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Powell Lions ‘Walk for Sight’

By Jake Mabe Lions Club mascot Paws had some company for the area Lions’ annual Walk for Sight fundraiser in Fountain City Park on May 21.

Joined by mascots from the Tennessee Smokies and Knoxville Ice Bears, Paws led a group of Lions Club members and friends in the walk, which raises money for District 12-N’s Lions Charities.

Clare Crawford of the Knox North Lions Club says the district has a $60,000 budget that goes to various agencies, including the Tennessee School for the Deaf, the Tennessee School for the Blind, the East Tennessee Eye Bank and seven others.

The Day with the Lions also included a cake walk and car show.

The Fountain City Lions Club also held a pancake breakfast. Crawford, Carl McDaniel and Bill Watkins of Loudon County came up with the idea several years ago.

“It’s our big fundraiser for the year,” Crawford said.

World War II veteran Bob Courtney and Wade Jones enjoy the music, lunch and festivities at the Memorial Day celebration at New Harvest Park.

Happy Memorial Day! We salute our veterans.

Area Lions Club members and friends gather with the Tennessee Smokies mascot, Powell Lions Club president and District 12-N first vice governor-elect Diane Wilkerson, the Lions mascot Paws and the Knoxville Ice Bears mascot for the annual Walk for Sight fundraiser at Fountain City Park on May 21.

Jake reviews a new Davy Crockett book See page A-6

Photos by Jake Mabe

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First Baptist’s Arc of Hope ministry helps kids near and far Summer fun with a message See pages A10-13

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By Valorie Fister When the youth of First Baptist Church of Powell and Fountain City decided to give up their Sunday donuts and a summer trip to Kings Island, church officials took notice.

“They stopped their breakfasts voluntarily and redirected monies to what we would call poverty relief,” said David Trent, elder of First Baptist’s family ministries.

“That was met with really positive response.”

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A closer look at Burchett’s budget

By Larry Van Guilder Amidst the controversy over Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett’s proposed slashing of the county’s contribution to the Beck Center and his inflexible stance on employee raises and property taxes lies the

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Parents As Tender Healers program. That prepares adults for the arrival of foster children in their homes and families.

Another branch of this active ministry is the addition of Bethany Christian Services, the largest adoption agency in the U.S. Bethany also offers short-term crisis care for families that may be headed by a single mom or have a parent with serious illness or loss of job.

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is doing. The Powell church, with another location in Fountain City, also is implementing an Arc of Hope Ministry for orphaned and abandoned children.

The ministry covers everything from offering financial support to families that are adopting children internationally to preparing Knox County families to open their homes for foster children and those David Trent, elder of First Baptist’s in need of local adoption. family ministries, is now working with First Baptist also hosts in-house church members to establish the Arc training taught by the Department of Hope Ministry. Photo by Valorie Fister of Children’s Services such as the

mostly non-discussed heart of the budget, where everything from potholes to playgrounds takes a bite out of your tax dollar.

Before County Commission votes on the budget in June, it appears certain that a compromise will be reached on Beck’s funding. An even greater certainty is that no acrossthe-board raises will be granted this year and no property tax increase will be enacted unless commission can override a mayoral veto. But

what’s happening elsewhere with the mayor’s inaugural budget?

Burchett’s FY 2012 budget unveils his plan to reduce the county’s debt by some $20 million per year between now and 2016. For those who watched with a great deal of trepidation the bonded indebtedness grow by more than $200 million under the former mayor, this will be viewed as a signal accomplishment if the administration pulls it off.

There are two paths to get there: (1) Continue to shrink the size and scope of county government.

There’s every reason to believe the mayor will go down that road until it hurts. (2) Grow your sales and property tax base. Because the mayor’s conservative principles dictate that government can do nothing more than create an environment in which businesses and individuals have the opportunity to thrive, there’s little direct action he can take to swell the revenue stream.

(These are mutually supporting paths, not mutually exclusive, and despite the administration’s pessimistic economic outlook this year, an eventual uptick in the economy has to factor into an ambitious debt reduction plan.)

Outside the plan to whittle down the debt, it gets harder to find positives in the proposed budget.

The school budget comprises nearly 60 percent of the total and is largely beyond the mayor’s control.

The “general” budget, proposed for $149.2 million, continues to shrink, a trend that began with Burchett’s predecessor. Since 2008, and including the proposed FY 2012 budget, the general budget, which includes libraries, senior centers, parks, the sheriff’s office and public works, has shed $10.3 million.

But that’s the aggregate, and it is deceptive. Over the same period, the sheriff’s budget has risen by $7.5 million. Take out public safety, and the remaining general budget

has declined by $17.8 million, 18.5 percent since FY 2008.

Even allocations for which a strong argument could be made that a healthy increase is warranted aren’t receiving much help.

For example, stormwater management, a component of the engineering and public works budget, is slated to receive almost exactly the same funding as it did in FY 2011.

It doesn’t take a hydrologist to conclude that with more effective stormwater management over the years, and stronger codes enforcement in general, much of the time and effort expended on the hillside and ridgetop protection plan might have been avoided.

The proposed budget is likely to pass without major modifications.

The mayor’s “I’m not Ragsdale” honeymoon will last at least through his first budget cycle, but citizen reaction going forward is likely to test the proposition that smaller is in all cases better.

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community A time for remembering Today is Memorial Day. Today we pay tribute to the men and women who gave their all so that we might enjoy the freedoms we so often take for granted.

The precise origin of Memorial Day is disputed, with cities in both the North and the former Confederacy laying claim to its birthplace. History does record that on May 5, 1868, General John Logan, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a general order proclaiming that May 30, 1868, would be “designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion.”

Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War, respect for the armed forces declined among members of the baby boomer generation.

In retrospect, it isn’t difficult to understand the outrage with which members of my parents’ generation viewed the “flower children” who heaped scorn on those in uniform.

Millions of the “greatest generation” had worn those uniforms not so long before in the fight to preserve this country and the world from German and Japanese tyranny. More than 400,000 American military personnel died in World War II. The Korean War claimed another 53,000 lives, and more than 58,000 died in Vietnam. For years Korean War veterans could claim with some justification that theirs was the “forgotten war.”

Vietnam became the war no one wanted to remember, a colossal strategic blunder in the eyes of many. Too many of its veterans became a lost generation, walking wounded who even today bear psychological scars which may never heal.

So, it’s appropriate that as we remember those who fell in the cause of freedom, we also honor those remaining who fought by their side.

Freedom fighters don’t always wear uniforms. This month marks 50 years since a group of men and women, black and white, boarded buses with the intention of claiming their rights as American citizens.

The “Freedom Riders” were testing a 1960 ruling by the Supreme Court that racial segregation in interstate transportation was illegal because it violated the Interstate Commerce Act. Leaving Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, the Freedom Riders planned a May 17 arrival in New Orleans.

Jim Crow was alive and well in 1961, and the riders were beaten by mobs in Birmingham and Anniston, Ala. One bus was firebombed outside Anniston. Riders who later made it to Jackson, Miss., were arrested and sentenced to time at Parchman Farm, Mississippi’s infamous penitentiary.

Freedom isn’t free – it never has been. The Freedom Riders knew that, and so did the millions who have worn the uniform of the U.S. armed forces. To all who fought for liberty so that I and others may express ourselves without fear, thank you.

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A life well lived Remembering and saluting a departed mother A few months ago we began using this space as sort of a “community wrap-up” piece where I comment on the various events that happen or are soon to happen.

It works pretty well unless I don’t go to events during the week.

That is what happened to me for most of last week.

Around 5:30 a.m. on May 19, I received the phone call I have been expecting since the fall of 2008. First it was my uncle on my cell phone leaving a hauntingly cryptic message of “you need to get to your mother’s right away.” Next it was my aunt calling on my home phone telling me the same thing.

I called my mom’s house and her night caregiver answered and said the same thing my uncle and aunt had said – “you need to get here right away.”

When I arrived, I found my mom finally at peace.

She was still wearing her glasses, the television was still on and she was still in her robe. Apparently her caregiver had checked in on her around 11 the night before and woke early to check her again. My mom crossed over sometime between 11 the night before and about 5 the next morning.

My mom suffered from congestive heart failure – a vicious disease that one never recovers from that was brought on by a major heart attack in 2008. A salt lover, she was forbidden to touch the stuff after her heart attack.

Congestive heart failure is a frustrating disease. Modern science has

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increased the life spans of those suffering from CHF as it is called. In the later stages, however, I would be hard pressed to call what my mother was going through a “life.” I would not want to live like that – having no energy, feeling unable to breathe and knowing that the only way I was going to be able to get out for things like doctor’s visits and such was in a wheelchair and by the grace of others.

This was particularly rough on someone like my mom. Before she got sick she would travel: Hawaii, New England in the fall, you name it – if it was a location that what I used to jokingly call “the blue hair tours” were visiting she probably had been to it.

Until her illness robbed her of her energy, she would walk around the subdivision she and her late husband helped to develop and many times she would be found on the greenway in Halls between the library and community park. Even after her illness, she enjoyed playing bingo at the senior center in Halls.

My mom was a meticulous record-keeper. As her oldest, the executor of her estate duties fell to me, and as I begin my journey through files and papers I see just how efficient she

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Of course, she had her funeral preplanned, and we honored pretty much all of her wishes last week except one. Instead of the mug shot-looking photo for her obituary she had left in the file I used the one that appears with this column instead.

