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BUZZ Seniors seek school supplies Residents of Morning Pointe of Powell are collecting school supplies for students at Powell Elementary School.

Morning Pointe residents are working with the school through Partners in Education.

They would appreciate donations of backpacks, pencils, art supplies, folders, notebook paper, etc. Once school has started, residents will deliver the donations to the school.

Morning Pointe of Powell is located at 7700 Dannaher Dr. Info: 865-686-5771.

Watching birds About three weeks ago, a birding friend and I spent a remarkably good birding morning at our newest state park, the Seven Islands State Birding Park, out past Strawberry Plains along the French Broad River.

It has a beautiful bunch of habitats – hilly woods, riversides and big fields planted with an abundance of birdfood vegetation. The birds thought that it was still spring.

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Tripping along Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo reprise their iconic roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold, as son Rusty, now grown, takes his family on (you know it) “Vacation.”

Rusty plans to recreate the magic of his childhood with an epic road trip in a rental car with a mind of its own.

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The Powell Panthers were in Emory Road on Saturday, painting bright orange paw prints leading to the football stadium. Laura Bailey, pictured in back, said players and cheerleaders used three 24-can cases of orange spray paint when their borrowed heavy duty sprayer clogged up. Deputies from the Sheriff’s Office kept traffic to one lane during the project. Photos by S. Clark

Weeds gain ground on new Powell Drive

By Sandra Clark State Rep. Bill Dunn was key to completion of Emory Road from Halls to Clinton Highway, and now he’s been asked for one more thing – to rid us of weeds springing up on the new sidewalk.

On Monday, Dunn said Kristin Qualls from TDOT has promised to mow and spray along Powell Drive, hopefully this week. “This will give us time to figure out how to maintain the beauty long term,” he wrote to Justin Bailey.

By Sandra Clark Dr. Chad Smith, son of Broadacres residents Ed and Vicki Smith, has come home.

“I went through all three Powell schools, and I have the Ph.D. – Powell High Diploma.

The new principal of Powell

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This is the short answer to a week-long back-and-forth between Dunn and Bailey regarding the road.

It started when Bailey sent a picture to Dunn asking whose responsibility is sidewalk maintenance.

Steve Borden, regional manager of TDOT, wrote that it’s currently the responsibility of the contractor, Potter South East, “as there are issues that require attention for completion.”

Chad Smith comes home

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The Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, which was once Howell Nurseries, is the oldest continually running business in Tennessee and is now working to preserve the region’s plant life.

“In your lifetime, there will be wars fought about food and water,” Robert Hodge, the director of the Center for Urban Agriculture told Shopper News interns

Tyshon Lawrence carries the paw pattern.

High School has a doctorate in educational leadership, from Trevecca University in Nashville, and was most recently principal of Carter Middle School. He joined Knox County Schools in 2001 as a teacher at South-Doyle.

Borden went on to write, “TDOT maintenance recently reviewed the entire Emory Road Corridor from Norris Free to Clinton Highway.

The corridor really needs mowing, trimming, debris clean-up and herbicide spray.

“Crews have this section identified and will perform necessary maintenance as they prioritize their workloads.”

TDOT purchased minimal right of way along the Emory Road corridor, Borden wrote. Sections out-

Smith has met with every Powell High School teacher since his appointment by Superintendent Jim McIntyre, and he has assembled an administrative team.

Madeline Ferguson remains as an assistant principal. New assistants are Jan Deaderick, a former assistant principal at Central High; Amos Whitehead, a former

side of the state right of way will fall to the property owner to maintain.

“Since Knoxville includes five mowing cycles, residents typically choose to mow to the curb line or edge of roadway in order to keep the grass in front of their home well-manicured.”

Powell Drive has been designated as a scenic highway by the Legislature. This designation guides development including building height and billboard setbacks.

assistant principal at West High; and another Chad Smith, formerly a special education teacher at Powell Middle School.

Smith said seven faculty members were on staff when he was a student at Powell High.

He’s excited to be home and is looking forward to the upcoming year.

Mass shootings are not unique

By Bill Dockery Monday marked the seventh anniversary of the shootings at my church, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist on Kingston Pike. Two persons were killed and seven more wounded at a Sunday morning children’s service. An Army veteran and longtime East Tennessean is now serving life without parole for those deaths, which he confessed were generated by his hatred of liberals and gays.

Tragedies like the one at my church have become commonplace, most recently in a Charleston church, a Chattanooga strip mall and a Louisiana theater. Each

community that is hit experiences the event as a one-off tragedy – the deaths of innocent individuals, the acts of personal heroism, the gore, the physical and emotional suffering, the perpetrator driven by derangement or ideology or whatever, the public acts of mourning and above all the horror that it could happen “here” (and not somewhere else in the bigger America that – we assume – is more violent than our own peaceable community).

I was intimately involved with the response and recovery at TVUUC, handling media relations locally and nationally for the first hours, then days, then weeks, then

months following our tragedy.

Five years after the fact I was still taking media calls about similar events. And as the list of tragedies has lengthened on a weekly and daily basis, I’ve noticed something. There is nothing one-off about these occurrences.

The individual stitches may vary a bit, but they fit into an overall tapestry of violence and terror and heroism that furnishes the background before which all Americans go about our daily lives. We’re learning how to read the mass-murder narrative, and we even relish to an extent the details – the extravagant violence, the acts of unanticipated

courage, even the arguments about the roots of these kinds of events.

These shootings have become a true reality show, unscripted, with real blood and real hurt and poignantly real death.

One other thing I’ve learned: After responding professionally to our tragedy and the one that followed that and the next (et cetera to the nth power), I’m beginning to experience a slo-mo case of PTSD, not from exposure to violence in my church (as a police photographer I’d seen plenty of that) but from the way we bend our words of To page A-3

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Brenda Miles was told she had ve to seven years to live. She was diagnosed with cortical basal ganglionic degeneration, then Parkinson plus syndrome and eventually multiple sclerosis.

“I was in so much pain,” Miles said. “I was told so many things.

No one knew exactly what was going on and no amount of therapy or medication helped in the long term.”

At 54, the Maryville native’s posture had become severely hunched, and she could only walk short distances with a cane.

“When I stood up, I had terrible pain in my left leg,” she said. “But when I sat down, my back hurt. It was very frustrating.”

After a visit to Parkwest to be treated for pneumonia, a staff member noticed her hunched back and referred her to Bruce LeForce, MD, Covenant Health neurologist. LeForce suggested she see P. Merrill White, III, MD, Parkwest orthopedic surgeon, who specializes in spine surgery.

“Dr. White was my last hope,” Miles said.

Because of Miles’ anxiety about being in small spaces, White ordered an MRI with sedation for her. “I think my results had always been unclear before because I was scared and would move around while getting an MRI,” she explained. “He was able to tell me exactly what was happening after that test.”

Miles was diagnosed with spinal stenosis in the neck and lower back, in which the backbone is compressed and puts pressure on the spinal cord and nerves.

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The impact on the nerve root in her lower back was sending severe pain down her left leg, which caused her immobility. The compression of the spinal cord in her neck eventually led to dif culty controlling her arms and legs.

“Brenda had been treated nonoperatively with therapies and injections for her pain, but she had a substantial deformity,” White

Tips for a stronger back Even if you’ve had trouble, you can have a strong spine. If you take care of your back, it’s more likely to carry you through the day with few complaints.

Here are some guidelines for strengthening this important part of your body: ■ Maintain good posture.

■ Sit in a chair that supports your lower back. If you don’t have a supportive chair, place a small pillow or rolled-up towel against the curve in your lower back.

■ Exercise. Strong back muscles can reduce your risk for injury. Strong arms, legs and stomach muscles can reduce the work your back has to do.

Aerobic exercise, like walking or biking, increases the ow of blood and oxygen to your back muscles. Choose your exercises carefully. For example, running may not be good for a weak back. Swimming and water aerobics support your back while you exercise. Walking is also a good choice. If you’ve had a serious back injury, you should talk with your health care provider before you start exercising regularly.

■ Maintain a healthy weight. This will lessen the strain on your back. Your fam-

ily physician can tell you if you need to lose weight.

■ Learn how to lift properly. When you bend to pick something up — even a child — bend at your knees and keep your back straight. You may have to squat or kneel. This puts the stress on your legs. They are stronger than your back. When you pick up an object and carry it, hold it close to your body. The farther it is from the middle of your body, the more it strains your back. Pay attention to pain or twinges. If you feel back pain during an activity, stop and rest. Your body may be trying to prevent you from harming your back.

White said. “She’s a ghter.”

