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Ijams looks for more in ‘15

By Betsy Pickle

Welcome in the New Year on Market Square Mayor Madeline Rogero and city employees invite everyone to greet the New Year Wednesday, Dec. 31, on Market Square.

■ Ice skating on the Holidays on Ice Rogero skating rink from 1 p.m. until midnight ■ Festival foods available at the ice rink ■ Music on the Square beginning at 10:30 p.m., with a big screen showing events from 2014 ■ Countdown beginning at 11:59 p.m., with a ball drop and fireworks ■ Join in the singing of “Auld Lang Syne” following the fireworks.

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Promoting hope Grant Standefer, executive director of Compassion Coalition, put out a call for donations as the year ends.

He quotes Proverbs 13:12: “Hope deferred makes the Standefer heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”

And says 71,000 people in Knox County live below the poverty line with many of them worn down by “the oppression of seemingly hopeless life situations and circumstances.

They are indeed heart-sick.”

Compassion Coalition, a collaboration of area churches, agencies and individuals, offers hope through “getting ahead” classes.

Those who become a financial partner in the mninistry may do so online at www. compassioncoalition.org or by mail at 107 Westfield Drive, Knoxville TN 37919.

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Of all the accomplishments Ijams Nature Center has seen in 2014, the one that stands out with Ijams’ leaders is kids.

Providing a summer-camp experience for children who haven’t had that option before was thrilling to executive director Paul James.

“We had 250 kids (from the Boys & Girls Club) that normally don’t get access out there on canoes and kayaks,” says James. “(Education program officer) Jennifer Roder was down at the quarry every day. They were really wary and afraid of what they were getting themselves into.

“But they would listen to Jennifer, and you could see how they would progress in a week. It was amazing.”

One point of pride for James is that the campers didn’t “have to go miles into the wilderness; we’re right here in South Knoxville.”

Mary Thom Adams, Ijams’ development officer and assistant executive director, said “getting kids outdoors” was also her proudest part of Ijams’ year. With funding from the West Knoxville Sertoma Club and staffing from RiverSports, the camps were a huge success.

Seeing the young people exploring and enjoying Ijams “just made

The Barstool Romeos perform at June’s Meadow Lark Music Festival at Ijams Nature Center. Photo by Betsy Pickle

my heart sing,” she said.

Ijams has programming throughout the year that draws guests from throughout East Tennessee and beyond. The fourth annual Wonders of Hummingbirds Festival in August brought more

than 1,000 visitors to see naturalists band hummingbirds, many of which will pass this way again.

The festival also featured regional and national speakers and was put on with help from members of the Knoxville Chapter of

the Tennessee Ornithological Society.

During the 25th annual River Rescue in the spring, Ijams helped organize more than 1,000 volTo page 3

Phil Savage at Bliss Home on Friday Photographer Phil Savage will be featured at an opening reception 6-9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2, at Bliss Home, 29 Market Square. His work will remain on display at Bliss through January.

Savage was born in Mexico City and is a world traveler, which has helped him hone his ability to “turn the ordinary into the extraordinary,” according to event organizers.

“Phil loves to explore the endless possibilities that photography has to offer, by embracing

Phil Savage

black and white panoramic photos with hand-tinted touches. His First Friday exhibit aims to challenge viewers to rediscover the beauty and complexities that can be found all around Knox-

ville.”

Savage earned a full gymnastics scholarship from Southern Illinois University, where he received a

bachelor’s degree in fine art photography. He studied French at the University of Grenoble in southern France.

He was inspired by his mother, Anne, a graduate of the Art Institute of Geneva, and his father, Paul, a businessman and avid photographer.

He settled in East Tennessee when he was hired by All-American gymnast Ginger Temple Baxter to help her coach gymnastics.

In 2010, he became the only Junior National Team coach in the

history of Tennessee.

He is currently the head coach at Harpeth Gymnastics in Franklin, Tenn., where he just won his 32nd consecutive state title.

His photography ranges from sports to architecture and nature.

He loves to experiment with time exposures, night photography, abstracts and light painting. Savage is the first photographer to win the Dogwood Arts Festival contest, which is usually awarded to painters.

Plaintiffs press tree-cutting lawsuit despite TVA concession

By Betty Bean The property owners who filed a lawsuit in 2012 challenging the Tennessee Valley Authority’s treeremoval policies will press on with their case despite TVA’s announcement that it has ended the practice of destroying vegetation that grows taller than 15 feet on its easement zone.

The utility contends that suspending the 15-foot rule renders the case moot and asks that the lawsuit be dismissed.

Last year, U.S. District Court Judge Tom Varlan ruled in favor of TVA, which maintained that easement rights acquired 70-80 years ago give the utility permission to remove vegetation (by cutting or spraying herbicide) within 150 feet of its power lines, including the right to execute the “15-foot rule,” which it put into place in 2012.

In October, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that

ruling and sent the case back to Varlan with instructions that TVA must produce documentat ion that it conducted an environmental-impact study before implementDon Vowell ing the 15-foot rule, as required by the National Environmental Protection Act. TVA responded that the 15-foot rule wasn’t really a material change and therefore it hadn’t violated the NEPA. In Dec. 16 court filings, plaintiff’s attorney Don Vowell said that TVA’s about-face is illusory, since it proposed to end the 15-foot rule only in the “buffer zone” (on the outer edges of the easement) while reserving the right to continue to cut in the “wire zone” (beneath the lines), where TVA power wires are typically suspended some 60 feet high.

“The area that TVA plans to effectively clear-cut is approximately 280,000 acres, or more than

437 square miles,” with this area being ‘approximately half the size of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.’

“The stated area is the area of the entire right-of-way, not just the buffer zones. The buffer zones, considered alone, would be a much smaller number of acres and square miles, approximately 25 percent of the stated amount,” the brief, filed Dec. 16, said.

“The Court of Appeals quotes the letter of the TVA official in which he states that ‘our policy requires TVA to cut down all trees 15 feet or higher’ with no indication that the policy is limited to the buffer zones.”

On Dec. 23, TVA filed two new documents. One declared the property owners’ lawsuit moot because the 15-foot rule is no longer in effect. The other was a statement from Jacinda B. Woodward, TVA’s senior vice president of transmission and power supply, who said she has “completely suspended” the use of the 15-foot rule in transmission rights-of-way and will do an NEPA review of any new

buffer zone maintenance practices before implementing them.

She said this applies to both buffer and wire zones.

