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By Anne Hart
Get ready. It’s almost time to grab your holiday gift list and head out the door for the hugely popular annual arts event that draws peo-ple to Knoxville from all over the southeast and beyond.
It’s the 45th annual Fine Craft Fair, staged by the Foothills Craft Guild, and it will take place in the Jacob Building at Chilhowee Park on Friday through Sunday, Nov. 18-20.
More than 150 regional artists will exhibit and sell the fi nest tra-ditional and contemporary crafts to be found. The Southeastern Tourism Society has named the show a “Top 20 Event.”
There will be woodwork, pot-tery, jewelry, glass, fi ber arts, leatherwork, metalwork, photogra-phy, sculpture, basketry and much, much more. Many of the artists will be demonstrating how they make the items they are offering for sale, and others will be on hand to discuss their work and to answer questions.
One of the artists there will be
Broadacres broke; lights turned off
By Jake Mabe
Broadacres Homeowners Association president Ed Smith says the Association has run out of funds and that the lights il-luminating the entrances along West Emory Road into the Powell neighborhood have been turned off.
Smith says out of an estimated 826 homes in the subdivision, 147 have joined the mem-bership by paying the $50 yearly fee.
“We understand the economic situation right now,” Smith said, “but the upkeep of the entrances is a safety thing plus it adds values to our homes. Also, the Association helps represent (neighborhood interests) at MPC and things like that.”
Smith says one resident had helped keep the organization going the last couple of years by giving generously. He says the Association is about $400 in debt and has reached the point that it may have to disband.
“We’re looking for any advice or help,” Smith says.
The $50 fee can be sent to the Broadacres Homeowners Association, P.O. Box 1101 Powell, TN 37849. Info: Ed Smith, 947-0129.
HPUD outlines plans for plant upgradesinterest from the State Revolving Loan Fund will be 2.25 to 2.75 percent and the payback is about $25,000 per month for 20 years.
R a c c o o n Valley: Cardwell
said the plans are complete and most are approved. He expects comple-tion by the end of 2012. The plant is a “bottleneck,” he said, processing 150,000 gallons per day. The project will double capacity to 300,000 gal-lons per day.
The Tennessee Department of En-vironment and Conservation identi-fi ed this plant as needing improve-
By Sandra Clark
Hallsdale Powell Utility District wants to borrow $4.8 million, and Thursday at a public hearing only four customers showed up to ask why.
HPUD offi cials Darren Cardwell and James Smith fi elded questions and outlined upgrades to the Beaver Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant and the smaller Raccoon Valley sew-age plant near Diggs Gap.
Consulting engineer Dudney Fox of CTI Engineers Inc., based in Nash-ville, fi elded technical questions. New commissioner Bob Crye attended.
Smith estimated $1.3 million for the Raccoon Valley plant, $2.725 million for the Beaver Creek plant and said the balance will be used for associated costs such as engineer-ing, design and permitting. He said
Dudney Fox, P.E.
ments to handle wet weather fl ows. The project will install new pumps and upgrade the screening process.
The plant was built in 1976 in anticipation of the World’s Fair to serve a large RV park. Now a school and several businesses and homes are connected. Output is into Bull Run Creek.
Beaver Creek: Attendees ques-tioned the need for improvements to a plant that was just rebuilt. Cardwell said the plant’s treatment capacity is 21 million gallons per day, but only 15 million gallons can be pumped out. “With 400 miles feeding into this plant, we’re seeking to improve effi ciency and performance.”
Was it an error not to have antici-pated this?
This dried arrangement by local artist Molly Durr is made of hibiscus blossoms
and leaves and river oats.
Fine Craft Fair ahead
Cardwell said no. “The new plant is just about treating the product that comes into the plant. The new money will expand our capacity on output.” Additionally, HPUD will upgrade its process for “squeezing water out” of bio-solids, the sludge remaining after treatment, to re-duce trips to the landfi ll and the cost of tipping fees.
“We’re in the preliminary de-sign phase and hope to bid this next April with a completion date of June 2014,” Cardwell said. “We are under a state consent order to fi x these things.”
HPUD’s next rate increase will come April 1 and is projected to be 3.5 percent for water and 3.5 percent for sewer for a monthly increase of $3.33 for the average (5,000 gallons per month) user, Smith said. He explained that rates and capital projects are projected 20 years out.
Rusty Wallace Honda was one of three business-es honored at the November school board meeting for their support of Knox County Schools.
General Manager Chad Campbell represent-ed the Honda dealership. Also recognized were Best Buy of Turkey Creek and the UT Athletics Department.
The dealership has been a partner with schools in the Powell/Halls corridor since before they opened just off the Callahan Road exit of I-75. More than a decade ago at the groundbreaking event for the new dealership, race car driver Rusty Wallace presented fi ve schools with checks for $1,000 each: Powell High, Powell Middle, Halls High, Halls Middle and Northwest Middle.
Over the years, the dealership has continued to support various initiatives in schools on the north side of our community, said Business Part-ners coordinator Scott Bacon, including their participation in a teen driving safety program at Powell High School with the Powell Business and Professional Association.
Rusty Wallace Honda boosts Powell schools
Chad Campbell, general manager of Rusty Wallace
Honda, and Dr. Jim McIntyre at the school board
meeting in which the company was honored for its
support of Knox County Schools. Photo submitted
Powell native Molly Durr, whose work is described loosely as “dried arrangements” but sure doesn’t look anything like the idea most people have of a dried arrangement.
Durr’s email address describes it a little better. “Flat fl orist” is part of that address.
Quite simply, she starts with fresh fl owers, puts them through a number of drying and press-ing stages, and then arranges and mounts them on acid free paper which she then mats and frames. The fl owers are fl at by then, of course, but they are as colorful and authentic looking as the day they were picked.
“I have been doing this for more than 20 years,” Durr says. “I decid-ed that in wintertime, when fl ow-ers go away, this would give me the opportunity to bring them inside and keep them.”
Durr says she grows some of the f lowers herself, “and friends let me raid their gardens.” Some of the f lowers and greenery she and her husband, Paul, a wetlands bi-ologist originally from Maine who came to UT to get a master’s de-gree in biology, find when they go
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Amazing GraceMeet a vivacious 103-year-old
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who wants to participate should bring a gender spe-cifi c gift of no more than $5 in value.
The Totes of Love pro-gram is going full swing. The sewing club at the commu-nity center received a bunch of cloth from the Knoxville and Nashville chapters of the Interior Design Society and they are seeking to fi ll them with personal comfort items such as soap, sham-poo, toothpaste, etc. They plan to give 35 of the totes to kids at Copper Ridge El-ementary School who are on the Angel Tree and 65 to kids at Powell Middle School.
