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POWELL/NORWOOD VOL. 52 NO. 48

IN THIS ISSUE

A student speaks out

The first time the Knox County Board of Education heard from Ethan Young, he was a 7thgrader writing them a letter to explain what was wrong with the TCAP test.

“I was in the middle of the test, and I was like, ‘This is so ridiculous,’ ” Ethan said.

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Read Betty Bean on page 4

Miracle Maker

Most post-graduate study focuses on following a path that will lead to individual success. Sharing a Christian journey and building a community are what the Knoxville Fellows program is about.

“We help recent college graduates learn how to integrate their faith into their vocation,” says Rick Kuhlman, executive director of the Knoxville Fellows.

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PBPA honors Powell’s best The Powell Business and Professional Association announced its Man, Woman and Business Person of the year during the 31st annual banquet Nov. 22 at Beaver Brook.

Terri Gilbert was named PBPA Woman of the Year. Gilbert has managed the Powell Food City for about a year and has made a tremendous impact on the community in that position and as an active volunteer in other areas of service.

“I was shocked and surprised and I really appreciate the award,” said Gilbert. “I am just doing my job and taking care of the people in Powell because they deserve it.”

Clare Crawford introduced the Man of the Year, her husband Dave Crawford.

Dave Crawford has a lengthy history with the Powell and Farragut Lions Clubs. He recently helped coordinate the opening of the newly renovated Lions Club Vi-

i L b Rather R h sion Lab. than take any credit for his contributions, Crawford took a few moments to plug the work of the Lions Club.

PBPA Business Person of the Year is Rob Followell, CEO of Tennova North Knoxville Medical Center for the past three years. Dr. Don Wegener recognized Followell as someone who believes in always doing the right thing.

Former “Heartland Series” host Bill Landry served as the guest speaker and new PBPA officers were sworn in by state Rep. Bill Dunn.

They are: president Sage Kohler, vice president Rick Carnes and treasurer Steve Mouser. Tere-

Terri Gilbert is the PBPA Woman of the Year for 2013. She is manager of the new Powell Food City.

Rob Followell is the Business Person Howard Phillips of Powell Auction and Realty and Rick Carnes of Clinton of the Year for 2013. He is chief exec- Highway Wrecker Service share a laugh during the live auction at the PBPA banquet. Photos by Cindy Taylor utive officer of Tennova North.

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Clare Crawford gives a congratulatory kiss to husband Dave Crawford, the PBPA Man of the Year. s a U n derwood will serve as events committee chair and Fred Braden will chair the communications committee.

The PBPA annual banquet is the sole fundraiser for the association each year. Funds are raised from ticket sales, a silent auction and a live auction.

Read Betsy Pickle on page A-9

Price at Pete’s

What’s that they say in real estate? Location, location, location.

Leland Price had his campaign kickoff reception at Pete’s Coffee Shop on Union Avenue downtown, which proves he is a man of good judgment. He’s going to run for Circuit Court, Division III judge, hoping to win the seat long held by Mary Beth Leibowitz, who is retiring.

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Emory Road reopens as elevation raised

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Christmas tours at Mabry-Hazen

The Mabry-Hazen House invites you to a free Christmas tour with rooms and other areas decorated by local decorators, including Samuel Franklin, The Flower Pot, Scott Morrell of Flowers, as well as volunteers and museum staff.

Light refreshments will be served. Christmas tours are scheduled 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15. Donations are welcomed. Info: 865-522-8661 or www.mabryhazen.com.

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Eastbound cars move from the current Emory Road up a ramp to the new Emory Road near Gill Road. Traffic was detoured for two weeks while crews raised the elevation of Emory to tie to new construction.

This shot shows the new elevation as cars going eastbound leave the ramp and resume travel on Emory Road. The new road will extend over railroad tracks and Beaver Creek en route to Clinton Highway. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Holiday hike in the Smokies

By Sandra Clark Here’s a neat break from the norm this holiday season. Join Friends of the Smokies for a halfday holiday hike in Sugarlands.

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Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (PFD)

One man’s story

This is my journey – a man’s journey through pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), written by a man, for the men out there who may be having similar “below the belt” trouble.

Guys, do you have to urinate frequently? Do you have sudden strong, sometimes painful, urges to urinate and when you make it to the bathroom do you just dribble or drip? Do you have to urinate

frequently? Does it hurt when you go to the bathroom? Do you just hurt, ache or have stabbing pains?

Do you feel like you are sitting on a tennis ball inside?

There are many aliments that may generate these symptoms. My personal journey spanned about two years and two states. I was first examined for many possible diagnoses – urinary tract infection, inflammation of the prostate (prostatitis), sexually transmitted disease, etc. After these were

ruled out, I resigned myself to live with my issues.

After coming to Tennessee, I found a new primary care doctor, and as part of the new-patient process, the urinary issues and the pelvic pain came up. Again, it was suspected to be a urinary tract infection or prostatitis, but tests were negative. The doctor referred me to a urologist for further evaluation.

The urologist performed urodynamic testing and discovered that I had pelvic floor muscles that would

not relax. The condition was referred to as PFD. I also found that the PFD was causing high bladder pressure which, if left untreated, could damage my kidneys.

PFD appears more in women as a result of childbearing, but men do have it for various reasons. In my case I believe it was caused by combat injuries received more than 40 years ago and aggravated by breathing disabilities. My recommended treatment was physical therapy to retrain/re-educate

Treating pelvic pain: the first step is talking about it When you think of how the human body works, one of the most complex body regions is the pelvis. In this lower part of the abdomen, organs related to digestion, elimination, reproduction and other functions are clustered fairly close together, and surrounded by muscles and connective tissue.

When issues such as urinary incontinence (bladder leakage), the inability to have or control bowel movements, pelvic pain, lower back pain or prolapse (when an organ falls or “pooches” out of place) occur, they can sometimes be traced to a condition known as pelvic floor dysfunction or PFD. “Pelvic pain affects 70 percent of women and 30 percent of men of all ages,” says Joy Friley, PT, who specializes in treating PFD at Parkwest Therapy Center. “One in seven women between 18 and 50 suffers from chronic pelvic pain, and many wind up on pain medications.”

PFD can be caused by several factors, or may have an unknown cause. It may result from inflammation or infection, complications from pregnancy or childbirth (women), traumatic injury, or repetitive stressors such

as heavy lifting (a frequent cause of PFD in men). And as our society becomes more sedentary, it can also result from chronic poor posture or abdominal muscle wall weakness.

“The first step for anyone experiencing ongoing pelvic or back pain is to visit a physician for a complete medical exam,” Friley said. “The physician will make sure there is no medical reason for the pain.”

She explains that in some cases there is a combination of reasons for pain – there may be a medical component to the pain that is treatable through medication or even surgery, but the underlying cause of the pain may still exist. That is when patients may find help from a physical therapist who specializes in PFD. A physical therapist can often help patients resolve their pain by addressing an often-overlooked root cause: muscular dysfunction in the pelvic region. Through specific exercises and other specialized techniques, physical therapy can be the “missing link” that breaks a pattern of ongoing pelvic pain.

But in order to get help, patients must first

get past “the embarrassment factor,” Friley says.

“Embarrassment about admitting that you have a problem ‘down there’ causes many people to wait a very long time before seeking help,” she says. As an example, she notes that one-third of people between ages 30 and 70 have problems with urinary incontinence (bladder leakage). Most are women, and for 40 percent of those women, the condition affects their work or social lives.

“Yet women often do not talk to their doctors about their incontinence,” Friley says.

“They may think it’s just part of aging, or they can’t bring themselves to discuss it with their doctors. Some wait years – even as long as eight years – before telling a doctor about the problem.

“But urinating on yourself is not normal and neither is pelvic pain that doesn’t go away,” Friley says. “If you are suffering from pelvic pain, don’t be embarrassed to seek help.

“PFD is treatable. First, see your physician to rule out a medical cause. Once you have done that, physical therapy for PFD may be the next step in offering help and relief.”

the pelvic muscles to assume the proper posture.

Physical therapy is not the only treatment. There are drugs, which did not work for me, and other more invasive treatments for PFD. I would recommend a serious discussion with a urologist to make sure you are aware of all the treatment options and possible outcomes.

There are many different techniques employed in pelvic floor physical therapy. My physical therapist, Joy Friley, is outstanding, with clearly visible caring for her patients.

Lessons learned: Be assertive.

If I had been more assertive as a patient I might have been referred to a urologist sooner and diagnosed sooner. Be informed. There is a wealth of information on PFD. Research and do your homework.

If you decide on physical therapy, discuss what works and what doesn’t with your therapist. You’ll know!

If you think you might benefit from seeing a physician, call 374PARK. This story was written by a Parkwest Therapy Center patient.

PFD feels like …

While pelvic pain is often considered a women’s health issue, men also suffer from the condition. Symptoms of PFD include: ■ Abdominal or lower abdominal/intestinal pain; pelvic pain or pressure.

■ Pain with sitting, standing, walking or rising from a seated or lying down position.

■ Urinary incontinence, or leaking from the bladder. May occur when you laugh or sneeze, or may occur at any time.

■ A need to urinate frequently or urination that stops and starts many times; painful urination.

■ Constipation or the feeling that bowel movements are incomplete.

■ Fecal incontinence or feeling like you need to have several bowel movements in a short period of time.

■ For women, a feeling of fullness in the lower abdomen or vaginal area that is not related to a medical condition.

■ Pelvic organ prolapse.

■ Hip pain, often with loss of range of motion.

■ Lower back pain, often radiating to legs, thighs, groin, hips.

Therapist helps patients solve the puzzle of pelvic pain ity, and can be quite debilitating,” she says. “Think of all the muscles in that area – pelvic pain is complex. That’s why I like this specialty – it’s like solving a puzzle.

There’s a lot of satisfaction when I’m able to help my patients not only relieve the pain, but improve the quality of their lives.”

Friley started offering specialized services for pelvic pain dysfunction in 2007, after completing a series of specialized classes focusing on the needs of both women and men.

“People often think of PFD as a women’s health issue because of the way female reproductive organs are designed and because of the physical stresses and changes associated with pregnancy and childbirth,” she says. “Some of the more frequent symptoms of PFD,

like urinary incontinence or prolapse, do affect women more frequently. But men also have PFD, often because of injury, repetitive motion, postural issues or stress – which can affect both genders.”

