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By Libby MorganUnion County will shut down

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

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

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

Songwriter Eli Fox will bring

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

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

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

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

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

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Parker Hastings at the Country Music Hall of Fame earlier this year.

Multi-instrumentalist Eli Fox has just signed on to the lineup for Satur-day’s Art on Main in Maynardville

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

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

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

Art on Main is produced by the Union County Arts Council, a non-profi t community organization dedicated to preserving and cel-ebrating the rich cultural heritage of Union County, Tennessee. Info on Facebook at Art on Main 2016

Looking backOral History project captures

history of Farragut

Julia Barham, coordinator of the Farragut Folklife Mu-seum, and Steve Stow, museum committee chair, look over items donated through the Oral History program. Photos by Carolyn Evans

By Carolyn EvansThe town of Farragut may be

relatively new as towns go, but what came before – from the vil-lage of Concord to Civil War bat-tles to the agricultural community – is rich in history.

Capturing that history has be-

come an interesting pastime for Farragut resident and Farragut Folklife Museum committee chair Steve Stow. Under the direction of museum coordinator Julia Bar-ham, Stow has collected 25 to 30 one-hour video recordings of Far-ragut area residents who have his-

tory to share. He still has a list of future interviewees waiting for him.

“We started with Barbra Beeler who worked at the museum for many years,” says Barham. “She was a docent here for us and a committee chair. She’s a wealth of

historical information on the area. Then we started trying to get peo-ple recorded on a variety of topics – the village of Concord, Farragut High School, the establishment of the town of Farragut.”

Signs and landscaping top quiet BOMA meetingBy Sherri Gardner Howell

In Farragut, there always seems to be something brewing about signs.

Mike Mitchell was at the Farra-gut Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting on Thursday with one of the town’s new informational signs on zoning changes in hand. He got

it off the ground near Brixworth subdivision, and he was returning it to the town, but not before he used it to make his point: The sign is too hard to read from the street.

It was a return performance for Mitchell, who spoke fi rst about the signs the week before at the Farra-gut Municipal Planning Committee

meeting. The MPC wouldn’t let him load his pictures of the sign into the computer to give a visual of what he considers the problem, so, this time, he just brought along a sign.

In the end, all was friendly and cordial, with Community Develop-ment Director Mark Shipley agree-ing, as he had at the MPC meeting,

that the signs needed some work.He didn’t agree to go back to theold black and white “Use On Re-view” signs, but did invite Mitchellto participate in the process of re-vamping the new ones.

Sand volleyball ahead for town

The town of Farragut is now accepting registrations for its summer sand volleyball and fall softball leagues. The sand vol-leyball leagues begin the week of July 11; the softball leagues begin the week of Aug. 8. All leagues will be played at Mayor Bob Leonard Park, located at 301 Watt Road.

Area churches, businesses and other organizations are invited to participate.

The registration and payment deadline for sand volleyball is Monday, June 27, at 5 p.m.; the deadline for softball is Monday, July 25, at 5 p.m. Sand volleyball leagues are $165 per team, and softball leagues are $325 per team.

Info: townoffarragut.org/register or 218-3373

Church sponsors block party

Close to 100 members and guests turned out for the Far-ragut Christian Church Block Party on Sunday at the church home, 138 Admiral Rd. While adults enjoyed conversations at shaded tables, the children did what children do best: Ran, jumped, scooted, skipped, tossed Frisbees and rode bikes all around the grassy lawn and church parking lot.

➤ Sherri’s got pictures on page A-7

Behind the scenes at Savelli’s

Elizabeth “Liz” Savelli is completing 23 years running a popular neighborhood restau-rant, Savelli’s, in West Knox-ville. She opened up on March 1, 1993, and has been at 3055 Sutherland Avenue ever since.

She said her most famous guest was Willard Scott, whom HGTV introduced to Savelli’s. But other well-known patrons have included Tommy Lasorda, and chef Tim Love.

➤ Read Victor Ashe on page A-5

Bike to Work DayThe 16th annual Bike to

Work Day was delayed by rain and rescheduled for 7:30-8:30 a.m. Friday, June 3, at Market Square. Stop by on your bike and grab baked goods from Wild Love Bakehouse and cof-fee from Trio Cafe!

Want to bike to work, but aren’t sure about the best route? Or would you just like some company along the way for a change? Meet at Third Creek Greenway trailhead (130 Forest Park Blvd.) at 7:15 a.m. to go from Bearden to down-town and UT.

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No one mentioned bring-ing charges against Mitchell

for taking the sign…

O t h e r items of business at the BOMA m e e t i n g i n c l u d e d r e z o n i n g , on second and fi nal

reading, 6 acres of land on McFee Road; the approval of the Farragut 13.1 and Half Marathon for Oct. 29 (the third year for the event); the approval of an auditing contract with Ingram, Over-holt and Bean, P.C.; and an end-of-year report by Jo-

seph Konvicka, the town’s AmeriCorps worker.

Also approved, and something to watch, was a contract between TDOT and the town for landscap-ing and maintenance of the eastbound and westbound ramps off I-40 at Campbell Station Road. It is the only interstate entrance to the town that is actually inside the town boundaries, and Bud McKelvey, public works director, has been working for more than a year on a plan to beautify this en-trance.

The $75,000 for the landscaping project is in-cluded in the current fi scal year’s Capital Investment

Program.McKelvey has worked

with TDOT at every step to dot-the-i’s and cross-the-t’s. When the work is completed – plantings should begin in the fall – the citizens of Far-ragut will owe him a huge debt of gratitude.

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John Cherry

IT’S BETTER AT TELLICO VILLAGE

community

At Biscuit fest Rachael Feinbaum, second grader at Webb School of Knox-ville, took home third place for her strawberry lemon delight biscuits at Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival. An avid watcher of “Chopped Junior,” Rachael decided to tweak her Aunt Rhoni’s recipe to create a special fl avor, says mom Melissa Feinbaum. With Rachael is Erin Donovan, the Biscuit Queen. Photo by Carolyn Evans

Not only did the Tellico Village Lions Club get more players than ever before for their recent tournament, they raised a record amount of money for great causes. Perhaps the beautiful spring weather contributed to the success.

NOTES ■ Farragut Gun Club meets 6

p.m. each second Monday, Rosarito’s Mexican Cantina, 210 Lovell Road. Info: Liston Matthews, 316-6486.

■ The town of Farragut is accepting registrations for its Independence Day Parade until slots are fi lled. Info: online or 218-3375

Mixed team champions Linda Romero-Mezza, Bob Mezza, Susan Heinzman and Dennis Heinzman

Newly designated PGA pro Peyton-Elizabeth Ritchie Photos submitted

BOMA meeting From page A-1Looking Back From page A-1

Barham says most of the recordings for the Oral His-tory project are recorded at the Town Hall, but they can also be done in participants’ homes.

Stow was the impetus for getting the program going, says Barham. He began vol-unteering with the museum several years ago, serving as a docent.

In 2002, when he was working at Oak Ridge Na-tional Laboratory, he at-tended a conference in Or-lando.

“At the conference, they had a bunch of oral history interviews of women from Hanford in Washington state. I came back here and

talked to a coworker and said, ‘We should start doing this.’”

Stow later became the director of the Oak Ridge Museum of Science and En-ergy, which led to more ex-perience with oral histories.

“It turned out there were lots of oral histories that had already been done in Oak Ridge, but they were scat-tered all over the place,” he says.

“When I retired, we set up the Center for Oak Ridge Oral History. Now anybody can go the Oak Ridge Library website and play the COROH video fi les and see the tran-scripts. There are about 500 different stories. It turns out

Hitting the links with Lions

Mitchell

According to Larry El-der, responsible for solicit-ing sponsors, “We had 55 local businesses and orga-nizations contribute well over $10,000 in donations, and another 45 businesses contributed over $3,000 in prizes that were awarded. This will go a long way to supporting the various club service projects.”

In addi-tion to team a w a r d s , prizes were also given

for individual competitions. Ken Moore and Teresa Reed won Closest to the Pin, Kev-in Kirby and John Fuchs won Longest Drive for the men and Linda Maillet and Linda Romero-Mezza won Longest Drive for the wom-en. Daniel Curtis and Caro-lyn Acker were winners for Most Accurate.

To all who worked to make this event a success, the Lions say, “Thank you!” It’s events like this that make things better at Tellico Village.

■ New pro on staff Peyton-Elizabeth Ritchie

is the newest PGA profes-sional on staff with Tellico Village. She recently passed

her player’s test, a diffi cult task to be sure. Peyton-Eliz-abeth has been on our golf staff for a while, but it’s her recent success that brings her the PGA professional designation.

She is a summa cum laude graduate of the Uni-versity of Tennessee.

■ Farmers marketIt’s farmers market

season at the Yacht Club. From 9 a.m. to noon ev-ery Wednesday, shoppers looking for fresh fruits and vegetables, crafts and art are welcome to join their neighbors at the Yacht Club parking lot. That’s right, the Yacht Club has stepped up its game and is hosting markets every Wednesday this year. Some Wednes-days have seen as many as 20 participating vendors.

There are a lot of folks who need to be thanked when one of our service or-ganizations stages an event like the Lions Golf-for-Sight tournament. Countless Li-ons contributed time and talent recruiting businesses and players, and the Toqua Golf Course staff did a great

job preparing the course and setting up the pairings for the day.

There were three win-ning teams in the outing. The winning men’s team, sponsored by Provision Center for Proton Therapy, included Ben Robinson, Nick DeLaura, Les Fout and

Kevin Kirby. The winning women’s

team consisted of Jackie Trombley, Elyse Papke, Lin-da Maillet and Lucie Farrar.

The winning mixed team included Linda Romero-Mezza, Bob Mezza, Susan Heinzman and Dennis Heinzman.

Oak Ridge has the best oral history project anywhere, at least as far as the Manhattan Project goes.”

When Stow became a vol-unteer at the Folklife Mu-seum, he brought the idea with him.

“I talked to Julia about it and started a Farragut Oral History program,” he says. “I think Farragut is one of the very few towns around here with an oral history program.”

The goal is to get as many recorded as they can, says Stow. “Once we get the in-terviews done, we have to transcribe them and get them on paper, then archive the videos and get copies made. There’s a lot to be done after the one-hour in-terview.”

Barham says there are a multitude of things that can be done with the oral histories and the wealth of knowledge they represent.

