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What’s next for the Volunteers?

To put things in perspective, Tennessee looks less like a bowl team today than it did in August.

After weeks and weeks of intensive instruction, the Volunteers have not learned to win. There is no threat of a running attack. Pass protection is still missing in action. It is so bad as to be dangerous.

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Pumpkin Patch opens Saturday The annual Norwood UMC Pumpkin Patch will launch at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. The patch will run through Friday, Oct. 31.

Pumpkins of all sizes will be available with prices based on size. Hours are: 3-8 p.m.

Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturdays and 1-6 p.m. Sundays. The church is at 2110 Merchants Drive. Info: 687-1620.

Ghost House Hikes at Big Ridge Each Friday and Saturday night in October, Big Ridge State Park rangers will lead a 1.5 mile hike on Ghost House trail. Reservations are required. Info/to register: 992-5523.

Cash mob in Fountain City Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and members of the North Knox Rotary Club will be pumping gas and handing out coffee to show support for Alvin Frye and the guys at Fountain City Exxon. It’s this Saturday, Oct. 11, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m.

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Powell Food City manager Terri Gilbert enjoys cake with grocery manager John Romano and assistant store manager Russell Emory. The three welcome back Marie Carney and Kayla Haynes for a visit during the anniversary celebration. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Powell Food City marks anniversary Food City bakery created this huge cake in honor of the ees receive promotions. Today is a way we one-year anniversary of the Powell store. Photo submitted To celebrate Food City Powell’s first an- can welcome them for a visit and thank the niversary, the community was invited to community for their support.”

Another smoker event will be held the the store for cake and punch Sept. 25. A smoker event was held Oct. 3-4 as part of last weekend in October. Boston butts, ribs, chicken, etc. will be smoked on site. the festivities.

Manager Terri Gilbert welcomed back Serving begins at 11 a.m. until all meat is former employees Marie Carney and Kay- gone. Customers may pre-order by callla Haynes who visited during the celebra- ing 938-1132. tion. Both were assistants under Gilbert and received promotions to other stores.

Carney is in manager training at Bearden Food City employee Charlotte Food City, and Haynes is at the CumberWest serves cake to customer land Estates store. Former grocery manChar Mack. Photo by Cindy Taylor ager Roman Nichols has also moved on to manage Mechanicsville Food City.

“I shouldn’t have bragged on them so much. Maybe they would still be here,” Gilbert joked. “We do love to see our employ-

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Enhance Powell hears from MPC Members of the Enhance Powell committee of the Powell Business and Professional Association will meet with Metropolitan Planning Commission officials this week to learn about a historic overlay for the downtown Powell business district.

Justin Bailey of Knoxville Realty chairs the subcommittee.

He’s scheduled to meet with Mike Reynolds, who drafted the North County Sector Plan, and Kaye Graybeal, a historic-preservation planner. The full committee will

meet at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at Knoxville Realty.

Other subcommittees are considering Powell Station Park (the splash park), looking to extend the walking trail through the woods to Beaver Creek; another subcommittee is talking about converting an old garage on county-0wned property into a second picnic pavilion.

Another subcommittee isworking on the new Emory Road (Powell Drive) for beautification and a scenic highway designation.

Kim Severance is heading a group that will install “Welcome to Powell” signs at entrypoints to the community.

Another group will work on obtaining grants and funding in general.

Knox County Commissioner Charles Busler hopped right on a suggestion from the committee in early September. He talked with state Rep. Bill Dunn, who said he would draft and sponsor legislation to designate the new Emory Road as a scenic highway

if Busler could get County Commission to pass a resolution requesting it.

Busler got the resolution on the September agenda and passed it with just one dissent.

The scenic highway designation will guide development along the new road, including a setback for billboards and height restrictions on buildings. Chuck Denney is working with this group.

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Stand Down to help homeless veterans

By Anne Hart

“Stand down” is a phrase familiar to military veterans. During wartime, stand down offers battle-weary soldiers the opportunity for rest and relaxation away from the front lines.

The phrase has taken on additional meaning for America’s estimated 200,000 homeless veterans who today “combat” life on the streets because Stand Down is the name chosen for a one-day nationwide event that offers those veterans the opportunity to gather in their own communities to get help for the many problems they face.

This year’s area Stand Down will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, at the National Guard Armory, 3300 Sutherland Ave. The community-based Knoxville Area Veterans Stand Down, Clyde Vincent an all-volunteer veterans organization, and service providers will give homeless veterans access to the community resources they need to begin addressing their in-

dividual problems and rebuilding their lives.

Remote Area Medical and others will offer medical and dental care, eyeglasses, clothing and other items. Both breakfast and lunch will be served.

Clyde Vincent, program manager for the homeless veterans program operated locally as an adjunct of Volunteers of America, says the program has three components: helping homeless veterans get back to work, supportive services for veterans and their families that help them get into housing, and a program dealing

specifically with female veterans and veterans with children.

The organization is now working with more than 250 homeless veterans in Knox and 12 surrounding counties. “These people are not looking for a handout,” Vincent said. “They want to get back to work.”

Supportive services help veterans and their families “get into housing and stay in housing. We help them with rent, utilities and the deposits they need to get into housing, and we also help them set up budgets. This is a one-time opportunity.” Info: 607-6231.

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Ankle replacement gives retiree new lease on life It was way back in junior high school when Michael McCutcheon, now 61, made the move on a basketball court that would change his life.

“We were playing basketball and I got shoved up underneath the basket – it was the kind of goal that had the ‘feet’ sticking out and I came down on top of that and rolled my ankle really, really bad,” he recalls. “I didn’t know it then but I had actually fractured it, but it was misdiagnosed and treated as a sprain.”

But that “sprain” didn’t go away, and some 30 years later, McCutcheon found himself inside a Michigan doctor’s office where he learned the truth about that ankle. “There was a big bone chip that had fractured off the ankle bone and was ‘chewing things up’ pretty bad in there,” he said.

The ensuing surgery to remove the bone fragment was just the beginning of McCutcheon’s road back to recovery, a painful odyssey that spanned more than 10 years, two states and three more surgeries. It was an ordeal that not only reaffirmed his appreciation for his ever-patient wife, Lynn, but also brought a brand new ankle and unfailing admiration for Dr. Tracy Pesut, an orthopedic surgeon at Parkwest Medical Center.

“As far as I know, she’s never saved anyone’s life, but what I told her was, ‘You may not have saved my life, but you gave me my life back,’ ” said McCutcheon.

McCutcheon sought out Pesut after an X-ray of his ankle prompted his primary care doctor to tell him, “That’s the most messed up ankle I have ever seen! You need an orthopedic doctor.”

But McCutcheon, a General Motors retiree and a board member of the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge, didn’t want just any orthopedic doctor – he wanted one who specialized in ankles. Af-

Michael McCutcheon is back to taking hikes on Black Mountain in the Justin Wilson State Park.

ter considering surgeons in North Carolina and Atlanta, he decided on Pesut because “she listened really well,” has been performing total ankle replacements (TARs) for a decade and had even studied in Switzerland where the whole concept of repairing fractures with screws and plates was developed.

The first time he visited Pesut’s office, McCutcheon limped in on a cane with an impinged right ankle that was riddled with arthritis and bone spurs. He was in such extreme pain that he was ready to consider amputation if that was the solution.

“If that was my only option to get rid of the pain, at that point,

I would’ve gone that route. I am not kidding you,” he said. “The pain was constant. It was waking me up at night and the ibuprofen was only lasting me two or three hours. I was eating ibuprofen like they were M&Ms.” Of course, amputation was not an option Pesut was ready to consider. While it appeared likely McCutcheon would eventually need a total ankle replacement (also called ankle arthroplasty), the first step would be ankle reconstruction.

“When undertaking any reconstruction for ankle arthritis, it is important to correct any underlying deformity,” Pesut explained.

“I was initially concerned about being able to reconstruct his underlying deformity because of its severity. In addition, his young age and high activity level had me concerned because the more active and younger the patient, the faster the TAR will usually fail.

Eventually, patients may face ankle fusion or even amputation.”

To correct the deformity, Pesut broke his heel bone and moved it to the correct position. In addition, she repaired his ligaments and tendons and removed excess bone the body had formed to try to stabilize the ankle.

The reconstruction gave McCutcheon relief for about 18 months before the arthritis, which remains present even after surgery, flared again. By September 2012, he had developed bone marrow edema, a condition in which the marrow begins to take on an excess amount of fluid because of an injury. The edema created such pressure on the bones that McCutcheon found himself in constant pain, which he tried unsuccessfully to control with as many as a dozen ibuprofen a day.

“When I went back to see her, I said, ‘I’m going to need a liver transplant if I keep this up,’ ” McCutcheon said. “I wasn’t reluctant at all about getting the ankle replacement because, I told her, ‘If we don’t do that, or it doesn’t work, just cut the thing off because there’s no way that I can stand the pain of that anymore.’ I was dead serious.”

The ankle replacement went well, although scar tissue caused McCutcheon to tear some tendons and ligaments loose two weeks into his rehab therapy. A sameday surgery repaired that without a hitch. After more therapy, he’s now back enjoying life.

Now, he never thinks about the pain that was once his constant companion. He moves about

freely, climbing on ladders and rooftops as he works on rehabbing homes for Agape House, the nonprofit charity he and his wife operate to provide temporary housing for the homeless.

“The whole reason to do a TAR is to allow patients to resume activities and enjoy life,” said Pesut.

“Mr. McCutcheon is a very active individual which is why I thought he would do well with the surgery.

He enjoys hiking and other outdoor activities, so I wanted him to be able to go back to the things he enjoys. He was very motivated to get his strength and mobility back to normal levels. As long as patients are conscientious about their activity, I expect them to return to their normal activities after their strength is returned.”

Earlier this year, McCutcheon spent an entire day walking the winding, hilly slopes of Dollywood. “And I did it in sandals!” he exclaims. “That ankle didn’t hurt any more than my other ankle. I figure if you can survive the Dollywood test, you’re good!”

He’s also back to biking, something that he couldn’t do before because he was unable to flex his ankle. He recently went hiking again, taking on Black Mountain in Justin Wilson State Park. “I’ve been hiking in lots of places in the United States, but I can’t think of any hike that I’ve been on that I wouldn’t tackle with my ankle,” he says. “I could probably do rock climbing if I wanted to … there’s nothing I feel like I’m limited to right now. I’m in as good a shape now as I was in my 40s, back before the first surgery. So [Dr. Pesut] literally did give me my life back, and I think that’s a pretty significant thing.”

