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Psyching up!Powell readiesfor big game

By Sandra Clark

Wow! The parking lot at Powell Place was packed last Thursday as students, fami-lies and friends rallied to support the Panther football team in Friday’s home opener

against Austin-East.

Food City hosted the kick-off pep rally and provided free water.

Rain threatened but never dampened the enthusiasm of the kids and fans.

The band played on, the cheerers cheered, the danc-ers danced, the coaches

looked somber and the players wore grey Panther T-shirts and clustered at the edge of the crowd. In all, it was a tremendous show of Powell Pride and commu-nity support for this Pan-ther team which exceeded expectations last season and looks toward another great year.Football player Dyshawn Mobley

Declining revenue forces review,

innovationBy Sandra Clark

Recently, The Tennessean profi led Nashville area church-es that have closed or modifi ed their outreach since the onset of the economic downturn in 2008.

We tasked Shopper re-porters to talk with church leaders to discover the im-pact of the economy on their congregations. While each Shopper-News paper has in-terviews from its community, readers can fi nd all inter-views on our website at www.ShopperNewsNow.com/.

What did we learn?Smaller churches are hurt-

ing worse than larger ones, which seem better able to ab-sorb fl at or declining revenue. Some churches are grow-ing, such as Concord United Methodist which just hosted a three-day celebration of its

new contemporary worship center. Others have been chal-lenged to become “better stew-ards” of the Lord’s money.

According to the Ten-nessean, most of the state’s residents belong to con-gregations with fewer than 100 people, and many of those actually number fewer than 50. A 2010 survey on church giving showed small churches endured a heavy 40 percent drop in dona-tions during the economic crisis. With far less money for building maintenance and fewer people volunteer-ing, more congregations are considering closing down.

An example is Nash-ville’s LaVergne Presbyterian Church. With a congregation of seven, it will no longer col-lect canned goods for the food pantry or recite the Apostles’ Creed. It voted to disband af-ter 124 years of service.

Knoxville native the Rev. Dale Peterson writes in his book, “Leave a Well in the Valley,” of a similar situa-

tion. The congregation of the oldest Baptist church in Michigan dwindled to few-er than 200 members and risked what Peterson called “death by default.” Instead, it voted to merge with an-other congregation, giving away approximately $11 million in assets and ending its historic mission.

The Tennessean story concludes: “Four Methodist congregations in Tennessee have closed this year, and 16 Tennessee Baptist Conven-tion churches closed last year. All were small with well un-der 100 members. It has been extremely hard for church leaders to close down their congregations. … Not only is it hard for church leaders and attendees but also for the communities that these church closings are occur-ring in. Many compare their church closings to the death of a friend. Many have hopes that the tenacious and stead-fast faith of church members won’t be forgotten.”

Churches challenged

By Larry Van Guilder

The Devon Group’s an-nouncement that it was with-drawing its proposal to build a new elementary school in Carter shook Knox County

Analysis

Carter proposal: What might have been

Mayor Tim Burchett’s of-fi ce and left most observers scratching their heads. Now a review of the scores awarded to the project fi nalists by the

county’s evaluation com-mittee reveals how close the competition was and how the rankings of one evaluator changed the outcome for the runner-up, Partners Devel-opment, and may have sealed the fate of the project.

The six-member evalua-tion committee was chaired by Mitch Steenrod, a senior executive with Pilot Travel Centers. Developer Buzz Goss, Mathew Myers from county purchasing, Doug

Dillingham with the school system, local executive Kevin Wilson and UT architecture professor Tricia Stuth round-ed out the committee.

The fi nalists were the De-von Group, Hewlett Spencer LLC, Municipal Capital Mar-kets Inc. and Partners Devel-opment. The proposals were rated in fi ve categories: cost, adherence to program stan-dards, time to complete, in-novation and “identifi cation and complete understand-

ing” of any proposed fi nanc-ing arrangement.

Cost, which considered the long-term operating costs of the facility in addition to the contract amount, was worth 35 points. Program standards was assigned 30 points and time to complete 15. Innovation and under-standing proposed fi nancing were worth 10 points each. Thus a perfect score was 100, and a proposal could receive a maximum score of 600

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Internal to external

First Baptist Church of Powell is more than holding its own dur-ing this period of a stagnant economy. It’s actually expanding its mission work.

According to FBC-Powell’s pastor for mis-sions and evangelism, Tim McGhee, this can be attributed to a couple of factors.

While giving is up by 5 percent for the fi rst six months of this year, overall giving has been generally fl at for the past few years since the recession offi cially hit the country in 2008, ac-cording to McGhee.

One factor that is helping the church do more with less is the shift of some of its focus from internal, activi-ties aimed at members, to external, things that

Anxiety at Powell Presbyterian

“There is anxiety in our church,” says Pow-ell Presbyterian Church pastor Jonathan Warren.

With a congregation of just below 100, the church has noticed a drop off in giving, espe-cially this year accord-ing to Warren.

“Gas prices have in-creased, food costs have increased, retirees are not sure how their stocks are going to do, it does affect people’s giving,” says Warren.

In the fi rst two years of his pastorship, the church surpassed its giving pledges. It has also gained almost 10 percent in membership.

Warren does not credit all of this to the economy.

