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NORTH / EAST

BUZZ

Rabies clinicsKnox County Health De-

partment and the Knoxville Veterinarian Medical Asso-ciation will hold rabies clinics Saturday, May 14, from 2-4:30 p.m. at several Knox County schools. Dogs and cats should be 3 months or older; cost is $10 per animal.

Sites include Bearden High, Bearden Middle, Brickey-McCloud Elementary, Carter Middle, Cedar Bluff Primary, and these elementary schools: Chilhowee, Christenberry, Gibbs, Hardin Valley, Karns, Mount Olive, Norwood, Ritta and Shannondale.

At the vaccination clinics, all pets must be restrained. Dogs should be on a leash, and cats should be in carriers or pillow-cases (a pillowcase is preferred because the vaccine can be administered through the cloth). People with aggressive or un-controllable dogs are advised to leave the pet in the car a nd ask for assistance at registration.

Housing market back from recession

Ed and Bob to Happy Holler

At-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will meet constituents 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at the Time Warp Tea Room, 1209 North Central.

Everyone is invited.

By Ruth WhiteGreen Magnet Academy stu-

dents are growing some green thumbs as members of the Garden Club, taking care of plants and seedlings inside the school green-house.

The students – third and fourth graders – have been known to give up recess time to come down to the greenhouse and care for plants inside and those in raised beds lining the front of the school.

The group partners with Wen-dy Howard of the UT EcoGardens, and their enthusiasm for all things green reached Greg Mackay with the city of Knoxville.

Mackay mentioned that sun-fl ower seeds had been planted along the banks near The Muse at Chilhowee Park.

When the seeds didn’t sprout, more were planted, and soon Mackay found out why they wouldn’t grow: ducks along the bank had found the seeds a treat and had eaten them all. That is when Mackay enlisted the green thumbs at GMA to plant the seeds in the greenhouse. Once grown, the sunfl owers would be planted along the banks.

With the help of Wendy How-ard, the students were able to calculate the rate of growth of the plants and the optimal time for transplantation.

Green’sgreen thumbs

Garden Club member Ca-

mariana Whitaker waters

plants in the greenhouse

at Green Magnet Acad-

emy. Photos by R. White

Dr. Amy Brace, princi-pal at Lonsdale Elementary School, will be the new prin-cipal at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy for the next school year. Current princi-pal Susan Espiritu is retir-ing, but will remain part-time as co-principal.

Wendy Hansard will re-place Brace at Lonsdale.

Espiritu is a veteran principal, having launched the community schools program while princi-pal at Pond Gap Elementary. She sa id she’s loved her time at SMG, the school where she did student teaching. She and Brace will work

Espiritu Brace Hansard

New principals for Lonsdale, Sarah Moore Greene

together through July and then Espiritu will take off August and September before returning part-time in October.

Brace also began her career at Sarah Moore Greene, joining KCS in 1992 as a physical educa-

tion teacher there. She was appointed as a magnet pro-gram lead educator in 2007, and was named assistant principal at Inskip Elemen-tary in 2008. She returned to SMG in 2011 as assistant principal and was appoint-ed principal at Lonsdale in 2012.

Brace holds a bachelor’s degree in physical education, a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction, and a doctorate in educational administration and supervision, all conferred by the University of Tennessee.

Wendy Hansard, assistant

principal at Lonsdale Elementary since 2012, will become princi-pal with the next school year. She joined Knox County Schools in 2003 as a fourth grade teacher at Inskip Elementary. She was ap-pointed as a systemwide literacy coach in 2008, and, in 2011, was chosen as a fellow in the second cohort of the Leadership Acad-emy.

Hansard holds a bachelor’s de-gree from Carson-Newman Uni-versity. She also holds both a mas-ter’s in education administration and an education specialist degree in administration and supervision from the University of Tennessee.

Pashion Davis, Mia

Davis-Tate and Jailon

Hill take care of newly-

planted sunfl ower seeds

as part of their Garden

Club duties at Green

Magnet Academy.

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Enjoy blooms, help seniors

The sixth annual PAWS Among the Blooms will be 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, at Stanley’s Greenhouse, 3029 Davenport Road.

Dogs on leashes are wel-come along with their humans. The event will feature hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine, plants, fl owers, a silent auction and music by Y’uns Jug Band fea-turing Michael Crawley.

Admission is $30 at the door. All proceeds benefi t Knox PAWS: Placing Animals With Seniors.

Powell StationReaders countywide may

enjoy a new feature.“Historic Powell Station”

will include alternating looks ahead (Sandra Clark) and back (Marvin West) as Powell at-tempts to recreate its down-town after a new, four-lane road diverted thru-traffi c off Emory Road.

This week Clark profi les a young couple who are building an Internet-based business in a 100-year-old warehouse on Depot Street. By Betty Bean

Knox County’s residential hous-ing market, the engine that drives the local economy, has bounced back from a long string of tough years, and those involved in build-ing, regulating and counting the money are happy to put the reces-sion years in the rear view mirror.

“We’re really pleased to see single family home construction recover so well,” said Dwight Van de Vate, Knox County’s senior di-rector of engineering and public works. “Pre-recession, we would sometimes see almost 250 homes a month – clearly unsustainable.

Then we cratered to a low of 35 one month. It’s been a wild ride. Now we have robust, fairly stable devel-opment, at levels we can manage. It’s a good place to be.”

Developer Scott Davis agrees.“In the last 13 months, we’ve

seen a very signifi cant turnaround in the housing market. For six or seven years, we didn’t do anything but fi ght the banks, and now we’re putting lots on the ground at the 2006 rate.”

Davis remembers 2006 as the last good year before the bubble burst.

“The housing boom we saw in

2007 was clearly not sustainable,” said Davis, who owns Eagle Bend Development. “Now, we’re grow-ing at a nice, healthy rate and our economy has rebounded very well – Knox County’s population has grown by 60,000 in recent years. There’s lots of stuff coming back toward the downtown area, and we’ve got six subdivisions work-ing, plus a 248-unit apartment complex off Hardin Valley Road.”

County Finance Director Chris Caldwell isn’t prone to enthusi-asm, but admits he likes the trends he’s seeing in his budget numbers.

“It’s good to see the growth in the

revenue that appears in our general fund. It’s an indicator that tells us our economy is growing and headed in the right direction and that alle-viates pressure on the budget.”

In fi scal year 2015, for example, Caldwell said revenue from build-ing permit fees came in at 125 per-cent of budget projections.

“We expected $925,000 and received $1.1 million, and it will be better this year. Through the month of April, we are at $994,000, and I can tell you that a year ago, we were at $879,000. We’re up 13 percent over April of last year.”

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health & lifestyles

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Two weeks can change your life Stroke survivor gets back on his bike

John McDermid is looking for-ward to the summer days ahead. He has big plans for his new re-cumbent trike.

“Plans are to ride every week-end on the trails around the area, if possible,” says McDermid, 57, who lives in Jefferson County, and works in Hamblen County. The recumbent trike is a multi-terrain vehicle McDermid can use on or off road, with an adjustable seat, rear wheel drive, and front two-wheel steering.

“It has a 28-speed gearing sys-tem like a typical mountain bike,” McDermid explains, “real smooth and comfortable.”

One of the most important fea-tures of the recumbent trike is its stability. McDermid is a stroke survivor who, just a few years ago, could barely walk. Therapy at Pa-tricia Neal Rehabilitation Center helped him get back on the road.

McDermid was at fi rst misdiag-nosed as having vertigo, then fur-ther symptoms were misdiagnosed as being related to the medication he’d been given. On Oct. 14, he lost all use of his limbs, and his wife called 911 for an ambulance to rush him to Knoxville. The fi nal di-agnosis was vertebral artery occlu-sion with dissection and stenosis of the basilar artery, meaning two of his arteries supplying blood to his brain were not doing their job.

Surgery was deemed too risky, so McDermid spent three weeks in the hospital’s critical care unit. The whole experience caught McDermid off guard, because he never suspect-ed he was at risk for a stroke.

Reviewing his risk factors at the time, there weren’t many to count. He’d dealt with a bit of hyperten-sion, and there had been some family history of heart disease, but on the whole, McDermid had been doing all the right things to stay healthy.

“I would say I was in decent shape and good weight as I was cycling quite a bit at the time, feel-ing life was good at 57 years old,”

“I would most defi nitely recommend

Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center

over any other place in the world,”

John McDermid says. McDermid suf-

fered a stroke in 2014.

John McDermid is active and

on the road again following

stroke rehabilitation at PNRC.

McDermid says. “No idea that something like this would happen to me, but it was not your regular stroke, either.”

It was a different person who checked out of the hospital in No-vember 2014. John McDermid, very active and seemingly in good health just a month earlier, now required assistance to accomplish daily tasks.

“I could not walk,” McDermid says, “but was able to move my left

limbs, having recovered some mo-bility on that side.”

McDermid was admitted to Pa-tricia Neal Rehabilitation Center for two weeks that changed the course of his life. “I did three hours of therapy Monday through Fri-day, and one hour on Saturdays,” he says. “The physical therapist had me doing a lot of lower limb work like the balance bar, trans-ferring from the wheelchair to the bed and back.”

Therapy took Mc-Dermid from the wheel-chair to a walker, and from the walker to a cane. He was also chal-lenged to master leg ex-ercises, and walking on stairs. An occupational therapist worked on his fi ne motor skills like ty-ing his shoe laces, get-ting dressed and work-ing with his hands.

