By Jake MabeKnox County Clerk Foster Ar-

nett has moved the county’s sat-ellite offi ce from its 15-year spot in Halls Cen-ter to a space in Crossroads Cen-tre (near the for-mer Walmart). It opened May 31.

Arnett calls it a “nicer space” with “far better

parking,” says the lease came up last month and he thought it was “prime time” to move, an idea he brought before County Commis-sion last December.

He says the main reason is to utilize more usable space while saving money.

Arnett says the offi ce had 3,298 square feet upstairs in the former location, “including common ar-eas,” and 4,162 square feet in the basement. He says the basement is damp and unusable, adding that employees worked there until 2.5 years ago and it held his inventory unit, which he moved to the Clerk’s offi ce basement downtown.

“We still had to pay (rent) even though we could not use

(the downstairs).”He said the old site was “all

chopped up,” “too dark” and con-tained “tons of wasted space,” in-cluding the front area, which he said was “largely decorative” and included a fi sh pond/wishing well structure, which he said was a “hazard” he removed in 2014.

He says total rent – which in-cluded space for employees of the Knox County Trustee and the Knox County Sheriff’s Offi ce – was $4,932.87 a month. He says his current rent is $3,503.64 for 3,200 square feet.

“We’re all in the same room, enabling our employees to work much more effi ciently.” He calls the move, “a good, fi scally sound decision for our taxpayers and staff,” and stressed the move was discussed at the commission meeting and workshop. The info is on Arnett’s website and a neon sign, put up in April, remains just inside the old site, directing pa-trons to the new location.

County fi nance director Chris Caldwell confi rmed the monthly rent on the former site, and says total monthly rent on the new site – which also covers Trustee Ed Shouse and Sheriff Jimmy “JJ”

Jones’ satellite offi ces – is $5,256 for 4,800 square feet. Renova-tion cost is $100,000 – $60,000 of which was reimbursed by U.S. Properties Group, from which the new site is leased, and $40,000 of which was set aside (as part of an original $175,000 estimate) last December in fi scal year 2015 county surplus funds.

Shouse said he had no problem at the other site, that his employ-ees work there eight months out of the year, and says he met with Arnett and someone from the Sheriff’s Offi ce several times to look at new locations after Arnett expressed interest in moving. But he says the fi nal decision to move his offi ce was his alone.

“We take in checks and quite a bit of cash. I didn’t see how the numbers would work to go it alone to hire (security) and rent 350 square feet. Nobody said this, but I was also worried about people saying that they used to conduct their county business in one place and now would have to drive to two or three other places.”

Knox County Sheriff Jimmy “JJ” Jones staffs two employees at the Halls precinct.

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By Betty BeanTwo weeks ago, Amber Roun-

tree, who served on a task force that studied disparities in aca-demic performances among Knox County students, told her school board colleagues there’s some-thing badly wrong with the state’s funding formula for education.

“You need to be talking to your state legislators about the fact that the BEP (Basic Education Plan) is broken, and our kids are not get-ting what they need,” said Roun-tree, who said that working on the task force taught her that most student disparities are caused by poverty, regardless of ethnicity or disability.

“We all have to come together as a community. We have to all reach out to come up with a solu-tion.”

When asked to elaborate, Roun-tree said Knox County Schools’ greatest need is for additional so-

Rountree Brooks

Rountree calls state funding formula ‘broken’

cial workers and guidance coun-selors. She said these positions have never been adequately fund-ed by the BEP, which was created by the Education Improvement Act of 1992 to settle a lawsuit fi led by a group of small school systems that challenged the way the state distributed money between urban and rural school districts.

The BEP was updated in 2007 (becoming BEP 2.0), but leaders of the state’s larger school systems complain that the state has sim-ply shifted the burden for paying

for education to urban districts like Knox County. Periodically, lawmakers consider bills requir-ing the state to fully fund the BEP, but those measures invariably get punted to a summer study com-mittee black hole.

Rountree said many of the “en-hancements” included in the BEP 2.0 reforms have never been fully funded – guidance counselors and social workers among them.

“Whatever money (Gov. Bill) Haslam put forth this past year hasn’t enhanced that area.”

She said Moreland Heights El-ementary School shares a social worker with Pleasant Ridge El-ementary.

“That’s one person trying to meet the needs of 800-plus stu-dents,” she said. “I don’t think there’s a perfect solution, but the way we’re doing it now is obviously not working. We’re at the bottom of the barrel with educational

funding, and I’m not sure how anyone in the state can rah-rah the virtues of the BEP.”

Rountree said she feels “a lack of connection with representa-tives at the state level – like when Bill Dunn was trying to push his voucher bill through, saying he had a letter from the school board, when in reality it was a letter from (board chair) Doug Harris. The majority of the board did not support Dunn’s bill. And the con-versations I’ve had with Harry (Brooks), I’m not sure he thinks the BEP needs to be fi xed.”

Brooks, who chairs the House Education Administration and Planning Committee and served on a task force convened by Gov. Bill Haslam to work on fi nding more money for education, said that state government has worked hard

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Foster Arnett

Looking for space … Clerk moves satellite offi cea presence in Halls,” Jones said, “and provide an easier way for folks to get their business done without having to go downtown.”

County Commission voted unanimously (with Amy Broyles absent) to approve the move in Jan-uary. Commissioner Charles Busler, whose district includes Halls, says he was told that “all the rooms will be larger than what they had,” and says a majority of people has told him they like the move.

Others have complained about inadequate access for those who are disabled or need assistance, includ-ing Halls resident Kenneth Riffey, who visited the new site June 2.

He said the facility has no pub-lic restroom and no handicapped parking.

“I had to park about 100 feet from the entrance,” Riffey said.

Arnett said it’s the property owner’s responsibility to provide handicapped parking. He cited security as a reason for no public restroom.

Former County Clerk Mike Padgett, who launched satellite offi ces in Knox County, wanted a

Nicholas Gibbs open house

The Nicholas Gibbs Histori-cal Society will host an open house 11 a.m. Saturday, June 11, at the original log home of Nicholas Gibbs, 7633 E. Emory Road. There will be food, mu-sic and an opportunity to learn local history. Bring a fold-ing chair and a potluck dish. Everyone is invited. In case of rain, the meeting will be moved to Clapps Chapel UMC, located just past the homesite. Info: Joe Longmire, 687-0314.

‘Opal’s Million Dollar Duck’

The world’s most kind-hearted hoarder is, once again, having to fend off numb-skulled crooks looking to swindle her.

Eccentric but sweet Opal Kronkie lives near the city dump, and operates “Opal’s Antique Junk Shop,” which is a nice way of saying her home is a mess. She’s visited by local actors Desmond and Queenie, the “stars” of a nearby summer-stock company. While rooting through Opal’s treasures, they come across a painting of a dead mallard and an apple. Mistaking this for valuable artwork from a museum, the two devise a plan to buy the painting for next-to-nothing, and return it for a handsome reward.

It’s the story line of “Opal’s Million Dollar Duck,” a comedy coming soon from the Powell Playhouse.

It will be performed at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 23-25, with a 2 p.m. Matinee on Saturday at the Jubilee Banquet Facility on Callahan Road. Tickets are $10 with a $5 senior discount for the matinee and can be pur-chased at the door – or online at powellplayhouse.com

Dinner is $15 and lunch ($10) before the matinee. Meal reservations: 865-938-2112.

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Benefi t sale June 10-11 in Luttrell

A benefi t/garage/yard sale is planned in memory of Union County resident Sarah Howe, 28, who died in a car accident Feb. 3 leaving behind two young boys. Donations from family and friends include personal items, antiques, col-lectibles, glassware, books, jewelry, scrubs, tools, furni-ture, swing set, and clothing – house, shed and carport are full. Cash only, no credit/debit cards. Rain or shine Friday and Saturday June 10 - 11 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Redbud Circle, Luttrell 37779.

brings tears at Morning Pointe

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and Knox County Commissioner Bob Thomas present a certifi cate to United States Army veteran Earl Hoff meister.

By Cindy TaylorIt was an emotional afternoon May 27 with many

tears shed when staff and residents at Morning Pointe Powell, along with local offi cials, participated in the Missing Man Table and POW/MIA Flag Dedi-cation ceremonies in remembrance and honor of our military men and women.

The ceremony was presented by Rolling Thunder Tennessee Chapter 3.

“Our mission is to support and assist our veterans,” said Rolling Thunder member and veteran Brenda Ow-ensby. “We try to keep those we have lost uppermost in people’s minds. Many people don’t even know there are

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Each Memorial Day in historic Fountain City Park at Honor Fountain City Day there is an opportunity to renew friendship with long-time Fountain City residents. Andrew Whitaker is one you always look forward to see-ing. He is a master mason and is always involved in in-teresting projects, such as the work he did at the Foundry in World’s Fair Park.

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Andrew Whitaker stands in what appears to be the remains of a lily or goldfi sh pond on the grounds of the once-palatial Scran-ton Estate. Photos submitted

It was Andrew who, during his teen years, when Foun-tain City Lake was drained and restored (1985-86), found a veritable treasure of glassware and bottles for his collection buried in the muck in the lakebed. The treasure included many “pop” bottles from bygone days.

The lake is only a half-block from the Hotel Avenue and Broadway corner where iconic Dossie Miller Cooper and her husband, William Cooper, had their Fountain City Confectionary about 1915, so many of the bottles could have dated to that pe-riod.

But, Andrew Whitaker’s interest in Fountain City’s history did not end in his teen years. In April 2013, he told the author about a hidden garden to the east

This arched bridge is one of the many impressive structures ap-parently built on the site about 1900. The walls of the ponds and the other concrete features are still intact after more than 100 years.

of Maynardville Highway and part way up Black Oak Ridge in the Highland Park subdivision. Aerial maps in-dicate it may be on the north side of a small ridge with nearby Savage Garden just south of it.

The mystery was par-tially solved with a search of the property records at the Trustee’s Offi ce in the Knox County courthouse. The property search indicated that a Knoxville attorney, W.W. Scranton, was an early owner of the property.

But who was W.W. Scran-ton?

Partial solution to the mystery came after the re-cent unveiling of the Knox County Library’s “From Pa-per to Pixels” project. There are more than 2,600 “hits” when one enters the word

“Scranton.” Several hours reading them disclosed that more than 75 percent relate to Scranton, Pa., of course. Another 20 percent were re-ports of the Scranton’s two sons, Paul and Eric, and their athletic exploits at Central High School and the YMCA where they participated in baseball, football and track, often with classmate Roy Acuff on the same team.

Fortunately, the obitu-ary columns for both W.W. Scranton and his wife were also found. They revealed that Walter W. Scranton (1862-1934) came to Knox-ville in 1889 after he gradu-ated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Kenyon is a small elite private college lo-cated in Knox County, Ohio, in the geographic center of the state and the oldest pri-

vate college in Ohio, affi liated with the Episcopal Church.

On his arrival in Knox-ville, Scranton was fi rst hired by the old Knoxville Tribune but later established a law practice. Still later, he supported his family for about eight years on the meager salary of a clerk in the offi ce of a justice of the peace, Squire Frank Dobson.

But, good fortune came his way when he inherited $100,000 from an aunt who had owned valuable lake front property in Cleveland, Ohio. He immediately re-tired and for the remainder of his life drew between $300 and $400 a month from that bequest.

So Scranton was appar-ently present in north Knox County about the turn of the century, when Col. J.C. Woodward was converting a sleepy community named Fountain Head into a “des-tination place.” Woodward’s hotel and resort were less than a mile from the loca-tion on Old Broadway where, it appears, Walter Scranton built his palatial home with terraced fi sh ponds, elegant

concrete benches and bridg-es and graveled footpaths with bountiful exotic and native plants.

Bill Dohm, co-owner of Garden Montessori School near the property, has a story which tends to confi rm that theory. Before most of the development that sur-rounds the property, about 1985, he was walking up Templeton Road when on his left he passed a level area with stone columns to left and right and just inside them there was evidence of a circular pond some 15-feet in diameter. He surmised that this was the former entrance to a home with its large for-mal gardens well behind it on the slope of the ridge.

