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Fairies frolic at Ijams

Ijams Nature Center could have hung a sign on the door: “Shh, Fairies at Work!”

However, the young nymphs were too busy working on their Fairy Gardens and concocting Fairy Trail Mix to notice any interruptions at Ijams’ Fairy Tea Party on Aug. 31.

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Read Betsy Pickle on page 3

New leaders for commission, school board Brad Anders is gruffer on the surface than is Tony Norman, but he will be a calmer, less volatile commission chair.

Lynne Fugate has potential to be more abrasive than Karen Carson, but we’ll have to see. She didn’t make a victory speech.

Both leaders are planning to play nice. And the community is starting out hopeful.

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Read Sandra Clark on page 4

Fulton kids get project of lifetime Students in Sandy Campbell’s Digital Art and Design II class at Fulton High have been asked to complete the project of the lifetime.

Good things can happen when you have a team of students that attend a state and national competition and bring home first- and fourth-place honors respectively. Expect people to notice.

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Business writer Nancy Whittaker got in two visits on a short week. Both are local legends!

Tom Allen has weathered a recession and bridge closure, but Allen Sign has survived and prevailed.

“We lost about half of our walk-ins and half of our retails sales,” Tom said. “We laid off eight employees and switched gears.”

Mike Frazier at Knox Rail Salvage says as the youngest of 10, he never got any new clothes until he reached high school.

Mike’s got a couple of good suits now.

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Read Nancy’s recap on page 7

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Devoted to their craft South Knox seniors enjoy painting class

By B Betsy etsy et sy P Pickle ickl ic kle e There wasn’t much fanfare at the opening of the South Knoxville Seniors Painters’ new art show at the South Knoxville Library on Wednesday.

That’s because the SKS Painters were back in class – perfecting their skills, enjoying each other’s company and savoring a homemade enchilada lunch at the South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane.

Painting is what they do every Wednesday, from the moment they arrive – anywhere from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. – till when they leave around 3 or 3:30 p.m. Except for the lunch break, of course.

Paul Warren was Mary Harris’ first and only student when she started teaching the class in October 2007.

“I sat beside her, and we’d paint a picture every class,” said Warren. “I’d just paint along, like monkey see, monkey do.”

Harris, a Knoxville native who lived for many years in Virginia and North Carolina after graduating from Powell High School, hadn’t been back in town long when she went to the senior center to take a watercolor class. When that teacher moved out of town after only a couple of sessions, Harris – a self-taught painter who’d taught at a community college in North Carolina – volunteered to teach a class.

“I’ve got 26 people on my enrollment sheet now,” the Lakemoor Hills resident said. “We’ve got 24 spaces.”

Their talent impresses Harris.

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Paul Warren and Betty Presnell place tags on the works showing in the South Knoxville Seniors Painters’ art show at the South Knoxville Library.

“They do wonderful work,” she said. The library show isn’t their first public exhibition; they’ve displayed their art several times before. Although beginners are welcome, the class is packed with experienced artists who work in oil, acrylics and watercolor.

There’s even a folk artist who “paints” with a knife.

One of the members, Kathy Rhodes, is a current prizewinner for pieces she entered at the Tennessee Valley Fair art show.

The center is open to anyone age 50 or better, and class members range from early 50s to early 80s.

“We have a very congenial class,” said Harris. “A lot of them have known each other since they went to school together; and then a lot of them were strangers when they first started coming there.”

Warren and Betty Presnell, who helped Harris hang the pieces for the library show on Tuesday, both graduated from Young High

School, though Warren blustered that “she’s way ahead of me.” He graduated in 1963 and she in 1959.

Presnell, who is retired from the Social Security Administration, started painting around 1989.

“I didn’t have a group in South Knoxville to paint with, so when this one opened I was really thrilled to have it,” she said.

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Della Volpe gives FOP a nod for humor

By Sandra Clark When Nick Della Volpe got a candidate questionnaire from the Fraternal Order of Police, he almost swallowed his teeth. He quickly penned a response to FOP president Mark Taylor: “I appreciate your sense of humor in sending the letter. ... Your offer arrived a bit late for its stated purpose, however, as the FOP has already littered the Staples roadsides with

your anti-Della Volpe signs.”

It’s a sure bet that the FOP will be endorsing Rick Staples, an employee of the Sheriff’s Office and probable member of the organization.

The FOP leadership is after Della Volpe because of his problems with the current pension system. Della Volpe says he’s the best friend the FOP ever had, because he is working for a sustainable pension over time.

“The city’s pension plan, which has a roughly $200 million deficit, leaves your members at risk,” he told Taylor. Della Volpe says the hybrid plan for new workers, sup-

ported by Mayor Madeline Rogero and adopted by voters, is “a good start (at reform), but is “just a drop in a very big bucket.”

Never one to simply say, “Sorry if I offended you,” Della Volpe added: “If you haven’t looked at the numbers lately, city taxpayers are putting in four or five times more than city workers ($20M vs. $3.8M per year) into the pension plan.”

Della Volpe He rolled on to

a second page: “Do you want to end up like the guys in Pritchard, Ala., where the bankrupt city just stopped sending out the retirement checks when their pension system and the city coffers ran dry? Far-fetched? Over a dozen cities around the country have filed for bankruptcy because of overwhelming debt, including heavy pension debt. It is no time to stick one’s head in the sand. We need to collectively rise to the occasion and work through this.”

Count on this discussion to continue through the campaign.

Early voting is already underway.

Excitement builds for Baptist reunion

By Betsy Pickle

Family reunions are a familiar concept. So are reunions marking the anniversary of an event, like a high school graduation.

Among former employees of Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee, “family” is how they see themselves. And 2013 is definitely a milestone – the fifth anniversary of the closing of the venerable hospital on Blount Avenue.

So … it’s party time!

Former Baptist employees have been meeting since June to plan a reunion, which will take place 1-5

p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Tennova South Ambulatory Care Center, 7323 Chapman Highway. The organizing meetings have been like mini-reunions for the committee, with memories and laughter flowing along with ideas.

