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BUZZ Cash Mob set; FC Exxon to close Mayor Tim Burchett will hold one last Cash Mob 3-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, at Fountain City Exxon, 5306 N. Broadway. The event will be a benefit as well as a celebration to honor proprietor Alvin Frye, who is ill and will be closing the station Dec. 31.

Frye, a U.S. Navy veteran of both World War II and the Korean Conflict, has owned service stations at three Fountain City locations for 60 years – most recently 28 years on the corner of Broadway and Essary Road.

A former Fountain City Man of the Year who attempted to hide his generous spirit behind a crusty, independent demeanor, Frye’s “No Beer, No Lottery Tickets, Not a Casino” sign is a Fountain City icon.

He has been undergoing treatment in a convalescent home for several weeks after contracting a stubborn staph infection after a fall.

Contributions to the Alvin Frye Fund can be sent to the Fountain City Lions Club, P.O. Box 5276, Knoxville, TN 37928.

2020 planning for state parks Tennessee State Parks is soliciting public input for its 2020 State Recreation Plan, 5:30 p.m. today, Dec. 14, at Farragut Town Hall. This is a regional meeting, facilitated by April Johnson, TDEC recreation services coordinator, and Jamison Sliger, PARTAS consultant.

The plan documents the most critical needs facing recreational infrastructure over the next 10 years.

Read the plan at tn.gov/ environment/article/restennessee-2020-plan

Dr. Ruth Stephens Dr. Ruth Stephens taught history and international relations at UT for 35 years. After retirement, she delivered 100300 speeches a year.

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By Ruth White On Friday, Dec. 16, the senior adults at the Community Center in Powell will begin to fill and distribute 150-170 tote bags for area schoolchildren. The project is called Totes of Love and provides school supplies,

hygiene items and small toys for children at four Powell schools.

This year there has been a larger request for the totes from the schools, and coordinator Janice White said items are still needed to fill the bags.

School supplies (crayons, pencils, pens, paper), personal hygiene items such as shampoo, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, floss, hand sanitizer, tissue; socks, scarves, hats, gloves (for the high school students) and small toys

such as books, cars and coloring books will be accepted until Thursday, Dec. 15, at the Community Center, 1708 W. Emory Road.

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Potential candidate visits Powell

By Sandra Clark

It’s a twist on the usual political visit, but then Larsen Jay is not your usual candidate. He may not be a candidate at all, but the founder of Random Acts of Flowers is moving around Knox County, meeting with community activists and sizing up his chances of winning election to Knox County Commission at-large.

Both seats 10 and 11 are expected to be open in 2018. Bob Thomas has announced his

candidacy for county mayor, and Ed Brantley is expected to help his friend Thomas organize his campaign.

Former commissioner R. Larry Smith already has announced for Brantley’s seat 11.

Powell native Cindy McConkey Cox facilitated the Powell visit. She’s working with Jay at Random Acts of Flowers since retiring early from Scripps Networks Interactive.

Justin Bailey talked about Enhance Powell

and its efforts to create a façade design that Emory Road property owners can support.

Bart Elkins, after learning that Jay’s wife came from Chicago, said there is just one important question: Cubs or White Sox? Jay showed Bart his socks with a Cubs logo. “It’s hard to take yourself seriously when you’re wearing funny socks,” he said.

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In defense of Joshua Dobbs “Joshua Dobbs has been criticized for not being Peyton Manning. He has been blamed for not winning championships. Alas, his worst game somehow overshadowed a dozen good to excellent performances.”

Marvin West makes the case for Joshua Dobbs.

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Jackie Kirk and Beverly Spencer prepare to fill tote bags for area schoolchildren with members of the Community Center in Powell (formerly the Heiskell Seniors). Photo by Ruth White

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School rezoning could unwind ’89 their children

By Sandra Clark Knox County is poised to undo to Gibbs. much of the rezoning for racial desegregation that has affected families and even home construction for almost 30 years.

Analysis The school board must accommodate the fall 2018 opening of two new schools – Gibbs Middle (600 students) and Hardin Valley Middle (1,200). Those 1,800 kids are currently zoned for middle school somewhere else. With several middle schools currently under capacity, the challenge is to fill the new schools while keeping the others open.

Interim Superintendent Buzz Thomas was at Gibbs Elementary School last week to hear from citizens. He got an earful, mostly from parents who do not want

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Butler, presiResidents of Summer Rose dent of the local said they want their kids to attend chapter of the Shannondale, Gresham and CenNAACP, said he tral High schools. “Don’t mess with understands why Fountain City,” was their mantra.

Gibbs area parents wanted their ■ Looking back kids schooled near An effort to achieve racial balBuzz Thomas home. “It’s a long ance fueled the rezoning debates way out here.” of 1989-91, following the merger Butler authored the complaint of the city and county school sysunder review by the U.S. Office tems. Then-superintendent Earl of Civil Rights. The complaint Hoffmeister appointed a task criticizes new construction at the force to rezone the schools, closcounty’s edges. ing those not needed and achievHe said East Knoxville parents ing racial balance among those also want their kids to attend a remaining. No high school should modern, 21st Century school close be more than 30 percent black, he to home. said. The NAACP invited the OCR James Spears, a 1991 graduate to observe the goings-on. of Gibbs High School who is black, The plan was finalized, kicked now has five kids in Gibbs schools. around by the school board in at He said getting a new middle least three iterations and then

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Of the five high schools recommended for closure, two remain: Austin-East and Fulton.

■ Holston High was closed, becoming the middle school for an expanded Gibbs High zone.

■ Rule High was closed, with kids sent to West High, where zone lines were extended into West Hills for a new, expanded zone. That gamble paid dividends as West is now an International Baccalaureate high school.

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Dr. Ruth Stephens made history clear Lindsey Nelson (19191995) was perhaps best known nationally as an American sportscaster who had a long career as a playby-play announcer for college football and the New York Mets baseball team.

However, many Vols for life will remember him at a much earlier time when he announced UT football games for the Vol network.

Nelson was a 1941 University of Tennessee graduate who served as a captain in the U.S. Army in World War II in North Africa and in Europe. One of his history professors at UT was Dr. Ruth Stephens. He kept up correspondence with her while overseas and in one long letter he described things he had witnessed and places he had been.

Dr. Stephens wrote back to say how furious she was that she not there in his place to witness history being made. She wrote, “Just think what value such experiences would have (been) for me.� Nelson interpreted that to mean that she felt he did not have the background to absorb what he was seeing. He agreed and realized he should have paid closer attention in class.

Those who remember Dr. Stephens’ civic club presentations, radio broadcasts and later her television commentaries will recall that she “told it like it is (was)� and “minced no words� as she discussed world events and the implications they held.

Ruth Stephens was born in Kevil near Paducah in western Kentucky on Oct. 2, 1889, and received her B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University. For a while she taught high school in Paducah (1921-24).

Dr. Stephens joined the University of Tennessee faculty in 1925, became the first woman in the UT College of Liberal Arts to obtain a full professorship and would eventually serve a total of 35 years there. Later, her interest in international relations led to a Carnegie Fellowship for World Peace and she took a one year leave of absence (1931) to study international law at George Washington University and

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at the Library of Congress in Washington.

