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VOL. 5, NO. 51
DECEMBER 19, 2011
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Greens Tea raises funds for Racheff HouseBy Wendy Smith
Members from across the state attended the annual Tennes-see Federation of Garden Clubs (TFGC) Greens Tea at Racheff House and Gardens on Dec. 9. The historic home was festooned with wreaths, garlands and arrange-ments crafted by the nonprofit’s board of governors. Proceeds from the sale of the greenery, along with baked goods and items from the gift shop, go toward upkeep of the house, which serves as headquar-ters for the club.
The holiday decorations were created with foliage from Beaver Creek Nursery in Powell and the gardens surrounding the house. Ivan Racheff built the home, locat-ed at 1943 Tennessee Ave., beside his factory, Knoxville Iron Works (now Gerdeau Ameristeel) in 1901. He left the house and 5-acre gar-den to the garden club upon his death in 1982.
While the property is one of Knoxville’s hidden jewels, recent f looding in the home’s basement hampered the board of governors as they prepared for the tea. The basement serves as creative head-
Members of the Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs enjoy sweets and shop-
ping at the annual Greens Tea at Racheff House and Gardens. Greens Tea chair
Ruth Ann Fowler, president-elect Ann McCormick, president Valerie Tipps, and
board of governors chair Janet Oakes were in attendance. Photo by Wendy Smith
quarters for the organization, says Elaine Clarke, a member of the Dixie Highway Garden Club. She designed a large centerpiece, featuring an underwater f loral ar-rangement, for the event.
There are four districts within the state federation, which has 3,500 members. Knoxville is lo-cated in District IV, and 22 garden clubs from Knox County are part
of the federation. The organiza-tion emphasizes service as well as education, says Carole Whited, former District IV director, and clubs that belong to the federation must be willing to work.
Whited and Linda Ford of Far-ragut are chairing TFGC’s state convention in 2013, which will be held in Knoxville during the Dogwood Arts Festival. The con-
vention and a two-day conserva-tion camp are the largest events hosted by the federation. The 2011 conservation camp was held in Beersheba Springs Assembly, near Manchester, in October.
TFGC president Valerie Tipps came from Chattanooga for the tea. The TFGC is a charter mem-ber of the National Garden Clubs, which is the largest volunteer or-ganization in the world, she says. Members of the state federation serve by working on high-profile projects, like assisting Crissy Haslam with outdoor decora-tions at Tennessee’s governor’s residence, and performing quieter tasks, like working with hospital patients in therapy gardens.
Each region of the TFGC also hosts fl ower shows, educational programs and bulb sales, she says.
Whited thinks the primary ob-jectives of the organization are to present the gifts of creation and be active in conservation. Along the way, members enjoy getting to know each other, she says.
“We learn how to grow, and we learn how to show.”
By Wendy Smith
The idea began with a 1929 video of an airplane landing at the Sutherland Avenue McGhee Tyson Airport. The runway, according to David Williams of the Pond Gap Neighborhood Association, ran from the present location of West High School to just behind the site of the Bearden Earth Fare.
The video is the fi rst of what Wil-liams hopes will be several to be digitized by Bradley Reeves of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Im-age and Sound. Reeves has agreed to digitize early fi lms and pictures of the Pond Gap area so they can be used in a history booklet produced by the association.
The neighborhood is undergoing a major transition as UT constructs intramural fi elds in the former lo-cation of the Sutherland Avenue and Golf Range Apartments. Wil-liams recently lost in an effort to save Mann Street, which served as an entrance to the apartments and dated back to the 1920s. The area around the street was the site of interracial baseball games in the 1940s and 1950s.
But he hasn’t given up on pre-serving the neighborhood’s rich history. The area is bounded by Forest Park Boulevard to the west, just south of Lonas Drive to the north, Third Creek to the east, and the railroad tracks between Suther-land Avenue and Kingston Pike to the south. Many of its former land-marks exist only in photos – and in the minds of long-time residents.
“Fortunately, we’ve got a lot of people who remember history,” he says.
They might remember when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus train would pull into town and a procession of animals and circus wagons would
proceed down Sutherland Avenue in the 1940s. For two days, the circus would operate in a tent lo-cated where West High School now stands.
Williams’ father took his mother to the circus when they were court-ing, he says.
Just across the street was a farm owned by the Underwood family, and during summers in the late 1940s and early 1950s, another tent would spring up to host revival meetings.
A few blocks west was the Knox-ville Drive-in movie theater, which was open from 1950 to 1982. A driv-ing range operated on Sutherland Avenue from 1952 to 1963 – hence the name of the apartments, which were constructed in the mid-1960s and housed married students until they were closed in 2010.
Williams is especially interested in old pictures of the pond, which is now barely visible on the west side of Hollywood Drive. He remem-bers riding his bike to Pond Gap El-ementary School along a sidewalk that was 10 feet above the level of the road. At the time, the pond was home to numerous frogs and lily pads, as well as a small sailboat.
For a short time during the 1980s, a landscaping company maintained the pond, but the prop-erty is now leased to KUB, he says, and the utility company stores pipes there.
Williams is encouraged that the city’s new mayor is an advocate for historic preservation, but he’d like to expand the idea of preservation to include sites and streets as well as structures.
He asks that anyone with early movies or photos of the Pond Gap Neighborhood contact him at 588-2268, or Bradley Reeves at 215-8856.
Preserving Pond Gap
Bill and Tommy Bean pose
with their model rockets
in 1963. Behind them is a
laundromat, which is now
home to Red Onion Pizza
and Subs. A putt-putt golf
course is on the far right.
David Williams’ mother,
Betty White, stands in
front of her home, which
is now adjacent to Straw-
berry Fields Market, in
1938. Sutherland Avenue is
behind her. Photos submitted
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to rememberMalcolm recalls a
poignant holiday
from childhood.
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Betty Bean pays tribute to Bill Tallent
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Wendy Smith visits Sequoyah gingerbread party
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Wendy Smith
Nothing captures the spirit of the season quite like 80 1st graders singing “All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth.”
Sequoyah Elementary School hosted its annual gingerbread program for parents and grandparents
Sequoyah Elementary School was decorated with gingerbread
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Sequoyah 1st graders make a joyful noise
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Barbara and Tom Maryanski after the Arthritis Foundation’s
Jingle Bell Run. Team Austin was the largest team to partici-
pate in the race for the third year in a row.
First graders at Sequoyah Elementary School sing “Rudolph” at the annual gingerbread pro-
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Heinz; (back) Lawson Oelrich, Gracie Kate Allen, Zach Sanborn, Shea Walsh and Reagan Rogers. Photos by W. Smith
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last week. The children sang seven seasonal selections under the musical supervi-sion of music teacher Doris Moreland, who has a secret for getting her students to shine on stage.
“I heard once that if you give 100 percent, you’ll get 50 percent back. So I give 200 percent.”
While 1st graders are al-ways the stars of the ginger-bread program, each grade at Sequoyah puts on a different event, says principal Martha Hill. Some of the programs relate to the curriculum, like the Around the World event, during which 3rd graders wear costumes from a coun-try they’ve researched. Oth-ers are simply traditional, like Grandparents’ Day, hosted by kindergartners.
Having a special program to look forward to each year makes the events more mem-orable for students, parents and grandparents, says Hill.
Gingerbread houses made by the 1st graders were on display during the program, and cookies and cocoa were served afterward. Perhaps it’s a good thing that the two front teeth are still missing.
Team Austin ■
does it againFor the third year in a
row, a team named in honor of West Valley Middle School student Austin Maryanski was the largest at the Ar-thritis Foundation’s Jingle Bell Run, which was held on Dec. 9.
Austin has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, but it doesn’t slow him down. He fi nished the 5K race with a time of 29:41. He stays symptom-free with an ac-tive lifestyle that includes the cross-country team at West Valley and year-round swimming with Blast in Maryville.
This year, 255 people came out to run and walk with Team Austin, in spite of the bitter wind that blew around the Market Square race site. The team was composed of family, friends and friends of friends, says Travis Maryanski, Austin’s
dad and volunteer chair of this year’s race. The team raised about $9,500 for the Arthritis Foundation.
This is the second year the Maryanskis havethanked their teammates with a chili luncheon at First Presbyterian Church, where they are members. Jennifer Maryanski, Aus-tin’s mother, says it’s im-portant to her that every-one who comes out for the race has a good time.
“We just hope they know how much it means to us.”
’Tis the season – ■
for kayakingJust because it’s a few de-
grees colder doesn’t mean the season has passed for hiking, or biking or kayaking.
River Sports Outfi tters, 2918 Sutherland Ave., is hosting evening expedi-tions for anyone hardy enough to climb out from under the covers. Social bike rides and paddles are 6-8 p.m. on alternating Thursdays, and hikes are 6-8 p.m. on Wednesdays at Ijams Nature Center, begin-ning at the Meade’s Quarry parking lot.
“It’s still tolerable to a normal person now,” says Scot Pierson, manager of the River Sports bike shop. In a few weeks, however, at-tendance will dwindle to the most avid participants. The events will continue as long as there is interest, he says.
Bicyclists can bring their own or rent from the bike shop, and River Sports will deliver kayaks to the point of departure, usually Volunteer Landing, for a rental fee. All cyclists, kayakers and hikers are required to have their own lights, which can be purchased at the store.
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MARYVILLE – The Rhine-stone Cowboy rode out in a star spangled rodeo once again, this time to say goodbye.
