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July 29, November 9, 2013 2016

No denying playground rules

BUZZ Carson Dailey sets resident meeting Knox County Commissioner Carson Dailey will host an “Ask the Commissioner” meeting 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22, at G&D Deli, 612 Tipton Station Road.

All are invited.

Parade is Friday

Scruffy City Orchestra to host Veterans Day concert Scruffy City Orchestra will offer free admission to all military veterans 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 11 at First Baptist Church on Main Street. The program, “Veterans Day Concert: A Musical Celebration in Honor of our Heroes,” will feature local radio personality and “Anything is Possible” host Hallerin Hilton Hill performing the narration to Aaron Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait.”

The concert will include performances of “Armed Forces Salute,” “Ashokan Farewell” (from Ken Burns’ Civil War series) and other selections to honor veterans.

All veterans of the Armed Forces will receive complimentary admission to the performance with military identification.

First Baptist Church of Knoxville is at 510 W. Main Street. Admission is $5 at the door. Debit and credit cards will be accepted.

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After making quick work of the official “ribbon cutting,” kids hightail it for the new play area at Baker Creek Preserve. Photos by Betsy Pickle

By Betsy Pickle Here’s the thing about ribbon cuttings: Attendees stand, respectful and sometimes bored, and listen as politicians, business people and community leaders talk about the new building or office or statue or bridge or park, and then a bunch of folks in nice clothes smile for the cameras as they cut a ceremonial ribbon.

For a twist, Legacy Parks Foundation usually includes speakers in T-shirts and boots in its presentations.

But even Legacy Parks couldn’t control the force of nature that exploded at last week’s ribbon cutting for the new kids’ adventure play area at Baker Creek Preserve: Children.

Yes, as a parade of admirable

Children catch some air at the new pump track. Designed for beginning mountain bikers, the track apparently is as much fun on foot as it would be on wheels.

and well-intentioned speakers stepped up to the lectern and adults absorbed their facts and figures, the kids who’d been enStanding in the meadow frontcouraged to attend ignored them ing the new play area, Yassin and the string of bright green Terou holds daughter Shaam, paper balls on posts and slipped who isn’t quite ready to run on over to the enticing new play spot her own. and started playing.

Eventually, parents and handlers lured them back so they could run through the playful ribbon for a photo op.

Mayor Madeline Rogero gave them instructions, and the kids half-listened before they trampled over the string and returned to their fun.

And why wouldn’t they? The new play area has several features created by SoKno artist Kelly Brown. There’s a small rock-climbing wall, a giant bamboo wind chime that kids can move through to make music, a net to scramble over, log rounds on which to practice balance and built-in slides, all on a hillside with stone and dirt tiers.

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Where’s the outrage when Jones hires Holt?

By Sandra Clark Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones poked 1,000 jailers, patrol officers and support staff in the eye last week. Where’s the outrage?

Analysis The sheriff left another 1,200 citizens on all-day lockdown because he’s short-staffed at the detention center. Outrage, anyone?

The term-limited sheriff holds office until September 2018, yet he’s seen more often on the golf course than in his office. Outrage?

The facts: Tim Burchett requested and accepted the resignation of his purchasing director after an internal investigation showed a pattern of harassment toward a subordinate. What Hugh Holt did was wrong, and he put the county at risk in a potential lawsuit. Burchett said essentially:

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“I love you, Hugh. You’re gone.”

But Holt found a soft landing and even a $500 annual raise from Sheriff Jones, an elected official who does not report to the county mayor.

Within three days, Jones had created a position of procurement officer in the sheriff’s office.

Without posting or advertising, he hired Holt. And he’s paying him $137,000 a year to do a portion of the work he was doing before.

Jones won’t talk to us. He doesn’t have to. He’s term-limited.

“Come on, Lee. $137,000 is too much. It’s probably more than you make. How much do you make, Lee?” After a pause, Tramel said, “You’ll have to ask my wife.”

Tom Spangler, former chief deputy, said the position is not needed since the county has always handled purchasing. He said an administrative position is not under the Merit Council and therefore Jones was within his right to hire Holt without posting the job.

But Spangler said if the office has a surplus $137,000, he would prefer to see it divided among employees. “Some say that’s just $137 each, but I say it’s $137 they didn’t have before.

“Nothing against Hugh, but his hiring was (an affront) to every employee up there.”

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But two men are campaigning hard to replace Jones, even though neither has announced his candidacy. We asked Tom Spangler and Lee Tramel if they supported the sheriff’s decision to hire Holt. Does the sheriff’s office need its own purchasing agent? Is $137,000 a fair salary?

Lee Tramel, chief administrative officer for Jones, said this: “I’m not a candidate yet. … It’s the Sheriff’s call. It’s not my position to comment. Look at Hugh’s record six or eight months from now.

Has he saved the office money?

That will tell the tale.”

We pushed Tramel on the salary.

At $137,000, Holt will make more than at least three who will outrank him: Tramel ($110,155), Chief Deputy Eddie Biggs ($110,310) and the office’s finance director, Allison Rogers, ($126,400).

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Knoxville will honor the service of its U.S. military veterans with the city’s 91st annual Veterans Day Parade on Friday, Nov. 11.

The parade will line up in the eastbound lanes of Howard H. Baker Jr. Avenue, with the step-off at 10:45 a.m. in front of the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. The parade participants will head up Howard Baker Avenue to Church Avenue, then turn right and follow Gay Street to Depot Avenue.

At 11 a.m., all parade participants will halt and face west to honor all wartime veterans. The parade is sponsored by the city of Knoxville and American Legion Post 2.

In addition, the decorative deck lights on the Henley Bridge will be changed to red, white and blue on the night of Nov. 11, in honor of the service of U.S. military veterans.

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Face of F.A.S.T. Stroke poster ‘works’ for Knoxville nurse When Kathy Jennings looked in the mirror, the face looking back at her reminded her of the woman on the stroke posters inside the elevators at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

It was a face that frightened her because, like the lady in the poster, Jennings’ face was drooping – evidence that she too was in the midst of a stroke.

She knew this not only because she’s a 52-year-old licensed practical nurse, but also because she and her husband saw the F.A.S.T. (Face, Arm, Speech, Time) poster detailing symptoms on their frequent trips to Fort Sanders Regional to visit a sick friend.

“I don’t know how many times we saw that poster in the elevator, but it works,” Jennings said.

“That’s how my husband recognized what was happening to me.

I couldn’t really talk but when he looked up and saw me … I never saw him move so fast.”

It was June 1, her first day of vacation and a day she would later describe as “the best day I ever had.” Her daughter had delivered her first grandchild the day before, and she planned a couple of weeks off to enjoy the occasion.

But as she relaxed on her back patio, sipping wine while watching her husband mow the lawn, Jennings felt her left arm tingle.

“I thought that it must be falling asleep. So I didn’t think much about it and reached over to take a drink of my wine and it fell out of my mouth,” she said. “I knew about numbness, tingling and facial drooping being signs of a medical condition, so I came in to take a baby aspirin which I later found out you shouldn’t do. But when I saw my face in the mirror, I could picture the lady’s face in the elevator at Fort Sanders. I knew I

Kathy Jennings is back to normal after receiving treatment at Fort Sanders Regional, a comprehensive stroke center.

needed to call 911 but I couldn’t – it just wasn’t working. So I went back outside, and my husband called 911.”

With her face, arms and speech affected, the only letter remaining in the F.A.S.T. checklist was “time” – how quickly one responds.

That’s because time is critical when a stroke hits. While there is a four-hour window in which doctors can administer the life-saving, clot-busting drug tPA (tissue Plasmogenic Activator), brain cells are dying every second the brain is deprived of oxygen-rich blood.

The result can mean permanent disability or even death.

Within 15 minutes of her attack, Jennings was in an ambulance on the way to Fort Sanders’ Comprehensive Stroke Center, a facility recognized by the Joint Commis-

sion, American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association as an industry leader in highly specialized stroke care.

“Luckily I had enough brains left to say, ‘Take me to Fort Sanders,’” said Jennings, adding that her symptoms were mysteriously coming and going. “Certain hospitals have certain specialties and I just felt that Fort Sanders is where I needed to go. They took good care of me and I’m here because of it. They saved my life.”

