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Crazy about comics Larry Van Guilder recalls heroes of yesteryear See page A-6

What if they threw an election and nobody ran?

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Café 4 kitchen manager Brandon Chancey dishes up orange cranberry streusel biscuits, which are served by restaurant owner Jim Klonaris. The confection won the People’s Choice Award at the Biscuit Festival on May 28. Photo by Wendy Smith

Biscuits, biscuits everywhere The early bird catches the gnat Dr. Collier tells us about blue-gray gnatcatchers, his favorite spring birds See page A-7

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Annual festival draws 15-20k downtown

By Greg Householder Driving into downtown Knoxville over the holiday weekend one could tell that something was happening. Most of the parking meter slots were full and even the $6, $7 and $10 lots were filling up.

The Memorial Day weekend drew an estimated 15-20,000 people downtown to the second annual International Biscuit Festival held

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ries included grand prize winner Kim Randall of Hixson, Tenn., for her sweet potato casserole biscuits in the biscuit bake off.

In the traditional biscuit category, the winner was Doris Bolalek of Greensburg, Pa., for her buttermilk yogurt biscuits.

In the kid’s biscuit category, the winner was Parker Davis of Knoxville for his garlic cheddar biscuits.

For the dessert biscuit category, the winner was Randall for her sweet potato casserole biscuits.

The most creative biscuit cat-

egory winner was Jackie Hardin of Sevierville for her bacon, lettuce and fried green tomato biscuit with chipotle mayonnaise.

Café 4 was the winner of the 2011 People’s Choice Award for the favorite biscuit on Biscuit Boulevard with their orange cranberry streusel biscuit.

Sarah Quall was Miss Biscuit 2011.

Jimmy Brown Johnson’s “Hawaiian Biscuit” took the top prize in the Biscuit Songwriting Competition.

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The festival kicked off with the “Pre-Heat Show with the Cleverlys at the Square Room on May 26 followed by a Biscuit Benefit Fundraiser at the S&W on May 27.

May 28 was when the fun really began. A good portion of Market Street was temporarily renamed “Biscuit Boulevard.” Visitors could purchase a Biscuit Boulevard ticket for $5 to sample five different biscuit creations and vote for their favorite.

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By Betty Bean Early one April morning Donna Fielden saw her friend Missy Kane’s car pulling out of the West High School parking lot. Fielden, an assistant principal there, was headed to work and wondered what Kane was doing.

She got her answer when she got to her office and found a note on the door that said “Yea, Donna!”

“I opened it up and it said the committee had met and voted to put me in. I was shocked. It came completely out of left field,” she said.

Fielden, who has worked for Knox County Schools since 1980 when she became a science teacher at Karns Middle School, had been selected for induction into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame, and was taken by surprise, despite having spent 23 years as a basketball official.

She was following in the footsteps of her father, the late Elbert Fielden, who officiated both high school and college basketball before becoming TSSAA supervisor of the Knox Ridge Association, which included all the high schools

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She is a third generation Halls resident whose family valued academics and athletics. It was her dad who started her playing golf at Beaver Brook when she was eight.

She won both of the two local tournaments for children.

“I was raised by June and Ward Cleaver,” Fielden says. “Two par-

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as everybody says she is.”

“After my freshman year, Pat was afraid I would hurt one of her good players, so she asked me if I wanted to be manager and I did that the rest of the way through college. That was an excellent experience.”

After she got her undergraduate degree she interviewed for a coaching job at a North Carolina junior college. She got an offer, but Knox County Schools called her about a job teaching science at Karns Middle School, so she decided to stay home and was eventually transferred to Powell Middle School.

But she still wanted to be involved in athletics, and decided to try her hand at refereeing. Her dad didn’t know about it until she turned up at a TSSAA meeting in the fall of 1982.

“He just looked up and here I sat with that goofy look on my face. He said ‘My God, what have I done to deserve this?’ He told me up front, ‘I will never give you anything. But I will never take anything away from you.’ So there I went. I started doing middle school, elementary To page A-2

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ents dedicated to the family – nice home, clothes clean, meals on the table, grandparents on weekends – it was the storybook childhood.

Academics and athletics went hand-in-hand. Dad was a good athlete and played some college ball at LMU and graduated from East Tennessee State. Mom (Darlene) was a cheerleader, but we won’t hold that against her.”

There weren’t many opportunities for girls to play sports in high school in those days – she graduated from Halls High School in 1974, just months before the county reinstated girl’s basketball.

“My little sister (Lisa) got to play her last two years at Halls. It was the old three-on-three. She couldn’t dribble and she couldn’t shoot. She was all-district her senior year.”

Donna made up for lost time when she got to the University of Tennessee and joined the junior varsity women’s basketball team, coached by Sylvia Ryan (now Hatchell, head coach at the University of North Carolina). The newly minted head coach was Pat Summitt, who Fielden describes as “just as classy

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We welcome our interns

Starting today, 10 young men and women will join Shopper-News staff members for eight Monday sessions aimed at giving them a glimpse of the world of print journalism. We place a great deal of value on this annual exercise, because we believe the stories of the imminent demise of newspapers are greatly exaggerated, and a career in journalism is still a possibility.

What will the interns learn? First, they’ll see that reporters come in all shapes, sizes and ages. Yes, some of us at the Shopper-News may be getting a bit long in the tooth, but we’re balanced by a fair proportion of young go-getters.

They’ll also discover that most people are happy to talk to the press, especially on matters touching their business, profession or accomplishments. And, while others talk, we believe that our budding reporters will cultivate the art of listening, the most valuable of a reporter’s skills next to the writing itself.

For at least those eight Monday afternoons and mornings, the interns will be in touch with real people in reallife situations, away from the artificiality of texting buddies and computer games. They may even make friends outside of Facebook!

We’re also saving some surprises for our interns. Although I’m sworn to secrecy on the locations, I can tell you they will be traveling to two places in the area that haven’t been open to the public since 9/11. I smell a “scoop!”

Learning goes both ways, and we expect to be enlightened by what we hear and see from the interns. What interests them? What do they want to become? What do they think the generations which preceded them can and should do to make their futures brighter?

If you spot a caravan carrying 10 young people with a few adults sprinkled in for seasoning, it may be the Shopper-News intern crew. And don’t be alarmed if one of the young men or women points a camera in your direction or approaches you with a notepad if you’re doing something they find interesting. We all had to start somewhere.

Beat the heat by pouring yourself an icy lemonade (or adult beverage of your choice) and poring over this week’s cool treats. See page A-4 to find out what happens when County Commission “wrestles” over the budget with the mayor.

Do you remember former Vol basketball players Orb Bowling and Howard Bayne? Marvin West does. Don’t miss his feature on page A-7.

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Summer events are on the horizon

Get out your calendars.

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FBC bikers to ride in support of Clinton friends

The First Baptist Church of Powell motorcycle ministry will ride this Saturday to support their friends with the Eternal Riders of the Second Baptist Church in Clinton.

The Eternal Riders, the motorcycle ministry at Second Baptist, will be hosting the fourth annual

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Marching Panther Band yard sale is Saturday

The band boosters will host a Community Yard Sale from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday in the Powell High School parking lot.

