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Emory Road project set to begin Work should start in 2012

Madeline! Almost mayor now faces Mark Padgett on Nov. 8 Get the take from Victor Ashe and Betty Bean See page A-4

Honor for J.D. Jett See family’s gift to PHS See Greg’s column on page A-3

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Vols at the crossroads A win over Georgia gives UT’s football team a chance for a successful season, but victory over the Bulldogs is hardly a given. See column on page A-11

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By Greg Householder For Powell residents who regularly use the stretch of Emory Road from Clinton Highway to Gill Road, the long wait for widening will soon be over. That’s according to state Rep. Bill Dunn. Dunn, along with Rep. Harry Brooks and other officials and Tennessee Department of Transportation staff toured some of the Knox County TDOT projects as part of the TDOT Project Bus Tour last Thursday. Though not part of the scheduled tour, Dunn wanted to make sure that TDOT Commissioner John Schroer had a clear picture of life along the two-lane stretch of Emory Road through Powell proper. “This project is ready to go, but in case something happens and he (Schroer) has to make a decision whether to do this project or another I want him to have seen the situation first-hand,” said Dunn who requested the tour

make the short trip through Powell before heading off on its next leg in Campbell County. Though initially scheduled to start work in early 2011, Dunn said permit snags kept the project pushed back. Work should begin early next year. The project will bring a level of relief to those who use that stretch of Emory Road shuttling kids to school, getting to and from home, patronizing the business near the high school, etc. by diverting through traffic around “Powell proper.” The project will build an overpass over the railroad tracks and travel through the lowlands along Beaver Creek to connect with Clinton Highway by Walgreens. In other area projects, the tour took a look at the proposed improvements at the intersection of Emory Road and Tazewell Pike at Harbison’s Crossroads in Gibbs. That project, which

State Reps. Bill Dunn and Harry Brooks discuss road projects with Paul Degges, TDOT chief engineer, and TDOT Commissioner John Schroer during last week’s TDOT bus tour. Photo by Greg Householder

will improve sight distances and add additional lanes at the intersection, is in the right-of-way acquisition phase and is scheduled to be let in December 2012. Another project visited was the I-640 interchange at North Broadway. Next up for that location is the second phase of interchange

Work is expected to begin in 2015. The tour also visited the SR33 improvements from Temple Acres Drive in Halls to the Union County line. This project will widen SR33 and improve side road intersections with the route. It is scheduled to be let in February 2012.

The early days in Raccoon Valley By Sandra Clark Edna Lee Weaver Smith has worked hard all of her life. She raised five kids, farmed, did factory work and most of all she survived in often primitive conditions. Most of us hardly know how life was in these valleys just 100 short years ago. When Edna, 95, was a kid, Raccoon Valley Road was a muddy, rutted wagon road to Heiskell and typhoid fever swept through the community. There was no medicine for it. Antibiotics hadn’t come along. “Daddy took care of us. He said it was in the water. We just stayed in bed and he gave us Castor oil.” Edna and her brother, Barnabus “Barney,” survived. Edna’s mind is sharp and so is her tongue. A visit with her is a treat, especially when she serves up apple dumplin’s. She remembers carrying water from a nearby spring. The whole family drank from one dipper. She started school in 1921 or ’22 in a one-room school named Fairview within walking distance of her home. Teachers had to board with families in the community. She remembers one teacher who married her student, the son of the family where she boarded. School hours

Edna Lee Weaver Smith were 7:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. with recess at 9 and 2. “We went from September to March, and then they put us in the fields to work,” she says. The late Racy Brady was her first cousin (his mother and Edna’s dad were siblings), and they often walked to school together. It was only when cars, then school buses, came in the 1930s that the Raccoon Valley kids were able to attend Green Hill Elementary (now Copper Ridge). Edna would have gone on to high school but the county didn’t run a bus and it was too far to walk to Halls. Edna learned to recognize the “run of their car,” so she could tell who was coming down the road simply by sound.

Men in the community “paid their taxes” by giving one day a month to working the roads, she said. “We didn’t have road graders. They would hitch up a team and level out the road.” Her dad, Ulysses Weaver, operated a portable saw mill and threshing machine. “He would leave out early in June and come back in August. He’d be so greasy and nasty that we couldn’t touch him.” Edna married Clyde Smith (their mothers were friends) and they had five children during 61 years of marriage: Don, Betty Rae, Shirley, Pauline and Vaughan. The kids went to Green Hill for eight years and on to Halls High School. They still live in the community, except for Pauline “Polly” who married and moved to Florida. As a kid, Edna once set fire to Santa’s whiskers because she “wanted to know who he was.” As an adult, she chased baby skunks out from under her house and killed a “polecat” near the garage door. She walked barefoot to school in spring and fall, and she frequently skated on a frozen pond. Once she detoured for a quick skate on her way to school. The ice broke. She fell in, climbed out and had to dry off in front of a pot-bellied stove.

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Aunt Lizzie Irick, her father’s great aunt, owned many acres on Raccoon Valley Road. She never had kids and gave land to Edna for her home and farm. This portrait hangs in Edna’s living room.

‘Progress must come’ Joyce Parker of Powell talks with MPC planner Mike Reynolds during the public forum last week at Powell branch library. “I like Powell the way it was, but progress must come,” said Parker. She and her husband own 25 acres used for farmland. Reynolds expects to produce a draft North Sector Plan by midto late-October which will be brought back to the Powell and Halls communities for discussion. Photo by S. Clark

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Hard to do when you’re wearing “two or three pairs of long underwear.” Edna remembers the Brock family riding horses to school. She remembers riding a school bus driven by Luther Lewis, and later by his son, Trent. The late Barbara Carden, who taught at various area schools, was Luther’s daughter. “She was too little to go to school, but Luther would take her with him on the bus.” Edna joined the 4-H Club and learned cooking techniques from Florence Lewis and Myrtle Clark (this writer’s grandmother). Seems Myrtle came to Green Hill one day, where her husband, E.O., was teacher/principal, and took the girls over to her house and taught them to cook biscuits. Attendance policies were a bit lax in the good ol’ days.

