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October July 29, 2013 2014

Community School already taking root

For the past several weeks, members of the South Knoxville Neighborhood & Business Coalition have been circulating petitions throughout SoKno to show Three Rivers Market that they would support a second location of the market in the 37920 ZIP code.

Three Rivers general manager Jacqueline Arthur came to the SKNBC’s October meeting last week and – while not promising anything – definitely did not dash the group’s hopes.

SKNBC presented Arthur with several hundred signatures.

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Read Betsy Pickle on page 3

Street View coming?

If you take a stroll on a Knoxville greenway and you run into a robot riding piggyback on the shoulders of a hiker, you have just seen (and been photographed by) a Google Trekker.

But if you try to talk to the hiker, he/she will hand you a card that says, “We’d love to chat, but we have to keep moving!”

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Marching bands Members of the South-Doyle marching band perform their halftime show during the Knox County Schools band exhibition, hosted by Central High.

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Ruth White’s pictures on page 8

Hope renewed In the first game of this new season, Joshua Dobbs made a remarkable difference. His quickness reduced the pressure on the offensive line. His speed generated yardage. His ability to throw on the run created problems for cornerbacks.

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Read Marvin West on page 9

Burchett sets area meetings Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will host 10 constituent meetings during October and November to give citizens the opportunity to speak individually with him about issues that are important to them. These meetings are open to the public.

In South Knox, Burchett will meet from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, at the Howard Pinkston Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike.

Bella Grace Zellers, Douglas Chambers, Roddrecus Gourley, Kyle Zellers and Branden Cunningham are ready to play after eating supper. Photos by Betsy Pickle

By Betsy Pickle Things are always busy around South Knoxville Elementary School, but this fall the bustle is in high gear.

Just a week after Tanna Nicely was named the school’s new principal, South Knoxville Elementary was officially designated as a community school through the Great Schools Partnership and Knox County Schools.

With Susan Martin taking on the role of site coordinator earlier this month, the South Knoxville Community School is growing fast.

Community schools offer afterschool academic and enrichment activities for students, but that’s just the beginning. South Knoxville offers a free supper to the entire family every weeknight, and plans are in the works for programs for parents.

“Eventually, we will have classes for parents,” says Martin. “And we want parents to come and teach classes themselves.”

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Tanna Nicely and Susan Martin services and try to replicate that at Sarah Moore Greene. Little did I know that we would be building a school here.”

Nicely says her biggest takeaway from the forum was “educating the whole child.” With the help of community partners, she believes South Knoxville Elemen-

tary can be a base for physical and mental health as well as provide a strong foundation for academics.

Martin says that many of the SKES programs are similar to programs at the other community schools, but South Knoxville is refining some and implementing To page 3

School chant: ‘Change is hard’ South Knox rep wants fewer tests in K-2

By Betty Bean In the recent past, when teachers or parents asked for relief from Knox County Schools’ test-happy corporate reform regime, Superintendent James McIntyre and the 8-to-1 school board majority that had his back would tell them to suck it up and get with the program.

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As of last week, 59 of South Knoxville’s 150 students were enrolled in the community school.

SKES has one of the highest percentages of students involved in its after-school program of all nine Knox community schools.

Nicely and Martin describe themselves as a team. In fact, Nicely brought in-depth knowledge of community schools with her. Her last assignment was at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet School, which started a community school last year. Nicely was in the team of Sarah Moore Greene educators who attended the National Community Schools Forum in Cincinnati last spring and studied established community schools in the area.

“We toured several models that had been in place for 20 years,” says Nicely. “I saw lots and lots of services and ideas and ways to engage families and communities, so that was a really good education.

“My purpose in going up there was to look at best practices and

“Change is hard,” they’d say to tearful mothers telling of their children’s mounting test anxiety.

“Change is hard,” they’d tell teachers saddled with evaluations based on subjects they never taught.

We haven’t heard much of that since that since August elections and Indya Kincannon’s departure whittled McIntyre’s majority down to a 4-5 minority, and depending on the outcome of the Nov. 4 race to replace Kincannon, the former majority would probably be well advised to start practicing a new mantra.

New board member Amber Rountree has one: “Go big or go home.”

Rountree has requested a called meeting to vote on abolishing SAT-10, an exam for kindergarten through second grade that many educators feel is inappropriate. SAT-10 is not state-mandated, and board chair Mike McMillan is expected to honor her request.

Rountree wants a vote before the tests are ordered.

Board member Karen Carson is expected to oppose Rountree’s

efforts.

Carson said at last week’s mind- and buttnumbing five-hour workshop that it’s the school board’s job to hire a superintendent and set goals. It’s the superintendent’s Rountree job to decide what tests will be administered.

But Rountree disagrees. She quit her job as a school librarian to serve on the school board. Her South Knox constituents elected her, and she’s not been shy about saying how she feels about McIntyre’s heavy-handed administration.

Rountree, Patti Bounds and Terry Hill have served notice that they intend to own future school board meetings. It’s unlikely that McIntyre’s lengthy, orchestrated

presentations will recur.

County Commissioner Charles Busler said last week that commissioners would never allow Mayor Tim Burchett, or any mayor, to sit at their table and control their meetings.

In fact, Burchett often stays in his office, monitoring commission meetings and making himself available if needed.

Change is hard.

And we should expect change for the Knox County Board of Education, starting this week with Amber Rountree’s effort to discontinue high-stakes testing for kids who have not yet learned to read. Are we really that data-driven? And to what goal?

Will Rountree win the vote?

Maybe yes, maybe no. But the message is clear: Go big or go home.

Yes, change is hard.

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Three Rivers dream still alive

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For the past several weeks, members of the South Knoxville Neighborhood & Business Coalition have been circulating petitions throughout SoKno to show Three Rivers Market that they would support a second location of the market in the 37920 ZIP code.

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Three Rivers general manager Jacqueline Arthur came to the SKNBC’s October meeting last week and – while not promising anything – definitely did not dash the group’s hopes. SKNBC presented Arthur with several hundred signatures.

Arthur explained that, as a customer-owned food cooperative, Three Rivers has a different mission than a typical grocery store. One of its tenets is to make healthy, natural food available in communities that don’t have access to them. So while most stores might think about branching out to West Knoxville, Three Rivers would be more likely to expand to South or East Knoxville.

Three Rivers, which opened its location at 1100 N. Central St. in August 2011, has done research that indicates that 37920 is its second biggest supporter (after its own 37917 neighborhood).

The co-op is interested in growing, so when it does, SoKno may get its own TRM. Also attending the meeting were a couple of representatives from Blanchard

Sylvia Woods stands under the sign marking the bridge honoring her late husband with Karen Ray, mother of Marcus Ray Alford Sr., the Army captain killed in Iraq for whom the southern end of the James White Parkway is named.

State Rep. Joe Armstrong pays tribute to the late Harold Woods as state Rep. Gloria Johnson, Sylvia Woods, Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero and Harold Woods Jr. listen during the dedication of the Harold G. Woods Memorial Bridge on James White Parkway. Woods, who died in January, was a native South Knoxvillian who devoted himself to countless community, labor and political endeavors. Photos by Betsy Pickle & Calhoun, the company developing the site of the former Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee. As you read in this space last week, South Knoxvillians attended the city Board of Zoning Appeals meeting in force with questions about variances requested by B&C. The company sent the reps to discuss setting up a meeting or meetings with South Knoxvillians.

