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POWELL/NORWOOD VOL. 53 NO. 51 December 24, 2014 www.ShopperNewsNow.com | www.facebook.com/ShopperNewsNow 7049 Maynardville Pike 37918 (865) 922-4136 NEWS [email protected] Sandra Clark | Cindy Taylor ADVERTISING SALES [email protected] Shannon Carey Jim Brannon | Tony Cranmore Patty Fecco | Wendy O’Dell Training for LIFE. Tennova.com 859-7900 Group personal training Sign up for January. What are you WEIGHTING for? Tennova.com 859-7900 $25 Enrollment! TITAN TITAN SELF-STORAGE SELF-STORAGE A A 938-2080 938-2080 Climate and non-climate controlled units, indoor and outdoor, RV storage, 24/7 access, month to month rentals, fenced, lighted and security, convenient to Halls and Powell. Lowest prices in town. Powell. NOW OPEN! Norris Freeway location By Wendy Smith Wayne Blasius, who began his new job as execu- tive director of the East Tennes- see Community Design Center this week, remembers having coffee with Annette Anderson back in 1977. Anderson was executive director of the design center from 1973 to 1995. She was one of the first peo- ple Blasius met when he arrived in Knoxville to begin graduate work in urban planning. They talked about the importance of getting involved in the community, and the conversation stoked his enthu- siasm for civic engagement. In the years since, Blasius has volunteered for the design center, Knox Heritage, Leadership Knox- ville, the Central Business Im- provement District and the Knox- ville Chamber of Commerce, along with other organizations. “I strongly believe in giving back, that our community is only as good as the work its citizens are willing to put into it.” He grew up in the Chicago area and didn’t intend to stay in Knox- ville. But the South grew on him - especially the warm winters. After Blasius finished his de- gree, he was hired as a planner for the Metropolitan Planning Com- mission. He worked on the down- town master plan that ultimately led to that area’s renaissance. His firm, InSite Development, also contributed to downtown’s revitalization with the redevelop- ment of the Phoenix and the Mast General Store/Gallery Lofts. Knoxville has an incredible his- toric building stock, he says. “If you look down Gay Street, there are not many missing teeth.” The area has remained intact because businesses had little eco- nomic incentive to be there dur- ing the 1960s and 1970s, he says. If downtown had been booming, Wayne Blasius Blasius is new director of design center By Cindy Taylor It’s a busy time of year for San- ta, but he managed to make it to the Norwood Branch Library for a photo shoot with some of his big- gest fans – and some not so much. A few kids came in with huge smiles that quickly turned to tears when mom and dad attempted to place their child on Santa’s lap and grab a photo. Others could hardly wait for their turn to tell the big guy all of their wishes. Abigail Standifer, 4, was a bit hesitant to share her wishes, while Serenity Davis, 5, made sure San- ta was in the know. True to his nature, Santa was full of good cheer through it all. With his genuine beard and mustache, the local man who por- trayed the Jolly Old Elf is devoted to the role and adamant about re- maining anonymous. He sure had a way with the children; he almost had me believing! “It’s a wonderful job,” he said. Konrad Nicholson, 2, shares a huge hug with Santa. Photo by Cindy Taylor Santa lands in Norwood To page A-3 NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ IN THIS ISSUE Marvin West Money trumps tradition. How else can you explain changing the name of the his- toric Gator Bowl to TaxSlayer Bowl? The online tax prep people started paying the price in 2011. Naming rights were finalized this year. See story on page A-11 Betsy Pickle Christmas is a huge day for movies, and Shopper-News previews two of the best ones: “Into the Woods” and “The Imitation Game.” See previews on page A-10 Wendy Smith Judging at Tour de Lights was a challenge. In the end, there were 1,023 riders, most of whom sported lights, tinsel or costumes. It was nothing short of magical to watch them depart for a tour of the Fourth & Gill neighborhood, even though my toes were numb. See story on page A-5 Christmas greetings! In this drawing by Carol Chilton of Greeneville, Bill and Wanda Wil- liams say it best. “Straight from the heart.” Festival of Lights Walk around Concord Park to see the Knox County Festival of Lights, running from 6-9 p.m. through Dec. 30. It’s sponsored by the county’s Parks and Recreation Depart- ment. Come for a Dam Road Ride Saturday, Dec. 27, at 9 a.m. as the Knoxville Bicycle Company sponsors the Saturday Dam Road Ride. Meet at 10657 Har- din Valley Road. Info: www. Legacyparks.org/. Lights fantastic at Chilhowee Park Tour Chilhowee Park by car after dark to see the city- sponsored forest of lighted trees floating on the lake. The exhibit will continue to Jan. 1. By Cindy Taylor Jim and Nancy Davis are really into Christmas. Really! The couple purchased their Powell home almost 20 years ago, and each Christmas a few more lawn decorations appear. From Santa to angels to the Nativity to elves to snowmen, the list is long. But these aren’t just any Christmas decorations. Jim personally designed, cut from wood panels and hand-painted almost every decoration in the yard. Yet he doesn’t consider himself an artist. “This is just what he loves to do,” said Nancy. “He doesn’t play golf, so this is his golf game. He had a stroke last August and we weren’t even sure we could continue this. But he got it done.” As elaborate as the outside is, the inside is like walking into a Christmas dream. Every square foot of space from floor to ceil- ing is covered with Christmas. Santa and the Mrs. greet you in the foyer. Another jolly old elf dances and sings a Christmas greet- ing. Collectible Christmas bears line the stair- case, and Christmas art decorates the walls. One of the Christmas paintings in an upstairs bedroom belonged to Nancy’s stepmother and holds special memo- ries. A Christmas village spreads cheer in the loft, and carolers in the front window sing glad tidings. Even the bathrooms abound with Christmas décor. But the crowning piece is the 12- foot tree that holds court in the great room – and it is not pre-lit. The outdoor decorating process takes a few days, while indoors the decorating is done a little more quickly. Nancy says it goes a bit easier now that she is retired, even though they managed to do just as much when they were both working. Jim and Nancy Davis’ home at 7267 Autumn View Road off Beaver Creek Drive Nancy and Jim Davis Photos by Cindy Taylor some of the buildings would have been torn down and replaced with modern equivalents. When it comes to good design, there’s always room for improve- ment, and he hopes the design center will continue to be a play- er in that. Blasius took the reins from interim executive director Mary Linda Schwarzbart, whom he commends for her leadership. He also praises the design center’s staff and volunteer board. He thinks his ability to envision a new future for downtown’s big, empty buildings will help him lead the design center, though its scope To page A-3

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By Wendy SmithWayne Blasius, who began his

new job as execu-tive director of the East Tennes-see Community Design Center this week, remembers having coffee with Annette Anderson back in 1977.

Anderson was executive director

of the design center from 1973 to 1995. She was one of the fi rst peo-ple Blasius met when he arrived in Knoxville to begin graduate work in urban planning. They talked about the importance of getting

involved in the community, and the conversation stoked his enthu-siasm for civic engagement.

In the years since, Blasius has volunteered for the design center, Knox Heritage, Leadership Knox-ville, the Central Business Im-provement District and the Knox-ville Chamber of Commerce, along with other organizations.

“I strongly believe in giving back, that our community is only as good as the work its citizens are willing to put into it.”

He grew up in the Chicago area and didn’t intend to stay in Knox-ville. But the South grew on him − especially the warm winters.

After Blasius fi nished his de-

gree, he was hired as a planner for the Metropolitan Planning Com-mission. He worked on the down-town master plan that ultimately led to that area’s renaissance.

His fi rm, InSite Development, also contributed to downtown’s revitalization with the redevelop-ment of the Phoenix and the Mast General Store/Gallery Lofts.

Knoxville has an incredible his-toric building stock, he says.

“If you look down Gay Street, there are not many missing teeth.”

The area has remained intact because businesses had little eco-nomic incentive to be there dur-ing the 1960s and 1970s, he says. If downtown had been booming,

Wayne Blasius

Blasius is new director of design center

By Cindy Taylor It’s a busy time of year for San-

ta, but he managed to make it to the Norwood Branch Library for a photo shoot with some of his big-gest fans – and some not so much.

A few kids came in with huge smiles that quickly turned to tears when mom and dad attempted to

place their child on Santa’s lap and grab a photo. Others could hardly wait for their turn to tell the big guy all of their wishes.

Abigail Standifer, 4, was a bit hesitant to share her wishes, while Serenity Davis, 5, made sure San-ta was in the know.

True to his nature, Santa was

full of good cheer through it all.With his genuine beard and

mustache, the local man who por-trayed the Jolly Old Elf is devoted to the role and adamant about re-maining anonymous. He sure had a way with the children; he almost had me believing!