Looking over her CT scan, Fort Sanders neurohospitalist Arthur Moore, MD says Jennings was Arthur Moore, “very lucky,” and MD surviving the or-

deal without any lasting effects is nothing short of “amazing.”

That’s because Jennings’ stroke was classified as a “right-sided MCA ischemic stroke,” meaning the clot was blocking the middle cerebral artery to the brain. The MCA is by far the largest cerebral artery and is the vessel most commonly affected by strokes.

Likewise, removing MCA clots via embolectomy has become almost routine at Fort Sanders Regional.

“We do that all the time,” said Dr. Moore, adding that FSRMC began performing middle coronary embolectomies more than a decade ago. “We did roughly 140 of them last year,” he said. “By far, we are the highest-volume stroke center around.”

While Dr. Moore has vast experience with this type of procedure, Jennings’ case was not routine.

“Hers was something we call an M3 distribution,” said Dr. Moore.

“Imagine the MCA as a big artery that we can typically pull a clot out of. Like a tree, the blood vessels start to branch out, getting smaller with each branch. Kathy’s clot was located in an M3 level vessel, making it too small for us to get because we do not have tools small enough to reach it.”

There was, however, good news – her blockage was only partial, which explained why her symptoms mysteriously came and went while waiting for the ambulance, again while riding in the ambulance, and once again in the CT room at Fort Sanders.

Once it was clear that the location of her clot wouldn’t permit removal by embolectomy, she was immediately given the clot-busting medicine. Within minutes, Jennings was her old self again.

“If you are getting flow around the clot, even if there’s just a little space, your symptoms are not going to be very pronounced and they’re not going to become permanent because you’re getting enough flow to supply it,” said Dr. Moore. “Those are the types of clots that respond to the clotbusting medicine best because

the tPA can actually surround the clot and dissolve it from all sides.

That’s why she had such a good response.”

Although Jennings felt fine and had no weaknesses, she would remain hospitalized for two more days.

“It’s not just about treating somebody’s stroke – it’s about finding out why they had the stroke and what we can do to prevent the next one. That takes some time,” said Dr. Moore. “Not only that, but when somebody gets that clot-busting medicine, it can cause bleeding, which obviously is something you don’t want to see but if you do, you want them to be in the intensive care unit where we can address it quickly. So for the first 24 hours, we have to keep them in an ICU. Typically, the extra time is to make sure we have dotted all our I’s and crossed all our T’s when it comes to figuring out why somebody had a stroke.”

Testing during those two days revealed that Jennings, like 20 percent of the population, had a patent foramen ovale (PFO), or a congenital “hole” in the atrial septum of her heart. While a clot can potentially pass through that hole and into the middle cerebral artery, what caused Jennings’ stroke remains unknown. She did, however, have two risk factors – smoking and hypertension.

“You think you’re healthy, and then, all of a sudden, BAM!” said Jennings. “The Fort Sanders ED and the stroke team and the people in ICU were just phenomenal!

They really were. They were wonderful! I’m thankful I was a nurse and knew enough to go because when it started and then eased off, I might have blown it off and it wouldn’t have been good. The posters work. When my husband saw my face, he said, ‘You looked just like that lady in the elevator.’ He knew enough to call 911 because of that. So, it worked for me.” For more information about stroke services offered at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, visit www.fsregional.com/stroke

The first Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center in East Tennessee When it comes to treating strokes, no other hospital in our region offers a more advanced level of care than Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

Fort Sanders was the first in East Tennessee 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 treatments available for stroke today. Certification through The Joint Commission involves extensive training for the staff, documentation of effectiveness, and inspection of the hospital by The Joint Commission.

Part of certification is having a team of “neurohospitalists” on staff. These physicians treat only stroke and neurological cases in the hospital, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Instead of waiting for a doctor to arrive from his or her pri-

vate practice, Fort Sanders has neurologists on hand.

“It makes access to specialized neurologists easier,” said James Hora, MD, one of the neurohospitalists at Fort Sanders. “We have 24/7 coverage, and this provides rapid access to a neurologist for acute neurologic problems.”

Arthur Moore, MD, was hired in July 2014 as medical director for the center.

“With our Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Certification, we offer the highest level of care for all patients. Whether they have surgery or not, we’re there to give their bodies the best chance to heal and recover,” he explained.

Some stroke patients can be treated with minimally invasive surgical options. Using brain angioplasty, stents and aneurysm surgery, Fort Sanders surgeons can remove tiny clots, stop brain bleeds and insert tiny stents to hold open delicate arteries.

“Using a catheter, we thread a tiny wire into the artery in the groin, and up to the brain,” explained Keith Wood-

ward, M.D., a neuro-interventional radiologist at Fort Sanders. “Then we can use a special device to pull the clot out, or sometimes we can inject it with medicine and dissolve it while we’re in there.”

Most stroke patients need follow-up care after the initial event, and patients at Fort Sanders have access to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, an award winning rehabilitation center.

About one-third of the Patricia Rehabilitation Neal Center’s patients are stroke patients.

Having everything – speedy emergency care, advanced surgical techniques, and the best in rehabilitation – makes Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center the smart choice for stroke care.

Remembering this poster that hangs in the elevators at Fort Sanders helped Kathy’s husband identify that she was having a stroke.

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SOUTH KNOX Shopper news • NOVEMBER 9, 2016 • 3 The new kids’ play area at Baker Creek Preserve includes a climbing play net and rock-climbing wall (left), log rounds for balancing (front) and a hanging bamboo chime (back) that lets youngsters make music as they wind their way through.

Mayor Madeline Rogero explains how to break through the ribbon to a young and impatient crowd.

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Off to the side at the bottom is a paved pump track – kind of a bowl with gentle peaks and valleys that’s intended as a beginner mountain-bike track. No one had a bike, but the pump track also doubles as a really fun running track. The kids ran and bounced on it as though they’d never seen its like – which is probably the case because it’s supposedly the only one of its kind in the Southeast.

Celebrating poster contest awards are presenter Ben Nanny, principal Brandi Self, second-place winner Adara Piety, urban forLegacy Parks executive ester Kasey Krouse, third-place winner Ellis Sithienski, Tree Board chair Sam Adams, Vice Mayor Duane Grieve, first-place winner director Carol Evans emEmma Crawford, and regional urban forester Tom Simpson. Photo by Kelly Norrell ceed the event. Earthadelic contributed design and did the physical work of putting the impressive play

area together, with help from members of the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club. The Siddiqi Charitable Foundation donated $55,000 to fund the project.

REI grants to Legacy Parks Foundation and the AMBC funded the pump track.

The new play space, 3700 Lancaster Drive, is across the street from where Legacy Parks will be putting in a new adventure play area for older children, adjacent to South-Doyle Middle School. It also connects with the eight miles of trail in Baker Creek Preserve, part of Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness.

City celebrates Arbor Day at Mooreland Heights Elementary

By Kelly Norrell When Mooreland Heights Elementary students helped plant three lacebark elm trees in their playground during the city’s 2016 Arbor Day celebration recently, fourth-grader Ethan Madison gave the event a thumbs up. “Trees give us shade and they produce oxygen. And this gives us more trees to get under. Before, everyone had to stay under just one tree,� he said.

There were many things to celebrate at Arbor Day, which the Knoxville Tree Board hosted at Mooreland Heights Elementary Nov.4.

The purpose of the event, held in November because that is the best time to plant trees, is to raise awareness of tree conservation, said Kasey Krouse, the city’s urban forester.

During ceremonies in

the school gym, students learned that the city has received its 25th Tree City USA award. To qualify for that, the city must have a tree board and a tree protection ordinance and spend at least $2 per person on trees.

Tom Simpson, regional urban forester, announced that the city also has received a Growth Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation, recognizing steps it has taken under Krouse. Also, KUB received a Tree Line USA award.

Vice Mayor Duane Grieve read a proclamation citing the event from Mayor Madeline Rogero.

Most important to the children were announcements of the winners of a school Arbor Day poster contest at the school, and the planting of the trees.

Winners of the poster contest, judged by the

Jones hires Holt Lockdowns put county at risk

By Betty Bean Last Wednesday morning, there were 1,209 inmates under Knox County’s jurisdiction – 188 in the downtown jail, 929 in the Roger Wilson Detention Center on Maloneyville Road and 92 on work release, according to a report the sheriff’s office is required to compile. Another six inmates were “on loan� to other counties where they have legal issues.