One meeting is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 13. The goal is to have one or two public meetings before the BZA’s Dec. 18 meeting.

Also presented at SKNBC: The damaged Young High marker is being renovated and will be placed at the southwest corner of Duff Field. Lake Forest Neighborhood Associa-

crats (9th District) meets at 6:30 p.m. each third Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike. Info: Jim Sessions, jim. sessions@comcast.net or 865573-0655.

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Colonial Village Neighborhood Association. Info: Terry Caruthers, 865-579-5702, t_caruthers@hotmail.com.

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

■ Lake Forest Neighborhood Association. Info: Molly Gilbert, 865-209-1820 or mollygilbert@yahoo.com.

■ South of the River Demo-

■ South Haven Neighborhood Association meets at 10 a.m. each third Saturday, Round-Up Restaurant. Info: Pat Harmon, 865-591-3958.

■ South Woodlawn Neighborhood Association. Info: Shelley Conklin, 865-686-6789.

■ Vestal Community Organization meets 6 p.m. each second Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Old Maryville Pike. Info: Newman Seay, 865-577-4593.

tion’s planting and pruning day is still on for Saturday, Nov. 15; meet at Lake Forest Presbyterian at 9:30 a.m.

For more info, call Molly Gilbert, 865-247-6504.

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Ups and downs for SKA

Award-winning photographer/image maker Ben Moser gave members of the South Knoxville Alliance tips on refining their businesses’ images at SKA’s October meeting.

The head of Moser Visuals said to think beyond a company’s mission statement and look at the image and message the company is putting out into the world.

He emphasized keeping it simple and focused.

Not all of Debra Brad-

FAITH NOTES ■ Seymour UMC, 107 Simmons Road in Seymour, hosts LOOVE (Living Out Our Vows Everyday) marriage-enrichment classes along with DivorceCare, DC4K (DivorceCare for Kids), Single and Parenting, and GriefShare support groups. Classes meet 6-8 p.m. each Wednesday. New participants are welcome at any time. Info: 573-9711 or email kimleake81@gmail.com.

■ Church Women United will meet 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, 3023 Selma Ave., for the World Community Day.

Community School new ones.

“We’re actually the only community school that has tutoring for kindergarten through second grade,” she says. “All the other community schools focus on three through five. If students are not in specific tutoring, they get help with homework during that same block.”

Librarian Amanda Sanders does Read for 20 each Monday and works with physical education teacher Kara Monk on a Girls on the Run program for fourth- and fifth-graders. Physical activity is a big emphasis, with partners Children’s Hospital and the Boys & Girls Clubs also leading programs.

Working with the school already are the Helen Ross McNabb Center, Vine Medical Clinic and University of Tennessee education and ecology students. Mentors from the Kids Hope program at First Baptist Church are continuing their schooltime activities as well as volunteering with some of the enrichment programs.

Upcoming programs include a bike club and STEM Scouts for boys and girls.

The community school is eager to host groups from the area. Boy Scouts and the Old Sevier Community Group are meeting at the

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school. The Chapman Highway Garden Club has offered to help broaden gardening activities. South Knoxville Baptist and Colonial Heights United Methodist churches provide support.

Martin and Nicely have reached out to neighborhood businesses and residents, and they have been impressed with the response.

Old Sevier turned out last Saturday to beautify the grounds with plants and

trees.

The key to it all is engagement – from students and the adults in the community.

“I would love to see the old and the new together, a sense of community across generations,” says Martin, whose grandmother attended SKES. “There’s a lot of history here that I want to make sure new families know about and that they’re just as proud of their community as older generations are.”

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shaw’s first meeting as SKA chair was so positive. The group decided not to go ahead with its first-ever calendar due to cost concerns, and they learned that a $1,200 grant from Lowe’s for planned beautification along Chapman Highway would not be forthcoming as the home-improvement store had chosen another community group as recipient.

SKA will have its next business mixer on Monday, Dec. 15, at Labor Exchange to network and reach out to potential members. The group is already making plans for its second Second Saturday South on April 11, 2015.

Bradshaw reported that the SKA board had approved launching the Soup Project, modeled after programs throughout the coun-

SOUTH KNOX SENIOR CENTER ■ Wednesday, Oct. 29: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 8:30 a.m. guitar lessons; 9 a.m. painting; 10 a.m. quilting; 11 a.m. Water Peeps; noon bridge.

■ Thursday, Oct. 30: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 9 a.m. water aerobics, South Knox Opry “Halloween Hoedown”; 12:15 p.m. ballroom dance; 1 p.m. rook, water aerobics; 1:30 p.m. line dance; 2 p.m. water Pilates; 2:45 p.m. swing dance.

■ Friday, Oct. 31: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 8:45 a.m. advanced senior cardio fitness; 10 a.m. yoga; 11 a.m. rook, water aerobics; 1 p.m. beginning art, water aerobics.

■ Monday, Nov. 3: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 9 a.m. water aerobics; 10 a.m. Medicare info: Those Turning 65; 11 a.m.

SKNBC member Patti Berrier and Three Rivers Market general manager Jacqueline Arthur discuss the possibility of a new market in South Knoxville. try that are partly a potluck soup dinner and partly a fundraiser for community projects.

Guests Monica Davis and Jason Noble, residents of Lakemoor Hills, came to promote the National As-

sociation of Letter Carriers’ Drive 2 Survive Muscular Dystrophy Golf Tournament on Sunday, Nov. 9, at Lambert Acres. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.

Info: Davis, 865-680-6988, or Noble, 865-748-6464.

quilting, Water Peeps, Musical Monday trip; 1 p.m. bridge, water aerobics, dominoes.

p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, Ijams Nature Center. All ages. Includes: a Halloween-themed scavenger hunt and goody bag for children in costume. Free and open to the public. Info: 865577-4717, http://ijams.org/.

■ Tuesday, Nov. 4: 7:30 a.m. free swim; 8:45 a.m. Senior Cardio Fitness; 9 a.m. water aerobics; 10 a.m. crafts/beading, SAIL exercises; 11 a.m. water aerobics; Tai Chi I; 12:30 p.m. Tai Chi II; 1 p.m. water aerobics, rook; 2 p.m. water Pilates, yoga.

■ Info: 865-573-5843.

HALLOWEEN EVENTS ■ Haunted Lantern Tour 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Meet in the Mead’s Quarry parking lot.

Ages 10 and up. Fee: $10, $7 for members. Info/to register: 865-577-4717, ext. 110.

■ Halloween at Ijams, 9 a.m.-5

■ Little Tyke Halloween Hike, 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, Ijams Nature Center. Ages 2-6.

Costumes are welcome but not required. Free; preregistration required. Info/to register: 865-577-4717, ext. 110.

■ The Mysterious Past of Blount Mansion, 5:30-9 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 29-30, 200 W. Hill Ave. Cost: $10. Learn about Blount Mansion’s mysterious past, including legends, customs and myths during the candlelight and flashlight tours of the mansion. Reservations preferred. Tickets: https://squareup.com/market/blountmansion. Info: 525-2375 or info@blountmansion.org.

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The little man who wasn’t there Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away – From “Antigonish” by William Hughes Mearns philosophies against those of their Democratic opponents, Gloria Johnson and Cheri Siler. Both men, presumably, are confident the R behind their names will secure their elections.