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Planning mischief with Bill Dunn Joking around on the TDOT bus tour Last Thursday I had the opportunity to travel on a tour bus with the folks from TDOT and look at and discuss upcoming road projects. A few of our local politicians were on hand as well. If you don’t know 16th District state Rep. Bill Dunn very well, you might not realize what a sense of humor he has. Though it wasn’t on the schedule, Bill wanted to make sure TDOT Commissioner John Schroer had a clear vision of the problems the Emory Road-to-Clinton Highway project was going to solve. So he asked if the bus could swing through Powell before heading off to Campbell County. “What we need is for the road to be flooded,” I opined as we traveled down Tazewell Pike towards I-640. “And a train,” said Bill. “And maybe a bomb threat at one of schools – all at the same time.” I laughed. “Maybe I can call up Norfolk Southern

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about the train,” I said. Bill handed me his phone. “Here, you can do the bomb threat, too.” Thanks, Bill. That’s all I need – to get caught calling in a bomb threat to a school on a state representative’s cell phone while riding in a bus full of TDOT people and local politicians.

Noweta Garden Club meets Tuesday My friends at Noweta

■ The Knox County Republican Party will host its picnic 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at Kitts Café, 4620 Greenway Drive. A $5 donation will be collected. Petros will provide a light buffet. Info: 689-4671. ■ Scott’s Free Community Recycling Center at 6529 Clinton Highway will recycle computers, TVs, electronics, cardboard, metal, paper and clothes for free. Info: 307-0659. ■ Powell Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first and third Thursday at 7142 Old Clinton Pike.

Johnnie Jett give PHS head football coach Matt Lowe a hug and the keys to a badly needed new utility vehicle before the Karns game on Sept. 23. The vehicle was dedicated in the memory of J.D. Jett, longtime Panther football supporter and “get back coach” who passed away Aug. 30. Photo by Greg Householder

High School football team in honor of J.D. Jett. On Sept. 23, just before the Karns game, the Jett family led by J.D.’s wife, ■ J.D. Jett honored Johnnie, presented head I couldn’t help but think coach Matt Lowe with keys that nothing could be more to a brand new utility vefitting – a new utility ve- hicle to replace the pretty hicle given to the Powell much worn out John Deer

Gator the team had been using for who knows how long. The vehicle, which came from the Home Depot in Powell, is orange and has “Powell Panthers” and “In Memory of J.D. Jett” emblazoned on the front. Football teams use such

vehicles to haul water to the practice field, equipment and sometimes as an ad hoc ambulance to get a wounded Panther into the dressing room. In other words, as a workhorse to do those unglamorous but necessary jobs that are needed to support a football team – kind of like J.D. used to do. So it was a fitting tribute.

According to Kasper, the program was part of the civility project of the Baker Center. And if there is something needed in this kind of discourse, it’s certainly civility. She began by posing the standard questions – will the government go bankrupt? Will the debt burden our grandchildren? Will the debt crowd out private investments? She next talked about budgeting basics – Budgeting 101. She illustrated a

household budget, a business budget and the federal budget. She discussed the difference between deficit and debt and talked about capacity to pay. Kasper then brought the discussion back to the basic questions. Her answer to all – it depends. It depends on such things as where we are in the business cycle, the capacity to repay and an analysis of future costs and benefits. She said our current deficit is on an unsustainable path and she discussed

how mandatory spending (expenditures determined by formula set up in law such as Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance) is the challenge. She finished with a brief discussion of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “Super 12”) and she cleared up some misconceptions (such as how we are indebted to the Chinese – actually most of U.S. debt is held by the U.S. public). She finished by taking questions.

Debt and deficit Dr. Sherry Kasper opines Last Tuesday, Dr. Sherry Kasper, professor of ecoWith all the noise comnomics at Maryville Coling from inside the beltlege and a visiting fellow of way from Democrats and the Howard H. Baker CenRepublicans about the nater for Public Policy, was tional debt, the debt ceil- the guest speaker for the ing, the deficient and the 6th District of the Knox finger pointing and pos- County Democratic Party turing on both sides, one and presented “A Vocabumust ask the question – lary for Discussing the just what is this all about? Federal Debt and Deficit.”

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First Baptist bikers to visit Cumberland Gap

The motorcycle ministry of the First Baptist Church of Powell and Fountain City will hold its monthly ride Saturday, Oct. 8. The group will ride to Cumberland Gap and visit the Cumberland Gap Na■ PBPA new tional Historical Park. All riders are welcome member reception and if interested show up is Tuesday at the parking lot across The Bailey Farm at 2700 Ewing Road from the PowW. Emory Road will be the ell campus Youth Worship site of the Powell Business Center at 8 a.m. Kickstands and Professional Associa- up will be at 8:30 a.m. and tion’s new member reception the group will stop for dinner 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, breakfast at Bojangles in Powell. Oct. 4. Riders should bring These are great times so bring the family and your money for breakfast, lunch and gasoline. appetite. ■

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Dr. Sherry Kasper discusses the federal debt and deficit at the meeting of the 6th District Democrats last Tuesday. Photo by Greg Householder

Veterans open house upcoming All veterans are invited to an open house sponsored by American Legion Post 212, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Tri-County Veterans Honor Guard and the American Legion Auxiliary from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. Entertainment and refreshments will be provided. This is an opportunity for veterans and family to meet each other or join these organizations. No alcohol allowed on the premises.

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Election night notebook – Rogero headquarters Jill Powell and Joanne Hall arrive early to stake out a good table at Madeline Rogero’s election night get together at The Foundry. They say this night is déjà vu, only better.

