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The Fountain City Business and Professional Association will hold the annual Christmas Business After-Hours event 4:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Commercial Bank Fountain City, 5320 N. Broadway. Members and guests will network while enjoying light hors d’oeuvres. The 2012 board members and Member of the Year will be introduced as well as the recipient of the annual Claude C. Myers Award. Door prizes and a silent auction benefiting local schools will also be held. Tickets are $10 at the door or $6 in advance from John Fugate at Commercial Bank, emailing Beth Wade at bwade@utfcu. org or by visiting http:// fcbpa2011-efbevent. eventbrite.com/

Panthers ends season at 14-1

Well-wishers cheer as the orange-clad Panthers head toward the bus last Friday afternoon on their way to the state class 5A championship football BlueCross Bowl in Cookeville. Photos by Greg Householder

Powell’s Mobley is MVP

By Greg Householder

Busses carrying the Powell High School football Panthers make a pass by Powell Middle School as the youngsters cheered.

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Robertson is president of Commercial Bank

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Adam Robertson has been promoted to president of Commercial Bank where he follows his grandfather and Commercial Bank founder E. Oscar Robertson. He pledged continuation of the “tradition of banking excellence” and customer service.

Robertson has worked for Commercial Bank for more than 14 years, most recently as executive vice president.

He first served as a teller and CSR, then loan officer at the Halls office, then branch manager at the Powell office, before relocating to the Main Of-

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Powell suffered a heart-breaking loss 17-14 to Henry County late Friday to end their season 14-1 as runners-up in the state championship game at Cookeville. Dyshawn Mobley now holds the state rushing record with more than 200 yards on Friday. He needed 150 to break the old record.

Mobley scored both of Powell’s touchdowns and was offensive MVP. Henry County kicked a field goal to go ahead in the fourth quarter. Powell drove the ball down the field, reaching Henry County’s 15-yard line with 31 seconds remaining when quarterback Dustin McPhetridge was sacked and lost the football. Henry County recovered and ran out the clock.

fice at Harrogate as the central region executive officer.

Terry Lee has served as president and CEO since 2004 and will continue as CEO and a mentor to Adam Robertson.

“Adam is one of the brightest and best young men I have ever known, and he is very deserving of this promotion,” said Lee. Robertson’s has held leadership roles in the Bell County (Ky.) Chamber of Commerce, Pine Mountain Community Development Corporation,

Harrogate Little League and Outdoor Truths Ministries.

He graduated from Belmont University and the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University.

He and his wife, Cindi, have two children, Olivia and Noah, and they reside in Speedwell. They are members of Pump Springs Baptist Church.

Commercial Bank has 20 offices in Tennessee (Knox, Union, Claiborne counties and the city of Kingsport) and Kentucky (Bell, Harlan and Knox counties).

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Locals brace for Lakeshore changes

By Sandra Clark How best to treat the mentally ill? And who pays?

The state will stop admissions to Lakeshore Mental Health Institute on Jan. 1 with an eye toward closing the 150-year-old facility on Northshore Drive. Then called Eastern State Psychiatric Hospital, the campus held 3,000 beds in 1975.

With the advent of psychotropic drugs, the state has worked to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill. Today, Lakeshore has 115 beds and even fewer residents.

State officials say it costs $900 per patient per day for acute care at Lakeshore.

The state wants to shift that money to community-based mental health services and transfer the long-term residents to facilities in Nashville or Chattanooga.

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Knox County Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones says if Lakeshore stops admissions, deputies will take patients to Peninsula, Ridgeview in Oak Ridge or Woodbridge in the Tri-County area. “It is our hope that some of the monies from the savings of closing Lakeshore would go toward the Safety Center and that would complete the crisis service continuum run by the McNabb Center,” Jones said.

He and Attorney General Randy Nichols have advocated construction of a crisis center to be operated

by McNabb for short-term care of persons picked up for public drunkenness or nuisance offenses. Jones says as many as one-quarter of those incarcerated at the Knox County Detention Center are suffering from

mental illness.

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett said one in three Tennesseans is affected by mental illness, either personally or via family or a friend. He says Gov. Bill Haslam wants to do the right thing, and the current crisis is about dollars.

“I worry about the state employees and their families, and most of all I worry about the patients and their families,” Burchett said. “Knox County will pick up the pieces. We’ll deal with it in a compassionate manner.”

On Wednesday, County Commissioner Jeff Ownby convened a meeting at West High School. The 350 Lakeshore employees are worried about losing their jobs.

They also are concerned about their patients.

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our current mental health system is nothing more than “begging around,” trying to get help for your family member. Her son has been in the county’s Detention Center since 2010. His crime was “being born with mental illness. The mentally ill are not cute, they’re not cuddly, but they are God’s children.”

She said Lakeshore should

be expanded, not closed, to take pressure off the jail.

Ownby will ask County Commission to adopt a resolution requesting a two-year delay for changes at Lakeshore, but even a unanimous local vote can’t dictate state policy. Ownby said concerned residents can contact the governor’s office at 615-741-2001.

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Coming soon Last week was an extremely interesting week for me. It started at the Blueberry Ridge affordable senior housing project on Monday where I got to stand in the rain and watch a bunch of pols cut a ribbon, and it ended last Saturday night with the Powell Christmas Parade.

In between, I got to listen to a fascinating discussion about dead bodies from none other than Dr. William Bass of “The Body Farm,” moseyed out to Cookeville for my first state football championship (I went with the Powell girls basketball team a few years back to the state tournament in Murfreesboro), I watched the dress rehearsals at Powell Presbyterian Church for the kids Christmas musical and then went to the Community Craft Fair at Powell High School before the parade.

And I met Ray Lipps. Ray is quite a character. I went over to his house in Halls to talk about the biblical art show at Powell Presbyterian this week. Ray is exhibiting more than 200 pieces of his personal collection including some very old Bible pages – 400-year-old pages to be exact.

As we sat in Ray’s office talking art he mentioned that he was almost at the

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A-2 • DECEMBER 5, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS lic (again, the plan is to produce a “Powell Yacht Club Joke Book” and no women are allowed.

Ray says the club intends to do nothing but give away its money and if women are allowed they will come up with things to do. As I was leaving he asked if I wanted to join. I told him, sure, sign me up.

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The Noweta Garden Club will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Heiskell Community Center for its Christmas party. The group point where he was ready will meet at Powell Church to launch The Powell Yacht at 11:15 to carpool.

Everyone is asked to bring Club. Why Powell and not Halls where he lives? Ray’s a covered dish, a gift for exbusiness, Esquire Galleries, changing and two cans of food is located on Clinton High- for the food pantry at Heiskell United Methodist Church. way in Powell.