“Speech therapy was by far the most chal-lenging,” McDermid says, “but rewarding.” The speech therapy consisted of cognizant therapy, problem solv-ing, multitasking, read-ing and writing.

McDermid met ev-ery challenge, and one reason for that was the

attitude of the therapists who were trying to help him. “Their compas-sion, work ethic and dedication to their professions are so apparent that it makes you want to work as hard as humanly possible,” Mc-Dermid says. “They are all so posi-tive that it’s infectious.”

Two weeks later he was re-leased to outpatient therapy closer to home. “Wow, there was a huge transformation,” he marvels.

Faith, family and friends gave McDermid the homegrown sup-port and encouragement he need-ed to heal, and return to his life back home. PNRC gave him the tools to get there.

“I would most defi nitely recom-mend Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center over any other place in the world,” McDermid says. “What they do is truly amazing, the ther-apy has been developed and tried, and it works.”

Stroke is the fourth lead-ing cause of death and a leading cause of serious, long-term adult disability. To learn how Patri-cia Neal Rehabilitation Center is helping stroke survivors get their lives back, visit patneal.org or call 1-800-PAT-NEAL (728-6325).

Think FAST!recognizing a stroke

Use the FAST test to

remember the signs of a stroke:

F = FACE: Ask the person to

smile. Does one side of the

face droop?

A = ARMS: Ask the person to

raise both arms. Does one

arm drift downward?

S = SPEECH: Ask the person to

repeat a simple sentence.

Does it sound strange or

slurred?

T = TIME: If you observe any

of these signs, call 911

immediately.

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The voice of experienceThere are several things John

McDermid wishes he had known before he had a stroke, and he hopes to help others who may be at risk. “Know your blood pres-sure, cholesterol level and stress levels,” he advises, “and listen to your body.”

While hospitals in small com-munities can offer great medical services, treatment of a stroke can require more specialized care.

“Know the hospitals that spe-cialize in stroke treatment,” he says. “Always call an ambulance rather than getting someone to

drive you to the hospital, because time saves lives, and speeds up di-agnosis and treatment.”

To those who are already stroke survivors, McDermid offers en-couragement.

“Be positive, listen to your doc-tors, nurses and therapists,” Mc-

Dermid says. “Do everything theytell you to and more, and nevergive up hope.”

McDermid also says a good sup-port system is critical to recovery,so “join a stroke support group,”he says, “and you will be amazedwhat you get out of it.”

NORTH/EAST Shopper news • MAY 11, 2016 • 3 community

On Sunday, May 15, ev-eryone is invited to walk, bike, scoot or dance at Open Streets Knoxville. A one-mile stretch of Central Street, from Willow Street in the Old City to Scott Ave-nue in Happy Holler, will be closed to all motorized traf-fi c from 1-6 p.m., allowing revelers a day of shopping, playing, exercising and so-cializing in the middle of the street.

Open Streets Knox-ville, hosted by Bike Walk Knoxville with signifi cant support from the city of Knoxville and Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization,

promotes physical activity and community interaction during this free event. This international initiative pro-motes healthy living, local businesses and sustainable transportation.

October’s event was a huge success with more than 3,400 in attendance. We expect more than 8,000 this time, said event coordi-nator Linda Gray.

Attractions include the Bubble Garden, AAA’s Safety Adventure Plaza, Speedy’s Ninja Obstacle Course, arts and crafts, kids’ yoga, live music, pick-leball, bubble soccer, a mini skateboard park, the Hard

Knox Roller Girls, free face painting and much more.

A mobile application will provide schedules for the performances, provide maps for food, water, re-strooms and parking. The app will also work like Facebook so folks can up-load pictures, post com-ments, and receive notifi ca-tions. The application can be downloaded at: Open Streets Knoxville.

Volunteers are needed. Sign up at VolunteerKnox-ville or email Open-streetsknoxvillevolunteer@gmail.com

Event info: openstreetsknoxville.com

Open Streets Knoxvilleto return Sunday

Nathaniel Jenkins and Andrew Doughty team up to plant fl owers in the Sunnyview garden.

COMMUNITY NOTES

■ Alice Bell Spring Hill Neigh-borhood Association. Info:

Ronnie Collins, 637-9630.

■ Beaumont Community Organization. Info: Natasha

Murphy, 936-0139.

■ Belle Morris Community Action Group meets 7 p.m.

each second Monday, City

View Baptist Church, 2311

Fine Ave. Info: bellemorris.

com or Rick Wilen, 524-5008.

■ Chilhowee Park Neighbor-hood Association meets

6:30 p.m. each last Tuesday,

Administration Building,

Knoxville Zoo. Info: Paul Ruff ,

696-6584.

■ Edgewood Park Neighborhood Association

meets 7 p.m. each third

Tuesday, Larry Cox Senior

Center, 3109 Ocoee Trail. Info:

edgewoodpark.us.

■ Excelsior Lodge No. 342

meets 7:30 p.m. each Thurs-

day, 10103 Thorn Grove Pike.

Info: Bill Emmert, 933-6032 or

w.emmert@att.net.

■ Family Community Educa-tion-Carter Club meets 10

a.m. each second Tuesday,

Carter Senior Center, 9036

Asheville Highway. Info: Anne

Winstead, 933-5821.

■ First District Democrats

meet each fi rst Monday,

Burlington Branch Library,

4614 Asheville Highway. Info:

Harold Middlebrook, harold-

middlebrook@gmail.com;

Mary Wilson, marytheprez@

yahoo.com.

Caring for Sunnyview

Sunnyview Primary principal Sydney Upton rakes mulch on the

playground during a recent work day at the school. Over 180 vol-

unteers spent a Saturday morning planting fl owers, spreading

mulch and helping spruce up the ground of Sunnyview as part

of Comcast Cares. Upton was excited to have her school selected

for the project and was thankful for the newly-spread mulch and

borders placed around the playground equipment. Photos by R. White

Gibbs High cheerleader Ali Webster lends a hand during the

Comcast Cares work day at Sunnyview. Volunteers from the

high school, Sunnyview, Comcast and Claxton Church of God

joined forces for the event.

SUMMER CAMPS ■ All American Camp, 9-11:30

a.m. Monday-Thursday, June

6-9, Angela Floyd Schools, 6732

Jubilee Center Way; or 9-11:30

a.m. Monday-Thursday, June

13-16, Angela Floyd Schools,

10845 Kingston Pike. Cost: $125.

Ages: 6 and up. Info/registration:

angelafl oydschools.com.

■ Camp Invention, Monday-

Friday, June 6-10, at the

following times and locations:

8 a.m.-2:30 p.m., A.L. Lotts

Elementary, 9320 Westland

Drive; Sequoyah Elementary

School, 942 Southgate Road;

Shannondale Elementary

School, 5316 Shannondale

Road; Blue Grass Elementary

School, 8901 Bluegrass Road;

and 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Farragut

Intermediate School, 208 West

End Ave. Cost: $230. Ages:

rising fi rst through rising sixth

graders. Info/registration:

campinvention.org or 800-

968-4332.

■ Camp Wallace Summer Day Camp, May 20-Aug. 5, Wallace Memorial Baptist

Church, 701 Merchant Drive.

Activities and fi eld trips for

children who have completed

kindergarten through sev-

enth grade. Info/registration:

Kristie Bell, 688-7270.

■ Camp Webb Sports Camps,

9 a.m.-2 p.m., 9800 Webb

School Lane. Camps include:

lacrosse, basketball, football,

tennis, soccer, cheer, gymnas-

tics and more. Info/schedule/

registration: campwebb.com

or 291-3840.

■ Camp Wesley Woods sum-mer camp, 329 Wesley Woods

Road, Townsend. Programs

for boys and girls grades K-11.

Info/registration: CampWes-

leyWoods.com or 448-2246.

■ Cartoon Camp, 9-11:30 a.m.

Monday-Thursday, July 11-14,

Angela Floyd Schools, 6732

Jubilee Center Way; or 9-11:30

a.m. Monday-Thursday, July

18-21, Angela Floyd Schools,

10845 Kingston Pike. Cost:

$125. Ages: 2-5. Info/registra-

tion: angelafl oydschools.com.

■ Christian Academy of Knoxville summer camps,

529 Academy Way. Variety of

camps, both athletic and aca-

demic, available throughout

June and July. Info/schedule/

registration: cakwarriors.com/

community/summer-camps;

athletics@cakmail.org.

■ Concord Park golf camps,

Concord Park, 10909 S. North-

shore Drive. Two-day camps for

ages 6-8, 9-11 a.m., May 24-25,

June 7-8, July 5-6, July 26-27;

cost: $50. Three-day camps for

ages 9-17, 9 a.m.-noon., May

31-June 2, June 14-16, June 21-

23, June 28-30, July 12-14, July

19-21, Aug. 2-4; cost: $100. Info/

registration: 966-9103.

■ Day camps, Arnstein Jewish

Community Center, 6800

Deane Hill Drive. Milton

Collins Day Camp for K-sixth

graders; Teen Adventures

Program for seventh-ninth

graders; Counselor-in-Train-

ing Program for 10th graders;

Camp K’Ton Ton for ages

2-pre-K. Sessions available

Monday, May 23-Friday, July

29. Info/registration: jewish

knoxville.org or 690-6343.

■ Explorer camp at Ijams, 10

a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday,

June 20-24 or July 18-22,

Ijams Nature Center, 2915

Island Home Ave. Cost: $245

members, $270 nonmembers;

includes a full day off -site trip.