“We want to take some snippets out of each of these videos and put them togeth-er to create specialized vid-eos relating to current and future museum exhibits,” Barham says.

Longtime Farragut resi-dents who have memories and stories about growing up in Concord or the town of Farragut are encouraged to contact Barham at 966-7057.

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Sandra Clark

Marvin West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Old Vols in the NFL

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You are pretty smart,” said one listener.

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

The coffee caucus, three

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

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

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

The discussion got side-tracked onto how Kahlil and

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

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

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

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

with Miami, Green Bay and the New York Jets.

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

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

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

= Neighborhood Engagement

= City Staff Work

Appendix F — Flow Chart / Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program

B Kick-Off Meeting Neighbors explain

traffic issues. Staff explains Traffic

Safety Program.

Further Study

Indicated?

E Evaluation Meeting

Neighbors detail traffic problems.

F Speed Data Collection & Evaluation

Data from hoses, collisions, KPD.

Qualifies for Engineering

on Point Scale

System?

A Neighborhood

Application Neighborhood

applies for Traffic Safety Study.

H Traffic Calming Feasibilty Study

More in-depth study and analysis.

J Concept Plan

Meeting City presents

plan for deploying

devices &/or route

modifications. Neighbors

provide feedback.

Threshold Met for

Enforcement &/or Further

Study?

yes

yes

yes

Priority Ranking Project Ranks High

or Low?

high

Project will be ranked again in next round.

C Alternate Solutions Staff may suggest

solutions outside the Traffic Safety Program.

D Neighborhood Petition

Impact area defined. Neighborhood gathers

signatures.

no

no

K Detailed Design

City prepares bid-ready detailed design of the

project.

ENFORCEMENT

ENGINEERING

L Bidding &

Construction Projects are bundled for lowest cost.

M Post-Construction

Evaluation

no

More than 50%

approve?

no

EDUCATION

G Speed Data Status

Meeting City shares data results

& analysis with the neighborhood.

yes yes

I Traffic Calming Status Meeting

City shares data results & analysis with the

neighborhood.

low Carl McDaniel

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

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

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

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

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

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

regalia and we appreciated their show of respect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arrangements were by Mynatt Funeral Home of Fountain City.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

– S. Clark

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VictorAshe

Betty Bean

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rock bottom lows last year are feeling?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Savelli’s marks 23 years on Sutherland

GOP ticket, but that may be wishful thinking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liz Savelli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Without remediation,

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

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

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

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

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

are unusual in that both are city-owned.

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

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

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

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

McClung warehouses pre-fi re. The ornate structures were a solid anchor on the north side of downtown.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Beyond Bingo,

presented by Shopper News, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday or Thursday, June 1-2, Sherrill Hills, 271 Moss Grove Blvd. Free lunch and speak-ers on relevant senior issues. Door prizes. Info: 342-6084.

■ Frank R. Strang Senior Center:109 Lovell Heights Road670-6693knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Off erings include: card games; exercise programs; dance classes; watercolor classes; Tai Chi; blood pres-sure checks; Mahjong; senior-friendly computer classes. Private one-on-one computer classes available; cost: $10.

Register for: Veterans Services visit, 11 a.m. Thurs-day, June 9; RSVP: 215-5645. “Grief, Depression and Adjusting to Life Changes” lecture, noon Wednesday, June 8. Senior Mini Expo, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, June 15.

■ Karns Senior Center8042 Oak Ridge Highway951-2653knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Off erings include: card games; dance classes; exer-cise programs; mahjong; art classes; farkle dice games; dominoes; a computer lab; billiards room; outdoor grill and kitchen area.

Register for: “Lunch and Learn: “Clear Captions Communication,” noon Tuesday, June 7. Estate Plan-ning presentation, 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 8. General Nutrition presentation, 11 a.m. Thursday, June 9. Snack and Learn: Cosmetic Dentistry and Whitening, 2 p.m. Friday, June 10. Musi-cal performance: The Grace Noters, 2:30 p.m. Wednes-day, June 15.

Dr. Paul YauLoren RiddickBlake McCoyJasen Bradley

Life Beyond Bingo

By Sandra ClarkYear-in and year-out, our

most loyal Shopper News read-ers are our seniors. That was true when I began publishing the paper in 1971 and remains true today. Respect for place becomes stronger as we age, and the Shopper is all about people and place.

Beyond Bingo: So our sales manager, Amy Lutheran, and I decided to celebrate our senior readers with a party of sorts.

Val and Cassie Smith at Sher-rill Hills Retirement Resort agreed to host the fi rst one and it’s this week!

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

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

By Sara BarrettThis week at Sherrill Hills Re-

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

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

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

Several business vendors will be present, and fi ve individuals will speak briefl y during lunch, sharing advice in their areas of expertise:

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

Jasen Bradley became a trainer more than 10 years ago and is now a trainer and manager for Fitness Together in Farragut.

He will focus his presentation on benefi ts of physical fi tness for se-niors.

He says: “I want our clients to spend as much time with their chil-dren, families and hobbies for as long as they can without wasting their time on ‘fl y by night’ health fads.

“FT offers seniors a dedicated personalized program around their interests and goals. No program is the same, and the results are guar-anteed.

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

Info: 671-2022.

■ Stewart Lusk, vice presi-dent, Knoxville Tours

Knoxville Tours is a family busi-ness, headed by Joan Lusk and op-erated with her three children since her husband died in 1979.

Stewart Lusk is in charge of the charter department, buses and mo-tor coach operators.

He says: “Motor coach tours are

monly asked by seniors are ‘Do I still get to own my home?’ and ‘What happens when I die or move out of the house in relation to my heirs?’”

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

Info: LorenRiddickTeam.com

■ Paul Yau, MD, Tennessee Orthopedic Clinic

Dr. Paul Yau, board certifi ed physician, received his fellowship training in joint replacement and adult reconstructive surgery from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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

His specialty practice keeps him current with the latest sur-gical techniques and advances in orthopedic care including hip arthroscopy and anterior hip re-placement.

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

Info: tocdocs.com

the ideal way for seniors to travel. “Our tours are planned with

lodgings, sightseeing, some meals and all transportation included. A professional tour director accompa-nies each tour to assure the passen-gers of a fi rst-class tour experience.

“Our clients tell us they would never have seen or done everything that we include on their own. Many say they would not know where to begin planning a trip with all that we include.

“Sit back on our deluxe climate controlled motor coaches equipped with rest room, reclining seats, footrest and headrest and leave the driving to us.

“Our motor coaches are equipped with (WI-FI) internet, satellite TV and DVDs.”

Info: 865-688-6232

■ Blake McCoy, founder and CEO, Independent Insurance Consultants

Blake McCoy had a close relation-ship with his grandparents growing up, and he feels that’s part of what inspired him to help seniors.

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

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

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

McCoy plans to discuss the four parts of Medicare during his pre-sentation at Beyond Bingo. He also hopes to cover the difference be-tween an independent agency and

a captive agency, and how to qual-ify for extra help with prescription drugs.

Info: medicareknoxville.com or 865-691-5571

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

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

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

He says: “Questions I am com-

Stewart Lusk

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cross currentsLynn Pittslpitts48@yahoo.com

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

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

(“Memories” Barbra Streisand)

Memories

I am still thinking about Memorial Day and memories.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May God bless them all, with peace at last.

By Sherri Gardner HowellClose to 100 members

and guests turned out for the Farragut Christian

Church Block Party on Sun-day at the church home, 138 Admiral Rd. While adults enjoyed conversations at

Shannon and Jason Warden wore their red, white and blue to greet guests at the Farragut Christian Church Block Party. Ja-son is senior pastor at the church.

Michael Hurt, under the “supervision” of CAK junior and pas-tor’s son Gabe Warden, keeps the hamburgers and hot dogs coming for hungry members and guests at the Farragut Chris-tian Church Block Party.

Jonas Choate, 18 months, and Lyric Ogden, 16 months, decide they like picnic food.

“Are you taking pictures?” asked little Reagan Stephens, right. “Yes. Would you like for me to take your picture?” was the an-swer. “Yes, please,” she replied, then pulled in her friend Ella Cain and both immediately struck a pose. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Red, white, blue and kid-powered Position available

■ St. Mark UMC, 7001 S. Northshore Dr., is seeking a part-time Di-rector of Children’s Ministry. Position requires 20 hours per week and personal faith in the Methodist tradition; experience working with children is preferred. For a complete job description and qualifi cations, send resume to offi ce@stmarkknox.org.

shaded tables or proved their skill at Corn Hole, the children did what chil-dren do best: Ran, jumped, scooted, skipped, tossed Frisbees and rode bikes all around the grassy lawn and church parking lot.

And they had the adults outnumbered.

There were hot dogs and burgers from the grill with potluck side dishes and all the fi xings for the picnic dinner. Parents took the children inside briefl y to the church library to sign up for the FCC Chill Out and Read summer read-

ing program. Children will keep up with the books they read over the summer and turn in their reading sheets at the Labor Day Block Party for prizes.

Capping off the party – the fi rst of three the church hosts during the summer – was the Indy 500. It was kid-style, of course, with children competing on bikes, trikes, scooters and three-wheelers. The kid-sized Cooling Mister gave any who overheated a sprin-kling, but more adults were gazing longingly at it than kids were using it!

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ry with us the greater sense of discernment, inspiration and critical thinking from a Christian worldview that are our compass and lantern as we venture onward toward new horizons. To quote Al-bert Einstein, I attest that you have achieved “the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge,” knowledge that signifi es the capacity to make reasoned decisions and ethi-cal judgements.

As we have proven ourselves to be compassionate, perseverant, success-ful and trained warriors at CAK, now, as we transition into university life and wherever else we may go, we must prove ourselves fearless war-riors. As Joshua 1:9 says, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wher-ever you go.” Let us not forget the val-ues that have enabled our victories and successes at CAK. Keep on improving yourself in all your endeavors, just as

we have grown at CAK, and take full advantage of the amazing opportuni-ties that your future holds. If you make mistakes, make them your own. Learn from them, and above all, know that there is no such thing as a no-win situ-ation. Honesty, reason, work ethic and perseverance: these will be your values as you embark on the journey that you have chosen for your life.

Thank you, and let’s go, war-riors!

The following is CAK Valedicto-rian Drew Dixson’s commencement address.