Info: Suzanne Sweat, No, Ray is not a boating enthusiast. And where in 385-5508 the world would one base a yacht club in Powell anyway? ■ PBPA banquet There is no water in Powell – is Friday well, except when it rains.

The Powell Business and Ray is setting up the PowProfessional Association will ell Yacht Club as a dig at all hold its Man, Woman and the hoity toity yacht clubs Businessperson of the Year elsewhere. Dues will be $50 banquet at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. a year and Ray has appoint9, at the Jubilee Banquet Faciled himself Commodore and ity. Radio and television perall the other members will sonality Hallerin Hilton Hill be Captains. will speak. Tickets are $50 The Rules are 1) everyone and may be purchased from must have a rule – Ray’s is Denise Girard at First Cen“All members must be from tury Bank in Powell. You can Powell or somewhere else,” reach Denise at 947-5465. another potential member’s rule is “No smoking unless ■ Powell Playhouse you’re on fire,” – you get the Gospel Music gist; 2) everyone must have a recipe (the plan is to ultinight is also Friday mately produce a “Powell The Powell Playhouse will Yacht Club Recipe Book); be sponsoring an evening of and 3) everyone must have a gospel music Friday, Dec. 9, joke that can be told in pubbeginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Jubilee Banquet Facility.

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Pulling into the parking lot of the new Blueberry Ridge housing complex during last Monday’s rain deluge, one could not help but wonder if the work had been completed.

The parking lot looked, well, unfinished. It looked like it needed another layer of smooth asphalt or concrete.

It is supposed to look that way.

The new affordable senior housing community, located off Beaver Creek Road near the Powell convenience center, is about as “green” as it gets.

The low-income senior housing development is anticipating receiving a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) which would make it the first building in Knox County to attain this status. Energy, lighting, wa-

– special features in these units include a roll-in shower, custom kitchen cabinetry adjusted for ease of use, and safety alarms with horns to sound and lights to flash.

Units in Blueberry Ridge are available for rent to people 62 years and older who meet income restrictions based upon Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) area median income guidelines for Knox County.

The entire campus, including the individual apartments, is smoke-free. No smoking is allowed by residents or guests.

Blueberry Ridge is a Knox Housing Partnership property and was made possible through grant funding from Knox County HUD HOME funds, a grant from the Tennessee Housing Development Agency’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, capital funding from NeighborWorks America and financing from the Federation of Appalachian Enterprises.

For information about renting a unit in Blueberry Ridge, contact LaShawn Hall at KHP at 637-1679, extension 228.

Care packages for soldiers The American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge will be collecting items from the community to send to a Marine unit it has adopted serving in the Middle East. The program is called “Ooh-Rah for the Holidays.” Toiletries, food, entertainment items and more will be collected through Wednesday, Dec. 7, in the AMSE lobby. A list of items is available online at www.amse.org. All packages will be shipped

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■Powell Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first and third Thursday at 7142 Old Clinton Pike. ■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.

HOLIDAY NOTES

By Jake Mabe Bud Albers calls it a historic night.

Alumni from the Jerry Collins Orchestra, which was a staple at Cherokee Country Club for years, reunited there for a special concert Nov. 18. Many are now members of the Brad Walker Orchestra, a popular big band based in Knoxville that has made a name for itself as one of the top groups of its kind. “They did a knockout job,� Albers says.

The concert was recorded on CD and will be available for sale later this month for $10. The show was such a hit that the Walker Orchestra will most likely be playing some kind of ongoing gig at Cherokee Country Club. “We got a lot of compliments,� Walker says. “A lot of people said it brought back a lot of memories.

We had about 250 to 300 people there and the dance floor was crowded the whole night. I’m really happy that we made them happy. That’s our goal.�

Collins passed away in 2003. He played at Cherokee Country Club for 50 years, finishing his run in 1997. The recent reunion

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6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, Cedar Bluff Library; 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, Bearden Library; 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, Powell Library; 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, North Knoxville Library; 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, Lawson McGhee Library; 11 a.m. Karns Library; and 2 p.m. Fountain City Library Thursday, Dec. 15. Parents are encouraged to bring their camera for free photos. â– Blaine Christmas Parade, 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, and will travel down Rutledge Pike. Grand marshal is Steve Butera from Channel 10 News.

Vocalist Valerie Duke, drummer Troy Hatcher and orchestra leader Brad Walker are grinning from ear to ear during a special concert at Cherokee Country Club on Nov. 18 that reunited members from the orchestra of the late Jerry Collins, who played at the club for 50 years. Hatcher, who â– Chanukah Storytime with came out of retirement for the show, performed with Collins for 42 years. Photo submitted also featured a performance by a trio which included pianist Ed Nevins, bass player Jack Cate and drummer Troy Hatcher, who came out of retirement for the show.

Cate has been a member of the Walker Orchestra since 2004 and Walker considers him to be a mentor.

Walker says he was thrilled to be a part of it all. “It’s great that Cherokee Country Club wants to keep the tradition alive and keep

the big band sound alive.

As I’ve told people, I’m not looking to be Jerry Collins or take his place – no one could ever do that – however, I’m wanting to keep Cherokee swingin’ for another generation and keep Jerry Collins’s memory alive.�

Walker says the orchestra is now featuring vocalist Valerie Duke, who recently completed a tour with the legendary Glenn Miller Orchestra. “She’s terrific. She’s one

games and crafts 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, Powell Library; 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, Lawson McGhee Library; 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 13, Karns Library; 3:30 p.m. Bearden Library; and 6:30 p.m. Cedar Bluff Library, Thursday, Dec. 15.

of the best big band vocalists of our time and also has the style, class and looks of a big band singer. She’s very talented.�

Albers says the CDs will be available at Cherokee â– Comcast Christmas at Chilhowee Park, 6 p.m. FriCountry Club by mid-Deday, Dec. 9, featuring a forest cember. Info: 584-4537 or of lighted trees decorating email calmond@cherokee the lake and nightly driving countryclub.com. tours through Jan. 1.

For more info on the Brad â– Dandridge Christmas Parade, Walker Orchestra, visit its hosted by the Dandridge Volunpage on Facebook. teer Fire Department, 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec.17. Info: www. mainstreetdandridge.com. â– First Night Knoxville 2012 at Market Square will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31.

Features music, dancing, storytelling, children’s activities and more. Info: www.cityofknoxville.org/ Christmas. ■“The Joys of Christmas� annual greens tea, noon to 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, Ivan Racheff House and Gardens, 1943 Tennessee Ave. Owned

by Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs. Members will be selling baked goods. â– Kiwanis Madisonville Christmas Parade, 4:30 p.m.

