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Civil rights leader to visit The city of Knoxville will continue its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with two events on June 19, the date celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth in recognition of the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a C.T. Vivian veteran of the civil-rights movement and a friend of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., will lead a “Mass Meeting” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at Payne Avenue Baptist Church, 2714 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
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Mushroom business takes root in South Knoxville
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Third-row seat to history It’s a big deal for East Tennessee each year when the Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute brings a couple thousand of American’s brightest and most idealistic young people for a weeklong training session before they go out to manage Freedom Schools across the country.
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Messing around with magic Aside from the full opening of the Henley Bridge, it was the most magical thing to happen in South Knoxville last week – Michael Messing’s magic show for the Summer Library Club at the South Knoxville Branch Library. Children and parents packed the “theater” at the north end of the library to watch as Messing performed feats that elicited both squeals of excitement and peals of laughter.
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Booster shot for John Bruhin Patience, please. John Bruhin is facing a long walk, and it may take an extra minute. He is on his way back into the spotlight for one big night this summer. On July 24, he will be inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame. Bruhin, 49, has been “training” for a while. He is 70 pounds down from 420 and trying to get closer to playing weight. He has one new knee and needs another but can get along with a trusty cane.
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Bob Hess checks on the progress of new pearl oyster mushrooms. Photos by Betsy Pickle Everything Mushrooms avoids the typical button-type mushrooms and instead grows varieties that are as beautiful as they are tasty.
By Betsy Pickle Everything Mushrooms is part of a mushroom explosion – a quiet explosion because, you know, a mushroom may be a fungi, but it’s not very loud. Bob Hess, who started the business in 2007 and moved into a building at 1004 Sevier Ave. twoplus years ago, has been around
long enough to see the changes in the industry. “In the past two or three years, we’ve seen an increase in business around mushrooms,” he says. Most of the enterprises are small, like a mom-and-pop-type business. “People either have a very intense interest personally for food or health, or they immediately see dollar signs, and they think they’re going to retire rich growing mushrooms,” he says. “I don’t
know where that comes from, I really don’t, because it’s really hard work.” Hess regards his own business as still being very small. There are eight full- or part-time employees, but that’s double what he had not long ago. And since moving from the Central/Broadway neighborhood in 2012, he’s been able to take his company from almost purely e-commerce to a business that serves the community and makes its presence known. Part of that is having a booth
Nicely is new SoKno principal Tanna Nicely is the new princi- and a math coach before entering pal at South Knoxville Elementary school administration in 2008 School, replacing Muncie Cooperas an assistant Harbin, who retired. principal at DogNicely was an assistant princiwood Elementary pal at Sarah Moore Green Magnet School. Technology Academy. She joined Nicely holds a Knox County Schools in 1991 as bachelor’s degree a kindergarten teacher at Powell in elementary eduElementary School and has also cation, a master’s taught at Sunnyview Primary in instructional School. She also served as a curtechnology, and an Tanna Nicely riculum and instruction facilitator educational spe-
cialist degree in educational leadership, all conferred by the University of Tennessee. Other appointments by Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre include Tiffany Watkins, principal at Fair Garden Family Community Center; Kristi Woods, principal at East Knox Elementary School; Dr. Chad Smith, principal at Carter Middle School; and Susan Espiritu, principal at Sarah Moore Greene Elementary.
at the weekly Knoxville Farmers Market on Market Square. While in the past Everything Mushrooms offered demonstrations a couple of times a season, they started participating more frequently last year. “This year, we’re down there every Saturday,” says Hess. The mushrooms they sell at the Farmers Market are from their demonstration garden, which is an extension of their lab, or foraged mushrooms, a specialty of Whitey Hitchcock, who joined the staff early this year. The thing is, growing mushrooms isn’t the main focus of the company. It exists to help customers grow mushrooms. “We are mostly a spawn and seed supply company,” Hess says. “We sell mostly equipment and tools and materials for people to grow and garden mushrooms. There are probably only about three companies in the country that come close to doing what we do on a broad scale, and even on that level there are things that we concentrate and focus on that some of those other companies don’t.” To page 3
South-Doyle program is last Ag Ed standing By Betty Bean The Agricultural Education program at South-Doyle High School is the last remaining such program in Knox County following the elimination of the program at North Knox Vocational Center on the campus of Halls High School. North Knox teacher Mike Blankenship, who began teaching at Doyle High School in 1978, was told his position was eliminated because of low enrollment, even though students say school counselors advised them not to sign up because the program was being cut. North Knox also lost its Child Development program. Don Lawson, supervisor of Career Technical Education (CTE), said there had been four such programs in Knox County but those at Farragut High and Byington-Sol-
James Dunn, a senior at Gibbs High School and president of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter, recited a partial list of the honors the club won under Blankenship’s guidance. “We will no longer be able to compete in career-development events,” he said. “We as a class and a chapter are very disappointed. This closure will take away many opportunities.” James Dunn and Ryan Cox, wearing What Dunn didn’t say that their FFA gear, prepare to address night is that one of the lost opporthe school board. Photo by S. Clark tunities could be his chance to go to college. “I was hoping to try to get a way have been shuttered. Classes scholarship through the FFA, but include wildlife management and there cannot be an FFA if there’s forestry as well as horticulture no ag class,” he said later. Dunn and greenhouse management. lives on a family farm and wants Several students and their fam- to major in agriculture at UT. ilies attended last week’s school Ryan Cox, also a rising senior, board meeting, and two spoke. has invested three years in a vo-
cational track he won’t be able to complete. Afterward, board members and Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre spoke to him. Cox said their attempts at consolation were too little, too late. “They told us that we did well and that our speeches were good, but honestly, that doesn’t mean anything to me,” said Cox. “Individually, I think they all want to help us, but together they all felt that it was too far gone. The decision has been made and it will stand.” Blankenship is packing 25 years’ worth of records and memories while dealing with a family health crisis – his son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and his condition remains precarious. Although he has been interviewed for a new position, Blankenship has no guarantee of a job this fall.
