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February 4, 2015

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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Powell Playhouse to host sock hop

The Powell Playhouse will present a sock hop and silent auction from 7 to 9 p.m. Valentine’s Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Jubilee Banquet Facility off Callahan Drive.

Admission is $10.

Music will be “oldies” from the 1950s and ’60s, said board member Mona Napier. “Bring a friend, and if you want to dress in the ’50s or ’60s style, that will be a lot of fun.”

Ballroom dancers will entertain, along with the Playhouse’s own DJ Dance Floor and refreshments. Silent auction items have been donated by area businesses. Proceeds will go to the Powell Playhouse for future events.

IN THIS ISSUE

Equal press

When Shopper-News Powell reporter Cindy Taylor received a letter from 7-yearold Emerson Bollinger asking why we had never covered his Celtics basketball team, she couldn’t wait to meet him and his teammates.

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See her story on page A-3

Tech for students

The most compelling argument for putting computers into the hands of all Knox County students came from Vine Middle Magnet School principal Cindy White. On Sundays, her students line up along the outside walls of the school to use Wi-Fi Internet access, a commodity lacking at home for many.

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See Wendy Smith on page A-5

What happened to the low bid?

For old-timers, the kerfuffle over the E-911 board’s rejection of its evaluation committee’s recommendation for a new radio system begged this question: Whatever happened to taking bids and accepting the lowest one?

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See Betty Bean on page A-5

Math is fun!

West Haven Elementary hosted a family math night last week. Students brought their parents, grandparents and family members out to the school and enjoyed learning math skills in a fun way.

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See Ruth White on page A-9

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All ‘Dunn’ State Rep. Bill Dunn stands near the bridge on the new Powell Drive which opened this week.

Powell Drive is open to traffic

By Sandra Clark State Rep. Bill Dunn says the new Emory Road from Norris Freeway to Clinton Highway is the result of hard work over a long time by many individuals.

He seemed almost embarrassed to stand for a photo two days before

the last leg opened on Feb. 2.

“The bridge makes the difference,” said Dunn, gesturing toward the sweep of concrete that veers off the old Emory Road at Gill Road. The bridge moves traffic over the railroad tracks and out of any chance of Beaver Creek flooding (we hope).

Workers on Saturday put final touches on the pavement. Dunn said TDOT and the contractor, Potter SE out of Huntsville, are not quite finished. He anticipates

route through Powell.

The plan was to widen Emory along the existing route. “Then we had a meeting and it all blew up,” said Dunn.

Residents strongly favored a new route, south of Beaver Creek, and that plan was adopted.

“Clark Hamilton, Carl Tindell and David Lambert (members of BRINK, a road-improvement advocacy group) had a lot to do with this,” said Dunn. “They never gave up.”

Weigel’s plans new store on Middlebrook

By Sandra Clark Weigel’s store at 8414 Middlebrook Pike will be torn down and replaced with a new prototype, following a vote last week by the county’s Board of Zoning Appeals to grant a setback variance from 20 to seven feet.

Chris Ooten, director of real estate for the Powell-based Weigel’s stores, represented the Weigel family. He said a variance is necessary because road improvements on Middlebrook Pike have

reduced the usable land. “Our store is within 10 feet of Old Middlebrook Pike,” he said.

The motion passed 6-1 with the no vote from BZA commissioner Kevin Murphy (District 8). He said he can’t see a hardship when Weigel’s has use of the land now.

Ooten said the land lies partly within the city of Knoxville, and the current store is there. The new store will be built on land outside the city limits with the gasoline pumps in the city.

■ Former BZA chair John Schoonmaker dropped by to thank his former colleagues and the county officials who work with BZA. He resigned when appointed to fill Rick Briggs’ 5th District seat on the Knox County Commission.

Markus Chady (District 2) was elected chair; Cynthia Stancil (District 1) was elected vice chair. Knox County Commission will appoint a new member from District 5.

■ Modern Outdoor Advertising was denied a variance to add light-

ing to a billboard in a commercial zone at 7720 Clinton Highway.

The owner said he didn’t realize the board had no lights when he bought it.

Commissioner Bill Sewell (District 7) led the opposition to allowing a lighted board closer than 300 feet to a residential zone, and no one offered a motion to approve.

Finally, Cindy Buttry (District 6) moved to deny after apologizing to the applicant, who had paid $400 to make the request.

Understanding Insure Tennessee

By Wendy Smith Gov. Bill Haslam came to town last week to educate state legislators before a special session being held this week regarding Insure Tennessee, his proposed Medicaid expansion program.

Analysis Legislators aren’t the only ones who need to be educated. Citizens need to have a basic understanding of the program so they can pass their thoughts on to their elected officials.

Haslam spent two years crafting Tennessee’s program to specifically address the spiraling cost of healthcare. It leverages federal dollars to provide health insurance to those whose income is less than 138 percent of the poverty level, which translates to approximately $16,000 for an individual and $27,000 for a family of three.

The program is expected to cover roughly 280,000 people. Over half

of them have jobs.

This group falls into a coverage gap because they don’t qualify for Medicaid and they either don’t make enough to qualify for tax credits to help them buy coverage or can’t afford it even with tax credits.

Bill Haslam The controversy surrounding the plan comes from its utilization of federal dollars. Affordable Care Act (ACA) funds would cover 100 percent of the cost of the expansion through 2016. By 2020, the federal contribution will drop to a permanent rate of 90 percent, but Tennessee hospitals have committed to covering the state’s contribution once federal funding drops below 100 percent.

Some fear that Tennessee taxpayers will be left on the hook if federal funding dries up or hos-

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pitals don’t follow through with their commitment. In the event of an emergency, Haslam has packed a parachute. The two-year pilot program will automatically terminate in either case. Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and the head of the federal health department agreed last week that the state could legally opt out.

Haslam says he’s not a fan of the ACA because it didn’t do anything to address the rising cost of healthcare, as his plan does.

Here are the nuts and bolts of his plan. Those eligible for Insure Tennessee would have two options. Under the Volunteer Plan, participants would receive a fi xed contribution voucher that will enable them to buy into private health insurance offered by their employer. The voucher would go toward out-of-pocket expenses associated with the coverage.

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Emory Road will continue on its present course. The new stretch from Gill to Clinton Highway will be named Powell Drive.

Halls guy John Jones said it should be called “Food City Freeway,” given its terminus at the new Food City store.

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participation in Health Savings Accounts, which encourage healthy choices, Haslam says.

The other option, the Healthy Incentives Plan, differs from Medicaid because it has premiums and co-pays. But participants get credits for healthy behaviors, like regular screenings, and using the health system appropriately, such as going to a clinic rather than the emergency room.

If participants make good choices, they can cover their healthcare costs with credits. But they can also be disenrolled if they don’t cover copays or premiums, Haslam says.

From his perspective, Insure Tennessee is a win-win because it’s a step toward true healthcare reform and provides insurance to 200,000 residents who wouldn’t otherwise have it − without raising taxes.

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At 81, Knoxville woman makes most of every day At the age of 49, Polly Hood was diagnosed with a melanoma that could have ended her life. A doctor told her she only had a 25 percent chance of survival. Rather than curl up in defeat, Hood decided to find something that would be a diversion.

She enrolled in classes at the University of Tennessee.

Hood won a scholarship and eventually received a college degree in Home Economics Education when she was 53. She graduated at the top of her class, among students who were young enough to be her children.

Hood knew about overcoming obstacles. She had defeated cancer, cheated death and with her degree had achieved a goal that many people never do.

So when her husband passed away after an extended illness last July, this strong woman of faith, now 81, was pressed but not crushed. She didn’t know that a new and life-threatening challenge was just around the corner.

In October, Hood was invited to participate in a special service, memorializing individuals who had recently died. She was asked to bring a picture of her husband and was invited to stand and share a few words about him.

While it was certainly an emotional night, she appreciated the people who wanted to honor her husband’s memory and lingered at a reception that followed. All seemed to go well – until her chest started hurting on the way home.

