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By Betty BeanThe fi rst challenge to the city’s

new sign ordinance isn’t coming from a big national franchise seeking a fl ashing message center atop a tall pole along-side a busy highway.

Instead, it’s being fi led by the owner of a homegrown business who has been told that she can’t place whimsical, cartoon-style butter and egg fi gures of her own design on the roof of her building because they aren’t art.

“It came down to whether the sign was art or just advertising,” said Peter Ahrens, director of Plans Review and Inspections for the city of Knoxville.

“As we looked at their website, it almost seemed that the egg and the butter became a logo, almost like a Nike Swoosh. Where you see the butter and egg dancing, you think of Magpies, and that’s how they are trying to brand their business. That would be consid-

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Peg Hambright

ered advertising.”Peggy Hambright,

owner of Magpies Bak-ery, admits that she’s

better at baking cakes than at dealing with bureaucracies.

She said she’d long planned on affi xing porcelain fi gures to the pre-existing scaffolding at either end of her roof but put it off due to its cost. And even after passage of the new ordinance, which prohib-its rooftop signs, she believed Ms. Egg and Mr. Butter could slide in under a clause exempting works of art bearing no advertising.

“I was asked to speak against

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By Cindy TaylorTexas Valley Baptist Church

has been going through an excit-ing renovation for the past three months. The fi rst baptism in the remodeled sanctuary was sched-uled for the morning service Aug. 30. But those plans were dashed when fi re took the building to the ground Aug. 29. The building had stood since 1972.

Only the front remained when fi refi ghters

fi nished at Texas Valley Baptist Church.

The front wall (shown here) was later

knocked down by fi refi ghters.

A new steeple lies on the ground. It arrived

last week but fortunately had not yet been

installed. Photos by Cindy Taylor

destroys landmark Fire North Knox church

Church members were in the building Saturday morning, pre-paring the sanctuary for Sunday worship. They said everything was still fi ne at 9:30 a.m. Buck Wamack got a call not long after that telling him something was wrong at the church.

“It was beautiful inside after the renovation,” he said. “Now it’s gone.”

Responders came from Pau-lette, Maynardville, Rural/Metro, Karns and Sharps Chapel. Rural/Metro shift manager Scott Rob-erts was on site.

“We got here around 3 this afternoon, and we’ll stay long enough to make it acceptable for the investigators,” he said. “We’ll be here another couple of hours and probably come back during the night.”

Member Glenn Stooksbury has attended Texas Valley since the early 1960s.

“We were in every room in the building this morning, and every-thing was fi ne,” he said.

Pastor Corey Carroll had been leading worship in the fellowship hall while the renovations took place. Leaders at Christ United Methodist Church in Halls have offered the congregation of Texas Valley use of their facility until other arrangements are made.

Fortunately there were no inju-ries. The cause of the fi re was not known at press time.

By Wendy SmithData gathered from Tennessee

Division of Forestry and city can-opy assessments, both completed last year, will be used in an upcom-

ing report on the health of Knox-ville’s tree canopy.

The assess-ments were done via aerial pho-tos. Maps created from data gained are available on the urban forestry section of the city’s

website. The city canopy assess-ment shows percentage of tree cov-er by neighborhood, and the state assessment shows changes in the canopy from 1997 to 2010 by City Council district.

This year, Urban Forester Kasey Krouse plans to compile informa-

tion from both assessments into a report that details where Knoxville has healthy tree cover and where additional trees might be planted. The city has an annual tree-plant-ing budget of $50,000 and has received an additional $20,000 in state funds for each of the past three years. That allows for the planting of 500-600 trees per year, he says.

The assessments indicate that the total size of the canopy stayed the same from 1997 to 2010, but that doesn’t account for annexed proper-ty, which is generally forested.

A signifi cant change in land use, indicated by an increase in im-pervious surfaces like roads, side-walks and buildings, was indicated for the same period. Tree cover along roadways and in abandoned pastures increased, but further re-search is required to determine if

Kasey Krouse

Canopy assessments show where trees are neededthat’s a good thing. Some may be privet, rather than new, healthy trees, and privet inhibits tree growth.

Such data allow Krouse to target neighborhoods that are losing tree coverage. Different parts of town face different challenges in regard to the canopy.

The Parkridge neighborhood is rebounding from canopy loss through a three-year improvement strategy implemented by the city that involves planting street trees.

“Street trees are a tremendous asset because they improve aes-thetics and property values. They make people want to live there,” he says.

The anticipated report will give Krouse the opportunity to further educate the community about the value of trees. Trees add value to homes by cuting cooling costs,

but people who have experienced property damage from trees, or just want to be able to mow quickly, may need more information.

Krouse is happy to share his expertise with neighborhood or-ganizations. He’d like for the com-munity to understand the risks of hiring non-professional tree work-ers to top trees.

Trees that have been “topped,” or had large branches or trunks removed from their tops, are more likely to fail, especially during storms, he says. He recommends hiring professional arborists to consult on proper treatment for large trees.

There is one tree species that, in his opinion, can’t be overpruned − the Bradford pear. “Cut it down and plant an oak.”

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Breakfast Club at Beaver Dam

The Halls Business and Pro-fessional Association will host its Breakfast Club from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, in the sanctuary center vestibule at the Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

Pastor Alan Price invites everyone to the monthly “meet and greet” event. Attendees are urged to bring business cards.

The regular monthly luncheon meetings are held at noon each third Tuesday at Beaver Brook Country Club.

Upcoming speakers are Kim Trent, executive director of Knox Heritage (Sept. 15), and Alison Swank, director of mar-keting, Knoxville Zoo (Oct. 20).

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TDOT updateFountain City Business

and Professional Association will host representatives from the Tennessee Department of Transportation to discuss a project underway to redesign the intersection of Broadway and I-640.

The meeting is at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Virginia College. Lunch is $10, and the public is invited. President is R. Larry Smith.

Burchett to visit Sam & Andy’s

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and others will meet for lunch from 11:30 to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at Sam & Andy’s Restaurant, 2613 W. Adair Drive in Fountain City.

All are invited to join the dutch-treat meal. The daily special is grilled pork tender-loin and two sides for $7.99.

Women’s League sets Stuff -a-Bag

The Halls Crossroads Women’s League will hold its semi-annual Stuff-a-Bag event, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 at The Closet, corner of Cunningham Road and Hwy. 33.

Individuals may purchase one or more brown bags at $5 each and stuff it with clothing and accessories.

Proceeds will be used for school supplies.

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City to rehab Fountain City Lake; community must make it beautiful By Sandra Clark

The best part of last week’s fo-rum on Fountain City Lake came last when community resident (and UT professor) Garry Menen-dez unveiled his concept plan for the area’s centerpiece.

He said three times that the plan is just a concept. It’s not funded and can be changed.

“This is our park. Through par-ticipation, we can do this,” he said.

Quickly, Mike Hensley added, “We appreciate what the city is doing, but we need to step up and be responsible (for the park and lake).”

Carlene Malone, always ready to speak the unspoken, asked, “How many ducks can safely live there?” Hemming and hawing en-sued. Finally someone guessed 15-30 birds.

And that’s the inconvenient truth. Way too many ducks live at the lake. They probably would mi-grate, as ducks do, but why bother when folks are feeding them corn and bread and other carbs daily?

The inappro-priate food makes for fat and lazy ducks and, well, you know the rest.

David Hager-man is the city’s stormwater engi-neer who is over-seeing the rehab project. He said he

gets three main questions:Do you know the lake is green?What is the city doing?When will it be done?Mayor Madeline Rogero tack-

led the “what’ and “when” issues to kick off the forum. The Foun-tain City Lions Club building was packed to standing room only.

“By next summer, we’ll be fi n-ished,” said Rogero. “At least that’s what my engineers tell me.

“We know the problems with the lake have been decades in the making and we likewise know that a full restoration can’t happen overnight.”

Rogero said a lasting solution requires commitment to a long-term plan.

“The city is repairing the lake’s infrastructure and developing a management plan. Once those are completed by next summer, we’ll need the help of community part-

ners to maintain a healthy lake.”

The city is in-vesting $250,000 in the project.

City consul-tants and Menen-dez agree that the northern, shallow end of the lake should be con-verted into wetlands. Menendez shows three patches of green in the top quadrant of the lake, with two connected by a boardwalk. He shows a fi shing pier near Broad-way.

Bart Carter of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said fi sh are the key. Not only is fi sh-ing fun, but in an urban setting it might be the only chance some kids get to catch their dinner.

Consulting engineer Jason Brooks of Lamar Dunn Architects wants “muskrat control,” saying the varmints tunnel holes in the sides of the lake, contributing to its low water level. He wants TWRA to stock triploid grass carp and blue tilapia. The carp would eat the algae and the fi shers would eat the tilapia.

Hagerman said the lake must be drained again, probably in Oc-tober, fi sh relocated and sediment dug out and hauled off. He esti-mated up to 1,100 cubic yards of duck muck.

Rogero said three items remain: ■ Fall 2015: The lake level

will be lowered during a naturally dry cycle. The number of water fowl will begin to be reduced. Lake sediment and rooted algae will be removed. Construction of the wetland area will begin.

■ Winter to Spring 2016: Upgrades will be made to the fountain system and pump house to increase aeration, which adds oxygen to the water, agitates the water surface and reduces stag-nation – all helpful in combatting algae growth.

■ Spring to Summer 2016: The wetland area will be planted with native species. The lake will be restocked with triploid grass carp and blue tilapia to control aquatic vegetation. Chemical al-gaecide will be sparingly applied if needed.

Then the city will be done and it’s time for the citizens to step up.

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the ordinance, but I’m not a public speaker,” Hambright said. “So I didn’t. I thought the exemption would apply.”

She said none of her neighbors objects to her plan and said she doesn’t believe that some of the pro-hibitions in the ordinance are good for the 800 block of North Central Street, which hasn’t yet seen the kind of redevelopment that’s taking place a few blocks north.

Hambright – who got her start in the business with the help of her late parents, Frank and Hazel Hambright, who sold Mag-pies cookies and cakes at the Market Square Farm-ers Market – bought 846 N. Central St. seven years ago, spruced it up and moved the bakery there from its Old City location, where it had been for fi ve years. She rent-ed the back half of the build-ing to the Glowing Body Yoga Studio, which fronts on Irwin Street. Soon, both businesses were drawing steady customers.