Vowell made an appearance on WBIR news to discuss TVA’s apparent reversal.

He said he was speaking out “to debunk the idea that this is a voluntary suspension of the 15-foot rule

by TVA when it is really being done to comply with the ruling from the Court of Appeals.”

In his Dec. 16 brief, Vowell said a case is moot “when there is nothing left for the Court to decide. The case at bar is not moot because the issues stated in the complaint have not been decided.”

The plaintiffs contend that the 15-foot rule has had a substantial environmental impact, which means that TVA should have submitted an environmental-impact statement, which it did not do.

Admitting to an NEPA violation could have serious consequences, including being ordered to pay legal fees and costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act.

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Fibroid tumors and fertility can coexist When Jamilyn Butcher of Maryville, 23, was a teenager, she worried whether she would be able to have a child in the future. “That was one of my concerns,” said Butcher. “I wanted to be able to get pregnant someday.”

Butcher had been diagnosed with a noncancerous (benign) tumor called a fibroid, growing inside her uterus. While these types of tumors don’t usually interfere with fertility if they’re small, Butcher’s had grown much larger, triggering excessive menstrual bleeding.

“The tumor didn’t hurt me, but it was the size of a soda can,” she said. “It wasn’t until after it was removed that I realized it was taking up so much space! I had a pooch all the time.”

Butcher went to see Dr. Robb McKeown, an OB/GYN physician with Fort Sanders Women’s Specialists. He recommended removing the fibroid tumor in a procedure called a myomectomy, which takes out the tumor but preserves the uterus.

McKeown operated on Butcher in November 2011. She stayed one night at Fort Sanders.

“It was the first surgery I’ve ever had, and I was a little nervous,” said Butcher. “But the nurses were so comforting.

Throughout the night I would get up. I was in pain and couldn’t move very well, but they were there when I needed them.

It was wonderful.”

And now nearly three years later, Butcher returned to McKeown’s practice for a more joyful reason. Butcher and her husband, Logan, welcomed a new son October 16, 2014.

“He’s growing like a weed,” Butcher said of her two-month old baby boy, Bronson.

“I had to have a scheduled C-section because of where the tumor was,” said

Butcher. “But as far as developmentally, he is perfectly normal.

Jamilyn Butcher and her husband welcomed their new son at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

“Of course, I wouldn’t go anywhere else,” she said. “Dr. McKeown and his staff are just wonderful. I wouldn’t drive the extra 30 minutes if it wasn’t worth it.”

For more information on fibroid tumors and removal options, visit www. fortsanderswomensspecialists.com or call 673-FORT.

Gynecologic health important at every age Vaginal bleeding and discharge are a normal part of your menstrual cycle prior to menopause. However, if you notice anything different or unusual, be sure to consult your health care provider before attempting to treat the problem yourself.

Symptoms may result from mild infections that are easy to treat. But, if not treated properly, infections can lead to more serious conditions, including infertility or kidney damage.

Gynecological symptoms may resemble other medical conditions or urological problems. Consult your health care provider if you have any of the following symptoms:

Logan and Jamilyn Butcher

Treating fibroid tumors Uterine fibroid tumors are very common. They are typically noncancerous but can be troublesome nevertheless, causing pain and excessive or irregular menstrual bleeding.

“About 60 percent of women have fibroids, but only about 10 percent have some type of treatment for them,” explained Dr. Robb McKeown, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “They’re very common, usually small Dr. Robb McKeown and most can be managed or just watched.”

What causes fibroid tumors? “Breathing air,” McKeown joked. “Actually, just having a uterus is the main risk factor. There’s no prevention, no dietary things you can do,” he said.

Treatment for fibroid tumors depends on the needs of each patient. Most smaller tumors may not need treatment at all, while others may shrink with hormonal medications.

Surgery can remove those that don’t

respond with medication and are causing significant symptoms. A hysterectomy also eliminates uterine fibroids.

“If a woman is ‘finished’ having children we usually just take the whole uterus out, because it’s very likely these patients will have more fibroids down the road,” said McKeown.

But if a woman still wants to have a child, then a procedure called a myomectomy removes the tumor but preserves fertility.

At Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, a myomectomy is most often performed using the daVinci Robotic Surgical Suite, or “robotic” surgery.

“It’s not easier for the surgeon, but it’s easier for the patient as far as pain, a quicker recovery, less pain medication required and fewer adhesion problems,” said McKeown.

The robotic system has a 3D high-definition vision system and special wristed instruments that bend and rotate with far greater flexibility than any human wrist.

Robotic surgeries typically involve several small incisions instead of one larger one, meaning less scaring and blood loss, reduced pain and complications, and shorter hospital stays.

Compared to traditional laparoscopic surgery, the daVinci system can remove more complicated and harder-to-reach fibroid tumors with fewer complications after surgery.

“We can certainly tackle more difficult cases that you couldn’t do without it,” said McKeown.

Symptoms of fibroids: ■ Intense cramping during menstruation ■ Pelvic pressure or pain ■ Heavy or irregular menstrual bleeding ■ Menstrual bleeding of longer than 7 days ■ Frequent urination ■ Constipation ■ Backache ■ Difficulty emptying your bladder If you are experiencing any of the above symptoms, be sure to talk to your OB/GYN as soon as possible.

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■ Bleeding between periods ■ Frequent and urgent need to urinate, or a burning sensation during urination ■ Abnormal vaginal bleeding, particularly during or after intercourse ■ Pain or pressure in your pelvis that differs from menstrual cramps, or persistent abdominal bloating ■ Itching, burning, swelling, redness, or soreness in the vaginal area ■ Sores or lumps in the genital area ■ Vaginal discharge with an unpleasant or unusual odor, or of an unusual color ■ Increased vaginal discharge ■ Pain or discomfort during intercourse Recognizing symptoms early and seeing a doctor right away increase the likelihood of successful treatment.

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The Pavlis pack Vice Mayor Vi M Nick Ni k PavP lis’ Coffee With the Council member meetings are always early, but he planned his quarterly gathering a week early so that constituents who might be traveling during the holidays could attend.

Betsy Pickle Monte Stanley, Mayor Madeline Rogero and Gene Monaco do the red thing at the party at Stanley’s home.

As a result, Pavlis had a good turnout for the Dec. 20 coffee talk at the Round-Up Restaurant.

Pavlis reported that, in addition to the improvements to the Chapman Highway entrance to Fort Dickerson, plans are in the works for changes at the Augusta entrance as well.