In between her surgeries, Miles had to wear a body cast around her torso. It was attached to a brace around her left leg, which made it dif cult to move.

Despite the inconvenience, she taught herself and her family to adapt. “My granddaughter was two at the time, so I had to teach her how to get up on my lap gently,” she said. “I was able to do laundry and gured out how to drive. When I was done with that cast, I was so happy. I took it out to the road and left it so the city could take it away.”

Thanks to spinal surgery After her second surgery, at Parkwest, Brenda Miles Miles completed physical therapy can enjoy activities such to strengthen the core muscles as mowing her yard and around her spine. “The goal is to swimming in the pool make the spine last as long as she again. “I can do everything can,” White said.

I want to do,” she says.

Now, ve years after her neck surgery, Miles is pain free – and active. “I can do everything I want to do. I can swim, I can take long walks, I can enjoy family vacations to Florida,” she said. “At one point, my family physician took an X-ray and asked me if I had seen what’s in my back. I just told him that Dr. White glued me back together.

“It’s unreal what he has done said. “She was focused on getting heard that he could x it, and he for me. I was in a state of shock that I was going to have to live back her function and being able did.” to walk again, not just on reducWhite performed a lumbar like that for the rest of my life. He ing pain. Because of this focus on decompression fusion in 2009, was so good to me, and xed me. functionality and being active, which straightened the curves in For anyone in the same situation, she was better suited to be treat- her spine and relieved the com- thinking they have to live with ed with surgery.” pression on her nerves. About a the pain, I would tell them not to “After I heard that he could year later, he completed a cervi- give up. Keep looking for the right operate, that’s all I heard,” Miles cal decompression to open up physician, because there is help said with a laugh. “My husband the spinal canal in her neck. out there. I can prove that.” took care of all the details. I just “Her procedures were extensive,”

Spine rehabilitation at Parkwest Therapy Center

For patients like Brenda, rehabilitation is an essential part of recovering from back surgery.

Patients who are experiencing back and neck pain but who have not had a procedure may also benefit from working with a physical therapist. Parkwest Therapy Center offers spine and back rehabilitation therapy that adheres to the McKenzie Method, which is the evidencebased standard in the field of musculoskeletal care. Two Parkwest physical therapists are certified in the McKenzie Method.

“This method is applied to different patients based on their pain and situation,” Parkwest Therapy Center manager and McKenzie Method certified therapist Mark Conley

said. “For people who have not had surgery like Brenda, McKenzie is used to find a movement in a certain direction that reduces or abolishes back pain, then they perform that movement on a regular basis.”

The program focuses on the patient so that he or she may continue to do the exercises learned in therapy at home, as well as learn how to manage spine health over the long term.

For more information about spine rehabilitation, contact Parkwest Therapy Center at (865) 531-5710 or visit www.CovenantHealth. com/TherapyCenters.

Parkwest Therapy Center physical therapist Mark Conley demonstrates one of the machines he and his colleagues use to relieve spinal pain and strengthen spinal muscles to help prevent further injury.

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Building a park Powell High football player Meishawn Fain and Lee Robbins pull weeds from the rain garden site at Powell Station Park. Photo by S. Clark

Water winners Candace Mast competed in swim meets when she was younger but let go of that sport after college due to time constraints. Years later a devastating injury and osteoarthritis brought her back to the water for recovery and low-impact exercise. Once she got wet again in her later years that love for in-water sports returned full-force.

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Candace Mast competes in the breaststroke event at the 2015 National Senior Olympics. Photos submitted

Cindy Taylor There must have been a hundred people enjoying Powell Station Park late Saturday. In addition to the dozen kids jumping on the splash pad there were two large groups of picnickers and even a couple of guys throwing discs in the meadow.

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“Hey, guys!” I said. “Can’t wait until the baskets are in?”

“We heard they’re building a disc golf course here,” one said. “We play at Tommy Schumpert and Victor Ashe and Morningside. We came to check it out.”

Yes, “they” are getting it done.

After two Saturday workdays, the park is taking shape. Last Saturday, Laura Bailey brought her Bobcat for quick work on underbrush. Rob Followell, administrator from Tennova’s North Knoxville Medical Center, and former commissioner R. Larry Smith were working, along with Dr. Donald Wegener.

John Bayless was back for a second week, on his way to

Grainger County to help with the tomato festival. Frontier Communications provides service in Powell and Rutledge. And John is president of the Powell Business and Professional Association.

Justin Bailey again organized the workday, and now the park is cleared all the way to the creek. (Compare Powell Station Park to Fountain City Park for a minute: FC is about five acres, Powell Station is 12; FC has a gazebo and several picnic shelters, Powell Station will soon have two; FC has a spring and stream, Powell Station has Beaver Creek … and a splash pad.)

This week we’ll rent a Bobcat attachment that grinds up stubble and run it across the field. Knox County will bring its wood chipper to grind up the brush and small trees that were brought down during two Saturday workdays.

Lee Robbins, a longtime community volunteer, observed that it’s easy to see how the pyramids were built. Just put enough people on a job and you’ll eventually get it done.

After packing up, Justin and Laura met the Panther football team for pizza and a couple of accommodating county deputies who stopped traffic on Emory

Road long enough to get those bright orange panther paws repainted. Coach Rodney Ellison has his guys fired up. And the deputies made sure nobody got run over.

A Powell Park fundraiser is slated to start this week with a goal of $40,000 to build a disc golf course, parking for a kayak takeout and other improvements.

Justin Bailey and this writer will head that effort (so duck if you see us coming).

Last week Justin, John Bayless and I had lunch with leaders from the county’s health department, Doug Bataille from Parks and Rec, and incoming Powell High School principal Dr. Chad Smith.

Afterwards, Justin wrote to us: “I didn’t realize until today the magnitude of how great this project is. I’m all about different parts of the community working together. This is certainly that – Health Department and County Parks working with community stakeholders and high school.

“Are you kidding me!? It’s pretty awesome! It’s the way everything should work. People working together to pull off a common goal. Love it.”

Yup. And the lunch at The Front Porch was pretty awesome, too.

“With my age and physical limitations there are many things I can’t do,” said Mast. “Fortunately swimming isn’t one of them.”

A few years ago Mast began swim training in earnest and has competed in local and state Senior Olympic events. She has won gold medals in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle, 50-yard breaststroke, 50yard backstroke and 100yard freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. She soon qualified for Nationals.

“I love the camaraderie of the Senior Olympics,” she said. “Everyone wants to win, but we support each other through the competition. It was a great comfort to make new friends when I was so far from home.”

Mast recently returned from the 2015 National Senior Olympics held July 3-16 in Minneapolis. More than 400 senior adults from Tennessee competed in sports from archery to judo, swimming to volleyball.

Mast was the sole female in her age group representing her district of 15 Ten-

Mast in the dry during the Senior Olympics in the aquatic center at the University of Minnesota nessee counties. She swam (sprinted) six events during a three-day period competing against top swimmers from 50 states and Canada.

“I didn’t win one of the coveted top three medals in any of my events but I did swim my personal best by significant margins in four of the six events.”

Mast finished in the top 20 in all events, placing 9th in one. Mast hopes her story

will inspire other seniors to get active and consider competitive senior events.

“My passion for swimming began as childhood fun but now helps sustain my physical and mental well-being.”

The next National Senior Olympics will be held in Birmingham Alabama in 2017.

Mast plans to compete if she qualifies at the local and state levels.

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sorrow and anger and condolence and gratitude around violent events that are truly “needless” and “senseless.”

Again and again we try to give redemptive meaning to that abyss so that we won’t be sucked into it, but when you’ve heard it so many times, the explanations begin to lose their meaning.

Yet the events keep coming because we do not have

the political will to rein in the gun industry, or help the people with mental-health needs or those whose poverty of spirit and engagement leaves them with nothing to value in their lives except pain and grudges and anger they don’t know how to cope with.

I am no longer shocked or sad or angry – I’m bone weary. But I don’t see an end to it.

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Hole in the middle of Tennessee defense Little people sing about the hole in the bottom of the sea.

Shrewd merchants smile and capitalize on doughnut holes.

The hole in the middle of the Tennessee defense is not a fun thing.

Tommy Thigpen, coach of Volunteer linebackers, faces a very large void with five or six or seven possible fillers but no obvious solution.

Middle linebacker, quarterback of the defense, is a critical position in this era of complex offenses doing all sorts of exciting things at warp speed. It requires comprehensive preparation, reading accuracy, ability to think and adjust on the fly,

will be much better than last season. There is more available talent and depth up front and more speed Marvin in the secondary. Jalen West Reeves-Maybin might be an all-American at outside linebacker.