After her next-door neighbor, the iconic Corner

Lounge, went out of business, Hambright and her husband, Scott Carpenter, bought that building, too, and eventu-ally chef Holly Hambright (Peggy’s sister) opened Hol-ly’s Corner there, giving the neighborhood a trio of vi-brant new businesses.

Being turned down by the city inspectors forced Hambright to spend $250 to appeal the decision to the city Board of Zoning Ap-peals, where she will plead her case in October. If she is turned down there, the next step is City Council.

She says she’s feeling frustrated.

“If a business is will-ing to spend $10,000 of its own money to make their neighborhood more appeal-ing, why should the city be opposed? It can only be a good thing for everyone,” she said. “There has to be a way to make an exception in the ordinance to accommo-date neighborhoods such as ours and the Magnolia Av-enue corridor to allow us to make our businesses stand out from the blight.”

Central High School has inducted fi ve former Bob-cats (coaches and athletes) at the school’s fi rst Sports Hall of Fame. The event began with a breakfast to honor guests, and the

Central honors

Honored at Central High School’s Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony were Joel Helton (represented by his daughter Alison, son Zach and granddaughter Anderson Helton), Bud Bales, Lorie Compton Rheinecker, Tony Cosey and Tommy Schumpert. Photo by R. White

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Hall of fame Frye Alvin

returned to the school to teach and coach. Judge Tim Irwin was a football player for Schumpert. In a video interview, Irwin called his former coach “more than just a coach” and talked of how Schumpert taught team members life skills. He also called Schumpert “fair and compassionate, someone who set an example through leadership.”

“Coach is a name that I treasure,” said Schumpert. “Central High School means a lot to me, and I am hum-bled to be an inductee.”

Lorie Compton Rhei-necker was a standout ath-lete for the Bobcats 1980-83. She excelled in softball, bas-ketball and volleyball and was called “one of the great-

est in all sports.” One of Rhei-necker’s best memories from high school is being taught how to work as a team.

She went on to Lincoln Memorial University to play basketball and softball and now is the physical educa-tion teacher at Sterchi El-ementary. “I was highly competitive in high school,” she said to laughter from the crowd. “I used to think win-ning was the only thing, but the team bond we formed will always remain in my heart.”

Rheinecker remembers wanting a new softball glove her senior year. The glove cost quite a bit, and she was told that she had to decide between the glove and a se-nior ring. “I still have that

glove,” she said. Bud Bales spent 30 years

teaching and coaching at Central and racked up a ton of awards, including Knox-ville Sports Hall of Fame, East Tennessee Baseball Hall of Fame, 17 district baseball championships, eight base-ball regional championships and the 1990 baseball state championship.

Former player Andy Bolton remembers the ex-citement of playing for a coach like Bales. “He taught his team humility and life skills that went way be-yond the baseball fi eld.” He added that everyone left the program a better person be-cause of Bales.

Tony Cosey is a 1991 CHS grad. He graduated a fi ve-time state champion in track and cross country and set many state records. Cosey went to the University of Tennessee, where he was a seven-time All American in his four years at school. His success on the track led him to the Olympics in Syd-ney in 2000.

Cosey excelled as a run-ner and was humbled to be named to the Hall of Fame. “A lot of great athletes came through Central. This is where it all began.”

Cosey considers his suc-cess a blessing and talent from God, and he gives Him all of the praise for his ca-

reer. He also credits all of the people that poured into his life and believed in him.

Joel Helton was induct-ed posthumously, and his children, Alison and Zach Helton, received the honor in his memory. Helton was described as a winner in every sport he ever coached but will be most remem-bered for the way he treated his players. Many times Helton would take players home when they didn’t have a ride, would make sure they had food to eat and was a father fi gure to them.

Alison Helton said that Central was her dad’s life, and he would have been honored to be part of the Hall of Fame. “He taught us that there was always some-one we could help out and to love people well.”

Zach Helton said his dad was his hero, and he dreamed of playing football at CHS for him. “Dad loved talking to former players or getting letters from them. He loved being a Bobcat, and he loved Central High School,” said Alison.

Fountain City Exxon owner Alvin Frye washonored as a friend of Cen-tral High School and was credited with sacrifi cing for others. For Frye, it’s not about pumping gas or fi xing cars … it’s about being there for the community.

school commons area was fi lled with chatter as people

Filmmaker Zach Slocum fi rst considered a career in the arts when working on his senior project in high school. He went on to obtain his degree from the Savan-nah College of Art and De-sign in 2008.

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Halls grad makes ‘the cut’

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The 2004 Halls High graduate will see 11 years of hard work come to frui-tion when his fi rst fi lm pre-mieres in the 1 p.m. fi lm block on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Knoxville Film Festi-val at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8. Slocum wrote, directed and starred in the 19-minute fi lm “Bass Hunt-er,” a yearlong undertaking.

“I shot the fi lm with the help of fi lm-school acquain-tances, local fi lmmakers and actors from Knoxville,” he said. “To get this project done in one year was amaz-ingly fast.”

Slocum says “Bass Hunter” is a dark comedy about an un-likely duo who pursue a leg-endary fi sh. It is easy to pick up on Slocum’s unique sense of humor and understand

Square. Slocum says if a fi lm is done right, it frees his mind for a couple of hours.

“No matter what I’m dealing with, there is that escape. It is truly a wonder-ful thing.”

To relax, Slocum often wanders around Manhat-tan. He will stop for pizza, maybe a beer and just watch the people.

“I make up back stories for them: who they are, where they’re from and what’s on their mind.”

Slocum says his career choice is hard when he is be-tween jobs and wondering what he is doing with his life; but the most diffi cult times were when he had to work in an offi ce to get by and support his art. He says the phrase, “No matter how bad things are, you can always panic and make it worse,” speaks to his personality.

He wishes he had paid more attention in English class because in fi lmmak-ing it is important to com-municate ideas; it’s a career he doesn’t recommend for everyone.

“Being a fi lmmaker has zero guarantees for suc-cess. Five years from now I hope to have one or two features under my belt. It will seem like I came out of nowhere.

“You love the game or you don’t. If you’re on the fence about it, I say walk away and do something else.”

caught up with one another and shared stories.

Tommy Schumpert, a 1956 graduate of CHS,

why he chose this genre.“Most people I know

hated high school, which is nuts,” he said. “Granted, there are some real jerks, but you’ve got to learn to deal with them because when you grow up you call them ‘Boss’ or ‘Offi cer.’ ”

Slocum says he was out-going in high school, had

some sweet rock-star hair and drove a rad Camaro. He readily admits he was a bit infl uenced by the fi lm “Dazed and Confused.”

He calls Brooklyn, N.Y., home these days and says seeing other fi lms inspires him. Once a week he will watch a fi lm at Film Forum in SoHo or Regal at Union

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Country-boy football coaches, since the days of Bowden Wyatt, have used the same expression to de-scribe this time of year.

“The hay is in the barn.”This is obviously a farm-

ing summation, the alfalfa matured, was cut, pitched or baled and put away for later use.

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enough?All the good ones will ask

themselves: Did I put in the hours, do the work, focus sharply on details, leave little to chance? Am I really ready for the proverbial mo-ment of truth, the opening kickoff, giant games to fol-low, a season of high expec-tations?

They will check to see if they are s uffi ciently con-fi dent, totally committed,

dedicated to the cause.Is the hay safely in the

barn? Nobody knows to-day. But we’ll all fi nd out later. How the team looks is relevant – and I’m not talk-ing about Nike or alternate uniforms. Can we recog-nize improved strength and speed in action? Was coach-ing so crisp as to eliminate hesitation and confusion?

What really matters are results. Wins and losses. How and where and beating betting odds are secondary.

There was a time when excuses were justifi ed. Butch Jones inherited a depleted roster. Lane Kif-fi n committed too many recruiting blunders. Derek Dooley didn’t do much of

anything. We think Butch Jones has excelled.

Talent was below SEC standards. Too many people were too slow. Those fl aws ap-pear to have been corrected.

There was a shortage of ex-perience. Butch dared to play young guys. That those who stayed are now sophomores and juniors is his reward.

Turnovers? Stuff hap-pens. The solution is to be mentally and physically strong enough to overcome the shock.

Injuries? Inevitably, there will be some. The bur-den on coaches is to have a replacement ready. This has been a past weakness. If it happens again, don’t try to explain it away.

No matter who tells you otherwise, an improved de-fense will depend on having a capable middle linebacker. The front looks better. The secondary seems secure. Count special teams as a probable plus.

Key to Tennessee offen-sive success? The quarter-back, of course. And receiv-ers. And running backs. Big plays, sustained drives, more punch in the red zone.

The key to skill players gaining a few yards and scoring an occasional touch-down? Same as always. The offensive line determines the width of the doorway. It is the primary component of victories – and defeats.

If you are keeping score, Tennessee’s offensive line has been a little less than over-whelming in recent years.

This is where Mike DeBord comes in. For orga-

nizational purposes, a touch of glamour and pay justifi -cation, he is offensive coor-dinator. It says in the book that he, in his spare time, is also supervisor of quarter-back instruction.

DeBord is really an old line coach. He has techni-cal skills and bulldog de-termination to assist Don Mahoney in the critical pro-duction of a real, live offen-sive line.

I recall questioning, back in the winter, why Butch would hire his old (59 or 60, not 80) buddy with so much at stake. I have rethought the situation.

Wouldn’t it be some-thing if Mike DeBord turns out to be the win-ning edge, the guy with the pitchfork or high-lift that puts the hay in the barn. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is [email protected]

Three city members of MPC had their current terms end June 30 but May-or Rogero has not acted to replace them two months later. Since all have served two terms, Rogero will not reappoint them.

They are Bart Carey, Michael Kane and Jack Sharp. When the new mem-bers are named, they will have a few months shaved off their term due to Rog-ero’s tardiness in naming replacements.

The current city mem-bers will probably continue at least until October as the mayor has not sent any pa-perwork to the state to re-place them.

■ If yard signs could vote, Finbarr Saunders and Paul Bonovich would be fairly close competitors for City Council seat C with Kelly Absher and David Williams behind in the yard sign battle. The Saunders

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New members ahead for MPC

and Bonovich signs are actually in real yards and not right of ways which is a compliment to both.

■ Mayor Rogero and City Council deserve praise for working to restore Foun-tain City Lake. The iconic landmark is part of our city’s history. It will take a long time to correct the dif-fi cult issues there but the wait is worth it if success is the result.