At a recent meeting at Broadway Baptist Church, chair Patsy Boling wowed her friends with her initiative. Knocking off agenda items one by one, Boling would invite reports from those who’d been working on the assignment, then mention something she’d done to help research options.

Sometimes, her colleagues had to rein her in.

“What about two-way radios?” asked Boling. “It’s a big place.”

“We can use cell phones,” responded Lisa Stearns.

As the event grows closer – Boling along with the Thursday, Sept. 12, deadline for registration at http://bhetreunion.eventbrite.com – the group is meeting more often and

making final decisions on things like sheet cakes vs. cupcakes, cloth vs. plastic tablecloths and T-shirts vs. other types of souvenirs. It’s crunch time, and they know it, but they’re determined to put together the best reunion possible for their “family.”

The event is free for former employees, physicians and auxiliary and board members (plus a guest).

The committee held a fundraising drive to cover the costs – which didn’t include things like printed invitations.

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ately. I couldn’t believe it,” said Cosby. “I had no pain. When I woke up they took me back to my room. I didn’t go back to bed, I sat in a chair.”

By lunchtime on Saturday, Cosby had walked 500 feet down the hall with a walker. By that evening, he had set the walker aside and headed down the hall without it.

“I talked (Dr. Yau) into letting me go home on Sunday because I didn’t have pain. He talked me into a prescription, but I didn’t need them a lot. I had no pain.

He asked me, on a scale of 1 to 10, what’s your pain? I said zero.”

Recovery for Cosby has been swift, probably because of his determination to get back to normal and work on his farm.

And yes, he still rides the ATV. “I don’t ride it fast like these young people do. I go slow,” he said.

Cosby said he would recommend Fort Sanders to anyone who needs orthopedic care. His wife of 50 years, Imogene, also had orthopedic surgery at Fort Sanders and was pleased.

“Nobody wants to go to hospital, but if anyone needs to, I recommend they go to Fort Sanders,” said Cosby. “They’re a fine hospital, with real nice people, and they do a good job.

“It’s the finest hospital I’ve ever walked through the doors of, because of the people and the care they give.”

In early April 2013, Larry ry TV TV Cosby, 67, rode out on his ATV aito check the cattle on his Claiborne County farm.

“I was riding and going up sideways on a hill. We had a lot ot ck, of rain so the ground was slick, byy so it starts to tip over,” Cosby wn said. “I put my left foot down o and my foot slipped; I had tto lyy , get off the four-wheeler quickly, getting up on my left foot.”

Cosby managed to hop off the ATV fast enough not to be crushed by the machine, but the twisting motion of his leg sent pain shooting through his hip.

“I got up and picked my stuff back up, but my hip was sore,” he said.

Thinking he’d just strained a muscle, Cosby ignored the pain for a while. “I hopped around for two weeks, then finally went the doctor,” he said.

A local nurse practitioner referred him to orthopedic surgeon Dr. Paul Yau at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. After an X-ray and an MRI, Cosby was diagnosed with a fracture in his hip, a partial break in the upper part of his femur (thigh) bone.

Because hip fractures can lead to serious complications, Yau scheduled Cosby for surgery early the next morning, a Saturday. During the surgery, Yau installed three screws into the fractured bone to hold it together while it healed.

“My pain was better immedi- Imogene and Larry Cosby at their 50th anniversary celebration

He asked me, on a scale of 1 to 10, what’s your pain? I said zero.

– Larry Cosby

Beating the odds with the latest approach to hip fractures Just months after falling and breaking his hip, Larry Cosby of Claiborne County, Tenn., was back on his ATV, tending cattle on his farm.

But statistics show that Cosby is in the minority. An estimated 20 to 30 percent of hip fracture patients over the age of 65 will die within 12 months, according to a 2009 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

About 90 percent of hip fractures occur in people over the age of 60. Hip fracture is the second leading cause of hospitalization for older people in the U.S. In 2007, there were 281,000 hospitalizations for hip fracture in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Studies show great disability after hip fracture. Ninety percent of patients can’t climb stairs, 66 percent cannot get on and off a toilet unassisted, 50 percent are unable to get out of a chair, 31 percent can’t get out of bed

unassisted and 20 percent cannot dress themselves after a hip frac”The statistics are bad with hip fracture, but we are changing that,” said Dr. Paul Yau, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hip FracDr. Paul Yau ture Center at Fort Sanders. The center opened in March 2013 to provide coordinated, top-quality care to hip fracture patients.

Using a team approach to care, the center employs all the “best practices” that research has found offer the best results for hip fracture patients.

For example, hip fracture patients are encouraged to get up and out of bed as quickly as possible.

“Getting patients out of bed, back on their feet and out of the hospital as quickly as possible is probably the most critical factor in avoiding complications,” said Yau.

“If you lie in bed for a prolonged period of time, you risk bedsores and skin ulcers, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections,” he said.

Strategies for getting patients out of bed quickly start in the operating room.

“Well, pain control is the best thing we can do in the operating room,” said Yau. “Our protocol is that anesthesia is given at the site of the break. Patients have regional anesthesia, rather than general anesthesia. This means there is less of a ‘fog’ for the patient after surgery, with less nausea and vomiting. As a result they can walk much sooner than normally done before,” Yau said.

The surgery itself is a complete repair, not just a partial, Yau added. “We do it in such way that there’s no restriction on weight bearing afterward.”

Historically, surgeons used to fix hip fractures with plates and screws that limited the patient’s weight bearing ability.

“We still use plates and screws, but we’re able to fix it in such a way the patient can put full weight on the leg with no restrictions,” Yau said.

“Even a week or two out of surgery, people are getting rid of their walkers and canes,” said Yau. “We’re seeing two to three weeks of recovery instead of six to eight weeks. It’s pretty dramatic. They’re sitting up the same day of surgery.”

The Hip Fracture Center at Fort Sanders is located beside the Joint Replacement Center, which specializes in replacing hips and knees. The two centers together mean Fort Sanders is one of the most experienced orthopedics centers in East Tennessee.

“There are only about 30 institutions across country that have set up a program like the Hip Fracture Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center,” said Yau. “We’re pretty excited to be providing this to the community.”

