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The Knox County Election Commission is recruiting election officials for the three large elections in 2016 and will host five orientation meetings in mid-November.

Administrator of Elections Cliff Rodgers said, “With 85 precincts in 71 polling places, we require hundreds of trained election officials. While we have a great group of experienced election workers, we need many more new workers to staff all of our precincts in what promises to be a busy year for voting.”

The elections are March 1, Aug. 4 and Nov. 8 and Rodgers said turnout for the November election could approach 200,000 voters. Election officials are paid for Election Day in addition to required training. The orientation sessions are: ■ Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road, Monday, Nov. 16, 6 p.m.

■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona Street, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 10 a.m.

■ Howard Pinkston Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 6 p.m.

■ Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 6 p.m.

■ Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road, Monday, Nov. 23, 6 p.m.

Info: Brian Hall at 215-2480

Planting bulbs Volunteers are needed for a beautification mob sponsored

by Keep Knoxville Beautiful 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, meeting at Helen Ross McNabb Center, 201 W. Springdale Avenue. One hundred volunteers will plant 60,000 daffodil bulbs along three exits of I-275 (Baxter, Woodland and Heiskell). Holes will re pre-augured; volunteers will plant and cover.

From the McNabb Center buses will take volunteer to the planting sites. Volunteers do not have to commit to the full day, and buses will run throughout the day. Breakfast and lunch will be provided on Saturday and lunch on Sunday.

Info on Facebook or call 865521-69757.

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Knox SOUP heats up

By Betsy Pickle Third time was the charm as Knoxville SOUP put on its most successful fundraiser to date.

The micro-granting event last Thursday drew nearly 90 attendees and raised more than $500 for the project that garnered the most votes – the Joe Hill Roadshow, a community event scheduled for Nov. 21 at Candoro Arts & Heritage Center that is part of the worldwide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill.

Roadshow organizers Chelsea Voelker and Jack Herranen, both of whom are farmers and cultural advocates in South Knoxville, seemed stunned when emcee Alan Williams of WVLT announced theirs as the winning project.

Their event will include a covereddish supper beginning at 5 p.m., followed by a concert featuring the music of Jack Herranen & the Little Red Band, Black Atticus, Shelby Bottom Duo and Matt Kinman & Friends.

Voelker described the event as a way to bond the community, and while recognizing that not everyone is pro-labor, she said, “We are all the children of workers.”

Three other projects were presented: Vestal School Pottery,

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Jack Herranen and Chelsea Voelker display their bucket of winnings at Knoxville SOUP. The community event they are organizing, the Joe Hill Roadshow, will take place Saturday, Nov. 21, at Candoro Marble. Photos by Betsy Pickle

where potter Bill Lee is creating a studio/class space; FamilyFriendly Drum Circle at Ijams Nature Center, a monthly event for all ages; and South Knoxville Elementary Scientists in the Library, a week in January designed to get To page 3

County Commissioner Mike Brown, Jan Brown and Carson Dailey show solidarity at Knoxville SOUP.

Wall of Fame honoree is retired organist

By Courtney Shea Music enriches a community in so many ways. SoKno resident Mary Eleanor Jones Pickle, Central High School Class of 1942, used her musical talents for decades to enrich worship, support choruses and accompany families through Jones Pickle every stage of life.

She served for more than 43

years as the organist at First Baptist Church of Knoxville.

Born Sept. 22, 1925, Mary Eleanor Jones grew up in Fountain City, the daughter of Samuel and Sadie Jones. Her brother, J.A. “Jim,” was 11 years her senior.

She could walk to the new Fountain City Elementary School from their home on Colonial Circle. She showed an early talent for music and began piano lessons with Bertha Price Perry at age 7.

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Mission of Hope:

GOP targets District 1 Democrats hold just two of 11 seats on Knox County Commission.

Next year, Republicans are coming for more. They’ve drawn a bead on District 1, which has not elected a Republican in living memory.

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It was a celebration 20 years in the making.

Twenty years of helping thousands of families in poverty-stricken rural Appalachia by providing everything from backpacks stuffed with supplies for school children, wood stoves to help ward off the winter cold, desperately needed Thompson food and clothing, Christmas gifts for children who would otherwise have none and college scholarships for high schoolers who very much want to continue their education, is quite something to celebrate.

And celebrate they did as some

600 volunteers and other supporters of Mission of Hope filled the Rothchild Conference Center Thursday evening to rejoice about two decades of helping others and to dedicate themselves to expanding the effort.

Who could have imagined that the project Julie Holland started in the garage at her home in West Knoxville with the help of a few friends could have accomplished so much?

Holland had seen a documentary by then WBIR anchor Bill Williams that illustrated the extreme suffering of families who live in remote areas of the southern Appalachians, far from towns where help might be available. She decided to do something about it.

That first year, 150 children received new clothing for school.

CHS Wall of Fame Four outstanding alumni will be inducted into the Central High “Wall of Fame” on Saturday, Nov. 21. Mary Eleanor Jones Pickle (CHS 1942), Joseph B. Gorman, Ph.D. (CHS 1958), William Donald Black, M.D. (CHS 1960) and Phil Keith (CHS 1967) are the 2015 honorees.

The breakfast will be held at the Central High School Commons, 5321 Jacksboro Pike, at 9 a.m., and the ceremony will follow in the school auditorium featuring a video production of interviews with the honorees. Tickets are $20 and are available at the CHS office and from CHS Alumni and Foundation representatives.

Info: R. Larry Smith, 922-5433, or Courtney Shea, 689-5730 or courtshea@aol.com

20 years of helping those who need it most Three months later, Christmas was provided for 1,500 children.

Last year, that number totaled 17,000.

Emmette Thompson would tell you it’s all thanks to donors and volunteers, but others would say that it is the energy and the sheer passion for his work that Thompson embodies that motivates the thousands who pitch in their money and goods and time throughout the year.

Thompson was hired as executive director of Mission of Hope in 1996 and still spearheads the organization. He and his small staff work year-round, encouraging volunteers and donors alike to do all they can to further the organization’s mission of help and hope.

And the good works continue to grow exponentially, as Mission of

Hope buses leave Knoxville month after month loaded with donated furniture and clothing and just about anything else that can be used to help the urgent needs of the recipients, including so many things we all take for granted, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, soap and shampoo.

The needs are many and growing, Thompson says, as the coal business, which provided jobs for so many of these families, continues its decline.

Among speakers at last week’s event was Kathy West of Oneida, executive director of the Appalachian Life Quality Initiative, who told those gathered, “Mission of Hope has been a Godsend in Scott County since 2003. We have seen To page 3

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Body mechanics Retired auto technician gets new knee, same-day service Rodney Loveland began tinkering with cars almost a half century ago, a time when cars still had carburetors, foot-operated dimmer switches and windows raised and lowered by hand crank.

But times change, and as the retired mechanic will tell you, “Stuff wears out – no way around it.”

That includes people parts, too, and the 68-year-old Loveland, with two back surgeries and a shoulder surgery, is no exception. Years of twisting, turning, bending, squatting, pushing and pulling – under the hood, under the car and under the dashboard – took its toll. So when a night of bowling wore out his left knee, he gured he was in for a major repair job: total knee replacement and a lengthy rehabilitation period of six months.

“The only sport I do is bowling, and I could bowl, but my leg hurt when I was done, and it hurt the next morning when I got up,” he said. “Then one morning after bowling, I got up and I couldn’t walk on it. I was done. I literally could not walk. My primary doctor gave me a steroid injection, but it didn’t help because it was too far gone by then. He said it was bone on bone, and that I probably needed a total knee replacement.”

Loveland delayed the inevitable for two and a half months. “I was walking on a cane.

I was in bad shape. I really was,” he said.

“My wife and kids got on me about it. It was just an aching, aggravating pain. I knew I had to do something.”

At the recommendation of family members, Loveland turned to Dr. Paul Yau, an orthopedic surgeon with Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. But instead of total knee replacement, Dr. Yau had a better

idea: a partial knee replacement that would take only 30 to 45 minutes of surgery and a hospital stay measured in hours that would have Loveland back on his feet in no time at all.

“If you have a car and one tire is blown, there’s really no point in replacing all the tires,” Dr. Yau explained. “You just have one bad tire. So the partials have been really good for orthopedics because now we can just take the one ‘tire’ that is bad.”

“Dr. Yau looked at the X-rays, and when he came into that room, the rst thing he said to me was, ‘I can x you with only a partial knee replacement,’” said Loveland. “He gave me a brochure about it. It’s called knee resurfacing, and he explained that they’ve been doing this in Europe for years, but it is relatively new in the United States. He said there’s less rehab time and a shorter recovery time. So I said, ‘Hey, bring it on! Let’s do it!’”

So, on Sept. 9, Loveland arrived at Fort Sanders around 8 a.m. and was back home in Dandridge the same afternoon. “I came home on a walker and walked around the house,” he said. “That was a Wednesday, and by Friday I was at physical therapy in Kodak. But I was walking on a cane by the second or third physical therapy session. I probably went to physical therapy 10 times in all. Finally I said, ‘I can do all these stretching exercises at home already.’

So they said, ‘OK, you’re ne. You’re good to go.’ I’m amazed because this is the rst time in three years that I’m walking without a limp.”

A former garage owner, Loveland was expecting the medical equivalent of an engine change but instead received same-day ser-

Retired mechanic Rodney Loveland found relief from his aching joints thanks to a partial knee replacement by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Paul Yau at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “I’m amazed because this is the first time in three years that I’m walking without a limp,” said Loveland.

vice almost as fast and simple as an express oil change.

