SOUTH KNOX VOL. 42 NO. 18 1
BUZZ Brandi Self gets principal’s job
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Race expands into Terra Hoolie Festival
Drop the “interim� from the job title for Brandi Self. Superintendent Jim McIntyre has appointed her as principal at Mooreland Heights Elementary School where she has served as interim principal since the retirement of Dr. Roy Miller. Self joined Knox County Schools in 1998 as a fourth grade teacher at Mooreland Heights. She holds a bachelor’s degree in child development from Maryville College and a master’s in educational administration from Lincoln Memorial University. Mead’s Quarry at Ijams Nature Center is the location for the swimming segment of the XTERRA Knoxville triathlon. Photo submitted
Thomas kickoff Knox County Commissioner Bob Thomas will kick off his campaign for county mayor at the same place Tim Burchett announced his candidacy seven or so years ago. All are invited to a free baloney lunch with R.C. Colas and Moon Pies from 11:30 to 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, at Powell Auction and Realty, 6729 Pleasant Ridge Road behind the Clinton Highway Walmart. Commissioner Ed Brantley will serve as master of ceremonies for his friend and colleague Thomas. Entertainment will be provided by the Chillbillies, and Sammy “Barney� Sawyer will make the rounds.
By Betsy Pickle Third time’s the charm. Ryan Roma of Dirty Bird Events held his first XTERRA event at Ijams Nature Center in 2014. The trail run and triathlon went well, with a few bugs that were worked out during the 2015 edition. 2015 was also supposed to be the launch for an entire weekend festival of outdoor activities at Ijams, but “that didn’t pan out,� says Roma. This year, it’s gonna be real. “It’s bigger than everybody thought it might be,� he says. River Sports Outfitters and Mountain Hardwear are the presenting sponsors for the first Terra Hoolie Festival at Ijams. It will be Saturday-Sunday, June 4-5, at Knoxville’s most alluring park. In addition to the XTERRA
Vestival (festival) is Sweet 16 Vestival is turning Sweet 16 this year, and it will be the hottest destination in SoKno this Saturday, May 7. However, on Friday, May 6, an even older event will be celebrated at the Vestival kickoff reception at Candoro Arts & Heritage Center: the 225th anniversary of Knoxville. “We’ll have a toast to the 225th anniversary of Knoxville and a toast to the 16th annual Vestival, says Sharon Davis, Candoro board president and chair of Vestival. Davis has ordered a birthday cake from Village Bakery for the reception, and the bakery is donating 1,000 cupcakes to be given away at the Candoro booth on Saturday.
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Knoxville Trail Run and Triathlon, there will be rock-climbing instruction, guided hikes, scavenger hunts, open-water swims, paddleboard races, mountain bike rides, a kids’ bike ride, kayak races, SUP (stand-up paddleboard) races, SUP yoga, a bonfire, a live band Saturday night, outdoor vendor booths, food, beverages and entertainment. Proceeds will benefit Ijams Nature Center. “Just about everything you could possibly want outdoors will be at the festival,� Roma says. The trail run will be on Saturday and the triathlon on Sunday. “Everything else is kind of falling in around us and going on concurrently.� Saturday will include a 4.2 mile run and a half-marathon, 13.2 miles, on the same course as last
year. Sunday’s triathlon will include a three-quarter-mile swim in Mead’s Quarry, a 16.6-mile mountain-bike ride and a 4.2-mile run. The mountain-bike course will cover the South Loop “plus some other fun features,� Roma says. He’s expecting about 125 for the triathlon and 175 for the trail runs. Usually, two-thirds of the triathletes are male and one-third female. The trail runs typically draw half and half. Some of the triathlon entrants are families, with each member doing one of the three sections. XTERRA Knoxville is a “stepping stone for larger races,� he says. It’s part of a national circuit and helps athletes score points to qualify for the nationals. He’s heard from participants that the course and the location
are among the better ones on the circuit and the race is one of the tougher ones. Participants come from the local area and all over the Southeast. Holding the event at Ijams is a plus because of the Urban Wilderness’ South Loop. “The trails are just beautiful,� says Roma. “It’s amazing to be so close to downtown but feel so far. “AMBC (Appalachian Mountain Bike Club) did a great job building trails. They’re not just straight; they’re winding and twisting. They’re everything you could want as a mountain biker, even a runner.� For more on Terra Hoolie events: info@riversportsoutfitters.com, w w w.riversportsoutfitters.com or 865-523-0066. For XTERRA Knoxville: dirtybirdevents.com.
Comcast employees, others volunteer at Baker Creek Preserve By Betsy Pickle If a volunteer plants a tree in the woods, will anyone hear? They will if it’s Comcast Cares Day and the woods are at the Baker Creek Preserve in the Urban Wilderness, and it’s not one tree but 1,000. Last Saturday was the 15th annual Comcast Cares Day, and
the latest addition to the UW got some cleaning, clearing, planting, trail-building and maintenance – as well as decking on the Red Bud Bridge – from Comcast employees, their families, the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club and even a Girl Scout troop. Around 275 volunteers spread out to work on 10 different proj-
ects beginning at 8 a.m. With tools provided by Ijams Nature Center and Keep Knoxville Beautiful and gloves supplied by HGTV (which also donated prizes for the workers), they poured all their energy into bringing Baker Creek Preserve closer to its official opening to the public. Russell Byrd, local senior di-
rector of external affairs for Comcast, helped plant trees on an old logging road. He also got a tour of Baker Creek Preserve (formerly known as the Wood Property) from Matthew Kellogg, president of AMBC.