The center is still doing the “Ageless Grace” exercise programs every Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. Cost is $5 per session.
Medicine in war ■
County Commissioner and heart surgeon Dr. Richard
Briggs was the guest speaker for the Heiskell s e n i o r s p r o g r a m . The doctor served in the U.S. Army from 1974 until his re-
tirement as a colonel in 2007.
He spent a tour in Afghani-stan and Iraq and he told the seniors how battlefi eld medi-cine has progressed.
As a veteran, I found this extremely interesting. It seems that most of the War on Terror casualties are from roadside bombs. While it may seem hard to believe, you are more likely to be hurt in Iraq than you were in Vietnam.
After the doctor spoke, Rick Ayers of the Tennes-see Department of Veteran Affairs talked a bit about veterans benefi ts that are available.
Congrats to ■
Richard BeanI would
like to give a shout out to my pal Rich-ard Bean, superinten-dent of the Richard L. Bean Ju-venile Ser-vice Center.
Richard is a recipient of the National Partnership for Ju-venile Services Grimm-Hill Member of the Year for Ju-venile Detention award.
Though he opted not to attend the presentation in
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I had a very pleasant “pre-Veterans Day” celebra-tion last Thursday at the Heiskell seniors program. I was honored to stand with World War II, Korea, Viet-nam and other Cold War veterans as the seniors rec-ognized us and thanked us for our service.
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Indianapolis a couple of weeks ago, it’s still a prettyprestigious award to get.
Richard was chosen in recognition of his ongoing support of NPJS by provid-ing membership to his staff, his fundraising abilities to support at-risk youth in the community, his mentoring program work with the Boys and Girls Club, and his 42 years of service to the pro-fession and to youth.
Congratulations Richard – you deserve it!
Cash Express to ■
collect for needyThe folks at Cash Express
at 1420 E. Emory Road are collecting toys, canned foods and coats for the un-derprivileged through Dec. 2. Anyone wishing to donate should drop the items off at the Cash Express location.
PMS is holding ■
toy driveLauren Kolody, an 8th
grader at Powell Middle School, shot me an email a couple of weeks ago telling me about a toy drive they are having at the school. The drive started on Nov. 7 and will run through Dec. 1. Anyone wanting to help should drop toys off at the school. Thanks, Lauren, for the heads up!
And the Thanksgiving dinner was yummy, too.
Janice White kicked things off with her custom-ary announcements. The Heiskell Community Center will hold its annual Thanks-giving dinner for the com-munity on Thursday, Nov. 17, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Pastor Phillip Poe of Bish-opville Baptist Church will conduct the service begin-ning at 7 p.m. The dinner is free but attendees should bring canned goods or other nonperishable items for the Food Pantry.
The December meeting will be the seniors’ Christ-mas party. They will do a gift exchange, and anyone
hiking. She’s quick to add they don’t pick anything in the national park, where it’s illegal to do so.
Durr gives away most of her work to friends and fam-ily on special occasions, but this show and sale provide an opportunity for the pub-lic to see it and buy it. She doesn’t sell through any re-tail outlets and says she does her work “for the relaxation. It’s my creative outlet.”
Hours for the Fine Craft Fair are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $6 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. There is no admis-sion charge for children un-der 6. Contact: [email protected].
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RuthWhite
Friends and family mem-bers got together Nov. 5 to help Grace Moore celebrate her 103rd birthday. Moore
Amazing Grace
is a resident at Elmcroft Assisted Living. A special party was planned to mark the milestone.
Moore’s daughter and son-in-law, Ann and Byron Cawthon, traveled from Florida to help celebrate and a niece came in from Michigan to wish her well and celebrate a wonder-ful life. Her “baby brother” Wendell Jones arrived at
the party, whispered some sweet words into his sister’s ear and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead.
As Moore danced with several friends and opened presents, her daughter whis-pered to a guest nearby that she hasn’t seen her mom so happy in a long time. One guest created a scrapbook of photographs of Moore and her family from years ago. Moore and family were able to relive special memories at the party.
When asked her secret to staying youthful, Moore replied, “The good Lord has had His hand in it.”
Watching Moore interact with guests, it was hard to believe that she has lived 103 years. She remains active and pays close attention to details. She is, in a word, amazing.
Elmcroft resident Grace Moore dances with guests at
her birthday celebration.
Photo by Ruth White
Kick off the holidays with ‘The Nutcracker’
The Oak Ridge Civic Ballet will present “The Nutcracker” at Oak Ridge High School auditorium Saturday, Nov. 19, and Sun-day, Nov. 20.
There will be two shows
on Saturday, featuring an encore performance at 11 a.m. and the full perfor-mance at 7 p.m. The encore performance is a one-act version of the full show and is perfect for small children and groups. Tickets for the encore performance are $7 each. The evening
performance will feature professional dancers Stephanie Bussell and Noel Dupuis and music by the UT Chamber Orchestra. The fi nal performance will be Sunday, Nov. 20. Cost for the full performances are adults $20, seniors $15 and students $10.
Duncan discusses issues with seniorsRalph and Dorothy Mertz greet U.S. Rep. John Duncan Jr. at a senior adult meeting hosted by First Lutheran Church last week. Duncan was on hand to answer questions for the group and discuss issues that aff ect senior adults and the country. Photo by Ruth White
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By Betty Bean
About the time that Mark Padgett called Madeline Rogero to concede the elec-tion, Bee DeSelm was roll-ing her walker up the ramp into the Foundry to join the victory celebration.
Inside, the fi rst woman ever elected mayor of Knox-ville was watching for her former County Commission colleague, whom she con-siders her mentor and inspi-ration.
“I called her in 1990 when I was running for County Commission and said ‘Hey, can I come get some advice?’ I asked how much time it took to be a county commis-sioner and she pulled out her appointment book and showed me details that you need to know when you are thinking about running for
Bee DeSelm and Madeline Rogero on election night. Photo by Betty Bean
Rogero’s election a milestone for DeSelm
political offi ce,” Rogero said.“She was a great role
model, an advisor and somebody who always stud-ied the issues and didn’t look out in the crowd to see who was sitting there to de-
termine which way she was going to vote. She studied the issues and did what she thought was right.”
Republican DeSelm and Democrat Rogero served to-gether for eight years, often
teaming up on matters of conscience. In 1994, a term limits referendum passed with a broad majority, and although it didn’t go into ef-fect until 2002 (and wasn’t enforced until a court order in 2007), both DeSelm and Rogero – unlike most of their colleagues – voluntari-ly honored the voters’ man-date. DeSelm had served 22 years, Rogero eight.
