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April 7, 2014

Communing with Common Core

Knox County Schools’ new Career Magnet Academy seeks the 8th-grader who can visualize post-high school work-life, not as a chemical engineer but as a homeland security or sustainability technician, whatever that even means.

Anyone who has known (or been) an 8th-grader has cause to cringe, says Sandra Clark.

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Read her analysis on page A-5

‘Crimes’ cast set

Auditions have been completed and roles have been cast for the Powell Playhouse upcoming production “Crimes of the Heart.”

Escaping the past and improving the future is the concept of this hilarious comedy revolving around three sisters in the South.

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Read Cindy Taylor on page A-3

Tiny Hillbilly markets ‘shine

Award winner and master distiller Neil Thomas Roberson, known for marketing purposes as the Tiny Hillbilly, manufactures moonshine flavors for distribution through his company, East Tennessee Distillery.

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See Cindy’s story on page A-12

Church serves community

On every fifth Sunday, the congregation of Fellowship North meets at its worship center for a brief prayer service before heading out into the community.

On this particular Sunday, several church members were at Whittle Springs Middle School where they helped in the parent center.

Others visited Fountain City Park.

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P_A1_Communing with Common Core_main_ Joy Rhodes, a teacher at Northwest Middle School, demonstrates the PARCC assessment to Megan Harrell and her daughter Hailey Thomas, a 4th grader at West Haven. Harrell has two children at West Haven and one at Northwest.

Joy Rhodes, a teacher at Northwest Middle School, demonstrates the PARCC assessment to Megan Harrell and her daughter, Hailey Thomas, a 4th-grader at West Haven. Harrell has two children at West Haven and one at Northwest.

By Cindy Taylor Full implementation of Common Core State Standards began in Knox County Schools K-12 this year, although its testing component, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), is currently on hold, the subject of debate by the state legislature.

Three communities joined last week for discussion and even sample testing to explore the program.

Staff, faculty, parents and students of Norwood, Pleasant Ridge and West Haven elementary schools met at Northwest Middle School March 31. The evening be-

P_A1_Communing with Common Core_inset: Teachers Robin Nelson (ESL) and Leon Gray (7th grade geography) prep refreshments for the Common Core event.

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gan with a review of Common Core, after which parents had a choice of breakout groups where they could gain deeper knowledge. Sessions included Literacy Skills through Science and Social Studies, Close Reading in the ELA Classroom, Common Core and Writing, Constructed Response Assessments, and Complex Math Processes.

Breakout groups were led by teachers from the participating schools. Parents also could take sample PARCC tests in math and literacy to help them understand the skills their children will need to pass.

One parent said, “Putting to-

Teachers Robin Nelson (ESL) and Leon Gray (7th-grade geography) prep refreshments for the Common Core event. Photos by Cindy Taylor gether an event like this where all these schools can come together is very beneficial to those of us who have children at different schools.

Hosting the evening were

Northwest Middle School principal Karen Loy, Norwood principal Robin Ellis, Pleasant Ridge principal Jessica Birdsong and West Haven principal Kathy Duggan.

Haslam plan funds Broadway interchange

By Sandra Clark Gov. Bill Haslam has recommended funding construction in 2015 for long-discussed improvements to the intersection of Broadway and I-640. It was one of just two Knox County projects for 2015-17 in the Transportation Improvement Plan released last week.

Estimated to cost $15 million to $20 million, the project would finish the interchange redesign.

Phase One was completed in 2002. Knox County’s other project is widening 1.4 miles of Alcoa Highway south of Maloney Road to Woodson Drive, also funded in 2015.

TDOT has information about the project on its website.

In a nutshell, southbound Broadway will be widened to add a new ramp lane to I-640 westbound. The ramp from Broadway and Tazewell Pike will be sepa-

rated from southbound Broadway by a barrier wall, eliminating the existing weave. A redesigned entrance ramp from Broadway southbound and Tazewell Pike will be two lanes. And a new entrance ramp will be built from northbound Broadway to I-640 westbound and the westbound exit ramp will be redesigned.

Also, a new loop entrance will provide northbound Broadway access to I-640 westbound, elimi-

nating the existing left-turn lane access. The exit ramp from I-640 westbound will be relocated and will bridge over the new loop ramp.

TDOT says bycicle and pedestrian trails are outside the project limits. However, it is talking with the city about widening portions of Old Broadway, Tazewell Pike and Dutch Valley Drive through grant money specifically designated for greenway development.

Patrols are adequate, says sheriff

By Sandra Clark Knox County Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones says he has all the patrol officers in neighborhoods that he can afford, that he’s almost doubled the count from January 2007 when he became sheriff, and that Bobby Waggoner knows better than to scare people about home safety.

Analysis Waggoner, who is challenging Jones in the May 6 Republican primary, earlier said neighborhood patrols are thin – fewer than 30 officers on a shift – and it’s a question of the sheriff’s priori-

ties. The former chief of detectives promised more officers on patrol if he’s elected.

In an interview last week, Jones said his office continuously monitors calls to allocate officers to areas of highJones est crime. “When I took over we had some 17 to 18 officers on (patrol) duty. Now it’s about 30.”

Knox County outside the city (the Knoxville Police Department patrols inside the city) is divided into 12 zones with a patrol car as-

signed to each. There is overlap during peak times (9 p.m. to midnight) and times of heavy traffic.

Jones says response time is crucial, so he has fewer officers on patrol during the middle of the Waggoner night when traffic is sparse.

South Knox has two zones, East Knox has two, North has three plus Halls and West has three plus the town of Farragut. There are precinct stations in Halls and Farragut and “about 44 to 50 square

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In addition to the patrol officers, other certified, gun-carrying officers are in the field, Jones said, especially during the day when civil and criminal warrants are served. “We have 220 officers (in addition to patrol) out in neighborhoods and in school zones. The men and women of the sheriff’s office do a great job.”

Jones pegs neighborhood safety as “8 to 8.5” on a 1-10 scale. “People feel safe because we work hard,” he said. “People don’t want to live in a neighborhood that’s crawling with cops. What people want is quick response – an officer there To page A-3

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Lucas CPR device offers better chance for survival Sudden cardiac arrest claims a life every two minutes. Quick and correct action can very literally mean the difference between life and death.

Most people are familiar with cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but you might not know that CPR has limits when it comes to its ability to save lives.

The majority of people who suffer massive heart attacks outside a hospital have little chance for survival.

The problem is that continuous coronary perfusion pressure (CPP) during CPR is one of the most important variables associated with the likelihood of getting and keeping a pulse.

CPP is the pressure that keeps the blood f low going during cardiac arrest.

While CPR is a great tool, continuous coronary perfusion pressure is hard to achieve with it. First, there’s the potential for fatigue. It’s hard for one person to perform chest compressions nonstop for a very long time. Second, even if someone steps in and takes turns, it can take 12 compressions to get the blood f low back to where it was when you took your hands off the patient’s chest.

A third risk is simple human error. The American Heart Association recommends 100 compressions per minute, achieved by pressing down to a depth of 2 inches. It’s hard for a bystander – even a person who’s had a CPR class – to get it just right every time.

That’s the purpose behind the Lucas CPR device that’s now available at Parkwest Medical Center’s emergency department. “It’s an automatic compression device that can be strapped to a patient’s chest,” explains Dr. Brian Braxton, MD, “to deliver uninterrupted compression.”

“It’s one more piece of cutting edge technology I have to give my patients the best care possible,” adds Dr. William Folley, DO. Braxton first became acquainted with the Lucas device when he worked at a hospital in Houston, Texas. He was impressed by the way it helped increase the odds of survival for cardiac arrest patients.

