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By Betty BeanThe fi rst challenge to the city’s

new sign ordinance isn’t coming from a big national franchise seeking a fl ashing message center atop a tall pole along-side a busy highway.

Instead, it’s being fi led by the owner of a homegrown business who has been told that she can’t place whimsical, cartoon-style butter and egg fi gures of her own design on the roof of her building because they aren’t art.

“It came down to whether the sign was art or just advertising,” said Peter Ahrens, director of Plans Review and Inspections for the city of Knoxville.

“As we looked at their website, it almost seemed that the egg and the butter became a logo, almost like a Nike Swoosh. Where you see the butter and egg dancing, you think of Magpies, and that’s how they are trying to brand their business. That would be consid-

By Wendy SmithData gathered from Tennessee

Division of Forestry and city can-opy assessments, both completed last year, will be used in an upcom-ing report on the health of Knox-ville’s tree canopy.

The assess-ments were done via aerial photos. Maps created from

data gained from the photos are available on the urban forestry sec-tion of the city’s website. The city canopy assessment shows percent-age of tree cover by neighborhood, and the state assessment shows changes in the canopy from 1997 to 2010 by City Council district.

This year, Urban Forester Kas-ey Krouse plans to compile infor-mation from both assessments

into a report that details where Knoxville has healthy tree cover and where additional trees might be planted. The city has an annual tree-planting budget of $50,000 and has received an additional $20,000 in state funds for each of the past three years. That allows for the planting of 500-600 trees per year, he says.

The assessments indicate that the total size of the canopy stayed the same from 1997 to 2010, but that doesn’t account for annexed property, which is generally for-ested.

A signifi cant change in land use, indicated by an increase in impervious surfaces like roads, sidewalks and buildings, was in-dicated for the same period. Tree cover along roadways and in aban-doned pastures increased, but fur-ther research is required to deter-mine if that’s a good thing. Some

may be privet, rather than new, healthy trees, and privet inhibits tree growth.

Such data allows Krouse to tar-get neighborhoods that are losing tree coverage. Different parts of town face different challenges in regard to the canopy.

The Parkridge neighborhood is rebounding from canopy loss through a three-year improvement strategy implemented by the city that involves planting street trees.

“Street trees are a tremendous asset because they improve aes-thetics and property values. They make people want to live there,” he says.

The anticipated report will give Krouse the opportunity to further educate the community about the value of trees. Trees add monetary value to homes because they cut cooling costs and increase prop-erty values, but people who have

experienced property damage from trees, or just want to be able to mow quickly, may need more information.

Krouse is happy to share his expertise with neighborhood or-ganizations. He’d like for the com-munity to understand the risks of hiring non-professional tree workers to top trees. Trees that have been “topped,” or had large branches or trunks removed from their tops, are more likely to fail, especially during storms, he says. He recommends hiring profes-sional arborists to consult on proper treatment for large trees.

There is one tree species that, in his opinion, can’t be overpruned − the Bradford pear.

“Cut it down and plant an oak.”To learn more about the city’s

tree-planting program or request a program, contact Krouse at 215-6113 or kkrouse@knoxvilletn.gov..

Kasey Krouse

Canopy assessments show where trees are needed

City sign ordinance faces butter and egg challengeThe off en

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ered advertising.”Peggy Hambright,

owner of Magpies Bak-ery, admits that she’s

better at baking cakes than at dealing with bureaucracies.

She said she’d long planned on affi xing porcelain fi gures to the pre-existing scaffolding at either end of her roof but put it off due to its cost. And even after passage of the new ordinance, which prohib-its rooftop signs, she believed Ms. Egg and Mr. Butter could slide in under a clause exempting works of art bearing no advertising.

“I was asked to speak against To page 3

By Ruth WhiteThe crowd was big and the

celebration was even bigger. The day of remembering Belle Morris, the incredible woman and the school named after her, was fi lled with a Maypole dance, a proclamation, a tour of the school building at 2308 Washington Pike and a show-ering of confetti as the crowd sang “Happy Birthday.”

On hand were many former staff members and principals. One extra special moment occurred when the youngest student, Karter Cunningham, presented a bouquet of roses

to Ruth Snelson, the oldest liv-ing alum.

Superintendent Jim Mc-Intyre talked briefl y about Morris and her extraordinary accomplishments. She was appointed to the school board before women were allowed to vote and lived her life as an educator, advocate for children and educational leader.

Belle Morris is recognized for saying that all schools should be places of conspicu-ous growth and colorful spaces. Morris would be proud that the school building named after her is just that.

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Belle Morris:100 years of excellence

Former staff members attending the celebration include Letha

Wilkins (teacher, 1952-1985), offi ce staff members Sharon Godfrey

and Barbara Golec and principal Sharon Roberts (1995-2003).

Belle Morris students perform a Maypole dance dur-

ing the school’s 100th anniversary celebration. The

dance was a long-standing tradition at the school,

documented back to the 1930s. Photos by R. White

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Get ‘Wild’ and possibly win

To celebrate its 10th anni-versary, Legacy Parks Founda-tion has christened Sept. 7-11 Wild Week. The movie “Wild,” based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed, will be shown at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, at Regal Riviera.

The $25 ticket makes you eligible for door prizes from REI and gives you a chance to win two tickets to the sold-out Sept. 11 Legacy Luncheon, at which Strayed will speak. Moviegoers also will receive a pass for discounts at area mer-chants. Info: legacyparks.org

LVW to host candidate debate

WBIR news anchor John Becker will moderate a forum for Knoxville City Council candidates 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the Clinton Chapel AME Zion Church, 546 College Street. It is sponsored by the League of Women Voters and others.

The primary election is Tuesday, Sept. 29, with early voting to start Wednesday, Sept. 9. Candidates will meet with voters from 8 to 8:30 p.m. All are invited.

Coupon booksKnox County Schools will

kick off its annual coupon books campaign at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at Carter Elementary School, 8455 Strawberry Plains Pike. The book is celebrating 27 years and is still just $10.

The 2015 goal is 160,000 books sold, which will net more than $1.4 million for classroom needs across the county. The campaign runs Sept. 3-21.

City beer boardTennessee River Bar & Grill,

1317 Island Home Ave., is set for a pre-hearing conference at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, in room 460 City County Build-ing.

The conference will set a date for a suspension and revo-cation hearing before a hearing offi cer, said city recorder Will Johnson.

■ Fountain City Lake update and

Garry Menendez’s ideas for the

future. Halls/Fountain City Shop-

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■ South Knoxville is on the uptick

and Betty Bean set out to discover

why. South Knox Shopper online.

■ Susan Cunningham, school

volunteer extraordinaire. Bearden

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stroke:LIKE IT NEVER EVEN HAPPENED.No comprehensive stroke and rehabilitation center in our region

does more to reverse stroke’s devastating eff ects than Fort

Sanders Regional Medical

Center. That’s why hospitals

across East Tennessee refer their

most complex stroke patients to

us. And only Fort Sanders Regional is home to the Patricia Neal

Rehabilitation Center, East Tennessee’s elite rehabilitation hospital

for stroke, spinal cord and brain injury patients.

Certifi ed as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission and accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

Leading the region’s only stroke hospital network

www.covenanthealth.com/strokenetwork

Fort Sanders performs clinical trials and procedures

for stroke not available anywhere else in our region.

When it comes to stroke, time lost is brain lost, so it’s important to understand the

warning signs and how to reduce your risk.

If you or a loved one experience any of these symptoms, call 911.

WARNINGSigns of

Stroke

Sudden numbness or weakness, especially on one

side of the body

Sudden severe headache with no known cause

Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance

or coordination

Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding

Sudden trouble seeingin one or both eyes

Missing the linksRetired trooper vows strokes won’t end his golf game

There’s a golf club in the trunk of Bryan Farmer’s car with his name on it. It’s a top-of-the-line driver, brand new and still in the box.

He bought it June 12, 2014, af-ter playing 18 holes of golf. But that night, Farmer had a stroke of an-other kind – a blood clot on the left side of his brain – that has, so far, put his golf game on hold.

But even after suffering a sec-ond stroke 10 months later, he vows he’ll be back in the swing of things this month, thanks to the care he received at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center (PNRC) at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and Roane Medical Center.

“It might not be pretty, but I’m going to hit that driver,” declares Farmer, whose slightly drawn right arm and weakened right leg are reminders of that June night when a 3 a.m. bathroom visit was the fi rst hint that something had gone wrong.

“When I got out of the bed, I no-ticed some extreme dizziness, to the point where I almost fell down,” said Farmer, a Harriman resident. “It was similar to a blood sugar spike. I have high blood pressure and diabetes, and I knew I got dizzy when that happened to me in the past. I didn’t think a lot about it. I went ahead, got my balance back, went down the hall to the restroom, came back to bed and went straight to sleep. No sickness, no nothing.”

The following morning, he still had some dizziness, but not enough to prevent him from driving to Fairfi eld Glade where he works in quality assurance for the vacation resort. “I sat down at my desk and the diz-ziness came back,” he said. “I got up from my desk and walked down the hallway, and my right foot dragged the ground. Just one time, but it almost tripped me up, and one of the other guys I work with saw me and said, ‘Let’s go back into your offi ce and sit down.’ ”

It was then that one of the managers with nursing experience came in. Suspicious, she checked Farmer for stroke symptoms. “I passed every one of them with fl ying col-ors,” said Farmer who, as a retired Tennes-see Highway Patrol lieutenant, was familiar with the signs of a stroke. “No numbness, no

Brian Farmer continues

to work toward return-

ing to the golf course,

after suff ering two

strokes in the last year.

