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By Betty BeanMayor Madeline Rogero is

moving forward with a plan to drastically alter Cumberland Av-enue, even as the project doubled in price and property owners raised objections.

With a compliant City Council, Rogero fl ipped $10 million from a project to widen a portion of Washington Pike to the Cumber-land Avenue project after nobody bid initially and the second bid came in at $25 million.

The idea is to make The Strip more bike and pedestrian friend-ly by restricting curb cuts and cutting traffi c from four lanes to two with a grassy median. How do the folks who earn a living on The Strip feel about this?

Joe Burger and his fam-ily moved to Knoxville after he bought fi ve McDonalds restau-rants from the Litton Cochran family in 2007, the same year that

McDonalds owner Joe Burger and Cumberland Avenue Project man-ager Anne Wallace at a meeting of the Cumberland Avenue Merchants Association Photo by Betty Bean

Cumberland Avenue Project worries property ownerslion tearing down and replacing the old McDonalds at 1720 Cum-berland Ave. after consulting with city offi cials.

He was told that Cumberland would end up with three lanes one eastbound, one westbound plus a turn lane.

He fi gured he could survive.But after he reopened in Oc-

tober 2011, he learned that the projects design had changed yet again. The turn lane would be a median, allowing left turns only at selected intersections.

Project manager Anne Wallace said the fi rst plan called for no curb cuts at all.

This was not well received and was very expensive, since wed be literally buying businesses, so we stepped back and decided on a median rather than a center turn lane.

If hed known how the plan would end up, Burger said he

doubts he would have gone for-ward with building a new build-ing.

They changed the game on us. Seventy percent of our business is drive-thru and we get 400 (west-bound) cars a day turning left, he said.

The plan evolved after the con-versation with Burger, said city re-development director Bob Whetsel, insisting that Cumberland will still be a three-lane street and that cars can turn left just east of McDon-alds and access it from 18th Street.

Burger countered that a grassy median is not a lane and said that his property is designed to al-low cars to enter from Cumberland Avenue and stack up without ob-structing parking or backing up onto the street.

Convenience is a big deal. At least 50 percent of our business is from impulse customers, and

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the Cumberland Avenue redevel-opment project hit the drawing board.

In 2011, Burger spent $1.5 mil-

By Wendy SmithThe town is looking for a vol-

unteer with a passion for health to represent Far-ragut on the Com-munity Health Council (CHC).

The purpose of the CHC, which has elected and ap-pointed members, is to facilitate a community w ide approach to im-

proving health in Knoxville, Knox County and Farragut. The leader-ship of the 2010 Together! Healthy Knox initiative became the Com-munity Health Council in 2013.

Debbie Pinchok, who worked as an emergency room nurse for almost 40 years, represents the town on the council, along with Dr. Mark Ray. Pinchok has anoth-er year left on the council while Ray is rotating off.

Its important for Farragut to be represented because the town should have a voice, Pinchok says.

She applied for the post in 2013 because shed observed daily what happens when people lack access to health care or make poor choic-es regarding health care, and she wanted to work on identifying is-sues that negatively impact health in the community.

The CHC studies the data col-lected by Knox County Health Department epidemiologists, and a new public health assessment is expected to be released in June. When the assessment is received, the council will take an in-depth look at some of the communitys top health issues.

Diabetes is likely to be near the top of the list, so the council might look at underlying issues, like obe-sity or lack of education, that con-tribute to the disease.

Pinchok has learned about her

community through working on the council. Health is often related to zip code, she says, because its related to level of education, in-come, access to healthcare and ac-cess to safe places to walk or play.

While Farragut might not have the access problems found in the inner city, the town has children with inadequate nutrition and se-niors with chronic health issues, she says.

No community is immune to health issues. It just might be dif-ferent from one neighborhood to the next.

The CHC hopes to achieve mea-sureable results with its work, and is already making inroads, Pinchok says. Ellen Zavisca of the Knoxville Regional Transporta-tion Planning Organization is on the council, and the organization has been successful in getting sidewalks built that allow people to walk safely.

Her work with CHC reminds her of a mission trip she took toBiloxi, Miss., after Hurricane Ka-trina. She felt overwhelmed bythe number of people who neededhelp, she says.

We didnt get to everybody, but we helped people one at a time. Ifwe can help one family or neigh-borhood at a time, thats a smallstep. Small steps really do reaplarge rewards.

She emphasizes that the council is looking for representatives witha variety of backgrounds not justmedical experience. The new rep-resentative will serve a three-yearterm and be expected to attendmonthly meetings as well as sub-committee meetings.

The application for the CHC is available at www.townoffarragut.org/formcenter or at FarragutTown Hall. Applications are dueby 5 p.m. Friday, April 17. Info:healthyknox.org.

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By Betsy PickleChess champions abound at Farragut

schools!The teams from Farragut Middle and

Farragut High dominated the Tennessee State Scholastic Team Chess Tournament at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville recently.

Farragut Middle shut out the competi-tion and won the Junior High School Sec-tion championship for the second year in a row. Farragut High won the Senior High section, triumphing in an extremely com-petitive fi eld, according to Dean Lee, Ten-nessee Chess Region I coordinator.

Both teams scored a perfect 4.0.Nobody (expected) us to win it all be-

cause there were fi ve other teams better than us, said Kunlun Hong, FHS coach. We had two members of the team win ev-ery game, and all members won or drew key games that allowed us to beat other teams with much higher-rated players.

The team consists of senior Jason Fu (USCF rating 1880), junior Kevin Hong (USCF rating 1652), sophomore Abraham Joo (USCF rating 1466) and senior Shreyas Muralidharan (USCF 934).

Farragut Middle School players, right, face the Campbell Home School team at the start of the fi nal round. From left are Forest Chen, Kevin Wang, Kevin Chen and Will Hong. Photo submitted

Farragut chess players dominate at state

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The isolation of Alzheimers

When entertainer Phil Campbells mom, Mary, widow of co-median Archie Campbell, was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease over 10 years ago, Campbell had

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Someones right, someones wrong

Texas paid $1.75 million to get rid of basketball coach Rick Barnes. Tennessee snapped him up before the ink on the check was dry.

Well fi nd out later to what degree Barnes is re-energized. That will eventually determine which athletic director was correct ... Steve Patterson or Dave Hart.

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A dark side to Knoxville biking

As a community, we spend a lot of time talking about the benefi ts of bicycling. Its good for the environment. Its good for our bodies. Its pure joy for those of us who love cycling.

But theres a dark side to bicycling in Knoxville.

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drawing a crowd before it even starts.

The fest takes place Fri-day-Sunday, April 24-26. But dont be surprised if you see groups of bicyclists gath-ering in downtown Knox-ville as early as Wednesday, April 22. Thats when the Tennessee Bike Summit, hosted by Bike Walk Knox-ville, begins.

We picked the dates of the summit so that we could carry over to the festival, says Caroline Cooley, presi-dent of Bike Walk Knoxville.

The summit gets roll-ing with a 5:30-7 p.m. ride around Knoxville, starting at the Sunsphere and spon-sored by Smoky Mountain Wheelmen. A welcome party follows at Scruffy City Hall.

The business end starts at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Knoxville Conven-tion Center, with sessions on infrastructure and policy, advocacy and education, and recreation and development.