The band is selling spaces to raise money for its fall trip. Those interested may purchase a space to sell their treasures, crafts, products, etc. A 20-by-20 space (equivalent to two parking spaces) is $25 and a 40-by-20 space (equivalent of four parking spaces) goes for $40. There will be no electricity provided.

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Powell Lions Club Horse Show is June 25

The 59th annual Powell Lions Club Horse Show will be 3 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 25 at the clubhouse, 7142 Old Clinton Pike.

New this year is the Powell Lions Sing Off from 3-4 p.m. with the horse show following at 6. For Sing Off info, contact Cheri Doane at 938-3857.

The Powell High School Marching Panther Band boosters will be handling concessions with all proceeds going to the band.

For horse show info, contact John Black at 719-4667.

For other questions or information, call Diane Wilkerson at 640-1053.

Tickets are on sale from any Powell Lion for $3. There is no admission charge for children under 12. There will be a stick horse event for the kids.

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school games. Any game anybody’d give me, I refereed. I loved it. It was a great bonding experience with my dad even though he was my supervisor. He had a couple of assistants and he left me to them.”

She worked her way up to high school games and then to junior college, Division II, Division II and eventually Division I college basketball in 1990.

In 1994, she became the first woman to officiate a boy’s state championship game.

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Bill Leinart Jr. Memorial Ride. Leinart, a member of Second Baptist Church in Clinton, succumbed to cancer and left a wife and children before the first ride for his benefit could be held. Proceeds from this year’s ride will benefit Leinart’s children and the John Slater family. Slater is a former officer in the Eternal Riders who is also terminally ill.

The ride is for donations only, and anyone interested in riding with the First Baptist ministry should meet in the parking lot across Ewing Road from the Youth Center at 8 a.m. The group will depart

Info: Stacey Berry, 938-9523, or visit www. powellband.org for a registration form.

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The First Baptist riders will also host their annual benefit ride for the Western Heights Baptist Center on July 9. There is no charge but donations are appreciated. This will be the fifth year for the Western Heights ride.

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In December, 1987, she refereed a men’s college game with her dad, marking the first father-daughter referee team. It was Elbert’s last game, and she cherishes the memory.

“Daddy was going to call his last game with Doc Simpson, but Doc came down with Lou Gehrig’s disease that spring and couldn’t do it. Dad always loved Johnson Bible College because they played for the love of the game. He handed me one of those old pea whistles etched with Doc’s name. He said ‘Doc called his last game with it and I called my last game with it.

Keep its integrity.’ The fi rst call I made in the boy’s state tournament I used Daddy’s and Doc’s whistle. I’ve got it in a case at home that says ‘Daddy and Doc’.”

She went on to call the NCAA Division III national championship game, the NAIA National Championship, the junior college na-

tional championship, five NCAA Division I tournaments and got to a Sweet 16 before she quit in 2005.

“Things were different.

I had after-hours responsibilities being a principal and I felt I wasn’t doing my part. My father passed away in 2005 and it just wasn’t as much fun without him.

The last couple of years, he’d pick me up, drive me to my games. Mother would pack a cooler with drinks and snacks and he’d drive me home and put me at my doorstep. I hadn’t had a free weekend for almost 22 winters in a row and there were times I’d drive back from a game and get into town at 4 or 5 in the morning.”

So she decided to pack up her memories (she says Sheryl Swoopes was the best player she ever refereed) and go on to the next chapter.

“It was an honor and a privilege. But it was time.”

Last week, on a day

when the seniors were already gone and the school year was worn down to a nub, Fielden summoned 11 students to her office.

They probably showed up with their hearts in their throats.

But what she did was throw them a party. They’d gotten what the school calls positive referrals from teachers, and this is the kind of thing she wouldn’t have had time for when she was calling basketball games. She says she hasn’t looked back.

“It was an honor and a privilege and I am shocked and humbled to be named to the Hall of Fame,” she said.

Is she the first woman to be induced as an official?

“You know what? I may be. I’m shocked and humbled.”

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Chase to legislators: Stay out of TWRA’s business

By Betty Bean Mike Chase is a tough guy who has had a spectacularly successful career in the restaurant industry.

He’s been a fi xture in Tennessee business and politics for two decades and his 17-restaurant Copper Cellar Corp. stretches from Gatlinburg to Nashville. He is a Democrat whose support is courted by both major parties and friends occasionally kid him about a passing resemblance to Tony Soprano.

Those who know him best, however, say he’s happiest when he’s fishing.

That’s probably why he lights up when he talks about his six years on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission, which oversees the operations of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

Chase was appointed by former Gov. Phil Bredesen and served as chair in 2010 and until his term was up earlier this year. He is an enthusiastic booster of the agency’s mission. “I don’t think most people know that the agency doesn’t get any money from the state. It is totally self-funded

Powell Lions to host 4th of July Parade The Powell Lions Club will host the 4th of July parade 11 a.m. Monday, July 4. Step off will be at the parking lot of Food City at Emory Road and Clinton Highway. The parade will end near Powell High School.

Traditional post-parade festivities will include a business expo and children’s activities by members of the Powell Business and Professional Association in Scarbro Field next to Halftime Pizza.

There will also be a pet parade at 12:30 p.m. hosted by the Knox North Lions Club. Registration is free and will be held at Scarbro Field starting at 10 a.m.

The idea is dress your pet – and “pet� is a broad term and can apply to anything – all they ask is

through hunting and fishing license sales.

One of the things I would like to see is a portion of the sales of all boating, fishing and hunting licenses go to fund the agency,� Chase said. “The sale of hunting Chase licenses has been on the decline for years. “I don’t think the average person realizes what a wildlife officer has to deal with on a daily basis,� he said, mentioning a wildlife officer who worked a 20-hour shift dealing with a woman who had two fingers ripped off in a water skiing accident and a bear that was sighted and trapped in South Knoxville. “And I wonder if the average person realizes that the management job the agency does has made hunting what it is today in the state of Tennessee. Twenty years ago, we probably had wild turkeys in six or eight counties. Now, they’re all over the place. Something like 3638,000 of them are harvested every year. The same thing can be said for deer, and the same has taken place

that you keep them under control and that their shots are up-to-date.

Votes for the most patriotic pet are $1 each and the pet that garners the most money will win. For information on the main parade, contact Diane Wilkerson at 640-1053.

Info on the pet parade: www.knoxnorthlions.com.

Rain barrel workshop A rain barrel workshop will be held 6-8 p.m.

Tuesday, June 7, at Ijam’s Nature Center. Participants will be able to take home a rain barrel at the end of the program. Cost is $45 per barrel. Space is limited.

