole new world. Jars of dried mushrooms in a dizzying variety line the walls, books about growing and using them fill tables. Cultivation supplies and pieces of apparatus – “inoculation loop,” “surgical steel scalpel,” “culture tubes” – crowd the shelves. Out back there’s a greenhouse and a variety of logs sprouting shiitakes. Store manager Sean McKay is eager to share the art and craft of mushroom cultivation with everyone. And Everything Mushrooms makes it easy for the most clueless beginner to start this rewarding, and ultimately delicious, hobby. Gesturing toward a log leaning against the wall in the store, McKay says, “Put it in your yard and let Mother Nature
do the work for you!” A Montana transplant whose background is in forestry, McKay moved here to take a job at Blackberry Farm. Then, “I fell in love with an East Tennessee gal,” he says, “so I guess I’m stuck!” But he says there Sean McKay are much worse places to be stuck. “Geographically we’re in a very good location.” With the nearby mountains and forests, “this is a rich mushrooming environment.” In business for 10 years and offering dried gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, truffles and truffle oils, mushroom oils and dressings, soup mixes and seasonings, Everything Mushrooms is a real destination for foodies
in the know. But, says McKay, the South Knox location is actually the “front of the house for a very big operation.” Everything Mushrooms does most of it business online. “There are probably only a dozen or so such stores in the whole country,” he says. It’s definitely a niche market, but the business’s products are much in demand by restaurants, chefs and farmers, as well as home hobbyists. And, as with any hobby, you can take it as far and as deep as you want. A beginner’s kit costs less than $20, and those more advanced can find everything they need here, too. McKay demonstrates several ways of cultivating the fabulous fungi – six-pound spawn blocks of sawdust filled with germinating cultures; liquid cultures that can be injected into a growing medium; individually-
sized bags of inoculated wooden dowels for plugging your own logs. Spawn? Fungi? Inoculation? If it all sounds a bit exotic, don’t worry. “You’re actually looking at a very clean product,” says McKay. “Everything is natural and sterilized.” And the dedicated staffers are there to help. “It’s not like you’re just putting something in the ground,” says McKay. “Customer service is something we really pride ourselves on.” So whether you’re just looking for a way to expand your gourmet tastes, or you’re in search of a new adventure that will reward you and your family for years to come, plan a visit
to Everything Mushrooms – in person, by phone or on its website. Everything Mushrooms is located at 1004 Sevier Avenue in Knoxville. Info: 865234-0977 or ever y thingmushrooms. com
A shiitake mushroom is ready to harvest from a log of white oak. The red blob on the tip is a wax plug that had previously held the cultivating medium in place within the wood.
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Partners in books and reading Vaughn It’s a lot like that peanut butter and jelly thing, this literacy relationship about books and reading between the Bearden Rotary Club and Pond Gap Elementary School. It’s been going on for 10-plus years with no signs of slowing. On Friday, April 15, a group of Bearden Rotarians delivered a backlog of books to the Pond Gap library. “About five years ago we started asking their librarian for a list of books for their library,” said Rotarian Dick Hinton. “Our club buys the books and we have our weekly speakers sign the inside cover and then donate them to their library.” Bearden Rotarians who helped deliver the books were Hinton, Gary Ricciardi, John Heins and club president Tom Daughtrey. “Pond Gap School is high poverty and it happens to be in the Bearden area. The ‘Rotary Reader’ program was one of our first regular activities, but over the years we’ve done a range of things,” says Hinton, who heads up the reading program. “Every Friday there will be four slots open for club Rotarians to fill, to spend 20 minutes or so
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BIZ NOTES ■ Clarence L. Vaughn III is the new executive director of the Police Advisory and Review Committee, which reviews citizen complaints and internal affairs reports involving the Knoxville Police Department. Vaughn holds an MBA from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s in business administration from Florida A&M. He has worked in banking and business consulting since 2007. Vaughn moved to Knoxville 11 years ago. His wife, Syreeta, is a native Knoxvillian. They have two daughters. ■ Andrew Clark is a new vice president at Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon Inc., appointed during the annual stockholders’ meeting April 23. Clark leads the water services team in the Knoxville office. His projects include water and wastewater planning and treatment, pumping stations, replacements and rehabilitations. Clark earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UT.
Rotarians and school personnel are pictured with students from Ms. Harrison’s third grade classroom: (front) Alijah Davidson, Tyrese Mack, Rylee Greaney, Miracle Jackson, Jillian McGuire; (middle) Nevaeh Strickland, Sirvontez Jones, Saif Abdulameer, Joshua Ogle, Adonta Jones; (back) assistant principal Arrin Alaniz, Gary Ricciardi, Dick Hinton, librarian Michelle Broyles, John Heins and Bearden club president Tom Daughtrey.
reading books to the students.” Hinton adds that school administrators have asked then to recruit men to read since it’s rare for the students to see a man in that role. The Rotary Club of Farragut has the same books-for-the library program with Ball Camp Elementary School as does the Rotary Club of Knoxville with Sarah Moore Greene Elementary.