“It’s a wonderful job,” he said.Konrad Nicholson, 2, shares a huge

hug with Santa. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Santa lands in Norwood

To page A-3

NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

IN THIS ISSUEMarvin West

Money trumps tradition. How else can you explain changing the name of the his-toric Gator Bowl to TaxSlayer Bowl? The online tax prep people started paying the price in 2011. Naming rights were finalized this year.

➤ See story on page A-11

Betsy PickleChristmas is a huge day for

movies, and Shopper-News previews two of the best ones: “Into the Woods” and “The Imitation Game.”

➤ See previews on page A-10

Wendy SmithJudging at Tour de Lights

was a challenge. In the end, there were 1,023 riders, most of whom sported lights, tinsel or costumes.

It was nothing short of magical to watch them depart for a tour of the Fourth & Gill neighborhood, even though my toes were numb.

➤ See story on page A-5

Christmas greetings!In this drawing by Carol Chilton of

Greeneville, Bill and Wanda Wil-

liams say it best. “Straight from

the heart.”

Festival of LightsWalk around Concord

Park to see the Knox County Festival of Lights, running from 6-9 p.m. through Dec. 30. It’s sponsored by the county’s Parks and Recreation Depart-ment.

Come for a Dam Road Ride Saturday, Dec. 27, at 9 a.m. as the Knoxville Bicycle Company sponsors the Saturday Dam Road Ride. Meet at 10657 Har-din Valley Road. Info: www.Legacyparks.org/.

Lights fantastic at Chilhowee Park

Tour Chilhowee Park by car after dark to see the city-sponsored forest of lighted trees fl oating on the lake. The exhibit will continue to Jan. 1.

By Cindy Taylor Jim and Nancy Davis are really into Christmas.

Really!The couple purchased their Powell home

almost 20 years ago, and each Christmas a few more lawn decorations appear. From Santa to angels to the Nativity to elves to snowmen, the list is long. But these aren’t just any Christmas decorations.

Jim personally designed, cut from wood panels and hand-painted almost every decoration in the yard. Yet he doesn’t consider himself an artist.

“This is just what he loves to do,” said Nancy. “He doesn’t play golf, so this is his golf game. He had a stroke last August and we weren’t even sure we could continue this. But he got it done.”

As elaborate as the outside is, the inside is like walking into a Christmas dream. Every square foot of space from fl oor to ceil-ing is covered with Christmas.

Santa and the Mrs. greet you in the foyer. Another jolly old elf dances and sings a Christmas greet-

ing. Collectible Christmas bears line the stair-case, and Christmas art decorates the walls.

One of the Christmas paintings in an upstairs bedroom belonged to Nancy’s stepmother and holds special memo-ries. A Christmas village spreads cheer in the loft, and carolers in the front window sing glad tidings. Even the bathrooms abound with Christmas décor. But the crowning piece is the 12-

foot tree that holds court in the great room – and it is not pre-lit.The outdoor decorating process takes a

few days, while indoors the decorating is done a little more quickly. Nancy says it goes a bit easier now that she is retired, even though they managed to do just as much when they were both working.

Jim and Nancy Davis’ home at 7267

Autumn View Road off Beaver Creek Drive

Nancy and Jim Davis Photos by Cindy Taylor

some of the buildings would have been torn down and replaced with modern equivalents.

When it comes to good design, there’s always room for improve-ment, and he hopes the design center will continue to be a play-er in that. Blasius took the reins from interim executive director Mary Linda Schwarzbart, whom he commends for her leadership. He also praises the design center’s staff and volunteer board.

He thinks his ability to envision a new future for downtown’s big, empty buildings will help him lead the design center, though its scope

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health & lifestyles

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Centerwishes you and your familya wonderful holiday season

and a happ y new year.

fsregional.com • (865) 673-FORT

Amy Taylor, pictured here on vacation with her son, Bryce, came to Fort Sanders Regional Medi-

cal Center earlier this year due to crippling hip, leg and back pain. Now, she’s back on her feet

thanks to Dr. Yau and the team at the Joint Center of Fort Sanders Regional.

Local entrepreneur receives ‘excellent care’ during two hip surgeriesAs an interior designer of professional of-

fi ce spaces, Amy Taylor of Knoxville knows how to make her clients comfortable at work.

But several years ago Taylor became very uncomfortable herself, whether sitting or standing. She had severe pain in her back and hips that made it diffi cult to bend and walk.

“I had a lot of lower back pain and leg pain. It progressed to hip pain, deep pain, in my back and lower legs. At night, I couldn’t sleep on my side. I’d wake up with a lot of hip pain,” she said.

“It got to the point where I came home and went straight to the recliner and put my legs up, because that was the most comfort-able position. I used to walk daily, but all of that stopped – going to the park or going outdoors. It defi nitely affected my level of exercise and activity.”

Taylor was diagnosed with femoroac-etabular impingement, or FAI, of the hip. It’s a condition in which the ball of the fe-mur (thigh) bone isn’t perfectly round and with activity patients can experience pinch-ing, tearing and premature wear. This can damage the cartilage of the both the ball and socket and, ultimately, lead to bone-on-bone arthritis.

“But not everyone needs a hip replace-ment,” said Dr. Paul Yau, an orthopedic surgeon at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “Caught early enough, tears can be repaired, the hip can be made round and balance can be restored to the joint. With modern techniques in hip arthroscopy, we can accomplish a lot of work through three tiny incisions.

“Hips are much like tires. If they’re not round, they’ll wear out sooner,” said Yau. “A lot of what I do is similar to being a me-chanic. If your tires are out of balance, you balance them to help them run smoother and last longer. If there is a hole or a tear, repair it. But if your treads are completely worn, it makes the most sense to replace the whole tire.”

Tips on how to avoid joint injuries

■ Avoid doing too much, too soon. Never increase the length of your workouts by more than 10 percent from one week to the next, and never increase both the length and intensity of your workout at the same time.

■ Maintain strength in the muscles surrounding the joint area. To strengthen the knees, do calf raises, lunges, squats and leg lifts.

■ Train smart by cross-training. Repetitive-motion injuries caused by doing just one sport or workout are some of the most common. You can prevent them by doing different sports or activities that work differ-ent muscles.

■ Never skip your warm-up or cool down. Tight or stiff muscles around a joint will make the area more prone to injury.

■ Always use proper technique and body mechanics when playing sports involving repetitive motion, such as tennis and golf. Taking lessons from a certifi ed coach or trainer every once in a while can help you learn and stick with proper form, which can reduce your injury risk substantially.

■ Keep in shape. A high cardiovas-cular fi tness level is crucial to avoid joint injuries. Otherwise, as you tire your form can fail and your joints carry unbalanced weight.

■ Be sure to wear proper shoes that provide adequate support during exercise.

A closer look at direct anterior hip replacementFort Sanders Regional Medical Center

is among only 15 percent of U.S. hospitals with the staff and facilities available to per-form the latest approach in hip replacement surgery, called direct anterior hip replace-ment.

In this procedure, the surgeon goes through the front (anterior) portion of the hip, instead of the side or back. This allows the surgery to sepa-rate important muscles and tendons instead of cutting through them to position a new hip joint implant.

“When I fi rst started do-ing hip replacement surgery this way, I thought it was

just another option to access the joint, but people have done amazingly well with this approach,” said Dr. Paul Yau, an orthopedic surgeon with Fort Sanders Regional Medi-cal Center.

“With traditional hip replacements, we have to cut muscles or tendons, which pro-longs the recovery process and may require limitations on hip motion,” said Yau. “It

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

“With the anterior approach, none of these typical ligaments are cut, which means all of these common activities are safe, im-mediately after surgery,” Yau explained.

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

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

“Traditionally, leg length discrepancies are a well-known complication after total hip replacement. The use of live, real-time imaging during surgery allows the surgeon to make both legs balanced and symmetric in length,” he said. “This means the implant will last longer. I no longer say you have to be a certain age to get a hip replacement.”

With the anterior approach, the patient

should expect usually one or two nights in the hospital.

“Some people even go home the same day,” said Yau. “People recover so much faster, it’s unbelievable.”

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

“It does require special facilities and a trained staff, which we have at Fort Sand-ers. There are a lot of moving parts to the surgery and they all need to be coordinated or you’ll have problems,” he said.

Studies have backed up Yau’s opinion of anterior hip replacement.

“You know how progress tends to hap-pen in increments?” he asked. “I want to say this is a giant leap instead of an incremen-tal one in orthopedic surgery. I haven’t seen anything this dramatically improve people’s outcome from surgery, ever.”

For more information on

direct anterior hip replacement,

call 673-FORT or visit our website

at www.fsregional.com/orthopaedics.

Taylor tried steroid injections to calm the pain, without success. So she went to see Dr. Yau.

Even though Taylor is only 42 years old, Yau suggested replacing both of her hips with artifi cial joints.