Betty Bean Powell: “I was here eight years ago (when Rogero lost a close race to Bill Haslam). It feels a lot better this time around.” Hall: “I have been excited all day.” At 8:10, early returns light up Powell’s smartphone. Editor’s note: “Barney” is not this man’s real name, but he Rogero’s 53 percent majority asked that we use a pseudonym “to keep me out of trouble – she’d need 50 percent plus one to take the election in the on the unemployment line.” I been a Republican all my life. My pappy said FDR was primary – gets Powell and Hall (and the rest of the big, durn near the ruin of this country, and I always listened crowded room) even more to pappy, even after he begun drawin’ that Social Security excited. The band cranks up. that Roosevelt put in. Dancing ensues. Anyway, last week I went down to vote me for a new state Powell and Hall both senator. I don’t take the newspaper no more nor listen to praise Rogero’s ability to work them liberal medias like NBC and CBS. (I reckon ya’ll know across party lines with people CBS stands for the Communist Broadcasting System?) So, I from diverse backgrounds. figured I’d jest ask around down at the school house where They say they like her plans I was to cast my ballot so’s I could figure out who was best for economic growth and “greening” the city. for the job. And the fact that she would It were kind of a shock to see they was all women a-runnin’ for the office. Now, I never did have no truck with be the first woman mayor? “Delightful,” Powell says. them womens libbers, but I ain’t what you’d call prejudiced “It’s high time,” Hall adds. against ’em. If it weren’t for a woman, bless Ma’s soul, I “It speaks to how Knoxville wouldn’t be a-standin’ here!

Barney’s election day story

They was folks holdin’ signs ever which way I turned at the school house, so I jest walked up to the first one I seed and asked what his candidate stood for. Well, this young feller says she’s pro-life. I studied that a minute, then I says, “Well, now I ain’t agin livin’ myself, so that ain’t no great shucks.” Then this feller says he means his candidate is agin abortions. I reckon he got mad when I said I sure weren’t about to have no abortion, but if I was to I’d sell my story to that National Enquirer and me and the missus would retire. Anyway, after I got to checking around, wouldn’t you know that all them Republican candidates was sayin’ how they was agin abortion, so I couldn’t see no difference in ’em. I picked me a young gal who was handin’ out some papers and asked about her candidate. I told her right up front don’t tell me about abortion ’cause you can see I ain’t built right for one. So she says her woman is agin government regulation. Fact, said if a new regulation gets passed they ought to be two took off the books. I studied that-un for a spell, then I ask her what regulations she was talkin’ about. She couldn’t give me no exact regulation, jest says they’s too many of ’em, and we got to cut the govmint down to size. Pappy’s Social Security comes from the govmint, I says. Fact is, right now, about the only thing I got comin’ in since I got laid off is my unemployment and I reckon it come from the govmint. Anyway, this gal says it’s them govmint regulations that’s keeping me from finding a job. All I know is nobody yet has said they couldn’t hire me ’cause of regulations. They was one more woman handing out stuff for her candidate, but when she told me they wanted to impeach the president I jest walked off. I ain’t a college graduate, but even I know that’s somethin’ only them Washington politicians can do. I voted for Gloria Johnson. Don’t tell pappy. Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

has grown as a community.” At that moment, Jerry Rivers and his wife, Dr. Denise Rivers, come by with their daughter Katy June, 8. Denise Rivers, who is a transplant nephrologist, can’t contain her enthusiasm. “Madeline? I think she’s fabulous. She’s a wonderful, genuine individual. Everyone else rode her coattails on my ballot. She’s passionate not about the office, but about the job – and she’s a woman. That’s why we brought Katy. We take her to vote every time, and tonight she was saying ‘She’s really going to be here?’ ” Meanwhile, Rogero family and close friends are gathering in the back room. Word filters back through doublesecret back channels that the race has gotten incredibly tight. Frustration grows. Droids and iPhones are getting error messages from the Election Commission’s website. Vote totals stall. With 85 percent of the precincts reporting, Rogero’s down to a skinny 50.2 percent. Grumbling ensues. Democrats mutter that such things didn’t happen on former election administrator Greg Mackay’s watch. When returns finally started trickling in again, Rogero falls below 50 percent. Word from the back room has her at

Madeline Rogero 49.91 percent. Further word is that there are 29 (potentially flawed) provisional ballots left to be counted, making it statistically impossible for her to meet the magic number. Chad Tindell eases the tension by cracking some hanging chad jokes. The band keeps playing. The mood grows somber. The doors to the back room stay closed. Sweet-faced elderly women start discussing kicking Joe Hultquist’s nether parts and giggle when word goes out that his vote total is hung at 666. Coincidence? Rogero emerges arm-inarm with her very nonpolitical husband Gene Monaco, surrounded by her huge extended family. She’s says she’s ready for six more weeks of campaigning. The next morning, she and opponent Mark Padgett started going at each other on radio and TV. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

NOTES ■ Knox County Law Director Joe Jarret was invited to present his paper “Local Government Crisis Communications” during the 2012 Southeastern Conference of Public Administration in New Orleans. The conference was attended by public administration academicians, practitioners and students from around the southeastern United States. ■ Knox County Republicans will gather for a $5 light buffet dinner of Petro’s at Kitts Café, 4620 Greenway Drive, 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6. Sponsored by the 7th and 8th District Republican clubs, all are welcomed. Info: 689-4671.

School board this week Knox County school board will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the main assembly room of the City County Building. Agenda items include approval for the design of the new Carter Elementary School. Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre is recommending approval. The board’s workshop is at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in the boardroom of the Andrew Johnson Building, 912 S. Gay St. Both meetings will be broadcast live on Comcast Cable Channel 10, AT&T U-verse Channel 99 and streamed live at www. knoxschools.org/.

