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VOL. 9 NO. 7 February 18, 2015 www.ShopperNewsNow.com | www.facebook.com/ShopperNewsNow 10512 Lexington Dr., Ste. 500 37932 (865) 218-WEST (9378) NEWS [email protected] Sherri Gardner Howell Wendy Smith | Anne Hart ADVERTISING SALES [email protected] Patty Fecco | Tony Cranmore Wendy O’Dell | Sara Whittle Cantrell’s Cares SALES • SERVICE • MAINTENANCE Family Business Serving You for Over 20 Years 5715 Old Tazewell Pike • 687-2520 *Restrictions May Apply Financing available through TVA E-Score program* By Wendy Smith Bearden High School students and parents didn’t lament the possible loss of long, leisurely summers during principal John Bartlett’s discussion of Knox County Schools’ proposed bal- anced calendar. There was little reaction, aside from a few questions about spe- cifics, to the idea that the 2016- 2017 school calendar could have two-week fall, winter and spring breaks and an eight-week summer break. There would still be 180 in- structional days. Bartlett began the discussion by reminding students and par- ents, who attended the evening meeting to discuss scheduling as well as a balanced calendar, that nothing is set in stone. “This is a conversation that is just starting and nobody has de- cided anything yet.” Other local school systems, like Maryville, Alcoa and Oak Ridge, are already on balanced calen- dars. The school calendar should be structured around needs of students, and the current calen- dar, with a 53-day summer break, was set up to meet the needs of an agrarian society. Not many stu- dents are hauling hay anymore, Bartlett said. The balanced calendar is in- tended to provide more continu- ous learning. Remediation would be offered during the first week of fall and spring breaks, which would give struggling students the opportunity to catch up. A shorter summer break would also reduce summer learning loss, which most affects students who spend summers at home watching television and playing video games. Less time spent reading and inter- acting with adults results in learn- ing loss, which leaves teachers playing catch-up for the first two weeks of fall semester, he said. But studies comparing the aca- demic success of students on tra- ditional and balanced calendars have been inconclusive, especially for students who are engaged dur- ing the summer months. Another challenge would be changing the mindset of parents who grew up with long summer breaks and want their kids to have the same ex- perience. A balanced cal- endar wouldn’t affect school ath- letics programs, and teams would continue to prac- tice during fall and spring breaks. Bartlett conjectured that child- care centers would adjust to meet the needs of a balanced calendar. He emphasized that Bearden’s block scheduling wouldn’t neces- sarily change due to conversion to a balanced calendar. Bearden has four classes each semester, and students receive a full credit for each one, as opposed to six or sev- en classes each day for a full year. But a balanced calendar could cost more than a traditional cal- endar due to the expense of trans- porting students during the reme- diation periods built into fall and spring breaks. If funds currently spent on transporting students for summer remediation can be shifted, there may be no added ex- pense, he said. Block scheduling also costs more than traditional scheduling, and since school budgets are fixed, it might be reconsidered at some point. Bartlett emphasized that block scheduling will continue at Bearden for the foreseeable fu- ture. If the county switches to a bal- anced calendar, students would be allowed to miss a few days of school in order to attend Gover- nor’s school, he said. School would start a week early, and graduation would be bumped back a week. Mark Wilkerson, whose daugh- ter is a rising sophomore, said that he needed more information before he could form an opinion about a balanced calendar, but that it was presented positively. He’s strongly in favor of block scheduling, which he thinks helps students understand the rigor of a college course load. “That part has got to stay.” John Bartlett The pros and cons of a balanced school calendar By Wendy Smith A.J. Tierney was in third grade when she saw a production of “Pe- ter Pan” and said, “I want to do that.” Her parents immediately began sending her on auditions, and over the next couple of years, she appeared in plays at the Black Box Theater in Bearden and the Bijou Theatre. Looking back, A.J. thinks “Pe- ter Pan” made her want to fly, not act. But after appearing in 12 dif- ferent productions and now di- recting at the Knoxville Children’s Theatre, it’s clear that she’s capa- ble of doing both. Whether or not it was what she intended, acting came naturally to her. “I was that loud kid no one knew what to do with. No one ever told me to go bigger.” The West High School junior directs “Alice’s Rumpus in Won- derland,” which opens Friday, Feb. 20. She was given the opportunity after interning for a year with the children’s theater, located at 109 E. Churchwell Avenue. As an intern, she experienced every aspect of backstage work, from props to stage management. She also choreographed several wordless sequences when she co- directed last fall’s production of “Hound of the Baskervilles.” She was initially nervous about directing the young cast because some of them are almost like sib- lings. She’s known some since the fourth grade, and was concerned that they wouldn’t see her as an authority figure. But they’ve be- haved so professionally that it hasn’t been an issue, she says. The leadership skills A.J. learned as an intern have helped. One of her responsibilities as stage manager was discipline, and she learned how to correct gently with phrases like, “I’m disappointed in you.” A.J. Tierney gives feedback to the cast of “Alice’s Rumpus in Wonderland.” The Knoxville Children’s Theatre production opens this Friday. Photo by Wendy Smith adaptation West High student directs ‘ Alice ’ She loves having the opportu- nity to direct. “I’ve always sat in the audience during shows and thought, ‘This is what I’d do.’ So it’s cool to have the power to do that.” She compares directing with being an artist, or painter. As an artist, she has numerous tools, or geniuses, at her disposal, she says. In addition to 18 hardworking ac- tors, her work is supported by a talented crew of costumers and set designers. She’s also backed up by the theater’s executive director, Zack Allen. He wrote the adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Won- derland” and “Alice Through the Looking-Glass,” but it was A.J.’s idea to set the play in New York City during the Roaring 1920s. “Think of the parallels of the craziness of New York and Won- derland,” she says. The play begins at the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel in 1925 when Alice loses Harry Houdini’s white rabbit. While chasing the rabbit, she finds herself in the hotel elevator, which takes her down to Wonderland. As much as she’s enjoyed di- recting, acting is A.J.’s first love. She plans to pursue acting in college, and since she expects to spend much of her senior year auditioning, “Alice’s Rumpus in Wonderland” may be the end of an era for her. “I wanted to put a stamp on something before I left,” she says. Performances are Feb. 20, 21, 22, 26, 27 and 28, and March 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8. 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Tickets at $4 ($10 per family, up to four) are avail- able from Northside Kiwanis members or at the door. All proceeds go to support the ser- vice activities of the Northside Kiwanis Club. Info: Tom Mat- tingly, 414-6218. GOP reorganization The Knox County Republi- can Party will hold its biannual reorganization with precinct meetings at the polling places at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, unless otherwise scheduled by the precinct chair. Delegates elected at the pre- cincts will meet for the county convention at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 7, at The Crown College in Powell. Info: Ruthie Kuhl- man, chair. IN THIS ISSUE Snow mode Shopper-News was com- posed a bit earlier than usual this week because of the poten- tial for snow. We skipped our final proof-reading, so if you see errors, please call or email and we will correct. Also check for updates on our website, ShopperNewsNow.com Marvin West Sports columnist Marvin West looks at Tennessee’s new offensive coordinator, Mike DeBord, and his fit in maintaining “the best staff in America.” That’s what Butch promised when he was hired. No reason for him to back down, writes West. His column is on page A-4. Betsy Pickle Read Knoxville’s best movie critic’s take on this year’s Oscars, and match wits with a professtional. Check out Weekender, inside. Betty Bean Tyler Harber: Ace political reporter Betty Bean was writ- ing about this youthful politico some 14 years ago and she’s kept up with him ever since. Now he’s probably heading to jail after last week’s guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Virginia. Bean looks back and ahead with “The Rise and Fall of Tyler Harber.” Inside.

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VOL. 9 NO. 7 February 18, 2015www.ShopperNewsNow.com | www.facebook.com/ShopperNewsNow

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Sherri Gardner Howell

Wendy Smith | Anne Hart

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By Wendy SmithBearden High School students

and parents didn’t lament the possible loss of long, leisurely summers during principal John Bartlett’s discussion of Knox County Schools’ proposed bal-anced calendar.

There was little reaction, aside from a few questions about spe-cifi cs, to the idea that the 2016-2017 school calendar could have two-week fall, winter and spring breaks and an eight-week summer break. There would still be 180 in-structional days.

Bartlett began the discussion by reminding students and par-ents, who attended the evening meeting to discuss scheduling as well as a balanced calendar, that nothing is set in stone.

“This is a conversation that is just starting and nobody has de-cided anything yet.”

Other local school systems, like Maryville, Alcoa and Oak Ridge, are already on balanced calen-dars. The school calendar should be structured around needs of

students, and the current calen-dar, with a 53-day summer break, was set up to meet the needs of an agrarian society. Not many stu-dents are hauling hay anymore, Bartlett said.

The balanced calendar is in-tended to provide more continu-ous learning. Remediation would be offered during the fi rst week of fall and spring breaks, which would give struggling students the opportunity to catch up.

A shorter summer break would also reduce summer learning loss, which most affects students who spend summers at home watching television and playing video games. Less time spent reading and inter-acting with adults results in learn-ing loss, which leaves teachers playing catch-up for the fi rst two weeks of fall semester, he said.

But studies comparing the aca-demic success of students on tra-ditional and balanced calendars have been inconclusive, especially for students who are engaged dur-ing the summer months. Another challenge would be changing the

mindset of parents who grew up with long summer breaks and

want their kids to have the same ex-perience.

A balanced cal-endar wouldn’t affect school ath-letics programs, and teams would continue to prac-tice during fall and spring breaks.

Bartlett conjectured that child-care centers would adjust to meet the needs of a balanced calendar.

He emphasized that Bearden’s block scheduling wouldn’t neces-sarily change due to conversion to a balanced calendar. Bearden has four classes each semester, and students receive a full credit for each one, as opposed to six or sev-en classes each day for a full year.

But a balanced calendar could cost more than a traditional cal-endar due to the expense of trans-porting students during the reme-diation periods built into fall and spring breaks. If funds currently

spent on transporting students for summer remediation can be shifted, there may be no added ex-pense, he said.

Block scheduling also costs more than traditional scheduling, and since school budgets are fi xed, it might be reconsidered at some point. Bartlett emphasized that block scheduling will continue at Bearden for the foreseeable fu-ture.

If the county switches to a bal-anced calendar, students would be allowed to miss a few days of school in order to attend Gover-nor’s school, he said. School would start a week early, and graduation would be bumped back a week.

Mark Wilkerson, whose daugh-ter is a rising sophomore, said that he needed more information before he could form an opinion about a balanced calendar, but that it was presented positively. He’s strongly in favor of block scheduling, which he thinks helps students understand the rigor of a college course load.

“That part has got to stay.”

John Bartlett

The pros and cons of a balanced school calendar

By Wendy SmithA.J. Tierney was in third grade

when she saw a production of “Pe-ter Pan” and said, “I want to do that.” Her parents immediately began sending her on auditions, and over the next couple of years, she appeared in plays at the Black Box Theater in Bearden and the Bijou Theatre.

Looking back, A.J. thinks “Pe-ter Pan” made her want to fl y, not act. But after appearing in 12 dif-ferent productions and now di-recting at the Knoxville Children’s Theatre, it’s clear that she’s capa-ble of doing both.

Whether or not it was what she intended, acting came naturally to her.

“I was that loud kid no one knew what to do with. No one ever told me to go bigger.”

The West High School junior directs “Alice’s Rumpus in Won-derland,” which opens Friday, Feb. 20. She was given the opportunity after interning for a year with the children’s theater, located at 109 E. Churchwell Avenue.

