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The fitness track above the basketball court provides a low-impact surface for walking or running.

A sneak peek First Baptist Powell Family Life Center almost ready to open

By Greg Householder

Equipment for the weight and cardio room was delivered just before this photo was taken last Thursday.

The Family Life Center features men’s and women’s locker rooms with showers.

It is almost ready. Some of the equipment was delivered last Thursday with more to come. The target for opening is Feb. 1.

The First Baptist Church of Powell Family Life Center has been under construction for about a year. When it opens, the 23,632-square-foot facility will be a valuable asset for the Powell community.

And the folks at FBC want everyone to use it.

“We want to stress that this is not something only for church members,” said Tommy Fox, director of sports and recreation for the church.

With a focus toward community outreach, the center will be available for community groups and individuals needing a facility that features a regulation basketball court, a low-impact fitness track, men’s and women’s locker rooms, multimedia conference rooms, a weight and cardiovascular workout room that includes machines and free weights, and a café with full kitchen facilities and free Wi-Fi. According to Fox, anyone may use the facilities free of charge during normal hours of operation. All that is required is a onetime signing of a liability waiver and then guests merely check in on subsequent visits.

The new Family Life Center will also be an asset for First Baptist Academy. Currently FBA

is K-9, but plans are in place to add a grade per year until the academy is K-12. The Family Life Center will be used for physical education during school hours and the basketball court will be used for practice of the middle school and high school volleyball and basketball teams in the future during the immediate after school hours.

Planned hours of operation are from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays; from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and from 1-6 p.m. on Sundays. From 7-9 p.m. on Mondays, the center will host pickup basketball for men age 18 and above.

The Family Life Center plans to offer group fitness classes throughout the year. The duration will typically be eight to 10 weeks. The first class is called “Temple Training” for women and is scheduled to run from 8-9 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays beginning Jan. 31 to March 31.

Sports are not confined to the indoors. FBC-Powell has a baseball/softball diamond under construction and has a soccer field.

The church is currently enrolling youth soccer players. For info, visit the church website at www. fbcpowell.org.

For more info regarding programs offered, contact Tommy Fox at the church at 947-9074 or e-mail tommyfox@fbcpowell.com.

McMillan farm issued notice of stormwater violation

By Betty Bean

The Tennessee Clean Water Network and stormwater activist James McMillan are accusing Knox County of taking retaliatory action against McMillan, who has long been one of the most vocal critics of local stormwater enforcement practices.

Last Oct. 28, James McMillan and another citizen activist, Jamie Rowe, took Dwight Van de Vate for a ride.

Van de Vate was in his second month as interim head of Knox County Engineering and Public Works, and Rowe and McMillan, who have spent years documenting stormwater issues, wanted to show him construction sites where they believe enforcement has been lax.

Van de Vate later said he was shocked by some of what he saw.

On Dec. 24, McMillan’s father, Charles McMillan, re-

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ceived a Notice of Violation from the office of Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett ordering him to place a silt fence around a cell tower construction site on his property and threatening him with a penalty of up to $5,000 a day.

On Jan. 13, Tennessee Clean Water Network director Renee Hoyos sent Burchett a letter questioning the county’s motives and priorities: “TCWN is very disappointed to learn that Knox County has recently chosen to use its scarce enforcement resources to issue a notice of violation (NOV) to Charles McMillan (see attached). The total area cleared for construction of a cell phone tower on the McMillan property is less than a tenth of an acre. There is no evidence that runoff from this small site has reached a stream or otherwise caused any environmental harm.

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“Even if this is the type of activity that could merit an NOV, it was not appropriate to send the NOV to the McMillans. The construction of the cell tower is being done by an independent contractor to T-Mobile on land that the McMillans have leased to the cell phone company. Thus, the McMillans have absolutely no control over the work being done. This information was readily apparent from signs on the site, and presumably from the permitting file at Knox County as well.

“This NOV appears to have no purpose other than to harass a citizen activist.

Shannondale farmer James McMillan, Charles’ son, is a well-recognized leader on stormwater issues in Knox County, a volunteer for TCWN and a member of the Knox County Stormwater Task Force. Mr. McMillan has been a frequent and vo-

cal critic of Knox County’s stormwater program and has generally been a thorn in the side of Knox County stormwater staff.”

Hoyos said she has heard from Burchett chief of staff Dean Rice, and a meeting has been set for later this month to discuss stormwater issues.

“This is nothing but a smear campaign to discredit me,” said James McMillan, who also said he had warned the contractor to install erosion controls but had no control over his actions.

Charles McMillan wants his name cleared. He is demanding an apology from Knox County and wants records of the NOV scrubbed from the county’s databases by the end of the month. He said he is disgusted by the county’s actions.

“Not a gallon of mud has run off this site,” he said, looking down the hill toward the

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James McMillan stands behind the sign erected by the grading contractor who prepared a cell tower site on his father’s farm.

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spot where White’s Creek meanders through his pasture.

James McMillan said he’s not going to stop pestering county officials: “My hopes and prayers are that Mayor Burchett will let

Van de Vate straighten out the stormwater division.”

(Note: We requested but at press time had not yet received Knox County’s response to the McMillans’ complaints.)

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A-2 • JANUARY 24, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

‘Walking Tall’ Buford Pusser on the big screen Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of a story that ran in last week’s edition.

Buford Pusser’s story may never have come to the big screen were it not for a man taking a shave.

At some point in the late 1960s, film producer Mort Briskin flipped to the popular CBS TV news magazine “60 Minutes” before stepping into the bathroom to shave. Hearing a report about Pusser’s exploits as sheriff of McNairy County, Tenn., Briskin stepped out of the bathroom to watch.

Jake Mabe When the segment ended, he called his secretary with strict instructions.

“Find that man!”

Pusser held several meetings with Briskin and Bing Crosby Productions, both in Tennessee and in Hollywood.

Dwana Pusser writes in her memoir, “Walking On,” that her father was excited about having the film shot in McNairy County. But, she says,

Wanted: office seekers This year Knoxvillians will elect a mayor, a municipal court judge and four City Council members. The run for mayor as well the council seats could be competitive. If not, at least the also-rans can say they tried.

There’s another election scheduled in Knox County this year, but unless you’re a resident of the town of Farragut you may know little of it and care even less.

In April, Farragut residents will go to the polls to select aldermen to represent Wards I and II in the town.

Both seats are uncontested. Alderman Dot LaMarche is standing for re-election in Ward II. Ronald Honken is the lone candidate in Ward I. LaMarche and Honken are fine people and good choices for the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, but there’s a touch of irony in these non-races. A great deal of the town’s functioning depends upon volunteers who work in areas ranging from the town’s planning commission to the Folklife Museum, and Farragut honors its volunteers every year with a splendid banquet. But volunteers for elected office – at least in this election year – are as scarce as Quakers at an NRA convention.

Farragut’s elected officials are volunteers in the strictest sense: they receive no pay. And considering how roughly some have been treated in recent years (former Mayor Eddy Ford was pilloried, quite unfairly, because of speed bumps installed on a town street), it’s hard to blame those who, like LBJ, choose not to run even if nominated.

Well, at least those who don’t run can say they didn’t try.

At the Shopper-News we’re always trying, because this is one gig in which “What have you done for me lately?” is a motto you live by. Reporter Natalie Lester has an account of her first visit to a Knoxville Tea Party meeting, and Valorie Fister hooks up with the Lost Cajuns in the Farragut edition. Wendy Smith’s Bearden edition cover story about the exploits of Dave Beck, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, is a must read.

Finally, we sadly note that contributor Betty Bean’s father passed away recently. May God bless and comfort you and your family, Betty.

Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

local leaders said “no way.”

“It was purely a matter of jealousy,” she writes.

So Pusser took the production team to nearby Chester and Madison counties. The movie “Walking Tall” and its two sequels were filmed there.

Hollywood took liberties with Pusser’s story, most famously by having him carry around a big stick as a weapon. The sheriff he ran against in 1964 didn’t try to run Pusser off the road before crashing his police cruiser in flames. Pusser did not attend his wife’s funeral and then go burn down the State Line Mob’s joints. (He was unable to be moved from his hospital bed because of his injuries.)

No one ever attacked the Pusser family at home.

Pusser later said that the first “Walking Tall” was about “80 percent true.”

Texas actor Joe Don Baker played Pusser in the first film.

Baker would later serve as an honorary pallbearer at Pusser’s funeral.

