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January 20, 2014

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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Jet’s ahead!

Jet’s Pizza is planning a new store on Emory Road near Tennova North. Marketing manager Ashley Middlebrooks confirmed the plans Jan. 23 at the Farragut Chamber networking event.

Jet’s makes a signature deep-dish square pizza. There are locations in Farragut, Maryville, Lenoir City and Bearden. Next up is the Emory Road store, then stores in the East Towne area and Oak Ridge.

Sherry Gulley receives a citation from Deputy Barney Fife (Sammy Sawyer) at the Cabin Fever Car Show at the Knoxville Expo Center.

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by Cindy Taylor

Hunter moves to Woodhaven Diane Burnette Hunter of Powell has left Dogwood Cremation to join Woodhaven Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens as funeral home manager and funeral director.

Woodhaven is located at 160 Edgemoor Road, Powell. Info: 945-3461.

IN THIS ISSUE More on Mike Mike Stratton came uninvited from Tellico Plains to the University of Tennessee and stayed to become a first-team end in a two-way era, offense and defense. He learned a lot.

“I learned to be friends with the tailbacks,” he says.

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Read Marvin West on page 5

TVA draws scrutiny TVA board members are discussing privately whether all board members can attend committee meeting even if they are not a member.

Legal counsel Ralph Rodgers has opined that if five board members attend a committee meeting it could become a board meeting .

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By Betty Bean There’s a door immediately to the right of the entrance of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ shiny new $2.5 million training facility (excluding land cost) at 6107 Central Avenue Pike. The room on the other side of the door makes a statement.

The first door to the right in the IBEW Local 760 Training Center leads to the building’s electrical service and telecommunications hub, housed in a spacious room with stainless-steel panel covers, fully finished walls and floor-toceiling windows that fill the space with natural sunlight.

“We are making a statement because we do excellent work,” said Michael Marlowe, an IBEW business development and community-relations specialist who also serves as a fifth-year instructor in the apprenticeship program housed in the IBEW 760 Training Center.

“Normally, when you get to an electrical closet, they don’t even

His grandchildren may call him Pops, but Billy Stokes hopes you’ll soon call him Judge.

Stokes is running for the Division I Circuit Court judge seat being vacated by Dale Workman.

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Mike Marlowe stands in the electrical closet of the new IBEW training center. Photo by Ruth White paint the walls. This is our dream of an electrical closet,” Marlowe said.

Straight ahead is program administrator Cindy Sanderfur’s desk. Around the corner in the administrative suite is the office of training director A.J. Pearson,

who has come home to East Tennessee after retiring from the National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC). He served as director of the NJATC for 18 years. Down a shiny hallway are five separate classrooms and a computer lab where 85 appren-

tices take evening classes.

Annual tuition of $600, which covers books, lab fees and materials, covers only a fraction of the cost. The IBEW kicks in the rest – around $2,500 per year.

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PBPA launches new year with new leaders

Read Victor Ashe on page 4

Stokes: From ‘pops’ to judge

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Powell Business and Professional Association will grow and change this year, based on the energy and dedication of its members. Leadership will not be a problem, judging by last week’s meeting at Jubilee Banquet Facility.

Sage Kohler, a State Farm agency owner, took the reins as president. She had previously chaired the Teen Driver committee and was hesitant to relinquish the role. This is the year for the “mock crash,” and that requires all hands, she said. She’s asked her agency office manager, Rachel Wilburn, to help coordinate.

Rick Carnes, owner of Clinton Highway Wrecker Service, is vice president

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and chairs the program committee responsible for lining up interesting and helpful speakers. He was a founder of the PBPA and is the one who stuck around.

“We started with 11 members. We each had 10 salespeople for each other,” he said.

This year’s programs will include at least two panels led by association members.

Melissa Bingham,

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manager of First Volunteer Bank, is the high-energy chair of membership. “PBPA is the heartbeat of Powell,” she said. “We’ve got to help our businesses grow.”

Those who join or renew annual membership ($50) before the end of February will be listed in the directory, which is distributed through member businesses. This committee also organizes free spring and

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Will she reach her goal of 100 members? Absolutely.

Fred Braden is assertive about his role as communications chair. “We will see incredible activity on

the website and Facebook,” he said – just as soon as Daniel Monday of Slamdot teaches Fred how to upload.

Braden can be reached at fred.bradenboys@gmail. com. He offered to promote anniversaries, sales events and special functions for member businesses at www.powellbusiness.com.

Teresa Underwood returns as chair of special events. Her committee will plan and manage the annual banquet, the club’s only fundraiser. It also sponsors the community gathering at Powell Station Park following the July Fourth parade. This is an active committee, and she solicited members to help.

So the PBPA has launched its 2014 version.

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Nightmare reality Morristown teacher awakens to rare kind of stroke It was between 1 and 2 a.m. on July 18 – when Amy Guinn of Morristown awakened to a nightmarish reality.

Thrashing about in the bed so wildly that it awakened her husband, Terry, the 42-year-old mother of two was in the grips of a stroke caused by the inexplicable tearing of her carotid artery.

There had been no warning, no symptoms, nothing to point to a stroke that would rob her of her speech and paralyze her left side. An ambulance rushed Guinn to Lakeway Hospital, where she underwent several tests. She was diagnosed with spontaneous carotid artery dissection, a rare condition that normally affects women 30 to 40 years of age. Aside from her gender and age, she had none of the other risk factors.

It didn’t take long for medical professionals at the hospital to know they needed to send Guinn to the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center for specialized care. Recognized by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for its ability to care for stroke patients, Fort Sanders is a referral center for complex stroke cases. It is also home to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, which is nationally known as one of the top rehabilitation facilities in the nation.

The Fort Sanders staff immediately began evaluating the extent of Guinn’s stroke,

asking such questions as “Where are you?” and “How many kids do you have?”

“I held up three fingers, but I meant that I only had two,” Guinn said. “I knew what my mind was saying, but I couldn’t get it to go along with my mouth.”

That’s no surprise to Dr. Keith Woodward, the neuro-interventional radiologist who examined Guinn at Fort Sanders Regional that morning. “She’s lucky to be alive,” Woodward said as he pointed to a monitor where a black-and-white image showed a tangle of arteries resembling a road map. “The carotid artery had a tear of about 10 centimeters (roughly 6 inches), and had caused a clot that was preventing blood from getting to this whole side of her brain.”

According to Woodward, the clot-busting drug tPA (tissue plasmogenic activator) could not be administered in her case.

Based upon the external exam, she was sent straight to the neuro-interventional lab for removal of the clots.

“I distinctly remember Dr. Woodward saying we can do three things: One, you can get worse. Two, you could have surgery and have a chance to get better or three, we can Amy Guinn of Morristown said she felt blessed that there was a stroke center so close to home.

NOT do the surgery and this is what you have,” said Guinn. “So, I said, ‘No! no! Do the surgery!’ ” The surgery, Woodward said, involved using a tube-like catheter that acts as a suction device. While the surgery successfully removed all the clots, the road to recovery remained.