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Fairies frolic in finery at Ijams Ijams Nature Center could have hung a sign on the door: “Shh, Fairies at Work!”

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However, the young nymphs were too busy working on their Fairy Gardens and concocting Fairy Trail Mix to notice any interruptions at Ijams’ Fairy Tea Party on Aug. 31.

The 20 little ones digging in the dirt, assembling bags of snacks, decorating cupcakes to look like mushrooms and coloring pictures barely paid attention to the 30 parents and grandparents busy trying to get them to pose for photographs.

Nearly all the kids were dressed in jewel tones and pastels, with tons of netting and shiny fabric, and most brought their own wings.

One standout exception was the lone boy, Hunter Hetrick, 4, of Oak Ridge, who wore an impish expression along with his gray T-shirt and dark shorts.

Hunter, who accompanied his mother and sisters, seemed oblivious to all the excited girls in the room as he enthusiastically created his garden.

The cuteness factor was through the roof for the event, so of course the adults hustled to capture

Workshop scratches acting itch While many East Tennesseans were gathering downtown for Boomsday activities, aspiring and veteran actors made their way to the Broadway Academy of Performing Arts, 706 N. Broadway, for a drop-in acting and theater-performance workshop presented by the Wild Thyme Players.

Actor-director Andi Morrow led the Sept. 1 workshop, which focused on the differences between stage and film acting. A lucky 13 class members absorbed Morrow’s insights and instructions and paired off to read scenes – ranging from classical to contemporary – and receive critiques.

Jeanette and Charlie Stevens of the Silver Stage Players were the most senior members of the class,

At Ijams’ Fairy Tea Party, Michelle Adams of Kodak, left, helps daughter Sydney, 3, create her fairy garden while Jessica Hale of Sevierville, right, does the same for her daughter, Cali, 3.

the Kodak, er, megapixel moments.

The grownups learned the hard way that fairies – like the 3- to 7-year-olds enjoying themselves in the Ijams program room – are constantly in motion.

Jennifer Roder, Ijams’ education program officer, said this was the first tea party held at the South Knoxville nature center on Island Home Avenue.

“We have done a bunch of other fairy events,” she said.

All of the children seemed satisfied with the afternoon’s activities, and many lingered in the lobby to observe the subsequent animal program featuring an albino rat snake.

but even with all their experience they said the workshop was valuable.

“Every class you learn something,” said Charlie.

“You never get too old to learn.”

He also plugged the Silver Stage Players’ production of “Who Ya Gonna Call,” set for 1 p.m. Dec. 18, at the John T. O’Connor Senior Center.

Among the younger attendees were Phoenix Asher of Campbell County and Will Stone of Knoxville, who did a reading together.

Both have been attending the Sunday workshop series, which runs through December, since it started in August.

“I love doing these things,” said Stone, who has taken some college-level acting courses.

For more info on the workshops, visit www. wildthymeplayers.org.

Phoenix Asher, left, and Will Stone run through a scene at the Wild Thyme Players’ acting workshop at Broadway Academy of Performing Arts.

Veteran actors Carolyn Corley and Charlie Stevens read a scene at the acting workshop.

Solvi Thompson, 5 (attending with mom Duren Thompson of West Knoxville), may have had the most beautiful fairy outfit of all. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Maddie Lubiani, 7 (attending with mom Denisha Lubiani of West Knoxville), enjoys the fruits of her labors.

Isabella Rose Covington, almost 3 (attending with parents Darrell and Christy Covington of Dandridge), focuses on decorating her mushroom cupcake.

The sole male participant, Hunter Hetrick, 4 (attending from Oak Ridge with his mom, Shelaine Hetrick, and sisters), proudly shows off his garden.

Joan and Mike Eiffe of Powell prepare to take photos of grandson Brody at the Labor Day Sunflower at the Krutch Park Extension downtown.

Sunflower: Onlookers admire the woven sunflower stalks seen on the back of the chain-link frame for the project.

Sunflower has drawing power Organizers of the Labor Day Sunflower turned the holiday art project into a weeklong celebration of workers.

What began as a guerrilla art installation conceived by artists Gerry Moll and Joshua Bremseth at Edgewood Park in 2007 has become a Knoxville tradition. The sunflower returned to the Krutch Park extension for the second year last week.

The 15-by-15-foot circle of sunflowers was woven into a chain-link frame on Monday, Sept. 2, by area residents who brought sunflowers they had grown.

Circle Modern Dance performed at the installation and again on First Friday with groups such as the First Friday Drum Crew and Hoopers and the Beaumont Elementary School Dancers.

The giant sunflower drew onlookers throughout the week. They were able to appreciate the nature and artistry of the project in the daylight and video projection of images of people working each night.

Joan Eiffe of Powell discovered the sunflower Tuesday when she brought grandson Brody, 2½, downtown to visit her husband, Mike, who works at TVA, on his lunch hour. The Eiffes often walk in the downtown park and appreciated the new photo op.

Scott and Brenda Brenson of Edmond, Okla., were checking out downtown while waiting for their flight home.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Scott, who had come to East Tennessee for a ministry conference.

At the end of the installation, the sunflower seeds were distributed to attendees for them to grow and possibly contribute next year.

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government Rogero names Vogel to airport authority Mayor Madeline Rogero has reappointed Howard Vogel to the Airport Authority. Vogel, the chair, was first appointed by thenMayor Bill Haslam.

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Vogel, an attorney, is brother-in-law of state Sen. Becky Duncan Massey.

He has been an active and effective chair following attorneys Arthur Seymour and Dick Krieg along with business owner Kirk Huddleston, who all served as chair over the past 20 years.

Rogero has also appointed Marva Martin to succeed Sam Anderson, former city parks director, to the city civil service board.

Anderson was removed due to residency issues.

Rogero does not routinely announce appointments to boards and commissions, so your writer will mention them when the situation or person merits comment.

Martin, who turns 70 in December, is very energetic and active. She will not back down on a subject because someone disagrees.

She led enforcement of Title VI in the city for seven years (five of them while this writer was mayor).