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in our lakes and reservoirs and rivers for fishing. Look at the trout below Norris Dam or in the Caney Fork River. Somebody has to raise and stock these trout. If you’re a hunter or a fisherman, you’ve sure got to give credit to somebody.�

Chase is modest about his role in shaping policy, but says he’s proud of prodding the agency to spend money on hatcheries. “Since I have such an interest in fishing, I wanted to get our hatcheries to where we could start meeting the needs of fishermen out there as far as producing fish. Most of our lakes are past their prime as far as fishing goes, and it’s necessary to restock them. Under Gov. Bredesen, there was a strong emphasis on state parks and tourism, and this is part of it. Our lakes need to be attractive to out-of-staters who come to fish. It’s an important part of our economy and economic development for the future. I felt it was very important.�

Chase said politics never played a part in the board’s decisions but sometimes were imposed from the outside. He is, for example, ada-

mantly opposed to Rep. Frank NiceThe Powell High ley’s deer farming bill, which was School Class of 1961 defeated this session. will hold its 50-year “In listening to the people I reunion Saturday, June knew whom I have to respect, it 11, at Rothchild on would have been a very bad thing Kingston Pike. Meet, for wildlife in the state of Tennesgreet and eat is 6-8 see. Sometimes I think some of the p.m. and music and legislators resent the independence entertainment will be of the commission – but that’s the held from 8-10. Cost reason the commission was set up – is $50 per person. to keep it separate from the political Dress is casual. RSVP in Nashville. to Ron Milligan, P.O. “The agency has to be constantly Box 218, Andersonmonitoring what’s going on and try ville, TN 37705. Make not to let these private acts pass. checks payable to PHS Class of ’61. Info: Ron There would be different rules in Milligan, 494-6608, every county. There would be no Louise Ramsey Engel, statewide enforcement, especially 947-7944 or email for the last two years because there’s Norma Rodgers Barrett been such a change in Nashville. at alno@frontiernet.

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GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Madeline Rogero got beat

by Bill Haslam and Haslam hired her. Michael McBath got beat (by Ezra Maize who got beat) by Tim Burchett and Burchett married him. Well, Burchett officiated Saturday as McBath and Kayla Thompson were wed at the Marriott with Chef Walter Lambert cutting the cake.

Hey, candidates: where y’all at?

The first few election cycles after term limits kicked in were hotly contested, with good candidates literally fighting for seats on City Council.

Betty Bean This year’s crop is sparse and quiet, aside from a little thrill supplied by candidate Michael McBath’s Republican-flavored wedding (County Mayor Tim Burchett was scheduled to officiate, with Foster Arnett, John Duncan and Ted Hatfield in attendance).

There’s one district race – the 5th, which stretches along the west side of Broadway from Oakwood/ Lincoln Park to Fountain City – and one candidate, Mark Campen, who was appointed to serve as an interim county commissioner after the Black Friday bunch were ousted. Campen got high marks for being a nice guy but frustrated his supporters by being silent on the issues. He did, however, fight the city for his right to plant his front yard in native wildflowers, so there’s that.

There are three candidates for Seat A, at-large – McBath, bow tie-wearing Realtor George Wallace, (who is not the late, unlamented governor of Alabama) and John Stancil, a relative newcomer to Knoxville who lives in Parkridge and started campaigning in 2010, following in the footsteps of his wife, Cynthia, who ran for County Commission and tried to get appointed to City Council. McBath is a TV news producer who ran for county mayor last year but lost the Democratic nomi-

nation to Ezra Maize, who subsequently got trounced

by Burchett.

Former state Sen. Bill Owen is looking for a political comeback in the Seat B race. He is opposed by Buck Cochran, who enjoys running for stuff.

Former County Commissioner Finbarr Saunders is running for Seat C. He’s going to be well-funded and hard to beat. He is opposed by Sharon Welch, a minister whose public resume consists of opposing Planned Parenthood.

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Fireworks redux

At least two of the six members of City Council who voted against closing a loophole in the city code that has legalized fireworks are willing to ask for a redo.

On May 17, police chief David Rausch and fire chief Stan Sharp supported an ordinance to close the loophole. Council members Joe Bailey, Nick Della Volpe, Nick Pavlis, Charles Thomas and Marilyn Roddy voted no. The measure can be reconsidered only by request of a member of the majority. Pavlis said he is ready to bring up the issue again at the June 16 meeting.

Thomas said he is willing to reconsider, as well.

Pavlis, Della Volpe and Thomas said there may have been some misunderstanding since the measure came up at the tail end of a long, contentious agenda.

Council member Brenda Palmer, who voted yes along with Daniel Brown and Chris Woodhull, said she had no trouble understanding the issue and hopes the ordinance can be adopted before July 4.

“Kids will pester their parents to buy fireworks, and if parents are aware they are illegal they can say, ‘We can’t do that – it’s against the law.’

Right now, they can’t do that.”

■ Cindy Ballard wears orangestreaked hair on special occasions to match the campaign colors of husband Phil. Thankfully, Phil didn’t choose Red, White and Blue.

Tea time for commission trio Commissioners Amy Broyles, Sam McKenzie and Tony Norman discuss a wide range of topics at the Time Warp Tea Room in North Knoxville last week. All 11 county commissioners are preparing for today’s budget workshop and a vote on Mayor Tim Burchett’s proposed budget currently scheduled for Monday, June 13.

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Tax breaks for Amazon How much are new jobs worth?

Obviously in a time of high unemployment they are vital.

However, can the cost reach a level too high to pay? That seems to be the question with the tax benefit Amazon is enjoying by not having to collect the sales tax on products sold in Tennessee while their competitors do collect the tax which goes to state and local governments.

This makes Amazon’s products almost 10 percent less than their competitors’.

Is this fair? If the tax avoidance only lasts a year or two, I can see a plausible argument for it. However, if it goes beyond two years, or forever, it seems like a benefit for one very wealthy corporation, which is grossly unfair.

This whole situation is inherited from a decision made by former Gov. Phil Bredesen and his Revenue Department.

It is unclear how long this tax avoidance will endure. Gov. Bill Haslam is not obligated to carry forward every decision made by his predecessor, especially if it discriminates against existing Tennessee businesses. Virtually every new governor, mayor and president changes the top

personnel he/she inherits, and major policies are altered too. It is what elections are all about.

Amazon was very clever in dangling the prospect of new jobs in Knoxville and Nashville to prevent the recent legislative session from overturning the Bredesen decision. It was designed to place legislators who opposed the special treatment for Amazon to be seen as opposed to new jobs if they repealed the tax break. The whole matter was delayed to the next session, which starts in January 2012.

This is a question chambers of commerce and state governments face all the time when they seek to lure new industries into a community.

How much is fair to do without giving away the store?

Sometimes a potential industry wants too much, and it is best to draw the line. However, building infrastructure

such as roads or bridges which can help the potential industry as well as the community at large is an accepted approach. Vocational schools offering courses to train workers for a new industry is also normal.

However, letting one or two businesses simply not collect the sales tax (which every other business must collect) for an undetermined period of time seems fundamentally wrong. A deadline on this gift to Amazon needs to be set, announced and adhered to.

When will this tax avoidance end? The sales tax owed would go to schools, greenways, mental health and cash strapped local governments.

Notes: After three months of inaction, Vice Mayor Joe Bailey on May 31 named the city pension task force.

Or did he? Actually, he only named some of the members with the others to be selected by city employee groups and the city pension board.

City retirees currently drawing pensions (almost 2,000 people) are denied the right to choose their representative on the group as the three current employee mem-

“Only that it will be a true team effort. I’ll do my best to limit each member to five minutes or less in the ring.”

“OK, good luck, Mike.

“Now, Burchett has enLarry tered the ring, and Hammond Van follows suit. There’s the bell!