But she sure made things easy on us. That’s what she did her whole life – or at least the past 50 years or so that I’ve known her – make things as easy for others as she could.

On behalf of my family, I would like to thank everyone for their prayers, the

My mom, Reba Peterson, a few years ago before she got sick.

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So goodbye, Mom. I know without a doubt that you are in a much better place and are much happier. We’re going to miss you.

Arc of Hope ministry From page A-1

lying toward adoption and foster care support, Trent said. Twenty families already have turned in notice that they want to go through training to become in-home providers. Trent also said a number of teenage church members have voiced interest in providing babysitting services to help out.

This new movement was started in part through a conversation between Trent and church member Ginger Cook. Cook now leads the international adoption component of the Arc of Hope ministry.

“I’d already been thinking we are a pro-life church, how do we support that?”

Trent said. “Ginger came to me and said ‘What do you think of having a formal ministry with adopting children. Would you pray about that?’”

He said he already had an answer.

“I don’t need to pray, let’s just do it,” he said.

And the Arc of Hope was born. The program is

funded completely through church tithes and offerings.

And there are a number of adoptive families already benefiting from and contributing to the strong network of resources and support in that church.

“Another resource for families is a clothes closet,” said church member Tina Greer.

Greer is now overseeing the foster program component of the Arc of Hope Ministry. She said another resource that will soon be available is a clothes closet for families with children’s clothing needs.

Greer and her husband, Jack, have adopted three children through the Knox County foster program and are preparing to soon adopt a fourth child. That’s in addition to their 13-year-old biological son, Jackson.

“How would you ever have clothes ready?” she said, adding that there was only a 30-minute announcement before the arrival of one of her children through the foster system working to house a child in an emergency situation.

The Greers contribute much to both the Powell and Fountain City locations of the church their entire family attends each Sunday.

“The reality is, there are well over 600 children in need of homes,” Greer said.

“People have to step up and help.”

Greer said she is thankful for the support from fellow church members in raising her brood.

“It’s just trying to help,” she said. “That’s the part of the church family that’s exciting. We’d never have made it without our church family.”

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PHS Band holds annual banquet Reading tops list

By Greg Householder Students, parents and instructors all received special recognition when the Powell High School band held its annual banquet May 14 at the Knoxville Expo Center.

Band boosters recognized senior parents Carl and Tracy Ake, Alice and Rodney Patton, Deborah Beeler, Cathy Carling, Tina Collins, George and Cara Dahlke and Eddie and Sharon Davis.

The band directors are Ricky Shaw, M.J. Robinson and Janet Roach.

The boosters also acknowledged instructors Kevin Jankowski, Jimmy Burnett and Michaelangelo Hennegan for drum line; Macie McBride for majorettes and Kayla Hurst for color guard.

The directors recognized

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Patrick Humbard as the outstanding freshman, Hunter Morse for outstanding sophomore, Blake Stokes for outstanding junior and Jordan Potter as outstanding senior.

Carly Johnson and Kenneth Goit were recognized as most improved freshmen, Jesse Jennenga and Brandon Riddell as most improved sophomores, Brenna Edwards and Hayden Williams as most improved juniors and Emily Dunaway and Teddy Tran as most improved seniors.

Christian Swafford received the Arion Award, Skylar Ford received the John Philip Sousa Award and Bryce Patton received the Director’s Award.

The evening ended with a video of the year in review.

The PHS Marching Band 12, at the Tazewell Municipal Park on Richardson Road in Tazewell. Potluck meal will be served at 1 p.m. Bring a covered dish and drink along with any photos and family history to share. Info: Margaret Seals Bull, 423-626-3075, or Delsie Seal Sullivan, 423586-9091. All related families and friends are invited.

■ Knoxville High Class of 1951 will hold its 60th reunion beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, June 3, with an informal reception in the William Blount Room of the Marriott Hotel; 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 4, with a tour of Knoxville; and at 6 p.m. (social hour) and 7-9 p.m. (cruise and dinner) with a riverboat cruise at Volunteer Landing. The event is being hosted by Jan and Carolyn Fay. The weekend will conclude with a Sunday brunch 8:30 to 11 a.m. June 5.

■ The Buckner Reunion will begin at noon Saturday, June 18, at Wilson Park in Maynardville.

Bring a dish to share, a chair and a drink. Info: Jean Mize, 992-3674; Linda Cox, 992-8565; Carolyn Norris, 992-8321.

■ Seal/Seals Reunion (descendants of James W. Seal, also known as Seals, and first and second wives Emily Byrd Seal and Delaney Jane Shultz Seal) is 11 a.m. Sunday, June

■ The Cupp Reunion (family and friends of P.H. “Hurb” and Martha Cupp) will hold a reunion 1 p.m. Saturday, June 18, at the Fountain City Lions Club Building at Fountain City

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Senior parents Sharon and Eddie Davis are recognized at the Powell High School band banquet May 14. Photo by Greg Householder

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Park. Bring a covered dish and a 2-liter drink. Bring memorabilia to share. Info: Brenda Clabough Smith, 748-1658, or Jimmy Cupp, 423-626-3643.

■ Halls High Class of 1965 will hold its 46th reunion Saturday, June 25, on the Star of Knoxville Riverboat. Boarding at 6:30 p.m. and departure at 7. Cost is $43.75 per person for the dinner and cruise. Info: Elaine Wolfenbarger, 256-6292.

■ USS Albany Association will hold its 22nd annual reunion Sunday through Friday, Oct. 9-14, at the Glenstone Lodge in Gatlinburg. The association is currently looking for shipmates who served on one of the USS Albany ships (CA123, CG10, SSN753). Info: Dick Desrochers, 603-594-9798, or www.ussalbany.org.

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oration of the attack on Pearl Harbor in the fall.

Sampler class “The Sampler Workshop for Mothers and Daughters,” a beginning countedthread needlework class, will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, at the Ramsey House Plantation, 2617 Thorngrove Pike.

Participants will work in pairs and stitch a small 8-inch sampler typical of what a young girl may have stitched in the 1800s. Cost is $25 for each adult-child pair and $15 for each additional person. Children must be at least 8 years old.

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Free festivities will continue throughout the summer at various library branches around town. The program ends July 31.

Next year’s festival is already planned for May 19.

Make a note to bring the entire family (including your inner child) to Knoxville’s biggest celebration of the best makebelieve tool in the world: the book.

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■ Patriotic Pet show sponsored by Knox North Lions Club, Monday, July 4, following parade, Scarbro field.

■ Panther Marching Band yard sale, Saturday, June 11, Powell High parking lot. Spaces $20 or $40, no electricity. Info: Stacey Berry, 938-9523 or www. powellband.org/.

■ Powell Playhouse will present John Patrick’s “The Curious Savage,” 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 3-4, and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 5, Jubilee Banquet Facility.

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It’s a numbers game, part II Last week in this column we provided an example of how a budget revenue projection, sales tax in this instance, usually conforms to the mayor’s stated economic outlook, whether pessimistic or optimistic. That’s not surprising. Despite rumors to the contrary, accountants are human and require food and shelter that’s hard to procure without a steady job.

But numbers are abstract things, not concrete.

Whether $5 or $5 million, no one has ever spoken to, shaken hands with or had lunch with a number. Numbers don’t have faces or names, and – best of all for politicians – numbers don’t vote.

People vote, however, and the most feckless politicians spend a great deal of time trying to gauge how their constituents would have them vote on issues considered controversial. Another word for this is pandering, the favorite device of the politician who can’t be bothered worrying about what’s or right or wrong when what’s expedient is obvious.

A case in point is the feeding frenzy touched off by Mayor Tim Burchett’s clumsy dealings with the Beck Cultural Exchange Center.

In practical terms, the proposed budget reduction of $138,000 effectively eliminates county support for the center and underscores the administration’s philosophy that the less government the better.

With two or three exceptions, no commissioner has risen to defend the center.

Most, in fact, apparently aren’t disposed to quibble with the words of 7th District Commissioner R. Larry Smith, who said to this reporter at last week’s commission meeting: “Where in the Knox County Charter does it say that we’re supposed to fund nonprofits?

Period. Let’s move on.”

Those words come rather trippingly off the tongue for a commissioner who makes regular use of his “discretionary” funds to donate

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to the public schools in his district, entities which, unlike Beck, are already guaranteed taxpayer dollars for support, and rightfully so.

To be sure, Smith is only parroting the administration’s line, and he has a lot of company on commission, where trimming government for its own sake has become the philosophy de jure. And the premise is leaky at best; nowhere in the Charter do we find, for example, that we are “supposed” to provide health insurance for county employees, but we do it, because it’s the right thing to do.

Numbers don’t have jobs.

Numbers are never laid off.

People have jobs, and when their jobs run afoul of the cold calculus of budget cutting, the result can be disastrous.

At the same meeting in which Smith unloaded his nonprofit philosophy, Mark Henry, a 32-year low level county employee, told of how he had been notified that his job in the parks and recreation department was being terminated. Henry, who is disabled and uses a walker, said, “I had my disability when I came here.

I’m not the type to sit back (and do nothing).”

“What’s this fellow going to do in this situation?”

Commissioner Tony Norman asked Burchett.

Burchett said the department heads had been asked “to make these deductions. I know they’re hard choices.”

