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Playhouse is hoppin’!

Nothing is more fun than a dance – unless it’s a sock hop put together by the Powell Playhouse. The inaugural Cupid’s Sock Hop and Silent Auction was held Feb. 14 as a fundraiser for the Playhouse, and it was a large charge.

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Rockin’ docs This Friday, some local physicians will be throwin’ down for a good cause at two Old City venues as part of the annual fundraiser “Doc Rock for Health,” a fun, rowdy event that benefits area medical charities.

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What’s in a name?

Last November, the UT Athletics Department announced the “One Tennessee” initiative, which will abolish the use of the name “Lady Vols” in all sports except basketball.

Protests have ensued.

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And the walls came

tumbling down

Coach Jay Scarbro stands next to the deteriorating wall at the Powell High School baseball field. Photo by Cindy Taylor

retaining wall,” said Scarbro. “The wall along the first-base line is leaning and needs to be replaced.”

The plan is to reconstruct the backstop area behind home plate, as well as brick the wall from the home dugout to the opposing team dugout to make it structurally secure and better looking. Scarbro says the aging barriers are easily seen from the new section of Emory Road, and he feels repair is also an issue of having pride in the school grounds.

Scarbro and his team members are appealing to community businesses to donate funds to make the necessary repairs. They are asking that businesses purchase the walls around the baseball field up appearances is important. But 5x10-foot banners for the outfield

By Cindy Taylor even more important is the safety wall to be displayed during home If you own a Powell-based busi- from tumbling down.

With the new section of Emory of those using the field. ness, baseball coach Jay Scarbro games.

“The backstop wall is in bad and his Powell High Panthers are Road now open and providing a To page A-3 asking for your help in preventing clear view of the field, keeping shape, as well as the connected

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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Broadacres dues are dead; long live ‘member support’

Relay for Life North Knox kick-off The kick-off for the American Cancer Society’s North Knox Relay for Life has been rescheduled to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Fountain City Lions Club, 5345 N. Broadway.

Learn what Relay for Life is all about and how you can become involved.

RSVP to Jessica Brooks, 558-4046 or jessicad.brooks@ cancer.org

By Cindy Taylor

Congrats!

When the Knox County Public Library’s annual report was released, two Shopper-News contributors were prominently quoted.

Carol Zinavage Shane, principal keyboardist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and a Fountain City resident, writes a weekly entertainment column for this newspaper. She said: “I use Lawson-McGhee Library’s audio-visual services constantly.”

Jim Tumblin, retired optometrist and local historian, writes monthly columns based on research at the downtown library. He said: “The helpfulness of the staff and the selections available … make the (McClung Collection) equal to or superior to any other library I have visited.”

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Broadacres HOA president Steven Goodpaster says goodbye to HOA dues.

amount would be more fitting and could generate more participation.”

Checks are already rolling in better than before, says Goodpaster. He hopes residents will feel more inclined to contribute via “member support.” Suggested 2015 giving for households with residents 65 and over is $25, for those with active and retired military $25 and all others $35.

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State of the schools, errr super

By Betty Bean Knox Schools Superintendent James McIntyre got some unexpected love lately, and not from the usual suspects.

Not for his recent presentation before the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, nor for his State of the Schools address Jim McIntyre nor his appearance on WBIR TV’s “Inside Tennessee.”

The gusher of gratitude erupting from students who were thrilled about the school-free week occasioned by last week’s bad weather exploded on Twitter, where McIntyre’s face got Photoshopped onto Mt. Rushmore and an “American Sniper” poster. One kid put him in an NBA uniform sinking a Pistol Pete-level trey. Teachers were pretty happy, too.

McIntyre’s trip to Washington

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It was Ringo Starr who sang “Got to pay your dues … and you know it don’t come easy.” Well it’s about to come much more easily for residents of Broadacres subdivision, all of whom are now considered members of the Broadacres HOA thanks to its president, Steven Goodpaster.

“We surveyed active members and non-members and found that most felt the $50 dues requirement per household was onerous,” he said. “Many thought a lesser

got some play, and his fourth annual State of the Schools – a slick, heavily scripted event larded with fulsome praise from teachers and students for the superintendent – went off without a hitch under the watchful eye of his PR guru Melissa Ogden, who sat front and center and interrupted her Twitter updates only when she needed both hands to join in the applause lines.

Analysis He wasn’t treated as gently on “Inside Tennessee,” where he declined the opportunity to appear jointly with Lauren Hopson, president-elect of the Knox County Education Association, opting instead to have his own segment after the Hopson interview was done.

When grilled about teacher morale by panelists Mike Donila and Don Bosch, he said he doesn’t know how to measure that (apparently forgetting his 2013 survey

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that found 70 percent of teachers registering some level of dissatisfaction with his administration).

Moderator John Becker attempted to pin him down, as well.

Becker: “You were in the wings and heard Ms. Hopson’s concerns, especially about teachers and the workload and testing that continues. What do you make of what she said?”

McIntyre: “I’m sorry. I didn’t hear much of what the interview was.”

McIntyre concluded his SoS address with seven new “stakeholder conversations” to be held as part of the new five-year strategic plan.

He will double down on APEX (the controversial “strategic” compensation plan for teacher raises and bonuses), the “balanced calendar” concept (year-round school) and the Teachers Advisory Committee (which teachers have criticized for being top-heavy with administrators).

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be to assess the “inventory” of tests administered to children with the help of a $40,000 grant from Achieve Incorporated, the only such grant awarded in Tennessee.

And what is Achieve Inc.?

Here’s the short answer from an Atlanta Journal Constitution story called “Common Core as a brand name: Who is making money off the new standards?”

“Achieve Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that has been heavily involved in writing the (Common Core State) standards, receives funding from corporate titans such as Microsoft, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Chevron and DuPont.

Prediction: When it comes time for the school board to discuss the Achieve Inc. grant, count on someone (my money’s on Amber Rountree) to remind McIntyre of the advice of another titan of industry – Warren Buffett: “Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”

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Young at heart Sylvia Countess was walking her dog one day last summer when she happened to cross paths with one of her neighbors. They exchanged greetings, and then Countess couldn’t help sharing what was on her mind.

“I said, ‘Do you know I had heart surgery on Monday and I’m walking my dog today?’ ” Countess laughs.

It had been just five days since that surgery.

Countess underwent Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) at Parkwest Medical Center last summer. Like so many other TAVR patients, she now marvels at the outcome.

“Dr. [Thomas] Pollard and the rest of the team at Parkwest were wonderful,” said Countess.

“I couldn’t have asked for better Thomas care.”

Pollard, MD During a TAVR procedure, a stent is used to insert a replacement valve, as opposed to opening the chest through traditional surgery. To qualify for TAVR, patients must be considered ineligible for tradiWilliam tional open heart Hall, MD procedures.

Countess had already had surgery for heart problems in the past, and TAVR turned out to be a perfect fit for her.

“Most patients who undergo TAVR are deemed high Milan risk because of their frailty or mulSheth, MD

No longer a patient, Sylvia Countess now works as a hospital volunteer. Countess had triple bypass surgery at Methodist Medical Center in 2010 and a TAVR procedure at Parkwest Medical Center last year.

Sylvia Countess celebrated her birthday working in Palestine in 2010. Thanks to cardiac care at Covenant Health hospitals, she’s been able to continue traveling and doing the work she loves.

tiple medical problems. This was not the case with Sylvia. She actually led a very active lifestyle prior to becoming limited by her heart valve disease. Traditional heart surgery was just too high risk for her because of her previous history of heart surgery and the development of vascular calcification,” Pollard said.

Four years ago, Countess was pulling her luggage through an airport when she noticed traveling

Covenant Health TAVR procedure results ‘very favorable’ When Parkwest CAO Rick Lassiter first heard about TAVR, his interest was piqued.

The proposal to bring TAVR to Covenant Health was brought forth by cardiothoracic surgeons. It meant a new hybrid operating room would have to be built at a significant investment. It also required that the surgeons performing the procedure must be trained in Irvine, Calif.

Lassiter, who has been in healthcare for more than two decades, felt this revolutionary procedure would not only save lives, but improve the quality of life for patients who have run out of options. He supported the physicians’ proposal.

“After hours of discussions with our physicians and our clinicians, a strategic plan was developed and the rest is history,” Lassiter said.

Between June 6, 2012, and Dec. 31, 2014, the Covenant Heath TAVR team performed 152 TAVR surgeries at Parkwest, at an average of 59 cases per year. This volume compares to a median average of 30 surgeries per year at the 223 other medical centers that participated in the PARTNER (Placement of AoRtic TraNscathetER) Valves Trial.

“The data is very favorable,” Lassiter stated. “We do nearly twice as many TAVR procedures on average, and our mortality rate for the procedure is well below the national median. We also have lower rates of major vascular injury, valvular leakage and bleeding.”

wasn’t as easy as it used to be. She loved that her job had allowed her to travel for years, but suddenly it seemed to exhaust her.

“I was huffing and puffing,” says Countess, who was 70 at the time. “I just thought I was getting old, and maybe I was pushing myself too hard.”

It was the first sign that something was wrong, but it was a sign she ignored. Later, when she blamed

her breathing problems on allergies, her doctor recommended a stress test to see if her heart might be the real cause. The results couldn’t be denied.

“I was surprised to hear I needed triple bypass surgery,” Countess says.

However, Countess wasn’t afraid.

She had confidence in cardiac surgeon William Hall, MD, and Methodist Medical Center.