“Yes, it is quite unusual to be that young and need replacement surgery. I certainly spend a lot of time repairing and saving hip joints when possible. However, past a cer-tain point, replacement surgery has a much better chance of providing decades of pain relief. Recent data show the average age of hip replacement patients has dropped be-low age 50 and Amy’s not far from that,” said Yau.

Taylor had her hips replaced one at a time, one side in late August 2014 and the second two months later.

Both were done at Fort Sanders, with Taylor staying just one night in the hospi-tal each time. Taylor was able to go home so quickly because Yau used a minimally invasive technique called direct anterior hip replacement.

It requires only a 4-inch incision, and the muscles and tendons are spread apart to make room for the new hip joint instead of cutting them. This leads to a quicker re-covery.

Yau does a high volume of direct anterior hip replacements each year.

“This is a much easier way for patients to recover from hip replacement surgery,” said Yau. “I have some patients where I did one hip the old way and then we did the other one the new (anterior) way, and patient feedback reports the new way is about 70 to 80 percent easier.”

Taylor said in both surgeries, she felt dramatically better quickly. “In both cases by the third week I felt so much better and was off all my pain meds,” she said.

She is going through physical therapy to strengthen her muscles again after years of not exercising.

“I still have some back pain; I have a limp in my gait,” she said. “Dr. Yau recommend-ed I go to some physical therapy because my muscles are weak because I haven’t used them for two years. The pain in my hips is gone, and right now I just have muscle re-lated pain.”

Taylor said she would recommend Fort Sanders to anyone facing hip surgery.

“Dr. Yau is so personable,” said Taylor. “He talks to you, listens to you. He talked to my husband. He called me after the surgery and stayed in touch.

“Dr. Yau and Fort Sanders did a great job. The care at Fort Sanders was outstanding,” said Taylor. “They were very attentive to any needs I had, all very knowledgeable, with excellent care. I’ve already recommended them to about three of my friends.”

Paul Yau, MD

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Christmas in their hearts From page A-1

COMMUNITY NOTES

HEALTH NOTE

Closeup of Jim Da-

vis’ wise man

The Davis yard lights up the winter night.

Santa and his elves make their way to the chimney.

By Sandra ClarkTommy Schumpert has

received the Claude C. My-ers Award from the Foun-tain City Business and Pro-fessional Association.

“We selected him for his many years of service to the Fountain City commu-nity as a coach and teacher at Central High and while county trustee and execu-tive,” said club president Andrew Hartung. “Tommy has been a big supporter of our schools and is very de-serving of this honor.”

Calling it a great honor, Schumpert said he must have been chosen because he’s one of the few residents left who actually knew Claude Myers, longtime president of Fountain City Bank. “I saw Richard Tum-blin there. I’m sure he knew him.”

Claude Myers had a huge impact on families and busi-

Tommy Schumpert

Schumpert gets Myers awardnow Southeast Bank. “It’s very rewarding,” he said. “We’ve served about 110 youngsters from across the state in almost every public and private college.”

Many of the students are the fi rst in their families to attend college. When they gather for dinner, often the parents are prouder than the children. “Sometimes there are a few tears,” he said.

nesses through the bank, Schumpert said. “When I was teaching (general busi-ness at Central High School) we would go through a chapter on banking, and I’d think, ‘Fountain City Bank doesn’t operate like that.’ ”

Bank offi cers knew their customers and often weren’t constrained by the bureau-cracy of larger banks. “(The bank) was a little different, and it made a lot of impact.

“If (Mr. Myers) knew you and believed in you, he would go to the hill for you.”

Schumpert is an active member of Fountain City United Methodist Church. He was the community’s fi rst man of the year, se-lected by Fountain City Town Hall in 1976. He and his wife, Charlotte, are long-time residents of Fountain City.

Schumpert was Knox County trustee for four years and was county ex-ecutive for eight years. Schumpert Park off Dry Gap Pike is named for him.

Since retirement, he’s headed a scholarship pro-gram funded by EdSouth,

goes far beyond the city cen-ter. Knoxville and its outlying communities depend on each other, and good design is ben-efi cial to everybody, he says.

The ETCDC, which serves a 16-county region, provides professional design and plan-ning services to communities and nonprofi t organizations that would not otherwise be able to afford such services. Conceptual designs for proj-

ects, which are chosen based on service to the public, help organizations focus their vi-sion and seek funding.

The design center was founded in 1969 by re-nowned Knoxville archi-tect Bruce McCarty. Staff is composed of three full-time and two part-time employ-ees. Funding for the non-profi t comes from grants and donations.

Wayne Blasius From page A-1

■ Broadacres Homeowners Association. Info: steven-

[email protected].

■ Knox North Lions Club

meets 1 p.m. each fi rst and

third Wednesday, Puleo’s

Grille, 110 Cedar Lane.

Info: www.facebook.com/

knoxnorthlions/.

■ Northwest Democratic Club meets 6 p.m. each fi rst

Monday, Austin’s Steak & Buf-

fet, 900 Merchant Drive. Info:

Nancy Stinnette, 688-2160, or

Peggy Emmett, 687-2161.

■ Norwood Homeowners.

Info: Lynn Redmon, 688-3136.

■ Powell Alumni Association banquet is the fi rst Saturday

in April. Info: Vivian McFalls,

607-8775.

■ Powell Lions Club meets

7 p.m. each fi rst Thursday,

7145 Old Clinton Pike. Info:

[email protected].

Wishing District 7 a

from The Busler Family

Very Merry Very Merry Christmas!Christmas!

Paid for by campaign to elect Charles Busler,

Jim Robertson, Treasurer.

Merry Christmas

“We’re both kids when it comes to Christmas,” she said. “We started small with decorating, but it just keeps growing.

Folks come from all over to view the décor. If your Christmas needs more cheer, take the drive down West Beaver Creek Drive to Autumn View Lane and

enjoy the lights at the Davis home. It is beautiful both day and night. If you’ve been extra good this year, you might be rewarded with a glimpse of Santa himself.

When asked how much longer they would continue the tradition, Nancy was quick to respond.

“For as long as we feel it in our hearts.”

Let’s hope that’s a very long time.

■ Enrollment assistance for

the Aff ordable Healthcare

and Medicaid and the

Children’s Health Insur-

ance Program (CHIP): 3-7

p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21,

South Knoxville Community

Center, 522 Maryville Pike;

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Jan.

3, Mount Calvary Baptist

Church, 1807 Dandridge

Ave.; 3-7 p.m. Monday, Jan.

12, Montgomery Village,

4530 Joe Lewis Road. Info:

www.healthcare.gov.

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Last week, after Presi-dent Obama announced we would normalize relations with Cuba, I tuned in to a lo-cal radio station’s daily talk show anticipating wing-nut hysterics at the news.

I came away gratifi ed.One caller expressed his

displeasure at trading with any Communist nation by asking rhetorically, “Why are we (trading) with Viet-nam, anyway? They killed 55,000 of our men.”

Then, for emphasis: “We shoulda nuked ’em back to the Stone Age.”

For that fellow, nothing exudes Christmas cheer like a glowing, radioactive cra-ter.

Although Obama’s most recent treasonous action was enough in itself to curl his toenails, it turned out the caller was equally out-raged over the origin of his jockey shorts: made in Viet-nam.

After East Tennessee’s version of Gen. Jack D. Rip-per (of “Dr. Strangelove” fame) hung up, I tried to empathize with him.

My jockey shorts are “im-migrants” as well, made in Honduras, but we haven’t had a war with Honduras lately. If we had, I might feel differently.

Then I considered what

To arms, to arms, the #DanishAreComing

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this country would look like today if we had “nuked” Vietnam: probably a lot like Vietnam but without the jungle. But our actions would also have precipi-tated World War III, and we would have been nuked in turn by the Soviet Union and Red China.

(Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers …” As op-posed to “peacekeepers,” now-retired ICBMs once de-ployed by the United States.)

However, fair-minded individual that I am, I con-ceded that the caller might be on to something.

Vietnam is the wrong target, especially now that it produces serviceable un-derwear. But there are peo-ple, places and things that could do with a good Christ-mas nuking, so I made this list and checked it twice.

Denmark. Peaceful lit-tle Denmark, you say? Ha! Danes, with their well-paid McDonald’s workers and their cream-cheese pastries may seem to be the last peo-ple on earth who deserve in-

dustrial-grade irradiation, but read on. Denmark has decided to lay claim to part of the Arctic surrounding the North Pole. Because the continental shelf running under Greenland stretches to the pole and Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the pushy Danes think they can just grab ter-ritory like it was formerly part of Mexico.