For Braxton, who is medical director of Parkwest’s emergency department, finding out it would be available to his patients here in Tennessee was great news. “I was excited,” he says, “because I had seen how it worked.”

The Lucas CPR device is kept zipped up in a portable container that’s about twice the size of a bowling ball case. “It’s a heavy plastic mechanical device with a board that slides under the patient,” Braxton explains as he pulls the pieces out of the container and begins to assemble them. “A plunger is attached, and it controls the depth of

THE NEW CPR In 2010, the American Heart Association changed its recommended method for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in most patients.

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“I would say it means greater hope for patients,” says Parkwest emergency department medical director Brian Braxton, MD, assembling the groundbreaking Lucas CPR device for a demonstration.

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Kelsey Broyle and Kristyn Marcie audition for “Crimes of the Heart” roles of sisters Meg and Babe.

Activities Director Ashley Bryant, resident Laura Parlon and intern Chelsea Sipp celebrate Parlon’s 103rd birthday at Wellspring Senior Living April 1.

Dance instructors Rhonda and Mark Becker show Cha-cha steps to seniors at Humana Guidance Center.

Toeing the line with cha-cha-cha One, two, cha-cha-cha.

Cuban and Latin dance moves and country slides are two favorites that draw seniors from Northwest Knoxville to the Humana Guidance Center every Wednesday.

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Betty Nichols leads the group in line dancing. Seniors from beginners to advanced join in the fun for a couple of hours each week.

Mark and Rhonda Becker own Champion Ballroom and teach Latin dance moves at the center. Two of the seniors who participate, Sylvia and Bill Van Dyke, are non-sighted, but Mark says teaching them isn’t at all difficult.

“Much of dancing is about the sense of touch and sound,” he said. “Ladies usually have an easier time because they just follow what the gentleman does.”

The Van Dykes attend each Wednesday. While they don’t think what they do is impressive, to watch them dance one would never know they can’t see each other.

Bill has been vision im-

paired since birth and sees mostly just shadows. Sylvia has been completely blind due to illnesses since 2003.

The couple has been married for 13 years and “ran away from home” to Knoxville from Illinois a few years ago.

“We love to dance and always dance at Lions Club events,” said Sylvia. “Our favorite dance is the polka, but if there is a band, you dance.”

“Dancing is good exercise and gets us out and with people,” said Bill. “That’s why we like coming here.”

Humana Guidance Center caters to seniors and community residents 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday with programs from cooking to dancing and gardening.

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‘Crimes of the Heart’ names cast

Auditions have been completed and roles have been cast for the Powell Playhouse upcoming production “Crimes of the Heart.”

Escaping the past and improving the future is the concept of this hilarious comedy revolving around three sisters in the South.

Cast members will be Katie Dake, Tabitha Neilson and Scarlet Bell Silva as the sisters. Supporting cast members are Bob Longmire as Doc, Kristyn Marcie as

Patrols are adequate when they need one.”

As to Waggoner’s criticism about “luxury SUVs,” Jones said his 4-wheeldrive vehicles were bought “straight off the state bid list and cost about $2,000 to $3,000 more than a regular police car.” He’s glad he had them during the snows of the past winter. “Vehicles are not a luxury item for law enforcement.”

Meanwhile, Waggoner continues to turn up the heat. He’s the most serious opponent Jones has faced since he was beaten by thenSheriff Tim Hutchison in the GOP primary in 2002.

He then refused to endorse Hutchison and worked for Attorney General Randy Nichols, a Democrat, before patching things up with

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Chick and Steve Miller as the attorney.

“Crimes of the Heart” will run May 29-31 at Jubilee Banquet Facility. Cast members will be in place by this week and rehearsals will begin soon.

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Community Spring Carnival

Mark your calendars for the Knox North Lions Community Spring Carnival coming to Powell at the end of April.

Gold Medal Shows will set up at the Yow property on the corner of Emory Road and Blueberry Lane

next to Hardee’s April 30 and will be in place with rides for all ages, food and fun until May 4.

Carnival hours will run 5-10 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, and Thursday, May 1; 5-11 p.m. Friday, May 2; 1-11 p.m. Saturday, May 3; and 1-11 p.m. Sunday, May 4.

Advance tickets will be available for $15 each beginning in April through the Powell High School baseball team.

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Hutchison and returning to the sheriff’s office. Hutchison has endorsed Jones in this election.

Waggoner said last week that Jones could spend more on patrol if he didn’t serve as a “retirement home for former county commissioners.” Waggoner said six of them work for Jones, costing the county about $170,000 per year.

The six are: Greg “Lumpy” Lambert, Mark Cawood, Ivan Harmon, Larry Clark, Lee Tramel and Fred Flenniken. Four were on Knox County Commission when Jones was appointed to replace the term-limited Hutchison on the day now known as Black Wednesday.

One was hired the next day, said Waggoner.

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A-4 • APRIL 7, 2014 • POWELL Shopper news Rosalyn Tillman (right), dean of the Pellissippi State Magnolia Avenue Campus, talks with school board member Gloria Deathridge at last week’s forum.

Behind them are Bart Rountree and Tommy Bounds, husbands of candidates Amber Rountree and Patti Bounds. Photos by S. Clark

Siler needs GOP votes to win While there is focus on the Richard Briggs challenge to state Sen. Stacey Campfield in the August Republican primary, there is also a Democratic candidate, Cheri Siler, an educator who lives in Fountain City.

bill) much thought.”

She was unsure how the state attorney general should be chosen. She is not sure if the state constitutional amendment Victor banning a Cheri Siler Ashe state income tax is wise and not sure how she would vote on it this November. She was also undecided on the constitutional Local Democrats say she is a credible candidate and a amendment changing the judicial selection process. She viable alternative to Campsaid she would like to serve field if he wins the primary. on the Education Committee If Briggs wins, Siler has a much tougher contest in No- and Government Operations Committee if elected. Govvember as he does not have ernment Operations is not a the Campfield negatives. major committee.

This writer recently met She says she has never with Siler. She presents an met Gov. Haslam, even when interesting profile for local he was mayor. She feels that Democrats if she manages Haslam “was much more her campaign well with a for the regular people of compelling message.

Knoxville” as mayor, but She is the mother of six children at age 42. They are as governor he “is more Carsten, 21; Tyler and Ryan, big-business- and corporateminded, headed in a differ19 (twins); Zachary, 18; Jacob, 15; and Kayley, 13. She ent direction.” She does back is an instructional coach for Haslam’s Drive to 55.

Asked how the race Knox County Schools workwould differ if Briggs defeats ing at Carter, South-Doyle Campfield, she says, “I have and L&N STEM Academy seen nothing to suggest he is and has tenure. She also different from Campfield.” helps her husband operate Her campaign manager Volunteer Paving, a small joined our interview. He is business.

Andrae McGary, 33, former While raising her chilmember of the Chattanooga dren she was active in the City Council and unsuccessPTA/PTO of the various ful Democratic nominee for schools they attended including president of the PTO state senator in 2012. He at Shannondale Elementary moved to Tennessee in 2005 from Texas and won election and Gresham Middle. The in 2009 for one term. He and Silers live on Shannondale his wife, Cheryl, have 5 chilRoad inside the city. dren. He will spend several She comes across as a days a week here in the Siler calm, sincere individual. campaign. They met recently She said it was this past December that she decided at a Democratic campaign seminar in Clarksville. to enter the political arena In this writer’s opinion for the first time “because Siler’s electability will deI was dissatisfied with the pend on whether she is seen representation we had” as a Wayne Ritchie, Tommy (meaning Campfield).

