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Halls parade off The annual Halls Christmas Parade has fallen victim to road construction on Hwy. 33. President Pamela Johnson of the sponsoring Halls Business and Professional Association announced the decision, saying the HBPA hopes to replace the parade this year with a Christmas Festival at the Food City parking lot. Details to follow.
Kentucky is ‘mustwin’ game for Vols If Kentucky foils tradition and spoils the second half of the Tennessee season, there will be another vivid illustration of the wonderful, terrible difference in happiness and heartbreak, a joyous celebration on one side and much gnashing of teeth on the other. If Tennessee wins the mustwin game, another must-win game will follow. And then another.
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Coffee from Powell Powell resident Greg Cox spends his days listening to snap, crackle and pop. Not cereal. Artisan-roasted coffee. Cox has been handling the roasting process since Don and Tracy Payne purchased The Golden Roast business more than a year ago. The roasting facility is in Powell. The Paynes run the coffee shop, located downtown, and the business end of the company.
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Ball Camp: Residents are furious about Knox County’s plans to swap eight acres including one of two youth soccer fields near Ball Camp Elementary to a Walmart grocery developer, GUSTO LLC, in exchange for 100 acres of undeveloped land in Hardin Valley. North/East: The city of Knoxville has opened yet one more playground – this time at the former East Side YMCA.
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Playwright Roger Cosgrove (center) visited Powell to watch the Oct. 16 performance of “A Day at the Java Shop and Greyhound Bus Depot.” Pictured are: Colby Benjamin, Scarlet Bell Silva, Tabitha Neilson, Carly Johnson, Mark Johnson, Steven Miller; (middle) Brian Cooney, Debra Pope, Charles Denney, Cosgrove, Melody McMahan, Katie Dake, Brandon Lloyd Hicks, Grant McMahan; (back) Gary Mullins, Dave Stair, Red Paint Spilman and director Gina Jones.
By Sandra Clark The Powell Playhouse launched its fifth season with an awesome performance of “A Day at the Java Shop and Greyhound Bus Depot.” The playwright, Roger Cosgrove, drove 11 hours from his home in Canada for the Friday perforGina Jones
at the Jubilee Banquet Facility and were friendly, but didn’t disclose their identity until the play’s end. Roger Cosgrove then posed for pictures with the cast. The writer was probably surprised by the scene-stealing Grant McMahan. Playing the role of would-be robber Bob, Grant stretched back in the diner’s chair and it broke, sending him tumbling on his back. “It got a huge laugh, since no
one was hurt,” said one of the ushers. Cosgrove was a chiropractor for 25 years until his retirement. For the past 15 years he has been involved as an actor and director with the Chesley Community Players. This is his first published play, and Jones said it’s possible this was its first performance in the United States. To page A-3
Bridge to honor fallen veteran Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett formally dedicated the Conner Road bridge over Bull Run Creek yesterday (Oct. 27) in memory of Corporal Lawrence E. Lett, Navy Cross and Silver Star recipient, 1st Marine Division, U.S. Marine Corps. Family members planning to attend included Cpl. Lett’s brothers: William, Sam and Horace Lett; his sister, Mary Leach; and his nephew, Mark Lett. Nicole Iddins, Horace’s adopted granddaughter, sang the National Anthem.
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The day was the 63rd anniversary of Cpl. Lett’s death. He was killed in action while serving in Korea on Oct. 27, 1952, at age 20. The bridge is located just north of E. Brushy Valley Drive. The program was held in the parking lot of Sunny View Baptist Church, just south of the bridge at 808 E. Brushy Valley Drive. Lawrence Everette Lett was born on Aug. 21, 1932, in the Fountain City community. He was the son of Grant and Hazel Wells Lett and attended Central High School.
The Navy Cross citation reads: “The Navy Cross is presented to Lawrence Everette Lett, Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Squad Leader of Company I, Third Battalion, First Marines, First Marine Division Reinforced, in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 27 October 1952. “Participating in an attack to recapture a vitally important sector of the main line of resistance To page A-3
Local leaders ‘sell’ Tennessee in Israel By Wendy Smith
Gov. Bill Haslam, Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd and 18 business leaders from Tennessee, including three from Knoxville, recently returned from a trip to Israel to “sell” Tennessee as a site for new business. The biggest challenge, Boyd says, is that the only thing most Israelis know about the state is that it’s the home of Jack Daniel’s and Elvis Presley. New York, California and even New Jersey are on the international radar. But Tennessee requires a sales pitch, and Haslam and Boyd did a great job, says Stephen Rosen, managing director of the institutional bonds division at Raymond James. Rosen, one of several Jewish community leaders who traveled with the group to give cultural guidance, says the sales pitch would’ve worked on him. “I’m ready to move to Tennessee,” he laughs.
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mance. Luckily, no one told the cast and things (mostly) went as expected. “Great job everyone, and congratulations for an excellent performance tonight. We really enjoyed the evening and being able to meet everyone afterwards. It was a special treat and worth the drive!” Cosgrove posted on Facebook. Director Gina Jones said Roger and Marilyn Cosgrove ate dinner
It was Rosen’s fourth trip to Israel. All members of the state delegation paid their own way. Israel is known for its large number of start-up companies, which Boyd partially attributes to an atmosphere of uncertainty created by political turmoil. “To start a business is not a big deal in that culture. Risk-taking is natural.” Hard work and innovation also influence the business culture. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education) is part of elementary school curriculum, and the military is heavily involved in research. But Israel would rather be a growth nation than a start-up nation, he says. The goal of the trip was to encourage business owners to grow their U.S. market from Tennessee. The state is welcoming, supportive, situated well logistically and economical to live in. But the biggest advantage may be Tennessee Promise. Two years
of tuition-free community college or technical school for the state’s high school graduates, which guarantees a future workforce, differentiates Tennessee, Boyd says. The trip was a success on a number of levels. Boyd is confident that numerous meetings with potential business partners will eventually pay off with new jobs in Tennessee. It was also inspiring, he says. Best practices were shared, and the group learned about Israel’s success in technology transfer. They were also impressed with Israel’s technical college system, ORT, and hope for future partnerships between ORT and the state’s Colleges of Applied Technology. He also values the relationships that developed among the Tennessee delegation. Rosen was thrilled to have the opportunity to participate in the trip. The group visited a kibbutz north of Tel Aviv where Clinton-
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based auto-parts manufacturer MAG was founded. It’s an example of how East Tennessee can successfully grow new business. “We’re part of the story, too. We’re part of the Welcome Wagon.” The delegation got the royal treatment, he says. Haslam met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli President Shimon Peres, and he rang the opening bell at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. One sight Rosen especially enjoyed was quiet streets with few soldiers. During the weeks that have passed since the trip, that’s changed, he says.