Local, national and inter-national panelists will lead the sessions. The summit is geared toward cycling and sustainable-transportation

advocates, traffi c engineers, planners, public health of-fi cials, landscape architects, researchers, cycling retail-ers and elected offi cials, ac-cording to www.tnbikesum-mit.org.

Cooley is happy to have the heavy hitters, but she says the summit will benefi t anyone who feels a passion for making streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Advocates are just or-dinary people, she says. Were all volunteers. Were all just interested citizens. The summit would be an excellent place to start for

someone whos interested in how to get involved.

Cooley is a lifelong cy-clist and an advocate since 2001, when she helped form the Bicycle Advisory Com-mittee, which advises the Transportation Planning Organization. Bike Walk Knoxville was created in 2012 as the local chapter of Bike Walk Tennessee, which started in 2009. Previous summits have been held in Chattanooga, Memphis and Nashville.

Also a member of the Ap-palachian Mountain Bike Club, Cooley says mountain

Bike summit puts safety in spotlight

By Wendy SmithTheres no doubt that

Bearden Middle School students need help cross-ing four-lane Middlebrook Pike. The question is wheth-er they would be best served by a bridge or a HAWK.

Knox County commis-sioner Jeff Ownby is in favor of the HAWK (High-intensi-ty Activated crossWalK). A HAWK is a standalone sys-tem that stops traffi c when activated by a pedestrian. Red and yellow lights, at-tached to a mast arm over the road, are dark until trig-gered by a push button. The button prompts a fl ashing yellow light, followed by a solid yellow, followed by a solid red, during which pe-destrians cross. After an in-terval, the red light begins to fl ash, and drivers can proceed with caution.

The majority of Bearden Middle School students who currently cross Middle-brook come from the east

Commissioners seek solutionto dangerous crosswalk

Middebrook was just two lanes when the school was built, Ownby said. The crosswalk was just added a year and a half ago.

A security offi cer assists students as they cross the road for 20 minutes each morning and afternoon. But that doesnt help kids who stay late for school activi-ties, he pointed out.

Ellen Zavisca, senior transportation planner with the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization (TPO), joined Ownby and commissioner Randy Smith as they dis-cussed possible solutions. The average daily traffi c count for Middlebrook Pike is approximately 21,000 ve-hicles, she said.

Funding for an improved crosswalk could come from the federal Transporta-tion Alternatives Program, which provides grants for pedestrian and bicycle proj-ects. The Tennessee De-partment of Transportation (TDOT) Multimodal Access Grant, a new state-funded program that supports proj-ects that help transit users,

pedestrians and bicyclists along state routes, is anoth-er possibility, she said.

Additional funds could come from both the county and the city, since the school, which belongs to the county, is within city limits.

A pedestrian bridge has been discussed, but it would be a costly solution. The Alcoa Greenway Pedestrian Bridge over Alcoa Highway cost $1.5 million when it was completed in 2010. For the cost of a pedestrian bridge, 10 HAWK systems could be purchased, Ownby said. South-Doyle High, Cedar Bluff Elementary and Middle and Fulton High top the list of other schools that need safer crosswalks, he said.

Ownbys next step is to consult with TDOT on making a change, since Middlebrook is a state road. He emphasized that his work is citizen-driven. Its important for residents to bring problems to the attention of county commissioners, he said.

Our job is to listen and fi nd solutions.

bikers want good mountain bike trails, but we also want good on-the-road facilities as well as greenways.

Knoxville is gaining a rep-utation as a bicycle-friendly town, especially since City Council passed a Complete Streets ordinance last Octo-ber. The summit will offer examples of what other cities are doing as well as new de-signs in bicycle facilities.

Surveys and various studies have shown that there are a lot of people who would like to bike more, but theyre concerned about their safety, says Cooley. We wont get bicycling more mainstream if we dont improve the actual in-frastructure that makes it safe for people to bike.

The summits keynote speakers are Gil Penalosa, founder of 8-80 Cities and an international consultant on creating vibrant and healthy communities for all; and Martha Roskowski, director of the Green Lane Project and vice president of local innovation at Peo-pleForBikes.

The summit will end Friday afternoon in time for attendees to join the AMBC-organized, open-to-the-public Bike Scavenger Hunt Ride and Social, 5:30-9 p.m., starting and ending at the Public House, 212 W. Magnolia Ave.

Registration is still open at www.tnbikesummit.org. Cost is $85 for both days of sessions and $45 for one day.

side of West Hills, so they use a crosswalk at Middle-brook and West Hills Road, rather than Middlebrook and Vanosdale Road, which has a signal, Ownby said last week at a public meet-ing to discuss the problem. Commissioner Randy Smith

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Cumberland Avenue From page A-1if they come in from 18th Street, theyll have to turn left, come down to our drive-way, go around the building to get in line. Its going to be a mess.

They said it would be three lanes the entire way. One lane each way and a continuous turn lane. We all expressed our opinion, and they said this is the way this is going forward. They said TDOT did a study and thats the safest way to do it, Burger said.

Mike Chase opened the Copper Cellar on Cumber-land 40 years ago, and it be-came the fi rst in what is now a 17-restaurant chain. He is worried about the two-and-a-half-year construction pe-riod and predicts that many businesses wont survive. He agrees with Burgers criti-cism of restricting left turns and is critical of the citys lack of action on a long-promised parking garage.

Chase also doesnt like the form-based code that has produced the Evolve Apart-ments, a mixed-use devel-opment combining student housing and storefront com-mercial units in the 2000 block that jut out to the side-walk and appear to be va-cant. The city gave Evolve a $200,000 tax break.

Bob Monday, property owner leasing to Walgreens

and FedEx Kinkos, agrees with Chase and Burger. All three are concerned that left-turning traffi c will over-whelm the short turn lanes at the side streets and create bottlenecks.

The stack-up lanes ac-commodate three-fi ve car lengths, but if you have a big beer truck making a deliv-ery, it would block the lane until it moves. It will be a nightmare in terms of traf-fi c, Monday said

Joe Kirk, owner of Star-bucks, said the citys plan will damage taxpaying busi-nesses.

I think its a sham, he said. Whoever came up with the idea doesnt have any common sense and has never been in business. Its the busiest street in Knox-ville, so were going to re-duce the traffi c? Its an in-sult to our intelligence.

City Council member Nick Pavlis, who represents the Cumberland Avenue Strip, said he understands the property owners con-cerns but says they should have spoken out earlier and louder. He said the aim of the plan is to make Cumber-land Avenue an extension of downtown. People will be coming there for a purpo se, and at the end of the day, it will improve their business model, not be a burden.

Farragut chess players From page A-1Each FHS player was

awarded a four-year Aca-demic Service Scholarship of $4,000 per year by Ten-nessee Tech.

Farragut Middle was undefeated throughout the tournament for the second year in a row. Its the fi rst team to win the junior high state title two years in a row since 2010.

In the 2014 tournament, FMS scored 3.5 points with three wins, one draw and zero losses.

We had to knock out a

tough team from University School of Nashville to win the championship last year, said Feng Chen, FMS team coordinator. So we were both surprised and satisfi ed to see a perfect 4.0 perfor-mance in 2015.

The FMS team is seventh-grader Forest Chen (USCF rating 1918), seventh-grader Kevin Wang (USCF rating 1733), eighth-grader Kevin Chen (USCF rating 1673) and eighth-grader Will Hong (USCF rating 1192). The same four, plus Abhi-

nav Perumalla, were on last years team.