Many students had Dr. Stephens for two subjects during their undergraduate years since she taught both history and international relations. Carson Brewer, longtime Knoxville News Sentinel reporter and author of several books on local history, was one of her students.

In an article titled “How Long Do I Remember the Personal Wrath of Ruth Stephens�

(Knoxville News Sentinel, Dec. 25, 1983) he wrote: “She didn’t teach history.

She relived it. She made you go with her back through those wars and intrigues that led us to where we are. She always used the big wall map behind her in reliving those marching armies and changing national boundaries. She peppered the map with small blows with her pointer. “We went with her and that pointer with Napoleon into Russia. We plotted with her and Elizabeth I. She and we warred with the Chinese Communists, the Kuomintang and the Japanese all over the map of China. “Maybe we did not greatly like Mao Tse-tung, but we learned to respect him and the peasant communists he took with him on the long march across China in the middle 1930s. Dr. Stephens’ enunciation was so nearly perfect that every word was as clear as boxcar letters.

She also colored every word with her feelings—scorn, love, admiration, humor.�

When she reached mandatory retirement age in 1960, she hardly slowed down. Civic and fraternal organizations all over East Tennessee asked her to speak and she made from 100 to 300 speeches a year.

She also had a regular radio program until television arrived and afforded her the perfect platform to express her always enlightened views on world affairs. Her

Dr. Ruth Stephens (1889-1975) taught both history and international relations at UT for 35 years. Even after her retirement, she delivered from 100 to 300 speeches a year to civic and fraternal groups, in addition to her regular TV commentary.

School board chair Patti Bounds talks with East Knox resident Donna Butler, at left, after last week’s meeting on rezoning.

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television program “The History Behind the News� was among the most popular weekly commentaries of its time.

When there was sentiment for withdrawing from the United Nations, she spoke to the combined meeting of the Women’s Press and Author’s Club and the Tennessee Pen Women in Gatlinburg and voiced this cogent opinion: “I shudder when I hear people say the United States should withdraw. ‌ If there were no UN, we would be seeking frantically to create one. The world needs the UN. From the platform, in the corridors and cloakrooms, our representatives can detect the currents that exist in 111 member states.

Where else can we gain such information? How else can we shape our policy so that we can grasp even the smallest opportunity to advance world peace?�

After a lifetime of imparting knowledge to university students and extending her positive influence into the community, Dr. Ruth Stephens passed away on Dec. 15, 1975, at 86 years of age at University Hospital of an apparent heart attack. After services at Mann’s Mortuary conducted by Rev. Julian Spitzer, she was interred in Highland Memorial Cemetery.

During her lifetime she had received many awards

for her service: Knoxville Woman of the Year (Beta Sigma Phi, 1940), Faculty Member of the Year (Volunteer Year Book, 1952), Outstanding Service in Protecting Our Constitutional Republic (Daughters of the American Revolution, 1954), and the Outstanding Educator Award (Greater Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, 1969).

Her memory lives on at UT in two active memorial funds: the Ruth Stephens Scholarship Fund for undergraduate political science majors with particular interest in the area of international politics and the Ruth Stephens International Relations Award Fund, which supports an annual cash award to an undergraduate political science major whose principal interest is in the field of international relations.

Dr. Jim Tumblin’s latest book, Fountain City: Those Who Made a Difference, is available at Page’s Pharmacy, Pratt’s Country Store, Long’s Pharmacy, the East Tennessee History Center, Union Avenue Books and online.

â– South-Young High was closed, becoming a middle school for an expanded South-Doyle High zone. Black parents continue to complain about their kids being bused across the river, while South Knoxvillians grumble about discipline issues.

Five middle schools were recommended for closure: Doyle, Beardsley, Spring Hill, Christenberry and Vine. Of those, only Vine remains open. â–

Moving forward

To “unwind ’89� does not mean reopening all of those schools. Many were in poor condition and the school-age population has shifted to the county. But it could easily mean more compact zones and less busing, especially of African-American kids. “Can we do away with zoning?� Cynthia Finch asked Thomas. “Probably not,� he answered, “but we do have parental choice in Knox County. If we have room in a school, we’ll let you transfer into it.�

Transferring has become easier after a U.S. Supreme Court decision not to use race as a criterion in transfers.

Thomas summarized the Gibbs meeting: “What I’ve heard loud and clear is you want great community schools. ‌ You want middle and high school zones to line up.â€?

He’s set four more 6 p.m. meetings: Jan. 10 at SouthDoyle Middle; Jan. 17 at Hardin Valley Elementary; Jan. 24 at Holston Middle; and Jan. 31 at Vine Middle.

Thomas wants to present a rezoning plan to the school board in May. County Commissioner Evelyn Gill said the county’s “piecemeal approach� is not good. She wants a comprehensive plan for the 14 schools in her district. Gill is the only African-American and the sole Democrat on the commission.

Thomas responded: “I understand that we are talking about children and families. We will tread very carefully. They are all our kids, and we will treat them accordingly.�

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Bart Elkins, Larsen Jay and Justin Bailey discuss improvements to Depot Drive in Powell.

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A-4 • DECEMBER 14, 2016 • POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news credit to his parents. I predict he will be a university ambassador for years to come. He may someday donate a million or two.

Wouldn’t it be something if he came back as president?

He is smart and tough, an excellent athlete playing quarterback. He is the epitome of a team player, unselfish to a fault. He did not complain when receivers dropped footballs and blockers missed blocks.

He never changed expressions when deployed in the shotgun formation on short-yardage plays – when all of us “coaches” knew he should have been under center.

As captains go, he was unflappable, rock-solid in his example of poise under duress.

The first thing Joshua Dobbs did for Tennessee was accept a Tennessee scholarship. He was a four-star

prep prospect, 6-3 and thinlooking but strong enough, totally dependable, never missed a day of school.

He was pledged to Arizona State when Butch swooped in and changed his thinking. Knoxville was closer to Alpharetta, Ga. UT engineering professors are among the best in the world. Dobbs’ multiple abilities made him a probable fit for whatever it is Butch runs. By the way, the Vols play in the spotlighthot SEC. Twice there were redshirt plans. Dobbs responded when called prematurely. If he was ever intimidated, it didn’t show.

Dobbs has been criticized for not being Peyton Manning. He has been blamed for not winning championships. Alas, his worst game somehow overshadowed a dozen good to excellent performances.

I say he did what he could. Joshua Dobbs can play for me.

Our lives track a parallel path. No sprouting leaves, of course. Yet we go through comparable phases enrich the garden? Return of growth, maturation, production and eventually we them to mother nature.

Hours of routine raking too fail and return to the set my mind to wandering earth. Have we contributed ... among other things about something of worth to those around us? Raised a family? the cycle of life.

Are we like the trees? Built something of ongoing What are we doing with our value? Lent a helping hand to others? Planted a tree? lives?

For oak trees, springsprouting buds force off their carapaces, shed their wiggly catkins and yellow ■ Charles Susano III is an arpollen (ugh) and cover the cheologist, we hear, and now branches in working green he’s interested in running ... chlorophyll to convert for Circuit Court clerk. That’s great training for an office sunlight into plant food. where he’s liable to find dead Fall acorns feed the squirbones and relics – and that’s rels (and germinate new among the folks who actually trees), and cascading leaves show up for work! fall to the ground and com■ Larsen Jay, founder of plete the annual cycle.