Guilder “Burchett makes the first move, feinting left and then moving quickly to his right.

He has Hammond in a headour holds. That’s about all I lock! Hammond is struggling can say. But I do wonder who to free himself. He’s turning scheduled this for the Beck purple!

Center. Grider? Grider!”

“Oh, boy, somehow he’s “Ouch! Looks like some- slipped the headlock and body on the mayor’s squad tagged his teammate, Tony is in trouble already. Here Norman. Norman rushes comes Mike Hammond, at Burchett, but Burchett is team captain for commis- holding up his hands and sion. Mike, any thoughts?” protesting to the referee!

Apparently he’s arguing that Hammond is using a banned substance of some sort. Let’s switch over to Mike Edwards, our roving ringside reporter, to see what’s going on. Mike?”

“Gloria, Burchett is claiming that Hammond oiled the top of his head with bacon grease so he could slip headlocks. The ref isn’t buying it and just told Burchett to continue the match. But I have to admit that Hammond smells appetizing.”

“Thanks, Mike. Wow, somebody lit a fire under Norman, because he’s going at the mayor for all he’s worth! Looks like he might pin the mayor, but now Burchett is reaching

out to tag … Mike Edwards!?

Mike, get out of there! You’re not on the team!”

“I am now, Gloria!”

“Well, we didn’t see this coming. Edwards is a big guy and he’s giving Norman a lot of trouble. He’s bending Tony back at a severe angle, an ever-increasing slope. Norman is struggling to tag a teammate, and he just brushes R. Larry Smith’s fingertips!

“Now, Smith is in the ring and … what’s this? Smith is piling on Norman! R. Larry has switched teams in the middle of the match! What a contest!

“Now, Michael Grider and Dean Rice rush into the ring. Dave Wright, Sam

Wrestling with the budget Satire Alert!

“Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Knox County’s first ever Tag Team Budget Wrestling Match! I’m Gloria Ray, your announcer.

Tonight we’ll witness the mayor’s team square off against County Commission in a crowd-pleasing no holds barred extravaganza.

“I see Mayor Tim Burchett leading his team toward the ring. Let’s see if we can get a word with him. Mayor, what’s your team’s strategy?”

“Well, we’re going to take a conservative approach to

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■ Gov. Phil Bredesen got one thing right. He squirreled away money when times were good and spent down the “rainy day” fund when times got bad. Seems our local mayors got the memo upside down and backwards.

Mike Ragsdale ballooned the county’s debt when times were good, and Tim Burchett wants to pay it down fast when times are tight.

■ The TIF test: Out west of Farragut, Steve Maddox wants $6.1 million tax increment financing for a proposed hotel/office/retail complex at the Watt Road intersection with I-40. Typically, a TIF must correct blight and answer the “but for” question. Would the development not occur but for the TIF? ■ Maddox (ably represented by PR guy Mike Cohen) has hit a double. The property would not be blighted “but for” the years of digging and scraping as it was used as a “borrow pit” for other developers.

Now it’s a poster child for hillside desecration.

■ And how about that U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) who was busted for “Tweeting” a photo of his … privates. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

bers will choose that person for those who are retired.

It is hard to understand why retirees are denied the right to choose their representative while current employees are given a vote.

It may be July before all are chosen and the task force holds its first meeting. The crisis announced in January has ended. In fact, it never was a crisis. Instead, there are problems and issues.

McKenzie, Mike Brown, Amy Broyles and Col. Dr. Richard Briggs have joined in for commission. It’s a free for all! Grider is pounding Broyles with what looks like a sheaf of media releases!

“Wait, someone is stepping into the ring. It’s Avon Rollins, director of the Beck Center. He’s waving both teams to the corners. Avon, what’s the story?”

“There’s so much confusion we can’t declare a winner.

The staff will need to review the videotape of the match.”

“You mean …”

“Yes, there will be a complete audit of the tape before a winner is announced.”

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Politics and hot dogs

Becky Duncan Massey (at left) and Marilyn Roddy, both candidates for the Republican nomination for state Senator, campaigned hard at Fountain City Day.

Honor Fountain City

Those of you expecting something profound here, just move back to Page 4 and read Van Guilder again.

I’ve been hanging out on the west side, trying to grow our Bearden and Farragut editions.

Here are some random thoughts from last week’s Memorial Day festivities at Fountain City Park.

First, it was hot. Really, really hot. You can see the sweat rolling off Mark Padgett. Marilyn Roddy looks crisp; Madeline Rogero seems mellow; Becky Massey is exuberant but hot.

Hey, three of four candidates are women. That’s a tribute to folks like Jamie Woodson who made politics look challenging but winnable and respectable. Woodson, not running again, was not there. Her colleague Stacey Campfield was someplace else as well.

Mayor Daniel Brown was present, along with most of

Sandra Clark the City Council members and candidates.

Totally missing were school board members and Superintendent Jim McIntyre. If they had come, they would have seen Joel Helton named Man of the Year.

That’s a rebuke to the shabby way Helton was treated in being transferred to Farragut High after 27 years at Central.

The candidates should be glad a few of us who are not running for office show up at Honor Fountain City Day. Otherwise, they would be talking to themselves.

Out west last week, I interviewed a great old guy, retired Judge Max Mark Moore. The story is on C-3 in Bearden and Farragut

zones and online at www.

ShopperNewsNow.com/.

Moore came into office after challenging longtime General Sessions Judge Spider Webb. Nobody thought they could beat Spider, but Moore decided to try. Spider dropped out about 10 minutes before the qualifying deadline; too late for anyone else to enter the race. Moore won easily and “the people in charge (of the county) never got over it,” he says.

Another neat story (Page 1 in Farragut zone) is the soon-to-open Turkey Creek Public Market, developed

by Charles Atchley and John Turley. These guys took the old outlet mall off Lovell Road, gutted it and created 600 vendor booths inside plus another couple hundred outside.

The market should open in July and will draw shoppers regionally.

“It’s a niche and there’s a need,” said Turley, stating every entrepreneur’s theme.

Mark Padgett (at left) and Madeline Rogero, both candidates for Knoxville mayor, were among the politicians visible at Honor Fountain City Day. Ivan Harmon held an event for veterans at his campaign headquarters. Photos by S. Clark

COLLEGE NOTES King College ■ Students planning to start class at King College this fall will get an early look at campus life during Access King on Saturday, June 18. The early registration offers students and their families the chance to discuss financial aid, register for classes, check out residence life and more. Info: 800-362-0014 or http://access.king.edu/.

Pellissippi State ■ Enhance your personal safety through noncredit courses on handguns, driver improvement and state handgun carry permit rules. Info: www.pstcc. edu/bcs or 539-7167.

■ Outdoor sports classes for noncredit will include introductions to scuba diving, golf and fly-fishing and an intermediate course in golf. Info: www.pstcc. edu/bcs or 539-7167.

Outsourcing custodians off school board agenda The issue of outsourcing custodians has been deleted from the June agenda of the Knox County school board and won’t return until the

■ Courses to inspire creativity are offered for noncredit. Two new classes – Bookmaking and Drawing for Beginners – join the lineup of summer workshops for adults. Courses include: ■ Acting 101, Mondays, June 6 to July 18 (No class July 4), 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; $109.

create at least one pendant.