“I was expecting six months’ recovery time and all this rehab, but it’s only been about a month and a half since I had it done, and you can see how well I can get around. I was up on a ladder yesterday, working on a roof – don’t tell Dr. Yau!” he said with a laugh. “He is so personable.

You don’t feel like you’re talking to a doctor. You feel like you’re talking to a buddy or something. He comes in and we’re talking about knees, and the next thing I know, we’re talking about riding motorcycles.

He’s just a great guy!”

Loveland was equally impressed with his stay at Fort Sanders, although it was only for a few brief hours. “Fort Sanders, the way they run that place, it was wham!” he said. “Smooth! Click! Click! Click! If you’ve got to get something done, they were great!

I was very pleased with the whole procedure and the folks in Dr. Yau’s of ce. I thought Fort Sanders was amazing.”

Loveland now hopes that he’ll not only be able to return to the bowling lanes soon, but that he’ll do so with less pain and more game.

“I hope this helps my game. I need something to improve it!” he joked. “When you’re right-handed, you slide with your left knee and bending. So I sort of bowled in an upright posture, and didn’t really slide,” he said and laughed. “I didn’t have that pretty delivery. I’m the guy who was on the team because they needed a handicap. But I’m eager to see if it’s made a difference.”

For more information about partial knee replacements at Fort Sanders Regional, call 865-673-FORT or go to www.fsregional.com.

Same-day miracles Surgeon says partial knee replacements becoming common It’s called partial knee replacement, but Dr. Paul Yau calls it the “new normal,” a 30- to 45-minute same-day surgery followed by such a quick recovery that it borders on the miraculous.

Case in point: Patient Rodney Loveland, a retired mechanic in Dandridge.

“Before his rst follow-up visit, he cut down a tree and chopped it into logs! Who does that three weeks out from surgery, really?!” exclaimed Dr. Yau, an orthopedic surgeon with Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

“But that’s how quick this surgery is. His is actually Dr. Paul Yau a fairly typical experience.

It’s sort of miraculous, but it happens like clockwork. We just accept it as the new normal.”

Knee replacement surgery such as the one Dr. Yau performed on Loveland in September makes up only a small percentage of knee surgeries performed in the U.S. That’s partly because the osteoarthritis deterioration must be con ned to only one or two of the three compartments of the knee. Osteoarthritis occurs most frequently (about 80 percent of the time) in

the medial or inside part of the knee. It’s also usually the rst place it appears.

“When you analyze the biomechanics of the knee, the inner part of the knee is actually the most important part,” said Dr. Yau. “It takes about 70 to 75 percent of the stress of any activity: walking, jumping, bending, getting up in the morning, putting on your shoes, getting in your car, walking downstairs. Your body weight mainly goes to the inner part of the knee.”

Each case is different, however, and only an orthopedic surgeon can determine what’s best for a patient.

The surgery is also known as partial knee resurfacing because the surgeon shaves the surface damaged by osteoarthritis, then caps the bone with metal components and restores the lost cartilage with a high-density plastic insert.

The advantages are immense: less trauma to the tissue, less pain, less bleeding (the incision may be as small as 3 to 4 inches) and faster recovery.

“The partial has really become more and more popular because it’s less surgery,” said Dr. Yau. “The other bene t is you get to keep your ligaments. With a total knee replacement, surgeons typically remove the ACL and often PCL – the central ligaments

with the knee. With the partial, you get to keep all those structures, and because you do, the knee feels more normal, particularly when people squat or bend deeply, or when they try to pivot, twist, turn corners or walk on uneven surfaces like a hiking trail, or out in a eld. Those ligaments do a ton for people’s stability, their con dence with the knee, their strength, their coordination, their endurance and just their feelings of having a normal knee – to the point where some people with partials forget they ever had surgery.”

A decade ago, same-day partial knee replacements were unheard of. Today, Dr. Yau said, the procedure is done in only a handful of centers across America but with great success.

“You need a surgeon and a team that can operate in narrower margins,” said Dr. Yau. “You have to hit the bullseye with your surgery, your implant, how you handle the tissues, the anesthesia and all the medications given to the patient in that perioperative period – the 8 to 10 hours around surgery. If you don’t nail all those every time, patients will struggle.”

The percentage of knee patients receiving a partial versus total knee replacement, he said, is historically low: around 20-25

percent. “But I would say that as we get better with the surgery and better at using this implant, we could reach as high as 50 to 60 percent of patients who are candidates,” he said.

“As awareness grows I expect interest to continue to grow,” said Dr. Yau. “The patient experience to date has been amazing, and patients are so thankful to be back on their feet so soon. They have rapidly regained function quicker than any of the expectations they, their friends or their therapists had before surgery. I see the recovery time shortened when patients go home. They reach all the milestones and checkpoints in about half the time as patients who follow the traditional pathway.”

Another patient of Dr. Yau mowed four lawns the day before his first followup appointment.

“That’s fine, because we do this surgery so that people can do those things again,” said Dr. Yau. “We don’t do it just so they can lie around. We do this so they can be active, go on dates with their spouses and take care of their homes.

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Developer addresses Neubert Springs concerns Travis Fuller made good on his pledge at October’s Metropolitan Planning Commission meeting to talk with the South-Doyle Neighborhood Association about the plans Belle Investment Co. has to develop a subdivision on Gov. John Sevier Highway at Neubert Springs Road.

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Now, South-Doyle is waiting to see if Fuller, Belle’s chief executive officer, carries out his promises made at the group’s November meeting.

The MPC gave contingent approval to rezoning property Belle has under contract with the estate of Irene Burchfield from agricultural to planned residential.

Fuller still has to submit a concept plan and do a shovel test to explore whether the site – part of the original Gov. John Sevier farmstead – is a repository of significant archaeological items.

Additionally, questions remain about what changes the Tennessee Department of Transportation will require Belle to make on the highway in front of the subdivision.

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Colonial Village Neighborhood Association. Info: Terry Caruthers, 579-5702, t_ caruthers@hotmail.com.

■ Knoxville Tri-County Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each second and fourth Monday, Connie’s Kitchen, 10231 Chapman Highway, Seymour. Info: facebook. com/TriCountyLions/info.

■ Lake Forest Neighborhood Association. Info: Molly Gilbert, 209-1820 or

Fuller met with the SDNA for about an hour last week at Stock Creek Baptist Church and discussed everything from storm-water drainage to the history of John Sevier. If some of the questions seemed repetitive, there was good reason.

County Commissioner Mike Brown pointed out that “this wouldn’t be the first time” a developer announced acceptable plans and then sold the property to another whose designs were at odds with the surrounding community.

Carson Dailey, who is on the county Board of Zoning Appeals, noted that some had come in and put up poorly constructed modular homes.

“We don’t need that type of development, especially around the historic-site area,” he said. “We need quality around there.”

Fuller said that the 30 homes to be built will have market-demand features and would be of high quality.

He made as close to a guarantee as he could that Belle would complete the project.

“If the economy tanks like it did in 2006 and 2007 before we finish this, I can’t tell you that, but we have the funds and are 100 percent building this out,” said Fuller. “I’m not looking to flip this project – you can put that on record … mollygilbert@yahoo.com.

■ Lindbergh Forest Neighborhood Association meets 6:30 p.m. each third Wednesday, Graystone Presbyterian Church, 139 Woodlawn Pike.

Info: Kelley DeLuca, 660-4728, kelleydeluca@gmail.com.

■ Old Sevier Community Group meets 7 p.m. each third Thursday, South Knoxville Elementary School library, 801 Sevier Ave. Info: Gary E. Deitsch, 573-7355 or garyedeitsch@bellsouth.net.

■ South Haven Neighborhood Association meets 10 a.m. each third Saturday, Hillcrest

Wall of Fame class to complete Fountain City Elementary, she walked up the hill to Central High School.

Perry introduced her to the pipe organ during her sophomore year at Central.

While still in high school, Jones became organist at Central Baptist Church of Fountain City. She entered the University of Tennessee in 1943, later transferring with a friend and fellow musician, Jane Wauford, to Indiana University at Bloomington where she received a bachelor’s degree in music in 1948.

In the early ’50s, she accompanied the James King Chorus. Through the chorus she met many singers, and she became the arranger and accompanist for the Trio of Melody – singers Ruth Love, Mary Lee Moser and Almeda Brakebill – which performed at churches and on the radio.

While meeting a friend at the S&W Cafeteria on Gay

UMC, 1615 Price Ave. Info: Pat Harmon, 591-3958.

■ South Knox Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each third Thursday, South Knox Optimist Club, 6135 Moore Road.

Kevin Teeters, kevinteeters 018@gmail.com.

■ South of the River Democrats (9th District) meet 6:30 p.m. each third Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike.

Info: Debbie Helsley, 7898875, or Brandon Hamilton, 809-3685.

Shelley Conklin, 686-6789.

■ South-Doyle Neighborhood Association meets 7 p.m. each first Tuesday, Stock Creek Baptist Church fellowship hall, 8106 Martin Mill Pike. Info: Mark Mugford, 609-9226 or marksidea@aol. com.

■ Vestal Community Organization meets 6 p.m. each second Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike. Info: Katherine Johnson, 566-1198.