Random Acts of Flowers, is What about us?

What have we done in the spring and summer of our lives?

There are more questions than answers. Gosh, that’s heavy lifting for a leaf-raking weekend.

I’d like to think we can leave the earth a better place than we found it. I suppose only those who follow behind us can truly say.

Oh well, back to raking. ...

In defense of Joshua Dobbs Coffee shop comments and football forum exchanges may not perfectly match what a million Tennessee fans are thinking, but this is the best I can do today: The Vanderbilt game won’t go away.

The defense is still catching most of the heat, but some is spilling onto Joshua Dobbs. His fumble at the end of the third quarter launched Commodore domination of the fourth.

Criticism of Dobbs seems so unfair.

He was not a turnover machine. He threw 319 passes and suffered 12 interceptions. He handled the ball hundreds of times and fumbled 10. Four were lost.

The tragedies happened, inconveniently, at Texas A&M, South Carolina and Vanderbilt.

I understand, quarterbacks generally get too much credit for victories and too much blame for

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losses. Some fans never stopped nipping at Dobbs, even when he was player of the week.

Back in the summer, there was light chatter about Dobbs for Heisman.

Some snickered and said no way. Dobbs was not an accurate passer. He overthrew deep receivers and bounced the ball to backs in the flat. He was coached to stay in the pocket because, on the run, he couldn’t hit the proverbial broad side of a barn.

I preserved a postgame fan quote from 9-17-16: “This team is bad and the QB is terrible.

“He can’t throw. He can’t

read defenses. For a rocket scientist, he continues to make dumb decisions.”

Dobbs did start this season slowly. Health care concepts restricted runs. He looked like himself against Florida – 319 yards and four touchdown passes.

He threw the Georgia Hail Mary to the proper place.

His stats were OK against the Aggies.

When the Vols got to November and other deficient defenses, scouts started following Dobbs. He was suddenly having one of the best seasons in Tennessee history. His quarterback rating became 152.6. He completed 63.3 percent. He threw for 26 touchdowns, most in the SEC. Last Vol to lead that department was Heath Shuler.

Dobbs ran for 713 yards and nine scores. He caught a TD pass. He showed up every Saturday. Each time he was knocked down, he

got up.

He signed autographs.

He visited the sick and heartbroken. He helped old ladies across busy streets.

Joshua didn’t exactly lose the Vanderbilt game.

Incredibly, he completed 31 of 34 passes and didn’t miss a single tackle.

I never thought it would come to this, feeling a need to defend Robert Joshua Dobbs.

From my perspective, he is a model citizen, superior student and a

Reflections upon fallen leaves Nature’s cycles.

Fall means raking leaves, at least in my hilltop yard, which is surrounded by mature oak trees, as well as dogwoods and ornamentals. Those giants are not like my Chilhowee Drive neighbor’s modest-sized gingko tree. The gingko’s leaves turn a brilliant gold in the fall, then almost overnight, drop to ground, blanketing its base in gold.

Brilliant but fleeting. One session and you’re done. My oak trees demand more attention. They parcel out their brown bounty over several months, from November through year’s end.

A sea of leaves, that would mound knee deep if left un-

Many end up at the curb for the city to pick up.

But significant others are hauled back to the garden.

Nick This natural mulch will be Della Volpe turned under in spring to enrich the soil, sprinkled with lime to neutralize their acidity and left to decomattended. pose.

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Humus to break up dense Armed with blower, rake clay soil and feed summer and tarp, I roll up my sleeves tomatoes, peppers, beans, and get to work. Repetitive. herbs and other fresh proSatisfying in a certain way. duce. A biologist once told Gradually the lawn below me some 70 percent of a re-emerges. If I can get to tree’s nutrients are in the them before heavy rain and leaves. In a forest they dematting, I can blow leaves compose at the base of the into windrows, then rake tree and nurture it. Our them onto a tarp and drag lawns (such as they are) them to their final resting need sunlight … and rakplace. ing. But why not use them to

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Housing needs First United Methodist Church of Gatlinburg is working to meet critical housing needs. Fire refugees in need of housing can contact the Rev. Dan Moore, 865-436-4691. Checks can be sent to First United Methodist Church, 742 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Envelopes containing checks should be marked “Relief.”

‘Did you lose?’

December meeting of the Gatlinburg Garden Club that was being planned by local eventmeister George Hawkins, who lost thousands of dollars of lights and ornaments in the fire.

He is grateful for the survival of the Castle’s employees, who had been watching the fires on the other side of Gatlinburg that night, unaware of the danger behind them.

“If they’d stayed out on that porch watching those fires in town, they’d have never gotten out. Those fires across the street would have trapped them,” Hawkins said.

The fires on the other side of town wiped out several apartment complexes that

were home to the people who make Gatlinburg work, including many immigrant families who live paycheck to paycheck and are unlikely to have the comfort of insurance to fall back on.

The concrete hulk of the Park Vista Hotel protected 40-something guests who were trapped there while flames licked the windows and scorched the exterior.

The Widder’s Knob and Turkey Nest neighborhoods were devastated.

Downtown, the sharks and the rays at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies swim unaware of how close they came to destruction.

The Aquarium staff has been stalwarts in the fire’s aftermath, serving as a community center amid the disruption.

Pigeon Forge resident Leland Wykoff, who was a Gatlinburg retailer for more than 30 years, said the Ripley employees have been heroes.

“They’ve provided a calming and stabilizing influence as they worked tirelessly, 24 hours a day, free of charge, to provide hot meals

and necessities like clean socks, Chap Stick and eye drops for first responders, firefighters, police and utility crews who worked long hours and didn’t get time off.”

There will be hard questions in the coming days.

Residents are wondering why the decision to evacuate the town came so late in a day when fires were breaking out ever closer to town. They are wondering why they got no notification and what happened to the high-decibel flood evacuation siren installed years ago. Many believe the official death count will rise.

Others are angry when state troopers use the Spur checkpoint to cite people who have lost everything for missing headlights or lacking the correct “papers.”

But amid it all, Gatlinburg residents are pulling together.

A young woman I met downtown asked me, “Did you lose?” and gave me a warm hug before I could tell her I wasn’t affected. These hills are full of people like her.

ries being increased over the next year at UT Knoxville.

■ Scott Golden, chief of staff to retiring West Tennessee U.S. Rep. Steve Fincher, was elected to chair the state GOP to succeed former state Rep. Ryan Haynes of Farragut. He won on the second ballot 33-27 over Brent Leatherwood, the party’s executive director.

■ Efforts to promote Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd are well underway with H.M. “Hash” Hashemian holding a breakfast last month at Cherokee Country Club. While the invitation said 50 community leaders were expected, more than 120 attended, including UT President Joe DiPietro and UT Chancellor Jimmy Cheek along with state Sens. Richard Briggs and Becky Massey, state Rep. Eddie Smith, UT vice chair Raja Jubran, Jim Haslam, Teddy Phillips, Laurens Tullock, Bruce Bosse, UT economist Bill Fox, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, council member Marshall Stair, attorneys Culver Schmid and Tom

McAdams, businessman Wes Stowers, former county mayor Mike Ragsdale, Ashley Capps, Hallerin Hill, Pete DeBusk, businesswoman and UT trustee Sharon Pryse and Knox Chamber CEO Mike Edwards.