Dwana adored the actor.

She writes that Baker called her when she visited Hollywood in 2004 for the premiere of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s version of “Walking Tall,” helping ease her nerves over a film that has little to do with both Pusser’s story and the 1973 original.

“To me,” she told him, “you’re the closest thing to my daddy. Every time I looked at you on TV you were my daddy. You were the closest thing I had to a daddy after I was 13 years old.”

Dwana did not share the same feelings toward Bo Svenson, the actor who played Pusser in two “Walking Tall” sequels and a shortlived 1981 NBC TV series.

She writes that when she met Svenson on the set of the second film, hoping to become close to him because her father had recently died, Svenson made a disparaging remark about her weight.

The first “Walking Tall” was filmed for roughly $500,000. It would go on to gross $23 million in the U.S. alone (big money in 1973). Not an immediate hit (Dwana says it only played for a few days at the theater in Selmer, Tenn.), promoters changed the way the film was marketed to de-emphasize the violence and play up the fact that it was based on the true story of a man standing up against lawlessness.

UT film studies professor Chuck Maland says that “Walking Tall” is an example of what film historian Robert Ray calls a “right cycle film.”

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The Chester County Courthouse subbed for Sheriff Buford Pusser’s McNairy County office in the “Walking Tall” films of the 1970s. According to Dwana Pusser, McNairy County officials at the time refused to cooperate with the filmmakers to have the film shot there. File photo

“Walking On” by Dwana Pusser (with Ken Beck and Jim Clark) is available from Pelican Publishing Company. It can be purchased at book outlets or online at Amazon.com.

For more info on the Buford Pusser Home and Museum in Adamsville, Tenn., visit www.bufordpussermuseum.com or call 731-632-4080.

right cycle films were a reaction to left cycle films such as “Bonnie and Clyde,” which tended to glorify outlaws.

“The right cycle films tended to center on cops or vigilantes engaged in a war against criminals,” Maland says.

“To me ‘Walking Tall’ is kind of a small-town ‘Dirty Harry.’ The bad guys are really bad in both cases, terrorizing or at least scandalizing society, and the film provides a tough, no-nonsense individualist hero to eliminate those bad guys. The corrupt judicial system in the town frustrates Pusser’s desires to clean up the town, similar to the situation in ‘Dirty Harry,’ where Scorpio is set free by the judicial system because Harry didn’t read Scorpio his rights or violated his rights in some way or another.

“As I look back on both cycles, I think it may be true that although the political implications of the two different cycles are quite different, the films are really quite similar in that they depict a polarized society.”

As Dwana Pusser correctly observes, the real star of “Walking Tall” is the state of Tennessee. The decision to film entirely on location captures an authenticity later incarnations would sorely lack.

Actor Brian Dennehy portrayed Pusser in a 1978 TV movie, “A Real American Hero,” that was also filmed on location in Tennessee. Only actor Forrest Tucker (who played Pusser’s father Carl in the final “Walking Tall” film) returned from the first series.

Buford Pusser’s death “Walking Tall” was a mixed blessing for Buford Pusser. Although it became a huge hit and made him a well-known celebrity, many blame the hurt feelings over the decision to film the movie elsewhere as a reason for Pusser’s unsuccessful bid for

Bloopers and boom mics One of the most discussed “bloopers” of the 1973 “Walking Tall” film is the appearance of the boom mic in several key scenes. Research indicates that this occurred when the film was altered from its original aspect ratio while being adapted for television and for early home video and DVD releases. A 2007 Paramount DVD release restores the film to its original widescreen format and, according to the Internet Movie Database, fixes the problem.

(I am in the process of obtaining a copy and haven’t yet seen it.)

Several bloopers do exist, however. The boom mic’s shadow is visible during a scene in the judge’s chambers. Pusser’s stick can clearly be seen as a flexible foam-like structure in the scene in which he first busts up the Lucky Spot. Also, Sheriff Thurman’s car explodes before it crashes in one scene and a crew member is visible in one scene ducking beside a car while Pusser busts a moonshine operation.

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McNairy County sheriff in 1972. (He was constitutionally barred from seeking another term in 1970.)

Pusser became active in state Republican politics and stumped actively for gubernatorial candidate Winfield Dunn. Pusser was the guest speaker at a successful fundraising dinner in Knoxville for Dunn during the 1970 campaign.

Such was Pusser’s popularity that he cut a deal on Aug. 20, 1974, to play himself in the sequel to “Walking Tall.”

After holding a press conference in Memphis announcing the deal, Pusser met Dwana at the McNairy County Fair. Dwana remembers it as a hot and humid late summer

night. About 11:40 p.m., Dwana left with friends. Pusser, who was detained by a man at the fair’s front gate, soon followed behind in a Corvette he’d owned for nearly a year.

Pusser passed the car in which Dwana was riding at a high rate of speed. A few minutes later, just after midnight, Dwana and her friends came upon the scene of an accident on U.S. Highway 64 just west of Adamsville. Buford Pusser’s car was on fire. He had been thrown from the wreck.

“I turned him over and began screaming, ‘Daddy, don’t die!’ ” Dwana writes. “He muttered what I want to think was ‘Dwana’ then he was gone.”

Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Paul Ervin’s accident report indicates that Pusser lost control of his car.

Pusser’s death was later ruled an accident. Sworn statements disagree over whether Pusser smelled of alcohol the day he was killed.

Dwana never accepted the official report. In her book, she makes the startling revelation that in 1990 she received from a law enforcement friend a written statement by one of Pusser’s old informants claiming that a contract had been taken out to kill Pusser.

Dwana contends in the book that Pusser had agreed to support McNairy County native Ray Blanton in the Democrat’s bid for governor with the understanding that Pusser would be named commissioner of safety, which at that time had jurisdiction over both the highway patrol and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. (Blanton died in 1996.)

Dwana believes that “many powerful people” feared Pusser obtaining that position because of the power he would hold and the cases he could reopen. So, she believes, they decided to have him killed.

The informant’s statement says that he met with Pusser several times in 1973 and 1974 about the alleged hit and tried to contact him the day before he died. (Pusser’s father Carl acknowledged receiving a phone call that day from someone desperate to get in touch with him.)

Is the story fact or fiction?

“I can’t say with complete certainty,” Dwana writes.

“The story he tells fits well with other facts from my daddy’s life and the bits of information that others and I have pieced together about the day he died.”

Today, Buford Pusser’s home is a museum and tourist attraction. It was purchased by the state of Tennessee and given to the city of Adamsville, Tenn. (Then state Speaker of the House Ned McWherter helped pass the bill.)

Dwana has struggled with depression and multiple sclerosis. She lives in Savannah, Tenn.

“When there are dark times and I feel as though I can’t make it another day,” she writes, “I just remember daddy. I remind myself that part of him is in me. I realize I can do whatever it takes to meet the challenges I face and keep … walking on.”

Contact Jake Mabe at 922-4136, Jake Mabe1@aol.com, jakemabe.blogspot.com, Twitter.com/HallsguyJake.

POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • JANUARY 24, 2011 • A-3

‘For the love of a child’ Knox North Lions hear from Childhelp

By Greg Householder

Scott Strable from the Childhelp Foster Family Agency of East Tennessee speaks to the Knox North Lions Club. Photo by Greg Householder Horuchi, living in a oneroom house who would take the children.

And thus, Childhelp began. The women returned to the U.S. and began raising money in the Hollywood community.

Through the years, Childhelp worked with orphans from Vietnam and, after a chance encounter with then California First Lady Nancy Reagan, began to focus on child abuse.

Today, Childhelp has chapters in nine states and the District of Columbia.

One chapter is located in East Tennessee.

Last Wednesday, the Knox North Lions heard from Scott Strable from the Childhelp Foster Family Agency of East Tennessee. He told the Lions that there are two programs in East Tennessee. The Childhelp Children’s Center of East Tennessee is an advocacy center in West Knoxville where kids are taken to be interviewed and examined following allegations of child abuse.

The facility is kid-friendly and is much better for the children than being taken to a police station. The other program is the one Strable works with and focuses on recruiting and training foster parents and

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Lions want your trash

Beth Haynes from WBIR will be the master of ceremonies for a Valentine’s evening 6-10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at the Foundry at the World’s Fair Park. There will be food, live jazz and a chance to bid on a seven-day Holland America Cruise. All proceeds benefit the Cerebral Palsy Center. Info: www.cpcenter. org or 523-0491.

