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BUZZ Navitat sets grand opening Thursday Mayor Madeline Rogero will lead a grand opening (and perhaps demonstration) for the new Navitat at Ijams Nature Center, 4 p.m. Thursday, July 16, 2915 Island Home Ave. Navitat is a tree-canopy aerial adventure course.

SDHS ring found A South-Doyle High School ring engraved with the name Zane Rhodes has been found.

Info: Becky Williams Wuethrich on Facebook.

Red Gate Rodeo The annual Red Gate Festival and Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, at Red Gate Farm in Maynardville.

Carnival starts at 5 p.m.

Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday.

Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each day. Admission is $15 for adults, $8 for kids 4-10 years old, and free for kids age 3 and under.

Info: www.redgaterodeo. com or 992-3303.

IN THIS ISSUE Hallmark vols Tammy McCammon, president of the Hallmark Volunteers Club, a group consisting of collectors of Hallmark ornaments and sponsored by Linda’s Hallmark, welcomed her fellow members to a feast and a party last Friday at her church, New Salem United Methodist, off Martin Mill Pike.

Between the food and the fun, the guests – who came from Knox and surrounding counties and even Chattanooga – all had a great time.

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By Betsy Pickle Groundbreaking ceremonies generally draw politicians and executives in business suits. The groundbreaking for Suttree Landing Park on the South Waterfront had its share of those, but it also drew a younger contingent sporting the kind of attire you’d expect to see at a park.

They were children from the Boys & Girls Club at South Knoxville Elementary and Community School, happy to add another outing to their summer program.

Accompanied by South Knox Elementary principal Tanna Nicely, community school site coordinator Susan Martin and Boys & Girls Clubs director Kim Madeiros, they were well behaved, polite and excited about getting to lift shovels of dirt.

They certainly looked more comfortable during the humid morning ceremony than their more formally dressed elders.

First District City Council member and Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis kicked things off by introducing his fellow council members, including the only one who was, sensibly, wearing casual clothes: Mark Campen.

As several dozen South Knox residents and neighborhood leaders, business owners, current and former elected officials and city

In an election year that portends few surprises and no fireworks, the District 5 City Council race could be the only game in town – if the challenger remains as feisty in the stretch as she is out of the gate.

“I have nothing against Mark (Campen),” says Jennifer Mirtes.

“I think he’s a great guy. I just think I could do a better job. Not to seem conceited, but once you’re elected, you have to speak for the people, and once I’m elected – and I will be – my opinion won’t matter anymore.

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Suttree Landing event

Mayor Madeline Rogero, right, gives a big smile to Susan Martin, Tanna Nicely and kids from the Boys & Girls Club at South Knoxville Elementary School after all hit the target at the groundbreaking ceremony for Suttree Landing Park Behind Rogero are council members Duane Grieve (left) and Marshall Stair (right). Photo by Betsy Pickle

and county employees sought relief in the shade provided by trees on the large field, Pavlis stood at a lectern and talked about the park’s potential to drive private invest-

businesses investing all along ment in South Knoxville.

“First, we thought that this Sevier Avenue now. We certainly would bring it, but now we’re just have a huge investment with the catching up with the opening of the park,” said Pavlis. “We have To page 3

No cell tower (now) for Blow Drive

By Sandra Clark The attorney for Tulsa-based Branch Towers has withdrawn its application for a cell tower on Blow Drive in Lakemoor Hills, South Knoxville.

Mary Miller said Monday that issues with terrain led to the withdrawal of this specific site location, but the service needs still exist for the area. “We could not meet the grade requirements for the road (to the tower),” she said. “We will continue to look for a site.”

The request for use-on-review was postponed until September by the Metropolitan Planning Commission at its July 9 meeting.

Several neighbors had protested the construction, and it’s no wonder. The application said the 194-foot high monopole is needed for service in the areas of Sequoyah Hills, Lakeshore Park and Lyons View Road – all across the river.

Alex and Pat Shivers had noted the proposed site’s proximity to the historic Speedwell Manor. The proposed site was at 3509 Blow Drive southeast of Ferry Road.

Branch Towers is working for T-Mobile, but the tower would be structurally capable of supporting at least three additional telecommunications providers.

Miller said Branch has looked at sites in West Knoxville but “received negative feedback” from the board of directors of Lakeshore Park.

Tom Brechko was the MPC planner who reviewed this item as well as Branch’s successful attempt to get use-on-review for a site on Bluegrass Road.

During that vote, MPC chair Rebecca Longmire supported the plan to put multiple service providers on one pole. “We don’t like the proliferation of poles, but the proliferation of devices makes it difficult to avoid.”

Author, activist Michael Eric Dyson to visit Knoxville A nationally known social commentator and political analyst will keynote the 155th anniversary celebration of Mount Zion Baptist Church.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will speak at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, July 19, at the church, located at 2714 Brooks Avenue. Now living in Washington, D.C., Dyson once Dyson

served as associate pastor of Mount Zion. He attended Knoxville College and Carson-Newman before earning his doctorate from Princeton.

Dyson will speak at lunch

with Diversity Champions Resource Group from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 18, at the Knoxville Area Urban League, 1514 East Fifth Avenue.

A public lecture, “Justice, Inclusion and Moral Reality,” will follow with networking at 1:45 p.m. and the program starting at 2 p.m.

Both events are co-sponsored

by 100 Black Women of Knoxville, the city of Knoxville, and UT’s vice chancellor for diversity.

Dyson is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University. He was named by Essence magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring African Americans in the U.S. He is a political analyst for MSNBC and a former radio show host on NPR.

What’s next for teacher incentive pay?

Superintendent Jim McIntyre gave the board a choice – pay the earned bonuses (about $3.2 million) or use that money instead to fund a pay raise for all teachers.

Angst ensued.

Mayor Tim Burchett agreed to take $3 million from the county’s fund balance to pay the bonuses one time as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) A: To be determined. adopted by the school board and Background: When school County Commission. One time. started last fall, teachers were Based on the MOU, the quesgiven their evaluation criteria tions above should be answered (rubric) and the chance to earn No and No. extra compensation for those who Issue I: Why was money jumped through the hoops appro- earned in FY15 being paid in FY16? priately.

McIntyre offered no explanaBut when the school board tion, but this was in his March 11 started forming its 2015- 2016 memo to board members: “This budget (called FY16) this spring, budget recommendation elimi-

By Sandra Clark

This didn’t start as a trick question.

Q: Will teachers be eligible for incentive bonuses for the upcoming school year? And is the money budgeted to pay them?

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nates $3.2 million in APEX payouts in FY16 … were slated to be paid in November, but would have been fully earned by the end of the current school year.”

OK. So the money earned in FY15 was “slated to be paid” in FY16 – a budget not yet adopted by either the school board or County Commission. My math education was at Halls High School, but this looks like deficient spending of $3.2 million.

No harm, no foul though, when Burchett rolled out his one-time $3 million.

Issue II: So what about this year?