While Boyd’s potential race for governor was not publicly discussed, it was certainly a strong undercurrent of private discussion among attendees. Some actually thought he might announce then.

Boyd spoke on jobs issues. He attended a barbecue for state Sen. Ken Yager in Harriman that night.

Boyd is expected to announce by March whether he will run. He would have to resign as a member of the governor’s Cabinet should he run, which means Gov. Bill Haslam would name a new commissioner of ECD to serve the remaining months left in Haslam’s term. Opposing Boyd likely will be U.S. Rep. Diane Black and state Sens. Mark Green and Mark Norris.

■ Knoxville lost a strong civil rights activist with the death of Avon Rollins last week. He was

always present and outspoken when rights were being abridged. He was especially involved in calling for creation of the police civilian review board, which this writer did by executive order as there was not majority support on City Council at the time to create it.

Council should honor him by resolution. Rollins will be missed.

■ Longtime Republican Mary Helen Byers, who lived in Sequoyah Hills over 20 years, died before Thanksgiving. Married to Buckley Byers, who was well known and active in national GOP financial circles, she moved to Knoxville after his death. She once hosted a tented luncheon at her Cherokee Boulevard home honoring Marilyn Quayle, wife of the then-vice president, when she visited Knoxville.

She was a patron of the arts and generous in her financial support.

■ Former U.S. Rep. and TVA director Bob Clement, 73, is out with a book on his life titled “Kings, Presidents and Convicts,” about growing up in the governor’s residence.

Gatlinburg Church of Christ burned to the ground.

Shared pain in Gatlinburg Byy spring, the land will willl heal. But a week after the fire, stretches of the Spur between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg looked – and smelled – like an apocalyptic vision.

Road crews had come through spraying a compound of grass seed that stained the dirt an unnatural green under the charred tree trunks and blackened vines. The jagged remains of Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort were visible on the ridgetop above the outgoing lanes. Military/police checkpoints completed the dystopian ambiance.

Anyone entering Gatlinburg from the Spur would have been tempted to believe that the stories of

pairing damage caused by gale force winds – nothing catastrophic.

Betty Two blocks from either Bean side of the Parkway, it was a different story.

The River House Motor death and destruction were Lodge on River Road, which overblown. Shops and res- overlooks a tributary of the taurants and clubs are un- Little Pigeon, has been retouched by flame. The Space duced to rubble. The mounNeedle soars over a main tain above it was completely drag that looks a lot like engulfed in the flames that took down The Castle and Christmas.

The first hint of some- other high-end homes in thing amiss was the swarm Greystone Heights.

The Castle, a 32,000of ServePro (Faster to any Disaster) trucks, painted a square-foot, five-story manslightly more chartreuse- sion perched on the side of ish shade of green than the the mountain, is owned grass seed compound on by Kent Emmons, a Hollythe Spur. Pressure washing wood-based entrepreneur crews were blasting soot who rented the place out away and roofers were re- for special events, like the

A dearth of Democrats City Council member and former mayor Daniel Brown turns 71 on Christmas Day. Brown, the first black mayor of Knoxville, might run for state representative against Rick Staples in 2018 in the Democratic primary.

Staples was chosen as the Democratic nominee by 14 people without a primary and prevailed Nov. 8 over former state Rep. Pete Drew, who ran as an independent.

Staples needs to win a seriously competitive race to consolidate his political standing.

The ranks of Democratic county elected officials have been so reduced that today there are no elected white Democrats holding partisan office in the entire county, including judgeships.

This is a dramatic change from just 20 years ago when Democrats like Howard Bozeman, Billy Tindell, Mark Cawood, Harry Tindell, Bob Broome, Madeline Rogero, Gordon Sams, Daryl Fansler, Harold Wimberly, Randy Nichols, Wayne

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Ritchie, Tommy Schumpert and Mark Harmon held office.

All elected Democrats are Knoxville city officials, like Rogero, Finbarr Saunders, Barbara Palmer and Duane Grieve, who run on a nonpartisan basis and seldom show their Democratic stripes. To stage a comeback, local Democrats must have black and white officeholders.

■ New UT Chancellor Beverly Davenport will attend the Dec. 16 legislative breakfast for her first appearance on campus after being confirmed by the board on Dec. 15. It will be at 8 a.m. in the eighth-floor conference room at Andy Holt Towers and closed to the public.

Lawmakers have acquiesced to it being closed, but state Rep. Martin Daniel says, “Transparency should prevail. When UT is discussing public issues with lawmakers, the public should be there. UT would benefit from more openness.”

Daniel, who turns 60 this Saturday, is a UT graduate and holds two degrees from the university.

UT does itself a disservice by insisting on secrecy when the entire discussion among 20 legislators and UT officials will quickly become public once the meeting concludes. Furthermore, one critical mission of the university is to promote the facts and truth. Closing the door to meetings with elected officials, because of fear of negative media coverage, is inconsistent with the university’s mission.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ All Knox County Senior Centers will be closed Friday-Monday, Dec. 23-26.

■ Karns Senior Center 8042 Oak Ridge Highway 951-2653 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Offerings include: card games; dance classes; exercise programs; mahjong; art classes; farkle dice games; dominoes; computer lab; billiards room.

Register for: Cookie and candy exchange party, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20; make a dozen cookies to share and three dozen for the exchange; also includes Holiday Cookie Competition.

Tucker Busbee, 3, and Ivy Grace King, 3, tell Santa Claus their Christmas wishes at the annual Sherrill Hills Retirement Community Christmas parade last Thursday. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Laughter reigns at Sherrill Hills Christmas parade

■ Halls Senior Center 4405 Crippen Road 922-0416 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday

By Nancy Anderson

Offerings include: card games; exercise classes; quilting, dominoes, dance classes; scrapbooking, craft classes; Tai Chi; movie matinee 2 p.m. Tuesdays.

Register for: Veteran Services Office visit, 9 a.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 21; RSVP: 215-5645. Matter of Balance Party, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21; bring appetizer dish to share; sweet treats provided.

■ The Heiskell Senior Center 1708 W. Emory Road.

Info: Janice White, 548-0326

Nearly 100 residents and staff members gathered at Sherrill Hills Retirement Community for their annual Christmas parade.

Christmas favorites from “The Grinch” to a dancing tree sauntered down “Main Street” yelling “Merry Luise Woodby is all smiles as Christmas!” and passing she channels her inner “Ruout candy to delighted on- dolph.” lookers.

Community managers “The response of the resEd and Sheri Ring said they idents is just outstanding. were thrilled to see every- They’re all in costumes; but one having such a good time best of all, they’re all wearat the parade. ing smiles.

Upcoming: “Totes of Love” bags will be assembled Friday, Dec.16, at the Community Center; items will be accepted 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Monday-Friday through Dec. 15; items needed: shampoo, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, dental floss and hand sanitizer.

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Delane McCandless as Frosty and Geraldine Watson as Christmas Tree collect giggles as they dance down “Main Street.”

Peggy Cummings and Sandi Simpson as Christmas Nutcracker soldiers.

Penny Bandy as “The Grinch” reveals her heart “grew three sizes” by handing out candy to onlookers and mugging gleefully for the camera.

“I don’t think I can ask for more than that,” said Ed Ring.

“It’s not just the residents. We’re all loving it.