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County may restore senior bus fare help KAT official says maybe not There’s a notice on the Knoxville Area Transit website announcing the end of something called the Seniors FREEdom Program:

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“Persons age 65 or over who were previously riding fare-free will need to pay the discounted senior fare (75 cents each way). Proof of age is required to use the discounted senior fare.”

The last county budget was lean and mean to the point of inflicting pain.

Budgets were cut and belts were tightened. Few cuts looked meaner than whacking the $80,000 senior citizens bus fare subsidy. Mayor Tim Burchett said it was unfair to county taxpayers to spend that kind of money on a program that operates only inside the city limits.

The Senior FREEdom Program was started in 2006 by former County Mayor Mike Ragsdale as part of his “No Senior Left Behind” initiative – a package designed to woo elderly voters. Ending it triggered a strong reaction from county taxpayers who live inside the city and from

A commission Christmas Santa Claus is coming to town, and we hear he’s packing his sleigh with goodies for County Commission.

Mike Hammond: The world’s largest gavel currently resides outside the Supreme Court building in Columbus, Ohio. Measuring 31 feet long and weighing 38,000 pounds, this stainless steel thumper is guaranteed to restore order when commission meetings get rowdy. Maneuvering it into the City County building won’t be easy, and its sheer bulk could require moving some commissioners beyond microphone range, but that’s not such a bad thing either.

Sam McKenzie and Amy Broyles: In a perfect world, Santa might bring metro government to the inner-city commissioners. But even Santa has his limitations, so he’s promising to bring them “a commissioner or two who is on their side for a change.”

Tony Norman: Santa was planning on bringing Tony City Council’s Hillside and Ridgetop Protection Plan, but Commissioner Richard Briggs penned a memo pointing out that Norman’s Christmas stocking was too small to hold it. Tony was spotted at Big Lots last week shopping for an XXXL stocking.

Jeff Ownby: To broaden Jeff’s outlook, Santa is presenting him with the collected writings of economist Paul Krugman, whose column “The Conscience of a Liberal” regularly appears in the New York Times.

Richard Briggs: With the blessings of Mike Edwards and Tom McAdams, Santa is pleased to present Richard a lifetime honorary membership in the Knoxville Chamber.

(Note: Santa cautions that this gift is “advisory only” and subject to judicial review.)

Brad Anders: Santa wants nothing more than to spread goodwill, and he worries that Hammond’s present might cause vice chair Anders to suffer gavel envy.

So Brad will receive a downsized version of Mike’s gavel, manufactured from recycled handcuffs.

R. Larry Smith: Santa feels for “Our” Larry because the commissioner is unlikely ever to achieve his dream of becoming Knox County Mayor. Therefore, Santa is preparing a certificate, suitable for framing, proclaiming Smith “Honorary Mayor of Halls and Fountain City.” The certificate is valid for one day only, Feb. 31, 2012, and is void where prohibited by law or calendar.

Dave Wright: Dave fought the Battle of Midway and spearheaded the Carter Clash. He emerged on the winning side both times, but now he’s a Man Without a Cause. Santa wants to help, and Dave’s impeccable taste in clothing provides the answer. Santa will be naming him Chief Wardrobe Consultant for commission. Wright will be granted unlimited authority including banishment for commissioners whose socks or stockings clash with their suits or blouses. (The job comes with a colorful gavel containing remnants of recycled silk ties.)

Mike Brown: Santa recognizes that Mike is a passionate individual but thinks he might benefit from some extracurricular reading. Mike’s stocking will contain a copy of Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”

Ed Shouse: Ed says little, but what he does say is thoughtful. Santa is bestowing the title of Commission Philosopher on Ed and presenting him with a copy of Plato’s “Republic.” He encourages Ed to grow a beard suitable for contemplative stroking.

advocates of public transportation generally. One of those is County Commissioner Amy Broyles, whose North Knoxville district is entirely within the city and which contains three subsidized senior citizens highrise apartment buildings.

Broyles has been working on a plan to restore the bus subsidy and appears to be making some progress.

Knoxville Mayor-elect Madeline Rogero, who enjoys a cordial relationship with Burchett, is another strong advocate of public transportation. When she ran for mayor in 2003, she spent a week traveling around the city via KAT and reported that she had no problem getting to where she needed to go. She will be sworn in Dec. 17, and it’s not unreasonable to assume that a goodwill gesture from her county counterpart in the form of bus fare restoration might be a welcome Christmas gift.

KAT general manager Cindy McGinnis, however, sounds surprisingly wary about the prospect of restoring the senior subsidy, although she says that any increase in revenues is always welcome. She’s concerned about unintended consequences, like those that resulted from the state’s CMAQ (Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality)

Kincannon kicks off campaign Indya Kincannon, 2nd District school board member, formally kicked off her re-election campaign last week at the home of Bob and Melynda Whetsel. She and her husband, Ben Barton, greeted guests with the help of daughters Georgia (rear left) and Dahlia. Photo by Betty Bean program, which mandated free bus fare on “code orange” days.

“Our buses would become so packed with our current ridership making more trips that the doors were constantly opening and we couldn’t keep the buses cool.

Our regular, loyal passengers who purchase 7-day or 30-day passes weren’t able to take advantage of that, so they did not receive a benefit. The intention of the program was to encourage

auto owners to try transit, and that wasn’t happening.

Free is not necessarily better in our world.”

Senior citizens already ride for half-price, McGinnis said, and KAT’s data indicate that ending the free ride program hasn’t cut down the bus usage among that population.

“There are other people who could benefit from riding the bus free – severely economically disadvantaged individuals.”

Personnel changes as inaugural nears As the Dec. 17 inaugural nears for Madeline Rogero, key personnel decisions are being announced with more remaining. Two persons who would have stayed were told to pack up.

Longtime city council attorney Charles Swanson will take over as law director. He will initially be one of the best informed law directors in city history given his 28 years with City Council. He knows the city inside and out and where the bodies are buried. He will have no learning curve. He is not bashful about voicing his views.

Currently, he earns $90,000 a year for attending 26 regular council meetings (about $3,460 a meeting).

There is some preparatory work prior to the meeting.

Rogero has not announced anybody’s pay, although it is hard to imagine the new directors or deputy mayors accepting a job for which they did not know the pay, at least in general terms.

Swanson is expected to make $145,000 to $150,000.

Once on the city payroll, the salary for each will be subject to open records review

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City Council will select a council attorney for the first time in 28 years. Applications are already being sought by Cindy Mitchell, city recorder. Council might consider lowering the salary based on holding only 26 meetings a year. It is their decision what to pay the attorney.

The pay for deputy mayors Eddie Mannis and Bill Lyons is also undisclosed at this time. It is unclear whether UT will continue to keep open Lyons’ tenured professorship for another four years after keeping it open for the past eight years while he worked for Mayor Bill Haslam.

