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NORTH / EAST

BUZZ Chilhowee comes home

A short East Knoxville street is getting some long-awaited im-provements as Knoxville Area Transit’s east superstop location – Kirkwood Street – undergoes a signifi cant facelift.

Kirkwood Street, which con-nects Magnolia Avenue with Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Avenue near Chilhowee Park, is getting a new concrete roadway, new sidewalks, security cameras, and new, larger

bus shelters to accommodate pas-sengers on the three bus routes that make connections in that loca-tion: Route 31- Magnolia, Route 33 - MLK, and Route 34 - Burlington.

“We are thrilled to see this work started,” says Dawn Distler, the city’s director of transit, in a city press release.

“The improvements to this lo-cation will make a big difference to our passenger experience. Bus-

es meet on Kirkwood and passen-gers can transfer between them – either immediately or with a short wait. This allows residents on a neighborhood connector route like Route 34 - Burlington, for ex-ample, to transfer to a bus going to Walmart or Kn oxville Center mall quickly and easily.”

KAT’s last route restructure in 2010 incorporated the idea of superstops – locations outside of

KAT superstop at Kirkwooddowntown where route connec-tions could be made conveniently, reducing the trip time of many passengers signifi cantly. Current-ly, superstops exist in Fountain City (North), on Walbrook Drive (West), and at Kirkwood Street (East). Future plans call for a su-perstop in South Knoxville as well.

The bid awarded by City En-

By Libby MorganUnion County will shut down

Main Street this Saturday to cele-brate all things artistic – especial-ly music. Art on Main is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 4, in historic downtown Maynardville, the Cradle of Country Music.

The free arts and music festival will honor Chet Atkins and cel-ebrate the music of Union County. It is on, rain or shine. The Chet At-kins Tribute will be led by musicol-ogist and radio host James Perry.

In the fl avor of Chet’s legend-ary thumb picking-style of guitar playing, Parker Hastings will per-form. He is 15-years-old and holds the current title of national thumb picking champion – in the adult category. Tommy Emmanuel in-troduced Hastings to a Knoxville audience at his concert on May 21 at the Bijou when he invited Hast-ings to join him on stage. Parker will be performing on the noon-day WDVX Blue Plate Special on Friday, June 3.

Songwriter Eli Fox will bring

his original Americana music to the Back Porch Stage. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has ap-peared on the Blue Plate, Knoxville Stomp, and is scheduled to per-form at the 2016 Bristol Rhythm and Roots. Fox is a rising senior at Webb School in Knoxville.

Knox County Jug Stompers, The Valley Boys, Knoxville Banjo Cotillion with Greg Horne and Kyle Campbell, Swamp Ghost and Virginia Faith also will perform.

Union County veterans will kick off the day with an opening ceremony at 8:45 a.m.

Fine arts and craft demon-strations will be throughout the grounds, including glassblowing by Matt Salley of Marble City Glass-works, metalsmithing by Amber Crouse, apple butter making, corn shuck dolls by Anne Freels, slab woodworking by David West, and fi ne art painting by Brian Whitson.

There will be shade tree and porch pickin’ with everyone wel-come to join in.

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Parker Hastings at the Country Music

Hall of Fame earlier this year.

Multi-instrumentalist Eli Fox has just

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day’s Art on Main in Maynardville

hold a Fabulous ’40s and ’50s fash-ion show, featuring female profes-sionals and offi ceholders of Union County modeling spring and sum-mer attire from Shabby Chic’s clothing and accessory lines.

Student Art Competition will be held in the former offi ce of the late Dr. Carr. Kids activities include the Art on Main train, face paint-ing, art projects and ga mes. Sev-enty vendors will offer homemade and handcrafted goods, country food, concessions and live plants.

Oakes Daylilies will give away daylilies while they last. There’s a farmers market at Wilson Park and a kids health day at the May-nardville Public Library.

Art on Main is produced by theUnion County Arts Council, a non-profi t community organizationdedicated to preserving and cel-ebrating the rich cultural heritageof Union County, Tennessee. Infoon Facebook at Art on Main 2016

By Shannon CareyWhen the time came to plan Jim

Coppock’s 80th birthday, he told his family he didn’t want a party.

He just wanted a get-together with all his old friends who fi n-ished eighth grade at Chilhowee Elementary School in 1950.

“Some of us started fi rst grade together,” Coppock said. “We grew up in the ’40s and ’50s in Holston Hills and Chilhowee Hills. So many of us were in Boy Scouts

Mary S. Dodson’s (back center) fi fth-grade class at Chilhowee Elementary School, May 19, 1947. Ten from this group,

plus 14 graduated from eighth grade at CES in 1950, gathered for a reunion last week. Photo submitted

together. Some of us haven’t seen each other in 30 or 40 years.”

Family members helped plan the reunion for May 22 at Holston Hills Country Club, and Coppock and his friend Conrad Majors started tracking people down.

They did it through old-fashioned detective work, contacting old friends, asking them for more con-tacts, and so on.

“These are good friends from the old days,” said Dick Pulliam, who traveled from Memphis with

his wife, Carol. “They are long, life-lasting friends.”

These folks went on to Central High School, and many attended the University of Tennessee togeth-

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Martha and Jim Coppock enjoy fel-

lowship with Jim’s classmates at the

Chilhowee Elementary School re-

union at Holston Hills Country Club.

Art on Mainis this weekend

New church set for Texas Valley

They called it a historic day last Sunday (May 29) at Texas Valley Baptist Church, and so it was.

After a special service, members broke ground on a new church building, which will be approximately 6,000 square feet and sit on the site of the former building, which burned nine months ago. Merit Construction is the contractor. It is scheduled to be fi nished within one year.

But that’s all the boilerplate stuff.

➤ Read Jake Mabe on page 7

Holston Hills plant sale

The fi rst Holston Hills Com-munity Garden Club Spring Plant Sale/White Elephant Sale/Bake Sale was a rousing success.

Club members pulled together a great spring assort-ment of plants, garden items and baked goods.

➤ Read Cindy Taylor on page 3

Road closureThe next phase of work on

the River’s Edge 800-foot-long public riverwalk on the South Waterfront will require closure of a section of the westbound lane of Island Home Avenue, starting this week. Equipment was set up May 27.

Through June, motorists will share the open eastbound lane, alternating between eastbound and westbound commuters, with portable traffi c signals in place to safely direct traffi c, according to a city press release. The portable signals directing one-way traf-fi c will be similar to a system that was used on Loves Creek Road in East Knoxville during a recent bridge replacement project.

The Island Home Avenue lane closure will allow Empire Construction crews to place additional footers and continue constructing a retaining wall for the public riverwalk. Once completed, the landscaped riverwalk will include walking and bicycle paths, benches and trash receptacles.

The newest public riverwalk on the South Waterfront is nearing completion and will open this summer. The river-walk and building of a new pub-lic road, Splendid View Circle, accompany the construction of the River’s Edge 134-unit apartment complex, a $14 mil-lion private investment on the South Waterfront. The public infrastructure represents a $2.5 million investment.

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health & lifestyles

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a regional referral hospital where other facilities

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Feeling the ’Burn?Man’s fi rst case of ‘heartburn’ was actually heart attack

It was that last bite of pizza. Or so Michael Smith thought.

He fi gured his usual Friday night pizza delivery included his fi rst-ev-er case of heartburn. “It was just a burning sensation right there,” he said, pointing to just below his ster-num.

But what the seemingly healthy 65-year-old Sevierville man didn’t know is that he wasn’t having heart-burn – he was having a heart attack.

“He’d never had indigestion be-fore so he didn’t recognize it,” said Smith’s partner, Yvonne Osborn, who spent the next three hours trying to persuade him to go to the Emergency Department at LeConte Medical Center. “I asked him, ‘What does it feel like?’ He said, ‘I don’t know how to explain it, but it just hurts right here.’ And I said, ‘Mike, that sounds like your heart.’ ‘Oh no,’ he said, ‘I don’t think it would be that.’ That was at 7:30, then I looked over and he was sound asleep in the chair, and I thought, ‘Well, it can’t hurt that bad if he’s sound asleep.’ But we had worked all day, he was tired.”

At 9:45 p.m., Smith awakened just in time to see the winner of the American Idol fi nale on television. At 10, Yvonne asked if the pain was still there. When he replied that it was, Osborn said she remained calm on the outside, but on the inside, was “screaming, ‘Let’s go!’”

Finally, she told him, “This is crazy to not go because if you don’t go now, I’m going to wake up in the middle of the night and you’re clutching your chest having a heart attack, it’s going to take me some time to get my contacts in so I can drive you and that’s not going to be good because I’m going to be in a bad mood. So, maybe we should just go over there and see what they have to say. It’s not far from our house. If

Michael Smith is back to “fl ip-

ping” his home thanks to the

cutting edge treatment he

received at Fort Sanders Re-

gional Medical Center.

was on the phone trying to get a helicopter to transport him to Fort Sanders Regional, but it was too windy – thank goodness! It was like in slow motion – I was watching all these people like they were choreo-graphed in a play. It was incredible to me. Then the doctor (Dr. Dennis Mays, a LeConte emergency medi-cine doctor) came in and he was, of course, listening to the heart. Every-body was doing a different thing.

“They started asking me ques-tions about how I felt,” Smith added. “I said, ‘I feel fi ne. I don’t feel dizzy. I don’t feel weak. I don’t have any pains. I just have a little pain right here and it’s not bad. And she said, ‘On a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is it?’ I said, ‘Not bad, maybe a .5.’ She said, ‘Five?’ I said, ‘No, point 5.’ I could barely feel it.”

By 11:30 p.m., Smith was in the back of an ambulance, chatting with the emergency medical technicians as they raced to Fort Sanders Re-gional’s Emergency Department. Along the way, the EMTs were feed-ing information to FSRMC.

Upon arrival at Fort Sanders, he was wheeled directly to the cath lab where he was met by interventional

cardiologist, Dr. Joshua Todd who had found Smith’s right coronary to be 100 percent blocked, requiring a stent.

“He was show-ing me my heart on the monitor and how the blockage was like a big stop

sign right at the end of the vein – no blood passes through here any-more,” said Smith. “Then they put the stent in, and – Boom! – you could see the artery open up and go right down to the heart. My heart

is just down there beating away. Itwas just incredible! You’re awakethe whole time and you don’t feela thing. I was amazed that I didn’tfeel any anxiety at all when theysaid, ‘You’re having a heart attack. Ithought I was going to be scared ornervous.”

“I think part of that was the waythat everybody handled it,” saidOsborn, who says Smith’s heartcatheterization and stent was fi n-ished and he was in recovery whenshe arrived at FSRMC at 12:10 a.m.“They were so calm, so forthcomingwith information. They told me ev-erything that was going on and thatreally reduced my anxiety becauseI’ve never been through this before.They were so kind about giving meevery single detail, about what wasgoing to happen, where it was goingto happen, and I think that was veryimportant. They all deserve creditfor the way they handled everythingso professionally. And not just pro-fessionally, (but) the kindness theyexhibited was really important.”

A day and a half later, Smithwas discharged from FSRMC withinstructions not to lift anythingheavier than a gallon of milk forseven days. After the seventh day,he didn’t rest.

