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BUZZ Roane State has business courses Roane State Community College will offer several business-related classes in three locations. Classes in Oak Ridge will be held at the college’s Oak Ridge campus, 701 Briarcliff Ave. Clinton courses are held at the Clinton Higher Education and Workforce Training Facility, 214 Nave St. Courses in Roane County are held on the college’s main campus, 276 Patton Lane in Harriman.

Technology: Excel Level 1, 6-9:30 p.m. Jan. 17 and 19, $149, Oak Ridge campus; Word Level 2, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Jan. 12, $169, Clinton; Power Point Level 1, 1-4:30 p.m. Jan. 10-11, $149, Oak Ridge; Access Level 1, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Jan. 26-27, $199, Oak Ridge; and QuickBooks Level 1, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Feb. 17, $169, Oak Ridge.

Business: SHRM-CP/SCP, 6-9 p.m. March 7-May 23, $999, Harriman; Leading Teams to Success, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Jan. 31, $139, Oak Ridge; Ability to Work and Lead Multigenerational Employees, 6-9 p.m. Jan. 17, $99, Oak Ridge; Business Writing, 6-10 p.m.

Feb. 27-28, $99, Oak Ridge.

Industry-specific: Introduction to Injection Molding, Jan. 17-April 27, $750, Clinton.

Other: ACT Prep, 8:30 a.m.1 p.m. April 1, $59, Harriman.

Info/registration: 481-2031 or roanestate.edu/workforce.

This bowl game is for the seniors “When this senior class signed on, the program was in shambles. We are no longer losing more than we are winning. I really-really want these seniors to go out with a win!”

So says one reader to anyone ready to disregard the Music City Bowl, where the Vols play Dec. 30.

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See Marvin West, p. A-4

Mountain Strong people persevere On the 10th day after screaming winds drove arsonists’ flames down the mountain into Gatlinburg, the city still felt like a war zone. But there was music and food and laughter and friendship and happy surprises at the Three Jimmys restaurant.

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The Powell High School Marching Band poses at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

By Levi Sweet Note: The Powell High School band traveled to Hawaii to participate in the 75th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Mass Band Performance at the Battleship Missouri Memorial. The performance featured over 1,000 stu-

dent musicians performing “A Gift of Music” via international webcast.

Going to Hawaii for the recognition of the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor was an amazing experience.

I am so thankful that we had

the honor of paying tribute to those who lost their lives, and it is unbelievable to me that our band from little Powell, Tenn., had the chance to play at the hallowed memorials of the USS Missouri and Arizona. I will never forget the memories of extraor-

dinary landscapes or the feeling of visiting the site of one of the most tragic events in American history.

I hope that our efforts in some small way conveyed to the veterans who watched us how much their efforts meant to us.

Home Federal gets Habitat honor Home Federal Bank and Knoxville Habitat for Humanity’s home maintenance team were recognized with the 2016 “Sis” Awards at Knoxville Habitat’s holiday breakfast held at The Foundry in Knoxville. This annual award is presented by Knoxville Habitat founder Ellen “Sis” Roddy Mitchell.

Home Federal Bank was honored for its longstanding partnership with Knoxville Habitat for Humanity. 2016 marks the bank’s 26th consecutive year as a covenant partner with Knoxville Habitat. Covenant partners

provide funding to help build a Habitat home plus significant volunteer labor to aid in construction. Home Federal Bank is Knoxville Habitat’s longest-standing covenant partner.

“We are so grateful to have the continuous support of Home Federal Bank in this community,” said Knoxville Habitat CEO Kelle Shultz. “Their generosity and commitment has forever changed the lives and futures of 26 hardworking families in Knoxville.”

Home Federal Bank will begin sponsorship of its 27th home in February 2017.

Knoxville Habitat’s home maintenance class is one of many class offerings that make up the ministry’s homeowner education program. Before a qualified family or individual can build and purchase their home, they must first invest 500 hours of “sweat equity” – work that is acquired through homeowner education classes and volunteer service and helps to ensure the future homeowner(s) are prepared for homeownership.

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Sheriff’s Merit Council tables Holt

By Sandra Clark

Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones must be mad because he’s term-limited.

Why else would he hire Hugh Holt for a purchasing director’s job that never existed and pay him more than even the chief deputy makes?

And last week Jones was back – this time trying to get Holt protected under the Sheriff’s Merit System Council, a system designed to protect deputies and jailers from political fallout.

Merit Council members are volunteers, appointed by Knox County Commission. You don’t get appointed unless the sheriff approves. It just doesn’t happen. So it was a stunning rebuke to Jones

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when the three-member board tabled his recommendation on Holt, opting to leave the decision to the next sheriff.

Board chair Bill Lindsey read a list of job descriptions and salaries, saying, “These people (who earn less than Holt’s $137,500) put their life on the line and have years of service.

“Let’s not hamstring the new

sheriff. JJ is a lame duck. Let’s kick the can down the road 18 months. The history will be there then, and if the new sheriff wants (Holt), let him or her hire him and pay him. Let the new sheriff recommend putting him under the (Merit) System.”

Roy Kruse and Jim Jennings concurred, citing employee morale. It was a rare act of independence that reflected favorably on each council member.

Holt was director of purchasing for Knox County for several years until he resigned under fire.

In that role, he oversaw purchasing for the Sheriff’s Office. When Mayor Tim Burchett requested his resignation following an investigation into charges of sexual harassment, Holt was earning roughly $137,000. Jones hired him three

days later for $500 more.

In a column Nov. 9, 2016, this writer polled two potential candidates for sheriff when Holt was hired.

Lee Tramel, the sheriff’s chief administrative officer, said it’s the sheriff’s call. “It’s not my position to comment. Look at Hugh’s record six or eight months from now.

Has he saved the office money?

That will tell the tale.”

Tom Spangler, former chief deputy, said the position is not needed since the county has always handled purchasing. He would prefer to see the money divided among employees. “Some say that’s just $137 each, but I say it’s $137 they didn’t have before.

“Nothing against Hugh, but his hiring was (an affront) to every employee up there.”

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Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center receives awards for outstanding cancer and cardiac care Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, a member of Covenant Health, has been named to the 2016 list of “100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs,” released by Becker’s Hospital Review. The list includes hospitals and health systems leading the nation in cancer care.

According to Becker’s, “Hospitals included on this list offer patients comprehensive cancer care involving teams of specialists, participation in clinical trials and personalized treatment programs. Many organizations on this list are driving forces in the fight to end cancer as we know it.”

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center offers comprehensive cancer care, including inpatient services at the downtown Knoxville medical center and advanced technology such as Fort Sanders Regional Gamma Knife Center at the adjacent campus of Thompson Cancer Survival Center.

Thompson Cancer Survival Center offers medical and radiation oncology, chemotherapy, clinical trials and innovations in “Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center Becker’s,” said Keith Altshuler, president specialized cancer treatments at locations is pleased to receive this recognition from and chief administrative officer of the medthroughout East Tennessee.

ical center. “Our physicians and staff work very hard to provide excellent care and supportive resources for patients and families facing cancer.”