Ages 9-14. Info/registration:

Lauren, 577-4717, ext. 135.

■ Great Smoky Mountains In-stitute at Tremont summer

camps for ages 9-17. Various

programs available June 13-

July 28. Info/schedule/regis-

tration: gsmit.org/Summer

Youth.html or 448-6709.

■ Guest Artist Intensives, 9

a.m.-5 p.m., Studio Arts for

Dancers, 1234 Rocky Hill

Road. Session 1: Monday-

Friday, June 13-17; Session 2:

Monday-Friday, June 20-24

Cost: $250/session. Info/regis-

tration: StudioArtsFor

Dancers.net or 539-2475.

■ Harry Potter camp at Ijams,

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday,

June 27-July 1, Ijams Nature

Center, 2915 Island Home Ave.

Cost: $225 members, $250

nonmembers. Ages 5-8 and

ages 9-14. Info/registration:

Lauren, 577-4717, ext. 135.

■ Ice Princess Camp, 9-11:30 a.m.

Angela Floyd Schools, 10845

Kingston Pike. For ages 2-5:

Monday-Thursday, June 6-9. For

ages 6 and up: Monday-Thurs-

day, July 11-14. Cost: $125. Info/

registration: angelafl oyd

schools.com or 675-9894.

■ Ice Princess Camp, 9-11:30

a.m., Angela Floyd Schools,

6732 Jubilee Center Way. For

ages 6 and up: Monday-Thurs-

day, July 18-21. For ages 2-5:

Monday-Thursday, July 25-28.

Cost: $125. Info/registration:

angelafl oydschools.com or

947-9894.

■ Intensive for the Serious Dancer, 9-11:45 a.m. Mondays,

Wednesdays and Fridays, July

5-22, Studio Arts for Danc-

ers, 1234 Rocky Hill Road.

Cost: $200. For rising Level

II-IV. Includes: ballet, modern,

improvisation, jazz, stretch for

dancers, musical theatre. Info/

registration: StudioArtsFor

Dancers.net or 539-2475.

■ Historic Fourth & Gill Neigh-borhood Organization

meets 6:30 p.m. each second

Monday, Central UMC, 201

Third Ave. Info: Liz Upchurch,

898-1809, lizupchurch1@

gmail.com.

■ Inskip Community As-sociation meets 6 p.m.

each fourth Tuesday, Inskip

Baptist Church, 4810 Rowan

Road. Info: Betty Jo Mahan,

679-2748 or bettymahan@

knology.net.

■ Oakwood Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association

meets 6:30 p.m. each fi rst

Monday, Community Club

House, 916 Shamrock Ave.

Info: Bill Hutton, 773-5228 or

s_wlhutton@yahoo.com.

■ Old North Knoxville meets

6:30 p.m. each second

Monday, St. James Episcopal

Church Parish Hall, 1101 N.

Broadway.

4 • MAY 11, 2016 • SOUTH KNOX Shopper news

The University of Ten-nessee has its fair share of problems, starting with a perceived lack of leadership.

To fund or not to fund the unusual diversity movement is a really big deal. Legis-lators are assisting in this decision. Prone protesters have clogged campus side-walks. Several professors who weren’t otherwise busy have emerged with carefully considered opinions.

Heavy, heavy hangs the Title IX lawsuit as a very dark cloud over many heads.

The baseball team goes right on losing in the fi nal year of good guy Dave Ser-rano’s coaching contract. Gentle leader Dave Hart may have to make a move.

With no idea of how far away are the Bristol seats

Celebrate! Good news at Tennessee

Marvin West

from the players, excit-able football fans want the Vols to schedule at least one game a year at the race track. About this daydream the boss can smile and re-main relatively calm.

Occasional positive news fl ows from the university but it arrives quietly and causes much smaller head-lines.

For example, today we celebrate academic progress by Tennessee athletes. Ev-erybody got at least a pass-

ing grade. I propose a raise for Dr. Joe Scogin, senior associate athletics director, assistant provost and di-rector general of Thornton Athletics Student Life Cen-ter (wow, what a title).

The Thornton Center provides academic support and assists with personal and career development. Numbers and benefi ciaries say Scogin actually makes a difference.

Thirteen years ago, the NCAA concocted an aca-demic progress formula – points for eligibility, re-tention and graduation of student-athletes – to gain a glimpse into whether schools were actually re-quiring players to go to school. I don’t want to know the complicated details but

the magic number is a four-year APR of 930.

Above that score are de-grees of OK, good and great. Below brings the threat of penalties, probation, loss of scholarships and, Heaven help us, even bowl ineligi-bility.

Tennessee football scored 956, up 11 points over last year, up 24 from two years ago and up 32 from three years ago – back when things were bad. Butch Jones gets a $50,000 bonus for 945 or better. He gets $100,000 if academic progress reaches 965. The coach is in charge of moti-vation. Thirteen of Tennes-see’s 18 sports teams scored higher than the national av-erage. Baseball, cross coun-try, combined swimming

and diving, combined ten-nis, women’s basketball and women’s track were among the programs with perfect 1000 APRs for the past aca-demic year.

You may have heard there was a time when college classes meant little or noth-ing to college athletes. It was said that going to school was just something that had to be done to be eligible to practice and play and make normal progress toward profession-al millions.

“Dumb jocks” was a fa-vorite put-down among crit-ics of college sports.

Derogatory comments are out of style, no longer appropriate.

Through the years, Ten-nessee may have had a dumb jock or three. One comes to mind. There have also been academic giants, going back to Everett Der-ryberry and Nathan Dough-

erty and moving forward to Vols who earn undergradu-ate degrees and add mas-ter’s within four years.

Derryberry, former half-back, went on to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in English. For 24 years, he was president of Tennessee Tech.

Dougherty, former tack-le, supposedly made A in everything. He is in the Col-lege Football Hall of Fame. He hired Bob Neyland as coach of the Vols. He helped organize the Southeastern Conference. The UT engi-neering building honors the great dean’s name.

Former center Bob John-son, College Hall of Fame, NFL standout, prominent Cincinnati business leader, is a member of the all-time Academic All-America team. That’s as good as it gets. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com

NickDella Volpe

Lots of questions about sidewalks have surfaced lately. Go to any community meeting in this city. Every-one wants more sidewalks: kids walking to school, moms pushing strollers, exercisers completing those 10,000 steps, other folks just enjoying a casual stroll out of harm’s way.

What is holding us back? Money, for one thing. Side-walks are costly, and bud-gets are fi nite. The work is included as part of the city’s budget process. Local tax dollars, not state money, pay for the work.

The mayor has proposed $2.7 million in her recent budget for fi scal 2016-17. What will that buy? Rough-ly a mile and a half of new sidewalks.

Sidewalk cost is estimat-ed by city engineering at an average $350 per linear foot. Do the math. A mile of

Chilhowee

Drive in

Holston Hills

has sidewalks,

but some say

they’re virtual-

ly impassable.

The sidewalk,

including the

curb, is just

less than fi ve

feet wide with

only two feet

between the

utility pole

and the grassy

hill beyond it. Photo by Nick Della Volpe

A stroll down sidewalk making

new sidewalk (5,280 feet) costs some $1.85 million, with variations depending on site topography, natural drainage, stormwater pip-ing, ADA compliance and other needs. So, the pro-posed budget could buy roughly 1.5 miles of side-walk, if the projects were all new ones. The proposal actually includes about three-fourths of a mile of repairs to existing, cracked and damaged surfaces, plus a mile of new sidewalk.

How does the city decide which locations get chosen?

I understand Knoxville uses a two-part process. One part is engineering-

based, ranking projects under a point system; the other is the administration’s priority. For new sidewalks, the engineers review and rank requests and observed need for sidewalks under a one- to 14-point assignment matrix, using fi ve criteria which ask:

■ Is it within the paren-tal responsibility zone for schools?

■ Is it a missing segment in an existing walkway?

■ What’s the pedestrian usage?

■ What’s the road’s clas-sifi cation (is it a major or minor arterial, a collector, or a local street)?

■ Is it on a KAT route?Armed with that list, the

administration considers po-litical priorities in choosing how much money is available and what projects to fund. Private contractors are hired to do much of the work.

Repairs to broken and dangerous sidewalk seg-ments are primarily deter-mined by complaints. Prob-lem areas are examined and assigned a priority level (1, 2 or 3). Small repairs can be done by city’s public service crews. Larger ones are con-tracted out, along with the new projects.

The backlog of requested new sidewalk projects is huge. My review of the engi-neering list shows there are 157 projects, covering some 396,315 linear feet of work (that’s 75 miles!), with an estimated total cost of some $138 million. Whew! Takes your breath away. Check back with me in 50 years.

What about new subdivi-sions?

Should Knoxville re-quire developers to include sidewalks as a part of the plans? It is certainly a desir-able amenity and would be

a positive selling point. The curb and gutter work is al-ready required as part of the subdivision roads require-ment.

As I understand it, MPC staff often recommend side-walks during their review, but do not compel their in-clusion. The full commis-sion, a more political body,

acts on these recommenda-tions. It sometimes agreesand sometimes does not.

That policy should bere-evaluated. A communitycommitted to walkabilityshould require new addi-tions to include a sidewalkon at least one side of theinterior roads. Nick Della Volpe represents District 4 on

Knoxville City Council.

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Betty Bean

Yogi Berra was supposed to have said, “I didn’t say half of those things I said.”

