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Meet a vivacious 103-year-old See Ruth’s column on page A-2

Fine Craft Fair ahead Powell native among exhibitors By Anne Hart

Football rolling Dyshawn Mobley and the Powell High Panthers continue their quest for a state championship. See page A-9

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Rusty Wallace Honda was one of three businesses honored at the November school board meeting for their support of Knox County Schools. General Manager Chad Campbell represented the Honda dealership. Also recognized were Best Buy of Turkey Creek and the UT Athletics Department. The dealership has been a partner with schools in the Powell/Halls corridor since before they opened just off the Callahan Road exit of I-75. More than a decade ago at the groundbreaking event for the new dealership, race car driver Rusty Wallace presented five schools with checks for $1,000 each: Powell High, Powell Middle, Halls High, Halls Middle and Northwest Middle. Over the years, the dealership has continued to support various initiatives in schools on the north side of our community, said Business Partners coordinator Scott Bacon, including their participation in a teen driving safety program Chad Campbell, general manager of Rusty Wallace at Powell High School with the Powell Business Honda, and Dr. Jim McIntyre at the school board and Professional Association. meeting in which the company was honored for its To page A-3 support of Knox County Schools. Photo submitted

Get ready. It’s almost time to grab your holiday gift list and head out the door for the hugely popular annual arts event that draws people to Knoxville from all over the southeast and beyond. It’s the 45th annual Fine Craft Fair, staged by the Foothills Craft Guild, and it will take place in the Jacob Building at Chilhowee Park on Friday through Sunday, Nov. 1820. More than 150 regional artists will exhibit and sell the finest traditional and contemporary crafts to be found. The Southeastern Tourism Society has named the show a “Top 20 Event.” There will be woodwork, pottery, jewelry, glass, fiber arts, leatherwork, metalwork, photography, sculpture, basketry and much, much more. Many of the artists will be demonstrating how they make the items they are offering for sale, and others will be on hand to discuss their work and to answer questions. One of the artists there will be

Powell native Molly Durr, whose work is described loosely as “dried arrangements” but sure doesn’t look anything like the idea most people have of a dried arrangement. Durr’s email address describes it a little better. “Flat florist” is part of that address. Quite simply, she starts with fresh flowers, puts them through a number of drying and pressing stages, and then arranges and mounts them on acid free paper which she then mats and frames. The flowers are flat by then, of course, but they are as colorful and authentic looking as the day they were picked. “I have been doing this for more than 20 years,” Durr says. “I decided that in wintertime, when flowers go away, this would give me the opportunity to bring them inside and keep them.” Durr says she grows some of the flowers herself, “and friends let me raid their gardens.” Some of the flowers and greenery she and her husband, Paul, a wetlands biologist originally from Maine who came to UT to get a master’s degree in biology, find when they go This dried arrangement by local artist Molly Durr is made of hibiscus blossoms To page A-2 and leaves and river oats.

Cardwell said no. “The new plant is just about treating the product that comes into the plant. The new money will expand our capacity on output.” Additionally, HPUD will upgrade its process for “squeezing water out” of bio-solids, the sludge remaining after treatment, to reduce trips to the landfi ll and the cost of tipping fees. “We’re in the preliminary design phase and hope to bid this next April with a completion date of June 2014,” Cardwell said. “We are under a state consent order to fi x these things.” HPUD’s next rate increase will come April 1 and is projected to be 3.5 percent for water and 3.5 percent for sewer for a monthly increase of $3.33 for the average (5,000 gallons per month) user, Smith said. He explained that rates and capital projects are projected 20 years out.

HPUD outlines plans for plant upgrades By Sandra Clark Hallsdale Powell Utility District wants to borrow $4.8 million, and Thursday at a public hearing only four customers showed up to ask why. HPUD officials Darren Cardwell and James Smith fielded questions and outlined upgrades to the Beaver Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant and the smaller Raccoon Valley sewage plant near Diggs Gap. Consulting engineer Dudney Fox of CTI Engineers Inc., based in Nashville, fielded technical questions. New commissioner Bob Crye attended. Smith estimated $1.3 million for the Raccoon Valley plant, $2.725 million for the Beaver Creek plant and said the balance will be used for associated costs such as engineering, design and permitting. He said

interest from the State Revolving Loan Fund will be 2.25 to 2.75 percent and the payback is about $25,000 per month for 20 years. Dudney Fox, P.E. Raccoon Valley: Cardwell said the plans are complete and most are approved. He expects completion by the end of 2012. The plant is a “bottleneck,” he said, processing 150,000 gallons per day. The project will double capacity to 300,000 gallons per day. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation identified this plant as needing improve-

ments to handle wet weather flows. The project will install new pumps and upgrade the screening process. The plant was built in 1976 in anticipation of the World’s Fair to serve a large RV park. Now a school and several businesses and homes are connected. Output is into Bull Run Creek. Beaver Creek: Attendees questioned the need for improvements to a plant that was just rebuilt. Cardwell said the plant’s treatment capacity is 21 million gallons per day, but only 15 million gallons can be pumped out. “With 400 miles feeding into this plant, we’re seeking to improve efficiency and performance.” Was it an error not to have anticipated this?