For more information about total ankle replacement, call Parkwest Medical Center (www.TreatedWell.com) at 865-374-PARK.

Baby Boomers changed approach to ankle repair kle replacement (TAR) just now seems to be gaining favor among the gray-haired set, driven largely by the demand of still active Boomers.

Those first TARs “failed miserably,” but that’s yesterday’s news.

According to Dr. Tracy Pesut, an orthopedic surgeon at Parkwest Medical Center, today’s TARs are giving seniors a new lease on life.

“I find with the Baby Boom generation that these patients want to continue working, playing and enjoying life deep into their retirement,” she said. “They are a higher demand population. I see an increase in the need and desire for TARs in order for them to be able to continue golfing, hiking, playing tennis and pickle ball, and walking or exercising.”

“The gold standard for ankle arthritis has been fusing the joint, but that increases the stress on the surrounding joints and

leads to arthritis in those joints within about 10 years,” Pesut added. “Since patients were unhappy with their results, research went into redevelopment in the 1990s, and as a result, there are now four F DA - a p p r o v e d TAR systems (or prostheses) in the United States. The ankle replacements available now have better wear properties due to the materials used.

They also allow for better range of motion and function. Some even utilize CT scans to develop custom cutting jigs for the

components to decrease surgery times and improve alignment.”

Pesut says even better designs that allow for more normal motion, and hopefully, better wear properties to increase longevity, are being developed and used in Europe where a less stringent FDAtype approval process enables surgeons there to incorporate these new designs more easily.

While the options are growing, ankle replacements remain among the most difficult procedures an orthopedic surgeon performs.

The

small contact area and multiple directions and functions of the joint make it a task not every surgeon wants to tackle.

“Most general orthopedists and even sports specialists are uncomfortable or do not enjoy taking care of the foot and ankle problems,” said Pesut, who has performed 40 to 50 total ankle replacements and more reconstructions than she can count during her years of practice. “They can be complicated and no two patients are the same. I like the challenge of problem solving and figuring out what is the best solution to their problem. I find it challenging and enjoy facing the challenge and seeing patients getting back on their feet and returning to their activities.”

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First the hips, then the knees and now the ankles. No, it’s not another dance step – but it is a trend sweeping the Baby Boom generation who grew up doing the Twist or shaking their booty at the disco.

Now in their retirement years, those grayDr. Tracy Pesut haired Boomers are feeling the effects of all that twisting and shaking as complaints of arthritis stack up. Last year, seniors were a large portion of the 332,000 people who got total hip replacements and the 719,000 knee replacements.

Now, it’s the ankle’s turn.

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Gary Baker and Carolyn Wells claim grand prizes at the Heiskell bingo marathon. Photo submitted

Serious seniors watch their cards at the bingo marathon.

Bingo: It’s not for sissies

Heather Matthes (kneeling), Glenda Dimas, Roberta Matthes, Edith Bearden, Nancy Cox and Helen Deitch work on comb knitting to make hats for the homeless. The table to the left is already covered with completed items.

Dead silence ruled the day at the Heiskell Senior Center Sept. 25. That is, until someone yelled out, “Bingo!” The inaugural bingo marathon drew more than 45 seniors – some of whom played fiercely from start to finish.

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Center president Janice White had the thankless job of calling the games. Most players came early and stayed late, breaking only for a quick lunch. Play was free, and lunch could be had for a meager $3. The battle raged for four hours.

In the end, only two could be crowned bingo king and queen. Gary Baker was the man to win the most games and claimed the hat “Bingo Nut.” Carolyn Wells was the women’s winner and took home the shirt proclaiming her as the “Bingo Expert.”

White plans to make the marathon a yearly event but cautions those who may attend, “Bingo is a serious thing.”

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District governor visits Lions

Lions International District 12-N governor Ed Gibbons addressed the Knox North Lions Club meeting Oct. 1.

Gibbons spoke about the main areas of Lions Club’s focus and his goals for those – membership, new service projects and the Club

Lions International District 12-N governor Ed Gibbons at the Oct. 1 Knox North Lions meeting. Photos by Cindy Taylor Harold Martin claims his bingo prize for one win from announcer Janice White.

Excellence Process (CEP).

Gibbons has been a Lion for more than 40 years. His home club is in Johnson City.

Knox North Lions meet at 1 p.m. each first and third “This type of knitting is Wednesday at Puleo’s on fun and easier than knitting Cedar Lane. with needles,” said Heather.

Completed hats will be ■ Hats for the sent to KARM for distribuhomeless tion before cold weather Humana Guidance Cen- hits.

The Humana Guidance ter attracts seniors weekly for fun and games. But Center is in the 640 Plaza that’s not all the groups do. at 4438 Western Ave. Many Women gather each week programs are geared toto knit hats and scarves for ward seniors, but all are free those less fortunate. The and open to the public. Info: worthy cause has attracted 329-8892. a younger generation, too.

Volunteers are learning how to make the hats using comb knitting, a technique that actually involves using a comb. Heather Matthes and her mother, Roberta Matthes, teach the technique to the volunteers.

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government Hat guy does it right John Fugate, Fountain City’s interim school board member who likes to wear a hat, is making an impact beyond his two-month term.

Appointed to replace Indya Kincannon until the Nov. 4 election, Fugate nominated Mike McMillan for school board chair both in September and October.

With Patti Bounds back, his latest motion prevailed, 5-4.

Fugate then nominated Doug Harris for vice chair.

With Fugate’s vote, Harris won 5-4 and took a seat next to McMillan.

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“Nice move,” I emailed Fugate. He called back from Charleston. Seems he had disrupted his family vacation to fly back at personal expense to vote at Wednesday’s meeting.

“It was the right thing to do,” he said.

Proposition who?

If a fraction of the money pouring into camps for and against Amendment 1 – also known as Proposition 1 – had been used in education there would be no “debate.”

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It isn’t sex education in need of those misspent millions but what was known to my generation as “civics,” especially as it concerns the power to interpret the Constitution granted to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Let’s review: “(The) right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, or … in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”

That’s the gist of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. The constitutional right to privacy prevails over most state restrictions on abortion.

That’s been the law of the land for 41 years despite unrelenting efforts to dismantle it.

Tennessee’s Amendment 1 is another end run around the Constitution schemed up by lawmakers concerned with “women’s health.” If it passes on Nov. 4, only the financial health of attorneys will benefit; challenges will come quickly and often.

The real problem is that, like Scarlett O’Hara’s maid, Prissy, men “don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies.”

If men could get pregnant, if they gave birth, if they dealt with unwanted pregnancies, if they had to choose between a career and childrearing duties, Roe v. Wade would never

have happened, and a man’s right to an abortion would never have been questioned.

Can you imagine a horde of female zealots parading with signs and harassing an unwed pregnant Tennessee Titans linebacker outside a clinic?

Neither can I. The fact is that only recently in the nation’s history have women begun to flex their political muscles, and men continue to dominate legislative bodies and the judiciary at all levels.

Laws like those envisioned by supporters of Proposition 1 that purport to protect a woman’s health in fact can result in medical catastrophe.

Last year Ohio enacted stringent new regulations that ban abortions for any reason after 24 weeks. One doctor’s patient discovered her fetus carried a fatal chromosome flaw 27 weeks into her term.

No doctor would perform the abortion for fear of the law.

Laws like that, laws like those that forced the shutdown of clinics from South Dakota to Mississippi, laws like Tennessee’s $1 million state-level defunding of Planned Parenthood, are coming your way in spades if enough voters respond “yes” to Amendment 1.

Tennessee’s lawmakers are the same ones who decided carrying a loaded handgun into a bar is a nifty idea, so appealing to their native intelligence is a waste of time. Instead, I suggest a new proposition.

Proposition Who asks legislators, “Who do you think you are?” This should appeal to conservatives who ceaselessly rail against intrusive government.

The name of every state politician who publicly supported Proposition 1 would be listed on the ballot. If enough voters tick your name, you’re recalled.

Who knows, maybe even Haslam would hear a who.

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It’s a new day at the BOE Nobody will ever confuse Amber Rountree or Patti Bounds with Dikembe Mutombo, the 7-2 Congolese-American basketball player whose signature play was the “not-in-my-house” swat and admonishing index finger waggle, but the new school board members (along with fellow newbie Terry Hill and appointee John Fugate) stood their ground at the October meetings and delivered the message that it’s a new day at the Board of Education.

Rountree, a former school librarian who gave birth to son Teddy on Sept.

8, has spent her scant spare time researching the controversial SAT-10 tests that Knox County Schools administers to K-secondgraders. SAT-10 is not state required.

Superintendent James McIntyre says these tests are necessary to identify reading deficiencies before students get to the critical third-grade level, but many parents and educators consider them harmful

Betty Bean to young children, as well as huge time-wasters.

After failing to get clear answers from McIntyre, Rountree requested data from the state Department of Education and found that the number of school districts administering the tests is dwindling. In 2012, 97 of the state’s 135 school districts administered the SAT-10. In 2013, it was down to 87.

She wanted a discussion of this issue at last week’s work session but says McIntyre – who, along with the board chair, sets the agenda – told her that the agenda was full.

“He said it would be better at the mid-month meeting,” Rountree said. “But what concerns me is that we order the tests from the state, and the order has to

be in sometime in October.

I want to have a public conversation with public input.

Having proctored that assessment myself as recently as this past May, I don’t feel it is right for our kids. Numerous studies say it’s not developmentally appropriate for kids ages 5 through 7.”

So how would she identify kids needing early reading intervention?

“By the end of the school year, I would be willing to bet their teachers could tell me what I needed to know.”

Bounds, whose absence from the September meeting left the vote for board chair deadlocked between Mike McMillan and Doug Harris, was fielding calls and emails from people who wanted to influence her vote for chair and from supporters of an International Baccalaureate program at Bearden Middle School.

She cast her lot with McMillan, marking a sea change in the balance of power on the BOE, and when the vote for the esti-

mated $781,920 program at Bearden Middle came up, she balked, refusing to vote to spend this kind of money with less than a week’s notice (in the recent past, the board has routinely approved McIntyre-blessed initiatives on similarly short notice).

To the visible irritation of at least one of their senior colleagues, the new majority voted to postpone the IB vote until next month. After the meeting, Bounds said neither vote was hard.