It’s safe to say the average person doesn’t enjoy hospitals the way she does, but Sylvia Countess is not the average person.

For most of her adult life, Countess has been involved in hospital work, either on the payroll or as a volunteer. For several years while she was teaching advanced placement French at Oak Ridge High School, she worked nights as a certified nursing assistant (CNA). While she traveled on behalf of her church to train teachers in the United States and in Palestine, she was also working as a hospital chaplain in Knoxville.

“There’s just something special about being in a hospital,” Countess says.

The bypass surgery was expertly performed, and she got back to her busy life. All was going well for a few years, until she started to experience an old familiar feeling. She began to be fatigued too easily, and her breathing became labored again.

Countess followed her doctor’s orders after her surgery at Methodist. She had regularly scheduled appointments with her cardiologist, Milan Sheth, MD. He kept tabs on the condition of her heart, and when those old symptoms started to reappear, she had quick access to care.

“When I had my triple bypass in 2010, there had been some talk about

The right mix of expertise There’s an old saying: “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” However, that is definitely not the case when a patient’s treatment plan calls for TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement).

With TAVR, the patient benefits from the expertise of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, all of whom play essential roles.

The first TAVR was performed at Parkwest in June 2012. The procedure gives new hope to patients who suffer from a progressive life-threatening condition called aortic stenosis but who are not candidates for traditional open heart surgery. As of the end of 2104, 152 patients have received this life-saving procedure at Parkwest.

TAVR is a minimally invasive procedure that involves placing a catheter into the femoral artery or through a small incision between the ribs and deploying a collapsible prosthetic aortic valve into a beating heart.

At Parkwest, the multidisciplinary TAVR team includes physicians specializing in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, interventional cardiology and cardiac anesthesiology, along with nurses and technicians with specialized training. The team also in-

problems with my aortic valve,” Countess says. “The decision was made not to do anything about it at the time, and that was fine with me.”

After four years of careful monitoring and less invasive treatment options, Sheth determined the time was right to get that valve taken care of. Because Countess had chosen healthcare through a doctor associated with Covenant Health and a Covenant Health hospital in Oak Ridge, she was already connected to the wide variety of services available through the healthcare system.

Being part of the Covenant Health network allowed Sheth to offer several options for his patient. After further testing and consultation with Dr. Hall, it was decided that the TAVR procedure at Parkwest would be best for Countess.

She says the whole experience at the hospital was very positive, and she managed to make a return trip to Palestine just a few months later.

Asked how she’s doing now, Countess quips, “I think I’m excellent. Parts of me may be perfect!”

Now 74 years young, Countess has returned to her love of hospitals and has joined the Covenant Health team. She’s a volunteer at Methodist, the same Covenant hospital where she had her first heart procedure.

When she’s not busy with that, she’s volunteering as a deaconess with the Lutheran church.

“Life is too precious to be spent sitting around feeling bad,” Countess says. “If there is something you can do to improve your quality of life – and thereby improve the quality of life of the people around you – then you go for it.”

To learn more about TAVR at Parkwest Medical Center or to learn more about the cardiac services of Methodist Medical Center visit covenanthealth.com, or call 865-541-4500.

Multidisciplinary approach benefits TAVR patients

The Covenant Health TAVR team pictured (L to R) are: Nicholaos Xenopoulos, MD; Ayaz Rahman, MD; Sonya Brown; Chad Stouffer, MD; Thomas Pollard, MD; Mike Ayres, MD; and Sheilah Vartan (missing from photo: G. Lee Collins, MD, Samuel McIlrath, MD and Jeff Ollis, MD). cludes a nurse navigator who provides education, a plan of care, emotional support and guidance through the TAVR experience.

A patient is referred to one of the interventional cardiologists or cardiovascularsurgeons who perform TAVR by his or her own cardiologist or primary care physician. The patient first undergoes a work-up that includes extensive outpatient tests, which are presented at a weekly TAVR conference.

Even the operating room used for TAVR procedures at Parkwest is multidisciplinary in design. A unique surgical room, known as a hybrid op-

erating room, combines the resources of a cardiac catheterization lab and an operating room, including the imaging equipment needed for minimally invasive procedures.

While the operating facilities are located at Parkwest Medical Center, the team includes physicians from across Covenant Health and patients who come from other hospitals in the area to have this procedure.

To learn more about TAVR and the cardiac services available through Covenant Health, visit us online at www.covenanthealth.com/heart or call 865-541-4500.

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Sock Hop is ‘on the stick’

community

Nothing is more fun than a dance – unless it’s a sock hop put together by the Powell Playhouse. The inaugural Cupid’s Sock Hop and Silent Auction was held Feb. 14 as a fundraiser for the Playhouse, and it was a large charge. Characters made the scene, boogie woogied the night away and had an overall boss blast.

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I’ll clue you: No party poopers were allowed.

Male cats and greasers alike sported their lids, and chicks dug the scene in poodle skirts and bobby socks.

Folks got hip to the cool silent-auction kicks, and the lucky ones got dibs on some great loot. DJ Lenny Jenkins spun sides from the 1950s. What a gas!

More than $1,300 raised put the organizers on cloud nine with no gringles. Future sock hops should be radioactive and have it made in the shade.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, the cast is making ready for the upcoming Powell Playhouse performance of “The Night of January 16th.” The play takes place in a courtroom in New York City. A young lady is on trial for murder – or was it suicide? The jury will be chosen from the audience.

The cast includes: Trisha Gentry as Prison Matron, Jean Weeden as Clerk of the Court, Hoyt Lansdell as Judge Heath, Chuck Severance as DA Flint, Mark Johnson as DA Stevens, Melody McMahan as Karen Andre, Chuck Denney as Dr. Kirkland, Christina Perkins as Mrs. John Hutchens, Flash Black as Homer Van Fleet, Joshua Grant McMahan as Elmer Sweeney, Carly Johnson as Nancy Lee Faulkner, Carolyn Wells as Magda Svenson, Allen Robertson as John Graham Whitfield, Sheila McMahan as Jane Chandler, Colby Russell as Sigurd Junquist, Scott Rutherford as Larry Regan and Wendy Myers as Roberta Van Rensselaer.

“This is a drama with some comedy and the largest cast we have ever had,” said organizer Mona Napier.

Broadacres dues ed about the direction this decision may take the HOA. “Our primary goal now is to call gifts of support what they are,” he said. “We hope to lower the burden to the few in hopes of gaining participation and support from a broader audience.”

The Broadacres HOA

Emery Violet, Lily Young and Kamryn Young have a great time at the Powell Playhouse Sock Hop.

Christy and Scott Rutherford hit the dance floor.

Chuck and Renee Denney cut a rug. Photos by Cindy Taylor

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Mom and son Christy and Sam Rutherford shake it up.

“We are excited for our first audience-participation play.

The verdict could go either way for each performance.”

Shows will be at 7 p.m.

April 16, 17 and 18 at Jubilee Banquet Center, with dinner on Friday and Saturday nights at 5:30 p.m. Saturday

matinee is $10; seniors $5.

Tickets are $10 at the door.

Dinner reservations are required. Call Jubilee at 938-2112. Info: 256-7428 or email monanapier@ comcast.net.

Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail. com.

newsletter to be delivered to all 800-plus Broadacres residences.

Goodpaster says the fuuses donated funds to ture holds even more exmaintain the entrances to the subdivision (mowing, citement for the residents trimming, weeding, etc.), of Broadacres. Specifics will post board maintenance, be announced later.

Watch out, Steven. Such signage, streetlights and periodic newsletter mailings. resourceful and inspired Goodpaster is in talks with thinking could get you noma local business owner to inated for an even higher sponsor bulk mailing of the position. POTUS, anyone?

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“The goal is to sell 50 banners at $500 each to cover the cost of repairs,” said Scarbro. “We want to complete the project during the summer of 2015.”

There is a $250 renewal fee for year two.

Scarbro has already received the promise of partnership in the project from 32 businesses: First Century Bank, Enrichment Federal Credit Union, Rusty Wallace Honda & Kia, First Baptist Church Powell, Laura Bailey Realty, Tony Bradley, Sports Locker; Advocare, Home Federal Bank, 84 Lumber, Moretz Moving, Shopper-News, Powell Church, Prestige Tuxedo; Clinton Hwy. Wrecker Service, Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones, Keller Williams/Major Ward, Knoxville Tactical, Christmas Lumber, Wallace Memorial, Enve Salon; Sharon Chadwell, DeRoyal, Phillips/Jordan, Tennessee State Bank, Josie’s Boutique, Summit Medical, Charles Busler/Patti Bounds; Powell Business and Professional Association, Vaughn Pharmacy, Computer Depot and Knoxville Harley-Davidson.

Team members will continue to seek help from businesses. With only 18 more contributors needed, Scarbro hopes to achieve the goal quickly.

“Powell High School baseball has a rich tradition,” he said. “Our desire is to continue what was started years ago.”

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

■ Knox North Lions Club meets 1 p.m. each first and third Wednesday, Puleo’s Grille, 110 Cedar Lane.

Info: www.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: Lynn Redmon, 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.

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Hart attack

Note: This story contains a term never used in the Shopper-News: Lady Vols.

Our editorial policy specifically bans the use of such gender-identified terms but will make an exception for this report on the growing controversies in the University of Tennessee Athletics Department.