McIntyre, again in his March 11 memo to the board, wrote, “We have committed to undertake a complete redesign of the APEX

strategic compensation program this spring that would take effect in the 2015-16 school year.”

But wait!

The state Department of Education requires a board-approved strategic compensation plan for the upcoming year from each school district by June 30. The plan must state how many teachers are eligible and the cost.

Knox County has submitted a plan that looks suspiciously like the FY15 plan without even discussion by the school board.

Melissa Ogden, director of public affairs for KCS, explains: “Knox County Schools was required by the Tennessee Department of Education to submit a To page 3

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Saving Captain Riley Appreciative soldier bestows honor upon ER doctor The last time Dr. James Kirksey saw Matthew Riley, the 32-year-old Army captain was in the emergency room at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, desperately pleading for relief from a horri c, paralyzing pain.

Nine months later, the emergency doctor and the Army soldier, working on his doctorate in microbiology, stood face to face in a hallway of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department, the main characters in a dramatic story of patriotism, perseverance and gratitude.

In his hand, Riley held a “challenge coin� that he presented to Dr. Kirksey. The gift was a thank-you for a life-saving diagnosis Dr. Kirksey had made eight months earlier: a spinal epidural abscess that had left Riley unable to walk and threatened to end not only a promising military career, but his very life. “I was truly humbled, but don’t think I deserved it. It wasn’t like I stopped a bullet for him or pushed him out of the way of a runaway car,� said Dr. Kirksey.

Capt. Riley disagrees. “I would not be walking without him,� said Riley, who himself had been presented the very same coin from a high-ranking of cial while at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. “I believe he saved my life.�

Riley had undergone a laparoscopic lumbar microdisectomy at another hospital to correct mild but chronic sciatica pain in his left leg. But after the surgery, he grew worse – much worse. He eventually lost mobility in his legs and was unable to manage his pain even with medication.

He repeatedly sought emergency treatment from other medical facilities, but went undiagnosed as his health continued to decline. “I woke up [on a] Saturday night, drenched in sweat, my sheets were soggy, my hair was dripping. I took my temperature and it was 102.5. I was getting chills, I’m sweating like crazy but I’m freezing and couldn’t stop shaking. Then, I started vomiting,� Riley recounted.

Capt. Riley knew his fever was the sign of something wrong, likely life-threatening. As the vomiting started, he decided to call 911.

As an Army microbiologist who is involved in infectious disease research, he knew this was indicative of an infection. “I decided I was going to go to every clinic and hospital in Knoxville if that’s what it took to nd out what was going on,� he said.

By the time he arrived by ambulance at Fort Sanders that Sunday, the young soldier was pleading for help. “I said, ‘Do anything you can do to alleviate this pain! Please just help me!’ The pain was so extreme I begged them to give me something to knock me out. Within minutes Dr. Kirksey was there and he asked me a few brief questions, and in about two minutes he said, ‘CT and MRI.

soldier for accomplishments not recognized by other of cial means. “When I was presented that coin, he said it was because, number one, you are actually walking again, which is frankly a miracle, and number two, your dedication to at least make the attempt to stay in the military is the right thing to do, regardless of the consequences,� said Riley. “My chances are looking pretty good and I attribute much of my survival and recovery not only to the Army, but also to Dr. Kirksey.

I gave him the coin that was given to me because I believe that’s what Dr. Kirksey was doing – the right thing, even though it con icted with what I had been instructed to do by other health professionals. “He reminds me of military doctors – they are in it to help soldiers, to do the right thing whatever the consequences are. That’s what I saw in him,� added Riley, unaware at the time that Dr. Kirksey is a retired Army captain. “He not only did the right thing, but he fought for me. He found what was wrong, he treated me with care, and he wanted assurances that I would be taken care of in the right way. He and the ER staff, including the nurses, technicians, each of Army Captain Matt Riley, left, presents Dr. James Kirksey, emergency medicine physician at Fort Sand- them, really went above and beyond.�

Dr. Kirksey says he was “truly humbled� ers Regional Medical Center, with the “challenge coin� Riley received while at Walter Reed National to receive Capt. Riley’s “coin challenge.� “I Military Medical Center. Riley credits Kirksey for providing a life-saving diagnosis. just did what I was supposed to do,� he said.

Now!’� was, but I knew we needed to get antibiotics “Thank goodness he had whatever it took to say, ‘I am going to get another opinion for With more than ve decades of ER expe- in him.� what’s going on.’ If he waited some period rience, Dr. Kirksey immediately suspected After Riley received emergency care at of time after that, no matter what I had that, based on his initial examination, the Fort Sanders Regional, Dr. Kirksey took done might not have made any difference. young soldier had an infection called an steps to assure appropriate follow-up care, Thank goodness he had the fortitude to epidural abscess. A short time later, bloodincluding the correct antibiotic treatment. say, ‘Something’s not right and I need to be work and the MRI and CT results Riley was transferred back to his seen.’ con rmed it. previous hospital for several ad“I could tell it was emotionally important “I couldn’t make the ditional surgeries to drain and to him to do what he did, and because of diagnosis just on the treat the abscess. He was exam,� said Dr. Kirkthen transferred to Walter that, it made it all the more important to me,� Dr. Kirksey continued. “Any physician sey, “But from the Reed National Military worth their salt should appreciate a paget-go I had a strong Medical Center, where tient’s gratitude. I’ve had patients thank me, suspicion that he had doctors were hopeful I’ve had them give me a smile, give me a an infection. It wasn’t that he would recover, touch, give me a letter, probably almost any just that he had the but would likely be way you can. But never, in the 43 years I’ve fever and epidural medically retired from done this, has anyone done what Captain abscess – he was septhe military.

Riley did. I am really humbled by it.� tic. It was hard to miss Determined to remain Since Riley’s treatment, he has returned because he was so sick. in the Army, Riley worked to Knoxville and continued outpatient Some patients, all they’ve alongside combat-injured solgot is localized pain – they’re not diers to take his rst step by the end physical and occupational therapy at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center. sick and they don’t have fever. His was of his rst week. Before long, he was walk“While at WRNMMC, I had the privilege beyond just pain.� ing loops around the ward with a Catholic to be treated by some of the best physical “Sometimes you see a patient that’s so priest while reciting the Rosary to give him and occupational therapists in the world,� sick you need to go ahead and intercede,� strength.

Riley said. “My recovery has continued to Dr. Kirksey added. “This is what all emerAlthough he had not yet fully recovered go better than I ever expected it to, meetgency doctors who know their stuff do – we and his Army career remained in doubt, ing the most optimistic outcomes. I cannot have to react and treat what we’re seeing, his dedication was recognized by one of his overstate the care, attention to detail, even though we don’t know all the reasons physicians and reported to a high-ranking determination and individualized programs why [patients] are that way. In [Riley’s] of cial familiar with his case. Riley was that my therapists at Patricia Neal have situation, he was so sick that I knew he presented with the WRNMMC “challenge needed antibiotics. I didn’t know for sure given me, and I am unmeasurably grateful coin,� traditionally used in the military as what type of infection he had or where it a way of expressing gratitude to a fellow to them.�

Epidural abscess requires prompt action What exactly is an epidural abscess? It’s usually a bacterial infection that forms in the space between the bones of the spine and the membrane lining the spinal cord (spinal epidural abscess) or between the skull bones and the brain lining (intracranial edpidural abscess).