“The changes were due to the changing of the guard here,” he says,

Cheerleader Deanna LyonPhotos by S. Clark

Dance team member Katlyn Jordan

when the individual evalua-tions were totaled.

Hewlett Spencer and Mu-nicipal Capital Markets fi n-ished with scores of 541.63 and 539. 2 respectively. Both lagged the leaders by a fair margin. The Devon Group edged Partners Development 558.22 to 552.5.

In order, these were the individual scores for the De-von Group and Partners De-velopment:

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Goss – 98, 97 ■

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Wilson – 93.12, 96 ■

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A glance at the list re-veals that Myers was not as impressed with the propos-als as his fellow committee members. His rankings for all the fi nalists ranged from 82.3 to 87.1.

But Stuth’s score of 78 for Partners Development leaps

Masonic fi sh fryCooking fi sh and fi xings (or watching) are Clarence Smallwood, Todd Samples (pouring potatoes into a deep fryer), Jonathon Samples, Bill Neubert and his son, Gabe. Powell Masonic Lodge hosted the community to the annual fi sh fry. Todd Samples said he expected to fry 100 pounds of fi sh, 40 pounds of potatoes and another 40 pounds of hush puppies. Photo by S. Clark

Powell band car washPowell High freshman Sabrina van Buren gets rinsed by parent Kay Jeff ers at the car wash sponsored by the Pow-ell High School band. During a lull, the students dumped buckets of sudsy water onto each other, requiring a rinse. Sophomore Kayla Jeff ers (not pictured) was equally wet. Photo by S. Clark

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off the page. Statistically, it’s an “outlier,” although not a “signifi cant” outlier.

The Shopper-News asked purchasing director Hugh Holt if he considered drop-ping Stuth’s score from the ranking because it differed so markedly from the others.

“We looked at that,” Holt said. “We’re numbers people.”

In the end, he said, “ev-erybody on the committee” felt Stuth had performed conscientiously, that her ranking was not “arbitrary or capricious.”

A closer look at the evalu-ation shows most of the dif-ference in Stuth’s scores for Devon and Partners derives from two areas, cost and in-

novation. Innovation encom-passes nearly any aspect of the design that could reduce costs, increase effi ciency or “greatly enhance the edu-cational experience.” Stuth awarded the Devon Group 32 points for cost and 8 for innovation. Partners Devel-opment earned 27 points for cost and none for innova-tion, a 13-point swing that clinched the top ranking for Devon.

Although Partners’ pro-posed cost was roughly $1 million below the $13.8 million price tag negotiated with Devon, Devon’s propos-al included innovations in energy effi ciency. Municipal Capital Markets also rated a

zero in innovation on Stuth’s scorecard.

It was a judgment call to retain Stuth’s ratings. While her integrity and good faith efforts are not in question, the unintended conse-quence of retaining the out-lier ranking may be to quash the effort to build rather than renovate in Carter. The school board reluc-tantly came to the table the fi rst time. The second time around may prove a harder sell for the mayor.

The Shopper-News at-tempted to contact Stuth about her rankings. She did not respond to our ques-tions.

Arts and Culture Alliance presents “In Absence”The Arts and Culture Alliance’s Artist in Residence,

Brandon Woods, will present the exhibit “In Absence” 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, at the Emporium Center. The solo exhibit catalogs the six months of Woods’ residency and includes oil paintings and photography.

KSO kicks off new seasonThe Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s new season will

begin Tuesday, Sept. 6, and will include the Masterworks, Pops and Chamber series, the Family Concert Series and the annual Clayton Holiday Concerts. Single tickets are on sale now. Info: 291-3310 or visit www.knoxvillesymphony.com.

September at Art Market Gallery The Art Market Gallery’s featured artists for Septem-

ber are Gordon Fowler and Pat Delashmit. A reception will be held in their honor Friday, Sept. 2. Fowler creates heirloom-quality items using a woodturning lathe and

Delashmit is a fi ber artist who creates woven tapestries, soft sculpture and mixed media pieces.

Silent movie at the Tennessee TheatreOn Sunday, Sept. 4, the silent movie “The General” will

air at the Tennessee Theatre at 3 p.m. The movie, starring Buster Keaton and Marion Mack, was fi lmed in 1927. Or-ganist Ron Carter will accompany “The General.” Admis-sion is $8 for adults and $6 for children. Tickets are on sale at the Clinch Avenue Ticket offi ce and may be ordered by phone at 684-1200.

Christian music festivalThe Sherman Oaks Christian Music Festival will be

held Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 17-18, at Sherman Oaks Campground, 1601 E. Highway 25/70 in Dandridge. Award winning artists including Soul Sister Sally, Lara Landon and UR1 will perform. Gates open at 9 a.m. Tick-ets are available at www.itickets.com or at Lifeway Chris-tian Bookstores. Info: www.shermanmusicfestival.com.

Meeting set for Powell Swim TeamA parent information meeting will be held 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 1, in the Powell High Library for Powell Middle and Powell High students interested in swimming on the Powell Swim Team.

Auditions for ‘The Ghastly Gala …’The Wild Thyme Players will have open auditions for

its upcoming Halloween production “The Ghastly Gala of the Grand Guignol” 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, and 5-7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 4, at Trinity United Methodist Church on Western Avenue. Anyone 16 and older is encouraged to audition. Performances will take place Thursday and Fri-day, Oct. 20-21, at Relix Variety Theatre. Info: 325-9877 or email [email protected].