“I thought it was indigestion because I had eaten some snacks I was not accustomed to,” Hood says. “And it was stressful to speak about losing my husband.”

Hood took antacid tablets when she got home, but the pain stayed

Polly Hood, a Knoxville native, is thankful for the lifesaving care she received at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. After Hood arrived at the emergency room door, a team cleared the blockage in her left main coronary artery in 23 minutes, which is about 40 minutes faster than the national average.

with her throughout the night. She felt better the next day, but her problems were far from over.

“It was about 4:30 in the afternoon when I had another chest pain, and it was severe,” Hood recalls. After texting her children, she called 911 and was instructed to chew four 81-milligram tablets of aspirin and drink water till emergency personnel arrived.

“I got sick at my stomach, I vomited, I broke out in a cold sweat,” Hood says. She was experiencing some of the classic symptoms of a heart attack.

Hood would later learn there was a blockage in the LAD coronary artery, often referred to as a “widow maker” because of the low survival rate. The LAD coronary artery feeds two of the three main arteries of the heart – it is essentially a heart attack in two-thirds of the heart.

When the ambulance arrived, Hood was given an EKG. “I could tell when the EMT pulled the paper out of the machine that it was a heart attack. I could tell by the expression on his face.”

Hood’s suspicion was correct.

However, she remembers hearing some important words of comfort: “We will get you out of here and get help for you right away.”

Emergency workers made good on that promise. Hood didn’t know it at the time, but Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center has an aggressive plan in place to provide immediate care for patients who are in

cardiac arrest.

When a person experiences a heart attack, fast-paced care is critical. That’s why two doctors and other medical staff were waiting and ready to attend to Hood as soon as she arrived at the hospital’s emergency department. She was surprised.

“They were waiting for me in the hallway,” Hood says. “They stopped me right there and gave me an EKG and two kinds of blood thinner.”

No time was wasted taking the next step. “They ran to the catheterization lab with me,” Hood says.

“They were running, and they moved fast.”

Because the process of placing a stent requires a patient to be awake and alert, Hood was fully aware of conversations going on around her.

As she listened, she learned one of the nurses treating her had been in the parking lot, about to leave for the night. Another was on the way home when called to turn around and come back.

“They were called back to help me,” Hood says gratefully. “Everyone was very professional, very courteous and very reassuring.”

Hood offered up prayers for the people working so diligently to save her and says she felt at peace knowing if she died she would see her husband again.

It took just 23 minutes to get Hood from the entrance of the emergency department to the cath lab with the stent in place. That’s about 40 minutes faster than the national average.

Hood has no doubt that those minutes made a difference not only in saving her life, but in her recovery.

Within days of being released from the hospital, she was enjoying a lunch date with her daughter. She was back to church soon after.

“I’ve been really happy with the care I’ve gotten,” Hood says. “It couldn’t have been any better.”

When Hood looks back over all the important moments in her life, most of them have a common element: her husband was there by her side.

Now a widow, she is starting life over with new challenges. Cardiac rehab at Fort Sanders Regional has strengthened her heart and helped renew her spirit. While going through life without her partner of almost 55 years is difficult, she takes every step on the treadmill with purpose. After a life-threatening heart attack, the woman who once couldn’t imagine living without her husband now understands that she must.

“I lived, and God’s not through with me, yet,” Hood says, wiping her eyes. “I have to realize that and make the most of every day.”

Hood says her heart was broken twice. Her husband’s death broke her heart emotionally. The heart attack broke her heart physically.

“But by the grace of God and medical expertise, I’m mending now, and I’m thankful to be alive.”

Local hospital leads team approach to faster care for heart attacks Collaboration improves care for STEMI patients

When a heart attack happens, time is critical – not just for the person experiencing the heart attack, but for professional caregivers as well.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have established recommended standards of care for heart attack patients, specifically those identified as the “ST-Segment Elevation MI” (STEMI) population. These patients have the highest mortality (risk of death) and morbidity (risk of associated complications). They can be rapidly identified with an electrocardiogram.

The standards emphasize organizing regional systems of care and patient transfer procedures in order to provide faster access to advanced therapies that help facilitate rapid restoration of blood flow during a heart attack. The care team – from first responders and emergency departments to cardiologists and cath lab staff – must collaborate to provide efficient and effective care.

To help meet the revised stan-

dards, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center established a physician-led team that included a medical director, STEMI coordinator, interventional cardiologists, emergency department manager and an educator, along with other departments, hospitals and emergency transport companies working together to enhance care for STEMI patients.

“From initial contact – whether by EMS in the field or a triage center in the emergency department – there are several steps to rapidly get Joshua Todd, MD patients with the highest mortality during a heart attack to the catheterization laboratory,” said Joshua Todd, MD, interventional cardiologist and project team medical director. “Our role is to evaluate the entire process and collaborate with anyone who has contact with this patient population to develop a standardized approach to

efficiently get them to a cath lab.”

The team’s goals included: ■ Decrease mortality of STEMI patients through early intervention.

■ Increase the number of STEMI patients brought directly to Fort Sanders by EMS transporters, bypassing centers that are not equipped to care for STEMI patients and thus reducing the time to procedure.

■ Increase transfer efficiency of STEMI patients to Fort Sanders from smaller facilities by helping those facilities identify STEMI patients more quickly.

■ Decrease readmission rates for patients transferred to Fort Sanders with STEMI diagnosis.

The team developed several new processes, including: ■ Helping train EMS providers to identify STEMI patients quickly and building relationships with emergency transporters to ensure efficient arrival at a center equipped to deal with STEMI patients. A new focus of the guidelines is to track “First Medical Contact-to-Device Activation” time, with a goal of less than 120 minutes from medical encounter by first responders to interventional treatment.

“Every 30 minutes results in

nearly an 8 percent increase in risk of death, so we can improve patient outcomes by having a systems approach to identification, notification and rapid transfer,” Dr. Todd said.

Clinical members of Covenant Rapid Access, Covenant Health’s patient transfer center, are available 24/7 to accept STEMI patients from outlying hospitals and immediately notify the cath lab team and interventional cardiologist. “Rapid Access is the coordinating center for Covenant facilities,” Dr. Todd noted. “They are integral to our STEMI system of care.”

■ Emergency transporters can simultaneously notify both ED and cath lab teams of potential STEMI patients and transmit an EKG when available. This allows earlier activation of the cath lab team, with personnel available immediately when the patient arrives.

■ Interventional cardiologists hold educational events to improve rapid identification for pre-hospital EKGs and EKG interpretation, and develop protocols for managing STEMI patients and notifying the hospital of a STEMI diagnosis.

■ The team reviews STEMI cases monthly to give referring hospitals

and EMS providers feedback on outcomes, and to continually improve systems and processes.

A key factor for success is support from emergency physicians and interventional cardiologists, said Jennifer Debow, RN, Fort Sanders director of cardiology services. “Their willingness to work together has been the force behind the teamwork between Covenant Health facilities and EMS companies throughout the area.”

As a result of these efforts, during first year implementation Fort Sanders exceeded state and national hospitals’ performance in meeting standards for “First Medical Contactto-Device” times. Mortality and readmission rates also declined.

The team has expanded its efforts and now collaborates with hospitals and emergency responders in Claiborne, Sevier and Jefferson counties, and as far away as Newport and Kentucky.

Debow summarized the collaborative spirit of all the health care providers: “The commitment and compassion of this initiative is making a difference, not only by saving lives, but giving patients back their quality of life as well.”

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Letter written by Emerson Bollinger Photos by Cindy Taylor

The Celtics are (front) Bryce Johnston, Emerson Bollinger, Will Price, Kiser Barringer; (back) coach Chuck Johnston, Polly Peck, Oriana Hall, Bryce McCarty, Charlie Chady and coach Blake Barringer.

Equal press for kids

We at the Shopper-News love being involved with, and writing about, our communities. So when 7-yearold Emerson Bollinger wrote us a letter asking why

Janice Smith and Chris Hughes learn free-motion quilting from teacher Monica Schmidt (standing).

The freedom of free-motion

By Cindy Taylor Free-motion quilting – what does that even mean?