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A perplexing greeting In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent

by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.

(Luke 1: 26-29 NRSV)

Santa greets young Birdie Wilhoit in the halls of Bookwalter United Methodist Church.

The story of the birth of Jesus unfolds in layers: jumping forward to the future, backtracking into prophetic history, generally creating confusion and consternation. Perhaps the most confused person in the Bible is Mary: a virgin betrothed to Joseph, who finds herself being visited by the angel Gabriel.

Now an angel showing up suddenly is disconcerting, to put it mildly! We think of angels as beautiful creatures sporting halos, but almost invariably, angels have to begin their conversations with humans by saying, “Fear not!”

Is it their size, their radiance, their voices, their faces? The suddenness of their appearance? The brush of wings?

Luke says Mary was “perplexed.” (Apparently, Luke was given to understatement!) Angels were disconcerting enough, but a woman in that culture who was found to be with child before marriage was subject to death by stoning. “Perplexed” doesn’t begin to describe Mary’s fear, horror and confusion!

Imagine having to tell your parents, let alone your betrothed, “Oh, by the way, even though I’m a virgin, I am going to have a baby, and I know this because an angel told me so.”

Fortunately, God provided a haven for Mary: her cousin Elizabeth and Elizabeth’s husband, Zechariah, who lived in a Judean town in the hill country.

Another miracle: Elizabeth, who had been barren all her life, was now pregnant!

Brooklyn Haun poses for a festive photo in the Bookwalter United Methodist Church photo booth.

Sharing Christ’s love in the community

By Stacy Levy Bookwalter United Methodist Church’s mission is “Sharing God’s song of Love to neighbors and inviting them to share in the joy of Christ.”

At Christmastime, volunteers decorate the church so it is festive and beautiful for the season. The Bookwalter

congregation wanted to share that with the community, so they had their first Christmas Open House Dec. 4.

“Family is everything!” said open house organizer Sharalyn Rose. “Church is about coming together and sharing, caring, crying and laughing. Families and friends took pictures

FAITH NOTES Community services ■ Cross Roads Presbyterian, 4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-7 p.m. each second Tuesday and 10-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church, 6125 Lacy Road, offers Children’s Clothes Closet and Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m. each third Saturday. Free to those in the 37912/37849 ZIP code area.

Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each Friday. Info: Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Fountain City UMC, 212 Hotel Road, hosts Griefshare, 6:30-8 p.m.

Wednesdays. The support group is offered for those who are dealing with the loss of a spouse, child, family member or friend. Cost: $15 for workbook. Info: 689-5175.

■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory Road, hosts Recovery at Powell each Thursday.

Dinner, 6 p.m.; worship, 7; groups, 8:15. The program embraces people who struggle with addiction, compulsive behaviors, loss and life challenges. Info: recoveryatpowell.com or 938-2741.

Special services ■ Bethany Missionary Baptist Church, 6705 E. Raccoon Valley Drive, will present the Christmas play “Our Christmas Gift” at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec.18. Bring a canned good for the Halls Welfare Ministry Pantry.

■ Bookwalter UMC’s Chancel choir will present a Christmas concert, “Noel, Night of Everlasting Love,” 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at the church, 4218 Central Avenue Pike. A reception will follow. Info: 689-3349 or info@bookwalter-umc.org.

■ Bookwalter UMC, 4218 Central Avenue Pike, will offer the following Christmas services: Christmas Eve candlelight service, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 24; Christmas morning worship service, 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 25. Info: 689-3349 or info@bookwalter-umc.org.

■ Mt. Hermon UMC Children’s Christmas program will be presented 6 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 18, 235 E. Copeland Road. The Nativity program will be followed by refreshments in the church basement.

■ New Beverly Baptist, 3320 New Beverly Church Road, will hold the following special services: special Candlelight Service, 6 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 18, followed by a visit from Santa and old-fashioned bag treats; Christmas Service, 11 a.m.

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together, had a lot of smiles and wide-eyed excitement.

Bookwalter is the greatest church family there is.”

There was plenty of food and refreshments, family photo opportunities, gifts for the children and of course a visit from Santa Claus. And don’t forget about the Prayer Tree. This tree had ornaments and written prayers on it. After the fires in the Smoky Mountains and the tornadoes in Athens, Tenn., church members really felt a need for this type of tree.

“We all know prayer is much needed for simple needs or the major ones,” said Rose.

“I thought this event was unique and wonderful and a great continuation of our effort to ‘share God’s song of love’ with the community,”

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Over the next few weeks, I am going to complete some of the “What’s in Name” series for our school names.

I have friends who go to Powell Middle Kip School, and the whole area of Powell has a very cool history.

The area that became Powell was settled in 1789, two years before Knoxville was established. Powell was settled by Stockley Donelson – Andrew Jackson’s brother-in-law – and Donelson’s house is still in Powell. The Powell community was named after Columbus Powell, who donated land for the Powell train station. His house still stands as well, near the current high school.

The train was important to the Powell area because it hauled bricks made from the mud in nearby Beaver Creek to other areas.

Several schools are in the Powell area, but the main ones I am writing about today are Powell High, Powell Middle, Powell Elementary and Copper

Ridge Elementary.

The first high school in Powell was established in 1874 and was called Perkins School. It was a two-room schoolhouse with one room to house grades 1-4 and a “big” room to house grades 5-10.

In 1916, it was renamed for the founder of Powell, Columbus Powell.

In 1949, the elementary and high schools were separated, and a high school was constructed on Emory Road where it is now. The current Powell Elementary School was built on what was the original site of Perkins School, constructed to house grades 1-8.

In 1969, Powell Elementary underwent a major expansion, allowing grades 1-6 to move into the new wing, while grades 7-8 remained in the old wing until the completion of Powell Middle School.

Copper Ridge Elementary was built in 1979 to meet the needs of the Green Hill and Heiskell communities.

The first Heiskell School and Green Hill School were both built in the 1800s with Green Hill near the present day Copper Ridge Elementary site.

More on the history of local school communities next week. Send comments to oswaldsworldtn@gmail.com.

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Knox County Museum of Education Honor Roll inductees and their proxies include: (seated) Patricia Hunter, Norma Kelley (for Dr. Paul Kelley), Connie Ramsey; (standing) D.M. Miller (for Mary Halsey), Dr. Sam Bratton, Roy Mullins, Tom Underwood, David Huntsinger, Jody Davis, Beecher Clapp, Benna van Vuuren and Jack Williams. Photo by Betsy Pickle

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By Betsy Pickle The Knox County Museum of Education celebrated its 10th birthday with cake, punch and a stroll down Memory Lane.

Visitors – many of them current or retired teachers – dropped by the Sarah Simpson Professional Development Center, 801 Tipton Ave. in South Knoxville, throughout the afternoon of Dec. 1 to view exhibits and chat with friends. The museum moved to the Simpson Center in 2013, about seven years after it was created at the Historic Knoxville High School building.

The official program included guest speaker Robert Booker and the induction of the first Honor Roll – volunteers and board members whose efforts led to the formation and success of the museum.

Booker shared the history of public education in Knoxville and Knox County using information he had researched in the museum’s archives.

“It is a real museum with books, photographs, documents and memorabilia,” Booker said, describing the museum. “It is a repository of more than 200 years of educational progress.”