An epidural abscess results in a pocket of pus that builds up and causes swelling. It can

press against the bones and the meninges, the membranes that protect the spinal cord and brain. This swelling and the underlying infection can affect sensations and physical movement.

Typically, an epidural abscess is caused by Staphylococcus aureus, but in Capt. Matt Riley’s case, it was the bacteria Klebsiella. “Unrecognized and untreated, you worry

about irreparable local damage to nerves, to the spinal cord, etc., just because of the size and compression, and obviously, there’s the potential of spreading should it rupture or leak,� said Dr. James Kirksey, emergency physician at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “So to some degree, Captain Riley had the worst of both. He was really lucky [the infection was found and treated.]�

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Going wild for Hallmark

community

Tammy McCammon wins the prize for providing Southern hospitality in South Knoxville.

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McCammon, president of the Hallmark Volunteers Club, a group consisting of collectors of Hallmark ornaments and sponsored

by Linda’s Hallmark, welcomed her fellow members to a feast and a party last Friday at her church, New Salem United Methodist, off Martin Mill Pike.

Between the food and the fun, the guests – who came from Knox and surrounding counties and even Chattanooga – all had a great time.

The annual event was timed to coincide with the Hallmark Ornament Premiere. Each July, Hallmark breaks out its new Christmas ornaments, building excitement with late-night Friday shopping parties at select stores and ornament debuts through the weekend. The Hallmark Volunteers, who meet every other month, turn their July meeting into an orgy of anticipation. They play games and hold an auction of ornaments and décor.

(Money raised goes to charitable causes, such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.)

McCammon transformed the dining room of the church into a jungle paradise. Animal prints were everywhere, even on the ornaments decorating a Christmas tree. Door prizes were wrapped in animal print. The display of prizes for bingo was enough to drive anyone, well, wild.

Fortunately, the meal wasn’t exotic, though it was extravagant. The dinner consisted of hearty breakfast food – sausage-and-egg and hash-brown casseroles, bacon, biscuits, jellies and honey, sliced tomatoes, deviled eggs, cheese cubes, strawberries, blackberries, pineapple, peaches, bananas, grapes, mini sweet rolls, lemon muffins, milk, juice and tea (I may have missed a berry or melon).

McCammon brought in the A-team to help with the

Mary Evelyn Frei, Tammy McCammon, Betty McCammon and Ben McCammon follow their animal instinct for providing Southern hospitality at the annual Hallmark Volunteers premiere party. Photos by Betsy Pickle

McKenzie Armbruster and Alexis Norton work on their talking sticks. food: her parents, Betty and Ben McCammon. Tammy and her aunt, Mary Evelyn Frei (Betty’s sister and an amazing baker), are the collectors, but putting that spread on was truly a family affair.

After the auction, most members headed west to one or both of the Linda’s Hallmark stores, at The Gallery and Village Green. If you visit a home this summer where the Christmas tree is already out and decorated, odds are good the homeowner is an ornament collector. If you see multiple trees – you’re probably in the company of a Hallmark Volunteer.

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Redevelopment update by Foster

The Colonial Village Neighborhood Association could not have had a timeli-

Teacher incentive pay differentiated pay plan by June 30, 2015. Board of Education members have been informed about what was submitted, and they understand that as we review and consider redesigning the plan over the next several months, we are still obligated to meet the state requirement of submitting a preliminary plan.

“Please know that we will be able to make any edits or updates to the plan based on the feedback from the Board of Education (and

Tory Crenshaw adds beads to the fringe on his talking stick.

er speaker for its July meeting. Dawn Michelle Foster, deputy director of the Office of Redevelopment, came to give an update on redevelopment in SoKno. Foster’s visit last Thursday came two days after the groundbreaking for Suttree Landing Park, and she described the amenities of the new park. She also addressed the elephant in the room: industry that remains on the waterfront despite hopes for a continuous riverwalk along the Tennessee River through downtown.

“Being from Louisville, Ky., I’ve seen great park space and then industrial” repeated all along the Ohio

Arnella Gregory shows kids at the Boys & Girls Club of Vestal, including Lauren Glenn (in purple) how to make a Native American talking stick. Gregory, who has lived out West and studied Indian crafts, says every tribe has its own version of a talking stick, which would give the holder the right to speak at a meeting.

River, she said.

Foster mainly recycled information she’s shared with other SoKno groups or things most South Knoxvillians have noticed themselves, such as the demolition of the former Vols Inn and the fact that the former Baptist Hospital is now a pile of rubble.

She said contractors have repaired the damage they caused to the pedestrian walkway connecting the parking garage and the professional building on the east end of the site, and the construction of student housing in the old parking lot on Blount Avenue next to Henley Street has moved to

Suttree Landing

the back burner.

Foster seemed most excited about the new pedestrian/bike bridge proposed to connect South Knoxville at Clancy Avenue with the University of Tennessee campus at Thompson-Boling Arena. She expects to have firmer details on the project in the fall.

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this has been verified with the Tennessee Department of Education). Also please note that the differentiated pay plan will not be final until the Board of Education votes on it.”

Hmmm.

So will teachers be eligible for an incentive bonus this year? School starts in three weeks. And has the money been budgeted to pay it?

Who knows? But if money earned in FY16 is “slated to be paid” in FY17, then I guess it doesn’t matter.

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

■ Tri-County Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each second and fourth Monday, Connie’s Kitchen, 10231 Chapman Highway, Seymour. Info: Check Facebook.

■ Lake Forest Neighborhood Association. Info: Molly Gilbert, 209-1820 or 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 of the River Democrats (9th District) meet 6:30 p.m. each third Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike. Info: Jim Sessions, jim. sessions@comcast.net or 573-0655.

■ South Haven Neighborhood Association meets 10 a.m. each third Saturday, Hillcrest UMC, 1615 Price Ave. Info: Pat Harmon, 591-3958.

■ South Woodlawn Neighborhood Association. Info: Shelley Conklin, 686-6789.

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

Kids from the Boys & Girls Club at South Knoxville Elementary School, along with SKES Community School site coordinator Susan Martin and SKES principal Tanna Nicely, join Mayor Madeline Rogero and members of City Council for the official groundbreaking for Suttree Landing Park. former Baptist Hospital site (and) the former Kerns Bakery. The investment just keeps going on and on.”

With the skyline of the north shore of the Tennessee River visible behind him, Parks and Recreation director Joe Walsh called it “a great day for a groundbreaking.”

“We haven’t had a groundbreaking in a while,” said Walsh, who listed some of the future amenities of the 8-acre park: a playground, a boat dock, a launch for kayaks and canoes, and a halfmile greenway.

Mayor Madeline Rogero

gave kudos to City Council for approving the funds for the park.