By Drew DixsonOn this day of commemoration

and transition, I would like to pose a question: what does it mean to be a CAK Warrior? The warrior is not

only the mascot of our school, but also

a symbol for ourselves, the

Class of 2016, as we refl ect on what we have l e a r n e d under this mascot. A warrior is fearless, a l w a y s ready to c o n q u e r

what lies ahead; a

warrior is trained, hav-

ing the experi-ence needed to

handle any new situa-tion; a warrior is strong, deriving his strength from his fearlessness and ex-perience; a warrior is compassionate, always considering the welfare of his companions, his comrade warriors. In this light, our battle cry of go, Warriors, becomes not only a source of energy for athletic events but also a motivation to represent CAK well wherever we, as warriors, go in life as we strive for these values of a warrior according to God’s purpose.

The gradu-ates of 2016 are compas-sionate war-riors. Through-out these past four years, I have seen the im-mense kindness and generos-ity that my class-mates extend to one another.

When one of us was badly injured in a car wreck ear-lier this school year, I saw a tremendous outpouring of prayer, thoughtfulness, and empathy not only on the part of students but also from teachers and staff. In diffi cult times, we have comforted and prayed for one another, and in moments of success, we have congratulated one other wholeheartedly. To the class of 2016, you have been an in-spiration to me as I have seen you follow the apostle Paul’s entreaty in Colossians 3:12-13 to “put on […] as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, hu-mility, meekness and patience.”

The graduates of 2016 are per-severant and successful war-riors. From the time that I fi rst became a CAK Warrior to today at graduation, I have been greatly im-pressed by the student body’s devotion to excellence in all of its forms, be it academic, extra-curricular, musical, artistic or athletic excellence. In ath-letics, we have won baseball, football, golf, tennis, track, soccer and cheer-leading state championships, and dis-trict and regional championships in almost all of the sports that we play. In band, chorus and ensemble, we have represented CAK in parades and at competitions and have amazed count-less audiences and judges. In musical theater, we have invested months of preparation and our students’ talent into making a show that truly “wows” us every year with its great music and

attention to detail. In robotics club, we have earned our many victories through our commitment to improv-ing our robot’s capabilities every year. And who could forget all that our students have accomplished in their Capstone Projects, through which we have represented CAK worldwide through mission trips and throughout Knoxville with thousands of collective hours in community service projects, making the world a better place as God commands us.

The gradu-ates of 2016 are trained warriors. As we look back on these times when we have achieved great success, let us also express the great gratitude that we have for those who have invested them-selves in us along the way: our par-ents, teachers and staff, the truest ex-amples that we have of what it means to be a CAK Warrior. I believe I speak for the entire graduating class when I thank you for all the lessons that you have taught us, all of your prayers on our behalf, and all of the better judge-ment that you have bestowed through the years. You have taught us the meaning of the Latin motto non scho-lae sed vitae discimus, “Not for school but for life do we learn.” We will car-

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reer and technology educa-tion teacher Kathy McCoy makes it her goal to expand students’ horizons through the Virtual Enterprise (VE) program. But this summer, she’ll broaden her own ho-rizons by teaching VE at a business and vocational high school in Beijing.

VE is a global network of simulated businesses set up and run by students. Mc-Coy has taught the class for nine years. This year, two Bearden VE teams took fi rst and second place in the state business plan com-petition, which qualifi ed them to compete at the VE International Trade Show in New York City in April. The teams took fi fth and 11th place in the national com-petition.

Last summer, McCoy attended the fi rst VE Na-tional Teachers Conference at Long Island University. There she met Doris Pokras, a Chinese native who works in the U.S. to enhance edu-cational opportunities in China. She was investigat-ing the VE model for Chi-nese students.

McCoy’s son, Jake,

studied in China last year through a UT Confucius In-stitute program, so she en-joyed visiting with Pokras, and they stayed in touch. Pokras typically recruits college professors to teach sessions at Fengtai Voca-tional High School, but she asked McCoy because of her experience with high school students.

Bearden rising senior Noah Chu, who was in Mc-Coy’s spring VE class, is her teaching assistant. His father grew up in Hong Kong, but he’s never been to China. Pokras thinks the Chinese students will enjoy getting to know an Ameri-can student.

Part of Chu’s trip was fi nanced by an Awesome Adam Adventures schol-arship, which honors the memory of 2011 Bearden graduate Adam Wise.

They traveled to Beijing on May 27 and will be there for a month. A translator will be provided for Mc-Coy. She’s a fast talker, so it will be a challenge to teach through a translator, she says.

With Chu’s help, she pre-pared PowerPoint fi les that were sent ahead for transla-

Virtual Enterprise teachertakes real-world trip to China

Bearden High School student Noah Chu and Virtual Enterprise teacher Kathy McCoy discuss a PowerPoint presentation McCoy will use while teaching VE in China. Photo by Wendy Smith

tion. The class will focus on accounting and the fi nancial aspects of a business plan.

McCoy is a fi erce advo-cate for the VE program. Bearden and Farragut High are the only two schools in the county that offer it. Not only does it offer real-world business experience, it al-lows kids of all academic levels to experience success,

she says.“The average student can

really excel. It’s a very moti-vating class for kids who are kind of burnt out on school.”

Chu said VE has helped him better understand the world of business and in-creased his professional-ism. Weekly self-evalua-tions have kept him honest, he says.

“Accountability has been a big push this year. Dead-lines are deadlines, and the kids need to understand that,” says McCoy.

She points out that Chu’s self-confi dence has in-creased since he started VE.

“Every school should have a VE program.”

The China trip will surely be Chu’s biggest payoff for

participating in VE. Pokras plans to immerse him in Chinese culture, including cooking classes, since that’s an interest of his.

In addition to the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, McCoy is looking forward to a classroom of eager learn-ers. That’s how Chinese stu-dents have been described to her, she says.

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

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

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

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

“I think it’s wonderful the way you guys

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

afternoon,” said Saltz.

“And we’re already dead,” I said.

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

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

“That can wait.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

myself.”“I love you for

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

“Not a bit,” said Root.

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

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

“Nope,” said Mr. Tillman, “I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

too, once.”(To be continued.)

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

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

CHAPTER NINE: Words of wisdom from the school counselor“a breakfast serials story”S.O.R. Losers Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

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■ All American Camp, 9-11:30 a.m. Monday-Thursday, June 6-9, Angela Floyd Schools, 6732 Jubilee Center Way; or 9-11:30 a.m. Monday-Thursday, June 13-16, Angela Floyd Schools, 10845 Kingston Pike. Cost: $125. Ages: 6 and up. Info/registra-tion: angelafl oydschools.com.

■ Archaeokids: Exploring Ancient Art & Archaeology, 1-4 p.m. July 11-15, McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 9-11 (rising fourth, fi fth and sixth graders). Cost: $110; $99 members. Info/registration: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

■ Awesome Oceans, 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday, July 25-29, The Muse Knoxville, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 9-13. Cost: $105/ $95 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

■ Awesome Oceans, 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, July 25-29, The Muse Knoxville, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $105/ $95 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

■ Boys basketball camp, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Thursday, June 27-30, 9 a.m.-noon Friday, July 1, Roane State Community College– Roane County campus gym. For ages 8 through high school seniors. Cost: $115. Ap-plication: roanestate.edu/athletics. Info: 882-4583.

■ Camp Invention, Monday-Friday,

June 6-10, at the following times and locations: 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m., A.L. Lotts Elementary, 9320 Westland Drive; Sequoyah Elementary School, 942 Southgate Road; Shannondale El-ementary School, 5316 Shannondale Road; Blue Grass Elementary School, 8901 Bluegrass Road; and 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Farragut Intermediate School, 208 West End Ave. Cost: $230. Ages: rising fi rst through rising sixth grad-ers. Info/registration: campinvention.org or 800-968-4332.

■ Camp Wallace Summer Day Camp, through Aug. 5, Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, 701 Merchant Drive. Activities and fi eld trips for children who have completed kindergarten through seventh grade. Info/registra-tion: Kristie Bell, 688-7270.

■ Camp Webb Sports Camps, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 9800 Webb School Lane. Camps include: lacrosse, basketball, football, tennis, soccer, cheer, gymnastics and more. Info/schedule/registration: campwebb.com or 291-3840.

■ Camp Wesley Woods summer camp, 329 Wesley Woods Road, Townsend. Programs for boys and girls grades K-11. Info/registration: CampWesleyWoods.com or 448-2246.

■ Cartoon Camp, 9-11:30 a.m. Monday-Thursday, July 11-14, Angela Floyd Schools, 6732 Jubilee Center Way; or 9-11:30 a.m. Monday-Thurs-day, July 18-21, Angela Floyd Schools, 10845 Kingston Pike. Cost: $125. Ages: 2-5. Info/registration: angelafl oydschools.com.

■ Christian Academy of Knoxville summer camps, 529 Academy Way. Variety of camps, both athletic and academic, available throughout June and July. Info/schedule/registration:

cakwarriors.com/community/sum-mer-camps; athletics@cakmail.org.

■ Concord Park golf camps, Concord Park, 10909 S. Northshore Drive. Two-day camps for ages 6-8, 9-11 a.m., June 7-8, July 5-6, July 26-27; cost: $50. Three-day camps for ages 9-17, 9 a.m.-noon., June 14-16, June 21-23, June 28-30, July 12-14, July 19-21, Aug. 2-4; cost: $100. Info/registration: 966-9103.

■ Cooking up Science, 1-4 p.m. Mon-day-Friday, June 20-24, The Muse Knoxville, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

■ Dance classes available June 6-July 23, Dancers Studio, 4216 Sutherland Ave. Morning, afternoon, evening classes available. Cost: one class unit, $225, (three hours each week); two class units: $420; three class units, $575; apprenticeship (unlimited classes), $650. Info/full schedule: dancersstudioknoxville.com or 584-9636.

■ Day camps, Arnstein Jewish Com-munity Center, 6800 Deane Hill Drive. Milton Collins Day Camp for K-sixth graders; Teen Adventures Program for seventh-ninth graders; Counsel-or-in-Training Program for 10th grad-ers; Camp K’Ton Ton for ages 2-pre-K. Sessions available Monday-Friday through July 29. Info/registration: jewishknoxville.org or 690-6343.