As an intern, she experienced every aspect of backstage work, from props to stage management. She also choreographed several wordless sequences when she co-directed last fall’s production of “Hound of the Baskervilles.”

She was initially nervous about directing the young cast because some of them are almost like sib-lings. She’s known some since the fourth grade, and was concerned that they wouldn’t see her as an authority fi gure. But they’ve be-haved so professionally that it hasn’t been an issue, she says.

The leadership skills A.J. learned as an intern have helped. One of her responsibilities as stage manager was discipline, and she learned how to correct gently with phrases like, “I’m disappointed in you.”

A.J. Tierney gives feedback to the cast

of “Alice’s Rumpus in Wonderland.” The

Knoxville Children’s Theatre production

opens this Friday. Photo by Wendy Smith

adaptation

West High student directs

‘Alice’

She loves having the opportu-nity to direct.

“I’ve always sat in the audience during shows and thought, ‘This is what I’d do.’ So it’s cool to have the power to do that.”

She compares directing with being an artist, or painter. As an artist, she has numerous tools, or geniuses, at her disposal, she says. In addition to 18 hardworking ac-tors, her work is supported by a talented crew of costumers and set designers. She’s also backed up by the theater’s executive director,

Zack Allen.He wrote the adaptation of

Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Won-derland” and “Alice Through the Looking-Glass,” but it was A.J.’s idea to set the play in New York City during the Roaring 1920s.

“Think of the parallels of the craziness of New York and Won-derland,” she says.

The play begins at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1925 when Alice loses Harry Houdini’s white rabbit. While chasing the rabbit, she fi nds herself in the hotel elevator, which

takes her down to Wonderland.As much as she’s enjoyed di-

recting, acting is A.J.’s fi rst love.She plans to pursue acting incollege, and since she expects tospend much of her senior yearauditioning, “Alice’s Rumpus inWonderland” may be the end of anera for her.

“I wanted to put a stamp onsomething before I left,” she says.

Performances are Feb. 20, 21,22, 26, 27 and 28, and March 1,5, 6, 7 and 8. Info: 208-3677 orknoxvillechildrenstheatre.com

686-5756

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Kiwanis eventNorthside Kiwanis Club

will host a Pancake Jamboree and Bake Sale from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 544 N. Broadway.

Tickets at $4 ($10 per family, up to four) are avail-able from Northside Kiwanis members or at the door. All proceeds go to support the ser-vice activities of the Northside Kiwanis Club. Info: Tom Mat-tingly, 414-6218.

GOP reorganizationThe Knox County Republi-

can Party will hold its biannual reorganization with precinct meetings at the polling places at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, unless otherwise scheduled by the precinct chair.

Delegates elected at the pre-cincts will meet for the county convention at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 7, at The Crown College in Powell. Info: Ruthie Kuhl-man, chair.

IN THIS ISSUE

Snow modeShopper-News was com-

posed a bit earlier than usual this week because of the poten-tial for snow. We skipped our fi nal proof-reading, so if you see errors, please call or email and we will correct. Also check for updates on our website, ShopperNewsNow.com

Marvin WestSports columnist Marvin

West looks at Tennessee’s new offensive coordinator, Mike DeBord, and his fi t in maintaining “the best staff in America.”

That’s what Butch promised when he was hired. No reason for him to back down, writes West. His column is on page A-4.

Betsy PickleRead Knoxville’s best movie

critic’s take on this year’s Oscars, and match wits with a professtional.

Check out Weekender, inside.

Betty BeanTyler Harber: Ace political

reporter Betty Bean was writ-ing about this youthful politico some 14 years ago and she’s kept up with him ever since. Now he’s probably heading to jail after last week’s guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Virginia. Bean looks back and ahead with “The Rise and Fall of Tyler Harber.” Inside.

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A-2 • FEBRUARY 18, 2015 • BEARDEN Shopper news

By Sherri Gardner HowellMoms know that searching

for the preschool program that fi ts your family is tough and time-consuming.

The Knoxville-Farragut chapter of MOMS Club International had an idea last year for a one-stop shopping concept for preschool programs and activities for children that was such a hit they repeated it this year. The

Second Annual West Knox Preschool & Activities Fair was held in late January at First Baptist Concord. The free fair brought preschool programs and children’s extra-curricular activities together in one place for moms to visit, talk to administrators and teachers and gather information.

For more on MOMS, email [email protected].

One-stop shopping

Bringing programs and parents together for the West Knox Preschool & Activities Fair are these

members of the Knoxville-Farragut chapter of MOMS Club International: Kelly Hamilton, Shane

Pohlmann, Crystal Yamazaki, Jenny Oberhaus, Alicia Glasby and Shari Buckingham.

Who can resist cute? Angela Floyd Schools has just the right

helpers to distribute materials at the Second Annual West

Knox Preschool & Activities Fair at First Baptist Concord: Miley

Jenkins and Jaelyn Fairchild.

Representing Farragut Church of Christ Preschool at the fair are

Dottie Joyner and Dana Fox.

Entertaining Charlie Batts while

his parents talk to vendors at the

preschool fair is easy: Just add

giant blocks. Photos by Justin Acuff

Hoss the Hedgehog, one of the attractions at the Knoxville

Zoo’s booth at the preschool fair, might want to consider

showing his perky face before one of the moms mistakes him

for a scrub brush.

Foster grandparents needed as mentorsThe Foster Grandparent Program is looking for

adults age 55 or older to serve 20 hours per week men-toring and tutoring young people in public schools and other nonprofi t settings. Qualifi ed volunteers receive a tax-free stipend and mileage reimbursement. Train-ing will begin Monday, March 2. Info: 524-2786.

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15

p.m. each fi rst Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar

Bluff Road. Info: www.cwkch.com/.

■ Historic Sutherland Heights Neighborhood Association.

Info: Marlene Taylor, 951-3773, [email protected].

■ Lyons View Community Club meets 6 p.m. each second

Monday, Lyons View Community Center, 114 Sprankle Ave.

Info: Mary Brewster, 454-2390.

■ Third and 4th District Democrats will meet 6 p.m. Tuesday,

Feb. 24, Bearden Public Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Guest

speaker: Gwen Schablik from the Tennessee Equality Project.

Info: District 3, Suzie Coff ey, 691-1075; District 4, Rosina

Guerra, [email protected] or 588-6260, or Chris Foell,

[email protected] or 691-8933.

■ West Knox Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each fi rst

and third Monday, 8529 Kingston Pike. Info: http://

knoxvillewestknoxlionsclub.org/.

■ West Hills Community Association. Info: Ashley Williams,

313-0282. Got news?

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Wendy Smith

community

Tennessee Shines Radio Show moves to Old City

Tennessee Shines Radio Show will mark its third an-niversary with a new loca-tion and new weekday be-ginning Wednesday, March 4, at Boyd’s Jig & Reel, a res-taurant and music venue lo-cated in the historic Old City.

The hour-long, live radio show begins at 7 p.m. and includes headline musical performers, special guests and readings by local and regional spoken word art-ists. Tickets will be avail-able at the door beginning at 6 p.m. Admission is $10.

Tennessee Shines can be heard in Knoxville and sur-rounding areas on 89.9 FM, 93.9 FM and 102.9 FM, and online at www.wdvx.com. Past shows are available for on-demand streaming for two weeks after the broad-cast.

Adding to theartistic landscape

“Faust” now has a perma-nent home in Knoxville. The 15-foot-tall steel sculpture by John Sauve became part of the Dogwood Arts Festi-val’s permanent collection with a dedication ceremony on Feb. 11 at Emory Place. The sculpture was donated to the festival by the own-ers of Liz-Beth & Company, Bart Watkins and Liz Go-brecht, in honor of the gal-lery’s 25th anniversary.

Liz-Beth & Company COO Beth Watkins, left, with owners Bart

Watkins and Liz Gobrecht, who purchased “Faust” and donat-

ed the John Sauve sculpture to the Dogwood Arts Festival

On hand to celebrate the ad-

dition to the city’s Art in Public

Places program are Knoxville

Mayor Madeline Rogero, Bart

Watkins and Eddie Mannis.

Watkins and Mannis founded

Art in Public Places Knoxville,

a Dogwood Arts Festival pro-

gram. Photos by Justin Acuff

“Faust” takes center stage at Emory Place. At the dedi-

cation ceremony for the sculpture are Karen Wooten,

Erin Slocum, Dogwood Arts Festival executive director

Lisa Duncan, Katharine Torbett and Katie Greene.

Proudly showing off the certifi cate of ownership for the new

sculpture are Knoxville mayor Madeline Rogero and Lisa Dun-

can, executive director of Dogwood Arts.

Gobrecht, son Bart, and daughter Beth Watkins founded the family-owned business in 1990, which is now located at 7240 Kings-ton Pike. Beth Watkins is Liz-Beth & Co.’s chief operat-ing offi cer, and Bart Watkins is president of the company, which includes a gallery/gift shop, corporate division and printing division.

“Faust” was part of the 2013 Art in Public Places exhibit. Watkins and Ed-die Mannis were the driving forces and co-founders of Art in Public Places Knoxville in 2007. The two volunteers and board members of the Dog-wood Arts Festival wanted to bring public artworks to the Knoxville landscape, includ-ing large-scale outdoor piec-es. The successful program has added many permanent pieces to Knoxville streets.

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The late Al McGuire used “seashells and balloons” to describe good times. The way things are with Ten-nessee football, you can add rainbows and free ice cream.

Recruiting success re-mains the talk of the town. The new offensive coordina-tor is said to be a precise fi t. Butch Jones is really com-fortable. Everybody that matters is some degree of happy. New titles and raises helped.

For lack of contrary in-formation, I assume Mike DeBord is the correct step in maintaining “the best staff in America.” That’s what Butch promised when he was hired. No reason for him to back down.

I will concede that the

Happy time, good fi t, comfort zone

Jones group can sell. This is the year to see how it does at developing talent.

Fans should accept DeBord as a loyalty hire. This was payback. It is OK to scratch your head and won-der, but no bickering. Butch has already said he knows what’s best for the Vols.

Butch worked for Mike long, long ago at Central Michigan. Together they produced a 12-34 record. DeBord did give Jones a big

boost in his career. Butch has returned the favor, res-cuing Mike from oblivion and adding the encourage-ment of a $500,000 salary.

We have been told that this enhances the status quo, that little or nothing will change about the Jones offense. I don’t believe that. The Vols need more touch-downs. They need to be able to gain a yard now and then, when they absolutely must have one. Maybe DeBord can coach a power forma-tion. He once did.

Offense did not come easy for Tennessee the past two seasons. It fi nished 104th and 93rd in national rankings. The Vols were 69th in red zone touchdown percentage in 2014. Those perfectly relaxed about the

future may think that is OK. It isn’t.

I have no concerns about DeBord as offensive coordi-nator. He may even be great, as soon as he catches up with what is going on.

I am amazed that Butch is passing him off as a quar-terback coach. His fi rst and last fl ing at that assign-ment was the mid-1980s at Fort Hays State. Quarter-back coach of those famous names at Michigan (Tom Brady, Brian Griese, etc.) was Stan Parrish.

Based on last season’s ar-gument that Joshua Dobbs needed considerable im-provement on fundamentals and the current dilemma of three freshmen posing as quarterback depth, it would seem that Jones needed a

master technician as teacher.Old friend Mike DeBord

is a line coach. He does bring a lifetime of experience and warm compatibility.

“Comfort” is a bigger word in Butch’s vocabulary than in mine. I thought “comfort” was part of the 2014 problem.