“This first phase of park construction and the building of the Waterfront Drive, which … is the half-mile, treelined road providing direct access to the park – altogether that’s a $6.6 million commitment,” she said. “It’s a significant investment. We couldn’t do that without council agreeing to that in the budget.”

Rogero bragged on the 2,000-foot-long riverwalk in the park.

“The bigger dream is that this riverwalk will con-

nect to the greenways and the bike-path system both north of the river and over time to the almost 50-mile network of trails through the South Knoxville Urban Wilderness.”

Rogero reminded the crowd that the name for the park came from an online public opinion poll.

“The park’s name pays homage to the famed fictitious son of 1950s Knoxville, the dark and rascally Cornelius Suttree, created by Cormac McCarthy 36 years ago.

And you can still feel the presence of Suttree and his

river companions all along this section of the river. It’s rare when you can stand somewhere and get such a powerful and timeless sense of place.

“This park and this riverfront are important because they’ll help future generations … understand what Knoxville is and how it came to be.

“It’s easy to envision children playing in the playground and families enjoying events on the festival lawn. And I’m looking forward to being able to put my kayak … in right here.”

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Who is No. 2?

sergeant (nowhere near a general). He is 6-4 and 213 and working to get stronger by the day. This son of a Critical question that reTexas high school coach got ally needs an answer before a head start on the Tennesthe second Saturday in Sepsee playbook and will know tember: Who is No. 2? how to run the offense.

Marvin We know about No. 1.

Jennings, 6-4 and 190, West Joshua Dobbs is Tennessee’s has a burning desire to be quarterback. The benefia quarterback but admits ciary of a forced promotion he still has a lot to learn. He is the more athletic runner saved last season, directed and a potential star at some the bowl romp and now is famous, even ranked ahead Butch Jones has multiple other position if he falls of his accomplishments. choices, the finest crop of short of his goal.

Hype helps in the race young quarterbacks in the Jones could be the best for a Heisman. It would also country. Amazing it is. Tal- combo, good passer, fleet help to complete a few pass- ented they are, four stars afoot, a genuine dual-threat es down the field and win all. Experienced they are quarterback from a very some really big games. competitive league in Calinot.

Even though Dobbs is Some high school stand- fornia. He is 6-3 and 190, nimble and quick, most outs shy away from competi- about the size of Dobbs scrambles and called run- tion. Quinten Dormady, Jau- when he arrived, a more acning plays end with a hit. an Jennings and Sheriron curate passer but similar in Because the line still has Jones showed no fear. Each several ways. flaws, we can assume he probably believes he is the Sheriron does come with will be hit hard if he just best, or soon will be. one scar. He committed to stands there. Either way, It is little more than a Florida before he wised up the Volunteers must have a guess at the moment but and switched to Tennessee. satisfactory replacement – Dormady appears to have Enjoy the thought of just in case something bad more polish and is probably three fine freshmen – while happens. the better passer and field it lasts.

When Mike DeBord wears his August quarterback coaching cap, he will have two primary jobs. He must help Dobbs refine his skills. Joshua is a junior who has started nine games. He’s nowhere near his potential peak. Superior intelligence makes him easy to teach. He is a good athlete for the position.

Perhaps more important for DeBord and the team is preparation of an adequate replacement before the Oklahoma game. Not having a satisfactory reserve has been a Tennessee weakness.

Think how the Vols looked against Florida in 2013.

Don’t bother recalling how they looked last season. That might cause indigestion.

The race for No. 2 figures to be one of the most interesting aspects of pre-season practice. Want to test your foresight? Write your pick on a sticky note and put it where you can find it.

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

Work ahead on Jackson Avenue As the city of Knoxville prepares to seek a master developer to oversee development of publicly owned properties along West Jackson Avenue, consultants are conducting a market study to provide guidance on potential commercial and residential uses of the properties.

The properties, which include the cleared sites of the former McClung Warehouses, run along West Jackson between Gay Street and Broadway.

They are owned by Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation on behalf of the city.

KCDC has contracted with The Communities Group and Thomas Pointe

Associates to conduct the market study.

“This is really the next step toward redeveloping Jackson Avenue,” said Bob Whetsel, the city’s director of redevelopment.

“The market study will give us a clearer picture of potential uses along that corridor.”

Mayor Madeline Rogero included $150,000 in this year’s budget to hire a master developer to oversee Jackson Avenue redevelopment.

The market study is expected to be complete by the end of the summer.

The city will then begin working on a Request for Qualifications for a master developer.

A ‘sign’ of progress for Knoxville After a series of amendments and amended amendments, City Council voted to make significant changes to a proposed sign ordinance.

The changes, approved last week on first reading, will limit the height of new signs to 35 feet within 500 feet of Interstate exchanges, 30 feet on roads adjacent to Interstate right-of-way, 20 feet on federally designated highways and 10 feet everywhere else.

The numbers originally proposed by the Sign Task Force were 40, 30, 30 and 30 feet. The city’s current code allows 50-foot signs on any road.

The lower numbers are good news for those who would rather look at green

bers. Knoxville Chamber president Mike Edwards described the Sign Task Force’s proposed limit on Wendy sign heights (40, 30, 30 and Smith 30 feet) as “a major hit.”

This caused me to wonder if any business ever folded due to limits on signage. mountains and blue sky I called Edwards the day afthan a jumble of advertis- ter the vote to see if he knew.

No surprise: No such ing. And that would be everybody, excluding a few data exist. There have advertising execs and sign been studies on the failure manufacturers.

Business of businesses after road owners love their own signs changes, but none on sign but could probably do with- height changes.

From Edwards’ perspecout the rest.

Before approving lower tive, it’s not about having the sign heights suggested by biggest sign – it’s about becouncil member George ing fair. State law has grandWallace, a business own- fathered the 50-foot signs, er himself, council heard so it’s wrong to limit new from community mem- businesses to 10-foot signs.

Those in favor of lower signs point to Turkey Creek shopping area, which is wildly successful, even with strict limits on sign height.

Turkey Creek can’t be compared to the rest of Knoxville because it was developed all at once with a uniform standard, which meant all tenants played by the same rules in regard to signage.

Research shows that signage is very important for businesses, Edwards says.

Brand repetition is crucial, and signs provide that.

Still, there is ample evidence within the community that big signs aren’t required for big business.

Case in point − the Bearden Chick-fil-A, owned by Ed-

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die Halliday. When neighbors and other concerned citizens learned that the corporate office intended to put a 50-foot sign in front of the store, built in 2012, they pleaded with Halliday to install a monument sign instead. He did, and long drive-through lines are a testament to the store’s success.

The same is true of businesses along Kingston Pike west of Cedar Bluff Road.

A group of self-appointed “sign cops” have made a habit of asking businesses along the corridor to keep signage low, and they’ve complied − and thrived.

Edwards didn’t have an answer for how the Internet – cell phones in particular

– affects the need for signage. He did point out that it’s illegal to use cell phones while driving.