‘Arts in the Airport’The Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority

(McGhee Tyson Airport) and the Arts and Culture Alli-ance will present “Arts in the Airport” through Thursday, Oct. 20, in the secured area behind McGhee Tyson Air-port’s security gate checkpoint. The exhibition will feature selected artwork from more than 40 artists in East Ten-nessee. A gallery of images from the exhibit is available at www.knoxalliance.com/album/airport_spring11.html.

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By Larry Van Guilder

The numbers can be stunning. A Corryton resi-dent was billed $56,200, later reduced to $44,200, to contain a fi re in April 2009. More recently, Mary Kiser’s father received a bill for more than $18,000 from Rural/Metro to extinguish

a blaze at a trailer he paid $2,500 for 20 years ago.

Speaking at the recent County Commission lun-cheon, Kiser said the bill represented two years of Social Security benefi ts for her father. Contacted late last week, she said a com-promise was in the works.

Sources close to Rural/Metro say these incidents are uncommon. But when they do occur, the wisdom of

Playing with fi re subscribing to Rural/Metro or the fi re department serv-ing your community in the county becomes apparent.

Before Kiser spoke, Chief Jerry Harnish of Rural/Metro provided commis-sioners with an overview of the department’s costs. For unlucky county resi-dents such as Kiser’s father, one number stood out in the chief’s presentation. The cost for subscribing to Rural/Metro for the owner of a 1,500 to 2,000 square foot house is about $264 annually.

The comparable sub-scription cost in Shelby County is $366, Harnish said. If calculated as cost per capita, the method used by the International City Management Association, Knox County residents pay $60 compared to more than $150 in Shelby County.

Harnish said nonsub-scribers use about 40 per-cent of the department’s services but pay only about 2.5 percent of the costs. Some costs are unrecover-able, such as personnel and equipment utilized in the

Tedford Road landfill fire in 2008.

There’s nothing mysteri-ous about the bill a nonsub-scriber may face for contain-ing a fi re, Harnish said. He acknowledged that anyone getting a $1,500 invoice for extinguishing a fi re in a car worth $800 may not see the value, but it refl ects the ac-tual costs, which he pegged at $1,500 per hour – annual expenses divided by annual hours worked.

Among the biggest is-sues facing the industry are the costs for nonsub-

scribers and the “fragility” of volunteer services, Har-nish said. A utility district service charge could ad-dress these issues in part and reduce the cost to for-mer subscribers by bring-ing anyone with a water meter into the system.

Harnish said a special district tax would allow the most equitable distribu-tion of costs and allow the county to specify service levels. However, instituting it might require modifi ca-tion of the county procure-ment code.

impact a broader audience. An example is how the

church shifted resources used for the traditional Wednesday night suppers for members to feeding 300-350 people per week in the mobile home park ministry, shut-ins and at the hospice in Halls.

referring to his taking over as pastor. “New people come in and people leave,” he said.

While giving is off thus far, Warren says that the church has a recent history of lagging on pledges and then catching up and surpassing them near the end of the year.

Powell Presbyterian added a mobile food pantry this year after a single individual con-tributed approximately $800 for the trailer of food from Second Harvest Food Bank. Normally PPC has three mo-bile pantries per year and this year the church will have four.

The church also partici-pates in the Family Promise ministry. Family Promise is a program where homeless families live in area churches for a period of time before moving to another until they can fi nd housing through KCDC. Warren has noticed that it seems that families are taking longer to fi nd housing – an indication of the impact of a bad economy.

The biggest impact of the

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McGhee

First Baptist Church of Powell

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Powell Presbyterian Church

A not he r example is the King-dom Chal-lenge pro-gram the church has been run-ning for the past couple of years.

The Kingdom Challenge is a discipleship strategy that challenges believers to obey Christ’s extreme command to deny self, take up their

bad econo-my on the church is the stress and anxi-ety it has b r o u g h t . This puts p r e s s u r e on pastors because as

people feel they have less and less control over their lives, they need to vent. And pastors are the recipients of this venting.

“That might mean people don’t show up at church as often,” he says.

– Greg Householder

cross daily and forsake all that they have to follow Him in expanding His kingdom.

Members are counseled in getting out of debt and essentially downsizing their lives. McGhee tells of one member who related to him that he had cut his expens-es by 50 percent by taking up the Kingdom Challenge. The Kingdom Challenge represents about $200,000 of the church’s budget and it has all been new revenues, said McGhee.

So First Baptist is able to do more with the same. It has “church plants” – new churches – in places like Mill City, Ore., and Balti-more, Md. It plans a church plant in the old North Knox-ville area. Its missionaries travel all over the world. The church has ministries that serve area mobile home parks, housing projects such as Western Heights and North Ridge Crossing (formerly Christenberry Heights). It offers adult Bible study classes in Lonsdale.

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Although we’d welcome some cooler temperatures, we aren’t jumping the gun on Christmas. Still, some cooling off might be in order on County Commission.

Recently Commissioner Jeff Ownby made a plea for civility. He didn’t cite specifics but did allude to indis-criminately reading blogs as one way in which public figures may get their feelings hurt. Ownby also asked commissioners to show greater respect for one another during their deliberations.