Instead, he returned to the taskhe was working on before his heartattack – building a three-bedroom,two-bath home which he and Os-born will “fl ip” in two years, some-thing the couple has been doing for17 years as they traveled throughoutthe United States.

For now, however, Smith’s hearthas found a home in Seviervillewhere Osborn plans to keep a closewatch on his heart. “If you have apain, don’t be embarrassed, don’tfeel badly – just go!” she said. “Ifthey tell you that you’ve got indiges-tion, great! But it might not be.”

they say you have indigestion, hoo-ray! But let’s just go see. It won’t hurt.’ He fi nally said, ‘OK, let’s go’ but grudgingly.”

They arrived at LeConte Medical Center’s Emergency Department about 10:30, walked to the counter and told the receptionist that Smith was “either having a heart attack or has indigestion.”

“I don’t think it was 30 seconds before they took me to triage and

did some bloodwork and put me on an EKG and another 30 seconds or minute later, they said, ‘Get a bed! We need a room,’” said Smith. “They hooked me up with all kinds of other stuff, and said ‘You’re having a heart attack.’”

“People came from everywhere,” said Osborn. “There must’ve been 15 people around. Some were putting IVs in each arm, some were putting those heart leads on, another one

Dr. Joshua Todd

Heart attacks often mistaken for indigestionHeartburn or heart attack? Michael

Smith couldn’t tell the difference. Could you?Decide quickly because, depending on

what type of heart attack you have, your best chance for survival is getting to the hospital within the first three hours of your symptoms.

“Indigestion can be a common symp-tom,” said Dr. Josh Todd, the interven-tional cardiologist at Fort Sanders Re-gional Medical Center who placed a stent in Smith’s right coronary artery. “Patients tend to ignore the initial symptoms of a heart attack, and may attempt other al-ternative strategies to help alleviate pain such as antacids or pain medications in-cluding aspirin. When the symptoms aren’t relieved - that’s when EMS is usu-ally called.”

In fact, a recent survey of 500 heart at-tack survivors found that eight out of ten failed to realize that they were having a heart attack. One third of those mistook their symptoms for indigestion. The study

also found that half of heart attack suffer-ers do not seek help for more than an hour because they think they have indigestion or other minor conditions.

“It can be hard even for physicians to interpret these symptoms” said Dr. Todd. “Based on a patient’s symptoms and their risk factor profile, the chance that indi-gestion-like signs are indicators of a blood flow problem with the heart can range from 20 to 90 percent.”

“The emergency department is the best place to determine the patient’s risk by rapidly obtaining an EKG within 10 min-utes of the patient’s arrival. This test will conclude to which type of heart attack a patient is experiencing – STEMI (ST-seg-ment Elevation Myocardial Infarction) or Non-STEMI,” he added.

The diagnosis of a STEMI heart attack is made by a combination of symptom in-dicators and an EKG tracing that shows elevated “ST” segments, indicating an ar-tery is totally blocked.

“There are large amounts of data show-

ing that if you have that type heart at-tack, sooner is better for interventional action because the artery is 100 percent blocked,” said Dr. Todd. “If the EKG does not demonstrate this finding, a medical evaluation is performed which involves obtaining laboratory testing over the next several hours to see if heart cell death has occurred. The first EKG is how we deter-mine who is emergently transported to the Cath Lab.”

The best time for treatment is within the first three hours of the onset of symp-toms. After 12 hours of continued symp-toms, there is little benefit to procedures offered in the Cath Lab. Individuals at risk for a heart attack should be well informed of these facts. If you can recognize the symptoms of heart attack early and get to the hospital, you can receive the most ef-fective treatment.

Outlying hospitals without the ability to perform emergent interventions like LeConte Medical Center have established “STEMI” teams that spring into action the

moment a heart patient first enters theiremergency department.

“If a person presents with symptomsthat may by caused by a heart attack, theyreceive and EKG rapidly, and if the patientmeets criteria, the STEMI team is activat-ed,” said Dr. Todd. “After the STEMI teamis activated, a request is sent to an EMSemergency transport provider. LeContethen notifies the Cath Lab team at FortSanders Regional so that the team is readyto go before the patient arrives.”

Michael Smith learned that it’s not how much you hurt, but why you are hurting.

“Pain intensity is not as important as the EKG fi ndings,” said Dr. Todd. “Mistakinga heart attack for heartburn is not uncom-mon. Refl ux disease can present the sameway. For every one patient who is having aheart attack, there are probably 10 with thesame symptoms who aren’t. If you are hav-ing symptoms that may represent a heartattack, prompt presentation to qualifi edmedical personnel who can perform andinterpret an ECG may be life- saving.”

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This photo shows roadwork underway on Kirkwood near Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church.

gineering for the work totals $127,368. KAT will be sup-plying the bus shelters in addition to this amount, and the security cameras are also an additional project. Work will

continue for the next several weeks and current plans are for the new Kirkwood superstop to be formally opened in July as part of KAT’s Try Transit Week activities.

Kat superstop From page 1

Chilhowee From page 1

John Watts and Herbert Hall exchange tales of days gone by as

they watch a slideshow of yearbook photos at the Chilhowee

Elementary School reunion.

Dick and Carol Pulliam traveled from Memphis for the Chil-

howee Elementary School reunion.

er. Other attendees include Knoxville opthamologist Kenneth Rawlston, King-sport pediatrician Kent Bla-zier, and Jimmy Lockwood of the Crosseyed Cricket resort.

And the name on every-one’s lips, the thread that ties them all together, is Cop-pock’s father, Jimmy Cop-pock, who served as scout-master for the Boy Scouts in the group.

“He kept us young boys in line,” said John Watts. “Due to his urging, many of us be-came Eagle Scouts.”

In fact, about 20 boys from this age group became Eagle Scouts under Mr. Cop-pock, a staggering number.

“He motivated you as well as he played golf,” said Herbert Hall.

“He is without a doubt the most dedicated scout-master I’ve had any contact with,” said Blazier. “I would put what I learned in Scouts up against what I learned in high school any day.”

As the afternoon drew on, classmates and friends gath-ered around a slideshow of yearbook photos and other mementos from the old days, sharing laughter and smiles and swapping tales. And for Jim Coppock, it was a birth-day party to be remembered.

Info: jcoppock35@gmail.com

The fi rst Holston Hills Community Garden Club Spring Plant Sale/White El-ephant Sale/Bake Sale was a rousing success.

■ Alice Bell Spring Hill Neigh-

borhood Association. Info:

Ronnie Collins, 637-9630.

■ Beaumont Community

Organization. Info: Natasha

Murphy, 936-0139.

■ Belle Morris Community Ac-

tion Group meets 7 p.m. each

second Monday, City View

Baptist Church, 2311 Fine Ave.

Info: bellemorris.com or Rick

Wilen, 524-5008.

■ Chilhowee Park Neighbor-

hood Association meets

6:30 p.m. each last Tuesday,

Administration Building,

Knoxville Zoo. Info: Paul Ruff ,

696-6584.

■ Edgewood Park Neighbor-

hood Association meets

7 p.m. each third Tuesday,

Larry Cox Senior Center, 3109

Ocoee Trail. Info: edgewood

park.us.

■ Excelsior Lodge No. 342

meets 7:30 p.m. each Thurs-

day, 10103 Thorn Grove Pike.

Info: Bill Emmert, 933-6032 or

w.emmert@att.net.

■ Family Community Educa-

tion-Carter Club meets 10

a.m. each second Tuesday,

Carter Senior Center, 9036

Asheville Highway. Info: Anne

Winstead, 933-5821.

■ First District Democrats meet

each fi rst Monday, Burlington

Branch Library, 4614 Asheville

Highway. Info: Harold Middle-

brook, haroldmiddlebrook@

gmail.com; Mary Wilson,

marytheprez@yahoo.com.

■ Historic Fourth & Gill

Neighborhood Organization

meets 6:30 p.m. each second

Monday, Central UMC, 201

Third Ave. Info: Liz Upchurch,

898-1809, lizupchurch1@

gmail.com.

■ Inskip Community Asso-

ciation meets 6 p.m. each

fourth Tuesday, Inskip

Baptist Church, 4810 Rowan

Road. Info: Betty Jo Mahan,

679-2748 or bettymahan@

knology.net.

■ Oakwood Lincoln Park Neigh-

borhood Association meets

6:30 p.m. each fi rst Monday,

Community Club House, 916

Shamrock Ave. Info: Bill Hut-

ton, 773-5228 or s_wlhutton@

yahoo.com.

■ Old North Knoxville meets

6:30 p.m. each second

Monday, St. James Episcopal

Church Parish Hall, 1101 N.

Broadway.

■ Parkridge Community Orga-

nization meets 6:30 p.m. each

fi rst Monday except holidays,

Cansler YMCA, 616 Jessamine

St. Info: Jerry Caldwell, 329-

9943.

■ Second District Democrats

meet 6 p.m. each second

Thursday, New Hope Mis-

sionary Baptist Church, 2504

Cecil Ave. Info: Rick Staples,

385-3589 or funnyman1@

comic.com.

■ Thorn Grove Rebekah Lodge

No. 13 meets 7:30 p.m. each

second and fourth Monday,

10103 Thorn Grove Pike. Info:

Mary Jo Poole, 599-7698 or

mjp1101@aol.com.

■ Town Hall East. Info: Eston

Williams, 406-5412 or

eston_williams@yahoo.com;

facebook.com/townhalleast/

info.

COMMUNITY NOTES

Cindy Taylor

Bakers Carol Davis and Ellise Blosser Photo submitted

Th fi tt HH ll t HiHilll

Celebrating spring

Margy Wirtz-Henry, Mary Catherine Willard, Therese Hurley and Dr. Jim Milan at the plant sale Photo submitted

Alan and Debra Thomas talk

with garden club member

Kim Mendenhall. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Club members pulled to-gether a great spring assort-ment of plants, garden items and baked goods.

The weather cooper-ated as more than 100 folks stopped by throughout the day to make purchases and talk with friends and neigh-bors.

Unsold items were donat-ed to Holston Rehab Center, Eastminster Church and Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Sponsors included Mynatt Funeral Home, Fig & Co. and Ironic.

Firehouse Subs donated food for the volunteers. Pro-ceeds will benefi t commu-nity park improvements.

4 • JUNE 1, 2016 • Shopper news

Sandra Clark

Marvin West

Beware of coffee shop de-bates about Tennessee foot-ball. Bruises and even lac-erations are possible. Egos can be damaged. Feelings may be hurt beyond repair.

I innocently walked into one the other day and was immediately challenged to settle the disturbance.

“Speak up,” said one com-batant. “You know it all.”

“You’ve been around for-ever,” said another.

In commemoration of this year’s empty NFL draft, at issue was which former Volunteer, born in the state of Tennessee, played the most pro football games?

Under consideration were Doug Atkins, Bill Bates and Reggie White.

Right here, out of courte-sy, we pause for two seconds

Old Vols in the NFL

so you can vote.Pause over.Atkins, defensive end

from Humboldt, played in 205 pro games (mostly Chi-cago). He struck fear into the hearts of quarterbacks and sometimes alarmed rival linemen assigned to block him. He is one of the really big names in the col-lege and pro halls of fame.