Parks and Recreation Director Doug Bataille said Henry’s pay and benefits “matched the amount” of the necessary reduction.

Mission accomplished, books balanced. After all, it’s only a number.

Contact: lvgknox@mindspring.com.

Veterans and the homeless Sue Renfro of Knox Area Rescue Ministries sends a Memorial Day reminder about the homeless and veterans. National statistics show that veterans make up between 15 and 23 percent of the homeless population.

At least 33 percent of homeless men are veterans, and the local numbers mirror the national statistics. You can learn more at the Department of Veterans Affairs website, http://www.va.gov/homeless.

Jamie Woodson’s decision to resign from the state Senate on July 9 (rather than last week) means the special elections to fill her seat will occur with the upcoming Knoxville city primary on Sept. 27 and the city runoff in November. It is being sold as a way to save tax dollars.

While some tax dollars will be saved, it is not a large amount, as the city and senate district do not overlap in their entirety. Only 15 precincts from the state Senate district are inside the city, and many city precincts are not in that Senate district, so there is a cost regardless of when the special election is held.

What is not being discussed is how this decision may impact both elections.

Right now the election is a Republican primary contest between City Council member Marilyn Roddy and civic leader Becky Duncan Massey. No other Republican has entered and no Democrat seems interested in running in a hopelessly Republican district.

Woodson’s decision adds another seven weeks to the campaign. Who does that help? Probably, it aids Massey as she is less well known than Roddy who has been campaigning for mayor or senator for more than a year now.

It gives Massey needed time to introduce herself and raise money. But Roddy needs time to introduce herself to county precincts south, east and west where she has not campaigned.

She needs time to explain several of her City Council

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votes which are not liked outside the city limits, as well as explain why she now prefers senator over mayor.

The Sept. 27 primary will trigger a large turnout of Republicans who, in fewer than half of the Senate precincts, can also vote for a mayoral candidate and City Council candidates.

For those who vote only for Republicans and do not cross over, their mayoral choice currently would be Ivan Harmon, the only Republican in the contest. The timing of the Republican primary may add votes to his column.

However, two of the three

credible mayoral candidates are active Democrats. They are Mark Padgett and Madeline Rogero. Their candidacies are already exciting interest among hardcore Democrats. That will increase Democratic turnout in the city precincts, and these Democrats can decide to vote in the Republican state Senate primary.

Whether a Democratic crossover helps Massey or Roddy is anyone’s guess, but it will occur. The city of Knoxville has more Democratic than Republican voters, while the remainder of the county has more Republicans. Depending on how close the mayoral or the Senate race is, the mixing of a partisan and nonpartisan contest on the same ballot the same day will have an impact.

At this stage, it is hard to determine who is the ulti-

mate beneficiary in both the GOP primary and the mayoral contest, not to mention the four City Council races.

Notes: Mayor Tim Burchett is making a real policy mistake cutting funding for the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Beck is a treasure to our community. It does not have the financial resources that some nonprofits in Knoxville have. This is an unnecessary fight over an institution that deserves better treatment. The cut also has racial overtones which do not add to racial harmony.

Ultimately, County Commission will restore the funding and Burchett will lose this battle. My advice to Mayor Burchett is to acknowledge error and restore funding on his own. It will happen anyway. He can be part of the problem or part of the solution. The solution is preferable.

A ‘thorn’ between two roses?

Knox County Law Director Joe Jarret, center, poses with Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and Knoxville Mayor Daniel Brown last Friday at New Harvest Park. Photo submitted

Will the real Bill Haslam please stand up?

Bill Haslam was mayor of Knoxville in 2008 when a man who hated liberals, Democrats and gay people fired on the congregation of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, killing two and wounding seven others. Afterward, the gunman’s spoken words and written documents revealed that he wanted to kill people who were friendly to gays.

A few days later, Haslam issued a statement about his city, saying, in part: “It is often easy to make these tragic events, which are far too frequent, about the community in which they occur. Knoxville is a caring, compassionate city where diverse viewpoints are shared and respected. Every person, regardless of race, religion, age, sex, or sexual orientation, is a person of human dignity and a valued member of our community.”

Haslam was elected mayor mostly because he successfully sold himself as a prac-

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Later, he won the Republican gubernatorial nomination over two strident, ideologically-driven opponents who made him seem to be the voice of reason.

Now that he is governor, he is being faced with signing dozens of controversial, ideologically-driven bills, only a few of which have attracted more attention from the business community than House Bill 600, aka the interestingly named “Equal Access to Intrastate Commerce Act,” which prevents Tennessee cities from enacting anti-discrimination ordinances protecting gay and transgendered workers.

The bill is short and simple and aimed primarily at Nashville, which adopted such a non-discriminatory policy.

Here is the language in full: “This bill prohibits any local government from imposing on any person an anti-discrimination practice, standard, definition or provision that varies in any manner from the definition of ‘discriminatory practices’ under present law or other types of discrimination recognized by state law but only to the extent recognized by the state. Under present law, ‘discriminatory practices’ means any direct or indirect act or practice of exclusion, distinction, restriction, segregation, limitation, refusal, denial, or any other act or practice of differentiation or preference in the treatment of a person or persons because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin. (italic added) “Under this bill, any such anti-discrimination practice, standard, definition, or provision imposed on any such person by a local gov-

ernment prior to the effective date of this bill would be null and void. The above requirements would not apply with respect to employees of a local government.

Additionally, this bill clarifies that with regards to discriminatory practices and human rights, ‘sex’ means the designation of the person as male or female as indicated on the person’s birth certificate.”

Many of the state’s most influential businesses – Alcoa, AT&T, Embraer, FedEx, Nissan, United Health, Whirlpool and KPMG, to name a few – signed onto a campaign urging Haslam to veto the bill.

He dithered for a couple of days, then thumbed his nose at those businesses and signed his name, causing many old friends to wonder what happened to the reasonable, business-friendly Bill Haslam who urged us to respect the rights and dignity of all.

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Kelley Academy launches 49 grads It was an awesome evening as 49 young men and women graduated from high school at the Knoxville Center mall. The graduates came from across Knox County. All had encountered difficulties that made it unlikely they would graduate at all.

Sandra Clark

“What a great honor to welcome you to the first ever graduation exercise of the Dr. Paul L. Kelley Volunteer Academy,” said Superintendent Jim McIntyre. “This Academy reinforces that we can have multiple paths through high school. … (The Academy) is a great opportunity and you cannot argue with the results.”

A huge crowd cheered as the graduates entered while Tommy Muncey played “Pomp and Circumstance.”

The loudest cheer was for principal Tracy Poulsen, who left an administrative post at Farragut High to tackle the challenge of guiding disparate individuals through coursework and testing necessary to obtain their high school diploma.

Channeling Jerry Reed in “Smokey and the Bandit,” Poulsen said, “You had a long way to go and a short time to get there.” She hugged each graduate.

Jennifer Lee Womack won a renewable college scholarship worth $28,000 from Simon Youth Foundation, presented by Dr. Chris Chalker.

Keynote speaker Dr. Michael Durnil, also of the

Simon Youth Foundation, told the graduates, “You will earn $100,000 more in your lifetime than those without high school diplomas.

“I believe in you and I believe you’ll be able to go anywhere and achieve your dreams. Let nothing hold you back,” he said.

Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin stood against the wall. “I’ve got one here,” he said when asked what brought him out. “When they do right, you’ve got to be there for them.”

Poulsen praised her staff and told her graduates: “Failure is not an option. You set lofty goals and achieved them. You graduated from high school on time.

“I invite you to come back and visit. Encourage other students who are struggling.

Give back to the community.”

The graduation was a happy time, a validation for McIntyre and Poulsen who had gambled that the school would work. It was a tribute to Simon Youth Foundation, which supports 25 such academies in malls across the country.

And it was a marvelous summation of the life’s work of Paul Kelley, a former school board member who refused to vote to expel students under “zero tolerance.”

To paraphrase his remark every time: It is the school board’s job to educate children. We’ve got courts and jails to punish them.

Kelley stood as the graduates filed past him. This reporter could not resist a comment. “This is on you,” I said. “You made this possible.”

“There are worse ways to be remembered,” he answered.

The first graduating class of the Dr. Paul L. Kelley Volunteer Academy. Photos by S. Clark

Dr. Paul Kelley, standing with his son, Michael, at right, salutes the graduates.

Valedictorian Devan Shayn Overholt and principal Tracy Poulsen. Devan attended Gibbs Elementary, Holston Middle and Gibbs High schools before finishing at Kelley Academy.

Haynes, Woodson tackle strangulation Tennessee could have one of the toughest strangulation laws in the country on July 1, pending Gov. Bill Haslam’s signature of a bill sponsored by Sen. Jamie Woodson and Farragut Rep. Ryan Haynes.

The bill adds attempting or intending to cause bodily injury to another

person by strangulation to the definition of aggravated assault and defines strangulation as “intentionally impeding normal breathing or circulation of the blood by applying pressure to the throat or neck or by blocking the nose and mouth of another person.”

Currently, strangulation

is often treated as a less severe form of assault.

The bill was supported by the Community Coalition on Family Violence, co-chaired by Russ Jensen.

He said, “This never would have come to pass without their vision and leadership.”

■ Joy McCroskey did not show up at commission last week to answer questions about her budget.

Perhaps she’s so peeved at Burchett that she’s snubbing the whole public vetting budget process.

