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Merry Christmas!

And the man of the hour – Santa Claus – wraps up the Powell Christmas Parade on Dec. 3.

Almost perfect!

Greg looks back at the Powell Panthers’ football season to remember See pages A-8-10

Clutter, clutter ...

What to do about all that outdoor advertising ...

See Betty Bean’s story on page A-4

See more parade photos on pages A-3

By Greg Householder The Christmas holiday season has officially begun and its beginning was marked by the annual Powell Christmas Parade sponsored by the Powell Lions Club on Dec. 3. Unseasonably warm weather made it comfortable for parade watchers and youngsters collecting candy thrown at them.

Powell Middle School principal Gary Critseleous was the grand marshal.

Carolyn’s back!

Back from illness, Carolyn Wells stops by the Heiskell Senior Center See page A-2

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The Powell High School Marching Panthers lead the Powell Christmas Parade on Dec. 3. Many of the Marching Panthers had traveled from Hawaii the Sunday before and the night before the parade played at the BlueCross Bowl in Cookeville.

Even the Chick-fil-A cow is decked out in holiday attire at the Powell Christmas Parade.

How Titus Satterfield saved Christmas

By Betty Bean

pers and painted red. Originally a Halloween costume, his papaw (aka Ted Coward) framed it with conduit bent carefully around Titus’ wheelchair and painstakingly attached so the truck body would fit right over it.

“The hardest part was getting it mounted on his wheelchair so he could move around by himself,” Coward said. “You should have seen him over at Kerbela Temple that night just buzzing all over that floor. He took first place at the Shriners’ Christmas party and got invited to be in the Fountain City parade.”

Titus – a 6-year-old Opie Taylor look-alike down to the turned-up, freckle-dusted nose, dimpled grin and burr haircut – was born with

The way Titus Satterfield sees it, he saved Christmas – for everybody.

It happened during the Fountain City Parade. Santa was riding an antique fire engine just ahead of Titus, who was in the miniature fire truck his papaw had made.

When they had to switch places so Santa could take the caboose position, Titus got vigilant.

“I made sure he didn’t fall off and get hurt. But he holded on. Fire trucks have rails,” Titus said.

And he’s pretty sure he’s going to be rewarded for his efforts.

“I think he’s going to bring me a hundred presents.”

Santa had to have noticed Titus’ fire engine, an elaborate conveyance rigged with lights and bum-

Titus Satterfield drives his fire truck in the Fountain City Christmas Parade in a To page A-3 place of honor just ahead of Santa Claus in a big fire truck. Photo by S. Clark

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A-2 • DECEMBER 12, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

Congratulations football Panthers One of the weird things about what I do is that it seems sometimes that I get this groundhog dayish feeling of déjà vu. Every school year, I feel like I am experiencing my high school senior year all over again.

Greg Householder

Malinda, Hannah, Justin and Landon Qualls check out the can tab bracelets being sold by the youth of First Baptist Church of Powell at the Taste of the Season Craft Fair on Dec. 3. Proceeds from the can tab sales go to support the church’s homeless mission.

Powell craft fair a big hit

The Orberg kids – Elliot, Ian and Sage – pay a visit to Santa Claus (aka Greg McCloud) at the Taste of the Season Craft Fair on Dec. 3. Photos by Greg Householder

I guess it is because of my coverage of Powell High School and the fact that I get to know the fine young men and women who pass through that institution. This year I’m finding that the senior class is special to me because I really started covering PHS when they were freshmen. Their “freshman year” was my “freshman year” so to speak.

So believe me when I tell you football seniors that I really and truly felt your pain as the clock ticked away in Cookeville on Dec. 2. You came so close. It was heartbreaking to watch.

But you have nothing to hang your head about. You played a superb game against a superb team and in any given meeting the results would easily be reversed. I made the comment that if you played Henry County on Saturday, you would have won that one.

Had you played them again on Sunday, you would have lost and so forth; both teams were great football teams.

Powell football Panthers: I think you surprised a lot of people. The so-called “experts” and sports talking heads had counted you out and actually had been counting you out since before the

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Carolyn Wells at the Heiskell seniors Christmas party last Margaret Watson and Hilda Gill get ready to play Santa’s helpers at the Noweta Garden Club’s Christmas luncheon last TuesThursday. day at the Heiskell Community Center. Photos by Greg Householder Ooltewah game.

“District 3-3A is down this for the group’s Christmas McSorley, the director of Self year, Powell had not played luncheon.

Defense of Knoxville, and she anyone of any consequence,” Besides catching up on an- will be giving the seniors self they said. nouncements and such, the defense tips.

“Dyshawn Mobley is a club had a mini horticulture I saw Toni a couple of great running back but Pow- lesson and had a great pot- months ago at the Powell ell comes up short in other luck meal.

Business and Professional areas, especially a suspect And then they exchanged Association and she has a lot defense that has never really presents. of great advice. been tested,” they said.

One of the highlights of Members of the Noweta Uh huh. The wizards of Garden Club, I would like the Heiskell senior Christhigh school football even to publicly wish all of you a mas party for me was seeing counted you out against Le- Merry Christmas and Happy Carolyn Wells. Carolyn stole noir City – Lenoir City for New Year. I would also like to the show in the role of Mrs. goodness sakes! And there thank you for your hospital- Paddy in the Powell Playhouse was no way you were going to ity in allowing me to cover production of “The Curious beat West. your events this year. I sure Savage” back in the summer.

But you did.

Shortly after the play in June, have enjoyed it.

Carolyn became seriously ill.

The high school football She looked great at the Christexperts and Henry County ■ Heiskell seniors mas party and said that she thought that the Patriots celebrate was on the mend. I asked her were going to hang points on Christmas, too if I could take her picture for you like they had everyone they had played.

Tis the season, I reckon. the paper to show everyone Last week I went to five holi- that she was still alive and But they didn’t.

So, be proud of your ac- day gatherings. One of those kicking and she said yes. I was the Heiskell seniors told her that since “The Curicomplishments, Panthers.

Christmas party last Thurs- ous Savage,” she was now a We’re sure proud of you. day. The seniors did a gift celebrity and folks would like exchange and received small to know how she was doing.

■ Noweta Garden gifts of totes from the com- She said she was very blessed Club celebrates and that it was all because of munity center.

The January meeting will the prayers of her friends and Christmas neighbors.

The Noweta Garden feature Knox County Law So for all of you who have Club met last Tuesday at the Director Joe Jarret as the been praying for Carolyn – Heiskell Community Center guest speaker. The February meeting will feature Toni thank you. She is a great lady.

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Titus Satterfield saved Christmas From page A-1

Powell Home Depot “Schaad Squad“ members sport their pink shirts at the Powell Christmas Parade on Dec. 3.

Powell Christmas parade is holiday tradition

NOTES â– Christmas Halls Toy Drive is underway. If you need assistance with toys this Christmas, go to Cross Roads Presbyterian Church, 4329 E. Emory Road. Applications are in a red box at the top of the

spina bifida, a condition that has left him with multiple physical disabilities and an undaunted spirit. His mom, Tanya Satterfield, and dad, Tim Satterfield, are divorced, but they remain on good terms and are devoted to Titus and his younger sisters Teagan, 5, and Trystan, 3. “He’s a charmer,� Coward said. “He’s a little miracle baby – wasn’t supposed to live long, but now there ain’t nothing the little booger won’t attempt to do.� “He can go into surgery, be pretty much out of it and in pain, and he’ll still smile at every nurse who walks in the door,� said Tanya. “He’ll sit in his bed and color.�

Titus endured his 25th surgery last February when a shunt, installed when he was 2 weeks old to take the fluid away from his brain, failed. He was desperately The Whitt sisters – Abigail and ill but was so uncomplainGracie – eagerly await with bags ing that Tanya had to advoin hand for the deluge of candy cate for his care. that will be thrown at them at the “Sometimes I’d have to Powell Christmas Parade on Dec. say, ‘This is Titus. This child 3. Photos by Greg Householder knows no other life than illness. When he’s complaining that he’s hurting, that means his pain is off the charts. This is the only life he knows.’�

Titus loves to go to hockey Rivaling something games with his dad, football found at the Macy’s games with his papaw and parade, the Frontier being a 1st grader in Ms. AnCommunications derson’s class at Rockford float features a giant Santa at the Powell Christmas Parade.