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Last November, the UT Athletics Department announced the “One Tennessee” initiative, which will abolish the use of the name “Lady Vols” in all sports except basketball. Athletics director Dave Hart said

this change was driven primarily by past and present student athletes and secondarily by Nike, which is UT’s new “apparel partner,” replacing Adidas.

He singled out four-time softball All-American Monica Abbott as approving the change.

Two days later, Abbott emailed the Tennessean newspaper debunking Hart’s claim, calling the name change “definitely disappointing” and deploring “the dollar driving all college athletics programs,” an apparent reference to Hart’s contention that Nike was pushing the change.

That was just the beginning of a growing controversy that is playing out against a background of increased scrutiny of UT’s handling of male athletes being investigated for or ac-

tually charged with sexual assaults and rapes, lawsuits filed by pr om i nent former employees of the women’s athletics depar tment, which was formally abolished Dave Hart when men’s and women’s athletics were combined.

Add that to Hart’s professional history of problems with women, including questionable handling of a rape charge against a football player at Florida State when he was there, and a gender-equity lawsuit filed (and settled out of court) by women’s basketball coach Chris Gobrecht, and it is difficult to argue against the proposition that Hart has a problem with women.

The rumble, which Hart’s supporters dismiss as driven by a small group of

people with “an agenda,” is growing.

In the past week alone, these issues have been reported, reviewed, evaluated and in some cases, debunked by the Tennessean (two stories and an editorial), the Columbia (Tennessee) Daily Herald, the Chattanooga Times Free Press (editorial column) and in a comprehensive long form story in Sports Illustrated (www.si.com/ womens- col lege -ba sketball/2015/02/18/tennesseeat h let ic s-lady-vols- endprotest).

Members of a group formed to pressure UT into restoring the women’s logo have been taking action, including writing to Nike to inquire about its involvement in the rebranding. A response on Nike letterhead signed by “Kelly of Nike Consumer Affairs” denies that the sports-apparel giant had any role in the name change:

All-time greats list without Doug Atkins Having lived a relatively sheltered life, I did not know Wall St. Cheat Sheet dabbled in sports. A treasured reader told me it listed the 10 greatest NFL defensive linemen of all time and that ex-Vol Reggie White is No. 1.

I said great. And where is Doug Atkins?

There was a long pause.

“He didn’t make it.”

Do what?

“Sorry about that.”

Kofi Bofah, a relative youngster schooled in real classes at the University of North Carolina, a former financial adviser with American Express, has become an expert generator of a few hundred Internet stories.

Kofi did this bad thing.

He obviously never saw Atkins manhandle would-

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be blockers and terrorize quarterbacks. Alas, that is an invalid excuse. He never saw some of the others he anointed: Mean Joe Greene, Deacon Jones, Alan Page, Carl Eller, Gino Marchetti and Bob Lilly.

If Bofah, being a North Carolina man, had researched Atkins’ magic moment as a Tennessee Volunteer, he would have gained understanding. It happened the first of November, 1952,

Tar Heels at Shields-Watkins Field. Their fullback, leading a sweep, came at Doug with a cross-body block.

Atkins caught this fullgrown man with his hands and forearms – and threw him, like a log, at the tailback. It was an awesome show of force. Intimidating.

Don’t come this way!

Great quarterback Johnny Unitas saw that same power play in the NFL: “One of Atkins’ favorite tricks was to throw a blocker at the quarterback, which does tend to disrupt the passing game.”

Another famous name from the past, Paul Hornung, appeared as an expert witness, free of charge: “Atkins was the best defensive

end I ever saw. He was 6-9 and maybe 275 and he could run. You couldn’t block him, and he was such a wild man that George Halas couldn’t coach him.”

That is an exaggeration. Doug is only 6-8. And, what’s more, Halas and Atkins often got along during their 12 seasons of coexistence with the Chicago Bears – when the subject wasn’t Doug’s salary. I have a book in which Halas is quoted as saying, ‘‘There never was a better defensive end.’’

Another NFL name you might recognize, Fran Tarkenton, remembered Atkins as the strongest man in football and also the biggest.

“When he rushed the

“Please know that while we support all University of Tennessee athletics, Nike has no decision-making capabilities whatsoever in the choice to phase out the Lady Volunteers nickname for all of women’s sports. This is completely and solely the university’s decision. All feedback and concerns regarding this decision (are) best directed to the university’s athletics department.”

Despite efforts by UT president Joe DiPietro and UTK chancellor Jimmy Cheek to quell the controversies surrounding their athletics director (who has also been made a vice chancellor), these issues are unlikely to die away. A discrimination lawsuit filed

by Pat Summitt’s highly regarded sports medicine director/head trainer Jenny Moshak (routinely lauded by basketball experts as “the best in the business”) and two of her associates is set for trial this spring and

is guaranteed to draw national attention. The group of former athletes and boosters opposing the logo change is growing.

(Among Moshak’s accomplishments was creating Team ENHANCE, which helped female athletes cope with eating disorders and traumatic events and has been adopted by other teams. One of the recent female assault victims was a UT athlete.)

In what might be the scariest prospect of all for Hart and his supporters, Pat Summitt’s former sports information director Debby Jennings (also frequently referred to as the best in her field), who sued UT after Hart forced her to retire and settled the suit for $320,000, has media connections all over the country.

And in a rare move for a litigant involved with UT, her settlement doesn’t contain a non-disclosure agreement.

passer with those oak-tree arms way up in the air, he was 12 feet tall. And if he got to you, the world suddenly started spinning.”

While we are talking about the past, Atkins was selected SEC Player of the Quarter Century (1950-74), ahead of such legendary heroes as John Majors, Archie Manning, Billy Cannon and Lee Roy Jordan.

Atkins was the only player to be unanimously named.

Doug never felt that he was paid what he was worth.

He said his signing bonus with the Cleveland Browns was two cheeseburgers and eight beers. His first contract was for $6,800. The numbers sounded low but I never considered challenging.

Atkins retired after 205 NFL games, then a record

for defensive linemen. He had made life difficult for blockers and those with the football for 17 seasons. He played in nine Pro Bowls.

He is in the NFL and college halls of fame.

There is an insightful hand-me-down story from Jim Parker, great offensive guard.

“I considered myself the best guard of the century and I played against some mean ones,” Parker said, “but I never met anyone meaner than Doug Atkins.

After our first meeting, I really wanted to quit football. Finally, my coaches convinced me that not every pro player was like Atkins.”

Kofi Bofah should not have left Doug off his top 10 list. What if they were to meet?

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

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Big birthday for Moxley Cynthia Moxley, lead partner in Moxley Carmichael Communications, turns 60 on March 2, but she celebrates with a big splash at Holston Hills CounMoxley try Club with Con Hunley performing on Feb. 27.

Moxley moved to East Tennessee in 1978, working for the Gatlinburg Mountain Press, and has stayed for the past 37 years. She was born in Rome, Ga., and moved to Columbus, Ga., in the sixth grade. She attended Catholic schools through the 12th grade.

Her father lives in Gulf Shores, Ala., as does her brother, Jimmy.

While she attended Auburn for one year, she got her undergraduate degree in journalism from the Uni-

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versity of Georgia in 1978 after starting as a classics major. In those days her degree was called newspaper management as opposed to journalism.

Her first job paid $11,000 a year; she worked for the Mountain Press in advertising and editorial. She favored writing over advertising. By her own admission, she was fired over a dispute on a rock-slide story.

But she quickly rebounded and got a job with the Knoxville Journal working for Tom Sweeten for $250 a week. She did a large amount of investigative and political reporting until 1991 when she started Moxley Communications out of

Niceley hurts low-income adults

By Mary Headrick, M.D. On Feb. 4, District 8 state Sen. Frank Niceley hurt 1,389 low-income adults of Union County (over 12,000 in the six-county district) who would have been eligible to enroll in Governor Haslam’s Insure Tennessee (IT) program.

Sen. Niceley helped kill IT even though IT would have helped people, hospitals and jobs.

Maybe enough of us can hold him and our other officials accountable and revive a March 2015 bill for Insure Tennessee.

Where affordable health insurance is concerned, Sen. Niceley is working

against us instead of helping us. Learn more about IT online at tn.gov/tenncare/ insureTennessee.

Gov. Haslam’s proposed Insure Tennessee: to insure 280,000 Tennesseans earning under 1.38 times the poverty level, to create over 15,000 jobs over 10 years, and to save 54 “at-risk-ofclosing” hospitals and their 20,000 jobs. The governor proposed IT at no cost to state government, initially paid for entirely by our own federal tax dollars and, later, with some help from hospitals.

IT could be a win-win for Tennessee but Sen. Niceley said no.

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her home. At the Journal, she covered the Butcher Bank failure and helped write the series titled “Borrowed Money, Borrowed Time.”

She met her husband, Alan Carmichael, at a party while he was working for TVA, but he had a journalism background from employment at the Tennessean in Nashville. They have been married 31 years and live in downtown Knoxville.

They work together at Moxley Carmichael in the Miller’s Building, owned by KUB, where they represent some of Knoxville’s leading institutions including Pilot Oil, KUB, Covenant Health and Summit Medical Group. At present, she has Harris Company, which figures in the E-911 controversy over radio bids.

Moxley says every member of her team is passionate about their clients. Jim Clayton described them as “street fighters.”

She is proud of their civic involvement, including sponsorship of Masterworks for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and support of the Urban League’s annual dinner.

In the interest of full disclosure, she employed our daughter, Martha, last summer as an intern. Martha graduates this May from the University of Richmond.