Friley’s first-line approach is to make sure her patients have seen their physicians to rule out any medical issues that might be causing pelvic pain. Then she spends time talking with them about their habits and behaviors.

“We talk about their job responsibilities, whether and how they exercise, how stressful their lives are, and problems like frequent nighttime trips to the bathroom,” she explains.

Therapy for patients with pelvic dysfunction can include techniques such as trigger point massage for muscles, myofascial

release, posture re-education, relaxation techniques, biofeedback and “reteaching” pelvic floor muscles to function properly. Specific exercises are often prescribed and practiced in therapy.

“Some patients may have read about or tried exercises like Kegels (exercises designed to strengthen the muscles of the pelvic floor) and may not have found them to be helpful,” Friley said, “but performing them correctly, repetitively and consistently are important.

“For example, for men facing prostate surgery, if they learn to do Kegel exercises before the surgery, studies indicate they will become continent more quickly afterward. There are many pelvic floor exercises that can be customized for a patient’s specific needs.”

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Friley communicates frequently with primary care physicians, OB/GYNs and urologists to let them know about physical therapy services for PFD, and she tries to spread the word to people in the community as well.

“Many people either have had some type of PFD or know someone who has experienced symptoms,” Friley said. “I want people to know that resources are available to help them with their pain.”

A physician referral is needed for pelvic therapy. Joy Friley offers these services in two locations: Parkwest Therapy Center at Fort Sanders West and Fort Sanders Therapy Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. For more information about PFD and the services offered at Parkwest Therapy Center, call 531-5710.

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Physical therapist Joy Friley sees her role as offering hope to patients who have been unsuccessful in getting help for a problem they often hesitate to talk about: ongoing pelvic pain.

Friley is Covenant Health’s only physical therapist Joy Friley who is specially trained to work with patients who have PFD. The term describes muscle dysfunction/injury that is specific to the pelvic region, including the lower abdominal area along with the muscles of the hips, thighs, buttocks and lower back.

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POWELL Shopper news • DECEMBER 2, 2013 • A-3

On the ‘wings’ of love Since the Nickel brothers built the Powell Airplane Filling Station in 1930 it has been a service station (more than once), a bait and tackle shop, a produce stand, a used car lot and a liquor store. Bill Bohanan ran a tire recapping business, Okay Rubber Welders, out of the plane in the 1950s.

Oddly enough, the plane has never been an actual flying machine.

Thanks to the 2012-13 graduating class of the Anderson County Career and Technical Center and the Airplane Filling Station Preservation Association (AFSPA), the historic Powell Airplane now has a beautiful, working propeller to go with a newly renovated interior and exterior.

AFSPA president Tom Bruno approached the school two years ago with a request for the propeller. Students were happy to help.

The site has been in renovation status for the past 10 years, strictly as an act of love by the AFSPA. The group has raised funds with no compensation other than seeing the plane restored to its original beauty.

Some gardening, fencing and ground work will continue over the next few months as well as a few more interior improvements and a new coat of paint for

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the exterior. The plane will be handicapped accessible.

The structure has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2004.

The AFSPA hopes the location will be taken over by a historical society or local tourism group and possibly used as a welcome center type facility.

Santa and the Mrs. Claus will greet children from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. ■ Powell Christmas 14. The event will be used Parade is Dec. 7 as a fundraiser to help comThe Powell Lions Christplete renovations to the hismas Parade is Saturday, toric site. Shirts and photos Dec. 7. will be available for purParticipants will gather chase. at the Powell Place shopping center in the old Food City ■ ‘Christmas in the parking lot on Emory Rd. Neighborhood’ at 3:30 p.m. Any float or orThe Powell Playhouse ganization may participate. will present “Christmas in Vehicle lighting is suggested the Neighborhood” 7 p.m. as the parade will run mostSaturday, Dec. 14, at the Ju- ly after dark and regardless bilee Banquet Facility. The of weather.

The parade route is from production will contain a lively mix of religious and the Powell Place shopping secular music and skits. center down Emory Road Entertainment will in- to Powell High School, beclude the Loyall First Bap- ginning at 5 p.m. As always, tist Church Puppeteers Santa will close out the pafrom Harlan Ky., award- rade.

Holiday art show The Fountain City Art Center hosted the Fountain City Art Guild’s Holiday Show and Sale opening reception with ribbons were awarded to guild members for their submissions.

Best of Show went to Kay Jursik for her cubistic “Heartland” in acrylic.

Marty McConnaughey won first place for “ K n o c k First,” in oil on watercolor paper.

McConnaughey recently won Best of Show McConnaughey for her 3-D art made from a gourd, antlers and coiled pine needles called “Serenity at Dusk,” at Arts in the Airport, on exhibit now.

Charlotte Walton took second place with “Windblown,” an acrylic painting.

Third place was for a wa-

winning vocalist Kelsey Northern, gospel singers Bryan Yow and Guy Womack, guitarist/soloist Tara Gideon, duet gospel singers and instrumentalists David Douglas and Adam Irwin, and a thought-provoking presentation by Jim McVey, “Jake the Homeless Man.” There will be a special appearance by Tommy Mathis as Elvis and of course Santa Claus will be in attendance.

Tickets are $5 per person at the door and a special Christmas drink and dessert will be served for an additional $4. Info: Mona, 947-7428 or 256-7428.

The show was judged by Max Robinson, an accomplished watercolorist and a professor of architecture at UT. ■

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tercolor, “Via del Proconsolo,” by Kate McCollough, named in reference to the street in Italy depicted in the painting.

Honorable mentions went to Penny Berridge for “Mondey,” in pen and ink, Janet Macfarlane for “Tabitha,” a watercolor, and Mary Secrist for “Ruffled Feathers,” also watercolor.

“The show was very well attended, and we are all pleased with the art.

“It was great to see a lot of new people, people who had not ever been to the art center before,” says Fountain City Art Center director Sylvia Williams.

FCAC cookbook now on sale

Fountain City Art Center members have compiled a recipe book, “FCAC Members Recipes Volume 2.”

The book is full of unusual recipes and stories of the people who used them.

Bob Meadows, the center’s resident bookmaker, designed the pages.

“Our members have submitted old family favorites passed down from mothers, grandmothers and greatgrandmothers, with photos and anecdotes,” says Sylvia Williams.

“The book is filled with excellent recipes.”

The book is on sale now at the art center for $25.

A tasting will be held in celebration of the cookbook on Jan. 25. Recipes from the book will be prepared and served. Admission is $10

Ryan Christian, Lee Robbins, Ernie Murphy, Carol Johnson, Tom Bruno, Tim Robbins and David Humphrey unveil the new propeller.

Airplane Filling Station Preservation Association members Lee Robbins, Ryan Christian, Carol Johnson, Tom Bruno, Ernie Murphy and Kaye Johnson say “goodbye” to the old propeller.

Gordon Bohanan’s uncle Bill once ran a business from the plane. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Tommy Mathis will perform as Elvis in the Powell Playhouse production of “Christmas in the Neighborhood.”

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government The high cost of air fare force composition comes across as an adjunct of the Democratic National Committee and not a serious effort to bring both parties together.

On the mayoral front, Jim Brainard, the mayor of Carmel, Ind., is the best known (and perhaps only) Republican of the 18 city and county officials.

Why does this matter?

Any recommendations from this task force must be taken seriously by Republicans in Congress if they require legislative support.

Climate change should not Victor be a partisan issue but the Ashe composition of this task force makes it such, which weakens the reception the final report will receive.

Cities and states with GOP leaders should not be It is not clear whether bypassed. the meeting is actually at ■ TVA Director Neil the White House or if city McBride of Oak Ridge has or federal government will not been renominated to pay for airfare, according the TVA board and his to city spokesperson Jesse term expired six months Mayshark. Also not clear ago. The White House has is whether the president will address the group. failed to act either in reapRecently, when the may- pointing McBride or namor traveled to Washington ing a replacement, which for a different WH meeting, means that McBride goes city taxpayers paid over off the board in less than $1,500 for a same-day 30 days. roundtrip ticket on US AirIt shows how much the WH thinks of TVA. But ways. Normally roundtrip tickets can be purchased for then this WH is considering selling TVA, which has not $310 or less if a Saturday been a current idea since night stay is involved.

Barry Goldwater’s 1964 The composition of presidential campaign. the group is overwhelmIt is obvious the WH is ingly Democratic with not a single Republican governor not thrilled with McBride (for whatever reason) or he serving. would have been reapHowever, there is Edpointed. die Calvo, the governor It is also true McBride of Guam, which advertises has disappointed many itself as where America’s of his more progressive day begins (across the international dateline). Guam supporters by not being vocal over several TVA has 162,000 residents, which is less than Knoxactions, including tree ville. Guam has a nonvoting cutting issues, efforts to member of the U.S. House curtail First Amendment of Representatives. rights through a dress code Airfare for him to reach at public hearings (later Washington is actually dropped), opening up board only $1,800 economy (over committee meetings and 8,200 air miles) which the $5.9 million salary is astonishing given the for only nine months for high cost of air travel from CEO Bill Johnson, which Knoxville to Washington is insulting to working (less than 470 air miles). ratepayers.

The Democratic govPrior to his appointment, ernors are much better McBride was a clear favorknown, including Jerry ite of progressive groups Brown of California and and seen as a leader. Today Martin O’Malley of Marythat is unclear. land, who wants to run for ■ TVA’s Bill Johnpresident in 2016. A major- son has bought a condo ity of the 50 state governors on State Street downtown are Republican, and not one for $850,000 from former is on this task force. deputy mayor Eddie ManIt is unclear whethnis. When you make $5.9 er Gov. Calvo was the only million in a nine-month peRepublican governor asked riod, $850,000 must seem or if others were asked like small change. Johnson and declined to participate plans major renovations of as the issue is toxic (no the condo. Mannis is movpun intended) with some ing back into his old home conservative groups. It is on Kingston Pike, just six disappointing this task houses from this writer, force is so thin on GOP having made a tidy profit on representation. The task his condo sale.