Rogero’s election has been a point of light in an otherwise grim year for De-Selm – in July, she lost her husband, Hal, after 63 years of marriage. She fell and broke her hip in August and moved into an assisted liv-ing center to recuperate for a month and never returned home. And there’s some-thing else, too.
“I’ve got Alzheimer’s, which is a big problem for
me, but not so much that I can’t usually carry on a con-versation,” she said. “At my age, most everybody has some symptoms like I have. I told the people at assisted living that I may be back to see them in a year or two.”
But for now, she’s settling into an apartment in a re-tirement center and sorting through a lifetime’s worth of memories. She has donated her commission papers to the Baker Center and done a little campaigning.
“Madeline took what I gave her and ran with it. … I knew she just had what it took and that something good was going happen. She came by to see me in assisted living and we went through my wing and talked to any-body who was willing. And, of course, I’d been wearing her shirt for quite a while.”
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Good to be backBy Sara Barrett
After a long hiatus from my column, it’s great to be back in the animal news world. So much has hap-pened while I’ve been away (covering for a dear co-work-er), so let’s catch up quickly.
Two new animals have ar-rived at the Knoxville Zoo with hopes of meeting their Ms. Rights and starting herds of their own. Kito the Southern white rhinoceros is getting acquainted with fe-male rhinos Dolly, Polly and Maggie. Also new to the zoo is Jumbe the giraffe, a trans-plant from Missouri who is hoping to fi nd romantic bliss with Patches and/or Lucille.
Another added bonus for the zoo is the return of the extremely popular panda cam, where folks all over the world can watch Dolly,
Bernadette and Winston, the zoo’s 5-month-old red panda cubs. According to Tina Rolen, assistant direc-tor of marketing, the debut of the fi rst red panda cam last year inspired people to watch red panda female cubs Spark and Ember online the equivalent of 39 years.
The website is provided
by Mozilla Firefox and is available 24 hours a day. “Be warned,” said Rolen. “You will be incapable of unhappiness for the dura-tion (of the viewing).” Watch the furry goodness online at www.fi refoxlive.org.
The Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley is enjoying its new location on Bearden Hill at 6717 Kingston Pike, but there are a few things that need mending. For instance: when it’s raining outside, the holes in the ceiling would be more appropriate for a shower stall. The organization hopes to raise $60,000 in order to replace the existing roof with a new, more waterproof version. (Donate online at http://humanesocietytennessee.com/about-us/donate/ or mail to P.O. Box 51723, Knoxville, TN 37950).Have a question, comment or critter sto-
ry for Sara? Call her at 218-9378 or email
Multiple PHS students have been awarded cars as a result of having exemplary driving records.
More recently, Rusty Wal-lace Honda came on board as a major sponsor of the 2011 Knox County Schools Coupon Book program, Bacon said. In addition, a sister dealership, Rusty Wallace Kia, joined as a sponsor on the back of the coupon book.
“The addition of these sponsor dollars allowed our schools to keep $7.90 from each coupon book sold this year, the highest in the 23 year history of the program.”
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So says District 3 school board member Cindy But-try.
Buttry held nothing back last week when County Commission met to give final approval to the commis-
sion and school board redistricting plan dubbed 1A. While the plan aligns com-mission and school districts and ensures that each district contains a high school, it also divides some traditional com-munities among two or three districts. That’s not a new phenomenon, as the good folks of Fountain City – to name one community – will testify.
No commissioners are moved from their current districts by the plan, but
Buttry and District 6 school board representative Thomas Deakins now reside, respectively, in Districts 6 and 5.
The community-splitting that fueled Buttry’s ire concerns Norwood. Precinct 40, Norwood Elementary, shifts from District 3 to District 6. The part of Precinct 41, Norwood Library, located south of I-640 is merged into Precinct 19 in District 1 to conform to the redrawn district lines. The rest of Precinct 41 moves from Dis-trict 2 to District 3.
Buttry said she was speaking “not as a board mem-ber but as a citizen” when she asked commission to reconsider its pending approval of Plan 1A. Besides, she added, she wasn’t running for re-election. (Her term expires next year.)
But she wasn’t finished with commissioners, several of whom, she said, told her they would vote for the plan the school board wanted.
“After Carter, and now this, it’s hard to believe any-thing this body says. … I feel lied to and I feel betrayed by some of you folks,” she said.
Some listening might have added that they felt “be-trayed” by some of Buttry’s obstructionist voting habits on school board, just as they might have wondered how much her declaration not to seek office again was influ-enced by her new district residence.
Commissioner Richard Briggs tried to mollify her, noting that he had not received “one call, email or any-thing” from anyone in the Norwood community or – for that matter – a school board member. Commissioner R. Larry Smith chipped in, saying “every single person” he had talked to wanted the commission and school dis-tricts aligned.
After Buttry unshipped her cargo, Commissioner Amy Broyles – indirectly – took exception to Buttry’s assessment that the process “stinks.” The process was fine, Broyles said, if it had been respected. The joint committee of commissioners and school board mem-bers recommended two plans, 2A and 4A, which were rejected by commission in favor of the plan which left incumbent commissioners safe at home.
“We need to either respect the process or just start doing it all ourselves and stop wasting (other people’s) time,” Broyles said, also alluding to the stalemated Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness and the still-debated Hillside and Ridge Top Protection Plan.
Approval of the plan required separate votes for commission and school board. The commission vote was 9-2, with Broyles and Brad Anders dissenting. The school district vote was 8-3, with Jeff Ownby joining Broyles and Anders.
After a lenghty process, County Commission approved a redistricting plan and nobody showed except Cindy Buttry. Good thing it only happens once a decade.Contact Larry Van Guilder at [email protected].
‘This process stinks’ Truth and talking pointsCandidates Madeline Rogero, Mark Padgett, Ivan Harmon and Bo Bennett at an April debate. File photo by Betty Bean
What went wrong with Padgett?
Mark Padgett had some-thing like a 12-pack of mes-sages, and boy howdy did he pound them.
It’s safe to assume he didn’t like the answer he got last Tuesday. At this point it’s probably nitpicking to men-tion that the “other side of that plane” part bothered me. But when I fl y, I always walk out the door through which I entered, and I’m pretty sure that’s true for just about ev-erybody. My only excuse for such pettiness is that lis-tening to someone reiterate his specialness makes me grouchy – unless that person is elderly enough to have a good excuse, which Padgett, of course, isn’t, and doesn’t.
