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The fi nal challenge

The Halls High football boosters will host one fi nal ALS challenge to be held Friday, Sept. 19 following the Halls/Gibbs game.

The event is in memory of Buddy Tarver, four-year starter for the Red Devils and gradu-ate of the class of 1979. He went on to play football at UT Martin and returned to Halls after graduating.

➤ See Ruth White on page A-3

Children of lightFellowship North Knox-

ville Church continues to be a light to the community with a fi fth Sunday outreach they call “Outside the Box.” Every fi fth Sunday for more than a year, members have met at the church for a time of prayer before heading out to various schools, homes and parks to clean up, paint, lead worship or just visit with residents.

➤ See Cindy Taylor on page A-7

Going globalEileen Weber knows a thing

or two about foreign relations.Since 1992, the Halls resi-

dent has been a group leader for Children’s International Sum-mer Villages.

➤ Read Carol Shane on page A-6

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By Betty Bean Dec. 4, 1999 – The booster bus pulled away from the

curb in front of Central High School, Tracey Fair’s reso-nant voice booming through the open windows. As the unoffi cial head parent-cheerleader, she had made it her business to keep the team encouraged and her son, line-backer Cory Robinson, on the narrow path to success. Her

Joel Helton and

The boys of ’99The boys of ’99

Pat Harris, Chris Helton, Alison Helton and Paula Love Hodge look through a scrapbook made for

coach Joel Helton (by Hodge) following the 1999 season. Harris is the mother of Patrick and “Lil

Kori” Harris, and Hodge was a cheerleader for the Bobcats for three years. Photo by R. White

ReceptionFormer players are invited

to a reception for Joel Helton from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday in the fi eld house prior to the game.

To page A-2

By Wendy SmithLawyers, it seems, are slow to

talk about judges, even those who are about to leave the bench. But a few brave barristers were will-ing to share their impressions at last week’s Knoxville Bar Asso-ciation’s annual Supreme Court Dinner.

City Attorney Charles Swanson was quick with his praise. He de-scribed Chancellor Daryl Fansler as “one of the most responsible judges in my experience.” Fansler always gave a fair trial without be-ing biased beyond the facts of a case, he said.

Circuit Court Judge Harold Wimberly is an excellent scholar who understands the law and en-joyed the process of applying it, Swanson said.

As a former Knox County Law Director, Circuit Court Judge Dale Workman came to the bench with a broad range of experience. He also brought a sense of humanity to the job.

“He empathized with the peo-ple before him more than any oth-er judge. He did a great job,” said Swanson.

Steven Lipsey, an attorney with Stone & Hinds, served on juries in Wimberly’s and Workman’s courts. Both did an excellent job, he said.

“I learned a lot by sitting in the jury box. My service on the juries

New Tennessee State Supreme Court Justice Jeff Bivins greets U.S. District

Court Judge Pamela Reeves at the Knoxville Bar Association’s dinner. Photo by Wendy Smith

Knox Bar salutes outgoing judges

made me very proud of the legal profession.”

As a practicing creditors’ rights lawyer, Lipsey is in bankruptcy court regularly.

He describes U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Richard Stair as intelligent and compassionate with “just the right temperament to handle cas-es for people who are experiencing fi nancial problems.”

Doug Blaze, dean of the UT Col-lege of Law, said the school was

fortunate to have Fansler as an ad-junct professor, in spite of how dif-fi cult it was to schedule teaching time around his hunting schedule.

“He is one of the brightest, best judges.”

Attorney Anne McKinney, known for her hats and musical parodies, recalled portraying Knox County Criminal Court Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz at the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists’ Front Page Follies.

In spite of McKinney’s jab at the judge’s “less than vogue” wardrobe, Leibowitz happily recalls the event.

“She always says, ‘She played me,’” laughed McKinney.

The purpose of the Supreme Court Dinner is to honor the Ten-nessee Supreme Court and all members of the local judiciary. Chief Justice Sharon Lee recog-nized local outgoing judges and welcomed new ones.

She also expressed apprecia-tion for her retention, along with Justices Cornelia Clark and Gary Wade. The bench and bar taught a civics lesson on the independence of the judicial branch this sum-mer, she said.

She supports Amendment 2 to the Tennessee Constitution, which would empower the governor to appoint judges to any state appel-late court subject to confi rmation by the General Assembly. After an eight-year term, judges could serve another term if retained by voters.

“With Amendment 2, Tennes-seans will have a strong voice in every step of the process.”

Adoption attorney Dawn Cop-pock, who has spent time in half of the state’s courtrooms, didn’t care to elaborate on any particular judge but offered general praise.

“East Tennessee has an ex-tremely strong trial bench. I enjoy working with them.”

Justin Higgins was a senior member

of the ’99 team and was called “the

best two-way tackle” by Coach Kerr.

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Fear the hatDerek Dooley’s “Fear the

Pants” never quite caught fi re, but there’s potential for John Fugate with “Fear the Hat.”

Manager of Commercial Bank in Fountain City, Fugate was appointed by County Com-mission to fi ll the term of Indya Kincannon until the November election. Three meetings.

➤ Read Sandra Clark on page A-4

Forgive himI borrow this thought from

my Bible: Forgive him, Father, for he knew not what he doeth.

Good man Mike Hamil-ton wasn’t trying to crucify Tennessee football when he scheduled home-and-homes with Oregon and Oklahoma. He was undoubtedly thinking of national-spotlight intersec-tional games that would fi ll stadiums, sell lots and lots of popcorn and attract big TV for all the world to see.

➤ Read Marvin West on page B-2

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Joel Helton From page A-1

A photograph of players Patrick Harris, “Lil Kori” Harris and D.J. Bowman from

October 1999.

chant drifted back to those left behind on the sidewalk, growing fainter as the bus passed Joel Helton Field, bound for Nashville, where Central had earned a ticket to the Clinic Bowl to play for the Class 4-A state title.

“We are the Bobcats, Mighty, Mighty Bobcats. Everywhere we go, people wanna know, who we are, so we tell them …”

The team had driven over the night before to prepare for the game. They relaxed by watching movies, pri-marily “Remember the Titans,” about a multicul-tural high school team that became a band of brothers ready to take on the world.

But there was no story-book fi nish for head coach Joel Helton’s Bobcats that year. They fell to Memphis East 20-14, despite a heroic last-minute push led by se-niors Jonathan Woodard, Joe Sheadrick and Byron Clay and junior D.J. Bow-man.

The Boys of ’99 were crushed, but 15 years later the memories are sweet and will come into focus Friday night at Central’s home opener against Karns, which has been designated Joel Helton Night. Play-ers Helton coached during his 26 years at Central will gather at Dan Y. Boring Sta-dium to honor their coach, who is battling liver cancer and was unceremoniously relieved of his coaching du-ties and banned from school property on nebulous, and ultimately unproven, charg-es in 2010.

This will be Joel Helton’s homecoming.

Cory Robinson (nick-named “Big Cory” to dis-tinguish him from “Little Kori” Harris, another Cen-tral standout), went on to become a four-year player

Former coach Jack Kerr shows

off the watch commemorat-

ing the 1999 season.

at the University of Missis-sippi. He said he’s planning to drive up from Oxford, where he is the staffi ng manager of a medical facil-ity and supervises around 80 employees. He’s pretty sure he knows what he’s go-ing to tell Helton when he

sees him, and he hopes he can get it out without chok-ing up:

“First thing I would tell Coach is ‘I love you.’ And ‘Thank you.’

“Thank you for being a teacher who helped me suc-ceed. It’s going to be rough, though. I want to go and see him immediately. I think about those times so often, and I think about that team of ’99. It was a special year, and I think our class will always be remembered, not only athletically, but we were so close. We had some-thing special all around, bringing in the new millen-nium. It was an important year. I’m 32 now, and I tell my son about things we used to do. … He’s only in third grade, but he knows about us.

“Coach had a genuine love for each player that came through that school. He can remember what they did, what they had on that

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different.’ He just needed someone to point him in the right direction. …”

Robinson has a tattoo that says “DJ RIP”

Robinson and his team-mates are also sad about the way Helton was treated four years ago when he was accused of menacing a girl with a stick and abusing his players. He was put on administrative leave and banned from the fi eld house that he had built and the fi eld that bore his name. Though the charges were never substantiated, Helton never returned to Central.

“What happened to Coach is almost as tough to swallow as it is that he’s ill,” Robinson said. “I believe when he was taken from Central High School, he was never the same. Central High School was his life. He bled red and black. And to remove him from what he loved the most? I knew it was just a mess.

“I came home that spring, and it wasn’t even the same fi eld house. They’d taken a lot of our stuff down. A lot of items of achievement of different players were gone. It was tough to see.”

But things have changed over the past year. When former Central High School principal Jody Goins found himself in need of a new football coach, he consulted Helton. Helton’s family says he supports Bryson Rosser, who has embraced the Bob-cats’ tradition and restored team memorabilia to the fi eld house walls.

Friday night, he will wel-come Joel Helton home.

Meanwhile, Tracey Fair and Pat Harris (mother of Kori and Patrick Harris) were making a plan. They intend to give Coach Rosser some free advice about the importance of getting par-ents involved and introduce him to Big Cory, Little Kori and the Boys of ’99.

“Coach had a genuine love for each player that came through that school. He can remember what they did, what they had on that day. He loved every individual that came through that fi eld house.”

stay with his grandparents.“He was there to open the

fi eld house for me when I got to school at 6 in the morning so I wouldn’t have to sit out-side – I rode with my mom when she went to work – so I guess it was always meant for me to play at Central. He kept me busy. If you’re al-ways busy, trouble can’t fi nd you. That’s what I’m teach-ing my boys.”

Four of the Boys of ’99 won’t be there: Alan Arm-strong and Byron Clay Jr. were killed in traffi c acci-dents. Raphael Satterwhite is deceased. D.J. Bowman, the funny, talented motormouth who showed up at Helton’s house for coaches’ meetings and called Helton “Dad,” was shot to death in 2003 in a brutal, execution fashion.

More than 10 years later, Bowman’s death is still hard for Big Cory.

“D.J. and I were real close. He used to come spend the night with me. We were in Athens about to play Georgia when I heard of his passing. We were on the bus, and I heard about what had happened. I couldn’t believe it. Coach Helton saw a lot in D.J., too. I know Coach was thinking, ‘If there was just one little thing I could have done

day. He loved every individ-ual that came through that fi eld house.”

Justin Higgins, who, like Big Cory, was named All-State in 1999, recalls Helton giving him some exciting news just before the ’99 sea-son:

“My man Coach Helton told me I was going to touch the ball every play. I thought I was going to play quarter-back. Next thing I know I’m playing center.”

Higgins was also a wres-tler and says some of his wrestling teammates were key to the ’99 football suc-cess:

“We had a lot of under-sized people who wrestled – Mark Mundy wrestled at 152. Matt Miller wrestled 171 and played tackle.”

He said Helton was the only reason he went to Cen-tral after he and his mom moved to the Karns area to

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 • A-3

Santanna Richardson works hard for her cheer team at Gibbs

High. Photos by R. White

RuthWhite

The Halls High football boosters will host one fi nal ALS challenge to be held Friday, Sept. 19 following the Halls/Gibbs game.

Hailey Tuggle works the bake-sale table at a recent fundraising

event for the Gibbs High cheerleaders.

One fi nal challenge

The event is in memory of Buddy Tarver, four-year starter for the Red Devils and graduate of the class of 1979. He went on to play football at UT Martin and returned to Halls after graduating.

Buddy worked at Phil Nichols State Farm and was very active in the Halls community. He was diag-nosed with ALS and lost his battle in July 2013. The Buddy Tarver Halls Football scholarship was started this year, and the Halls Stadium Club will be recognizing the Tarver family along with the recipients of this year’s scholarships.

The ALS Ice Bucket Chal-lenge has brought awareness to this terrible disease, and the Halls football program and Rural/Metro have dedi-cated this night to the cause by doing a community-wide

Ice Bucket Challenge. Every-one is en-couraged to take the fi eld after the game, and no buckets are needed as Rural/Metro will be there to spray water

on all those accepting the challenge. Donations will be collected that night at the game, and all proceeds will be given to the Tennessee ALS chapter. Donations are also accepted online at www.alsa.org.

■ Sweets and suds in GibbsLast weekend the Gibbs

High cheerleaders hosted a car wash and bake sale at the Midway IGA, and the team kept busy serving up sweet treats and applying the suds to some dirty ve-hicles.

The group is raising money for their homecom-ing candidate, Santanna Richardson, who hopes to take home the crown on Fri-day, Oct. 31. Money raised through the fundraising ef-forts also helps support the Gibbs cheer squad through the season.