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His disability is physical, not mental.� “My friends help me get out of my chair to my desk,�

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Titus is looking forward to turning 8, when he can participate in Special Olympics events. He particularly wants to play hockey. His little sister has started playing sports, a milestone the family had worried about. “We were afraid we’d have a big issue, but he understands that he’s different. God made him special,�

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A-4 • DECEMBER 12, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

Clutter, clutter everywhere And all the signs that blink

“People get used to ugly.

They almost don’t see the clutter,” Scenic Knoxville president Joyce Feld told the crowd at last week’s meeting of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners.

Betty Bean

Retreads resurface for 2012 elections Some people never met an elected office they didn’t like. Three candidates in the March 6 primary are back for another bite at the electoral apple and hoping for a sweet aftertaste.

Right up to the deadline for filing her qualifying petition, former County Commissioner Elaine Davis was conflicted. Should she run for school board in the 3rd District or the 5th? She opted for the 5th just under the wire last Thursday.

After her appointment to a 4th District commission seat in the wake of Black Wednesday, Davis lost a 2008 Democratic primary race to Finbarr Saunders for the permanent seat by a nearly 2-1 margin. Considering that result, it may be a good thing for Davis that the term of current District 4 school board member Lynne Fugate doesn’t expire until 2014. Otherwise, she may have been tempted to try her luck there.

Why did Davis have a choice to begin with? Redistricting. In the first election following redistricting, the district residency requirement is waived. If you want to argue that the waiver favors incumbents who’ve been shifted from their home districts by reapportionment you have my support; that’s precisely what it was intended to do.

Davis’ opposition, the incumbent Karen Carson, is a formidable enough foe to make one wonder why Davis didn’t run in District 3. But Davis is regarded as considerably more conservative than Carson, and there’s already one deeply conservative candidate, Gina Oster, in that race. Oster once served as Brian Hornback’s campaign director in his bid for re-election to the school board, and that alone is enough to establish her conservative bona fides.

School board races are nonpartisan, just like the recent Knoxville mayor’s race in which nonpartisan Ivan Harmon threw his support to nonpartisan Mark Padgett who wound up losing despite that support to nonpartisan Madeline Rogero. My guess is that Oster and Davis will draw similar nonpartisan support.

While we’re on the subject, if there’s one contest which should be decided in a nonpartisan contest, it’s the race for Knox County Law Director. While we’re at it, let’s put judges in that category as well, because if there are Republican, Democratic and independent versions of the Tennessee Code Annotated, I haven’t come across them.

Nonetheless, two Republicans, incumbent Joe Jarret and Richard “Bud” Armstrong, are vying for the law director’s chair. Bud is another Phoenix hoping to rise from the ashes after he was defeated in a bid for an at-large commission seat. His experience as an attorney is limited, only a few years, and Jarret, in contrast, has been at the game for a couple of decades.

But Joe, as is said, ain’t from around here, and Armstrong may have the edge in this decidedly partisan race.

Will qualifications trump connections? We’ll see.

The contest between incumbent Property Assessor Phil Ballard and former assessor John Whitehead may provide the most highlights (or lowlights). Ballard and Whitehead don’t pretend to hide their mutual (to be kind) distaste for one another. Let the games begin.

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“But you go elsewhere and see an area that doesn’t have visual clutter. … Those are the kinds of places we go on vacation.”

Last fall, Scenic Knoxville got an unsolicited grant from former Mayor Victor Ashe through the East Tennessee Foundation for billboard control. The Scenic Knoxville board added some money to that sum for a survey of outdoor advertising erected in the city since the billboard ban of 2001 was enacted. They hired a University of Tennessee intern to do the count, and many

suspected they’d find a good number of billboards that lacked permits or are larger than the law allows.

Feld declined to give up details of the survey findings, which will be formally unveiled soon. But she hinted that violations were found. She defended Scenic Knoxville against the charge that it is anti-business.

“People often accuse us of that, but we simply believe that an attractive community is the most business friendly community, and that’s where people want to be. That’s how you create economic vibrancy.”

She said Scenic Knoxville is also working to make county signage laws consistent with those in the city and to revisit the city’s sign ordinance, as well. She said the group also supports a move to lower maximum sign heights to 25 feet, as recommended by outgoing City Council member Joe Bailey.

Another item on the Scenic Knoxville agenda is to watchdog the city Board of Zoning Appeals. Feld noted that John Schoon-

Scenic Knoxville president Joyce Feld Photo by Betty Bean maker, a former president of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners who now sits on the county BZA, announced there will be no December BZA meeting because nobody has requested a variance this month.

“We want to change the way the city BZA works,” she said. “County BZA, historically, has been quite liberal in handing out variances for sign heights, but it’s different now, and this is one case where city BZA needs to catch up to the county.

They’re not following their own guidelines. I went to a

city BZA meeting and read them the sign ordinance.

One member asked, ‘Do you have an extra copy of that?’ ” Another item on Feld’s todo list is the “Pride of Place” bill, which has replaced the oft-defeated bottle bill and is a comprehensive anti-litter and recycling solution. It has failed several times but has been modified and will be reintroduced during the 2012 General Assembly session.

The last initiative Feld mentioned will be an effort to overturn a recent City Court ruling that allows Lamar Advertising to keep leasing a scrolling electronic message center on Cumberland Avenue to the University of Tennessee Athletics Department despite the fact that the sign doesn’t have a permit. Scenic Knoxville disagrees with Judge John Rosson’s ruling that converting the billboard to an EMC is merely an extension of an existing sign.

“It’s clearly illegal,” Feld said. By definition, EMCs have to be on premise. On top of that fact, there are no permits for it.”

Swanson gets new client Charles Swanson is clearly first among equals in the directors Mayor-elect Madeline Rogero has announced so far.

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As the law director, his words are taken seriously and virtually every initiative requires a legal opinion. He will interact with the mayor daily and on weekends as well, even when one or the other is out of the city.

Second, Swanson knows more than the new directors combined about the city.

Given his 28 years as City Council attorney, he has knowledge and background which even precede my time as mayor. Swanson has forgotten more than most Rogero directors will know on Day One. They will turn to him for advice as they

shifting public opinion as evidenced by City Council vagaries. He will have gravitas in private and has many community contacts. Influential people will call him first. Charles and his wife, attorney Pam Reeves, have been a team as law partners and now as a power couple.

■ The notice which has gone out seeking replacements for Swanson as City Council attorney seems most unusual as it just lets Charles Swanson candidates know to apply by should. He has simply been Dec. 30 without a word as around longer than anyone to what the salary or duties else plus he knows how City might be (although SwanCouncil works. son is paid $90,000 a year).

Third, Swanson is Swan- Will there be a signed conson. He is smart and savvy. tract? How and when will He does not suffer fools eas- the public interviews occur? ily. He advocates his views Which applicants will be instrongly. He can get angry. terviewed?