Rhinestone Cowboy says goodbye
Glen Campbell smiles before leaving the stage during a stop
at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville on his Goodbye
Tour last Thursday night. Campbell, who has Alzheimer’s dis-
ease, dedicated the benefi t for Alzheimer’s Tennessee to UT
women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt. Photo by Jake Mabe
Country music legend Glen Campbell, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in July, made a spe-cial stop on his Goodbye Tour last Thursday to hon-or a Tennessee legend, UT women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, who was also diagnosed with the disease this summer. The sold-out concert at the Clayton Center for the Arts was a fundraiser for Alzheimer’s Tennessee. What a perfectly poignant night.
Those who were there got a glimpse of this terri-ble disease. Campbell sang 18 songs, fi ghting a cold most of the way, but most-
ly picking his guitar and crooning like the champ he always has been. He and his daughter Ashley went right at it on “Dueling Banjos.” She’d pluck on her banjo and he’d match her, note for note, on the guitar.
But, he told the same two or three jokes two or three times. And he has notice-ably aged since I saw him in North Carolina just two years ago.
Summitt couldn’t attend because she was with her team in California, pre-paring for a game against UCLA. But she sent a vid-eo message, saying, “I am living my life and fighting this disease publicly.”
So, too, is Campbell, who wanted to sing one last time for his fans. He also brought three of his children with him on his fi nal tour.
“It’s absolutely incred-ible to get to play with your kids,” he said.
Oh, how bittersweet those Jimmy Webb songs sound-ed this time – “Galveston” and “By the Time I Get
to Phoenix” and “Wichita Lineman” and “Where’s the Playground, Susie?” I didn’t think Campbell would throw us any surprises, but
he included a lesser-known Webb gem, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”
And, oh, how bittersweet it is to see another chapter
of American music come to a close.
“I think Glen Campbell, for me, represents in mi-crocosm a connection to the past,” says longtime fan Dean Harned, who has seen the singer three times in concert. And he’s right. Campbell is a one-degree-of-separation connection to so much that’s gone now – Elvis Presley, Frank Si-natra, the Beach Boys and John Wayne.
He sang “True Grit,” the theme song from the hit 1969 fi lm in which Campbell co-starred with The Duke.
“That was really scary,” he said about being a fi rst-time actor playing opposite a Hollywood legend. “But John Wayne came in and
said, ‘My daughter likes you so you must be OK.’ ”
Campbell changed the fi -nal part of “True Grit” to say, “We’ll all fi nd the sun one day.” Perfectly poignant.
So, too, were a couple of lines from his fi nal encore, “A Better Place.”
Some days I’m so con-fused, Lord … I need the ones I love more and more each day. …
The ovations were plen-ty, the applause was sincere and anyone who was there can forever say their heart-strings were touched the night Glen Travis Camp-bell came to East Tennes-see to say goodbye. Call Jake Mabe at 922-4136, email
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The Cove at Concord Park on Northshore Drive is covered with hundreds of thousands of lights that will shine during this year’s Holiday Festival of Lights beginning Thurs-day, Dec. 22. The event will run through Friday, Dec. 30 (excluding Christmas). Hours are 6-9 p.m.
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“Two nights before the battle started, I’d been out late. The moon was out and I saw somebody come through an opening in a wall. I couldn’t see exactly where he went, so I followed him. I was inside. He was outside. We both stepped through another opening at the same time and he walked right up against the barrel of my gun. I had it in his belly. He was wearing an American colo-nel’s uniform. I saw his hand start to come around and he took a big, deep breath. I could see a colonel’s silver leaf on his helmet.
“I said ‘Don’t do it.’ He saved his own life by breath-ing deep. He spoke English and we interrogated him. We were talking, talking, talking, standing there in
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Betty Bean
Williamson County Commission: Turn out that light!
Williamson County is smarter than you
(And richer, too)
Avis car rental made famous the line: “We try harder.” Members of the Williamson County Commission in Middle Tennessee don’t need to try at all – they’re smarter than you and certainly don’t need the public prying into their decision process.
With the backing of the Tennessee County Commis-sioners Association, and in the company of Lewis and Obion counties, the Williamson County Commission has decided there’s too much sunshine for comfort in the state’s Open Meeting Act. In October, Williamson County’s commissioners passed a resolution supporting legislation that would “subject governing bodies to the same Open Meeting Act that the General Assembly is sub-jected to.” Me, too, say Lewis and Obion.
What gives? The General Assembly exempts itself from the Open Meeting Act if the members gathered constitute less than a quorum. In short, Williamson County’s 21-member commission believes that when 10 or less of its number come together to discuss public business out the public eye, no one should be concerned. What’s good enough for the state, etc.
Williamson County is situated mid-state, suspiciously close to the capitol, and maybe that has something to do with this insurrection against openness. According to 2010 census data, 50.2 percent of the county’s residents age 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree, and the median household income in 2009 was $87,474.
In Knox County, only 33 percent have a bachelor’s degree, and the median household income in 2009 was a paltry $45,380. Maybe rich eggheads just need a little more privacy.
But, hold on. In Lewis County only 9.4 percent com-peted four years of college, and the median household income is just a shade over $33,000. Obion County fares slightly better, with about 12 percent of its residents hold-ing a bachelor’s degree and a median income of $38,157. Seems the “99 percent” want in on the act, as well.
If the snobbery of wealth or the envy of poverty isn’t behind this quest for furtiveness, what’s driving it? We know that Gov. Bill Haslam has proclaimed his support for leaving the Open Meeting Act alone as it pertains to local governing bodies, and the consequences of Black Wednesday should be lesson enough for any county or city legislative body.
The problem is that Williamson County and its would be partners in the resurgence of backroom politics are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. It isn’t the local policy that needs amending; the General Assem-bly needs to clean up its act and remove the “Scarlet H” (hypocrite) from its collective foreheads.
Talk of “greater effi ciency” if discussions among less than a quorum are allowed away from public scrutiny is simply code for “let’s make a deal.” As Commissioner Ed Shouse said last week, “Government is inherently ineffi cient.”
Amen, Ed.Contact Larry Van Guilder at [email protected].
The wrinkly, yellowed page isn’t much to look at, but it reads like a novel:
“I didn’t know it was going to be called the Battle of the Bulge, but I knew something was about to happen. Some-thing big,” Bill Tallent said.
“I was 19 years old and I was an Infantry Raider with the 28th Infantry Division assigned to Intelligence, which meant I was respon-sible for penetrating the enemy lines to gather in-formation about their loca-tions and personnel. I car-ried about $30,000 worth of currency called ‘Invasion Money.’ They were smaller than normal bills, and I was supposed to use them if I ran into trouble.
“We were camped in a German town called Hosi-gen, not far from the Bel-gian border. Both sides were trying to infi ltrate the en-emy lines. There were Ger-mans galore in American uniforms.
Bill Tallent: American hero
the moonlight. I told him to show us where he was stay-ing and he took us to a house. He didn’t have a key, but he went in the front door and never did come out. Never said thank you. I should’ve triggered him right there, but I didn’t. He was scared all to hell.
“I went back and told my commanding offi cer, but it didn’t seem to bother him. He was a schoolteacher out of South Carolina, and he
wasn’t a killer type. He car-ried a carbine. Might as well have been a BB gun. The next night I crossed the Our River to gather information. I knew they were massing up, and I wanted to know how many tanks they had. I went back and briefed my C.O: ‘There’s a crowd over there waiting on us.’
“He asked me, ‘Do you think they’re going to come after us?’
“We got our answer the next morning.”
In the months that fol-lowed, Tallent survived cap-ture, Gestapo interrogation and gunshot wounds, two escape attempts (one suc-cessful) and going on the lam in the German countryside.
I had the honor a few years ago of helping him get it down on paper. Above is the fi rst page of the fi rst draft of his World War II memoirs. The fi nished product is in his fi les. I hope somebody fi nds it.
Bill Tallent
Some have asked why the mayor’s inaugural is on the third Saturday of December instead of Jan. 1. When I fi rst was inaugurated as mayor on Jan. 1, 1988, it was obvi-ous that it was a less than satisfactory day for events in the mid morning.
It confl icted with football bowl games, a national holi-day and the distress of any who might have partied too much on New Year’s Eve.
Therefore, I sought a charter change to move it to the third Saturday of De-cember when only Christ-mas shopping might inter-vene. City Council approved the amendment and the vot-ers, in turn, ratifi ed it. So the third Saturday in December is now the signifi cant date.
Law Director Charles Swanson may want to sit down with inherited attor-ney Lisa Hatfi eld, whose law license was suspended for a week during the prior administration for not com-pleting the required CLE courses required of attor-neys, and suggest this not happen again on his watch. Hatfi eld was suspended without pay by Law Director Debra Poplin.
Hatfi eld got an order va-cating her suspension when she returned to work. She had failed to receive credit for some CLE conferences she had attended. The city pays for CLE courses but does not pay late fees issued by the Board of Professional Responsibility.
Today is the fi rst work day for the new Rogero Ad-ministration. Attention will fade quickly as we get ready for Christmas and the new-ness wears off. Salaries for
Rogero takes the helm
the new directors will be re-leased as required by open records law, and this column will keep you advised. Also, whether they are assigned city cars or a car allowance will be told so you can know the total pay package.
Mayor Rogero plans to ■ attend the mid winter meet-ing of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington on Jan. 18-20. This will be a valuable time for her to meet mayors from around the country. Mayor Kim Mc-Millan of Clarksville (for-mer South Knox resident) will attend, too. I found the meetings to be worth the city expense of traveling there as I always came back with enhanced knowledge of urban issues.