Bates, defensive back from Farragut, played in 217 games, all with the Cow-

boys, and fi nished as one of the all-time stars of special teams. He has coached and also distinguished himself as a father of athletes.

White, a rare gladiator who included foes in his prayers and then dented their helmets, made the trip from Chattanooga to UT to Philadelphia to Green Bay and fi nally to Carolina. He played in 232 NFL games over 15 seasons.

Before anyone could ask, I told them Reggie inter-cepted three passes, scored two touchdowns and had 198 career sacks. That made an impression.

“You are pretty smart,” said one listener.

“There are reference li-braries,” said I.

The coffee caucus, three

cups in, seemed surprised to learn that homegrown Raleigh McKenzie from Austin-East played cen-ter and guard in 226 pro games, much for Washing-ton but two years each for Philadelphia, San Diego and Green Bay.

One budding genius sud-denly remembered that Raleigh works for his twin brother Reggie as a scout for the Oakland Raiders. Reg-gie is general manager and also a very famous father. His son, Kahlil McKenzie, defensive tackle, 6-4 and 319, is a Tennessee star-to-be.

Reggie is very smart but did not play nearly as many NFL games as Raleigh.

The discussion got side-tracked onto how Kahlil and

the current Volunteers will do and how good an idea was moving the opener to a Thursday night and would I attend the Battle of Bristol.

It took time to return to the subject, Tennessee-born Vols who survived the rigors of pro football for extended periods. If you are guessing, offensive linemen do have a better chance for longevity than backs, receivers and linebackers.

Judge Tim Irwin, former Central High tackle, played in 201 games, almost all with the Minnesota Vikings. Chad Clifton, from Martin, played in 158 for the Pack-ers. He is new to their hall of fame.

Mike Stratton of Tellico Plains played 156 for Buf-falo. Bruce Wilkerson, from Loudon, played in 147, mostly for the Raiders. Har-ry Galbreath, from Clarks-ville, made it through 141

with Miami, Green Bay and the New York Jets.

Nashville tackle John Gordy, teammate of John Majors, did 134 games for the Detroit Lions. Defen-sive tackle John Hender-son (Nashville) had 133. Cleveland’s Bob Johnson was Cincinnati’s center for 126 games. Linebacker Al Wilson (Jackson) lasted for 125. Linebacker Mike Cofer (Rule High, Knoxville) played 123.

Don’t set this list in stone. Jason Witten (Elizabethton to UT to Dallas) is gaining on 200 games. He holds the NFL mark for consecu-tive starts by a tight end and is third all-time to reach 10,000 yards in receptions.

One or more of the Colquitts (Knoxville) may kick forever.Marvin West invites additions and cor-rections from other know-it-alls. His ad-dress is westwest6@netzero.com

= Neighborhood Engagement

= City Staff Work

Appendix F — Flow Chart / Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program

B Kick-Off Meeting Neighbors explain

traffic issues. Staff explains Traffic

Safety Program.

Further Study

Indicated?

E Evaluation Meeting

Neighbors detail traffic problems.

F Speed Data Collection & Evaluation

Data from hoses, collisions, KPD.

Qualifies for Engineering

on Point Scale

System?

A Neighborhood

Application Neighborhood

applies for Traffic Safety Study.

H Traffic Calming Feasibilty Study

More in-depth study and analysis.

J Concept Plan

Meeting City presents

plan for deploying

devices &/or route

modifications. Neighbors

provide feedback.

Threshold Met for

Enforcement &/or Further

Study?

yes

yes

yes

Priority Ranking Project Ranks High

or Low?

high

Project will be ranked again in next round.

C Alternate Solutions Staff may suggest

solutions outside the Traffic Safety Program.

D Neighborhood Petition

Impact area defined. Neighborhood gathers

signatures.

no

no

K Detailed Design

City prepares bid-ready detailed design of the

project.

ENFORCEMENT

ENGINEERING

L Bidding &

Construction Projects are bundled for lowest cost.

M Post-Construction

Evaluation

no

More than 50%

approve?

no

EDUCATION

G Speed Data Status

Meeting City shares data results

& analysis with the neighborhood.

yes yes

I Traffic Calming Status Meeting

City shares data results & analysis with the

neighborhood.

low Carl McDaniel

McDaniel was a Lion for all seasonsI can’t remember when I

didn’t know Carl McDaniel. He was just always around,

h e l p i n g folks with vision prob-lems or spearhead-ing some new fund-r a i s i n g scheme for the Halls Lions Club.

When he died on May 24 at age 80, the community lost a fi ne leader.

I connect Carl with George Davey; both were Lions and both lived on Co-chise Drive up by Beaver Brook Country Club.

George was from the north, I think, and was a more aggressive fund-rais-er. When George died, Carl led a delegation of Lions into the Fountain City Unit-ed Methodist Church. They were awesome in their Lion

regalia and we appreciated their show of respect.

Carl worked for KUB as a power operations super-visor for 33 years. As an adult, he earned a bach-elor’s degree (1989) and a master’s degree (1993) from UT. He then took a job with the state Emergency Man-agement Agency where he worked for eight years.

Carl was a charter mem-ber of Halls Community Li-ons Club for over 50 years. He was also the District Governor of the Lions Club International District 12-N Tennessee from 1998-1999.

I wrote a story when he got his master’s and another

when he and wife Jennie at-tended an international Li-ons convention in England or Scotland. Memory fails.

With all this involvement, it’s easy to see how Carl must have known half the town.

He grew up in Union County, graduating from Hor-ace Maynard High School in 1953. His parents were Silas and Lucille McDaniel.

Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Jennie Haney McDaniel; son and daughter Jim McDaniel and Kelly McDaniel; brothers, David and Eddie McDaniel; sisters, Judy McDaniel Paul and Wanda McDaniel Jack-son; special brother, Donnie Boles; and a host of friends.

Services were Friday at Sharon Baptist Church and the interment was Saturday morning at Sharon Baptist’s cemetery.

Arrangements were by Mynatt Funeral Home of Fountain City.

Traffi c calming, anyone?The city is doing wonder-

ful things to enhance Knox-ville, but the chart above is not among them.

Written by planner Don Parnell, the chart is an ap-pendix to the city’s Neigh-borhood Safety Program.

Want to get speed bumps on your street? Well, jump right in.

Looks like you start at the arrow on the left top – apply for a traffi c safe-ty study. Then meet with neighbors and staff to deter-mine whether further study is indicated. A half dozen additional meetings ensue.

If the city decides to go forward, consultants are hired and projects ranked.

Surveys and education are woven into the model. Speeders do not participate in such complex processes. Perhaps no one does.

This schematic is a plan-ner’s dream. Check back next year to see how many traffi c calming projects are completed.

– S. Clark

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Betty Bean

Very little blowback and lots of attaboys – that’s what Mayor Tim Burchett says he’s gotten for his re-cent criticism of the Haslam administration’s refusal to kick in money for a facil-ity to stabilize mentally ill and substance-addicted in-mates. He made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows last month denouncing the state for reneging on a com-mitment to help fund a be-havioral health urgent care unit (formerly known as the safety center).

Burchett says he’s con-fi dent that the project will move forward, one way or another.

“No hard feelings. It’s just politics. We’re going to move ahead. I understand the state didn’t want to fund any local projects, but we know it’s the right thing to do. In the end, I think ev-erybody’s going to be at the table. Our local legislative delegation’s been very sup-portive, and they under-stand (the issue) better than most. Every day I receive correspondence from one of them, and it’s a piece of the moving parts we’re dealing with.”

■ The announcement that Bearden High School principal John Bartlett is Tennessee’s High School Principal of the Year (named by the Tennessee Associa-tion of Secondary School Principals) came as a shock to many people.

Wonder how Bearden High School teachers who got put through the wringer when the school’s evalua-tion scores plummeted from the highest possible level to

Elizabeth “Liz” Savelli is completing 23 years run-ning a popular neighbor-hood restaurant, Savelli’s, in West Knoxville. She opened up on March 1, 1993, and has been at 3055 Sutherland Avenue ever since.

When interviewed, she said her most fa-mous guest was Willard Scott, whom HGTV introduced to Savelli’s. But other well-known patrons

have included Tommy Las-orda, former manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Tim Love, UT graduate and chef. Former UT football coach Phillip Fulmer and South College president Steve South are regulars.

Savelli, 57, has worked the restaurant business her whole life, starting in Clearwater, Fla., work-ing for the Sub Shop. She moved to Knoxville in 1993 and found the current site, which she leased until purchasing it a few months ago. The site was a Time Out deli with 28 seats; Savelli’s now has 49 seats.

Meanwhile, she has raised four daughters: Kathleen, now 26; Re-becca, 28; Jessica, 30; and Christina, 33. She has six grandchildren, fi ve boys and a girl. Kathleen is the only one who works in the restaurant, and she makes all the cakes.

Liz Savelli says her most popular di sh for lunch is the blackened grouper sub and for dinner is the grouper picante. She says her hardest job is “keeping good employees,” but “we have done well.”

■ Alan Lowe, former head of the Baker Center at UT-Knoxville, has resigned from the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Archives in Dallas and accepted a position at the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum in Springfi eld, Ill. Lowe moved to Dallas in 2009. He was the fi rst di-rector of the Baker Center.

■ Democrats are eager to win back control of the General Assembly. Their odds of achieving this are slim, but they are pushing it hard, including recruit-ing 23 women to run for the Legislature this November. The Democrats may gain seats, while failing to reach majority control in either house. Democrats claim that likely GOP nominee Donald Trump will alienate women voters from the

Burchett to Haslam: Sorry, not sorry; principal of the year award baffl es

rock bottom lows last year are feeling?

Knox County Education Association president Lau-ren Hopson probably spoke for a lot of them when she pointed out that teachers whose scores plunge to the lowest levels get assigned coaches and subjected to twice as many evaluations the following year, “and possibly get put on intensive assistance with the constant threat of losing their job hanging over their head...

“Meanwhile, a principal who runs a school where (scores) dropped from a 5 to a 1 in one year is named principal of the year?????”

And what about the Bearden parents whose daughters were members of the softball team before Bartlett summarily fi red the highly successful coach Leonard Sams last year?

“It makes us sick,” said Adam McKenry, Sams’ for-mer assistant coach and booster club offi cer who has fi led an ethics complaint against Barrett and athletic director Nathan Lynn.

The complaint charges that Bartlett and Lynn failed to inform the boost-ers that it’s illegal for pri-vate citizens to build sports facilities on school property, and that had they known this, the parents would not have gone forward with building a new indoor bat-ting facility on the Bearden

campus. And McKenry and another parent, Randy Su-song, wouldn’t be stuck pay-ing $700 per month on the note for the new building, which was named for Sams, who was abruptly canned after he led the team to the school’s fi rst-ever state tournament run. The school board also approved the project.

The softball boosters probably aren’t the only parents who are puzzled about Bartlett’s big honor, given the massive turnover among the Bearden coach-ing staff, across the board. Over the past four years, head coaches in soccer, ten-nis, golf, baseball, volley-ball, basketball and football have departed, as well as ev-ery assistant football coach from this last season.

McKenry, Sams and Su-song are scheduled to ap-pear at the school board’s Ethics Committee on June 6.

