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Booster shot for John Bruhin

Patience, please. John Bruhin is facing a long walk, and it may take an extra minute. He is on his way back into the spotlight for one big night this summer. On July 24, he will be inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame.

Bruhin, 49, has been “training” for a while. He is 70 pounds down from 420 and trying to get closer to playing weight. He has one new knee and needs another but can get along with a trusty cane.

➤ Read Marvin West on page 5

Civil rights leader to visit

The city of Knoxville will continue its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with two events on June 19, the date

celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth in recognition of the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a veteran of the

civil-rights movement and a friend of the Rev. Martin Lu-ther King Jr., will lead a “Mass Meeting” at 6:30 p.m. Thurs-day, June 19, at Payne Avenue Baptist Church, 2714 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

➤ See the story on page 7

Messing around with magic

Aside from the full opening of the Henley Bridge, it was the most magical thing to happen in South Knoxville last week – Michael Messing’s magic show for the Summer Library Club at the South Knoxville Branch Library.

Children and parents packed the “theater” at the north end of the library to watch as Messing performed feats that elicited both squeals of excitement and peals of laughter.

➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page 3

Third-row seatto history

It’s a big deal for East Ten-nessee each year when the Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute brings a couple thou-sand of American’s brightest and most idealistic young people for a weeklong train-ing session before they go out to manage Freedom Schools across the country.

➤ Read Sandra Clark on page 6

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By Betsy PickleEverything Mushrooms is part

of a mushroom explosion – a quiet explosion because, you know, a mushroom may be a fungi, but it’s not very loud.

Bob Hess, who started the busi-ness in 2007 and moved into a building at 1004 Sevier Ave. two-plus years ago, has been around

Bob Hess checks on the prog-

ress of new pearl oyster mush-

rooms. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Mushroom business takes rootin South Knoxville

Everything Mushrooms avoids the

typical button-type mushrooms

and instead grows varieties that

are as beautiful as they are tasty.

at the weekly Knoxville Farmers Market on Market Square. While in the past Everything Mushrooms offered demonstrations a couple of times a season, they started participating more frequently last year. “This year, we’re down there every Saturday,” says Hess.

The mushrooms they sell at the Farmers Market are from their demonstration garden, which is an extension of their lab, or for-aged mushrooms, a specialty of Whitey Hitchcock, who joined the staff early this year.

The thing is, growing mush-rooms isn’t the main focus of the company. It exists to help custom-ers grow mushrooms.

“We are mostly a spawn and seed supply company,” Hess says. “We sell mostly equipment and tools and materials for people to grow and garden mushrooms. There are probably only about three companies in the country that come close to doing what we do on a broad scale, and even on that level there are things that we concentrate and focus on that some of those other companies don’t.”

long enough to see the

changes in the in-dustry.

“In the past two or three years, we’ve seen an increase in busi-ness around mushrooms,” he says. Most of the enterprises are small, like a mom-and-pop-type busi-ness. “People either have a very in-tense interest personally for food or health, or they immediately see dollar signs, and they think they’re going to retire rich grow-ing mushrooms,” he says. “I don’t

know where that comes from, I re-ally don’t, because it’s really hard work.”

Hess regards his own business as still being very small. There are eight full- or part-time employees, but that’s double what he had not long ago. And since moving from the Central/Broadway neighbor-hood in 2012, he’s been able to take his company from almost purely e-commerce to a business that serves the community and makes its presence known.

Part of that is having a booth

and a math coach before entering school administration in 2008

as an assistant principal at Dog-wood Elementary School.

Nicely holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary edu-cation, a master’s in instructional technology, and an educational spe-

cialist degree in educational lead-ership, all conferred by the Univer-sity of Tennessee.

Other appointments by Super-intendent Dr. Jim McIntyre in-clude Tiffany Watkins, principal at Fair Garden Family Community Center; Kristi Woods, principal at East Knox Elementary School; Dr. Chad Smith, principal at Carter Middle School; and Susan Es-piritu, principal at Sarah Moore Greene Elementary.

Tanna Nicely is the new princi-pal at South Knoxville Elementary School, replacing Muncie Cooper-Harbin, who retired.

Nicely was an assistant princi-pal at Sarah Moore Green Magnet Technology Academy. She joined Knox County Schools in 1991 as a kindergarten teacher at Powell Elementary School and has also taught at Sunnyview Primary School. She also served as a cur-riculum and instruction facilitator Tanna Nicely

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program at South-Doyle High School is the last remaining such program in Knox County follow-ing the elimination of the program at North Knox Vocational Cen-ter on the campus of Halls High School.

North Knox teacher Mike Blan-kenship, who began teaching at Doyle High School in 1978, was told his position was eliminated because of low enrollment, even though students say school coun-selors advised them not to sign up because the program was being cut. North Knox also lost its Child Development program.

Don Lawson, supervisor of Ca-reer Technical Education (CTE), said there had been four such pro-grams in Knox County but those at Farragut High and Byington-Sol-

James Dunn and Ryan Cox, wearing

their FFA gear, prepare to address

the school board. Photo by S. Clark

South-Doyle program is last Ag Ed standingJames Dunn, a senior at Gibbs

High School and president of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter, recited a partial list of the honors the club won under Blan-kenship’s guidance.

“We will no longer be able to compete in career-development events,” he said. “We as a class and a chapter are very disappointed. This closure will take away many opportunities.”

What Dunn didn’t say that night is that one of the lost oppor-tunities could be his chance to go to college.

“I was hoping to try to get a scholarship through the FFA, but there cannot be an FFA if there’s no ag class,” he said later. Dunn lives on a family farm and wants to major in agriculture at UT.

Ryan Cox, also a rising senior, has invested three years in a vo-

way have been shuttered. Classes include wildlife management and forestry as well as horticulture and greenhouse management.

Several students and their fam-ilies attended last week’s school board meeting, and two spoke.

cational track he won’t be able to complete. Afterward, board mem-bers and Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre spoke to him.

Cox said their attempts at con-solation were too little, too late.

“They told us that we did well and that our speeches were good, but honestly, that doesn’t mean anything to me,” said Cox. “Indi-vidually, I think they all want to help us, but together they all felt that it was too far gone. The de-cision has been made and it will stand.”