■ Gene Patterson, former WATE news anchor, has gone to work for Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, where he is a community and public affairs specialist. He works for Consolidated Nuclear Security, which manages Y-12.

Y-12 is fortunate to have a person like Patterson who

is highly respected and extremely knowledgeable about the Valley.

■ The special MPC director search committee is nearing a decision. It meets in secret at the direction of Bill Lyons, deputy mayor to Rogero. But the decision is down to three persons who are now being vetted.

■ State Rep. Ryan Haynes has secured his law degree and plans on taking the Tennessee bar exam this summer.

■ Knox GOP legislators will meet soon to recommend three persons to be election commissioners.

A Republican woman has not served in 28 years, and one is expected this year to be on the list of three.

■ Mayor Rogero is holding a late-March fundraiser for her 2015 re-election campaign. All current council members except Nick Della Volpe are on her host committee. This is designed to deter serious opponents from running.

Della Volpe says it is not his job to tell voters whom to support for mayor and he will work with whoever wins.

■ The Troy Whiteside trial for murder has been around for five years with nothing happening. It was supposed to have gone to trial Feb. 17 but has now been postponed to May 12.

Who knows if it will go to trial then?

These delays have become an embarrassment to the Tennessee judicial system. Clearly, a five-year delay is not speedy justice by any standard. Whiteside is well connected in politics.

An outside judge has been named to hear the case, and perhaps that assures its being heard. These delays only help the defendant as witnesses disappear or lose their recollection of what happened.

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Mobile Meals People all over Knox County struggled with weather woes during last week’s ice and snow extravaganza, but a few pressed pause on their own hardships to help folks who were worse off.

Mobile Meals’ volunteer coordinator Shelly Woodrick said the program welcomed more than 40 new volunteers within 48 hours when the weather was at its worst. “Our phones just rang off the hook,” Woodrick said of people calling to help.

Helpers included guys in four-wheel-drive vehicles and families with children in tow.

Judith Pelot, senior nutrition program manager for the Knox County Community Action Committee,

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“We have three to four routes every day, and some of our regular volunteers are uncomfortable walking on icy surfaces to make deliveries,” said Pelot. That’s when the new folks come in handy. “We love surprise volunteers,” she said, as long as they call ahead to be included in the day’s gameplan.

“Even if you call last minute, we can fit you in someplace,” said Pelot.

Training takes about 20 minutes, and one route takes about two hours to complete.

Pelot said the “snow plan” is to make at least a phone call to every person who receives meals through the program to make sure they’re safe and warm.

Last week, one such call saved a woman’s life when a volunteer discovered a meal recipient was without power and out of oxygen.

An ambulance was sent to pick her up.

“That phone call to check on them is just as important as the meal we deliver,” said Pelot.

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George Perry guided decades of middle-schoolers

By Sherri Gardner Howell “Mel Gibson has left the building …”

For hundreds in West and North Knoxville, that phrase will always bring a smile, and now, a sense of loss. George M. Perry, age 80, died on Feb. 14 after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. The Gibson quip was one of Mr. Perry’s signature lines during his life at Cedar Bluff Middle School, where he served as principal for 32 years.

Mr. Perry’s career as an educator showed where his heart was.

He received an associate’s degree from Mars Hill College, N.C., earned a bachelor’s in sociology at Carson-Newman College and a master’s in administration supervision from the University of Tennessee.

After teaching at Morristown City Schools, he was principal at Clinton Senior High School and then led Cedar Bluff Middle as principal for 32 years. Mr. Perry was one of the founders and served as president of the East Tennessee Association of Middle Schools and received the Don Rhodes Distinguished Service Award for his service to young people through the Tennessee Association of Middle Schools organization.

“George was a major force in implementing the middle school concept into Knox County Schools and ultimately across the state,” says colleague and friend Shirley Underwood, a retired educator and former Knox County middle George Perry Schools schools coordinator.

“As an active member of TAMS, he impacted innumerable educators and helped shape the learning of multitudes of students. He was a strong advocate for ensuring that young adolescents were provided opportunities to explore a wide range of subjects and interest areas.”

Underwood says the stories at his memorial service were of his big heart, love of life and sense of humor. She says he once described middle-schoolers as “scared to death that everyone was looking at them and just as scared that nobody was.”

“He had a joy of language and a love of puns,” says Underwood, “along with booming laughter which made others smile and

laugh along with him.”

School was a time for exploration, according to Mr. Perry. Underwood says he believed that students who were given the opportunity to explore a lot of different interest areas “enhanced their chances of academic and social success – not just for school, but for a lifetime.”

Mr. Perry worked with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, hosting and participating in many fundraising activities for the organization. He was an active member of First Baptist Church, Powell, where he served as deacon and director of the senior adult choir and worship ensemble. His dedication to the music ministry includes decades of service at Hillcrest Baptist, Morristown, Second Baptist Church, Clinton and Parkway Baptist, Knoxville.

“George Perry was loved and admired by those who knew him and those whose lives he touched,” says Underwood. “He was a fine man and a great educator.”

Mr. Perry is survived by his wife of 60 years, Doris Perry; three children Chuck (Theresa) Perry and George Ann Perry, all of Morristown, and Melody (Rusty) Holloway of Hendersonville,

George Perry, center, is surrounded by friends and fans at a dedication at Cedar Bluff Middle School in November 2013, when the gym was named for coach John Melnick. Front row, from left, are Susan Hutsell and Mr. Perry; back row, Sonya Winstead, Amy Melendy, Betsy Jones and Melnick. Photo courtesy of Amy Melendy

Tenn.; grandchildren Matthew Perry of Knoxville, Thomas and Olivia Grace Holloway of Hendersonville, Tenn.; Keith (Erin) Holloway of Kenya, Africa; and Daniel Butler of Morristown. For the past two years, Matthew Perry has served his grandfather as primary

caregiver.

Underwood says that as she reflected on her friend’s life, she thought: “Mel Gibson may have left the building a final time, but George Perry will never leave us.

He will always remain as a part of our heart and in our memories.”

Mitzvah Day at Arnstein Center

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Lucy Barkan, Sylvia Miller and Barbara Mintz put finishing touches on Random Acts of Flowers donations during the Knoxville Jewish Alliance’s Mitzvah Day.

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“Mitzvah” is Hebrew for good deeds. The annual event focuses on serving the community rather than serving the Jewish community, says KJA program manager Jesse Feld.

It’s also a way for adults to model service to children. During this year’s

event, children took treats to first responders and visited an assisted-living facility. Middle-school students helped out at a FISH food pantry.

“It’s vital to our community to teach the young our morals of Judaism in an enjoyable, hands-on way,” Feld says.

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By Cindy Taylor

Dante Church of God children’s pastor Michael Lawson and worship pastor Zachary Sexton load a conveyor belt with Boxes of Blessings. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Members of Dante Church of God are very involved with their community, so it comes as no surprise that they have a heart for feeding those in need.

Earl and Lela Coker began restoring hope to the hungry via the Boxes of Blessings food ministry more than 10 years ago.

The ministry grew from its location in the church basement to a building that now houses the food. And the outreach continues to grow, with food distribution once each month and more community members being reached each year.

“We count it a privilege to be able to minister to those in need by giving out food,” said the Rev. Zachary Sexton. “This is one of the commissions God has told us to do.”

Volunteers say they feel that if they can be just a small part of helping others, God will bless their efforts. Looks like God has: From November 2013 to November 2014, the church distributed more than 2,800 boxes of food, blessing more than 5,300

people. Most who receive food return month to month, giving church members and volunteers an opportunity to get to know them more personally and better minister to their needs. Food is supplied by Campbell’s Foods, Lost Sheep Ministry and Second Harvest.

The church also has a clothes closet stocked by church members and open the same day as the food pantry. Those who register for help are asked for a minimal amount of information, after which they can shop, at no charge, for clothes from infant to adult, then return to their car and head to the drive-thru food pantry where volunteers wait by the door of the food ministry building to load food into vehicles. The church also delivers food to shut-ins each month.

There is no charge to anyone who requests help.

“Usually we give out more than 200 boxes of food each month,” said Sexton. “God has blessed us so much in this ministry, and in turn we are able to bless others who need it.”

A vibrant campus ministry

By Carol Shane Matthew Best graduated from UT with a degree in journalism, and he works part-time as a copy editor.

But, says Best, “My fulltime gig is ministry.”

He’s part of the campus staff of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at UT. According to the website, www.ivknoxville.com, the IVCF seeks “to bring a fresh thoughtful Christian presence to the University of Tennessee and to colleges and universities around the region.”

Best leads the Collegiate Black Christian Chapter, one of three chapters serving undergraduates at UT. There are also chapters for Asian-Americans and for multi-ethnic students.

Speaking of IVCF/USA, the national organization which maintains the chap-

Shelly Scott, Sara Fong and Matthew Best head up three local chapters of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at the University of Tennessee. Photo submitted ters, Best says, “We’re essentially missionaries on 600 campuses throughout the country. We are very much about evangelism.”

Best stresses that the IVCF is “not affiliated with any particular denomina-

tion. It’s really important for us to have students that come from a variety of different backgrounds.”

In addition to the chapters serving undergraduates, there’s also a division for graduate students and

faculty.

The IVCF/USA website states that the organization is “a vibrant campus ministry that establishes and advances witnessing communities of students and faculty.” Having chosen the college campus as its mission field, its members want to see education “lead to a lifetime of Christian worship and service.