Some have thought the numerous rather large emp-ty basins on that site repre-sented the remains of a fi sh hatchery but, more likely, they were the lily or goldfi sh ponds on Scranton’s dream estate.

His friends did not know he was ill, but Walter W. Scranton died suddenly at his home on Jan. 4, 1934. The Rev. Carl Thomas offi ciated

at his funeral service at the Lynnhurst-Resthaven Cha-pel prior to his burial in the cemetery. He was survived by his widow, his two sons and a sister, Mrs. Ella Brown.

Interestingly, a major portion of Bob Wilson’s Sport Talk column on Jan. 6, 1934, is devoted to a tribute to “as rabid a baseball fan as ever lived, W.W. Scranton.” Wilson said that “even fans who never had the pleasure of meeting him will remem-ber him as the little white-haired man, always immac-ulately dressed and wearing a wing-tipped collar,” who rarely missed a home game.

Col. Bob Allen, Scran-ton’s close friend and owner of the Southern League’s Knoxville Smokies, said of Scranton that “he loved the game as much as anyone I have ever known. He used to take the same seat in the grandstand game after game. Other fans became so accustomed to seeing him there that they never took his seat. He always got a scorecard and kept score, and he could tell you every-thing that happened from the fi rst until the last inning when the game was over.”

Another mystery about Walter Scranton lies as yet undiscovered. How did Wal-ter Scranton meet and marry Laura Jensen Scranton (1877-1939), a native of Copenha-gen, Denmark? She passed away on June 22, 1939, sur-vived by her two sons.

Anyone with more infor-mation on the family or the Scranton Garden is encour-aged to contact the author at jctchs44@nxs.net

Knox County Commissioner Bob Thomas and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett present a certifi cate of Appreciation to 91-year-old United States Army veteran Dwight Patterson (cen-ter). Photos by Cindy Taylor

Rolling Thunder members Ann Wolf and Brenda Owensby with Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and Rolling Thunder members Suzy Dauber and Robert Sullivan behind the Missing Man Table before the ceremony at Morning Pointe Powell.

still service members who are missing and have never returned home.

More than 15 veterans at-tended. Most were residents of Morning Pointe Powell. Three resident veterans traveled from Morning Pointe in Clinton.

The Rev. Jim Waddell, senior adult pastor at First Baptist Powell, opened the event with prayer.

Morning Pointe staff member Leslee Wilkinson sang the National Anthem. Singer/songwriter Ann M. Wolf read the script for the Missing Man Table cer-emony as patriotic music swelled in the background. Suzy Dauber guided the Missing Man Table. Many

items used during the cer-emony came from Morning Pointe resident veterans.

After the ceremony, Knox County Mayor Tim Bur-chett and at-large County Commissioner Bob Thomas presented a certifi cate of ap-preciation and thanked each veteran as state Rep. Bill Dunn read each name aloud.

Veterans honored were Jim Lyons, Charles Lord,

John Moyers, Leon May, Ronald Fritts, Sam Dyer, Dwight Patterson, Harry Ogden, Clyde Hubbs, Bobby Dupes, Fred Pardue, John Simmons, Paul Summers, Gerald Heard, Bill Jones, Earl Hoffmeister and Wal-ton Gene Woods.

Veteran Dwight Patter-son, 91, served in three ma-jor wars; WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

“This is a great tribute to veterans in the United States and other countries as well,” said Patterson.

After the indoor ceremo-ny, the POW/MIA fl ag was raised below the American

fl ag on the Morning Pointe fl ag pole in front of the fa-cility.

According to the National League of POW/MIA Fami-lies more than 1,500 U.S. personnel are still missing

and unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War alone.

When veterans pres-ent were thanked for their service, the response was, without fail, “It was my hon-or and privilege.”

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to get additional funding to local education agencies.

“In Tennessee, we have moved money away from other entities into educa-tion,” Brooks said. “That’s the priority of this governor.”

The Cost Differential Factor (CDF) between ur-ban and rural counties was one of the ways the task force routed additional funds for urban districts, Brooks said.

“We considered the cost of doing business in the community – what does a $40,000 salary buy in Knox County vs. in Hancock County?” It costs more to live in Knox County.”

Brooks said it is up to the local education agen-cies (LEAs) to decide how to allocate the funds they receive.

Numbers provided by the school system indicate that the bulk of Knox County’s increased funding is com-ing from enhancements mandated by the new law, particularly in salaries and medical insurance. There will be a $9.4 million in-crease for instructional funding and a $754,000 in-crease for technology.

The news isn’t totally rosy for KCS, whose fi nance de-partment has asked the state to review an $860,000 fund-

Rountree From page A-1 ing cut because of a change in the way “at-risk” students are defi ned. The numbers will be fi nalized in July.

Knox County fi nance di-rector Chris Caldwell said the state provided an addi-tional $12 million to Knox County this year, bringing the state’s local contribution to nearly $195 million.

“A chunk of that would be because of the revised formula,” Caldwell said, cautioning that Knox County still kicks in more revenue to the state than it gets back.

“We’re always going to be a donor county. Sure, we’d love to get more, but the BEP enhancement is defi nitely a step in the right direction.”

Lou Watson of Halls chats and does handwork during the Tues-day Night Quilting Bee. Photo by S. Carey

By Shannon Carey It’s Tuesday night in

Karns, and six friends span-ning ages and walks of life are hard at work around a conference table.

This is the Tuesday Night Bee, a small group of Smoky Mountain Quilters mem-bers, but their work isn’t just with thread and needle. They are at work building friendships, too.

No one is quite sure when this bee got started, although most agree that it was sometime in the 1990s. Locations have changed, and some members have come and gone, but the bee remains a strong tradition for the quilters involved. And they’re always looking for new members.

Shannon Auge from Andersonville guides den-im and fl annel squares through an antique sewing machine. The denim came from jeans she and her hus-band wore while renovating their Andersonville home, a task they’ve been at for 25 years.

She fell in love with quilting in college when she found a book on water-color quilting. She enjoyed matching the colors.

When she moved to An-dersonville, “I though I was the only quilter in 100 miles,” she says. “There was no Internet then. I joined and thought maybe I’ll meet another quilter, and boy howdy didn’t I!”

Kathy Costello of Powell is a pro at hand-stitched

embroidery, and she’s pretty sure her love of handwork is why her fi rst quilt is still unfi nished. Or it could be that she’s made baby quilts for nieces and nephews for the past eight years in a row. But she loves the work, and she enjoys the fellowship of the Tuesday Night Bee.

“It’s the time that I make for myself to sew,” she says.

All the Tuesday night quilters echo that senti-ment. Lou Watson, a re-tired ESL teacher from Halls, is making quilts for all her grandchildren and says, “(The bee), they’re my sounding board. They give you advice when you don’t know what to do.”

Judee Shuler moved to Oliver Springs from New Jersey in November. Her specialty is working with vintage fabrics and fi nishing or restoring found quilts.

“You fi nd they in the strangest places,” she says. “I pulled one out of a trash can.”

She joined Smoky Mountain Quilters and the Tuesday Night Bee to fi nd friendship and learn new techniques.

Pamela Werner of Corry-ton loves to learn and says she’s “collecting projects for my retirement.”

And Tammie Smith of Powell, whose employer hosts the meetings, quit the bee for a time after the tragic death of one of the members, her friend Dana Gerhardt. But Smith came back for, you guessed it, the

The Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee will

hold their annual quilt show 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday, June 17, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday,

June 18, at the Knoxville Expo Center, 5441

Clinton Highway. Quilting bees are open to

newcomers, and several times and locations are

available. Info: www.smokymtnquilters.com

Tuesday night quilters

friendship she missed.“I don’t think we have a

meeting that we don’t talk about (Dana),” she says.

Smoky Mountain Quil-ters is a guild which wel-comes all quilters.

With meetings, or bees, scattered around the re-gion at various locations, days and times, it’s easy for a quilter to hook in with a group, exchanging ideas and participating in chal-lenges.

They do charity work, too. Smoky Mountain Quil-ters Guild provides quilts for families staying at the Ronald McDonald House. They worked on the Medal of Honor quilt when Medal

of Honor recipients visited Knoxville last year. Quilts of Valor is another project.

To support their char-ity work, the guild holds an annual quilt show, and the next one is coming up June 17-18, at the Knoxville Expo Center on Clinton Highway. While the members of the Tuesday Night Bee aren’t entering anything this year, they’ll be there as volun-teers, and they have entered in the past.

“We have all kinds of quilts here,” said Shuler. “At the show, you really see some incredible work. They’re works of art.”

But for the Tuesday Night Bee, they love each other’s company as much as creat-ing artwork and heirlooms.

“Some people drink or do drugs,” said Smith. “We quilt.”

Info: www.smokymtnquilters.com

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Fountain City Lions Club meets 6 p.m. each fi rst and third Mon-

day, Lions Community 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 Democrats 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, bdl66@comcast.net or 922-4547.

Looking for space From page A-1

community center of sorts, a throwback “courthouse” a la “Andy of Mayberry.” The Halls Business and Profes-sional Association toured the site before it opened. The last photo we took of the late Joe Smelser showed him wearing a hard hat and a smile.

Arnett says he’s con-cerned with “functionality over feel-good.”

The lease on the old site was with Broadway Corpo-ration, a local company that built the fi rst shopping cen-ter in Halls with ties that stretch way back via Joyce Tapscott to her father, Dr. George Zirkle.

U.S. Properties Group is located in Hilliard, Ohio, and was interested in pur-chasing and developing commercial space in 2005 adjacent to what is now Clayton Park. A U.S. Prop-

erties Group broker said the county’s presence will attract other businesses to a virtually empty shopping center. That’s great – if it happens.

While comparing num-bers and statements, lyrics from a ’70s song leapt to mind:

“If there’s an answer, it’s just that it’s just that way, when you’re looking for space.”

Arnett has also moved satellite offi ces from Knox-ville Center (East Towne Mall) and Cedar Bluff under the auspices of saving mon-ey. I daresay he has saved some bucks.

And guess what other space he’s gotten? Plenty between the Clerk’s satellite offi ces and any of his prede-cessor’s footprints.

Coincidence? Not when you’re looking for space ...

REUNION NOTES ■ Central High School Class of 1964’s 70th birthday party, 6-10

p.m. Saturday, June 25, Grande Event Center, 5441 Clinton High-way. Cost: $30, includes full buff et. Info: David, CHS64grad@gmail.com.

■ 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.

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Marvin West

Now that Joshua Dobbs is back from his airplane analysis internship, we can resume the discussion of dual-threat quarterbacks.

Those who can compre-hend the awesome NFL numbers achieved by Peyton Manning can score debate points on the advantages of a pro-style quarterback.

In theory, the pro stands tall in the pocket, protected by great blocking boulders. He looks to see if receivers went where he told them to go. He identifi es the desig-nated one or the alternate most likely to succeed and delivers a dart.

This formula sounds good and often prevails, game after game, season af-ter season, for half a lifetime in Peyton’s case.

When coupled with great defense, it may win Super Bowls and lead to many lu-

Dual-threat quarterbacks change the game

crative endorsements of piz-zas and Buicks.

The dual-threat quar-terback changes the game, adds dimensions, the possi-bility of premeditated runs, guaranteed scrambles when the pocket collapses and blockers and rushers are falling over each other.

Immediate relocation improves the temporary chances of remaining up-right and may transform nothing into something. Crowds cheer.

There are potential com-plications. If the dual-threat quarterback is to throw, it is

often on the run. In theory, a moving thrower will miss a moving target more often than a pro-style quarter-back might.

There is another problem. Belligerent NFL lineback-ers, pugnacious corners and mean-spirited safeties will occasionally catch the pesky dual-threat quarterback as he zigs and zags. Their goal, at a minimum, is to discour-age him, thus reducing the yards they have to sprint and the sweat to be blotted from their brows.

Down deep, they would like to disable him, punish him for being such a brat. Sometimes, in their exu-berance, they send him to the hospital. Think RG3, formerly of the Washington Redskins.

College football is differ-ent. The pro-style quarter-back is less certain to domi-

nate. Flaws often pop up in the protection plan. What the dual-threat quarter-back adds to the game keeps defensive coordinators up late at night. Think Johnny Football – before he totally ran astray.