Briggs, the presumed frontrunner for the District 7 Senate seat after his priBetty mary victory over Stacey Bean Campfield, is likely relying on the well-practiced, Duncan-family theory of not allowing lesser-known opBut the effect is the same ponents the chance to raise – their would-be constitu- their public profile at his ents are being cheated of the expense. While this makes opportunity to hear them some strategic sense, it also defend their positions and shortchanges the democrat2014 appears to be the year of not showing up – particularly for Republicans Eddie Smith and Richard Briggs, who are employing the same no-show tactic, likely for different reasons.

ic (note the small D) process and makes Briggs look like a wuss, despite the pictures of him decked out in combat gear on his campaign literature.

Smith, who has been ducking public forums in what is thought to be a tight District 13 House race, doesn’t enjoy a name recognition advantage over the incumbent Johnson, despite assaulting voters with a relentless negative direct mail campaign that peaked with a ludicrous Alabama Week comparison piece likening Johnson to Lane Kiffin.

Despite being offered many potential dates for a League of Women Voters forum, a genteel affair most candidates consider a required campaign appearance, neither Smith nor Briggs could be bothered to find the time. And neither

accepted the joint invitation from County Commissioners Jeff Ownby (R) and Amy Broyles (D) to appear at a forum at West High School last Thursday (the three District 2 school board candidates were also invited, and Jamie Rowe was the only one to attend).

Smith did, however, make a guest appearance at South-Doyle Middle School earlier in the week on an evening when parent/teacher conferences were being held. He stationed himself in the teachers’ break room near the food, where he had easy access to a captive audience and was clearly in violation of Knox County Schools’ policy prohibiting political solicitation inside schools: “Solicitation or advertising in any form by candidates for public office or

Candidates Jamie Rowe, Gloria Johnson and Cheri Siler

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political- or issue-oriented organizations is not permitted. Political literature shall not be distributed through the school to students, nor sent home to parents, nor placed in teachers’ mailboxes, lounges or on school premises.

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ted on school facilities, on school grounds or in school publications.”

Smith refined the tactic three days later when he sent a campaign worker armed with yard signs and campaign literature to West High School, thus managing to violate KCS policy without even being there.

Kaousias is Johnson appointee to election board Tammy Kaousias is the newest member of the Knox County Election Commission and is the appointee of state Rep. Gloria Johnson, who has known her for more than 20 years.

An attorney in solo practice of business law, she is a member of St. George Greek Orthodox Church. She met her husband in 1997 in West Java, Indonesia, where they married. He is a Knoxville native, and they live in North Hills.

She is an engaging, committed activist on votingrights issues.

Kaousias, 48, is one of two Democratic members of the election commission.

She wants feedback from the public on whether the election commission should meet at 8 a.m. as it makes it difficult for working people to attend if their workday starts at the same time.

She says it is “very un-

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fortunate” that Belle Morris School was closed as a voting precinct but is not sure it can be reopened. She feels voting should be accessible and the process transparent and nonpartisan.

She serves on the board of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra with such widely known personalities as Hallerin Hill, Bill Arant and Ellen Robinson. She likes yoga and owns the Glowing Body Yoga Studio off Central Avenue.

As an election commissioner she is paid $300 a month and has declined the county health insurance for which she is eligible.

With the absence of the chair, Christopher Heagerty, the commission is now tied at two Democrats and two Republicans, making it totally bipartisan. Kaousias is the only commissioner not pictured on the website but plans to correct that soon.

Both Democrats on the Knox County Election Commission are women. The GOP has not had a woman serving on the local election commission in over 25 years since Hazel Showalter.

In April 2015, the GOP state legislators will make three recommendations for commissioners to the State Election Commission, which is virtually always honored. It will be interesting to see if the GOP legislators, which include at least two new members (Rick Briggs and Martin Daniel), will make any changes in the current lineup. If Hea-

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A line in the modern HipRepublican candidate Richard Briggs is regarded pocratic Oath reads, “I will as the un-Stacey, a dignified prevent disease whenever I upgrade from the clownish can, for prevention is prefCampfield. erable to cure.”

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In contrast, Democratic candidate Cheri Siler favors healthcare reform.

She supports an increase in the minimum wage, a position Briggs considers a “job killer.”

Not surprisingly, she’s been unsuccessful in luring her painfully shy opponent to the debate platform. In this overwhelmingly Republican district Briggs has nothing to gain from a moderated debate.

Residents of the 7th District deserve more than just an upgraded vocabulary in

gerty is not back to work at the commission by then he is likely to be replaced.

■ Until 2008 there was a replica of the office of the late Sen. Estes Kefauver at the University of Tennessee Hoskins Library. Then, due to structural concerns, that area of the building was closed and the furniture and photos were placed in storage, where they have been for six years. They are not likely to be on public display for some time to come.

The Kefauver family, some of whom live in the San Francisco area now, would like to see the office re-established. The problem is no one seems able to do it.

The UT library, under the able leadership of Steve Smith, simply does not have a place to locate it. The artifacts in storage have not diminished.

Discussion has occurred with the Tennessee State

Museum executive director in Nashville. However, the museum has much of its current collection, including over 300 Red Grooms art pieces, in storage, hoping for a new museum to be built someday. The likelihood of a new state museum in Nashville, which would cost over $160 million (not including new storage space), being built soon is wishful thinking given the needs competing for construction funds.

Last July 1, in an email to Lindsay Kefauver, one of the senator’s daughters, the executive director of the state museum said the museum “was honored to become the repository” of the collection but she may have spoken too soon as the furniture portion of the collection is actually owned by the U.S. Senate, which stated clearly in 1965 the furniture must be returned to the senate if

not used as a memorial to Kefauver.

Is having the Kefauver collection in storage for six years and facing another six years of storage still a public memorial?

There is also no room for it to be displayed and would simply be in storage in Nashville instead of Knoxville if transferred. The commission members were also not informed about this development at the time but are now aware of it. (This writer is a commission member).

The museum commission will need to set policy on this given that other, more recent Tennessee senators have been nationally known as Senate majority leaders (Baker and Frist) and/or president of the Senate (Al Gore).

■ Sen. Lamar Alexander will be at the Knoxville Crowne Plaza Nov. 4 to await the election results.

their next state senator, but they aren’t going to get it.

Briggs rakes in 70 percent or more of the vote.

same shtick in a television commercial. Like Kiffin, said the announcer, Johnson’s strategy was to “take the money and run.”

Johnson might consider countering with an endorsement from Bo Wallace, the giant-slaying Ole Miss quarterback who led the Rebels to a recent win over Kiffin’s Alabama Crimson Tide. If Wallace isn’t paid it shouldn’t violate NCAA rules.

If Johnson really wants to play hardball, use six degrees of separation to link Smith with Derek Dooley and give Kiffin haters a run for their money.

Johnson has earned another term, but this one will be close. When time expires, Johnson 52 percent, Smith 48.

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Gloria Johnson vs.

Lane Kiffin

Otherwise known as the race for State House District 13, the contest has taken a turn for the bizarre.

A flyer recently mailed by a PAC supporting Republican candidate Eddie Smith compared Democratic incumbent Gloria Johnson to Lane Kiffin, “all talk” and “promises, promises.”

If nothing else, this Hail Mary tactic demonstrates that no idea is too desperate or too shopworn not to be repeated.

In 2012, Tennessee Republicans employed the

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In the best of all possible worlds, Republican Mark “Coonrippy” Brown would be squaring off against Democrat Charlie Brown for the governor’s chair.