■ The Bernie/Hill-ary battle is still raging on the national scene, but here in Knoxville, the two sides are joining to campaign for Democratic County Com-mission candidate Evelyn Gill, whose primary victory over Rick Staples in District 1 surprised a lot of political observers.

“Bernie and Hillary sup-porters are canvassing the fi rst district for Evelyn Gill. We want to show our com-munity that while we have some disagreements, we are strongly supporting our lo-cal Democratic candidate, and we will be out in the district door knocking and getting out the vote for Ev-

elyn Gill,” said Paul Berney.Gill, a special education

teacher with Knox County Schools, is a Sanders sup-porter who rode the Bernie wave in the UT- and down-town-dominated wards of the district, while Staples carried the pro-Clinton wards in the district’s heart. She faces a challenge from Republican Michael Cov-ington, who is closely iden-tifi ed with local GOP regu-lars.

Participants will meet at the Knox County Demo-cratic Party headquarters for training at 10 a.m. and hit the streets at 11.

■ Tennessee’s sun-shine laws are among the strongest in the nation and require that almost all offi -cial communications should be open to public scrutiny. This is a frequent aggrava-tion for local elected of-fi cials, who resent the fact that state legislators ex-empted themselves from the laws they passed.

So they probably weren’t queuing up any sad trom-bones for GOP Rep. Susan Lynn, who’s been raising heck because emails dis-cussing plans to challenge the federal government’s “bathroom guidelines” for transgender students got leaked.

“Whoever did this – you know who you are – I im-plore you to act with more honor than that – to behave with Christian ethics,” she said in an email that also got leaked, prompting her to de-clare herself “shocked that the email about the leaked emails was also leaked.”

Savelli’s marks 23 years on Sutherland

GOP ticket, but that may be wishful thinking.

Three women are run-ning here in Knox County, starting with former state Rep. Gloria Johnson, seek-ing to recapture her old House seat against incum-bent Eddie Smith. Also being opposed by Demo-cratic women are Reps. Martin Daniel and Roger Kane in traditionally safe GOP districts. The Smith-Johnson race in November will be the most seriously contested local contest. Out-of-state PAC money will be evident for both.

It is a fi rst in Tennes-see political history that one party (Democratic) is fi elding 23 women for state House seats including a women opposing House Speaker Beth Harwell, the fi rst woman in Tennessee history to be house speaker. She is a credible opponent and Harwell will have to campaign actively in her own district to win another term.

■ Thackston School, located on Lake Avenue adjacent to the UT cam-pus, closed its doors after 95 years last week. No announcement was made. Parents were asked not to talk to the media about it when informed a few months ago.

Deborah Wofford has headed the school for many years, and it has had a stu-dent body of 100, starting at age 3 and going through fi fth grade.

Hundreds of Knoxville residents have attended Thackston over the years. The land it is on is being sold as this column is writ-ten. It is the end of an era. Prominent citizens attend-ing Thackston include long-time Knoxville attorney Arthur G. Seymour Jr.

■ Veteran General Sessions Judge Geoff Emery and his wife re-cently returned from a two-week trip to Europe focused on World War II history. They visited the beaches at Normandy in France, the site of the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, and Germany.

■ Vice Mayor Duane Grieve celebrated his 70th birthday on May 25. Coun-cil member Finbarr Saun-ders is the oldest member of Knoxville City Council at 71. Marshall Stair is the youngest member at 37.

Liz Savelli

City secures grant to clean up two propertiesThe U.S. Environmen-

tal Protection Agency has awarded $350,000 in brownfi eld cleanup grants that will remediate contam-ination on two important city of Knoxville redevelop-ment sites: the former Mc-Clung Warehouses on Jack-son Avenue and the former Sanitary Laundry site, 625 N. Broadway.

EPA is funding $200,000 for the 15,000-square-foot, former dry-cleaning site in the heart of the Downtown North Redevelopment Dis-trict and $150,000 for the fi ve-acre former industrial site on Jackson Avenue. The city will be contributing a 20 percent match – a com-bined $70,000.

The Tennessee Depart-ment of Environment and Conservation is partnering with the city and EPA on the cleanups, according to a city press statement.

“We know that contami-nants are present at the Sanitary Laundry and Mc-

Clung Warehouses sites, and that’s a major roadblock in bringing these key prop-erties back into reuse,” said Mayor Madeline Rogero. “The great news is that we’ll be developing a strategy to remediate the sites, and now we’ve got the resources to move ahead.”

Anne Wallace, the city’s deputy director of rede-velopment, said the two brownfi eld properties are highly visible and strate-gically located in their re-spective corridors, with “signifi cant redevelopment potential.”

“Without remediation,

the contaminated sites would continue to dete-riorate, and that affects the value of neighboring prop-erties,” Wallace said.

Rogero said the cleanups will accelerate redevelop-ment throughout the Down-town North and Jackson Av-enue corridors. The impact will be wider than just the redevelopment of the two specifi c properties, she said.

“These cleanups will kick up a notch the amazing re-surgence that’s already hap-pening in these two redevel-opment corridors.”

Previous EPA brownfi eld assessment grants, totaling almost $500,000, identi-fi ed specifi cally what and where contaminants existed in multiple sites on Jackson Avenue and in Downtown North. This follow-up round of grant funding will go to-ward remediation.

The former Sanitary Laundry and Jackson Av-enue sites have unique re-development histories and

are unusual in that both are city-owned.

The city, motivated by blight-abatement and public safety concerns, purchased the McClung Warehouses portion of the Jackson Av-enue site in 2013 from a bankruptcy trustee. The warehouses, dating back to the 1890s, were destroyed in fi res set by vagrants in 2007 and 2014.

The city acquired the abandoned dry-cleaning site on Broadway in 2014 in a tax foreclosure. The busi-ness had been a leading employer in the 1920s and 1930s.

The details of the remedi-ation work will be fi nalized by the city, TDEC and EPA. Then, later this year, an en-vironmental consultant will be hired through a competi-tively-bid contract.

Once rehabilitated, the city intends to sell both sites to private redevelopers. A mix of uses is envisioned for both properties.

McClung warehouses pre-fi re.

The ornate structures were a

solid anchor on the north side

of downtown.

6 • JUNE 1, 2016 • NORTH/EAST Shopper news

SENIOR NOTES ■ Carter Senior Center

9040 Asheville Highway932-2939Monday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Off erings include: card

games; exercise programs;

arts and crafts; movie mati-

nee Fridays; Senior Meals,

noon Wednesdays.

Register for: Mighty

Musical Monday, Tennessee

Theatre, 11 a.m. Monday,

June 6; box lunch, $5.

Veterans Services visit, 10

a.m. Tuesday, June 14; RSVP:

215-5645. Super Seniors

meeting, 10:30 a.m. Tues-

day, June 14.

■ Corryton Senior Center9331 Davis Drive688-5882knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-FridayHours vary

Off erings include: ex-

ercise classes; cross-stitch,

card games; dominoes,

crochet, quilting, billiards;

Senior Meals program, 11

a.m. each Friday.

Register for: WVLT’s

Chef Walter Lambert will

provide a free cooking

demonstration, noon Mon-

day, June 6. Free “A Matter

of Balance” classes, 1 p.m.

Tuesdays, June 7-July 26;

registration required.

■ Larry Cox Senior Center3109 Ocoee Trail546-1700Monday-Friday

Off erings include: exercise programs; bingo;

arts and crafts classes.

■ John T. O’Connor Senior Center611 Winona St.523-1135knoxseniors.org/oconnor.htmlMonday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Off erings include: Card

games, billiards, senior

fi tness, computer classes,

bingo, blood pressure

checks 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Monday-Friday.

Dr. Paul YauLoren RiddickBlake McCoyJasen Bradley

Life Beyond BingoBy Sara Barrett

This week at Sherrill Hills Re-tirement Resort, the Shopper News will present its fi rst Beyond Bingo event for folks interested in life af-ter their senior discount.

Everything is free, including lunch provided by Sherrill Hills. Door prizes will be given away and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll leave with a few other freebies.

Beyond Bingo will take place 11 a.m.-1 p.m. today and tomorrow (Wednesday and Thursday, June 1-2) at Sherrill Hills, 271 Moss Grove Boulevard.

In addition to numerous vendors that will be on hand, a number of speakers will share advice in their areas of expertise:

■ Jasen Bradley, CPT, man-ager and NASM certifi ed per-sonal trainer, Fitness Together

Jasen Bradley became a trainer more than 10 years ago.

“My own path to becoming a per-sonal trainer began after my father passed due to heart disease. It gave me the motivation to not only make my health a priority, but to help oth-ers do the same,” he says.

Bradley is now a trainer and manager for Fitness Together in Farragut. He plans to focus his pre-sentation at Beyond Bingo on the success of FT clients and how many of them started their new, healthy lifestyles after the perceived “nor-mal” age.

“I want our clients to spend as much time with their children, fam-ilies, and hobbies as long as they can without wasting their time on ‘fl y by night’ health fads.

“FT offers seniors a dedicated personalized program fi t around their interests and goals,” Bradley continues. “No program is the same and the results are guaranteed.

“Whether it’s improving your overall health and wellness, or seek-ing fi tness through strength train-ing, helping you get out of bed with-out pain, running faster, jumping higher, or learning about your weight management options to reach your fi tness goals, we’re eager to start you on a journey that will change your

Info: LorenRiddickTeam.com■ Paul Yau, MD, Tennessee

Orthopedic ClinicDr. Paul Yau, board certifi ed

physician, received his fellowship training in joint replacement and adult reconstructive surgery from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Yau currently chairs the ortho-pedic department at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and coor-dinates the hip fracture and joint replacement services there.

His specialty practice keeps him current with the latest surgical techniques and advances in ortho-pedic care including hip arthros-copy and anterior hip replacement.

Yau is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, and Arthroscopy Association of North America. Info: tocdocs.com

life forever.” Info: 671-2022.■ Blake McCoy, founder

and CEO, Independent Insur-ance Consultants

Blake McCoy had a close rela-tionship to his grandparents grow-ing up, and he feels that’s part of what inspired him to help seniors.

“I feel seniors don’t get treated properly,” says McCoy. “They have so much knowledge, and often they are ignored.”

McCoy would see agents only interested in helping themselves instead of doing what was best for their client’s situation.

He was inspired to get his insur-ance license at age 19. In Septem-ber, he will have had his license for 14 years.

McCoy plans to discuss the four parts of Medicare during his pre-sentation at Beyond Bingo. He also hopes to cover the difference be-tween an independent agency and a captive agency, and how to qual-ify for extra help with prescription drugs.

Info: medicareknoxville.com or call 691-5571.

■ Loren Riddick, branch manager, People’s Home Eq-uity, HECM division

Loren Riddick is an East Ten-nessee native who earned an as-sociate’s degree from Walters State Community College.

Riddick has been in the mort-gage arena since 1999 and currently heads the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) division of Peo-ples Home Equity. He has assisted clients with both forward and re-verse mortgages, and plans to dis-cuss and answer questions about

reverse mortgages during his pre-sentation.

“Questions I am commonly asked by seniors are ‘Do I still get to own my home?’ and ‘What hap-pens when I die or move out of the house in relation to my heirs?’” says Riddick.

The Loren Riddick Team has a nearly 100 percent repeat and re-ferral client base according to its website.