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Broadacres Homeowners Association president Ed Smith says the Association has run out of funds and that the lights illuminating the entrances along West Emory Road into the Powell neighborhood have been turned off. Smith says out of an estimated 826 homes in the subdivision, 147 have joined the membership by paying the $50 yearly fee. “We understand the economic situation right now,” Smith said, “but the upkeep of the entrances is a safety thing plus it adds values to our homes. Also, the Association helps represent (neighborhood interests) at MPC and things like that.” Smith says one resident had helped keep the organization going the last couple of years by giving generously. He says the Association is about $400 in debt and has reached the point that it may have to disband. “We’re looking for any advice or help,” Smith says. The $50 fee can be sent to the Broadacres Homeowners Association, P.O. Box 1101 Powell, TN 37849. Info: Ed Smith, 9470129.

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Heiskell seniors learn of battlefield medical advances I had a very pleasant “pre-Veterans Day” celebration last Thursday at the Heiskell seniors program. I was honored to stand with World War II, Korea, Vietnam and other Cold War veterans as the seniors recognized us and thanked us for our service.

Elmcroft resident Grace Moore dances with guests at her birthday celebration. Photo by Ruth White

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the party, whispered some sweet words into his sister’s ear and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead. As Moore danced with several friends and opened presents, her daughter whispered to a guest nearby that Ruth she hasn’t seen her mom so White happy in a long time. One guest created a scrapbook of photographs of Moore and her family from years ago. is a resident at Elmcroft Moore and family were able Assisted Living. A special to relive special memories party was planned to mark at the party. When asked her secret the milestone. Moore’s daughter and to staying youthful, Moore son-in-law, Ann and Byron replied, “The good Lord has Cawthon, traveled from had His hand in it.” Watching Moore interact Florida to help celebrate and a niece came in from with guests, it was hard to Michigan to wish her well believe that she has lived 103 and celebrate a wonder- years. She remains active and ful life. Her “baby brother” pays close attention to details. Wendell Jones arrived at She is, in a word, amazing.

And the Thanksgiving dinner was yummy, too. Janice White kicked things off with her customary announcements. The Heiskell Community Center will hold its annual Thanksgiving dinner for the community on Thursday, Nov. 17, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Pastor Phillip Poe of Bishopville Baptist Church will conduct the service beginning at 7 p.m. The dinner is free but attendees should bring canned goods or other nonperishable items for the Food Pantry. The December meeting will be the seniors’ Christmas party. They will do a gift exchange, and anyone

on Saturday, featuring an encore performance at 11 a.m. and the full performance at 7 p.m. The encore performance is a one-act version of the full show and is perfect for small children and groups. Tickets for the encore performance are $7 each. The evening

performance will feature professional dancers Stephanie Bussell and Noel Dupuis and music by the UT Chamber Orchestra. The final performance will be Sunday, Nov. 20. Cost for the full performances are adults $20, seniors $15 and students $10.

Kick off the holidays with ‘The Nutcracker’ The Oak Ridge Civic Ballet will present “The Nutcracker” at Oak Ridge High School auditorium Saturday, Nov. 19, and Sunday, Nov. 20. There will be two shows

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who wants to participate should bring a gender specific gift of no more than $5 in value. The Totes of Love program is going full swing. The sewing club at the community center received a bunch of cloth from the Knoxville and Nashville chapters of the Interior Design Society and they are seeking to fill them with personal comfort items such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste, etc. They plan to give 35 of the totes to kids at Copper Ridge Elementary School who are on the Angel Tree and 65 to kids at Powell Middle School. The center is still doing the “Ageless Grace” exercise programs every Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. Cost is $5 per session.

He spent a tour in Afghanistan and Iraq and he told the seniors how battlefield medicine has progressed. As a veteran, I found this extremely interesting. It seems that most of the War on Terror casualties are from roadside bombs. While it may seem hard to believe, you are more likely to be hurt in Iraq than you were in Vietnam. After the doctor spoke, Rick Ayers of the Tennessee Department of Veteran Affairs talked a bit about veterans benefits that are available.

Indianapolis a couple of weeks ago, it’s still a pretty prestigious award to get. Richard was chosen in recognition of his ongoing support of NPJS by providing membership to his staff, his fundraising abilities to support at-risk youth in the community, his mentoring program work with the Boys and Girls Club, and his 42 years of service to the profession and to youth. Congratulations Richard – you deserve it! ■

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The folks at Cash Express at 1420 E. Emory Road are collecting toys, canned foods and coats for the unI would derprivileged through Dec. like to give a 2. Anyone wishing to donate shout out to should drop the items off at my pal Rich- the Cash Express location. ■ Medicine in war ard Bean, County Commissioner and superinten- ■ PMS is holding heart surgeon Dr. Richard dent of the toy drive Briggs was Richard L. the guest Lauren Kolody, an 8th Bean Juspeaker for grader at Powell Middle venile Serthe Heiskell Richard Bean School, shot me an email a vice Center. seniors couple of weeks ago telling p r o g r a m . Richard is a recipient of the me about a toy drive they The doctor National Partnership for Ju- are having at the school. served in the venile Services Grimm-Hill The drive started on Nov. 7 U.S. Army Member of the Year for Ju- and will run through Dec. from 1974 venile Detention award. 1. Anyone wanting to help Richard Briggs Though he opted not to should drop toys off at the until his retirement as a colonel in 2007. attend the presentation in school. Thanks, Lauren, for the heads up! ■

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hiking. She’s quick to add they don’t pick anything in the national park, where it’s illegal to do so. Durr gives away most of her work to friends and family on special occasions, but this show and sale provide an opportunity for the public to see it and buy it. She doesn’t sell through any retail outlets and says she does her work “for the relaxation. It’s my creative outlet.” Hours for the Fine Craft Fair are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $6 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. There is no admission charge for children under 6.