Mayor Rogero is expect-■ ed to attend the fi rst 2012 city pension board meeting on Jan. 10. She ought to be cho-sen the new chair to follow Barbara Pelot whose term as chair and as a board member has expired. Pension issues are serious and costly.
For example, Dave Hill, ■ who Rogero terminated from his waterfront position, will receive a lifetime city pension starting in 2017 of $1,035.17 a month or $12,400 a year with a 3 percent annual escalator compounded for the rest of his life. So in 2027, his pen-sion will be almost $17,000 a year and still growing ... a 30 percent increase com-pounded in 10 years. Finbarr
Saunders will be the new City Council representative on the city pension board. He is well qualifi ed to deal with these complex issues. The city pen-sion is not in as much fi nan-cial turmoil and diffi culty as the county pension plan but it does face challenges.
Attorney Chris Irwin ■ who was barred from a TVA public hearing on nuclear power for wearing red paint
on his face says he may fi le a federal lawsuit against TVA based on violation of his First Amendment rights. TVA is on weak constitutional grounds to try to enforce a facial makeup code for attendees at public hearings. One would think TVA has better things to do than worry about how silly, foolish, outlandish or outstanding people look while attending a policy hearing.
Sculpture honors educators“Pedagogy,” a new piece of public art to honor educators, was
unveiled last week at the City County Building. It was sculpted
by Julie Warren Conn who stands with Dr. Gene Overholt
at the dedication. The work in stone includes books titled:
“Discovery” “Enlightenment” and “Truth.” Overholt, who once
served on the Knoxville city school board, was co-founder of
the Chamber’s Leadership Education program and remains
active with its alumni group. Photo submitted
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Local offi cials skeptical
By Betty Bean
Doug Varney, commis-sioner of the Ten-nessee De-p a r t m e n t of Mental Health was dispatched to Knox-ville by Gov. Bill Haslam last week to
meet with County Mayor Tim Burchett and others to quell the negative reaction to the news that the state plans to close Lakeshore Mental Health Institute.
Whether or not he suc-ceeded remains to be seen.
Knox County commis-sioners will vote today (Dec. 19) on a resolution to ask the state to delay the closure for two years.
Varney, a psychological examiner who worked his way up the management ladder to become CEO of Frontier Health, a commu-nity mental health center in the Tri-Cities area, assured his audience that he didn’t decide to close Lakeshore because it’s costing more than $25 million a year to care for some 100 patients.
This is not a budget-bal-ancing measure, he said. There are better ways to treat mental illness than institutionalization.
“This is not driven by money or budget,” he said. “The deal in and of itself, the real key, is that we are moving forward in some-thing we’ve been working on for 50 years – deinstitu-tionalization.”
Varney commended the Lakeshore employees, whom he said, “do God’s
Commissioner Doug Varney and Deputy Commissioner Marie
Williams fi eld questions. Photo by Betty Bean
Tim Burchett
Lakeshore closing ‘not a done deal’
work, every day.” He said his department will provide as much help as possible to some 370 employees who will lose their jobs, includ-ing severance packages and placement assistance.
As for the patients, Var-ney said the state has place-ment alternatives for those who need inpatient care. He believes advances in medications will ease the transition for others.
“We’ve come a long way.”
Varney added that 90 percent of Lakeshore’s pa-tients stay for fewer than 10 days, 70 percent for less than a week, and that these patients are good candi-dates for community health care services.
The portion of the $25-plus million spent on third-party payments will be re-invested in the community, he said. The rest will be reinvested in the mental health system.
He attempted to dis-pel fears that chronically mentally ill patients will be discharged into the streets of Knoxville, swelling the
already robust homeless population and endanger-ing the patients’ lives.
“(Under the new system) we’re going to be able to serve a lot more people,” he said. “Nobody in that long-term group is going to be discharged to some apart-ment somewhere or some emergency shelter. They’ll have some of the best place-ments we’ve ever had.”
Those 40 to 60 patients who require inpatient care will be moved to facilities in Johnson City and Oak Ridge and the state will develop a transportation option to keep that burden from falling on local emer-gency services, Varney said.
Several county commis-sioners expressed dissatis-faction, led by Jeff Ownby, who complained that state-provided job leads are turn-ing out to be for low-pay, low benefi t, dead-end po-sitions, and Amy Broyles, who said she has “deep concerns” that uninsured patients will end up on the streets. Commission chair Mike Hammond observed
that the shutdown appears to be “a done deal,” a con-tention Varney denied.
A woman seated at the conference table attempted to ask questions, but wasn’t called on. After the meet-ing, she identifi ed herself as “Stacey,” a Lakeshore employee. She said about 2,261 patients have been admitted to Lakeshore over the past year, 1,801 of them uninsured. Forty-nine were classifi ed as violent and 141 were inmates of the Knox County jail.
“At least 460 were sent to us because no other facil-ity wanted them,” she said. “And 273 of those were sent to us because there was no appropriate bed avail-able at a private facility. Six people on the sub-acute or short-term fl oor are violent. One of them has a probation band around his ankle because he’s actually a rapist. No private facility is going to take somebody like that.”
And fi nally, she said there are patients whom Varney needs to reassure.
“Patients are wanting to talk to him. He won’t. They’re terrified. A lot of our patients were here in the Children and Youth Program. Some of them refer to the security guards as Mom and Dad. It’s just a sad, sad thing that’s going on here. I don’t understand how he can sleep at night.”
After the meeting, Bur-chett was asked if he is convinced that the move to close Lakeshore is mo-tivated by concern for patient well being rather than financial consider-ations.
“When I was a legislator, there’s one thing I learned pretty quick,” he said. “Fol-low the money.”
Brown bids a graceful farewell
Daniel Brown
By Betty Bean
Call it a victory lap.Vice Mayor Joe Bailey
did the hon-ors at the r e c e p t i o n h o n o r i n g o u t g o i n g Mayor Dan-iel Brown last Mon-day.
“ M a y o r, you didn’t
mess it up.”There was a rare consen-
sus in the crowded Small Assembly Room as sev-eral hundred Knoxvillians gathered to thank Brown for his 11-month tenure as interim mayor.
Brown, who was elected by his City Council col-leagues to serve out the un-expired term of now-Gov. Bill Haslam, went back to being the 6th District City Council representative after the inauguration of Mayor Madeline Rogero on Saturday.
But Monday belonged to history buff Brown, whose sole request upon vacat-
ing the mayor’s office was some kind of commemo-ration of those who came here in servitude.
Brown, who is known for old-school courtesy, thanked his wife, Cathy, his constituents, his City Council colleagues, city employees (with a special shout-out to City Recorder Cindy Mitchell) and got a standing ovation as he un-veiled the plaque, which said, above the great seal of the city, “In Honor of Daniel T. Brown, Knox-ville’s First African Ameri-can Mayor.
Beneath the seal were the words “In remem-brance of those who came to the area in servitude.”
Afterwards, city plan-ning and policy chief Bill Lyons wanted to be clear:
“He just wanted the bot-tom part. We added the top part.
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MALCOLM’S CORNER | Malcolm Shell
I am sure almost ev-eryone has a special Christmas they re-
member above all the rest. With some 73 Christmases to remember, one in par-ticular stands out.
It was the Christmas of 1944 when World War II was nearing its end. It was a bittersweet Christmas for my family because we had just learned that my brother, Staff Sgt. Joseph A. Shell, had been killed in France on Thanksgiving Day and another brother, Sgt. 1st Class Carl C. Shell, was still in harm’s way in the battle for Italy.
But amidst the sadness, the family gathered at our home to celebrate Christ-mas. I was only 6 years old and had very little under-standing of our loss since I was only 3 years old when they left home and bare-ly remembered either of them. As always, we had a beautiful Christmas tree with lots of presents, and my mother had prepared a feast for some 12 family members. I really wasn’t expecting much that year because the war effort had greatly reduced the avail-ability of toys and that fact had been explained to me.
All toys in the Christ-
mas catalogues were made of wood since metal was needed for the war effort. But my big surprise on Christmas morning was a Western Flyer red wagon. My father grew up in a fam-ily that owned part interest in a furniture manufactur-ing company and had great talent in wood working. He had made the wagon in our woodworking shop and meticulously painted it exactly like those offered in catalogues including the name Western Flyer.
Another special gift that year was a toy steam engine with a brass boiler, a whis-tle to let off excess steam and an alcohol burner. This was as big a surprise as the wagon because it was me-tallic. My father had pur-chased it from one of the train people who regularly came into the train sta-tion where he worked. It had probably been made in the mid-to-late 1930s prior to the rationing of metal products. I am not sure what ever happened to the Western Flyer wag-on, but the steam engine is currently on display at the Farragut Folklife Museum as part of the antique toy collection exhibit.
Although I had a dog,
I had also begged for two ducks, for what reason I can now not imagine, but they appeared one day as small solid white ducklings. My dog enjoyed them even more than me because it became his pastime chas-ing them around the yard. Now, ducks are extremely messy creatures and the yard was always full of white feathers. I named them Huey and Dewey. It didn’t take long before my parents suggested that we might need to give them away, but I was not too keen on giving away Huey and Dewey.
The Christmas table that year contained the usual big turkey and all the trimmings, but there were two other offerings that I had not seen before, much smaller than the turkey. I noticed that the other fam-ily members were testing two offerings in a cautious manner and I decided to do the same. It didn’t take long for me to determine that turkey was the best choice. And it was not for several days later that I realized Huey and Dewey were missing and overheard a conversation about them. It then dawned on me that I had eaten Huey and Dewey.