Mayor Rogero goes to Washington on Dec. 10 to attend the White House meeting on climate change for the task force to which she was named by President Obama. This task force, composed entirely of elected state, territorial and local officials (no scientists or scholars), falls under the Council on Environmental Quality and was created by executive order of the president.

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It’s party time for candidates The gods of campaign planning have looked unfavorably upon Knox County.

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With the qualifying deadline Feb. 20 and the party primaries May 6, the folks serious about running for office have begun.

Problem is, regular folks are eating turkey, buying presents and generally thinking about anything but politics.

Therefore, the candidates must be subtle, hosting and maneuvering through holiday parties – sometimes two or three a day.

They all get to know each other pretty well.

The Knox County GOP event is a Christmas/Hanukkah Dinner at Rothchild Catering, 8807 Kingston Pike, 6 p.m. Monday, Dec 9.

The cost is $25 per person with today, Dec. 2, the last day to purchase. Info: Alexander Waters, 584-404 or awaters@lrwlaw.com.

So put on your red and green and orange and head on over to this holiday bash.

You’ll be sure to see candidates like those pictured at right. They will all – even the opponents – be friends for a season.

Randy and Laura Nichols at the reception for Leland Price.

Campaign kickoff Former UT football head coach John Majors (center) poses with Leland Price and his wife, Niki (right), and their daughters Olivia and Lexi. Leland Price is a candidate for Criminal Court judge.

Niki Humphreys Price is a Knoxville attorney who wrote movie Stephanie Welch and John reviews for Shopper-News while in high school and college. Gill catch up on things.

Photos by Betsy Pickle

GOP judicial candidates Ray Jenkins (Circuit Court, Division 1), Scott Green (Criminal Court, Division 3) and Greg McMillan (Fourth Circuit Court) are all smiles during a visit to the South Knoxville Republican Club. Photo by Betsy Pickle

A student speaks out The first time the Knox County Board of Education heard from Ethan Young, he was a 7th grader writing them a letter to explain what was wrong with the TCAP test.

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“I was in the middle of the test, and I was like, ‘This is so ridiculous.’ Poorlyworded questions, multiple correct answers, questions that didn’t evaluate student knowledge or achievement, and also just the concept that we’re going to give a 7th grader a high stakes exam that takes up two to three days of class time,” he said.

So he memorized the questions and wrote a sixpage critique.

No response.

“In the 8th grade, I did the same thing, with the same result. In the 9th grade, I wrote them about ACT assessments. No reply.

“Given my experience with this, I never expected

“Why don’t we just manufacture robots instead of students? They last longer and always do what they are told. But education is unlike every other bureaucratic institute in our government.

The task of teaching is never quantifiable.

If everything I learned in high school is a measurable objective, I have not learned anything.”

– Ethan Young a response (when he addressed the school board Nov. 6), but when I saw I’d got almost 2 million YouTube hits, I thought it’s incredible that the people I was talking to haven’t had anything to say. I want them to tell me where I’m wrong.”

Ethan, now a Farragut High School senior and president of the student body, has a 4.44 gradepoint average. He started disagreeing with Superintendent Jim McIntyre back when McIntyre made a push to privatize school custodians. This struck a nerve with Ethan, who had an “unquantifiable” experience with Farragut Middle head custodian Gene McKissic.

“I volunteered with him, polishing floors, mopping, emptying trash. And of all the people I’ve met and worked with, he is one of the most influential teachers I ever had. He taught me you can do the toughest jobs and live with joy and gratitude.

If I hadn’t met him, what a huge experience I would have missed out on…”

He says McIntyre is “a data guy. Been one since birth.”

Common Core: The case Ethan made against the Common Core State Standards has been praised by rightwing talker Glenn Beck and progressive educational policy analyst Diane Ravitch. Even those who disagree with him call

him “that brilliant kid from Tennessee.”

He’s working hard to resist the gravitational pull of either side.

W h e n he and his mother, Ethan Young Cheryl, a physical therapist, left last month’s school board meeting, she congratulated him for defending his teachers.

He told her he felt a huge weight off his chest, and the next day he uploaded his 5-minute speech on YouTube to share with his teachers, figuring that would be the end of it.

But within days, his phone was ringing with requests to appear on television and Internet shows. He went on “Fox and Friends” and some local shows, but has avoided national talking heads.

He says he’s read every comment on his YouTube page and is frustrated by those who have misinterpreted his message.

“I never said we should not have evaluations. I said it’s important not to quantify a teacher. ...

“My hope is at least there are some people in this conversation who weren’t before.”

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POWELL Shopper news • DECEMBER 2, 2013 • A-5

Fungus threatens walnut trees Swine flu and shingles aren’t good, but neither is as bad as Thousand Canker Disease (TCD).

Fortunately for all of us, it’s a tree disease. The bad part? It’s specific for our black walnut trees, and so far, there is no cure. It kills the infected tree in two to three years.

I attended the November meeting of the East Tennessee Woodworkers Guild.

Jessie Webster, a professional forester from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, talked about TCD, which is attacking black walnut trees. It arrived in East Tennessee in 2010, and is now found in Knox County and eight surrounding counties; they are all under quarantine.

The disease is caused by a fungus called Geosmithia morbida. It is apparently is native to Arizona and has

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been spreading through the west for some time.

The TCD fungus grows just under the bark of the walnut trees in the outer part of the sapwood of the stems and branches. It is carried there by its vector, the tiny 1.5mm walnut twig beetle. The beetle carries the fungus in as it burrows into its tunnels under the bark. The fungus thrives, forming numerous cankers that will eventually strangle the tree within two or three years.

Webster said that a lot of people are working to find a

cure, but for now our only hope is to recognize and dispose of infected trees and to prevent, or at least slow, the spread of the disease.

Sick trees can be recognized by having midsummer yellowing and wilting of leaves high in the crown.

As the disease progresses, limbs which have died will have dead, withered leaves still attached. Scraping off a thin layer of bark reveals multiple beetle tunnels and the brown cankers formed from masses of fungus.

While we can keep watch on our trees, trying to stop the importation of more fungi into our area is another matter. From experience with trying to stop such epidemics as the gypsy moth and the emerald ash borer, the authorities know that a big percentage of vacationing happy campers like to bring their campfire wood

with them from home, even from as far away as Alaska and California. In spite of prohibitions, nearly 50 percent of arrivals at Elkmont in a recent season brought firewood from home.

It is believed that the TCD s p r e a d here from the West in similar fashion.

But also, many of the 1.2 billion shipping pallets in use around the U.S. are built from cull lumber, often with the bark still on parts of it. Some of it is infected western walnut, which can then travel most anywhere.

Pet bedding and mulch can contain walnut shavings, salvaged from western lumber operations, and are

Vols in summation: Ouch!

how to hem up running quarterbacks.

You have heard the Vols were sleepy slow. They were fast enough to run with Georgia, all the way to overtime.

As great philosophers have declared, you are what your record says. Optimists are crushed. Pessimists are just disappointed. They exMarvin pected to snicker at a minor West bowl bid, inflated to sound like a significant accomplishment.

Here’s where it hurts: ReTeam 117 was not what alists are beginning to realwe thought it would be. It ize 2013 results were worse was confusing. It pulled one than the talent.

Oh no, you say, don’t go upset but failed to build on it. It got hit with basketball there. That might lead to a scores, 58 by Oregon, 55 by discussion of Butch Jones Auburn. It never learned and how much tougher is

Tennessee football fans are again divided. They can’t agree on what they have seen. Was this a continuation of crumbling?

Was this season as bad as it appeared or just the deep darkness before dawn?

the Southeastern Conference than anywhere he has been. It might even include what he said about the best coaching staff in the country.

Let it cool. This is no time to evaluate coordinators and schemes and decide what we got for our money, whether the team improved from week to week. Such talk might take a radical turn and conclude that going gray doesn’t win games.

It doesn’t even win the first quarter.

One of the great fan bases in the world feels the same pain but has differing opinions about treatment and rehabilitation.

Shopper readers are mixed up, too. A week ago

one said all I am is old, that I don’t know the first thing about football. Now I hear, from an ex-Vol no less, that I have seen it all, going back to General Robert R. Neyland. Was this the worst ever?

Well, it was bad enough.

Fans are deeply divided about who to blame. A few still focus on my good friend Phillip Fulmer. He let it slip. Far more critics point at former athletic director Mike Hamilton, he who fired Fulmer on homecoming week without a replacement plan. Fulmer might have won eight and earned an extension.

Some now understand that if Lane Kiffin couldn’t

another source of possible spread.

So far, the quarantine includes Anderson, Blount, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Morgan, Rhea, Sevier, and Union counties and the 17 surrounding “buffer” counties. Webster said that this new nine-county quarantine was put in place by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture because of the possible serious and longterm consequenc e s of TCD, both economic and environmental. Tennessee Department of Agriculture regulations state that “citizens in these counties cannot move walnut tree products and hardwood firewood outside these quarantined counties.” The 17 buffer counties have similar restrictions.

Since the TCD fungus

lives just beneath the bark of infected tree limbs and not in the hulls or shells of the actual walnuts, there are, thankfully, specific exemptions to the quarantine.

The TDA regulations spell them out as follows: Exempt are “nuts, nut meats, hulls, processed lumber 100 percent barkfree and kiln-dried with square edges, and finished wood products without bark including walnut furniture, instruments and gun stocks.”

So, our main job is to recognize the disease and dispose of diseased tree parts properly, never carrying any hardwood firewood out of the above-named counties into noninfected places.

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture has a local office and a website full of information about TCD and the rules and regulations on the quarantine.

They ask you to report the location of trees with signs of trouble.

cut it at Southern Cal, he was a doomed failure-to-be at Tennessee. Trojans play softer schedules.

Much of the load is dumped at Derek Dooley’s doorstep. He had three years to improve recruiting and restore order. Fuad Reveiz calls him Doofus.

We got the orange dog and shower etiquette but his football program regressed.

Four consecutive losing seasons is a risky pattern with Tennessee’s heavy indebtedness and almost no rainy day fund. Who would pay the interest if faithful fans lost interest? Donations are critical. Ticket sales are important. Souvenir discounts can only go so low. Leftover popcorn is a total loss.

Butch is the immediate

future but it doesn’t look all that hot. The coach will push winter workouts. He will look to spring practice with unbridled optimism.