“With the vote for chair, the people I heard from who wanted me to vote for Doug Harris were all about money. I didn’t hear from a single teacher who asked me to vote for Harris.”

As for the IB program?

It’s no secret that Bounds and Hill are conservative Republicans who take spending very seriously.

And they very seriously said they wanted a minute to think about it.

It remains to be seen whether their colleagues and McIntyre are listening.

Zoo upgrades truly spectacular The design for the new Pagoda to be built at the Knoxville Zoo in honor of Susan Shieh was unveiled Sept. 25 with the Shieh family present.

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last term in this position (expires in 2018), he may be checking out options in a larger arena.

Burchett likes campaigning and does it well. He will not disappear in September 2018 when his current term expires. He is actively backing Alexander for U.S. Senate, taking him to lunch last week at Vol Market in Knoxville as well as being master of ceremonies at his recent Knoxville lunch.

■ Cheri Siler, Democratic nominee for state Senate, favors raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

It’s unclear how she can do it as a state senator as Tennessee does not have a minimum-wage law. It is the current federal law that impacts Tennessee.

While Siler is unlikely to win her Senate bid against Republican Rick Briggs, she is making friends among Democrats and impressing observers for the competent and determined manner she is waging her campaign.

She has a foundation for a future local race if she wants to do it. Remember, Gloria Johnson lost her first race against Becky Massey.

Briggs was seen as overbearing on a recent TV program with Siler.

■ County Commissioner Ed Brantley, whose name a few weeks ago was on the Gordon Ball for U.S. Sen-

ate campaign list (he says he never authorized it) as a supporter, last week attended the Alexander for Senate luncheon here in Knoxville and is now actively backing Alexander for re-election.

■ Last Friday, Oct. 3, marked the 223rd birthday of the city of Knoxville, which was founded in 1791.

In 1991, on the Bicentennial celebration, the state Legislature met in Knoxville at the World’s Fair Park to salute the occasion.

No mention of it was made this year on the city website. Sue Clancy, former director of special events who led the 1991 Bicentennial celebration, called this writer to wish him a Happy Knoxville Birthday.

■ Natalie Ritchie, daughter of former state Rep. Wayne Ritchie and Margaret is the 60 Seconds managing editor of the Duke Political Review at Duke University.

She is a 2012 graduate of Knoxville’s Webb School and a junior at Duke majoring in public policy. It can be found online at www.dukepoliticalreview.org ■ During the last session of the Legislature, a bill was enacted to make it illegal for election observers sponsored by the United Nations to inspect elections in Tennessee. While there are many persons who dislike the United Nations for

It is truly spectacular.

The Shiehs made a major capital gift to the Zoo for the Pagoda at Tiger Forest, which will be 30 feet tall.

It will be a dramatic focal point for visitors to Tiger Forest.

Zoo board chair Eddie Mannis presided, and attending were City Council member Duane Grieve, Sen. Becky Massey and county Mayor Tim Burchett as well as former city architect and county commissioner David Collins. This will be a significant addition to the zoo, which is a major tourist attraction for Knoxville.

Susan Shieh was active in promoting Knoxville’s sister-city program in Japan and China.

■ Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett has attended several GOP events in neighboring counties recently including a Blount County breakfast Sept. 20 for Lamar Alexander and a summer speech by former Arkansas Gov. Mike HuckaRain or shine, the 8th to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, bee in Campbell County.

With this second term annual senior appreciation at John Tarleton Park, 3201 as county mayor being his picnic will be held 11:30 a.m. Division Street.

Senior lunch is Friday

many reasons, this legislation has played neatly into Vladimir Putin’s hands as he seeks to overturn the independence of Ukraine.

The international community has sent election observers there now and in the past to validate their fairness. This has become almost routine throughout the world. This writer has been an election observer in Georgia and Timor Leste.

Putin has placed this legislation on the Russia Today network, which is his propaganda organ. He says the U.S. wants to observe elections in other countries but objects to it in the U.S. Frankly, Tennessee should be inviting election observers throughout the world to visit the Volunteer State to see how free, fair and open our elections are.

They could learn something from observing what we do and what we do not do.

So much for transparency, which we advocate both at home and overseas.

■ The University of Tennessee is spending $150,000 to repair the roof of historic Hopecote House on Melrose Avenue, which is used as an official guest house for many UT visitors.

It is a John Franz Staub-designed house as is the Williams House on Lyons View Pike, which UT is seeking to lease.

The picnic, sponsored by Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, will include lunch, live music and a vendor expo. Rain on Oct. 3 led to the rescheduling.

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County Commission goes to jail Knox County commissioners learned about the latest law enforcement technology and initiatives at a lunch hosted by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office at the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility on Maloneyville Road.

Wendy Smith

While the overview was primarily aimed at new commission members Randy Smith, Charles Busler, Bob Thomas and Ed Brantley, the lunch was also attended by Mike Brown and Dave Wright.

Martha Dooley, media relations director, talked about the growth of the KCSO website. The 24-hour arrest list is popular, she said, and two downloadable apps serve the public and the sheriff’s office. One allows residents to submit crime tips, and the other alerts victims when perpetrators are being released.

The website also links to a crime map of Knox County.

People are less afraid when they have more information about crime, said Captain Bobby Hubbs of the Crime Analysis and Information Technology Division.

“What a great tool. I used to print out a report every 30 days and take it to neighborhood associations. This is updated every hour,” said Hubbs.

The KCSO also uses Facebook and Twitter to keep the public and the media up to date, Dooley said.

Butch Bryant, an attorney with the sheriff’s office, said patrol officers will soon be equipped with body cameras, which ultimately protect them. He advises recruits to assume that everything they do is being recorded, and they shouldn’t mind the sheriff, or their mother, looking at it.

Citizens behave differently if they know they are being recorded, which is also helpful, he said.

Todd Cook, director of Probation and Pretrial Release, brought an electronic alcohol-monitoring bracelet that can monitor the location and alcohol consumption of offenders. Knox County is one of the largest alcohol-monitoring stations in the U.S., he said.

Offenders, who would otherwise be in jail, pay $10 a day to wear the device, he said.

Others talked about initiatives aimed at keeping at-risk groups out of jail.

A new training program will help officers identify veterans who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, said Chief Deputy

The Knox County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Response Team demonstrates the takedown of an unruly inmate. Photos by Wendy Smith

Knox County Commissioners Randy Smith, Charles Busler, Ed Brantley and Mike Brown examine an alcohol-monitoring bracelet at the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility.

Eddie Biggs. A new court allows veterans in the criminal justice system to receive treatment rather than jail time.

Captain Chris Holloway talked about Operation: Think Twice, a program for at-risk kids and their parents. A two-hour tour of the detention facility shows

consequences of delinquent behavior, he said.

Rodney Bivens, assistant chief of corrections, pointed out problems that commissioners might eventually need to address. Since Lakeshore Mental Health Institute closed in 2012, the country transports offenders who require hospitalization

impending arrival of his first grandchildren – twin girls.

GOV NOTES ■ Amendment 1 panel discussion and community forum, noon Thursday, Oct. 9, Pellissippi State Community College, Goins Building auditorium, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Free and open to the public. Info: 694-6400.

■ Democratic Women’s club meeting, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, Shoney’s on Western

to Moccasin Bend Mental Health Center in Chattanooga costing $175,000 each year for fuel alone.

As many as 40 percent of detention-center inmates suffer from drug or mentalhealth issues, Bivens estimated. Early intervention could keep many from getting stuck in the system.

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■ Metropolitan Planning Commission will meet 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the City County Building.

■ Buz Johnson, deputy director and 37-year veteran of MPC, retired from the agency Sept. 12.

He says he’s looking forward to retirement, especially with the

■ Sen. Lamar Alexander will speak in North Knox County, a guest of three Republican clubs. The meeting is 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Boys and Girls Club of Halls/ Powell, 1819 Dry Gap Pike, across from Brickey-McCloud Elementary School.

■ Early voting for the Nov. 4 election will start Wednes-

The Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility has 1,036 beds, but they can’t all be filled at the same time because of the need to separate groups, like maximumsecurity inmates.

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Mercer joins First Baptist Academy

By Cindy Taylor Matt Mercer is the new headmaster at First Baptist Academy. The full-time position is a first for the school, and Mercer comes well prepared for the task.

His resume includes coaching at private and Christian schools, teaching, church administration, ministry and leadership.

Mercer grew up in the Powell community, and he is a former Panther basketball player and Powell High School graduate. As a Powell resident he wants to see those around him succeed.

“I spent most of my life in Powell and know the history, so that was a big draw

in the community and have a positive impact,” he said.

The students will participate in a “serve” day during November when they will Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our imgo off-campus to minister age, according to our likeness; and let them have doin the community. Student minion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the leadership will be a strong air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals focus as well. of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps Mercer and wife Angie upon the earth.” So God created humankind in his imhave four children ages 19, age, in the image of God he created them; male and fe7, 5 and 15 months. The male he created them. middle two attend FBA. (Genesis 1: 26-27 NRSV) “FBA is very much a ministry of First Baptist But the playing field is the planet Earth, and I for one Church,” said Mercer. “I have no place else to go.

Matt Mercer believe we could take off in (“Small Wonder,” Barbara Kingsolver) numbers, but that is not our petitive program to provide goal. We want to develop It was December 1968 even more opportunities for deeply committed disciples students. for Christ and do everything when we first had the privilege of seeing Earth from Cross “We want to be involved we do with excellence.”

Currents the moon, a sight earlier generations could not even Lynn imagine. The Apollo 8 asPitts tronauts, like any other tourists, took pictures and sent them home to us like so many postcards, and we have never been quite the to assign any moral value at all to our habits of consame.

I maintain that poet Ar- sumption. But the circle of chibald MacLeish summed our family is large … and as up that experience for all we arrive at the end of our time when he wrote in Life frontiers we can’t possibly Magazine the following be surprised that the rest week: “To see the earth as of the family would have us it truly is, small and blue live within our means.”

She concludes, “Safety and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to resides, I think, on the far see ourselves as riders on side of endless hunger.”

Sadly, it may require us the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in to look at the world that way for us to understand the eternal cold.”

Barbara Kingsolver is that we have to change some also correct: so far, at least, things. Protecting our own we “have no place else to safety may require us to be concerned enough to comgo.”