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Fort Sanders Regional honors clinical staff for excellence Fort Sanders Regional recently announced the 2014 winners of the hospital’s annual Clinical Excellence in Nursing Awards. Seventeen staff members throughout the facility were recognized during a special National Nurses Week ceremony. The awards signify the exceptional care and compassion each honored individual regularly gives to his or her patients. The Fort Sanders Nursing Excellence Awards are especially meaningful because the employees are nominated by those who provide care beside them, their nursing co-workers. The final winners are then selected by a panel of hospital leaders that includes past honorees. This year’s winners are: Shawn Campbell, RN, CVICU; Kelly Danielson, RN, GI-Endoscopy; Denise Gregg, CAN, 9 North; Sherry Hackworth, RN, 5 West; Katie Haun, RN, 7 North; Michelle Jones, Department Assistant, Surgery; Alison Lavin, RN, 4 West; Jennifer McGregor, RN, Women’s Services; Dina Miller, RN, Float Pool; Maleia O’Neal, Tech, Women’s Services; Amanda Roark, RN, 8 North; Valencia Talley, RN, 7 North; Sandra Thorn, HUC, Women’s Services; Angela Turner, RN, ICU; Jeannine Varga, RN, Emergency Department. In addition to the Clinical Excellence Awards, the Fort Sanders nursing staff selected Cardiovascular Intensive Care (CVICU) nurse Michael Chesser as the recipient of the 2014 Peggy Mayer Gilbertson Outstanding Nurse of the Year Award. The hospital’s physicians honored Emergency Department nurse Michael Shelton with the 2014 Elizabeth Killeffer Award.
Shawn Campbell, RN, CVICU
Kelly Danielson, RN, GI-Endoscopy
Denise Gregg, CAN, 9 North
Sherry Hackworth, RN, 5 West
Katie Haun, RN, 7 North
Michelle Jones, Dept. Asst., Surgery
Alison Lavin, RN, 4 West
Jennifer McGregor, RN, Women’s Services
Dina Miller, RN, Float Pool
Maleia O’Neal, Tech, Women’s Services
Amanda Roark, RN, 8 North
Valencia Talley, RN, 7 North
Sandra Thorn, HUC, Women’s Services
Angela Turner, RN, ICU
Jeannine Varga, RN, Emergency Department
Top recognition received by two nurses at Fort Sanders On an annual basis, two awards are given to honor nurses at Fort Sanders Regional for their excellence in clinical care. The Peggy Mayer Gilbertson award provides funds for continuing education and has been given since 1989 in memory of the wife of Dr. Bob Gilbertson, a former chief of staff at the hospital. Candidates for the GilMichael Chesser, RN, CVICU Peggy Mayer Gilbertson Award Winner
bertson Fellowship are nominated by their fellow nursing peers, and the recipient is chosen by the hospital’s nursing leadership staff. This year, Cardiovascular Intensive Care (CVICU) nurse Michael Chesser was elected as the recipient. In addition, the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Staff physicians have named Emergency Department nurse
Michael Shelton as the 2014 recipient of the Elizabeth Killeffer Award. Elizabeth Killeffer was the director of nursing from 1922 to 1960 at what was then called Fort Sanders Presbyterian Hospital. Since 1992, the Killeffer Award has been given to an outstanding employee who is nominated by peers and chosen by vote of the hospital physicians. Michael Shelton, RN, Emergency Department Elizabeth Killeffer Award Winner
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Magician Michael Messing sticks an 18-inch needle through a balloon.
Ashleigh Morgan assists magician Michael Messing as brother Zack looks on during Messing’s magic show at the South Knoxville Branch Library. Photos by Betsy Pickle
Ashleigh Morgan (front) and sisters Kaitlyn and Kelsey Casillas enjoy the show.