■ Classes meet at the Pellissippi Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Info: www.pstcc. edu/bcs or 539-7167.

Roane State

■ Wire Jewelry Design, July 12, 6-8 p.m.; $59, plus $12 material fee. Pick up the skills needed to make jewelry out of almost any stone or irregularly shaped object. Students will learn wire wrapping techniques and will

■ Dean Michael Laman has received a 2011 Exemplary Leader Award from The Chair Academy.

Dr. Laman is dean of Roane State’s Allied Health Sciences Division, Dr. Laman and he serves as director of the college’s Knox County Center for Health Sciences. The Chair Academy, based in Mesa, Ariz., is dedicated to advancing academic and administrative leadership training worldwide.

Award recipients are nominated by their colleges.

next budget cycle, when it may be a “lesser of two evils option,” according to board chair Indya Kincannon. The earliest it could be effective would be July 2012.

The board meeting 5 p.m. Wednesday, June

8, has been moved to the Andrew Johnson Building because of scheduling conflicts at the City County Building.

The workshop will be 5 p.m. Monday, June 6, in the AJ board room.

■ Working with Yarn, Wednesdays, June 22 to Aug. 17, 7-8 p.m.; $69.

■ Drawing for Beginners, Thursdays, June 23 to July 28, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; $99, led by Brian Jobe.

■ Bookmaking, July 11, 6-9 p.m.; $50, plus $10 material fee payable to the instructor. This 3-hour workshop will discuss projects such as journals, scrapbooks and photo albums.

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Superman as the writer remembers him.

Life was simpler in 1959 when tidal waves weren’t tsunamis and could be blamed on the “Moon Monster.”

Charles Atlas promised to “make a powerful He-man out of you in a very short time,” and his 32-page book (“crammed with photographs”) was free!

By 1991, the carefree Superman of the writer’s youth was battling new forms of evil and was (gasp) engaged to Lois Lane!

Crazy about Larry’s Corner | Larry Van Guilder

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hen dinosaurs roamed the earth and Krystal hamburgers were 10 for a buck, in short, when I was a lad, comic books introduced me to a universe of majestic heroes and dastardly villains. As I followed Superman and his alter ego, Clark Kent, through the bustling streets of Metropolis or into the newsroom of the Daily Planet, I was also learning about plot, conflict, resolution and other concepts handy to a writer.

I didn’t know I was learning, of course, and would have been properly horrified had any of my elders suggested that comic books were teaching tools. I only knew that if I followed the Charles Atlas plan I, too, might someday fill out a superhero costume with my bulging muscles and become the envy of my friends and the scourge of my enemies.

Alas, cruel genetics, not everyone is cut out for wearing a skintight leotard in dazzling color combinations with a bold “S” stitched across the chest. (In my case, the “S” was shorthand for “scrawny.”) And, as the years passed, while I laughed at Kryptonite, the element which was Superman’s Achilles heel, I found to my sorrow that I was not invulnerable to devil’s food cake slathered with fudge frosting. So long Charles Atlas physique; goodbye to cool costumes and all that.

Before I utterly abandoned my plans for a career as a superhero, I flirted with the idea of becoming the world’s greatest acrobat. That, after all, was really what Batman was (with the help of a utility belt packed with gadgets NASA might envy), and his boy companion, Robin, was a pretty fair hand as well.

It didn’t take more than a couple of trips to the emergency room to convince me that scaling skyscrapers – or for that matter, outhouses – was not my strong suit.

(And, no, I never considered for a moment that there was anything unseemly about a grown man and an adolescent boy in clinging costumes palling around together.

Shame on you!)

The adventures of Superman, Batman, Aquaman, the Flash and the Justice League of America reinforced the comforting notions that evildoers always pay and good guys always come out on top. But by the late ’60s my generation had witnessed the assassinations of two Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr., and we were watching classmates return from Vietnam with shattered lives. Some never returned.

If what remained of our innocence was roughly handled during the turmoil of the ’60s and early ’70s, it’s still possible to rekindle some of the joy we found in comic books before our real world

turned ugly. Opening the pages of “House of Secrets” #22, July 1959, you’re greeted with a lead Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (of “It was a dark and stormy night” fame) might have claimed as his own: “I didn’t know what it was or where it came from. I only knew it was evil, malicious – endlessly destructive! And though it gave me one unearthly power after another, I realized that no one would be safe until our world had seen the last of … the Thing from Beyond.”

Following the lead story you could read the adventures of retired Gen. Mark Matthews in “The Man Who Changed History,” topped off by “The Secret of the Bronze Man.” Hard to beat for one thin dime.

By 1962, the price of most comics had soared to 12 cents. After you recovered from sticker shock you could still enjoy Superman in such tales as “The One Minute of Doom,” in which he teams up with Supergirl and his super dog, “Krypto.”

We all knew that Superman had a pretty stressful job and needed to kick back occasionally in his Fortress of Solitude. In “The One Minute of Doom,” Krypto gets caught up in a meteor swarm while flying through space. With “eye-blurring speed” the super dog rearranges and fuses the meteors together with his heat vision

a dove, but that the Spirit descended like a dove.

Even so, since then, the symbol of the Holy Spirit has been the dove, at least, in most of Western Christendom. There is nothing wrong with that. A dove is gentle, beautiful and snowy white. It is ethereal, living in the realms be| CROSS CURRENTS Lynn Hutton tween heaven and earth, and it is free – able to stretch its wings and fly.

Leave it to the Celts, however, When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together to come up with a different image in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound of the Holy Spirit. like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house My daughter Eden called me where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared the other day to tell me this wonamong them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them derful new thing she had learned. were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other The Celtic image of the Holy Spirlanguages, as the Spirit gave them ability. it is the wild goose!

(Acts 2: 1-4 NRSV) “Think about it,” she advised.

Pause, beat. Then, “Isn’t that t is generally agreed among chapter, we are given the im- great?”

I was right there with her. scholars that Mark’s gospel age of the Holy Spirit descendis the earliest of the gospels. ing “like a dove” on Jesus. Not, The wild goose is an altogether And right there, in the very first please note, that the Spirit is different kind of animal than the

Circumstantial uncertainty

I

What kid wouldn’t want to “make money” or “get prizes?” The American Seed Co. let you keep $2.40 for every 48-pack order you sold. (That’s a lot of radishes if anyone’s counting.) into an interplanetary “Doghouse of Solitude” where, like his master, he can “get away from it all.”

Woof!

I carried a torch for Supergirl for a few years. (What budding adolescent boy wouldn’t?) Inevitably, I succumbed to the more mature charms of Wonder Woman and her invisible airplane. I hope Supergirl forgave me; it was, after all, only puppy love.

Today I treasure a small collection of old comics I’ve acquired in recent years. I even have a couple of “Richie Rich” and “Millie the Model” issues. (Er, uh, my wife made me do it.)

But you don’t collect rare comic

dove: large and powerful.

And wild.

Hear author Mark Batterson in his introduction to “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”: Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit – An GeadhGlas, or “the Wild Goose.” The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it’s like to follow the Spirit through life. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something. …

Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name:

books on a reporter’s salary. If you could find one, the first issue of “Action Comics,” the one which introduced Superman to the world in 1939, will set you back anywhere from $500,000 to a cool million, depending upon condition.