Why, then, are we so cav- prehend how many hunCentral Baptist Church of Fountain City began in 1914 with 33 charter members. It has grown to alier about how we treat this gry people there are in this more than 2,000 and celebrates its 100th anniversary Oct. 26. Photo courtesy of Central Baptist Church planet? How can we be so world – infants, the elderly, wasteful of our resources, and everyone in between The Family Life Center was that freedom. He cited ship, community building including our air, without – and further, to do somewhich not one of us could thing about it. added in 1984, and the pres- the example of Mrs. Lucy and service.”

There are people I know The church feels that a last until tomorrow, or our ent sanctuary was refur- Dunn, “Aunt Lucy” as she bished in 1997-98. By the was known in the church. In “hands on” ministry is part water, without which we personally who are serving as missionaries in Africa, 1960s, the church grew to 1918, Aunt Lucy was chosen and parcel of the Christian might manage a few days?

The canary in the coal digging wells, teaching Sunmore than 2,000 members, to teach the Baraca Sunday life and pays attention to then one of Knox County’s School class. She taught the the individual gifts and pas- mine is trying to tell us day School classes, planting class from that year through sions of its members and its something, and we would gardens, fighting malaria largest. with nets provided by their As senior minister Dr. 1965 when she turned 90 ministers to recognize the be wise to listen. friends and colleagues here.

How do we justify our Mike Smith observed in his years of age and, when current needs of the comeloquent sermon on Sept. she could no longer attend munity and to shape its wastefulness of food when They are brave and caring so many are hungry in our people who also know that 28, “We do not exist for the church, the class installed work to meet those needs.

And, finally, Central Bap- own communities? How do we humans have no place sake of the buildings; the a telephone hookup and she buildings exist for the sake taught from her home for tist today is a congregation we ignore the pleas for jus- else to go.

We must – all of us – beof the ministry. That is who as long as she was able. You “Increasingly at home with tice, for fairness, for equalcome people who know that might ask what is so unusu- ecumenism – with working ity, for truth? we are.”

Do we not hear the cries until the world is safe for evDr. Smith’s message had al about that. The unusual with churches of other deeryone, it is safe for no one. three themes: Where We thing was that, at that time, nominations and with recog- of the world?

Kingsolver goes on: “We It is then incumbent on us to Have Been, Where We Are women were not permitted nizing the validity of the faith Today and Where We May to teach men, and the Bara- journey of Christians from all are disinclined as a nation make it so. ca class was for the middle- Christian backgrounds.”

Yet Go. In looking to the future He pointed out that from aged men of the church.

Today, the church en- Dr. Smith commented, “The ture generations and how to the beginning the church offered the typical Bap- courages “boys, girls, men journey of Central Baptist design space that is flexible tist programs. But, unlike and women to listen for Church is far from over. and yet worshipful. many churches of the time, the voice of God, discover As we step into our second Through knowledge of Special services the church called minis- their gifts, and seek God’s hundred years, we hope to the scriptures, prayer, wor■ New Fellowship Church, ters who would encourage direction for their lives.” build on the past and pres- ship, giving and service, Maynardville Highway across an educated laity, men and The congregation “increas- ent, so that we may find our the congregation hopes to from Paulette Elementary women who could listen, ingly knows how to give one way to being the church God continue to thrive and to School, will host Homecomlearn, think and decide for another theological space, needs us to be.” face a lively and challenging starting at 11 a.m. Sunday, Toward that end, the ing next century in which it themselves. Central Baptist values the priesthood of the Oct. 12. Everyone welcome.

Info: 556-7333. valued individual freedom believer and rejects preoc- church plans to make good can cultivate faith in Christ cupation with doctrinal decisions about facilities, and can practice loving the and responsibility.

Gender equity in the precision in favor of focus- deciding what to keep and world in the way He would church was one result of ing on the practice of wor- renovate for the needs of fu- have us love the world. for coming here,” he said.

“The strong spiritual foundation at FBA lines up with my mission and beliefs.”

The fully accredited school continues to grow.

Enrollment increased in 2013 to almost 200 students.

“We know it is not a matter of if we are going to grow, but how quickly the facilities and structures can keep up with the growth,” Mercer said. “We are very affordable and probably the best value for private school and Christian education in town.”

Mercer is hoping to use his expertise in sports to expand the school’s com-

This lovely planet

Central Baptist Church of Fountain City The service opened with a congregational hymn, “To God Be the Glory,” Glory ” with the voices of 113 members of the combined adult, children’s, praise and youth choirs leading the 588 members of the congregation.

Jim Tumblin

That worshipful beginning to their Sept. 28 services set the tone for the morning and for the three additional Sunday services leading up to the 100th anniversary of Central Baptist Church of Fountain City which will be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 26.

Originally organized as the Bright Hope Baptist Church on Oct. 28, 1914, when 33 charter members met at the Bright Hope Masonic Hall, Central Baptist Church of Fountain City was renamed in July 1915.

In that same month, the church purchased property on North Broadway and soon began construction and occupied their new building on Oct. 3, 1915.

Their second building program resulted in the dedication of a larger sanctuary on Aug. 13, 1924. The large educational annex was added in 1940. While the first two buildings had faced Broadway, ground was broken for a much larger sanctuary facing Lynnwood in March 1949 and the dedication held on June 11, 1950.

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

■ Dante Church of God, 410 Dante School Road, will be distributing Boxes Of Blessings (food) 9-11 a.m. or until boxes are gone Saturday, Oct. 11. One box per household.

Info: 689-4829.

Vendors needed ■ West Emory Baptist Church is seeking vendors for a Benefit Fall Craft Fair to be held Saturday, Oct. 25, at Heiskell UMC, 9420 Heiskell Road. Tables: $25. Info: Jaclyn McDonald, 210-3661or mcdonaldpow7@yahoo.com.

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Karissa Rainey and Taylor Poe check out offerings from Belmont University. Photos by R. White News teams from the fourth and fifth grades at Powell Elementary for the 2014-2015 school year are (front) Gabby Barnes, Alexis Chapman, Elizabeth Martin, Ashlyn Steffey, Justice Campbell, Maddy Coombs; (second row) Kyndal Phillips, Andrew Mills, Ruby Silva, Josie Kennedy, Blake Paul, Adarius Chesney, Maddy Rabinowitz; (third) Riley Proctor, Isaac Bean, Caitlyn Wilson, Alyssa Rossini, Elizabeth Henry, Olivia Harris; (back) DeShanna Jones, Cade Cooper, Breanna Norman, Emma James, Lonasia Patrick, Lynzee Brown, Madeline Talley, Sarah Vogel, Elizabeth Ritchie and Mikayla Miller. Photos by Cindy Taylor

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By Cindy Taylor

Powell High students Sierra Wilburn and Toni Ross look to UTKnoxville for their college of choice after graduation.

Thirty-two new members of the Powell Elementary News Team will take turns sharing all the news that is news during the 2014-2015

school year.

Teams were chosen by librarian Steve Davis and technology instructor Betsi Vesser.

Twenty-one anchors and

College/career fair draws large crowd Knox County Schools hosted a college and career fair that allowed juniors and seniors an opportunity to explore post-secondary opportunities available upon graduation.

More than 100 repre-

sentatives from colleges and universities, career and technical schools, the military and financial-aid organizations were on hand inside the Jacob Building at Chilhowee Park.

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This just in: three additional members of the Powell Elementary news team who weren’t available for the main photo are fourth-grade students Tyson Guy, Sophia Burton and Makenna Vass. Photo submitted

11 camera operators will alternate time on the air during morning announcements – and, of course, if news breaks. On-air teams are responsible for leading the pledge and the school song each morning.

“We had the most students try out this year that we have ever had,” said Vesser. “We use students to train students, so this is a continual learning project.”

The popular program is in its third year at Powell,

having grown from 15 to 40 members in the first two years. Each independent news team works for three days and then trains the next team.

Reporters are encouraged to submit articles with photos. Close to the end of the year, teams work a full week. The best teams are then chosen to finish out the year.

“The kids love this,” said Vesser. “It really boosts their self-confidence.”

Thirteen bands, one event The Central High School Bobcat band will host the Knox County Schools Marching Band exhibition, 6-10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, 5321 Jacksboro Pike.

This is an opportunity to see each high school’s marching band (approximately 1,500 students total) perform its halftime show. Tickets are $5, with children 10 and younger admitted free. Concessions will be available. Rain date is set for Tuesday, Oct. 28.

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Landon Richey dressed up in his best Johnny Appleseed costume to help celebrate the birthday of pioneer apple farmer John Chapman. A real pot isn’t a comfortable hat, so Landon wore one that was crocheted with gray yarn. Photos by R. White

Students in Vanessa Hammond’s kindergarten class at Pleasant Ridge Elementary enjoyed learning about Johnny Appleseed, tasting different types of apples and using apples to count. Pictured with Hammond are Meagen Conner, Jonah Ray, Lilah Southerland, Isabella Wilhoit, Elijah Huffner and Andrew Duncan.

Powell Elementary School third-grade teacher Mandi Meek and her class received a gift of new seating from an anonymous donor during “Thank a Teacher” week. Pictured are students Bryson Headrick, Alexis Cox, Shanna Powell High School stained-glass artists Kayla Frost, Hannah Allen and Emily Schultz were selected to display their stained-glass pieces in the school lobby.

Post, Meek, Victoria Sanchez, Caleb Ward and Zackery McGinnis enjoying reading time on the new seats.

UT NOTES ■ Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek has been elected chair of the board of the International Fertilizer Development Center, a global research effort to develop and commercialize clean, environmen-

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Made for TV Halls/Powell clash comes with interesting cast of characters Colby Jones in the wildcat was magic for Halls last week.

The Red Devils senior ran for two touchdowns, caught a pass for a third and hit teammate J.T. Freels for a fourth Halls score in a 47-35 win over Karns. His fourthquarter interception put away the Beavers for good.

Now, that’s a big night.

Now, it’s Powell.

The televised MyVLT Thursday night contest at Halls sees both teams enter with something to prove and the playmakers to make it happen.

Freels sprinted 72 yards on the pass from Jones for the score. Halls quarterback Andrew Davis pushed in for another Red Devil touchdown on the sneak. Proving Halls is a lot more than simply Jones, Davis fired 37 yards to wide out Matthew Runge-Gold as the Red Devils showed off a diverse offense that had its best night of the season.