Recycling bins take just about everything

By Greg Householder Two area Lions Clubs – the Powell Lions and the Knox North Lions – want your trash. Both clubs have recycling bins at area shopping centers and you might be surprised as to what they will take.

The Knox North Lions’ bins are located near the fuel pumps at the Ingles on Emory Road. The Powell Lions’ bins are near the KARM store in the Powell Place Shopping Center at Clinton Highway and Emory Road in Powell near Food City.

Both clubs will take newspapers, magazines, catalogs, office paper, junk mail, file folders, index cards, colored copy paper, plain and window envelopes, and phone books. Staples and paperclips do not have to be removed.

What cannot be accepted – laminated or wax coated paper; paper with crayon or glue; cardboard, poster board, cereal boxes or brown paper bags and construction paper or brown envelopes.

Proceeds from the recycling programs go to support the respective clubs.

Coupon Fair The second annual Knoxville Coupon Fair will be held 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 26, at Faith United Methodist Church, 1120 Dry Gap Pike. Admission is free and child care will be provided.

Local coupon and money saving experts will be on hand, and people new to couponing will benefit from instructional handouts provided. Participants are encouraged to bring extra coupons and “freebies” to trade. Topics will include

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When lousy weather forced the cancelation of some of the PTA’s fundraisers last month, the group found itself running a little short on cash moving into the last half of the year.

Assistant principal and athletic director Mark Majors came to the rescue with an infusion of about $1,000 into the PTA’s coffers.

According to principal Ken Dunlap, the money comes from all the homecoming fundraising that goes on in the fall. Student groups raise money and the athletic department gets a cut since most of the activities occur at football games.

Should a need arise – say a team goes to the state tournament or an individual athlete such as a golfer goes to state and the money hasn’t been budgeted – these funds help in these kinds of emergencies. Other things the money is used for is to pay for substitute teachers when a teacher goes to a continuing education seminar or conference.

According to Ken, when they recently audited this emergency fund, they found that 98 percent or better actually went into classrooms or for kids – not to purchase new football uniforms and equipment as popular perception seems to be.

Seems like good financial management to me – a wise use of resources.

Maybe we should send the staff at Powell High to Washington.

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The second annual Civil War Relic Show will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 27-28, and the inaugural Smoky Mountain Antique Show and Sale will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 29-30. Both shows will be at the Smoky Mountain Convention Center in Pigeon Forge. Admission to each is $8 (children under 12, $4).

For the antique show, vendor registration for an 8-foot space is $65 through July, $80 there after. Vendor space for the relic show is $65 through May, $80 there after. Both shows are sponsored by Smoky Mountain Resorts, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Info: 1-800223-6707 or 908-3015.

Last Thursday, Tommy Fox and the guys working on the new family life center at First Baptist Church of Powell helped me solve a mystery that I had wondered about for quite a while.

If you have driven through Powell, you might have noticed some folks sitting with a big banner at the intersection of Brickyard and Emory roads that said “Shame on Phil Jones.” Non-Baptists (or non-First Baptists of Powell perhaps) may have wondered – “who is Phil Jones and what has he done to be ashamed of?”

Phil Jones is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Powell and I can assure you that he has done absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.

You see, turns out that one of the subcontractors working on the family life center ran afoul with some union types a few years ago. Rumor has it that the picketers are actually homeless folks picking up a few extra bucks to sit with the banner.

I could never figure out why they were targeting “Pastor Phil” as he is known at FBC. Pastor organizing coupons, saving Phil, while I am sure has money on items for babies watched with interest as and children and learning the new family life center new coupon technology. came together, really isn’t Info: E-mail Gabrielle Blake involved in paying emat couponingincritical ployees of a subcontractimes@gmail.com or call tor – the subcontractor is.

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What I learned on my visit that these folks do this Wrestling show at iseverywhere that particuPowell Middle lar subcontractor has a job going on – UT and ParkTennessee Mountain west hospitals were two Wrestling will hold a free examples given. show 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. So mystery solved.

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There is no “shame” on Local wrestling legend Ron Wright will attend and Phil Jones.

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It all started with two young Hollywood film stars finding 11 half-American and half-Japanese orphans wandering homeless in Tokyo following a typhoon more than half a century ago.

The women were Sara Buckner O’Meara and Yvonne Lime Fedderson, who had met on the set of the 1950s sitcom “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” where they played the girlfriends of Ricky and David Nelson. Their mission for children began in 1959 while on a governmentsponsored goodwill tour to visit troops in Japan.

The children were born of American soldiers and Japanese mothers during the Korean War. The women took the children back to their hotel room with the intention of putting them in an orphanage the next day.

They learned that the children were turned away from the majority of orphanages because of their mixed heritage. The women found a woman, Kin

gets children placed with foster families.

Strable told the Lions how Childhelp engineered a land swap with a donor family from Wears Valley a few years ago to purchase the old Brookhaven Farms site in Seymour. Originally, the intent was to establish a group home, but following a lawsuit against the state more than a decade ago, Tennessee has backed away from the concept of group homes, limiting the number of children to eight which is an economically unfeasible number for a residential facility.

Strable said the goals of the state regarding foster care have evolved from reunification with biological parents to permanency and is moving toward fixing families. According to Strable, no matter what the family situation – even in cases involving abuse – the most damaging thing for the kids is for them to be away from their parents.

The Lions are exploring ways to partner with Childhelp as a service project.

The Knox North Lions meet at 1 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of each month at Puleo’s Grille on Cedar Lane near Merchants.

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government BZA: Why it matters In 2003, Karen Graham wanted to put four dwelling units on a lot on Hubert Bean Road instead of the one unit allowed by the county zoning ordinance, so she and her husband, developer Tim Graham, went to the BZA and asked for a variance.

Betty Bean Neighborhood representatives showed up to protest, and the board came up with a “compromise” – three units per acre. Commissioner Scott Moore moved to approve, Commissioner Ivan Harmon seconded the motion, and it passed on a 9-0-0 vote.

The listed reason?

“To place four mobile homes on property.”

This reason would not be considered sufficient today, said assistant law director Daniel Sanders, featured speaker at the January meeting of the League of Women Voters.

“If the BZA fails to faithfully apply the zoning ordinance, we will be forced to live in a different community than the one our representatives intended. When you come to the BZA (asking for a variance), you have a case to prove,” Sanders said. “It’s an extremely high bar. The deck is stacked against you.”

It wasn’t always so.

Sanders, a Carter community native who got his law degree in 2008, is the board’s legal advisor. He told the LWV members that it’s a new day at the BZA, a quasi-judicial board where witnesses are sworn and decisions are appealed directly to court rather than to the legislative body.

Probably the most obvious difference between then and now is that applicants (and their opponents) can no longer have private, “ex parte” conversations with BZA commissioners about matters on the agenda, Sanders said.

This should not be construed to be a bar to communicating with BZA members, Sanders added. Unintended or inadvertent communication does not deny due process.

“We don’t have a problem with someone approaching a BZA member at a public meeting and saying ‘They’re doing an awful thing to our community.’ … Just don’t go to their house.”

E-mailing the entire board or calling the office of codes administration is the best way to plead a case, Sanders said, pointing out that these communications are provided to both sides.

Until March 2009, the BZA was composed of nine county commissioners or former commissioners (one per district) who held on to their positions after leaving office.

There were no term limits or bans on ex parte communications, and supporters and opponents of matters before the board were free to contact board members privately to plead their cases.

Neighborhood groups complained Sanders that variances were too easy to come by, and Sanders concedes that approval was pretty much automatic if nobody showed up to protest.

Early in 2009, lawyer Herb Moncier filed a lawsuit challenging the board’s composition, and the law director’s office subsequently ruled that seven of them had to be replaced. Sanders arrived shortly thereafter and has been working closely with LWV members to encourage public participation.

“There’s a great function that the League provides – observer corps. I tell the board: ‘Look. There are people here watching you.

There are going to be repercussions if you don’t follow the ordinance.’”

A-4 • JANUARY 24, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

Old friends, new jobs Mateja Stanonic came to Halls High School from the former Yugoslavia as a junior year exchange student. A total patriot of her homeland, Slovenia, and proponent of freedom, Mateja was a bit short on clothes. Seems she had made a midnight getaway with a couple of satchels of books.