The coaching staff was more comfortable with Jus-tin Worley at quarterback because he was a better practice player, had a bet-ter grasp of the offense, was less likely to make mistakes and would stick to plans. It didn’t seem to matter that he couldn’t run the read op-tion.

It hurts to say what I’ve been thinking, that there would have been no bowl game had Worley survived. Justin would have deserved a medal for true grit and everlasting respect for raw courage, but no way does

Tennessee upset South Caro-lina without Joshua Dobbs.

Now we know and under-stand.

This, indeed, looks like the beginning of seashells and balloons for Tennessee football. There is reason for optimism.

The Lyle Allen Jones Reconstruction Company has done the preliminary brick work. His method has merit. There will be no more 7-6s.

Spring practice, even in relative secret, fi gures to be exciting. Already there is chatter about the Orange and White game. And an SEC East title! Some can barely wait. Go Vols!

I hope the new coach can help the team win. If the Vols make it to Atlanta, that might mean top 10 in the polls. Call it to my attention when it happens. That will be the real comfort zone.

My fi rst encounter with Tyler Harber was in 2001 when he was working in Joe Bailey’s fi rst city council campaign.

The rise and fall of Tyler Harber

Betty Bean

I’d taken a couple of pokes at him as the new en-fant terrible of local politics, and one night when Joe met me at a blues bar in the Old City to drop off some cam-paign literature, he men-tioned that Tyler was wait-ing for him in the car.

My recollection is that he couldn’t get into the bar because he wasn’t 21 yet, but Joe recently told me that Ty-ler thought it better to wait in the car because he fi g-

ured I was out to get him. It wouldn’t have taken a politi-cal savant to fi gure that out, because I loved to crack bad jokes about the escapades of Sun Tzu-quoting under-graduates being unleashed on the world by UT’s politi-cal science department.

The last time I heard from Tyler was Nov. 12, 2014, when he sent me an email asking me to come up to D.C. to interview him. He said the Department of Jus-tice was focusing on Repub-lican consultants who were running super PACs:

“I’ve trusted you to write the truth before. Can I pay for you to come up here to meet me once more? One more interview,” he wrote.

“I need an impartial, reasonable, no BS-telling of why I’m going to federal prison for calling Obama a criminal repeatedly on na-

tional television. Are you up for a story with as much complexity as the series you wrote about me previously?

“Sooner rather than later. DoJ is pushing hard and I can’t hold them off too much longer. You’ve been the journalist I’ve trusted. Plus this is going to be a na-tional story. I wanted to give you fi rst dibs.

“Let me know. I know this is a very f’d-up request. But in the end of my politi-cal career, I’d much prefer that you write my ‘epitaph’ than the Times, Post or any other rag inside the beltway.

“Let me know.“Best regards, Tyler”Flabbergasted, I e-mailed

him back, asking him to call me. He never responded.

RagsdaleHarber’s situation be-

came brutally clear last

week when the news broke that he’d pleaded guilty to illegally coordinating a po-litical campaign with a su-per PAC he’d created, direct-ing more than $300,000 to the campaign and diverting $138,000 of that to a com-pany run by his mother.

The news brought back a fl ood of memories – Mike Ragsdale’s 2002 county ex-ecutive campaign kickoff at the L&N Station to the tune of the Beatles’ “Here comes the sun.”

And there he was – Tyler Harber – fi xing to embark on the long-term project of helping Ragsdale become governor.

When Ragsdale was sworn in, Tyler got a nebu-lous job on the sixth fl oor. Later he was transferred to the county probation of-fi ce, supposedly monitoring prisoners’ ankle bracelets. A lot of us guffawed at that, because we spotted him do-ing stuff like chauffeuring the mayor here and there

and skulking around meet-ings keeping tabs on errant county commissioners who weren’t toeing the Ragsdale line.

Over time, recalcitrant commissioners began to complain that they were being threatened with re-election problems if they didn’t get with the program. Specifi cally, they said that they were being told that the mayor would sic the ruthless boy genius on them if they didn’t straighten up. Occasionally Tyler got caught misbehaving in pub-lic and would get his knuck-les rapped.

It all came to a head in 2006 when GOP county chair Chad Tindell refused to turn over a mailing list to the Ragsdale re-election campaign that he’d com-plied during the previous presidential election. Tyler, who was somehow privy to Tindell’s email password, printed out Tindell’s email correspondence and passed

it on to Ragsdale and his body man Mike Arms. Threats, intimidation and car chases ensured. Tyler departed for Washington.

But he was heard from one more time.

WashingtonShortly after Ragsdale’s

less than impressive 2006 re-election victory, an anonymous blog post asked, “Missing me now?”

“Tyler,” I thought.After tracking him down,

I spent a weekend in Wash-ington interviewing Tyler, and the result was a three-part Shopper-News series detailing the work he had done in the service of Mike Ragsdale. (The trip was solely at my expense, reim-bursed in part by the Shop-per.)

The interview included a description of his bogus probation job, a detailed ac-count of attempting to

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(Students, Parents, Edu-cations Across Knox), the organization she and oth-ers put together last year at

the begin-ning of what came to be known as the teacher r e b e l l i o n , got elected as well. So Amy Cate will become vice presi-

dent; Linda Holtzclaw, sec-retary; Julie Smalling, high school executive board rep and Mark Taylor middle school executive board rep. Dave Gorman and Sherry Morgan were elected to the

Deborah Huddleston and Karen Pershing of the Metropolitan Drug Commission display Born

Drug-Free in Tennessee materials. The initiative aims to raise awareness about babies being

born addicted to drugs. Photo by Wendy Smith

Campaign aims to keep babies off drugsWe’ve produced many

exceptional things in East Tennessee – Mountain Dew, hydroelectric power and the 1982 World’s Fair, to name a few.

“This is not an addict-under-the-bridge problem. This is a person-sitting-next-to-you-in-church problem.”

Agencies from across the region, including the non-profi t Metropolitan Drug Commission and East Ten-nessee Children’s Hospital, partnered with the East Tennessee NAS Task Force to kick off the Born Drug-Free Tennessee education initiative last week.

The goal of the program is to raise awareness about babies being born exposed to prescription and other drugs. Education is aimed at medical providers, wom-en who are pregnant or at risk of becoming pregnant, and their families.

Karen Pershing, execu-tive director of the Metro-politan Drug Commission, says the problem stems from lack of communica-tion. Last week, 29 OB/GYN doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and nursing students participated in Born Drug-

Free Tennessee training. Through role-play, the med-ical providers learned how to talk to women about ad-diction. It’s not something they’re comfortable asking about, she says.

Pregnant women also need education. They think pain pills are safe because doctors prescribe them, and access points are every-where. Knox County has 35 registered pain clinics.

Those who recognize that they are addicted, or even dependent, face enormous challenges. They get sick if they quit taking pills, and replacement therapies, like methadone, are also harm-ful to babies. Information on the Born Drug-Free Ten-nessee website can help ad-dicted women make chang-es and move forward with their lives, Saunders says.

Prescriptions for pain pills rose in response to the under-treatment of pain in the late 1990s and early 2000s. At the time, no one

realized how addictive the drugs were, she says. Even now, large prescriptions aren’t uncommon.

“There’s no need for opi-ates to the degree that doc-tors are prescribing them.”

Despite the number of NAS babies, Saunders has hope. A lot of people are looking for ways to help.

Pershing hopes to see the number of NAS babies born in Knox County drop 20 percent by 2016. It’s a lofty goal, but she thinks it’s pos-sible through education. The Born Drug-Free Tennessee message is being spread via the Internet, radio, televi-sion, posters and brochures, and her voice. She’s happy to speak to community groups about the work of the Met-ropolitan Drug Commission – substance abuse preven-tion – and she always men-tions the smallest victims of drug abuse.

“I always bring up the babies.” Info: www.borndrugfreetn.com

Wendy Smith

Unless you’ve been liv-ing under a rock, you know that this region also cranks out something that should make us all shudder: drug dependent newborns. The Tennessee Department of Health’s 16-county East Tennessee region produced a whopping 27 percent of the state’s 973 Neona-tal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) babies in 2014. Knox County alone produced 10.6 percent of the total number, which continues to rise.

These babies are sick be-cause they are addicted to drugs ingested by their ad-dicted mothers. The babies, and their moms, are the sad fallout of the region’s over-prescription of opi-ates. Addiction to prescrip-tion drugs is something that can happen to anyone, says Carla Saunders, a neonatal nurse practitioner at East Tennessee Children’s Hos-pital.

By Betty BeanAsked what’s fi rst when

she takes over as president of the Knox County Educa-tion Association July 1, Lau-ren Hopson didn’t hesitate:

“Increase membership and give teachers a voice.”

This shouldn’t surprise anyone who has observed the Halls third grade teach-er since her “Tired Teacher” speech at the October 2013 school board forum.

Being president of KCEA is full-time, so Hopson will be taking a leave of absence from teaching.

If there was a KCEA elec-tion surprise, it’s the slate of offi cers who will enter with her. Members of SPEAK

Hopson and allies to take helm of teachers’ association

Hopson

team that interviews candi-dates for public offi ce.

Here is how Amy Cate de-scribes their platform: “We are for truth and honesty in education – not smoke and mirrors of false promises from the educational re-formers… This is 2015 and managing teachers through fear and intimidation is not acceptable. … We pride our-selves in being seekers of truth, but we are far from being radical. I promise!”

Hopson likes being part of a team: “It is a strange feel-ing to be excited and scared to death at the same time. My biggest fear was getting elected without the rest of them there to help me.”

One of the fi rst issues she wants to address is helping teachers re-establish some control over their profes-sional lives.

“Over the last fi ve days, I’ve had two days of plan-ning time. We’re supposed to have it every day. Techni-cally, under Tennessee law, I get 2.5 hours per week, which works out to 45 min-utes a day.”

Instead, she has been required to attend a tech-nology meeting and a PLC (professional learning com-munity) meeting.

“What we’re supposed to be doing is do grade-level planning, identifying kids who need help; but usually,

we just look at test data. Pretty much there isn’t anything I can do in a PLC meeting that is more impor-tant than planning for my students the next day. Last year, we asked for PLCs to be done monthly rather than weekly. If I worked at a TAP school, I’d have a clus-ter meeting – you don’t have to think long at all to fi gure out what those are called.”

And that’s just for start-ers.

Hopson, who is from Greeneville, started her professional life armed with degrees in psychology and sociology. She worked with troubled kids at a residen-tial treatment center for

several years. In 2000, she went back to the University of Tennessee on a Lynd-hurst fellowship, earned a master’s in education, and went to work for Knox County Schools.

She describes herself as generally conservative, but motivated into the politi-cal arena by learning of the plight of two friends, whom she describes as “amaz-ing teachers, who, because of one test, had their jobs threatened. Now, they are both teachers of the year at their respective schools – and they’ll probably never talk to you because they don’t want that kind of at-tention.”

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derail a referendum on Ragsdale’s county wheel tax proposal and a recounting of an attempt to access con-fi dential medical records of political foes, plus lots of in-timidation of other elected offi cials.

It was explosive stuff, and although Ragsdale compelled department heads and other employees to sign sworn statements

disavowing Tyler’s allega-tions, nothing he told me in that marathon interview has ever been proven false. Nothing.

Unlikely as it would have seemed in 2001, Tyler Har-ber became a valued friend and source to me over the years. I watched his rise through the Republican fi rmament – “Elections and Campaigns” magazine

named him a Rising Star in 2012 – and he was making regular appearances as a commentator on Fox News. Last October, his refusal to join in on Fox’s wholesale bashing of Muslims was widely reported on other news outlets.