“Coonrippy” wants the state to give back his “rescue” raccoon it seized and released into the wild. Charlie wants his own party to support him. Both are likely to be disappointed.

In the real world, Charlie Brown opposes Republican incumbent Bill Haslam.

Even Lloyd’s of London wouldn’t give you odds on the Democrat’s chances.

Brown captured 30 percent of likely voters in an August Rasmussen poll. I’d be surprised to see him reach that percentage on Nov. 4.

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The unsinkable June Jones

By Betty Bean Democrats once dominated the Volunteer State’s political landscape – both senators, the governor, the General Assembly and most of the congressional delegation. Now, Republicans control most every nook and crevice of government and Democrats are trying to climb out of the ditch.

One way to begin to do it would be to figure out a way to bottle the energy of June Jones, field representative for the U.S. Senate campaign of Democratic Party nominee Gordon Ball.

Jones, whose Cedar Lane home is one of the prime yard-sign locations in Knoxville, made national news in 2012 when vandals kept tearing down her “Tennesseans for Obama” billboard.

“My yard was a battleground,” she said. “Not two days after we put it up, someone tried to steal it.”

So she put the sign back up with deep, reinforced stakes. They came back with a box cutter and sliced it up.

“I was so upset, but you know what? I taped it up… and they did it again. And so I taped it up again and started putting up other signs asking if you’d want to be part of a party that would suppress freedom.

The best thing about it was the people that would come to my door and thank me for standing up to them.

“One lady said, ‘I’ve been driving by your house for days.’ I got letters from all over the United States. It was amazing to see all that hate turned into something more.

“My overall personal goal is to make Tennesseans proud to say they’re Democrats.”

Jones had more on her mind than signs that year.

She was part of Obama’s

June Jones at Time Warp Tea Room.

North Carolina Get Out the Vote operation.

“East Tennessee led the action for the president, and I was over nine counties as a volunteer. We rocked it. The last three weeks of the campaign, we had a war room in a condo that a doctor let us borrow. We had tables, chairs and computers in every room.”

After the North Carolina

Photo by Betty Bean

polls closed, the group started making calls in Western states as part of the “Rolling Thunder” operation.

That, said Jones, is how to affect the process from a “red” state.

Her conviction that her party can exert its influence closer to home isn’t dampened by a recent poll showing her candidate 21 points behind Republican Lamar

Good man Hugh

By Sandra Clark Anyone in Knox County Republican politics knows the name Hugh Noe. He was an institution in the Alice Bell community, chairing the GOP committee there for decades. He died Oct. 21 at age 89, just a month shy of 90.

His son, Dr. Ronald E. Noe of Lake City, captured Hugh in his eulogy: “Dad believed in hard work. (pause) Not so much in vacations. …

“He was a man of conviction and diligence. He valued education, and he loved his grandbabies.

“We are losing a generation of diligence.”

Hugh and Jean were mar-

ried for 62 years. Pastor Toby Everett of their church, Alice Bell Baptist, said, “Jean, I commend you.”

Everyone at the service acknowledged there was never doubt about where Hugh stood.

He liked Tim Burchett back when Tim was a skinny kid who tried to save the world by recycling waste vegetation for mulch. Burchett landed a contract with the city (he had no competition because no one else saw merit in this endeavor). All city brush was dumped at Tim’s location. He worked from dawn to midnight.

A major blizzard that year overwhelmed everyone. Brush started piling up

Alexander.

“We have absolutely got them on the RUN!” Jones said. “He’s pounding Gordon in the press and spending money in the Tri-Cities and Middle Tennessee. Lamar Alexander didn’t fight this hard against (primary opponent) Joe Carr! Forty years is enough! We need to change what’s going on in Washington, and until we change WHO’s in Washington, what they’re doing is not going to change.”

Jones is in charge of organizing counties in Middle and upper East Tennessee.

The day after this interview, she was headed to meet with Democrats in Hamblen County and with the sheriff of Greene County.

The sheriff of Greene County is a Democrat?

“Yes!” she said. “Pat Hankins. He’s a Democrat in a very Republican area, and he got voted in. Isn’t that GREAT? We can DO this!”

and Tim couldn’t process or sell it fast enough.

A city inspector started sniffing around Burchett’s mulch yard with an eye toward shutting him down.

Someone spotted Noe and suggested he was dumping raw sewage on the mulch.

But reporter Betty Bean determined that Noe was pumping out standing water and disposing of it at the sewage treatment plant, which KUB confirmed.

“Hugh was a standup guy,” says Bean.

Mr. Noe was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II who served in Japan. He farmed and ran Noe’s Suburban Septic Service for 50 years.

Other survivors are daughter-in-law Judy Noe; grandchildren, Dr. Katie A. Noe and Drs. Ronald Andrew (Leah) Noe.

government Trail panoramas may be first for a U.S. greenway system

By Bill Dockery If you take a stroll on a Knoxville greenway and you run into a robot riding piggyback on the shoulders of a hiker, you have just seen (and been photographed by) a Google Trekker.

But if you try to talk to the hiker, he/she will hand you a card that says, “We’d love to chat, but we have to keep moving!”

The card explains that Knoxville and Knox County are partnering with Google to produce a Street View video of the whole greenway system and other notable local landmarks.

When completed, the project will allow armchair hikers to enjoy 86 miles of Knox greenways from the comfort of their computer desks or smart phones. The virtual visuals will complement the elaborate map of trails and parks recently released by the city Parks and Recreation Department.

Both the department and Google public affairs folks decline to talk about the project, but a number of sources have confirmed that the Street View trekking has been underway for about a month. The Google website confirms that Street View imaging is going on now in Knox and Jefferson counties.

Sources say that this project may be the first Street View focusing on a U.S. greenway system, but that could not be confirmed at press time. A number

of Street Views are available on trails in Yosemite National Park and along Florida beaches.

Most of Google’s Street View images are captured by a multi-camera tower strapped to the top of a small car that is driven along streets and roads.

The cameras capture a 360-degree panorama of the passing scenery to form an interactive Google map.

The greenway project makes use of a similar tower outfitted as a 40-pound backpack that sports 15 cameras.

Preparing a Street View video involves four steps: collecting images, matching the images to the terrain, stitching the images together seamlessly into a 360-degree panorama and using lasers to create a three-dimensional image that the viewer can move through virtually.

In recent months, Google has expanded use of the Street View technology to document museums, airport terminals, walks, parks and other scenic locales. In addition to the backpack and car, Street View cameras have been mounted on trolley carts, snowmobiles and tricycles.

The company lends the Google Trekker equipment to nonprofits and tourism organizations, as well as researchers and universities that can provide access to hard-to-reach places.

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A great week for kids and the arts This week, kids and their parents can take advantage of some terrific arts experiences around town.

Carol Shane

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra is presenting kid-friendly morning concerts. If your child hasn’t experienced the sights and sounds of a real live symphony orchestra, now is the time.

The Sheena McCall Young People’s Concert, named for its benefactor and titled “Are We There Yet?” will feature music from all over the world. Maestro James Fellenbaum, well known as the popular conductor of the annual fall concerts, will be leading the KSO in a musical travelogue.