A Christmas
I can remember other Christmases with varying degrees of fondness and sadness, including two that were spent overseas while in the military. And I am sure that like most soldiers now serving our country in foreign lands, their memo-ries of past Christmases are thoughts that bring them closer to home. Home for the holidays seems to be an innate yearning, and I remember that yearning which also translates as home sickness. And during those two years away from home, the Christmas of
1944 was the one I seemed to remember most.
Even today, I enjoy browsing through toy stores during Christmas and looking at the myriad of offerings that kids can enjoy: radio controlled ve-hicles, electronic comput-er games and even small power-driven vehicles that can be ridden. These toys would have been beyond the most creative imagina-tion for kids 60 years ago and particularly those that grew up during the WWII years.
But given all the ad-
vancement in technology, Christmas for kids 60 years ago, when little red wagons were a real treat, were en-joyed no less than Christ-mases today when kids have a virtual cafeteria of offerings. And through the work of various charities, many of which didn’t exist then, even disadvantaged kids can now find their stockings filled with toys that will one day create fond memories for them. And through these oppor-tunities, hopefully many will learn the joy of giving rather than receiving.
Sometime this week John and Sandra Sims will receive a
Tennessee football jersey, No. 67, worn the day their son was bur-ied.
It was from the Arkansas game, Nov. 13, 1999, a bad day for addi-tional reasons.
The good guy who sent the jer-sey was Chad Clifton, big body, big heart, Volunteer tackle at the time, more recently affi liated with the Green Bay Packers.
J.D. Sims died in an auto crash
that November week in Tupelo, MS. He had lived next door to the Clifton family while attending UT-Martin. He was a life-loving class-mate and close friend of Chad’s friends, David Glass and Brad Franklin. As grad students at UT, they and Clifton became room-mates.
J.D. stayed at their apartment when he came over for games. It was one big happy fellowship – until it went sad.
Clifton wrote JDS in magic
A jersey for Christmas
TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West
marker on the tape on his wrists and, without ceremony, dedicated the game to the memory of his friend. A few days later, Chad gave No. 67, nice and clean, to David to give to J.D.’s fi ancee to give to Mr. and Mrs. Sims.
The transfer took 12 years.“That was never a problem,”
said John Sims. “The jersey was a special memento. It meant a lot to a lot of us, but the kindness of the gesture was what really mattered. Chad Clifton was a busy man, in the closing push of a football sea-son, approaching a career decision. That he would think of us was and is very meaningful.
“To this day, we have never met Chad Clifton but he has a place in our hearts.”
John and Sandra Sims live in Franklin. He is a consulting en-gineer. She is a teacher. They are Tennessee football fans.
“We became season-ticket hold-ers in 1998. It was a good year to
join the crowd.”In more ways than the mean-
ingful jersey, Chad Clifton has done a lot for the image of Tennes-see football.
He grew up in Martin. He was a two-way tackle and sometimes tight end on the Westview High team. He also took up consider-able space in basketball. Parade magazine said he was a prep all-American in football.
Alabama tried to recruit him. Gene Stallings did the offi cial in-home visit.
When the coach returned to his car, he found it decorated in or-ange and white with a Tennessee pennant attached to the radio an-tenna. Those same Clifton friends did the dastardly deed.
Stallings smiled and acknowl-edged that Big Orange Country is real.
Chad chose to join Phillip Ful-mer, an old line coach, at Tennes-see. Remember this part: Clifton
was a four-year starter. The Volun-teers were somewhat successful, 43-7, during his time. He received all-SEC recognition and a national championship ring.
The Sporting News thought Chad was a second-team all-American. The Packers thought he was at least that good. They drafted him in the second round. He became a great blindside pro-tector, treasured but relatively un-heralded.
Clifton overcame injuries and got better with age. One year he played all 1,031 offensive snaps. He made it to the 2008 Pro Bowl. In 2010, he cashed in. His three-year contract called for $20 mil-lion. In February, he and the Pack-ers took another jackpot, Super Bowl XLV.
His reputation is near enough to spotless to be about right for Vol for Life. Do I hear a second to that motion?Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is
The steam engine
received at Christmas
in 1944 by Malcolm
Shell. It is now on dis-
play at the Farragut
Folklife Museum. Photo submittedto remember
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Now the birth of Jesus took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. But when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
(Matthew 1: 18-21 NRSV)
Those who used to be present – and now are gone – still inhabit Christmas. Our memories are dear and poignant. In the midst of the merriment, there are sometimes tears; with the laughter comes a catch in the throat and a wave of re-membrance.
Time was pretty topsy-turvy for Joseph, too. Here was Mary, pregnant before she was married, pregnant even before they had “lived together,” as Matthew so delicately puts it.
Where I work, our neigh-bors who are poor, homeless, alone, scared or sick remind me of a young couple who had no safe home to return to, and therefore no liveli-hood, no family or friends available and no place for a child to be born. No safety net at all, except the angel who kept showing up in Jo-seph’s dreams.
The angel had reassured Joseph that everything was going to be fi ne. But now he had to deal with this taxa-tion that Caesar Augustus had thought up! Here was bad timing, indeed, because Mary was due any day.
I have tried to imagine that trip down through
Judea, past Jerusalem and on toward little Bethlehem. I have wondered how Joseph must have felt, coming back to his ancestral home, only to be told there was no place for him and for his wife, who was even now looking pale and frightened, and wishing for her mother.
Did Joseph’s angel hover close that night, beating back the darkness with his powerful wings? Or did he sing the very fi rst Christ-mas carol at the baby’s cry, a soft lullaby that was picked up by the heavenly hosts who sang in full chorus for amazed shepherds to hear: “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he fa-vors” (Luke 2: 14)?
Remember, in this holy season, to someone, today, you may be the angel of the dream: giving direction, giving hope, giving encour-agement or giving that swift kick in the seat of the pants, much like Joseph’s angel: “GO!” Or it may be that you are one of the heavenly choir who sings because you cannot stop the melody that gives your heart wings.
May your Christmas be merry and blessed!
Time warp
This is a season when time gets turned topsy-tur-vy.
In the fi rst place, time gets scarce. There doesn’t seem to be enough of it. How will we ever get everything done: shopping, cleaning, decorat-ing, writing, mailing, cook-ing, wrapping? And where in that list, for crying out loud, are reading, singing, savor-ing, praying, fellowshipping, enjoying, worshipping, be-ing?
Also, time gets warped. The liturgical year has Christ the King coming in power and glory one Sun-day in November, and the
next Sunday we are looking forward to his coming as a tiny babe.
Our own memories are part of that time warp, too. A carol can come winging out of nowhere, and sudden-ly we are back at our grand-mother’s dining table, or putting on our angel wings for the children’s pageant.
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CHRISTMAS SERVICES
Wednesday, December 21 • 7pmThe Longest Night Service
A Quiet Service of Refl ection, Music,Healing Prayer and Connection
Saturday, December 243 Christmas Eve Services
5pm, Family Service
7pm, Traditional Service with The Chancel Choir
11pm, Communion Service
Sunday, December 25 • 11amChristmas Day Service
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Garden Salad with Assorted Dressings & ToppingsDomestic & Imported Cheese & Fruit Tray
Omelet StationOmelets Made to Order
EntreesBaked Herb Chicken
Salmon with Dill Sauce
Carving StationHerb Encrusted Prime Rib &
Honey-Dijon Glazed Ham
Vegetables & SidesBroccoli & Rice Casserole
Sweet Potato & Cranberry SautéGreen Bean Casserole
Oven Roasted Italian Vegetable MedleyBrown-Sugar Glazed Carrots
Au Gratin Potatoes
Soup & BreadsButternut Squash Soup
Dinner Rolls, Corn Muffi ns & Cheddar Biscuits
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of ceremonies. Tickets are $35 ($60 per couple) and can be purchased at Debra’s Nails Desire on Kingston Pike and Kings Inn Motel in Lenoir City. Doors open at 7 p.m., music starts at 9. Info: 332-0957.
The Festival of Lights will be held at the Cove at
Concord Park on Northshore Drive from 6-9 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 22, through Friday, Dec. 30, (excluding Christmas day). Hot dogs, hot chocolate, bonfi res for roasting marshmallows and s’mores. Santa will visit Dec. 22-23. Leashed pets are welcomed. Info: www.knoxcounty.org/parks.
First Night Knoxville 2012 at Market Square,
will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31.
Features music, dancing, storytelling, children’s activities and more. Info: www.cityofknoxville.org/Christmas.
New Years Eve Extrav-aganza Saturday, Dec. 31,
LC Family Fun and Karaoke, 1850 Old Highway 95 in Le-
noir City. Arcade games, pool tables, basketball, air hockey, live music and watching the ball drop in New York City on a big screen. Talk show host Marla Higgin-botham will be the master
HOLIDAY NOTES
ChanukahHeska Amuna Synagogue ■
will host a Chanukah celebra-
tion 6-8 p.m. Wednesday,
Dec. 21. There will be latkes,
Karaoke and lots of family
fun. Bring your family and
your Menorah. Dress casual.
Everyone is invited. Admis-
sion is $18 ($9 children 12 and
under, family cap of $45). Info:
522-0701.
Christmas eventsBeaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak
Ridge Highway, will host an
informal Christmas Eve ser-
vice at 5 p.m. with children in
mind and a traditional service
at 8 p.m. with trumpet, choir
and candlelight. Service on
Christmas day will be held at
11 a.m. Info: 690-1060 or visit
www.beaverridgeumc.com.