Schumpert or Phil Bredesen Her website lists educaDemocrat in a district that tion, jobs and healthcare as is overwhelmingly Republiher major issues. On some can. She must give Republiissues she is quite clear while on others she is vague cans a reason to vote for her.

She is not there yet. or undecided. For example, ■ U.S. Supreme she does not favor popular election of the county school Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be in Knoxville superintendent.

She thinks it would be “a on April 15 to speak at noon great idea” for the Knox leg- at UT’s Cox Auditorium. It is open to the public. Get islative delegation to hold there early if you want a regular Saturday meetings seat. for the public while the Justice Scalia visited legislature is in session.

Poland while I was ambasThat practice was disconsador. In fact, he was our tinued some 15 years ago.

She thinks the state should last houseguest prior to our leaving. Regardless of one’s participate in Obamacare.

She favors a minimum wage views on his ideology, his personality was delightful of $10.10 an hour over the and given to robust discuscurrent $7.70 and thinks it should be enacted in stages. sions on whatever issues arose. The Poles who met However, she said she him were impressed. had “not given (her first

John Becker, news anchor of WBIR-TV, moderates the League of Women Voters forum.

Vote on charter schools shows legislative disconnect At a League of Women Voters forum last week, all six candidates for school board pretty much agreed about one thing:

Betty Bean Charter schools – they don’t much like them.

“Troublesome,” said chair Lynne Fugate, who said the Metro Nashville school district loses $9 million to charter schools annually.

Incumbent Pam Trainor also has concerns: “I don’t like to see public money going to private entities.”

Challengers Sally Absher, Scott Clark and Amber Rountree said they don’t like charters (with Absher saying that only half of charter schools outperform public schools). Clark recommended putting teacher/ coaches back in the class-

room to lower student/ teacher ratios, while Rountree said that charters don’t play by the same rules and recommended that Knox County Schools focus on community schools instead.

Patti Bounds, running unopposed, said she doesn’t like them either and fears that the charter trend will lead to public education for profit.

The candidates – challengers and incumbents alike – pretty much mirrored the view of the school board, where only Doug Harris is an outright advocate for charter schools.

Bounds is either remarkably prescient or keeps close tabs on what’s happening in Nashville because the next day after the forum, the House Education Committee – chaired by Knox County’s Harry Brooks – voted 8-7 to approve House Bill 1693, which “removes the present law prohibition against a public charter school contracting for the management or op-

eration of the charter school by a for-profit entity.” Brooks and fellow Republicans Bill Dunn and Roger Kane voted yes, and the bill moved on to the Calendar and Rules Committee (chaired by Dunn) to be scheduled for a floor vote.

But the for-profit bill failed in the calendar committee after Speaker Beth Harwell showed up to oppose it. She said she feared it would hurt non-profit charters, and she doesn’t want Tennessee taxpayer dollars going to out-of-state companies. Brooks and Dunn both voted to approve it, but Harwell prevailed, 7-10-1.

Dunn hopes the bill can be salvaged and said he would hold it in his committee rather than referring it back to the Education Committee.

When asked why he supported a bill that his school board clearly doesn’t want, he said the bill is set up to allow local school boards to vote on charter applications “which would have the man-

agement arrangement in it.”

So who’s got their ear?

Maybe those 59 lobbyists being paid to push vouchers and charters?

“These lobbyists and (education commissioner Kevin) Huffman’s people are crawling all over. I don’t think (Brooks, Kane and Dunn) are hearing it from their constituents,” said Democrat Gloria Johnson, a career teacher who couldn’t get a seat on the Education Committee.

“There’s millions’ worth of outside special-interest money flowing into Tennessee elections to influence privatization policies,” she said.

“A family with students in a public school whose funding is getting squeezed more and more has to wonder who is benefitting. We’ve got to stop taking orders from corporate lobbyists and start listening to educators and parents.”

Or maybe legislators should just let the elected school boards manage the schools.

‘What’s that in my backyard?!’

West Knox County homeowners should pay attention to what happens at Thursday’s MPC meeting regarding rezoning in Northshore Town Center. The change would allow Flournoy Development of Columbus, Ga., to build 246 apartment units on 10 acres adjacent to a neighborhood of singlefamily homes.

The Council of West Knox County Homeowners is certainly paying attention. At last week’s meeting, president Margot Kline encouraged members to contact MPC commissioners to ask them to vote “no” on amendments to the K nox v ille Margot Kline O n e -Ye a r Plan and the Southwest Sector Plan that would allow for high-density residential zoning.

The progress of this development, as well as the

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nearby Westland Cove development, should be monitored by those who live along the Pellissippi Parkway corridor. City Council’s apparent support of the Flournoy project, and County Commission’s rezoning in favor of Westland Cove, foretell a multi-story apartment complex in your backyard.

Frank Slagle, who represents Northshore Landing at the homeowners council, reported on a meeting of individuals who oppose Westland Cove, John Huber’s proposed 312-unit complex on Emory Church Road. The meeting was rife with rumors about possible development on properties along Westland Drive and George Williams Road.

“We have to fight these,

or they’re going to be everywhere,” he said.

That may sound farfetched, but a perusal of annual Development Activity Reports on MPC’s website (www.knoxmpc.org) shows a rise in multi-dwelling residential units built in the county’s southwest sector since 2009.

In each of the four years leading up to ’09, other county sectors saw more units built. In ’09, the only units added in the entire county were in the south sector. In ’10, ’11 and ’12, the southwest sector had more multi-dwelling residential units built than all other sectors combined. Data for 2013 is not yet available on the website. Obviously, Southwest Knox County has become a desirable place to build apartments.

Residents like Becky Benson may suffer because of the trend. Her property is adjacent to the proposed Westland Cove development, so she is contemplating the view of a four-story

apartment building from her lakeside home.

The development is currently in litigation, but even if it fails, she fears the rezoning of the property from Agricultural to Planned Residential could open the door for more apartment complexes in areas where single-family homes are currently the norm.

“It sets a precedent for development at five units per acre,” she says. Huber’s plan consolidates allowable units from a 100-acre parcel.

Jim Pryor, an appraiser with Dunn & Metz Appraisal Group, says that as long as apartments are lucrative for developers, they’ll continue to spring up.

“If Westland Cove works, the likelihood is increased that others will try it.”

The good news is that builders typically tailor their developments to the market, and the market can bear only so many apartment buildings, he says.

Until then, keep an eye on your backyard.

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Career Magnet Academy is huge gamble

By Sandra Clark “You pays your money and you takes your chances.”

Money is tight, but Knox County Schools is set to open a brand-new high school in August. Officials toured the construction site last Monday. We’re spending $3.75 million to retrofit the basement of the former Panasonic Building on Strawberry Plains Pike for classrooms and student labs.

The Career Magnet Academy (CMA@PSCC) joins Pellissippi State Community College, which has offered classes in the building since 2012 and currently has 300 students enrolled.

Doug Dillingham, supervisor of facilities and construction, said Knox County’s space will contain 13 classrooms, two science labs, media center, wellness center, teacher workrooms, guidance offices and a cafeteria.

KCS will provide food services and security.

The hook is dual credit

School board member Doug Harris and CMA principal John Derek Faulconer pose for a Knoxville Chamber promotion, touting the new Career Magnet Academy. Photos by S. Clark

School board members Pam Trainor, Gloria Deathridge and Lynne Fugate explore the new school. Board members Indya Kincannon and Mike McMillan (not pictured) also attended.

for juniors and seniors – up to 33 college credits with no tuition cost.

Don Lawson, CTE supervisor, said projected enrollment is 125 freshmen the first year, adding 125 each year for a total of 500. “Forty percent of enrollees are girls and inquiries mirror the racial mix of the system,” said

restrict enrollment.