Anyone who writes or says anything pre-ceded by a hashtag (#). If you’re like me, it’s becom-ing increasingly diffi cult to restrain the impulse to strangle the next person who uses a hashtag to com-municate feelings, as in, “I feel #blue today,” or opin-ions like “#DanesAreNuts.” Nuking on this scale would mean the end of Twitter, a sweet collateral benefi t.

The National Football League. The conduct of pro football players makes a strong argument for nuking. I’ll exclude Peyton Manning if he agr ees to stop making Papa John’s commercials.

The next politician who says, “I’m not a sci-entist, but …” We’ve been hearing a lot of this from cli-mate-change deniers in re-cent years. We know you’re not scientists; we only wish you would listen to them.

Jacksons celebrate ChristmasKnox County General Sessions Court judge Andy Jackson and his wife, Janet (at right), celebratewith daughters Rachel and Rebecca at the family’s annual Christmas party at their home in Sol-way. Judge Jackson is a descendant of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of theUnited States. Photo by A. Hart

Forty years ago, in 1974, the fi rst woman to represent Knox County in the state Senate was elected in No-vember. Her name was Mar-tha Ashe, and there is quite a story as to how it all hap-pened in an unplanned way.

She was this writer’s mother, and the reader needs to be 60 to have much current memory of the fall campaign in 1974 in Knox County. In fact, the full sto-ry will take up much of two columns, so this story will be continued on Dec. 31.

Martha Ashe was also the fi rst Republican woman ever elected statewide to the Senate. Since then three more women (Jamie Wood-son, Becky Massey and, briefl y, Sue Atchley) have represented Knox County in the state Senate, and many more have served other parts of the state.

At the start of 1974, I was completing my third term in the state House and de-cided to run for the state Senate that year. Tennes-see’s Constitution requires that a state senator be 30 years old. In 1974, I was 29 and would turn 30 on Jan. 1, 1975.

Since the Senate would not convene until the sec-ond Tuesday of January in 1975, I would then be 30. I sought and secured a state Attorney General’s opinion that said I was eligible to run and the Senate would determine the qualifi ca-tions of its own members.

The state Constitution also provides that the term of offi ce begins with the day of election in November.

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The fi rst Martha Ashe

There is not a lame-duck period for state legislators.

My mother at that time had no inkling she might seek the Senate seat but was a vital supporter in my cam-paigns. I declared my can-didacy in the GOP primary and won the nomination over longtime Sheriff Ber-nard Waggoner in August. In addition to the Democrat-ic candidate, Betty Cathey, there was an independent candidate, former state Rep. Jack Comer, whom I had defeated two years earlier for state representative in the GOP primary after re-districting. Comer was irate over his loss.

He fi led as an indepen-dent candidate to gain legal standing to sue over my eli-gibility. The lawsuit is styled Comer v. Ashe and was fi rst heard in Chancery Court by the late Len Broughton, who ruled in my favor, holding that the Senate alone would decide the eligibility of its members. Since the Sen-ate would not convene until January, when I would be 30, the issue would be moot.

However, Comer quickly appealed the decision and asked that the state Su-preme Court hear the case, bypassing the appellate court. The Supreme Court agreed to hear it.

I was ably represented byJack Draper and the late Rob-ert Ritchie, father of formerstate Rep. Wayne Ritchie. Tomy dismay, the court quicklyruled that I was not eligibleto run since I would not be30 the day of the election andordered my name removedfrom the ballot. There wereless than seven weeks to theNovember election and nowno Republican nominee.

The public reaction wasmostly in my favor andagainst the court, which wasseen by many as an arm ofthe Democratic Party.

The story continues innext week’s column with thebattle to name a GOP nomi-nee and the fi ve-week cam-paign to election day.

■ Gov. Bill Haslamhas made an outstandingchoice in Randy Boyd ascommissioner of EconomicDevelopment. Boyd previ-ously helped Haslam on ed-ucation issues as an unpaidassistant for one year.

Boyd, founder of Pet-Safe, has been a communityleader. He follows anotherKnoxvillian, Bill Baxter,who served in this positionunder Gov. Don Sundquistfrom 1998 to 2000, andAlex Fisher, who lived inKnoxville then but has nowmoved to Columbus, Ohio.

■ Former KnoxvilleMayor Kyle Testerman,80, and retired city FireChief Eddie Cureton, 77,are recovering well from ac-cidents and were patientsrecently in adjacent roomsat NHC in Farragut. Bestwishes to them as they getback on their feet and be-come more mobile.

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News gets hard to come by during the holidays, which made this announce-ment from Knox County Schools’ prolifi c public in-formation offi ce enticing:

“PUBLIC NOTICE: (14-173) Please note that two or more Board of Education members may meet on Mon-day, Dec. 15, at 11:30 a.m. at Panera Bread, 2000 Cum-berland Avenue. Education issues will be discussed and minutes will be taken. All board members are wel-come to attend and will pay for their own meals.”

So it was no surprise that two reporters played Cum-berland Avenue parking-spot roulette and showed up

Lunching in the sunshine

at the popular campus café. No telling what they were going to be talking about, right?

But there was no news broken at the meet-ing, which was attended by board members Patti Bounds, Amber Rountree, Terry Hill and Doug Har-ris, as well as assistant superintendent Elizabeth Alves (who got stuck taking notes). Also present were

Knox County Education As-sociation president Tanya T. Coats and Rountree’s 3-month-old son, Teddy, for whose affections Hill and Bounds competed as they discussed problems fi nding substitute teachers.

Afterward, Bounds was a little embarrassed about the announcement. Turns out that she, Hill and Roun-tree, who regularly attend Bible study together, just wanted to have lunch. In an abundance of caution, they reported it to KCS spokes-person Melissa Ogden, who “sunshined” the meeting, i.e., sent out a formal no-tice in compliance with the state’s sunshine law.

“We were just going to get together and have lunch. … Our intent was to convey that business ‘may be dis-cussed,’ but it was really just some people wanting to get together and have lunch, but not wanting our conver-sation to be limited to small talk. I’m surprised we didn’t have cameras rolling,” Bounds said, barely stifl ing a laugh.

This abundance of cau-tion is typical of Knox County elected offi cials, who are still smarting from the aftermath of “Black Wednesday,” when County Commission got itself into a world of trouble by ap-pointing spouses, kinfolk

and drinking buddies to seats they were being forced to vacate after the state Su-preme Court forced Knox County to abide by term-limits laws, thumbing their collective noses at Tennes-see’s Open Meetings Act in the process.

Even though school board members weren’t the offenders, they are extremely careful about such things, unlike some of their colleagues across the state.

Take the Metro Nashville school board, for example, which recently attempted to choose a new superin-tendent by secret ballot. Astonishingly unaware of

the state’s open-meetings law, they were publicly hu-miliated when Jeff Woods of the alt-weekly The Nash-ville Scene pointed out that state law is pretty clear: “No secret votes, or secret bal-lots, or secret roll calls shall be allowed.” A do-over fol-lowed.

Sometimes scoop-hun-gry local media get a little aggravated by investing time covering meetings that produce no fi reworks.

But those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember the bad old days can’t help but appreciate the transparency that has become a way of doing busi-ness.

My favorite Christmas memory isn’t really a mem-ory at all. It’s a feeling. It’s the excitement I experi-enced when I walked out of my grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve knowing Christmas was the next day.

My brother and I couldn’t stop grinning during the car ride home. “Can you believe it? Tomorrow, when we wake up, it will be Christmas!” we’d say, and fi ve minutes later, we’d say it again.

It was sheer bliss know-ing that something magical was going to happen, and no matter what we found under the tree, it was going to be good.

Each Christmas, I try to fi nd something − twinkling lights, a delicious smell or a beautiful carol − that makes me feel like a kid again. This year, it was the eighth an-nual Tour de Lights.

This was the fi rst year the annual bike ride was part of Knoxville’s Christmas in the City, and I was honored

Wendy Smith

Lindsay Lee, Angela Wampler, Stephanie Lee and Pam Lee, also known as the Snowfl akes, don’t

mind the chilly weather at the 2014 Tour de Lights. Photo by Wendy Smith

Tour de Lights is holiday magic

to be asked to help judge the event’s costume contest. When I arrived at Market Square, I was handed a clip-board and asked to mingle with the hundred or so cos-tumed participants.

The categories included best costume, best helmet, best group, best bike and best overall. I met a man wearing a top hat made out of a coffee can and adorned with a candle. I met Mayor Tim Burchett’s cousin, P.J., who restored the 1950s bike ridden by his wife, Beau-mont Elementary art teach-er Cheryl Burchett, as well as his own 1930s-era bicy-cle, which he found leaning against a tree in the woods.

He had to cut the bike out of the tree, which had grown around it.

I met the Three Wise Men, two of whom were women. They followed a star that hung from a pole attached to one of the bikes.