Messing around with magic Aside from the full opening of the Henley Bridge, it was the most magical thing to happen in South Knoxville last week – Michael Messing’s magic show for the Summer Library Club at the South Knoxville Branch Library. Children and parents packed the “theater” at the north end of the library to watch as Messing performed feats that elicited both squeals of excitement and peals of laughter. Messing knew how to work the crowd – and how to handle the enthusiastic youngsters who wanted to contribute to the performance. Several audience members were invited to assist Messing, but no siblings were injured in the making of the fun. Fun was the operative word. Many of the tricks were as much about comedy as magic, though it was pretty amazing to watch him pour clear water into a newspaper without spilling any on the floor, only to tip the paper and pour colored water into glass flutes. Messing cleverly worked
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in the reading club’s theme, “Fizz … Boom … Read,” as he performed “magic” that looked suspiciously like chemistry and physics or involved investigative techniques that would be at home on “CSI.” His creation of balloon animals might not have required a magician’s touch, but sticking an 18-inch steel needle into an inflated balloon without popping it was mindboggling. One of his most popular segments involved his friend Bob the bookworm. The flexible fellow kept popping up in the oddest places. Messing said afterward that Bob has become such a crowd pleaser that, though he otherwise tries to make each performance different, Bob turns up at every show. Messing, who lives in West Knoxville, has been doing magic for 41 years, and
he has performed at Knox County’s library clubs for 15 of the past 16 years. This summer he will visit all 18 branches plus the Sweetwater and Claiborne County libraries and several festivals. His upcoming dates include 11 a.m. at Bearden and 3 p.m. at Carter on Thursday, June 12; 11 a.m. at Powell and 2 p.m. at Halls on Tuesday, June 17; 10:30 a.m. at Sequoyah and 3 p.m. at Murphy on Thursday, June 19; and 11 a.m. Thursday, June 26, at Burlington. He will perform at 3 p.m. Monday, July 14, at the Howard Pinkston Branch Library. ■
stitution. This new designation allows King University to offer up to three doctoral degree programs, the first of which will be the Doctor of Nursing Practice. Applications are currently being accepted for the fall start of the DNP program. Currently, there are two types of doctoral degrees in nursing: the Ph.D., a research-focused doctorate, and the DNP, the practicefocused doctorate. The DNP has been firmly established as the terminal degree in nursing practice. Dr. Rhonda Morgan, as-
Mushroom business Hess says the company couldn’t have existed before the Internet; it has customers all over the country and around the world. But “now, the tables have turned a lot. “We recognized that we were going to have to shift focus and start occupying space on a local level because if we didn’t, somebody else would.” They now have a fulltime customer-service representative, and the showroom – which features not
only mushroom-growing supplies but also mushroom-related gift items – is open 12-6 p.m. weekdays and 12-4 p.m. Saturdays. Hess, who grew up enjoying the outdoors in West Tennessee and East Texas, majored in journalism at the University of Tennessee and graduated in 2003. After doing some work in public relations, he decided he’d be better off working a day job while he tried to launch his dream company.
tad says the event will be similar to the Autumn Fest he held last year. The store and parking lot will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with up to 30 vendors on the lot offering antiques, collectibles, crafts and gifts. Love That BBQ will sell delicious food and drink. Kudzu, a Southern rock band from Maryville, will perform from 1 to 5 p.m. The rain date is June 21. Skramstad says South Knoxvillians have really embraced Yester Year, which houses booths for vendors
Saturday Marketplace at Tea & Treasures. The popular monthly event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday (June 14) at the store, 4104 Martin Mill Pike. The shaded yard of Tea & Treasures will have vendor booths featuring arts and crafts, antiques, plants, books and food, and there’ll be good live music to ■ Second Saturday enjoy while browsing. The store has plenty of Sneaky June, coming in on a Sunday. We’re only this cards and gifts to help celweek getting to the month’s ebrate Father’s Day, which second Saturday, which is Sunday, June 15. Not that means it’s time for Second you’d forgotten, of course.
featuring vintage and collectible items in the space once occupied by Hollywood Video. He says they filled the store within six weeks of opening and have at least 10 vendors on the waiting list. Some outdoor vendor spots still remained available at press time for the June 14 event. For info, call 567-2755.
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King University offers nursing doctorate King University has been granted approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting highereducation institutions in the Southern states, to implement the Doctor of Nursing Practice program beginning with the fall 2014 semester in August. In December 2013, after a thorough examination process, SACSCOC voted to approve King’s application to operate as a Level V in-
Amberly Champion snuggles with daughter Paige and son Mason as they watch magic unfold.
sociate dean for Graduate Studies Nursing and associate professor for the King University School of Nursing, said, “We have full approval to proceed with the implementation of the DNP program. King’s first DNP class is scheduled to graduate in 2016. “This program is developed specifically for the full-time working professional,” said Morgan. “It is 36 semester hours designed to be completed in two calendar years.” Info: http://dnp.king. edu/.
From page 1 The roots of the company were in the Fort Sanders apartment Hess shared with his wife, Candace, a high school science teacher. They now live in North Knoxville with their two young children, but he’s happy to be part of the South Knoxville revival. “Now that we’ve got all this stuff focusing on South Knoxville, we want to do what we can to enhance that and be a good business citizen in that regard,” he says.
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government Let candidates respond and engage It is less than 60 days to the Aug. 7 statewide general election for judges. You can vote for retention or replacement of three state Supreme Court justices (Cornelia Clark, Sharon Lee and Gary Wade, all Democrats) as well as numerous appellate judges.