Alas, games can be won skill and strength to ward or lost in the middle. off big, hairy blockers and a Unless there is a radiboldness to discourage run- cal reassignment, here are ning backs and receivers who Thigpen’s choices: dare invade the territory.

Kenny Bynum, 6-1 and Those old enough to re- 250, has been around four member Jack Reynolds can years and knows more. He grasp what one looks like. is tough enough against the OK, the position was less run but not very fast. He did demanding then. Al Wilson not forfeit the job in spring did it well. A.J. Johnson was practice. doing OK until …

Darrin Kirkland was reThose who don’t recog- cruited to be the middle nize the current deficiency linebacker of the future. He think Tennessee’s defense arrived in January to get a

head start but needed medical repairs and spent spring drills watching instead of doing. He is 6-2 and 235.

Jacob Johnson, 6-4 and 240, may be a slender end but played MLB against Vanderbilt last November.

To put it sweetly, the Commodores liked him a lot.

Johnson is shaped like a football player, has size, strength and decent speed, hits hard and might be really good someday. He grew up in Germany. He lacks football background and experience.

Gavin Bryant, redshirt freshman, hurts people. He is 6-0 and 236 and a natural hitter. He is also a work in progress.

Dillon Bates, 6-3 and

225, probably should be an outside linebacker but may be a middle man out of necessity. Like Kirkland, Bates lost precious development time to injury. Tennessee has not yet seen the real Dillon Bates.

Very secret weapons (nobody has heard much about ’em) are sophomore walk-on Colton Jumper and one or more athletic freshmen.

Thigpen may have a couple of aces up his sleeve.

Curt Maggitt plays more as an end because of his relentless pursuit. But, if nobody fills the vacancy, if the need is deemed serious enough, he could switch. He’d do it in a minute, too. He is a team-first guy. Butch Jones says so.

The big win with ReevesMaybin as an outside backer is speed. He is a former safety who got bigger. If he has to play in the middle, he can think bigger.

There is a glaring contradiction between the middle linebacker dilemma and tall talk about winning the East division of the Southeastern Conference. Really good teams rarely go into August with such uncertainties.

But, wait, there is another alternative. Really good coaches solve such problems before the middle of September. By the middle of October, we may have forgotten all about this one.

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

at Children’s Hospital The best moments of my summer were not the days spent at the beach; they were my two weeks at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. I just completed my second summer as a Volunteen and had even more fun than the summer before.

That first summer I walked into the hospital nervous and unsure what to expect. I was excited to have the opportunity, but I did not know anyone. It can be super awkward and nerveracking to sit in a room with 15 other people and not know a single name.

Then a woman named Kathi walked in and immediately made all of us feel at home. She had a bright smile and warm personality. I didn’t know then how amazing she truly was.

The first day I was assigned to Child Life, asked to visit patients’ rooms to ask if they need anything,

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want to play or do crafts. A few of us went with an adult volunteer to learn the ropes.

At first it was awkward.

Most of these kids weren’t feeling great and were rightfully scared to be in a hospital. But I soon learned that the only way to make a child feel comfortable was to relate to them and be genuinely interested. That day I entered a little girl’s room and asked if she would like to play a game in the playroom or maybe do a craft. She looked at me with fear in her eyes and shook her head no. I glanced around the room and noticed that she had owl balloons, an owl blanket and an owl stuffed animal. I asked if I could

sit and started to talk to her about how much I loved the blanket, balloons and stuffed animal. She smiled and said, “Owls are my favorite animal. What’s yours?”

I realized I had an opening, so I suggested we go to the playroom and paint an owl. When she enthusiastically shook her head yes I could feel tears in my eyes.

In that moment I knew I had made her day better, a little brighter.

The next day I couldn’t wait to come back. I did everything in those two weeks from playing Xbox for hours (and losing nine out of 10 times) with a boy who couldn’t get out of bed to trying to get a little girl to stop crying by walking her around the hallway a billion times.

Not every day was I in a patient’s room. There were days I would sit at the information desk and direct people to their appointments,

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cut out puppets for kids to color and clean DVDs for the movie cart. Some may say those days didn’t make an impact, but I believe they did. If I could help a frazzled parent find the ER, or make puppets so a child waiting for bloodwork would have something to do other than worry, and even have clean DVDs in case a child wanted to watch “Finding Nemo,” then I made an impact.

There was not a day that I didn’t help someone.

This program not only allowed me to make a difference in the lives of sick children, but I made so many lifelong friends. The first day no one was speaking, but by the end of the first week we couldn’t be quiet! It was amazing to meet people who had the same passion that I did, and it made every day so much more enjoyable when you got to work with amazing people.

On the last day I bawled my eyes out. I couldn’t believe it was over. I was going to miss all my new friends and particularly Ms. Kathi.

The program would be nothing without her. Her constant smile and laughter can brighten a day, and she would do anything for you.

As I returned for my second summer I knew there would be more friends to make and, most importantly, more children to make smile. I am so thankful for a program that allows me to give back and all the people that made my summer 10 times better. I love you all!

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Tom Jones, a former chair of the KUB board, has surrendered his law license, we hear.

On Monday, his law firm’s website had a blank spot where Jones once stood.

■ Gary Wade says he will leave the state Supreme Court, to which he just won re-election to an 8-year term, and may become dean of the John J. Duncan Jr. School of Law.

■ Where’s Foster? County Clerk Foster Arnett is no stranger to controversy although his missteps tend toward the absurd rather than more traditional folly.

■ This makes no sense but gives Bill Haslam a chance to put his friend Herb Slatery on the high court.

■ Arnett skipped town last week rather than respond to a KnoxViews blog post headlined, “Hacked or Unhinged?

You Decide.”

■ Slatery has been on a career fast track, serving as Haslam’s legal counsel before the Supreme Court appointed him as attorney general in 2014.

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Will Ward flip or skip commission race?

Among the citizens who showed up for the Powell edition of Ed and Bob Show (i.e. the traveling constituent meeting road show put on by county commissioners-at-large Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas) was Chuck Ward, the “Fix it, Flip it or Skip it” radio show guy.

Brantley introduced Ward to the crowd as a “probable” county commission candidate from District 9 next year.

was being interviewed by telephone on his way to a real estate agent’s office to pick up a gift he’d been told would be waiting for him at the front desk. When he walked in, he remarked that the place seemed deserted, yoo-hooed and got a terse response from some guy in the back.

“That’s funny. They don’t have a clue who they’re talking to. I could be Vice President Gore’s son,” he said.

“This font desk hasn’t been used in years …”

A few seconds later, the Betty Realtor he was looking for Bean materialized with the gift and Ward was back in his car on his way to deliver a refrigerator, explaining By the time the Shopper- the house flipping business News caught up with Ward, while he drove. a busy guy who’s always on “I’d have been a superstar his way to somewhere else, if I’d had somebody to marhe’d downgraded his can- ket me five years ago,” he didate status from prob- said. “I’ve flipped over 800 able to just the other side houses in 27 years – ain’t of possible. He’s just got nobody in the nation done too many irons in the fire, that.” he said, which was why he He started small, with

a house in Colonial Village that he moved into.

“As I was working on that house, I realized that I enjoyed it and it was fun, and thought to myself I could make Ward some money doing this, so I bought a flip home to sell on Martin Mill pike, just past Bonnie Kate, and it went well – $12,000 on that first flip. So I was kinda hooked, as my dad used to say …”

After that, he’d buy maybe two or three houses a year, sometimes in partnership with friends, and the number grew to 10 or 12 a year, and kept going. Over the last 10 years, he’s averaged between 30 and 40 a year, and for a while held down a fulltime job as stage manager at the Civic Coliseum. He left the job five years ago, but still does freelance

stage managing at the coliseum, Thompson-Boling Arena, the Tennessee Theatre and Gatlinburg venues.

He’s kept some houses as rentals, but says flipping is his first love.

“There’s nothing like taking a house and transforming it into a desirable property,” he said.

Add that to his weekly “Fix it, Flip it or Skip it” radio hour, the script he’s preparing for a TV show, the offer he’s mulling to start flipping mobile homes, and it doesn’t leave much room for politics.

“I was out at Powell supporting Bob and Ed, and I mentioned that several people have approached me. I ran a few years ago, and got beat by 300 votes. Another time I started to run and Paul Pinkston jumped back in at the last minute, and I decided not to do it. But I’m 49, still young enough so I can say I’ll never close my doors, and I’ll always try to keep my options open.”