■ Dig It! Fun with Fossils, 1-4 p.m. June 20-24, McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 9-11 (rising fourth, fi fth and sixth graders). Cost: $110; $99 members. Info/registra-tion: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

■ Dino Explorers, 9-11 a.m. June 7-9, McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 4-5. Cost: $35; $30 members. Info/registration: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

■ Explorer camp at Ijams, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, June 20-24 or July 18-22, Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Cost: $245 members, $270 nonmembers; includes a full day off -site trip. Ages 9-14. Info/registration: Lauren, 577-4717, ext. 135.

■ Explorers of the World, 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday, July 25-29, The Muse Knoxville, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

■ Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont summer camps for ages 9-17. Various programs available June 13-July 28. Info/schedule/registra-tion: gsmit.org/SummerYouth.html or 448-6709.

■ Guest Artist Intensives, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Studio Arts for Dancers, 1234 Rocky Hill Road. Session 1: Monday-Friday, June 13-17; Session 2: Mon-day-Friday, June 20-24 Cost: $250/session. Info/registration: StudioArtsForDancers.net or 539-2475.

■ Harry Potter camp at Ijams, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, June 27-July 1, Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Cost: $225 members, $250 nonmembers. Ages 5-8 and ages 9-14. Info/registration: Lauren, 577-4717, ext. 135.

■ Ice Princess Camp, 9-11:30 a.m. An-gela Floyd Schools, 10845 Kingston Pike. For ages 2-5: Monday-Thursday, June 6-9. For ages 6 and up: Monday-

Thursday, July 11-14. Cost: $125. Info/registration: angelafl oydschools.com or 675-9894.

■ Ice Princess Camp, 9-11:30 a.m., Angela Floyd Schools, 6732 Jubilee Center Way. For ages 6 and up: Monday-Thursday, July 18-21. For ages 2-5: Monday-Thursday, July 25-28. Cost: $125. Info/registration: angelafl oydschools.com or 947-9894.

■ Intensive for the Serious Dancer, 9-11:45 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, July 5-22, Studio Arts for Dancers, 1234 Rocky Hill Road. Cost: $200. For rising Level II-IV. Includes: ballet, modern, improvisation, jazz, stretch for dancers, musical theatre. Info/registration: StudioArtsForDancers.net or 539-2475.

■ Intensive for Intermediate and Ad-vanced dancers, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon-day, Wednesdays and Fridays, July 5-22, Studio Arts for Dancers, 1234 Rocky Hill Road. Cost: $300. For rising Level V-VI. Includes: ballet technique, pointe/variations, modern, jazz, improvisation, composition, musical theatre. Info/registration: StudioArtsForDancers.net or 539-2475.

■ Joy in Motion: session 1, 9-10:30 a.m. ages: 4-5 and 10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ages: 6-8, Tuesday and Thurs-day, July 5 and 7, Studio Arts for Dancers, 1234 Rocky Hill Road. Cost: $35. Info/registration: StudioArtsForDancers.net or 539-2475.

■ Joy in Motion: session 2, 9-10:30 a.m. ages: 4-5 and 10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ages: 6-8, Tuesday and Thurs-day, July 12 and 14, Studio Arts for Dancers, 1234 Rocky Hill Road. Cost: $35. Info/registration: StudioArtsForDancers.net or 539-2475.

FARRAGUT Shopper news • JUNE 1, 2016 • A-11 kids

Real world driving comes to Farragut High SchoolStudents taking drivers

education at Farragut High School this coming school year will be given a new perspective on becoming a motorist.

Accident Avoidance Workshops will teach new drivers the “what ifs” that aren’t usually covered in traditional drivers ed class.

“Drivers ed focuses ex-clusively on normal driving conditions,” says an adver-tisement for the workshops. “Laws, lines, signs … basi-cally how to get a license. Drivers ed covers the ‘pass

or fail’ stuff. Some fami-lies want their students to have more than the abso-lute state-mandated mini-mum requirements in cas-es where their safety is at stake. That’s us. We do the ‘live or die’ stuff.”

Classes will cover how to handle “emergency driv-ing conditions, when every-thing goes horribly wrong.”

The eight-hour program will be delivered in two parts, one weeknight class and one of two fi ve-hour weekend driving sessions.

Students who have their

permit are eligible to take the class, and they are en-couraged to use the vehicle they’ll drive most frequent-ly in order to learn the lim-its of what their own car can and can’t do.

Both parents are invited to participate, but only one is required to attend. The cost for one student and one parent to attend is $307.

A portion of each regis-tration fee will help FHS raise money to fund tech-nology. More information will be given at the begin-ning of the school year.

Fourth grader Bailey Stone begins reading a graphic nov-el right after checkout at the library. Photo by S. Barrett

Summer reading extraordinaire

By Sara BarrettYou can see Bailey Stone

at her local library fairly regularly during summer break.

“My favorites are graphic novels,” she says. “They’re funnier than regular books, and they make you want to keep reading.”

Bailey also says graphic novels are good choices for busy readers who may not have a lot of time to read in one sitting.

“They don’t stress you out like other books. They’re more fun.”

Bailey loves to read and was tested on a level higher than a sixth grader, which makes her a confi dent soon-to-be fourth grader.

For readers who may not fell as self-assured as she, the upbeat Bailey says the

only way to improve is by opening a book.

“It never hurts to try. You can pick any book. I enjoy reading about people who inspire me.”

VBS NOTES ■ Bearden UMC, 4407 Suther-

land Ave., 6-8 p.m., July 18-21. Theme: “Cave Quest.” Info/registration: beardenumc.org.

■ Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church, 9132 Kingston Pike, 8:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. June 6-9. Ages 5 years old by Aug. 15 through rising sixth grade. Theme: “Cave Quest.” Info/registration: cspc.net/vbs or 291-5206.

■ First Farragut UMC, 12733 Kingston Pike, 6-8:30 p.m. June 13-16. Ages: 3 through fi fth grade. Theme: “Cave Quest.” Info/registration: www.ff umc.org under the events tab.

■ Central Baptist Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive, 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. June 6-9. Carnival kick-off , 5:30-7:30 p.m. June 5. Ages: 4 by August through ris-

ing seventh graders. Theme: Deep Sea Discovery.” Info/registration: cbcbearden.org/events or 450-1000, ext. 121.

■ Erin Presbyterian and Messiah Lutheran Church, 6900 Kingston Pike, June 3-5. Ages: preschool through fi fth grade. Theme: “Deep Sea Discovery.” Preregistration required. Info/registration: 588-5350 or vacationbibleschool.com/erin_messiah.

■ Laurel Church of Christ, 3457 Kingston Pike, June 12-15. Begins Sunday morn-ing and continues 6 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday. For ages 3 through those who have fi nished fi fth grade. Theme: “Cave Quest.” Info/registra-tion: 524-1122 or laureloffi ce@laurelcc.org.

Atomic City Aquatic Club members Tais Brown and Dylan Ar-nold pose with their high point medals. Photo submitted

Atomic City swimmers

By Sara BarrettMore than two dozen

swimmers from Atomic City Aquatic Club trav-eled to Kingsport recent-ly for this year’s fi rst long course event.

Tais Brown swam for the boys’ 12-year-olds and made the Southeastern cut in all six events in which he competed. He received a medal for most events.

Dylan Arnold, 11, won the medal for his age group. He also placed fi rst in four races and sec-ond in four races.

Typically, in the fi rst event of a long course season best times are not expected, but 26 of ACAC’s 27 competi-tors achieved personal bests at this meet. Info: swim4acac.com.

Sara Barrett

Knox County libraries have something for every-one – in addition to books.

Regular programs in-clude songwriting groups, computer workshops and even discussions about local history.

After the end of the school year, additional activities are offered for students in grade school through high school includ-ing musical plays, robotics workshops, tie-dye T-shirt lessons and afternoon chess club meetings.

Ginger Milligan brought her grandchildren to the Bearden library last week to sign them up for the sum-mer reading program, and they enjoyed a performance by Dollywood Penguin Play-ers while there.

McKenzie, Katie and Colin Dodson read books they checked out at the Bearden library during a visit with their grandmother, Ginger Milligan. Photos by S. Barrett

Lovin’ the library

“The library always has good events, and we also participate in summer read-ing,” says Milligan. “We stopped in to sign up and get

reading recommendations.”The Summer Library

Club for kids rewards them for reading (or being read to) over summer break.

Registration for the club ends July 15.

Programs for all library branches can be found at knoxlib.org

A-12 • JUNE 1, 2016 • Shopper news

News from Provision CARES FoundationCARES FOUNDATION

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

Local patient benefi ts from Provision CARES FoundationThe Caring Plate program provided meals during her cancer battleUntil a couple of

years ago, Donna Lindsey was always the one taking care

of others. Her husband, who has suffered numerous heart attacks. Her mother, who recently suffered from a stroke.

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

“I was never sick before this,” she says.

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

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

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

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

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

Two four-person scrambles will start at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Breakfast,

lunch, swag bags, complimentary range balls, drinks and snacks will be provided.

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

Last year’s event raised more than $22,000 for the Provision CARES Foundation, a not-for-profi t public foundation that serves and supports cancer patients in providing education

and wellness, clinical and biomedical research and patient assistance. More than 50 teams and 204 individuals participated in the event. This year, the Williamsons have set a fundraising goal of $30,000.

Provision CARES facilitates The Caring Plate, which assures cancer patients undergoing treatment have access to healthy, nutritious meals. More than 9,000 meals have been served through The Caring Plate since its inception in 2014. The Patient Financial Assistance program provides grants to cancer patients in East Tennessee who need assistance

with housing, transportation, or other expenses during their treatment.

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

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

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

Breast cancer patient Donna Lindsey was a recipient of The Caring Plate, a healthy meal program designed specifi -cally for patients undergoing cancer treatments. The program is off ered by the Provision CARES Foundation and the Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee.

Tennessee Cancer Specialists and the proton center as quickly as possible.

“Every day, for weeks, somebody called me from that facility,” Lindsey

says. “Do you know how impressive that is? And the kindness. They were so sincere. I wasn’t even a patient there yet.”

She ultimately became a Provision patient, receiving chemotherapy and proton therapy at the Dowell Springs campus.

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

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

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

“Sometimes I was just too sick, lying in my camper, I couldn’t even unlatch the door to say thank you,”

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

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

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

“Donna is the exact type of person the Caring Plate program was designed to help,” says Les Fout, director of Provision CARES Foundation. “A cancer diagnosis affects every aspect of a patient’s life. We are here to help make that journey a little easier.”