She is now a professor at UT College of Law. As long as the state constitution mandates that the court must pick the state AG, it will place justices seeking another term in the crossfire on this issue. It cannot be avoided. Those who dislike this situation should work to change the constitution to remove the court from choosing the Victor AG. That requires a constitutional amendment, which Ashe the voters must approve. This writer has long believed the selection should be direct popular election just as local DAs are elected. Republican Lt. Gov. Ron I sponsored legislation to Ramsey has openly and strongly argued for a replace- achieve that from 1968 to 1984, but it did not pass. If ment vote in part to secure that is not politically feasible, that a Republican be chosen the governor should appoint as state Attorney General. them subject to legislative Tennessee is the only state to require its Supreme Court confirmation for a four-year to elect the Attorney General term. But the court should not be in the business of every eight years. All other choosing the state AG. states have either a direct The AG is a policymaking popular election or gubernaposition and plays an imtorial appointment. portant role in state governRamsey has been ment. The voters deserve a criticized for seeking the replacement of these judges place in choosing the AG. No on the grounds it politicizes woman, African-American or Republican has ever been the court and undermines judicial independence. Oth- the AG under the present ers have argued the current system, and there are qualified persons in all categories. retention-replacement system is not a real election If any justice is replaced in August, then Gov. Haslam in contrast to two or more will choose the new justice. candidates opposing each ■ Eddie Smith, Repubother. However, this system has lican candidate for state been ruled valid by the spe- representative, opposed by Jason Emert in the August cial state Supreme Court. GOP primary, has picked Since it is held to be the up important support from equivalent of an election, state Rep. Bill Dunn, chair then robust public debate on a variety of issues is fair of the House Calendar and the justices ought to be Committee, who served on able to respond and engage. Smith’s host committee for a fundraiser June 3. Of the three justices Also on the host comrunning, Wade has the most mittee were Sheriff Jimmy political experience, hav“J.J.” Jones, GOP County ing also served 10 years as Commission nominee Ed mayor of Sevierville. He is Brantley (who is unopposed waging an active campaign to make sure he is retained. in the August election), County Commissioner R. Wade is very astute and is Larry Smith and former popular among many East Tennessee Republicans such County Commissioner, city as Rep. Jimmy Duncan and school board member and City Council member Ivan former Rep. Bill Jenkins. Gov. Haslam has declined to Harmon. The winner of the Smithtake sides but has voiced a personal like for the incum- Emert contest will face bents. His father attended a Democratic incumbent state Rep. Gloria Johnson, seeking reception for Wade. her second term in NovemSetting aside the merber. It will be an uphill battle its of Ramsey’s views, he certainly has the right to ad- to overtake Johnson, but the state GOP will make a strong vocate change for whatever effort to unseat her. She has reason he puts forth. Likewise, he opens himself up to Team Rogero on her side. ■ Knoxville lost a vigorous rebuttals. It is up wonderful leader with to the voters to determine the passing of Dr. Robert the merit of his arguments. Harvey on May 27. He was a Ramsey has placed a champion of Knoxville Colspotlight on contests that are normally under the po- lege and was always there litical radar. That has made to assist in its most troubled days. He gave back to the many uncomfortable. community on a consistent Penny White is the only justice to be denied a term. basis.
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Legislators force budget-busting charter schools
On a night when the school board was confronted with the real-life pain of budget cuts, it nevertheless approved Emerald Youth Academy’s charter school application by a 7-1 vote (board member Gloria Deathridge was absent), a move that will drain Knox County Schools’ coffers of nearly $5 million a year once the school is fully operational.
Betty Bean Several board members made it clear that they were doing it only because state law is forcing them to. Even Karen Carson, the sole no vote, deplored the legislature’s interference. Everyone was careful to pay homage to the work Emerald Youth Foundation and its executive director, Steve Diggs, have done with the city’s children over the past two-plus decades, but the bottom line was this vote would have been dif-
ferent if state legislators had not made it almost impossible for local governments to turn down applications from privately operated, publicly funded nonprofit charter schools. Several summoned the specter of what happened to Metro Nashville Public Schools when its board voted not to approve a proposal for a charter school in West Nashville last year – state education commissioner Kevin Huffman withheld $3.4 million as punishment. The school, Great Hearts Academy, was a pet project of House Speaker Beth Harwell and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and was nixed by the Nashville school board because of questions about diversity and access for all students. Its demise stiffened the resolve of pro-charter school forces to use their growing clout on the state level to send a message down to local school districts. Fear the budget ax: message received in Knox County, one of five counties included in the bill (along with
Davidson, Shelby, Hamilton and Hardeman). The Senate passed the charter school authorizer by just three votes. Knox County’s senators split, with Stacey Campfield voting yes and Becky Massey voting no. The House vote was more lopsided, and purely partisan, 61-28. Knox County’s Republicans (all alleged opponents of imposing unfunded mandates on local governments) – Harry Brooks, Ryan Haynes, Bill Dunn and Roger Kane voted yes. Democrats Gloria Johnson and Joe Armstrong voted no. The bill gives charter schools whose applications are rejected by the local educational authority (LEA), the right to appeal to the state school board, which will then approve or deny. The well-founded presumption is that approval will be almost automatic for most proposals, and power to oversee these charter schools would then be transferred to the state. The bill, which became
Public Chapter 850, says, in part, “Funding for charter schools authorized by the state board will be in accordance with present law, except that the LEA in which the charter school operates will pay to the department 100 percent of the per student share of local funding and 100 percent of any federal funding in the custody of the LEA that is due to the charter school.” This law will inevitably lead to a flood of budgetbusting charter-school applications that local governments will be powerless to deny. One administrator said that money for the Emerald school will be taken directly from the school where Emerald’s students were zoned. “The money follows the children.” Our legislative delegation can’t jigger the BEP formula to get Knox County its fair share, but they’re leading the charge for public-funded private schools. We must hold them accountable for the schools and kids who are left behind.