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Sidewalk study shows needs in school zones By Sandra Clark Mayor Madeline Rogero called for $2.7 million for sidewalks and crosswalks across the city, when she presented her budget last week, including $750,000 for sidewalks within school Parental Responsibility Zones and another $750,000 for new sidewalk construction. Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will present his budget Monday, May 9. We’ll see then what he proposes. Regardless, sidewalks present a dilemma – residents at planning meetings consistently request them; some like those in West Hills even rally at 7 a.m. to demonstrate the need for sidewalks. Yet sidewalks are a low budget priority for decision-makers, al-
Morris Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Powell Elementary, Powell High School and BrickeyMcCloud Elementary. “Using this knowledge about where the greatest pedestrian demand and/or potential exists should provide a focused starting point for pedestrian project planning,� the report concluded. Seems sensible, yet Knox County has built sidewalks over the past 3-4 years at Halls Elementary and from Karns Elementary to Karns Middle – both areas where political pressure was intense and neither was on the priority list. Just a thought, but why not drop by to chat with Burchett at one of his nine meetings over two days following his budget presentation. And we dare you to walk:
Monday, May 9: â– Budget presentation, 9 a.m., City County Building â– South Knoxville Senior Center, 11:30 a.m., 6729 Martel Lane â– Strang Senior Center, 1:30 p.m., 109 Lovell Road â– Halls Senior Center, 2:45 p.m., 4405 Crippen Road â– Carter Senior Center, 4 p.m., 9040 Asheville Highway â– Burlington Branch Library, 5:30 p.m., 4614 Asheville Highway Tuesday, May 10: â– Karns Senior Center, 1 p.m., 8042 Oak Ridge Highway â– Cedar Bluff Library, 2 p.m., 9045 Cross Park Drive â– Bearden Library, 3 p.m., 100 Golfclub Road â– Fountain City Library, 4 p.m., 5300 Stanton Road
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most at the bottom of the wants and needs list. A January 2014 study prepared for the Knox County Department of Engineering and Public Works by Transportation Consultants Inc. identified locations within the county having the greatest potential and actual usage of walk-toschool trips. The study showed 22,322 of Knox County’s 59,276 students live within the Parental Responsibility Zones where bus transportation is not provided. Using a complex formula, planners determined the top schools for walkers if sidewalks were installed. These are, in order: Cedar Bluff Elementary, Londsdale Elementary, Blue Grass Elementary, Belle
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health & lifestyles
Sign of a stroke Billboard leads Johnson University EMT to choose Fort Sanders If it had been anyone else, Perry Morin would’ve been among the first to help. Only this time, he was the one who needed help. A 52-year-old emergency medical technician who lives on the Johnson University campus where he is safety manager, Morin suddenly found himself on the receiving end of emergency care late one night last August when an ischemic stroke left him in a heap on his bathroom floor. His entire right side was powerless to move and his speech slurred as his wife, Angie, asked where he wanted the ambulance to take him. “That billboard popped into my head,” said Perry, referring to the large billboard he had seen on Chapman Highway countless times last summer. “I don’t remember the exact wording, but it was a Covenant Health and Fort Sanders billboard that said something like, ‘The Region’s No. 1 Stroke Care Facility.’ I don’t know why, but it just popped into my head. So that’s why I chose Fort Sanders.” Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center was the first in the area to earn an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification by The Joint Commission, a nonprofit organization that accredits and certifies more than 20,500 health care programs in the United States. This “gold-seal” advanced certification means that Fort Sanders is recognized as having the most advanced and effective stroke treatments available. Today, he’ll tell you that choosing Fort Sanders was one the best decisions of his life. A quick and accurate diagnosis and treatment with the clot-busting drug tPA (tissue Plasminogen Activator) resulted in Perry’s discharge two days later without any impairments. “They were terrific. They were more than professional,” Perry said of the nursing staff and emergency department physician, Dr. David Bishop. “They recognized what was going on. They assessed me quickly and took care of it. They put me in a CT and figured out that I’d had an ischemic stroke which is treatable with tPA.” It all began around 11:15 p.m. on Aug. 4, 2015, when Perry was brushing his teeth before bed. “Suddenly, I realized I couldn’t hold my toothbrush very well – it seemed heavy to me,” Perry recounted. “I thought, ‘what is this?! This is really strange.’ I think I may have recognized it was a stroke. That’s when I fell down and slammed into the bathroom door.” The racket sent the rest of the Morin family scrambling – Angie from the living room, 17-year-old Benjamin from his man cave and 13-year-old Lydia from her bedroom. “I heard a big thud so I walked in and saw Mom had already dialed 911,” said Benjamin. “My sister was upset so I went and tried to calm her down.” “So I’m just lying on the floor thinking ‘This is weird’ because I was recognizing what was going on,” said Morin. “I was cognizant, I was alert, and I was awake. It didn’t hurt -- nothing hurt. I was just lying there and I couldn’t move my right side at all.” “He was very lucid with me,” said Angie. “I don’t think he said ‘stroke.’ I don’t think I said stroke. I don’t think either of us wanted to say that word. We just waited and prayed because we don’t live very close to the hospital way out here. The ambulance service got here very quickly.”
Perry Morin is grateful for the treatment he received at the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional. It’s that treatment that allows him to continue enjoying afternoons with his wife, Angie, and daughter, Lydia.
The Seymour Volunteer Fire Department arrived first, followed closely by Rural Metro, one of Perry’s former employers and staffed by a former co-worker. While talking with his former colleague, he overheard another paramedic say that his blood pressure was more than 200 over 100. “I had been
taking blood pressure medicine for several years,” he said. “I thought it was under control. Obviously, it wasn’t. At least that day it wasn’t.” As the EMTs placed him on a stretcher and maneuvered him out of the house into the waiting ambulance, Morin saw other mem-
bers of Johnson University’s first responder team were also helping. “I would’ve normally responded to myself,” he said with a laugh. “But since I couldn’t, others in our group responded and helped the ambulance crew.” It was almost midnight when Morin was wheeled into the emergency department at Fort Sanders and taken directly to imaging where a CT scan confirmed Dr. Bishop’s suspicion of a stroke, likely caused by hypertension. He was given medication to lower his blood pressure, and after receiving Perry’s left-handed authorization, the tPA was administered around 1:30 a.m. Within 20 minutes, Angie could see her husband’s eyes brighten. Within 30 to 45 minutes, Perry was himself again. Two days later, he was discharged after passing all the physical, neurological and speech assessments. Two weeks later, he was back at Johnson University working full-time. Perry now realizes taking his blood pressure medicine alone isn’t enough – he must also check his blood pressure regularly. “I didn’t pay any attention to it all summer,” he said. “I take my blood pressure more often now and more routinely than I used to. I check it several times a week to see if it’s trending up or down or stable. I’m walking almost every day now. I feel pretty good.” That makes Lydia feel better, too. “I am glad that Dad is not sick and that he takes medicine. He’s getting stronger every day – and every night too,” she said with a laugh. Since that night, Morin has brushed up on signs of a stroke and urges others to do the same. Likewise, he hopes others will follow that other sign’s advice and choose Fort Sanders Stroke Care Center should they need it. “The neurohospitalist, Dr. Arthur Moore, was really nice. I liked him,” said Perry. “I wish I could keep him, but I don’t want to go through that again to see him. And all the nurses were great. I had the same four nurses for two days. The nurse at discharge said we were very blessed. We agree and we praise God and thank Him.”
The Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional
Delivering immediate and excellent care When a stroke happens, timely treatment is critical. The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional is well above the national average in delivering prompt treatment of life-saving medication. Clot-busting drugs are given to stroke patients through a vein to improve blood flow and minimize potential disabilities. The amount of time it takes for a patient to be brought into a hospital until the moment medications are intravenously administered is referred to as “door to needle time.” While the average door to needle time is a little more than an hour, the door to needle time at Fort Sanders Regional is 30 minutes. That’s half an hour faster than the national average. It’s just one of the many advantages a
Moore says digging into a patient’s patient has when background is a key step in determintreated at a coming the cause, and sometimes it’s not as prehensive stroke obvious as the main risk factors. center. The stroke “Stroke centers tend to be better and center exists to faster at treating stroke just because provide the highwe see it all the time,” Moore says. “We est level of stroke have doctors who can go up into the care for complibrain and pull a clot out, and that’s a cated stroke cases. really specialized niche. Most hospitals “It really exists don’t have access to to provide that someone who can do next level up from Dr. Arthur Moore is the medical dithat.” what you can get rector of the Comprehensive Stroke at your local commuThe Comprehensive Center at Fort Sanders Regional. Stroke Center at Fort nity hospital,” Moore says. “Strokes can be Sanders Regional sees treated successfully patients from throughat those hospitals, but finding out why the out East Tennessee, and even from Kenstroke occurred to prevent it from happen- tucky. To learn more, visit fsregional. ing again can be tricky” com/stroke, or call (865) 541-1111.
stroke: LIKE IT NEVER EVEN HAPPENED. Leading the region’s only stroke hospital network www.covenanthealth.com/strokenetwork
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No comprehensive stroke and rehabilitation center in our region does more to reverse stroke’s devastating effects than Fort Sanders Regional Medical Fort Sanders performs Center. That’s why hospitals clinical trials and procedures for stroke not available across East Tennessee refer their most complex stroke patients to anywhere else in our region. us. And only Fort Sanders Regional is home to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, East Tennessee’s elite rehabilitation hospital for stroke, spinal cord and brain injury patients.