Turnovers helped Powell fall, 48-22, to Clinton last week, but, make no mistake, the Panthers have the horses for this one. Quarterbacks Brandon Brown and Conner Sepesi both got Powell in the end zone last week, Sepesi on a 17yard scoring toss to Jamil

Stefan Cooper Birden, Brown on a 3-yard run. Trevor Carter ran eight yards for the third Powell score.

The stage and players set, this one never disappoints.

Last meeting: 2013 – Powell 17, Halls 0 The Breakdown: The respective records mean nothing in this one. Plus, it’s not as though either team has had the easiest schedule thus far.

Both teams like to run the ball, but, as Jones so ably proved with the strike to Freels last week, thinking that’s all either will do can be costly. Jones’ ability to both run and throw out of the wildcat could prove a big advantage for Halls. A player with his versatility in that offense is awfully tough to stop.

If Powell can control the ball on the ground, that’s exactly what the Panthers will do. That’s when Sepesi raises up and hurts opponents with the passing game.

One of the best rivalries in all of East Tennessee will be won up front. The offensive line that can assert its dominance will carry the winning team behind them.

If Jones has another night like last Friday, though, all bets are off.

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Upcoming Friday Austin-East: Open Bearden vs. Hardin Valley Carter at McMinn-Central Central vs. Clinton Christian Academy of Knoxville at Belfry, Ky. Farragut at Heritage Fulton: Open Gibbs at Campbell County Grace Christian Academy vs. Midway Halls vs. Powell (Thursday night game) Karns vs. Oak Ridge Knoxville Catholic vs. Anderson County South-Doyle vs. Cherokee Webb vs. Battle Ground Academy West vs. William Blount

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Track reunion celebrates Rohe era

The Panthers hold off the Clinton Dragons on 3rd down, but are defeated 48-22 during Homecoming game.

Tennessee looks less like a bowl team To put things in perspective, Tennessee looks less like a bowl team today than it did in August.

After weeks and weeks of intensive instruction, the Volunteers have not learned to win. There is no threat of a running attack. Pass protection is still missing in action. It is so bad as to be dangerous.

Offensive inefficiency puts an unholy burden on the defense. Eight plays in the red zone lost 11 yards and an interception. Such ineptitude brings back memories of a previous administration.

Other than that and the score, all is well in Big Orange Country.

There were many positive aspects of Saturday past. Weather was good.

Neyland Stadium checkerboard configuration of paying customers was almost spectacular. The crowd was loud. Concessions cashed in, maybe enough to match last year’s net profit.

Aging Vols for Life made it on and off the field without significant injury. It could have been a really good day.

Marvin West

Butch Jones is keeping the faith. That is a plus. The coach sent word that if everybody will just be patient, Tennessee will be OK. He didn’t say when.

“We’re going to get it together. We’re going to have great days, but we just got to keep grinding … I promise you we’re going to get it right … We’ll be back. I promise you we’re going to be a good football team.”

It sure isn’t yet, but it is trying. Butch said what he has said before, that the players are fighting, scratching and clawing. They are also shooting themselves in the feet. The first half was marred by penalties. The second half was lost to sacks.

Could it be that losing to Florida is contagious, that the current team picks it up from the previous team and passes it on? The streak

is at 10. Sometimes the Gators have been better. This time they weren’t. And they weren’t very good last year.

Florida projected as the pivotal game of 2014, the one that could have launched Tennessee toward a surprisingly successful season. The Vols allowed the Gators to beat the odds.

They survived three interceptions and stayed around until their coach sent in the sub quarterback. In comparison to some we’ve seen, theirs looked like an allstar-to-be.

Battered and bruised Florida coach Will Muschamp, at risk of losing his job, found great satisfaction in heaping fourth-quarter unhappiness on the colorful multitude: “It was great to see so many people disappointed.”

Will may have been retaliating for the vulgar fan chant I hope your children didn’t hear.

That was last week. Don’t you know excitement is building for homecoming?

Can’t you just feel it? The Chattanooga Moccasins are coming to town. Now is a good time for a lighter as-

Tennessee track and field athletes from times past celebrated the Chuck Rohe coaching era and attended the UT-Florida game last weekend.

They closed the weekend with a Sunday breakfast with Beth Alford-Sullivan, UT’s new director of track and field and cross country.

Rohe came to Tennessee in 1962, quickly seized control of Southeastern Conference track and dominated through 1971.

His teams won 15 consecutive indoor and outdoor championships.

Volunteers won individual honors 53 times in indoor events and 49 outdoor.

Distance runners added six SEC cross-country team championships.

Rohe’s dual meet record was an astounding 87-10.

Tennessee’s 10 previous track coaches compiled a

92-60 record over 40 years.

Reunion dinner speakers included Olympic longjump legend Ralph Boston; Dr. George Moschis, the javelin thrower who discovered and helped recruit javelin thrower Bill Skinner; former women’s star runner and later UT and Olympic coach Terry Hull Crawford; former all-Americans Audry Hardy and Wilbur Hawkins; and famous hurdler and football Vol Richmond Flowers.

The celebration included former Tennessee coaches Stan Huntsman and Doug Brown and former footballtrack stars Chip Kell and Karl Kremser.

The spotlight was on Skinner, NCAA javelin champ in 1970.

Track fans can learn more about this group at www.rohetrackera.com.

– Marvin West

signment. It gives the Vols a chance to get their record back to even.

Finishing 3-3 in the second half of the season is a potential problem. Tennessee will have to find something to beat in addition to open date. Two remaining foes are obviously stronger.

Missouri is a maybe. South Carolina and Kentucky are different kinds of shockers.

We’ll discover later whether Vanderbilt improves more and faster.

In theory, young Volunteers will get better with age and experience. Senior quarterback Justin Worley probably won’t. He won considerable respect for just surviving Oklahoma and Georgia, for getting up after repeated knockdowns, for completing passes under duress, for coming back after an injury, for making the Athens game close. He did not play well against Florida.

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September surge for local markets

By Sherry Witt

Following a brief downturn in August, the local real estate and lending markets enjoyed very healthy numbers to close out the Witt third quarter of 2014. For the month that ended Sept. 30, there were 841 property transfers in Knox County. While that was a decrease from the 922 sales recorded in August, it represented an actual increase in the total value of property sold.

The aggregate value of all the land transfers for the month was just over $223 million – some $6 million more than the value of property sold in August, and nearly $30 million ahead of last September’s pace. Real estate markets often experience a slowdown in September as the fall season gets underway; however, 2014 proved to be an exception.

Mortgage lending in September also rebounded from its August dip, as more than $324 million was loaned against real es-

tate in Knox County. That represented a $49 million increase over August and bested last September’s aggregate mortgage loans by nearly $55 million.

The largest land transfer of the month was the purchase of a parcel of commercial property on Ray Mears Boulevard near Downtown West. The 2.71-acre parcel was purchased by Elman Knoxville Associates LP for $20.1 million. The largest mortgage loan recorded was a Deed of Trust financing that sale in the amount of $15,075,000.

With three quarters of 2014 now in the books, some interesting comparisons may be drawn between this year and last. Property sales have been somewhat better, while mortgage lending has lagged behind. The first nine months of this year have produced total property sales of $1.71 billion in Knox County, compared to $1.59 billion during the first three quarters of 2013. On the lending side, about $2.32 billion has been loaned against real estate so far in 2014, while $2.94 billion was loaned during the same period last year.

Sherry Witt is Knox County Register of Deeds.

County Cable TV Committee to meet Knox County Commission’s committee on cable TV will meet at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, in the large assembly room, City County Building, to discuss the county’s franchise agree-

ment with Comcast Cable Co. A representative from Comcast will be present to answer questions. Commissioner Jeff Ownby chairs the committee.

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Need time on Out with the new, in middle school IB News from Moxley Carmichael

with the old

By Cynthia Moxley The sounds of a high s c h o o l m a r c h ing band practicing on a football field.

Crew neck sweatshirts for cooler evenings.

Moxley The sale of mums at sites around town.

And the much-anticipated arrival of pumpkin-flavored coffee.

All of these are indicators that autumn is officially upon us, and if you’re anything like me, all of these inspire nostalgia.

Nostalgia is an interesting phenomenon. Nostalgia is memory, but it’s more than remembering a phone number or address. It is memory associated with emotion.

For me, this often happens through music. Most recently, my husband, Alan, and I had the opportunity to take a Beatles tour in London. As we visited some of the famous locations associated with the Beatles, including the iconic Abbey Row crosswalk, I was transported to another place in another time.

Companies have figured out nostalgia is memory with emotion and something else: wistful longing.

Those who have done this well have discovered that if it is possible for nostalgia to make customers long for another place and time, then the company’s product can take them there.

Coca-Cola recently launched an Internet firestorm when it announced

the return of Surge, a yellowy soft drink that it began producing in 1996 before abruptly ceasing to distribute the beverage in 2002.

For a limited time, the company will offer the beverage only in 12-packs on Amazon.com. Within two hours of appearing online, Surge sold out. Coca-Cola made more, sent it to Amazon, and the second wave sold out nearly immediately.

Miller Lite employed this same principle when it brought back the retro white can and label first introduced in the 1970s.

Chief marketers originally intended to make the retro design available for three months, but customers bought the iconic cans in droves, causing MillerCoors to re-evaluate, make the vintage design a mainstay and even extend it to bottles.

While these are national examples, there are implications for our local community as well, and the reach of memory and nostalgia lingers through more than simply products themselves. It’s worth noting that you needn’t go through an extensive rebranding just so you’ll have an old brand to revisit.

At Moxley Carmichael, we’ve seen this with Pilot Celebrity Pumpers, an annual event we created for Pilot in 1992 as a fundraiser for the United Way of Greater Knoxville. For a three-day period, local celebrities pump gas for customers – the 2014 event is Oct. 6-8 – and Pilot donates five cents of every gallon of gasoline sold and 10 percent of in-store sales at all Knox County locations to the United Way. While we’ve worked to keep the event fresh and fun, the heart of Pilot Celebrity Pumpers has not changed. Local celebrities, personalities and politicians pump gas and interact with customers – some even do windows – and it has become the single-largest special event fundraiser for the United Way of Greater Knoxville’s annual campaign.

Autumn has arrived, along with a flood of memories and nostalgia. Find ways you and your company can embrace the tradition and identity of the past while not reinventing it. Everything old is new again.

Cynthia Moxley is founder and CEO of Moxley Carmichael.

Wow! What was once easy has become hard.

Not so long ago I would have been an automatic yes vote for launching a middle school magnet at Bearden through the International Baccalaureate program.