Mayoral runoff unpredictable Madeline Rogero came agonizingly close to winning the mayor’s office outright last Tuesday – just 16 votes short. Eight years ago she stunned Knoxville with a close race against Bill Haslam. She has been running for mayor ever since. Building on that record and on Haslam hiring her as the city’s community development director, she almost made it. With only 16 more votes needed, her shortfall could be credited to several factors. Joe Hultquist received just 700 votes, but surely more than 16 of those votes came directly off Rogero’s total, since both are residents of South Knoxville. Voter turnout was embarrassingly low with 12,000 fewer voters in 2011 than in the Haslam-Rogero contest of 2003. The election was greeted with a yawn by most voters. What happens now in the Rogero-Padgett race for mayor? First, another 5,000 to 6,000 residents will vote Nov. 8, upping the total to

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21,000 to 22,000. Second, each candidate will raise another $100,000 or more and there will be countless more joint appearances, but this time limited to only the two candidates. Each will recalibrate their campaign strategy. While one may think Rogero needs only 16 more votes, she will actually need several thousand more as voter turnout will increase by 30 percent. On the other hand, because of the increased turnout Padgett will need to almost triple his vote to overtake Rogero. Both candidates are contacting the three who did not make the runoff – Ivan Harmon, Bo Bennett and Hultquist – to secure their backing. Smart money will be on Rogero winning, but a Padgett win, while not prob-

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able, is not impossible. Here are some imponderables which will impact the final outcome. Will Harmon encourage his supporters to back Rogero or Padgett or will he remain neutral? Will Harmon’s active supporters follow his lead? Will financial backers of Padgett, who gave him $400,000, continue to bankroll his runoff effort? Padgett spent almost $100 per vote, which sets some sort of record for the city. Will the prominent Republican backers of Padgett continue to back him openly? Will Padgett sharpen the issues with Rogero and spell out and challenge her on precisely where they differ? Will Rogero run simply on experience or will she sharpen and broaden the issues now that it is down to two candidates? Both are Democrats, but they come from different wings of the local Democratic Party. They have already shadow boxed, but now it is for real and a four-year term as mayor is the prize. Knoxville has not had a

mayoral runoff in 24 years. I was in the last one with Randy Tyree. I had 42 percent in the primary and Tyree polled 23 percent. Running behind him were Bill Pavlis, Jean Teague and Casey Jones. For the next six weeks Tyree and I battled, with all the other primary candidates endorsing Tyree against me. The final outcome was 5,000 more voters and my total went to 53 percent and Tyree’s to 47 percent. The runoff before 1987 was 12 years earlier in 1975 when Kyle Testerman fell 150 votes short of winning outright and Tyree was only a few votes behind Testerman. The runoff then was only two weeks off (not six weeks) and Tyree defeated Testerman in Knoxville’s closest mayoral contest with another 5,000 increase in voters. Nov. 8 will be exciting to watch and Padgett will likely take the gloves off, but how effective he will be remains to be seen.

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Naturally nice Becky Massey says there might have been a bigger turnout in the Republican primary for state senator if the candidates had drawn contrasts more sharply, if they had been meaner. But that didn’t happen because “we’re just naturally nice women.” Massey’s campaign peaked at the right time as she ran away with election day voting to win the GOP nomination with 49.35 percent of the vote in a threeway contest. Her major challenger was City Council member Marilyn Roddy, who polled 38.9 percent. Victoria DeFreese barely registered. “The race stayed on the

20 odd years. That’s where their kids went to public school. That’s where she said all along she would run Sandra well. Clark But Massey showed strength in all quadrants of the sprawling 6th senatorial district. She carried the issues and everyone was city wards and the county respectful,” Massey said. precincts. She carried Halls “We all worked hard. I ap- and Fountain City. She plaud them for running. won in East Knox County and South of the River. She It’s not easy.” Massey was jubilant on came within 44 votes of takelection night, greeting ing Roddy’s home precinct, family and friends at her Sequoyah Hills. Massey says she visheadquarters. She handily carried her home precinct ited 1,500 homes and her of Deane Hill and the neigh- volunteers visited 2,000 boring Rocky Hill. That’s during the primary. “One where she and husband of the fun things was makMorton coached softball for ing really neat new friends

Guess who came to deadline? Shopper-News publisher Sandra Clark said during her newspaper career she had always gone to the source for her stories. Last Friday, the source came to her when Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre and Director of Public Affairs Melissa Copelan stopped at our Halls office. Yes, it was deadline af- Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre “tutors” Sandra Clark and ternoon, but the chance for Larry Van Guilder on the state of education in Knox County. some face time with the su- Photo by Ruth White perintendent was too good to postpone until a more other parent who says mold analytical skills in preparing sedate day. may be the cause of her next year’s budget. Missing McIntyre spent some in action even before the first daughter’s health issues. time giving us his perspecbudget meeting, planned for McIntyre ticked off the tive on where Knox County mid-October, is $7 million in measures taken to detect schools are and where they one-time federal funds that need to go. Academic stan- and remove the mold, inbolstered the current budget. cluding bringing in the Knox dards are rising he said, and Passage of President County Health Department. the school system has set Obama’s proposed jobs bill “We feel like we’ve taken it ambitious goals. could inject cash into school very seriously and met it We wanted to hear more systems across the country, about a matter that has head on.” The superintendent “likes but McIntyre isn’t pinning parents at Shannondale Elementary concerned: mold. to use data” to back up his his hopes on politicians. – L. Van Guilder We recently heard from an- decisions. He’ll need all his

Becky Massey with her husband, Morton, and their daughter Courtney Kohlhepp at the headquarters victory celebration. Photo by D. Smith

and reconnecting with old friends, folks I hadn’t seen in awhile.” Both Roddy and DeFreese have pledged their support to Massey for the Nov. 8 general election, when she will face Democrat Gloria Johnson. Massey says her core issues, jobs and fiscal management, are nonpartisan. She won’t be working on what she calls “fringe issues,” but on broad policy items and constituent service. She will go to Nashville with friends. On election

night, she quickly received calls from Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and several Senate Republicans. Former Sen. Jamie Woodson texted congratulations. People won’t have to dig to find her message, she says. “My message is how I live my life.” Becky and Morton have been married for 35 years. Morton is exploring his new role as a senatorial spouse. “We had lunch with Victor and Joan Ashe,” he said. “I asked Joan how she decided which events to attend.”