community
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Brad Selph checks to make sure photos in the “Then and Now� exhibit are lined up properly, as Sharon Davis watches. Photo by Betsy Pickle
Historic photos of Knoxville were recreated by Candoro board member and photojournalist Saul Young for the “Then and Now� exhibit.
get going in earnest with about 16 performing acts, food and craft vendors, and kids activities. Admission is er in the front room at Can- free, but a suggested donadoro. Some of the photos are tion of $5 per individual or a striking contrast, while $10 per family is encouraged. other pairs are remarkably A free shuttle will run besimilar. tween nearby parking lots There also will be some and Candoro, 4450 Candora photos from the personal Ave. Stops are at the South collection of Joe Parrott Sr. Knoxville Community Cenas well as a print of the circa ter, Mary Vestal Park, ET1890 Lloyd Branson paint- TAC, Bargain Hunters Mall ing, “The Marble Haulers.� (behind the old Emery On Saturday, Vestival 5&10), Vestal United Methwill open with the tradition- odist Church and Immanuel al Mother’s Day brunch – Baptist Church. free for mothers – at 11 a.m. The cuisine at food At noon, the festival will booths will include Egyp-
Vestival promises 2 times the fun Vestival is turning Sweet 16 this year, and it will be the hottest destination in SoKno this Saturday, May 7. However, on Friday, May 6, an even older event will be celebrated at the Vestival kickoff reception at Candoro Arts & Heritage Center: the 225th anniversary of Knoxville. “We’ll have a toast to the 225th anniversary of Knoxville and a toast to the 16th annual Vestival, says Sharon Davis, Candoro board
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president and chair of Vestival. Davis has ordered a birthday cake from Village Bakery for the reception, and the bakery is donating 1,000 cupcakes to be given away at the Candoro booth
on Saturday. The 6-9 p.m. reception is open to the public. Attendees will get a first look at the new photography exhibit, “Then and Now.� Thompson Photo furnished Candoro with photographs of popular spots and views of Knoxville, and Candoro board member Saul Young, a photojournalist, has recreated the photos from the same perspective. The photos have been placed adjacent to each oth-
Baker Creek Preserve
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“This is an amazing park,â€? said Byrd. “I went all the way up to the top with Matt Kellogg ‌ and looked at the trails, and it’s just amazing what they have out here. “Our employees wanted to do something that was green, and I worked with City Council member Nick Pavlis, and we came up with this project, and I’m very glad that we did. It’s beautiful.â€? Byrd estimated that there were about 65 Comcast emMatthew Kellogg of AMBC and Russell Byrd of Comcast take a ployees, plus representashort break as others continue to work at Baker Creek Preserve tives of their partners, on on Comcast Cares Day. Photos by Betsy Pickle the site. Comcast provided lunch for all the volunteers. Lisa Frisbie, HGTV’s director of operations for ing Boston, Detroit, Houston their home communities. On Saturday, they were also content distribution, also and Philadelphia. Frisbie also was able to helping with beautificahelped plant trees, under the tion projects at Gibbs High direction of Kasey Krouse, tour the trails. “Who knew this was back and Sunnyview Elementary the city of Knoxville’s urban forester. Frisbie said HGTV here?â€? she said. “I had no schools. “This is a day that we can has helped out on Comcast idea; I live in West Knoxdo something different and Cares Day for nine years. ville.â€? Byrd said Comcast em- make a difference for people This year, employees were volunteering at a variety of ployees regularly volunteer that we didn’t know before projects in five cities, includ- with many organizations in we took on the projects,â€? he
said. “I think that’s what’s the most rewarding about it.� For AMBC members, getting a huge group to work on the Baker Creek trails was a shot in the arm. A bonus was that the Comcast Foundation makes a donation to every CCD site, based on the number of registered volunteers. “We’re really excited to have partnered with Comcast on this because not only are we going to get a lot
of work done, but there’s a grant portion of this as well that we’re going to reinvest here at Baker Creek Preserve,� said Kellogg. As lunchtime approached, Byrd was preparing to go back to work. “I’m probably going to get out here with one of these pickaxes and move a little bit of debris. Or maybe I should just go over there and cook the bratwurst. I’m more skilled at that.�
tian, Bolivian, Mexican (barbecue), Thai and vegetarian. There also will be grilled hot dogs, snow cones and chicken wraps. Free guided tours of the Candoro building will be available noon-6 p.m., and the gift shop will be open. There’ll be a traditional cakewalk every hour, noon-6 p.m. Vestival is more than just a SoKno event. “It’s a great place to connect with friends and neighbors from throughout the city and to share ideas and events,� says Davis. Tickets for Pink Marble Trail Tours by bus will be for sale. The tours begin Sunday, May 15. Also, applications for docent positions will be available.
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COMMUNITY NOTES ■Bonny Kate Chapter DAR will meet for its spring luncheon 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 11, the Orangery, 5412 Kingston Pike. A Memorial Service and Installation of Officers will be held. ■Colonial Village Neighborhood Association. Info: Terry Caruthers, 5795702, t_caruthers@hotmail. com. ■Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Firearms Association meets 6 p.m. each first Tuesday, Gondolier Italian Restaurant, Chapman Highway, 7644 Mountain Grove Drive. The public is invited. Info: Liston Matthews, 316-6486. ■Knoxville Tri-County Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each second and fourth Monday, Connie’s Kitchen, 10231 Chapman Highway, Seymour. Info: facebook.com/
TriCountyLions/info. â– Lake Forest Neighborhood Association. Info: Molly Gilbert, 209-1820 or mollygilbert@yahoo.com. â– Lindbergh Forest Neighborhood Association meets 6:30 p.m. each third Wednesday, Graystone Presbyterian Church, 139 Woodlawn Pike. Info: Kelley DeLuca, 660-4728, kelleydeluca@gmail.com. â– Old Sevier Community Group meets 7 p.m. each third Thursday, South Knoxville Elementary School library, 801 Sevier Ave. Info: Gary E. Deitsch, 573-7355 or garyedeitsch@bellsouth.net. â– South Haven Neighborhood Association meets 10 a.m. each third Saturday, Hillcrest UMC, 1615 Price Ave. Info: Pat Harmon, 591-3958. â– South Knox Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each third Thursday, South
Knox Optimist Club, 6135 Moore Road. Kevin Teeters, kevinteeters018@gmail.com. â– South of the River Democrats (9th District) meet 6:30 p.m. each third Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike. Info: Debbie Helsley, 7898875, or Brandon Hamilton, 809-3685. â– South Woodlawn Neighborhood Association. Info: Shelley Conklin, 686-6789. â– South-Doyle Neighborhood Association meets 7 p.m. each first Tuesday, Stock Creek Baptist Church fellowship hall, 8106 Martin Mill Pike. Info: Mark Mugford, 609-9226 or marksidea@aol.com. â– Vestal Community Organization meets 6 p.m. each second Monday, South Knoxville Community Center, 522 Maryville Pike. Info: Katherine Johnson, 566-1198.