Farmer was treated at

the Comprehensive

Stroke Center at Fort

Sanders Regional and

Patricia Neal Rehabili-

tation Center.tingling, no headache. None of that. Just dizziness.”

Yet, despite the successful FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) campaign to raise stroke symptom aware-ness, minor strokes can and do occur with-out the person ever knowing it. Mild stroke symptoms that recover after a brief period of time may indicate a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or “mini stroke.” While seldom deadly, TIAs are often precursors to a full-blown ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke that may follow if symptoms are left untreated.

Stroke symptoms can also occur over a span of hours or days. At fi rst, the affected person may have little or no symptoms, but as time passes, the symptoms will become more apparent as an estimated 32,000 brain cells die each passing second.

Pressed to go to the emergency room, Farmer reluctantly agreed. At Parkwest Medical Center, Farmer thought perhaps he had dodged a bullet when a CT scan came back negative for stroke.

However, according to Dr. Daryl Harp, neuoradiologist, “Physicians are aware that

strokes are often not seen on CT scans within the fi rst 24 hours. For this reason, an MRI of the brain was completed, and showed that he had indeed had a stroke.”

But even then, he still appeared to be unaffected. Then at about 3 a.m., Farmer arose from his hos-pital bed to go to the restroom and discovered his right side was para-lyzed. “Paralysis had set in, and my right leg was useless,” said Farmer. “It just got worse.”

Transferred by ambulance to the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders, Farmer began to real-ize the seriousness of his condition. “I couldn’t move my right arm – it was drawn up and curled against my

chest,” Farmer recalled. “My right leg was pretty much pointed to the right. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even feed myself.”

On the fourth day of his 31 days in Fort Sanders, Farmer was moved into the PNRC wing to begin his therapy. “I’m sitting there in a wheelchair in a row of four or fi ve other people in wheelchairs, waiting

on them to get therapy too,” he said. “I look at some of these people, and the thought is going through my head, ‘You know, I could have been a whole lot worse. I’ve got to go in here and do what they tell me to do to the best of my ability.’ ”

That was made easy by the PNRC doctors, nurses and therapists, whose encourage-ment was always coupled with enthusiasm from Day One.

“I wish I could remember her name, but the girl who came to wheel me up to therapy was just bubbling with excite-ment and positivity,” he said. “From her to the doctors to the nurses to the therapists, I can’t say enough good things about those people. Of course, I had a positive attitude from my family and a special friend. Between those people, I couldn’t help but stay positive. The level of professionalism and effort they put forth was amaz-

ing. They were magnifi cent.”“We’d only do three hours of therapy a

day, but it seemed like 10,” Farmer added.“It was really grueling because I started atGround Zero. I lost every ounce of strengthI had on my right side, and my left sidetoo basically – my body was just sapped ofstrength. I remember them giving me a two-pound weight to lift – two pounds! I couldn’teven pick that up!”

Still, 31 days after the stroke, Farmer waswheeled to the door and discharged fromPNRC. He walked the last 15 to 20 feet to hisride home. “It wasn’t the prettiest or mostgraceful walk I’d ever taken,” he said, “but itwas the most gratifying.”

His rehab continued a couple of weekslater at Patricia Neal Outpatient Center atRoane Medical Center, and he heaps morepraise on the therapists there. “They werejust top-notch, positive people, which wasgood for me because I had to help myselfand I didn’t need someone who was goingto bring me down,” he said. “They werejust as determined here to make me betteras they were in Knoxville. Their attitudeswere great. They are really dedicated totheir work, and enjoyed their work – and itshowed.”

A second stroke last April, just months after fi nishing his outpatient rehab, slightlyaffected his speech and cognition but for themost part is undetectable. In the meantime,he goes to the gym three times weekly to liftweights and work on the elliptical bike.

“As far as real limitations, I have none,”said Farmer. “I can’t run. I can’t jog. I canwalk ok. It takes me awhile to get some-where but I can do it,” he says. “I’m not backto where I want to be – I want to be on thegolf course right now. That’s where I want tobe. And that’s where I will be in September.It may not be pretty, but I’m going to be onthat course.”

The Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional -delivering immediate and excellent care

When a stroke happens, timely treatment is critical. The Com-prehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional is well above the

national average in delivering prompt treatment of life-saving medication.

Clot busting drugs are given to stroke patients through a vein to improve blood fl ow and mini-mize potential disabilities. The amount of time it takes for a patient to be brought in to a hospital un-til the moment medications are intravenously ad-ministered is referred to as “door to needle time.”

While the average door to needle time is a little more than an hour, the door to needle time at Fort Sanders Regional is 30 minutes. That’s half an hour faster than the national average.

It’s just one of the many advantages a patient has when treated at a comprehensive stroke center. The stroke center exists to provide the highest level of stroke care for complicated stroke cases.

“It really exists to provide that next level up from what you can get at your local community hospital,” Arthur Moore, MD says. “Strokes can often be treated at those hospitals, but fi nding out why the stroke occurred to prevent it from happening again sometimes takes someone who’s done a lot more work in treating stroke.”

Moore says fi nding out the “why” takes some digging into a pa-tient’s background, and sometimes it’s not as obvious as the main risk factors.

“Stroke centers tend to be better and faster at treating stroke just because we see it all the time,” Moore says. “We have doctors who can go up into the brain and pull a clot out, and that’s a really specialized niche. Most hospitals don’t have access to someone who can do that.”

The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional sees patients from throughout East Tennessee, and even from Ken-tucky. To learn more, visit fsregional.com/stroke, or call (865) 541-1111.

Arthur Moore,

MD

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Promoting health in Parkridge

Cindy Taylor

Penny Neal, Ellie Ferguson, Tommy Drinnen and Katelyn Kirk review paperwork before clinic

hours at Hope Central. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Residents in the Parkridge area have a new alternative for seeking healthcare close to home. Primary Care of Tennessee has partnered with Hope Central to provide a medical clinic in the Hope Central ministry center.

The Rev. Tommy Drin-nen has been in ministry for 28 years and the direc-tor of Hope Central for two years. A Central High School graduate, Drinnen has made the rounds from Knoxville to Ghana and back as a min-ister, teacher and coach. He has a master’s degree in edu-cation and early childhood reading and is currently completing his doctorate in spiritually transformative education at Biola University.

“Our goal is to be a Jesus neighbor and fi nd ways to serve this neighborhood,” he said. “This is an underserved area. Hope Central and this clinic are opportunities to provide for people who don’t

have transportation.”The health clinic started

in August, and Drinnen is trying to get the word out to area residents. On the fi rst day medical volun-teers performed more than 15 school physicals. Paper-work is handled by medical volunteers, who are nursing students at King University. Family nurse practitioners see patients. Primary Care of Tennessee oversees the clinic and is providing all supplies and equipment.

“This is a local ministry for those of us who volunteer here at the clinic,” said vol-unteer Penny Neal, a teacher at King University and pedi-atric nurse practitioner with Primary Care of Tennessee. “It is a great opportunity for our students to come and get exposure to inner-city needs and a Christian ministry for us to meet the needs of the population.”

Ellie Ferguson is a stu-dent nurse volunteer at the clinic.

“I actually live in this neighborhood,” said Fer-guson. “Volunteering here is a great way to make new friends.”

The clinic is open 11 a.m.-1 p.m. each second Tuesday

and 3-5 p.m. each fourth Wednesday. Insurance is accepted, but the clinic will treat those without insur-ance as well. All ages from birth to seniors are welcome at the clinic.

Hope Central holds an afterschool program for el-ementary students 4-5:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. There is a pro-gram for middle- and high-school students from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Hope Central is a non-profi t averaging 50 vol-unteers per week with numerous supporting churches, including New Hope Church. While many activities are geared toward children, Hope Central serves all ages. Veta Sprin-kle is a leader and volunteer at Hope Central.

“We intentionally do not try to fi x problems but en-courage families to fi nd so-lutions,” said Sprinkle. “We help connect them with re-sources and assist them in overcoming obstacles.”

The current location at 1944 Woodbine Ave. serves a 50-block area and is get-ting tight on space. Drinnen says they are looking for a larger location.

Teacher, students meet to talk …

69 years later

Wanda Neal as a new teacher

in 1946

By Sandra ClarkMargie LeCoultre, re-

tired principal, is still hav-ing lunch with her fourth-grade teacher.

But the teacher, Wanda Neal, is now 90, and the “kids” are 77.

“We have had a great time sitting at Puleo’s Res-taurant and just chatting away. She is so precious!” says LeCoultre. Their next lunch date is for The Front Porch in Powell.

LeCoultre writes: “Wan-da Neal had just graduated from Maryville College in 1946, when she was as-signed a fourth-grade class of 10-year-old students at Fair Garden Elementary School in East Knoxville.

“Wanda had majored in French and defi nitely want-ed to teach that subject. The Knoxville City Schools sys-tem was in short supply of teachers at the end of WWII and teachers were placed where the need arose.”

Wanda shares the follow-ing:

“Feeling a bit unpre-pared for the job at hand, since my experience with nine year olds was zero, I struggled to keep the fastest learners ‘busy.’ After giving them what I considered to be enough needed work, within a few minutes little Margie Humphrey and Nan-cy Du Vergy would be hover-ing over my desk declaring, ‘We’re fi nished. What do you want us to do now?’

“This memory came back

to me after many years of teaching.

“A young fi rst-year teach-er came into my room, after about an hour on the fi rst day of school, and asked in anguish, ‘I’ve already taught them everything I know. What am I to do now?’ I smiled at my memory and told her it would get easier and to hang in there.