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“Arcadia” painting by J. Austin Jennings on exhibit at the

Fountain City Art Center Photo submitted

■ Local artists featuredThe Fountain City Art

Center recently opened an exhibit “A QuARTet of Vi-sions,” with paintings by Aleex Conner, J. Austin Jen-nings and Kay Jursik, and bone and metal sculpture by Linda Leilani Bohanan.

The exhibit will run

through Friday, Sept. 12 and is free to the public.

The Art Center is at 213 Hotel Ave., next to Foun-tain City Park. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the sec-ond, third and fi fth Satur-days. Info: 357-2787.

■ Bluegrass Festival upcomingThe annual Luttrell Blue-

grass Festival will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Luttrell Park.

Come for craft vendors, bounce house, shade treek pickin’, Ciderville Music, Jerry Cole, Tim Lovelace and the Darrell Webb Band.

Proceeds will belefi t the Luttrell Volunteer Fire De-partment. Come for ham-burgers and a silent auction.

Info: www.luttrellbluegrassfestival.com

Raising funds for Alzheimer’sRadio station Q100.3 recently hosted a benefi t concert to raise funds for the Pat Summitt

Foundation. The concert, featuring country music artist Randy Houser, raised $11,000 for

the fi ght against Alzheimer’s disease. Pictured at the charity concert are Q100.3 on-air per-

sonalities Krisha Newport, Danielle and Carina with artist Randy Houser and program di-

rector Mike Hammond. Photo submitted

BEAVER BROOK GOLF

Pink ball winners on Sept. 2 were the team of Shirley Spignardo, Sandy Schonhoff and Loretta Young with a 59; Carol Mc-Ghee and Susie Schneider, both with 15, for low putts; Loretta Young, Carol Mc-Ghee and Susie Schneider, chip-ins; and Sherry Kelly and Shirley Spignardo, with 48, medalists.

Second-place team winners were Schneider, Carol Henley and Louise Nelson with 75; third-place winners were Nina Dolin, McGhee and Susan LeCoul-

REUNIONS ■ Central High Class of ’74, Sept.

12-13. Friday: tailgate 6 p.m. in

the CHS parking lot; bring a

picnic and lawn chairs. Football

game 7:30. Saturday: reunion

party 6 p.m. at Calhoun’s on the

River. Cost: $40 per person. Info:

584-9469 or knoxcentralclas-

[email protected].

■ Jeff erson County High Class of ’99, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Satur-

day, Sept. 20. Panther Creek

State Park, Smallman Shelter.

Bring your own picnic. No

tre, 79. Sherry Kelly, Nancy Guay and Connie Sharpe were cruising toward third with a 76 until someone lost the pink ball, leading to team disqualifi cation.

preregistration necessary.

Info: 704-995-5189.

■ Carter High School Class of ’57, 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27,

Aubrey’s on Strawberry Plains

Pike. Info/RSVP: Sue Boyer,

933-3077, or Peggy Wilson,

933-2608.

■ Halls High Classes of ’76-’80, 6:30 p.m. Saturday,

Sept. 27, Red Gate Farm, 2353

Maynardville Highway. Admis-

sion: $10 ($15 couples). Food

vendors will be onsite, but

classmates are asked to bring

their own drinks and lawn

chairs. The Kincaid Band will

perform. Info/RSVP: 214-7020

or [email protected].

■ Halls High Class of ’64 will

meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.

14, at Shoney’s on Emory

Road to socialize and eat

lunch. Info: James Kuykendall.

A-4 • SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news governmentof the bus system in Knox-ville is really good with three core routes having 15-min-ute service and many having 30-minute service. She cited the mayor’s support of public transit. This writer fi rst ap-pointed Rogero to the KAT Board in 2001 when she was a private citizen.

Distler, who likes to hike, says selling public transit in Knoxville is different than in larger cities. She cites customer service as key. She earned a degree in business management from the Uni-versity of Phoenix in 2009.

She added, “I love Knox-ville and think it is a great city.” She complimented Renee Hoyos, KAT Board chair, as “great to work with.” Hoyos’ term as chair expires in a few months, and a new chair will be elected by the existing board.

■ TVA: The White House in late August announced appointments for two of the three vacancies on the TVA Board. They are Virginia “Gina” Lodge of Nashville and Ron Walters of Mem-phis to replace Bill Sansom of Knoxville and Barbara Haskew of Chattanooga, whose terms expired in May. They continue on the board until the end of this year.

Lodge’s husband is a former Democratic state party chair.

W h a t went unre-ported in all the publicity on these two persons was the third vacancy on the board, once held by Neil Mc-

Bride of Oak Ridge, whose term expired in May 2013. It is still vacant. In other words, the oldest vacancy is still unfi lled, which shows the disinterest from the White House in fi lling the position. McBride, who has worked diligently to reclaim his old seat, has encountered a cold wind from Washington. He voted for a Republican to chair TVA, a negative with the White House.

Former U.S. Rep. Lin-coln Davis tried to get the appointment, but he is now a lobbyist, and the Obama White House bars lobbyists from presidential nomina-tions. Billy Stair of Knoxville has been mentioned, too, and is a possibility.

It will be the lame-duck November Senate session before the two nominees will be considered for confi rma-

tion, or they may go over to 2015, especially if the GOP wins control of the Senate. The board will be down to six members then.

Whiteside: Judge Scott Green has set Sept. 15 for the Troy Whiteside trial. If you recall, this is about a homi-cide that occurred almost six years ago and was trans-ferred to the DA in Greene County. Perhaps some prog-ress will occur on this com-ing to a conclusion. It is a sad commentary on the judicial system that this has not gone to trial or been dismissed in over six years. Most media have ignored this situation.

■ Debate: GOP state Senate nominee Rick Briggs has agreed to one debate (date and site not determined) with Demo-crat Cheri Siler. Siler wants more. Briggs had a fund-raiser in Nashville last week sponsored by Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and GOP senators that raised $65,000, accord-ing to Bonnie Brezina, his campaign manager. A Knox-ville fund raiser with Gov. Haslam is set for Oct. 3.

Debates between District 13 state Rep. Gloria Johnson and challenger Eddie Smith have not been set at this time.

Dawn Distler

Last week, the public af-fairs specialist for Knox County Schools announced that some members of the Board of Education might attend Bearden High School’s upcoming “Learn to Curl” session.

This was a surprising an-nouncement for several rea-sons.

First, with few excep-tions, since public schools business is de facto “public” in nature, doesn’t this per-son deserve a more logical job title?

“Information special-ist” may be less elegant, but to the eternally skeptical East Tennessean, “public

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It’s curling time in Tennessee

affairs specialist” suggests that somewhere within the labyrinthian school hierar-chy lurks a “private affairs specialist” denying us in-formation we have a right to know, like why an employee who hasn’t worked in two years continues to get paid, or where Superintendent McIntyre purchases his ties.

Also, as a child of the South, I assumed a person learned to curl at schools run by Ross the Boss.

Google to the rescue, where I discovered that curling is a sport enjoyed by thousands, some of whom aren’t even Canadians.

You might think of it as shuffl eboard on ice, or ice hockey’s great-great-grand-father. Instead of a puck, curlers use a stone, and hockey sticks are replaced by non-lethal brooms.

Curling is not only an Olympic sport, it’s famed for its displays of good sports-manship.

For example, the winning

team traditionally buys the losers a round of drinks af-ter the game. Alcohol con-sumption is frowned upon at school board meetings, but the winning side could offer RC Cola and Moon Pies in keeping with local customs.

Curlers also apologize for making a lucky shot, and they call their own fouls.

Those traditions might be a hard sell for board members raised on Big Or-ange football, where the ball often takes improb-able bounces, landing, for example, in the lap of Lane Kiffi n or Derek Dooley (un-lucky bounce), or crumpling

Steve Spurrier’s visor (lucky bounce).

And calling your own fouls?

UT receiver: “Mr. Ref-eree, please hand me the mic so I can apologize to my opponents and the fans for that lucky catch. Anyway, I pushed my defender illegal-ly, so you must fl ag me for offensive pass interference. I should also mention that I’m serving RC Cola and Moon Pies after the game.”

Or:Superintendent Mc-

Intyre: “I want to apologize for all the dissension and confusion I’ve sown in the community by using words like obfuscating to explain that I’ve been obfuscat-ing. Some football player cleaned the shelves of RC

Cola, so I’ll be serving Yoo-hoo and Moon Pies.”

Can’t see those scenarios coming about. Besides, with the departure of the athletic Indya Kincannon from the school board, the pickings for a curling team are slim.

Instead of spending time learning the subtleties of curling, board members might concentrate on more urgent matters.

They might start by pushing for a change in the law that ties school funding to the whim of County Com-mission. Tennessee is one of only 11 states that deny school boards authority to set tax rates.

If voters wanted board members schooled in curl-ing they would have import-ed Canadians, eh?

Derek Dooley’s “Fear the Pants” never quite caught fi re, but there’s potential for John Fugate with “Fear the Hat.”

Dawn Distler, 52, is the new CEO of Knoxville Area Transit. She took over June 1, coming from Nashville where she was general manager of the Nashville Metro Transit. Knoxville represents a step up for her in terms of respon-sibility.

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Fear the hat

Manager of Commer-cial Bank in Fountain City, Fugate was appointed by County Commission to fi ll the term of Indya Kincan-non until the November election. Three meetings. He’s said he won’t run for the position, but he has strong convictions about the direction of Knox Coun-ty Schools. And he often wears a hat.

Five minutes into his term, he was attacked by two commissioners. Amy Broyles called his selection Black Wednesday all over again, while Sam McKe nzie alluded to a shadowy “pup-pet master.” Broyles said her

colleagues had disrespected her district, but perhaps they simply disrespected her and her choice for the job, Rick Staples.

If Staples truly is the overwhelming choice of the district, as Broyles said, let him run in November and prove it.

Fugate, meanwhile, just put on his hat and left the meeting.

Days later, he was am-bling toward the Andrew Johnson Building when he noticed a man approaching, also wearing a hat. “I was fi xing to say, ‘Nice hat,’ when he stopped and jumped on me,” Fugate recalls.

“He said if I had come on the school board to cause a problem or raise Cain, then he hoped the business com-munity runs me out of town.

“Who is this man?” Fu-gate wondered. He later learned it was J. Laurens Tullock, president of the Cornerstone Foundation.

Fugate shook off the threat, marched into the board meeting and nomi-nated Mike McMillan as chair.

Distler wants all aboard KAT

She started as a bus driver in Akron, Ohio, her home town. She drove a bus for 10 years and was a union repre-sentative. While she rides the bus regularly now, including meeting this writer at Panera Bread on Cumberland, she owns a car and truck as well.

She lives with her partner in an apartment off Wash-ington Pike and is looking for a house as a permanent residence. She cited the people who work for KAT as a strength of the Knoxville system. About 300 people work for KAT, but Distler is the only city employee, and she reports directly to Mayor Rogero.

Distler says the frequency

Betty Bean

Friday night will be Joel Helton Night at Central High School’s fi rst home football game. It will be Helton’s fi rst offi cial return to Central since November 2010, when he was yanked out of the Roy Acu ff Field-house and banned from the school where he had taught and coached football for 26 years. The initial charge was that he had “intimidated” a girl with a stick and was an-nounced via press release from Superintendent James McIntyre (a deviation from McIntyre’s standard operat-ing procedure).

Helton was early McIntyre victim

The following Monday morning, more than 200 students staged a demon-stration on the street across from school property, chanting, “Bring him back!”

Shortly thereafter, the “investigation” widened, spawning reports that Hel-ton had hit his football players and kept an unsanc-

tioned stash of money to spend as he pleased. Stu-dent athletes told the Shop-per-News they were being pressured to say they’d been hit. Old allegations once deemed too petty to bother with were dredged up and recirculated. McIntyre an-nounced that Helton would never coach in Knox County again.

Weeks stretched into months, and fi nally Helton was reinstated as a teacher and sent to Farragut. In the end, no wrongdoing was found.

During this time, the

mother of the girl whom Helton had allegedly in-timidated contacted the Shopper-News and gave a lengthy interview, saying that her daughter had never been in fear of Helton and had never said she was.

“It was a personality con-fl ict. Nothing more,” the mother said.

She said her daughter had suffered threats of death and bodily harm as a result of the way Knox County Schools handled the situation, and that if the Paul Kelley Academy had not been available to her,

she would not have gradu-ated from high school.

“Her complaint was that she had a personal problem with Coach Helton, and she just wanted out of that class. She said, ‘Mommy, I just want to get out of there so I can graduate.’ All we asked was that she be put on Cen-tral’s Odyssey program so she could be given credit for doing work via computer,” the mother said. “She said, ‘I don’t think I’m going to get along with him, but I don’t want any problems. Let me do this.’”

