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By Betty BeanWhat history major hasn’t
longed for a scholarly work writ-ten by an author talented enough to bring the subject to life, or at least to make it interesting?
Knoxville native David Madden is the guy who can do it. Who else
could compose a riveting “Second” Gettysburg Ad-dress and assume the persona of Abraham Lincoln to deliver the reit-eration of Lincoln’s desire to celebrate the everyday sol-diers who did the
fi ghting and the dying?Madden, now retired from a
distinguished academic career and living in Black Mountain, N.C., returns here frequently and is proud to claim his heritage as a
“mountain writer” whose perspec-tive was molded by the East Ten-nessee of his childhood.
“From the fi rst novel (‘The Beautiful Greed,’ published in 1961), I have felt totally appreciat-ed in my hometown,” Madden told a lunchtime crowd that showed up at the East Tennessee History Center to fi nd out about his new book, “The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction,” subtitled “Readings and writings from a novelist’s perspective.” Madden worked in references to his teenaged jobs as a radio DJ at WKGN and an usher at the Bijou Theatre (the inspiration for his most celebrated novel, ‘Bijou’).
His biography displays impres-sive literary and academic chops like his long tenure as Director of Creative Writing and Robert Penn Warren Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Louisiana
State University. Plus, he’s the au-thor of seven novels and numerous collections of short stories, essays, plays and poetry and is the recipi-ent of many awards and prizes.
In the book he came here to talk about, Madden, the founding director of the United States Civil War Center, shows that he’s a his-torian, too.
The title symbolizes Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men,” which Madden consid-ers the greatest Civil War novel ever written, despite the fact that the book is set in Depression-era Louisiana and is about a charac-ter who’s a dead ringer for Huey Long. Madden cited Warren’s story-within-the-story about Cass Mastern, a Confederate soldier carrying a death wish fueled by guilt over betraying a friend, who learned that the world is like a spi-der’s web:
“And if you touch it however lightly, at any point, the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no more but springs out to fl ing the gossamer coils about you who have touched the web and then inject the black, numbing poison under your hide. It does not matter whether or not you meant to brush the web of things.
“Your happy foot or your gay wing may have brushed it ever so lightly, but what happens always happens and there is the spider, bearded black and with his great faceted eyes glittering like mirrors in the sun, or like God’s eye, and the fangs dripping.”
This, Madden said, is the per-fect metaphor for the Civil War (and its aftermath), the most im-portant, shameful and inevitable event in American history.
David Madden
Madden brings Civil War home in new book
Allison Sousa
Searching fortreasure
By Carolyn EvansArchaeologists from the Uni-
versity of Tennessee’s Archaeo-logical Research Laboratory were looking for buried treasure in Far-ragut on Thursday.
Historical treasure, that is.The experts, hired by the town
of Farragut, were searching for remnants of everyday life that may now be underground at the corner of Kingston Pike and Campbell Station Road at the Russell House/Campbell Station Inn.
“The town wants to know what archaeological deposits may be on the site,” says Michael G. Angst, interim director of the lab. The town plans to restore the house, which was already on the National Register of Historic Places before the town purchased it in 2012 for $1.2 million.
Archaeologists Howard Hay-good and Valerie Altizer were us-ing a grid system on a GPS to lo-cate the designated digging sites at the stately two-story red-brick house. The fi rst settlers in the Far-ragut area began to build cabins on what is now the intersection of Campbell Station and Kings-
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Valerie Altizer and Howard Haygood, archaeologists from the University of Tennessee Archaeological Research
Laboratory, work the grids on the grounds of the Russell House/Campbell Station Inn.
ton Pike in 1787, says local histo-rian Malcolm Shell, who regularly speaks to civic groups about area history.
The house that’s standing now may have been built in 1823 by Samuel Martin, but that is not clear, says Sue Stuhl, the town’s
parks and leisure services direc-tor. “There’s nothing in the re-search yet that has been able to pinpoint that date. We’re trying to get more information, and it’s al-ways a good idea to do an archaeo-logical dig before you do anything on a property. It’s unclear what
the usage of the structure was at this point, whether it was origi-nally built as a family home or an inn or a combination. We know there were two buildings, an older
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Old dog, sharp biteYou’ve gotta love Carlene
Malone. The former member of City Council can make a point.
In the on-going zoning debate over doggie daycare, Malone and other neigh-
borhood activists battled to keep the activity out of the C1 (neighborhood commercial) zone.
Essentially, they just don’t want an animal boarding op-eration next to homes.
Their side prevailed at City Council Nov. 10, but not with-out spirited debate.
Council member Daniel Brown said he initiated the zoning change at the request of a constituent in the central business district (C2). He’s not sure how it blossomed to include C1, but, “I’m ready to put this to bed, so to speak,” he said to laughter.
Council member Nick Della Volpe offered three amend-ments to the planning commis-sion’s recommendation, and all were adopted.
His amendments removed C1, limited hours of opera-tion to 6 to 9 and clarifi ed that indoor facilities should be air-conditioned.
Council member George Wallace agreed on two of the three, but thought the service should be allowed in C1.
“It’s not all that different from a beauty shop or daycare (for kids),” he said.
Malone rose to speak.“Yes, there are barber shops
in C1,” she said, “but most of the clients don’t bark.
“And dogs don’t use modern plumbing. There are differ-ences.
“Parents don’t drop off their kids for a haircut and pick them up 10 hours later.”
Malone has always had a bite. She showed last week that she’s still barking as well. Homeowners have never had a stronger advocate.
– S. Clark
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Business Alliance seeks permanent fundingBy Sandra Clark
The Farragut Business Alliance is asking the town of Farragut for a new funding model to acknowl-edge the FBA as “the offi cial eco-nomic development arm” of the
town.Executive di-
rector Allison Sousa, president David Purvis, treasurer Herc Ligdis and con-sultant Cathy Ack-ermann met with members of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen last week in a work-shop prior to the regular BOMA meeting.
The FBA and town have a 5-year memorandum of understand-ing which expires in June 2016. Its annual funding has declined each year with the expectation
that membership dues and profi ts from event sponsorships would fund the organization’s budget. That’s not happened, said Ligdis, and the FBA has operating funds for the fi rst quarter after spending $7,500 to advertise “Shop Farra-gut.”
Ackermann said permanent funding would enable FBA to work more closely with businesses to understand and meet their needs. It would “put muscle” behind le-veraging Farragut’s new brand. And it would enable FBA to engage in more strategic and high-impact work instead of relying on promo-tional events.
The Business Alliance has sponsored Taste of Farragut (now Farragut Food Festival) since its inception. It also sponsors Art in the Park; Light the Park (for Christmas); Red, White and Blue pre-Independence Day picnic;
and Shop Farragut. Sousa said she would like to see Shop Farragut promoted year-round rather than just 4-6 weeks at year’s end. She wants to take relationships with Visit Knoxville, the Knoxville Open and the Farragut West Knox Chamber “to the next level.”
Vice Mayor Dot LaMarche said Sousa and her group have gotten good results for a very small in-vestment.
Robin Hill, a longtime town ac-tivist, said FBA should work with the Chamber. “We need one orga-nization. It’s not good to have two groups doing the same thing in a small town.”
McFee Park: In a second workshop segment, Sue Stuhl, director of parks and leisure ser-vices, presented four options for a splash pad upgrade at McFee Park.
“Our numbers are huge,” she said. The current park has 1,075
square feet of splash area.The options range from
$399,503 to $523,708. The town has budgeted $400,000, and town administrator David Smoak said BOMA could fund either option because of savings on another project.
Mayor Ralph McGill had a com-ment and a question: It needs more shade. When will it open?
Stuhl said if the board ap-proves a plan in December, the new splash pad will be done by the fi rst of May, barring bad weather. She said the town’s public works department could add coverings for shade after the plumbing and features are installed.
One option includes an 18-foot centerpiece with a spray area of 5,747 square feet including a tod-dler area and 25 separate sprays.
“This one would make a big splash,” she joked.
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Howard Haygood shows some of the bits of pottery being
found at the house as Valerie Altizer works the sifter. Photos by Carolyn Evans
log block building and the house. We’re not sure which one served as the inn, or if both did. Our guess is that both did, one earlier than the other, but we really don’t know that for sure.”
It was widely reported that important guests fre-quented the inn, Stuhl said. According to Shell, they in-cluded President Andrew Jackson, who stayed there several times. Others in-cluded G.W. Featherstone, the famed British geolo-gist; Andréa Michaux, the French botanist; and Louis Philippe, who would be-come king of France and rule from 1830 to 1848. During Napoleon’s reign, he had to stay outside the country in order to preserve his life. He lived in Philadel-phia for four years and did a tour of the South. “Best we can tell, he spent four nights at the inn,” Shell said.
“We know that it was a popular staging area for set-tlers moving on to the Cum-berland settlements and ultimately to Nashborough (Nashville),” Shell said. “Sometimes as many as 60 families would gather there to be escorted through the wilderness by the Cumber-land Guards, and we know that Martin was a member of the Guards.”
The house was occupied by the family for six genera-tions until it was purchased by the town of Farragut. Shell serves on the house’s restora-tion committee, which was
appointed by David Smoak,town administrator. Thecommittee is exploring op-tions for the use of the house,whose last resident, a mem-ber of the Russell family,passed away 10 years ago.
“The plans are now toshore it up and probablytake the two additions offthe sides because they arenot in good condition,”Stuhl said. “We don’t knowwhat the use is going tobe. There are lots of op-tions being explored by theCampbell Station Inn com-mittee.”
The work by UT archae-ologists lasted a few days.Thirty holes about 27 inchesdeep were dug at intervalsaround the property. Asthey removed the earth andcarefully broke up the clay,they used a framed screento sift it, hoping to revealfragments of china and oth-er clues of long-ago life.
“We’re looking for ‘fea-tures,’” Haygood said. Hedefi ned features as man-made objects that can’t bemoved without destroyingthem, such as foundationsof outbuildings. Dependingon what they fi nd, the ar-chaeologists may return forfurther investigation.
“The Russell family de-serves a lot of credit fornot selling the propertyfor development,” Altizersaid. “And the town of Far-ragut deserves credit forbuying it and preserving it.There aren’t many historicalbuildings like this left.”
Treasure searching From page A-1
For those who served
U.S. Army Sgt. (retired) Jack Haines pays special attention to the Civil War display at the Farragut
Folklife Museum on Veterans Day. Haines, a museum docent, owns the uniform pictured here.
The town of Farragut an-nually fi nds a way to honor the veterans who live in the area on Veterans Day. This year, a reception last week gave guests a chance to so-cialize, have some refresh-ments and see snippets from the past.
The Veterans Day Recep-tion was held at the Farragut Folklife Museum in town hall. Veterans and guests checked out the historical exhibits. The Admiral David Glasgow Farragut exhibit, part of the museum’s permanent collec-tion, took guests back to Far-ragut in the 1800s.
The Christmas exhibit opens on Nov. 30 and will feature model trains and antique toys. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.
A tip of the hat from World
War II and Korean War veteran
U.S. Marine Sgt. (retired) Her-
man Queener. Photos by Nancy Anderson
U.S. Air Force MSgt. (retired) Donald Fritz, who served for 37
years, looks over some artifacts from Farragut’s early history.
NOTES ■ Everett Road between Union
Road and Split Rail Farm
Subdivision is closed for a
road-improvement project.
Info: townoff arragut.org/
everettroad.
■ Farragut Rotary Club meets
12:15 p.m. each Wednesday,
Fox Den Country Club, 12284
N. Fox Den Drive. Info: far-
ragutrotary.org.
By Sherri Gardner HowellThe stars were out for the
2015 Artsclamation! fi ne art sale and benefi t.
Serious stars: Hugh Bailey, Robert Tino, Heather White-side, Kathy McCullough, Dan-iel Lai … just to name a few.
And the Knoxville artists were joined by some of the best from other parts of the state and the Southeast as
Exclamation point well-deserved at ‘Artsclamation!’
At Artsclamation!: Sheila Rauen and Robbie Anderson. Sheila, a
fi ber artist, is wearing one of her little lamb scarves.
Acclaimed potter and artist Hugh Bailey sold out of his pottery
pieces quickly. The whimsical goat that is at left was also sold
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well. There is no denying the quality of Artsclamation!
What brings these talent-ed, serious artists together every year is a dedication to the cause. Sponsored by Covenant Health, Artscla-mation! this year focused on raising funds for Penin-sula, which is a division of Covenant’s Parkwest Medi-cal Center. The behavioral
health program sees thou-sands of patients who need help to recover from mental disorders and dependen-cies. Specifi cally, this year’s proceeds were to go toward buying a transport van to bring clients to support centers in Knox, Sevier and Blount counties.