He will want to influence ■ The council attorney the actions of the city ad- must be a forceful advocate ministration, not just give for council’s point of view legal advice. as an independent co-equal Swanson will weigh in branch of the city governon more than legal niceties. ment. With Swanson as the His views on policy will be mayor’s attorney, the new sought and I suspect will City Council attorney will prevail. Swanson is wise to need to be equally forceful

in representing the council view on budget issues and other matters where a different view from the mayor may emerge or exist. He cannot let Swanson roll them due to his vast experience.

Swanson will know how to roll his successor without him even realizing that they were outmaneuvered.

■ The new attorney will be cautious about taking on the veteran Swanson. Council members must recognize Swanson has a new client and it is not them.

■ Nick Pavlis is likely to be chosen vice mayor when City Council meets right after members are sworn into office on Dec. 17. Council also will select a Beer Board chair and representative to KAT. Given his past experience and knowledge, Pavlis can be an effective and influential vice mayor. The new mayor may not yet recognize how significant the vice mayor is in councilmanic relations. The vice mayor is also only a heartbeat away from being mayor.

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the technology daily. Boyd and Page will tour selected classrooms to observe students.

Gov. Bill Haslam is set to visit the school at 10 a.m.

Friday, Dec. 16. The Academy was launched during

Haslam’s tenure as Knoxville mayor and his family contributed toward equipping the former train station as a magnet high school for STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • DECEMBER 12, 2011 • A-5

Tony Norman: MPC resolves to be irresolute ‘Where are you guys?’

By Larry Van Guilder

By Betty Bean County Commissioner Tony Norman is a regular at the Council of West Knox County Homeowners. So are his colleagues Richard Briggs, Mike Hammond and Ed Shouse. Norman was the only commission member present at the December meeting.

“I came tonight in case somebody had any questions,” said Norman, who co-chaired a taskforce which created the original Hillside and Ridgetop Protection

Plan. Commission passed its version of the plan in November after attaching a Briggssponsored amendment Norman that city and county legal observers say effectively neuters the plan.

City Council passed the plan without the amendment.

“I really wanted to hear from the other guys,” Nor-

man said.

He outlined his view of the plan’s progress and called the amendment “egregious to those of us who have been working on this so long.”

He said the Briggs amendment was actually prepared by representatives of the Knoxville Chamber.

“Dr. Briggs mentioned it at a workshop a week before the commission meeting and I said ‘What are you doing? Do you know what it does?’ He said no, not really.”

Mission of Hope donations down Help urgently needed

By Betty Bean On Dec. 2, Mission of Hope director Emmette Thompson was a worried man.

Time was running out on the Blue Barrel campaign, and for the first time ever, the barrels were almost empty. There were children depending on him and he’d made promises that he was determined to keep, so he went to Twitter and issued an urgent appeal: “Our Christmas Drive Collection is way behind and our needs are great.”

The tweet went far and wide and donations picked up over the next few days, he said. But Christmas is still not assured for the 17,000 impoverished children in Tennessee and Kentucky that he has promised to help.

“We’ve never called a principal and said, ‘So sor-

ry, we can’t come.’

I wrote those pr incipa ls on Sept. 1 to tell them we were coming, and we will be there. We Thompson trust that the harvest will come in, and we’re doing that again this year. We were just so far behind that it’s taking awhile to catch up,” he said.

The Blue Barrel campaign ended Dec. 5, but there’s still time to help. Thompson has five buyers who will be dispatched to purchase age and gender-specific toys and clothes that are in short supply – as the funds come in.

Thompson says this is the first year that Mission of Hope has felt the effects of the economic downturn that have afflicted so many other nonprofit organizations, and even though he is making this urgent appeal, he says

he doesn’t want to deprive other worthy causes.

“Please, do not take away from your church giving to donate to us. You give to your church first. We have been behind in previous years, but never have we experienced something like this. We feel that many of our faithful Mission of Hope donors and supporters are now feeling the impact of our down and strained economy and perhaps can’t help us this year. Here is where our faith has to kick in over our anxiety, and we will trust that God will provide.”

Info: 584-7571 or www. missionofhope.org.

As expected, the dueling versions of the Hillside and Ridgetop Protection Plan took center stage at last week’s meeting of the Metropolitan Planning Commission. Up for consideration were the City Council-approved version born of the facilitated joint meetings of council and commission members, and County Commission’s version sporting the Briggs amendment.

Casting caution to the wind, MPC sent both versions back to their respective legislative bodies with a “no recommendation” vote. But before matters came to that sorry pass, the inmates tried to overrun the asylum.

Sally Absher led the revolt. Absher is a Republican State Executive Committee member for the 6th Senate District. One of the original members of the Knoxville Tea Party, her face beams down on visitors to the Patriots of East Tennessee website where she proclaims her goal “is to promote true conservatism in Tennessee.”

Or at least for those who live uphill from places like Dawson Hollow, because Absher not only dislikes the hillside plan, she’s nursing a serious grudge for MPC Executive Director Mark Donaldson because he has the audacity to, well, be the director.

Or at least we think that’s

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her beef. The argument was hard to follow.

“There’s been a lot of talk about the time that went into the plan,” Absher said, but not much said about the time spent by citizens or the “nearly $400,000” it cost to develop.

Wherever Absher has been hiding is not equipped with a television or a newspaper box, because both issues have been front and center for months. But Absher was only warming up.

“MPC director Mark Donaldson gave conflicting statements to County Commission and City Council,” Absher said, and warned the commissioners they could not amend the Briggs amendment.

(Apparently Absher was taking a call when, only minutes before, Donaldson said much the same thing.

You can approve the plans, disapprove the plans or send them back with no recommendation, Donaldson said – period.)

“The Briggs amendment was necessary because of continued attempts by Mark Donaldson to usurp the law,” she said, and if Donaldson continued on his criminal path she would see that he

was brought up on ethics charges.

Finally, it was all too much for Commissioner Robert Anders who told Donaldson Absher “not five minutes ago” Donaldson said you could vote it up or down or send it on with no recommendation.

Developer Victor Jernigan then spoke of the “unintended consequences” of the plan, but his remarks had the virtue of coherency.

Yet it must be said that Absher and her death-totree-hugger friends received encouragement from MPC, and it began when Commissioner George Ewart moved to send City Council’s plan on with no recommendation because “they’ll do what they want anyway” so “it makes no difference.”

Ewart’s strong stand for apathy drew rebuttals. Commissioner Michael Kane said the language in the Briggs amendment even confuses “professional planners.”

Commissioner Rebecca Longmire noted there’s no electric fence to separate the city and county and therefore a single plan is needed.

Called to the podium, Commissioner Tony Norman asked for an up or down vote.

“No recommendation is like a pass,” he said. “What the heck is a pass on this?”

Conley Underwood is candidate for school board The man chosen by his neighbors to lead the Carter community’s efforts to obtain a new elementary school has jumped into the race for school board, challenging incumbent Mike McMillan in District 8.

McMillan, a former county

commissioner, is serving an abbreviated term brought on by the resignation of former board member Bill Phillips.

Underwood is part-owner of the family business Lubrication Equipment Service. He and his wife, Regina, have two daugh-

ters. Ashley is an 8th grader at Carter Middle School, while Abbey is a 6th grader. Underwood served as treasurer and president of the Carter Elementary School PTO. He currently is vice president of the PTO at Carter Middle School.

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A-6 • DECEMBER 12, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

‘Brisk and businesslike, with the gift of sincerity’

tims of tuberculosis could be treated in a residential setting. From its founding in 1924 to 1968 when it was released to the state, the hospital cared for 3,348 patients.

In recognition of his expertise in his profession, Dr. Acuff became a fellow of the International College of Surgeons in 1941. He became president of the U.S. chapter in 1949 and was inaugurated the College’s seventh president during the International Assembly in August 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Assembly was warmly supported and welcomed by the country’s president, General Juan Peron, and his spouse Senora Eva Peron. The General and the First Lady entertained 1,500 guests at a special luncheon in the gardens of the presidential palace.