“All in all, that fi rst year at Fair Garden was a very important learning year for me, and one I will always remember. At the time, I was engaged to be married the coming summer and did not return to teaching until after my three girls were all in school. I completed my teaching career in eighth grade English and Ameri-can history at Sunnyview Elementary School. (A bet-ter fi t than fourth grade.)

“In the seventies, two of my daughters began their

teaching careers at Fair Garden. Things do seem to come full circle.

“I am certainly enjoy-ing getting together with my fi rst-year students. It is pleasantly different from the lunches in the cafete-ria those 60-plus years ago. We have so much more in common now, and I don’t have to think of something to keep them busy.”

Wanda’s most recent lunch with fi rst-year stu-dents included Beverly LeCoultre Wilson, Nancy Du Vergy Thomas and Dr. Mar-gie Humphrey LeCoultre.

LeCoultre followed her fourth-grade teacher into the classroom as she taught fi rst, second and third grades and was principal of four elementary schools in Knoxville and Knox County.

Wanda Neal welcomed any assistance she could re-ceive as she looked at her very active fourth-graders. Nancy Du Vergy’s mother, Gladys, also taught at Fair Garden and was very supportive of the young new teacher.

Years later, Wanda taught her student Nancy’s daugh-ter, Laura Thomas, at Sunny-view Elementary School, which was the fi rst genera-tion (Nancy) to the second (Laura) for this family.

Wanda Neal Frye Weichel remains very active. She at-tends Eastminster Presby-terian Church, plays bridge with two card groups and immensely enjoys her family and friends.

Recently at lunch are

Beverly LeCoultre Wil-

son, Wanda Neal, Margie

Humphrey LeCoultre and

Nancy Du Vergy Thomas.

City sign ordinance From page 1

the ordinance, but I’m not a public speaker,” Hambright said. “So I didn’t. I thought the exemption would apply.”

She said none of her neighbors objects to her plan and said she doesn’t believe that some of the pro-hibitions in the ordinance are good for the 800 block of North Central Street, which hasn’t yet seen the kind of redevelopment that’s taking place a few blocks north.

Hambright – who got her start in the business with the help of her late parents, Frank and Hazel Hambright, who sold Magpies cook-ies and cakes at the Market Square Farmers Market – bought 846 N. Central St. seven years ago, spruced it up and moved the bakery there from its Old City location, where it had been for fi ve years. She rented the back half of the building to the Glowing Body Yoga Studio,

which fronts on Irwin Street. Soon, both businesses were drawing steady customers.

After her next-door neighbor, the iconic Corner Lounge, went out of business, Hambright and her husband, Scott Carpenter, bought that building, too, and eventu-ally chef Holly Hambright (Peggy’s sister) opened Hol-ly’s Corner there, giving the neighborhood a trio of vi-brant new businesses.

Being turned down by the city inspectors forced Hambright to spend $250 to appeal the decision to the city Board of Zoning Ap-peals, where she will plead her case in October. If she is turned down there, the next step is City Council.

She says she’s feeling frustrated.

“If a business is willing to spend $10,000 of their own money to make their neigh-borhood more appealing,

why should the city be op-posed to that? It can only be a good thing for everyone,” she said. “There has to be a way to make an exception in the ordinance to accommo-date neighborhoods such as ours and the Magnolia Av-enue corridor to allow us to make our businesses stand out from the blight.”Pam Hambright thinks her dancing egg could brighten North

Central. This is the view from her front door.

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Marvin West

Country-boy football coaches, since the days of Bowden Wyatt, have used the same expression to de-scribe this time of year.

“The hay is in the barn.”This is obviously a farm-

ing summation, the alfalfa matured, was cut, pitched or baled and put away for later use.

Applied to football, it means August anguish is fi nished, growing season has ended, the plan is in place, basic preparation is past. What remains is to run through the T, tighten up the chinstrap and play the game.

It is a very exciting time for Volunteers – with a so-bering thought lurking in the background. Did I do

Hay is in the barn

enough?All the good ones will ask

themselves: Did I put in the hours, do the work, focus sharply on details, leave little to chance? Am I really ready for the proverbial mo-ment of truth, the opening kickoff, giant games to fol-low, a season of high expec-tations?

They will check to see if they are s uffi ciently con-fi dent, totally committed,

dedicated to the cause.Is the hay safely in the

barn? Nobody knows to-day. But we’ll all fi nd out later. How the team looks is relevant – and I’m not talk-ing about Nike or alternate uniforms. Can we recog-nize improved strength and speed in action? Was coach-ing so crisp as to eliminate hesitation and confusion?

What really matters are results. Wins and losses. How and where and beating betting odds are secondary.

There was a time when excuses were justifi ed. Butch Jones inherited a depleted roster. Lane Kif-fi n committed too many recruiting blunders. Derek Dooley didn’t do much of

anything. We think Butch Jones has excelled.

Talent was below SEC standards. Too many people were too slow. Those fl aws ap-pear to have been corrected.

There was a shortage of ex-perience. Butch dared to play young guys. That those who stayed are now sophomores and juniors is his reward.

Turnovers? Stuff hap-pens. The solution is to be mentally and physically strong enough to overcome the shock.

Injuries? Inevitably, there will be some. The bur-den on coaches is to have a replacement ready. This has been a past weakness. If it happens again, don’t try to explain it away.

No matter who tells you otherwise, an improved de-fense will depend on having a capable middle linebacker. The front looks better. The secondary seems secure. Count special teams as a probable plus.

Key to Tennessee offen-sive success? The quarter-back, of course. And receiv-ers. And running backs. Big plays, sustained drives, more punch in the red zone.

The key to skill players gaining a few yards and scoring an occasional touch-down? Same as always. The offensive line determines the width of the doorway. It is the primary component of victories – and defeats.

If you are keeping score, Tennessee’s offensive line has been a little less than over-whelming in recent years.

This is where Mike DeBord comes in. For orga-

nizational purposes, a touch of glamour and pay justifi -cation, he is offensive coor-dinator. It says in the book that he, in his spare time, is also supervisor of quarter-back instruction.

DeBord is really an old line coach. He has techni-cal skills and bulldog de-termination to assist Don Mahoney in the critical pro-duction of a real, live offen-sive line.

I recall questioning, back in the winter, why Butch would hire his old (59 or 60, not 80) buddy with so much at stake. I have rethought the situation.

Wouldn’t it be some-thing if Mike DeBord turns out to be the win-ning edge, the guy with the pitchfork or high-lift that puts the hay in the barn. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com

Three city members of MPC had their current terms end June 30 but May-or Rogero has not acted to replace them two months later. Since all have served two terms, Rogero will not reappoint them.

They are Bart Carey, Michael Kane and Jack Sharp. When the new mem-bers are named, they will have a few months shaved off their term due to Rog-ero’s tardiness in naming replacements.

The current city mem-bers will probably continue at least until October as the mayor has not sent any pa-perwork to the state to re-place them.

■ If yard signs could vote, Finbarr Saunders and Paul Bonovich would be fairly close competitors for City Council seat C with Kelly Absher and David Williams behind in the yard sign battle. The Saunders

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and Bonovich signs are actually in real yards and not right of ways which is a compliment to both.

■ Mayor Rogero and City Council deserve praise for working to restore Foun-tain City Lake. The iconic landmark is part of our city’s history. It will take a long time to correct the dif-fi cult issues there but the wait is worth it if success is the result.

■ Several new person-nel moves in the city were announced last week and (as is the practice of the Rogero Administration), salaries were not included in the announcement. How-

ever, they are public record.David Brace moves to

senior director of public works, and his salary jumps from $109,870 to $135,000. He is a top-notch public ser-vant and earns every dollar he receives. He lives in Is-land Home in South Knox and start in 2002 with the city.

Chad Weth, who becomes service director, sees his salary jump from $75,742 to $95,000 plus a $5,830 an-nual car allowance. Sheryl Ely starts works at $75,742 as a deputy director, coming from Oak Ridge city government. She does not get a car allowance.

■ Dean Rice, chief of staff to Mayor Tm Burchett, married Natalie Maneava on May 6. She is from Belar-us and is seeking U.S. citi-zenship while working on her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee.

■ David Massey, who

sends out an excellent weekly neighborhood ad-visory newsletter from the city website, last week stat-ed that Mayor Rogero (for whom he works) was unop-posed for her second term. While she will be the only name on the printed ballot Sept. 29, she does have a qualifi ed write-in opponent named Jack Knoxville.

To Massey’s credit, he sent out a correction when notifi ed of the error. While rare, it has happened that a write-in prevails. Former three-term council mem-ber Gary Underwood was fi rst elected by a write-in vote against the late Vice Mayor Hoyle McNeil in 1989. However, Jack Knox-ville will fall far short of the goal line in this writer’s opinion.

■ There really is a new greenway in Knoxville which has not been offi -cially dedicated/opened

but it is there and ready for use. It is a city secret. This one is right along the river which stretches from the Buck Karnes Bridge to Ma-rine Park on Alcoa Highway. There is not a sign to it but I can assure you it is there. Park at Marine Park and you can use it. Round trip it is almost a mile long.

Formal opening has been delayed until an entrance can be built to link it to the bridge. I had thought the opening was being delayed to coincide with the city primary election Sept. 29, which would have been a rational if political rea-son. Now the ribbon cut-ting may come after the city primary which suggests the delay is due to leader-ship failing to complete it in a timely manner.

■ State Rep. Jason Zachary turned down state health insurance for himself as he signed papers

on becoming a state repre-sentative. Zachary opposes the Insure Tennessee pro-gram.