Fee office oversight is overdue “I like to pay taxes,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once said. “With them I buy civilization.” If Holmes were alive and residing in Knox County, his taxes could also buy arrogance and ineptitude. Peering myopically past a mountain of evidence that gross incompetence plagues her office, Criminal Court Clerk Joy McCroskey recently granted across-theboard staff raises as high as 16 percent. Her “hard-working” employees deserved “a lot more than they got,” McCroskey said. We’re relieved they didn’t work harder; half the county might be wrongfully jailed had they put their noses to the grindstone. Mike Hammond, who will replace McCroskey this fall, says he will rescind the raises, so McCroskey’s in-your-face gesture only served to train the spotlight more intensely on the fee offices and the outdated salary suit system under which they operate. It also resurrected the larger question of overall accountability in those offices. If some view Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett’s decision to hold the line on pay for general government workers as miserly, McCroskey’s action reminds us of all that can go wrong when officeholders are responsible to no one but themselves. Former Knox County
subsequently pleaded guilty to official misconduct. Absent checks and balLarry ances, power readily corVan rupts. At the federal level, Guilder executive power is checked by the legislative branch. Legislative acts are checked by the judicial arm. Little in the Knox County Trustee Mike Lowe spent Charter checks the operamore than a decade stock- tions of the fee offices. Buding his fiefdom with reliable gets are submitted to the cronies to cement his hold Knox County Commission on the office. Along with for rubber-stamp approval, Lowe, several of them have but ultimately fee offices are been indicted for felonies responsible only to the votthat could earn them signif- ers, the same voters who reicant prison sentences. The grand jury that indicted Lowe recommended that the trustee be appointed by the mayor. Oppo- ■ Karen Carson wants teachers nents of a proposed charter to put concerns in writing and amendment in 2008 that send them up the chain of would have done just that command. cashed in on mistrust of ■ Indya Kincannon countered then-Knox County Mayor that some things cannot be Mike Ragsdale and some resolved at the school level dubious wording of the “because they are simply amendment to defeat it. disagreements.” Along with the trustee, ■ Mike McMillan asked Carson the Knox County Clerk, if she is trying to stop people Register of Deeds and Law from speaking at school Director would also have board meetings. been appointed by the may- ■ Of course not, said Carson. or under the proposal. The “I would not expect an “King Mayor” bogeyman triemployee to show up and umphed, and anxious voters be shut down because they torched the amendment. would know the policy and not show up.” John Duncan III’s abbreviated tenure as Knox ■ Meanwhile, teachers conCounty Trustee punctuated tinue to speak at board meetthe need for change in the ings and workshops, and last week three principals showed fee offices. Allegations of up to express unhappiness unearned bonuses led to with the leadership of Superthe resignation and indictintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre. ment of Duncan and several key staff members. Duncan ■ Foster Arnett, running to
turned Mike Lowe to office term after term. It’s worth considering that McCroskey might have become unhinged on the matter of pay raises three years ago without a replacement waiting in the wings to quash the insanity. Her only impediments were public opinion and the amount of fees collected by the office. The electorate may not be ready for mayoral appointments to the fee offices, but some executive oversight and control of their budgets is overdue.
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keep his job as county clerk, and Mike Padgett, running to regain the job that he lost to term limits, are already slugging it out. ■ Any civic club looking for a good program should invite both guys on the same day for a spirited debate. ■ We’re sorry, but a fan of GOP candidate Clarence “Eddie” Pridemore called to complain that a photo we published “made him look bad” and accused us of supporting his opponent, Chancellor Daryl Fansler. Yet the photo we published is one taken from the website of the local bar association, submitted no doubt by Pridemore himself.
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Booster shot for John Bruhin
Patience, please. John Bruhin is facing a long walk, and it may take an extra minute. He is on his way back into the spotlight for one big night this summer. On July 24, he will be inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame. Bruhin, 49, has been “training” for a while. He is 70 pounds down from 420 and trying to get closer to playing weight. He has one new knee and needs another but can get along with a trusty cane. John played football at Powell High, Tennessee and Tampa Bay. The adventure came with a price. There are scars. He struggles to get up from a chair. So, tell us, John Bruhin, if you could go back to the
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beginning … “I’d do it all over again.” Going back would mean downtown Powell, barefoot walks down the hill to Groner’s Store, being poor without really realizing it. “Ray McCloud, a neighbor and friend, was my first source of football information. We’d talk about Tennessee. He had known General Neyland and a lot of other famous names. He knew about tradition. He gave me tickets a few times
when he didn’t want to go to games. “That’s how I got to see Ernie and Bernie (Grunfeld and King) in basketball.” Other friends were vital. “Fred Sisk had been to a baseball academy. He knew a lot. He taught me how to lift weights and properly stretch. He also taught me how to write papers for school.” Fred’s dad, Governor Sisk, owned a gas station on Clinton Highway. He saw potential in young Bruhin. “When I’d be below zero, he would give me an occasional $20. He may have never known how much that meant.” Some said playing at Tennessee was an impossible dream but John thought maybe, perhaps, possibly he
could make it. He tried to make a deal with his dad. “My father had a drinking problem. I asked if he’d stop drinking if I made the team.” Half happened. John earned a scholarship. He made the starting lineup in 1985 as a sophomore guard. “That is my best memory of football, my first significant playing time. The team was really a team. We had Tony (Robinson), but we didn’t have a lot of superstars. We didn’t have a lot of anything except heart. “Eight of us used the same sports coat to have our pictures taken for the brochure. Seven of us didn’t have one.” Phillip Fulmer was Ten-
nessee’s line coach. He vividly remembers three seasons with Bruhin. “He was such an outstanding talent. He was really a great player, unusually athletic and fast for his size. He may have had the most talent of anyone I had coached up to that time. “John needed guidance. There were days when it was a hug and a kick on the rear. I had to be tough at times. He almost quit. I remember him going to Georgia to check on some hunting dogs. We had to go get him. “There probably were days when he didn’t like me, but I didn’t burn the bridge. I think we are best friends.” It was Fulmer who first said John had NFL potential. Bruhin didn’t believe it.