He will fight on to improve the recruiting class. He and his helpers will scramble to hold most of what is committed.

There is less to sell than there was. Tradition is slipping away, overcome by losing, replaced by whims.

A year ago, for a few million and loose change, Dr. Jones accepted the challenge of curing the negative culture. It hasn’t happened.

The vaccination against defeat didn’t take. What to do?

Stronger medicine and another shot. Ouch!

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

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Six-time Grammy Award winner Amy Grant will perform this Friday in Knoxville during Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice. Photo submitted

Beyond ‘Baby Baby:’ Amy Grant weaves life of simplicity Last week, Christian recording artist Amy Grant celebrated her 53rd birthday at her Nashville home.

She planned to spend the day cooking and sharing mimosas with friends, but the friends were such a distraction that she didn’t get around to cooking.

birthday party perfectly suits her current stage of life.

This stage of life includes a couple of weekends a month on the road. She’ll travel to Knoxville this week for Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice at 6 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 6, at the Civic Coliseum. The show will feature Olympic and World Champion skaters, along with Grant and a live band.

Wendy Grant and her husband, Smith country singer-songwriter Vince Gill, became friends with Scott and Tracie Hamilton several years ago when After a three-decade they worked together to music career, Grant now support St. Jude Children’s embraces contentment. She Research Hospital. Gill has used to spend more energy also used his talent to benon “presentation and set- efit Scott Hamilton CARES up,” she says, but a kitchen Foundation, which funds

cancer research and education for families facing cancer. Gill might even hop on the bus to Knoxville, Grant says.

She admits that she enjoys being on the road, and that she keeps a bag packed to be ready for the next gig.

She loves being around other musicians and is inspired by their creativity. She’s naturally curious, so she enjoys the opportunity to explore new places. Gill calls her his “little gypsy bride.”

It’s a lifestyle that feels normal to her since she began performing as a teenager. It’s hard for her to remember back to those days.

Every decade brings more awareness of the world and how you fit into it, she says.

She’s past feeling “like

a seventh grader who’s dropped her lunch tray and wants to die.” At 53, it just feels good to get to do what she loves, she says.

“No matter what happens, the world will keep turning. The drama fades away.”

Last week, the couple were anticipating the arrival of their blended family for Thanksgiving. The oldest of their five children, Jenny, is embarking on a music career of her own. She’s a killer singer and songwriter, Grant says, but she’ll have to work even harder to prove herself because of her famous family. Grant performs a duet with another daughter, Sarah, on her latest album, “How Mercy Looks from Here.”

Four of Grant’s 26 albums are Christmas records, and each Christmas season is different at her home, depending on her tour schedule. She tells the story of being on an airplane with the entire family one summer when one of her children pointed out that all the gifts she gave the Christmas before were in the airline’s sky mall magazine.

Not surprising, since Grant remembers that she performed 23 times the previous December.

But Christmas can be a time of contentment, like her kitchen birthday party.

She recommends that busy moms worry less about presentation and more about time together. The Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice show is a good way to revel in the season with the family while supporting a good cause, she says.

She recommends simplicity for holiday decorating, too.

“You light a few candles and put on holiday music, and it really changes the atmosphere in your home.”

MILESTONES Wilson completes Officer Candidate School Army 2nd Lt. Chris D. Wilson has graduated from Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Benning, Ga., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Wilson is the son of Gina and Darryl Wilson.

He is a 2008 graduate of Central High School and a 2012 graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Burnette completes basic combat training Army National Guard Pfc. Taylor C. Burnette has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Burnette, a 2011 graduate of Gibbs High School, is the daughter of Kandace and Steven Burnette.

Birthdays Mason Loyd Adams celebrated his first birthday Sept.

16 with a Mr. Potato Head party and then celebrated again on his actual birthday, Adams Sept. 19, at IHOP, where all the servers sang to him. Mason’s parents are Christy and Daniel Adams.

Grandparents are Walter and Tami Adams, Peggy and Jerry Cardwell and Eddie and Teresa Cunningham.

McKenzies celebrate 60th anniversary Arthur and Betty McKenzie celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving Day. A reception will be held in their honor Sunday, Dec. 15, at Washington Pike UMC, where they have been members for 50 years.

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POWELL Shopper news • DECEMBER 2, 2013 • A-7

Pizza Inn helps Dante Church of God

By Cindy Taylor Powell Pizza Inn owners Jamey and Missy Brown think that a successful business should also be an active participant in the community.

The Browns set aside one night recently to allow the Dante Church of God youth to serve customers and reap the benefits.

Staff and management worked alongside the kids. The Browns donated 10 percent of the profits and 100 percent of the tips to the youth ministry. The final total came to more than $900.

“The Pizza Inn staff made the event very special for our young people,” said youth minister Scott Daugherty. “This business is an essential part of our community.”

Son of Man and Son of Mary

Dante Church of God pastor David Snyder and youth minister Scott Daugherty receive a check from Powell Pizza Inn owner Jamey Brown. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Cathy Humphrey, Henrietta Jenkins and Barbara Jones enjoy pancakes.

Methodist youth serve pancakes The youth at Faith United Methodist Church served pancakes at Applebee’s on Central Avenue Pike to raise money for their trip to Resurrection.

The kids greeted, seated

WORSHIP NOTES Food banks

■ Bells Campground UMC, 7915 Bells Campground Road, will host a Shop free Saturday: Free Clothing event 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. Ladies, men’s and children’s clothes and shoes will be available.

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday. Info: 922-9412.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church of Powell, 7212 Central Ave. Pike, is accepting appointments for the John 5 Food Pantry. For appointment: 9382611 or leave a message and your call will be returned.

■ Knoxville Free Food Market, 4625 Mill Branch Lane, distributes free food 10 a.m.-noon each third Saturday. Info: 566-1265.

Special services

■ First Lutheran Church, 1207 N. Broadway, will hold the

and served patrons, raising almost $900. Youth directors Bryon and Vick Easterday were appreciative of Applebee’s manager Anthony Armani, who opened his restaurant for the event.

Resurrection is a Christian youth conference sponsored by the Holston Conference in January each year in Gatlinburg.

following services for Advent and the Living Nativity. All advent services: 6:30 p.m.

Wednesdays, Dec. 4, 11 and 18, and will include the lighting of the advent wreath and communion. The annual Living Nativity Event: Sunday, Dec. 15, includes Bible Study indoors, 5 p.m.; the Living Nativity, outdoors, 5:30; Hand Bell choir performance: 6:30; soup and sandwiches available during all events. The public is invited to all activities and worship services.

scheduled the following Advent services and events.

Welcome on Wednesday meal, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, followed by the children’s Christmas program, 6:30 p.m.; “Yuletide Tales and Treats,” Friday, Dec. 20, in fellowship hall. The Chancel Choir will present a program of special Christmas Music during the Sunday service, Dec. 8. Communion will be included in the 8:55 a.m. and 11 a.m. services Sundays, Dec. 15 and 22.

Children’s services will be held 5:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve followed by a traditional

■ St. Paul UMC, 4014 Garden Drive, will present a Christmas music concert during the 10:45 a.m. service Sunday, Dec. 8. The St Paul Choir and the Bell Choir will perform. A children’s impromptu Nativity Program and supper begins at 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15.

The community is welcome.

Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash across his chest. His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.

(Revelation 1: 12-16 NRSV)

I have often wondered why Pope Gregory didn’t make the Gregorian calendar and the Church year match. The beginning of the Church year is a season called Advent, which begins with the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, and ends at midnight on Christmas Eve. The Church year ends with Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday before Advent begins again.

Vicki and Bryon Easterday, So Advent began on Sunyouth leaders for Faith UMC day, Dec. 1. Did anyone at church wish you a Happy New Year? Probably not.

The sermon I heard on Christ the King Sunday, however, set me to thinking.

We heard a sermon about Christ the King – the figure described in the text from Revelation above – the Son of Man, with eyes of flame and a voice like a rushing river. The pastor paid heed Sandy Rambo with Anthony to the fact that on the folArmani, manager of Apple- lowing Sunday, Christ the King would be a baby. bee’s From baby, to man, to fiery angel, then back to baby again. It is enough to give us candlelight service at 7 p.m. all whiplash.

■ First UMC, 3316 Kingston And then it hit me that Pike, will present “Appalaour New Year does the same chian Winter,” a Christmas thing. The old figure of Father cantata for choir, orchestra, Time, with his scythe and his folk instruments and soloists, hourglass, gives way on New during the 10:45 a.m. worship Year’s Eve to a bouncing baby service Sunday, Dec. 8. Everyboy with the numbers of the one is invited. new year blazoned on a sash across his naked body. Our Meetings and calendar turns from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1, and the whole classes thing starts again, in much ■ Church Women United will meet 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6, at the same way the Church calFirst Presbyterian Church, 920 endar turns from Christ the State St. The West High Choral King to Advent I. There is value in this juxgroup will sing Christmas taposition, I have decided. music.

Lynn Pitts CROSS CURRENTS It helps us grasp the divinity as well as the humanity of Jesus.

Yes, he is the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Son of Man, the Alpha and Omega. But he lived on this earth, with all its joys and its sorrows.

He ran on the hillsides of Nazareth; he craned and gawked at the wonders of the Temple in Jerusalem; he loved the wildflowers beside the Sea of Galilee; he had friends; he brought the wine to a wedding, his sermons held huge multitudes in rapt attention, he laughed and told wonderful stories.

However, it is also true that he was born in a cold stable; he worked in a carpentry shop; he was baited and harangued by the Saducees and Pharisees; he was betrayed by one of his own, denied by another, in the end, abandoned by all except the women who loved him; and at the last, he was buried in a borrowed tomb.

Here is what Christ the King Sunday and Advent I teach us, I think: neither a manger nor a tomb, neither a cathedral nor a small country church can contain the Son of Man. He lives in the hearts and the minds and the lives and the deeds of those who love and serve him.

■ Second UMC, 1524 Western Ave., will host “Christmas Bells and Voices” presented by the Celebration Bell Choir and Powell High Singers at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8.

