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Rabies clinicsAnnual rabies clinics will be

2-4:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at area schools including Brick-ey-McCloud, Gibbs, Ritta and Shannondale Elementary. Pets should be 3 months of age or older; cost is $10 per animal.

Kathryn “Katie” Lutton will be the principal of Holston Middle School beginning with the new school year. She joined Knox County Schools as an English teacher at Fulton High School in 2004.

Lutton was selected as a fel-low in the third cohort of the Leadership Academy in 2012 and placed at Bearden High School. Upon completing this program, she accepted an as-sistant principal position at

Central High School.

Lutton holds a bachelor’s de-gree in English education and philosophy from Ball State Uni-versity and a master’s degree in educational

administration from the Uni-versity of Tennessee.

Lutton

Lutton gets top job at Holston

Gresham celebrates literacy, arts

By Ruth WhiteThe Gresham Middle School

family celebrated literacy, the arts and the end of the school year with their second annual Festival on the Hill.

The festivities included historical re-enactors sharing the history of baseball, student-created comics in the computer

lab, artwork the school hallways, a pie toss, a performance by the school dance team and a photo booth with some very unique props.

Mother Nature cooperated with pleasant temperatures for the games, snow cones, a crepe station and craft activities on the school grounds.

Gresham Middle School band director Joe Jordan plays the trumpet during

the festival. Photos by R. White

Evelyn Hawkins Burnette provides mobile artwork and

encourages questions from the crowd at the festival.

Bluegrass & BBQHalls Elementary will host

the annual Bluegrass and BBQ event, 5-8 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at the Halls Community Playground. The night will fea-ture delicious barbecue, great bluegrass music, games, auc-tion baskets and area vendors.

CarnivalHalls Middle School is

hosting a spring carnival, 4:30 to 8:30 p.m., Friday, May 13. The event will feature carnival games, live bluegrass music and plenty of opportunities to meet and hang out with friends from the Halls community.

There will be a variety of basket items for silent auc-tion and food items for sale including Buddy’s, Bruster’s ice cream, shaved ice, popcorn, cotton candy, nachos and pizza. Admission is free and cost for unlimited games is $5. The event will help raise money for the school.

Pancake breakfastThe Fountain City Lions

Club will hold their annual pancake breakfast, 8-11 a.m. Saturday, May 14, in the Lions Building at Fountain City Park. Tickets are $5 per person for all-you-can-eat pancakes.

Housing market back from recession

Ed and Bob to Happy Holler

At-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will meet constituents 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at the Time Warp Tea Room, 1209 North Central.

Everyone is invited.

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Powell StationReaders countywide may

enjoy a new feature.“Historic Powell Station”

will include alternating looks ahead (Sandra Clark) and back (Marvin West) as Powell at-tempts to recreate its down-town after a new, four-lane road diverted thru-traffi c off Emory Road.

This week Clark profi les a young couple who are building an Internet-based business in a 100-year-old warehouse on Depot Street.

By Betty BeanKnox County’s residential hous-

ing market, the engine that drives the local economy, has bounced back from a long string of tough years, and those involved in build-ing, regulating and counting the money are happy to put the reces-sion years in the rear view mirror.

“We’re really pleased to see single family home construction recover so well,” said Dwight Van de Vate, Knox County’s senior di-rector of engineering and public works. “Pre-recession, we would sometimes see almost 250 homes a month – clearly unsustainable.

Then we cratered to a low of 35 one month. It’s been a wild ride. Now we have robust, fairly stable devel-opment, at levels we can manage. It’s a good place to be.”

Developer Scott Davis agrees.“In the last 13 months, we’ve

seen a very signifi cant turnaround in the housing market. For six or seven years, we didn’t do anything but fi ght the banks, and now we’re putting lots on the ground at the 2006 rate.”

Davis remembers 2006 as the last good year before the bubble burst.

“The housing boom we saw in

2007 was clearly not sustainable,” said Davis, who owns Eagle Bend Development. “Now, we’re grow-ing at a nice, healthy rate and our economy has rebounded very well – Knox County’s population has grown by 60,000 in recent years. There’s lots of stuff coming back toward the downtown area, and we’ve got six subdivisions work-ing, plus a 248-unit apartment complex off Hardin Valley Road.”

County Finance Director Chris Caldwell isn’t prone to enthusi-asm, but admits he likes the trends he’s seeing in his budget numbers.

“It’s good to see the growth in the

revenue that appears in our generalfund. It’s an indicator that tells usour economy is growing and headedin the right direction and that alle-viates pressure on the budget.”

In fi scal year 2015, for example,Caldwell said revenue from build-ing permit fees came in at 125 per-cent of budget projections.

“We expected $925,000 andreceived $1.1 million, and it willbe better this year. Throughthe month of April, we are at$994,000, and I can tell you thata year ago, we were at $879,000.We’re up 13 percent over April oflast year.”

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By J.J. StambaughWhen most people think

of East Tennessee’s role in World War II, they think of the development of the atomic bomb at Oak Ridge or the experiences of veter-ans of the bloodiest confl ict in human history.

But the United States didn’t help win the war solely through the soldiers’ efforts, as tremendous and selfl ess as those were. Rather, it was the nation’s unprecedented industrial might that helped trans-form the U.S. into what then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the world’s “arsenal of democracy.”

East Tennessee played a key role in building that arsenal, and for every man in uniform there were sev-eral “women and old men” who took the places of their husbands and sons at fac-tories from Bristol to Chat-tanooga, according to Ray Clift, co-author of the newly released book “East Tennes-see in World War II.”

Clift, a Fountain City na-tive and Vietnam-era vet-eran whose father served in the U.S. Army during World War II, began research-ing the topic last year with longtime friend Dewaine A. Speaks, who had already published two books.

The men were deter-mined to shed light on an of-ten-overlooked part of East Tennessee’s history, and to that end they pored through thousands of documents and photos supplied by several universities and companies.

“They opened their hearts out to us,” Speaks said. “They rounded up

Dewaine A. Speaks and Ray Clift, co-authors of “East Tennessee

in World War II” Photo submitted

It wasn’t just Oak Ridge

photos and really bent over backwards helping us.”

While the development of the atomic bomb is dis-cussed in their book’s pages, the focus is on companies like the Aluminum Compa-ny of America (ALCOA), the Fulton Sylphon Company, and the Rohm and Haas Chemical Company (now Dow Chemical).

The use of aluminum from ALCOA in warplanes, for instance, allowed Allied aircraft to fl y faster than those developed by the Ger-mans, said Clift.

Also, one of the nation’s most closely guarded se-cret weapons – the Norden bombsight – used a seam-less metal bellows manufac-tured at Knoxville’s Fulton plant. More than 90,000

Speaks explained.Another major contribu-

tion to the war effort came from Rohm and Haas, which developed Plexiglas canopies for aircraft that didn’t shatter or bend light, an important safety feature that the Axis powers’ planes lacked, the authors said.

The book also contains previously secret corre-spondence that sheds light on the intense cloak-and-dagger efforts over the se-crets of atomic fi ssion that ultimately led the Germans to pursue scientifi c dead ends while the U.S. ulti-mately succeeded. The fed-eral government’s pursuit of Axis saboteurs also gets a chapter in the book, an effort that ultimately led to the execution of several German spies.

“More than 90 percent of the information in this book has never before been in print,” Clift said.

More than anything, Clift and Speaks hope their book is a fi tting tribute to the generation that defeated

the most powerful enemies ever fought by the U.S. and its allies, especially the 2,250 East Tennessee sol-diers who gave their lives in the confl ict and the 11,000 others who were wounded.

“Many people are so in-terested in what their par-ents and their grandparents had done, and we realize this story has never been told,” Speaks said. “This area did so much during the war .... It really kicked you-know-what.”

The History Press in South Carolina published the book. Several chain bookstores and the East Tennessee Historical So-ciety have agreed to carry the book, Clift said. Packed with never-before-published photographs, tables and an-ecdotes, the 176-page paper-back volume sells for $21.99.

The authors will host a book launch 9 a.m. Wednes-day, May 18, at the Knox-ville Municipal Golf Course on Schaad Road.

Info: arcadiapublishing.com

New book highlightsEast Tennessee’s WWII role

Norden bombsights were delivered to the armed ser-vices at the cost of $8,800 apiece, and a part of that wealth made its way into the hands of the many local workers who were key to the device’s success.

In fact, the sheer num-bers of products built by the Fulton company are stag-gering: 53 million bellows, 50 million hand grenade

fuses, 8 million tail assem-blies for mortar shells, and even the precision altitude detonation devices used in the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.

“The Manhattan proj-ect engineers thought the most effi cient altitude for those things to detonate was at 1,890 feet, and they detonated at that height because of the bellows,”

By Cindy TaylorUnion County native the

Rev. James Whitson retired from the city of Maynard-ville April 29 after more than 38 years; the day after his wife, Mary, announced her retirement.

“I told him he was not quitting one day before me,” said Mary.

Whitson was joined at a surprise retirement party by friends and family. He says he is the oldest person with the longest employ-ment history to retire from a position with the city. Whit-son’s job involved a lot of outside work that kept city water lines up and running.

James and Mary Whitson are retiring duo

James Whitson with former co-worker Kyle Richardson; Rich-

ardson hired Whitson for the city. Photos by Cindy Taylor

work for the city by Kyle Richardson.

“James is a good man and a good worker,” said Rich-ardson.

“Kyle gave me a chance when I needed help so I could provide for my fam-ily,” said Whitson. “He is a Christian brother and a friend.”

Whitson may be retiring from the city but when he talks about his future itin-erary it doesn’t sound like he will be any less busy. He is an ordained minister, a former pastor, a plumber, a fi sherman and a builder. Those are a few of the things he says he will continue to

do. He and Mary both say they love to fi sh for anything that bites.

“We have a lot of friends and family who own boats,” he said. “When any of us has something the other needs we always share.”

The couple have been married 46 years. Both say they are looking forward to some uninterrupted, qual-ity time together.

“We’re going to sleep in and do nothing but we’re go-ing to adopt some new rules at home,” said Mary. “The fi rst rule is that the last one up makes the bed.”Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.

com

“I’ve known James since I took my position with the city,” said city manager Jack Rhyne. “He has been a good

employee. We kid him a lot and give him the blame when things go wrong.”

Whitson was hired to

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The art department provided colorful and creative props

for a photo booth. Here Leigha Gregory and Abbey

Kennard transform into living art.

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • MAY 11, 2016 • A-3 community

On Sunday, May 15, ev-eryone is invited to walk, bike, scoot or dance at Open Streets Knoxville. A one-mile stretch of Central Street, from Willow Street in the Old City to Scott Ave-nue in Happy Holler, will be closed to all motorized traf-fi c from 1-6 p.m., allowing revelers a day of shopping, playing, exercising and so-cializing in the middle of the street.

Open Streets Knoxville, hosted by Bike Walk Knox-ville with signifi cant sup-port from the city of Knox-ville and Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Or-ganization, promotes physi-cal activity and community interaction during this free event. This international initiative promotes healthy

living, local businesses and sustainable transportation.

October’s event was a huge success with more than 3,400 in attendance. We expect more than 8,000 this time, said event coordi-nator Linda Gray.

Attractions include the Bubble Garden, AAA’s Safety Adventure Plaza, Speedy’s Ninja Obstacle Course, arts and crafts, kids’ yoga, live music, pick-leball, bubble soccer, a mini skateboard park, the Hard Knox Roller Girls, free face painting and much more.

A mobile application will provide schedules for the performances, provide maps for food, water, rest-rooms and parking. The app will also work like Facebook so folks can upload pictures,

Open Streets Knoxville to return Sundaypost comments, and receive notifi cations. The applica-tion can be downloaded at: Open Streets Knoxville.

Volunteers are needed. Sign up at VolunteerKnox-ville or email [email protected]

Event info: open-streetsknoxville.com

Halls class marks 50th reunionAt the Halls High Class of ’66 reunion at Beaver Brook Country Club are: (front) Allen Wayland, Carole Fisher Galyon, Shirley Clevenger Bean, Sandra Johnson Butler, Brenda Shipley Moulton,

Linda Hutchinson Compton, Debbie Ellison Madon, (seated is retired English teacher Jennie Kate Purcell), James Hurst, Shirley Walker Mason, Mary Crippen Wintzer, Jerry Sanford, Rosalee

Seymore Elliott, Brenda Alley Wilson, Sam Sullivan, Mike Cameron, James Braden; (back) Janice Wallace Vallely, Diana Brock West, Elizabeth Lewis Donaldson, Alan Dunsmore, Carolyn Elkins

Dunsmore, George Hayes, Brenda Summers, Gary Ridenour, Horton Collier, Stephen Widner, Linda Martin Kropff , Norman May, Doug Jones, Mike Overton, Phillip Mabe, Jimmy Claiborne

and Mike Berry.

COMMUNITY NOTES

■ Fountain City Lions Club

meets 6 p.m. each fi rst and

third Monday, Lions Com-

munity Building, 5345 N.

Broadway.

■ Halls Community Lions Club

meets 7:15 p.m. each second

and fourth Monday, Shoney’s,

343 Emory Road.

■ Halls Republican Club meets

7 p.m. each third Monday at

the Boys & Girls Club of Halls/

Powell, 1819 Dry Gap Pike.

Info: knoxgop.org.

■ Seventh District Demo-crats meet 6:30 p.m. each

fourth Monday, Halls Branch

Library, 4518 E. Emory Road.

Info: Mary Ann Page, map@

parodee.net or 247-8155; Dan

Haney, [email protected] or

922-4547.

By Ruth WhiteDick McMillan will be

installed as president of the Foun-tain City Lions Club during a c e r e m o n y on July 18.

McMillan is excited about the

work of the Lions and their upkeep of the Fountain City Park and improvements at the Fountain City Lake.

