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POWELL/NORWOOD VOL. 53 NO. 2

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IN THIS ISSUE

Sue Spicer: volunteer

Exceptional Southern dining

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Sue Spicer didn’t allow breast cancer to slow her down; instead, she has used her experience to provide comfort to others who are going through the same diagnosis. Spicer volunteers at Tennova Cancer Resource Center, where she and other volunteers logged 33,000 hours last year providing information to patients, answering questions and, many times, just lending an ear or a shoulder to cry on.

Read Ruth White on page A-3

‘American Sniper’ Director Clint Eastwood knows war movies. His “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” are two of the best in recent years. “American Sniper” had the potential to make it a trifecta, but Eastwood can’t figure out what kind of war movie he’s trying to make.

Read Betsy Pickle on page A-10

Mary Boyce Temple “Along with Lizzie Crozier French, Mary Boyce Temple organized the Ossoli Circle in 1885 and was elected its first president. Ossoli is the South’s oldest federated women’s club.”

Read Jim Tumblin on page A-14

Butter and love The most important ingredients for baking are real butter and love. This is according to Powell resident and baker Alexandria Heimerman. “I started out in college getting my business degree but just couldn’t wait to go to culinary school, so I dropped out and moved to California.”

Read Cindy Taylor on page A-13

Berry Strong “Eric Berry is already a model for younger players, an example of how to do it. Before that, he was just a model citizen. I remember a high school story of him volunteering as a helper in a dentist’s office. I always suspected the receptionist was pretty. “I recall, at UT, him showing up in the equipment room the night before a game to help team managers clean and polish helmets. Think about that, star with a scrub brush.”

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Read Marvin West on page A-4

Hosts Bailee Rhoton and Lauren McGill stand ready to seat diners at the opening of The Front Porch restaurant.

By Cindy Taylor The Front Porch menu claims exceptional Southern dining, right there in bold print. It does not lie. After months of wading through permits and prepping for handicap access, owners opened the Powell eatery for family and friends on the night of Jan. 6. The house was packed, and the food did not disappoint. The menu includes steak, chicken, trout and duck, along with inspired sides and appetizers created to melt in your mouth and warm your tummy. And the homemade bread … wow! If you end up waiting for a table,

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Bradley vs. Bradley: By Betty Bean A railroad crossing marks the boundary between residential Cedar Lane and the commercial corridor of Merchant Drive and the I-75 interchange to the west, but City Council is halfway to enacting a rezoning that will not only change that demarcation, but also has one prominent neighborhood activist predicting negative repercussions all over town. “I’m shocked that City Council would do something like this to one of the most stable neighborhoods in North Knoxville,” said Lynn Redmon, president of the Norwood Homeowners Association, who didn’t go to the council meeting to speak out against the rezoning because, “I didn’t think it would be necessary.

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“Breaking open this residential zoning will have long-term effects on Cedar Lane and other neighborhoods in this town, and they did it because they could. This was not City Council’s finest hour.” The rezoning, approved on first reading by a 5-4 vote, consists of three Metropolitan Planning Commission-recommended measures (including city and sector plan amendments plus a conditional rezoning). The property owner is Cindy Bradley, a real estate agent and former MPC commissioner who bought the former church building at the corner of Cedar Lane and Rowan Road in 2012 after MPC rejected the former owner’s request to rezone it to office, resulting in the asking price being slashed al-

Cedar Lane rezoning

most in half. Churches and schools are permitted inside residential zones on use-on-review. Bradley wants the property rezoned from civic institutional to office and low density residential and says she was forced to make this request because the city will not allow her tenants to have signage for their businesses. MPC has imposed four conditions regarding parking spaces and street access. Bradley was supported by Inskip Neighborhood Association president Betty Jo Mahan, who is an MPC employee. Mahan said her membership prefers Cindy Bradley’s proposed dance studio and office uses to apartment buildings, of which the area has a plethora. On the other side was Ryan

Bradley (no relation), the property’s next-door neighbor, who presented a petition with the signatures of 30 other close neighbors who oppose the rezoning and want to preserve the residential character of their neighborhood. “We all bought here knowing we were in R1,” Ryan Bradley said. “I don’t know why we’re talking about multi-family (not an allowed use in R-1 zones).” Fifth District City Council member Mark Campen, who represents the area, opposed the rezoning request, saying that Cindy Bradley bought the property at a greatly reduced price because of its zoning issues and should not benefit from her gamble at the expense of her To page A-3

A great day to stay home By Sandra Clark Knox County Schools will be giving a state-mandated “writing assessment” to children in grades 3-11 in February. The mom of a thirdgrader contacted Shopper-News.

Analysis The tests will be given on computer, and third-graders will be required to type their answers, she said. The teacher wrote: “This is an online assessment, which means they will read two articles online and then TYPE their 5 paragraph response.”

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a stroll upstairs to the primitive shop will warm your heart. “I have been working here for months decorating and helping to prepare for the opening,” said primitive shop employee Wanda Carden. “When I came in tonight, the sights, smells, music, lighting and seeing all the people enjoying themselves – it took my breath away.” Located in the former George and Frona Gill home at the intersection of Emory Road and Spring Street, the restaurant offers ca-

The kids will have an hour and a half to complete the test with a 30-minute break “in between,” according to the teacher. Dr. Elizabeth Alves, chief academic officer for Knox County Schools, said this is the first year the test will be administered in grades 3-11. “In the past, it was only given in grades 5, 8 and 11. The test was piloted across the state last year. Our teachers opted not to participate in the pilot.” Alves said the writing test for grades 5, 8 and 11 was administered by computer last year and grades 8 and 11 have been tested

on computer for two years. She said student performance will be reported, but it will not count for teacher evaluation or system accountability purposes. My final question: In what grade are children taught to type and expected to be proficient in the skill?” Alves said: “Instruction in the use of technology and typing varies from school to school. Currently, there is no curriculum from the state for teaching typing at the elementary levels; however, there are state standards at each grade level that identify performance expecta-

tions. Elementary students are not graded on proficiency in typing.” The parent who contacted Shopper-News is concerned that her 8-year-old will be typing a fiveparagraph response in a timed format. She said her kid visits the tech lab every six days, hardly enough to become proficient at keyboarding. The teacher who contacted her said typing practice at home would be helpful because, “Capitalization, punctuation and indentions will be taken into consideration on their assessment grade.” This might be a good day to keep your 8-year-old at home.

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