He and his wife, who is carving a niche for herself as a “military romance” author (who knew there was such

a genre?), are the parents of two cute little kids. I was impressed by his personal and professional growth over the years since he was Mike Ragsdale’s dirty tricks specialist. Then it all came crashing down.

This morning, I read that “Elections and Campaigns” has revoked his Rising Star award. And sentencing is set for May.

Tyler Harber From previous page

Recently I wrote the odds favored Gov. Haslam getting Medicaid expan-sion passed in the special legislative session. Little did I think that it would fail so overwhelmingly in less than 48 hours at the hands of fellow Republicans.

Never has a major initia-tive from the governor been scuttled so quickly and decisively. What happened?

There are many theories and all have some element of truth. But based on my own 15 years in the Legis-lature, there seems to be several factors.

First, the governor erred in calling a special session instead of letting Insure Tennessee be considered in the regular session. Weeks were needed to pull togeth-er a majority in both House and Senate, if it could be done. In hindsight, it prob-ably would have failed in the regular session too, but not so spectacularly.

Second, the governor never had an accurate count of lawmakers showing a majority in favor. Whatever count he had was not close and was based on hope, not reality. He believed that his plan was so logical and so different from Obamacare that it would prevail after all the facts were outlined, combined with strong busi-ness community support.

The votes simply were not there to pass the plan.

Third, there were early warning signs of deep trouble when both speakers (Republicans, too) declined to endorse the plan. Then the Senate majority leader refused to sponsor the plan. Then there was not a written agreement with the Obama Administra-tion. Then the House GOP caucus chair said he was opposed.

Fourth, extensive lobby-ing by hospital executives who spoke of the fi scal plight facing hospitals when top leadership’s pay, even at the medium and smaller hospitals, often exceeds $250.000 and in some cases reaches $600,000 hardly indicated a fi nancial crisis. Only TVA is more tone deaf when it comes to paying outrageously high salaries to the top folks. Erlanger in Chattanooga recently handed out over $1 million in bonuses to top personnel. This was not the governor’s doing but he got caught in the crossfi re.

Fifth, the governor would have been well advised to have discussed this during his re-election campaign last fall. Then he could have said voters knew of it and backed it. He de-nied himself a mandate on the issue he did not raise.

The high point of the ses-sion was Haslam’s address which was as articulate a speech as he has ever given and came from the heart. It simply did not register with members who had already decided to vote “no” on an extension of Obamacare and bigger government.

The governor will and should move on. This Legis-lature probably will not act on this until a new Presi-dent takes offi ce on Jan. 20, 2017. While its failure is a setback and embarrassing, it is not the end of the world and Haslam has four more years to lead the state in an exceptional manner.

The quick death of Insure Tennessee

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Among my earliest memories is that of be-ing read to by my mother. The fi rst books I remem-ber her reading to me in-cluded Dale Evans’ “Angel Unaware,” as well as some lesser tomes, including the Golden Books’ “Mis-ter Bear Squash-You-All-Flat” and “The Duck Who Played the Piano.” What I wouldn’t give for copies of those beloved books now!

She bought Childcraft for us, a set of books which I still have in my collection, and which I still refer to from time to time. World Book was purchased for us before I started school, and even though I bought my own set of World Book when my girls were young, I have kept the older ver-sions, because they have material in them that the newer versions do not, including a picture of my dear friend John when he was a 4-H boy in Idaho.

So, I grew up with books and have never lost my love for them. Books

Go now, write it before them on a tablet, and in-scribe it in a book, so that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.

(Isaiah 30: 8 NRSV)

My magic carpet

can carry me – like a magic carpet – to distant times and places. They can introduce me to fas-cinating people, both real and imaginary, who can teach me much about the world and even about my-self.

I am always a little sad, a little lost, when I fi nish a good book. It is a little like letting go of the tra-peze, without knowing whether the other tra-peze – the one swinging toward me – is going to reach me in time.

So, when I need to travel through space or time, my magic carpet is available, ready to trans-port me to adventures, experiences, dreams, fantasies, and, best of all, truths!

Kelsey Rolen attended Messiah Lutheran Church’s 21st Annual Grandmother-Mother-Daughter Luncheon with daughters Ella, 2,

and Cora, 5. The lunch is prepared and served by the men of the congregation. Photo by Wendy Smith

A 21-year tradition at Messiah Lutheran Church

The story is told that dur-ing the days of Alexander the Great, there were a number of men who, in a particular battle, distinguished them-selves as cowards.

These men were lined up before the great leader. Al-exander the Great came to each of the men and asked, “Young man, what is your name?”

One young soldier said, “My name is Alexander, sir.” Reportedly, Alexander the Great fi rmly replied, “Either change your name or change your conduct!”

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Change your name

I wonder what the Lord would say to those who wear the name Christian? Would he tell us to change our name or change our conduct? Or are we bring-ing honor to his name by the way we live?

Give it some thought.

Islam is topic for BeckLectures by Imam Muhammad Adeyinka Mendes

are set for Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21, at the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Avenue. All are invited.

Inman Mendes is founding director of SacredSer-vice for Human Liberation, lead Arabic instructor for Fawakih Institute Atlanta, and lecturer and assistant inman at Madina Institute USA.

Info: 637-8172 or muslimknoxville on Facebook. Claire Wilson, Olivia Campbell and Lindsey Sliwinski dress as Black Friday with dollar signs in their eyes, handfuls of money and

shopping bags.

Notable passingsBy Sandra Clark

Jack L. Cooper, a stalwart member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, passed away at age 86.

Jack served with distinction

on the old city school board and as general manager of Schubert Lumber Company. This writer gives him credit for shuttering Cas Walker’s “Watchdog.”

His sister was the late Joyce McCloud, wife of former Brickey School prin-cipal John R. McCloud. Grigsby

Jack leaves wife Doris and their two daughters.

Joan Bostick Griffey, retired co-owner with husband Jerry of Gentry Griffey Funeral Chapel, passed away at age 79. She was married to Jerry for 56 years and was an active member of Fountain City United Methodist Church. She was a retired teacher.

Dot Grigsby worked hard in the family busi-ness that carried her husband’s name, Malcolm’s Dairyland Drive-in on Clinton Highway.

Dot died 10 years to the day after the passing of Malcolm.

She leaves three daugh-ters, 10 grandchildren and numerous friends.

Cooper

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Bearden Middle School held its annual fashion show this year in celebration of becoming an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program school. The theme “Faces Around the World” included holidays such as Black Friday and Veterans Day and countries around the world including Greece. A formalwear pageant served as the fi nale.

Using her parent’s shirt, Charli Crawford explains the process

of turning a T-shirt into a book bag like the one she uses at

school. Photos by S. Barrett

Virginia Downing makes pancakes with Trader Jo’s brand mix,

water, an egg and cinnamon “for a little taste.” Her mom taught

her how to cook on a griddle about two years ago.

Erin Rogers demonstrates

how to draw “a simple struc-

ture of a wolf,” which she says

is loosely based on the shape

of a dragon.

Aidan Vaughan makes his famous berry-yogurt smoothie and

pours samples for everyone.

Haley Smith, Anna Duff ey and Sydney Redd dress as citizens of ancient Greece. Photos submitted

EmaLee Thackston, Will Eggleston and Sydney Redd model

during the formalwear portion of the fashion show.

Bearden Middle School’s

annual fashion show

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In order to participate, students simply signed up.

“Some of these children hardly speak in class,” said teacher Lisa Wallace. “Then they are in the fashion show, and they literally blossom afterward.”

Admission sales help purchase items for the school. Past purchases have included lighting for the au-ditorium and uniforms for the volleyball team.

■ ‘How to’ at Bearden ElementaryBearden Elementary

School’s 4-H members pre-sented “how to” demonstra-tions at this month’s meet-ing.

Students were very cre-ative when coming up with subjects, including how to make a jar that glows, how to make duct tape fl owers and how to make a book bag from a T-shirt.

Each student had three minutes to present, and a few brought or made enough to give everyone a sample. Some students will move on to compete at the county level. Those who opted not to present a project were very polite audience mem-bers.

Other topics on the agen-da included the 4-H dog and cat shows and writing let-ters to members of the mili-tary as a community service project.

The following students have been named to the dean’s list at the University of the South for the Advent 2014 term:

Martha Overton Dinwiddie, daughter of Anita and George L. Dinwiddie III; Alexandra Lindsay Ewan, daugh-ter of Mebane Jackson; Landon Morris Manning, son of Kimberly L. Morris and Rickey D. Manning; Alan Hill Shattuck, son of Christie E. Peace and Deaver T. Shattuck; and Jeffrey Trey Byrd, son of Dena and Jeffrey N. Byrd.

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By Betsy PickleThe Oscars may be

drawing the bulk of atten-tion from movie lovers this weekend, but theaters have to keep selling popcorn. Three fi lms are opening in wide release Friday.

Kevin Costner continues what feels like a comeback with “McFarland, USA.” With “Black or White” still getting love at the box of-fi ce, Costner piles on with this inspirational fi lm based on a true story.

Costner plays Jim White, a disgraced high-school football coach who winds up in a small town in Cali-fornia, teaching P.E. and science in a primarily His-panic school.

As he and his family try to deal with culture shock,

he notices that several boys at school are exception-ally fast runners, and he recruits them for a cross-country team.

Scoffed at by their better-funded competitors, the team trains hard and heads for a fi nale that won’t be a surprise for anyone who’s ever seen an inspirational sports movie. Maria Bello also stars in the fi lm di-rected by Niki Caro (“Whale Rider”).

The hot tub and many of the cast members are back, but not John Cusack in “Hot Tub Time Machine 2,” the sequel to the 2010 hit.

The characters seek out the mysterious hot tub once more to go back in time when one of their own is shot. Adam Scott, Rob

Corddry, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, Chevy Chase, Thomas Lennon and Gil-lian Jacobs star for director Steve Pink, also returning.

“The DUFF” delves into high-school life and a twist on “Mean Girls.”

A high school senior de-cides not to take it when she discovers that the student body has labeled her the DUFF – Designated Ugly Fat Friend – to her more at-tractive friends.

She tries to reinvent her-self and upend the social pecking order at her school, starting with taking down the queen bee.

Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell, Nick Eversman, Ken Jeong and Allison Janney star for di-rector Ari Sandel.

Coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) encourages his team in “McFarland, USA.”

Oscar alternatives

The bookies aren’t as busy as with the Super Bowl, and the list isn’t as long as the Grammys, but the 87th Academy Awards, airing this Sunday night on ABC, should draw one of the biggest TV crowds of the year.

Controversy always in-trigues an audience, and “American Sniper” – nomi-nated for six Oscars – has stoked one fi re after anoth-er. Between the critics’ pans and the divide between viewers, Clint Eastwood’s omission from the best di-rector nominations, the real-life debate over Chris Kyle’s achievements during wartime and the real-life trial now deciding the fate of Kyle’s killer, “American Sniper” has become the most interesting subplot of the Oscars.

It may even be more in-teresting than the show itself. Nominated for Best Picture along with “Bird-man or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “Boy-hood,” “The Grand Buda-pest Hotel,” “The Imita-tion Game,” “Selma,” “The Theory of Everything” and “Whiplash,” “American Sniper” isn’t seen as a con-tender.

The race is between “Boyhood” and “Birdman.” As clever and well-made as “Birdman” is, nothing is cleverer or better made this year than “Boyhood.” “Boy-hood” pushes the boundar-ies of fi lmmaking in dozens of ways, and its gamble re-sults in a beautiful, compel-ling story.