Why not? Bearden Middle feeds into West High School where such a program already exists.

“It’s the next logical progression for the work we’ve done at West High School and a really great opportunity for kids,” said Superintendent Jim McIntyre.

“It’s a competitive response as well. We’re in an era of charter schools and private schools and vouchers.”

But new school board members applied the brakes to the plan, estimated to add about $750,000 annually to the school system’s budget.

Terry Hill, Amber Rountree and Patti Bounds questioned the cost and their own lack of information about the proposal. The vote was deferred until November.

So I contacted some business buddies – most too shy to speak on the record.

“The core problem with experimental programs like IB and World Literature is that they divert dollars from more important, core programs like drivers ed, football and vo-tech,” said one.

“IB seems like a nobrainer. We need to expose our kids to the broader world,” said another.

“It seems to me to be another way to spend money on education without spending it on teachers,” someone posted online.

“How can Knox County even consider an IB middle school when they have not purchased a complete set of science textbooks in the last two cycles?” asked another.

It’s the makings of a great community conversation. So my vote is to delay a vote on the middle school

Sandra Clark

IB. Let’s consider it this spring in the context of the overall budget. And let’s be sure we’ve got the teachers to make the program work.

NOTES ■ New South Credit Union is offering free document shredding Thursday and Friday, Oct. 16-17, at its three area branches with a limit of one large file box per individual.

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■ Pinnacle Financial Partners has invested $1 million in the Knoxville Area Urban League’s lending program that will be used to make loans and fund businesses and, in turn, create jobs and opportunities for residents in economically disadvantaged communities.

■ Food City was named “retail marketer of the year” by the Certified Angus Beef providers. CEO Steven Smith said, “Our team does an excellent job identifying unique and creative methods of promoting and marketing the brands we support and I would like to congratulate them on this tremendous honor.”

■ Daniel K. Carter, executive vice president and CAO of The Trust Company, was named member of the year by The Association of Trust Organizations at its annual conference.

QUOTABLE ■ The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

– Helen Keller

Scott Smith named to MPC Scott Smith, president of Volunteer Realty, was appointed to the Metropolitan Planning Commission

by Mayor Tim Burchett in September, replacing Brian Pierce who served a 4-year term.

A University of Tennessee graduate in economics, Smith has worked as a commercial and residential real estate broker and as a property developer. He is a longtime member of the Home

Builders Association of Greater K nox v ille and the K nox v ille Area Association of Realtors.

S m it h Scott Smith has served on the board of Knoxville Habitat for Humanity and the Knox County Board of Zoning Appeals.

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Good design for all Anyone who’s driven up Broadway north of downtown knows the beautiful Greystone mansion where WATE-TV is located. It’s a Knoxville treasure.

The next time you pass by, take a peek at the matching carriage house just south and to the rear of the main building.

It houses the East Tennessee Community Design Center, where a small staff works to make Knoxville, Knox County and 15 surrounding counties better, more attractive, more productive places to live.

According to its brochure, the ETCDC was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in April 1970 for one purpose: “to bring professional design and planning services to nonprofit groups and community-based organizations that lack the resources to pay for the service.�

What that means is that a whole lot of worthy area organizations have been able to avail themselves of some of the finest regional designers in the architectural, landscaping, engineering and interior-design fields. “The ETCDC believes all people can benefit from good design, and we are able to provide professional conceptual planning help at a minimum cost due to the tremendous support from local design professionals,� says Mary Linda Schwarzbart, interim executive director.

Much of this support comes from volunteers.

Architects, designers and other visionaries lend their time in “charrettes� – collaborative, sometimes intense planning sessions in which ideas and solutions are pitched, low-cost building options are explored and out-of-the-box, creative

Carol Shane

Carol’s Corner thinking abounds. In one case involving a barnlike structure, members of the local Amish community – experts in barn raising – were enlisted.

Posters of recent ETCDC projects line the walls of the conference room. Licensed architect and ETCDC studio design director Leslie Fawaz points out several, including the TPA Learning Center in Harriman, where students receive tutoring and other help with school subjects.

Referring to the Rural Resources Building in Greeneville, built to replace the organization’s office building that burned in 2009, Fawaz says, “We tried to keep our costs to about $65 per square foot.� Rural Resources, formed in 1993, is a sustainable farm and educational center providing local food to the community.

Jan Mosadegh, ETCDC’s assistant to the director, says, “We just got through with a coal-mining museum in Campbell County.

We helped with signage and graphic design and landscape site work.� “She’s passionate about the East Tennessee Community Design Center!� says Schwarzbart, beaming.

It’s clear that all the staffers enjoy both their work and each other.

The group also assists the community in other, less obvious ways. Although the organization’s main fo-

At a planning session at the East Tennessee Community Design Center are Jeremy Shipp of Johnson & Galyon Construction, Jan Mosadegh of ETCDC, Shannon Webb of Pella Windows, and Pat Donaldson, Mary Linda Schwarzbart and Leslie Fawaz, all of ETCDC. Photo by Carol Shane cus is nonprofits, “we serve as a fiscal agent for some neighborhood groups who don’t have nonprofit status,�

Schwarzbart says. ETCDC can also serve as a fiscal “holding company� when a project is funded through more than one source.

Libraries, community gardens, community centers, low-income housing, school buildings – including a new, two-story green-built addition to Belle Morris El-

Honoring Dewhirst

Downtown developer David Dewhirst will be honored at the East Tennessee Community Design Center’s Award Celebration Thursday, Oct. 16, at the Knoxville Museum of Art. He will receive the Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award, which is “granted to individuals the ETCDC believes have demonstrated a commitment to building a better future for this region,� according to the media release. McCarty, one of the founders of the ETCDC, is, as it turns out, one of Dewhirst’s heroes.

Dewhirst Tickets to the event are $125 and can be purchased by calling 525-9945.

ementary School in North Knoxville – the list goes on and on. ETCDC also updates building facades and plans and builds greenways and parks.

And on Thursday, Oct. 16, the group will honor a local luminary at the ETCDC 2014 Award Celebration.

David Dewhirst, owner of Dewhirst Properties LLC, is well known as one of the of historic downtown Knox- responsible for attracting main movers and shakers ville. He owns more than 40 many businesses and new behind the redevelopment downtown buildings and is residents to the area.

HEALTH NOTES â– Diabetes Management Series, 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, Oct. 9, 16, 23 and 30, in the Knox County Health Department auditorium, 140 Dameron Ave. Free. Provides information on how to manage diabetes through proper diet, medication, stress management and exercise. Info/to register: 215-5170. â– Abundant Life, a free weightmanagement program incorporating diet, exercise and group support, 6 p.m.

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A new whistle pig NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier Twice now in recent years Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had my old, faithful Ford Explorer, which has to sleep outside these days, off to my helpful car repair people because a small furry beast of some sort has chewed through a soft part of the fuel line, putting gas out on the pavement. Yet other beasts have targeted my yard to the point that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to give up gardening. And now, one of my outbuildings is under attack from below by an even different furry beast â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a wily groundhog, aka whistle pig.

Reflecting upon all this quiet but destructive mayhem, I remembered a book that I purchased while on a trip out West a while back.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s by a fellow named Charlie Craighead and is entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who Ate the Back Yard?â&#x20AC;?

Now it happens that Charlie lives in a place called Moose, Wyoming. This means that when Charlie talks about wildlife eating his back yard, he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talking just a bunch of mice, squirrels and raccoons. He has encounters with the likes of porcupines, wolves, moose and mountain lions.

In addition to a trove of biological information about all these critters, Craighead has a series of sidebars in his book listed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;true encounters.â&#x20AC;? They have such titles as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The moose that went trick-or-treating,â&#x20AC;? and one that struck a nerve with me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The disappearing garden.â&#x20AC;? But you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to live in moose country to have your garden disappear.

A recent Metro Pulse column by Knoxville historian Jack Neely was about urban sprawl. He reported that a recent nationwide poll by something called Smart Growth America lists Knoxville as 22nd out of the 25 worst places in America for urban sprawl. While thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a topic open to some serious debate, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nevertheless true that just about everywhere, as more and more people move away from the city toward the countryside, there are more and more encounters with those who were there first: the critters.

With due respect to writer Craighead, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad us folks around these parts donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry about how to fence out bison and moose, or how to keep wolves and mountain lions from eating our livestock and pets. And us.

That being said, we citizens around here still have to contend with wildlife that will by golly eat your shrubs and your garden, and your pet cat, and your front lawn, your hostas and your birdseed.

This hostile train of thought was set in motion by the arrival this year of the new furry beast under my shop porch. Welcome, neighbors, to the new boarder now living with us, in a cavernous hole under my shop, to be exact, a Mr. Whistle Pig. A formal announcement would include the notation that Mr. W. now joins the resident deer who breakfast on the hostas, and those long-time members of the community,

Mr. and Mrs. Squirrel and their 400 children, who prefer black oil sunflower seeds but will settle for stealing tomatoes from the garden or harvesting black walnuts from a 5-gallon bucket if the opportunity should arise.

Everybody knows the groundhog story â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if the groundhog wakes up and comes out and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cloudy, we can joyfully prepare for an early spring. On the other hand, if the furry rascal wakes up on a sunny day and he sees his shadow, away he goes back to sleep and we have six more weeks of winter. The legend apparently has been around for ages. The ancient Germans had it, but theirs involved the ever-popular hedgehog.

When the Germans came to settle the eastern Pennsylvania â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dutchâ&#x20AC;? country, they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find hedgehogs, so they substituted groundhogs for the story.

Groundhog Day was first observed in the U.S. on February 2nd, 1886. It has always been a big deal in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, now more than ever with the appearance of the 1993 movie, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Groundhog Day,â&#x20AC;? starring Bill Murray. Since then, 30,000 to 40,000 people turn out to watch the groundhog wake up every year. I guess any excuse for a big party will do.

Now for the drama about my hanging it up as a gardener. The last year that I gardened, I had trained a nice row of cucumbers to grow up a section of woven

wire fencing. I could come out and select a tasty-looking cucumber at eye level from my fence; all was well.

Then one morning, I came out and there sat a whistle pig with the last bite of cucumber foliage sticking out of its mouth, looking at me as if to say â&#x20AC;&#x153;What?â&#x20AC;? And not only were the cucumbers gone, so were the vines and stems, down to a neat row of 2-inch-tall stumps. The last straw, as they say. I built a workshop on the site.