Principal Ryan Siebe doesn’t expect the CMA to weaken the nearby Carter High School.

“The special thing about Carter is that it’s a comprehensive high school with strong programs in academics, athletics, band and the arts. We offer things that

Indya Kincannon.

Mike McMillan is cautiously optimistic. “We’re spending almost $4 million here, and it has the potential to be something really great. … I hope it doesn’t hamper the traditional vocational programs in other high schools.” He worries that the lack of athletics will

are not available in the magnet schools and provide experiences that make Carter special.”

John Derek Faulconer, CMA principal, has visited every middle school, working to recruit 8th-graders for fall’s freshman class. He explains the four clusters: Advanced Manufacturing,

Win-loss record starts today Butch Jones is one fine philosopher. He says things you can print on fancy paper in old English script, trim orange matting to fit, frame and hang on the wall.

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“Your win-loss record starts today,” said the coach before the first practice in pads.

Jones wants the Vols to work very fast, finish spring practice in high gear. It appears he is teaching tempo.

It could also mean there is still more to do than available working hours.

This time a year ago Tennessee football fans were excited about the new coach and the assumption that serious progress was coming soon. The forecast was for at least 7-5 and a small bowl game that Tennessee would obviously win.

Some have conveniently

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Ted Hatfield won re-election to the state GOP Executive Committee when no one qualified to run against him.

forgotten that 7-5 was the consensus. I tabulated the optimistic outlooks and talked myself into believing enthusiasm was a satisfactory substitute for talent and depth. I am old enough to know better.

Well, you do remember how last season turned out.

Tennessee won one game, against South Carolina, that was unexpected. It came close against Georgia. The Vols looked awful losing to a very ordinary Florida. Missouri’s second-team quarterback was considerably better than Tennessee’s No. 2.

South Alabama caused acute indigestion, but winning ugly is significantly better than losing. I am still unable to explain how the Jaguars scored the final 17 points.

The gut punch last season was the loss to Vanderbilt – the failure to gain one yard for a necessary first down and standing by as Commodores drove 92 yards in the closing minutes, 12 plays, clincher by Patton Robinette, Maryville High grad rejected by the home team.

Oh my.

Here we are a year later, getting excited about our upbeat coach’s second year.

A major reconstruction job in the offensive and defensive fronts is ongoing. Butch will eventually identify a quarterback. After that, the honoree must be coached up to a competitive level.

A spirited website, NationalChamps.net, offers a preview of this fall. It has nine SEC teams in the top 25. It did not include Tennessee.

There are fans who just can’t believe our team is still 10th or worse in the conference. How can this be with so many famous recruits?

NationalChamps.net says this is its 13th season of uncanny accuracy. It does not provide a lot of original material but averages the opinions of Athlon, ESPN, USA Today, Fox Sports, CBS – all armed with highly paid people who should know.

Predictions look much like the past: 1. Florida State; 2. Auburn; 3. ALABAMA; 4. Oregon; 5. OKLAHOMA; 6.

Michigan State; 7. Stanford; 8. California-Los Angeles;

■ Nick Della Volpe lost 6-3 on his ordinance to delete the automatic 2 percent wage increase for city employees who earn more than $40,000.

Voting with him were council members George Wallace

and Duane Grieve. That left Nick Pavlis, Brenda Palmer, Marshall Stair, Daniel Brown, Mark Campen and Finbarr Saunders voting with city employees who packed the room.

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9. SOUTH CAROLINA; 10.

Ohio State; 11. Clemson; 12. Louisiana State; 13. Central Florida; 14. Baylor; 15. Southern Cal; 16. Texas A&M; 17. MISSOURI; 18. GEORGIA; 19.

OLE MISS; 20. Notre Dame; 21. Duke; 22. Louisville; 23. FLORIDA; 24. Nebraska; 25. Arizona State.

You are no doubt familiar with several on this list. The seven in capital letters are on the UT schedule. Please circle the ones you think the Vols can beat.

The other five foes are supposedly softer: Utah State, Arkansas State, Chat-

tanooga and Kentucky at home and Vandy on the road. Please circle projected victories.

Add up your circles. Does Tennessee qualify for a minor bowl game?

The goal is to get better soon, to become competitive with good teams, be relevant again in the SEC, attract more paying customers (full-price tickets), sell more popcorn, earn more standing ovations.

If all that happens, the great philosopher is coach of the year.

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

Homeland Security, Sustainable Living and Teacher Preparation. Students are not expected to commit to a career path until their sophomore year, he said.

The promise to parents: “A learning environment like no other … a culture of high expectations and high outcomes … hands-on, project-based learning with a highly trained staff dedicated to success.”

Business partnerships with ALCOA, DENSO and Republic Plastics enable job shadowing, field experience and internships. Transportation will be provided from base schools, and the hours of operation are weekdays 9:30 to 4:30, following the KCS calendar. Enrollment information is available at www.knoxschools.org/.

Will this new school work?

L&N STEM Academy made sense from its launch.

L&N appeals to the kid who trades football and pep rallies for a tech-based curriculum in a unique historic building downtown with easy access to UT professors and labs. Students have enrolled from across Knox County, and this year’s waiting list is almost 200.

CMA is a bigger risk.

With windowless classrooms on the outskirts of nowhere, the school is closer to Jefferson or Sevier county residents than the population center of Knox County.

The career magnet seeks the 8th-grader who can visualize post-high school work-life, not as a chemical engineer but as a homeland security or sustainability technician, whatever that even means.

Anyone who has known (or been) an 8th-grader has cause to cringe.

“You pays your money and you takes your chances.”

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A birthday message to

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By Cindy Taylor

March 30 drew the largest crowd to ever attend a birthday party for Lauren Beth Morris. The venue was Shepherd of the Hills Baptist Church and the event was bittersweet.

Lauren had her 10th birthday March 29. While she celebrates the coming of a new year, she must also deal with a recent diagnosis of a very rare and aggressive cancer, Atypical Teratoid/ Rhabdoid Tumor. Lauren is post-surgery, having had the tumor removed March 12, but the road ahead will not be easy. The surgery precedes a two-year battle of intense chemo and radia-

i therapy. h tion But Lauren isn’t focused on that. Her smile rivaled the sun as she greeted her guests and welcomed everyone who had come out for her party. One of the reasons the crowd numbered more than 100 was the duality of the event as a fundraiser to help with medical expenses. Folks wanted to wish Lauren a happy birthday, but they also took the opportunity to contribute to Lauren Beth’s medical care.

Treatments will involve lots of travel for Lauren and her family, and costs will add up quickly.

Lauren Beth has been asked if she is scared, and

Ryan Fenyves digs a hole for the French drains to be installed on the playground at Fountain City Park.

Karen Furr (mom), Justin Morris (dad) and Lauren Beth Morris, holding her newest friend, Billy, enjoy birthday festivities. Photo

by Cindy Taylor

she responds with a beautiful smile and a “Not really … Lauren Beth Morris is tougher than cancer.” Her wisdom defies her age as she states her belief that God is working in her life for the greater good.

“It feels different than yesterday, and it feels good

to be 10,” she said. “God brought me to this to show other people to keep smiling.”

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Going out to serve

By Ruth White

Live the story Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David!

(Mark 11: 9-10 NRSV) And how we love a parade!

In a frenzy of celebration we gladly focus on Jesus and generously throw our coats and palms in his path ….

It’s between parades that we don’t do so well.

From Sunday to Sunday we forget our hosannas.