But, the Bucs drafted him in the fourth round. He won a starting job. He made some money. If the knees had lasted longer … The years since have not been the proverbial rose garden. John has had ups and downs, health problems, even heartbreak. He has decided God must have a plan, maybe that he should offer to others lessons learned, wisdom gained. The hall of fame induction is a big deal. It figures to be a booster shot for several of us. Fulmer rearranged a speaking engagement in Denver to be here. “I wouldn’t miss it,” he said. Me neither. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.
Remembering Dr. Charles Bond HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin The Rev. Charles S. Bond came to Foun- two years, he had completed his high school tain City’s Central Baptist Church in 1945 work. While attending the Southern Baptist when the church had some 1,200 members Convention in 1932, he met Dr. James T. and retired in 1975 when there were 2,300, Warren, then president of Carson-Newman one of the largest congregations in the College. Warren persuaded him to do some preparatory work at Harrison-Chilhowee Knoxville area at that time. During his 30-year ministry, the church Baptist Academy in Seymour and to then built a $275,000 sanctuary and a three- matriculate at Carson-Newman. By attending both Carson-Newman’s regular and story, $160,000 education building. While those numbers are impressive, summer sessions, he completed his bachthey do not fully reflect the immense differ- elor’s degree in only three years and graduence Dr. Bond made in his church and his ated cum laude in May 1933. During his student years, the Rev. Bond community. Nor do they reveal the posipreached at Pleasant tive changes that ocGrove and Union Bapcurred in a multitude Dr. Charles S. Bond tist churches in Cocke of individual lives (1906-1982) served County, then served at through his daily as minister of one Crichton (now Concord) witness to his faith of Knox County’s First Baptist Church, and his public and first mega churches, where he was ordained personal ministry. from 1945 to 1975. on Oct. 1, 1933. While 2014 – the cenPhoto courtesy of the seeking his master’s in tennial anniversary C.M. McClung Historical theology at Southern of Central Baptist Collection Baptist Seminary in Church – is an apLouisville, Ky., he travpropriate time to celebrate the life of this man who left a legacy eled weekends to serve First Baptist Church in Rockwood. He became pastor of the few can match. Charles Stephen Bond was born on Aug. First Baptist Church of Athens in 1939 but 7, 1906, in Danielsville (Madison County), was called to his final pastorate at Fountain Ga., the son of Joseph Lee and Ellie Andrew City’s Central Baptist Church in 1945. While he was a student at Carson-NewBond. His childhood on his father’s farm left him with a lifetime appreciation for the man, the Rev. Bond had been named colsoil and influenced him to purchase and lege orator and served three years on the maintain his farm in the Corryton commu- debate team. His eloquent sermons reflected that early indication of his speaking nity later in life. Following his elementary-school years, ability. During times of illness and bereaveCharles had attended high school for less ment, his pastoral skills brought hope and than a year when he took a job with a lum- comfort to his parishioners. ber company in south Georgia. While on his Due to his declining health, Dr. Bond resecond job with a meat company in Lake- tired, effective July 31, 1975. As previously land, Fla., he attended a citywide revival mentioned, his 30-year ministry brought a and was converted. He became active in considerable increase in membership and the Lakeland First Baptist Church and its considerable expansion of Central Baptist’s Sunday School and Baptist Young People’s sanctuary and its education building. HowUnion. ever, the spiritual growth of his church and When he felt called to the ministry in his positive influence on the community 1931, he realized he needed more educa- were even more significant. tion and enlisted a fellow church member During his distinguished career, he to tutor him in the evenings. In less than served as vice-president of the Tennessee
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A third-row seat to history It’s a big deal for East Tennessee each year when the Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute brings a couple thousand of American’s brightest and most idealistic young people for a weeklong training session before they go out to manage Freedom Schools across the country. Called servant-leaders, the college students are interns of the Children’s Defense Fund who will be teaching impoverished kids later this summer. They live for a week in a dorm at UT, with their main activities at the Alex Haley Farm in Norris. Full group assemblies are held at the Knoxville Convention Center, which is where I went on Sunday, grabbing a seat on the third row. Folks my age relived history when the legendary Freedom Singers performed, followed by speakers Marian Wright Edelman, Andrew Young Jr. and U.S. Rep. John Lewis. But the evening was about the young people there from 29 states. One called the
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speakers “our elders.” Ouch! We hold images of John Lewis at age 23 leading the March on Washington, Andy Young at the UN for Jimmy Carter and as Atlanta’s mayor in the 1980s, Marian Wright advocating for kids and civil rights way before she married lawyer and Bobby Kennedy aide Peter Edelman. College students of the 1960s believed we would change the world. And now we hope the kids in their 20s can. Being on the third row, I had a chance to meet the speakers afterward. But I bypassed the stars to approach the young woman who had so competently presided over the introduction of 50-plus Ella Baker Trainers. “You’re good,” I said,
Freedom Singers did not sing to entertain but to energize a movement: Marshall Jones, Emory Harris and Charles Neblett. Not pictured is Bill Pearlman.
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“We want young people to see college, not jail, in their future. And it’s very hard to be what you can’t see.” – Marian Wright Edelman grabbing her hand. “As your Shaquite Pegues looked elder, I’m saying, ‘Find a straight back and said, “Yes, district. Run for Congress.’ ” ma’am.”