■ Several new person-nel moves in the city were announced last week and (as is the practice of the Rogero Administration), salaries were not included in the announcement. How-

ever, they are public record.David Brace moves to

senior director of public works, and his salary jumps from $109,870 to $135,000. He is a top-notch public ser-vant and earns every dollar he receives. He lives in Is-land Home in South Knox and start in 2002 with the city.

Chad Weth, who becomes service director, sees his salary jump from $75,742 to $95,000 plus a $5,830 an-nual car allowance. Sheryl Ely starts works at $75,742 as a deputy director, coming from Oak Ridge city government. She does not get a car allowance.

■ Dean Rice, chief of staff to Mayor Tm Burchett, married Natalie Maneava on May 6. She is from Belar-us and is seeking U.S. citi-zenship while working on her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee.

■ David Massey, who

sends out an excellent weekly neighborhood ad-visory newsletter from the city website, last week stat-ed that Mayor Rogero (for whom he works) was unop-posed for her second term. While she will be the only name on the printed ballot Sept. 29, she does have a qualifi ed write-in opponent named Jack Knoxville.

To Massey’s credit, he sent out a correction when notifi ed of the error. While rare, it has happened that a write-in prevails. Former three-term council mem-ber Gary Underwood was fi rst elected by a write-in vote against the late Vice Mayor Hoyle McNeil in 1989. However, Jack Knox-ville will fall far short of the goal line in this writer’s opinion.

■ There really is a new greenway in Knoxville which has not been offi -cially dedicated/opened

but it is there and ready for use. It is a city secret. This one is right along the river which stretches from the Buck Karnes Bridge to Ma-rine Park on Alcoa Highway. There is not a sign to it but I can assure you it is there. Park at Marine Park and you can use it. Round trip it is almost a mile long.

Formal opening has been delayed until an entrance can be built to link it to the bridge. I had thought the opening was being delayed to coincide with the city primary election Sept. 29, which would have been a rational if political rea-son. Now the ribbon cut-ting may come after the city primary which suggests the delay is due to leader-ship failing to complete it in a timely manner.

■ State Rep. Jason Zachary turned down state health insurance for himself as he signed papers

on becoming a state repre-sentative. Zachary opposes the Insure Tennessee pro-gram.

Zachary had a full room at his swearing in at First Baptist Church of Concord Aug. 24 including Mayor Tim Burchett, Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill, state Reps. Bill Dunn, Eddie Smith, Jimmy Matlock and M artin Daniel; state Sens. Frank Niceley and Richard Briggs. House Speaker Beth Harwell, fi rst woman to hold that position, adminis-tered the oath of offi ce after County Commission elected Zachary to the position. There still is a special elec-tion in the district Sept. 29 to elect Zachary.

By winning in a special election necessitated by Ryan Haynes’s resignation, Zachary secured incredible media attention which he could never have achieved in a normal cycle.

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Legacy Parks Foundation scored a coup in landing “Wild” author/protagonist Cheryl Strayed as speaker for its Sept. 11 luncheon. The $100-a-plate event at UT’s Holston River Farm is sold out with 1,000 partici-pants.

But its real accomplish-ment as it celebrates its 10th anniversary is the ever-expanding list of parks in Knoxville and Knox County.

Executive Director Carol Evans has helped commu-nities raise money for parks across the county.

Her fi rst big project was in Halls, where the community raised almost $500,000 to purchase 11 acres at the intersection of Norris Freeway and High-way 33. The big donor was Jim Clayton ($300,000), who got naming rights.

Legacy Parks collected donations, purchased the land, put conservation re-strictions on the deed and conveyed title to Knox County.

Donors are disappointed that Clayton Park is not yet open, but the foundation is not to blame.

“We learned how to do it better (with that project),” Evans now says.

Next, Evans helped Foun-tain City Town Hall develop a skate park on city-owned land just off Broadway. Cen-tral High School students created a video to show the benefi ts of a neighborhood skate park.

Legacy Parks recently helped with the Everly Brothers Park in Bearden. Terry Faulkner, president of the Bearden Council, says the foundation’s support was invaluable.

“I’m not sure we would have gotten the project go-ing if they had not been so

Betsy Pickle

Wilma Jordan, Jim Clayton and Kay Clayton sport Halls Has It! shirts to celebrate the start

of construction on the Clayton Park.

In this 2009 photo, Carol Evans leads Lamar Alexander and Bill Haslam on a

walk at River Bluff in South Knoxville. Photos courtesy of Legacy Parks Foundation

Legacy Parks makes its mark

supportive,” she says. “Leg-acy Parks has been a god-send to us.”

The Harrell Road storm-water park in Karns is a Legacy Parks project.

Legacy was behind the scenes when Pete Claussen conveyed some 400 acres on the French Broad River to Knox County for Seven Is-lands Wildlife Refuge. And Gov. Bill Haslam showed state support at the 2013 Legacy Luncheon when he announced that Seven Is-lands would be added to the state’s park system and renamed the Seven Islands State Birding Park.

But it’s in South Knox-ville where Legacy Parks has been most active – fi rst

with the development of the 1,000-acre Urban Wilder-ness, including preserva-tion of Civil War forts and a battlefi eld, and later by facilitating the donation of 100 acres by the Pat Wood family to connect the Urban Wilderness trail system to nearby neighborhoods and South-Doyle Middle School.

The foundation was sug-gested by Doug Bataille, Knox County’s senior di-rector of Parks and Recre-ation, who heard the idea at a workshop. He and Mark Field, then president of the Knoxville Chamber and chair of the county’s parks advisory board, fi rst tested community interest.

Field and Bataille then recruited former Knox County Executive Tommy Schumpert to serve as the fi rst board chair. They took him out to lunch and told him the position would be easy and he wouldn’t “have to do anything.”

“He knew we were ly-ing, but he agreed to it any-

way. It really took off from there,” says Bataille.

Schumpert credits Evans with the foundation’s suc-cess. “With her leadership we have done some very outstanding projects for the people that will last a long time.”

Evans became executive director when Sandy Hull left after about a year and a half.

“Carol’s done a tremen-dous job of moving the foundation forward,” says Bataille, who also praises the work of the board over 10 years.

“The Urban Wilderness was a fantastic example of multiple partnerships,” he says. “You had the city, the county, the state, private landowners getting in-volved. It was a great vision created by Carol through the foundation, but a lot of people pitched in to make it happen, especially the Ap-palachian Mountain Bike Club, with a huge amount of sweat equity.”

Mayor plays ballKnoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero poses w ith local softball players as part of the U.S.

Conference of Mayor’s initiative “Play Ball.” Photo submitted

Betty Bean

Three years ago, I fi g-ured Jeff Ownby was a dead man walking.

But now, I’m not so sure. And I changed my mind even before I saw the “Thank you, Commissioner Ownby for your support” sign out front of West Hills Elementary School.

Although we’re in the throes of city elections, those races are weakly con-tested and pretty boring. As a result, county elections, which aren’t on the calen-dar until 2016, appear to be drawing as much attention as those to whom this sea-son allegedly belongs, and District 4 is one of the most interesting.

I doubt I’m the only one surprised that incumbent Ownby is not only still standing, but also chugging steadily forward.

Ownby, 48, is built like a fi replug and sports an old-fashioned crew cut. He was a loud, proud and relatively unknown Tea Party Republican when he took on incumbent Finbarr Saunders in 2010. Saunders (Webb School, Class of ’62) is a moderately conserva-tive Democrat with deep roots in the Bearden area. A retired banker, he was well funded and well established in business and in the com-munity.

Ownby won a six-year term (the terms were being realigned that year because the commission was cut from19 to 11 members) by 358 votes in what was wide-ly considered a stunning upset. And although it was a Republican “sweep” year, locally and nationally, the tally shocked the political establishment and whittled the number of County Com-mission Democrats to two. Ownby immediately locked down a reputation as one of the most conservative com-missioners.

Then, in the spring of 2013, the news that he and another man had been arrested for indecent

Jeff Ownby keeps on walking

exposure in a Sharp’s Ridge sting operation rocked the local political fi rmament. Ownby lost his day job and embarrassed his family, and common wisdom was that he was toast, politically speaking, despite his public apology.

It didn’t take long for well-known, well-funded fourth district opponents to emerge. Hugh Nystrom (Webb School, Class of ’85) made it offi cial last spring, and Janet Testerman (Webb School ’87) kicked off her campaign this sum-mer.

Despite his public hu-miliation, it became clear that Ownby wasn’t going away. I started noticing him for something other than Tea Party rhetoric. Maybe he’d been doing it all along.

When there was a cause to be championed that other elected offi cials dis-dained, there he was, call-ing out state offi cials over the closing of Lakeshore Institute (which he believes has increased the numbers of homeless), opposing the closing of the former St. Mary’s Medical Center in North Knoxville and ques-tioning the rezoning that cleared the way for Ten-nova to move the facility to Middlebrook Pike. He even wore a red shirt in solidar-ity with protesting teachers. Few other elected offi cials asked these questions.

So a year out from county elections, Ownby, who has ditched his Tea Party affi liation, is fac-ing two well-connected, well-known opponents whose fi nancial resources he cannot match. And he keeps moving forward. I’m starting to believe he has a chance.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Sleepy commuters awoke

with a start last week when

NPR linked a familiar name

with a familiar drug.

■ John Duncan, this one a

60-year-old hunk called “a

crusty sea-dog” by the Gold

Coast (Austraila) Bulletin,

watched police raid a nearby

boat and confi scate cocaine

worth some $17 million.

■ Duncan says he had pegged

the sailors as phony when the

bloke in charge wore a suit

jacket and dress shoes.

■ “They just didn’t look like

boaties. It was really suss,”

said Duncan.

■ Meanwhile, Knoxville’s own

John Duncan III was vacation-

ing on the beach with his

wife and two kids (photos on

Facebook).

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Thursday, Sept. 3: 9 a.m. billiards, quilting; 1 p.m. pinochle; 1:30 p.m. Zumba Gold.

Friday, Sept. 4: 9 a.m. SAIL exercise, billiards; 11 a.m. Senior Meals (must sign up); 1 p.m. card mak-ing; 1:30 p.m. Zumba Gold.

Monday, Sept. 7: Closed for Labor Day.