There are a couple of ways to consider Ownby’s po-sition. It was obvious to this writer that someone had taken a shot (or shots) at him in the blogosphere. Regret-table as that is, especially to the commissioner, it hap-pens every day to public figures. Short of libel, this perk comes with the job – get used to it.

That said, there is something commendable about Ownby’s longing for more civil discourse. The comments sections of most daily newspapers are a sewer.

Drop in a story promising the least hint of controversy and watch the anonymous commenters gnaw at one an-other as they scramble to claim the title of King Rat. It’s past time for publishers and editors to practice a little extermination.

Ownby’s political leanings are no secret, so it’s ironic that some of the vilest political commentary over the air and on the Internet comes from the far right. Not that left-leaning pundits are angels, but most can’t hold a candle to the likes of Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Mark Levin and a host of lesser lights.

Any public figure prone to wearing his heart on his sleeve should reflect on the difference between satiri-cal banter and downright cussedness. If I call you a lily-livered son of a rattlesnake, you might be tempted to pull out your six-shooter and let me have it. If I say it with a grin, you’d probably laugh along with me.

Ownby tapped another vein with regard to the man-ner in which commissioners interact with one another. There’s historic city-county tension on the body, run-ning in tandem with the Republican-Democrat split. Over the years, about as many Democrats as there are palm trees in Greenland have served on commission, so it’s not difficult to see how the Dems may have developed not only an inferiority complex, but a respectable load of feistiness.

Commissioner Amy Broyles exemplifies the latter, and it’s not uncommon for her tenacity to irritate her colleagues. Commissioner Mike Brown, who became visibly annoyed with Broyles at last week’s commission meeting, would probably call it stubbornness. There is a tendency for the outnumbered city slickers to filibuster an issue, but if you know you’re going down in the up-coming vote you may as well get your money’s worth.

“To build or not to build” Carter Elementary has raised some hackles on commission lately. Dave Wright and Richard Briggs aren’t exchanging love notes, and before the issue is laid to rest the rhetoric may heat up a few more degrees.

So, Ownby’s plea for manners and restraint is not misplaced. But when the slings and arrows of outra-geous columnists come your way, Jeff, don’t take it so hard. Fame comes with a price.Contact Larry Van Guilder at [email protected].

Peace on earth,goodwill toward commissioners

The Rev. Tiki Dixon gave the eulogy at James Ander-son’s funeral. He told the family to look around and see who was there.

This picture of James Ander-

son and his grandson, Cayden,

was taken the day before

James died. Photo by David Bean

At Superman’s funeral

That was important, he said, because one of the markers of a life well lived is when the people at your funeral don’t all look like you.

If the Andersons fol-lowed his instruction, they saw a sanctuary packed with all kinds of people – young, old and in-between; black, white and in-be-tween; rich, poor and in-between.

That’s when I swear I heard James’ voice: “There’s nobody here as good-looking as me.”

He would have loved the crowd and he would have loved the big red fire truck waiting out front to take him home. Same with

the fire department hon-or guard. He would have loved his wife, Kristi, tak-ing her place in the church choir and, of course, his beautiful children and new grandchild. He would also have loved the solo his nephew Anthony sang: “You saw the best in me.” I couldn’t help thinking about how James won’t get to see Anthony running kickoff returns for the Vols this fall.

The minister, of course, was right. The crowd at Greater Warner Taberna-cle AME Zion Church was a reflection of a life that touched hundreds, maybe thousands, of others in ev-eryday ways.

Exuberant, boisterous and generous in the ex-treme, James was hilari-ously braggadocios and, before his health betrayed him, gifted with physical strength and athletic abil-ity. When his big heart started to give out, he came to know the misery of fail-ing health. But he was al-ways willing to share what he had with whomever he

thought might need some tomatoes from his garden or their yard mowed or someone to sit and visit a spell.

Nobody could feel bad when James came calling. He wouldn’t allow it.

In his youth, when he was a gifted athlete (an Anderson family trait), he took up power lifting, and muscles bulged on his fire-plug frame. At one get-to-gether, I was trying to light some charcoal and asked if

he had a match.“Not since Superman

died,” he said, grinning that face-splitting grin.

When he joined the Knoxville Fire Depart-ment, he found the perfect job. He could help people when they needed it, crack jokes with his buddies when it was slow and make time for his lawn care busi-ness. He made a smoker/grill out of an old water heater and proclaimed his barbecue the best in town and probably the world.

But he was plagued by heart trouble, and a couple of years ago, a lung full of toxic fumes he sucked down at a house fire end-ed his career prematurely, and probably helped cut short his life.

One of the speakers at his funeral was a friend of his daughter Jessica’s whom he had coached in soccer. She called him Su-perman. How, she asked between wracking sobs, could Superman die?

I haven’t figured that one out either.

A recent front page pho-to showed Chris Irwin, who was wearing red paint fa-cial makeup, being denied entry to a public meeting of the TVA board. I do not know Chris Irwin. I had never heard of him before seeing this picture. I do not agree with his position against nuclear energy.