However that works, one of the things he may have said was something like, “You can observe a lot of stuff by just watching.” Or to enlarge upon that thought a bit, I would say you can ob-serve a lot of new stuff out-doors by just taking time to watch for a little while.

Our friends across the water, those eccentric Brit-ish birders, have a some-what derogatory term for certain of their comrades – “twitcher” – someone who hurriedly birds along, sees a bird, marks his or her bird list, and then is immediate-ly off for the next one, the one just seen immediately forgotten – that’s a twitcher.

But in reality, there is much more going on out there than can be seen with a quick glance at a bird, or a bug or a fl ower. They are all out there in the midst of having lives, often doing interesting and unexpected things. A few personal ex-amples follow.

We’ve had yard tur-keys all winter. There was a momma and fi ve half-grown young ones at fi rst, searching every nook and cranny of our place for grasshoppers, bugs and other edibles. They became

This month marks the end of Sydney Gabrielson’s term as student represen-tative to the Knox County Board of Education. She’ll hand off the job to Sydney Rowell, a rising senior at Hardin Valley Academy, at the June workshop meeting. She’ll give her some Sydney-to-Sydney pointers and try to help her feel at ease.

“We will both sit at the board table and I’ll show her some tricks of the trade – like how you pull your mic down after you talk.”

By then she will have al-ready received her diploma from Bearden High School, where she is class saluta-torian and carries a 4.51 grade point average (more or less – the fi nal calcula-tions haven’t been made yet). Come this fall, she will attend the University of Ala-bama as a UA Fellow – the equivalent of a Haslam Fel-lowship at UT.

Gabrielson credits one special teacher for guiding her probable career path.

“I am planning on major-ing in fi nance or econom-ics, and I’ve never had a teacher be as infl uential in my life as Matt McWhirter, my economics teacher this year. He went to Vanderbilt, then dropped out to become

Jim McIntyre will head up UT’s Center for Educa-tional Leadership start-ing Aug. 1. His salary of $180,000 represents a pay cut from what he made as superintendent of Knox County Schools, but he walked away from his cur-rent job with a year’s salary. In other words, for the upcoming year, he will earn more than twice $180,000.

McIntyre was hired by Bob Rider, dean of the Col-lege of Education, Health and Human Sciences. Since McIntyre is not a tenured professor, he is an at-will employee, according to Margie Nichols, vice chan-cellor for communications.

UT has had a hard time fi lling the job, as Nichols also said that the hiring of McIntyre came after two national searches to fi ll this position failed to produce a candidate whom UTK wanted to hire. Consequently the third try was what academia calls a “targeted search,” which allowed a direct hire of McIntyre. Clearly, this posi-tion has been vacant for some time, but McIntyre was nearby and anxious to remain in Knoxville.

■ Police Chief Da-vid Rausch received a prolonged standing ovation at the May 6 Emerald Youth Foundation breakfast attended by over 1,000 people. Many have gravitat-ed to Rausch over the past several months as he fi ghts gang violence in Knoxville. His boss, Mayor Rogero, was not present.

■ The state’s new $160 million museum in Nashville will have 11,000 fewer square feet than the museum it’s replacing. Advocates say the new mu-seum will be much better confi gured.

One would think the new museum would be larger than the old in order to display its many artifacts as well as over 350 Red Grooms paintings held by the museum. When com-

Dr. Bob Collier

McIntyre was

‘targeted’ hire for UT

pleted, the new museum will almost immediately need to be expanded as it is being built a size too small due to budget constraints.

Forty million of the $160 million is being raised privately with Gov. Haslam taking the lead. Appar-ently no decision has been made on whether the names of donors and amount of gifts will be disclosed. If not, expect it to become a political issue in the name of government transparency.

■ With UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek expected to step down as he nears 70, Susan Martin departs as provost Aug. 1, leaving after serving just two years of her second fi ve-year term. Cheek spokesperson Margie Nichols winds up her work in June. She says over 80 applications have come in for her position. Were any from East Tennessee?

■ State Sen. Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) held a fundraiser in Knox-ville on April 28, which raised over $35,000 for his congressional campaign for the open seat in West Tennessee. He is related to Watty H all, wife of Knox-ville attorney Chris Hall, and is one of 12 candidates in the GOP primary.

The event was co-sponsored by Mayor Tim Burchett, state Sens. Becky Massey, Richard Briggs, Randy McNally, Ken Yager and Doug Overbey, along with Wes Stowers, John Turley, Ed Shouse, Hugh Nystrom and former vice mayors Jack Sharp, Nick Pavlis and Joe Bailey.

Kelsey, 38, chairs the Senate Judiciary Commit-tee. The fundraiser was held at this writer’s home.

Sydney Gabrielson

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a rock star, then went to law school and fi nally decided to teach economics. When they say teachers make a difference, he is living proof of that.”

Soft-spoken and polite, Gabrielson has never shied from speaking about issues affecting her fellow students.

“I guess I’ve been pretty outspoken,” she said. “I re-ally tried to make sure stu-dents’ voices were heard.”

The fi rst issue she weighed in on was a pro-posal to change the way high school classes are scheduled. After talking to students from different parts of the county, she op-posed the plan to go from block scheduling to seven classes per day, an idea that had been pitched as a way to save the county money.

“The students I talked to did not want to change, and ultimately, the student voice outweighed economics,” she said.

Getting to know students from all over Knox County was one of the most enjoy-

able things about being a student rep, she said.

“The best experience of all was getting heav-ily involved in the Knoxville community. Growing up, I was kind of segregated in West Knoxville, but this past year, I’ve learned so much. I learned that Knox-ville is so much more than just where I live.”

Gabrielson joined “Lead-ers for Readers” through the Great Schools Partnership which allowed her to work with second-graders who needed a little extra help.

“I was really happy that I could do my own thing and give back to my communi-ty,” she said. “I learned how different students learn and learned to understand how you have to approach every-thing differently.”

Although the work was gratifying, she said the most diffi cult aspect of the position of student rep was handling the turmoil on the board, which is deeply split on a number of funda-mental issues, particularly the performance and phi-losophy of Superintendent James McIntyre.

“Sometimes meetings were very uncomfortable. The board did not agree on many things,” she said.

This summer, she’ll take a break from academics and join several friends to work as lifeguards at Arnstein Jewish Community Center, although her summer break will end the fi rst week in August because she is plan-ning to participate in soror-ity rush.

“Hopefully, my work with the Alabama Fellowship will help me decide exactly what I want to do,” she said. “Civic engagement, or may-be follow in my mom’s foot-steps and go to law school? I’m not sure yet.”

She says nobody’s given her a hard time about going to Alabama, and she’s got one key phrase down pat:

“Roll, Tide, Roll.”

Don’t be a ‘twitcher’

so accustomed to me on the mower and Grandma do-ing her walks, that when we encountered them they would just look up, as if to acknowledge that we were their usual people, and go right on back to grazing.

The group broke up this spring as turkey groups do, but one has still been around, checking the yard out for new spring food items. And one morning a couple of weeks ago, as I sat looking out from the breakfast table, I observed a new thing – the turkey was going through the backyard, picking off the round fl uffy dandelion heads one by one, seeds sticking out from both sides of its beak, till they were all gone. I could only wonder how many dan-delion heads it would take to fi ll up a turkey. Perhaps they’re high in vitamins or minerals.

Another example of the rewards of patiently watch-ing: a recent trip to the Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery in Clinton. We go out there

frequently and drive slowly around the well-kept gravel roads between the big fi sh ponds; the place is always full of interesting birding sights. This was in early April, and the fi rst spring migrants, the various swal-lows, had appeared only about a week before.

Two killdeer were walk-ing back and forth across the road. Instead of just ticking them off the list and mov-ing on to something more interesting, we paused and watched for a bit. And to our amazement, there appeared four baby killdeer, looking like baby Easter chicks on very long legs, scurrying here and there as only baby chicks will do.

And the nervous, watch-ful parents? We got to see them taking turns at the old “broken-wing act,” wherein the parent bird fl ops around, seemingly helplessly in-jured, staying just ahead of the car until we were safely away from their babies; then they zipped away, sud-denly healthy again.

The fact that those kill-deer parents had babies up and going in April meant that the eggs were laid over a month before we saw them, during the cold days of March. A family story un-folding before our very eyes!

Sometimes you go to

Eagle Bend or Norris or the Smokies to observe. And sometimes the observ-ing comes to you. For years we’ve had a pair of loud, bossy and overactive Caro-lina wrens that nest just outside our kitchen window on a ledge inside the back porch roof. We couldn’t avoid observing them if we wanted to. But we wouldn’t miss them for anything.

Carolina wrens are overachievers – they will produce as many as three broods in a season. Both male and female sing, sometimes in duet, and use as many as 40 differ-ent songs. You can usually recognize their singing, just as you would a certain per-son’s singing, by the sound of their voice – in this case, loud, clear, intrusive – rath-er than by the specifi c song they’re doing at the time. They like to start singing early, too, say around day-light. Under the bedroom window.

So as we sit there in the kitchen and eat three meals a day, or read the paper, or do a little paperwork, we can’t help but hear and ob-serve all that baby-wren-rearing activity a few feet away. In addition to un-countable trips back and forth to their nest with bugs and worms for the babies, received with a loud chorus of peeping and cheeping, there are also housekeeping trips away from the nest.

Many nestling birds, wrens included, expel a tidy, white blob of waste called a fecal sac, sort of a pre-wrapped dirty diaper. You will see an adult bird fl y away from the nest with a white object in its beak, to be discarded away from the nest. A clean nest is much less susceptible to parasites and bacteria harmful to the nestlings.