“We are hopeful that the lake will be in good shape by the end of the month,” he said. “The city is install-ing a pump for the fountain which should be running

soon.” Other lake improve-ments include a wetlands near the pump house that will help fi lter algae and keep it from spreading. An algaecide will be added to the lake at a cost of approxi-mately $2,400 per year.

The Vision Van is set up at the Lions building on the third Wednesday of the month, providing clients with an eye exam and lens-es. Volunteers are on hand during the day, helping fi t individuals with frames. Persons in need of glasses should call the city’s 311 number to get qualifi ed.

The club also maintains the park, making sure that it is clean and safe for the en-joyment of community mem-

bers. Maintenance of the park and lake is made pos-sible through donations from the community. Lions are always looking for new mem-bers who will invest time and resources into the area. Any-one interested in becoming a Fountain City Lions Club member is welcome to attend a meeting (the fi rst Monday of every month at 6 p.m.) or visit fountaincitylionsclub.org for more information. Rental of the building is also made available through the website.

The group’s annual pan-cake breakfast will be held from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, May 14, in the building. Cost is $5 per person and the event is all-you-can-eat.

Dick McMillan

McMillan named Lions Club president

SUMMER CAMPS ■ 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/registration:

angelafl oydschools.com.

■ Camp Invention, Monday-

Friday, June 6-10, at the

following times and locations:

8 a.m.-2:30 p.m., A.L. Lotts El-

ementary, 9320 Westland Drive;

Sequoyah Elementary School,

942 Southgate Road; Shan-

nondale Elementary School,

5316 Shannondale Road; Blue

Grass Elementary School, 8901

Bluegrass Road; and 8:30 a.m.-3

p.m., Farragut Intermediate

School, 208 West End Ave. Cost:

$230. Ages: rising fi rst through

rising sixth graders. Info/regis-

tration: campinvention.org or

800-968-4332.

■ Camp Wallace Summer Day Camp, May 20-Aug. 5, Wallace

Memorial Baptist Church, 701

Merchant Drive. Activities and

fi eld trips for children who

have completed kindergar-

ten through seventh grade.

Info/registration: Kristie Bell,

688-7270.

■ Camp Webb Sports Camps,

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

School Lane. Camps include:

lacrosse, basketball, football,

tennis, soccer, cheer, gymnas-

tics and more. Info/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/regis-

tration: 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-Thursday, July

18-21, Angela Floyd Schools,

10845 Kingston Pike. Cost:

$125. Ages: 2-5. Info/registra-

tion: angelafl oydschools.com.

■ Christian Academy of Knoxville summer camps,

529 Academy Way. Variety of

camps, both athletic and aca-

demic, available throughout

June and July. Info/schedule/

registration: cakwarriors.com/

community/summer-camps;

[email protected].

■ Concord Park golf camps,

Concord Park, 10909 S. North-

shore Drive. Two-day camps for

ages 6-8, 9-11 a.m., May 24-25,

June 7-8, July 5-6, July 26-27;

cost: $50. Three-day camps for

ages 9-17, 9 a.m.-noon., May

31-June 2, June 14-16, June 21-

23, June 28-30, July 12-14, July

19-21, Aug. 2-4; cost: $100. Info/

registration: 966-9103.

■ Day camps, Arnstein Jewish

Community Center, 6800

Deane Hill Drive. Milton

Collins Day Camp for K-sixth

graders; Teen Adventures

Program for seventh-ninth

graders; Counselor-in-Train-

ing Program for 10th graders;

Camp K’Ton Ton for ages

2-pre-K. Sessions available

Monday, May 23-Friday, July

29. Info/registration: jewish

knoxville.org or 690-6343.

Gresham celebrates literacy, arts

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The University of Ten-nessee has its fair share of problems, starting with a perceived lack of leadership.

To fund or not to fund the unusual diversity movement is a really big deal. Legis-lators are assisting in this decision. Prone protesters have clogged campus side-walks. Several professors who weren’t otherwise busy have emerged with carefully considered opinions.

Heavy, heavy hangs the Title IX lawsuit as a very dark cloud over many heads.

The baseball team goes right on losing in the fi nal year of good guy Dave Ser-rano’s coaching contract. Gentle leader Dave Hart may have to make a move.

With no idea of how far away are the Bristol seats

Celebrate! Good news at Tennessee

Marvin West

from the players, excit-able football fans want the Vols to schedule at least one game a year at the race track. About this daydream the boss can smile and re-main relatively calm.

Occasional positive news fl ows from the university but it arrives quietly and causes much smaller head-lines.

For example, today we celebrate academic progress by Tennessee athletes. Ev-erybody got at least a pass-

ing grade. I propose a raise for Dr. Joe Scogin, senior associate athletics director, assistant provost and di-rector general of Thornton Athletics Student Life Cen-ter (wow, what a title).

The Thornton Center provides academic support and assists with personal and career development. Numbers and benefi ciaries say Scogin actually makes a difference.

Thirteen years ago, the NCAA concocted an aca-demic progress formula – points for eligibility, re-tention and graduation of student-athletes – to gain a glimpse into whether schools were actually re-quiring players to go to school. I don’t want to know the complicated details but

the magic number is a four-year APR of 930.

Above that score are de-grees of OK, good and great. Below brings the threat of penalties, probation, loss of scholarships and, Heaven help us, even bowl ineligi-bility.

Tennessee football scored 956, up 11 points over last year, up 24 from two years ago and up 32 from three years ago – back when things were bad. Butch Jones gets a $50,000 bonus for 945 or better. He gets $100,000 if academic progress reaches 965. The coach is in charge of moti-vation. Thirteen of Tennes-see’s 18 sports teams scored higher than the national av-erage. Baseball, cross coun-try, combined swimming

and diving, combined ten-nis, women’s basketball and women’s track were among the programs with perfect 1000 APRs for the past aca-demic year.

You may have heard there was a time when college classes meant little or noth-ing to college athletes. It was said that going to school was just something that had to be done to be eligible to practice and play and make normal progress toward profession-al millions.

“Dumb jocks” was a fa-vorite put-down among crit-ics of college sports.

Derogatory comments are out of style, no longer appropriate.

Through the years, Ten-nessee may have had a dumb jock or three. One comes to mind. There have also been academic giants, going back to Everett Der-ryberry and Nathan Dough-

erty and moving forward to Vols who earn undergradu-ate degrees and add mas-ter’s within four years.

Derryberry, former half-back, went on to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in English. For 24 years, he was president of Tennessee Tech.

Dougherty, former tack-le, supposedly made A in everything. He is in the Col-lege Football Hall of Fame. He hired Bob Neyland as coach of the Vols. He helped organize the Southeastern Conference. The UT engi-neering building honors the great dean’s name.

Former center Bob John-son, College Hall of Fame, NFL standout, prominent Cincinnati business leader, is a member of the all-time Academic All-America team. That’s as good as it gets. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is [email protected]

NickDella Volpe

Lots of questions about sidewalks have surfaced lately. Go to any community meeting in this city. Every-one wants more sidewalks: kids walking to school, moms pushing strollers, exercisers completing those 10,000 steps, other folks just enjoying a casual stroll out of harm’s way.

What is holding us back? Money, for one thing. Side-walks are costly, and bud-gets are fi nite. The work is included as part of the city’s budget process. Local tax dollars, not state money, pay for the work.

The mayor has proposed $2.7 million in her recent budget for fi scal 2016-17. What will that buy? Rough-ly a mile and a half of new sidewalks.

Sidewalk cost is estimat-ed by city engineering at an average $350 per linear foot. Do the math. A mile of

Chilhowee

Drive in

Holston Hills

has sidewalks,

but some say

they’re virtual-

ly impassable.

The sidewalk,

including the

curb, is just

less than fi ve

feet wide with

only two feet

between the

utility pole

and the grassy

hill beyond it. Photo by Nick Della Volpe

A stroll down sidewalk making

new sidewalk (5,280 feet) costs some $1.85 million, with variations depending on site topography, natural drainage, stormwater pip-ing, ADA compliance and other needs. So, the pro-posed budget could buy roughly 1.5 miles of side-walk, if the projects were all new ones. The proposal actually includes about three-fourths of a mile of repairs to existing, cracked and damaged surfaces, plus a mile of new sidewalk.

How does the city decide which locations get chosen?

I understand Knoxville uses a two-part process. One part is engineering-

based, ranking projects under a point system; the other is the administration’s priority. For new sidewalks, the engineers review and rank requests and observed need for sidewalks under a one- to 14-point assignment matrix, using fi ve criteria which ask:

■ Is it within the paren-tal responsibility zone for schools?

■ Is it a missing segment in an existing walkway?

■ What’s the pedestrian usage?

■ What’s the road’s clas-sifi cation (is it a major or minor arterial, a collector, or a local street)?

■ Is it on a KAT route?Armed with that list, the

administration considers po-litical priorities in choosing how much money is available and what projects to fund. Private contractors are hired to do much of the work.

Repairs to broken and dangerous sidewalk seg-ments are primarily deter-mined by complaints. Prob-lem areas are examined and assigned a priority level (1, 2 or 3). Small repairs can be done by city’s public service crews. Larger ones are con-tracted out, along with the new projects.

The backlog of requested new sidewalk projects is huge. My review of the engi-neering list shows there are 157 projects, covering some 396,315 linear feet of work (that’s 75 miles!), with an estimated total cost of some $138 million. Whew! Takes your breath away. Check back with me in 50 years.

What about new subdivi-sions?

Should Knoxville re-quire developers to include sidewalks as a part of the plans? It is certainly a desir-able amenity and would be

a positive selling point. The curb and gutter work is al-ready required as part of the subdivision roads require-ment.

As I understand it, MPC staff often recommend side-walks during their review, but do not compel their in-clusion. The full commis-sion, a more political body,

acts on these recommenda-tions. It sometimes agreesand sometimes does not.

That policy should bere-evaluated. A communitycommitted to walkabilityshould require new addi-tions to include a sidewalkon at least one side of theinterior roads. Nick Della Volpe represents District 4 on

Knoxville City Council.

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Betty Bean

Yogi Berra was supposed to have said, “I didn’t say half of those things I said.”

However that works, one of the things he may have said was something like, “You can observe a lot of stuff by just watching.” Or to enlarge upon that thought a bit, I would say you can ob-serve a lot of new stuff out-doors by just taking time to watch for a little while.

Our friends across the water, those eccentric Brit-ish birders, have a some-what derogatory term for certain of their comrades – “twitcher” – someone who hurriedly birds along, sees a bird, marks his or her bird list, and then is immediate-ly off for the next one, the one just seen immediately forgotten – that’s a twitcher.

But in reality, there is much more going on out there than can be seen with a quick glance at a bird, or a bug or a fl ower. They are all out there in the midst of having lives, often doing interesting and unexpected things. A few personal ex-amples follow.

We’ve had yard tur-keys all winter. There was a momma and fi ve half-grown young ones at fi rst, searching every nook and cranny of our place for grasshoppers, bugs and other edibles. They became

This month marks the end of Sydney Gabrielson’s term as student represen-tative to the Knox County Board of Education. She’ll hand off the job to Sydney Rowell, a rising senior at Hardin Valley Academy, at the June workshop meeting. She’ll give her some Sydney-to-Sydney pointers and try to help her feel at ease.

“We will both sit at the board table and I’ll show her some tricks of the trade – like how you pull your mic down after you talk.”

By then she will have al-ready received her diploma from Bearden High School, where she is class saluta-torian and carries a 4.51 grade point average (more or less – the fi nal calcula-tions haven’t been made yet). Come this fall, she will attend the University of Ala-bama as a UA Fellow – the equivalent of a Haslam Fel-lowship at UT.

Gabrielson credits one special teacher for guiding her probable career path.

“I am planning on major-ing in fi nance or econom-ics, and I’ve never had a teacher be as infl uential in my life as Matt McWhirter, my economics teacher this year. He went to Vanderbilt, then dropped out to become

Jim McIntyre will head up UT’s Center for Educa-tional Leadership start-ing Aug. 1. His salary of $180,000 represents a pay cut from what he made as superintendent of Knox County Schools, but he walked away from his cur-rent job with a year’s salary. In other words, for the upcoming year, he will earn more than twice $180,000.

McIntyre was hired by Bob Rider, dean of the Col-lege of Education, Health and Human Sciences. Since McIntyre is not a tenured professor, he is an at-will employee, according to Margie Nichols, vice chan-cellor for communications.

UT has had a hard time fi lling the job, as Nichols also said that the hiring of McIntyre came after two national searches to fi ll this position failed to produce a candidate whom UTK wanted to hire. Consequently the third try was what academia calls a “targeted search,” which allowed a direct hire of McIntyre. Clearly, this posi-tion has been vacant for some time, but McIntyre was nearby and anxious to remain in Knoxville.

■ Police Chief Da-vid Rausch received a prolonged standing ovation at the May 6 Emerald Youth Foundation breakfast attended by over 1,000 people. Many have gravitat-ed to Rausch over the past several months as he fi ghts gang violence in Knoxville. His boss, Mayor Rogero, was not present.

■ The state’s new $160 million museum in Nashville will have 11,000 fewer square feet than the museum it’s replacing. Advocates say the new mu-seum will be much better confi gured.

One would think the new museum would be larger than the old in order to display its many artifacts as well as over 350 Red Grooms paintings held by the museum. When com-

Dr. Bob Collier

McIntyre was ‘targeted’ hire for UT

pleted, the new museum will almost immediately need to be expanded as it is being built a size too small due to budget constraints.

Forty million of the $160 million is being raised privately with Gov. Haslam taking the lead. Appar-ently no decision has been made on whether the names of donors and amount of gifts will be disclosed. If not, expect it to become a political issue in the name of government transparency.