We believe that when students and faculty are transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ, their campus is transformed, and ultimately society as a whole comes to more closely reflect the priorities of the kingdom of God. That is why we invest ourselves in the lives of students and faculty, wherever they are on their spiritual journey.”

Here at UT, the IVCF staff trains interested stu-

■ 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.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church, 7212 Central Avenue Pike, is accepting appointments for the John 5 Food Pantry. Info: 938-2611. Your call will be returned.

Classes/meetings ■ Alder Springs Missionary Baptist Church, Hickory Star Road, will host a Men’s Conference at 7 p.m. Friday, March 6, and 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, March 7. Ministers

For to the snow he says, “Fall on the earth” … .

Then the animals go into their lairs and remain in their dens.

(Job 37:6a, 8 NRSV) I will own up to this: I am still a kid when it comes to snow. I get excited in anticipation, and when the flakes start falling, I am mesmerized by the beauty of it all.

I love the quiet, the stillness, the peace when the world is hushed by the white blanket of snow.

I earned my driving wings one wintry eve when I left the University of Tennessee after a UT Singers rehearsal. It was clear and dry in town, but when I topped the ridge, the world changed dramatically. It took another 30 minutes or so to drive the five miles home. When I got there, I couldn’t get up the driveway, so I had to leave my car at the base of the hill and walk up.

All of this was before cell phones, so my mother was on her ear. (I have confessed before in this space that I come from a long line of champion worriers!)

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life, after living in Pennsylvania and the mountains of West Virginia (where it snowed right after Christmas and we didn’t see the ground again until late March!), I was back in Knoxville, driving home after work. I will admit I was not as patient as I should have been; I kept saying out loud, as if the drivers ahead could actually hear me, “Just keep moving! Slow and steady is the trick! Don’t stop!” That night it took me four hours to drive the 13 miles from downtown Knoxville to my house.

So, as I write this morning, I am loving the snow – secure in my home.

to the IVCF should visit the national website at www. intervarsity.org. Along with contact info for the UT chapters, the website also contains a full list of chapters in all 50 states.

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include the Rev. Luke Kidwell and the Rev. Jerry Vittatoe.

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■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each Friday. Info: Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ North Knoxville Seventh-

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day Adventist Church, 6530 Fountain City Road, will host “Why Does God Allow Suffering?” Bible study 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25. Info: 687-2600 or www.northknoxville22. adventistchurchconnect.org.

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POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • FEBRUARY 25, 2015 • A-9

Billingsley honored as teacher of month Powell Elementary School first grade teacher Karon Billingsley (far left) was honored as the Shoney’s/WIVK teacher of the month for February. She was nominated by Samuel Pittman. Pictured together are Billingsley, Shoney Bear, Pittman, WIVcK the frog and Gunner. Photo submitted

Enloe is Pleasant Ridge teacher of the year Barbara Enloe was voted teacher of the year at Pleasant Ridge Elementary School.

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Enloe has been around Pleasant Ridge Elementary in some form for the past 20 years. Her children attended the school and she stayed busy as a classroom volunteer. She then moved on to being a substitute and later went back to school to get her teaching degree. It’s only natural that she would become a teacher at this community school.

Pleasant Ridge teacher of the year Barbara Enloe Teaching is the second career for this artist, but she hasn’t given up completely on her skill. Enloe incorporates art in the classroom and is thankful for the support of the school’s art teacher and principal.

“Kids learn by being cre-

ative, and I like to include many hands-on activities in my classroom.”

Enloe loves the history of Pleasant Ridge – the school will celebrate its 110th birthday next year – and the closeness of the staff. She enjoys that her co-workers love coming to work each day, and it shows. She loves her second-grade class and their eagerness to learn. “I can see when they ‘get it’ and that is fun to watch,” she said.

Although she was flattered to be chosen teacher of the year, Enloe believes that there are quite a few teachers that are more deserving than her.

When she isn’t in the classroom, she enjoys spending time traveling with her family, cooking and crocheting.

Trevor Clark finds a book at the Brickey-McCloud book fair. The book fair came at a good time – right before the snow hit – and their new books gave children something to do during the break.

Photos by R. White

Maddox Reed pays for books at the book fair. Many parents use this as an opportunity to teach their children about money.

Curl up with a good book

Campbell Hunley and Ian Neely read a book about zombies while at the book fair.

Art competition ‘bringing tap back’ at stations The Tennessee Clean Water Network, in collaboration with the Knoxville Public Art Committee and the City of Knoxville, is looking for original, twodimensional designs to be printed and wrapped on outdoor water bottle refill stations as part of the Bringing Tap Back Project.

The statewide initiative will be funded by a Project Diabetes grant from the Tennessee Department of Health. Stations will be installed in Chattanooga, Jackson, Johnson City,

Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville, and at six universities and eight Knox County Schools.

Studies show that sugary drinks are the single largest caloric contributor to the obesity epidemic.

Free and convenient access to drinking water is not always available, and broken drinking fountains, tightened city budgets and the public’s perception that existing drinking fountains are unhygienic have all conspired to make environmentally-unfriendly

bottled water increasingly popular.

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Three designs will be selected and featured on six water stations for three years beginning this spring. The winning artists/designers will receive a $500 honorarium.

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NEWS FROM POWELL CHIROPRACTIC

Three phases of healing

By Dr. Donald G. Wegener Many times when a person goes to the chiropractor he or she is under the impression that a bone is out of place and pinching a nerve. He or she believes that if the bone is put back in place the problem will be permanently fixed. This could not be any farther from the truth. On most occasions, the pain is Dr. Wegener a result of injury to the soft tissues of the body. Soft tissues are basically everything but the bone. This includes muscles, ligaments, tendons, joint capsules, discs, nerves and fascia. After being injured, soft tissues heal by a relatively complex process, involving three phases.

Phase One, Inflammation: Normal soft tissues have a crisscross pattern that gives them strength in all directions of force. When soft tissues are torn, their fibers are disrupted in a manner similar to the tearing of a piece of paper. Once these tissues have torn, they will heal in three distinct phases. The first step is the acute inflammation phase, also known as swelling. This phase and swelling will last for about 72 hours after an injury. During this phase, the tissues continue to swell causing more pain and discomfort to the injured area.

Phase Two, Regeneration: The second phase of healing, called regeneration,

begins about three days after an injury.

During this phase, the tears in the tissues begin to accumulate small protein cells called collagen. These cells create a glue that fills the gap in the tissues caused by the tear. This laying down of the collagen glue during the regeneration phase will take six to eight weeks to complete. After this phase, no more glue will be laid down.

The glue is what will become scar tissue.

When the glue is making scar tissue in the injured area it is being laid down in a weaker more irregular pattern and not in the stronger, crisscross consistent pattern. After all the glue is in place and the scar tissue has been formed, the healing process is still not yet complete.

Phase Three, Remodeling: The final phase is the remodeling phase. This phase takes up to 12 months. During this phase, the irregular pattern of scar tissues will line up in the proper direction to create a better quality of healing. Therefore, remodeling is a motion-dependent phase that governs the quality of healing in the tissues.

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Hallsdale Powell Utility District is relocating sewer lines on Highway 33 in preparation for a major road project in Halls. Photos by Ruth White

Contract awarded for Hwy. 33 relocation

By Sandra Clark Maynardville Pike from Afton Drive to Emory Road is being relocated. No need to check your calendar. This is not April 1.

The project, designed by CDM Smith, calls for moving the southbound lane of Highway 33 adjacent to the northbound lane, eliminating the green-space median.

There will be two lanes each way with a

center turn lane. On Nov. 17, Knox County Commission appropriated a second supplemental payment, this one for $118,800, to CDM Smith. In all, the engineering firm has made in excess of $1 million – Knox County’s contribution to this joint local/ state project.

The problem being solved is the current inability to make a left turn to Maynardville

Tennova neurologist partners with Morning Pointe The Lantern Alzheimer’s and Memory Care Community at Morning Pointe of Powell is par tner ing with Tennova Healthcare.

Dr. Cardenas Jose A. Cardenas, M.D., a neurologist with Tennova, takes on the role of medical advisor to the assisted living and memory care community.

“We are very excited about this new relation-

ship with Tennova Healthcare,” says Tyner Brooks, executive director of Morning Pointe of Powell. “Dr. Cardenas will help ensure we are providing quality care to our Lantern memory care residents while serving as an educational resource to the community.”

Dr. Cardenas recently joined Tennova Healthcare.

His new medical practice is located at Tennova’s Neurology Group North in Powell. Dr. Cardenas is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of neurological conditions including stroke,

migraines, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.

He earned his medical degree from LaSalle University, Mexican School of Medicine, Mexico City. He completed an internship at New York Medical College Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York, and a residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Dr. Cardenas also completed fellowship training in vascular neurology/stroke at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

NEWS FROM PREMIER SURGICAL

Walking a Mile in their Shoes When Tim Muncy gets dressed for a day on the job at Premier Prosthetic Center in Knoxville, the most important thing he puts on isn’t his medical scrubs uniform, it’s his prosthetic left leg. Muncy, like the patients he works with, is an amputee.

As a Prosthetist Assistant, Muncy helps fit those who have lost a leg or an arm with

and the fit,” explains Muncy. “Since I was a new amputee, I didn’t know there were different types of foot options for different activity levels.”