After a few feeding and housekeeping trips to the nest, our wrens take a break by fl ying to a nearby dog-

wood tree and singing loud-ly, just to remind everything within earshot that this is their nest, house and yard. I must say they are a lot more entertaining than w atching the local 6 o’clock news.

Catching a glimpse of a long-sought rare bird is cause for major celebration, but there’s a lot to be said for the remarkable insights into the workings of Nature that can be had by some plain old watching. You observ-ers out there will know what I’m talking about.

6 • MAY 11, 2016 • NORTH/EAST Shopper news

SENIOR NOTES ■ Carter Senior Center

9040 Asheville Highway932-2939Monday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Off erings include: card

games; exercise programs;

arts and crafts; movie mati-

nee Fridays; Senior Meals,

noon Wednesdays.

Register for: Field trip:

tour of STAR facility, 10

a.m. Friday, May 13. Field

trip: Harrah’s Casino, 9

a.m. Monday, May 23; cost:

$30.

■ Corryton Senior Center9331 Davis Drive688-5882knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday

Off erings include: ex-

ercise classes; cross-stitch,

card games; dominoes,

crochet, quilting, billiards;

Senior Meals program, 11

a.m. each Friday.

Register for: Free First

Aid Certifi cation class, 11

a.m.-3 p.m. Monday, May

23; open to the commu-

nity. Golf outing: Whittle

Springs, 9 a.m. Wednesday,

May 25; cost: $22; RSVP by

May 20.

■ Larry Cox Senior Center3109 Ocoee Trail546-1700Monday-FridayHours vary

Off erings include: exercise programs; bingo;

arts and crafts classes.

■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center611 Winona St.523-1135knoxseniors.org/oconnor.htmlMonday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Off erings include: Card

games, billiards, senior

fi tness, computer classes,

bingo, blood pressure

checks 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Monday-Friday. Senior

Job Fair, Wednesday, May

25; info: Kayleen Weaver,

524-2786.

By Betsy PickleLaughter and a few tears

mingled as alumni of His-toric Knoxville High School met for their 2016 All-Class Reunion and Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Around 200 alumni and guests gathered at Bearden Banquet Hall for the fes-tivities. The banquet room was decorated with the old school’s colors – blue and white – and photographs and yearbooks from the school, which opened in fall 1910 and closed at the end of the school year in 1951.

The youngest grads are in their early 80s and the old-

est in their late 90s, but the crowd was lively – greeting each other with enthusiastic hugs and handshakes. They were also excited to hear from the speaker, Rick Dover of Dover Developments, who is converting the old high school at 101 E. Fifth Ave. into a senior living residence.

Dover also spoke at last year’s event and at that time was made an honorary KHS alumnus. This year, he gave an update on progress at the building, which he expects to be fi nished by late 2016. One of the main points of interest was making sure the Doughboy statue, hon-

Hal Ernest, standing, left, named an honorary alumnus of Historic Knoxville High School, joins

the newly inducted KHS Hall of Fame group: Bill Christenberry, Jack Everett Smith, Steve Cak-

mes, Dr. Martin Davis; seated: Dr. Joe Acker, Sara Fisher Frazer, Chris Edmonds (representing his

late father, Roddie Edmonds) and Doug Matthews.

Emma Lou Coffi n (class of 1950) and Jim Coffi n and George

McAfee (both class of 1944) are ready for the program to begin.

Mary Anne Christenberry Bell, Nancy McCrary Burnett and

Reenie Lay Ernest catch up at the reunion.

Harvey Sproul, Knoxville

High School Alumni Asso-

ciation president, welcomes

KHS classmates to the Hall of

Fame and all-class reunion at

Bearden Banquet Hall.

Historic Knoxville High inducts new Hall of Famers

oring soldiers who died in World War I, would remain on the property. Dover said it will, and he’s working with local government to make sure the site is pro-tected as a park.

Seven of the eight induct-ees were in attendance: Dr. Joe Acker, class of 1935; Steve Cakmes, ‘42; Bill Christenberry, ‘51; Dr. Mar-tin Davis, ‘39; Sara Fisher Frazer, ‘50; Doug Matthews,

‘40; and Jack E. Smith, ‘46. The late Roddie Edmonds, ‘38, was represented by his son, Chris Edmonds.

The group listened re-spectfully as alum Bill Lawhon paid tribute to KHS Alumni Association treasurer Worth Campbell, who died earlier that day. They also had a moment of silence for other classmates who had passed away since the last reunion.

a.m. Sunday, May 15, at Big Ridge State

Park, Tea Room. Bring a covered dish,

fi shing poles, games to play, cameras.

Lunch, 1 p.m.

■ Bearden High School Class of ’66

reunion is Oct. 14 at Hunter Valley

Farm. Info: Joe Bruner, 399-5951 or

jobruner01@yahoo.com.

■ Central High School Class of 1964’s

70th birthday party, 6-10 p.m. Satur-

day, June 25, Grande Event Center,

5441 Clinton Highway. Cost: $30,

includes full buff et. Info: David, CHS-

64grad@gmail.com.

■ Fulton High School Class of 1966

50th reunion, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

6, Calhoun’s on the River, 400 Neyland

Drive. Cost: $25. Reservations deadline:

July 15. Reservations/payment: Fulton

High School 1966 Reunion, c/o Doug

Welch, 890 Hansmore Place, Knoxville

TN 37919. Info: Dougwelch1948@

yahoo.com.

■ The Knoxville Central High School Class of 1966 50th reunion, Saturday,

Oct. 8, Beaver Brook Country Club. Info:

Gail Norris Kitts, gnkitts@yahoo.com.

REUNION NOTES ■ The Halls High class of 1971 reunion,

6 p.m. Saturday, May 14, Li’l Jo’s in

Maynardville. Cost: $20 at the door. BYO

spirits or beer can be purchased at the

restaurant. RSVP: 963-5087, 922-8070 or

wolfec4@gmail.com.

■ Annual Reynolds Family Reunion, 11

NORTH/EAST Shopper news • MAY 11, 2016 • 7 faith

FAITH NOTES ■ First Comforter

Church, 5516 Old Taze-

well Pike, hosts MAPS

(Mothers At Prayer

Service) noon each Fri-

day. Info: Edna Hensley,

771-7788.

By Cindy TaylorThe Holston Hills area got

a cleanup and the communi-ty park got a facelift April 30 thanks to Eastminster Pres-byterian Church.

Church members and residents walked the entire length of Chilhowee Drive picking up trash before spending two more hours at the community park water-ing, weeding and planting.

Holston Hills resident Millie Ward, co-chair of the Holston Hills Garden Club, worked with the church to arrange the date and time

for the youth and other church members to help out in the community.

Holston Hills was recent-ly awarded a grant from the city of Knoxville to further the work on the community park. Future plans include adding benches, trees and walkways.

“The church approached us about doing some volun-teer work in the neighbor-hood,” said Ward. “This not only makes the neighbor-hood look better but helps accumulate hours to sub-stantiate our grant money.”

cross currentsLynn Pittslpitts48@yahoo.com

Sometimes when I am looking for something else, I stumble across a Biblical text which I have somehow missed (or forgotten).

That is how I discovered the word Mazzaroth. I was wandering around in Job’s frustration, and there it was. Say, what? Who?

So I looked it up (which my mother taught me so well to do: “Let’s look it up,” she always said) and there it is: Mazzaroth! Which, of course, sent me to the foot-notes. No meaningful help there. That is where the all-knowing Internet came to the rescue.

Mazzaroth is a very old name for the 12 constella-tions of the Zodiac; it is a tool that uses the stars to tell a story. Fair enough.

However, there is more learning to be done! The word Mazzaroth is also a hapax legomenon! (Could I possibly make this stuff up?) A hapax legomenon is a word that appears only once in a text.

Really, I worry about the scholars who go through books looking for hapax legomenons. Do they truly have nothing else to do? And then I begin to wonder if legomenons is actually the correct plural form of lego-menon. Turns out, it isn’t; the correct plural is legome-na. (Begins to sound like “Leggo my Egg-o, doesn’t it?)

If you have read thus far in these musings, I suspect you are one of “us” – those people who love to learn, and especially love to learn unusual and very new, or very old words!

Of stars and wordsCan you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the

cords of Orion? Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with it s chil-dren? Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

(Job 38:31-33 NRSV)Eastminster Presbyterian Church admin Hope Foulds and

Holston Hills resident Clarita Buff aloe discuss ongoing eff orts

in the community park. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Millie Ward breaks ground to plant the new tree.

Bobby Winter, Caleb White, Tiff any

White and Colin Foulds step up to

continue the task of digging.

Bobby Winter, Eastminster Presbyterian

Church pastor the Rev. Sean White, Millie

Ward, Natalie White, Caleb White and

Lindsey Sands complete the tree planting.

Sowing the seeds of community

Hope Foulds is admin for Eastminster Presbyte-rian Church. She says the church wants to move more in the direction of commu-nity service.

“We wanted to be more involved in our community,” said Foulds. “All those here were willing to give up their Saturday morning to help plant, weed and water. We are thrilled to develop this relationship and partner-ship. Our offer to help was well received and our recep-tion here in Holston Hills has been phenomenal.”

Youth from the church donated and helped plant a redbud tree in the park while residents planted iris-es around the park sign.

Holston Hills resident Clarita Buffaloe came decked out in her gardening shoes for the event.