Another of his oft-repeat-ed claims was that he barely knew 50 people in Knoxville when he started campaign-ing for mayor. That indirectly contradicts the “deep roots in this city” meme, but it’s probably closer to the literal truth than most of his claims, considering that he and his
wife, Katie, closed on their home on Westland Drive on May 21, 2010, marking the fi rst time the Padgetts had lived inside the Knoxville city limits since his Lonsdale childhood (another standard campaign meme).
The signifi cance of that date is that the qualifying deadline to run for mayor was June 16, 2011, at which time the city charter dic-tates that a candidate must have lived in the city for a year. Padgett beat the one-year residency requirement by 25 days and never voted in a city election until his name was on the ballot.
Did he move into town for the purpose of running for mayor? Can’t know for sure, but he started campaign-ing before all the boxes got unpacked. Maybe he was impelled by his deep love for Knoxville or a genetic passion
for public service that was an-other of his talking points.
He professed to be shocked and offended back in the spring when I told him that I’d never seen him at a public meeting (or anywhere else) before he decided to run for mayor.
True, he was a Boys and Girls Club advisory board member, but the fi rst I knew about that was when B&G Club CEO John Lee publicly reamed him for putting “I am the Dream” signs in the hands of little B&G Club kids and posing for pictures with them marching in the Mar-tin Luther King Day parade.
Finally, one of his fi nal talking points was releasing those late-breaking poll num-bers showing him closing in on Madeline Rogero. Unfor-tunately for Padgett, it was weighed in the balance and found wanting on Nov. 8.
School boardqualifying deadline
So you want to be a school board member? Then hurry up to the courthouse. As of 8 a.m. today, qualifying peti-tions were available at the Election Commission. Coun-ty Commission approved a new district map last week, so check your address at the Election Commission if you have any doubt about the district you reside in.
Four school board seats are up in 2012 (board members are exempt from term limits): Districts 2 (Indya Kincannon), 3 (Cindy Buttry), 5 (Karen Carson) and 8 (Mike McMillan). The deadline to submit a petition is noon, Thursday, Dec. 8.
He did a lot of talking about jobs, growing up poor, winning our trust. Unbur-dened by modesty (false or otherwise), one of his stan-dard pitches went like this:
“Picture the next mayor getting on a plane to go and talk to a world class CEO about relocating to Knoxville. Ask yourself who you’d rather have getting off the other side of that plane to sit across the table from that world class CEO?”
Madeline Rogero is Knox-ville’s next mayor and has earned our support. If she succeeds, we all succeed. Her win was not remotely close. The margin places her in good stead to win a second term in 2015 and discourages would be competitors. She took a strong showing against Bill Haslam eight years ago and converted it to a landslide last week. She won over many of her doubters.
Rogero faces a busy six weeks as she takes offi ce Saturday, Dec. 17. She has to fi ll key positions, includ-ing her immediate staff plus city department heads. More than 30 positions serve at the pleasure of the mayor.
Mayor Dick Fulton of Nashville told me the two most important positions are law and fi nance directors. The mayor will spend time almost every day with those two offi cials. She must trust and respect their advice. I re-tained Randy Vineyard who was Mayor Kyle Testerman’s fi nance director and he con-tinued for the entire 16 years I was mayor. I persuaded an
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Rogero converts doubters
Atlanta attorney, Tom Var-lan, who had grown up in Knoxville to come back as city law director and he held the position for 10 years. To-day, of course, he is a highly respected federal judge.
Rogero will not fi nd enough hours in the day to see and meet with all her friends. Everyone wants time with the new mayor and most will tell her that she had their support (when in fact 39 per-cent backed her rival.)
Mark Padgett’s campaign fi zzled, if it ever was. Just three weeks ago he released what turned out to be a bogus poll claiming he was only six points behind Rogero. The actual poll results placed him 20 points behind after raising more than $500,000 to get 8,700 votes.
His attacks on Rogero never stuck and were not tak-
en seriously. If Padgett runs again he should spend more time listening to voters. He needs to be more transparent when asked direct questions about his business. He needs to address real issues.
Nov. 8 also saw Frank-■ fort, Ind., (population 16,000) elect Chris McBarnes, 23, a Republican. Knox County has elected young persons to the Legislature such as Dick Krieg, Ryan Haynes, Sandra Clark and myself (all under 30 when elected) but not to administrative offi ces.
Over in Charleston, ■ S.C., Mayor Joe Riley was elected to his 10th four-year term with 67 percent of the vote against three opponents. Riley is associated with his-toric preservation and the revival of downtown Charles-ton. Never a hint of scandal and a tireless approach to delivery of city services has assured his popularity.
Four new City Coun-■ cil members will bring new ideas and energy. Marshall Stair, 33, arrives as one of the youngest persons ever elected citywide, while Finbarr Saun-
ders is twice his age and also newly elected after one term on County Commission.
One of their fi rst votes ■ will be to choose a new vice mayor as current Vice Mayor Joe Bailey is term limited and leaves council Dec. 17.
Chancellor Fansler has ■ issued a decision in the city pension lawsuit. It is unclear what the city pension board will do. Mayor Rogero should attend the meetings.
Cindy Buttry
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Knox County Council PTA hosted a reception and tour of the L&N STEM Academy last week.
With County Commis-sion’s approval last week of a new district map that aligns commission and school dis-tricts, a number of precincts are now in new districts. Elections for members of School Board Districts 2, 3, 5 and 8 will be held March 6, 2012. Listed below are the precinct names for those districts.
District 2: Central Unit-ed Methodist Church, North Knox Recreation Center,
Belle Morris, Christenberry, Lincoln Park, Richard Yoak-ley, Fountain City Library, Shannondale (both city and county), Gresham, Inskip Elementary (Precincts 37 and 38) and Inskip Recre-ation Center.
Notes: A portion of Brickey, Precinct 59, is be-ing consolidated into Pre-cinct 36, Gresham. Two ad-dresses on Mountaincrest Drive, currently in Precinct 61, Halls, are being con-
solidated into Precinct 74, Shannondale. Also, an area of Precinct 74 north of Lut-trell Road is being consoli-dated into Precinct 61.
District 3: West Haven, Ridgedale, Bearden Middle, Lonas, North Cedar Bluff, South Cedar Bluff, East Ce-dar Bluff, Norwood Library (see note).
Note: A portion of Nor-wood Library, Precinct 41, south of I-640 is being con-solidated into SOAR Youth
Ministries, Precinct 19, District 1. The remaining portion, formerly in Dis-trict 2, is now part of Dis-trict 3.
