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VOL. 6 NO. 14 A great community newspaper April 2, 2012

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Coff ee Break A2Sherri Gardner Howell A3Government/Politics A4Town of Farragut A5Jake Mabe A6Faith A7Schools A8-9Community Calendar A10Business A12Health/Lifestyles Sect B

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The day the King came to town

Forty years ago, on April 8, 1972, a king named Elvis Pre-sley came to Stokely Athletic Center as the headliner for that year’s Dogwood Arts Festival.

Dave Macon, who was the treasurer for the Festival that year, said organizers wanted ’72 to be a big year for the still-new event. Who bigger, then, than The King of Rock and Roll?

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T-shirt nets student a C-Note

Austin Dickey was look-ing for an elective to fill his schedule and now he’s $100 richer.

When Farragut High School’s 2012 graduates gath-er May 19 for a post-gradua-tion party, they’ll be wearing T-shirts with Austin’s design. He did the design as a project for his Digital Design class.

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‘Trae Golden to the foul line’

A longtime fan who follows Tennessee basketball from afar was trying to guess how many times he heard Bob Kes-ling say “Trae Golden to the foul line.”

Trae attempted 157 free throws this season.

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By Suzanne Foree NealWhen the parade passes by this

Fourth of July in Farragut, it will do so for the 25th time. It’s a sil-ver anniversary for the commu-nity event that has grown from its humble beginnings.

Technically, the fi rst parade was actually 26 years ago, but the town opted in 1991 not to stage the local event but rather take part in Knoxville’s “Hail the Heroes” hon-oring veterans of Desert Storm.

Farragut resident Jan Johnson remembers well helping get that fi rst parade going. “The grand mar-

shals were Pat Summitt and the UT women’s basketball team,” she re-calls. Most of the participants that fi rst year walked the parade route from Farragut High School to the Ingles shopping center. Someone gave the town a hay trailer loaded with bales of hay so players and coaches had the honor of being able to sit through the parade as they were towed along the route.

The next year’s grand marshal was Robert York, commander of the USS Farragut. Some town staff members had been invited to at-tend the decommissioning ceremo-

The boat carry-

ing Mayor Bob

Leonard and his

wife, Marie, as well

as current U.S.

Rep. John Duncan

Jr., fi rst elected to

Congress in 1988,

are pictured in this

1988 Fourth of July

Parade photo.

July Fourth parade marks milestone

Bob Watt, recre-

ation committee

member; parade

grand marshal

Robert York of

the USS Far-

ragut; Pat Sloan,

town employee

during the

Homecoming

’86 campaign

and current

longtime town

volunteer and

member of the Parks and Athletics Council; and then-Town Administrator

Jack Hamlett in this 1987 Fourth of July Parade photo.

Floats were a later addition to the town’s Fourth of July Parade and this pho-

to shows one sponsored by the Apple Cake Tea Room for the 1988 event. Photos courtesy of the town of Farragut

More on page A-11

McFee Park plans revealed

At left, Daniel J. Boutte, landscape archi-tect, talks with Kenta Nolin about sustain-able structures at McFee Park.

Nolin attended last week’s public hear-ing at Town Hall. “I came to see what it’s all about. I prefer natural building,” he said.

Steven A. Fritts of Barge Waggoner Sum-ner & Cannon Inc. is the lead architect on the project.

He and Boutte held hearings at 2 and 6 p.m. A full sketch of their proposal is on page

A-11, along with comments. Photo by S. Clark

ny for the ship bearing the town’s namesake and invited the com-mander to be the grand marshal. He got to ride in a towed boat.

Sue Stuhl, parks and leisure services director, says the parade

takes a step into the future this year as participants will be able to register online. Printed forms are available at Town Hall. Registra-

Heavy truck traffi c on Hickory Creek

By Sandra ClarkA rural county road in West

Knox County is swamped with heavy truck traffic which resi-dents say is caused by drivers trying to avoid the weigh station on I-40 near Watt Road.

Steve Murray and Paul John-

son appeared before Knox Coun-ty Commission last week, asking for a gross weight limit of 10,000 pounds on Hickory Creek Road.

“It’s a greenway with lots of bikers,” said Murray, “and an on-going problem.”

Commissioner Brad Anders,

Commercial vehicles frequently use Hickory Creek Road to bypass the

weigh station on I-40 near Watt Road. Residents have asked Knox County

Commission for a weight limit on this rural road. Photo by TEphotos.com

who represents the area, said he’s contacted the Tennessee Highway Patrol “to come look at it.”

Dwight Van de Vate, direc-tor of Engineering and Public Works, said state law uses a limit of 80,000 pounds. “We would like to help, but haven’t had good options yet.”

He promised to check into the situation.

A Shopper-News photogra-pher had no trouble finding heavy trucks on Hickory Creek Road. Theresa Edwards just drove over there and watched the parade. We’ll continue to follow this story.

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with Bettye SiscoMapping Bettye Sisco’s route to Tennessee will take a

big map with a lot of pins. She started in West Tennessee – sort of – and lived many places before she found her way to Farragut.

“I was born in Memphis, but we weren’t living there,” says the CEO and president of the Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce. The family was living in Ca-ruthersville, Mo., which is approximately 100 miles from Memphis. Her father was a Baptist minister, and the fam-ily moved a lot while Bettye was growing up.

“Ironically, I always considered West Tennessee ‘home’ because that is where my grandparents lived and where we would come ‘home’ to,” says Bettye. “I truly loved all the moving around. Parents often worry so much about moving to new places while their children are growing up, but I thought it was a great experience. It allowed me to get to know a lot of people and to know a lot about dif-ferent attitudes.”

She graduated from high school in Corinth, Miss., and then moved with the family “to paradise.”

“We moved to Hawaii. I cried when I heard we were go-ing to Hawaii, then fell in love with it. I stayed eight years and thought I was Hawaiian.”

When she came to Farragut 11 years ago, she chose her destination “basically by throwing a dart on a map,” Bet-tye says, with a laugh. “I knew I wanted to be in North Carolina, East Tennessee or Atlanta. I had no job but a positive attitude.”

Bettye says her position with the Chamber allows her to use all the experiences she has had in her life. “Every-thing I have done has prepared me for this,” she says. “The marketing experience and the training I have done, plus the traveling and learning how to deal with a lot of people – all those skills come into play at the Chamber.”

When she started, the Chamber had between 150 and 200 members. Today, there are approximately 650 Chamber members. “I love this job,” says Bettye, “and I am very proud of the growth and progress we have made. It is hard work and can be intense with the small staff, but it is a very rewarding job.”

Her favorite duties include helping businesses with marketing plans and fi nding creative ways to improve their businesses. She also enjoys event planning, from the Breakfast Speaker series to the annual dinner.

In 2010, Bettye was diagnosed with chronic lympho-

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“It was a life-changing experience, and I learned so much because of the trial of going through it,” says Bet-tye. “I am a really happy person who has learned not to sweat the small stuff.”

Sit and have a Coffee Break as you get to know Bettye Sisco:

What is a favorite quote from a television show or movie?“It isn’t from a show or movie, but my favorite quote

is from Alfred Lord Tennyson: ‘I am a part of all that I have met.’ ”

What is your favorite material possession?“I love my ‘stuff’ that I have collected from the places

I have been and things I have been given. And I don’t put it up – I put it out in my house, so my house is very eclectic.”

What are you reading currently?“I am reading Pat Cunningham Devoto’s book ‘The

Summer We Got Saved.’ It is a story of the changing South in the troubled 1960s.”

What was your most embarrassing moment?“Back in the day when wigs were very fashionable, I

hugged my brother-in-law at the Honolulu airport, and my wig fell off. I had hose on my head holding my hair down. I grabbed my wig and ran to the nearest bath-

room to put it back on. It was the men’s bathroom! Bad day!”

What are the top three things on your bucket list?“Go back to Hawaii for a vacation, cruise between the

islands and meet someone who will make my country song title a huge hit. No, I will not tell you the title. Maybe I will write the lyrics, too, but I need to fi nd the right performer. Dolly? Kenny? Reba?”

What is one word others often use to describe you and why?

“Funny and loyal. I love to laugh and make others laugh. I am loyal because being true to yourself makes you true to others.”

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

“Well, I guess I could stand for my body to be a little less ‘perfect.’ Right!”

What is your passion?“Cooking. I love to cook whether it is for me and my

Dixie, who is my precious dog, or for others.”

Other than your parents, who has had the biggest infl u-ence on your life and why?

“There have been so many – which goes back to my favorite quote. Rose, Betty, Don, Elaine, Doug, Mary Kay Ash, Maria. They have all taught me lessons and been a source of good conversation and laughter.”

I still can’t quite get the hang of …“A Droid!”

What is the best present you ever received in a box?“A diamond Circle of Love necklace and earrings.”

What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?“She told me to never say the word ‘hate’ and to al-

ways love one another.”

What is your social media of choice?“I email and text.”

What is the worst job you have ever had?“I think it would be my short stint as a secretary. I

was promoted to sales fairly quickly, which was good because I probably would have been fi red. That boss was not a good person to be around eight hours a day.”

What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon and why?

“I loved Mighty Mouse! ‘Here he comes to save the day!’ ”

What irritates you?“Dishonesty, which includes lies of omission and com-

mission; lack of communication; and those who have no sense of humor.”

If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be?“That depends on whether or not I would get caught!”

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You’ve got until April 17 to contribute to your Individual Retire-ment Account (IRA) for the 2011 tax year. That’s not a lot of time, but if you have some money available, and you haven’t completely funded your IRA for 2011, consider doing so before the dead-line. And once you’ve “maxed out” on your IRA for last year, why not get a jump on 2012?

Actually, you could have started con-tributing to your 2012 IRA as early as Jan. 2. In fact, if you can get into the habit of fully funding your IRA each January, you’ll give your money 15 extra months of growth potential, as opposed to wait-ing until mid-April of the following year. If you factor in all the years you’ll be con-tributing to your IRA before you retire, those extra months of growth opportuni-ties, repeated over decades, could end up providing you with a fair amount of extra cash when you start tapping into your IRA at retirement.

Of course, you may not fi nd it all that easy to come up with the full IRA contri-bution amount at one time. (In 2012, you can put up to $5,000 into a Roth or tradi-tional IRA, or $6,000 if you’re 50 or old-er.) But if you look at your entire fi nancial picture, you may be able to think of some resources. Here are a few suggestions:

■ Put your tax refund to work. In 2011, the average tax refund was about $3,000, according to the IRS. If you received that amount in 2012, and you applied it toward your IRA, you would already have met half the contribution

limit (if you are 50 or older) or more than half (if you’re younger than 50).

■ Take advantage of interest pay-ments or dividends. If you own income-producing investments, you may fi nd that they can help you fund your IRA early. For example, if you own dividend-paying stocks, and you don’t typically reinvest the dividends, consider putting some of these funds into your IRA. (Keep in mind, though, that stocks can reduce or discontinue dividends at any time). And you can do the same thing with any interest payments you receive from bonds.

■ Put other “windfalls” into your IRA. If you receive a windfall, such as a bonus from your employer or a gift of cash, think about putting it into your IRA.

If none of these options present them-selves, and you can’t afford to write out a big check to fund your IRA very early in the year, do the best you can to reach the contribution limit as soon as possible. To make this happen, consider setting up a monthly automatic transfer from your checking or savings account into your IRA. Even if you were to divide these transfers into 15 equal payments totaling $5,000 (or $6,000 if you’re 50 or older), you would still be funding your IRA more quickly than if you would have scrambled to contribute in the last few months be-fore the tax fi ling deadline.

No matter when you do it, fully fund-ing your IRA is a great way to help build resources for retirement. But the earlier, the better – so do whatever you can to beat that tax deadline each year.

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FARRAGUT NOTES ■ Church Women United will meet at 10 a.m. Friday, April 6, at Lake Hills

Presbyterian Church, 3805 Maloney Road. The 25-minute fi lm “The

Three Days That Changed the World” will be shown. Info: 573-8176.

■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets at 7:15 p.m.

each fi rst Tuesday at Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff

Road. This month’s guest speaker will be Debra Van Meter, past-

president of CWKCH. Info: www.cwkch.com/.

■ Farragut Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each second and fourth

Tuesday at Shoney’s on Lovell Road.

■ Farragut Rotary Club meets at noon each Wednesday at the Fox

Den Country Club.

■ Memoir Writing Group meets 7 p.m. each second Thursday at

Panera Bread, 733 Louisville Road.

Profi table pancakesFarragut Lions Club serves up service

Raising money for your favorite charities can some-times be a sweet deal. The Farragut Lions Club joined forces with the Knox North Lions Club on March 24 for a pancake breakfast fund-raiser at Applebee’s, Peters Road.

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the Lions Club Poker Run for Sight. Cars and motor-cycles are welcome to par-ticipate. The Run for Sight is Saturday, April 28. Day-of registration is from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Farragut Wine & Spirits, 11238 Kingston Pike.

To preregister and for information on the Poker Run, call Gerri Crutch-fi eld at 789-6392 or email gcrutchfi [email protected].

Beautiful, engaging art work drew visitors to Far-ragut Town Hall for a spe-cial art show. The Young at HeART art group from Marietta Cumberland Pres-byterian Church is all senior adults who take classes with Brenda Mills. The show was hosted by the group and the Town of Farragut Arts Council.

At the reception, artists enjoyed talking to guests about their works, which ranged from watercolors to acrylics to pastels. Many of the works depicted nature in soft, inviting watercolors or pastels on suede. Some were also thought-provok-ing works that refl ected dif-ferent periods in the lives of

Greeting guests at the Farragut Lions Club Pancake Breakfast are Norvel Burrow, president; Lion

Paws R Serving mascot; and Wayne Stormer, committee chair. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

Yummy! Angelica, Alexandria and

James Vervilos enjoy their meal at the

Farragut Lions Club Pancake Breakfast.

Jerri Crutchfi eld gets ready to serve Rachel and

Margie Dylewski at the fundraising breakfast

for Farragut Lions. The breakfast was at Apple-

bee’s on Peters Road.

The Mee family both serve and dine at the

Farragut Lions Pancake Breakfast. At front are

Madi and Sandy Mee with Shawn and Ed Mee

at back. Sandy is coordinator of the preschool

vision screening for the club.

the artists, such as a series of line-drawings by Anne Davidson titled “Chemo Day.”

Members of the Farra-gut Arts Council on hand to greet the artists and guests included Pam Ziegler, Mary Agnes Schaefer, Dr. Bill Nichols, Sandy Garber and Sandy Dean.

The Farragut Lions Club mascot encourages early morning

drivers on Peters Road to stop at Applebee’s for some pan-

cakes. The mascot is named Lion Paws R Serving.

The $5 ticket price guar-anteed diners unlimited pancakes, sausage links, coffee and soft drinks. Serving the crowds with smiles were the members of the Farragut and Knox North clubs.