■ With UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek expected to step down as he nears 70, Susan Martin departs as provost Aug. 1, leaving after serving just two years of her second fi ve-year term. Cheek spokesperson Margie Nichols winds up her work in June. She says over 80 applications have come in for her position. Were any from East Tennessee?

■ State Sen. Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) held a fundraiser in Knox-ville on April 28, which raised over $35,000 for his congressional campaign for the open seat in West Tennessee. He is related to Watty H all, wife of Knox-ville attorney Chris Hall, and is one of 12 candidates in the GOP primary.

The event was co-sponsored by Mayor Tim Burchett, state Sens. Becky Massey, Richard Briggs, Randy McNally, Ken Yager and Doug Overbey, along with Wes Stowers, John Turley, Ed Shouse, Hugh Nystrom and former vice mayors Jack Sharp, Nick Pavlis and Joe Bailey.

Kelsey, 38, chairs the Senate Judiciary Commit-tee. The fundraiser was held at this writer’s home.

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a rock star, then went to law school and fi nally decided to teach economics. When they say teachers make a difference, he is living proof of that.”

Soft-spoken and polite, Gabrielson has never shied from speaking about issues affecting her fellow students.

“I guess I’ve been pretty outspoken,” she said. “I re-ally tried to make sure stu-dents’ voices were heard.”

The fi rst issue she weighed in on was a pro-posal to change the way high school classes are scheduled. After talking to students from different parts of the county, she op-posed the plan to go from block scheduling to seven classes per day, an idea that had been pitched as a way to save the county money.

“The students I talked to did not want to change, and ultimately, the student voice outweighed economics,” she said.

Getting to know students from all over Knox County was one of the most enjoy-

able things about being a student rep, she said.

“The best experience of all was getting heav-ily involved in the Knoxville community. Growing up, I was kind of segregated in West Knoxville, but this past year, I’ve learned so much. I learned that Knox-ville is so much more than just where I live.”

Gabrielson joined “Lead-ers for Readers” through the Great Schools Partnership which allowed her to work with second-graders who needed a little extra help.

“I was really happy that I could do my own thing and give back to my communi-ty,” she said. “I learned how different students learn and learned to understand how you have to approach every-thing differently.”

Although the work was gratifying, she said the most diffi cult aspect of the position of student rep was handling the turmoil on the board, which is deeply split on a number of funda-mental issues, particularly the performance and phi-losophy of Superintendent James McIntyre.

“Sometimes meetings were very uncomfortable. The board did not agree on many things,” she said.

This summer, she’ll take a break from academics and join several friends to work as lifeguards at Arnstein Jewish Community Center, although her summer break will end the fi rst week in August because she is plan-ning to participate in soror-ity rush.

“Hopefully, my work with the Alabama Fellowship will help me decide exactly what I want to do,” she said. “Civic engagement, or may-be follow in my mom’s foot-steps and go to law school? I’m not sure yet.”

She says nobody’s given her a hard time about going to Alabama, and she’s got one key phrase down pat:

“Roll, Tide, Roll.”

Don’t be a ‘twitcher’

so accustomed to me on the mower and Grandma do-ing her walks, that when we encountered them they would just look up, as if to acknowledge that we were their usual people, and go right on back to grazing.

The group broke up this spring as turkey groups do, but one has still been around, checking the yard out for new spring food items. And one morning a couple of weeks ago, as I sat looking out from the breakfast table, I observed a new thing – the turkey was going through the backyard, picking off the round fl uffy dandelion heads one by one, seeds sticking out from both sides of its beak, till they were all gone. I could only wonder how many dan-delion heads it would take to fi ll up a turkey. Perhaps they’re high in vitamins or minerals.

Another example of the rewards of patiently watch-ing: a recent trip to the Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery in Clinton. We go out there

frequently and drive slowly around the well-kept gravel roads between the big fi sh ponds; the place is always full of interesting birding sights. This was in early April, and the fi rst spring migrants, the various swal-lows, had appeared only about a week before.

Two killdeer were walk-ing back and forth across the road. Instead of just ticking them off the list and mov-ing on to something more interesting, we paused and watched for a bit. And to our amazement, there appeared four baby killdeer, looking like baby Easter chicks on very long legs, scurrying here and there as only baby chicks will do.

And the nervous, watch-ful parents? We got to see them taking turns at the old “broken-wing act,” wherein the parent bird fl ops around, seemingly helplessly in-jured, staying just ahead of the car until we were safely away from their babies; then they zipped away, sud-denly healthy again.

The fact that those kill-deer parents had babies up and going in April meant that the eggs were laid over a month before we saw them, during the cold days of March. A family story un-folding before our very eyes!

Sometimes you go to

Eagle Bend or Norris or the Smokies to observe. And sometimes the observ-ing comes to you. For years we’ve had a pair of loud, bossy and overactive Caro-lina wrens that nest just outside our kitchen window on a ledge inside the back porch roof. We couldn’t avoid observing them if we wanted to. But we wouldn’t miss them for anything.

Carolina wrens are overachievers – they will produce as many as three broods in a season. Both male and female sing, sometimes in duet, and use as many as 40 differ-ent songs. You can usually recognize their singing, just as you would a certain per-son’s singing, by the sound of their voice – in this case, loud, clear, intrusive – rath-er than by the specifi c song they’re doing at the time. They like to start singing early, too, say around day-light. Under the bedroom window.

So as we sit there in the kitchen and eat three meals a day, or read the paper, or do a little paperwork, we can’t help but hear and ob-serve all that baby-wren-rearing activity a few feet away. In addition to un-countable trips back and forth to their nest with bugs and worms for the babies, received with a loud chorus of peeping and cheeping, there are also housekeeping trips away from the nest.

Many nestling birds, wrens included, expel a tidy, white blob of waste called a fecal sac, sort of a pre-wrapped dirty diaper. You will see an adult bird fl y away from the nest with a white object in its beak, to be discarded away from the nest. A clean nest is much less susceptible to parasites and bacteria harmful to the nestlings.

After a few feeding and housekeeping trips to the nest, our wrens take a break by fl ying to a nearby dog-

wood tree and singing loud-ly, just to remind everything within earshot that this is their nest, house and yard. I must say they are a lot more entertaining than w atching the local 6 o’clock news.

Catching a glimpse of a long-sought rare bird is cause for major celebration, but there’s a lot to be said for the remarkable insights into the workings of Nature that can be had by some plain old watching. You observ-ers out there will know what I’m talking about.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Heiskell Seniors

monthly luncheon/

meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Thursday, May 12, Heiskell

Community Center, 1708

W. Emory Road. Theme:

“Kentucky Derby.”

Speaker: Jake McKinnie

with Thrivent. Bring

dessert and a friend. Info:

Janice White, 548-0326.

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

Off erings include: ex-

ercise classes; cross-stitch,

card games; dominoes,

crochet, quilting, billiards;

Senior Meals program, 11

a.m. each Friday.

Register for: Free First

Aid Certifi cation class, 11

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

23; open to the community.

■ Halls Senior Center4405 Crippen Road922-0416knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday

Off erings include: card

games; exercise classes;

quilting, dominoes, dance

classes; scrapbooking,

craft classes; Tai Chi; movie

matinee 2 p.m. Tuesdays;

Senior Meals program,

noon Wednesdays.

Register for: AARP Driver

safety class, noon-4 p.m.

Thursday-Friday, May 12-13;

RSVP: 922-0416. Harrah’s

Casino Day Trip, 8:30 a.m.

Monday, May 23; cost: $30;

RSVP by May 18.

Register for: AARP

Driver safety class, noon-4

p.m. Thursday-Friday, May

12-13; RSVP: 922-0416.

■ Morning Pointe Assisted Living7700 Dannaher Drive686-5771 or morningpointe.com

Ongoing event: Alzheimer’s and Dementia

Caregivers Support Group

meets 1 p.m. each last

Monday.

By Betsy PickleLaughter and a few tears

mingled as alumni of His-toric Knoxville High School met for their 2016 All-Class Reunion and Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Around 200 alumni and guests gathered at Bearden Banquet Hall for the fes-tivities. The banquet room was decorated with the old school’s colors – blue and white – and photographs and yearbooks from the school, which opened in fall 1910 and closed at the end of the school year in 1951.

The youngest grads are in their early 80s and the old-

est in their late 90s, but the crowd was lively – greeting each other with enthusiastic hugs and handshakes. They were also excited to hear from the speaker, Rick Dover of Dover Developments, who is converting the old high school at 101 E. Fifth Ave. into a senior living residence.

Dover also spoke at last year’s event and at that time was made an honorary KHS alumnus. This year, he gave an update on progress at the building, which he expects to be fi nished by late 2016. One of the main points of interest was making sure the Doughboy statue, hon-

Hal Ernest, standing, left, named an honorary alumnus of Historic Knoxville High School, joins

the newly inducted KHS Hall of Fame group: Bill Christenberry, Jack Everett Smith, Steve Cak-

mes, Dr. Martin Davis; seated: Dr. Joe Acker, Sara Fisher Frazer, Chris Edmonds (representing his

late father, Roddie Edmonds) and Doug Matthews.

Emma Lou Coffi n (class of 1950) and Jim Coffi n and George

McAfee (both class of 1944) are ready for the program to begin.

Mary Anne Christenberry Bell, Nancy McCrary Burnett and

Reenie Lay Ernest catch up at the reunion.

Harvey Sproul, Knoxville

High School Alumni Asso-

ciation president, welcomes

KHS classmates to the Hall of

Fame and all-class reunion at

Bearden Banquet Hall.

Historic Knoxville High inducts new Hall of Famers

oring soldiers who died in World War I, would remain on the property. Dover said it will, and he’s working with local government to make sure the site is pro-tected as a park.

Seven of the eight induct-ees were in attendance: Dr. Joe Acker, class of 1935; Steve Cakmes, ‘42; Bill Christenberry, ‘51; Dr. Mar-tin Davis, ‘39; Sara Fisher Frazer, ‘50; Doug Matthews,

‘40; and Jack E. Smith, ‘46. The late Roddie Edmonds, ‘38, was represented by his son, Chris Edmonds.

The group listened re-spectfully as alum Bill Lawhon paid tribute to KHS Alumni Association treasurer Worth Campbell, who died earlier that day. They also had a moment of silence for other classmates who had passed away since the last reunion.

a.m. Sunday, May 15, at Big Ridge State

Park, Tea Room. Bring a covered dish,

fi shing poles, games to play, cameras.

Lunch, 1 p.m.

■ Bearden High School Class of ’66

reunion is Oct. 14 at Hunter Valley

Farm. Info: Joe Bruner, 399-5951 or

[email protected].

■ Central High School Class of 1964’s

70th birthday party, 6-10 p.m. Satur-

day, June 25, Grande Event Center,

5441 Clinton Highway. Cost: $30,

includes full buff et. Info: David,

[email protected].

■ Fulton High School Class of 1966

50th reunion, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

6, Calhoun’s on the River, 400 Neyland

Drive. Cost: $25. Reservations deadline:

July 15. Reservations/payment: Fulton

High School 1966 Reunion, c/o Doug

Welch, 890 Hansmore Place, Knoxville

TN 37919. Info: Dougwelch1948@

yahoo.com.

■ The Knoxville Central High School Class of 1966 50th reunion, Saturday,

Oct. 8, Beaver Brook Country Club. Info:

Gail Norris Kitts, [email protected].

REUNION NOTES ■ The Halls High class of 1971 reunion,

6 p.m. Saturday, May 14, Li’l Jo’s in

Maynardville. Cost: $20 at the door. BYO

spirits or beer can be purchased at the

restaurant. RSVP: 963-5087, 922-8070 or

[email protected].

■ Annual Reynolds Family Reunion, 11

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cross currentsLynn [email protected]

Sometimes when I am looking for something else, I stumble across a Biblical text which I have somehow missed (or forgotten).

That is how I discovered the word Mazzaroth. I was wandering around in Job’s frustration, and there it was. Say, what? Who?

So I looked it up (which my mother taught me so well to do: “Let’s look it up,” she always said) and there it is: Mazzaroth! Which, of course, sent me to the foot-notes. No meaningful help there. That is where the all-knowing Internet came to the rescue.

Mazzaroth is a very old name for the 12 constella-tions of the Zodiac; it is a tool that uses the stars to tell a story. Fair enough.

However, there is more learning to be done! The word Mazzaroth is also a hapax legomenon! (Could I possibly make this stuff up?) A hapax legomenon is a word that appears only once in a text.

Really, I worry about the scholars who go through books looking for hapax legomenons. Do they truly have nothing else to do? And then I begin to wonder if legomenons is actually the correct plural form of lego-menon. Turns out, it isn’t; the correct plural is legome-na. (Begins to sound like “Leggo my Egg-o, doesn’t it?)

If you have read thus far in these musings, I suspect you are one of “us” – those people who love to learn, and especially love to learn unusual and very new, or very old words!

Of stars and wordsCan you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the

cords of Orion? Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with it s chil-dren? Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

(Job 38:31-33 NRSV)

Community services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian,

4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the

Halls Welfare Ministry food

pantry 6-8 p.m. each second

Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each

fourth Saturday.

■ Dante Church of God, 410

Dante School Road, will

distribute “Boxes of Blessings”

(food) 9-11 a.m. Saturday, May

14, or until boxes are gone.

One box per household. Info:

689-4829.

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church,

6125 Lacy Road, off ers

Children’s Clothes Closet and

Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

each third Saturday. Free to

those in the 37912/37849 ZIP

code area.

Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory

Road, hosts Recovery at Pow-

ell each Thursday. Dinner,

6 p.m.; worship, 7; groups,

8:15. The program embraces

people who struggle with

addiction, compulsive behav-

iors, loss and life challenges.

Info: recoveryatpowell.com or

938-2741.