“We will explore music in a fun way, from Russia to Austria, from Africa to Mexico. Not only will students hear what different parts of the world sound like, but – through use of video projection – they can see where these countries are located,”

Young actors Alex Carter and Ben Barber portray the “cursed” Baskervilles in the Knoxville Children’s Theatre’s current production of “Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles.” Photo by Dennis Perkins

Maestro James Fellenbaum, conductor of the KSO’s lively Young People’s Concerts, reacts to an explosion in the 2012 performance of “Scientific Symphony.” This year’s concert series is titled “Are We There Yet?” Photo submitted

says Fellenbaum, who is the father of a 3-year-old girl.

Jennifer Barnett Harrell, the KSO’s director of education and community partnerships, says she is very excited about the performances.

“The idea is that we’re going on an ‘Indiana Jones’type adventure with Indiana Jones’ distant cousin, Tennessee Smith,” she says.

University of Tennessee theater department professor and local actor Terry Weber will be playing the role of Tennessee Smith, leading the students in an interactive adventure.

The concerts are geared toward third- to fifth-graders. Many school groups plan to attend, but individual tickets can also be purchased. At press time, some were available.

Performances are Wednesday, Oct. 29, and Thursday, Oct. 30, at 9:30 and 10:45 a.m., and Friday, Oct. 31, at 9:30 a.m. at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium.

Info: www.knoxvillesymphony.com or 523-1178.

The kids must find clues to help them figure out where they are traveling next. “Some of the clues will be hidden right in the orchestra,” says Harrell.

Young performers will be featured, including the West African Drum and Dance group from Austin-East Magnet High School.

Special effects, including whitewater rapids and fireworks, will provide excitement.

“Tennessee Smith unfortunately gets doused in a couple of European rivers,” Harrell says with a sly grin.

Scare yourself silly – or gory

By Betsy Pickle Halloween is almost upon us, but unless you’re going to a party, life could get pretty boring after the trick-or-treaters head home Friday.

There’s no better way to entertain yourself than a scary-movie night, and

whether you draw from your own library, rent from Redbox or order on demand, you can quench your thirst for gore, comic thrillers or outright horror.

If you lean toward iconic slasher baddies, forget Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees and head straight

for the Freddy Krueger aisle. The “Nightmare on Elm Street” series has far less filler than the “Friday the 13th” and “Halloween” films combined, and Freddy Krueger is a much more personable demon.

(Chill out, John Carpenter fans. He was around only

A different kind of expe-

rience awaits you and your youngsters as Knoxville Children’s Theatre presents “Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles,” a new adaptation of the classic mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The story centers on the legend of a ghostly, diabolical hound that has roamed the moors and stalked the Baskerville family for generations.

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead with enormous paw prints nearby, the case grabs the attention of Sherlock Holmes and

for the first “Halloween.” If you want something really suspenseful, check out his “Assault on Precinct 13.” It’s scare city, no lie.)

I’m not into gore, so you won’t get “Saw” or “Hostel” recommendations from me. But I wouldn’t dismiss anyone who opted for the original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Poltergeist” or an “Alien”/“Aliens” double feature.

You can’t go wrong with any of the classics like James Whale’s “Frankenstein” or “Bride of Frankenstein” or Karl Freund’s “The Mummy.” Boris Karloff is practically required viewing on Halloween for some folks.

If your zombie awareness begins with “The Walking Dead,” you should try George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn

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Elementary Sherlock

Dr. John Watson.

Can they solve the mystery of the phantom hound before another Baskerville falls victim to the legend?

Old Sherlock never seems to lose his popularity, and KCT executive director Zack Allen thinks it’s because he “embodies the best and the brightest in us. He’s a careful observer, but he also applies his knowledge. I think of him as a ‘mental superhero.’”

Allen is one of the cofounders of the 7-year-old company, which has produced more than 60 plays.

The current production, adapted by Allen, has a cast of 14 young actors, ages 11 to 17. “It’s sort of thrilling,” he says, “and pretty spooky when the hound starts howling!

“But,” he points out, “there’s no better place to be scared than the theater. It’s a safe place.”

“Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles” runs through Nov. 9, with performances at 7 p.m.

Thursdays and Fridays; 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturdays; and 3 p.m. Sundays.

Info: http:// knoxvillechildrenstheatre. com/ or 865-208-3677.

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of the Dead.” For a comic take, go for Edgar Wright’s “Shaun of the Dead.”

As for me, I fancy the flutter of bat wings, so my preferences run to the vampire crowd. No, I’m not talking about “Twilight.” Check out the original or remake of “Fright Night” for fun, or go for blood with Gary Oldman in the 1992 “Dracula” or Frank Langella in my editor’s favorite 1979 version.

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Custom-made Graft Stent Gives New Option to High-Risk Patients When Harvey Keener of Decatur, Tennessee learned that a large abdominal aortic aneurysm had grown dangerously close to his kidney artery, physicians gave him two options: traditional open surgery to repair the aneurysm, or a minimally-invasive procedure done with a new, custom-made graft stent.

“I chose to go with the new technology,” says Keener. “It was the perfect choice for me.”

An abdominal aortic aneurysm or “AAA” is weak spot on the aorta that balloons out as it passes through the abdomen. If the aneurysm bursts, if is often fatal. Some people, because of their health, or the size or location of the aneurysm, are not candidates for the open surgery.

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Patients usually leave the hospital in a couple days and fully recovery in around 30 days.

Premier Surgical vascular surgeons Donald Akers, Jr., MD, FACS, and Scott Callicutt, MD, FACS, were the first in the Knoxville region to use a new “fenestrated” endograft to repair complex abdominal aortic aneurysms. The surgeons were involved in clinical trials for the device.

“The special graft has small fenestrations or holes in it through which stents can be placed to keep blood flowing to the patient’s kidneys and other organs,” explains Dr. Callicutt.

Each device is custom-made in Australia. “The graft is precisely created using 3-D computer models developed from patient’s CT scans,” says Dr. Akers. “It’s for very select, com-

plex cases that in the past would have been sent to Vanderbilt or other places for treatment.”

On October 6th, Dr. Akers and Dr. Callicutt completed the tenth fenestrated endovascular repair at Tennova Physicians Regional.

Harvey Keener Because of the quicker recovery time, Harvey Keeler is grateful to have been one felt great at his wedding, just 39 days after surgery. of the ten patients who have benefited so far from the new technology.

“I’m told my aneurysm was as big as a grapefruit. If I had undergone the open surgery, I would’ve been in the hospital for 2 weeks, and recovering for 3 months,” says Keener. “Instead, I was home in 2 days and walking a mile within 2 weeks.”

And, most importantly, Keener recovered in time for his wedding day. “Karen and I were married just 39 days after my surgery. It was perfect.”

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FRIDAY ■ Featured artists at Parkside Open Door Gallery, Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave., are Fountain City artists Penny Berridge and Renita Andrews; and Frank Harvey of Lenoir City.

Berridge will display oil paintings, Andrews will be showing copper and sterling-silver jewelry and Harvey creates 3-D garden art. Info/hours: 865-357-7624 or 865-357-2787.

While trying to resuscitate his career, actor Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) also hopes to reconnect with his daughter, Jake Gyllenhaal plays an ambitious young man who gets into Sam (Emma Stone), in the black comedy “Birdman, or The Un- the world of underground crime journalism in “Nightcrawler,” expected Virtue of Ignorance.” also starring Rene Russo.

Michael Keaton carries, escapes his past with ‘Birdman’ It may sound like it, but Michael Keaton is not drawing on real life for “Birdman, or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,” due to open at Downtown West on Friday.