That question and many others are being explored by class attendees during sessions held by Monica Schmidt at local Hobby Lobby locations. Turns out free-motion quilting means using a standard sewing machine to quilt with special attachments and adjusting the tension and feed dog.

Schmidt teaches many crafts including crochet, needle tatting, embroidery and quilt-making. But last week her focus was on free-motion quilting. Class members Chris Hughes and Janice Smith are veteran quilters but had never tried quilting by machine using free-motion.

“It’s getting easier the more I sew,” said Hughes.

While free-motion can be done on an entire pieced quilt, Schmidt suggests making the quilt in a few smaller sections, then piecing it together

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Broadacres Homeowners Association. Info: stevengoodpaster@gmail. com.

■ Knox North Lions Club meets 1 p.m. each first and third Wednesday, Puleo’s Grille, 110 Cedar Lane. Info: facebook.com/knoxnorthlions.

■ Northwest Democratic Club meets 6 p.m. each first Monday, Austin’s Steak & Homestyle Buffet, 900 Merchant Drive. Info: Nancy Stinnette, 688-2160, or Peggy Emmett, 687-2161.

■ Norwood Homeowners Association. Info: 688-3136.

■ Powell Alumni Association banquet is the first Saturday in April. Info: Vivian McFalls, 607-8775.

■ Powell Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first Thursday, Lions Club Building, 7145 Old Clinton Pike. Info: tnpowelllions@ gmail.com.

Emerson Bollinger lines up a shot in practice.

Cindy Taylor

we had never covered his Celtics basketball team, we couldn’t wait to meet him and his teammates.

Emerson and mom Amy were on their way home after a game a couple of weeks ago when he asked why people his age never made the news. He wondered why people liked watching “grown-ups” play rather than kids. His mom suggested he write a letter to the news media and ask.

Emerson had pencil and paper on hand and went to work writing his letter right there in the car.

The Celtics are made up of students from St. Joseph, Inskip, Spring Hill, Shannondale, Sterchi and Rita schools. The co-ed team has eight players, ages 6-8. They practice Thurs-

days at Inskip Recreation Center and play Saturdays at Central Baptist Church in the Fountain City Sports 6U League.

Generally the commissioner places the teams so there is a mix of age, ability and gender. Most members of the Celtics have never played basketball before, much less together, and yet they are 5-1 for the season.

Emerson’s mom, Amy Bollinger, attributes much of the team’s ability to the coaches.

“Our coaches are excellent at teaching the kids the fundamentals of the sport,” she said. “They do a great job of making sure every player gets equal playing time.”

There is still time to catch the final game on Saturday, Feb. 7. Playoffs will begin later in February.

So, attention “grownups”: If you want to watch winning teams and have free fun on a Saturday, come out to see the Celtics and the other teams in the Fountain City League.

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afterwards with a sewing technique that hides the joining of the smaller pieces, often called “quilt-as-you-go.”

Schmidt teaches the use of special needles, a darning foot and a short, long or slant shank. Students can learn the technique by attending a single class.

“You can also use freemotion for embroidery and decorative stitching

when you’re not quilting,” said Schmidt. “It is also used for thread painting.”

But that is a whole other story.

Info on free-motion quilting and other classes can be found by going to w w w.myquiltplace.com and clicking on events, via email to monicaschmidt. tn@gmail.com or by calling 406-3971.

Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@ gmail.com.

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Strange story of Woody Quinn There is continuing debate about whether the chicken or egg came first, but there is no doubt about the sequence of steps to success in college football.

Recruiting precedes development. And as it relates to national signing day, be reminded that talent evaluation is almost as important as salesmanship.

Here is a touchy little story based on the fundamental truth that you can’t judge a book by the cover. It has been said that Tennessee’s Woody Quinn looked more like a big-time Southeastern Conference tight end than the big-time SEC tight ends.

He is 6-6 and 253.

Woody didn’t do much in his two years at the position but he was a contributor. He helped the Vols maintain satisfactory academic standing in the eyes of the NCAA. He was an honor student in communications. He earned a degree in May. He helped Butch Jones earn a bonus.

Quinn opened the 2013 season as the No. 2 tight end and played briefly in a game or three. He did not appear in the final eight. He did not play in 2014. He finished with no statistical record, but he was often in the practice spotlight.

Jones, from time to time, favored Woody with extra “coaching.” He wanted the big guy to become more explosive and provided frequent opportunities in his famous circle drill, one on one, best man wins.

On my list of unusual Tennessee stories, accumulated over more than 60 years, Woody Quinn is top 10. He was a California volleyball player, from Dana Point, high-rent district. He was nurtured at Saint Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano. He

then transferred again.

Please follow this move carefully.

Geoff Jones, football Marvin coach at Santa Ana ColWest lege, got a call from a friend about a big kid playing volleyball. The coach was logically skeptical – until is from an artistic athletic Woody walked through the family. His father, Tim, did office doorway. Soon therewater polo at Cal-Irvine after, he thought “Wow, so and was on Team USA. His this is what great prospects brother Johnny was an all- look like.”

College basketball playAmerican pole vaulter at ers – Tony Gonzalez, AntoUCLA. Woody played football as nio Gates, Jimmy Graham a high school freshman but – were jumping to the NFL. chose volleyball. He was so Why couldn’t a volleyball promising, Olympian Karch player make half that leap?

Kiraly spent time tutoring. The coach caught himself.

Woody was twice league Could Quinn even catch a MVP, top scholar-athlete in football? He last played at the area. Pepperdine award- age 14.

A brief tryout followed – ed a scholarship.

Woody stayed a year but in a cold rain with the wind didn’t play (he was radio blowing sideways. analyst), transferred to Cal“The kid was catching evifornia Baptist and did play, erything.”

Next question: Would he stick? Quinn seemed indecisive.

“He came out to practice and got better every day.”

Quinn didn’t set records: 15 catches, 252 yards, one touchdown. One recruiting service awarded two stars.

Another said he was the 213th junior college prospect in America.

Former Tennessee safeties coach Josh Conklin is credited with discovering Quinn on behalf of the Derek Dooley staff. Upon departure, Josh left notes.

New tight ends coach Mark Elder took up the project. UT wanted a junior college tight end, somebody more mature, ready to compete. Coaches checked film on everybody available and liked Woody best. They really liked his size before they heard how little he had played.

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Elder added a few details: Great young man, going to have a great career here.

Or maybe not.

Woody Quinn is the perfect example of an evaluation error. But he impressed me, too. He didn’t quit. He got his degree.

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Madeline for Senate John McCain’s bid for president in 2008 was serious business, though in retrospect his choice for a running mate makes the campaign appear more desperate than earnest.

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Presumably the smartest guys and gals under the Republicans’ big tent signed off on Sarah Palin.

The Wasilla Wonder became the gift that keeps on giving to Democrats, as she demonstrated with her offthe-charts lunatic speech at Iowa’s recent “Freedom Summit.”

While I wouldn’t want to – in Palin’s words – “forego a conclusion,” we probably won’t have Sarah to kick around during the 2016 presidential sweepstakes.

But her nosedive doesn’t close the door to high office for women.

If Palin could rise from mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to candidate for U.S. vice president, what’s stopping Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero?

Palin had a stint as governor along the way, but Rogero needn’t move to Nashville to outpoint a Palin on qualifications.

The Census Bureau estimates Wasilla’s 2013 population as 8,621. The estimate for Knoxville is 183,720.

Rogero has a 30-year track record of accomplishments that include serving as a county commissioner and heading up community development for her predecessor, Bill Haslam. She’s committed to “green” development strategies.

Palin inquired about banning “objectionable” books from the Wasilla library as mayor. She’s committed to bagging grizzlies and “going rogue.”

The mayor’s qualifications allow her to stand shoulder to shoulder with nearly any Washington politician. She should consider becoming Tennessee’s U.S. Senator. The path is difficult, but doable.

The Republican-controlled Congress could be Rogero’s strongest ally. Two more years of Washington gridlock and clownish antics from the Tea Party faction might persuade a majority of Tennessee voters that change is in order.