Knoxville SOUP organizers Chris Widener, Debra Bradshaw and Janice Tocher take a breath at the end of their most successful event yet.

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Street, she was introduced to a young man with turquoise eyes. Mary Eleanor Jones began dating Marion McDonald Pickle, a Knoxville High graduate, and they were married on May 15, 1954. Her husband was transferred to the executive office of GMAC in New York City, and the couple’s first two children, sons Marion III (Mac) and Eddie, were born in New Jersey. The young family moved back to Knoxville in 1957, where three other children, Robert, Betsy and Joe, were born. While raising her family, Mary Eleanor Jones Pickle served as organistdirector at First Cumberland and Eastminster Presbyterian churches.

On Easter 1970, she was recalled as organist at First Baptist Church, and she continued there for 41 years.

On Aug. 14, 2011, she gave a “Grand Retirement Recital,” attended by a full house at First Baptist.

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third- through fifth-graders excited about science.

Each presenter had a few minutes to describe their project and take questions from the audience. Dinner followed, with attendees feasting on a variety of soups, chili, green salads, chickensalad sandwiches and desserts provided by a mix of businesses and individuals.

Each table was encouraged to discuss the projects and then vote. They also had time to enjoy the music of singer-guitarist Abdalla Husein, aka Homestead, and purchase SOUP T-shirts and tickets for the raffle prizes.

South Knoxville Alliance president Debra Bradshaw found out about SOUP (Social Opportunities, Unlimited Potential), which started in Detroit and has expanded throughout the country, and campaigned fellow SKA members to start a Knoxville version.

The first event was held in March at Flenniken Landing, with the Vestal Community Organization winning the pot for a proj-

ect to renovate Mary Vestal Park and Greenway, and the second in May at Ijams, where the SoKno Food Coop drew the most votes.

Last week’s event, held at Woodlawn Christian Church, had the largest crowd and elicited nearly $100 more than the March SOUP, which was the previous top fundraiser. Attendees are encouraged to make at least a $5 donation at the door, with all the proceeds going to the winner.

Though presented by the SKA, SOUP is open to projects anywhere in Knox County. SOUP committee members Chris Widener and Janice Tocher spoke about the work required to put on a SOUP and asked attendees to join the SOUP team and spread the word.

Starting in January, SOUP will be held on the first Thursday of the quarter: Jan. 7, April 7, July 7 and Oct. 6. Locations will be announced on the Knoxville SOUP Facebook page and KnoxvilleSOUP.org.

■ South Woodlawn Neighborhood Association. Info:

private banquet room available!

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Mission of Hope hard times, and Mission of Hope is always there to help.”

West described a carnival that Mission of Hope stages annually for the impoverished children of Scott County “where everything is free,” and talked about the gratitude of the children who received those backpacks filled with school supplies and hygiene kits.

Next to take the stage were two students whose college educations are funded by Mission of Hope scholarships.

Daphne Bunch is now a graduate student at Middle Tennessee State University, but her relationship with Mission of Hope began when she was a student at Fairview Elementary

to be postponed to the December agenda, and Fuller agreed to do so.

Brown also said that Fuller might save money and effort by starting with the shovel test.

Fuller tried to calm fears that Belle, which specializes in apartments, would switch the project to those.

“We want to be good neighbors,” he said. “We don’t want to come in and just try to run over people.

“I’ll 100 percent go on reTravis Fuller talks to the South-Doyle Neighborhood cord that we’re not going to do any more than 32 lots.”

Association. Photo by Betsy Pickle Fuller said TDOT has indicated that Belle will need “I want to build this proj- to provide lanes for acceleraect out because I’m building tion, deceleration and center apartments in Charlotte, turns, costing $40,000 at a N.C., Chattanooga, Tenn., minimum.

SDNA president Mark Jacksonville, Fla., and I am away from my family too Mugford said the neighbormuch, and this will give me hood is especially concerned a project for the next two about increased traffic.

“If there’s a wreck that years to stay at home.”

Fuller said he wanted to happens on John Sevier, it meet with neighbors to ad- literally ties up this whole dress issues early because he end of town from Alcoa didn’t want to spend thou- Highway to Chapman Highsands of dollars on engineer way,” said Mugford.

Fuller said he understood fees and concept plans only to have residents get his proj- the neighborhood’s conect shot down because they cerns and also recognized the significance of Sevier’s didn’t want it done anyway.

Since portions of the info legacy, which is kept alive by Fuller needs won’t be ready the nearby Marble Springs in time for the November State Historic Site.

“He was my kind of guy MPC meeting, Brown recommended that he contact – he was a real-estate entreMPC and ask for his project preneur.”

community

Pickle was at various times the accompanist for the Knoxville Men’s Chorus, the Knoxville Choral Society, the Smithwood Choral Club and the Knoxville Women’s Chorus. She often was asked by director Albert Rule to provide organ accompaniment for Holston High School chorus concerts. Toward the end of her tenure with First Baptist, in addition to the sanctuary choir, she accompanied the Golden Notes choral group.

She assisted in organizing free organ concerts at downtown churches during the 1982 World’s Fair.

Throughout her lifetime, she has responded to hundreds of requests for music, playing for weddings, funerals, concerts and recitals throughout the community.

Mary Eleanor Jones Pickle resides in South Knoxville with daughter Betsy. She has seven grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

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From page 1 School in Scott County. “It was amazing to see the smiles on the faces of children who wouldn’t have had Christmas without Mission of Hope. I’ll never forget it.”

Later, as a high school senior, “I didn’t know how I was going to be able to pay for college,” Bunch said. “The Mission of Hope scholarship was make or break for me, but the best part is knowing that I have a whole organization of people pulling for me and praying for me.”

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Botts said that when she was growing up, “Every kid’s favorite day of school was when the principal

came on the intercom and said, ‘Mission of Hope is here.’ As far as I can remember, Mission of Hope has been helping. It is such a blessing to have people in my life who believe in me and my future.”

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Not much about North Texas All I intend to say about Tennessee against North Texas in football is that Vol basketball, ready or not, is moving toward the national spotlight.

Big deal coming up for Thanksgiving weekend – fourth annual Barclays Center Classic in uptown Brooklyn, presented by Honda. Last year’s show was presented by Continental Tires. Thought you might want to know, just in case you are considering tires or cars.

There are two divisions to this unusual basketball event. In the junior division, Gardner-Webb will play UT at noon Nov. 22. Army will visit on Nov. 24 for a 7 p.m. game. Other games are other places.

The senior division

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matches Cincinnati against Nebraska and George Washington against Tennessee on Nov. 27 in New York City.

Check local listings.

The next day, losers play at noon and winners go for the championship at a more convenient 2:30.

The junior division, which includes the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions and Southeastern Louisiana ordinary Lions, doesn’t get to play in the big house, capacity 17,000 or so. It assembles at West Point.

Barclays Center is the really big time, home to the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA and New York Islanders of the NHL. Other events horn in. The Ultimate Craft Beer Festival has come and gone.

Disney on Ice will have its 100-year celebration. Rock bands Yes and Toto were there.

Barclays has passed Madison Square Garden as the highest-grossing venue in the United States for concerts and family shows, not counting sports events.

■ Suggestion: If you are going to New York for Tennessee basketball, stay over a day and enjoy Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall. Discount tickets available.

■ Whispers: Longsuffering faithful fans are

nervous about what they are not hearing about Tennessee basketball recruiting. Rick Barnes is teaching technique and trying to develop what he has inherited. Rob Lanier, ace talent solicitor, is not listed among those in pursuit of four- and five-stars that Kentucky doesn’t want. Barnes was even quoted as saying star ratings don’t matter. Fans suffered the shakes.

■ Memories: The Stu

Aberdeen Memorial Tournament at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, has faded away. Lack of interest, said a school official.

Lack of appreciation, said I. Stu Aberdeen, Tennessee associate coach during the Ray Mears era, famous for the tireless recruitment of Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King, coached at Acadia from 1958 to 1966.

He led the Axemen to six conference championships, five Maritime titles, a national crown and an overall 122-50 record. Stu won the coach-of-the-year trophy so

many times, it was retired.

Stu Aberdeen died in 1979. Acadia inducted him into the school hall of fame.

It honored the biggest little man on any basketball floor with a four-team Christmas holiday tournament.

It failed to flourish. It was moved to pre-season, then dropped and maybe forgotten. It might resume next season. So said the school official.

Best I can tell, there are no Stu Aberdeen monuments at Tennessee.

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

MPC seeks community feedback Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission Executive Director Gerald Green has preached the same message since he came to town in July: the MPC wants community feedback.

It was welcome news to the Council of West Knox C o u n t y Homeow ners, a group that enjoys giving feedback. Green spoke to the group last week.

Sector Green plan updates present an important opportunity for citizen input, he said. Sector plans define how the city, or county, would like for future development to happen. The Northwest County Sector Plan, which includes

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Hardin Valley, Solway, Ball Camp and West Emory Road, is now being updated.

Once adopted, sector plans can only be changed if surrounding land use or the area’s infrastructure changes, he said.

Green gave a primer on the MPC. The planning commission is made up of 15 unpaid members; seven appointed by the city mayor and eight appointed by the county mayor. The paid staff makes recommendations to commissioners, who vote on recommendations to legislative bodies.

Neither commissioners

nor staff initiate rezoning requests, he said. Those are made by property owners.

When a rezoning is requested, staff considers the sector plan, surrounding land use, infrastructure in the zone and the general feel of the area.