Held at one of Knox-ville’s newer venues, The Lighthouse on Baum Drive, Artsclamation! had room to spread out a bit, giving
the event a gallery-like set-ting. Kate McCullough was featured artist, showcasing her watercolors. In all, more than 30 regional artists – from painters to potters to sculptors to jewelry makers – sold their creations and donated part of the pro-ceeds to Peninsula. Some even discounted their work to entice lookers to become buyers.
Talk about a win-win …
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Wendy Smith
Marvin West
Tennessee football is an appealing, addictive drug. In pursuit of happiness with the Volunteers, fans will spend freely and defy all odds. Some will go wherever the schedule takes them.
Up next is Columbia, Missouri. Challenging? Yes, but nothing like the fi rst two weekends of Septem-ber 1981. That little trip led to the most unlikely travel story in the history of Ten-nessee football.
Two really good guys, Tom Mattingly and Doug Jones, planned brief va-cations to match the UT schedule. Tom had been mid-state, promoting the upcoming World’s Fair. Doug had been busy man-aging others’ money. Time
Long ride, two setbacks, 87-7 score
out, they said, to shoe-horn as much football fun as pos-sible into eight days.
Being precisionists, they had carefully scripted a trip to see Tennessee engage the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens and Southern Cal Trojans in Los Angeles.
It turned out to be a fi ne time to be somewhere else, anywhere else, but they stuck with the itinerary.
They saw Herschel Walk-er carry the ball 30 times
and gain 161 yards. Geor-gia romped, 44-0, the most lopsided victory for the red team in the long and hon-orable rivalry. Losing par-ticipants included Reggie White, Bill Bates, Anthony Hancock and James Berry.
“The highlight of the game for us was when Mike Cofer blocked a punt and re-turned it for a TD,” recalled Jones.
“And just like the day had gone, we had lined up offside and the play was nullifi ed.”
The travelers drove to Atlanta, to the Marriott near the airport. There they encountered the unfortu-nate New Orleans Saints, awaiting execution by the Falcons. Mattingly men-
tioned how ironic it was to see the worst college team and worst NFL team in the same day.
Jones and Mattingly fl ew to San Francisco (cost advantage) and decided to check out Berkeley and the Cal campus. The football team was strolling in for practice. It was open to the public. Of course the travel-ers observed.
Irony 2 was that the Golden Bears were begin-ning preparations for Geor-gia. An assistant coach was choosing a scout team. He couldn’t fi nd anybody to play the role of Herschel.
The travelers made it to Los Angeles in plenty of time to explore the historic Coliseum. Historic it is, the
only facility in the world to play host to two Olympi-ads (X and XXIII), two Su-per Bowls (I and VII), one World Series (1959), a Papal mass and visits by three U.S. Presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
It is a big building. The Billy Graham Crusade set an attendance record of 134,254. The multitude got to hear George Beverly Shea sing “How Great Thou Art.”
All this preceded Marcus Allen running over, around and through the Volunteers – 22 carries, 210 yards and three touchdowns, mostly in the fi rst half. After that, he rested.
Final score was 43-7. The Vols got a TD pass from Alan Cockrell to Randall Morris. Southern Cal got six touchdowns.
Mattingly was seriously concerned that Charger, Trojans’ mascot, might keel over during one of his side-line celebration sprints.
“We so hoped Tennessee would not cause the death of that fi ne horse.”
Homeward bound, the airport departure gate was next to an outbound crowd going to Pago Pago.
Mattingly could not resist.“With proper planning,
we could have gone there.”Said Jones: “Looking
back on that trip of 34 years ago, 5,800 miles, two losses by a combined 87-7, I am reminded of that old line, “Other than that, Mrs. Lin-coln, how was the play?”
Columbia, Missouri? Less mileage. Tennessee might win. No Herschel. No horse.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
address is [email protected]
Rural/Metro has been scrutinized this year for late ambulance service, but a $3.5 million technology upgrade is yielding faster response times, better over-sight and predictions that make it more likely am-bulances will be available where they’re needed.
Several Knox County commissioners learned about the upgrades at a lunch and learn held at the Knox County Emergency Communications District last week.
The Intergraph CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system went live on July 6. It allows for all agencies − emergency medical service, fi re department and law enforcement − to be on one system, so each agency can see all responding units, said R/M regional director Erin Downey.
Rural/Metro has seen tremendous improvement with the new system, said communication manager
Knox County Commissioners Dave Wright, Mike
Brown, John Schoonmaker and Bob Thomas listen
as Richard Holbert of Rural/Metro explains new
software used by lead dispatcher Misty Stout.
Technology enhances Rural/Metro service
Richard Holbert. Less rep-etition yields quicker re-sponse times.
First Watch, Rural/Met-ro’s third party compliance software, pulls information from the CAD system. The online compliance utility was built to Knox County contract specifi cations, and is a collaboration between Rural/Metro and the Knox County Health Department (KCHD), Downey said.
Dr. Martha Buchanan, director of the KCHD, at-tended the lunch and learn. emergency response coordi-nator Larry Hutsell looks at R/M response times every day, she said.
Another new program,
Optima Live, uses historical data from the CAD system to predict when and where the next incident will take place. Tracking incidents based on the season, the time of day and the day of the week enables the software to rec-ommend where ambulances should be posted.
The data, viewed on a computer monitor, looks like a weather map, with areas that are most likely to require an emergency re-sponse showing up in color.
“The longer we use it, the better it’s going to get,” Hol-bert said.
The conversation turned to current challenges of ambulance service. People who use ambulances and emergency rooms for non-emergency medical care tie up ambulances and lead to backups at emergency rooms, which causes ambu-lances to be further delayed.
“We have to go to any citizen who requests us, whether they need it or not,”
said Downey. “Sometimes it greatly overloads our sys-tem.”
There is appropriate and inappropriate ambulance use in all demographics, Buchanan said.
Rural/Metro has 54 dedi-cated ambulances in Knox County for 80,000 annual medical responses. There is a shortage of qualifi ed staff for the ambulances, Holbert said.
Many medical person-nel move to quieter areas after being trained in Knox
County. The county is un-usual because paramedics and EMTs stay in the ambu-lance for their entire shift, which is 12-16 hours.
Last year, state law changed to require each am-bulance to be staffed by an advanced emergency medi-cal technician (AEMT) and a paramedic. Previously, EMTs could serve alongside paramedics.
The AEMT certifi ca-tion requires an additional semester of school, and community colleges aren’t
equipped to offer the train-ing yet, Downey said.
Commissioners got a peek at the new software as it was being used in the communications center. On one side of the room, 911 dispatchers took calls that were immediately forward-ed to appropriate agencies, located in the same room.
It was calm and quiet, which is typical when there are visitors, said Holbert.
Perhaps commissioners should visit more often.
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Among the few points of agreement among the par-ties involved in the fi ght over the $9 million contract for a new E911 emergency radio system are these:
The Knox County E911 center needs a new radio system. Cops prefer long-time provider Motorola. The evaluation committee and the independent radio consultant that was paid $40,000 to examine the process, don’t. County pur-chasing chief Hugh Holt is an honest man.
Almost everything else is in dispute.
N e i t h e r Brad An-ders – the board mem-ber whose “pass” vote last week threw the process into limbo for
the second time this year – nor anyone else involved wants to criticize Holt, who has a reputation for doing things right.
Instead, Anders points at E911 director Bob Coker, whom he accuses of having conveyed a “perception” of favoring a “sole source” con-tract to Harris Corporation (the second place fi nisher was Tait Communications. Motorola fi nished last). An-ders is also critical of former board chair Nathan Roth-child, accusing him of taint-ing the process by suggesting that Harris should get the contract without bidding.
Last week, County Com-missioner Brad Anders was the only member of the trou-bled 911 Board to abstain on whether to hire Harris Corporation to implement a new multi-million dollar ra-dio system. No decision was made since it failed on a 5-5 tie vote. Had Anders voted for it, it would have passed.
One has to wonder what is really going on here. Both Mayors Rogero and Burchett backed the Harris decision. However, all citizen mem-bers of the Board plus Sher-iff Jones opposed it. Anders, whose day job is an offi cer of the Knoxville Police De-partment, did not support his chief, David Rausch, who voted for Harris.
Anders has not given a credible explanation on why he abstained. For a person who was chair of the Knox County Commission and openly expresses interest in following Tim Burchett as Knox County mayor, this was a huge mistake. Anders picks the most important vote 911 has had in years to run and hide on. Anders has failed to say what he favors if he is opposed to Harris.
Meanwhile, if 911’s com-
No end in sight to E911 radio controversy
Anders, a county com-missioner and Knoxville Police Department lieuten-ant with aspirations for higher offi ce, said he bucked his boss, KPD Chief David Rausch, by not joining him in voting for Harris Corp. last week (passing has the same effect as a no vote).
Both Rausch and Knox-ville Fire Department Chief Stan Sharp had stood with Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones in supporting Motorola earlier this year, but last week they joined their boss, Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero, in supporting the evaluation committee’s recommendation. County Mayor Tim Burchett also voted to accept the recom-mendation.
Anders cited a second reason not to have voted in favor of awarding the con-tract:
“I don’t think it was properly before us. It came back up because Mayor (Madeline) Rogero wanted it brought back, so there’s a procedural problem as well as a perception prob-lem. There was a discussion about sole source, and voila! He (Coker) is grading scores and that company wins. I’m not saying he did anything wrong. I’m just saying the perception’s not good.”
Coker said Anders is ex-aggerating the “sole source” conversation, which he said happened after Motorola started sounding warnings about the antiquated sys-tem in 1997. He described Rothschild as “a business-man” who wanted problems fi xed quickly and was unac-customed to the restrictions of government red tape. When Rothschild told him (the predecessor of) Harris Communications had made a good offer, Coker said he told him he couldn’t accept it.
“He said, ‘Let’s go ahead and buy it.’ When I told him it had to be bid out, he said, ‘That’s nuts.’”
Coker said he called Holt to confi rm the rules for Rothchild, who backed off immediately.
“Anders has brought this up before,” Coker said. “But there’s really nothing more to it.”
Holt confi rms Coker’s ac-count.
“If I didn’t think it was an equitable business deal, I wouldn’t have put my name to it,” he said.
Is Holt frustrated?“No, ma’am. I get paid ei-
ther way.”Rogero and others want
the issue resolved ASAP and warn that the old sys-tem is no longer reliable, cit-ing problems with the cur-rent equipment including a smoking circuit board two weeks ago. When contacted for comment, Jones issued a statement saying that public
safety isn’t being jeopar-dized by delays in replacing the old system:
“Public safety radio com-munication is the lifeline to emergency responders in the fi eld. System redun-dancy, system integrity and system performance has (sic) not been left to chance by the Motorola and Knox team.”
Supporters of the Har-ris Corporation have suspi-cions of their own. They are leery of three citizen board members whom Burchett appointed last October after having their names men-tioned to Law Director Bud Armstrong by Motorola lob-byist (and former chief of staff to former Mayor Mike Ragsdale) Mike Arms. The three – Ken Knight, Rus-sell Frazier and Daron Long – all voted no, knotting the tally at 5-5.
Armstrong said when Arms brought the names to him; he simply did what he always does.
“I walk them down the hall and turn it over to the mayor’s offi ce. I do that all the time. If Cynthia Moxley (who lobbies for Harris) had come to me, I’d have done it for her. It’s very diffi cult to get people to serve on these boards,” Armstrong said. “If you come to me, I will give you access. That’s all I’ve got.”
He did have one ques-tion:
“I wonder why Mayor Burchett’s appointees don’t vote with him.”
Brad Anders
Anders hands Ashley issues
munication system fails or slips, lives are at risk. That is 911’s mission to prevent this from happening. Anders failed the leadership test big time on this one. Whatever his views, he should vote them and not abstain.
Interestingly, Anders is seeking re-election to the commission in the March 1 Republican primary. He is being opposed by John Ash-ley, 36. He has handed Ash-ley an issue by his failure to lead at 911.
Another issue Anders faces is whether he will serve out a new 4-year term on the commission if nomi-nated in March and elected in August 2016. If Anders runs in 2018 for county mayor and were elected, he would have to resign his commission seat with two years left in the term.
The remaining members of the commission (not the
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voters) would decide who serves northwest Knox County for the following two years. Will Anders and Ash-ley both pledge to serve the full four years of the term they are seeking if elected?