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hen Adron Wilson’s coveralls caught on a metal plate bolted to the ceiling of a Kentucky coal mine, it jerked him out of a fastmoving mantrip and through a tiny hole that left him breathless and bruised but nothing broken. “It jerked me so hard that I had lost my breath,� he said, recalling the 1990 accident when he was safety director of the Four Aces Mine in Arjay, Ky. “I couldn’t move my neck at all, not to the left and not to the right or up and down. It had pulled my neck so hard that it had bunched my breast muscles up and bruised them so bad they turned black. That’s the only time that I knew that I ever really, really, really hurt my neck.� But whether that incident was what led Wilson years later to the of ces of Dr. Barrett Brown, a neurosurgeon at the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Dr. Barrett Fort Sanders ReBrown gional Medical Center, is anybody’s guess. “Nobody really knows why our bodies get hit with bulging discs, degeneration and osteophytes (bone spurs),� said Dr. Brown. “Part of it is normal aging. Everybody has at least some degree of it, and some of us have more than others. Since it wasn’t a real obvious cause-effect relationship, I can’t say that it caused the condition, but it could certainly contribute to it. Any type of wear, tear or trauma above the normal would contribute more to it. I would think Mr. Wilson’s job is more physical than a lot, and crawling around in coal mines probably causes more wear
Dr. Barrett Brown performs a procedure at the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional. Adron Wilson found relief from years of pain thanks to Dr. Brown. “I feel like I am 35,� Wilson said. and tear on his joints than most of the general population.� The only thing for certain is that the neck pain that had plagued Wilson for the past ve years had grown worse. “It got to the point where it wasn’t just my neck that was hurting,� said Wilson, who now represents mine safety inspectors in conference litigation. “When I would lift my chin up to shave, it would cause my left arm to start tingling. It got to the point where I couldn’t crawl in a mine and I couldn’t extend my arms out and ride my motorcycle. I just couldn’t extend my arms and raise my head at the same time because my left arm would start tingling really hard. It was like a thousand electrical bees going down my arm and attacking my index nger and
my thumb. I knew then that I had to have it checked out.� Referred by his primary care provider’s Pineville, Ky. of ce to Dr. Brown, Wilson took his Xrays to the young doctor. “He totally impressed me as soon as he walked in,� said Wilson. “I knew that this guy knew what he was talking about. He was con dent.� After an MRI con rmed Dr. Brown’s diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy, Wilson was told he needed an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion of the C5 and C6 vertebrae. Dr. Brown explains, “What that involves is making an incision in one of the skin folds in the front of the neck off to the side a little bit, and using the body’s natural planes to separate the tissues, we work our
way back to the front of the spine and clean out the disc material to open up the passageways where the nerves run. That’s the anterior decompression part. Then, to stabilize it, we’ll put in a piece of cadaver bone. That gives it a little scaffolding for the body to lay down new bone and develop a fusion between the two vertebral bodies, and while that’s healing we use a plate that is held in place with two screws above and below – two screws are placed
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Relief much closer than you might think One is we do marketing; we take ads out in the paper and we do articles such as this for patients to know about us,� said Dr. Brown, who partners with Dr. Joel Norman in spinal, cranial, stroke and pituitary tumor surgeries. “It not only creates business, but also lets patients know what is available in their area or what is nearby.� “Dr. Norman and I also have clinics in a couple of different areas of the state, not too far from Knoxville but within a reasonable drive that we know we can always meet the patient quality that we expect, as well as making it convenient,� added Dr. Brown. “Then, if a patient does decide to have surgery with us, we’ll do that at Fort Sanders Regional and it’s not hours away for the patient and their families.� Dr. Brown, for example, recently opened a new of ce in Suite 230 of the Roane Professional Of ce Building at 8035 Roane Medical
Center in Harriman, Tenn. That clinic will be open on the rst and third Thursdays of every month. Likewise, Dr. Norman, has an additional of ce in Suite 208 of the Robert F. Thomas Building at 744 Middle Creek Road in Sevierville where he works twice monthly. They alternate of ce times at their Maryville/Alcoa clinic at 205 Corporate Place in Alcoa. “So we have clinics in these other locations twice a month, kind of broken up in the month so that if something develops, people have a couple of options to get in to see us,� said Dr. Brown. “We can always get them in at one of the other clinics if it is an immediate need.� For more information about the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional, call 865-541-2835 or go to fsregional.com/ minimallyinvasive
Back pain, leg pain, neck pain, arm pain‌ the root of the problem is often a pinched spinal nerve. The good news is that now Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s physicians use state-of-the-art minimally invasive techniques to perform spine surgery. Compared with traditional open surgery, minimally invasive surgeries offer patients many advantages, including a smaller incision, less postoperative pain, faster recovery and improved outcome. Non-surgical treatments such as physical therapy and medication should always be tried ďŹ rst. If those don’t help, surgery may be the best option.
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It’s as much a mystery as what caused Adron Wilson’s neck pain: How did his primary care provider in Pineville, Ky., know about Knoxville neurosurgeon Dr. Barrett Brown? “I don’t have a clue,� said Wilson, who was referred to Dr. Brown at the Minimally Invasive Spine Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville for treatment of his cervical radiculopathy. Dr. Brown said he was unfamiliar with the referring physician but was glad that the doctor and Wilson were able to nd him. “I’ve had a couple of patients from Kentucky, and it may be word of mouth,� Dr. Brown speculated. Such “word of mouth� referrals are common in medicine, but perhaps less noticeable are the efforts specialists like Dr. Brown make to bring care to underserved areas. “We do that a couple of ways.
in C5 and two screws are placed in C6 in this case to stabilize everything while the fusion takes place.� “When I woke up, my tingling was gone!� exclaimed Wilson. “It went very well. Fort Sanders Regional was just fabulous. All the nurses, the cleaning staff, everybody was so nice. But to be honest, since I was released, I did hard, hard manual labor that if I’d told Dr. Brown what I’d been doing, he probably would have slapped my head off. But I felt so much better doing things. I went right back to working on the deck, I went right back to work on this big wall fence that I was putting up made with crossties, I went right back on my backhoe. Not only did it not slow me down, it greatly enhanced everything I could do for the summer.� And despite having hours of accrued sick leave, Wilson was back on the job in no time at all. Since his surgery, he has already made visits to six coal mines in his district. “Today I feel like I am 35,� the 59-year-old Wilson said. “I just want everybody to know that I’m not saying good things about this guy because I can. Dr. Brown did a dandy, dandy thing for me and if I need to do something medically, Fort Sanders is where I am going to go to, and Dr. Brown is who I’m going to recommend. In fact, I have recommended Dr. Brown to two or three other guys here at work, and I do it because it’s true, it’s honest. He did what doctors are supposed to do: he took care of me. Dr. Brown has actually given my life back.�
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Greg Cox hand-turns coffee beans in an antique roaster.
Snap, crackle, pop Powell resident Greg Cox spends his days listening to snap, crackle and pop. Not cereal. Artisan-roasted coffee.
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Cox has been handling the roasting process since Don and Tracy Payne purchased The Golden Roast business more than a year ago. The roasting facility is in Powell. The Paynes run the coffee shop, located downtown, and the business end of the company. As an artisan roaster, Cox does everything by hand, using an antique roaster from the early 1900s. He employs four of five senses during roasting by looking at color, turning the beans, listening for the appropriate “crack” and smelling the roast. The roaster takes the beans to 400 degrees. Each fill of the roaster takes about 20 minutes of constant
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watching and turning to roast the beans to perfection. “The first crack during roasting sounds like popcorn. The second is more like Rice Krispies,” said Cox. “We use this one antique roaster so we can only roast so many beans at a time. We’re low tech, high quality.” All beans are imported in their natural state from other countries. “There is no coffee grown
in the continental United States,” said Cox. “We don’t have the right conditions.” Once roasted, the beans must be continuously stirred during cooling or they bake together. “There are literally 1,000 chemical reactions that happen during the roasting process,” said Cox. “Caffeine actually comes out of the bean the longer you roast it. The darker the bean, the less caffeine.”
Spoiler alert: According to Cox, espresso actually has less caffeine than regular coffee. Beans can be completely decaffeinated by a chemical process. Cox doesn’t care for that and uses a water process. Flavoring the roasted coffee is done with oils that are absorbed by the beans while they are warm. After cooling, the beans are immediately bagged for distribution to local retailers and coffee shops. Unroasted coffee beans can be stored for a year or more. Cox says that bagged coffee beans should be used within two to three weeks after purchase. He recommends a burr grinder. Once ground, the coffee should be used the same day. The Golden Roast coffee brand can be purchased from Three Rivers Market and Amelia’s Café as well as other outlets. Golden Roast coffee is served at its namesake coffee shop in downtown Knoxville, Coffee and Chocolate, The Tomato Head, the Oliver Hotel and The Front Porch in Powell. Retailers and facilities that serve The Golden Roast are added weekly. Many local retailers have a signature Golden Roast blend that isn’t sold to anyone else. “Our prices are competitive, but we go for quality,” said Payne. “Every batch is unique.” Info: www.tgroast.com or 544-1004.
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which was previously overrun by the enemy, Corporal Lett fearlessly led his squad through intense enemy artillery, mortar and small-arms fire to reach his portion of the objective and single-handedly charged several enemy bunkers, hurling hand grenades and firing his rifle to rout the hostile troops. “Although painfully wounded at point-blank range by hostile machinegun fire from one emplacement, he succeeded in completely destroying the enemy position. “When his men became separated from the platoon, he gallantly continued in the attack until the enemy was forced to withdraw and then reorganized his squad to assault a second objective. Throughout this action, he constantly exposed himself to withering hostile fire and, moving into an enemy trench, courageously engaged three enemy soldiers
in hand-to-hand combat until he fell, mortally wounded. “By his indomitable fighting spirit, valiant leadership and marked fortitude in the face of heavy odds, Corporal Lett served to inspire all who observed him and contributed in large measure to the success of his squad in accomplishing its mission. His great personal valor reflects the highest credit upon himself and sustains and enhances the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service. “He gallantly gave his life for his country.” He was also awarded the Silver Star for Conspicuous Gallantry during the fight for Bunker Hill in August 1952. In addition, Cpl. Lett was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Action Ribbon, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Korean War Service Medal. He is buried at Lynnhurst Cemetery.