Monies raised go di-rectly to Lions Club special projects, especially their vision assistance initia-tive. Included in the vision assistance program are op-portunities to help those who need glasses and can-not afford them and vision screenings for preschool-ers. Also on the wish list is helping local clients who are More photos on page B-3

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Women who servedCounty Commissioner Amy Broyles (at right) passed a resolution honor-ing the 11 women who have served as commissioners for Knox County. “Not very many,” said Broyles. Pictured are former commissioners Diane Jordan, Sharon Cawood, Elaine Davis (and her daughter Ava), Michele Carringer and Broyles. Not pictured are former commissioners Mary Lou Horner, Bee DeSelm, Madeline Rogero, Victoria De-Freese, Pat Medley and Wanda Moody. Photo by S. Clark

Mayor Madeline Rogero has secured a stay of ex-ecution for the trees near Sum-mit Medi-cal just off Wellington Drive in West Hills. She acted

decisively in calling TVA CEO Tom Kilgore to ask for delay.

What is next? Will TVA come to its senses and halt this needless destruction of trees in its headquarters city? Will compromise be a word TVA embraces or rejects?

KUB is kind and gentle in its tree cutting policies com-pared to TVA. KUB at least notifi es you and talks with you and makes exceptions in some cases. On occasion, KUB even replaces trees with shorter ones.

TVA’s current manage-ment sends third or fourth level people to meet with County Commission and city offi cials on this issue – peo-ple you have never heard of and will not see again. TVA’s contempt for private proper-ty rights defi es explanation. Cynthia Moxley has been

Rogero gains cease fi re in tree war

Let’s talk about the news-paper business. How to com-pete in a world where folks expect instant information for free?

Someone smarter than I am will fi gure this out.

Meanwhile, at Shopper-News we are cutting back ed-itorial staff while competing for scoops with a daily paper, three TV stations, radio, web-sites, Twitter and blogs.

And our papers are print-ed on Friday evening for Monday delivery.

Last week Betty Bean wrote a hard-hitting story called “TVA wages war on trees.” On Sunday, a day be-fore our papers hit the homes, the News Sentinel published a similar story with the same sources and even the same picture. By Monday, it seemed we had copied their story. Not so.

Of trees and things

This past week, Shannon Carey noticed a handmade sign at a shuttered head shop on Broadway. The shop, along with three others, had been closed following a raid by the Knoxville Police De-partment. The sign indicated the same owners would be back with a name change.

Betty Bean jumped in, calling KPD, the attorney general’s offi ce, the lawyer for the business and the lawyer for the landlord. She wrote a great story. But on Friday, the sign disappeared. And our story evaporated.

Bean emailed: “All I could

think of when I got that call from (attorney Matthew) Grossman was ‘Damn. Lost a story.’ ...

“Then it occurred to me that this is really a big win for the S-N and for Shannon, particularly. They were going to open right back up and we ran them out of there by put-ting pressure on the landlord.

“I read what Chip Counts said to Grossman yesterday afternoon, and it caused him to call his client and read them the riot act.

“Otherwise, that store would be right back in busi-ness, just like they bragged to Sandra that they would.”

The store in question is within blocks of Central High School and less than a mile away from Halls High. It may pop up like a dandelion in another part of town, but this community newspaper helped run it off of Broadway.It’s what we do.

And Bean made two new friends. She added: “Eric ‘Chip’ Counts is a very im-

pressive young prosecutor. Smart and straight shooting, has a sense of humor and re-turns his phone calls. Gross-man’s not bad, either – he’s in Arthur Seymour’s fi rm and is easy to get hold of. Both are attractive guys. Chip is Afri-can-American. Matt has gor-geous hair. Turns out he and Counts went to law school together.

“Nice to see some bright new faces in Knoxville’s legal community.”

So there’s a peek behind the scenes at Shopper-News.

By the way, Victor Ashe wrote last week that Lori Go-erlich was in line to become Knoxville’s parks and gre-enways coordinator. On Fri-day, Mayor Madeline Rogero made it offi cial. That’s a small scoop, but it counts.

And on Thursday, Rogero announced that the trees we all wrote about a weekend ago will be replaced. Victor says plenty about those trees and TVA in general in this week’s paper. Enjoy the read.

Larry Silverstein

shrewd in her advice to KUB. Will Janet Brewer, the new $235,000 a year TVA com-munications chief, be equally shrewd?

What is stunning and puts TVA’s claims to challenge is that tree cutting has never been an issue for TVA within Knoxville for 30 years. Now TVA tells us that these trees on Wellington Drive are an immediate threat and must be cut within days or the Val-ley might face power outages.

TVA has no plan to meet with neighborhood people, no public outreach, no re-placement trees and the top folks like Tom Kilgore are AWOL on this issue.

In fact, TVA did not tell the city of its plans to cut trees. They learned of it through the yeoman efforts of long-time West Hills resident and attorney Larry Silverstein who has made preservation of trees a personal cause.

Kensington subdivision is next, and it lies outside the city but in Knox County. Mayor Burchett can help here. Council member Fin-barr Saunders is sponsoring a resolution similar to what County Commission adopted by a lopsided margin last week asking TVA to cease and desist. Commissioners were openly hostile to TVA representatives.

TVA should delay the ex-ecution of the Wellington Drive trees pending consul-tation and review. That can only occur if Tom Kilgore and the TVA Board become more sensitive to local concerns. Valley relations have never been more strained with TVA than they are today.

During this reprieve, local offi cials and residents need to contact Rep. Jimmy Dun-can as well as Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker. TVA actually listens to fed-eral lawmakers on occasion. It is a milestone that Kilgore honored Mayor Rogero’s re-quest.

Mayor Rogero earns our thanks for speaking up for trees and showing she means it when it comes to a green city. How far she will go in changing policy? TVA’s plans harm our city. Kilgore needs to sharply question his own staff. Rogero can be a key in-strument of change here.

■ Randy Vineyard, former 17-year Knoxville fi -nance director, is at work as

fi nance director for Blount County. He was confi rmed by the Blount County Com-mission on March 22 and will report to Blount Mayor Ed Mitchell. His pay will be $82,798 which is consider-ably less than he made as city fi nance director when he worked for me.

Vineyard has worked for the Knoxville Chamber the past eight years. Blount County is fortunate to have a person of his integrity, ability and dedication. He is a straight shooter and can walk them through diffi cult situations.

■ Politics can makestrange alliances. Seems former mayoral candidate Mark Padgett, a commit-ted Democrat, is arranging meetings in the Knoxville area for Weston Wamp, son of former Rep. Zach Wamp, who is opposing current Rep. Chuck Fleischmann in the August Republican pri-mary. House Majority lead-er Eric Cantor will star at a fundraiser for Fleischmann later in April.

■ County Commis-sion chair Mike Hammond is interested in becoming the next head of Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corpo-ration without the excessive salary Gloria Ray received. If he gets the job will he continue on Commission or resign? If he resigns, who would Commission choose as its next chair?

By Sandra ClarkThe auditorium at

Fulton High School got quiet when Knox County Commission chair Mike Hammond rose to speak. “I’m a bottom line kind of guy and here’s how it is,” he said.

Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre had made his case for a $35 million boost to the KCS budget, over the usual cost-of-living increase. He cited needs for instructional technology such as iPads and facility improvements, along with support for performance-based com-pensation.

McIntyre wants full-day kindergarten (now classes dismiss at 1 p.m. while regular elementary school lets out at 2:45 p.m.) and to lengthen the school year by “at least fi ve days” with a balanced calendar at Austin-East and Fulton.

The new funding also would go toward interven-tion for kids falling behind and enrichment for those pulling ahead. He wants professional development funds for teachers and “consistently excellent magnet programs.”

You may agree or dis-agree with McIntyre’s pro-posals, but you cannot say he’s not been totally clear about how he would spend the extra money. Details are on the KCS website at knoxschools.org/.

Does the community have the will to fund the $35 million? The where-withal is there. Property taxes have not been raised since the mid-1990s, and Jim McIntyre has not received more than a con-tinuation budget since he’s been here.

The full $35 million increase would equal a 35-cent property tax hike, or $131.25 per year on a $150,000 home.

It’s time for leadership on

schools fundingSo let’s talk politics. County Mayor Tim

Burchett has said he won’t recommend a property tax increase.

Commissioner Amy Broyles, at last week’s meeting, said beware the red herrings used by those who won’t support more taxes. Knox County legislators alone cannot fi x the BEP funding formula, and the ½ cent sales tax option would require cooperation by the city of Knoxville and the town of Farragut.

“Either objection keeps politicians from having to take a stand,” Broyles said.

“It will take six com-missioners to fund this,” Hammond added.

The school board will vote on McIntyre’s budget this week. It’s expected to pass, but its viability will be seen in whether it passes unanimously or wobbles through on a 6-3 or even 5-4 vote.

Burchett will recom-mend something, a story for another day.

But then, as Hammond said, “Once the mayor presents his budget it becomes our budget.” County Commission has the fi nal say.

Hammond is key to whether six votes can be mustered. With his strong leadership, it is possible.

Hammond, along with Sam McKenzie and Amy Broyles, needs only three more votes for a majority.

If you assume no help from Commissioners Brad Anders, Tony Norman and Jeff Ownby, that leaves fi ve votes from which to draw three: Ed Shouse, Richard Briggs, R. Larry Smith, Mike Brown and Dave Wright.

Board member Indya Kincannon said, “Mike Hammond is a leader for schools who has taken time to visit schools. The single biggest factor when we say ‘taxes,’ is trust.”

She urged principals and teachers to talk with individual commissioners about their needs.

Hammond predicted a May vote by Commission, following budget hearings. That vote is a referendum on Jim McIntyre’s perfor-mance, and it’s hard to see how he stays here if his ideas are rejected.

So it’s time to pick a side. It’s time for leaders to lead and chickens to hide.

Commission chair Mike Ham-mond at Thursday’s educa-tion forum at Fulton High School. Photo by S. Clark

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sitting on a park bench and watching the world go by, but you really need to be working instead of playing hooky. At some point in the future, you’ll be able to do both in Farragut’s parks. The town plans to add wire-less capabilities to the great outdoors.

Assistant Town Admin-istrator Gary Palmer pre-sided over a workshop for the Farragut Board of May-or and Aldermen on March 22, outlining proposed capital improvement proj-ects for fiscal year 2013. Staff is proposing just more than $1.4 million for CIP. Included are funds for these projects:

■ Watt Road/Old Stage improvements – A TDOT shared project, Farragut will pay 20 percent or $800,000, while the state picks up the rest of the $4 million proj-ect. When fi nished, it will connect Watt Road with Old Stage Road. If state funding is there, rights-of-way will be acquired and construc-

tion will begin under the 2013 budget.

■ Campbell Station Road widening project – Completed in the fall of 2010, the town has reserved $50,000 for loose ends.

■ Outdoor classroom – The town is looking for private and public partner-ships for construction of an outdoor classroom at the corner of Campbell Sta-tion Road and the entrance to Farragut High School. There will be $100,000 in the 2013 budget and $135,000 in the FY2014 budget. Total cost is ex-pected to be $235,000. The town has a $10,000 grant from the state department of agriculture.

■ Grigsby Chapel Road island improvements –

Some would say the best money spent would be to rip them out, but $25,000 has been budgeted to con-tinue to rehab, replant and maintain the islands.

■ Countdown timers, crosswalk striping and emergency pre-emption equipment – The town has set aside $110,000 to han-dle a mandate for uniform traffic control devices at its 22 signalized intersections and $50,000 for emergen-cy pre-emption equipment to allow emergency vehi-cles traffic signal control when needed.

■ Campbell Station Park historical markers – $50,000 has been allo-cated for the design, mate-rial costs and placement of markers in the park.

■ Mayor Bob Leonard Park – A couple of im-provements are planned. First, $100,000 for recon-struction of Field 2, which includes grading and drainage, new irrigation and new turf. The town also will spend $275,000 to install LED lighting in the parking lots. The lights are expected to pay for themselves in three years. The town will also apply for grants to help fund both projects.

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walks – The town will con-tinue to add greenways and sidewalks and $100,000 is budgeted to acquire rights-of-way, design, materials and installation.

■ Virtue Road historical site – Set aside is $63,750 for a greenway and trail-head. The town is awaiting the outcome of a request for a grant to cover 80 per-cent of the cost.

■ Land acquisition – One million dollars will go into a fund to purchase future park land or other public land needs.

■ C o m m u n i c a t i o n s equipment – Town staff will get better connected with $30,000 for seven new radios and associated equipment. In an emer-gency, staff will be able to communicate internally as well as with Knox and Loudon counties and Ten-nessee Emergency Man-agement Agency.

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place to fi nd out what’s on the town’s agenda. The Board of Mayor and Alder-men agendas are now pub-lished in the Farragut Shop-per-News on Mondays prior to the Thursday meetings, which occur every fi rst and third Thursday.

Jewelry class has beginners in mindFarragut is offering a beginner jewelry making class

at Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, April 12; cost is $35 (all supplies included). Students will make a bracelet and earrings to take home and will also learn about selecting tools, beads and findings for making jewelry.

Instructor is Sheila Akins; registration and payment deadline is Monday, April 9. For information and to reg-ister, call 966-7057.

Get fi t with trio of exercise disciplinesThe town of Farragut is offering three fi tness classes begin-

ning in April at Town Hall. ■ Zumba fi tness combines Latin music rhythms and dance

styles as well as other international styles and rolls them into the ultimate cardio party. Instructor is Karen McKinney. Ses-sions: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays, April 16 to May 21. Cost: $45.

■ The basics and beyond in yoga: stretching, posture and gentle positions. This is a great way to experience the health benefi ts of yoga which include increased fl exibility, improved body strength, sharpened mental focus and much more. Wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a mat or heavy quilt. Instructor: Betty Calister. Sessions: 9-10 a.m. Mondays, April 16 to May 21. Cost: $60.

■ Pilates is a mind-body exercise that works the whole body. The focus is on correct use of core muscles, spinal align-ment and proper breathing. Pilates helps to reduce injury, re-cover from injury and promote muscular balance. This class has some yoga poses mixed in to enhance fl exibility, strength and breathing. Instructor: Simon Bradbury. Sessions: 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Tuesdays, April 17 to May 22. Cost: $60.

The registration and payment deadline for all classes is Thursday, April 12. Classes will be held in the Community Room at Town Hall. Payment for classes with a fee must be received within fi ve business days of registration to avoid be-ing dropped from the class. Info: 966-7057.

Wildfl ower watercolorsSandra K. Dean brings great detail to her wildflower watercolors. She studies the flowers through photo-graphs and drawings, sometimes combining several to get a combination of flowering stages. One of her favorite works is a watercolor of a passion flower, which was the first state flower for Tennessee, later replaced by the iris. The passion flower is now the official state wildflower. Sandy, who is the featured artist for the Farragut Arts Council through April 30, poses by her exhibit, which is upstairs at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Photo by Sherri Gardner Howell

COMMUNITY CLUBS ■ The Knoxville Civil War Roundtable will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday,

April 10, at Bearden Banquet Hall. Professor and author Thomas Flagel will discuss “Messengers of Death: How the Press Reported the Civil War.” Everyone is invited. Admission to the discussion is $5. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. for $15 ($17 nonmembers). RSVP by 11 a.m. Monday, April 9, by calling 671-9001.

■ The Knoxville Writers’ Guild will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5, at the Laurel Theater at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Street. A $2 donation will be requested at the door. Nationally recognized poets Linda Parsons Marion, Edward Francisco and Blas Falconer will share some of their work. Also coming up, Marilyn Kallet, creative writing program director for the University of Tennessee, will lead a poetry writing workshop 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 14, at Church of the Savior, 934 N. Weisgarber Road. Cost is $25 for KWG members, $30 nonmembers. Info: www.knoxvillewritersguild.org.