Saul Young, my favorite News Sentinel photogra-pher, looked more like Alice from “The Brady Bunch” than a wise man in his ruf-fl ed bath robe.

I met Steve McGhee, who had so many lights on

his bike and helmet that I thought he must be an engi-neer. He turned out to be a pharmacist.

My job would’ve been easy if not for the continu-ous stream of entrants. I thought I’d picked my favor-

ites until I met David Stair, with a shiny, red present on his helmet, and his wife, Debbie, who wore a Christ-mas tree costume made of real hemlock branches. I also ran into my friend from the Dogwood Knitters, Lyndsay Crawford, who was dressed as the Doctor from Dr. Who.

In the end, there were 1,023 riders, most of whom sported lights, tinsel or costumes. It was nothing short of magical to watch them depart for a tour of the Fourth & Gill neighbor-hood, even though my toes were numb.

Judging was a challenge, given our absurdly creative community, but it was a pleasure to whittle down the fi nalists with my fellow judge, Erin Donovan of Visit Knoxville. It was even more fun to watch the winners, most of whom were grown-ups, grin as they accepted their prizes.

Perhaps the key to fi nd-ing childlike Christmas bliss is forgetting that you’re a grown-up − just for a little while.

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By Cindy Taylor “There is a great ban-

quet coming in the future,” said associate pastor Don Arnurius of New Covenant Fellowship Church. “We must prepare now.”

Arnurius spoke at the December meeting of North Knoxville Aglow, held at New Covenant Fellowship Church in preparation for its group communion. His message focused on the reason Jesus came to earth as a man and how we must be conformed to his image. Aglow members enjoyed a celebratory Christmas lun-cheon following commu-nion.

Author Mary Bolton au-tographed her devotional books “Behold Your God” and “Whispers of God” dur-ing the meeting.

Members Judy Burgess and Pat Greenlee demon-strated bread-making using a recipe from an original Betty Crocker cookbook.

Mary Bolton with copies of her books at the December Aglow

meeting

Judy Burgess and Pat Greenlee present homemade bread for

the Aglow luncheon. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Don and Beth Arnurius get ready for the Aglow communion.

Preparing for the great banquet

“Jesus is the bread of life, so to me baking bread can

be very spiritual,” said Bur-gess. “Like life, it is a very

messy process. My cook-book is falling apart, but the

Community services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian,

4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the

Halls Welfare Ministry food

pantry 6-8 p.m. each second

Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each

fourth Saturday.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church,

7212 Central Avenue Pike, is

accepting appointments for

the John 5 Food Pantry. Info:

938-2611. Your call will be

returned.

Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church hosts Recov-

ery 6 p.m. each Tuesday at

323 W. Emory Road, followed

by a meal and worship at 7

p.m. Small sharing groups

will convene at 8:15 p.m. The

recovery plan focuses on

individuals and families who

are struggling with addiction.

There is no charge. Info: www.

recoveryatpowell.com or

938-2741.

Special services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, will off er two

Christmas Eve Candlelight

Services: 5 p.m. informal

service with families and

children in mind; 8 p.m. tradi-

tional service with Christmas

music by the Chancel Choir.

Warren Pearson will provide

special music during the 11

a.m. service Sunday, Dec. 28.

Refreshments and fellowship

will begin at 10. No evening

service. Info: 690-1060, www.

beaverridgeumc.org.

■ First Lutheran Church, 1207

N. Broadway, will host the

following special services:

Christmas Eve Candlelight

Service, 7 p.m. Wednesday,

Dec. 24; Christmas Day ser-

vice, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec.

25; worship service, 10:30 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 28; New Year’s

Eve service, 7 p.m. Wednes-

And she gave birth to her fi rstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

(Luke 2: 7 NRSV)

I have often tried to imagine Mary’s dismay when she realized she was going to give birth to the miracle child she was carry-ing – God’s son – in a stable.

The trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem must have been diffi cult enough, and I can only imagine how Mary must have wondered if God was absolutely sure this was the plan.

Joseph obviously loved Mary and trusted God’s angel, who had reassured him early on in Mary’s preg-nancy. But now, Joseph may have had some doubts, too. What in the world was God up to? Was this some very unfunny cosmic joke? A prank? Punishment? If so, for what?

As Lewis and I have tried to sort out this Christmas, with family and dear friends living in fi ve different states, I have been, in turn, frus-trated, sad and hopeful. I was fi nally reminded by my daughter Eden of the loveli-

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ness of the problem: having lots of people I love! She assured me that all will be well; we all love each other, we will get together as we can. It will be Christmas no matter what.

I remember so well the Christmas many years ago when the sister of an in-law had no place to be on Christ-mas Eve and was included in our celebration and gift-giving. I will never forget her saying with a sigh, “It’s Christmas, after all.”

As I have looked forward to and prepared for this Christmas, I have tried to be very careful to leave room in my schedule – in my plans, my, mind, my heart – for the Christ Child!

William Pender-

grass chisels a

piece of wood

as his father,

Joe, and Matt

Smith watch.

Ginny Hill tells the story of David and Goliath to a group of children at the Walk Through

Bethlehem at Church Street UMC. Photos by Justin Acuff

‘Walk Through Bethlehem’day, Dec. 31. Communion will

be served at all services. The

public is invited.

■ Powell Presbyterian Church,

2910 W. Emory Road, will

hold Christmas Eve worship

with carols, communion and

candlelight 7 p.m. Wednes-

day, Dec. 24. Info: 938-8311,

www.powellpcusa.org.

■ Shannondale Presbyte-rian Church, 4600 Tazewell

Pike, will hold Candlelight

Communion Service at 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 24. Light

refreshments will follow. All

invited. Info: 456-6923.

FAITH NOTES

recipes still work great.”Burgess said four ingre-

dients are needed in life as in bread making: fl our, yeast, salt and water.

Flour represents a com-mon earthly substance. Adam was created from the most common substance: dust.

Yeast (leaven) is needed to make the dough rise. In

life, God kneads us as bak-ers knead dough to mold us into his image.

Salt is one of the most important ingredients, as it strengthens the dough much like we are strength-ened as we grow in faith.

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Elementary have received awards for their entries in the national PTA-sponsored Refl ections contest.

Refl ections literature win-ner was Nicholas Noble with “The World Would Be a Bet-ter Place If People Stopped Cutting Down Trees.”

Refl ections visual arts winner was Jordon Young

with “The World Would Be a Better Place If We Spread the Word About Where Our Trash Goes.”

Refl ections theme win-ners were Jurnee Acuff and Ciara Bradley.

The Refl ections contest welcomes all grades and abilities to explore and be involved in the arts. Thou-sands of students refl ect an-nually on a common theme

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performed at Fleet WeekNew York in May. Billips,who graduated from Nor-ris High School in 1980,was commended by RearAdm. Dixon R. Smith, com-mander of Navy RegionMid-Atlantic, for his workas assistant offi cer in chargeof media operations at theFleet Week celebration.

Billips helped lead ateam of 19 public affairsprofessionals, who coor-dinated coverage of morethan 100 events by local,national and internationalnews media. The team alsoprovided military guestsand audience members forseveral national TV pro-grams, including “The Col-bert Report” and the “To-day” show.

Billips is a veteran ofOperation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, as well asOperation Iraqi Freedom.He lives in Atlanta with hiswife, Candy.

Anderson turns 100A 100th birthday cel-

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By Cindy Taylor “The longer you sit, the

dumber you get.” Heather Abbott lives by these words. Abbott, special education teacher at Copper Ridge El-ementary, can now incorpo-rate them into her students’ daily lives thanks to the Halls Business and Profes-sional Association.

At the beginning of each school year, the HBPA asks schools to relay their needs so businesses can provide fi nancial help. BPA mem-bers learned that teachers at Copper Ridge needed exercise equipment to help emphasize proper diet and physical fi tness. It didn’t take long to get approval from the organization’s

board members, and stu-dents at the school now have a new treadmill.

“We are totally thrilled to have a treadmill in our classroom,” said Abbott. “It is hard to get funds to do what we need. We are incor-porating a new technique that teaches as the students use the treadmill.”

A manual helps students improve visual skills and coordination. The program also assists with read-ing, mobility and learning across the board.

“The kids are totally en-joying this program,” said Abbott. “We really appreci-ate what the Halls BPA has done for us.”

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to Bob Crye of the Halls BPA

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Former UT quarterback and Denver Broncos stand-out Peyton Manning knows how to give back. Through his PeyBack Foundation, Manning helps promote the future success of disad-vantaged youth by assisting programs that provide lead-ership and growth opportu-nities.

While at UT, Manning would visit classrooms at Beaumont Magnet Academy and work with students. Since his graduation, he has given back to the commu-nity and now has expanded his generosity through Knox County Schools.