Jesse Mayshark and Angela Starke are the new communications leaders.

Mayshark has pledged on a local blog to see the barber regularly and is even considering wearing ties (both

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Mayshark is bright, discerning and an excellent writer. It will be interesting see him responding to media inquiries (including ones from this column) when he has previously been asking the hard questions as well as writing hard hitting columns.

Starke brings further diversity to the Administration as an African-American woman holding a key office.

David Hill was let go and taxpayers will save $150,000 a year in salary for his remarkably stress free position. Rogero deserves praise for taking this overdue step. Lyons will take over Hill’s waterfront duties such as they were. Randy Kenner is also leaving, but his departure is not a reflection on his performance as virtually every new Administration brings in its own media team.

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Rogero indicates her grandchildren may assist too.

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Gresham pilots standard-based grading

By Jake Mabe Sixth-grade teachers and several volunteer 7th grade teachers at Gresham Middle School are piloting a new standards-based grading that gets more specific than the somewhat vague traditional “catch all” A to F, 0 to 100 grading system.

Vice principal Glen Price says that standards-based grading is just that – a system in which students are assessed by each state standard rather than simply receiving a letter grade for their entire class performance.

“For example, in math, a student might be proficient at dividing fractions but basic at another standard. This is about breaking down the learning more and teaching toward mastery.”

Under the old 0 to 100 system, Price said, anything scored below a 69 is a failing grade.

Gresham Middle School 6th grade teachers Nicole Resmondo, Heather Fox and Lindsey Clark discuss the new standardsbased grading they are helping pilot at the school this year.

Photo by Jake Mabe

“You have more chances to fail than you have to succeed,” Price says.

Price says it’s like some kindergarten grade cards, through which parents learn that their child can count by 5s and 10s and knows their ABCs. “Parents know exactly what skills are missing.”

Designed to match the TCAP test, each standard is grouped into three graduated levels and is scored as advanced (an A under the old system), proficient (which could be a B or C), basic (a C or D) or below basic (F).

Each student is given a score sheet on which they can see their progress.

Burchett sits a spell

By Sandra Clark

The conversation ranged from dogwood trees to mental health, from motorcycles to football. Often a politician ventures into the community only to be mobbed by folks who are mad or stalked by ones who want something.

But Tim Burchett was greeted in Halls by old friends and some kids who thought it was cool to meet a mayor.

The most poignant moment came when Burchett, who had lost his own mother just days earlier, asked three young women why they were not in school. “We’re homeschooled,” said one. The mayor reached over, patted their mother on the arm and said to the kids, “When you get old, you’ll be glad for the time you got to hang out with your momma.”

Mayor Tim Burchett hands his card to Halls 2nd grader Jessica Swearingen and asks her to invite him to lunch, “but not on a day you’re having pizza.” Jessica clutched the card and afterwards said perhaps she would also “invite the president.”

Burchett said he was taking off Friday to go to Cookeville to watch his nephew, Charlie High, play in the state football championship. High, a junior quarterback for CAK, was named Mr. Football for his classification. “He threw 50 touchdowns and broke six state records,” said the proud uncle.

Only problem with him

playing for the Christian Academy of Knoxville, Burchett said, is the fans acknowledge bad calls with shouts of “darn!” and “drat!”

Mike Bridges and Alex Smith asked for permission to plant a dogwood tree at the Halls Senior Center in memory of Irma “Granny” McConkey. Burchett not only gave approval, but he

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Students who need extra help, particularly in math and language, can get it during Focus 30, a time in the mornings reserved for “re-teaching.”

“Whether students learn (a concept) this week or two weeks from now doesn’t matter. What matters is that they learn it. Some students just take longer. To make this type grading work, you must have time to re-teach.”

During Horizontal Planning sessions on Thursdays, teachers talk about specific students, look at data, including performance on tests and quizzes and select students for the Focus 30 sessions. Teachers also plan common assessments. At Gresham, 6th grade students are grouped into two “wings,” 6A and 6B, but all are given the same assessments.

“It takes collaboration to work,” Price says.

Several teachers in leadership groups last year inquired

offered to buy the tree from his campaign fund. Then he asked PR guy Michael Grider to check with Neal Denton to determine the best time to plant it. And he started telling about white dogwoods growing from seed, while pink and red dogwoods are grafted.

“Hey,” he yelled through the open door. It was Denny McMahan, heading into the library. “That’s my old horticulture teacher at Bearden, back in the dark ages,” said Tim. More kids came through with their mom. Burchett invited them to visit his office “for 15 minutes.” Any longer, he said, and they would be bored senseless.

Roy Kruse thanked Burchett for his help as a legislator in passing a bill to prohibit pharmacists from

about the new grading system. Several of them visited Fairfield High School in Williamson County to look at that school’s version of it, then heard a presentation from a Hamblen County math teacher over the summer.

Sixth grade reading teacher Lindsey Clark says the pilot program is going well.

“We’re truly seeing what kids know and don’t know.”

Science teacher Nicole Resmondo says her students enjoy seeing their progress from, for example, quiz to quiz, on the individual score sheets.

“It’s made them more motivated than anything I’ve ever seen. Now kids are really getting involved, working hard and studying longer.

They want proficient scores.”

Adds language arts teacher Heather Fox, “They don’t want to be ‘basic’ or ‘below basic.’ 0”

The teachers say they have also incorporated various tools, including websites and streaming online video, to complement the curriculum.

“Sometimes it takes two, three, four or 10 times to see something to absorb it permanently to memory,” Resmondo says.

Price says he should soon be able to use the school system’s EMIS “data warehouse” to compare Discovery Ed tests, the benchmark tests taken three times a year to assess math, language, reading and science, to gage how students should perform on TCAPs, as well as to compare the scores to performance in the classroom.

“You should see a correlation. Our value-added scores,” (what a teacher “adds” to the class) “are already very strong. It will be interesting to see how we improve based on what we’re doing now.”

Burchett visits with his high school horticulture teacher, Denny McMahan. The retired Bearden teacher who lives in Halls said he has no stories to tell about the teenaged Burchett. “He outranks me.” Photos by S. Clark substituting a generic drug for epilepsy medication without telling both the patient and the doctor.

“That bill meant a lot to people living with epilepsy,” he said.

It was time to go. After a week of highs and lows, Bur-

chett was off to watch the CAK Warriors play football.

But he left town only after coming to Halls for a promised constituent meeting – in a community where the biggest problem was gaining permission to plant a dogwood.

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Gall caused by larva of gall fly on a goldenrod stem

NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier back field (as if I needed another one, besides slothfulness). More on that shortly.

I remember a year or so back, watching a downy woodpecker foraging around on some weed stems in my field, not a place you would expect to see a woodpecker. The Uxley article helps explain what was going on. During the summer, a small fly, called the goldenrod gall fly, lays its egg on a goldenrod plant.