Special services ■ Oaks Chapel American

Christian Church, 934 Rac-

coon Valley Road, will hold

revival on the following dates

and times: 7 p.m. Friday,

May 20; 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 21; 11 a.m. and

6 p.m. Sunday, May 22; 7 p.m.

By Carol Z. ShaneIt will be a special eve-

ning this Sunday, May 15, when Salem Baptist Church presents “A Night of Wor-ship.” This group-led mu-sical evening features all ages, and will be followed by a reception honoring musi-cian Bill Hunter and his 20 years of service to SBC.

“This year, we at Salem have placed a huge empha-sis on multi-generational worship,” says Worship Arts Pastor Tim McCarty. “We want to see kids worship-ping the Lord right next to their parents and grandpar-ents. This night is a perfect example of that.

“Our preschool choir and elementary choir will be sharing a couple songs each. They will also join with our students and adults to sing a

Join Salem Baptist Church members of all ages this Sunday as

they present “A Night of Worship.” Photo submitted

‘A Night of Worship’ at Salem Baptist

fun arrangement of ‘Thrive’ by Casting Crowns.”

McCarty says, “In ad-dition to music from our choirs and instrumental-ists, the pastoral staff is go-ing to be walking through the question, ‘Why Do We

Sing?’ We believe God has given us the gift of music for many different reasons, and we’re going to be shar-ing nine of those reasons throughout the night. Fol-lowing the worship service, we will have a special recep-

tion to honor Bill Hunter, who has been serving as an instrumentalist at Salem for the last 20 years.”

“I am grateful for Bill and his family, who are ac-tively involved in the life of our church family,” says the Rev. Allen James. “Bill is a faithful servant and a tal-ented musician.”

McCarty says, “We are truly looking forward to this special night of worship and we would welcome any-one from the community to join us!”

“A Night of Worship” happens at 6:30 p.m. this Sunday, May 15, at Salem Baptist Church, 8201 Hill Road in Halls. Info: 865-922-3490 or mysalem baptist.com.Send story suggestions to news@shopper

newsnow.com.

The Rev. Dewey Raley, long-

time pastor, enjoys the fi rst

service in the new Alder

Springs sanctuary.

Loretta Staley shakes hands with the Rev. Jimmy

Davidson as she arrives at the fi rst service held in

the new Alder Springs Church. Photos by S. Carey

Hands are raised and tears are shed as the Alder Springs Missionary Baptist Church choir leads the congregation in the last song

in the church’s old sanctuary, built in 1967. The Union County congregation moved to a new building just up the road.

This special display in the

new Alder Springs Mission-

ary Baptist Church foyer

holds the communion fl ask

and glasses from the original

church, built in 1849.

FAITH NOTESweeknights. Evangelists are

the Rev. Boyd Myers and the

Rev. Phil Seaton. Everyone

welcome.

Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, hosts Morn-

ing Breakfast and Afternoon

Hang Out for youth each

Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible

study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out

Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 690-

1060 or beaverridgeumc.org.

Alder Springs gets new church facility

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Students kick hunger’s can with Kane

Students at Gibbs High helped the school beat Carter in a food drive competition. The students pic-

tured each brought at least 50 canned goods for the event and were treated to pizza, compliments of

Commercial Bank.

Maria Espiritu Haun with Commercial Bank and Kane award Matthew Sills

(center) a $100 gift card, the prize of a random drawing among students who

brought in at least 25 cans for the food drive.

Gibbs High student Stephen

Huddleston wears the cham-

pionship belt presented by

WWE wrestler Glenn “Kane”

Jacobs for Kane’s “Kick Hun-

ger’s Can” food drive. Hud-

dleston brought 250 cans to

the event and helped Gibbs

defeat Carter High in the com-

petition. Photos by R. White

Story So Far: As S.O.R.’s special soccer team continues to loose, and lose badly, pressure to win is about to applied.

I knew we were heading for trouble when every team member got a message from our principal, Mr. Sullivan. He wanted to see us during our lunch hour.

“What do you think he wants?” Porter asked me. Since I was captain, they thought I had answers.

“I think we’re only going to be allowed to play third-grade teams,” suggested Root, looking up from an electronic diagram that reminded me of a plate of spaghetti.

Mr. Sullivan, the principal, didn’t strike me as a sports guy. He was small, thin, pinched up and tense. His offi ce was the storage room for every trophy, ribbon and fl ag the school had ever won. I mean, walk in there, and you knew you were expected

to win.Mr. Sullivan began with a smile. “So, this

is the Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team. How’s it going?” he asked.

“Could be worse,” said Fenwick.“Next game,” agreed Barish.“You’re not going to give up, are you?”

asked Mr. Sullivan. I suspect most of us wanted to say “Yes.”“I suppose you think you’re not very

good,” he said.“Honesty is the best policy,” said Eliscue.“You’re new to the game,” said Mr. Sul-

livan. “Have faith in yourselves. I know you can do well.”

“How come you know,” asked Saltz, “and we don’t?”

Mr. Sullivan seemed taken aback. “I just do,” he said.

“Any evidence?” asked Barish.

“Boys,” said Sullivan, “if you believe in yourselves, you can do anything.” He ges-tured to the trophies. “Don’t have a defeat-ist attitude. It will haunt you the rest of your lives. Do I look like an athlete?”

“No.”“Well, I run 27

miles once a week. Now look at me.”

I did. I didn’t see any difference.

“How come you do it?” asked Por-ter.

“I like it.”“Well, we don’t

like this,” Hays said.

“Besides, we stink,” put in Ra-dosh.

“As long as you believe that,” said Sullivan, “you’ll lose. Find the true South Orange River at-titude: never accept defeat.”

“Even if we lose?” I said.He ignored me. “Don’t give up. Look at

me in the eye and promise.”I did, which is when I noticed he was

slightly cross-eyed. It took the edge off my promise.

He let us go then, telling us he’d come to one of our games to cheer.

Before splitting up, we stood outside his offi ce. “I’m beginning to think we might be an embarrassment to someone,” said Saltz.

“Maybe he’ll call the whole thing off.”We let that fond but empty hope cheer us.“I think they want to teach us a lesson,”

I said.“Which is?” asked Barish.No one knew.As we started to scatter, I called, “An-

other game Friday. Sanger School. Don’t forget.”

“I’m trying,” said Dorman.Saltz stayed by my side. “I made up a

team poem,” he said. “Want to hear it?”“Do I have a choice?”He pulled out his notebook and read:“There once was a team from South Or-

ange River,Who simply could never deliver.Given a way to choose,They always found new ways to lose,That marvelous, special, seventh-grade team from beautiful, successful, never-winning and always-losing South Orange River.”“You and Shakespeare,” I said.“Think he was good in sports?” he asked.“Sure, right fi eld for the London Loo-

gies.”Sanger School came to our fi eld. That

meant we could have had a crowd of people watching. We did have a crowd, or rather a crowdette. A little girl wandered by. She wasn’t older than fi ve. Whatever she saw, she was very smart or we were very obvi-ously bad. After ten minutes, she left. We were already losing by fi ve goals.

Main highlight of the game: In the sec-ond period, Fenwick took a nasty kick in the shins. Down he went, yelling, screaming, and crying bloody murder. He was rolling on his back, holding on to his leg, trying to make sure it stayed on.

As I’ve learned, what you’re supposed to do is nothing. Ignore it. Play on. Hang tough. Be men.

Not us. I mean, the guy was our friend, even if he was great in math. Without even thinking about it, we all rushed over and stood around trying to make him feel bet-

ter.The referee ran up to us, yelling that we

were supposed to keep playing.“He’s hurt,” I explained. Fenwick was, I

admit, yelling softer by then.“Ball’s still in

play!” cried theref. “Ball’s still inplay!”

Sure enough.They scored a goal.Walked it in. Whatdid we care? It wasonly one of twenty-two.

Later, in thelocker room, Mr.Lester called us toattention.

“Gentlemen,” hesaid, “I think it’svery kind of you tobe concerned whena teammate gets

hurt. But the game is such that you’re notsupposed to stop. Fenwick, you weren’t hurtso badly, were you?”

“No.”“He looked it,” I said.“Perhaps more startled than hurt,” sug-

gested Mr. Lester. “The thing is, they scoreda goal.”

“They scored lots of goals,” Root remind-ed him. “We’ve got only one Fenwick.”

Mr. Lester blushed and sighed. “Tell me,gentlemen,” he said, “are you getting anypleasure from this?”

There was a long, long silence.“Any?” he tried again.“We stink,” said Lifsom. “We really do.

We’re never going to win. Wouldn’t it bebetter to just give up?”

Mr. Lester stood tall. We stood short. Hehad a look I’d not seen before. I bet GeneralRobert E. Lee had exactly that look when hesent his men on Pickett’s Charge up Cem-etery Ridge at Gettysburg.

“Gentlemen,” he said, “I want you toknow, I believe in you.” He actually made afi st. I never even knew Mr. Lester had one.“You can win!”

I had this uncomfortable feeling. “How?”I wanted to know.

“Because you won’t give up.”“We’d like to,” said Eliscue.“Gentlemen,” cried Mr. Lester, “don’t be

losers. Be winners.”“I got an A-plus on my last math test,”

said Fenwick. “Mr. Fenwick,” said Mr. Lester, shouting

in his smallest, lowest voice, “I’m talkingabout sports.”

“Oh,” said Fenwick.“Three more games,” said Mr. Lester.

“Believe!”In school the next day, I was working on

the history project with Lucy Neblet. Wewere hunched over this table, having a goodtime. Out of nowhere, the school newspaper— which the kids make up — came fl utter-ing down to cover our work.

“Hey!” I cried, looking up to see who didit. There was Cat-Face Charlie, a kid fromclass, who everyone knew had a crush onLucy.

“What’s the idea?” I said to him.“Look!” he said, pointing at the newspa-

per and grinning.I looked. On the front page, in headlines,

it read:NEW TEAM HAS WORST START INSCHOOL HISTORY!I turned. Lucy was looking at me sort of

funny. All I could think was, “Three gamesto go.” I hoped.

(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 SIX: Advice from S.O.R.’s principal

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

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By Ruth WhiteHalls Elementary Teach-

er of the Year honoree An-drea Ro-man came to Knoxville from Flor-ida. She’s a graduate of the Uni-versity of South Flori-da in Tampa and pleased

to call Knoxville her home.Roman’s mother was her

inspiration to her becoming a teacher, and Andrea loves how her mom has never lost her desire to try new things. Her mother, Lynne King, is a retired teacher from Flor-ida who moved to Knoxville a few years ago and is now teaching fi fth grade at Halls.

Roman likes to stay up-to-date with the newest teaching techniques and works hard to keep her fi rst graders inspired. She likes to get on students’ level and bring real-world aspects to her teaching style.

Roman says she likes watching fi rst graders grow and hearing the things that they say. “Every day is new

Halls High senior Kaitlyn Lay signed to run track and

cross-coun-try at East Ten ne s s e e State Uni-versity next year.

Lay has had a suc-cessful ca-reer at Halls High, hold-

ing many records includ-ing 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, mile, steeplechase, 4 x 400 girls relay and 4 x 800 girls relay. She also holds the 5K cross-country school re-cord with a time of 19:14. She is the only HHS athlete to qualify and compete in the state cross-country champi-onship. During her sopho-more year she placed eighth in the state in the 400m, fourth in the state in the 800m as a junior and 18th in the state in cross-country as a senior. She has been named to All-Prep Xtra in

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • MAY 11, 2016 • A-9 kids

Roman

Kaitlyn Lay

Gibbs honors senior Eagles

Brittany Blankenship received the Tommy Everette Scholarship

from Everette’s family, Kristi and Carolyn Everette. Brittany was

also named the U.S. Army National Scholar Athlete.

GHS valedictorian Beth Ann McRary was recognized during the awards

ceremony. She is pictured with administrators Rebecca Reeves, Jeff Thom-

as, principal Jason Webster and Denise McGaha.Ryenne McDowell received

the Eagle Award for Social

Studies and received a stole

for her senior year of comple-

tion of the National Achiev-

ers Society program with the

Knoxville Area Urban League.

Gibbs High salutatorian Zack Beeler is awarded the Commer-

cial Bank Salutatorian Scholarship from Sandy Cates. Beeler

also received the Johnny Mauer athletic award during the cer-

emony. Photos by R. White

Abby Hicks was given the Stephanie Tucker

Porter Memorial Scholarship in memory of the

1993 graduate.

Halls High honors baseball, softball seniors

Senior softball team members recognized before their game against Union County include

Keleigh Galloway, Haley Kingsbury, Lauren White and Mallory Gardner.

Halls baseball players honored before their home game against Powell include Brady Elliott,

Dalton Langston, Chase McDaniel and Josh Johnson. Photos by R. White

Roman honored asHES Teacher of Year

and exciting in fi rst grade,” she said. She also loves to see how much students’ reading skills grow during the course of the school year. “This age is awesome because we have a balance of fun and aca-demics. The kids are making connections and light bulbs are going off.”

Her teammates call her a phenomenal teacher and friend. As for the school and staff members, Roman be-lieves they are truly a family and have each other’s backs. “Dr. Henderson is a great supporter and leader of the school,” she said.

When she isn’t in the classroom, Roman likes spending time with her family, working in her home and tending to horses.

CALL FOR ARTISTS ■ Submissions for “The Word,”

an art competition that asks

artists to look deeply into the

meaning and use of words

throughout history and in our

daily lives, are being accepted

by Broadway Studios and Gal-

lery, 1127 N. Broadway. Entries

will be accepted 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, May 26-28.

Info: Jessica Gregory, 556-

8676; BroadwayStudiosAnd-

Gallery.com; BroadwayStudios

[email protected].