Foster in line to be city’s new redevelopment director Dawn Michelle Foster, who will soon step into Knoxville Redevelopment Director Bob Whetsel’s shoes, doesn’t mind being a woman in an industry typically dom i nated by men.

She spent 22 years as a senior transportation planner Foster and construction project manager for Wilbur Smith Associates (now CDM Smith) before her career with the city.

“This will be the first time I’ve ever had a woman boss,” she says, referring to Mayor Madeline Rogero.

Foster, who is also African American, will work closely with Anne Wallace, who will fill Foster’s previous role as deputy director of redevelopment. It’s a sign of a forward-thinking city that the office is so diverse, as is the sheer number of current redevelopment projects.

The south waterfront has been Foster’s primary focus since she was hired by the city three years ago, and she’s enthusiastic about the changes that are happening in that part of town. In early July, ground was broken for Suttree Landing Park − part of a 750-acre redevelopment project across the Tennessee River from downtown and the University of Tennessee.

Updates to Sevier Avenue are creating interest in ex-

to be patient until the proj- over, she says. ect’s anticipated completion She is grateful to have date of August of 2017. had the opportunity to work “In a couple of years, with Whetsel. He’s been a Wendy we’ll be skipping down the great mentor, and she apSmith sidewalk with smiles on our preciates the leadership faces because of the new style he developed during streetscape.” his former career as a high One of the benefits of school football coach. She isting structures from local Foster’s new job will be get- is glad to continue to work developers, she says, and ting to work with other city with Wallace, who is also plans for apartments at the departments, since the proj- well-respected.

“We’ll make Bob proud.” former Baptist Hospital site ects require so much crossand the Island Home area are coming along. The realignment of the entrance of Fort Dickerson Park is finished, and further enhancements should be completed by the end of the year.

Such improvements, paired with the city’s Urban Wilderness, will revitalize South Knoxville.

“All that vibrancy is starting to take place,” she says.

Now Foster will have other major projects on her plate, like Magnolia and Cumberland Avenues and R.B. and Susan Schumpert stand with John Fugate (center) at Downtown North. She rec- his campaign kickoff. Photo submitted ognizes that redevelopment calls for residents to be open-minded − and patient.

Concept plans don’t always look like the “cake on the John Fugate of Fountain City has launched his campaign box,” and they require enor- for the Republican nomination for Knox County Commismous amounts of time and sion from District 2. The seat is currently held by Amy Bromoney, she says. But the yles, a Democrat who has opted not to seek a third term. ultimate payout is blighted Fugate served briefly on the school board as an appoinproperty that is made useful tee of County Commission when Indya Kincannon reagain. signed and before Tracie Sanger was elected.

Redevelopment yields He said some 150 people attended Saturday’s kickoff other resources. There have in Fountain City Park. Notables included Mayor Tim Burbeen hundreds of millions chett, Law Director Bud Armstrong, Property Assessor of dollars of private invest- Phil Ballard and commissioners Dave Wright, Jeff Ownby ment around Cumberland and Bob Thomas.

Avenue, and Foster expects Michele Carringer is also a candidate for the GOP nomimore to come. That’s anoth- nation. The primary is in May 2016 with the general elecer good reason for residents tion in August.

Fugate launches campaign

government Harwell idea delays vote on gas tax House Speaker Beth Harwell has urged that part or all of the $400 million in additional state tax collections should go for new roads and existing road repairs. This is new money coming into the state treasury that was not anticipated when the state budget was enacted a few months ago.

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What is significant here is that Harwell is voicing a game plan for the Legislature to tackle the road issue in a way that would enable it to avoid a gas tax increase vote in the 2016 session starting in five months. This would be new money one time for roads and would allow the lawmakers to skip a gas tax vote in an election year.

Harwell is considered a potential candidate for governor and has been traveling the state. She did a Rotary Club talk in Knoxville and appeared for state Rep. Roger Kane over the past few months.

She is expected back in East Tennessee several times this fall.

Gov. Haslam with a new chief of staff, Jim Henry, may wish to avoid this contentious issue where success is not assured coming on top of the Insure Tennessee loss last January. Most observers see increasing the gas tax as a high mountain to climb in 2016 when many lawmakers ran on a program of lower taxes.

It is hard to explain a vote for a higher tax if within the recent past you have pledged backing for lower taxes.

■ MPC has been sued in federal court over gender discrimination by its former finance director, Dee Ann Reynolds, who lives in Union County.

The new director, Gerald Green, inherits this from his predecessor Mark Donaldson, who terminated Reynolds and was himself then pushed out the door after neighborhood activists across the city called for his ouster.

This will be a fascinating lawsuit as it plays out or is settled, but expect it

to go on for months. The plaintiff’s attorney, David Burkhalter, is a pro in these personnel discrimination lawsuits.

The new MPC director no longer works for the Metropolitan Planning Commission but for the two mayors, Burchett and Rogero.

■ David Collins, former chair of the Knox County Commission and city architect, is getting married to Kirby Bell, community volunteer.

Wedding will be in June 2016.

■ Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will hold a fundraiser Aug. 4 in Williamson County cohosted by Gov. Haslam’s parents, Jim and Natalie Haslam. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was in the same county 10 days ago.

Williamson County is a popular fundraising spot for national GOP candidates.

■ Art Clancy, 85, former international president of Rotary (the first from Knoxville) and founder of Clancy Optical, is recovering well from open-heart surgery and is now at home. His wife is Sue Clancy, former director of special events for the city of Knoxville.

■ The dedication of Everly Brothers Park will be 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at the corner of Kingston Pike and Forest Park Boulevard. This happened due to the work of the Bearden Council, Dennis Owen, Terry Faulkner plus City Council member Duane Grieve. Don and Phil Everly attended West High School near this site. Public is invited to the dedication. It should be a great occasion.

■ When Jack Sharp is replaced on MPC this summer, he will complete 40 years of public service to the city of Knoxville with 28 years on City Council (14 years as vice mayor) plus 12 years on MPC. Sharp turns 81 on Aug. 10.

■ Gov. Haslam will host a luncheon for state Sen. Doug Overbey’s reelection on Thursday, July 30, at Cherokee County Club at $1,000 a person.

■ Karen Carson and Jason Zachary will debate at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, at Farragut Town Hall.

Public is invited. They are candidates for GOP nomination for state representative from District 14.

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They laugh a lot at Arbor Terrace, an assisted living facility just off Cedar Bluff Road. One of the funniest lines delivered at last week’s Shopper-News get-together with Arbor Terrace residents came from Olean Robinson, who got to know Peyton Manning while working in the bookstore at the University Center when he was a student. She particularly remembers the time when he came in to pick out some birthday cards even though he was about to be late to class.

“He asked me to tell anybody who came looking for him, ‘Well, I haven’t seen him.’ And when he finished paying for his cards, he took off running as fast as he could go,” she said.

Betty M. Wilson, a retired nurse, has a Manning memory of her own. She said she met him when at UT when she was taking speech therapy after her stroke. She remembers him as very nice.

Another chuckle came

when Norma Holmes, a former St. Petersburg school teacher, said her late husband was a great salesman.

“Al was selling frozen orange juice in Florida when I met him,” she said, pausing to let the punchline sink in.

She told of a time when she and Al sat next to Sen. Howard Baker at a Sertoma Club event.

Baker got positive comments from the gathering.

The group was a mixture of lifelong Knoxville residents like Robinson and Knoxvillians by choice, like Holmes.

Minnie Chilton, who lived in Kentucky, was head cashier at United Citizens Bank in Campbellsburg, and recalled the time her bank got robbed by a hapless wannabe crook.

“The man come in and he demanded money – but turned out we knew him.

Then when he went out, somebody recognized him.

He liked to have scared the teller to death.”

Chilton, Corinne Arnwine (a retired computer journal editor and world

traveler) and Beulah Alice Bittner, also a retired nurse and another native Kentuckian (who most recently lived in Indiana) had grandfathers who fought in the Civil War. They shared some family memories: Chilton’s grandfather, a Confederate Army soldier, was captured and spent the war locked up and starving. He never spoke of those times.

Arnwine’s family was split down the middle. Bittner’s Confederate-sympathizing family hid hams and other food supplies in a cave that was discovered and raided

by Union soldiers.

Robinson and her sister, LaMuriel Smothers, both live in Arbor Terrace, and their parents lived there, too, some years ago. Both sisters were involved in the restaurant business, and if Smothers’ first name looks familiar, it’s probably because it’s on the menu at Buddy’s Bar-B-Q – LaMuriel’s Lemon Ice Box Pie, $1.99 per slice. LaMuriel and her late husband, Buddy Smothers, started the

business in 1972. Robinson and her husband owned Robby’s Bar-B-Q on Chapman Highway.