The mother said her daughter was pressured by central offi ce administra-tors who kept asking the same questions over and

over again, as though they hoped to get answers more to their liking by repetition.

“I just think for whatever reason they had already de-cided that they wanted to go in a different direction than Joel Helton, and they used my daughter to get there,” she said.

Joel Helton was an ear-ly victim of a system that proclaims its support for “community schools” but has a pattern of disrupting communities by remov-ing strong leaders from the schools they serve.

And nobody from the system whose slogan is “Excellence for every child” ever apologized to the girl they used to get Joel Helton.

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1890 must have been a very busy year for the Bau-mann Brothers Architects as they were supervising construction of two man-sions in opposite ends of Knox County at the same time: Parkview, the Col. James C. Crawford mansion in Fountain City, and West-wood, the John and Adelia Armstrong Lutz mansion on Kingston Pike. In addition, they had contracts for the Borches Block on Gay Street and for the Lenoir City Land Company offi ce.

Westwood has recently experienced extensive res-toration, and its second fl oor has become the head-quarters for Knox Heritage thanks to a generous chal-lenge grant from Lindsay Young’s Aslan Foundation.

One of the so-called “Three Sisters” on Kingston Pike, it joins Crescent Bend (Federal-style) and Bleak House (Italianate–style) in representing the principal architectural styles of the 19th entury. Drury P. Arm-strong (1799-1856), his son Robert H. Armstrong (1825-1896) and Robert’s daugh-ter, Ann Adelia Armstrong Lutz, built the three homes in 1834, 1858 and 1890 re-spectively.

Drury Armstrong’s origi-nal Crescent Bend farm, named for the majestic bend in the Tennessee River that it overlooks, started with 600 acres of land on the north side of the river, and within a few years he ac-quired another 300 acres on the south side.

In a highlight of the so-cial events of 1886, John E. Lutz (1854-1920) and Adelia Armstrong were married on Feb. 10 at the Second Presbyterian Church. The land on which Westwood was built was a wedding gift from her parents.

John Edwin Lutz had been raised in Rogersville but was already prominent in business in Knoxville as senior partner of the J.E. Lutz and Co. shoe and hat store. He later would be-come president of a general insurance company by the same name with offi ces on Gay Street.

The young couple lived at Bleak House for a time while Adelia worked with the Baumann Brothers on the plans for Westwood, the unique 10-room Queen Anne Victorian-style home they would occupy in 1890.

Adelia Armstrong was born to Robert Houston and Louise Franklin Arm-strong on June 25, 1859, at the home of her Franklin grandparents in Jefferson County, Tenn. She attended the East Tennessee Female Institute, where she was a classmate of philanthropist Mary Boyce Temple. Then she attended two fi nish-ing schools, Miss Pegram’s Southern Home School in Baltimore and Mary Bald-win College in Staunton, Va., where she majored in art. To add to her art edu-cation, she enrolled at the prestigious Corcoran Gal-lery in Washington, D.C., and later at the Pennsylva-

HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

Adelia Armstrong Lutz:Early Knoxville artist

(1859-1931)

Historic Westwood

Since its dedication and ribbon-cutting in April, the historic Westwood Mansion has been open to the public two days a week. Westwood joins Cres-cent Bend and Bleak House, the other two museum houses built by Drury P. Armstrong and his family on Kingston Pike. Known as the “Three Sisters,” all have been beauti-fully restored.

It is noted for the unique artist’s studio built with a cathedral ceiling and massive skylight for artist Ade-lia Armstrong Lutz. It also features a grand staircase with ornate pediments, many el-egant Atkin mantels and its serpentine brick privacy wall.

Westwood at 3425 Kingston Pike is open for tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Free parking is available adjoining the house at the Laurel Church of Christ. Info: 523-8008.

Adelia Armstrong Lutz. Her natural talent and early art edu-cation enabled Adelia Lutz to become one of the area’s most famous artists. Knox County Two Centuries Photograph Project, McClung His-torical Collection

Westwood (1890). This Baumann Brothers-designed, 10-room mansion was the last of the “Three Sisters” to be built on Drury P. Armstrong’s extensive acreage on Kingston Pike. Photo submitted

lighting. Over the years that room became her library and the gallery for display of her still-life, landscape and portrait paintings. She then painted and taught her stu-dents in the cheerful break-fast room, which had more favorable northern light.

Many of her portraits fea-tured her beautiful daugh-ter, Louise, and her favor-ite fl ower, hollyhock, was a frequent still-life subject. A few paintings were histori-cally inspired. Many of her works are in the collections of the Knoxville Museum of Art, the East Tennessee History Center and the Ten-nessee State Museum.

She continued to paint throughout her life while managing a great house and garden, participating in fre-quent religious and social events, serving on various commissions and raising her active family.

A lifetime member of Sec-ond Presbyterian Church, Adelia Armstrong Lutz passed away at age 72 on Nov. 17, 1931, at Westwood. After services at her home, conducted by Dr. Clifford Barbour, she was interred at New Gray Cemetery but was later reinterred at Highland Memorial Cemetery. She was survived by her chil-dren, Louise (Mrs. Victor

D.) Holloway and Edwin R. Lutz, and three grandchil-dren.

nia Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

After touring France and other parts of Europe, she returned to Knoxville and taught art at her studio in the Kern Building on Market Square. She was involved with the Knoxville Art Club (1899-1902) and the Nichol-son Art League (1906-1925). Her association with others in the art league such as El-eanor Swan Audigier, Cath-erine Wiley, Lloyd Branson, Joseph Knaffl , George Bar-ber and Hugh Tyler kept her intense interest in art alive.

Her painting, “Moth-erless,” depicting two or-phaned girls, was exhibited at Nashville’s Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897 and then at St. Mary’s Hospital until 1992. Lutz and several other Nichol-son Art League members exhibited at the Richmond Art Club exposition in 1902. She helped organize the art displays at Knoxville’s Ap-palachian Expositions in 1910 and 1911 and was on the executive board of the Art Department of the Na-tional Conservation Exposi-tion in 1913.

Westwood was designed to provide an ideal working environment for the talent-ed artist. A spacious library-studio on the eastern side of the house closely resembles a cathedral with its domed skylight. However, she nev-er enjoyed painting there with its often too bright


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Knoxville delegates, with their leader Eileen Weber (second from right,) don the hats given to them by their Austrian friends at their welcome party in Vienna this past summer. Photo by Ines Pamperl

A global citizen

Since 1992, the Halls resident has been a group leader for Children’s Inter-national Summer Villages.

A global organization founded in 1950, CISV is dedicated to “building inter-

CISV Interchange delegates enjoy dressing in period costumes at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, this past July. The boys in green jacket and black costume are Austrian; all others are from Knoxville. Photo by Eileen Weber

cultural friendship, coop-eration and understanding,” according to the website. Seven types of “learning by doing programs” are offered, beginning with the “Village” program for 11-year-olds and continuing up the spec-trum through “Mosaic,” which includes all ages.

“The focus of CISV is on children and education of young people,” says Weber, “but the adults who volunteer get just as much out of the programs, sometimes more.”

Her own CISV adven-ture started in 1992 when she was teaching music at Jefferson Junior High (now Middle) School in Oak

Ridge. She spotted an an-nouncement on the faculty lounge bulletin board: An adult leader was needed to guide 10 local youth del-egates in an exchange pro-gram with Germany. For a month. All expenses paid.

“To be honest, if it hadn’t been pitched as free travel, I wouldn’t have given it a second glance!” laughs We-ber. She missed the dead-line for Germany but was asked if she’d consider Qué-bec. Though initially disap-pointed, she now says – four exchange programs and 22 years later – that the Qué-bec trip has actually been the most “foreign” one in

terms of language. “None of the Canadian parents spoke English, and it was a real challenge for my 12- and 13-year-old delegates to be in French-speaking families for two weeks!”

Soon she was eager to do one of the longer inter-changes – hosting travelers in her home one summer for four weeks and then in turn visiting the same peo-ple in their country a year later for four weeks. She ap-plied for and was selected as leader for the delegation to Italy.

While there, she recalls taking a few hours off be-fore a farewell party to relax by the Adriatic Sea. “On the beach was a lady who was a cousin of a friend, to whom I had been introduced. She spoke no English. I spoke no Italian other than a tiny stash of words learned over the past four weeks. But within minutes we were ‘chatting’ animatedly about our families, our husbands’

jobs, our kids, etc. We had a full-fl edged conversation and discovered many things in common, each knowing only a few words in the oth-er’s language and relying on gestures – and lots of laughs – to communicate.

“I still remember how thrilling it was to connect with her and to discover how similar we were in spite of our different nationalities and languages.”

Weber eventually be-came chair of CISV’s In-ternational Interchange Committee and led her fi nal training session in Portugal in 2013. Her birthday fell on the last day of the session. As she entered the room she was “quite surprised to fi nd all my participants al-ready in their seats, waiting for me. Then they all began to sing ‘Happy Birthday,’ each in their own language, and with several different tunes. It was a cacophony of the most heart-warming sort and a most memorable

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Refl ecting upon her timewith CISV, she says, “Myown personal growth as aglobal citizen has been mybiggest takeaway from CISV.I have friends all over theworld; I’ve stayed in theirhomes, and many have vis-ited me here in Knoxville.”

And as for the many kidsshe’s shepherded aroundthe globe, Weber states, “It’sbeen very rewarding to playa small part in what havebeen life-changing experi-ences for them.”Send story suggestions to [email protected].

HEALTH NOTES ■ Abundant Life, a Free Weight Management Pro-

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■ Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma Net-

worker, 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Info: 546-4661.

■ Prostate Cancer Networker, 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Info: 546-4661.

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noon-1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, Cancer Sup-port Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Info: 546-4661.

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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 • A-7 faith

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LynnPitts

I love autumn, and, at the same time, I dread it.

I love autumn’s cooler mornings, the blue skies, the air so clear it sparkles, the fi rst rustle of the turn-ing leaves. I dread autumn’s memories – loss and death and grief.

In our journeys around the sun, we always come back to this place. It is predictable, which is comforting, I sup-pose, but it is also inevitable, unavoidable. There is no way I can say, “No, thank you. I am going to skip autumn this year. Ditto for winter. I am going straight from summer to spring.”

Can’t be done.Maybe it is age that has

made the difference in my attitude. It is clear that I am in the autumn of my life. Even with a roster of sturdy, long-lived ancestors and my own good health, I know that I have fewer days ahead of me than behind me.

I remember past au-tumns, fi rst days of school, new friends, football games, baked apples by a fi re. Those scenes are as fresh in my mind as yesterday. (Don’t, however, ask me what I had for breakfast today!)

Perhaps the good news – and the bad! – is that no season lasts. Autumn comes in all its splendor and then is gone, replaced by winter. Winter gives way to spring (albeit, sometimes reluc-tantly!), and spring turns into summer. Then, there comes another autumn.

Are autumns cumula-tive? Do the fallen leaves pile up somewhere until we drown in them?

Well, certainly our days are cumulative, and fi nite. That is part of autumn’s message, too.

So, I bask in autumn’s glory and appreciate her gifts. I revel in the sight of

September songSo let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for

we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the fam-ily of faith.

(Galatians 6:9-10 NRSV)Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness

and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance.

(Hal Borland)

“my” mountain, as I watch the bright colors begin to climb its slopes. I study the woodpile, calculating how many potential fi res are there. I give thanks for the starry nights and for the fact that I live in an area not fl ooded with artifi cial light, and for the full moon (which in September the Native Americans would call the Corn Moon).

It is the words of the Apostle Paul, however, that haunt me today: “Let us work for the good of all … .”

How many of us are ac-tually doing that? We may work for ourselves, for our families, for our friends, for our community. But do we work for the good of all? What would that look like? Is that a deed or an attitude? Does that infl uence what we do, what we say, what we give?

And what will be our har-vest? What will we reap? What will we have to store up as autumn ends and win-ter sets in? (You realize, I hope, that we are not talk-ing about the seasons of the calendar anymore: Now we are considering the days of our lives!)

It is my prayer for myself, for you, for our country, and for our world that our har-vest may be rich and plenti-ful, and that we will share it with those less fortunate.

“Breadth and depth and distance” is how Borland described autumn. May we be like autumn, and may our faith be broad and deep and eternal.

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By Cindy TaylorFellowship North Knox-

ville Church continues to be a light to the community with a fi fth Sunday outreach they call “Outside the Box.”