Ashley is a long shot to defeat Anders, but Anders is surely creating some is-sues for Ashley to raise if he knows how to do it.
■ Ryan Haynes, state Republican chair who lives in Farragut, was in Knox-ville last week with a busy schedule. He appeared at a fundraiser for state Rep. Eddie Smith, a reception at former county mayor Mike Ragsdale’s home, and spoke to the Knoxville Civitan Club. Haynes is also mentioned as a possible mayoral candidate in 2018 to follow Burchett.
■ Greenway: Six months ago, the greenway from Buck Karnes Bridge to the naval station on Alcoa Highway was completed. It has taken that long to build the connection from the end of the green-way under the bridge up to the bridge. It is still a work in progress. We are only talking about 300 feet at most. It is not complicated.
It is still unclear when
it will for-mally open. While one could have biked or walked this g r e e n w a y for the past six months, the city was silent and
issued no news on its avail-ability despite it being built with tax dollars.
Lori Goerlich is the gre-enway coordinator. Many are very disappointed with her when it comes to action on greenways. Delay, post-ponement, excuses and pro-cess have been her watch-words. Despite being on the job for almost four years, she has little to show for it. Rogero, who calls herself a “green mayor,” runs the risk of becoming the “red clay mayor” if Goerlich contin-ues her snail’s pace.
It is a shame that so little is happening here. Rogero and Joe Walsh, director of parks, deserve better.
If Christi Branscom or David Brace were put in charge, something would happen within our lifetime. They are doers.
Lori Goerlich
In a world that’s going increasingly paperless, Knox County Schools plans to spend $2 million this year to lease copy ma-chines.
The deal passed the school board without debate and, under a court-sanctioned agreement, Knox County Commission cannot question how the school board spends money specifi cally. So the commis-sion ratifi ed the contract Nov. 16.
Terry Hill, school board member, pointedly passed on the vote, leading to this exchange:
“Terry – I noticed you passed on the copy ma-chine vote and wondered if you have a minute to discuss it?” – Sandra
“Probably better not this time! I wouldn’t let you print what I had to say anyway.” – Terry
The bids for high speed printers were opened Oct. 7 by Knox County Purchas-ing. The bid stated: “The best value means more than low cost. It includes the initial cost, service quality and other factors detailed herein.”
Two evaluators rated the bids: Josh French, senior buyer for Knox County Pur-chasing, and Robin Lane, supervisor of business services with Knox County Schools.
Riso, the current vendor, was awarded the contract for options 1 and 2; Nova-Copy for option 3. Hugh Holt, director of purchasing for Knox County, said he thinks the school system will lease machines from both vendors depending on need.
Bob Thomas, assistant superintendent for admin-istrative services, told the school board Nov. 2, “We went through county pur-chasing because we wanted to totally avoid anything that was not totally trans-parent.” The schools spent $2.5 million this year and he hopes to save $500,000 with the contract.
The school system anticipates printing 60-70 million black and white and 20-30 million color copies annually and will lease approximately 150 print-ers. While the bid is for one year, the intent is a fi ve-year contract which can be renewed annually with prices adjusted by mutual consent at each renewal period.
The vendor will own and maintain the equipment, provide supplies including ink, and train a designated user at each location.
Bidders were asked to quote on fi ve options.
Riso Inc. currently holds the KCS contract.
Evaluation Criteria Cost – 50 Points
Experience – 20 Points To include number of years in business, local annual sales, years of manufacturer repre-sentation.
Capabilities – 20 PointsTo include number of local cer-tifi ed service technicians, num-ber of local service vehicles, monetary size of local parts inventory.
References – 10 Points
Riso works locally through Advanced Offi ce Systems, headed by Terry Kerbs with offi ces at 10645 Dutchtown Road, and has four certifi ed service technicians for its Kagaku printers.
The Massachusetts-based company bid only on options 1 and 2, stating its ComColor printers “meet the specifi cations exactly.” Lease prices per year were $4,549 for option 1 and $5,499 to $6,829 for option 2. No other vendor bid on these options, although NovaCopy offered side-by-side printers with the same footprint. Its offer was not allowed.
Two vendors went head-to-head on option 3, with NovaCopy edging out Thermocopy of Tennessee. The county did not award a contract for option 4 or 5.
NovaCopy, a Memphis-based corporation with a Knoxville location, offered Konica Minolta equipment with 65 service technicians in Tennessee and nine in Knoxville. Its bid was $1,140 per year. Nova was rated 50 points on price and 18 of 20 points for experience.
Thermocopy offered Ricoh machines with 19 factory-trained service technicians available. Its bid was $3,545 to $7,371. It was rated 43.7 of 50 points on price.
PMB offered Xerox equipment at prices from $1,429 to $3,598 per year for options 3-5, but was not included in the fi nal evalu-ation because it refused to accept county-required language on contract terms, Holt said.
County purchasing has changed from the days when bids were awarded for the lowest price unless some disqualifying factor caused the low bid to be tossed. That was transpar-ency. Holt says the current practice is designed to avoid shenanigans. “It’s not subjective. It’s based on an algebraic algorithm.”
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By Sandra ClarkU.S. Rep. John Duncan
Jr. spoke at a Veterans Day ceremony last week at Sher-rill Hills retirement com-munity in West Knoxville. Although Duncan lives nearby, he said it was his fi rst visit to the senior living facility.
Duncan served as a cap-tain in the U.S. Army and the Tennessee National Guard.
He praised resident Ger-ald Clark as a “main orga-nizer” who worked to get the Ben Atchley State Veterans Home built in West Knox County.
Duncan said we are blessed to live in the United States: The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. He said 58 percent of the world’s people live on $4 or less per day, while 60 per-cent of U.S. citizens need to lose weight.
When the background video played President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ad-dress to Congress declaring war after the Japanese at-tack on Pearl Harbor, FDR was introduced by then-Speaker Sam Rayburn.
Duncan told those gath-ered that Rayburn was born in East Tennessee, moving
to Texas when he was 5. He served as House speaker for 17 years.
“You would never see that happen today. …”
The most senior veter-ans at Sherrill Hills, Jim Allen and Hazel Adams, a WAVE in World War II, were awarded special pins by Dal Smith. He and his wife, Cassie, are resident manag-ers. There are 16 WWII vet-erans in residence at Sherrill Hills.
Surviving spouses of veterans who had lived at the facility were also recog-nized: Patsy Lane (husband, Bill); Betty Lucas (husband, Donald); and Juanita Ca-room (husband, Hiram).
The keynote speech was given by another Sherrill Hills resident, retired Col. Dean Schiller.
“From Bunker Hill to Baghdad, there have always been brave men willing to defend freedom,” he said.
“Veterans make our com-munity better.”
He urged support for vet-erans’ benefi ts.
Schiller, now almost 90, served in World War II, Ko-rea and Vietnam. He served 30 years before retiring from the U.S. Army.
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan (at right) introduces retired Army Col. Dean Schiller, a resident at Sher-
rill Hills, who gave the keynote address at last week’s Veterans Day ceremony. Photo by S. Clark
Young Marines visit veteransJohn Simmons (seated), a U.S. Navy veteran who now lives at Morning Pointe of Powell, is visited
by members of the Powell-area Young Marines, a group of middle- and high-school students
who are preparing for careers in the military. Led by James Scott and other volunteers, the
Young Marines serve local veterans in many capacities. Last week Cpl. Jones, First Sgt. Scott
and LCpl. Joiner (standing) made a color guard presentation at Morning Pointe and sang “The
Star-Spangled Banner.”
Deck the hallsMaple Court Senior Living residents and their families
are decorating their doors for Christmas, and the winners will take home great prizes.
Entries will be judged on resident door décor. Points will be awarded on creativity, originality and overall ap-peal with bonus points for doors that include a memory from years past. Judging is 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, with a party to follow at 2 p.m. Prizes will be given for fi rst, sec-ond and third places.
The event is co-sponsored by East Tennessee Personal Care Services and Smoky Mountain Home Health & Hos-pice. Maple Court is at 7545 Thunder Road off Emory Road near I-75. Info: 865-935-9589.
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I glanced out our kitchen window the other morning and was sur-prised to see that most of the leaves had fallen. We had been away for a con-tinuing education event, and had arrived at home in darkness. The maple trees were almost com-pletely bare.
With one vibrant ex-ception.
There was one stub-born, determined, die-hard, faithful golden leaf clinging to the maple tree outside the kitchen window.
It was a rainy, dreary morning, so the bright spot of yellow against the green foliage behind it made the leaf even more brilliant and cheerful.
I thought immediately of the O. Henry short-short story “The Last Leaf.” (O. Henry was a pen name; his real name was William Sydney Porter.)
When I was in high school, some television network aired a version of the story. I have never for-gotten it. I commend the story to you, along with many other Porter’s writ-ings, especially “The Gift
All their host shall wither like a leaf withering on a vine. …
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I studied my stubborn golden leaf. It seemed like a gift of true gold, a tal-isman of brightness and warmth on a dark and gloomy day.
Occasionally I stop to ponder God’s gifts to us, large and small. God’s greatest gift, of course, was His Son, who became one of us, to show us how to live and to save us from our sins. But God also blesses us with golden maple trees, dark pines for contrast, purring kit-ty cats, rollicking Irish setters, faithful golden retrievers, dear friends, blue skies, glorious sun-sets, starry nights and precious family!
By Carolyn EvansChances are the fi rst time
you heard of “gleaning” crops, it was in the story of Ruth in the Old Testament. The practice endures.
Jane Currin grew up gleaning with her church in southwest Virginia.
“I grew up on a small farm, and my church used to glean apples to make apple butter,” says the mis-sions director at Concord United Methodist Church. “That was the main fund-raiser for local churches.”
Now, many years later, she’s gleaning apples again.
Equipped with 800 net bags that had been cut off a roll and tied by Vacation Bible School kids and se-nior church members, 24 volunteers of all ages trav-eled to north Georgia re-cently to rescue apples that would otherwise have gone to waste.
The weather cooperated. It rained all around them, but not on them, giving them the four hours they needed to pick the few re-maining apples on the trees and gather up the many apples on the ground. The
A group of volunteers from
Concord United Methodist Church
headed to Georgia last weekend
to gather apples that would other-
wise go to waste and passed them
out to food pantries. Photos submitted
Sarah Blackmon, Margaret Ashworth, Sherae Robards, Emmy
Castleberry, Max Robards, Jane Currin, Grace Brison and Nicole
Oosterling glean apples on a mission trip in northern Georgia.
Nick Brison, Grace Brison, Clara Castleberry, Mike Smith, Sherae Robards, Emmy Castleberry and
Nicole Oosterling load apples for a food pantry to distribute while Ian Oosterling puts another
bag in the truck.
Michele Oosterling shows off
a bag of freshly picked apples.
Apple gleaning Concord UMC group harvests the leftovers
FAITH NOTES
Community services
■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753
Oak Ridge Highway, will
serve a free traditional
Thanksgiving dinner 11
a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
26. The community is in-
vited. Info: beaverridgeumc.
org or 690-1060.
Special services ■ First Farragut UMC, 12733
Kingston Pike, will host
the Community Interfaith
Thanksgiving Service, 6-7:30
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22. Info:
966-8430 or cpowell@
ff muc.org.
■ Music ministries of Christ
Covenant Church in Farragut
and Community Evangelistic
Church in East Knoxville will
join for three presentations
of “How Great Our Joy – a
Gospel Christmas!” Presenta-
tions: 7 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Dec. 11-12, Christ
Covenant Church, 12915
Kingston Pike; 7 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 13, Community Evan-
gelistic Church, 2650 Boyds
Bridge Pike. Info: 525-1589 or
cecchurch.org; 671-1885 or
offi [email protected].
■ Second UMC, 1524 Western
Ave., will host the 35th
annual Christmas Handbell
Concert at 7 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 6. The Celebration
Handbell choir and the
Powell High Singers will
present “Glory to the New-
born King.”
■ Westside Unitarian Uni-
versalist Church, 616 Fretz
Road, holds meditation
services 6:30 p.m. each sec-
ond and fourth Wednesday.
Includes quiet refl ection,
simple music and readings.
Info: west sideuuc.org.
Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753
Oak Ridge Highway, hosts
Morning Breakfast and Af-
ternoon Hang Out for youth
each Tuesday. Breakfast and
Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang
Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Info: 690-1060 or beaver
ridgeumc.org.
children, teens, adults and seniors worked alongside another volunteer group from Atlanta. When all was said and done, 3,248 pounds of apples had been salvaged at Mack Aaron’s
orchard in Elijay. The bagged apples were then delivered to area ministries and food pantries.