Sandra Clark Business teacher Tommye McGinnis embraced Mateja, recruiting community support. A bunch of us signed up. Mateja might be the most intelligent person to ever attend Halls High School. If not the smartest, she’s surely the most ambitious. And she’s a loyal friend. Now a physician who also holds a doctorate from UT, she’s wrapping up a residency at George Washington University.

Last week she put out the call. Meet me at Tommye’s for good news.

Ahhh. Mateja has topped 30. She’s been in school forever. What is the good news?

“I’ve got a job,” she said.

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repeal of the law or there is nullification.”

Amid applause and cheers, nullification appeared to be the crowd favorite. Irion said the Tennessee legislature would consider a bill this year saying the new laws are unconstitutional. It would include a penalty for any organization trying to enforce the laws.

Commissioners Dave Wright and R. Larry Smith huddle with Don Henderlight, treasurer of the Halls Republican Club. Photos by S. Clark the person in charge of counting matters.

Running elections is a job you get because of politics; then you Scott Frith quickly become post-partisan. Scott talked a lot about social media. He’s put the Election Commission on Facebook and Twitter. He’s ready to help local legislative bodies with redistricting.

He’s proud to have worked with Halls High social studies teacher Tim Reeves to involve high school students with election night grunt work.

Training of workers has

improved and financial disclosures are now posted online.

Good stuff, Scott. Now let’s work on losing that “deputy” title.

Oh, yeah. Scott brought along Stephanie, his new wife, and made a couple of semi-funny jokes. He said Stephanie is an oldfashioned wife who lets him run things at home – things like the vacuum, the dishwasher …

He said on their honeymoon he lost his credit card. He was worried until he realized that the guy who stole it was spending less each day than Stephanie had been. “I decided to let him keep it!”

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Better dead than healthy Reporter Natalie Lester attended a Knoxville Tea Party gathering last week and emerged with her wits mostly intact. The same could not be said for anyone who takes seriously some of the incendiary words tossed around at the meeting.

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We’re accustomed to hearing rough language at these convocations of the (as they see it) perpetually downtrodden, but this latest verbal as-

Fighting ‘Obamacare’ 101 The health care debate has heated up again in D.C., and don’t think it isn’t just as hot in Knoxville. The Knoxville Tea Party met last week to discuss the best way to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordability Act passed by Congress last year.

There are three ways to attack the plan, said attorney Van Irion, whose class action lawsuit against the bill was dismissed last April: “(Another) class action lawsuit can give the Supreme Court the ability to decide the constitutionality of the bill, we can support the House’s

Mateja is heading back to Slovenia as that country’s first surgeon general. She’s making an 18-month Dr. Stanonic commitment to create an electronic medical records system there. And she will probably do some brain surgery.

There is no better investment than support of a smart, ambitious kid. Even if they are a bit short on clothes.

Scott Frith spoke at the Halls Republican Club last week. He’s walking a tightrope as deputy director of elections, a position created after the Republicancontrolled Election Commission failed to replace Administrator of Elections Greg Mackay, a Democrat.

Partisan Republicans want the top job in each county because political parties like to control the mechanics of elections. In 2000, Florida vote-counters dominated the news with talk of hanging chads and threats of recounts.

Scott says about anybody can count a landslide election.

It’s those close ones where

“It may not happen this year, but we can educate the state legislators on who is behind this,” Irion said. “I’m very optimistic it could pass this year, but the goal is simply to get it introduced so the legislators are aware of what it is.”

For those who aren’t familiar with nullification, it’s the action whereby a state refuses to enforce a law based on the argument that the federal government did not have the constitutional authority to enact the law in the first place. Think Arizona and immigration.

Get comfortable.

sault on the federal health care legislation enacted last year tops the list.

Speaking to a crowd that considers the federal government a “domestic enemy,” local attorney Van Irion concluded the presentation of his strategies for repealing the health care laws by saying “this is something worth dying for.”

Really?

There are issues for which it’s worth sacrificing one’s life.

Defending your family from harm and defending your nation or the world from enslavement by a Hitler or a Stalin immediately come to mind.

But does anyone sincerely believe that the chief executive of the United States is bent upon

installing a dictatorship?

Worth dying for. Was the speaker unaware of the irony and the pitiless outlook contained in those words? I’d rather be dead than extend to myself and others the opportunity for affordable health care; I’d rather be dead than see insurance companies provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions; I’d rather be dead than see the tens of millions without health insurance acquire it with the assistance of the federal government; I’d rather be dead than see you healthy.

Members of the Republican Party will dominate the guest table at the upcoming

East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists (ETSPJ) Legislative Preview Luncheon 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at Calhoun’s on Bearden Hill.

A buffet will begin at noon with the program beginning at 12:30 p.m.

Of 16 state senators and representatives invited, only two are Democrats. Those already confirmed to attend are Sen. Jamie Woodson and Reps. Bill Dunn, Harry Tindell, Steve Hall and Ryan Haynes.

WATE-TV reporter Don Dare will serve as moderator.

Lunch is $15 and is optional. Reservations are required by 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26.

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Irion based his discussion on freedom and how he believes the federal government is taking it away from citizens.

“I know the people who are running our government are intentionally trying to destroy our economy. They don’t give us the freedom our fathers took for granted.

America is about how people should be free and that is what the government is supposed to protect – that and nothing else.”

Irion quoted Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Payne.

He also discussed the “freedom” he believes was taken away by a 1942 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Wickard v.

Filburn) that expanded the federal government’s authority to regulate interstate commerce.

Eventually, Andrew Montgomery had enough of the history lesson and shouted for change now.

“All your heroes are dead, and their history is dead with it.

Van Irion The people who are living now must do something about it,” he said.

“We have to take care of the new business, and until we take a new stand on how to

deal with it, we’re going to be shoved back in the hole.”

Irion encouraged his audience to join his next class action suit and to continue the fight against “Obamacare” no matter the cost.

“I’m not buying ‘Obamacare.’ I’ll go to jail. We have a domestic enemy, and it can be eliminated,” one Tea Party member shouted.

“Let’s understand this is something worth dying for,” Irion said. “I’m not saying we should advocate shooters, but this is that important. Our children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren are going to have to live in this country we are creating.”

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Kincannon pushes McIntyre to stay Continuity of leadership is important, school board chair Indya Kincannon told Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre at last week’s board workshop. That’s why she hopes he will stick around to finish the work he’s begun.

McIntyre told the school board that he’s neither applied for nor been offered another job, including that of state commissioner of education in Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration.

Kincannon said the board is pleased with McIntyre’s work as reflected in his evaluations and the recent extension of his contract until 2014. That contract provides McIntyre can leave

Sandra Clark with 90 days notice. Seems a bit unbalanced.

■ Strategic compensation is possible for teachers, funded at least initially by federal dollars through Race to the Top. “We are a people intensive business,” said McIntyre, “80 percent of our budget is people. And our compensation should reflect our strategic plan.”

■ Leadership Academy: KCS received 107 appli-

Steed and the Suns of Phere, the Kevin Abernathy Band, Mic Harrison and The High Score, Senryu, The Drunk Uncles, Katie and the Bass Drums, the Westside Daredevils, the Tim Lee 3, R.B. Morris, the Melungeons, and Psychotic Behavior.

The festival received another boost when additional star power agreed to open the festival with a free performance Thursday, Jan. 27.

Also at Relix, the evening begins with a “songwritersin-the-round” performance

by Jake Winstrom, Greg Horne, Sean McCollough and Steph Gunnoe. The Appalachian music-makers in The Bearded will take the stage at 9 p.m., and pianodriven indie-pop band Hudson K will close out the night with a 10:15 show.

In addition, WayneStock artists will appear on the following programs to promote the festival:

UT-Knoxville ■ Dr. Terry Leap now heads the Department of Management in the College of Business Administration.

He brings almost 33 years of academic experience to UT, havLeap ing taught at Clemson, LSU (Baton Rouge campus) and the University of Iowa. His research interests are in the areas of white-collar crime and deviant behavior in organizations.

cations for 10 to 12 positions in the second Leadership Academy, a joint venture between UT and KCS to train principals. McIntyre said selection will be made within two months.

■ The Teacher Supply Depot celebrated its 10th anniversary by unveiling its new location last Thursday.

The depot, a joint project of KCS and the Knox County Council PTA, is at 709 N. Cedar Bluff Road in the former Cedar Bluff Intermediate ■ Study Abroad Fair is 10 a.m.