■ Note-Torious, Knoxville’s youth male chorus will hold open audi-tions for new singers ages 13-25 through Saturday, April 14. Info: Ken Hansen, 470-8622.

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My all-time favorite story from Elvis’s first appearance in Knoxville is about a man who couldn’t keep his seat.

Driving his wife, mother-in-law and sister-in-law to Stokely Athletic Center to see the show, he kept saying, “Now, we can go over here and have a good time, but I want you girls not to get too carried away.”

And the minute the band and orchestra went into the opening strains of “Also Sprach Zara-thustra,” also used as the bom-bastic theme to the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the man was standing up in his chair, waving his hands and screaming like a little girl.

Forty years ago, on April 8, 1972, the King came to Knox-ville.

Elvis was the headliner of that year’s Dogwood Arts Fes-tival. Dave Macon, who was the treasurer for the Festival that year, said organizers wanted ’72 to be a big year for the still-new event. Who bigger, then, than The King of Rock and Roll?

Macon says somebody on the board knew Elvis’s agent. The King would come for $50,000.

“It sold out so quickly we de-cided to see if he’d do a matinee for us.”

The King would, for another $50,000.

“When he got here, I had a check for him for $100,000.” (Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than $500,000 in 2010 dollars. Not bad for two hours’ work.)

Macon showed up at the Sher-aton Campus Inn to give Elvis

his check. He says it was heav-ily guarded (security was said to be tighter than when Richard Nixon had attended the Billy Graham Crusade at Neyland Stadium two years before) and he was told he couldn’t go back to see EP.

“I said, ‘If I don’t go in, he doesn’t get his money. It’s as simple as that.’ ”

Macon showed security the check. He got to see Elvis.

“I went in and we shook hands. He was extremely nice. There wasn’t any ‘I’m better than you’ or any of that.”

Macon said the Dogwood Arts Festival also brought Arnold Palmer to town to play a round of golf. Arnie got $10,000.

A bootleg audience record-ing of Elvis’s 2:30 p.m. mati-nee show at Stokely has finally surfaced. It made its broadcast debut on WDVX’s “The Vinyl Frontier” last August.

And I’ll be honest: When I heard the opening strains of “2001” and the screams of the crowd, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. No wonder that guy couldn’t keep his seat.

The excitement was palpable. While singing the Three Dog Night hit “Never Been to Spain,” Elvis changed the lyrics at one point to say, “So I headed for Las Vegas, but only made it out to Knoxville.” The roar was louder than the one “Rocky Top” usu-ally gets at a UT game.

There were a few flubs. At one point, somebody in the orches-tra started playing an out-of-place solo during “You Gave Me a Mountain.” And, during much

of the show, the feedback was atrocious.

Former News Sentinel writer Lois Thomas, in her amusing review of the concert, said Elvis wasn’t too fond of the feedback.

“The matinee performance was delayed for about 30 min-utes because of the continuing difficulties experienced with the sound system at Stokely.

“Those attending the matinee probably missed the full im-pact of the show because of the sound problems. The difficulty with the sound caused a large portion of the performance to appear sloppy because Elvis, his singers and the band members missed or couldn’t hear cues.

“Elvis apologized for the sound problems several times. He opened the show by quip-ping, ‘Sorry I’m late, but I was building a sound system.’ ”

But 1972 was Presley in his prime. Despite the sloppy sound, you can still hear the power of that voice as he belts out the ballads and rocks through the oldies.

Merrill Ammons attended Elvis’s evening performance. (A recording is rumored to exist, but I’ve yet to find it.)

Remembers Merrill: “On that evening, my friend

Pat Egerton and I drove my par-ents to Stokely for the concert (they had parked a car for after the concert). Well, of course we decided to try to see Elvis. So we parked near the back door where the King would arrive.

“M.L. (Davis, who worked at Cherokee Country Club for de-cades) was the driver that night

PULL UP A CHAIR … | Jake Mabe

Elvis Presley arrives at McGhee-Tyson Airport for his April 8, 1972, appearance at Stokely Athletic Center. Behind him is his father, Vernon Presley.

The day the King came to Knoxville

(he always drove celebrities in the ’70s). He got us right beside the car to see Elvis and then got us in the concert. It was an amazing evening!”

Attendance for both shows was 24,288, the most of any of Elvis’s concerts on that spring tour.

A couple of moments made it into the 1972 MGM documen-tary “Elvis on Tour,” which was being filmed that spring. The filmmakers shot Elvis arriving at Stokely (a girl takes a Pola-roid photo and screams when she sees the shot) and one brief scene from inside (of the au-dience clapping for comedian Jackie Kahane) made it into the final film. Also, the scenes of El-vis’s band arriving at the airport were shot at McGhee-Tyson.

Who can explain Elvis Pre-sley? Who can explain why the man in the audience that night, concerned about how the wom-en were going to act, stood up on his seat at Stokely and started screaming? Who can explain why a guy born just after Elvis’ death can hear the King’s re-corded voice 40 years later and get goose pimples?

Dave Macon has the answer. “In my opinion, Elvis Pres-

ley probably had the best sing-ing voice of any male I’ve ever heard.”

Long live The King. If you have any photos, mem-

ories or recordings of any of El-vis’s three appearances in Knox-ville to share, call Jake Mabe at 922-4136 or email [email protected]. Thankyaverymuch.

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WORSHIP NOTES

Community Services

■ Concord United Methodist

Church’s Caregiver Sup-

port Group, affi liated with

Alzheimer’s Tennessee Inc.,

meets 10 to 11:30 a.m. each

fi rst Tuesday in Room 226

at the church, 11020 Roane

Drive. Anyone in the com-

munity who gives care to an

elderly individual is invited.

Jan Coe of Homewatch Care-

givers will discuss the advan-

tages of using non-medical

homecare services Tuesday,

April 3. Refreshments will

be served. With advanced

notice, respite care will be

available. Info: 675-2835.

Rec programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753

Oak Ridge Highway, holds

a beginner yoga class Mon-

days from 6-7 p.m. upstairs

in the family life center.

Cost is $10 per class or $40

for five classes. Bring a mat,

towel and water. Info: Dena

Bower, 567-7615 or email

[email protected]/.

Special Services ■ Grace Baptist Church, 7171

Oak Ridge Highway, will

welcome evangelist Tim Lee

and Christian comedian Tim

Hawkins at 7 p.m. Friday,

April 13. Tickets are $19 in

advance, $25 at the door. VIP

tickets are $49. Info: www.

timhawkins.net/.

■ Second Presbyterian

Church, 2829 Kingston Pike,

will present noted author

and speaker Tony Campolo

at 7 p.m. Saturday, April

14, and 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Sunday, April 15. Campolo is

the founder of the Evan-

gelical Association for the

Promotion of Education

(EAPE). Info: 523-2189 or

www.2ndpres.org/.

Youth ■ Farragut Presbyterian

Church Mother’s Day Out

program and preschool

registration is open for the

2012-2013 school year. Info:

Beth Hallman, 671-4616 or

email [email protected]/.

A forgetful God

LynnHutton

CROSS CURRENTS

The older I get, the more my forgetfulness worries me. I tell myself that it is because I am too busy, torn in too many directions, too many things on my mind. My guess is that some of you can iden-tify with the situation.

Comedian Bill Cosby (who is somewhat older than I am) used to say that he was con-vinced that human memory circuits were located in one’s sitting apparatus. He would get up from his chair to get something, forget what he was after, and only when he sat down again could he re-member. He deduced the ob-vious: one’s memory is in the

…this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

(Jeremiah 31: 33-34 NRSV)

derriere and is activated by pressure.

Of course, one can always make lists, but then, one has to remember where the list is. You see the problem.

On the other hand, I am grateful, beyond all mea-sure, that God is forgetful, too. God promises to “re-

member their sin no more.”I fi rst learned that snippet

of scripture where I learned so much of my theology: in the hymnal. It was the third verse of Fanny Crosby’s old hymn “Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet”: “He’ll forgive your transgressions/and re-member them no more.”

But it was Scott Peck (Christian psychiatrist and author of “The Road Less Traveled” and “People of the Lie”) who explained it best with this story:

A young girl in the Philip-pines claimed to have visions of Jesus. She told her mother that Jesus came to her at night and talked to her. The girl’s mother was concerned and confused, so she took the girl to the village priest. He talked to the daughter, trying to get to the bottom of this mystery: was the girl experi-encing dreams, nightmares, a vivid imagination or was she an outright liar? The girl was steadfast: Jesus talked to her.

The priest took the girl to the bishop, and she told him the same story. The bishop interviewed her then spoke

briefl y to the priest. The bish-op said that the archbishop was planning a visit to the island and that they would take the girl to him and let him deal with this situation.

Arrangements were made and the day of the archbish-op’s visit came. The young girl was ushered into the archbishop’s presence. He questioned her about her vi-sions: “Do you see Jesus? Do you talk to him? Does he talk to you?”

All these questions she answered in the affi rmative. The archbishop said to her, “I want you to go home, and the next time Jesus appears to you, ask him a question for me. Ask Jesus, ‘What did the archbishop confess the last time he went to Confession?’ Do you understand?” The girl nodded.

A month later, the girl was brought back before the arch-bishop. “Well, child,” he said kindly, “did you ask Jesus what I told you to ask him?” Again, she nodded.

“And what did he tell you? What sin did I confess?”

The girl answered, “He forgot.”

By Wendy SmithThey performed onstage

in New York City and walked away with a pile of hardware. And they aren’t even old enough to drive.

Two choirs from West Val-ley Middle School competed at the Heritage Music Festi-val held March 15-18 in New York City. The girls choir, conducted by Cody Boling, received a Gold rating, and the mixed choir, conducted by Seth Maples, received a Festival of Gold rating, which earned them the opportunity to return for a performance at Carnegie Hall. The mixed choir also placed fi rst among competing middle schools.

Six Maestro Awards were presented for solos among the 30 high schools and mid-dle schools that performed, and West Valley students Al-lie Barnes and Anna Smith were both winners.

The group as a whole won the Spirit of New York Award for exemplary conduct on and off the stage.

“That says a lot about our kids,” says Maples. “It’s our favorite award of everything.”

The students in both choirs were selected by au-dition to participate in the choral department’s ensem-

ble. Choir members are also required to attend practice an hour before school starts on alternating weekdays. It takes that much practice to perfect pieces like those they performed in New York.

The girls performed “Ho-taru Koi,” a Japanese chil-dren’s song; “Lux Aeterna,” a Latin composition; and “A New Psalm,” performed in Hebrew.

The mixed choir per-formed Latin composition “Agnus Dei,” which was ac-companied on piano by 8th grader Sydney Gabrielson; “Nelly Bly,” a Tennessee folk song; and “Jai Ho!,” an Indi-an song performed in Hindi.

The biggest challenge for both choirs was learning pronunciations, says Maples. Diction classes he took as an undergraduate at UT helped.

Maples, a Knoxville na-tive, has only been on the job for a year and a half, and this is his fi rst teaching gig. He never imagined himself working with middle school students.

“Two years ago, I would’ve never imagined this. I didn’t have a good middle school experience. It’s defi nitely been an eye-opener.”

He brought a love for mu-

sical theater to West Valley, and the chorus department’s performance of “Annie” last spring was wildly popular. Students are currently prac-ticing for “The Wizard of Oz,” which will be performed in May.

The New York trip was another new experience for Maples.

“I was so nervous, but ev-erything went off without a hitch. They are good ensem-bles, but this was their best-ever performance. I couldn’t be happier with them.”

The competition took place at the Riverside Church, which is one of the largest cathedrals in New York City, Maples says.

“The ceiling was like a mile above your head. The students enjoyed it because it sounded so good inside the church. They could hear themselves really well.”

The magic of the moment wasn’t lost on the students. In spite of having a solo, Barnes says she wasn’t really ner-vous during the competition because she was so excited.

Smith agrees.“Once you step on the

stage, everything just goes away and you’re in that world – the singing world.”

West Valley Middle School choral director Seth Maples, Alex Tester, Allie Barnes, Anna Smith,

Tylor Sherrod and choral director Cody Boling show off the awards won by two West Valley

choirs at the Heritage Music Festival in New York City. Curtis Kosier, in front, holds the Spirit of

New York award that students won for good conduct. Photo by Wendy Smith

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A.L. Lotts Elementary School 2nd graders Cole Addis, Mia Carter, Riley

Spining and Brandon Lighter listen to puppets from Kids On the Block.Photo by S. Barrett

Puppets from Kids On the Block performed for 2nd graders last week at A.L.

Lotts Elementary School. The troop started in 1977 as a way of helping kids

cope and understand facts and feelings through humor and friendship.


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SCHOOL NOTES

Farragut High ■ A fundraiser for the

Farragut High School

Education Foundation

will be held Monday,

April 2, at Einstein Bros.

Bagels Co. at the corner

of Campbell Station

Road and Parkside

Drive. Tickets for break-

fast or lunch are $10,

and all proceeds will be

given to the founda-

tion. To purchase tick-

ets, stop by the Einstein

Bros. location on Cedar

Bluff Road (cash or

check only) or call Jerry

Martin at 777-2700.

Farragut Middle

■ Farragut Middle School

will receive money for

all recycled materials

placed in the recycling

bin marked “FMS” in

the main school park-

ing lot. Materials ac-

cepted are newspaper,

magazine, catalogs,

office and shredded

paper, junk mail, index

cards and more. Staples

and paperclips do not

need to be removed.

Info: 966-9756.

By Theresa EdwardsHardin Valley Academy

symphonic band and wind ensemble performed a fes-tival preview concert led by conductors Alex Rector and Andrew Parham.

The symphonic band per-formed “Four Sketches” from “Pieces for Children,” “Joy Revisited,” “Overture for Winds” and “Buenaventura.”

The wind ensemble played “Irish Tune from County Derry,” “Salvation is Created,”

“Hymn to a Blue Hour” and “Vientos y Tangos.” “Hymn to a Blue Hour” by John Mackey is a new piece that just came out this year,” said Parham. “I hope you enjoy it.”

According to Parham, HVA plans to perform at the Tennessee Music Educators Association State Concert Festival the end of April. “This is an elite thing,” he said. “Only 32 groups get invited based on their state concert festival or middle

HVA concert

Hardin Valley Academy wind ensemble performs during the

festival preview concert. In the front are Taylor Pride, John Kim-

rey and Haleigh Meyer. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

Soloist Mary Beth McCauley plays the fl ute.

HVA conductor Andrew Parham leads the wind ensemble.

Richard Devin plays the

saxophone with the HVA

wind ensemble.

area concert festival scores from the previous year, and Hardin Valley Academy got straight superior ratings in both ensembles last year and earned an invite to state con-cert festival this year.”

Hardin Valley Academy plans its next concert for May 10 with all new music.

David Bunch receives a high-fi ve from “Vitamin E,” physical education teacher Robert Eichholtz.

Hawks walk for new playgroundBy Theresa Edwards

Hardin Valley Elemen-tary School students partici-pated in a “Hawk Walk” fun-draiser for new playground equipment.

The theme was “Healthy Hawks” with the acronym HAWKS reminding students of healthy habits: Healthy, Activity, Water, Kick sugar to the curb and Sleep.