Sandra Clark

Year-in and year-out, our most loyal Shopper News readers are our seniors. That was true when I began publishing the paper in 1971 and remains true today. Re-spect for place becomes stronger as we age, and the Shopper is all about people and place.

For instance, Shannon Carey has a great tale in our new North/East Shopper this week about how retired Carson-Newman guy Jim Coppock celebrated his 80th birthday. He asked his kids to throw a party at Holston Hills Country Club for his friends from sixth grade at Chilhowee Elemen-tary School.

Incredibly, people came from across the country.

Beyond Bingo: So our sales manager, Amy Lutheran, and I decided to celebrate our senior

readers with a party of sorts. Val and Cassie Smith at Sherrill Hills Retirement Resort agreed to host the fi rst one and it’s this week!

A good turnout will guarantee other such events in other parts of town. There’s no cost or obliga-tion. We hope you can make time to attend!

Oh, yes, Sherrill Hills is at the top of the hill behind Academy Sports on Kingston Pike just west of Cedar Bluff. Info: 865-622-4059

NORTH/EAST Shopper news • JUNE 1, 2016 • 7 faith

cross currentsLynn Pittslpitts48@yahoo.com

The memory of the righteous is a blessing. (Proverbs 10: 7a, NRSV)

Memories light the corners of my mind, misty, wa-ter-colored memories of the way we were.

(“Memories” Barbra Streisand)

Memories

I am still thinking about Memorial Day and memories.

There are memories we cherish, hang onto, re-visit time and again. There are others, of course, that we desper-ately wish to forget.

Then, there are the memories that are pain-ful, but worthy of remem-bering, lest we repeat our follies, our mistakes, our sins.

The only good that can come from the painful memories is that we heed the lessons learned. That applies to all of us: chil-dren, grown-ups, pets, communities and nations.

The sweet memories, the fun memories, the glowing memories, how-ever, can, with time, heal the raw ones, transcend the sad ones, make useful the h ard ones.

One of the treasures I have in my possession is a letter my maternal grand-father, Maston Dunn,

wrote to my grandmoth-er, Belle, when he was courting her. His love and respect for her were clear in every line, and because of the existence of that letter, his love lives on in history as well as in my memory.

On the other side of the family tree, we also have the letters that my father’s brother wrote to Daddy and Mother during World War II. They contain fi rst person accounts of some of the deadliest battles in the Pacifi c (Okinawa, Saipan and The Mar-shalls, his family learned later), carefully redacted by the censors who were in charge of keeping troop movements secret. Those letters are living his-tory, and provide at least some explanation of why my uncle came home a changed man, a man who refused to talk about his experiences in the war.

May God bless them all, with peace at last.

FAITH NOTES ■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Knoxville Aglow will meet

9:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June

7, New Covenant Fellowship,

6828 Central Avenue Pike.

Speaker: Mike Vandergriff ,

pastor and founder of Vic-

tory Assembly of God in New

Tazewell and advisor of Ap-

palachian Aglow Lighthouse.

Refreshments and child care

provided. All welcome.

■ Listening Hearts, A Gather-

ing of Bereaved Moms, will

meet 3 p.m. Saturday, June

4, Christus Victor Lutheran

Church, 4110 Central Avenue

Pike. All grieving moms are

invited. Info: listeninghearts-

moms@gmail.com; 679-1351;

listeningheartsmoms.org.

■ St. Mark UMC, 7001 S. North-

shore Drive, is seeking a part-

time Director of Children’s

Ministry. Position requires 20

hours per week and personal

faith in the Methodist tradi-

tion; experience working with

children is preferred. For a

complete job description and

qualifi cations, send resume to

offi ce@stmarkknox.org.

OBITUARIESAllene Banks Shipley, 93, of Knox-

ville, passed away May 28 at Tennova Residential Hospice. She was a member of Emerald Avenue United Methodist Church and retired from Miller’s Department Store after 3 8 years of service. Preceded in death by husband, Aaron Shipley. Survived by daughter, Brenda Parks; brother, John Banks; and grandchildren, Mike Parks and Jamie Parks. Memorials may be made to Emerald Avenue United Methodist Church, 1620 North Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Stevens Mortuary served the family.

Evelyn Burton King, 88, of Knox-ville, passed away May 28 at her home. She was a member of House Mountain Baptist Church and a retired private duty nurse. She is survived by her husband of 68 years, C.R. King; granddaughters, Shannon War-wick and Margo Lea; great granddaughters, Brooke Mahan and Alyssa LaBuda; sister, Nell Zabel. She was preceded in death by daughter, Patricia Ann King. Stevens Mor-tuary served the family.

Leona Akans Bruce, 95, of Straw-berry Plains, passed away May 17 at NHC Knoxville. She was a member of Straw-berry Plains Presbyterian Church and for-mer member of Washington Pike United Methodist Church, she was also a member of Eastern Star Bright Star Lodge. She was a loving, caring mother, grandmother and friend to everyone who was graced by the presence of her life.

She was preceded in death by husband, Albert W. Bruce; parents, Arthur G. and Lennie C. Akans; brothers, George and Er-nest; sisters, Pauline, Nelle Anne, Marie and Marguerite.

Survivors include daughter, Angela Jack Rader; son, Doug Bruce; daughter, Susan Bruce Maples; grandchildren, Rod Jack (Jennifer), Lisel Jack, T onya Bruce Byrd (Tom), Josh Maples (Cynthia); great-grand-children, Abby Jack, Tucker Jack and Caro-line Jack; numerous nieces and nephews.

Stevens Mortuary served the family.

By Jake MabeThey called it a historic

day last Sunday (May 29) at Texas Valley Baptist Church, and so it was.

After a special service, members broke ground on a new church building, which will be approximately 6,000 square feet and sit on the site of the former building, which burned nine months ago. Merit Construction is the contractor. It is scheduled to be fi nished within one year.

But that’s all the boiler-plate stuff.

Guest minister the Rev. Jerry Copeland read from Acts about Antioch. Allen Berry led the singing.

Memories materialized – of B.F. Dalton, of Lynn “Chief” Brock, of Curtis Tindell, all gone home now. Shirley Etherton attended. Seeing her brought memo-ries of her husband, Charles “Tud” Etherton, who’s also gone now.

Bill Brock, the longest tenured member of the church, said that when he looked at the ruins last year, he thought about his dad, about the people who worked so hard to build the other church back in the

Bill Brock, Vonnie Stanifer, Mae Dalton and Tyler Greenlee break ground on the new Texas Valley

Baptist Church building.

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Texas Valley breaks ground on new church

early 1970s.Fire is a part of the

church’s history, Leann Dal-ton Berry said. Founded in

1873, the church building burned in January 1905.

“But we’ve always re-built,” she said.

And so they are again. Rebuilding. Rejoicing. And holding on, as the Psalm says, to that precious seed.

By Cindy Taylor The Rev. Michael Thom-

as, lead pastor of Fellowship North Church, and associate lead pastor Steve Van Horn hold fast to the belief that the “seasoned” members in the church become even more valuable as they age.

With that in mind, the two, along with church el-ders, are working to bring the “Baby Boomers,” around 25 percent of the church, into more interactive roles, especially as it pertains to younger generations.

“Often the message to this generation is to relax,” said Van Horn. “This is not a Biblical concept and is one that the elders and other members of our church body have decided to push against as they approach re-tirement years.”

The Legacy group launched on April 29 with a dinner meeting to cast a vi-sion for the group’s purpose and how they can impact the coming generations.

“Church elder Lee Bell has had a desire to start the ministry for a while,” said Legacy member Greg Mar-shall. “He has been the driv-ing force.”

Members say the pur-pose of Legacy is four-fold; to build community among

Legacy members Kathy Crookshanks and Tena Sharpe

Greg Marshall, Fellowship North

Church and Legacy member,

speaks at the inaugural Legacy

meeting. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Living the legacy

their age group and sup-port each other in what God has called them to do; chal-lenge one another to walk in the fullness of their call-ing; create opportunities to network and teach younger generations skills that Leg-acy members possess and reach out individually and as a group to make a differ-ence in the church, the com-munity and anywhere God places them.

Thomas says there are tremendous relational ben-efi ts as well as scriptural mandates for the older gen-eration to be mentors.

“Moses commands the older to teach the younger within the context of the ev-eryday normal routines of life,” said Thomas. “This is so the younger would con-

stantly be reminded of

the faithfulness of God to them,

and would understand that no blessing comes at their hand but is provision from the Father; therefore the Fa-ther must be praised.”

Van Horn says he has personally been impacted by several members of Leg-acy before they were an or-ganized ministry.

“What I love about this group is that it is not some-thing that is being manu-factured,” said Van Horn. “They are being intentional to encourage one another to remain focused on what is eternally important. It is genuinely who they are.”

Members of Legacy agree that in every generation it is the convictions and de-termination of the older to teach the younger how to be faithful, wise, good

stewards, hard workers and teach them values, integ-rity, etc. so that the younger might walk in these. Then

when one generation is gone, the void is fi lled.

“There is no question that fi nishing strong requires

more of us, and at a time in life where giving anything is so much more diffi cult than it once was,” said Thomas. “It takes sacrifi ce and self-lessness.”

Fellowship North Church is at 3203 Tazewell Pike.

8 • JUNE 1, 2016 • NORTH/EAST Shopper news

Last week Dr. Jim Mc-Intyre appointed three new principals for area schools:

Jason Myers has been a p p oi nt e d principal of K n o x v i l l e A d a p t i v e E d u c a -tion Center (KAEC). He joined Knox C o u n t y Schools in 2008 as a

teaching assistant at Fulton High School. In 2009, he became a special education teacher and was named lead teacher in 2011.

Myers moved to West High School as an admin-

istrative assistant in 2012, and has held his current position of assistant princi-pal since 2013. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee where he is also a doctoral candidate in educational leadership and policy stud-

ies.J a n i c e

Cook has been ap-p o i n t e d principal of Paul Kel-ley Volun-teer Acad-emy. She joined Knox

County Schools in 1997 as

a district-wide intervention consultant. She is currently principal at the Knoxville Adaptive Education Center where she has served since 2008.

Cook holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Scotland. She also holds a certifi cation in mu-sic and religious education from Morary House College of Education, also in Scot-land, and a master’s degree in administration and su-pervision from Lincoln Me-morial University.

Leanne Hawn is prin-cipal of the Career Magnet Academy. She joined Knox County Schools in 2006 as a

math teach-er at Fulton High. She was ap-pointed an administra-tive assis-tant at Ful-ton in 2011 and became a s s i s t a n t

principal there in 2013.Hawn holds a bachelor’s

degree in math and a mas-ter’s in math education f rom UT. She holds an education-al specialist degree in in-structional leadership from Tennessee Tech University and is a candidate for a doc-torate in education leader-ship from ETSU.

Story So Far: Though it doesn’t seem possible that S.O.R.’s dreadful special soc-cer team can get better, the boys try to be-lieve they can win.

“I’d like to see a few people,” said Ms. Ap-pleton when class started a couple of days later. She called up our fi ve team members.

Hamilton laughed, as if we were an au-tomatic joke. “They going to be traded to the elementary school?” he called out. “For a player to be named later?” That made the class laugh, even Lucy Neblet.