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Making them cry, leaving them laughing What do we do and why do we do it? Betty Bean spoke last week to Dr. Mark Harmon’s UT journalism class. She brought the final copy of the old Knoxville Journal. There’s a staff picture on the front page. Bean stands alone, far in the back, not quite part of the gang but still there as the proud old daily coughed and folded. “Tell those kids to study for a job with a future,� I advised; but I know she didn’t. Bean is a true believer. Also last week, a reader from Halls wrote in part ... “Please forward – as I type this through the tears still on my cheeks – my thanks and appreciation to Betty Bean for her article, ‘A Killing at Danny Mayfield Park.’ “Not being a Knoxville native, I found it to be not only an outstanding piece of history but an opportunity for my own heart’s reflection on faith, gratitude, compassion and caring.� I forwarded the email to Bean with a note: “You’ve made another one cry.� Bean later said she had expected readers to cry: “I was crying when I wrote it.� So for every person who calls to complain about our delivery system, another calls to request delivery or extra copies. Very few write to thank us, and that’s OK. We’re already out chasing the next story.
deep in the food section). Additionally, the Shopper wraps the TMC –Total Market Coverage – delivery of various pre-prints and grocery circulars in Knox and Union counties.
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A sample of this week’s work: North, South, East, West
What’s next? Also, I coordinate government and business coverage, manage the columnists and go boldly where most reporters fear to tread: MPC sector meetings. North: Shannon Carey coordinates local content for Halls/Fountain City (our oldest paper), Powell, Union County and North/East (our newest zone). Ruth White, a Shopper veteran, covers our North kids beat, takes most cover photos and generally gets around the area, assisted by Cindy Taylor. West: Sherri Gardner Howell coordinates local content for Bearden, Farragut, Karns/Hardin Valley and South Knox. Sara Barrett covers the West kids beat, takes photos and fills in when Sherri travels. Betsy Pickle covers South, while Wendy Smith covers Bearden. Newer writers are Carolyn Evans, Farragut, and Nancy Anderson, Karns/Hardin Valley. Graphics: Carol Springer, Kathryn Woycik and Jodi Littleton put the pages together. In addition, Jodi manages our website. Ad sales: Coordinated by the News Sentinel team headed by Steve Bowman, the Shopper sales manager is Amy Lutheran, assisted by Patty Fecco, Tony Cranmore and Beverly Holland. Circulation: Shoppers are distributed inside the News Sentinel for Knox County subscribers each Wednesday (actually buried
What we do The Shopper News team publishes eight unique newspapers weekly. Roughly half of the content is consistent, while the rest is unique to each zone. I’m the overall editor and “last eyes� on each page before it’s printed.
As the former Scripps papers are assimilated into the USA Today network, we will change. Shopper pages will be produced by p a g i n at ion software. The classified pages already are. The web site hopefully will be more robust with easyto-search digital archives. We will always be c h a l lenge d to do more with less. L u c k i l y, the Shopper does that well – having started with a pencil and a drop box.
Shopper News is leading efforts to develop Powell Station Park. At top, seniors enjoy a school-sponsored cookout at the park. Home Depot guys donate picnic tables. Halls High principal Mark Duff captures the pride of all parents at graduation as he hugs his daughter, Morgan.
So what? You keep reading and we’ll keep writing. That’s our bargain.
Betty Bean features Brian McDaniel, who crafted the Knoxville montage above; and yes, that’s the MPC northwest county sector plan meeting at right.
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Bearden controversy highlights KCS malaise The school year is limping toward the finish line with much unresolved.
Betty Bean The last-minute ditching of the year-end tests, ironically known as TNReady (and before that, TCAP), has angered and confused parents from Memphis to Mountain City, and here at home, the impending superintendent swap of James McIntyre for interim Buzz Thomas will happen against a backdrop of long-running turmoil at schools like Bearden High as controversy over the once-stellar girls softball program enters year two. A formal ethics hearing is scheduled for June 6 to deal with a complaint filed by two former Bearden softball booster club parents who have gotten stuck with the cost of a new indoor batting facility, and the Shopper News has learned that a second complaint, triggered by an email principal John Bartlett sent to faculty members accusing former softball team members of ridiculing and booing the coach and team at scrimmage games, is being prepared by another parent. This complaint will allege that Bartlett’s accusation is false and that at least one
student who is a former team member has been harassed by a teacher as a result. The complaints came in the wake of the abrupt and unexplained forced resignation of coach Leonard Sams, two weeks after he The practice facility for the led his team to Bearden High School softball team Bearden’s firstever state tournament run. Filed by Randy Susong tion had not allowed other and Adam McKenry, the first entities to construct facilicomplaint says the boosters ties on school property, but would never have agreed to accepted donations from take on the task of building these entities to go toward a new batting facility if board-constructed facilities Bartlett had informed them through the board’s normal it was not legal for them to purchasing and construcdo so. They say the problem tion process.� Sams was hired as an aswas aggravated when the popular Sams, for whom sistant coach in 2007 and the facility was named, became head coach in 2011. was booted from his job, He has been appointed to crippling their fundraising coach USA Softball’s 18-unability and leaving the two der team in Spain this sumof them on the hook for a mer, and several student$700 monthly payment. athletes transferred into The school board signed off Bearden to play for him. The Bearden and KCS on the plan. A state audit, released in administrations at first atearly April, found several tempted to pass his deparirregularities in the bid and ture off as a mutual decibuilding process, and said sion, but it quickly became the booster club should not evident that Sams did not have been allowed to take leave willingly. And when it on the construction project: became clear that the deci“The deficiencies noted sion was final, only two of above may have been avoid- 15 returning players stayed ed if the Board of Educa- with the team.