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Jennifer Barnett has the attention of Lexy Hunt, 5, as she tells a story accompanied by the KSO Musical Story Time String Quartet: Rachel Loeseke, Yin Wu, Bill Pierce and Ildar Khuziakmetov. Photos by C. Taylor The old bell in its new home

Ringing in the old

By Cindy Taylor The Junior American Citizens Club, sponsored by the Emory Road Chapter of the DAR, and Halls Boy Scout Troop 506 member Zach Denton has saved the bell – literally.

The project began with a rusted old bell from the Twin Gables Antique Mall.

The mall’s owner, Nancy Rhyne, worked in the Knox County school system for 23 years and was thrilled to help the bell find a new home at Norris Elementary School.

The Norris Elementary PTO was instrumental in finding funds to purchase the bell. The Anderson County Career and Technical Center sandblasted the rust off of the bell, weatherproofed it and then made it look old once again.

Boy Scout Zach Denton was looking for a project to earn Eagle Scout. He and father David created a beautiful brick foundation for the bell with some help from contractor Brian Fields and Junior American Citizens Club members Tanner and Connor Scruggs, Cody and Cory Fine, and Zye and Orey Pope.

Those responsible for the restoration are builder and Scout leader David Denton, builder and Scout Zach Denton, builder/contractor Brian Fields, builder Mike Anthony, consultants Gary Stooksbury, Ike Stooksbury, and Norris Elementary principal Lynn Ward and consultant and designer Martha Bridges. Also contributing are Twin Gables Antique Mall and Barn Harts Gifts.

Other contributors are Anderson County Career and Technical Center teacher Ken Stewart along with students Kenneth Barton, Zachary Davis, Austin Disney, Christopher Holt, Dakota McWhorter, Justin Morrison, Kolton Murray, Andrew Phillips, Alyssa Phillips, Matthew Vacek and Joshua Ward.

Even the base supporting the bell has history. Elaine Irwin Meyer of the Museum of Appalachia purchased bricks that were salvaged from the historic McClung Warehouse in Knoxville and donated them for this purpose.

Junior American Citizens club members (front) Orey Pope, Zye Pope, Kristina Gregg, Dallas Cole (back) David and Zach Denton from Boy Scout Troop 506, Lora Kay Pope and Emory Road DAR The Knoxville Symphony members Martha Cummings and Martha Raper at the Norris Elementary School bell ceremony.

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Fellows program fosters leaders

By Betsy Pickle Most post-graduate study focuses on following a path that will lead to individual success. Sharing a Christian journey and building a community are what the Knoxville Fellows program is about.

“We help recent college graduates learn how to integrate their faith into their vocation,” says Rick Kuhlman, executive director of the Knoxville Fellows.

In the heart of Market Square – known for its farmers’ market, trendy retail stores, concerts, outdoor theater and movies, holiday festivities, restaurants and bars – participants in the Knoxville Fellows program make their home for 10 months. This year, 14 Fellows live upstairs from Café 4 and the Square Room (seven men on one floor, seven women on another).

The program is a combination of community, study, service and work.

Four days a week, they have real jobs in business, government or nonprofits. On Fridays, they attend a leadership luncheon with speakers ranging from Joan Cronan and Cuonzo Martin to Burt Rosen of KARM and Jack Neely of MetroPulse. They also attend class under the guidance of resident scholar Doug Banister, senior pastor at All Souls Church.

On Tuesdays, they check in and get a home-cooked dinner at Kuhlman’s home. Wednesday nights find them doing community service through Just Lead.

They worship together one Sunday a month but are free to attend the church of their choice the rest of the time.

At the end of their 10 months, they will have earned 12 hours of seminary credit at Johnson University. (They can earn a master’s degree with only 18 more hours.) But what the leaders of the program hope is that the Fellows will also have learned a love for Knoxville and feel compelled to stay and contribute their talents to the city.

“We want people that are very seriously considering staying in Knoxville after the program is over,” says Kuhlman.

“We lose so many of our young people because they don’t feel like there’s anything for them here.”

The program proves that’s not the case. This year’s Fellows have degrees in American studies, business management, civil engineering, education, environmental policy and planning, journalism and electronic media, logistics/international business, marketing, mechanical engineering, nursing, political science and sociology. Their employers include Blackberry Farm, Cannon and

The Fellows year begins with an Adventure Weekend, coordinated with Adventures Beyond, with team-building exercises guaranteed to get the group members out of their comfort zone. Here, Matt Guldan of Adventures Beyond (foreground, right) instructs the Knoxville Fellows in how to safely jump off Baby Falls in Tellico during the Adventure Weekend. From left are Cason Hewgley, Kellen Catani, Kaley Smith, Colin Skinner, Joe Kohlmann, Amy Hubbard, Carter McCall, Suzanna Davis, Rick Kuhlman, Hailey Blackburn, Anna Campbell, Kate Kronau and Will Littlejohn.

This year’s Knoxville Fellows are: (front) Anna Campbell, Hailey Blackburn, Cason Hewgley, Katelyn Henslee, Kaley Smith, Grant Minchew and Kate Kronau; (back) Carter McCall, Tyler Morris, Suzanna Davis, Kellen Catani, Amy Hubbard, Colin Skinner, Will Littlejohn and director Rick Kuhlman.

Cannon Inc., Chadasha Foundation, Crown Financial Ministries, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Fulghum, MacIndoe and Associates, GridWell, Knox Area Rescue Ministries, Knox County District Attorney General, Leadership Knoxville Inc., Pilot Flying J and SOAR Youth Ministries.

“If they will give Knoxville a fair chance after being with us for 10 months, they are likely to stay here,” says Kuhlman. “Several of our past Fellows have fallen in love (with the city) and stayed.”

The seventh class of Fellows includes nine from Tennessee, one from North Carolina and two each

from Virginia and Texas. The first application deadline for next year’s group is Dec. 31. (Visit www.knoxvillefellows.com for an application.)

The program is part of the National Fellows Initiative, founded in 1995 in Falls Church, Va. There are Fellows programs in Falls Church and McLean, Va., Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Charlotte, Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Dallas and El Paso.

The Knoxville program differs from others in its emphasis on convincing Fellows to remain in the area, in running 10 months instead of nine and in its communal-housing format (Fellows in other cities usually live with host families). Also, it is the only one not sponsored by a church or group of churches, Kuhlman says. It is operated by a 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Kuhlman, a West High and UT graduate who owned the local Stefano’s Pizza chain for about 19 years until he sold it to Randy Burleson in 2003, first began working with college students while leading a relief effort on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. He points out that a big part of the Fellows program involves community service, not just in Knoxville but throughout Appalachia.

When applicants are qualified but no job in their field is available, Kuhlman says, they help to find another Fellows program that suits their needs. But for the most part, they’re looking for people who realize how special Knoxville is and how important they can be to the city’s future.

“We want to keep a young cadre of leaders in town,” he says.

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“Students worked very hard petitioning businesses for support,” said teacher Rachel Kirkpatrick. “They knocked on many doors. Some were supportive, some were not.

It was a true testament to their perseverance, orgaMembers of the Boys and Girls Club of Halls/Powell receive a check from the Leadership Class at Powell High School. Pictured are nization and willingness to (front) Neyland Dugger, Ja’Michel Wright-Murry, Mahayla Scarbro, Ellie Metcalf; (second row) Leadership Class member sophomore go above and beyond for a Connor Sepesi, senior Chase Parker, junior Katelynn Rogers, senior Sara Groos, area director for Boys and Girls Clubs of the Tennes- worthy cause.” see Valley Josh Yarbrough; (back) Leadership sponsor/teacher Rachel Kirkpatrick, senior Zach Roberts, senior Alyssa Rolen and junior The students were given Carlee Rose. Photo by Cindy Taylor

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Cox says Deli/Bakery aims to please

By Cindy Taylor Andrew Cox has spent the past five years at local Food City Stores. Cox came to the Powell location in February as Deli/Bakery manager and has had a chance to prove he is well qualified for the job.

“Setting up a whole new store is definitely a challenge, but it has been great fun,” he said. “This is my first opportunity to set up a new store and hire and train new staff.”

Cox says a typical day in the deli can be a bit crazy.

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One thing that sets the bakery apart is that the store has hired super cake decorators and quality people, he said.

“Our deli has the best fried chicken in town and we make 12-15 different varieties of candy every day.

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Reception and book signing with Elizabeth Gentry, author of “Housebound at John Black Photography;” Saturday, Dec. 7, 11 a.m., Children’s Story Time with Miss Caryn; and Saturday, Dec. 7, 2 p.m., One of the first signs of Lisa Soland, author of Christmas “The Christmas Tree Anis the Salvagel,” illustrated by Bethany tion Army’s Badeaux. familiar Nancy Other local books availRed Kettle Whittaker able for sale include: and the “Tellin’ It for the Truth, hardy souls

by Bill Landry; “Massacre at who bundle Cavett’s Station,” by Charles up and Last week at Stanley’s Faulkner; and a collection of serve as bell Pam Fansler Greenhouse, I encountered poetry by Tony Reevy. ringers. The 40,000 poinsettias in every money collected provides color and size imaginable. It ■ Sherry Witt is assistance during the holiwas a sea of color! day season and throughout state prez And Lisa Stanley took the year to the people of Knox County Register time to give me a tour and Knox, Blount, Campbell, of Deeds Sherry Witt has a history lesson. Poinsettias Anderson, Sevier and Scott been elected were first introduced to the counties. president of United States in 1825 by Joel Each Christmas thouthe TennesRoberts Poinsett, the first sands of children get see RegisU.S. ambassador to Mexico. presents through the Angel ter’s AssoPoinsett was fascinated by Tree program. In addiciation. these “Mexican fire plants” tion, thousands of children Witt is and brought one back to and the elderly will receive a graduate South Carolina. Their popuChristmas stockings and of Fulton larity quickly spread and in holiday food baskets.

High School 1851 the plant was named in Sherry Witt The First Tennessee and UT. honor of Poinsett after his Foundation understands She began her career in the death. that while bringing cheer Register’s office in 1984, And no, the plants are during the holidays is and was elected Register of not poisonous, no matter important, the services Deeds in 2008. Witt resides what your grandma said. provided by the Salvation in Fountain City. She has Stanley’s is holding a Army throughout the year two daughters, Shay and Wreath Making Workshop are essential.

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Dr. Wegener Relax your shoulders and breathe in as deeply as you can, and then slowly release the air from your lungs. Do this several times and breathe deeply to the point that you feel your lungs filling. This is a great feeling, isn’t it?