In addition to Becker’s cancer recognition, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s cardiology department is the recipient of the 2016 GWTG Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award with Honor Roll status as an Elite Stroke Care Center from the 2016 American College of Cardiology Foundation’s NCDR ACTION Registry®. It is the second year that the medical center has received the recognition from the Foundation, and Fort Sanders Regional is one of only a small number of hospitals nationwide to earn the designation.

The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and is based on a hospital’s compliance with seven best practice measures in cardiac care. These best practices ensure that all cardiac patients are treated quickly with the most effective treatment plan and are given tools to improve their health upon discharge.

Individuals and departments of Fort Sanders Regional honored for a great 2016 Each year, the Covenant Health Performance Excellence Awards are presented to recognize outstanding achievements throughout the health system. The awards event includes two categories: the Everest Awards, recognizing individual peak performers, and the Performance Excellence Awards, for projects supporting the health system’s Journey to Excellence.

This year, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center was well represented by two Performance Excellence Awards and three Everest Award winners.

Winning Performance Excellence projects included: Innovation in Stroke Education: Can My Dog Have a Stroke?

Fort Sanders Regional’s Comprehensive Stroke Center often provides community education at health fairs and senior centers, to help people recognize the signs and symptoms of stroke.

This year, the team reached out to third- through fifth-grade students to help them understand stroke risk factors and learn what to do if someone close to them showed symptoms of a stroke. The team wrote a book, “Can My Dog

The stroke team at Fort Sanders Regional created a book, “Can My Dog Have a Stroke?,” to educate elementary school children about stroke symptoms.

Have a Stroke?,” to help convey this valuable information.

The team also continued to demonstrate excellence in stroke care through increasingly effective use of the clot-busting drug tPA and rapid treatment of patients who arrive at the ED with stroke symptoms.

Wound Care: Moving From Reporting to Healing – Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center Inpatient rehabilitation facilities must stay vigilant about monitoring patients for possible development of pressure ulcers,

which can occur when patients are bed-ridden for a significant length of time. The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center was recognized for processes that have prevented pressure ulcers among PNRC inpatients in 2016.

technologist, Thompson Oncology Group. Fowlen was instrumental in creating and implementing a plan to routinely monitor adherence to new clinical laboratory regulations with consistent standards and staff training.

She helped develop an audit tool, Fort Sanders Regional which she completes on a routine basis at each office-based lab. BeEverest Award winners cause of her diligence, planning Fort Sanders Regional employ- and regular auditing, the TOG’s ees honored for outstanding per- most recent lab inspection had formance of their job responsibili- no deficiencies and lab processes were commended by the surveyor. ties: Fowlen Anders, medical Her co-workers say, “She does not just identify problems. She identifies solutions.”

Yasheta “Pinky” Hardin, RN, has worked on Fort Sanders Regional’s Transitional Care Unit for 15 years. As a case manager, she works with insurance companies to get hospital patients who need additional care approved for efficient transfer to the TCU. She serves on the hospital’s continuum of care committee, falls prevention team and pressure ulcer prePatricia Neal Rehabilitation Center was recognized for processes that vention team. Pinky goes out of have prevented the occurrence of pressure ulcers among patients.

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her way to answer call lights and assist patients. She checks in often with new employees to welcome them to the unit and help them in their new roles.

Joel Morrison, inpatient oncology specialist, pharmacist, is one of only 26 in Tennessee to be board certified in oncology through the Board of Pharmacy.

He is very dedicated to his patients and is recognized by patients, nurses, physicians and support staff as the clinical expert for any medication-related issues. He is proactive in working with prescribers to find alternative medications to those that are costly or difficult to acquire.

Joel shares medication information with patients and nurses and trains resident and student pharmacists. According to his peers, Joel is “the perfect example of teamwork at its best.”

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Representatives from Home Federal accept the 2016 Sis Award from Knoxville Habitat for Humanity founder Ellen “Sis� Roddy Mitchell: Jake Corum, Evelyn Faller, Marty Lowe, Trish Turner, Leslie James, CEO Dale Keasling, Mitchell, Debra Smith, Chris Rohwer, Andy Hampson and Amy Williams.

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The current home maintenance class was started by volunteer Dennis Jones, a local home maintenance professional and member of Bethel Baptist Church. Along with his business partner and fellow church members, Jones built modules as a more visual way to teach maintenance repairs in a classroom setting. Jones and his team consider their service as an opportunity to “show God’s love through helping homeowners.� “The home maintenance class team empowers homeowners to independently handle repair situations in their home,� says Shultz. “These homeowners have most often come from a rental situation, so a need for repairs can be an intimidating or stressful new experience. With the knowledge gained in this class, homeowners can be more confident while also saving money.�

Representatives from Knoxville Habitat for Humanity’s Home Maintenance Class Crew, a group of volunteers led by Dennis Jones of Cross Connections, accept the 2016 Sis Award from Knoxville Habitat founder Ellen “Sis� Roddy Mitchell. Pictured are Ron Brady, Tim Butler, Jones, Mitchell, Josh Collins and Phil Harner.

Alexis Williams Carr continues the family tradition At New Millennium Writings, the prestigious national magazine based in Knoxville, literature and writing are family traditions.

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“The journal was actually started by my dad, Don Williams,� says Alexis Williams Carr. Some readers will remember the elder Williams as a regular newspaper columnist in Knoxville. “When there was a downsizing,� continues his daughter, “he took the opportunity to do something he always wanted to do and started NMW. I’ve had my hand somewhere in it almost from the beginning – first as a data entry person and then as a ‘gopher’ and a screener.

Now, I really enjoy editing.�

Originally from Sey-

Alexis Williams Carr runs New Millennium Writings out of her home in Fountain City.

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mour, Carr earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Middle Tennessee State University.

Her minor in sociology, she says, taught her a valuable skill for an editor: to look outside her own experience objectively.

After college, she found various kinds of writing assignments, including a stint at a community college in Tallahassee, Fla., and at LearnSomething, a Xerox company that pro-

vides educational and training courses to corporations. Her husband, Brent, managed a chain of frozen yogurt shops in the Sunshine State at the time; when the couple moved back to East Tennessee in 2011, they found a house in Brent’s native Fountain City, and they’ve been there ever since. In 2012 she took over NMW because “Dad had already been ready to do other things and devote more time to his writing.�

Twice a year, NMW holds a contest for entries in four categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and flash fiction – complete stories told in 1,000 or fewer words. “That’s actually my favorite category. It takes a special talent to tell the whole arc of the story in a moving and powerful way in less than 1,000 words, but when people do it, it’s just magical.�

Short stories aren’t the only magic in Carr’s life these days. A little over two

months ago, she and Brent, now NMW’s webmaster and database manager, welcomed their first child, son Julius. “We call him ‘Julius Coolius,’� she says.

Since NMW is run from their home, Carr says, “we joke that we’re in ‘a different kind of 1 percent.’ Both of us get to be at home with our little guy for the first year or so. That’s the goal. It’s been a real blessing. The busiest,

weirdest, loveliest time of my life.�

Her mom, Jeanne Tredup, is also in town; she’s a high school teacher for high-level special education, helping her students to find work experience. “She’s a hero in our book,� says Carr.