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

The Bill Williamson Memorial Golf Tournament is a family event honoring Bill Williamson who passed away from prostate cancer on Father’s Day 2014. The whole Williamson fam-ily pitches in to celebrate the life of their Dad, husband and grandfather. They are: Tim Williamson, Amy Williamson, Carolyn Williamson, Blaine Williamson and Jack Williamson.

Adrian Pearce, Jamie Stokes, Wes Cate, and Craig Jenkins teamed up to play in last year’s Bill Williamson Memorial Golf Tournament at Avalon Golf and Country Club. Spots are still available for the morning and afternoon fl ights at this year’s tournament Friday, June 17.

Prostate cancer: What you need to know

Signs and symptoms ■ Problems urinating ■ Blood in urine or semen ■ Erectile dysfunction ■ Pain in hips, back, chest or

other areas

■ Weakness or numbness in legs or feet

■ Loss of bladder or bowel control

When to screen ■ If you experience any of the

above symptoms ■ If you’re over 50 ■ If you’re 40 and have more

than one relative younger than 65 with prostate cancer

■ If you’re 45 and at high risk — i.e. African American and/or an immediate relative under 65 has had prostate cancer

Shopper news • JUNE 1, 2016 • A-13 business

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Jasen Bradley stands at the entrance of Fitness Together in Farragut with the “turnaround” award. Photo by S. Barrett

The owners and staff of Fitness Together in Farragut have won the Turn Around award during a nationwide convention in Ft. Lauderdale.

The location in the Vil-lage Green Shopping Center was selected out of more than 160 locations across the country.

The Turn Around award is given to the studio show-ing the most improvement from one year to the next.

“We’d be lying if we said it was easy,” says trainer and Farragut location man-ager Jasen Bradley.

Owner Andrew Hender-son says, “The key for this

studio was to build a strong team to support the great clients we have.

“The team worked so hard to get this studio back on its feet, and I am honored to share this award with the clients and staff members who have helped this studio turn around so quickly.”

BIZ NOTES ■ Joe Jarret has been named

“Author of the Year” and an article he wrote on zoning risk management was named “Ar-ticle of the Year” by the Public Risk Management Association, a national organization dedi-cated to public sector risk and safety management. Jarret is a former law director for Knox County. He currently teaches at UT while pursuing a doctor-ate in political science.

■ Jason Riddle has been named a partner of LBMC In-formation Security, a division of LBMC. He is an information systems security expert with broad technology expertise and experience with a variety of industries including health-care, fi nancial services and

retail. Riddle has over 15 years of experience in the informa-tion technology and security fi elds. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, Submarine Force.

■ TDS Telecom will host a tech-nology seminar at 9 a.m. and noon Wednesday, June 15, at 10025 Investment Drive in West Knoxville. The seminar

will be led by a certifi ed VoIP specialist and is designed for small to medium size business customers interested in com-bining voice and data services on one platform. RSVP to 865-288-6266 or tdsvoip.com/KnoxvilleDemo

■ Mayor Madeline Rogero will host a business breakfast 7:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 14, at the Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Avenue. The free breakfast is designed for business owners interested in bidding on city contracts. Boyce H. Evans, the city’s purchasing director, said Knoxville enters into $55 million in contracts annually. “We want to help match local businesses with the right

project for their products and services.” Register at knoxvil-letn.gov/businessbreakfast

■ Susan G. Komen Knoxville has granted $347,988 to eight programs to provide thousands of women and men with no-cost breast health screening, treatment support, and education pro-grams throughout the next year. In 2015, these programs provided more than 4,500 women and men with access to breast cancer screenings, diagnostic services and fi nancial assistance while in treatment. As a result, 45 patients were diagnosed with breast cancer. Early detection is the key to reducing breast cancer mortality.

Joe Jarret Jason Riddle

The Rotary GuyTom King, tking535@gmail.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Knox Rotary honors teachers

McFall Vaughn

Fitness Together wins national award

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

Locally, the SIRs are: ■ Seven Islands State Birding

Park – Mark Armstrong ■ Norris Dam State Park – Josh

Powell and Brittany Perryman ■ Big Ridge State Park – Jordan

Cross

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

State parks add summer SIRs

A-14 • JUNE 1, 2016 • Shopper news

By Margie HagenThe aroma of freshly

baked muffi ns and cof-fee was in the air as c u s tomer s fi lled Steve’s Café last S a t u r d a y m o r n i n g . R e c e n t l y opened in R e n a i s -sance/Far-

ragut at 12744 Kingston Pike, Steve’s is owned and operated by Steve Palmer, an East Tennessee resident for over 20 years.

“Food that fuels the com-munity” is Steve’s mantra. “Many meals today have be-come sticking your arm out at the drive-thru window. Preparation is key, that’s why everything is home-made.”

It’s been a long journey, beginning at age 12. Grow-ing up in Ann Arbor, Mich., Steve would get Mom’s well-

worn copy of the “Betty Crocker Cookbook” out and experiment with recipes. His house quickly became the “go-to” place for his Boy Scout troop and neighbor-hood friends as he honed his skills.

After serving in the Air Force, he became an ortho-pedic physician assistant and his work brought him to this area. He expanded his knowledge of external medicine by incorporating sports massage and the Chi-nese practice of Qigong into his practice. Maintaining health, increasing vitality and promoting healing re-main key components of his lifestyle.

Palmer didn’t plan on opening a restaurant; his friends call it serendip-ity. At their urging, he con-tacted Myers Bros. Hold-ings Inc., the management company for Renaissance. “Working with Knick My-ers was a smooth process.

Alexis Meneese is Steve’s kitchen manager.

Steve Palmer

FARRAGUT CHAMBER EVENTS ■ Thursday, June 2, 5-6:30

p.m., networking: Beltone Hearing Care Center, 12744 Kingston Pike #102.

■ Friday, June 3, 11 a.m.-noon, ribbon cutting: Tennessee Yacht Charters & Services,

Tellico Village Yacht Club, 100 Sequoyah Road, Loudon.

■ Tuesday, June 7, 11 a.m.-noon, ribbon cutting: HISSe-curity new location, 11426 Kingston Pike.

■ Thursday, June 9, 8-9:30 a.m., networking: AT&T-Turkey Creek, 11555 Parkside Drive.

■ Tuesday, June 14, 11 a.m.-noon, ribbon cutting: Snooty Patootie, 11110 Kingston Pike.

Steve’s Café opens in Renaissance

He was looking for a ten-ant that would be an as-set to the community and things just clicked,” says Steve. The task of refi tting the kitchen involved “a lot of

elbow grease.” He scrubbed, painted and installed new fl ooring.

Shiny new equipment in-cludes a combination steam convection and conduction

oven, allowing the bread dough to be proofed and baked the old fashioned way.

“The steam acts to cara-melize the crust, unlike other restaurants that use frozen dough then bake it on the premises. Our bread, cookies and muffi ns are all made from scratch.” His sandwiches will be made on fresh ciabatta bread and he’s working on perfecting his “secret” recipe for Jew-ish marble rye.

Steve is not relying solely on his own expertise. His kitchen manager, Alexis Meneese, graduated from Pellissippi State Commu-nity College’s Culinary Arts program in May and holds a degree in business admin-istration. They met at an industry event while Alexis was completing her fi nal project. Steve recognized her talent immediately and hired her. He looks for em-ployees that share his pas-sion and commitment.

The restaurant has been in a “soft opening” period serving breakfast only. Soon, Steve’s Café plans to offer lunch as well and eventually will offer a “call ahead and take away” com-plete roast chicken dinner on Sundays. How does he select his menu items?

“I make the kind of food I grew up on and cooked for family and friends. I’m also open to suggestions and I listen to what the commu-nity wants. We serve our core menu that is always available and we will offer specials too.”

He sources locally when-ever he fi nds a quality product. Spero Coffee, the West End coffee company that buys fair trade Ara-bica beans and roasts them onsite, is the coffee that he pours.

Steve’s philosophy is summed up in a few simple words: “It’s the way food is supposed to be.”

By Betsy PickleIn a corner of the glass-

enclosed offi ce Jon Clay and Drew Johnson occupy on the 10th fl oor of the Lang-ley Building on Summit Hill Drive is a small stack of DVDs and books one might think a decorator had planted:

“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Boiler Room,” “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and “The Art of the Deal” are some of the titles that jump out. The as-sortment would be a cliché except that the two South Knoxville natives are big fans of all of them.

They often send them home with their employees at Axle Logistics.

“‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ is a very R-rated movie,” Johnson says apologetically.

“But the business element of it – work hard, play hard – is just something that reso-nates within this business.”

“We don’t condone the kind of fun they’re having,” adds Clay.

“Growing up, everybody wants to be a pro sport ath-lete,” says Johnson. “We didn’t make it there, unfor-tunately, so we’re always looking for different things to make business fun and inspiring to ourselves.”

A look around the outer offi ce reveals several games, including basketball hoops and ping pong, convenient to the desks of the casually dressed employees. Axle is adding the fl oor’s remaining 3,000-square-foot space to its existing 5,000 square

SoKno natives make big moves in businesser and were friends at Mount Olive Elementary and South-Doyle Middle School. John-son graduated from South-Doyle High, but Clay left midway through sophomore year to be home-schooled.

They traveled in the same circles at the University of Tennessee and faced some of the same challenges, working part-time to put themselves through school. Clay alter-

nated school and work and graduated in 2009 as a po-litical science major; logistics major Johnson was “in a hur-ry” and graduated in 2007.

They both ended up with logistics companies. John-son worked for J.B. Hunt in Charlotte. Clay worked for a Chattanooga-based com-pany, fi rst in Dandridge and then in Knoxville.

Johnson came back to

Knoxville and helped a friend with a start-up. Then, he and Clay got together and founded Axle in 2011. They moved into the former Kim-berly-Clark space almost two years ago.

They’ve grown from two employees to more than 20. And as driven as they are to keeping their team happy, they’re also determined to give back to the community.

Drew Johnson Jon Clay

feet. They’re creating a new, larger conference room, a new kitchen, desk space for an additional 40 employees and possibly more fun.

“We would love to have a pool table in here,” Johnson says while touring the new area.