Also appointed was former FOP president Ed Mitchell to replace Don Green, a retired police officer, also removed for residency issues.

Sometimes city council votes on the appointments and sometimes not. Council does vote on the appointments to civil service board and the airport authority. Council does not vote on appointments to KCDC or to MPC. ■ Former Vice Mayor Mark Brown (and now county magistrate) married Chenile Crenshaw on Aug. 24 in Memphis at a wellattended wedding.

■ Mark Campen, one of the quieter but thoughtful members of city council, is doing his part to help the city’s census count. He and wife Emily are expecting their second child, a girl, in October. Her name will

be Phoebe Quinn Campen.

Her older brother is Parson Campen. Congratulations to them.

Two others in the past 50 years have fathered children while serving on council.

They are Ed Shouse, now a county commissioner, and Joe Bailey, whose father also served on city council. Only former Mayor Randy Tyree and this writer fathered children while serving as mayor in the last 70 years.

■ Liane Lee Russell who, along with her late husband, Bill, pushed for enactment of the Tennessee Scenic Rivers Act in the 1960s, celebrated her 90th birthday at the Pollard Conference Center in Oak Ridge on Aug. 27. It was sponsored in part by the Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning which she helped to create. She is an icon in the conservation movement in Tennessee.

■ Zygmunt Plater, formerly a UT professor, will be back in Knoxville this Thursday, Sept. 12, at Union Avenue Books for a book-signing of his new book, “The Snail Darter and the Dam,” just published by Yale University Press. Plater is a professor at Boston College Law School. This is the story of the Tellico Dam and the years-long battle to halt its construction. It is the first detailed history of this struggle with first-hand details. Excellent history.

■ Jim Haslam, father of Gov. Bill Haslam, is recovering from knee replacement surgery at Knoxville’s UT Medical Center a few weeks ago.

NOTES ■ West Knox Republican Club will meet Monday, Sept. 9, at Red Lobster, 8040 Kingston Pike. Charme Knight will speak. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7 p.m. Info: knoxgop.org ■ Fountain City North Knox Republican Club will meet Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Shoney’s, 4032 Broadway. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7 p.m. Info: knoxgop.org ■ East Knox Republican Club will meet Thursday, Sept. 12, at O’Charleys, 3050 S. Mall Road. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the meeting begins at 6:45 p.m. Info: knoxgop.org

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Starting out hopeful The best line of the past week came from Ann Dyer, the new finance director in Union County. Asked why the medical cost for inmates continues to exceed its budget, Dyer said, “We always start out hopeful.”

Sandra Clark

That line sums up the relationship between Knox County Commission and the Knox County Board of Education as each group starts anew with fresh leadership.

Brad Anders got the job he should have had last year when Tony Norman came out of nowhere to be elected commission chair.

Anders, in this writer’s opinion, was being punished for considering the school board’s budget request. He never voted for it. He never made a motion to adopt it.

He just considered it and therefore he was suspect.

Norman, an otherwise kind and gentle soul, made no bones about his dislike of Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre and his disdain for the proposed budget which could have required a property tax increase. Voting for Norman were R. Larry Smith, Jeff Ownby, Dave Wright, Amy Broyles and Sam McKenzie.

Much of the same crew voted Sept. 3 for Smith to succeed Norman, but Broyles and McKenzie switched to Anders who won 6-4.

(Richard Briggs, an Anders vote last year, was absent for a medical mission.) Smith was retained as vice chair.

The school board succession was much more orderly. Vice chair Lynne Fugate moved up to replace Karen Carson. Gloria Deathridge moved in as vice chair.

Bottom line: Brad Anders is gruffer on the surface than is Norman, but he will be a calmer, less volatile chair. Fugate has potential to be more abrasive than Carson, but we’ll have to

Brad Anders

Lynne Fugate

Tony Norman

Karen Carson

see. She didn’t make a vic- ning to play nice. And the tory speech. community is starting out Both leaders are plan- hopeful.

Col. Cummings comes home Portrait donated to the East Tennessee History Center Thanks to the generosity of Cornelia “Connie” Cummings Hunt of Covington, Ga., a large portrait of her great-great-grandfather, Col. David H. Cummings, has come home.

The striking oil painting will become a part of the permanent historical collection at the East Tennessee History Center.

Early in the Civil War, Col. Cummings was chosen as the commanding officer of the 19th Tennessee Infantry, which recruited in eight East Tennessee counties and trained two miles east of downtown Knoxville at the Old Fairgrounds, which was later renamed Camp Cummings in his honor.

David Cummings was born near Abingdon, Va., on April 7, 1818. His early education was in the Abingdon schools but he moved with his family to Eagle Bend near Clinton, Tenn., in 1834 when he was only 16 years old.

He later read law with Judge Thomas L. Williams, a prominent Knoxville attorney and judge, and received his law license in 1843.

Three years later Cummings volunteered to serve in the 2nd Tennessee Vol-

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unteer Infantry Regiment early in the Mexican War (1846-1848).

He was recommended for a leadership role and was soon elected colonel of his regiment. The regiment fought at Puente de Morena near Vera Cruz and in the Battle of Cerro Gordo, where Cummings suffered a severe gunshot wound to his foot. It left him with a noticeable limp for the rest of his life.

When he returned home from the war, he quickly arose to prominence in the legal profession and, by 1845 he was elected attorney general for the Second Solicitorial District.

In 1853, Cummings was appointed Clerk of the Federal Court of the 2nd Judicial Circuit, which included several counties in East Tennessee.

During this time the Cummings family maintained dual residence in the Mansion House in Knoxville and at the plantation at Eagle Bend, which he and his father owned.

After the 19th regiment underwent several months of training in Knoxville, they participated in some of the earliest battles of the

war in the western theater.

Cummings led them during the engagement at Camp Wildcat (Rock Castle), Ky., on Oct. 21, 1861.

On Jan. 19, 1862, the 19th fought in the Battle of Mill Springs, Ky., where Gen. Felix Zollicoffer was killed, leaving Col. Cummings in temporary command of the brigade.

Their next major engagement was at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), Tenn. (April 6-7, 1862), the first battle of the war to involve massive numbers of troops.