The fi ve of us managed to get to the front desk.

“I think it’s wonderful the way you guys

won’t give up,” Ms. Appleton said to us. Since we did want to give up, we looked at her blankly.

“I knew you were bright and hardwork-ing, all of you,” she said. “I didn’t know you had so much courage.”

We hadn’t noticed either.“I mean it,” she said. “I’d like to come to

your next game and root for you. Would you mind?”

“It’s ugly,” warned Lifsom.“Scary,” agreed Hays.“Don’t worry,” she said brightly. “You’ll

win.”“Why does everyone keep saying that?”

I asked her.“Because you work so hard. When you

work hard like that, you win.” She said it with such a nice smile, I almost believed her.

“When’s your next game?”“Thursday. Pennington Prep.”“Do you mind if I come?”“I could think of better ways to kill an

afternoon,” said Saltz.

“And we’re already dead,” I said.

Ms. Appleton giggled. Then she said, “Mr. Till-man wants to see you all.” Mr. Tillman was the school counselor.

“Now?” asked Porter. “I have my special read-ing project to work on.”

“That can wait.”

“I don’t want it to wait,” cried Por-ter.

“He’s expecting you all,” said Ms. Apple-ton, fi rmly.

The fi ve of us went to Mr. Tillman’s of-fi ce. The rest of the team was already there.

Mr. Tillman’s offi ce was a fairly small place, meant for only one loser at a time, not a whole team of losers. Still, we man-aged to squeeze in.

Walls were covered with cute posters sell-ing joy and happiness. I thought it depress-ing, as if you weren’t allowed to be anything but happy. For instance, there was a picture of a kitten about to be dropped down into the Grand Canyon, with the slogan “Keep Laughing, Baby.” The cat wasn’t going to laugh for long, even if cats could laugh.

There was another picture, a kid with a big smile. The message read, “It Takes Less Muscle to Smile Than to Frown.” I had an image of a mad surgeon fi guring that out. Some fun.

Mr. Tillman was not my favorite. A great big, huge guy; someone told me he played football and tried to make it with the pros. He was always dressed the same: turtle-neck sweater with happy beads around his neck. Actually, I never trust anyone whose neck is wider than his brains. But I didn’t think Mr. Tillman would put that slogan up in his offi ce.

Anyway, he got us all in, then had us sit down on the fl oor and be uncomfortable. Really happy-like, he said, “How you guys doing!” For a small room, he talked large.

“Okay,” said Radosh.Mr. Tillman leaned forward. “Honest?”“If you want the truth, Mr. Tillman,” I

said, “we aren’t feeling so great.”“Excellent!” said Mr. Tillman, jangling

his beads. “Now we’re talking truth! And you feel bad about it. Think miserable. Have bad dreams. Sense of defeat. Disappoint-ment. Any bed-wetting? Kids tease you about the games? Probably some of your parents yell at you for being so rotten all the time. Any of you guys have girlfriends?”

Eliscue, who’d had girlfriends from nurs-ery school on up, raised his hand.

“She pokes fun at you; never want to be seen with you?”

For the fi rst time, I saw Eliscue ashamed that he even knew girls.

“I know,” continued Mr. Tillman, “you guys are starting to hate yourselves!”

“Mr. Tillman,” I said, “what can you ex-pect? All we get from people is, ‘Keep on trying. You can win.’ I mean, we keep dis-appointing them. I am beginning to hate

myself.”“I love you for

saying that, Ed,” cried Mr. Till-man. “The trick is, do you believe in yourselves?”

“Not a bit,” said Root.

“Why not? Someone want to share his feelings with me?”

“Because we stink,” said Dor-man. There was a general murmur and nodding of approval.

“Nope,” said Mr. Tillman, “I

won’t buy that. I won’t let you run your-selves down. I believe you can do it. Let me share something with you guys. To win, you must trust yourselves.”

“Don’t you have to be a little . . . good?” asked Barish.

Mr. Tillman shook his massive head. “Heart!” he cried, thumping that mass of body where I guess he kept his heart. His happy beads bounced and rattled.

“Mr. Tillman?” asked Porter.“Yes?”“I have this reading project. It’s really

important to me. May I go work on it now?”Mr. Tillman looked as if he had been in-

sulted, or his mother and father had, or his little sister (she couldn’t have been bigger) or maybe his whole family. “Boys,” he said, “the bottom line is this, ‘Don’t avoid your responsibilities.’”

That was a new one.“Learn to accept your responsibilities!”

he bellowed. “Learn that, and it will be worthwhile!”

There was some more. Just as loud. Mostly it added up to the same thing: we owed them.

“Wish they’d just let us lose in peace,” said Radosh when we got out.

“Oh, good grief,” I said.They looked where I was pointing. A big

piece of brown paper had been put on the wall. In crude letters was written:

Support a Team in Big Trouble!Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team!S.O.R. vs. Pennington Prep1:30If we care, they will!We all had the same reaction. A quick

check to see who might be looking, and rip, down it came. Plus the seven others we found around the school.

When we got back to class, I asked Ms. Appleton about those posters.

“A class project,” she said sweetly. “We’re going all out to support you.”

“Why?” I said, feeling sick.“S.O.R. has no losers,” she said fi rmly.“Yeah,” I said, “I believed in Santa Claus

too, once.”(To be continued.)

Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be

reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

CHAPTER NINE: Words of wisdom from the school counselor

“a breakfast serials story”S.O.R. Losers Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

Janice Cook

Leanne Hawn

Jason Myers

Knox County schools get new principalsCopeland retires from LMULincoln Memorial Uni-

versity president B. James D a w s o n took time during the spring com-mencement e x e r c i s e s to celebrate the career of Dr. John C op e l a nd , who is re-

tiring from the University after nearly 40 years of ser-vice.

Copeland, the longest tenured faculty member at LMU, served as macebearer during the commencement exercises. He joined the fac-ulty on Sept. 1, 1976, and is now professor emeritus of biology.

He has been engaged in discovery research and

conservation biology in the state of Tennessee and the adjoining regions of Southwest Virginia and Southeast Kentucky. He has conducted work with mammals, amphibians and native plants. Copeland capped his career with a grant to survey freshwater sponges in Tennessee. In that study he discovered and named a new genus.

Copeland mentored many students, providing opportunities fo r students to join him in fi eld work and supervising their research projects throughout his career. Moreover, he coun-seled them as they entered the workforce or continued their education. He was awarded LMU’s Houston Award for teaching excel-lence in 2005.

Copeland

SUMMER CAMPSAdditional listings and informa-

tion at ShopperNewsNow.com.

■ All American Camp, 9-11:30

a.m. Monday-Thursday, June

6-9, Angela Floyd Schools,

6732 Jubilee Center Way; or

9-11:30 a.m. Monday-Thurs-

day, June 13-16, Angela Floyd

Schools, 10845 Kingston Pike.

Cost: $125. Ages: 6 and up.

Info/registration: angelafl oyd-

schools.com.

■ Archaeokids: Exploring

Ancient Art & Archaeology,

1-4 p.m. July 11-15, McClung

Museum, 1327 Circle Park

Drive. For ages 9-11 (rising

fourth, fi fth and sixth grad-

ers). Cost: $110; $99 members.

Info/registration: mcclungmu-

seum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

■ Awesome Oceans, 9 a.m.-

noon Monday-Friday, July

25-29, The Muse Knoxville,

516 N. Beaman St. For

ages 9-13. Cost: $105/ $95

members. Info/registration:

themuseknoxville.org/con-

tent/summer-camps-2016 or

594-1494.

■ Awesome Oceans, 1-4 p.m.

Monday-Friday, July 25-29,

The Muse Knoxville, 516 N.

Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost:

$105/ $95 members. Info/

registration: themuseknox-

ville.org/content/summer-

camps-2016 or 594-1494.

■ Boys basketball camp, 9

a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Thursday,

June 27-30, 9 a.m.-noon

Friday, July 1, Roane State

Community College – Roane

County campus gym. For

ages 8 through high school

seniors. Cost: $115. Info: 882-

4583.

■ Camp Invention, Monday-

Friday, June 6-10, at: 8 a.m.-

2:30 p.m., A.L. Lotts Elemen-

tary, 9320 Westland Drive;

Sequoyah Elementary School,

942 Southgate Road; Shan-

nondale Elementary School,

5316 Shannondale Road; Blue

Grass Elementary School, 8901

Bluegrass Road; and 8:30 a.m.-

3 p.m., Farragut Intermediate

School, 208 West End Ave.

Cost: $230. Ages: rising fi rst

through rising sixth graders.

Info/registration: campinven-

tion.org or 800-968-4332.

■ Camp Wallace Summer Day Camp, through Aug.

5, Wallace Memorial Baptist

Church, 701 Merchant Drive.

Activities and fi eld trips for

children who have completed

kindergarten through sev-

enth grade. Info: Kristie Bell,

688-7270.

■ Camp Webb Sports Camps,

9 a.m.-2 p.m., 9800 Webb

School Lane. Camps include:

lacrosse, basketball, football,

tennis, soccer, cheer, gymnas-

tics and more. Info 291-3840.

■ Camp Wesley Woods sum-mer camp, 329 Wesley Woods

Road, Townsend. Programs

for boys and girls grades K-11.

Info: 448-2246.

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■ Beaver Dam Baptist Church,

4328 E. Emory Road, 9 a.m.-

noon June 6-10. Ages: preK

through fi fth grade. Theme:

“Submerged.” Info/registra-

tion: bdbc.org.

■ Buff at Heights Baptist Church, 2800 Mill Road,

6-8:45 p.m. June 5-9. Ages: 4

through sixth grade. Theme:

“Ocean Commotion.” Prereg-

ister: buff atheights.org. Info:

524-1204.

■ Christ UMC, 7535 Maynard-

ville Highway, 5:30-8:30

p.m. June 13-17. Ages: preK

through fi fth grade. Theme:

“Cave Quest.” Dinner pro-

vided. Info: 368-6115.

■ Church of God of the Union Assembly, 336 Tazewell Pike,

6:30-9 p.m. June 5-10. Ages: 3

through teens. Theme: “Deep

Sea Discovery.” Supper served

each night. Info/registration:

Linda Merritt, 992-0682.

■ City View Baptist Church,

2311 Fine Ave., 6-9 p.m. June

5-10. Theme: “Submerged.”

■ Milan Baptist Church, 1101

Maynardville Highway in

Maynardville, 6:45-9 p.m.

June 5-10. Classes for all ages.

Theme: “Egypt: Joseph’s Jour-

ney from Prison to Palace.”

Info: 992-8128 or milanbc.org.

■ New Beverly Baptist Church,

3320 New Beverly Church

Road, 6-9 p.m. June 13-17.

Theme: “Cave Quest.” Info:

546-0001 or newbeverly.org.

■ Salem Baptist Church, 8201

Hill Road, 9 a.m.-noon June

Fulton High School gala to raise fundsMark your calendars and

make plans to attend A Ma-roon and White Affair, a gala to raise money for the Zaevion Dobson Memorial Scholarship fund. The event will be held from 6:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at Bridgewater Place.

The night will feature silent and live auction items, hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine and dancing in a dressy casual setting. To purchase indi-vidual or sponsorship tick-ets, visit www.fultongala.org. For info, email info@fultongala.org.