Looking forward to starting a new job as a teacher’s assistant just two weeks before the stroke, Guinn suddenly found that she couldn’t do simple math or read, and writing was next to impossible as her writing hand – the now paralyzed left hand – remained fixed in a half clench.

After six days in the ICU, she was able to raise her foot half an inch. After two days in a step-down unit, she was sent to Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center.

“I was up and walking in no time,” Guinn said. “I was really happy with the care … I felt blessed that we had a stroke center so close.”

Today, almost four months after her stroke, Guinn has made remarkable strides.

The biggest obstacle facing her is writing.

After 42 years of being a lefty, she’s now learning to write with her right hand.

Guinn, however, remains optimistic.

“I believe in positive thinking.” she says.

“I have many people praying for me. We live in a small community, and the show of love that’s been made is just awesome.”

Recognize the signs of a stroke FAST! The early symptoms of stroke are often overlooked or ignored. If you suspect that you or a loved one is having a stroke, think FAST:

Fort Sanders Regional is ‘Stroke Ready’ When you have a stroke, the care you receive immediately after it happens is critical. Fort Sanders Regional, along with its sister facilities within Covenant Health, have been deemed “Stroke Ready” by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program. This means these hospitals are qualified to give patients the best initial care at the onset of a stroke. The hospitals of Covenant Health are working together to provide state-of-theart emergency treatments and the most advanced stroke care in the region.

Also, Fort Sanders Regional is a comprehensive Stroke Center, and for patients recovering from the effects of stroke, the nationally renowned Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center offers a full spectrum of rehabilitation services.

To learn more about stroke prevention, risks and treatment through Fort Sanders Regional, visit fsregional.com, or call 865-673-FORT.

F – FACE: Look at your face. Is one side sagging?

A – ARMS: Hold out your arms. Is one arm lower than the other or harder to hold in place?

S – SPEECH: Is your speech slurred or garbled?

T – TIME: Time is critical when trying to minimize the effects of stroke.

Call 911 and get to a hospital as quickly as possible. And be sure your hospital is a stroke-ready, Comprehensive Stroke Center, like Fort Sanders Regional.

Stroke Belt keeps Fort Sanders Regional doctor busy Ask Dr. Keith Woodward what life is like in the Stroke Belt, and he’ll give you a one-word answer: “Busy!”

It’s no wonder – in 2012, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s Comprehensive Stroke Center treated 455 patients for stroke. In 2013, it averaged 35 to 40 strokes per month.

Woodward’s department treats about 100 of those patients per year.

“Those are very high numbers,” Woodward said. “We are in the buckle of the Stroke Belt, and stroke volumes are high here. Of course, this is much higher than all other facilities due to Fort Sanders’ comprehensive stroke center certification and the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center being here.”

Too, the risk factors for stroke – high blood pressure, smoking, sedentary lifestyle and the Southern diet of “fried everything” – are all higher here.

When Woodward came to Knoxville, no one could perform procedures inside the arteries of the brain.

He was particularly concerned when a local high school football player collapsed with a stroke and had to be sent to Asheville, N.C., because that was where the closest doctor was that could treat those disorders.

“I decided to go back and complete additional training to perform these procedures in the brain,” Woodward said. When he returned in 2005, patients no longer needed to travel to get the best stroke care.

Now at Fort Sanders Regional for a decade, he is currently chair of its Acute Stroke Team and Medical Director of the Neurovascular Research Center of East Tennessee. Woodward is board-certified by the American Board of Radiology and has the Certificate of Added Qualification in Interventional Radiology.

Strokes are now the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States.

Strokes occur when blood flow to the brain is disrupted. Disruption in blood flow is caused when either a blood clot blocks one of the vital blood vessels in the brain (ischemic stroke) or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, spilling blood into surrounding tissues (hemorrhagic stroke). Ischemic strokes account for 87 percent of all strokes.

In many cases, Woodward treats those patients with a procedure known as mechanical embolectomy.

“We place a needle in the artery in the groin and advance a catheter, using X-rays as a guide, until the cath-

Dr. Keith Woodward says advances in stroke treatment have drastically reduced the time it takes to remove clots, often minimizing damage to the brain. eter reaches the neck,” Woodward says. “Then, we advance a smaller catheter into the brain to the clot. A pump is then attached, and the clot is sucked out of the artery.”

The procedure has come a long way over the years.

“The tools are so much better – six-hour procedures to remove clots have been reduced to now commonly less than 30 minutes,” Woodward says, adding speed is vitally important when treating strokes. That is because the longer the clot remains, the longer the brain is without blood and oxygen.

As a result, the cells in the affected area begin to die, affecting whatever functions that area controlled.

“More often than not, stroke damage is permanent,” says Woodward.

“However, it almost always improves over the first six months after a stroke.

Rehab is the key during that period to help the brain recover.”

Busy though they may be, Woodward says his days are not without their rewards. One of those, he said, is when “I can see a person unable to walk or talk, and 24 hours later, they can go home from the hospital.”

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Quilt Guild yard sale It was yard-sale time at the January meeting of the Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild at the Powell Branch Library. Members brought stashes of fabric and books they were willing to part with, and bargains could be had.

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Show and tell included everything from iPad carriers and purses to wall hangings and quilts.

Vice president Jennifer Grace asked members to write down their top five 2014 quilting resolutions.

Grace will hold those until the December meeting and pass them back to members so they can see how they did.

The KMQG meets monthly at various locations. The Feb. 1 meeting will be at the

Bearden Branch Library and will include a Small Scrappy Swap, LRC Dice Game and a Sew-In. Info: www.modknox.ning.com.

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The dead of winter only enlivens members of the Noweta Garden Club, who used petite design to bring life into the gloom at the Jan. 14 meeting.

The meeting featured miniature designs brought in by members for critique by other members in preparation for a future show.

Miniature plants and objects were used in the creations.

“We are practicing petite design in preparation for the Knox County Council of Garden Clubs’ September show that will focus on miniature horticulture,” said member Carole Whited.

Noweta Garden Club meets at 10 a.m. each first Tuesday at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Info: ccwhited@ aol.com.

A teary-eyed Pat Pike shows a quilt top fabric designed with copies of score cards from chess games kept by her late husband during his chess club meetings.

Annabella Burton, 5, assisted mom and KMQG VP Jennifer Grace during the meeting.

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Kit Brown showed a modern design using bright colors.

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The IBEW places them in day jobs where they receive on-the-job training and earn half the starting wage of a journeyman electrician – about $11.50 per hour.

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“It’s our solution to the problem of how do you get a good job with no experience, and how do you get experience without a job.”

Despite the limiting language in job descriptions, there are two women enrolled in Marlowe’s fifth-year class and several more in the apprenticeship program.

The union is actively recruiting more, Marlowe said.

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government Opening TVA’s closed doors While TVA seldom reports or even hints at what is happening at closed board committee meetings, there has been lots of speculation since Mike McWherter broke tradition and voted no on the extension of Bill Sansom’s term as chair. It sent shock waves throughout the organization. This kind of public dissent just does not happen. Here is what I have learned from several sources.