The Confederates under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston numbered 44,000 and the Union troops under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant number 39,000, later augmented by Gen. Buell’s 36,000 troops.

During this battle the 19th regiment participated in the attack on Gen. Benjamin J. Prentiss’ and Gen. John A. McClernand’s troops.

On that first day of the battle, the troops fought stubbornly for three hours at the Hornet’s Nest, with both sides suffering appalling casualties in vicious combat. The Confederates finally prevailed and the three Union divisions were overrun.

Approximately 2,000 Union survivors and their general were captured.

Cummings was wounded early in the engagement and Prentiss surrendered his

sword to Col. F.M. Walker, who had replaced Cummings in command of the 19th Tennessee regiment.

When he recovered from his wound, Cummings joined his older brother, Robert Campbell Cummings (1811-1892), in business in Louisiana. Robert owned Chalk Level Plantation near Shreveport and was a cotton factor in New Orleans.

Toward the end of the war, the state was bitterly divided and the cotton industry was in utter chaos.

Finally, the Confederacy was so starved for supplies that the Confederate Congress authorized the purchase of cotton from producers for sale abroad or even to the enemy to help relieve the pressing need.

His business interests required frequent travel and, not quite three years after the war ended, Col. Cummings was ascending the Red River by steamer returning to Chalk Level Plantation. A mother and child who were ill with cholera were on the same boat. The riverboat’s crew was aghast, the passengers in a panic.

Heroically, the colonel attended them himself. Cummings also contracted cholera and died of the disease on Dec. 28, 1867, at age 49.

David H. Cummings was buried in Louisiana but his body was eventually brought home to rest in the Cummings-Young Cemetery at Eagle Bend.

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Hall of Fame finally admits Bernard King Eighteen old Vols are in the College Football Hall of Fame. Bernard King is the first former player in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Think about that – 18 to 1. Is Tennessee a football school or what?

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Bernard was enshrined Sunday in Springfield, Mass. The honor was a long time coming. Ages ago the Ernie and Bernie Show packed Stokely Center.

After that, it took years and years of repeated nominations to convince

selectors that the bestever Volunteer and former NBA great deserved a place among the immortals.

There never was any question about basketball talent and accomplishments. The honors committee was undoubtedly waiting to see how King, 56, turned out as a man.

The same might be said of former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian. He, too, made a few waves.

In addition to BK and Tark, this class featured Louisville coach Rick Pitino and former Houston coach Guy Lewis.

Sorry the hall took soooo long to recognize Bernard.

Ray Mears and Stu Aberdeen would have really enjoyed the occasion.

It was Stu, a New Yorker, who persuaded King to come from Brooklyn to

join fellow New Yorker Ernie Grunfeld for the best of times at Tennessee. It was Stu who stayed and stayed with the recruiting project when others thought King would not meet NCAA academic standards. Rivals believed that coffee stain on the high school transcript ledger covered a D. Stu, tenacious researcher, argued it was a B. Bernard many times tested Mears’ patience but the coach did deep-breathing exercises and learned to tolerate this unusual superstar.

Only King would have brought a hamburger and fries to a pre-practice briefing. Such meetings were almost formal.

Nobody would have dared stop the team bus, hop off and jog into a drug store for AA batteries. What

Old friends Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

(Hebrews 13:2 NRSV)

I first learned this verse when I was a very young child.

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans had lost Robin, a Down syndrome child, when she was only two years old.

Dale wrote a book about Robin’s short life, and titled it “Angel Unaware.” I asked my mother, who was reading the book to me and my brother, what that meant.

She told me about this verse

from Hebrews.

It was years before I learned the deeper meaning of it: that it was a reference to Abraham’s visitation from the angels (Genesis 18); and the wider meaning: that we are visited by angels in this life in the form of dear and beloved friends who bless us.

Let me tell you about two angelic visitations I had just this week.

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I was shopping far from home over Labor Day weekend: in Durham, N.C., where I knew no one except the dear friends my husband and I were visiting. We were in a store that specializes in fabulous food, as well as ordinary groceries. I was walking toward the front of the store, when I realized that someone had stopped dead, right in my path. (I

was King to do? His music machine was dragging.

Bernard King, he of fierce intensity, amazing quickness on turnaround jumpers, very aggressive board play, rare ability to slither through a tiny defensive crack in transition, was three times player of the year in the Southeastern Conference (1975–1977).

He averaged 25.8 points and 13.2 rebounds and racked up a record 62 double-doubles in 76 career games. Twenty-six times he scored 30 or more. He played with pure passion and despised Kentucky twice that much.

After King’s first appearance in Lexington, a taunting UK fan dropped a lighted cigarette into his hair.

Bernard swore he would never again lose to the Wildcats. He didn’t.

The warrior had a softer side. He wrote poetry.

I know that for a fact. He wouldn’t let me see but he read to Sarah West.

King scored 19,655 points and averaged 22.5 in the NBA. He scored 60 one Christmas Day and had 50 in back-to-back games for the New York Knicks.

He played in four all-star games. His greatest accomplishment was fighting back from a horrible knee injury at the peak of his career.

There was a time when Mark Aguirre said “He was unstoppable. Also unbelievable.”

Dominique Wilkins said Bernard was the only man he ever played against who caused fear.

“He scared the hell out of me.”

Knicks fans, late at night, after hard lemonades, will

tell you that Bernard, before the knee injury, was a better small forward than Larry Bird – and a greater scorer than Michael Jordan. Even if that sounds crazy, don’t laugh. King was really good.

Bernard had a few minor problems at Tennessee and more serious ones as a pro.

Thank goodness, all have been settled, forgiven or forgotten.

For 30 years, he was estranged from UT. Bruce Pearl got him back. Bernard spoke to the team and the Tennessee Tipoff Club. He addressed a Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame dinner. He made sense and looked great in his doublebreasted suit.

He adds value to the Hall of Fame.

had been rubbernecking to that point, astonished at the vast array of specialty, wonderful, exotic, fattening foods available.)