School location. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. ■ The school board 26, in the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center will meet at 8 a.m. Monday, Ballroom. The event provides Jan. 31, for a workshop and a one-stop shop for students in regular session at 5 p.m. to learn about opportunities Wednesday, Feb. 2. to study abroad. Info: http:// studyabroad.utk.edu/.

Lineup announced for WayneStock Acts have been announced for the upcoming WayneStock: For the Love of Drew music festival, an event organized to help with expenses for noted local entertainment writer and Halls High graduate Wayne Bledsoe, who lost his son, 23-year old Andrew “Drew” Bledsoe, last month. Bledsoe, who also lost his wife, Ruth, to cancer a decade ago, has two other children.

Because of the connections and friendships Wayne has made covering the local music scene over the years, veteran and up-and-coming performers alike have come together to put on WayneStock at Relix Variety Theatre, 1208 N. Central St. in Knoxville’s historic Downtown North neighborhood, affectionately known as “Happy Holler.”

The Jan. 28-29 lineup includes such prominent local acts as Quartjar, Todd

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■ New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will kick off the new David L. Dungan Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, in the Ehrman University Center auditorium. He asks: “Does The New Testament Contain Forgeries? The Surprising Claims of Modern Scholars.” The lecture and a reception are free and open to the public.

At noon Tuesday, Jan. 25, artists Kevin Abernathy, Sean McCollough and “Uncle” Mike McGill (of The Drunk Uncles) will be the David Key, assistant professor of history, represented PSCC at guests on the WDVX-FM the 2010 Winter Chinese Bridge program. Beyond educational Blue Plate Special, broadinstitutions, the delegation visited Hubei province in central cast live on WDVX from the China, the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square and Wuhan, Knoxville Visitors Center at the most populous city in central China and a major transporta301 S. Gay St. Tim Lee and tion hub. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.

Susan Bauer Lee (of the Tim Lee 3) and Mic Harrison of hosting the 1990s and 2000s competitions possible, and on Saturday, Jan. 29, as LMU in the process provided an (Mic Harrison and the High hosts a double header with opportunity to recognize the Score) will be the Blue Plate SAC rival Wingate. The 1960s achievements of outstanding Special guests Wednesday, reunion is Saturday, Feb. 12, middle school, high school Jan. 26; and singer-songwith Newberry. A reunion and college students who writers R.B. Morris and for the 1970s and 1980s will excel in the two disciplines.

Scott Miller will appear on take place on senior night the Blue Plate Special on Pellissippi State Saturday, Feb. 26, versus Lincoln Memorial Thursday, Jan. 27.

Lenoir-Rhyne. All women’s ■ ORAU promotes math and All events are free except ■ Lincoln Memorial University games start at 6 p.m. and the science through collabfor the music at Relix on FriLMU will host a trio of alumni orative programs with PSCC. men’s games at 8 p.m. Info: day and Saturday, Jan. 28gatherings during basketball The partnership has made 423-869-6280 or admissions@ several math and science 29. Tickets are $5 per perlmunet.edu. season. The alumni office is son, per night, and advance tickets may be reserved at www.brownpapertickets.

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A-6 • JANUARY 24, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

Put the books away

Unfriendly neighbors It has come to the attention of the West Side Shopper-News staff that at least one homeless cat is living somewhere around our office building, and someone has been feeding the little critter.

We are also flattered to find out that many of our neighbors think the person feeding the poor thing works for the Shopper-News.

As much as that sounds like any one of us on the Shopper staff, we would never let a homeless animal continue to scrounge for survival when we have an opportunity to help.

To the person feeding the cats on Lexington Drive, I would just like to offer some advice. Please make an attempt to rescue the cats or have them spayed or neutered and re-released if you haven’t already done so.

This will prevent the cat or cats from becoming a

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Critter Tales colony. A humane trap can be used without any harm ever coming to the animal in question.

To the person who has threatened to call animal control on the homeless animal, I would like to offer my two cents. You work for a food company that might actually reap the benefits of having that cat at your back door. Without him or her, you could have a herd of mice breaking into your packages of cookies when no one is looking. Info: www. feralfelinefriends.org.

Relay For Life The Relay For Life of Knox County Kickoff Rally will be held 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Relay participants will be able to register their teams and sign up to serve as Relay volunteers.

Honored survivor and guest speaker Deborah Mauldin, promotions and marketing director of South Central Communications, will share her story with those in attendance.

Refreshments and prizes will also be offered.

This year’s Relay For Life events will be held at various locations, including Friday and Saturday, April 29-30, at The Cove at Concord Park; Friday and Saturday, May 13-14, at Mercy North Health and Fitness Center Outdoor Track; and Friday and Saturday, June 17-18, at the World’s Fair Park.

Participants of the annual Relay For Life events give up a night of sleep to walk the track, representing the cancer patient’s journey day and night while raising money for the American Cancer Society. Info: Stacy Hall, 558-4053 or stacy.hall@cancer.org.

January at Art Market Gallery Art Market Gallery, 422 South Gay St., will spotlight the work of two member artists through Sunday, Jan. 30. Jewelry by Jennifer Lindsay and kiln-formed glass by Paula Marksbury will be on display. Hours are 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Info: www.artmarketgallery.net or 525-5265.

Meet Lucky Charm at Young-Williams Animal Center. She is a 9-month-old female hound mix that is not too big and not too small. She gets along beautifully with other dogs and has terrific house manners. Lucky Charm is currently available for adoption at the main center, 3201 Division St. Operating hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday. The adoption center at YoungWilliams Animal Village, 6400 Kingston Pike, is open daily from noon until 6 p.m. See all of the center’s adoptable animals at www.knoxpets.org.

‘Jammin’ in Your Jammies’ The 14th annual “Jammin in Your Jammies� will be held Friday through Sunday, Feb. 4-6, at the Holiday Inn at Cedar Bluff. A family of four can stay overnight beginning with registration 5 p.m. Friday and conclude their stay with a Saturday morning brunch or they can register at 5 p.m. Saturday and conclude their stay with a Sunday morning brunch.

The overnight event will include dancing, games for kids of all ages, nail and face painting, swimming in the hotel’s indoor pool, karaoke, a pajama contest, music from Star 102.1, line dancing lessons from Cotton Eyed Joe’s and a special appearance by some animals from the Knoxville Zoo. Admission for a family of four is $140, $80 of which is tax-deductible. Additional family members can attend for $30 per additional person. All proceeds benefit Children’s Hospital’s Child Life Department which focuses on patients’ educational, emotional, social and creative needs to make each child’s stay as comfortable as possible.

Sponsors for this event include Holiday Inn Select Cedar Bluff, Kimberly-Clark, Comcast Communications, Charter Media and Star 102.1 radio. Info: 541-8441.

To you moms who are new to this or expecting, I have one simple piece of advice: put the parenting books down and back away slowly. Don’t look back.

A new parenting book comes out every five minutes, each one claiming to produce fabulous, obedient Ivy League scholars. Please believe me when I say it’s all malarkey.

Find one that tells you when to worry about a fever and how to recognize diaper rash and pass the rest by.

Another classic example of these wastes of wood pulp came out last week, and I’m not going to print the name of the book or the author because I don’t want to contribute to its already obscene sales figures. Like all the others, it claimed to produce “superior� children using crazymaking, draconian methods.

What a bunch of baloney.

You know what kids need?

They need caregivers who love them and do their best.

That’s it. A simpler formula cannot be found.

Will loving your kids keep them from flunking classes, whining or turning to lives of crime? Maybe, maybe not. But, there’s no guarantee that Attachment Parenting, RIE or the dreaded BabyWise will, either.

Parents, do yourselves and your kids a favor and decide what’s important to you, then raise your kids with those values in mind. Be willing to change your tactics if

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When I became a mother almost three years ago, I made some decisions about the kind of parent I wanted to be. It was important to me that my husband and I not spank Daniel, that we never leave him to cry alone, that he grow up with a respect for books and wild places. Above all things, it is important to me that he knows he is loved.

Will he grow up to be “superior� because of this? Well, that depends on your definition of “superior,� and it depends on him.

So, don’t look for the parenting section at Barnes and Noble to do your job for you.

Is it important to you to raise a disciplined child? Is religion important to you? Are academics or artistic prowess at the top of your goal list? If so, parent with those wishes in mind.

But don’t forget, they’re just wishes.

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Free diabetes management class Knox County Health Department will offer a free series of classes on diabetes management throughout the year.