On our family vacation, I booked my hotels online and located my favorite fast-food restaurant with my phone (while someone else was driving, of course).

Signs helped me see those businesses as I approached, but played no role in my choosing them.

These days we use the Internet or local newspapers to find our insurance agent, tire store or a guy to fi x the dishwasher. Big signs for stores may go the way of the Burma Shave signs.

Thank you, council members who voted for lower signs. Please do it again.

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Campen vs.

Mirtes: In an election year that portends few surprises and no fireworks, the District 5 City Council race could be the only game in town – if the challenger remains as feisty in the stretch as she is out of the gate.

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“I have nothing against Mark,” said Jennifer Mirtes.

“I think he’s a great guy. I just think I could do a better job. Not to seem conceited, but once you’re elected, you have to speak for the people, and once I’m elected – and I will be – my opinion won’t matter anymore.

“My main goal is to make sure that I stand up and speak for the people. If my community comes to me and says, ‘Hey, we have this issue,’ I’m going to stand by them. I’m not one of these people that doesn’t have a backbone.”

Incumbent Mark Campen is opening his campaign with an issue-specific approach and offered the example of his meetings with North Knoxville neighborhood residents as well as with a representative of the Hutton Company from Chattanooga to discuss plans for building a Walmart on the historic Howard House property on

The only game in town

North Broadway. He said he urged the developer to meet with the neighborhood.

“I told them it’s in their best interest to meet with the neighborhood and try to find a compromise. It’s important to point out the two main issues at hand: historic preservation and the plans of the Broadway Corridor Taskforce. Most folks I’ve Mark Campen with wife Emily and son Parson heard from would like to see a mixed use for the area.

“I’ve got unfinished business. No magic recipe – I just want to keep doing the work I’ve been doing, and I’ve got a great record of talking to people and listening to neighborhoods wherever issues come up, whether it’s Inskip or Oakwood Lincoln Park.”

The fifth district is large and multicultural and en- Jennifer Mirtes and husband Chris compasses a big chunk of the northside out to Foun- growing up in foster care death of Howard Baker Sr. Yarbrough ran against tain City west of Broadway. and moving to Knoxville to It includes Inskip, Lonsdale escape a bad marriage. She John Duncan Sr. in the next made the unusual move of election and put on a credand Happy Holler as well.

Mirtes lives in Inskip listing her party affiliation ible showing, considering with her husband, Chris; (Republican) even though he was a Democrat running works part-time for Smart city offices are nonpartisan. for a seat that had been in Campen, in some ways, Republican hands since Home Technologies; and cares for her father, who is a mirror opposite. Both Reconstruction. Campen’s has Alzheimer’s disease and sides of his family have aunt, Pat Campen Medley, Parkinson’s disease. She is been Knoxvillians for gen- a Republican, served on active in the Inskip Com- erations and were involved County Commission.

Unlike Mirtes, Campen, munity Association and is a in local politics. His grandpast president of the Central father, Willard Yarbrough, who was appointed to serve was a political reporter for a six-month term on CounHigh School PTSO. Her campaign will em- the News Sentinel, served ty Commission after Black phasize her military service on County Court and ran Wednesday, claims no party (she enlisted in the Air Force unsuccessfully for U.S. Con- affiliation and said he believes during Desert Storm), and gress against Irene Baker for he serves his constituents betshe speaks frankly about the seat made vacant by the ter as an independent.

Rogero has some fun at KAWE meet “Yippee!”

Knoxville’s customarily calm, cool and poised mayor hollered out at a meeting where she was the guest speaker last week.

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Her audience loved it.

Madeline Rogero was in her element when the Knoxville Association of Women Executives gathered at The Orangery. The KAWE even has a permanent name tag for Knoxville’s 68th mayor, labeling her an “honorary member.”

So what was that shout of enthusiasm all about?

Three and a half years into her first term, and with no opposition in this fall’s mayoral race, other than the possibility of a late-tothe-game write-in candidate who would have little to no chance of unseating her, Rogero told her audience, “As a political science graduate I can tell you there should be other candidates, but as an incumbent, I say ‘yippee!’ ”

ing aplenty in counA former Knox ty government, that County commishasn’t been the sioner, Rogero has case in city governhad some tough ment under Rograces in the past. ero. The reason She has won and is simple: She’s a lost, but she never consensus builder. stayed down for She is quick to give long, and she conthe credit to othtinued to learn how ers, though, telling the game is played.

KAWE, “Any sucBill Haslam beat her at the polls Mayor Madeline Rogero with Mary Beth Ramey, cess we have is because of the people in the 2003 may- president of KAWE. who work with me or’s race but then turned around and hired crat in a heavily Republican and because of a fabulous her as the city’s community stronghold, Rogero was en- City Council. We don’t aldevelopment director in abled by the job at city hall, ways agree, but we work 2006. That’s when Rogero’s working for a Republican well together. Our initiapolitical future became a mayor, to make new friends, tives are usually successful, impressing influential peo- although sometimes they fait accompli.

It was a smart move for ple in the Republican Party need some tweaking.”

Rogero discussed nuHaslam, not only for po- who grew to like and respect litical reasons – Rogero her personally and to ad- merous city projects at the meeting, many of them incarried with her an incred- mire her work ethic.

As a result, when she ran volving road improvements ibly strong Democrat voting base that likely served for mayor four years ago, and other traffic-inhibiting Haslam well when he sought she walloped the opposi- construction.

She asked the group if the governorship – but also tion – both Republican and they were aware there is a because she is smart, ac- Democrat.

Her popularity has con- new city flower – “the orcomplished and highly respected and would do a lot tinued to grow during her ange cone” – which marks to make his administration first term as mayor, even city construction sites from among Republicans who one end of town to the otha success.

Although Knoxville city disdain her apparent close- er, adding with a smile, “If elections are nonpartisan, ness to the Obama adminis- you haven’t been inconveanyone who pays attention tration, because her record nienced yet, you will be.”

Expect lots of sightings knows which candidates of achievement as Knoxbear allegiance to which ville’s mayor is unassailable. of that city flower in Mayor And while there is bicker- Rogero’s second term. party. A committed Demo-

Dashcam restrictions catch mayor off guard The recent backtracking by the city on second-tier efforts to restrict access to the dashboard cameras in police cruisers was justified and underlines several administrative issues within Team Rogero.

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This is the third time the mayor has been caught publicly unaware of something the police department was doing. The first occurred early in her administration when Police Chief David Rausch called for hiring 30 new police officers that were not contained in the mayor’s budget on the eve of her budget message. She had no notice of the public statement.

Second, Rogero’s three-year absence from 911 Board meetings might never have occurred had she met regularly with her police chief and been briefed on issues. She was caught unaware of bids for a new communications system.

This time she, as well as her communications office, was uninformed on the work Deputy Law Director Ron Mills was doing to push new protocols that could have limited public access to the dashcam videos. No one had told her.

Once informed, Rogero quickly buried the matter.

It will not be back on her watch.

Two of Rogero’s most able directors are Police Chief Rausch and Law Director Charles Swanson.