Last week, the founda-tion donated $15,000 in gas cards to area schools, and the staff at each school will distribute the cards to fami-lies in need.

“In the past we have put one card each with our school Angel Tree recipi-ents’ gifts,” said social work-er Mimi Jackson from Dog-wood Elementary. “Parents knew that they were getting gifts for their children, but when they saw the gas card, many were moved to tears.”

Schools splitting the do-

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Academy assistant principal

Dexter Murphy shows the

bundle of gas cards his school

received thanks to Peyton

Manning’s Peyback Founda-

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nation included Beaumont Magnet Academy, Belle Morris, Christenberry, Dog-wood, Green Magnet Acad-emy, Inskip, Lonsdale, May-nard, Norwood, Pond Gap, Sarah Moore Greene Mag-net Academy, Spring Hill, South Knox and West View.

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McNabb Center, Mayor Tim Burchett, KCDC, United Way, Federal Home Loan Bank, the Veterans Ad-ministration and a host of donors, volunteers and community partners, eight homeless veterans will have a place to call home by Christmas.

Pat Polis, pastor of Wash-ington Pike United Meth-odist Church, blessed the event and the home, say-ing “today we are making a difference.” Jerry Vagnier, president and CEO of Helen Ross McNabb, added that he and his staff were “hon-ored to deliver this kind of care to veterans.”

The new home is in In-skip at 4821 Coster Road.

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The Rotary Club of Knox-ville has elected its 2015-16 board of directors, which will be led by president San-dy Martin, retired president of Corporate Interiors Inc., when the board begins its term July 1.

Allen Pannell, owner of Allen Pannell LLC, is pres-ident-elect and membership director. Edwin A. Ander-son of Cannon & Anderson, Attorneys, is vice president and communications direc-tor.

Bill MacGrath, senior vice president and fi nan-cial adviser with Pinnacle Financial Partners, is secretary.

Jennifer A. Sepa-niak, chief fi nancial offi cer for Schaad Companies, is trea-surer and chair of the Financial and Audit Com-mittee.

Outgoing president Roy King, M.D., a dermapathol-ogist with Dermapathology Partners PC, will represent

past presidents.Other directors are: Jim

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senior district man-ager for Takeda Phar-

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stone, retiring CEO of the Volunteer Ministry Center.

Founded in 1915, the Rotary Club of Knoxville is among the oldest and larg-est Rotary Clubs in Tennes-see. The club was instru-mental in the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and sponsor of several park projects. It is also the creator and steward of The Rotary Foundation of Knoxville, which provides college scholarships and special projects.

The Rotary Club of Knoxville 2015-16 board of directors: (front) Allen Pannell, Sandra T. Martin, Roy King; (back) Brent Midyett,

Tiff any Walker, Ed Anderson, Jennifer Sepaniak, Ginny Weatherstone, Bill MacGrath, Jody Mullins and Jim Decker. Not pictured

is Don Hasson. Photo submitted

Rotary Club selects new board

Papenbrock

UT NOTESHPUD sets 2015

scheduleHallsdale Powell

Utility District has reverted to 1:30 p.m. meetings for 2015 af-ter an experiment with quarterly evening meetings this year.

At the December meeting, president/CEO Darren Cardwell reported 15 water me-ters and 11 sewer in-spections in November. The district treated 205.3 million gallons of water and 195.1 million gallons of wastewater.

Payments approved: $86,600 to Knoxville Excavating for the Carter Road water sys-tem improvements; $238,996 to Hurst Ex-cavating for water and sewer line relocations for the Halls Connec-tor.

The next board meeting is at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12.

By Bonny C. MillardEntrepreneurs wanting

to create or expand their businesses face chal-lenges, but a relatively new orga-nization is here to help.

T h e K n o x v i l l e E n t r e p r e -neur Cen-

ter (KEC), a nonprofi t that opened in April 2013, pro-vides mentoring, training and support for startup businesses. Jim Biggs, who started as executive director in January, spoke to the Ro-tary Club of Knoxville about his organization’s outreach.

“We are the resource for anyone wanting to start or grow a company here,” Biggs said.

KEC is a “public and private partnership. We get money from the city of Knoxville, from the state through Launch Tennessee and from a variety of pri-vate combinations, and now we’re starting to bring on corporate sponsors who see the value of what we’re try-ing to do.”

KEC covers a 16-county region and serves as a con-

nection to other entrepre-neurs, businesses and orga-nizations.

“One of the goals of KEC is to provide a more collab-orative framework to try and build bridges …” Biggs said, “so that the entrepre-neurs we’re trying to serve have an idea of where to start and who is the right connection for them to grow that business.”

KEC recently held “Start-up Day” to celebrate entre-preneurship in Knoxville, which has a rich legacy of startup companies that have grown into successful businesses.

“Our belief is that start-ups and entrepreneurs add social and economic val-ue to the community,” he said. “The economic value is pretty straightforward: jobs, revenues. They attract outside investors.”

Their social impact is providing a better place to live and offering creative thinking and a diverse mindset, Biggs said.

Biggs added that busi-ness owners and others can provide support by buying from startups, investing in them and offering mentor-ing opportunities.

For info: knoxec.com.

Jim Biggs

Jim Biggs speaks at Rotary

■ Kathy Kidd, associate direc-

tor of the Early Learning Cen-

ter for Research and Practice,

off ers these suggestions for

helping children learn to be

thankful and cheerful in the

midst of the holiday rush:

■ Normalize routines. Provide

consistency and predictability

for children during the hectic

holiday season.

■ Be a role model. “If you would

like to see thankfulness and

graciousness in your child, the

fi rst thing you have to do is

live thankfully and graciously

yourself.”

■ Limit lists. Children are often

encouraged to make a list

of everything they want.

When everything on the list

is purchased, children can

start to associate the holidays

with “it’s all about me getting

everything I want.”

■ Give open-ended gifts.

“Include open-ended materi-

als such as blocks and large

fabric pieces that push the

child to think creatively and

expand play time.”

■ Nurture openness. When chil-

dren open a gift they may not

want and react negatively,

engage them in conversation

about their reaction rather

than scold them.

■ Manage your own expecta-

tions. “We as caregivers all

can be guilty of putting

higher expectations on our

own children. We want to

take our own knowledge and

assume that our child got that

from birth.”

■ Thomas Papenbrock, a

professor in the Department

of Physics and Astronomy,

has been

elected

a fellow

of the

American

Physical

Society,

the lead-

ing orga-

nization of

physicists.

Papen-

brock was named for his

“innovative theoretical ap-

proaches to the nuclear ma-

ny-body problem and other

fi nite quantum systems.”

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Alan Turing (Benedict Cum-berbatch) works on a machine that will break the Nazis’ Enig-ma in “The Imitation Game.”

By Betsy PickleTwo intense stories are

at work in “The Imitation Game.”

The fi rst is Britain’s race to unravel the mysteries of Nazi Germany’s Enigma coding machine during World War II. The second is the lifelong emotional and sometimes physical assault on mathematical genius Alan Turing, who took the lead on breaking Enigma but suffered greatly as a gay man because of his coun-try’s laws against homosex-uality.

The movie jumps around in time, framed by an inter-rogation of Alan (Benedict Cumberbatch) after the war, when his home has been burglarized but nothing seems to be missing. A zeal-ous police detective, Robert Nock (Rory Kinnear), be-comes suspicious when he is unable to learn what Alan did during the war and sus-

By Betsy PickleBefore the novel

and stage smash “Wicked,” before the TV fantasies “Once Upon a Time” and “Grimm,” the-ater had “Into the Woods,” a dark fairy-tale mash-up that united charac-ters from “Cinder-ella,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Rapunzel” into one bewitching sto-ry. The musical’s col-orful, often-doomed characters and sly lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim won over critics and audiences.

Now, 28 years af-ter the stage debut, comes director Rob Marshall’s fi lm ver-sion of “Into the Woods,” with terrifi c singing and acting by stars such as Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Christine Baranski and Tracey Ull-man and a host of lesser-knowns.

While it deserves to fi nd a strong following – much more so than the recent “Les

Turing fi lm explores depths of humans, machines

Sturdy ‘Woods’ slyly twists fairy tales

pects him of being a spy.There are several fl ash-

backs to Alan as a youth (played by the appealing Alex Lawther) at school, but the bulk of the screen time is devoted to the adult Tur-ing’s work on building a ma-chine to decode Enigma at Bletchley Park.

Director Morten Tyl-dum, working from Graham Moore’s screenplay, based

on the biography by Andrew Hodges, tends to overdo the friction between Alan and his boss, Commander Denniston (Charles Dance), and between Alan and his colleagues, led by chess champion Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode). But aside from that two-dimensional bent, the characters and plot twists are absorbing and suspenseful.