The much-admired “Batman” of the first two Tim Burton-directed films about the Dark Knight, Keaton was one of the biggest movie stars in the world by the time “Batman Returns” came out in 1992. In the past 22 years, he has done solid and steady work but usually with a much lower profile.

“Birdman” tells the story of a former movie superhero trying to capture admiration from critics and adoration from fans by mounting a legitimate Broadway play.

But the chaos that sur-

as he shows that he will do try collaboration by Inarabsolutely anything to get ritu, Nicolas Giacobone, the story.

Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and The film marks the directArmando Bo. ing debut of screenwriter Dan The cast includes Zach Gilroy, whose credits include Galifianakis as Keaton’s one of my favorite films from best friend and producer, 2006, Tarsem Singh’s “The Naomi Watts as the play’s Fall,” as well as “The Bourne leading lady, Edward NorLegacy.” The wonderful Rene ton as the troublemaking Russo (who happens to be last-minute leading man, Gilroy’s wife) stars along with Emma Stone as Keaton’s Bill Paxton and Riz Ahmed. just-out-of-rehab daughter ■ Also opening Friday is “Beand personal assistant and fore I Go To Sleep,” a thriller Amy Ryan as his ex-wife. starring Nicole Kidman, Colin

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rounds him and the production makes any kind of success a long shot at best.

“Birdman” teams Keaton with acclaimed director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (“Amores Perros,” “21 ■ Opening wide Friday is “Nightcrawler,” starring Jake Grams,” “Babel,” “Biutiful”).

Gyllenhaal as a young man The film is also a change who wants to do something of pace for Inarritu, whose big. He finds his niche when unflinching dramas have he stumbles into the world drawn high praise. of freelance crime journalism This new black comedy in Los Angeles. Racing rivals tackles the backstage world to get the first images of a of Broadway with continumurder or bereaved family ous takes and a script that members, he quickly rises to was a two-year, multi-counthe top of the trash-TV heap

Firth and Mark Strong; based on the novel by S.J. Watson.

The film is about a woman who wakes up every day with no memories due to a traumatic accident. Terrifying discoveries make her question everyone in her life. I know many women who would love to question Colin Firth. Or Mark Strong. Or both.

■ Fall Fun Fest, 6:30 p.m., Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Highway. Hosted by the Christ United Methodist Men’s Club.

Food, games, contest for the best food dip. Entertainment by Highway 33. Info: 865-922-1412.

SATURDAY ■ Chili Supper, 5-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Cost: $10. Includes: homemade chili, cornbread, dessert, drink. Live music by the Woodpickers. Silent auction. Info: 865-494-9854 or www. appalachianarts.net.

■ Chili Cook-off fundraiser for Boy Scout Troop 13, 5-8:30 p.m., Fountain City Lions Club. Entry fee for cook-off: $20.

Admission: $5; kids under 5, free. Includes all-you-can-eat chili, drink, dessert. Silent auction. Info: Dave, 865-659-9626.

■ Harvest Celebration, Thorn Grove Baptist Church, 10200 Thorngrove Pike. Breakfast, 7 a.m.; live auction, 10 a.m.; lunch, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Children’s activities, baked and canned goods, live entertainment and more. Proceeds to benefit church’s building fund. Info: 865-933-5771 or 865-216-3193.

■ Fall festival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Clapp’s Chapel UMC, 7420 Clapp’s Chapel Road in Corryton. Fun, food, music. Info: 865-687-4721.

■ Craft Show indoors, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Cumberland Baptist Church, 5600 Western Ave. Woodworking, crafts, jewelry, sports cards and more. Lunch served 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

■ Waggin’ Tails 5K Fun Run, 8:30 a.m., Tommy Schumpert Park, 6400 Fountain City Road. To benefit Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley. Info/to register: humanesocietytennessee.com.

■ Annual barbecue supper, 5-8 p.m., Corryton Masonic Lodge #321, Emory Road. Donation: $8, 2 for $15, kids under 6 free. Info: 865-216-9956.

■ Farragut Half Marathon, 5K and Kids Run, 9 a.m., Farragut High School, 11237 Kingston Pike. Hosted by the Knoxville Track Club. Info: www.ktc.org or Steve Durbin, durb417@gmail.com.

Plate it

Seasons

■ Strange Company Reunion Concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12; some discounts available. Info/ tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Bluff Inn, 420 N. Peters Road; free. Bring a vegan dish to pass and your own place setting. Drinks will be supplied.

Celebrating brating the seasons isn’t always a s a healthy health thing. thing Halloween equals candy; Thanksgiving, mashed potatoes with gravy and cornbread dressing; Christmas, pies, cakes and candy canes.

■ Knoxville Food Tours with Paula Johnson – 11 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 1, the Bearden District; $59. Tours limited to 12. Driving tour starts at The Coop Café, 3701 Sutherland Ave., and includes Blackhorse Pub & Brewery and Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop, plus a mystery stop. Info: www.knoxvillefoodtours.com.

Mystery Diner Grilled Vegetable Platter at Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill At Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill in Turkey Creek, you can celebrate autumn with a platter featuring a bountiful harvest that is also a fairly healthy choice.

Seasons is all about changing menus to correspond to what’s fresh. Chef Deron Little adds a smorgasbord of seasonal dishes as the calendar pages turn.

His “regular menu” is hard to resist, especially if you have a favorite, but diners will light up their taste buds if they skip over to the seasonal offerings to see what Little has cooked up.

The Grilled Vegetable Platter was a great choice

■ Alive After Five concert: “Costume Party” with Boys’ Night Out, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 865-934-2039.

off the seasonal menu.

Features were crookneck squash, zucchini, portobello mushrooms, roasted artichokes and Brussels sprouts, accompanied with couscous, flatbread toast points and hummus spread.

I line up on the “no, thank you” side of the Brussels sprouts discussion, so I was shocked when I asked our server if “these little green things” were fried lettuce bites.

“No,” he said, “those are the outer leaves of the Brussels sprouts. Chef flashfries them.” I still skipped the bigger bites but scarfed down those crispy little leaves that had flaked off.

■ 9th Annual East Tennessee Chili Cook-Off for Second Harvest Food Bank – noon to 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 2, World’s Fair Park; $15. Over 30 amateur cooking teams will whip up their tastiest recipes to compete for the best chili in town.

I tried to eat the vegetables the way I knew Chef would want me to – samples of all on the fork for an orchestrated taste – and it was delicious. I did find myself moving some of the veg- ■ Alton Brown Live: Edible etables around on the plate Inevitable Tour – 8 p.m. as I got full for just “one Tuesday, Nov. 4, Tennessee more bite” of the portobello Theatre, 604 S. Gay St.; $47 mushrooms. to $67. The two-hour show Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill: 11605 Parkside Drive; 865-392-1121

Upcoming food events: ■ Wine Down Wednesday – 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Blue Coast Grill & Bar, 37 Market Square downtown.

■ K-Town Vegans Five-Year Anniversary Potluck Celebration – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, Best Western Cedar

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■ Naples/Ashe’s Winery Dinner – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at Naples, 5500 Kingston Pike; $75. Featuring Frederick Wildman Imports.

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■ “Continuum” presented by GO! Contemporary Dance Works, 3 and 7 p.m., Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave. Tickets: $12-$20. Info: www.gocontemporarydance.com or 865-539-2475.