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T-Shirt Worxs: T-Shirts plus lots more I headed out to McCalla Avenue last week to see what interesting businesses are in the area. I found a fairly young but booming business, T-Shirt Worxs. Don’t let the name fool you – many customized items are available in addition to T-shirts.
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I was fortunate to meet two of the three partners. Colonel Gene Abbott and former Knox County police officer Jeremy Mathes were in the midst of working on an order for 2,000 soccer jerseys. The third partner, Salena Colburn, was at her “other” job as controller for Gray Hodges. T-Shirt Worxs designs and prints shirts for churches, businesses, sports teams – basically any group. Your imagination is all that is needed for creating a design for your group’s shirts. Mathes says, “You can think it, we can create it.”
Kaelyn Farmer, president of ETABPA, introduces Mike North, dean of Strawberry Plains Pellissippi campus. Photos by Nancy Whit-
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■ Jeremy Mathes enjoys keeping up with the demand for customized shirts.
Always curious to find out what makes a business different, I asked Abbott and Mathes to explain their policy. They offer pricing per shirt – no additional fees, no set-up fees, just a flat price so customers know exactly what the total will be for their order. Then it was time for my lesson on sublimation.
“What is sublimation?” Abbott and Mathes are so familiar with this process it was difficult for them to describe it to a novice like me. They showed me some of the products where they use this process– coffee mugs, tiles, T-shirts. It is an awesome process of putting an image on items treated with
a special coating. I am still not sure I understand the process – I just know the results are fantastic. T-Shirt Worxs accepts any size order and all types of payments. Info: 803-7334 or www.tshirtworxs.com. The shop, 1310 McCalla Ave., is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays and 10-3 Saturdays.
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The East Towne Area Business and Professional Association met on Wednesday, June 4, at the New Harvest Park Community Center. Dean Mike North spoke to the group about the Strawberry Plains campus of Pellissippi State Community College. North is extremely proud of the upcoming Career Magnet Academy at
his campus. The inaugural freshman class will have 125 students who will be able to explore one of four career paths, gaining college credit for courses taken in their final high school years. The breakfast sponsor was Legends at Oak Grove Apartment Homes. Certified apartment manager Adam Chavira spoke about the wonderful community they offer. Stay tuned for announcement of the next meeting date.
ORNL Cash Mob hits Magnolia By Patricia Williams To support communities and local businesses, the ORNL Federal Credit Union has sponsored a series of cash mobs across East Tennessee under the theme “Small Business Counts.” Along with excitement and publicity, the credit union gives $600 in gift certificates to customers of the chosen business. As May ended, it was East Knoxville’s turn. Diamond Car Wash & Deli at 2908 Magnolia Ave. was selected as the site of the cash mob. “It’s a dependable, stable business that has maintained through hardships for seven years.” said LaTanya Terrell Upton, manager of the ORNL Federal Credit Union’s Magnolia branch. At Diamond Car Wash & Deli, each vehicle is handwashed by a crew that takes
pride in its work and pays attention to every detail – inside and out – down to placing that evergreen-shaped air freshener on your rearview mirror to prolong freshness. A little rain did not dampen customer spirits. “When it rains our deli gets busier,” said owner Carlton “Dee” Porter, as he proudly displayed his 100 rating from the most recent health department inspection. The deli menu includes salads, burgers, sandwiches, sides and chicken wings, at what this writer considers fair prices. The deli at Diamond Car Wash has an established lunch crowd. Orders are called in from surrounding areas for pick up. Multitask and save time: Get a car wash while having lunch. The reception/dining area is spacious, clean and accommodating.
Carberry retires from MPC By Sandra Clark Anybody who has attended a community MPC meeting has met Mike Carberry. The Norris resident has retired, and he will be missed. MPC staff writer Sarah Powell interviewed Carberry before his last day. She wrote: “Nearly 26 years. More than 50 plans. Over 80 commissioners. Almost 225 co-workers. But there is only one Mike Carberry. And he will retire from MPC on May 16, concluding a career spent helping others improve the places where they live, work and play.” An Oak Ridge native, Carberry received his education from RandolphMacon College, the University of Tennessee and Texas A&M University. He worked as a planner in Alaska for more than a decade, returning home as principal planner at MPC in 1988. Carberry told Powell that he’s particularly proud of three accomplishments. The first is winning a National Trust for Historic Preserva-
tion Award for a book he published while working in Alaska, “Patterns of the Past,” a history and historicsite inventory of Anchorage. The second is his work on Mike Carberry the Coastal Trail, a 14mile greenway along Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The third is a local accomplishment, the Knoxville-Knox County Comprehensive Parks and Greenways Plan. “Those three in particular represent why I love my job. I’m able to help people preserve their past and the natural beauty of their surroundings so future generations can enjoy them,” he told Powell. “And it’s also been so gratifying to play a part in downtown and neighborhood revitalization.” In retirement, Carberry plans to visit every national park and to take his wife, Susan, to Italy.
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“Everything is cooked fresh when it’s ordered,” said cook Arde “Chef Boyardee” Johnson. “It’s not sitting under a heat lamp.” Some of the most popular items on the menu are the chef’s salad, tilapia, burgers and wings – whole chicken wings, not pieces, according to Johnson. He and cook Reggie Porter show pride in their culinary productions as though they were cooking for royalty. Make the most of your time and have lunch, dinner or a snack while getting your vehicle hand washed and dried to a sparkle at Diamond Car Wash and Deli. The car wash is open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, while the deli is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. To nominate a local merchant for the SBC Cash Mob go to www. SmallBusinessCounts.com.