Approximately 4,000 general surgeons and specialists from all over the world participated in the scientific program, some 300 of them had come from the United States.

He was identified with several fraternal organizations: the Woodmen of the World, the Odd Fellows and the Kerbela Shrine. He was a Master Mason in the Oriental lodge and earned the 32nd degree in 1921 and the Knights Templar degree in 1922. He also had wide business interests: president of the General Building and Finance Corporation and director of the Knoxville Investment Corporation, the Holston National Bank, the Banker Trust Co., the Knoxville Savings and Loan Bank and the Pruden Coal and Coke Co. Dr. Acuff had suffered since the previous Sunday with a mild attack of influenza, but his death due to a massive heart attack on Friday, Nov. 2, 1951, was a surprise and shock to his family and to the medical community. His services were held in First Baptist Church of Knoxville, his home church, and he was buried in Highland Cemetery. Upon her death in 1976, his wife was buried beside him. They were survived by one daughter, Betty Rose Barker.

HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

Dr. Herbert Acuff (1886-1951)

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ne astute observer said of Dr. Herbert Acuff that “he gives the impression of boundless energy and excellent health credited to him by his wife and secretary. Only when listening to a patient is he in complete repose, his intense dark eyes fixed on the speaker, his mobile face relaxed and his long surgeon’s hands before him on the desk.

“His voice is sympathetic and inspires confidence. He’s brisk and businesslike with the gift of sincerity and a boundless belief in the miracles of modern medicine.”

Born in Washburn, Tenn., on Aug. 22, 1886, P. Herbert Acuff was the son of the Rev. Joel A. Acuff and Sarah Branson Acuff.

Herbert graduated from Washburn High School and entered Carson and Newman College (as it was then known) to take preparatory courses. He entered the Kentucky School of Pharmacy and received his degree in 1910. He registered as a student in the University of Louisville Medical College, earning his medical degree in 1911.

After serving two years as house surgeon at the Knoxville General Hospital, he studied abroad in clinics in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna and spent six months in training at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He returned to private practice in Knoxville in 1914 and served as the chair of the therapeutics department at the Tennessee Medical College, then located in Knoxville.

On Oct. 20, 1915, Dr. Acuff married Lola Pruden (1889-1976), the daughter of coal magnate Tom Pruden, in the Pruden Mansion (Hillcrest) on North Broadway in Fountain City. With about 50 guests

The Acuff Clinic (circa 1950). The red brick building midway of the block on the left at 514 W. Church Ave. is the Acuff Clinic. Second Presbyterian Church in the foreground moved to Kingston Pike in 1957. Postcard courtesy of C. Milton Hinshelwood P. Herbert Acuff, M.D. (1886-1951). In addition to his large surgical practice and service as head of the clinic, Dr. Acuff was the president of the International College of Surgeons.

Photo courtesy of the C.M. McClung Historical Collection

attending, the wedding was the social event of the season. An altar was improvised in the bay window of the drawing room. Mary Conner played the wedding march as the bridal party descended the stairs.

An orchestra furnished a delightful musical program during the entire evening.

Karl Baum, founder of Baum’s Home of Flowers and Greenhouses, prepared the floral arrangements, including a massive floral presentation with the initials of the bridal couple, A-P. Palms, ferns, smilax, white chrysanthemums, roses and lilies of the valley surrounded the altar. Representing the medical community, Dr. Reese Patterson Sr., a well-known ear, nose and throat specialist, was Dr. Acuff’s best man.

Dr. Acuff enlisted in the medical corps during World War I and was assigned to the 118th Field Hospital of the 30th Division mostly composed of East Tennesseans. After special surgical training at the Uni-

versity of Pennsylvania and in various surgical centers in Europe, Maj. Acuff became the operating surgeon for his division, as well as some British and Australian divisions. He accompanied them through the fighting in Belgium, including the attack on the Hindenberg Line. Their horrendous Sept. 29, 1918, attack near Bellicourt resulted in casualties of 26 officers and 366 men. They captured seven German field pieces, 29 machine guns, seven anti-tank rifles and 592 prisoners that day. Subsequent attacks in the same sector on Oct. 7, 8 and 9, cost an additional 34 officers and 1,051 men, while they captured 113 machine guns, 28 field pieces, 907 small arms and 800 prisoners. The regiment was not relieved until Oct. 17 when they were sent to the rear for rest, reorganization and resupply.

Upon his return home in 1919, Dr. Acuff resumed his practice. He first had offices at 405 W. Church St., but by 1923 occupied the ground floor of the Acuff Building at 425 W. Clinch where he practiced for five years. In 1946, after four years in Suite 402 of the Medical Arts Building, Dr. Acuff organized the Acuff Clinic in the former Marion Apartment building

at 514 W. Church Ave. There were six other physicians involved at first but the clinic soon expanded to include a number of medical specialties. By 1955, there were 14 physicians representing eight medical specialties.

His surgical training in the United States and abroad, his extensive experience in wartime, his service as physician for the Southern Railway and his private practice resulted in his becoming known as the outstanding surgeon in the area.

The story may be apocryphal, but it does illustrate a point. A fellow surgeon described to the author how Dr. Acuff sometimes demonstrated his skill to his peers. He would place a stack of cigarette papers on a table top, grasp his favorite scalpel and proceed to slice the top paper in half without touching the second one.

Dr. Acuff somehow found time for many contributions to the community. He joined the Civitan Club in 1920 and rose to become international president. As president of the local club, he spearheaded a campaign that raised $150,000 that resulted in the establishment of the Beverly Hills Sanatorium where vic-

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POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • DECEMBER 12, 2011 • A-7

My Christmas soundtrack Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; Shout, O Israel!

Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!

(Zephaniah 3 : 14 NRSV) I am a church musician. I love Christmas music. And truth be known, I have never been able to decide which is the cause and which the effect.

I try to be disciplined about it. I schedule the Advent hymns first and only gradually segue into Christmas carols as the day itself draws nearer.

Occasionally, however, just to startle people into really listening to the words they are singing, I will choose “Joy to the World” as the final hymn for a July worship service.

(Try it sometime! I guarantee you will hear those words differently when you sing them in a different context.)

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My taste stretches back to Tennessee Ernie Ford, on a recording that taught me Alfred Burt’s lovely “The Star Carol,” and forward to Mannheim Steamroller’s version of “Greensleeves.” John Denver’s “Christmas Like a Lullaby” is a favorite, and Jessye Norman singing “See Amid the Winter tion 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21. There will be latkes, Karaoke and lots of family fun. Dress casual. Everyone is invited. Admission is $18 ($9 children 12 and under, family cap of $45). RSVP by Thursday, Dec. 15, by calling 522-0701.

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■ The Knoxville Nativity Pageant will perform 7 p.m.

Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 12-13, at the Civic Coliseum.

Admission is free.

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■ Cedar Grove Baptist Church, 9711 Norris Freeway, will present “Why Christmas” about the true meaning of Christmas at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21.

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■ Fountain City UMC will hold its Christmas program, “Glory to God in the Highest” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12.

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■ Glenwood Baptist Church in Powell will present its Christmas Cantata “The First Noel” at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 18.

■ Hilltop Baptist Church, Walker Road in Halls, will hold

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Snow” gives me chills every time. The Dale Warland Singers version of Elizabeth Poston’s “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree” is a worship service in itself. And of course, Handel and Bach and Mendelssohn all have their say in my collection.

For eight years I had one daughter or the other in the Rhodes Singers at Rhodes College in Memphis. My pilgrimage at Christmas was to drive down one day and back the next to hear “Christmas at St. Mary’s,” their Christmas concert of sacred music, performed at an Episcopal Church in town. I have recordings of those concerts and still am awestruck by the beauty of their version of “This Child, This King.”