However, we should ask why TVA is imposing a dress code on ratepay-ers and citizens who wish to attend a board meet-ing. Does not Chris Irwin have a right to paint his face, look foolish and still attend a public hearing of a government agency? Cer-tainly, he would not have been turned away from meetings of City Council, County Commission or even a KUB board meet-ing for wearing red paint makeup.

Why is TVA worrying about how people dress as long as they are in fact not indecent?

Here is TVA’s response:“TVA asked that people

attending the board meet-ing dress without costume or make-up so each individ-ual could be identified pri-or to entering the meeting. We asked that no costumes be worn to reduce any dis-turbance at the meeting. We knew this would be an overflow crowd and the least amount of distraction

No Smokey for TVA

would allow the board to continue the listening ses-sion without interruption. We do not have a written policy, but nevertheless, we believe it was the pru-dent way to handle a formal business meeting to ensure the safety of the public and TVA staff.”

This is from Barbara Martocci, a senior manag-er of public relations.

My reaction is this:“Make up the rules as

you go. Hide behind se-curity (need to identify persons, hence no masks, paint, etc.) and phony de-corum (no disturbances) and publish nothing. The people learn the rules when they get there. We are the federal government and can’t be questioned. If you think we are wrong, take us to court and maybe you will get an answer in eight to 10 months.”

What is the TVA dress code? There is no written policy.

Who, then, decides what is acceptable or not? Is this not a limit of free speech guaranteed under our U.S.

Constitution? What if Law-son had worn orange paint to highlight his support of the Vols? Would a woman who wore a veil over her face due to religious rea-sons be barred from a TVA meeting? Would a person who wore a turban for cul-tural or religious reasons be barred?

Who devised these un-stated standards? No one is talking. Did the board in open session vote to impose a dress code? No. What public process occurred to arrive at this questionable decision? None. Is the TVA board seriously worried about how citizens dress at their board meetings when they have more important issues? I guess so.

It is naive to think wear-ing makeup impacts the safety of the public and TVA staff. It may look silly and foolish but it has no impact on safety.

By barring Chris Irwin, TVA gave him a front page photo in the New Sentinel. TVA made his day. And for what purpose? Seems to me he would have an excel-lent federal lawsuit against TVA for denying him his First Amendment rights. Will he will pursue this? Even if TVA could legally impose these standards, why bother? Who cares if someone looks foolish?

For 16 years as mayor of Knoxville, I presided over public forums at City Coun-cil where citizens came in all forms of dress and cos-tumes. Gary Hiscock came dressed as an American In-dian. One person used her time to sing a song instead of making remarks. Other brought props. One asked for silence. The audience often held signs and post-ers reflecting their views. It never once occurred to me or to any member of council to prohibit these citizens (some of whom did not even live in the city) from appearing, dressed as they wished and say-ing what they wished. Has TVA become so high and mighty that they feel they are immune from comment reflected in how someone dresses?

Of course, the same TVA tried to deny release of their top salaries until the News Sentinel threatened legal action. TVA needs to reach out to citizens and listen instead of figuring out ways to limit partici-pation. Right now TVA is arrogantly tramping on guaranteed constitutional rights. If they can do it to Chris Irwin, it could be you next. Smokey, our UT mas-cot, 0had better avoid TVA public hearings. He will be barred. He might impact public safety.


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The current discussion of teacher pay, incentives, merit pay or what-have-you makes Lamar Alexander look like a prophet. And it makes

Indya Kincannon addresses teachers at Central High School’s forum on strategic compensation. “APEX is local. Bring your ideas to your ad-ministrator. Hopefully, morale will improve.” Photo by S. Clark

Teacher pay and tenure

one wonder how K-12 public education would look today had Lamar’s ideas for master teachers and merit pay been enacted in the 1980s.

A case can be made that the master teacher and in-centive pay components of Alexander’s Better Schools program set his career back 20 years and killed off his chances to be U.S. president. And all Tennesseans got for it was a lame, watered-down Career Ladder program that made no one happy. We can only hope that’s not the case with APEX.

“APEX?” you say.“Advance. Perform. Excel,”

says Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre. “APE?” said school board member Karen Carson. Ah, confusion from Day One.

So McIntyre, the good soldier, scheduled three pub-lic meeting to discuss APEX (formerly known as strategic compensation). The next two are: 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at Bearden High, and 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, at South-Doyle Middle School.

Last week’s was at Central High, and teachers had sev-eral questions.

APEX rates teachers on four criteria: student success (test scores, 35%), effective instruction (classroom obser-vation, 35%), teacher leader-ship (measured by quality andimpact, 20%), and high-needs schools (based on number of students on free/reduced lunch and longevity at that school, 10%).

Teachers can earn an extra $1,500 or $2,000 per year, and there are schoolwide and administrator awards as well.

The plan is extremely de-tailed, and already teachers are poking at holes.

“Morale is low,” said one. “It’s defeating to be told that most of us will be a ‘three.’ ”

“Is there a quota on the 4s and 5s?”

“What are the criteria for physical education teachers?”

“Yeah, what about art and career technical education?”

“Can music teachers be evaluated by a music supervi-sor, someone who knows our subject?”

“What if I take maternity leave?”

“What happens when the money runs out? Will this program stay?”

Good grief! You’d think McIntyre was sticking his hands into the teachers’ pock-ets to take away money they’ve already got.