Keira Knightley is surpris-ingly good as a bright math-ematician stymied by the male-dominated world she inhabits, and Mark Strong is deliciously manipulative as MI6 chief Stewart Menzies.

The weight of the movie is on Cumb erbatch, however, and he carries it brilliantly. He uses Alan’s struggles – with relationships, working with those who are far from

his intellectual equal and creating his early computer – to move the fi lm forward as well as to make Alan sympathetic.

A quote from childhood friend Christopher Morcom (Jack Bannon) is the light that shines on and through Alan throughout his life. It, and the fi lm, testify to the complexity and potential of all human beings.

Miserables” or Marshall’s own “Chicago” – “Into the Woods” lacks a true show-stopping tune to act as a defi ning siren song, which may hinder its popularity with short-attention-span moviegoers.

James Lapine adapted the screenplay from his book for the musical, and with Sondheim’s words and

music the fi lm is a tantaliz-ing spin on familiar stories. The plight of a childless baker (James Corden) and his wife (Blunt) cursed by a witch neighbor (Streep) weaves the classic tales to-gether.

Everyone has some kind of dilemma, and some of the twists and turns are in-deed Grimm (and unsuited

Early presentsFive of the six fi lms hit-

ting town this week – “Big Eyes,” “The Gambler,” “The Imitation Game,” “Into the Woods” and “Unbroken” – will play once or twice to-night (Dec. 24). “Foxcatch-er” arrives Christmas Day.

■ In “Big Eyes,” Amy Ad-ams plays painter Margaret Keane and Christoph Waltz her husband, Walter, who tries to take credit for her work. Tim Burton directed.

■ A literature professor borrows money from his mother and a loan shark to pay off a debt in “The Gambler.” Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, Brie Larson and John Goodman star in a fi lm adapted from the like-titled 1974 fi lm starring James Caan.

■ “Unbroken” tells the story of Olympic distance runner Louis Zamperini, who enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces before the attack on Pearl Harbor and survived for 47 days at sea after a search plane he was on crashed in the ocean, only to be captured by the Japanese, who mistreated and tortured him in a POW camp.

■ “Foxcatcher” stars Steve Carell as eccentric multimillionaire John du Pont, who recruits gold-medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz and his wres-tling-coach brother, David, to train to compete in the Seoul Olympics. Bennett Miller (“Moneyball”) di-rected.

– Betsy Pickle

for little ones). Though there isn’t a “hit” among the songs, the lyr-ics are wonder-ful examples of Sondheim’s clev-er word-smithing and build to an emotional wallop with “No One Is Alone.”

It’s always a joy to hear tal-ented actors like Streep, Blunt and Kendrick show off their pipes, but it’s also fun to discover b r e a k t h r o u g h performers like James Corden (the baker) and Billy Magnus-sen (Rapun-zel’s prince) and youngsters like

Lilla Crawford (Red Riding Hood) and Daniel Huttle-stone (Jack) who can sing as well as act.

“Into the Woods” takes viewers on an engaging journey through atmo-spheric sets and timeless questions. It’s a reminder that “happily ever after” does not come smoothly – or predictably.

The baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) get instructions from the witch (Meryl Streep) that will help them undo a curse in “Into the Woods.”

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Exhausted, she spends her days cooking nutritious meals for her father and driving him to appointments.She worries if he will walk to the mailbox and forget the way back home.THERE ARE DECISIONS TO BE MADE, AND MARILYN’S BROTHER LIVES 500 MILES AWAY.She also has to choose between showing up at her daughter’s ballet recital, her son’s college admission meetings and doing decorations for the holiday parade.

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Christmas lights and little kids

Google them; no luck. So they’re stored only in my admittedly rose-colored memory.

But they really were spe-cial: red, gold and green curlicues culminating in a spectacular crown in the center.

The most anticipated night for me during Christ-mastime was my family’s tour of lights.

Mama, Daddy and I would bundle up and pile into the Dodge station wagon armed with a ther-mos of hot chocolate. And we’d drive all over town looking at the lights.

As an only child, all I had to do was sit, look, wonder and thrill.

Some of the more mod-ern-minded decorators in those “mad men” days favored pastel-colored wheels and artifi cial silver trees, or monochromatic color schemes. Though I appreciate them now, at the time I didn’t care for them. They didn’t “speak”

to a 5-year-old.For me, the only decora-

tions that mattered were bright lights of red, green, gold and white. Maybe a little blue. I could spot them as we started down a street and couldn’t wait until we were in front of the vivid, glowing colors.

My parents were egali-tarian and wanted me to see how everyone lived, so we didn’t just confi ne our-selves to the “better neigh-borhoods.”

But it didn’t matter to me if those lights were sparkling on a majestic fi r in front of a three-story colonial or gleaming dimly behind a sheet of plastic taped to a cracked window in a wooden shanty. I loved them all.

To this day, though my neighbors in my 100-year-old Fountain City neigh-borhood favor elegant all-white light displays, I still put up colors for the little kids whose parents might be driving by. They’ll be

Here at the Shopper-News, we’re all counting our blessings this week.

Carol Shane

Among mine, I count the fact that I can claim as my hometown not one but two picturesque, charm-ing North Carolina towns. One of them – Waynes-ville – is now a real tour-ist destination, though it had little more than a drugstore and a fi ve-and-dime when I moved there as an adolescent in the late ’60s.

But my little-kid years were spent in the sweet hamlet of Shelby, where there’s still a courthouse in the town square. I took a friend there a few years ago. “It’s Mayberry,” she said.

Shelby has done well; it’s on the National Park Service’s National Regis-ter of Historic Places and has experienced a renais-sance, thanks to several downtown preservation groups.

It was a wonderful place for a child. And the best time of all was Christmas.

Downtown became a fairyland. The lights strung across the streets were the prettiest I’ve ever seen. I’ve tried to

in an SUV, not a station wagon, and they’ll prob-ably be glued to a CGI-saturated adventure on the overhanging DVD screen, or immersed in an adrenaline-pumping computer game.

But I hope they glance up, at least for a few sec-onds. I hope they get a glimmer of that sweeter, gentler kind of thrill.

You can view some Christmas lights yourself this weekend at the Con-cord Park Holiday Festi-val of Lights presented by the Knox County Parks and Recreation.

Every evening except Christmas, from 6-9 p.m., visitors can walk a .75-mile greenway trail to view the spectacular dis-play of several hundred thousand lights. The park staff at The Cove did all the decorating – includ-ing a series of lights co-ordinated to music – and they’ve even provided bonfi res for roasting marshmallows.

What a wonderful place to take your fam-ily and friends! Pets on leashes are welcome, too.

The event runs through Dec. 30. It’s free, but please bring a non-perishable food item for the Love Kitchen, which provides meals and other types of aid to those in need.

Info: 215-6600 or w w w.k noxcount y.org/parks.Send story suggestions to [email protected].

Santa won’t be disappointed with a plate of Panera Bread cookies and some hot choco-late. Photo by Mystery Diner

Santa will probably leave a little something extra in your stocking if you treat him to a Mitten Cookie from Panera Bread. Throw in a Candy Cookie and some hot chocolate, and you might just jump from the naughty to the nice list!

Mystery Diner

Panera is the bakery that grew. The company began in 1981 as Au Bon Pain Co., lo-cated primarily on the East Coast. The purchase of the St. Louis Bread Company in 1993 added 20 bakeries and a change in growth plans.

In May 1999, all Au Bon Pain Co. businesses were sold, and the company was renamed Panera Bread.

Panera is now a bak-ery/café with h o m e m a d e soups, salads and sandwich-es on the menu. Fresh bakery items range from bagels to muffi ns to cof-fee cakes and the specialty cookies. The Mitten Cookie is replaced each season with a “new” seasonal shaped cookie – Easter eggs, jack-o-lan-terns, spring fl owers.

The Mitten Cookie is a shortbread cookie with a

Plate it

Panera Bread

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regular and gourmet – is the perfect accompaniment.

Marvin West

Money trumps tradition. How else can you explain changing the name of the historic Gator Bowl to TaxS-layer Bowl? The online tax prep people started paying the price in 2011. Naming rights were fi nalized this year.

There is a bonus. Because TaxSlayer has invested in NASCAR, because Dale Earnhardt Jr., once drove a TaxSlayer car at Bristol, he’ll be at the bowl to toss the coin. Don’t miss it.

If you are going to Jack-sonville, you might enjoy the $75 coaches’ luncheon on Dec. 31. Rivals will brag on each other. You can sign up for a 5k run or attend the UT pep rally or watch the parade of bands. The big tailgate party costs $50.

Nothing like that hap-pened when I was there.

Long-ago Gator Bowl stuff probably doesn’t mat-ter too much to current Vol-unteers. Even with Butch Jones conducting history class, there can’t be much interest in that great 3-0 Tennessee victory over Tex-as A&M in 1957 dampness and muck.