Currin says this isn’t the church’s fi rst foray into a food ministry. They’ve had
“crop drops” since 2010, thanks to church member Mike Smith. Smith learned about the food rescue and distribution ministry of the Society of St. Andrew sev-eral years ago. The Meth-odist ministry is named for the apostle Andrew, who brought loaves and fi shes to Jesus. Smith contacted the ministry and arranged for the fi rst crop drop at the church. The result was 40,000 pounds of sweet potatoes dropped in the church parking lot and 200 volunteers of all denomi-nations on hand to help bag them. The church has also had green bean drops, thanks to a company in Crossville.
“We would love it if lo-cal farmers would allow us to come and glean,” Smith said, adding that glean-ing helps everybody. The farmer gets a tax credit, and people in need get fresh food. “We waste a billion pounds of fresh produce in this country a year. That would fi ll the University of
Tennessee stadium from the fi eld to the top of the stands two times a day, 365 days a year,” Smith said.
Smith and Currin say the orchard in Georgia deserves a lot of credit. Orchard own-ers can be hesitant to allow volunteers in, fearing dam-age to the trees.
“I feel like there’s so much food waste in our country, and it’s more a dis-tribution problem than a lack of food,” Currin said. “If we can get into these fi elds and salvage what would be waste, we have the opportu-nity to make a huge differ-ence in people’s lives. When you know that hundreds of pounds of produce are left in
the fi eld, and the church can help its neighbors, why not?”
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Thank you, veterans By Sara Barrett
It was hard for anyone (including reporters) to keep a dry eye during last week’s programs honoring our veterans.
Many schools around Knox County held an appre-ciation ceremony of some sort. Students were encour-aged to invite neighbors, family and friends who have served our country. First-timers who attended with-out knowing what to expect will most likely bring pock-ets stuffed with Kleenex next year.
“With all of the politics going on nowadays, I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t expect a crowd. But this is a herd,” said Ma-rine and Coast Guard vet Randy Clark, who attended the program at A.L. Lotts Elementary School with his granddaughter, fourth-grader Abigail Cade.
Guests were welcomed into the cafeteria where a light breakfast was served prior to the annual parade of veterans through the main hallway.
Students who didn’t bring a guest to the program honored veterans by wav-ing small American fl ags on each side of the hallway as the parade made its way to the gymnasium. A patri-otic program was then held including a brief reading of the history of Veterans Day.
Although there were many touching moments through-out the morning at A.L. Lotts, seeing the emotion on the faces of the veterans as they walked through the hallway lined with students was un-forgettable. “This Land Is Your Land” played over the loudspeakers.
Bearden Elementary School held its annual pro-gram with the entire stu-dent body gathered in the gymnasium along with vet-erans invited by students. Each veteran’s name was read before they stood for applause.
This is the last year Navy veteran James White John-son will attend the pro-gram at BES. Three of his fi ve grandchildren have at-tended BES, and the last of those three will begin mid-dle school next fall. Johnson
welled up and couldn’t talk when asked what the pro-gram has meant to him all these years.
BES students and siblings Talon, Kenadi and Tayce Drozdowski introduced everyone to their dad, Air Force member Stanley Dro-zdowski, who was stationed in Abu Dhabi. He Skyped in and his wife, Holly, held her iPad up so everyone could see Drozdowski wave from the screen.
Third-grade students at Northshore Elementary School participated in a musical performance on Thursday to honor veterans. A rehearsal performance was held earlier the same day in front of the rest of the student body. Patriotic pa-per plates and small Ameri-can fl ags were props.
Northshore Elementary School third-graders Parker Akins, Ava Hsieh, Drew Langley, Gracie
Redmond and Banks Duncan are pumped to perform in the Veterans Day program.
Holly Drozdowski holds an iPad with her husband, Air Force
member Stanley Drozdowski, visible on the screen via Skype.
Their son, Talon, is a kindergartner at BES this year. Photo by S. Barrett
Marine and Coast Guard veter-
an Randy Clark stands with his
granddaughter, Abigail Cade.
BES fi fth-grader Jake
Johnson welcomes his
granddad, James John-
son, to the annual vet-
erans program.
particularly with foster
families. The induction cer-
emony will be in January.
■ Steven Wilhelm, the Ken-
neth and Blaire Mossman
Professor in the Depart-
ment of
Micro-
biol-
ogy, has
received
a grant
from the
Gordon
and
Betty
Moore
Founda-
tion to develop methods
that could help scientists
understand and stop
massive algal blooms that
destroy marine habitat
along the U.S. Eastern
Seaboard. Wilhelm’s team
includes Tim Sparer, Erik
Zinser and Todd Reynolds,
all UT associate professors
of microbiology, and Willie
Wilson, director of the Sir
Alister Hardy Foundation
for Ocean Science in the
United Kingdom.
■ Bryan Fitzgerald, now a
senior forestry major at UT,
was a mortar sergeant in
the U.S.
Army’s
101st
Airborne
Division
featured
in the
docu-
mentary
movie
“The
Hornet’s Nest.” The docu-
mentary shadowed the
soldiers during a danger-
ous mission in one of Af-
ghanistan’s most unstable
valleys.
■ UT senior Hailey Myatt,
along with Heather Krones,
Mary
Duncan
and
Michaela
Slamka,
fellow
mem-
bers of
the bar-
bershop
quartet
ClassRing, recently placed
eighth in the world at the
Sweet Adelines International
Quartet Finals in Las Vegas.
Hailey is a music education
major.
■ Robert J. Norrell, Berna-
dotte Schmitt Chair of Excel-
lence,
is the
author
of “Alex
Haley
and the
Books
That
Changed
a Nation.” The recently
released biography explores
Haley’s rise to national
celebrity and his literary
infl uence.
■ John Orme, a College of
Social Work professor, has
been in-
vited to
become
a fellow
in the
Ameri-
can
Acad-
emy of
Social
Work
and
Social Welfare. Orme is be-
ing recognized for his work
and research in foster care,
UT NOTES
Orme
Myatt
Wilhelm
Fitzgerald
Bozell
McConville
CollettBiddix
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Bozell, Brad Collett and Brendan Mc-
Conville have been chosen as Fulbright
Scholars for the 2015-16 academic year.
Fulbright Scholars are chosen based on
their leadership and academic merits and
their abilities to teach, conduct research
and contribute to solutions for shared
international concerns.
Norrell
Baseball fundraiser
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Donations of pre-priced items can be dropped off 5-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20.
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Just over a year ago, we interviewed students from
the Boy Scouts of A m e r i c a ’s new coed S T E M Scouts pro-gram. The s t u d e n t s were part of a small pilot pro-
gram launched only in East Tennessee. STEM Scouts encourages participants to learn more about science, technology, engineering and math in a fun, hands-on environment.
At the time, Sarah Bar-nett, STEM executive for BSA, attributed the choice of East Tennessee to the numerous STEM opportu-nities in the area including Oak Ridge National Labora-tory and Tennessee Valley Authority.
“Wayne Brock (chief scout executive for BSA) knew he wanted to have some sort of program focus-ing on STEM, and he knew there is also a need to make it coed,” said Barnett. “Boy Scouts always help with na-tional needs. Right now, the need is for STEM profes-sionals.”
Since that story ran, Boy Scouts of America an-nounced STEM Scouts would launch nationwide this school year. There are already troops in numer-ous Knox County schools including Ball Camp, Blue Grass, Cedar Bluff, Farra-gut Intermediate and Halls, to name a few. Troops in Connecticut, Indiana and
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Wisconsin are now included in the list as well.
During a visit to Farra-gut Intermediate School’s troop, students were pro-gramming small-scale ro-bots for a scavenger course around the school library.
“I really love seeing boys and girls working together,” said FIS STEM Scouts lab manager and parent volun-teer Alana Lawson. “This is a great opportunity for them to learn the scientifi c language used in actual careers.”
Throughout the year, troops meet after school to “take their schoolwork a step further,” according to Lawson.
FIS fi fth-grader Grace Szymczak took a break from programming her team’s robot to talk about the ad-vantages of being a STEM Scout.
“This is real hands-on
Farragut Intermediate School students Ella Szymczak, Kathleen Cook, Alexis Prowell and Ari-
anna White anxiously await the fi rst movements of their robot.
FIS students Douglas Sumrall and Grace Szymczak measure
the distance they want their robot to move across the fl oor.
experience instead of just being in the wilderness all the time,” said Grace. Her teammate, fi fth-grader Douglas Sumrall, agreed.
“Instead of staying in a room like a museum and observing, you actually get to do stuff,” Douglas said. Info: www.stemscouts.org.
Families from A.L. Lotts Elementary School came together Nov. 10 for McTeacher’s Night at Mc-Donald’s on Lovell Road.
The participating school receives at least 20 percent of the evening’s sales or $500, whichever is greater.
“With the participation we’ve seen in the past from A.L. Lotts Elementary, though, I have no doubt they will go beyond that amount,” said McDon-ald’s general manager Lisa Jones.
A.L. Lotts Elementary School
teachers Jessica Sutton, Lind-
sey Church, Michelle Thornton,
Jennifer Beckner and Leslee
Lockwood don aprons before
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Sara Barrett
Farragut Intermediate
School third-grader
Alisa Bryantseva holds a
favorite book, “The Ad-
ventures of Huckleberry
Finn.” Photo by S. Barrett
One smart cookieThird-grader Alisa Bry-
antseva has already re-ceived three awards this school year. One of them is for her favorite subject, math.
“I wish it was harder,” she said. “It’s really fun. It comes easily to me because my dad does problems with me at home for fun. I get ex-cited when I know a test is coming up.”
The Farragut Intermedi-ate School student compet-ed against others her age in a recent math competition and took fi rst place. She
doesn’t have a computer at home, so she studies with – wait for it – real books.
“I like puzzles – cross-word puzzles, brain teasers – and I like to read.”
There must be some-thing mathematical about ice skating because Alisa also just placed fi rst in her favorite hobby. She skated to a song from the animated fi lm “Anastasia” during a competition and took top honors.
Alisa’s teacher, Leilani Cooper, nominated her for the Golden Anchor Award of good character and Alisa won that, too.
“She’s always looking out for opportunities to help people even if no one is watching,” said Cooper. “She’s kind and sweet and a good friend to everyone.”
Landon Smith and his “pop” Mike Haygood enjoyed an
evening ice cream before hanging out in the play area.
McTeacher Night for A.L. Lotts
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Each time I visit the Far-ragut town hall or post offi ce I feel a sense of pride when I see the Admiral Farra-gut Memorial Plaza with its commanding bronze statue of the famous admiral. That is because I remember the tireless work of the Farragut Museum Committee, and the personal efforts of Dr. Michael Karnitz who chaired the committee and led the project to completion.
This is the fi fth anniver-sary of the dedication cer-emony which included the participation of a high rank-ing admiral and other dig-nitaries from Washington, D.C. And for the hundreds of citizens who attended the dedication, there was a sense of civic pride in our community and a realiza-tion that patriotism, if not carried to the extreme, can be a unifying force in a frag-mented world.
Is history as an academic subject on the decline?
Malcolm Shell
If the project were being undertaken today, there is doubt that it would ever get beyond the planning stage. That is because history education, including iconic statues of heroes, has fallen on hard times. It is impos-sible to visit the National Mall in Washington, D.C. without standing in awe of the monuments and statues. My favorite is the Jefferson Memorial, perhaps because the late Malcolm Rice, a Concord resident, led the architectural design team that created it.
But these statues were created at a different time
in our history, and stand as monuments of the past when national recognition of those who gave their lives or performed heroic deeds was more a part of the American fabric. For example, one of the newest proposed memorials in our Capitol is to honor Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. President and Supreme Al-lied Commander of all forc-es in Europe during World War II, whose strategic planning and leadership led to ultimate victory. But the effort to construct the me-morial has become a fi asco, and it is doubtful that it will ever be completed.
Another example is a study recently completed by a fi rm hired by the town of Farragut whose purpose was: “To bring us up to date and prepare for the future.” The study showed that there was little, if any, interest in
history by our citizens, and that the profi le of Admiral Farragut used as our brand-ing icon since the Town’s inception in 1980, should be replaced by one that is more in keeping with our younger generation’s interests.