Now in its 20th year, NMW employs two professional local writers to screen hundreds of entries

from all over the U.S. “One of the true facets of good writing is that it shines through,� says Carr. “But it needs to be accessible; it needs to be something that people from all walks of life can look at and be moved by.

Ultimately, that’s our bar.�

NMW is updating its website, but you can find the last four contest award winners on www.newmillennium writings.org

MILESTONES â– Allison Clark has been awarded the Presidential Academic Performance Scholarship by East Tennessee State University. She is the daughter of Greg and Sarah Clark.

■Debbi Neely Sewell Cole of Jacksboro graduated with a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership degree at Carson-Newman University’s commencement ceremony held Dec. 9.

Dr. Cole is the daughter of Betty Neely and the late Gerald Neely, and is a Powell High School graduate.

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Bowl game is for seniors Special reader Bill Young (not THE Bill Young, he used to say, early in our correspondence) picked up on my disregard for the upcoming bowl game. He didn’t disagree that next year should have already started and is of far greater concern than salvaging and reassembling fragments from the recent mess.

Bill simply sees the bowl from a different perspective. “When this senior class signed on, the program was in shambles. We are no longer losing more than we are winning. I really-really want these seniors to go out with a win!�

I’ll buy some of that. I respect the Tennessee seniors.

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Ten truly hung in there. I remain offended that Vanderbilt determined where they would go for their bowl opportunity.

Regarding the seniors, large Charles Folger deserves a medium medal.

The defensive tackle walked on during the Derek Dooley disaster and never gave up.

He practiced every day and got in one game in 2014 and one in 2015. Butch Jones recognized tenacity and re-

warded it with a scholarship for this season.

Folger made three tackles against Tennessee Tech, one for a three-yard loss. Teammates cheered.

Defensive tackle LaTroy Lewis and linebacker Kenny Bynum followed the same timeline but played a lot more.

End Jason Croom played in three games in 2012, endured two season-ending injuries but never surrendered. I think I remember his first catch was a touchdown against Oregon.

Malik Foreman engaged most of the bumps and stumbling blocks in the defensive backfield but made one spectacular hustle play against Texas

A&M. He chased down Trayveon Williams on a 71-yard run late in the fourth quarter, knocked the ball loose and helped force the game into overtime. It was unforgettable but, alas, not enough.

Offensive lineman Dylan Wiesman is mental toughness personified. Minus injuries, he might have been Tennessee’s best blocker.

Memorable was his pinchhit job at center in the victory over Florida.

Opponents running away from Derek Barnett ran into Corey Vereen. He had six sacks and 10 tackles for losses this season. If the defense had stopped anybody in November, he might have been mistaken for a star.

Hopefully, some will forever remember Jalen Reeves-Maybin. The best linebacker was lost from the lineup early in the season. Four years ago, Jalen was an early commitment who helped the Vols before he arrived. He was a beacon in Butch’s first recruiting race.

Three highlights of Cameron Sutton’s career were punt returns for touchdowns. His 467 yards last year broke Bobby Majors’ school record set in 1969.

Fourth highlight was winning an Al Wilson Award for leadership. Fifth or first was what he gave in rehab to get back on the field after suffering a fractured ankle in the Ohio game.

Sutton never whined about probable NFL money lost in returning for this senior season.

Joshua Dobbs became the face of the franchise.

He played through assorted criticisms (lack of accuracy, can’t throw deep). He sometimes erred in how badly he wanted to win. He gave up interceptions he should not have thrown. He lost the final crucial fumble of the season.

Some Saturdays Dobbs performed rather well.

He threw four touchdown passes in breaking the Gators’ grip. He passed for 398 yards at Texas A&M. He ran for 190 against Missouri. He completed 31 of 34 against Vandy. He produced 8,951 career yards and 83 touchdowns. Only Peyton Manning had more.

Two more victories might have made these seniors famous.

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

Good things come to those who accidently stumble into them We tell our kids to set goals and plan ahead. But we realize during the second half of life that some of the best stuff comes unexpectedly, or even accidently.

That was the case when I got the chance to cover local government for the Shopper News.

I was trained as a journalist, but I took a detour after college to immerse myself in the latest technology craze − desktop publishing. I hadn’t done any reporting for some time when I submitted a writing sample to my first Shopper editor, Larry Van Guilder. It was a story about my older daughter getting her hair styled.

What I really wanted to be was a columnist like Sherri Gardner Howell, who later became my editor.

My first government gig was the town of Farragut. I

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was further schooled in local politics by former city council member Barbara Pelot, who hung out with me at Long’s Drug Store every Wednesday morning. In addition to meeting a slew of city council and county commission candidates, I learned from listening to Pelot reminisce with old friends like Jean Teague and Tim Burchett.

Because of Long & Short, I saw familiar faces when I began watching city council and county commission meetings. I met more elected officials at press

conferences, and Shopper publisher Sandra Clark assigned interviews with several others.

Through the process, I got educated and made a few new friends. I’m a particular fan of KnoxvilleKnox County Metropolitan Planning Commission executive director Gerald Green and his efforts to update the city’s outdated zoning ordinances. I like his ideas about mixed use development and his dogged determination to get the community involved in the planning process.

County Commissioner John Schoonmaker also impresses me with his efforts to stay in touch with constituents. As a past chair of the Board of Zoning Appeals, he makes it his business to keep West Knox County residents up-todate on development that affects them. His monthly

report on the upcoming MPC agenda to the Council of West Knox County Homeowners is always informative.

Duane Grieve, who became District 2 city council rep after Pelot, is another friend. He likes to shoot the breeze, which is helpful to reporters, and he’s willing to change his mind if a good case is made. He’s also a staunch supporter of the Bearden community.

There was a time when my youngest child, Laurel, tagged along with me to community events. In addition to getting free food and entertainment, she got to meet both mayors. Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero complimented her on her hair, and Knox County Mayor Burchett slipped her a business card and said to call him for lunch. She’s never forgotten it.

It’s been a fun and fascinating ride, one that I never expected when I wrote about the trip to the hairdresser. I’ll start a new job

at the beginning of the year, but I’ll always be grateful to the Shopper and its readers, who made it all worthwhile.

Thank you.

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Survivors sing Watch the Gatlinburg-Pittman High School alumni singers video at www.ShopperNewsNow.com

Jan Lapides, Christmas elf Jean Chase and Terri Shoemaker

Survivors Sally and Mike West

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Mountain Strong people celebrate the season, persevere On the 10th day after screaming winds drove arsonists’ flames down the mountain into Gatlinburg, the city still felt like a war zone – blockaded at every entrance, strewn with rubble and charred reminders of lost lives, homes and businesses. Burned out motor lodges and shops and restaurants along East Parkway bore witness to that awful Monday night.

But just beyond the last

Betty Bean police barricade, at the far end of a little strip mall on the left, there was music and food and laughter and friendship and happy surprises at the Three Jimmys restaurant, where the steel magnolias of the Gatlinburg Garden

Club were having their annual Christmas party.