Second Presbyterian ■
Church, 2829 Kingston Pike,
will host “The Longest Night”
at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.
21. This will be a quiet service
of refl ection, music, healing
prayer and connection. Info:
www.2ndpres.org.
Second Presbyterian ■
Church, 2829 Kingston Pike,
will host Christmas Eve ser-
vice Saturday, Dec. 24. Family
service with the Praise Band
will be at 5 p.m.; traditional
candlelight service with the
Chancel choir will be at 7; and
communion service will be at
11. Service on Christmas Day
will be held at 11 a.m. Info:
www.2ndpres.org.
Community Services
Concord United Methodist ■
Church’s Caregiver Sup-
port Group, affi liated with
Alzheimer’s Tennessee Inc.,
meets 10 to 11:30 a.m. each
fi rst Tuesday in Room 226
at the church, 11020 Roane
Drive. Anyone in the com-
munity who gives care to an
elderly individual is invited.
Refreshments. Info: 675-2835.
F ■ ellowship Church, 8000
Middlebrook Pike, will begin
its DivorceCare class again
The children’s choir of Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church on Dec. 11 performs during the
church’s Christmas concert “Love was Shown.” Photos by T. Edwards
‘Love was Shown’
Jan. 5. This group is for any-
one healing from a divorce
or separation. Info: Email
Sequoyah Hills Presbyte- ■
rian Church, 3700 Keowee
Ave. will host GriefShare,
a grief support group for
people dealing with the
loss of a loved one 5:45 p.m.
Mondays beginning Jan. 9
and running through Feb. 27.
Info: 522-9804 or visit www.
sequoyahchurch.org.
Rec programsBeaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak
Ridge Highway, will have a
beginner yoga class Mondays
from 6-7 p.m. upstairs in
the family life center. Cost is
$10 per class or $40 for fi ve
classes. Bring a mat, towel
and water. Info: Dena Bower,
567-7615 or denabower@
comcast.net.
Biblical Art Show brings history to PowellPowell Presbyterian Church pastor Jonathan Warren stands
with some of the more than 200 items exhibited at the
church’s Biblical Art Show on Dec. 8-11. Included in the show
were leafs from the fi rst edition of the King James Bible, works
of art and other artifacts. The show celebrated the 400th an-
niversary of the King James Bible. Photo by Greg Householder
Donate blood, save livesMedic Regional Blood
Center and Second Harvest Food Bank are teaming up this month for “Double Your Good Deed.” Blood donors can opt out of a T-shirt and a donation equal to nine meals will be made to Second Harvest.
Donors can stop by one of two donor centers: 1601 Ailor Ave. or 11000 Kings-ton Pike in Farragut.
Other sites:9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ■
Monday, Dec. 19, Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church, inside fellowship hall.
Noon to 7 p.m. Tues-■ day, Dec. 20, Cedar Bluff Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive, inside community room.
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West Knox residents Andrew “Andy” Hampson and Vaughn York were promoted to senior vice presidents at Home Fed-eral Bank; Hampson in the trust depart-ment and York in the compli-ance de-partment.
Karns branch man-ager LeAnn Heidenrich was promoted to vice president. Other new VPs are: Jennifer Collier, manager of the Foun-tain City branch, Dexter Cox, manager of Merchants Road branch, and DeAnna Davis, manager of the downtown branch at 515 Market Street.
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Today I’m glad to recognize Montgom-ery Village resident James Harmon for the important volunteer
work that he’s doing in that community.
Harmon, 71, has been a Montgomery Village resident since 2009. Upon moving into Montgomery Village, Harmon discov-ered an unused library that was, in his words, “a mess.” The Knoxville native and University of Tennessee graduate took it upon himself to reopen the library, a monumen-tal task that he says he
couldn’t have accom-plished without a lot of help from retired librar-ian Dorothy Stamper.
“The library basi-cally consisted of four rooms full of books and boxes and boxes of books stored in closets,” says Harmon. “We organized those books into sections and then book donations started coming in. It’s been miraculous, really, how we’ve been able to stock the library.”
The library is open from 12:30 to 5 p.m. on Sundays and from 2-5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays. Harmon is there whenever the doors are open. He reports that chil-dren are the library’s “big-gest customers,” and that about 50 young people actively use the library at
this time.Harmon loves to share
stories, and one of his stories illustrates how the library is making a real difference:
“One day two Burundi-an teenagers came in the library and were inter-ested in some whittling I was doing. I spotted an Encyclopedia of Crafts sitting on the shelf and suggested they read it. They were amazed at all the things they could do, particularly beadwork. Having that book avail-able helped me teach them how to learn to do things from books.”
Harmon says he is profoundly grateful to have a place to live that he can afford and that giving back is his way of showing his gratitude.
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Saveon Magwood, Waylon Kitts, and Roshaun Smith listen as
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By Aaron Killian
Helping Hands Home As-sistance wants to help
young and old alike through their new center located at 6900 Offi ce Park Circle in Knoxville.
Opened on Oct. 10, Help-ing Hands Childcare cur-rently only serves small children ages six weeks to fi ve years, but President and CEO Chris Middlebrook wants to add a senior center component to the facility.
Middlebrook plans to call the day center for seniors “The Gathering Place.”
“We want it to be a club for seniors – a gathering place,” Middlebrook said. “It’s an alternative to a
nursing home.”Designed mainly for se-
niors with Alzheimer’s and dementia, the Gathering Place will be located on the upper level of the Helping Hands center with the child-care facility on the lower level, and Middlebrook said he’d like the children and adults to interact once or twice a week through crafts, story time and other activities. Also, the center will partner with the Uni-versity of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine’s H.A.B.I.T (Human-Animal Bond In Tennessee) Pet Visi-tation program where chil-dren and adults will bond with animals for therapeutic experiences.
“I think both groups will benefi t from the con-cept. Children have a way of bringing out memories for adults, especially those with memory loss,” Mid-dlebrook said. “A lot of kids today are growing up with-out their grandparents, and families are spread out. It’s not like it used to be with grandma coming over or the grandkids going to grandma’s house.
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values and morals – what kids really need as they go through life.”
Currently, the child-care portion of the Helping Hands center has open-ings for children in their nursery, toddler, 3-year-old, and 4- and 5-year-old classes. The center is also accepting applications for its waiting list for the Gath-ering Place, which Middle-brook plans to open in two
or three months.“The center will focus
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The students in Bearden High School’s leadership class have a tra-dition of transforming a classroom into a winter wonderland and host-ing a holiday party, complete with pizza and presents, for needy stu-dents from Christenberry Elemen-tary School.
But this year, that party just didn’t feel right, says Rachel Harmon, who is teaching the class for the fi rst time.
The problem with previous cel-ebrations is that they didn’t include enough children. While each of the 35 members of the leadership class has travelled to Christenberry once a week this semester to mentor four or fi ve students in pre-K, 1st and 4th grades, only about 60 students were chosen by their teachers to attend the Bearden party. Those kids then went back to school and told their friends how much fun they’d had.
The high school students cam-paigned to bring all of the 1st and 4th graders to Bearden for this year’s party, but school administrators said that would be diffi cult and disrup-tive. So they decided to take the party to the kids.
Since the project was too big for one class to tackle, the students recruited help. Because decorating on a grand scale has been an important element of the party in pre-vious years, Bearden’s drama department was invited to deck Christenberry’s halls. The stage technology class was happy to pitch in, since students had time on their hands af-ter fi nishing up with the musical “Pippin” last month. They
built a throne for Santa (played by theater teacher Glen Ellington) and a fi replace for Mrs. Claus (played by Harmon). They also donated their musical talents with a production of “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.”
Even with music, games, crafts and pizza, the children were most excited about spending time with their mentors.
Bearden assistant principal Debra Bean, who accompanied her students to the school, says the most important thing the young-sters get from their mentors is a re-lationship. Once that relationship is in place, the high school students serve as role models and assist chil-dren with academic skills.
First grade teacher Kristi More-lock agrees. The emotional bonds created by the mentoring pro-gram are strong, she says, and the children talk about their mentors throughout the week.
“They’re like a big brother or big sister that they can count on.”
The leadership class raised enough money through Candy-Gram sales and email solicitation to buy presents
for each student in the Pre-K, 1st and 4th grades. They took a class trip to Big Lots to shop for their mentees.
Senior Sam Freeman says he’s learned a thing or two from visiting his young friends at Christenberry.
“It’s been a good experience seeing how they live, be-cause we’re not used to being down here.”
In spite of their circumstances, the children are happy, he says, and being around them makes him happy, too.
By Betty Bean
West High School soccer coach Sonny Trotter was brimming with excitement when he called his senior captain Addison Leinart to tell her that the National Soccer Coaches Association of America had named her an All-American. It’s prob-ably not an exaggeration to say that Addison’s status as one of only 30 members of the High School Scholars All-America team had the longtime coach over the moon.
But Addison, who car-ries a better than 4.0 grade point average in addition to having broken the school’s record for goals scored in a single season, is soft-spo-ken and humble by nature, so her reaction didn’t really surprise him.
“When I called her, she said ‘Oh, really?’ I said, ‘Ad-dison, this is a big thing, girl. There are only 30 in the whole country.’ But that’s so typical. She’s thinking of other people all the time – never thinking of herself,” Trotter said.