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■ Broadacres Homeowners Association. Info: Steven Goodpaster, generalgood paster@gmail.com.
■ Fountain City Halloween, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at First Baptist Church. ■ Halloween alternative, 6 a.m., World for Christ Church Inc., 4611 Central Ave Pike. Sponsored by Club Shabach. A safe alternative for the kids and the whole family. Info: 255-1837.
■ Knox North Lions Club meets 1 p.m. each first and third Wednesday, Puleo’s Grille, 110 Cedar Lane. Info: facebook.com/knoxnorth lions. ■ Northwest Democratic Club meets 6 p.m. each first Monday, Austin’s Steak & Homestyle Buffet, 900 Merchant Drive. Info: Nancy Stinnette, 688-2160, or Peggy Emmett, 687-2161. ■ Norwood Homeowners Association. Info: Lynn Redmon, 688-3136. ■ Powell Alumni Association banquet is the first Saturday in April. Info: Vivian McFalls, 607-8775. ■ Powell Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first Thursday, Lions Club Building, 7145 Old Clinton Pike. Info: tnpowelllions@ gmail.com.
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in the small town where he lived. Johnny Cash’s tour bus did break down there. A masked bank robber was captured after wearing a work shirt with his name, “Larry,” stitched across the pocket. Oh, and he forgot his wife was at work at the bank that day. Chuck Denney was hilarious as a love-starved rancher who fell for every woman in sight, even the ones who were guys in disguise. Mark Johnson was a hoot in a brief appearance as a flasher/peddler. Gary Mullins says a lot with a look as Larry the crook. Joseph “Red Paint” Spilman probably gained
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Once again Carly Johnson was outstanding. In her ninth performance with the Powell Playhouse, the graduate of the L&N STEM Academy carried much of the dialogue and realistically sang Patsy Cline tunes including “Crazy.” Her opening scene, using a ketchup bottle as a microphone, heralded a funny play to come. And ultimately, that’s what makes a play. It takes good acting and strong directing for sure. But the audience’s enjoyment is determined by the skill of the author. And in “Java Shop,” Roger Cosgrove has a winner. He told Jones many of the scenes actually happened
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and the Knoxville arts community. Next up is the annual arts and craft show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at Jubilee five pounds eating donuts Banquet Center. Free admis- ■ Veterans Benefit Health Fair, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, as Constable Larsen, and sion and a variety of gifts and Nov. 10, Cansler Y, 616 JessaSteven Miller gained ev- crafts available. Info: Mona mine St. Free and open to all eryone’s support as Kevin, Napier at 256-7428. veterans and military person“The Best Christmas the bus mechanic who just nel in the community. Info: could not express his love Pageant Ever” will be perPam Williams, pwilliams@ formed Dec. 10-12 at One for Josie (Carly Johnson). ymcaknoxville.org. Powell Playhouse is a Life Church in Powell Place great asset to both Powell Center.
Gary Mullins (left) and Grant McMahan (right) are prison escapees who get new duds from a stolen suitcase – that belonged to a heavyweight woman. Server Debra Pope looks skeptical.
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■ Halloween shows by Smoky Mountain Storytellers, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, Sweet Fanny Adams Theater, (Light #3) 461 Parkway, Gatlinburg. Suggested donations: $7 at door, $5 for seniors, students and groups. Info: Gatlinburg. com; smokymountaintellers. com; 429-1783 or 984-0246. ■ Harvest festival and trunk or treat, 4-6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, Sharon Baptist Church, 7916 Pedigo Road. Games, door prizes, bounce houses, the balloon man, food. Trunk or treat, 5:45 p.m.
■ Healthy holiday appetizers cooking class, noon Wednesday, Nov. 4, Healthy Living Kitchen, Suite E-170, University of Tennessee Medical Center Heart Lung Vascular Institute. Info/registration: 305-6970.
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Kentucky is a must-win game Close against Alabama was a treat, but now the scene shifts. Kentucky is another must-win football game for Tennessee. There are no ifs, ands or buts. The Vols always beat the Wildcats. That is simply how it is. A loss would be unacceptable. No matter how well it might be explained away – injuries, youth, inexperience, one misstep or just a matter of inches – it would cause thousands of fans, holding onto the bandwagon with one hand, to disengage and declare the season a disappointment or even a disaster. In addition to the trou-
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bling issue of what the Vols can and can’t do, there is a complex other side to this conflict. I am told Kentucky has identified Tennessee as a team it can whip. The Wildcats are counting on toughness, old-fashioned blocking and tackling. Oh my. For generations, Kentucky has used its underdog status as motivation.
The Wildcats have lost 29 of the past 30 games against Tennessee. You and I know some were too close for comfort. We are convinced that the old rivals are much closer than the series record implies. Things are changing. There is a new outlook in Lexington. The stadium looks great after a manymillion-dollar renovation. Coach Mark Stoops has refined the focus and generated energy. Stoops’ family ties in Ohio are paying off in recruiting. UK has 21 players that Ohio State didn’t want. There was a misstatement above, in the second
paragraph. The Vols do not always beat the Wildcats. Kentucky won in 1984. Ronald Reagan had just been re-elected president (he carried 49 states). The Russians boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics. The French identified the AIDS virus. John Majors was coach of the Volunteers. The UK score was 17-12. That was too long ago for me to remember how Kentucky did it. I do recall that Tennessee had very good players – Tony Robinson, Johnnie Jones, strong offensive linemen, big names on defense (Dale Jones) and excellent kickers, Jimmy Colquitt and Fuad Reveiz.
Butter and egg bureaucracy Red tape hinders local business
In case you missed it, Peg Hambright owns Magpies Bakery on Central Street near the old Sears building. It’s a great business that’s thriving in a long-neglected area of Knoxville. Hambright has been trying to install dancing butter and egg cartoon characters (affectionately known as Mr. Butter and Ms. Egg) on the rooftop of Magpies. No problem, right? Wrong. City officials, and most recently the Board of Zoning Appeals, have prevented Hambright from installing the butter and egg characters because it (allegedly) conflicts with Knoxville’s sign ordinance. Why do we have a sign ordinance? One reason is that Knox County has about
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100 miles of forested, undeveloped ridges. These scenic views are Knoxville’s greatest natural resource and add tremendous value. It’s tough to enjoy the views when there’s a billboard in the way. City Council was correct to try to protect these viewscapes. Of course, successful businesses like Magpies add value, too. It’s easy to support restrictions that keep the big Pilot or Weigel’s signs off local streets. But it’s more difficult to support a bureaucracy that prohibits Peg Hambright from having dancing butter and egg
characters on top of Magpies Bakery. Here’s hoping Hambright appeals the BZA decision to City Council and that council allows the signage. If not, council should amend the sign ordinance to allow rooftop signage and encourage Hambright and others to continue investing in the Central Street corridor. Five voters? Early voting in the city of Knoxville regular election wraps up this week. Only 57 folks turned out to vote on the first day of early voting. In fact, on that first day of voting, only five votes were cast at the South Knox location. Five voters. All day. The simplest solution would be to align city elections with the county election cycle. This would put the city primary election on the same ballot as the presidential preference pri-
mary election every four years. In nonpresidential, even-numbered years, the city primary election would appear on the same ballot as the May county primary election. The city general election would be held in August every even-numbered year with the county general election ballot. Moving city elections would dramatically increase voter turnout. Also, avoiding stand-alone elections would save city taxpayers nearly $500,000 every four-year cycle. Trump mania: I recently saw an early20-something-year-old guy at a rock concert wearing one of Donald Trump’s red, throwback, “Make America Great Again” hats. I didn’t have a chance to ask him whether he was wearing the hat in support or irony, but he kept getting high-fives
I suppose Kentucky had some good players, but none are in the Hall of Fame. After 26 consecutive victories, Tennessee lost to Kentucky in 2011. Oh boy, do I remember that. The end of the streak was the beginning of the end of the Derek Dooley era. The Wildcats won without a quarterback. Amazing accomplishment. Certain Volunteers did not appear particularly interested in the outcome. So much has changed since then for Tennessee. Maybe it has really changed up north. Or maybe not. My two best friends in Kentucky say the Big Blue never did like the pumpkin orange
and still doesn’t. They said unkind things about Phillip Fulmer’s physique and still chuckle. They didn’t like Bruce Pearl much at all. They still don’t sing “Rocky Top.” If Kentucky foils tradition and spoils the second half of the Tennessee season, there will be another vivid illustration of the wonderful, terrible difference in happiness and heartbreak, a joyous celebration on one side and much gnashing of teeth on the other. If Tennessee wins the must-win game, another must-win game will follow. And then another.
and laughs in the crowd. Successful political campaigns transcend politics to become cultural phenomena. Regardless of how you feel about Trump’s politics, the guy has synthesized celebrity and conservative populism in a way that
resonates with a lot of folks disenchanted with Washington. It’s going to be an interesting 2016 campaign. Make no mistake, Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States.
Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.
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Happy Birthday to Wanda U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan and his wife, Lynn, at right, were among a group of friends who gathered to surprise longtime educator and former Knox County Commissioner Wanda Moody, second from left, with a birthday party. Former Knox County Republican Party chair Mike Prince presented the birthday cake. Photo by Anne Hart
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New DA tries new anti-truancy approach Tears, excuses and a dose of public humiliation were the main features of the periodic parent roundups that used to be a staple of local TV news. The district attorney general would send out threatening letters to parents – typically single mothers – of chronically truant kids and require them to come in and explain why their children were missing so much school. Today, there’s a new DA in town, and she’s trying a new approach. T h e shiny green bicycle sitting in the front lobby Charme Allen of Maynard Elementary School is tangible proof of Charme Allen’s change in direction. The sign on the handlebars – “Perfect Attendance = Free Bike” – is enticing, and Maynard principal Kim Wilburn-Cullom says that 66 of her students are on target to win one of these if they get through the fall semester without missing a day of school. “We’re encouraging kids to have perfect attendance, and they look at that bike every morning when they’re coming in,” said WilburnCullom, who wants it known that attendance is already pretty good at her school (from 94.2 percent three years ago, to 92.4 the following year to 95.4 per-
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cent last year). Nonetheless, she appreciates Allen’s efforts. “Students need to be in school, and at this age, attendance is a parental issue, not a student issue, and there’s a domino effect – if you don’t go to school, you’re probably not going to be a productive citizen – and I admire anyone who’s trying to break that cycle.” Allen and Wilburn-Cullom both serve on a Knox County Schools-sponsored committee that is studying disparities in educational outcomes. The committee Maynard Elementary School is also studying a number of shows off a prize bicycle. issues, including why more minority students are suspended for disciplinary isare made by juvenile court. sues. The Tennessee Depart“We’re looking for solutions to a bigger problem. ment of Education considParents need to have de- ers students truant when cent-paying jobs, get up in they have five or more unthe morning and get their excused absences. Knox kids off to school, and kids County Schools allows parneed to be here every single ents and guardians 10 writday,” Wilburn-Cullom said. ten excuses for illness each Knox County no longer year, and Allen’s office conhas a stand-alone “truancy ducts meetings for parents center” like the grant-fund- of students whose absences ed facility run by Allen’s exceed that number. Final note: Videotapes predecessor, Randy Nichols, although there is a Sat- of City Council, County urday School for students Commission, school board with attendance problems and both city and county at the Boys and Girls Club. zoning boards have long Assignments to this school been available to the pub-
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lic, either through Community TV or the agency itself (Knox County Schools maintains school board videos). Metropolitan Planning Commission has been the only holdout. Citizens or journalists who wanted to review past meetings were required to order specific tapes and pick them up at the MPC office. Soon after MPC’s new executive director took over in July, he announced that the archaic policy will change, and now the videotapes are available online. Way to go, Gerald Green!
Young Life offers teens support, joy The banquet sponsors were a who’s who of Knoxville. The table hosts looked like a Finbarr Saunders endorsement ad (not the same names, necessarily, but a huge bunch of them). More than a thousand folks gathered at the Knoxville Convention Center for roast beef and potatoes at the 2015 banquet for Knoxville Young Life. If you’ve not heard of this group, you’re obviously not in high school. I learned about it through my friend Justin Bailey. He’s a volunteer leader and his wife, Kristin, is on the 12-member staff. Amazingly, the annual budget is more than $1 million and the group raised over $700,000 of it at the October banquet. Gov. Bill Haslam speaking did not hurt. Bill and Crissy Haslam were Young Life kids in high school and remain adult leaders, I learned, and Bill has served on the national board. He said Young Life was there for him as a 16-yearold student at Webb School
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whose mother died unexpectedly. He came to appreciate the group even more as a parent. “Forty-one years ago I began an adventure,” said Haslam. In a pointedly nonpolitical speech, he told the assembled adults what he’s learned: ■ The power of a volunteer. “We’ve got 200 volunteers in Knoxville and you could have found them last Friday night standing in the rain at a football game.” God teaches us in uncomfortable situations, he said. “Crissy and I have had a front row seat to Young Life.” ■ People giving back. “This is a different town because of Young Life.” And the ministry continues to grow, now reaching from Moscow to Madrid. He recalled a teen telling
a volunteer, “Every time it mattered, you showed up.” ■ Outreach. Knoxville Young Life has the largest ministry to pregnant teens; it has an outreach to students at Tennessee School for the Deaf. ■ Government can fix potholes, but not hearts. “Forty-one years ago I never knew I’d have a government job,” Haslam joked. Mindy Meyer followed the governor, putting a gentle squeeze on attendees to open their checkbooks. “You help decide whether we grow, maintain or decline,” she said. Checkbooks flew out. The governor, TV guy Russell Biven and some other Young Life leaders did an impromptu dance on stage to conclude the show. Sadly, I didn’t get a picture. Bart Elkins later said he was surprised at the lack of politics in Haslam’s talk and at his willingness to share personal details. The Young Life members have a secret handshake, it seems. With shared history and a shared vision, they simply stand and give their
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Knoxville has had only one citizen be a member of the U.S. Supreme Court – Edward Terry Sanford. If you would like to learn more about him, you should attend the symposium at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. John Scheb, former dean of the UT Political Science Department and current professor of political science, will speak. Meeting is open to the public and sponsored by the U.S. District Court Historical Society and the East Tennessee Historical Society. Sanford was born in Knoxville in 1865 at the end of the Civil War. He graduated from the University of Tennessee and Harvard Sanford Law School. Justice Sanford served on the court from Jan. 29, 1923, appointed by President Warren Harding on the recommendation of then-Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Both Taft and Harding were from Ohio, and Taft was the only president to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Unlike today’s lengthy Senate confirmation process, Sanford was nominated on Jan. 23, 1923, and confirmed six days later on Jan. 29. Previously, he had been a district federal judge for both the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee, having been nominated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. In that case he was nominated on May 14, 1908, and confirmed four days later on May 18. Such swift confirmations simply could not happen in today’s world. He died unexpectedly from uremic poisoning from a tooth extraction on March 8, 1930, the same day that Chief Justice Taft died. He is buried in Knoxville’s Greenwood Cemetery.