Best Actor (female): Nominees are Marion Co-

Pickle picks the Oscars

tillard, “Two Days, One Night”; Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”; Ju-lianne Moore, “Still Alice”; Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”; Reese Witherspoon, “Wild.”

This is a fantastic line-up, but the only name that counts is Moore’s. This is her third nomination for lead – she’s also been nomi-nated twice for supporting. Hollywood loves her; the public loves her. She’s get-ting the gold.

Best Actor (male): Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”; Brad-ley Cooper, “American Snip-er”; Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”; Mi-chael Keaton, “Birdman”; Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything.”

It’s a phenomenal fi eld, but an old favorite is poised to win. While this is only the fi rst nomination for Keaton, he is a talented and beloved star seemingly making a comeback in an “arty” fi lm about an actor making a comeback. Life will imitate art.

Best Supporting Actor (female): Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”; Laura Dern, “Wild”; Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”; Emma Stone, “Birdman”; Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods.”

This worthy list also has a frontrunner, and – amaz-ingly – it isn’t Streep, who

already has one support-ing and two lead Oscars from 18 previous nomina-tions. Early accolades have overwhelmingly favored Arquette, whose work in “Boyhood” is complex and controlled. The journeyman star will fi nally get her due.

Best Supporting Ac-tor (male): Robert Duvall, “The Judge”; Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”; Edward Nor-ton, “Birdman”; Mark Ruf-falo, “Foxcatcher”; J.K. Sim-mons, “Whiplash.”

This may be the most suspenseful race of all the major categories. Eachnominee is impressive, but the two generating the most excitement are Ruffalo and Simmons. Ruffalo was nom-inated previously for “The Kids Are All Right,” and he’s terrifi c in “Foxcatcher.” Simmons is a newbie in the Oscar world, but the man has done everything from the creepiest of convicts to the most lovable of father fi gures. His tough-guy act in “Whiplash” is a sight to be-hold, and Oscar voters will want to reward him here for a lifetime of greatness.

Best Director: Alejan-dro G. Inarritu, “Birdman”; Richard Linklater, “Boy-hood”; Bennet Miller, “Fox-catcher”; Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Ho-tel”; Morten Tyldum, “The Imitation Game.”

Not a weak spot here, but only one spent 12 years making a fi lm that turned out to be a masterpiece. Can’t wait to see Richard Linklater – the man who directed the classic “Dazed and Confused” – pick up the Oscar for “Boyhood.”

Patricia Ar-

quette plays

the mom of

Ellar Coltrane

in “Boyhood,”

nominated for

six Academy

Awards.

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■ Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey presents “Built To

Amaze” at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker

Jr. Ave. Showtimes: 7 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m.

Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: Coliseum Box Offi ce,

215-8999.

FRIDAY ■ Antonin Dvořák’s “Stabat Mater” performance by the

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Tennessee The-

atre, 604 S. Gay St. Part of the Moxley Carmichael Master-

works Series. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444; KSO

box offi ce: 291-3310.

SATURDAY ■ The Black Jacket Symphony performs The Beatles’

“Abbey Road,” 8 p.m., Bijou Theater, 803 S. Gay St. Tickets:

$27.50 plus applicable service fees. Info/tickets: http://www.

knoxbijou.com.

SUNDAY ■ “Hollywood’s Night Out” presented by Young Variety at

Regal Entertainment Group’s Riviera 8 Downtown. Watch the

Oscar’s live on Regal’s big screen. Doors open 7 p.m. Tickets:

$35. Tickets: Fandango Online or the Regal Riviera Box Offi ce.

Proceeds go to Variety of Eastern Tennessee’s Kids on the Go!

Program. Info: Variety of Eastern Tennessee on Facebook.

■ Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra Winter Concerts:

4:30 p.m. featuring four of the fi ve Youth Orchestras and

7 p.m. featuring the top Youth Orchestra with solos by

the Concerto Competition winners 8th grader Autumn

Arsenault, piano and Farragut High School sophomore Jerry

Zhou, cello; Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Free admis-

sion.

■ Young Pianist Series Concert featuring Steven Lin, 2:30

p.m., Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music

Center, 1741 Volunteer Blvd. UT campus. Tickets at the door

or online: students free, $25 adults. Info/tickets: 408-8083 or

www.youngpianistseries.com.

Did you know that Knoxville is home to 21 museums? And here’s some startling info: according to the website moretoknox-ville.com, their total annu-al attendance exceeds that of all UT home football games combined.

Painter Karla Wozniak’s 2014 “Mountain Building,” currently on display at the KMA Photo courtesy of KMA

Carol Shane

That’s a lot of art lovers!The big kahuna, of

course, is the Knoxville Museum of Art. It’s home to not only a world-class collection of visual art, but the wildly popular Alive After Five concert series, as well as the brilliant KSO Concertmaster Series of classical concerts.

Right now is a great time to visit the museum, what with the changeable weather and often gloomy skies. Is it spring? Still winter? Who knows? Put away the gardening tools and canoe for a few more weeks, anyway, and find beauty and intrigue inside the KMA.

Three local artists – two painters and one mixed-media sculptor – are cur-rently featured in “Con-temporary Focus,” an annual exhibition designed to serve as a vital means of recognizing, support-ing, and documenting the development of contempo-rary art in East Tennessee. Each year, the exhibition series features the work of artists who are living and making art in this region, and who are exploring is-sues relevant to the larger world of contemporary art.

Painter Karla Wozniak holds degrees in painting from Yale University and Rhode Island School of Design, including partici-pation in RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome, Italy. Her paintings have been exhibited all over the U.S. and in Germany. She is currently an assistant professor of painting at the University of Tennessee’s School of Art.

Anyone who enjoys the daring and vibrant use of color will love Wozniak’s densely patterned, exuber-ant works. She’s a modern-day Fauve, referring to a group of early-20th-cen-tury French Impressionist painters who used vivid palettes. Wozniak draws inspiration from nature as well as the urban land-scape.

The other featured painter, Mira Gerard, is chair and associate profes-sor in the department of art & design at East Ten-nessee State University.

From the KMA website: “Mira Gerard’s shadowy, expansive figure paintings integrate subject matter from her own video record-ings and found imagery in ways that blur the bound-aries between dream and reality.”

Gerard’s ghostly figures are sometimes gently in-tercepted by objects, as if they’re made of air. Faces are obscured, backgrounds are multi-layered, gauzy, swirling.

On her website, Gerard states, “I make paintings of the figure as a way to understand desire, which functions in my work in

part as a fantasy about be-ing both subject and mak-er.”

Mixed-media sculptor Caroline Covington’s aim is often to provoke and un-settle. She produces “works that explore notions of dis-placement, mortality and chance,” according to the KMA website. In addition to her studio practice, Cov-ington is assistant profes-sor of sculpture at Chat-tanooga State Community College.

Covington says, “My cur-rent work exposes the anxi-eties and apprehensions felt towards the myths of the past and the uncertain-ties of the future through interactive installations incorporating found and fabricated objects, perfor-mance, video and monu-mental structures. As view-

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Contemporary

I love seafood, so seeing a type I have never tried be-fore on the menu at Bistro by the Tracks made my din-ner selection an easy one. Grilled cobia turned out to be a fi rm and meaty fi sh with such a delicious and mild fl avor that I cleaned my plate in no time.

Cobia, according to some quick Internet research, is sometimes called black kingfi sh or black salmon, which is something of a mystery as it isn’t anything like kingfi sh or salmon and

The fi rm and delicious cobia is the star of this dish at Bistro by

the Tracks. Photo by Mystery Diner

Plate it

Bistro by the Tracks

Mystery Diner

isn’t black. It’s a saltwater fi sh, and most of the sup-ply for restaurants comes from aqua-farms. Cobia’s mild fl avor makes it a chef’s favorite at high-end restau-rants.

The cobia at Bistro by the Tracks is served with Anson Mills’ Farro Verde – another menu item that sent me to the Internet – and pickled vegetables, thinly sliced radishes, lemon and arugula. Farro is simply an Italian name for emmer wheat. It has a slightly nutty taste, can have a smoky fl avor and is cooked soft, but still with a slight crunch. It is rather

like risotto, but not as soft.The sauce is the perfect

complement to the whole dish. The key is starting at the top layer and mak-ing sure your fork goes all the way to the bottom of the plate, getting a little of every component into each bite.

Just eat it. The combina-tion of the cobia, the tang of the pickled vegetables and the farro verde will make

this one of your favorite dishes. If you love seafood, you’ll go back to Bistro by the Tracks for this one.

Bistro by the Tracks, 215 Brookview Centre Way, is located off Northshore

Drive in the center behind Walgreens and the former TGI Friday’s restaurant. Go now, and then return for lunch when they open their beautiful patio.

ers consider the work and the narratives therein, a sense of dread stirs both memories and premoni-tions, fueling fears and dis-rupting intimacy.”

So, some uncomfortable feelings may arise. But what better place to ex-plore and expand than in an art museum?

“Contemporary Focus” runs through April 19 at the Knoxville Museum of Art, just off 11th Street at 1050 World’s Fair Park. For more information, includ-ing other current exhibits, visit knoxart.org or call 525-6101.Send story suggestions to news@

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to fellow members of the Rotary Club of Bearden at a recent meeting.

Diatikar, an Oak Ridge native who has been a Ro-tarian since 1999, works for CVS, and, in answer to a question, said he thinks the chain’s recent and highly-publicized de-cision to stop selling tobacco products at its 7,800 locations has boosted sales.

He also told the group that because of the huge vol-ume of business CVS phar-macies handle, “If you just drive up to the window and expect to get your prescrip-tion immediately, you’ll probably be out of luck. We may be handling 200 other prescriptions right then. You need to call ahead.

We’re not McDonald’s.”In answer to another

question, Diatikar acknowl-edged that sometimes drugs cost less in other countries. “They don’t have the ex-pense of research and devel-opment that we have, they

don’t have the market-ing expense we have, and their government puts a cap on the cost of drugs. In short,

they have socialized medicine.”

Diatikar said it takes about 12 years in this coun-try from when development of a new drug begins to the time it actually hits the market. The average cost of bringing a new drug to market is $350 million. An-nually, some $12.6 billion is spent on new drug develop-

ment in the U.S.

He urged his audi-ence to work with their physicians to make certain that p r e s c r i p -tions and

over-the-counter drugs are compatible and being used correctly.

“Drugs are not there to play with. They’re there to get you going and to keep you stabilized.”

He added that pharma-cists are required by law to counsel anyone who comes in with a new prescription and wants advice. “We’re al-ways there, and we’re there to help you.”

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By Alvin NanceMargaret Bowling, 86, is

proof that you are never too old to fi nd your passion. She published her fi rst novel two years ago and completed her second, “Mountain Glory,” last year.

The Northgate Terrace resident has been invited to bring her newest novel to the KCDC board of commis-sioners meeting when every commissioner will be given a book purchased by Knox-ville’s Community Develop-ment Corporation.

In just a few months, Bowling already has sold more than 100 books, even though she never picked up a pen to write until she retired and began crafting stories in spiral notebooks.

Both novels center on an-cestors who lived in Scott County in a small commu-nity called Norma in the late 1800s. The fi rst book, “Mountain Refuge,” focuses on the childhood and early life of her great-grandfa-

Bowling fi nds purpose in writingNews from Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation (KCDC)

Terri Evans (left) and Alvin Nance (right) have their copies of

“Mountain Glory” signed by author Margaret Bowling at a

book signing at Northgate Terrace.

ther, Will Wilson. The 254-page sequel follows Wilson as he raises his children and also tells the story of the Wilson family’s friends and neighbors. This book is about twice as long as Bowl-ing’s fi rst effort.