Inmates in the Maloneyville facility often are locked down in their cells 23 hours a day, not because of bad behavior, but because of understaffing. Jones and his staff did not respond to requests for information for this story.

On Friday, Oct. 28, Hugh Holt resigned his job as Knox County purchasing director. The sheriff’s office had no such position until Monday, Oct. 31, when Jones announced that he had hired Holt to be the sheriff’s office’s procurement director at an annual salary of $137,000.

Jailers hire in at a starting salary of $30,812.86. This means Jones could hire four correctional officers for the same money the newly created purchasing director will be making.

Why does overcrowding put Knox County at risk?

In 1986, pre-trial detainee Wayne Dillard Carver (he hadn’t yet been convicted of a crime) filed a pro se suit against Knox County alleging inhumane conditions caused by jail crowding. Sheriff Joe Fowler and Gov. Ned McWherter were also named as defendants. Carver’s complaint was found to have merit, and a magistrate appointed attorney John Eldridge to represent him in federal court.

Knoxville Tree Board, are fifth-graders Emma Crawford, first place; Adara Piety, second place; and Ellis Sithienski, third place. Each winner received a bird feeder donated by Mayo Garden Center. “This is a great day at Mooreland Heights. This wonderful organization is giving us trees. They’ve already started to dig the holes to plant our new trees,� said principal Brandi Self.

Planting of the trees, donated by Earthadelic and already situated in the ground, took place under the watchful eye of Krouse after the ceremonies. “Let’s pat the soil down around the root system. But we don’t want to pile it up around the base,� Krouse told his team, who included fourth-graders JD Haynie, Christian Littlejohn and

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Phoebe Maples. “I’m excited that Mooreland Heights has allowed us to come here and celebrate Arbor Day. I love seeing students understand that trees are an important asset to our community,� Krouse said.

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Jessica McMahan was selected as one of the representatives of the senior class during Maryville College’s Homecoming festivities on Oct. 22. McMahan was escorted by Alex Willard of Clinton. A 2013 graduate of South-Doyle High School, McMahan is majoring in finance/accounting.

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The trial was in August 1988, and the following January, Judge James Jarvis ruled that conditions in the Knox County Jail were unconstitutional. In the course of time, he appointed attorney Charles C. “Chuck� Burks as special master to act as a liaison between the federal court and Knox County.

Knox County Law Director Bud Armstrong reports that the case is still alive. “We’re still under the Carver case ruling and we still have a special master over efforts to curb overcrowding at the Knox County Jail.�

Burks, who has served in that position for more than a decade, says: “It’s a work in progress. We report to federal court periodically, and federal court tends to let communities address these issues.

We like that because it does make us accountable.�

The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling says, in part, that the district court should (emphasis added): “first analyze local conditions in terms of food, ventilation, condition of cells and holding areas, medical care, acts of violence, sanitation, ratio of guards to inmates, and eating arrangements, and other similar practices and circumstances and then fashion a remedy for the ‘uniquely local’ practices and circumstances causing any unconstitutional violations found to exist.�

Lockdown because of understaffing seems to violate this ruling.

A veteran criminal defense attorney says the sheriff’s office doesn’t care about staff shortages in the jail. “They don’t care, not because they think you’re too stupid to dig deeper, but because they think people won’t care what you find out.�

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government Zenobia Dobson: Teens need safe spaces Zenobia Dobson remembers the night she heard the Lonsdale Homes recreation center was going to be demolished. Clarence “Scooter” Mitchell, who coached the Lonsdale Lakers basketball team, delivered the bad news.

Dobson Her elementary school-aged boys, Zack and Zaevion, were Lakers, and Dobson, who was intent on keeping her sons busy and away from bad influences, was instantly worried.

Mitchell, who calls Dobson by her lifelong nickname “Tinkerbelle,” said KCDC made a big mistake when it demolished the recreation center in the process of taking down Lonsdale Homes to make way for new townhousestyle dwellings. “They didn’t have the neighborhood’s children in mind,” Mitchell said.

“Once they started knocking down the rec centers, they started totally taking them out,” he said.

“They eliminated afterschool programs. You’re making the houses nice, but you ain’t putting nothing in there for the kids. Upgrading the projects, but it really hurt those kids. Now they’re hanging in the streets, seeing things they don’t need to see.”

He scrambled to find places for the Lakers to practice.

“I always coached in the city where we didn’t have to pay, so practice facilities were always very limited.

They’d give you maybe an hour and they had 12 teams. That wasn’t enough time for me to teach what I needed to teach as far as fundamentals.

“So I had to find other places like an old Boys & Girls Club facility. The heat didn’t work but we still used to practice. Parents like Tinkerbelle would come and stay for hours.

My teams were really good.

We were the Lakers and they knew when we were coming. We were disciplined. It’s in them. They just gotta be watered. You got to get them early. That was their safety net.”

Dobson has become a seasoned public speaker since her son Zaevion was gunned down last December. She delivered the 2016 Charles H. Miller Lecture in Professional Responsi-

Betty Bean bility last week at the University of Tennessee School of Law (Professor Miller was the founder of the legal aid clinic).

She told the packed room about the night Zaevion died shielding two friends from a fusillade of bullets unleashed by gang members who didn’t even know the kids they were shooting at. She said she was “devastated, but not surprised.

“I heard the gunshots right after he left the house.

They (Zaevion and his brother and their friends) were just doing what teenagers do. All children have a right to be safe in their own neighborhoods.”

Dobson’s boys weren’t gang members, but Dobson said she’s now a member of a gang: “The Mommy Gang. I don’t believe in hopelessness.”

And that’s why she has established the Zaevion Dobson Memorial Foundation, which will work to establish safe recreational centers in Lonsdale and other neighborhoods.

Fifteen-year-old Zaevion, an honor student and budding football star at Fulton High School, became a national hero and was awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award this year.

He worked as hard at academics as he did at sports, so his mother would like to see a library in the community center that she wants to become a reality by the spring of 2018, when Zaevion would have graduated.

And one day she wants to address the issue of gun violence, too, but she recognizes the political difficulties of doing so in Tennessee, where the Republican super-majority in the Legislature would not be receptive to such action.

So for now, she’s concentrating on safe spaces for young people, starting with Lonsdale, and moving out into other parts of the city, state and maybe the nation.

That, she said, is how people can help.

“We need your circle of influence,” she said.

Info: zaeviondobson foundation@gmail.com.

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‘Challenge what we know is wrong’ Elections matter. And I’m not talking about the one that (hopefully) ended yesterday.

The Knox County Board of Education was fundamentally altered by the results of the last two election cycles, starting when Amber Rountree beat Pam Trainor in South Knoxville, Terry Hill survived a 4-way race in Hardin Valley and Patti Bounds won unopposed in North Knox County.

Incumbents Doug Harris, Karen Carson and Tracie Sanger didn’t even seek re-election in 2016. All were replaced with board members (Tony Norman, Susan Horn, Jennifer Owen) who don’t support the top-down education model that relies on high-stakes testing.

Mike McMillan was irrelevant when the pro-McIntyre faction controlled the board 8-1. He remains irrelevant, demonstrated by his tin-eared vote last week on testing.

Rountree’s resolution to ask that end-of-year, standardized tests not count

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toward teacher evaluations or student grades passed 6-3, despite the opposition of Gov. Bill Haslam and interim Superintendent Buzz Thomas. On the short end were remnants of the McIntyre coalition – Gloria Deathridge and Lynne Fugate – and McMillan.

Sending this resolution to Nashville means nothing, Fugate warned ominously.

“The tests will count (without a state exemption).”

Norman was conflicted over the political wisdom of antagonizing the Legislature, but in the end he summarized the vote: “It is right for us to challenge what we know is wrong.”

Legislators should be mindful of voters, not the other way around. Which legislator would stand be-

fore the school board to defend high-stakes testing, top-down management and the influence of out-of-state donors? Harry Brooks? Bill Dunn? Roger Kane?

Do you think the nefarious donors who hide behind PAC names like StudentsFirst care about kids or want to get their hands on the billions of dollars that fund education?