At the end of last week, Bearden’s record (excluding practice games) was 1-15. Meanwhile, many former players with hopes of playing in college have joined the Tennessee White Lightning, a travel team that plays against high-level competition in North Georgia and is coached by Sams. Their record stands at 15-71. In addition to Bartlett, the first ethics complaint names Superintendent James McIntyre, Bearden athletic director and assistant principal Nathan Lynn and KCS director of facilities management Doug Dillingham. Speaking through KCS’s office of public affairs, Bartlett said he sent the email to his staff “to address concerns brought to him and the administration by parents and players.�
Worrying about Battle at Bristol No doubt you have been worrying for weeks about the upcoming Battle at Bristol. What if the Hokies upset the Volunteers and derail the exciting run toward the national championship before it really begins? Oh, you say the big game hasn’t even entered your mind? You have been wondering if somebody can catch the ball if Joshua Dobbs throws down the field? And you are somewhat interested in how bad is Jalen Reeves-Maybin’s bum shoulder and whether Tennessee can win the fourth quarter against Florida and Alabama? OK, be that way. Virginia Tech people are probably losing sleep over the big BB (that’s short for Bristol Battle). “We are aware of the big game on our schedule,� said Chester R. Henderlight, my favorite Hokie. “We’ve never played Notre Dame before. Does it snow before Thanksgiving in South Bend?� Well, imagine that. With the countdown to the really big September kickoff in days-hours-minutes-and-seconds mode, in
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flashing lights no less, are we to believe the Pilot Flying J Battle at Bristol is an incidental novelty, a gimmick game, largest crowd in the history of football, great video hub named Colossus, a massive show that few will see up close and in person – without a telescope? This can’t be. Bristol Motor Speedway is expecting 150,000 paying customers. Think about that – parking, gate receipts, concessions, souvenirs, extra for seat backs. Curiosity about football in the middle of a race track guarantees ESPN/ABC a worldwide TV audience. Performance Racing Network will scatter the radio broadcast to all four turns and far beyond. Multitudes will undoubtedly be up on the edge of their beds or recliners, depending on the hour of the day or night (to
be determined). There will be a variety of promotional links – NASCAR drivers talking about end sweeps, lavish charity dinner, Phillip Fulmer and ex-Vols in a golf tournament, large displays in 650 fuel stops, a really big deal. Big Jim Haslam, chief Pilot, will no doubt discuss his connections if asked, tackle times as a Volunteer and how his first gas station just happened to be in Gate City, Va., not far from Bristol. I’m telling you, this is a major event. Combatants are expecting to race home with more than $4 million per school (to apply toward campus safety and women’s sports). Tennessee fans have every reason to be excited about the upcoming season. It projects as the best in a decade, top 10 ranking, SEC East plaque all but inscribed. Butch Jones has brilliant playmakers, experience at most every position and finally decent depth. He has supposedly strengthened his staff. No excuses, this is it. Optimism abounds at Virginia Tech for other rea-
sons. The Hokies traded in old-time coach Frank Beamer for bright, younger Justin Fuente, the man who made Memphis the talk of his town. For years, Tech people had wanted an innovative offense. Fuente brings it. Enthusiastic followers say the Hokies will no longer be boring, predictable and reluctant to adjust. I had no idea Virginia Tech was that bad. I had not followed closely. I was aware that the Hokies won the Independence Bowl in overtime. It seems to me the Battle at Bristol demands sharper focus. It will be a once-ina-lifetime presentation. To the best of my knowledge, in the history of college football, there has never been a big game in the middle of a steep-banked, concrete race track. Could be nothing like this will ever happen again. Do what? You say East Tennessee State and Western Carolina are going to play on the same field a week later? Oh my. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com
government Rogero lags on MPC choices Has Mayor Rogero forgotten the Metropolitan Planning Commission? Or does she care? It is now 10 months since three city vacancies occurred on MPC (starting July 1, 2015). Those are the city seats held by former Knoxville Vice Mayor Jack Sharp, Michael Kane and MPC vice chair Bart Carey. These three continue as holdovers with no knowledge of Rogero’s plans. She can reappoint, replace or do nothing as she is doing now, which continues them month to month. While filling MPC seats may not be Rogero’s most important duty, it directly impacts neighborhoods. Why has she not acted? It is expected she will replace as all three have served two or more terms. Rogero is committed to term limits, but by allowing them to continue for 10 months she is effectively giving them a partial third term. If a replacement is ever named on the Rogero watch then he/she will have a shorter term than the normal four years. All three are men and Rogero is expected to add at least one or two women as replacements. But when, if ever, will these replacements occur? Rogero owes the public a reason for her almost year-long delay. What is also surprising is that one of the public reasons for hiring Indya Kincannon was to assist the mayor in making appointments. Obviously with MPC, Rogero has been slow to act on whatever Kincannon suggested. ■Wayne Christensen has retired as head of Knox Youth Sports after 20 busy and productive years. He and his wife, Sara, moved to Knoxville for ChrisChristensen tensen to work for Whittle Communications in 1983. They came from Minneapolis. By 1996 when he started with KYS, Whittle had folded in Knoxville and he had worked on a Baseball Parent newsletter. But the KYS executive committee that year, consisting in part of Charlie Anderson, Caesar Stair III and Jimmy Haslam, hired Christensen as executive director. During those two decades, he grew the program including adding 3- and 4-year-olds, middle school
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baseball and lacrosse. KYS reached 2,000 youth a year in the program. KYS also includes baseball, softball, flag football and basketball. The KYS budget has been from $500,000 to $750,000 a year. KYS helped rebuild the soccer fields at Lakeshore Park and Ruggles Field was added. He says it was “the best job of my life.� Christensen says “retirement� is not part of his future. He is simply moving from one phase of his life to the next. He wants to be involved in something that impacts Knoxville. KYS has been a major player in youth activities in Knoxville and Christensen was a pivotal part of making that happen. ■Mike Chase, founder and owner of Calhoun’s, Copper Cellar and Chesapeake’s, says that the city revamping of Cumberland Avenue, which will last another year and a half, is costing his Copper Cellar restaurant on Cumberland over $1 million in sales. This does not include the lost city, county and state sales tax that could have been generated by customers. ■Rickey Hall, UT vice chancellor for diversity, is searching for a new job anywhere. He has been a finalist at three places. Clearly his UT days are numbered. With Chancellor Cheek expected to retire this year as he reaches 70, Susan Martin is retiring as provost Aug. 1, and Margie Nichols is leaving the chancellor’s office. In a month it will be a new operation by the start of 2017. Can Athletic Director Dave Hart, who instigated the Lady Vols name change, be far behind? Phil Fulmer is speculated as a new UT athletic director. ■State personnel held an explanatory meeting on the new $160 million state museum in Nashville here in Knoxville at Pellissippi State on April 12. It was poorly attended with only 18 citizens showing up who were not state employees or consultants. Notice of the meeting was spotty. People were surprised to learn that the new museum has 11,000 less square footage in exhibit space than the current one being replaced. Advocates of the new museum say it will be much better configured.
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Kindness celebrated at Dogwood Elementary Students at Dogwood Elementary School were in for an afternoon full of treats recently when Glenn Jacobs, otherwise known as World Wrestling Entertainment star Kane, delivered pizza, snow cones and a whole lot of smiles to celebrate the Kindness Revolution. Students gathered in the cafeteria and were personally served Little Caesar’s pizza
Sara Barrett by the big guy himself. Jacobs made the rounds throughout the room to make sure everyone was having a good time. The students who cel-
ebrated with Jacobs were seen at some point in the school year performing an act of kindness during the school day. A faculty member nominated each, and assistant principal Christopher Deal picked the top three students each week from the nominees. Jacobs created a personalized video thanking each of the students, and they
received a Kindness Revolution bracelet as a reward. The finale to the program was a party with Jacobs. Jacobs was involved with the national Kindness Revolution program when Deal heard about the project and thought it was a perfect fit for the students at Dogwood. Plans are to continue the Kindness Revolution in the coming school year.
Friends Serenity Cates and Nevaeh Day said they were chosen for the Kindness Revolution because they helped their friends. “It’s just something cool to do,” says Nevaeh of why you should be helpful. Photos by S. Barrett
Gentle giant Glenn Jacobs patiently waits his turn to flavor his Students Beyonce Bautista, Kerry Mickler, and J’Kayla Chandler tell Glenn Jacobs why they think kindness is important. snow cone as a student takes her time making a selection.