Zachary had a full room at his swearing in at First Baptist Church of Concord Aug. 24 including Mayor Tim Burchett, Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill, state Reps. Bill Dunn, Eddie Smith, Jimmy Matlock and M artin Daniel; state Sens. Frank Niceley and Richard Briggs. House Speaker Beth Harwell, fi rst woman to hold that position, adminis-tered the oath of offi ce after County Commission elected Zachary to the position. There still is a special elec-tion in the district Sept. 29 to elect Zachary.

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Legacy Parks Foundation scored a coup in landing “Wild” author/protagonist Cheryl Strayed as speaker for its Sept. 11 luncheon. The $100-a-plate event at UT’s Holston River Farm is sold out with 1,000 partici-pants.

But its real accomplish-ment as it celebrates its 10th anniversary is the ever-expanding list of parks in Knoxville and Knox County.

Executive Director Carol Evans has helped commu-nities raise money for parks across the county.

Her fi rst big project was in Halls, where the community raised almost $500,000 to purchase 11 acres at the intersection of Norris Freeway and High-way 33. The big donor was Jim Clayton ($300,000), who got naming rights.

Legacy Parks collected donations, purchased the land, put conservation re-strictions on the deed and conveyed title to Knox County.

Donors are disappointed that Clayton Park is not yet open, but the foundation is not to blame.

“We learned how to do it better (with that project),” Evans now says.

Next, Evans helped Foun-tain City Town Hall develop a skate park on city-owned land just off Broadway. Cen-tral High School students created a video to show the benefi ts of a neighborhood skate park.

Legacy Parks recently helped with the Everly Brothers Park in Bearden. Terry Faulkner, president of the Bearden Council, says the foundation’s support was invaluable.

“I’m not sure we would have gotten the project go-ing if they had not been so

Betsy Pickle

Wilma Jordan, Jim Clayton and Kay Clayton sport Halls Has It! shirts to celebrate the start

of construction on the Clayton Park.

In this 2009 photo, Carol Evans leads Lamar Alexander and Bill Haslam on a

walk at River Bluff in South Knoxville. Photos courtesy of Legacy Parks Foundation

Legacy Parks makes its mark

supportive,” she says. “Leg-acy Parks has been a god-send to us.”

The Harrell Road storm-water park in Karns is a Legacy Parks project.

Legacy was behind the scenes when Pete Claussen conveyed some 400 acres on the French Broad River to Knox County for Seven Is-lands Wildlife Refuge. And Gov. Bill Haslam showed state support at the 2013 Legacy Luncheon when he announced that Seven Is-lands would be added to the state’s park system and renamed the Seven Islands State Birding Park.

But it’s in South Knox-ville where Legacy Parks has been most active – fi rst

with the development of the 1,000-acre Urban Wilder-ness, including preserva-tion of Civil War forts and a battlefi eld, and later by facilitating the donation of 100 acres by the Pat Wood family to connect the Urban Wilderness trail system to nearby neighborhoods and South-Doyle Middle School.

The foundation was sug-gested by Doug Bataille, Knox County’s senior di-rector of Parks and Recre-ation, who heard the idea at a workshop. He and Mark Field, then president of the Knoxville Chamber and chair of the county’s parks advisory board, fi rst tested community interest.

Field and Bataille then recruited former Knox County Executive Tommy Schumpert to serve as the fi rst board chair. They took him out to lunch and told him the position would be easy and he wouldn’t “have to do anything.”

“He knew we were ly-ing, but he agreed to it any-

way. It really took off from there,” says Bataille.

Schumpert credits Evans with the foundation’s suc-cess. “With her leadership we have done some very outstanding projects for the people that will last a long time.”

Evans became executive director when Sandy Hull left after about a year and a half.

“Carol’s done a tremen-dous job of moving the foundation forward,” says Bataille, who also praises the work of the board over 10 years.

“The Urban Wilderness was a fantastic example of multiple partnerships,” he says. “You had the city, the county, the state, private landowners getting in-volved. It was a great vision created by Carol through the foundation, but a lot of people pitched in to make it happen, especially the Ap-palachian Mountain Bike Club, with a huge amount of sweat equity.”

Mayor plays ballKnoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero poses w ith local softball players as part of the U.S.

Conference of Mayor’s initiative “Play Ball.” Photo submitted

Betty Bean

Jeff Ownby

Three years ago, I fi g-ured Jeff Ownby was a dead man walking.

But now, I’m not so sure. And I changed my mind even before I saw the “Thank you, Commissioner

Ownby for your sup-port” sign out front of West Hills Elementary School.

Although we’re in the throes of city

elections, those races are weakly contested and pretty boring. As a result, county elections, which aren’t on the calendar until 2016, appear to be drawing as much attention as those to whom this season alleg-edly belongs, and District 4 is one of the most interest-ing.

I doubt I’m the only one surprised that incumbent Ownby is not only still standing, but also chugging steadily forward.

Ownby, 48, is built like a fi replug and sports an old-fashioned crew cut. He was a loud, proud and relatively unknown Tea Party Republican when he took on incumbent Finbarr Saunders in 2010. Saunders (Webb School, Class of ’62) is a moderately conserva-tive Democrat with deep roots in the Bearden area. A retired banker, he was well funded and well established in business and in the com-munity.

Ownby won a six-year term (the terms were being realigned that year because the commission was cut from19 to 11 members) by 358 votes in what was wide-ly considered a stunning upset. And although it was a Republican “sweep” year, locally and nationally, the tally shocked the political establishment and whittled the number of County Com-mission Democrats to two. Ownby immediately locked down a reputation as one of the most conservative com-missioners.

Jeff Ownby keeps on walking

Then, in the spring of 2013, the news that he and another man had been arrested for indecent exposure in a Sharp’s Ridge sting operation rocked the local political fi rmament. Ownby lost his day job and embarrassed his family, and common wisdom was that he was toast, politically speaking, despite his public apology.

It didn’t take long for well-known, well-funded fourth district opponents to emerge. Hugh Nystrom (Webb School, Class of ’85) made it offi cial last spring, and Janet Testerman (Webb School ’87) kicked off her campaign this sum-mer.

Despite his public hu-miliation, it became clear that Ownby wasn’t going away. I started noticing him for something other than Tea Party rhetoric. Maybe he’d been doing it all along.

When there was a cause to be championed that other elected offi cials dis-dained, there he was, call-ing out state offi cials over the closing of Lakeshore Institute (which he believes has increased the numbers of homeless), opposing the closing of the former St. Mary’s Medical Center in North Knoxville and ques-tioning the rezoning that cleared the way for Ten-nova to move the facility to Middlebrook Pike. He even wore a red shirt in solidar-ity with protesting teachers. Few other elected offi cials asked these questions.

So a year out from county elections, Ownby, who has ditched his Tea Party affi liation, is fac-ing two well-connected, well-known opponents whose fi nancial resources he cannot match. And he keeps moving forward. I’m starting to believe he has a chance.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Sleepy commuters awoke

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■ John Duncan, this one a

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■ Duncan says he had pegged

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■ “They just didn’t look like

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By Sandra ClarkAbout 25 residents of

Morning Pointe of Powell hosted state Rep. Bill Dunn in their community room last week. Dunn recapped the recent legislative ses-sion and received limited feedback. That could mean everyone agreed with him or no one did.

Dunn was warmly re-ceived. He brought a huge watermelon that he had grown in a garden he works at Brickey-McCloud School, where his daughter is a teacher.

Ironically, Earl Hoff-meister, the man Dunn de-feated in his fi rst election (1994), now lives at Morn-ing Pointe. Hoffmeister was present but merely smiled amicably. Dunn said Hoff-meister, a four-term elected school superintendent, is “smart as a fox.”

“Tennessee is one of the lowest-taxed states in the nation,” Dunn said. And Tennessee is adding jobs from other states where tax-es are higher.

Dunn said “a lot of poli-ticians would bribe people with their own money” by passing legislation to ben-efi t citizens. “At least they had to occasionally vote to increase taxes,” he said. “Now we’re seeing politi-cians, not me, making busi-nesses do things.”

These politicians will pass minimum-wage bills, etc. to benefi t people with-out a negative effect on the politician – no requirement to raise taxes. But fi nally the businesses can’t compete and just move to states like Tennessee where restric-tions are fewer.

Dunn then drifted to a discussion of tort reform,

Republican-style. “The American culture is sue-happy,” he said. Now Ten-nessee allows those who are injured to be “fully compen-sated on real costs,” but has attempted to cap payouts for “the murky area” of pain and suffering.

“A judge overruled that.”So Dunn moved into a

discussion of activist judg-es, saying he’s very con-cerned with the increasing power of judges to overturn decisions of the Legislature.

■ Leadership change aheadTyner Brooks, admin-

istrator at Morning Pointe of Powell since its opening, has transferred with the company to a facility out-side of Nashville where his wife has secured a job.

Brooks said he will miss

Ricker Rawdon

Bill Dunn talks with residents Muriel and Clayton Brewer. Photos by Brittany Ricker

Dunn talks legislation at

Bill Dunn poses with Morning Pointe resident Bill Jones.

Bill Dunn greets resident John Simmons.

the residents and their fam-ilies as he leaves Powell.

Meanwhile, Brittany Ricker has joined Morning Pointe of Powell as life en-richment director. In that role, she will plan events and activities while assist-ing with marketing.

A native of Greenev-ille, Tenn., Ricker is a 2011 graduate of the University of Tennessee and a former schoolteacher. Her husband is Travis.

Ricker is assisted by Hayden Rawdon, a UT stu-

dent majoring in therapeu-tic recreation, who is doing a 120-hour practicum at Morning Pointe. She is a na-tive of Hohenwald, Tenn.

■ UpcomingErin Bates Paine, a mem-

ber of the Bates family of Rocky Top, Tenn., will visit Morning Pointe of Powell at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, to entertain on the piano. Ricker said residents are looking forward to the visit.