story. No need for introductions. Will Acker, who seemed to be in charge, said the tradition of Knoxville Young Life is to tell teens they are loved just as they are by the God of the universe. Young Life also has a tradition of adventure and laughter, he said. “High school kids live in a dark place. We take the light into dark places. “Each high school has its own club. “We go where high school students are – ballgames, practices, recitals, rehearsals, work, wherever kids are – all in an effort to get to know students. “These relationships are the foundation of Young Life.” With 18 clubs, the nonde■ Politicians were out Sunday, nominational group plans shaking hands and enjoying to expand to Union County the day as the city closed this year. Central Street from the Happy How can you not pitch in? Holler Freezo to the Old City. I wrote a check, prob- ■ Finbarr Saunders was camably the smallest one there. paigning hard, standing with That mildly warm roast neighborhood guy Ronnie beef dinner cost more than Collins in the middle of the the prime rib at O’Charley’s, street. but I came away humming a ■ Saunders lost his county happy tune. commission seat to Jeff
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■ Oftentimes, it is the men and women who labor their whole adult careers for government who make it work and are the holders of institutional knowledge. Such is the case at the Knox County Election Commission, where top staff can change due to the political winds, but there are three employees who have a combined 84 years of service. They are Lorrhonda Myers with 30 years in January, plus Linda Colquitt and Ingrida Campbell, who have served 27 years each. They are there day in and day out. They will make sure the Nov. 3 election goes smoothly. ■ Phil Keith, Knoxville’s longest-serving police chief in the past 70 years, was recently awarded the John and Reve Walsh Award in Tallahassee, Fla., at the Missing Children Day ceremony. Gov. Rick Scott was present. Keith is the former director of the Amber Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program of the U.S. Department of Justice. Amber Alerts directly aided in the rescue of 61 children in 2014. ■ The recent city primary had candidates in all three at-large City Council contests winning over 50 percent of the vote. So why does the city force these people to run a second time five weeks later when fewer people may vote? It is possible, if not probable, that the second-place person on Sept. 29 becomes first place on Nov. 3 with less total voting. Well, the simple answer is that it is required by the city charter. The writers apparently never thought about it. It is time for a charter amendment to change this.
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Bells Campground Baptist Church feeds supper to neighborhood kids prior to a puppet show and outdoor games. Leading the way are Jeff Fraker and Alex Tillman.
Travelers Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. (Genesis 26:3, RSV) This may sound like a book report, and in a way, it is. I found The Sojourner on my mother’s bookshelf and decided it was time to read it. I knew nothing about it, except that it was written by Marjorie K. Rawlings, author of The Yearling. The story is of two brothers, one who stays on the family farm, even though he longs to travel and see more of America. The other goes west, and makes a fortune prospecting for gold. The story is told from the homebody brother’s perspective. Given the title of the book, however, I kept expecting the traveling brother to come home, to take up his share of the responsibility on the family farm. He did come home, but only for a visit, and only to urge his brother to join him in his search for riches. The brother declined, choosing to stay on the farm. He loved the land, and he loved the life he
Bells Campground Baptist pushes family ministry By Sandra Clark The congregation of Bells Campground Baptist Church hosted neighborhood youth for dinner, games and prizes … but the highlight was a puppet show orchestrated by Jeff Fraker. The Fall Festival was Oct. 17 from 4-8 p.m. It was free for all ages. It was the kickoff of sorts for a family ministry Fraker is pushing at the church. Part of this program is the Can-Do Club, a worship service for kids in grades 1-5. Fraker is as-
sisted by Alex Tillman, a senior at Grace Christian Academy. The Can-Do Club will launch at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1. Fraker calls it a children’s worship/learning time featuring puppets, skits, role-playing, games and songs. It focuses on Biblical truths, Godly principles and life applications. And it’s filled with fun, he said. Bells Campground Baptist Church is located at 7816 Bells Campground The alter ego for puppeteer Jeff Fraker (at left) is heading for Road in Powell. trouble as his friend Oakley talks him into skipping his chores.
FAITH NOTES Community services ■ Cross Roads Presbyterian, 4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday. ■ Glenwood Baptist Church, 7212 Central Avenue Pike, is accepting appointments for the John 5 Food Pantry. Info: 938-2611. Your call will be returned.
SENIOR NOTES ■ Karns Senior Center: 8042 Oak Ridge Highway 951-2653 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
■ Ridgeview Baptist Church, 6125 Lacy Road, offers Children’s Clothes Closet and Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m. each third Saturday. Free to those in the 37912/37849 ZIP code area.
Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each Friday. Info: Edna Hensley, 771-7788.
■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory Road, hosts Recovery at Powell at 6 p.m. Tuesdays. The program embraces people who struggle with addiction, compulsive behaviors, loss and life challenges. Info: recoveryatpowell.com or info@ powellchurch.com.
Vendors needed ■ Ball Camp Baptist Church, 2412 Ball Camp Byington Road, is seeking vendors for its “Holiday Bazaar” to be held
9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. Booths are $30 and $50. Application deadline: Oct. 31. Info/application: Amanda, Awright5237@gmail.com. ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7754 Oak Ridge Highway, is seeking vendors for the annual Craft Fair to be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21 in the family life center. Spaces: $40. Bring your own table or rent one for $10. Info/reservations: 690-1060.
Oakwood Senior Living residents give high fives to kids from the neighborhood who visited to sing and brought baked goods.
Offerings include: card games; dance classes; exercise programs; mahjong; art classes; farkle dice games; dominoes; a computer lab; billiards room; outdoor grill and kitchen area. ■ Halls Senior Center: 4405 Crippen Road 922-0416 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday Hours vary Offerings include: card games; exercise classes; dance classes; craft classes; Tai Chi; movie matinee each Tuesday; Senior Meals program, noon each Wednesday. Register for: “Party in Pink,” noon, Wednesday, Oct. 28, includes prizes, refreshments and a special balloon release ceremony; Humana seminar, 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30; AARP Safe Driver Class, noon-4 p.m. Thursday-Friday, Oct. 29-30 (382-5822). ■ Senior Citizens Information and Referral Service 2247 Western Ave. 524-2786 knoxseniors.org Provides information about services for older persons (age 60+) and persons with disabilities who live in Knoxville or Knox County and referrals to the following services when needed: health services, employment services, housing, transportation, legal services, recreation, support groups, emergency assistance, in-home services and minor home repair. ■ Knox County Senior Services City County Building 400 Main St., Suite 615 215-4044 Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Oakwood Senior Living has opened with 22 residents and 63 rooms, said executive director Amy Wise. Staff are quickly forming partnerships with community groups who are reaching out to support the facility. The former Oakwood Elementary School has returned to its glory as the focal point of the Christenberry community. Emerald Youth Foundation is one such partner.
““We We have havee ccreated reatted d iintergenntergenerational activities and a lot of summer programs,” said Wise. Oakwood Baptist Church brings Sunday services to the facility and leads Bingo on Fridays. The UT College of Social Work has an internship program at Oakwood, sending college students to work with the senior residents. Programming includes Zumba and tai chi instruction and art.
Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, hosts Morning Breakfast and Afternoon Hang Out for youth each Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 6901060 or beaverridgeumc.org. ■ Inskip UMC, 714 Cedar Lane, will host a Noah’s Ark Animal
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and his wife had built together. There was sadness, to be sure. More than one baby was born to them and died within hours. There were other losses, other disappointments. But there was a son who lived, and who went off to get an education. Again the farmer saw his own dreams lived out by a relative, someone who was not tied to the land. It was only at the end of the book, that I realized who the sojourner was. The one character who had grown, had moved beyond himself, had come so far as to be a totally different person, was the farmer, the one who had sacrificed and loved and given. It’s a lesson well worth the learning.
workshop 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. Cost: $30. Includes: choosing a furry pal, stuffing it, tucking in a wish, personalizing a T-shirt for it, naming it and creating a birth certificate. Noah’s Ark mascot Mogo Monkey available for pictures. Proceeds benefit Partners for Children. Info/registration: 689-9516.
Carolyn Cottrell, a local pianist, performed for residents of Morning Pointe of Powell. She performs throughout the community, but mainly for churches and East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. Cottrell, pictured here with resident Harry “Doc” Ogden, played show tunes and hymns. She also brought some CDs for the assisted living residents.
Emerald Avenue United Eme Methodist Church brings weekly Bible study. On Friday, Oct. 30, residents are set to hand out trick or treat candy to costumed visitors from Christenberry Elementary School and Emerald Youth Foundation. “Come on over,” says Wise. It’s from 6:30-7:30 p.m. “That’s an activity both the kids and the residents ■ Morning Pointe offers trick or treating will enjoy.” Kids are invited to Morning Pointe of Powell, 7700 DanInfo: Amy Wise at 540- naher Drive, for safe trick or treating 6-8 p.m. Thursday, 6243. Oct. 29. Info: 865-686-5771. ■
Residents of Oakwood Senior Living play Bingo, hosted by volunteers at Oakwood Baptist Church. Photos by Melissa Hensley
Family Night at Elmcroft of Halls
All are invited 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, to Elmcroft of Halls, 7521 Andersonville Pike, for an open house and family night. Meet the new executive director, Chris L. Tharp, and medical director Dr. Jeffrey Summers. Learn about the new on-site house physical, speech and occupational therapy, available for residents and the community too. Health care providers and Elderlaw professionals will be available to answer questions and provide information for families exploring senior care. Info: 865-925-2668. ■ Super Senior Bingo is played at 2 Chris Tharp p.m. each third Thursday at no cost to attendees. RSVP to 865-925-2668. ■ Alzheimer’s Support Group meets 6-7 p.m. each third Thursday. RSVP to Rose Davis, 865-925-2668.