District 5: Concord,Farragut 1 (Precinct 66N), Farragut 2 (Precinct 66S), A.L. Lotts.
District 8: Hills, Fort Sumter, Sunnyview, Ram-sey, Riverdale, Dora Ken-nedy, Corryton, Gibbs, El-listown, Ritta, Skaggston, Carter and Thorngrove.
Touring the L&N
“This L&N is everything we envisioned and more,” said Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre. “And it’s off to a great start.”
County Council presi-dent Shannon Sumner said, “STEM is a PTA school with 100 percent teacher and fac-ulty membership in PTA.”
McIntyre said he had a
“Dick Cheney moment” when he hired Becky Ashe as prin-cipal. He asked Ashe, then the science supervisor, to head the principal selection committee. She asked just great interview questions and had such enthusiasm for the school that McIntyre fi -nally said, “Becky, why don’t you take this job?” And she said, “Could I?”
Ashe is now STEM princi-pal and science supervisor.
Shelia Shipley, PTSA president for the Academy, accepted the group’s char-ter. Karen Davis, state PTA president attended and Ron Blaylock represented Gov. Bill Haslam. State Reps. Ryan Haynes and Bill Dunn were on hand, as were coun-ty commissioners R. Larry Smith and Mike Brown.
School board member
Pam Trainor tours the
L&N Stem Academy
with Superintendent
Dr. Jim McIntyre. At
right, student body
president Ben Fomby
leads a tour for par-
ents and friends.Photos by S. Clark
Precincts shift with redistrictingSatire alert!The frantic fi nal hours
of last week’s Knoxville mayoral election revealed the hitherto unknown ex-istence of the Knoxville Communist Party, or “KCP” if you prefer. Yes, Virginia, there is a KCP, and we know this because its members were loudly expressing sup-port for Madeleine Rogero via Twitter just before elec-tion day.
Utilizing state-of-the-art surveillance technology, the Shopper-News was able to trace the origin of the tweets. At a rundown motel just outside the city limits we met Vladimir “Bubba” Brushoffski, who professed to be head commissar of the KCP as well as the tweets’ author.
Bubba was putting the fi nishing touches on what he called his “K-Town Man-ifesto,” and he offered to let us print it for the benefi t of our readers. Here it is, com-plete and unedited.
Wake up, comrades!
Knoxville Communist Party is well and good, and new vodka shipment from moth-er country coming soon.
Knoxville Communist Party needs you! We have long history, not known by some. Local cell is older than Lenin’s whiskers.
Many famous Knoxville Communists not known by some. I give one example – Cas Walker. Original sign of shears was sign of ham-mer and sickle!
This surprise you? Cas change to shears only be-cause prices hard to cut with hammer.
Bad luck that new may-or is not really Communist, but Bubba keep trying! Long live Knoxville Com-munist Party! Go Big Red!
And there the “manifes-to” ends. Bubba keeled over after his fourth tumbler of vodka, and we left him snoozing contentedly about dreams of county conquest – or the next local election.
– L. Van Guilder
Former County Commissioner Mark Harmon signs copies of
his book, “Crashing the Commission,” for former UT Chancel-
lor Bill Snyder and Property Assessor Phil Ballard. Snyder slyly
models the “university twit” T-shirt made popular by Greg
“Lumpy” Lambert’s moniker for Harmon, who teaches journal-
ism at UT. Photo by Betty Bean
Go Big Red!
Thanksgiving baskets to benefi t needy families
The Gibbs Ruritan Club has announced that its an-nual Thanksgiving Baskets program will focus on fami-lies in the Gibbs schools this year who need extra help during the holiday season.
The club wishes everyone
in the community a Happy Thanksgiving.
Kick off the holidays with ‘The Nutcracker’
The Oak Ridge Civic Ballet will present “The Nutcracker” at Oak Ridge High School auditorium Saturday, Nov. 19, and Sun-
day, Nov. 20.There will be two shows
on Saturday, featuring an encore performance at 11 a.m. and the full perfor-mance at 7 p.m. The encore performance is a one-act version of the full show and is perfect for small children and groups. Tickets for the encore performance
are $7 each. The evening performance will feature professional dancers Stephanie Bussell and Noel Dupuis and music by the UT Chamber Orchestra. The fi nal performance will be Sunday, Nov. 20. Cost for the full performances are adults $20, seniors $15 and students $10.
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NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier
The old saying “There’s nothing new under the
sun” dates all the way back thousands of years to the sayings in Ecclesiastes. But we curious human beings still enjoy both looking for new stuff and the surprise and delight of fi nding it.
Back in the middle 1800s, while Americans were occu-pied with destroying our-selves and our countryside in the Civil War, the British navy and merchant ships were sailing all over the world, exploring, colonizing and discovering.
The new worlds of South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand were almost totally unknown and unexplored by Europeans. A long list of in-trepid explorers spent years in the jungles, living among the natives and collecting thousands of specimens. Shiploads of previously unknown plants, beetles, butterfl ies and birds were sent back to museums and wealthy private collectors,
who were eager for anything and everything new.
These many explorations changed the way people thought about the origin and distribution of living things over the entire world, and about biology, the science of life, in general.
Nowadays people have a pretty good idea of where everything is, and books and museums are full of specifi cs. We know what’s around us, especially in our more familiar places.
Take the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for instance. Nature pro-fessionals from UT and a dozen nearby smaller col-leges in Tennessee and North Carolina, as well as countless numbers of amateur naturalists, have been studying the fl ora and fauna of the Smokies for decades, especially in the 75-plus year history of the national park.
The Smokies are famous for their biodiversity, more kinds of living things than
any other temperate zone area of its size in North America, we like to say. We really know what’s there.
Or, oops, do we?Legend has it that two
Park biologists, charged with monitoring the life in the Smokies, were discuss-ing their job one afternoon when one, Keith Langdon, observed, “If you inherited a hardware store from your father, the fi rst thing you would do is to take an inven-tory of what was in it.” With the help of an experienced University of Pennsylvania professor who had started the fi rst All-Taxa Biodiver-sity Inventory in Costa Rica, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park All-Taxa Bio-diversity Inventory was born in the fall of 2000.
The ATBI is a program with the objective of identifying every living thing within the boundaries of the Park, hope-fully within some reasonable number of years. And now after 11 years, the results have been spectacular. A check on
Findingnew ‘stuff ’
the ATBI website shows the current tally to be 7,101 species new to the park, and an amaz-ing 910 species completely new to science, all of this in a place with 9 million visitors a year. Other national and state parks and other various na-ture preserves, both here and abroad, have started similar programs of inventories based on the GSMNP model.