Remember Dewey War-ren? He was a classic pro-style quarterback. He stood his ground, defi ed the rush and completed a pleas-ing number of meaningful passes. He became a legend based on how long it took to successfully complete a one-yard run.

Remember Condredge Holloway? He was a terrifi c dual-threat quarterback. Ben Byrd dubbed him “The Artful Dodger.” Even when defenses hemmed him up, they could never be sure Condredge was offi cially hemmed up.

Condredge was more

than an escape artist. He was an effi cient passer. He set a school record for low interceptions-per-attempts. Only 12 of his 407 were picked off.

Jimmy Streater came along a little later. John Majors called him one of the best athletes he ever coached.

In a dramatic victory over Notre Dame, Jimmy displayed versatility with a 48-yard pass completion, a 51-yard scamper and a fi ve-yard touchdown on an op-tion keeper.

Heath Shuler was hard-nosed. He liked to run into and over opponents. Some-times he pulled the ball down and sped away when he might have been better off staying where he was.

Tee Martin once com-pleted 23 consecutive passes. He threw for 32

Te n ne s s e e touchdowns. He ran for 17. Tee, dual threat, was best known for guiding a national champion-ship sea-son.

Peyton is in the Vol re-cord book with 11,201 pass-ing yards and 89 touch-downs. Except for one stunning naked reverse, Peyton runs were usually desperation moves to save his life.

Dobbs can run well and throw some and think deep-ly.

That creates numerous exciting possibilities. Get-ting hurt would not be the best one. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com

Ever been to Turkey Creek during the holiday season? Long traffi c queues, scarce parking slots, crowd-ed store aisles, slow check-outs. Kinda makes a root canal look attractive ... at least to us guys. Too much of a good thing.

Meanwhile, buyers in the east end of the county are left to wonder where are all those farsighted entrepre-neurs with pockets full of discretionary dollars wait-ing for a suitable outlet. No wonder the likes of Amazon are prospering.

It has been suggested that we need to plan an eastside economic summit. What’s that? It’s a gather-ing of the several business and professional organiza-tions and area neighbor-hood groups to help defi ne

NickDella Volpe

Let’s plan for an eastside economic summit

what is needed and would do well here. A catalogue of what the area has to offer. Finally, a joint meeting with businesses and developers to hone a game plan.

There are active BPAs in the north, east, East Towne and Fountain City areas. Also, a dozen or so estab-lished neighborhood groups that are the very bedrock of stability. It’s time to join forces and brainstorm our future, and to educate the greater business commu-nity to look beyond the

pre-conceived perceptions that are sometimes less-than-kind and mostly un-fair, and see what is truly an untapped and desirable market. The truth is there are great communities and great people who live out here. Despite the errant ac-tions of a few – of course, we have those – and the out-of -proportion news reporting sensationalism that unfairly tar its image, the sun has al-ways risen in the east. Time for a second look. We have a lot to offer.

Among our strengths are great neighborhoods with great people! And good roads. We are surrounded by rural towns and counties to the north and east that consider Knoxville their commercial center. They shop and dine here. It’s time

we focus on and advertise those eastside assets and opportunities to the sleep-ing business world.

Good things are already happening.

The Magnolia corridor is about to get a $4.7 mil-lion infrastructure facelift by the city. The Botanical Garden and Arboretum is expanding its already amaz-ing presence, as is the heav-ily-visited tourist attrac-tion called Zoo Knoxville, as well as the many events and shows at Chillhowee Park and the newly-restored Fountain City Lake.

The East Towne business district has a number of fi ne businesses with a regional draw and improving inter-state access. Look at the ex-pansions of Sam’s Club and Walmart, or the constant

foot traffi c at Hom e Depot, Lowe’s and Target.

Did I mention the boom-ing commercial tenants at Forks-of-the-River indus-trial park? Or the planned development at Midway Road and EastBridge?

As for residential neigh-borhoods, Fountain City is a bedrock community, as are Holston Hills, North Hills, Park Ridge and Park City, Alice Bell, Fourth and Gill, and Old North Knoxville to name a few. In older areas, historic homes have been coming back to life through the vision, investment and sweat equity poured in by young families moving back into the city. And, if you didn’t notice, northeast Knox County has been one of the fastest growing hous-ing markets for subdivision

development according tothe 2010 census.

So what’s not to like? Theopportunity is here. Readyto be tapped.

How to begin? With helpfrom the city, the Chamberand meeting facilitators,the BPAs and neighborhoodgroups should meet to refi netheir thoughts, wants andneeds in order to preparefor a fall economic summitor a gathering by any othername that will synthesizethe collective thoughts ofthe greater community intoa cohesive report. Businessleaders, entrepreneurs andplanners will be invited toshare their thoughts withthe group and help reach aconsensus vision and road-map for the future. Thinkpositive. The sky is the lim-it. So let’s get cracking!

Josh Dobbs

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JUNE 8, 2016 • A-5 government

Betty Bean

VictorAshe

= Neighborhood Engagement

= City Staff Work

Appendix F — Flow Chart / Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program

B Kick-Off Meeting Neighbors explain

traffic issues. Staff explains Traffic

Safety Program.

Further Study

Indicated?

E Evaluation Meeting

Neighbors detail traffic problems.

F Speed Data Collection & Evaluation

Data from hoses, collisions, KPD.

Qualifies for Engineering

on Point Scale

System?

A Neighborhood

Application Neighborhood

applies for Traffic Safety Study.

H Traffic Calming Feasibilty Study

More in-depth study and analysis.

J Concept Plan

Meeting City presents

plan for deploying

devices &/or route

modifications. Neighbors

provide feedback.

Threshold Met for

Enforcement &/or Further

Study?

yes

yes

yes

Priority Ranking Project Ranks High

or Low?

high

Project will be ranked again in next round.

C Alternate Solutions Staff may suggest

solutions outside the Traffic Safety Program.

D Neighborhood Petition

Impact area defined. Neighborhood gathers

signatures.

no

no

K Detailed Design

City prepares bid-ready detailed design of the

project.

ENFORCEMENT

ENGINEERING

L Bidding &

Construction Projects are bundled for lowest cost.

M Post-Construction

Evaluation

no

More than 50%

approve?

no

EDUCATION

G Speed Data Status

Meeting City shares data results

& analysis with the neighborhood.

yes yes

I Traffic Calming Status Meeting

City shares data results & analysis with the

neighborhood.

low

Tim Wright

School’s out for Evelyn Gill, so she’s taking off her special education teacher hat and getting into cam-paign mode. She’s excited.

“The fi rst district is the heartbeat of the city,” she said. “And I don’t think most people really realize that.”

Gill, a Mississippi native who has lived in Knoxville since 1994, has an impres-sive resume that includes a master’s degree from Rut-gers and extensive experi-ence in business, educ ation and volunteer work. She and her husband, Michael, a well-known music pro-moter and employee of the Knoxville Museum of Art, live in East Knoxville, in the heart of the district, which includes the precincts in Ft. Sanders, downtown, Parkridge and all the neigh-borhoods between Spring Hill and Lonsdale. The in-cumbent commissioner, Sam McKenzie – one of just two Democrats now serv-ing on that body, and the last two elected Democrats in Knox County – is leaving offi ce this year.

Gill has run twice before – in 1997, she came in last in the fi eld of primary can-didates for this same seat after the Black Wednesday debacle. In 2012, she ran a losing campaign against prohibitive favorite Becky Duncan Massey for the District 6 state Senate seat.

For the fi rst time in over 70 years, AAA in East Tennessee will be headed by someone not named Wright. Tim Wright, 69, retires on June 30, after 36 years leading AAA. He followed his father, Luke Wright, who started in 1940, left to serve in the Army Air Corps in World

War II, and returned in 1945 as general manager.

This year marked the 60th anniversary of the safety patrol trip

to Washington for fi fth graders. Recent years have seen some 1,900 students, 240 chaperones, 46 police offi cers, 12 medical folks and 43 motor coaches be part of the weekend trek from Knoxville to Wash-ington, D.C. Wright went on the second trip in 1957 and every one since 1976, including this year’s trip.

Wright is proud of those 60 years and AAA’s spon-sorship. During his tenure, 10 AAA offi ces across the state were opened. The headquarters on Fifth Av-enue in Knoxville was given a major renovation. AAA started an active advocacy program for issues at the state and federal levels, and grew it to the point that lawmakers listened.

Wright is proud to have assembled a team of over 50 who run AAA daily. He says technology and consolidation have been the largest changes, with AAA going from 600 clubs to 20 nationwide.

He recalls being in Bel-gium when the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center occurred. He took a train to London, got to JFK airport in New York and four days later got to Knoxville.

He met his wife of 46 years, Patsy, on a blind date in Chattanooga. In retirement, he plans to spend time with their three daughters and eight grandchildren, who live in Nashville and Roswell, Ga.

■ Marshall Stair wor-ried aloud at a City Council workshop about the loss of revenue from repeal of the state’s Hall income tax, which could cost Knoxville $7 million a year or more by 2022. It is a signifi cant hit on the city treasury. For the town of Farragut, it is much larger in terms of its percentage hit. The fi nal impact will come six years away when the repeal is set to become complete.

However, the Stair

Tim Wright retires from AAA

comment, along with his letter to the editor of the News Sentinel, revealed a concern which the mayor and no other council mem-ber has evidenced publicly prior to the bill becoming law. Council never adopted a resolution expressing opposition. Their concern is being voiced after the fact. The mayor did not raise the issue during her public breakfast with law-makers. She had raised it in private one-on-one meet-ings without effect.

It should cause the council to re-examine its lobbying contract with Tony Thompson (whom this writer hired some 20 years ago) to determine if they are getting the best work, or the council should at least increase its activity in Nashville. The council also needs written reports if they exist from Thompson on what is happening in the Legislature, as the mayor’s offi ce does not brief the council on legislative devel-opments with regularity.

Basically, council leaves it to the mayor to handle relations in Nashville. Council is not invited to the mayor’s annual legislative meeting, although it is now a public meeting due to ef-forts of Reps. Eddie Smith and Martin Daniel. Also, it does not help when the mayor openly campaigns against incumbent lawmak-ers and then expects them to work with her. She would be better off staying out of the local campaigns.

■ Knox County is in a better strategic position as Mayor Burchett has extensive legislative experi-ence and knows lawmakers across the state personally. That is not true for the city, with the exception of for-mer Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis, who works in Nashville and has strong legislative ties.

■ Freedom House celebrates 75 years of activ-ity this year as it works to highlight restrictions and bans on freedom of the press. Started in 1941, it has showcased censorship through the world. A major-ity of people on this planet live in countries without free media including China, Russia and Cuba. A founda-tion of a free and demo-cratic society is freedom to express one’s views, especially the media.

Evelyn Gill with her iconic Rosie the Riveter poster

Gill ramps up campaign in District 1

This summer, as the Demo-cratic nominee, she’s no longer the underdog, and she’s planning to stick with the Rosie the Riveter theme that she rode to victory in the primary.

On the surface, it looks like an easy road. No Re-publican has been elected to serve the fi rst district in modern times. In March, Gill’s general election op-ponent, Michael Coving-ton, got 927 votes running unopposed in the Republi-can primary. He has been campaigning for at least a year (although some of his appearances, like march-ing in parades in Farragut and Karns, have been head scratchers). Most notably, he’s been holding public meetings around the dis-trict.

Meanwhile, in the Demo-cratic primary, Gill defeated Rick Staples, whom many considered the favorite, by a 1704-1507 margin, which would appear to give her an insurmountable edge in the Aug. 4 general election

But there are some pos-sible clouds on the horizon, mainly the possibility of Staples mounting a write-in campaign. Staples said he

didn’t start the talk, but he isn’t discouraging the social media rumbles urging his supporters to write him in.

“I will have to pray,” he said. “This thing took me off guard. It took off and I found out about it on the back end. Evidently a large number of people were frus-trated with how this thing went down, and a number of people took it on themselves to do it on their own. I’m go-ing to think that over and get some good advice.”