Kevin Wang said he was delighted about our vic-tory and noted that many of the opposing teams were tough challenges.

While he and his team-mates all pour countless hours into practicing and studying chess, he said, It doesnt matter how many hours you play chess each day; Its about how enthu-siastically you play it that counts.

Also participating in the tournament were Farragut Primary (Yunpeng Tan, Matthew Wang, Alex Yan,

Eric Zhang), which scored a perfect 4.0, and Farragut Intermediate (Jason Lee, Boyu Tan, Nolan Du, Nick Yan), which placed fourth in the elementary school sec-tion.

Dean Lee, who coaches the primary and intermedi-ate school teams, said the Tennessee State Scholastic Team Chess Tournament, which started in 1992, is one of the most competi-tive scholastic team chess matches in the Southeast.

For more info on chess in Farragut, visit www.farra-gutchessclub.org.

Young artists on parade at Town HallBudding artists and

those who simply love to draw, color and paint were celebrated at Farragut Town Hall on March 30 at the Far-ragut Intermediate Schools Art Show Reception. The works were on display through April 3.

Included in the show this year were student artists from Farragut Intermediate School, Concord Christian School, Farragut Primary School, Knoxville Christian School and St. John Neu-mann Catholic School.

The reception brought out proud family members, town offi cials and the proud artists.

Gwen and Gus Beaver, stu-dents at Knoxville Christian School, stand with their art-work at the Farragut Town Hall.

This one is mine! says a proud Claire Shields, a

second-grader at Farragut Primary School. Photos by Justin

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Noah Root, a second-grader at Farragut Primary School, stands in front of his drawing, A Study of a Dragonfl y.

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By now, youve heard it all great record, class act, good recruiter, better per-son, home-run hire!

Texas paid $1.75 mil-lion to get rid of basketball coach Rick Barnes. Tennes-see snapped him up before the ink on the check was dry.

Well fi nd out later to what degree Barnes is re-energized. That will even-tually determine which athletic director was cor-rect, crusty and disgruntled Steve Patterson or alert, determined and sometimes crusty Dave Hart.

Patterson, second year in his job, reviewed the past seven seasons and de-cided Barnes, age 60, had declined and no longer met Texas needs. Players were better than results. The team received NCAA tour-nament bids but didnt stay

Somebody is right, somebody is wrong

long enough.The Longhorns were hurt

by hype, ranked higher in November than March. Barnes fi nished in the AP top 25 once in those seven years. His Big 12 record in the other six seasons was 53-51.

What happened in Austin was a classic case of what have you done for us lately. Best times were way back then. Now was perceived as stale. The fan base was tak-ing a nap, but some cowboy conducted a poll. Many par-ticipants, still yawning, said ho-hum, nothing will ever

happen, but 75 percent did agree that Texas needed a new coach.

The old one was not prop-erly inspiring big donors to donate. Heaven help us, he may even have lost touch with some high school coaches.

A mean-spirited in-sider leaked to the media a hypocritical ultimatum from Patterson: Dump as-sistants, make changes, maybe you could survive. Big news! All assistants of-fered to resign. Barnes said no thanks. Patterson said see ya later.

Texas thus dismissed an honorable man believed to have faded. Does this sound football familiar?

You may know that UT is planning a new arena and supposedly needs bubbling enthusiasm to raise $450 million.

Hart, a tanned 66 or 67 without one gray hair, un-derstands 60. He is not spooked. Older coaches seldom dash out front with new ideas or make as many all-night recruiting trips, but with strategic help, they can become secondary CEOs and famous fronts for their sport, wear nice suits, speak crisply in TV com-mentary and shoot straight to the Hall of Fame.

Hart responded imme-diately to the fi rst hint of availability, as if Barnes were a gift directly from God. Here was a big-time winning coach with a clean reputation who would sure-ly cover and maybe erase Daves most recent prob-lems, the unfortunate selec-tion and dismissal of Don-nie Tyndall.

Based on his own expe-rience, Hart thinks Barnes

will be rejuvenated. Being wanted is inspirational. Six-year contract guaran-tees continuity. This is it for Rick, last stop. Hart be-lieves he can do better than he has been doing.

Paying Barnes $2.25 mil-lion plus incentives is OK. Spending $51,000 from Tennessees depleted trea-sury for the search group didnt do much. Out-and-in timing was so snug, some believe Rick was hired be-fore he was fi red.

Here are tidbits to help you decide what the Volun-teers purchased:

Barnes received the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching honor in 2009. The award recognizes life-time achievement by those who exemplify Wooden standards.

Barnes received the U.S. Basketball Writers Good Guy Award in 2011.

Defense has been Barnes coaching priority. Rebound-ing is usually strong.

Assistants have been highly regarded recruiters. There are 10 times more prized prospects in Texas than Tennessee.

Texas once reached No. 1, with a 17-0 record in the middle of 2009-10. The season crumbled. Long-horns went 7-10 in the sec-ond half.

Barnes only losing rec-ord, 16-18 in 2012-13, was punctuated by the post-sea-son loss of fi ve players with remaining eligibility. A year later, Rick was Big 12 coach of the year.

Everybody who scored in 2013-14 returned for this season, and a fi ve-star sev-en-footer was added. Hope went high. The Longhorns shot poorly. They were 169th in NCAA fi eld-goal accuracy. Their record was 20-14. The conference rec-ord was 8-10. Rick Barnes couldnt explain it.

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Derrick Furlow wore No. 6 when he played football at UT. He played safety be-cause on defense you can hit people.

The Atlanta native was planning to attend the Uni-versity of Georgia and had not thought about UT, but circumstances changed and he actually walked on at UT, asking for a chance to prove himself.

When I didnt feel like it, I worked harder, he told the newspaper club at Sarah Moore Greene. When prac-tice was over, I did extra. In his sophomore year, Furlow got his scholarship.

Furlow captivated the kids because he spoke from

The Sarah Moore Greene newspaper club heard an inspirational talk by former UT football player Derrick Furlow. Pictured are Destiny Woods, Mirna Cardenas, Safari Bahati, Malaya Thomas, Furlow,

Madison Thomas, Jada Byas, Stanley Greene, Eddys Garcia-Arias and Shantasha Glenn. Photo by Ruth White

The things you can control

the heart. Hes a guy who didnt like tests, who didnt really like school. So he told his adviser to design a plan to get him out quickly. He didnt take a single course that was not targeted to his graduation.

Furlow graduated in three years with two years of football eligibility re-maining. So he went for a

masters degree. He got it in two years, majoring in sport psychology.

You guys are here for a purpose, he said. You can always control your at-titude; you can control your actions; you can control your approach to situations.

You never know whos watching.

His mom always said, Birds of a feather fl ock to-gether, and I never knew what that meant, he said. Then at UT his coach told him, Starters hang out with starters.

That sounded a lot like what my mom had said,

Furlow said. Now in busi-ness, he said you can pre-dict a persons income by averaging the income of his fi ve best friends.

Stanley Greene asked why he chose safety over running back (which he played in high school). De-fensive players have more control, Furlow said. They

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Its budget time again, and its been three years since James McIntyre in-troduced his bold plan to improve Knox County Schools, which he proposed to fi nance with 35 million new dollars that would re-quire a 35-cent property tax increase.