I focused, then, on the smiling face in front of me and realized it was Linda, one of my volunteers from my days at Volunteer Ministry Center. She had been a special friend there, possessed of a good listening ear and a level head; she was someone whose advice and opinions I valued and sought. She was standing there waiting for recognition to dawn.

When it did, I fell into her arms, and we laughed a lot and cried a little. “What are you doing here?” we asked each other, pretty much at the same time. It seems we were both visiting friends,

and that neither of us had ever been to Durham before.

We were so astonished at the coincidence of our meeting that we could hardly get through introductions of her friends and my husband. Before she left the store, she came back to give me another hug, and tell me again that I had made an imprint on her heart.

I was basking in the afterglow of that encounter, when I received an e-mail from the wife of one of my former pastors. Gordon and Mary were dear friends who shaped and formed me when I was a college student trying to figure out what I believed and why I believed it.

They moved years ago to Joplin, Mo., and when the

horrible tornado hit there (was it last year or this?), almost obliterating the town, I could not locate them. Another good friend, also at the Volunteer Ministry Center, helped me search, with no luck.

When I got home from my trip to Durham, still glowing from the angelic visitation from Linda, I got an e-mail from Mary, saying that she had found me online quite by chance, because they have a friend in their church named Lynn Pitts.

“The Lord is good, all the time,” as the saying goes.

However, as Carol, yet another of my VMC volunteers reminded me occasionally, “Sometimes He excels!”

Angels unawares, indeed: one and all.

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Patricia Moore at the helm Patricia Moore has spent In fact, that’s what led to a big chunk of her life at her becoming a principal.

New Hopewell Elementary Moore had “absolutely no School. idea” she wanted to teach when she was a student at Young High School. She skipped a grade so that she could graduate with her boyfriend in 1973; they married Betsy in 1974. She went to work inPickle stead of continuing her education. Teaching wasn’t even a tickle of an idea.

“I didn’t realize that’s She has just started her what I wanted to do until second year as principal. my son went through school She was a classroom teacher here, and I volunteered in for eight years, beginning in the kindergarten classroom 1995. And she volunteered every week and fell in love at the school when her son with it,” she says. “I had went there. never been to college. It

took me a while to convince my husband, but when my son started middle school, I started college.”

Moore was the poster child for nontraditional students.

“I did the five-year program in four years,” she says, earning her bachelor’s in human learning and behavior and her master’s in curriculum and instruction from the University of Tennessee. She made every credit hour count.

“I knew exactly the classes I had to have to graduate, and I knew I was going to need one (more credit) hour, so I took a tennis class,” she recalls. “So I had the exact number of hours you had to have to graduate.”

Her fellow students nicknamed her “Dr. Moore” because of her knowledge of the program and its requirements, but she hasn’t gone after a doctorate – yet. She decided to get her Ed.S. (education specialist) degree after she had been in the classroom for about

Patricia Moore. Photo by Betsy Pickle 10 years, first at Gap Creek Elementary, then at New Hopewell and Carter Elementary.

“Teaching was fine for those first 10 years, but I knew I needed something else,” she says. “I did an afterschool science club for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. I did

tary. She taught on weekdays and went to classes on Saturdays.

“My camping really suffered that year and a half,” she says. Degree in hand, she spent two years as an assistant principal at Inskip and then four years at Gap Creek as principal before returning to New Hopewell last year.

She likes the Common Core initiative and the emphasis on higher standards.

It’s not that children today are that much smarter than previous generations: “We just have to move faster in order to compete,” she says.

Moore thinks New Hopewell stands out bea lot of things so I could, I cause of teacher collaboraguess, touch more children tion. and help them.

“Our test scores jumped “It just suddenly felt like from 2s to 5s, from just last teaching wasn’t enough.” year,” she says. “It’s like I Moore earned her Ed.S. tell the parents – it wasn’t from Lincoln Memorial just a teacher; it was everyUniversity while working body. Everybody helps here. as a curriculum coach at … Our Encore teachers are Mooreland Heights Elemen- in the classroom, teaching.”

Fulton High: Project of a lifetime Students in Sandy Campbell’s Digital Art and Design II class at Fulton High have been asked to complete the project of the lifetime. Good things can happen when you have a team of students that attend a state and national competition and bring home first- and fourth-place honors respectively. Expect people to notice.

The students are currently working on a brochure for the Magnet Schools of America to promote their organization. When completed, the brochure will be distributed nationwide to show what the schools have to offer students. The best part is that it will showcase the talent of the students from Fulton High in Knoxville.

Members of the design team include Zoe McKinley, Mark Ogle, Parker Hall, Charles Stansberry, Alexa Caylor and Sage Davis.

Each student has ideas, and they are working together to design something wonderful.

“It will look great if we put all of our ideas together into some amazing brochureness,” declared Mark Ogle.

OK, so ‘brochureness’ isn’t a real word. But I know what Ogle meant. He wants the group from Fulton to put their mark on the world of graphic design.

Inspiring and being inspired While at Fulton, I met a yearbook student named Simmone Davis. We spent a few minutes talking photography, and she asked me for some pointers on doing her

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job even better.

Her enthusiasm for photography just warmed my heart and put a little bit of a flame back into my passion. She is the type of student who will do well. She is enthusiastic and eager to learn. I look forward to seeing Simmone around Fulton more often when I visit.

Celebrating Reward Schools My favorite part of the school beat is celebrating successes and achievements of the staff and students.

Those celebrations are even more special when I’m delivering a box of freshly baked cookies from Rita’s Bakery to schools that were honored as a 2013 Reward School.

First stop was at Carter High School where I met the new principal, Ryan Siebe.

When I explained the reason for my visit, he quickly mentioned that he wasn’t at the school when it achieved its goals, but I am willing to bet money that he enjoyed at least one cookie.

The next stop was the L&N STEM Academy where I met up with assistant principal Jason Webster and principal Becky Ashe.

On each box of cookies was an ad from the Shopper-News saluting each of the Reward Schools.

Ashe saw it and said, “I just cut that out and posted

Ryan Siebe, new principal at Carter High School, gets cookies from Shopper-News.