“How this thing went down” is a reference to the voting patterns that emerged in the primary, with Gill, who has been an active supporter of Bernie Sanders, rolling up large margins in the majority-dominated wards where

Sanders prevailed – down-town, Ft. Sanders and Parkridge – while Staples won the traditional African-American neighborhoods that went for Clinton. Voter turnout was higher in the Sanders wards.

Staples doesn’t have much time to make up his mind. Election coordinator Cliff Rodgers said write-in candidates have until noon, June 15, to fi le a one-page declaration of intent to run. Rodgers said it would be good if Staples made up his mind sooner than later.

“We hope if anybody’s go-ing to do a write in, they’ll do it few days before the deadline because I have to come up with a master list of all possible misspellings, so the votes will count.”

Safety fi rst!

By Sandra ClarkGuess it depends upon

which side of the road you live.

Knox County Clerk Fos-ter Arnett has closed the longtime county satellite offi ce at Halls Center and reopened it across Hwy. 33 in the old Walmart space, now undergoing roadwork on two sides.

In a front page story by Jake Mabe (Halls edition), Arnett says he made the move for safety concerns, citing dampness and mold in the basement of the space at Halls Center.

Arnett previously moved the Knoxville Center mall offi ce and another at Cedar

County Clerk Foster Arnett has moved the satellite of-fi ce from Halls Center, at left.

This view from Halls Cen-ter shows construction on Hwy. 33. Accessing the new offi ce requires a left turn onto Norris Free-way, ahead on left.

CorrectionThe chart at right, which

ran larger in last week’s paper, was NOT drawn by Don Par-nell. The chart, which shows the path to obtaining neigh-borhood traffi c calming, was taken from the city’s website.

Parnell called at 7 a.m. Wednesday to deny author-ship; he called again at noon to request a correction and apology. And he asked the money question: How could a mistake like this happen?

Newspaper errors almost always occur when the report-er writes more than we know.

Parnell says he is retired and hasn’t worked for a pub-lic entity since the 1980s. The friend who sent the chart mentioned Don’s name in the email, and I assumed Parnell had drawn it.

I’m sorry for any damage to Parnell’s reputation as a result of this error.

– S. Clark

Bluff. He’s also sued Knox County because of alleged mold in his offi ces at the City County Building.

As one senior offi cehold-er put it, “Ah, mold. It just follows Foster wherever he goes.” Perhaps it will follow him home. His term ends in 2018.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ The Heiskell Seniors

meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at The Community Center, 1708 W. Emory Road. Speaker, 11 a.m.; lunch, noon; bingo, 1 p.m. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

■ Corryton Senior Center

9331 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: Super Seniors meeting, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 14; entertainment: piano con-cert by Larry Clapp. Oakes Day Lily Walk, Tuesday, June 21; meet at 9:45 a.m. at Center.

■ Halls Senior Center

4405 Crippen Road922-0416knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-FridayHours vary

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: “The Ins and Outs of Your Camera Phone” class, 10 a.m.-noon Monday, June 13; $15; reg-ister and pay by Thursday, June 9.

■ Morning Pointe

Assisted Living

7700 Dannaher Drive686-5771 or morningpointe.com

Ongoing event:

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers Support Group meets 1 p.m. each last Monday.

By Sara BarrettSeniors from all over

Knox County mingled and munched during the fi rst Beyond Bingo held at Sher-rill Hills in West Knoxville.

Sponsored by the Shop-per News, Beyond Bingo featured a slew of vendors and speakers discussing everything seniors want to know about.

Fitness Together, Ten-nessee Orthopaedic Clinic,

Random Acts of Flowers and Placing Animals with Seniors (PAWS) were just a few of the booths available on “Main Street” at Sherrill Hills.

A bevy of gifts were of-fered to fi ll Shopper News tote bags, and door prizes were awarded to a lucky few who completed their Bingo cards by collecting stickers from each vendor.

A fabulous lunch of crois-

sant sandwiches, fresh fruit and delectable cookies was served by Sherrill Hills, and most attendees walked away with armfuls of good-ies including water bottles, note pads and coffee mugs.

Feedback from Beyond Bingo goers was positive, with requests for more speakers at the next event.

Maybe the next event should be called Bigger Be-yond Bingo.

Dee Ruediger straightens her shot to win a free Morgan Stan-ley hat. She made the shot; she’s golfed since she was 14.

Click Funeral Home funeral director Ina Roberts talks to Bea and Tom Davis about burial options. Tom won a gift card to Chop House awarded as a door prize.

Lois Emmons and Inez Ratcliff make their way to each vendor to collect stickers for their Bingo cards. Photos by Sara Barrett

Knox PAWS coordinator Julia Jackson brought PAWS mem-ber B.J. to meet new friends.

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • JUNE 8, 2016 • A-7 faith

cross currentsLynn Pittslpitts48@yahoo.com

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner. … So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with fl esh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and fl esh of my fl esh.

(Genesis 2:18, 21-23a NRSV)

We need each other

VBS NOTES■ Christ UMC, 7535 Maynard-

ville Highway, 5:30-8:30 p.m. June 13-17. Ages: preK through fi fth grade. Theme: “Cave Quest.” Dinner pro-vided. Info: 368-6115.

■ Hoitt Avenue Baptist Church, 2121 Hoitt Ave., 6:30-8:30 p.m. June 13-17. Classes for all ages, including an adult class.

■ New Beverly Baptist Church, 3320 New Beverly Church Road, 6-9 p.m. June 13-17. Theme: “Cave Quest.” Info: 546-0001 or newbeverly.org.

■ New Life UMC, 7921 Mil-lertown Pike, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, June 25. Theme: “Joseph in Egypt Biblical Village” with tents, games, crafts, stories, food and more.

Free Family Fun Night 6-8 p.m. Friday, June 24, includes food and games and VBS registration. Info/registration: newlifeumcknoxville.com.

■ Valley View Baptist Church, 3521 Old Valley View Drive, 6:30-8:30 p.m., June 13-17. Theme: “SonWest Roundup.” Info/registration: vvbcknox.com or 523-0062.

FAITH NOTES

Community services ■ Cross Roads Presbyterian, 4329 E. Emory

Road, hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-7 p.m. each second Tuesday and 10-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

■ Dante Church of God, 410 Dante School Road, will distribute “Boxes of Blessings” (food) 9-11 a.m. Saturday, June 11, 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 ■ Fairview Baptist Church, 7424 Fairview

Road, will host Men’s Night Out, 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5. Cost: $15. Dinner, 5 p.m.; conference, 6:45 p.m. Speakers: Johnny Hunt, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Ga.;

and James Merritt, Senior Pastor, Crosspointe Church, Duluth, Ga. Info/registration: fairviewbaptist.com.

■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each Friday. Info: Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory Road, hosts Recovery at Powell each Thursday. Dinner, 6 p.m.; worship, 7; groups, 8:15. The program embraces people who struggle with ad-diction, compulsive behaviors, loss and life challenges. Info: recoveryatpowell.com or 938-2741.

Special services ■ Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Catholic

Church, 4365 Maynardville Highway in Maynardville, will host an open house of appreciation and farewell for Craig Digmann, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, June 12, at the church. Info: 992-7222.

By Cindy TaylorAs a child growing up in

Sweetwater, Sarah Beth Day often played teacher using stuffed animals as make-believe students. She would read, spell and plan trips all around the world during ge-ography class.

“I saw myself in the future as a quirky classroom teach-er with pencils sticking hap-hazardly out of my hair, she said. “Looking back I can see how God ordered each and every one of my steps to lead me where I am today.”

Day says all the make-believe, followed by a lot of hard work, paid off when she graduated with a bach-

elor’s degree in Elementary Education from Tennessee Wesleyan College and began teaching real students.

These days she is work-ing, although she doesn’t call it that, as children’s director at Christ UMC. As a member of the church, Day started out as a greeter for visitors on Sundays and administra-tive assistant through the week. The administrative position came during a very diffi cult time for Day and her husband Chad.

“We lost our fi rstborn son. Our family at Christ UMC could not have been more supportive,” said Day. “I can honestly say that

we wouldn’t have made it through that period of our lives without them. Thanks to them, we started to feel more optimistic about the future and realize now that God was working to carry and lead us even when we weren’t listening with our whole hearts.”

After three years in the church offi ce, Day was of-fered the position of chil-dren’s director when the other director left to branch out in her ministry. Day is three months into the min-istry. She and Chad wel-comed a healthy baby boy, Sullivan, last December.

“My second pregnancy

was beautiful. I am thank-ful every day for the oppor-tunity God has provided, the amazing prayer war-riors in our church and the people who give their time to volunteer in the chil-dren’s ministry,” said Day. “We are doing some really exciting things.”

The community is invited to join in VBS June 13-17 for Cave Quest, a glow-in-the-dark caving adventure. Day says many other fun events are on the horizon this year such as the Fall Family Fun Fest and a Santa brunch.

“When I consider my past experience as a classroom teacher and our most recent

By J.J. StambaughOf the thousands of men

and women who are re-leased from Tennessee pris-ons each year, nearly half will fi nd themselves behind bars again within three years, state offi cials say.

But the new Take One program by the Tennessee Department of Correction is aiming to reduce that number by partnering with faith-based groups and non-profi ts to help those recently released from prison make their way back into society.

The congregation of St. James Episcopal Church in

North Knoxville is one of 10 East Tennessee groups to participate.

William Morris, 34, of Jefferson City, spent most of his youth in foster homes before he was turned loose as an adult at age 18. He began working construc-tion, but it didn’t take long for him to develop a serious problem with alcohol. Over the years he committed a se-ries of crimes, usually fueled by drinking, and eventually was branded as a felon and Habitual Motor Vehicle Of-fender by the courts.

This triggered an eight-

year prison term and even-tually led him to meet St. James Rector the Rev. John Mark Wiggers and his wife, Liz Wiggers, when he vol-unteered for the Take One program.

“The concept is you have about 8,000 persons being released each year,” John Mark Wiggers said. “With about 8,000 churches and non-profi ts in Tennessee, we could help mentor folks and help them re-enter society.”

Released about six months ago, Morris says the presence of a church family has kept him from falling

into bad habits.Despite having paid off a

chunk of his fees and court costs while doing prison work for 17 cents an hour, Morris has trouble fi nding full-time work that pays a living wage. His biggest ob-stacle is paying the rest of the money he owes, so he can regain a driver’s license. The lack of a car can prevent even the most skilled construc-tion workers from higher-paying work, said Liz.

“It’s like one step for-ward and two steps back,” she said. No one seems to know exactly what he owes.

“I wish we could help him more. A driver’s license would mean a more steady, increased salary.”

A couple of days after this interview, a defense at-torney volunteered to repre-sent Morris free of charge, which means he soon may regain driving privileges.

While material needs are important, Morris prefers talk about the less tangible but equally profound gifts that he’s received from the congregation. As a child who grew up in the state’s foster system, many things that other children take for

granted were all but un-known to him.

“I think people need to take the time to learn what people who’ve been locked up really need,” Morris said. “To have someone who has been with you through part of (your incarceration), who has written to you and vis-ited you, it truly means a lot.

“Once I was released, (John Mark and Liz) took me into their house and showed me what ‘normal’ is. I had never experienced a real holiday until I went to their house on Thanksgiv-ing and Christmas.”

Church off ers parolee support, guidance

Christ UMC children’s director Sarah Beth Day Photo by Cindy Taylor

Sarah Beth Day: Always a teacher

blessing of a healthy son, it is easy to see the doors God continues to open,” said Day. “I get to work with chil-dren again teaching them about God’s steadfast love at a church that is so welcom-ing and encouraging. Christ

UMC children’s ministry is exactly where God wanted me to be and I couldn’t be happier.”

Christ UMC is at 7535 Maynardville Pike. Info: www.christumcknox.com or 922-2890.

I am reading a book about the War of the Roses in medieval England, and am about to embark on an-other one. Those were perilous times for everyone in the country: men were subject to conscription by their lords, women were largely subject to their husbands, and children were subject to their parents, but also to diseases and early death.

We tend to think of that period as one of chivalry and honor, a glamorous, romantic period. It was, in some ways, depending on one’s status.

However, as I read, I found myself considering the lack of toothbrushes and toothpaste, antibiotics, and Kleenex, for heaven’s sake! (It spurred me to plan a “goodie box” to send to someone, anyone – near or far – who doesn’t have such amenities.)