Another opportunity for public input is when commission hears the rezoning request. When a rezoning is opposed, each side is given five minutes to speak. Consolidation of comments is recommended.

Meetings are at 1:30 p.m. in the Large Assembly Room at the CityCounty Building.

To avoid a trip downtown, residents can express opinions via email, petitions or letters directed to commissioners. Views expressed on social media, like those regarding Knox County’s controversial proposed land swap of a portion of Nicholas

Me, myself and I Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett with county commissioners Brad Anders and Ed Brantley at the dedication of the new pumper for the Karns Fire Department’s Hardin Valley Station on Saturday morning, Nov. 7. Photo by Nancy Anderson

Ball Park, can’t be accepted as public comment because it’s not directed to commissioners, Green said.

He has ideas for improving the process. He’d like to move back notice on upcoming rezoning requests to give citizens more warning.

But the need to notify the community has to be balanced with providing a fair timeframe for developers.

Verbatim minutes of MPC meetings are being replaced with audio and video recordings that will be available on the website, www.knoxmpc.org.

After

meetings, the time each agenda item was heard will be noted on the agenda to make it easy to find on the recordings.

MPC staff will also be reviewing adopted sector plans to make sure that ordinance changes are being implemented.

“If the public takes part in the planning process, it’s our responsibility to follow through with that.”

Local ordinances need to be brought into the 21st century, Green says. Possible changes include requirements that new sub-

divisions have sidewalks, connectivity to other subdivisions and open spaces.

He has his own ideas about such updates, but that’s not what matters.

“We don’t know what you want here, so we need your input.”

MPC staff member Liz Albertson says additional public meetings regarding the Northwest County Sector Plan are planned for December. Staff members are available to discuss the sector plan at community meetings. Info: liz.albertson @knoxmpc.org

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Republicans target District 1 Republicans have long dominated Knox County Commission, but Democrats used to be a scrappy bunch who found a way to hold onto five or six seats on the 19-member body and finagle their way to into the vice-chair slot. Today, Democrats hold just two of nine district seats, and don’t dare even dream of snagging the two at-large positions, which leaves them with just their traditional District 1 and 2 strongholds in the heart of the city.

Next year, Republicans are coming for more. Riding a statewide tide of “Red to the Roots” success, they’ve drawn a bead on District 1, which has not elected a Republican in living memory, although there was surely a Republican squire from East Knoxville on the old Quarterly Court at some time from its organization in 1915 to its dissolution in 1980. Party activists have decided that Michael Covington is the guy who can get it done in 2016. He has been campaigning for months and is energetic, talkative and liable to show up anywhere.

The district, which

Betty Bean stretches from Lonsdale to Ft. Sanders, through downtown, and includes Morningside, Parkridge, Park City, Burlington, Holston Hills, Chilhowee and Spring Hill, has remained a Democratic stronghold. The long line of Democrats this district has elected stretches back at least 50 years, in roughly inverse order, from Sam McKenzie to Tank Strickland, Diane Jordan, Frank Bowden, Rudy Dirl, Joe Armstrong, Pete Drew, Andrew Dix and the still-revered Dr. Water S.E. Hardy. Even Drew, who hasn’t had any luck getting elected to anything – and Lord knows he’s tried – since he switched parties in 1985, first got elected as a Democrat. (Armstrong, after serving 10 years on the commission, took Drew’s House seat in 1988.)

Whether the entourage that shows up with Covington will be an asset or a liability could depend on how long it takes for them to fig-

ure out that Barack Obama carried the city of Knoxville handily and District 1 by a landslide, and that as much fun as it is to trash him at a suburban Republican Club, it’s not a winning strategy to do it in the first district.

And they should check out county election law before saying stuff like owning property in the district qualifies them to vote there in county elections. If they do, they’ll find they can’t vote on “property rights” in a county election, even if the property is inside the city.

Ask election administrator Cliff Rodgers, who’ll say something like this: “Property qualification voting only applies in city of Knoxville elections. It doesn’t apply in the county – everybody has a county residence in the state of Tennessee, and I can’t buy property in a different part of the county and vote there, unless a city municipality gives me the right to vote.”

The days of county residents’ wholesale dabbling in city politics were halted by a city charter change in 2000 – see Article VII, section 703, which restricts property-qualified voting

rights to no more than two voters per 4,000 squarefoot parcel, which they have owned for at least six months Covington – thus ending the practice of ward heelers buying vacant lots and dividing them into slivers, thus creating a bunch of new voters. Richard Bean tells some pretty funny stories about those days, but allows as how things could get complicated after the election when they had to run around getting signatures of 19 – or 29 – property owners before the property could be sold.

Finally, Covington’s supporters would be well advised to note the Republicans like Victor Ashe, Bill Haslam and various members of the Duncan family have had success in East Knoxville because they’ve been smart enough to emphasize constituent services over ideology.

As Dorothy said to Toto, they knew they weren’t in Kansas anymore.

Willie Gault’s wedding Willie Gault did everything in a big way.

Marvin West says he was twice a legend: on the field and in his mind.

But when West visited with the authors club at Sarah Moore Greene school last week, he talked most about the 1983 wedding of Willie Gault and Dainnese Mathis.

“They had 15 bridesmaids and 13 groomsmen and three best men,” said West. “They invited some Sandra 600 people and about 1,300 Clark showed up.

“Gault was very, very fast. … but never a poster boy for At the University of Ten- hard work. … He won a Sunessee (1979-82), Gault set per Bowl and danced with kickoff return records that the Chicago Ballet.” still stand; he led the team Each member of the auin all-purpose yardage as thors club selected a Vol a sophomore, junior and legend to read about and senior; he was named all- discuss with West. Maurice American in 1982 and was a Jacobs picked Willie Gault. first-round NFL draft pick.

Dy’Keise Fears-Perez Gault played 11 seasons talked about Peyton Manwith the Bears and Raiders. ning, noting that he came His Bears won Super Bowl back to UT for his fourth XX. year because he wanted to Willie was fast. He won win a championship. He the SEC in the 110-meter won neither a championhigh hurdles twice. He won ship nor the Heisman Trothe SEC indoor champion- phy. West recalled he led the ships 60-yard hurdles in band in “Rocky Top.” 1983, and the 60-yard high Arraya Moore read about hurdles and the 60-yard John Majors, who starred at dash at that year’s NCAA UT as a player and returned championships. He was on a to coach “for 15 or 16 years.” world record-setting 4x100 West said Majors was ideal meter relay team at the 1983 for the tailback position. “In World Championships.

1956, he was the best player He made the 1980 Olym- in the SEC. He wasn’t very pics team and could have big, but he knew how to run won a medal but for the behind those guards and boycott. He even earned a tackles.” spot on the U.S. Olympics Larry Seivers, from bobsledding team. Now 55, Clinton, never expected he continues to set records to play for a big-time colin senior competitions. lege, but UT coaches liked

Sportswriter Marvin West signs his book “Legends of the Tennessee Vols” for students in the authors club at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy: Dy’Keise Fears-Perez (left) and Arryana Moore (right). him. “They gave him the last scholarship they had.

He was a great player and a humble, good guy.” Seivers caught a 2-point conversion to beat Clemson. After college he owned a vending machine business. “He became a millionaire when he sold it.”

Heath Shuler came to UT, West said, because the WIVK radio signal reached Bryson City, N.C., where Shuler grew up.

After three years as a “model citizen” quarterback, Shuler was drafted into the NFL. He later won election twice to Congress.

Reggie White “played hard, but not mean.” He died young at just 43.

Richmond Flowers came

to UT because of racial discrimination at the University of Alabama, but after graduation he was not admitted to the UT College of Law. So he applied to law school at Bama and was admitted, on the recommendation of legendary coach Bear Bryant.

West said “a certain sportswriter” made a point to mention Flowers’ grades every semester – just to remind UT what it missed.

West then introduced his wife, Sarah, and read the dedication of his book. The Wests have been married for 62 years and Marvin calls Sarah his “proofreader and moral conscience.

“Every man should be blessed with such a wife.”

government Maurice Mays should be pardoned The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ordered that the Knoxville City Council must actually vote on proposals on zoning which it does or does not favor.

The time honored practice of letting proposals die for lack of a motion was convenient in that it permitted council members to avoid creating an actual vote where they could be held to account. It seems this decision may have ended the practice.

Expect a few more roll calls in the future. It will make for more accountability.

■ Michael Grider is the press liaison for Mayor Tim Burchett. He has been with the Mayor for five years. He makes $71,000 a year which is far less than Jess Mayshark who heads up Mayor Rogero’s media operation.

He started out working for WVLT in the news room. He says he has always been interested in politics and is “fairly independent,” but “fiscally conservative.” He says his time with Burchett has been a “fun, growing experience.”

Grider has an easy person to work for given Burchett’s outreach and ease in talking to citizens of all areas of the county. He seldom has to spend time on damage control for the mayor.

■ As reviews are made to right wrongs and remove offensive symbols from the past, there is a matter from Knoxville which merits a review by the governor. That is the execution of Maurice Mays in 1921.

Former state Rep. Bob Booker, who writes an excellent weekly column for the News Sentinel, has pointed out his conviction came from an all-white jury which deliberated all of 11 minutes on April 22, 1921.

His real crime which generated significant public comment was that he was a black man who dated a white woman. The News Sentinel, through reporter Matt Lakin, has written extensively on this as has Jack Neely for the old Metro Pulse.