Between parades the stones will have to shout because we don’t. (“Between Parades,” Kneeling in Jerusalem, Ann Weems) Whenever I read Mark’s account of the crowd’s excitement when Jesus entered Jerusalem, I am transported back to the Via Dolorosa on a day late in March.

The crowds thronged the streets that day, too, reminiscent of a similar crowd who pushed and hurried along almost 2,000 years before. I was a pilgrim, like those so long ago, but I wished for quiet and stillness in which to absorb the history that surrounded me, suffocating me. The crowd

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was loud and insistent, and I was swept along in the tide, forced to concentrate on maintaining balance and guarding my purse and my passport from pickpockets.

Across the years, I have tried to understand Palm Sunday separate from Good

Friday and Easter. It is difficult to do because we – these 20 centuries later – know “the rest of the story.”

We can see the ending, and it is hard to really experience what we now call Holy Week one day at a time, without anticipating the happy ending.

That is one reason I appreciate the churches that provide special services throughout the week. I know – from experience – the thought and hard work and preparation that goes into those services, and I am grateful to those creative and imaginative people who find ways to bring the old, old story to life again.

I encourage you to worship this week. Find a service – every day, if possible – in which you can walk with Jesus through these days.

Read Scripture. Be there, in your heart and mind. Imagine the scenes, picture the people, hear the sounds, feel the emotions. Listen to Jesus teach in the Temple.

Go to dark Gethsemane.

Struggle up the hill to Golgotha. Watch the darkness enshroud the world. Hear the dreadful silence.

Shout your Hosannas!

Proclaim your Alleluias! In between, however, live the story. It will be a blessing to you.

New Hope Christian School celebrates 20 years New Hope Christian School will celebrate its 20th anniversary at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, April 13, during New Hope Christian Church’s worship service.

Students from the school will sing during the service, the graduating students will give testimony and founding pastor Ralph Waggoner will be preaching. All former staff members and students are invited to attend.

The school opened in 1993 with nine students and has grown to 67 students this year. It serves kindergarten through 8th grade.

The church and school are at 7602 Bud Hawkins Road, Corryton.

Info: 688-5330.

On every fifth Sunday, the congregation of Fellowship North meets at its worship center for a brief prayer service before heading out into the community.

On this particular Sunday, several church members were at Whittle Springs Middle School where they helped in the parent center.

Members created posters of encouragement, wrote chalk messages on the sidewalks for students to see the next morning and helped coordinator Florence N’Diaye with tasks to help the center run smoothly.

N’Diaye said the center is designed to help children become more successful in school by working with their parents.

The center has a wish list, and anyone interested in helping can contact N’Diaye. Needed items include office supplies, children’s toys, gift cards (gas,

grocery store, restaurants), ) hand sanitizer, laptop computers, bookcases, mini supply baskets, thank-you cards, mini refrigerator, family games and calculators.

Info: 594-4474, ext. 169 or email florence.ndiaye@ knoxschools.org.

Another group was at Fountain City Park to clean up and install French drains on the playground.

According to Lions Club member Ben Easterday, the playground holds water, creating a mess under the play equipment. Once the drains are installed, the water will no longer puddle.

The group also repainted the signs for the park, cleared away trash and painted trash cans for a fresh look.

Fellowship North meets at 10 a.m. every Sunday at 3203 Tazewell Pike. Pastor is Michael Thomas.

Info: www.north.fellowshipknox.org.

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POWELL Shopper news • APRIL 7, 2014 • A-9

What’s flying Spring azure, mourning cloak, eastern comma, clouded sulphur. There are some really neat things out there announcing the arrival of spring, besides flowers and birds. Butterflies, for example.

Dr. Bob Collier

The above-named four critters are some of our earliest butterflies. In fact, some of them fly so early in the year that they show up while it is still winter!

We often think of butterflies as the big flashy swallowtails and monarchs of summer fields and meadows rather than one of our first hopeful signs of spring.

But here they are, often flying before even the first wildflower peeks out from under the leaves, and long before the first migrant bird finds its way back to East Tennessee.

I’ve seen all four of the above-mentioned butterflies flitting around my yard at various times over the past three or four weeks. It continues to be a pleasant surprise to be grumping my way to the mailbox bundled up in my old warm coat and see a bright blue or yellow butterfly flapping merrily along as if to say, “What’s your problem, buddy?”

Butterflies are fun, and a lot of birders are developing into butterfly enthusiasts, too. They are a nice addition to any birding outing.

For one thing, they are often out and about in the

middle of the day, when the birding gets slow. And you’re out there with your binoculars in your hand anyway. Binoculars are a real help, bringing the butterflies up close while you remain far enough away to avoid spooking them (at least sometimes). There are about the same number of North American butterfly species as there are species of birds, and the butterflies can prove to be even more of a challenge to see well and to learn.

The little spring azures, a little over half an inch long, may be one of our earliest signs of spring. Widespread and common across the United States, they begin to fly as early as February in our area. They are a nice pale blue above; light bluegray with little spots below.

Their close relative, the eastern tailed blue, another little early blue butterfly, is similar to the azure but with little tails and orange spots on its hind wings.

The mourning cloaks are beautiful and interesting.

They are easy to recognize – larger and slower, with a rich brown color and sporting a clear yellow border along their trailing edge.

These guys are among the longest-lived of all our butterflies, living as long as 10 months (many species live only a few weeks).

The mourning cloaks hatch out in the summer and are adult butterflies in the fall. Unusual for butterflies, they hibernate over the winter as adults and so are ready to fly again as

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soon as the temperatures approach the 60-degree mark, even if it is still winter.

Eastern commas are a little harder – they are strong, fast fliers that often land on tree trunks. Above they are orange with a bunch of brown spots, but alighted with their wings folded to show only their undersides, their brown-patterned, irregularly shaped wings look exactly like a dead leaf.

You’ve probably mistaken one for a leaf on more than one occasion. The comma and its nearly identical first cousin, the question mark, get their names from a tiny silver comma or question mark on the underside of their back wings.

One of our most widespread groups of butterflies, the sulphurs, have lots of species in their family, but the most likely ones around these parts beginning in March are the clouded sulphur and the cloudless sul-

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phur. They are both yellow, medium-sized butterflies of field and meadow, and differ in slight amounts of color in their forewings. Their caterpillars like to eat clover and alfalfa, so as farming increases in a given area, so do the numbers of sulphurs.

Male sulphurs are all yellow, but some of the females of these two species are yellow and some white.

So, if you see a yellow butterfly out in your field flying around courting a white butterfly, be reassured – they know what they’re doing; everything’s OK. Watching butterflies is like watching birds or stalking wildflowers – it can be an addictive pastime. For pure visual enjoyment, there are the different species of swallowtails and frit-

illaries. For making friends, there are the confiding and easy-to-observe buckeyes and hackberries. And if you want challenge and intense study, there are species like the dreaded skippers – dozens of species of skittish, fast-moving lookalikes that can send you to your field guide shaking your head.

There are numerous good books to help you learn about our butterflies. Two that I have found to be very useful, out of many, are the “Stokes’ Butterfly Book” and Ken Kaufman’s “Field Guide to the Butterflies of Eastern North America.”

Rejoice, spring is here!

Enjoy the flowers and the birds. And check out the butterflies. Now is a good time to begin looking for them, when there aren’t so many different ones out and about. Then, as the season comes along, you will already be familiar with a bunch of them.

A word in regard to the

birds: We here in Knoxville have a top-notch birding site in Sharp’s Ridge Park, a widely known spring migrant trap.

Again this year, folks from the Knoxville Bird Club – properly known as the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society – will be doing spring bird walks up there.