On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the facility will observe Nation-al Assisted Living Week, with Fall Festival activities 5-7 p.m.

There’s Balloon Magic from 5:15 to 6 p.m. and a con-cert by Charlie Katts from 6:15 to 7 p.m. Throughout the event, residents and guests will share refreshments and view classic cars while kids enjoy a bounce house.

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I was carried to church when I was two weeks old, and mostly, have been there ever since.

There are advantages and disadvantages. At a young age, we learn with our limited understand-ing. If we never re-think or re-consider our youth-ful understandings, we don’t grow in the faith.

So, I was startled on a recent Sunday morning to realize that to be “lifted up” could have various meanings.

There is the literal in-terpretation that witness-es of the crucifi xion saw in painful clarity. Jesus was lifted up on a cross, and the purpose of that elevation was torture, agony, and a slow death at the hands of the Roman soldiers, who were – to be fair – only doing their duty.

But there is another way in which Jesus can be lifted up.

The small, country church where I worship these days has a picture of the Christ above the pulpit. I was looking at

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

(John 12: 32 NRSV)

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that picture, considering the concept of “lifting up” when it dawned on me that our job as Christians is exactly that: to “lift up” Christ.

Not physically, but metaphorically. And not only with our mouths.

We are called to live our lives in such a way that Christ is lifted up. We are to shine (in his refl ected glory) so that all the world can look at us and see Christ. We are to be the body of Christ in the world.

My friends, we can’t do that alone. We need each other, because together, we are smarter and bet-ter and richer and holier than any one of us can be alone.

Lift Christ up by how y ou live and love and work in this world!

FAITH NOTES ■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County meeting, 10 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 4, Bethel A.M.E. Church, 3811 Boyds Bridge Pike. Bible

study led by Rela White to follow at 10:30.

■ Church Women United Knoxville-Knox County meeting, 10 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 4, Bethel A.M.E. Church, 3811 Boyds Bridge Pike. Bible

study led by Rela White to follow at 10:30.

■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS

(Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each Friday. Info: Edna Hensley,

771-7788.

By Wendy SmithThe community spent

millions of dollars helping people pay utility bills last year, and a big chunk of that money came from churches, according to Knoxville Sus-tainability Director Erin Gill.

She wants churches and community organizations, like those represented at last week’s Compassion Co-alition Salt & Light Lunch, to get involved with fi nd-ing permanent solutions to high utility bills, rather than the “Band-Aid” ap-proach of handing out money.

In 2014, 14,000 Knox-ville families received $3.8 million to help pay utility bills. Older homes close to the city center, which are often owned or rented by low-income families, tend to have high bills due to lack of weatherization. Federal funding provided weath-erization for just 30 homes last year, Gill said.

In 2013, the city was awarded $400,000 worth of technical assistance from IBM to evaluate how to connect low-income populations with energy-efficient services. In re-sponse, Mayor Madeline

Louise Gorenfl o of Knoxville Scores and Knoxville Sustainabil-

ity Director Erin Gill Photo by Wendy Smith

City talks energy effi ciency at Compassion Coalition

Rogero founded the Smart-er Cities Partnership, which is making headway with education, one of IBM’s main recommenda-tions.

Literature about energy effi ciency can be over-whelming, Gill said. Terms like “kilowatt hours” don’t mean much to those who need energy education the most.

In response to this, the Smarter Cities Partnership has produced a brochure ti-tled “Savings in the House” that contains simple, easy-

to-read energy-saving tips, like washing clothes in cold water and sealing air leaks around windows and doors. Gill provided copies of the brochure to church mem-bers and nonprofi t groups to distribute to low-income friends and clients.

She gave details on how to apply for the Knoxville Extreme Energy Make-over (KEEM) program an-nounced by the city last week. TVA, KUB and the Knoxville-Knox County CAC are partnering to pro-vide free weatherization up-

grades for 1,200 homes in Knoxville over the next two years.

Income-eligible home-owners and renters, with landlord permission, who live within city limits can apply for KEEM and other weatherization programs 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. through Friday, Sept. 4, at the L.T. Ross Building, 2247 West-ern Ave.

Louise Gorenfl o of Knox-ville Scores also spoke at the luncheon. The faith commu-nity should care about the gifts of creation and want to avoid wasting what’s been given to us, she said.

Knoxville is one of 50 cities nationwide that are competing in the two-year, $50 million Georgetown University Energy Prize contest. The contest mea-sures energy savings in municipal buildings, public schools and residences, and the Knoxville Scores team encourages homeowners to weatherize homes and in-crease energy effi ciency.

One goal is to get 1,000 homeowners to get TVA eS-core energy audits by the end of the year. So far, 733 households have received audits. Knoxville is cur-rently in 13th place in the contest, Gorenfl o said.

She recommended that churches set a goal of hav-ing 10 percent of members sign up for energy audits. Weatherized homes are more comfortable, have better resale value and help the environment, and TVA offers rebates for some up-grades. Info: www.Knox villeScores.org.

By Shannon CareyRich and Pat Hunt’s

herd numbers more than 700,000 head of livestock. That sounds like nonsense until you realize they’re talking about bees.

The Fall Creek Apiary (the offi cial term for a bee farm) has 12 hives, each with around 60,000 bees. The Hunts harvest the hon-ey from spring to July and sell it at the Union County Farmers Market.

But life wasn’t always so sweet. The Hunts moved from Florida after they retired, and they brought with them a son who was dying from multiple sclerosis. Within two months, he passed away. Their neighbors, many of them strangers, brought food for the family.

“I couldn’t believe it. Peo-ple were so wonderful,” said Pat.

Four years ago, the Hunts went to a 4-H speech contest with their grand-daughter and met a family that raised bees for honey. They went to a bee club meeting in Knoxville and won a state grant for begin-ning beekeepers, including a hive, a smoker and a pro-tective suit.

“It was kind of a Godsend after our son died,” said Pat. “It gave us something to fo-cus on besides our grief.”

Now, they belong to four bee clubs, including Bee Friends in Tazewell. This is their fi rst year selling hon-ey at the Farmers Market, and they’re getting close to

selling out for the season. Their honey is 100 percent pure.

“We met so many nice people, and we have so many repeat customers,” said Pat.

Rich is willing to help new beekeepers learn the skills they will need to care for the bees. Each bee has an assigned job, he said. He stops gathering honey in July so the hives will have nourishment through the winter.

“They are the most awe-some creature on this Earth,” Rich said. “It shows how wonderful God is to give a creature like that that we can work with.”

Pat pointed out that hon-eybees are in danger from certain chemicals, and their role as pollinators is vital to agriculture.

“They call them the van-ishing bees,” she said.

The Hunts try to shop in Union County when they can, so they buy their foun-dations and frames from the Union County Farmers Co-op, which recently started stocking beekeeping sup-plies.

Pat thanked everyone who has purchased honey from Fall Creek Apiary, and all who will in the future.

The Union County Farm-ers Market meets 3-6 p.m. each Friday through Octo-ber, behind Union County Arts, 1009 Main Street, Maynardville.

Info: Fall Creek Apiary, 992-1240

Rich and Pat Hunt of Fall

Creek Apiary stand with

two of the 12 honey-pro-

ducing beehives on their

farm. Photo by S. Carey

By Shannon Carey selling ouo ttt ffor thhee seseason

Life is sweet at Fall Creek Apiary

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Christenberry Elementary student Nevaeh Cannon (with Knox-

ville Mayor Madeline Rogero) was on hand to greet guests at

the school’s recent announcement for its community schools

program. Photo by R. White

Tennova aids …Tennova Healthcare has

announced a major do-nation to the community school at Christenberry El-ementary. Dr. Jerry Askew, Tennova’s vice president of external relations, said Tennova is pleased to sup-port the school’s success-ful work on the building blocks of health – family and community engage-ment.

Christenberry launched the community school pro-gram two years ago, starting with tutoring. The program has since grown to 290 stu-dents and families receiving tutoring, medical services, enrichment and parent education. While many of

today’s students face chal-lenges such as poverty, dis-abilities and language bar-riers, community schools make the schools a hub of learning.

Three new programs have been launched this year, including Beaumont Magnet, Dogwood El-ementary and Northwest Middle School.

“The community school program has led to bet-ter outcomes for kids,” said Stephanie Welch, vice president of operations at the Great Schools Partner-ship. “Kids in community schools are more likely to miss fewer days and im-prove academic outcome.”

Honored at Central High School’s Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony were Joel Helton (represented by his daughter Alison

and son Zach), Bud Bales, Lorie Compton Rheinecker, Tony Cosey and Tommy Schumpert. Photo by R. White

Cheering on the Carter Hornets this year are: (front) Caroline Allen, Alyssa Dutton, Leanna Luttrell, Lacey Russell, Baylee Phillips,

Shelby Shields; (back) Ayana Jones, Bri Miranda, Kelsey Pollard, Gemma Pierce, Emma Hill, Chloe Sherrod, Abby Hudson and

Macy Meredith. Photo by R. White

Love those Friday nightsThere is something al-

most magical about Friday nights during football sea-son. Is it the game itself or the activities beyond the fi eld that create excitement?

RuthWhite

The fi rst of every season is always an exciting time for me for several reasons: 1) the smell of freshly cut grass and the slight drop in tem-peratures; 2) the marching band, led by the sounds of the drumline; 3) the cheers from the stands that erupt with every great play; and 4) promises of great things

to happen.At the beginning of the

season, the playing fi eld is level. Everyone has the same record, and the pos-sibility of having a winning season is on everyone’s wish list. Some teams will make it to the playoffs and possibly win a state cham-pionship. Others may win a couple of games during the season, having given their all for the team they love.