RuthWhite

6-10. Ages: 4 through kids

who have fi nished fi fth grade.

Theme: “Submerged.” Info/

registration: mysalembaptist.

com/events/vacation-bible-

school.

■ Sharon Baptist Church, 7916

Pedigo Road, 6-9 p.m. June

5-10. Ages: preK through

adults. Theme: “Submerged.”

Everyone invited. Info: 938-

7075.

■ Trentville and Pleasant Hill Church, 9215 Straw-

berry Plains Pike, 6:30-9 p.m.

through June 3. Theme: “The

Surf Shack.” Info: 933-5041.

■ Valley View Baptist Church,

3521 Old Valley View Drive,

6:30-8:30 p.m., June 13-17.

Theme: “SonWest Roundup.”

Info/registration: vvbcknox.

com or 523-0062.

■ Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, 701 Merchant Drive,

9 a.m.-noon June 6-10. Ages:

4 years through fi fth grade.

Theme: “Submerged.” Info/

registration: wmbc.net.

VBS NOTES

Beamont student wins county poster contestBeaumont Magnet Academy principal

Missy Beltran and art teacher Cheryl

Burchette congratulate Michael Cox,

KEEM (Knoxville Extreme Energy

Makeover) poster competition winner

(pictured with his mom, Pamela) held in

Knox County Schools. Photo submitted

This winning poster in the KEEM con-

test was created by Beaumont stu-

dent Michael Cox.

Bratten bids farewell to ChilhoweeAlice Bratten began

teaching in the fall of 1964 at Sunnyview Primary. She worked with fi fth grade stu-dents at the school for 27 years and when the school split, Chilhowee Intermedi-ate was created and Bratten moved to the school where she continued teaching fi fth graders for the next 25 years.

“I have taught for so long that this is all I know,” she said at a recent press con-ference. She was fi rst hired by Mildred Doyle for the job and has seen many changes in leadership and teaching styles over the years.

She said that kids today are pretty much the same as they were in 1964—they want to learn and they have big hearts—although teach-ing methods have changed over the years. She has had the opportunity to infl uence over 1300 students over the span of her career and loves to see what they have ac-

complished. She has had the pleasure of teaching grand-parents and parents of some of her students and one of her students was Janet Sex-ton, the Knox County Lan-guage Arts supervisor. At least 12 of her students have gone on to become teachers.

Bratten has spent all but the last three years in the same classroom at Chilhow-ee. Her old room is now the offi ce and when it was her classroom, visitors to the school often mistook it for the offi ce so she taught her children how to escort them to the offi ce. Inside her “new” room are the original hinged-top desks that Brat-ten has used throughout her

Chilhowee Intermediate fi fth grade teacher Alice Bratten col-

lects letters that her students wrote to upcoming fi fth graders

next year. Bratten is retiring from teaching after 52 years. Photo by R. White

teaching career.Although the fi nal school

bell has rung on her career, it hasn’t hit Bratten quite yet that she has celebrated her last day of school for the last time. She’s happy that she will begin her retirement

after a great school year but looks forward to traveling this summer. When school starts in August, she plans to come back and volunteer. She summed up her career in one simple sentence, “It’s been a great ride.”

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THROUGH FRIDAY, JUNE 3Registration open for Knoxville Youth Athletics

summer track and fi eld program. Open to all girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 18. Practices: 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through June 23. Track meets: Saturdays, June 4-25. Info/registration: knoxvilleyouthathletics.org/programs/summer-developmental-track-and-fi eld or 385-6237.

THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 16Online registration open for the Marine Mud

Run, to be held Saturday, Sept. 17. Individual waves, 8 a.m.; team waves, 11:30 a.m. Course: 3 miles of off-road running, which entails some obstacles, hills and mud pits. Registration deadline: Friday, Sept. 16, or until total registrants reaches 3150. Info/registration: knoxmud.org.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1Chalk on the Walk, 11:30 a.m., Halls Branch

Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor

Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

Magician Michael Messing, 11 a.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

Submissions deadline for Appalachian Arts and Crafts Center jurying process. Three sample of work, $25 jury fee and completed forms must be submitted by noon. Info/forms: appalachianarts.net, 494-9854, 2716 Andersonville Highway.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2Beauford Delaney Celebration, 5:30-7:30 p.m.,

Beck Center Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave. Free and open to the public. Info/reservations: ddbubose@knoxart.org or 934-2036.

Bee Friends beekeeping group meeting, 6:30 p.m., Tazewell Campus of Walters State Community College. Guest speaker: Bodie Osborne, president of Backyard Beekeepers in Middlesboro, Ky. Topic: how to extract and bottle honey. Everyone welcome. Info: 617-9013.

Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.

Coffee with the Candidates, Union County Chamber of Commerce, 1001 Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-2811.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 10:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info/registration: 922-2552.

An Evening of “Radical Gratitude” with Will Pye, 6:30 p.m., Clinton Physical Therapy Center, 1921 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. Info: Kelly Lenz, 457-1649 or cptcklenz@aol.com.

Knoxville Zoomobile, 4 p.m., Corryton Branch Library, 7733 Corryton Road. Info: 688-1501.

Magician Michael Messing, 11 a.m., North Knoxville Branch Library, 2901 Ocoee Trail. Info: 525-7036.

Shakespeare for Kids, 4 p.m., Mascot Branch Library, 1927 Library Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 933-2620.

Storytime with the Tennessee Smokies, 10:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

FRIDAY, JUNE 3First Friday Comedy, 7-9 p.m., Saw Works

Brewing, 708 E. Depot Ave. Free stand-up comedy showcase featuring Jenn Snyder from Columbia, S.C.

Opening night for “The Word” exhibit, 5-9 p.m., Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 N Broadway. Exhibit on display June 3-24. Info: Jessica Gregory, 556-8676, or BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com.

“Plan to Can and Preserve Food,” 9-10 a.m., Union Farmers Co-op, 3035 Maynardville Highway. Free pressure gauge testing; free food preservation and nutrition information. Bring the canner lid, gauge and seal. Info/appointment: Becca Hughes, 992-8038, rlhughes@utk.edu.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JUNE 3-4Spring rummage sale, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Mount

Hermon UMC, 235 E. Copeland Road. Info: 938-7910.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4Art on Main Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Main Street

and around Courthouse in Maynardville. Featuring: artists, crafters, food vendors, children’s activities, music concerts and music jams, train rides, student art exhibit. Supports the local arts.

“Food Preservation: Step-by-Step Canning, Drying and Pickling,” 2 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

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BIZ NOTES ■ Joe Jarret has been named

“Author of the Year” and an

article he wrote on zoning risk

management was named “Ar-

ticle of the Year” by the Public

Risk Management Association,

a national organization dedi-

cated to public sector risk and

safety management. Jarret is

a former law director for Knox

County. He currently teaches

at UT while pursuing a doctor-

ate in political science.

■ Jason Riddle has been

named a partner of LBMC In-

formation Security, a division

of LBMC. He is an information

systems security expert with

broad technology expertise

and experience with a variety

of industries including health-

care, fi nancial services and

retail. Riddle has over 15 years

of experience in the informa-

tion technology and security

fi elds. He is a veteran of the

U.S. Navy, Submarine Force.

■ TDS Telecom will host a tech-

Joe Jarret Jason Riddle

The Rotary GuyTom King, tking535@gmail.com

The parallels are eerie. Heather McFall and Cara Vaughn start-ed college wanting to be attorneys, but both decided on teaching. Both place loving re-lationships with their students fi rst and fore-most. And on the same day, both were honored by the Rotary Club of Knoxville as its 2016 Teachers of the Year.

Heather is a kindergarten teacher at West Haven Elementary School. Cara teaches biology and chem-istry (including honors classes in both) at Bearden High School. Heather has been in the classroom for 15 years, Cara for nine years.

Here’s another parallel: Each received a $500 check from Knoxville Rotary and a $250 gift certifi cate from A&W Offi ce Supply at the club’s May 24 meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

“Our reward is our students’ success,” Heather said in her acceptance speech. “You have to be called to teaching and I can’t imagine doing anything else. Teaching for me is all about bringing love and compas-sion to the kids, every day.”

Cara’s grandmother was a kindergarten teacher for 27 years who taught her to let her students know they are loved. “I come into every class every day to give them love. They need love and they need to be chal-lenged,” she said. “It’s about relationships and that’s why I teach.”

■ Off to South AfricaFive members of Webb School’s Interact Club and

Club Adviser Liz Gregor and Rotarian Rob Johnson of the Rotary Club of Knoxville left yesterday (May 31) for Cape Town, South Africa.

“This will be the third Webb Interact trip to South Africa. We will partner with the Rotary Club of Stan-ford (one hour outside of Cape Town) and will volun-teer in schools, an orphanage, soup kitchens, a swap shop and a baby stork project,” Gregor said.

The students will visit Robben Island, where Nel-son Mandela was held prisoner for 27 years. Knoxville Rotary sponsors the Webb Interact Club.

Knox Rotary honors teachers

McFall Vaughn

Bonnie Peters

In 1965, Keith Miller authored a book called, “A Taste of New Wine,” which I purchased in hardback for $3.50. I read it and was so impressed by his wisdom I loaned the book to many of my friends. The dust cover is dirty and worn.

The Vineyard at Seven Springs Farm. 3-D photo by Alicia Muncey

65, KKeii hth Miller a book called “A

By 1968, the book was in its 12th printing. It was endorsed by many well-known people of faith. Billy Graham’s comments were, “Keith Miller has written a wonderful book. In it he tells of the exhilarating and wonderful experiences of knowing Christ in depth.”

In a surprisingly short period of time, there is now new wine among us. When the perils of tobacco use was fi nally accepted by most, we feared the economic loss by the farmers then grow-ing tobacco. I grew up on a farm, and it was a priority to get the tobacco handed off and to market in time to get those new shoes or whatev-er for Christmas.

I’ve carefully observed the transformation of the hillside along the Jack Woods Hollow in Union County where a legal dis-tillery once operated. Much research and expertise has gone into the building and operation of The Winery at

Seven Springs Farm. I’m impressed with those shiny new stainless steel contain-ers and the education and skill of its winemaker, Nicky Riddle. The parents, James “Rick” and Donna Riddle, are striving to see that the winery and farm are suc-cessful. Rick is a veterinar-ian and has an agricultural and military background. It is said that “we play with the hand we are dealt.”

It looks like East Tennes-see and Union County in particular may have been dealt a better hand than we had thought. The market will choose the wines people drink – will it be Napa Val-ley of California or wines from the Great Valley Wine Trail of East Tennessee? The

economic gain to our region and to our county will no doubt enrich the lives of our people. It may just put Union County on the “Big Map.”