The march to public education early on was slow, but it sped up after the Civil War, Booker said, especially after the state enacted a law creating the position of county school superintendents. The first schools opened in 1867.

“By September 1869, the county had 126 schools that were mostly built by private enterprise and were crude structures,” he said. Booker said a report he found in the museum noted that schools were open about 70 days a year, and less than 30 percent of the school-age population attended.

That had improved by 1876, when 10,075 students within Knox County – 8,425 white, 1,650 black – were attending. School was in session 82 days a year. Teachers were paid an average of $36 a month, and the superintendent made $600 a year. The system’s budget was less than $34,000.

Meanwhile, the city launched its own school system in late 1870 and stayed in the education business until residents voted to merge with the county in 1986.

Booker drew laughs – rueful chuckles, mostly – when he noted that male teachers made more than female teachers in the mid-20th century.

“These stories and many more live and continue to illuminate the public in this County Museum of Education,” Booker said. “It will surely continue to expand and offer even greater enlightenment to our citizens, thanks to you.”

The Honor Roll included 15 people, including museum director and cofounder Benna Van Vuuren. Other members are: David Armstrong, Jim Boyer (deceased), Sue Boyer, Dr. Sam

Bratton, Beecher Clapp, Jody Davis, Mary Halsey, Patricia Hunter, David Huntsinger, Dr. Paul Kelley (deceased), Roy Mullins, Connie Ramsey, Tom Underwood and Jack Williams.

There are plans to add more to the honor roll over the next few years.

Semi-Scrooge Booker Among his many accomplishments, Robert “Bob” Booker is noted for releasing his first CD this year. But don’t look for a recording of Christmas songs from him.

“I hate Christmas music!” he says. “Unless you’re singing out of a hymn book – you know, ‘Adeste Fidelis’ or ‘It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.’

“But all this stuff people do drives me crazy. They bastardize Christmas music so it drives me insane. After Thanksgiving, every radio station’s got to play Christmas music, so I have to turn the radio off. I can’t stand it!”

He makes an exception for “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

“Well, everybody loves a shiny nose. That’s one of the few that I can appreciate because it’s a fun song. It has meaning, too.”

– Betsy Pickle

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Kathy Macourek brought KatMac’s Cakes delicacies to sell.

The Powell-based business makes cakes for weddings, birthdays and special occasions.

Talor Treece is surrounded by clothing. She promotes Lula Roe and Talor Spring brands.

PTA roars with winter extravaganza

By Sandra Clark Powell Elementary School’s PTA used the entire building and some of the parking lot to host this year’s winter extravaganza.

It started with a pancake breakfast and was still going at noon. Some 30 vendors had displays, but the free cupcakes from Life House coffee shop had lines forming.

PTA organizers put Jihan and Michael

Cox right by the front door. Out on the porch, GruJo’s staff was grilling and selling German sandwiches. And the school was packed with parents, grandparents and kids galore.

Max Air sent staff to conduct a fitness drill on an obstacle course.

Performances were by the first and fourth grades in concert and the TN Valley Cloggers.

Life House coffee shop gave away mini cupcakes – both at the PTA fundraiser and during the Powell Lions Club Christmas Parade. Here are Jihan, daughter Nissi and Michael Cox. “We baked 1,800 cupcakes and plan to give away 1,000 at the parade,� said Michael Cox.

Jessica Severs named Champion of Character Jessica Severs, a 2014 graduate of Karns High School, was honored with the Mid-South Conference’s Champion of Character Award presented by conference Commissioner Eric Ward. Jessica, a junior on the University of the Cumberland’s volleyball team in Williamsburg, Ky., was recognized for her academic and athletic success, campus and community leadership, aspirations and demonstration of five core character values of the NAIA – respect, integrity, responsibility, servant leadership, and spor tsmanship. She is the daughter of Jeff and Linda Severs of Powell.

COMMUNITY NOTES â– Broadacres Homeowners Association. Info: Steven Goodpaster, generalgoodpaster@gmail. com.

Ready for Rain to perform Ready for Rain, an eclectic folk worship band, will be in concert at Trinity Community Church off Callahan Road at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, and at Life House coffee shop, Emory at Brickyard, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17. Ready for Rain is composed of band members ages 17-23, with members who have performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville. Concerts are free with a donation box for upcoming provision. Pictured are band members Kyle Graner, Robert Heck, Avery Harper, Jenna Walters, Mathew Wall, Jordan Harb and Perry Stevens.

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â– Halls High School agriculture department will host a festival of lights at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday and Friday, Dec. 15-16, in the greenhouse. The event will feature face painting, crafts, cookie decorating and photos with Santa. On Thursday, the HHS fine arts department will host a holiday concert beginning at 7 p.m. in the Halls Middle School auditorium with selections by the band, chorus and art.

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By Dr. Donald G. Wegener Many times when a person goes to the chiropractor he or she is under the impression that a bone is out of place and pinching a nerve. He or she believes that if the bone is put back in place the problem will be permanently ďŹ xed. This could not be any farther from the truth. On most occasions, the pain is Dr. Wegener a result of injury to the soft tissues of the body. Soft tissues are basically everything but the bone. This includes muscles, ligaments, tendons, joint capsules, discs, nerves and fascia. After being injured, soft tissues heal by a relatively complex process, involving three phases.

Phase One, Inammation: Normal soft tissues have a crisscross pattern that gives them strength in all directions of force. When soft tissues are torn, their ďŹ bers are disrupted in a manner similar to the tearing of a piece of paper. Once these tissues have torn, they will heal in three distinct phases. The ďŹ rst step is the acute inammation phase, also known as swelling. This phase and swelling will last for about 72 hours after an injury. During this phase, the tissues continue to swell causing more pain and discomfort to the injured area.

Phase Two, Regeneration: The second phase of healing, called regeneration,

begins about three days after an injury.

During this phase, the tears in the tissues begin to accumulate small protein cells called collagen. These cells create a glue that ďŹ lls the gap in the tissues caused by the tear. This laying down of the collagen glue during the regeneration phase will take six to eight weeks to complete. After this phase, no more glue will be laid down.

The glue is what will become scar tissue.

When the glue is making scar tissue in the injured area it is being laid down in a weaker more irregular pattern and not in the stronger, crisscross consistent pattern. After all the glue is in place and the scar tissue has been formed, the healing process is still not yet complete.

Phase Three, Remodeling: The ďŹ nal phase is the remodeling phase. This phase takes up to 12 months. During this phase, the irregular pattern of scar tissues will line up in the proper direction to create a better quality of healing. Therefore, remodeling is a motion-dependent phase that governs the quality of healing in the tissues.

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‘Free store’ for fire victims Rotarians from the five clubs in Sevier County – Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Sevierville Sunrise and Seymour Breakfast – are the volunteers staffing and operating the Rotary Distribution Center and “free store” at Boyd’s Bear in Pigeon Forge. They are being helped by Rotarians from Knoxville and from clubs throughout District 6780 across East Tennessee.

“You can’t fathom what’s going on here unless you see it,” District Gov. Fred Heitman said. “It is utterly fantastic and an incredible testimony about what Rotary is all about and how we can respond and get things done. It’s amazing.”