■ Sarah Palin has chartered a bus for an extended trip from Washington, D.C., up through New England visiting historic sites. Maybe the tour will end in New Hampshire where Palin will camp out, trapping wildlife, until the 2012 primary.

■ Facing pushback on his budget, Tim Burchett is planning a direct public appeal while at the same time promoting the use of mass transit. “If Palin can tour the East Coast in a bus, surely I can ride a KAT through East Knoxville,” Burchett says. First stop – Beck Cultural Center.

■ Richard Bean, over at the juvenile detention center that bears his name, says his residents often leave without underwear.

So he and his board have launched a “Pennies for Undies Ministry,” collecting pennies to buy underwear.

Area churches are pitching in. Info: 215-6500.

■ With Burchett’s budget, we may be collecting pennies for parks, prisoners and potholes. Stay tuned.

■ Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey says we ain’t seen nothing yet, referring to the legislature’s penchant for half-baked social issues.

Maybe he’ll make Stacey Campfield the speaker protem to replace Jamie Woodson. Since Campfield already is our most famous senator (Daily Show, Colbert Report, CNN, Fox), we could turn him into a tourist attraction.

■ Jamie Woodson will be missed. Heck, I’m missing her already.

– S. Clark

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surfaced and stayed in the national consciousness about Crockett was one of the reasons he decided to write a biography, “David Crockett: The Lion of the West.”

“This is a book for people interested in the truth, or as much truth as can be uncovered. I hope readers learn insight into the man.”

Wallis says that Crockett was a three-dimensional human being, “with exaggerated hopes and well-checked fears,” who could be good and bad, calculating and selfaggrandizing, authentic and contrived, “most comfortable in the woods on a hunt but who could hold his own in the halls of Congress.”

He was a 19th century enigma.

Crockett fought and first made his name in the Indian Wars under Andrew Jackson, only to later become a Whig and an outspoken political opponent to Old Hickory. Crockett was resentful perhaps that Jackson, who was for all practical purposes landed gentry, was able to pass himself off as a populist hero of the people.

audience’s delight.

“The national mythologizing of Crockett had already started during his lifetime.”

Crockett would write a best-selling autobiography. It and the Crockett almanacs popular at the time would go on to influence the humor of Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln and Will Rogers.

“The final scenes of his life took place at The Alamo,” Wallis says, “but the curtain calls have never ceased for the historical Crockett.”

Foes and fans alike argue to this day over how and when Crockett died. He was in Texas only a few weeks, but that part of his life dominates many movies and books based on his life.

“There was the David Crockett of historical fact. The other is an American myth.”

Wallis says he hopes that people will discover through his book that the real-life Crockett “is a hero in his own right, and include the good, the bad and the stages of gray. Most “He was neither a buffoon nor of all, he was a man willing to take a great intellect, but a man always a risk.” evolving. He was arguably the first Somebody asked Wallis when he popular celebrity and his story is learned that most of what he knew far more than a one-note Disney about Crockett was a myth. character.”

“Probably by the time I turned 12,” David Crockett spent more than he joked, saying that as a writer he is half of his 49 years living in the drawn to “people that are people. I East Tennessee of his birth. Wallis like to find these puzzling enigmas.” said that Crockett would have been A few years ago, Wallis re-watched pleased that his rifle (no, not “Ol’ the Fess Parker series that had so Betsy”) is on display at the East Tencaptivated him and his generation. nessee History Center downtown.

“My, oh my, it’s Walt Disney.

“His East Tennessee roots There’s no blood. And, there he was, shaped much of his character and grinning a bear out of a tree,” he he remained a Tennessean until his says, shaking his head. dying day.”

“But it worked on me. I slept in Crockett proved to be so popular that coonskin hat.” that a play, “The Lion of the West,” Call Jake Mabe at 922-4136 or email JakeMabe1@ opened in New York during his life- aol.com. Visit him online at jakemabe.blogspot. time, featuring a character named com, on Facebook or at Twitter.com/HallsguyJake.

Nimrod Wildfire that was not-soloosely based on Crockett’s exploits, be they real or imagined. The myth “David Crockett: The Lion of the and the man met the night Crockett West” by Michael Wallis is availhimself saw the play, when the actor able now from W.W. Norton and playing Nimrod and Crockett took Company. It retails for $27.95. turns bowing to one another to the

special permission from Commissioner Pete Rozelle to sign a convicted felon.

Robinson was less than a perfect conformist. He skipped some practices and didn’t follow all instructions but necessity finally put him on the field, Oct. 19 at Dallas, on Monday night TV. The show kicked off as if everything was real. Frank Gifford, Al Michaels and Dan Dierdorf were in the booth. Hank Williams Jr. delivered “All My Rowdy Friends.”

Roman candles erupted. Smoke billowed. Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders did their thing.

Tony came through, 11 completions in 18 attempts, 152 yards, a 13-7 Washington victory. Seems to me this was the magic moment of his life.

As you might expect, the strike ended. Released replacements faded away. Tony violated parole and returned to prison. Joe Gibbs developed the real Redskins into Super Bowl champions. For that one big win, Tony received a ring and $27,000, enough to buy refreshments and pay attorney fees.

Sad stories are sprinkled across the great decades of Tennessee football. Cruel injuries. Strange ailments. Auto crashes. Arrests.

Deaths. Too often we are left to wonder what might have been. The tale

of Tony Robinson is atop the heap.

Some argue he was the most talented quarterback in Volunteer history, superior athletically to Heath Shuler, more exciting than Condredge Holloway, cannon for an arm, touch of a fly-fisherman, even better than Peyton Manning.

Kevin Altoona Robinson came from a good Tallahassee family.

Tony said he grew up going to a Baptist church, that both parents were preachers. Leon High lost three games in his three years. He set state records with thousands of passing yards.

Tony wanted to stay and play for Florida State. Bobby Bowden had never had a black quarterback and wasn’t quite ready to begin. Besides, he didn’t think the skinny beanpole (6-4, 180) could take the pounding.

Florida never was interested.

Georgia recruited hard but cooled late in the process. There were whispers about lack of leadership ability.

Tony seemed introverted, indecisive, maybe not too terribly concerned.

Majors wanted him and then he didn’t. He was short on scholarships and had seven quarterbacks committed but none with such an arm or touch. The coach and the kid finally said yes.

Robinson spent his freshman season watching Alan Cockrell. As a sophomore, he gave up and went

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‘The Lion of the West’ New book seeks the real Davy Crockett

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s long as he lives, Michael Wallis will never forget the evening of Dec. 15, 1954. He was 9 years old.

That was the night ABC-TV aired “Davy Crockett: Indian Fighter” on what was then called the “Disneyland” TV series.

“I could have predicted the show’s success,” Wallis told a crowd at the East Tennessee History Center last week. “I was hooked in two minutes when I heard the theme song ‘When You Wish upon a Star.’ Then Walt unleashed this frontier character in the form of a lanky Texan named Fess Parker.

“I got whiplash.”

Wallis says that Fess’ Davy sent his fickle 9-year-old heart a-flutterin’. He’d met William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd and Duncan “Cisco Kid” Renaldo. Forget it. They were relegated to the lower rungs of preadolescent hero worship.

“Even Stan ‘The Man’ Musial, who was etched in granite at the top of my heroes list, was threatened to be toppled.”

Wallis forgot all about staying up to watch “Strike It Rich” and “I’ve Got a Secret.” He even forgot about the snow that was forecast for the following day. Instead, he went back to his bedroom and pored over the Davy Crockett entry in the World Book Encyclopedia.

The scene was playing itself out in households across America.

Some 40 million viewers tuned in that Wednesday night. By the time

Author Michael Wallis talks about his new book, “David Crockett: The Lion of the West,” at the East Tennessee History Center last week. In addition to writing best-selling books about the West, Route 66 and Pretty Boy Floyd, Wallis is also a voice actor who appears as the sheriff in “Cars” and “Cars 2.” Photo by Jake Mabe the final episode aired a few weeks later, the U.S. was caught up in a true Crockett craze.

Crockett would sell $100 million in merchandise (some $8 billion in today’s dollars), everything from pajamas to lunchboxes to the coonskin cap that was ubiquitous in 1955.

“The Ballad of Davy Crockett” was No. 1 on the Hit Parade for 13 weeks.

“And I knew,” Wallis said with a smile, “that every single word of the song was the gospel truth.”

Of course, it wasn’t. Wallis says all the recognition was a good thing, but that the misinformation that

Tony Robinson in the NFL TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West

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he current difference of opinion between NFL owners and players brings to mind labor strife of 1987. That immediately leads to the strange tale of the replacements and Tony Robinson, former Tennessee quarterback, and his one game in pro football.

For 24 days, the league kept games going with substitute teams made up of substitute players.

Some, on loan from fall plowing, desk jobs and gas stations, weren’t very good. Tony, on work release from prison, was excellent.

When he was a Volunteer, everybody knew Tony Robinson could play. Johnny Majors used phrases like “best I’ve ever seen” and Dallas super scout Gil Brandt said “he could be better than Joe Montana because he has a stronger arm and movedadShopper-News.ai 1 moves quicker.’”

Alas, all was lost when a terrible knee injury took Tony down in the

1985 Alabama game. After that, far more was lost when Tony and roommate Kenneth “B.B.” Cooper were nailed at their apartment for delivering cocaine to an undercover agent.