Arbor Terrace residents have a communal garden that’s provided the residents Olean Robinson with fried green tomatoes, summer squash and ripe tomatoes that have gone on top of pizzas made in cooking class.

Arbor Terrace opened in August 1997, and has about 88 residents at present. Joy Hall has been the executive director since the opening; Erin Parten is engagement director and arranged our visit.

“We play all day,” says Erin.

“She plans a year ahead,” adds resident Betty Leverette, a retired teacher and Minne Chilton principal from Virginia.

“Got to to get the music and speakers we want,” says Erin.

Corinne Arnwine has been there about two weeks, making her the newbie. She says moving there has been a good decision.

“Everyone’s so nice here.

I’m really glad I came.”

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Beaverdale takes incredible VBS journey

By Ruth White

Arts and crafts are a big part of learning during VBS. Colby Huttleston creates a card for a church member as teachers use the activity to emphasize caring for others.

Beaverdale Baptist Church hosted a Vacation Bible School that took students on a journey off the map.

During the week, through games, crafts, snack time and Bible study, the children learned of God’s love and the importance of following his word. Also emphasized during the week was knowing that even when God takes a person’s journey off the map, He helps us stay on track through studying the Bible and prayer.

Beaverdale Baptist is at 1701 Cunningham Road.

Jesse Messer Jr. shows a toy bug found during snack time at Survival Springs. Jesse attended Journey Off the Map VBS at Beaverdale Baptist Church.

The land of forgetfulness Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

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Feeding the flock Hunger Ministries goes garden to table at First Farragut UMC

By Carolyn Evans The sun was bearing down hard at 11 a.m., and the air was muggy, but that didn’t slow Laura Derr. She was standing in a row of green beans that stretched over her head, picking as fast as she could. The garden at First Farragut United Methodist Church is a big deal to those who are mission-minded at the church.

The tomatoes, okra, kale, lettuce, radishes and peppers growing in the garden next to the church help support the church’s program known as the Hunger Ministries.

Derr, a member of the church’s service team, coordinates the garden, the FISH ministry and the mobile pantry. She grew up in rural Kentucky and can remember working in the family garden with three siblings.

“I picked green beans a lot, and I snapped them on the front porch,” she said.

“I remember working in the garden wasn’t as much fun then as it is now.”

This is the fourth summer the vegetables have made a big impact on the church’s food ministry through the mobile pantry and the FISH ministry. The bounty from the garden is also available on the Hunger Table on Sunday mornings, where parishioners can purchase the vegetables with the donations going into the Hunger Ministries budget.

While Derr was outside in the garden, a team of FISH volunteers was inside with a big map, pushpins, notebooks and phones. The goal of FISH is to deliver groceries to those without transportation. Like a trained military unit, they were executing their mission: taking calls, plotting locations on the map and handing off addresses to the driving team.

“We can’t do this by ourselves,” Derr said. “We partner with Faith Fellowship Cumberland Presbyterian Church just down the road and St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church right across Kingston Pike.”

First Farragut UMC is

part of the West Knoxville FISH Hospitality Pantry, an organization of 18 churches.

The amount of food delivered varies depending on household size but supplies each family with three days of food. In addition to the monthly FISH distribution, one month each year the three churches are responsible for stocking the FISH panty at a cost of about $4,000.

“One of the reasons it has been a successful ministry is that we’re partnering with other churches,” Derr said. “It’s one of the great blessings of this ministry that it has survived for 20 years as strictly a volunteer ministry.”

At the phone table, Dorothy Morton took a call from someone raising two grandchildren. “They need a little bit of everything,” she said.

“We have a lot of grandparents who call.”

Drivers use their own vehicles to go to the church where the food is stored, gather the necessary bags of groceries and deliver them to the door of five to eight residences. By afternoon, the team had made 49 deliveries all over Knox County.

Derr’s green beans were in the mix for 15 households.

Jim Stinnett, a member of Faith Fellowship Cumberland Presbyterian Church, has been a driver for about 12 years. “It’s part of our church’s mission,” he said. “We strongly believe we need to go to the urban areas. The biggest fulfillment I personally get out of it is the children, especially in the summertime when they’re out of school and don’t have access to the meals at school. Typically

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But I am stubbornly unwilling to cop to that.

I don’t feel old! I don’t think old! I don’t act old!

At least, I don’t think I do.

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“I would like to tell you there was a bolt of lightning,” she said, “but I just like doing the Hunger Ministries. There’s a satisfaction to knowing people are being fed. We have a very giving church. They’re very supportive financially and with their volunteer presence.”

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Shopper-News interns get a sneak peek at the under-construction visitor center at Knoxville Botanical Gardens. The center is slated to open in August. Photo by Amanda McDonald

Preventing an agriculture apocalypse

By Annie Dockery The Knoxville BotaniMartha Ashe stands in the garden dedicated to the memory of her grandmother, for whom she was named. Ashe is the cal Garden and Arboretum, daughter of former Knoxville mayor Victor Ashe and works in which was once Howell the Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum visitor center. Nurseries, is the oldest conPhotos by S. Carey tinually running business in Tennessee and is now working to preserve the region’s plant life.

“In your lifetime, there Then, they got a personal will be wars fought about

By Shannon Carey Shopper-News interns tour of the gardens from food and water,” Robert were slated to spend the Martha Ashe, daughter of Hodge, the director of the day at the FBI’s Knoxville former Knoxville mayor Center for Urban Agriculheadquarters, but due to the Victor Ashe. Martha is ture told interns. The center tragic shootings in Chat- working in the visitor cen- is located on the grounds of tanooga we had to come up ter this summer, just yards the Botanical Gardens.

In the last two years, away from a beautiful area with a different plan.

Thankfully, the staff and dedicated to the memory Hodge explained, there has volunteers at the Knoxville of her grandmother, also been a 40 percent loss in the honeybee population. HonBotanical Gardens and Ar- named Martha Ashe.

“I like it,” she said. “I feel eybees are integral to the boretum welcomed interns pollination of the world’s with open arms. Interns like I’m part of the place.”

Martha gave the interns a food supply, and their steady were good sports in the heat, volunteering their ef- sneak peek at the Botanical decline can cause substanforts at the Center for Urban Gardens’ new visitor center, tial food reduction. The herAgriculture tucked in a cor- scheduled to open in Au- bicides and pesticides used in both large-scale farming gust. ner of the gardens.

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and in the average backyard are culprits in the honeybees’ demise.

In today’s culture, where few Americans have fruit and vegetable gardens and 80 percent of America’s produce is shipped from California, native species of plants and produce are dying off.

Consumers may think they are eating locally when in fact they are not.

Stores may label produce as “locally grown” as long as that produce is local in one of the store’s locations.

Consequently, a national store may label tomatoes from California as “locally grown” in a Tennessee store.

The primary focus of large farms is to produce food that can withstand crosscountry shipment, not taste or species preservation.

Hodge said Tennessee

once had more than 5,000 types of apples. Today, this is not so. In the years to come, fewer and fewer variations of apples, potatoes, zucchini, and other fruits and vegetables will be available for consumption, because most Tennesseans have stopped growing regional produce.

This means that the children and grandchildren of today’s adults will never taste many of the fruits and vegetables they loved growing up.

Hodge explained how everyone has the ability to aid in current agricultural issues.

With the decline in honeybee population, it is important to cease using herbicides and pesticides in the yard.

To prevent the extinction of local plants, network with friends and gardeners to find heirloom seeds, ask them to share, plant

them, and pass the seeds on. Websites like rareseeds. com and slowfoodusa.org provide an online way to obtain heirloom and endangered seeds.

The Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum provides additional resources for those who want to help.

“Families can get plots here for free,” said Hodge.

Those interested can call to reserve a free plot on which to garden. The Center for Urban Agriculture also provides classes on how to create community gardens at churches.

By eliminating the use of herbicides and pesticides and by planting an heirloom garden, anyone can help preserve the world’s food supply.

Info: 862-8717 or find Center for Urban Agriculture on Facebook

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A technology wonderland

By Carol Shane Attention, all young brainiacs and your families!

Now’s your chance to explore STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) in a fun, lively environment made just for you!

This weekend, The Muse Knoxville presents “Robotics Revolution” at Chilhowee Park.

Formerly known as The Discovery Center, The Muse Knoxville is “a newly reimagined space designed for kids from 1 to 101,” according to its website. The organization’s fun, interactive exhibits provide opportunities for kids to discover and explore the physical sciences. “With almost 4,000 square feet of exhibit and play space, you are sure to find something that will inspire the love of learning in you!”