■ Arts and craft fair, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m., Middlebrook Pike UMC, 7234 Middlebrook Pike. Pottery, woodworks, jewelry, kettle corn, Christmas items, handmade items, baked goods, etc.

Breakfast and lunch served. Info: 865-690-8641.

■ 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. Continues each Saturday. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

■ Craft Fair and Fall Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Piney Grove Baptist Church, 2109 Piney Grove Church Road. Crafts, chili, hot dogs, bouncy stuff, music, games and more. To rent table: Karen Gwinn or email john@pineygroveknox.org or andrew@pineygroveknox.org.

■ Free family fun day, 1-4 p.m., McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Showcases the special temporary exhibit “Birds, Bugs and Blooms: Natural History Illustration from the 1500s–1800s.” Info: 865-9742144 or http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

■ “Nobody Knows” performances, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Knoxville Convention Center, 525 Henley St. Info/tickets: www.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 2 ■ Opening reception for Knoxville Watercolor Society open media exhibit, 3-5 p.m., The Omega Gallery, Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City. Exhibit open through Dec. 3. Gallery hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Info: 865-471-4985.

■ “Kickin’ It Old School: Southern Fried Performance Poetry,” 5-7 p.m., Preservation Pub’s Speakeasy, Market Square.

Hosted by Sundress Academy for the Arts. Info: http://www. sundresspublications.com/safta/.

■ The KSO Principal Quartet performance, 2:30 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Tickets: 291-3310, www. knoxvillesymphony.com, at the door.

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Dogwood kids SOAR

By Betsy Pickle

Bobby Dunning was one of the soloists for the evening as SouthDoyle High presented its halftime show “Framed in Jazz.”

South-Doyle band presents

‘Framed in Jazz’

Central High School welcomed all of the high school marching bands to Fountain City for the Knox County Schools band exhibition last week.

All 13 of the high schools performed their halftime routines, giving one another an opportunity to watch the

best of Knox County on the field.

A lot of hard work goes into a band performance, as was evident on the sidelines at the exhibition. Parent volunteers helped members and band directors haul bulky equipment on and off the field in record time.

Principal Lisa Light, who admits to having a competitive nature, bites her way to victory over three of her teachers.

It’s a miracle! The Dogwood Dolphins are SOARing!

Dogwood Elementary School is encouraging students to do the right thing with a school-wide behavior program called SOAR: Safe Organized Accountable Respectful.

When students meet behavior expectations that reflect the program, they earn punches on a SOAR card. After 30 punches, the students go to the office to get sprinkled with confetti, and their names go into a pool for student of the month.

Each grade level has a representative who receives a SOAR shirt, donated by First Presbyterian Church, a certificate from Project GRAD and a free kid’s meal from Texas Roadhouse.

Winners for October are: Zakari Prater, kindergarten; LaTaya Flemming, first grade; Kaylee Akins, second grade, Christopher Watson, third grade; Bobby Ladd, fourth grade; and Juan Scalf, fifth grade.

Second-grader Ashleigh Morgan, second-grader Kaitlyn Neeley, third-grader Jason Stewart and kindergartner Zack Morgan deal with the hard-to-hold Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Go for the doughnut!

By Betsy Pickle Gorgeous fall weather was the icing on the doughnut, er, cake at Gap Creek Elementary School’s Fall Festival.

The school’s PTA was thrilled with the turnout, and attendees young and seasoned seemed pleased with the array of kid activities, vendors and food. Raffle and silentauction items raised a good haul for the PTA to support Gap Creek.

But what really made the day was competition, specifically the doughnut dangle challenge (not sure that was really the title, but it describes the event).

Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts were strung from the frame of a tent, adjusted

to the height of the competitor in separate “heats” for faculty and students. Holding their hands behind their backs, they had to try to catch and eat their own doughnuts.

First one to finish was the winner.

Who knew doughnuts could be such squirmy little rascals? It was just like bobbing for apples, except it was more sanitary, and faces ended up covered with sugar instead of water. Let’s not think about the caloric intake.

Principal Lisa Light trounced her adult competitors, while Jason Stewart triumphed among the kids. But since everyone got a free doughnut out of it, they were all winners.

A hay bale decorated by Karen Christian of McLemore Florist puts festival attendees in the spirit.

Watch out for wild Dolphins! Nate Childs, front, and Esperanza Buendia-Uscanga, Caden Morgan, Nolan Vick, Isabella Webb, Billy Pratt and Abby Garcia-Martinez from Brittany Shassere’s class at Dogwood Elementary School have a great time visiting the Knoxville Zoo. Photo submitted

Enjoying a field trip to the zoo are Dogwood students Raenisha Greenburg , Anijah Shenault, Willkaririus Young and Xander Campbell from Lisa McCoy’s class.

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Burchett launches wreath project

By Sara Barrett Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett is launching a Wreaths Across America team in an effort to raise funds to place as many live wreaths as possible on the graves of veterans buried at three veterans’ cemeteries in Knox County.

He met with Kim Harrison and others last week.

Harrison’s son, Specialist Daniel Harrison, was killed Dec. 2, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq, during his first deployment to the Middle East. She said to lose a child “is the greatest fear of any veteran’s family, but my son had so many army buddies and I have a strong support group. There are so many without family. (The cemetery) can be sort of a lonely place, especially at Christmastime.”

Daniel Harrison attended Carter High School.

He has a younger brother, Joshua. His mom’s advice to other military families is this: “You’ve gotta stay

There are more than 15,000 veterans buried at the three veterans cemeteries in Knox County.

Anyone wanting to sponsor a wreath can do so by visiting www.knoxcounty. org and clicking on the Wreaths Across America banner. The organization is also offering a “three-fortwo” sponsorship special, which means they will donate a wreath for every two that are sponsored.

Kim Harrison and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett visit East The wreath sponsorship Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery. They are holding a photo cutoff deadline is Dec. 1. of the grave of Harrison’s son, Daniel. Photo by Sara Barrett The wreaths will be placed on the graves on Dec. 13. strong at home so they can Old Gray Cemetery.

Harrison said there are stay strong in the field.”

“If you simply sponsor many organizations that Burchett said a $15 spon- one wreath or choose to send care packages to solsorship will pay for a wreath sponsor 100, you are hon- diers. Contact any of the made of live greenery to be oring veterans and families military organizations and placed on a veteran’s grave who have honored our com- they can direct you approat either the East Tennessee munity with their service,” priately. She said her son’s State Veterans Cemetery on said Burchett. “Whether the best friend in the service Lyons View Pike, the new men and women buried in said she always sent DanEast Tennessee State Veter- our veteran cemeteries were iel the best care packages, ans Cemetery on Governor lost during combat or after and he would always share John Sevier Highway or the living a long life, we do this everything he got with his Knoxville National Cem- for the family members who buddies “except his Frosted Mini Wheats.” etery on Tyson Street near are still living.”

business Celebrate with the Village Bakery It is unusual for someone who is only 32 years old to be celebrating his 25th anniversary on the job, but that is exactly what James Shelton is doing.

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A 25th anniversary celebration will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at the Village Bakery, 6202 Chapman Highway.

The ever-popular thumbprint cookies will be on sale for just 25 cents each. Cake and punch will be served.

The Village Bakery is the oldest continuously operated bakery in Knoxville.

Shelton, a third-generation Council member Duane benefits the HBAGK has to baker, started working with Grieve. offer. Info: www.hbaknox- his mom, Tina, at the bakery when he was only 7. TiTake advantage of the ville.com/.