I also considered the way we take such things for granted, ignoring the needs of others. I thought about how we categorize people, based solely on where they live, how much money they have (or don’t have) – without giving a thought to what they might need.

The truth is, sometimes the best gift we can give someone is recognizing them as a fellow human being, who has feelings, aspirations and dreams!

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Story So Far: As the special soccer team continues to loose, the school community refuses to accept defeat. More and more pressure to win is applied.

The game against Pennington Prep was interesting. Crisp, bright weather. It almost made me want to be there. Sure enough, there was a bunch of people who came to watch. Some parents. Ms. Appleton brought our whole class. Mr. Sullivan was there. So was Mr. Tillman. I think he was wearing new beads for the occasion.

After we pretended to get ready, Mr. Lester got us over by a corner and gave us a talk.

“Gentlemen, Pennington isn’t such a great team. They’ve won a few and lost a few. More like you guys.”

“We didn’t win any,” Porter reminded

him.Mr. Lester looked toward the sidelines.

“Today you will,” he said.“How do you know?” asked Barish.“I feel it.”“Where?” Dorman wondered.“And what about tomorrow?” Lifsom

wanted to know.“Gentlemen,” said Mr. Lester, “we can

turn the season around if you really desire it. Why not win for those nice people who have come to cheer?”

“Let them do it for themselves,” said Saltz.

“Now,” concluded Mr. Lester, “come out fi ghting and keep on fi ghting.” He made a pathetic fi st.

Right from the start, we tried. Really. We got together in a circle, touched hands and

started to roar, except just when we began, Eliscue sneezed. So instead of screaming “Fight!” what came out was “Fi . . .” Sneeze! “God bless you.” “God bless you.” “Thanks.”

Not what I’d call a mean team.

As for the game, well . . . there were one or two things. The big moment was when we scored a goal. Really. It was the only score (for our side) so far that season.

I’d like to tell you that Porter brought it smart-ly down the right line, snapped a crisp line shot to Lifsom, who brilliantly passed cross-fi eld to Hays, who smashed it by the helpless, confused goalie . . . except it didn’t happen that way.

As much as I saw it, the goal came about when Lifsom was trying to get the ball out of our territory. That time he actually got his foot on it. The ball even started to go in the right direction. A major improvement.

Then one of their guys intercepted, drop-ping the ball along his body. He began run-ning it back. Our side moved into our auto-matic full retreat.

Somehow, their guy tripped. The ball got away. Dorman realized that the ball was free. He got it moving deep into their turf. I could see how excited he was by the notion that he was actually on the move with not much between him and their goal except their goalie, because of what he did.

What he did was stop and watch.Fenwick came up and — not wanting to

waste a shot because we didn’t get too many — stole the ball from Dorman (who might have fallen asleep for all he moved) and gave a boot. In fact, Fenwick only topped the ball. The ball squirted forward. As for Fenwick, he had kicked so hard and up, he fell down.

What happened next? Their goalie cracked up, laughed so much that he let that little dribbler of a ball keep coming. Meanwhile, Radosh came up from the left and gave the ball a thump, again, right at their goalkeeper.

Their goalie punched it right back. The ball bonked Hays on the head and bounced into their goal.

Mind, I did not say Hays headed the ball in. I said the ball hit him on the head and bounced back. Into the goal. In fact, Hays was so dizzy from the shot that he was ac-tually walking around in circles for a few minutes.

It fi gured: we fi nally score a goal and the guy who scored it never knew what hap-pened.

From the reaction of the people on the sidelines — our people — you would have thought we had just won the Super Bowl and World Series. They went wild.

Actually, I was much more interested in the way Hays was wobbling, like a crazy duck. That was interesting.

As for the other high point, it involved me. It wasn’t so complicated, but since it was me, I had the best view, sort of.

It came about because during the third period my shoe became untied. Normally, I’d wait for a lull in the action to retie it. However, there never were lulls, so as time

went on I was sure my shoe was going to fall off. I had to do something. I bent over to tie it. The shoelace broke. That meant more work. And concentration.

Next moment there was this terrible thud against my back-side. It sent me headfi rst into the net one way, and the ball another way, also into the net.

Buddy Saltz helped me un-tangle myself from the net. “It’s probably not a bad idea to face the fi eld,” he sug-gested.

“Do you want to play goal?” I snapped.

“Not tall enough,” he reminded me.Final score: 18–1.In the locker room, there were some

guys from our other teams. Of course, they had to know what happened to us. We told them.

At fi rst, there were the usual jokes, and then this guy, Roberts, who was captain of the eighth-grade fi rst-string team, stood on a bench and yelled for quiet.

“Look here,” he said, looking right at us. As usual, we were bunched together for self-protection. “The joke’s over,” shouted Rob-erts. “When are you jerks going to get your act together? You’re making us look stupid!”

Fortunately, Mr. Lester came in just then. There might have been a riot. Anyway, Mr. Lester shooed us over into a corner to give us some kindly pointers. Not that anyone listened. It had gotten too frustrating.

Then Mr. Tillman burst in. “Listen up, you guys,” he said to us. We gave him our attention. He would have taken it anyway. There was an angry glint in his eyes that suggested trouble.

“I think I’ve learned my lesson,” he said. “I admit it. I tried to sweet-talk you guys into feeling better about yourselves. That was wrong. What you need to be told is how rotten you looked out there today. I’ve never seen worse. Not around this school. And you need to hear something else. I’ve checked. In the entire history of South Orange River Middle School sports, no team, I repeat, no team, has ever lost all its games.” He paused for effect. “Do you guys want to go down in history as the worst team? Do you?”

There was absolute, stunned silence.“Do you?” He insisted on an answer.“Odds are that we can,” said Fenwick.Mr. Tillman turned savagely. “That’s

a defeatist attitude, Fenwick. Can it!” He stalked out.

Mr. Lester looked embarrassed. “I know you try,” he said softly. “I appreciate that. I just think it would be good to win one game. We play Parkville next. Last game. You should know something. Parkville hasn’t won a game all season either.”

With those words of encouragement, he left us.

“My gosh,” said Barish, “another team as bad as us.”

“Awesome,” said Dorman.“We’ll be playing for ‘Worst in the Uni-

verse,’” said Radosh.There was almost, not quite, a thrill of

excitement.(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 TEN: Are we the worst team ever?“a breakfast serials story”S.O.R. Losers Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

Tech day expands learning experiences

Lyja Fields, Davin Fields and Jared

Woods were the win-ners of the recycled

car race for third through fi fth grade during Tech Day at

Corryton Elementary. Photos by R. White

Cale Grimm and Kamen Shown pet the goats at Corryton El-ementary.

By Ruth WhiteCorryton Elementary

hosted Technology Day at the school and featured events that supported STEAM (science, technol-ogy, engineering, art and math) learning.

Students participated in many activities includ-ing Zumba, a petting zoo, recycled car races and fun with Shelby the police dog. The day allowed students to see how STEAM is used in every aspect of learning.

Students show bouncing balls that they created as part of Tech Day.

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Exploring the wonders of science at Gibbs

Carlie Cadle created a display of rainforest habitat for the science fair.

Lexi Phillips shows a clay model of Earth that she created for the school science fair. The model shows Earth’s diff erent layers.

Gibbs Phillies named league tee-ball champions The Gibb Phillies took fi rst place in the league at Gibbs Ruritan Park for the 2016 season. Pictured are team members (front) Tate Sykes, Peyton Stanifer, Hudson Cantrell, Samuel Lord; (middle) Keaton Williams, Max Mullins, Mason James, Elijah Pursiful, AJ Corum; (back) assistant coach Eric Stanifer, head coach Jeff Ogle and assistant coach Wes Pursiful. Not pictured: Eli Burns. Photo submitted

Science fair sparks creativityStudents at Gibbs El-

ementary competed in an end-of-the-year science fair and answered some ques-tions that may have been on the minds of several indi-viduals.

The students selected a project and researched the topic before drawing their conclusions and making a creative display. Top win-ners were Ella Rivera and Hannah Johnson who asked the question, “Does buying less expensive popcorn save money?” Through experi-mentation, the pair learned that you get what you pay for, and the less expensive brands yield less product.

Second-place winner in the fair was Allie White. She asked the question, “Which place is the dirti-est?” and tested surfaces of frequently touched objects, including a refrigerator, gas pump handle, shopping cart, commode handle and credit card reader. Allie had selected the commode han-

dle as the dirtiest, but her research proved that a gas pump handle was the dirti-est surface touched.

Third-place went to Sadie Moles and Keely Schmid. They asked a question that many have asked: “Does an $8 Ozark Trail cup keep ice as cold as the $30 Yeti?”

Through many hours of waiting for ice to melt, the pair found that the Ozark Trail was just as effective as the Yeti in keeping ice from melting.

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Sadie Moles and Keely Schmid answer a question on many people’s minds. The pair earned third-place honors at the science fair.

Allie White earned a second-place rib-bon for her project “Which place is dirti-est?”

Ella Rivera shows the project that earned her and Hannah Johnson (not pictured) a fi rst-place ribbon at the Gibbs Elementary sci-ence fair. Photos by R. White

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Jean Wilson Lori HamiltonElizabeth HallDemirjian

By Marilyn Toppins On a warm, balmy Satur-

day afternoon in late May, 20 teams fl ooded Three Ridges Golf Course to raise money for graduating Union County High School seniors at the 24th Union County Business and Professional Association Scholarship Golf Classic.

To date, UCBPA has awarded nearly $90,000 in scholarships. This year’s recipients, Hunter Collins, Rachel Pierce and Zach Pur-sel, volunteered to work the tournament.

Lil Jo’s Bar-B-Que pro-vided lunch with pulled pork, potato salad, slaw and baked beans. Pepsi and

Cumberland Gap Distribu-tors donated the drinks, and Subway ended on a sweet note with freshly baked cookies.

Friendly competition developed early on the put-ting green. No one seemed to come close until Nicholas from Scott Bates’ team putt-ed 29 inches from the cup. Vowing to beat Nicholas, Christian Chandler of Plain-view City putted 26 inches. When Nicholas discovered that he had been outdone, he paid for another chance. The fi rst putt was way off target, but his second putt was a hole in one for $50.

By late afternoon, the scores revealed three top

teams: fi rst, Andy’s Team ($500); second, Kyle Beel-er’s Team ($300); third, Dyer’s Flooring ($100).

Chris Ayers and Colorado Abella took home antique coolers from Coca Cola complete with can colas for closest to the pin on holes eight and 13. Porter Brown and Tyler Brown scored closest to the pin on the more challenging holes fi ve and 16 to win four rounds of golf with carts donated by Three Ridges and Dead Horse Lake golf courses to share with their team, U.S. Architectural Millworks. In August, Wolfi e of Dyer’s Flooring will be at Bristol enjoying NASCAR for hav-

UCBPA scholarship golf tourney raises $7,000

Andy’s Team won fi rst place in the Union County Business and Professional Association Scholar-ship Golf Classic. They are Ryan Henry, Andy Buckner, Chase Buckner and Jack Bailey.

This year’s recipients of the Union County Business and Pro-fessional Association scholarships volunteered to work the tournament. They are Zach Pursel, Rachel Pierce, and Hunter Collins. Photos submitted

Chris Wolfen-barger of the

Dyer’s Flooring team receives the

Longest Drive award from Food

City manager Scott Inklebarger.

ing the longest drive of the tournament.

As a major sponsor, Food City Manager Scott Inkle-barger recruited several

teams, many composed of Food City employees and vendors including Food City Bakery and Deli, Flowers Baking Company, Cherokee Distributing, Eagle Distrib-uting and Pepsi Company.

Union County Education Association and Okie’s were also major sponsors, along with the Toppins family. American Business Equip-ment printed the brochures.

Golfer goody bags were provided by Willow Ridge Care and Rehabilitation Center, Food City, Nabisco, Flowers Bakingand and First Century Bank.