“Today was approximate-ly 31 hours of labor, which got us halfway to our la-bor match as instructed by the grant guidelines,” said Buffaloe. “This was a great time of fellowship with the church and community.”

By Carol Z. ShaneIt will be a special evening this

Sunday, May 15, when Salem Baptist Church presents “A Night of Worship.” This group-led musical evening features all ages, and will be followed by a recep-tion honoring musician Bill Hunter and his 20 years of service to SBC.

“This year, we at Salem have placed a huge emphasis on multi-generation-al worship,” says Worship Arts Pastor Tim McCarty. “We want to see kids worshipping the Lord right next to their parents and grandparents. This night is a perfect example of that.

“Our preschool choir and elementa-

ry choir will be sharing a couple songs each. They will also join with our stu-dents and adults to sing a fun arrange-ment of ‘Thrive’ by Casting Crowns.”

McCarty says, “In addition to music from our choirs and instrumentalists, the pastoral staff is going to be walk-ing through the question, ‘Why Do We Sing?’ We believe God has given us the gift of music for many different reasons, and we’re going to be sharing nine of those reasons throughout the night. Following the worship service, we will have a special reception to honor Bill Hunter, who has been serv-ing as an instrumentalist at Salem for

the last 20 years.”“I am grateful for Bill and his fam-

ily, who are actively involved in the life of our church family,” says the Rev. Allen James. “Bill is a faithful servant and a talented musician.”

McCarty says, “We are truly look-ing forward to this special night of worship and we would welcome any-one from the community to join us!”

“A Night of Worship” happens at 6:30 p.m. this Sunday, May 15, at Salem Baptist Church, 8201 Hill Road in Halls. Info: 865-922-3490 or mysalem baptist.com.Send story suggestions to news@shoppernewsnow.com.

‘A Night of Worship’ at Salem Baptist

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RuthWhite

Observing Earth DayGerdau Knoxville vice president and general manager

Johnny Miller, center, encourages kindergartners Xavier

Stewart, left, and Andrea Ramos Herrera at Lonsdale El-

ementary School during an Earth Day activity. Employees

from the steel recycler painted clay pots with a total of 25

kindergarten and fi rst-grade students.

Career Magnet hosts open doors nightCareer Magnet Academy

opened its doors and wel-comed students, parents and community members inside to see what goes on during the school day.

facts about drunk driving and the dangers of driv-ing under the infl uence as a public service announce-ment and asked students to sign a Wolf Pact card prom-ising not to drink and drive.

The Sustainable Living career path students pre-sented displays including models for sustainable liv-ing architecture and the effects of green roofs on ur-ban heat.

Teaching as a Profession students presented displays that enhanced their creativ-ity on designing the perfect school. Student groups were required to create a school and curriculum that would make the best impact on education.

Students in the Sustain-able Development pathway showed their inventions, including adding lights to tennis shoes, robots and

The academy has four dif-ferent pathways that students can pursue – Homeland Se-curity, Sustainable Living, Teaching as a Profession and Sustainable Develop-ment and the event allowed students who might be in-terested in the school to see fi rsthand what is learned and also allowed parents of cur-rent students to see what they have worked on this school year.

Homeland Security stu-dents built models of pris-ons and showed how they have changed during the years. The group presented

the adaptive basketball goal that will be sent to elemen-tary schools and will allow students with disabilities to play ball with their friends.

Connor Peak

shows a model

of a fi rst gen-

eration prison

from the 1700-

1800s during

the showcase.

Keegan Toomey gives a dem-

onstration of a robot during

the open house event.

Call Ruth at

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Ruth.white@shoppernewsnow.com

Story So Far: As S.O.R.’s special soccer team continues to loose, and lose badly, pressure to win is about to applied.

I knew we were heading for trouble when every team member got a message from our principal, Mr. Sullivan. He wanted to see us during our lunch hour.

“What do you think he wants?” Porter asked me. Since I was captain, they thought I had answers.

“I think we’re only going to be allowed to play third-grade teams,” suggested Root, looking up from an electronic diagram that reminded me of a plate of spaghetti.

Mr. Sullivan, the principal, didn’t strike me as a sports guy. He was small, thin, pinched up and tense. His offi ce was the storage room for every trophy, ribbon and fl ag the school had ever won. I mean, walk in there, and you knew you were expected

to win.Mr. Sullivan began with a smile. “So, this

is the Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team. How’s it going?” he asked.

“Could be worse,” said Fenwick.“Next game,” agreed Barish.“You’re not going to give up, are you?”

asked Mr. Sullivan. I suspect most of us wanted to say “Yes.”“I suppose you think you’re not very

good,” he said.“Honesty is the best policy,” said Eliscue.“You’re new to the game,” said Mr. Sul-

livan. “Have faith in yourselves. I know you can do well.”

“How come you know,” asked Saltz, “and we don’t?”

Mr. Sullivan seemed taken aback. “I just do,” he said.

“Any evidence?” asked Barish.

“Boys,” said Sullivan, “if you believe in yourselves, you can do anything.” He ges-tured to the trophies. “Don’t have a defeat-ist attitude. It will haunt you the rest of your lives. Do I look like an athlete?”

“No.”“Well, I run 27

miles once a week. Now look at me.”

I did. I didn’t see any difference.

“How come you do it?” asked Por-ter.

“I like it.”“Well, we don’t

like this,” Hays said.

“Besides, we stink,” put in Ra-dosh.

“As long as you believe that,” said Sullivan, “you’ll lose. Find the true South Orange River at-titude: never accept defeat.”

“Even if we lose?” I said.He ignored me. “Don’t give up. Look at

me in the eye and promise.”I did, which is when I noticed he was

slightly cross-eyed. It took the edge off my promise.

He let us go then, telling us he’d come to one of our games to cheer.

Before splitting up, we stood outside his offi ce. “I’m beginning to think we might be an embarrassment to someone,” said Saltz.

“Maybe he’ll call the whole thing off.”We let that fond but empty hope cheer us.“I think they want to teach us a lesson,”

I said.“Which is?” asked Barish.No one knew.As we started to scatter, I called, “An-

other game Friday. Sanger School. Don’t forget.”

“I’m trying,” said Dorman.Saltz stayed by my side. “I made up a

team poem,” he said. “Want to hear it?”“Do I have a choice?”He pulled out his notebook and read:“There once was a team from South Or-

ange River,Who simply could never deliver.Given a way to choose,They always found new ways to lose,That marvelous, special, seventh-grade team from beautiful, successful, never-winning and always-losing South Orange River.”“You and Shakespeare,” I said.“Think he was good in sports?” he asked.“Sure, right fi eld for the London Loo-

gies.”Sanger School came to our fi eld. That

meant we could have had a crowd of people watching. We did have a crowd, or rather a crowdette. A little girl wandered by. She wasn’t older than fi ve. Whatever she saw, she was very smart or we were very obvi-ously bad. After ten minutes, she left. We were already losing by fi ve goals.

Main highlight of the game: In the sec-ond period, Fenwick took a nasty kick in the shins. Down he went, yelling, screaming, and crying bloody murder. He was rolling on his back, holding on to his leg, trying to make sure it stayed on.

As I’ve learned, what you’re supposed to do is nothing. Ignore it. Play on. Hang tough. Be men.

Not us. I mean, the guy was our friend, even if he was great in math. Without even thinking about it, we all rushed over and stood around trying to make him feel bet-

ter.The referee ran up to us, yelling that we

were supposed to keep playing.“He’s hurt,” I explained. Fenwick was, I

admit, yelling softer by then.“Ball’s still in

play!” cried theref. “Ball’s still inplay!”

Sure enough.They scored a goal.Walked it in. Whatdid we care? It wasonly one of twenty-two.

Later, in thelocker room, Mr.Lester called us toattention.

“Gentlemen,” hesaid, “I think it’svery kind of you tobe concerned whena teammate gets

hurt. But the game is such that you’re notsupposed to stop. Fenwick, you weren’t hurtso badly, were you?”

“No.”“He looked it,” I said.“Perhaps more startled than hurt,” sug-

gested Mr. Lester. “The thing is, they scoreda goal.”

“They scored lots of goals,” Root remind-ed him. “We’ve got only one Fenwick.”

Mr. Lester blushed and sighed. “Tell me,gentlemen,” he said, “are you getting anypleasure from this?”

There was a long, long silence.“Any?” he tried again.“We stink,” said Lifsom. “We really do.

We’re never going to win. Wouldn’t it bebetter to just give up?”

Mr. Lester stood tall. We stood short. Hehad a look I’d not seen before. I bet GeneralRobert E. Lee had exactly that look when hesent his men on Pickett’s Charge up Cem-etery Ridge at Gettysburg.

“Gentlemen,” he said, “I want you toknow, I believe in you.” He actually made afi st. I never even knew Mr. Lester had one.“You can win!”

I had this uncomfortable feeling. “How?”I wanted to know.

“Because you won’t give up.”“We’d like to,” said Eliscue.“Gentlemen,” cried Mr. Lester, “don’t be

losers. Be winners.”“I got an A-plus on my last math test,”

said Fenwick. “Mr. Fenwick,” said Mr. Lester, shouting

in his smallest, lowest voice, “I’m talkingabout sports.”

“Oh,” said Fenwick.“Three more games,” said Mr. Lester.

“Believe!”In school the next day, I was working on

the history project with Lucy Neblet. Wewere hunched over this table, having a goodtime. Out of nowhere, the school newspaper— which the kids make up — came fl utter-ing down to cover our work.