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The recommendation to extend Sansom came from the compensation committee chaired by Barbara Haskew, 73, whose term expires in May. However, the committee had also received a request that director Joe Ritch, 63, be named chair. Ritch is from Huntsville, Ala. Since Sansom wanted to continue as chair until his term expires in May, Ritch opted not to challenge him. However, Ritch will likely be the next chair.

While the board has had a vice chair in the past (last held by Sansom in 2011) it has not been filled for two years. No reason was given for leaving it vacant.

Recently, the board determined the chair of the audit committee would be chair if the real chair could not attend the meeting, but no discussion occurred on what happens to the empty vice chair position.

It’s a safe bet Sansom will not name Mike McWherter. And it’s a safe bet that Sansom and Haskew will not be reappointed by President Obama.

■ Another question being discussed privately by board members is whether all board members can attend any committee meeting including those they are not members of.

Legal counsel Ralph Rodgers has opined that if five board members attend a committee meeting it could become a board meeting.

The finance committee (the most important committee) has four members and does not allow other board members to attend. Rodgers even discourages five directors being on a TVA plane at the same time as it might suggest a meeting.

This means the nonmembers never hear what

was discussed or what was rejected. They are kept in the dark. This is one of many reasons the committees should meet in public and let ratepayers know what is happening. It’s surprising that environmental groups like Sierra Club have not taken on the issue of closed committee meetings.

■ Ralph Rodgers was paid $1.9 million a year as chief general counsel for TVA in 2013. However, this is a reduction in income for Rodgers as he made $2.5 million in 2012, according to the statement TVA filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If you think this is fiction, check out the SEC filing for TVA. Only seven years ago, in 2007, Rodgers was making just $180,000 a year, so his increase is 10 times in seven years. Then-TVA general counsel Maureen Dunn (now married to former TVA director Neil McBride) made $330,000 in 2007 ... much less than $1.9 million.

Not many attorneys in Tennessee make that much in a single year. TVA could easily find well-qualified attorneys to accept Rodgers’ position for less than half that amount if he refused to pare back his excessive salary from ratepayers.

Now that this is becoming public, one wonders how long the board will remain silent. It is stunning that a quasi-governmental lawyer at TVA makes 10 times what a federal district judge makes and that this quantum leap occurred in seven years. TVA is also notorious for sending convoys of attorneys to legal proceedings.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan, when asked, said these salaries were “ridiculously excessive.” Duncan is the only member of the Tennessee congressional delegation who has spoken out for years against excessive TVA salaries.

■ Gary Sousa made $140,200 a year as UT band director. He continues to make this amount, although his band duties were suspended and he has no duties at present. The investigation is still ongoing.

However, if the outcome of the inquiry results in Sousa being moved back to the faculty, his salary will be $105,050.

The 25 percent reduction is standard UT practice for persons moved from administrative to faculty positions, according to Margie Nichols of the UT chancellor’s staff. The head of the music school would assign him new duties.

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Paul Kelley’s influence continues Says charter school founder Diggs

talk all this over with him.”

Kelley was a career educator, longtime president of the Oakwood-Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association, multi-term school-board member and lifelong chamIt’s times like these when pion of inner-city children.

Steve Diggs misses Paul In 2010, the Dr. Paul L. KelKelley. ley Volunteer Academy, a nontraditional high school in the Knoxville Center mall, was named for him.

Kelley and his wife, NorBetty Bean ma, were members of Emerald Avenue United Methodist Church when Diggs, fresh out of Maryville ColNot that he doesn’t feel lege, was hired as a youth the loss of his longtime minister back in 1988. Diggs mentor almost every day took to the job with vigor since Kelley died a year ago and vision, and Kelley’s en– but now Diggs, as execu- couragement and advice betive director of the Emerald came invaluable as the EYF Youth Foundation, has gone became an inner-city-wide public with a plan to plunge youth ministry, eventually into the charter-school serving 1,400 children. business, and he wishes he Today, Diggs and his could have the benefit of family live two doors down Kelley’s sage advice. from the Kelleys’ family “He was my second fa- home, and he still sees Norther, and I wish I could sit ma frequently. He believes down in his living room and Paul Kelley would approve

of Emerald Charter Schools and the plan to enter the contentious and highly political field of education.

The first thing Diggs wants to make clear is that he is a public-school guy.

His children attend Christenberry Elementary School and Fulton High School, and Diggs is active on both campuses.

He is distressed by the low scores that Knoxville’s urban students have been getting in math and language arts and says he wants to do something to help children become college-ready by the time they finish high school.

“I am a public-school advocate. In fact, we are going to increase our offerings to public schools, and we think the public charter-school option will be another strategy to accelerate the path to achievement.”

The second thing he would like to make clear is that the first Emerald Charter School will not involve a

takeover of any existing Knox County school, although he will consider any space that might be offered.

The first Steve Diggs Emerald Charter School will serve kindergarteners and firstgraders only, and the student body will consist of 75 to 100 inner-city first and second-graders.

Diggs says he has not chosen a location but anticipates that it will be near Fulton High School, perhaps on property soon to be abandoned by Physicians Regional Medical Center (the hospital that Diggs’ neighbors still call St. Mary’s).

“We think we’re going to need about 20,000 square feet,” he said. “We’ll see what’s going to be available.”

He believes Paul Kelley would approve.

‘Pops’ hopes to be called ‘Judge’ His grandchildren may call him Pops, but Billy Stokes hopes you’ll soon call him Judge.

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captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

He is a founding partner of Stokes & Fansler, worked for Gov. Don Sundquist and boasts a bunch of other stuff you can read at his website.

“I’ve been doing this for a long time,” Billy said, “but the most important thing is that I practice law, step in and resolve conflicts. I’ve tried cases for a long time, both for plaintiffs and defendants, and I’ve won some and I’ve lost some.”

He says he has the experience, education and temperament to do the job well.

“Just keep the talk on the street and we’ll move forward and win this thing on May 6,” he said to his supporters.

Granddaughter Bailey, 3, either liked what she heard or wanted to talk to Bay and Pops ’cause she got to them before supporters could.

Surrounded by friends and family, Billy Stokes looked comfortable. He felt like a winner. Billy’s is the familiar face in the race, but sometimes voters like fresh faces.

I don’t know what’s going to happen on Election Day, but I do know this. Familiar doesn’t need a road map or a question mark.

Stokes is running for the Division I Circuit Court judge seat being vacated by Dale Workman. His opponents to date are lawyers Bill Ailor, Kristi Davis and Ray Hal Jenkins.

Like Jenkins, Stokes is a former Knox County Republican Party chair. He’s safe, familiar.

His mentor, Richard Bean, stood quietly in the corner as everybody stopped by to say hello at his campaign kickoff at Calhoun’s on the River. Duane Grieve and Gail Jarvis were chatting in another corner.

Bailey Hickerson, 3, runs up to chat with Bay and Billy “Pops” Knoxville Mayor Madeline Stokes after Billy addresses the crowd at his campaign kickoff Rogero dropped by, as did at Calhoun’s on the River. Photo by Jake Mabe former county GOP chair Chad Tindell. visor at the East Tennessee Stokes’ wife, Bay, a for- Bruce Blakely.