His announcement was accompanied by consider-able fanfare and happy talk from the usual sources (the Chamber of Commerce, nu-merous progressive-mind-ed community leaders, most media outlets), which was amplifi ed by a bunch of TV commercials in heavy rota-tion.

It all came to naught when a groundswell of pro-tests from constituents opposing the tax increase drove county commission-ers in the other direction. In the end, the commission coughed up an additional $7 million for the schools, which would have been con-sidered generous in another year but seemed quite ane-mic in comparison to the

Lance Campbell, who has been the citys real es-tate manager for less than two years, is leaving the city within the week. Not clear why he is leaving so soon. But it is clear he has been in business with Doug Gordon, who is the citys delinquent tax attorney in the city law department and is responsible for identify-ing tax-delinquent proper-ties.

Gordon and Campbell are the two members of Box Turtle Properties, which is a corporation formed Sept. 11, 2014.

This corporation ap-parently buys and sells properties including one off Hiawassee Avenue sold on Jan. 6, 2015, to former state Sen. Stacey Camp-fi eld. It was valued at $100 but sold at $17,500. If they got $17,500 in the sale, the declared value of $100 seems in error or simply false. Perhaps it is missing two zeroes.

Campbell will soon be free to devote full time to this corporation while Gordon must continue to juggle his city duties with his private interest. While the information being used is public record and available to all, it does raise eyebrows that people who work on these issues for the city are at the same time running a private operation to do similar work.

The deeds were recorded during normal business hours with the Register of Deeds.

The good news here is that Judy Walton, for-mer state transportation right-of-way acquisition manager, now works for the city and is well qualifi ed to replace Campbell. City Hall has been mum on the replacement and also did not announce the resigna-tion as of the writing of this column.

Preservation: Over a decade ago, voters amended the city charter to require an annual report on the sta-tus of historic preservation. The actual work on this is done by Kaye Graybeal of MPC. She followed Ann Bennett, who had worked on historic preservation zoning issues for years prior to her retirement.

Graybeal is an able, knowledgeable staffer on MPC. She will present the 2014 report to MPC on

As a community, we spend a lot of time talk-ing about the benefi ts of bicycling. Its good for the environment. Its good for our bodies. Its pure joy for those of us who love cycling.

A group ride departs from Cedar Bluff Cycles two days after one of the stores owners was seriously injured when a car turned in front of him during a ride. Photo by Wendy Smith

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April 16, and in turn it will go to City Council in one of the May meetings.

Recent mayors have failed to take advantage of this requirement to highlight historic preserva-tion. In fact, Mayor Rogero, while creating a fund for historic preservation proj-ects, for which her admin-istration can determine the winners, cut funding for Knox Heritage in last years city budget.

While Becky Wade, who is a friend of preservation and able, heads the dis-tribution of the $500,000 historic preservation fund, it is unclear how transpar-ent the process of picking the winners will be. Rog-eros communications offi ce failed to disclose as of this writing who by name serves on the evaluation commit-tee with Wade to rank the applicants. It is not clear if the actual rankings will be disclosed. There should be full transparency here since public money is involved.

MPC: Meanwhile, the search committee of six persons for the MPC direc-tor may have its fi nal meet-ing this afternoon (behind closed doors) to make a recommendation to Mayors Burchett and Rogero.

The two mayors must decide who it is and again it is unclear what happens if they cannot agree. It is down to three persons with two being University of Tennessee graduates.

Lowe: Former Knox County trustee Mike Lowe reports this Saturday, April 11, to the county jail to serve his one-year sentence for stealing over $300,000 from county taxpayers. He will likely serve only seven months. Most observers expect him to become a trusty in a matter of weeks, if not days, which will give him special privileges.

The county jail is oper-ated by Sheriff Jimmy J.J. Jones and he determines what happens there. He has hired several politi-cal friends such as former county commissioners.

Cyclists deserve same rights as drivers

But theres a dark side to bicycling in Knoxville. Cyclists on the road are constantly threatened by distracted or resentful driv-ers, and they cant always count on law enforcement to protect their rights. If you doubt it, ask Tim Rogers.

Hes one of four owners of Cedar Bluff Cycles. Dur-ing a group ride last week, a driver turned left in front of him into her Everett Road driveway. He was travel-ing over 30 miles per hour when he hit her hood, broke her windshield and landed in the grass on the opposite side of the car.

Tim is lucky. He was wearing a helmet. He didnt hit a nearby telephone pole. But he went home from the emergency room with a fractured vertebra, major contusions and glass cuts.

Even though the accident happened in clear weather on a straight, fl at stretch of road, the driver wasnt cited by the Knox County Sher-iffs Offi ce deputy.

Cedar Bluff Cycles co-

owner Gerry Harms took Tim home from the hospi-tal. He was glad Tim didnt re-injure a hip he fractured during another bike wreck eight weeks ago.

He had nine lives, but he has one less now, Gerry says.

Another co-owner, Bill Turner, came upon the ac-cident seconds after it happened. Bill had been dropped by the group, and Tim left the other riders to wait for his friend at the top of a hill. Bill told Tim to return to the group, and he was making his way back when the accident hap-pened.

Bill estimates the visibil-ity at the bottom of the hill was half a mile. The driver said she saw the group but didnt see Tim. After check-

ing on Tim, Bill asked the offi cer if the driver had been cited, and he said no. When Bill asked why, the offi cer said it was at his discretion, and he thought it was an honest mistake.

According to Tennes-see Code Title 55, a bicycle is defi ned as a vehicle, and bicyclists are subject to the same rights and responsi-bilities as other drivers. Le-gally, this accident should have been handled as if one car pulled out in front of an-other.

Two members of my fam-ily made honest mistakes while driving last year. One rear-ended another vehicle, and one turned left in front of another vehicle. Neither accident resulted in injury, and both of my family mem-bers were cited as they

shouldve been.The Knox County Sher-

iffs Offi ce shared the ac-cident report but wouldnt allow an interview with the offi cer who wrote it.

Bill says he is totally baffl ed that the driver wasnt cited.

This has torn me up, he says. We have rights just as automobiles do.

Progressive cities wel-come and protect those who use bicycles for trans-portation and recreation. Offi cers who dont give cy-clists the same rights as mo-torists reinforce the back-woods notion that bicycles belong only on greenways.

Were making strides in creating a better infrastruc-ture for bicycles in East Tennessee. Changing minds may be a bigger challenge.

What about the teachers?

original request.One set of voices was

curiously silent on the tax increase, which gave com-missioners additional cover for voting against it. Where, they asked, were the teach-ers?

McIntyre took teacher support for granted since there was money in it for them, too. This was a seri-ous miscalculation, and one he has reprised every bud-get cycle since.

When she was elected president of the Knox Coun-ty Education Association, Sherry Morgan expected to be treated as every other KCEA president had been for the previous 28 years, i.e., be given unpaid leave by Knox County Schools so she could work full-time for the teachers association, which would pay her salary.

McIntyre refused to do that, and for months, Mor-gan continued teaching full-time while fulfi lling her du-ties as KCEA president. She was working 60-plus hours a week. She was so tired that she was falling asleep driving home, and her hus-band started driving her. McIntyre refused to meet with her.