Clay, 32, who now lives in Rocky Hill, and Johnson, 31, who lives south of West Town Mall, grew up near each oth-

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NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK

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WOMEN IN TREATMENTAddiction Treatment that WorksWomen in Treatment is appropriate for uninsured women age

18-64 who are in addiction. Participants must be uninsured or

have exhausted available insurance benefits. (865) 374-7262

I am a woman in treatmentGrieving mother learns to cope without alcohol

There could be no price too high, and no sacrifi ce too great.

“I would give up everything I have in a heartbeat to have my son back,” Kimberly Cross says.

Cross sits quietly in an offi ce at Penin-sula Lighthouse, waiting for her next ses-sion with Women in Treatment, a substance abuse rehabilitation program for women who don’t have insurance or have exhaust-ed their benefi ts.

“I honestly don’t know where I would be if I had not found this place,” Cross says. “To be able to come here and talk to women who are going through the same thing that I am, it just makes you feel like you’re not alone.”

After waking up one morning to fi nd her son dead from a heroin overdose in her West Virginia home, Cross used alcohol to get through the grief.

“I just wanted to be numb,” Cross says. “I didn’t want to feel the pain.”

Cross remembers feeling embarrassed, and even humiliated as she walked into the liquor store. She kept telling herself it wasn’t where she belonged.

Those reservations weren’t enough to stop her. She soon discovered that buying a bottle of alcohol could ease her emotional pain for a little while, and it became her go-to method of getting through each sorrow-ful day.

Less than a year later, her husband of 19 years passed away as a result of cancer. The sorrow deepened, and so did her need for relief.

Cross believed she had been through enough, and didn’t deserve to feel pain, ever again. “So I told myself I would go to whatever lengths I had to go to,” Cross says, “to not feel pain.”

As time went by, she found she was able to adapt to life with no husband or son, but she could only do it with alcohol as part of the picture. She hid it well, even fi nding love, remarrying and making a new home in Knoxville.

But beneath the joy of the new life, there was the undercurrent of the old addiction that she hadn’t yet come to terms with. It was her new husband who fi nally called her out.

“I can’t count the number of times David came home when I’d been drinking, and he knew it,” Cross says. “He just knew, and it would frustrate me, so much.”

He told her she had a drinking problem, and she balked, fi ring back that she could quit, any time.

So David challenged her to go ahead and quit.

She couldn’t.

Kimberly Cross holds a picture of her son, Jordan, and a poem he wrote before he died as a result of a heroin overdose in 2012. Cross used alcohol to cope with her grief, and is now using a program at Peninsula Light-house to recover from addiction.

David Cross embraces his wife after balloons are released in memory of Kimberly’s son.

‘If only I could afford to get help …’If you’re caught in an endless cycle

of paying for drugs or alcohol to fuel an addiction, fi nding the extra money to help you stop may seem completely impossible. Many women struggling with addictive issues may know they need help, but think they can’t afford it.

Peninsula offers help through Women in Treatment. It’s an intensive outpatient program exclusively for women who don’t have insurance or have exhausted their benefi ts.

This program offers a safe, compassionate, therapeutic environment for addicted women who want to reclaim their lives. Sessions are conducted by a master’s level clinician and cover a wide variety of addiction-related issues:

■ Relapse prevention

■ Self-esteem

■ Confl ict resolution

■ Parenting skills

■ Stress management

■ Body image

■ Symptom management/mental health diagnosis

■ Communication techniques

■ Trauma

■ Relationship concerns

■ Co-occurring disorders

Sessions are held weekdays at the Peninsula Lighthouse campus on Dowell Springs Boulevard.

Women and addictionA report on gender and addiction from

Harvard University Medical School says while men are more likely to become ad-dicts, women tend to become addicted more quickly. Women also develop medical or social consequences of addiction faster than men.

For example, alcohol-related problems such as brain atrophy or liver damage oc-cur more rapidly in women than in men. Women often fi nd it harder to quit using addictive substances, and are more suscep-tible to relapse.

Women are more likely than men to be prescribed narcotic pain medication, and women are more likely to show up in hospi-tal emergency rooms for overdosing.

Substance abuse is the number-one health epidemic in the United States, and

the number of women who die from ad-diction-related illnesses is more than four times the number of women who die from breast cancer.

With statistics like these, the importance of treating addiction seriously and prompt-ly is evident. Women in Treatment is suc-cessfully striving to help keep East Tennes-see women from becoming statistics.

Women in Treatment is funded by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, and is ap-propriate for women age 18-64 who are in addiction, and who are uninsured, or have exhausted available insurance ben-efits.

If you think this program could be right for you, call Peninsula Light-house at 865-374-7262.

Cross fi nally faced the addiction, and decided to get help. She got online, and began searching for low cost rehab, when she stumbled upon Women in Treatment at Peninsula Lighthouse.

In the program, she found the support she needed to break free from the grip of addiction, but she made one critical mis-take. She left too soon.

Cross relapsed and was arrested for driv-ing under the infl uence of alcohol twice. Her second arrest came with a 24-hour jail sentence.

“I hated it, I was scared,” she says. “It was the second worst thing that I have ever gone through, besides the death of my son.”

That was when she made the call to get back into therapy, and she’s been a partici-pant in Women in Treatment, ever since. “I learn something from each new person who comes in, and I hope they learn something from me,” Cross says.

Cross has been “clean” since March 10, the anniversary of her son’s death, which is also just a few days before his birthday. She thought she needed alcohol to get through the day, but after just a couple of sips she came to a realization.

“I realized in order to really live this life, I have to feel pain,” she says. “And there’s not enough alcohol in this world to numb the pain for me, so I dumped the rest of the

can down the sink.”She’s not proud of the temporary set-

back she had that day, but it didn’t takeaway from what became a victorious turn-ing point. It was the fi rst time she’d made itthrough the anniversary of her son’s deathand birthday sober.

Today, Cross is setting small goals, and relying on what she’s learned from Womenin Treatment to stay sober. She describesher alcohol addiction as something that’sconstantly picking at her brain, and she isfully aware she will have to live with it forthe rest of her life.

“I’m still trying to get there,” Cross says,“but I think I’m doing okay.”

With the love of her husband, and the help of Women in Treatment, KimberlyCross believes she’s on the right path to re-covery.

“I am a woman in treatment,” she says.

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Transportation

Automobiles for Sale

Chev. HHR 2011, 100K mi, 2.2L, 4 cyl,28 mpg, $5,000. (865)933-1680.

CHEVROLET COBALT 2009. 4 dr., 50Kactual miles, Onstar XM radio, Nice! $4650. (865)522-4133.

CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 2012638 mi., Inferno orange, 6 spd.,Options: 2LZ preferred equip.,

memory pkg., lthr. heated seats, tilt telescopic steering, DVD nav.,

blue tooth, Z06 chrome alum. whls., $56,500. (309)781-5556.

CHRYSLER SEBRING - 1997. red, 2 DR, good clean condition, cold AC 206,000 mi., $800. (865)659-7449.

Sports and Imports

BMW Z3 - 1998. gar. kept, mint cond., 39K mi., $15,000. 865-607-3007(865)573-3549.

HYUNDAI SONATA 2011. 31K mi., gar.kept, red w/beige lthr., Serius XM radio, mint. $12,900. (865)458-0044.

NISSAN MAXIMA - 2013. Premier. Glass roof, leather, 16k mi, like new. $17,900 (423)295-5393.

SATURN SC3 - 2001. 1 owner, 98k mi,very clean, dependable, 35 + mpg,records avail. $3450. (865)405-5491.

TOYOTA MR2 - 19895 spd. trans, white, good eng., 135K , proj-ect car. Morristown (256) 520-7837

Sport Utility Vehicles

HONDA PILOT 2012. Honda Pilot Tour-ing 2012, 4WD, fully loaded, 47K mi, exc cond, $21,500. (423)295-5393.

KIA SORENTO - 2014. One owner, excellent condition, A/C ice cold, All scheduled maintenance, All records, Always garaged, Looksdrives great, Must see, No acci-dents Satellite radio, Still underfactory warranty, Very clean interi-or, Well maintained. Clean Car Fax,Retired and no longer need 2 cars. 20,068 mi., $17,000. (865)340-6261.

KIA SORENTO LX- 2014. A/C ice cold. All scheduled maintence. All records. Always garaged. Excellent cond. Looks and drives great! Must See! Clean Carfax. 1 owner. Satellite radio. Still under factory warranty. Retired and no longer need 2 cars. $17,000. Contact 865-340-6261

MAZDA TRIBUTE - 2005. 150K mi., newtransmission, paint, struts & shocks 2 yrs. ago. $3500. (865)659-3997.

Trucks

FORD F-350 SUPER DUTY - 2008. F350,Diesel, Auto,FX 4x4,6”Lift,20”-Wheels, 37”Nitto Tires, Twin Turbo, 246,000 mi., $21,925. (865)804-8396.

Ford F150 2005, long bed, runs great,AT, tow hitch, $4700 obo. (865) 573-3830.

TOYOTA TACOMA - 2004. Double Cab4WD,gray/gray,3.4L engine very clean, 150k mi, no accidents,$3600.More info at 6572008454 150,000mi., $3,600. (657)200-8454.

Vans

Chrysl. Voyager SV 2001, good cond but slight damage on door, new tires, $2,000. (865) 466-2436.

Classic Cars

AUSTIN HEALEY BUGEYE SPRITE 1960. Professionally restored, $16,500 obo. (865) 522-3319

CHEVROLET NOVA - 1976. 2 DR., 250 INLINE 6 cyl. All original. $3500/b.o. or trade. (865)922-6408.

Vehicles Wanted

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865-216-5052865-856-8106

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

15’ BASS BOAT - new seats, 2 bat-teries, 60 HP Evinrude Norseman,new trol. mtr, new DF, new steeringcable, spare tire & bearing buddies. $1800. (423)292-2294.

1979 LAKEFLITE TRI-HULL fishing boat& trlr. 25 HP Johnson, 3 HP Evin-rude, new tires on trlr, kept in dry, $1000/b.o. (865)922-2401. 804-6313

- 2009 Bayliner Marine Corp 175SBowrider White 3.0 Mercruiser 135HP 17.6 Feet Stern Drive I/O Fiber-glass (423)420-6354.

25’ SUN TRACKER Pontoon 2006,Chev. eng., Exc. cond. $11,000.

Call 606-670-9780.

CAROLINA SKIFF, 19 1/2ft, 60HP, 4 stroke, center console, $5,000. For info. (865)250-8252.