S.O.R. Losers
Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush
CHAPTER FIVE: Story So Far: The special soccer team of non-athletic boys, practice for their next game by finding a way not to practice. But the second game looms. Our second game was at Shoreham. If South Orange River had a reputation for being great in sports, so did Shoreham. In fact, the schools were rivals. I always wondered who makes up rivalries. Principals probably cook it up. Maybe they hated each other. Or maybe the school board—any-
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thing to avoid talking about budgets—got it going. I didn’t even know anyone from Shoreham. Didn’t even care. We did get in another practice after the practice when we did not practice. Wasn’t bad. That is, I think we kicked the ball around a bit. The next day we went to a big museum and saw a neat film. In fact, on the bus to Shoreham, Saltz, Radosh and I got into this long discussion about some of the dinosaurs we saw in the
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thought I was kidding. I wasn’t. I can’t tell you about the whole game. Just the highlights. Or rather, the lowlights. It wasn’t all that different from the Buckingham game. I do remember being impressed because they didn’t score right away. Not in the first ten seconds, anyway. In fact, I think we had the ball on their side of the field briefly. What is worth telling about is our first goal. It came about this way. They were on the attack. Actually, they were always on the attack. Just as we were always on the defense. But in this case, they had brought the ball nicely down the left line, passed it to the middle guys, pretty much in front of me — that is, in front of the goal. Meanwhile, my trusty buddy Saltz, as well as Root and Hays, were right in there, flailing away, hacking with their feet, rear ends, heads, whatever they found useful and close to the ball. It didn’t work. The ball kept getting closer. To me. I crouched, ready to miss. The ball squirted loose. Hays was right there and gave it a kick with the swift instinct of a true player. Right into our goal. Point for them. The best part was when the ball went in and the Shoreham team all lifted their arms. That’s a soccer tradition, airing your armpits after all that footwork. Anyway, I saw Hays lift his arms too, with this great idiot’s grin of success on his face. Eliscue tipped him off, delicately. “Wrong side, Bozo,” he said. Hays’s grin dropped like lead weights. He stood there, truly shaken. At another furious part of the game, I remember looking across the field and noticing that their goaltender was lying flat on his back, hands beneath his head, taking a sunbath. That really made me mad. I was still glaring at him as their twenty-second goal went whizzing past my eyes. Final score: 47–0. Guess who won? I wondered, did that make them better than Buckingham, or us worse? “Well,” said Dorman, as we dragged into our bus for the ride home, “they said we couldn’t get worse, but we showed them. Lot of points.” “Yeah, but I scored one of them,” Hays reminded us. We applauded with slow, regular beats, “Yeah! Hurray!” Mr. Lester, sitting up front with the driver, was doing his best to pretend he didn’t know us by reading one of his books, How to Be a Successful, Winning Coach. He never did tell me what a captain was supposed to do. (To be continued.)
Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.
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SOUTH KNOX Shopper news • MAY 4, 2016 • 7
‘ExtendEd’ offers new degree option in Regas Building classrooms
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By Kelly Norrell Johnson University has announced a new venture called ExtendEd, to be offered in Knoxville and at sites in three other states, to grant accredited degrees in church leadership programs with study based in adult evening classes. In Knoxville, ExtendEd will offer classes beginning in August at the Regas Building, 318 Gay Street. Partnering locally is the Knoxville Interdenominational Bible Institute (KIBI), a predominantly AfricanAmerican pastoral and church leadership training school founded in 2001 by Joe Maddox, pastor of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church. ExtendEd students can complete a bachelor’s degree in either ministry leadership or pastoral care and counseling. The degrees will better equip vocational church pastors and staff and anyone in faith leadership, said Daniel Overdorf, dean of the School of Congregational Ministries at Johnson University. Two recent events celebrated the launching – an official announcement and reception April 21 at the Regas Building for community leaders, partners, and JU and KIBI students and faculty, and an informational meeting a few days later for prospective students. Johnson University has announced establishment of a Joe B. Maddox Scholarship Fund for ExtendEd students. “The launch of Johnson University ExtendEd allows the University to extend its reach, making educational opportunities available to more people through in-
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The world with us
Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. (Psalm 33:8 NRSV) The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours. We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon. (“The World Is Too Much with Us,” William Wordsworth)
novative partnerships and technology,” said Dr. Gary Weedman, president of Johnson University. The other ExtendEd programs are in Indianapolis, Phoenix and Louisville. Maddox said the partnership between Johnson University and KIBI brings unusual strengths together. “I started Knoxville Interdenominational Bible Institute because I wanted to equip leaders in the church – especially the AfricanAmerican church – with biblical knowledge and the skills to pastor others. The accreditation, reputation and degree-granting ability of Johnson University will strengthen our program,” said Maddox. Richard Brown, longtime pastor of Payne Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, is one local resident considering enrolling in ExtendEd. “Advancing my degree in theological studies is a goal of mine,” said Brown, who also holds a bachelor’s degree
in political science and business administration from the University of Tennessee. “This fits easily into my already busy and hectic schedule. Where it is located logistically works out well too, so I don’t have to drive all the way out to the main Johnson campus.” Overdorf expects10-15 students in the first class which will meet for classes on Tuesday evenings at the Regas Building. They will have additional online coursework during the week with hands-on experience in churches. He said anyone interested in more information on ExtendEd should contact him at doverdorf@ JohnsonU.edu Johnson University is 123 years old and has campuses in Knoxville and Kissimmee, Fla., with a total enrollment of 1,318. It is accredited by both Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and the Association of Biblical Higher Education.
Dr. Gary Weedman, president of Johnson Bible College, and Emma Callahan, registrar and administrative assistant at Knoxville Interdenominational Bible Institute, shake hands with guests at a recent launch of ExtendEd.
FAITH NOTES ■ “Moms Across the Generations” event for all grieving mothers will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at Christus Victor Lutheran Church, 4110 Central Avenue Pike. The event is hosted by Listening Hearts. Info: 679-1351 or listening heartsmoms@gmail.com.
Just to be clear, the psalmist and Wordsworth were talking about two different worlds. The psalmist was talking about the earth, the whole of the known creation. Wordsworth was referring to civilization: the affairs of men, the powers that rule, the day to day business of life. Lewis and I had a chance recently to get away from business to enjoy the beauty of the earth. After tax season was officially over (well, except for the extensions – all those folks who somehow needed more time to render unto Caesar), we went to our favorite campground in the mountains. We left the world of business behind in order to soak up the beauty and quiet and peace of God’s world. We had time to listen to the laughing creek, to watch the mallards sail across the lake, to marvel at the moon rising over the mountains. It soothes and heals the soul, I assure you. But, as always, we return to the routine. The trick, however, is this: we – all of us – need to learn to pay attention to this dear little planet, to love it, treasure it, protect it, enjoy it, honor it, preserve it for generations yet unborn. In so doing, we honor and revere the Creator who thought it all up, and gave it to us to be our home. Let us do the job God gave us.
InterFaith legal advice clinic May 7 InterFaith Legal Advice Clinic will be held 9:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at First Baptist Church of Knoxville, Trentham Hall, 510 W. Main St. Parking will be available in the Trentham Hall Parking lot between Hill, Walnut and Locust streets. The free legal advice clinic is offered in conjunction with Legal Aid of East Tennessee’s monthly Saturday Bar advice clinic and is hosted by the church to give people
a less intimidating environment to talk to a lawyer. Participants in the Faith & Justice Alliance can invite congregants from their churches, synagogues and mosques to bring their legal questions as well. Info: Terry Woods, 384-2175 or twoods@LAET.org; Bill Coley, 292-2307 or bcoley@hdclaw.com; Ian Hennessey, 637-0203 or ihennessey@londonamburn. com.
SENIOR NOTES ■ South Knox Senior Center 6729 Martel Lane 573-5843 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Offerings include: dulcimer and guitar lessons; arts and crafts classes; dance classes; exercise programs; Tai Chi; card games; Joymakers practice; free swim 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Senior Meals program noon each Wednesday and Friday. Beading and jewelry sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. WednesdayThursday, May 4-5. Register for: Mayor’s budget presentation, 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 9. Veterans Services, 9 a.m. Thursday, May 19. Harrah’s trip, 8:30 a.m. Monday, May 23; register and pay by May 16. ■ South Knox Community Center 522 Old Maryville Pike 573-3575 Monday-Friday Hours vary Offerings include a variety of senior programs. ■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center 611 Winona St. 523-1135 knoxseniors.org/oconnor. html Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Offerings include: Card games, billiards, senior fitness, computer classes, bingo, blood pressure checks 10:30-11:30 a.m. MondayFriday. This and That Market Group sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, May 4. Register for: Veterans Services visit, 10 a.m. Monday, May 9: RSVP: 215-5645. Lunch & Learn: “Stroke Awareness” with Dr. Mary Dillon, noon Monday, May 9; RSVP by Thursday, May 5. ■ CAC Office on Aging 2247 Western Ave. 524-2786 knoxooa@knoxseniors. org
The current Braden’s Lifestyle Furniture in Turkey Creek was built in 2003.