The egg hatches into a small white grub, which then burrows into the stem of the plant and sets up housekeeping. This causes the stem to react by growing a round, bulbous enlargement, called a gall.

The grub grows into a high-calorie, tasty morsel and plans to overwinter in the protection of the gall, then tunnel out in the spring as an adult gall fly, find a mate and repeat the cycle for another year. Uxley reports that for the first two or three weeks of December, downy woodpeckers will leave their preferred cover of woods and trees and head out into stands of now-dead goldenrods, tunnel into the galls and use their log, barbed tongues to extract

the juicy grubs. Sometimes, chickadees have been observed to join in the fun. They generally have the grubs pretty well cleaned up in that short period of time and then go back to their usual pattern of foraging in their usual trees and shrubs.

So, I checked my stand of goldenrods in the back field and sure enough, there were a bunch of galls on them, roughly two or three stems with galls in each 10-foot square area. I harvested one and opened it up to see what was there.

And, sure enough, there was the gall fly grub, a small, white, juicy glob of high-energy, woodpecker winter food. It’s pretty remarkable that the downies could figure out that those delicious bites were in there, but it’s just a reminder that those birds are out there all day, every day, searching every nook and cranny, working hard to just find enough food to get them through that one more day of winter.

Of course, the adaptable downy woodpeckers, and their big cousins the red-bellied woodpeckers, can switch readily to eating seeds when their buggy protein sources fail; we

see them at our feeders regularly all winter. The birds that are mainly seed-eaters, like the cardinals, towhees, finches and sparrows, don’t make the switch the other way so easily, and that’s where the untidy winter gardens and messy field corners begin to be important.

The bird people who study and know about such things recommend leaving your dead autumn stalks and seed heads standing until spring.

I had already been leaving several patches of goldenrod standing in the back field all summer when I mowed, for a couple of reasons.

Goldenrod pollen is a favorite food for dozens of flies, bees, wasps and butterflies. Many of the flies, bees and wasps are beneficial insects.

They pollinate our tomatoes, watermelons, squash, blueberries, apples and cherries more effectively than honey bees. And others prey on garden pests, wiping out various planteating aphids and caterpillars.

And the butterflies! The goldenrod patches provide endless photo ops and just plain butterfly-watching all summer and fall. And late-summer goldenrods are excellent food stopovers for fall-migrating monarch butterflies, sipping on energyrich nectar as they make their way to wintering grounds in Mexico.

But for the very important, potentially hungry, winter season, we tend to forget that the reason the plants make all those flowers is in order to produce seeds. And those dried seed heads, where the flowers were, are made up of large numbers of seeds, all excellent food for the finches, sparrows and

the other seed-eating birds.

Picture a big sunflower head. As it dries, there are rows and rows of seeds, hundreds of them. The same situation holds on a smaller scale with your purple cone flowers, asters, black-eyed Susans, and all those field flowers like clover, goldenrod, ironweed and so on. After being nectar and pollen factories all summer long, the flowers turn into storehouses of energy-rich seeds, beginning around the time of the first frosts of fall.

The dried stalks also harbor a lot of those garden-friendly invertebrates that overwinter, some as eggs, some as larvae and some as dormant adults, in the hollow stems and dried leaves of the plants so much of that raggedlooking litter is serving an important role through the winter, not just for the birds, but for other useful critters as well.

Therefore, wherever you can find a place or two on your property to let the summer flowers and weeds spend the winter, you will be doing the good bugs and the birds a big favor by not cleaning up till spring. In your flower gardens, the fence rows and edges, and corners and patches in your fields, if you can suppress those urges to make everything clean and perfect, things won’t look quite as pristine. But, nobody much will be looking at them during the winter anyway.

And, you’ll be offering some choice food and cover to your various critter friends out there, trying to do their remarkable job of surviving the winter.

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s I write this column, I’m looking out my daughter’s Vermont windows at the 4 inches of snow that fell the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving. The snow will be there, at least off and on, until April or May. Delicious memories of the holiday feast remain, and they make it even more amazing to think about how something as small and hyperactive as the birds can survive out there even for a day, much less for an entire winter. While our East Tennessee birds don’t have nearly as much snow and bitter temperatures to contend with, they still have to stay focused and busy to maintain themselves through the dark, nongrowing months ahead. What in the world can they find to eat?

So, a recent article along those lines in the December issue of Birdwatching magazine caught my attention. Written by Warren Uxley, a state park naturalist in Ohio, it describes an interesting aspect of birds finding food in winter, by the downy woodpeckers. And for me, it had a bonus: it gives me a great excuse to maintain a messy yard and

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The watching ones I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord, more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.

(Psalm 130:5-6 NRSV)

The first edition 1611 King James Version “Great He” Bible leaf is one of the more than 250 items to be displayed at the Powell Presbyterian Church Biblical Art Show from Dec. 8-11. Photos by Greg Householder

Biblical Art Show Exhibit celebrates 400th anniversary of King James Bible

By Greg Householder Ray and Pat Lipps are into old stuff. Very old stuff like Bible manuscripts from the 1300s. Or artifacts from 400 B.C. For the first time ever, more than 250 items of the Lipps’ personal collection will be on display 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Dec. 8-11, at Powell Presbyterian Church. The exhibit is free to the public.

The show is to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

The Lippses, who own Esquire Galleries on Clinton Highway, know their business when it comes to art and artifacts.

The show will feature paintings, manuscript leafs, printed leafs, etchings, engravings, lithographs and artifacts – all with biblical themes. On display will be leafs from 31 Bibles.

As Ray Lipps explained, manuscripts are handwritten. Illuminated manuscripts are manuscripts with hand-colored artwork.

A leaf is a single page. A printed leaf was printed by a printing press. Very few of the collection are complete Bibles.

Featured at the show will be a mid-17th century painting – the second of five sorrowful mysteries – titled “The Scourging of Jesus at the Pillar.” There will also be a 20th century painting of Jesus raising the widow of Nain’s son from the dead.

A 15th century Russian illuminated manuscript will be displayed as well as a 14th century illuminated manuscript leaf hand done from French Breviary in 1350. There will be a 15th century manuscript leaf displayed, too.

Most interesting are a trio of Kings James Ver-

sion Bible leafs. One is a 1611 first edition called “The Great He” Bible leaf. In this edition, there is a mistake in Ruth 3:15 which says “he went into the city” when referring to Ruth. The 1613 second edition is the “Great She” Bible. The mistake in Ruth is corrected. And finally, there is the black letter quarto (a smaller version) printed in 1613 that still has the mistake.