Duncan discusses issues with seniors Ralph and Dorothy Mertz greet U.S. Rep. John Duncan Jr. at a senior adult meeting hosted by First Lutheran Church last week. Duncan was on hand to answer questions for the group and discuss issues that affect senior adults and the country. Photo by Ruth White

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Rogeroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election a milestone for DeSelm By Betty Bean About the time that Mark Padgett called Madeline Rogero to concede the election, Bee DeSelm was rolling her walker up the ramp into the Foundry to join the victory celebration. Inside, the first woman ever elected mayor of Knoxville was watching for her former County Commission colleague, whom she considers her mentor and inspiration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I called her in 1990 when I was running for County Commission and said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, can I come get some advice?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I asked how much time it took to be a county commissioner and she pulled out her appointment book and showed me details that you need to know when you are thinking about running for

teaming up on matters of conscience. In 1994, a term limits referendum passed with a broad majority, and although it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go into effect until 2002 (and wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enforced until a court order in 2007), both DeSelm and Rogero â&#x20AC;&#x201C; unlike most of their colleagues â&#x20AC;&#x201C; voluntarily honored the votersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mandate. DeSelm had served 22 years, Rogero eight. Rogeroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election has been a point of light in an otherwise grim year for DeSelm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in July, she lost her Bee DeSelm and Madeline Rogero on election night. Photo by husband, Hal, after 63 years Betty Bean of marriage. She fell and broke her hip in August and political office,â&#x20AC;? Rogero said. termine which way she was moved into an assisted livâ&#x20AC;&#x153;She was a great role going to vote. She studied ing center to recuperate for model, an advisor and the issues and did what she a month and never returned home. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somesomebody who always stud- thought was right.â&#x20AC;? Republican DeSelm and thing else, too. ied the issues and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look out in the crowd to see Democrat Rogero served toâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, who was sitting there to de- gether for eight years, often which is a big problem for

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me, but not so much that I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually carry on a conversation,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At my age, most everybody has some symptoms like I have. I told the people at assisted living that I may be back to see them in a year or two.â&#x20AC;? But for now, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s settling into an apartment in a retirement center and sorting through a lifetimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of memories. She has donated her commission papers to the Baker Center and done a little campaigning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madeline took what I gave her and ran with it. â&#x20AC;Ś I knew she just had what it took and that something good was going happen. She came by to see me in assisted living and we went through my wing and talked to anybody who was willing. And, of course, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been wearing her shirt for quite a while.â&#x20AC;?

Multiple PHS students have been awarded cars as a result of having exemplary driving records. More recently, Rusty Wallace Honda came on board as a major sponsor of the 2011 Knox County Schools Coupon Book program, Bacon said. In addition, a sister dealership, Rusty Wallace Kia, joined as a sponsor on the back of the coupon book. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The addition of these sponsor dollars allowed our schools to keep $7.90 from each coupon book sold this year, the highest in the 23 year history of the program.â&#x20AC;?

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One of the adorable stars of the Knoxville Zooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new red panda web cam. Photo submitted Bernadette and Winston, the zooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5-month-old red panda cubs. According to Tina Rolen, assistant director of marketing, the debut of the first red panda cam last year inspired people to watch red panda female cubs Spark and Ember online the equivalent of 39 years. The website is provided

by Mozilla Firefox and is available 24 hours a day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be warned,â&#x20AC;? said Rolen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You will be incapable of unhappiness for the duration (of the viewing).â&#x20AC;? Watch the furry goodness online at www.firefoxlive.org. The Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley is enjoying its new location on Bearden Hill at 6717 Kingston Pike, but there are a few things that need mending. For instance: when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raining outside, the holes in the ceiling would be more appropriate for a shower stall. The organization hopes to raise $60,000 in order to replace the existing roof with a new, more waterproof version. (Donate online at http:// humanesocietytennessee. com/about-us/donate/ or mail to P.O. Box 51723, Knoxville, TN 37950).

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Candidates Madeline Rogero, Mark Padgett, Ivan Harmon and Bo Bennett at an April debate. File photo by Betty Bean