Historic monuments and statuary are not the only as-pects of history that no lon-ger seem to have relevance in our country. Indeed, the relevance of many muse-ums, especially small town museums, seems to be in question and may be forced to restructure to survive. That leads us to the ques-tion: How did we get to where we are regarding the teaching of history as an academic subject?
Several historians have spoken out of the issue of history education at both the secondary and college level. And one often cited concern is that the subject
is now offered as an elective rather than part of a core curriculum. As I recall, his-tory in high school was part of a required curriculum, and I can even remember having to memorize Lin-coln’s Gettysburg Address.
And at the university lev-el, freshmen students were encouraged to take “His-tory of Western Civiliza-tion.” However, today, there seems to be many more courses that attract student interest – courses that they perceive to be more relevant to the present.
One of the problems is that the primary emphasis of traditional history educa-tion has been the memori-zation of events, dates and historical fi gures. And while these are important, there is far more to the study of his-tory than these traditional elements. The Greek philos-opher, Socrates, noted that:
“Not to know what came be-fore you is to always remain a child.” This suggests that some knowledge of history is necessary to become both an informed and valuable participant in civic affairs and our democratic form of government.
So, as the Farragut Me-morial Plaza celebrates its fi fth anniversary, perhaps the younger generation will observe it by realizing the sacrifi ces that those who came before them made to create the lifestyle they enjoy. And if this happens, history may again become a part of our culture where the past and present come together in a way that unifi es rather than fragments its cit-izenry. And historical monu-ments and institutions will be preserved and new ones added to commemorate the present time and preserve it for future generations.
Deanna Jones, National Multiple Sclerosis Society senior direc-
tor of community engagement, with Kyle Roberts, Southeast
regional manager of Purple Wine and Spirits
By Sherri Gardner HowellIn a town with so many
good causes, it’s often hard to get new events off the
ground.The National Multiple
Sclerosis Society had mul-tiple reasons to celebrate
y
By Sherri Gardner Howewellll ground
Strength in numbersbreaking from the norm af-ter the recent fundraiser at The Stables at Hunter Valley Farm.
The National MS Society Fall Crush was a sold-out event – and in its second year as a signature event for the support group that raises money for programs supported by the MS Soci-ety. Those programs have a wide range – from emer-gency assistance fi nancially to scholarships for children with MS or with parents who have MS to educational programs.
Susan Wyatt, marketing manager at the University of Tennessee Medical Cen-ter, said the event appeals to those who care about MS research and education and is also a way to celebrate pa-
tients and caregivers who live with the disease. Dean-na Jones, National MS Soci-ety senior director of com-munity engagement, was thrilled with Fall Crush, which focuses on fi ne wines
and wine pairings. “This is the second time we’ve had this event, and we’ve sold out,” said Jones. “Atten-dance is topping 175 people, and we’re ecstatic.”
Dave Stinnett and his
wife, Cecilia, were on handto help and to celebrate.Dave had his own toast– to Cecilia: “An MS sur-vivor,” said Dave. “Here’sto the strongest woman Iknow.”
At the gala were two who live with the disease: Cecilia Stinnett,
MS survivor and activist, with husband Dave Stinnett.
Neurologist Dr. Sibyl Wray
tells the crowd about the im-
portance of programs sup-
ported by the MS Society. Pho-tos by Nancy Anderson
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By Betsy PickleGetting a role in “The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay – Part 2” had pluses and mi-nuses for Linds Edwards.
The pluses included being part of one of the biggest movies of the decade, hanging out with Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrel-son and Liam Hemsworth and meeting the singer Lorde when she visited the set. The minuses mostly had to do with waiting a year to fi nd out if he had the job and then keeping the great news a secret for another 15 months.
“I signed all sorts of contracts that said I wouldn’t talk about it,” recalls Edwards, who felt safe to post the info on Facebook last week only after seeing his name and character – “Injured Career” – in the fi lm’s credits on the Internet Movie Database.
He’s several lines below Lawrence, Har-relson and Hemsworth, but he thinks peo-ple other than his friends will notice him on screen.
“I’m pretty certain I’m going to have a pretty memorable part,” says Edwards. “I
haven’t seen it, but I know what was shot, and the scene is really intense.
“Jennifer Lawrence is who I have all my interaction with, but Woody and Liam Hemsworth and pretty much the rest of the cast are there as well. It’s pretty epic.”
“Mockingjay – Part 2,” which opens Thursday night, is the latest step in Edwards’ steadily building career. The 2003 Farragut High School graduate moved from Tampa to Knoxville with his family when he was 10. He discovered acting through church and lo-cal theater productions and segued natural-ly into short fi lms before making his feature debut in Brooks Benjamin’s “Point of Fear.”
His indie efforts led to a role in “Get Low,” starring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray. But it was his turn in AMC’s “The Walking Dead” that endeared him to the masses.
Since then, he’s been a guest star on sev-eral TV shows, including “The Vampire Di-aries,” “Under the Dome” and “Nashville.” He has a recurring role on the Sundance
Channel’s “Rectify,” and he’s currently shooting a new series for NBC called “Game of Silence” in Virginia.
He’s shot two fi lms – “Josephine” and “Dear Coward on the Moon” – that are due out next year. And he’s waiting to hear if he’s landed a part on the AMC show “Turn: Washington’s Spies.”
Edwards starred with his wife, Ashley Shelton Edwards, in Paul Harrill’s feature-directing debut, “Something, Anything,” which premiered at 2014’s Knoxville Film Festival. They keep Knoxville as their home base and travel to jobs.
For “Mockingjay,” Edwards spent about two weeks in Berlin. That was after he met with director Francis Lawrence in Atlanta and then waited – and waited – to learn if he’d gotten the role.
“They were trying to fi nd people all over the world, especially in Europe, to play the part because it would cost so much money to send me over there,” he says. “By the end of it all, they go, like, ‘There’s nobody else
that can play this part. This guy’s gotta come.’ So that was awesome. That’s kind of a cool thing to think about: I beat the world out for this part in ‘Hunger Games.’”
He fi nally got word a week before he needed to leave for Germany. Even then, he couldn’t tell anyone he was headed to Ber-lin, only that he was shooting in Europe.
Edwards, who says “movies are in my blood,” is excited about every job.
“Every time I go shoot a movie or TV show I feel like I’m on vacation or that it is Christmas,” he says. “I love it so much, and I have so much fun making movies.
“I can’t say that it’s work. It’s what I do to make money and make a living, but by no means do I feel too much pressure to call it work.”
The only downside, he says, is the incon-sistency – not knowing when the next job is coming. What keeps him on an even keel, he says, is “Jesus. My faith is really impor-tant to me. That’s about the only thing that truly keeps me sane.”
‘The Hunger Games’The revolution continues as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Law-
rence, here with Elizabeth Banks as Effi e Trinket) takes on
President Snow in the epic fi nale of the “Hunger Games” se-
ries, “Mockingjay – Part 2.” Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth,
Donald Sutherland, Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore, Jena
Malone, Jeff rey Wright and the late Philip Seymour Hoff man
also appear in director Francis Lawrence’s fi lm, which offi cially
opens Thursday night. Today (Nov. 18) only, “The Mockingjay
Double Feature” will play at Wynnsong (3:30 p.m.) Foothills (4
p.m.) and (at 4:40 p.m.) Riviera, Knoxville Center, Pinnacle (in-
cluding IMAX) and Tinseltown.
By Carol ShaneThe end of the semester
is always an opportune time to catch the University of Tennessee School of Music at its busiest and that’s good news for anyone who loves music. With a wide variety of concerts and events to choose from, classical mu-sic fans can indulge their particular passions – and it’s all for free.
First and biggest is the UT Chamber Singers’ presenta-tion of Handel’s “Messiah, Part the First,” which is a more polished way of saying “the Christmas section.”
The Chamber Singers represent outstanding UT choral students. They’ve sung all over the world, and once a year they present a holiday concert as part of their community outreach. This year, they’ll be appear-
ing with the UT Chamber Orchestra at Farragut Pres-byterian Church.
Dr. Angela Batey, UT’s director of choral activities, says a careful examination of the oratorio’s text reveals some surprises. Though the story is a New Testament narrative, she says, the key elements are told “not with New Testament texts, but with prophetic passages from the Old Testament.”
There’s a reason the piece is so popular and so well-loved. Batey points out that a review of the work’s fi rst performance raved, “The sublime, the grand, and the tender, adapted to the most elevated, majestic and moving words, conspired to transport and charm the ravished heart and ear,” and the same is certainly true today.
Linds Edwards relaxes during a recent camping trip in Virginia. Photo submitted
Edwards shares ‘Mockingjay’ secret – he’s in it
A musical Meanwhile, over in the
piano department, some faculty members are very busy.
On the heels of Dr. Da-vid Northington, who pre-sented “A Waltz Through the Life of Chopin” two Sundays ago and will retire in 2016, pianists Fay Ad-ams and Edie Johnson will present a two-piano recital. They’ll be performing Wil-liam Bolcom’s “Recuerdos” – three Latin dances – and Milhaud’s virtuosic “Scara-mouche,” as well as pieces by Mozart and Lutoslawski.
Indefatigable associate professor of collaborative piano Dr. Kevin Class, who’s just wrapped up a weekend of conducting “The Consul” for UT’s Opera Theatre pro-gram, which he also directs, will present a solo recital on Sunday, featuring pieces by Schumann, Chopin, Rach-maninoff and Ravel.
Viola professor Hillary Herndon is looking forward to hearing her students in their studio recital on Fri-day. “Musicians spend so much time in the practice
room, alone, trying to im-prove their skills, that they often forget the end product is meant to be performed for an audience,” she says.
“These recitals are a valu-able learning experience for our students and a chance to showcase the wonderful work happening in the UT School of Music.”
The same is true over in the cello stu-dio, where Dr. Wesley Bald-win will host his friend and colleague Ruth Bur-gess, the principal cellist of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Her recital on Saturday is pre-ceded by a master class. “We are celebrating our connec-tion across the state of Ten-nessee with this visit,” says Baldwin.
And professor of clarinet Dr. Victor Chavez will have his hands full celebrating the clarinet and saxophone during “Single Reed Day” on Saturday. “We bring in
guest artists/teachers on that particular day to work with students in both one-on-one and group settings,” he says. “Vendors are here to display the latest clari-net and sax equip-ment as well.” The week-
end will c u l m i nate in “Clarinet Night” recital on Sunday.
The UT Chamber Singers present Handel’s “Messiah, Part the First” at 3 p.m. this Sunday, Nov. 22, at Farragut Presbyterian Church, 209
Jamestowne Blvd. For i n f o
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By Aleex ConnerHave you ever seen art-
work made out of recycled zippers? It is very unusual, and you can see unique items like this at the 49th Fine Craft Show presented by the Foothills Craft Guild.
Start your holiday shop-ping early at this wonderful event with over 140 booths of Tennessee artisans. All work is handmade and rep-resents the fi nest in quality workmanship. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20-21, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Jacob Building in Knoxville’s Chilhowee Park.
Designated by the South-east Tourism Society as a Top 20 Event, a Fine Craft Show offers a mecca of handmade fi ne crafts rep-resenting Tennessee at all price ranges … woodwork, pottery, weaving, jewelry, stained glass, metalwork and more.
Zip it up at a Fine Craft ShowNews from the Foothills Craft Guild
Watch the artists actually make their wares at daily live craft demonstrations … basketry, bead weaving, pottery, spinning and glass blowing. All ages can have fun at the Make It and Take It Crafts booth on Saturday and Sunday.
Visit the Authors’ Corner where local authors will be autographing their books: Bill Landry, Sam Venable, Chef Walter Lambert (Sat-urday only), Laura Still and Brent Minchey. Best-selling author Dr. Bill Bass is a spe-cial guest at the Authors’ Corner and will autograph books Friday only from noon to 3 p.m.
Enjoy this event this weekend. Take exit 392 off I-40 and follow the signs. Admission: adults $8, se-niors 65+ $7, children 13 and under free admission.
Info: foothillscraftguild.org
Food City boosts Step Out Walk Food City has donated $15,000 to the American Diabetes Association’s Step Out Walk on top of
the grocery chain’s $15,000 sponsorship of the event. Pictured are Jill Thompson, chair of com-
munications and marketing for the ADA board; Food City executive vice president of operations
Mickey Blazer; Food City director of community relations Emerson Breeden; and Alison Cox,
ADA manager of special events and fundraising. Photo by S. Carey
BIZ NOTES ■ Weigel’s has won a blue ribbon at the Tennessee State Fair for its
chocolate milk. It was the dairy’s third blue ribbon for chocolate
milk since 2011. It is manufactured at Broadacres Dairy in Powell,
a part of Weigel Stores Inc. which has 63 premium convenience
stores in the greater Knoxville area.