Judge Ray Lee Jenkins sent Tony to jail but cut him some slack, an unusual out if he could find a football job and stay clean. Tony looked and looked but had to settle for the very minor league Richmond Ravens. No pay but the team helped find a day job to cover hamburgers, rent and gas.

Tony tried telemarketing. He moved on to mall parking lots with hopes of selling cheap cologne.

He didn’t like it one bit but he was forced into a construction job, up at 5 a.m. for manual labor.

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He started as a junior. He put on a show against Florida. The Gators won. He was big against Alabama.

The Vols won. He made some mistakes against Kentucky and went down in history as the last quarterback to lose to the Wildcats.

This was 1984, a 7-4-1 campaign, 61 percent completions, 14 touchdowns, nine picks. He could throw the football the length of the field.

Best Saturday was Sept. 28 of his senior season, Vols against No.1 Auburn, Sports Illustrated at the stadium to do a Heisman preview about Bo Jackson.

Tennessee scored a stunning upset. Tony threw four TD passes and took the magazine cover.

After that came the torn knee, Sugar Bowl on crutches, maybe a setup, stop-the-presses arrest, plea bargain, one good night in the NFL, other crimes and other punishments, talent wasted, life squandered – leaving only fond, forgiving memories of the good times at Tennessee.

For years, Tony was in and out of prisons. Seems he has avoided headlines since 2009. That could be good news. He is 47. I hope he is well.

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Living in light

Chelsie Bittle and her recently adopted brother Zachary plant flowers.

after years of darkness Lorraine Furtner | Across the Fence

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n 2004 the Bittle family (Donnie, Melanie and children Chelsie and Hunter) found themselves on a dark path that would lead through death, cancer and depression. Their road became brighter last year with an incredible recovery from stage IV cancer and the adoption of son Zachary on March 9 of this year.

The Bittles were shoved into despair on May 19, 2004, when Melanie’s car was hit head-on by a driver impaired by alcohol, marijuana and Xanax. The crash ejected Melanie and her seat into the highway and instantly killed 3-year-old Hunter.

Chad Sparks, teaching pastor at Providence Church, recalls the agony of informing Melanie and Donnie that Hunter had died.

“It’s still not something I like to talk about,” said Sparks. “I was especially afraid that Donnie, being a new Christian, would blame God, but he didn’t. Instead of faltering spiritually, his faith solidified over the weeks and months, but it was still a battle.”

Perhaps he was gaining strength for what lay ahead.

By December 2005 the Bittles had moved to West Knoxville and were coping with life without “Bubby.” Melanie found a job at a local clinic and formed a nonprofit organization called LEGACY (Leading Educating and Guiding the Attitude and Choices of Youth) to educate middle and high school students about how their choices affect others.

The program was shelved because Melanie was diagnosed with breast cancer, resulting in a double mastectomy.

In 2009, three years and six surgeries later, her reconstruction just finished, Melanie complained to her doctor of having a lot of pain in her chest.

The cancer was back: in her sternum.

Hunter Bittle’s young life was ended by a drunk and drug impaired driver on May 19, 2004.

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Melanie began aggressive chemotherapy. Due to her fragile immune system, the extroverted Melanie was forced to segregate herself from large crowds. Isolation became the norm.

“I began to wonder if people were just my ‘charity friends,’ that I was just some cancer patient they could bring food to,” Melanie says. “I had cancer, but it didn’t define me. But I was afraid it was defining me to others.”

Chelsie, now a teen and afraid to wake her mom from the long naps she needed, spent most of her time at friends’ houses.

“I thought she didn’t need me and she thought I didn’t need her,” said Melanie.

On top of that, the Bittles were devastated to learn the treatments hadn’t worked. The cancer was now stage IV (the highest level), having spread to eight places in her bones, as well as to organs. So, they began a new chemotherapy.

The final straw came in December 2009 when, without warning that her benefits had expired or a phone call of any kind, Melanie received a termination package in the mail from her employer.

“That pushed me to the edge. I became really angry at all I’d been through,” said Melanie.

The next week, she was hospitalized for a reaction to the chemotherapy that caused congestive heart failure and kidney failure.

“After coming home, there were

Message from the universe CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

(Matthew 11:28-30 NRSV) When in doubt, tell the truth. (“Hazel’s Law,” Hazel Sherwood)

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here are times, I suspect, in the life of every writer when he or she can do nothing except tell the simple truth. I am not sure what this story means. I

wonder about that. You probably will wonder, too. I only know that it is true.

There are almost always stacks of paper on my desk at work.

days I couldn’t lift my head off the pillow. I was through fighting. I questioned God, ‘If I’m going to die, why can’t you just take me? Why do we all have to suffer like this?’ ” Melanie remembers husband Donnie curling up beside her in bed, putting his arms around her and begging her, “please don’t give up!”

Her friend Donna Denton, children’s Discovery Street coordinator at Providence Church, wouldn’t let her give up either.

Sparks and the elders in the church literally gathered the family into their arms as they prayed asking God to help the family and to heal Melanie if that was His will.

Not long afterwards Melanie called Sparks to inform him of the results of her scan.

“They could not find a trace of cancer in her body,” said Sparks.

“But we urged caution. We wanted to be sure and not get her hopes too high. It’s not that we don’t trust God, but we don’t always trust medical science to be perfect.

“After the third scan continued to reveal no signs of cancer we were ready to raise the rooftops and tell the congregation how many years of prayer had been answered.”

Chelsie said that she has not quite accepted that she doesn’t have to worry about her mom.

Melanie is still on her guard and has been hesitant to accept that she might remain cancer free. At the same time, she’s never felt like

she was going to die from cancer.

Instead, Melanie questioned her reason for living and suffering through such trauma.

The answer had come early in the spring of 2010, but the Bittles did not know it yet. While “This is the reason I’m still here,” says Melanie Bitvisiting her sister- tle of her recently expanded family: Melanie Bittle in-law Vickie Pat- holding Zachary Bittle, Chelsie Bittle and Donnie terson, Melanie and Bittle. Photos by L. Furtner Chelsie met Vickie’s cause of all the circumstances that new foster child, brought him here, Zachary is the Zachary.

Zachary was 15 months old and real miracle in my life.”

Melanie had to be cancer free suffered from neglect and reactive affective disorder and would not for a certain amount of time bereact with any adults trying to pick fore adopting and Zachary’s birth him up or hold him. Chelsie was an- parents had to sign away their paother matter. There was an instant rental rights. bond between the two. Zachary Finally, after watching the Bitpitched a fit when Chelsie left. tles interact with Zachary, his bioIn the car Chelsie said, “Wouldn’t logical mother told Melanie, “Now it be neat if we could adopt Zach- I know why I had him – to give him to you.” ary?”

The Bittles adopted Zachary on As the months progressed, Zachary became a frequent visitor and it March 9. was mutual love. The Bittles wanted Seven years after tragedy the to raise him as their own son.

Bittle family has experienced “Zachary even looks like he healing from cancer and the healcould be our son,” said Melanie. ing that comes from opening up “Ironically, Zachary’s birthday is your heart again to love. on Hunter’s due date. When I saw Now, days are spent rocking on Zachary, I thought, this is why I the front porch, watching Zachwas healed. This little boy needs ary plant flowers with his “sissy” me as much as I need him. Be- Chelsie.

There are vouchers, folders, notes to myself, notes to others, reminders, scrap paper, informational bulletins to be handed out, etc. There are notes attached to my computer screen, reminders of what password goes with what program (carefully encoded, of course), checking account balances and notes to myself about something I need to discuss with tomorrow’s team leader.

So finding a scrap of paper filled with obscure notes is not an unusual circumstance.

Yesterday, I came across a small sticky note with seven words written on it. I remembered the conversation it referred to, knew that it had been taken care of and started to throw it away. That’s when I saw eight words, written at a different angle, up the side of that tiny yellow piece of paper.

“Never take the burden I can help you,” it said. No punctuation.

Just those eight words.

In my handwriting.

I am being absolutely honest when I say this: I have no memory of writing those words, no idea of why I wrote them, or where they came from. Was it something a friend had said to me? A colleague? My supervisor?

No idea.

I only know that when I read them, it felt as if God was speaking directly to my heart. It was a message from the universe.

Once before, years ago, I awakened from a dream and heard a voice (that was not my own) inside my head say, “I speak to you in many voices.”

That time, the voice verified the truth of the dream. This time the voice spoke in the written word, in my own hand.

THE ORIGINAL

What does it mean?

Hard to say. But here is how I understand it: Don’t think for a minute you are alone. You are not alone. You don’t have to take the whole burden on your own shoulders. Let me help you. A yoke is for two, you know: someone to share the load. I have walked this road, and I know the way. I will help you carry the burden, and I will walk with you. Stay with me, and remember, this is like a dance; you just need to let me lead.

Needless to say, I found this tiny message incredibly comforting. Even though it was written in my hand, I believe it came from far beyond me. Why now? Again, I have no idea.

Even so, this I do know: its truth will sustain me; its power will strengthen me; its peace will hold me.

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Summer fun …

The days are heating up, and at your local church preparations are well underway for those weeklong festivals of fun and Bible learning known as Vacation Bible School.

But, just like many church institutions, Vacation Bible School had humble, and perhaps surprising, beginnings. hile summer Bible programs probably existed before this, it’s said that the first Vacation Bible School was held in 1894 in Hopedale, Ill., by Sunday school teacher D.T. Miles, who also taught public school.