APEX is funded with out-side money, not the general schools budget. And, yes, it might go away. But anyone who improves to earn the in-centives will be left with bet-ter skills.

McIntyre said the program is not about getting rid of bad teachers, but is “trying to help teachers get better every year … better every day.” He said changes in state law will make tenure diffi cult to obtain and “rare,” but Knox County Schools will work with teach-ers who try to improve.

“Teach the children with passion. Keep learning, and you’ll be OK.”

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Farragut dreamin’Former Knox County chief of staff Mike Arms drops by the Farragut Branch Library wearing a Bart Gordon T-shirt while County Mayor Tim Burchett conducts a constituent meeting inside. “I’m just looking for a computer,” said Arms. “Wow, that used to be Dean Rice,” said a bystander. Photo by S. Clark

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fi lm, on cassette types, vinyl re-cords, acetates, 8-tracks, cylinders, reel-to-reel, videotape and magnet-ic wire recordings are old Knoxville television programs, music from the popular WNOX “Mid-Day Mer-ry-Go-Round,” raw footage from the popular “Heartland Series” and even an audience recording of Elvis Presley’s April 8, 1972, afternoon concert at Stokely Athletic Center, the headliner concert of the ’72 Dogwood Arts Festival.

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“It’s the history of our town come to life,” Reeves says.

The couple started the nonprofi t out of their Bearden apartment fi ve years ago when they received their fi rst fi lm collection of home movies shot in Knoxville in the 1920s. They started reaching out to the commu-nity, tracking down leads, seeking people who might have classic fi lm and audio with Knoxville and East Tennessee connections.

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The earliest fi lm in the collec-tion dates back to 1915 and was shot by local photography legend Jim Thompson, who shot footage with a 35mm camera for Pathe/Univer-sal newsreels. The collection also boasts some of the earliest known recorded images of the Great Smoky Mountains from 1918.

Reeves says he’s gotten footage from Phil Campbell, son of the late entertainer and “Hee Haw” star Ar-chie Campbell, who was a one-time regular on the “Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round.” WBIR-TV also donated its

Preserving historyone recording at a time

Bradley Reeves works on a 16 mm print of “Dempster Dinosaur,” the only known surviving copy of a 1959 fi lm that was produced by the Knoxville advertising company Lavidge and Associates for Dempster Brothers Co. The movie includes scenes fi lmed around Knoxville shot in Kodachrome color with sound. Reeves and his wife, Louisa Trott, restore and preserve fi lm and audio with Knoxville and East Tennessee connections as part of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, a nonprofi t organization housed in the basement at the East Tennessee History Center. Photo by Jake Mabe

archives from 1956 to 1990 (which includes episodes of Cas Walker’s “Farm and Home Hour”), much of which was recorded on either 16mm fi lm or 2-inch quad tapes. A volun-teer from Johnson City who knows how to work the machine required for playback has helped digitize the 2-inch quad recordings.

“It’s not just putting the fi lm on and hitting play. You had to be an engineer back then,” Reeves says.

Other interesting items in the collection include surviving tapes of Jim Clayton’s “Star Time” TV show, episodes from teenage star Jimmy Hartsook’s early TV pro-gram, recordings by Happy Hol-ler’s favorite country couple, Carl and Pearl Butler, and receipts and handwritten lyrics of songs written by Arthur Q. Smith that he would sell for beer money – no joke – to pay off his tab at the Three Feath-ers Bar. One such song, “Missing in Action,” became a hit for the coun-try singer Ernest Tubb. Other 78s include snippets of a live recording of “The Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round” featuring Knoxville radio legend Lowell Blanchard.

The Presley recording from April 8, 1972, turned up a few weeks ago. Turns out a fan from Corryton brought a then-new Sony cassette recorder into the concert with him and recorded it while sitting on the back row in Stokely Athletic Center. Prior to this, no known recording was thought to exist. Film foot-age of Elvis arriving at Stokely can briefl y be seen in the 1972 MGM documentary “Elvis on Tour,” but no offi cial video or audio recording was made of the concert. An audi-ence recording from Elvis’ March 15, 1974, Knoxville appearance has also turned up and the TAMIS col-lection boasts Super 8 fi lm footage of Elvis performing at Johnson City’s Freedom Hall in 1976-77 and a brief clip of The King singing “See See Rider” during his May 20, 1977, appearance at Stokely.

A few cuts from the 1972 concert were premiered Aug. 15 on a broad-cast dedicated to Presley’s music on the WDVX-FM radio show “The Vi-nyl Frontier.” It proved to be so pop-ular that Reeves and Trott are go-ing to host another Presley-themed show next year around the date of Elvis’s death (Aug. 16). “The Vinyl Frontier” airs 9-11 p.m. Mondays on

WDVX. Reeves and Trott host it ev-ery other week.

Other rare items in the TAMIS collection include sound recordings from WNOX-AM’s rock and roll era that came from popular disc jockey Johnny Pirkle’s collection, including master tapes of local bands. Other rarities include an early pop record-ing called “It’s Sure Going to Hurt” that Dolly Parton made for Mercury Records, early 45 rpm singles from Con Hunley (on the Prairie Dust la-bel), home movies shot at the origi-nal location of McGhee Tyson Air-port on Sutherland Avenue (near present-day West High School) and even a print of the Ingrid Bergman fi lm “A Walk in the Spring Rain,” which was shot on the UT campus and in Gatlinburg and made its de-but in Knoxville in 1970.