At “Robotics Revolution” young techies can see, and maybe participate in, such things as the Lego Tower Challenge, where Lego cities are built by teams and then shook on an “earthquake table” to see which city survives. There’s a Sumo Bot wrestling match and many other robotics and technology demonstrations.

A new and very exciting addition to the lineup is a live Skype call with NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps. El-

Young techies will enjoy “Robotics Revolution,” presented by The Muse Knoxville at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park this weekend. Photo submitted lie Kittrell, executive director of The Muse Knoxville, says, “Dr. Epps will join our event to help further inspire children to pursue a path in STEM. Her background as an astronaut, aquanaut, CIA technical intelligence officer, and as a technical specialist for Ford Motor Company is a spectacular example for young children.

Her voice, particularly for young women, is one that we hope will make a lifelong impression.

“We feel very fortunate to have this opportunity to speak with her.”

There’s plenty of fun to be had at “Robotics Revolution,” but this is cutting-edge, real-world stuff, and adult participa-

tion is highly valued. “Are you a FIRST [”For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”] coach, mentor, or parent?” asks the website. “At the World FIRST Championships this year in St. Louis, FIRST founder Dean Kamen challenged everyone in attendance to ‘Grow FIRST Faster,’ to reach more kids in more communities. Help build relationships with new and emerging teams in our area as we support the growth of FIRST programs to new schools and neighborhoods. Volunteers will staff information tables to meet visitors who are interested in learning more about FIRST, and have the opportunity to create advisory connections with new coaches and mentors.”

“Robotics Revolution” happens from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday, August 1 at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park. Admission is $6 per person, with family passes available for $24.

Children ages five and under are admitted free. Tickets can be purchased at the event or online in advance at www.themuseknoxville. org, or by calling 594-1494.

Parents who wish to become involved as FIRST mentors are urged to visit http://goo. gl/forms/FP65W5LMd7.

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FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ Kayak, SUP & Hydro-Bike Moonlight Tour, 8:30-10:15 p.m., Norris Dam Marina, 1604 Norris Freeway, Andersonville. Info: 498-9951.

■ Summer Movie Magic: “Gone With the Wind,” Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Showings: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: all Ticketmaster outlets, Tennessee Theatre box office and 800-745-3000.

■ “Sealed for Freshness” by Doug Stone, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: http://www. theatreknoxville.com.

SATURDAY ■ 2015 Knox Classic Bodybuilding, Figure, Bikini and Physique, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Knoxville Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Info/tickets: www.knoxvillecoliseum. com or 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or 877995-9961.

■ Back to School Princess & Pirate Party, 1-2:30 p.m., Grassy Valley Baptist Church, 10637 Kingston Pike. Tickets: $10, available at the door. For all ages; open to the public.

■ Robotics Revolution, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park. Hosted by The Muse Knoxville. Features: Lego building competitions, robotics and technology demonstrations, hands-on activities with The Muse, live Skype call with NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps and more. Info: themuseknoxville.org.

■ Second annual corn-hole tournament to benefit Angelic Ministries. 12:30 p.m., under the big top at The Ministry, 1218 N. Central St. Info/registration: angelicministries.com.

■ Shakespeare on the Square: “The Taming of the Shrew,” 7 p.m., Market Square. Info: 546-4280; www.tennesseestage. com tennesseestage@comcast.net.

SUNDAY ■ Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Jam, 4-6 p.m., the Emporium, 100 S. Gay St. Free. Open to any and all who wish to play or listen. Info: 573-3226.

The Griswold family – James (Skyler Gisondo), Kevin (Steele Stebbins), Debbie (Christina Applegate) and Rusty (Ed Helms) – gets ready for fun in “Vacation.”

■ Native American Flute Circle, 4-5:30 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Info/registration: 577-4717 ext. 110.

■ Party in the Park, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., World’s Fair Park, 525 Henley St. Food, games, bounce houses, live music and more.

Free. Info: knoxpartyinthepark.com.

■ Shakespeare on the Square: “Macbeth,” 7 p.m., Market Square. Info: 546-4280; www.tennesseestage.com, tennesseestage@comcast.net.

‘Vacation’ rides again; plus one more impossible ‘Mission’

By Betsy Pickle Old friends return in this week’s new movies, beginning with today’s opening of “Vacation.”

Not a remake of the 1983 fan favorite “National Lampoon’s Vacation” but more of a sequel, this “Va-

cation” focuses on the next generation. Griswold son Rusty (Ed Helms) is grown up and has a family of his own: wife Debbie (Christina Applegate) and sons James (Skyler Gisondo) and Kevin (Steele Stebbins).

When Rusty finally re-

alizes that his wife and sons aren’t as happy as he thought they were, he plans to recreate the magic of his childhood with an epic road trip to the adventure theme park Walley World. Rusty’s selective memory clears the way for

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disaster after disaster as the Griswolds make their way across the country in a rental car that has a mind of its own.

Time spent with sister Audrey (Leslie Mann) and her irritatingly perfect husband, Stone Crandall (Chris

Hemsworth), is just part of the punishment Rusty must suffer. Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo reprise their iconic roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold.

Supporting players include such familiar faces as Ron Livingston, Norman Reedus, Charlie Day, Keegan-Michael Key, Regina Hall, Michael Pena, David Clennon, Colin Hanks and Sports Illustrated swimwear model Hannah Davis. “Horrible Bosses” scribes Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley wrote the script and make their feature-directing debut with the movie.

Opening on Friday is

“Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) must reunite his IMF team to eradicate an international band of terrorists known as the Syndicate. Highly trained operatives determined to create a new world order through their terror attacks, Syndicate members may or may not include a skillful British agent named Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson).

The cast also includes Alec Baldwin, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg and Simon McBurney. Christopher McQuarrie (“Jack Reacher”) directed and wrote the screenplay.

REUNION NOTE ■ Central High School classes of 1957-1964 will be held 6-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, at The Grande Event Center,

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FRIDAY, JULY 31 Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., 1009 Main St., Maynardville. Fresh produce, meat, plants, cut flowers, artists and craftsmen. New vendors welcome.

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Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memories” show featuring Pat Boone backed by Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Proceeds go to the Oak Ridge High School music department. Info/ tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

“Cabaret, The Musical” presented by Encore Theatrical Company, Walters State Community College, Morristown. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $20 adults, $17 seniors, $12 students. Info/tickets: etcplays.org or 423318-8331.

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Church rummage sale, 8 a.m., Emory Valley Baptist Church, 6124 E. Emory Road. Clothes for all ages; household and holiday items. Proceeds go to youth fund.

Churchwide bazaar, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Dutch Valley New Life Church of God, 1416 Breda Drive. Food will be available for purchase also. Info: 688-8711.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road.

Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Yoga instruction from Angela Quillen, 9-10:15 a.m., Narrow Ridge Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road in Washburn. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or www.narrowridge.org.

How To Study Smart workshop: Organization and Time Management Skills, 2-3:15 p.m. or 5-6:15 p.m., Cafeteria Annex of the Goins Administration Building, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Free and open to the public; space limited. Info/RSVP: 539-7160 or gwood@pstcc. edu.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Sponsored by the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers.

First visit free. No partner or dance experience required. Adults and children accompanied by an adult welcome. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; www. oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

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Silent Meditation Gathering, 11 a.m.-noon, Narrow Ridge Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or www.narrowridge.org.

Deadline for early registration discount for Downtown Dragon, Drum and Paddle Dragon Boat Race, to be held 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, Volunteer Landing. Registration fee before July 30: $1,000 for corporate teams and $850 for nonprofit organization teams; $1,250 and $900 after. Proceeds go to Tennessee Clean Water Network. Info/registration: www. tcwn.org.

How To Study Smart workshop: Classroom Study Skills for Academic Success, 2-3:15 p.m. or 5-6:15 p.m., Cafeteria Annex of the Goins Administration Building, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Free and open to the public; space limited. Info/RSVP: 539-7160 or gwood@pstcc. edu.

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MONDAY, AUG. 3 American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 3875522.

How To Study Smart workshop: Effective Note-Taking Skills, 2-3:15 p.m. or 5-6:15 p.m., Cafeteria Annex of the Goins Administration Building, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

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TUESDAY, AUG. 4 Auditions for Powell Playhouse production of “A Day at the Java Shop and Greyhound Bus Depot,” 5:307:45 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road.

Play dates: Oct. 15-17. Info/list of characters: www. powellplayhouseinc.com.