Morgan fi nally got her leave time approved after the Legislature mandated collaborative conferencing in 2011 and the teachers voted to be represented by KCEA. The following year, the Legislature wrote man-datory leave time for educa-tion association presidents into something that was dubbed Sherrys Law.

McIntyres big budget request came the following budget cycle. KCEA offi cers were summoned to his of-fi ce about two hours before he presented his proposal at the State of the Schools ad-dress but had no input into the process KCEA sub-sequently voted to remain

neutral, and few teachers were among the yellow-shirted supporters who turned out to public meet-ings during the big push for the McIntyre plan.

Last week at the April school board meeting, KCEA president-elect Lau-ren Hopson provided a dj vu moment when she criti-cized McIntyres handling of this years budget prob-lems particularly the no-tion that theres not enough money to pay teachers the promised APEX bonuses while making good on the long-stated goal of giving across-the-board raises.

We were in this posi-tion last year and it was the hope that rather than cutting anything already in place, teachers would de-mand money from county commission, Hopson said. That didnt happen may-be because Im not the only teacher who resents being used as a pawn between the school board and county c ommission.

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Farragut High School students Michael Mooneyham, Madison Haynes, Lauren Cook, Kassidy Heard, Jackson Hahn, Riley McFall and Abby Rae rehearse as the usual suspects in Clue.

Find Clue at Farragut High SchoolFans of the board game Clue

will be pleased to know that Colonel Mustard, Ms. Scarlet, Professor Plum and the gang will be well-represented dur-ing Farragut High Schools production of the same name.

For our readers who are movie buffs, the role of Wadsworth from the 1985 fi lm version will also be rep-resented. Sophomore Kas-sidy Heard disguises herself as the butler complete with a British-style derby hat.

Fine arts teacher Lea Mc-Mahan said shes had this

Weapons (rope, wrench, etc.) will be painted silver, too, to resemble the game pieces. Folks who come to the shows are encouraged to dress up as their favorite character from the story.

At a rehearsal, it was clear to see why she chose this group of students for the production. The whole cast shines, although McMahan hands out critiques for each performer afterward.

This is such a great group, and these students are so cute and so sweet, she

said of the group of about 15, a mix of all grade levels.

Cast member Paige Mi-chael, who plays the motorist, said the production is defi -nitely not what you would ex-pect. Youll want to watch the whole thing to see what hap-pens. Weve added our own little spin on the original.

Farragut High School will present Clue at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Sat-urday, April 16 and 18, and 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, in the Ferguson Theatre. Admission is $7.

Farragut High School business education teacher Judy Siebert fl ips through one of the books shes raising money to purchase.

Books to boost technologyFarragut High Schools business education teacher Judy

Siebert has really done her homework.Siebert started an online fundraising campaign to

raise money for textbooks to help her students learn web design. She is struggling to fi nd funding since everything is going wireless and paperless. With so much technology in todays classrooms, it appears folks have forgotten that with all those new computers and apps, it is important to read the directions. In a book.

My two daughters are now in college, and they both said the biggest adjustment for them their freshman year was the amount of reading they were assigned, said Siebert of the fact that many school administrators feel textbooks should become obsolete. She has a copy of the books she needs in her classroom, and she could copy the pages and hand those out to students, but that would teach them how to break copyright law, which isnt really on the syllabus.

Siebert also said teachers have been given licenses to teach Offi ce 2013, but their textbooks are for Offi ce 2010. Next year, well have to modify our instruction (to use the old books), she said.

DonorsChoose.org, the website Siebert is using to fundraise, will purchase the books for her, so she never has to deal with actual money. A donation of $20 will pay for one book, said Siebert. Her goal is to get a set of 20 books.

Info: www.donorschoose.org and search for Farragut High School.

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Heska Amuna Religious School

Open house will be held 9:30-11:45 a.m. Sunday, April 12. Meet the staff and tour the school. Registration for fall is open to children in grades PreK through 12th

grade. RSVP to Betty Golub, morahbetty@heskaamuna.org.

Webb School of Knoxville

Admissions open house will be held 9 a.m. Thursday, April 9, in Webbs Haslam Center on the Webb School campus. For parents of students interested

in applying to kindergarten through 12th grade for the 2015-2016 school year. Info/RSVP: Christy Widener, 291-3830; or webbschool.org/aprilopenhouse.

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The Church disagrees.Easter is far too big an

event world-changing, mind-boggling, soul-lift-ing news to be confi ned to one day.

The Church declares that Easter is a week of weeks: seven Sundays are required to adequately celebrate such an event. And so Eastertide lasts for seven Sundays, and then the Church cel-ebrates another astound-ing event: Pentecost.

I grew up in a small, country church that tended to give Easter one Sunday and Christmas one Sunday. I was thrilled when I ventured into the wider world (and another denomination) where both holy days were given the attention they de-served.

I discovered Advent, Christmastide, Lent and Pentecost, and also

That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together. They were saying, The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon! Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been known to them in the breaking of the bread.

(Luke 24:33-35 NRSV)

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learned that there is such a thing as Ordinary Time.

So I began to pay atten-tion to those post-Easter appearances of Jesus. They must have been startling, to say the least, if not downright discon-certing.

Peter was not having any of it. He didnt believe the women (who would believe a woman s story in those days, anyway?), and so he had to go to the tomb to see for himself!

What he discovered there was a rolled-away stone and an empty tomb, where the grave clothes were folded neatly (Mary did a fi ne job raising that boy Jesus!), and there was no sign of a dead body.

Jesus was alive!

By Wendy SmithFamily No. 20, like any

family living in poverty, faces enormous challenges every day. Marcus has a job but doesnt have a high school diploma, and he is secretly illiterate. His wife, Margo, also has a minimum-wage job but only works 30 hours per week. The couple have an 8-year-old daughter who is doing well in school in spite of the fact that shes partially blind.

This is the profi le of a real family, and three local women had the opportu-nity to wrestle with their problems at the Cost of Pov-erty Experience (COPE), presented by Restoration House and Compassion Co-alition. The quarterly event gives those who have never struggled with poverty the chance to walk in the shoes of those who do.

Almost 50 participated in last weeks COPE, held at Fellowship Church. Most were affi liated with social service organizations or churches. One in six Knox County residents lives in poverty, said Jessica Bocan-gel of Compassion Coalition, and she asked participants to suspend their own reality while imagining themselves as one of those.

Each attendee was as-signed to a family, and each family profi le contained a set of challenges. Some were illegal aliens, single parents or seniors. Most had diffi culties like addic-tions, medical problems or criminal backgrounds. Each family was given the assign-ment of living through four weeks, each week being rep-resented by 15 minutes. The goal was for each family to be safe, and in a better fi -nancial position, at the end of the month.

On the surface, the as-signment seemed compli-cated, but doable. Each family had access to 16 re-sources, like a minimum-wage employer, a school, a megamart and a health clinic. But once the whistle sounded the beginning of the week, participants had to hustle to get children to school or day care before lining up to apply for a job or social services.

Transportation proved to be a major obstacle, which refl ects a reality for those in poverty. Carolyn Hanson of Compassion Coalition played the role of the hard-

Ben Johnson of Halls watches a timer that represents the time it would take to walk to work during the Cost of Poverty Expe-rience. Central Baptist Church of Bearden minister of missions and pastoral care Mark Moreland looks on. Photos by Wendy Smith

Cynthia Russell of Knox Area Rescue Ministries, pretending to be an unemployed college stu-dent, bargains with Compassion Coalition executive director Grant Standefer, who played the role of a pawn-shop owner during the Cost of Poverty Experience.