One of my most glorious experiences of Christmas music was the first time I went to All Saints’ Chapel at the University of the South for their Christmas program. Sewanee, as the campus is affectionately called, has a “chapel” that rivals some of Europe’s cathedrals. The college choir does a Service of Lessons and its Christmas program “The Gates of Heaven” at 6 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 18. Everyone is welcome.

■ First Baptist Church Fountain City, 2801 Holbrook Drive, will present its children’s Christmas program “Census Time in Bethlehem: A Children’s Musical About the Names of Jesus” at 6 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 18. Admission is free. Info: Call 689-3385.

■ 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.

Chanukah comes to Powell Laurie Fischer demonstrates how to use a dreidel last Tuesday at the Happy Chanukah Storytime at the Powell Branch Library.

Fischer has been making the rounds to various library branches reading books and overseeing games and crafts in celebration of the Jewish holiday. She will be at the Karns branch at 6 p.m.

Tuesday (Dec. 13), the Burlington branch at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday (Dec. 14) and the Bearden branch at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

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■ Mount Harmony Baptist Church, 819 E. Raccoon Valley Road, will have a Christmas Cantata at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18. Everyone is invited.

■ St. Paul UMC on Garden Drive in Fountain City will present “Advent Concert of Piano and Organ” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18.

■ Unity Baptist Church, located in Scenic Woods subdivision off Norris Freeway, will present the Christmas drama “And We Beheld His Glory” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16.

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.

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Powell Presbyterian kids pageant is Wednesday The cast at Powell Presbyterian Church taking a break from dress rehearsal are: (front) Julian McCormick (held by mom, Rachel), Cynthia Markus, Imelia Markus, Hallie Bailey, Hannah Warren, Colin McCormick (held by grandmother Pam Brooks); (back) James Miracle, Cheyenne Manzolini, Shantelle Bailey and Korri Manzolini. The PPC Kids’ Choir will present “Census Time in Bethlehem: A Children’s Musical about the Names of Jesus,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14.

More than a dozen kids, ranging from teens to preschoolers, have been learning the Christmas story through Advent devotions and scripture stories about the Christ child. They plan to interpret Pamela Vandewalker and Cherry Garasi’s lighthearted arrangement of music and drama to share the story with the Powell community. Photo by Greg Householder

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I listened raptly as the choir sang the Advent Responsory from the West Door of the Chapel. Then they began the processional, singing – a capella, no less – and walking two by two down that incredibly long nave, moving from west to east, from symbolic darkness to dawning light. I could hear each voice part as it passed by me, and I marveled at their precision and intonation over such distance.

I am grateful for the opportunity in recent years to sing with the Knoxville Choral Society, and our work with the Knoxville Symphony has added a new dimension to the Christmas season. Last year, Maestro Lucas Richman introduced some Hanukkah music to our Clayton Christmas Concerts, and that has given us (and our audiences, one would hope) a chance to share across our faith traditions and learn about each other.

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POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • DECEMBER 12, 2011 • A-9

A-8 • DECEMBER 12, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

The 2011 Powell Football Panthers.

Photo courtesy of the Powell Touchdown Club

Leaving it on the field Panthers’ state championship bid falls short

By Greg Householder Note: Statistical data in this article is courtesy of www.

PowellPanthersFootball.com.

For the past couple of years, autumn has been a special time in the Powell community. The Powell High School football Panthers have made us all proud.

On Dec. 2, a large contingent of Powell fans made their way to the campus of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville.

Many came early to watch Christian Academy of Knoxville take the Class 3A BlueCross Bowl championship over Milan.

The Panthers were sitting at 14-0. The opponent across the field – Henry County – was also sitting at 14-0. One would have a blemish on their perfect records before the night was over.

Henry County and Powell shared the AP top spot for the past few weeks. It would be settled this night.

Henry County came in confident and arrogant.

Pundits and the traffic on message boards gave Powell little chance against the high-powered Patriots. After all, Henry County had been demolishing opponents (the least amount of points HC had scored in a single game was 24 and no opponent had scored more than 17) and Powell’s defense was suspect.

Powell had no chance.

But that is why they play the games.

The Henry County fans and their annoying siren were silent early on. The Panther “D,” dubbed “the Dangerfield Defense” after comedian Rodney Dangerfield, whose routine included lamenting that he “gets no respect,” stopped the Patriots on their first drive and forced a fumble. The Panthers drew first blood when Dyshawn Mobley punched it in from the 2-yard line. Josh Neely’s point after kick was good and Powell led 7-0.

Henry County answered back and the score was knotted at seven each.

Henry County intercepted a Panther pass in the end zone and Powell’s Monterio Washington returned the fa-

Darian Logan (17), Zack York (56), Chris Easterday (51) and head coach Matt Lowe lead the Panthers onto the field at the BlueCross Bowl on Dec. 2. Photos by Greg Householder

vor with his own interception.

Powell went three-and-out and the Dangerfield “D” held Henry County to three-andout.

Powell drove 45 yards and capped the drive with a 6-yard run by Mobley for the touchdown. Neely’s kick was good and Powell led 14-7.

Henry County answered with a 62-yard drive and the half ended in a 14-14 tie.

The second half was a defensive struggle with both defenses bending but not breaking and keeping the opposing offenses out of the end zone.

With 1:57 remaining in the game, Henry County kicked a field goal to take the lead 17-14.

An illegal block on the ensuing kickoff by Powell put

the Panthers on their own 20-yard line with 1:48 left on the clock.

The Panthers’ season essentially ended 1:17 later with second and 10 for Powell on the Henry County 15 when the Patriot defense got a sack and a fumble.

Two plays later found the Patriots in the victory formation and the Panthers’ 14-0 run was over.

Powell’s Dyshawn Mobley was named Offensive Most Valuable Player. His 209 rushing yards in the BlueCross Bowl put his season total at 3,068 – the Tennessee state record.

To commemorate this great season, let us now take a trip down memory lane and see how the Panthers got to Cookeville.

First blood! Dyshawn Mobley (2) finds the end zone to give Powell a 7-0 lead.

Powell at Rhea County – Aug. 19 The last time the Panthers paid a visit to Rhea County was in the second round of the playoffs in 2008 on a cold, rainy night. It was a balmy summer night this time around and Powell avenged that loss of three years ago with a 42-17 win. Mobley scored three touchdowns and a two-point conversion; Dustin McPhetridge scored two touchdowns and passed to Drake Owenby for a two-point conversion; Jonathan Strozyck returned a pass interception for a touchdown and Justin Wood kicked two point-after kicks.

Austin-East at Powell – Aug. 26 Powell had not faced

Austin-East since 1998.

This year, the Panthers won 28-7. McPhetridge tossed a 3-yard pass to Gray Bunch for a touchdown and also ran for a touchdown; Mobley and Darian Logan also scored one touchdown each.

Josh Neely kicked four point-after kicks. Sadly, the Austin-East game was the last for longtime “get back” coach and community leader J.D. Jett. Jett passed away on Aug. 30. For the rest of the season, Panthers wore the initials “J.D.” on their helmets.

Powell at Halls – Sept. 2 The Panthers continued their spanking of their Emory Road rivals by trouncing the Red Devils 42-0.

Mobley scored three touchdowns and a two-point conversion; Hagen Owenby threw a touchdown pass to his big brother, Drake, and ran for two touchdowns.

Neely kicked four pointafter kicks.

The PHS Marching Panther Band makes the trip to Cookeville. Many of the band members had just returned from Hawaii.