RuthWhite

Lay signs with ETSU

track her junior year and for cross-country her senior year. This year Kaitlyn won the 800m in Sectionals.

Coach Tom Dever called Kaitlyn a “great athlete and even better person” and knows that with her drive, she will do well at the colle-giate level. Coach Tony Tam-pas also mentioned Kait-lyn’s drive on the track and in life, stating that she will do well in her future. While at ETSU, Kaitlyn plans to study nursing.

Attending the signing were her parents, Chris and Angela Lay, sister Madison, grandfather Eddie McEl-leney, aunt Lisa Caldwell, boyfriend Derek Flatford, friends and teammates.

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Shopper News & Raley’s Tanning CompanyHonor Halls High School’s Top Seniors

Blakeley Griffi nDaughter of:

James & Sharon Griffi nExtra curricular activities:National Honor Society

Math Honor SocietyHealth Occupation Students of

America

Elizabeth Ann DurfeeDaughter of:

Mark & Susan DurfeeExtra curricular activities:National Honor Society

East Tennessee Vocal Association All-East Honor's ChoirHalls High Madrigals

Kayla Arnsdorff Daughter of:

Eric & Cheri Arnsdorff Extra curricular activities:

Math Honor Society PresidentNational Honor Society

Volleyball Academic Award

Mackenzie HerrellDaughter of:

Kenneth & Barbara HerrellExtra curricular activities:Percussion World FinalistNational Honor Society

Math Honor Society

Morgan Duff Daughter of:

Mark & Mary Claire Duff Extra curricular activities:

National Honor Society PresidentStudent Government Association

Vice PresidentMath Honor Society

Graduation ceremonies and other events that mark the end of a school year are rife with tradition. Students know it is important to receive their diplomas but may not have a full understanding of why that piece of paper can help open so many doors.

Diplomas date back to some of the earliest schools, but were also conferred upon land owners in an-cient times by kings and other au-thority fi gures. Some military per-sonnel were also given diplomas to signal land grants that were not subject to taxes. Nowadays diplo-mas take on a different meaning and vary depending on where one lives in the world.

Graduates who complete a spe-cifi c course of study are issued di-plomas. Diplomas were once writ-ten on Italian sheepskin. Although

"diploma" translates to "folded papers," paper was not always an economically viable medium for diplomas. In fact, animal skins were used as recently as the 1950s.

Receiving a degree or diploma can be a point of pride in families where older members may not have had the same educational opportunities as younger mem-bers. Many people move to North America for the educational op-portunities, and a diploma can symbolize taking advantage of those opportunities.

According to the organization Do Something, roughly 20 per-cent of fi rst-time college students come from parents who have a high school diploma or less. The United States Department of Edu-cation says high school gradua-tion rates have increased since the

2006-2007 school year. Around 80 percent of student who enter high school now earn a regular or ad-vanced diploma. Dropout rates are on the decline, and a growing num-ber of high school students contin-ue on to two- or four-year degrees.

In Canada, numbers are quite similar. Canada is second only to the United States in the high school completion rate of its working-age population. Statistics Canada says that enrollment in Canadian uni-versities continues to increase. En-rollments are now approximately 5 percent larger than they were just a few years ago.

Community colleges are ben-efi tting from this infl ux of stu-dents. Various statistics from the 2010-2011 year point to more than eight million American students enrolled in community colleges

at that time. Community colleges enable students to take core cur-riculum credits at a less expen-sive institution and then move on to a four-year school later on to expand on their coursework. This presents a viable option to students who are looking to keep education costs manageable.

The reason so many students continue to apply themselves and come out after four or more years with diplomas and degrees is that they realize how competitive the job market can be. Graduates have a distinct advantage over other candidates. Some companies will not even consider a job candidate who does not possess some col-lege education. Other employers pay more depending on the level of education the job candidates completed. According to the Unit-

ed States Department of Labor, employees with a bachelor's de-gree earn about 54 percent more on average than those who at-tended college but didn't fi nish. Workers with advanced degrees (master's, doctoral, etc.) can aver-age $20,000 to $30,000 more per year than those with bachelor's degrees, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Some students, however, will insist that failure to have a di-ploma isn't a barrier to success. For example, Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur who owns Virgin Group, did not grad-uate from high school. But such people are an aberration. Typical-ly, earning a high school diploma and a bachelor's degree is a key in-gredient to landing a good job and enjoying professional success.

Why it pays to graduate

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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • MAY 11, 2016 • A-11 businessLandmark boosts

RAMChris Hall with Remote Area

Medical accepts a check for

$6,314.51 from Kathleen Lane

and Andy Jablonski with

Landmark International. The

money was raised at a corn-

hole tournament at Smokies

Stadium. The event featured

a playground, live bands,

raffl es and more to support

RAM. Jablonski has support-

ed RAM personally for several

years and wanted to support

the group corporately. “They

impact those who need it

the most and they are good

stewards of the money they

receive,” he said. Photo by Ruth White

It was an all-Italy night at the Rotary Club of Far-ragut’s second Interna-tional Food Gala as four chefs from the Pellissippi State Community Col-lege’s Culinary Arts In-stitute program each won a $250 scholarship and a new Chef’s jacket as their Italian cuisine swept the awards.

Team Italy was selected by a trio of celebrity judges as the Top Chefs and Team Italy also won the People’ Choice Award from the crowd of approximately 130 diners. The diners at the UT Visitors Center on April 23 also enjoyed Asian, Spanish and French dishes from the other three Pellissippi teams of chefs.

The Italian chefs prepared and served Gnocchi, stuffed meatballs, Cannolis and Peach Bellinis. On the team were Jayme Willoughby, Taylor Clifton, Ja-son Melton and Nick Werth.

The celebrity judges were Citico’s Restaurant and club chef Robert Allen, Knoxville author/chef Barbara Tenney, and chef Andre Nowading of Whole Foods.

Farragut Rotarian Keith Bryson, who directed the event, said the club raised approximately $10,000 that

will be used for scholar-ships to Pellissippi stu-dents and for other proj-ects the club supports.

The three $1,000 spon-sors were club president Dale Read and Read Win-dows; club member Ray Fisher and Fisher Tire Co.; and Citico’s Restau-rant & Club at WindRiver.

Club member Sam Taylor and family at Dixie Lee Wine & Liquors donated the beverages.

Dr. Tom Gaddis, the coordinator of the Culinary Arts Institute program, told the crowd: “It’s our honor to be af-

fi liated with Rotary again for this great event. This is a wonderful event for our students and the program.”

■ Turkey Creek pokerA poker-playing minister fi nished third in the

Rotary Club of Turk ey Creek Sunset’s recent fun-draiser – its “Texas Hold ’em for Service Above Self” poker tournament at SouthEast Bank in Farragut. Walt “Santa” Swanson fi nished fi rst, Jerry Martin second and third was Max Reddick, president of the North Knox-ville Rotary Cub and minister at Fountain City Presby-terian Church. “This was our most successful fundraiser ever,” said club president Paul West.

Team Italy chefs win gala honors

the rotary guyTom [email protected]

Melton Clifton Werth Willoughby

property reportSherry Witt865-215-2330 or [email protected]

After steady progress in March, local real estate and lending markets turned signifi cantly upward in April. We saw 1,113 property transfers in Knox County, easily surpassing the March total of 991, and also well ahead of the April 2015 pace of 918 sales.

The total value of property transferred leaped from $198 million in March to nearly $241 million during April. This was an increase of some $65 million over last April’s fi gure of $176 million. It was the largest April output of total real estate sales since 2007.

On the lending side, just over $347 million was bor-rowed against real property in Knox County, besting the March total by more than $50 million. By com-parison, about $317 million was loaned in mortgages in refi nancing during April 2015.

The most notable real estate transfer of the month was an $8.576 million commercial sale involving a ho-tel property off Peters Road near the Market Place in West Knoxville. The largest mortgage transaction was a loan for $10.25 million fi nancing the Trinity Hills se-nior living facility off Asheville Highway.

With one third of the year in the books, 2016 ap-pears on pace to outperform last year in both real es-tate transfers and mortgage lending. As of April 30, approximately $771.6 million worth of land has been sold here, compared to about $691 million during the fi rst four months of 2015. Mortgage lending is cur-rently running around $60 million ahead of last year’s levels.

All of us at the Register’s offi ce were saddened by the passing of Mrs. Peggy Bright, mother of our long-time record room supervisor, Bill Bright. The Bright family has meant so much to us through the years, and I know many people have been touched by their kindness and generosity. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Real estate markets spring forward

Shannon Carey has launched The Plucky Pen, a

writing ser-vice aimed at making life easier for small busi-ness owners.

“ E v e r y -one I know has a blog, or they should,” s aid

Carey. “But if you’re running a small business you proba-bly don’t have time to update it. It’s just one more thing to do, but keeping your blog current is vital to growing your business these days.”

Carey also offers social media, proofreading and an array of other writing services.

A graduate of Halls High and Maryville College, Car-ey worked for 10 years for Shopper News in news writ-ing and advertising sales. Her award-winning Moms 101 column documented the fi rst years of her son’s life. She also launched the Union County Shopper News, which is still running strong.

She says: “My work at Shopper

News set me up to write well for your business, no matter what that business is. For

Carey

Carey launches blogging service

the Shopper, I covered ev-erything from boutiques tohigh-tech. I’m a quick study,and I’m great at making youlook good.”

Current clients include alocal marketing fi rm, GreatValley Wine Trail (formerlyThunder Road Wine Trail)and Braxton-Bragg’s “Slip-pery Rock Gazette.” Carey isalso a Shopper-News free-lance writer.

“I love getting to knowhard-working business peo-ple,” said Carey. “I love help-ing people tell their stories. Ihope you’ll let me tell yours.”

Info: thepluckypen.com,[email protected], or fi nd Plucky Pen onFacebook, Twitter or Insta-gram.

By Sandra ClarkThe 37-acre tract on Em-

ory Road adjacent to the Pow-ell Branch Library is back on the plan-ning com-m i s s i o n ’s agenda for rezoning.

M P C meets at 1:30 p.m. T hu r s d ay, May 12, at the City C o u n t y Building.

N o w zoned for mixed use

– residential and commer-cial – the owner, Dr. Jim Sternberg wants a more tra-ditional commercial zoning.

MPC staff initially rec-ommended against general commercial and staff were backed by the MPC com-missioners. But Sternberg appealed their denial to Knox County Commission where he found support. The issue was remanded to MPC. Executive Director Gerald Green came to Pow-ell, meeting with neighbors and Sternberg in March. He then met privately with Sternberg to hammer out conditions for rezoning.

Now staff is recommend-ing approval of planned commercial with multiple conditions:

■ Landscaping – a 10-foot strip installed between development and any street or road to include trees; and a continuous row of shrubs buffering any parking areas. Landscaping can be added as property is developed.

■ Curb cuts will be limited to three on Emory Road, including the existing entrance to the Powell Ani-mal Hospital and the exist-ing entrance to the residen-tial-style structures (former Bell homeplace) to the west.

■ Pedestrian connec-tivity must be ensured; including a greenway ease-ment along Beaver Creek. Trails or sidewalks shall be installed from the Emory Road sidewalk to the pro-posed Beaver Creek green-way.

■ Building design: To ensure that new buildings constructed on the prop-erty are compatible with the character of the Powell community, all new build-ings shall be constructed with street-facing facades of brick, stone or other high quality masonry material. No vinyl shall be used on the

front facade of any building; A minimum of 30 percent of the fi rst fl oor of the front facade of all retail buildings shall be windows, doors or other form of glazing.

■ Plan review: The ap-proval of site and building plans for development of all or any portion of the prop-erty shall be through the use on review process, with the MPC having authority to approve the plans.

This has been a sticking point with Sternberg prefer-ring no further review.

Development plans may be submitted for all of the property or any portion of the property if the devel-opment is undertaken in a phased manner.

The North County Sector plan must be amended to al-low this rezoning. Sternberg is represented by land use attorney John King.

Sternberg property back to MPC on Thursday

Jim Sternberg

Gerald Green

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JU graduates fi rst doctoral studentsJohnson University in

South Knox County has graduated its largest class and its fi rst cohort of doctor-

al students.In a cer-

emony April 30 at the Sevierv il le Convention Center, the u n iver s i t y hosted 267 g r a d u a t e s i n c l u d i n g

three associate degree re-cipients, 191 bachelor’s de-gree candidates, 70 master’s degree candidates and three doctoral candidates.

On May 7, an additional 36 students graduated from Johnson University Florida in Kissimmee.

In a prepared statement, Dr. Gary Weedman, JU

president, said the college now offers more than 70 de-gree programs. “The gradu-ation of our fi rst doctoral class is another milestone for Johnson University.”

The concept for a doc-toral program in leadership studies was broached in 2008 when the presidents of eight Christian colleges and universities discussed the need. Johnson Univer-sity took the lead, designing a program which launched in 2012.

Director Dr. Alicia Crumpton said the online program focuses on four dimensions of leadership: individual and personal systems, organizational sys-tems, global systems, and research. The curriculum is designed to develop schol-arship and professional

Johnson University’s fi rst cohort of doctoral candidates: Cody Christenson; Dr. Alicia Crumpton,

director of the doctoral program; Jamie Franke and Chris Beard.

Weedman

BIZ NOTES ■ Fountain City Busi-

ness and Professional Association meets

11:45 a.m. each second

Wednesday, Central

Baptist Church fellow-

ship hall. Guest speaker

for May 11 meeting will

be state rep. Bill Dunn.

President is John Fu-

gate, jfugate43@gmail.

com or 688-0062.

■ Halls Business and Professional Associa-tion meets noon each

third Tuesday, Beaver

Brook Country Club.

President is Carl Tindell,

[email protected] or

922-7751.