Tuesday, Sept. 8: 9 a.m. billiards; 10 a.m. Veteran Services; 10:30 a.m. Super Seniors; 1 p.m. pinochle; 1:30 p.m. Zumba Gold.

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

Wednesday, Sept. 2: 10 a.m. bingo, hand & foot; noon Senior Meals; 12:30 p.m. bridge; 1 p.m. Rook, SAIL exercise.

Thursday, Sept. 3: 10 a.m. pinochle, line dancing, quilting; 11 a.m. exercise; 12:30 p.m. duplicate bridge; 1 p.m. ballroom dance class; 3 p.m. Tai Chi practice.

Friday, Sept. 4: 9:30 a.m. Pilates; 10 a.m. euchre, Farkle; 11 a.m. SAIL exercise; 11:30 a.m. art class; noon Lunch Bunch, Mexican Train dominoes; 2 p.m. Zumba Gold.

Monday, Sept. 7: closed for Labor Day.

Tuesday, Sept. 8: 10 a.m. canasta; 11 a.m. exercise; noon potluck: tailgate; 12:30 p.m. Mexican train dominoes; 1:30 p.m. hand & foot; 2 p.m. movie matinee.

By Sandra ClarkAbout 25 residents of

Morning Pointe of Powell hosted state Rep. Bill Dunn in their community room last week. Dunn recapped the recent legislative ses-sion and received limited feedback. That could mean everyone agreed with him or no one did.

Dunn was warmly re-ceived. He brought a huge watermelon that he had grown in a garden he works at Brickey-McCloud School, where his daughter is a teacher.

Ironically, Earl Hoff-meister, the man Dunn de-feated in his fi rst election (1994), now lives at Morn-ing Pointe. Hoffmeister was present but merely smiled amicably. Dunn said Hoff-meister, a four-term elected school superintendent, is “smart as a fox.”

“Tennessee is one of the lowest-taxed states in the nation,” Dunn said. And Tennessee is adding jobs from other states where tax-es are higher.

Dunn said “a lot of poli-ticians would bribe people with their own money” by passing legislation to ben-efi t citizens. “At least they had to occasionally vote to increase taxes,” he said. “Now we’re seeing politi-cians, not me, making busi-nesses do things.”

These politicians will pass minimum-wage bills, etc. to benefi t people with-out a negative effect on the politician – no requirement to raise taxes. But fi nally the businesses can’t compete and just move to states like Tennessee where restric-tions are fewer.

Dunn then drifted to a discussion of tort reform,

Republican-style. “The American culture is sue-happy,” he said. Now Ten-nessee allows those who are injured to be “fully compen-sated on real costs,” but has attempted to cap payouts for “the murky area” of pain and suffering.

“A judge overruled that.”So Dunn moved into a

discussion of activist judg-es, saying he’s very con-cerned with the increasing power of judges to overturn decisions of the Legislature.

■ Leadership change aheadTyner Brooks, admin-

istrator at Morning Pointe of Powell since its opening, has transferred with the company to a facility out-side of Nashville where his wife has secured a job.

Brooks said he will miss

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Bill Dunn talks with residents Muriel and Clayton Brewer. Photos by Brittany Ricker

Dunn talks legislation at

Bill Dunn poses with Morning Pointe resident Bill Jones.

Bill Dunn greets resident John Simmons.

the residents and their fam-ilies as he leaves Powell.

Meanwhile, Brittany Ricker has joined Morning Pointe of Powell as life en-richment director. In that role, she will plan events and activities while assist-ing with marketing.

A native of Greenev-ille, Tenn., Ricker is a 2011 graduate of the University of Tennessee and a former schoolteacher. Her husband is Travis.

Ricker is assisted by Hayden Rawdon, a UT stu-

dent majoring in therapeu-tic recreation, who is doing a 120-hour practicum at Morning Pointe. She is a na-tive of Hohenwald, Tenn.

■ UpcomingErin Bates Paine, a mem-

ber of the Bates family of Rocky Top, Tenn., will visit Morning Pointe of Powell at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, to entertain on the piano. Ricker said residents are looking forward to the visit.

On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the facility will observe Nation-al Assisted Living Week, with Fall Festival activities 5-7 p.m.

There’s Balloon Magic from 5:15 to 6 p.m. and a con-cert by Charlie Katts from 6:15 to 7 p.m. Throughout the event, residents and guests will share refreshments and view classic cars while kids enjoy a bounce house.

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I was carried to church when I was two weeks old, and mostly, have been there ever since.

There are advantages and disadvantages. At a young age, we learn with our limited understand-ing. If we never re-think or re-consider our youth-ful understandings, we don’t grow in the faith.

So, I was startled on a recent Sunday morning to realize that to be “lifted up” could have various meanings.

There is the literal in-terpretation that witness-es of the crucifi xion saw in painful clarity. Jesus was lifted up on a cross, and the purpose of that elevation was torture, agony, and a slow death at the hands of the Roman soldiers, who were – to be fair – only doing their duty.

But there is another way in which Jesus can be lifted up.

The small, country church where I worship these days has a picture of the Christ above the pulpit. I was looking at

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

(John 12: 32 NRSV)

Heavy lifting

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that picture, considering the concept of “lifting up” when it dawned on me that our job as Christians is exactly that: to “lift up” Christ.

Not physically, but metaphorically. And not only with our mouths.

We are called to live our lives in such a way that Christ is lifted up. We are to shine (in his refl ected glory) so that all the world can look at us and see Christ. We are to be the body of Christ in the world.

My friends, we can’t do that alone. We need each other, because together, we are smarter and bet-ter and richer and holier than any one of us can be alone.

Lift Christ up by how y ou live and love and work in this world!

Community services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian,

4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the

Halls Welfare Ministry food

pantry 6-8 p.m. each second

Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each

fourth Saturday.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church,

7212 Central Avenue Pike, is

accepting appointments for

the John 5 Food Pantry. Info:

938-2611. Your call will be

returned.

■ 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 ■ Church Women United

Knoxville-Knox County meet-

ing, 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4,

Bethel A.M.E. Church, 3811

Boyds Bridge Pike. Bible study

led by Rela White to follow

at 10:30.

■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory

Road, hosts Recovery at Pow-

ell at 6 p.m. Tuesdays. The

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By Cindy Taylor Jimbo Watson is back

home. The Knoxville na-tive and 1999 graduate of Halls High School began his youth ministry at Smith-wood Baptist Church. He started as a youth worker then served as interim un-til accepting a position at Broadway Baptist Church.

He loved the two years he spent at Broadway, but when the administration at Smithwood called and asked if he was willing to come back as youth minis-ter, Watson and wife Me-lissa, a teacher at Powell El-ementary, decided to return to his home church.

“Smithwood is amazing because it is home,” he said. “The people here have loved on me and my family since day one.”

Watson says the con-gregation at Smithwood encouraged his desire to enter ministry and then al-lowed him to serve. He says their love and nurturing has made him the person he is today, and he will be forever grateful.

As a follower of Jesus, Watson believes in the im-portance of being mission-

Ninfa Parsons and Aglow leader Diane Shelby Photo by Cindy Taylor

Watson family members: (front) Fischer, Coleman, Makenzi;

(back) Melissa, Brooks and Jimbo. Photo submitted

Jimbo Watson is home again

minded. He has served as a volunteer at Wesley House Community Center and was a member of the Montgom-ery Village Baptist Center Committee for the Knox County Association of Bap-tists for three years.

A former baseball player at Halls and then at the University of Tennessee, he has coached several lo-cal baseball teams as well as at Powell High School. His vision for youth is to produce disciples who then

produce disciples.“Sharing the message of

Jesus is a daily part of my life,” he said. “As a matter of fact, it is my life. This plays out in everything I do.”

Students at Smithwood attend Wednesday night ASSEMBLY, where the main focus is discipleship. Watson says the entire min-istry is based upon equip-ping students to fi nd their identity in Christ and being able to express their faith in dealing with daily problems.

Students enjoy fun fellow-ship activities and partner to serve local schools and ministries such as Fountain City Ministry Center.

“Student discipleship at Smithwood is teaching them to pray in a biblical way on their own, read scripture, encourage each other in Christian community and go forth with the message of the gospel to Fountain City.”

Watson says the church student ministry team is de-veloping a very specifi c plan for their youth to share with students in the Fountain City area the good news that Je-sus paid the price for them. He says that as part of shar-ing the Gospel the church should serve the immedi-ate community and that the service opportunities for students at Smithwood will present new and unique ways for them to worship and experience God.

“Mentoring and shep-herding the students is very important to me. I want them to experience God to the fullest.”

Smithwood Baptist Church is at 4914 Jacksboro Pike. Info: www.smith-wood.org or 689-5448.

Ninfa Parsons: Ministry building faith By Cindy Taylor

Ninfa Parsons has been an instrument of God for most of her life. As a native of the Philippines she began ministering to Muslim peo-ple in that country at the age of 20. Now at 75 she is still going strong.

Parsons recently re-turned from her latest trip to the small town of Pana-can in Davao City in the southern part of the Philip-pines. She spoke to Powell Aglow members last week during a gathering at the home of her daughter Edi-lyn Hall.

“There is so much bad news, chaos, natural disas-ter and fear going on in the world today,” said Parsons. “The good news is that God is in charge.

Parsons makes at least one trip per year to con-tinue ministering to poor Moslems in her home coun-try. She has started bible schools and been instru-mental in starting schools, churches and prayer houses. She participates in senior and youth retreats and of-ten makes sure the hungry

are fed. She has seen many healed from disabilities and disease and has shared the gospel wherever she travels.

“Her faith is really awe-some,” said Hall. “Her min-istry has built her faith.”

Parsons is a member at Trinity Chapel in Knoxville. She is able to sustain her ministry to the Philippines thanks to fi nancial support from church members and private individuals with a heart to see Moslems con-verted to Christianity.

Parsons message was one of encouragement and faith.

“God is still moving by His spirit, manifesting Himself to those that seek and follow Him.”

Parsons plans to return to the Philippines in De-cember. She, her daughter and members of Aglow pre-pared traditional Philippine fare for the group meeting.

“Her life and ministry is truly inspiring,” said Aglow leader Diane Shelby.

Ministry donations may be sent to Trinity Chapel, 5830 Haynes-Sterchi Road, Knoxville TN, 37912-9991.

Aglow members meet

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Info: Vivian Baker, 382-3715.

each fourth Tuesday for fellowship, sharing and

worship. Info: [email protected].