Call me crazy, but I trust two groups to care most about kids: their parents and their teachers – professionals who have trained and committed to a relatively low-paying career for the personal satisfaction of seeing kids learn and grow.

It was thrilling to see Farragut’s new alderman, Louise Povlin, stand as a parent to support Rountree’s resolution. Hear from the board: Hill: “Teachers in my district overwhelmingly support this resolution.”

Owen: “Our first responsibility is to our kids.

We are looking at something that has had a detrimental effect.”

Horn: “Our kids feel the stress of these tests.”

Rountree: “This resolution is just specific to this year.” She called last year’s testing “a fiasco,” and said the Legislature “heard our concerns, yet forged ahead.”

Bounds: “No one can say unequivocally that (the new testing system) will work.” She said a superintendent from a small county told her: “When one of the big four (counties) pushes back, they listen.”

Norman: “We need to unravel this thing that has become the driver of so much. … This resolution is offensive to our legislative delegation; they have made that clear. … But when you simplify the question, with kids crying, teachers crying, without a doubt, this process that we’re in is destructive.”

Deathridge said kids in her district “aren’t as stressed,” and she suggested the stress might be coming from parents who put the pressure on their kids to excel.

Expect GOP pushback on Freeman NOTE: Since this column was written prior to the Nov. 8 general election, it is not possible to comment on what happened. That will come in future columns.

Gov. Bill Haslam has announced 45 important appointments to the boards of six universities across the state. One name is triggering lots of talk among conservative GOP lawmakers.

That person is Democratic fundraiser and mega-donor Bill Freeman, 65, being nominated to the board of Tennessee State University, which is the historically predominantblack university in Nashville. He is the recommendation of TSU president Glenda Glover. Freeman has been a generous donor to TSU over the years.

Freeman is also a highoctane Democrat who contributes to various liberal candidates. He attended but did not graduate from the University of Tennessee. He left UT after his father died.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Nashville in 2015, when he spent $3.6 million. He is the single largest donor to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Tennessee. Former Democratic Party chair Chip Forrester is now employed by him.

The Clintons (both Bill and Hillary) have been hosted three times at the Freeman home in Nashville.

He is truly the George Soros of state Democrats.

Former Vice President Al Gore’s office is in a Freemanowned building in the Green Hills area of Nashville.

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More relevant to GOP House Republicans is that Freeman only this past year donated $100,000 to the state Democratic Party for the sole purpose of recapturing the Tennessee House for the Democrats.

That means retiring over 25 of the existing GOP House members who may not want to retire.

Freeman is also actively exploring a 2018 run for governor as a Democrat as you read this, along with former Nashville mayor Karl Dean. There are also at least five Republicans testing the waters for governor, including Knoxville business owner Randy Boyd.

Freeman is a very generous donor to civic causes as well. He attended a luncheon this summer hosted by Bill and Crissy Haslam where the $40 million campaign for private donations for the new State Museum was advocated. It is not known if he has made a pledge yet as the donor list has not been released.

In the eyes of Republican lawmakers, there is dismay that Haslam would name the most prominent and liberal Democratic fundraiser in the state to a nonpartisan position. They will ask how much time will Freeman spend helping TSU if he is also running for

governor? Will he push the Hillary Clinton higher education agenda while on the board?

On the other hand, he genuinely is a champion of TSU, which needs all the help it can secure. He would be an active TSU advocate.

It is not clear how the confirmation hearings by the House and Senate will occur and what questions, if any, will be posed to nominees. Will they be asked about their education philosophy, any financial conflicts they might have, disclosure of income as required at the federal level?

The law establishing these new boards says that any nominee is approved unless the House and Senate by resolution disapprove. As a practical matter that would be tough to do and the governor could veto such a resolution.

Lawmakers may ask that he pledge to suspend his political activities while he serves on the board.

Some are asking why Haslam could not have found a less partisan Democrat to serve, such as former Gov. Phil Bredesen or former Nashville mayor Bill Purcell. Bredesen and Freeman, while both Democrats, are not friends.

This is going to make for an interesting behind the scenes discussion in Nashville in January. On the other hand, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey has been nominated for the ETSU board, and he is widely applauded as a conservative voice.

It seems to me the most valid questions to be asked

Freeman and all other nominees is what his philosophy toward higher education is and what he wants to do for TSU. His response would be instructive. His political ties are well known and will not change. He should not be disqualified on the basis of politics alone. All the boards should reflect a bipartisan membership as the universities themselves should be nonpartisan.

■ Brian Noland, president of ETSU, reportedly applied to be chancellor of UT Knoxville but withdrew his application before the cutoff date.

State law on open records has been changed to keep secret all applications until the list is reduced to finalists. Noland is expected to seek UT President Joe DiPietro’s position when he retires in three to five years.

If he had become chancellor, that might have prevented him for applying to be president so soon after becoming chancellor. One advantage he has is that he actually knows Tennessee.

DiPietro wants to see the new team in place on the Knoxville campus to follow Jimmy Cheek, and then many observers expect him to retire by 2020 when the next governor is halfway thru his/her first term.

■ State Rep. Jimmy Matlock and Sen. Randy McNally are speakers next Monday, Nov. 14, at the West Knoxville Republican Club at the Red Lobster on Kingston Pike at 6:30 p.m.

Both are candidates for speaker of their respective bodies. Public is invited.

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Difference in winning and losing Now seems an appropriate time to reconsider the wonderful, awful difference in winning and losing.

Six weeks ago, Tennessee football fans were already in Atlanta in their minds, warming up for the Southeastern Conference championship game. It was their reward, an entitlement after enduring the bad years.

Butch Jones’ fourth season was destined to be the big payoff. He might be coach of the year. There was ample motivation, bonus pots of gold in his contract.

Fans smiled at the thought of his brick-bybrick sales pitch but it was working. The team was undefeated, thanks in part to fate. The Florida problem was in the rearview mirror.

God had knocked off Geor-

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gia. It was finally real football time in Tennessee.

Those who were honest admitted Alabama would be favored by a few in the big East-West title game but if the orange team pulled an upset, it would be in consideration for the national playoffs. Go Vols!

Five weeks ago, those same fans and a few coaches were shaking their heads, trying to figure out what went wrong. Tennessee fell behind Texas A&M by three touchdowns, responded

with what looked like a thousand yards, endured six turnovers and lost on the seventh, an interception in the second overtime.

Yes, there were some injuries.

The third Saturday in October was a total disaster.

The Crimson Tide inflicted one of the worst beatings in the glorious history of that rivalry and it happened on a key recruiting afternoon in Neyland Stadium. Jalen Hurd carried 13 times for 28 yards and caught three passes for minus one.

Losing wasn’t a total shock. Embarrassment was hard to swallow.

One nice fan asked point blank: Is the SEC too tough for Butch?

Of course not, said I, but there before us was an

example of that awful difference in winning and losing. The victory over Florida had been a glorious experience.

Thirty-eight unanswered points! Imagine that. The crusher by Alabama spoiled two weeks and maybe more.

Tennessee did not lose on the open date but there was no net gain. Well, trainers did say Darrin Kirkland could play.

The loss at South Carolina was very different.

In theory, the Gamecocks had no offense. They were two-touchdown underdogs.

Their freshman quarterback, correct age to be a senior in high school, had heard about Derek Barnett but did not flinch at the sight.

He took the hits and

stood up for more. He even patted Barnett on the shoulder. Nice move.

Jake Bentley performed much better than Tennessee’s senior quarterback.

The UT side scene eventually overshadowed the main event. We didn’t know at the time that the fuse was lit for the Hurd explosion. We just saw him on the bench in the second half as if he wasn’t interested. Others around him didn’t seem to mind too much, in or out, either way.

Joshua Dobbs played poorly. The offensive line was bad – except when John Kelly had the ball. Evan Berry returned a kickoff 100 yards. Cheers. Nigel Warrior muffed an assignment and gave up a bomb.

Dobbs brought down the curtain with his 20th career interception.

Butch used bad words in postgame analysis: Lethar-

gic. Disinterested. Sloppy.

Unacceptable.

He said he, his assistants, players, everybody on the payroll had to share responsibility. We knew who to blame. August expectations went on a space flight. This was the year. The letdown and crash magnified the pain.