■ Gastrointestinal Associates has launched GIA 180, a program
that uses a balanced, multifaceted and surgery-free approach to
weight loss. It feature an intragastric balloon recently approved by
the Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States.
■ Salon Yeager’s Shine Bright 2015 is an evening of holiday beauty
treatments, shopping, refreshments and social time for women.
Set for 6-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at 6618 Kingston Pike (in the
Bearden Station center near Bonefi sh Grill), the event is free with
donations accepted for The Next Door, a support service for
women and families. Info: 865-281-3241.
Avison Young supports IjamsMitch Taylor, Emily Goddard, Stephanie Goddard
and Teresa Taylor with Avison Young support Ijams Nature Center on a volunteer workday. Avison Young (formerly Cushman & Wakefi eld/Cornerstone) partnered with WUOT Radio to raise $3,000 for upgrades to the Meade’s Quarry area and to the dock to allow better water access for disabled persons.
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By Anne HartBefore the age of 2, Der-
rick Freeman was a per-fectly normal child. Then he quit talking. He was soon diagnosed with autism.
By age 3, Derrick had learned a new way to com-municate with the world – through art.
Not only was Derrick au-tistic, he had also become artistic. It is a combina-tion that has brought him wide acclaim, many honors and awards, and starting this Thursday, his own art show and sale at Bearden’s Envision Art Gallery, 4050 Sutherland Ave.
One of Derrick’s earliest drawings is of his mom and biggest supporter, Angela Hunter-Freeman, stand-ing at his bedside with her hands on her hips, yammer-ing at him to stop jumping on his bed – an occurrence so frequent that young Der-rick committed it to paper. The iconic image now ap-pears as a sort of signature on some of the printed ma-terials that have been repro-duced for sale to the public.
Angela is not a mother who coddles unnecessar-ily. She has used her edu-cation and her experience as an educational assistant with Knox County Schools and on numerous boards and civic groups that work in support of special needs
Derrick Freeman with some of his art and a tree hung with or-
naments he created for the holiday show at Envision Art Gal-
lery. Proceeds will benefi t “Our Place,” an art school for people
with disabilities. Photo by A. Hart
Derrick Freeman: autistic and artistic
children to assure that her son always has exactly what he needs to function appro-priately in the world, and that he is always well treat-ed and treats others equally well.
Now 25, Derrick is a handsome and gracious young man who functions at his maximum ability, has learned to use his special talents in ways that benefi t others, and is beloved by all who know him.
His autism, though, has sometimes made for an in-teresting home life.
Derrick’s sister Syretta, who holds a graduate degree in art history and ancient
worlds from Villanova and works with the McClung Historical Collection, says that when she came home from school a few years back, “My room had been turned into storage room for Derrick’s art. Sometimes he paints 30 or 40 things a day. And he’ll paint on anything that is left out – napkins, just anything.”
And Syretta is always there to help when Mom is occupied elsewhere.
Angela Freeman-Hunt-er is a busy woman. She spends much of her time at the art school she runs at Central Baptist Church of Fountain City. It is called
“Our Place,” and Angela says the long term goal is to fi nd a permanent home for the classes “that will cre-ate jobs in a non-traditional employment setting.” The art would be sold to the pub-lic, with the students not only creating art, but assist-ing customers and ringing up the sales.
Proceeds from the Envi-sion Gallery sale, “Art for the Holidays,” which will open to the public with a reception from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday and continue through Dec. 19, will go to Our Place.
Derrick’s art will take up two rooms of the gallery. In addition to his framed art, his hand-painted Christmas ornaments and his cards and bookmarks will all be available for sale at quite reasonable prices.
Kay List, the artist who owns the gallery, says she met Derrick and Angela when she sent out a call for artists for the holiday sale. That fi rst meeting lasted for four hours.
“I was aware that autism exists, but I had never met anyone with autism,” List says. “Derrick’s art is amaz-ing, and his mother is such a strong woman. It has taken months of hard work for this show to evolve, and we think people will love what they see.”
By Tom KingAt some point in De-
c e m b e r the North K n o x v i l l e R o t a r y Club may be known as “The S c r u f f y Bunch.”
C l u b p r e s i d e n t
Max Reddick, pastor of Fountain City Presbyte-rian Church, will be chal-
lenging the guys in the 50-member club to forgo shaving for a month to honor and r e c o g n i z e
those with prostate cancer and to encourage prostate cancer screenings.
For several years there has been a “No Shave No-vember”
Many people and orga-nizations donate the money they spend on shaving and grooming to educate about cancer prevention, save lives and aid those fi ghting the battle.
“This is a symbolic thing for us and we’ll not do any fundraising,” Reddick says. “This project is a little like what is done for breast can-cer when everyone wears pink. Prostate cancer does not get the same public view as breast cancer but the number of men with this cancer is high and growing.”
Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most
common cancer in Ameri-can men and the second leading cause of cancer death in men behind lung cancer. The American Can-cer Society’s estimates for prostate cancer for 2015 are:
■ About 220,800 newcases of prostate cancer
■ About 27,540 deathsfrom prostate cancer
■ About 1 man in 7 willbe diagnosed with prostate cancer
■ Farragut raises $2,310 on BingoIt was “Bingo Wednes-
day” at Farragut Rotary in November. The club sold bingo cards as a fundraiser for World Polio Day. Mem-ber Chris Thomas did the “calling” and the club pulled in $770 for Rotary’s Polio Plus campaign. With a 2-1 match by the Bill and Me-linda Gates Foundation, that equals $2,310 for polio eradication and will pay for vaccine for 3,850 children.
■ Ringing the bells for Salvation ArmyThe Rotary Club of Knox-
ville and the Rotary Club of Farragut will be ringing the bells for the Salvation Ar-my’s kettle collections dur-ing the upcoming holidays. The Knoxville club will ring bells at West Town Mall at the Sears and Dillard’s en-trances on Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Farragut Rotarians will ring at the Kroger store on two Saturdays, Dec. 12 and 19, also from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Max Reddick
News from the Rotary Guy
Rotarians grow beards for a cause
Tom King
By Sherry WittBoth real estate and lend-
ing markets c o n t i n u e to perform well at the local level a c c o r d i n g to recording data from O c t o b e r . The fi rst full month
of fall produced 897 land transfers in Knox County. While that was only eight more sales than the county saw last October, the total value of property sold was much more robust this time around.
After a near record Sep-tember, the total value of property transferred in the county dropped by just $9 million in October. Bol-stered by some impressive commercial transfers, the aggregate value of real es-tate sold during the month was just under $253 million – some $45 million more
Markets continue healthy trend
Witt
News from Offi ce of Register of Deeds
A boost for the Love KitchenTennessee Valley Fair, assisted by Food City, Wade Shows Inc. and media sponsors, raised $5,500
for the Love Kitchen. At last week’s check presentation are: Betsi James, Emerson Breeden and
Mickey Blazer of Food City; Ed Shouse and Scott Suchomski of Tennessee Valley Fair; Patrick
Riggins of The Love Kitchen; and Shanna Wilhite, Kim Harbin, Kerry Smith and Sarah Carson of
Tennessee Valley Fair. The Love Kitchen provides meals, clothing and emergency services to
homebound, homeless and unemployed individuals and families.
than a year ago.Mortgage lending also
continued to run well ahead of its 2014 pace. For the month of October there was approximately $334 million loaned against real prop-erty in Knox County, com-pared to about $289 million during the same period last year.
The most noteworthy real estate transaction re-corded in October was the sale of the property housing the Walmart at University Commons. The parcel sold
for $45.6 million to Knox-ville Supercenter DST. The largest mortgage loan of the month was the fi nancing of that same sale secured by a Deed of Trust in the amount of $28,683,000.
It is normal for real es-tate markets to experience somewhat of a downturn in the fall as the weather grows colder and the day-light shortens. However, preliminary data from the fi rst week of November in-dicates yet another good month could be in store.
BIZ NOTES ■ ORNL Federal Credit
Union has broken
ground on its new re-
gional center at North-
shore Town Center.
The three-story, 24,000
square foot facility is
scheduled to open in
early 2017. ORNL FCU is
also constructing a new
offi ce adjacent to its cor-
porate headquarters on
Rutgers Avenue in Oak
Ridge. It’s expected to
open in January 2016.
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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB November 18, 2015
NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK
Norma Burt enjoys playing the piano again, af-
ter life-saving heart surgery at Parkwest Medical
Center.
Active woman receives surprise diagnosisShe attributed tiredness to boredom with fitness routine
As Norma Burt sat in her doc-tor’s office one day last fall, she casually mentioned that her sis-ter had just undergone bypass surgery. That simple statement touched off a series of events that left her reeling and still has her somewhat astounded today.
“He recommended I have a second opinion on a stress test I’d had a couple of years ago,” Burt says. Sitting on the sofa in her well-furnished Loudon home, Burt doesn’t exactly look like someone you might suspect would need heart surgery.
Because Burt has a family his-tory of heart disease, she’s been careful to take good care of her-self, keep her weight down, ex-ercise and eat right. It was only when she started experiencing some discomfort in her chest during exercise a few years ago that her doctor sent her for that stress test. A visit to a cardiolo-gist followed, and it was deter-mined that her situation wasn’t dire enough to warrant further testing at the time.
But that second opinion last year made all the difference. Parkwest Medical Center car-diologist Mitchell Weiss, MD, looked at the results of the test and felt Burt needed another one. On Dec. 18, Burt met with Dr. Weiss to hear the results.
“He told me the test showed blockage and recommended I have a cardio cath,” Burt says. A cardiac catheterization can check blood f low in the coronary arteries, blood f low and blood pressure in the chambers of the heart, find out how well the heart valves work, and check for defects in the way the wall of the heart moves.
“During the cath he told me I had widespread blockage and that I would need bypass sur-gery.”
“Many patients are surprised to find out that they have heart disease serious enough to war-rant bypass surgery,” says Dr. Weiss. “Ms. Burt had developed severe coronary artery disease, with blockages in all three of the main arteries and a few of the principle branches thereof.”
Weiss says the blockages ranged in severity from 70 per-cent to 100 percent, but she had not yet developed damage to her heart’s muscle.
Burt’s friends were surprised, and so was she. After all, if ever there was a person who was a living and breathing example of healthy living, it was her. But there she was a few days later, meeting with surgeon Mike Mag-gart, M.D., on a Friday and then surgery was planned for just a few days before Christmas.
“It’s almost like it didn’t re-
can Heart Association backsher up. The AHA consistentlyreports that being overweightor obese raises blood pressure,raises blood cholesterol andtriglyceride levels, lowers HDL“good” cholesterol, and can in-duce diabetes.
“Get a second opinion on im-portant health tests,” Burt con-tinues. “Especially stress tests,and discuss changes in yourphysical condition with yourdoctor.”
Last but not least, Burt saysa woman should never assumethat changes in her health likeaches, pains and loss of energyare only signs of getting older, orother natural causes. After yearsof regular weekly exercise, Burtexperienced physical changesthat she shrugged off.
“I didn’t feel like exercising,”Burt says, “but I thought I wasjust getting burned out on exer-cise.”
Dr. Weiss agrees that beingproactive when it comes to yourhealth is always the best way. “Ican’t stress enough the impor-tance of seeking attention soon-er rather than later,” Dr. Weisssays.
“We want to intervene beforesignificant heart damage has oc-curred, in hopes of preventingthe development of congestiveheart failure, permanent disabil-ity and even premature death.”
Burt says she feels well andhas started some exercise. Dur-ing this time while her activityhas to be limited, she’s also re-kindled an old love – playing hergrand piano.
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Debunking common heart disease myths
■ Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women
and is more deadly than all forms of
cancer combined.
■ Heart disease causes 1 in 3 women’s
deaths each year, killing approximately
one woman every minute.
■ An estimated 43 million women in the
U.S. are aff ected by heart disease.
■ 90 percent of women have one or more
risk factors for developing heart disease.
■ The symptoms of heart disease can be
diff erent in women and men and are
often misunderstood.
■ While 1 in 31 American women dies from
breast cancer each year, 1 in 3 dies of
heart disease.
■ Hispanic women are likely to develop
heart disease 10 years earlier than
Caucasian women.
■ Cardiovascular disease is the leading
cause of death for African-American
women.
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ally sink in,” Burt says of the surprising news. “It still hasn’t sunk in. I wasn’t really having symptoms.”