This is the road that leads to the quarry, and expected improvements will include better parking and, eventually, an operator for amenities such as rental kayaks.

Pavlis told the group that he is going to talk to Mayor Madeline Rogero about some redesign work on Hillwood Avenue. He hopes to create a four-way stop with Island Home Avenue, though he acknowledged that that would be an expensive project.

South Knoxville resident George Johnson launched a lively discussion of the pros and cons of bicycle licenses.

Pavlis and resident Regis Borsari headed the con side. While Johnson said he thought the increase in cyclist traffic would cause more gridlock, City Council member Finbarr Saunders said research showed a decrease in traffic in cities where cycling has become

Appalachian Mountain Bike Club members Mary Beth Tugwell, Matthew Kellogg, Kevin Zirkle and Katie Tugwell are festive in red AMBC sweaters. Photos submitted

Nick Pavlis, Len Johnson and Arnella Gregory get in a chat before the crowd arrives. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Luke Grieve, Ginger Conner, Matthew Morris and Perry Sanders got the memo to wear brown. more popular.

The meeting wrapped up with a discussion of the city’s pension plan, which Pavlis described as the “greatest challenge we have.” All was not gloomy, however. Although the expected payout numbers are high, Saunders said taxpayers will catch up with the

public officials mixed and mingled merrily.

■ SKNBC fun Delicious food and deThe South Knoxville lightful company were the Neighborhood & Business only things on the agenda, Coalition had a holly, jolly but “new business” included time at the home of Monte an energetic, Christmasand Whitney Stanley in themed sing-along fueled place of a December busi- by the piano skills of Gene Monaco. ness meeting.

There were no noise SKNBC members and fund in 20 years.

Ijams looks for more

complaints, but if there had been, neighbors might have backed off when they realized one of the most exuberant participants was Her Honor herself, songbird Mayor Madeline Rogero.

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Bicyclists and beer: ho, ho

The Appalachian Mountain Bike Club celebrated the season and closed out the year with a gathering at Suttree’s High Gravity Tavern.

Some wore red AMBC sweaters, some wore brown and others came without

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Oh, Christmas tree (good-bye)

Don’t forget, when you’ve finished enjoying your natural Christmas tree, recycle it. Knox County convenience centers, including the one on Gov. John Sevier Highway, are offering free “treecycling” throughout the month of January. Be sure to remove all decorations.

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Fall’s 29th annual Symphony in the Park, which featured Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Maestro Lucas Richman’s farewell appearance at Ijams, raised more than $60,000 – the highest amount to date – for the nature center. It drew 500-plus guests.

The success of the symphony concerts has led to other music events, including June’s popular Meadow Lark Music Festival. Working with WDVX, Ijams hosted a number of local and emerging Americana artists.

Ijams, in conjunction with the University of Tennessee, also hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams and a performance of his percussion composition “Inuksuit” at Meads Quarry.

Reflecting on Ijams’ achievements in 2014 is satisfying for James and his staff, but they are already laying plans for growth and improvement.

This coming April’s River Rescue will feature a partnership with the city of Knoxville to put on a weeklong special event featuring CNN Hero Chad Pregracke and his Illinois-based group Living Lands & Water.

And while the Visitor Center plaza has been updated with a pet welcome station, metal sculptures and a new kiosk, it’s getting another renovation to make it more accessible for people with disabilities.

Adams says the pavers in

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“We’re just about to start a comprehensive master plan in January,” says James, who says it will take three months to complete the process. It’s all about making Ijams even more appealing.

“Our membership is expanding; our visitation is expanding,” says Adams.

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“The pavers are really hard on just about anyone with mobility issues,” she says. “They’re hard to walk on or roll on. We saw that, and we want to do something about that.”

A more accessible entry will be installed this winter, and Adams is working with the Mayor’s Council on Disability Issues to get ideas to “make the experience better” for all Ijams visitors.

“We want Ijams to be the most accessible park in the city of Knoxville,” she says.

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Tennessee once rejected a Gator Bowl bid Considering how hard these football Volunteers worked to get the current bowl opportunity, you might not believe that Tennessee once turned down a holiday invitation.

It happened in 1955, after Bowden Wyatt’s first season as coach.

The Gator Bowl called with a tempting offer to match the 6-3-1 Volunteers against the 8-1-1 Auburn Tigers. The two schools had been in the Southeastern Conference all along but hadn’t played since 1939.

Great idea to get reacquainted, don’t you think?

Wyatt said thanks but no thanks. Players were sur-

missed was the 1956 schedule. The first game was against Auburn.

Think about it. The Vols and Tigers really didn’t know each other. Auburn had no old film, no file, no scouting notes.

Said Wyatt: “I did not want Auburn preparing to play against our singlewing in the bowl game, finding out what would and wouldn’t work on defense, and having eight more months to refine the plan.”

Smart? Wyatt didn’t want no stinking Tigers spoiling what was to come.

Tennessee played Auburn on Sept. 29, 1956, at Legion Field in Birmingham. Ten-

nessee won, 35-7. Tennessee surged on to a 10-0 record.

It won the SEC championship. Majors became an allAmerican. Wyatt was national coach of the year.

The ’56 Vols were truly outstanding, No. 2 in the country. They went to the Sugar Bowl. Sometime when you aren’t expecting it, I’ll tell you how that turned out.

Well, maybe just a tidbit now: Majors fumbled a punt too near his goal. Bad things happened. But his mother, Elizabeth, had a wonderful explanation: “Even the best cooks burn the biscuits now and then.”

Wyatt and Tennessee had nothing against the Gator

Bowl. They accepted a 1957 invitation and had a great game against Texas A&M, marked by a massive collision between rival tailbacks.

Bobby Gordon had the ball and John David Crow was playing safety. They ran into each a few yards short of a Tennessee touchdown.

You could hear the crash of helmets in the press box.

Crow got up, shaking his arm. He later said it was numb. Gordon, seemingly groggy, was helped to his feet by a good friend, end Landon Darty.

It helps this story that Tennessee won the game.

A pedaling political omen for 2015

when diligent researchers at MSNBC discover he is George W. Bush’s brother. Tarred with the Bush brush, he returns to his first love, “advising” banks

like Lehman Brothers, whose recklessness and greed ushered in the Great Recession on his brother’s watch.

Happy New Year!

I like watching humanity of all ages, shapes, and sizes parade by my front door on slow evenings. By “slow” I mean those in which I saw the “Seinfeld” and “The Andy Griffith Show” episodes airing that evening just a couple of weeks earlier.