Here is where we are: Kentucky is now the pivotal occasion. Everything depends on what the Wildcats can and can’t do. Can you believe that? What if they want it more?

Any day now, someone will misquote the legendary Grantland Rice, Vanderbilt man, hall-of-fame sportswriter, and pretend winning and losing don’t really matter, it’s how you play the game.

Don’t believe it. Not a word of it. Ask Butch.

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

Sounding the alarm – it’s part of the job You’ve seen the daily paper. Why do some people (ahem!) keep raising questions about the city’s pension system? The administration has done enough.

Let sleeping dogs lie...

And so it goes. Keep a low profile. Leave the worrying to someone else, perhaps in another term. It’s just a drop (probably $1 million) in a very large bucket.

Not so. I say sound the alarm as needed. Council members have a public steward role. We represent you, the taxpayer. Just going along with the crowd doesn’t cut it. Going against the grain isn’t easy, though.

I must admit, at times, it feels like you have just passed gas at a fancy garden party. Ladies in long gowns are scurrying for cover.

It is a part of a city council member’s job to guard the public funds. Under

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our Charter form of government, a majority of the nine-member council has to authorize the expenditures, initially in May-June when we review the mayor’s overall budget plan for the year and, later, as individual contracts and grants are proposed. Those items appear on the council’s agenda every second week. Most of them are routine, but they still need approval. Separation of powers. Checks and balances. Keep the system open and honest.

Our pension system is underfunded. We have a duty to act in a fiscally sound

way. As a city, we currently pay approximately $25 million per year of our roughly $210 million annual operating budget into the pension system. At least half of that is to reduce the underfunding of at least $173 million as of Sept. 30, 2016.

Whatever the exact amount, it’s big money.

(Note: the city’s contribution rate was closer to $8 million/year a decade ago; by contrast, city workers still pay in something like $5 million per year). Market risk under the original pension system is on the city, hence you. We need to constantly look for ways to cut needless costs.

That is why last week I raised the question of the need, and now clear authority, to adjust the cost of living adjustment provision (COLA) in the city’s pension system.

Chattanooga had just finishing litigating its right to make a pension system COLA reduction it adopted in 2014 as part of a threestep plan to save some $25 million; see Frazier vs Chattanooga, a federal court challenge of the city’s reduction of COLA to roughly 1.5 percent by several union workers. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Nov. 4 that a COLA provision is not the same as a defined pension benefit; the latter is fully accrued and vested – those benefits cannot under be reduced once the employee vests after 10 years’ service (under Tennessee case law). COLA, on the other hand, is added by the Legislature as annual adjustment, designed to help protect the retired worker from loss of buying power caused by inflation. It is subject to change.

Adjusting a pension for actual changes in the cost of living is fair (yet many pensions can’t afford to do even that). Ours is an unusual situation. Instead of merely offsetting the change in cost of living, i.e., keeping the value on an even plain, Knoxville grants pensioners a flat 3 percent adjustment even in years when actual inflation is more like 1½ percent or 2 percent – something it has been in eight of the past 10 years.

In effect, big-hearted COLA ends up gifting an unwar-

ranted pay raise at the taxpayer’s expense. There is no rational basis for doing so.

So, after I learned of the court’s ruling, I informed the mayor and council and suggested we need to change Knoxville’s pension COLA to reflect actual changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), up to a max of 3 percent. Technically, this may take a charter amendment, since that is where much of the pension is embedded.

Whatever it takes, do it. The goal: fairness to pensioners, fairness to taxpayers.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Former Gov. Don Sundquist may be old, but he’s quick.

While talking Sunday on Inside Tennessee, his cell phone rang. Sundquist pulled it from his pocket, looked at the Caller ID and said, “It’s just Hillary, trying to sell me a car.”

■ Betty Bean called the Sheriff ’s Office while working on a story. “Hello, may I speak to Sheriff Jones?” she said.

“What’s that first name?” said the person answering.

“Sheriff !” said Bean. “He’s not in,” said the person.

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The better angels Supergirls Lily and Sophia Austin pose for photographer Kara Hudgens, who ran a photo booth at the Fall Festival.

Guests enjoy chili in the background.

Hayrides, treats draw neighbors to

Lake Hills festival

Annika Rasmussen, a 10th-grader at Webb School of Knoxville, and her mom, Anne Marie Rasmussen, turned their trunk into a “Grease” set.

SENIOR NOTES ■ All Knox County Senior Centers will be closed Friday, Nov. 11.

■ 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.

Veterans Day Recognition program, 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, South Knox Opry.

Register for: Veterans Services, 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17; RSVP: 215-5645.

■ 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.

By Kelly B Kel K ellly Norrell Nor orre rell ll Some might shrink from ea eating at a joint called “Spide der’s Web Deadly Diner.”

N Not Mount Olive Elementary student Edwin Stoiber, 8.

When Edwin browsed the midway of more than 20 Trunk or Treats at Lake Hills Presbyterian Church Fall Festival Oct. 30, he went right to the diner, the entry of Monte and Shannon Biggs. He selected an item called “Bacon-wrapped Cockroaches” and popped it into his mouth.

“Those are my favorites.

The flies are extra,” said Shannon Biggs of her menu, which also included Spider Cider, Finger Sandwiches, and Snake Cake. The yummy foods disguised as scary fare were a hit: the diner won first place among all the themed trunks. Other entries included a whole car disguised as a spider and a trunk decorated like a set from the hit musical “Grease.”

About 200 members of the 3805 Maloney Road church and residents of the Lake Hills neighborhood turned out for the church’s annual Fall Festival. Com-

It has been a rough and tumble political campaign to say the least. It was not the roughest one in American history, to be sure, but plenty rough enough.

Now, our task is to bind up our wounds, acknowledge our differences, and go forward as a United States.

I am writing these words before Election Day. They will go into print the day after the election. So I don’t know the outcome.

I feel for Lincoln, who on his first Inauguration, March 4, 1861, spoke those hopeful words quoted above, not knowing what lay ahead. The very next month, on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender the next day. On April 15, Lincoln called for Union troops to regain the fort, which was regarded by the South as a declaration of war.

I believe with all my heart that in that conflict, we learned the awful, painful lessons of civil war. Our pledge of allegiance to the American flag says it beautifully and firmly: “one nation, under God, indivisible.”

Remember those words; believe in this country!

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was dressed as Supergirl, and Justus Kerr, 7 months, who was Count Dracula.

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Sarah Scott celebrates 96th birthday

By Carol Z. Shane Sarah Scott has always been guided by faith and positivity. “Being against something doesn’t help nearly as much as working for something,” she says. “If someone says something hurtful, I think it’s easier to say ‘God bless you’ than to curse them out.”

As a working woman during the 1960s civil rights movement, she had many opportunities to use that philosophy. Employed by Woolworth’s, she says, “I could prepare the food, but I couldn’t serve the food.” Later, working in a university cafeteria system, she resented the fact that “they didn’t want us involved in politics. It seemed like it took some of your citizenship away from you, and I’ve always been interested in the betterment of poor people.” But she couldn’t afford to forfeit any job she held. “We had families to feed and bills to pay,” she says.

However, “once I was retired and wasn’t employed anywhere I was free to speak up.” And speak up she has, for more than 30 years, as an advocate for those who need her most – the poor and underserved.

In the early 1980s she became involved with Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians (SICK.) One of the first issues she worked on had to do with the denial of home telephones to the poor and illiterate.

“We marched against BellSouth, we went to Nashville, we went to Washington, and we won. We were saying ‘let the customer decide if they want a phone, and you send someone to teach them how to use it.’”

Scott also helped to expand city bus service to outlying communities, increase voter registration, provide indigent care in Knoxville hospitals, improve school lunches and ensure students’ equal access to educational materials. In addition to SICK, she worked with the Southern Empowerment Project, Tennesseans for Fair Taxation, and smaller groups to address issues of inequity or need.

“It was interesting to see what could be done if people banded together. What we tried to do was find out why something supposedly couldn’t be done and work on that.”

She went from Knoxville to Nashville to fight for causes so often that a fellow advocate and friend of hers, Bob Walker, unofficially christened that stretch of I-40 “The Sarah Scott Expressway.” And she has praise for Bill Murrah, who worked for Legal Aid and was one of SICK’s managers.