The next series of classes will be held noon each Thursday in February and March at the Cansler Family YMCA, 661 Jessamine Ave. Attendees will receive a light diabetic meal and there will be a door prize drawing. Parking is free and convenient. Note: This is a series of classes meeting five consecutive Thursdays, not a single class. Info: www.knoxcounty. org/health or 215-5170.

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The bottom line is this: As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, all children – wherever they live – remain at risk.

POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • JANUARY 24, 2011 • A-7

Insulin and fat loss

By Dr. Donald G. Wegener Recently we have disThese two important cussed insulin and how it fatty acids are best acquired is the major hormone that through eating fresh fish regulates your blood sugar and poultry. The omega-6 levels. This week I would fatty acids would be found like to continue our discusin tuna or swordfish and sion on insulin and how it they can also be found in affects your fat loss, energy chicken. The omega-3 fatty level and metabolism. acids are best found in cold water fish such as salmon.

It is important to keep your insulin at a regulated If you do not eat much level so that you do not of these foods, you need to have peaks of high and low supplement your diet with insulin levels. One of the these essential fatty acids. best ways to do this is by If you don’t eat more than changing your eating habits. three servings of fresh fish As we’ve spoke in previous per week, you should take articles, I suggest five to six essential fatty acids which meals per day which have include the omega-3 and a combination of protein, omega-6 fatty acids.

Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association president Leslie Grossman lets people see what really powers her 1997 Jeep Wrangler. Rows complex carbohydrates Also keep in mind that (fruits and vegetables) and of batteries are lined up where a motor once was. the fat you consume should some good fats. be monounsaturated such All healthy diets have as olive oil, peanuts and an adequate amount of esalmonds. In addition to the sential fatty acids which in- good fats, I also suggest clude both the omega-3 and adequate sources of vitamin omega-6 fatty acids. They’re E. Once again, if you do not

By Valorie Fister very important since they consume a balanced diet, I The outside of Leslie are the building blocks of would recommend at least Grossman’s black 1997 Jeep important hormones that 100 IU to 400 IU daily or Wrangler looks just like regulate your essential biowhatever your physician many other Jeeps on the logical functions. recommends. I caution you road. But ask her to pop the These are called essenagainst using saturated fats hood or the fuel door and let tial fatty acids because the in your diet. the surprise sink in. body cannot make these on Rows of yellow batteries its own from other foods, Dr. Donald G. Wegener, board certified rest under the hood where therefore you must acquire chiropractic orthopedist, is at Powell Chiropractic Center, 7311 Clinton Hwy., once there was a gas-powthese through proper Powell. Info: www.keepyourspineinline. ered engine. And there is com or 938-8700. nutrition. now an electric outlet behind the fuel door instead of a gasoline receptacle.

Grocery store tours “There are only three elecThe University of Tennessee Medical Center and tric Jeeps in the world,” said Food City will be hosting free grocery store tours to engineer David Hrivnak. help people make right choices for a healthy lifestyle.

Hrivnak is the mastermind Registered dietitians from UT Medical Center will who custom converted give participants tips on healthy grocery shopping, Grossman’s now 100 percomparing food labels and selecting food items that fit cent electric powered ve- Leslie Grossman talks with KEVA member and engineer David Hrivnak as he makes an adjustyour desired eating plan. hicle. “There are not a lot of ment to her vehicle. Hrivnak converted Grossman’s Jeep to 100 percent electric power. Photos by Upcoming tours include the Food City at Deane Valorie Fister kits out there for it.”

Hill, 284 Morrell Road, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26; Grossman’s vehicle now Recently, money from a domestically. sales manager at Ted Russell the Food City at Clinton Plaza, 5078 Clinton Highway, travels 30 miles on a charge $100 million federal grant Henry Ford’s wife drove Nissan on Kingston Pike.

1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23; and the Food City at Mil– which is just what she was awarded to local offi- an EV because she didn’t He said it’s likely Nissan’s lertown Pike, 2712 Loves Creek Road, 5 p.m. Wednesneeds for Knoxville driving. cials for installation of more want to turn the cumber- new EV will be on the roads day, March 30.

She pays the equivalent of than 40 solar-powered EV some and often dangerous in three to six months if not The grocery store tours are a part of UT Medical 60 cents of electric per gal- fueling stations in Knoxville crank, Hrivnak said. With sooner.

Center’s Healthy Living Kitchen, sponsored by lon of gas for a charge, and and Oak Ridge. The stations the invention and mass proThe LEAF can only be obFood City. While the tours are free, registration is her approximately $15,000 also are slated for comple- duction of gas-powered vetained now via a Nissan.com required: 305-6877 or visit www.utmedicalcenter.org/ conversion is expected to tion in 2012. hicles, EV interest faded. waiting list, Rigney said. healthylivingkitchen.com. last for up to 10 years.

Grossman said Tennessee In just the last two to The LEAF runs approxiGrossman and Hrivnak has easily surpassed Califorthree years with the rise of mately $32,000, and there want to see many more elec- nia as the leading state in the gas prices and the infamous is a federal income tax credit tric vehicles in use around nation for embracing alterwww.ShopperNewsNow.com BP oil spill in the Gulf of that can reduce the price to town and on the highways. native fuel-powered trans- Mexico, American interest around $25,000.

Grossman is the president portation. And she couldn’t in alternative fuels is once And as the electric transof the Knoxville Electric Ve- be more thrilled. again piqued. portation movement inhicle Association. The lo“When I watched the “The waiting list (to pur- creases, KEVA plans to be cal stock broker and former movie ‘Who Killed the Elecchase a LEAF) is nine to 10 part of it.

WATE television journalist tric Car?’ I was so pumped,” months long if not a year,” “Electric is the way of the has teamed up with Hrivnak, Grossman said of her appresaid Bryan Rigney, Internet future,” Hrivnak said. an industrial engineer at ciation for electric vehicles.

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Dirty to clean in 3 minutes A year to enjoy pizza Papa John’s Pizza in Halls has awarded two contest winners with a free pizza each week for the year. Winners are Kim French of Clayton Homes (business) and Brenda Boody (residential). French and Boody registered online and were randomly selected. Boody credits her granddaughter Jayla Hampton of Greenville, S.C., for helping her win, and she plans to have Jayla down to Knoxville to help her share in the winnings. Pictured at the celebration are: French, Koty Hardin, Ann Harrell, George Thompson, store manager J.P. Cruze and Boody (with Jayla’s photo). Both winners started the new year off right by taking home their first free pizza that evening. Photo by Ruth White

The new 3 Minute Magic car wash officially opened at 4725 N. Broadway and members of the Knoxville Chamber came out to help owners Teri and Jim Rooney celebrate. Helping with the ribbon cutting at the new facility are: Daniel Monday, Alice Eads, owner Teri Rooney, manager Joe Rice, Mark Field, Lindsay French, Michelle Kiely, Forrest Tuten, Morgan Thomas, supervisor Dan Hughes, assistant manager Josh Roberts, Peter Berrio, Meagan Poore, Brooke Benton, owner Jim Rooney, Theresa McManus and Rena Amerson. Through the month of January, the Rooneys will donate $1 for every car wash to the Lions Club. Stop by, wash off the dirt and salt from your car, and help a worthy organization. Photo by Ruth White

Heart attack: Be prepared, act fast As we approach February, American Heart Month, it is a great time to discuss the importance of acting fast in the event of a heart-related emergency.

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■ Kelly Floyd, learning and leadership development specialist for Covenant Health, will speak to the East Tennessee Association for Female Executives at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2, at the Orangery. She will discuss emotional intelligence, a leading predictor of both personal and professional success. Info: www.etafe.org.

■ Steve Wieand, account executive with Trane Commercial Systems, returns to the board of U.S. Green Building Council along with Lisa Hoskins, an architect with Brewer Ingram Fuller; and Glenn Richters, an architect with Benefield Richters Co Inc. Three new board members are Phil Chandler, project manager with DBS Construction of Chattanooga; Kevin Matherly, senior vice president with Partners Development of Knoxville; and Steve Wedemeyer, account manager with Trane of Johnson City. Info: http:// etnusgbc.org/ ■ Vol Court, produced by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UT, plans a 7-part series of one-hour workshops starting Feb. 1 to help those starting a business. Sessions are 5:15 p.m. Tuesdays. Info: http:// www.AndersonCEI.utk.edu/.

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Grace, tuned And all the people went up following him, playing on pipes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth quaked at their noise.