And it’s significant that Republican Gov. Bill Haslam thought enough of Rogero to invite her into his administration. Party loyalty would prevent an outright endorsement, but powerful friends couldn’t hurt her candidacy.

Assuming re-election, Rogero’s mayoral term expires two years before Sen. Lamar Alexander’s term ends, enough time to organize and finance a statewide campaign. So, dream the impossible dream, Mayor Rogero. Let me know where to donate.

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Whatever happened to the low bid?

For old-timers, the kerfuffle over the E-911 board’s rejection of its evaluation committee’s recommendation for a new radio system begged this question:

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Whatever happened to taking bids and accepting the lowest one?

The easy answer is state law. There are a bunch of statutes governing public sector procurement, and those frustrated by the E-911 board’s refusal to accept the recommendation that the contract for radio services be awarded to Harris Corp. over two other bidders say the 18-month process (which involved a user committee setting up the scope of work and an evaluation committee vetting the proposals) followed every one of them.

“The basic difference between an invitation for bids

and a request for proposals is that with invitations to bid, you know exactly what you are going to buy: a pickup truck.

“With an RFP, you know what you want to accomplish but don’t know how you’re going to do it, so you have subject matter experts sitting on an evaluation committee who rank proposals,” said Hugh Holt, Knox County’s purchasing director.

“Twenty years ago, contracting was just pushing paper, not looking at what services cost. It was doing the taxpayers a disservice.”

Marty Spears, interim assistant director of County Technical Assistance Services (created in 1973 to provide technical assistance to Tennessee’s 95 counties), agrees with Holt’s assessment.

“Counties do RFPs for the lowest and best bid,” Spears said.

“State law says ‘lowest and best,’ and almost everywhere across the state, anything over $10,000 (requires an RFP) and you’ve

got to have justification for not taking the lowest and best bid. You’ve got to say why.”

And therein lies the rub.

The members of the Knox County Emergency Communications District board of directors pretty much gave the finger to Spears’ admonition – and raised a justifiable suspicion of violating the sunshine law when they all went mute when it came time to second a motion to accept the evaluation committee’s recommendation that Harris Corp. (rather than traditional Motorola, which has held the contract for nearly 30 years) be awarded a $7.4 million to $9 million (depending on who’s talking) contract for radio services.

County mayor Tim Burchett’s proxy, Jason Lay, made the motion to select Harris, and city representatives (led by Knoxville Police Department chief David Rausch) are catching the most heat.

Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones and County Commission chair (and KPD lieuten-

ant) Brad Anders also sit on the board.

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero, also a board member, sent a proxy to the voting meeting. Burchett is ticked; Rogero is evidently stung by accusations of open meetings law violations (she’s always been an advocate of transparency) in a re-election year.

And, following what surely must be a law of nature and politics, speculation is filling the information vacuum.

One of the most popular theories – that Motorola’s hiring former county mayor Mike Ragsdale and his sidekick Mike Arms’ lobbying firm, Tennessee Strategies, tipped the process in their favor – is widely dismissed by insiders: “I could fit everybody that likes Mike Arms in a Mini Cooper,” one said.

The truth is likely closer to this: Cops have used Motorola radios for decades, they like them and feel comfortable with them, and they have bowed up to get their way.

Haslam must use political capital to pass Insure Tennessee While the odds favor Gov. Bill Haslam getting the Legislature to expand Medicaid during the current special session, it has not been an easy push. Haslam will have to use major political capital.

Senate Finance Committee chair Randy McNally of Oak Ridge, who represents part of Knox County, is clearly wary of the proposal.

He is not a bomb thrower.

His detailed questions to the state attorney general are legitimate and thoughtful.

If the Medicaid expansion should falter, it can also be brought up in the regular legislative session.

A political factor complicating matters is this: There are 73 Republicans in the House, where 50 votes are necessary to pass a bill.

Haslam could pass his bill with 26 Democrats and 24 Republicans but would leave those Republicans vulnerable to a primary challenge in August 2016 (just 18 months from now).

He really needs a majority of Republicans in the House (37) and support from Speaker Beth Harwell.

Already, very conservative groups are running radio ads attacking GOP members who are for the Haslam plan.

Harwell, who clearly

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plans on a race for governor, has not taken a position as of the writing of this column. She is scheduled to speak to the Knoxville Rotary Club on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the Marriott. She would have to be concerned that a yes vote might irk conservative GOP voters in a statewide 2018 primary.

In the Senate, Knoxville’s Rick Briggs is a strong proponent of the plan, which has been endorsed by the Tennessee Medical Association and every hospital.

However, Sen. Brian Kelsey of Collierville, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, strongly opposes it and recently held a hearing aimed at derailing it.

This is Haslam’s most difficult legislative battle since he became governor.

■ Mayor Rogero has been caught flatfooted on the recent controversy when the 911 Board did not approve a new contract for radios. It failed without discussion for lack of a

seconding motion. Rogero simply does not attend the meetings of this board of which she is a member. She sends Gary Holliday, who works for the KPD, as her proxy.

How does the mayor justify skipping the four meetings a year of the 911 Board, which impacts the health, safety and emergency planning for the entire city? She does attend city pension board meetings and TPO, but why has she decided not to go to 911? No answer. She owes the public a justification.

The law permitting the mayor to send a proxy was meant for unavoidable absences such as illness or being out of town. It is not a pass to play hooky. When I was mayor I attended the 911 meetings regularly as did Dwight Kessel and Tommy Schumpert for the county. It never occurred to me to send a proxy unless I was out of town. I met in advance with the person to give my thoughts on the upcoming agenda.

It is clear Rogero seldom speaks to her proxy and clearly did not go over the agenda prior to this recent meeting where the $9 million contract failed. A8more prudent and observant mayor would go over the agenda prior to the meeting with

her proxy on how to vote on upcoming issues. That did not happen here, and Rogero did not even know the contract was coming up. The Burchett proxy had been instructed to make the motion to adopt it and the city representatives sat on their hands.

Apparently Rogero does not have regular briefings from Holliday after the meetings either. In this case she has met now with Holliday but has not told the public what she learned.

Holliday was silent at the meeting so we do not know what he thinks. Rogero does not deserve her upcoming $12,500-a-year pay raise based on avoiding 911 Board meetings.

■ TVA spokesperson Travis Brickey has asked that this column not refer to salaries for the new legal counsel as taxpayer funds as Congress does not vote money for TVA. I am glad to honor this request, which is all about semantics as TVA is a monopoly and ratepayers have no choice but to fund TVA through their local utility fees, which is another word for taxes. It is good to know TVA big shots are reading the Shopper and our comments on TVA waste and excessive salaries. Too bad they fail to do much about it.

government South-Doyle High School graduating junior Luke Hixson shows school board member Terry Hill how to find the approximate square footage of a new road in front of Karns Elementary School. The exercise was a demonstration of how computers are used in the classroom. Photo by Wendy Smith

Principals share 1:1 computing successes While local leaders undoubtedly benefited from a tour of South-Doyle Middle School, where computers are integrated into every classroom, the most compelling argument for putting computers into the hands of all Knox County students came from Vine Middle Magnet School principal Cindy White.

On Sunday afternoons, students line up along the outside wall of the school to take advantage of the school’s Wi-Fi Internet access because they don’t have access at home, she says. Students are hungry for technology, and her students value their computers so much that the school has the lowest repair rate in the county.

White told that story at last week’s Knox County Schools Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Showcase. Vine Magnet Middle and South-Doyle High are two of 11 Knox County schools that won the county’s 2012 Technology Challenge − now called the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Initiative. Principals from those schools met with community leaders to share how their classrooms have felt the impact of 1:1 computing (one computer per student). Leaders also toured the school to see the computers in action and participated in a computerdriven lesson themselves.

South-Doyle High math teacher Robby Howard showed the group how to use Google Earth to calculate the size of the field at Fenway Park using trapezoids. He then asked each of them to find the area of another landmark. With the help of student ambassadors armed with laptops, leaders calculated the area of such sites as Neyland Stadium and Fountain City Lake.