“He exposed me to needs and issues, things I never would have been involved in.” In 2004, SICK presented her with The Sarah Scott Social Justice Award, and in 2007 the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Commission of Greater Knoxville presented her its community service award.

On Oct. 20, she celebrated her 96th birthday. At a party for her at Church of the Savior on Weisgarber Road, she was asked what it feels like to be 96. “Oh, it’s great,” she replied. “But it’s not me. It’s the God that I serve.”

Scott says, “All of us can make a difference in this world. We can make this world a better place.”

Sarah Scott is flanked by friends Sandy and Jim Fowler at her 96th birthday party. Sandy is helping the revered community activist record her memoirs. “She is a great lady,” she says. Photo

by Margaret Mercier

Strang no stranger to Tai Chi

Offerings include: Card games, billiards, senior fitness, computer classes, bingo, blood pressure checks 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Monday-Friday. Fun Film Fridays, 12:30 p.m.; popcorn and movie each Friday. The Creative Endeavors Group event, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 9; unique items and crafts.

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Register for: AARP Driver Safety program, noon, Wednesday-Thursday, Nov. 16-17; info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

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munity i involvement i l was a key goal, said Sarah Morgan, church associate for education. A chili cookoff that drew 25 entries, a cakewalk, hayrides, and a free photo booth manned by professional photographer Kara Hudgens stayed busy.

“It was a smashing success. It’s the biggest one we’ve ever had. I think it is because we asked our community to get involved,” said John Kerr, event director.

A team of celebrity judges – Erin Barnett, David Ball and Heath Haley of WVLT-TV – selected both the best pot of chili and the best trunk or treat entries.

First place for chili went to Cade and Shelley Ayres.

Tyson Taylor, 11 (Bearden Middle School), Will Taylor, 8 (West Hills Elementary), Laney Lashley, 6, and Marli Watkins, 11 (both of Grace Christian Academy), were among kids who enjoyed the outdoor activities before heading into the fellowship hall for chili.

The youngest participants were probably Lily Rose Spain, 3 months, who

For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.

(Psalm 91:11-12 NRSV) We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

(Abraham Lincoln, Inauguration, March 4, 1861).

Vic Thornsbury said Tai Chi has helped him manage chronic back problems and improved his stability. “I don’t stumble as much, and if I do, I don’t fall.”

For those 55 and older who are worried about loss of mobility and balance issues, Frank R. Strang Senior Center on 109 Lovell Heights Road may have the answer. Tai Chi. Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese practice consisting of specific movements or “sets” performed gently and gracefully with smooth and even transitions between them.

“It’s moving meditation,” said class leader Joan Boling.

“I think it’s one of the best things you can do for yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.”

Boling earned her Tai Chi teaching certificate around five years ago from the Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA, the governing body in America since 1974.

Boling said there are 108 sets, each having three to four components. It takes months to learn the sets, and years to hone the components of each move.

“Tai Chi builds muscle particularly in the back and legs, and improves balance.

“By concentrating on moving and breathing a certain way, the world around you falls away along with stress,

so Tai Chi is known to help lower blood pressure as well.

“It’s a building practice so you keep learning new moves and honing the ones you already know all while making friends and building your social circle. It’s just the best thing going.

“You’ll never get bored if you keep your mind focused.”

With three classes a week boasting more than 20 in each class, it’s clear more than a few seniors at Strang agree.

New classes begin in January and each class is $2.

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Women’s firsts!

By Kip Oswald Last week, I wrote about Hassie Gresham, the first female high school principal in Tennessee, and I had written about Sarah Moore Greene, who was the first black member of the Knoxville Board of Education. When I told my mom about these women, she told me Grammie was the first girl class president of her high school.

Since Kinzy wants to be the first woman in our family to go to college and become a doctor, her research brain turned on to find out about other women who had been the first women to do really important stuff.

By the time you read this, the presidential election will be over and Hillary Clinton may be the first woman president, but even if not, many women have been the first to do important jobs! Here are just a few.

I thought Hillary Clinton was the first woman to run for president of the United States, but I was wrong. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for president of the United States. The very first woman ever elected to any political office was Susanna Salter in 1887 when she was elected mayor of Argonia, Kan. Salter was elected by men because women couldn’t even vote for another 33 years. Another woman also elected to an important office by men before women could vote was Jeannette Rankin, who was the first woman to be elected to the

U.S. House of Representatives in 1916. It wasn’t long before women became senators and governors, too.

In 1922, Rebecca Felton became the first woman senator, and in 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross the first woman governor, of Wyoming.

Women have been in almost every important office. Madeline Albright was the first woman to be Secretary of State and Janet Reno, the first Attorney General.

Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman justice on the Supreme Court.

Women have been the first to do some cool fun things, too! In 1901, Annie Taylor was the first person or woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel! In 1932, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, and in 1983, Sally Ride was the first woman sent into space.

Women have sports success, too. Wilma Rudolph was the first woman in history to win three gold medals in track and field in one Olympics.

Jackie Mitchell was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. She pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts minor league baseball team and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game!

These women have proven that all of us can be anything we want to be!

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Ely Driver points to his slide of vintage American cars restored and in use by Cuban drivers. Photos

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Rotarians bring news of Cuba

By Sandra Clark The North Knoxville Rotary Club roared into our Leaders Club at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy last week.

What fun!

Phyllis Driver, club president, and her husband, Ely Driver, brought a PowerPoint and several souvenirs from their trip to Cuba.

They were among the first to visit there after President Obama modified travel restrictions.

“I wanted to go now to see it like it is,” Phyllis said.

“Change is coming.”

Ely had a well-crafted history of Cuba since the 1960s to explain the island’s rocky relationship with the United States.

He mentioned key words and phrases that are ancient history to these fifthgraders but are vivid in the memories of those of us over 60: Batista, Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, CIA, Russian missiles, JFK, U-2 spy plane, embargo.

“Kennedy said, ‘Take them out,’ and the Russians said, ‘No.’ Things got very, very tense.”

After the crisis was resolved in the 1960s, the USA imposed an embargo that remains today.

There was no travel between the United States and Cuba. Cuba could not buy anything from the USA including auto parts. That’s why they still drive cars from the 1950s. Now those sanctions are easing, Ely Driver said.

Phyllis took up the story: “We went on an arts and culture tour in March 2016.

We flew to Miami where we stayed overnight to be indoctrinated. Then we flew into Camaquey, Cuba.”

Ely interjected: “The hotel was very nice but we did not have hot water. In fact, we lived for five days without hot water.”

There were 20 people in their group including another Knoxvillian.

The PowerPoint showed pictures of Ely dancing with Cuban women. It certainly looked like they were having fun. Other slides showed buildings in rehab and others very dilapidated.

Phyllis said the Cubans are supportive of education through grade 12. In high school, the students take academic classes in the mornings and attend trade school in the afternoons. Trades include leather work, hair and cosmetics, dance and baseball.

KeShawn Jackson’s eyes lit up at the thought of playing baseball every day.

Phyllis said the restrictions were so onerous that Cuban baseball players wanting to play in the USA had to renounce their country. They could never return and could not send money to their families.

She talked about Santeria, “a combination of voodoo and Catholicism,” in which adherents had specific restrictions. Some could only eat half of a fish; others could not eat watermelon.

She said the priesthood is hereditary and many Cubans had an altar in their home.

Other homes contain private businesses such as a manicurist or barber. There are privately owned businesses, but most are small.

There is a very large Catholic presence in Cuba.

As travel restrictions are lifted, there’s a great interest by Americans to travel to Cuba, Phyllis said. But the ports there can only port two cruise ships at a time.

“That will change.”

“And they had better get hot water,” Ely joked.

Meet the Drivers Ely Driver has retired

Phyllis Driver shows a ceramic bowl from Cuba.

KeShawn Jackson holds two baseballs, both signed by Cuban players, which the Drivers brought back from Cuba. twice. First from TVA after 25 years and again from Pellissippi State Community College. He has degrees from Vanderbilt University and Stanford.

Phyllis Driver retired as an accounting professor at Carson-Newman University. She is the oldest of nine children, she told the Leaders Club. She always wanted to travel and has managed to visit many countries.

“If you study hard, go to college and get a good job, you can go anywhere you want to,” she said.