It was supposed to have happened on Dec. 7 at The Castle – the immense, fivestory mountainside mansion with the panoramic view of downtown Gatlinburg. Garden club president George Hawkins had been decorating for weeks, trucking in chairs and tablecloths and garlands and bows.

He’d engaged the Three Jimmys to cater, booked 150

reservations and arranged parking and shuttle buses to ferry guests up to the Castle.

“I was getting ready to do a 50-foot tree and had picked up the lights at Ace Hardware,” Hawkins said.

“And I thought I’d wait till Tuesday to do that. Well …”

The Gatlinburg Garden Club has a long and storied history, dating back to 1937 when it was founded by the Pi Beta Phi service fraternity-sponsored Weaver’s

Trump gets head start on TVA board Three nominees of President Barack Obama for the TVA board of directors were not confirmed by the U.S. Senate and will, consequently, depart the board in 10 days, reducing the ninemember board to six members.

The terms of two more expire in May 2017, for a total of five off the board.

The current chair, Joe Ritch, from Huntsville, is one, which means the next chair (interim or acting) will be Lynn Evans, the first woman and African-American ever to chair the TVA board.

Current bylaws provide that Evans, chair of the audit committee, becomes the TVA acting chair when Ritch leaves the board. But the board is also required to meet within 30 days of the current chair’s departure to elect a new chair, who might be Evans or one of the other remaining five board members. All are Democrats.

Two current committee chairs, Mike McWherter and Peter Mahurin, also depart, creating vacancies there. And if Evans is elected chair, then she vacates the audit committee chairmanship. Evans’ term expires in May, but she continues on the board until

filled by the end of 2017, there will not be a quorum to hold board meetings.

Victor This has happened to TVA Ashe once before and it simply means the staff (i.e. Bill Johnson) assumes full control, in reality if not in law.

This could change. The the end of 2017 unless her Wall Street Journal has successor is confirmed by been calling around about a the U.S. Senate. possible story saying Trump For the first time in mem- will name board members ory, the East Tennessee area who are coal advocates to does not have a single cur- change current TVA policy. rent board member, while As of my writing this colWest Tennessee has three umn, that story had not yet board members and Middle appeared.

Tennessee has two. TVA is, of course, headquartered in ■ KCDC opts for Knoxville. new direction President-elect Donald KCDC shocked everyone Trump can nominate three new members after Jan. 20 last week when it picked Ben and two more in May, for Bentley over Alvin Nance as a total of five – a majority its executive director to folof the board. Sen. Jeff Ses- low Art Cate.

Nance, the former direcsions, who will likely become attorney general, will tor who had been there 14 have a voice in the picks. years, was the first black Sens. Lamar Alexander and leader of KCDC. Bentley is Bob Corker will also have in his 30s, married with a strong voice, as will Ken- one child. Mayor Rogero tucky’s senators, Mitch Mc- and Deputy Mayor Bill LyConnell, the Senate major- ons had advocated Nance.

All seven board members ity leader, and Rand Paul.

Trump is expected to are Rogero appointees. name only Republicans to Nance received very positive reviews when he led the the board.

A problem for TVA will agency. be if these five seats are not What happened?

In talking with Dan Murphy, KCDC board chair and former Knox County school board chair, he said, “We May 2016: Mike McWherter, Jackson, TN; chair Joe Ritch, looked to the future. Either Alabama; Peter Mahurin, Kentucky one would have been a good May 2017: Marilyn Brown, professor, Atlanta; Lynn Evans, pick. (Bentley) is extraordiCPA, Memphis narily bright and a visionMay 2018: Eric Satz, investment adviser, Nashville ary. He is a superstar.”

May 2019: Virginia Lodge, political activist, Nashville; Ronald Asked if the vote was Walter, TV executive, Memphis unanimous, Murphy said May 2020: Richard Howorth, former mayor, Oxford, Miss. that, after all the interviews concluded, he did not ask

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for a motion to choose someone but rather a show of hands between Bentley and Nance, the Ben Bentley two finalists. He said the show of hands indicated four were for Bentley and three for Nance.

According to Murphy, the Bentley votes were Murphy, attorney John Winemiller, Jackie Arthur and Kimberly Hickman, the resident commissioner. Nance had support from Bob Whetsel, attorney and former KUB chair Bruce Anderson and Gloria Garner. All then agreed to make the choice unanimous. Had one vote switched, Nance would have prevailed, but it was not to be.

Obviously, a majority wanted a new direction for KCDC. Bentley was impressive by all accounts in his interview. While no one would mention age (due to legal considerations) it was clear Bentley’s youth in this case worked in his favor. The two black members of the commission split between Nance and Bentley.

A contract has to be drafted and salary and relocation expenses set. It will be voted on Dec. 30. This column will advise you of the salary and whether it reflects an increase over previous directors.

Condolences to state Rep. Martin Daniel, whose mother, Mary Barker, died last week in Memphis at age 86.

Newlyweds James Thomas and Laura Lee Elizabeth Adams Polk with George Hawkins (at right) officiating

Guild. Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Pi Beta Phi Elementary School are also part of that legacy. It didn’t take this mountaintough bunch long to decide that the show must go on.

“It’s like the ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ with Betty Hutton,” Hawkins said. “Remember when the circus train turned over and they decided the show must go on, bigger and better than ever? Well, we need to put our best foot forward.”

Hawkins, whose home survived, was sporting an elegant jacket and pocket square. His immediate predecessor, Mike West, was dressed in green sweatpants and a yellow sweatshirt – pretty much the sum total of his wardrobe, the rest having been lost to the fire in North Chalet Village. He and his wife, Sally, had gotten separated in the smoke and flames and confusion and each thought the other was dead.

“She grabbed the dogs and went out ahead of me while I stopped to grab my keys and wallet,” he said.

“When I went out, I couldn’t find her.”

He drove up to the clubhouse (their designated emergency meeting place) and waited. Finally a snowplow made it up Wiley Oakley Drive and brought the survivors down the mountain. He got the evacuation notice two hours after his house burned.

Meanwhile, Sally, shoeless, was running down the flaming mountain in her stocking feet, eventually meeting up with a sheriff’s deputy who piled her and the dogs into his cruiser and started looking for a way out. He thought they were trapped, but a dispatcher talked them to safety. Sally, who suffered burns on her face, was taken to the hospital, where she started calling friends – “I’m alive. Have you heard from Mike?”

She told a TV reporter that her husband was dead.

They were reunited when someone told Mike where she was and gave him a ride to the LeConte Center.

“If I’ve got him, I can take anything else that comes,” Sally said.

They lost their home and their cat, Fanny. They plan to rebuild.

The party was one for the ages. The food was bountiful and delicious (several of the Three Jimmys employees who cooked and served it were among the new Gatlinburg homeless).

Gatlinburg Heritage Club’s vice president Bill Landry and GatlinburgPittman High School’s guidance counselor Don Bohannon (who has helped local kids get scholarships worth millions of dollars over the years) spoke, and 15-year-old Tristan Laboard played the violin. Peggy Smith played the piano and a group of G-P alumni singers showed up to honor their choral director, Ruth Lewis.