‘This process stinks’ So says District 3 school board member Cindy Buttry. Buttry held nothing back last week when County Commission met to give final approval to the commission and school board redistricting plan dubbed 1A. While the plan aligns commission and school districts and ensures that each district contains a high school, it also divides some traditional communities among two or three districts. That’s not a new phenomenon, as the good folks of Fountain City – to name one community – will testify. No commissioners are moved from Cindy Buttry their current districts by the plan, but Buttry and District 6 school board representative Thomas Deakins now reside, respectively, in Districts 6 and 5. The community-splitting that fueled Buttry’s ire concerns Norwood. Precinct 40, Norwood Elementary, shifts from District 3 to District 6. The part of Precinct 41, Norwood Library, located south of I-640 is merged into Precinct 19 in District 1 to conform to the redrawn district lines. The rest of Precinct 41 moves from District 2 to District 3. Buttry said she was speaking “not as a board member but as a citizen” when she asked commission to reconsider its pending approval of Plan 1A. Besides, she added, she wasn’t running for re-election. (Her term expires next year.) But she wasn’t finished with commissioners, several of whom, she said, told her they would vote for the plan the school board wanted. “After Carter, and now this, it’s hard to believe anything this body says. … I feel lied to and I feel betrayed by some of you folks,” she said. Some listening might have added that they felt “betrayed” by some of Buttry’s obstructionist voting habits on school board, just as they might have wondered how much her declaration not to seek office again was influenced by her new district residence. Commissioner Richard Briggs tried to mollify her, noting that he had not received “one call, email or anything” from anyone in the Norwood community or – for that matter – a school board member. Commissioner R. Larry Smith chipped in, saying “every single person” he had talked to wanted the commission and school districts aligned. After Buttry unshipped her cargo, Commissioner Amy Broyles – indirectly – took exception to Buttry’s assessment that the process “stinks.” The process was fine, Broyles said, if it had been respected. The joint committee of commissioners and school board members recommended two plans, 2A and 4A, which were rejected by commission in favor of the plan which left incumbent commissioners safe at home. “We need to either respect the process or just start doing it all ourselves and stop wasting (other people’s) time,” Broyles said, also alluding to the stalemated Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness and the stilldebated Hillside and Ridge Top Protection Plan. Approval of the plan required separate votes for commission and school board. The commission vote was 9-2, with Broyles and Brad Anders dissenting. The school district vote was 8-3, with Jeff Ownby joining Broyles and Anders. After a lenghty process, County Commission approved a redistricting plan and nobody showed except Cindy Buttry. Good thing it only happens once a decade. Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

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Betty Bean He did a lot of talking about jobs, growing up poor, winning our trust. Unburdened by modesty (false or otherwise), one of his standard pitches went like this: “Picture the next mayor getting on a plane to go and talk to a world class CEO about relocating to Knoxville. Ask yourself who you’d rather have getting off the other side of that plane to sit across the table from that world class CEO?”

Madeline Rogero is Knoxville’s next mayor and has earned our support. If she succeeds, we all succeed. Her win was not remotely close. The margin places her in good stead to win a second term in 2015 and discourages would be competitors. She took a strong showing against Bill Haslam eight years ago and converted it to a landslide last week. She won over many of her doubters. Rogero faces a busy six weeks as she takes office Saturday, Dec. 17. She has to fill key positions, including her immediate staff plus city department heads. More than 30 positions serve at the pleasure of the mayor. Mayor Dick Fulton of Nashville told me the two most important positions are law and finance directors. The mayor will spend time almost every day with those two officials. She must trust and respect their advice. I retained Randy Vineyard who was Mayor Kyle Testerman’s finance director and he continued for the entire 16 years I was mayor. I persuaded an

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ders is twice his age and also newly elected after one term on County Commission. ■ One of their first votes en seriously. If Padgett runs will be to choose a new vice again he should spend more mayor as current Vice Mayor time listening to voters. He Joe Bailey is term limited and needs to be more transparent leaves council Dec. 17. when asked direct questions ■ Chancellor Fansler has about his business. He needs issued a decision in the city to address real issues. pension lawsuit. It is unclear ■ Nov. 8 also saw Frank- what the city pension board fort, Ind., (population 16,000) will do. Mayor Rogero should elect Chris McBarnes, 23, a attend the meetings. Republican. Knox County has elected young persons to School board the Legislature such as Dick Krieg, Ryan Haynes, Sandra qualifying deadline Clark and myself (all under So you want to be a school 30 when elected) but not to board member? Then hurry administrative offices. up to the courthouse. As of 8 ■ Over in Charleston, a.m. today, qualifying petiS.C., Mayor Joe Riley was tions were available at the elected to his 10th four-year Election Commission. Counterm with 67 percent of the ty Commission approved a vote against three opponents. new district map last week, Riley is associated with his- so check your address at the toric preservation and the Election Commission if you revival of downtown Charles- have any doubt about the ton. Never a hint of scandal district you reside in. and a tireless approach to Four school board seats delivery of city services has are up in 2012 (board assured his popularity. members are exempt from ■ Four new City Coun- term limits): Districts 2 cil members will bring new (Indya Kincannon), 3 (Cindy ideas and energy. Marshall Buttry), 5 (Karen Carson) Stair, 33, arrives as one of the and 8 (Mike McMillan). The youngest persons ever elected deadline to submit a petition citywide, while Finbarr Saun- is noon, Thursday, Dec. 8.

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Go Big Red! Satire alert! The frantic final hours of last week’s Knoxville mayoral election revealed the hitherto unknown existence of the Knoxville Communist Party, or “KCP” if you prefer. Yes, Virginia, there is a KCP, and we know this because its members were loudly expressing support for Madeleine Rogero via Twitter just before election day. Utilizing state-of-the-art surveillance technology, the Shopper-News was able to trace the origin of the tweets. At a rundown motel just outside the city limits we met Vladimir “Bubba” Brushoffski, who professed to be head commissar of the KCP as well as the tweets’ author. Bubba was putting the finishing touches on what he called his “K-Town Manifesto,” and he offered to let us print it for the benefit of our readers. Here it is, complete and unedited. Wake up, comrades!