She and Ely will return soon to talk about their adventures in China. They also are lining up other Rotarians to talk about their travels.

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Another option for insulating homes

By Margie Hagen As cold weather approaches, homeowners are looking for ways to reduce energy costs and keep home temperatures comfortable at the same time. Foam insulation is one choice to consider.

Available for more than 25 years, foam insulation has seen improvements in formulation technology and installation. The use of formaldehyde in the product has been greatly reduced and is now rated well below Environmental Protection Agency requirements.

Primarily used in existing homes and commercial buildings, benefits of foam insulation include: â&#x2013; Reduced energy costs, typically 20 to 50 percent within a few days. â&#x2013; Interior temperature stays constant for both heating and cooling. â&#x2013; Sound reduction. â&#x2013; Quick drying, with curing in one to two weeks. â&#x2013; Resists water absorption, inhibiting mold. â&#x2013; Non-combustible, does not damage cables or wiring in walls.

RetroFoam of East Tennessee is a West Knox company that has been installing the insulation for the past two years. Owner Eddie Sanford has been a general contractor since 2006, and found that this fit well with his existing business. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Educating the client is the biggest hurdle,â&#x20AC;? says Sanford. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People look at ways to become more energy efficient, like installing new windows or siding, and foam insulation can address these problems. Each house

presents different challenges, depending on age and Job estimator and installer condition.â&#x20AC;?

Martin Wood demonstrates the Cost is another factor, foam insulation process on a with Sanford stating, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Foam sample wall panel. Photo by Margie is not for everyone; it can Hagen be about three times more expensive to go with foam as opposed to the fiberglass insulation found in most existing homes and new construction. â&#x20AC;Ś This is a longterm solution and pays for itself, usually within four to eight years.â&#x20AC;?

So how does it work? After an initial inspection and estimate, a crew of three to four sets up for installation.

Depending on the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s construction, holes will be drilled in exterior or interior walls, or siding panels will be removed to allow access. Using a compressor, the foam is pumped into the cavities.

The process is quick; during a demonstration, the foam filled a typical stud space of 8 feet by 16 inches in about 40 seconds. San- insulation.â&#x20AC;? getting written estimates fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crew then plugs and As with any home im- and checking references. patches the holes using ma- provement project, do your Info: RetroFoamofEast terials as close to original as homework by researching, TN.com or 865-804-1559 possible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to leave the exterior of your home exactly as we found it,â&#x20AC;? says Sanford. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Siding will reinstall normally, but the customer â&#x2013; Karen McKeehan, a civil is responsible for touch-up engineer with the city of painting. For brick homes Knoxville since 2006, has been awarded the 2016 we salvage mortar dust from Young Engineer Award by drilling for color match.â&#x20AC;? the Tennessee Section of Finding the right inthe American Society of Civil staller is the key to a good Engineers (ASCE).

McKeehan Dr. Chaudhry result. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We continually test the consistency of the foam â&#x2013; Fahd A. Chaudhry, M.D., interventional cardiologist, has joined East Tennessee Heart during installation and caliConsultants, located at Physicians Regional Medical Center, 900 brate it to a certain density,â&#x20AC;?

East Oak Hill Avenue, Suite 600. He specializes in the diagnosis says Sanford. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That way it and treatment of cardiovascular conditions, including coronary fills and dries evenly, proartery disease, peripheral artery disease, heart valve disorders and viding high quality thermal vein diseases.

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George W. Callahan: the man who built railroads Note: Callahan Road and its exchange with I-75 in North Knox County were named for this early settler.

Jim Tumblin

George W. Callahan was born on June 11, 1862, the son of James F. and Susan Avery Callahan.

He was born in Chambersburg, Pa., in a city connected with one of the iconic events of the Civil War. On Oct. 10-11 of that year, intrepid Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart led his cavalry on a two-day, 100-mile raid of the city. He attempted to cut Union Gen. George McClellanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supply lines in a prelude to the Battle of Gettysburg, which would occur the following July.

The Callahan family moved to Knoxville when George was still young, and he received his early education in the Knox County schools. He later attended Powell High School before being employed with the Fenton Marble Co. as a stonecutter.

By 1900, he had his own contracting firm and won the bid for 80 miles of railway track between Cheraw and Columbia, S.C. In 1902-1904 he constructed the 38-mile Louisville and Nashville line from LaFollette to the Kentucky line.

He constructed 75 miles of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway during 1905-1906.

Then he received a large contract to double track the L&N from Nashville to Birmingham in 1913 and another to revise the grades on the Seaboard Air Line Railway in North Carolina in 1916.

After building the Tennessee Central from Lebanon to Nashville and some work for the Southern and

the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway, Callahan retired from railroad building in 1917 to concentrate on highway construction.

Callahan was elected city alderman (18921893) and became a member of the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kid Council,â&#x20AC;? a group of young, progressive business people active in city government. In addition to partnership in several enterprising concerns, Callahan became a director and major stockholder of the City National Bank.

He also became an upto-date progressive farmer when he acquired the old Callahan homestead (Valley View Farm) on Central Avenue Pike on the northern slope of Black Oak Ridge.

He bought more acreage and improved the soil and developed one of the most fertile plantations in the state with grain, grass, vegetables and livestock in abundance.

An undated newspaper article, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Callahan Home Affords Glimpse of Old South,â&#x20AC;? describes the Callahansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 24-room mansion (Amberwood Hall): The house inside is beautifully arranged â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a huge reception room on either side of the entrance, a library lined with books, a music room and â&#x20AC;&#x153;parlor,â&#x20AC;? a dining room with deep seats and built-in china closets with leaded glass doors, a tiled breakfast room one entire side of which is glass with pink climbing roses bobbing against the window panes. Brackets for fern baskets and bird cages are built in the walls. The kitchen has a marble floor and wainscoting.

On the second floor a screened-in sleeping porch goes all across the front of

George W. Callahan, prominent railroad and highway builder, was also a city alderman and member of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kid Councilâ&#x20AC;? of the 1890s.

Photograph courtesy of the McClung Historical Collection, Men of Affairs, 1917

the house and here and there one finds what were called airing porches.

With their hand-wrought iron railings they look more like Romeo and Juliet balconies, but were built for nothing more romantic than to give the bedding a sun bath. Each bedroom has a private bath, dressing room and built-in cedar closet. Little desks are still in the schoolroom where governesses and tutors taught the Callahan children their â&#x20AC;&#x153;three Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? and carried them to the eighth grade when they were permitted to attend the convent in Nashville.

In one corner of the second floor is the chapel where Cardinal Gibbons said mass on several occasions. â&#x20AC;Ś Mr. Callahan has his own gas plant for lighting the house and outbuildings and later installed electric lights but a delightfully old fashioned lamp post still stands supporting a huge gas lamp that makes me think of London streets years and years ago.

The children had a real merry-go-round and a sixroom two-story doll house to play in. The tiny furniture is still in the doll house, but

dusty and abandoned now. â&#x20AC;Ś In the carriage house are two broughams in perfect condition with the family crest painted on the door. â&#x20AC;Ś A surrey and a buggy are in the carriage house too and a couple of sleighs that make us realize how much more snow Knoxville must have had in the old days.

A portion of this 1,100acre estate was set aside as a park where Mr. Callahan had deer and foxes and even buffaloes. There were also many pheasants on the

the Rotary guy Tom King tking535@gmail.com

Wine tasting is Nov. 11 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an evening of fun, food, fellowship and great wine at the Rotary Club of Farragutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16th annual Wine Tasting and Hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres on Friday, Nov. 11.

The tasting at SouthEast Bank in The Renaissance Center in Farragut begins at 6 p.m. The address is 12700 Kingston Pike.

Stephanie Myers, who is directing this event, is selling tickets for $65 each. Every penny raised is going to support Rotary Internationalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s End Polio Now campaign and the other local community projects the club supports year in and year out.

Farragut Rotarian Sam Mishu covers all of the food costs. The Copper Cellar is catering the dinner. Club member Sam Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dixie Lee Wines & Liquors is donating the wines. There will be a great silent auction as well.