Bowling said the second book was fun to write, be-cause she had reached the

point where she was writing about people she knew fi rst-hand, such as her grand-mother, Nancy Wilson, who is a child in this book.

Publishing was the hard-est part of the process. She wrote “Mountain Glory” in a few months, but it took nearly two years to publish. Her hard work paid off, be-

cause both books now are available on Amazon in both print and digital forms.

Bowling has received a great response from Scott County folks. To her, that’s the best part of writing this book.

“I’m meeting a lot of new people,” Bowling said. “I never dreamed I’d have so many friends.”

Bowling has lived at Northgate Terrace for more than 25 years and has cer-tainly been one of our most engaging residents.

“We are very proud to have a published author,” said Terri Evans, Northgate Terrace senior asset man-ager. “KCDC staff and resi-dents are eagerly awaiting the next edition to see what happens next to Will Wilson and his family.”

They won’t have to wait long. Bowling says she’s already well on her way in writing her third novel. Alvin Nance is executive director and

CEO of KCDC.

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By Sherri Gardner HowellWhen your restaurant’s

name is Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, you need some expla-nations to get potential cus-tomers to a “family friendly” frame of mind.

Martin Fayette with Bad Daddy’s, 11683 Parkside Drive, even included an ex-planation of the new restau-rant’s name when address-ing the Farragut Beer Board on Feb. 12.

The board approved his request for a Class-1, On-Premise beer permit.

Fayette says the fran-chised business, which is opening on March 9, start-ed in Charlotte, N.C., as Big Daddy’s Burger Bar. When the company began to grow, there were some confl icts with another restaurant over the name, so the owner

changed it to Bad Daddy’s.“He wanted to keep the

same general feeling, so he chose Bad Daddy’s,” says Fayette. “What we are, however, is a gourmet burger restaurant with the best burger you will ever eat. Everything is done in-house. Our burgers are 50 percent brisket and 50 per-cent ground chuck. We are a non-smoking establishment and sell a lot of kids’ meals. We are very family friendly.”

Even the beer isn’t what the Bad Daddy’s name might conjure, says Fayette. “We especially cater to craft beers and are meeting with local craft beer providers for this location.”

Outside of North Caro-lina, Bad Daddy’s now has restaurants in Denver and Greenville, S.C. Fayette says

By Bonny C. MillardTennessee Speaker of

the House Beth Harwell spoke to the Rotary Club of Knoxville about her time in the state legislature and answered questions about the recent failed health in-surance bill, gun control, outside interests and other issues.

With more than two-thirds of the state’s bud-get allocated to education, health and social services, the health care costs con-tinue to skyrocket, she said.

Harwell said the fi nan-cial burden placed on the state years ago, when the TennCare program was ex-panded in a similar man-ner, probably factored into the legislative committee’s decision to vote against Gov. Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal.

Insure Tennessee would have extended coverage to low-income residents who are not eligible for TennCare, the state’s ver-sion of Medicaid, and are unable to afford their own insurance.

The governor’s proposal received mixed reviews, Harwell said, adding that committee members had several concerns, includ-

ing placing more burden on smaller businesses. Another issue was lack of a written agreement detailing the plan Haslam had worked out with the federal gov-ernment to share the load for the expanded coverage. Harwell said she thinks some committee members were leery that the federal government wouldn’t live up to its agreement.

The committee’s vote against the proposal effec-tively killed it for two years. As a result, more than a quarter of a million people were excluded from the program. Harwell said she thinks the issue will be re-visited.

During her presentation, Harwell said she asks legis-lators to consider three key questions before they vote on a bill: does it increase the size of government, does it make it easier to own and operate a business in Ten-nessee and does it keep the state moving forward in educational reform.

Harwell, who has served in the Tennessee House of Representatives since 1988, is the fi rst female Speaker of the House. She is a potential candidate for governor in 2018.

By Anne HartPharmacists, along with

many other professionals, have seen their business change dramatically over the last few years.

There are more regula-tions, more governmental entities overseeing the de-velopment, regulation and dispensing of drugs, and continually increasing num-bers of individuals seeking to abuse the system to sup-port their drug habits.

Longtime local pharma-cist Roy Diatikar explained today’s pharmacy business

FARRAGUT CHAMBER EVENTS

■ Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2-3

p.m., groundbreaking,

American Family Care, 9203

Kingston Pike.

■ Thursday, Feb. 19, 5-6:30

p.m., networking, Archer’s

BBQ Knoxville West, 10205

Kingston Pike.

■ Friday, Feb. 20, 10-11 a.m.,

ribbon-cutting, Kendall Inves-

tigations, 11167 Kingston Pike.

■ Monday, Feb. 23, 10-11 a.m.,

ribbon-cutting, Hurricane

Grill & Wings, 319 Lovell Road.

■ Wednesday, Feb. 25, 4-5

p.m., ribbon-cutting, I Love

Juice Bar, The Pinnacle at

Turkey Creek, 11681 Parkside

Drive.

■ Thursday, Feb. 26, 8-9:30

a.m., networking, Dale Skid-

more Agency, 10816 Kingston

Pike.

Rotarian and state Rep. Martin Daniel talks with House Speaker

Beth Harwell. Photo by Bonny C. Millard

Bad Daddy’s gets beer

board approvalthat within the franchise agreement here they will be looking at other locations in East Tennessee, South Car-olina and Georgia.

The Farragut restaurant, which is in the old Mr. Gat-ti’s on Parkside Drive, will be open Sundays through Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Also approved was a beer permit for AC Band Restau-rant and Lounge, 155 West End Ave., which will be in the old Oskie’s location.

The Speaker has the fl oor

The soaring costs of drug R&D

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By Anne HartMary Beth Ramey is

quick to praise the existing membership of the Knox-ville Association of Women Executives (KAWE), but at the same time she wants to bring in new blood to rein-vigorate the organization, which was founded more than 30 years ago.

“We have a wealth of ma-ture professional women in KAWE. One of my goals is to bring in new members – young professionals. These are the women with fami-lies, with young children – the super moms. I want to reach them.

“I want to introduce KAWE to these young pro-fessional women who have a desire to build both profes-sional and social relation-ships with other executive women.” Ramey says KAWE is a great place to create those important relationships.

If anyone knows how to reach goals and how to mo-

tivate oth-ers to reach theirs, it is Ramey. Her own profes-sional back-ground pro-vides clear evidence.

The new K A W E

president, who is chief de-velopment offi cer of the Vol-unteer Ministry Center, is a graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a degree in sociology. She has more than 30 years of combined government, legal and nonprofi t experi-ence.

Before joining the staff at VMC, she was the develop-ment and special events di-rector at Knox Area Rescue Ministries.

Before that, she spent

some 20 years working in Knox County government, fi rst as an administrator in the Knox County law direc-tor’s offi ce, and later as chief deputy in the Knox County Circuit, Civil Sessions and Juvenile Court Clerk’s of-fi ce.

In addition to her work with KAWE, Ramey is active in other areas of the com-munity. She is a member of the Optimist Club of Knox-ville, where she has served as a vice president and board member, and is also a member of Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church where she is involved with Women on Missions.

Ramey and her husband of 38 years, Mark Ramey, have two sons, Michael and David, both of whom are married and live in Knoxville, and two grand-children, Kaitlin and Con-nor.

BIZ NOTES ■ Kevin S. Proffi tt, CFP, manag-

ing director

of Northwest-

ern Mutual

in Franklin

Square, was

recognized for

a top district

offi ce, among

240 offi ces

nationwide,

in recruiting,

retention of

fi nancial reps, offi ce growth

and high level of client satis-

faction. The Knoxville offi ce

plans to hire eight full-time

fi nancial reps this year and 15

college interns.

■ Mark Pancratz, fi nancial rep-

resentative for

Northwestern

Mutual, was

recognized as

the leading

fi rst year rep

among 60 in

Middle and

East Tennes-

see. Pancratz

placed fi fth

in production

among all new reps in the

Southeast United States. A

former assistant basketball

coach for the University of

Tennessee, he is a local sports

analyst and has a podcast

called “Coaches Corner.”

■ Andrew King, fi nancial

advisor with

Northwestern

Mutual, was

recognized for

leading Mid-

dle and East

Tennessee in

acquiring new

clients among

160 fi nancial

representa-

tives during

2014.

■ Business Network Inter-

national’s (BNI) newest

Knoxville Chapter, Elite

Professionals, is holding its

grand opening kickoff 3-5

p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at

Gettysvue Country Club, 9317

Linksvue Drive. To attend this

free event, call 898-5000 or

email [email protected]

for reservations.

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Elite Realty is celebrat-ing 22 years of service to the community. Co-owners Andy Mason and Karen Bradshaw held a Knoxville Area Association of Realtors (KAAR) awards luncheon Feb. 10 to acknowledge the accomplishments of Award of Excellence recipients for 2014.

Awards given: Andy Ma-son – Diamond; Shirley Jones, Tausha Price, Aaron Newman and Terri Rose – Gold; Donna Beasley – Sil-ver.

“We are not a big corpo-ration. People come to us because they feel they get more personal attention,” said Bradshaw. “We feel blessed that the community has supported us through the years. Without them we

Elite Realty staff : (seated) owner Andy Mason, Realtor Aaron

Newman; (standing) owner Karen Bradshaw, Realtors Shirley

Jones and Tausha Price. Not pictured: Donna Beasley, Terri

Rose. Photo submitted

Elite Realty marks 22 years McGarvey

This prosthetic hand, L-N 4, is available for just $50.

McGarvey talks handsBy Sandra Clark

Allen Wilhoit got a s t r a n g e phone call. A man he didn’t know, John Mc-Garvey, was coming to K n o x v i l l e to volun-teer with R e m o t e

Area Medical. Could he also speak to the North Knox-ville Rotary?

Come on, said Wilhoit.McGarvey brought the

message of the L-N 4 hand, the invention of Ernie Meadows to memorialize his daughter, Ellen, who died in an automobile acci-dent at age 18.

No one profi ts from pro-duction of the hand, which is distributed by Rotary Clubs and others through the Ellen Meadows Pros-thetic Hand Foundation. The only requirement is that recipients do not pay.

In fact, McGarvey said, a donation of $50 will cover production and shipping to a volunteer who then takes the hand to someone in need.

“This is not a medicaldevise,” he said, passingaround a sample.

Anyone in this roomcould fi t these.” The handscome in two sizes: adult andchild.

McGarvey sells insur-ance in Illinois. He and hiswife decided to give back apercent of each commis-sion, and that’s how they gotinvolved with RAM. Nowthey travel as RAM volun-teers.

“You meet some won-derful people through this(volunteer effort),” he said.“There’s no paperwork. Phe-nomenal people volunteerwith RAM.”

He refused to be defen-sive about the plastic hand’slook.

It wasn’t designed to lookgreat. It’s functional andrecipients are delighted, hesaid.

Is there a need for hands?Yes, McGarvey said.

Hands are lost through ac-cidents, acts of violence,land mines and congenitalconditions.

Want to help?Check out LN-4.org or

write to [email protected]

wouldn’t be here.”Elite Realty handles

commercial, land and resi-

dential sales.Info: 110 Legacy View

Way, 947-5000.

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB February 18, 2015

NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a regional referral hospital where other facilities

REGIONAL EXCELLENCE.