On just such a slow evening last week, I watched a 40-ish man wheel by on a bright red bicycle.

I might have passed this off as nothing unusual had he not been pedaling very leisurely through a driving rain holding a dachshund under one arm.

The man wore gray sweatpants, a green sweatshirt and a bright orange toboggan, not the sledding variety familiar to Yankees (which would have been hard to balance), but the knit cap kind worn in the winter by Southern gentlefolk.

along the line of, “What in the world are you thinking?”

When he grasped his protégé’s logic, he said, “BrilMarvin liant,” or maybe it was, “I’ll West be darned.”

Wyatt actually knew what he was doing.

He had a pretty good prised. Fans were shocked. team that had lost its first A second blast fol- two games, thumped Alalowed the coach’s decision. bama, tied highly regarded Vanderbilt was second Georgia Tech and lost only choice. “No” from Tennes- to Kentucky in the stretch see sent the Commodores to run. John Majors was the Jacksonville. junior tailback. He had proUnbelievable! duced 1,133 yards. He was When the UT athletic di- SEC player of the year. rector, General Robert R. The coach firmly believed Neyland, first heard Wyatt’s he was going to have a betposition, he spilled some of ter team the next season. his coffee and said something What Wyatt saw that others

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It’s hard to say for certain what the dachshund thought of this arrangement, although every few seconds the dog loosed an uncertain yelp, perhaps because the bicycler had not thought to protect his passenger’s head with a caninesized toboggan.

Watching them pedal and yelp into the gloom of the approaching night, I concluded the dog was a kidnap victim, for what self-respecting dachshund would have volunteered for such a ride?

Steeped in hillbilly lore, I soon realized I had witnessed an omen for the

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THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Tickets available for Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival, on stages set exclusively along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Features firsttimers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Info/tickets: www. rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31 New Year’s Eve Celebration, 9 p.m., the Rose Center Council for the Arts, 442 W. Second North St., Morristown. Featuring the Al Curtis Orchestra.

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New Year’s on the Square, beginning 11 p.m., Market Square. Ball drop and fireworks at midnight.

Holidays on Ice skating rink open 1 p.m.-midnight.

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coming year.

Many hours later I successfully divined its meaning. Here are a couple of bold predictions for what awaits us in 2015.

Obama remains president for the entire year.

Many may find this one hard to swallow given the president’s perceived missteps while in office. Establishing a national health insurance program, presiding over a booming stock market, bringing soldiers home from Afghanistan and ending the senseless Cold War standoff with Cuba cannot make up for shortcomings like vacationing in Hawaii or Martha’s Vineyard and allowing his wife to criticize our fatness.

Presidents never get a real day off no matter where they are in the world, but for what it’s worth Obama trails George W. Bush in so-called vacation days at

this juncture.

There remain too many for whom Obama’s greatest sin is presiding while black.

Fortunately, that’s not an impeachable offense.

Jeb Bush just says no.

There’s something called the Live Free or Die Alliance already touting the former Florida governor as the 2016 Republican presidential candidate. If that name sounds like it was lifted from the New Hampshire state motto, that’s because it was.

These, according to the Alliance, are a few of Jeb’s bona fides: opposes funding for stem cell research, supports “stand your ground,” supports stricter sentencing and is a “skeptic” on global warming.

Despite the efforts of these Jeb-backers and others who would drag us headlong back to the 19th century, his hopes will fade

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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Knoxville AAA Office, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Cost: $30 members; $35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

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Java and “Good for the Brain games,” 9-10:30 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Bring a gift win a gift. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Journaling 101, 3-4 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Bring a gift win a gift.

Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

THURSDAY, JAN. 8

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

George Winters will be missed Fountain City guy Don K. Ferguson emailed: “I am sure that those who have seen the sign in front of Alert Transmission on N. Broadway were surprised and saddened, as I was, when they read it: ‘Father and Founder, George Winters, 1937 to 2014, Will Be Missed.’

“Thousands of us have enjoyed reading the various inspirational, religious messages that have appeared on that street-side signboard through the years. After reading it on the morning of Dec. 26, I checked the obituaries and learned that beyond the transmission business, Mr. Winters, of Halls, was also a Baptist

minister. He died Dec. 22.

“We hope the messages will continue.”

George and Mary Sue Winters were well known in Halls and Fountain City, having operated Alert TransWinters mission for decades. Mr. Winters, 77, was a Republican candidate for the state Legislature in the late 1960s. He was the founding pastor of New Testament Baptist Church.

There were five children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Jan. 31. Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

Opening reception for a new group exhibition, 5-9 p.m., Balcony gallery, Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Features works by Lynn Corsi Bland, Gatlinburg; Tony Henson, Kingsport; and Terina Gillette, Beth Meadows, Emily Shane, Tony Sobota and Jennifer Willard of Knoxville. The exhibit is on display through Jan. 31. Info: 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 10 Farragut Histories and Mysteries Book Group meeting, 2 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Allison Stein, professor of history at Pellissippi State, will lead a book discussion for “Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand. Info: 777-1750.

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

Saturday Stories and Songs: Kindermusik, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. For ages birth to 5 years old. Info: 215-8750.

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker in concert, 8 p.m., the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Taoist Tai Chi Society open house, 11 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Tai Chi Center, 1205 N. Central Ave. Features demonstrations and a free lesson. Info: 546-9222 or www.taoist.org.

Workshop for writers focusing on interviewing skills, article writing, 10 a.m.-noon, Remedy Coffee, 125 W. Jackson Ave. Instructor: Debra Dylan, editor of online magazine KnoxZine.com. Sponsored by the Knoxville Writers’ Guild. Cost: $35 for KWG members, $40 for nonmembers. Info/to register: www. knoxvillewritersguild.org.

SUNDAY, JAN. 11 Concert by Ellie Holcomb, 6 p.m., First Baptist Church of Knoxville, 510 W. Main St. To benefit Compassion Coalition and the Volunteer Ministry Center.

TUESDAY, JAN. 13

Knoxville Choral Society auditions for all voice parts, 6-8 p.m. To schedule an audition time: 312-2440 or membership@knoxvillechoralsociety.org. Once a time Computer Workshop: Introducing the Comis set, location and other details will be provided. Info/ puter, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. audition form: www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org.

Gay St. Info/to register: 215-8700.

FRIDAY, JAN. 9 Birthday Bash dance, 7:30 p.m., Square Dance Incorporated Building, 828 Tulip Ave. Hosted by the Volunteer Travelers Square Dance club. A birthday cake and door prizes included. Info: Steve Bell, 539-9593.