Gov. Haslam should pardon Mays posthumously as clearly the jury did not do its job with any degree of objectivity or fairness. His former legal counsel, Herbert Slatery (now attorney general) declined the request of the late Knoxville attorney Donald Paine on the grounds the governor should not substitute his

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judgment for a jury.

Had it been a representative jury or a deliberative one perhaps that would be true, but this jury excluded blacks and reached a verdict in 11 minutes. That seems to be grossly unfair and warrants correction by a pardon.

■ Dean Rice, chief of staff to Burchett, was a pallbearer for the late Sen. Fred Thompson’s services in Nashville on Nov. 6. Rice has been a field representative for Thompson, and his widow asked five field reps to serve as pallbearers, along with three of his grandchildren.

■ There are now five living Knoxville mayors with Randy Tyree, 75, the oldest.

Bill Haslam is the youngest. All were present at the Welcome Center dedication of the Knoxville Botanical Gardens in August.

All five are firsts. Tyree is the first to serve two consecutive 4-year terms. Dan Brown is the first African American. Rogero is the first woman. Haslam is the first mayor of Knoxville to become governor of Tennessee. This writer was the first mayor to serve four consecutive 4-year terms.

Three are Democrats and two are Republicans.

■ The two recent city elections cost taxpayers over $250,000 with about 10,000 total voters for both elections which comes out to about $25 a voter.

How long does this have to continue before something is done to change it?

City Council for two years is now composed of nine persons, all term limited for a third term.

Five new citizens will be elected to City Council in November 2017. Voter turnout then will be higher due to more competitive contests for council than this year, but will still be low.

For those who believe the cycle of city elections should be moved to coincide with state and/ or federal elections then a charter amendment must occur and it will require a citizen petition effort to do it as council appears wedded to the current system.

Incumbents generally like low turnouts.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ South Knox Senior Center: 6729 Martel Lane 573-5843 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Offerings include: dulcimer and guitar lessons; arts and crafts classes; dance classes; exercise programs; Tai Chi; card games; Joymakers practice; free swim 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Senior Meals program noon each Wednesday and Friday. The Center will be closed Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Veterans Honor Ceremony, 11:45 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 12. The Center is collecting “Coats for the Cold” through Nov. 20. The Knox County Veterans Services will provide one-on-one assistance to veterans and family members 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 18.

Register for: toenail trimming by appointment, Wednesday, Nov. 18.

■ South Knox Community Center| 522 Old Maryville Pike 573-3575 Monday-Friday Hours vary Offerings include a variety of senior programs.

■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center 611 Winona St. 523-1135 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Offerings include: Card games, billiards, senior fitness, book club, Senior Savvy computer classes, bingo, blood pressure checks 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Monday-Friday.

Register for: Thanksgiving covered dish, noon Wednesday, Nov. 18 (RSVP by Nov. 13); AARP Driver Safety class, noon Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 18-19 (Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964); toenail clipping by appointment Thursday, Nov. 19.

Singers from First Baptist The Golden Oats senior choir from First Baptist Church Knoxville performed for the residents at Morning Pointe of Powell. The choir sings all across Knox County for other senior adults to promote activity and music among the aging. The choir sang hymns and gospel medleys, closing with “Amazing Grace.”

Biggs pens book on drug kingpin

By Betty Bean Thirty years ago, Jerry LeQuire was not just famous. He was infamous.

He evolved from a violent young criminal with convictions for cattle rustling and road rage to eventual entanglement in international smuggling schemes and involvement with the CIA. His notoriety grew even greater after he was imprisoned for drug smuggling when his brothers and two others were indicted on charges that they had plotted to blow up electrical transmission lines, a dam, an airport and a power plant and blame it on terrorists in an elaborate scheme to spring him from prison.

The plan was for LeQuire to volunteer his services to “solve” the case in return for having his sentence reduced.

His notoriety had faded by the time LeQuire died in federal prison last year at age 70, but his name still registers with East Tennesseans of a certain age, and he cemented his status as a legendary desperado by leaving behind a lingering mystery: What happened to the $280 million stash he’d earned from the Colombian

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11 West Knox Lions Club Pancake Breakfast, 7:30-9:30 a.m., Applebee’s, 261 N. Peters Road. Cost: $5 adults, $3 children under 12. Includes pancakes, sausage and drinks. Proceeds to benefit West Knox Lions Charities, including Kids Sight and vision screening programs. Info: Ron Riehn, 690-2557, or Jonnie Sorensen, 584-8266.

THURSDAY, NOV. 12 AARP Driver Safety classes, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., East Tennessee Medical Group, 266 Joule St., Alcoa. Info/ registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

Brown Bag Lecture: “The Tangled Web of the Civil War: A Novelist’s Perspective,” noon-1 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Free and open to the public. Info: 215-8824.

Fall Crush, 6-9 p.m., The Stables at Hunter Valley Farm, 9111 Hunter Valley Lane. Features: wines, food, silent auction. Tickets: $75. Proceeds benefit the National MS Society, Mid-South Chapter. Info/tickets: 470-9933.

Fall Festival Luncheon hosted by the Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection, 10:45 a.m., Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike.

Guest speaker: Anne Hart from Johns Island, S.C. Topic: “Finding the Missing Piece to the Puzzle.”

Featuring silent and live auctions; vendor sales, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: $12. Complimentary child care by reservation only. Info/RSVP: 315-8182 or knoxvillechristianwomen@gmail.com.

Improving Postural Balance with the Alexander Technique, 10:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $55. Preregistration with confirmation required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 3877600, or AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Knoxville Square Dance, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Live old-time music by the Hellgrammites; calling by Stan Sharp, Ruth Simmons and Leo Collins. Admission: $7, $5 for students and JCA members. Info: on Facebook.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 12-15 “My Three Angels,” the Historic Southern

drug cartel, the Medellin, for flying cocaine into the USA? Knoxville author Richard Biggs, whose biography of LeQuire, “A Species of Insanity,” is on track to be released in December, says he doesn’t know – and doesn’t want to know– where (or Richard Biggs w h e t h e r) LeQuire stashed the drug money. But he knows just about everything else about the charming criminal whom he spent some 150 hours interviewing.

He and LeQuire became friends in the process, and Biggs had planned to speak on LeQuire’s behalf at a parole hearing that was short circuited by a pancreatic cancer diagnosis quickly followed by LeQuire’s death in a prison hospital.

So how did Biggs, who had a distinguished career as an electrical engineer before becoming a published author, get interested in telling the story of a career criminal like LeQuire?

In the beginning, he

was curious because, like LeQuire, Biggs is a native Blount countian. They both attended Everett High School (not at the same time), and they knew many people in common. He started his research in 2011, and began visiting LeQuire in McCreary Prison in Pine Knot, Ky. “I talked to him so many hours,” Biggs said. “I saw the Jerry that was, and saw the Jerry that is. We talked about everything from people involved to conspiracies that I won’t mention because I want to stay alive to spiritual matters.

He’d reconciled his fate, and although he knew that lot the things he’d done were wrong, he still rationalized that he didn’t have a choice, and he was still a dangerous person.

“I was going to appear for him at the parole board.

We were friends. Every letter, every email, he’d end by saying, ‘Your friend, Jerry.’”

The cast of characters in LeQuire’s story is fascinating, from the lawyers, beginning with Franklin Park, a notorious East Tennessee lawyer/bad guy whose mysterious murder was never solved and in which Lequire

Railway Station, 300 W. Depot Ave. Performances by Tennessee Stage Company: 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Benefit production for the Tennessee Stage Company. Tickets: $15. Info/tickets: 546-4280; tennesseestage.com.

FRIDAY, NOV. 13 AARP Driver Safety classes, 8:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

“Friday Night Lights” Alzheimer’s Tennessee 5K Glow Run and Walk, 6 p.m., Lakeshore Park. Entry fee: $35. Registration: alzTennessee.org. Info/sponsorships: Kay Watson, kay.watson@TNalz.org, or 5446288.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 13-14 Terra Madre: Women in Clay Holiday Pottery Show and Sale, 5-8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday, 115 Perimeter Park Road. Featuring handmade pottery and clay art of more than 30 members of the group. Info: on Facebook.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 13-15 The Scruffy City Comedy Festival, at Scruffy City Hall, Speakeasy at Preservation Pub, Knoxville Uncorked. Nearly three dozen featured comedians performing with headliners: Andy Sandford, Jackie Kashian, Mia Jackson and Shane Mauss. Info/tickets: scruffycitycomedy.com.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 13-22 “She Kills Monsters,” Clayton Performing Arts Center, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $12 adults; $10 seniors or students. Info/tickets: pstcc.edu/arts or 5397529.

SATURDAY, NOV. 14 “Composting 101 for Home Gardeners,” 1-2:30 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Presented by Master Gardeners Dr. Annie Gray and Bill Menius. Info: 470-7033 or knoxlib.org.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road.

Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Performance Anxiety and the Alexander Technique, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $80. Preregistration with confirmation required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Brianna Hanson,

may (or may not) have been implicated, to LeQuire’s defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, to a Kentucky lawyer called “Lying Larry,” to LeQuire’s treacherous ex-wife. Biggs lays it all out.

Snippets of the story can be found at richardbiggs-

books.com, as well as information about when and where the book will become available.

Biggs has also written about the founding of Mission of Hope and a biography of Maxine Raines, founder of Lost Sheep Ministries.