“Hey!” I cried, looking up to see who didit. There was Cat-Face Charlie, a kid fromclass, who everyone knew had a crush onLucy.

“What’s the idea?” I said to him.“Look!” he said, pointing at the newspa-

per and grinning.I looked. On the front page, in headlines,

it read:NEW TEAM HAS WORST START INSCHOOL HISTORY!I turned. Lucy was looking at me sort of

funny. All I could think was, “Three gamesto go.” I hoped.

(To be continued.)

Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be

reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

CHAPTER SIX: Advice from S.O.R.’s principal

“a breakfast serials story”S.O.R. Losers Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

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By Sandra ClarkWho says American free

enterprise is dead?Surely not Fountain City

residents Josh and Amanda Sellers. The young entre-preneurs represent the next business generation, and they’ve found a home in North Knox County’s oldest commercial building.

Amanda bought the for-mer J.R. Williams & Bros. property at the corner of Commerce Road and Depot Street in Powell to relocate Clover Cottage, her 5-year business.

Her dad helped with res-toration and she moved in, only to be fl ooded when a waterline broke. She had no idea the county was planning to close the rail-road crossing at Commerce Road, severely reducing ac-cess to her store.

“Hallsdale Powell (util-ity) was easy to work with and the insurance covered our (inventory) loss,” Aman-da says. Knox County is ex-ploring ways to improve the intersection at Emory Road and Depot to support safe traffi c fl ow. Amanda fi gures things will be OK. Besides, she’s got garments to de-sign, trade shows to attend and sales to make.

More than 90 percent of her business is wholesale, she says. She’s already out of space to stock merchandise which she has made in Chi-na, shipped to Powell and repackaged for shipment across the Southeast. “One day a UPS truck pulled up and everything inside was for her,” said Josh.

Josh and Amanda have been married only since February. He seems amazed at her energy and drive. “She works me to death,” he grins.

Josh owns and operates Knox Graphix, located adja-cent to Clover Cottage. His website and Facebook page show the range of his work. “Customize, customize, cus-tomize,” he says of his busi-ness plan. He’s bought most of his equipment off Craig’s List, including a new heat-based gadget that presses

J.R. Williams & Bros., circa 1910. Josh Sellars reproduces old

photos on canvas and mounts the print on old barnwood. He

recently bought a barn, just for the wood. This example of his

work hangs in the retail store at Clover Cottage.

Building business in 2016 and beyond

an image onto a shirt so smoothly that it can’t be felt. Josh prints team gear, T-shirts and posters on vinyl or canvas. He offers embroidery and unique designs.

Customers drop in fre-quently to chat, especially about the building. “We’ve heard 50 million stories,” says Amanda. “Some say (the building) was a movie theater or a bathhouse or the train depot. We hear the movie theater most.”

Amanda studied busi-ness at UT, but she learned her craft by attending cloth-ing trade shows with her grandmother and a neigh-bor. She’s been going since age 13.

Tales from that trip are for another column.

Drop by to see the build-ing and meet Amanda and Josh Sellars. Their pace is warp speed, but the prem-ise is the same: produce something people want to buy and you’ll succeed.

Creativity is a key. With-out legal protection, her de-signs are copied by Chinese vendors. “We have to stay a week and a half ahead,” she says. That, and labor costs, are reasons she cannot open a factory to produce her hair bows and baby clothes in Powell. Being a wholesaler, she has to turn out a lot of product in a short time. She accepts piracy as a cost of doing businesses and just creates new designs.

“We’re Southern, baby,” says Amanda, describing a camoufl age onesie that sells well at gun shows.

She and her mom have visited the Chinese facto-ries that make her products.

Amanda Sellars stands by a retail display at Clover Cottage in

Powell, but she gets most of her sales from myclovercottage.

comJosh Sellars shows off his newest vinyl printer.

This plaque on the exterior wall of 1905 Depot Street tracks

the building’s use from 1921 to 1988 as the J.E. Groner & Co., a

Powell Station landmark.

Kobe Angel shows the adaptive basketball hoop built for el-

ementary schools.

Fulton softball seniors honoredThe senior team members of the Fulton softball team were recognized before the game against

Carter last week. Pictured are Hannah Walker, McKenna Black, Lexi Akins and Mekayla Hartsell. Photo by R. White

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THROUGH SUNDAY, MAY 22“Snow White and Rose Red,” Knoxville

Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com; 208-3677.

THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 16Online registration open for the Marine Mud

Run, to be held Saturday, Sept. 17. Individual waves, 8 a.m.; team waves, 11:30 a.m. Course: 3 miles of off-road running, which entails some obstacles, hills and mud pits. Registration deadline: Friday, Sept. 16, or until total registrants reaches 3150. Info/registration: knoxmud.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11Computer Workshop: Internet and Email Basics,

2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer’ or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, MAY 12“Getting Your House in Order” seminar,

2-3 p.m.., Physicians Regional Medical Center, 900 East Oak Hill Ave., Emerald Room. Free; registration required. Info/registration: 1-855-TENNOVA (836-6682) or Tennova.com.

“Grow Veggies Anywhere,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Amy Haun. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

Halls Book Club: “The Rosie Project,” 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Heiskell Seniors monthly luncheon/meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Community Center, 1708 W. Emory Road. Theme: “Kentucky Derby.” Speaker: Jake McKinnie with Thrivent. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

Living with Diabetes: Putting the Pieces Together, 2-4:30 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Union County Family Community and Education (FCE) clubs spring luncheon and meeting, 10:30 a.m., Community Baptist Church on Highway 61West. “Music in the Air ... the Musical Heritage of East Tennessee” covered dish luncheon will be hosted by the Big Ridge FCE Club. Guest speaker: Jack Neely, executive director of the Knoxville History Project. Info: Gloria Halcomb, 585-4774.

VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 12-13AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., Halls

Senior Center, 4410 Crippen Road. Registration: 922-0416. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY, MAY 13Free Movie In The Park at Luttrell Park. Movie

begins at dusk. Bring chairs or blanket. Free Movie Night at Beaver Dam Baptist Church

featuring “Woodlawn,” 7 p.m., third fl oor education building, 4328 E. Emory Road. Free popcorn and drinks. Info: 922-2322.

Gala Day, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Union County Senior Citizens Center, 298 Main St., Maynardville. Bring dish to go with barbecue. Info: 992-3292 or 992-0361.

Halls Middle School Spring Carnival, 4:30-8:30 p.m., 4317 E. Emory Road. Activities include: carnival games, live bluegrass music, basket auctions, silent auction and more. Free admission. Unlimited carnival game wristbands: $5. Food available for purchase: Buddy’s BBQ, Bruster’s, pizza and more.

SATURDAY, MAY 14American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life,

4-10 p.m., Fountain City Park. Theme: “Paint Your World Purple.” Activities include: food, games, a silent auction, entertainment and opportunities to support the American Cancer Society; survivors and caregivers will be recognized along with a special luminaria ceremony.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

The Primitive Quartet will sing, 6 p.m., Faithway Baptist Church, 4402 Crippen Road.

Spring East Tennessee Plant Swap, 10 a.m., New Harvest Park, 4775 New Harvest Lane. Setup begins 9:45. Potluck lunch 11:30 a.m.; verify potluck and list of food on Swap Forum. Info/rules/link to forum: www.easttnplantswap.com.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 14-15“Tapestry Weaving Basics,” 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Tommye Scanlin. Bring a frame loom and lunch. Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

MONDAY, MAY 16Senior lunch, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Luttrell Community

Center, 115 Park Road. Lunch will be barbecue; entertainment by Tommy White. All seniors welcome. Bring a dish to share.

Monday Night Book Club: “Women of the Silk,” 6-8 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

TUESDAY, MAY 17“Carbs: the good, the bad and the ugly,” 10

a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Followed by a healthy cooking demo at 11. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Honor Guard meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans invited. Info: 256-5415.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

Sharps Chapel Seniors Fish Fry, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sharps Chapel Community Building, 1550 Sharps Chapel Road. Bring a side dish. Info: 992-3292 or 992-0361.

THURSDAY, MAY 19Family Pajama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Halls

Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.Plainview 7th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Plainview Community Center. Info: 992-5212.

FRIDAY, MAY 20Shakespeare for Kids, 2 p.m., Fountain City

Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 689-2681.

SATURDAY, MAY 21Children’s Festival of Reading, 10 a.m.-3

p.m., World’s Fair Park on the Festival Lawn and Amphitheater. Kick off celebration for the Knox County Public Library’s summer reading programs. Free admission. Featuring: world-class authors, illustrators, storytellers, musicians and more. Info: knoxlib.org.

Dancing for the Horses, 6 p.m., Bridgewater Place, 205 Bridgewater Road. Fundraising event hosted by Horse Haven of Tennessee and modeled after “Dancing with the Stars.” Info/tickets: HorseHavenTn.org/Dancing4Horses.

Deadline for entries to the Donna Jones Memorial Student Art Contest and Exhibit, formally called the Art on Main Student Art Contest and Exhibit. All students in grades six through 12, local schools or homeschool, are eligible. Entries should be delivered to: Tax Assessor’s offi ce, Courthouse; the UT Agriculture/4-H offi ce; Mrs. Parks, middle school; Mrs. Sexton, the high school. Info: Gloria Holcomb, 585-4774.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 21-22Repticon, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4

p.m. Sunday, Kerbela Shriners building, 315 Mimosa Ave. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 for children 5-12, children under 5 free. Info/VIP and advance tickets: repticon.com/knoxville.html.