Opening reception for “A Narrative of Light and Shadow” exhibit featuring the artistry of Taiwan’s female photographers, 5-9 p.m., main gallery of the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. The exhibit is on display through

FRIDAY, JAN. 16 Application deadline for the Farragut Folklife Museum’s “Quilt Show 2015: The Love of Quilts.” The show is scheduled for Friday through Sunday, Feb. 1315 at the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Info/application: www.townoffarragut.org/ quiltshow; at the Town Hall; or Lauren Cox, lauren. cox@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057.

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‘Vote for Martha to elect Victor’ The unlikely campaign prevails The story of Martha Ashe going to the state Senate in 1974 continues from last week’s column when I had been removed from the ballot by the state Supreme Court. Public reaction was generally in my corner.

But what should be the response? Who would carry the GOP banner in November?

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My mother, who was then 62, had been an active civic leader in Knoxville from the garden club to mental health endeavors at now Lakeshore Park. She was WBIR TV’s first public affairs director.

She said that she and my father had more to do with my date of birth than anyone else, and the whole issue seemed purely political to her. That is when it occurred to me that she ought to seek the GOP nomination and run as a proxy for me.

The key to its success would be transparency. She agreed to run, although she did not aspire to the office.

So she announced her candidacy with me at her side pledging to run for me, and when I reached 30 she would resign the seat allowing the county court (now commission) to appoint me.

No one else sought the GOP nomination, which would be made at a special called convention to be held at the old Young High School in South Knoxville.

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those days were heavily influenced by the Webster brothers, Warren and Ron. Warren was the GOP chair, and Ron was the district attorney general. Both had been opp one nt s of mine, but Martha Ashe it never occurred to me that they were prepared to throw the senate seat to the Democrats in preference to my mother winning the GOP nomination.

But when the GOP convention was called to order, Webster immediately recognized Fred McPeake (a close ally) to question whether a quorum was present. If not, then the convention was not valid.

My key floor leaders were Ben Atchley (then a state representative), Knox election commissioner John King and former state Rep. Dick Krieg. The convention secretary started calling the roll to determine if a quorum was present. My mother sat quietly in the back of the hall. As it dawned on all what was afoot – that the GOP was about to hand a senate seat over to the Democrats due to having no candidate – anger and dismay quickly surfaced.

After several heated conversations between Ron Webster, Atchley and King, about 15 minutes into the roll call McPeake withdrew the quorum call, allowing the convention to nominate Martha Ashe, who was unopposed.

However, there was still the hurdle of the Knox County Election Commission, which had to meet three days later to vote to place her name on the ballot. The two Democrats, Bill Banks and Merle Johnson (now deceased), were opposed, and Howard Perry, the GOP chair, was a longtime ally of the Websters and was wavering on how he would vote. The other two Republicans were Lois Seymour and John King, who were firmly for placing Martha Ashe on the ballot.

After another very heated meeting in a crowded room, Perry said after 20 seconds of silence, “I reluctantly vote ‘yes’ to place her (Ashe) on the ballot.”

Not until then could the actual campaign between Ashe, Democratic nominee Betty Cathey and independent Jack Comer begin.

Comer never campaigned; Cathey was unable to swing public opinion her way.

My mother ran on the slogan of Vote for Martha to Elect Victor. She proudly said she was a stand-in, and I am convinced this candor won the day. She took 54 percent of the vote. She was sworn into office in January 1975 and introduced a bill to lower the senate age to 25 from 30 (it never passed).

Then she resigned after serving a little over two months.

Knox County Court met 10 days later and unanimously chose me to be the state senator until the November 1976 election. The court was not required to choose me, but the entire election turned into a man-

date for this process due to the openness with which it was promoted. It was a process never before tried and unlikely to be repeated.

■ Knoxvillian Reedy Swanson, son of city Law Director Charles Swanson and federal Judge Pam Reeves, will be in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for the next two weeks as part of the Human Rights Study Project of the University of Virginia Law School, where he is a second-year student on the Law Review.

Swanson, 25, will join several other Virginia law students looking at Myanmar’s transition from a dictatorship to an evolving democracy. It is an exciting time to be halfway around the world from Knoxville in a country making slow and halting progress to democracy.

■ Knoxvillian Hadley Gamble, daughter of Jim and Betty Gamble, was in Knoxville over the holidays from London where she is the Middle Eastern correspondent for CNBC News.

Her aunt is Jane Chedester, who runs Sen. Lamar Alexander’s Knoxville office and is a newly elected member of the GOP state executive committee. She will cover the 2015 Davos economic forum in Switzerland, which is attended by world leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She recently met with the Aga Khan. She is due to spend a week next month in Saudi Arabia interviewing its leaders and members of the royal family.

Fighting disease with data The Ebola virus may have fallen off the national radar, but Knox County Health Department epidemiologists are always on the lookout for the next disease outbreak. Tracking disease or foodborne illness is detective work that is driven by numbers, according to Public Health epidemiologist Roberta Sturm.

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“We do data,” she says.

The county’s EPI department consists of four epidemiologists and an epidemiology nurse. The team is in constant communication with local doctors’ offices, hospitals and labs, which are required to report instances of 81 different communicable diseases. The

EPI nurse follows up with each case to determine the likely source and ensure proper patient care.

Numbers can also predict illness that hasn’t yet arrived. Sturm says an outbreak of shigella, an intestinal disease that typically affects children under the age of 5, is likely this year because it typically shows up every five years.

The EPI department even collects data from schools, daycares and doctors’ offices about prevalent symptoms, like sore throats and sinus congestion.

Sturm is especially proud of two surveys that reflect the general health of Knox County − the Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (BRFS) and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The YRBS provides separate date for middle- and high-school students. Both surveys are available on the Knox County Health Department website.

Epidemiologists Al Iannacone, Mark Prather, Alicia Mastronardi and Roberta Sturm and epidemiology nurse Connie Cronley track disease and illness for the Knox County Health Department. Photo submitted The BRFS, which collects responses to questions about health-related behavior as well as physical and emotional health, helps target conditions that are prevalent in Knox County. It also reflects how the county compares to the rest of the state and the nation.

Because the survey is conducted every three years, it also shows health improvements. For exam-

ple, the 2011 survey shows that cigarette smoking is down and seat-belt use is up.