Addison’s parents, Allison Fay and Al Leinart, will be going with her to Kansas City on Jan. 14 to see her receive the award. Her grandmother, Hester Fay, and great-aunt, Margie Fay, will be there, too. Trotter, who plans to be there earlier in the week for NSCAA meetings, said she is extremely deserving.
“You could not be around a more pleasant, charming, unassuming young lady.”
Soccer season is over, and Addison’s team had what she terms “a pretty good year.” They made it to the district semifi nals and she helped them along the way by scoring 77 goals, break-ing the record held jointly by assistant coach Laura El-dridge and Trotter’s daugh-ter, Mary Elizabeth.
“That was a really big deal to me, it was very personal,”
The FC Alliance 98 Black
boys soccer team won the
state title winning the Divi-
sion 1, U14 Tennessee State
Championship in November.
The team fi nished the 2011
fall season with another
tournament win at the Nike
Norcross Cup in December
where it competed in the
championship division.
Teammates are: (front) Kell
Gammeltoft, Jeb Gary, Kyle
Jacobs, Jon Creel, Lucas Can-
nineu, Connor Jacobs, Will
Little, Andrew Ross, Collin
Rose; (back): coach Paulo
Neto, Jeremy Wise, John Tot-
ten, Charlie Richards, Jacob
Helterbridle, Lucas Altman,
Alex Schupp and Luke Orren. Photo submitted
Addison Leinart Photo by Betty Bean
West senior named soccer All-American
Bearden High School sophomore Elizabeth
Gore dances with her mentor, Lakera Brown,
at a Christmas party for students at Chris-
tenberry Elementary School. The leadership
class at Bearden threw the party for all 1st
and 4th-grade students. Photo by Wendy Smith
Bulldogs party at Christenberry
Addison said. “Our assistant coach had held the record before me, so that made it kind of special. I think it was a little bittersweet for her, but she was happy it was me. She was very supportive in the process.”
Addison feels good about the team she’ll be leaving behind and says she has faith in her younger team-mates to keep the winning tradition alive.
“A lot of upcoming fresh-men will be helpful. The ju-nior class helped us a lot so I think they’ll be great lead-ers. Hopefully I’ll come back and see some games.”
Skilled though she is at soccer, Addison doesn’t plan to pursue the sport in college. She’s still narrowing her list of colleges and universities, but in the future the goals she scores will be academic rather than athletic.
She loves mathematics and science, and wants to go to medical school to become an orthopedic surgeon. To-ward that end, she has taken a heavy load in those cours-es. Next semester, she plans to take a college chemistry class at Pellissippi State.
“School was always my fi rst priority,” she said. “My parents and coaches helped out a lot with that making sure I had the grades ahead of soccer. That always came fi rst for me.”
By Jake Mabe
Wait, wait! Don’t throw out that old chair that’s tak-ing up space in your base-ment. Art students at Halls Middle School just might need it.
The Art of the Chair silent auction and art show were held last week to coincide with the school’s holiday concerts. Sixth, 7th and 8th grade students created 20 pieces of art based on the work of a master artist, on wooden chairs, side-tables, an antique ironing board, even on an old wooden child’s highchair. These pieces were sold during a silent auction. Student art not for sale was
also displayed during the art show.
Art teachers Shellie Ayres and Lauren Adams are using proceeds from the auction toward the eventual creation of a digital lab. The PTA has promised to match a pur-chase of 12 digital cameras.
“The next step would be to add some software,” Ad-ams says. “We’re hoping that the yearbook will eventually be student-run as well.”
Ayres says the students al-ways get into the group proj-ects for the silent auction.
“They are recycling some-thing that would other-wise probably end up in the dump,” Ayres says. “They
learn some amazing painting skills. And they are learning art history. It’s all about the kids and engaging them.”
Adams says the entire show is student-run.
“The kids put it up and take it down. It’s theirs – they own it.”
Ayres says the auction will be held again in the spring. The department is always accepting donations, preferably wood, but Ayres says they have also success-fully painted plastic and fi -berglass. Donations can be made by calling the school offi ce at 922-7494 and leav-ing a message for the art de-partment.
HMS students host art auction, show
This chair was painted like
Andy Warhol’s pink cow and
auctioned off . It was designed
by Halls Middle students Taylor
Wright, Kayla McDugald, Jas-
mine Fox and Nicholas Wilson.
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You can call him “Mr. Football.”
CAK quarterback Charlie High has had quite the foot-ball season this year, lead-ing his team to a Division I 3A state championship and breaking several state records in the process.
Now, High has a new accolade to add to his collection: the Tennessee Titans Mr. Football Back of the Year Award for Divi-sion I Class AA.
Beating Dalton Boles of West Greene and Ladarius Vanlier of Maplewood, High received the award at a banquet on Nov. 28 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Murfreesboro.
High’s coach Rusty Bradley was proud of his quarterback.
“Charlie High came into the year as a fi rst year starter,” Bradley said. “He set state records for completions in a season, attempts in a season, yards in a season, touchdown passes in a season, com-bined touchdown passes and rushing in a season, and then total offense in a season.”
Bradley added that High winning Mr. Football and then leading his team to victory in the state cham-pionship was a wonderful way to end the season.
Bradley said, “It was defi nitely a good year.”
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Warriors are state champsFirst state title for
football teamBy Aaron Killian
They came. They saw. They conquered Division I
Class 3A high school football.On Dec. 2, the Christian
Academy of Knoxville War-riors took home the school’s fi rst football state champion-ship trophy by sweeping the tournament in Cookeville and defeating the Milan Bull-dogs 49-14.
Head football coach Rusty Bradley said, “We were re-ally excited. (Winning the state championship) was not something that was on our radar screen.”
Bradley added, “We had never even won our district championship before, so we won our fi rst district cham-pionship and our fi rst state championship in the fi rst year. It was a year of fi rsts for us.”
Finishing the season 13-2, the team’s “year of fi rsts” had moments of adversity, Bradley said, but those mo-ments helped equip his play-
ers with how to handle the tough challenges of the state tournament.
Starting the season with wins over Anderson County, Lexington Christian and Stone Memorial, CAK lost to Grace Christian 32-31.
“Looking back on it, that really was a blessing to be in that situation, fi rst of all, because we were pushed. Second of all, it helped refo-cus our kids,” Bradley said.
The Warriors went on to beat Loudon, Gibbs, and Scott County. During their game against Kingston, Bradley witnessed a mid-season transformation in his team.
“We were losing at half-time . . . And I remember there was no panic in our kids. There was no panic whatsoever,” Bradley said. “We came out in the third quarter and just exploded. I think we scored 35 points in the third quarter. Our de-fense created some turnovers and gave our offense a short fi eld, and I saw a passion and an emotion in our kids that I
had not seen all year.”However, the passion and
emotion from the Kingston game would not carry the Warriors to victory against LaVergne, who beat them 43-42 in overtime.
“But it was a great experi-ence for our kids,” Bradley said. “We had eight starters injured in that game, and it was great to see some back-ups step up and fi ll in and to see our guys compete. And we drove down to tie the game at the end of the regulation.”
The loss to LaVergne fu-eled Bradley’s team to strive for a victory against Alcoa during the last regular game of the season, and only then did Bradley see a state cham-pionship as a possibility.
“When we beat Alcoa in the regular season, and the brack-ets came out, I saw that if we were fortunate enough to win the fi rst and second round, we would play Alcoa in the third round,” Bradley said.
After winning against Polk County and Sweetwater, CAK faced Alcoa again, but this
time would prove to be more diffi cult than the Warriors’ fi rst encounter with the Tornadoes.
“We were down 21 to 7, and we won 38 to 37 in over-time,” Bradley said. “With the Grace game and being in a tight situation, our guys were like, ‘We’re not going to let that happen again.’ And then to play in overtime, our guys were like, ‘We’re not going to let LaVergne happen again.’ So those two losses our guys drew on in the Alcoa game.”
The CAK Warriors went on to topple Austin-East and ultimately Milan for the state championship.
For Bradley, the real reward is not the district or state championship trophies, but the marked growth he experienced with his team.
“From the beginning to the end our guys just grew up,” Bradley said. “We grew together as a unit, as a team with a passion and with emo-tion that they want to honor God with their effort.”
The Christian Academy of Knoxville Warriors high
school football team celebrates the school’s fi rst
state football championship. Photo submitted
Christian Academy of Knoxville
choir sings “Carol of the Bells” at
the Christmas Celebration held
at Cedar Springs Presbyterian
Church. Photo submitted
By Aaron KillianThere is no place like home
for the holidays, and on Dec. 13, the Christian Academy of Knoxville celebrated Christ-mas with a concert at its origi-nal home of Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church.
CAK fi rst opened its doors in 1977 at Cedar Springs Pres-byterian Church, and for many the performance at the church was like a homecoming.
CAK Elementary Music Director Will Burkhart said, “Personally, I was very excited about the opportunity to fi nally bring our students to perform in a venue that is both visually and musically appealing.”
Historically, the Christ-
mas celebration features the middle and high school bands and choirs, but this year the music department wanted to do things a little differently to reach more people and appeal to a wider range of audiences.
For Burkhart and the rest of the music department, the most logical choice was to do a combined seasonal concert, so they added performances from grades 3 to 5 to the lineup.
“It was a unique opportunity to share our music together in this corporate endeavor during this special season,” CAK Cho-ral Director Peggy Filyaw said.
Performing for a packed au-dience, the Christmas Celebra-tion was considered by many a huge success.
Home for the holidays
Burkart said that the music program excels because so many involved with CAK sup-port the arts.