The walks will be on the last three Thursdays of April and the first Thursday of May. We start at 8 a.m. at the old ranger’s house about halfway down the drive; there is plenty of parking.

There will be all skill levels of birders there. The experts especially welcome beginners and will try to show them good looks at the birds.

All that’s required is a set of binoculars – they are necessary if you want to actually see what’s flying around up there. Join us for a pleasant hour or two!

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Kindergartners are coming in

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Lee added that buttoning and snapping pants on their own, using the restroom independently and being read to aloud also prepare children for school. “Being read to daily gives children the exposure to literacy that will help them

By Cindy Taylor Tuesday, April 8, is Knox County Schools’ kindergarten roundup. Staff are preparing for a record number of 5-year-olds during morning and afternoon sessions.

Kindergarten teachers at Pleasant Ridge Elementary have been prepping for months to relay information parents need to be sure their child is ready. Literacy coach Krista Lee shared a few ideas that parents can follow to prepare them for their first week.

Dylan Bolt and Sam Parker, kindergartners at Pleasant Ridge Elementary, use the game “Headbandz� to learn how to ask proper questions.

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Northwest goes National Jordan Scrimsher created a new branch of the National Junior Honor Society at Northwest Middle School this year. NJHS has the highest standards for entry and this year’s inductees have worked hard to meet these standards. Inductees include Sara Armani, Kadyn Lawson, Janaya Colbert, Carlos Ortiz, Andrew Faulkenberry, Joe McDonald, Faith Sullivan, Brooke Allen, Emily Elliott, Courtney Gibson, Hanna Hayles, Donyea McDermott, Kristen Sharpe and Claudia Young.

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Students at Powell High School have selected three outstanding teachers as Teachers of the Month.

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Prestige Cleaners president Eddie Mannis presented more than $8,500 to four Knox County schools last week. Inskip Elementary received $2,332. The school plans to use the funds to establish an anti-bullying program. Pictured are interim principal Jessica Holman, Mannis and 3rdgrade teacher Caitlin McAloon.

EGG HUNTS ■ Annual Fountain City Easter Egg Hunt, 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 12, Fountain City Park. Children ages 6-8, 9:30 a.m.; ages 3-5, 10:15 a.m. and ages 2 and under, 11 a.m. Free admission. Parents will not be allowed in the egg hunt area, so small children must be able to walk on their own. Bring your own Easter basket. Prizes will include stuffed animals, games and bikes. Folks interested in volunteering can email info@fountaincitybusiness. com or vp@fountaincitybusiness.com. Businesses are also needed to operate booths. Booth space is $30.

Info and application: www. fountaincitybusiness.com.

■ Beaver Ridge United Methodist Church, 7752 Oak Ridge Highway, Easter Breakfast and Egg Hunt 9 a.m. Saturday, April 12.

Pancake breakfast will be served by the Beaver Ridge United Methodist Men. The Easter Bunny will be on hand for pictures, and there will be candy and crafts for the kids. Egg hunt begins at 10 a.m. Info: 690-1060 or www.beaverridgeumc.org.

■ Faith United Methodist Church, 1120 Dry Gap Pike, egg hunt 11 a.m. Saturday, April 19. Bring your basket.

Hot dogs and chips will be served. Everyone welcome.

Info: 688-1000 or www. faithchurchknoxvilletn. com.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church of Powell, 7212 Central Avenue Pike, egg hunt 10 a.m. Saturday, April 12. The Easter story will be told, and snacks will be served afterward. Rain or shine.

Info: 938-2611.

■ Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, 701 Merchant Drive, Kids’ Easter Celebration 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 12, 5th grade and under. Egg hunt, crafts, inflatables, popcorn, cotton candy and more. Bring your own basket. Info: 688-4343 or www.wmbc.net.

Easter services ■ Faith United Methodist Church, 1120 Dry Gap Pike, Easter Sunrise Service 7 a.m. Sunday, April 20.

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Everyone welcome. Info: 688-1000 or www.faithchurchknoxvilletn.com.

SPORTS NOTES ■ Two players needed for 2014 Cherokee AAA/Major 10U. Info: 414-8464.

■ RBI Outlaws 10U baseball team needs experienced players. Low signup fee with all of the RBI perks. For a private tryout, call Clint Taylor at 740-8560.

■ Knoxville Bulldogs 9/10U travel baseball team needs a few players to complete its roster for the year. Info: call coach Jeff, 385-7396 or

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■ Girls’ basketball camp for ages 7-15 will be held 9 a.m.3 p.m. June 9-13, at Roane State Community College in Harriman. Registration will be held 8:30-9 a.m. June 9. Cost is $100 with a team rate of $85 per player if five or more team members are attending the camp. Info: Monica Boles, 354-3000, ext.

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Make checks payable to CHS Class of ’89 and mail to Felecia Turner, 1103 Darby Lane, Forest, Va., 24551. Info: Felecia (Robbins) Turner, feleciaturner@hotmail.com or Mark Allen, 4davolz@comcast.net.

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By Cindy Taylor Neil Roberson jokes that he “stumbled” into his trade because of his love of beer and wine. He quickly adds that he wouldn’t call what he does making a living, but it sure is a job – and it’s one he loves.

Award winner and master distiller Neil Thomas Roberson, known for marketing purposes as the Tiny Hillbilly, manufactures moonshine flavors for distribution through his company, East Tennessee Distillery. Roberson doesn’t sneak out in the middle of the night to check the still, and he isn’t hiding his brew from revenuers.

What he concocts soars as high as 150 proof and is 100 percent legal. But this ain’t yer Pappy’s moonshine.

MC’s Wine and Liquor on Strawberry Plains Pike sponsored a premier tasting of East Tennessee Distillery’s newest moonshine flavor, Honey Ginseng, on a recent Friday.

Folks poured in from all over to get a glimpse of company co-founder “Tiny,” who has made an appearance on the History Channel’s show “Appalachian Outlaws.”

While cuttin’ up with Tiny, folks could sample the new flavor along with tastes of Mellomoon Original, Peach, Coconut, Caramel, 150 Proof WhiteLightnin’ and Strawberry.

The moonshine business has been booming since it became legal in Tennessee in 2009. Distribution that Tiny and his sales team thought

would take three years to establish in this part of the country took less than three months. Looking at his history, one could say that Tiny pretty much “sailed” into this line of work.

“My first experience with distilling was in the Navy running the ship’s evaporators to distill fresh water from salt water,” he said.

“Out of the Navy I went to school and got a degree in industrial engineering, worked in a lab and then discovered my life’s calling.”

There is no suit and tie for this engineer, who prefers a cloak of sleeveless Tshirt, felt hat with feather, corncob pipe and overalls.

Seems like a long voyage from salt water to moonshine, but he says not so.

He claims to be the runt of the litter, but Tiny, who is well over six feet tall, says he loves to drink and it was getting way too expensive a hobby for a guy his size. Once he discovered that he had a knack for distilling whiskey, it didn’t take much persuasion from friends to get him to dive into his own business.

The roller-coaster ride, as Tiny calls it, that became East Tennessee Distillery and Roberson’s Tennessee Mellomoon (Fine Tennessee Sippin’ Shine) blossomed into a thriving business in less than two years. The company is located, not hidden, in the hills of Piney Flats, Tenn., and distributes from there.

Info: www.mellomoon.com or 423-391-0383.

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Tiny (center) autographs a bottle of Mellomoon for Robin and Mike Nyderek.

you might not want to know what Tiny says goes into making the distinct flavors – although he often speaks tongue-in-cheek.

“You know moonshine really is pretty much anything that the government doesn’t have defined as a class,” said Tiny. “I’ve heard tell of people putting roosters and chickens in there.” He grinned.