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After six weeks of inpa-

tient care and a year of

outpatient treatment at

Patricia Neal Rehabilita-

tion Center, Chris Taylor

celebrated his “gradu-

ation” from rehab with

staff . Taylor’s experience

encouraged him to

return with his three

daughters to PNRC

and hand out cards to

patients on Christmas

Eve. Now, thanks to

his treatment from the

Wound Care Center and

HBO Therapy at Fort

Sanders Regional, along

with PNRC, Taylor is get-

ting back to his old self,

including playing drums

at church.

He gained ‘friends for life,’ after life-threatening infectionIn 2013, Chris Taylor, now 45,

was working as a probation pa-role officer in Claiborne County, driving more than an hour each way to his home in Mascot, Tenn.

“I was getting up at 5 a.m. to be there by 7 and getting home at 8 o’clock at night. I was so tired from working and driving,” Taylor said. “Probably looking back on it, I was more fatigued than I thought I was.”

That fatigue caught up with him after he mowed his lawn in late May of 2013. He awoke the next morning with his left foot swollen and painful.

“I treated it like gout for a week, and then on June 1, I got what I thought was a back spasm. I was in so much pain I went to the emergency room at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center,” Taylor said.

The staff took a blood sample and found Taylor had an infec-tion of Staphylococcus bacteria, commonly known as “Staph,” not only in his left foot, but around the base of his spine where he’d had a previous surgery. The in-fection was life-threatening.

“I was in kidney and liver fail-ure. They told me I would have died in a few days,” said Taylor.

Strong antibiotics were not successful in battling the infec-tion, so Dr. G. Douglas Schuch-mann performed two surgeries to remove the infection from Taylor’s left foot.

Taylor spent about four weeks at Fort Sanders, then another six weeks at Patricia Neal Rehabili-tation Center. He was a resident there for six weeks and an out-patient for about a year.

“Everyone at Fort Sanders and Patricia Neal has been amazing. I hadn’t spent a whole lot of time in hospitals, but they were all real nice to me. I wouldn’t have want-ed to be anywhere else,” said Tay-lor. “They called me the ‘mayor of Four-East,’ I was there so long.”

After Taylor was released from inpatient care at Patri-

Skin substitutes help wound healingThe body’s ability to heal itself is

remarkable. Most of the time, cuts and tears in the skin will heal with-in four weeks, even if they leave a scar.

However, many factors can in-hibit healing. Poor oxygen flow, bacterial infections, age and sex hormones, stress, diabetes, obesi-ty, medications, alcoholism, smok-ing, and nutrition can each inhibit the body’s ability to heal wounds.

Fort Sanders Wound Treatment Center offers a number of thera-pies for patients whose wounds do

not heal on their own. One of them, a new “skin substitute,” can pro-vide a healing barrier for the skin.

Called EpiFix, it’s a biological product, meaning it’s made from live human tissue. In this case, it’s human amniotic membrane from real human placentas. They are chosen from women who are healthy, then the membranes are separated, processed, sterilized and freeze-dried for medical use.

“It’s collagen, so it provides a framework for wound healing, plus the amniotic membrane is not re-

jected by the body like most other tissues. It has immunosuppressant properties,” said Dr. G. Douglas Schuchmann, a surgeon and medi-cal director of the Fort Sanders Wound Treatment Center.

The center has been using Epi-Fix for about three months with impressive results, Schuchmann said.

“It can be put on easily in the clinic,” he said. “It’s almost like a piece of tape. You activate it with saline and it just sticks down, so it’s a very simple and painless ap-

plication. And it just really increas-es healing times.

“We’re pretty excited about it,” said Schuchmann. “It’s not a new product per se, but we are getting a better feel for it.”

A number of biological tissues are used for below the knee, but EpiFix can be used anywhere on the body, Schuchmann said.

“Whether it’s applied in surgery or at Fort Sanders Wound Treat-ment Center, EpiFix is probably the best of the biologics and most helpful for our patients,” he said.

cia Neal Rehabilitation Center,he received hyperbaric oxygen(HBO) therapy to speed healingof his foot and strong antibioticsto treat his spinal infection.

Five times each week, Taylorwas wheeled to the HBO thera-py center to spend an hour in abody-sized oxygen tube.

“I’m extremely claustropho-bic,” said Taylor. “So the firstday, I freaked out, and theycalled Dr. Schuchmann. Hecame in and he took me by thehand and said, ‘Chris, it’s goingto be OK. I need you to do this.’Like my grandfather was talkingto me. He said, ‘I’ll be here whenyou get out.’ And when I got out,he was standing right there.”

Over the course of weeks, Tay-lor’s wounds slowly got better.

“They thought I would be ina wheelchair the rest of my life,but I kept progressing,” he said.

“Patricia Neal RehabilitationCenter tried to prepare me for lifebeing a paraplegic, and they did agreat job of that, learning to usemy upper body to get in and outof the chair. But my hard headwouldn’t believe it. After outpa-tient therapy for almost a year,I’ve gotten to where I walk witha cane, and around the house Iwalk without it,” he said.

“I have three girls to walkdown the aisle at some point!”said Taylor. “I may never runany marathons, but I’ve beenplaying drums at my church. Mygoal is to continue to improve.

“I’d like to thank everyone atFort Sanders, the HBO therapyteam and Patricia Neal Rehabili-tation Center. They are amaz-ing people with amazing hearts.They are people that I’ll prob-ably be friends with for life. I’drecommend them to anyone. Inmy mind it’s the best place inEast Tennessee for care.”

For more information about the services offered at

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, go to fsregional.com.

G. Douglas

Schuchmann, MD

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chett held a press conference in the Oakwood Elementary School parking lot on a dismal January morning in 2012 to announce that he would try one last time to fi nd a developer willing to take on the project of rescuing the abandoned, century-old building – broken win-dows, collapsed roof, sagging ceil-ings, crumbling walls and all.

Neighbors, some of whom were Oakwood alumni, didn’t hold out much hope for the old school, al-though Burchett said he’d issue a Request for Proposals and give his-toric preservationists another 30 days to help fi nd an angel.

Today, the former Oakwood School at 232 E. Churchwell Avenue is buzzing with activity as construc-tion workers and carpenters put the fi nal touches on Oakwood Senior Living, slated to open in late March. The facility, which retains its origi-nal façade, will house 63 assisted living and memory care suites and

provide a full array of services in-cluding a nursing staff, recreation-al and social activities programs, transportation, three meals a day, medication management and more.

The new entrance will be through the former gym, transformed into a spacious, high-ceilinged room with a big chandelier, seating for group or individual activities and a bar for residents and guests. (Yes, there will be beer. Red Oak, anyone?)

The suites are former class-rooms, ranging from 350 to 600 square feet. Each features one or more huge windows and some have small kitchenettes. The memory care apartments will be secured from other units with a higher care staff ratio. Monthly rates range from $2,895– $3,995, and rooms can be shared to reduce cost.

The new owner of the building, Dover Development, is headed by Rick Dover, a longtime builder/de-veloper who combined his interest in historic preservation with the ex-periences he had several years ago

while looking for care for his grand-father. The architect is Daniel Levy and the designer is his wife, Kendall Levy.

Dover’s fi rst repurposing proj-ects were at River Oaks Place and Lakewood Place (the fi rst Loudon Hospital) in Loudon County, and then the former Lenoir City High School, which is now River Oaks Place of Lenoir City. Dover added the historic Alexander Inn in Oak Ridge to his portfolio, and it is on track to be completed at much the same time as Oakwood.

All of the previously mentioned Dover projects are assisted living/memory care communities, but the next big undertaking, Historic Knoxville High School, scheduled to come online in late 2016, will be an independent living/ mixed use complex with residential units and small businesses. Northshore Senior Living in West Knoxville will serve both assisted living and memory care communities in new construction.

Dover Development contracts with Senior Solutions Management Group to manage its communities, and the executive director of Oak-wood Senior Living, Amy Wise, is a licensed practical nurse who was a student at Oakwood Elementary School. Wise has spent her career in assisted living and says that there’s considerable interest in Oakwood Senior Living (three suites are al-ready reserved, with a fourth res-ervation expected by the end of last week).

To schedule a tour, call 865-363-5950.

The former gymnasium will

be completely redone as an

entryway/commons area with

bar. Architect’s rendering

At Oakwood Senior Living

Want to get a look at Oakwood

Senior Living and have some bar-

beque, too? Come for lunch 11

a.m.-1 p.m., Thursday, March 26.

The cost is $7 and all proceeds

will go to Meals on Wheels.

Zeke is a 4-year-old male

Pit Bull Terrier mix, Eva

is a 5-year-old female

Persian mix and Mary is

a 4-month-old female

American Rabbit mix. All

three are available for

adoption from Young-

Williams Animal Center’s

3201 Division St. loca-

tion, and each animal has

been spayed or neutered,

vaccinated and micro-

chipped. Info: www.

young-williams.org.

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THROUGH SATURDAY, FEB. 28

“Buy One, Get One Free” admission tickets available for Knoxville Zoo. Tickets can be purchased at the zoo ticket window during regular zoo hours. Info: 637-5331, ext. 300 or knoxvillezoo.org.

CLO Arts Academy for Kids art exhibition, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Pre-sented by the Knox County Public Defender’s Commu-nity Law Offi ce (CLO). Features art work by children ages kindergarten through fi fth grade.

Free admission to the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center in Townsend, near the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and is closed on Sunday. Info: www.gsmheritagecenter.org.

THROUGH SUNDAY, MARCH 8

Call for entries for the next “Arts in the Airport,” a juried exhibition to run April 16 to Oct. 7 at McGhee Tyson Airport. Info/applications: www.knoxalliance.com/air-port_entry.html or send an SASE to Suzanne Cada, Arts & Culture Alliance, PO Box 2506, Knoxville, TN 37901.

THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 27

Call for local authors of children’s books for “Farragut Book Fest for Children” to be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Founders Park at Campbell Station. $25 fee includes tent, table, two chairs and lunch at the event; authors will supply their books, decorations and signage. No fee: bring own set-up materials, which must include a tent fi tting a 10'x10' space. Info/to register: www.townoffarragut.org/register and click the Programs tab; Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive; 966-7057.

THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 10

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

THROUGH MAY 20

Applications accepted for the Great Smoky Mountains Trout Adventure Camp for middle school girls and boys, sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Trout Unlimited to be held June 15-20 at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info/applications: http://www.tntroutadventure.org.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18

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

Robert Earl Keen with The Doyle & Debbie Show, 8 p.m., Bijou Theater, 803 S. Gay St. Info/tickets: http://www.ticketmaster.com; http://www.knoxbijou.com.

THURSDAY, FEB. 19

Antonin Dvořák’s “Stabat Mater”

performance by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Part of the Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Series. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444; KSO box offi ce: 291-3310.

Free preview screening of “American Denial,” 6 p.m., Scruffy City Hall in Market Square. Presented by East Tennessee PBS. Info: http://www.easttennesseepbs.org/news-and-events/community-cinema/.

“Read the Packet: a key factor for successful seed starting,” 3:15-4 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Knox County Master Garden-ers. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

THURSDAYS-SATURDAYS, FEB. 19-28

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” presented by the Tellico Community Players, 7:30 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Additional performance: 3 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $20; available at Village Salon, Salon Anew and The Tellico Village Yacht Club in Loudon and Kahite Pub & Grille in Vonore; or at the door. Info: http://tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

THURSDAY, FEB. 19-SUNDAY, MARCH 8

Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Clarence Brown Theatre Mainstage. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. “Deaf Night at the Theatre,” 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3. Tickets: box offi ce, 974-5161; Tickets Unlimited, 656-4444; www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. Info: www.clarencebrowntheatre.com or Clarence Brown Theatre on Facebook.