COPE off ers insight into poverty

nosed employer, and each employee had to show proof of car ownership, a bus pass or a walking pass earned by waiting until a timer ran out in order to clock in. Those with no transporta-tion had their pay docked or were fi red.

Distracted by the task of getting to work, or the doc-tor, some participants for-got to buy food or pay rent. One forgot a baby at the day-care center. One week, fami-lies had to contend with thereal-life challenge of chil-dren home for spring break.

Ben Johnson, a Com-passion Coalition board member, landed in mock jail when a stolen car stereo was found at his apartment. The event gave him a taste of the routine of those who are struggling fi nancially, he said.

Its a feeling of helpless-ness, of trying to put your best foot forward and slid-ing in the mud.

Nancy Keeton was as-signed the role of the child in family No. 20. She is training to volunteer as an ally at Restoration House, and she thinks the event will help her understand the

diffi culties faced by single mothers.

It will help to be able to think like they do, to realize how hard it is to survive.

The next COPE is sched-

uled for July 30. The event can also be conducted for individual churches, non-profi ts and other organi-zations. Info: therestora-tionhouse.net or 200-5406.

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By Anne HartAs fantastical as it may sound, if Alice

fell down the rabbit hole in North Knox-ville, she likely wouldnt be surprised if she found herself at Fountain City Stained Glass when she landed.

For there, much to her delight, she would discover a delightful rabbit war-ren of sorts, nestled at the bottom of a huge three-story building, and fi lled with a wonderland of glass of every imaginable shape, size, color and pattern, much of it defying description but all of it fi lled with light and enchantment suffi cient to fi re the imagination of Lewis Carrolls fi ctional traveler.

Theres probably even material for Al-ices magical looking glass gently tucked away somewhere in a cubby hole at the shop.

The place is a vir-tual and literal labo-ratory, glass museum and design studio where partners Gracie Jones and Katie Jones practice their art and teach it to oth-ers in a series of classes.

The two learned how to create stained glass and mosaic art from the late Vicki Jarmon, who opened the business more than 10 years ago.

Jarmon made the gorgeous Tiffany-style lamp proudly displayed on a high shelf at the shop, safely out of the reach of any boisterous children who might pass through when guided tours of the Foun-tain City Stained Glass studios are offered to the public as part of Dogwood Arts De-Tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Friday and Saturday.

Right now, Gracie and Katie who say they arent related (Jones is the married name of each) but laughingly fi nish each others sentences are hard at work on a series of large leaded glass windows that will grace the new Kappa Delta Sorority chapter house at the University of Tennes-see.

Nearing completion, the windows are laid out on large tables in the studios

workroom, each piece of etched glass numbered and carefully positioned in its own spot on a paper pattern before being soldered permanently in place.

The custom windows are just one of a number of projects underway at the stu-dio.

An impressive piece just fi nished is a large, colorful stained glass rendering of a drawing of a guitar whimsically decorated with hearts and other images, the work of a very creative third-grader whose par-ents decided to memorialize their talented childs artwork for posterity.

Fountain City Stained Glass also has mosaic art and has on display an assort-ment of colorful vases made of tiny pieces

of colorful glass in varying patterns.

In one room, bro-ken stained glass lamp shades and other stained glass items in various stages of re-pair or restoration are

being readied for clients.In another is a retail area where the

hobbyist or serious artist will fi nd every-thing they need to create stained glass or mosaic art. Equipment, tools and count-less types of glass are available.

Those items are always in high demand as a result of the classes in stained glass and mosaics that are taught from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

The retail aspect of Fountain City Glass is always especially busy around holidays as shoppers drop in to buy the ever-popu-lar sun catchers and brightly colored win-dow panels.

Fountain City Stained Glass is at 1328 Buchanan Ave., just off Broadway a couple of blocks toward downtown from I-640.

Go there prepared to stay a while. Theres a lot to see and learn. And of course, there are always those classes to further tempt you.

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Gracie Jones with some of the art that hangs in the front window of Fountain City Stained Glass Photo by Anne Hart

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By Betsy PickleEastwood. Huston.

Chaplin.Three of the four young

actors starring in Fridays only wide release come with decades of fi lm histo-ry on their shoulders. The fourth, Robertson well, she was great as Angie in the fi rst season of CBSs Under the Dome.

The Longest Ride, based on a novel by Nicho-las Sparks, shifts between two love stories, both set

in North Carolina. One is in the present and has Britt Robertson as a young woman about to leave col-lege and go to New York to work in an art gallery when she meets a handsome bull rider (Scott Eastwood, son of Clint) whos trying to make a comeback after a life-threatening injury.

The other takes place during the World War II era and features a young Jewish couple (Jack Hus-ton, grandson of director

John, nephew of Anjelica and Danny; and Oona Chaplin, granddaughter of Charlie, daughter of Geral-dine) and their struggles.

Tying them together is Alan Alda, who plays the 91-year-old version of Hustons character. He gives the modern-day couple insight into what it means to be in a relation-ship.

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Vintage Baseball at Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Celebration of Vintage Baseball reception, 7-9 p.m. Friday. Doubleheader begins noon Saturday. No charge for the games; hotdogs, popcorn, beverages and more avail-able for purchase.

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SHREK: The Musical, Jr, Knoxville Childrens Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; 208-3677.

FRIDAY Alive After Five concert: The Streamliners Swing Orchestra,

6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 Worlds Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Exmag and M!NT will perform, 9 p.m., The Concourse, 940 Blackstock Ave. Presented by Midnight Voyage Productions and WUTK 90.3 The Rock. Tickets: $10 advance; $15 day of show. Info: internationalknox.com.

Haywood County Ramblers concert, Hollys Corner, 842 N. Central St. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $10. Info/tickets: m.bpt.me/event/1409964.

Hot Club of San Francisco: Cinema Vivant, 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Info/tickets: www.knoxvilletickets.com, www.claytonartscenter.com, 981-8591.

Kukuly and the Gypsy Fuegos perform, Fountain City Casual Pint, 4842 Harvest Mill Way. Swing jazz trio.

Stars on Stage Dinner Concert fundraising event, 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: $400. Info/tickets: Tennessee Theatre box offi ce: 684-1200.

SATURDAY Bracket Challenge and Hip-Hop for Hunger 2015, 7:30

p.m., The Concourse, 940 Blackstock Ave. Featuring Plun-derphonics, Good Guy Collective, The Exception, The Young Gunz and Bobby Fuego. Tickets: $5 requested donation at the door.

Cashore Marionettes, Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Simple Gifts, 2 p.m.; Life in Motion, 8 p.m. Info/tickets: www.knoxvilletickets.com, www.claytonartscenter.com, 981-8591.

Color Me Rad 5K, 9 a.m., Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum. Participants of all ages are welcome to run or walk. A portion of the proceeds will benefi t East Tennessee Childrens Hospital. Info/to register: colormerad.com.

Esaus Vendor Market, Jacob Building, Chilhowee Park, 3301 E. Magnolia Ave. Local antiques/crafts show.

Jazzspirations LIVE: Knoxvilles Smooth Jazz Concert Series, 7-9 p.m., Holiday Inn Worlds Fair Park, 525 Henley St. Info/tickets: jazzspirationslive.com.