Hey, Morton. There are events every night! The Massey for Senate headquarters is located at 5710 Kingston Pike across from Bearden Elementary School. Info: 357-7956 or www.BeckyMassey.com. Note: Congratulations to the candidates who will advance to the Nov. 8 city general election: Madeline Rogero and Mark Padgett; Mark Campen; George Wallace and John Stancil; Finbarr Saunders and Sharon Welch; and Marshall Stair and Bill Owen.

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he official first day of autumn was Friday, Sept. 23. The length of the day and night were equal, but after that, the days keep getting shorter, on into the gloom of winter. But for now, we have October! Fall colors began a couple of weeks ago in New England, and in the higher elevations of our Smokies. We saw a couple of single, spectacular red maples up there at about 5,000 feet elevation on Sept. 16. And our dogwoods and sumacs are in full fall color now. As I was thinking about fall colors for this October column, I remembered a drive we took up over the Cumberland Plateau to Nashville, about this time of year about two years ago. It happens that the scenery along the interstate highways amounts to a long, nearly endless clearing or forest edge for hundreds of miles, easily seen from cars, and featuring a lot of typical woodland-edge stuff. One of these features is vines. Vines like forest clearings and edges. They have figured out that

the best way to make a living, rather than spending all their energy growing a big strong stem like a tree trunk, is to use their resources to get up to the life-giving sunlight the fastest way they can – by growing spindly stems rapidly toward the treetops, using the trees for support. The vines take advantage of all the sunlight that falls on them at the forest edges, growing up into the tops of the trees and covering the bare trunks with another whole set of foliage. On one spring drive down I-59 through Mississippi, I remember admiring the trees all along the highway covered to their tops with the sunny flowers of the yellow jasmine vines. It certainly helped ease the boredom of driving that last two or three hours through southern Mississippi on the way to the Gulf Coast. But that fall drive over the Plateau was of a different color scheme. Most of the tree leaves had fallen, and yet there were still a lot of reds and purples – on the tree trunks.

The vines were shining through with their fall colors, keeping fall going in spite of most of the tree leaves having ended their season. A closer look revealed that they were mostly the bright reds of the Virginia creeper vines, with a boost from that other good local vine, the poison ivy. Incidentally, both of those vines produce a crop of berries that are an important source of fall food for the birds, migrants and locals alike. In fact, a flight of fall warblers, including magnolias, chestnut-sideds, Tennessees and redstarts, as well as scarlet tanagers, a wood-peewee and a downy woodpecker, are feasting on the Virginia creeper berries in a tree outside my back porch as I write these words. Maybe vines aren’t the first thing that pops into your mind when you’re thinking of wildflowers, but consider this: the official wildflower of the state of Tennessee is a vine! The passionflower, or maypop as some call it, is a vine if there ever was one, using its tendrils to climb whatever support it can get to find full sunlight and producing that amazing, complex purple-and-white blossom. And then there are the morning glories, and what about wisteria? We have some vines that are bad actors, mostly alien invaders. Take the notorious kudzu, for example. Or Japanese honeysuckle, although we have some nice, attractive native honeysuckles, too, that are better-behaved. Oriental bittersweet, winter creeper and English ivy are all problem plants that can get out of hand. But a bunch of our native wildflower vines are dandies. Two of

Red Virgina creeper with berries them are big favorites of the hummingbirds: trumpet creeper and its similar but less common cousin, the cross vine. They both have big, showy trumpetshaped flowers and are a good addition to any landscape where you are Trumpet creeper Photos by Dr. Bob Collier interested in attracting hummers. There are several versions of Pipevines have another remarkwild clematis, and you will see it out able relationship with insects. in the forest edges, growing over They are the food plant for the catshrubs and low trees, and covered erpillars of the pipevine swallowwith showy white flowers, and later, tail butterfly, a locally common, with peculiar wispy seeds. There lovely black butterfly with shimare lots of fancy garden varieties mering blue on the hindwings. of clematis, too. Folks like to grow The caterpillars ingest toxins them over their mailboxes. from the pipevine plant that make Dutchman’s pipe, or pipevine, is them, as butterflies, distasteful to one of our most unusual wildflower predators, just as monarchs do with vines. It grows mostly in the Appala- milkweeds. It works so well for the chians, from Pennsylvania to north pipevine butterflies that six other Georgia, in forests and forest edges. species of butterflies have adapted It can produce large vines, growing themselves to mimic the black and 60 feet or more up into the trees, blue coloration of the pipevines, and has big, heart-shaped leaves, and lessen their chances of being producing a jungle-like scene where eaten, too. it grows. Its flowers are an inch and Think of the pleasures that vines a half or so long and curved up like have put into our lives. Pumpkins an old-fashioned smoking pipe with and cucumbers grow on vines. And a small opening at the end. what would life be without pole The pipevine flowers attract beans? But, ah, vines with flowers small insects with the yummy – an arbor of sweet-smelling wistescent of rotting meat. Once inside, ria, a tree-trunk full of red Virginia they are trapped for a day or so to creeper leaves, morning glories, ensure that they are well-coated maypops. Vines add a little somewith pollen and then released, to thing extra to our lives that, left to fly off to another pipevine flower our own devices, we may never even with their load of fertilizing pollen. have thought of.