She would benefit by holding regular meetings with them. She would benefit from regular meetings of her entire cabinet where all could hear directly what was going on and where the priorities stand.

Any city in the United States would be glad to have Swanson and Rausch in leadership positions, but one has the distinct impression this mayor does not seek out regularly information on what is happening under the surface at city hall.

If she did, she would avoid these issues and be a far more effective, can-do mayor in her final term.

Her legacy would be enhanced, and she would see more accomplished.

But for News Sentinel reporter Jamie Satterfield’s

sources at city hall who led her to this information on the dashcams in cruisers, it might be full steam on more limited access. Satterfield is an able, veteran NS reporter on judicial and law enforcement issues.

■ Businesses along Cumberland Avenue are continuing to lose business.

Starbucks and Panera have cut some regular employees from 40 to 26 hours per week – a major pay cut.

Other businesses also have fewer customers, which is lost revenue and sales tax for the city.

Anne Wallace, a city employee who is widely quoted in news releases regarding closed streets, earns $74,280 a year.

What is interesting is that she received a 20 percent bump ($12,000) in August 2014; her salary was then at $60,000 after her 2.5 percent hike the previous month. She takes the bullets for much of the Cumberland Avenue construction woes.

When asked why she would get such a generous raise (which few other city employees received), city spokesperson Eric Vreeland said it was approved by the mayor as it had been recommended by Director of Redevelopment Bob Whetsel and Deputy Mayor Bill Lyons “due to her leadership on multiple projects.” No explanation of what those multiple projects were was forthcoming from Vreeland or Jesse Mayshark, his boss.

■ On a more positive note, the city broke ground on the new Suttree Landing Park last week; it will be a great asset to the city. The name of Suttree Landing was chosen in 2009 from a Cormac McCarthy novel.

It was the top name in an online poll. This new park will be a great addition to the city’s park system.

■ U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate will not increase the gas tax this year for the highway trust fund. One wonders if Tennessee will plow ahead in six months with a gas tax hike when national leaders have pronounced a federal gas tax hike dead for now. It will be an uphill climb.

■ Both Jason Zachary and Karen Carson, who oppose each other for state representative in the Aug. 12 GOP primary, say they favor reversing the removal of the Lady Vols name from UT sports. Most fans and UT supporters agree with them.

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Collaboration is key at NTRC

By Shannon Carey

Jianlin Li discusses the process of creating batteries with the interns. Photo

by Maddie Ogle

Going the distance

By Charlie B Ch li H Hamilton ilt You know when you go buy a new car at a dealership how on the window sticker it shows how many miles per gallon it gets and its fuel economy? These are two of the biggest questions when buying a car.

Well, by 2025 the average fuel efficiency of all new cars sold in the U.S. will have to be 54.5 miles per gallon, or the automaker gets a hefty fine. Right now, a new mid-sized car usually gets around 20 to 25 miles per gallon.

The U.S. has some of the most strict emissions regulations in the world. I have to say that we are about halfway to the 54.5 mpg goal, and we have 10 years to do it. With advancements each and every day by the National Transportation Research Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, we can reach that milestone.

NTRC has top-notch scientists and engineers working with new technology for

electric vehicles, regular l t i hi l l passenger cars, and even heavy-duty tractor trailers.

There is even a program called FEERC that stands for Fuel, Engines and Emissions Research Center that focuses on emissions control and the advancement in combustion engines.

In America, we use about 135 billion gallons of gas a year. At NTRC they want to use “less fuel to go the same distance,” which is great considering the price of gas on today’s market. Lighter cars, higher octane grades of gas, and compression on a motor can boost a car’s fuel economy.

NTRC is working with Ford, GM, Cummins and other automakers to improve the fuel economy and emissions of their cars.

With all of this research and advancement, automakers won’t have to worry about the regulations, and maybe someday we will have a car that puts out no emissions at all.

A finished product from the 3D printer at the National Transportation Research Center. Photo by Maddie Ogle

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THROUGH SUNDAY, AUG. 9 New Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit, the Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Ave., Oak Ridge.

Info: 482-1441.

THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT. 22 Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memories” show featuring Pat Boone backed by Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Proceeds go to the Oak Ridge High School music department. Info/ tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 6900 Kingston Pike. Info/ registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

Books Sandwiched In: “Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route” by Saidiya Hartman, noon. East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 215-8801.

Karns Volunteer Fire Department visit, 11 a.m., Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway.

Info: 470-8663.

Mindfulness and the Alexander Technique, 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $35. Preregistration required.

The professionals at ORNL’s National Transportation Research Center have teamwork down pat.

“When we do research and development here, it’s very seldom that we do it all by ourselves,” Claus Daniel of NTRC’s Sustainable Transportation Program told Shopper-News interns July 7.

NTRC houses scientists and engineers from a multitude of disciplines, men and women, with 81 nationalities represented.

These folks work with vehicle manufacturers, universities, and a variety of other stakeholders to push the United States into the forefront of efficient and sustainable transportation technology.

Interns heard from Madhu Chintavali about fast, wireless charging for electric cars, from Brian West about cleaner, more efficient gasoline engines, from Dean Deter about improvements in heavy-duty truck engines, and from Jianlin Li about making batteries smaller, longer-lived and less toxic.

Interns Betty Mengesha and Emma Dale listen as Matthew Love discusses working with a 3D printer.

But the team at NTRC doesn’t just span nationalities. It spans ages as well.

NTRC interns Matt Love and Michael Goin are just out of high school at Hardin Valley Academy. Their focus is 3-D printing. These two prodigies were on Hardin Valley Academy’s first robotics team. Many parts for their award-winning robots

were 3-D printed right there at NTRC. Love said 3-D printing is changing vehicle manufacturing for the better, making it “much faster, cheaper and more effective.”

NTRC houses 3-D printers for both plastics and metal, from the huge “Big Bertha” model, capable of printing a whole car, to

desktop-size models.

“It’s a very young business, but the technology has actually been around for a number of years,” said Love.

Shopper-News interns even got to see the first allelectric 3-D printed car. It took 44 hours to print, “to show that it’s possible to make personal vehicles,” said Love.

The Division 1 experience

By Shannon Carey Jamal Johnson of the D1 training facility in Hardin Valley told Shopper-News interns about the first time he met Vols football legend Peyton Manning.

Johnson, a University of Florida alum, said “How’s it feel not ever beating us?”

Manning smiled and said, “How’s it feel not having a championship ring?”

After blowing out his knee in professional football, Johnson went on to coach and work at D1, which Manning founded.

According to Johnson, Manning and Vols teammate Will Bartholomew saw a market for professional training facilities. D1 houses an indoor football field, a weight room, and an on-site physical therapy office.

“There was nothing like this,” said Johnson. “Nowhere you could get the

Division 1 experience. They felt like athletes should not be the only ones privileged with that level of training.”

D1’s headquarters are in Nashville, and there are locations in multiple states.