Blankenship is packing 25 years’ worth of records and mem-ories while dealing with a family health crisis – his son was diag-nosed with a brain tumor, and his condition remains precarious. Although he has been interviewed for a new position, Blankenship has no guarantee of a job this fall.

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Fort Sanders Regional recent-ly announced the 2014 winners of the hospital’s annual Clinical Ex-cellence in Nursing Awards. Sev-enteen staff members through-out the facility were recognized during a special National Nurses Week ceremony.

The awards signify the excep-tional care and compassion each honored individual regularly gives to his or her patients. The Fort Sanders Nursing Excellence Awards are especially meaning-ful because the employees are nominated by those who provide care beside them, their nursing co-workers. The final winners are then selected by a panel of hos-pital leaders that includes past honorees.

This year’s winners are: Shawn Campbell, RN, CVICU; Kelly Danielson, RN, GI-Endoscopy; Denise Gregg, CAN, 9 North; Sherry Hackworth, RN, 5 West; Katie Haun, RN, 7 North; Mi-chelle Jones, Department Assis-tant, Surgery; Alison Lavin, RN, 4 West; Jennifer McGregor, RN, Women’s Services; Dina Miller, RN, Float Pool; Maleia O’Neal, Tech, Women’s Services; Aman-da Roark, RN, 8 North; Valen-cia Talley, RN, 7 North; Sandra Thorn, HUC, Women’s Services; Angela Turner, RN, ICU; Jean-nine Varga, RN, Emergency De-partment.

In addition to the Clinical Ex-cellence Awards, the Fort Sand-ers nursing staff selected Cardio-vascular Intensive Care (CVICU) nurse Michael Chesser as the re-cipient of the 2014 Peggy Mayer Gilbertson Outstanding Nurse of the Year Award. The hospi-tal’s physicians honored Emer-gency Department nurse Michael Shelton with the 2014 Elizabeth Killeffer Award.

Top recognition received by two nurses at Fort SandersOn an annual basis, two awards are

given to honor nurses at Fort Sanders Regional for their excellence in clini-cal care.

The Peggy Mayer Gilbertson award provides funds for continuing educa-tion and has been given since 1989 in memory of the wife of Dr. Bob Gilbertson, a former chief of staff at the hospital. Candidates for the Gil-

bertson Fellowship are nominated by their fellow nursing peers, and the recipient is chosen by the hos-pital’s nursing leadership staff. This year, Cardiovascular Intensive Care (CVICU) nurse Michael Chesser was elected as the recipient.

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Michael Shelton as the 2014 recipient of the Elizabeth Killeffer Award.

Elizabeth Killeffer was the director of nursing from 1922 to 1960 at what was then called Fort Sanders Pres-byterian Hospital. Since 1992, the Killeffer Award has been given to an outstanding employee who is nomi-nated by peers and chosen by vote of the hospital physicians.

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Hess says the company couldn’t have existed before the Internet; it has custom-ers all over the country and around the world. But “now, the tables have turned a lot.

“We recognized that we were going to have to shift focus and start occupying space on a local level be-cause if we didn’t, some-body else would.”

They now have a full-time customer-service rep-resentative, and the show-room – which features not

only mushroom-growing supplies but also mush-room-related gift items – is open 12-6 p.m. weekdays and 12-4 p.m. Saturdays.

Hess, who grew up en-joying the outdoors in West Tennessee and East Texas, majored in journalism at the University of Tennessee and graduated in 2003. Af-ter doing some work in pub-lic relations, he decided he’d be better off working a day job while he tried to launch his dream company.

The roots of the company were in the Fort Sanders apartment Hess shared with his wife, Candace, a high school science teacher. They now live in North Knoxville with their two young chil-dren, but he’s happy to be part of the South Knoxville revival.

“Now that we’ve got all this stuff focusing on South Knoxville, we want to do what we can to enhance that and be a good business citi-zen in that regard,” he says.

Mushroom business From page 1

Aside from the full open-ing of the Henley Bridge, it was the most magical thing to happen in South Knox-ville last week – Michael Messing’s magic show for the Summer Library Club at the South Knoxville Branch Library.

Children and parents packed the “theater” at the north end of the library to watch as Messing per-formed feats that elicited both squeals of excitement and peals of laughter.

Messing knew how to work the crowd – and how to handle the enthusiastic youngsters who wanted to contribute to the perfor-mance. Several audience members were invited to as-sist Messing, but no siblings were injured in the making of the fun.

Fun was the operative word. Many of the tricks were as much about com-edy as magic, though it was pretty amazing to watch him pour clear water into a newspaper without spilling any on the fl oor, only to tip the paper and pour colored water into glass fl utes.

Messing cleverly worked

Betsy Pickle

Amberly Champion

snuggles with daughter

Paige and son Mason as

they watch magic unfold.

Magician Michael Mess-

ing sticks an 18-inch nee-

dle through a balloon.

Ashleigh Morgan assists

magician Michael Messing

as brother Zack looks on

during Messing’s magic

show at the South Knox-

ville Branch Library. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Messing around with magic

Ashleigh Morgan (front) and sisters Kaitlyn and Kelsey Casillas

enjoy the show.

in the reading club’s theme, “Fizz … Boom … Read,” as he performed “magic” that looked suspiciously like chemistry and physics or involved investigative tech-niques that would be at home on “CSI.” His creation of bal-loon animals might not have required a magician’s touch, but sticking an 18-inch steel needle into an infl ated bal-loon without popping it was mindboggling.

One of his most popu-lar segments involved his friend Bob the bookworm. The fl exible fellow kept pop-ping up in the oddest plac-es. Messing said afterward that Bob has become such a crowd pleaser that, though he otherwise tries to make each performance different, Bob turns up at every show.

Messing, who lives in West Knoxville, has been doing magic for 41 years, and

he has performed at Knox County’s library clubs for 15 of the past 16 years. This summer he will visit all 18 branches plus the Sweetwa-ter and Claiborne County li-braries and several festivals.