(1 Kings 1: 40 NRSV)

CHURCH NOTES Community services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, takes orders for Angel Food Ministries by phone, 228-9299, or in person the Saturday before each distribution. The distribution of the food is usually the third Saturday of each month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Info: 228-9299 or the church office, 690-0160.

■ Beaver Ridge UMC Food Pantry hands out food to local families in need 1-2 p.m. every Monday and 7-8 p.m. every first Monday. Donations and volunteers are welcome.

Info: 690-1060 or www. beaverridgeumc.com.

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry from 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and from 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

■ Dayspring Church, 906 Callahan Drive, suite 109, is a nondenominational congregation worshiping in a “come as you are” atmosphere.

Dayspring Christian preschool trains children from 2 years through 1st grade. Info: 2660324 or dayspringchurch10@ yahoo.com.

Fundraisers and sales ■ Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Highway, will hold a communitywide clothing give away 8:30 to 11 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 5. Clothing will be available for newborns up to adults. There will also be shoes, socks, coats, hats, blankets, pillows and more.

■ Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Highway, will have a formal wear consignment sale for children and adults 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 12.

Info: 922-1412.

Men’s programs ■ Temple Baptist Church will

host a Faithful Men’s Meeting 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Jan. 24-26. Guest speaker will be Dr. Larry Brown. Everyone is invited. Info: 938-8182.

Music services ■ North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike, will present The Crist Family in concert 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30. Admission is free but a love offering will be taken.

Info: 522-7590 or visit www. northacres.net or www. cristfamilymusic.com.

■ Mount Harmony Baptist Church on Raccoon Valley Road will present gospel singing by the group Wings Over Jordan 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29. Everyone is invited.

■ Bookwalter UMC, 4218 Central Avenue Pike, will present its 5th Sunday night singing 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30. The service will include music by the choir, soloists and congregation’s requests.

■ Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Pike, sponsors bluegrass each second Sunday during the 8:45 a.m. service.

Rec programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway hosts an exercise class in the Family Life Center gym at 9 a.m. Tuesdays and 4 p.m. Thursdays. The ZUMBA program fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easyto-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program.

Cost is $2 per class. LowImpact Aerobics Classes will continue to meet 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Info: 690-1060.

Special services ■ Halls Christian Church, 4805 Fort Sumter Road, will show the six-week video series “Answers in Genesis” by Ken Ham 6:30 p.m. each Sunday through Feb. 27. Info: 922-

I found a recording of bagpipe music on sale after Christmas. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love bagpipes, and those who don’t. That is largely the same as saying the Scots and everybody else.

Other cultures also have pipes, but the Great Highland Pipes are what most of us think of when we hear the word “bagpipe.” If your heart leaps at the sound of the pipes, and your head comes up like a hound to the horn, chances are you have Scots blood back along your pedigree.

During World War I, German soldiers called the fierce Scots’ Black Watch (the Royal Highland Regiment) “the ladies from hell” because of their kilts and their ferocious

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■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, Chancel Choir of will host an evening of dining and music 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, in the family life center.

Music will be performed by the band Retrospect during a four-course dinner of beef or chicken. Tickets are $18 (children 12 and under, $5) with a maximum of $50 per family unit. RSVP by Monday, Jan. 17, 690-1060.

■ The Shepherd of the Hills Baptist Church now offers an Internet prayer line.

Anytime you have a prayer or concern, call the line and leave a message. Someone will be praying about the request with you within 24 hours. Prayer line: 484-4066.

■ Bell Road Worship Center, 7321 Bell Road, offers Cafe Connection at 6 p.m. Sundays, a time of fellowship, snacks, coffee, tea and informal Bible Study.

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Lynn Hutton fighting skills. One can, I suppose, make the argument that any group of fighting men who wear skirts would necessarily be pretty tough.

In fact, the highland pipes themselves developed as an early instrument of war, a musical instrument designed to strike fear in the hearts of the enemy. You can imagine, can’t you, the sound of the skirling pipes coming at you out of the mists of the glen? No stealth there, just full out attack.

But it is the tuning of the

Women’s programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will host Women’s Bible Study 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the church library on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

The group’s five-week study will be Henri Nouwen’s “The Return of the Prodigal Son – A Story of Homecoming.” Info: Rev. Glenna Manning, 6901060; www.beaverridgeumc. com.

■ Knoxville Day Women’s Aglow Lighthouse outreach meeting is 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, at New Covenant Fellowship Church, 6828 Central Ave. Pike. Beth Arnurius, associated pastor of New Covenant Fellowship, will speak on love languages. Info: Diane Shelby, 687-3687.

■ MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meets 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the third Monday of each month at Fairview Baptist Church for devotional, food and fellowship. Child care provided. Info: Anne, 6219234.

■ The Women’s Ministry of Shepherd of the Hills Baptist Church, 400 East Beaver Creek

pipes which fascinates me.

There is a drone pipe which sounds the same note all the time. And there is a chanter, which sounds the tune. It is the interplay between the steady, constant drone and the lilt of the chanter which gives the pipes their unique sound.

The chanter’s nine notes are tuned not to a key, as such, either major or minor, but to the mixolydian mode, a distinctive, unique arrangement of whole and half steps which gives a haunting air to the music of the pipes. That is why some tunes have to be altered ever so slightly to be played on the bagpipe.

As I listened to my new CD for the first time, hearing old beloved melodies and making some new friends, I was struck by the ease and grace with which the old hymn tune “Amazing Grace” sits within the limits of the bagpipe.

Its tune is based on a different scale – the pentatonic, or five-tone scale – which is the equivalent of the black keys on

Dr., hosts a Bible study and breakfast for ladies featuring Beth Moore’s DVDs on The Book of Daniel 10 a.m. until noon each Saturday.

Workshops and classes ■ MAPS meets noon Fridays at First Comforter Church “for the soul purpose of their children.”

Info: 688-8390.

■ New Hope Baptist Church, 7602 Bud Hawkins Road in Corryton, hosts Celebrate Recovery adult and youth classes 7 p.m. Tuesdays and 12-step class 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

Info: 688-5330.

■ Fairview Baptist Church, 7424 Fairview Road off East Emory Road, hosts a Celebrate Recovery program 7-9 p.m.

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Youth programs ■ Graveston Baptist Church Parents’ Day Out program is enrolling children ages 11 months to pre-k. Prices are $145/month for two days a week, $85/month for one day a week. Info: Michelle, 465-9655.

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the piano, and which is a subset of the mixolydian mode.

The beauty of the pentatonic scale is that all dissonance is removed. There are no notes that clash with one another.

Play just the black notes, and it is a lovely, simple sound.

Perhaps that is the reason that it appears in folk music across the world: Celtic, ancient Greek, Chinese, Albanian, Malaysian, Korean, West African, children’s songs worldwide, American folk, jazz, blues, rock and gospel music.

I have written in this space before about the fact that John Newton, who authored the words of the hymn “Amazing Grace,” was a slave trader before his conversion experience. It is hypothesized that he set his poem to a tune he had heard sung by the Africans he was transporting for sale into slavery.

A tune based on the pentatonic scale, a scale in which all dissonance is absent, a tune, a hymn, a man, all bathed in the beauty of grace.

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Panthers get schedule back on track Powell plays four games in eight days

By Greg Householder The Powell High School basketball squads did not suffer the destruction of the schedule many schools did since the return from the holidays. Prior to the break, winter weather forced the postponement of the game with Clinton at home on Dec. 14 and the game at Fulton two weeks ago was moved from a Tuesday to the following Wednesday.

Last Monday, the Panthers squared the schedule by making up the Clinton game.

The Powell girls won 52-34 led by Shea Coker’s 12-point performance including two shots from beyond the arc.

The Panther boys fell to the Dragons 57-48. Tres Palmer led the scoring with 20 points. Also scoring in double figures for Powell was Zach Miracle with 11 including three 3-pointers.

On Jan. 14, the Powell girls downed Karns 60-53 led by Alexis Gillespie’s 14 points.

Powell’s Dimiyah Moore blocks up the lane last Tuesday at Hardin Valley. Photos by Greg Householder

Maddy Blackwelder and Haley Howell each scored 11 – Blackwelder with two beyond the arc and Howell with one.

The Powell boys fell to Karns 65-47. Miracle led the scoring for the Panthers with 15 including four from

3-point land and Steven Parsons poured in 10 points.

Last Tuesday, the Panthers split at Hardin Valley Academy – the Powell girls fell hard to the Hawks 4422. Blackwelder and Howell each scored five points to

lead the Panthers.