Raised in Lonsdale, Regional Juvenile Center, mer educator, was saying howdy to everybody. It felt Stokes attended Maryville now named for Bean. After College to play football. receiving his J.D., he joined “Pull Up A Chair” with Jake Mabe at jakehomey, familiar.

Billy is a Knoxville na- A shoulder injury ended the U.S. Army, serving as a mabe.blogspot.com tive. At least two of his dreams of gridiron glory, classmates from Beaumont so he transferred to UT. He Elementary School and earned a bachelor’s degree Waggoner fundraiser set for Jan. 31 Rule High showed up to sup- in psychology and was hired Wright’s Cafeteria, 5403 N. Middlebrook Pike, port him. Billy remembered as juvenile counselor for the will be the setting for a Friday, Jan. 31, fundraiser for playing football against the Knoxville Police DepartBobby Waggoner, candidate for Knox County sheriff Dink Adams-coached Halls ment. in the May 6 Republican Primary. The spaghetti supWhen that job was elimiHigh football team and per will be 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 each and says he figured out a way to nated, Stokes attended UT will be available at the door or by calling 978-1042. deal with Dink’s offensive Law School and worked full-time as a shift supertandem of Elmo Brock and

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More Mike Stratton Mike Stratton came uninvited from Tellico Plains to the University of Tennessee and stayed to become a first-team end in a two-way era, offense and defense. He learned a lot. “I learned to be friends with the tailbacks. We didn’t throw many forward passes, but when we did, it was the tailback doing the throwing.�

That strategy led to nine receptions as a senior in 1961 and Mike’s lone experience with a professional scout.

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“Gil Brandt (Dallas Cowboys) came to see Glenn Glass, and I got to meet him.

Glenn asked about me as a prospect, and Mr. Brandt said oh yes, he would check on me.�

Brandt, ahead of the world in technical aspects of

A memorable character I suppose most people have met someone who tends to linger in their mind and surfaces from time to time when certain events or observations trigger a remembrance.

And, in 70-plus years, I have met a lot of people who fall into that category. But one in particular seems to stand out when I see street people, and I cannot help but wonder what event in their lives resulted in their becoming homeless.

As part of a Christmas event, several members of our church decided to cook breakfast for the homeless at a homeless ministry center. After the event, we gathered at the Cracker Barrel to enjoy breakfast together, and we decided to make this outing a permanent ministry. I doubt that many of us knew what we were getting into, or we may never have made the commitment. Certainly we never realized that it would continue for nine years.

So we made arrangements with the ministry center director to cook breakfast every Wednesday at 7 a.m. We served pancakes with hot syrup, link sausage and scrambled eggs, and soon word got around that the place to be for breakfast was the Volunteer Ministry Center. Sine the preparation time took about two hours, we got up at 4 a.m. and met at the local barber shop, crowded into a Suburban and were usually ready to start cooking by 5 a.m.

I met many people during the nine year period, and soon got to know the locals by their first names.

But on one particular morning I had some business to conduct downtown and drove by myself. I parked in an adjacent parking area and walked up to the entrance. It was dark and as I approached I noticed a man standing in the doorway. I was a bit hesitant to approach because he was not someone I recognized. He asked if I had eaten there before and I explained that I was one of a crew who would be cooking his breakfast.

We had only talked a few minutes when I realized this man was not a run-of-themill street person. Our subject matter quickly made me realize that he was educated and had an in-depth knowledge of many subjects. He carried a pack which he had set down in the doorway. He reached down and pulled a cylindrical container from the pack that contained his law degree from the University of Chicago. This diploma was apparently the only thing he had kept to remind him of who he once was. He said that if he were found

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dead, someone might take the diploma and trace down his relatives.

I asked him if he would like to share his experience that led to this, and he seemed anxious to do so. He was a full partner in a prestigious law firm, and certain events in his life resulted in his gradually taking money from the firm. His partners soon discovered the theft.

Rather than prosecute him, they simply asked him to leave. From that point, his wife divorced him and his two daughters refused to even talk to him. At that point, he gathered some clothes and a small amount of money and left his home during the night.

When the rest of my crew arrived, we opened the door and invited him in out of the cold. There was a spinet piano down on the dining floor. He sat down and started playing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.� I told him that he could get a job at one of the local hotel’s piano bars, and that we would help him get some clothes. He thanked me for the offer, but said he was doing exactly what he wanted to do.

And it became apparent that what he wanted to do was just live for his next drink. A previous experience taught me that giving a homeless person money almost always worked to their further detriment. I never pushed the offer further, but during the week I thought a lot about my experience and was anxious to see him again the following Wednesday. But he never came back, and for several weeks I hoped he would show up. But he apparently found that next drink further down the road.

His story is like many others I heard over the nine-year period. There was some cataclysmic event that happened in their life that resulted in their addiction to alcohol. And from that point, the slide was downward.

But the thing that made him different is that he had the credentials and talent to turn his life around. He probably could have landed a position of law clerk in some law firm in spite of his past history, and he certainly could have played the piano in some capacity.

He made a bad choice to solve a problem, and I can only hope that somewhere further down the road he might have made a right choice.

But I doubt it.

talent searches, didn’t know there was a Mike Stratton.

Buster Ramsey was the first coach of the Buffalo Bills. He had Maryville roots and had played at Knoxville High School. One of his East Tennessee connections told him that Stratton had good hands, good speed, good size and genuine potential on defense. He was added to the draft list – in pencil.

Ramsey got fired while trying to make something out of nothing, and Lou Saban became the new coach in Buffalo. “The American Football League drafted early, and it wasn’t a very big deal,� recalled Stratton. “I stopped at Sam and Andy’s on the Strip one evening, and somebody told me I had been drafted.�

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the offer to $10,000 and give me the other $1,000 as a cash advance, I said I would sign. Without a moment’s hesitation, Coach Saban said OK.�

Stratton wondered if he had sold himself short.

A little later, back on campus, there were Lou Saban and Glenn Glass on a joy ride, seeing the sights from a big convertible, talking about real money.

Stratton had hobbled to the airport to meet the coach. The coach had come to the school to pick up the tailback.

Stratton played 12 seasons of professional football, 156 games as an outside linebacker. He intercepted 21 passes. Six times he was in the Pro Bowl. He has an honored place on the Bills’ wall of fame. He was elected to the Buffalo all-time team, chosen after 50 years. He

is a legend in western New York.

Stratton had one of the historic hits in all of football. In the 1964 AFL championship game against San Diego, the great Keith Lincoln was about to catch a pass. Mike, a full-grown 6-3 and 240, and the ball arrived in about the same instant. Fans said “ooooh.�

Lincoln did not get up.

He had a rib problem.

The “Hit heard around the world� took on a life of its own. Almost everybody said it decided the championship game. Some said it became the cornerstone of Buffalo’s development as a franchise. “I never wanted to be known as a one-hit wonder,� said Stratton. “But when people asked about that tackle, I always accepted responsibility and smiled.�

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The next morning, the pay phone on the second floor in the stadium dormitory was ringing its bell off.