His upcoming dates in-clude 11 a.m. at Bearden and 3 p.m. at Carter on Thurs-day, June 12; 11 a.m. at Pow-ell and 2 p.m. at Halls on Tuesday, June 17; 10:30 a.m. at Sequoyah and 3 p.m. at Murphy on Thursday, June 19; and 11 a.m. Thursday, June 26, at Burlington. He will perform at 3 p.m. Mon-day, July 14, at the Howard Pinkston Branch Library.

■ Birthday bashSomebody’s having a

birthday … why, thank you for remembering!

No, I’m not talking about my own (which, ahem, coin-cides with Watergate Break-in Day and O.J. Bronco Chase Day). It’s Yester Year Vintage’s one-year anniver-sary, and the store at 235 W. Young High Pike is celebrat-ing with a party this Satur-day, June 14.

Owner Peter Skrams-

tad says the event will be similar to the Autumn Fest he held last year. The store and parking lot will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with up to 30 vendors on the lot offering antiques, collect-ibles, crafts and gifts.

Love That BBQ will sell delicious food and drink. Kudzu, a Southern rock band from Maryville, will perform from 1 to 5 p.m. The rain date is June 21.

Skramstad says South Knoxvillians have really em-braced Yester Year, which houses booths for vendors

featuring vintage and col-lectible items in the space once occupied by Hollywood Video. He says they fi lled the store within six weeks of opening and have at least 10 vendors on the waiting list.

Some outdoor vendor spots still remained available at press time for the June 14 event. For info, call 567-2755.

■ Second SaturdaySneaky June, coming in

on a Sunday. We’re only this week getting to the month’s second Saturday, which means it’s time for Second

Saturday Marketplace at Tea & Treasures.

The popular monthly event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday (June 14) at the store, 4104 Martin Mill Pike. The shaded yard of Tea & Treasures will have vendor booths featur-ing arts and crafts, antiques, plants, books and food, and there’ll be good live music to enjoy while browsing.

The store has plenty of cards and gifts to help cel-ebrate Father’s Day, which is Sunday, June 15. Not that you’d forgotten, of course.

King University has been granted approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher-education institutions in the Southern states, to imple-ment the Doctor of Nursing Practice program beginning with the fall 2014 semester in August.

In December 2013, af-ter a thorough examin ation process, SACSCOC voted to approve King’s application to operate as a Level V in-

stitution. This new designa-tion allows King University to offer up to three doctoral degree programs, the fi rst of which will be the Doctor of Nursing Practice. Appli-cations are currently being accepted for the fall start of the DNP program.

Currently, there are two types of doctoral degrees in nursing: the Ph.D., a re-search-focused doctorate, and the DNP, the practice-focused doctorate. The DNP has been fi rmly established as the terminal degree in nursing practice.

Dr. Rhonda Morgan, as-

sociate dean for Graduate Studies Nursing and asso-ciate professor for the King University School of Nurs-ing, said, “We have full ap-proval to proceed with the implementation of the DNP program. King’s fi rst DNP class is scheduled to gradu-ate in 2016.

“This program is devel-oped specifi cally for the full-time working profes-sional,” said Morgan. “It is 36 semester hours designed to be completed in two cal-endar years.”

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Betty Bean

On a night when the school board was confront-ed with the real-life pain of budget cuts, it nevertheless approved Emerald Youth Academy’s charter school ap-plication by a 7-1 vote (board member Gloria Deathridge was absent), a move that will drain Knox County Schools’ coffers of nearly $5 million a year once the school is fully operational.

Legislators force budget-busting charter schools

Several board members made it clear that they were doing it only because state law is forcing them to. Even Karen Carson, the sole no vote, deplored the legisla-ture’s interference.

Everyone was careful to pay homage to the work Emerald Youth Foundation and its executive director, Steve Diggs, have done with the city’s children over the past two-plus decades, but the bottom line was this vote would have been dif-

ferent if state legislators had not made it almost impos-sible for local governments to turn down applications from privately operated, publicly funded nonprofi t charter schools.

Several summoned the specter of what happened to Metro Nashville Public Schools when its board vot-ed not to approve a proposal for a charter school in West Nashville last year – state education commissioner Kevin Huffman withheld $3.4 million as punishment.

The school, Great Hearts Academy, was a pet proj-ect of House Speaker Beth Harwell and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and was nixed by the Nashville school board because of questions about diversity and access for all students. Its demise stiffened the re-solve of pro-charter school forces to use their growing clout on the state level to send a message down to lo-cal school districts.

Fear the budget ax: mes-sage received in Knox Coun-ty, one of fi ve counties in-cluded in the bill (along with

Davidson, Shelby, Hamilton and Hardeman).

The Senate passed the charter school authorizer by just three votes. Knox County’s senators split, with Stacey Campfi eld voting yes and Becky Massey voting no.

The House vote was more lopsided, and purely parti-san, 61-28. Knox County’s Republicans (all alleged opponents of imposing un-funded mandates on lo-cal governments) – Harry Brooks, Ryan Haynes, Bill Dunn and Roger Kane vot-ed yes. Democrats Gloria Johnson and Joe Armstrong voted no.

The bill gives charter schools whose applica-tions are rejected by the local educational authority (LEA), the right to appeal to the state school board, which will then approve or deny. The well-founded presumption is that ap-proval will be almost auto-matic for most proposals, and power to oversee these charter schools would then be transferred to the state.

The bill, which became

Public Chapter 850, says, in part, “Funding for charter schools authorized by the state board will be in accor-dance with present law, ex-cept that the LEA in which the charter school operates will pay to the department 100 percent of the per stu-dent share of local funding and 100 percent of any fed-eral funding in the custody of the LEA that is due to the charter school.”

This law will inevitably lead to a fl ood of budget-busting charter-school ap-plications that local gov-ernments will be powerless to deny.

One administrator said that money for the Emerald school will be taken directly from the school where Em-erald’s students were zoned. “The money follows the children.”

Our legislative delegation can’t jigger the BEP formula to get Knox County its fair share, but they’re leading the charge for public-fund-ed private schools. We must hold them accountable for the schools and kids who are left behind.

VictorAshe

It is less than 60 days to the Aug. 7 statewide general election for judges. You can vote for retention or replacement of three state Supreme Court justices (Cornelia Clark, Sharon Lee and Gary Wade, all Demo-crats) as well as numerous appellate judges.