Knoxville Communist Party is well and good, and new vodka shipment from mother country coming soon. Knoxville Communist Party needs you! We have long history, not known by some. Local cell is older than Lenin’s whiskers. Many famous Knoxville Communists not known by some. I give one example – Cas Walker. Original sign of shears was sign of hammer and sickle! This surprise you? Cas change to shears only because prices hard to cut with hammer. Bad luck that new mayor is not really Communist, but Bubba keep trying! Long live Knoxville Communist Party! Go Big Red! And there the “manifesto” ends. Bubba keeled over after his fourth tumbler of vodka, and we left him snoozing contentedly about dreams of county conquest – or the next local election. – L. Van Guilder

“This L&N is everything we envisioned and more,” said Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre. “And it’s off to a great start.” County Council president Shannon Sumner said, “STEM is a PTA school with 100 percent teacher and faculty membership in PTA.” McIntyre said he had a

School board member Pam Trainor tours the L&N Stem Academy with Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre. At right, student body president Ben Fomby leads a tour for parents and friends. Photos by S. Clark

Precincts shift with redistricting With County Commission’s approval last week of a new district map that aligns commission and school districts, a number of precincts are now in new districts. Elections for members of School Board Districts 2, 3, 5 and 8 will be held March 6, 2012. Listed below are the precinct names for those districts. District 2: Central United Methodist Church, North Knox Recreation Center,

solidated into Precinct 74, Shannondale. Also, an area of Precinct 74 north of Luttrell Road is being consolidated into Precinct 61. District 3: West Haven, Ridgedale, Bearden Middle, Lonas, North Cedar Bluff, South Cedar Bluff, East Cedar Bluff, Norwood Library (see note). Note: A portion of Norwood Library, Precinct 41, south of I-640 is being consolidated into SOAR Youth

Ministries, Precinct 19, District 1. The remaining portion, formerly in District 2, is now part of District 3. District 5: Concord, Farragut 1 (Precinct 66N), Farragut 2 (Precinct 66S), A.L. Lotts. District 8: Hills, Fort Sumter, Sunnyview, Ramsey, Riverdale, Dora Kennedy, Corryton, Gibbs, Ellistown, Ritta, Skaggston, Carter and Thorngrove.

in the community a Happy day, Nov. 20. Thanksgiving. There will be two shows on Saturday, featuring an The Gibbs Ruritan Club Kick off the holidays encore performance at 11 has announced that its ana.m. and the full perfornual Thanksgiving Baskets with ‘The Nutcracker’ mance at 7 p.m. The encore The Oak Ridge Civic program will focus on famiperformance is a one-act lies in the Gibbs schools this Ballet will present “The version of the full show and year who need extra help Nutcracker” at Oak Ridge is perfect for small children during the holiday season. High School auditorium and groups. Tickets for The club wishes everyone Saturday, Nov. 19, and Sun- the encore performance

are $7 each. The evening performance will feature professional dancers Stephanie Bussell and Noel Dupuis and music by the UT Chamber Orchestra. The final performance will be Sunday, Nov. 20. Cost for the full performances are adults $20, seniors $15 and students $10.

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he old saying “There’s nothing new under the sun” dates all the way back thousands of years to the sayings in Ecclesiastes. But we curious human beings still enjoy both looking for new stuff and the surprise and delight of finding it. Back in the middle 1800s, while Americans were occupied with destroying ourselves and our countryside in the Civil War, the British navy and merchant ships were sailing all over the world, exploring, colonizing and discovering. The new worlds of South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand were almost totally unknown and unexplored by Europeans. A long list of intrepid explorers spent years in the jungles, living among the natives and collecting thousands of specimens. Shiploads of previously unknown plants, beetles, butterflies and birds were sent back to museums and wealthy private collectors,

who were eager for anything and everything new. These many explorations changed the way people thought about the origin and distribution of living things over the entire world, and about biology, the science of life, in general. Nowadays people have a pretty good idea of where everything is, and books and museums are full of specifics. We know what’s around us, especially in our more familiar places. Take the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for instance. Nature professionals from UT and a dozen nearby smaller colleges in Tennessee and North Carolina, as well as countless numbers of amateur naturalists, have been studying the flora and fauna of the Smokies for decades, especially in the 75-plus year history of the national park. The Smokies are famous for their biodiversity, more kinds of living things than

any other temperate zone area of its size in North America, we like to say. We really know what’s there. Or, oops, do we? Legend has it that two Park biologists, charged with monitoring the life in the Smokies, were discussing their job one afternoon when one, Keith Langdon, observed, “If you inherited a hardware store from your father, the first thing you would do is to take an inventory of what was in it.” With the help of an experienced University of Pennsylvania professor who had started the first All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Costa Rica, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory was born in the fall of 2000. The ATBI is a program with the objective of identifying every living thing within the boundaries of the Park, hopefully within some reasonable number of years. And now after 11 years, the results have been spectacular. A check on