Feeling that the Sunday school hour was too short a time in which to teach children the important lessons of the Bible, she started a daily Bible school during the summer. Her first class was four weeks long and hosted 40 students, meeting at a local schoolhouse.

Four years later in 1898, Eliza Hawes, director of the

delphia and Chicago. He went on to establish a worldwide VBS organization in 1923.

In 1923, Standard Publishing created the grandparent of todays VBS “themes” by publishing a VBS program.

The publishing house later divided the program by grade level, added themes and, in 1987, offered more than 120 VBS products.

VBS timing has changed, too. According to statistics, only 29 percent of VBSs meet in the morning, as opposed to 55 percent just 10 years ago. Evening programs help accommodate today’s working family and get more of the church family involved in VBS. VBS programs are a huge part of many churches’ community outreach and often encourage church-going kids to bring their friends

children’s department at Epiphany Baptist Church in New York City, noticed an increase in the number of immigrant children in local slums. That July, she rented the only space available, a beer saloon, and held Bible classes for children for six weeks.

When she retired in 1891, Hawes was running seven such schools.

Dr. Robert Boville of the Baptist Mission Society took notice of Hawes’ summer Bible schools and took up the standard, growing the program to 17 schools by 1903 and later expanding to Phila-

Vacation Bible School

LISTINGS Alder Springs Baptist Church, Hickory Valley Road, Maynardville, will have Vacation Bible School 7-9 p.m. June 13-17.

Black Oak Heights Baptist Church, 405 Black Oak Drive, will have Inside Out and Upside Down on Main Street VBS 6-9 p.m.

June 5-10, for ages 3 years through 5th grade. The Rev. Steve Ross is pastor. Info: 689-5397 or www.bohbc.org.

Black Oak Ridge Baptist Church, 6404 Old Maynardville Pike, will have Big Apple Adventure VBS 6:30 to 9 p.m. June 13-17, for ages 3 and older. There will be classes for youth and adults, and nursery is provided. Complete meals will be served each night. Friday night is Family Night with games, crafts and gifts, and the children will perform their program. Info: 254-3363.

Cedar Ford Baptist Church, at the intersection of Tazewell Pike and Highway 61 in Luttrell, will have Gold Rush VBS 6:30 to 9 p.m. June 19-24. Classes for all ages. Transportation provided if needed. Info: 992-0216.

Central Baptist Church of Fountain City, 5364 North Broadway, will have Big Apple Adventure VBS 9 a.m. to noon, June 13-17, for children preschool (age 3 before Sept. 30) through rising 6th grade. Info or to register: www.cbcfc.org or 688-2421.

Corryton Church, 7615 Foster Road, Corryton, will have SonSurf Beach VBS 9 to 11:15 a.m. Sundays, June 5-Aug. 7, for kindergarten through 5th grade. Info: 688-3971.

Fairview Baptist Church, 7424 Fairview Road, Corryton, will have Big Apple Adventure VBS 6-9 p.m. June 19-24. Info or to register: 687-5648 or www.fairviewbaptist.com.

Faith UMC, 1120 Dry Gap Pike, “PandaMania: Where God is Wild About You!” 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, June 6-10.

A snack supper will be served each night. Kids of all ages. Info: www.faithseekers.org.

Fellowship Christian Church will have SonSurf Beach VBS 7-9 p.m. June 6-10. There will be classes for all ages. Info: 9259792.

Grace Baptist Church, 7171 Oak Ridge Highway, will have The Adventure Squad 2011 VBS 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 22-24, for ages 2 years through 5th grade. There will be nightly giveaways. Info or to register: www.gracebc.org.

Greenway Baptist Church, 2809 Adison Ave., will have The Big Apple Adventure VBS 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. Sunday through Friday, June 12-17. Info: 687-5369.

Hubbs Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Hubbs Grove Road, Maynardville, will have Big Apple Adventure VBS 6:30 to 9 p.m. June 12-16, with a Family Night Block Party June 17. There will be Bible study, snacks, music, crafts and games. Classes are available for all ages, infant through adult. There will be special activities for teenagers and Bible study for adults. All are welcome.

who may not attend church.

According to the Southern Baptist Convention, 25-28 percent of baptisms are a direct result of VBS. In recent years, the SBC reports that 101,000 children made professions of faith at VBS, and Sunday school classes enrolled 45,000 new members as a result of VBS. Total SBC VBS enrollment in 2006 was 2,962,457. That’s a whole lot of kids, a whole lot of macaroni art, a whole lot of fun and a whole lot of faith.

From a rented saloon to professional productions, VBS continues to grow in quality and attendance. It’s a fixture of summer for churchgoing families, and a good time for parents, too.

Here are some of the VBS themes you can expect at your local churches this year.

– Shannon Carey

New Liberty Baptist Church, 5901 Roberts Road in Corryton, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Friday, June 12-17. Kick off is 4 p.m. Sunday, June 4, with a “Kickin’ It Old School” parade, picnic and concert.

Powell Church, 323 West Emory Road, will have Kingdom of the Son VBS 6 to 8:30 p.m. June 13-17, with a visit by the Knoxville ZooMobile June 13, and Family Night with inflatables and food June 17. Classes for ages 4 years through 5th grade. Info or to register: www.powellchurch.com or 938-2741.

Salem Baptist Church, 8201 Hill Road, will have Big Apple Adventure VBS 9 a.m. to noon, June 20-24, for all children ages 4 years through 5th grade. Info or to register: 922-3490 or www. salembaptisthalls.org.

Second Presbyterian Church, 2829 Kingston Pike, will have Inside Out and Upside Down on Main Street VBS 9 a.m. to noon, June 20-23. Info: www.2ndpres.org or 523-2189.

Son Light Baptist Church, off Rifle Range Road, will have Inside Out and Upside Down on Main Street 6:45 to 9 p.m. June 20-24.

Classes for all ages. Dinner provided. Commencement will be 6 p.m. June 26. Info: 922-5501.

Karns Church of Christ, 6612 Beaver Ridge Road, will have VBS, themed “The Battle Belongs to the Lord,” 6:30 to 8:45 p.m.

June 26-29. Info: 691-7411.

Union Baptist Church, 6701 Washington Pike, will have PandaMania VBS 6:30 to 9 p.m. June 26-30, for ages 4 years through 5th grade. The kick-off party will be 5 p.m. Sunday, June 26, with food, inflatables and games. Info or to register: www.

DiscoverUnion.org.

Milan Baptist Church, just north of Paulette Elementary School on Maynardville Highway, will have SonSurf Beach Bash VBS 6:45 to 9 p.m. June 13-18. There will be snacks, music, crafts and games.

Union Baptist Church of Halls, 8244 Old Maynardville Highway, will have Big Apple Adventure VBS 6:30 to 9:15 p.m. June 12-17, with a kick-off party and dinner at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 8. Info: 922-7714 or www.unionbaptisthalls.org.

Mountain View Baptist Church, 2974 Cecil Ave., will have The Big Apple Adventure VBS 6-8 p.m. Monday through Friday, June 6-10. Info: 525-4192.

Warwick Chapel Baptist Church will have Vacation Bible School from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 6-10. There will be classes for all ages.

The kickoff fun day will be 6 p.m. Saturday, June 4.

New Beverly Baptist Church, 3320 New Beverly Church Road, will have PandaMania VBS 6:15 to 9 p.m. June 13-17. There will be food, crafts, inflatables and music. Info: 546-0001 or www. newbeverly.org.

West Park Baptist Church, 8833 Middlebrook Pike, will have SonSurf Beach VBS 6 to 8:30 p.m. June 13-16, for ages 4 years through 6th grade. A Spanish-speaking class is available. Info or to register: 690-0031 or www.westparkbaptist.org.

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vbs 2011 Inside Out and Upside Down on Main Street Inside Out and Upside Down on Main Street draws on Jesus’ parables, setting them in modern-day contexts so kids can easily connect with their messages. Through these stories, kids learn about gratitude, grace, forgiveness, compassion and faithfulness. The Main Street tales will teach them that Jesus can make a difference in their lives, their neighborhoods and the whole world.

PandaMania Your kids will go wild with PandaMania VBS, meeting exotic critters and learning about God’s unconditional love. This wild celebration of God’s love is so much fun, kids won’t even realize they’re learning important lessons. With special songs, play time, crafts and snacks, each element of PandaMania points straight to the Bible and what it says about God’s love.

Big Apple Adventure Take a step out of the ordinary and into the city that never sleeps with Big Apple Adventure VBS. With rotation stations like “Worship Rally at Times Square” and “Bible Study at Battery Park,” kids can explore the big city through music and activities. This VBS, whose tag line is “Where faith and life connect,” teaches kids to rely on faith, connect with Jesus and share his message with the world.

SonSurf Beach Bash What better way to spend your summer days than at the beach? Kids going to the SonSurf Beach Bash will get to do all the fun beach activities right here at home. Sandcastles,

water fun and sea shells will abound.

While they’re playing in this sunsoaked paradise, kids will get to learn who Jesus is and why he’s important in their lives.

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Tra Ramseur, Power Cross Ministries co-founder Jeff Storment and assistant coach Wendell Hill pray with the team after a game at the Under Armour National Championships in Orlando.