REUNION NOTES ■ Halls High classes of 1976-1981, 6:30 p.m.-midnight Saturday,

Sept. 26, Red Gate Farm, 2353 Maynardville Highway, Maynard-

ville.

■ Pierce and Wyrick reunion, noon Sunday, Sept. 13, in Luttrell

Park behind Luttrell Elementary. Bring lawn chairs and a covered

dish. Info: 687-3860.

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HEALTH NOTES ■ Peninsula Lighthouse Group of Families Anonymous

meetings, 6:15-7:15 p.m. each Tuesday, 1451 Dowell Springs

Blvd. For relatives and friends of those who suff er from cur-

rent, suspected or former problems of substance abuse or

related behavioral problems. Newcomers always welcome; no

dues or fees; no formal sign-up; fi rst names only. Info: Barbara

L., 696-6606 or [email protected].

4328 East Emory RoadKnoxville • 922-2322

Halls Business & Professional Association Breakfast Club

Thurs, Sept 3 • 7:30 – 9:00am Beaver Dam Baptist Church

in the Sanctuary Foyer, hosted by Pastor Alan PriceAttendees are urged to bring business cards. Church literature will also be available.

Coffee, tea, orange juice & breakfast goodies will be served at no charge.Halls B & P President: Pamela Johnson Breakfast Chairman: Bob Crye

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At the beginning of the season, the playing fi eld is level. Everyone has the same record, and the possibility of having a winning season is on everyone’s wish list. Some teams will make it to the playoffs and possibly win a state championship. Others may win a couple of games during the season, having given their all for the

team they love.The sounds from a high

school stadium are always loud and proud with stu-dents exclaiming that they believe in their team. Shop-per News intern Annie Dockery attended a high school game with me during the fi rst week of play and was impressed with the amount of activity. At one moment we were talking with stu-dents in the end zone ready

to get the game started, then we quickly moved to the fi eld as the band lined up for the team run-through and then to the sidelines to watch the activity off the fi eld. Add in the band playing the school fi ght song and the cheerlead-ers and dance team mem-bers performing a sideline routine, cheers from the student section and a little football, and that might have been the best $8 spent in a

long time. If you haven’t been to a

game in a while, grab your seat cushion, pick up a cou-ple of shakers and head out to your favorite school’s next game. It sure beats any Fri-day night television reruns I’ve seen in a while.

Games in the area this Friday, Sept. 4, include Cen-tral at Catholic, Gibbs host-ing Powell and Halls hosting West. Kick-off is at 7:30 p.m.

The Halls High dance team includes members (front) Zoe Simpson, Jaida Duthu, Audrey Brad-

ley, Mei Grace Krusenklaus; (back) Caroline Fleenor, Allie Yarnell, Gracie Bell, Courtney Koontz,

Delaine Stiltner and Rachel Miller.

Halls High kicker Briggs Marcentel warms up on the sidelines

during a recent game for the Red Devils.

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Women’s League celebrates honorary membersThe Halls Crossroads Women’s League honored its honorary members Aug. 1 with a luncheon

at Beaver Brook Country Club. Entertainment was provided by Cindi Alpert and the Corduroy

Jazz Trio, and a good time was had by all. Honorary members are (front) Louise Nelson, Su-

san Spicer, June Hubbs Boatman, Mary Jean McManus; (back) Betty Nelson, Marie Qualls, Gene

Marsh and Virginia Bolinger. Photo submitted

Halls High quarterback Andrew Davis (#1)

leads the team onto the fi eld, ready to light

up another Friday night. Photos by R. White

Wolfenbargers celebrate50th anniversary

Gladys and Glen Wolfenbarger Sr. cel-ebrated their 50th an-niversary Aug. 28. They were married in Granger County and have fi ve children: Tammy Davis, Rhonda Ladd, Cheryl Powell, Becky Collins and Glen “Buddy” Wolfen-barger Jr. The couple have seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchil-dren. Glen is retired from

Levi Strauss in Powell after 40years. They celebrated with atrip to Myrtle Beach.

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September has arrived. That means that the Tennes-see Valley Fair will be open-ing soon, and Chilhowee Park will be fi lled with rides, food, games and tons of ex-hibits showcasing area stu-dents.

Students in Halls High Family and Consumer Sci-ence classes have teamed up with members of the FCCLA (Family, Career and Com-munity Leaders of America) to create bulletin boards to enter in this year’s fair com-petition.

Each group is creating a 3x4 bulletin board using the theme “FCCLA, together we are …” and can focus on posi-tive words such as active, leaders, stronger, healthy, ready and family. Team members collaborated to de-cide on the theme focus and composition of the poster.

While at the fair, stop by the exhibition hall and check out the fi nished products that help promote healthy

Preparing for the fair

Greer works toward Eagle Scout

Cameron Greer, a Life Scout with Boy Scout

Troop 506 in Halls is w o r k i n g t o w a r d the rank of Eagle S c o u t , the high-est rank in Boy

Scouts. Very few scouts achieve this goal as it re-quires a great amount of work and dedication.

The rank of Eagle Scout may be earned by a Boy Scout who planned, de-veloped and led a service project – the Eagle Project – that demonstrates both leadership and a commit-ment to duty. The Eagle Scout Service Project is the opportunity for a scout to demonstrate leadership of others while performing

a project for the benefi t of any religious institution, school or his community.

Cameron has chosen to build an amphitheater in the Halls Outdoor Class-room behind the high school. It will be a place for teachers to take students outside to teach class and for people to gather dur-ing community events that take place in the area. He’s using composite deck boards, a durable material that will endure for many years, but they will cost approximately $2,000. He is seeking donations from the community to make this project a reality.

Any donations toward the purchase of supplies for this project would be appreciated. Contact Cameron at 865-253-4825 or [email protected].

Selena Dawson, Yesenia Perez, Jacy Sims

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dor sale set for 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Halls High School parking lot. Proceeds will benefi t the school’s cheer squad. Vendor space is available at $25 per booth. Send request to [email protected]

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SCHOOL NOTES ■ Central High School college scholarship informational meeting,

6-8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14. Info: 689-1400.

■ Fountain City Elementary skate night, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday,

Sept. 8, Skate Town, 5713 N. Broadway. Admission: $4; skate rental:

$1. Info: 689-1445.

■ Shannondale Elementary PTO meeting, 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

17. Info: 689-1465.

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State naturalist Randy Hedgepath

caught this shot of exuberant sing-

ing by the Gospel Strings at the Big

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Skip Loveday, Mike Wyrick and

Carol Pratt grill burgers. Families

pitch in to help FCE members. Mike

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By Sandra ClarkRanger Derek Wilson calls it

a family reunion for an entire county. It’s the annual Big Ridge Bluegrass Festival, which this year drew some 1,500 visitors to the park.

The Big Ridge Family and Con-sumer Education Club (FCE) again sold homemade food items, start-ing at 4 p.m. until they ran out. The festival lasted un-til 11 p.m.

Margie Collins, 85, has been serv-ing food at the fes-

tival for each of its 34 years, said FCE president Carol Pratt.

“All the profi ts are donated to Union County non-profi ts such as: Union County Children’s Charities “Under the Tree,” Paulette Vol-unteer Fire Department, Union County Rescue Squad, Union County Humane Society, Big Ridge State Park Easter Egg Hunt and 4-H,” she said.

“It’s our way of giving back to our community.”

Seven bands shared the stage over the four-hour festival, Wil-son said, while others gathered in small groups on the edges of the crowd to jam. Ranger Daniel Adkisson estimated the crowd at 1,400 to 1,500 based on a count of cars. He said most vehicles were from Union or Knox counties.

In addition to the Big Ridge FCE, other food trucks and craft vendors worked the crowd. The Union County Lions Club sold shaved ice, a huge hit on a hot day.

Wilson said the festival went off without a hitch. “There was no trouble and the weather was per-

fect.” Most visitors went home, but others camped out at Big Ridge.

What’s next at Big Ridge? “We’ll have half-a-dozen guid-

ed hikes on holidays like Thanks-giving and New Year’s Day,” said Wilson. We’ll have volunteers here doing community service work on National Public Service Day. And, of course, there’s the annual egg hunt every spring.”

Phyllis Snapp works the baked goods table. All Big Ridge FCE

members donate baked goods for resale. Visitors frequently

request a favorite: brownies, friendship cake, upside down

pineapple cake or pecan pies.

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David Kortemeier, David Brian Alley, Katie Cunningham and

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By Betsy PickleFrom the courts of her

high school in New York to the University of Tennessee to the WNBA, Chamique Holdsclaw built excitement about basketball.

Now she’s trying to build understanding about men-tal illness – through movie theaters.

“Mind/Game: The Un-quiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw” will play on two screens at 3 p.m. Satur-day, Sept. 19, at the Knox-ville Film Festival at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8. Holdsclaw plans to attend the screenings.

Holdsclaw’s stellar ca-reer under coach Pat Sum-mitt led to her pro career, beginning with the WNBA’s Washington Mystics. Her career seemed destined for brilliance, but cracks in her tough-as-nails demeanor began to break open after the death of the grandmoth-er who raised her.

Holdsclaw was diagnosed with clinical depression and later with bipolar disorder II. Although mental illness derailed her basketball ca-reer, she welcomes the path her life has taken.

“I’ve been doing mental health advocacy work since 2007,” Holdsclaw says by phone from Atlanta, where she makes her home. “I am in a position to really help people with my story.

“It’s very humbling, but also I know that it is what I am supposed to be do-ing. I could be coaching. I could be doing a number of things. But I am most pas-sionate about this because I know how it’s affected me.”

Documentary fi lmmaker Rick Goldsmith read a New York Times article about Holdsclaw and became in-trigued by her story. Coin-cidentally, he was an old friend of her manager, Lon Babby.

“He was drawn to how candid I was,” says Hold-sclaw. She still needed to be convinced that a documen-tary was a good idea. “I had to see what the direction was.”

Once she trusted Gold-smith, the project was on.

Holdsclaw saw that the fi lm could mesh with her advocacy work.

“I felt like it was one of my purposes to move forth and use my platform to draw people so they can understand what people struggling with this ill-ness go through,” she says. “The things that I was deal-ing with emotionally – the highs and the lows – it’s been an emotional roller-coaster ride. To see that on fi lm and hit these different festivals and to watch it over and over, I started to see growth; I started to see dif-ferent parts of me.