Jason Webster and Becky Ashe, leaders at the L&N STEM Academy, get Shopper cookies. Photos by Ruth White

it for the teachers.” Webster, a former assistant principal at Halls High School, was pleased to see the Shopper back in his territory and said he would have been just as pleased had a box of cookies not been present.

Hmmm.

Heard in the hallways When I visit schools I love to talk to students and see how their day is going.

At one elementary school, a little boy ran up to me, hugged me around the legs and said, “I’m so glad you are here today!” I think he mistook me for someone else, but his hug was given to someone needing it that morning.

Last week I was leaving Fountain City Elementary when a 1st grade class was walking out of the building. A student was holding

REUNION NOTES ■ The Central High School Class of 1978 will hold its 35th reunion at Beaver Brook Country Club from 6:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept.14. The cost is $25 per person, which can be paid at the door.

RSVP to Ronnie Booker, 688-8779.

■ Beta Sigma Phi Sorority reunion for all former and present members will be held 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, at the BSP Chapter House, 1411 Armstrong Ave. The sorority’s First Ladies of Knoxville are invited. Info: Shirley Rouse, 531-1467.

Student Sage Davis takes notes as Michelle Sands gives instruction of the brochure the design class will make.

Yearbook student Simmone FulCom student Zoe McKinDavis documents the event. ley listens during a Skype session with Michelle Sands, the door open for her classHer sweet innocence put membership coordinator mates and asked if I wanted a mile-wide smile on my with Magnet Schools of her to hold the door open face. Now that all schools America. for me. I said, “Let me hold have a security button on it for you.” the front door, I have to ring “May I help… Oh, Shoppers!

She looked up at me and the bell and announce my- Come on in!”

Her enthusiasm made me said, “You’re peach like me. self. At Norwood ElementaBut you’re peach-er.” ry I heard the secretary say, smile.

CHURCH NOTES Special services ■ The Church of God of Knoxville, 5912 Thorn Grove Pike, will host its annual Camp Meeting on Monday through Friday, Sept.

16-20. Services will be 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day. Everyone is welcome. Info: Pastor Robin L. Thames, 748-5403.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR LIBRARY EVENTS Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway, will host the following events. Info: 525-5431.

■ Coupon book sales began last week and will go through midSeptember. It’s a good time to purchase one and begin saving at some great retailers.

■ Fulton High School PTSO will meet at 6 p.m. today (Monday, Sept. 9) in the library. Stop by, join PTSO and find out great things about your school. Friday, Sept. 13, Fulton will host Farragut in the first home football game of the season. Homecoming will be Friday, Sept. 20, against Gatlinburg-Pittman.

■ Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2 p.m. – “Word 2007 Basics”: introduces the basic tools and concepts of word processing, using Microsoft Word 2007: simple text formatting, cut and paste, page setup, saving, and more. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Call 525-5431 to register.

■ Austin-East Magnet High School will travel to Sweetwater for football action on Friday, Sept. 13, and then to Carter on Friday, Sept. 20. It will host Brainerd on Friday, Sept. 27.

■ Monday, Sept. 16, 5:30 p.m. – Family Movie Night: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.”

■ Carter High School football has a bye this week and will host Austin-East on Friday, Sept. 20.

Senior Appreciation Picnic Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will host the seventh annual Senior Appreciation Picnic from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, at John Tarleton Park, located at 3201 Division St. The event is free to all Knox County seniors. The picnic will include lunch, live music and a mini-health fair. Any senior planning to attend is asked to RSVP by Friday, Sept. 20, by calling 215-4007.

Challenge Grant applications available The Knoxville Parks and Recreation Department is accepting applications for its 2013-14 Challenge Grant Program, which offers grants to nonprofit projects associated with public parks or recreation facilities within the city limits.

The grants are available this year to 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(6) status community groups, homeowner associations, schools, scout troops and other organizations. Recipients of a Challenge grant will be reimbursed 50 percent of the cost of a single project, up to $2,500.

The deadline for applications is Monday, Sept.

16. Applicants will be notified and announced by Wednesday, Oct. 16. All project work must be completed by Friday, May 30, 2014. Info/applications: www.cityofknoxville.org/recreation/challengegrant. pdf or 215-2017.

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Meeting two legends Our week was shortened by the Labor Day holiday, so Sandra Clark and I got in just two business visits last Tuesday. Both owners are local legends!

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Allen Sign: Tom Allen has weathered a recession and bridge closure, but Allen Sign has survived and prevailed.

“We lost about half of our walk-ins and half of our retails sales,” Tom said. “We laid off eight employees and switched gears.”

Allen Sign is located at 2408 Chapman Highway,

just a block from the Henley Bridge. The business sells flags and flagpoles, does engraving and banners, and makes back-lit signs.

There’s an in-house design team. The decreased foot traffic led Tom into more service work.

“I’ve had something to do with probably one out of five signs in Knox County,” he said. “We specialize in corporate and commercial signs.”

Tom is both decisive and aggressive. Once a Kentucky printing company started advertising in Knoxville, so Tom launched some ads in Kentucky. As a result, he got the banner printing for the Kentucky Derby.

Allen Signs makes flags for TVA in a 7-state region.

He recently redid the street signs for Oak Ridge. He installed the 100-foot flagpole

in Black Oak Plaza in Halls.

Tom started the business while in college (he earned a degree in business administration from UT), and is now in his 30th year. He’s got a second office at 8403 Kingston Pike near Walker Springs.

Info: 573-3524, 558-3523 or tom@vexus.com.

Knox Rail Salvage: Mike Frazier peers like an owl from his balcony office, signaling his daughter, Nancy Lee Harbison, to talk to us.

“I think they want to talk with you, Dad,” she says.

The sign reads: Founded in 1980. It could have been 1880. A walk through Knox Rail Salvage is a step back in time.

The warehouses were built along the railroad tracks for a reason. Freight trains unloaded their wares

in the multi-story brick structures. From there, wagons and later trucks hauled stock into the countryside.

Mike Frazier owns three old warehouses (that we know of) with retail outlets at 400 E. Jackson Avenue and 200 E. Magnolia Avenue. He also owns the old White Lily building which he uses for storage and recently shared a portion with developer David Dewhirst to make into condos.