Music was provided by Party Boys, and Gray Wild-er-Kirby was the master of ceremonies. Food City donated popsicles which helped cool off tired walkers.

Famous characters came to walk with students and cheer them on. The Hawk mascot came early in the morning. Shoney Bear and the Chick-fi l-A cow visited. Former Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons football player Antone Davis, who was a participant on “The

Biggest Loser,” gave students autographs.

According to PTA presi-

dent Mary Ellen McNeal, stu-dents gathered pledges and collected the funds during

spring break. They earn priz-es for pledges and for bring-ing in 100 percent collection.

Abby Evans assists Albert Mjequiki with laps at the Hawk Walk.

Hardin Valley Elementary principal Tod Evans rides his scooter,

sporting a Viking hat. Photo by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

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The Farragut/Knox County Schools Joint Education Relations Committee has asked principals at schools that serve Farragut stu-dents to provide a “wish list” of things their schools need. If you can help with this list through monetary donations, equipment or ma-terials, contact the principal directly. The town of Farragut contrib-utes $10,000 per year to each of the schools, but the schools are still short on funding for some items.

Hardin Valley Academy, Principal Sallee Reynolds, [email protected]

Short-term needs:1. There is a need for landscaping in front of the building. When

it rains, students have to walk through puddles and/or mud.

Long-term needs:1. Personal computer related equipment is beginning to need

replacement. Laptops have crashed and projectors have died. The cost could range from $1,000 to $30,000 just to take care of replacements.

TEACHER’S

WISHLISTSPORTS NOTES

■ Coach Rusty Bradley’s quar-terback and receiver clinic

will be held 6 to 7:15 p.m. Mon-

day, April 2, and Monday, April

16, for current 4th through 7th

graders at CAK football fi eld.

Cost is $20 and includes both

dates. Campers should bring

running shoes and cleats.

Preregister by calling Jeff Taylor

at 765-2119.

■ Knox Seniors Co-Ed Softball Season open registration

will be held at 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday, April 10, at Caswell

Park. Noncompetitive league,

new players are welcomed.

There is a $10 fee for accident

insurance (a city of Knoxville

requirement). Info: www.

knoxseniorsoftball.com.

■ Baseball tournament, Chris

Newsom Preseason Classic

(open), Friday through Sunday,

April 13-15, for open/travel

teams. Tee ball and 14U. Info:

992-5504 or email hcpsports@

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■ The ninth annual Fight-ing Irish Spring Classic will

be begin at 1 p.m. Saturday,

April 28, at Smokies Park. All

proceeds benefi t the adop-

tion and pregnancy services

of Catholic Charities of East

Tennessee. There will be a

home run hitting contest,

guest speaker Michael Rivera

and games between Grace

Christian Academy and Jef-

ferson County High School and

Knoxville Catholic High School

and Webb School of Knoxville.

Hosted by the Bearden Council

for the Knights of Columbus.

Info: Skip Williams, 335-8740.

By Suzanne Foree NealAustin Dickey was look-

ing for an elective to fill his schedule and now he’s $100 richer.

When Farragut High School’s 2012 graduates gath-er May 19 for a post-gradua-tion party, they’ll be wearing T-shirts with Austin’s design. He did the design as a project for his Digital Design class and won the $100 prize.

The senior took the pre-requisite course to fi ll his schedule, and then decided he really liked digital design-ing and signed up for another class. As for the contest, “It was a lot of fun and an oppor-tunity I haven’t had before. I like what I’m doing.” So much so, he’s now thinking about pursuing the fi eld for a col-lege degree. He’s also taken fi ne arts classes and enjoys both kinds of art.

Students were presented a theme, “Taking on the World – Class of 2012,” for the de-sign, which was limited to only two colors. Austin says classmates critique each oth-er’s ideas and are support-ive. “I made up the design as I went along, then made changes as to what we could do it in,” Austin says. “At fi rst, it was white and black and the Earth was green and blue, but we didn’t have that many colors to work with, I assume because of cost.”

The Eagle Scout says he was very happy with the re-sult. “It looks really good,” he says. It took him about two hours to come up with the design. Computers, he says, have opened up the world of design. Things that used to take hours to do can now be done much quicker. “It’s a lot more user friendly, gives you more opportuni-ties with colors and chang-

T-shirt design nets student $100 prize

Farragut High School assistant

principal Kellie Ivens presents

a crisp $100 bill to the Gradu-

ation Celebration T-shirt Con-

test winner Austin Dickey.

Graduation Celebration is a

non-alcohol/drug-free party,

which is held after the gradua-

tion ceremonies each year.Austin Dickey’s T-shirt design

was selected for the 2012

Graduation Celebration. Stu-

dents attending will be given

a tee emblazoned with his

design. Photos submitted

ing your ideas,” he says.While he also likes the fi ne

arts, Austin says his skills with pen and paper are not as good as his computer skills, but he likes to think what he does is “decent.” The hardest computer project he did was designing his own Twitter bird. “That took a lot of Pho-toshop time.”

His teacher has high praise for her student’s abili-ties. “I have had Austin in my Visual Communications class and currently in my Digital Design class,” says Michelle Brossett. “He is the type of student who is always here, on time and ready to work or help out in any way. As a designer he is very quiet, but very thorough, paying close attention to details. I was very happy to have any of my students win the T-shirt contest, but it was great to

have Austin’s design be the one chosen.”

When he’s not busy with studies, the son of Philip and Margaret Dickey says he en-joys hanging with his friends and relaxing at home.

Farragut’s Parent-Teacher-Student Organization, the community and parents pro-vide a night of safe fun for graduating seniors, which will be at 11:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. May 19-20. There will be ice skating, carnival games, mu-sic, infl atables, a casino and lots of food. The committee is looking for volunteers and fi nancial support. If you can help, contact parent Cindy Holt at [email protected]. Do-nations of $25, $50, $100 or more are tax deductible.

Farragut Middle orchestra

performs at festival

Farragut Middle School 8th

graders Jasmine Park and

Yongyu Chen smile in re-

sponse to audience applause

between performances.

Farragut Middle School 8th

grader Abby Tonos smiles at

a fellow musician between

performances of “Branden-

burg Concerto No. 4, Move-

ment 1” and “Cello Song.”

Farragut Middle School

7th grader Anabel Lin

practices perfect posture

while performing last

week at The East Tennes-

see School Band and Or-

chestra Association’s 2012

Concert Festival held in

Farragut High School’s

auditorium. School bands

and orchestras from all

over East Tennessee per-

formed, including West

Valley Middle, Powell

Middle and Bearden High

schools. Photos by S. Barrett

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THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 6Kingston Pike eastbound lane closure

The Tennessee Department of Transportation will close the outside eastbound lane of Kingston Pike near the inter-section with Everett Road weekdays through Friday, April 6, weather permitting. The closure will allow the First Util-ity District to construct a new sewer line along Kingston Pike. Concerns about this project may be expressed to TDOT at 1-877-SmartWay. For general questions, call the town of Farragut Engineering Department, 966-7057.

THROUGH MONDAY, APRIL 30Arts Council featured artist

Farragut resident and Tennessee native Sandy Dean is the town of Farragut Arts Council featured artist for April. Her exhibit of watercolor art depicting wildfl ow-ers of the Smoky Mountains will be on display 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through Monday, April 30, at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

THROUGH FRIDAY, MAY 18World’s Fair exhibit at Folklife Museum

The Farragut Folklife Museum is remembering the 1982 World’s Fair with an exhibit that runs through Friday, May 18.

The World’s Fair exhibit features an assortment of artifacts from the museum’s collection as well as items on loan from museum committee members. The display includes memorabilia from booths that represented various countries, a slideshow of the fair’s exhibitions, and T-shirts, mugs, commemorative beer and other souvenirs from the event, which was held in downtown Knoxville May 1 to Oct. 31, 1982.

The museum, housed in Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive, is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Admission is free. Info: Julia Jones, [email protected] or 966-7057.

MONDAY, APRIL 2Independence Day Parade registration

The registration form for the town of Farragut’s 25th annual Independence Day Parade will be available beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, April 2, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Forms also are available at www.townoffarragut.org (link on the home page).

Registration deadline is Thursday, June 21, until the town receives 95 entries or the lineup area is full, which-ever comes fi rst.

Entries may be submitted by groups such as busi-nesses and community organizations and can include antique cars, fl oats and entertainment. Musical groups and bands are encouraged to participate.

To have an individual or group added to the parade mailing list, to receive a registration form by mail or fax, or to confi rm that a registration form has been received, contact Arleen Higginbotham, 966-7057 or [email protected].

MONDAY - FRIDAY, APRIL 2-13K Kids Arbor Day Art Show

The town of Farragut will present the Farragut Interme-diate School Kiwanis K Kids Arbor Day Art Show 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays Monday, April 2, through Friday, April 13, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

Created to celebrate National Arbor Day, April 27, the art show is a poster contest with the theme “Our Treeless Future.” The Farragut Beautifi cation Commit-tee judged posters created by 36 FIS Kiwanis K Kids in grades 3 through 5 that depict what the young artists think the world would be like without trees.

A public reception will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 12, followed by the announcement of the Best of Show award at the 7 p.m. Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting. Certifi cates will be awarded for fi rst, second and third place for each grade level.

TUESDAY, APRIL 3Older Preschool Storytime at library

Older Preschool Storytime for ages 4-6 will be held at

10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 3, at the Farragut Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

TUESDAY, APRIL 3Pianist Harold Mabern at Square Room

Jazz pianist Harold Mabern will perform with Knox-ville’s own Rusty Holloway and Keith Brown in a special Knoxville Jazz Festival presentation 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, at the Square Room, 4 Market Square.

Opening for Mabern will be jazz pianist Emily Mathis with a group consisting of Vance Thompson on trumpet, Kenneth Brown on drums and Taylor Coker on bass.

Tickets are $17 general admission, $15 for students with ID and are available at www.knoxjazzfest.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Baby Bookworms at library

Baby Bookworms for infants to age 2 will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 4, at the Farragut Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Each child must be ac-companied by a parent or guardian. Info: 777-1750.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Crime-prevention tips at brown bag

Knoxville Police Department Deputy Chief Gary Price will speak at noon Wednesday, April 4, at the Brown Bag Learning Lecture at Frank R. Strang Senior Center, 109 Lovell Heights Road.

Price’s topic is “Crime in Knoxville – How do we stay safe?” He will discuss the crime rate in Knoxville, ways to prevent becoming a victim and how to be more aware. The event is free. Participants should bring their own lunch.

RSVP to 541-4500.

WEDNESDAY - MONDAY, APRIL 4-30

Parrott/Ryalls show at District Gallery

Works by Knoxville native Joe Parrott and Asheville artist Cassie Ryalls will be on exhibit Wednesday, April 4, through Monday, April 30, at The District Gallery, 5113 Kingston Pike.

The exhibit will include cityscape and landscape paintings by self-taught artist Parrott and ceramic “souls” by Ryalls, whose background in functional pot-tery has evolved into fi gurative sculpture.

A reception for the artists will be held 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 13. Info: 200-4452 or www.TheDis-trictGallery.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5Toddler Storytime at library

Toddler Storytime for ages 2-3 will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 5, at the Farragut Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Each child must be accompa-nied by a parent or guardian. Info: 777-1750.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5FHS Empty Bowls at Einstein Bros.

The Farragut High School Art Department’s Empty Bowls fundraiser will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 5, at the new Einstein Bros. Bagels, 11693 Parkside Drive (at Campbell Station Road).

All proceeds will go to an organization determined by the National Art Honor Society. Last year’s event raised more than $1,000 for the Love Kitchen.

Tickets are $15 and may be purchased from an FHS NAHS member or the school’s front offi ce. Ticket holders receive a meal of soup, served in a handcrafted pottery bowl made by FHS NAHS students, and bread/bagels.

Info: Yvonne Kidder, 363-2239

THURSDAY - SUNDAY, APRIL 5-8Holy Week at Farragut Presbyterian

Holy Week activities continue Maundy Thursday, April 5, at Farragut Presbyterian Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd. Worship will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the sanctuary.

On Good Friday, April 6, there will be Midday Prayer and the reading of the Passion of Jesus begin-ning at noon; the church will remain open till 2 p.m.

The church will have the Great Easter Vigil at 7:45 p.m. Saturday, April 7. On Sunday, April 8, Easter services will begin at 8:30 and 11 a.m.

Info: 966-9547.

FRIDAY, APRIL 6Town seeks info-tech proposals

The town of Farragut is seeking proposals for infor-mation technology services. The Request for Proposals form is on the Town’s Web site, www.townoffarragut.org, under Requests for Proposals/Qualifi cations on the homepage.

All RFPs are due by 3 p.m. Friday, April 6. Info: Gary Palmer, [email protected] or 966-7057.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 6-7Tax assistance for elderly, low income

On Fridays and Saturdays through April 14, lower-income and senior taxpayers can receive help with their federal tax returns through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, sponsored by the town of Farragut and the Internal Revenue Service, at Far-ragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. At no charge, volunteers will complete and e-fi le tax returns for participants.

Taxpayers should bring wage and earnings statements (Form W-2 from employers, Form 1099-MISC from clients); interest, dividend, capital gains, pension, IRA and Social Security statements; a list of items that might be considered for itemized deductions; support for other income and credits; and a copy of last year’s tax return.

Taxpayers should also bring Social Security num-bers and correct birth dates for all taxpayers and dependents to be listed on the return.

VITA volunteers will be available beginning at 9 a.m. both Friday and Saturday. Participants are en-couraged to be in line no later than 3 p.m. No appoint-ment is necessary.

SATURDAYS THROUGH APRIL 28Knox Walks at McFee Park

The Knoxville Track Club and the town of Farragut are teaming up to bring the Farragut community Knox Walks, a nine-week walking program to help partici-pants make a healthy lifestyle change through regular walking.

Designed for all ages, the Knox Walks at McFee Park, 917 McFee Road, will start at 8:30 a.m. Satur-days through April 28. Participants will meet each week at the restroom building in the lower parking lot. Knox Walks will conclude with a 5k walking event on Saturday, May 5.

The registration fee is $35 per participant and includes weekly educational material on fi tness and nutrition, a T-shirt, goody bag and entry fee for the 5k on May 5. Registrations will still be accepted online, www.ktc.org, after the program begins.

SATURDAY, APRIL 7Easter train rides, egg hunt

The Three Rivers Rambler’s Easter train rides will depart at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, April 7.

The 90-minute train trip along the Tennessee River departs from Neyland Drive and travels to the “Three Rivers Trestle,” where the French Broad and Holston rivers join to form the Tennessee River. Activities will include an Easter egg hunt.

Fares are $26.50 for adults, $25.50 for seniors (55-plus), $15.50 for ages 3 to 12, $7.50 for ages 1 to 2 and free for infants (under 1). For reservations: 524-9411 or www.threeriversrambler.com.

SATURDAY, APRIL 7Community Easter Festival

The West End Center Merchants Association will hold a Community Easter Festival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 7, at West End Center on Kingston Pike.

The family-oriented festival is free and will include a number of children’s activities, including a bounce house, trackless train, Easter Bunny and egg hunts, face painting, live music and free food samples from the center’s merchants.

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tion begins today at 8 a.m. and can also be faxed or e-mailed. Registration ends June 21 or with 95 entries.