Door prizes and hole sponsors included Gail Co-rum of Brantley Bookkeep-ing Service, Eagle Distribut-ing, Cherokee Distributing, Caring Medical Center of Summit Medical Group, District Attorney General Jared Effl er, JNC Lawn Care, Larry Clark’s Paint-ing, Middle Man Auction Service, Paul’s Dry Wall, Pepsi of Knoxville, Randy Turner, Shafer Insurance, Subway of Maynardville, Tim Fletcher Heating and Cooling, U.S. Architectural Mill Works, Willow Creek

Auto, Woods Music, Bar-bara Williams, city of Lut-trell, Commercial Bank, Cooper Container Corpora-tion, Country Places Inc., Flowers by Bob, Gina Buck-ner, Mary Beth Kitts, Mike Williams, Pam Ailor, Tri County Sanitation, Union County Chiropractic, Union Pawn, Carmeuse Lime and Stone, city of Plainview, Clayton Homes, Cumber-land Gap Distributors, Da-vid Cox, Flowers Baking Company, ORNL Federal Credit Union, Patterson TN Waste Hauling, Tolliver’s Market, Wanda Byerley, Wyrick Roofi ng, Pete’s Place and Beth’s Buttons and En-graving.

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UCBPA thanks all of the players, sponsors and more than a dozen volunteers who helped raise more than $7,000 to use toward schol-arships. Join us next May for our 25th year!

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the rotary guyTom Kingtking535@gmail.com

Last week The Rotary Guy told you about the Rota-ry Club of Knoxville honoring its two 2016 Teachers of

the Year. This week we’ll tell you about a hard-working and talented student who will join the University of Tennes-see’s Pride of the Southland Marching Band in the fall – Kaleb Emmert.

Kaleb recently graduated from West High School and a few days ago the Rotary Club of Bearden hon-ored him with its Bob Ely-Art Pickle $2,500 scholarship. Ely and Pickle were both District 6780 Governors

and members of Bearden Rotary.Janice Mitchell, chair of the club’s Youth Services/

Development Committee, tells us the selection criteria is simple. “A student, male or female, who represents need and aptitude and is a good student academically.”

Janet says she was “blown away” by Kaleb’s accom-plishments. “He will be majoring in music education and wants to be a band director,” she said. “His major instrument is the clarinet and a whole list of others. In person, he is about 6-5 and a natty dresser. His band director at West High School (Jeremy Lumpkin) was his mentor and inspiration and Kaleb gives high praise to his mother (Amy Zarychta) for giving him great character traits.”

“My mom is my role model … she puts everything she has into whatever she’s doing and I try to do the same,” he said.

Kaleb also plays the cello, double bass, marimba and vibraphone. His goal is to become a high school band director and then move into the same job at the university level.

“I got interested in music in the seventh grade and taught myself to play the double bass, and I also taught myself to read music that year,” he says. “I’m good at memorizing and I learned to read music in about two weeks.” His mom says he’s also into writing music now.

He says he enjoys volunteer work and volunteer s at Ijams Nature Center and at UT as well.

Bearden Rotary presents Ely-Pickle scholarship

Kaleb Emmert

By Sherry WittActivity in the local real estate

market continued its upward trend last month, as 1,212 prop-erties were trans-ferred in Knox Coun-ty during the period ending on Tuesday, May 31. That fi gure represented an in-crease of nearly 200 sales over last May’s

total, and surpassed this April’s ac-tivity by 99.

The aggregate value of property transferred also continued to rise,

climbing to $268 million in May after an April total of $242 million. It was the largest May output since 2007, and bested May 2016 by about $50 million.

Mortgage lending remained steady in May as around $344 million was borrowed against real estate in Knox County, compared to approximately $347 million during April. Last spring lending levels were rather high, with $372 million borrowed through mort-gages and refi nancing.

There were two particularly large commercial transfers recorded in Knox County in May. One was the sale of multiple parcels in the development known as The Marketplace, located on

Kingston Pike. The total sale price list-ed for this transaction was $7,394,625. The other involved multiple lots in The Village at Hardin Valley, which were sold for $7.3 million. The largest mort-gage recorded in May was a loan in the amount of $20,612,500, fi nancing the Woodlands West residential complex off Walker Springs Rd.

As we near the halfway point of 2016, this year continues to be ahead of the 2015 pace in virtually every re-cording category. Property sales are outrunning 2015 activity by around $130 million, and mortgage lending is about $30 million above last year’s levels.

Lending holds steady as real estate sales rise

Witt

News from Offi ce of Register of Deeds

By Carol Z. ShanePowell resident Chris

Boler, newly-appointed president of CUSO – ORNL Federal Credit Union’s Service Organization, also known as CU Community LLC – believes that in this increasingly technology-driven age, “it’s real im-portant to make a personal connection.”

Boler began his career with ORNL in 2010 as a mortgage and loan process-ing agent. His enthusiasm has earned him promotions to mortgage sales manager, assistant vice president of sales and service, and vice president of sales and service. “We are a not-for-profi t fi nancial cooperative, locally owned and operated by our members,” he says, and it’s clear that he be-lieves wholeheartedly in the credit union model.

Boler received his bach-elor’s degree in business management from Carson-Newman University, and his MBA at UT Martin. He is currently fi nishing up his third year of South-east Regional Credit Union Management School at the University of Georgia in

Chris Boler, appointed in March as president of CUSO, ORNL Federal Credit Union’s Service Organization, enjoys time with his family. Shown with Boler are wife Leslie, son Todd and daughter Molly. Photo submitted

Chris Boler: providing the personal touch for ORNL FCU

Athens, and will graduate this month.

In March of 2016 he was named president of the ORNL Credit Union Ser-vice Organization (CUSO.) It’s a people-oriented facet of ORNL that suits him well. Boler will be respon-sible for growing and en-riching partnerships with

other credit unions, and enhancing available mem-ber services throughout the 32-branch system of ORNL FCU.

“It’s about treating peo-ple how you would want to be treated,” he says. He de-scribes what he’s aiming for in employee/customer rela-tions as “a kind of concierge

service,” saying that, for instance, a customer look-ing for the restroom should be escorted there, not just pointed in the right direc-tion. It’s that personal touch and regard for the customer, he believes, that counteracts the increasing use of tech-nology in virtually every industry.

Boler enjoys spending time on Norris Lake with his family: wife Leslie, an account representative for beauty and skincare company gloProfessional, daughter Molly, 6, and son Todd, 3.

An inveterate sports fan, Boler says, “Any kind of sports event they’ll sell tick-ets to, I’ll buy!” He recently attended the Indy 500 and was at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby in early May. And “we’re huge Ten-nessee Titans fans,” he says. The Bolers also enjoyed the recent Kenny Chesney/Mi-randa Lambert concert.

Boler says he can also frequently be found on the golf course.

It’s all part of an active life for this young profes-sional, just one of the bright lights at ORNL FCU.

Leslie Corum to head Union County ChamberLeslie Corum was elected president of the Union County

Chamber of Commerce in votes counted Friday, June 3, in the Chamber offi ce. Other candidates were Pearl Cof-fey and Teresa Jarnigan, but Jarnigan withdrew before the vote was fi nalized.

Corum and her husband, Chris, live in Plainview off Ailor Gap Road.

Interim president Mayme Taylor and the Chamber’s board of directors changed the bylaws to enable an elec-tion by the business membership. Ballots were returned by mail or directly to the Chamber offi ce.

The new president’s fi rst order of business should be to repair relations with County Mayor Mike Williams and the Union County Commission. And that will be a challenge for sure.

– S. Clark

By Cindy TaylorAs the weather heats up

the Union County Farmers Market is expanding its offer-ings and greens rule the day. Strawberries are on their way out but incoming offerings include a vast selection of produce from Seven Springs Farm and other vendors.

Seven Springs brings the “farm to table” concept home and is open at their Highway 61 location/winery through the week for those who miss the market on Saturdays.

Brigitte Passman is in-terning at the market for the summer. Brigitte is a rising senior at UT studying agri-culture leadership, educa-tion and communication. During her time with the market she will be helping with set-up and clean-up, attending other markets for ideas, acquiring new ven-dors, working on getting more customers to the mar-ket and writing a Farmers Market newsletter.

Tomatoes are ripe and ready. Flowers both cut and live are still available along with trees and shrubs. Cab-bage, beets, onions and broccoli and cucumbers are in. Honey and eggs are still available and blueberries

are coming soon.New to the market is

Rocking Chair Farm. Owners David and Christine Rogers raise alpacas. They brought skeins of yarn, softest you’ve ever touched, and other Al-paca products to sell. All yarn is natural with no dye. Their farm is in its second year with eight Alpacas.

“Some people say there is trash fi ber but I don’t believe that,” said Christine. “We don’t throw anything away.”

New Roots Nursery was back with live fl owers, shrubs and trees. A feature shrub was the Purple Smoke Bush. Cheddar Holler owner Chris Schoening is always on-site with scrumptious cheeses and cheese cutting tips.

Also new to the market is Betsy Davis. Davis creates jewelry and hand crafted walking sticks.

“I give these away but there is a $15 transfer of ownership fee,” she said, laughing.

Live entertainment con-tinues weekly at the market. The Union County Farmers Market runs 9 a.m. to noon each Saturday at Wilson Park.Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.com

B CCii ddd T l i

‘Greening’up the season

Farmers market summer intern Brigitte Passman as-sists market vendor Summer Beeler with strawberries.

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Considering his optionsResearch leads school psychologist to choose Fort Sanders Regional for thyroid cancer surgeryAs a school psychologist for Anderson County Schools,

Joshua Reese, 31, evaluates children who may need extra services in school. But Reese put those research skills to work for himself nearly a year ago when he was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer.

“My endocrinologist gave me several surgeons’ names and I did research on them, looking at their credentials and reading about thyroid cancer,” said Reese. He chose Dr. Troy F. Kimsey, a surgical oncologist on the medical staff of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

“I felt really comfortable with Dr. Kimsey. I contem-plated and prayed over it, and I felt like it was a good fi t,” he said.

The process began in July 2015, when Reese felt a lump on the left side of his neck. “You could see it protruding; it was palpable. At fi rst I thought it was some lymph node thing, but it grew,” said Reese. His primary care doctor ordered an ultrasound and a CT scan to get images of the mass that was in his lymph nodes.

“He sent me to an ear, nose and throat doctor, and I had the mass removed at the end of August. We did not believe it was cancerous at the time,” said Reese. “He thought it was a cyst. But I got the results back in Sep-tember, and found out it was thyroid cancer.

“I saw Dr. Kimsey on a Thursday and he said, ‘Let’s get this thing out.’ He was very confi dent, and I felt like he was the right one to do the surgery,” said Reese.

Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common type of thyroid cancer, although it is three times more common in women than men.

“It has a very good prognosis, certainly a 90-plus per-cent cure,” said Kimsey. “We measure thyroid cancer in 30-year survival rates instead of fi ve years, and if a person is less than 45 years old, it’s typically a lower stage of can-cer and a better prognosis. There are other more aggres-sive types of thyroid cancer, but they’re very uncommon.”

In October, Dr. Kimsey completely removed Reese’s thyroid gland, along with the rest of the lymph nodes on the left side of his neck. Kimsey also transplanted one of Reese’s parathyroid glands into the thyroid area. These rice-sized glands control the level of calcium in the body.

“I was in the hospital three nights,” Reese said. “Going in, I was expecting at least one night in the hospital, but my calcium had diffi culty balancing out so I had to take a lot of calcium,” Reese said.

“I received excellent care at Fort Sanders,” said Reese. “Everyone encouraged me. They rally around you – it was a very positive experience. I had not been in the hospital since I was 5 years old, so it was all really a new experi-ence to me. It was defi nitely great care.”

About a month after surgery, Reese followed up with a thyroid ablation performed by his endocrinologist. The thyroid gland absorbs nearly all iodine in the body. For

a thyroid ablation, the patient eats a low-iodine diet for a few weeks, and then ingests a radioactive iodine pill or liquid. The radiation goes straight to the remaining thyroid cells, while having little effect on the rest of the body. Perhaps the trickiest part is that the patient must stay away from other people for a few days so as not to expose them to radia-tion.

“I went to Fort Sanders and took a nuclear iodine pill, and then I had to be by myself for three days, in isola-tion,” said Reese. He went straight to a lake house owned by the parents of his fi ancée (now his wife, Kelsey Reese).