Let candidates respond and engage

Republican Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey has openly and strongly argued for a replace-ment vote in part to secure that a Republican be chosen as state Attorney General. Tennessee is the only state to require its Supreme Court to elect the Attorney General every eight years. All other states have either a direct popular election or guberna-torial appointment.

Ramsey has been criticized for seeking the replacement of these judges on the grounds it politicizes the court and undermines judicial independence. Oth-ers have argued the current retention-replacement system is not a real election in contrast to two or more candidates opposing each other.

However, this system has been ruled valid by the spe-cial state Supreme Court. Since it is held to be the equivalent of an election, then robust public debate on a variety of issues is fair and the justices ought to be able to respond and engage.

Of the three justices running, Wade has the most political experience, hav-ing also served 10 years as mayor of Sevierville. He is waging an active campaign to make sure he is retained. Wade is very astute and is popular among many East Tennessee Republicans such as Rep. Jimmy Duncan and former Rep. Bill Jenkins. Gov. Haslam has declined to take sides but has voiced a personal like for the incum-bents. His father attended a reception for Wade.

Setting aside the mer-its of Ramsey’s views, he certainly has the right to ad-vocate change for whatever reason he puts forth. Like-wise, he opens himself up to vigorous rebuttals. It is up to the voters to determine the merit of his arguments.

Ramsey has placed a spotlight on contests that are normally under the po-litical radar. That has made many uncomfortable.

Penny White is the only justice to be denied a term.

She is now a professor at UT College of Law.

As long as the state con-stitution mandates that the court must pick the state AG, it will place justices seeking another term in the crossfi re on this issue. It cannot be avoided. Those who dislike this situation should work to change the constitution to remove the court from choosing the AG. That requires a consti-tutional amendment, which the voters must approve.

This writer has long believed the selection should be direct popular election just as local DAs are elected. I sponsored legislation to achieve that from 1968 to 1984, but it did not pass. If that is not politically feasible, the governor should appoint them subject to legislative confi rmation for a four-year term. But the court should not be in the business of choosing the state AG.

The AG is a policymaking position and plays an im-portant role in state govern-ment. The voters deserve a place in choosing the AG. No woman, African-American or Republican has ever been the AG under the present system, and there are quali-fi ed persons in all categories. If any justice is replaced in August, then Gov. Haslam will choose the new justice.

■ Eddie Smith, Repub-lican candidate for state representative, opposed by Jason Emert in the August GOP primary, has picked up important support from state Rep. Bill Dunn, chair of the House Calendar Committee, who served on Smith’s host committee for a fundraiser June 3.

Also on the host com-mittee were Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones, GOP County Commission nominee Ed Brantley (who is unopposed in the August election), County Commissioner R. Larry Smith and former County Commissioner, city school board member and City Council member Ivan Harmon.

The winner of the Smith-Emert contest will face Democratic incumbent state Rep. Gloria Johnson, seeking her second term in Novem-ber. It will be an uphill battle to overtake Johnson, but the state GOP will make a strong effort to unseat her. She has Team Rogero on her side.

■ Knoxville lost a wonderful leader with the passing of Dr. Robert Harvey on May 27. He was a champion of Knoxville Col-lege and was always there to assist in its most troubled days. He gave back to the community on a consistent basis.

“I like to pay taxes,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oli-ver Wendell Holmes Jr. once said. “With them I buy civi-lization.”

If Holmes were alive and residing in Knox County, his taxes could also buy ar-rogance and ineptitude.

Peering myopically past a mountain of evidence that gross incompetence plagues her offi ce, Criminal Court Clerk Joy McCroskey re-cently granted across-the-board staff raises as high as 16 percent.

Her “hard-working” em-ployees deserved “a lot more than they got,” McCroskey said.

We’re relieved they didn’t work harder; half the county might be wrongfully jailed had they put their noses to the grindstone.

Mike Hammond, who will replace McCroskey this fall, says he will rescind the raises, so McCroskey’s in-your-face gesture only served to train the spotlight more intensely on the fee offi ces and the outdated sal-ary suit system under which they operate. It also resur-rected the larger question of overall accountability in those offi ces.

If some view Knox Coun-ty Mayor Tim Burchett’s decision to hold the line on pay for general government workers as miserly, McCro-skey’s action reminds us of all that can go wrong when offi ceholders are responsible to no one but themselves.

Former Knox County

LarryVan

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Fee offi ce oversight is overdue

Trustee Mike Lowe spent more than a decade stock-ing his fi efdom with reliable cronies to cement his hold on the offi ce. Along with Lowe, several of them have been indicted for felonies that could earn them signif-icant prison sentences.

The grand jury that in-dicted Lowe recommended that the trustee be appoint-ed by the mayor. Oppo-nents of a proposed charter amendment in 2008 that would have done just that cashed in on mistrust of then-Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale and some dubious wording of the amendment to defeat it.

Along with the trustee, the Knox County Clerk, Register of Deeds and Law Director would also have been appointed by the may-or under the proposal. The “King Mayor” bogeyman tri-umphed, and anxious voters torched the amendment.

John Duncan III’s ab-breviated tenure as Knox County Trustee punctuated the need for change in the fee offi ces. Allegations of unearned bonuses led to the r esignation and indict-ment of Duncan and several key staff members. Duncan

subsequently pleaded guilty to offi cial misconduct.

Absent checks and bal-ances, power readily cor-rupts. At the federal level, executive power is checked by the legislative branch. Legislative acts are checked by the judicial arm.

Little in the Knox County Charter checks the opera-tions of the fee offi ces. Bud-gets are submitted to the Knox County Commission for rubber-stamp approval, but ultimately fee offi ces are responsible only to the vot-ers, the same voters who re-

turned Mike Lowe to offi ce term after term.

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GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Karen Carson wants teachers

to put concerns in writing and

send them up the chain of

command.

■ Indya Kincannon countered

that some things cannot be

resolved at the school level

“because they are simply

disagreements.”

■ Mike McMillan asked Carson

if she is trying to stop people

from speaking at school

board meetings.

■ Of course not, said Carson.

“I would not expect an

employee to show up and

be shut down because they

would know the policy and

not show up.”