MONDAY, MAY 23The Bob Kesling and Bert Bertelkamp Golf

Tournament to raise money for Helen Ross McNabb Center, Holston Hills Country Club. Registration, 7 a.m.; shotgun start, 8:30. Volunteers and sponsors welcome. Info/registration: mcnabbcenter.org.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 11 a.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 525-5431.

TUESDAY, MAY 24“Glass Fusing Workshop,” 6-8:30 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Kathy King. A Featured Tennessee Artist Workshop. Registration deadline: May 17. Info/registration: Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25Computer Workshop: Word Basics, 2-4:15 p.m.,

Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 922-2552.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, MAY 25-26AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., O’Connor

Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, MAY 26“Celebrate Summer: Container Gardens

for Season-Long Cheer,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardner Lynn Carlson. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 11 a.m., North Knoxville Branch Library, 2901 Ocoee Trail. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 525-7036.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 4 p.m., Corryton Branch Library, 7733 Corryton Road. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 688-1501.

Shakespeare for Kids, 6:30 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 922-2552.

FRIDAY, MAY 27“Old Bear and His Cub,” 2 p.m., Fountain City

Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 689-2681.

SATURDAY, MAY 28Fourth Saturday Jam Session, 7 p.m., Old Rush

Strong School in Sharps Chapel. Bluegrass, country and gospel music performed by local musicians. Refreshments available; donations appreciated.

Lego Club, 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Local author Dewaine Speaks will speak and sign books, 2-4 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

Submissions deadline for Appalachian Arts and Crafts Center jurying process. Three sample of work, 425 jury fee and completed forms must be submitted between Monday, May 23, and noon Wednesday, June 1. Info/forms: appalachianarts.net, 494-9854, 2716 Andersonville Highway.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 10:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info/registration: 922-2552.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4Art on Main Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Main Street

and around Courthouse in Maynardville. Featuring: artists, crafters, food vendors, children’s activities, music concerts and music jams, train rides, student art exhibit. Supports the local arts.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Rain barrel sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., UT Gardens, 2518 Jacob Drive. Hosted by the Water Quality Forum. Preorders recommended for the 50-gallon Ivy rain barrel. Cost: $70. Deadline to preorder: Sunday, May 29. Info/preorder: utgardens.tennessee.edu.

MONDAY, JUNE 6American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St.,

Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.

MONDAYS, JUNE 6-20“Handbuilding With Clay,” 10 a.m.-1 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Janet McCracken. A Featured Tennessee Artist Workshop. Registration deadline: May 30. Info/registration: Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

TUESDAY, JUNE 7“Intro to Alcohol Inks,” 5:30-8 p.m., Appalachian

Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Shelley Mangold. A Featured Tennessee Artist Workshop. Registration deadline: May 31. Info/registration: Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, JUNE 9VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St.,

Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

TUESDAY, JUNE 14Paulette 6th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Paulette Elementary School cafeteria. Info: 992-5212.

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NORTH/EAST Shopper news • MAY 11, 2016 • 11 businessLandmark boosts

RAMChris Hall with Remote Area

Medical accepts a check for

$6,314.51 from Kathleen Lane

and Andy Jablonski with

Landmark International. The

money was raised at a corn-

hole tournament at Smokies

Stadium. The event featured

a playground, live bands,

raffl es and more to support

RAM. Jablonski has support-

ed RAM personally for several

years and wanted to support

the group corporately. “They

impact those who need it

the most and they are good

stewards of the money they

receive,” he said. Photo by Ruth White

It was an all-Italy night at the Rotary Club of Far-ragut’s second Interna-tional Food Gala as four chefs from the Pellissippi State Community Col-lege’s Culinary Arts In-stitute program each won a $250 scholarship and a new Chef’s jacket as their Italian cuisine swept the awards.

Team Italy was selected by a trio of celebrity judges as the Top Chefs and Team Italy also won the People’ Choice Award from the crowd of approximately 130 din-ers. The diners at the UT Visitors Center on April 23 also enjoyed Asian, Spanish and French dishes from the other three Pellissippi teams of chefs.

The Italian chefs prepared and served Gnoc-chi, stuffed meatballs, Cannolis and Peach Belli-nis. On the team were Jayme Willoughby, Taylor Clifton, Jason Melton and Nick Werth.

The celebrity judges were Citico’s Restaurant and club chef Robert Allen, Knoxville author/chef Barbara Tenney, and chef Andre Nowading of Whole Foods.

Farragut Rotarian Keith Bryson, who directed the event, said the club raised approximately $10,000 that will be used for scholarships to Pellissippi students and

for other projects the club supports.

The three $1,000 sponsors were club presi-dent Dale Read and Read Windows; club member Ray Fisher and Fisher Tire Co.; and Citico’s Res-taurant & Club at Win-dRiver. Club member

Sam Taylor and family at Dixie Lee Wine & Liquors do-nated the beverages.

Dr. Tom Gaddis, the coordinator of the Culinary Arts Institute program, told the crowd: “It’s our honor to be affi liated with Rotary again for this great event. This is a

wonderful event for our students and the program.”

■ Turkey Creek pokerA poker-playing minister fi nished third in the

Rotary Club of Turk ey Creek Sunset’s recent fund-raiser – its “Texas Hold ’em for Service Above Self”

poker tournament at SouthEast Bank in Farragut. Walt “Santa” Swanson fi nished fi rst, Jerry Martin second and third was Max Reddick, president of the North Knox-ville Rotary Cub and minister at Fountain City Presby-terian Church. “This was our most successful fundraiser ever,” said club president Paul West.

Team Italy chefs win gala honors

the rotary guyTom Kingtking535@gmail.com

Melton Clifton Werth Willoughby

property reportSherry Witt - Register of Deeds865-215-2330 or sherry@knoxrod.org

After steady progress in March, local real estate and lending markets turned signifi cantly upward in April. We saw 1,113 property transfers in Knox County, easily surpassing the March total of 991, and also well ahead of the April 2015 pace of 918 sales.

The total value of property transferred leaped from $198 million in March to nearly $241 million during April. This was an increase of some $65 million over last April’s fi gure of $176 million. It was the largest April output of total real estate sales since 2007.

On the lending side, just over $347 million was bor-rowed against real property in Knox County, besting the March total by more than $50 million. By com-parison, about $317 million was loaned in mortgages in refi nancing during April 2015.

The most notable real estate transfer of the month was an $8.576 million commercial sale involving a ho-tel property off Peters Road near the Market Place in West Knoxville. The largest mortgage transaction was a loan for $10.25 million fi nancing the Trinity Hills se-nior living facility off Asheville Highway.

With one third of the year in the books, 2016 ap-pears on pace to outperform last year in both real es-tate transfers and mortgage lending. As of April 30, approximately $771.6 million worth of land has been sold here, compared to about $691 million during the fi rst four months of 2015. Mortgage lending is cur-rently running around $60 million ahead of last year’s levels.

All of us at the Register’s offi ce were saddened by the passing of Mrs. Peggy Bright, mother of our long-time record room supervisor, Bill Bright. The Bright family has meant so much to us through the years, and I know many people have been touched by their kindness and generosity. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Real estate markets spring forward

CALL FOR ARTISTS ■ Submissions for “The Word,” an art competition that asks artists

to look deeply into the meaning and use of words throughout

history and in our daily lives, are being accepted by Broadway

Studios and Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway. Entries will be accepted 11

a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May 26-28. Info: Jessica Gregory,

556-8676; BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com; BroadwayStudiosAn-

dGallery@gmail.com.

By Sara BarrettHome Federal Bank rec-

ognized three Hometown Heroes last week for their community service and made donations to charities of their choice.

Jennifer Foster spends every Monday afternoon at Thrive Lonsdale, tutor-ing middle school students and providing life skills in-struction for them. She also takes a group of elementary school students to a weekly Bible study at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church and regularly attends students’ sporting events, providing snacks and other resources.

Home Federal presented Thrive Lonsdale with a $2,500 donation in Foster’s honor. The after-school pro-gram provides mentoring

for children on spiritual, emotional, academic and physical levels from adults who have been blessed with abundance in those areas.

Carla Harris has vol-unteered over the years at West Hills Elementary and Bearden Middle schools, and she currently serves on the Foundation Board of Bearden High School. Car-la, a mother of three, also works with Safe Families for Children. She currently volunteers as a host mom, mentor, Bible study leader and board member.

Home Federal donated $2,500 to Safe Families for Children in Harris’ honor. Safe Families gives hope to families in crisis and serves as an alternative to foster care.

Home Federal president David Reynolds and CEO Dale Keasling present awards to three Hometown Heroes and made donations

to the charities of their choice. Pictured with Reynolds and Keasling are Wendy Thompson, Shannon Washam, Jennifer Foster,

Sarah Foster, Carla Harris and Janet Cockrum. Photo by S. Barrett

Home Federal honors Hometown Heroes

Wendy Thompson volun-teers three days each week at Western Heights Baptist Center where she serves some 150 families experi-encing homelessness and mental illness and those

with language barriers and criminal backgrounds.

Home Federal donated $5,000 to Western Heights Baptist Center in recogni-tion of Thompson’s selec-tion as this year’s overall

program honoree. WHBC works to meet the physical and spiritual needs of all people by offering free food, clothing and household items.

Since launching in 2010,

the Hometown Heroes pro-gram has honored 50 volun-teers and donated $147,500to 41 local charities. Info:homefederalbanktn.com

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