During the tour, leaders met teachers like Karly Stache. She showed how she could immediately see results of a math quiz and know which students had mastered a new skill. At home, students can learn by watching short videos and participating in Google

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“hangouts,” or video conferences, before tests.

After the tour, leaders watched a video featuring Mooreland Heights Elementary School instructional coach Amber Sawyer, who talked about the benefits of 1:1 computing at the elementary level. Having computers means the teacher isn’t the sole source for learning, she says. Students are learning how to go to the right source for information by themselves.

Principals discussed the “bumps” they’ve encountered during the 18 months since computers were deployed. New students who come from traditional classrooms have a steep learning curve, and students who experience 1:1 technology at the elementary or middle school level and transition to a middle or high school that doesn’t have it are frustrated. Inappropriate Internet use still concerns some teachers, and not all students have Internet at home.

But the principals were overwhelmingly positive.

West Valley Middle principal Renee Kelly says the computers are popular with teachers, students and families, and she has seen a rise in the school’s enrollment.

The cost of county-wide 1:1 technology was also discussed. Principals say that they would consider less-expensive alternatives to MacBooks, which were used in the initial deployment, now that they know what they need. The cost of equipping 11 schools with 1:1 computing was $6 million. There are 90 schools in the system.

Superintendent Jim McIntyre said that computers will undoubtedly be a part of future classrooms. “It’s where we need to be at some point, and I think we need to be there sooner rather than later,” says McIntyre.

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Discovering Grace The faculty and staff at Grace Christian Academy frequently have the opportunity to meet families who are visiting the campus at admissions events or during personal tours. Sometimes these families are relocating to the area; others live locally but are interested in learning more about GCA. Some families have children currently enrolled in public school, but feel compelled to learn more about Christian education.

One family who is new to GCA for the 2014-15 school year is the Nichols family. Ryan and Devon Nichols, long-time Knoxville residents, were already familiar with GCA campus through the Pre-K and Mother’s Day Out programs where their daughter, Camryn, attended. After Camryn had attended their local school for several years, the Nichols decided to schedule a tour at Grace Christian Academy to consider a possible transfer for Camryn. As Devon commented, “We felt so welcomed and encouraged from the beginning!”

Because Ryan and Devon Nichols are deeply rooted in their

community and highly supportive of their local public school, the decision to transfer was not one that they took lightly. After weeks of discussion and prayer, they began the admissions process for Camryn.

After transferring to GCA in the 2014-15 school year, Camryn quickly found her niche and became involved in the music department. Camryn “loves to act and sing,” according to her mother, Devon, and she auditioned for and earned a position in the Fifth Grade Honors Choir. Camryn performed her first solo during the Christmas performance, to the delight of her proud parents and other family members there to support her. She is “definitely thinking ahead” to Middle School, and plans to audition for upcoming musicals and possibly the volleyball team.

When asked for their thoughts on Grace Christian Academy and their experience here, Ryan and Devon had a lot to share. “I honestly cannot say enough good things about it,” Devon said.

“The feeling of family and the presence of God working in ev-

ery person in the school is amazing. You become friends with so many different people and everyone pulls together for the benefit of your child. There is always an open door approach and I love that.”

The Nichols family is just one of many new families that have joined our school community this year. In fact, because the experience has been overwhelmingly positive for their family, they are in the process of enrolling their younger son for the 2015-16 school year.

We encourage your family, as well, to visit our campus and experience Grace Christian Academy for yourself. The sense of community, approachability of the leadership, and the friendly environment are often the qualities that families mention to our staff after they’ve been here in person. Make plans now to attend a Preview Day or Open House event at Grace Christian Academy, or call the Admissions office to schedule a personal tour during school hours. We’d Ryan, Devon, Camryn, Rhett and Colt Nichols love to meet you!

GCA Annual Fund Updates

New tables and computers in the lower & middle school computer lab.

New, permanent bleachers in the lower and middle school gym.

Freshman, Emery Webb testing out new upper school science lab equipment.

The 2014-2015 Annual Fund Drive kicked off back in November, and because of generous gifts and offerings from board members, parents, grandparents, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of GCA, we have almost reached our goal of $175,000! Giving to the Annual Fund each year provides an immediate impact on our students, by ways of facility and equipment improvements, and this year is no different!

Since November, exciting updates have begun! Our lower and middle school gym has

received permanent bleachers to replace the portable stands that once existed. The lower and middle school computer lab has received a complete overhaul of new tables and computers to better equip our students in the technology world. And our upper school science lab is receiving all new equipment to fully outfit their needs for a better learning environment!

Without this additional support, tuition becomes the only financial support of the school, thereby transferring the entire burden of facil-

ity renovations and improvements to current parents through tuition increases.

The participation of our donors demonstrates their belief in the school’s mission, which is to Lead, Build, and Equip our students to serve Him for future generations to come.

We would like to extend our gratitude to those who believe in this mission and have given to our Annual Fund this year!

If you would like to make a donation, please contact kbryant@gcarams.org or visit www.gcarams.org and click on the “Make a Gift” button!

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‘Books to Life’

Hide me

By Cindy Taylor

For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will set me high on a rock.

(Psalm 27: 5 NRSV)

Meredith Denney (center) is surrounded by kids at the Boys and Girls Club of Halls/Powell as she reads a story. Pictured are Randi Medley, Starr Pepper, Denney and Zander Nepper. Photo by Cindy Taylor

thing wrong as a child, my punishment was to have my books taken away,” Denney said. “Even now, I read whatever books I can get my hands on.”

Denney holds planned storytelling sessions at various Powell area locations during which she reads to the children. Kids get to act out their favorite books, create their own bookmarks and choose a book of their own to take home.

Denney says “Books to Life” has been well-received by both children and parents. Kids love getting free

books, and parents love that a young person is in charge of the program that has such a positive impact on their children. Denney’s own parents are very proud of their daughter.

“There were times when Meredith was growing up and we would have to tell her to put down books to do other things,” said father Chuck. “She wanted to share her love of reading and she has done an amazing job of organizing this project.”

Denney has volunteered at organizations such as Ronald McDonald House,

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■ Alice Bell Baptist Church, 3305 Alice Bell Road, will hold its Community Clothes Closet Opening 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 7. Each family member will receive a clothes bag to fill. Everything free.

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian, 4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

■ Dante Church of God, 410 Dante School Road, will distribute Boxes of Blessings (food) 9-11 a.m. or until boxes are gone, Saturday, Feb. 14.

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Super Bowl XLIX has passed. It was an exciting event for many, but for those with addiction issues, it’s often more challenging than fun.

Powell Church hosted a Super Bowl Party Feb.1 for Recovery participants that provided a safe, familyfriendly atmosphere free of charge and more importantly, free of addictive substances.

Four local Recovery groups combined efforts to host the party: Powell Church, Cokesbury, Celebrate Recovery of North Knoxville and “Word for the World.”

“The Recovery Super Bowl Party hosted by Powell Church had a simple design: to provide a sober, safe relaxed place for anyone who wanted to enjoy a gathering with no worries,” said Mark Beebe, Cokesbury UMC director of Recovery.

“The idea was generated from Recovery at Powell, a location of the Recovery at Cokesbury Network.”

A group of volunteers went to work after the Sunday morning service to transform the worship center into a party room.

The game was projected on the two large screens in the church, and the worship team led a musical halftime show. A fried chicken dinner with all the trimmings plus dessert was provided by volunteers.

“We love to throw parties at Powell Church because of what Jesus is doing in our community,” said Powell Church member Jamie Bauknight. “We gathered with family and friends on Super Bowl Sunday,

homeless ministries, a women’s and children’s shelter and Children’s Hospital, where she spent a 13day stint after a ruptured appendix five years ago.

Young Denney has already received the top three Girl Scout awards. But she says that wasn’t the only thing that made her endeavor worthwhile.

“Seeing the kids’ faces light up when they find the perfect book, and knowing they are going to read it over and over again – that’s what really makes this project worth it.”