Children from Fellowship North Knoxville sing for residents at

Northgate Terrace. Pictured are Levi, Natali and Irelan Fender;

Lola Clayman; Mattie Jane and Abby Thomas; Paige and Noah

Van Horn; Amelia Thomas; and Pearl Clayman. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Fellowship North Knoxville

co-pastor Stephen Van Horn

opens with scripture before

“Outside the Box.”

Ryan and Amanda Fenyves and Brian George work in the yard

of a North Knox resident.

Nate Thomas and Uriah, Ezekiel and Elijah Huff pull pine straw off the trailer to prep for work at Central High School.

Children of lightEvery fi fth Sunday for more than a year, members have met at the church for a time of prayer before heading out to various schools, homes and parks to clean up, paint, lead worship or just visit with residents.

“We are called to be chil-dren of light,” said co-pastor Stephen Van Horn. “We can encourage one another as well as outsiders to show Je-sus as the true light.”

Groups spent time Aug. 31 at KARM, Central High School, Northwest Middle School, Northgate Terrace and homes of community residents who needed help in some way.

“What I enjoy about Out-side the Box is that it helps us meet needs outside the church,” said member Keely

Hoekstra. “Those we meet are most likely not attend-ing church. It allows for a unique experience for us to serve and for others to see service provided by the church from a different per-spective.”

Fountain City Park has often been the recipient

of new paint, repairs and clean-up around the park thanks to the church.

Fellowship North Knoxville is at 3203 Tazewell Pike. Info: www.north.fellowshipknox.org or 214-6688.Reach Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.

com.

FAITH NOTES

Community services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian

hosts the Halls Welfare Minis-

try food pantry 6-8 p.m. each

second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m.

each fourth Saturday.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church,

7212 Central Avenue Pike, is

accepting appointments for

the John 5 Food Pantry. Info:

938-2611. Your call will be

returned.

■ Dante Church of God will

be distributing Boxes of

Blessings (food) 9-11 a.m.

Saturday, Sept. 13, or until

boxes are gone. Anyone who

would like to receive a box of

blessings is invited.

Classes/meetings ■ Powell Church hosts Recov-

ery 6 p.m. each Tuesday at

323 W. Emory Road, followed

by a meal and worship at 7

p.m. Small sharing groups

will convene at 8:15 p.m. The

free recovery plan focuses on

individuals and families who

are struggling with addiction.

Info: www.recoveryatpowell.

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As a boy growing up, I loved to watch the tele-vision show “Gilligan’s Island.” But as much as I liked this show, one thing kept nagging at me and wouldn’t allow me to fully enjoy it. I couldn’t under-stand how the professor could make washing ma-chines, generators, rather elaborate huts, batteries for their radio and a host of other complex gadgets, but he couldn’t fi x that little hole in the S.S. Min-now!

That just serves to re-mind me of how we some-times readily agree to

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Steve Higginbotham

Just fi x the hole

serve God in big ways, but when we have the daily opportunity to serve Him, almost effortlessly, we fail to come through. Friends, don’t overlook the small things that you can be do-ing every day in service to God.Pulpit minister for the Karns Church

of Christ. Info: higginbotham.steve@

gmail.com.

■ Shepherd of the Hills Bap-tist Church will host a Beth

Moore simulcast Saturday,

Sept. 13, at 400 E. Beaver

Creek Drive. Free admission.

To register: www.sothb-

church.org. Info: 484-4066.

Special services ■ Cedar Grove Missionary

Baptist Church, 9711 Norris

Freeway, Centennial Celebra-

tion Friday through Sunday,

Sept. 12-14. Gospel singing, 7

p.m. Friday; History and Old

Timers Day, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday; Sunday morning

worship, 10:30 with a meal to

follow. Everyone is welcome.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church of

Powell, 7212 Central Avenue

Pike, holding Homecoming

during morning worship

service Sunday, Sept. 21,

followed by a potluck lunch.

Celebrating 124 years. All

friends and former members

invited. No evening service.

Info: 938-2611.

■ Church of God of Knoxville,

5912 Thorngrove Pike, Annual

Camp Meeting, 10 a.m. and 6

p.m. Sunday through Friday,

Sept. 21-26. Info: 748-5403.

Vendors needed ■ West Emory Baptist Church

is seeking vendors for a Ben-

efi t Fall Craft Fair to be held

Saturday, Oct. 25, at Heiskell

UMC, 9420 Heiskell Road in

Heiskell. Tables: $25. Info:

Jaclyn McDonald, 210-3661or

[email protected].

■ New Hope Baptist Church,

7602 Bud Hawkins Road, is

seeking vendors for “Son”

Fest, to be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 27. Booth

rental: $25. Deadline to reg-

ister: Saturday, Sept 20. Info:

Tammy Lamb, 604-7634.

■ Dante Baptist Church, 314

Brown Road, is seeking ven-

dors for a craft fair to be held

Saturday, Oct. 11. Deadline for

registration: Monday, Oct. 6.

Info: Vivian Baker, 382-3715.

Family programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753

Oak Ridge Highway, hosts

Wednesday Night Dinners

each week. Dinner and

dessert, 5:45 p.m.: $7 for

adults and children ages 6

and up; $3 for ages 5 and

under; $20 maximum for a

family. Classes, study groups

and activities, 6:30. Dinner

reservations and payment

deadline: noon Monday. Info/

reservations: 690-1060, www.

beaverridgeumc.org.


RuthWhite

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You might call Scott Ba-con the Coupon Book Com-mander. He’s been part of the very successful school coupon book program with Knox County for over 24 years.

Bacon fi rst became famil-iar with the coupon books while on the corporate side (with Roddy Coca-Cola) during the fi rst year they were launched. He then be-came supervisor of business partnerships with Knox County Schools and saw the school coupon books in a whole new light.

He calls the coupon book campaign one of the best parts of his job and enjoys seeing students participate in something that directly benefi ts their school. “The program is successful be-cause principals and teach-ers get on board and make

The coupon book commander

the event fun for students.”Through all of the kickoff

events Bacon has attended, he has heard principals make promises to students if they will reach the school’s sales goal. “I’ve seen prin-cipals kiss pigs, get slimed, get dunked in water tanks and more. I remember when Bobby Gratz shaved his head when he was at Halls Mid-dle. The time Wendy New-ton zip lined from the roof of Corryton Elementary was fun. When she transferred to Fountain City Elementary the next year she promised

her students she would ‘fl y’ from the roof top and the look on her face when she saw the difference in the roof height was priceless.”

Each school keeps $8 of the $10 cost per book, thanks to the in-house work done through Knox County. Bacon and his team began work on the upcoming book in February, gathering and organizing information from more than 260 mer-chants, including 26 new ones. The book includes 354 coupons, totally more than $10,000 in savings. For

Abbi Johnson and Alexis Robinson help thank the major cou-

pon book sponsors during the kickoff celebration at Brickey-

McCloud.

A clean-shaven Scott Bacon.

Averie Leathers, Grace Latham, Scott Bacon and

Alvarez Hammond help kick off the offi cial school

coupon book season. Bacon has been the Coupon

Book Commander for Knox County Schools for 24

and 1/2 years. Photos by R. White

Knox County Schools superintendent Dr. Jim

McIntyre congratulates Bryce Olinger, the top

elementary school coupon book seller last year.

Willie (aka

Larry Israel)

kicked off

the celebra-

tion in cam-

oufl aged

style.

the last several years, more than 154,000 books have been sold in the two and 1/2 week campaign.

Every school in Knox County sells the books, so individuals don’t have to go far to fi nd a great deal. Books will be available now through Monday, Sept. 22.

Following this campaign, Bacon will hang up his (camo) hat and retire in No-vember from Knox County Schools. Where will he go? Not very far as he has plans to work with neighbor-ing schools and share his knowledge on fundraising.

■ Coupon kickoff

‘just ducky’

Knox County Schools offi cially kicked off school coupon book season with a celebration at Brickey-McCloud Elementary. The theme for the event involved

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ducks, camo, bandanas and long beards.

The school recognized the top 11 sellers from last year, cheering them on as they ran in to the gym to pump up the crowd. Bryce Olinger sold 172 books and was not only Brickey-Mc-Cloud’s top seller, but was also the top seller at the el-ementary school level.

Dressed in American fl ag headbands and long brown

beards, students helped thank the major sponsors of the coupon books with banners, a plaque and other items.

Since 1988, students have sold over 3 million books, raising $29,000,000 for Knox County Schools. Students will be out sell-ing books through Monday, Sept. 22 in hopes of raising close to $1.4 million dollars for schools.


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The bride is the daughter of Bryan and Deborah Rod-gers. She is a 2008 graduate of Farragut High and 2012 graduate of UT and is em-ployed by DMG Bluegill.

The groom is the son of Jerry and Donna Moss, of Knoxville, and Allen and Kimberly Marler, of Morristown. He is a 2009

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Hagy completes Air Assault SchoolMatthew T. Hagy, an Army Reserve Offi cers’ Training

Corps (ROTC) cadet at East Tennessee State University, has graduated from the U.S. Army Air Assault School and earned the honor of wearing the Air Assault Badge.

The 10-day course of instruction focuses on combat as-sault operations involving hands-on, performance-orient-ed Army warfare operations associated with helicopters.

Hagy, a 2011 graduate of Gibbs High School, is the son of Sandra M. Hagy of Corryton and grandson of Harry B. Wease of Jonesborough, Tenn.

Gracie Gregory will celebrate her ninth birthday Monday, Sept. 15. Parents are Michelle and Rob Gregory. She has a younger brother, Chase. Grandparents are Bob and Gloria Gregory and Pat Sisson. Gracie is a student at Brickey-McCloud Elementary School.

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Birthday boy Joseph E. Stafford turned six on Sept. 8. Parents are the Rev.

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Collins. Godparents are Brad and Lina Sweat and godgrandparents are Jane and

Cory Frame and Karen and Ed Watson.

■ Robotics: ‘acts of madness and magic’Halls High junior McK-

enna Snyder spent part of her summer working in Oak Ridge as part of an advanced manufacturing internship.

During her internship, McKenna was able to use a computer numeric machine that designed a prosthetic hand for a boy in Ohio. She was also able to see a pro-totype hip helmet designed for a man who lost his legs that will provide cushioning when he skydives.

After graduation, she wants to work in the engi-neering fi eld, and her par-

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McKenna enjoys the high energy of the robotics team and affectionately calls their work “acts of madness and magic.” Attending competi-tion with the robotics team is one of her favorite parts of the team. “It’s great meeting other teams at competition. Our team has to work to-gether to develop strategies, and competitions aren’t just going against other schools but competing against our-selves.”

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Tim Stewart was on hand and discussed the Acceler-ated Reading (AR) program with the group. “Through AR, a student’s reading level is determined, and then per-sonalized reading practice goals are set.” Children will make time to read and take

quizzes that help provide in-formative reading practices.

Librarian Mary Ann Taylor was also on hand at the open house and shared how students come to the library every seventh school day and are able to take AR tests, select reading mate-rial and learn library skills. Taylor works with the class-room teachers on their cur-riculum and works with stu-dents in the upper grades to learn how to research mate-rial and become indepen-dent learners.

■ Halls High football players of weekHalls High players of the week for the game against

Union County include Jonah Cook and Blake Lawson. TheRed Devils defeated the Patriots 35-33 in a heated match-up. Cook and Lawson had their names on the Marco’s Piz-za marquee and received great items from the sponsor.

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Most would agree there are not enough women in the state Legislature, and some would say there aren’t enough Democrats. So why in Memphis did three good female Democrats tear into each other in a district that’s liable to be won by George Flinn, a physician who’s willing to spend whatever it takes to get elected to some-thing. (Flinn fi nished third to Joe Carr and Lamar Al-exander in the August U.S. Senate Primary.)

Writing in the Memphis Daily News, Bill Dries says Flinn has secured the GOP nomination for the Senate District 30 seat left vacant when Jim Kyle took offi ce as a Chancery Court judge. Seeking the Democratic nomination were Sara Kyle (Jim Kyle’s wife and the niece of former Gov. Frank Clement and former state Sen. Annabelle Clement O’Brien; she also won state-wide election to the old Pub-lic Service Commission), along with former state Rep. Carol Chumney and former state Sen. Beverly Marrero. (Note: This selection was set to be made Sept. 8, after our press time.)