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Powell at Clinton – Oct. 7

In a Thursday television game, the Panthers made it two in a row against the Oak Ridge Wildcats with a 21-17 win. Mobley scored three touchdowns and a two-point conversion and Neely added a point-after kick.

Powell kept their stake alive by downing Karns 40-20. Mobley scored three touchdowns; McPhetridge ran for a touchdown and passed to Wood for one; Montario Washington ran for a touchdown and Neely kicked four point-after kicks.

The Panthers paid a visit to Clinton – site of Powell’s last regular season loss in 2009 – and drubbed the hapless Dragons 49-7.

Mobley scored two touchdowns; Logan intercepted a pass for a touchdown; McPhetridge passed to Logan for a touchdown; Hagen Owenby threw a touchdown to Landon Wright; Washington ran for a touchdown and Wood passed to Klay Leeper for a two-point conversion.

Powell at Anderson County – Sept. 16 Last year’s undefeated Panthers saw their season end at the hands of Anderson County in the second round of the playoffs. This year, Powell avenged the loss with a 53-16 whipping of the Mavericks on their home turf. Mobley scored six touchdowns and a two-point conversion; McPhetridge ran for a touchdown and passed to Hagen Owenby for a two-point conversion and Darian Logan scored a touchdown. Neely kicked one point-after kick.

Hardin Valley at Powell – Sept. 30 The Panthers continued their run with a 42-10 homecoming victory over Hardin Valley Academy.

Mobley ran for four touchdowns, McPhetridge threw to Drake Owenby for a touchdown; Washington ran for a touchdown. Austin Robinson kicked a pointafter kick and Neely kicked three point-after kicks. The Owenby brothers teamed up for a two-point conversion as Hagen threw to Drake.

The home student section at Tennessee Tech’s Tucker Stadium begins to fill up with Powell students before the BlueCross Bowl on Dec. 2.

Campbell County at Powell – Oct 14 The Panthers celebrated Senior Night with a 69-13 shellacking of Campbell County. McPhetridge had a

huge Senior Night – rushing for four touchdowns and connecting with Wright twice and Drake Owenby once through the air for the end zone. Wright also had an interception return.

Mobley rushed for a touchdown and Hagen Owenby passed to Andrew Irby for a touchdown. Neely added eight point-after kicks and Robinson kicked one PAT.

Powell at Central – Oct 21 The Panthers closed out another perfect regular season with a 34-0 win over Central. Mobley scored three touchdowns; Washington ran a blocked field goal attempt back 92 yards for a touchdown; and big guy Tony Foster scored a touchdown. Hagen Owenby passed to Darian Farmer for a two-point conversion.

Neely had two PAT kicks.

Powell took the next Friday off and had to wait until Oct. 29 to learn its first round opponent.

Playoffs round 1 – Anderson County at Powell – Nov. 4 The Panthers once again had the opportunity to inflict more punishment on Anderson County for knocking them out of the playoffs last year. And they made the most of the opportunity – eliminating the Mavericks 54-12.

Mobley ran for three touchdowns; McPhetridge ran for a touchdown and threw to Logan and Hagen Owenby for touchdowns; Brady Williams ran a pass interception back for a touchdown and Tyshawn Gardin ran for a touchdown.

Neely kicked six point-after kicks.

Playoffs round 2 – Ooltewah at Powell – Nov. 11 Though the Panthers record was still perfect, it was the Ooltewah game where

A tired and disappointed Dyshawn Mobley returns to the Powell side after picking up his Offensive Most Valuable Player Silver is good but gold would have been better – Panthers hoist hardware for the BlueCross Bowl. the runner-up trophy.

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A-8 • DECEMBER 12, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS

The 2011 Powell Football Panthers.

Photo courtesy of the Powell Touchdown Club

Leaving it on the field Panthers’ state championship bid falls short

By Greg Householder Note: Statistical data in this article is courtesy of www.

PowellPanthersFootball.com.

For the past couple of years, autumn has been a special time in the Powell community. The Powell High School football Panthers have made us all proud.

On Dec. 2, a large contingent of Powell fans made their way to the campus of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville.

Many came early to watch Christian Academy of Knoxville take the Class 3A BlueCross Bowl championship over Milan.

The Panthers were sitting at 14-0. The opponent across the field – Henry County – was also sitting at 14-0. One would have a blemish on their perfect records before the night was over.

Henry County and Powell shared the AP top spot for the past few weeks. It would be settled this night.

Henry County came in confident and arrogant.

Pundits and the traffic on message boards gave Powell little chance against the high-powered Patriots. After all, Henry County had been demolishing opponents (the least amount of points HC had scored in a single game was 24 and no opponent had scored more than 17) and Powell’s defense was suspect.

Powell had no chance.

But that is why they play the games.

The Henry County fans and their annoying siren were silent early on. The Panther “D,” dubbed “the Dangerfield Defense” after comedian Rodney Dangerfield, whose routine included lamenting that he “gets no respect,” stopped the Patriots on their first drive and forced a fumble. The Panthers drew first blood when Dyshawn Mobley punched it in from the 2-yard line. Josh Neely’s point after kick was good and Powell led 7-0.

Henry County answered back and the score was knotted at seven each.

Henry County intercepted a Panther pass in the end zone and Powell’s Monterio Washington returned the fa-

Darian Logan (17), Zack York (56), Chris Easterday (51) and head coach Matt Lowe lead the Panthers onto the field at the BlueCross Bowl on Dec. 2. Photos by Greg Householder

vor with his own interception.

Powell went three-and-out and the Dangerfield “D” held Henry County to three-andout.

Powell drove 45 yards and capped the drive with a 6-yard run by Mobley for the touchdown. Neely’s kick was good and Powell led 14-7.

Henry County answered with a 62-yard drive and the half ended in a 14-14 tie.

The second half was a defensive struggle with both defenses bending but not breaking and keeping the opposing offenses out of the end zone.

With 1:57 remaining in the game, Henry County kicked a field goal to take the lead 17-14.

An illegal block on the ensuing kickoff by Powell put

the Panthers on their own 20-yard line with 1:48 left on the clock.

The Panthers’ season essentially ended 1:17 later with second and 10 for Powell on the Henry County 15 when the Patriot defense got a sack and a fumble.

Two plays later found the Patriots in the victory formation and the Panthers’ 14-0 run was over.

Powell’s Dyshawn Mobley was named Offensive Most Valuable Player. His 209 rushing yards in the BlueCross Bowl put his season total at 3,068 – the Tennessee state record.

To commemorate this great season, let us now take a trip down memory lane and see how the Panthers got to Cookeville.

First blood! Dyshawn Mobley (2) finds the end zone to give Powell a 7-0 lead.

Powell at Rhea County – Aug. 19 The last time the Panthers paid a visit to Rhea County was in the second round of the playoffs in 2008 on a cold, rainy night. It was a balmy summer night this time around and Powell avenged that loss of three years ago with a 42-17 win. Mobley scored three touchdowns and a two-point conversion; Dustin McPhetridge scored two touchdowns and passed to Drake Owenby for a two-point conversion; Jonathan Strozyck returned a pass interception for a touchdown and Justin Wood kicked two point-after kicks.

Austin-East at Powell – Aug. 26 Powell had not faced

Austin-East since 1998.

This year, the Panthers won 28-7. McPhetridge tossed a 3-yard pass to Gray Bunch for a touchdown and also ran for a touchdown; Mobley and Darian Logan also scored one touchdown each.

Josh Neely kicked four point-after kicks. Sadly, the Austin-East game was the last for longtime “get back” coach and community leader J.D. Jett. Jett passed away on Aug. 30. For the rest of the season, Panthers wore the initials “J.D.” on their helmets.

Powell at Halls – Sept. 2 The Panthers continued their spanking of their Emory Road rivals by trouncing the Red Devils 42-0.