By Carol ShaneThe Arts & Culture Alli-

ance of East Tennessee ex-cels at showcasing notable artists in our region. This coming Friday will be no ex-ception when the ACA pres-ents its opening night for “Conversations: Portraits and Other Work” by Emily Taylor.

Part of Knoxville’s month-ly First Friday event, the show includes recent and former portraits and portrait-like paintings and drawings. As an artist, Taylor is intrigued by “the complex interaction and negotiation characteris-tic of both painting and hu-man interaction.” Hence the title, “Conversations.”

Taylor grew up in 1970s and ’80s New York City but eventually found her way to Knoxville “for school and life reasons,” she says. She holds an MFA in painting and an MA in art education from the University of Ten-nessee.

Some of her most popular works are her lively, colorful pet portraits. “There will be some dog portraits in the show, almost entirely all of the same dog – mine!” says Taylor. “Most of the others were commissions.” Anyone interested in commemorat-ing a pet in oil is invited to view Taylor’s work and com-mission a portrait.

The opening reception features chocolate fondue from the Melting Pot, as well as hors d’oeuvres. There will be a jazz jam session in the Black Box Theatre hosted by Vance Thompson and Friends.

And there will be a fl a-menco dance performance by Pasión Flamenco dancers from the Tennessee Conser-vatory of Fine Arts in West Knoxville. Yes, fl amenco dance is alive and well in Knoxville. It’s taught by na-tive Romanian Lucia An-dronescu, and it really de-serves its own feature story. Judging from the gorgeous women in festive costume and the guitar/cajon trio pictured on the website, it’s a spectacle not to be missed.

Beautiful art, beautiful dance, great jazz and tasty treats all make for an out-standing First Friday.

The opening reception for “Conversations: Por-traits and Other Work” by Emily Taylor is from 5-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Pasión Flamenco performs at 6 p.m., and the jazz jam begins at 7 p.m. The art exhibition will be on view through Sept. 25. Info: knoxalliance.com or 523-7543.Send story suggestions to news@

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‘The Transporter Refueled’Opening in theaters Friday, “The Transporter Refueled” brings

Frank Martin back to the screen but with Ed Skrein (the original

Daario Naharis in “Game of Thrones”) in the role instead of Ja-

son Statham. The special-ops guy turned extreme limo driver

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“It was a real eye-opener. I watch it now, and I’m like, wow, even at my weakest I was so strong. There was a strength about me. I think it has empowered me like it has empowered some oth-ers.”

She’s grateful for two strong women she’s had in her life: her grandmother June and Summitt.

“My grandmother said, ‘I trust this woman (Sum-mitt). You’re going to play for the best, and you’re going to get your degree.’ Coach Summitt said, ‘You’re going to meet some amaz-ing people, and you’re go-ing to have a sisterhood that extends beyond the years

of you playing.’ I’ve got ev-erything that both of them promised.

“Me and Coach Summitt have always had a very close relationship. She’s always been very supportive of me, through everything. … She’s an amazing, amazing wom-an. I’m glad to have her in my life.”

She has good memories of her college years.

“Knoxville is a very fa-miliar place to me. I always feel welcome; I feel loved. It was just the right choice. I came from New York City, and I’ve got a street on the University of Tennessee campus. I never envisioned that.”

preview performance will be held Wednesday, Sept. 9; a tech talk with the designers will take place Sunday, Sept. 13, following the matinee; a talkback with the cast is Sunday, Sept. 20, following the matinee; and the open-

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I had been thinking about technology lately because of fi rstly, the time of year it is, and secondly, because of a short article in this month’s Birdwatching magazine.

As to the fi rst, we are all

Science meets natureDr. Bob Collier

noticing that the days are getting shorter. Also, the fall equinox will be coming upon us on Sept. 21. That is the 24-hour period when the day and night will be of equal length. But the days have been getting shorter ever since the fi rst day of summer, on June 21. And sadly, they won’t bounce back at the equinox, they just trudge on, shorter and shorter, into the winter.

Well, the shorter length of days is the big notifi ca-

tion for all of nature that big change is coming. Days become shorter and cooler, leaves change color, some mammals frantically store up food supplies and oth-ers fatten up for hibernation (this is the route I prefer), and the birds – many of them migrate.

We’re getting ready to say goodbye, at least for a season, to such songbird friends as the warblers, vireos, wood thrushes and whip-poor-wills, the indigo buntings and humming-birds. But by the same to-ken, we’re all set to welcome back the more northerly nesting birds here for the winter – the white-throated sparrows and purple fi nch-es, the yellow-bellied sap-suckers and ruby-crowned

kinglets.It’s a busy time out there

– literally billions of birds are shifting from north to south, some on relatively short trips; some on re-markably long ones. People for eons have wondered where the birds went in the winter, from stories and myths about swallows bur-

rowing into the muddy bot-toms of ponds for the win-ter, to hummingbirds fl ying south on the backs of the geese. Those thousand-mile trips by tiny birds to remote places on the globe were a daunting process to study and follow.

Then – enter this tech-nology thing. Think where we’ve come from. Consider, if you will, how at one time a good stone ax was a new and marvelous piece of technol-ogy. Or a nice warm fi re to cook your food. And then, there was the need to have the means to fi nd your ani-mals. Imagine the pride and sense of accomplishment when that fi rst cowherd slipped that fi rst cowbell on his lead mama cow. Now, by golly, when the herd dis-appeared over the hill, we knew where they were!

And then, another ad-vance: from cowbells to ra-dio collars. For years now we’ve grown accustomed to seeing the elk in the Smok-ies and up at Royal Blue fi t-ted out with their radio col-lars – space-age cowbells.

I’m reminded of the story of the intrepid Campbell County hunter, proudly driv-ing through LaFollette with one such animal draped over the hood of his truck. “Big-gest deer I ever saw!” He didn’t exactly know what the radio collar was about, but at least the TWRA fellows knew where it was.

But what about the birds? A one-ounce warbler is not an elk, and you can’t slap a radio collar on a tiny bird to see where it goes. Thus my second recent reminder about technology – an ar-ticle in Birdwatching maga-zine on the miniaturiza-tion of tracking devices for birds. One big thing about technology that keeps us all amazed (and spending money) is constant and rap-id progress. In the column of March 2013, I reported on the new and promising use of geolocator devices to follow the movement of var-ious species of birds.

Geolocators contain a clock, a light sensor and a microprocessor. They are relatively small and light and, when attached to an animal, can tell roughly when and where on earth the animal has been. The name of the developer of these devices, sure to be-come a household word, was Vsevolod Afanasyev,

such an interesting name that I had to repeat it here.

The geolocators have proven very useful and have been used to study the global movements of the wandering albatross across the trackless oceans of the world. More recently and closer to home, they have followed the heretofore nearly unknown traveling habits of the eastern popu-lation of the golden eagle, a fascinating story of its own.

But now, more progress – from bird bands and geo-locators, we’re on to Global Positioning Systems. Sat-ellite-based GPS, fully op-erational since 1995, is what brings us the voice of that pushy lady in our car dash telling us we’re lost, and to make a U-turn as soon as possible, regardless of what may be coming. Helpful? You can set it to remem-ber where you parked your truck in the National Forest, and it will take you right back to it.

Among its many advan-tages, GPS is highly accu-rate. Rather than telling the biologist that his target bird is in this mountain or that valley somewhere in the world, GPS can pin-point locations down to 10 meters, or about 33 feet. And now we have a GPS unit that weighs in at about one gram, roughly half the weight of a penny, so that it can be safely attached to a bird that weighs as little as 20 grams, or 0.7 ounce, the size of a large warbler.

So, wildlife biologists can capture various small birds that couldn’t be studied be-fore and fi t them with the tiny GPS unit to pinpoint their locations at various times through the seasons. Obviously, this is a far cry from the old method by which we discovered the wintering grounds of the chimney swifts – natives in the Peruvian Andes smoked a bunch of them out of a hol-low tree to have for lunch, discovered the magicalbands on their legs and gave them to a missionary, and a couple of years later the bands found their way to Washington, D.C., and were identifi ed.

All the new knowledge that technology is bringing us will soon become com-mon knowledge, and then we’ll be off after a whole new set, with more new tools. May it always be so!

Impe-rial eagle with GPS tracking device

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■ UT Farmers Market, UT Gar-dens, Neyland Drive. 4-7 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 21. Info: vegetables.tennessee.edu/UTFM.html; on Facebook.

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By Sandra ClarkFriends and patients packed the

house for the grand opening of the Champion Physical Therapy facility in Strawberry Plains. Attendance was boosted by Merle the Squirrel fl agging in cars from Andrew Johnson High-way and smells from the pork-cooking smoker strategically positioned near the entrance.

It was free food and good times for all as Champion opened its eighth fa-cility.

The Strawberry Plains clinic direc-tor is Kyle Markway, DPT. He obtained a doctorate of physical therapy from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in 2010. Prior to graduate school, Markway completed a bachelor’s degree in natural science from Christian Brothers University.

Markway enjoys working with all types of orthopedic and outpatient diagnoses, with a special interest in treatment of the spine utilizing the McKenzie Method of Mechanical Di-agnosis and Therapy. He assists ath-letes in returning to pre-injury perfor-mance.

His clinical experience includes in-ternships at Tennova, Tennessee Or-thopaedic Clinics in Oak Ridge, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, and Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics at D1.

The company president is John Staley III, who grew up in Halls and played football for coach Larry Kerr on Halls High School’s only state champi-onship team, 1988. A teammate was Tim Butcher, also a physical therapist, who heads Champion’s Halls offi ce at 7228 Norris Freeway.

Staley is a licensed physical thera-pist (PT) and a certifi ed strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS). His primary areas of practice include or-thopedics and sports medicine. He also has extensive experience and in-terest in management, marketing and consulting. He is a credentialed clini-cal instructor through the American Physical Therapy Association.

As a 1993 graduate of the physical therapy program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he has remained active in the university by serving on the UTC Alumni Council, University of Tennessee Board of Gov-ernors, and as an adjunct clinical fac-ulty member.

Butcher is one of four vice presi-dents. He earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the Universi-ty of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1993. In 1997, he earned a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from East Tennessee State University.

He is a certifi ed strength and con-

ditioning specialist. Along with his 15 years of clinical experience, Butcher has completed several continuing-ed-ucation courses.