■ Meanwhile, teachers con-

tinue to speak at board meet-

ings and workshops, and last

week three principals showed

up to express unhappiness

with the leadership of Super-

intendent Dr. Jim McIntyre.

■ Foster Arnett, running to

keep his job as county clerk,

and Mike Padgett, running

to regain the job that he lost

to term limits, are already

slugging it out.

■ Any civic club looking for a

good program should invite

both guys on the same day

for a spirited debate.

■ We’re sorry, but a fan of GOP

candidate Clarence “Eddie”

Pridemore

called to

complain

that a

photo we

published

“made him

look bad”

and ac-

cused us of

support-

ing his opponent, Chancellor

Daryl Fansler. Yet the photo

we published is one taken

from the website of the local

bar association, submitted no

doubt by Pridemore himself.

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HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

The Rev. Charles S. Bond came to Foun-tain City’s Central Baptist Church in 1945 when the church had some 1,200 members and retired in 1975 when there were 2,300, one of the largest congregations in the Knoxville area at that time.

During his 30-year ministry, the church built a $275,000 sanctuary and a three-story, $160,000 education building.

While those numbers are impressive, they do not fully refl ect the immense differ-ence Dr. Bond made in his church and his community. Nor do they reveal the posi-tive changes that oc-curred in a multitude of individual lives through his daily witness to his faith and his public and personal ministry.

2014 – the cen-tennial anniversary of Central Baptist Church – is an ap-propriate time to cel-ebrate the life of this man who left a legacy few can match.

Charles Stephen Bond was born on Aug. 7, 1906, in Danielsville (Madison County), Ga., the son of Joseph Lee and Ellie Andrew Bond. His childhood on his father’s farm left him with a lifetime appreciation for the soil and infl uenced him to purchase and maintain his farm in the Corryton commu-nity later in life.

Following his elementary-school years, Charles had attended high school for less than a year when he took a job with a lum-ber company in south Georgia. While on his second job with a meat company in Lake-land, Fla., he attended a citywide revival and was converted. He became active in the Lakeland First Baptist Church and its Sunday School and Baptist Young People’s Union.

When he felt called to the ministry in 1931, he realized he needed more educa-tion and enlisted a fellow church member to tutor him in the evenings. In less than

two years, he had completed his high school work. While attending the Southern Baptist Convention in 1932, he met Dr. James T. Warren, then president of Carson-Newman College. Warren persuaded him to do some preparatory work at Harrison-Chilhowee Baptist Academy in Seymour and to then matriculate at Carson-Newman. By attend-ing both Carson-Newman’s regular and summer sessions, he completed his bach-elor’s degree in only three years and gradu-ated cum laude in May 1933.

During his student years, the Rev. Bond preached at Pleasant Grove and Union Bap-tist churches in Cocke County, then served at Crichton (now Concord) First Baptist Church, where he was ordained on Oct. 1, 1933. While seeking his master’s in theology at Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Ky., he trav-

eled weekends to serve First Baptist Church in Rockwood. He became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Athens in 1939 but was called to his fi nal pastorate at Fountain City’s Central Baptist Church in 1945.

While he was a student at Carson-New-man, the Rev. Bond had been named col-lege orator and served three years on the debate team. His eloquent sermons re-fl ected that early indication of his speaking ability. During times of illness and bereave-ment, his pastoral skills brought hope and comfort to his parishioners.

Due to his declining health, Dr. Bond re-tired, effective July 31, 1975. As previously mentioned, his 30-year ministry brought a considerable increase in membership and considerable expansion of Central Baptist’s sanctuary and its education building. How-ever, the spiritual growth of his church and his positive infl uence on the community were even more signifi cant.

During his distinguished career, he served as vice-president of the Tennessee

Central Baptist Church of Fountain City began in 1914 with 33 charter members and celebrates

its 100th anniversary on Oct. 26. Photo courtesy of Central Baptist Church

Dr. Charles S. Bond

(1906-1982) served

as minister of one

of Knox County’s

fi rst mega churches,

from 1945 to 1975. Photo courtesy of the C.M. McClung Historical Collection

Remembering Dr. Charles Bond

Baptist Convention, trustee of Carson-Newman College, trustee of East Tennessee Baptist Hospital and member of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Con-vention. He was awarded his honorary Doc-tor of Divinity Degree by Carson-Newman College in 1953.

Charles S. Bond and Mary Briggs Lambert, also a Carson-Newman graduate, were mar-ried in her hometown of Lewisburg (Marshall County), Tenn. on Dec. 29, 1942. They would become the parents of four children: Charles Stephen Jr., Mary Rachel Conniff, Miriam A. Tate and Joseph Lambert.

Having experienced congestive heart problems for several years, Dr. Bond passed away on March 31, 1982. After services at Central Baptist, conducted by Dr. Calvin S. Metcalf, Dr. Bond was interred in the Lone Oak Cemetery in Lewisburg.

Originally organized as the Bright Hope Baptist Church on Oct. 28, 1914, when 33

charter members met at the Bright Hope Masonic Hall, the name was changed to Central Baptist Church of Fountain City in July 1915. In that same month the church purchased property on North Broadway, soon began construction and occupied its new building on Oct. 3, 1915.

The second building program resulted in the dedication of a larger sanctuary on Aug. 13, 1924. The large educational annex was added in 1940. While the fi rst two buildings had faced Broadway, ground was broken for a much larger sanctuary facing Lynnwood in March 1949 and the dedication held on June 11, 1950. The Family Life Center was added in 1984, and the present sanctuary was refurbished in 1997-98.

Central Baptist Church of Fountain City will be celebrating its 100th anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 26, and will be looking for-ward to another century of service to the community.

Marvin West

Patience, please. John Bruhin is facing a long walk, and it may take an extra minute. He is on his way back into the spotlight for one big night this sum-mer. On July 24, he will be inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame.

Bruhin, 49, has been “training” for a while. He is 70 pounds down from 420 and trying to get closer to playing weight. He has one new knee and needs anoth-er but can get along with a trusty cane.

John played football at Powell High, Tennessee and Tampa Bay. The adventure came with a price. There are scars. He struggles to get up from a chair.

So, tell us, John Bruhin, if you could go back to the

Booster shot for John Bruhin

beginning …“I’d do it all over again.”Going back would mean

downtown Powell, bare-foot walks down the hill to Groner’s Store, being poor without really realizing it.