Since the average groundhog lives three years or so, I figure the new one under my shop porch is a greatgreat-grandchild of the cucumber one. Right now, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eating yard herbs and having a golden delicious apple for dessert, sitting up on his haunches and holding the apple in his forepaws.

Grandma thinks heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;cute.â&#x20AC;?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think so too, if he was up in Cadeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cove.

In spite of cuteness, groundhogs famously wreak havoc in homes, farms and gardens. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been known to seriously undermine building foundations; their huge underground dens will collapse and gobble up a big rear tractor tire up to the axle. Try that with a baler hooked on the back. And of course they can often lead the disbelieving gardener to scratch his head and cry in anguish, in the manner of Charlie Craighead, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who ate the garden?â&#x20AC;?

Well, I had planned to just accept the new arrival as another part of Mother Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fauna out at our place, and to be calm and content with my lot. But then as I drove out the other day, Egads! A second, different, big, fat, waddling whistle pig ran across the driveway and disappeared into a new excavation beneath my neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small horse barn. I sense trouble ahead.

Former Boys and Girls Club member and NFL star D.D. Lewis bonds with Judge Tim Irwin and Eddie Brown at the ceremony inducting Lewis into the Boys & Girls Clubs in Tennessee Hall of Fame. Irwin, also a former club member, served as master of ceremonies. Brown was honored as the Beverly Burton Tennessee new board member of the year. Photo submitted

Boys and Girls Club honorees The Halls/Powell Boys and Girls Club recognizes top individuals each month for behaving well, having good character, being helpful with the counselors and Walker follow ing club rules. A student from each age group is honored, and students for the month of September were Blaine Walker (early childhood), Leyton Preston (youth area) and Alley Frank (not pictured, teen center).

Former club member D.D. Lewis, was recently honored by The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Tennessee for his lifetime achieve-

ments. Lewis is an alumnus of the Boys and Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley, a graduate of Fulton High and Mississippi State Un iver sit y and a former linebacker for Preston the Dallas Cowboys.

Lewis started the first fundraising event for the Boys Club with the D.D. Lewis Celebrity Golf Tournament in 1979. In 1999, with the support of Lewis, the name of the tournament was changed to the Phillip Fulmer Golf Classic and celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.

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THROUGH MONDAY, OCT. 20 Registration open for Goodwill Golf Classic in Memory of Jerry Hatmaker, Holston Hills Country Club. Format: four-person modified scramble.

Proceeds benefit Goodwill Industries-Knoxville Inc. Info/registration: www.gwiktn.org/events or 5888567.

THROUGH MONDAY, OCT. 27 Deadline for membership applications to Knoxville Watercolor Society. Applications for jurying process: www.knxvillewatercolorsociety.com. Info: Kate McCullough, 604-1406 or kateswaterart@gmail. com.

THROUGH FRIDAY, OCT. 31 Featured artists at Parkside Open Door Gallery, Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave., are: Fountain City artists Penny Berridge and Renita Andrews; and Frank Harvey of Lenoir City. Berridge will display oil paintings, Andrews will be showing copper and sterling silver jewelry and Harvey creates 3-D garden art.

Info/hours: 357-7624 or 357-2787.

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O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info: 546-9222, www.taoist.org.

Fall Porch Sale begins, Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris.

Features outdated stock, seconds, student crafts and unjuried work by members of the Craft Center. Info: 494-9854, or www.appalachianarts.net.

Deadline to RSVP for Blount Mansion’s History Suppers Events, to be held 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, The Grill at Highland’s Row, 4705 Old Kingston Pike. Speakers: Gordon Belt and Traci Nichols-Belt. Topic: “John Sevier: Tennessee’s First Hero.” Cost: $65 per person.

Info/RSVP: 525-2375 or info@blountmansion.org.

Movie and Popcorn: “Heaven is for Real,” 11:15 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Fall Harvest in the City Luncheon, 10:45 a.m., Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Sponsored by Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection. Complimentary child care by reservation only. Cost: $12 inclusive. Info/reservations: 315-8182 or knoxvillechristianwomen@gmail.com.

Heiskell Seniors meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., The Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road in Heiskell. Program: The Golden Tones from the Frank Strang Center. Free, donations appreciated. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

Village, 1109 Beaman Lake Road. Painted glassware; knitted goods; handcrafted jewelry, tote bags, aprons; and much more. Proceeds to benefit GARV craft department.

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I’ve Finished My Story. Now What? class, 6-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Kathleen Fearing.

Registration deadline: Oct. 8. Info: 494-9854 or www. appalachianarts.net.

Senior Job Fair for job-seekers who are 50+, 9 a.m.-noon, CAC LT Ross Building, 2247 Western Ave. Hosted by the CAC Office on Aging’s Senior Employment Service. Bring resumes, reference sheets, and any other info needed to apply for jobs. Info: 524-2786.

Senior Appreciation Picnic rescheduled from last week, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (rain or shine), John Tarleton Park, 3201 Division St. Includes lunch, live music and a vendor expo.

Farm Fresh Fridays: Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., downtown Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

Free movie in Luttrell Park. Last movie night this season. Movie: family friendly Halloween movie.

Starts at dusk, 7:30-8 p.m. Bring chairs/blankets.

Union County Farm Bureau annual meeting, 7 p.m., Farm Bureau Office in Maynardville. All members invited.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, OCT. 10-11

Block party Life Care EMS fundraiser for the Manor at Northgate, 4301 Whittle Springs Road, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Lunch: $5; includes choice of one hamburger or two hot dogs with two sides, a dessert and a drink. Info/ RSVP: 225-6799.

“Meet and Greet Jeff Jarnigan – The New Voice of Neyland Stadium” Tennessee Tailgate Party, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Carter Senior Center, 9040 Asheville Highway. Appearance by WVLT’s Lauren Davis.

Free hot dogs. Wear orange; bring favorite tailgate dish. Free event; RSVP requested. Info/RSVP: 9322939.

Burlington Lego Club, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Grades 1-5.

Free program/registration required. Info/to register: 525-5431.Dance lessons, Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Schedule: line dancing, noon; advanced ballroom, 1 p.m.; beginning ballroom, 2 p.m. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

THURSDAY, OCT. 9 VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

Cruise Night, 6-9 p.m., 6215 Riverview Crossing Drive in front of old Food Lion at Asheville Highway.

All makes, models, years and clubs welcome. No charge. Door prizes.

Member Appreciation Day, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Y-12 Federal Credit Union, 530 E. Emory Road. “Rival Rally” tailgate for the Powell-Halls football game. Free lunch catered by Chick-fil-A. Appearances by Penny Penguin and Chick-fil-A Cow. Open house and first Tai Chi class hosted by the Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA, 9-10 a.m.,

Knoxville Toy & Comic Expo, Jacobs Building Chilhowee Park. Info/schedule: www.KnoxvilleToyShow. com or knoxvilletoyshow@gmail.com.

Clinch River Antiques Festival, Historic Downtown Clinton. Friday: 6-9 p.m.; Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Info/schedule of events: 457-2559 www. clinchriverfallfestival.com.

MONDAY, OCT. 13 Health Awareness Seminar: “Diabetes: Understanding the Basics,” 9 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

TUESDAY, OCT. 14 “Becoming all New after Knee Surgery,” 3 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting, 7 p.m., Buddy’s Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike.

Speaker: Ross Massey. Topic: “The Battle of Nashville, December 1864.” Cost: $15/members, $17/nonmembers; includes dinner. Lecture only: $3. RSVP by noon Monday, Oct. 13, to: 671-9001.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 16 Cruise Night, 6-9 p.m., 6215 Riverview Crossing Drive in front of old Food Lion at Asheville Highway.

All makes, models, years and clubs welcome. No charge.

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Glass Fusing Workshop, 6:30-9 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Kathy King. Registration deadline: Oct. 9. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

FRIDAY, OCT. 17 Farm Fresh Fridays: Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., downtown Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 10-13 Tennessee Fall Homecoming, Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway. Music, historic demonstrations, heritage arts and crafts, and more. Free parking. Info/schedule of events: 494-7680 or www. museumofappalachia.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 11 Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.

Barbecue dinner, 4-8 p.m., J. C. Baker Lodge in Maynardville.

Fall festival, 3 p.m., Fellowship Christian Church, 746 Tazewell Pike, Luttrell. Singing on the Porch, free food, games, activity and crafts for children, antique cars and more. Everyone welcome.

Fall festival, 5-7 p.m., Inskip UMC fellowship hall, 714 Cedar Lane. Proceeds to benefit the Roxie Price Scholarship Fund which assists parents of Partners for Children Child Care Center. Tickets: adults, $5; ages 3-11, $3; 2 and under free. Includes music, chili supper, cake walk and silent auction. Info: 689-9516.

Craft sale, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Golden Age Retirement

SATURDAY, OCT. 18 Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.

Old Fashioned Gospel Singing, 7:30 p.m., Ridgeview Heights Baptist Church, 7809 Ridgeview Road in Corryton. Everyone invited. Info/directions: 712-1835.

Beginner Drop Spindle class, 1-3 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Kathleen Marquardt.

Registration deadline: Oct. 11. Info: 494-9854 or www. appalachianarts.net.

Gospel Explosion, 3-7 p.m., CDF Haley Farm in Clinton. Co-hosted by the Oak Ridge/Anderson County chapter of the NAACP and the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Haley Farm. Info: 457-6466 or Theresa Venable, tvenable@childrensdefense.org.

Turkey Shoot, 9 a.m., corner of Hickory Valley Road and Malone Gap in Maynardville. Hosted by the American Legion Post 212.

Communitywide fall festival, 2-6 p.m., Union Baptist Church of Halls, 8244 Old Maynardville Highway. Free. Music, food, games. Info: 922-7714, www.

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heri Liles refers to her home, Liles Acres on Tuckaleechee Pike near Maryville, as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a labor of love.â&#x20AC;?

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So the practical solution is to keep the bees close to home. “We planted a huge wildflower mix to keep them on the property.” For the colder months, Sheri and Russ recently put in witch hazel plants. “They bloom at a time for the bees to harvest them in the winter.” These measures seem to be helping, and Sheri says she’s definitely noticed a “bump” in her crops due to healthier bees.

“But when you live in paradise,” Sheri says, gesturing toward the big glass windows which look out over the farm, “Who needs a vacation?”

She recalls one of the farm’s biggest transformative moments.