The boys outlasted the Hawks 57-52 with Miracle pouring 16 points including three from outside the arc.

This week the Panthers travel to Campbell County on Tuesday (Jan. 25) before

returning home on Friday (Jan. 28) to face Central.

In other high school action, many schools played make up games to get schedules back on track.

In action on Jan. 13, the Hardin Valley Academy girls downed Campbell County 53-46 while the Hawk boys fell 80-73.

In girls action Jan. 14, CAK beat Alcoa 56-45; Gibbs downed Grace Christian Academy 36-26; Catholic topped Bearden 39-33; Hardin Valley beat Anderson County 42-37 and Halls beat Campbell County 40-35.

In boys action, Bearden rolled over Catholic 78-52; Grace Christian Academy fell to Gibbs 72-68; Anderson County beat Hardin Valley 70-58; CAK knocked off Alcoa 60-51; West mauled Farragut 60-32 and Halls fell to Campbell County 67-62.

In girls action on Jan. 15, West demolished Heritage 5518; CAK beat Kingston 62-46; Lenoir City topped Bearden 54-49; Central fell to AustinEast 66-60; Webb rolled over Mt. Juliet 70-14 and Farragut topped Maryville 56-41.

In boys action, Bearden jumped on Lenoir Cit 90-41; CAK beat Kingston 60-44; West took it to Heritage 8041; Webb fell to Mt. Juliet 58-51; Central beat AustinEast 60-51 and Farragut fell to Maryville 70-65.

In girls play last Monday, Bearden topped Heritage 4735 and Gibbs fell hard to Pigeon Forge 75-45.

In the boys games last Monday, Bearden mauled Heritage 100-56 and Pigeon Forge edged Gibbs 52-50.

In girls games last Tuesday, Halls rolled over Karns 60-29; West edged Maryville 46-45; Gibbs fell to Gatlinburg-Pittman 58-23; CAK lost to Loudon 50-45; Bearden fell to William Blount 57-51; Farragut rolled over Lenoir City 52-47 and Grace Christian beat Midway 58-47.

In Tuesday’s boys games, Farragut beat Lenoir City 63-61; Karns downed Halls; Bearden demolished William Blount 79-22; CAK beat Loudon 82-57; Gibbs fell hard to Gatlinburg-Pittman 86-40; Grace Christian beat Midway 64-58 and West beat Maryville 63-57.

Powell storms back to outlast LaFollette

By Ken Lay Nothing has come easy for the Powell Middle School’s boys basketball team this season. Still, the Panthers have managed to win 11 of the team’s first 16 games.

Powell got another close victory last Tuesday night when it outlasted LaFollette 39-37 in a non-league game at home.

“That’s just been our year,” Panthers coach Darin Courtney said. “We made some plays down the stretch, and we made some stops that we had to make.”

The Panthers led 9-5 after the first quarter before cold shooting reared its head. Powell scored only one field goal in

the second stanza (a 3-pointer by guard Joe Stucky), and the Panthers trailed 14-12 by halftime.

Powell saw its offensive woes continue early in the third quarter, and the deficit climbed to 24-18 by the midway point of the quarter. Thanks to key buckets by Patrick Whittemore and Patrick Smiley, Powell pulled to within 24-22 by quarter’s end. Smiley scored seven of his team-leading 17 points in the third quarter.

The fourth quarter was filled with drama. Lacy hit a layup to give Powell a 35-28 lead with 2:17 remaining in the contest.

Then Whittemore’s basket gave Powell a 37-29 victory be-

fore the Owls came storming back. LaFollette’s Ralston Lettner had a pair of baskets, and Ethan Jeffers scored to pull the Owls to within 37-35.

Powell turned the ball over on its next possession, but LaFollette couldn’t convert. Whittemore, who scored 12 points in the game, then put the Panthers up 39-35 late. Dossett pulled the Owls to within 3937. A Powell turnover ensued, and Austin North appeared to score the tying basket with 5.2 seconds remaining, but his basket was disallowed as he was called for travelling.

Powell girls prevail: The Panthers posted a lackluster effort but downed LaFollette 27-

Random thoughts on recruiting Random thoughts tied to the nearness of national signing day, starting with flexibility in the word “commitment” – in recruiting as in marriage.

Once upon a time, a man’s word was his bond. Promises don’t mean as much in the modern context. Tennessee has nothing until prospects sign. After they are admitted to school, the operative word is maybe.

Maybe the prize 18-yearolds will listen occasionally, follow most rules, go to class and remain eligible. Maybe they will develop physically and mentally and avoid the worst of temptations. Maybe they won’t be lost to injury or some unscrupulous leech.

Maybe they will all stay and play and become Vols for life – but they won’t.

Doesn’t happen. Some get discouraged or impatient.

Some discover they aren’t as good as everybody said.

••• Five stars awarded by recruiting information services do not come with money-back guarantees. Think Chris Donald.

••• What really matters in recruiting? It varies. Potential playing time, rivals at their position. Conference affiliation. Coaching personalities. Word from established players about family atmosphere. Girls and parties.

Distance between home and school. Recent history, AP rank. Stadium size, appearance. Training and support facilities. What mother thinks.

••• Recruiting coups: Richmond Flowers, son of the Alabama attorney general, rejected pleas from Gov. George Wallace and Paul

Marvin West

“Bear” Bryant and chose Tennessee. Pivot points could have been Chuck Rohe and Vol track success and a burning desire to escape political turmoil.

Peyton Manning, son of an Ole Miss legend, studied the landscape carefully and really listened to David Cutcliffe’s no-baloney insight into instructing quarterbacks. It helped that Archie Manning trusted Phillip Fulmer and had a longtime Knoxville friend named Bobby Scott.

Condredge Holloway had potential greatness in three sports but college football was the obvious path once Dorothy Holloway rejected Montreal baseball money.

Bryant sadly admitted the Crimson Tide just wasn’t ready for a black quarterback. Bill Battle said Tennessee was. Ray Trail was outstanding as primary recruiter. Outstanding!

Heath Shuler could have gone anywhere. Recruiters were in the family home for 60 consecutive evenings. But there was a Tennessee connection. WIVK made it into North Carolina hill country.

More than any other, the Volunteers were the home team.

••• National search: Tennessee looks everywhere for winners. Interesting that John Majors, Doug Atkins, Bob Suffridge, Reggie White, Herman Hickman, Bob Johnson, Larry Seivers, Bowden Wyatt, Bobby Dodd

and Al Wilson just happened to be Tennesseans.

••• Risk and reward: Two years ago, Bryce Brown, No. 1 in high school football, came uncommitted from Miami. He and handler Brian Butler were shopping around – Oregon, LSU, Kansas State, Southern Cal. The NCAA was watching and wondering.

The magnetic personality and tantalizing promises of Lane Kiffin lured Brown to Big Orange Country. What the Vols got were four touchdowns, 460 rushing yards, 137 receiving, 19 on kickoff returns. He’s gone. And so are David Oku, Nu’Keese Richardson and several others (even Ed Orgeron) from that wonderful recruiting roundup. Fame can be so temporary.

••• Hall of Fame recruiting: Hank Lauricella just couldn’t see himself as a college quarterback but he sure could follow blocking which was what single-wing tailbacks did at Tennessee.

Florida signee Steve Kiner became a discard after he crashed as summer gardener and pool attendant at the home of an influential Gator booster. Kiner needed a new landing pad and Tennessee had enough Florida connections (Doug Dickey, Jimmy Dunn) to catch the late rebound.

••• Parting shot: In 1906, in its six-page booklet of rules and by-laws, The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States expressly prohibited recruiting. Do not offer inducements based on athletic ability. Coaches ignored the decree.

Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

16 Tuesday. Powell opened a 5-2 lead in the first quarter and never trailed in the contest.

Things, however, got too close for comfort for Powell coach Kim Stooksbury as her team led 12-8 at halftime and 17-12 at the end of three quarters.

“We had no intensity, and we didn’t box out,” Stooksbury said.

LaFollette pulled to within 17-16 before Powell closed out its victory with a 10-0 run.

Tori Lentz led the Panthers with 12 points (including seven in the fourth quarter). Bailey Williams added seven.

Powell returns to action today at Halls.

Powell’s Peyton Smiley attempts a layup in the Panthers’ 39-37 win over LaFollette last week.

Smiley scored 17 points. Photo by Ruth White

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