This year’s grand marshal is WATE-TV Channel 6 an-chor Gene Patterson. Stuhl says the town quit giving awards several years ago. “There’s so much to do on the Fourth and we couldn’t get people to stay around,” she says. It’s a long time between the fi rst and last group.

Johnson remembers try-ing to involve a lot of busi-nesses in the early years and draw the community to-gether for a fun event. “Mu-sic was our biggest prob-lem, but the Farragut High School band stepped up and has kept coming back,” she says. “We had antique cars and lots of walkers.”

When it was started, Johnson says there were hopes it would be a yearly

event but no one knew for sure. She was working as both executive director for the chamber and as commu-nity relations director for the town. She recalls that it was created as a vehicle for the chamber to get busi-nesses more involved.

“There were the days that it rained and we all held our breath,” Johnson laughs. “The parade is one of those events that took all of us. The challenge was closing down the roads and getting detours.”

She remembers work-ing the staging area with Public Works Director Bud McKelvey. Getting everyone lined up and on the way was a job. Participants would stop for a few minutes in front of the reviewing stand at the intersection of Kings-ton Pike and Campbell Sta-tion Road.

July Fourth paradeFrom page A-1

Johnson likes to catch the parade when she’s in town. “I love ’em,” she says. “Kids get the biggest kick out of them and it’s fun to watch them. I love the fl oats and music and the camaraderie of everyone enjoying it.”

She gives credit to the people who still make the parade work today. “When we started, it was challeng-ing, exciting and rare to start so many things new and now know they’ve car-ried on all these years,” she says. “I worked with some very special people with lots of talents. It took a team.”

Stuhl says participation has grown to include busi-nesses, nonprofi ts, neigh-borhood groups, military units, Scouts, politicians, bands, dancers, martial arts students and radio station personalities. Now even the fl oats have music.

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Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill called McFee Park “a jewel” and said either devel-opment plan adopted would be fi ne with him.

Sue Stuhl, director of parks and leisure servic-es, said the portion of the sketch above in black and white is the current park.

It’s easy to see that the

park will double in size while featuring a stand of Christmas trees, left by the previous owners.

The trail in the lower left quadrant will snake through a heavily wooded area and be interpreted.

The red and blue fl ags and curved lines represent 18 holes of disc golf. The sketch also shows parking and restroom amenities for the expansion.

The sketch above is Plan

B, which drew the most support at Thursday’s af-ternoon hearing. Plan A is similar.

Both include a small lake (top left) and play structure for kids.

No. 3 at top right, shows a possible second entrance off McFee Road.

The plan includes dog parks for both large and small dogs, tennis courts and a one-mile perimeter walking trail.

-- S. Clark

Details of McFee Park expansion


M.S. McClellanM.S. McClellan has always

been at the forefront of

traditional prep clothing.

Starting with a relative

unknown named Ralph

Lauren and his Polo ties in

1967, the circle has come

back around with the great

polos and sport shirts from

Southern Tide. Color and

fi t are the hallmarks of this

highly popular collection,

like the items pictured here.

M.S. McClellan is located

in Melrose Place at 5614

Kingston Pike.

Info: www.msmcclellan.com.Photo by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

Kasumi growsBeny Lin of Kasumi and Thai Café shows a few of the tasty

dishes available during a grand opening held March 27.

Kasumi serves all kinds of Japanese, Thai and Chinese

food, all custom-cooked with fresh ingredients. The res-

taurant’s Japanese chef has 15 years of experience, the

Thai chef has 15 years and the Chinese chef 20 years. Ka-

sumi and Thai Café recently expanded and remodeled.

The restaurant is located on North Campbell Station Road.

Info: 218-1010. Photo by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

News from Turkey Creek Public Market

By Theresa EdwardsThe Knoxville Chamber’s

annual Schmoozapalooza at Turkey Creek Public Market made a splash with its beach bash network party. Busi-nesses made networking fun with their tropical booth dis-plays, games, giveaways and drawings.

Attendees were given a

passport to be checked off as they visited sponsor booths. Completed passports were registered in a drawing for one lucky contestant to win a ticket with Frontier Airlines.

Wheel of Fortune is com-ing to the Public Market soon. Its website posts audi-tions are at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 14-15.

Schmoozapalooza

Professional timbersport athlete Andrew Mattison and Abbey

Harris present the Lumberjack Feud dinner and show located

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The best blooming art show in East Tennessee draws

young artistsBy Pam Fansler

With basketball season behind us and foot-ball season still months away, Knox-ville is dis-playing its other favor-ite colors: pink, white and green.

The Dogwood Arts Festival is in full bloom throughout the month of April. The fes-tival kicks off with Dogwood

After Dark, the successful arts-themed fundraiser, now in its fourth year. After that come the opening of the trails and art in public places, bus tours, the Mar-ket Square Art Fair, Rhythm and Blooms, the Dogwood Parade, the Dogwood Diva Luncheon and much more, including the Dogwood Arts Festival Student Art Show.

The First Tennessee Foundation is a proud spon-sor of the Student Art Show, which showcases the area’s best from students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade. Jim Dodson, chair for the event and an art teacher at Jefferson Middle School in Oak Ridge for 25 years, touts the age range as

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Dogwood Arts Festival Student Art Show

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one of the unique aspects of the show.

“Most exhibitions are for grades 6-12. We are one of the few that allows K-12. It’s a good opportunity for the ele-mentary school art teachers.”

Local art teachers, each al-lowed to submit two works of art, submitted 98 entries this year. From these, the jurors have selected 77. Two stone carvers are the show’s judges: Lisa Wolff and Kathy Slocum, who is a former Dogwood Arts Festival board member.

Because every work en-tered is framed by Fast Frame – another touch that makes this show unique – every student takes home a framed piece of art. Prizes, made possible through First Tennessee’s sponsorship, are awarded to the winners. The “Best of Show” is awarded $250 with that student’s teacher being awarded $100. The winner in each grade claims a $50 prize. There are also scholarship opportuni-

ties for 11-12th graders.The students’ works will

be on exhibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 6-27 with no ad-mission charge in the Denso Gallery at Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville. According to Dodson, “the exhibit has been housed in different venues – all in Knoxville – over the years. The festival would like to make this more of a regional event.” The exhibit will open and the winners will be an-nounced at a reception in the Denso Gallery 5-9 p.m. Friday, April 6. Kathy Hart Reilly’s group Hart Strings will perform as Dodson com-bines the visual arts and the performing arts.

For a real treat, make time to visit the gallery and sup-port these talented students. If you’ve not seen the show before, you will be amazed at the quality of the pieces. It never ceases to inspire me.Pam Fansler is president of First Tennessee

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

By Shannon Morris

The warm temperatures this winter have proven to be quite a blessing for Grace Christian Academy’s new track and field team. Being able to condition and practice outside let the athletes pre-pare for a busy season.

Grace’s administration is pleased to announce that Al Rodd will head up this new en-deavor. Rodd holds a long list of accomplishments in coach-ing track and fi eld, including starting a brand new program at Anderson County High School in 1992, and coaching numerous team and individ-ual champions over the years.

Even at this early stage in the program’s development, the track and fi eld athletes

from Grace are succeeding. In the two meets before spring break, several athletes had im-pressive performances.

At the Hardin Valley Acad-emy meet, Jarrett Galloway won first place in shot put and second in discus, Mi-chael Johnson came in third in the high jump and fifth in the 400, and D’Anna Johnson came in sixth in the 400. At the Gibbs High School meet, Jarrett Galloway came in third in discus, Michael John-son came in second in the 400, D’Anna Johnson came in second in the high jump, and Tinsley Knight came in sec-ond in the 400.

Grace faculty and staff con-gratulate Coach Rodd and all the track and field athletes.

Right on ‘track’

Katie Borden runs a relay for

Grace’s new track and field

program. Photos by S. Johnson

Grace athlete Michael Johnson goes over the top in the high jump.

By Shannon Morris

Known as the bloodi-est confl ict in Ameri-

can history, the Civil War took the lives of nearly 700,000 soldiers, a stag-gering number of lives lost for the tumultuous fi ve-year war. Confl ict between the northern and southern states over slavery could not be resolved peacefully. The issue of taxation of cotton exports was also a matter of contention.

Although President Abraham Lincoln tried to end the disagreement between the states, both sides rejected the peace treaty. Division had al-ready taken place, and neither side was backing down. It was at this time that the South became known as the Confed-eracy and the North was known as the Union.

Although many have read and studied this timeline of events in his-tory class, few get the op-portunity to go back in time to witness what life was like for a soldier in the Civil War right on their own school campus.

It is hard to believe that young boys were leaving the comforts of home to fi ght in the war in the 1860’s. Two hun-dred thousand soldiers were no older than 16, and 300 of them were

13 years or younger. One would think the life of a 13-year-old should consist of reading, writ-ing and arithmetic and the possibility of some chores around the house. Those teenagers who chose the life of a young soldier, however, would experience long days of marching in rough conditions, sleep depri-vation and exhaustion from carrying heavy ar-tillery and supplies.

It was on an unusually warm winter day the last week of February, that 12- and 13-year-old students from Grace Christian Academy were able to see what life as a soldier might have looked like during the Civil War.

Civil War demonstra-tions were set up on the practice fi eld beside the school, letting the 6th and 8th grade classes experi-ence the living conditions, artillery and artifacts from the Civil War in a close and personal way. Demonstrations were conducted by members of the 29th Tennessee In-fantry, CSA; McClung’s Battery with Confeder-ate Mountain Rifl e; and Longstreet-Zollicof fer Camp #87 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

In small groups, the students moved from sta-tion to station learning

Living history at Grace

Students Diego Carrasco, Charleston Dockery and Noah Smith stand with a Civil War re-enactor. Photos by Gina Prieto

Civil War re-enactors fi re a cannon during a

demonstration at Grace Christian Academy.

about life as a soldier. At one station, they discov-ered the soldiers’ living conditions. They saw what supplies a soldier would have had with him on the

battlefi eld and back at base camp. The students moved to another station where a fl ag display was set up showing the loyalty of each state. Students

also heard an audio pre-sentation of “The Rebel Yell Lives.”

Moving on to the next station, the students were in for a special treat as Bob Enik of the 29th Tennes-see Infantry explained the different items in the relic display, referencing the importance of each item.

Despite all of the fas-cinating new discover-ies, however, the students were most enthralled with the demonstration of artillery. The fi rst sur-prise came from the small Woodruff cannon that was used in battle. Every stu-dent jumped when Enik fi red the Woodruff can-non. The students were also amazed at the infan-try presentation with a fi r-ing demonstration of the 58-caliber Enfi eld rifl ed musket by John Holland and Jim Price.

However, the last sta-tion was an impressive demonstration that be-

came a quick favorite among the students, as a large cannon called the Confederate Mountain Rifl e was shot. The re-en-actors worked together to demonstrate the impres-sive power of this Civil War cannon.

Obviously, it would be impossible today to enjoy a fi rst-hand experience such as a Civil War battlefi eld or soldier’s living quarters. However, the students got as close as one possibly can to seeing exactly what life would have been like for their counterparts dur-ing the Civil War. Not only did they gain a new ap-preciation for history, but they saw the reality of life on the front lines in a real and personal way. Many lessons can be learned from one of America’s darkest periods, and these students had an unforget-table classroom this day.

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Alyssa Appleby, 4, completed the Sibling Class at Parkwest Medical Center in

February 2012. Terri Butcher Chapman, RN (with Alyssa) says this Teddy Bear

University class is designed to include brothers and sisters in the excitement

surrounding the birth of a new sibling and promote family bonding to help

reduce jealous feelings. Chapman said the birth of a baby can make older chil-

dren feel pushed aside. Remember that their space is being invaded and that

it is important to not focus all of the attention on the new baby. Tell stories

about the older child’s birth. Consider bringing a gift to the hospital for the

older child when the baby is born.

Children in the Sibling Class learn what to expect and how

they can help when their new brother or sister arrives. Dad

looks on as Alyssa expertly fastens a diaper on her “baby.”

She says her new sister, Brooklyn, is coming in April.

I’m the Big Sister!Sibling classes at Parkwest focus on the whole family “Draw a picture of your family,” instruct-

ed Terri Butcher Chapman, a registered nurse.

That’s how the Sibling Class began. On that day, the participants happened to be six girls, ranging in age from 4 to 10 years, along with their parents. Little hands picked up markers and began intently mak-ing colorful swooshes on the paper pro-vided at their seats. Meanwhile, Chapman aimed opening remarks at the adults about what the class would entail.

Chapman is a Lactation Consultant/Peri-natal Educator for the Childbirth Center at Parkwest Medical Center. She said the class would empower siblings to share in the ex-citement of a new baby coming into the fam-ily and could help curb jealousy by teaching the older sibling how to be a “big helper.”

After a few minutes, Chapman asked the girls to share the pictures they had drawn, prompting them with questions such as “What is your new baby going to be – a boy or a girl?”

Holding up a happy, stick-fi gure draw-ing, 4-year-old Alyssa Appleby shyly said, “A girl baby.”

The Applebys from Heiskell are not new to Parkwest. Alyssa was delivered there in 2008.

“I love this hospital,” said Brandy Apple-by. “It takes about a half hour to get to Park-west, but I was determined to come back.”

A conductor with Norfolk Southern, James Appleby said he thought the Sibling Class was a great idea. Even though his job requires a lot of night shifts, he felt it was important to bring Alyssa to the class during a time when he would normally be sleeping.

“We were a little nervous that Alyssa was going to be jealous, but she’s been seeing her baby cousin and is learning what to do so I think she’s going to be fi ne,” he said.

Participants watched “Sibling Silly,” a video which, judged by the giggles, enter-tained the young students as they learned what to expect, and what to do and not do with an infant, such as never pick up an infant by yourself. Then it was time for hands-on demonstration.

Each girl was given a life-like baby doll, gender-specifi c to their forthcoming sibling,

Flanked by her mom, Brandy, and her dad, James, Alyssa Apple-

by is proud that she has successfully mastered how to swaddle a

baby in a blanket. Alyssa likes to color with crayons and do arts

and crafts with her mom. She also is fond of her pet cats Lily and

Daisy Mae.

along with a diaper, clothing, a blanket and a bottle. Hands-on demonstrations began with hand sanitation and the proper way to safely hold a baby, and then moved on to diapering, dressing, feeding and knowing when to call an adult for assistance. Chapman discussed what kinds of needs crying can mean, the importance of reading to babies and developmental games such as patty-cake.

“Let’s go see the room where Mom will stay when she comes to Parkwest,” Chap-man suggested.

The class concluded with a tour of the birthing suite and the waiting room and even a trip by the nourishment center where siblings were allowed to choose a Popsicle from the freezer.

During the walk-through, parents were reminded of the security measures at Park-west.

Alyssa Appleby’s father, James, quietly stated, “Yeah, security here is really good. When Alyssa was born and Brandy was be-ing discharged, I carried Alyssa through a door before they removed her bracelet, which must have set off an alarm. Security was immediately on me, and I had to prove that I was her father.”

Chuckles ensued among the group.Back in the classroom, participants were

given “homework.”“Make a basket of everything Mom may

need for a diaper change, and know where it is, in case she calls for you to help her,” Chapman instructed. “Also, take an empty

paper towel roll or a toilet paper roll andgo on a scavenger hunt through yourwhole house. Pick up any objects that can fi t through the hole and give them to your parents because they are small enough thatyour baby can choke on them.”