“Being supported fi nancial-ly is about receiving funds,” Burkart said. “But that is not the most important support one can give. To give one’s
time, effort, and encourage-ment; to value what these students and their teachers work for; for both its inside and outside-the-classroom value – that is the nature of real support.”
“We were thankful to give these talented students the
opportunity to perform in this venue,” Filyaw said.
Filyaw said that the Christ-mas celebration was not about the students, but the mean-ing behind the holiday and teaching students to use their talents for the glory of God.
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Because high blood sugar lev-els can damage blood vessels and nerves, foot ulcers are common among people who have diabetes. The wounds start out small. Be-cause diabetics have reduced sen-sation in their feet, they don’t real-ize they have a wound, and it takes much longer to heal, often leading to infection.
That’s why 64-year-old Beverly Petty of Loudon was worried three years ago when she developed a silver-dollar sized wound on the bottom of her left foot. A podiatrist told her it was a dangerous condi-tion called Charcot (pronounced sharko) Foot, which is when the bones in the foot become weak and start protruding through the bot-tom of the foot because of nerve damage from the diabetes.
The wound wouldn’t heal for nearly three years. “The doctors told me I needed to have my foot taken off,” explains Petty. “I said, ‘No thank you!’ ”
On the advice of a friend, Petty called Dr. G. Douglas Schuchmann,
a general surgeon and director of the Fort Sanders Regional Wound Treatment Center. She went to see
him last June. Dr. Schuchmann performed a number of tests on Petty and decided the best treat-
ment for her was using a bioen-gineered skin graft to cover the wound. After that, he prescribed 60 visits to the Wound Treatment Center’s hyperbaric oxygen cham-ber to help her heal.
The center has two oxygen chambers. These clear cylindrical tanks allow one patient at a time to lie inside them, breathing 100 per-cent oxygen while under increased atmospheric pressure. The pres-sure forces oxygen into the body’s cells, which helps saturate the red blood cells with oxygen to promote healing. This is helpful for both diabetic and radiation treatment patients.
Petty’s relatives and friends drove from her home in Loudon to Fort Sanders fi ve days each week, for about three months. “In no time at all the wound went from silver dollar size to the size of a dime,” she says. “It’s a little tiny wound now. My foot looks better now than it’s looked in a long, long time. ”
Petty says the oxygen treat-
ments are painless. “Except foryour ears popping, you really don’tfeel anything. It doesn’t hurt.”
Each treatment lasted 90 min-utes. “Patients watch TV or sleepwhile they’re in the chamber,” sheexplains. “It’s clear all the wayaround, so you can see out, lookover and hear other people talking.The patients, we sit there and talk.You’re there so long you get to feellike they’re almost family.”
A physician checks each patientbefore and after oxygen therapytreatment, especially for any strainon the heart or ears. Petty’s woundis nearly healed and she has fi n-ished her oxygen treatments, butshe still visits Dr. Schuchmann tokeep an eye on her foot. “I love Dr.Schuchmann and the Wound CareCenter is really great,” she smiles.“I would highly recommend it toanyone who’s got a wound thatwon’t heal.”
Fort Sanders off ers hyperbaric oxygen therapy for hard to heal wounds
Hyperbaric oxygen treatments are an important therapy in dia-betic wound care.
“People are fascinated with them,” says Dr. George Schuch-mann, Medical Director of the Fort Sanders Wound Treatment Center. “But they’re not for everyone, and they’re not a panacea.”
The Fort Sanders Wound Treat-ment Center has two hyperbaric oxygen chambers in its outpatient clinic that are used to treat certain deep tissue wounds that may not heal with conventional therapies alone.
“The chamber delivers extra oxygen to the soft tissues, which helps bolster the immune system,” explains Dr. Schuchmann.
The clear chambers are each 7 feet long, large enough to hold one person up to 350 pounds. The patient slides in on a bed, and the chamber is sealed and fi lled with 100 percent oxygen.
Then, a technician slowly in-creases the atmospheric pressure inside the chamber to a pressure
two to three times that of the out-side atmosphere. As the patient breathes and lies in the chamber, the increased atmospheric pres-sure forces 10 to 15 times more oxygen into the patient’s blood stream and tissues than normal. Each treatment inside the oxygen chamber is called a “dive,” because of the increase in atmospheric pressure.
At Fort Sanders’ Wound Treat-ment Center the chambers are used for outpatient, long-term care of wounds, bone infections called osteomylitis, wounds caused by cancer radiation treatments and for the healing of skin grafts. Most major insurance companies, in-cluding Medicare, cover hyperbar-ic oxygen treatments for the treat-ment of serious diabetic wounds.
Quick wound healing is impor-tant to prevent serious infection that can be life-threatening. Re-cent studies fi nd that diabetic pa-tients who use hyperbaric oxygen treatment along with traditional wound care signifi cantly reduce their risk of amputations of the
foot or leg from diabetic ulcers. The major drawback to hyper-
baric oxygen treatment is that it requires between 20 and 30 treat-ments to be effective.
“It’s not painful, but it is a time commitment,” Dr. Schuchmann explains. “Most patients require two hours a day of treatments, fi ve days a week, for about six weeks.”
Plus, the treatment is not safe for everyone, he adds. Increased atmospheric pressure in the cham-ber can worsen certain medical conditions like pneumothorax (a collapsed lung), congestive heart failure, cataracts or seizure disor-ders. The oxygen chamber is also not suitable for pregnant women or those with other underlying re-spiratory problems as well.
“But, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be very useful for some people as an adjunct treatment,” says Dr. Schuchmann.
For more information about hyperbaric oxygen therapy, contact the Fort Sanders Wound Treatment
Center at 865-541-2784.
Diabetic wounds can heal slowly
Non-healing wounds are particularly painful and dangerous for people living with diabetes. Foot ulcers are perhaps the most common, painful and debilitating side effect of the disease.
“People with diabetes have diffi culty fi ghting off infection,” explains Nina Cash, a Diabetes Nurse Educator at the Fort Sand-ers Diabetes Center.
She says diabetes can make skin dry and irritated, and more easily damaged. If a skin break occurs, the bacteria on the surface of the skin thrive on the extra sugar in the blood, often leading to in-fection. And, because diabetes damages nerve function, patients may be less likely to feel a wound until it’s severe.
That’s why Cash says the fi rst line in skin defense is getting control of a person’s disease.
At the Fort Sanders Diabe-tes Center, a team of dietitians, nurses and exercise physiolo-gists work to create a manage-ment plan for each patient with Type 1, Type 2 or gestational diabetes.
Patients receive education in group or one-on-one sessions based on their assessed needs, and the center encourages fam-ily members to attend the ses-sions as well. Getting control of the diabetes can not only prevent wounds, it can also head off other complications, including kidney, eye, heart and nerve damage.
“Without education, patients really have a hard time control-ling their disease,” says Fort Sanders Diabetes Nurse Edu-cator Tamra Davis. “When our dietitians see the patients, they calculate the person’s individu-alized needs, which are based on height, weight, age, activity level and usual eating habits. Most people can’t do that for them-selves.”
Davis says diabetes can be tricky, but not impossible to manage. “We’ve had some great success stories when our pa-tients realize they can control this disease by making healthy lifestyle choices. With educa-tion, they don’t feel helpless, they feel empowered.”
For more information about the Fort Sanders Wound Treatment
Center, call 865-541-2784.
For additional information about managing diabetes, contact the
Fort Sanders Diabetes Center at 865-531-5580.
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Theresa Edwards
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Tuesday, Dec. 20 ■ : 8:45 a.m., Tai Chi 1; 9:30 a.m., BB Bridge; 10 a.m., Tai Chi 2; 12:30 p.m., Canasta/PIN; 12:30 p.m., Yoga; 2
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Noon, Holiday movie and popcorn special, “The Bucket List.”
Thursday, Dec. 22: ■
10 a.m., Paint group; Fit; 12:30 p.m., Scrabble.
The center will be ■
closed Friday, Dec. 23, and Monday, Dec. 26, for the Christmas holiday.
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Last Wednesday at the Strang Senior Center’s lunch and learn program, Dr. Brian Edkin, surgeon for Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics, gave an informative presentation on the various treatment options available for those suffering from ar-thritis of the hip or knees.
Nearly 21 million Ameri-cans suffer from osteoar-thritis. Rheumatoid arthri-tis, the most crippling form of arthritis, affects approxi-mately 2.1 million Ameri-cans. Both forms of arthri-tis cause the wearing out of joints from the progressive deterioration of cartilage.
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Learning about arthritis
of injury, maintenance of ideal weight, exercise and in some instances surgery to fi x alignment problems.
Other treatments which may help relieve pain, but do not stop arthritis, are glucosamine/chondroitin supplements, pain relievers, anti-infl ammatory medica-tions, injections and braces.
Joint replacement is a treatment option to consider
when pain is moderate to severe; interferes with daily activities, work or enjoyable activities; and/or is accom-panied by other intolerable issues such as instability, loss of motion or deformity. An evaluation by an orthopaedic specialist would help deter-
mine the best treatment.More than 600,000 joint
replacements are expect-ed to be performed in the United States this year. Of those, 90 to 95 percent have favorable results. The goals of joint replacement are to relieve pain, restore motion, improve stability and cor-rect deformity (when pres-ent).
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The Strang Center invites you to their popcorn and holiday movie “The Bucket List” at 12:30 p.m. Wednes-day, Dec. 21. They also invite you to visit Thursday, Dec. 22, for free coffee, tea or hot cocoa. The Strang Center will be closed for Christ-mas on Friday, Dec. 23, and Monday, Dec. 26.