The high point of the party was the surprise wedding of Laura Lee Elizabeth Adams and James Thomas Polk. Hawkins, a former Gatlinburg mayor and city commissioner, officiated (after making sure he was still legal to do so). The ceremony came at the end of the program, when Hawkins announced there was one more thing on the agenda and launched into the wedding vows.

“Laura Lee, do you take James to be your lawfully wedded husband?

“James, do you take Laura Lee to be your lawfully wedded wife?”

Hawkins said later: “Both said, ‘Yes, I do,’ and everybody was so shocked. They applauded and carried on.

The girls (from the chorus) were standing near the piano and started singing ‘Hey, Big Spender,’ and the first girl grabbed James by the necktie and whirled him around, to great applause.

“It was a happy, happy luncheon. What a great way to start the healing process.”

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Elizabeth Farr’s music students gather for a recent picture. “I don’t like to call it a recital,� says Farr. “I call it a party. The parents bring goodies, the students play, then we all visit. It’s very crowded in here with all those harps!� Shown are Caitlin and Courtney Haggard, Mario Conway, Roxanne and Nicholas Nagle, Leslie Ann Johnson, Claude Abbott, Niamh Schumacher, Charlotte and Emma Stark, and Farr. Photo submitted

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Elizabeth Farr: music-maker for a lifetime

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By Carol Z. Shane If you’ve lived in East Tennessee for any length of time you’ve surely run across the instrumental trio Farr Horizons and, in particular, their Christmas CD titled “Winter Reveries.�

A collection of seasonal selections and classical music played by the harp, flute and cello, the recording is a yuletide favorite. “People tell me they listen to it every year when they decorate their tree,� says the group’s founder, Elizabeth Farr.

From her cozy home in a 1929 apartment building, situated right next to the 1926 Farr family home on Kingston Pike’s “church row,�

Farr reflects upon her life spent as a musician.

Born in Knoxville, she spent her first years in Oak Ridge. Her family moved to Knoxville when Farr was in elementary school. Demonstrating early musical talent, she was quickly guided toward piano and violin lessons. But when it came time to choose a college and a major, she entered the University of Tennessee as a voice major – a lyric coloratura soprano – studying under famed teacher Edward Zambara. After receiving her bachelor’s degree at UT, she went on to earn a master’s degree in voice at the Peabody Conservatory, part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Along the way, she met John Farr, a hornist with the Air Force Band during the Vietnam years. They married and moved to New York

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City, where Elizabeth found a place with the renowned Gregg Smith Singers, an elite vocal ensemble consisting of just 16 singers. In addition, she says, “I got to do a solo at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Choral Society.�

When John was tapped for the faculty at UT Chattanooga, the couple moved to Tennessee. Elizabeth found voice students at UTC and joined the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra as a violinist. Before eventually moving back to Knoxville, she also spent a year in Germany because “I wanted to see about the opera world over there,� she says.

Obviously multiply gifted, Farr has always been curious about exploring all the possibilities available to her in music. “When I was 8 years old, they passed out a little book in school,� she says. “We filled it in. One page listed, ‘instruments’ and I wrote ‘piano, violin.’ Then I wrote ‘harp.’ In answer to the question, ‘Do you play this instrument?’ I wrote, ‘not yet.’� She laughs at the memory. Though she’d always loved the harp, it took a few years for her to get around to playing it. “In 1983 I sang the role of Gretel in a Knoxville Opera Company production of ‘Hansel and Gretel,’� she says. “I took the check from that and bought a Celtic harp,� a small triangular harp traditional to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Almost overnight, Farr was playing the instrument professionally. “I learned on the job!� she says.

“Six months after I bought the harp I was hired to play at the Hilton five nights a week. I had had a couple of lessons and went to some workshops, but I never really studied. My technique is a little nuanced, I guess, but it works for what I do.�

She was hired in 1986 to play harp for the wedding of another local musician, multi-instrumentalist Rachel Schlafer. The two had never met, but they hit it off. Along with D. Scot Williams, she and Schlafer – now Rachel Schlafer-Parton – formed the trio Farr Horizons.

Later, after Williams left the group, cellist Stacy Nickell stepped in.

Farr has been a violinist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra since 1964, starting under conductor David Van Vactor. “The orchestra has changed,� she says. “It’s like playing in the Chicago Symphony now, compared to what it was then!�

In 1990, during the first KSO “baby boom,� she and John welcomed their daughter, Bonnie, who is now a yoga teacher and oboe instructor in Cincinnati.

This time of year, she’s looking forward to the 29th annual Clayton Holiday Concerts. “When I looked at the list of music, it looks like it’s going to be music everyone will like.� She’s played every “Clayton� except one. “One year I was so busy playing harp I missed one. I had too many parties!�

Farr is also looking forward to Christmas at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Farragut, where she

has been music director since 2009. “I just love St. E’s!’� she says. “Every year we do a big music event – the St. Cecilia Festival – on Nov. 22. I hire symphony players. We just did the Poulenc Organ Symphony with our organist, Josh Sumter. So now I’m a conductor too!� She’ll be directing her choir for the Christmas Eve service. “We always do really good stuff,� she says, “and they love that I bring in all these great players.�

Of her favorite seasonal music, she admits that she’s partial to “The Christmas Song,� with “all those great chords,� and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.�

Farr has played “literally thousands of weddings,� and occasionally arranges music for them. She plays a petite pedal harp for Knoxville Early Music Project (KEMP), and she stays so busy throughout the fall months getting ready for her church festival that Christmas often catches her by surprise. “I always find it a bit jarring when all of a sudden it’s Christmas and I have to start playing all these Christmas songs that I haven’t been able to practice because life was going on everywhere else,� she says. “Of course, I start my students on their Christmas pieces in October.� Now in the midst of the holidays, she has a few things she’d like her listeners to know about musicians, traditionally very busy during Christmastime. “Probably when you hear us play it’s not the first thing we’ve played that day,� she says. “And we’re always trying to play our best.�

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Keep the main thing the main thing!

Chanie Wilhelm and Nesya Klausner make menorahs with help from Elizabeth Rutan. Photos by Wendy Smith

In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.… All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

(Luke 2: 1-7 NRSV)

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Winterfest is opportunity to celebrate and share

By Wendy Smith The Knoxville Jewish Alliance’s Winter Festival was more than fun and games.

It was an opportunity for the local Jewish community to come together to help out neighbors in Gatlinburg.

The KJA had already sent a truck loaded with necessities for fire victims, but the organization asked for toy donations during the Winter Festival, an annual event that celebrates upcoming winter holidays.

Participants were also invited to make cards to send with the gifts.

The support of the Gatlinburg community will be ongoing, says KJA executive director Deborah Oleshansky. The toy drive was a major focus of the celebration, which included games and crafts for kids, holiday food and storytelling.

“If we can also learn a little bit about Hanukkah, all the better,” she said.

Arnstein Jewish Community Center preschool teacher Ally Wiener coordinated the festival. She and her family recently moved to Knoxville from Queens, N.Y., and she’s

I love Christmas! I enjoy all the hurry and bustle, the planning, the preparation, the anticipation. But there is always a magic moment – almost always when I least expect it – that my heart is overwhelmed by the Good News, and my eyes well with tears, my throat tightens, and I know that Christmas has come at last.