“Your new baby will be here soon,” shereminded. “And you are an important partof helping your family be ready.”

The next Sibling Classes at Parkwestwill be held on the following Sundays 2:30to 4 p.m.: June 3, Aug. 26, Oct. 7 and Dec. 2. Visit www.teddybearu.com for more infor-mation or call 374-PARK. Please note that classes may be full two months in advance,so reserve your class space by the fi fth or sixth month of pregnancy. The fee is $10 per child.

Breastfeeding 101“Teaching your child to ride a bike

without training wheels requires patience and practice. Breastfeeding is the same,” said Parkwest lactation consultant Terri Butcher Chapman.

“The fi rst few weeks may be chal-lenging because not all babies know how to ‘latch on.’ Many new mothers have never seen anyone breastfeed so it is important for new moms to learn breastfeeding techniques to help the baby learn and to get support.”

“Every woman needs to be aware that breastfeeding has both short- and long-term health benefi ts for baby and for mom,” Chapman said. “The ben-efi ts are dose-dependent which means the longer one breastfeeds, the greater the health benefi ts.”

“After receiving research-based education, a woman can then make an informed decision on how to feed her baby and not feel guilty,” she contin-ued. “The Joint Commission and the Centers for Disease Control now push for exclusive breastfeeding because studies are showing that it decreases certain illnesses, decreases health care costs and it may also decrease one of our country’s major health problems – obesity.”

“Exclusive breastfeeding is defi ned

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June 27

July 25

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Take this class in your seventh or early eighth month. Learn breastfeed-ing basics such as how to get started, correct po-sitioning and technique, tips for returning to work, and an overview of breast pumps. Fathers-to-be are encouraged to attend! Fee: $25 (Breastfeeding book included.)

What you need to know

Thinking about having a baby?Check out the Health Informa-tion Library at www.TreatedWell.com and click on “Pregnancy andNewborns” under the Health Cen-ter menu to get answers to ques-tions ranging from preconceptionplanning to par-enting. When you’re expect-ing, Park-west’s Teddy Bear Univer-sity classes cover nearly every aspect of pregnancy, labor, delivery and caring for your n e w -b o r n . Class-es also i n c l u d e breathing tech-niques for labor, breastfeeding,and sibling and grandparentclasses. For class schedules, call865-374-PARK or click on theTeddy Bear University icon atwww.TreatedWell.com.

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as feeding a baby only breast milk, ei-ther at the breast or expressed breast milk. It also means baby receives no other liquids except vitamins, minerals or medicines,” Chapman explained.

Human milk: ■ is specifi c for the growth and de-

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■ contains more than 200 protec-tive components which kill germs, trap harmful cells, slow the infl ammatory process and protect the baby’s digestive system.

■ also contains growth hormones, immune factors, digestive enzymes, anti-infl ammatory factors and living cells to fi ght infections. It encourages growth of good bacteria (bifi dobacte-ria) and reduces disease-causing bac-teria.

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Critter Tales

Theresa Edwards

Spring has sprung and pets are anxious to get out-doors. Remember when traveling with your furry friends to keep them well hydrated, and don’t leave them in the car alone for any length of time while run-ning errands.

English springer spaniels Milly and Tilly wait eagerly to greet

the youngest members of their family last week at Sequoyah

Elementary School. The dogs’ owners, John and Johnna Fel-

ton, have four children attending Sequoyah Elementary and

said 5th graders Hannah and Kate, 2nd grader Sadie and kin-

dergartener Jack would be very excited to see their furry family

members after school. Johnna said she had just picked up the

dogs from the groomers and thought she would surprise both

of them and her kids by bringing them with her. Photo by S. Barrett

Animals around town

The temperature in an enclosed car – even with the window cracked – can rise within minutes and cause your pet to overheat. Take a cue from Johnna Felton of West Knoxville, who stayed with her pets in a shaded car with the windows rolled down while waiting for the kids after school.

With that being said, here are some animal-relat-ed happenings you should know about:

■ Garden Montessori School held its fundraiser to help Young-Williams and had a huge turnout. They raised $1,500 for animal transport to northern states where adoptable animals are in great demand. The funds will pay for three trips … that’s quite a few animals that will get a free ride. The school has a history of help-ing the animal population

– they raised money ear-lier this year for a homeless puppy in town that needed an expensive surgery. He’s now happily living with his forever family and has Gar-den Montessori to thank for it.

■ The Knoxville Zoowill host the family-friendly event “Zoo To Do” from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14. This is similar to the zoo’s grown-up event “Feast with the Beasts,” only do-nuts will be served instead of hors d’oeuvres. There will be street performers, infl atables, jugglers, face painting, belly dancing and more. Kid-friendly food will include pizza, Italian ice,

smoothies and yes, donuts. Admission is $15. Info: 637-5331, ext. 300 or visit www.knoxvillezoo.org.

■ Wolf Creek Weima-raner Rescue will host its annual fundraiser “Weim and Cheese” 5-9 p.m. Satur-day, April 21, at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church on Kingston Pike. Dinner and drinks will be served, and there will be live music and an auction for folks to enjoy. The group has been rescu-ing pups for 13 years and is funded solely through fundraising, donations and adoption fees. Tickets and in-formation about auction do-nations are available online atwww.wcweimrescue.org.

SENIOR NOTES

AARP driver safety classesFor registration info about these and all other AARP

driver safety classes, call Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964. ■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 4-5,

Oak Ridge Senior Center, 728 Emory Valley Road, Oak Ridge.

■ 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, Buckingham Club-house, 801 Vanosdale Road.

■ 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, Harrogate Se-nior Center, 310 Londonderry Road, Harrogate.

■ Noon to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, April 16-17, Loudon County Senior Center, 901 Main St., Loudon.

■ Noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 18-19, Cheyenne Conference Room, 964 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge.

■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 18-19, Roane County United Way, 2735 Roane State Highway, Harriman.

■ 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, New Mar-ket Senior Center, 1611 Depot St., New Market.

■ 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 20, West Park Baptist Church, 8833 Middlebrook Pike.

■ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, April 23-24, Maryville First UMC, 804 Montvale Station Road, Maryville.

ETTAC to host travel workshopThe East Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116 Childress St., will host an

enrichment series workshop noon to 1 p.m. Friday, April 20, on traveling with dis-abilities.

Joy Dixon, director of travel services for the East Tennessee Automobile Associa-tion of America, in collaboration with Tracey Farr, ETTAC development coordina-tor, will give tips on traveling for folks with disabilities.

Admission is free but registration is required by Wednesday, April 18. Call 219-0130. Drinks will be provided but brown bag lunches are welcomed.Info: www.discoveret.org/ettac.

Half of the population over age 70 experience shoulder rotator cuff tears, which are also common for those aged 50-70. This was a popular topic, with 70 seniors attending the pre-sentation by Tennessee Or-thopaedic Clinic physician Dr. Rick E. Parsons at the Strang Senior Center.

Rick E. Parsons, M.D. Photo by T.

Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

All about shoulders

Parsons described what the rotator cuff is, prob-lematic symptoms, diag-nostic tests, various lev-els of injury, nonsurgical treatments, newer laser surgery procedures, and recovery and rehabilita-tion.

Although pain is a symp-tom of possible rotator cuff injury, pain can also be caused by tendonitis, bur-sitis or impingement. The treatment for these ail-ments is to decrease the pain and inflammation through ice/heat, massage, ultrasound and/or medi-cations; restore range of motions; correct posture; and condition appropriate muscles through therapeu-tic exercises.

Causes of rotator cuff tears include normal wear and tear due to aging, re-petitive stress, calcium de-posits, impingement, poor posture, falling, lifting or pulling.

Treatment options vary depending on pre-injury

HEALTH NOTES ■ Kid Support, a peer

support group for kids ages 6-12 with loved ones living with cancer, will be held 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through May 15 at the Can-cer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Din-ner will be served from 5:30 to 6 p.m., and the program will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. There will be stories, art, games and more to help kids express their feelings and share experiences. Info and registration: Kathleen Williams or Debra Sullivan, 546-4661, or visit www.cancersupportet.org.

■ Cancer survivor support groups, Mon-day evenings and Tuesday mornings and Tuesday evenings, at the Cancer Support Community of East Tennessee (formerly the Wellness Community), 2230 Sutherland Ave. Sup-port groups for cancer caregivers, Monday evenings. Cancer fam-ily bereavement group, Thursday evenings. Info: 546-4661 or www.cancer-supportet.org.

■ Covenant Health’s Bodyworks offers com-munity exercise for all ages at $3 per class. Classes include Easy Cardio Max, Mind and Body, and Senior Cardio. Visit www.cove-nanthealth.com/bodyworks or call 541-4500 to fi nd a location near you.

■ Lung cancer sup-port group meets 6 p.m. the third Monday of every month at Baptist West Cancer Center, 10820 Parkside Drive. No charge, light refreshments served. Information: Call Trish or Amanda, 218-7081.

■ Stop Smok-ing: 1-800-784-8669 (1-800-QUITNOW) is a program of the Knox Coun-ty Health Department. The hotline is answered 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

■ Support group meeting for family members or caregivers of an adult with a mental illness is 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at Cherokee Health Systems, 2018 Western Ave. Information: Rebecca Gill, 602-7807 or visit www.namiknox.org.

■ UT Hospice con-ducts ongoing orientation sessions for adults (18 and older) interested in becom-ing volunteers with its program. No medical expe-rience is required. Training is provided. Information: Penny Sparks, 544-6279.

■ UT Hospice Adult Grief Support, for any adult who is suffer-ing loss, meets 5 to 6:30 p.m. the fi rst and third Tuesday of every month in the UT Hospice offi ce, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. For information or to reserve a spot, call Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

Meet George

The staff at Young-Williams

would like you to meet two-

year old male New Zealand

rabbit George. He would

make a wonderful family pet.

George is available for adop-

tion at the main center at 3210

Division St. The "new" center

at Young-Williams Animal

Village is at 6400 Kingston

Pike. Both facilities are open

daily from noon to 6 p.m. If

you don't have time to drop

by, visit www.young-williams.

org to see photos of all of the

center's adoptables and call

215-6599 for more informa-

tion. To learn more about

rabbits as pets, visit www.

rabbit.org or www.makem-

inechocolate.org.

status (activity, general health), time from injury to treatment, functional requirements, level of dis-comfort/disability and pa-tient’s expectations. Not all rotator cuff tears need surgery. Some can be treat-ed with anti-inflammatory medications, physical therapy or cortisone injec-tions.

If surgery is necessary, there are new techniques which have improved re-covery, reduced risk of infection and decreased pain. Good to excellent results are experienced by 90 percent of patients.

On Wednesday, April 4, at noon, the Covenant lec-ture series continues with Knoxville Police Depart-ment Deputy Chief Gary Price addressing crime in Knoxville and how to stay safe.

On Thursday, April 5, at 10 a.m., Bob Coyne will present a caregivers semi-nar with resource informa-tion.

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Dr. Jeff rey Hecht, on-staff rehab

physician at West Hills Health and

Rehab, and Trish Jamerson, RN and

rehab unit manager, work with

patient Lillian Skrec, “who is one of

this unit’s success stories,” Dr. Hecht

says. Photo by A. Hart

A new name for ahome-away-from-home

NEWS FROM WEST HILLS HEALTH AND REHAB

West Hills Health and Rehab693-1823

By Anne HartWest Hills Health and Rehab, located

at 6801 Middlebrook Pike in the heart of West Knoxville, has a brand new name and offers its residents a beautiful state-of-the-art facility, a “like-home” atmo-sphere and lots of activities.

In addition, it’s the only facility of its kind in this area with an on-staff rehab physician, Dr. Jeffrey Hecht, who per-sonally admits all patients to the 24-bed rehab unit and oversees their care.

“We use a holistic approach,” Dr. Hecht says in describing the comprehensive treatment residents receive in the new rehab unit. The unit offers rehabilitation for those who have had joint replacement or have other disabling conditions. The unit also has its own concierge, available to run errands and provide other special

non-medical services to patients. West Hills Health and Rehab was for-

merly known as Hillcrest West. It is man-aged by Grace Healthcare and is a 194 bed facility with in-house hospice care, 25 private suites and 28 beds devoted to assisted living. Rooms are equipped with 42 inch Vizio TVs and private baths.

Administrator Shelley Morgan says the facility offers skilled nursing care and short-term aggressive rehabilitation to its residents, and a whole lot more.

“We understand that people give up a lot of their independence when they move here, so our goal is to minimize that loss in any way we can.”

One example of the effort to provide a “homey” atmosphere, she says, are the two permanent feline residents and the occasional visits by dogs, including Mor-

gan’s own Great Dane. “The connection between our residents and these animals is amazing to watch. We do what it takes to make this place feel like home.”

An aviary is under construction and will likely be home to goldfi nches very soon. An Easter Egg hunt is planned, and grand-children and children from nearby daycare and schools will be invited. The event will be held in the beautiful courtyard, which is fi lled with trees, benches and cozy places to gather or to just sit and enjoy nature.

There is a dining room, specialized menus, a full-time dietitian, two beauty shops, movie matinees and lots of differ-ent kinds of entertainment.

West Hills Health and Rehab is an impressive facility with dedicated staff. They’ll be glad to give you a tour if you call ahead to 693-1823.

SHOPPER-NEWS • APRIL 2, 2012 • B-3

Members of the Farragut Arts Council welcomed artists and guests at a

reception for the art group called Young at HeArt. From left are Dr. Bill

Nichols, Sandy Garber, Pam Ziegler and Mary Agnes Schaefer.

FarragutArt show

At left, members of the Young

at HeArt class on hand to wel-

come guests to their art show

include Randall Mayfi eld, left,

and John Francis. Randall’s

trees at upper right are done

in watercolor. John’s sunset

piece, “Going, Going, Gone,”

is done in pastels on suede.

Above, Brenda Mills, left, is a

proud teacher at a reception for

the Young at HeART Senior Adult

Art Class from Marietta Cumber-

land Presbyterian Church. Anne

Davidson poses with her teacher

by some of her art work. The work

was on exhibit at Farragut Town

Hall. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Neon Quartet voices

a win in Chattanooga

The Sweet Adelines held a “Rising Star Quartet” contest in Chattanooga for

women age 25 and under. Neon Quartet, all members of Sound Company

Show Choir of Oak Ridge, won the contest. Smoky Mountain Harmony

Show Chorus member Anna Miller coaches the group. Pictured are Sum-

ner Byrne, Rachel Brown, Jenna Hulsey and Lindsey Chinn. Photo submitted

Community Easter Festival is April 7The West End Center Merchants Association will hold its fi rst Com-

munity Easter Festival 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 7, in the West End Shopping Center in front of Farragut Intermediate and Middle schools. There will be numerous activities including face painting, a bounce house, egg hunts and visits with the Easter Bunny, live music, and more. Free food samples will also be given out from the center’s merchants. Everyone is invited. Free admission.