■ Powell Business and Professional Associa-tion meets noon each

second Tuesday, Jubilee

Banquet Facility. Presi-

dent is John Bayless,

[email protected] or

947-8224.

By Sara BarrettHome Federal Bank recog-

nized three Hometown Heroes last week for their community service and made donations to charities of their choice.

Jennifer Foster spends every Monday afternoon at Thrive Lon-sdale, tutoring middle school stu-dents and providing life skills in-struction for them. She also takes a group of elementary school students to a weekly Bible study at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church and regularly attends stu-dents’ sporting events, providing snacks and other resources.

Home Federal presented Thrive Lonsdale with a $2,500 donation in Foster’s honor. The after-school program provides mentoring for children on spiri-tual, emotional, academic and physical levels from adults who have been blessed with abun-dance in those areas.

Carla Harris has volunteered over the years at West Hills El-ementary and Bearden Middle schools, and she currently serves on the Foundation Board of Bearden High School. Carla, a mother of three, also works with

Safe Families for Children. She currently volunteers as a host mom, mentor, Bible study leader and board member.

Home Federal donated $2,500 to Safe Families for Children in Harris’ honor. Safe Families gives hope to families in crisis and serves as an alternative to foster care.

Wendy Thompson volunteers three days each week at Western Heights Baptist Center where she serves some 150 families experi-encing homelessness and mental illness and those with language barriers and criminal back-grounds.

Home Federal donated $5,000 to Western Heights Baptist Cen-ter in recognition of Thompson’s selection as this year’s overall program honoree. WHBC works to meet the physical and spiritu-al needs of all people by offering free food, clothing and house-hold items.

Since launching in 2010, the Hometown Heroes program has honored 50 volunteers and do-nated $147,500 to 41 local chari-ties. Info: homefederalbanktn.com

Home Federal president David Reynolds and CEO Dale Keasling present awards to three Hometown Heroes and made

donations to the charities of their choice. Pictured with Reynolds and Keasling are Wendy Thompson, Shannon Wash-

am, Jennifer Foster, Sarah Foster, Carla Harris and Janet Cockrum. Photo by S. Barrett

Home Federal honors Hometown Heroes

competencies while encour-aging self-refl ection and a deepened commitment to serve others. The 2016 doc-toral graduates come from

backgrounds in church leadership and educational administration.

JU recently announced “ExtendEd” sites across the

country (Indianapolis, Lou-isville, Phoenix and down-town Knoxville at The Regas B uilding) starting in August.

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By Margie HagenMike Carpenter measures time.

As the owner of Carpenter Clock & Watch Repair, his shop has restored more than 17,000 clocks and watch-es, including priceless museum col-lections and historical treasures. With over 38 years spent master-ing his craft, he carries on a family business founded in 1978.

His mother, Mary Carpenter, was a member of the National As-sociation of Watch & Clock Collec-tors (NAWCC), but she also wanted to be able to fi x the timepieces she collected. She began by reading and studying on her own, and soon Mike joined in. She eventually opened a shop, with Mike going to work at

age 14 and learning the business from the ground up.

After graduating from Farragut High School in 1983, Mike went on to play college basketball. A knee injury sidelined his dream of play-ing pro ball, so he returned home and took over the store in 1990. Since then he has kept antique clocks ticking at the Ramsey House, Mabry-Hazen House, the Crescent Bend House and the Knox County Courthouse.

As one of only a handful of cer-tifi ed clockmakers in the United States, Mike is part of a specialized group that gets smaller each year. As clockmakers retire, there are fewer apprentices to learn the craft

and become certifi ed. Why the decline? In Mike’s opinion, “The younger generation now gravi-tates to newer technology and the internet.”

Horology, the art and science of studying and measuring time, has evolved over the centuries. Once considered a luxury, pocket watches were the standard in the 1920s, then wrist watches became popular over the next several de-cades. Quartz watches replaced spring wound and became the standard for everyday watches.

Mike is truly old school when restoring timepieces. “Every job is different and I don’t cut corners. The customer doesn’t see the work

that goes inside.” He won’t refi nish clock cases.

“Antique clocks are old, they are meant to look old. If a customer wants a new clock they should buy a new clock.”

Mike Carpenter knows clocks

Mike Carpenter with best dog Charlie

Amanda Sellars stands by a retail display at Clo-

ver Cottage in Powell, but she gets most of her

sales from myclovercottage.comJosh Sellars shows off his newest vinyl printer.

J.R. Williams & Bros., circa 1910. Josh Sellars reproduces old

photos on canvas and mounts the print on old barnwood. He

recently bought a barn, just for the wood. This example of his

work hangs in the retail store at Clover Cottage.

Clover Cottage, Knox Graphix: Building business in 2016 and beyondBy Sandra Clark

Who says American free enterprise is dead?

Surely not Fountain City residents Josh and Amanda Sellers. The young entre-preneurs represent the next business generation, and they’ve found a home in North Knox County’s oldest commercial building.

Amanda bought the for-mer J.R. Williams & Bros. property at the corner of Commerce Road and Depot Street in Powell to relocate Clover Cottage, her 5-year business.

Her dad helped with res-toration and she moved in, only to be fl ooded when a waterline broke. She had no idea the county was planning to close the rail-road crossing at Commerce Road, severely reducing ac-cess to her store.

“Hallsdale Powell was easy to work with and the insurance covered our loss,” Amanda says. Knox County is exploring ways to improve the intersection at Emory Road and Depot to support safe traffi c fl ow. Amanda fi gures things will be OK. Besides, she’s got garments to design, trade shows to at-tend and sales to make.

More than 90 percent of her business is wholesale, she says. She’s already out of space to stock merchandise which she has made in Chi-na, shipped to Powell and repackaged for shipment across the Southeast. “One day a UPS truck pulled up and everything inside was for her,” said Josh.

Josh and Amanda have been married only since February. He seems amazed at her energy and drive. “She works me to death,” he grins.

Josh owns and operates Knox Graphix, located adja-cent to Clover Cottage. His website and Facebook page

show the range of his work. “Customize, customize, cus-tomize,” he says of his busi-ness plan. He’s bought most of his equipment off Craig’s List, including a new heat-based gadget that presses an image onto a shirt so smoothly that it can’t be felt. Josh prints team gear, T-shirts and posters on vinyl or canvas. He offers embroidery

and unique designs.Customers drop in fre-

quently to chat, especially about the building. “We’ve heard 50 million stories,” says Amanda. “Some say (the building) was a movie theater or a bathhouse or the train depot. We hear the movie theater most.”

Amanda studied busi-ness at UT, but she learned

her craft by attending cloth-ing trade shows with her grandmother and a neigh-bor. She’s been going since age 13.

Creativity is a key. With-out legal protection, her de-signs are copied by Chinese vendors. “We have to stay a week and a half ahead,” she says. That, and labor costs, are reasons she cannot open

a factory to produce her hair bows and baby clothes in Powell. Being a wholesaler, she has to turn out a lot of product in a short time. She accepts piracy as a cost of doing businesses and just creates new designs.

“We’re Southern, baby,” says Amanda, describing a camoufl age onesie that sells well at gun shows.

She and her mom have visited the Chinese facto-ries that make her products. Tales from that trip are for another column.

Drop by to see the build-ing and meet Amanda and Josh Sellars. Their pace is warp speed, but the prem-ise is the same: produce something people want to buy and you’ll succeed.

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SALE DATES: Wed., May 11 -Tues., May 17, 2016

Items and Prices are specifically intended to apply locally where issue originates. No sales to dealers

or competitors. Quantity rights reserved.Sales tax may apply. 2016 K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc.

Food City is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Selected Varieties,Food Club Ice Cream Cones (12-18 Ct.) or

Food City Premium Ice Cream

48 Oz.

Selected Varieties, Cubes, Singles or

Deli Style

Food Club Cheese

6-12 Oz.

Frozen, Selected Varieties

Food Club Pizza28.20-32.70 Oz.

Final price when you buy 5 in a single transaction. Lesser quantitiesare 3.49 each. Limit 1 transaction. Customer pays sales tax.

5/$10With Card

Selected Varieties

Coca-Cola Products6 Pk., 1/2 Liter Btls.

Food City Fresh, 75% Lean

Ground Beef Per Lb. for 3 Lbs. or More

399With Card

Certified Angus Beef

Chuck Roast

Per Lb.

249With Card

SAVE AT LEAST 5.49 ON TWO

Selected Varieties, Cooking Spray

(5-6 Oz.) or

Food Club Vegetable Oil

48 Oz.

WITHOUT VALUCARD REGULAR PRICE

WITHOUT VALUCARD REGULAR PRICE

SAVE AT LEAST 3.39 ON TWO

Selected Varieties, Hot Cocoa or

Food Club Coffee12 Ct. or 12 Oz.

SAVE AT LEAST 5.99 ON TWO

Selected Varieties

Food City Flour or

Cornmeal5 Lb.

SAVE AT LEAST 3.19 ON TWO

SAVE AT LEAST 2.59 ON TWO

Kern’s Texas Toast (20 Oz.) or

Hamburger or Hot Dog Buns8 Ct.

98th Anniversary Savings

Sweet

Jumbo CantaloupeEach

Final price when you buy 5 in a single transaction. Lesser quantities are regular price.

Customer pays sales tax.

Jumbo CantaloupeEachEach

Red Ripe

Campari Tomatoes16 Oz.

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB May 11, 2016

NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

RESTORING ABILITIES. REBUILDING LIVES.

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Two weeks can change your life Stroke survivor gets back on his bike

John McDermid is looking for-ward to the summer days ahead. He has big plans for his new re-cumbent trike.

“Plans are to ride every week-end on the trails around the area, if possible,” says McDermid, 57, who lives in Jefferson County, and works in Hamblen County. The recumbent trike is a multi-terrain vehicle McDermid can use on or off road, with an adjustable seat, rear wheel drive, and front two-wheel steering.

“It has a 28-speed gearing sys-tem like a typical mountain bike,” McDermid explains, “real smooth and comfortable.”

One of the most important fea-tures of the recumbent trike is its stability. McDermid is a stroke survivor who, just a few years ago, could barely walk. Therapy at Pa-tricia Neal Rehabilitation Center helped him get back on the road.

McDermid was at fi rst misdiag-nosed as having vertigo, then fur-ther symptoms were misdiagnosed as being related to the medication he’d been given. On Oct. 14, he lost all use of his limbs, and his wife called 911 for an ambulance to rush him to Knoxville. The fi nal di-agnosis was vertebral artery occlu-sion with dissection and stenosis of the basilar artery, meaning two of his arteries supplying blood to his brain were not doing their job.

Surgery was deemed too risky, so McDermid spent three weeks in the hospital’s critical care unit. The whole experience caught McDermid off guard, because he never suspect-ed he was at risk for a stroke.

Reviewing his risk factors at the time, there weren’t many to count. He’d dealt with a bit of hyperten-sion, and there had been some family history of heart disease, but on the whole, McDermid had been doing all the right things to stay healthy.

“I would say I was in decent shape and good weight as I was cycling quite a bit at the time, feel-ing life was good at 57 years old,”

“I would most defi nitely recommend

Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center

over any other place in the world,”

John McDermid says. McDermid suf-

fered a stroke in 2014.

John McDermid is active and

on the road again following

stroke rehabilitation at PNRC.

McDermid says. “No idea that something like this would happen to me, but it was not your regular stroke, either.”

It was a different person who checked out of the hospital in No-vember 2014. John McDermid, very active and seemingly in good health just a month earlier, now required assistance to accomplish daily tasks.

“I could not walk,” McDermid says, “but was able to move my left

limbs, having recovered some mo-bility on that side.”

McDermid was admitted to Pa-tricia Neal Rehabilitation Center for two weeks that changed the course of his life. “I did three hours of therapy Monday through Fri-day, and one hour on Saturdays,” he says. “The physical therapist had me doing a lot of lower limb work like the balance bar, trans-ferring from the wheelchair to the bed and back.”

Therapy took Mc-Dermid from the wheel-chair to a walker, and from the walker to a cane. He was also chal-lenged to master leg ex-ercises, and walking on stairs. An occupational therapist worked on his fi ne motor skills like ty-ing his shoe laces, get-ting dressed and work-ing with his hands.

“Speech therapy was by far the most chal-lenging,” McDermid says, “but rewarding.” The speech therapy consisted of cognizant therapy, problem solv-ing, multitasking, read-ing and writing.

McDermid met ev-ery challenge, and one reason for that was the

attitude of the therapists who were trying to help him. “Their compas-sion, work ethic and dedication to their professions are so apparent that it makes you want to work as hard as humanly possible,” Mc-Dermid says. “They are all so posi-tive that it’s infectious.”

Two weeks later he was re-leased to outpatient therapy closer to home. “Wow, there was a huge transformation,” he marvels.

Faith, family and friends gave McDermid the homegrown sup-port and encouragement he need-ed to heal, and return to his life back home. PNRC gave him the tools to get there.

“I would most defi nitely recom-mend Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center over any other place in the world,” McDermid says. “What they do is truly amazing, the ther-apy has been developed and tried, and it works.”

Stroke is the fourth lead-ing cause of death and a leading cause of serious, long-term adult disability. To learn how Patri-cia Neal Rehabilitation Center is helping stroke survivors get their lives back, visit patneal.org or call 1-800-PAT-NEAL (728-6325).

Think FAST!recognizing a stroke

Use the FAST test to

remember the signs of a stroke:

F = FACE: Ask the person to

smile. Does one side of the

face droop?

A = ARMS: Ask the person to

raise both arms. Does one

arm drift downward?

S = SPEECH: Ask the person to

repeat a simple sentence.

Does it sound strange or

slurred?

T = TIME: If you observe any

of these signs, call 911

immediately.