The sounds from a high school stadium are always loud and proud with stu-dents exclaiming that they believe in their team. Shop-per News intern Annie Dockery attended a high school game with me dur-ing the fi rst week of play and was impressed with the amount of activity. At one moment we were talk-

ing with students in the end zone ready to get the game started, then we quickly moved to the fi eld as the band lined up for the team run-through and then to the sidelines to watch the activity off the fi eld. Add in the band playing the school fi ght song and the cheerleaders and dance team members performing a sideline routine, cheers from the student section and a little football and that might have been the best $8 spent in a long time.

If you haven’t been to a game in a while, grab your seat cushion, pick up a cou-ple of shakers and head out to your favorite school’s next game. It sure beats any Fri-day night television reruns I’ve seen in a while.

Games in the area this

Carter High drum major Noah

Fawver leads the band high

atop the platform at a foot-

ball game

By Ruth WhiteCentral High School has

inducted fi ve former Bob-cats (coaches and athletes) at the school’s fi rst Sports Hall of Fame breakfast.

Tommy Schumpert, a 1956 graduate of CHS, returned to the school to teach and coach. Judge Tim Irwin was a football player for Schumpert. In a video interview, Irwin called his former coach “more than just a coach” and talked of how Schumpert taught team members life skills. He also called Schumpert “fair and compassionate, someone who set an example through leadership.”

“Coach is a name that I treasure,” said Schumpert. “Central High School means a lot to me, and I am hum-bled to be an inductee.”

Lorie Compton Rhei-necker was a standout ath-lete for the Bobcats 1980-83. She excelled in softball, bas-ketball and volleyball and

was called “one of the great-est in all sports.” One of Rhei-necker’s best memories from high school is being taught how to work as a team.

She went on to Lincoln Memorial University to play basketball and softball and now is the physical education teacher at Sterchi Elementa-ry. “I was highly competitive in high school,” she said to laughter from the crowd. “I used to think winning was the only thing, but the team bond we formed will always remain in my heart.”

Rheinecker remembers wanting a new softball glove her senior year. The glove cost quite a bit, and she was told that she had to decide between the glove and a se-nior ring. “I still have that glove,” she said.

Bud Bales spent 30 years teaching and coaching at Central and racked up a ton of awards, including Knox-ville Sports Hall of Fame, East Tennessee Baseball Hall

Central honorstop Bobcat athletes/coaches

Ruth Snelson, 99, was recog-

nized as the oldest living for-

mer student.

Friday, Sept. 4, include Aus-tin-East at Tellico Plains, Carter hosting Union Coun-ty and Fulton hosting An-derson County. Kick-off is at 7:30 p.m.

Christenberry’s community school

of Fame, 17 district baseball championships, eight base-ball regional championships and the 1990 baseball state championship.

Former player Andy Bolton remembers the ex-citement of playing for a coach like Bales. “He taught his team humility and life skills that went way be-yond the baseball fi eld.” He added that everyone left the program a better person be-cause of Bales.

Tony Cosey is a 1991 CHS grad. He graduated a fi ve-time state champion in track and cross country and set many state records.

Cosey went to the University of Tennessee, where he was a seven-time All American in his four years at school. His success on the track led him to the Olympics in Syd-ney in 2000.

Cosey excelled as a run-ner and was humbled to be named to the Hall of Fame. “A lot of great athletes came through Central. This is where it all began.”

Cosey considers his suc-cess a blessing and talent from God, and he gives Him all of the praise for his ca-reer. He also credits all of the people that poured into his life and believed in him.

Joel Helton was induct-ed posthumously, and his children, Alison and Zach Helton, received the honor in his memory. Helton was described as a winner in every sport he ever coached but will be most remem-bered for the way he treated his players. Many times Helton would take players home when they didn’t have a ride, would make sure they had food to eat and was a father fi gure to them.

Alison Helton said that Central was her dad’s life, and he would have been honored to be part of the Hall of Fame. “He taught us

that there was always some-one we could help out and to love people well.”

Zach Helton said his dad was his hero, and he dreamed of playing football at CHS for him. “Dad loved talking to former players or getting letters from them. He loved being a Bobcat, and he loved Central High School,” said Alison.

Fountain City Exxon owner Alvin Frye was honored as a friend of Cen-tral High School. For Frye, it’s not about pumping gas or fi xing cars … it’s about being there for the commu-nity.

More from Belle Morris’ 100th anniversary celebration

Fulton High football players Johnny Hutchinson and Arshon

Geter shoot confetti during the celebration at Belle Morris El-

ementary School. Also helping out were teammates Presley

Carver and Corban Carver. The players are former Belle Morris

students. Geter also sang the National Anthem.

Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 • 9 weekender

The Clarence Brown The-atre opens the season with a farce, “The 39 Steps,” Sept. 9-27 on the CBT mainstage. The popular, two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winner is packed with non-stop laughs, more than 100 zany characters played by a cast of four, inventive stage-craft, handcuffs, missing fi ngers and even some good old-fashioned romance! It’s fun for all ages and great for anyone who loves the magic

of theater.“This production cele-

brates the fi lm noir dramas of the 1930s and specifi cally Alfred Hitchcock’s fi lm of the same name,” said di-rector Kate Buckley. “But it also honors the complex-ity of the actor’s craft. The theatrical dance going on behind our soundstage door is zanily complex, requiring inventiveness, dexterity and precision from all.”

A “Pay What You Wish”

David Kortemeier, David Brian Alley, Katie Cunningham and

Brian Gligor are actors in Hitchcock’s farce “The 39 Steps,”

opening Sept. 9 at the Clarence Brown Theatre. Photo by Liz Aaron

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By Betsy PickleFrom the courts of her

high school in New York to the University of Tennessee to the WNBA, Chamique Holdsclaw built excitement about basketball.

Now she’s trying to build understanding about men-tal illness – through movie theaters.

“Mind/Game: The Un-quiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw” will play on two screens at 3 p.m. Satur-day, Sept. 19, at the Knox-ville Film Festival at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8. Holdsclaw plans to attend the screenings.

Holdsclaw’s stellar ca-reer under coach Pat Sum-mitt led to her pro career, beginning with the WNBA’s Washington Mystics. Her career seemed destined for brilliance, but cracks in her tough-as-nails demeanor began to break open after the death of the grandmoth-er who raised her.

Holdsclaw was diagnosed with clinical depression and later with bipolar disorder II. Although mental illness derailed her basketball ca-reer, she welcomes the path her life has taken.

“I’ve been doing mental health advocacy work since 2007,” Holdsclaw says by phone from Atlanta, where she makes her home. “I am in a position to really help people with my story.

“It’s very humbling, but also I know that it is what I am supposed to be do-ing. I could be coaching. I could be doing a number of things. But I am most pas-sionate about this because I know how it’s affected me.”

Documentary fi lmmaker Rick Goldsmith read a New York Times article about Holdsclaw and became in-trigued by her story. Coin-cidentally, he was an old friend of her manager, Lon Babby.

“He was drawn to how candid I was,” says Hold-sclaw. She still needed to be convinced that a documen-tary was a good idea. “I had to see what the direction was.”

Once she trusted Gold-smith, the project was on.

Holdsclaw saw that the fi lm could mesh with her advocacy work.

“I felt like it was one of my purposes to move forth and use my platform to draw people so they can understand what people struggling with this ill-ness go through,” she says. “The things that I was deal-ing with emotionally – the highs and the lows – it’s been an emotional roller-coaster ride. To see that on fi lm and hit these different festivals and to watch it over and over, I started to see growth; I started to see dif-ferent parts of me.

By Carol ShaneThe Arts & Culture Alli-

ance of East Tennessee ex-cels at showcasing notable artists in our region. This coming Friday will be no ex-ception when the ACA pres-ents its opening night for “Conversations: Portraits and Other Work” by Emily Taylor.

Part of Knoxville’s month-ly First Friday event, the show includes recent and former portraits and portrait-like paintings and drawings. As an artist, Taylor is intrigued by “the complex interaction and negotiation characteris-tic of both painting and hu-man interaction.” Hence the title, “Conversations.”

Taylor grew up in 1970s and ’80s New York City but eventually found her way to Knoxville “for school and life reasons,” she says. She holds an MFA in painting and an MA in art education from the University of Ten-nessee.

Some of her most popular works are her lively, colorful pet portraits. “There will be some dog portraits in the show, almost entirely all of the same dog – mine!” says Taylor. “Most of the others were commissions.” Anyone interested in commemorat-ing a pet in oil is invited to view Taylor’s work and com-mission a portrait.

The opening reception features chocolate fondue from the Melting Pot, as well as hors d’oeuvres. There will be a jazz jam session in the Black Box Theatre hosted by Vance Thompson and Friends.

And there will be a fl a-menco dance performance by Pasión Flamenco dancers from the Tennessee Conser-vatory of Fine Arts in West Knoxville. Yes, fl amenco dance is alive and well in Knoxville. It’s taught by na-tive Romanian Lucia An-dronescu, and it really de-serves its own feature story. Judging from the gorgeous women in festive costume and the guitar/cajon trio pictured on the website, it’s a spectacle not to be missed.

Beautiful art, beautiful dance, great jazz and tasty treats all make for an out-standing First Friday.