If Flinn wins in Novem-ber he would likely join Dr. Richard Briggs in the Sen-ate. Two new Republican senators, both physicians, could align with Gov. Bill Haslam to expand Medic-aid. Of course, the Demo-cratic nominees would support the expansion, but Democrats are mostly ir-relevant in today’s General

McCoy recognized for volunteer hoursAARP Services Inc., a for-profi t subsidiary of

AARP, has recognized Blake McCoy for his more than 50 hours of volunteer service. He not only serves on the John T. O’Connor Center advisory board but also volunteers and supports numerous senior citizen or-ganizations in Knoxville and the surrounding coun-ties. McCoy is the founder and CEO of Independent Insurance Consultants, an independent insurance fi rm that assists senior citizens with their insurance and fi nancial needs.

The Smoke PitThe Smoke Pit hosted a re-opening celebration featuring free hot dogs grilled by Reuben Stansberry (pictured), giveaways and a drawing for a television. The Smoke Pit moved a few doors down from its old location in the Ingles shopping center and now has a smoking lounge and a wide-open space to fea-ture the largest humidor in the Southeast. The Smoke Pit is at 7334 Norris Freeway. Info: 922-0951. Photo by R. White

Smoke Pit owners Carolyn Stansberry and Kim Conner pose with Paul “Red” Powell, center, winner of the grand prize drawing. Photo submitted

Memphis, Knox races will impact Medicaid expansion

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Assembly. Voters are left to fi nd the least nutty Repub-licans.

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tions will be all-digital by year’s end, bringing more than 200 high-defi nition channels to Farragut and Tellico Village customers among others. Removing analog signals will improve Internet speeds and picture quality, said CEO Tom Rut-ledge. “We’ve invested more than $2 billion in our fi ber-rich network to make that happen.” Info: 11517 Kings-ton Pike, weekdays 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m., www.charter.com/digitalnow or 1-888-GET-CHARTER (1-888-438-2427).

Tom+Chee is opening a grilled-cheese and tomato-soup re staurant in Knox-ville. The chain started as a tent store next to an ice rink and was made famous on the TV show “Shark Tank.” Info: www.tomandchee.com.

■ Quotable“Life is not a matter of

holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

She’s everywhere! She must be related to the Ener-gizer Bunny. Most South and East Knoxvillians I talk to for any length of time men-tion her. This week, I de-cided it was time to catch up with this amazing woman.

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ing back to South and East Knoxville. Photos by Nancy Whittaker

State Farm agent Mike Da-vis shares his enthusiasm for the growth around the East Towne area with members of the ETABPA.

Not enough hours in the day

Sharon Davis grew up in South Knoxville, where she attended Young High School. Thirty years ago, she moved to East Knox-ville, where she lives on the Holston River. Her strong feelings and ties to both communities are evident. Davis says, “It is a pleasure to give back to the com-munities that have been so good to me.”

Davis describes herself as a Realtor, a neighborhood advocate, a South Knoxville

property investor and a lover of home projects. She has been with Hammon-tree Real Estate for 20-plus years, and she specializes in residential listings in South and East Knoxville. In ad-dition, she and her hus-band own rental property in South Knoxville.

Community involvement is what Davis loves. I met her when the East Towne Business and Professional Association was fi rst form-ing. Davis and City Council-

honor of just completingeight years of service on theboard of Freedom ChristianAcademy.

Davis’ passion in her “freetime” is her fl ower garden.She was given four hostaplants to “get started.” Shenow has over 200 plants.She also loves to walk outher door and down to herpontoon boat to fl oat on theHolston River. Whether sheis at work, volunteering orenjoying herself at home,she gives 100 percent.

East Towne area booming

State Farm agent MikeDavis was the main speak-er at the East Towne AreaBusiness and ProfessionalAssociation meeting onSept. 3. Davis has ownedhis Millertown Pike agencyfor the past seven years. Hepreviously worked for StateFarm in their claims de-partment.

Davis shared his enthusi-asm concerning the growthand development in the EastTowne area. He describedhimself as a “cheerleader”for the area and added hehas a strong vision for thefuture. Davis said the busi-ness owners have benefi tedfrom the current growth.However, he feels the nextdecade’s growth will beeven more amazing.

Breakfast sponsor wasMegan Murphy-Boutwell,an independent sales direc-tor with Mary Kay Cosmet-ics. Different ways to shopwere shared – especiallyhow employers and hus-bands look like “heroes”with her help. She can bereached at 313-6399.

New ETABPA presidentJustin Sterling invites ev-eryone to attend the nextmeeting at 8 a.m. Wednes-day, Oct. 1, at New HarvestPark Community Center.

man Nick Della Volpe saw a need for an organization where merchants, retail-ers, employees, property owners and neighborhood associations in the East Towne corridor area could come together. They knew there would be strength in numbers. The success of the group proves both Davis and Della Volpe are in tune with the needs of their com-munity.

Davis has also been in-volved with Town Hall East for almost 20 years. She is extremely proud of the cleanup and development of the area next to the Bur-lington Library. Davis says Thomas “Tank” Strickland Park was a cooperative ef-fort of state, city, county and environmental agencies. She says the way the parcel looked was not representa-tive of the area. It is now a “sweet little park” that the neighborhood enjoys.

Davis also serves on the board for the South Knox-ville Alliance. Their current project, Second Saturday South, is a new event that will be held next on Sept. 13 at Ijams Nature Center. No surprise, Davis will be working at this event. Da-vis also says she had the

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Brickey-McCloud hosts B&P breakfastHalls Business and Professional Association held its monthly breakfast club gathering at Brick-

ey-McCloud Elementary last week. Principal Robbie Norman, pictured with attorney Jim Bell,

opened the doors of the school so community members could see what they are about and be

proud of the school. That morning Bell was the guest on WBES, the school’s news broadcast, as

part of career week. Photo by R. White

Real estate market trends slowerNews From The Register Of Deeds

By Sherry WittAfter a very good perfor-

mance in July, the lo-cal real es-tate market experienced a slight d o w n t u r n in August. The last full month of summer

produced 922 property transfers in Knox County, well short of the 1,065 re-corded in July. In 2013, the county saw 950 parcels change hands during Au-gust.

The total value of prop-

erty sold was also down by some $75 million from Ju-ly’s $292 million. In August, $217.2 million worth of real property was transferred in Knox County. That is about $45 million short of last Au-gust’s output.

Coming off a two-month surge, mortgage lending also experienced a slow-down in August with just over $275 million loaned, compared to $347 million in July. The August total was far below the fi gure of $403 million borrowed in mort-gages and refi nances during August 2013.

The most notable land transaction of the month

was the sale of a medical facility at 10810 Parkside Drive in the Turkey Creek complex, for $23,250,000. The largest mortgage loan recorded was an assump-tion agreement involving the same parcel on Park-side Drive in the amount of $13.2 million.

I would be remiss if I did not tell each of you how much I appreciate the op-portunity to serve another term as your Register of Deeds. It is indeed a privi-lege to continue doing the job I love in such a great community as Knox County. Thank you, and God bless!

Sherry Witt

By Sandra ClarkNorth Knoxville Rotary members are

not just a bunch of older white guys who work in Fountain City, although that is the business base. Last week three new mem-bers introduced themselves. Two had found the club through Facebook.

Nathan French wears earrings and a T-shirt. He runs a printing company in

Catskill, N.Y., working via the Internet from his home in Maryville. He and his wife moved here in July to be near his aging parents. Her parents live in North Carolina, and the couple seem to be settling in.

Joining Rotary is a way to “reach out of ourselves and into the community,”

he says. French served six years in the U.S. Navy and maintains contact with col-leagues by selling military and tacti-cal equipment online.

What three words describe him? He says “Christian, patriot and en-trepreneur.”

Ellen Davis is an accountant with Brown, Brown and Associates who just

moved to Pigeon Forge. She grew up in Michigan with self-employed parents who taught her to work hard from an early age. She’s managed a mobile home parts department and worked as a hair stylist for seven years before practic-ing accountancy.

“Make it happen” is her life motto. She contacted several organi-zations about membership and said North

Knoxville Rotary was the one that called back.

Jeremy Cook, a senior vice president of Pinnacle Bank, grew up in Middlesboro, Ky. He will manage the Pinnacle branch now under con-struction on Emory Road at Dry Gap Pike. His three descriptors are: “Family, friendship and fun.”

Cook said he likes Ro-tary because of its national project to end polio and

also because of Jerry Griffey, veteran mem-ber of the North Knox club. Cook and hi s wife have two daughters, and he’s active with the Boy Scouts Chehote District. “I do not wear brown shorts and red socks,” he said. “I raise money for them.”

Free Flu Shot Saturday: Rotary vol-unteers will help with the event 8 a.m.

to noon (while supplies last) Sept. 27 at six locations: Austin-East, Cart-er, Farragut, Halls and West high schools and South-Doyle Middle

School. Donations will be accepted with proceeds to benefi t the Empty

Stocking Fund.Golf Tournament: David Dooley is

coordinating the 2014 North Knoxville Rotary Golf Tournament to benefi t the Cerebral Palsy Housing Corporation. The tournament will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at Three Ridges Golf Course. Entry fee is $100 ($400/team) and individuals will be paired. Hole sponsorships are $100.

Major sponsors are Pop’s Wine & Liquor, Tindell’s, Pilot, Tennova Healthcare, C.L. Butcher Insurance, Fountain City Finance Company, Freight Management Systems and Phyllis and Ely Driver.

Rotary is eclectic bunch

By Cindy TaylorDollar General employee

Troy Smithee has been hon-ored with the company’s 2014 Serving Others Award.

Smithee has made the drive from his home in Se-vierville to manage the Dol-lar General Market at 1350 East Emory Road for more than nine years. Six years ago he organized an event to benefi t Susan G. Komen. He says the award is not about

him but about the organiza-tion he wants to serve.

“The fundraiser has grown every year. I have a lot of people behind me and lots of support,” said Smith-ee. “I am honored to receive this award, but the focus needs to be on the organiza-tion. We have raised more than $55,000 for Susan G. Komen so far.”

Smithee received the award in a special ceremony

Troy Smithee Photo by Cindy Taylor

Smithee honored for service

NORTH BIZ NOTES ■ Fountain City BPA meeting,

11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednes-

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■ Halls BPA membership meeting, noon-1 p.m. Tues-

day, Sept. 16, Beaver Brook

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Dr. Hartline achieves milestone

Randal Hartline, M.D., obstetrician/gynecologist, recently performed his 300th robotic-assisted wom-en’s health surgery at Tennova Healthcare’s Physicians Regional Medical Center. Ro-botic-assisted surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery during which the surgeon uses miniaturized surgical instruments that fi t through quarter-size incisions. Other ben-efi ts of minimally in-vasive surgery include less scarring, faster recoveries and shorter hospital stays.

‘Center of Excellence’ in women’s health surgeryThe American Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery (AIMIS) recently named Physicians Region-

al Medical Center a Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Surgery. The distinction recognizes

the health system’s continued commitment to off er women the latest minimally invasive pro-

cedures, including robotic-assisted hysterectomies. Pictured are Joe Lee, assistant chief nursing

executive; Suzanne Beauregard, chief nursing executive; Dr. Marcella Greene, general surgeon;

Dr. Bob Barnett, medical director of AIMIS Center of Excellence program; Charlene Minefi eld,

surgical clinical leader; and Dr. Lowell McCauley, obstetrician/gynecologist. Photo submitted

The Chow Hall opens on East Emory Road

Jerry Brice cooks up fries for an order at The Chow Hall. David

Brice, owner, is a 1985 graduate of Halls High School and gradu-

ated culinary school in Cincinnati. Brice features freshly made-

to-order items including burgers, hot dogs, smoked sausage,

salads, wraps, pulled pork, nachos, chili cheese fries and more.

Brice’s father, Jerry, is a U.S. Navy veteran, and the restaurant

proudly honors and supports all veterans. Hours are 7 a.m. to

8 p.m. Monday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday; and

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Call in orders at 985-2893. Catering is

available. The Chow Hall is at 5700 E. Emory Road on the way

to Gibbs. Photo by R. White

to further recognize his vol-unteer work. Dollar General presented a $2,500 dona-tion to Susan G. Komen on his behalf.

Dollar General’s mis-sion is serving others, and the Serving Others Award is presented to employees who live out this mission ev-ery day, both at work and in their personal lives. Seven employees were honored with the award this year.

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For more details about the Hip Fracture Center at Fort Sanders Regional, please call (865) 673-FORT (3678).

LET US FIX YOUR FRACTURED HIP!

Dr. Paul Yau

A picture perfect hip replacement!As a fi lm editor for television

and fi lms for nearly 25 years, Gian Ganziano of Knoxville, 46, knows his way around digital special ef-fects.

Ganziano is currently the lead editor on the television show “South Park,” plus he has ed-ited the digital special effects for movies like “Titanic,” “Batman Forever,” “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” and many others. He commutes to Los Angeles for work, but he and his family call Knoxville home.