Being a doctor, I like to imagine what is happening inside the body and at a cellular level as oxygen enters through the nose and travels into the lungs. Life is truly a miracle. The molecules of oxygen pass through the thin walls of the alveoli in the lungs into the blood that is passing by. Here, the oxygen attaches itself to the hemoglobin in the blood and the heart pumps the newly oxygenated blood back out to the other parts of the body.

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THRU SATURDAY, DEC. 15 “Greetings!” by Tom Dudzick, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. Performances: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m.

Tickets: 544-1999 or www.theatreknoxville.com.

MONDAY, DEC. 2 Tai Chi for Arthritis Open House, 10:30 a.m., Halls Senior Center. Learn about this ancient Chinese form which is designed to improve your balance, your stability and strength. The open house is free. Lessons begin Jan. 6. Info: email Don Parsley, dparsley@ comcast.net.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, DEC. 2-3 Auditions for WordPlayers’ production of “A Woman Called Truth” by Sandra Asher, Fourth United Presbyterian, 1323 N. Broadway. Appointments: 6-7 p.m.; Open call: 7-7:30 p.m. Seeking: one African-American man, 18-35, two African-American women, 22-60, one European-American man, 30-60. For appointment: 539-2490. Info: visit www.wordplayers.org.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4 KSO Musical Storytimes for Kids, 11 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Presented by members of the KSO string quartet for pre-school aged children and their parents. Programs are free and open to the public. Info: 922-2552.

Merry, Merry at the Library with Santa Claus, 4 p.m., Corryton Branch Library, 7733 Corryton Road. Info: 688-1501.

Free Picture with Santa, 2-4 p.m., Frontier office, 2104 W Emory Road.

Christmas Carol Festival, 7 p.m., Sacred Heart Cathedral, 711 S. Northshore Drive. All are invited to sing the songs of the season, enjoy warm cookies and hot beverages, and celebrate with good cheer.

“A Family Christmas at Dowell Springs,” 6 p.m., Provision Center for Proton Therapy, 6450 Provision Cares Way. Performances by the Concord Christian School Elementary and Middle Ensembles and Halls High School Madrigals. Info: 684-2616 or www. provisionproton.com.

THURSDAY, DEC. 5 Pajama-Rama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road. Stories, music, flannel board activities and a craft. Wear your pajamas and bring your favorite toy or stuffed animal. Info: Becky, 947-6210.

Joint concert: the Central High School band and the Tennessee Wind Symphony, 7 p.m., Central High School, 5321 Jacksboro Pike. Info: Lisa Burden, 689-1400.

FRIDAY, DEC. 6 “Holiday Sparkles & Spirits!” to benefit The Joy of Music School, Cherokee Mills, 2220 Sutherland Ave. Info: 525-6806.

The Halls B&P annual Christmas Banquet, 6:30 p.m., Beaver Brook Golf & Country Club, 6800 Beaver Brook Drive. Guest speaker: WBIR-TV News Anchor John Becker. Silent auction; Halls Man and Woman of the year and incoming officers will be named. Tickets: Sue Walker, 925-9200.

Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice featuring Amy Grant, 6 p.m., Knoxville Civic Coliseum. Tickets: $20-$30 plus fees. All proceeds will benefit the Provision Healthcare Foundation for cancer research, education and support. Tickets: www.provisioncares.org.

this event are: Cedar Ford, Clear Branch, Fellowship Christian, New Friendship, Union, Warwick’s Chapel.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 7 The Halls Christmas Parade, sponsored by the Halls Business and Professional Association. Route: Halls High School, proceeding along Maynardville Highway, to Neal Drive. Line up: 4 p.m.; step off: 6 p.m.

Info: Shannon Carey, 235-5324.

Luttrell Christmas Parade, noon-1 p.m., Luttrell Community Park. Info/registration form: Rebecca, 9920870 or email maymejodys@aol.com.

Clinton Christmas Parade, 6 p.m. Theme: “A Christmas To Remember.” Deadline to register: 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4. Info: 457-2559 or email accc@ andersoncountychamber.org.

The Powell Christmas Parade, sponsored by the Powell Lions Club, 5 p.m., Route: the Powell Place shopping center on Emory Road at Clinton Highway to Powell High School. Lineup: 3:30 p.m. in the old Food City parking area. No registration, but floats and walkers should be lighted.

Fountain City Optimist Club Christmas Parade, 10 a.m., beginning at CiCi’s Pizza. Lineup, 9 a.m.

Registration: $12.50. To preregister: 522-2796.

Public talk about the near-Earth Comet ISON hosted by UT, 7 p.m., Nielsen Physics Building, Room 415. Discussion will be led by Sean Lindsay, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Breakfast with Santa, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Norwood UMC, 2110 Merchants Drive. Pancakes, fruit and juice will be served to all children and their chaperones. The event is free, but donation of a nonperishable food item for the Church’s food pantry appreciated. Info: 687-1620.

“The Messiah” performed by the Tri-County Chorus and Orchestra, 7 p.m., Norris UMC, 62 Ridgeway Road, Norris. All invited.

Christmas Craft Fair, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Inskip UMC, 714 Cedar Lane.

Stargaze: Comet ISON, 7:30 p.m., Roane State Community College Tamke-Allan Observatory. An 8 p.m. presentation followed by telescopic viewing. The observatory is located between Kingston and Rockwood, near the intersection of Caney Creek and Joiner Hollow Roads. Directions: www.roanestate.edu/obs. Info: Dr. David Fields, fieldsde@roanestate.edu.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 7-8 Inaugural St. Nicholas Christmas Market hosted by the Philoptochos Society of St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 4070 Kingston Pike; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday and 12:30-5 p.m. Sunday. Crafts, jewelry, handmade cards, Tea & Treasures, aprons, Loucoumades, KARM, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, handmade baby items, Premier Jewelry and more. Info: 522-5043.

SUNDAY, DEC. 8 Gibbs Christmas Parade, 2:30 p.m., Gibbs High School to the Gibbs Center (IGA). Sponsored by Gibbs Ruritan Club. Lineup: 1:45 p.m. No entry fee; canned food donations accepted for the Corryton Food Pantry. Preregisteration/info: gibbschristmasparade@gmail.com; Larry Dougherty, 898-3532; Eddie Jones, 789-4681.

The Union County Christmas Parade, 2:30 p.m.

Begins at Union County High School. Info: Jeff Sharp, 405-2196, or Trish Collins, 973-2279.

“The Hope of Christmas” children’s Christmas play, 6 p.m., Son Light Baptist Church, 6494 Son Light Way. Everyone invited. Info: 688-7990.

Smocked Christmas Ornaments, 2-4 p.m., instructor: Janet Donaldson. Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris.

Registration deadline: Dec. 3. Info: 494-9854 or www. appalachianarts.net.

Holiday shopping to benefit local charity Nuestros Nino, noon-3 p.m., Powell Presbyterian Church, 2910 W. Emory Road. Handmade Guatemalan gifts for sale.

Info: 938-8311; http://www.nuestrosninoscharity.org/.

“The Messiah” performed by the Tri-County Chorus and Orchestra, 5 p.m., Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, 1500 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge. All invited.

Concert for a Cause to Benefit Storm Haiyan victims, 3 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Featuring Lilly Sutton and RB Morris. No admission charge; donations requested. Info: Lilly Sutton, 3877600 or www.AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

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Merry, Merry at the Library with Santa Claus, 6 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road.

Info: 947-6210.

Holiday classic movie “White Christmas”

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11 Free Picture with Santa, 2-4 p.m., Frontier office, 2104 W Emory Road.

THURSDAY, DEC. 12 The Cumberland Mountain Music Show, 7:30 p.m., LMU Cumberland Gap Convention Center. Tickets: $12, available at the door. Season passes will be honored. Info/reserve tickets: Donna Sullivan, 606-2693404 or dgs009@gmail.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, DEC. 13-14 Victory Sports Indoor Motocross Racing, 7 p.m., Walters State Community College’s Great Smoky Mountains Expo Center. Admission: adults, $15; children 4-11, $10; children 3 and under, free. Info: Sam Gammon, 423-323-5497.

“Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,” 7:30 p.m. Friday; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; Clayton Performing Arts Center, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. The play, based on the books by Barbara Park, is presented by the WordPlayers. Tickets: $5-$12, available at 539-7529, www. wordplayers.org or www.pstcc.edu/tickets.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 13-15 “The Best Little Christmas Pageant Ever” dinner and play, Graveston Baptist Church, 8319 Clapps Chapel Road, Corryton. Times: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday, noon; Sunday, 12:30 p.m. Tickets: $8 per person, $15 per couple, children 7 and under are free. Info: 686-0186 or info@graveston.org.

SATURDAY, DEC. 14 Christmas Memorial Service, 4 p.m., Trinity Funeral Home, 228 Main St. in Maynardville. Service open to anyone. There will be music and a Christmas message presented. Refreshments will be served following.

Live Holiday Instrumental Music Concert, 7 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Presented

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“Christmas in the Neighborhood” presented by Powell Playhouse, 7-8:30 p.m., Jubilee Banquet Facility, Callahan Road. Tickets: $5 at the door; Christmas dessert and drink: $4. Info: Mona, 947-7428 or 256-7428.

Santa Paws Pet Photos with Santa to benefit Noah’s Arc Animal Rescue and Sanctuary, noon-4 p.m., Pet Supplies Plus, 4856 Harvest Mill Way. $20 donation includes a photo session with Santa, a 4”x6” print of your choice in a Christmas card display and a CD with all photos taken. Info: 689-9331.

The North Hills Holiday Tour of Historic Homes, 4-8 p.m. Includes childhood home of Patricia Neal. Proceeds from the tour support the work of the North Hills Garden Club. Advance tickets, $10; day of the event, $12; children under 12 free. Info/tickets: https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Hills-HolidayTour-of-Homes/240962375961866.

“A Tennessee Christmas with Elvis,” 8 p.m., The Five Oaks Convention Center, 1620 Parkway, Sevierville. Admission: $15. Unwrapped toys will be collected for donation to families/children in disaster areas. Info/ reservations: 428-2001 or 770-367-9616.