FRIDAY, FEB. 20

Alive After Five concert: Wallace Coleman Band, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Opening reception for Ewing Gallery Student Art Competition, 7-9 p.m., Ewing Gallery of Art & Architec-ture, 1715 Volunteer Blvd. On exhibit through March 1. Info: 974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, FEB. 20-22

46th Jubilee Festival, Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Featuring old styles of fi ddle, banjo, string bands, sacred music, early country and historical ballads and Epworth Old Harp Singing. Concerts, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Old Harp Singing and potluck, 10 a.m. Sunday. Cost: Friday or Saturday, $12, some discounts apply; Sunday singing and dinner, free. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Urban Gypsy Trunk Show Pop Up Event, Paulk+Co, 510 Williams St. Hours: 1-8 p.m. Friday, noon-8 p.m. Saturday, 1-6 p.m. Sunday. Info: http://www.urbangypsytrunkshow.com/#about.

SATURDAY, FEB. 21

All you can eat pancake breakfast, 8:30-10 p.m., Chili’s, 6635 Clinton Highway. Tickets: adults, $5; chil-dren 4-6, $2; children under 3, free. All proceeds benefi t Christus Victor Early Childhood Development Center education program.

Little Free Library Workshop, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Center for Creative Minds, 23 Emory Place. Hosted by A1LabArts. To register: Donna, [email protected]. Info: www.a1labarts.org.

Northside Kiwanis Club Pancake Jamboree And Bake Sale, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 544 N. Broadway. Tickets: $4 each or $10/fam-ily (up to four) available at the door. Info: Tom Mattingly, 414-6218.

Nourish Knoxville’s Winter Market, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Central UMC, 201 Third Ave. Features pasture-raised meats, eggs, winter produce, honey, baked goods, artisan foods, handmade items, food trucks and other vendors from the Market Square Farmers Market.

“Our First Ladies of the United States,” 2-3

p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Sta-tion Road. Program by Elizabeth Nelson, manager of the Fountain City Branch library. Free and open to the public. Info: 777-1750.

“Read the Packet: a key factor for successful seed starting,” 10:30 a.m.-noon, All Saints Catholic Church, 620 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Presented by Knox County Master Gardeners. Free and open to the public. Info: 215-2340.

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

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

Tennessee Stage Company New Play Festival Readings: “American Farce,” 2:30 p.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Info: 588-8813.

SUNDAY, FEB. 22

“Fostering Dreams Toward Future Suc-cess,” a free event in honor of Black History Month, 2 p.m., Farragut Folklife Museum, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Speakers in-clude Dr. Jacob Salvage, president of Knoxville Col-lege, and Shirley Clowney, collector and historian on black inventors. Info: www.townoffarragut.org/mu-seum; www.facebook.com/farragutfolklifemuseum; or Julia Barham, [email protected] or 966-7057.

McClung Museum Civil War Lecture series: “Brownlow’s Whig and Rebel Ventilator: How Not to Heal the Wounds,” 2 p.m., McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Free and open to the public. Info: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

MONDAY, FEB. 23

“Read the Packet: a key factor for successful seed starting,” 1-2 p.m., Davis Family YMCA, 12133 S. Northshore Drive. Presented by the Knox County Master Gardeners. Free; open to the public. Info: 777-9622

Technology 101: Smartphones and Tablets, 12:30-2 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free; open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

West Knox Book Club: “Defending Jacob,” 10 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Info: 588-8813.

MONDAYS, FEB. 23-MARCH 30

Zumba class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall community room, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Karen McKinney. Cost: $45. Registration/payment deadline: Monday, Feb. 23. Info/to register: 218-3375, www.townoffarragut.org/register or at Far-ragut Town Hall.

TUESDAY, FEB. 24

Computer Workshops: Word 2007 II, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215-8700.

Log Cabin Quilt Block Class, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected], myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

“Savvy Social Security Planning: What Baby Boomers Need to Know to Maximize Retirement Income” non-credit course. 6:30-8:30 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Blount County campus Full schedule of class times and locations: www.pstcc.edu/bcs. Info: 539-7167.

Winter Choral Concert featuring Karns and Heritage high school choirs, 7 p.m., Clayton Perform-ing Arts Center on Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Also includes singing by Pellissippi State’s Concert Chorale and Variations Ensemble. Info: 694-6400 or visit www.pstcc.edu/arts.

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Boats Motors 23214 FT aluminum boat

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Auto Accessories 254Antique On-Car wheel

balancer & Allen eng. analyzer, best offer. 865-376-4132

Utility Trailers 2552014 RIDGELINE

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Vans 256FORD ECONOLINE

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HONDA ODYSSEY Touring Elite 2014,

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ORTHOPEDIC EXCELLENCEPatients who undergo elective orthopedic surgeries at high-volume, regional hospitals have better surgical outcomes and experience fewer complications than those who undergo those surgeries at local hospitals.*

Ask how many joint replacement surgeries your surgeon does and trust your care to the experienced orthopedic surgeons at Parkwest.

Source: Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City) in an analysis of more than 974,000 orthopedic patients. HSS is nationally ranked in orthopedics by U.S.News & World Report and is a multi-year recipient of the HealthGrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award.

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EXPERIENCE COUNTSParkwest’s top orthopedic surgeons each average hundreds of orthopedic surgeries per year.

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Randall and Maryellen Duckett

Defi ning success differentlyParkwest orthopedic surgeon tackles rare joint disease

Randall Duckett is going to walk his youngest daughter down the aisle this spring. Just two years ago, he was wheel-chair-bound.

“It had gotten to the point at which his feet were curved at a 45-degree angle, so he couldn’t stand up and walk. He was prac-tically bent at a 90-degree angle at the waist when he did stand,” Maryellen Duckett, Randall’s wife, said. “I’ve known him since he was 22, and I can see the arc of how his joints have deterio-rated and what it can do to you.”

Randall, who is now 56, has a rare genetic joint disorder called multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED). Only 1 in 10,000 people are diagnosed with the chronic disease, a population that also includes his mother, brother and oldest daughter. MED affects the growth plates at the point where

bones meet, which causes all joints in the body to be deformed.

When he was 27 years old, Randall had his first hip replace-ment. Soon the other hip followed, and since then, he has had

another set of hips, his knees and ankles replaced and his feet operated upon at Parkwest. He is considering having his shoulders replaced in the near future.

“You hear about MED in school, but I hadn’t seen it in person before,” Paul Naylor, MD, Parkwest orthopedic surgeon,

Orthopedic excellence at Parkwest

In situations like Randall’s, attention to specifi c patient needs is essential to successful treatment and sustained progress. Park-west’s Joint and Spine Centers offer East Tennesseans of all ages and mobility levels the opportunity to improve their qualities of life. Solutions could include a joint replacement in the knees, hips or shoulders, a minimally invasive spinal fusion, or removal of her-niated or degenerative discs.

Before a joint replacement or spinal procedure, orthopedic pa-tients meet with a Parkwest educator for about two hours to learn about pain management after the operation, exercises, physical therapy and how to prepare their home for easy movement. They also receive a guidebook with information specifi c to their proce-dure and information about what to expect during recovery.

“It’s important to know what to expect,” Randall said. “These are major operations, and the more educated you are the better. The staff does an excellent job of preparing you for the day of sur-gery and what to expect afterward.”

Parkwest surgeons performed more than 1,800 joint replace-ments and more than 1,400 spinal surgeries in 2014. The orthope-dic program is led by physicians, perioperative managers, physical therapists and surgical services directors who specialize in issues with the joint and spine.

Parkwest joint replacement patientsgo directly home to recover

Most patients who have a total hip or total knee re-placement at the Parkwest Joint Center – The Retreat bypass transitional care facilities, allowing them to recover more quickly and comfortably in their own homes and regain independence sooner.

A key part of this is getting patients moving almost immediately after surgery.

“Studies confi rm that the more quickly patients begin physical therapy after a total joint replacement, the more quickly they recover,” said Dawn Cunning-ham, RN, nurse manager at Parkwest.

The Joint Center program is structured to assist patients throughout their hospital stay. Patients in the Parkwest Joint Center – The Retreat program are encouraged to bring a coach who will attend group physical therapy with them and other patients who ei-ther had a total hip or total knee replacement that day. The camaraderie of this small group setting is proven to help patients improve the results of their inpatient physical therapy.

Anyone considering joint replacement surgery may receive treatment at The Retreat if he or she is a pa-tient of an orthopedic physician who has privileges with Parkwest Medical Center. For more information, visit us online at www.TreatedWell.com/theretreat or call 865-374-PARK.

said. He has treated Randall since 1999. “People can’t know the pain Randall is feeling inter-nally, because he looks OK on the outside. I couldn’t have imagined the toll it would take when I fi rst saw him more than a decade ago.”

Because Randall’s condition is rare and complicated, Dr. Nay-lor had to take a different ap-proach to his treatment. He has done further research on MED and created a plan just for Ran-dall. “I told him that it would be a slow, relentless process that we wouldn’t rush. We’d pick our battles and get to the emotional level that is needed to go forward with each surgery,” Dr. Naylor explained.

“Having Dr. Naylor as a con-fidante and physician over the years has been invaluable to me,” Randall said. “I rely on him to understand my condition and have the patience to help me

through it. He’s always been there for me.”

For Randall, an orthopedic surgery does not mean being back on the golf course in a few days or climb-ing the stairs more easily. His goals are simpler. “Dr. Naylor and the Parkwest staff understand that success for me is measured in a different way,” he said. “It is much more complex than pop-ping in a new joint. I’ve appre-ciated that the most. They are never condescending, don’t get frustrated that I am not pro-gressing like everyone else and understand what they don’t understand. Not many others

of it,” Maryellen explained. “Hewas never going to be at the samepace as everyone else, and it saidto me that they get it, and they’resetting the bar at a different lev-el for his specific needs. Successdoesn’t look the same for every-one, and not having to live in awheelchair at this point in hislife is success.”

“It’s difficult to live with thiscondition,” Randall said. “It’svery lonely to be trapped in abody that doesn’t work like ev-eryone else’s. It helps when youhave a physician like Dr. Naylorand a facility like Parkwest to

help you cope andcontinue to be treat-ed, because you’renever going to becured.”

“What we’velearned throughthis process and ourexperience with Dr.Naylor is that evenif you have chronicorthopedic issues, you can have a bet-ter quality of life ifyou find out whatcan be done,” Mary-ellen said. “The or-thopedic surgeonsat Parkwest work tofigure out who youare and what your

goals are, then create a solutionjust for you.

“When you’re dealing with awhole body disease like his, yourquality of life will suffer. But fornow, is Randall’s quality of lifebetter than it was? Yes. Is theopportunity to feel better therenow? Yes. Parkwest has helpedhim not to be wheelchair-boundprematurely. That is a huge gift.”

Paul Naylor, MD

would take the time to ask how to figure out a puzzle like MED.”

Beyond treatment for joint pain and mobility issues, Dr. Naylor has provided a quality relationship for Randall through his disease, which can be isolat-ing. “Once I put on that white coat, I am a neutral party,” Dr. Naylor said. “We’ve developed a loyal relationship and have a sense of trust and comfort with each other. What makes being a physician fun is getting to know a patient and becoming part of his or her life. I see that as an honor.”

Additionally, Randall and Maryellen have found comfort in the staff members at the Joint Center at Parkwest, who also un-derstand the different pace at which Randall must go. “There is a chart on the wall showing the progression of each patient through the joint replacement process, and it meant a lot to me that they took Randall’s name off

Randall and his family in 2014


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