One of the artifacts to be displayed is a Sumerian cylinder seal from 400 B.C. The cylinder seal represents some of the first printing in the world and most Sumerian entrepreneurs carried one of these for use in consummating at deal.

A 1776 Gun Wad Bible Leaf will also be displayed.

This Bible was the first German language Bible to be printed in the New World.

The printing office was raided and burned in 1776 by the British who used many of the Bibles as gun wadding.

There is also a crusader cross from the 1096-1099 A.D. period that has five holes representing the five wounds of Christ on the cross and a 16th century Latin manuscript from the book of Genesis.

“This is Powell Presbyterian Church’s gift to the whole community,” said Ray Lipps.

Groups may arrange private viewings by appointment at 938-8311. Info: w w w.p o w e l lp c u s a .or g /.

There will be a Biblical and Art Seminar at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, and 2 p.m.

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God of the watching ones, The waiting ones, The slow and suffering ones, We must watch for Christmas.

Some of us look out of the corner of our eyes, with – dare I say it? – dread, fearing that it is slipping up on us all too quickly. Others of us watch for Christmas with eyes wide open, standing on tiptoe in anticipation and expectancy, with eager hearts and open hands.

It has been my experience, and maybe yours, that Christmas will come when it will come, and not before. It will appear at an odd moment, perhaps when we least expect it. It may come early in December, and we will fear that it is over too early. Or it may tarry until the very last moment and we will despair, thinking that this is the year, at last, when it bypasses us completely.

For me, every year, there is a Christmas moment. I am one of the watching ones, alert and hopeful, looking for

The angels in heaven, The child in the womb, Give us your benediction, Your good word for our souls, That we might rest and rise In the kindness of your company. Amen. (“God of the Watching Ones,” Cloth for the Cradle, Iona Community Wild Goose Worship Group)

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SCHOOL NOTES Central High â– The Bobcat Company and Select Choraliers will join Dr. Bill Snyder at the historic Tennessee Theatre for Mighty Musical Monday, noon and 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5.

Paulette Elementary â– The PTO will present Winter Wonderland 6-9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9. Events include a winter formal dance, professional photos, crafts, concessions and a visit with Santa Claus in the festive hallway of lights.

SPORTS NOTES Powell champions Powell Youth Football’s 8U NFC Hopper team recently won the Knox Metro championship, completing a 10-0 season and outscoring opponents in league play 404-34. Team members are: (kneeling) Max Oglesby, Dylan Thomas, Keenan Foust, William Hurley, Luke Whaley, Harley Morgan, Jayden Collins, Cannon Lusby; (middle row) Brady Kidd, Dakota Ogle, Anthony White, Jacob Claiborne, Josh Ludwig, Russell Lindsay, Bryson Richie, Steven Beaty, Tanner Goins; (back) team manager Keelie Lusby, coach Mike Pratt, coach Wayne Claiborne, head coach Jeff Lusby, Carl Beaty, Jerry Kimble, Cole Lusby, Tyler Kimble, DeShawn Carey and Brandon Kimble.

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eral interesting items in the feces. The dead woman had a stainless steel plate in her arm with a screw holding it to her elbow. Bass showed a slide with the broken screw in the X-ray.

During the question and answer period, one of the students asked what his hardest case was. “The hardest cases are the ones I couldn’t identify,� said Bass.

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By Greg Householder Maggots. “De-gloving.�

Thirteen pounds of dog feces.

These were a few of the yummy topics that forensic students from Powell, Karns and Bearden high schools heard about shortly after breakfast last Thursday at Powell High School.

In a rare appearance at a high school, the world famous Dr. William Bass – retired UT forensic anthropologist known for the notorious “Body Farm� – talked of a couple of cases he worked, complete with slides, and later answered questions and signed books.

The visit, sponsored by the Powell Business and Professional Association, began with the showing of a couple of introductory videos produced by news outlets about Bass and the Body Farm.

Bass then took the stage and spoke of a couple of Middle Tennessee cases he worked on years ago.

In one, Bass outlined how a genetic characteristic among Asians that causes them to have shovel-shaped incisors aided in making a positive identification of a young Asian-American girl killed by a county prisoner posing as a sheriff’s deputy in a police cruiser. Incredibly, a sheriff’s deputy borrowed a prisoner who happened to be the sheriff’s nephew to work on the

MILESTONES Birthdays Christian Wesley Baker celebrated his fifth birthday with family and friends Oct. 5. He is the son of Wes and Keeley Baker of Halls.

Gr a ndpa r ents are Steven and Debbie Barnes of Halls.

David Scott Brown Jr. was born Sept. 13, weighing 11 pounds and 1 ounce and measuring 22 inches long.

Parents are David and Julie Brown of Corryton.

His siblings are Jessie, LeeAnn and Donnie. Grandparents are Joyce and the late George Henry of Corryton and Jack and Carolyn Brown of Powell.

Jayln Nicole Goin celebrated her third birthday Nov. 18 with family and friends. She is the daughter of Chris and Brandi Goin. She has an older brother, Jason. Grandpa rents are Jeff and Sherry

â– Halls Middle School soccer tryouts for 5th through 8th graders are 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, and 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Halls soccer field. Info: Tia, 583-9455. â– Basketball tournament, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Dec. 17-18. U8 through U12 boys and girls rec team, all-star and open team divisions. Fee is $90 with a three game guarantee. Certified refs, centrally located. Info: Dwayne Sanders, 388-2512 or email dsanders@fca.org.

Heiskell seniors Christmas party is Thursday The Heiskell Community Center’s seniors Christmas party will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, at the center located at 9420 Heiskell Road.

Lunch will be served at noon.

Seniors wishing to par-

ticipate in the gift exchange should bring a $5 wrapped gifted marked “Man� or “Woman� before 11 a.m.

Announcements will begin at 11 with the gift exchange following.

Anyone with totes or items for the “Totes of Love� program should bring these to the meeting as well. Bring a dessert to share.

Info: Janice White, 5480326.

SIGN UP FOR NEW HIGH SPEED INTERNET RECEIVE A BICYCLE Dr. William Bass of UT Body Farm fame speaks to forensics students from Powell, Karns and Bearden high schools last Thursday at Powell. Photo by Greg Householder deputy’s farm. At the end of the day, the deputy told the prisoner to drive his cruiser back to jail and turn himself in. The prisoner pulled the girl over and abducted her, later killing her. Her necklace was found in the backseat of the cruiser.

Bass explained how blowflies are attracted to dead bodies and lay their eggs.

Maggots are hatched from the eggs and forensic anthropologists can use the growth of these maggots to determine how long the body has been dead.

Bass also talked about the process of “de-gloving,� which occurs as the outer skin on the hands literally sloughs off taking identifying fingerprints with it. Foren-

Goin, Jim and Cindy Kitts and John and Kim Kenney. Greatgrandparents are J. Harold and Betty Sue Kitts.