The 2014 BRFS will be completed next year. In general, the surveys show that Knox County residents have better health than most in Tennessee but worse health than most of the nation, Sturm says.

The YRBS is conducted every two years. In the 2013

government Bad year for McIntyre, Democrats This time last year, 2014 looked to be shaping up as a referendum on schools Superintendent James McIntyre. It was, and he survived, beat up and bleeding and still advocating for his education reform agenda.

Most, but not all, of this column’s 2014 subject matter dealt with the politics of education, with McIntyre as the focus, so this look back reflects that.

McIntyre is apparently ending the year with a slender majority on the school board (his former 8-1 majority has been whittled down to 5-4), and he’s suffering something like a death of a thousand paper cuts with a steady drip of bad news coming out of Knox County Schools.

The teachers’ rebellion keeps simmering but is no longer at a full boil, so there’s that. It took three years, but teachers are finally getting a contract, despite allegations that McIntyre threw up roadblocks all along the way.

And it’s probably not his fault that he’s had executive-level staff accused of (and in at least one case, confess to) varying grades of felonious behavior, or that some school bus drivers apparently aren’t properly credentialed or that the occasional school resource officer keeps getting caught with his pants down.

The bottom line continues to be the bottom line – even though the bad news is taking a toll, the superintendent still enjoys the support of big-money donors willing to shovel financial support into pro-McIntyre school board candidates’

campaigns.

The guy has shown that he can take a punch, at least for now.

On other topics, Republicans finally had enough of Stacey Campfield, who took his friend Steve Hall down with him when both got primaried.

And speaking of which, what would a look at 2014 be without taking a poke at Tennessee’s Dems, who pretty much got hammered up and down the ballot, sometimes by candidates who had been written off as jokes going into the campaigns?

None of those races reflected as badly on the party as what happened to John McKamey, a credible candidate who’d served as Sullivan County executive and a Sullivan County commissioner and had a long and distinguished career as an educator and a coach.

McKamey offered himself to his party as a counter to incumbent Gov. Bill Haslam and traveled the state on his own dime. But he got no help from party leaders and was rejected in the primary for a buffoon named Charlie Brown who advocated putting Haslam in the electric chair for a non-lethal jolt, just to get his attention. Some national pundits pegged him as the worst candidate in America.

Finally, we said goodbye to some good people this year: labor leader Harold Woods, noted attorney Robert Watson, radio preacher Pappy Beaver, utility executive and citizen activist Marvin Hammond, Tennessee Conservative Union founder/radio personality Lloyd Daugherty, former Republican Party chair Sue Methvin (the first woman to hold that position) and South Knoxville citizenat-large William “Dobber” Doyle.

survey, over 6 percent of high-school students reported that they attempted suicide during the previous year. On a positive note, fewer students (31 percent) reported texting while driving in 2013 than in 2011 (40 percent).

Most health departments aren’t able to conduct such surveys, Sturm says.

While she takes her job seriously, Sturm doesn’t lose sleep over the possibility of a dangerous outbreak.

She’s puzzled by those who worry about pandemics but neglect common-sense practice.

“Some people don’t want

to get the flu vaccine, but they’re terrified of Ebola,” she says. “It’s also important to wash your hands.”

Good relationships with area hospitals and the regional health department help the county to be prepared for health emergencies. They will also help the health department as it pursues accreditation over the coming year. It’s a long process, says Michael Holtz, director of community assessment and health promotion, but accreditation will show that the Knox County Health Department is serving its public-health function.

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Starting new year on positive note

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to empower the students at SKE to become leaders in our community.

Find creative ways to bring families and community members to become an active part of our SKE family.

Enlist the help of all of ■ Tim Berry our resources to ensure the success of our students.

South-Doyle High Join hand in hand with My New Year’s resolution the city of Knoxville and our is to lead South-Doyle High School to Reward School wonderful South Knoxville status and visit each of our Family to build a park that wonderful feeder schools at will be a gem in the crown of least once before summer our urban outdoor environbreak! Oh yeah, I would like ment.

Continue to find ways to to start the year with a clean bring in new technologies to desk and no work on it ;-) equip our SKE family with ■ Beth Blevins Some of South Knoxville’s best role models are our school principals. We asked them to share their New Year’s resolutions to inspire us in setting our own priorities for 2015:

South-Doyle Middle My New Year’s resolution is to smile more, worry less and show how much SDMS means to me in every interaction (sometimes it is in my heart, but my taskminded self doesn’t convey it as well as I should!).

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Mead Montessori Make family time count.

Use the weekends to create memories, take day trips, play, do more art – make it count!

Read more to my children. My daughter is 3 1/2 and about to read! She loves books. Right now we read each night before bed but should look for more opportunities to work reading into our daily schedule.

Our 5-month-old baby loves books, too, and would love extra story times.

Slow down. Juggling school days and family time can make for a hectic week.

In the New Year I plan to slow down as much as I can and reconnect to the joy that comes with being the parent of two young children. Resolution 1 and 2 should help with this resolution!

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New Hopewell Elementary My personal resolution will be to make time to exercise at least three times per week.

My resolution for the school is to spend more time with the students. Eating lunch in the lunchroom is one way I plan to make that happen.

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Mead Montessori School students brought holiday cheer to their neighbors at Island Home Park Health and Rehab. Ellie Salter, elementary lead teacher, directed the nearly two dozen students as they sang seasonal songs for residents and staff at the pre-winter break event. Afterward, the kids distributed handmade gifts and chatted with their audience.

Bonny Kate Elementary My personal resolution is to focus on healthy eating and getting more exercise and sleep. My professional resolution is to read, read, read and encourage staff and students to do the same.

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Dogwood Elementary I resolve to buy more lottery tickets, just to support education.

Clockwise from front left: Harry Willis-Becker, Olivia Neiss, Channing Bousfield, Wyatt Pendelton, Mason Brabston, Sebastian Phillips and Luke Neiss perform a holiday song.

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My resolution is to spend more time at home. I have a 4-year-old who tells me I’m never there to play.

My resolution is to spend more time with me. I’m always trying to find 30 minutes here or an hour there to just pause and reflect.

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Disturbing ‘Foxcatcher’ examines extremes “Foxcatcher” has a lot to say about wealth, about family and about priorities, but above all it is a gripping story that pulls viewers along on a bizarre ride.

Based on real-life events, the drama involves “America’s wealthiest family,” the du Ponts, but it is equally focused on another kind of family – two brothers bound tightly together by history and vocation.

Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is a world-class wrestler who won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics. His older brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo), is also a wrestler who won gold at the same Olympics.