Mobley scored three touchdowns and a two-point conversion; Hagen Owenby threw a touchdown pass to his big brother, Drake, and ran for two touchdowns.

Neely kicked four pointafter kicks.

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In a Thursday television game, the Panthers made it two in a row against the Oak Ridge Wildcats with a 21-17 win. Mobley scored three touchdowns and a two-point conversion and Neely added a point-after kick.

Powell kept their stake alive by downing Karns 40-20. Mobley scored three touchdowns; McPhetridge ran for a touchdown and passed to Wood for one; Montario Washington ran for a touchdown and Neely kicked four point-after kicks.

The Panthers paid a visit to Clinton – site of Powell’s last regular season loss in 2009 – and drubbed the hapless Dragons 49-7.

Mobley scored two touchdowns; Logan intercepted a pass for a touchdown; McPhetridge passed to Logan for a touchdown; Hagen Owenby threw a touchdown to Landon Wright; Washington ran for a touchdown and Wood passed to Klay Leeper for a two-point conversion.

Powell at Anderson County – Sept. 16 Last year’s undefeated Panthers saw their season end at the hands of Anderson County in the second round of the playoffs. This year, Powell avenged the loss with a 53-16 whipping of the Mavericks on their home turf. Mobley scored six touchdowns and a two-point conversion; McPhetridge ran for a touchdown and passed to Hagen Owenby for a two-point conversion and Darian Logan scored a touchdown. Neely kicked one point-after kick.

Hardin Valley at Powell – Sept. 30 The Panthers continued their run with a 42-10 homecoming victory over Hardin Valley Academy.

Mobley ran for four touchdowns, McPhetridge threw to Drake Owenby for a touchdown; Washington ran for a touchdown. Austin Robinson kicked a pointafter kick and Neely kicked three point-after kicks. The Owenby brothers teamed up for a two-point conversion as Hagen threw to Drake.

The home student section at Tennessee Tech’s Tucker Stadium begins to fill up with Powell students before the BlueCross Bowl on Dec. 2.

Campbell County at Powell – Oct 14 The Panthers celebrated Senior Night with a 69-13 shellacking of Campbell County. McPhetridge had a

huge Senior Night – rushing for four touchdowns and connecting with Wright twice and Drake Owenby once through the air for the end zone. Wright also had an interception return.

Mobley rushed for a touchdown and Hagen Owenby passed to Andrew Irby for a touchdown. Neely added eight point-after kicks and Robinson kicked one PAT.

Powell at Central – Oct 21 The Panthers closed out another perfect regular season with a 34-0 win over Central. Mobley scored three touchdowns; Washington ran a blocked field goal attempt back 92 yards for a touchdown; and big guy Tony Foster scored a touchdown. Hagen Owenby passed to Darian Farmer for a two-point conversion.

Neely had two PAT kicks.

Powell took the next Friday off and had to wait until Oct. 29 to learn its first round opponent.

Playoffs round 1 – Anderson County at Powell – Nov. 4 The Panthers once again had the opportunity to inflict more punishment on Anderson County for knocking them out of the playoffs last year. And they made the most of the opportunity – eliminating the Mavericks 54-12.

Mobley ran for three touchdowns; McPhetridge ran for a touchdown and threw to Logan and Hagen Owenby for touchdowns; Brady Williams ran a pass interception back for a touchdown and Tyshawn Gardin ran for a touchdown.

Neely kicked six point-after kicks.

Playoffs round 2 – Ooltewah at Powell – Nov. 11 Though the Panthers record was still perfect, it was the Ooltewah game where

A tired and disappointed Dyshawn Mobley returns to the Powell side after picking up his Offensive Most Valuable Player Silver is good but gold would have been better – Panthers hoist hardware for the BlueCross Bowl. the runner-up trophy.

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The Panthers responded with a convincing 42-21 win over the Owls. Mobley scored four touchdowns; Logan scored a touchdown; McPhetridge passed to Logan for a touchdown and Neely kicked six point-after kicks.

Playoffs quarterfinals – Lenoir City at Powell – Nov. 18 A surprising Lenoir City came to town after playing in Middle Tennessee for the first two rounds and knocking off higher seeded teams. The game was close with Powell winning 34-26.

Mobley scored all five of the touchdowns. McPhetridge threw to Drake Owenby for a two-point conversion and Neely added two PAT kicks.

Playoffs semifinals – West at Powell – Nov. 25 Had West not downed Morristown West in the quarterfinals, the Panther Nation would have traveled to Morristown due to bracket rules since both teams were No. 1 seeds and MoWest was in the top bracket.

Instead, No. 2 seed West came to Powell. The doubters thought West would be taking a trip to Cookeville the next week but again, the doubters were wrong – final score: Powell 29, West ran for a touchdown and gan also ran for a two-point 6. Mobley rushed for three threw to Drake Owenby for conversion and Neely added touchdowns; McPhetridge a two-point conversion. Lo- one PAT.

The Panthers rally at midfield after warm-ups.

MILESTONES Penland to graduate from Marine boot camp

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David and Wanda Lambert will mark their 50th wedding anniversary Dec. 21.

They recently celebrated the occasion with an open house for family and friends.

David is the owner and operator of D.L. Lambert and Associates. He was the 1998 president of Halls B&P and the 1999 Halls Man of the Year.

Heartbreak: Panthers are comforted after the close loss in the BlueCross Bowl.

Wanda retired from Kroger after 40 years of service and was the customer service manager for the Halls store when she retired. The Lamberts have three children: Kim Webb, David Lambert Jr. and Lisa Jones. They have nine grandchildren and one great-grandson.

The Panther cheerleaders hold up the final run-through banner for 2011 – “Round 5: State; Pound the Patriots.”

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Penland successfully completed 13 weeks of intensive basic training as one of more than 40 recruits in Training Platoon 4040 Papa Company.

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Penland is believed to be the first female graduate from Halls High to enlist in the Marine Corps. She is the daughter of Paige Davis and Mark Penland and is a 2011 Halls High graduate.

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What a splash!

Never have I seen such a fuss over an assistant coach.

Doug Dickey once hired P.W. Underwood, twice the size of Jay Graham, without making half the splash.

The Tennessee football family is desperate for good news. And Jay is good news but he is only the beginning.

The end line is somewhere in the distance, maybe far away.

Next little step toward reconstruction is Derek Dooley deciding he really wants a running game and not just a token run coach who can

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occasionally cool a blitz or provide a distraction to give route-runners a break.

Jay Graham, 36, brings hope and excellent credentials. He was a big-time runner. He has recruited fivestar runners. He has coached

winning runners. Hard to imagine he would be anything other than a plus.

In fact, he has already produced plus points. Just wanting to be here, accepting the job (and increase in pay) was an expression of faith in the future and an endorsement of Dooley. South Carolina was shocked that Jay would leave his rock-solid arrangement with Steve Spurrier for the disorganized dilemma (and some might say tentative time frame) at Tennessee.

But, the heart supposedly leads home and this is the scene of Graham’s greatest accomplishments. There are so many 1995 memories: Jay ran for 144 in the

opener against East Carolina, 137 against Georgia, 134 against Mississippi State, 108 against Oklahoma State, 122 against Alabama, 126 against South Carolina, 108 against Southern Mississippi, 147 against Kentucky, 211 against Vandy and 154 in the Citrus Bowl against Ohio State.

Incredible run against the Buckeyes, big moment against the Crimson Tide, 1,438 yards in an 11-1 season when Peyton Manning didn’t hand him the ball on every down.

I should say more about that Citrus game. There was an Old Testament flood in Orlando. It appeared the Vols would run out the first half

clock and got dry off only seven behind. Graham’s idea of killing time was to break four tackles and run 69 yards for a touchdown. For the day, he overshadowed Heisman hero Eddie George and was MVP. I do not know how long were Jay’s cleats.