When Muncy and his family moved to Knoxville in 2013, he learned of the Premier Prosthetic Center and consulted with Prosthetist Carey Bunch to develop a lighter socket and foot system that better suited his lifestyle.

“Tim is an incredibly active guy. He hikes and spends time outdoors with his family,” explains Bunch. “His prosthesis was a good everyday foot, but was not designed for active use. Tim isn’t satisfied with a sedentary life and wanted to be able to run in races. So we looked for a foot system that would allow him to reach his goals.”

Muncy is reaching goals. In October, he and his family completed the Komen Race for the Cure, participating on the Premier Surgical Associates team. And, in addition to getting a new leg, Muncy has also found a new career, working with patients at Premier Prosthetic Center. For Muncy, it’s a perfect fit.

“I tell patients, ‘Don’t let your amputation hold you back.’ It’s too easy to stay in a wheelchair or recliner. Don’t give up. Keep moving and your possibilities are endless.”

from Norris Freeway. The new intersection should alleviate congestion on Emory Road at Andersonville Pike where school traffic stalls.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation awarded a contract for $10.7 million in December to APAC-Atlantic for the project. Its technical name is “the grading, drainage, construction of a box beam bridge and paving on S.R. 33 from Afton Drive to Emory Road and on U.S. 441 (S.R. 71) from Emory Road to S.R. 33.”

TDOT has no word on a schedule, but Hallsdale Powell Utility District is moving lines to get ready.

Mark Nagi of TDOT says the bids were:

Hallsdale CEO Darren Cardwell said, “The sewer and water line relocation and improvement is because of the TDOT project that has been awarded and will start in a month or two.” He said the scope of HPUD work is from the IHOP to Commercial Bank.

Cardwell said water lines were enlarged from the Norris Lake Water Plant to Halls before TDOT started on a separate project to widen Highway 33 from Temple Acres to the Union County line.

That project is now underway.

“We are up-sizing the sewer line and relocating it under Maynardville Highway,” he said. “We also have some water lines in the area that will get replaced during this project.”

HPUD has been pumping water into Halls from the Norris Lake Water Treatment Plant since 2008.

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Ogie Shaw, fitness expert

By Bonny C B C. Millard ill d A fitness consultant who has worked with the Portland Trailblazers and the Seattle Seahawks said the only way to get fit is to make it a lifestyle choice.

Motivational speaker and fitness expert Ogie Shaw told the Rotary Club of Farragut that people need to make exercise part of their daily regimen and that when his son turned three years old, he got him started exercising.

“At my house, exercise is a daily health habit like brushing your teeth,” he said.

After his presentation, Shaw demonstrated the Isorobic Exerciser that his company, Ogie Shaw Fitness, sells and markets.

Although Shaw is in the sales business, it’s clear from his presentation that he has had a lifelong passion about fitness and nutrition.

“Every day you get up, you get to make a decision about how you’re going to spend your 1,440 minutes

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in that day,” Shaw said. “You can do it doing things that will strengthen your body and improve the quality of your life, or you can do things that will speed up the deterioration process.”

Shaw said studies show that changing behavior is more important to reducing heart attacks than improved medical services. Those changes include stopping smoking, controlling stress, controlling blood pressure and getting exercise.

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“From a peer support perspective, it’s definitely a benefit to patients,” explains Premier Prosthetic Center Prosthetist Orthotist Carey Bunch. “Tim has personally been through that process.”

While living in Kentucky February of 2009, Muncy’s leg was severely injured in a car crash when he swerved to miss a deer. He didn’t lose his leg immediately.

“I kept hoping it would heal. I had eleven surgeries and fought for three years to save it,” remembers Muncy. “Basically, I had a dead foot and it was eventually amputated.”

After the amputation, Muncy was fitted with a prosthetic leg, but it wasn’t a good experience.

“I wasn’t happy with the heavy socket

derly prolong their lives by a significant percentage. An 80-year-old person physically fit enough to walk a mile in 17 minutes has an 86 percent chance of reaching 90 years old.

“All you gotta do is just walk a little faster. That’s it. And that’s what I keep learning about exercise.

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POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • FEBRUARY 25, 2015 • A-11

News from Food City

Food City honors volunteers

Donations, including nonperishable foods, are needed at Angelic Ministries.

Photo by Nancy Whittaker

Ice + snow = bare shelves at Angelic Ministries I have had the privilege of meeting with staff and volunteers of Angelic Ministries over the past 18 months. The work they do is a vital part of our community. Families in crisis are provided with essentials to help them get back on their feet and become independent. Founder Betsy Frazier describes many of the people they help as “the working poor.”

Families who have been helped include those who have lost everything in a fire or other disaster. Those who have lost their job and are struggling, or families who are in the midst of any type of crisis, are also referred by other agencies.

ETBA to meet on March 4 The East Towne Business Alliance (ETBA) will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday, March 4, at the New Harvest Park Community Center. Sarah Griswold, Knox County nutrition manager, will be the guest speaker.

Griswold will speak on employee wellness and the impact on the bottom line of a business. If you haven’t had the opportunity to attend a meeting, come on out and learn why this group has accomplished so much in a short time. Come early and have breakfast.

Free tax assistance available Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, which offers free tax preparation by certified volunteers to low- to moderateincome families and households, is available at three locations.

■ Goodwill, 5307 Kingston Pike: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Tuesdays through Thursdays and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, through April 15.

■ Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fridays through April 10.

■ Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road: 5-8 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, through April 14.

Documents needed include: Social Security card and birthday for each person on the return; taxpayer photo ID; original W-2s, 1099Rs, SSA1099s, etc., for all income; proof of health insurance – a new requirement. Optional documents: last year’s return, proof of account for direct deposit and expenses for deductions.

Info: www.irs.gov.

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This past week’s ice and snow kept the normal weekly donations to a minimum.

Shelves are getting bare, but the needs don’t stop.

I caught up with the Rev. Tony Earl to see what our readers can do to help.

Earl says the cold weather has really put a strain on the ministry. Not only were people unable to get

Amy New to push rural development Tennessee Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd has reorganized his department to “double down” on aid to rural counties.

Amy New He promoted Amy New as the department’s first assistant commissioner for rural development.

New, a native of Monterey, Tenn., had previously headed the department’s ThreeStar program.

Jody Sliger is Tennessee’s new ThreeStar director. He was most recently the interim president and tourism and marketing director of the Sparta-White County Chamber of Commerce.

out to make donations, but expenses are unusually high. Utility bills for their 6,500-square-foot warehouse, and group homes provided by the ministry, can fluctuate as much as $1,000 per month. You can probably guess which end of that spectrum they’re experiencing right now.

So what can we all do to help?

First and foremost, the pantry of nonperishable food needs to be restocked.

When you shop this week, pick up a few extra cans of food. Next, take a few minutes to go through your house and select items you are no longer using; towels and washcloths, linens, gloves and warm hats are a top priority now. Toiletries, kitchen and household items are always needed.

Pack up everything that is in good condition, select

a few canned goods and drop off between 8 and 3:30 Monday through Thursday.

There’s a drop-off site near the corner of Oklahoma Avenue and North Central.

Call 523-8884 to have large items such as furniture and mattresses picked up.

Earl says that monetary donations would also be appreciated. The organization is run almost completely by volunteers, but there are two paid staff members.

However, with the high utility bills, a recently replaced HVAC unit at one of the group homes, plus regular operating expenses, extra funds are needed. You can go to www.angelicministries.com and click on donate.

Located at 1218 N. Central, Angelic Ministries is a nonprofit, nondenominational ministry, helping people since 2002.

Each year Food City recognizes employees for their volunteer efforts in the community. Ten district winners are selected from store winners; two divisional winners are then chosen.

This year Howard Robb, a meat cutter at the Fairfield Glade store in Crossville, won the Tennessee division, while Doris Banks, floral manager of the Whitesburg Food City, won the Kentucky division.

Food City donated $250 to a nonprofit supported by each district winner and another $500 to those Howard Robb accepts the supported by divisional Tennessee division award. winners. One overall win- Photo submitted ner will receive the Claude P. Varney Humanitarian Award with an additional Cornerstone Church of God $1,000 charity contribution ■ Bearden Center, Kathy Davis, made on their behalf.

East Tennessee Bloodhound Local store winners and Rescue their nonprofits included: ■ Seymour, Kennedy Melson, Meridian Baptist Church

■ College Homes, Marcia Hickerson, Knoxville Fellows

■ Strawberry Plains, Rebekah Brown, The Love Kitchen

■ Clinton Highway, Rosline Waller, AYSO soccer, American Breast Cancer Association, Association for the Blind

■ N. Broadway, Terri Lynnhott, Friends of Wool, Project Linus ■ Mountain Grove Drive, Josephine Jurkovac, Clothe My Children, Live It Ministries ■ Fountain City, LeeAnn Johnson, United Methodist Women’s organization, Fountain City UMC ■ Millertown Pike, Kris Keahey, Young-Williams Animal Center ■ Halls, Autumn Brooks, AYSO, FOTL, Fantasy of Trees and GHS community service ■ Hardin Valley, Haley Powell, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, The Love Kitchen, The Water Angels Ministry ■ Middlebrook Pike, Larry Holtz,

■ Cumberland Estates, Cynthia VanRiet, KARM ■ Deane Hill, Keri Neston, American Diabetes Association ■ Powell, Mona Napier, Powell Playhouse, Sharon Baptist Church

Lunch for growers Food City’s luncheon to honor local growers has been reset to noon Friday, March 6, at the Jack C. Smith Conference Center in Abingdon, Va. This year’s Wayne Scott Memorial Grower of the Year award winner will be announced.