Dave coaches wrestling at a university and has a stable home life with wife Nancy (Sienna Miller) and their two young children. Mark lives in a shabby apartment, scraping by as best he can.

They train together as Mark prepares for the World Championships in 1987 and the Seoul Olympics in 1988.

Mark is invited – commanded – to visit John E. du Pont (Steve Carell) on the Pennsylvania estate he shares with his mother, Jean (Vanessa Redgrave).

John tells Mark he is a fan of wrestling and an amateur wrestler himself, and he wants to fund Mark’s train-

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ing and expenses so he can go to Seoul and bring back America’s greatness.

He has built a training facility on the property and wants Mark and Dave to come live at Foxcatcher Farm.

Mark buys into John’s grandiose scheme, but Dave is happy where he is and doesn’t want to uproot his family. John, though shocked that someone would say no to him, assures Mark that they will form a power partnership with John as coach, mentor and sponsor.

It’s an athlete’s fairy tale – until it isn’t. Rob Simonsen’s wistful score makes it clear that a happy ending is not in store.

“Foxcatcher” lets both Carell and Tatum dig deeper than their films usually allow. Tatum is especially revelatory, depicting Mark as a wounded, lost creature grounded only by his loving brother and his focus on wrestling. Tatum does a fantastic job of convey-

ing Mark’s insecurities and simplicity.

With Carell, viewers first must get past an obviously prosthetic nose (designed to make him look more like the real du Pont) that the actor literally uses to look down upon others. The upward tilt of his chin may be realistic, but it is a distraction, even as the film progresses.

Fortunately, Carell’s other attributes outweigh the nuisance over time, and it does lend itself to the concept that there’s something “off” about John.

A son of privilege, he actually does have some accomplishments to his credit, but his sense of entitlement has led him to create a myth of himself that is altogether

undeserved. Carell gives him an otherworldly aura that’s alternately mesmerizing and creepy.

As the solid, supportive Dave, Ruffalo is his usual dependable self. Dave is almost too good; if all brothers were this wonderful, everybody would want one.

The script by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman is a magic act, foreshadowing but never giving away too much. Director Bennett Miller (“Moneyball”) handles all the elements as though the film were a mystery, creating an uneasy tone that makes it clear that the fox always gets the raw end of the deal.

Rated R. Now showing at John du Pont (Steve Carell) gives Mark Schultz (Channing TaDowntown West. tum) instructions in “Foxcatcher.”

BETSY PICKLE’S TOP 10 FILMS OF 2014 1. Boyhood 2. Obvious Child 3. Calvary 4. Foxcatcher 5. The Imitation Game 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 7. Birdman Ellar Coltrane grows up in front of the camera in “Boy- 8. Whiplash hood,” Betsy Pickle’s choice 9. Nightcrawler 10. The Good Lie for best film of 2014.

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New this week “The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death” is the lone new movie opening in theaters Friday.

Picking up the story of the Woman in Black 40 years later, the film returns to creepy Eel Marsh House, where children who have been evacuated from London during World War II start to disappear. Phoebe Fox (pictured) stars along with Helen McCrory and Jeremy Irvine.

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THROUGH SATURDAY, JAN. 3 ■ The Knoxville Watercolor Society exhibit at the Rose Center, 442 W. Second North St., Morristown. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Thursday until 7:30 p.m. Info: www.knxvillewatercolorsociety.com.

Knoxvillians are no doubt aware that their city claims certain musical pedigrees. Sergei Rachmaninoff played his last concert here, at what is now Cox Auditorium. Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, the Everly Brothers and Roy Flanking rising opera stars in 2013 are Metropolitan Opera National Council regional co-chairs Acuff all had doings in the Phyllis Driver of Knoxville and Shelly Page of Nashville. The young singers are Linda Brimer Barnett, Leah Serr and Mabs Seay. Photo by Ely Driver Scruffy Little City. of that decade, a district level of the auditions was added as a first round feeding Carol into the regions. This basic Shane structure has remained in place up to the present.

There are currently 50 districts and 16 regions.

This coming weekend, Knoxville and Nashville – Knoxville will become an East Tennessee and Middle important musical destina- Tennessee districts, respection for some talented young tively – are part of the Midsingers when the Metropoli- South region, and the two tan Opera National Council cities host the auditions in holds its 2015 regional audi- alternate years. This year it’s Knoxville’s turn. tions here.

Some of the winners of The process started in 1935 with “Auditions of the past auditions held in KnoxAir,” a radio program that ville include Cheryl Studer, featured exceptional young Delores Ziegler, Roy Smith American singers looking to and Jami Rogers.

Rogers, who lives in West join the Met’s working roster. Some of the stars culled Knoxville, says, “It’s a diffifrom this operatic “Ameri- cult and exacting process.” can Idol” were Risë Stevens, She remembers one sopraEleanor Steber and Robert no who neglected to bring her sheet music onstage for Merrill.

In 1950, the Met board the pianist. Having to go established a regional audi- back and retrieve it from tions program for those un- her dressing room “threw able to come to New York for her for the whole audition.” the radio show. By the end Rogers herself won in 1996.

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“It’s great exposure,” she says. “It’s amazing to sing on the Met stage with the Met orchestra!”

Married to tenor Kevin Anderson since the late ’90s, she now teaches voice privately and at Pellissippi State Community College.

The Rogers-Anderson family also includes a 12-yearold son who seems to be following in the musical tradition; he recently sang with the Church Street United Methodist Treble Choir on the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Clayton Holiday Concerts.

Co-director of the auditions in Knoxville is retired Carson-Newman professor of business and accounting Phyllis Driver, who says she “has little musical talent, but a great love for many forms of music.” Past president of the Knoxville Opera Guild, Driver still serves on its board.

Judges this year will be Carroll Freeman, the Val-

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And what happens after a win in Knoxville? According to the Met website, winners of the regional auditions win a trip to New York to participate in the national semifinals, held on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Approximately 10 are selected and compete the following Sunday in a public Grand Finals Concert, accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

The jury bestows approximately five Grand Winner awards of $15,000. The remaining national finalists are awarded prizes ranging from $1,500 to $5,000.

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Mother always told you: It’s the most important meal of the day. Formerly the stepchild of restaurants, breakfast has hit the fast track in American cuisine, with every kind of establishment from Taco Bell to fancy steak houses trying to get in on the act.