the ATBI website shows the current tally to be 7,101 species new to the park, and an amazing 910 species completely new to science, all of this in a place with 9 million visitors a year. Other national and state parks and other various nature preserves, both here and abroad, have started similar programs of inventories based on the GSMNP model. How does it work? They started with the basics: the underlying geology, the soil types, the amounts of rainfall in the various areas. One of the main reasons for all the diversity of life in the Park is the large number of small habitats. Each little area has a different type of soil, different amount of moisture, different degree of slope, faces a different angle to the sun. And a lot of living things have adapted to survive mostly in their special little habitat. So, it takes a lot of looking. More than 1,000 scientists, college students and volunteers, or “citizen scientists,” have been involved in the program. They perform focused collecting activities (fern forays, beetle blitzes and so on), and then the invited superspecialists from around the world (more than 20 countries so far) sit for hours and days, microscopes at the ready, identifying all the plants and critters that have come in. As you would expect, they find lots more tiny new things than big new things. They have added 10 new birds to the Park list, six new fish, two new reptiles and one new mammal – none of them new to science. But, they’ve found 143 slime molds new to the Park, 18 of them new to science. And 50 snails that are new to the park, seven of which are new to science. And get this: they’ve found 1,575 beetles new to the Park, 583 mushrooms, and 944

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POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • NOVEMBER 14, 2011 • A-7 and clouds of star nurseries, but it apparently is also cluttered with a fair amount of debris. (I have confessed before in this space my own predilection for clutter, so who am I to be critical of the Divine Housekeeper?) There are, of course, scifi movies where astronauts go into space and blow an asteroid up just in the nick of time, but that seems a little chancy to me. The Law of Unintended Consequences has not been repealed, to my knowledge. YU-55 was 200,000 miles from the Earth, it is true, but how many others are there out there, hurtling toward us? I come from a long line of world class, champion worriers. But even I know when I’m licked, because, really. What are we going to do? This little lifeboat in which we all sail around the sun is the only craft we have. If something is really headed our way, however many years down the road … That possibility makes me wonder: Are we keep-

From a distance Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. (Matthew 24: 29 NRSV) From a distance, the world looks blue and green, And the snow-capped mountains white. (“From a Distance,” by Julie Gold) As I write, we have successfully dodged a celestial bullet. The asteroid 2005 YU55 sailed between Earth and the moon today, which is the astronomical equivalent of threading a very small needle. When I say we dodged it, that statement actually gives us way too much credit. Our astronomers knew it was coming (which is an improvement, I guess, over the days of the dinosaurs when an asteroid slammed directly into earth, creating the Gulf of Mexico and a worldwide persistent winter for some significant amount of time).

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But we did nothing – could do nothing – to avoid the aircraft carrier-size rock. So perhaps it would be more accurate to say we were spared. I admit to being a little unnerved by the fact that there are free-floating rocks roaming around in our skies. The universe is a thing of beauty, with constellations and super novae

ing our little lifeboat shipshape? Are we treating her gently, being careful not to damage her? Are we making the necessary repairs? It was poet Archibald MacLeish who eloquently described our first view of ourselves from space. When Apollo 8 first flew around the moon, the three astronauts on board were the first humans to see the Earth rise over the moon’s horizon. That scene was transmitted back to Earth. MacLeish wrote in response to that photograph: “To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.” In my opinion, that sentence is the single most beautiful of the 20th century, not only for its sentiment, but also for its place in history. We had, for the first time, been able to see ourselves from a distance and to recognize ourselves as family.

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Lance Bracy will be the guest speaker for the Knoxville Fellowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Nov. 15. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.

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pastor Chris Washam 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 20. The Washams will also be singing during the service. Info/directions: 546-0001 or www. NewBeverly.org.

■ Bells Campground Baptist Church WMU will host a soup and sandwich dinner 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18. A gift basket auction and bake sale will also be held. All proceeds will go toward the Lottie Moon Christmas Missions.

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

Music services ■ New Beverly Baptist Church, 3320 New Beverly Church Road, will host the New Beverly Singers 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20. Info/directions: 546-0001 or visit www.NewBeverly.org.

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Amy Dendrinos sells silk flowers for hair clips and headbands at the Fountain City United Methodist Church bazaar. Dendrinos and a circle of the United Methodist Women gather for small group and have worked together to help raise money for missions through the bazaar. Photos by Ruth White

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Thanksgiving ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will host a free Thanksgiving dinner 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 24. No reservations are required and everyone is invited. Info: www.beaverridgeumc.com or 690-1060.

■ Sharon Baptist Church, 7916 Pedigo Road, will host the annual churchwide Thanksgiving Dinner and Worship on Sunday, Nov. 20. Meal in the ministry

■ New Liberty Baptist Church, 5901 Roberts Road, Corryton, will host an old fashioned turkey dinner with all the trimmings 3-5 p.m. Thanksgiving

center at 5 p.m. and Thanksgiving worship at 6. Info: 938-7075.

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■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will host a Fall Craft Fair featuring local crafts along with items from Shop the World Gifts, a Fair Trade gift shop from Englewood, Tenn., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, in the Family Life Center Gym. Info: jbmintn@gmail.com, or call 690-1060 and leave a mes-

■ First Baptist Church will host 1960’s UT star athlete Richmond Flowers at both worship services in the sanctuary Sunday, Nov. 20. Worship service times are 8:42 and 11 a.m. The public is invited.

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Community services ■ Cross Roads Presbyterian hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday. ■ Knoxville Free Food Market, 4625 Mill Branch Lane (across from Tractor Supply in Halls), distributes free food 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the third Saturday of the month. Info: 566-1265. ■ New Hope Baptist Church distributes food from its food pantry to local families in need 6-8 p.m. every third Thursday. Info: 688-5330.