As usually happened, the nearest Volunteer woke up enough to answer. “Hey Stratton, this one’s for you.�

It was Lou Saban. “He said I had been drafted by the Bills in the 13th round. He asked if I could come out to the airport for a meeting. I was on crutches from an ankle injury in the Vanderbilt game, but I borrowed John Bill Hudson’s car and drove out to the airport. “Coach Saban was pleasant but businesslike. He offered me $9,000 for the 1962 season and $1,000 bonus if I would sign right then. “Glenn Glass had given me some tips about negotiations. I decided to try one. If the Bills would raise

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Passion, promise and praise

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The atmosphere at Baptist Tabernacle Church in Knoxville was noisy and convivial on a recent Monday night as the MLK Celebration Choir rehearsed for its Jan. 19 concert at the Bijou Theatre commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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Carol’s Corner Convivial, but marked with great seriousness and focused intent.

“We’ve got a lot of stuff to get through tonight,” said Dr. Aaron Staple, Knoxville College’s director of choral music and leader/pianist

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for the MLK choir, “so let’s get started with ‘Praise.’ ” He asked his son-in-law, Xzavian Wrushen, to lead the group in the spirited anthem. Wrushen conducted the group from his toes up, giving strong cues and commanding the singers with passion and precision.

Later, speaking of the great civil-rights leader, Wrushen said, “Dr. King understood the concept of perfect love. Love transcends race. It transcends gender, sexual orientation, religion – love doesn’t fit in a box.”

Several choir members concurred with softly spoken “amens.”

“Martin Luther King was the voice of peace for the 20th century,” said Staple.

“Standing strong for what he believed against all odds, and using nonviolent measures, has been his greatest impact on my life.” Staple attended the funeral of the

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slain leader in Atlanta in 1968 and took note of the music played there. It’s influenced his musical decisions ever since. “I try to choose songs that carry his philosophy and the message he proclaimed, and songs I recall him hearing and liking.”

In addition to his Knoxville College post, Staple has been directing choirs at Baptist Tabernacle since 1963 and is retired from the Knox County school system, where he was an elementary-school teacher.

Folks who are lucky enough to attend one of his events know how much heart he throws into every performance. He specializes in collaborating with his soloists to showcase their individual talents.

With Staple providing the piano accompaniment, singers can express their feelings of the moment.

He’s always with them,

Xzavian Wrushen leads the women in a spirited anthem: Diane Johnson, Sylvia Brown, Eloise Webb, Wilma Brabson, Dorothy Parks, Staffene Ocan, Vivian Dial, Krishana Forbes and Dawn Davis. giving them room to soar.

His daughter, Audrey Wrushen, is following in his footsteps. She led the choir in a rousing new anthem, “We Sing the Praises to Our King.”

“To me, Dr. King was an example of how to be a soldier for Christ,” she said.

“He was no respecter of persons; he saw everyone the same, which is the way God sees us. He always walked in his purpose.”

Yolanda Flowers, who was reared in Birmingham, Ala., agreed. “Although I did not know Dr. King, to me he meant free-

dom and civil rights.”

Bass Harold Bassett chimed in from across the room. “I have a somewhat different perspective,” he said. “I was raised in the county. I didn’t know I was ‘integrated’ until I heard of Dr. King’s assassination. I didn’t know anything about black history, about what our people had been through. I didn’t know about freedom until I learned about Dr. King.”

Soprano Earnestine Branner quickly agreed.

“Dr. King raised my awareness of civil rights. The greatest gifts he gave us are

peace, perseverance and faith.”

“To me, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. epitomizes our past, our present and our future,” said Dr. Eloise Webb. “We’re still clinging to his words and hoping we’ll have a better tomorrow.”

Lawrence Washington, a bass who’s been with the choir for many years, nodded. “He’s one of my heroes,” he said quietly.

Pat Benn wrapped it all up succinctly. “Passion, promise and praise. That’s it. That’s what Dr. King represented.”

Bass Harold Bassett has unusual memories of the civil-rights Audrey Wrushen leads the choir while her husband, Xzavian, plays the piano. era.

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A healthier, more vibrant Knoxville

By Ruth White If you are looking for a way to eat healthier or reduce/prevent/reverse heart disease or diabetes, check out the cooking classes at the North Knoxville Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Kathy Reid and Pat Kaufmann have coordinated a series of classes that will show individuals how to cook healthier while not sacrificing taste. Kaufmann is certified in teaching cooking classes, and each month a variety of samples will be made and tasted. Asked why they were sponsoring the classes, Reid replied, “We want a healthier, more vibrant North Knoxville.”

The introductory class featured the documentary “Forks Over Knives” and discussed the need to adopt a whole-foods/plant-based diet for healthier living.

On Feb. 11, the class will feature making healthy soups, salads and sandwich fillings. Participants will learn to make these items and will sample the delicious results.

The March 11 class will feature chef/author Melody Prettyman, and on April 8 Reid and Kaufmann will create desserts that are healthy and tasty. Each class begins at 6 p.m. and is free. Preregistration is required for planning

The language of the soul Ed Reid discusses the reasons for eating a vegetarian/vegan diet. Photo by Ruth White

and can be done by calling 314-8204 or visiting www.

KnoxvilleInstep.com.

The church will begin a Breathe Free program Tuesday, Jan. 21, that will help individuals stop smoking. “We are here to help, not criticize,” said Ed Reid, who holds a master’s degree in public health.

Kathy Reid co-hosts the healthy living cooking classes at North Knoxville Seventhday Adventist Church.

Info/register: 314-8204 or www.KnoxvilleInstep.com.

Also available at the church are free blood pressure checks 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. No appointment is necessary.

North Knoxville Seventhday Adventist Church is at 6530 Fountain City Road.

Mission-team members from First Baptist Powell: Brad Neal, Darrell Vandergriff, Ronda Vandergriff and Billy Varner. Photo submitted

Getting acquainted with Africa

By Cindy Taylor A four-member team from First Baptist Powell headed to Salama, Kenya, last week.

Brad Neal, First Baptist Academy high school principal; Darrell Vandergriff, FBA administrator; and Ronda Vandergriff, FBA 3rd grade teacher, flew out Jan. 16 for Africa. It isn’t the first time the church has been on a

mission to Kenya, but this trip is different.

For the first time, a student from First Baptist Academy accompanied the team. Senior Billy Varner headed across the ocean to experience many “firsts” for him: first time on an airplane, first time on a mission trip and first time to leave the United States.

This is Varner’s “senior trip” and

will involve construction and caring for students at the orphanage, working alongside Tunawajali Christian Baptist Academy in Salama. First Baptist Powell was instrumental in starting the Salama academy, and the mission team will spend 10 days working with the school.

Reach Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.com

UCHS benefits from Community Foundation a grant from the Union

By Libby Morgan C o u n t y The Union County ComCommunity munity Foundation will hold Foundation a fundraising auction during to purchase the Chamber banquet Friday, non-fiction Feb. 7, at Rutherford Memobooks for rial Church in Corryton. student reBusinesses and individusearch paals are urged to support the pers. Teachfoundation with donations e r s of items for the auction.