Santa and the Mrs. at the Airplane Filling Station, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Clinton Highway. The event is a fundraiser to help complete renovations to the historic site. Shirts and photos available for purchase.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 14-15 “He Made A Way In A Manger,” 7 p.m., Walnut Grove Baptist Church, 1550 Hinds Creek Road, Andersonville. Everyone welcome.

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Alex Tillman, Ally Blaschke, Chief Sexton and Blythe Scrivner of Grace Christian Academy join Americorps member Desen Ozkan to dig up and remove a silt fence from the future site of a stormwater park which will demonstrate best practices in stormwater management.

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A culture of engagement

By Nathan Stevens, Grace Academy high school principal

What does it take to create a culture of engagement? The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word engage as “to hold the attention of.” Grace Christian Academy is committed to developing students’ hearts toward mission engagement. Because service to others is one of our core values, we are dedicated to intentionally aligning our actions with what we espouse as our purpose, in other words teaching our students to walk the talk. Our aspiration is to help our students see the immediate needs of those around them and work to change the lives of others, ultimately developing a lifelong commitment to service.

November is mission emphasis month at Grace Baptist Church as well as Grace Christian Academy. While service to the community is not limited to this month alone, it does provide an avenue of opportunities for our students to engage in meaningful ways. Alongside members of the Knoxville community, students toured the Compassion Experience, located on the campus of Grace Baptist Church, which provided a chance for attendees to experience the “sights and sounds of life in a poor, developing-world community.”

More than 3,700 people visited the experience and 354 children were sponsored, both of which set records for the tour. The success of this event was a great testament to what God is doing here in Knoxville.

In addition to the Compassion Experience, our high school students were challenged through the testimony of Sydney, a 14-year-old girl who started an organization

Grace Christian Academy’s varsity basketball team and cheerleaders work with kids at Emerald Youth Foundation on GCA’s Serve Day.

whose purpose is to respond to the needs of orphans in Ghana (www.feedingtheorphans.org.)

To support this cause, many of our middle and high school students participated in beans and rice lunches as a replacement of their traditional meal, with the proceeds from these lunches being given directly to the Feed the Orphans organization.

These are just a few of the experiences that took place during the month of November, but they are only a part of a broader framework that we are building into the academic program as a three-phased, developmentally appropriate progression. Our goal is to integrate this focus into the day-to-day classroom experience with the purpose of developing a mission-based mindset in our students.

The lower school students will focus on Mission Exploration. Each grade level will choose a service organization to partner with throughout the year in order to reach the needs of the community. Middle school students will be attending Mission Experiences that provide a specified time and place for students to work sideby-side with the greater Knoxville community. Just recently, our students were able to serve at Second Harvest Food Bank, KARM Thrift Stores, Lonsdale Elementary and the Western Heights Baptist Center.

The last part of our framework is the Mission Engagement phase. It is at this stage that our high school students are encouraged to take ownership of serving in their areas

of interest and calling. Our desire is to move from the traditional approach of just merely accumulating service hours to a Mark 10:45 approach: “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” It has been encouraging to see how our students have responded to the opportunity to serve others, and our prayer is that as we continue to develop our curricular integration, God will use these structures to bless those in need in our community and throughout the world.

These opportunities to serve the community would not have been possible without the support of our Friends and Family Annual Fund campaign. This year we pledged that a portion

of the funds collected would be given back as a thanks to the community. Both Emerald Youth Foundation and Mission of Hope Haiti will be receiving funds from this campaign to support their efforts to serve those in need.

Creating a culture of engagement should be the hope of all educational institutions, and Grace Christian Academy is no different. The mission of Grace Christian Academy is to “Lead, Build and Equip” students for service. It is our belief that mission engagement does not have to be directed toward some future endeavor, but instead through purposeful attention of embedding these opportunities into our academic program, we can make service to others a current reality.

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December 2, 2013

A holiday love story

By Carol Zinavage

peaking of the upcoming Christmas holiday, Joanna Yohe Carl of West Knoxville says, “It’s all about family. This is our thing.�

And what a family.

She and her husband Rick, an attorney with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, will celebrate their second anniversary on New Year’s Eve. Two years ago they rented out the Clayton Center in Maryville and invited several hundred of their closest friends for a wedding, buffet supper and dancing ‘til the wee hours.

It was kind of a big deal.

Thirty-five years ago, they were best buddies at Maryville College, though Rick now admits he felt more than friendship for Joanna at the time. “She was it for me,� he says, “but I was such a geek.� They went to movies together and talked for hours on the phone. An old picture shows Rick in a blue suit and Jo in a pink gown. They laugh now that they don’t even remember where they were going that night.

Like college buddies often do, they drifted apart. Joanna, originally from Arlington, Va., married and had two children, Michael and Anna. Rick fell in love with another college friend, Lynn Rogers, who had become a family law attorney and violinist with the Knoxville Symphony. (Rick, an accomplished trumpeter, plays regularly with swing band Boys’ Night Out.) In 1995,

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They welcomed Rick Jr. in 1997 and were “over the moon.� He showed early musical talent and began piano lessons as a young boy.

The couple enjoyed throwing lavish New Year’s Eve parties. Lynn – tall, raven-haired and gorgeous – was loved by all. She was a fi xture at Rick Jr.’s track and swimming events and piano recitals. The active threesome joined in the Rogers family tradition of hiking Mount LeConte each fall.

In 2007, Lynn consulted her doctor about abdominal pain. The news was devastating. Lynn had stage four ovarian cancer. Overnight, the Carls’ world was turned upside-down.

She immediately had surgery. The family hunkered down for a fight.

It lasted a little over two years. Lynn died in August of 2009. Rick Jr. was 12.

He played the piano for her funeral.

The Carl men carried on as best they could. Rick Jr. excelled in music, sports and academics at Webb School of Knoxville. Rick Sr. continued his law practice.

Meanwhile, up in Virginia, Joanna Yohe, divorced for over a decade, had been following news of Maryville College and was planning to attend the March 2010 opening of the Clayton Center, but her mother fell ill and she

Old college friends Joanna Yohe and Rick Carl marry in 2011. Photo by Edy Copeland

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wasn’t able to go.

On Easter Sunday, Jo picked up the college newsletter that had been lying around the house to check for news about the event.

She noticed her old friend’s name in bold type and read about his wife’s death. She’d known Lynn in college too. Sad for Rick, she emailed her condolences.

When Rick saw the email, he says, “My jaw hit the floor.” He called her four days after he received it. They picked right up where they’d left off.

Rick, conscious of his son’s still very fresh grief, treaded lightly.

“When our feelings for each other began to deepen, Jo and I talked about continuing our long-distance relationship until my son Rick went to college.

“But then I saw her.” Jo is also no slouch in the “tall and gorgeous” department. The two reunited at a Boys’ Night Out event.

“When I saw him,” Jo remembers, “I said, ‘that’s it. I’m done.’”

Their kids understandably had some adjusting to do.

“Michael and Anna were very upset,” remembers Joanna. “They said, ‘Mom, this is happening too fast. You don’t even know him.’

Rick Carl Jr. at a track meet with his mother Lynn Rogers Carl in 2008. Photo by Rick Carl

Three combined families pose high on Mount Le Conte.

Standing are Rick Carl Jr. and his dad Rick, Joanna Carl and Al Rogers. In front are Anna Yohe and 10-year-old Anna Rogers. Photo by Carol Zinavage

I said, ‘But I do know him. I just haven’t talked to him for 35 years!’”

Rick’s extended family accepted her immediately. Poignantly, so did Lynn’s. Rick’s friends, having watched him stay by Lynn’s side through her long, wasting illness, were thrilled for the couple. Rick

Jr.’s emotions were of course more complex.

Everyone did eventually make peace with the decision, and the former best friends officially became husband and wife.

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“We’ll watch ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ and an old Disney cartoon Christmas special – my kids grew up with those,” she continues. “And I always bake a cherry pie, so there will be that.

“And I love Christmas ornaments. I always buy one that has something to do with what we did that year.” This year, she’ll hang a LeConte ornament on the tree.

Rick Jr., a veteran of all-state men’s choirs who’s preparing for a Governor’s School audition in piano, will easily handle any Christmas caroling duties. And if he gets tired, Joanna herself is a trained classical pianist, so that’s no problem.

The whole bunch will pick out their tree together from Bluebird Christmas Tree Farm.

Celebrating old traditions, the happy crew will undoubtedly make some new ones of their own. So here’s to true love past Rick and Joanna on a date in the ‘70’s and present, happy families and Photo by Kevin McKinstry Christmas!

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In early mountain days, the stack cake was a wedding tradition. Guests brought single layers of cake and the number of layers used for the party was a tribute to the popularity of the couple.

In my quest to try every homemade apple stack cake in Appalachia (sorry, grocery stores, I scoff at the stacks of stack cakes in your holiday displays), I came across a mention of Chef Karen Crumley’s version of my favorite food.

Crumley lives in Fountain City and works at Avanti Savoia in Halls.

Always open to discovering a new stack cake, I gamely offered to make it worth her while, she graciously accepted, and we went to work. (My job was watching and waiting.)

Crumley’s apple stack cake may be the best I’ve ever tried, and it’s surely one of the most beautiful. I give it a “10” (but I reserve the right to rate apple stack cakes however I want). In the tradition of spreading the joy and love of apple stack cakes, she shares her recipe, with detailed instructions.

Note this recipe is for five layers, so if you want to appear to be more popular, double the recipe and stack away. And remember, it’s better after it’s been in the fridge for a few days.

Apple Stack Cake the Chef Karen Way Cake ingredients for five layers: 1 cup shortening 1-1/2 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla ¼ cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon baking soda 4 to 6 cups all-purpose flour 1. Cream shortening and sugar together.

2. Add egg, buttermilk and vanilla, mix until just incorporated.

3. Add baking soda, then slowly incorporate 1 cup flour at a time to mixture, until it looks like pie crust or sugar cookie dough.

4. Divide in five equal pieces; roll out into rounds about 8 to 9 inches in diameter.

5. Place on a parchment paper covered cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 12 to 15 minutes or until edges start to turn golden brown, rotating in oven if necessary.