Those old brick buildings are built to last.

The secret of Mike’s success?

“Worked hard. Long hours. Took chances.”

In addition to his daughter, his son-in-law Joel Piper works for the business. And Mike’s wife, Betsy, runs the Angelic Ministries, located in the old Merita Bread

Sam’s Club invests in East Knox store Is it safe to invest your hard-earned money in an East Knoxville business?

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building on North Central.

There’s a rumor she doesn’t charge rent to her ministry.

Knox Rail Salvage sells kitchen cabinets, windows, vanities, mirrors, doors, sheet rock, roofing shingles, ceramic tile, wood and vinyl flooring, carpet and lumber.

Well, that’s all Mike got out before stopping to take a breath.

Hours are 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. until noon on Saturdays.

“I grew up in Grainger County, the baby of 10. Why, I didn’t get any new clothes until I was in high school!”

Things have changed for Mike Frazier. Now he’s got three shirts and two pairs of jeans.

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You bet. Sam’s Club, located on Millertown Pike, is investing nearly $8 million in a net 24,000 square foot addition to its existing 115,000 square foot building located near Knoxville Center mall. (I said “net addition” because the contractor is actually adding 31,700 square feet of new structure after demolishing the old automotive section of roughly 7,000 square feet).

The expanded building will allow Sam’s to have a much better automobile service area and enhanced merchandise display. New features include a specialty electronics center, a hearing

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and Presnell say most of their fellow painters are female. Warren is one of three current male class members.

“We’ve had several,” he said, “but they don’t stay long.”

The classmates are divided into six teams, which rotate lunch duties every six weeks. There’s no charge for the class, and while the painters are expected to bring their own materials, Harris has extras for those who need them.

They have special luncheons at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and they celebrate everyone’s birthday – though years are never mentioned. All in all, it sounds like a sweet setup.

Harris says there are other city and county senior centers that offer art classes, but “I’m sure nobody else has as much fun as we do.”

Share your family’s amily’s milestones estones with ith us!

Expansion is underway at Sam’s Club near Knoxville Center. aid center to complement its vision/eyeglass service, an expanded bakery and meat sales counter area, more room for administrative offices for store management, a new pharmacy and a better checkout area.

The 140,000 square foot store will be a great addition to the shopping in this part of the city.

The project is expected to be completed by mid-November of this year. A sepa-

Photo by Nick Della Volpe

rate Sam’s team is handling the interior finishes. The original target date was late October, but weather delays affected the early site work.

The new building is now well along and will soon be completely under roof, so that construction delays are less likely to occur.

In addition to the interior store expansion, Sam’s is also building a fuel service island or kiosk style service station to provide gasoline

Baptist reunion “I’ve had people ask me, ‘When am I going to get an invitation?’”

Joyce Porritt shared.

Her reply: “It’s called Facebook.”

At press time, they already had reservaDarden tions for 600-plus, about two-thirds of capacity. They’ve distributed fliers. Boling and Cynthia Campbell reported a scheduled TV appearance.

Glenda Darden of Halls started nursing school at Baptist in 1958 and Rankin after graduating worked there for 40 years.

“I retired seven years before it closed,” said Darden.

for its customers.

So, is it safe to invest in East Knoxville? A good place to earn money? You bet. Watch Sam’s grow.

There are also other stores going up in the area. More about that next time. Come experience the 100+ shops in the mall and around both sides of the East Town exits of I-640, the golden shopping mile.

Nick Della Volpe represents District 4 on Knoxville City Council.

From page 1 “These 12 years I’ve been waiting for this reunion.”

The group credits physician David Rankin, who chaired the board when Baptist closed, for coming up with the reunion idea, but he says his contribution was encouraging the right people to lead.

“Patsy and Glenda are patients of mine,” says Rankin, who now is affiliated with the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

“Usually when people from Baptist come in to the office we talk about Baptist and how it’s family. Patsy and I were talking, and she told me it’s been five years (since the hospital closed).

“And I said, ‘Five years?

We ought to have a reunion!’

We started talking about it.

I said, ‘Patsy, you need to be head of this.’ She said, ‘Oh, head of what?’

“And then Ms. Darden came in the next week, and I said, ‘You and Patsy need to talk about this.’ So it went

from there.”

Boling graduated from nursing school at Baptist in May 1973 and immediately went to work in orthopedics.

She went on to spend 22 years in ICU, then moved to the nursing office in 1997 and stayed until it closed in 2008.

“I was one of the last people to leave, actually, in the inpatient nursing area, and then we went to St. Mary’s,” said Boling, who’s now retired. She’s serious about being part of the Baptist family.

“I felt like I grew up there,” she said. “Being in nursing school there and having all my friends and meeting head nurses and doctors at that time and then working as a nurse, it just really felt like a family. And I can say that I haven’t felt that at any other place that I worked. It’s been great.”

To register offline, call 335-5275 or 218-7535 and leave your name, number and address by Sept. 12.

The largest mortgage transaction was a $27.5 million loan financing a development known as Walker’s Crossing Properties.

The commercial real estate market experienced something of a mini-boom in August. Among the more noteworthy transactions was a sale of property on Executive Park Drive to Bryn-Mawr Estates Partnership LLC for $18.75 million. Close behind was a parcel in Northshore Town Center Phase II, which sold for $17,769,231.

The $251 million in property sales was the highest aggregate monthly total since October 2011 when the Mercy Health Systems facilities were sold to Tennova.

On behalf of all of us at the Register of Deeds office, I would like to wish a happy birthday to Faye Smith, who turned 75 on Sept. 4. Faye was our office manager, and was with the Register of Deeds for 43 years before her retirement in 2006. We still miss her, and we wish her all the best.

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Several large commercial real estate transactions helped boost total property sales in Knox County to more than $250 million during Witt the month of August. There were 950 property transfers recorded in Knox County – about 60 fewer than those recorded in July, but more than 100 better than last August’s totals.

The aggregate value of property sold even bested July’s output of $248 million.

By comparison, in August of 2012 about $142 million worth of land was transferred.

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