“So I had a nice weekend by myself, for 72 hours of isolation. Really there were no major side effects,” Reese said. “I just hung out at the lake and watched TV. They had stocked the house with food for me. There was some anxiousness of not knowing the results of my up-coming scan, so that was the biggest part.”

Fortunately, by the fi rst week of December the scan results were back and it was good news. “I got cleared the fi rst week of December, and got married the third week of December,” said Reese. “It was a wild ride for a few months.”

Today Reese takes daily thy-roid replacement hormones, but is back to working with students at school. At fi rst they were curious about the scar on his neck.

“I said I was attacked by pirates,’ ” he joked. “No, I told them what happened, and they were very understanding. I feel like it helps relate to some students.

“I ran the Covenant Health Half Marathon a few weeks ago,” Reese added. “Married life is good. I have to take thyroid medication and keep an eye on it, but I’m doing well.

“It was just an incredible experience with Dr. Kimsey. He’s a faithful man – he prayed with me before surgery, which was an awesome experience. Seeing his confi dence made me feel really good about what I was getting into. Overall, it was a good experience. I overwhelmingly felt cared for at Fort Sanders.”

Surgical oncologist Troy Kimsey, MD, of Fort Sanders Regional, has a

special understand-ing of Joshua Re-ese’s case. That’s because, like Reese, Kimsey is a thyroid cancer survivor. “I underwent a total thyroidectomy in December, 2012,” Kimsey says.

“The overall prognosis for dif-ferentiated thyroid cancer is excellent,”

Kimsey says, “so my challenge has been not to take the diagnosis too lightly, but

also to be grateful it was not a diagnosis with a much worse prognosis.”

Kimsey underwent periodic follow up ultrasounds and labs with no evidence of cancer.

“I take too much for granted,” Kim-sey says. “It helps me make the most of today when I realize how easily it can be taken away.”

If it seems like more people are hav-ing thyroid surgery these days, it’s not your imagination. “Thyroid cancer oc-curs about three times more often in women than men,” Kimsey says. More than 47,000 cases of thyroid cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women this year and more than 15,000 cases in men. “The incidence of thyroid can-

cer has increased in recent years due to the increased detection of nodules with more utilized and higher quality thyroid ultrasounds,” Kimsey explains. “How-ever, the death rate from thyroid can-cer has remained relatively stable over many years.”

“Most thyroid cancers develop in pa-tients with no known risk factors. Nev-ertheless, some people are at a greater risk than others. Anyone exposed to ion-izing radiation, especially in childhood, is at risk of developing thyroid cancer. In addition, anyone who develops a thyroid nodule before the age of 20 has a higher risk of having thyroid cancer. There are also genetic syndromes that lead to an increased incidence of thyroid cancers,

so family history plays a signifi cant role.There are several types of thyroid

cancer, but the vast majority are differ-entiated thyroid cancers, which means they carry cells that are similar to those found in a healthy thyroid. The differ-entiated cancers are comprised of pap-illary thyroid cancer and follicular thy-roid cancer, and they have a very good prognosis.

Other types of thyroid cancer include medullary thyroid cancer, anaplastic thyroid cancer and thyroid lymphoma. If detected early, the majority of thyroid cancers can be treated successfully.

To learn more, search “thyroid can-cer” at www.fsregional.com, or call 865-541-1111.

Troy Kimsey, MD

Surgeon and survivorUnderstanding thyroid cancer

B-2 • JUNE 8, 2016 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

Transportation

Automobiles for Sale

Buick LaCrosse 2007, silver, leather int, 168K mi, exc cond, $5,000. (865)980-2023.

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

FORD TAURUS WAGON 2001 V6, new tires, $3200.

Lenoir City (865)635-8228.

Sports and Imports

ACURA TL -2004. Black w/black leath-er int. Satellite radio, sunroof, tint-ed windows, blue tooth capable, heated seats & mirrors. 236k mi. $4500/b.o. (423)887-3524.

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

HONDA CIVIC EX 2015, alloys, 6500mi, sunroof, bluetooth, Camera, $16,500. (865)660-9191.

NISSAN MAXIMA - 2013. Premier. Glass roof, leather, 16k mi, like new. $17,500 (423)295-5393.

SATURN SC3 - 2001. 1 owner, 98k mi,very clean, dependable, 35 + mpg,records avail. $3195. (865)405-5491.

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

VW Sport Wagon 2012, alwaysgaraged, well maint., exc cond., low mi, $12,000. (865)933-6802.

Sport Utility Vehicles

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

LINCOLN MKX - 2013. In Halls-priced $1000 under KBB Elite package..backup camera,re-mote-gate-start-lock keylessstart,NAV,voice/touch screen 4 CD,Nav,Radio Climate etc. Tan/Blk interior yew wood inlay..front seats cooled all are heated 6way seats 22 in low profiles-got it all 75,000 mi., $19,500. (865)617-3840.

SUBARU FORESTER - 2002, well maint.,138K mi, $4,000. (865)766-0245.

Trucks

FORD F-150 - 2005. Ford F150 2005, long bed, runs great, AT, tow hitch, $3500 obo. (865) 573-3830.

FORD F150 1997. blown engine,

parts for sale. 865-254-5322.

Classic Cars

1974 Mercedes Benz 450 SL, silver, Conv., 2 tops, $6900 obo.

(865)386-1643.

AUTO STORAGE

SECURE CLIMATE

CONTROL STORAGE$50/monthPowell, TN

Claude Yow

865-924-7718

I WOULD LIKE TO BUY a 1970 or 1971 Mercedes 280SL, or a

1961 - 1975 Jaguar XKE, or a Porsche 911, 912 or a 1970s or 1980’s Ferrari. I am willing to buy running or not run-ning. Any Condition. I’m a local guy living in Grainger county. If you have

one or know of one please call Call (865)621-4012.

Vehicles Wanted

FAST$$ CASH $$

4 JUNK AUTOS

865-216-5052865-856-8106

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

15’ BASS BOAT brand - new seats, 2batteries, 60 HP Evinrude, new trol. mtr, new DF, new steering cable,spare tire & bearing buddies. $1600.(423)292-2294.

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

1979 SOMERSET ALUMINUM HOUSE-BOAT - For sale by owner. 14’ x 58’ Sleeps 8, Master BR, 2 bunk beds,MerCrusier V8 engine, generator, A/C, full galley, bath w/ walk-in shower. New roof, new counter-tops, many updates. Great cond! $57,500 For appt contact (865)414-3439 or (865) 922-8141

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

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

MERCURY OUTBOARD PROPELLORS, Solas Titan stainless steel 3 blade, 13 1/4 inch x 19 pitch. $350 firm.Also Mercury alum. 3 blade, 13 inch x 19 pitch, $150. Call (865)223-9123.

Campers & RV’s

1989 PROWLER, 29 ft $2000. (865)591-5492 or865-591-2162.

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

2008 DOUBLETREE Select Suite 5th wheel, 36’, 3 slides, great cond. Must see, $29,900. (865)599-7133.

AIR STREAM 1969, 29’, completely restored, ready for the road, $6500.(870) 763-8166.

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

JAYCO DESIGNER 34’ 2000, 5th wheelcamper, 1 lg. slide, exc. cond. $8995 obo. (865)368-8578.

Campers & RV’s

Montana 2008 3075RL 5th Wheel, Reduced price.

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

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

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

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

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

Tows like dream. Call 865-661-8269

NEW & PRE-OWNED

CLEARANCE SALE

ALL 2015 MODELS MUST GO!!!!

Check Us Out AtNorthgaterv.com

or call 865-681-3030

Golf Carts

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

Motorcycles/Mopeds

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

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

Wanted: Sidecar adaptable to late model Harley Davidson. Color, style & year not important. 865-805-8038

Off Road Vehicles

2014 POLARIS RZR 800S Perfect cond., very clean w/41 hrs. 300 mi. Extras include; new doors,

roof, windshield & mud busters. Only rode 4 times, Well maintained.

$10,250. (865)399-2859.

Jobs

Child Care

HELP WANTED - Little People Pre-school looking for loving, ener-getic individuals wanting to workFT or PT Mon-Fri. Must be at least 18 w/high school diploma. Applyat 6830 Tice Lane, Knoxville, TN.(865) 922-1335 or (865) 688-7806or m_bowlin1@yahoo.com

Driver/Transport

DRIVERS: CDL-A - 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

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

ServicesOffered

Air Cond/Heating

HOMETOWN AIR“Back to the basics”

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

Financing Available

Auto Services

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.

Buy and Sell here!

Wheels/Recreation

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

Plumbing

All Types of Residential & Commercial Plumbing

MASTER PLUMBER40 Years Experience � Licensed & Bonded

922-8728 � 257-3193

DAVID HELTON

PLUMBING CO.

Tree Services

Owner Operator Roger Hankins

497-3797Pruning • Logging

Bush HoggingStump Removal

Insured FREE ESTIMATES • LIFETIME EXPERIENCE

HankinsTree Service

Breeden's Tree Service

Aerial buckettruck

Stump grindingBrush chipperBush hoggingTrimming &

removingLicensed and insured

Over 30 yrs. experienceFree estimates

865-219-9505

Blank’s Tree Work

All types of Tree Care and Stump Removal

FULLY INSURED FREE ESTIMATES

924-7536

Will beat written estimates w/comparable credentials.

LOCAL CALL

EDWARDS TREE SERVICEInterior Pruning, Complete

Removal, Power Stump Grinding

Insured • Free Estimates

922-0645Workers Comp Liability

TREE WORKAND POWER STUMP GRINDER

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

Garage Sales

North

4634 WELLINGTON POINTE LN OFFMCCLOUD RD - Fri & Sat June 10th & 11th, 9am-4pm. Clothing, furniture, bedding, dishes, home appliances, Christmas decorations.

7316 PALMLEAF RD IN PALMER HILLS S/D - Fri & Sat, June 10th & 11th,8am-3pm. HH items, glassware,mens & ladies clothing, lots of misc.

BEVERLY FIELD WAY OFF SHANNON-DALE RD (FTN CITY) - Sat. June 11th, 8am.

RUMMAGE SALE - June 9th, 10th, &11th, 8:30am-2pm. 7029 Maize Drive in Mill Run S/D. Everything cheap! Lots of name brand clothing!

Farmer’s Mkt/Trading Post

Farm Buildings

BARNS - SHEDSGARAGES - CARPORTS

PATIO COVERSBUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY

FREE ESTIMATES!

Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330

Farm Products

AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER

USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL

865-986-4264

Logs2Lumber.com

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

$20 a roll. (865) 216-5387

WANTED TO BUY STANDING SAW TIMBER

Call 865-719-1623

Livestock & Supplies

BLACK BULLS & BLACK HEIFERS

Call (865)856-3947

Pets

Dogs

BOUVIER DES FLANDER puppies,15 wks old, parents on site, Call(865)202-5240.

DACHSHUND PUPS - 2 boys - (1) LH & (1) smooth; (1) girl - LH, AKC, shots, 7 wks, choc. & tan. $500. (865)223-7162; 865-680-4244.

ENGLISH BULL DOG PUPPIES - AKC, 3M, 1 F, $1500. www.BetterBulls.com; 865-254-5420.

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

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

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

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

Lab Puppies, 6 wks old, 1st shots & wormed, hips & eyes cleared, black $550, choc. $650. (423) 465-0594

LAB PUPS AKC REG - 6 weeks. 1st shots & wormed. 2 yellow, M & F,$400; 1 black F $300. (865)457-9368

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

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

Mini Schnauzer pups, AKC reg, black & black/silver, champ. sire & dam, pet or show, 865-207-6199

www.hardinhaus.com

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

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

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

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

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

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

Go to Facebook, Judys Puppy Nursery Updates.

423-566-3647

SHIH TZU puppies, AKC, Females $600; Males $500. Shots UTD. War-ranty. 423-618-8038; 423-775-4016

ST. BERNARD PUPPY - AKC reg. fem. 9 wks. old, vet ck’d. Shots & worming, health guar., $1200. (423)506-8772.