Recently, Ganziano was the re-cipient of “special effects” technol-ogy performed in real life at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. He had a direct anterior hip re-placement with orthopedic sur-geon Dr. Paul Yau.

“Both my parents have had both hips replaced, so I think it’s something genetic. I have a lot of arthritis in my hips. I used to do a lot of hiking, but noticed over the last couple of years I wasn’t able to get out and do as much movement

Direct anterior hip replacement A new approach with great results

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is among only 15 percent of U.S. hospitals with the staff and facilities available to perform the latest approach in hip replacement surgery, called “Direct Anterior Hip Replacement.”

In this procedure, the surgeon goes through the front (anterior) portion of the hip instead of the side or back. This allows the sur-gery to separate important mus-cles and tendons instead of cutting through them to position a new hip joint implant.

“When I fi rst started doing hip replacement surgery this way, I thought it was just another option to access the joint, but people have done amazingly well with this ap-proach,” said Dr. Paul Yau, an or-

thopedic surgeon with Fort Sand-ers Regional Medical Center.

“With tra-ditional hip replacements, we have to cut muscles or tendons, which pro-longs the r e c o v e r y process and may require limitations on hip motion,” said Yau. “It

is common to hear patients being told not to bend at the hip more than 90 degrees, squat, reach to the fl oor or cross your legs after hip replacement because it would

risk a dislocation. “With the anterior approach,

none of these typical ligaments are cut, which means all of these com-mon activities are safe immedi-ately after surgery,” Yau explained.

The anterior approach does re-quire a specialized surgical table and intraoperative X-rays.

“The specialized table allows for safe leg placement not possible with a traditional surgical table,” said Yau. “This unique table im-proves access to the hip joint and permits the use of intraoperative X-rays to ensure accurate implant position.

“Traditionally, leg length dis-crepancies are a well-known com-plication after total hip replace-ment. The use of live, real-time

imaging during surgery allows the surgeon to make both legs bal-anced and symmetric in length,” he said. “This means the implant will last longer. I no longer say you have to be a certain age to get a hip replacement.”

With the anterior approach, the patient should expect usually one or two nights in the hospital.

“Some people even go home the same day,” said Yau. “People re-cover so much faster it’s unbeliev-able.”

Yau said he began doing the anterior surgery routinely about a year ago and uses it today for about 95 percent of his hip replacement and repair surgeries.

“It does require special facilities and a trained staff, which we have

at Fort Sanders. There are a lot of moving parts to the surgery andthey all need to be coordinated oryou’ll have problems,” he said.

Studies have backed up Yau’sopinion of anterior hip replace-ment.

“You know how progress tends to happen in increments?” he asked. “I want to say this is a giantleap instead of an incremental one in orthopedic surgery. I haven’tseen anything this dramatically improve people’s outcome fromsurgery, ever.”

For more information on direct

anterior hip replacement, call 673-

FORT or visit our website at www.

fsregional.com/orthopaedics.

as I was used to, and the pain was getting worse,” said Ganziano.

Ganziano said he wanted to use this summer and his few months of downtime to get his right hip replaced.

“My general doctor recom-mended Dr. Yau’s practice, and I got online and looked at the re-views. He had some really good words written about him, and I set up an appointment,” said Gan-ziano.

What Ganziano learned at that appointment is that for about 95 percent of his hip replacement pa-tients, Dr. Yau uses the “anterior” approach, which means he makes an incision in the front (anterior) part of the hip instead of the side or rear.

Entering via this route, Yau can separate the muscles and tendons instead of cutting through them to install the new hip joint. This, in turn, means a quicker recovery (see accompanying article) and fewer complications.

Ganziano stayed just one night

at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center for his hip replacement.

“Fort Sanders was phenom-enal,” he said. “The nurses were great and attentive. The whole staff, from nurses to the physical therapy staff, was great. It’s one of the best hospital experiences I’ve ever had. It was clean. It was apleasant experience from the time I checked in.”

Just hours after surgery, Gan-ziano was up and walking aroundthe hospital. After three weeks ofrecovery and physical therapy, heis now back to work in Los Angeles.

“I’ve compressed six weeks of recovery into three,” said Ganzia-no. “I’m up and walking and I haveno pain whatsoever. If things go the way we’re thinking they will,I’ll come back in December and dothe left hip, but we’ll see.”

For more information on the

Joint Center at Fort Sanders Re-

gional Medical Center,

call 673-FORT or visit our website

at www.fsregional.com.

Risk factors for a broken hipAge

If you are 60 or older, you may be at risk for a hip fracture. As your body ages, the strength and density of your bones may deteriorate. This may leave you vul-nerable to fractures because weak bones may break easily. In addition to bone deterioration, advanced age often brings vision and balance problems as well as other issues that make you more likely to fall.

WeightYour hips support almost

all of the weight of your upper body. Excess weight may wear down your hip cartilage and cause the bones to rub together. This action may destroy healthy bone tissue.

EthnicityIf you are of Asian

or Caucasian descent, you are at a higher risk for osteoporosis than people of other ethnic backgrounds.

GenderIf you are a woman,

your chances of bone fracture in the hip in-crease because you are more susceptible to os-teoporosis than a man.

■ If you have previously had a broken hip, you are at a much greater risk for another hip break.

B-2 • SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news sports

Amanda Runge-Gold serves the ball for the Red Devils dur-ing a recent match at Powell. Photos by R. White

Emily Tampas helps her team defeat Powell during a recent volleyball match.

My knowledge of volleyball consisted of this: once a team hits the ball three times without it going over the net, possession goes to the op-posing team.

After watching the Halls High team go up against Powell last week, I know slightly more, thanks to a 7-year veteran volleyball parent from Powell. The one thing I did learn is that volleyball is an intense sport, and if you can catch a match, I recommend it.

– R. White Madison Smith sets the ball up for teammate Micah DePetro.

McKinley Snyder and Taylor Moon wait for the referee’s signal to check in/out of the game.

Katelyn Cantrell leaps to the net for a block.

Lauren White sends the ball over the net during Halls’ volleyball win over Powell.

Fulton led the state in scoring while rolling un-beaten to the Class 3A state championship last season. For an encore, the goal ap-pears to be to lead the cos-mos.

With better than 80 points in each of its fi rst two games, Fulton enters Friday’s visit to Farragut averaging a state-best 74.3 points per game. The Fal-cons calmed down a little bit with a 56-6 win at rival Austin-East last week.

The compelling aspect of a pace well ahead of last season’s state-record 57.5 points per outing is Fulton posted the wins over Powell (83-3) and Bearden (84-0) with second- and third-team players doing a lot of the scoring and a running

Stefan Cooper

Upcoming FridayAustin-East vs. SweetwaterBearden at Morristown East

Christian Academy of Knoxville vs. Webb

Carter: OpenCentral vs. Karns

Farragut vs. FultonGrace Academy at McMinn Central

Gibbs vs. ClintonHalls at Oak Ridge

Hardin Valley Academy vs. South-Doyle

Knoxville Catholic: OpenPowell: Open

West at Asheville, N.C.

Where no football team has gone before:Fulton travels to Farragut on astronomical scoring pace

clock for much of the game. That says depth, meaning the Falcons could keep this up for quite a while.

Farragut is no cupcake. The Class 6A Admirals tast-ed victory for the fi rst time this season with a win at Lenoir City last week. Win-ning has a way of righting the ship, and, after last year, Farragut is motivated.

Last season: Fulton (15-0), Farragut (6-5)

Last meeting: 2013 – Fulton 55, Farragut 13.

The offenses: The Fal-cons run a little bit of every-thing. Depends on the op-ponent. The Admirals run the more physical spread option.

The defenses: Fulton 3-4, Farragut 33 stack

The Breakdown: There aren’t many teams with a 6-foot, 275-pound All-State fullback. There are fewer still with one who can run like Fulton’s D.J. Campbell. He also plays linebacker.

The Falcons lost quite a bit from last year’s score-board busters. With wide-out K.J. Roper, quarterback Adam Diggs, receiver Ken-tel Williams, Campbell and the cast of thousands Ful-ton’s depth would suggest, looks like they’ll make do this season.

Farragut has a giant-sized offensive line. Nathan Gilliam highlights a front fi ve with more than enough heft to move a defense around. Tanner Thomas, a junior, ran for better than 1,500 yards and 12 touch-downs a year ago. Keep-ing the ball away from the Fulton offense as much as possible is wise course of action.

Why this one in-trigues: Farragut will provide incontrovertible evidence of whether what Fulton is doing to score-boards across the state is le-gitimate. It’s hard to believe the Falcons, or any team, for that matter, can continue to score like that.

Or can they?

Marvin West

I borrow this thought from my Bible: Forgive him, Father, for he knew not what he doeth.

Forgive him, Father

Good man Mike Hamil-ton wasn’t trying to crucify Tennessee football when he scheduled home-and-homes with Oregon and Oklahoma. He was undoubtedly think-ing of national-spotlight intersectional games that would fi ll stadiums, sell lots

and lots of popcorn and at-tract big TV for all the world to see.

Even with 20-20 fore-sight, the former athletic di-rector couldn’t have known the Volunteers would jump the track, hit the skids and slide down to four consecu-tive losing seasons. Nothing like that had ever happened. Tennessee was one of the big-gest names in the game, top 10 in total victories. It says so right here in the Vault.

No way could Mike sur-mise what was to come, that by the time it was time to play, Tennessee would no longer belong in big games.

Even in decline, the Vols didn’t surrender. They brave-

ly lined up to honor contracts.The fi rst game against

Oregon, Sept. 11, 2010, provided the fi rst clue that Derek Dooley might not get it. Tennessee jumped ahead 13-3. Lightning and rain blowing sideways delayed the other action for an hour.

The Ducks rallied before intermission. Dooley said the Vols were a little defl at-ed at halftime “because we screwed up those last three minutes.”

They didn’t do very well in the second half. Oregon ended up with 45 consecu-tive points. UT fans, about to miss a bedtime snack and the late news, went early to the exits. Dooley said he was

disappointed that his team stopped competing.

The coach spoke of “bad adversity” in the third quar-ter and how his team didn’t handle it.

“Then we couldn’t do anything right. We didn’t tackle well. We didn’t cover kicks. We didn’t run the ball. When you do that and you play a good team, you get embarrassed. And that’s what happened.”

Neyland Stadium and 102,035 fans got the undi-vided attention of Oregon coach Chip Kelly: “That’s an unbelievable environment to play in. I mean, this place is impressive!”

Second in this mis-matched series was Sept. 14 of last season. Eugene, Ore., is an interesting place to visit. There are things to see

and hear. The city is beauti-ful. There is a focus on the arts and liberal politics. It is a hub of track and fi eld. Nike was born there.

Alas, there were football lessons on the agenda. Ore-gon wasn’t much like previ-ous UT foes Austin Peay and Western Kentucky.

Tennessee got the fi rst touchdown. Oregon got the next 59 points and sent in the subs. No kidding, if it wasn’t awful, it could have been. The winners scored touchdowns on seven consecutive posses-sions. The losing margin was 45. You must go back to 1910 to fi nd something worse.

Oregon fans taunted visi-tors with chants of “S E C! S E C!”

The next stop in this ad-venture is upon us, in Nor-man, 20 miles south of Okla-

homa City. It is a historic place. The Sooners are the prime attraction. They once won 47 consecutive football games. That little streak re-mains the world record.

This Oklahoma team is not THAT good – un less you believe Alabama apolo-gists. They have not fully recovered from dropping the Sugar Bowl past. They recall Trevor Knight com-pleting 32 of 44 for 348 and four touchdowns.

The Crimson Tide does not wish that on any SEC brother, even Tennessee.

Maybe it won’t happen. Perhaps the Vols are better than I think. By next year, when Oklahoma returns the visit, let us hope Tennessee will be really ready.(Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is [email protected])

Catch a match!

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 • B-3

By Libby MorganAllen Beeler is surround-

ed by hundreds of chrysan-themum plants, but hardly any blooms.

“That’s how you want to buy mums, before they bloom. If you go buy a mum that’s in full bloom, you’ll have a pretty plant for about two weeks, and that’s it.

“I hardly ever get to see my things bloom. These mums will have a great dis-play of fl owers for a much longer period. And some of the varieties I have will, with the right care, come back next year.

“Genetics have changed to where mums are bred for color and bloom size, not for return. Plant breeders want people to buy them again every year.

“Everybody thinks you stick ’em in the ground, and they come back automati-cally the next year. That’s not true anymore.

“When they do come back, they’ll bloom in July, but you don’t want to let them. My rule of thumb is to keep them trimmed back to four inches until July, then let them grow for fall bloom.”