“Ray McCloud, a neigh-bor and friend, was my fi rst source of football in-formation. We’d talk about Tennessee. He had known General Neyland and a lot of other famous names. He knew about tradition. He gave me tickets a few times

when he didn’t want to go to games.

“That’s how I got to see Ernie and Bernie (Grunfeld and King) in basketball.”

Other friends were vital.“Fred Sisk had been to a

baseball academy. He knew a lot. He taught me how to lift weights and properly stretch. He also taught me how to write papers for school.”

Fred’s dad, Governor Sisk, owned a gas station on Clinton Highway. He saw potential in young Bruhin.

“When I’d be below zero, he would give me an oc-casional $20. He may have never known how much that meant.”

Some said playing at Ten-nessee was an impossible dream but John thought maybe, perhaps, possibly he

could make it. He tried to make a deal with his dad.

“My father had a drink-ing problem. I asked if he’d stop drinking if I made the team.”

Half happened. John earned a scholarship. He made the starting lineup in 1985 as a sophomore guard.

“That is my best memo-ry of football, my first sig-nificant playing time. The team was really a team. We had Tony (Robinson), but we didn’t have a lot of superstars. We didn’t have a lot of anything except heart.

“Eight of us used the same sports coat to have our pictures taken for the brochure. Seven of us didn’t have one.”

Phillip Fulmer was Ten-

nessee’s line coach. He viv-idly remembers three sea-sons with Bruhin.

“He was such an out-standing talent. He was re-ally a great player, unusu-ally athletic and fast for his size. He may have had the most talent of anyone I had coached up to that time.

“John needed guidance. There were days when it was a hug and a kick on the rear. I had to be tough at times. He almost quit. I remem-ber him going to Georgia to check on some hunting dogs. We had to go get him.

“There probably were days when he didn’t like me, but I didn’t burn the bridge. I think we are best friends.”

It was Fulmer who fi rst said John had NFL poten-tial. Bruhin didn’t believe it.

But, the Bucs drafted him in the fourth round. He won a starting job. He made some money. If the knees had lasted longer …

The years since have not been the proverbial rose garden. John has had ups and downs, health prob-lems, even heartbreak. He has decided God must have a plan, maybe that he should offer to others lessons learned, wisdom gained.

The hall of fame induc-tion is a big deal. It fi gures to be a booster shot for several of us. Fulmer rear-ranged a speaking engage-ment in Denver to be here.

“I wouldn’t miss it,” he said.

Me neither.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

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Operation Vehicle I.D. will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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It works like this: your vehicle identifi cation num-ber (VIN) is permanently and discreetly etched into your vehicle’s windshield and windows. The process takes less than 10 minutes.

Thieves will often bypass a car that has been marked this way because it can be traced quickly.

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J a c k Wil l iams has joined F o o t h i l l s Bank and will work in the bank’s of-fi ce at 11216 K i n g s t o n

Pike as a vice president of commercial lending. Wil-liams graduated from UT in 1988 and earned his MBA from UT in 1991. For the past two years, he has served as freshman basket-ball coach at Farragut High School; he has coached boys and girls AAU since 2004.

John McCulley, a web-site developer and design

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Clayton Bank and Trust is 47th in the nation

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Fountain City Busi-ness and Professional Association will meet at11:45 a.m. Wednesday, June 11, at Central Baptist Church Fountain City. Congres-sional hopeful Jason Zach-ary will speak. Info: info@fountaincitybusiness.com/.

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Quotable“ $25,600 is a lot of money. We should call it

out and ask them to reimburse us.”– Thomas Deakins

Board member Thomas Deakins, speaking of the cost to Knox County

Schools of mailing report cards after the state Department of Education

failed to get the TCAP test scores back to Knox County before summer

dismissal.

“We want young people to see college, not jail, in their future. And it’s very hard to be what you can’t see.”

– Marian Wright Edelman

“Be a headlight, not a tail light. ” – John Lewis

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U.S. Rep. John Lewis makes an aside to Marian Wright

Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund.

It’s a big deal for East Tennessee each year when the Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute brings a couple thousand of Ameri-can’s brightest and most idealistic young people for a weeklong training session before they go out to man-age Freedom Schools across the country.

Called servant-leaders, the college students are interns of the Children’s Defense Fund who will be teaching impoverished kids later this summer. They live for a week in a dorm at UT, with their main activities at the Alex Haley Farm in Norris. Full group assemblies are held at the Knoxville Convention Center, which is where I went on Sunday, grabbing a seat on the third row.

Folks my age relived history when the legend-ary Freedom Singers performed, followed by speakers Marian Wright Edelman, Andrew Young Jr. and U.S. Rep. John Lewis. But the evening was about the young people there from 29 states. One called the

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Freedom Singers did not sing to entertain but to energize a movement: Marshall Jones, Emory

Harris and Charles Neblett. Not pictured is Bill Pearlman. speakers “our elders.” Ouch!

We hold images of John Lewis at age 23 leading the March on Washington, Andy Young at the UN for Jimmy Carter and as At-lanta’s mayor in the 1980s, Marian Wright advocating for kids and civil rights way before she married lawyer and Bobby Kennedy aide Peter Edelman.

College students of the 1960s believed we would change the world. And now we hope the kids in their 20s can. Being on the third row, I had a chance to meet the speakers afterward. But I bypassed the stars to ap-proach the young woman who had so competently presided over the introduc-tion of 50-plus Ella Baker Trainers.

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By Sandra ClarkAnybody who has attend-

ed a community MPC meet-ing has met Mike Carberry. The Norris resident has re-tired, and he will be missed.

MPC staff writer Sarah Powell interviewed Carberry before his last day. She wrote:

“Nearly 26 years. More than 50 plans. Over 80 commissioners. Almost 225 co-workers. But there is only one Mike Carberry. And he will retire from MPC on May 16, concluding a ca-reer spent helping others improve the places where they live, work and play.”

An Oak Ridge native, Carberry received his edu-cation from Randolph-Macon College, the Univer-sity of Tennessee and Texas A&M University. He worked as a planner in Alaska for more than a decade, return-ing home as principal plan-ner at MPC in 1988.