Moving to music Morning Pointe of Powell resident Millie Odle and resident assistant Caleb Parrish dance to music at the assisted living and Alzheimer’s memory care community.

11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Tour of the Gray Fossil Site, 8:30 a.m. departure from Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Townsend, or 9:15 a.m. departure from Blount County Public Library, Maryville. Cost: $85; includes lunch with special presentation by Dr. Blaine Schubert, paleontologist and museum director. Info/reservations: 448-8838.

SUNDAY, NOV. 15 Guitarist David Burgess in solo recital, 3 p.m., Pollard Auditorium, 210 Badger Ave., Oak Ridge. Tickets: $25 for adults; $10 for young adults and youth (29 and under). Info/tickets: ORCMA.org or 483-5569.

SAFTA Reading Series: James Arthur and Brent House, 3 p.m., The Birdhouse, corner of Fourth and Gill.

Free and open to the public. Info: sundresspublications. com/safta or safta@sundresspublications.com.

MONDAY, NOV. 16 Computer Workshops: Word Basics, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/ registration: 215-8700.

TUESDAY, NOV. 17 Open house for prospective students, 8:30-10 a.m., Knoxville Jewish Day School, 1529 Downtown West Blvd. Meet staff, students; tour campus. Info/ RSVP: me@kjds or 560-9922.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 Dine and Discover, noon-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. David Butler, executive director of the Knoxville Museum of Art, will present “A Look Over the Horizon.” Free and open to the public. Info: knoxart.org.

“End-of-Life Plan,” 2:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speaker: Susie Stiles, LCSW. Info: 329-8892 (TTY: 711).

“Getting a Show: Avoiding the Pitfalls & Pratfalls,” noon-1 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $5 for members of the Arts & Culture Alliance/ $8 for nonmembers. Info/registration: knoxalliance.com/ development.html; 523-7543; sc@knoxalliance.com.

Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11a.m.-1 p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike.

Dr. Bruce Wheeler will speak about his book “Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South”: Lunch: $12. RSVP: Mary McKinnon, 983-3740 by Nov. 16.

“Using Legal Tools for Life Decisions” 1:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speaker: elder law attorney Monica Franklin, CELA. Info: 329-8892 (TTY: 711).

faith

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‘We had a job to do’

No peace They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

(Jeremiah 6: 14 NRSV)

Hutchison remembers Normandy

God made the World in six days flat On the seventh He said, “I’ll rest.”

So He let the thing into orbit swing To give it a dry run test.

A billion years went by, Then He took a look at the whirling blob.

His spirits fell as He shrugged, “Oh well, it was only a six-day job!”

(Rhymes for the Irreverent, Chad Mitchell Trio)

By Shannon Carey When the Rev. Burney Hutchison was drafted into the U.S. Navy in November 1943, he was just 19 years old. The farthest he’d ever been from home was Kentucky. Before his term of service in World War II ended, that Union County boy had traveled the world with the Navy amphibious forces in both the Pacific and European theaters, even taking part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

Looking back, Hutchison remains humble about his role in these historic events.

He just feels honored to have served his country.

“I wasn’t the only one,” he said. “The real heroes are the ones still over there or buried at sea. A lot of boys never did get to shore.”

Hutchison said Union County alone lost three young men in the invasion of Normandy.

Hutchison’s ship was LST #522, assigned to shuttle tanks, trucks and troops between England and France.

While Hutchison’s job wasn’t the most dangerous in the war effort, it did have its share of risks. Frigid seas with waves sometimes 40 feet high and enemy submarines and bombers were always a threat. Once, he saw a German torpedo hit the ship ahead of his, killing five sailors.

“If anyone told you it didn’t scare them, I don’t know whether I’d believe them or not. But we were assigned to do a job. We just had a job to do,” he said.

His happiest memory from the war was having the good luck to meet up with his brother, Willard, in England. Willard was serving in

The Rev. Burney Hutchison, World War II Navy veteran, stands in front of his home on Hickory Valley Road. He served in both the European and Pacific theaters during the war, and he was part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Photo by S. Carey

Call it Armistice Day or Veterans Day, Nov. 11 is a day of remembrance, of gratitude, of pride and of grief. It was set aside to honor the sacrifice of those Americans who fought in World War I. Still today, those who fought and lived, as well as those who fought and died are remembered and honored at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month.

There have been other wars since, long, agonizing wars, and those veterans are also included in the tribute paid to their service.

One would think that by this time, the inhabitants of Planet Earth would have figured out that maybe, just maybe, we should learn to peacefully share this home we have.

As Rodney King so

By Carol Shane

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plaintively asked, after riots and beatings and killings in California, “Why can’t we all just get along?”

Why, indeed?

This sweet little blue planet that we call home is big enough to allow us all to live here, and to get along! Surely we could take care of it and of our fellow humans!

But no, we fight over land and water and oil and mineral rights and politics and religion! We kill each other in wars and riots and on our highways.

God forgive and help us!

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the Air Force, and U2 bombs fell on London during their three days of leave there.

In 1945, Hutchison got two weeks of leave at home, then his ship sailed for the Pacific via the Panama Canal with a load of large and small ammunition. His ship stopped in Hawaii, the Soloman Is-

lands, Okinawa, the Marshall Islands, Corregidor, the Philippines and Korea. While they were in the Philippines, the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.

Hutchison returned home after an honorable discharge in April 1946 and went to work for the Southern Railroad. He married “the prettiest girl in the neighborhood,” Evelyn Cupp, in June 1949.

The two were together until she passed away almost two years ago. They had two sons and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Hutchison went into the ministry in 1966, serving at Zion Hill in Anderson County, Cedar Grove in Knox County, and Unity in Knox County. He was called to Valley Grove Baptist, his

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7754 Oak Ridge Highway, is seeking vendors for the annual craft fair to be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, in the family life center. Spaces: $40.

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home church, in 1977, where he served as pastor for 33 years. He was also a school board member for eight years and a Union County Commissioner for 22 years. ■ First Comforter Church, He has also found pur5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Serpose in his volunteer work vice) noon each Friday. Info: with the Tri-County VetEdna Hensley, 771-7788. erans Honor Guard. He served as their chaplain full ■ Mountain View Church of God in Luttrell will host a free time until he went to part community dinner of turkey, time due to health concerns. dressing and trimmings The Honor Guard conducts noon-4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. military honors at veterans’ 21. Pickup at the drive-thru. funerals in Union, Grainger ■ Music ministries of Comand Claiborne counties. munity Evangelistic Church in But this service, too, he East Knoxville and Christ Covapproaches with humility. enant Church in Farragut will “All we’re really doing is join for three presentations of paying our respects to our “How Great Our Joy – a Gosveterans and their families,” pel Christmas!” Presentations: he said. “I just volunteer to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, serve because it helps someDec. 11-12, Christ Covenant body.”

Church, 12915 Kingston Pike;

A global community This Sunday marks a very special day in the worldwide Jewish community of faith. The Global Day of Jewish Learning is an annual event dedicated to celebrating shared sacred texts and communitybased learning.

According to the website sponsored by the New York City-based Aleph Society, the event exists for the purpose of “fostering Jewish unity, empowering individuals through increased Jewish knowledge, and creating meaningful shared experiences.” Created in 2010, it has grown to involve more than 500 communities in over 40 countries worldwide.

Norma James, religious school director for Temple Beth-El in Knoxville, is looking forward to the occasion.

“It’s for children and adults – everyone will be involved,” she says. “This is our third time to host it.”

Temple Beth-El alternates with Heska Amuna Synagogue each year to provide classroom space. She’s enthusiastic about the two

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congregations spending time together.

“It’s so cool – especially here in Knoxville, where the students don’t see a lot of other Jewish kids in their schools – that we can tell the children that Jews all over the world are going to be studying,” she says. “And they get to meet the other rabbi!”

The curriculum for the Knoxville event is taken from the Institute of Southern Jewish Life, based in Jackson, Miss. In addition, the ISJL will be sending a Fellow – typically a young adult who has finished graduate school and, in this case, a female – to help facilitate.

As for the upcoming day of study, James observes another benefit that could apply to any discipline. “I like the example that adults set for children when the adults are studying, too.”

The Global Day of Jewish Learning is set for this Sunday, Nov. 15. Info: theglobalday.org or call 865524-3521.

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7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, Community Evangelistic Church, 2650 Boyds Bridge Pike. Info: 525-1589 or cecchurch.org; 671-1885 or office@christcov. org.

■ Rutledge Pike Missionary Baptist Church, 10316 Rutledge Pike, will host a benefit singing 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. All donations and proceeds will go to Texas Valley Baptist to help with rebuilding the church, which burned in August.

■ Music ministries of Community Evangelistic Church in East Knoxville and Christ Covenant Church in Farragut will join for three presentations of “How Great Our Joy – a Gospel Christmas!” Presentations: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 11-12, Christ Covenant Church, 12915 Kingston Pike; 7 p.m.

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Mooreland Heights remembers one of its own

By Betsy Pickle

Western Heights Dental Office dental assistant Sherrie Williams examines South Knoxville Elementary School student Zackary Ballow’s teeth. Photos by S. Barrett

Dental days at South Knox Elementary South Knoxville Elementary School launched its dental initiative Oct. 29 with a visit from dental assistant Sherrie Williams from Western Heights Dental.

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Almost 30 students received a quick screening from Williams, which included a souvenir mouth mirror they could take home.