In all the hustle of the season it is easy to forget the point; it is tempting to get so tied up in all the doing that we miss the being.

I think of Mary and Joseph, whose plans were rearranged and made difficult by this unexpected, unimaginable, unbelievable, but very real miracle. They managed to do what they had to do, that is, make the inconvenient, uncomfortable journey to Bethlehem for a government census, of all things.

As we prepare for Christmas these 20 centuries later, let’s remember that this was God’s greatest gift to His creation because He loves us – His only, his beloved Son! May your Christmas be blessed and merry!

Jennifer and Seth Rayman watch 2-year-old Jackson Rayman make a holiday craft. jumped into the local Jewish community with both feet.

Living in a smaller place makes it easier to connect, she said.

“I love to see the community come together.”

Chabad of Knoxville and the KJA will host Menorah Madness 2016 at 1 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 26, at the

Holidays on Ice skating rink at Market Square. The event will feature an ice menorah lighting and skating to Hanukkah music. Mention “Menorah Madness” for a $2 discount on skating.

Both organizations will present Jewish Heritage Night at the Knoxville Ice Bears on Tuesday, Dec. 27.

Special services

■ New Hope Presbyterian Church, 1705 Merchant Drive, will hold a “Longest Night” service 5:30 p.m. today, Dec. 21. Worshipers will light four candles to remember loss, to redeem its pain, to recall supportive people and to look in hope to the future.

Holy Communion is open to all. Christmas Eve Candle and Carol Eucharist, 11 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 24; Christmas Day worship with sermon-inverse, 10:45 a.m.

The game starts at 7:05 p.m.

There will be a menorah lighting on the ice and hot latkes available.

Stella Galanti, a student at Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School, smiles at the work of Terina Gillette of Royal Magic Events.

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.

■ Bookwalter UMC, 4218 Central Avenue Pike, will offer Christmas Eve candlelight service, 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24; and Christmas morning worship service, 10:45 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 25. Info: 6893349 or info@bookwalterumc.org.

■ Fountain City Presbyterian Church, 500 Hotel Road, will hold two services on Saturday, Dec. 24: service designed for children with children leading the service, 5:30 p.m.; traditional Candlelight Service with special Christmas message and communion, 7 p.m.

■ New Beverly Baptist, 3320 New Beverly Church Road, will hold Christmas Service, 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 25. Info: 546-0001 or newbeverly.org.

■ St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway, will hold the following special services: Saturday, Dec. 24 – Christmas Eve services, 4 p.m. includes the Nativity Pageant and 10:30 p.m. includes a Choral Prelude, followed by Holy Eucharist at 11; Sunday, Dec. 25 – Christmas Day Holy Eucharist, 10:30 a.m. Info: 523-5687 or stjamesknox.org.

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What’s in a name?

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By Kip Oswald Aunt Becky surprised us during Fall Break with a trip to a really cool corn maze that was a long way from our house. On the way we passed two schools named Gibbs, so Kinzy and I wanted to know more about them and what is a Gibbs.

The first Gibbs High School was built in 1913 but burned down twice before it was finally built where it is now. The building beside the high school used to be the elementary school, but a new elementary school was built just a few years ago.

Both schools are named after Nicholas Gibbs, who ran away from his home in Germany and worked his way on a ship to America in the 1700s. He fought in the Revolutionary War and was given 100 acres. The house that he built in 1793 is still in the Gibbs area, and he is buried in the old family cemetery.

We want to go back and see it so Mom is going to take us some weekend.

We found other schools who send students to Gibbs High School have names linked to early settlers, too! Corryton Elementary, which was near the maze, is named after Corryton Woodbury, who named that whole area after himself when he purchased the railroad station and all the land around it. Holston Middle School is near the Holston River, which is named for Stephen Holstein, a settler

who built a cabin on the river in 1746.

■ Last week, I wrote about spending time with family during the holidays and how we were trying to help Mom save money. Here are some free activities we are going to do in the next few days.

Chilhowee Park drivethrough light tours, through Dec. 31. Drive through the park to view the lights and decorations.

Holiday Festival of Lights at the Cove, through Dec. 30, 6-9 p.m. See Concord Park light up each night on a walk around a 3/4-mile loop!

New Year’s on the Square: Downtown Knoxville Market Square, Dec. 31, 10:30 p.m. Celebrate the coming of 2017 with a countdown, ball drop and fireworks.

Next week, we look at the history behind West High School and its schools!

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Mike Capps (center) cuts the ribbon on Capps Court at the Boys & Girls Club with assistance from current and former players at the Sports Camp. Photo by Ruth White

Mike Capps teaches skills, behavior

By Ruth White To know Mike Capps is to respect and yes, love him. He has been part of the Boys & Girls Club in Knoxville since 1961 when he joined the organization as a boy.

Capps was named Youth of the Year in 1969, became a volunteer, part-time staff member, a member of the advisory board and was later a full-time employee of the Sports Camp program.

His philosophy is simple – he teaches kids about life and he holds true to that practice. Parents of all ages know Mike Capps has taught several generations of players the fundamentals of sports and how to behave.

Mike was honored recently at the new facility off Baxter Avenue as one of the courts was named after him. Family, friends, former coaches and players gathered at the gym to say thank you

reminded his young team that “pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what you’re doing. And you know what you’re doing.” The team returned to the court and handed their opponent its first loss in a couple of years.

Say what you will, but this is for sure – Mike Capps has spent his lifetime caring about kids, as athletes and as individuals. Once players go through the program, he continues to follow their successes in life and celebrates, often, from the sidelines. All three of my children played basketball for Mike Capps, and my sons played baseball on his teams. They have carried lessons learned through the Boys & Girls Club’s Sports Camp program that they continue to use in their adult lives and will pass those qualities down to their own children.

Miller to see expanded duties as pre-K coordinator

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Former CEO and president John Lee said it best: “Mike taught us as parents how to behave, not just the players.”

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Webb basketball coach Shelley Sexton Collier called Capps a “huge blessing.” She said that some people come into your life and leave a mark.

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Sandra Roach greets students during lunch at Pleasant Ridge.

Photo by Ruth White

Harper Anderson shows off the books she won by playing bingo. Photos by Ruth White

Reggie Smith takes his role as official photographer seriously as he poses Denise Edmonds with a photo prop at Norwood Elementary.

Norwood Elementary hosts Reading Night Roach named Pleasant Ridge principal

Emma Kennedy does a victory dance as she completes a row on her Bingo board and receives prize tickets during Norwood Elementary’s reading night. The event featured games for students to play and chances to earn tickets for free books. Parents were able to engage in activities with their children while having fun.

When students return to school at Pleasant Ridge Elementary after the winter break, they will have a new principal at the helm. Sandra Roach will take the place of Jessica Birdsong, PRE principal for the past five years. Birdsong has been named principal at Carter Elementary.

Corryton Elementary and Blue Grass Elementary community members may remember Roach, who was principal at both schools before transferring downtown to become staffing manager. She is thrilled to be following her heart and returning to work in a school again.