The opening reception for “Conversations: Por-traits and Other Work” by Emily Taylor is from 5-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Pasión Flamenco performs at 6 p.m., and the jazz jam begins at 7 p.m. The art exhibition will be on view through Sept. 25. Info: knoxalliance.com or 523-7543.Send story suggestions to news@shop-

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‘The Transporter Refueled’Opening in theaters Friday, “The Transporter Refueled” brings

Frank Martin back to the screen but with Ed Skrein (the original

Daario Naharis in “Game of Thrones”) in the role instead of Ja-

son Statham. The special-ops guy turned extreme limo driver

is forced into a revenge plot that has to do with a Russian crimi-

nal and human traffi cking. Ray Stevenson co-stars. The action

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“It was a real eye-opener. I watch it now, and I’m like, wow, even at my weakest I was so strong. There was a strength about me. I think it has empowered me like it has empowered some oth-ers.”

She’s grateful for two strong women she’s had in her life: her grandmother June and Summitt.

“My grandmother said, ‘I trust this woman (Sum-mitt). You’re going to play for the best, and you’re going to get your degree.’ Coach Summitt said, ‘You’re going to meet some amaz-ing people, and you’re go-ing to have a sisterhood that extends beyond the years

of you playing.’ I’ve got ev-erything that both of them promised.

“Me and Coach Summitt have always had a very close relationship. She’s always been very supportive of me, through everything. … She’s an amazing, amazing wom-an. I’m glad to have her in my life.”

She has good memories of her college years.

“Knoxville is a very fa-miliar place to me. I always feel welcome; I feel loved. It was just the right choice. I came from New York City, and I’ve got a street on the University of Tennessee campus. I never envisioned that.”

preview performance will be held Wednesday, Sept. 9; a tech talk with the designers will take place Sunday, Sept. 13, following the matinee; a talkback with the cast is Sunday, Sept. 20, following the matinee; and the open-

captioned performance is Sunday, Sept. 27, at 2 p.m.

Cast members are David Brian Alley, Katie Cunning-ham, Brian Gligor and Da-vid Kortemeier. Ticket info: 865-656-4444 or clarence browntheatre.com.

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Ah, technology. How ironic for me, someone who can remember, as a child, listening in on the neigh-bors on my grandmother’s crank, four-party-line tele-phone, to be sitting here at my computer pecking out words about technology with my two pointer fi ngers at the blistering rate of a page every 30 minutes. And then to send the words away through the ether to Shop-per headquarters in a 10th of a second. All that in three short generations of us mere mortals.

I had been thinking about technology lately because of fi rstly, the time of year it is, and secondly, because of a short article in this month’s Birdwatching magazine.

As to the fi rst, we are all

Science meets natureDr. Bob Collier

noticing that the days are getting shorter. Also, the fall equinox will be coming upon us on Sept. 21. That is the 24-hour period when the day and night will be of equal length. But the days have been getting shorter ever since the fi rst day of summer, on June 21. And sadly, they won’t bounce back at the equinox, they just trudge on, shorter and shorter, into the winter.

Well, the shorter length of days is the big notifi ca-

tion for all of nature that big change is coming. Days become shorter and cooler, leaves change color, some mammals frantically store up food supplies and oth-ers fatten up for hibernation (this is the route I prefer), and the birds – many of them migrate.

We’re getting ready to say goodbye, at least for a season, to such songbird friends as the warblers, vireos, wood thrushes and whip-poor-wills, the indigo buntings and humming-birds. But by the same to-ken, we’re all set to welcome back the more northerly nesting birds here for the winter – the white-throated sparrows and purple fi nch-es, the yellow-bellied sap-suckers and ruby-crowned

kinglets.It’s a busy time out there

– literally billions of birds are shifting from north to south, some on relatively short trips; some on re-markably long ones. People for eons have wondered where the birds went in the winter, from stories and myths about swallows bur-

rowing into the muddy bot-toms of ponds for the win-ter, to hummingbirds fl ying south on the backs of the geese. Those thousand-mile trips by tiny birds to remote places on the globe were a daunting process to study and follow.

Then – enter this tech-nology thing. Think where we’ve come from. Consider, if you will, how at one time a good stone ax was a new and marvelous piece of technol-ogy. Or a nice warm fi re to cook your food. And then, there was the need to have the means to fi nd your ani-mals. Imagine the pride and sense of accomplishment when that fi rst cowherd slipped that fi rst cowbell on his lead mama cow. Now, by golly, when the herd dis-appeared over the hill, we knew where they were!

And then, another ad-vance: from cowbells to ra-dio collars. For years now we’ve grown accustomed to seeing the elk in the Smok-ies and up at Royal Blue fi t-ted out with their radio col-lars – space-age cowbells.

I’m reminded of the story of the intrepid Campbell County hunter, proudly driv-ing through LaFollette with one such animal draped over the hood of his truck. “Big-gest deer I ever saw!” He didn’t exactly know what the radio collar was about, but at least the TWRA fellows knew where it was.

But what about the birds? A one-ounce warbler is not an elk, and you can’t slap a radio collar on a tiny bird to see where it goes. Thus my second recent reminder about technology – an ar-ticle in Birdwatching maga-zine on the miniaturiza-tion of tracking devices for birds. One big thing about technology that keeps us all amazed (and spending money) is constant and rap-id progress. In the column of March 2013, I reported on the new and promising use of geolocator devices to follow the movement of var-ious species of birds.

Geolocators contain a clock, a light sensor and a microprocessor. They are relatively small and light and, when attached to an

animal, can tell roughly when and where on earth the animal has been. The name of the developer of these devices, sure to be-come a household word, was Vsevolod Afanasyev, such an interesting name that I had to repeat it here.

The geolocators have proven very useful and have been used to study the global movements of the wandering albatross across the trackless oceans of the world. More recently and closer to home, they have followed the heretofore nearly unknown traveling habits of the eastern popu-lation of the golden eagle, a fascinating story of its own.

But now, more progress – from bird bands and geo-locators, we’re on to Global Positioning Systems. Sat-ellite-based GPS, fully op-erational since 1995, is what brings us the voice of that pushy lady in our car dash telling us we’re lost, and to make a U-turn as soon as possible, regardless of what may be coming. Helpful? You can set it to remem-ber where you parked your truck in the National Forest, and it will take you right back to it.

Among its many advan-tages, GPS is highly accu-rate. Rather than telling the biologist that his target bird is in this mountain or that valley somewhere in the world, GPS can pin-point locations down to 10 meters, or about 33 feet. And now we have a GPS unit that weighs in at about one gram, roughly half the weight of a penny, so that it can be safely attached to a bird that weighs as little as 20 grams, or 0.7 ounce, the size of a large warbler.

So, wildlife biologists can capture various small birds that couldn’t be studied be-fore and fi t them with the tiny GPS unit to pinpoint their locations at various times through the seasons. Obviously, this is a far cry from the old method by which we discovered the wintering grounds of the chimney swifts – natives in the Peruvian Andes smoked a bunch of them out of a hol-low tree to have for lunch, discovered the magicalbands on their legs and gave them to a missionary, and a couple of years later the bands found their way to Washington, D.C., and were identifi ed.

All the new knowledge that technology is bringing us will soon become com-mon knowledge, and then we’ll be off after a whole new set, with more new tools. May it always be so!

Impe-

rial eagle

with GPS

tracking

device

SOUTH KNOX Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 • 11

SEEKING VENDORSThe Union County Heritage Festival is seeking

arts-and-crafts vendors, food vendors, demonstra-tors and nonprofi t booths for the festival, to be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Wilson Park in Maynardville. The festival draws more than 4,000 people each year. Info/booth pricing: Marilyn Toppins, mtoppins51@comcast.net.

THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPT. 6Tickets on sale for Mabry-Hazen House Booms-

day, Bluegrass and Barbecue celebration, 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6. Info/tickets: mabryhazen.com or 522-8661.

THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT. 22Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memo-

ries” show featuring Pat Boone and Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Info/tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2Tennessee Shines: The Lonetones with poet

Brian Griffi n, 7 p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 3Goodwill Vintage Fashion Show and Sale, 6

p.m., Hilton Knoxville, 501 W. Church Ave. Tickets: $40; includes dinner, fashion show and entrance to the Vintage Boutique. Info: goodwillknoxville.org/vintage; 588-8567.

Knoxville Writers’ Guild meeting, 7 p.m., Lau-rel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Program: David Payne will read from his newly released memoir, “Barefoot to Avalon.” Open to the public. A $2 donation requested at the door. Info: KnoxvilleWritersGuild.org.

Movie and Popcorn: “Elsa and Fred,” 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 West-ern Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 4Grand opening: Broadway Studios & Gallery, 5-9

p.m., 1127 N. Broadway. Featuring “Gaudy Gold Frame Show.” Info: BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com.

Opening reception for Art Market Gallery’s Fea-tured Artists, 5:30 p.m., Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St. September’s featured artists: painter Gary Dagnan of Knoxville and potter Larry Gabbard of Kingston. Exhibit on display through Sept. 27. Info: 525-5265; artmarketgallery.net; on Facebook.

Opening reception for “Conversations: Portraits & Other Work” by Emily Taylor, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Exhibit displayed in the Balcony gallery Sept. 4-25. Info: 523-7543; theemporiumcenter.com.

Opening reception for “Fine Arts Blount” exhibit, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Exhibit on display Sept. 4-25. Info: 523-7543; knoxalliance.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, SEPT. 4-5Biodiversity Hike to Mount Le Conte. Cost:

$275. Includes guided hike up Alum Cave Bluff Trail, picnic lunch, evening sunset program about the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) at Clifftops, handmade note cards from Discover Life in America (DLIA) and lodging with dinner and breakfast. Info/registration: Todd, todd@dlia.org or 430-4757.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 5 Financial Workshop: understand Social Security

and maximize its benefi ts, 10:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Presented by Darrell Keathley from COFFE (Community Outreach For Financial Education). Registration required. Info/registration: 777-1750.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info: feralfelinefriends.org.