Beeler is readying tiny pansy plants to plant in four weeks. He has violas and panolas, variations of the common pansy.

“Many varieties will bloom through the winter unless we have unusually low temps like last year. Pansies come in lots of colors and forms. Breeding of pansies has given us varieties that bloom all the way to May. When you think of bang for the buck, you can put pansies in in September, and they could keep being showy until late summer.

“There are lots of great growers up this way. Tater Valley Nursery, Brian White’s Nursery, Holden Nursery in Mascot, the Rid-dles at Seven Springs and more. I hope we can band to-gether and let people in the Knoxville area know that it’s worth the trip to come and buy from us.”

Beeler’s plants are sell-ing quickly, and he plans to bring them to the farm-ers markets in the next few weeks, until he sells out.

Find Little Valley Nursery at 1704 Little Valley Road in Maynardville. Hours are evenings and weekends, but call fi rst, 865-258-9926.

BBy LLibbbbby MMorgan Beeler is readying tiny

for all

Allen Beeler in the midst of mounds of mums at Little Valley Nursery and Landscaping. Photo by Libby Morgan

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Adoption 21LOVING, MARRIED couple wishing to adopt a baby. Will give your child a lov-ing, safe, happy home. Call toll free anytime 888-850-0222.

Homes 403BR/1.5BA ALL brick

home on Clairidge Rd. in Harrell Hills s/d off Tazewell Pk. Private, corner lot with extra lot. $146,000. 688-7754

For Sale By Owner 40aStrawberry Plains off Carter School Rd. 5000 SF all brick 2 sty w/2

balconies, 6 BR, 3.5 BA, inground gunite pool on 6.5 acres, $140,000 below

appraisal. $389,500. 865-924-0484 or 805-9039.

West 40w4 BR, 3 BA, 2111 SF,

all brick, all Farragut Schools, lot + 1/2 lot, all fenced back-yard, sep. 2 car gar. w/workshop & storage, $210,000. 865-386-7640

***Web ID# 457783***

Lakefront Property 47CUL-DE-SAC LOT.

New waterfront neighborhood, Loudon. $57,200. 865-306-0358

Cemetery Lots 491 lot in greenwood

cemetery on tazwell pk. $3000.call 318-6679

2 LOTS in LYNN-HURST Cemetery, prime loc. $2000 each. 586-291-1060

2 LOTS in Lynnhurst Cemetery, Sec. C, $2800. Will negotiate. 865-216-0676

2 VERY nice cem. lots in Highland Memorial West (Gospels Gardens) Reduced to 1/3 value, $750 ea. obo. 865-688-8779

3 LOTS, FT. SUM-TER Cemetery,

Halls area. Garden of Angels. 3 for

$2500 or $1000/ea. kimberly.ervin@

gmx.com HIGHLAND SOUTH

CEMETERY. 2 adj. lots, avail. in Garden Of The Four Gospels. $1500 for both. 865-384-5660

LYNNHURST Lawn Crypt, top & bot-tom, 2 openings & closings. $4100 total. Call 363-0945.

Apts - Unfurnished 71FTN. CITY, 1 BR apt.

conv. located, fully renovated, 1st floor, W&D, C H&A, lami-nate & vinyl flrs, lrg windows, $525 mo + $350 dep. 865-384-8532

***Web ID# 459122***

Apts - Unfurnished 71STUDIO/ONE ROOM

House, $395 month / $300 dep. No pets. 865-384-5604.

Apts - Furnished 72WALBROOK STUDIOS

251-3607 $140 weekly. Discount

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

Cable. No Lse.

Houses - Unfurnished 74I-75 & EMORY RD.

4BR, 2BA, 2 car gar., lrg. yard w/deck, all appls, refrig, range,

microwave, DW, great schools. $1200.

Call Lydia, 954-547-2747. ***Web ID# 458348***

WEST, KARNS. 2 BR, 1 BA, C H/A, small yard, appls, $485 mo. 865-938-1653

Condo Rentals 76 REDUCED!!! UPSCALE

CONDO 3 BR 2.5 BA $1295. Details at WestKnox.com

Manf’d Homes - Sale 85I BUY OLDER

MOBILE HOMES. 1990 up, any size OK.

865-384-5643

Trucking Opportunities 106DRIVERS, CDL-A:

Home EVERY Week-end! ALL Loaded/ Empty Miles Paid!

Dedicated Southeast! Or Walk Away Lease,

No Money Down. 1-855-747-6426

Dogs 141Bichon Frise AKC M&F,

7 wks - 20 wks. Non shedding. $400-$650. 865-216-5770

***Web ID# 460239***

BLOODHOUNDS AKC Reg. Pups & young adults. M & F. 865-360-8012; 865-368-5941.

CHIHUAHUA Puppies Different ages & colors,

very small, S&W. $150-$250. 865-932-2333 ***Web ID# 458144***

CHOW CHOW PUPPIES, born 7/23/14,

full AKC reg., $400. 423-653-6706;931-287-6841 ***Web ID# 458059***

ENGLISH BULLDOG pups, 4 wks. old, AKC reg., champ. bldlns. 7 males, S&W UTD. 1 yr. hlth warr. $1600 & up. 423-237-5177.

***Web ID# 459284***

ENGLISH BULLDOG pups, AKC, vet checked, 6 F, $1500. 865-748-4864

***Web ID# 459885***

German Shepherd puppies, AKC, 8 wks, M&F, sable, blk & cream. $400. parents on prem. 865-457-8186

GOLDEN DOODLE PUPPIES, $700.

kycountrydoodles.com 270-585-0217.

***Web ID# 458392***

LABRADOODLE Puppies, personal pet litter, stellar lineage, F3's, white, cham-pagne & latte colors, 7 1/2 wks old, $1,000. 865-621-0325

***Web ID# 457972***

Min. Dachshund puppies, 2 F, 2 M, black/tan, shots & wormed, $150. 865-254-1777; 556-1666

MIN. SCHNAUZERS, AKC, 2 F, 3 M, vet ckd, tails docked, $400. 865-414-5666; 453-1107

***Web ID# 460134***

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.

423-566-3647

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Shelties AKC reg. DOB 6/11/14. 1 M blue merle, 3 F tri color, $350. 2 yr old

Dad $200. Nego. 865-335-8730

Dogs 141YORKIES, Reg., M&F,

blk & gold, small, parents on prem. $550-$950. 865-216-5770

***Web ID# 460238***

Horses 1432006 WW alum. 4 horse trailer, extra lrg. tack rm, AC, elec. exc. cond. $11,000. 865-363-5582. ***Web ID# 458718***

Free Pets 145

ADOPT! Looking for an addi-tion to the family?

Visit Young-Williams Animal Center, the official shelter for

Knoxville & Knox County.

Call 215-6599 or visit

knoxpets.org

Farmer’s Market 150100% Alfalfa Hay,

square bales, $6 bale. 865-466-7052

Sweetwater

1999 CUSHMAN Turf Truckster, has hydraulic dump bed, 8 sp. Runs PTO, $3300.

More info. 865-216-5387 ***Web ID# 455272***

5 FT & 6 FT 3 pt. hitch bush hog, $400 & up. 352 New Holland

grinder mixer, $1,895. Call 865-981-3769.

Lawn-Garden Equip. 19042" cut Craftsman

hydrostatic riding mower, $450. Call 865-922-6408

Machinery-Equip. 193CLARK FORKLIFT, 8000 lb. lift capacity

triple stage, side shift, LP, cushion tires. $6500. 865-216-5387.

***Web ID# 449370***

NEW 8500M Apex gasoline industrial generator. $1795. New 7500 Apex Diesel In-dus. Gen. $2900. 865-982-7917 or 865-292-3563

Shop Tools-Engines 194Woodlathe on table &

new tools. $250. 755-7990

TV/Electronics 197Sony TV, Blu Ray

DVD Plyr & TV stand, like new, $375. 865-288-3549

Music Instruments 198Mehlin & Son spinet

piano with bench, (1958), $625.

865-599-5192 ***Web ID# 458956***

Household Furn. 20442" ROUND table & 2 chairs, solid oak, w/beveled glass top.

Exc. $185. 865-932-2750

DINING ROOM suit, table, china cabinet & 6 chairs. $300. Call 865-414-7206.

Entertainment Center, lg., ideal for man cave or lg. fam. rm. Solid oak w/adj. shelves, fits 60" flat screen TV, new $3000; asking $750. 865-922-0262 ask for Ken.

MOVING SALE. Furn., exercise equip & misc. Call for details &

directions 865-250-1729

NORWALK Sectional sofa, extra good, very clean cond. New $3000,

asking $375. 865-803-8590. ***Web ID# 457981***

old time roll top desk, all wood & 10 dove-tailed drawers. Re-furbished. $300. 755-7990

Queen Ann cherry table w/6 chairs & 2

pc hutch $1200; Round oak table w/6 arm chairs $700; TV stand w/storage $125. 865-599-5192

***Web ID# 458973***

Exercise Equipment 208Low Impact all-in-1 full body workout machine,

$900. Call 865-283-0380

Wanted To Buy 222BUYING COMIC

books, small or lg. collections. Phone 865-368-7499

Garage Sales 225ALL FAMILY GA-

RAGE SALE. Larue est. off mccloud rd. Sept. 11&12 8-3p

North 225nFurniture - WICKER

(indoor/outdoor), futon, wrought iron, Major

Misc. Sat. 6520 Trinity Dr., Huntington Place.

NEIGHBORHOOD Sale. Bethany Springs condos, off McCloud

Rd. in Halls, Fri. 12th, Sat. 13th, 8-? 54 Units,

Rain or shine.

Boats Motors 23214' Tomboy fiberglass

fishing boat & trailer, $650 obo. Call 865-922-1892

2014 Suntracker 20' pontoon boat w/ trailer, 75 Mercury outboard, seats 10, exc cond, $24,000. Lists $25,317. 865-947-3354; 865-414-7614

CREST FAMILY 2005 DL pontoon boat 22', 90HP Johnson mtr., tilt & trim w/trailer. 1 owner. $9999.99. 865-254-6267

SALE OR RENT DOWNTOWN 45'

Chris-Craft Cruiser, full amenities, twin

Detroit diesels, $69K or $650/mo.

Owner fin. possible. Jim, 865-414-3321.

SEARAY BOWRIDER 1989, 160 Merccruiser, I/B, new rebuilt eng., & outdrive, CD, $4800. 864-380-5801, Knoxville.

Campers 2352004 TAHOE 27'

bumper pull, with slide, Reduced to $6500 or trade for smaller

camper. Pics available. 865-740-7146

DUTCHMAN SPORT 27' 2010, located at

Powell Valley Resort on Norris Lake. Has water, sewer, elec. Lot rental pd thru

2014. $10,500. Call 276-870-4796.

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Motor Homes 237COACHMAN SPORT

2003, 22', sleeps 6, new tires, mic., refg, stove, 42,297 miles, $22,000. 865-621-2595.

DUTCHMAN 1998 C-CLASS 31 ft., Ford

V10, 29,000 mi. Sleeps 7, leveling jack, new tires. Price reduced

to $16,000. 865-257-1554

Fourwinds Hurricane 2006, 34 ft, Class A, V10 gas eng., 3 slide outs, air shocks, auto leveling jacks, 1 owner, non-smoker. 9600 mi. Exc. cond. $44,900. 865-804-4747

***Web ID# 452691***

HOLIDAY RAMBLER Cl. A, 1998, 35' MH, 71k mi, good cond /tires. $15,000/bo. 310-6140.

Motorcycles 238Harley Davidson 2012

Ultra Classic, red metallic, lots of chrome & access., 13K mi, must see, exc cond, $22,000. 865-947-3354; 865-414-7614

Kawasaki 2004 800cc Vulcan Classic, 18K mi, $2,000 in extras, $3300 obo. 865-982-4466

NINJA 250 2004, low mi, $2200 obo.

865-705-5305 call or text

Motorcycles 238SUZUKI GS500F 2007,

1154 mi., Exc. cond., blue & white, $3500 obo. 865-938-9511.

Auto Accessories 254FORD 9" rear end,

3.25 posi traction, great shape, $300. 865-922-8778

OPEN UTILITY, Big Tex, heavy duty, inside 6'5"x10'2". Tube rails, wood floors, drop gate, new wiring, front service wheel. Asking $1100. Mike 865-607-6742.