Collins submit ted The UCCF is growing its fund and making grants to potential research projects educators, preservationists, and a list of books needed youth and other deserving to complete those projects.

“The areas of research from the auction will be used to support the commu- included biography, science, health occupations, cosmenity of Union County.

Last year, the foundation tology, and social sciences.”

Collins shares a student’s awarded money to four departments at Union County comment: Julie Edwards – senior: High School. One of the recipients was Sherrie Collins, “Having decent and accessible books available to me school librarian.

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ference in my dual enrollment English experience.

“With as many essays as our class writes, having good quality research materials is essential to our learning and success.

“The Jane Austen collection that our library received, in particular, helped me greatly in writing my essay on her life and one of her most famous works, ‘Pride and Prejudice.’

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But I trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

(Psalm 13: 5-6 NRSV) Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.

(Bob Dylan) Which is why we have songs of praise, songs of love, songs of sorrow. (“And Bob Dylan Too,” Mary Oliver) I was never particularly a Bob Dylan fan. He wrote some great music, but as a singer, in my opinion, he left much to be desired.

However, Dylan was absolutely on target when he said, “Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.”

Take, for example, the children’s song “Ring Around the Rosy,” which is actually a song about the Black Death. Or, those Kilkenny Cats, who fought until “instead of two cats, there wasn’t any.”

On the far other end of the spectrum is my all-time favorite, hands-down winner as the best single piece of music ever written, J.S. Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”

I have made music as long as I can remember.

One of my earliest memories is sitting at the piano playing the keys with no particular song in mind, which was not, please note, making music. But I was fascinated with the sounds, and I wanted to make music.

I was amazed, one day in the first grade, when a sophisticated second grader came to my classroom to inform my teacher that I was to go to another room for my piano lesson. Piano lesson?!? I knew nothing about a piano lesson! He led me to the correct room, where I had a lesson, received my first music book, and was, quite simply, a goner.

I was never a great pianist, just a competent one.

I was a good singer, never a great one. I have made my living mostly through church music, entertained my mind with folk music and ballads, fed my soul through singing with the Knoxville Choral Society,

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and kept babies happy with lots of lullabies.

Most of the Scripture and poetry I have memorized is in my head because I sang it. I can sing the lyrics of many songs I learned in the ’60s (who can explain that, except to say that a younger brain is a more trustworthy repository than an older one?).

I turn to music when I am sad. The day my father died, when I was 10, I sat down at the piano and played my sorrow. Someone suggested to Mother that maybe that was not appropriate – music in a house of bereavement – but she had the wisdom, even in the midst of her own shock, to say, “No. Let her play; that’s how she is expressing her grief.”

I was pleased beyond all reason when I learned that the universe sings as well. There are, I am told

by Those Who Know, vibrations humming out there, echoes of the Big Bang (which I understand as God’s voice saying, “Let there be light!”). That sound created the universe and began the “music of the spheres,” as the poets call it.

One of my music professors made a statement that I shall never forget: “Music is the only art form that is ephemeral. It is here and gone; performed and dies away; exists only in its moment and ceases to be.”

Except in the human heart.

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Staying together Childhelp finding success for sibling groups

By Betsy Pickle

to find 19 families adopting sibling groups of three or more kids.

“It’s just a remarkable accomplishment that snuck up on us. We didn’t realize we had done it till we had done it. It’s been a really cool run.”

The Childhelp Foster Family Agency, based in Seymour, has been serving children in the state of Tennessee since 2004.

It has been recognized for having one of the highest adoption rates of any foster-care provider in the state of Tennessee.

“Nearly 90 percent of the children placed in our

Childhelp Foster Care Agency has been so busy beating the odds that staff members didn’t even notice that they’ve arranged adoptions for a record number of multiple-sibling groups.

“Nineteen foster families have adopted sibling groups of three or more children within the past four or five years,” says Childhelp director Hugh Nystrom, noting that at least two families have adopted five children each.

“That’s a big deal. It’s hard The Holmes family adopted four older siblings recently to find a home for one kid to get adopted, much less through the Childhelp Foster Family Agency. Photo submitted

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There are some different behaviors that you have to manage or just be understanding of. The numbers show that we’ve had a lot of success in helping our foster parents be successful. Our case managers try their best to be proactive, to help our foster parents be ready for anything.”

There aren’t hordes of people coming forward, offering to foster and adopt children.

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First Baptist Academy varsity basketball players and brothers Josh and Corey Lett warm up before the Jan. 14 game against Cornerstone Academy. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Turtle Tots for toddlers The Knoxville Zoo has started a program for children ages 2-3 to help introduce them to the animal world.

Turtle Tots is a weekly series of classes that encourages toddlers to interact with new friends, both human and animal alike.

Zoo staff will introduce animal concepts through hands-on activities that include games, songs, dancing, crafts and animal visitors.

Classes are offered 10:30-11:30 a.m. each Thursday for six-weeks, and each one focuses on a highlighted topic. Each program builds on the previous week so attending all classes in a series is recommended but not required.

The spring semester includes series one, Animal Magic, through Feb. 20; series two, Animal Fami-

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All classes are held in the Log Cabin. Cost is $15 per class per child. Receive a discount by purchasing a full six-week series for $75. The program fee does not include admission to the zoo. If you are not a zoo member, you must purchase general admission tickets before attending the class.

Pre-registration is preferred although walk-ins are welcomed if space permits. Walk-in participants will be charged $5 for onsite registration. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Info: knoxvillezoo. org. To register, call Jessica Hurley at 637-5331 or email her at jlhurley@ knoxville-zoo.org.

Davis signs with King Webb School of Knoxville team’s third highest senior Madison Davis has signed to play basketball at scorer with King University in Bristol.

273 points.

She was a four-year Present starter for the Spartans and at the signhelped lead her team to its ing were third state championship in her parents, 2012, picking up All-District Jason Davis and All-Region Tournament and Jill Dateam and All-Region Tourvis, brother Bryson and nament MVP honors along Madison Davis g r a n d p a r the way.

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Winning is ‘nigh’ Fifth-grader Cody MacLeod won the Powell Elementary Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word “nigh.”

Pleasant Ridge’s big kid and art teacher Alex Buckland pins the parts on the snow figure and gets the nose just right, to the cheers of his students.

First Baptist Academy basketball brothers: Josh Lett, Billy Varner and Cory Lett.

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By Cindy Taylor Christmas may be over, but the kids at Pleasant Ridge Elementary still enjoyed seasonal music, crafts and fun on Panther Pride Day.

to participate.”

This quarter on Panther Pride Day, students crafted snowflakes and shaving cream snowpeople, had their faces painted and played pin the parts on the snow figure with teachers and parent volunteers. Christmas music, hot chocolate and snacks were included.

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Pleasant Ridge 1st grader Jody Freeman finishes up a shaving cream snow creature.

“Once each quarter we do a special day for students who have received all A’s in behavior,” said principal Jessica Birdsong. “We have such well-behaved students who have exceeded expectations that most of them get

Senior Night at First Baptist

The First Baptist Academy Powell basketball game Jan. 14 was special for many reasons. It was the academy’s first senior night, the senior class was recognized during the game and Ashleanne Zachary sang the National Anthem.