Lego Build with Robin Marsh of the Tennessee Valley Fair, 3-4 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Noweta Garden Club meeting, 9:30 a.m., Powell UMC, 323 W. Emory Road. Club will carpool to Racheff House and Gardens, 1943 Tennessee Ave. Speaker: Cindy Hintz, president-elect of Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs. Bring sack lunch.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info/registration: 525-5431.

How To Study Smart workshop: Organization and Time Management Skills, 2-3:15 p.m., Cafeteria Annex of the Goins Administration Building, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

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International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Sponsored by the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers. First visit free. No partner or dance experience required.

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WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, AUG. 5-6 AARP Driver Safety class, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Oak Ridge Senior Center, 728 Emory Road, Oak Ridge.

Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, AUG. 6 AARP Driver Safety class, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., New Tazewell Methodist Church, 965 Old Knoxville Highway, New Tazewell. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

Bee Friends beekeepers group meeting, 6:30 p.m., auditorium on Tazewell campus of Walters State. Speaker: State Apiarist Mike Studer. Info: A.C. Mann, 356-6033.

End of Summer Library Club Dance Party, 3-4 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Celebrating the conclusion of Summer Library Club. Info: 922-2552.

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Evans gives Legacy Parks update

By Beverly Holland Carol Evans is seriously associated with South Knoxville as an architect of the Urban Wilderness, but the Fountain City resident got her start in Halls. Raising money to purchase the land at Clayton Park was the first big project of Legacy Parks Foundation, now celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Evans spoke last week to the Halls Business and Professional Association.

She said the nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal is to â&#x20AC;&#x153;leave East Tennessee better than we found it.â&#x20AC;?

Legacy Parks has raised more than $5 million in 10 years, Evans said. Its goals are to preserve ridges and views, connect greenways,

maintain health and access to waterways, develop recreational opportunities for the underserved and push Knox County to exceed the national average for green space.

Legacy Parks coordinated fundraising $625,000 to purchase 11 acres in Halls for Clayton Park. The land was deeded to Knox County after conservation easements were added. A smaller but still neat project was coordinating funding for the skate park in Fountain City.

Across the county, Legacy Parks aided in adding 100 acres to Ijams Nature Center through acquisition of the Georgia Marble Quarry; promoting the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Jim Courtney joins Realty Executives Powell native Jim Courtney has joined Realty Executives Associates, North office, at 3232 Tazewell Pike.

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The global VoIP services market was valued at $70.9 billion in 2013 and is ex-

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first birding park at Seven Islands; and facilitating the 22-acre Harrell Road Park on Beaver Creek off Emory Road between Powell and Karns.

Evans struck gold, though, in developing 1,000 acres of urban wilderness in South Knoxville, along with 70 acres of river bluff property and preservation of Civil War forts.

Next up for Legacy Parks Foundation is the annual fundraiser Sept. 11 at UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holston River Farm. Tickets are selling out fast, Evans said, to hear speaker Cheryl Strayed, whose book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wildâ&#x20AC;? chronicled her solo hike on the Pacific Coast Trail. The book topped the New York

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Carol Evans Times bestseller list and the film adaptation earned Academy Award nominations for stars Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

Info: 865-525-2585.

Hallerin Hill tells his own story

By Anne Hart Anyone within listening distance of a radio or viewing distance of a TV around East Tennessee knows that local on-air personality Hallerin Hilton Hill is an adept gatherer of other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories.

Not many know that his own story, which he shared with members of the Rotary Club of Bearden recently, is every bit as fascinating as the tales he skillfully pulls out of others.

A former member of a Rotary club in the Virgin Islands, where he lived for a brief time, Hill said the first time he spoke to a Rotary Club in Knoxville â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Downtown Rotary â&#x20AC;&#x201C; many years ago now, he was wearing a $10 suit and a $1 tie, both purchased at a local Goodwill store.

Hill said that during his talk that day he kept nervously opening one side of the suit coat to glance inside it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because some other guyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was in

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Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dip down close to the poverty line had been preceded by a successful career as an up and coming broadcaster who made a precipitous journey to the Virgin Islands to accept a job as general manager of a religious radio station with the call letters WGOD. Hill had been promised plenty to take the job: a condo on the beach, student loans and other debts paid off, a new car and a great salary. He and his young wife made the move.

A few days later, Hurricane Hugo struck the island and the radio station, the condo and the new vehicle were all gone. WGOD radio was off the air and Hill was out of a job.

The couple moved back to Knoxville and lived with Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only thing I had to

Food City officials have announced their intent to purchase 29 BI-LO Supermarkets (i nc lud i n g 21 pharmacies) in the Chattanooga market area.

The locations range from 25,000 to Steve Smith 6 3 , 0 0 0 square feet in size and include eight stores in North Georgia.

No price was given for the acquisition, which is expected to be complete by early fall. It will bring Food City to 122 stores and 15,000 employees.

In a press release, company president/CEO Steven Smith said Food City will invest more than $40 million in capital improvements to the former BI-LO stores during the first year.

John Jones, executive vice president for store operations, said BI-LO associates will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;welcomed to our teamâ&#x20AC;? and allowed to retain their years of service.

Jesse Lewis, senior vice president and chief operations officer, is familiar with the BI-LO stores that were previously Red Foods. He worked for Red Foods in Chattanooga prior to joining Food City.

Also, Drew Hembree was listed as advertising director. He had previously served as interim director.

carry me when I got here were the values my parents had taught me: respect, responsibility and resiliency. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want sympathy. All I wanted was an opportunity.

Jim Dick hired Hill at

WIVK on a 90-day trial. It was just the opportunity he needed. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a success in the broadcast field ever since and also works as a motivational speaker and trainer.

Smith cited by Food Marketing Institute Food Marketing Institute (FMI) presented its most distinguished award in public affairs, the Glen P. Woodard Jr. Award, to Food City president/CEO Steven C. Smith at FMI Connect, the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier event.

Smith was recognized for his 36 years with Food City, a grocery chain started by his father, Jack Smith, and for his advocacy for the food retail industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perhaps one of Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most creative and hardfought victories was completed last year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; getting wine in grocery stores in Tennessee,â&#x20AC;? said FMI senior vice president Jennifer Hatcher. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Steve wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;noâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for an answer when it comes to change that will benefit his customers, his associates, his company or his industry.â&#x20AC;?

At the federal level, Smith was one of the first FMI members to agree that the battle over swipe fees was one the food retail industry had to engage, as evidenced by his testimony on Capitol Hill in 2007 before the House Judiciary Antitrust Task Force, Hatcher said.

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Some birds are hard to see About three weeks ago, a birding friend and I spent a remarkably good birding morning at our newest state park, the Seven Islands State Birding Park, out past Strawberry Plains along the French Broad River.

It has a beautiful bunch of habitats – hilly woods, riversides and big fields planted with an abundance of bird-food vegetation. The birds evidently thought that it was still spring. They were all singing and hopping around on the treetops, including a number of them that you ordinarily hear but seldom see.

Amongst all the songs we were hearing was that of the elusive yellow-billed cuckoo, the old rain crow. Its sharply declining numbers

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make its song an even more welcome sound these days.

But my friend wanted to not only hear, but also see, the cuckoo, so we made a stab at it, with my offhand warning, “They’re hard to see.”

All of which got me thinking later about how hard some of our common birds are to actually see.

Those folks familiar with lots of bird songs can just listen and know which of our feathered friends are

around and be happy with that. But if you’re faced with trying to show someone a particular bird, maybe a newer birder or a person who hasn’t seen that particular species before, you’re quickly reminded that some of those birds can be frustratingly, maddeningly, impossibly, difficult to see!

Lots of birds are easy – think robins, bluebirds, mockingbirds, hummingbirds – they all go about their business as if they have things to do and need to be getting on with it, and we’re just part of the surroundings. Pigeons, doves, crows, starlings are not particularly warm and friendly but as much a part of the scenery as cars and buildings.

Then there are those that are only easy to see in the spring when the hormones kick in, with territory, mate and nest as high priorities, and personal safety not so much. Indigo buntings, for example. In May, when you hear Mr. Indigo singing, you automatically scan each nearby treetop – he’ll for sure be up on one of them.

Ditto for the brown thrasher, invisible for most of the year, but singing atop his favorite tree for hours in the spring. All this partly, at least, explains why you see your birding friends also behaving in peculiar ways in the spring – up before daylight, choosing binoculars and field guides over food and drink, leaving chores undone, etc.

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The late Roger Tory Peterson, artist and fieldguide author and dean of the whole present-day birding scene, was famous for, among other things, his succinct, one-line or even oneword summation of a given bird species’ appearance or personality. “A cigar with wings,” “a pale owl of open country,” “a brown ground bird” – such phrases stick in your mind better than any photographs or long written descriptions.