Carberry told Powell that he’s particularly proud of three accomplishments. The fi rst is winning a National Trust for Historic Preserva-

tion Award for a book he pub-lished while working in Alas-

ka, “Patterns of the Past,” a history and historic-site inven-tory of An-chorage. The second is his work on the Coastal Trail, a 14-

mile greenway along Alas-ka’s Cook Inlet. The third is a local accomplishment, the Knoxville-Knox County Comprehensive Parks and Greenways Plan.

“Those three in particu-lar represent why I love my job. I’m able to help people preserve their past and the natural beauty of their sur-roundings so future genera-tions can enjoy them,” he told Powell. “And it’s also been so gratifying to play a part in downtown and neighbor-hood revitalization.”

In retirement, Carberry plans to visit every national park and to take his wife, Susan, to Italy.

Mike Carberry

Carberry retires from MPC

Jeremy Mathes enjoys keeping up with the demand for customized shirts.

Kaelyn Farmer, president of ETABPA, introduces Mike North,

dean of Strawberry Plains Pellissippi campus. Photos by Nancy Whit-taker

Nancy Whittaker

I headed out to McCalla Avenue last week to see what interesting businesses are in the area. I found a fairly young but booming busi-ness, T-Shirt Worxs. Don’t let the name fool you – many customized items are avail-able in addition to T-shirts.

T-Shirt Worxs: T-Shirts plus lots more

I was fortunate to meet two of the three partners. Colonel Gene Abbott and former Knox County police offi cer Jeremy Mathes were in the midst of working on an order for 2,000 soccer jerseys. The third partner, Salena Colburn, was at her “other” job as controller for Gray Hodges.

T-Shirt Worxs designs and prints shirts for church-es, businesses, sports teams – basically any group. Your imagination is all that is needed for creating a de-sign for your group’s shirts. Mathes says, “You can think it, we can create it.”

Always curious to fi nd out what makes a business dif-ferent, I asked Abbott and Mathes to explain their poli-cy. They offer pricing per shirt – no additional fees, no set-up fees, just a fl at price so cus-tomers know exactly what the total will be for their order.

Then it was time for my lesson on sublimation.

“What is sublimation?” Ab-bott and Mathes are so fa-miliar with this process it was diffi cult for them to de-scribe it to a novice like me. They showed me some of the products where they use this process– coffee mugs, tiles, T-shirts. It is an awe-some process of putting an image on items treated with

a special coating. I am still not sure I understand the process – I just know the re-sults are fantastic.

T-Shirt Worxs accepts any size order and all types of payments. Info: 803-7334 or www.tshirtworxs.com. The shop, 1310 McCalla Ave., is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. week-days and 10-3 Saturdays.

By Patricia WilliamsTo support communities

and local businesses, the ORNL Federal Credit Union has sponsored a series of cash mobs across East Ten-nessee under the theme “Small Business Counts.”

Along with excitement and publicity, the credit union gives $600 in gift certifi cates to customers of the chosen business. As May ended, it was East Knox-ville’s turn.

Diamond Car Wash & Deli at 2908 Magnolia Ave. was selected as the site of the cash mob. “It’s a depend-able, stable business that has maintained through hardships for seven years.” said LaTanya Terrell Upton, manager of the ORNL Fed-eral Credit Union’s Magno-lia branch.

At Diamond Car Wash & Deli, each vehicle is hand-washed by a crew that takes

pride in its work and pays attention to every detail – in-side and out – down to plac-ing that evergreen-shaped air freshener on your rearview mirror to prolong freshness.

A little rain did not dampen customer spirits.

“When it rains our deli gets busier,” said owner Carlton “Dee” Porter, as he proudly displayed his 100 rating from the most recent health department inspec-tion. The deli menu includes salads, burgers, sandwich-es, sides and chicken wings, at what this writer considers fair prices.

The deli at Diamond Car Wash has an established lunch crowd. Orders are called in from surrounding areas for pick up. Multitask and save time: Get a car wash while having lunch. The reception/dining area is spacious, clean and accom-modating.

“Everything is cooked fresh when it’s ordered,” said cook Arde “Chef Bo-yardee” Johnson. “It’s not sitting under a heat lamp.” Some of the most popular items on the menu are the chef’s salad, tilapia, burg-ers and wings – whole chicken wings, not pieces, according to Johnson. He and cook Reggie Porter show pride in their culinary productions as though they were cooking for royalty.

Make the most of your time and have lunch, din-ner or a snack while getting your vehicle hand washed and dried to a sparkle at Di-amond Car Wash and Deli. The car wash is open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, while the deli is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

To nominate a local merchant for the SBC Cash Mob go to www.SmallBusinessCounts.com.

LaTanya Terrell Upton, ORNL

Magnolia branch manager, talks

with Carlton “Dee” Porter, owner

of Diamond Car Wash & Deli.

ORNL Cash Mob hits Magnolia

Marilyn Coble, ORNL business loan offi cer, registers deli

customer Renee Thompson for her $20 gift certifi cate.

■ Dean North speaks at ETABPA The East Towne Area

Business and Profes-sional Association met on Wednesday, June 4, at the New Harvest Park Com-munity Center. Dean Mike North spoke to the group about the Strawberry Plains campus of Pellissippi State Community College.

North is extremely proud of the upcoming Ca-reer Magnet Academy at

his campus. The inaugural freshman class will have 125 students who will be able to explore one of four career paths, gaining college credit for courses taken in their fi -nal high school years.

The breakfast sponsor was Legends at Oak Grove Apart-ment Homes. Certifi ed apart-ment manager Adam Chavi-ra spoke about the wonderful community they offer.

Stay tuned for announce-ment of the next meeting date.

The business does not have to be an ORNL member to be selected.

The city of Knoxville will continue its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with two events on June 19, the date celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth in recognition of the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a veteran of the civ-i l - r i g h t s movement and a friend of the Rev. Martin Lu-ther King Jr., will lead a “Mass Meeting” at

6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at Payne Avenue Baptist Church, 2714 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Mass meetings at Af-rican-American churches were a core organizing tool of the civil-rights move-ment, serving as rallies and planning sessions for marches and protests.