Foothills

Craft Guildadds members

The Foothills Craft Guild has accepted these new fi ne

craft artisans: Becky Ramsey, John Fancher, Edie Greer

and Esther Harmon in mixed media; Sandra McEntire

in clay; Denae Oglesby and Brenda Richter in jewelry;

and Sandra O’Rear in natural materials. Pictured are natural materials by Sandra O’Rear. Chartered in 1968, the Foot-

hills Craft Guild is the oldest artisan’s guild in Tennessee and is dedicated to promoting and preserving the fi nest

handmade crafts in the state. Info: www.foothillscraftguild.org/. Photo submitted

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Neon Quartet voices

a win in Chattanooga

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Special Notices 15HIP OR KNEE

REPLACEMENT SURGERY

If you had hip or knee replacement surgery

between 2004 - present & suffered problems, you may be entitled to compensation.

Attorney Charles Johnson

1-800-535-5727

Adoption 21ADOPT -- Looking

To Adopt Your Baby

Meet all your adoption needs with us. We'll provide never ending love, security & education for your child. All ex-penses paid. Rachel & Barry 1-866-304-6670 www.rachelandbarryadopt.com

For Sale By Owner 40a126 Ivy Mill Court

Asheville Hwy. Neal's Landing, 4 BR, 3 1/2 BA, 2670 sq. ft. Big 2 car gar. $184,900 as is. 865-973-5977 ***Web ID# 956057***

WHY RENT WHEN

YOU CAN OWN! Seller Financing --

$400 Down, $250 monthly. 3728 Lilac

Ave., Knoxville, TN. 3 BR, 1 1/2 baths, only $26,485. 888-605-7474.

www.USHomeLLC.com

North 40nGIBBS/CORRYTON

By Builder 3BR, 2BA, 2 car garage. 1330 sf, $0 Down Pmt.

Total payment $742.56. Located in

Kinleys Kanyon S/D. Call Gary 548-1010

Condos- Townhouses 42

New Luxury

Condos

On Gay Street Downtown Knoxville

Private, gated parking on site.

For sale or lease. 865-218-3318

www.the300building.com

Farms & Land 45

FSBO. $129,900

2 yr old house & 44 acres located at 1245 Snake Hollow Road,

Sneedville. House has 3 BR & 2 BA, total of 1,056 SF. Owner will finance with $7,000 down. Call Bill at

877-488-5060 ext 323.

Acreage- Tracts 46GIBBS/CORRYTON

7.75 Acres, all cleared, partial fenced, conv.

location to I-640. Asking $154,900.

Call Doyle 254-9552 or Gary 548-1010

Cemetery Lots 494 CEMETERY lots in

Sherwood Memorial Gardens, $3,200 obo. 865-982-4104

CEMETERY LOTS. 4 in Lynnhurst

Cemetery. $800 for 1; $1500 for 2; $2200 for 3; $3000 for all four.

Call 865-661-1879.

Cemetery Lots 49GREENWOOD, orig.

section. 4 plots (will split), upright markers allowed. Reg $2400/ea, sell-ing at $1100/ea. Call 523-8223, lv msg.

Real Estate Wanted 50

I BUY HOUSES Pay Cash, Take over payments. Repairs not a problem. Any situation. 865-712-7045

WE BUY HOUSES, any reason, any con-dition. 865-548-8267

www.ttrei.com

Apts - Unfurnished 711BR, 1BA NORTH

All appls., exc. cond. $450/mo. No pets.

865-604-8726, 922-9658.

FTN. CITY, clean 2 BR, cent h/a, appls, DW, no pets, $460 mo. $300 sec dep. 865-684-7720

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ SENIOR HIGH

RISE FACILITY 1 BR APTS.

Oak Ridge, TN 865-482-6098

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Apts - Furnished 72WALBROOK STUDIOS

251-3607 $140 weekly. Discount

avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic

Cable. No Lse.

Duplexes 73WEDGEWOOD HILLS

AT CEDAR BLUFF

2BR Townhouse, 2BA, frplc, laundry rm, new

carpet, 1 yr lease, $730 mo, $250 dep. 865-216-5736

or 865-694-8414.

Houses - Unfurnished 743 BR, 1.5 BA NW

Knox, single story w/gar., no pets. $25 credit ap fee applied to rent. $750/mo. $500 dep. 865-525-0023 owner/agent.

FARRAGUT/LENOIR CITY, 3BR, 2BA, full bsmnt/gar., appls., WD hookup, non smoking, $1100 + 1 mo. sec. + util. Bkgrnd. check.

Call 865-680-0055. ***Web ID# 959031***

Hardin Valley. 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, cul-de-sac, fncd bkyard, 2 car gar, $1700. 865-806-9282 ***Web ID# 956760***

LEASE, 2005 Lawson, 2BR, 1BA, W/D conn., CH&A, lg kit, no pets $600 + dep. 688-0150

NORTH Nice 2br, 1ba house, raised rach style, $699/mo. Call Matthew Inboden, Call 860-416-6294.

Strawberry Plains Beautiful cape cod, 3BR, 2BA, 2 car over-sized garage, lots of storage, fenced back yard, $895 mo.

Call 770-639-9754. ***Web ID# 957841***

Condo Rentals 76Like New brick townhouse, 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, Turkey Creek area. No pets.

Credit ck. $350 dep. $650 mo. 1 yr lease. 865-986-0905 ***Web ID# 955822***

Wanted To Rent 82

�� Ret. Private Detective & author needs 1-2BR

house on secluded, private property with rent reduced in ex-change for security

and/or light caretaker duties. 865-323-0937

��

Manf’d Homes - Sale 851996 CREIGHTON

16x76, remodeled, West Knox location. Need to sell, $8500. 423-231-2023.

I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES.

1990 up, any size OK. 865-384-5643

General 109#1 BEAUTY CO. AVON

Reps Needed! Only $10 to start! Call Marie at 865-705-3949.

NEED CAREGIVER for elderly woman in South Knoxville. Transp, lt house-keeping, meals in exchange for room, board & some pay. Call 922-7613 or 687-6304 for interview.

Healthcare 110

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Business Equipment 13336' MAGLINER

Mobile Truck Dock 6000 lb. capacity,

$7250. 865-604-0144.

Dogs 141AKITA PUPPIES, all males, for info.

call 865-603-2984 or 865-740-5929.

***Web ID# 958914***

American Bulldog pups, born Feb. 4, reg., shots, wormed, champ lines, $350. 865-456-2625

***Web ID# 956676***

AMERICAN PIT Bull Pups, UKC purple ribbon, 11 wks, S&W, $700 OBO. 865-924-8960

***Web ID# 956434***

Chihuahua Babies T-Cup, applehead, M&F, UTD Shots, Reg., $250-$275. 865-387-2859 ***Web ID# 958717***

Chihuahua Puppies 8 wks, shots/wormed

865-932-2333. ***Web ID# 959194***

Dogs 141CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES, males

$150. 865-382-4199, 865-933-5894

CHIHUAHUA PUPS, CKC, 2 litters,

beautiful colors, Call 865-986-5604

***Web ID# 958987***

COCKER SPANIEL Pups, home raised. Ready for Easter.

931-644-5333; 931-445-3939 ***Web ID# 957518***

DEUTSCH Drahthaars The ultimate versatile

hunting companion. Pointing, waterfowl & blood tracking.

Serious hunters only. Proven parents on premises.

doct oredd [email protected] 423-791-0646

English Bulldog pup-pies, champ bldlns, AKC unlimited reg. $1500. 865-250-6896

GERMAN SHEPHERD AKC. 4 F $650, 3 M $600, blk & tan & sa-bles. 865-397-4105 ***Web ID# 956113***

German Shepherd pups, AKC, 1M, 2 F, sables, Euro. bldln, parents on ste $400. 865-426-2623 ***Web ID# 957850***

GOLDEN Retriever Pups, AKC, champ.

bldlns, English cream. 865-250-1622.

***Web ID# 956038***

Golden Retriever pups, AKC, OFA/champ

lines, www.berachah farms.com

$450. 615-765-7976. ***Web ID# 957480***

Golden Retriever Pups, reg., shots/ wormed $250. 865-382-4199, 865-933-5894

HAVANESE AKC REG CH. BL., choc. M,

1 yr. $500 (pd $2,500). Must sell due to M boxer. 865-363-3424

LAB PUPPIES, AKC blcks & choc., born 2/27. 1st S&W, 4 M 1 F, $250. 865-548-2152 ***Web ID# 958829***

MINI SCHNAUZER PUPPIES, AKC, housebroke & crate trained, 931-704-0084

***Web ID# 958089***

PIT BULL Puppies, NKC reg. $250 to $300. 3 Fem., 4 males. 865-312-3028

***Web ID# 956623***

POMERANIAN PUP-PIES, CKC Reg., all S&W are current, $250. 423-775-3662

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles,

Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots

& wormed. We do layaways. Health guar. Div. of Animal Welfare

State of TN Dept. of Health.

Lic # COB0000000015. 423-566-0467

ROTTWEILER PUPS, AKC / CKC Reg. M & F, S / W. $1200-$1600. 865-908-6989

***Web ID# 957914***

SIBERIAN HUSKY Pups, full blooded, 4 Males 1 Female $400. 865-382-4005.

***Web ID# 957286***

STAFFY BULL, AKC fem. Red & white. 1 yr. Housebroken. $650. 865-255-3596

***Web ID# 955993***

YORKIE puppies AKC, S & W, champ lines, real beauties. 865-591-7220; 463-0963

Dogs 141 YORKIE PUPPIES,

M&F, reg., vet ckd, UTD S&W, for more info. 423-539-4256

Pet Supplies 144AKENNEL LIQUIDA-

TION. Fencing & more. Daytime 865-933-5468, after 5:30pm, 865-621-1733

Free Pets 145

ADOPT!

Looking for a lost pet or a new one?

Visit Young-Williams Animal

Center, the official shelter for the City of Knoxville & Knox County: 3201 Di-

vision St. Knoxville. knoxpets.org

Building Materials 188CONCRETE

ROOFING TILES Over 20,000, Used,

Terracotta. Good cond. $1.00 ea. Make this the last time you change your roof! Call Al, 688-5657; 637-0827.

FALTILLO unglazed terracotta tile, 23 boxes of 12x12x1/2, 230 Sq Ft. $325 obo. Call 865-659-7412.

METAL BUILDINGS SALE - Save THOUSANDS,

Factory Direct, Discount Shipping -

Canceled Order Clearance Buildings. 24x20, 20x30, More!

Limited Availability. Call Today, 877-280-7456

Buildings for Sale 191METAL BUILDINGS

SALE - Save $1000s, factory direct, dis-count shipping. Xld order clearance bldgs: 24x20, 20x30, more! Ltd avail. Call 877-280-7456

QUANSIT HUT BUILDING

Never constructed, still crated, 30x48, $6,000. 865-604-0144.

Apparel/Acc. 201PROM DRESSES, Vintage Clothing, Wedding Dresses,

Costumes. Call 865-919-6541

Misc. Items 203GENERATOR,

Big 8500 Watt 2012 Honda 13HP, electric start, battery & wheel kit included. Never used. New retails $4,995 Wholesale $3,750, 1st $1,800 cash. 864-275-6478

Sporting Goods 223GOLF TAYLOR &

Ping Irons & woods. Ping G10 $200. Phone 865-670-3980.

Boats Motors 23217' BOAT. 1999

ALUM. w/75 HP Merc. Excellent condition. 615-210-8208

Chaparral Deck Boat, 24', 1995, great shape, ready for summer. $8700. Must sell. 865-696-0082; 865-414-1056

Campers 235OUTBACK 2008

self contained, qn. sz. pull out, w/extras.

$16,500 obo. 865-607-4054

SMOKEY SUNRAY Travel Trailer 2007, 30', 1 slide, bunks, qn. bed, $12,000. Call 865-789-1581.

Motor Homes 237CAR TOW DOLLY

2012 all cars, swivel, tilt, never used, new retails $2,750, 1st $995 cash. 864-275-6478

DAMON INTRUDER 1999, 22k mi, 35 ft, no smoke, no pets, new tires, batteries, awnings, commode. Slide out. Jacks, camera, 50 amp service, nice B10. $23,900. 865-755-2359

***Web ID# 958589***

Motorcycles 238HARLEY DAVIDSON

Sportster 1200 XL Low 2008, white pearl w/pewter ac-cents, all orig. ga-raged, lowest miles, orig. owner. $6750. Contact 865-919-0017.

***Web ID# 957083***

HD ULTRA Classic 2007, vivid black, 16K mi., new tires, show-room new cond. $15,900 obo. Call 865-585-7352.

KAWASAKI 1500 Vul-can Classic, 2003, 6800 mi., loaded, $6,000. 865-947-8688

SUZUKI C90 VL1500 BLVD 2005

VG cond. only 5K mi., Blck. w/Corbin

Beetlebags, $4000 obo. Call 865-607-3320.

Autos Wanted 253I BUY junk cars and

trucks. 865.456.5249 or 865.938.6915

Vans 256DODGE 2008 Caravan

w/handicap ramp. apprx 50k mi. $25,000. 865-328-8475

FORD ECONOLINE E-150 2002, exc cond dark blue van, Tri-ton V8 eng., trlr tow pkg., 91,832 mi., $6,500. 865-458-4158

Trucks 257DODGE DAKOTA 2008 ext. cab, 4x4,

loaded, ylw, 59K mi., $14,800. 423-333-4908. ***Web ID# 956701***

FORD F150 Club Cab 2000, V8, AT, AC, tow pkg, $4,750. 865-466-7945

FORD F-350 1999 dually RWD flat bed.

Wht, 7.3L power stroke turbo diesel, 4 DR crew cab, tow

pkg., new auto trans, 195K mi., dependable. $7995. 865-591-6430.

FORD F350 2000 Super dual, 7.3 diesel, ext. cab., 2WD, 128K mi.

good tires, w/ extras. Beautiful truck! $14,200. Johnny, 865-988-8820.

4 Wheel Drive 258Ford Ranger 2004, Ext

Cab, 4 dr, 4x4, AT PW, PDL, cruise, 74K mi, $10,900. 865-992-3466

Antiques Classics 2601970 GTO Org Motor,

400ci 350 hp, Auto, PS, PB, AC. Origi-nal Paperwork from dealership. Vinyl Top, Good Int, Mi-nor Rust $8500 423-743-7006 Glenn

1974 VW Beetle, conv., yellow w/black top & int., 99% restored, $11,988 obo. 865-945-5916

PONTIAC GTO 1970, Orig. motor, 400ci 350 HP, auto, PS, PB, AC.

Orig. paperwork, vinyl top, good int., minor rust. $8500.

423-743-7006, Glenn.

Sport Utility 261HONDA CRV 2008,

49K mi., very good cond. $17,500. Call 865-573-6395.

Imports 262VW JETTA, 2009,

Wolfsburg pkg., 39,600 mi., red. Asking

$15,000. 865-437-8634

Sports 264CORVETTE CONV.

1999, red/blk lthr/ top, 6 spd, 25k mi. 423-329-0456.

***Web ID# 957889***

NISSAN 350Z Tour-ing, 2008, 15,500 mi., blk lthr, gar kept $24,000. 679-0029

Domestic 265CADILLAC DTS 2007,

nav, chrome, pwr sunrf, all opts., 71K mi.

$16,000. 423-494-4135

Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE instal-

lation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 32 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328

Furniture Refinish. 331DENNY'S FURNITURE

REPAIR. Refinish, re-glue, etc. 45 yrs exp! 922-6529 or 466-4221

DENNY'S FURNITURE REPAIR. Refinish, re-glue, etc. 45 yrs exp! 922-6529 or 466-4221

Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER

SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.