How does it work? They started with the ba-
sics: the underlying geology, the soil types, the amounts of rainfall in the various ar-eas. One of the main reasons for all the diversity of life in the Park is the large number of small habitats. Each little area has a different type of soil, different amount of moisture, different degree of slope, faces a different angle to the sun. And a lot of living things have adapted to survive mostly in their special little habitat.
So, it takes a lot of look-ing. More than 1,000 scien-tists, college students and volunteers, or “citizen scien-tists,” have been involved in the program. They perform focused collecting activities (fern forays, beetle blitzes and so on), and then the in-vited superspecialists from around the world (more than 20 countries so far) sit for hours and days, microscopes at the ready, identifying all the plants and critters that have come in.
As you would expect, they fi nd lots more tiny new things than big new things. They have added 10 new birds to the Park list, six new fi sh, two new reptiles and one new mammal – none of them new to science. But, they’ve found 143 slime molds new to the Park, 18 of them new to science. And 50 snails that are new to the park, seven of which are new to science.
And get this: they’ve found 1,575 beetles new to the Park, 583 mushrooms, and 944
butterfl ies and moths, with well more than 100 of those previously unknown to sci-ence! They’ve found 533 spi-ders, 41 new to science, and 14 species of daddy long-legs. That’s a lot of stuff running around up there that nobody knew even existed. I think the 19th century explorers would be proud.
They’ve found some weird things. How about a new-to-the-Park, spiny-headed worm? Or some new, alien earthworms that may be trying to take over our na-tive nightcrawlers?
And then there are my fa-vorites, the waterbears. Like most everybody else, I had never heard of waterbears, or tardigrades, as the biolo-gists tend to call them.
One biology textbook says that “To fi nd tardi-grades, you may not have to look any farther than the nearest clump of moss.” They are slow-moving, pudgy little animals that lumber along on four pairs of stubby, jointless legs that end in two claws. Some spe-cies have only females. And when things go bad, they can stop all signs of being alive (no metabolism at all) and the when things are bet-ter, come right back to life! The reason that you may not have seen any waterbears lately is that they are mostly less than 0.5 millimeters long. A giant waterbear might be 1 mm. And so far, they have found 82 species of waterbears in the Park, 21 of them new to science.
In our world today, we’re so busy covering everything with asphalt that we forget what an amazing, abundant and considerably unknown world we have around us. The Smokies have an abun-dance of life. But you will fi nd that your backyard, your garden and your local park are full of life as well.
It’s interesting, and fun, to get to know more of it.
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WORSHIP NOTES
As I write, we have suc-cessfully dodged a celestial bullet.
The asteroid 2005 YU-55 sailed between Earth and the moon today, which is the astronomical equiva-lent of threading a very small needle.
When I say we dodged it, that statement actually gives us way too much credit. Our astronomers knew it was coming (which is an im-provement, I guess, over the days of the dinosaurs when an asteroid slammed directly into earth, creating the Gulf of Mexico and a worldwide persistent winter for some signifi cant amount of time).
From a distance Immediately after the suffering of those days the
sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. (Matthew 24: 29 NRSV)
From a distance, the world looks blue and green,And the snow-capped mountains white.
(“From a Distance,” by Julie Gold)
and clouds of star nurser-ies, but it apparently is also cluttered with a fair amount of debris. (I have confessed before in this space my own predilection for clutter, so who am I to be critical of the Divine Housekeeper?)
There are, of course, sci-fi movies where astronauts go into space and blow an asteroid up just in the nick of time, but that seems a lit-tle chancy to me. The Law of Unintended Consequences has not been repealed, to my knowledge.
YU-55 was 200,000 miles from the Earth, it is true, but how many others are there out there, hurtling toward us?
I come from a long line of world class, champion wor-riers. But even I know when I’m licked, because, really. What are we going to do? This little lifeboat in which we all sail around the sun is the only craft we have. If something is really headed our way, however many years down the road …
That possibility makes me wonder: Are we keep-
ing our little lifeboat ship-shape? Are we treating her gently, being careful not to damage her? Are we making the necessary repairs?
It was poet Archibald MacLeish who eloquently described our fi rst view of ourselves from space. When Apollo 8 fi rst fl ew around the moon, the three astro-nauts on board were the fi rst humans to see the Earth rise over the moon’s horizon. That scene was transmitted back to Earth.
MacLeish wrote in re-sponse to that photograph:
“To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal si-lence where it fl oats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.”
In my opinion, that sen-tence is the single most beau-tiful of the 20th century, not only for its sentiment, but also for its place in history.
We had, for the fi rst time, been able to see ourselves from a distance and to rec-ognize ourselves as family.
But we did nothing – could do nothing – to avoid the aircraft carrier-size rock. So perhaps it would be more ac-curate to say we were spared.
I admit to being a little unnerved by the fact that there are free-fl oating rocks roaming around in our skies. The universe is a thing of beauty, with con-stellations and super novae
Bazaar helps fundmission projects
AuditionsKnoxville Nativity Pageant ■
Choir rehearses 7-9 p.m. Nov. 15 and 29 and Dec. 6 at Central Baptist Church of Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive. Registration is 6-7 p.m. prior to each rehearsal. Performances are at the Knox-ville Civic Coliseum at 3 p.m. Dec. 11 and at 7 p.m. Dec. 12 and 13 with a 7 p.m. dress rehearsal on Dec. 10. Info: www.knoxvillenativity.com or Janelle Witt at [email protected].
Community services
Cross Roads Presbyterian ■ hosts the Halls Welfare Minis-try food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.
Knoxville Free Food Market ■ , 4625 Mill Branch Lane (across from Tractor Supply in Halls), distributes free food 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the third Saturday of the month. Info: 566-1265.
New Hope Baptist Church ■ distributes food from its food pantry to local families in need 6-8 p.m. every third Thursday. Info: 688-5330.
Bracy to speak at KFLLance Bracy will be the guest
speaker for the Knoxville Fellowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Nov. 15. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.
Amy Dendrinos sells silk fl owers for hair clips and headbands at the Fountain City United Methodist Church bazaar. Dendrinos and a circle of the United Methodist Women gather for small group and have worked together to help raise money for missions through the bazaar. Photos by Ruth White
Erma Prather eyes a delicious baked
good from Rachael Hedgepeth at the
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a passion of the church.
faith
Thanksgiving Beaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will host a free Thanksgiving dinner 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 24. No reservations are required and everyone is invited. Info: www.beaverridgeumc.com or 690-1060.