However, I do have my eye on issue #245 from October 1958 featuring “The Shrinking Superman,” a mere $935 in near-mint condition. Fundraising efforts are starting now, so if you’re in the market for a rarely worn blue and red leotard with a matching red cape (size extra-scrawny), call now. Operators are standing by.

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Adventure.

I wonder if the disciples – or the 3,000 souls who were added to the church on Pentecost – would have described what happened on that day as the arrival of a dove?

I think not.

I think, if we could interview them, they would say it was frightening, wonderful, mysterious, completely unsettling, exhilarating, terrifying, amazing. In a word, wild.

And it sent them off in all directions across the face of the earth: to Rome, to India, to Africa, telling everyone who would listen that the Spirit of God was loose in the world, wild and free and beautiful and completely unpredictable.

It is that “circumstantial uncertainty,” that adventure, that I, for one, wouldn’t miss for the world.

POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • JUNE 6, 2011 • A-7

Laughing at old Vols TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West

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n this modern age, Shopper columns rarely arrive in the mail.

This one came as a gift from a mostly big blue fan and reader in a border state. The care package included a coaching tip: See Volunteer comedy on pages 162 and 163.

What I have is a Dave Kindred book, “Basketball, the Dream Game in Kentucky,” published in 1976. It looks new. It could have been lost in a closet.

Surrounding the mention of ex-Vols Orb Bowling and Howard Bayne was the new-born American Basketball Association and, more specifically, the Kentucky Colonels, a franchise purchased for a mere $64,900 by Mamie Spears Reynolds Chinetti Gregory, an heiress with even more millions than marriages.

Kindred describes Orb, an original Colonel, a 6-10 UT graduate

from Sandy Hook, Ky., as “slower than a tree.”

Orby Lee played 11 games and averaged 1.9 points per outing. A change of coaches led to an executive decision that he wouldn’t be playing any more. Kindred says that did not bother Bowling too much.

“I got this here no-cut critter so I reckon I’ll just hang around.”

No-cut critter translates into English as a contract which said the team would pay whether he played or watched, two years guaranteed at $13,000 each, plus a $750 signing bonus.

The new coach left him behind when the team traveled. Orb was to continue conditioning, running daily in an empty arena. At home he appeared in street clothes at the end of the bench.

Because he came from the country, at the end of a dirt road, and

UK didn’t want him and he fell to UT by default, there was some effort to make Orb appear dumb.

Wrong.

Orb Bowling came to Tennessee as a genuine backwoods boy. He said he walked a mile or more each day just to catch a ride to school.

He said he lived so far back in the hills that the Grand Ole Opry didn’t arrive until Tuesday.

He could be funny without trying but Vanderbilt never laughed.

Orb scored 31 against the Commodores in a stirring 1962 upset.

It was a very important victory for the Vols. They got only four that season.

Bowling won no basketball honors but he got a college education.

He was smart enough to save most of that Kentucky money. He married well and became an investment banker with Union Planters.

He helped sell the bonds that built Rupp Arena. He is a legitimate Memphis millionaire.

Kindred says Bayne’s specialty was mayhem and that, on behalf of the Colonels, he dispensed bruises and breaks from Anaheim to Teaneck. Howard was enthusiastic and determined, “but he had several faults, chief among them being he couldn’t play pro basketball.”

Guard Louis Dampier supported that claim with “the funniest thing I ever saw.”

Bayne grabbed a rebound and took off dribbling toward the other end of the floor. With each dribble, the ball came up higher. And higher. At the free-throw line, the ball was bouncing above his head.

“And the last dribble was off his toe,” Dampier said.

Alas, Bayne had only a one-year contract.

The Kentuckians were laughing at two of my favorites. Howard was a gladiator, Tennessee’s chairman of the boards, a fierce rebounder who tried to fit into the Ray Mears system but probably had a better chance playing in the NFL than the NBA. That would have been it for the book – if I hadn’t found the chapter about UK’s fabulous five. Ralph Beard, Alex Groza, Kenny Rollins, Wah-Wah Jones and Cliff Barker may have been the best lineup of the awesome Adolph Rupp era. The Wildcats went 128-9 in Beard’s years.

It was fun reading until I got to the part about point-shaving.

This was mostly a New York story.

Rupp said gamblers couldn’t touch his boys with a 10-foot pole. The crooks had a longer reach.

In the 1951 scandal, Beard, Groza and Dale Barnstable were arrested for taking money from gamblers to make final scores fit under betting lines. Beard, maybe the best guard ever at Kentucky, admitted he took $1,300 for influencing five games.

The three pleaded guilty. New York judge Saul S. Streit spared them a prison sentence in favor of cooperation but banned them forever from basketball. Beard and Groza had been playing for the Indianapolis Olympians. Both were all-NBA. Both were majority stockholders in the team.

Judge Streit poured blame all over Rupp, saying he aided and abetted, that he utterly failed to build character or instill morals, that he engaged in illegal recruiting and permitted cheating on exams.

Rupp admitted some sins during NCAA and SEC investigations.

He gave players money now and then. Yes, he knew that they got new suits from Lexington businesses. Beard got free chewing gum from a drug store.

The SEC inflicted what was thought to be severe punishment: UK would have no basketball team in 1952-53.

And we think we got troubles.

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

The busiest birds in the yard NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier

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e’ve had lots of birds in the yard this spring, building nests, feeding young, and teaching the new guys how to fly and find something to eat. But, noticeably the busiest birds in the yard and a bird that you may not be that familiar with are our hyperactive and overachieving blue-gray gnatcatchers.

There are a bunch of bird people out there who eagerly await their favorite first spring migrants like a sailor’s wife, standing on the shore and staring out to sea in anticipation. Just talk to a serious purple martin fancier and you’ll see what I mean. They can tell you the day their birds have shown up every spring, forever.

My blue-gray gnatcatchers and I are like that. They have been my first spring arrivals for years now, and I find myself listening for their high, buzzy, “pzee-pzee” calls whenever I’m outside doing the early spring yard chores. They show up the first few days of April and immediately set about their business.

In addition to their “pzee-pzee” calls, which they do constantly as they flit about, they have an actual song that they occasionally sing in the spring, described in Sibley’s book as “thin wheezy notes interspersed with bunches of high chips and slurs.” And, sure enough, this year for the first time

ever, I heard one of the gnatcatchers singing. Little goodies like that bring joy to the heart of a birder, like icing on an already delicious spring cake.

The most accurate description of these little guys would be “miniature mockingbird.” True to their name, they are blue-gray, with a white eye-ring and white outer tail feathers. They weigh in at about two-tenths of an ounce, halfway between a hummingbird and a chickadee. Which makes the fact that they fly all the way here from Guatemala or Costa Rica every spring even more amazing.

When they arrive, they hit the ground running, so to speak. Sibley says that they seem to be in constant motion, and I certainly agree. They hop, flick, twitch and jump constantly. Their first task is to get going on a nest. They work on that for a couple of weeks.

Their nests are typically well-hidden. It looks like a hummingbird nest, only about twice the size.