LaTanya Terrell Upton, ORNL Magnolia branch manager, talks with Carlton “Dee” Porter, owner of Diamond Car Wash & Deli.
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Marilyn Coble, ORNL business loan officer, registers deli customer Renee Thompson for her $20 gift certificate.
Civil rights leader to visit Knoxville The city of Knoxville will continue its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with two events on June 19, the date celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth in recognition of the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a veteran of the civil-rights m o v e m e nt and a friend of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., will lead a “Mass C.T. Vivian Meeting” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at Payne Avenue Baptist Church, 2714 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Mass meetings at African-American churches were a core organizing tool of the civil-rights movement, serving as rallies and planning sessions for marches and protests.
Vivian, who now lives in Atlanta, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was instrumental in desegregation efforts in Nashville and other cities across the South in the 1960s. Also on June 19: From 2 to 4:30 p.m., the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound will present an “Amos ’n’ Andy” film festival at the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave. It will feature episodes from and discussion of the “Amos ’n’ Andy” television show, which ran from 1951 to 1953 and was the first network program to have a largely AfricanAmerican cast. The “Amos ’n’ Andy” show had a complicated racial history: It began as a longrunning radio program, originating in the 1920s, and was written and voiced by white actors playing black characters that drew heavily on minstrel-show
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ages 17 and under free. Info: Michael Gill, 934-2039, or www.knoxart.org. Sunset Music Series presents Early Morning String Dusters, 7 p.m. Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center’s covered outdoor amphitheater, Townsend. Classic bluegrass music. Admission: $5. Info: 4480044. Strata-G’s annual Jubilee, 5-8 p.m. Art Emporium, 200 S. Gay St. Fundraiser for Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM). Features live and silent auctions. Southern hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, jazz music of the Tim Hughes Quartet. Tickets: $50/single, $85/pair.
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THROUGH SUNDAY, JULY 27 Leonardo Silaghi: 3 Paintings exhibit, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Presenting sponsor is Emerson Process Management. Info: Angela Thomas, 934-2034, or www.knoxart.org.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11 AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Buckingham Retirement Clubhouse, 7103 Manderly Way. Into/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964. Summer Library Club presents the Zoomobile, 2 p.m. Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750. Sparky and Rhonda Rucker share stories and songs, 3 p.m. Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.
THURSDAY, JUNE 12 Summer Library Club presents magician Michael Messing, 11 a.m. Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Info: 588-8813. Ronald McDonald: “Readers are Leaders,” 2 p.m. Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 470-8663. Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection luncheon: An Elegant Accessories Extravaganza, 10:45 a.m. Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Features an accessories exchange: bring in a bag, purse, scarf, necklace, earrings or a one-size-fits-all hat or belt to exchange for this event. Guest speaker: Phyllis Page from Chelsea, Ala. Cost: $12. Child care by reservation only. Info/ reservations: 315-8182 or knoxvillechristianwomen@gmail.com.
FRIDAY, JUNE 13 “Alive After Five” series presents The Streamliners Swing Orchestra and The Kayley Farmer Project, 6 p.m. Knoxville Museum of Art. Admission: $15; $10 for museum members and college students with ID;
Secret City Festival celebrating the heritage of Oak Ridge. World War II living-history activities and demonstrations; American Museum of Science and Energy’s Manhattan Project bus tours; Secret City Scenic Excursion Train rides; children’s festival; arts and crafts vendors; antique dealers; food vendors; outdoor entertainment. Info: www.secretcityfestival.com.
SATURDAY, JUNE 14 Butterflies of East Tennessee, 10:15 a.m. Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Guest speakers: Lois English and Glenna Julian, Sevier County Master Gardeners. Info: 777-1750. Bricks 4 Kidz: LEGOs Fun at the Library, 11 a.m. Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Free library program for elementary-age children from kindergarten through 5th grade. Space limited; registration required. To register: 922-2552. Saturday Stories and Songs: Melissa Mastrogiovanni, 11 a.m. Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750. The Second Saturday Concerts at The Cove: The Hitmen, 6-8 p.m. The Cove at Concord Park, 11808 S. Northshore Drive. Free. Info: www.knoxcounty.org or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Knox-County-ParksRec/55197043075.
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Summer camp at Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. “Acting for Musical Theatre” for ages 14-17, 9 a.m.-noon; “Intermediate Acting” for ages 12-16, 1-4 p.m. Info: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.
TUESDAY, JUNE 17 UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meeting, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice office, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277. Entries accepted to Fountain City Art Center Open Show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Opening reception and awards presentation 6:308 p.m. Friday, June 20. Info/entry forms: fcartcenter@ knology.net or www.fountaincityartctr.com. Einstein Simplified Comedy Improv troop performance, 8 p.m. Scruffy City Hall on Market Square. Free admission. Summer Library Club presents the Zoomobile, 1 p.m. South Knoxville Branch Library, 4500 Chapman Highway. Info: 573-1772. Dancing Spaghetti Storytime, 6:30 p.m. Howard Pinkston Branch Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike. Ages 4-9, accompanied by a parent. Info: 573-0436.
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Stanley’s Greenhouse
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literature, live music and meet author George Ella Lyon. Free and open to the public.
NO SALES TAX ON PLANTS!
DIRECTIONS: Take I-40 James White Parkway exit. Right on Sevier Ave at end of bridge. 1 mile left on Davenport, 1 mile Stanley’s on right.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18