One of Reeves’ current projects is digitizing the raw footage of WBIR’s popular “Heartland Series” from 1984-90.

“Every community needs to get out and fi nd this stuff and contact their TV stations to see what they have. A lot of what used to be here went to the dump. And it’s like that nationwide.” (NBC-TV notoriously taped over almost every episode of the daytime version of the original “Hollywood Squares” TV show and tapes of virtually everything aired on the DuMont TV network are long gone.)

The TAMIS collection also in-cludes virtually every kind of ob-solete equipment needed for play-back.

“We think this is going to be the wave of the future for educational research,” Reeves says. “There are numerous stories out there and folks are fi lling in the gaps. It’s a great re-source if you want to do research on local history. We’ve begged for and gotten stuff donated. We have no money but we love what we do. We think it will pay off in the end.”

For more information about TAMIS or to donate fi lm or audio items with connections to local history, call Bradley Reeves at 215-8856 or visit http://www.tamisarchive.org/TAMIS_Web/TAMIS_home.html. Jake Mabe is a huge fi lm buff and Elvis fan who was “All Shook Up” when he heard clips of the long-missing April 8, 1972, Presley concert at Stokely Athletic Center. You can reach Jake at 922-4136 or email [email protected].

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pen – and that possibil-ity adds excitement to the opening of any Tennessee football season.

Indeed, there have been startling upsets in both di-rections, dramatic fi nishes and the introduction of su-perstars.

For some strange reason, I do not expect Montana to make the prime list of unforgettable openers. UT Martin, Western Kentucky, Alabama-Birmingham and UNLV did not. Neither did Southwestern Louisiana, East Carolina or Fresno State.

My favorite season open-ers? I have a few.

In late 1955, Bowden Wy-att declined an invitation to the Gator Bowl because the foe was going to be Auburn. Those same Tigers just hap-pened to be fi rst on the 1956 Tennessee schedule. The coach did not want them scheming against his single wing for eight consecutive months.

The 1956 opener at Bir-mingham’s Legion Field ended at Tennessee 35, Auburn 7. It was a knock-out that launched a cham-pionship season and a host of honors for Johnny Majors.

The 3M company cre-ated the backdrop for the wonderful 1968 opener between Tennessee and Georgia. For the discount

price of $230,000, athlet-ic director Bob Woodruff and young coach Doug Dickey purchased a magic carpet to cover Shields-Watkins Field.

Diggers dug up sa-cred sod and hauled away tons and tons of historic dirt. Down went a layer of crushed stone with asphalt topping, a sponge pad and a plastic cover, supposedly similar to real grass. Well, it was green.

Georgia, being far, far away, didn’t hear about this shocking development in a timely fashion. Bull-dog athletic director Joel Eaves, an Auburn man and a bit old-fashioned, went ballistic. Livid is another descriptive word.

He lashed out at Tennes-see for making this radical change without discussing it. He said Georgia might fi nd cause to void the con-tract and stay home.

Georgia came to the game. Tennessee took a 7-0 lead. Georgia caught up and went ahead. Geor-gia went up by eight with an 80-yard breakaway in the fourth quarter. Game over. The end.

Facing sure defeat, Bub-ba Wyche generated a little late entertainment for Vol faithful. Surprisingly, the fun lasted the length of the fi eld, 16 plays, including a fourth-down completion and fi nally, a touchdown pass to Gary Kreis.

Time expired with the ball in the air.

In a miracle among mira-cles, Bubba followed with a two-point conversion strike to tight end Ken DeLong.

Eight points after the game was over, 17-17 tie, ter-rifi c opener, best show ever on Doug’s rug.

Great opener in ’98, Ten-nessee at Syracuse, new Tee Martin against Donovan McNabb, seesaw struggle with fi ve lead changes. The gutty Vols, two points be-hind, launched a last-ditch drive but it died on a fourth-down incompletion.

But wait, behold the yel-low swath of cloth on the green turf, penalty against the home team for pass in-terference. Amazing.

New life for the visitors. Terrifi c response. Jeff Hall fi eld goal on the fi nal play, Vols win 34-33, fi rst step toward the national cham-pionship.

Unbelievable fi rst game in 2006, a joyous 35-18 rout of California. Domination of a ranked foe was com-plete rejuvenation from the previous season which was not very good. Erik Ainge was again confi dent. Robert Meachem was outstanding. Jerod Mayo was so good, Rico McCoy couldn’t get on the fi eld.

Tennessee did not win or tie all memorable open-ing games. The Vols ap-proached 1980 with op-timism and such stars as

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Grand openingsReggie White and Wil-lie Gault. Alas, Georgia brought freshman Her-schel Walker. His introduc-tion to Bill Bates was unbe-lievably rude. The Bulldogs won 16-15.

The Vols opened 1967 against UCLA at the Colise-um in Los Angeles and lost a heartbreaker 20-16. Gary Beban did it with a fi gure-S fourth-quarter run, a play that eventually led to the Heisman Trophy.