You will be reading this shortly after Groundhog Day, which is appropriate, since the groundhog is famous mostly for checking the weather and deciding whether to hide in his burrow for a few more weeks.

Today, however, I’m thinking of more serious things.

As I write, almost a week before you will read this, it is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most infamous death camp of Nazi Germany.

So, even though the groundhog is still sleeping and not yet ready to determine whether the world is a place where he can survive, it is an appropriate day for the world to come out of hibernation, open its eyes to the horrors which were perpetrated on fellow human beings, and prayerfully remember the six million who did not survive.

We should also be aware of those amazingly sturdy souls who did survive and who are still with us today.

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Seventeen-year-old Meredith Denney has taken her love of reading and turned it into a ministry and Girl Scout Gold Award-winning program she calls “Books to Life.” But what started as a project to promote reading and education among elementary age children has turned into a community effort.

“My faith helped me decide on the project,” said Denney. “I thought of when I work with the children’s ministry at my church (Powell Church) and knew that was the place to start.”

Once Denney received approval from the Girl Scout Council, everything else fell into place. She has collected more than 500 books, most donated by her church, and distributed them to children in the community at no charge. Friends and residents of the Powell community have played a huge part as well.

“I have always loved to read. When I did some-

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Powell High students Kobe Hyde, Braxton Adams, Dominique Moore, Phetti McPhetridge and Phillip Moore paint up with “Playing for MK” during the Halls/Powell basketball game.

Powell names top students for December

Powell High School recently selected top students for December. Students are nominated by teachers for their work in the classroom and their dedication to learning at the school.

Jaylen Flack is a ninthgrade student nominated for being a hard worker and a class leader. His nominating teacher commented Flack

Allyson Sweat and Mackenzie Rudder collect donations for Mabry Kate Webb between games at Powell High School.

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Playing for Mabry Kate

The rivalry between Halls and Powell is always intense.

But, for an evening, the two schools joined together to help raise money for Mabry Kate, the daughter of PHS girls basketball coach Christin Webb and her husband Kyle.

Both schools wore blue in support of the family and in hopes of bringing awareness to Krabbe disease.

Powell’s Conley Hamilton goes up for two points against Halls last week.

on how he “tries to help other students be successful in the classroom.” Jaylen serves on the Student Leadership Team.

Devin Neddo, a ninthgrader, is recognized for always being on task, very conscientious and motivated to learn.

Kaitlin Neddo Lentz is a sophomore whose nominating teacher said, “I have never seen someone work so hard at trying to Lentz improve her skills in English. Her work ethic is unrivaled, and it helped her to pull out an A in English II Honors. She’s an all-around great student and student-athlete.”

Amelia Shontz, a sophomore, has been called “very hardworking” and her nominating teacher felt her academic achievem e n t s Shontz deserved praise and recognition. ”She is a well-behaved, exemplary star student who is headed for big horizons.”

Sophomore Tanner Kesterson has been called very hardworking and wellbehaved.

L e v i S w e e t , sophomore, is considKesterson ered a hardworking young man. He

has been said to go above and beyond exp e c t at ion s in class, all the while par t icipating in band.

Levi alSweet ways takes the path less travelled and chooses to do independent work on harder topics to strengthen his skills.

Junior Alec Tripp is known for challenging himself acad e m i c a l l y.

He applied for two separate Gove r nor ’s Schools and read Tripp William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” for his independent study novel. “Alec is truly one-of-a-kind, and Powell is better for having him.”

Brianna Castro, junior, is a hardworking, diligent student who helped create a positive pr e - c a lc ulus classroom env i r on me nt Castro through student/teacher interaction. Brianna also went above and beyond what is expected by tutoring a fellow classmate during and outside class.

Brittany Bowles, senior, is an excellent student who always comes to class ready to learn and participate.

She accepts nothing less than the Bowles best for herself.

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Learning math is fun!

West Haven Elementary hosted a family math night last week. Students brought their parents, grandparents and family members out to the school and enjoyed learning math skills in a fun way.

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Each student received a bag filled with math supplies to take home so the learning could continue after the event.

WHES teacher Molly Franke plays a math game with Nigel Lee and Ariel Holt.

Ayden Pierce and his brother, Jordan, enjoy pizza for supper at West Haven Elementary’s Family Math Night.

Celebrating one hundred days of learning

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Powell Elementary kindergarten teacher Jamie Terry and student Miliana Espiritu dress up to celebrate the 100th day of school. Photo submitted

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Caine Wise (Channing Tatum) and Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) learn to trust each other in “Jupiter Ascending.”

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Marion Cotillard is on a quest to save her job in “Two Days, One Night.”

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Oscar contenders hit local screens James Farmer Author &

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A couple of films with an (Channing Tatum), a geOscar spotlight on them are netically engineered tracker due to arrive in Knoxville on sent from a far-away planet Friday. by one of three siblings bent Betsy Marion Cotillard, who on gaining control of their Pickle won the Best Actress Oslate mother’s intergalactic car for playing Edith Piaf holdings. Jupiter stands bein 2007’s “La Vie en Rose,” tween the siblings and vast is nominated in the same power. category for “Two Days, One Night,” a film The cast also includes Eddie Redmayne, from Belgian directing brothers Luc and a Best Actor Oscar nominee for “The TheJean-Pierre Dardenne. ory of Everything,” Sean Bean, James Cotillard plays Sandra, a factory worker D’Arcy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Douglas Booth, who is informed that she’s been laid off due Tuppence Middleton and Terry Gilliam. to downsizing. But actually, her co-workers This is Andy and Lana Wachowski’s first were forced to choose between getting their feature since 2012’s “Cloud Atlas.” annual bonuses and letting Sandra keep A world of witches, boggarts and ghouls her job. Her boss tells her that if she can comes to life in “Seventh Son.” Jeff Bridges convince her co-workers to change their plays Master Gregory, the local spook, who votes, she can stay, but she has only a week- protects the countryside from all sorts end to get them to reconsider. of evil. But Gregory happens to be away “Song of the Sea,” a nominee for Best when the powerful Mother Malkin (JuliA nimated anne Moore) Feature, is escapes coninspired finement, by Irish and the masand Scotter’s young tish legapprent ice, ends about Tom Ward creatures (Ben Barnes), called selkmust retrieve ies. Saoirse, her.

The cast a little girl, also includes is the last of D j i m o n the selkies, Hounsou, which live The last selkie puts herself at risk in “Song of the Sea.” Olivia Wilin the sea liams, Jason as seals and take human form on land. Saoirse escapes Scott Lee and David Cubitt. Sergei Bodrov from her grandmother’s home and heads to directed. the sea to save fairies trapped in the modEverybody’s favorite animated sponge ern world. returns in “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge The vocal cast includes Brendan Glee- Out of Water.” It’s been a little more than son and Fionnula Flanagan. The film was a decade since SpongeBob made his bigdirected by Tomm Moore, who co-directed screen debut, but you can’t keep a good “The Secret of Kells” (2009) and wrote the sponge down. original story for both “Kells” and “Song.”

This time, SpongeBob visits our world to Another set of sibling co-directors – the track down a stolen secret recipe and winds American Wachowskis, this time – brings up tangling with a pirate (Antonio Banus “Jupiter Ascending,” a space-trotting deras). The vocal cast includes Tom Kenny, epic in which a young woman may change Clancy Brown, Bill Faggerbakke and Slash. the course of the cosmos.

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Mila Kunis plays Jupiter Jones, whose Downtown West is supposed to open a life is a drudge, despite her big dreams. program of Oscar shorts on Friday. No deThings change when she meets Caine Wise tails were available.

Patrick Star and SpongeBob SquarePants come up against Bigfoot – or something like that – in “SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge Out of Water.”

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FRIDAY, FEB. 6 ■ Ken Waldman in concert, 7:30 p.m., Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Tickets: $15 for seniors and students, $20 for adults. Info/tickets: Box Office, 981-8590, or claytonartscenter.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, FEB. 6-7 ■ “Flashdance – The Musical,” 8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: Tennessee Theatre box office, Ticketmaster.com, 800-745-3000.