“I’ve heard great things about Pleasant Ridge – the staff, the students, the community – and I’m excited to be part of it.” She met students during lunch period before the break to introduce herself and get familiar with the area.

One great thing going on at Pleasant Ridge right now is the updating of the playground. Last year the PTO began raising money for new equipment and recently was able to donate $5,000 to the project. The group hosted a fall festival Kindergarten pupil Noah Billingsly plays alphabet bingo with and other fundraisers this year and hopes to be done with classmates. Each winner at the game received a ticket that the project in the spring. The next fundraising event will be could be cashed in for a free book. the annual Valentine Dance (and festival) on Feb. 10.

Miller signs with Milligan Powell High senior Karsten Miller recently signed to play softball at Milligan College.

Karsten is a fouryear starter for the Panthers, playing second Karsten Miller base and center field while at PHS. She selected Milligan because she loved the campus and the people. She believes that the Christian school will be a great place to grow in her faith and is thankful that Milligan has given her the opportunity to continue playing the sport that she loves. While at Milligan she plans to study to become a pediatrician.

Attending the signing with Karsten were her parents, Marc and Olivia Miller, brother Easton, grandparents Martha and Bill Townsend, aunts, uncles, family, friends and teammates.

HOLIDAY NOTES ■ Holiday Festival of Lights at The Cove at Concord Park, 6-9 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 30, excluding Christmas Day. The Cove is at 11808 S. Northshore Drive. Pets on leashes are welcome. The event is free, but Knox County will collect nonperishable food items for The Love Kitchen.

Merry Christmas

■ New Year’s Eve on the Square, 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, Market Square.

Includes live music and ball drop at midnight. Info knoxvilletn.gov/christmas.

■ Knoxville’s Holidays on Ice, Fridays-Sundays, through Jan. 8, Market Square. Admission: $10 adults, $7 children 12 and younger; includes skate rental and tax. Info: knoxvillesholidaysonice.com or 215-4423.

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North Knox Rotary huge help to residents The Highland Group Home in Fountain City is a unique home to 10 Knoxvillians born with cerebral palsy. The home is staffed by the Cerebral Palsy Center of Knoxville and governed by the Cerebral Palsy Housing Corp. Its annual budget is approximately $200,000.

For the past 20-plus years the home has been adopted and loved by the North Knox Rotary Club.

On Thursday, Dec. 22, the Rotarians will treat the home’s residents and staff to pizza at Harby’s Pizza and present a check in the $15,000 range to Bob Sexton, the longtime executive director of the Cerebral Palsy Center, during its Merry Christmas party.

Bob puts it bluntly: “This accounts for about 16 percent of the home’s budget and we could not keep it open without Rotary. If you take this away, the home could not pay its bills.� The club has a golf tournament each fall at Three Ridges Golf Club and the money raised goes to the group home.

Rotarian Chris Rohwer, a past president of the club, says they are now working to raise an additional $15,000 to rebuild and renovate the kitchen and make other improvements. Knox County has committed $7,500 through a defined service contract and the club is matching that, said Rohwer.

The Highland Home has been in Fountain City for 34 years. “The home and the residents receive no state or federal funding and without the Rotary Club our residents would be in nursing homes,â€? Sexton said. “They could not work, could not be a part of the community or go to church or really have hobbies. What the Rotary Club does is very special.â€? â–

Roman Nichols, manager of the Food City on Western Avenue downtown, with deli/bakery manager Tammie Brown. Nichols said the entire staff pitches in to help the department serve its Mickey Blazer (at right) and Emerson Breeden (center) of Food customers, especially at lunch time. “Sometimes the food line City talk with a couple from Gatlinburg (at left) who were is way back here,� he said, pointing to the deli meat counter. among the dozens of food bank representatives who received Party trays and catering are also popular during the holidays. cash from Food City’s Race Against Hunger. Photo by S. Clark

Race Against Hunger aids food pantries

By Sandra Clark Food pantries in Food City’s distribution area received almost $400,000 from the 2016 Race Against Hunger, a promotion that enables Food City customers to donate $1, $3 or $5 by adding it to their grocery bill.

Store officials met last week with nonprofit hunger relief representatives at the store on Western Avenue.

Mickey Blazer, executive vice president of operations for Food City’s Knoxville division, saluted the sponsors and customers who raised $399,500 collectively.

Major donations in Knox County

went to Second Harvest, $17,000; Empty Stocking Fund, $4,000; Mission of Hope, $3,500 and Emerald Youth, $3,500.

Other recipients were: Powell Presbyterian Church, Grace Baptist Church, Glenwood Baptist of Powell, St. James Episcopal, Heiskell Community Center and Temple Baptist Church.

Others were: Good Shepherd Center, Faith Fellowship, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Hardin Valley Church of Christ, Lost Sheep Ministries, Angelic Ministries, Parkwest Church of God, Eternal Life Harvest Center, Cokesbury United Methodist

Church, Norwood United Methodist Church, Cumberland Baptist Church, Rocky Hill Baptist, Knoxville Christian Center and Fountain City Food Pantry at Central Baptist.

It was a busy time. Also coming in were: New Hopewell Food Pantry, Metropolitan Community Church of Knoxville, Lonsdale United Methodist, Fountain City United Methodist, North Acres Baptist, Christ Methodist, Halls Welfare Ministries at Cross Roads Presbyterian and Eastminster Presbyterian.

The holiday promotion was cosponsored by Kellogg’s.

Thank you, Bearden Rotary!

Bearden Rotarians recently enjoyed getting more than 50 sweet thank you notes from Sequoyah Elementary School third-graders. The notes were thanking the club for the new dictionaries delivered by Rotarian Turner Howard, who also played a Word Find game with the kids to help them learn new words.

WHO’S CELEBRATING AT THE FRONT PORCH

By Levi Sweet

â– Jennifer Barnes celebrated a birthday on Dec. 16. â– Bevan Brown celebrated a birthday on Dec. 15. â– Brenda Seip celebrated a birthday on Dec. 15.

Internal Medicine Associates opens new facility Internal Medicine Associates has moved to a new location in Powell with ground-level access, dedicated parking and on-site physical therapy.

The single-story 23,000-square-foot office, located at 7744 Conner

M.W. Rhyne Jr. OD is pleased to announce the opening of

East Tennessee Binocular Vision Center on January 3, 2017 at 9051 Executive Park Dr. Suite 401

Road, is around the corner from the old site. Internal medicine is the specialty of diagnosis, treatment and primary care of adults. In addition, physical therapy services from Summit Medical Group are available onsite.

Managing partner Dr. Gerald Mancebo said the new location makes it convenient for patients to enter and exit and is “a result of direct feedback from our patients.�

In a press release, Mancebo said the new building opens as the area continues to experience growth in health care services, retail and other industries. “This is developing as a medical corridor for the Powell and North Knoxville communities. Whether you need a hospital, primary care physician, surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist or other health care professional, it’s within reach at this thriving Emory

Road area.�

In addition to serving the primary care needs of approximately 23,000 patients, Internal Medicine Associates offers an urgent care/after-hours clinic.