Jeremiah White will celebrate his fifth birthday Dec. 8 with a Transformers party with family and friends.

Parents are Jeremy White and Tina Miller.

Grandparents are Kenneth and Lynn Spencer of Knoxville and Lynn and Angie White of Sevierville. Greatgrandparents are Archie and Mable Dalton of Halls and the late Fred Dalton.

Hawkins completes basic training Corryton native Clint G. Hawkins has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. He is a 2009 graduate of Gibbs High School and the son of Amy Hawkins of Majors Road.

sic anthropologists find this skin, put it over their fingers and take the prints.

The second case Bass described involved a woman who died and was eaten by her own dogs. Bass explained that animals eat the flesh at the end of the bone shafts because that is where the bone marrow is. In this case, a diamond ring was missing so a deputy was dispatched to pick up the dog feces at the death scene – all 13 pounds of it – and deliver it to Bass who X-rayed it. While no ring was found, there were sev-

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Panthers get to state First trip to championship since 1991 With smiles all around, Powell head coach Matt Lowe and assistant Charles Birden show their happiness surrounded by well-wishers following the Panthers’ semifinal victory over West. Lowe told the fans and players, “We’re not finished yet. We have one more win to get.”

The Powell football faithful proudly display the Panther flag at the midfield celebration following Powell’s 29-6 semifinal victory over West on Nov. 25. The victory earned the Panthers their first trip to the state championship game since 1991. Powell faced Henry County – another 14-0 team last Friday for the state title in Cookeville. Photos by Greg Householder

Season review: Bad team got worse Good news for Derek Dooley. The president has a lower approval rating.

Bad news regarding job security: Dooley’s grip is based more on the cost and confusion of replacing him than on prowess as coach of the Volunteers.

That information does not discourage optimists. They say we’ll get ’em next year.

Tennessee doesn’t need much, just better players and better ideas.

Pessimists are certain the end is near, that tradition is doomed. The power T has turned to script. The orange checkerboard is fading to pale yellow. Once-proud Vols are doormats of the Southeastern Conference.

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We realists recognize problems. Disorganization and ineptitude are ugly words. Losing is worse. All three are now linked to Tennessee football.

So are indecision and token effort.

This time, there is no skinny, little bowl to mask the hurt. A mediocre Kentucky team, minus a quarterback, somehow stopped monopoly.

SEC big boys rang up lopsided scores and took a knee so it

wouldn’t be worse. Highlight was what happened to Cincinnati. Thrill of the year was an overtime victory over Vandy and some post-game jumping up and down. Whoopee.

In chilly summation, a bad team got worse. There were second-half shutdowns and a 42-point rout. For the first time in a long, long time, the Vols are irrelevant.

It is too early to tell about recruiting. Some commitments may come unglued.

Prep stars afflicted with pomposity may not want to associate with losers.

I thought this team would go 7-5 with a chance for a happy holiday. As is the custom in today’s world, I have excuses for erroneous expectations. I did not anticipate the loss of Tyler Bray for six games, five while injured and the last one in a funk. I didn’t expect Justin Hunter to go down without being hit.

I did not foresee and cannot explain the continued absence of a running attack.

I have trouble grasping the revolving-door secondary. I could not believe the Vols had to switch centers in the seventh game. Never have I seen such futile kicking.

Missed tackles, missed opportunities and timeouts to correct alignment or get 11 players on the field were maddening. I repeat my midseason remark: This was not a well-coached team.

The 5-7 record was worse than it appears. Montana, Buffalo and MTSU barely count. October was horrendous. Think how bad November might have been without the orange ceramic dog.

Optimists point to the

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By Dr. Donald G. Wegener Most people today are very inconsistent about when they eat. This often leads to skipped meals, which disrupts blood sugar balance and can end up leading to cravings and overeating later in the day. In fact, most people feel that skipping breakfast actually slows your metabolism for the entire Dr. Wegener day. I agree wholeheartedly with this concept. This means not only will you burn fewer calories during the first half of your day, but you’ll probably have cravings later on in the same day which, because of the slower metabolism, will end up as fat in your body.

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young roster that will mature and return as sophomores and juniors. Maybe that is good.

Pessimists, after analyzing the lack of development, stopped whispering and shouted out loud that Dooley can’t do it, never has done it.

We realists realize the coach has a contract. Economics and common sense dictate continuation. Dooley deserves several more minutes to get things fixed.

Positives? Da’Rick Rogers has unusual talent but seniors implied he is selfish. Ben Martin, old warrior, didn’t do much but did the best he could on bad legs. Congratulations to Malik Jackson and best wishes for future employment. I respect Matt Simms for hanging in there. Fresh-

man Brian Randolph can be a really good safety. Other honorable young men need a leader, an Al Wilson-type.

Alas, they are rare.

Derrick Brodus was the strangest story. The walk-on kicker, left off the dress-out list, was at home on a Saturday late-afternoon, napping on the couch, when coaches discovered they had no body or soul to attempt extra points or field goals. Kickoff and chaos were near. Oh my, what to do?

Brodus was awakened. He rushed to the stadium without combing his hair. He performed flawlessly. Little else worked so well.

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By Shannon Carey Going to the dentist doesn’t have to be a traumatic experience. Imagine sitting down in the dentist’s chair, taking a nap, and waking up with your dental work complete, all without pain, anxiety or discomfort.

Edenfield Dentistry can give patients just that experience through IV sedation dentistry. With offices in Knoxville and Chattanooga, Edenfield caters to any dental need short of implants.

Sometimes, fear of a dentist visit can cause people to delay much-needed dental work. Sedation dentistry can take that fear away.

“I’ve seen people over the years that are in so much pain dental-wise,” said Edenfield business manager John Courtney.

“What we’re in the business to do here is take care of their dental needs.”

Edenfield Dentistry got its start catering to special needs patients, some of whom needed to be sedated to have needed dental

work completed. Courtney, who brings 30 years of medical and dental management to the practice, met Dr. Michael Edenfield when consulting for a cosmetic dentistry practice in Virginia Beach.

“I saw that he was dedicated to giving the best possible dental care,” said Courtney.

Tennessee had funding in place for dental care for special needs individuals, so they located the practice in Knoxville, starting with a staff of only Edenfield, Courtney and one assistant. Now, the practice has two locations, three full-time dentists and 20 total employees. Since 2004, Edenfield Dentistry has completed more than 22,000 appointments.

“We have got great dentists and staff,” said Courtney. “We just have a great group of people here.

Now, Edenfield Dentistry has opened the practice to the general public so everyone can take advantage of the relaxation of sedation dentistry. All Edenfield dentists are trained and certified in IV sedation dentistry.