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■ Lexus Luxury Performances featuring Kacey Musgraves, 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tennessee Theatre box office; Ticketmaster.com, 800-745-3000.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble Spring Concert, Knoxville Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: Civic Auditorium Box Office, 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ “Schoolhouse Rock Jr.” presented by Primary Players, Lambert Recital Hall, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets. com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961.

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A prescription for fun

Jackson Browne sang “Doctor My Eyes.” Aretha Franklin praised “Dr. Feelgood.” The Beatles told us about “Doctor Robert.”

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This Friday, some local physicians will be throwin’ down for a good cause at two Old City venues, and they won’t be using their usual medical instruments.

They’ll be part of the annual fundraiser “Doc Rock for Health,” a fun, rowdy event that benefits area medical charities.

Hosted by the Knoxville Academy of Medicine Alliance (KAMA), the event features local medical providers onstage playing roofraising rock. Second Opinion, Funk and Awesome, Remedy and South River Trail are some of the bands on the roster.

“This is the 10th anniversary of ‘Doc Rock,’ and it continues to grow more successful every year,” says Jenny Bushkell, a past KAMA president who now handles social-media publicity for the event.

The whole thing started “with a random meeting at a pharmaceutical dinner,” Bushkell says. The diners found themselves tossing around the idea of combining the musical talents of several physician bands with fundraising for local health agencies. “It reminds me of the Margaret Mead quote: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.’ ” Over the past 10 years, “Doc Rock for Health” has

Second Opinion rocks the crowd at last year’s “Doc Rock for Health.” Pictured are Larry Sheumaker (back to camera,) Melissa Carter, Todd Wright and Tim Comer. Photo by Jenny Bushkell

Founder of “Doc Rock for Health” Jacque Prince (with gold mask) joins revelers Michele Carringer, Sharon Griffin, Jenny Bushkell and Shanna Lehman. Photo by Sandra Ange Photography

raised more than $50,000.

Bushkell credits this year’s event coordinator, Jacque Prince, with founding the popular fundraiser.

Prince’s husband, Marty, plays guitar and sings with two bands and has been in on the fun from the very beginning.

“The music is always really good, and the charities are truly awesome!” he says.

Prince, who is a pulmonary critical care physician with StatCare Pulmonary Consultants, lists the Beatles, Elton John and Paul Simon among his influences, along with “a bunch of alternative

and country acts my kids have made me listen to over the past 30 years.”

Audience members will get to vote for their favorite band. They’ll also cast votes for their choice of six charitable organizations, and proceeds will be divided accordingly. This year’s charities are St. Mary’s Mobile Medical Clinic, Hospitality House, Hope Resource Center, Vine Middle School Clinic, KAPPI (Knox Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Initiative) and Interfaith Health Clinic.

“For everyone who has come before, please come

again this year, and if you have never attended you will have a great time, so don’t miss it,” says Dr. Prince.

“Doc Rock for Health” will take place this Friday, Feb. 27, at NV Nightclub and the Bowery, located side by side at 125 E. Jackson Ave., across from Barley’s in the Old City. Doors open at 7 p.m., with the first band onstage at 7:30. Tickets, available at the door, are $15. For limited $100 VIP seating, contact Susan Brown at kamalliance@ gmail.com.

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Connors Steak & Seafood, whole dish glisten and my “Focus” stars Will Smith 10915 Turkey Creek Drive. mouth water. as a con man who’s looking The Applewood Smoked The Applewood Smoked for a big payday in the highDuck Breast will make you Duck Breast has just the stakes world of auto racing. a duck fan if you aren’t and right amount of smoky fla- When the apprentice (Marcement your love of the bird vor. When dealing with got Robbie) he once loved if you are. meats that might lean to- turns up in his life again, his Getting the duck wasn’t ward having that slight plans are put in jeopardy. in the plan when Mystery “gamey” flavor, it’s easy to Rodrigo Santoro, BD Diner walked into the res- try to mask that with too Wong and Gerald McRaney taurant. The battle of the much smoke. The chefs at also star for directors Glenn taste buds was between Connors did not fall into Ficarra and John Requa, two of the restaurant’s sig- that trap. Topping the ten- the team that brought us nature dishes: crab cakes der breast slices with a dark “I Love You Phillip Morris” and the boursin fi let. cherry demi-glace gives the and “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”

But a wait for a table put meat a flavor combination Olivia Wilde stars in me near the grill where the that should not be missed.

“The Lazarus Effect,” which chefs were preparing the The dish is served over reads like an unholy mashfood. As the plate of smoked mashed potatoes with a up of “Flatliners” and “Pet duck breast slid down the side of grilled asparagus. Sematary.” line, I was intrigued. By Both accompaniments were Wilde plays a university the time the chef was add- good, but nothing was tak- researcher whose team is ing the sauce, I was asking ing the attention away from working on bringing the what was on the plate, and the star of the show. If you dead back to life. They’re the decision was done. have ever considered trying excited when their first exThis is unusual because duck, this introduction is periment, on an animal, I am not a huge duck fan. starting you at the top. works, but the university’s dean isn’t pleased. He shuts them down and confiscates their materials.

When they decide to try to start up again in secret, things go terribly wrong.

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Will Smith connects with Margot Robbie in “Focus.”

Mia Wasikowska and Julianne Moore both have troubled pasts in “Maps to the Stars.”

Olivia Wilde and Donald Glover get into creepy science in “The Lazarus Effect.”

Naturally. Evan Peters, Donald Glover, Mark Duplass and Sarah Bolger also star for director David Gelb.

A third film with some awards cred should be arriving in limited release either this week or very soon.

“Maps to the Stars” earned praise at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, with star Julianne Moore winning Best

Actress and director David Cronenberg nominated for the Palm D’Or. (Moore won the Best Actress Oscar for “Still Alice” Sunday night.)

Moore plays an aging actress who wants to do a remake of the movie that made her mother a star. She becomes entangled with the family of her analyst (John Cusack), which includes

a stage mom (Olivia Williams), a bratty child star (Evan Bird) and a troubled daughter (Mia Wasikowska) who has befriended a limo driver (Robert Pattinson) who wants to break into the film industry.

This is Cronenberg’s first film since 2012’s “Cosmopolis,” which helped Pattinson shed his “Twilight” image.

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Stand in the Gap Coalition quarterly meeting, 2 p.m., Plainview Community Building, 1037 Tazewell Pike, Luttrell. Program: Dan Smoots will review “Give Me A Reason,” a youth drug identification/prevention program.

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A big mountain to climb New mom drops weight, gets healthy

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ll parents will tell you that their lives were changed by their children.

For mother of triplets Erin Tipton Archer, the changes were broad and sweeping. Her life today is completely different than it was pre-children, and not just because of all the time involved in child care.

The Hardin Valley resident now heads Team Archer, a motivational website for people who want to achieve better health and fitness.

“When I experienced a triplet pregnancy, I had no idea what my body was capable of handling,” she says. “It made me appreciate and understand I was taking my health for granted.

“It also taught me how strong I was and that I would never allow myself to think otherwise.”

Pre-motherhood, Archer had led a very different kind of busy lifestyle. A violist, violinist and conductor, she taught music full-time during the week and toured on the weekends. “I was a workaholic,” she admits. “I was doing all the things I really enjoyed but just too much of them.”

As for diet and exercise, “I relied on convenience foods and turned to comfort with wine almost every evening. Exercise was hit or miss as it was not a priority of mine.”

She and her husband Carey, who works in music industry special-event and VIP planning, had

Megan, Christopher and Samantha are happy to be at home on mom Erin Archer’s lap in this 2012 shot by dad Carey Archer.

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dreamed of having a family. But they weren’t successful at first. They struggled for a long time to conceive.

When they finally did, the news of a multiple pregnancy wasn’t that surprising; Erin herself has a twin. But “it was such an extreme that it forced me to stop everything.” Four months along, Archer was put on modified bed rest and then, a month later, on complete bed rest up until the delivery.

“I sacrificed my body and my life to get them here.

Daily I was thankful to be pregnant and prayed to get my babies to a point where it was safe for them to enter the world, and with that focus we were given three beautiful and healthy children.”

The triplets – two girls and a boy – were delivered eight weeks premature by C-section. They spent the first months of their lives in the NICU. “Life was very stressful,” says Archer. “We had lots of help from friends and family – that was what saved us.”

The family got through the crisis and the babies came home. Little Megan, Samantha and Christopher settled in, and mom and dad started learning how to be parents to their brood.

Exhausted after her ordeal and focused on her kids, Archer couldn’t immediately address her own physical needs.

At 225 pounds post-delivery, she found herself “at ground zero physically. I had developed gestational diabetes. I had no muscle strength, no core due to bed rest. My back was a mess; everything was a mess. It took me a good six months to even consider any kind of exercise.”

She started with walking CDs by Leslie Sansone.

“It was liberating to know that I didn’t have any expectations. I literally took one step at a time and

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“Why Do They Keep Coming to this Doctor?…”

(Who admits to curing no one) Dear friend, I’ve got to tell you something that I’ve never said out loud.

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I’ve been a doctor in this town for over 12 years now, and to this day I’ve never cured anyone. You may think that the word would get around and that no one would come to me anymore. The opposite is true. The more people who understand, the more people come to see me.

Several times a day, patients thank me for helping them with their health problems, but I can’t really take the credit.