Years ago, after the couple had expanded their vegetable gardens, Sheri found herself looking out over the property. “Hmmm,” she thought, “I have lots of pasture; I could have a horse!” She thought it over carefully and eventually decided a horse wasn’t right for her.

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“They can carry one-third their weight,” says Sheri, though these particular animals are rarely used to carry packs. “We take them to the mountains! Sometimes we just lead them on hikes.”

She shears them once a year and handspins the fiber at her spinning wheel. She

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The goats are sheared twice a year, the rabbits every twelve weeks.

The Lileses grow a patch of Sea Island cotton for spinning purposes. “It’s hard to find. It’s real susceptible to the boll weevil, but easier to pick by hand.” Sheri claims that Russ’s mother, Dale Liles, is the real spinning expert in the family. She uses the

cotton in her fiber work.

But Sheri’s own front room is also full of spinning projects. A little wool beret is easily recognizable as having come from “Copenhagen,” the caramel-colored llama.

A small rug was made from llama hair and sheep wool on a peg loom. Sheri is constantly experimenting and trying new things.

And that includes several new hobbies.

One is storytelling. She’s taken her “Apron Full of Stories” presentation to local schools and nursing homes.

And she’s learning the ukulele. “Don’t worry,” she sings and whistles for me as she strums, “Be happy!”

She’s passionately devoted to natural causes, and often hosts school groups and individuals for educational tours of the farm. Two solar panels, mounted on a single base, supply about 25 percent of the farm’s electricity. They’re a focal point for the tours. Sheri keeps a one-pound bag of coal near the panels to demonstrate just how much coal is burned to produce one kilowatt hour. The Liles have had the solar array for six years now, and it’s supplied 16,000 kilowatt hours of energy. “That’s eight tons of coal,” she points out. “We’d like to get another one. It pays for itself in about 10 years. It’ll probably last 20 to 25 years.”

Russ works full-time at Rechenbach’s in Bearden. Sheri is a part-time nurse-practitioner. On weekends, they sell their produce at the Maryville farmers market. Sheri tends the farm, updates the website, hosts

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“You’ve got to have a multivalue-laden approach,” says Sheri of the couple’s life on Liles Acres. “I can educate children about things that I think are important; I can be around animals all day; I can eat good food every day and provide the community with good food. It pays for itself. That’s the reason I do it – not to make a million dollars.”

Sheri admits that she and Russ rarely get to take vacations.

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The fence has several murals: bubbles and other designs, and the floor in her Broken tile pieces bedroom has a geometric design that are glued onto a matches the area above her open closet. painted spiral.

The success of her home floor designs encouraged her to paint the floor in her Bearden business, Knoxville Soap, Candles and Gifts.

Her business also reflects her passion for repurposing. She made table skirts using the bottom half of old prom dresses, and the store’s main counter is made from old barn wood.

“I think that people are, in “I think it is a really general, afraid to healthy project,” she take a risk with decorating,” she said of busting up Jodi Bowlin breaks says while sitting up old plates and in her courtyard tiles, adding, “Break tiles to be used surrounded by on a new outdoor up your old wedding items that she has table with sundial. upcycled. A clawchina. Bust it up, foot bathtub is a ladies.” garden spot for nasturtiums and is accompanied by an industrial sink that holds more flowers and plants.

“We’re shown in magazines how homes Her whimsical creations fill her home and hotel in her living room. are supposed to look. Your home should be backyard and provide both functionality Bowlin tells visitors that her home isn’t a direct reflection of yourself. It should be and entertainment. She once had a barber fancy, but its elegance and warmth defy the your sanctuary.” chair and a working phone booth from a label. Cornices recovered from the top of a

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Her current project is a circular, concrete table, the kind that can be found in parks and picnic areas. She’s painted a spiral on the top, almost like the yellow brick road, that she is filling in with old tiles that she has busted up. Once that is completed she will add a sundial to the top. She says that smashing tiles is a stress-relieving way to get rid of frustrations or other emotional clutter. What to do with old wedding china from a now-defunct marriage? Smash it up and make something new, she says with a laugh.

“I think it is a really healthy project,” she said of busting up tiles, adding, “Break up your old wedding china. Bust it up, ladies.”

This summer in her garden, she used an iron headboard as a climbing post for her green beans. Home heat register covers can be used as stepping stones for gardens or even as trivets for hot dishes on a kitchen counter. Galvanized tubs can be painted and used for storing garden hoses or keeping drinks cold during an outdoor party.

“That old headboard I picked up on the side of the road,” she says.

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On another wall, she installed a long wooden window and created a faux stained glass façade. To create the look, she used a computer program to transform photographs of actual stained glass windows. Then she printed the image on vinyl, and since it’s static cling, it stays in place, giving the illusion of a real stained glass window.

She hung a beadboard over an open area leading out of her bedroom. “It’s almost like latticework, but they call it beadboard.”

Bowlin likes to upcycle vintage household items that add character. In her bathroom, she installed a wooden cabinet and mirror over the sink and painted old shutters for the window.

Her kitchen and dining room are full of examples of her imagination: tin ceiling tiles to cover a once puckering ceiling, a Hoosier cabinet used as added space for pantry items, and restaurant menus decoupaged on cabinet doors as conversation pieces.

“Those are all menus from around the world, from Japan, from Hawaii,” she says, noting that one lists a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne for $38. “There’s a couple from London.”

In her living room, she extended the fireplace’s short mantel by installing a board on top and then staining it. Above the mantel, she attached a carved, vintage wooden shelf and mirror to the wall.

Bowlin finds her supplies at businesses that sell salvage items, like Architectural Antics. She’s also not

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opposed to finding discarded pieces on the side of the road or rummaging around for what she needs.

Bowlin’s interest in repurposing salvaged items started with her first job in northern California, where she grew up. She went to work for a store called Grand Illusions, which sold architectural salvage and stained glass as well as having a juice bar.

“It was just very Californian,” she says. “I learned a lot about architectural salvage. I was exposed to it at age 15, and I fell in love with it.”

And Bowlin’s love for antiquated pieces goes much deeper. It’s the history behind the items that also intrigues her.

“It’s fun to think about the stories of the people who used to own it,” she says. “It has history. To me, I like everything that has a story behind it. There’s more character and warmth to homes that have the old things.”

Using salvaged pieces is a philosophy and way of life for Bowlin.

“I like that I’m buying things that aren’t just going to end up in the landfill,” she says, adding her home is “pieced together. It’s things that have resonated with my heart, and that’s why I think it’s so fun to have in our house.”

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Cole, manager at the Powell Aubrey’s since 1993 and water feature aficionado, has designed and built flowing fish habitats for almost every yard he has owned. His newest home in John Cole in his front yard in Halls is no differHalls with the current water ent. feature. Photo by Cindy Taylor As a teenager, Cole did yard work in his neighborhood, then worked with a couple of men who mentored him along the way. He says his dad’s yard always looks great.

“My dad loves to work in his yard and I’ve learned a lot from him.”

With a self-taught background in landscaping, Cole researched the basics for adding water features and jumped right in. He

laid stone, installed pumps and planted flowers to create serene retreats for himself and a few others.

“I’ve built a few water features for friends.

It’s always been something I loved to do,” he said. Cole has now built or assisted on five ponds.

For his new home, Cole created a feature with a rustic mountain stream design and native plants. When the pump went out he just changed the project to reflect a more modern look, replacing the waterfall with a fountain.

Along with hobbies of painting and sculpting, Cole loves to cook.

“Cooking is fun and challenging but I mostly stick to grilling at home now,” he said. “Although I do like to barbecue competitively on occasion.”

Cole has two daughters, Jordan and Jessica, who are old enough to live on their own. He shares his current home, located through an ad in the Shopper-News, with wife Christy and sons Patrick and John.

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Portable vs. standby generators “Beyond preparing an emergency kit, purchasing a portable generator or installing a standby generator is the simplest way to keep the power on and ensure a family stays safe when a strong storm or other emergency knocks utility power offline,” Grandy said. “Understanding the distinction between these options will help any family determine which is the better choice for their home.”

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Lawn care tips for fall Taking time in the fall to prepare your lawn for the colder months ahead will pay dividends come spring and allow you to enjoy lusher, greener grass when temperatures rise again.

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structions and rate information on the package and use a calibrated spreader to apply the correct amount.

It is also a good rule to apply the fertilizer in the fall about 2-3 weeks before the ground freezes so the plant can start to take up some of the nutrients.

Instead of pacing the yard with a push spreader, consider a tow-behind spreader attached to your riding lawn mower or garden tractor. An attachment, such as a pulltype spin spreader from John Deere, can quickly distribute fertilizer evenly across your yard.

Aerating Aerating, the process of removing plugs of soil and thatch from the lawn, is ideal in cooler months. It encourages deep rooting, improves water and nutrient penetration, and pro-

mulching with a mower is an ideal alternative. Be sure to mulch leaves only when they are dry to avoid damp and wet leaves clumping or building up under mower decks.

Remember that grass needs sunlight in the fall to help store food for winter, so don’t wait until your lawn is completely matted down with leaves to mulch. A thin layer of mulched leaves is ideal and helps add nutrients to the soil, reducing the need for fertilizer.

Selecting the right mower with mulching attachments or features can save a great deal of time and help ensure a consistent layer of mulch across the yard.

For example, John Deere 100-Series lawn tractors motes growth of beneficial plug aerator behind a riding have three-in-one mowing soil microorganisms. There mower or tractor to remove decks, which allow you to are a variety of techniques plugs of soil from two to choose to mulch, bag or alyou can use to penetrate the three inches deep. low side-discharge. soil such as spiked shoes or spray-on liquids, but to Mulching Composting most effectively aerate soil, If you prefer not to rake Creating a compost pile attach a dethatcher, or a or bag grass or leaves, allows you to turn organic

material into rich soil. The fall season is a good time to create a compost pile with decaying yard matter, such as vegetables, grass clippings and leaves, which can provide nutrient-rich soil for spring planting. For best results, alternate layers of “brown,” or high carbon materials, with grass clippings.

Using a rear bagger with your lawn mower or tractor will help make collecting grass clippings a breeze, and adding to your compost pile is as simple as backing up to the spot and unloading. Another optional mower attachment, the lawn sweeper, brushes leaves into a hamper, much like a broom and dustpan.

Taking these steps will prepare your lawn for the winter and help it come back strong, healthy and beautiful in the spring.

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