Also at the open house were PTs and Champion vice presidents J. Christo-pher Robinson and Brett Kolnick.

Robinson holds a degree in physical therapy from UT Chattanooga and is a certifi ed strength and conditioning specialist. He has 15 years of experi-ence.

Kolnick earned a master of science degree in physical therapy from Nova Southeastern University in 1998. Prior to entering the physical-therapy fi eld, he earned a degree in business from Eastern Kentucky University. He was captain and a four-year letterman for the EKU football team. He is a certi-fi ed strength and conditioning spe-cialist.

Champion Physical Therapy has of-fi ces in Halls, Strawberry Plains, Eliz-abethton, Bristol, Harriman, Pigeon Forge, Seymour and Alcoa.

Staley said Champion serves out-patient post-operative individuals and those with work- or sports-related injuries. Most insurance is accepted, and appointments can be scheduled within 24 hours.

Info: championptllc.com or 865-377-3176.

Merle 96.7 FM broadcasts live from Andrew Johnson Highway at the grand opening of Champion Physical Therapy. Pictured are Kelsea Dobbs, Merle the Squirrel and Michele Armstrong.Celebrating the grand opening of Champion Physical Therapy in Strawberry Plains are Brett Kolnick, Kyle Markway and his son,

Kyle Jr., John Staley, Tim Butcher and Chris Robinson. Photos by S. Clark

Champion PT opens eighth offi ceBy Anne Hart

Eddie Powers’ colorful memories of his long career as a fi eld of-fi cial with both the SEC and the NFL made for an enter-t a i n i n g

program at the Rotary Club of Bearden.

The Clarksville native was a three-year letterman in football at the Univer-sity of Tennessee before becoming a graduate assis-tant coach under legend-ary coach John Majors.

Powers began his career as a fi eld offi cial with the Knoxville Recreation De-partment working with the Knoxville Youth League, an organization he said “turns boys into men.” He coached Little League and Pee Wee football in those days.

He later worked as a fi eld offi cial with the Ohio

Valley Conference and then spent 13 years as a fi eld offi cial with the SEC, where he was a fi eld judge.

“Getting into the SEC was tougher than getting into the NFL,” Powers said, because he couldn’t work games for a school he had attended or offi ciate games of coaches he had worked for or with.

He joined the National Football League as a fi eld judge in 2002 and re-tired in 2008 so he would watch his two sons, Clay and Dylan, play football at the Christian Academy of Knoxville.

Football has long been a family affair in the Pow-ers family. His dad played under another football legend, Bear Bryant, at the University of Kentucky, and then coached with Bryant at the University of Alabama.

Powers said his family has made Knoxville their home since 1973, adding, “Tennessee football has kept me here.”

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB September 2, 2015

NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

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stroke:LIKE IT NEVER EVEN HAPPENED.No comprehensive stroke and rehabilitation center in our region

does more to reverse stroke’s devastating eff ects than Fort

Sanders Regional Medical

Center. That’s why hospitals

across East Tennessee refer their

most complex stroke patients to

us. And only Fort Sanders Regional is home to the Patricia Neal

Rehabilitation Center, East Tennessee’s elite rehabilitation hospital

for stroke, spinal cord and brain injury patients.

Certifi ed as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission and accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

Leading the region’s only stroke hospital network

www.covenanthealth.com/strokenetwork

Fort Sanders performs clinical trials and procedures

for stroke not available anywhere else in our region.

When it comes to stroke, time lost is brain lost, so it’s important to understand the

warning signs and how to reduce your risk.

If you or a loved one experience any of these symptoms, call 911.

WARNINGSigns of

Stroke

Sudden numbness or weakness, especially on one

side of the body

Sudden severe headache with no known cause

Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance

or coordination

Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding

Sudden trouble seeingin one or both eyes

Missing the linksRetired trooper vows strokes won’t end his golf game

There’s a golf club in the trunk of Bryan Farmer’s car with his name on it. It’s a top-of-the-line driver, brand new and still in the box.

He bought it June 12, 2014, af-ter playing 18 holes of golf. But that night, Farmer had a stroke of an-other kind – a blood clot on the left side of his brain – that has, so far, put his golf game on hold.

But even after suffering a sec-ond stroke 10 months later, he vows he’ll be back in the swing of things this month, thanks to the care he received at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center (PNRC) at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and Roane Medical Center.

“It might not be pretty, but I’m going to hit that driver,” declares Farmer, whose slightly drawn right arm and weakened right leg are reminders of that June night when a 3 a.m. bathroom visit was the fi rst hint that something had gone wrong.

“When I got out of the bed, I no-ticed some extreme dizziness, to the point where I almost fell down,” said Farmer, a Harriman resident. “It was similar to a blood sugar spike. I have high blood pressure and diabetes, and I knew I got dizzy when that happened to me in the past. I didn’t think a lot about it. I went ahead, got my balance back, went down the hall to the restroom, came back to bed and went straight to sleep. No sickness, no nothing.”

The following morning, he still had some dizziness, but not enough to prevent him from driving to Fairfi eld Glade where he works in quality assurance for the vacation resort. “I sat down at my desk and the diz-ziness came back,” he said. “I got up from my desk and walked down the hallway, and my right foot dragged the ground. Just one time, but it almost tripped me up, and one of the other guys I work with saw me and said, ‘Let’s go back into your offi ce and sit down.’ ”

It was then that one of the managers with nursing experience came in. Suspicious, she checked Farmer for stroke symptoms. “I passed every one of them with fl ying col-ors,” said Farmer who, as a retired Tennes-see Highway Patrol lieutenant, was familiar with the signs of a stroke. “No numbness, no

Brian Farmer continues

to work toward return-

ing to the golf course,

after suff ering two

strokes in the last year.

Farmer was treated at

the Comprehensive

Stroke Center at Fort

Sanders Regional and

Patricia Neal Rehabili-

tation Center.tingling, no headache. None of that. Just dizziness.”

Yet, despite the successful FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) campaign to raise stroke symptom aware-ness, minor strokes can and do occur with-out the person ever knowing it. Mild stroke symptoms that recover after a brief period of time may indicate a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or “mini stroke.” While seldom deadly, TIAs are often precursors to a full-blown ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke that may follow if symptoms are left untreated.

Stroke symptoms can also occur over a span of hours or days. At fi rst, the affected person may have little or no symptoms, but as time passes, the symptoms will become more apparent as an estimated 32,000 brain cells die each passing second.

Pressed to go to the emergency room, Farmer reluctantly agreed. At Parkwest Medical Center, Farmer thought perhaps he had dodged a bullet when a CT scan came back negative for stroke.

However, according to Dr. Daryl Harp, neuoradiologist, “Physicians are aware that

strokes are often not seen on CT scans within the fi rst 24 hours. For this reason, an MRI of the brain was completed, and showed that he had indeed had a stroke.”

But even then, he still appeared to be unaffected. Then at about 3 a.m., Farmer arose from his hos-pital bed to go to the restroom and discovered his right side was para-lyzed. “Paralysis had set in, and my right leg was useless,” said Farmer. “It just got worse.”

Transferred by ambulance to the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders, Farmer began to real-ize the seriousness of his condition. “I couldn’t move my right arm – it was drawn up and curled against my

chest,” Farmer recalled. “My right leg was pretty much pointed to the right. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even feed myself.”

On the fourth day of his 31 days in Fort Sanders, Farmer was moved into the PNRC wing to begin his therapy. “I’m sitting there in a wheelchair in a row of four or fi ve other people in wheelchairs, waiting

on them to get therapy too,” he said. “I look at some of these people, and the thought is going through my head, ‘You know, I could have been a whole lot worse. I’ve got to go in here and do what they tell me to do to the best of my ability.’ ”

That was made easy by the PNRC doctors, nurses and therapists, whose encourage-ment was always coupled with enthusiasm from Day One.

“I wish I could remember her name, but the girl who came to wheel me up to therapy was just bubbling with excite-ment and positivity,” he said. “From her to the doctors to the nurses to the therapists, I can’t say enough good things about those people. Of course, I had a positive attitude from my family and a special friend. Between those people, I couldn’t help but stay positive. The level of professionalism and effort they put forth was amaz-

ing. They were magnifi cent.”“We’d only do three hours of therapy a

day, but it seemed like 10,” Farmer added.“It was really grueling because I started atGround Zero. I lost every ounce of strengthI had on my right side, and my left sidetoo basically – my body was just sapped ofstrength. I remember them giving me a two-pound weight to lift – two pounds! I couldn’teven pick that up!”

Still, 31 days after the stroke, Farmer waswheeled to the door and discharged fromPNRC. He walked the last 15 to 20 feet to hisride home. “It wasn’t the prettiest or mostgraceful walk I’d ever taken,” he said, “but itwas the most gratifying.”

His rehab continued a couple of weekslater at Patricia Neal Outpatient Center atRoane Medical Center, and he heaps morepraise on the therapists there. “They werejust top-notch, positive people, which wasgood for me because I had to help myselfand I didn’t need someone who was goingto bring me down,” he said. “They werejust as determined here to make me betteras they were in Knoxville. Their attitudeswere great. They are really dedicated totheir work, and enjoyed their work – and itshowed.”

A second stroke last April, just months after fi nishing his outpatient rehab, slightlyaffected his speech and cognition but for themost part is undetectable. In the meantime,he goes to the gym three times weekly to liftweights and work on the elliptical bike.

“As far as real limitations, I have none,”said Farmer. “I can’t run. I can’t jog. I canwalk ok. It takes me awhile to get some-where but I can do it,” he says. “I’m not backto where I want to be – I want to be on thegolf course right now. That’s where I want tobe. And that’s where I will be in September.It may not be pretty, but I’m going to be onthat course.”

The Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional -delivering immediate and excellent care

When a stroke happens, timely treatment is critical. The Com-prehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional is well above the

national average in delivering prompt treatment of life-saving medication.

Clot busting drugs are given to stroke patients through a vein to improve blood fl ow and mini-mize potential disabilities. The amount of time it takes for a patient to be brought in to a hospital un-til the moment medications are intravenously ad-ministered is referred to as “door to needle time.”

While the average door to needle time is a little more than an hour, the door to needle time at Fort Sanders Regional is 30 minutes. That’s half an hour faster than the national average.

It’s just one of the many advantages a patient has when treated at a comprehensive stroke center. The stroke center exists to provide the highest level of stroke care for complicated stroke cases.