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

STANDARD POODLE puppies, shots, wormed, reg., $850. (423)754-2863

WIRE HAIRED TERRIERS, females, shots, worming, $125. (423)271-5129

YORKIE F & M TINY PUPS - CKC, beau-ties. Blk/tan. Very playful. (865)306-1933

Merchandise

Antiques

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

Appliances

GOOD AS NEW

APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-90532001 E. Magnolia Ave.

Cemetery Lots

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

Collectibles

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

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

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

WEST SIDE COINS & COLLECTIBLES7004 KINGSTON PK

CALL 584-8070

Exercise Equipment

Total exercise indoors in the cool - Aero Pilates 4 cord premiere studio model w/foot web on 6 leg stand. Manual, wall chart, small TV to fol-low DVDs, $200. (865) 717-6730

Furniture

2 DINING ROOM TABLES - each with 6 chairs, bar height, light wood, like new. $275 ea. or both for $500. (865)635-8228.

Furniture

2 twin beds w/bedding, $125 ea. 3 pcBR furn. $125. Pedestal kit table w/4 chairs $75. Loveseat $200. Coffeetable $75. Oversize wooden rocker $75. Refrig $25. Curio cabinet $70. (865)249-8560

ROLL TOP DESK & CHAIR, Drexel sofa,oriental 8x10 rug, computer desk & chair, king sz. matt. & springs, oilpainting & pictures, Henredon king size headboard. (865)675-1959

Lawn & Garden

JOHN DEERE X475 - 192 hrs, 48” deck, like new. $4995 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

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

Musical

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

Sporting Goods

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

Tools

WOOD LATHE with copy crafter & tools, $150. (865)680-5979

Announcements

Adoptions

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

ADOPTION: - Adopting your newborn is a gift

we’ll treasure. Secure endless love awaits your newborn. Maria & John

877-321-9494 Exp. pd.

ADOPTION:Loving couple promises your baby a

secure home. Denise & Nick. 1-888-449-0803

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

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

Financial

Consolidation Loans

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

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

See manager for details.865-687-3228

Real EstateSales

North

3 ACRE WOODED HILLSIDE HOME -North, $167,500. Seperate 4th BR,3rd BA living area. Much new. Hugecovered deck. Info box at gate. Can’t see house so call. Mile marker 4.8Tazewell Pike. No lease or owner fin. Text 865-604-7187; (865)687-5502

BRICK RANCHER - 3118 Walnoaks Rd, 3BR, 1 BA, Updated, new flooring $139,900. (865)531-3119

West

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

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

RANCHER BELMONT WEST - 980 Pon-der Rd., 3BR, 980 Ponder Rd. 3 BR, 2 BA, kit., den, LR, DR, all brick FP,2 car gar. Fenced backyard, 2 min.to public & private schools. Settled, quiet, safe neighborhood. 1st timeon market. Sell as is. Appt. Only. $140,900 865-216-6990 865-776-0227

Condos-Furn

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

Condos-Unfurn

8725 Wimbledon Dr. 37923. 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, newly painted throughout, new carpet, $179,000. (865) 531-3119

Condos-Unfurn

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

Vacation Property

CABIN at Top of the World near Smokey Mtn. Park & lake. 1 BR, 1 BA. $73,000. (865) 922-1892

Manufactured Homes

Amherst Ridge MHP. Like new 16x70, vinyl siding, shingle roof, 3 BR, 2 BA. Only $17,500. Chris 865-207-8825

I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES1990 up, any size OK

865-384-5643

For Sale By Owner

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

Contact 865-310-5932.

Real Estate Auction

ABSOLUTE AUCTION Online Only

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

City Water, Unrestrictedwww.ayersauctionrealty.com TAL 407

Real EstateRentals

Apartments - Furnished

WALBROOK STUDIOS 865-251-3607$145 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV,

Ph, Refrig, Basic Cable. No Lease.

Apartments - Unfurn.

1,2,3 BR

$355 - $460/mo.

GREAT VALUE

RIVERSIDE MANORALCOA HWY

865-970-2267*Pools, Laundries, Appl.*5 min. to UT & airport

www.riversidemanorapts.com

1BR APT, NORTHEAST w/util. $220 aweek, $320 moves you in.

Call 865-250-3823 no text.

2 BR TOWNHOUSES South - Taliwa Gardens $585 - $625

1 1/2 bth, W/D conn. (865) 577-1687

BEST DEAL OUT WEST! - 1BR from $375. 2BR $550-$695. No pets. Parking @ front door.

(865)470-8686

BROADWAY TOWERS62 AND OLDER

Or Physically Mobility Impaired1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site.

Immediate housing if qualified.Section 8-202.

865-524-4092 for appt.TDD 1-800-927-9275

MORNINGSIDE GARDENS1 BR Apt Now AvailableELDERLY OR DISABLED

COMPLEX

A/C, Heat, Water & Electric Incl,OnSite Laundry, Computer Center

& Resident ServicesGreat location! On the Bus Line!

Close to Shopping! Rent Based on Income,

Some Restrictions ApplyCall 865-523-4133. TODAY

for more information

SOUTH KNOX - Large and clean. 1BR, 1 BA, appls, water, garbage p/u incl.

$425. 250-9209 or 389-2336

Homes Unfurnished

ROCKY HILL 3BR, 1 1/2 BA, hrdwds,encl. gar., lg. dwnsts den w/wood stv, cul-de-sac, $995 mo. (865)573-5206.

S.W. Area. 3 BR, 1 BA country home, priv., $800 mo + dep. & refs.(865)717-9493

WEST - Gettysvue area, $1800, 1 yr. old, 3BR, 2 1/2BA,

main level luxury master, spacious w/hardwoods, granite,

high ceilings, FP, etc. etc. Call (865)919-3323 or 360-5109.

Condos Unfurnished

SEQUOYAH SQUARE 3636 Taliluna Ave., Sequoyah Hills,1BR condo, appx. 750 SF, great ngh-brhd., close to downtown & UT, $750 mo., 1 yr. lse. 865-607-1747.

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

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

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

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

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

The Heiskell Seniors monthly meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Community Center, 1708 W. Emory Road in Powell. Speaker, 11 a.m.; lunch, noon; bingo, 1 p.m. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

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

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

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

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

Super Hero Storytime and Costume Party with Spider Man, 3 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

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

FRIDAY, JUNE 10Concert in the Commons: Anne Mccue, 7

p.m., The Norris Commons, the lawn in front of the Norris Middle School. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket. Info: Facebook.

Movie in the Park, Luttrell City Park. Free. Bring chairs or blanket. Movie starts at dusk. Cancelled if raining. Info: 992-0678.

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

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

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

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 10-26“Charlie & the Chocolate Factory,”

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: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

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

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

Chalk on the Walk, noon, Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Front Page Follies, 6 p.m., Knoxville Convention Center. Includes: silent auction, dinner, live auction, musical revue. Tickets: $125/ table of 10, $1,000. Proceeds fund journalism scholarships at UT and Pellissippi State community College. Tickets: FrontPageFoundation.org. Info: Melanie Staten, 776-8227.

“Killer Tomatoes vs Tomato Killers,” 1:30-2:30 p.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road.

Presented by Master Gardeners Joe Pardue and Marcia Griswold. Free and open to the public. Info: 588-8813 or knoxlib.org.

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

Saturday Stories and Songs: Dancing Spider Yoga, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. For children ages 3-9 and parents. Info: 689-2681.

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

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

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

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

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

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 11-12Antique car show and street fair, Historic

Rugby. Car show, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday; free to spectators. To preregister vehicles: 423-628-2441; day of show registration, $10, space permitting. Street fair, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. both days, featuring: crafts, antiques and gift vendors. Info: historicrugby.org.

SUNDAY-MONDAY, JUNE 12-13Open auditions for “The Boor” presentation by

The Moving Theatre, 3-5 p.m. Sunday and 5-7 p.m. Monday, Thomas Episcopal Church, 5401 Tiffany Lane. Auditions consist of cold readings from the script. Resume and headshot are helpful but not required. Info: MovingTheatreKnoxville@gmail.com.

MONDAY, JUNE 13Coffee, Donuts and a Movie: “Creed,” 10:30

a.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

Family Movie Night: “Peanuts,” 5:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

Knoxville Zoomobile, 3 p.m., North Knoxville Branch Library, 2901 Ocoee Trail. Info: 525-7036.

Magician Michael Messing, 2 p.m., Carter Branch Library, 9036 Asheville Highway. Info: 933-5438.

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

TUESDAY. JUNE 14Paulette 6th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Paulette Elementary School cafeteria. Info: 992-5212.

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

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer,

2-4:15 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Preregistration is required. 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, JUNE 16Family Pajama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Halls

Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.Memoir Writing, 6-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts

Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Kathleen Fearing. A Featured Tennessee Artist workshop. Registration deadline: June 9. Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

Magician Michael Messing, 4 p.m., Mascot Branch Library, 1927 Library Road. Info: 933-2620.

Plainview 7th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Plainview Community Center. Info: 992-5212.

Shakespeare for Kids, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 947-6210.

FRIDAY, JUNE 17Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 2 p.m.,

Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Concert in the Commons: Retrospect, 7 p.m., The Norris Commons, the lawn in front of the Norris

Middle School. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket. Info: Facebook.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JUNE 17-18“Night at the McClung Museum” family

sleepover, 7 p.m.-8 a.m., McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For children ages 5-11 and their parents. Tickets: $40 per person members; $50 nonmembers. Info/tickets: 974-2144 or mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

Quilt show, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Knoxville Expo Center, 5441 Clinton Highway. Hosted by the Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee. Admission, $7; two-day pass, $10. Info: smokymtnquilters.com or on Facebook.

SATURDAY, JUNE 18Lavender Festival and A Taste of Tennessee

Wines, Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. Festival, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.; A Taste of Tennessee Wines, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Portion of proceeds go to the Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge. Info: jacksonsquarelavenderfestival.org.

Make Your Own Kite!, noon-1 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Mosaic Stepping Stones, 1-6 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Jessica Kortz. A Featured Tennessee Artist workshop. Registration deadline: June 11. Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

New Life UMC Car Show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 7921 Millertown Pike. Registration fee: $25.00 Day of Show. Preregistration, $20; $25 day of show. Includes vendors, lunch; kids car contest, 2-3 p.m. Fundraiser for Youth Ministries. Info/registration: 546-5153 or newlifeumcknoxville.com.

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

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

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

Vintage baseball, noon and 2:30 p.m., Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Games and parking free; concessions available. Bring lawn chair or blanket for seating. Info: ramseyhouse.org.

MONDAY, JUNE 20 “If You Build it, They Will Come,” 1-2 p.m.,

Davis Family YMCA, 12133 S. Northshore Drive. Presented by Master Gardener Amy Haun. Info: 777-9622.

Knoxville Zoomobile, 2 p.m., Carter Branch Library, 9036 Asheville Highway. Info: 933-5438.

Monday Night Book Club: “What Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty, 6-8 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, JUNE 20-24Kids’ Craft Camp, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Norris

Community Building, 20 Chestnut Road, Norris. Instructor: Sheri Burns. Bring a sack lunch each day. Registration deadline: June 10 or until fi lled. Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway.

TUESDAY, JUNE 21Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 2 p.m.,

Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Excel 2013 certifi cate class, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Area Urban League, 1514 E. Fifth Ave. Free class taught by Pellissippi State instructors. Learn new or upgrade old skills. Space limited; registration required. Info: Bill or Jackie, 524-5511.

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

“Roses in Pots,” 11 a.m.-noon, Karns Senior Center, 8042 Oak Ridge Highway. Presented by Master Gardener Rosarian Brian Townsend. Info: 951-2653.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

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

THURSDAY, JUNE 23Excel 2013 certifi cate class, 8:30 a.m.-noon,

Knoxville Area Urban League, 1514 E. Fifth Ave. Free class taught by Pellissippi State instructors. Learn new or upgrade old skills. Space limited; registration required. Info: Bill or Jackie, 524-5511.

Hospitality Job Fair, 1-4 p.m., Knoxville Area Urban League, 1514 E. Fifth Ave. On-site interviews and applications with local employers in the hotel, convention and hospitality industries. Info: Bill or Jackie, 524-5511.

“If You Build it, They Will Come,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Amy Haun. Info: 329-8892.

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