Edenfield Dentistry business manager John Courtney.

The sedation used is not like general anesthesia used for surgery. This “conscious” method of sedation allows the patient to breath on his or her own. All vital signs are monitored throughout the procedure, and the patient awakens with no memory of the procedure.

“We think this is a much better way to do it,” said Courtney.

Edenfield Dentistry, said Courtney, is all about helping people. Many times, especially with special needs patients, dental care can alter a patient’s whole personality.

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Christmas in the city

By Pam Fansler Downtown Knoxville is dressed in her shimmery holiday best.

The Celebration of Lights on the Friday after ThanksFansler giving began with the lighting of the 36-foot tree, which First Tennessee Bank donated to the city a few years ago.

It joined the more than 100,000 lights festooning Krutch Park.

This year after the blue

and white balls on the tree burst into light and fireworks exploded across the sky, the happy crowd got into the holiday spirit with carriage rides down Gay Street; visits with Santa; cookie decorating with Mrs. Claus; marshmallow roasting; free hot chocolate, snow cream and eggnog; and performances by the Unity Choir and Clarence Brown Theatre.

A short distance away, the WDVX Holiday Ho-HoHoedown was in full swing on the Market Square Stage with Logan Murrell, Pistol Creek Catch of the Day, and Freddy Smith and his

Holiday Chicken. Skaters enjoyed Holidays on Ice, the Square’s outdoor ice rink and Knoxville’s “coolest” holiday tradition, while shoppers browsed for unique gifts at the Christmas Market.

A week later, throngs lined Gay Street for the Christmas parade featuring floats, decorated vehicles, marching bands, dancers, twirlers, and, of course, a special appearance by Santa.

Through December, there are trees wrapped in sparkling blue and white lights all over downtown, lighted wreaths and Up on the Rooftops, the growing collection of lighted trees on rooftops. At the Holiday Market on Dec. 10 and 17, vendors from the Market

Square Farmers’ Market will sell root crops, hearty greens, hydroponic vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy from noon to 3 p.m.; craft and artisan food vendors will be set up along Market Street noon until 7 p.m.

First Night is Dec. 31, a family-friendly celebration of the arts held at different downtown venues. The variety of performers represents the best singers, musicians, artists and dancers East Tennessee has to offer. A special children’s festival will feature performers, crafts, balloons and face painting.

At midnight the celebration will close on Market Square with lasers and fireworks.

Pam Fansler is president of First Tennessee Bank’s East Tennessee region.

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■ Longstreet-Zollicoffer Camp 87, Sons of Confederate Veterans will meet 2 p.m.

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

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tudents at Grace Christian Academy are challenged in many ways, from academics to athletics, and from social to spiritual development. One important challenge they face each year is to undertake a significant missions project that makes a difference in the lives of people far beyond the Grace campus.

This year was no different, as during the month of November the high school students got involved in an effort to provide shoes to people in areas of the world that have been ravaged by natural disasters.

The ministry that Grace partnered with this year was Soles4Souls, an organization whose mission is to deliver shoes and clothes to millions of people in need around the world.

This charity, founded six years ago by Wayne Elsey, works tirelessly to provide not only shoes, but also a system by which people in poverty-stricken areas of the world can find gainful employment.

Elsey was inspired to begin this worthwhile charity when, upon visiting a region that was affected by the 2004 tsunami, he spotted a single Grace Christian Academy students Spencer Grady, Keith Birdwell, Ashleigh Arp, Morgan shoe that had washed up on a beach.

Parker, Sam Barton, Brady Akers, Tyler Stooksbury, Jennifer Bell, Lauren Hensley and His desire to help people who had lost Morgan Cleveland gather with shoes to be donated to Soles 4 Souls, a good start on the everything was thus born. Soles4Souls is headquartered in Nashville, but its school’s goal of 2,000 donated shoes. Photo by S. Johnson

reach is felt in countries like Haiti, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Peru, Honduras, and several African nations.

Grace high school students were challenged to donate new or gently used shoes specifically for people in Haiti who have been devastated by the massive earthquake that struck that island. A majority of the residents of this beautiful island lost literally everything they owned. For people in such desperate straits, even a simple necessity like a decent pair of shoes goes a long way toward helping them feel restored, and it gives them hope which they may have lost in the tragedy that they have experienced.

Grace’s goal for shoes collected was set at 2,000, a sizeable number for such a relatively small student body.

What a tribute to their spirit of generosity, and to the influence of Grace Christian Academy in their lives.

The missions project will expand into the month of February, as the entire school, grades K-12, will combine their efforts to reach and even exceed the goal of 2,000 shoes collected. The feeling among the students is that this goal will fall easily, but more than that, thousands of people in Haiti will have the opportunity to wear shoes that are neat, clean, and can be worn with pride.

Turf’s up!

The spirit of Christmas

By Shannon Morris

The Grace Christian Academy choir stuns the audience with their Christmas performance. Photo by K. McKamey

By Shannon Morris The arts are “present” at Grace Christian Academy this Christmas. The kindergarten through 2nd grade students recently completed their production of “The Light before Christmas” while the 3rd through 5th grade students performed the musical “The Great Christmas Giveaway,” to rave reviews. The middle and high school arts departments will soon be

presenting their production, “Tidings of Comfort and Joy!” at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12. The spectacular music, drama, lighting and sets all reflect the beauty and joy of this most special time of year, and the Grace students and art faculty derive tremendous satisfaction in producing quality work that shows the true meaning of Christmas – Haley Sluss and Shelby Rogers prepare for their roles the birth of their savior, in the Grace Christian Academy Christmas musical.

Jesus Christ.

Photo by T. McNelly

GRACE

That’s what the Grace Christian Academy football players and coaches hope to be yelling very soon, as Grace is preparing to be the first high school in Knox County to have an artificial turf football field.

Having a turf field is certainly something out of the ordinary for a local school, but then again, the Grace football team is coming off of an out of the ordinary season in which they went 10-0 for the first time in the school’s brief history. Getting such a field is an expensive proposition, but many families as well as area businesses have made significant donations to see the project to completion.

There are several benefits to having a turf field. While it is more costly to install than planting grass, the costs for mowing, irrigation, and turf repair are in effect eliminated, saving the school thousands of dollars over the course of 10 or more years.

In addition, the turf will hold up much better in rainy conditions, so a muddy track will be

An artist’s rendering of the finished football field. a thing of the past. Add to that the sense of pride that the players will have when they step onto a surface that is the same as some NFL teams play on, and it’s easy to see why so many people at Grace have gotten behind this project.

Field demolition is already underway, and the new turf is scheduled to be completed by the first of March. Make plans now to attend a Grace football game next year, and be a part of this exciting new phase of growth at Grace Christian Academy!

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