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Critter Tales
Thanks to several good Samaritans in the Knoxville area, a family of Anatolian shepherds are not only still alive, but they will be safe and warm this Christmas.
Local family fi nds peace at the holidays
The group of seven dogs (fi ve puppies and the mom and pop) were surrendered by a breeder to the Jefferson County Animal Shelter for reasons unknown. Carmen Tramell, local animal advo-cate and publisher of Critter magazine, is shuttling them to their next destination on behalf of the National Ana-tolian Shepherd Rescue Net-work.
The puppies will be fos-tered by Michael Samstag, founder of Knoxville Films. He has converted his garage into a “puppy house” for such an occasion. From his care, the puppies will most likely be transported up North where adoptable dogs are in greater demand.
The parents are currently being cared for at Meadow-brooke Kennel until a suit-able forever home has been selected for them.
Although these seven dogs will never be able to compre-hend the amount of work, time and effort it took to save their lives, and although they will never be able to say “thank you” to everyone who was involved, the many people responsible for sav-ing them will be ready – in a heartbeat – to do it all again.
Info: Visit www.nasrn.org.If you have a question or comment for
Sara, give her a call at 218-9378 or email
These fi ve young Anatolian Shepherds and their parents have
been given a second chance after being surrendered by a breeder
at Jeff erson County Animal Shelter. Photo by T. Edwards
RuthWhite
Sometimes the simplest things bring the biggest smiles.
The idea of giving presents at Christmas has always been part of the season, but when did giving big presents be-come the norm? Going deep into debt just to show appre-ciation to friends and family isn’t my idea of the path to take, so when you receive a hand-crafted gift this year, know that it was created with a heart fi lled of love.
Handmade ornaments are special gifts that can be given away or kept to deco-rate a tree with treasured memories. Seniors at the Halls Senior Center gathered last week to create unique ornaments that are sure to become treasures.
Director Darrell Gooding
Hand-crafted Christmas
taught class members how to create ornaments using ordinary light bulbs and turning them in to extraor-dinary gifts. Gooding used simple steps to create an or-nament that resembled the University of Tennessee’s mascot Smokey and even the self proclaimed inartis-tic individuals were able to take home a beautiful gift.
Gooding also showed the class other ornaments that have been created by friends of the center and by
Halls Senior Center director
Darrell Gooding assists An-
gelia Correll as she creates an
ornament using a light bulb.
Christmas tree ornaments can be created using a variety of items
that an individual may already have on hand. Photos by Ruth White.
Wanda Brown uses a marker
to sketch a design on a light
bulb that she will fi ll in with
paint to create an ornament.
The staff at Young-Williams would
like you to meet 2-year-old male
Labrador mix Holly Belle. He is
available for adoption at the main
center at 3210 Division St. The
“new” center at Young-Williams
Animal Village is at 6400 Kingston
Pike. Both facilities are now open
noon to 6 p.m. daily. If you don’t
have time to drop by and take a
look, visit www.young-williams.
org to see photos of all of the
center’s adoptables and call 215-
6599 for more information about
each pet.
the creative Amanda Patton. Patton used old Christmas cards and cut them in to circles of various sizes, lay-ering and creating a colorful tree ornament. Another use for old cards includes cut-ting into shapes and gluing them together to form a ball embellished with pretty rib-bon for hanging.
If you’re suddenly feel-ing creative, there’s still time to grab some glue, pretty paper, paint brushes and ribbon to make some beautiful ornaments and some sweet memories.
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Had it broken, she likely would have died at the scene.
Initially the couple was air-lifted to a local trauma center for treatment. Based on their injuries, Jean was admitted to ICU, Bill to a trauma fl oor. Neither knew what had happened to the other. After two days they were reunited on the trauma fl oor and eventually stepped down to an orthopedic fl oor. They spent a total of seven weeks in the hospital undergoing surgeries, skin grafts and wound care, but were not ready for physi-cal therapy.
In mid-June the Moungers were well enough to return home. Both families had come to visit while they were in the hospital and Bill’s father fl ew back home with them and stayed for fi ve months helping care for the couple.
Initially, the Moungers under-went home health and wound care treatment. In the fall, Jean was able to get a prosthetic leg. She has a special computerized C-Leg that is able to adjust as she progresses. The stronger she gets, the more fl exible it becomes. Once they were physically able, they started physical therapy at Parkwest.
“We asked around and visited several therapy centers,” said Bill. “We had concerns about fi nd-ing someone to work with Jean’s prosthetic leg. We’d been told that above the knee amputees can have a harder time regaining the ability to walk well. Once we spoke with Suzanne, we knew Parkwest was best place for us.”
When they started therapy in March of this year, Jean was us-ing a walker and Bill had just gone from crutches to a cane. The couple’s goals for physi-cal therapy included strengthening their core muscles, rebuild-ing their strength and endurance, and im-proving their gait. Cur-
Direct hit gives motorcycle couple devastating injuries
Both working hardto regain mobilityCharles “Bill” Mounger has
been to war twice with two sepa-rate deployments to Iraq, but nothing compares to the battle he and his wife, Jean, have been fi ghting since being victims of a horrifi c motorcycle accident on April 29, 2010.
Multiple surgeries, skin grafts, rods, plates and a computerized prosthetic leg later, the Moungers are well on the road to recovery, thanks in part to the Parkwest Therapy Center.
“The Moungers are an extraor-dinary couple,” said Suzanne Moskal, physical therapist work-ing with Jean. “Not only are they doing remarkably well physically and emotionally, they are amaz-ingly supportive of each other.”
“Bill is one of the hardest work-ing patients I’ve ever had,” said Mark Conley, physical therapist. “He has come so far and I can really push him. He has such a strong desire to do everything he possibly can.”
An active couple who regular-ly worked out, had a busy social life and took motorcycle trips to their favorite destinations, Bill, age 44, had just returned from his second tour in Iraq on Easter Sunday 2010. He and Jean, age 54, set out on a motorcycle trip to California to visit with Jean’s family for a few weeks. They were heading back home to Lenoir City and decided to take Route 66 on the way. As they were pulling into the town where they were planning to spend the night, they stopped at a red light just blocks from their hotel. When the light turned green they went through the intersection.
“I saw the car coming straight at us,” said Bill. “I cut hard to the left so he wouldn’t hit us head on. That’s the last thing I remember.”
With a focus on keeping patients Treated Well. Well Treated.®, the programs at Parkwest Therapy Center are nationally recognized for excellence in clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. The outstanding staff of physical, speech and occupational therapists draw from extensive experience and utilize the latest research and technology to achieve maximum patient function and pain relief. Many of the therapists have been awarded advanced certifi cations in order to offer specialty programs such as:
Certifi ed Mechanical Diagnosis Therapy through McKenzie ■
Advanced Sports Medicine with board certifi ed specialists ■
Certifi ed Hand Therapy ■
Certifi ed Neurological Rehabilitation ■
Aquatic Therapy ■
Certifi ed Vestibular Rehabilitation ■
MedX Spine and Cervical Therapy with certifi ed specialists ■
Certifi ed Neuromuscular Stimulation ■
Specialized Women’s Health and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction ■ Therapy
Certifi ed Functional Capacity and Ergonomic Evaluations ■
Located just off Pellissippi Parkway at the Fort Sanders West campus, Parkwest Therapy Center has ample free parking and easy access. A physician’s referral is required and most insurance plans are accepted. For more information about these or any of the services available at Parkwest Therapy Center, call 865-531-5710 or visit www.covenanttherapy.com.
Bill and Jean Mounger are all smiles following a session at the Parkwest
Therapy Center.
Jean Mounger, pictured with Parkwest Physical
Therapist Suzanne Moskal, navigating stairs
with her C-Leg.
The driver of the car hit a mini-van, then the Moungers on their motorcycle and two more cars be-fore fi nally coming to a stop. The driver was diabetic and apparent-ly suffering from low blood sugar at the time of the accident.
Bill was thrown from the bike while Jean ended up underneath
it. He suffered multiple fractures in his right pelvis, hip and leg as well as a shattered right ankle. Jean lost her right leg at the scene and had multiple breaks in her right forearm and upper arm. She considers herself fortunate, though – her femoral artery had been exposed but never ruptured.
Bill Mounger, pictured with Parkwest Physical Therapist Mark
Conley, works on regaining core strength and hip fl exibility at
the Parkwest Therapy Center.
rently, Bill is using a single caneand Jean is working toward a sin-gle cane from a tripod style.
“We live in a split-level house,”said Bill. “Before the accident, we’dnever thought about things likehow to get groceries into the housewhen we were both in wheelchairs.We ended up creating a rope witha hook pulley-system to get thingsup and down. We still use it forgroceries, laundry, anything thatwe need to get up and down.”
That same spirit and determi-nation has carried the Moungersthrough their journey. They areable to get around on their ownnow and are enjoying spendingtime with their 8-year-old grand-son, Colby.
“God has watched over us,” saidJean. “We still have some negativemoments but we don’t stay there.I want my life back and I’m slowlygetting it back.”
Bill and Jean say they often getasked about their injuries whenout in public and openly sharetheir story.
“If we can touch somebody’slife in some way and inspire them,then it’s worth it to talk about it.This has slowed us down but ithasn’t stopped us,” they said.
“Once we spoke with Suzanne, we knew Parkwest was best place for us.” – Bill Mounger
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