The former Braden’s showroom on Western Avenue was a huge, state-of-the-art facility when built in 1972-73.
Braden’s marks 60 years in business By Carrie Grey The Braden’s furniture companies have been a part of Knoxville’s history for 60 years. The family celebrated the company’s founding on May 1. The original Braden’s started downtown on Jackson Avenue in a two-story, deep, narrow building in the Old City area. In the early 1960s, Braden’s Wholesale Furniture Company Inc. was relocated to Dale Avenue in a 50,000 square feet showroom warehouse. Today’s Rohm and Hass chemical factory occupies this spot. Braden’s initially operated as a wholesale furniture distributor, selling to retail furniture dealers in five surrounding states. The local showroom always featured high quality lines, catering to Knoxville’s interior designers and local customers in addition to serving as a showroom for out-of-state clients, sent in by their dealer network. Braden’s big move came in 1972-73 when McKinley Braden, the founder of the family business, purchased and consolidated several small parcels off of Western Avenue and built his flagship store – a 100,000 square feet facility. His son, Gary Braden, joined the family business in 1977. Braden’s continued to operate as a wholesale distributor, expanding into seven states over the next 20 years. In the mid-1980s, Gary opened an import and manufacturing business called AFI (Association of Furniture Importers), traveling to Asia to pursue furniture imports for the Knoxville area under the AFI brand for the Braden’s wholesale division. In fact, the Bradens set up a light manufacturing business behind their Western Avenue location, producing dining room tables, chairs and china cabinets from imported parts. Later the family opened Braden’s Bedding Manufacturing Company. It was through this company that they manufactured mattresses and box springs and sold to their dealers for 10 years (1982-1992). That business was located on Papermill Road under the brand America’s Best.
Gary Braden with his dad, McKinley Braden, founder of Braden’s Furniture In the meantime, the Braden’s showroom became Knoxville’s finest furniture company as the first gallery-concepts store in the United States. Iconic brands like Stickley, Henredon, Century, Drexel-Heritage, Hickory Chair, Theodore Alexander and others, as well as patio and rug galleries, were showcased, each with a 5,000-7,000 square feet gallery. In 1982, the Braden family purchased the Fowler Bros. Company of Knoxville and began revitalizing that great company brand, culminating with the construction of a 100,000 square feet building on North Peters Road in 1989. In 1993, Fowlers was sold to Rhodes Company of Atlanta, which eventually sold again to Don Fowler from Georgia. In 2003, Braden’s purchased its current facility in Turkey Creek – an up and coming area in Knoxville/Farragut. In November 2004, Braden’s Lifestyles was born, and was originally set up as a contemporary style shop, flourishing from 2004-2009 under the management of third
generation Nick Braden. Not everything was always rosy, however. In 2007 Braden’s opened a 50,000 square feet store in Sevierville and bought a new warehouse in Maryville. This was the setting for the perfect storm, according to Gary Braden. Three major events happened at once. In 2007, Interstate 40 was closed for two years at the downtown Knoxville location. Gary says, “I love the orange and white, but I hate orange and white barrels!!” The road work, compounded by the country’s recession, destroyed the business. Meanwhile, Winfield Dunn Parkway was under construction for four years, creating a massive traffic jam to the Braden’s Sevierville location. Plus the cabin market, a large part of the Sevierville business, fell victim to the “housing bubble” meltdown. Both stores were closed and sold in 2009 and 2012 respectively. After closing the downtown store in 2009, the Braden family combined the formats of the downtown and Turkey Creek shops, and the rest is history. Braden’s has again been blessed with incredible growth, more than doubling in sales in six years, still featuring high-quality galleries, such as Stickley and Stressless, as well as a large patio department and rug gallery. Nick and Gary Braden have a love for the business and the community and plan to keep things in the family for another 60 years. Braden’s Lifestyles Furniture has always offered fine home furnishings and outdoor décor. As a full-scale design shop, they now offer various design services and everything needed to complete a space from floor to ceiling. Braden’s recently launched a home-staging service, proven to help individuals and families sell their real estate properties faster. Inquiries related to furniture, outdoor décor, interior design or homestaging should be sent to info@bradens.com Carrie Grey is director of social marketing for Braden’s Lifestyles Furniture.
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Everything Mushrooms lives up to its name By Carol Z. Shane When you walk into Everything Mushrooms on Sevier Avenue in South Knoxville, you walk into a whole new world. Jars of dried mushrooms in a dizzying variety line the walls, books about growing and using them fill tables. Cultivation supplies and pieces of apparatus – “inoculation loop,” “surgical steel scalpel,” “culture tubes” – crowd the shelves. Out back there’s a greenhouse and a variety of logs sprouting shiitakes. Store manager Sean McKay is eager to share the art and craft of mushroom cultivation with everyone. And Everything Mushrooms makes it easy for the most clueless beginner to start this rewarding, and ultimately delicious, hobby. Gesturing toward a log leaning against the wall in the store, McKay says, “Put it in your yard and let Mother Nature
do the work for you!” A Montana transplant whose background is in forestry, McKay moved here to take a job at Blackberry Farm. Then, “I fell in love with an East Tennessee gal,” he says, “so I guess I’m stuck!” But he says there Sean McKay are much worse places to be stuck. “Geographically we’re in a very good location.” With the nearby mountains and forests, “this is a rich mushrooming environment.” In business for 10 years and offering dried gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, truffles and truffle oils, mushroom oils and dressings, soup mixes and seasonings, Everything Mushrooms is a real destination for foodies
in the know. But, says McKay, the South Knox location is actually the “front of the house for a very big operation.” Everything Mushrooms does most of it business online. “There are probably only a dozen or so such stores in the whole country,” he says. It’s definitely a niche market, but the business’s products are much in demand by restaurants, chefs and farmers, as well as home hobbyists. And, as with any hobby, you can take it as far and as deep as you want. A beginner’s kit costs less than $20, and those more advanced can find everything they need here, too. McKay demonstrates several ways of cultivating the fabulous fungi – six-pound spawn blocks of sawdust filled with germinating cultures; liquid cultures that can be injected into a growing medium; individually-
sized bags of inoculated wooden dowels for plugging your own logs. Spawn? Fungi? Inoculation? If it all sounds a bit exotic, don’t worry. “You’re actually looking at a very clean product,” says McKay. “Everything is natural and sterilized.” And the dedicated staffers are there to help. “It’s not like you’re just putting something in the ground,” says McKay. “Customer service is something we really pride ourselves on.” So whether you’re just looking for a way to expand your gourmet tastes, or you’re in search of a new adventure that will reward you and your family for years to come, plan a visit
to Everything Mushrooms – in person, by phone or on its website. Everything Mushrooms is located at 1004 Sevier Avenue in Knoxville. Info: 865234-0977 or ever y thingmushrooms. com
A shiitake mushroom is ready to harvest from a log of white oak. The red blob on the tip is a wax plug that had previously held the cultivating medium in place within the wood.