Johnson is also a nonfaculty strength and conditioning coach for Central High School’s football team, and he spoke reverently about the legacy of coach Joel Helton, who recently passed away.

“We as a team now believe that we are going to finish what he started,” Johnson said. “He wasn’t just about football. He was about developing student athletes and bringing them up as young men. I’ve had good coaches and I’ve had bad coaches.

But the goal is to be the most respected and loved coach like Coach Helton.”

Info: www.d1knoxville. com

Jamal Johnson discusses training and working out at the D1 facility in Hardin Valley. Johnson recently joined the staff for the Central High School football team as strength and conditioning coach.

Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.

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Super Hero Cape Craft, 2 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

Tennessee Shines: JP Harris & the Tough Choices and poet Dawn Coppock, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10; available online or at the door. Info/tickets: http://jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30.

Info/registration: 218-3375; www.townoffarragut.org/ register; in person at Town Hall.

The Best of the Best Teacher Workshop, 9-10 a.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Showcasing the best new books for children and young adults from the past year. Continuing education credit.

Info/registration: www.knoxlib.org/best.

THURSDAY, JULY 16

SATURDAY, JULY 18

“Attracting the Good Guys with Herbs,” 3:154:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by an Extension Master Gardener. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

Free concert by the UT Chamber Singers, 8 p.m., Farragut Presbyterian Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd. Kicks off their upcoming England trip to perform in some of the country’s most historic and best-known cathedrals. The community is invited.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 4:307:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25.

Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@ gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profile/monicaschmidt.

Ballet/Tap Clinic, 9-11 a.m., The Studio by Premier Athletics, 11250 Gilbert Drive. For ages 3-5. Cost: $25.

Info/registration: 671-6333.

Free Your Voice with the Alexander Technique, 11:45 a.m.-5:15 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $85. Preregistration required.

Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600 or www.

AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

“Get free plants … making more of your favorite plants,” 1-2:30 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Presented by Extension Master Gardener Lisa Churnetski. Free and open to the public.

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.

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“Learn Bridge in a Day” workshop, noon-5 p.m., the Knoxville Bridge Center, 7400 Deane Hill Drive.

Presented by Kevin Wilson; hosted by the Knoxville Association of Bridge Clubs. Cost: $20. Includes three follow-up beginning lessons. Info/registration: Jo Anne Newby, 539-4150, KnoxvilleBridge@gmail.com or bridgeinaday.com.

Old College Annual Harp Singing, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, 522 W. Madison Ave., Athens, Tenn. Dinner on the grounds at noon. Free; all invited and tune books provided. Info: Cora Sweatt, 423-745-0248.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Georgi Schmitt, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Sean McCollough, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 16-17 Auditions by appointment, beginning at 6:30 p.m., held by WordPlayers of Knoxville. Seeking adults of all ages for “Walking Across Egypt.” Seeking AfricanAmerican adults for “Oh Freedom.” Info/appointments: www.wordplayers.org, wordplayers@comcast.net, 5392490.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, JULY 16-18 “An Evening of Laughter,” 7:30 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Tickets: $20. Info: www.tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

FRIDAY, JULY 17 “How to Use Facebook for Seniors” class, 10 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center

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FRIDAY Alive After Five: The Streamliners Swing Orchestra, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Midnight Voyage Live: Josh Wink, 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info/tickets: www.intlknox.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY Red Gate Festival and Rodeo, Red Gate Farm, 2353 Maynardville Highway, Maynardville. Info: 992-3303 or RedGateRodeo.com.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY Chad Wood as Macduff fights it out with Joe Casterline as the title character in the Tennessee Stage Company’s current production of “Macbeth.”

“M Maccb be eth t .” Photo to byy H. H Caitlyn Corbitt

on the Square

By Carol Shane There’s an old theatrical superstition that forbids actors backstage to mention a certain Shakespeare play by name, having them refer to it instead as “The Scottish Play.”

The rules seem to be different, however, when the play itself is actually being performed. And beginning this Friday, the Tennessee Stage Company will bring “Macbeth” to Market Square in this year’s Shakespeare on the Square.

The famous tale of ambition, murder and madness is “a show that people love,” says TSC artistic director Tom Parkhill. “It’s one of the simpler plays – easy to follow.” This is TSC’s third production of “Macbeth,” having presented it in 1995 and 2005.

Director Greg Congleton has been acting all his life and has been involved with the TSC since the early 1990s, but this is his first time directing Shakespeare.

“Everybody puts their own twist on ‘Macbeth,’” he says. “This is medieval Scotland about to be invaded by

Norwegians, N rw No rw rwegians so we’re going with broadswords, banners and lots of blood.”

For the three “bubble, bubble, toil and trouble” witches, Congleton takes a cue from this description: What are these So wither’d and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth, And yet are on’t?

“My concept is that they’re evil time travelers,” he says. The witches will be adorned with symbols of evil from throughout the ages, and they’ll look different every time they appear.

Carolyn Corley plays Lady Macbeth. “She’s such a complicated villain,” Corley says. “I think that everything she does comes out of love for her husband – she just goes about it in the absolute wrong way.”

As for the title character, actor Joe Casterline says that he is “the first Shakespeare character I’ve encountered that I actually had no blueprint for. It’s not in the stage descriptions; you have to find it yourself.”

Parkhill remembers see-

ing the actor in a particular role years ago that called for depths of anger. “He’s the sweetest guy you’d ever want to meet, but he was just downright scary in that scene. I didn’t know he had that much in him. He’s been a very versatile player for us for a long time.”

Providing some comic relief to the dark drama will be “The Taming of the Shrew,” running in Market Square on alternate nights.

This classic tale of the battle of the sexes was the TSC’s very first show, performed in the World’s Fair Park amphitheater in 1990. “We performed it again for our 10th anniversary, and now it’s our 25th, so it seemed fitting to include it,” says Parkhill.

In addition, you can brush up on your Shakespeare at “Shakesology: A Shakespeare Study Day” hosted by the TSC at Lawson McGhee Library on the last weekend of the run.

The Tennessee Stage Company’s 2015 Shakespeare on the Square begins this Thursday with “The Taming of the Shrew,” per-

formed July 16, 18, 24, 26, 30 and Aug. 1, 7, 9, 13, 15. “Macbeth” will be performed July 17, 19, 23, 25, 31 and Aug. 2, 6, 8, 14, 16. All performances begin at 7 p.m.

“Shakesology: A Shakespeare Study Day” will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, for “ Macbeth” and 2 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 16, for “The Taming of the Shrew.” The 2 ½ hour presentations take place at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: tennesseestage.com or 546-4280.

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The Lake Junaluska Singers will perform at 7 p.m. Monday, July 20, at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 4014 Garden Drive. The popular 14-voice professional ensemble has performed nationally and internationally. Their music ranges from classical choral style to gospel, folk, pop and musical theater. Admission is free, and a nursery will be provided.

Amy Schumer hits the big screen

By Betsy Pickle Laughs should be plentiful in “Trainwreck,” with comic Amy Schumer as star and writer and Judd Apatow as director. It’s one of two wide-release films opening on Friday.