That was one of the best-ever Tennessee teams – Steve Kiner, Bob Johnson, Charles Rosenfelder, Dick Williams, Richmond Flow-ers, Jimmy Weatherford, Dewey Warren, Walter Chadwick, John Boynton, Herman Weaver, etc. Jack Reynolds joined the lineup a few days later.

Tennessee and UCLA had other good opening games. There was an un-forgettable one in 1974. High drama, the Con-dredge Holloway show, 17-17 conclusion.

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Is it plagiarism if you quote yourself?

Two and a half years ago, at a moment when I was be-tween jobs and wondering “What’s next?” I wrote in this space the words quoted above about God’s rules con-cerning the gift of manna to the Children of Israel in the wilderness.

Why we call it the presentFor all our days pass away under your wrath; our

years come to an end like a sigh. The days of our life are 70 years, or perhaps 80 if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fl y away. (Psalm 90: 9-10 NRSV)

1. There will be enough.2. There won’t be any extra.3. It may not be exactly what you would choose.4. It won’t come until you absolutely have to have it.5. When in doubt, see Rule Number One.

(The Rules of Manna from “Bread of Heaven,” Cross Currents, Feb. 2, 2009)

myself when the budget gets a little tight, to those I en-counter in my work who are struggling and to friends who are uneasy about the economy.

At the time, I was speak-ing about money. This week, however, I have begun to think of the days of our lives as manna as well.

Like manna, they are doled out day by day, and nothing we can do – noth-ing! – can speed them up or slow them down. Our days are given to us one at a time, and each one is precious and unique. We can use them or squander them, enjoy them or endure them.

Last week, my mother was in the hospital for a few days after a fall. Her health

Community services

Beaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, takes orders

for Angel Food Ministries by

phone or in person the Satur-

day before each distribution

on the third Saturday of each

month. Info: 228-9299 or the

church offi ce, 690-0160.

Beaver Ridge UMC Food ■

Pantry hands out food to

local families in need 1-2 p.m.

CONDOLENCESMynatt Funeral Homes Inc. ■

(922-9195 or 688-2331):Martha Harris

Susan E. Jenkins

Jack Loy

Hilda Haynes Marsh

Evelyn Beatrice Moyers

Betty Marie “Leslie” Presley

Ella Faye Wilson

Stevens Mortuary ■

(524-0331):Richard Eugene Easterly

WORSHIP NOTES

every Monday and 7-8 p.m.

every fi rst Monday. Donations

and volunteers are welcome.

Info: www.beaverridgeumc.

com or 690-1060.

Fundraisers Dante Church of God ■ , 410

Dante School Road, needs

crafters for its Fall Festival

to be held Saturday, Sept.

17. Space rental is $25. Info:

Lena Coker, 693-2688 or email

[email protected].

Faith UMC ■ , 1120 Dry Gap Pike,

will host “Laugh All Night: An

Evening of Comedy to Benefi t

Agape Outreach Homes” 7 to

8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29.

Comedians will include Marty

Simpson, Jonnie W. and Re-

nard Hirsch. Tickets are $10 or

$35 for four. Info: http://www.

agapeoutreachhomesonline.

org/.

HomecomingsGlenwood Baptist Church ■

of Powell will celebrate 121

years of service to the com-

munity during its home-

coming Sunday, Sept. 18.

Everyone is invited.

Music servicesThe River Church of Knox- ■

ville, 6634 Central Ave. Pike,

#105, will host singing and

ministry group New Desire

7 p.m. Monday through

Wednesday, Aug. 29-31. Info:

851-8354.

Women’s programs

Shepherd of the Hills ■

Baptist Church, 400 East

Beaver Creek Drive, will host

the Beth Moore “Living Proof

Live” simulcast event 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10.

Admission is free; seating is

limited. To register: 484-4066

or [email protected].

Knoxville Christian ■

Women’s Connection will

host an “Extend a Hand

Around the World” luncheon

10:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept.

8, at Bearden Banquet Hall.

Complimentary child care by

reservation only. Cost is $10.

RSVP by calling Connie at

693-298 or email dick3234@

bellsouth.net.

CrossCurrents

LynnHutton

has been failing for some time, but this moved us into a new world of decision-making.

Then, the news that coach Pat Summitt has early onset dementia stunned everyone who loves and respects and admires her. For this wom-an of such intelligence, such vitality, such discipline, such intensity, such power to be stricken at her age with a disease that is usu-ally associated with old age is unthinkable. She pledges to fi ght it with everything she has, and I have no doubt she will.

Still, it gives one pause. We have no guarantees.

A 90-something preacher I

once knew always answered the routine greeting “How are you?” in the same way. His emphatic answer was al-ways, “Oh, it’s a good day.”

One morning my curios-ity got the better of me, and I asked him, “Henry, why do you tell me it’s a good day when I haven’t asked about the day? I asked about you!”

He grinned at me and re-plied, “At my age, any day I wake up is a good day!”

It behooves us all to re-member that. We should savor our days and use them well.

As one of the children in Family Circus says: “Every day is a gift; that’s why we call it the present.”

I have quoted myself many times since then: to

Sampsel to speak at KFL

Bill Sampsel will be the guest speaker for the Knoxville Fellow-ship Lun-cheon at noon Tuesday, Aug. 30. The KFL

is a group of Chris-tian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.

Bill Sampsel


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