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Them and us Tennessee and Vanderbilt are separated by only 161 miles of concrete and asphalt but, as George Cafego once said, they are a million miles apart in football. The Volunteers are strugFans line the “Panther Walk” before the playoff game with Anderson County. Powell gling like heck to get back avenged last year’s playoff loss to the Mavericks 54-12. Last Friday, Powell entertained in the general direction of Ooltewah – results were unavailable at press time. If the Panthers prevailed, Powell where they used to be, top would entertain the winner of the Centennial and Lenoir City game on Friday. Centen- 10 in the country, relevant nial upset No. 3 seed Tullahoma, and Lenoir City knocked of No. 2 seed and last year’s in Southeastern Conference 5A state champ Columbia on Nov. 4. Playoff kickoff times are 7 p.m. races, welcome in big bowl games. Vandy is supposedly on the up, up, upswing. The Commodores haven’t been anywhere in my lifetime. The pinnacle of their success was 1932. They helped form the SEC. Tulane and Sewanee can say the same. Powell running back Dyshawn Mobley takes it to the Vanderbilt has never house on Nov. 4 against Anderson County. Mobley set captured the conference a single season record of 2,084 rushing yards surpasschampionship and probably ing Derek Milligan’s 2,007 yards record set in 2002. Photos by Greg Householder won’t. Through the decades it has averaged winning one of every four SEC games. That is the all-time worst, below Kentucky and Mississippi State. Some games have been exciting. Now and then, Vanderbilt defeats Tennessee. It has happened four times in the last 50 years. In 1964, first for Doug Dickey as coach, Vandy won, 7-0. The Vols had a chance, a first down at the 5, but four running plays failed to punch it in. Does that sound familiar? In 1975, Vandy won 17-14 at Neyland Stadium. This was very bad. Tennessee rushed for only 89 yards and gained 113 throwing. Stanley Morgan was the tailback. Randy Wallace was the quarterback. Both deserved a better fate. The Temple Baptist Academy elementary choir performs at UT Medical Center on Nov. 5 to honor veterans. Photo submitted I will not attempt to explain the 28-21 loss in 1982. This was the Tennessee team that had Reggie White, Willie Gault, Chuck Coleman and A group of more than 150, comprised Dr. O. Lee Wilson and Dr. Tim Williams otic pieces. The event concluded around Bill Bates. This is the team mainly of United States military veter- of the University General Dentistry in the fountain outside the new entrance to that stopped the awful losing ans and their families, gathered Nov. 5 addressing the guests and presiding the heart hospital. streak against Alabama. I will at the University of Tennessee Medical over the event. “The Star Spangled Banner” was per- say Vanderbilt fans liked this Center for a ceremony and breakfast in The elementary choir from Temple formed by a quartet from Crown College recognition of the veterans’ service. Baptist Academy along the academy’s as a large American flag was unfurled U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. joined high school ensemble performed patri- from the new parking garage.

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outcome so much, they voted it No. 1 in a half-century of fun ’n games. I will also say this was the beginning of a long dry spell for the Commodores. They next won in 2005. That was the day the Vols couldn’t gain a yard when they needed one to maintain possession and preserve a lead. Jay Cutler took full advantage of the failure and hit the winning TD pass to Earl Bennett with 1:11 remaining. No, I am not over it. Here comes the really sad part of this so-called historic rivalry. Vandy fans look down their noses at the Volunteers. I have heard it expressed this way: When a Tennessee player gets into serious trouble, a Vanderbilt-trained lawyer defends him. When a Tennessee player is seriously injured, a Vanderbilt doctor puts him back together again. Alas and alas, this pseudo-superior mentality is oozing onto the football field. There are Vanderbilters who think the Commodores are winning the recruiting race against Tennessee. There are Vanderbilters who think their team will win Saturday at Neyland Stadium. They think the Commodores are truly on the rise. They think the Vols, at best, are skidding sideways. What do I think? The two schools are far, far apart in football success, facilities and tradition. The teams are too close for comfort. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

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Gary and Belinda work with individuals having hearing issues in a positive and encouraging way. They believe if the proper testing is done and the appropriate solution is applied, good results will follow. “As lifelong Knoxvillians, we know the people who live here and we organize our services to help them. There is no high pressure and we like to follow up over the years.” Gary is part of the family that owned and operated Weaver Funeral Home. He and Belinda have owned Weaver Hearing Aid Center for 12 years. If you have a question, come in and ask Gary or Belinda. Their office is located in Franklin Square near Sullivan’s. It is open five days a week, evenings and weekends by appointment.

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Do you hear what I hear? By Sandra Clark It’s almost time for school plays, Christmas carols and family gatherings. Receive the best gift of the season – better hearing. “Invest some time and thought to seek out better hearing,” says Gary Weaver, Licensed Hearing Instrument Specialist. “When someone has a hearing loss, it also affects everyone around them. It makes those who can hear feel bad while isolating the person who can’t hear well.” Good hearing is a universal present (to coin a phrase), “the gift that keeps on giving.” But don’t sit and mull over this decision. It sometimes takes weeks to get

the instrument properly designed and adjusted. Gary Weaver will perform the initial examination for free. “It usually takes 10 days to get someone in new hearing aids, sometimes less,” he says. “You’ll hear Christmas plays and carols like you’ve not heard them in years.” Family gatherings will be anticipated if each person is able to participate. Sometimes depression sets in around the holidays, but that doesn’t have to happen; particularly if the problem can be tackled with something as simple as a hearing aid. Gary Weaver and his wife, Belinda, a nurse, have heard every reason imaginable for delaying or avoiding

Belinda and Gary Weaver. altogether the need for hearing assistance. From cost to bulky equipment to difficulty of maintenance, the patients just “get along” as their hearing fades. It does not have to be this way. Gary says, “We are professionals you can trust, who are knowledgeable about solutions for the hearing impaired.”