Magical Make Believe, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive. Centered on popular storybook characters Peter Cottontail and Cliff ord. Storytime, a bubble artist, magician and make-believe games. Children 12 and younger who come dressed as their favorite make-believe or storybook character will receive free admission. Info: knoxville-zoo.org.

Marble Springs Storytelling, 2-4 p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway. Fundraiser for Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association. Bring chairs. Under the pavilion. Info: 573-5508; marblesprings@gmail.com; www.marblesprings.net.

Music of Queen performed by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra featuring guest conductor Brent Havens and vocalist Brody Dolyniuk, 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Info/tickets: Box Offi ce, 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444, 877-995-9961.

Valor Fights 22 Pro/Am MMA, 6 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Tickets: $35 general admission. Info: internationalknox.com.

By Carol ShaneThe Rhythm N Blooms

Music Festival, slated for this weekend in downtown Knoxville, grows more aus-picious every year.

Coming as it does on the heels of the Big Ears Festival a nationally recognized event Rhythm N Blooms seems like a warmer, fuzzi-er, down-home counterpart to the gathering of the big guns.

But this years festival is more varied and prestigious than you might expect.

Now in its fi fth year, the Rhythm N Blooms Festival boasts an eclectic lineup. Theres everything from high-energy gypsy punk grass (Strung Like a Horse) to The Appalachian Hippie Poet (his words are born from mountain, bottle and heart) to one of Esquire magazines 2014 15 Bands to Watch, Daniel Ellsworth & the Great Lakes.

Popular Knoxville main-stays Drive-By Truckers and the Dirty Guvnahs will appear, along with many, many other unique and worthy acts.

Sarah Pirkle and Jeff Barbra have been involved with Rhythm N Blooms for several years and fondly re-member its early days.

Im really looking for-ward to playing a set with the Naughty Knots at Boyds Jig & Reel on Friday night, says local singer/songwrit-er/fi ddler and radio host Pirkle. She and husband

Knoxville favorites Jeff Barbra and Sarah Pirkle will be heading up the Rhythm N Blooms Festi-vals Gospel Hour on Sunday, April 12. Photos submitted

Popular local roots musician Sarah Pirkle cant wait for the Rhythm N Blooms Festival.

Barbra will be hosting the festivals Gospel Hour on Sunday, which she says will be a treat for me. Then Im hanging out the rest of the day en-j o y i n g the mu-sic. Im r e a l l y s t o k e d to see JD McPherson!

Now lets talk about the headliners.

The Decemberists fi rst album, Castaways and Cut-outs, was released in 2002. In the realm of indie folk rock, these guys stood alone right out of the gate.

For one thing, theyre absolutely incredible mu-sicians, every last one of them, but that virtuosity is used in service of the whole. The Decemberists musical

visions are large and sweep-ing, but theres not a grand-stander among them.

Singer-songwriter Colin Meloys distinctive, reso-

n a n t v o i c e l e n d s i t s e l f perfect-ly to his m e l o -

dies. Like James Mercer of the Shins, Meloy has a huge talent for songwriting, and one cant imagine anyone else singing his composi-tions. Hes backed by acous-tic instruments such as bass viol, guitar and violin, but extra special to the mix is Jenny Conlee, whose un-derstated skill on the organ, piano and accordion adds much to the carefully con-sidered musical arrange-ments.

They played to a packed Tennessee Theatre in April 2007, and now theyre back in Knoxville, appearing on Sunday, April 12, as part of a national tour promot-ing their new album, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World.

Everything about the Decemberists, from their songwriting and perform-ing down to their album art and accompanying mer-chandise, seems beauti-fully handmade. Dont miss them.

So if youre in the mood to mingle with a lot of happy music lovers, check out the website at rhythmnblooms-fest.com where youll fi nd a full lineup and other details. You can even earn free tick-ets and other rewards. See you there!Send story suggestions to news@shop-pernewsnow.com.

By Carol Shahaneha

The best fest yet

By Betsy PickleYouve seen the grass is always greener movies, but

youve never seen one like While Were Young.A comedy with a kitchen sink that includes a couples

midlife crisis, shades of Single White Female and Six Degrees of Separation and the buzzword of the decade, connectivity While Were Young beats any semblance of preciousness out of writer-director Noah Baumbachs inside-New York mannerisms.

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play Josh and Cornelia, a Manhattan couple living in a Grand Canyon of a rut. Josh is a documentary fi lmmaker who has been working on his latest fi lm for eight years; he also lectures about doc-umentary fi lmmaking in an extended-learning program. Cornelia works as a producer for her father, Leslie Breitbart (Charles Grodin), a highly esteemed documentarian.

Josh keeps looking for the truth in his ever-lengthening fi lm, which is about war, er, poverty, er, America. Cornelia feels guilty about living in her fathers shadow. They both wonder if they should have tried harder to have a child.

Their stale, tech-device-dominated lives are disrupted when they meet Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), a young couple whose existence is everything Josh and Cornelias is not.

Jamie, an aspiring documentarian himself, goes gaga over Josh, spreading lavish praise on his acclaimed fi rst documentary, which was barely seen. Darby makes artisan ice cream in unusual fl avors.

Jamie and Darby roller-blade through the streets, es-chew modern technology in favor of VHS tapes and vinyl

records, and generally seem spontaneous in every way. Josh falls hard for them, especially with Jamie constantly seeking his advice and help. Cornelia is a bit more skepti-cal, but she gets pulled into the energy of the couple as well.

Jamies charisma is undeniable, but theres something off about it. Josh, who has embraced Jamies free

spirit, begins to suspect that hes made a mis-take in his new friend.

The midlife crisis depicted in While Were Young captures a slice of reality in a way few fi lms have done before. Its funny, yet introspective and sympa-thetic. It reveals the amazing concept that there is middle ground between feeling dead inside and trying to be-come someone youre not.

As for the more external, structured plot its a comedic quicksand that feels

like Hitchcock Light. Stiller is perfect as things go south in a major way, and Driver is astonishing as his Phillip Vandamm (think North by North-west).

Baumbachs hilarious observations give more screen time to the male leads, but Watts and Seyfried balance

them with honest performances that have a real weight. Grodin is a delight, playing off his crotchety persona with an extra serving of likability.

The cast includes two legendary music fi gures in unex-pected roles. Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary fame plays the expert in Joshs fi lm, and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys plays Joshs erstwhile best friend, a new father.

While Were Young shows Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) at his sharpest. Its a message fi lm that hides behind a nearly solid wall of comedy.

Rated R for language.

Midlife-crisis comedy with a twist

Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts) review some of their life choices in While Were Young.

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By Bonny C. MillardA recent grant award by

the Rotary Club of Knoxville will help Beaumont Magnet Academy purchase almost 700 new books, school li-brarian Molly Moore said.

Moore, whos been at the school for about three years, recently spoke to the club and said this gift will help update the schools library. In addition to this, Beau-mont is already this years weekly recipient of a donat-ed book signed by meeting speakers.

This is going to get kids excited about reading, Moore said of the addition of new books. Currently, many of the school librarys books are out-of-date, par-ticularly in areas such as scientifi c information.

Our library books are old, she said. Their aver-age shelf age is 20 years. There are lots of books that are older than me on my shelves. I try to pull them as I fi nd them.