Power Cross, a youth ministry that allows underprivileged children to play sports while off ering a Christian witness, is looking to expand to the Knox area. Photo submitted

Youth ministry hopes to expand to Knox area

By Tia Kalmon Teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older they will remain upon it. Proverbs 22:6.

Each life of a child is different, but the people involved in that life make all the difference.

Power Cross Ministries is an organization that strives to help young males compete in sports free of charge through ministry teachings, Bible studies and encouragement that will lead them far beyond the pitcher’s mound or football field.

“This is a way to teach kids there is hope for Jesus Christ,” says Power Cross founder and Halls native Jeff Storment.

Power Cross was founded in North Carolina by Jeff and his wife, Natalie Storment, who is from South Knoxville. They created this ministry after they saw young adults in the Statesville area turning down offers to play sports for their school due to financial and other reasons. These boys come from homes from which one parent is missing

because they are in jail and from underprivileged homes in which food is not often served. Natalie said most of the boys coming from homes like this do not make it all the way through high school and often follow their parents’ example.

Natalie and Jeff took it upon themselves to pay for entry fees, uniforms and transportation for four of these students to play football under one condition – that these students attend a Bible study hosted by Natalie and Jeff with a dinner included. From that point on, this idea took off.

“These boys now have in front of them the chance to choose the path to stop the trend,” Natalie said.

From four young males in the beginning to now more than 200 young males, the program is changing lives.

Natalie and Jeff have both quit their jobs to work full time with Power Cross. They now drive 15-passenger vans instead of cars and they have a passion to make an impact in these lives.

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Homecomings ■ New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 7115 Tipton Lane, will hold homecoming 11 a.m. Sunday, June 5, featuring Michael and Deliah Kitts.

Everyone is invited.

Rec programs ■ New Covenant Fellowship Church will have Open Scrapbook Night 6-10 p.m. Friday, June 3, in the fellowship hall.

Bring pictures and scrapbook supplies and a snack to share.

RSVP and to register for child care: 689-7001.

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istry. The biggest improvement we have seen is by a Fundraisers child who started a gang ■ Hines Creek Baptist Church and wasn’t doing well in will hold a rummage sale school, and now this same for the church’s food pantry student is in all advanced starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 4, in the parking lot of classes and a straight A and the former Bi-Lo in Halls. All B student,” Jeff says. donations will be accepted Power Cross now runs and appreciated. Info: 497its own football, basketball 2495. and baseball teams, has 12 coaches, holds four different ■ New Fellowship Church, 120 Pine Drive in Maynardville, weekly Bible study meetings will hold a benefit ride at 9 and serves more than 20,000 a.m. Saturday, June 4, (kickfree meals. More than 200 stands up at 10:30) for Nelson 7- to 16-year-old boys are inEddie Richards for help with volved in this program. everyday bills. Cost is $10 per Power Cross is located person. Donations accepted.

Info: 925-2546 or 254-3447. in North Carolina, but the Storments have aspirations ■ Bookwalter UMC, 4218 Cento expand the ministry to tral Avenue Pike, will sponsor a communitywide yard sale 8 Knoxville. a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June A benefit dinner and silent auction will be held 7 p.m. Friday, June 10, at the Jubilee Banquet Facility on Callahan Drive. Anyone is welcome to attend. For reservations, contact Natalie Storment at nat@powercross.org or call 704-402-8011.

For more information, contact Power Cross at 303 Mitchell Ave., Statesville, NC 28677 or contact Natalie Storment.

Visit www. powercross.org.

■ Faith UMC, 1120 Dry Gap Pike, will host a Young at Hearts meeting 10 a.m.

Tuesday, June 7. Guest speaker Rick Ayers from the office of veterans’ affairs will share information on benefits available to veterans and their spouses. Bring a dish for a pot luck lunch following the meeting. Info: 688-1000 or visit www.faitseekers.org.

Special services ■ Clapp’s Chapel UMC in Corryton will host a Memorial Day ceremony at the cemetery 2:30 to 3 p.m. Monday, May 30. All fallen service men and women will be honored.

The program will include a roll call of all known veterans in the cemetery, a “striking of the church bell” and a moment of silence. Refreshments

will be served. Veterans are encouraged to wear their uniforms. Everyone is invited.

■ Mountain View Baptist Church, 2974 Cecil Avenue, will host Fun Day 1 p.m. Saturday, June 4, in the parking lot.

There will be a Trunk or Treat, candy, snacks and games.

Costumes of Bible characters are allowed but not necessary. Info: 525-4192.

■ Northacres Baptist Church Happy Travelers of invite everyone to see “My Fair Lady” at the Cumberland County Playhouse Tuesday, June 7. Cost is $59 and includes lunch at Cumberland Mountain State Park. Info: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

Women’s programs ■ Knoxville Day Women’s Aglow Lighthouse will hold an outreach meeting 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, at New Covenant Fellowship Church, 6828 Central Ave. Pike. Maxine Raines, founder and executive director of Lost Sheep Ministries, will present a workshop on how to help the hurting and the homeless.

Info: Diane Shelby, 687-3687.

■ 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, 690-1060; www. beaverridgeumc.com.

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Bell awarded Energy Solutions Foundation scholarship

Powell Elementary art students Savannah Bresler and Chloe Weaver each had art work selected for the permanent art collection at the school. Photo submitted

Powell Elementary starts permanent art collection

Jared Bell of Powell High has received the Energy Solutions Foundation Scholarship. The program is open to 10th grade students and offers scholarships to the top student from each eligible high school throughout Tennessee.

Students selected for the program are chosen for academic achievement, community involvement and career goals, and are evaluated by professionals in science, math and engineering. Each student selected receives a $2,000 scholarship that may be used at the college of their choice as long as they plan to seek a degree in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, environmental sciences, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology or physics.

Powell Elementary School has begun a permanent art collection under the direction of art teachers Mary Catherine Graziano and Amy Scott. The collection will feature the art work of two students selected by an art specialist.

The first pieces selected for the collection are Savannah Bresler’s “Pop-Art Cake” and Chloe Weaver’s “Impressionist Landscape.”

Rhodes College cum laude grad hails from Powell Lee Cotten Bryant, daughter of Bob and Kathy Bryant of Powell and graduate of Powell High School, graduated cum laude from Rhodes College in Memphis on May 14. Bryant was awarded the Rhodes Early Career Award for Environmental Sciences and Studies, the first recipient of the award in the Powell High student Jared school’s history.

Bell. Photo by Ruth White During the summer Bryant is working with the Wolf River Conservancy, a MemThe long term goal of the phis nonprofit organization program is to help create the aimed at conserving the Wolf next generation of mathemaRiver, a Mississippi River ticians, scientists and engitributary, through preserneers for America’s future. vation and education. This Bell hopes to attend the Uniinternship will capitalize on versity of Tennessee and maher interest in environmental jor in nuclear engineering. education.

Bryant’s interest in education will continue in the fall as she has been selected from hundreds of applicants to be a Chinquapin College Prepa-

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■ Introduction to Art, ages 3-4, 9 a.m. to noon. Class encourages hands-on activities in multiple visual art media, including drawing, painting and sculpture.

■ Funny Faces, ages 5-6, 9 a.m. to noon. Choosing a theme of fruits, vegetables or flowers, sketch your portrait with pencil, then add color, light and shadow.

■ Collage: Painting Without Paint, ages 7-9, 9 a.m. to noon.

The style of Romare Bearden will be your young artist’s guide as he or she creates wonderful collages.

■ Pastel Drawing, ages 10-12, 9 a.m. to noon. This beginning course introduces students to soft pastel and different application techniques.

■ Color Theory, ages 13-15, 1-4 p.m. Add some color tricks to your bag while studying artists like Josef Albers and Bridget Riley.

June 6-17

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■ Colors and Animals of the Rainforest, ages 7-9, 9 a.m. to noon. Gather under the canopy of the rain forest to create art inspired by cheetahs, frogs and parrots.

■ Learn to Knit, ages 10-12, 9 a.m. to noon. You’re never too young to learn to knit!

■ Genre Painting, ages 15 and up, 1-4 p.m. By observing people engaged in everyday activities, create a genre painting using pairs of complementary colors.

June 20-24

■ Nature Hike, ages 3-4, 9 a.m. to noon. Students will explore the great outdoors while learning about line and texture.

■ Looking at Art in Nature, ages 5-6, 9 a.m. to noon. For the beginners who need to learn about perspective and depth.

■ Art Down Under, ages 7-9, 9 a.m. to noon. Travel to Australia to explore the aboriginal arts of dot painting and rock art.

■ Scrapbooking, ages 10-12, 9 a.m. to noon. Students will create memorable and imaginative scrapbooks.

ratory School Urban Fellow for the 2011-12 school year.

Chinquapin is a 6-12th grade boarding school outside of Houston in Highlands, Texas.

Many of the Chinquapin students are from socioeconomically disadvantaged families and will be the first in their families to attend college upon completion of their studies at Chinquapin. Bryant will teach 6th grade science, coach sports and lead an arts elective course.

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Tickets are $50. All proceeds benefit Random Act The local charity Random of Flowers whose volunteers Acts of Flowers will present collect flowers from a multithe third annual Art in the tude of events and locations Garden 7 p.m. Friday, June and repurpose them into 3, at Knoxville Botanical bouquets for patients in hosGardens. pitals and nursing homes.

There will be live art Info: 633-9082 or visit demonstrations from local artists, a silent and live auc- www.randomactsofflowers. tion, food and live music. org.