Finding a good breakfast in a restaurant is easy nowadays. This “most important” meal even has its own venues, where breakfast foods are the star, lunch offerings are thrown in for variety, and everybody is home by 3 p.m.

The Egg and I is a breakfast/brunch/lunch restaurant that now has two locations in the Knoxville area.

Way out west, there is a restaurant in the shadow of Costco, just off Lovell Road.

Closer to town, The Egg and I is nestled in a Bearden strip mall at 4108 Kingston Pike.

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The Mid-South region Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions take place this Saturday, Jan. 3, beginning at 11 a.m., at the Natalie Haslam Music Building at the University of Tennessee. The event is free and open to the public.

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The Egg and I has a lunch menu, something I know only because I have seen it.

Breakfast is the star of the show for me, and there just isn’t any time of the day that breakfast isn’t a good idea.

Pam Cantrell is making things happen with the Knoxville version of Run 4 Their Lives. This year’s race is set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at Market Square.

The race raises awareness and funds for sexually exploited women and children worldwide.

This year team competitions have been added with prizes (and bragging rights) for most spirited, most money raised, and largest number of runners/walkers.

The Knoxville race is one of several such events, and all information is available at the website www. freedom424.org/r4tl/races/.

This year’s centerpiece is the 5k Run/Walk, starting at 9 a.m. Entry fee is $24 plus a $2.50 sign-up fee with registration ending Jan. 8. The race fee is waived for those who set up a fundraiser with a minimum of $50 donations.

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By Bonny C. Millard The topic of how people want to handle the end of their lives, particularly if a serious lingering illness is involved, has become more popular as baby boomers age.

Dr. Gregory Phelps, medical director of hospice at UT Medical Center, said the country now has the largest generation of those over the age of 65 that it’s ever had: 10,000-11,000 boomers turning age 65 every day. As a result, more people are thinking in terms of health care for those final intervening years.

Phelps recently spoke to the Rotary Club of Knoxville and encouraged them to have conversations about this issue with their family members over the holidays. By making these decisions, families know what a person’s wishes are.

It’s difficult for some people to talk about end-oflife care, but several books have been written about the subject. Phelps said this reflects the increasing interest

in the topic.

“We never know when and where it’s going to come,” Phelps said.

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Phelps acknowledged that it is a serious topic, especially at Christmastime, but he interjected humor throughout his talk. He laughed and said his goal is to be shot by a jealous husband at the age of 95.

Hospice is about having the highest quality of life until the end, and finding what gives a dying person pleasure is an important part of the process, he said.

“You give your family this gift of what you want,” he said.

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

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

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

■ South of the River Democrats (9th District) meets 6:30 p.m. each third Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike. Info: Jim Sessions, jim. sessions@comcast.net or 573-0655.

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Knoxville Radiator and Auto Service in 34th year I met Toby Hyke, owner of Knoxville Radiator and Auto Service, on a tip.

Tina Shelton with the Village Bakery started bragging about Toby one day and said, “He is an incredible, honest mechanic.”

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Hyke smiled when I told him Shelton’s sentiments.

He quickly informed me that he has three sisters, a wife and two daughters who would “kill me if I wasn’t good to my women customers.” He must be treating folks right. This is his 34th year in business.

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Knox Y marks 160th anniversary

By Bonny C. Millard Knoxville and the nation prepare to celebrate the coming New Year this evening (Dec. 31), but friends of the YMCA of East Tennessee have another reason to celebrate: The organization turns 160 years old today.

Rick Coleman, chief financial officer, said the

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It is always best to have an appointment, but if you’re having a major problem, Hyke says they will work you in.

Not only is Hyke a great mechanic and business person, but he is also a good steward. The day I visited with him, he was preparing to leave with other members of NorthStar Church, South, for Brühl, Germany. This is Toby Hyke, owner of Knoxville Radiator and Auto Service Photo his eighth year going on a

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“It’s been great! I didn’t realize how badly my legs always hurt until they were treated. Now, I don’t have to deal with elevating my legs every night when I get home from work.”

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YMCA of East Tennessee is the third-oldest in the nation, being formed just 10 years after the original organization was created in England. Knoxville’s Y, as it’s more commonly known these days, was started with “six men and a prayer group.”

Nationally, the YMCA is known as the originator of basketball and Father’s Day. James Naismith, a teacher at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Mass., invented basketball in 1891, using peach baskets.

“He was a program director at the Y,” Coleman said. “The boss asked him to come up with something new.”

The Y has a copy of the original document in which Naismith wrote out the game rules.

“It’s quite interesting considering Pat Summitt is here in Knoxville, and we’re one of the oldest Ys,” Coleman said.

The document was part of a historical timeline showcasing the local Y’s 160year growth. The original minutes in a journal, which has been kept in pristine condition, contains information dating back to Dec. 16, 1854, as well as Dec. 31, 1854, when the YMCA held its first public meeting.

The minutes noted the large gathering of men at that Dec. 31 meeting, reflecting that attendance was “unmistakable proof of the interest awakened in the

Rick Coleman, YMCA chief financial officer, displays the original minutes from the Y’s first public meeting 160 years ago. Photo

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minds of the community.”

Coleman sees this as an indication that the local founders recognized the future importance of the YMCA. “I think they saw this as something becoming larger,” he said.

The YMCA rotated among several churches before members raised money for their own place, which was just a room where the men could come to read and pray. The permanent residence was built at 605 W. Clinch Ave. in 1929.

Now the Lindsay Young Downtown YMCA, it was named for a major benefactor and local attorney who worked out there through his 80s.

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Coleman said that even though they are celebrating the Y’s history in Knoxville, its leaders are ever mindful of their present goals. The Y serves more than 30,000 area residents and offers almost $1.3 million in subsidies to those who can’t afford services. The nonprofit’s focus includes youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.

The Y also operates a Community Giving Garden and donated 2,500 pounds of fresh produce to local pantries last season.

The Cansler Family YMCA, named after educator and principal of Austin High School Charles Cansler, was originally located on Wilson Avenue.

It moved in 2004 to Jessamine Street and houses the corporate offices in addition to its fitness center.

The Davis Family YMCA on South Northshore Drive opened in 2010. The other locations are the Bob Temple North Side YMCA in Halls and West Side YMCA. For info: www. ymcaknoxville.org/.

FAITH NOTES ■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County will meet 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 2, at the Family Justice Center, 400 Harriet Tubman St. Info: 521-6336.

■ First Lutheran Church, 1207 N. Broadway, will host New Year’s Eve service, 7 p.m.

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