And so it is also with his descriptions for where our sneaky and difficult birds hang out. If you read such telling words as “brush,” “weeds,” “thickets,” “undergrowth” or “dense cover,” you can assume there will be some difficult bird-seeing ahead.

A good example is the word Peterson uses to describe the aforementioned yellow-billed cuckoo: “secretive.” Absolutely true.

You may occasionally be lucky enough to see one fly from tree to tree, but once there the bird slinks and slithers through the leaves and branches as skillfully as a snake. If you can ever spot one and follow it along, you’ll find that about all you’ll ever see of it at one time is a single beady eye, peering warily out from the leaves at you. We never saw the one calling at Seven Islands that day.

Peterson uses “secretive” for the little grasshopper sparrow also – correct again. Occasionally you’ll be lucky enough to catch one up on a stem of grass, giving its quiet, insect-like song, but then it drops onto the ground and disappears forever. The sparrows in general are a difficult lot, and many in that family fall into the “hard to see” category. Peterson uses one of his more graphic phrases for the Lincoln’s sparrow, one that we see here only

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But there are others to torment us. Try to show a group of hopeful birders a singing white-eyed vireo, a common bird here. Peterson’s description of its favorite habitat: “brush, brambles, dense undergrowth.” Or the spectacularly yellow yellow-breasted chat? A common bird here (we actually saw some at Seven Islands the other day), but Peterson says to look for it in “brushy tangles and briars.” Both of those two birds can sing happily for hours in a 4-foot brushy tangle 10 feet in front of you, but you might as well take a snack break or go scan the sky for hawks; you’ll not likely be actually seeing either one unless you’re there at spring hormone time, and only maybe then.

But after all, consider this – if they were all as easy to see as robins, birding wouldn’t be half the fun, or half the challenge. The hard-to-see guys make us learn the songs and calls.

They throw down the challenge to learn more, work harder and be better birders. And, once in a while, they pop out from their cover and give us one of those wonderful “Oh, WOW, look at that!” moments that we all get up early and stomp around for countless hours in the wet grass for. Most birders can remember the exact place and the day, hour and minute they finally got a really good look at each of those hard-to-see thicket-singers. It gives one a great sense of lots of effort paying off, and also makes for some great winter conversations around the fireplace.

So, don’t let a few briary tangles discourage you.

Learn who that is, singing in there, and sooner or later you will see the varmint.

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s distressing as the national and world news often is, one fact still remains: you don’t have to look far to find goodness and kindness.

When a group of young folks from Church Street United Methodist Church met up for some serious hang time with the kids from Wesley House, for instance, everyone involved had good times and made wonderful memories. “‘Making a Difference (MAD) in the City’ is a local mission project where the youth of Church Street UMC partner with the students at the Wesley House Community Center,” says Caroline Lamar, Church Street communications director. “We start the week with a youth fellowship day on Sunday complete with cookout and evening training session. Monday through Wednesday, we spend the day at Wesley House. In the evenings, our youth return to church for dinner, worship and to spend the night.”

Wesley House serves the people of innercity Knoxville in a Christian environment, according to its website. Executive director Tim Adams writes, “From the early days as a daycare to the days as a food and clothing pantry to our current efforts to provide wellness and fellowship for senior citizens and tutoring and educational enrichment for our students, Wesley House has always sought to meet the changing needs of the community we serve.”

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difference Erin Johnson bonds with 10-year-old Jamiyah Rucker during “water park day.” At the right are Lucy Poore and Kloi Blue.

Kaitlyn Rotton, Meggi Weeks, Molly Tutor, Lucy Poore and Chloe Armstrong serve lunches to an enthusiastic crowd at Wesley House: Travis Binson, Jarius Brown, Alexander O’Neal, Jason Cozart, and (next to wall) Jamari Cozart and Haven Cox.

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Activities this year included bowling and a movie (“Minions”) and – best of all – an on-site water park day.

Erin Johnson, a rising junior at Powell High School, is in her 5th year of participating in “MAD in the City.”

“One of my favorite things is to be able to simply watch the kids grow, even though I only see many of them once a year,” she says. “Although it could be a bit hectic sometimes, seeing the presence of God through the children and staff at the Wesley House is so utterly, completely worth it.”

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Adding some fun and excitement to the newness can help smooth the way. For example, allowing kids to help choose their outfits for the first day of school can help diffuse that nervous anticipation. Similarly, the chance to put a fresh set of pens to use or show off a cool new notebook can provide a distraction from those first-day jitters.

If the shopping itself is adding stress to your household, ease the back-toschool burden on your family with these helpful tips to simplify shopping for the school year ahead.

■ Make note of your inventory. School lists often carry over each school year, so make sure you aren’t buying multiples of things you already own. Some supplies are more exciting when refreshed every year, but buying the same old boring ruler year after year is simply a waste of money.

■ Make a list with your children. Put everything you need on that list, and be

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Get uber organized using vibrant Sarasa gel pens by Zebra to create lists color-coded by kid or category to make your shopping more manageable.

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Remember that you can also rely on social media to follow back-to-school offers and hashtags.

■ Create a back-up bin at home.

You may find that your kids consistently run out of certain items midyear. Devote a special area of your home to keep extras in stock, and take advantage of sales during back-to-school season or buy in bulk to get a better price.

■ Put quality ahead of price.

While it’s tempting to go for cheap when your list is long, remember that sometimes quality buys actually save more in the long run. You can buy a ton of cheap pens that skip, or simply stop working. Or you can look at alternatives, such as Zebra’s Z-Grip brand, which are affordable, quality pens that allow children to focus on writing, not on the pen. Known for delivering a smoothflowing writing experience at a great value, a Z-Grip pen truly delivers for young learners.

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dies. Involve your kids in the back-toschool shopping process by giving them a budget. Help them allocate money for all the expenses, including clothing, school

supplies, shoes and more. Use the opportunity to talk about how shopping smart for the necessities can leave room for some fun buys, too.

■ Reduce and reuse. Save plastic and money by encouraging kids to embrace reusable items, such as lunch bags in place of paper sacks and plastic containers instead of sandwich bags. If water bottles are allowed at school, look for a durable refillable option that can be used again and again.

■ Make the old new again. Turn barely used items into something new by decorating or adding stickers. Not only is this a fun activity that can help get the kids excited about and engaged in planning for the year ahead, it’s easy on the budget and eco-friendly.

Keep leftover supplies on hand to revive the enthusiasm with fresh designs at the end of the quarter or semester.

■ Swap with other moms.

Make back-to-school time more fun by hosting a swap event with other moms for clothing, backpacks, shoes, etc. It seems that kids are forever trading with their friends, so embrace that mindset and see what exciting new treasures you can find for your kids to call their own.

Find your zen during back-to-school shopping at www.zebrapen.com/findzen.

Make It a Peaceful Shopping Experience Though back-to-school shopping can be fun, it can also be overwhelming. These tricks may help you add some Zen to the experience, or at least cut some of the chaos.

Know yourself: Are you better at doing all of your shopping all at once, or would you rather make separate trips throughout a couple of weeks to ease the stress? There is no one “right” way to tackle back-to-school shopping; just go with what works best for you.

Create a democratic shopping experience: Instead of taking it upon yourself to get the supplies you think your kids need, turn it into a fun experience for every-one to enjoy. Ask what your kids want and what colors they like. Encourage them to stimulate creativity with whimsical supplies, such as the fun and funky patterns of Cadoozles mechanical pencils.

Want your high school or college bound academians to have a little extra swag for school? Look for a few simple purchases that reflect their confidence, such as Zebra Steel pens, with a sleek design perfect for the advancing student.

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For the last 11 years, a dozen students have participated in a weeklong camp hosted by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. Held off Washington Pike, students come from all over Knox County and beyond.

This is West Valley Middle School student Joey Ostuni’s first year participating and so far, he’s having a hard time choosing a favorite activity. After repelling down a wooden wall, he admits he was hesitant at first. After repelling the third time, his confidence has been boosted.

“We see all sorts of kids,” said Lorie Moore, Teen Academy coordinator. “If they’re wild, those are the fun ones.”

“We want participants to build a rapport with the officers in case they ever do need an officer’s help in real life. We don’t want them to be afraid,” she said.

Topics covered at the academy include cyber-bullying, traffic stops, S.W.A.T. team demonstrations and crime scene investigation. Participants get excited when the fake blood is brought out.

Several participants have returned for a second and third year in the program. Four of the county’s current officers participated in the Teen Academy as students.

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