Graham against Alabama will run on forever. Tennessee in 1995 was in the process of stopping Tide domination when the red team scored a TD and thought it might be back in contention. Graham answered with a 70-yard touchdown run, flying down the sideline, regaining momentum for good.

The next year, Tennessee was trailing Alabama by 13-6

in the fourth quarter. Graham got a favorable spot and a tying touchdown. Tennessee got one late possession at its 20 but overtime seemed inevitable. On first down, Graham gained one yard. David Cutcliffe called the same play for second down, hoping the Tide would be looking elsewhere. What happened was simply sensational.

Graham went through a big hole on the right side, broke a tackle and took off, 79 yards, home run, Tennessee 20, Alabama 13.

It is really good to have this old Vol back in town. Now, let’s see what comes of it.

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

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SPORTS NOTES ■ Basketball tournament , Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Dec. 17-18. U8 through

What a face. The staff at Young-Williams would like you to meet 2-year-old male hound mix Trip. He is available for adoption at the main center at 3210 Division St. The “new” center at YoungWilliams Animal Village is at 6400 Kingston Pike. Both facilities are open noon to 6 p.m. daily. If you don’t have time to drop by, visit www.young-williams.org to see photos of all of the center’s adoptables and call 215-6599 for more information about each pet. the dog ran away from home.

If you really want to make a difference this holiday season, give the gift of life to a very deserving animal. And give your family the gift of unconditional love and never-ending gratuity from an animal whose life you will be saving from certain peril.

If you have a question or comment for Sara, contact her at 218-9378 or email barretts@ shoppernewsnow.com.

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People need to take the time to educate themselves on the reality of puppy mills and breeders who are “in it to win it.”

Not all animal breeders are bad people. They’re just misled. Just kidding.

But here’s the dilemma: a breeder could lose $1,500 profit if their potential customer finds out the dog they want to buy came from a feces-laden cage outside of a trailer in Alabama.

Instead, the happy family of four is told that their goldendoodle comes from a beautiful farm in Connecticut. Unfortunately, this is believed more often than not.

This is why the number of puppy mills continues to rise in the United States.

I don’t want to be a downer this holiday season, but I can’t stop thinking of all the happy little families who have already contacted breeders across the country to find the perfect addition to their homes this Christmas.

What better way to show your kids you love them than to encourage puppy mills by shelling out hundreds of dollars on a dog that has probably never walked on grass because he’s grown up in a cage, piled on top of his brothers and sisters.

If people want to check out puppies a breeder has for sale, so be it. But I would highly encourage them (if not plead with them) to also go to at least one shelter before making the decision to buy from a breeder.

Right now, there are pure breeds at Young-Williams Animal Center waiting for a home. The only charge is the adoption fee which is usually no more than $150 (which covers spay/neuter, vaccinations, etc.).

If you’re wondering how a pure bred dog would wind up at the shelter, there are several ways. During my most recent trip to Young-Williams, there was an adult poodle that had been surrendered by it’s elderly owners because they were allergic. A Shih Tzu was also brought in during my visit because its owner forgot to change the batteries in it’s electric fence collar so

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The Opryland Hotel in Nashville is covered in a blanket of white lights for the holiday season. Photos by Ruth White.

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Make the holidays memorable I love this time of year.

The air gets a distinct chill to it (unless of course it’s 60 degrees on a December Knoxville day) and people begin to hustle around buying presents and decorating their homes. I love how the lights bring a bit of warmth to the chilly air as they announce that the Christmas season has arrived.

I am embarrassed to admit that I haven’t always enjoyed the holiday season, but have learned to embrace the traditions of my husband and combined them with those of my childhood and the tra-

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■ Cancer survivor support groups, Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings and Tuesday evenings, at the Wellness Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Support groups for cancer caregivers, Monday evenings.

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When my children were younger, we quit putting their names on packages (probably because I was a sneaky child and would

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open and rewrap my gifts) and used a different symbol or color code on packages each year. Without fail, regardless of how careful the wrapper was at sorting presents, a family member would receive the wrong gift on Christmas morning. It became a game we all enjoyed.

Lifesaver storybooks have been placed in my children’s stockings for many years. A few years ago there were no storybooks to be found. As my middle child tipped over his stocking to look at the treasures inside, he looked at me and asked where the

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■ “A Visit from Santa Claus” 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.

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He was disappointed, not because he liked the candy, but because it was a family tradition.

It is the little things that make the holidays enjoyable and memorable for me, the things that we remember years later and that still bring a smile to faces. Memories such as making friendship bread after packages are opened on Christmas morning, children waiting at the top of the stairs until everyone was awake before opening presents, lunch at Grandmother’s house, watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” and sitting in the living room by the light of the tree.

However you chose to celebrate this time of year, enjoy it and remember those traditions that bring warmth to your heart. It’s a lot safer than a smack down at the local discount store over a sale item and something you won’t be ashamed to admit to family and friends.

Parents are encouraged to bring their camera for free photos.

■ Chanukah Storytime with games and crafts 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.

■ Dandridge Christmas Parade, hosted by the Dandridge Volunteer Fire Department, 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec.17. Info: Visit www.mainstreetdandridge. com.

■ 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.

By Sherry Witt After a history-making month of O c tob er, w h i c h saw the largest real estate transfer in Knox C ount y ’s h i s t o r y, Witt l o c a l markets returned to a more normal pace during November. For the month ending on Wednesday, Nov. 30, there were 584 land transfers in Knox County, representing an aggregate property value of around $105 million.

While there were fewer transfers in November than in October, the figures were virtually identical to those recorded during the same period of 2010. Last year, 624 parcels and around $104 million changed hands. Historically, November is a slow month for real estate markets due in part to the onset of cold weather and the decreased daylight hours.

Lending activity con-

500 Christmas gift bags to be given to the homeless and is asking area individuals, clubs and businesses help obtain 250 additional cards. Purchase a $10 gift card to any of the fast food restaurants and mail to Lost Sheep Ministry, 1444 Breda Drive, Knoxville, TN 37918, before Dec. 14, when they will be distributed.

■ New Years Eve Extravaganza, Saturday, Dec. 31, LC Family Fun and Karaoke, 1850 Old Highway 95 in Lenoir City. Arcade games, pool tables, basketball, air hockey, live music and

tinued to show improvement from the lull it experienced in the spring and summer. During November, about $274 million was loaned against property in Knox County.

This number represented more mortgage lending than the county experienced in August or September, indicating the signs of a possible surge in refinancing appear to be correct.

The largest single transfer was a transaction between TrinityCare Senior Living of Knoxville LLC and UGHS Senior Living of Knoxville LLC. The sale brought just under $3.5 million. The largest mortgage transaction was for $28.25 million on Campus Pointe Subdivision.

I want to take this opportunity to wish each of you and your families a very happy and joyous holiday season. And at this special time of year, please remember to keep our service men and women in your hearts and prayers. Merry Christmas!

watching the ball drop in New York City on a big screen. Talk show host Marla Higginbotham will be the master of ceremonies. Tickets are $35 ($60 per couple) and can be purchased at Debra’s Nails Desire on Kingston Pike and Kings Inn Motel in Lenoir City. Doors open at 7 p.m., music starts at 9. Info: 332-0957.

■ Family Fun Day at KMA ,11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec.17. Art activities, demonstrations, entertainment and more. Info: 934-2034 or www.knoxart.org.

4509 Doris Circle 922-4136

A decorative wreath can light up an entryway and welcome guests in from the cold.

Real estate market holds steady

■ Lost Sheep Ministry prepares approximately

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