I’ve never healed anyone of anything.

What I do is perform a specific spinal adjustment to remove nerve pressure, and the body responds by healing itself.

And, we get terrific results. That’s why our office is filled with people who have found help nowhere else.

Years ago, something happened to me that changed my life forever. Let me tell you my story.

I’m a medical student at the time, and I’m working hard at it. That is, until it happens…

relief. I can use my hands and feet again, and my blood pressure and heart rate are normal. Oh, did I mention that this doctor is a chiropractor? Chiropractic works so well for me, and I’m so impressed with the other “miracles” I see in his office, that I drop out of med school and head straight to chiropractic school.

Let me tell you about Zachary, my son (the cute one in the picture!). He’s a very happy and healthy boy! Can you believe that Zachary’s been getting adjusted since he was only 5 minutes old? Why? He’s very active and constantly falls down, just like all little kids. These falls, and even the birth process, affect the spine. That’s why we see so many children in our office.

Our goal is to give you the best care we can possibly give you. You’ll get great care at a great fee. My qualifications: I’m a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Life University. I’ve been entrusted to take care of all kinds of people from tiny babies to senior citizens. In 2002 my wife, Dr. Jennifer, and I moved to Knoxville (Karns). I just have that low exam fee to help more people who need care.

People from Knoxville, Karns and the Hardin Valley areas bring their kids to see me. They also come to me with their: • • • • • • • • • • •

Headaches Fibromyalgia Migraines Chronic pain Neck pain Shoulder/arm pain Whiplash from car accidents Backaches Numbness in limbs Asthma Allergies just to name a few…

Somehow, I start to get terrible pain in both my hands and feet. I still remember how awful it is. The pain in my hands and feet gets so intense that it’s unbearable to touch anything, or even wear socks. To say the least, I’m scared. And that’s not all...

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Here’s what some of your neighbors had to say: “I now have long-term relief from my headaches.”

(A. B., Karns, 16) “I have had back and hip pain for two years. After two months of chiropractic care, the pain was 95% better. I also had severe pain in my arm, hand, and neck. After three weeks of chiropractic, the pain was gone!” (Roberta S., Oak Ridge)

Eventually, I can’t even walk because of the pain in my feet. My blood pressure and heart rate are sky high! I’m admitted to the hospital, where they do every test they can think of, and the doctors still can’t say what’s wrong. I’m terrified that I may never walk again. After two weeks in the hospital, I’m only getting worse.

My insurance runs out, so they put me on powerful painkillers and send me home.

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“My neck pain is gone, and I can feel my fingers again!”

(T. S., Karns)

Finally, my mom convinces me to see her doctor. This new doctor does an exam, takes some films, and then ‘adjusts’ my spine. The adjustment doesn’t hurt, it actually feels good. Over time, I get

“The last time I went to my Rheumatologist, he couldn’t find any pressure points caused by Fibromyalgia!”

(F. C., Karns)

Andrew D. Scoles, D.C. “Since I have been coming to see Dr. Andy, I have not had any ear infections.”

(Hayden, 2 years) Tens of millions of Americans no longer have health insurance, and those who do have found that their benefits are greatly reduced. That’s where chiropractic comes in. A seven-year study compared costs of people seeing medical providers vs. chiropractors. Overall, the patients seeing chiropractors had 60% fewer hospitalizations, 59% fewer days in the hospital, 62% fewer outpatient surgeries, and 85% lower costs for prescription drugs.

Many people find that they actually save money on their health care expenses by seeing a chiropractor. Another way to save: peer-reviewed published studies show that chiropractic may increase immune system indicators, naturally and without drugs. The immune system fights colds, the flu and other sicknesses, so you may not be running off to the doctor as much. This is especially important if you are self-employed. And an entire week of care in my office may cost what you could pay for one visit elsewhere.

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My assistants are Melissa and Kelli, and they are very loving people. Our office is both friendly and warm, and we try our best to make you feel at home. We have a wonderful service at an exceptional fee. Our office is called Scoles Family Chiropractic, and it’s at 7555 Oak Ridge Hwy. (we are across from Dollar General). Our phone number is 865531-8025. Call Melissa or Kelli today for an appointment. We can help you.

Thank you, and God Bless.

Andrew D. Scoles, D.C. P.S. When accompanied by the first, I am also offering the second family member this same examination for only $17.

P.P.S. Your time is as valuable as mine.

That’s why most of our patients are in and out of our office in less than 10 minutes for adjustments.

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From page 1 built myself from that.”

She put out a cry for support from her many Facebook buddies, posting a video and speaking frankly about the low point she’d hit and her desire to work toward true fitness. “I knew I had a big mountain to climb,” she says.

While a lot of people offered “likes” and other cheers, Archer really treasured the ones who sent private messages saying that they’d been inspired by her honesty and had found themselves in a similar place. Some wanted to know if she would consider helping them.

As she started to gain strength and endurance through her walking program, she decided to up her game a bit. “I was introduced to Beachbody programs about a year and half after I had the kids. I had some success losing some of the weight from my pregnancy, but got stuck. I had three babies to care for and I was 40 pounds overweight. I felt unhealthy and had low energy.”

Realizing that she needed more than a grueling workout, she started to address her nutritional needs.

She discovered a program called FocusT25. “It appealed to me because it was only for 25 minutes a day, and it included a clean eating meal plan as well as a super-

Now fit and healthy, mom Erin Archer has the energy to keep up with Megan, Christopher and Samantha, who will celebrate their third birthday in March. Photo by Carol Shane

food nutrition-packed meal replacement made of whole foods called Shakeology.”

She started getting results again and now orders the Shakeology meals regularly.

But it’s not all purchased, pre-formulated nutrition in the Archer household.

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Erin Archer wears a showstoppr gown at a recent wedding. Photo by Carey Archer

healthy cooking,” Archer grins. “Don’t get me started.”

As she progressed in her fitness goals, she was made aware of online support groups. “These challenge groups changed my life,” she says. She thought of the Facebook friends who’d asked her for help.

So she started Team Archer. And you won’t find a more positive place on the web.

“I describe my page as a place where people can go to receive daily motivation, exercise and nutrition tips and opportunities to grow in their own physical and mental health and fitness,” she says.

Friends chime in daily with their successes and challenges. Some post pictures of their own healthy meals. Motivational and “tough love” posts are everywhere: “Sweat is just fat crying.” “What you eat in private you wear in public.”

And “On the other side of your fear is your freedom.”

Now an exercise coach herself, Archer takes a moment to reflect. “I chose health for my kids, my family and for me. We all have a story and a mountain to climb. No matter the elevation, we can always use support, and I am there to offer it to those who want it.”

For more information, visit Team Archer on Facebook.

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CYCLING PROVIDES

By Wendy Smith The wind in your hair, the sun n your face, the empowerment on of self-locomotion – these are the joys of bicycling, and everyone should have the opportunity to feel them, whether or not they can see.

A blind cyclist herself, Sue Buckley helps visually impaired young people experience the thrill and physical challenge of tandem cycling. She does it through a mentoring organization she founded five years ago: Club Vibes.

Sue began losing her sight as a child due to Von HippelLindau disease. But she played team sports as a teen and had a 25-year career with the YMCA, so she’s a fitness advocate. Getting exercise is especially challenging for those who are visually impaired, she says.

She bought her first tandem bike in 2008. On a tandem, the front rider is called the pilot and the rear rider is called the stoker. The summer of 2010, Sue and pilot Dave Penegar participated in the 200-mile, three-day Cycling for Sight ride in San Diego, Calif. The ride was a fundraiser for the San Diego Center for the Blind.

She founded Club Vibes the same year. While the primary mission of the organization is to help visually impaired young people lead independent and productive lives, tandem cycling has always been a regular club activity. Members ride once a month in all but the coldest weather.

Cycling benefits members two ways. It’s a workout with built-in motivation because stokers don’t want to disappoint their pilots by taking it easy, Sue says. It’s also a way to develop new friendships.

Club Vibes pilots are volunteers from the community, and conversations about careers and hobbies are valuable to young club members who may have led sheltered lives due to their disability.

“They teach important things while they’re riding.”

Last summer, Sue returned to San Diego with a group of 12 to participate in the Cycling for Sight ride, now a 150-mile, two-day event. In addition to the ride, she arranged for the group to receive surfing lessons from the Challenged Athletes Foundation. The club raised funds for the eight-day trip for a year and a half, and local partners, like Cycology Bicycles in Maryville, donated jerseys.

Club Vibes has 10 college-age members, and approximately 30 school-age children from Knox and Blount Counties have participated since its inception.

Sue and her husband, former UT professor John Buckley, who is also blind, show families how visually impaired kids can live independently.

Sue’s influence reaches beyond Knoxville. Last year, during the annual American Council for the Blind conference in Las Vegas, her brightly-colored outfit and matching sunglasses caught the attention of the audio description project manager for Netflix. Sue spent a couple of hours talking to her about how to best weave description into television and movie dialogue.

She’s also consulted with groups in Kansas and Georgia about how to establish tandem cycling programs to serve the visually impaired.

“Cycling opens the world for a lot of kids,” she says.

For more information: www. club-vibes.org

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Ed Flanigan, David Hoffman and Jim Wachter pilot Club Vibes riders during the 2014 Cycle for Sight in San Diego. Stoker McKenzie Ayers rides behind Wachter.

Leah Smith pilots for Club Vibes founder Sue Buckley.

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