KMA SUMMER ART ACADEMY JUNE CALENDAR ing, ages 13-15, 1-4 p.m. This The Knoxville Museum of Art two-week class is $170 for will host Summer Art Acadmembers, $200 for nonmememy classes June 6 through bers. The course will focus Aug. 5, offering classes to ignite on incorporating texture and the imagination for kids of all sculptural relief into a painting. ages. Classes are held at the museum, with morning classes for ages 3-12, and afternoon June 13-17 classes for ages 13 and up. Tu- ■ Shapes and Animals, ages 3-4, 9 a.m. to noon. Students ition for each weeklong class will use the basic shapes in colis $85 for members and $100 lage and drawing to make their for nonmembers, and includes favorite animals. workshop supplies, instruction ■ Pop Art, ages 5-6, 9 a.m. to and guided tours. Workshops noon. Take everyday images and scholarships are filled on and turn them into mastera first-come, first-served basis. pieces. Please send two white Info or to register: 525-6101 ext.

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Porter is Powell Teacher of the Year Jim Porter is recognized as the Powell High School Renaissance Teacher of the Year by school principal Ken Dunlap during graduation ceremonies May 21. Photo by Julie Glibbery.

Art and Architecture photography exhibit The Arts and Culture Alliance and Knox Heritage will present a new exhibit of 12 photographs by local artists as part of Knox Heritage’s fifth annual Art and Architecture Tour 5 p.m. Friday, June 3, on the north side of the Balcony at the Emporium Center.

The photographs originally created Knox Heritage’s Photography Contest and tour route of historic sites through the Old City and surrounding area. An opening reception will take place 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, June 4. Exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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KNOXVILLE CHAMBER Info: 637-4550. All events are held at the Knoxville Chamber unless otherwise noted.

■ Young Professionals Unite!, 5-7 p.m. Thursday, June 2, The Conference Center at Water’s Edge, 608 Mabry Hood Road.

■ Luncheon with Senator Bob Corker, noon to 1:30 p.m.

Friday, June 3, at the Foundry, 747 World’s Park Drive. Tickets are $25 for members, $35 nonmembers.

■ Ribbon Cutting for New York Life, 4 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, June 6, New York Life Insurance Company, 265 Brookview Centre Way, Suite 102.

Rural/Metro grows despite tough economy

■ Business After Hours Sponsored by Cricket, 5-7 p.m.

Thursday, June 9, Old City Entertainment Venue, 118 S. Central St. ■ The Knoxville Area Urban League (KAUL) will host an all-day Homeownership workshop 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 4. The workshop will cover the details involved in selecting, purchasing and maintaining a home. The class meets all requirements for FHA loans. There will be a $20 fee for a take-home workbook. Info: 524-5511 or email thekaul.org.

■ The Knoxville Area Urban League (KAUL) will host a threesession homeownership workshop 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, and Thursday, June 16, and 9 a.m. to noon and Saturday, June 18. There will be a $20 fee for a take-home workbook. Info: 524-5511 or email thekaul.org.

Dragon Boat race registration open Registration is open for the ninth annual Knoxville Dragon Boat Festival race scheduled for Saturday, June 25, at the Cove at Concord Park. All ages, skill levels and physiques can participate. Boat teams race for prizes and raise money for Knox Area Rescue Ministries in the process. This year’s race is limited to 70 teams. Info: 7424306, visit www.racedragonboats.com or email penny@ racedragonboats.com.

Tech help at the library A monthly computer workshop will be held at Lawson McGhee Library 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 20; 5:30 p.m.

Monday, July 25; and 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29. The public is invited to come with questions about computers, iPods, etc. Info: 215-8723.

Artists on Location The Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art presents the “Artists on Location” exhibition and sale Friday and Saturday, June 10-11. Events include a demonstration by Nashville artist Dawn Whitelaw at KMA 7 p.m. Friday and artists creating “en-plein” air at the location of their choosing and exhibiting the finished works 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday at KMA. The demonstration on Friday is $10 and includes free hors d’oeuvres. The exhibit Saturday is free with hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar and live music by the Dennis Dow Trio.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the Knoxville Museum of Art in memory of Betsy Worden. Info: www.knoxart.org.

By Sandra Clark With the upcoming addition of Heiskell, the Rural/Metro Fire Department will operate 15 stations in Knox County with 39 trucks and vehicles.

Providing fire protection to the area outside of the Knoxville city limits is big business.

Although the board of directors of the Heiskell Volunteer Fire Department has voted to transfer assets to Rural/Metro, the details must be worked out by a panel, according to Jerry Harnish, Rural/Metro’s fire chief since 2007.

No date is set, but “sooner is better than later,” he said.

Rural/Metro will retain Heiskell’s fire station on Central Avenue Pike at Raccoon Valley Road and will add its 16 square miles of service area, making Rural/Metro’s service area 289 square miles.

The company maintains reciprocal agreements with the Knoxville Fire Department, the Karns Volunteer Fire Department and a volunteer unit in Seymour.

“We provide a full range of service, but we would not expect to (fight a huge fire) alone,” said Harnish.

Rural/Metro’s bright green fire trucks serve as

First Responder within its service area, and Harnish says that is not a problem for his staff or vehicles.

Previously, the fire trucks sat too much, he said, and the benefits of “using the vehicles we already have” offset the increased cost of fuel and added mileage.

The company keeps a fire truck in service for 20 years, with continuous maintenance at the new consolidated headquarters in Westbridge Business Park. The former factory was renovated for Rural/Metro’s use and includes service bays for dozens of ambulances and fire trucks.

Harnish oversees almost 200 firefighters, 98 full time and another 90 reservists who are on call when not in school or at work. All must complete 240 hours of initial training and be certified by the Tennessee Commission on Fire Fighting Personnel Standards and Education.

All stations are staffed 24/7. Twelve of the stations have both an emergency medical technician (EMT) and a paramedic on duty, while two more have two EMTs. The paramedics can provide drugs to patients en route to the hospital.

Harnish has not laid off employees, but he concedes that labor is the largest

Fire Chief Jerry Harnish has worked for Rural/Metro since 1980. He also is district coordinator for fire and rescue units under the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), responsible for 16 counties. Photos by S. Clark component driving expenses. “When the recession hit, our costs like workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance premiums skyrocketed,” he said.

“Even though we’ve not laid off anyone, the recession means fewer employers paying for more claims.”

Rural/Metro serves much of the Shopper-News reader base, including Halls, Farragut, Gibbs, Corryton, Hardin Valley and Powell. The Karns Fire Department operates four stations and recently went to subscription service, while Bearden and Fountain City are served by the KFD. Once Rural/Metro assimilates the Heiskell Fire Department, the residents there will have the same ISO rating as others in Knox County. “ISO is an insurance rating, similar to a golf score. The lower, the better,” said Harnish.

“Most of Knox County is Class 4. Under ISO, if a property owner opts not to subscribe where service is available, then their rating is Class 10 – unprotected.”

Harnish shrugs when asked about his achievements as fire chief. “A lot (that we do) I can’t take credit for.

“In spite of really, really harsh economic times, we have not reduced our level of service.”

‘Pieces of Me’ The Arts and Culture Alliance and Knox Heritage will present “Pieces of Me,” a new exhibit of photography by local artist Scott W. Lee, beginning 5 p.m. Friday, June 3, in the Balcony of the Emporium Center. Lee is an awardwinning filmmaker, director and editor who brings his sense of composition and storytelling to his photographs.

Exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • MAY 30, 2011 • A-15

You’re invited!

If you have considered joining Mercy Health and Fitness Center but haven’t quite taken that final step, the center’s friendly and experienced staff has found a way to make it easy for you.

On Monday, June 6, they will be rolling out the welcomee mat for a Free oup exercise Guest Day and free group classes. In other words,, at no charge, you can try it all out and nd see what you think. And if you like ke it, there will be a special enrollment ment fee offered on that day only. y.

Here are the classes you can try out for free that day:: ■ 10:30 a.m. – Get Movin’: Low-impact aerobics ■ 12 noon – Cardio Gymstick: Shallow water cardio and strength segments ■ 3 p.m. – Senior Circuit: Oneminute stations of cardio, o, strength and agility ■ 5:30 p.m. – Deep Water Aerobics ■ 6:30 p.m. – Fibromyalgia/ myalgia/ Therapy Pool (92 degrees) s) ■ 7 p.m. – Cycle ■ 7 p.m. – Pilates ■ Free tours of the facility will be available from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Mercy Health and Fitness Center is not an ordinary gym. It’s a place to exercise comfortably with other people who are trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Mercy Health and Fitness Center is not an ordinary gym. It’s a place to exercise comfortably with other people who are trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Maybe you want to get back into shape or start exercising for the first time. Or perhaps you want to lose a few pounds or gain muscle strength.

Any exercise is a way of reducing risk factors for conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, osteoporosis and diabetes.

Mercy Health and Fitness Center is a state-of-the-art facility with 65,000 square feet of space for all your exercise needs. There are a variety of ways to exercise that make it a fun experience. Two pools are available for lap swimming, water walking, water aerobics and arthritis and aqua yoga.

The fitness center has a cushioned indoor walking track, as well as all the latest cardiovascular equipment.

Members can also take advantage of the Olympic free-weight room, full size basketball court, spacious locker rooms with showers, steam rooms, saunas and whirlpools.

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