HUMMINBIRD NO. 597C HD combo,Sonar, GPS, Switchfire, dual beam, $275. Cr. cards accept. (865)258-4511

MAXUM CRUISER 25’, Low hours, exceptional cond., must see,$11,950. 865-376-5167

SEARAY SUNDECK 24’ 1999 5.7 fuel inj., all options, exc cond.

$13,000. (865) 408-2588.

Campers & RV’s

2007 POPUP sleeps 9. 12ft. Box A.Cawning, furnace. Ref. Clean $5500. 423-869-4529. (423)869-4529.

2016 JAYCO GRAYHAWK - 29 ME,Class C motorhome, MSRP $115,582, 6000 mi., Triton 6.8L EFI V-10 FordEng., Ford warranty, 15,000 BTU A/C w/heat pump, leveling jacks, tank-less water heater, 4000 watt gen., heated holding tanks, backup and side view camera & monitor, 3 slide-outs, sleeps 6, 2 TVs, Sync, Naviga-tion & Blue Tooth plus much more!Master tow dolly also for sale. Make best offer. (423)639-2253.

HOLIDAY RAMBLER IMPERIAL for saleor trade, 37’ - slide - diesel, great shape, also 2002 Saturn tow car.$29,000. For Info. Call 865-250-8252.

Montana 2008 3075RL 5th Wheel, Reduced price.

$22,000 3 slide outs, Artic pack-age,2 recliners, central air, new tires,appls., great, microwave,

gas/electric water heater, 2 TVs, power front jacks,

new awning, no children/dogs, thermal pane windows, holding

tanks inside heated area, 34 feet, dinette chairs), king bed,

washer/dryer prep, parallel batteries, never had leaks.

Tows like dream. Call 865-661-8269

NEW & PRE-OWNED

CLEARANCE SALE

ALL 2015 MODELS MUST GO!!!!

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or call 865-681-3030

Newmar Mountain Aire 2000 40’ die-sel pusher, 87K mi, $50,000. Deeded lot in campground, Lords Valley in Milford, Penn., $14,000. 865-765-0700

Golf Carts

2006 ClubCar golf cart. New batteriesNov 2015. $3400 or best offer. Ph. 865-964-8092. (865)964-8092.

Motorcycles/Mopeds

2007 KAWASAKI KX450F Dirt Bike, $3000.

1987 KAWASAKI KDX200, $1200. Call (423)506-4808

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2009 - Ultra Classic, 1 owner, mint cond., garage kept, $14,900. Fully accessorized, 103 ci, black pearl, clear title,10,500 mi. Just serviced. Interested inquiries only. Call 865-274-0007 or can text for pictures.

HD 1999 Softail Custom FXSTC, 1 ownr, gar kept, great cond, sinister blue & pearl paint, extras, $7500 obo. (865) 801-5715

YAMAHA V-Star 650 2009, 2190 mi, windshield, eng guards, saddle-bags, $3950. (865)689-4592.

Off Road Vehicles

BAYOU 300 KAWASKI ATV, ‘90, - Bought new, looks/runs like new, 1 owner, $2200. (865)693-9160.

Jobs

Driver/Transport

DRIVERS: DEDICATED HOME WEEK-LY! $1100+/WK! CDL-A, 6 MOS OTR, GOOD BACKGRND. APPLY: WWW.MTSTRANS.COM MTS: 800-305-7223

DRIVERS: Get Home. No-Touch! Excel-lent Weekly Pay! Strong Family Ben-efits Package. Monthly Bonuses! CDL-A 1yr exp. 888-406-9046

ServicesOffered

General Services

ADVANTAGEREMODELING &

HANDYMAN SERVICEJIMMY THE PROFESSIONAL

HANDYMAN!!Can fix, repair or install anything

around the house! Appliances, ceramic tile, decks,

drywall, fencing, electrical, garage doors,

hardwoods, irrigation, crawlspace moisture, mold & odor control, landscape,

masonry, painting, plumbing. Any Remodeling Needs you wish

to have done or completed!

EMERGENCY SERVICE 24/7Retired Vet. looking to keep busy.

Call (865)281-8080

Home Maint./Repair

HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICEWill clean front & back, $20 & up. Quality work, guaranteed.

(865)288-0556

Miscellaneous

IF YOU HAD HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT

SURGERY AND SUFFERED AN

INFECTION between 2010 and the present

time, you may be entitled to compensation.

Call Attorney Charles H. Johnson 1-800-535-5727

Farmer’s Mkt/Trading Post

Farm Buildings

BARNS - SHEDSGARAGES - CARPORTS

PATIO COVERSBUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY

FREE ESTIMATES!

Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330

Farm Products

FRESH HAY, 4X4 ROLLS, IN BLAINE $25 a roll, 100 rolls or more -

$20 a roll. (865) 216-5387

WANTED TO BUY STANDING SAW TIMBER

Call 865-719-1623

Livestock & Supplies

BLACK BULLS & BLACK HEIFERS

Call (865)856-3947

Pets

Dogs

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS AKC, WestGerman bldlns, 5M, 3 F, vet ck’d. health guar. $700. 865-322-6251.

GOLDEN DOODLE PUPPIES - F1B,males & fem. avail. Parents onpremise. Must see. (423)733-9252

GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES, AKC, $700. 1st shots, vet ckd, Phone 931-808-0293.

GOLDENDOODLE - English cream F1B,no shedding, great temperaments.$750. (865)466-4380

LABRADOODLES, GOLDEN DOODLES - DOUBLE DOODLES. DOB 4/17/16. Non-shedding, intelligent, litter box trained, $1000. 865-591-7220

MALTI POO Beautiful tiny puppies, no hair shedding, shots. 865-717-9493

MINI SCHNAUZERS. CKC. Salt & peppper, 1st shots & dew claws, $600. Call (423) 736-0277.

Miniature Mastiff Bulldogs. Cane Corso/French Bulldog cross. Beau-tiful blues, shots, healthy, $600-$1,000. (865) 457-5907

Pembrooke Welsh Corgi puppies - AKC Reg. Parents on Premise. Adorable little munchkins. Home raised. (423)733-9252

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles, Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos,

Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots & wormed. We do layaways. Health guar.

Go to Facebook, Judys Puppy Nursery Updates.

423-566-3647

SCHNAUZER mini pups, 9 wks, 1st shots, dewormed, dew claws & docked, reg, $400 cash. 865-240-3254

SHIH TZU puppies, AKC, beautifulcolors, Females $600; Males $500. Shots UTD. Warranty. 423-775-4016

STANDARD POODLE puppies, AKC, M&F, all colors avail. Shots &wormed. $600. (423) 967-3906

Merchandise

Antiques

Going Out of Business after 27 years.Booth 88 at Dutch Valley AntiqueMall 2401 Dutch Valley Dr. 37918.

Appliances

GOOD AS NEW

APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-90532001 E. Magnolia Ave.

Building Materials

5 RARE CHESTNUT LOGS - from TN logcabin 17’9”L 10”dia $875 (865)805-2026

Cemetery Lots

CEMETERY LOTS - below 1/2 price. 2 adult spaces for $2000 instead of

$4200. In Sherwood Memorial Gardens, Crypt 45C unit 3 & 4,

section 10 in Garden of Last Super. Vault incl. Go see it, buy it now &

avoid last minute purchase and high cost. Call (423)362-8772.

HIGHLAND Memorial, 2 lots w/crypts,1 opening & closing. $7200 value. $3500/b.o. (865)637-3629

Collectibles

BUYING OLD US COINS90% silver, halves, quarters & dimes,

old silver dollars, proof sets, silver & gold eagles, krands & maple leafs, class rings, wedding bands, anything

10, 14, & 18k gold old currency before 1928

WEST SIDE COINS & COLLECTIBLES7004 KINGSTON PK

CALL 584-8070

Furniture

COMMERCIAL OFFICE DESK - Consists of a main desk, side desk, w/light & cupboard hutch, Buyer is respon-sible for dismantling & removal. $600/b.o. (865)688-1791

Furniture

RETIRING SALE - Whirlpool refrig. $20,2 brass lamps, $40, 2 occas. tables, $40, tea cart, $20. File cab., 2 draw-er, $10, Steel desk, $20, Exec. chair, $50, Sold indiv. or all together $150. (865)742-8087.

Household Goods

QUEEN SIZE MATTRESS, gel top,$200/bo; queen box sprngs & matt. $300/b.o., futon, full sz, solid wood, $200 or b.o. (865)236-4350

Merchandise - Misc.

FOR SALE: Gas grill, Elec. recliner, Mtn. bike, Olhausen pool table, Porchswing, Scott riding mower w/trailer,Tools - to many to list. (865)385-4845

KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS! - Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers/KIT Complete Treatment System Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com (618)351-7570

SMOKE HOLLOW GAS SMOKER MODEL 44241G2 - Includes cover and LP tank (865)856-3333

Musical

C3 Hammond church organ $3300; Leslie speaker $1100. Call/text 443-553-9618 Sevierville

Sporting Goods

POOL TABLE, 8’ - 3/4” slate top, pool sticks, stands & pool balls, table cover. Like new. $750. (865)986-5203

Wanted

MR. BASEBALL buying Sports Cards, I come to you, 203-557-0856, cell,203-767-2407.

Announcements

Adoptions

ADOPT: - A childless, financially secure couple seeks to adopt. Will provide safe, creative, happy, loving home. FT at home parent. Expenses paid. Courtney and Ela 1-855-883-0433 or www.momsadopt.com

ENERGETIC, STRONG WILLED, YOUNG, Widowed, New York Teacher looking to create a family through adoption. Vowing to provide love, stability, &opportunities. Contact me at

1-888-488-0551 or www.RandeeLovesChildren.com

Financial

Consolidation Loans

FIRST SUN FINANCEWe make loans up to $1000. We do

credit starter & rebuilder loans. Call today, 30 minute approvals.

See manager for details.865-687-3228

Real EstateSales

South

FOR SALE BY OWNER - $164,900 – 7 year old house and 5.4 acres at 4222 Daniel Road, Knoxville. House has3 bedrooms 2 baths, total of 1,513 square feet upstairs on a full, unfin-ished basement. New roof, new interior paint, new water heater and new filter on well pump. Owner willfinance with $8,250 down. Call Bill at 877-488-5060 ext 323.