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Elkmont work to start
We recently reported that the Rotary Club of Knoxville will help restore the amphitheater at the Elkmont Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The club’s first Work Day at Elkmont will be on Saturday, June 4, at 9 a.m. The work will be followed by a picnic lunch at Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area.
Church, 4008 Tazewell Pike. Items include: tools, household items, clothing, furniture, books and more. Proceeds go to church ministries.
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Opening reception for “Body of Art” exhibition by Annamaria Gundlach, 5-9 p.m., Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway. Exhibit on display through May 31. Info: BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com or Jessica Gregory, 556-8676.
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Online registration open for the Marine Mud Run, to be held Saturday, Sept. 17. Individual waves, 8 a.m.; team waves, 11:30 a.m. Course: 3 miles of off-road running, which entails some obstacles, hills and mud pits. Registration deadline: Friday, Sept. 16, or until total registrants reaches 3150. Info/registration: knoxmud.org.
Garage sale, New Hope Baptist Church 7115 Tipton Lane off of East Beaver Creek. Follow signs.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.
THURSDAY, MAY 5 Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212. Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Preregistration required. Info/ registration: 922-2552.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 5-7 Spring sale, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Northside Christian
FRIDAY, MAY 6
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 6-8 “The Best Man” performed by the Encore Theatrical Company, Walters State Community College Morristown campus. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: etcplays. org or 423-318-8331.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 6-22 “Snow White and Rose Red,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com; 208-3677.
SATURDAY, MAY 7 Bee Friends beekeeping club’s annual free field day, noon, Well Being Conference Center in Tazewell. Club president will open a honeybee hive and explain what is going on; meet and talk with local beekeepers; refreshments. Info: WellBeingCC.org or 626-9000. “College Financial Planning” workshop,
■ Steve Cruze has been named chief operating officer of Premier Surgical Associates. He previously worked as practice manager for Premier’s Fort Sanders Regional office. He is a retired U.S. Army master sergeant, serving for 21 years as a health care specialist. Cruze served in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom with the 10th Mountain Division. He lives in Powell with his wife and two children. ■ Jerry Epps M.D. has been named senior vice president and chief medical officer of the UT Medical Center. Epps, who has more than three decades of experience as an anesthesiologist and in physician leadership, most recently served as chair of the Department of Anesthesiology with the medical center and UT Graduate School of Medicine. Epps replaces Dr. Jack Lacey, who retired after four decades with the medical center. A native of Benton, Ky., Epps lives in Knoxville with his wife of 40 years, Eleesa. Their adult daughter, Courtney Epps Read, also lives in Knoxville.
REUNION NOTES ■ The Halls High class of 1971 reunion, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 14, Li’l Jo’s in Maynardville. Cost: $20 at the door. BYO spirits or beer can be purchased at the restaurant.
RSVP: 963-5087, 922-8070 or wolfec4@gmail.com. ■ Annual Reynolds Family Reunion, 11 a.m. Sunday, May 15, at Big Ridge State Park, Tea Room. Bring a covered dish, fishing poles, games to play, cameras. Lunch, 1 p.m.
10:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Presented by Darrell Keathley, COFFE. Info: 922-2552. Flea market and more, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Trinity UMC, 5613 Western Ave. Other activities include: United Methodist Men pancake breakfast, 8-10 a.m.; Medic blood drive; car wash; bake sale. All proceeds go to special mission projects. 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. North Hills Garden Club Private Garden Tour, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., North Hills neighborhood. Featuring seven private residential gardens located along the neighborhood’s boulevards. Rain date: May 14. Also includes silent auction. Proceeds go to beautification of the neighborhood’s boulevards and park. Info: facebook. com/NorthHillsGardenClub. Plant sale, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell UMC, 9420 Heiskell Road. Plant sale, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Sale will run for approximately two weeks. Info: appalachianarts.net, 494-9854.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 7-8 Blooms Days Festival and Marketplace, 9 a.m.5 p.m., UT Gardens, 2518 Jacob Drive. Cost: $8, one day; $12, both days. Featuring: specialty plants, unique garden goods, live music, garden workshops, children’s activities and more. Info/schedule of workshops: utgardens.tennessee.edu.
MONDAY, MAY 9 The Dollywood Penguin Players will perform a storybook after school, 3:30 p.m., Luttrell Public Library community center room. A popcorn and water snack will be provided. All ages welcome. “Find your park: Great Smoky Mountains National Park” 1-2 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Dana Soehn, GSNP spokesperson. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.
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