SATURDAY, FEB. 7 ■ KSO Pops presents: “Broadway Romance,” 8 p.m., Knoxville Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

■ “PUSH Physical Theatre,” 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Info/tickets: Box Office, 981-8590, or claytonartscenter.com.

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Bryant Bentley as Willie, Rico Bruce Wade as Sam and Eric Sorrels as Hally in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of “ ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys.” Photo by Liz Aaron

Powerful play touches today’s issues In “ ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys,” the Clarence Brown Theatre’s offering for the month of February, things are not often what they seem. A black South African waiter in a tea room is actually a father figure to a white teenager.

Another waiter’s harsh treatment of his girlfriend is a metaphor for his own frustrated sense of ownership and entitlement.

And a ballroom dance becomes the world, fraught with racial tension and uneasy alliances. As one of the characters says: “We’re bumping into each other all the time.

Look at the three of us this afternoon: I’ve bumped into you, you’ve bumped into your mother, she

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bumping into your dad … None of us knows the steps, and there’s no music playing. And it doesn’t stop with us. The whole world is doing it all the time.”

Written by Athol Fugard, the drama is “one of those plays that has lasting relevance and can triumphantly survive any test of time,” according to the New York Post.

Director Jayne Morgan saw it “many years back,”

but this is her first time in the director’s chair.

“As with any play, you see it through the filter of your own experience,” says Morgan. “I find myself very moved and surprised by the show. When I saw it before, it wasn’t long after apartheid was dismantled in South Africa, and so that was very present in the play.

“Now, I see it much more in terms of what’s going on in America right now, with our stumbling toward a way to talk about race in some reasonable and sensitive way. The play has powerful things to say about that and also about what it means to be a man and a father. About how we forgive ourselves

for thoughtlessness we are capable of. It asks us how we are to behave as responsible adults in a complicated and challenging world. And it does so with such compassion and grace and humor.”

Morgan, widely known as an actor for more than 25 years in regional theaters in the Southeast and at Clarence Brown, says that the play seems easy, with a cast of only three and a simple set, but that there are, literally, “a lot of moving parts.” The two older actors must occasionally speak their lines while doing ballroom dance steps, an area in which neither has had any previous experience.

“Bryant Bentley started

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his performing career as a hip-hop dancer, and Rico Bruce Wade has martialarts training,” Morgan says, “so they both move very well, but ballroom has a lot of rules! They’ve been doing the quickstep and foxtrot every night for a couple of weeks now and are getting good at it.”

Both actors are visiting professionals. Eric Sorrels, who plays the part of the young man, is a University of Tennessee undergraduate, and choreographer Kody Rowe is a recent UT graduate.

Morgan concludes, “This is a powerful and moving play. I think the audience will fall in love with the characters and can find moments to iden-

tify with no matter what their background.

“It’s so much about how we care for one another despite our differences, about the struggle to find the best in ourselves in spite of our worst moments.” “ ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys” opens Thursday, Feb. 5, and runs through Sunday, Feb. 22. All performances take place at the Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre, on the UT Campus next to the Clarence Brown Theatre. To see a full list of performance times and purchase tickets, visit www. clarencebrowntheatre.com or call 865-974-5161.

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But don’t be fooled, me laddies! The cuisine is far

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sicians were gathered in a circle with fiddles, guitars and bass in their capable hands. The music was inviting, and the talent level was first-class. It was a great addition to our dining experience.

The food, however, was still the star of the show for Mystery Diner. The menu offers starters, soups and salads, sandwiches, main entrees and desserts. Traditional Scottish dishes are

there, including Scotch Egg and Haggis Neeps and Tatties. For those who want something different but aren’t quite ready for haggis, try a meat pie.

The Steak and Ale Pie was a great choice for a blustery winter night. It is stick-to-your-ribs food with a hearty aroma that gets the taste buds ready at the first crack of the crust. The pie is chunks of tender beef and vegetables simmering in a

Steak and Ale Pie joins such Scottish traditions as Scotch Egg and Haggis Neeps and Tatties on the menu at Boyd’s Jig and Reel. Photo by Mystery Diner traditional broth made with Scottish ale. The whole delicious, thick stew is topped with a crispy puff pastry and baked to a golden brown in a plate-size iron skillet.

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Rotary delivers a special dictionary dictionary for one of her third-graders who is vision impaired.

Burns says he checked with Todd Wolf, who chairs the project for the club, “and he ordered one right away.”

Burns went back to the school to deliver the dictionary to third-grader Vanessa Weaver. “She was so excited and thankful. She asked to shake my hand and then gave me a hug. And the whole class applauded. It was pretty special.”

Club members are justifiably proud of their ambitious dictionary project, which has far-reaching effects. For many of the students, it is the only book they have ever owned. For all of them, it can open a world of wonders as they search and learn new words and their meanings.

By Anne Hart It was a first for the Rotary Club of Bearden – a request for a dictionary quite unlike any the club has ever donated before.

Since 2006, the club has given a free dictionary to every third-grader in a Knox County public school. Some 4,700 students received the dictionaries this year.

Over time, the number of the free dictionaries, which are always personally delivered to the classrooms by the Rotarians, has amounted to 43,788. That number recently increased to 43,789 with an unusual request.

Rotarian Jim Burns says he was presenting the dictionaries to students at Brickey-McCloud Elementary School when a teacher, Brittney Winn, asked if the club could provide a Braille

I ventured into The Jackpot Antiques and Uniques in South Knoxville last week and was impressed with the cleanliness and extensive inventory there. I was also impressed with owner Tony Vick.

Nancy Whittaker Jim Burns, a member of the Rotary Club of Bearden, delivers a very special dictionary to Brickey-McCloud Elementary School third-grader Vanessa Weaver as her teacher, Brittney Winn, looks on. Photo submitted

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Vick inherited his interest in antiques and collectibles from his grandparents. Carl and Mary Smart of Powell were widely known antiquelovers; Vick says their house was like a museum.

His dad, retired Army Sgt. Maj. John D. Vick, and mom, Brenda Anderson Vick, were stationed in Germany when Tony was born. After graduating from high school in 1988, Tony moved from Maryland back to Knoxville.

Vick says being in the car business for 27 years had left him “ … going broke and pretty torn up.”

He had no idea how much a text would change his life when a friend invited him to a revival at Dante Church of God, but he knew he needed to make a change. “I was tired of being tired,” says Vick.

During the revival, the preacher told Tony, “God is going to prosper your business in more ways than you can imagine.”

That was mid-September 2013. In addition to his car lots, he owned a Jackpot on Broadway at the time and didn’t know how he could switch “from selling $8,000 cars” to just “$200 sofas.”

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Vick laughs and says he sells “anything that doesn’t eat.” Lamps, collectibles, DVDs, CDs, tools and artwork are plentiful, and there’s a special “thrift room” in the back.

“I now realize God had to take me through it to get me to it. He supplies my every need,” says Vick.

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Grapes and hemp can set us free I got to thinking the other day about sustainable agriculture. Don’t ask why.

Beef production is problematic. Cattle farming is dirty work and expensive.

Cattle require tons of grain and grass to grow from birth to table. They pollute creeks and emit greenhouse gasses. Cattle might look like an easy buck, standing there on the hillside munching grass, but I know from experience there’s gotta be a better way to make a dollar.

I decided to raise beef cattle once on a 5-acre minifarm on Brickyard Road in Powell. Brevity demands that I relate only key words: Summer sweat, balky steer, borrowed trailer, brother’s truck, stuck in mud, cousin’s tractor, caravan down Emory Road.

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Sandra Clark fence, cut a hole, share the grass, Sunday call, not a steer!!?? Threatened mayhem, find quick buyer, sell steer on the hoof.

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The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is accepting applications from farmers and producers interested in growing industrial hemp. State law says growers can get a license for “research” or a pilot project.