If you are interested in attending, visit the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website at farragutrotary.org/ and click on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contact Usâ&#x20AC;? button in the top right corner of the page. â&#x2013;

Club News & Notes

â&#x2013; Thanksgiving: The Rotary Club of Knoxvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Fellowship Committee will be hosting Thanksgiving Dinner 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21, at the University of Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International House for UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international students. â&#x2013; Bearden Rotarian Charlie Biggs is the director of the Knoxville Montessori School which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The school is at 4311 Kingston Pike. Charlie has been the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director since 2009 and for a few years wrote the Bearden clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newsletter. Congratulations to Charlie and the school on its anniversary. â&#x2013; Adam Brock is a busy man these days. The Farragut Rotarian is tournament director of the 2016 Knoxville Challenger Pro Tennis Tournament that will run Nov. 8-13 at the Goodfriend Indoor Tennis Center at UT. Two of the players competing are currently ranked in the top 70 in the world. The 2015 Knoxville Challenger Champion Daniel Evans returns to defend his title. The Rotary Club of Farragut is one of the many sponsors of this great tournament.

place. The herd of some 50 Jersey cows grazed on acres of rich meadow land and as many acres more were devoted to raising hay to feed the stock in winter.

Fruit trees were planted on the hills, vegetables of every sort grew in the garden, large crops of wheat and corn were raised every year. It is esi timated that Mr. Callahan spent at least $75,000 on farm implements alone.

George W. Callahan passed away suddenly on Nov. 18, 1927, at 65 years of age. His services were held at the Church of the Holy Ghost and he was interred in the Calvary Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, the former Carolyn Louise Graw of Lancaster, Pa., and his four daughters, including Miss Katherine Callahan, one of the St. Bernard Sisters of Mercy. The Calla-

han property was later used as a convent for the Sisters (Villa Marie). Also surviving their sibling were his five brothers and one sister who were living in five states from Florida to California.

Callahanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory stays alive in a busy road and in a monument in Bethel Cemetery. Atop a tall marble shaft there stands a Confederate soldier, designed by Lloyd Branson to appear life-size when viewed from ground level. Constructed of Tennessee gray marble quarried nearby, it was erected

by George W. Callahan and Brothers and measures 12 feet square at the base and 48 feet high. The cost was $4,500, and contributors included both Confederate and Union veterans.

Dr. Tumblinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest book, Fountain City: Those Who Made a Difference, is available at Pageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fountain City Pharmacy, Prattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Country Store, the East Tennessee History Center, Union Avenue Books and online.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Bonny Kate Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution meeting, 1 p.m., Second Presbyterian Church, 2829 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Jennifer Sheehan of Random Act of Flowers.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer (Windows 7), 2-4:15 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info/registration: 215-8700.

Mobile Lab Series: Windows 10, 1-3 p.m., Cedar Bluff Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Covers File Explorer and settings: organizing files with folders, personalizing Windows 10. Requires â&#x20AC;&#x153;Introducing the Computerâ&#x20AC;? or similar skills; uses tablet/laptop hybrids.

Call to register. Info/registration: 470-7033.

Sign Language for Beginners, 1-2 p.m., Arnstein Jewish Community Center, 6800 Deane Hill Drive.

Nine-week class runs through Jan. 11. Cost: $90. Info/ registration: Laura Berry, lberry@jewishknoxville.org or 690-6343, ext. 18.

Songwriter in the Soul House Series: Webb Wilder, 6:30-8 p.m., Sweet Pâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barbeque and Soul House, 3725 Maryville Pike. Info: 247-7748.

Hiring event, 10 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Area Urban League, 1514 E. Fifth Ave. Support Solutions will be taking application and interviewing for support professionals, family providers and related positions. Crowne Plaza Hotel for desk clerks, attendants, housekeeping, foodservice and maintenance. Bring resume. Info: Jackie or Bill, 524-5511.

Knoxville Christian Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Connection (KCWC) brunch and fall festival, 9:15 a.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Barbara McGrege; topic: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making Peace With My Past. Complimentary child care by reservation only. The fall festival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; includes vendor fair and silent auction. Brunch and fair, $12, fair only, $3. Info/reservation: 315-8182 or knoxvillechristianwomen@gmail.com.

Knoxville Square Dance, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Calling by Stan Sharp, Ruth Simmons and Leo Collins. Live music by the Hellgramites. No experience or partner necessary. Admission $7; students and JCA members $5. Info: on Facebook.

Zoo Knoxville Dollar Days. General zoo admission tickets for ages 4 and up are $1 each and parking is free with the donation of a non-perishable food item or pet food. Tickets must be purchased in advance online.

Info/tickets: zooknoxville.org.

FRIDAY, NOV. 11 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glass Tile Jewelryâ&#x20AC;? workshop, 6:30-8:30 p.m., The Basement Community Art Studio, 105 W. Jackson Ave. Instructor: Marianne Gansley. Cost: $25; includes all supplies. Info: 333-5262 or thebasementartstudio@ gmail.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 11-12

AARP Driver Safety classes, noon-4 p.m., Fort Sanders Senior Center of Sevier County, 1220 W. Main St., Sevierville. Info/registration: Diane Lewis, 982-1887.

Terra Madre annual Holiday Pottery Show and Sale, Bridgewater Place, 205 Bridgewater Road. Opening reception and preview sale, 5-8 p.m. Friday; show continues 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Info: Facebook.com/ TerraMadreKnoxvilleTN.

AARP Driver Safety classes, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., East Tennessee Medical Group, 266 Joule St., Alcoa. Info/ registration: Francis Gross, 984-8911.

Fishing and Outdoor Swap Meet, 7 p.m., St. Francis Episcopal Church, 158 W. Norris Road, Norris. Hosted by the Clinch River Chapter, Trout Unlimited. Buy or sell fishing, camping or other outdoor gear (no guns).

Admission is free; the chapter requests donations of 10 percent of cash sales to support its outdoor education programs for children, adults and disabled veterans.

Info: Dennis Baxter, dsbaxter1@live.com or 494-6337.

SATURDAY, NOV. 12 Holiday craft sale, 9 a.m.-noon, Community Church in Tellico Village, 130 Chota Center, Loudon. Proceeds go to local charities.

Ijams Gardening Series: Winter Gardening, 1-2 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Program free, but preregistration required. Info/registration: 577-4717, ext. 110.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Robin Bennett, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive.

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Sunday after all weekend Masses, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 414 W Vine Ave. Featuring local and visiting vendors with jewelry and gifts, baskets as well as home baked goodies for the holiday season. Info: icknoxville.org.

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Storytelling and book signing by Laura Still, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Haunted History of Knoxville,â&#x20AC;? noon-3 p.m., Tea & Treasures, 4104 W. Martin Mill Pike.

Tree workshop, 9 a.m.-noon, UT Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Ave., Oak Ridge. Designed for East Tennessee homeowners and business owners interested in the selection, care and maintenance of landscaping. Info: oakridgetn.gov or forestry.tennessee.edu.

Deadline to order wreaths during the Oak Ridge Chorus annual wreath sale. Proceeds to benefit the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association. Orders can be picked up Saturday, Dec. 3, First Presbyterian Church, located at the southeast corner of Lafayette Drive and Oak Ridge Turnpike in Oak Ridge. Info/order: Barbara Weber, 463-8269; or the ORCMA office, 483-5569 or office@orcma.org.

Sing Out Knoxville folk singing club, 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Open to everyone. Info: bobgrimac@ gmail.com or 546-5643.

TUESDAY, NOV. 15 Computer Workshops: Internet and Email Basics, 2-4:15 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires â&#x20AC;&#x153;Introducing the Computerâ&#x20AC;? or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 215-8700.

Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting, 8 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Edwin C. Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service and Special Assistant for Military Sites.

Topic: The Battle of Little Bighorn â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Custerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Luckâ&#x20AC;? runs out. Dinner available 7 p.m. Cost: lecture only, $5; dinner and lecture, $17. RSVP by Nov. 14. Info/RSVP: 671-9001.

Knoxville Writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Cindy Leihkauff. Topic: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Parable Patch, Stories and Songs to Grow On.â&#x20AC;? All-inclusive lunch: $12. Reservations by Nov. 13. Info/reservations: 983-3740. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Research and Apply for Juried Showsâ&#x20AC;? workshop, 5:30-7:30 p.m., the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $8, Arts & Culture Alliance members; $12, nonmembers. Info/registration: knoxalliance.com or sc@ knoxalliance.com.

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