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The voice of experienceThere are several things John

McDermid wishes he had known before he had a stroke, and he hopes to help others who may be at risk. “Know your blood pres-sure, cholesterol level and stress levels,” he advises, “and listen to your body.”

While hospitals in small com-munities can offer great medical services, treatment of a stroke can require more specialized care.

“Know the hospitals that spe-cialize in stroke treatment,” he says. “Always call an ambulance rather than getting someone to

drive you to the hospital, because time saves lives, and speeds up di-agnosis and treatment.”

To those who are already stroke survivors, McDermid offers en-couragement.

“Be positive, listen to your doc-tors, nurses and therapists,” Mc-

Dermid says. “Do everything theytell you to and more, and nevergive up hope.”

McDermid also says a good sup-port system is critical to recovery,so “join a stroke support group,”he says, “and you will be amazedwhat you get out of it.”

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Transportation

Automobiles for Sale

Dodge Stratus 2003, V6, AT, PW, cruise, tilt, AM/FM/CASS/CD, cloth seats, 160K mi, exceptional cond. must see. $3050 OBO. 865-323-4014.

Sports and Imports

CAMARO 2011, 2SS, 47,600 mi, 426 HP,gray metallic finish, orig owner, like new cond throughout, $19,750.

(865) 388-4161

CHEVROLET - 1988 Iroc-Z, black, silver trim, Fixer Upper, $2,000. 865-577-9690

Honda Accord 1990, fully loaded, 2 dr, AT, looks & runs great, 4 Michelins, $3990. (865)308-2743.

MAZDA MX-5 MIATA - 2010. GT, red,black leather, cd, XM, heated seats, Bluetooth, power hardtop, 6 speedtransmission. Very good condition, garaged. Fun car! 24 mi., $15,500.(423)413-7919.

Mazda RX8 2006, shinka, blk, tan lthr,112K mi, new eng., clutch, belts,coil packs, rad., etc. Looks/runs like new, $8600 obo. (865) 776-1609.

NISSAN MAXIMA - 2013. Premier. Glass roof, leather, 16k mi, like new. $18,500. (423)295-5393.

Subaru Forester XT 2004, AWD, exc cond, new tires, 103,400 mi, $7150. (865) 966-5122.

TOYOTA CAMRY LE 2003, fully loaded, 4 new tires, red, 122K mi, $5990. (865)308-2743.

VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2002. Gold. Very good cond. Low mi. AT, loaded. $6000. (865)693-8525.

VW THING 1974 Runs good, Lots of extra parts,

$3000. (865)850-6541.

Sport Utility Vehicles

Honda Pilot Touring 2012, 4WD, fullyloaded, 47K mi, exc cond, $21,900.(423) 295-5393.

HYUNDAI 2012 Tucson Limited, AWD, low mi, clean, $17,499.

(865) 582-1943.

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 - 1995. XLT, restored, Auto/OD, new factory 302 engine, dualgas tanks, new paint, sale due toillness. $9,000. (865)694-0118.

FORD RANGER XLT 2011, Super Cab PU,40k mi, loaded, bedliner, new Miche-lins. $13,200/bo. (865)705-5309

Classic Cars

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

VW Beetle 1979, Conv., very orig., bumblebee yellow, beautiful, 75K mi, $10,900. (865) 257-3338.

Trailers

2 AXLE TRAILER - factory built, 12’ long, 75” wide, $1700.

(865) 693-5493

STOLEN TRAILER - 5x8, wire meshutility trailer w/ramp gate. Wood planks on deck. Stolen from Hin-kle Estates, Seymour 5/3/16. $100reward for info leading to recovery. (865)577-7837

Vehicles Wanted

FAST$$ CASH $$

4 JUNK AUTOS

865-216-5052865-856-8106

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

14 FT VOLUNTEER Fiberglass Fishing Boat. 14’10 wide, tri-fiberglass, 15HP Johnson motor & trailer. $600. (865)765-9117.

1995 Lowe 1900 deck boat, 90 HP Evinrude motor, w/trailer. Very good cond. $6500. (865)660-1924.

COBALT 220 1997, boat & trailer, exc.cond. Shown by appt. $16,900 or will consider an offer. (423)745-3013.

VOL NAVY TIME APPROACHING! Go in style with 29 ft. Crownline

Cruiser, two Volvo Penta V8’s 250 HP ea. I/O, galley, head, swim platform, cabins for 4 plus kids quarters, many

extras. Lake Loudon, covered slip. $16,900 obo. Due to health.

(423)639-3095 or 423-620-1850.

Campers & RV’s

2003 WINNEBAGO JOURNEY DL 34’ Diesel Pusher, 69,000 miles,

Freightliner chassis, air ride sus-pension, Allison transmission, 330

Caterpillar engine, 7500 Onan gener-ator, trailer hitch, backup camera, 2 slides, many extras. Asking $41,000.

email: [email protected]: (865)556-5972 (865)556-5972.

2007 FLEETWOOD Sun Vallley pop up, Sleeps 9, AC, awning, furnace,sofa, no slide out or bathroom. Call (423)869-4529.

2012 THOR ACE 29.1; 30’ CLASS A MOTORHOME;

Ford V12; Full body paint; ; 1 slideout; sleeps 5; queen bed w/ memoryfoam; couch; U-shaped dining; 2 TV’s;DVD players; Fridge; gas stove; micro-wave; 26,000 miles; many extras. $61,900. email: [email protected]; Call (865)210-4386.

2013 Jayco J Flight camper, 36’, 2 slides, elec awning, all wood inside, queen bed, 2 bunk beds, exc cond,1 owner, $25,000 obo. 865-567-4402

2013 MONTANA 5TH WHL, 3 slideouts including resort lot, Gatlinburg. Reduced to $61,000 or best offer. Pristine condition.

Call (865)964-8092.

2015 FOUR WINDS Class C-31 ft.Sleeps 7. low miles Lrg Slide Out.Lots of Extras. Beautiful $74,900 call 865-850-4379

Montana 2008 3075RL 5th Wheel, $24,000

3 slide outs, Artic package,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

Campers & RV’s

MONTANA BY KEYSTONE - 35’ 5thwheel, 3 slides, exc. cond. used very little. $19,500. (423)519-4245 or(423)836-2642.

NEW & PRE-OWNED

CLEARANCE SALE

ALL 2015 MODELS MUST GO!!!!

Check Us Out AtNorthgaterv.com

or call 865-681-3030

REDUCED NEWMAR MOUNTAIN AIRE - 5TH WHEEL. 2004,

3 slides, no smoke, no pets. Ext. warr. Very good cond. $25,000.

Tow truck avail. Crossville, (931)707-9851.

Motorcycles/Mopeds

1959 HARLEY DAVIDSON Duo Glide, allorig., 8,882 mi, $25K obo.

(865)679-0907.

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.

HARLEY DAVIDSON SPORTSTER 1200 1997, 15K mi., Leather & ScreaminEagle pkg. Extra chrome. Loaded. Gar. kept. $4,000. 941-224-0579.

HARLEY DAVIDSON TRIKE 2014, all access., 6723 mi., 1 owner,

$29,500. (865)882-6354.

HONDA 1994 TRIKE & MATCHING TRAILER, - many extras, gar. kept, exc. cond. 120K. Call after 6pm, 865-774-8801, asking $10,500 obo.

HONDA GOLDWING 2004 Red, 66k mi.Many extras. Call for details. Exc. cond. $11,250. (865)603-5470.

Off Road Vehicles

LOADED STARTING @ $9,999WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER!

Save some of your hard-earned money without sacrificing

speed or quality.GOAD MOTORSPORTSEast Tennessee’s largest

CFMOTODEALER

Mechanic On DutyFull Service Center

Parts & AccessoriesI-75, EXIT 134

Just Behind Shoney’s

Call 423-449-8433www.goadmotorsports.com

Jobs

Construction/Facilities

BULL RUN CREEK APARTMENTS NOW HIRING - Bull Run Creek Apartments now accepting applications for full time maintenance Technician.

Responsibilities include picking uptrash, painting, make ready units, and work orders including but not limited to plumbing, electrical, dry-wall, appliance, and HVAC repair.

Must have experience, own your owntruck, have a valid driver’s license and own personal tools.

Must have HVAC-EPA certification.Previous apartment experience a plus.

If interested you can call 865-992-5888 or send your resume to [email protected]

Driver/Transport

DRIVERS: CDL - A 1 yr. exp., Earn $1,250 + per week, Great Week-end Hometime, Excellent Benefits & Bonuses, 100% No Touch/70% D & H 888-406-9046

ServicesOffered

Air Cond/Heating

HOMETOWN AIR“Back to the basics”

Lennox17.00 S.E.E.R Heat Pump

Financing Available

Dozer Work/Tractor

• Bobcat w/Backhoe Attachment• Footer• Above-Ground Pools• Sewer Installations• Landscaping• Bush Hogging• Driveways• Firewood etc.

BOBCAT/BACKHOESmall dump truck. Small jobs

welcome & appreciated! Call 688-4803 or 660-9645.

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

HONEST& DEPENDABLE!

Small jobs welcome. Exp’d in carpentry, drywall, painting,

plumbing. Reasonable, refs avail.Call Dick at (865)947-1445

Landscaping/Lawn Service

DREAM GARDENSBeautiful & affordable garden designs! Professional installa-tion, exciting outdoor lighting,

bed remodeling, topnotch weeding, pruning & mulching.

dreamgardens.us Call (865)680-2076

RNJ LAWN CAREMowing, weed eating, blowing, odd jobs. No job too small! Call

Ray (865)356-1997

Plumbing

All Types of Residential & Commercial Plumbing

MASTER PLUMBER40 Years Experience � Licensed & Bonded

922-8728 � 257-3193

DAVID HELTON

PLUMBING CO.

Tree Services

Breeden's Tree Service

Aerial buckettruck

Stump grindingBrush chipperBush hoggingTrimming &

removingLicensed and insured

Over 30 yrs. experienceFree estimates

865-219-9505

EDWARDS TREE SERVICEInterior Pruning, Complete

Removal, Power Stump Grinding

Insured • Free Estimates

922-0645Workers Comp Liability

Owner Operator Roger Hankins

497-3797Pruning • Logging

Bush HoggingStump Removal

Insured FREE ESTIMATES • LIFETIME EXPERIENCE

HankinsTree Service

TREE WORKAND POWER STUMP GRINDER

Free est, 50 yrs exp!Call (865)804-1034

Garage Sales

North

2927 MYNATT RD - Spring GarageSale. May 13th & 14th, 8am-?

7408 WOOD RD - 5/12-5/13, 9am-5pm.Thompson School Rd, Pass Clear Springs Church. Tanning bed, humidifiers and dehumidifiers, HH items, clothing, and much more!

Hawthorne Oaks Community Yard Sale- Sat, May 14, 8am-? Turn at thecorner of Emory and Heiskell and 1 mi on the right.

RUMMAGE SALE - 4600 Ventura Dr.May 12,13,14, Lots of Stuff! BoysClothes, Sizes 5 and 6, Comforter and Sheet sets, Odds and Ends,Kid’s Toys

SUMMER ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD - May14th, 8 am - 2 pm. NeighborhoodGarage Sale, off Murphy Rd. 37918.

YARD SALE- May 14th, 8am-2pm. Out-door furn, sports equip. HH items, mens, wns, & teen clothing. 7819 Chillingsworth lane. Located in the Mendonhall Estates S/D in Powell.

East

Huge Lawn Sale. Restaurant & con-cession equip, HH items, collect-ibles, jewelry, tools, dollhouse, christmas trees & decor, etc. April13-14th, 8am-5pm. 517 Bagwell Rd.

Farmer’s Mkt/Trading Post

Farm Buildings

BARNS - SHEDSGARAGES - CARPORTS

PATIO COVERSBUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY

FREE ESTIMATES!

Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330

Farm Equipment

1949 FARMALL CUB w/cultivators. Good tires. Great paint job Runs good. No dents. $1800. (865)475-1182

1975 FORD 3000 TRACTOR 1 owner. PS, diesel, 8 pcs. of equip., 18’ trailer, $8000/b.o. (865)922-8694; 865-556-8694

Farm Products

AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER

USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL

865-986-4264

Logs2Lumber.com

FANNON FENCING

We build all types of Farm Fencing and Pole Barn.

*WOOD & VINYL PLANK*BARBED WIRE*HI-TENSILE ELECTRIC*WOVEN WIRE,*PRIVACY FENCING, ETC.

(423)200-6600

FREEZER BEEFcorn fed

(865)441-5093

TOMATO & VEGETABLE PLANTS READY - at Hardin’s Mountain Or-ganics in Maynardville. (865)992-1462

Wanted to Buy

WANT TO BUY STANDING TIMBER, Hardwood & Pine & Land Clearing.

865-982-2606 & 865-382-7529.

Pets

Dogs

BASSET HOUND puppies, 8 wks, 1 F, 4M, shots, wormed, $300.

(865)548-9205

BASSETT HOUNDS AKC - Lemon & tris.$500 & up. Vet ck. Contact 865-622-0726 or 865-622-0615

DOBERMAN PUPS AKC - 9 wks, huge. Shots. Wormed. Parents on prem. Paper trained. $600. (865)428-6981

ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPPIES - 1 M, 1 F, 11 wks. old, white w/fawn color spots, vet approved, 1st set of shots, we own the sire & the dam. F, $1350, M, $1500. (865)776-8532.

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

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

GREYHOUND ADOPTIONPetSmart, Morrell Rd., Sat. May 14,12-2pm, www.greyhoundrescue.org

865-690-0009 or 865-539-9942.

HAVENESE PUPS AKC, home raised, health guar. 765-259-7337

noahslittleark.com

LAB puppies, AKC, black & yellow, M & F, 1st shots, $600 M, $700 F.(865)360-7750

MALTI POO Beautiful toy puppies, $350-$450.