Homebuilders remodel office space

By Patricia Williams The Home Builders Association of Greater Knoxville was established to protect the interests of homeowners when building or making improvements to their homes.

While doing so, the staff had been walking on the same office carpet for 22 years.

“We thought it was time for us to fi x up the place,” said Ashley Burnette, executive vice president. The association hosted an open house Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 221 Clark St. to show off its new look.

Among the first things you see when entering the building is a display of the major streets that define

sections of Knoxville. “We want our office to represent the area that we serve,” said Burnette.

He assigned decorating decisions to Julie DuPree of DuPree-Graf Construction LLC, who is secretary and treasurer of HBAGK and chairs the 2014 Parade of Homes.

She coordinated the décor and shopped with area businesses. As most of the members have a foundation in construction, mud, dirt or steel, DuPree chose colors of steel blue and gray – with a pop of orange, of course.

Among those attending the reception were Knox Helping celebrate are: Scott Davis, state Reps. Kelly Keisling and Joe Armstrong, Ashley Burnette, Julie DuPree, Knox County County Commissioner Commissioner Randy Smith, City Council member Finbarr Saunders and Knoxville Association of Realtors president Doyle Webb.

Charles Busler and City Brittany Mathes tended bar.

Win and you’re in for some intense scoreboard watching late Friday for the loser.

Kickoff at Gibbs is 7:30 p.m.

Entering Friday, the Eagles (5-4, 3-4 District 4AAA) occupy the No. 25 Both are safely inside the position in the Tennessee playoff bubble at the mo- Secondary School Athletic ment, but neither Gibbs nor Association’s updated Class Central is resting easy.

5A postseason selections.

The Bobcats (4-5, 3-4) are three spots back at 28.

The top 32 after Friday make the playoffs. Playoff Stefan pairings are released SatCooper urday.

The Eagles and Bobcats both have reasons to feel The Bobcats travel to the good about their chances Eagles’ nest on Friday with a Friday. Gibbs quarterback spot in next week’s Class 5A Preston Booth had a hand playoffs a certainty for the in four Eagle touchdowns in winner. Several four-win the opening half in a 39-6 teams statewide will make win at Powell last week.

Gibbs, Central looking to take guesswork out of playoff berth

Running for three scores, the Gibbs field general also had a 49-yard touchdown pass to Ethan Warden.

Brendan Wilson ran back a Powell punt 41 yards for a touchdown.

Central didn’t fare so well last week at Oak Ridge, falling to the Wildcats, 48-7, but look closer.

The unbeaten Wildcats, who meet equally unbeaten Anderson County for the district championship on Friday, led the Bobcats, 3-0, at halftime. Jeremiah Howard ran for 100 yards on 12 carries with an 11-yard scoring run against Oak Ridge. At least three quarters of that kind of football, and Central is sure to be in the hunt on Friday.

Last meeting: 2013 – Gibbs 24, Central 14

The Breakdown: This one could hardly be any closer.

With Booth running the show, Gibbs has looked super in wins over Karns (3417) and Powell (39-6) in its last two games. Central has one of the area’s top playmakers in senior receiver Cedric Washington. Junior quarterback Austin Kirby is a cool-headed passer with plenty of targets in addition to Washington.

The big ones are always won with defense, and in senior Hunter Lane, a 6-foot3, 250-pound All-State defensive end selection a year ago, Gibbs has one of the best on that side of the ball you’ll see this season. If Central can’t keep him out of Kirby’s backfield, it could be a long night.

20/20 hindsight: Sad that it took an injury Amazing that what happened to Justin Worley changed the appearance of Tennessee football.

Thousands of Butch Jones advisers can now see clearly what the coach had overlooked.

In the first game of this new season, Joshua Dobbs made a remarkable difference. His quickness reduced the pressure on the offensive line. His speed generated yardage. His ability to throw on the run created problems for cornerbacks.

Astounding that without playing even one previous snap this season, Dobbs was able to produce a couple of rare touchdowns.

OK, there was less heat.

The game was essentially

na’s mother started in the bakery business in 1962.

A lot has changed since Shelton began.

Balloons Shelton and roses used to be the norm for cake decorating. Now anything goes. “I am no longer surprised by what people request,” says Shelton.

Ideas for specialized cakes are phoned in, emailed or sketched and brought in.

Stack cakes are extremely popular around the holidays, with sales growing from 25 to over 200.

Shelton’s son, Ethan, is only 4. Although he hasn’t started baking yet, he has become the official “waste management” director of the bakery with his very own special trash can. The tradition continues.

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over by the time Dobbs entered. And his two turnovers contributed to the wreckage that was the eighth consecutive loss to Alabama.

Josh was not responsible for Amari Cooper. The Tide wideout chewed up Volunteer pass defenders with a world-record 185 receiving yards in the first quarter.

Offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin smiled as if he had a little something to do with it.

That dull pain and the

3-5 Tennessee record now have some new feel-better companions – a hint of optimism, a ray of hope, even the possibility of better things to come before next year or the next. If there are enough able bodies for a quorum, we’ll find out Saturday night at South Carolina whether this is real or a mirage.

In a weird way, Worley brought this on. The gutty gladiator took the beating, week after week, the price for inept blocking and no running game. The final straw, an injury to his shoulder at Ole Miss, forced Jones to cancel the red-shirt plan and allow Dobbs to play.

Those with flawless 20/20 hindsight may think they see that withholding

him for seven games cost a victory or two.

This is called hindsight bias, the tendency to seize a tidbit of new information and alter the facts, to adjust what really happened into what might have or could have or should have. Some so afflicted may even believe they knew it was going to end up this way and why in the heck did it take so long.

Jones left the impression that he waited as long as he could, until late August, before choosing a starting quarterback. He probably had valid reasons for picking Worley. Maturity, poise, strength, experience and practice performance could have been in the equation.

Under the assumption

Upcoming Friday Austin-East vs Union County Bearden vs. William Blount Carter vs. Fulton Central at Gibbs Christian Academy of Knoxville vs.

Roane County Farragut at Maryville Grace Christian Academy at Rockwood (Thursday night) Halls at Clinton Hardin Valley Academy vs. Heritage Karns: Open Knoxville Catholic vs Alcoa Powell at Campbell County South-Doyle at Sevier County (Thursday night) Webb vs. King’s Academy West at Lenoir City that the future just has to be better than the recent past, the coach decided to save a season of Josh eligibility until it would be more meaningful, until he could gather more talent around him. Butch gambled that these Vols could qualify for a bowl game without a dualthreat quarterback.

It was going to be really close. It may still be.

Alas, there is now way to know if Dobbs could have made the difference against Florida. All we know for sure is that Worley didn’t.

The need for a quarterback who can run has been borderline desperate. Fans understood. Through loud exclamations, they’ve been trying to help the coach.

Perhaps you have heard it.

“We need a quarterback that can run! Everybody has one.”

“Butch thinks a ‘mobile quarterback’ is anyone who can do the Vol Walk.”

“We may never beat the big boys unless we get a versatile quarterback, a playmaker with another dimension.”

“Tennessee needs a dualthreat quarterback” sounds like an old phonograph record with a bad groove.

Paying customers have been singing that tune, over and over, since Condredge Holloway. That was the 1970s.

Dobbs isn’t the “Artful Dodger” but he’s a reasonable facsimile. We’ll see if changing shirts changes November.

Marvin West, westwest6@netzero.com

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