“It is classified as spirits by the government, but most important, moonshine is an American tradition.”

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Rule #4: You are what you don’t excrete..

By Dr. Donald G. Wegener

By the headline above, I think you know where I’m headed with this rule. Most people are shocked to know that a large portion of their being overweight has to do with the fact that they are not eliminating the toxins from their body in a timely manner. At this point I would like to give you a small anatomy lesson on Dr. Wegener how your body functions.

The majority of your internal organs, including your digestive system, heart, lungs and any organ that functions without you consciously thinking of it, are controlled by the autonomic nervous system. This branch of your nervous system has two functional components. The sympathetic portions of the autonomic nervous system and the parasympathetic portion of the autonomic nervous system (or as some authors say the sympathetic or “catabolic” branch and the parasympathetic or “anabolic” branch).

The sympathetic branch is the branch that is considered our fight-or-flight system because it prepares your body to get ready to get out of an emergency situation. In essence it sends blood to our muscles and it takes blood away from our internal organs, stopping or slowing the digestive process while increasing the heart rate and dilating the eyes. The sympathetic branch is the dominant system when

Neil “Tiny Hillbilly” Roberson grabs as many bottles of Roberson’s Tennessee Mellomoon as he can hold. Photo by Cindy Taylor

we are in a stressful situation.

As you can imagine, in today’s environment people are constantly in stressful situations: not getting enough sleep, working stressful jobs and trying to cope with life, and many people are ingesting stimulants to keep up. In essence our bodies are being bombarded by chemicals from our food, water and drugs – all of which are designed to help increase your energy and oftentimes throw the nervous system out of balance. The problem with this situation is that most people are living in a sympathetic state, which shuts down digestion and often leads to constipation. This is why America spends over $1.3 million on laxatives each day.

So you can see that we often put ourselves in the situation of taking stimulants to give ourselves more energy when in fact they shut down the digestive process. Then we buy laxatives to help stimulate the elimination process. My point is that you must have balance in your life and you must rely less on stimulants and laxatives, both of which work against each other.

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News from The Knoxville Area Urban League

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Staying rooted with the Urban League

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By Phyllis Nichols Carlton Johnson built his house when he was 29 years old. “ T h e last thing I wanted to do was lose it,” he said.

However, when JohnNichols son was laid off from his job and out of work for three months, he fell behind on his mortgage payments. Johnson heard a commercial on the radio about the “Keep My Tennessee Home” program and called the Knoxville Area Urban League for help.

“I was skeptical at first,” he said. “But the Urban League helped me get approved. I needed help to catch up on my payments, and the Urban League made that happen.”

The Urban League believes every adult in America should have access to the financial security that comes from owning a home.

The Knoxville Area Urban League helped to relieve the mounting toll of the financial stress so Johnson could focus his efforts on finding employment. Since his approval with the program, Johnson was able to get a new job.

“If I hadn’t heard that commercial, I wouldn’t be where I am today,” Johnson said. “It took a while getting the paperwork finished and approved, but everyone at the Urban League was so helpful. They gave me several options and helped me make a decision on how to get assistance. Once I got them the information they needed, it was good to go.”

Johnson acknowledged he was initially reluctant to

ask for help, but he encouraged community members who may be dealing with anxiety over delinquent mortgage payments to contact the Knoxville Area Urban League for assistance as soon as possible.

“The phone call to find out if you qualify doesn’t cost a thing,” he said. “Don’t procrastinate because if you keep putting it off, you could end up worse than where you are now.”

The Knoxville Area Urban League is a Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-approved nonprofit counseling agency. Professionally trained and certified homeownership counselors customize action plans for every client’s situation. To start the process and see if the Urban League can help you, call 524-5511.

Phyllis Nichols is president and CEO of Knoxville Area Urban League.

News from Pellissippi State - Magnolia Campus

Celebrate jazz at PSCC

By Heather Beck

Jazz Appreciation Month will be celebrated with a musical concert at 6 p.m. Friday, April 11, at Pellissippi State Community College’s Magnolia Avenue Campus.

The concert begins with a performance by Pellissippi State’s jazz band and select student and faculty artists.

Beginning at 7, jazz pianist

Donald Brown presents a short lecture and concert.

“This is the last of our performances in this year’s The Season of Music concert series,” said Rosalyn Tillman, dean of the Magnolia Avenue Campus. “We’re celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month with a special performance by the very talented pianist Donald Brown.”

Brown is a renowned composer, pianist and educator. An associate professor of jazz piano at the University of Tennessee, the Mississippi native grew up in Memphis and performed early on with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

Brown has had his compositions performed and recorded by a wide variety of top modern jazz musicians.

Trumpet great Wynton Marsalis earned a Grammy

By Cynthia Moxley Another beautiful East Te n n e s s e e spring has arrived, and we’re anxious to enjoy the sunshine, admire the dogwood blossoms Moxley and jump in the lake for a swim.

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We recommend the huband-spoke model. Just as the spokes on a bicycle wheel all connect to the hub, digital media activities should direct back to one central source of information – your website.

Engage key audiences using digital media, but drive traffic back to your website, which contains the most and best information about your organization, plus opportunities for sales, registrations and more.

Here are some tips for an effective hub-and-spoke strategy for digital media: Embrace your blog.

Your blog is the heart of your website and therefore part of the hub. Google used to put an emphasis on key-

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Now, search engines have shifted to algorithms that track how frequently websites are updated. The more often fresh, relevant information is posted to your blog, the better your website ranks in search results.

When consumers do an Internet search for related goods or services, your website will appear higher on the results page.

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■ Pinterest serves to inspire, provide tips and share products for sale. Approximately 25 percent of U.S. social-network users made a purchase on a retail website after clicking from a social network in the past year, says Javelin Strategy & Research’s January report.

Shoppers clicking from Pinterest are particularly lucrative, with an average order value of $123.50 – 126 percent more than Facebook users’ $54.64 average.

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Springtime Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Carter Branch Library, 9036 Asheville Highway. Info: 933-5438.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10 Parent to Parent Support meeting for parents of children with mental health diagnoses, 6-8 p.m., KTOWN Youth Empowerment Network, 901 E. Summit Hill Drive. Info: Alicia, 474-6692 or abanks@tnvoices. org.

Seniors program, 10 a.m.-noon, Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road. All seniors invited to wear Easter Bonnets for the Easter Parade. Entertainment by the Grace Notes from Grace Baptist Church. All seniors over 55 invited. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

Fontinalis Club meeting, Central Baptist Church, 5364 N. Broadway. Board meeting, 9:30 a.m.; social time, 10; general meeting, 10:30. Program by Honor Awards Committee with presentation of candidates and voting to follow. All members should attend.

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Winter Market: an indoor farmers market, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Historic Southern Railway Station, 306 Depot Ave. Hosted by Nourish Knoxville. Info: http:// www.marketsquarefarmersmarket.org.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 13 New Hope Christian School 20-year celebration, 10:45 a.m., New Hope Baptist Church, 7602 Bud Hawkins Road. Guest speaker: Ralph Waggoner. Lunch at the Pavilion of Washington Pike Presbyterian Church will follow services.

MONDAY, APRIL 14 Family Movie Night: “Frozen,” 5:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

TUESDAY, APRIL 15 Advanced Sushi cooking class, 6-9 p.m., Avanti Savoia’s La Cucina, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $75.

Info/reservations: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 17 Parent to Parent Support meeting for parents of children with mental health diagnoses, 6-8 p.m., K-TOWN Youth Empowerment Network, 901 E. Summit Hill Drive.

Info: Alicia, 474-6692 or abanks@tnvoices.org.