To date the center has served more than 15,000 victims, and when asked how many Rotarians have volunteered, he said: “Hundreds, literally hundreds, and they are unloading trucks, sorting items, getting them into the warehouses and helping the victims get what they need … they need all kinds of non-perishable food items, shovels, work gloves, clothes, especially warm coats for kids, shoes, trash bags. You name it and they need it. We need financial donations to help pay for the victims who lost their medications in the fire.”

He said they do not need canned beans – Bush Brothers has covered that item.

Here are a few other things happening here … the Turkey Creek Sunset Club is donating $500 to a family … the Knoxville Breakfast Club is making financial contributions, volunteering at the Boyd’s Bear center, and its president, Joe Jarret, is part of a group of attorneys (through the Sevier County Bar Association) providing free legal clinic to victims … the Webb School Interact Club raised $2,771 from the Pre-K through 12th grades … Farragut is auctioning items left over from a recent fundraiser and matching the funds raised with $500 more, and many members are making financial donations, as are many other Rotarians.

The district has set up the “Oak Ridge Community Rotary Fund” – a 501(c)(3) – and you can send your tax-deductible contribution via mail to the Oak Ridge Community Fund, ATTN: Firestorm, PO Box 4183, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 or you can visit this website to make your contribution: https://portal.icheckgateway. com/RotaryCommunityFund/ Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self” and there’s a ton of Rotary service going on right now in Sevier County!

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SUNDAYS THROUGH DEC. 18 Moose Lodge Sportsman Association’s Weekly Turkey Shoots, 1 p.m., Knoxville Gun Range, 6903 Mundal Road. Stock guns only. All proceeds go the Community Christmas Food Basket Program. Info: 382-7664.

THROUGH SUNDAY, DEC. 18 “Mary Poppins” presented by the Encore Theatrical Company, William H. Inman Humanities Complex on the Morristown campus of Walters State Community College, 500 S. Davy Crockett Parkway.

Performances: 8 p.m. Dec. 16 and 17; 2 p.m. Dec. 17 and 18. Tickets: etcplays.org or 423-318-8331.

THROUGH FEB. 28 “Buy One, Get One Free” admission tickets are being offered by Zoo Knoxville during Kroger BOGO Days. Tickets can be purchased at the zoo tickets window or zooknoxville.org. Discounted tickets must be used by Feb. 28. Info: zooknoxville.org.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14 International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

Santa Visits the Library, 3-4 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 5255431.

THURSDAY, DEC. 15 Holiday Concert and Spaghetti Dinner hosted by the Carter High School Band. Spaghetti dinner, 6 p.m.; cost: $6 at the door. Holiday concert, 7 p.m.; free.

Proceeds from cash and carry gift area, silent auction and live auction go toward new band uniforms.

Santa Visits the Library, 11 a.m. Carter Branch Library, 9036 Asheville Highway. Info: 933-5438.

Santa Visits the Library, 4 p.m., Corryton Branch Library, 7733 Corryton Road. Info: 688-1501.

A-12 • DECEMBER 14, 2016 • POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news

News from Office of Register of Deeds

Real estate market stays strong in November

By Sherry Witt The onset of winter may be only a few days away, but so far local real estate and lending markets seem largely unaffected by the changing seasons. During November, there were 1,005 property transfers in Knox County, representing a mere Sherry Witt six percent decrease from October’s activity, and far outperforming the 779 sales recorded in November of last year.

The aggregate value of proper-

ties sold was around $211.5 million.

While that was a robust amount for late fall, it was only $4 million ahead of last November’s figure, which was bolstered by some large commercial transactions.

While mortgage lending activity did experience a drop of about $100 million from its October levels, the $346 million loaned in November represented an increase of more than $50 million over November of 2015. It should also be noted that November is not only the month when activity often slows with the approach of winter, but is also the shortest business month of the year

with the Veterans Day and Thanksgiving holidays.

There were two large real estate transfers of note in November. The first involved the $9.6 million sale of a residential development at 414 North Forest Park Boulevard off Sutherland Avenue. The other was the much anticipated sale of the estate on Lyons View Pike known as Villa Collina, which sold for $6,375,000.

I hope everyone enjoyed a blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends, and on behalf of all of us at the Register of Deeds office, I would like to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas.

Suit collection/giveaway helps veterans

BIZ NOTES ■ Image Matters has been awarded ENX Magazine’s Elite Dealer Award for the fifth consecutive year. Image Matters was recognized for the continued growth of ImageLink, its Kathryn Ellis Matthew Lyon branded Managed Print Service program, and for staying accessible to customers during its rapid growth.

■ Kathryn Ellis, Ph.D., J.D., and Legal Aid of East Tennessee (LAET) board of directors member Matthew Lyon, J.D., have been selected to participate in the Tennessee Bar Association’s 2017 Leadership Law program. Ellis serves as LAET’s Knoxville Pro Bono Project Director. Lyon is associate dean for academic affairs and associate professor of law at Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law in addition to serving as an LAET director.

Veterans and military personnel, do you need a new business suit for work?

Anyone else have a business suit you don’t wear?

The Farmers Insurance agency in West Knoxville is holding its “Suits for Soldiers” event 8-10 a.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 218 S. Peters Road, Suite 100.

Insurance agents and local businesses are donating new and used suits for service members who are transitioning into the civilian workforce or for any veteran in need of a new suit.

A tailor will be on site to measure and fit the perfect

Accepting nominations for the CALL FOR ARTISTS 2017 Orchid Awards ■ The city of Knoxville’s Public Arts Keep Knoxville Beautiful is now accepting nominations from the public for its beautification awards, the Orchids. Since 1979, Keep Knoxville Beautiful has presented Orchid Awards to Knoxville and Knox County buildings and outdoor spaces that beautify and elevate the local landscape. Deadline for nominations: Dec. 16. Info/nominations: keepknoxvillebeautiful.org or 521-6957.

Committee invites artists and artist teams to submit qualifications for a permanent work of art to be located in front of the main entrance to State Street Garage.

The deadline to submit qualifications is 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15. Info: Liza Zenni, 523-7543 or lz@knoxalliance.com; knoxvillepublicart.com.

■ Dogwood Arts 2017 events and exhibits entry deadlines: Art In Public Places, Jan. 20; East Tennessee Art Educator

suit.

Those wanting a free suit, please have one of the following with you: Military ID, your DD214, or anything that shows you served in the military.

Veterans from surrounding counties and the Tri-Cities are also welcome.

Donated suits are being accepted at the same location until Monday, Dec. 19.

Gently used or even new suits can be dropped off Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

The drive is sponsored by East Tennessee Military Affairs Council.

Exhibition, Jan. 20; Student Art Exhibition, Jan. 20; Dogwood Art DeTour, Feb. 10; Chalk Walk, Feb. 20; Regional Art Exhibition, March 3. Info/applications: dogwoodarts.com or 637-4561.

■ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission Gallery of Arts Tribute, to be on exhibit Jan. 6-27 in the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Works should be delivered 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3. Info/entry form: knoxalliance. com/mlk-tribute/.

FRIDAY, DEC. 16

THURSDAY, DEC. 29

Fireside Concert Series: Holiday concert featuring Bill White, Steve Coffey, Robby Spencer and Tim Carpenter, 7 p.m., the Arnold Auditorium, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, 6965 Cumberland Gap Parkway, Harrogate. Free. Info: 423-869-6235.