Schumer plays a commitment-phobic woman whose life of serial dating switches gears when she meets a possible Mr. Right (Bill Hader).

With Schumer playing a magazine writer and Hader the sports-medicine guru of the moment, the Rrated comedy features such sports-world celebrities

as LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudemire, Chris Evert and Marv Albert. But the rest of the cast includes both acting luminaries such as Tilda Swinton, Norman Lloyd, Daniel Radcliffe, Marisa Tomei and Ezra Miller and comedians Colin Quinn, Dave Attell and Mike Birbiglia.

The other Friday opener is the latest entry in the Marvel movie universe, “Ant-Man.” Word is, this little superhero gets stronger as he gets smaller. Fine.

But when they come up with a cockroach superhero, I’m bailing.

New to the screen but not to Marvel fans, Ant-Man has been around in the comic books since the early 1960s. Paul Rudd plays Scott Lang, a master thief who gets out of prison and finds himself forced Amy Schumer and Bill Hader start with back into his laughs but head toward a serious relacriminal life to tionship in “Trainwreck.” come up with money for child support. Scientist Hank recruits Scott to steal the Pym (Michael Douglas) technology he created, but

“Bambi: A Life in the Woods,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: 208-3677 or www. knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.

SATURDAY Comedian Killer Beaz, 7 and 9:15 p.m., the Square Room, 4 Market Square. Info/tickets: www. killerbeaz.com.

Front Page Follies, 6 p.m., Knoxville Convention Center. Presented by the Front Page Foundation. Honoree: John Adams, senior sports columnist, Knoxville News Sentinel. Proceeds will fund journalism scholarships at UT and Pellissippi State Community College. Info/tickets: www.

FrontPageFoundation.org.

Family Fun Day: Plants and Animals of Tennessee, 1-4 p.m., McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Free. Info: 9742144.

Shakespeare on the Square: “The Taming of the Shrew,” 7 p.m., Market Square. Info: 546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com, tennesseestage@comcast. net.

TnT Superhero 5k and 1-mile fun run, 8 a.m., West High School, 3300 Sutherland Ave. Benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. To sign up: https://runsignup.com/Race/TN/Knoxville/ TnTSuperHero5kandfunrunwalk. Info: 556-5385; or Sofie Bell, sofienbell@yahoo.com.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY Discover the Dinosaurs, Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St. Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday. Info: 522-5669.

SUNDAY Family Friendly Drum Circle, 4 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Free. Info/registration: 577-4717 ext.110.

Jazz at Ijams, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Featuring the Old City Buskers at 5:30 and Swing 39 at 7. Cost: $2; kids under 10 free. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. Info: 577-4717.

Shakespeare on the Square: “Macbeth,” 7 p.m., Market Square. Info: 546-4280; www. tennesseestage.com tennesseestage@comcast.net.

Smoky Mountain Blues Society: Blues Cruise, 5-8 p.m., Tennessee Riverboat Co., 300 Neyland Drive. Featuring Uptown Stomp with Devan Jones. Tickets: 525-7827; http://tnriverboat.com/ event/blues-cruise. Info: 288-0672; sfkrempasky@ gmail.com; www.smokymountainblues.org.

it’s for a good cause – to save the world. Who hasn’t heard that one before?

The cast is full of appealing actors. In addition to Rudd and Douglas, it includes Evangeline Lilly, Co-

rey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Michael Pena, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Wood Harris, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery, Martin Donovan and Garrett Morris. Peyton Reed (“Bring It On”) directed.

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Since he started the business with his dad, Dennis, seven years ago, the client base has increased quickly in East Tennessee. There are plans to add at least five more employees in the next 10 years.

“My favorite jobs are the bed bugs,” says Wittenbarger, and he’s sincere. “I love my job, and I love being able to help people.”

Some of the worst calls he’s had involved cockroaches raining on his head

upon entering a house, vacuuming “thousands” of them off a kitchen floor and seeing spiders in webs attached to the walls throughout a home.

Words of advice from the bug guy: Put your clothes in the dryer immediately after returning from the movie theater. Wittenbarger says bed bugs have been found in theaters and in public libraries.

“My wife and kids get mad at me when we get home (from the movie theater) because I immediately throw everyone’s clothes in the dryer,” he says with a laugh. “Bed bugs are in li-

Former North Knoxville Rotary Club president Nic Nicaud passes the gavel to incoming president, the Rev. Max Reddick, pasFrogg’s Pest Control co-owner Jeremiah Wittenbarger displays tor at Fountain City Presbyterian Church. Photos by S. Carey toy versions of some of the critters he eliminates for clients.

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Rotary member Ely Driver introduced Dylan Graves of Dogwood Elementary School, whom the North Knox Rotary Club sponsored on the Safety Patrol field trip to Washington, D.C. Dylan shared a slideshow of his photographs from the trip. His favorite part was a visit to the Lincoln Memorial.

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“It’s a model of servant leadership,” he said. “I take it from a carpenter who lived 2,000 years ago.”

Reddick is the new president of the North Knoxville Rotary Club, taking over from immediate past president Nic Nicaud. The gavel was passed at the July 9 meeting.

“It’s been a good opportunity,” said Nicaud. “I’ve learned so much.”

Reddick said he plans to focus on membership and service as Rotary president.

He hopes to grow membership by encouraging current members to ask friends and colleagues to join.

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Reddick asked members to get “skin in the game” for Rotary Club service, to connect with the needs of the community and to serve people here.

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The recent CSX train derailment in Blount County serves as good reminder for residents and businesses to be prepared in case of an emergency, an American Red Cross official said.

Lori Marsh, major gifts officer with the East Tennessee Chapter of the American Red Cross, spoke to the Rotary Club of Knoxville recently about the humanitarian organization. The chapter’s executive director, Michelle Hankes, is a Rotarian and club member.

The East Tennessee chapter will celebrate its centennial in 2017. Nationwide, the Red Cross responds to 70,000 disasters every year including the recent evacuation in Blount County.

Marsh’s presentation was scheduled before the July 2 incident when more than 5,000 people were evacuated and multiple businesses shut down.

“So here’s the real question. Is your business, organization, your home, are you prepared for the next emergency?”

Several businesses in-

cluding Denso, a large manufacturing facility, Walmart and Second Harvest were in the evacuation area. Although she wasn’t speaking directly about those businesses, Marsh said most people and businesses don’t have a plan in place to deal with emergencies.

“What’s your plan if your day is disrupted by disaster?

That’s a huge part of what the Red Cross mission is: education and training.”

Marsh displayed a number of items that are considered emergency essentials: flashlights, batteries, candles, matches, necessary medicines, water, snacks, first aid kit, change of clothes and weather radio.

Businesses should have a list of contacts that is accessible off premises in case of evacuation, she said.

“Being Red Cross Ready is all about what the Red Cross needs to do. We need to make sure that you know what emergencies, what disasters could happen in this community,” Marsh said.

“You need to have a business plan and your family disaster plan.”