You will remember that before food processing and canning came along, there was no preserved grape juice, even for reli-gious sacraments. In Jesus’ time wine was the accepted symbolic observance of the Lord’s Supper – “For this is my blood of the new cove-nant which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (King James Bible)

The blood of Christ is sig-nifi ed and represented by the wine. There are many interesting scriptures about wine, and 1 Timothy 5:23 is sometimes invoked by our

modern doctors when pa-tients are having diffi culties – “No longer drink only wa-ter, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake. …”

“There are now more than 25 wineries in East Tennes-see, and fi ve of those are on the Great Valley Wine Trail founded by the Riddles. These wineries are gain-ing momentum. When you are checking out the wines made at Seven Springs Farm, be sure to check out the art work on the labels by local artist Betty Hamilton Bullen. Then, too, when you are looking for a good read, I recommend “A Taste of New Wine” by Keith Miller and “Wine for a Breaking Heart,” poems by Hafi z, a lyric poet of Persia.

Fifty-five individuals have been named seasonal interpretive rec-reators for summer at state parks. They will provide guided tours, hikes, slide shows, demonstrations, campfires and other activities for camp visitors.

Locally, the SIRs are: ■ Seven Islands State Birding

Park – Mark Armstrong ■ Norris Dam State Park – Josh

Powell and Brittany Perryman ■ Big Ridge State Park – Jordan

Cross

Most of the summer staff are col-lege students studying natural re-source, recreation, history, or biology-related fi elds.

Tennessee State Parks offers a one-week intense training in interpretive techniques.

Based upon Freeman Tilden’s Prin-ciples of Interpretation, participants learn to develop thematic programs on the primary and secondary park themes.

SIRs also work closely with the park rangers to assure that park facilities,

buildings, grounds and equipment are safe and secure. As most full-time state park rangers start out as SIRs, this program provides a great starting point for a state parks career.

Tennessee’s 56 state parks of-fer diverse natural, recreational and cultural experiences for individuals, families or business and professional groups.

State park features range from pris-tine natural areas to 18-hole cham-p ionship golf courses. Info: tnstate parks.com

State parks add summer SIRs

nology seminar at 9 a.m. and

noon Wednesday, June 15,

at 10025 Investment Drive in

West Knoxville. The seminar

will be led by a certifi ed VoIP

specialist and is designed for

small to medium size business

customers interested in com-

bining voice and data services

on one platform. RSVP to

865-288-6266 or tdsvoip.com/

KnoxvilleDemo

■ Mayor Madeline Rogero

will host a business breakfast

7:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June

14, at the Civic Coliseum, 500

Howard Baker Jr. Avenue. The

free breakfast is designed for

business owners interested

in bidding on city contracts.

Boyce H. Evans, the city’s

purchasing director, said

Knoxville enters into $55

million in contracts annually.

“We want to help match local

businesses with the right

project for their products and

services.” Register at knoxvil-

letn.gov/businessbreakfast

■ Susan G. Komen Knoxville

has granted $347,988 to

eight programs to provide

thousands of women and

men with no-cost breast

health screening, treatment

support, and education pro-

grams throughout the next

year. In 2015, these programs

provided more than 4,500

women and men with access

to breast cancer screenings,

diagnostic services and

fi nancial assistance while

in treatment. As a result, 45

patients were diagnosed with

breast cancer. Early detection

is the key to reducing breast

cancer mortality.

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Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Robin Bennett, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Statehood Day celebration, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Blount Mansion, 200 W. Hill Ave. Free admission. Info: 525-2375 or blountmansion.org.

Statehood Day celebration, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., James White’s Fort, 205 E. Hill Ave. Includes John Sevier re-enactor, free admission; donations accepted. Info: 525-6514 or jameswhitefort.org.

Statehood Day celebration, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Ave. Includes living historians and free admission; donations accepted. Info: 522-8661 or mabryhazen.com.

Statehood Day celebration, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Historic Westwood, 425 Kingston Pike. Free tours. Info: 523-8008 or historicwestwood.org.

T-Shirts to “Dye” For!, noon-1 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Bring your own shirt. Info: 689-2681.

Union County Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-noon, Wilson Park. Info: 992-8038.

MONDAY, JUNE 6American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran

St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.

QED Experimental Comedy Lab, 7:30-9:30 p.m., The Pilot Light, 106 E. Jackson Ave. Free weekly comedy show blending stand-up, improv, sketch and other performance styles. Donations accepted.

Shakespeare for Kids, 2 p.m., Carter Branch Library, 9036 Asheville Highway. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 933-5438.

TUESDAY, JUNE 7Casual Comedy, 7-9pm, Casual Pint-Hardin Valley,

10677 Hardin Valley Road. Free stand-up comedy showcase featuring Pittsburgh comedians Alex Stypula and Tim Ross.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY JUNE 9AAA’s Roadwise: Safe Driving for Mature

Operators, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Eight-hour course approved by the state of Tennessee for insurance premium discounts for eligible drivers. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

Halls Book Club: “Pigs in Heaven,” 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. All welcome. Info: 922-2552.

“Killer Tomatoes vs Tomato Killers,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardeners Joe Pardue and Marcia Griswold. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

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

Pizza Ha’s, 8-9:30 p.m., Pizza Hoss, 7215 Clinton Highway. Free stand-up comedy show featuring local comedian Sean Simoneau.

VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

Shakespeare for Kids, 3 p.m., Norwood Branch Library, 1110 Merchants Drive. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 688-2454.

News from Provision CARES Foundation

Local patient benefi ts from Provision CARES Foundation

Until a couple of years ago, Donna Lindsey was always the one taking care of others. Her husband, who has suffered numerous heart

attacks. Her mother, who recently suffered from a stroke.

Then she got the diagnosis: breast cancer. And just eight months after undergoing a lumpectomy, it came back with a vengeance — invading both breasts plus her lymph nodes.

“I was never sick before this,” she says.Life was complicated in other ways too. She was

going through a divorce, she did not have reliable housing, and Lindsey was her mother’s only caregiver — all as she faced additional surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment for what was now a stage 4 disease.

After failing to get any call-backs about follow-up testing from her current healthcare providers, she connected with Provision through a friend whose niece, Samantha Kirk, works as care coordinator at the proton therapy center. Kirk called Lindsey, helped her sort out the issues and set her up to meet with specialists at the Knoxville Comprehensive Breast Center, Tennessee Cancer Specialists and the proton center as quickly as possible.

“Every day, for weeks, somebody called me from that facility,” Lindsey says. “Do you know how impressive that is? And the kindness. They were so sincere. I wasn’t even a patient there yet.”

She ultimately became a Provision patient,

receiving chemotherapy and proton therapy at the Dowell Springs campus.

Through the process, the proton center staff learned of Lindsey’s living situation — she was camped out in a 24-foot motorhome without running water. She learned about the Caring Plate, a service of the Provision CARES Foundation, through Kirk. In partnership with the Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee, the foundation provides daily, healthy meals for cancer patients and their families living in the Knoxville area. Lindsey dismissed the suggestion.

“I said, ‘I don’t want to take it away from somebody else,’” she says. “They were already helping me so much.”

Eventually, she says, one of her nurses signed Lindsey up without her knowledge. As it turned out, The Caring Plate helped see her through some very dark days.

“Sometimes I was just too sick, lying in my camper, I couldn’t even unlatch the door to say thank you,” she says. “If I wasn’t able to fi ll out the

menu, they would call to take my order over the phone. A couple of days I couldn’t get the frozen packs out into the cooler. They would call and say, ‘We wanted to make sure you’re OK.’”

One day, after learning of her waterless plight, a Caring Plate volunteer brought several cases of water. Another day, Lindsey came home from an appointment to fi nd a bouquet of fl owers on her cooler, courtesy of Random Acts of Flowers, which also partners with the Provision CARES Foundation.

“They were a lifesaver — I wouldn’t have had meals if it wasn’t for them,” she says. “They saw what I needed more than I did. I’ve never been treated like this in any facility I’ve ever been to.”

“Donna is the exact type of person the Caring Plate program was designed to help,” says Les Fout, director of Provision CARES Foundation. “A cancer diagnosis

affects every aspect of a patient’s life. We are here to help make that journey a little easier.”

For more information on The Caring Plate, visit ProvisionCares.org/TheCaringPlate

2nd annual golf tourney supports cancer patients, builds awarenessThe Bill Williamson Memorial Golf

Tournament will kick off Father’s Day weekend in support of cancer patients and to raise awareness of prostate cancer.

The tournament will be held Friday, June 17, at Avalon Golf and Country Club, in honor of devoted father and avid golfer Bill Williamson, who died of prostate cancer on Father’s Day 2014. His sons, Jack and Tim Williamson, launched the tournament one year after his death.

Two four-person scrambles will start at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Breakfast, lunch, swag bags, complimentary range balls, drinks and snacks will be provided.

“Last year’s inaugural tournament was a big success, and we have even greater expectations this year,” said Jack Williamson. “It is wonderful to honor the memory my father’s life and his long fi ght against cancer in a way that also recognizes his greatest passion besides his family – golf.”

Last year’s event raised more than $22,000 for the Provision CARES Foundation, a not-for-profi t public

Breast cancer patient Donna

Lindsey was a recipient of The Car-

ing Plate, a healthy meal program

designed specifi cally for patients

undergoing cancer treatments.

The program is off ered by the

Provision CARES Foundation and

the Knoxville-Knox County Com-

munity Action Committee.

The Bill Williamson Memorial Golf Tournament is a family event honoring Bill Williamson who passed away from prostate cancer on

Father’s Day 2014. The whole Williamson family pitches in to celebrate the life of their Dad, husband and grandfather. They are: Tim

Williamson, Amy Williamson, Carolyn Williamson, Blaine Williamson and Jack Williamson.

Adrian Pearce, Jamie Stokes, Wes Cate, and Craig Jenkins teamed up to play in last

year’s Bill Williamson Memorial Golf Tournament at Avalon Golf and Country Club.

Spots are still available for the morning and afternoon fl ights at this year’s tournament

Friday, June 17.

Prostate cancer: What you need to know

Signs and symptoms ■ Problems urinating

■ Blood in urine or semen

■ Erectile dysfunction

■ Pain in hips, back, chest or other areas

■ Weakness or numbness in legs or feet

■ Loss of bladder or bowel control

When to screen ■ If you experience any of the above

symptoms

■ If you’re over 50

■ If you’re 40 and have more than

one relative younger than 65 with

prostate cancer

■ If you’re 45 and at high risk —

i.e. African American and/or an

immediate relative under 65 has had

prostate cancer

CARES FOUNDATION

foundation that serves and supports cancer patients in providing education and wellness, clinical and biomedical research and patient assistance. More than 50 teams and 204 individuals participated in the event. This year, the Williamsons have set a fundraising goal of $30,000.

Provision CARES facilitates The Caring Plate, which assures cancer

patients undergoing treatment have access to healthy, nutritious meals. More than 9,000 meals have been served through The Caring Plate since its inception in 2014. The Patient Financial Assistance program provides grants to cancer patients in East Tennessee who need assistance with housing, transportation, or other expenses during their treatment.

“We are so thankful to have the support of the Williamsons and that they have turned tragedy into a cause for good,” said Les Fout, director of Provision CARES Foundation.

Celebrity golfer Mark Packer of WVLT will play and emcee the event. NewsTalk 98.7’s Phil Williams will host a live remote and broadcast his morning show from the tournament. Prizes will be given throughout the day.

For information or to register, go to ProvisionCares.org or call 865- 321-4589.

For more information visit Provision CARES online at www.ProvisionCares.org or call 1-865-321-4589

The Caring Plate program provided meals during her cancer battle

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