Opening reception for “The Love of Art” exhibit by members of the Tennessee Art Association, 5-8 p.m., Envision Art Gallery (Bearden Art District) 4050 Sutherland Ave. On display through Sept. 30. Info: kay@kaylistart.com or 438-4154.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 6Wears Valley UMC Old Harp Shape Note Sing-

ing, 2 p.m., 3110 Wears Valley Road in Wears Valley. All invited; tune books provided. Info: Bruce Wheeler, 428-2239.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 8Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting, 7 p.m.,

Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Program at 8 p.m. Speaker: Dennis E. Frye, chief historian at Harpers Ferry National Park. Topic: “September Suspense, Lincoln’s most tenuous time.” Lecture only: $3; dinner and lecture: $17. RSVP deadline: noon Monday, Sept. 7, to 671-9001.

Open enrollment for beginner’s square dance class, 7 p.m., Square Dance Center, 828 Tulip St. Lessons $5; fi rst lesson free. Info: R.G. Pratt, 947-3238.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9Tennessee Shines: Handsome & the Humbles, 7

p.m., Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 101 S. Central St. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: jigandreel.ticketleap.com or WDVX.com.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 10AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30

p.m., AAA offi ce, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254; Stephanie, 862-9252.

“Composting: Hot and Fast or Cold and Easy” class, 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presenter: Master Gardener Rita Carter. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892; knoxcountymastergardener.org.

Knoxville Square Dance, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Live old-time music by the Hellgram-mites; calling by Stan Sharp, Ruth Simmons and Leo Collins. Admission: $7, $5 for students and JCA mem-bers. Info: on Facebook.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, SEPT. 10-11AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Fort

Sanders Senior Center, 1220 W. Main St., Sevierville. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11Country Dancing for Seniors, 6:30-10 p.m.,

RiverView Family Farm, 12130 Prater Lane. Lessons, 6:30-7. No alcohol, no smoking. Featuring: two step, swing, line, couples, disco, waltz, mixers and more. Info: 988-8043; 966-1120.

“How To Use Facebook for Seniors,” 10 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30. Info/registration: 218-3375; townoffarragut.org/register; in person at Town Hall.

Legacy Parks Foundation Luncheon, Holston River Farm at the head of the Tennessee River. Speaker: Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times bestselling author of “Wild.” Info/reservations: legacyparks.org or 525-2585.

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By Bonny C. MillardThe fl edgling organiza-

tion Volunteer Knoxville is hosting an expo on Sept. 9 to bring together nonprofi t organizations and potential volunteers.

Alex Brownfi eld, execu-tive director of the orga-nization, spoke to the Ro-tary Club of Farragut about the upcoming expo and about Volunteer Knoxville’s growth since its launch last year. The club met at Costco Wholesale, where Rotarian Todd Galanti is warehouse manager.

“We just celebrated our fi rst birthday in June,” said Brownfi eld. “We’re so proud of the progress that we’ve (made) this far.

A Leadership Knoxville committee created Volun-teer Knoxville to celebrate LK’s 30th anniversary. Vol-unteer Knoxville is one of 250 HandsOn Volunteer Ac-tion Centers internationally, Brownfi eld said.

Next Wednesday’s expo will offer information about many nonprofi ts and volun-teer opportunities.

“This is a fi rst annual event in partnership with Leadership Knoxville and United Way of Greater Knox-ville and the University of

Tennessee,” said Brownfi eld. “The Thompson-Boling Are-na will have more than 50 nonprofi t organizations on Sept. 9 from noon to 6 p.m. This is a real fun way (for people) to meet and talk face to face with the organiza-tions that are hosting their volunteer experiences on volunteerknoxville.org.”

Volunteer Knoxville part-ners with 130 nonprofi ts – almost double the number since the beginning of the year. Those partner organi-zations and their volunteer opportunities are listed on the website.

“If you have youth in your family, this is a great oppor-tunity for folks to also fi nd out about internships and other ways that they can serve,” Brownfi eld said.

Volunteer Knoxville pro-vides a central location to make connections and also provides support for the or-ganizations.

“We serve as the con-vener of those nonprofi ts,” she said. “We bring together volunteer coordinators ev-ery month to talk about best practices, how to work with volunteers and all aspects of volunteer management.”

Info: volunteerknoxville.org

Alex Brownfi eld of Volunteer Knoxville with Frank Rothermel

of Farragut Rotary Photo by Bonny C. Millard

Opportunities to volunteer

By Anne HartArtist Kay List is fi nally

living her dream, and she is joyfully sharing the ad-venture with others at her new Envision Art Gallery in the heart of the Bearden Art District.

The cute cottage at 4050 Sutherland Ave., at the cor-ner of Sutherland and Carr Street, has been freshened throughout with gleaming white walls and woodwork – the perfect complement to the lovely old hardwood fl oors. Parking is conve-niently located behind the gallery.

While Envision has been open to the public since May, the gallery’s fi rst major art show will be Sept. 5-30 when List opens the doors to the talented artist mem-bers of the Tennessee Art Association for a show titled “The Love of Art.”

The opening reception will be 5-8 p.m. this Satur-day, Sept. 5, and will offer refreshments, wine, live music and an opportunity to chat with the artists whose work is on display and to visit with friends and neigh-bors.

List says the show will feature “a wonderful selec-tion of subject matter, me-dia and styles.” Also avail-able will be art note cards and both framed and un-framed prints.

An accomplished artist herself, List says her love of creating art began when she was handed her fi rst set of crayons as a child. As a teenager, she worked main-ly in pencil, charcoal and pastels, taking art classes throughout high school.

A resident of California, she continued her art stud-ies at Santa Ana Junior Col-lege, adding training in oils, ink washes, watercolors and mixed media to her artist’s

Kay List with one of her paint-

ings of Tennessee’s historic

barns. Photos by A. Hart

Envision Art Gallery: a dream come true

An ethereal painting by artist Kay List.

tool box.List says the dream of

owning her own gallery be-gan when she was in college, “but I wondered if I could turn out consistently good work – consistent enough that I could fi ll a gallery with my work.”

Married soon after grad-uation, she and husband Skip had two children, but she never gave up painting, and she always kept alive the dream of someday be-coming a gallery owner.

In 1993, after the chil-dren were grown, Kay and Skip moved from California to Grainger County. List, whose many collections of her oil paintings include landscapes as well as his-toric old barns, smiles when she says, “We moved here for the green, but we had to take the rain with it.”

After a move to Kingston in Roane County, in 2010 the Lists fi nally settled in West Knox County, and her dream moved still closer to reality as she continued painting.

Last November, Jim Wells, owner of Jim Wells Productions, “a phenom-enal printmaker,” List says, told her he knew of a prop-erty that might be for sale. It was the cottage on Suther-land Avenue that artist Lar-ry Cole had been using as a studio and gallery. The two artists met, and within a few months List had bought the property and begun ren-ovations.

We could say “and the rest is history,” but that isn’t the case. List has only begun. She has big dreams for her gallery and how it might help other local fi ne artists showcase and sell their work, including a ma-jor show scheduled for the holiday shopping season.

But that’s a story for an-other day.

Info: kaylistart.com or 438-4152.

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NEWS FROM SOUTHEASTERN RETINA ASSOCIATES

Southeastern Retina awarded for vision-saving research

Southeastern Retina Associates, with 10 locations serving the

Knoxville region, recently won the Top Site Award for clinical research from the National Eye Insti-tute’s Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research network. Southeastern Retina also has 8 other offi ces throughout East TN, Southwest VA and Northern GA.

This marks the third year that Southeastern Retina Associates has won this pres-tigious national award.

The award means that Southeastern Retina As-sociates has demonstrated outstanding performance out of the 115 US participating sites of the DRCR network.

The award doesn’t just mean that they’ve signed up the most patients for clini-cal trials. It means that they provide the highest level of cutting-edge care to the patients enrolled in their clinical trials.

For 20 years, Southeastern Retina Associates has been at the forefront of clinical trials to treat various eye diseases, including age-related macu-lar degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular disorders, and other ocular conditions.

These trials have helped bring life-changing treat-ments to those who need them most.

“By actively participating in clinical trials, Southeast-ern Retina physicians can provide their patients with access to sight-saving treat-ments not available at other practices in the region,” said Dr. Nick Anderson.

Over the years, Southeast-ern Retina Associates has become a center for chal-lenging case referrals, and their top-notch physicians and cutting-edge technology make it the ideal choice.

“I was the second person in the group,” said Dr. Joseph

Googe Jr. “I have watched the group grow. One of the great things we’ve succeeded in is recruiting really good doc-tors who trained at the top programs in the country. It has been very gratifying.”

Southeastern Retina Asso-ciates boasts an all-star staff of physicians with an impres-sive list of credentials. With medical schools and oph-thalmology residencies like Duke, Emory and Vander-bilt, and retinal fellowships at facilities like Wills Eye Hospital and the Massachu-setts Ear and Eye Infi rmary of Harvard University, the depth of knowledge is some of the best in the country.

According to Dr. Googe, advances in technology have made fundamental changes in the way Southeastern Retina Associates treats patients.

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pecially in the last 10 years,” he said.

“When I fi rst started, we didn’t have much treatment for what we diagnosed. Now, new treatments have been developed. We see a lot of patients with macular degen-eration and diabetic reti-nopathy, and now we have better treatments for those conditions.”

Much of these better treatments are due to clinical trials conducted at South-eastern Retina Associates.

Dr. Keith Shuler says, “We are always looking at potential new therapies by participating in national clinical trials, it is just part of what we do.”

SERA is currently enroll-ing patients in trials for age-related macular degenera-tion, diabetic eye disease and retinal vein occlusions.

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