The only other sign of trouble had been a little lethargy, but she didn’t recognize that as being a symptom of heart disease. When she didn’t feel like exercising, Burt assumed she was just get-ting tired of her fitness routine and chalked it up to laziness.
“He told me to come to the emergency room if I experienced any problems over the weekend,” Burt says. “I wasn’t feeling well
Mitchell Weiss, M.D.
Sunday evening. I had chest pains, tightness in the chest and some dizziness, so I went to the ER.”
Burt was admitted to Park-west Medical Center that night and underwent five-vessel by-pass surgery Dec. 23. She got to go home the day after Christmas.
Weiss explains Burt under-went coronary artery surgery, in which Maggart took a vein harvested from one leg and an artery from the inner aspect of her chest wall, then “bypassed” the blockages by surgically re-routing blood into the arteries further downstream. Normal blood f low was restored to areas
in need.Weiss says Burt
will likely need to stay on medication long term, but the surgical outcome was excellent.
Having had some time now to think about heart disease, how it has affect-ed her family and where she needs to go from here, Burt has some advice she’d like to share with other women.
“I feel certain that I would not
have survived before, or recov-ered as well after the surgery, had I not been in excellent physi-cal health,” Burt says. “I work out several times a week with both cardio and strength train-ing. I also walk and carry my golf bag for 18 holes of golf three to four times a week.” Burt recom-mends that women, if they aren’t already on an exercise program, start one and stick with it.
She also feels strongly that it’s important for a woman to get and keep her weight under con-trol. Research from the Ameri-
Think you’re immune to heart disease? This might change your mind.
✱ Myth: It’s a guy thing.There’s a common misconception that heart attacks are
predominantly a threat to men. In reality, heart dis-ease strikes more women than men. A woman dies from heart disease about every minute.
✱ Myth: It’s for older people.Heart disease impacts women and
men of every age. In women, the use of birth control pills and smoking in-creases heart disease risk by 20 per-cent. Habits like overeating and living a sedentary lifestyle can make you more likely to suffer heart dis-ease later in life.
✱ Myth: I exercise, so I don’t have to worry.Staying active de� nitely helps reduce your
chances of developing heart disease. However, no amount of exercise can completely eliminate the risk. In addition, habits like smoking and unhealthy eating can counterbalance that exercise. You can also have high cholesterol (a key risk factor) even when you’re not overweight. The American Heart Associ-
ation recommends you start getting your cholesterol checked at age 20.
✱ Myth: I don’t have symptoms, so I’m OK.Believe it or not, 64-percent of women who have
died suddenly from coronary heart disease had no previous symptoms. It’s also
possible to have symptoms without realizing it. Contrary to popular belief, severe chest pain isn’t the most common symptom of a heart attack for women. Women are
more likely to experience shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting and pain
in the back or jaw. Dizziness, lightheaded-ness, fainting, pain in the lower chest or upper abdomen and extreme fatigue are other signs to watch for.
✱ Myth: Heart disease runs in my family, so I can’t fi ght it.
Yes, you’re at a higher risk if there’s a history of heart dis-ease in your family, but there’s still a lot you can do to dra-matically reduce your risk. It’s estimated that healthy choices and awareness of symptoms have saved more than 627,000 women from the effects of heart disease.
B-2 • NOVEMBER 18, 2015 • Shopper news
Transportation
Automobiles for Sale
FORD Focus SE, 2013, red, 20k mi., 36 mo. full warr. Sony stereo, great cond. Loaded. Like new. $11,950.423-534-4275 (865)354-4609.
Sports and Imports
ACURA TL - 2005. w/NAV-loaded; wellmaint’d (records avail.); Good tires; Runs and looks great; Just tuned-up; 218,000 mi., $5,500. (865)805-2077.
HONDA CIVIC LX-S 2009, 1 owner non smoker, 4 dr, AT, 74K mi, PW, PDL, AM/FM stereo w/single CD plyr,cloth int., clean, good cond, $9750.(865) 986-8682.
Jaguar X type 3.0, AWD, 2006, silver w/blk lthr, 104K mi, very nice, clean car fax, $7,000 total. (865)806-3648.
JAGUAR. 1st Class British Racing Green Jaguar.
Bargain. $4100 (865)247-5762.
Kia Soul+ 2011, bright red, all power,alloys, cruise, Blue Tooth, $8550obo. (865)927-3906.
Mercedes Benz 2007 CLS 550, beautiful 1 owner car, $12,950. (865)337-4866.
MERCEDES-BENZ CLK 320 CONVERT-IBLE, 2001. silver, 204K mi.,
$3000 (865)806-3648.
NISSAN VERSA SL 2012. navy blue, like new in/out. Alloys, cruise, nav-igation. Deluxe stereo. $8500/b.o. 423-534-4275 (865)354-4609.
Sport Utility Vehicles
CHEVROLET TRAVERSE - 2011. LT w entertainment pkg LOADED VERY CLEAN captain chairs w 3rd row 72,300 miles 72,300 mi., $16,900. (865)247-1001.
GMC ACADIA - 2011. Navigation W/rear camera; Pwr sunroof W2nd row skylight; Power seats, heated andcooled; 7 passenger seating W/2nd row Capitan’s chairs 3rd row split bench; V6 engine W/6speed trans-mission; FWD. 45,300 mi., $23,300. (423)884-3584.
GMC ENVOY SLE XL, 2003 4 wheel drive, 3rd row seats, 88k mi. $6950. (865)740-1735.
INFINITI EX35 - 2012. loaded, sunrf,leather, 34K mi, exc cond., $20,500. 423-295-5393
LAND ROVER DISCOVERY - 1999.1999 Land Rover Discovery171000milesleaking coolant865-300-8610171,000 mi., $2,500. (865)300-8610.
TOYOTA RAV4 - 2001. ABS, AWD, 4 cyl,2.0L 16v, AC, clean title. 113,658 mi., $2,900. (423)800-6153.
Trucks
CHEVROLET C/K 1500 SERIES - 2007. Chevrolet 1500 Silverado LT, Crew Cab 2WD, Cloth Interior, Low Miles, Priced for quick sale ($5,000 below NADA Clean Retail) 93,000 mi., $13,000. (865)566-7291.
CHEVROLET UTILIMASTER - 2005.12’ box van, 79k mi. $22,500/b.o.(865)389-2400.
CHEVY S-10 1991. 27K actual mi, exc. cond., well maint. new tires, red. $5900 obo. (865)774-3411; 771-5595
Chevy S-10 1997 LS, 4.3 AT, AC, 121K mi, one of the nicest. $4800. 865-643-7103
FORD XLT 4X4 - 1995. 5 Liter, AT, Short-bed. Good brakes & exhaust. 194k mi. $3895. (865)659-5875
Vans
Chev 15 pass van 2007, white, 39Kact mi, 6.0 V8, dual AC, very nice, $16,500. (865)806-3648.
Classic Cars
1963 1/2 Galaxie, black w/red int., 390 HP Gold eng., solid. $11,000. Serious inquiries only 865-742-2878
1969 Cougar, original, white w/blacktop, solid, no rust, Serious inquiries only, $12,000. (865) 742-2878.
1987 Jaguar XJSC, 350 Corvette eng& trans, t-tops, runs & drives excel-lent. Prof. built. $4200 obo. Call for details. (865)603-5402.
Buick Skylark 1965 custom musclecar, 1800 mi since restored, 454Chevy, $10,500. (865)302-1033.
VW BEETLE 1970, completely restored,
$10,000. Call (865)882-3800.
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Boats/Motors/Marine
2004 STATOS 285 - Magnum, w/175Johnson Motor, 80 lb. trust Minkotatroll. mtr., HDS5 w/structure scan,carpet in great shape, like new, ready to fish. $13,500. (931)200-7413.
HOUSEBOAT ON FONTANA -1994 Sumerset. 80’x16’.Aluminum Hull, 2 350cu ft Chevy engines.2 docks.Shore power.City water. $155kFIRM. 865.414.1099. (865)591-4064.
RANGER BASS BOAT 1987 - 150 HPJohnson, garage kept, exc. cond. $4500. (865)258-3758.
TRITON 18X3 2009 w/tandem axle trailer. 2010 Merc. 175 Pro XSmtr., Minn Kota trl. mtr. - 80 lbs. 2 Lowrance HDS5 w/GPS. $25,995.(865)922-0412.
Campers & RV’s
1978 Holiday Rambler 24’ travel trailer, hunting camp special, located near Wartburg, TN. $1400. (865)457-5918.
FOUR WINDS RV 2006 - 29’, 2 slides, 36k mi, ext. warr. Very clean. Exc. cond. $32,000. (865)657-9402.
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Off Road Vehicles
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ServicesOffered
Fuel & Wood
MEGA FIREWOOD SALESeasoned, good quality. Pick-up or
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Home Maint./Repair
HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICEWill clean front & back, $20 &
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Farm Buildings
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Farm Equipment
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Pets
Dogs
CAIRN TERRIER (Toto) puppies, CKC,brindle, 10 wks, shots, $500. Call/Text (865)919-8167
LAB AKC PUPPIES - Ready for homesin Dec. Vet ck. $450-$500.
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LAB PUPPIES, $800. 1 blk & yellow male left. AKC reg., OFA hips, eyes & elbows on parents. Nat’l champ
bldlines. Great pet or hunting part-ner. Avail. Call or text (865)712-1713
MINIATURE PINSCHER PUPPIES - CKCReg. All shots & worming current. F $300. M $250. 423-775-3662 or 423-834-1230
Merchandise
Antiques
METAL PEDAL CARS OR TRACTORS - Wanted to buy: Old metal pedal cars or tractors to restore for grandson.(865)389-0130
Set of China, made in USA, 106 yrs old, Crown Pottery Company #9377, 24pcs, $2,000. (865) 689-2229
WANTED - Military antiques and collectibles
865-368-0682
Appliances
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Auctions
ABSOLUTE AUCTION OF ENTIRE INVENTORY OF
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tools, pipes and plumbing supplies, all sizes of nails, bolts, screws &
washers + much more! Call 1-800-540-5744, ext. 9017
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Cemetery Lots
2 CEMETERY LOTS Sherwood Memorial Gardens, Garden of Victory. Lot 54-C, spaces 3 & 4. $1000 ea. Call (865)363-3065.
2 LOTS in Highland Memorial onSutherland Ave., Veterans Garden. $2,900 each. (828) 635-0714
HIGHLAND MEMORIAL CEMETERY - 4plots together. $7,850. (317)727-2764
Highland Memorial Veterans Garden, 2 lots w/lawn crypts. $1500 ea. 1 opening w/closing $800. 637-3629
Collectibles
A COMPLETE SET - of Goebel Hummel annual plates: 1971 to 1996 withpretty bas-release dolls on them, such as the “apple tree” boy & girl and the “umbrella” boy & girl. $3000. Certified check or cash.
Phone: 865-922-1819. Ask for Barbara.
BUYING OLD US COINS90% silver, halves, quarters & dimes,
old silver dollars, proof sets, silver & gold eagles, krands & maple leafs, class rings, wedding bands, anything
10, 14, & 18k gold old currency before 1928
WEST SIDE COINS & COLLECTIBLES7004 KINGSTON PK
CALL 584-8070
Exercise Equipment
CHUCK NORRIS TOTAL GYM - used 2 times. Pd $1475. Sacrifice $875/b.o. All tapes & extras. (865)742-0600
Furniture
ALL FURNITURE of 2 BR apt. Must Go. Reasonably Priced. Won’t last long. (865) 455-8933
Heavy Equipment
KUBOTA - ‘07 BX24 100 Hrs 24HP Load-er Backhoe R4 tires $6000 (281)572-6726
Lawn & Garden
DR Power Grader 48”, 12 scarifying teeth, remote control. Pull with ATV or riding mower. Sell $1,100. New $1,500. Needs new battery. (423) 921-9001
Med Equip & Supplies
LIKE NEW - Hosp. Bed, A Lift, MedicalChair, Foldable Wheel Chair, etc.Call for details, (865)971-4293
Merchandise - Misc.
42” RIDING LAWNMOWER $150. - Gasgrill $50. Nine-ft. lighted Christmas tree $150. 2003 Mazda Tribute LX V6 $3,295. Call (865)938-2589
Metal Buildings
METAL BUILDING SHED - 20’x40’ Long,complete with beams, perlins, sid-ing, roofing and all self tapping screws, front hgt. 15’4”, back hgt. 11’4”. (865)803-3633.