Vivian, who now lives in Atlanta, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was instrumental in deseg-regation efforts in Nashville and other cities across the South in the 1960s.

Also on June 19: From 2 to 4:30 p.m., the Tennes-see Archive of Moving Im-age and Sound will present an “Amos ’n’ Andy” fi lm festival at the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dan-dridge Ave. It will feature episodes from and discus-sion of the “Amos ’n’ Andy” television show, which ran from 1951 to 1953 and was the fi rst network program to have a largely African-American cast.

The “Amos ’n’ Andy” show had a complicated racial history: It began as a long-running radio program, originating in the 1920s, and was written and voiced by white actors playing black characters that drew heavily on minstrel-show

C.T. Vivian

Civil rights leader to visit Knoxvilleracial stereotypes. The ra-dio show was controversial among African-American audiences, with some prom-inent black newspapers call-ing for boycotts of the show as early as the 1930s.

By featuring black ac-tors in the title roles, the television show provided a breakthrough for African-American performers into

mainstream popular culture. (The next sitcom with a ma-jority black cast wouldn’t come for two decades, with “Sanford and Son.”) But it still traffi cked in broad racial stereotypes, with characters who were by turns gullible, shiftless and conniving. That contrast has made it an object of controversy, debate and academic study ever since.

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THROUGH SUNDAY, JULY 27Leonardo Silaghi: 3 Paintings exhibit, Knox-

ville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Present-ing sponsor is Emerson Process Management. Info: Angela Thomas, 934-2034, or www.knoxart.org.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11 AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Buck-

ingham Retirement Clubhouse, 7103 Manderly Way. Into/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964.

Summer Library Club presents the Zoomo-bile, 2 p.m. Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker share stories and songs, 3 p.m. Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

THURSDAY, JUNE 12Summer Library Club presents magician

Michael Messing, 11 a.m. Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Info: 588-8813.

Ronald McDonald: “Readers are Leaders,” 2 p.m. Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 470-8663.

Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection luncheon: An Elegant Accessories Extravaganza, 10:45 a.m. Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Features an accessories exchange: bring in a bag, purse, scarf, necklace, earrings or a one-size-fits-all hat or belt to exchange for this event. Guest speaker: Phyllis Page from Chelsea, Ala. Cost: $12. Child care by reservation only. Info/reservations: 315-8182 or knoxvillechristianwom-en@gmail.com.

FRIDAY, JUNE 13“Alive After Five” series presents The Stream-

liners Swing Orchestra and The Kayley Farmer Project, 6 p.m. Knoxville Museum of Art. Admission: $15; $10 for museum members and college students with ID;

ages 17 and under free. Info: Michael Gill, 934-2039, or www.knoxart.org.

Sunset Music Series presents Early Morning String Dusters, 7 p.m. Great Smoky Mountains Heri-tage Center’s covered outdoor amphitheater, Townsend. Classic bluegrass music. Admission: $5. Info: 448-0044.

Strata-G’s annual Jubilee, 5-8 p.m. Art Empo-rium, 200 S. Gay St. Fundraiser for Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM). Features live and silent auctions. Southern hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, jazz music of the Tim Hughes Quartet. Tickets: $50/single, $85/pair.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JUNE 13-14Secret City Festival celebrating the heritage of

Oak Ridge. World War II living-history activities and demonstrations; American Museum of Science and En-ergy’s Manhattan Project bus tours; Secret City Scenic Excursion Train rides; children’s festival; arts and crafts vendors; antique dealers; food vendors; outdoor enter-tainment. Info: www.secretcityfestival.com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14Butterfl ies of East Tennessee, 10:15 a.m. Far-

ragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Guest speakers: Lois English and Glenna Julian, Sevier County Master Gardeners. Info: 777-1750.

Bricks 4 Kidz: LEGOs Fun at the Library, 11 a.m. Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Free library program for elementary-age children from kin-dergarten through 5th grade. Space limited; registration required. To register: 922-2552.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Melissa Mastro-giovanni, 11 a.m. Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

The Second Saturday Concerts at The Cove: The Hitmen, 6-8 p.m. The Cove at Concord Park, 11808 S. Northshore Drive. Free. Info: www.knoxcounty.org or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Knox-County-Parks-Rec/55197043075.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 14-15Civil War Living History, Mabry-Hazen House,

1711 Dandridge Ave. Includes: open camps, military demonstrations, cannon fi ring and programming focused on the daily life of the soldier; guided tours of the historic home and visit to Bethel Cemetery and Museum. Info/event schedule: www.mabryhazen.com or 522-8661.

SUNDAY, JUNE 15Reading Appalachia opening reception, 2-5

p.m. East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Sneak peak at a unique exhibit of Appalachian children’s

literature, live music and meet author George Ella Lyon. Free and open to the public.

MONDAY, JUNE 16Amazingly Awesome Science with Dr. Al

Hazari, 2 p.m. Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 470-8663.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, JUNE 16-17AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., Loudon

County Senior Center, 301 Main St., Loudon. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, JUNE 16-20Summer camp at Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109

E. Churchwell Ave. “Acting for Musical Theatre” for ages 14-17, 9 a.m.-noon; “Intermediate Acting” for ages 12-16, 1-4 p.m. Info: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

TUESDAY, JUNE 17UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meet-

ing, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice offi ce, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

Entries accepted to Fountain City Art Center Open Show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Opening reception and awards presentation 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, June 20. Info/entry forms: fcartcenter@knology.net or www.fountaincityartctr.com.

Einstein Simplifi ed Comedy Improv troop performance, 8 p.m. Scruffy City Hall on Market Square. Free admission.

Summer Library Club presents the Zoomo-bile, 1 p.m. South Knoxville Branch Library, 4500 Chapman Highway. Info: 573-1772.

Dancing Spaghetti Storytime, 6:30 p.m. Howard Pinkston Branch Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike. Ages 4-9, accompanied by a parent. Info: 573-0436.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18Jelly Fish Craft, 2 p.m. Farragut Branch Library,

417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.Dance Party, 3 p.m. Lawson McGhee Library, 500

W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

THURSDAY, JUNE 19Summer Library Club presents magician Mi-

chael Messing, 10:30 a.m. Sequoyah Branch Library, 1140 Southgate Road. Info: 525-1541.

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