Good Friday Celebration sponsored by Club Shabach, 8 p.m., World For Christ Church Inc., 4611 Central Ave Pike. Info: 249-7214, worldforchrist@bellsouth.net.

UT Extension Open House, 3-6 p.m., 3925 Maynardville Highway. Refreshments, 4-H photo contest on display. RSVP: apadgett4@utk.edu\.

Happy Travelers Gathering and Luncheon, 10:30 a.m., North Acres Baptist Church fellowship hall, 5803 Millertown Pike. Deeper Faith will sing. No charge, but suggested contribution: $7. Deadline to register: Thursday, April 17. Info/to register: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

First Line - First Page - First Chapter writing workshop, 6-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Kathleen Fearing. Registration deadline: April 15. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

SATURDAY, APRIL 26 KUCB Luttrell City Clean up/Beautification Day. Includes a road cleanup, plant giveaways, food and awards.

Open jam session bluegrass, country, gospel music; 7 p.m.; old Rush Strong School, Leadmine Bend Road in Sharps Chapel. Free admission. Refreshments.

Donations appreciated. All invited.

Anderson County Relay For Life opening ceremonies, 5 p.m., Main Street around the courthouse.

To participate: www.relayforlife.org/eastandersonTN. Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 6 p.m., WMRD 94.5 FM, 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All pickers and singers welcome.

Winter Market: an indoor farmers market, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Historic Southern Railway Station, 306 Depot Ave. Hosted by Nourish Knoxville. Info: http:// www.marketsquarefarmersmarket.org.

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Big Ridge State Park Easter Egg Hunt. Times: 10 a.m., 2-year-olds and younger; 10:30, 3- to 4-year olds; 1 p.m., 5- to 7-year-olds; 1:30 p.m., 8- to 10-year olds. Info: 992-5523.

Sharps Chapel Easter Egg Hunt for children ages 12 and under, Sharps Chapel Community Park. Bring a basket. Meet in front of Sharps Chapel Senior/Community Center, 11:15 a.m.; hunt begins 11:30. Sponsored by Sharps Chapel Family and Community Education (FCE) Club.

Luttrell City Easter Egg Hunt, 10 a.m.-noon, Luttrell City Park. Info: Luttrell City Hall, 992-0870.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 6 p.m., WMRD 94.5 FM, 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All pickers and Dogwood Art Detour, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Appalachian singers welcome.

Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway in NorHappy Travelers trip to Ciderville Music Barn in ris. Free event. Artist demonstrations. Info: 494-9854 or Claxton; depart 6:30 p.m., North Acres Baptist Church, www.appalachianarts.net.

Harvest Fest Singing 2014, 6 p.m. Friday and 4 5803 Millertown Pike. Free. A love offering will be taken p.m. Saturday, Union County Senior Center, 298 Main for the bus driver. Info/to sign up: Derrell Frye, 938St. All churches and youth groups welcome. Door prizes. 8884.

Info: Michael Bailey, 992-1831.

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Grace Junior Kindergartners Madison Sproles, Claire Campbell, Aubrianna Tajen and Kristen Woolman with residents of The Willows Retirement Community in Karns.

Grace students invest in community

By Julie Pointer and Wendy Doig Investing is putting money to use through a purchase or giving of one’s time or talent to accomplish a specific purpose.

At Grace Christian Academy, our students are investing their time and resources in others.

Teaching our students to actively invest in others is an essential component in fulfilling GCA’s mission to Lead, Build & Equip students. During this school year we have seen students investing in real and practical ways.

One of GCA’s core values is service, and our goal is to help develop students who are intentional about the mission of Jesus Christ, which was to serve others. Our lower school students, through their homeroom classes, have all had the opportunity to experience what investing in our community looks like.

Our youngest students in Junior Kindergarten are actively engaged in serving at The Willows Retirement Community in Karns. The students prepared crafts and songs that they shared with the residents when they visited them.

Kindergarten students adopted the Karns Volunteer Fire Department. They collected hygiene items as a gift for the firefighters who faithfully serve us.

Students had the opportunity to visit the fire station, where they met the men and women who serve our community. The most important part of the visit was that the students prayed over the firefighters and their equipment.

Fifth grade students and teachers have developed a partnership where they are able to work with the Lonsdale 5th grade teachers and students.

Our 5th graders learned of a need the Lonsdale students had for luggage as both groups prepare for their Safety Patrol trip to Washington, D.C., at the end of May. Our students and families stepped up in a big way and provided more than 80 bags.

They were able to personally deliver the bags to the 5th graders from Lonsdale when they came to GCA, spent the afternoon and enjoyed the performance of “Peter Pan.” Our students loved the time they had to spend with their peers from Lonsdale as they ate lunch and play some games before the production.

New playground at Grace

By Julie Pointer Recess is the highlight of any student’s day. It is a time when students can take a break from all of the academic work they have been doing in the classroom. But learning does not stop during recess; it is instead a time when students practice taking turns and sharing, following rules for an organized game, learning how to negotiate what will be played among friends, and how to interact with others. Free play time is a valuable part of any student’s

day and we are excited to have a new playground where students have a safe environment to play.

Our students and school have been blessed by the investment that our parents, family members, friends and community members have made through GCA’s Friends and Family campaign this year.

We have already seen one of the planned projects become a reality with our lower school playground.

In January, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held, and all

The 8th grade students at Grace Christian Academy found a way to invest in the future of GCA 2nd graders by providing writing support for every child one day a week. Every Wednesday, students share experiences writing together.

Their time together makes a big difference to the writing progress for all children involved and is a big part of the “family feel” at Grace Christian Academy.

One 2nd grader wrote in her buddy journal, “It was fun writing with you. I wonder what we will do next time. Whatever it is, I know it will be fun!” This experience leaves the children feeling positive and motivated because they have a positive role model investing in them and celebrating with them every accomplishment.

It is often the case that student leaders in the high school are viewed by lower school stu-

Grace Christian Academy high school cheerleader Amanda Stooksbury with cheer camp participant Nina Weldon. Photo by Kristi Stewart

The Grace Christian Academy 5th grade class donated luggage to Lonsdale Elementary School’s 5th graders to help them go on the Safety Patrol trip to Washington, D.C. Photo by Jeanna Scealf dents as an example to emulate.

High school cheerleaders are no exception to this. In order to provide an opportunity to invest in the lives of our lower school girls, the high school cheerleaders hold two cheer camps each year. Throughout each camp they learn a routine which is performed at halftime of either a varsity football or basketball game. The value of this investment is clearly demonstrated through the excitement on the young girls’ faces as they head to camp and as they are performing.

Several of our sports teams this year have taken a morning

and gotten up extra early to greet our lower and middle school students as they arrive at school. The younger students’ faces beam with radiant smiles as they receive a high five from a high school athlete. This mentoring relationship between our high school and lower school students is the type of investment we seek to foster.

We all choose daily how we will invest our time and resources. Our desire at GCA is to be intentional at all levels to provide students opportunities to invest in the lives of others, whether within our own school or with the community.

There are four distinct areas where students can play: an open field area, swings, playground equipment and an asphalt basketball court. This entire space is fully utilized daily by the lower school students, and the return on investment for our students has already been realized through how many additional days our students can be outside enjoying the fresh air and having a safer place to run and play.

The new playground at Grace Christian Academy. Photo by Teri Rash From all of the lower school students at GCA, thank you to everyone who invested their parents were invited to join the This new playground features time and resources during student body as we dedicated a turf surface, and as one student the Friends and Family camthe new space to God before the said “I like the turf because we paign to make this playground students began to use the space. can still play on it after it rains.” a reality.

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