Utility Trailers 2552007 18' Car Trailer, 2

axle w/brakes, solid deck, weight distributing hitch, 7,000 GVW, $1,950. 865-691-6002

BIG TEX Trailer, 5x10, heavy duty w/drop gate, good cond. $900. 865-966-2527

Priced To Sell tandem wheel trailer, 5' W x 14' Long, new planking & new tires. $680. 865-306-2090

Vans 2562007 CHEVY 2500

Cargo Van. 115k mi. Shelves & cage. $9200. 556-2634

CHRYSLER TOWN & Country 2010 Stow 'n

Go. Low mi. $14,000. 865-457-5298

FORD Freestar SEL 2006, 4.2L, new tires, all power opts, only 59K mi, exc cond, $10,500. 865-927-3084

Toyota Sienna XLE 2000, all power, sunrf, fully loaded, $3695. 865-308-2743

Antiques Classics 2601934 FORD 5 window

rumble seat coupe, all steel street rod all Ford, AC, all chrome undercarriage, mint cond. 920 mi. $150,000. 865-983-3106

***Web ID# 457939***

STREET ROD OR CORVETTE Trade on Douglas Lakefront (as partial payment)

865-201-7457.

Sport Utility 261Buick Rendezvous

2004, CX, AWD, clean & dependable, 137K mi, $3900. 865-577-4069

Sport Utility 261CADILLAC ESCALADE

ESV 2004, white diamond, 20" rims, $12,000. 865-851-7393.

TOYOTA RAV 4 2011, 4WD, AT, white, 47K mi, fact warr to 100K mi, new brakes & battery, exc cond, $16,300. 865-748-5904

***Web ID# 457843***

Imports 262BMW X3 3.0, 2004, AT,

all maint. records. 134k mi., $8750. Phone 865-368-7499

Honda Civic 2011, 31k mi, under warr. Great cond. Take over pmnts. 865-214-4142

KIA RONDO 2007, silver, V6, 133k mi., exc. cond. Under KBB $5600. 865-202-4748

***Web ID# 459922***

MAZDA MIATA 1995, good cond. low mi., $3000 obo. Cash only. 865-824-6048.

Nissan Maxima SE 1999, 2nd owner. red, Bose syst. 161k mi. All maint. rec. $3500. 865-577-0647

TOYOTA AVALON XLE Touring 2013 Has only 2,854 mi. Loaded. $30,000.

865-387-3463. ***Web ID# 455339***

TOYOTA CAMRY LE 2012, 56k mi, exc. cond. White, new tires, $15,750. 865-209-8969.

VOLVO S80 2001, 4 dr., good shape, white, new trans. $5000. 865-680-9443

Domestic 2651999 MERCURY

Marquis @ 70k mi. New batt, like-new tires. Good shape! Call 689-5244.

Cadillac Deville 2004, 68K orig mi, exc cond. $7500 obo. 865-591-0249

***Web ID# 457628***

CHEVY IMPALA SS 2006, all opt., mint cond. 50k mi., 1 owner, white, asking $14,200. 865-719-0960

Chryl. Concord LTD 2002, 1 ownr, gar kept, exc cond, 160K hwy mi, loaded, $3,800. 865-742-4923

FORD FOCUS 2001, good cond. $1,600 obo. Cash only, Call 865-824-6048.

FORD FOCUS SE 2010, 5 sp, 40 + mpg, new tires, $7995. 865-591-4239.

Domestic 265MERCURY GRAN

MAQUIS LS 2002, 72k, leather, loaded, garaged. $5095. 865-773-3795 call or text.

Air Cond / Heating 301

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Custom-tailored clothes for ladies of all

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Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE in-

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Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER

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

Handyman 335CARPENTRY, PLUMBING,

painting, siding. Free est, 30+ yrs exp!

Call 607-2227.

HONEST & DE-PENDABLE! Small jobs welcome. Ex-p'd in carpentry, drywall, painting, plumbing. Reason-able, refs avail. Call Dick at 947-1445.

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THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 12Exhibits on display at Fountain City Art Center:

“A QuARTet of Visions” by Aleex Conner, J. Austin Jennings, Kay Jursik and Linda Leilani Bohanan; watercolors by students of Mary Secrist and Kate Mc-Cullough. 213 Hotel Ave. Info: 357-2787.

THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 19Bake sales and craft vendors needed for Lut-

trell Bluegrass Festival and Cruise In, to be held 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, Luttrell Community Park. Vendor registration form: Mayme, 992-0870 or [email protected]. Free event. No registration fee for car show. Car show info: Lee Carver, 606-335-5165 or [email protected].

MONDAYS THROUGH SEPT. 29Quilting classes and needle tatting classes,

9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24 for 3-hour quilting class; $20 for 2.5-hour tatting class. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

THROUGH TUESDAY, SEPT. 30Featured artists at Parkside Open Door Gallery,

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave., are Fountain City artist Adam Rowe and Karen Ferency of Sequoyah Hills. Rowe will be showing his laser-cut cards and Ferency creates wheel-thrown pottery. Info/hours: 357-7624 or 357-2787.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10Networking Today North Knox meeting, 9

a.m., Imagination Forest, 7613 Blueberry Road. Meets each Wednesday. Info: [email protected].

Free music lessons by Eric Holcomb, 3-5 p.m., UC Arts on Main Street in Maynardville. Donation to gallery encouraged. Continues each Wednesday.

Computer Workshops: Word 2007 Basics, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Re-quires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 525-5431.

Western Day!, Elmcroft of Halls, 7521 Anderson-ville Pike. Part of National Assisted Living Week. Activi-ties: 10 a.m., Line Dancing with Barbara Cannon; 1:30 p.m., accoustical guitar by Robert Ferguson in Heart-land Village; corn-hole tournament play-off; Western photo booth; horseshoes on the lawn. Info: 925-2668.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 11VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynard-

ville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.Cruise Night, 6-9 p.m., 6215 Riverview Crossing

Drive in front of old Food Lion at Asheville Highway. All makes, models, years and clubs welcome. No charge.

Fall festival, 4-6 p.m., Morning Pointe, 7700 Dan-naher Drive. Classic car show, food, entertainment, bounce house for kids. All free; public invited. Info: 686-5771 or www.morningpointe.com.

Living with Diabetes: Putting the Pieces To-gether, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Hero’s Breakfast Honoring 9-11, 7:30-9:3- a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Breakfast served to all current and retired law enforcement and fi re department members. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Pawpalooza!, Elmcroft of Halls, 7521 Andersonville Pike. Win a spot for your pet in our 2015 Pet Calendar. Calendar sale proceeds benefi t Alzheimer’s research. Info: Marcy, 925-2668.

Free movie and popcorn, 11:15 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Movie: “Grudge Match” with Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Queen for a Day/Spa Day Take Me Away Lun-cheon, 10:45 a.m., Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Complimentary child care by reservation only. Cost: $12 inclusive. Info/reservations: 315-8182 or [email protected].

First Lutheran Church 55 Alive group meet-ing, noon, 1207 N. Broadway. Luncheon: $8; reserva-tion required. Speaker: Edie Wadsworth. Public invited. Info/reservation: 524-0366.

Heiskell seniors meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road. Walgreens fl u clinic (bring insurance info); BBQ lunch; signup sheet for Sept. 25 Bingo Marathon. Bring dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

THURSDAYS, SEPT, 11, 18, 25, OCT, 2ACT-UP: Adult Acting and Theatre Classes,

6-8 p.m., Broadway Academy of Performing Arts, 706 N. Broadway St. Ages 16 and up. Fee: $35 or $15 for individual class. Covers acting basics, movement/stage

combat and auditioning techniques. Info: 546-4280 or [email protected].

FRIDAY, SEPT. 12Farm Fresh Fridays: Union County Farmers Mar-

ket, 4-7 p.m., downtown Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.Free movie in Luttrell Park: “The SandLot,”

shown at dusk. Bring chairs/blankets. Canceled if rain.Halls Has Talent!, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Elmcroft of

Halls, 7521 Andersonville Pike. Enter the talent show to win prizes. Info: Susie, 925-2668.

Knit or crochet hats for the homeless, 12:30-1:45 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. All supplies and patterns provided. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, SEPT. 12-13“Days of the Pioneer” Antique Show, Museum

of Appalachia, Civil War and Revolutionary War re-enactors, historic demonstrations, mountain music. Info: 494-7680 or www.museumofappalachia.org.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 13Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., Main Street,

Maynardville. Singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.Hogskin History Day, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Narrow

Ridge, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Admission/parking free. Info: Mitzi, 497-3603, [email protected].

Craft Fair and Community Yard Sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., North Side Y, 7609 Maynardville Pike. Rain or shine. Many vendors. Money raised from space rental will benefi t the Y’s Annual Campaign for scholarships, community outreach, youth programs. Info: 922-9622.

Rummage sale, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Greenway Baptist Church, 2809 Addison Drive. Info: 687-5369.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 14Sunday Night Concert Series at Historic

Cherokee Caverns, 8524 Oak Ridge Highway. Features live Bluegrass and Country Music, Food Trucks and tours of the cave. Shows: 5 and 7 p.m. Tickets: adults, $10; children 12 and under, free. Info/tickets: www.cherokeecaverns.com.

MONDAY, SEPT. 15Coffee, Donuts, and a Movie: “Captain Phillips,”

10:45 a.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Rated PG-13, 133 min. Info: 525-5431.

Family Movie Night: “Rio 2,” 5:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

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POWELL – Beautiful well-kept home w/wrap-around front porch. This 3 or 4BR, 2-story features: New Bambo wood fl rs, lg kit w/11.6x12.6 breakfast rm open to LR w/gas FP. Formal DR, bonus rm up could be 4th BR. Plenty of closet space. A must see. $210,000 (896516)

FTN CITY COMMERCIAL – N Broadway, currently Best Clips Salon has 2 rental spaces on main street front & possible apartment or 2 additional spaces lower level. Main level - Space 1: 620 SF, 2 restrooms. Space 2: 430 SF, 1 restroom. $169,900 (885995)

N KNOX – 3BR/2BA bsmt rancher, great lg backyard. Needs some TLC but has great potential. Lg eat-in kit, mstr w/full BA. Hdwd under carpet on main. Bsmt has fi nished 16.5x25 rm w/walk-out access & 34x28 unfi nished space for stg. Carport & stg rm. $115,000 (896029)

WEST KNOX – 5BR/4.5BA w/bonus has high-end fixtures, custom windows, granite, crown molding, hdwd fl rs & more. Open fl oor plan w/2 mstr BRs on main. Mstr has dbl walk-in closets. Kit w/stone surrounding gas range. Bonus up would make a great theater rm. Patio w/waterfall & fi re pit setting. A must see! $499,900 (899044)

N KNOX – Convenient location! This 3BR/2.5BA features lg fenced yard. Great fl oor plan w/lots of architectural design. Features: Vaulted foyer, mstr on main, formal DR & eat-in kit w/pantry. LR w/gas FP. Bonus rm up & dual zone HVAC. $224,900 (898943)

POWELL – Like new! Move-in ready! This all brick rancher features: Open eat-in kit, lg utility rm, all new fl oor-ing, updated kit w/tile back splash, lg bonus rm & great backyard. Great location close to schools, shopping & I-75. $174,900 (896959)

POWELL – Plenty of room to roam! This all brick bsmt rancher sits on corner lot & has 3BR/3BA, formal LR, den off kit w/FP, great screened porch, rec rm down w/FP, offi ce down w/full BA & laundry. Gar is heated & cooled. $184,900 (899093)

HALLS – Peaceful retreat! Custom 4+BR w/pond view features: 17' ceilings foyer & fam rm, mstr suite on main w/FP. Gourmet kit w/butler’s pantry. Bonus rm up w/offi ce & full BA access. Plenty of stg. 3-car attached gar w/220 wiring. $799,900 (891206)

HALLS – Well kept 3BR/2.5BA, 2-story w/bonus rm or 4th BR. 12x12.6 screened-in porch, fenced backyard. Lots of stg w/tall crawl space for stg. Updates include: HVAC gas & water heater. Washer & dryer to remain. $175,000 (891028)

POWELL – 3+BR/2.5BA bsmt rancher. Plenty of room to roam! This home has lots of possibilities. 1-car gar could be converted back to 2-car. Screened 24x10 back porch & sitting rm off mstr. $169,900 (894536)

NW KNOX – One-of-a-kind! All brick 4BR/3BA sits on 2.93 acres. Featuring: Sep living down w/1BR/1BA, full kit & living area. Wrap-around decking, det 24x24 gar. Hdwd under carpet. Up-dates: New carpet & vinyl. New roof. Underground utilities. $225,000 (889738)

FTN CITY – Great 2-Story, 3BR/2.5BA w/bonus rm. Features: 3-car gar, formal LR/offi ce, DR, fam rm w/FP, bonus rm up w/wet bar, mstr suite w/sitting area & FP, great backyard backs up to wooded area. $299,900 (885241)

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