Suzy Bogguss’ Swingin’ Little Christmas, 7:30 p.m., The Standard, 416 W. Jackson Ave. Tickets: $25, plus applicable service fees, in advance or $30 at the door.

To purchase tickets: 544-1029. Info: info@wdvx.com.

Visit With Santa!, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Robotics @ the Library, 5 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. For ages 12-15. Free, but registration requested. Info/registration: Rose Broyles, rbroyles@knoxlib.org; 525-5431.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 16-18 Clayton Holiday Concert, “A World of Joy,” presented by Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday; 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m.

Sunday. Info/tickets: knoxvillesymphony.com.

MONDAY, DEC. 19 Monday Night Book Club: “Inside the O’Briens”

by Lisa Genova, 6-8 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

“Twas the Night Before Christmas @ the Halls Library,” 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Includes Santa visit at 3:30 p.m. Info: 922-2552.

TUESDAY, DEC. 20 “Music for the Mountains,” a benefit concert to support the Gatlinburg disaster relief, 7 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Performers: musicians of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Free, but donations encouraged. Info: Jeffery Whaley, Jeffery.whaley@gmail.com or 931-529-4676.

Santa Visit, 6-7 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

SUNDAY, DEC. 21 Winter Solstice Celebration, 7-9 p.m., Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Info: Mitzi, 497-3603 or community@ narrowridge.org.

THURSDAY, DEC. 22 Sugar High!, 8:30-10 p.m. Sugar Mama’s, 135 S. Gay St. Free monthly stand-up comedy show featuring touring and local comedians. This month features Jake Head, with Paige Bowman and Andrew Michael of Atlanta.

SATURDAY, DEC. 31 New Year’s Eve Gala, 10 p.m., World For Christ Church, 4611 Central Avenue Pike. Includes urban and contemporary gospel music, hors d’oeuvres and a sparkling cider toast at midnight. Info: 255-1837 or worldforchrist@bellsouth.net.

THURSDAY, JAN. 5 Auditions for all voice parts with the Knoxville Choral Society, 6-8 p.m. Location will be provided when appointment scheduled. Appointment: 312-2440 or membership@knoxvillechoralsociety.org. Info/audition form: knoxvillechoralsociety.org.

FRIDAY, JAN. 6 Opening for “Opportunity Knocks” art exhibit, 5-9 p.m., Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway. Info: BroadwayStudioAndGallery.com or BroadwayStudiosAndGallery@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 7 Oz with Orchestra, 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will play the live score accompaniment with the “Wizard of Oz” film on the big screen. Info/tickets: knoxvillesymphony.com.

SUNDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 15-22 Roane State’s Wilderness First Responder course, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.

Meets Tennessee EMS standards and national standards for first responder training. Must have completed professional-level CPR training. Info/registration: gsmit. org/wfr.html or 448-6709.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JAN. 26-27 AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registration: 382-5822.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 27-29 Refresher course for Wilderness First Responder, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. Info/registration: gsmit.org/wfr.html or 4486709.

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News from Mission of Hope

Mission of Hope lights up children’s lives at Christmas schools. So abilities of all kinds are needed.

For the guys working in the MOH “bike shop” on a recent weekday morning, the particular ability needed comes under the heading of “brawn.”

“Get on up at the top of the ladder,” says Brad Butcher to his son Colby, as he hands a two-wheeler up. The other men – Ray Fisher, owner of Fisher Tire Company, Jim Montgomery, and MOH executive director Em-

By Carol Z. Shane This time of year, Mission of Hope’s (MOH) offices and warehouses off Middlebrook Pike are a hive of activity, with volunteers busily preparing shipments of toys, food and hygiene products for economically distressed Appalachian communities in Northeast Tennessee, Southeast Kentucky and Southwest Virginia.

There’s a food station, with conveyor belts and shelves stacked full of canned goods. There are

racks and racks of clothing, as far as the eye can see. There’s a whole warehouse devoted to toys.

And MOH’s familiar blue collection barrels line a wall, some still unloaded.

This year MOH is serving children and families from 28 elementary

The “bike crew” has just finished stacking more than 100 bikes into multi-level storage. Shown are Brad and Colby Butcher, Emmette Thompson, Ray Fisher and Jim Montgomery.

mette Thompson – observe. There are so many brightly-colored bicycles that they require multilevel storage.

“We don’t advertise for bikes,” says Thompson, referring to the lists of suggested donations found in MOH’s brochure and on the organization’s website. Instead, the Fountain City Lions Club Laura Peck and Amanda Perryman are happily elbow-deep in pledged to buy toys. Peck, MOH’s assistant director of operations, began two four bicycles years ago as a volunteer toy coordinator. She says that MOH per elementary traditionally runs short on items for 10- to 12-year-old girls. school per year “People like to buy for the little ones,” she says. “But we’re in honor of Mialways short on things for that older age group.” Perryman, chael Dell Wila firefighter/paramedic, has volunteered at MOH for “at least liams, the son of fi ve years. My husband grew up poor in Appalachia, with no WBIR’s beloved plumbing or electricity, and that’s what drew me to MOH.” anchor Bill Williams – himself a supporter of MOH since its 1996 inception – and Bill’s wife, Wanda. Michael lost his battle with cancer in 2004. “That’s four bicycles times 28 schools,” says Thompson of the current count.

Elsewhere in the warehouse, Joe Adams sorts canned food at a counter. His brow furrows as he tries to decide where to put a singular item.

Nearby, Ron Mouser, Kay

Bradley, Tom Almonrode, Mona Wallace and Mary Miller load boxes full of the cans from rows and rows of packed shelves.

Miller is thrilled with a new addition to their area.

“This conveyor belt makes it so much better than last year!” she says.

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Queen,” he says of Laura Peck, MOH’s new operations assistant. “Hey, Emmette, where’s my tiara?” asks Peck, laughing. She and Amanda Perryman are up to their elbows in stuffed animals, brightly colored plastic purses and singing dolls from the movie “Frozen.”

Thompson says the two women are the “Heroes of the Hope.” It turns out that Perryman actually is a real-life hero. She’s a firefighter/paramedic in Gatlinburg.

MOH extends a helping hand not only at Christmas but throughout the year, providing clothing, furniture, household and office items; back-toschool backpacks filled with school supplies; health supplies; and home repair and construction projects such as handicap ramps. They have established scholarship endowments at Lincoln Memorial University and 13 rural high schools in Tennessee, and at Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky.

But now it’s time for the big holiday push. “There are 18,000 children and family members that we touch this Christmas,” says Thompson. Joe Adams, still sorting cans nearby, says, “It’s just a very special ministry at a needy time of year.”

Thompson’s philosophy is “We truly believe as a ministry there will never be anything we deliver in a truck that is more important than telling all those we serve that there is hope and God loves them.”

Mike and Mary Emma Bunch work with MOH coordinator Mildred Queen (not shown) to find what items are missing among donations.

Their church group, the Legacy Builders at First Baptist Church of Concord, has adopted Burchfield Elementary School in Oneida, Tenn.

“People are asked to buy one pair of shoes and six pairs of socks,” says Mary, “but many people buy more. So if we have several items of clothing that go together, we will fill in to make sure they get the whole outfit.”

Thompson calls Mary Emma “the Clothing Queen.”

A-14 • DECEMBER 14, 2016 • POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news

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