New Liberty Baptist Church ■ , 5901 Roberts Road, Corryton, will host an old fashioned turkey dinner with all the trim-mings 3-5 p.m. Thanksgiving
Day (Thursday, Nov. 24) for anyone who would be alone during the holidays. No charge but reservations are required by calling Charmin Foth at 368-0806 or email [email protected]. To donate, contact Andrew Foth, 335-6680 or Charmin Foth, 368-0806.
Sharon Baptist Church ■ , 7916 Pedigo Road, will host the an-nual churchwide Thanksgiving Dinner and Worship on Sunday, Nov. 20. Meal in the ministry
center at 5 p.m. and Thanksgiv-ing worship at 6. Info: 938-7075.
Fundraisers, salesBeaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will host a Fall Craft Fair featuring local crafts along with items from Shop the World Gifts, a Fair Trade gift shop from Englewood, Tenn., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, in the Family Life Center Gym. Info: [email protected], or call 690-1060 and leave a mes-
sage for Julie Moorefi eld.
Bells Campground Baptist ■
Church WMU will host a soup and sandwich dinner 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18. A gift basket auction and bake sale will also be held. All proceeds will go toward the Lottie Moon Christmas Missions.
Music servicesNew Beverly Baptist Church ■ , 3320 New Beverly Church Road, will host the New Beverly Singers 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20. Info/directions: 546-0001 or visit www.NewBeverly.org.
RevivalsGraveston Baptist Church ■ , 8319 Clapps Chapel Road, will have “Marvelous Mondays” the whole month of Novem-ber. Starting at 7 p.m. each Monday there will be a special evangelist and singing. Info: 686-0186 orwww.graveston.org.
Special servicesFirst Baptist Church ■ will host 1960’s UT star athlete Rich-mond Flowers at both wor-ship services in the sanctuary Sunday, Nov. 20. Worship service times are 8:42 and 11 a.m. The public is invited.
New Beverly Baptist ■
Church, 3320 New Beverly Church Road, will host guest
pastor Chris Washam 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 20. The Washams will also be singing during the service. Info/di-rections: 546-0001 or www.NewBeverly.org.
Workshopsand classes
Fairview Baptist Church ■ , 7424 Fairview Road off East Emory Road, hosts a Cel-ebrate Recovery program 7-9 p.m. Thursdays.
New Hope Baptist Church ■ , 7602 Bud Hawkins Road in Corryton, hosts Celebrate Recovery adult and youth classes 7 p.m. Tuesdays and 12-step class 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Info: 688-5330.
Dayspring Church ■ , 901 Calla-han Drive, Suite 109, will off er Divorce Care classes from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Monday evenings. There is no charge for the 13-week program and child care will be provided. Info: 242-3995
Youth programsBeaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, youth program has several activities planned for the month. Everyone is invited to participate. Info: Jay Lifford, 690-1060 ext. 108, or email [email protected].
Duncan discusses issues with seniorsRalph and Dorothy Mertz greet U.S. Rep. John Duncan Jr. at a senior adult meeting hosted by First Lutheran Church last week. Duncan was on hand to answer questions for the group and discuss issues that aff ect senior adults and the country. Photo by Ruth White
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Tennessee and Vander-bilt are separated by only 161 miles of concrete and asphalt but, as George Cafego once said, they are a million miles apart in football.
The Volunteers are strug-gling like heck to get back in the general direction of where they used to be, top 10 in the country, relevant in Southeastern Conference races, welcome in big bowl games.
Vandy is supposedly on the up, up, upswing.
The Commodores haven’t been anywhere in my lifetime. The pinnacle of their success was 1932. They helped form the SEC. Tulane and Sewanee can say the same.
Vanderbilt has never captured the conference championship and probably won’t. Through the decades it has averaged winning one of every four SEC games. That is the all-time worst, below Kentucky and Missis-sippi State.
Some games have been exciting. Now and then, Van-derbilt defeats Tennessee. It has happened four times in the last 50 years.
In 1964, fi rst for Doug Dickey as coach, Vandy won, 7-0. The Vols had a chance, a fi rst down at the 5, but four running plays failed to punch it in. Does that sound familiar?
In 1975, Vandy won 17-14 at Neyland Stadium. This was very bad. Tennessee rushed for only 89 yards and gained 113 throwing. Stanley Mor-gan was the tailback. Randy Wallace was the quarterback. Both deserved a better fate.
I will not attempt to ex-plain the 28-21 loss in 1982. This was the Tennessee team that had Reggie White, Willie Gault, Chuck Coleman and Bill Bates. This is the team that stopped the awful losing streak against Alabama. I will say Vanderbilt fans liked this
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Marvin West
outcome so much, they voted it No. 1 in a half-century of fun ’n games.
I will also say this was the beginning of a long dry spell for the Commodores. They next won in 2005. That was the day the Vols couldn’t gain a yard when they need-ed one to maintain posses-sion and preserve a lead. Jay Cutler took full advantage of the failure and hit the win-ning TD pass to Earl Ben-nett with 1:11 remaining. No, I am not over it.
Here comes the really sad part of this so-called historic rivalry. Vandy fans look down their noses at the Volunteers. I have heard it expressed this way:
When a Tennessee player gets into serious trouble, a Vanderbilt-trained lawyer de-fends him. When a Tennessee player is seriously injured, a Vanderbilt doctor puts him back together again.
Alas and alas, this pseu-do-superior mentality is ooz-ing onto the football fi eld. There are Vanderbilters who think the Commodores are winning the recruiting race against Tennessee.
There are Vanderbilters who think their team will win Saturday at Neyland Stadium. They think the Commodores are truly on the rise. They think the Vols, at best, are skidding sideways.
What do I think? The two schools are far, far apart in football success, facilities and tradition. The teams are too close for comfort.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is [email protected].
Powell running back Dyshawn Mobley takes it to the house on Nov. 4 against Anderson County. Mobley set a single season record of 2,084 rushing yards surpass-ing Derek Milligan’s 2,007 yards record set in 2002. Photos by Greg Householder
A group of more than 150, comprised mainly of United States military veter-ans and their families, gathered Nov. 5 at the University of Tennessee Medical Center for a ceremony and breakfast in recognition of the veterans’ service.
U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. joined
Dr. O. Lee Wilson and Dr. Tim Williams of the University General Dentistry in addressing the guests and presiding over the event.