So you folks growing the vile weed in the woods, get on down to the library computer and dial up w w w.tn.gov/agriculture/

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A friend in upper East Tennessee once grew recreational hemp in a plot of tomatoes. She went on vacation and returned to find the tomatoes wilted brown and the hemp standing proudly about seven feet high for the world to see.

She quickly harvested it and hung it in the barn to dry, like tobacco. Her dog, Fuzz, was quick to grab the stalks and carry them around the yard, a pleasant smile on his face.

If producing cannabis is not your cup of tea, the Ag people encourage you to try grapes.

Get set for an all-day conference Thursday, Feb. 26, in Marshall, N.C., on “cold-hardy grape growing and some winemaking

tips.” So run back over to the library and dial www.

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Economic development is ours for the asking. We don’t need to recruit those dirty factories. Just grow grapes and hemp and sell them to your neighbors. We’ll all be poor, but, like Fuzz, we just won’t worry about it.

■ Will Gov. Bill Haslam muster the votes to pass Insure Tennessee this week? You’d think a governor would count noses before calling a special session of the Legislature to consider just one item. Everybody says the vote will be close.

If I had a vote, it would be “yes.” But I don’t have high regard for the GOP supermajority. Will Insure Tennessee pass this week?

My prediction is no.

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By Bonny C. Millard Doug Scarlett recently shared his experiences as presidential chef, as well as his volunteer work with the American Red Cross, with Doug Scarlett the Rotary Club of Farragut. He has supervised kitchens at 51 disasters and fed 41,000 people a day after Hurricane Sandy.

Describing former President Lyndon B. Johnson as friendly and direct, and former President Richard M. Nixon as quiet and secretive, Doug Scarlett recalled his time as an Air Force One chef in the late ‘60s.

Scarlett served from 1965-1969, working for Johnson and then for Nixon for a short time. The Vietnam War was at its height, and the U.S. was still involved in the Cold War with Russia. He overheard disagreements between Johnson and Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev.

“I remember when that red phone rang. You know what the red phone is. Him (Johnson) and Khrush-

chev would have words. I tell you it was scary. It was very scary back then what was going on in this country. People had no idea ….

We were so close to pushing buttons.”

Scarlett’s culinary journey wasn’t something he planned. He enlisted in the Air Force in hopes of avoiding Vietnam and ended up at the Army’s cooking school.

After receiving a call from the Pentagon, he accepted a position as a general’s assistant that turned out to be Johnson’s chef. “‘From now on, everything is classified. You don’t tell your wife. You don’t tell your family. You don’t tell anybody,’” Scarlett recalled the commander at Andrews Air Force Base telling him. “‘You will be assigned to Air Force One …. Feed the president.’”

When he had the opportunity, he left his position with Air Force One. “They offered me a $30,000-something bonus and a jump in rank if I stayed, and I said no. This is too boring.”

Scarlett, a member of the Rotary Club of Crossville, operates a catering company with his wife.

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Powell Business & Professional Association to hear Rusty Wallace Rusty Wallace will speak Banquet Facility. Wallace is ships. at the PBPA at 11:45 a.m. both a race car driver and Info: John Bayless, 947Tuesday, Feb. 10, at Jubilee partner in local auto dealer- 8224.

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Pencil trees Our cedars are high on my list of favorite trees.

Maybe it’s because they’ve been such a nice, dry refuge in times when I’ve been caught in a sudden shower.

You catch your breath, look around – everything’s getting wet, but there under your cedar tree, it’s still nice and dry. And the good memories go back even further.

Our family Christmas trees were always cedars, selected and cut after a great deal of discussion at my grandmother’s place, and brought home to fill the living room with that wonderful, memorable cedar smell.

Now, the fact that our local birds – cardinals, chickadees, titmice, sparrows – can manage to survive the rigors of wintertime seems nothing short of miraculous to me. So when my latest issue of National Wildlife magazine arrived containing the article “Helping Birds Cope with the Cold,” I was on it. And to my surprise, it was about those very cedar trees and how they are an ideal wintertime environment for birds. The author quotes a Clemson biology professor saying that cedars are among the top 10 plants for wildlife!

Those familiar, widespread evergreens that we call cedars are properly called Eastern red cedars.

They aren’t really cedars (like the cedar of Lebanon) but are actually in the juniper family; their scientific name is Juniperus virginiana. And just so you know, the Eastern red cedar became the official Tennessee state evergreen tree in 2012, so I presume that somebody besides just me thinks they’re cool.

Our cedars are widespread, not just in Tennes-

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see, but all across the eastern half of the country from the Atlantic coast to the Great Plains, native to 37 states. In our area they can grow to 100 feet tall and live to be 300 years old. They can grow in most any type of soil other than an actual swamp and can thrive in any environment other than in the shade. They are early and abundant invaders of abandoned fields, a fact known to many a farmer trying to keep pastures clear of unwanted vegetation.

As for their value to our birds and other wildlife, they provide both food and shelter. Their dense foliage makes a natural haven for nesting, used by many species of birds in the spring, as well as for concealment and nightly roosting. They are favorites for owls to hide in by day, hawks by night. And they provide livestock with winter shelter good enough for them to be referred to as “outdoor barns.”

Cedars are dioecious, which means each gender is a separate plant. Only the female trees produce fruit: small blue berries borne abundantly every two or three years. They are a favorite food for their namesake bird, the cedar waxwing, as well as for bluebirds, turkeys, grouse and numerous other species, “helping pull wildlife through tough times,” as the Clemson professor puts it. In warmer weather, the juniper hairstreak butterfly

Red cedar is “pencil tree.” depends exclusively upon the cedars for egg-laying and caterpillar-feeding; I’ve seen them in my cedarfilled back field.

One downside of Eastern red cedars is that they harbor a fungus that spreads to apples, infecting trees with an economically serious disease called cedar-apple rust. After the apple trees are infected, the spores of the fungus spread back to the cedar trees to start

the cycle anew. This phenomenon led to a major conflict in the early 1900s in Virginia’s apple-heavy Shenandoah Valley.

With the slogan “cedars or cider,” the apple people got a state law passed that permitted orchard owners, with the consent of any 10 neighbors, to cut down cedars in the vicinity of an apple orchard, even against the will of the cedar trees’ owner.

It reminds one of the range wars out West between the cattle people and the sheep people. I doubt that such a law would have worked out well here in East Tennessee.

The aromatic wood of the red cedar had been known for its striking color and good working qualities since the first European landed on the coast of Virginia. It made countless fence posts, buildings, and pieces of furniture. But our Tennessee cedars reached national prominence be-

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were the best. So much so that by 1912, over one billion pencils per year were being made from it, and by 1920, Tennessee’s supply of red cedar was nearly wiped out. Timber cruisers were haggling with farmers for their cedar windbreaks and old cedar buildings, even swapping new woven-wire fencing for their old cedar fencerows.

Today, U.S. pencil production exceeds 2.5 billion annually. Fortunately for our cedar trees, manufacturers have found satisfactory alternatives to old-growth cedar. They are using a number of western species of juniper, and even plainer woods like basswood, dying it and giving it a cedar-like scent. There is still a healthy cedar timber industry here in Tennessee, but fortunately the supply exceeds the demand. Our cedars are hanging in there, abundant and green in the winter and useful in lots of ways year-round. And I’m glad for them – the cedar waxwings and I really enjoy having them around.

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cause of quite another use discovered for them.

From that same 2012 Senate bill proclaiming Tennessee’s state evergreen: “… one of the earliest forest industries in the state of Tennessee was the cedar pencil industry.” Check the tree books: an alternate name for the red cedar is “pencil tree.”

Lead pencils remain important in everyday life; even today, more pencils are sold around the world than ballpoint pens. And back when the British quit exporting pencils to the young United States due to the War of 1812, Yankee ingenuity kicked in, machines were invented, and by 1861 the first U.S. pencil factory was open in New York City.

Lead pencils required wood that was light in weight, dense yet soft enough to be easily sharpened but not splinter, affordable and easy to mill. It turned out that the knot-free heartwood of big, old Eastern red cedars filled the bill.

It became the pencil wood of choice, and the big cedars of Tennessee and Kentucky

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