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sound advice in various quotes attributed to him. Here are two of my favorites: “Preach the Gospel at all Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those The suffering he saw during times, and when necessary, who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to the war and his subsequent use words.� the faith of Jesus. (Revelation 14:12 NRSV) imprisonment caused him “If God can work through Joseph Martin, noted to consider the meaning and me, he can work through Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; composer and pianist, purpose of his life. anyone.� where there is hatred, let me sow love; brings his In 1205, he saw a vision of St. Francis finished his where there is injury, pardon; talents to Jesus, an experience which prayer (partially quoted where there is doubt, faith; the sanctuchanged Francis’ life forev- above) this way: where there is despair, hope; ary of First er. He disowned his father, where there is darkness, light; Baptist rejected his inheritance, O Divine Master, and where there is sadness, joy. grant that I may not so Church of and began serving the poor (St. Francis of Assisi, Italy, 13th century) much seek Knoxville at and rebuilding churches. to be consoled as to con7 p.m. SunHe is perhaps best known sole; day, Oct. 9, Tomorrow (Oct. 4) is the among Protestants as the to be understood, as to feast day of St. Francis of author of a prayer (partially Joseph Martin as part of understand; the church’s Assisi, and though much of quoted above) and the hymn Cross to be loved, as to love; annual Concert Series. Currents Christendom does not cel“Canticle of the Sun,� which for it is in giving that we Martin has performed solo ebrate the lives or feast days appears in our hymnals as Lynn piano recitals and has been receive, of saints, here is one we “All Creatures of Our God Hutton it is in pardoning that we the featured artist with should all notice. and King.� symphony orchestras in the are pardoned, Francis was born about He is known also as United States and Mexico. and it is in dying that we 1181, in Assisi, to a prospersomeone who truly loved are born to eternal life. As a winner of the Nina ous textile merchant. He and cared for “all creaThe truth and simplicity Plant Wideman competigrew up with privilege and a church overlooking the tures.� He famously fed the took an active role in the vast valley floor below. It is animals, and statues of the of his words are in perfect commercial, political and breathtaking, even today. gentle saint surrounded by harmony with the truth and He fought in a war be- small animals are frequent- simplicity of his life. We give follow. Info: 524-2575. social life of his home town thanks for this blessed, lov– a small town perched high tween Assisi and Perugia, ly placed in gardens. on a hillside, with wind- was captured and imprisIn addition to his poetry, ing soul, this instrument of Revivals ■Walridge Baptist Church, ing medieval streets, and oned for almost two years. the gentle saint left us some God’s peace.

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John L. Shepherd will be the guest speaker for the Knoxville Fellowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Oct. 4. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the John L. Shepherd Golden Corral in Powell.

â– Fellowship Christian Church will have a fall festival starting at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8. There will be gospel singing, food, games, antique cars and crafts. All are welcome.

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■Dante Church of God will distribute Boxes of Blessings (food) 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 8, or until the boxes are gone. One box per household and you must be present to receive a box. Info: 689-4829. ■Faith UMC on Dry Gap Pike will host a coupon workshop 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, with blogger Gabrielle Blake of “Couponing in Critical Times� as the speaker. A $5 donation for the church will be accepted at the door. Info: 688-1000 or visit www.faithseekers.org. ■Powell Presbyterian Church, 2910 W. Emory Road,

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Fundraisers, sales â– Dante Baptist Church, 314 Brown Road, needs vendors for a craft fair Sat., Oct. 8. Table rental is $20. Info: Vivian Baker, 938-1378. â– Fairview Freewill Baptist Church in Heiskell will have a rummage sale 8 a.m. to noon and a fall festival 5-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. During the festival, there will be a marshmallow roast, puppet show, dinner, auction and more. Info: 705-9751. â– Mt. Hermon UMC, 232 E. Copeland Road in Powell, will have a rummage and bake

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Pancakes for swimming The Powell Swim Team will host a fundraiser pancake breakfast 8 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at Applebee’s, 5316 Central Ave. Tickets are $5. Sign-ups are still open to join the swim team for both middle and high school students. Info: Email Renee Norman at naynorman@gmail.com.

‘Immersed in Color’ “Immersed in Color: Sanford Wurmfeld’s Cyclorama” will be on display through Thursday, Oct. 27, at the Ewing Gallery on the UT campus. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Info: Call 974-3200 or visit www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu.

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Quick hands By Greg Householder Opposing teams through the Sept. 23 Karns game threw against the Powell High School Panthers at their peril. Through that game, the Powell defensive unit had snagged 18 passes – all but two by the defensive backfield unit. (Linebacker Colby Skeen snatched the other two picks.) Junior Jonathan Strozyk has accounted for seven picks this year and his lar-

ceny of other teams’ passes has landed him in a tie for both season and career interceptions. Strozyk had two interceptions against Karns which tied him with his head coach, Matt Lowe, for career picks with 14 and tied him with Derek Milligan with seven on the season. Strozyk had returned the pickoffs for 82 yards including one for a touchdown. Strozyk had two interceptions his freshman year

Football Panthers have had 18 picks so far and four in his sophomore season. Brady Williams, Jonathan Staggs and Montario Washington have snagged two each. Darian Logan and Dylan Sweat have intercepted one each. Powell dominated Karns 40-20 and entertained Hardin Valley Academy last Friday for homecoming. Results of Friday’s game were unavailable at press time. Next up for the Panthers on Friday, Oct. 7, are the Clin-

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■ Teddy Bear clinic Wednesday, Oct. 19; 50’s Day and sock hop to celebrate Brickey’s 50th anniversary 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27.

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Bekah Mcdonald And Bekah Mcdonald sang “Se tu m’ami,” accompanied by Caryn Marlowe on piano. The teacher can play Clark Seaver and Bekah can sing. Let’s not forget the guy accompanied him on piano. Never Conquer.” who could be the next ElHear the refrain: Brooke Harrill brought a vis, Logan Wildman singing Oh my friends, my friends, country song of betrayal and “Emotion Sickness.” He’s don’t ask me pain called “Stay.” got the curled lip, although a What your sacrifice was Becca Denton set the smile leaked out at the end. for crowd to clapping with a Braxton and Sophia perEmpty chairs at empty rousing clogging demonstra- formed “Falling Slowly,” tables tion to “Automatic.” (Take this sinking boat and Where my friends will After intermission, Jenny point it home) and Braxsing no more. Tran and Erin Dupes sang ton sang “Memories” from Hannah Williams matched “Sparks Fly” while an en- “Cats,” accompanied by Rihanna in the jarring “Cali- semble cast acted out a “wed- Marlowe, during the stall ding” complete with a bride period. fornia King Bed.” Keri Ferguson was a poised stranded at the altar. The These students probably performer with a strong voice kids had the audience in their won’t remember the grade hands by now. in “Like My Mother Does.” they get in music this semesSo it’s time for some cul- ter, but they will never forget Shelby Berkley, accompanied by Seaver Clark on gui- ture as Antonia Schweiger the night when one performtar, sang softly the love song played Beethoven’s “Fur er ran late and they filled the “Somewhere Only We Know.” Elise.” She’s ready for the time with music. Their show Seaver later sang “Death Will Symphony. goes on.