Lawn Care 339

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Paving 345

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Pressure Washing 350

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Roofing / Siding 352

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NOTICE OFSPECIAL MEETING

Focus group session with Winston Associates, Inc. Tuesday, April 3, 2012

11 am - 12 Noon Town Hall Board Room

Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-44-103 (2012)

The purpose of this special meeting is to discuss the comprehensive land use plan, its process, and future land use

from the board’s perspective. No action will be taken or other business of the town discussed during this meeting.

Point of contact:

Gary Palmer, Assistant Town [email protected]

Board of Mayor & Aldermen


Focus group session with Winston Associates, Inc.

Town Hall

Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-44-103 (2012)

The purpose of this special meeting is to discuss the comprehensive land use plan, its process, and future land use from the respective committees’

perspectives. No action will be taken or other business of the town discussed

during this meeting.Point of contact:


Town Committees

Education Relations Committee Tues., April 3 • 4-5 pm

Economic Development Committee Wed., April 4 • 8-9 pm


Focus group session with Winston Associates, Inc. Tuesday, April 3 • 6-7 pm

Town Hall Board Room

Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-44-103 (2012)

The purpose of this special meeting is to discuss the comprehensive land use plan, its process, and future land use

from the FMPC’s perspective. No action will be taken or other business of the town discussed during this meeting.

Point of contact:


Farragut MunicipalPlanning Commission

B-4 • APRIL 2, 2012 • SHOPPER-NEWS

PlaceA Shopper-News Special Section Monday, April 2, 2012

By Anne Hart

Criminals are getting smarter every day, and homeowners

need to be even smarter to pro-tect our property.

The latest innovation in the criminal world? They’re stalk-ing Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for in-formation about who will be on vacation when, or even who is going to be away from the house for just an hour or two. After all, breaking and entering and steal-ing take only a few minutes.

People who know you may enjoy hearing all about your trip, and so will criminals who have learned to troll those sites specifically for that kind of in-formation. Modern technology is providing ever-increasing methods of communicating. It’s also turning into a road-map to disaster for unsuspect-ing homeowners.

And there are other new

A watchful bunny keeps an eye on the Easter basket decorating the front door of a Knoxville home. These simple decorations can disguise the fact that the homeowners are away on spring holiday. Photo by A. Hart

Protect your home

tricks of the trade for home in-vaders.

A favorite pastime is cruis-ing through neighborhoods the night before garbage collec-tion, on the lookout for those large boxes we typically set out next to our garbage cans. You know – the boxes that tell the world about our new big screen TV or fancy computer system or other pricey items that came packed in them.

With almost three million burglaries in this country every year, and with more than 65 per-cent of those occurring at resi-dences, it has become more im-portant than ever to keep your home and property protected, especially while you’re out of town on vacation.

Statistically, a large percent-age of home burglaries occur during the peak vacation months of July and August, but realisti-cally, they happen all year round, and often around holidays.

Christmas is an obvious tar-get time for thieves, with most houses filled with gifts, but Easter, Memorial Day week-end, Labor Day weekend and other times when homeown-ers frequently are away for a few days are also popular with

people who want what you have badly enough to steal it.

We all know the obvious safety measures, like stopping delivery of mail and papers or asking a friend or neighbor to collect them for you daily, lock-ing doors and windows, put-ting our lights on timers and setting the alarm system.

Be sure to unplug your au-tomatic garage door opener on your way out of town. Smart burglars know how to fi gure out the code and enter your home through the garage. Also, be sure to lock the door from your garage into your home. That’s another easy portal for thieves.

It’s a good idea to turn the ringer on your home phone off or down very low when you are going to be out of town. A con-stantly ringing phone is a tip-off to a thief skulking outside your house that no one is at home to answer it. And never, ever, re-cord your personal information on your answering machine’s outgoing message, as in: “I’ll be out of town until April 10,” etc.

Make certain the key pad for your alarm system isn’t visible from a door or window. That makes it really convenient for a burglar peeking inside to see if

you armed the alarm. And never, ever, leave an ex-

tra key under your doormat, in a f lower pot or above the door. Any one of those is the equiva-lent of hanging out a welcome

sign for burglars. The idea is to protect your

home and valuables while you’re away so that you re-turn to the same “Home Sweet Home” you left.

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Keeping your house at its best, whether you’re selling or staying

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Whether your plans for your house involve put-

ting it on the market for sale or living in it for many years to come, there is one expert whose advice is invaluable: a licensed, professional home in-spector.

If you’re getting your prop-erty ready to sell, the home in-spector will take an unbiased, clinical look at your house and tell you what you need to do to get it ready for the market.

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property can then be marketed as ‘inspection done; all repairs made.’ There are few buyers who want to take on major problems with a new house, and knowing a professional in-spection has already been done can put you way ahead of the competition.

If you’re staying in the home, the advice of a knowledgeable home inspector can not only tell you what repairs and/or replace-ments should be made to keep your home in top-notch condi-tion, but can anticipate problems that might arise in the future, thus saving you real money, as

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Ledford says items typi-cally inspected in a home are

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By Anne Hart

No one seems quite certain whether the slowdown in the economy finally generated a pent-up de-

mand for some pizzazz on the part of shoppers or if designers and marketers are the ones who created that demand first by grabbing our attention.

Either way, this season the word for everything for the home – from carpet and wall color to furniture and accessories to dishes and pots and pans to bath-tubs and linens to collars and food bowls for the fam-ily dog – is color, and the more of it the better.

And not just any old tried-and-true pale or pastel or neutral shades will do. The color has to pop. As in Wow! Think of the loudest colors in that box of Cray-olas, add a few shades of bright dazzle to them, and then, for good measure, maybe toss in a touch of neon and you’re getting there.

We’re talking electric colors. Colors that grab your attention. Colors you can’t miss even if you try. They’re everywhere. And not just around the house. They’re showing up in everything from clothing to fingernail polish to automobiles.

Red isn’t just red this year. It’s brilliant red. Greens are luminescent. Think of spring grass with the sun shining on it. Orange is a wild tangerine color. Blue is

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And all the rules about what goes with what are history. Designers have thrown all that “matchy, matchy” business out the door and brought in lots of refreshing new ideas.

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As the snow begins to melt and f lowers finally start blooming, spring is in the air. After being cooped up in the house for those long winter months, most families are un-doubtedly ready for it.

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Make a list: Before every-one commits to several hours of spring cleaning, do a quick walk-through of the house and take notes on exactly what needs cleaning up or needs to be tossed out. This makes pri-oritizing work a bit easier, and you’re sure to get everything that needs to be cleaned done.

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As temperatures reach 60 degrees, one of the manly rites of spring, designed to impress the neighbors, is a fresh layer of mulch. But, did you know that it can also help prevent erosion and discourage weeds in the garden? Mulch is an invaluable ingredient to a successful growing season - so much more than shredded bark sprinkled around the base of an ornamental tree each spring. Get the facts on mulch to impress all the neighbors and have a great looking landscape to boot.

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ents commonly used for benefi cial mulching materials are: bark or wood chips, leaves, grass clippings, straw or hay, newspaper, pine nee-dles, cocoa shells and compost.

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Using the 5 senses to discover signs of spring with childrenFrom the moment a groundhog looks

for his shadow in February, until the new baby bunnies, chicks and birds ap-pear, the arrival of spring is marked with celebrations and excitement across the country.

Spring fever usually sets in well before the warmer temperatures and green grass-es return, making this the perfect time to start looking for signs of the coming spring season with kids. These signs return ev-ery year, so teach children to experience Mother Nature using the fi ve senses: touch, taste, sight, smell and sounds.

TouchFor colder regions, winter must leave

before spring can arrive. Melting snow is one of the very fi rst signs warmer weath-er is around the corner. Rising tempera-tures is a big change everyone can feel. The earth slowly warms, bringing plants to life anew. For a “hands-on” experi-ence, gather spring garden elements. Soil, water, seeds and light all work to-gether to help plants grow - the basics of photosynthesis. Even if it is still too cold for an outdoor garden, get kids garden-

ing indoors by planting a small tabletop garden. Miracle-Gro Kids has developed a series of small gardening kits for kids that make this process rewarding. Simply plant the garden, place it in a sunny area, water and watch for sprouts.

TasteSpring greens are some of the fi rst tastes

from the garden. Pot a “grown-up” table-top container garden or visit the fi rst local farm-ers market selling home-grown ingredients for salads this spring. Maple syrup is another great taste of spring. The fi rst maple tree sap fl ows right before the leaves appear, some-time between late February and early April. This is when maple sugar and maple syrup production is at its best. Celebrate by learning how to tap a tree or visit a sugar house. Kids will love seeing how much work goes into making the syrup they put on their pancakes, and might even get to sample maple candy or maple sugar for a delicious treat.

SightIn spring, fl owers bloom, leaves bud,

birds build nests and the backyard fi lls with life. One of the most obvious signs of spring’s arrival is the appearance of fl ow-ers. Even before the snow has melted, tiny crocuses can often be seen peeking out, making the statement that spring is, in-deed, approaching. Make a scrapbook or photographic diary of which fl owers are spotted fi rst in your area.

Flowers and blossoms are only part of the colorful sights. Many animals are re-turning from migration. Most people are not aware that earthworms migrate, so be on the lookout. Earthworms make one of the shortest annual migrations, coming above ground only when the earth begins

to thaw and the soil is ready for new root growth. Their appearance above ground is a gardener’s reminder that the ground is almost warm enough for planting. Ani-mals and birds will then return to gobble up these tasty morsels as quick forms of pro-tein. To further explore the underground world of gardening, try the Miracle-Gro Kids Root Viewer to let kids experience what goes on underground in spring before plants appear above ground. Children can watch as seeds germinate and roots grow right before their eyes.

SmellSpring brings soothing scents like lilacs,

apple blossoms, hyacinth and daffodils. Sweet aromas turn a stroll through the gar-den into a delicacy for the nose. The smell of fresh, cool air wafting into an open win-dow or the scent of laundry that’s been hung out to dry in the sun are some of the great-est moments of spring. And, of course, the pleasant smell of freshly cut grass after that fi rst mowing of the year is a reminder of all the summer fun just around the corner.

SoundsIn the spring, birds returning from long

migrations are busy building nests, looking for food and laying eggs. Their singing and twittering are a welcomed signal that spring has truly arrived. Set up a bird feeder in the backyard or patio and take turns documenting which feathered friends visit most frequently.

In addition to the birds, frogs are also mak-ing their spring appearance in many parts of the country, fi lling the night air with song. Listen for their high-pitched calls in the eve-nings, especially around wet areas like lakes and ponds.

The signs of spring are popping up all around. Using your fi ve senses to discover them will lead to hours of fun for the whole family. With a little luck, it may actually help make the time go a little faster and spring come a little sooner.

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Who would have thought getting dirt under your fi ngernails would ever be considered one of the hottest trends go-ing? According to Doug Jimerson, garden core director for Better Homes and Gar-dens, “growing your own fruits, veggies and herbs is something Americans are doing in record numbers this season.”

“It’s cheaper to grow your own pro-duce than buy it - one $3 tomato plant will yield pounds of produce all season long,” Jimerson says. “Plus, the produce you grow just tastes better than even your grocer’s best. And while it’s healthy to eat and grow your own, gardening is rapidly gaining popularity as a great way to get some exercise, relieve stress and spend healthful family bonding time.”

Eating foods grown in your own back-yard means you won’t be contributing to the carbon footprint left behind by the “food miles” it takes to bring imported produce to your local grocers - so you’re helping the environment, too.

Growing vegetables is easier than you think. Plan it properly, and you can enjoy a healthy, homegrown harvest from the fruits of your labor - without having to spend hours tending it.

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tables need at least six hours of full sun per day. The easiest thing to do is to place your garden in full sunlight. Make sure it’s easily accessible for watering; if the garden is too far from your house it could get neglected. Check the last frost date in your region and wait until threat of frost has passed before you begin planting.

No yard necessary - Gardening doesn’t require a lot of room - although if you have the space and time to go large, go for it! Many popular vegetables and herbs grow just fi ne in containers, mak-ing them a great option for those with limited space. For smaller yards, raised beds are an easy, low-maintenance op-tion. If your garden is going right into the ground, just turn the earth with a shovel, toss out roots and rocks, mix in a soil amendment for healthy soil, and plant.

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tiveness of irrigation. Water to wet the soil about 8 inches deep, but don’t over-water.

Feed your food - All edible plants draw nutrients from the ground, and can quickly exhaust the soil without the help of a fertilizer. Always follow label directions.

Growing for itNow that you’ve got an idea of the basics,

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Start with transplants - seedlings are way easier to get growing than seeds, so you’ll save loads of time and enjoy im-

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Here are some favorites to consider for your garden:

■ Tomatoes - The most popular, most-grown vegetable, tomatoes are always a best bet. Disease-resistant Bonnie Original is a hardy, fl avorful addition to any back-yard garden. For containers or small spots, try Sweet n’ Neat, a prolifi c plant that sets fruit in grape-like clusters.

■ Basil - The perfect complement to tomatoes, basil works well in gardens and containers. New Greek Columnar Basil is particularly bountiful, as it grows high, leafs out densely and rarely fl owers. The fl avor blends traditional basil with spicy overtones of cinnamon, allspice and cloves.

■ Bell peppers - Versatile, fl avorful and nutritious, bell peppers are great raw snacks and make an awesome ingredient for a variety of cuisines. Harvest peppers when they’re green or red when the vita-min levels are higher.

■ Eggplant - Black Beauty is the quint-essential eggplant with a deep purple, glossy skin and meaty texture, and thrives in hot weather. White-skinned varieties like Cloud Nine offer a sweeter, bitter-free fl esh.

■ Mints - Easy-to-grow mints are avail-able in traditional spearmint and pepper-mint and in more exotic fl avors like Bonnie Plant’s new apple mint, orange mint and even chocolate mint, which has a fl avor that echoes the classic Girl Scout cookie.

Hefty harvest - The general rule: If it looks good enough to eat, it probably is. With many vegetables, the more you pick, the more the plant will produce. For more gardening tips, ideas and advice, visit www.bonnieplants.com.

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As the weather continues to warm, you might be thinking about some of the home improve-ment projects you put on the back burner during the winter. As you once again consult your to-do list, it’s the perfect time to think about a few small projects that can greatly enhance your home’s curb appeal.

Where does a smart home-owner start? The answer: Begin with a few small projects that are guaranteed to greatly enhance your home’s curb appeal. Whether you’re preparing to sell your home, or are simply trying to protect your investment and make it easier on the eyes, there are a few common improvements that can give the exterior of your home a quick and easy facelift.

Start with the drivewayRepaving or reconstructing

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Using a product like U.S. Cold Patch is simple: You just sweep the area, pour in the patching mixture and roll over it with a car tire. However, it is important that you completely fi ll the affected area and tamp it well to prevent future damage during freezing and thawing. More information on repairing cracks and potholes can be found at www.uscoldpatch.com.

In addition to maintaining your driveway, here are a few other projects that can greatly contribute to your home’s curb appeal:

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■ Check your mailbox for win-ter wear. If it’s seen better days, consider replacing it. Otherwise landscaping around your mailbox can add extra appeal. If you live in a colder region, be sure to use resilient plants, as this area can take a beating from the snowplow.

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