The Rotary guy Tom King, tking535@gmail.com
Partners in books and reading Vaughn It’s a lot like that peanut butter and jelly thing, this literacy relationship about books and reading between the Bearden Rotary Club and Pond Gap Elementary School. It’s been going on for 10-plus years with no signs of slowing. On Friday, April 15, a group of Bearden Rotarians delivered a backlog of books to the Pond Gap library. “About five years ago we started asking their librarian for a list of books for their library,” said Rotarian Dick Hinton. “Our club buys the books and we have our weekly speakers sign the inside cover and then donate them to their library.” Bearden Rotarians who helped deliver the books were Hinton, Gary Ricciardi, John Heins and club president Tom Daughtrey. “Pond Gap School is high poverty and it happens to be in the Bearden area. The ‘Rotary Reader’ program was one of our first regular activities, but over the years we’ve done a range of things,” says Hinton, who heads up the reading program. “Every Friday there will be four slots open for club Rotarians to fill, to spend 20 minutes or so
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BIZ NOTES ■ Clarence L. Vaughn III is the new executive director of the Police Advisory and Review Committee, which reviews citizen complaints and internal affairs reports involving the Knoxville Police Department. Vaughn holds an MBA from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s in business administration from Florida A&M. He has worked in banking and business consulting since 2007. Vaughn moved to Knoxville 11 years ago. His wife, Syreeta, is a native Knoxvillian. They have two daughters. ■ Andrew Clark is a new vice president at Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon Inc., appointed during the annual stockholders’ meeting April 23. Clark leads the water services team in the Knoxville office. His projects include water and wastewater planning and treatment, pumping stations, replacements and rehabilitations. Clark earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UT.
Rotarians and school personnel are pictured with students from Ms. Harrison’s third grade classroom: (front) Alijah Davidson, Tyrese Mack, Rylee Greaney, Miracle Jackson, Jillian McGuire; (middle) Nevaeh Strickland, Sirvontez Jones, Saif Abdulameer, Joshua Ogle, Adonta Jones; (back) assistant principal Arrin Alaniz, Gary Ricciardi, Dick Hinton, librarian Michelle Broyles, John Heins and Bearden club president Tom Daughtrey.
reading books to the students.” Hinton adds that school administrators have asked then to recruit men to read since it’s rare for the students to see a man in that role. The Rotary Club of Farragut has the same books-for-the library program with Ball Camp Elementary School as does the Rotary Club of Knoxville with Sarah Moore Greene Elementary.
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We recently reported that the Rotary Club of Knoxville will help restore the amphitheater at the Elkmont Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The club’s first Work Day at Elkmont will be on Saturday, June 4, at 9 a.m. The work will be followed by a picnic lunch at Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area.
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■ Steve Cruze has been named chief operating officer of Premier Surgical Associates. He previously worked as practice manager for Premier’s Fort Sanders Regional office. He is a retired U.S. Army master sergeant, serving for 21 years as a health care specialist. Cruze served in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom with the 10th Mountain Division. He lives in Powell with his wife and two children. ■ Jerry Epps M.D. has been named senior vice president and chief medical officer of the UT Medical Center. Epps, who has more than three decades of experience as an anesthesiologist and in physician leadership, most recently served as chair of the Department of Anesthesiology with the medical center and UT Graduate School of Medicine. Epps replaces Dr. Jack Lacey, who retired after four decades with the medical center. A native of Benton, Ky., Epps lives in Knoxville with his wife of 40 years, Eleesa. Their adult daughter, Courtney Epps Read, also lives in Knoxville.
REUNION NOTES ■ The Halls High class of 1971 reunion, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 14, Li’l Jo’s in Maynardville. Cost: $20 at the door. BYO spirits or beer can be purchased at the restaurant.
RSVP: 963-5087, 922-8070 or wolfec4@gmail.com. ■ Annual Reynolds Family Reunion, 11 a.m. Sunday, May 15, at Big Ridge State Park, Tea Room. Bring a covered dish, fishing poles, games to play, cameras. Lunch, 1 p.m.
Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $20, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org. Opening reception for Art Market Gallery’s May featured artists, 5:30 p.m., Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St. Artists include Tennessee Watercolor Society members from the Art Market Gallery: Lil Clinard, Genie Evan, Harriet Howell, Kate McCullough and Brenda Mills. Exhibit on display through May 28. Info: 525-5265; artmarketgallery.net; on Facebook. Opening reception for “Body of Art” exhibition by Annamaria Gundlach, 5-9 p.m., Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway. Exhibit on display through May 31. Info: BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com or Jessica Gregory, 556-8676. Public reception for new exhibits at the Emporium Center, 5-9 p.m., 100 S. Gay St. New exhibits include: “International Latino Art Exhibition” in the main gallery; “Small Plates: A Response to Hunger” (on display Friday, May 6 only) in the Balcony; Photography by Rachael Quammie in the display case; and “Recessive” by Abigail Malone in the Atrium. Info: knoxalliance.com or 523-7543. Tennessee Trio: The Tennessee Recording Sessions, 1927-1930 | Brown Bag Panel, noon- 2 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 2158824.
Online registration open for the Marine Mud Run, to be held Saturday, Sept. 17. Individual waves, 8 a.m.; team waves, 11:30 a.m. Course: 3 miles of offroad running, which entails some obstacles, hills and mud pits. Registration deadline: Friday, Sept. 16, or until total registrants reaches 3150. Info/registration: knoxmud.org.
AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Buckingham Retirement Center, 7303 Manderly Way. Registration: Paul Johnson, 675-0694. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822. Appalachian family square dance, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Sponsored by Knoxville Square Dance. Music by The Hellgramites. Callers: Leo Collins, Stan Sharp and Ruth Simmons. No experience necessary. Admission: $7, $5 students and JCA members. Info: jubileearts.org. Exhibition preview reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Exhibitions “Full Stop” by Tom Burckhardt and “Contemporary Focus 2016” by John Douglas Powers will be on display May 6 through Aug. 7. Info: Angela Thomas, 934-2034 or knoxart.org. “Symphony on the Square,” 7:30 p.m., Market Square. Presented by Home Federal Bank; featuring the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Free admission. Bring blankets or chairs. Rain location: Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Info: knoxvillesymphony.com.
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THURSDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 5-8
Books Sandwiched In: “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Discussion led by the Rev. Christopher R. Battles Sr., Tabernacle Baptist Church, and Chris Woodhull, former Knoxville City Council member. Sponsored by Friends of the Library. Info: 215-8801. “How to Use Facebook for Seniors,” 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30. Registration and payment deadline: Wednesday, May 4. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register, in person at the Town Hall, 218-3375. Star Wars Day at the Library, 4-5 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
Knoxville Stomp festival. Venues include: Market Square, the Bijou Theatre, the East Tennessee History Center, Boyd’s Jig and Reel and more. Featuring: live performances, panel discussions, film screenings, a 78 rpm record collector show and more. Info/schedule: knoxstomp.com.
Garage sale, New Hope Baptist Church 7115 Tipton Lane off of East Beaver Creek. Follow signs.
FRIDAY, MAY 6
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 6-22
Cinco de Mayo Carnival, 4:30-7 p.m., West View Elementary School, 1714 Mingle Ave. Includes: games, prizes, face painting, food, dunking booth, Safety City, Wendy from Wendy’s Restaurant, Bo from Bojangles and more. Tickets: 4 for $1. All proceeds go to the school for school supplies and field trips for the students. John McCutcheon performing, 8 p.m., Laurel
“Snow White and Rose Red,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/ tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@ childrenstheatreknoxville.com; 208-3677.
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