Three brothers, Josh and Corey Lett and Billy Varner, played in the game against Cornerstone Academy of Morristown. Senior Varner is playing his last season.

FBA is building a high school basketball program.

“This is the second year for high school athletics,

and we are TSSAA members,” said staff member Jennifer Neal. “Beginning the 2014-2015 school year, we will be competing on the varsity level of Division II Single A athletics.”

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Career Magnet Academy principal John Derek Faul- Ashleanne Zachary performs coner visited Powell Middle the National Anthem at First Pleasant Ridge Elementary School principal Jessica Birdsong adSchool Jan. 14 to share in- Baptist Academy Senior Night. mires a snowflake created by Brewer Mooney. Photos by Cindy Taylor Photo submitted formation about the school, which will accept a freshman class this fall.

“We are a public school just like any other school in Knoxville,” he said. “We want to let students know about our academy in the hope that they will consider our school.

Currently we are not districted, and we are planning to provide some sort of transportation for students.”

The school is at Pellissippi State at Strawberry Plains, and students can earn dual credits. Info: john. faulconer@knoxschools.org or 594-1731.

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Chasity Gulley and her brother, Tyler, came in from Washburn to enjoy the Cabin Fever Car Show.

The weather was perfect for drawing a crowd to the 30th annual Cabin Fever Car Show Jan. 1112 at the Knoxville Expo Center.

Co-promoters Mike Berry and Troy Beeler brought in more than 150 vintage and “muscle� cars and motorcycles galore for the enjoyment of the hundreds in attendance. “This is set up for the whole family,� said Berry. “We lost one of our partners last year, Charlie Rogers, so we are honoring him this year.�

Berry and his family are longtime owners of Halls Auto Parts.

According to the ticket count, this year’s event drew the largest crowd in the show’s history.

The show included vendors selling vehicles, parts and memorabilia, plenty of food, live music and hours of strolling fun.

And if anything or anyone got out of hand, Deputy Barney Fife (Sammy Sawyer) was there to “Nip it in the bud.�

Entertainment for the Cabin Fever Car Show included a group from Ciderville Music Store: Joyce Morris, Jerry Isaacs, Jodi Harbin and David West.

Kelly Beeler built his Boss Hoss Cycle to his own specs.

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With financial support from the city of Knoxville and Covenant Health, we recently renewed a wonder f ul partnership with the Community Nance Action Committee (CAC) to provide fulltime case managers at each of our four high-rise buildings: Isabella Towers, Cagle Terrace, Northgate Terrace and Guy B. Love Towers.

We began this partnership in 2008 to prevent homelessness and help residents succeed in their housing, and because of the program’s proven success, I am excited to be able to continue and expand this program.

Since 2008, nearly 459 residents have received case management services.

None of our residents participating in case management have been evicted to the streets, but instead have maintained stable housing at KCDC or been assisted by the case workers in finding alternate housing situations. “The program’s benefit is seen in the lives of the residents who now have knowledgeable and caring case managers to help them live independently and avoid the pitfalls of life that can lead to homelessness,� said CAC executive director Barbara Kelly.

“Prevention is the best homeless program because it is compassionate, cheaper than other approaches and more likely to be successful than any other intervention.�

The case managers assist residents with budget training, housekeeping, transportation, physical and mental health ailments and mediation issues with neighbors. They will even assist with finding housing with other programs better equipped to serve their particular needs. KCDC high-rises serve primarily an elderly and disabled population, so access to these services is crucial to our residents being able to enjoy a full, healthy life.

The ultimate goal is to find the best place for the resident to thrive. And according to our property managers, case managers make this happen! “Having case managers is a dealmaker,� said Steve Ellis, senior asset manager for Love Towers. “The CAC case managers allow us to be proactive in addressing needs as they arise before they become major problems. They help us develop our community to its potential.�

Thanks to KCDC, the CAC, the city of Knoxville and Covenant Health, our residents will continue to able to receive the individualized attention they need to succeed at our properties.

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Stories and Songs

Knoxville libraries host special guests each week for Saturday Stories and Songs. Sean McCollough entertained the kids at the Powell library Jan. 11 with his talent on banjo, mandolin and guitar.

McCollough has been playing for kids for more than 20 years and is well known for his local radio show broadcast at 10 a.m. Saturdays on WDVX. He will host a special show Jan. 25 with a live audience and singer Robinella. The public is invited to attend and be a part of the broadcast.

Reach Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.com

Bindi Dawson, 10, Lola Dawson, 7, and Reid Gaudet, 4, enjoy Stories and Songs at the Powell Library with musician Sean McCollough.

A New Year design sparkles at the Noweta Garden Club.

Tweety Bird lends a note of whimsy to this design.

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The best job in town PULL UP A CHAIR … | Jake Mabe over who’s got the best job.

Truth is, we both do. We get paid to have fun, tell jokes, observe others and, we hope, churn out a newspaper you either love or hate and, in all seriousness, boost the communities we serve.

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y boss accuses me of liking everybody.

With the possible exception of Victor Ashe (no baseball in Knoxville), I plead guilty.

And why not? I like people or I wouldn’t be in this business. Plus, as Abraham Lincoln said, “I never met a person from whom I couldn’t learn something.

Of course, usually it was something not to do.”

Sandra Clark and I fight

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The beginning

It all started at a 5000watt radio station in Fresno, California …

No, not really. That was Ted Baxter’s ubiquitous line on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

I was a weird kid, though.

Grew up liking Ted, old TV shows, newspapers, radio, baseball, books and balladeers. I dressed up like a Red Devil at football games.

I wanted to be Jack Ben-

ny, Al Kaline, Elvis, Sherlock Holmes, the Oak Ridge Boy with the long beard or Walter Cronkite. Since those jobs were taken, I learned how to impersonate them instead and went to school to become a history professor. Some of you might know two of my mentors (if they’ll claim me): Steve Ash (his wife, Jean, was Old Man Schultz’s dance partner in the good ol’ WIVK days with Claude Tomlinson) and Dr. Paul J. Pinckney of Sequoyah Hills.

I graduated summa cum laude from UT but really wanted to write. I kept begging Sandra for a job until she gave up and said yes. To make sure I stayed, I parked my car in the office – literally. (Don’t ask.)

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I cut my teeth writing features, first in Union County and then primarily in North Knox County.

Somewhere along the way, I learned how to herd words,

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Somebody called me the John Boy Walton of Halls.

That’s fine. Charles Kuralt is another hero. I spent the first part of my career telling his kind of tales, good ones, about your friends and neighbors and the kids at school.

The Halls B&P gave me something better than a Pulitzer – the Halls Man of the Year plaque in 2011. (I still think the first two choices said no.)

I come from a family of teachers and was mentored by many. Education is a passion, and I

covered that beat a while.

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Sandra says she’s the luckiest person in Knox County. Not so fast.

I’ve got the best job in town.

The serious part of what we do is advocating for your community. We might be positive, negative, silly, serious, but never, ever boring.

I’m covering county government now. Sandra’s keeping an eye on me (that beat is her baby), but I’m taking my storytelling style and learning to throw analysis into the mix.