Knox County Schools’ dental coordinator Monica Hurst said this is the first official year of the program which is in nine schools around the county. A pilot program was held last year at Green Magnet Academy to get the ball rolling.

“We find a lot of decay, and we see a lot of children who are hurting,” said Hurst. She used to work in a dental office and also has teaching experience which makes her a good fit for the job. Hurst showed stu-

Knox County Schools’ dental coordinator Monica Hurst demonstrates the proper way to brush one’s teeth using a gigantic mouth and toothbrush. dents how to properly care for their teeth using a large model of a mouth and a giant toothbrush.

During the exam, a student’s dental hygiene is scored from one to three, with one signaling immediate care and three meaning no obvious decay. Parents give permission for their children to be transported from the school by Knox County to the dentist’s office for treatment if necessary.

Rain may have moved the celebration inside, but the mood was bright and happy as Mooreland Heights Elementary School cut the ribbon on a longneeded addition and a playground dedicated to a student whose brave battle with cancer inspired all who met him.

The gymnasium was packed with students, teachers, dignitaries and the family of young Cole Cross, who passed away Jan. 28, 2014, during his first-grade year. His best friend, Kenzie Self, was the impetus for getting the playground named for him.

Mayor Tim Burchett recalled visiting Mooreland Heights last year for the groundbreaking for the two-story, six-classroom addition.

“I was standing here, and a very sweet young lady handed me a letter,” Burchett said. Kenzie, now in second grade, appealed to Burchett to proclaim a “Cole Alexander Cross Day.” Burchett and principal Roy Miller agreed that they could create something more long lasting than a proclamation, and they decided to pay tribute to Cole – “a kind, sweet, funny and brave boy” – with a playground dedicated to his memory.

Students and teachers have been using the 7,500-square-foot addition since just after Labor Day, but work on the playground took longer, and Miller thought it would be a nice gesture to have the ribboncutting for both on Cole’s birthday, Nov. 2.

Cole’s parents, Darrin and Jessica Cross, little sister, Hayley, now a kin-

Darrin, Jessica and Hayley Cross, with Kenzie Self, listen as Mayor Tim Burchett proclaims “Cole Alexander Cross Day” in Knox County. dergartner, and grandmother Carolyn Cross were on hand for the event and seemed touched by the tribute to Cole.

“It’s awesome,” Darrin Cross said afterward. “I’m just so grateful they did it for him.”

Cole loved to play on slides and swings like those in the new playground.

“Just about anything that he could climb on, he was all about it,” said his father.

The ceremony also included remarks by Miller, Knox County Schools Su- Kenzie Self grabs a swing in the playground named after her perintendent Jim McIntyre, late best friend. Photos by Betsy Pickle school board member Amber Rountree (accompanied by toddler son Teddy) and a very composed Kenzie, who also led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Miller called Cole’s former classmates and teachers up to assist with the ribbon-cutting. The rain took a break long enough for them to inaugurate the playground with a frenzy of swinging and sliding.

Douglas Chambers, Jillian Ellis and Verniyah Hodge write letters to veterans in the cafeteria of South Knoxville Elementary School. Photo submitted

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By Betsy Pickle Kids at the Boys & Girls Club at South Knoxville Elementary’s Community School spent time writing thank-you notes to veterans for Veterans Day and got a lesson about keeping America safe.

Susan Martin, the community school’s resource director, was contacted

by Lisa Chance, a security guard at nearby Tennessee School for the Deaf, to see if students at SKES would like to join with TSD elementary students in writing letters. Chance belongs to a motorcycle club that has helped TSD with fundraisers and has also adopted the Ben Atchley State Veterans’ Home in West Knox County.

Martin loved the idea and asked Kim Madeiros, director of the Boys & Girls Club, if she could fit it into the children’s schedule.

Madeiros carved out some time, and 13 children from first through fifth grade wrote letters.

Martin says the entire TSD elementary body – about 50 children – wrote letters. (Chance could not be reached for comment.)

While many adults have family members who have served in the military, some kids struggled with the concept.

“Some of them really didn’t know what a veteran was,” says Martin. “Our foster grandparent, Granny Betty, sat with the kids while they were writing letters. She explained that it was the Army, Air Force – people that had fought in wars before.”

When some children were still confused, she compared them to police officers – people who protect us by defending the U.S. at home and overseas.

Martin says she would like to do the project again next year and possibly have the SKE kids go with the TSD students to Ben Atchley to deliver the letters personally.

“It helps in the partnership that I’m wanting to build with TSD and do other things – like a signlanguage class for students and have play dates – since we have kids in the evening and they have kids in the evening. That would be a lot of fun.”

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By Betsy Pickle The only thing better than standup comedy is convenient standup comedy.

Take this weekend’s Scruffy City Comedy Festival (please!). It will span three locations on Market Square – Scruffy City Hall, the Speakeasy at Preservation Pub and Knoxville Uncorked – instead of being spread throughout downtown.

“People can literally walk out the door of one show and into the door of another show and be seated within a minute,” says Matt Ward, the Knoxville comedian and comedy promoter who founded the festival last November. “That allows people to see all the shows if they hang around all weekend, at least part of all the shows.”

Ward and his associates learned a lot from the 2014 fest. One thing that doesn’t worry him is tackling a University of Tennessee football game day.

His headliner Saturday night is Midwesterner Jackie Kashian.

“Jackie Kashian is a perfect comic to have on Saturday night on a home football game day,” says Ward.

“She has nothing to do with sports. She definitely has a dorky, nerdy following, and her material is beautiful in that regard.”

On Saturday afternoon, New Orleans-based festival performer Chris Trew, who

Jackie Kashian headlines on Saturday night.

Andy Sandford headlines the Scruff y City Comedy Festival on Friday night.

is also an improv coach and teacher, will lead an improv class for both newcomers and seasoned performers.

“It’s a class on language and communication in improv comedy,” says Ward.

Ward has also learned to take bumps in stride.

His Friday-night headliner, Ben Kronberg, had to bow out, but he ended up with a replacement who could prove even more popular.

The new headliner, Andy Sandford, is a comic out of Atlanta now based in New York City.

“It goes from being kind of a raunchy show on Friday night to being almost a completely clean comedy show,” says Ward, who notes that Sandford has appeared on “Conan” and “Adult Swim.”

“Andy’s not 100 percent clean, but he definitely isn’t

a very controversial comic.

He’s more of a wordsmith.”

It’s becoming more common for mid-sized and small cities to have their own comedy festivals, Ward says. Nearly three dozen comedians will perform at the Scruffy City fest.

“The comedy communities in these cities are growing,” he says. “Some of these places may not have had much live comedy at all before. Now they have a few years under their belt of having standup comics come in and do shows, typically produced by local performers. And then those people get excited, and they’re like, ‘Let’s showcase our scene. Let’s do a festival.’ So there’s a new festival popping up probably every few months across the country.”

The second time around has been much easier, he says.

A classical ‘fab four’

By Carol Shane There’s a new classical kid in town, and its name is “Inner Voices.” Made up of four musicians from the Knoxville and Oak Ridge symphonies, the recentlyformed string quartet has a fresh objective: to play great music in an intimate, fun setting, and to pick the pieces the members really want to perform, even if that means playing only parts of larger works. “It’s like a mixed tape,” says violinist Ruth Bacon Edewards.

Indeed, “Mixed Tape” is the name of the group’s inaugural concert, and the setting is just as hip as the idea. “We are having it at The Hive, which is a creative space in my neighborhood of Old North,” says cellist Jeanine Wilkinson.

“Several of us live near this up-and-coming neighborhood and we would love to highlight a new business that just opened.”

Edewards agrees. “We’re just really inspired by the energy in North Knoxville right now. We wanted to be

a part of that.”

Wilkinson is largely responsible for the group’s formation.

She’s been thinking about this type of project “for several years.

For string players, chamber music is what we live for. It’s such a unique instrumentation that permits each player to be a soloist and at the same time be part of an ensemble.” She wanted to get together regularly to rehearse and perform with like-minded, equally-committed musicians.

She discussed the idea with her good friend Kevin Richard Doherty, host of WUOT’s Early Morning Concert.

“I thought the idea sounded amazing,” says Doherty. “So I told Jeanine that if she got the group together I would help her promote it. In this crazy age of technology and instant gratification, I feel like we need classical music and thoughtful music now more than ever.”

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“Last year we had such a great response and turnout, it makes this year that much more legitimate. When I walk into a place to put up a poster, people have heard of the festival, whereas last year we were creating the festival and people weren’t sure about it.”

Ward says there’s something “really big” that will also be announced via the Twitter handle @scruffycomedy. There also will be some free “pop-up performances” revealed on Twitter.

He wants “to keep people focused on the shows that we do have on the schedule, but if they don’t happen to be able to make it to those shows give them an alternative at the last second.”

The fest kicks off with an opening-night party at 7 p.m. Friday. The comedy starts at 7 on Saturday and Sunday as well. Sunday’s headliners are Mia Jackson and Shane Mauss. For tickets/passes, times and locations visit scruffycitycomedy.com or The 2nd Annual Scruffy City Comedy Festival on Facebook.

‘The 33’ Mario Sepulveda (Antonio Banderas) is one of 33 Chilean miners trapped 200 stories underground in “The 33,” based on the 2010 disaster that gripped the world for nearly 70 days. Director Patricia Riggen’s film depicts the struggles of the miners, who endured 100-degree temperatures in the collapsed mine, as well as the heroic efforts of those trying to rescue them. The international cast also includes Juliette Binoche, Rodrigo Santoro, Lou Diamond Phillips, Gabriel Byrne, Mario Casas and James Brolin. The movie opens wide on Nov. 13.