Usually fairly high up on a horizontal branch, and built of plant fibers, spider webs and grayish lichens, it is so well camouflaged as to be nearly invisible. I found this year’s nest, but before I could photograph it for the column, it was completely engulfed in Virginia creeper leaves. Clever birds.

There is one big problem that the blue-gray gnatcatchers, busi-

est birds in my yard, have in trying to raise a family. And that would be the laziest bird in my yard, or anywhere – the brownheaded cowbird. The gnatcatchers, as with numerous other birds, are susceptible to nest parasitism by the cowbirds. That means that the cowbird mama will lay an egg in the gnatcatcher’s nest, leaving it there for the tiny gnatcatchers to sit on, hatch and then raise. Way larger and louder than its gnatcatcher nest mates, the cowbird baby outgrows them and outcompetes with them for the food the parents bring.

This peculiar behavior is highly irritating to me. I guess it reminds me of certain people I have encountered. But it is instinctive in the cowbirds, and it makes sense, if you look into it for a bit. It is thought that the cowbirds evolved their behavior way back when there weren’t any people around, and they made their living by following the large herds of grazing animals, who stirred up all sorts of insects and other critters for the cowbirds to eat.

Now, you don’t have time to stop and build a nest and sit on eggs for a couple of weeks when you’re trying to keep up with a herd of grazing buffalo, so, what’s a bird to do but to plop an egg into any nest that’s handy and keep on moving? Then when people ar-

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rived and fenced in the landscape, and raised herds of nice stationary cows, and stirred up bugs with hay balers and lawnmowers, the cowbirds settled down, too. But they never went back to building nests or tending eggs!

Some species of birds – robins, catbirds, blue jays, brown thrashers – have learned to recognize cowbird eggs in their nest and remove them. But others are susceptible, and in some areas, as many as half the nests or more of warblers, finches, vireos and song sparrows will have an unwelcome foster cowbird in their brood.

Laying as many as 40 or more eggs a season, cowbirds can be a serious threat to some species of songbirds that are very low in numbers for other reasons. In central Michigan where our rarest warbler, called Kirtland’s warbler, had reached a perilous population of only a couple hundred, the authorities had to start a program of trapping and removing cowbirds, just to give the Kirtland’s warblers a chance. It is proving successful, but it appears that it will have to be a continuing, ongoing program

if the warblers are to survive.

Our blue-gray gnatcatchers had some sort of a dispute with the cowbirds early on this year, with much chirping, buzzing and squawking, but apparently things were settled and the gnatcatchers raised a batch of their own babies. They have fledged off now, and my yard seems full of the “pzee-pzee” calls, as the gnatcatcher population goes from two to five or six.

A lot of their constant motion involves searching every nook, cranny, twig and stick for little flies, gnats and spiders. One can only wonder how many insects would be in our yards if we didn’t have the birds eating them by the ton daily. Given their 0.2 ounce size, the blue-gray gnatcatchers certainly do their part.

As I sit on my back porch in the afternoon and relax with a book, their constant calls, which I know means constant activity, sort of lurk in my ears, saying, “Why aren’t you busy like us? You might even accomplish something!”

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CONDOLENCES ■ Mynatt Funeral Homes Inc. (922-9195 or 688-2331): David Lee Cope Sr. Jeanne M. Costello Fred Gentry Iva Golden Gregory James Land Hull Elizabeth “Eliza” Frances Kirkham Stacy Brian Kitts Sharon Lane Sandra Laws Miller John “Jay” C. Newcomb Larry Joseph Plaisance Gladys Rose Roe James T. “Jim” Rucker Hank Gilford Sharp Eula Irwin Sumter Bruce Thompson Janice Henderson Weaver

WORSHIP NOTES Community services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, takes orders for Angel Food Ministries by phone 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: www.beaverridgeumc. com or 690-1060.

■ 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.

■ Dante Church of God, 410 Dante School Road, will distribute food boxes 9 a.m. to noon (or until boxes are gone) Saturday, June 11. You must be present to receive a box of food, limited to one box per household. Info: 689-4829.

■ New Liberty Baptist Church, 5901 Roberts Road in Corryton, will have Sunday school 9:30 a.m., morning service at 10:30 a.m. and evening service at 6 p.m. on Sundays and youth and new Christian classes 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

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■ Christus Victor Lutheran Church, 4110 Central Avenue Pike, will have a rummage sale 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 10, and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 11. There will be clothing, household and miscellaneous items. Info: 687-6622.

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■ Ridgedale Baptist Church, 5632 Nickle Road, will have its annual yard sale 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, June 10, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 11, with an auction also being held 10 a.m. Saturday. If it rains, the sale will be held indoors. Info: 588-6855 or visit www.ridgedale.org.

The Heiskell Community Center’s seniors program will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, June 9. The center is located at the Heiskell United Methodist Church, 9420 Heiskell Road.

This month’s program will be a summer picnic potluck with fried chicken and biscuits provided by County Commissioner R. Larry Smith. Everyone is asked to bring a side dish, such as potato or pasta salad, cole slaw, baked beans, dessert, chips, etc. If you don’t cook, just bring yourself.

The guest speaker will be Jan Gudis with Home FixIt-Pros, a home repair service designed to keep seniors in their home. Sign-up for the fall trip will also begin.

Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

■ Bookwalter UMC, 4218 Central Avenue Pike, will sponsor a communitywide yard sale 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11. Space is free. The youth will host a pancake breakfast and car wash 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the same day. To register as a vendor or for more info: 584-2995.

■ New Liberty Baptist Church, 5901 Roberts Road in Corryton, will host a benefit supper, auction and singing 4-6 p.m.

Friday, June 17. All proceeds benefit 8-year-old cancer patient Haley Stanifer, who is going to Vanderbilt for a bone marrow harvest.

■ Beaver Ridge UMC will receive 10 percent of the total purchases made 5-8 p.m. each Thursday at the Sonic restaurant in Karns. Info: www.beaverridgeumc.com.

■ Bookwalter UMC , 4218 Central Avenue Pike, is looking for vendors for its fall festival to be held Oct. 1. Info: 584-2995.

■ House Mountain Baptist Church, 8621 Washington Pike, Corryton, will have a yard sale/bake sale 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 11.

Proceeds will benefit the playground/park area.

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

Rec programs ■ Trinity UMC , 5613 Western Ave., will host Alive@35 for anyone ages 35-55. Info: email tonyajelf@gmail.com or call 357-6134.

5:45 p.m. each Monday for $5 a class. Info: 689-7001.

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway hosts ZUMBA exercise class in the Family Life Center gym at 9 a.m. Tuesdays and 4 p.m. Thursdays. Cost is $2 per class. Low-impact aerobics classes meet 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Info: 690-1060.

■ Happy Travelers of Northacres Baptist Church 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.

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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.

■ Mt. Calvary Toast Masters meet 6:45 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of each month in the library at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 1807 Dandridge Ave. The group is for people 18 years and older who want to improve their public speaking and leadership skills. Info: Becki Staley, 704-719-6780 or email BeckiStaley@gmail.com.

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

■ 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.

Youth programs ■ Fountain City UMC has preschool openings available for all age groups for the 20112012 school year. Info: Susan Todd, 689-5518 or email her at stodd@fountaincityumc.org.