Hang on for the ride, y’all.

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La Technique: Knife Skills cooking class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia’s La Cucina, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $60. Info/reservations: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia.com.

Registration deadline: Jan. 19. Info: 494-9854 or www. appalachianarts.net.

Live country, bluegrass and gospel music, 7:30 p.m., WMRD 94.5 FM, 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All pickers and singers welcome.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Georgi Schmitt, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Emagene Reagen, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road.

Info: 947-6210.

Baseball signups for 3U-14U, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Halls Community Park. Also during Saturday basketball games at Halls Elementary, Brickey-McCloud and Halls Middle schools. Continues Saturdays through Feb. 8.

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Tasting Party featuring recipes from “FCAC Recipe Book Volume II,” 5 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. For reservations: 357-2787 or fcartcenter@ knology.net.

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Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info/to register: 525-5431.

Free blood pressure checks, 6:30-7 p.m., North Knoxville Seventh-day Adventist Church, 6530 Fountain City Road. No appointment necessary.

Bits n’ Pieces Quilt Guild meeting, 1:30 p.m., Norris Community Center. Social time will begin at 1 p.m. Guild members will be selling donated fabric to raise money to purchase supplies and have show and tell. Guests and new members are welcome.

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The Mark Trammel Quartet in concert, 6:30 p.m., Ridgeview Baptist Church, 6125 Lacy Road. No admission charge but a love offering will be taken. Info: 688-8822 or www.ridgeviewbaptistchurch.com.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 25 Singing and Prayer Service, 7 p.m., Fellowship Christian Church, 746 Tazewell Pike, Luttrell. All churches and singers invited to join in prayer for Union County against Drugs. Everyone welcome.

Ballroom Dance, 7-9 p.m., Halls Senior Center, Doris Circle. Live music provided by the Nigel Boulton Band. Admission: $5 per person.

Introduction to Wet Felting, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., instructor: Tone Haugen-Cogburn. Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris.

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Info/to register: 525-5431.

Free blood pressure checks, 6:30-7 p.m., North Knoxville Seventh-day Adventist Church, 6530 Fountain City Road. No appointment necessary.

Chocolatefest Knoxville, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Knoxville Expo Center, Clinton Highway. Tickets: $15; VIP Pass: $30. Benefits The Butterfly Fund. Info/tickets: www.chocolatefestknoxville.com; Sugarbakers Cake, Candy & Supplies, 514 Merchants Road.

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Saturday Stories and Songs: Melissa Mastrogiovanni, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Molly Moore, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road.

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Baseball signups for 3U-14U, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Halls Community Park. Also during Saturday basketball games at Halls Elementary, Brickey-McCloud and Halls Middle schools. Continues Saturdays through Feb. 8.

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Girls softball registration, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Willow Creek Youth Park, 7530 Quarry Road. Cost: $40, wee ball; $60, 6U-17U. Info: www.facebook.com/WillowCreekYouthPark.

Valentine Sweetheart Supper, 4:30-8 p.m., Union County High School. Menu: choice of chicken parmesan or ham, vegetables, dessert and drink. Cost: $20 per couple; $12 for single. Hosted by the Women In Action of Mountain View Church of God. Carryouts available.

“Hot Chocolate And Cool Crafts,” 2-5 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. For all ages. Cost: $10 per person.

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Book Discussion: “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand, 2 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Chocolate = Love cooking class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia’s La Cucina, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/reservations: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia. com.

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POWELL Shopper news • JANUARY 20, 2014 • A-13

NEWS FROM TEMPLE BAPTIST ACADEMY

Royal Crusaders look for strong finish The Temple Baptist Academy high school basketball team netted a 10-4 record with a 54-26 win over the Seahawks of Cedar View Christian School in Kingsport, Tenn., on Jan. 14.

The team travelled to Springfield, TN on Thursday, January 16 to compete in the Middle Tennessee Classic Invitational Basketball Tournament. Temple won their first two games of the tournament and hope to advance beyond the semi-finals to the championship game.

With eight regular season games left, Temple looks to seize as much momentum as possible going into post-season tournament play. The Royal Crusaders hope to improve on last year’s final-four finish in the TAACS State Tournament.

“We still have some tough games ahead, but our team has worked hard and I think they are up for the challenge,” says coach Larry Nicely.

Come watch the Royal Crusaders at one of their remaining home basketball games.

Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for students. Children 4 and under are free. See the remaining game schedule at TempleBaptistAcademy.com.

U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. meets Angie Tomlinson (back) and her children, Lance and Lydia Tomlinson, both of whom are students at Temple Baptist Academy.

Duncan commends Temple and students Temple Baptist Academy faculty, students and families appreciate all those who serve our great community. Recently, U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. offered some very kind words regarding the work being done at TBA in the Powell community.

“I often run into young people who attend or have attended Temple Baptist Academy throughout the year and have been out to the school many times. I always find the students to be polite, compassionate, and very patriotic. Temple Baptist teaches our young people the importance of family and community and to be proud of their faith. East Tennessee is a better place because of the work of Temple Baptist Academy,” Duncan said.

Temple students set sights on college

Royal Crusader Adam Cate goes for a layup.

Congratulations to the 2014 graduating class of Temple Baptist Academy as they have achieved a class average ACT score of 24.66. As academic scholarship offers from various colleges and universities come in, students and their families are prayerfully seeking God’s wisdom for taking the next step. Each senior hopes to take full advantage of every opportunity to excel as they set their sights on entering college in just a few months.

Homecoming at TBA

Temple student Philip Thompson performs.

District Academic and Fine Arts Competition Thursday and Friday, Feb. 6-7, the TACS District Academic and Fine Arts Competition will be hosted on the campus of Crown College in Powell. Students from Christian schools in the Knoxville and Tri-Cities areas will come together for two days of competition in a variety of categories in art, music, and academics. For a competition schedule, contact the academy office at 938-8181.

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Isamaria Helget stands with her sister, 2013 Temple Homecoming Queen Isabella Helget.

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On Friday, Jan. 31, Temple Baptist Academy will hold its annual homecoming festivities. Temple students always look forward to the many Spirit Week activities leading up to the Friday night finale. We welcome everyone in the community to come enjoy the evening with us! Schedule of events is: ■ 2:15 p.m. – Pep rally in the gymnasium ■ 6 p.m. – Varsity girls basketball game vs. Cedar View Christian ■ 7:30 p.m. – Varsity boys basketball game vs. Cedar View Christian ■ 8:15 p.m. – Homecoming Ceremony at halftime of the varsity boys game ■ 9:15 p.m. – Alumni Reception

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An award-winning academic program with a Biblical foundation Ideal student-teacher ratio Excelling in music and fine arts Championship athletic program

For information call 865.938.8180

Temple Baptist Academy exists to encourage and assist families committed to providing a Christian education for their children.

Our purpose is to provide thorough academic instruction from a Biblical worldview, to help students develop socially by teaching patriotism and respect for authority, and to encourage students spiritually by emphasizing one’s personal accountability to God. Our goal is to partner with parents to develop the mind of Christ in each student.

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