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Thumbs up, Central High! Third-grade students at Brickey-McCloud Elementary worked hard to critique children’s books written by students in Central High School’s creative-writing class.
The project gave the elementary school students an opportunity to read the books closely and think critically. It also gave the high school students some realworld feedback on their work.
Grace Hickman and Trey Purdom work hard to give a book review. Brielle Johnson and Breanna Sanderson read a book written by Central High School students. Photos submitted
Jimmie Mathews, affectionately known as Mamaw, works with Pleasant Ridge Elementary first-grade students Jerome Brewer and Lennan Milligan at the reading center. Photo by R. White
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Lights on after school Students at Norwood Elementary work out with Zumba instructor Tracy Weaver during “Lights on After School.” The event helped to shine a light on what happens at the school after 3 p.m. Boys and Girls Club of Norwood hosts after-school care at the school and chose to focus on fitness for the evening. Other activities in the program include a gardening club, music and Girls Inc. Photo by R. White
KIDS NOTES ■ Powell Elementary will celebrate its second annual “HALL-o-ween” 5-7 p.m. at the school. Students and their families are invited to come and get some real treats as they moan and groan their way through the not-so-ghostly halls of PES, collecting candy, getting pictures made and seeing what costumes their teachers and school staff have created. This is a great chance for some family fun, and each student is encouraged to attend with a family member or two. Entry will be through the courtyard doors on the bus-dock side of the building.
■ Veterans Day Observance: Powell Elementary is collecting pictures and information about student family members who are veterans or are currently serving. The information will be displayed on a Military Wall of Honor in the front hall of the school. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, the secondgraders will present a program of patriotic and military music under the direction of Allison Phillips and Rebecca Humphreys. Community and family veterans are encouraged and welcome to attend – in uniform is even better! Pictures and veteran informa-
tion need to be sent in to school with the child no later than Monday, Nov. 2. Forms were sent home but may also be downloaded from the school website. ■ Powell High The junior class of PHS is selling community T-shirts to benefit the class. The shirts are long-sleeved gray with the state of Tennessee image on the front in orange and the tri-star emblem with “Panther Traditions” in orange on the back. Cost is $15 per shirt. To order, contact Karsten at karstenmiller44@gmail.com or Rachel at rachelcmhurley@gmail.com.
To be called grandmother, nana or mamaw is a special thing. To know that you have touched the hearts of hundreds of elementaryschool children is extra special. Jimmie Mathews spends every Tuesday at Pleasant Ridge Elementary in her granddaughter Kara Israel’s classroom. The children know that she will be stopping by to listen to them read, work on classroom skills and sometimes just chat. Mamaw Mathews spends a lot of her volunteer time at the reading center, listening as students work on special words and read a book to her. During the warmer months, the reading table is outside on the deck of Israel’s classroom, and many times the readers are greeted by a chipmunk or other furry friend. When asked about their time with Mamaw, Chyanne Floyd responded that they read to
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Knoxville Zoo is economic driver By Sandra Clark Halls resident Alison Travis brought the Knoxville Zoo’s message to the Halls Business and Professional Association. The Zoo has a huge economic impact, she said, rivaled only by UT football. With 53 acres, 146 on staff, 900 animals and more than 400,000 visitors per year, the zoo is “the best product” to market. Travis should know. She has 20-plus years in zoo marketing. This year’s big news was the birth of two baby gorillas. Their actions are broadAlison Travis, marketing professional with the Knoxville Zoo, cast daily with a webcam inholds a Polish hen called Phyllis Diller by zoo staff. Photos by S. Clark stalled by WBIR-TV. “They
are starting to be toddlers,” said Travis. Next up, the zoo will demolish the old rhino building to build an Asian exhibit. The best time to see animals is early, she said in answer to a question. The big cats sleep about 21 hours in a 24-hour cycle. The zoo offers a night safari each month, and special tours can be arranged through the development office. Notes: State Rep. Bill Dunn suggested a zoo membership as a family Christmas gift. “My grandkids can go any time and then come home and tell me what ani-
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because of road construction in Halls. ■ Charles Busler, county commissioner, said electronic voting machines will be installed for the commission. The machines will record all votes and announce them at the same time.
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At 80 years old, North Knoxville resident D. Smith says that he is still “foolin’ with music.” He says he fell in love with country music when he was 5 years old. “My two older sisters sang and played and were very good. They were offered a chance to perform on the Barn Dance show in Knoxville,” he said. “Our dad wouldn’t let them go.” Smith’s older brother went to fight in World War II and left him a guitar. He picked it up and taught himself to play. An opportunity to play publicly didn’t come along until years later. Raised on a farm, Smith worked the land with horses. He says when he was working in the fields he would sing down the rows and all the way back all day long. When he was 17 he thought he was going to get paid about $200 for helping his dad bring in a tobacco crop. “My dad only handed me a twenty. It was disappointing, but I didn’t say a word. As soon as I turned 18, I moved out.” In his early years Smith opened for and played with some of the top names in country music such as Jim Ed Brown, Loretta Lynn, the Osborne Brothers and Charlie Walker. Walker was a member of the Grand Ole Opry for more than 40 years and is probably best remembered for his novelty hit “Don’t Squeeze My Sharmon.” Smith says Walker has always been his idol. He always wanted to work with Ernest Tubb but says he never got that chance. Walker wanted Smith to come down and play the Opry. Smith says he couldn’t deal with the stage fright, so he never went. He
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was also offered a recording contract at one time. To play in clubs, Smith says, he calmed his nerves by taking a few drinks. This continued for years until his physician told him he wouldn’t survive if he didn’t stop drinking. “If I had signed a contract I would have never stopped drinking,” he said. “I definitely believe there is a God up there. I haven’t had a drink in 29 years.” Smith got a barber’s license and went to work cutting hair to pay the bills. He still cuts hair on occasion. “I couldn’t make a living at that either when long hair got popular in the 1970s,” he said with a laugh. Smith continues to play guitar and sing country music professionally. His favorite style is ballads. He likes to perform songs by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Mel Tillis. He says he could once sing like Hank Williams. “Then my voice changed when I was a teenager, and I don’t sound like nobody but me.” Smith still works shows when he gets a chance but says it’s slow right now. Those interested in hiring him for a show should call 232-2699.
BUSINESS NOTES ■ Greg McMurry is an equity partner with Rather & Kittrell. He has been the chief operating officer of the firm since August 2007. McMurry oversees business operations so the partners, advisors and staff can spend time with clients. He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from UT. ■ Lisa Hurst, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, is leaving at year’s end to take a similar position in Scottsdale, Arizona. Hurst served Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley for 30 years, including the past four as president and CEO. ■ Sandra Parsons has joined First Community Mortgage as branch manager in Knoxville, FCM’s newest retail branch. Parsons was previously a loan originator for Mortgage Investors Group. Parsons has received multiple awards by the Knoxville Mortgage Bankers Association for high
production numbers. ■ Sara Pinnell, founder and director of design, said Hedstrom Design won awards from the Tennessee Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for projects including courtyard of Twin City Nissan, the outdoor classroom and study area at the Lower School for Webb School of Knoxville, and the urban courtyard of Knoxville’s Armature Building. ■ Thomas Kemp is director of National College’s Knoxville campus. He previously was vice president of operations and research at Higher Learning Technology LLC in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The U.S. Army veteran received degrees from the University of Akron. ■ John Blum is operations vice president in the Knoxville region office of Messer Construction Co. His local projects have included the nearly $14 million Scripps Networks Technology and Data Center, the $14 million Carter Elementary School and the $38 million Clayton Center for the Arts at Maryville College.