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POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • OCTOBER 3, 2011 • A-11 Of course football is coaching, preparation, conditioning, strategy, communications, motivation. world, Bob Davis passed the Coaching is sound judgment, ball to tailbacks and fullbacks critical insight, intuitive for an entire career without decisions or good guesses. Marvin one errant snap. Robert R. It may or may not be quick Neyland expected no less. West quips or fancy pants. Football is a game of speed Oops, almost forgot the and spirit and strength and courage. Almost everybody most important part: Coaching is recruiting. mentals, blocking, tackling, gets knocked down. Winners To the romantic, football running, throwing, catching, rise up to fight again. is Saturdays, pigs in blankicking – oh yes, the kicking Football is a game of inchkets and boiled shrimp on a part is very important. es, fingertips, two blades of tasty tailgate menu, full staSo is the center snap. Get- grass between in and out ting the ball to the quarter- of bounds, one more link of dium, crisp marching band, back is one of the elementary chain for a first down. Little color, pageantry, excitement basics, somewhere soon after things often make big differ- and fewer commercials on being able to tie shoes and ences. There is a prize for at- the Jumbothon. line up properly. In another tention to details. To the realist, football is

Crossroads time in Tennessee I do believe this is the crossroads. A victory over Georgia would give Tennessee a chance to develop into a successful team. A loss will mean more of that “remember November� stuff. Don’t count this one just yet. Defeating Georgia is not a given. It is a possibility. This is the conference foe most likely to fall to the Volunteers in October. Give that some thought. The crossroads seems an appropriate time to tell you some of what I know about football. It is a game of funda-

TDOT commissioner says if you speak, he’ll listen said, but added if Washington cuts funding, it could mean a $300 million loss. When it came time for questions from the audience, it appeared there had been more interest in the refreshments. One of the longer discussions came from A. L. “Pete� Lotts with Rail Solutions, a nonprofit citizens group. He quizzed Degges about any plans to expand rail lines for Norfolk-Southern Railroad.

By Suzanne Foree Neal Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner John Schroer brought his traveling road show to Farragut Town Hall last week as the last leg of a statewide “whirlwind meet and greet.� He said that TDOT wants to partner with local communities on road projects. The former Franklin, Tenn., mayor was appointed to his post by Gov. Bill Haslam and says the meetings have been a learning curve for him. “We want to listen to what citizens want,� he added. “My intent is for TDOT to be an organization that works with communities.� He said that had not always been the case, but it is a new day under his direction. Paul Degges, deputy TDOT commissioner, told those assembled there had been a lot of success with transportation projects in Knoxville. “When dollars are available, it’s important to deliver them and you do a good job in Knoxville and Farragut,� he said. He cited the state’s system of a three-year road plan as a way to be sure funds

Stephanie Burr checks out display boards at Farragut Town Hall showing Tennessee Department of Transportation proposed road projects. She is a member of Citizens Against the Pellissippi Parkway Extension and also was there to see proposals for the Alcoa Highway alternative plans. Photo by S.F. Neal are budgeted for major projects, but said it’s important to stay somewhat flexible to take advantage of extra funds that might happen along. Degges pointed out that Tennessee has no debt in its transportation system, unlike some states. “Our transportation system is a pay as we go state,� he said. “We can weather economic situations

relatively well.� Schroer noted that every dollar saved out of the TDOT budget goes into a road project and not back into the state’s general fund. “Our goal is to be as efficient as we can.� If President Obama’s jobs plan passes, it could mean $600 million to $1 billion in additional funding for Tennessee road projects, Schroer

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Tennessee’s running attack is a myth. There is none, no matter what Buffalo said. The Vols might push around little leaguers but they can’t go against the big boys. That’s what Derek Dooley calls SEC rivals. In fact, they are not bigger, just tougher. This is not yet a wellcoached team. It does have heart. Some of those orange shirts have gladiators inside. They do not always run to the correct places or lock up on hits but they do compete. That is encouraging. Maybe this week they will get more things right. This is the crossroads.

Degges conceded that freight traffic on the state’s highways will only increase with time. “But we can’t widen the roads to umpteen lanes,� he said. He thinks it will take a multi-system solution to handle the increase. Lotts believes a 1,000mile rail line to handle freight could be privately funded and would divert traffic from Interstates 40, 75 and 81. “It would be costly, but not as costly as building roads,� he said. “We’re not spending money to handle 70 mph freight or 110 mph passenger service

on railroads.� Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill asked, “As someone who owns property in Sevier County, when is Highway 66 going to be done?� Part of it will be done very soon, Degges told him. The contract for the last leg will take 24 to 30 months and will be let by the end of this year. Degges pointed out the economic value Sevier County contributes to the state and said tourists will appreciate the faster approach to the Smoky Mountains, Pigeon Forge outlet malls, Dollywood and Gatlinburg.

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Diamond in the rough Clerk satellite office move planned By Larry Van Guilder

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Circles of Hope fundraiser set The Circles of Hope to benefit Mission of Hope will be 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, at Rothchild Conference Center, 8807 Kingston Pike. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for registration, the Circles of Hope gift shop and auction. Special guests include Bill Williams, Sammy Sawyer, Todd Duff and The Faces of Hope. Cost is $22.50 ($215 prepaid reserved table for 10). Reservations deadline is Oct. 21. Info: 584-7571.