Shots. 865-717-9493

POMERANIAN 6 wks old, shots &wormed, 1 M & 1 F, CKC reg., $450.

(931)319-0000

SHIH-TZU CHIHUAHUA MIX - puppies, 5 wks. old, $200. Pomeranian fem. AKC reg. $400. (865)292-1155

WOLF HYBRID PUPPIES - 12 wks., $250 each. 2 girls, 2 boys,

Call Eric 865-654-9338.

YORKIE MALES, AKC PUPS - 10 weeks,1st shot, dewormed, $399. Phone (865)712-2366

Merchandise

Antiques

1960 FULL BED SET - Great Cond: American of Martinsville Mid Cen-tury Modern full head & foot bd bed, triple dresr w/mirror, 5 drwrchest. Unique black & gray finish. Apprsd $2000. Asking $750 Text or call (865)789-8448

WANTED - Military antiques and collectibles

865-368-0682

Appliances

GOOD AS NEW

APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-90532001 E. Magnolia Ave.

Kenmore top loading, hi efficiency,low water washer. Less than 1 yr old. $250. (865)579-9738

Cemetery Lots

HIGHLAND - Memorial Garden, 2 lots w/crypts & 1 opening & clos-ing. Reasonable offer. 637-3629 (865)637-3629

Clothing

CUSTOM FITTED FOUNDATION GAR-MENTS - Illa’s B & G Shop. The braand girdle speciality shop. Hard to fit? We’ve got you covered! Call for appt (865)687-7638

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

ALL WOOD FURNITURE antique diningrm tbl w/6 chairs, china cab., sofa, table, curio cab. (336)669-2621

Full size solid walnut high poster bed, family heirloom, seller moving, will sell $750. Will text pictures to seri-ous inquiries. (865) 742-8087

KINGSIZE BED, like new - incl. mat-tress & box sprngs. pd $3900; sell $2000/b.o. Gatlinburg (865)436-7519

Hobbies

BONSAI EXPO - UT Gardens Bloom’s Day, May 7th-8th. Trees, demos, silent auction! (919)880-8029

Household Goods

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

Hunt/Fish Supplies

DIAMOND STUD COMPOUND BOW - with case. Ready to hunt. $400. (865)603-5709

Lawn & Garden

ARIENS 46” CUT - 20HP, $550.,

(865)765-9117

BONSAI EXPO - UT Gardens Bloom’s Day, May 7th-8th. Trees, demos, silent auction! (919)880-8029

JOHN DEERE X475 - 192 hrs, 48” deck, like new. $5295 obo (865)599-0516

Merchandise - Misc.

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

UTILITY TRAILERSALL SIZES AVAILABLE

[email protected]

Musical

ACCORDIAN, FULL SIZE older model & exc. cond. with case. $1000

(423)371-5626

NEW PORK PIE 5 PC. DRUMSETdw double kick pedals, Gibraltarstands with Zildjan AHT cymbals: ride cymbal, two crash, & splash cymbal. Beautiful burgundy drumset. $1000 (865)640-6617.

Office Furniture/Equip.

DESK RETURN & HUTCH - 4 black stacking client chairs; three 4 draw-er filing cabinets’ 2 drawer filingcab., 3 drawer lateral filing cab.,executive chair, bookcase. Only 2 yrs. old. Exc. cond. $1000/b.o.(865)470-4262

Pool & Spa Supplies

HOT TUB WITH LID - 20 jets. sits 6 ppl.like new except needs some wk...if motor 234.00 plus labor may just be propeller. 773-6890. best offer. (865)773-6890

Sporting Goods

WILL TRADE 12 gauge Home DefenseShotgun. Collapsible Stock, pis-tol grip w/swing, black synthetic,20” barrel for small caliber rifle.(865)309-1995

Tickets/Events

UTFB PARKING PASS - Get ready for VOLS football! Options are G10T, 9, G5/30. Will know definite soon. Call or text # below if interest!(704)575-6516

Tools

CABINET SHOP EQUIPMENT - Ownerretiring. Call Tom. Best Offer.(423)834-5716

Wanted

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

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

North

DRASTICALLY REDUCED. Beautiful 4BR in Teaques Grove, close to I-75& Emory Rd. Nearly 1/2 acre, subd.pool, too many features to list. Pow-ell A+ schools. byowner.com MLS957738. Call Danielle 954-547-2747. $267,500. OPEN SUNDAY APRIL 24,1-3PM. 1417 Wineberry Rd., Powell, TN 37849

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 andnew filter on well pump. Owner willfinance with $8,250 down. Call Bill at 877-488-5060 ext 323.

West

FARRAGUT. 2 stry, 3-4 BR, 2.5 BA, 3 cargar., prof. landscaping w/irrigation, fncd bkyard, great family nghbrd. comm. pool, $299,000. 865-388-2387

OPEN HOUSE SUN. 2-4MODERN 3 BR, 1 level, all brick.

225 Medford Rd, Wedgewood Hills. $210,000. (865)591-8831

Condos-Unfurn

Convenience - Walk to Turkey Creek 2 master BRs, 2 full BAs, 1876 SF,

nghbrd pool & walking trails, $189,900. (865) 566-4119

WANTED: Someone who will gladly pay $199 a mo. extra to have a guard at the front gate. 24/7 for your pro-tection. We have a totally renovated3BR, 3 1/2 BA, airy luxury condo in an exclusive community in conve-nient West Knoxville. $310,000. Call Thad Cox at 865-250-3019.

Townhouse/Villas-Unfurn

DRASTICALLY REDUCED. 2 BR, 2 BA + sunroom, 2 car gar., all appls incl W&D, close to I-75 & Emory Rd. $124,900. 7120 Allison Way, Knox-ville, TN 37918. Call 954-547-2747, ask for Kevin

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THROUGH SUNDAY, MAY 22“Snow White and Rose Red,” Knoxville

Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; [email protected]; 208-3677.

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, MAY 11Computer Workshop: Internet and Email Basics,

2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer’ or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, MAY 12“Getting Your House in Order” seminar,

2-3 p.m.., Physicians Regional Medical Center, 900 East Oak Hill Ave., Emerald Room. Free; registration required. Info/registration: 1-855-TENNOVA (836-6682) or Tennova.com.

“Grow Veggies Anywhere,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Amy Haun. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

Halls Book Club: “The Rosie Project,” 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Heiskell Seniors monthly luncheon/meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Community Center, 1708 W. Emory Road. Theme: “Kentucky Derby.” Speaker: Jake McKinnie with Thrivent. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

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

Union County Family Community and Education (FCE) clubs spring luncheon and meeting, 10:30 a.m., Community Baptist Church on Highway 61West. “Music in the Air ... the Musical Heritage of East Tennessee” covered dish luncheon will be hosted by the Big Ridge FCE Club. Guest speaker: Jack Neely, executive director of the Knoxville History Project. Info: Gloria Halcomb, 585-4774.

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

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 12-13AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., Halls

Senior Center, 4410 Crippen Road. Registration: 922-0416. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY, MAY 13Free Movie In The Park at Luttrell Park. Movie

begins at dusk. Bring chairs or blanket. Free Movie Night at Beaver Dam Baptist Church

featuring “Woodlawn,” 7 p.m., third fl oor education building, 4328 E. Emory Road. Free popcorn and drinks. Info: 922-2322.

Gala Day, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Union County Senior Citizens Center, 298 Main St., Maynardville. Bring dish to go with barbecue. Info: 992-3292 or 992-0361.

Halls Middle School Spring Carnival, 4:30-8:30 p.m., 4317 E. Emory Road. Activities include: carnival games, live bluegrass music, basket auctions, silent auction and more. Free admission. Unlimited carnival game wristbands: $5. Food available for purchase: Buddy’s BBQ, Bruster’s, pizza and more.

SATURDAY, MAY 14American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life,

4-10 p.m., Fountain City Park. Theme: “Paint Your

World Purple.” Activities include: food, games, a silent auction, entertainment and opportunities to support the American Cancer Society; survivors and caregivers will be recognized along with a special luminaria ceremony.

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.

The Primitive Quartet will sing, 6 p.m., Faithway Baptist Church, 4402 Crippen Road.

Spring East Tennessee Plant Swap, 10 a.m., New Harvest Park, 4775 New Harvest Lane. Setup begins 9:45. Potluck lunch 11:30 a.m.; verify potluck and list of food on Swap Forum. Info/rules/link to forum: www.easttnplantswap.com.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 14-15“Tapestry Weaving Basics,” 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Tommye Scanlin. Bring a frame loom and lunch. Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

MONDAY, MAY 16Senior lunch, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Luttrell Community

Center, 115 Park Road. Lunch will be barbecue; entertainment by Tommy White. All seniors welcome. Bring a dish to share.

Monday Night Book Club: “Women of the Silk,” 6-8 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

TUESDAY, MAY 17“Carbs: the good, the bad and the ugly,” 10

a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Followed by a healthy cooking demo at 11. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Honor Guard meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans invited. Info: 256-5415.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

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

Sharps Chapel Seniors Fish Fry, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sharps Chapel Community Building, 1550 Sharps Chapel Road. Bring a side dish. Info: 992-3292 or 992-0361.

THURSDAY, MAY 19Family Pajama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Halls

Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.Plainview 7th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Plainview Community Center. Info: 992-5212.

FRIDAY, MAY 20Shakespeare for Kids, 2 p.m., Fountain City

Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 689-2681.

SATURDAY, MAY 21Children’s Festival of Reading, 10 a.m.-3

p.m., World’s Fair Park on the Festival Lawn and Amphitheater. Kick off celebration for the Knox County Public Library’s summer reading programs. Free admission. Featuring: world-class authors, illustrators, storytellers, musicians and more. Info: knoxlib.org.

Dancing for the Horses, 6 p.m., Bridgewater Place, 205 Bridgewater Road. Fundraising event hosted by Horse Haven of Tennessee and modeled after “Dancing with the Stars.” Info/tickets: HorseHavenTn.org/Dancing4Horses.

Deadline for entries to the Donna Jones Memorial Student Art Contest and Exhibit, formally called the Art on Main Student Art Contest and Exhibit. All students in grades six through 12, local schools or homeschool, are eligible. Entries should be delivered to: Tax Assessor’s offi ce, Courthouse; the UT Agriculture/4-H offi ce; Mrs. Parks, middle school; Mrs. Sexton, the high school. Info: Gloria Holcomb, 585-4774.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 21-22Repticon, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4

p.m. Sunday, Kerbela Shriners building, 315 Mimosa Ave. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 for children 5-12, children under 5 free. Info/VIP and advance tickets: repticon.com/knoxville.html.

MONDAY, MAY 23The Bob Kesling and Bert Bertelkamp Golf

Tournament to raise money for Helen Ross McNabb Center, Holston Hills Country Club. Registration, 7 a.m.;

shotgun start, 8:30. Volunteers and sponsors welcome. Info/registration: mcnabbcenter.org.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 11 a.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 525-5431.

TUESDAY, MAY 24“Glass Fusing Workshop,” 6-8:30 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Kathy King. A Featured Tennessee Artist Workshop. Registration deadline: May 17. Info/registration: Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25Computer Workshop: Word Basics, 2-4:15 p.m.,

Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 922-2552.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, MAY 25-26AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., O’Connor

Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, MAY 26“Celebrate Summer: Container Gardens

for Season-Long Cheer,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardner Lynn Carlson. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 11 a.m., North Knoxville Branch Library, 2901 Ocoee Trail. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 525-7036.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 4 p.m., Corryton Branch Library, 7733 Corryton Road. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 688-1501.

Shakespeare for Kids, 6:30 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 922-2552.

FRIDAY, MAY 27“Old Bear and His Cub,” 2 p.m., Fountain City

Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 689-2681.

SATURDAY, MAY 28Fourth Saturday Jam Session, 7 p.m., Old Rush

Strong School in Sharps Chapel. Bluegrass, country and gospel music performed by local musicians. Refreshments available; donations appreciated.

Lego Club, 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Local author Dewaine Speaks will speak and sign books, 2-4 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

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

Submissions deadline for Appalachian Arts and Crafts Center jurying process. Three sample of work, 425 jury fee and completed forms must be submitted between Monday, May 23, and noon Wednesday, June 1. Info/forms: appalachianarts.net, 494-9854, 2716 Andersonville Highway.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.

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

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

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

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.

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MORNINGSIDE GARDENS1 BR Apt Now AvailableELDERLY OR DISABLED

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SENIOR OR DISABLED HIGH RISE FACILITY1 BR APTS. All util paid.

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Homes Unfurnished

POWELL CLAXTON. 3 BR, 2 BA, no pets, private, convenient, $700 mo + 1st, last, DD. 865-748-3644

Condos Unfurnished

GLEN VIEW - Large 3 BR, 2 bath condo, Master on Main. Lower level

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WEST - family neighborhood, w/d connection, 4 bdrm, 2 bath,

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492 ACRE HUNTING LEASE

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NEW BUILDING FOR LEASE, Zone - Light industrial office, conf. rooms, open space, 8000 SF, Bethel Valley Industrial Park, at the end of Pell. Pkwy, Oak Ridge, close to ORNL Lab. & Y12 plant. Call 865-806-2640.

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WAREHOUSE OFFICE - 5450 Hwy 321,Lenoir City. 2 units: 3300 SF ($1450)5500 SF ($2400) Could be one unit.865-777-2500

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20,000 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE, 18’eaves equip. with fire sprinklersyst., 4 truck docks, 1 drive thru door. $5000/mo. 8422 AshevilleHwy. (865)567-4640

DOWNTOWN OFFICE SUITE WITHPARKING - 119 W. Summit Hill Drive,Downtown prime 1st fl 4500 sq. ft. office space w/parking. Easy I-40 access. (865)637-8400

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