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■ Black Oak Heights Baptist Church, 405 Black Oak Drive, will begin a Bible study class for seniors without a partner 9:30 a.m. each Sunday in the church gymnasium. The Rev. Dr. William “Bill” Justice will lead the class. Info: 5777130 or e-mail wg_justice@ comcast.net.

■ Cornerstone Baptist Church, 2500 Mynatt Road, will host a community backyard Bible study 5 to 8:30 p.m.

Friday, June 24, for ages 5 to adult, which will include Bible study, crafts, food, face painting and other activities. Info: 687-9012. Leave a message.

■ 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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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 potluck lunch following the meeting. Info: 688-1000 or visit www.faitseekers.org.

Church, 2974 Cecil Ave., will have Father’s Day Breakfast 10:30 a.m. Sunday, June 19.

There will be Dippin’ Donuts, juice and coffee. Everyone is invited. Info: 525-4192.

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A-10 • JUNE 6, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS Meet Acorn Squash, a 2-yearold female calico cat with a delicious name and an equally delicious personality. This girl has bright eyes, an intriguing coat pattern and lots of love to give. Kitten season is in full swing at Young-Williams and it is important that our adult cats do not get overlooked by adopters looking for the perfect kitten. Adult cats have mastered the litter box, will often happily take a few moments out of their busy day for a head scratch and do not mind quiet alone time while the family is away at school or work. At 2 years old, Acorn Squash is still a young girl but has nice adult habits. She is available for adoption at the main center at 3201 Division St. Hours there are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday. See photos of all the center’s adoptable pets at www.knoxpets.org.

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Several pages of the album were filled with photos of us from our dating years to the present. Others were filled with photos of our children growing up that illustrated how he has influenced their lives. Stickers that described him – such as loyal, dependable, honest, loving – accented the pages. Each family member was able to express their feelings for a man who

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For a minimum donation, listeners will be given the chance to select songs and chat on the air for one hour with Fulton High radio students and personalities.

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SPORTS NOTES ■ Skills Development Basketball Clinic II, boys and girls ages 6-12. Info: 242-3354.

■ Knoxville Track Club’s Youth Athletics program through Saturday, June 25, includes 50-meter dash, discus throw and high jump. Girls and boys ages 5-18. Practice is held 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Includes four Saturday track meets on the UT campus. Cost is $39.

Info: 406-4128 or visit www. ktcyouthathletics.org.

Powell High student receives Rotary scholarship Powell High School student Brooklyn Stanley was chosen from more than 50 applicants to receive the 2011 Rotary Foundation of Knoxville scholarship, which will provide Stanley with $3,000 per year for each of her four years at the University of Tennessee.

She plans to major in biomedical engineering. Pictured are Rotary Club of Knoxville president Brown Wright, Stanley’s boyfriend Chris Browning, Stanley and scholarship committee chair Charlie Harr. Photo submitted

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We stopped as often as possible, taking time at the rest stops to let Daniel stretch his legs. McDonald’s was a stroke of genius, and the bonus of a toy in the Happy Meal bought us an extra hour of content before Daniel went to sleep.

There were two meltdowns, one each way, both caused by boredom and discomfort. While I’m all

■ Panther Pride Basketball Camp: boys’ camp will be held Tuesday through Friday, June 7-10, grades 3-6, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and

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Girls’ camp will be held 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, June 13-16 for grades 3-8. Info: Coach Courtney, 310-9615 or coach Stooksbury, 719-1357.

■ Baseball tournament , Friday through Sunday, June 10-12, Halls Community Park. Tee ball-14U, 992-5504 or email hcpsports.msn.com.

■ Larry Simcox Diamond Baseball Skills Camp, grades 6-9, 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday, June 15-16. Info: 567-9082 or visit www.diamondbaseballtn.com.

representing the crafts of fused glass, mosaic terra cotta, organic pottery, jewelry and enamel on copper will come from five states to participate in the event.

Rex Redd from Oak Ridge will demonstrate the art of Raku firing, Nolan Windholtz will demonstrate pottery throwing and Jyl Walker will demonstrate

Family Art Fest at Liz-Beth Gallery Artist demonstrations and an activity for children will highlight the free Art Fest at Liz-Beth Gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 11.

Ten artists will be featured with three demonstrating their craft. Artists

for child safety seats, they do mean that the little guys have to stay in one position the whole drive. We adults can shift in our seats, but the kiddos are totally strapped in.

Now that we’ve finally done it, the long trips don’t seem so bad anymore. And, we had a great time in D.C. Daniel got to see real pandas at the National Zoo and a space shuttle at the National Air and Space Museum.

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initely ready to try getting outside my comfort zone a bit more. And maybe I’ll get lucky and talk Zac into that DVD player one day.

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■ Larry Simcox Diamond Baseball Summer Camp, ages 6-11. Camp one, 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday through Friday, June 15-17. Info: 5679082 or visit www.diamondbaseballtn.com.

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■ Baseball Tournament , Friday through Sunday, June 17-19. Open to all, Tee ball to 14U. Info: 992-5504 or email hcpsports@msn.com.

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The bank also will donate $1 for every new “like” the First Tennessee Facebook page receives (http://www.facebook. com/firsttennessee).

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By Jake Mabe The “e-book Christmas,” as it’s come to be known, has proven to be a gamechanger for the bookselling industry.

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iPad and e-readers such as the Kindle and Nook became big sellers over the holidays.

“We thought we might have had a three- to fiveyear window before e-books really took off,” says Len Granath, the new manager of the Book Warehouse/ Christian Book Warehouse on Merchant Drive.

At its annual evaluation, the company’s owners decided to convert the Merchant Drive store’s stock from new and remaindered Christian and secular books to one dominated by what Granath calls “aggressively discounted” used books – more than 50,000 of them. Granath, who was hired earlier this year, has a background in used books and online sales.

He says the move is in part about survival.

“We didn’t really understand how fast this was gonna take place. If you take 20 percent of the market away in any business, it’s over.”

The Book Warehouse ownership team found a company that solicits used books which was also looking for a distribution outlet.

“We’ve contracted to buy so many truckloads per year by the pound, which allows us to sell used books at extremely aggressive prices, as competitively as or more aggressively than McKay,” Granath said, referring to McKay Used Books in West Knoxville.

“The quality of the books we’re getting is pretty amazing. The response we’ve gotten in the first month has been impressive.”

Granath says the most expensive used book in the store retails for $3.99.

Multiple pricing also allows the store to sell used hardbacks in a three for $10 deal; used trade paperbacks at four for $10; used children’s books at 4 for $5 and used mass market paperbacks at 4 for $5.

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“You bring in a bag of books and I’ll look at it, decide which ones to buy based on the quality of the books, etc., and slap a price on it for in-store trade credit. And the credit is good at any of our stores.”

Book Warehouse also has locations in Sevier County and Bristol, Va. Granath says new books will make up 20 percent of the store’s inventory and that the store will continue to sell greeting cards and can special order books at a discounted rate.

He says the service that longtime customers have come to expect will also continue.

“To me, that’s part of keeping this business alive, the value of customer service and those who value holding the written word in your hands. To be able to stay in business in this community is important to us. To continue offering a wide selection of Christian literature is as well. We didn’t want that to go away.

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