Filling for five layers:

Chef Karen Crumley stacks a luscious cake. Photos by Libby Morgan

10 oz. dried apples, finely chopped 3 cups water ¼ cup white wine (optional) ½ cup molasses ½ teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon apple extract 1 large jar (28 oz.) White House Apple Butter ¼ cup sugar (sweeten to taste)

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1 cup Applejack, a brandy (optional), for assembly of cake 1. To a medium sized pot, add chopped apples, water, white wine, molasses, spices and extract.

2. Simmer 15 minutes, add apple butter and cook for two minutes. Sweeten to taste.

3. Reduce until apples are soft and liquid is absorbed and the mixture is a sauce consistency.

Assembly: Cake rounds Apple mixture Applejack 8-inch round doily Powdered sugar 1. Spread a tablespoon of apple mixture onto cake plate to keep cake from sliding.

Place one layer of cake on plate.

2. (Optional) With a pastry brush, brush top of cake layer with applejack.

3. Spoon about one cup apple mixture evenly onto cake layer.

4. Repeat until only the top layer is left.

(Optional: Brush bottom of cake layer with applejack.) Place last layer on cake.

5. Place doily on cake top, sift powdered sugar over the top of doily, then carefully lift doily leaving a lacy pattern of sugar.

Gluten free holiday recipes everyone will love Choosing recipes to make for a crowd can be stressful enough during the holiday season. With a growing number of people eating gluten free, you may feel guilty serving classics like stuffing, cookies and pies. Luckily, there are now easy and delicious ways to make holiday recipes everyone will enjoy.

One tip is to use pre-made gluten-free dough for all of your sweet and savory recipes. New Pillsbury® Gluten Free Dough can be found in the refrigerated section at most grocery retailers, eliminating the need for an extra trip to a specialty food store. Plus, it’s versatile enough for a variety of holiday favorites.

“Whether I’m cooking for my family or a large group, it’s important that I make something delicious that everyone can enjoy,” says Chef Cat Cora, who applauds the use of these versatile ingredients. “My twists on holiday classics are a good way to have both taste and tradition this holiday season, for both you and your glutenfree guests.”

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For additional seasonal inspiration and more gluten-free holiday recipes from Chef Cat Cora, like Toffee Pecan Pumpkin Pie and Wild Rice, Chorizo and Gluten Free Bread Stuffing, please visit http://www. pinterest.com/glutenfreely/cat-cora-gluten-free-recipes/.

Cheddar Apple Crumble Prep time: 15 minutes Start to finish: 50 minutes Serves: 6 1/2 container (15.8 ounces) Pillsbury® Gluten Free refrigerated pie and pastry dough 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans 1 tablespoon powdered sugar 2 cups finely shredded cheddar cheese 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup sugar 4 medium apples, peeled, cored, diced (about 6 cups) 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon Heat oven to 400°F. In medium bowl, mix pie dough, pecans, powdered sugar and cheese until well blended. Place crumb mixture on parchmentlined baking sheet. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until golden brown. Cool; crumble.

In 12-inch skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat; stir in sugar. Cook and stir for 2 to 3 minutes, or until mixture begins to caramelize. Stir in apples, lemon juice and cinnamon (caramel will harden). Reduce heat to medium; simmer 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until apples are tender and caramel is dissolved. Cool.

Spoon apple mixture into six 6-ounce oven-safe ramekins. Top with crumb mixture. Bake 5 to 6 minutes or until warm. Top with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, if desired.

Recipes by Chef Cat Cora for Pillsbury Gluten Free Dough

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Here are some tips to make sure the lighting in every room in your home is properly outfitted to create an inviting and comfortable atmosphere for the holidays and beyond:

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But GE reveal® transforms any room and dramatically unveils finishes and furnishings to make your holiday decorations the focal point of a room,” said Mary Beth Gotti, GE’s residential lighting design expert and manager of the GE Lighting Institute. “When budgets are tight around the holiday season, GE reveal® lighting is a quick and easy makeover, providing energy savings and vibrant colors by filtering out the yellowish haze that some don’t even realize is there with standard incandescent bulbs until it’s gone.”

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making reds appear redder and whites whiter – to make the colors in your holiday wreaths and decorations pop. For more information, visit www.gelighting.

Instead of relying on one type of light source, layer your lighting by using a mix of light sources at different levels, to create a flattering ambiance. The effect of layered lighting in the living room highlights architectural details, like the festively decorated fireplace and mantel with evergreens and holly berries.

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fi xtures with dimming control in the kitchen allows flexibility to adjust as needed for cooking and baking during the day to entertaining guests in the evening, or for spending late nights wrapping presents.

Additionally, the holidays would not be complete without cozy, intimate gatherings around the dining room table with family and friends. Layered lighting applied around the dining room table can set the mood so you and your guests can comfortably enjoy the turkey dinner with all the dressings.

Keep energy efficiency in mind Select energy-efficient lighting – such as CFLs and LEDs – for optimal energy savings.

This is especially important in rooms where the most time is spent with the lights on in order to see the biggest energy savings impact. Many energy-efficient alternatives of today mirror the light quality of the traditional incandescent bulb, providing the warm glow and dimming capabilities.

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Cleaning the glass on your front door and windows makes a good first impression, brightens the inside of your home and improves views.

“Cleaning your windows and doors helps invite more natural light into your home in the winter and provides a clearer view,” says Kathy Krafka Harkema, Pella Windows and Doors spokesperson. “Use the right cleaners, supplies and techniques for best results.”

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How to clean glass in windows and doors Krafka Harkema recommends these tips to create a clearer view: Step 1: Use an ammonia-free glass cleaner. Try a premixed vinegar-based cleaner, or make your own by mixing one part white vinegar to 10 parts water and apply to the glass. Avoid getting cleaning solutions on wood, fiberglass or vinyl frames, as they may discolor the finish.

Step 2: Use horizontal and vertical motions to wipe away the cleaner with a dry, lint-free towel. Clean interior and exterior surfaces.

Step 3: Wipe up cleaner promptly to keep it from setting into the glass and frame junction, which could potentially weaken the seal.

Step 4: Rinse with clear water if streaks remain after cleaning, and dry with a clean, lint-free towel.

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“Fiberglass entry doors provide exceptional energy efficiency, weather resistance and durability,” Krafka Harkema says. “Plus, stylish options in today’s elegant fiberglass entry door systems with decorative glass create a distinctive look for your home.”

How to hang holiday lights Displaying holiday lights around windows, doors and other architectural features adds holiday cheer to your home and yard. Follow these tips from Lowe’s to safely hang lights: ■ Look for LED lights that give off a bright light but remain cool to the touch. They’re also more energy efficient and often last longer than regular incandescent bulbs.

■ Look for specialty hooks, clamps, adhesive-backed hard-ware and suction cup hooks that make it easy to attach lights to window trim and door frames. Avoid nailing into a window or door frame to hang lights, which could void the unit’s warranty and impact its performance.

■ A good rule of thumb is that you’ll need 100 lights for every 1 1/2 foot of tree or shrub you want to cover.

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or a dramatic yet simple way to update your home before the rush of the holiday season, visit the Hardware Gallery at Closet Solutions, Knoxville’s most trusted name in custom storage solutions. Prepare to be inspired by the extensive selection of knobs and handles offered.

The kitchen is often thought of as the heart of the home. For many families, this is the room everyone seems to flock to during holiday parties and special celebrations. Therefore, the kitchen is a great place to start when making updates with seasonal get-togethers in mind. Closet Solutions offers the latest hardware finishes to complement your cabinetry and overall kitchen style. Dull,

dated hardware can be replaced with gleaming cup pulls or knobs, providing an instant update for the most important room in the house. Selecting something new for the kitchen island is another way to refresh this space without making a huge investment.

Many of today’s homes feature an open floor plan, seamlessly merging the great room with the kitchen and other living spaces.

Closet Solutions can help you create a cohesive look by updating your cabinet hardware in these areas as well.

Making this seemingly small change can instantly revive the built-in units that are often included in today’s great rooms and home offices. Another place where small hardware changes can create dramatic impact is the powder room vanity.

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Closet Solutions offers unique hardware options to enhance the beauty of your home this holiday season.

The furniture in your home can be dressed up and revived with a hardware modification. A quick project to update your home is to switch out the hardware on bi-fold closet doors. Replacing the old closet handles with an elegant crystal or cast bronze wardrobe knob can have a huge impact on the feel of the room.

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On the Cutting Edge The Farberware Universal Block Cutlery Set comes in a brightly colored block filled with flexible rods instead of pre-drilled holes, so you can insert the knives and shears in any arrangement you like. The rod insert is removable for easy cleaning. The knives feaature high-carbon, stainless less steel blades for strength h and durability. The colorful, ergonomic handles offer a comfortable grip. The set includes three knives, shears, and a universal block ($29.99). www.pfaltzgraff.com

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the perfect guy gift the house, and for others maybe the garage is his man cave. Wherever he chooses to relax, he might enjoy a personalized beer pitcher or an under-thecounter fridge. His garage will also look great with a new toolbox or shop stool.

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Guys Gu ys can can be be the th he hardhardhard est people l to shop h ffor, and d finding the perfect gift has become a daunting holiday tradition. Sure, they will appreciate the thought behind another bundle of tube socks – and might even wear them – but there are gifts that bring a wow factor and make even the most stoic guys light up like a little kid.

Add to a collection Adding to a guy’s collection is a great gift idea. If you’re unsure about what to choose, ask him what he collects and what he needs to take it to the next level.

He will be flattered you’re showing interest and you’ll gain valuable insight into that perfect gift.

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Give tools for do-ityourself projects You may not know every project the DIYer in your life is working on, so choose a multi-purpose tool. Tools like the Klutch Cordless Impact Wrench from Northern Tool + Equipment are the perfect partner for all those auto, construction or equipment maintenance projects.

This 24-volt, cordless wrench delivers heavy torque and includes four different sockets assuring he has the right piece for any job.

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Finding a gift he might get from a buddy will be a pleasant surprise for him. The Harley-Davidson 7-Liter Pilsner Glass from Kotula’s will turn heads and create a lot of laughs.

This giant beer glass can hold up to about 18 cans of his favorite beer and will make a big statement.

If you use these shopping tips for the guys in your life, you won’t even need to check your holiday list twice. With a good plan in mind, you’ll find options he will enjoy and actually use.