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Coming off the previous weekend’s success presentation of its second play, the timing as the Powell Business and Professional Association’s “Business Spotlight” for the month of November could not be more perfect for the Powell Playhouse. Molly Durr, star of the group’s ﬁrst production last spring, “The Curious Savage,” and stage manager for the most recent play joined Judy Morris, who starred in “The Night is My Enemy,” in telling the group about the playhouse. Last Sunday, the playhouse sponsored a storytelling session and book signing with Bill Landry. On Dec. 9, the Powell Playhouse will present an evening of gospel music. On Feb. 14-16, the Playhouse will present the play “Steel Magnolias.” On April 21, it will present a comedy night and on June 7-10 will present the sequel to “The Curi-

o what do you do when you have way too much stuff you don’t want or need any longer, but it’s too good to throw away? Maybe you’re downsizing to smaller living quarters or getting ready to put your home on the market to sell. Or perhaps you just want to get rid of your old things so you can buy new ones. Mitch Burnett of Pinnacle Real Estate and Auction, a local Realtor and Auctioneer with 30 years’ experience, has come up with a great solution: he’ll auction all of those things for you. And not only that, he’ll do all the work, saving you a whole lot of time, energy and worry. Burnett is going to be hosting auctions at his ofﬁces on North Seven Oaks Drive or at designated locations depending on the size or theme of the Auction. He’s not interested in selling things that wouldn’t ﬁnd a buyer at a yard sale. He wants items that are likely to sell and make both you and his company some money. “We all accumulate an overwhelming amount of

Judy Morris pitches upcoming events for the Powell Playhouse. Morris starred in the playhouse’s most recent production, “The Night is My Enemy.” She was in character at the PBPA’s November Business Spotlight. Photo by Greg Householder

ous Savage” by performing “The Savage Dilemma” to celebrate the ﬁrst anniversary of its inaugural production.

PBPA elects officers Group makes donation to KARM By Greg Householder The Powell Business and Professional Association wrapped up its monthly meetings for 2011 last Tuesday at the Jubilee Banquet Facility by electing new ofﬁcers and hearing from Angie Sledge, vice president for development for Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries. Sledge told the business group about the changing face of the homeless and related that 26 percent of the local homeless are military veterans. She said that the family ﬂoor is full and that female clients of the facility range in age from 18-73. She

and, according to Sledge, the majority of folks served by KARM are from the Knoxville area, dispelling the notion that the homeless are attracted to cities like Knoxville Angie Sledge of KARM tells that have homeless shelters. the PBPA about the ministry The PBPA voted to make at the business group’s meet- a $300 donation to KARM. ing last Tuesday. Photo by Greg The group unanimously Householder elected Kelley Jarnigan of said there are never fewer Farm Bureau Insurance as than 65 in a facility designed president for 2012, Daniel for 40 and the number of the Monday from Slam Dot as homeless being served usu- vice president, Jessica Webally ranges between 75-96 ber of Walgreens as secretary and Teresa Long of First Teneach day. KARM serves more than nessee Bank as treasurer. The group said farewell 400,000 meals each year

Mitch Burnett of Pinnacle Real Estate and Auction. Photo submitted stuff,” Burnett points out. “A lot of it is stuff that we no longer want or have a use for but someone else does. That’s where my job starts.” He’ll visit your home, look over the items you want to sell, organize it all, tag it and work out delivery details with you. In some situations, if you can’t get it to the auction site he’ll transport it for you. He will manage all of the auction details. You don’t even have to show up. Burnett says he’s been thinking about this project

to outgoing president Noell Lewis by presenting her with a plaque. Lewis is expecting her ﬁrst child in December. David Kimble of AA Air Company announced that his company will give away a free heating and air conditioning system to someone in need. Details can be found on the company’s website at www.aa-airco.com/. State Rep. Bill Dunn reported that though the Legislature has been out of session, various committees have been meeting and that one of the topics being looked at is teacher evalu-

for a while. “So often I meet a homeowner who wants to list a house, but needs to get rid of some things to make it show better. An auction will keep that person from having to pay storage fees and can actually help the house sell more quickly. An auction is always a special event, I consider it a perfect opportunity to share my expertise and partner with Subdivisions, Business, Schools and even Churches.” Burnett says he has heard plenty of horror stories of people trying to

ations. Dunn also related that the governor has started conversations regarding fuel tax reform as well. County Commissioner R. Larry Smith reported that there are openings for citizens to serve on the ethics committee and personnel board. He also reported that commission has almost ﬁnished work on the redistricting plan. School board member Kim Sepesi reported on the $7 million school budget shortfall and last week’s ground breaking at the new Carter Elementary School. She also gave an update on the TDOT

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