The elementary choir from Temple Baptist Academy along the academy’s high school ensemble performed patri-
otic pieces. The event concluded around the fountain outside the new entrance to the heart hospital.
“The Star Spangled Banner” was per-formed by a quartet from Crown College as a large American fl ag was unfurled from the new parking garage.
Fans line the “Panther Walk” before the playoff game with Anderson County. Powell avenged last year’s playoff loss to the Mavericks 54-12. Last Friday, Powell entertained
Ooltewah – results were unavailable at press time. If the Panthers prevailed, Powell would entertain the winner of the Centennial and Lenoir City game on Friday. Centen-nial upset No. 3 seed Tullahoma, and Lenoir City knocked of No. 2 seed and last year’s
5A state champ Columbia on Nov. 4. Playoff kickoff times are 7 p.m.
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The Temple Baptist Academy elementary choir performs at UT Medical Center on Nov. 5 to honor veterans. Photo submitted
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The Knoxville Writers’ Group ■ will meet 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike. Tamara Baxter, author of award-winning stories of Appalachia “Rock Big
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Burnett is going to be hosting auctions at his of-fi ces on North Seven Oaks Drive or at designated lo-cations depending on the size or theme of the Auc-tion. He’s not interested in selling things that wouldn’t fi nd a buyer at a yard sale. He wants items that are likely to sell and make both you and his company some money.
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“Invest some time and thought to seek out better hearing,” says Gary Weaver, Licensed Hearing Instru-ment Specialist. “When someone has a hearing loss, it also affects everyone around them. It makes those who can hear feel bad while isolating the person who can’t hear well.”
Good hearing is a universal present (to coin a phrase), “the gift that keeps on giving.”
But don’t sit and mull over this deci-sion. It sometimes takes weeks to get
the instrument properly designed and adjusted. Gary Weaver will perform the initial examination for free. “It usually takes 10 days to get someone in new hearing aids, sometimes less,” he says.
“You’ll hear Christmas plays and carols like you’ve not heard them in years.” Family gatherings will be anticipated if each person is able to participate. Sometimes depression sets in around the holidays, but that doesn’t have to happen; particularly if the problem can be tackled with some-thing as simple as a hearing aid.
Gary Weaver and his wife, Belinda, a nurse, have heard every reason imaginable for delaying or avoiding
altogether the need for hearing assis-tance. From cost to bulky equipment to difficulty of maintenance, the patients just “get along” as their hearing fades.
It does not have to be this way. Gary says, “We are professionals you can trust, who are knowledge-able about solutions for the hearing impaired.”
Belinda and Gary Weaver.
Gary and Belinda work with individ-uals having hearing issues in a positive and encouraging way. They believe if the proper testing is done and the appropriate solution is applied, good results will follow.
“As lifelong Knoxvillians, we know the people who live here and we orga-nize our services to help them. There is no high pressure and we like to follow up over the years.” Gary is part of the family that owned and operated Weaver Funeral Home. He and Belinda have owned Weaver Hearing Aid Cen-ter for 12 years.
If you have a question, come in and ask Gary or Belinda. Their office is located in Franklin Square near Sul-livan’s. It is open five days a week, eve-nings and weekends by appointment.
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Coming off the previous weekend’s success presen-tation of its second play, the timing as the Powell Business and Professional Association’s “Business Spotlight” for the month of November could not be more perfect for the Powell Playhouse.
Molly Durr, star of the group’s fi rst production last spring, “The Curious Sav-age,” and stage manager for the most recent play joined Judy Morris, who starred in “The Night is My Enemy,” in telling the group about the playhouse.
Last Sunday, the play-house sponsored a storytell-ing session and book sign-ing with Bill Landry.
On Dec. 9, the Powell Playhouse will present an evening of gospel music. On Feb. 14-16, the Playhouse will present the play “Steel Magnolias.” On April 21, it will present a comedy night and on June 7-10 will pres-ent the sequel to “The Curi-
Group makes donation to
KARMBy Greg Householder
The Powell Business and Professional Association wrapped up its monthly meetings for 2011 last Tues-day at the Jubilee Banquet Facility by electing new of-fi cers and hearing from An-gie Sledge, vice president for development for Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries.
Sledge told the business group about the changing face of the homeless and re-lated that 26 percent of the local homeless are military veterans. She said that the family fl oor is full and that female clients of the facility range in age from 18-73. She
Judy Morris pitches upcom-
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The Powell Playhouse
Angie Sledge of KARM tells
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ous Savage” by performing “The Savage Dilemma” to celebrate the fi rst anniver-sary of its inaugural pro-duction.
and, according to Sledge, the majority of folks served by KARM are from the Knox-ville area, dispelling the no-tion that the homeless are at-tracted to cities like Knoxville that have homeless shelters.
The PBPA voted to make a $300 donation to KARM.
The group unanimously elected Kelley Jarnigan of Farm Bureau Insurance as president for 2012, Daniel Monday from Slam Dot as vice president, Jessica Web-ber of Walgreens as secretary and Teresa Long of First Ten-nessee Bank as treasurer.
The group said farewell
to outgoing president Noell Lewis by presenting her with a plaque. Lewis is expecting her fi rst child in December.
David Kimble of AA Air Company announced that his company will give away a free heating and air condi-tioning system to someone in need. Details can be found on the company’s website at www.aa-airco.com/.
State Rep. Bill Dunn reported that though the Legislature has been out of session, various commit-tees have been meeting and that one of the topics being looked at is teacher evalu-
ations. Dunn also related that the governor has start-ed conversations regarding fuel tax reform as well.
County Commissioner R. Larry Smith reported that there are openings for citizens to serve on the ethics commit-tee and personnel board. He also reported that commis-sion has almost fi nished work on the redistricting plan.
School board member Kim Sepesi reported on the $7 million school budget short-fall and last week’s ground breaking at the new Carter Elementary School. She also gave an update on the TDOT
“roadscape” grant for the Emory Road exit of I-75. The $30,000 grant is awaiting environment design approval and is about to enter the fi nal three phases of the project – fi nal design, right-of-way and construction.
The PBPA will hold its Man, Woman and Business-person of the Year banquet 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, at the Jubilee Banquet Facility. Ra-dio and television personal-ity Hallerin Hilton Hill will speak. Tickets are $50 and may be purchased from De-nise Girard at First Century Bank on Emory Road.
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(865) 692-5183Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm
Saturday: 9am - 3pm
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(865) 539-0580Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm
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(865) 686-1761Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm
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(865) 633-5008Monday-Friday: 9am - 7pm
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11501 Hardin Valley RoadKnoxville, Tennessee
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