Moore said she has an annual budget of $3,200 to purchase new books.

The Rotary grant in-cludes $5,000 from the lo-cal club and $5,000 in dis-trict matching funds.

Beaumont is a unique school in that it offers fi ne arts and honors programs and is a museum school as well, she said. The school is a Title 1 school, with 75 percent of its students eco-

Molly Moore, Beaumont Magnet Acad-emy librarian

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nomically disadvantaged.Even though it offers

specialized program-ming, the school is in a literacy crisis with many of the students

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of fi fth-graders are below profi ciency levels.

We know were in a cri-sis at Beaumont, she said. Were doing everything that we can. Our adminis-trators this year have to-tally changed everything around. Every teacher in the building has a small reading group . Were do-ing radical things at Beau-mont to try to get our kids up to level.

By Betty BeanMost of Bubbas Barrels

customers are out of state, or international, even. But the destination of the shiny steel barrel sitting in Bub-bas front parking lot last Tuesday was Crafty Bas-tard Brewery, opening this spring three miles south of Bubbas in Emory Place. The transaction is an example of the community that Carl Clements wanted to join when he settled on Knox-ville as his adopted home-town six years ago.

Weve gotten an amaz-ing amount of support from local business owners, said Clements, a burly, bearded, overall-wearing guy whose business has gone from zero to more than $1 million in annual revenue in four years. (Well resist the urge to say hes barrel-chested because its too easy.)

The 46-year-old Texan traveled the world after graduating from Texas A&M: two years in Africa with the Peace Corps, most of another year traveling around the continent, mul-tiple road trips across the U.S. and considerable busi-ness traveling on his previ-ous job selling durable med-ical equipment.

I made the good money, had the good life selling the parts that make cell phones work. I still do that so I wont have to draw a sal-ary out of this business, he said.

So how did he decide on Knoxville?

I went to North Carolina a lot and had a good Peace Corps friend in Knoxville. One day I looked at my phone and saw more 865

numbers than anywhere else. Knoxvilles a good place to live, a scallywag town. Most of the people who lived here sided with the North in the Civil War.

I dont want to live in Dallas-Fort Worth, but I love living in the South without having to live in Birmingham to do it.

Were geographically in the South, and its a middle-class town with lots more amenities than we deserve for our size. I really like Knoxville, except for his-toric districts that think we need to be wealthy to live in them.

So he found a house in North Hills and made quick connections in the music scene. Two years later, he started the barrel business in his basement.

I bought some used bar-rels. Then I bought three more. Then I bought 40 more, he said. Then some-body calls and asks, Can you put a drain in that?

Sure, I say. But I had no idea

He remembers sitting on his back porch drinking beer with his friend Dan Lipe, who subsequently de-signed the Bubbas Barrels website.

I told him if I could sell $40,000 a year, gross, thatd be great. That would mean Id make about $10,000. Weve doubled in size every year since then. Last year, we did $1 million. This year, I expect to do $1.4 million. When I became a viable business, I started paying him. Thats how it works.

After a while, he rented a space on Pembroke in the shadow of Sharps Ridge.

Bubba makes scallywag business

Carl Clements Photo by Ruth White

When business picked up, he built an outbuilding in the backyard. Grinding barrels is a noisy undertak-ing, and its good to be in an out-of-the-way spot thats conveniently close to Broad-way.

In a few weeks, he and his four full-time employees, plus his feisty Jack Russell terrier Brandy, will move a couple of blocks north to a 13,000-square-foot ware-house on Buchanan Street (compared to 3,000 square

feet of covered space in their present location), where they will stock an inventory of accessory parts and turn out even more stainless-steel drums, barrels, brew kettles, smokers, boilers and conical fermenters.

Clements, who says hes known as an employer of wayward musicians around town, is fl exible about em-ployees schedules.

As an employer, Ive re-ally tried to make this a place that doesnt suck.

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By Anne HartKay Watson Helton, di-

rector of development for Alzheimers Tennessee, says theres a good reason we have all heard the old saw that tying a string around our fi nger will keep us from forgetting something im-portant. Its no old wives tale. Its actually based in scientifi c fact.

Helton told members of the Rotary Club of Bearden that a nerve in the index fi nger aggravates the hip-pocampus, the part of the brain linked to memory. That string, or ribbon, around the fi nger actually works.

The purple ribbons they tie around their fi ngers and the color purple itself are particularly signifi cant to supporters of Alzheimers Tennessee. In fact, the color purple has become so iconic to the organization that even its headquarters build-ing on Kingston Pike across from Buddys Bearden Ban-quet Hall is purple.

The ribbons are worn as

reminders of the Alzheim-ers 25th annual WALK to raise awareness of the disease. That event will be Saturday, April 18, and will involve literally thousands of walkers and volunteers who have been working on this years project since last years ended.

The event will be at UT Gardens starting with reg-istration at 9 a.m. There will be music, games, food and entertainment for chil-dren and their pets. Open-ing ceremonies will be at 10 a.m. and will feature door prizes, races and contests. The ribbon cutting for the WALK will be at 11 a.m. In the event of rain, party and pets will move indoors.

Helton said that when her organization was formed in 1983, not many people knew about Alzheimers, but they do now. An estimated 120,000 Tennesseans are affl icted with the disease. Each individual is attended to by about four people who are also deeply affected by the disease. The local offi ce

Purple ribbons a reminder of

receives about 300 calls a day from those seeking help for Alzheimers and other forms of dementia.

Helton said that of the many programs and wide range of support offered by her organization, among the most critical is educating law enforcement and fi rst responders about the dis-ease so that they are aware a person who appears drunk, drugged or disoriented may actually be suffering from dementia.

Info: 544-6288 or alz-Tennessee.org.

Andy McCall, Haynes Smith, Fran Smith, Kay Watson Helton, James Sutton and Larry Sheumaker proudly show the purple ribbons they tied around their fi ngers as remind-ers of the Knoxville WALK for Alzheimers coming up on April 18. Photo by Charles Garvey

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Thursday, April 15, 8-9:30 a.m., networking, Michael Broyles Photography, 12748 Kingston Pike, Suite 106.

Friday, April 17, 4-5 p.m., ribbon-cutting, Edward Jones - George Lucke, 2046 Castaic Lane, Suite A.

Monday, April 20, 11 a.m.-noon, ribbon-cutting, K Town Specialty, 620 N Campbell Station Rd, Ste 4.

Bo is a 6-year-old female hound mix, and Sophia is a 2-year-old female domestic shorthair mix. Both animals are available at Young-Williams Animal Centers 3201 Division St. location, and each one has been spayed or neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. Info: 215-6599 or visit www.young-williams.org.

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Karns Elementary kids enjoy A Night of the Arts

At left, Olivia Olmstead, 9, takes the lead role in a student produc-tion based on The Elephants Child by Rudyard Kipling.

Art teachers Michele Gray and Laura Lee Thompson (not pic-tured) organized the event, including student art scrapbooks made from up-cycled used books.

At left, Karns Elemen-tary School students Yessell Araujo, 10, and Marleen Rodriguez, 10, wow the crowd with a two in one jump rope routine during A Night of the Arts held at the school April 2.

Elementary school students, kindergarten through fth grade, cre-ated more than 1,000 paintings lining every wall of the building.

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