West

BRICK RANCHER. 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, 10117 El Pinar Dr. $284,900. No agents. By Owner. (865) 256-3836

Condos-Furn

CONDO, KNOXVILLE Senior Living. $69,900. 2 BR, 1.5 BA upstairs, pool, storage, furn. Move in ready. Seller financing avail. (843)683-8272

Condos-Unfurn

WEST, GREYWOOD CROSSING By Owner, Park Like setting, immacu-late, move in ready, 2BR, 2 full BA, 1level, FP, deck, new 3/4” hdwd flrs,new appl, 2 car gar. $154,900 or b.o.(865)617-9293. (865)966-0277

Manufactured Homes

Amherst Ridge MHP. Like new 16x70, vinyl siding, shingle roof, 3 BR, 2 BA. Only $18,995. Chris 865-207-8825

For Sale By Owner

FOR SALE BY OWNER, 1700 Evening Shade Lane, 4BR, For Sale by Owner Dogwood Trails Subdivision. 4974 sqft finished with 575 unfinishedstorage. 4BR, 4Full baths, 2 half,2 car garage, 2 story with finished basement. 1700 Evening ShadeLane 37919. $595,000.

Contact 865-310-5932.

Real Estate Auction

ABSOLUTE AUCTION Online Only

5.84 acres Norris Lake Front TractMariner Point Rd LaFollette760 ft deep water lake front

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THROUGH FRIDAY, JUNE 3Registration open for Knoxville Youth Athletics

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

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

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

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1Karns Volunteer Fire Department visit, 10:30

a.m., Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Learn about fi re safety and sit in the big fi re truck. Info: 470-8663.

Knoxville Zoomobile, 3 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Movie Party: “Inside Out,” 3 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Storyteller: Georgi Schmitt, 2 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, JUNE 1-2AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m.,

Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3700 Keowee Ave. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2The Authors Guild of Tennessee meeting,

11:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Open to the public. Info: authorsguildoftn.org.

Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 3 p.m., Sequoyah Branch Library, 1140 Southgate Road. Info: 525-1541.

Beauford Delaney Celebration, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Beck Center Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave. Free and open to the public. Info/reservations: ddbubose@knoxart.org or 934-2036.

“Best Hiking Equipment” program with Cindy Spangler, 6:30 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

Shakespeare for Kids, 11 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 588-8813.

Variety Thursday: featuring Jazzspirations, 7-9 p.m., Bill Lyons Pavilion, Market Square. Free music performances each Thursday. Bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Info: Knoxvilletn.gov/concerts.

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

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

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

Opening reception for Art Market Gallery’s June featured artists: Patricia Herzog and Diana Dee Sarkar, 5:30 p.m., Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St. Exhibit on display through June 26. Info: 525-5265; artmarketgallery.net; on Facebook.

Public reception for four new exhibits, 5-9 p.m., Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Opening exhibits: “Knoxville Photo,” an exhibition featuring selected works from 33 artists throughout the region; Tennessee Watercolor Society exhibit; “A Mosaic Journey” by Judy Overholt Wheeler; and Kim Emert Gale and Janet Weaver: “Through Our Eyes.” Exhibits on display June 3-24. Info: 523-7543, or knoxalliance.com.

Shakespeare for Kids, 4 p.m., South Knoxville Branch Library, 4500 Chapman Highway. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 573-1772.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4The 100 Black Men of Greater Knoxville

Gala, 7 p.m., Holiday Inn-World’s Fair Site. Theme: “I Am My Brother’s Keeper.” Guest speaker: former UT player and current AAU basketball coach Bobby Cornell Maze. Gala dedicated to Zaevion Dobson. Tickets: $60. Info: president Eston Williams, Eston.Williams@100bmok.org.

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

Land Trust Day hosted by Foothills Land Conservancy (FLC) and Mast General Store, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., 402 S. Gay St. FLC staff on hand; 20 percent of store sales will go to FLC’s conservation programs.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Jodie Manross

and Laith Keilany, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Sarah Rysewyk, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

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

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

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

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

Teen Summer Reading Kick-off Party, 2-4 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 4-5Arts & Crafts Festival, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday

and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Lenoir City Park beside Fort Loudoun Lake. Hosted by GFWC Suburbia Woman’s Club of Lenoir City. Crafters and food vendors are welcome. Info/vendor applications: lenoircityartsandcraftsfestival.com.

MONDAY, JUNE 6Free beginner class: Defense for Women,

7:30 p.m., CrossFit ex libro, 5438 Hilton Industrial Way. Initial class free. Info/registration: 454-8359 or exlibroselfdefense.com.

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

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

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

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 5:30-7:45 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration required. Info/registration: 215-8700.

Einstein Simplifi ed Comedy Improv troop, 8 p.m., Scruffy City Hall, 32 Market Square. Free admission.

“Jazz Tuesday,” 8-10 p.m., Bill Lyons Pavilion, Market Square. Free music performances each Tuesday. Bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Info/schedule: www.facebook.com/CityofKnoxvilleSpecialEvents.

Knoxville Zoomobile, 2 p.m., Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 470-8663.

Magician Michael Messing, 11 a.m., South Knoxville Branch Library, 4500 Chapman Highway. Info: 573-1772.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8Magician Michael Messing, 2 p.m., Farragut

Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

Quidditch Match!, 3-4 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. For preschool and school-age children. Info: 215-8750.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, JUNE 8-9AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., Fort

Sanders’ Senior Center of Sevier County, 1220 W. Main St., Sevierville. Info/registration: Diane Lewis, 982-1887.

THURSDAY, JUNE 9AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30

p.m., AAA Maryville offi ce, 715 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway. Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

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

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

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

Shakespeare for Kids, 10 a.m., Sequoyah Branch Library, 1140 Southgate Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 525-1541.

Variety Thursday: featuring Josh Cantrell, 7-9 p.m., Bill Lyons Pavilion, Market Square. Free music performances each Thursday. Bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Info: Knoxvilletn.gov/concerts.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JUNE 9-10“iPad/iPhone Basics for Seniors” class, 10

a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $45. Registration/payment deadline: June 9. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; in person at the Town Hall; 218-3375.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JUNE 10-11The McKameys’ annual Hometown Singing,

Second Baptist Church in Clinton. Friday: 7:30 p.m. special guest The Inspirations from Bryson City, N.C.; Saturday, 6 p.m. special guest The Primitive Quartet from Candler, N.C. Reserved seating, $16; general admission, $13. Info/tickets: 457-3678.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 10-12Summer Fiction Writing Retreat, Firefl y

Farms, 195 Tobby Hollow Lane. Open to writers of all backgrounds. Cost: $200. Includes: one-on-one and group instruction, writing supplies, food, drinks, transportation to and from the airport, and all on-site amenities. Info/weekend pass: sundresspublications.com/safta/programs.htm.

SATURDAY, JUNE 11Bark in the Park, 3-8 p.m., World’s Fair Park Festival

Lawn. Fundraiser for the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley. $5 donation at the gate includes: Kid’s Korner, Grayson Subaru Misting Tent, pet contests and more. Info: humanesocietytennessee.com/bark-in-the-park/.

Big Kahuna Wing Festival, noon-8 p.m., World’s Fair Park, 525 Henley St. Featuring: wing-eating competition, wing-cooking competition, live music, silent auction, and kids’ corner and entertainment. Advance tickets: $10, available at BKWFestival.com, Big Kahuna Wings Bar & Grill or any participating Food City. At-door tickets. $15; children under 8 free. Info: BKWFestival.com.

“Killer Tomatoes vs Tomato Killers,” 1:30-2:30 p.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Presented by Master Gardeners Joe Pardue and Marcia Griswold. Free and open to the public. Info: 588-8813 or knoxlib.org.

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

Mid South Navy Nurse Association meeting, 9:30 a.m. Homewood Suites conference room, Turkey Creek. All nurses who served in the Corps are invited. Info: 938-1996.

Oak Ridge Community Orchestra open rehearsal at the Secret City Festival, 10 a.m.-noon, northeast corner of the Civic Center, adjacent to the Oak Ridge Community Arts booth. Info: Cyndi Jeffers, orcopersonnelmanager@gmail.com.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Emagene Reagen, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Jodie Manross and Laith Keilany, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Statehood Day celebration, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Marble Springs, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway. Includes: guided tours, encampments, open hearth cooking demonstrations, 18th century music. Info: 573-5508 or marblesprings.net.

Statehood Day celebration, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Crescent Bend House & Gardens, 2728 Kingston Pike. Free admission. Info: 637-3163 or crescentbend.com.

Statehood Day celebration, noon-3 p.m., Ramsey House, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Includes: free tours with a birthday cake celebrating the birthday of the state of Tennessee as well as the birthday of Col. Francis Alexander Ramsey. Info: 546-0745 or ramseyhouse.org.

Stream Treasure Hunt, 10 a.m.-noon, Founders Park at Campbell Station, 405 N. Campbell Station Road. Part of the town of Farragut Stormwater Matters project “One Year Down the Drain: Turkey Creek.” To sign up: volunteerknoxville.org. Info: Lori Saal, lsaal@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057.

MONDAY, JUNE 13All Over the Page: “The Book of Unknown

Americans” by Cristina Henriquez, 6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 3 p.m., Howard Pinkston Branch Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike. Info: 573-0436.

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

TUESDAY, JUNE 14Einstein Simplifi ed Comedy Improv troop, 8

p.m., Scruffy City Hall, 32 Market Square. Free admission. Harvey Broome Group meeting, 7 p.m.,

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Program: “Tales from the Trail” presented by Bert Emmerson, 2015 Appalachian Trail Chaplain.

“Jazz Tuesday,” 8-10 p.m., Bill Lyons Pavilion, Market Square. Free music performances each Tuesday. Bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Info/schedule: www.facebook.com/CityofKnoxvilleSpecialEvents.

Knoxville Civil War Round Table, 7 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Speaker: James I. Robertson Jr. will present “The Four-Legged Soldier in the Civil War.” Cost: dinner and presentation, $15 members/$17 nonmembers; presentation only $3/$5. Reservations for buffet required by Monday, June 13. Info/reservations: 671-9001.

Shakespeare for Kids, 2 p.m., Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 470-8663.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14-15“Advanced iPad/iPhone Basics for Seniors”

class, 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $45. Registration/payment deadline: June 14. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; in person at the Town Hall; 218-3375.

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