You can’t quite throw a rock from the current location of the East Knoxville county clerk satellite office to its planned new location on South Mall Road, but you could get close. County Clerk Foster Arnett hopes to make the move into the former home of Markman’s Fine Diamonds and Jewelry by next January. The struggling Knoxville Center mall will lose anoth- Architect Anthony Fuller and County Clerk Foster Arnett reer tenant, but Knox County view interior plans for the satellite office planned for relocation to the former Markman’s store on South Mall Road. Photos will save nearly a quarter of by L. Van Guilder a million dollars over eight years, according to Arnett. A $156,000 reduction in rent comprises the bulk of the savings. Adding annual fees of $7,427 for an HVAC maintenance agreement and $3,477 for trash removal that will no longer be required brings the total to a little more than $243,000.

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The county clerk’s satellite office at Knoxville Center will be moving as early as next January to the former Markman’s location.

Wess Sharp is welcomed to Gaylon Wilson Insurance by company president Jack Wilson. Sharp, a lifelong North Knox resident, is a 1987 graduate of Halls High School and a 1992 graduate of the University of Tennessee.

Arnett anticipates a reduction in utility costs, as well. Large windows provide a great deal of ambient light, and the planned 3,573 square foot office space is about onethird smaller than what is now occupied at the mall. The nine-year-old building remains in excellent condition. Arnett has engaged Anthony Fuller, the original architect for the Markman’s store, to draw plans for some modest modifications.

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POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • OCTOBER 3, 2011 • A-13

Attention Mercy Health Employees:

YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO OUR COMMUNITY

HASN’T GONE UNNOTICED.

Understanding Your Retirement Plan Is a Step toward Securing

Your Future. For 2011, some changes were made to your retirement plan. As a result, you now have some important decisions to make. It’s essential to understand your plan’s options and make sure you’re taking the right steps now to achieve your retirement goals. I’m here to help answer questions you may have about your retirement plan, including: đ What changes were made to my plan? đ What features and benefits may help me? đ How much can I contribute? đ What investment choices do I have?

I look forward to working with you to help ensure you’re making the most of your retirement plan. Please call today to schedule a time to review your retirement plan. Together, we can determine your current situation and discuss how your plan can help you reach your retirement goals.

Halls Toby Strickland 922-5575

Fountain City Linda Gay Blanc 689-8629

www.edwardjones.com Member SIPC

Fountain City Jeffrey Lane 689-8838

Clinton Hwy/ Merchants Dr George Lucke 219-7910

Powell Noell Lewis 938-5978


A-14 • OCTOBER 3, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

You’re only minutes from your prescriptions at Food City Pharmacy. 14 Convenient Locations In The Knoxville Area To Serve You Better!

680

4344 Maynardville Hwy. Maynardville, Tennessee 61 116

25W

61

Norris 33

170

75

9

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Luttrell

370 144

131

UNION

61

Plainview

61

441 71

331

170

GRAINGE

61

Blaine

131 61

116

331 75

33

11W 1

170

131

25W 9

71

You pay only $4 for hundreds of commonly prescribed generic drugs. 330

VISIT WWW.FOODCITY.COM OR TALK TO YOUR FOOD CITY PHARMACIST 61 FOR THE COMPLETE PHARMACY SAVINGS PLAN LIST.

441

5078 Clinton Hwy. Knoxville, Tennessee

Clinton

33

170 131

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75

688

7202 Maynardville Hwy. Halls, Tennessee

131

Halls Crossroads

33

25W

11E

4805 North Broadway Fountain City, Tennessee

9

KNOX

131

3501 West Powell Emory Road Powell, Tennessee

170

34

11W

2712 Loves Creek Road Knoxville, Tennessee

331 685

170

ANDERSON 131

170 62

9565 Middlebrook Pike Knoxville, Tennessee

8905 Kingston Pike Knoxville, Tennessee

131

275

62 169

169

40

168

40

441

11 70 674

131 616

75

40

332 694

162

70

11

71

158

169

169

9

1950 Western Ave. Knoxville, Tennessee

676

169 672

70

4216 North Broadway Knoxville, Tennessee

275

678

168

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40 40

62

131

40

11E

11E

9

673

75

62

11501 Hardin Valley Road 162 Knoxville, Tennessee

640

25W

11W

640

Karns

62

75

70

640

Knoxville

5801 Western Ave. 9 25W Knoxville, Tennessee

Oak Ridge

640

677

131

679

Mascot

1

687

95

JEFFERSO

331

441

61

61

331

5941 Kingston Pike (Bearden Ctr.) Knoxville, Tennessee

129 168

33

284 Morrell Road Knoxville, Tennessee

115

71

441

675

168

We accept thousands of Insurance Plans! # 616 Food City Pharmacy

# 676 Food City Pharmacy

# 680 Food City Pharmacy

11501 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN (865) 692-5183 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

1950 Western Ave., Knoxville, TN (865) 525-6376 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

4344 Maynardville Hwy., Maynardville, TN (865) 992-0534 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

# 672 Food City Pharmacy

# 677 Food City Pharmacy

# 685 Food City Pharmacy

9565 Middlebrook Pike, Knoxville, TN (865) 539-0580 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

5078 Clinton Hwy., Knoxville, TN (865) 689-8955 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

4805 N. Broadway, Fountain City, TN (865) 281-0286 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

# 673 Food City Pharmacy

# 678 Food City Pharmacy

# 687 Food City Pharmacy

4216 N. Broadway, Knoxville, TN (865) 686-1761 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

5801 Western Ave., Knoxville, TN (865) 584-0115 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

2712 Loves Creek Road, Knoxville, TN (865) 633-5008 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

# 674 Food City Pharmacy

# 679 Food City Pharmacy

# 688 Food City Pharmacy

5941 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN (865) 588-0972 Monday-Friday: 8:30am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

3501 West Emory Road, Powell, TN (865) 938-2838 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

7202 Maynardville Hwy., Halls, TN (865) 922-9683 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

# 675 Food City Pharmacy

# 694 Food City Pharmacy

8905 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN (865) 694-1935 Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

284 Morrell Road, Knoxville, TN (865) 691-1153 Monday-Friday: 8:30am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 3pm

WE FILL YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS WHILE YOU SHOP!


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