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Festival prize makes director’s goal ‘easier’ By Betsy Pickle In between directing grisly true-crime TV shows and shooting wedding videos, Chad Cunningham is thinking about his latest and most ambitious project. He has approximately 10 months to make his first feature film. Cunningham won the grand prize at the 7-Day Shootout at September’s Knoxville Film Festival with his film “Space Cadet.” The festival and the Visit Knoxville Film Office came up with $20,000 to help the winner turn his or her short into a feature. Participants in the shootout were allowed a month for preproduction, and the traditional requirement to work within a specific genre was removed. When Cunningham won, many weren’t surprised because
he had received the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2014 festival for the short “Daisy.” But considering Cunningham first picked up a camera just a couple of years ago, the feat is pretty amazing. Cunningham moved to Knoxville four years ago not as a film-school graduate but as “a regular college dropout.” The Charleston, S.C., native had attended Charleston Southern University for three years and still was undecided on a major. “Didn’t know what I wanted to do, what I was passionate about, so I stopped going into debt for school,” he says. “A couple of years ago I picked up a camera for the first time and figured out that was what I loved.” Cunningham, who
works at Central Baptist Church of Fountain City as a Family Life Center assistant, was going on a church mission trip to Romania, and he was given an old camera to document the group’s activities. Once he came back and edited the highlights, he started notching new jobs on his resume, including wedding videography for JoPhoto and freelance directing for Jupiter Entertainment (the grisly TV shows). He also formed his own company, Wild Heart Studios, to produce music videos and his own films, including “The Son,” which won third place for narrative short in the main section of last month’s festival. He was hesitant about entering the 7-Day Shootout this year until the $20,000 prize was announced. He
Our Brand Is Crisis In “Our Brand Is Crisis,” opening Friday, broken-down political strategist Jane (Sandra Bullock), with campaign manager Nell (Ann Dowd), will sell her soul to beat her archrival as she tries to help a presidential candidate lagging in the polls in a war-torn South American country. Billy Bob Thornton, Antony Mackie and Joaquim de Almeida co-star for director David Gordon Green.
had already set a goal for himself of shooting a feature film in 2016. “This kind of made that goal a little easier and put it on a timeline,” he says. So far, Cunningham has created an outline and a framework for his script. He hopes to get the OK on them and finish the script by the end of the year so he can start preproduction in January. In the short, young Anna (Izzy Fenech) is obsessed with space and with seeing her astronaut father again. Cunningham’s idea for the feature is to take Anna about 20 years into the future, when she is a 30-year-old with her own daughter, struggling with her dreams of adventure and her responsibility to her family. The short will be “an important piece of history to my main character,” says Cunningham, who hopes to recast Fenech – who won an acting award at the shootout – as adult Anna’s daughter. He’s grateful to have Curt Willis of the Visit Knoxville Film Office and Keith McDaniel, executive director of the KFF, as his executive producers. “They’ve both produced numerous feature-length films, and … it’s great to have such experienced guys to lean on and ask questions and be a sounding board,” he says. “Right now they’re just giving me my freedom to write and be creative and come up with the best story I can.” Cunningham hopes this feature is just a start. “My goal is to get to the place where all I’m doing is directing movies. That’s my end-all, be-all goal.”
Director Chad Cunningham with star Izzy Fenech on the set of the award-winning short film “Space Cadet.” Photo submitted
And while he doesn’t mind relocating, he thinks it’s possible to carve out his career in Knoxville. “I think it’s becoming easier and easier to be a filmmaker where you are or travel where you need to be,” he says. “I’d love to be part of Knoxville becoming
a film hub and really growing this area. “I’m gonna try my best to do the best I can with my film because I want the opportunity to be there for another filmmaker next year and hopefully get some more money, make a bigger film.”
Two musical Knoxville summers By Carol Shane One of the best Halloween costume parties in town happens at the Knoxville Museum of Art this Friday when the popular “Alive After Five” series hosts “Boys’ Night Out.” The 11-member band, still going strong after 30 years together, plays brassy arrangements of good-time dance music. There will also be food available from Gus’s Grill, so put on your best creepy couture and come on down to the KMA. The show starts at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30. Tickets/info: 865-934-2039, or mgill@knoxart.org. This weekend the University of Tennessee School of Music and Department of Theatre will present a landmark program that has nothing to do with Halloween and everything to do with Knoxville.
“Knoxville: Summers of 1915 and 2015,” an evening of music, poetic readings and historical reflections, has been months in the making. Among its highlights is the performance of Ellen Reid and Royce Vavrek’s “Knoxville: Summer of 2015.” Both Reid, an internationally known composer and sound artist originally from Oak Ridge, and Canadian-born Vavrek, highly regarded as an operatic librettist, playwright and filmmaker, visited Knoxville “a year ago,” according to James Fellenbaum, UT’s director of orchestras. Vavrek wrote a libretto and delivered it to Reid, who composed the music during the actual summer of 2015. The piece, of course, has its inspiration in American composer Samuel Barber’s
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wistful, evocative “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” with text by James Agee, which will also be performed. Though plans are not yet finalized, the Reid/Vavrek work is intended to be premiered by a major U.S. orchestra during 2016. But it’s been developed at UT and will receive its academic premiere there. Fellenbaum has enjoyed the process of working directly with the composer, helping to bring the composition into its final form. “Since August we’ve read drafts of the piece, made revisions, added, subtracted,” he says. “It’s been a great environment.” Fellenbaum will conduct the UT Symphony Orchestra and singers in both “Knoxville” pieces, as well as music from Aaron Copland’s opera “The Tender
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The UT theatre and music departments will collaborate this weekend in a historic “Knoxvillecentric” event. Photo submitted Land.” Katy Wolfe, best known to Clarence Brown Theatre audiences as an actress and singer, is producer for the event as well as soloist on the 2015 piece. Other performers include actress Carol Mayo Jenkins and UT professor emeritus of history Bruce Wheeler, who
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Wine tasting draws 150 By Tom King
Comcast to expand workforce Comcast will double its customer care staff in Knoxville, adding 250 jobs over two years. To accommodate the expansion, Comcast is making significant renovations to its Knoxville facility, located at 5720 Asheville Highway. At last week’s announcement are Mayor Madeline Rogero, Comcast VP Russell Byrd, Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis, Knoxville Chamber VP Rhonda Rice and County Commissioner Jeff Ownby.
Gerdau celebrates longtime employees Representatives of steel recycler Gerdau’s Knoxville mill recently gathered on the Star of Knoxville to celebrate six e mplo y e e s who have been with the company 40 years Steve Nash or longer. Recognized were: Charlie Bryant of Powell, caster, 41 years; Scott Dietz of Louisville, caster maintenance, 41 years; Paul Hannah of Maryville, melt shop, 40 years; Dana Hooks of Clinton, furnace maintenance, 42 years; Wayne Lowe of Maryville, furnace facilitator, 42 years; and Steve Nash of West Knoxville, rolling mill, 40 years. “As the workforce landscape in America becomes increasingly transient, it is an honor for us to celebrate these six longtime employees,” said Johnny Miller, vice president and general manager of Gerdau’s Knox-
ville steel mill. “These men have seen a tremendous amount of change in our plant, as our steel manufacturing process has moved from manual Charlie Bryant a operation to a very technical, highly automated process, and as our industry has moved from heavily supervised work crews to self-managed work teams,” Miller said. “They have not only successfully made these transitions, but also have trained and developed hundreds of new employees in our processes and new technologies.” Gerdau employs more than 240 people at its mill in Knoxville’s Lonsdale neighborhood. The company currently is seeking applicants for electrical and maintenance positions. To learn more, visit gerdaucareers. com
Farragut Rotary Club’s 15th a n n u a l Wine Tasting & Silent Auction last Thursday evening at SouthEast Bank attracted Tom King more than 150 people who enjoyed tasting wines from Dixie Lee Wine & Liquors. The club raised approximately $14,000 to be split between Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign and local projects. Farragut Rotarian Sam Taylor donated all of the wine from his Dixie Lee store and Rotarian Sam Mishu covered the food costs – so 100 percent of the money raised will go toward the projects the club supports. Dr. Stephanie Myers again coordinated the event for the club, the 12th one she has directed.