‘Menagerie’ Elizabeth Beck of Harriman will play Laura in the Roane State Playmakers production of “The Glass Menagerie.” Show times are Nov. 13-14 and Nov. 20-21 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays, Nov. 15 and Nov. 22, at 2 p.m. in Harriman. Tickets are $10 ($5 for students and seniors). Info: 865-354-3000, ext. 5296.

Rachel Loseke, Ruth Bacon Edewards, Christina Graffeo and Jeanine Wilkinson are the members of “Inner Voices,” a new string quartet making its debut at The Hive this Friday. Photo by CMarlowe

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friends, and the four had “a social get- together to sight read music and then eat and drink wine, just to make sure the chemistry would be compatible between all of us. We ended up having a ton of fun and decided that we would all love to work together and put on a concert.”

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The program includes the winding, mesmerizing first movement from Maurice Ravel’s only string quartet and “Is Now Not Enough?”

by Asheville composer Dosia McKay, as well as music from Mozart, Beethoven and Piazzolla. And in keeping with the casual atmosphere, the audience is also invited to “join the quartet for a drink after the show.”

Doherty hopes to see an enthusiastic crowd this weekend. “I want to do my part to help classical music find its stride in the 21st century. More of this is happening, i.e. the Big Ears Festival. We just need more people believing in the cause.”

“Mixed Tape” by “Inner Voices” will be performed at 7 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 13, at The Hive, 854 North Central Street in Knoxville. Tickets are $10, and doors open at 6:30 p.m.

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The Rotary Club of Knoxville is hosting a Thanksgiving meal for International students at the University of Tennessee on Monday, Nov. 23, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event will be at the International House, located on the UT campus at 1623 Melrose Place.

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State Sen. Becky Massey told the North Knox Rotarians she’s talked to about 10 individuals from Gov. Haslam to folks in her district and nothing she’s yet heard has convinced her it’s a good idea to outsource state jobs.

She predicted a change in the state’s tax on gasoline to include indexing – adjustments for inflation every three to five years. On abortion, she said, “We’re not going to abolish it; it’s the law of the land. We can make it safe

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BIZ NOTES ■ Bennett Galleries has stocked new art, furniture, jewelry and many unique items in celebration of its 40th anniversary.

■ K-VA-T Food Stores Inc., parent company for Food City, has been named a 2015 Healthier Tennessee Workplace for its commitment to encouraging and enabling employees to live a healthy lifestyle both at work and at home.

■ Candlewood Suites Knoxville has received the 2015 Quality Excellence Award, given to hotels achieving distinction in all aspects of their operation. Only 85 reached this designation in the Americas. The extended-stay hotel opened here in 1997. The staff is led by Bart Pemberton, general manager; Trish Cisco, operations manager; and Dawn Lassiter, director of sales.

■ Knox County Schools sold 156,033 coupon books this year, raising $1.37 million for classrooms and schools. U.S. Cellular was the presenting sponsor. Corporate sponsors were First Tennessee Foundation, Junk Bee Gone, Rusty Wallace Automotive and Stanley Steemer.

■ The District Gallery will present the works of Joe Parrott: From Knoxville to the Mediterranean Dec. 4-30 with an opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, at 5113 Kingston Pike. Parrott will attend the opening and will offer a painting demonstration in the gallery from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5. Info: 865-200-4452.

■ Commercial Bank will sponsor an event to benefit Alzheimer’s Tennessee from 3-6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in Fountain City Park.

The Friday Fall Fun Fest, Tailgate and Cornhole Tournament is open to all.

■ Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians will not increase cookie prices next year. Locally, the cookies will continue to sell for $4 per box. The council’s 2016 sale will launch Jan. 16 and extend through February.

■ Pictures with Santa for kids 12 and younger will be offered at Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace, Realtors, 3009 Tazewell Pike, 4-6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4. Broker Gina Mills said the office will have holiday-themed snacks and activities. Info: 865-687-1111.

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NEWS FROM SOUTHEASTERN RETINA ASSOCIATES

Diabetic Retinopathy:

the most common diabetic eye disease D

iabetic retinopathy is a common complication of diabetes and is a leading cause of preventable blindness among American adults. Approximately 45 percent of diabetics will develop some form of diabetic eye disease. The good news is that preventative measures and current treatments can help keep your vision clear and bright.

Diabetic retinopathy is caused by changes in the blood vessels of the retina. As the disease progresses, these blood vessels can become damaged. When these vessels are damaged, they prevent parts of the retina from receiving blood and nutrients. This damage to the normal blood vessels can in turn lead to the growth of abnormal blood vessels or to leakage of fluid into the central retina.

One major way diabetes can cause vision loss is through leakage of fluid into the central retina.

Normally, the retina helps transform light entering the eye into a clear picture seen in the brain. The macula is the highly sensitive area of the retina that is responsible for our sharp, central vision. Fluid buildup in the macula, known as macular edema, can cause gradual and painless vision loss. Maintaining good blood sugar control is critical as it can help delay the onset of fluid buildup. However, at

least 30 percent of patients with diabetes for more than 20 years have some macular edema. Fortunately, regular eye exams and early treatment can halt the progression of the disease and help maintain good vision in most patients.

Physician researchers are currently working to improve treatments for complications of diabetic retinopathy. The Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR) is the nation’s leading diabetic research program and coordinates the efforts of over 110 diabetic retinal disease centers in the U.S. Southeastern Retina Associates is East Tennessee’s only DRCR center and has been nationally recognized by the DRCR for excellence in their research efforts. The National Institute of Health and the DRCR work in tandem advancing medical research of diabetes-induced retinal disorders.

For the last two years, Southeastern Retina Knoxville, also servicing Maryville, Oak Ridge, Sevierville, Morristown, Harriman and Crossville, has won the top site award. “This level of clinical excellence for our patients is important for Southeastern Retina and we are honored to receive this award,” said Dr. Stephen Perkins.

Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), also

known as background retinopathy, is diabetic retinopathy in the early stages, characterized by tiny blood vessels in the retina leaking blood or fluid. The retina can swell due to this leakage and form deposits called exudates. Mild NPDR is common among people with diabetes and usually does not affect their vision. When vision is affected, it is due to macular edema (swelling or thickening of the macula) or macular ischemia (closing of small blood vessels, causing vision to blur).

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is growth of new, abnormal blood vessels on the surface of the retina or optic nerve as a healing response to the widespread closure of the normal retinal blood vessels. Unfortunately, the new blood vessels do not resupply the retina with normal blood flow, and they may be accompanied by scar tissue which may cause wrinkling or detachment of the retina. PDR may cause more severe vision loss than NPDR because it can affect both central and peripheral vision. PDR may lead to vision loss from vitreous hemorrhage (blood leaking into the clear, gel-like substance that fills the eye), traction retinal detachment (scar tissue wrinkling or pulling the retina out of position, causing visual distortion), or neovascular glaucoma (abnormal blood vessel growth in the

iris and drainage channels in front of the eye, causing pressure in the eye and possible damage to the optic nerve).

Diagnosis and treatment A medical eye exam is the best way to check for changes inside your eye. Those with Type 1 diabetes should schedule an eye exam with an eye doctor within five years of being diagnosed. Those with Type 2 diabetes should have an exam at the time of diagnosis.

Pregnant women with diabetes should have an exam in the first trimester, because retinopathy can progress quickly during pregnancy. The frequency of follow-ups aimed at early detection and treatment of problems – ideally even before vision loss has occurred – will be determined by your doctor.

There are several treatments for retinopathy including traditional therapies like laser and vitrectomy surgery. Newer therapy focuses on injections of medicine into the eye. A major breakthrough has been the development of antiVEGF medication which can stop the growth of abnormal blood vessels and reverse vessel leakage.

Know the symptoms of DME. ■ Blurred vision ■ Straight lines that look crooked

■ Dark spots or “floaters” in the line of vision ■ Washed out colors What are the risk factors for DME? The major risk factors for DME are: ■ The severity of a patient’s diabetic retinopathy ■ How long a person has had diabetes ■ High blood sugar ■ High blood pressure ■ High lipid levels How to help reduce the risk of DME. The best way to reduce the risk of DME is to control the diabetes by doing the following: ■ Make sure blood sugar levels are within target range every day ■ Use diabetes medicine as director by a healthcare professional ■ Eat nutritious foods in moderation, and exercise regularly to maintain a healthy weight ■ Keep blood pressure in a normal range ■ Don’t smoke ■ See an eye doctor at least once a year for a dilated eye exam Southeastern Retina will continue to participate in research for diabetes-related retinal diseases and will be actively involved in upcoming clinical trials to help offer the best treatments for the Knoxville area community.

Southeastern Retina Associates

Joseph p M. Googe, g , Jr.,, M.D.

James H. Miller, Jr., M.D.

Tod A. McMillan,, M.D.

Stephen L. Perkins, M.D.

Nicholas G. Anderson, M.D.

R. Keith Shuler, Jr., M.D.

Providing comprehensive Retina Care in East Tennessee for over 35 years. Nationally recognized as the Most Experienced Retina Team in East Tennessee.

Specializing in: X Macular Degeneration X Intravitreal Injection for Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Eye Disease

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