Walk-ins are welcome, and you don’t have to be an established Internal Medicine Associates or Summit Medical Group patient to visit the clinic. It’s open MondayThursday from 4:30-7 p.m. and on Saturday from 8 a.m.-noon.

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MONDAY, DEC. 26

THURSDAY, DEC. 29

“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.

Menorah Madness 2016, 1 p.m., Market Square Skating Rink. Presented by the Chabad of Knoxville and the Knoxville Jewish Alliance. Features an ice menorah lighting, sizzling hot latkes and skating to Chanukah music. Program free. Mention “Menorah Madness” for $2 off skating.

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.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21 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.

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’s show features Jake Head, along with Atlanta comedians Paige Bowman and Andrew Michael.

TUESDAY, DEC. 27 Jewish Heritage Night at the Knoxville Ice Bears, 7:05 p.m., Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Presented by the Chabad of Knoxville and the Knoxville Jewish Alliance. Features a menorah lighting on the ice after the first period and hot latkes at the Southeast Corner. Tickets: $14; buy.knoxvilletickets.com/promo/online/article/ knoxvilleicebears, use promo code “Chanukah.”

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28 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.

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.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4 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.

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.

News from Tennova Health & Fitness

10 tips to a

healthier new year

By Nicole Yarborough

1. Find a fun activity.

If you like the activity, it will seem less like work. If you really don’t like it, how can you make it fun? Use music or work out with a friend.

2. Have a person to hold you accountable. This is your friend or co-worker who is going to check up on you. This is the person at work that you tell, “I am going to the gym for a cycle class tonight.” You know they will ask you when they see you tomorrow! Sometimes our loved ones are not the best at this because they are the ones who can convince us that spending time with them (dinner or a movie) is more important.

3. Set realistic goals and write them down.

Three days a week is realistic. (Not every day this week!)

This will prevent you from becoming burnt out. Focus on exercise as a lifestyle commitment. You don’t have to do it all in the first week or month.

After writing out your goals, put them in a place you will see daily. Then reward yourself for reaching each goal.

4. Do a variety of activities. Who ever said, “Variety is the spice of life?” I agree and so will your body! A great friend of mine once said, “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”

5. Schedule your sessions. You schedule everything else in your life. How many times do you miss a movie, lunch date, hair appointment, vet appointment, doctor’s appointment or dinner? All you procrastinators need to use this tip!

6. Remind yourself why?

We made these goals for a reason! Remind yourself that you are worth it and so are your loved ones.

7. Alternate hard days and easy days. You do not have to kill yourself every time!

Forget that phrase, “No pain, no gain!” Interval train one day for 30 minutes between 75 and 85 percent intensity. The next day take a moderate paced stroll in the park for 60 minutes at 60 percent intensity.

8. Know your excuses before you use them! Just do it! If you know the excuses you always use, you can learn how to combat them. For example, TIME! “There are never enough hours in the day!”

Every day has 24 hours – you have 168 hours in your week – 2.25 hours a week can definitely be spent exercising!

9. Work out with a friend. Before you know it you will be done. Not only have you just spent great quality time with someone important to you, but you share the gift of health.

10. The Five Minute Rule. On the days you really aren’t feeling it, give yourself five minutes. After five minutes, if you still don’t feel like finishing your workout, go on home.

You will find, most of the time getting here is the hard part!

Tennova Health & Fitness can give you the resolve you need in the New Year

By Carol Z. Shane Christmas week is here! It’s time for all the joy that the holidays bring – not only the warm embrace of friends and family, the gathering together in our churches for prayer and rejoicing, the light in children’s eyes when they see what Santa has brought down the chimney – but also the goodies. Of course!

From spiced nuts to festive, brightly iced Christmas cookies to homemade Buche de Noel or “Yule log,” the fanciest of Christmas desserts, who can resist?

It’s nearly impossible – especially amid all the excitement. You tend to lose track of how many cookies you’ve downed when you’re talking with a beloved relative you haven’t seen in years!

You can go ahead and enjoy all aspects of this joyous time of year. But when it comes time to take stock post-holidays – and you know it will – you don’t have to worry. Because there’s a trained team of people in town who excel at helping people to lose weight, get in the best shape of their lives, and discover fun and friendship in the process.

It’s what they do best. And they can’t wait to hear from you.

They’re the members of the training team at Tennova Health & Fitness Center.

“The greatest benefit a trainer provides,” says Tennova’s executive fitness manager Nicole Yarbrough, “is a program that will teach you proper technique and then hold your feet to the fire until you’re in the shape you want to be.” And with Tennova’s family-friendly atmosphere, accessibility, personal attention and genuine concern for your health and fitness, “holding your feet to the fire” could be the best thing that’s ever happened to you.

Just ask Sharron Monroe,

keep from overdoing or hurting myself. When you work with a personal trainer, they look out for your physical well-being but also your emotional well-being.

“I think a lot of people are under the misconception that they will be pushed too hard or be expected to ‘overdo’ if they work with a personal trainer. In reality, it’s the exact opposite. Personal trainers want to help you achieve your training goals but they make sure it’s done in the correct and safe manner.

“I trust her implicitly to keep me from getting injured but to push me hard enough to ensure I’m benSharron efiting from Monroe (right) every one is thrilled with of my workTennova Heath & outs. JoinFitness trainer Betsy ing Tennova Wilson’s guidance and working toward a healthier, with a perhappier, fitter life. In sonal trainer addition, “she’s become a has changed cherished friend,” says Monroe. my life so much for the better.”

But isn’t it difficult? Isn’t And there have been other, working out like that a wheezing, unexpected benefits. Monroe grinding, sweaty slog? says, “Over the course of time Actually, no.

Betsy has become not just my “I really enjoy working out trainer but a dear friend, like a with my personal trainer,” says family member.” So who knows?

Monroe. “Betsy keeps me on Next year, you may find yourself track and makes sure I’m us- – your healthier, happier self – ing the equipment correctly. setting an extra place at the holiShe changes or modifies certain day table for your own personal exercises based on my physical trainer from Tennova Health & ability, which is paramount to Fitness.

who found herself in a great deal of distress because of her overweight condition.

“I started working out because I had become very overweight, which caused not only physical difficulties but also medical issues. I needed a personal trainer to guide me through the types of exercises I needed to do, and to make sure I was using the equipment properly.

“Since I began working out with my trainer, Betsy Wilson, I have greatly increased my body strength, my agility, and I have lost over 40 pounds.

Group One of the most important classes are results is from a medical available. standpoint: my blood presCall sure and cholesterol have 859-7900 both dropped significantly, for info or to and my physician has asschedule a sured me it’s because of the class. positive changes brought about by exercise.”

A membership at Tennova Health & Fitness affords you full use of the facilities: two pools, a basketball court, a rock wall, hundreds of pieces of state-of-the-art exercise equipment and 75 hours of group classes, plus a wide array of spa services. There are countless ways to get fit and have fun after the holidays at Tennova Health & Fitness.

Located off Emory Road in Powell For additional information, call Tennova Health & Fitness Center at 859-7900 or visit TennovaFitness.com

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