Bobby Gordon gained more yards (60) than Heis-man Trophy winner John David Crow (46) but Crow is in the Gator Bowl Hall of Fame on his name. Maybe Sammy Burklow should be. He kicked the winning fi eld goal, a 17-yarder, only one of his Tennessee career.

Coach Bowden Wyatt prepared Sammy for the winning moment.

“There’s nothing to it. It’s just like an extra point.”

You need to know that ex-Vol Burklow, from Haz-ard, Ky., became Dr. Sam Burklow, practicing internal medicine in Fresno, Calif.

More history? Bear Bry-ant was the Texas A&M coach, his last game with the Aggies.

Best yarn from that trip was the post-game kicking exhibition in the fashion-able Ponte Vedra Club suite of Robert R. Neyland, then athletic director at Tennes-see. The General had the game ball as a trophy. He and friends, after several glasses of lemonade, decid-

Money trumps Gator Bowl tradition

ed to recreate the moment of triumph.

A somewhat famous guest, Scrappy Moore, Chat-tanooga coach, delivered a mighty kick and broke a big mirror. His second try took out a bay window. Gus Man-ning retrieved the football from the beach.

Weeks later, the Univer-sity of Tennessee received a bill for room damages. Neyland was very unhappy. He wanted to know who the heck did what to tear up the place. Gus reminded him of the indoor fi eld-goal exhibi-tion.

The General said: “Well, there ain’t a damned thing wrong with that. Pay the people.”

Tennessee 18, Syracuse 12 in 1966 was a bit more conventional. Dewey War-ren threw for 244 yards with touchdowns to Rich-mond Flowers and Austin Denney. Floyd Little rushed for 216 yards and Larry Csonka gained 114. The play I remember best was Paul Naumoff tackling Csonka near the goal to preserve the victory.

Tennessee lost to Flori-da, 14-13, in 1969 in Doug Dickey’s last game as coach of the Volunteers. Don’t get me started on that.

Tennessee routed Vir-ginia Tech, 45-23, in 1994. James Stewart scored three touchdowns. Peyton Man-ning completed several passes.

Back when the Gator Bowl was the Gator Bowl, there were other landmarks. Ohio State coach Woody Hayes threw a forearm at a Clemson receiver and got fi red the next morning. Bobby Bowden coached his fi nal game for Florida State at the old arena.

That was before Ever-Bank Field and TaxSlayer. I suppose money makes things better.

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By Sherri Gardner HowellRumors were fl ying all

through “Bethlehem.” The innkeepers were abuzz, and the shepherds shook their heads in wonder. Someone said a baby had been born and that his birth was an-nounced by angels.

Thousands of visitors to Church Street United Methodist Church on Dec. 14 found the church trans-formed into the village of Bethlehem as it might have looked 2,000 years ago, with wood chips on the fl oor, sand spread all around and the village populated with shopkeepers, shepherds, animals and guests, some in town to pay their taxes and some to look for this new baby.

For 17 years, Church Street has created a Walk Through Bethlehem, an

The three magi arrive in Bethlehem to search for the baby.

Playing Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar are Major Sharpe,

Thomas Stuff s and Dave Craig. Photos by Justin Acuff

Finnian Gilbert works as

a metal smith in the Walk

Through Bethlehem at

Church Street United Meth-

odist Church.

Little Brady Kaplan gets an

early taste of acting as he

plays the baby Jesus in a Walk

Through Bethlehem with his

mother, Kelly Kaplan, and Da-

vid Rosecrance as Mary and

Joseph.

Ainsley Lamar works the

dough to make some bread

at a Walk Through Bethlehem

at Church Street United Meth-

odist Church.

An overview of a Walk Through Bethlehem

at Church Street United Methodist Church.

duce, all receiving coaching for their positions – train-ing in what a shopkeeper might say, what wares he would be selling and what kind of interaction he was likely to have with visitors.

The marketplace offers an authentic food shop, pot-ters who let visitors try their hand at making clay pots, a jewelry-making shop and animals outside in a stable.

The live nativity has Jo-seph, Mary and baby Je-sus. Two babies shared the honors of playing Jesus this year, splitting the duties into two shifts.

The tradition began with Sue Isbell, Church Street United Methodist Church’s children’s minister, back in 1997. Sue and her husband, Rick, went to a similar vil-lage creation when they lived in Nashville.

interactive village where guests can be transported back to what a village might have been like at the time of Jesus’ birth. It takes hun-dreds of volunteers to pro-

Finding the baby in a‘Walk Through Bethlehem’ Jaylen Fitzgerald and Harrison Atkins feed hay

to a camel at the Walk Through Bethlehem at

Church Street United Methodist Church.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 3Friends Mini Used Book Sale, 1-4 p.m., Burl-

ington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.

MONDAY, JAN. 5Kids Crochet Class 1: Beaded Chain Stitch Brace-

let, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $20. Info/to register: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected] or myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30

p.m., Knoxville AAA Offi ce, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Cost: $30 members; $35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Com-puter, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Ashe-ville Highway. Info/to register: 525-5431.

THURSDAY, JAN. 8Halls Middle “Pink Out” basketball game.

Donations to The Butterfl y Fund will be accepted during the school day and at the basketball game that after-noon. Info: Jill Wright, [email protected] or 922-7494.

Knoxville Choral Society auditions for all voice parts, 6-8 p.m. To schedule an audition time: 312-2440 or [email protected]. Once a time is set, location and other details will be provided. Info/ audition form: www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org.

SATURDAY, JAN. 10Presentation of Harold’s Tours available in 2015

from, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Halls Senior Center, Crippen Road. Presentation by Harold Cox. Bring a covered dish. All welcome.

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

Saturday Stories and Songs: Laurie Fisher, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Taoist Tai Chi Society open house, 11 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Tai Chi Center, 1205 N. Central Ave. Features demonstrations and a free lesson. Info: 546-9222 or www.taoist.org.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.

SATURDAYS, JAN. 10, 24, 31, FEB. 7, 14

Advanced Beginner Wheel class, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Anderson-ville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Katie Cottrell. Registration deadline: Jan. 3. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

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Selected Varieties, Food Club Tonic Water (1 Liter) or

Canada Dry or 7UP

2 Liter

With

Card

Frozen, Selected Varieties

T.G.I. Friday’s Appetizers

8-11 Oz.

With Card

2/600

Selected Varieties

Hawaiian Punch

Gallon

With Card

2/400

Selected Varieties

Food Club Snack Crackers

10.7-11 Oz.

With Card

2/400

Selected Varieties

Moore's Potato Chips

7.75-8 Oz.

With

Card

Selected Varieties

Food ClubMixed Nuts

10 Oz.

SAVE AT LEAST 3.99 ON TWO

Martinelli's Sparkling Cider or

Welch’s Sparkling

Red Grape Juice25.4 Oz.

With Card

2/500

With Card399

Selected Varieties

Food Club Shells & Cheese

12-14 Oz.

SAVE AT LEAST 2.99 ON TWO

With

Card

Food City Fresh, 80% Lean, 20% Fat

GroundChuckPer Lb. for3 Lbs. or More

With Card

349

Food City Fresh

Boneless Pork Sirloin ChopsPer Lb.

With Card

299

Full of Antioxidants!

Fresh Blueberries6 Oz.

299

100

Harvest Club

IdahoPotatoes5 Lb. Mesh Bag

With Card

199

99

A New Years Day Favorite!

Food ClubBlackeye Peas

15 Oz.

With Card

2/100

Selected Varieties

Glory Seasoned Greens

27 Oz.

With Card

3/500

Selected Varieties

Food Club Cornbread Mix

6 Oz.

With

Card

SAVE AT LEAST .99 ON TWO

Selected Varieties

Coca-Cola Products

6 Pk., 16.9 Oz. Btls.

BUY MORE, SAVE MORE.

FINAL ALAL4/$10When purchased in quantities of 4 in a single transaction.

LESS THAN 4 ARE 3.49 EACH Quantities less than 2 are 4.99 each

Must purchase 2 in the same ransaction to receive discount.

Frozen,

Selected Varieties

Food ClubSelf-Rising Crust Pizza

13.95-32.75 Oz.

BUY 2 OR MORESAVE MORE.

Final cost for each...

EachEach

2/800

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Frozen, Selected Varieties

Stouffer's Lasagna

90 Oz.

1259With Card

Selected Varieties

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299With Card

Quantities less than 2 are 4.99 each

Each

BUY 2 OR MORESAVE MORE.

Each399

Paper Towels or

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FINAL COST...When you

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in a single

transaction.

With Card

Selected Varieties, Chunk or

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6-8 Oz.

With

Card

SAVE AT LEAST 4.29 ON TWO