Tickets/Events
4 UT Season Basketball Tickets, Sec.118, with G-10 parking pass. $1500 obo. (865) 599-5192
BUYING SEC CHAMP CASH PAID
UT FOOTBALL
UT BASKETBALL
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All Events - Buy - Sell
BUYING TN vs Vanderbilt Tickets
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SEC CHAMPWANTED
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Wanted
NEED CHRISTMAS MONEY? - I will pay good prices for your
vintage toys, old costume jewelry, old shaving items, lighters & any
advertising items & old Halloween items. (865)441-2884
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Adoptions
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Financial
Consolidation Loans
FIRST SUN FINANCEWe make loans up to $1000. We do
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Real EstateSales
North
FSBO 1100 SF, near Sterchi Hill SD. lg level lot, 3 BR, 1 BA, lg 2 car gar w/concrete driveway, util. rm, LR, DR, 865-604-0210.
East
MILLERTOWN PIKE 3 BR, 2 BA brick rancher on 7 acres, garage, shed,barn. $225,000, (865) 599-7559(865)546-0849
West
FOR SALE BY OWNER836 TREE TRUNK RD 37934
3 BR, 2 BA, 2 car gar. Move in ready. $158,500. For info call (865)567-0859
Duplex/Multiplex-Unfurn
HALLS, UNFURN. 2 BR, W/D conn, water furn, great loc. No pets. $670/mo. $500 DD. (865)776-4263
SEYMOUR ON PRIV. FARM
2 BR, mtn view, water/yd maint. furn. Great for elderly & others. Nice & quiet. Carport. F&B decks.
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Townhouse/Villas-Unfurn
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Lake Property
RENTAL/SALE/OWNER FINANCE 4/3/2 Tellico Village, Panoramic LakeView. Nicely kept up. (774)487-4158.
SHORT SALE. Watts Bar lakefront. 3 BR townhome. Dock, hdwd flrs,granite, S/S appls, 25 min to Tur-key Creek. 3 units pre-approved at $199,900 each. (865)924-0791
Homes with Acreage
KARNS FSBO: 9+ acres with small house just off of Pellissippi Pkwy.Mega views! $220K. (865)386-8720
Manufactured Homes
1979 3 BR Oakwood mobile home, in Clinton. Must be moved. Will sellcheap - $2500 obo ! (865) 466-7945
I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES.
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For Sale By Owner
AFFORDABLE CONVENIENCE 2115Paris Road, So convenient to Knox-ville, nice neighborhood, sweet yard & front porch. Great price!
(865)414-4366
COZY COTTAGE IN NORTH KNOXVILLE - 4025 Weaver Street, 0BR, Cozy 800 sq. ft. Cottage on Sharp’s Ridge is in a pretty neighborhood. 1 bdrm, 1 bathrm, Nice front porch, backyard, & eat in kitchen. (865)414-4366
FARMINGTON / BLUEGRASS1809 Penwood Dr, Remodeled
Split/Foyer, new roof, 3BR 2.5BA Frpl, new appls., fenced yard, kids play
fort, Garage. 1604 SF. $174,900. (865)705-4955.
Lots/Acreage for Sale
FOR SALE OR LEASE 80+ acres in Har-din Valley, zoned industrial & SP. 1.5 mi of creek frontage, very private. $20k per acre. By appt. only. Call(865)386-8720 .
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Homes Unfurnished
ALL BRICK 3 BR RANCHER IN WEST HILLS PARK - Hdwd floors, updated
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West. 11805 Midhurst Dr. 4 BR, 2 BA, 2car gar, refurbished, Farragut Schl.New appls. $1400 mo. (865)671-2222
Condos Unfurnished
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Townhouse/Villas Unfurn
2 BR, 1 1/2 BA & 1 BR, 1 BA. 5401 Scenicwood Rd off Merchants.
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Shopper news • NOVEMBER 18, 2015 • B-3
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18Dine and Discover, noon-1 p.m., Knoxville
Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. David Butler, executive director of the Knoxville Museum of Art, will present: “A Look Over the Horizon.” Free and open to the public. Info: knoxart.org.
“End-of-Life Plan,” 2:30 p.m., Humana Guid-ance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speaker: Susie Stiles, LCSW. Info: 329-8892 (TTY: 711).
“Getting a Show: Avoiding the Pitfalls & Pratfalls,” noon-1 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $5 for members of the Arts & Culture Alliance/ $8 for nonmembers. Info/registration: knoxalliance.com/development.html; 523-7543; [email protected].
Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11a.m.-1 p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Dr. Bruce Wheeler will speak about his book “Knoxville Tennessee, A Mountain City, in the New South.”
“Using Legal Tools for Life Decisions” 1:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speaker: Elder Law Attorney Monica Franklin, CELA. Info: 329-8892 (TTY: 711).
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, NOV. 18-19AARP Driver Safety classes, noon-4 p.m.,
O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registra-tion: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
THURSDAY, NOV. 19AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30
p.m., AAA offi ce, 715 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. 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, or Stephanie, 862-9252.
FRIDAY, NOV. 20Rock the Red Kettle Concert featuring Rhett
Walker Band, 8 p.m., The Square Room, 4 Market Square. Proceeds go to the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign. Info/tickets: SalvationArmyKnoxville.org or 525-9401.
Tellabration!, 7 p.m., Eusebia Presbyterian Church, 1701 Burnett Station Road in Seymour. Master of Ceremonies: Jeanette Stevens. Storytellers: Millie Sieber, Kathleen Mavournin, Jean Davidson, Jeanette and Charlie Stevens. Donations accepted. Info: smokymountaintellers.org.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 20-22“She Kills Monsters,” Clayton Performing Arts
Center, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $12 adults; $10 seniors or students. Info/tickets: pstcc.edu/arts or 539-7529.
SATURDAY, NOV. 21AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-4:30
p.m., AAA offi ce, 715 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Eight-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.
Ancestry in Detail, 1-3 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration and a valid email address as well as good Internet searching capabilities are required. Info/registration: 215-8809.
“Baroque to Modern” performed by the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra Performs, 7:30 p.m., First UMC of Oak Ridge, 1350 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Tickets: $25 adults; $10 ages 19-29. Info/tickets: ORCMA.org or 483-5569.
Craft show, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., West Towne Christian Church, 9300 Middlebrook Pike. Crafters’ booth fees will all go to the Youth Group Mission fund at the church. Features more than 40 crafters with a wide variety of quality crafts; Youth Group will be selling coffee, hot chocolate and doughnuts in the morning and a soup and sandwich lunch. Info: Sandy Tanaka, 742-6728 or [email protected].
Emory Road, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) meeting 10:30 a.m., East Ten-nessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay St. Speaker: Sonja DuBois, a WWII Holocaust survivor. Topic: “Preserv-ing the Legacy.”
Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Sarah Rysewyk, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
Tellabration!, 2-4 p.m., Sweet Fanny Adams The-atre, Light #3, 461 Parkway in Gatlinburg. Storytellers: Susan Fulbright, Stephen Fulbright, Janice Brooks-Headrick and Kathleen Mavournin. Donations accepted. Info: smokymountaintellers.org.
Unity of the Community, Building Community through the Heart of Yoga, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Lindsay Young Downtown Y, 605 W. Clinch. Light refreshments, yoga classes, and more. Info: 622-9025.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 21-22Foothills Craft Guild Fine Craft Show, 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Jacob Build-ing in Chilhowee Park. Includes a free “Kid’s Make It & Take It Booth” sponsored by the Appalachian Arts Craft Center. Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors; children 13 and under are free.
MONDAY, NOV. 23Computer Workshops: Excel, 2 p.m., East Ten-
nessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 215- 8700.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 28-29Auditions for “The Last Five Years” by Jason
Robert Brown, a musical being produced/performed at Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. Times: 3-5:30 p.m. Saturday and 6-8:30 p.m. Sunday. Seek-ing one female and one male who can play an age range of 25-40. Performance dates: Feb. 12-28. Info: [email protected].
SUNDAY, NOV. 29Roane State Organ Student Recital with guest
concert pianist Slade Trammell, 3 p.m., First UMC in Oak Ridge, 1350 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Reception follows recital. Free and open to the public, but contributions can be made to the Louis Hughes Memorial Organ Scholarship at Roane State.
TUESDAY, DEC. 1AARP Driver Safety classes, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,
GFWC Ossoli Circle, 2511 Kingston Pike. Info/registra-tion: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
FRIDAY, DEC. 4 “Amahl and the Night Visitors” by Gian-Carlo
Menotti, 7:30 p.m., St. John’s Cathedral, 413 Cum-berland Ave. Performed by Marble City Opera. Family friendly production with free admission. Info/tickets: 525-7347.
Matt Brown and Greg Reish in concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14, some dis-counts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.
THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS, DEC. 4-20“Cinderella and Ebenezer,” Knoxville
Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; [email protected].
SATURDAY, DEC. 5Cookie walk and craft fair, Faith Lutheran
Church, 225 Jamestowne Blvd. Craft fair, 8:30 a.m.-noon; cooker walk, 9 a.m. until sold out. Proceeds to benefi t the Shepherd of Hope Food Pantry. Info: [email protected].
Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6 p.m., with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmersMarket.org or NourishKnoxville.org.
Tennessee Schmaltz, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 5-6Christmas Tours of the Historic Bleak House Man-
sion, 3148 Kingston Pike; 2-8 p..m. Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday. Includes: a yule fi re with Christmas carols, tables of artists and authors, storytelling and more. Info: Diane Green, 993-3397.
SUNDAY, DEC. 6“Amahl and the Night Visitors” by Gian-Carlo
Menotti, 3 p.m., St. John’s Cathedral, 413 Cumberland Ave. Performed by Marble City Opera. Family friendly production with free admission. Info/tickets: 525-7347.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, DEC. 9-10AARP Driver Safety classes, 1-5 p.m., Cheyenne
Ambulatory Center, 964 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
THURSDAY, DEC. 10Knoxville 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.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, DEC. 11-13“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” performed
by The WordPlayers, 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Clayton Performing Arts Center, Pellissippi State Community College, 10915 Hardin Val-ley Road. Info/tickets: wordplayers.org.
SATURDAY, DEC. 12Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West
Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.
Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6 p.m., with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmersMarket.org or NourishKnoxville.org.
Wreath workshop, 12:30 p.m., Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorngrove Pike. Cost: $35. Bring a pair of small garden shears and garden gloves. Other materials provided. Info/reservations: 546-0745 or ramseyhouse.org.
SUNDAY, DEC. 13Free drop-in art activities for families, 1-4
p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Docent Tours in English, 2 p.m., and in Spanish, 3 p.m. Info: knoxart.org.
Historic Ramsey House Candlelight Tour, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 2614 Thorngrove Pike. Featuring: holi-day treats, Christmas carols and tours of the decorated, candlelit historic home. Admission free; donations ap-preciated. Info: 546-0745 or www.ramseyhouse.org.
MONDAY-TUESDAY, DEC. 14-15AARP Driver Safety classes, noon-4 p.m., Ameri-
can Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook Pike. Info/registra-tion: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16Dine and Discover, noon-1 p.m., Knoxville Mu-
seum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Adam Alfrey, East Tennessee History Center, and Steve Cotham, manager of McClung Historical Collection, will present: “An Inside Look at Lloyd Branson.” Free and open to the public. Info: knoxart.org.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY, DEC. 17-1924th annual Modern Dance Primitive Light,
8 p.m. Thursday and 7 and 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Laurel Theatre, 1538 Laurel Ave. Info/tickets: circlemoderndance.com.
SATURDAY, DEC. 19Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6
p.m., with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmersMarket.org or NourishKnoxville.org.
TUESDAYS, JAN. 12, 19, 26, FEB. 2, 9, 16
“Refl ections, Light and Magic” class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $150/nonmembers $175. Materials list provided. Info/registration: knoxart.org.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 27“Beautiful, Vibrant Alcohol Inks” class, 10
a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $50/nonmembers $65. Info/registration: knoxart.org.
“Mosaics Keepsake Box” class, 2-4 p.m., Knox-ville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $50/nonmembers $65. Info/registra-tion: knoxart.org.
SATURDAY, JAN. 30The Del McCoury Band with Sierra Hull,
part of WDVX’s World Class Bluegrass concert series, 7 p.m., Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Info/tickets: 981-8590; ClaytonArtsCenter.com; Clayton Center box offi ce.
MONDAYS, FEB. 1, 8, 15“Mask Making and Face Jugs” (clay sculpture)
class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $90/non-members $110. Info/registration: knoxart.org.
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