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The Rotary Club of Knoxville (RCK) is working with the staff at Beaumont Magnet Academy to help the school’s library. On Tuesday the RCK presented the school with $10,000 to buy 600 new books. The club’s Community Service Committee
volunteers are working with book clubs at the school – Grades K-1 and Grades 2-3. The Beaumont Book Fair is Nov. 11-13, and they need lots of volunteers to help staff the book fair! The club is also volunteering for a workday in the library on Saturday, Nov. 21. Club members will be unloading, sorting books and putting a Rotary stamp
Turkey Creek plays fantasy football
The Rotary Club of Turkey Creek Sunset is having fun this fall with its novel fundraising vehicle – Fantasy Football. Using the NFL.com system, the club has 20 members playing in two leagues. Members pay $50 to join a league, and club president Paul West said that they recently presented 160 new Tshirts to Vine Middle School students. He said they want to export this to the other local clubs next year for a big Rotary league competition as fundraisers for all clubs. The Turkey Creek Club meets each Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Faith Lutheran Church in Farragut.
Arby’s boosts Alzheimer’s Tennessee The family that owns 18 area Arby’s restaurants presents Alzheimer’s Tennessee with a check for $186,179 from their annual fundraiser, which will begin again on Monday, Nov. 2. Pictured are: Becky Dodson, Alzheimer’s Tennessee board president; John Johnson, Arby’s owner/operator; Carrie Johnson Gandy, Arby’s chief financial officer; Janice Wade-Whitehead, Alzheimer’s Tennessee executive director; Tom Johnson III, Arby’s president; and Ben Johnson, Arby’s chief operations officer.
NEWS FROM PREMIER SURGICAL
General surgery is a family affair for two Knox brothers Growing up, brothBaltimore. Rob joined ers Dr. K. Robert WilPremier Surgical Asliams and Dr. Krissociates in Knoxville topher B. Williams in 2006. In 2014, of Knoxville never as Kris was finishimagined they would ing his fellowship in one day both be phyminimally invasive sicians, must less that surgery at Carolina they would be general Medical Center, a Presurgeons working in mier Surgical surgeon the same practice – left the practice to beand occasionally in come a missionary in the same operating Kenya. room. “It was a unique Brothers Dr. Kristopher B. Williams and “When we were Dr. K. Robert Williams are both general opportunity that a little kids, I was going surgeons at Premier Surgical Associ- slot opened in our to be a football player ates in Knoxville. practice at the right and Kris was going to time,” says Rob. “I be a diesel mechanic,” laughs Rob. was impressed with the high quality of the The brothers, who are three years apart, Premier Surgical surgeons and knew Kris were raised in Knoxville and Virginia, al- would fit in well here.” ternating summer vacations and the school Kris joined Premier Surgical in August year in both states after their parents di- of 2014. “This was an ideal situation for vorced. It wasn’t until they both attended our families,” says Kris. The brothers, their college at the University of Virginia, Char- wives and children now live within five lottesville, that they lived in the same town. miles of each other and their mother, in “I was a senior when he was a freshman, Knoxville. “It’s great. Mom loves to cook, so and we were in the same fraternity. We got we try to get together every Sunday for a big to spend more time together in college and family dinner,” smiles Kris. medical school than we did as kids in grade And, the brothers are spending time toschool,” explains Rob. gether in the operating room, assisting each Kris agrees and says watching first-hand other on cases. “It’s neat to be able to conwhat Rob experienced during medical sult with each other on complicated cases,” school at the University of Virginia influ- says Rob. “Kris specializes in complex herenced his own decision to pursue a medical nias, and I specialize in bariatrics, so we can bounce ideas off each other,” says Rob. career. “I’m very glad to be here with Rob. I “I think sometimes people idealize what medical school is going to be like, but see- hope we’re working together for our whole ing the hard training Rob went through – careers,” smiles Kris. like being so sleep-deprived he’d fall asleep during family dinners – gave me a realistic view of what I wanted to do,” says Kris. Rob says it’s not surprising that they chose the same career. “We’re a lot alike and both like working with our hands. With surgery, you’re able to help someone immediately.” Rob earned a medical degree from the To schedule an appointment with Dr. University of Virginia, and a few years Robert Williams, call New Life Center for later Kris graduated from the East TenBariatric Surgery at 865- 694-9676. To nessee State University Quillen College of schedule an appointment with Dr. Kris Medicine. Both completed general surgery Williams call Premier Surgical Parkwest at 865-690-5263. residencies at Union Memorial Hospital in
Local restaurants raise money for cancer research Calhoun’s and the Copper Cellar Family of Restaurants are raising money for the American Cancer Society and to fund breast cancer research. “Making Strides For More Birthdays” will have raised nearly $100,000 when this year’s promotions end since its launch in 2011. Bart Fricks, chief operating officer, said the 1,100 East Tennessee employees of Calhoun’s and the Copper Cellar group are invested in various components of the promotion.
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International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook. “Salvage Jewelry Creations” workshop, 6-8:30 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Cost: $20. Info: 577-4717.
THURSDAY, OCT. 29 “Winter is Coming ... what’s a gardener to do?,” 315-415 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speakers: Extension Master Gardeners Don Cathey and Brian Townsend. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, OCT. 29-30 AARP Driver Safety Class, noon-4 p.m., Halls Senior Center, 4410 Crippen Road. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
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Christ UMC is seeking vendors for its fall arts and crafts festival, to be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. Info/application: bsstair@comcast.net or Sherry, 776-1100.
THROUGH SUNDAY, NOV. 8 “Quoth The Raven: Tales Of Poe,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays; 1 p.m. show only on Halloween. Info/tickets: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28 Computer Workshop: Internet and email Basics, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431. Fall fest, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Central Baptist Church of Fountain City, 5364 N. Broadway. Games, door prizes, candy, cake walk, Trunk or Treat. Fall fun fest, 6-8 p.m., Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Highway. Hosted by Christ UMC’s Men’s Group. Games, food, prizes, best carved or decorated pumpkin contest for kids under 12. Pumpkins must be done at home. Info: 922-1412. Fall festival, 6-8 p.m., Glenwood Baptist Church, 7212 Central Avenue Pike. Free food, games, candy. The community is invited. Info: 938-2611.
Costume shop inventory reduction sale, 2-7 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge. Full costumes, partial costumes, vintage, formal, bridal, holiday and many one-of-a-kind items available. Nothing over $15. Info: 482-9999 or orplayhouse.com.
SATURDAY, OCT. 31 Benefit singing, 7 p.m., Mount Harmony Baptist Church, 819 Raccoon Valley Road NE, Heiskell. Featuring: Barry Rowland & Deliverance. Love offering will be taken to help Melissa Dake Aldridge with medical expenses. “Sugar Skull Halloween” workshop, 10 a.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Cost: $12. Info: 577-4717. Trail or Treat, 5-7 p.m., Luttrell Park. Volunteers or participants welcome. Info: Margaret, 318-2175.
SUNDAY, NOV. 1 Natural Burial Preserve Gathering and Dedication Ceremony, 2-3:30 p.m., Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Info: Mitzi, 497-3603, or community@ narrowridge.org. Silent Meditation Gathering, 11 a.m.-noon, Narrow Ridge’s Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Inclusive of people of all faiths as well as those who do not align themselves with a particular religious denomination. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or community@narrowridge.org.
MONDAY, NOV. 2 American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.
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Karaoke, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub & Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091. Men’s Health group: “How To Get the Most Out of Doctor Visits,” 12:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711. Opening reception: “Fountain City Art Guild Annual Holiday Show and Sale,” 6:30-8 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Also on exhibit: “Oil paintings by the Students of Aurora H. Bull.” Artwork on display through Nov. 30. Info: 357-2787; fcartcenter@ knology.net; fountaincityartctr.com. Union County Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., 1009 Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.
“Basic Hand Building” class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $90/nonmembers $110. Info/ registration: knoxart.org.
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Rummage sale/Christmas shop/sweet shop, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Christus Victor Lutheran Church, 4110 Central Avenue Pike. Info: 687-6622.
International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.
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TUESDAY, NOV. 3 Noweta Garden Club meeting, 10 a.m., Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Old Clinton Pike in Powell. “Salt Block Cooking” class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/ registration: avantisavoia.com or 922-9916.
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