“It really exists to provide that next level up from what you can get at your local community hospital,” Arthur Moore, MD says. “Strokes can often be treated at those hospitals, but fi nding out why the stroke occurred to prevent it from happening again sometimes takes someone who’s done a lot more work in treating stroke.”

Moore says fi nding out the “why” takes some digging into a pa-tient’s background, and sometimes it’s not as obvious as the main risk factors.

“Stroke centers tend to be better and faster at treating stroke just because we see it all the time,” Moore says. “We have doctors who can go up into the brain and pull a clot out, and that’s a really specialized niche. Most hospitals don’t have access to someone who can do that.”

The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional sees patients from throughout East Tennessee, and even from Ken-tucky. To learn more, visit fsregional.com/stroke, or call (865) 541-1111.

Arthur Moore,

MD

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MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE SPYDER - 2002.GT conv., local 1 owner, NICE! Load-ed. $4800. (865)363-9018.

NISSAN 350Z - 2008. 1 owner, Excel-lent Condition, Clear CarFax, newtires 18,400 mi., $20,000. (865)556-0997.

VOLVO S60 R - 2004. GET YOUR TEN-NESSEE ON WITH THIS ORANGE SABLE LEATHER BLUE FRENCH STITCHED SEATS! UPGRADED NAVI-GATION SYSTEM CARMAX WARRAN-TY TRANSFERRABLE AND SERVICERECORDS AVAILABLE.COLOR GRAY. 76,502 mi., $8,750. (828)273-9195.

4 Wheel Drive

FORD F150 1997, 4x4, see to believe. For info call Denny 865-947-0559

Sport Utility Vehicles

Honda Pilot 2011 EXL, 4x4, sunrf, leather, 49K mi, exc cond, $17,900. (423) 295-5393.

INFINITI EX35 - 2012. loaded, sunrf,leather, 34K mi, exc cond., $20,900. (423) 295-5393.

Trucks

CHEV. SILVERADO 1500 - 2003. 73kmi, reg. cab, 6 cyl., long bed, radio, cruise control, 1 owner. $10,000firm. 865-333-9392/ (865)690-6836.

DODGE D150 PICKUP - 1996. 148k mi,Runs great. $3500. View on week-ends only. (865)922-8513.

Trailers

UTILITY TRAILERSAll Sizes Available

865-986-5626smokeymountaintrailers.com

Vans

Chev 1995 full size handicap van w/lift, belts, all new tires, new battery, runs good, 107,548 mi. $6,000.

(865) 603-3620.

CHEVROLET WORK VAN 1995. 350 motor, 197K miles, AT, shelving

& divider. $2300 (865)216-5387.

DODGE CARAVAN - 2005 $3600 or best offer. 115k mi.865-388-5136. (865)933-3175.

TOYOTA SIENNA - 2003. Very goodcondition, one owner, no accidents. Lthr seats, 4 captains, third rowbench, dual pwr sliding doors, ABSexc. tread on tires, new speakers. Srv rec. avail. 190,000 mi., $5,199.(865)680-3250.

Classic Cars

1949 Packard Rat Rod. 1930 Packardeng & trans. restored. 1980 Triumph TR7. (865) 406-2208; (865) 548-6194

FORD CONVERTIBLE 1940. Completely restored. Beautiful car. Selling due to illness. $48,500. (865)922-1226.

JAGUAR E-TYPE - 1961-1975. I would like to buy a 1970 or 1971 Mercedes 280SL, or a 1961 - 1975 Jaguar XKE, or a Porsche 911 , 912. I am willing to buy running or not running. AnyCondition. I’m a local guy living in Grainger county. If you have one or know of one please call.

Call (865)621-4012.

MERCEDES-BENZ 380 SL 1984. conv. with both tops, 98,460 miles, silver, w/blue int., $9,950.

(865)681-6174 or 865-806-2756.

MERCEDES-BENZ 380 SL 1984. Conv.,both tops, 52K miles, 3rd owner.White w/blue int., $18,500. Call(931)261-0370.

MG MIDGET - 1976. 43,000 mi, new$1400 convertible top, red, $7500.(865)740-7070.

Vehicles Wanted

FAST$$ CASH $$

4 JUNK AUTOS

865-216-5052865-856-8106

JUNK CAR MAFIA Buying junk vehicles any condition.

865-455-7415

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

2009 TRACKER 175TXW, 75 HP Mer-cury, Motorguide 46 trolling motor,Lowrance depth finder, new batter-ies. Garage kept.$ 9,750

(865)776-6510.

PONTOON BOAT 23 ft Crest 2015, 115 HP Mercury Big Foot eng. $29,900 incl. boat slip on Douglas Lake till4/1/16. (865)414-7345.

PRICED TO SELL, $15,000 OBO. - Triton 2000, 21’ fully equipped, fish

finder, Minnkota trolling motor, depth sounder, GPS, tandem trailer,

225 HP mtr., exc. cond, gar. kept, 1 owner/(865)966-2527.

Campers & RV’s

190 Roadtrek Popular 2014, silver, Cls B, all fact. opts., leather seats, $80,000 obo. (865) 947-7707.

2001 JAYCO QWEST POPUP Great condition. Stored in garage.

Sleeps 6. AC and furnace. Portable propane stove. Ice box. Awning.

13’ x 10’. Call 567-3723 or 219-9214.

28’ Carri Lite 5th wheel, $5500 or con-sider trade for older model picukp truck. (865) 766-2089.

CAMPERS WANTED

We Buy Campers Travel Trailers, 5th Wheels, Popups,

Motorhomes.Will pay Cash

(423) 504-8036

CAR TOW DOLLY - 2015, all cars/pu Swivels, tilts, never used, new ret.

$2750. 1st $950 cash. 864-275-6478

FOR SALE: 2001 SHAMROCK 18 -FT. camping trailer. $4,500. Call (865)603-2537.

KEYSTONE COUGAR (318 SAB) 2009 34’, 3 slides, 30” TV w/surround snd.$19,500 obo. Exc. cond. (865)227-7979.

PILGRIM INTERNATIONAL (LEGENDS) -5th wheel, 2009, 38’ L, 4 slides, exc. cond. $17,000. (931)319-0000.

PROWLER CAMPER, 1989, 29 FT - long, good cond. $2500. (865)591-5492; (865)591-2162.

ROCKWOOD ROO 2011, 21 FS w/ slide.Elec. jack. New batt. Kept in dry.Exc. cond. $13,500/bo (865)771-1360

Motorcycles/Mopeds

HARLEY DAVIDSON Heritage Softtail 2009, exc. cond., black &

silver, Vance & Hines pipes, Mustang Seat, 4K miles, 2nd owner, $12,500.

Call 865-924-8010.

HARLEY-DAVIDSON 2004 FLSTC/IHeritage Softail Classic. $8500 Likenew. Call for details 865-660-5993

Off Road Vehicles

WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER!Save some of your hard-earned

money without sacrificing speed or quality.

GOAD MOTORSPORTSEast Tennessee’s largest

CFMOTODEALER

138 Sky View Drive,Helenwood, TN

Full Maintenance, Parts & Repairs.

Call 423-663-8500Ck. us out online at

www.goadmotorsports.com orvisit our 9,000 sq. ft. facility.

Jobs

Beauty/Barber

HAIR CONNECTION - Hair stylist need-ed. Weekly booth rental, Fountain City area. Call Wed, Thu or Fri,9am-3pm, ask for Susan. 865-689-4714

Driver/Transport

DRIVERS!CDL-A, 6 mos OTR, good background.

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

Alterations & Sewing

ALTERATIONSBY FAITH

Men, women, children. Custom-tai-lored clothing for ladies of all sizes, plus kids! Faith Koker

(865)938-1041

Child Care Services

CHILDCARE SERVICEYoung grandmother of 5,

non-smoker, retired school psy-chologist, will sit with children in

my home in North Knoxville.Call (865)773-6462

Contractors/Builders

LICENSED GENERAL CONTRACTOR

Restoration, remodeling, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, sun-rooms, garages, etc. Residential & commercial, free estimates.

Herman Love (865)922-8804

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.

Drain Cleaning

KNOXDRAINCLEANING.COMWe specialize in difficult drain problems. Water lines, too! Fully

licensed and insured.(865)789-2519

Home Maint./Repair

ALL TYPES OF WEATHERIZATION

Attics, crawl spaces,Walls underpinning,

Floorjacking & levelingSiding, doors & windows,

Chimney & fireplace repair, block walls & concrete driveways.Call 455-5042 or 688-9142.

HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICE

Will clean front & back, $20 & up. Quality work, guaranteed.

(865)288-0556

Lamps/Light Services

DREAM LIGHTINGWe light up your night! Custom 12v outdoor landscape lighting,

design and installation. Call (865)680-2076

Landscaping/Lawn Service

COMPLETELAWN CARE

Experienced, dependable service at reasonable rates! Call Dan for a free estimate! (865)258-3988

COOPER’S BUDGET LAWNCARE

Cheaper than the rest, but still the best! Mowing, mulching,

hedge-trimming, etc. Affordable, reliable, honest work since 2006. Call Donnie at 865-384-5039 for

a free estimate.

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

bed remodeling, topnotch weed-ing, pruning & mulching. Call

(865)680-2076

Miscellaneous

PIANO ORACCORDION LESSONSAll ages and levels are welcome!

Call (865)922-8770

Painting Services

POWELL’S PAINTINGand Remodeling. Residential & commercial. Free estimates. Call

(865)771-0609

Plumbing

All Types of Residential & Commercial Plumbing

MASTER PLUMBER40 Years Experience � Licensed & Bonded

922-8728 � 257-3193

DAVID HELTON

PLUMBING CO.

Roofing

ALL TYPESOF ROOFING

Guaranteed to fix any leak. Special coating for metal roofs, slate,

chimney repair. Senior citizen dis-count. Call 455-5042 or 688-9142.

Tree Services

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

Owner Operator Roger Hankins

497-3797Pruning • Logging

Bush HoggingStump Removal

Insured FREE ESTIMATES • LIFETIME EXPERIENCE

HankinsTree Service

Tree Services

EDWARDS TREE SERVICEInterior Pruning, Complete

Removal, Power Stump Grinding

Insured • Free Estimates

922-0645Workers Comp Liability

Breeden's Tree Service

Aerial buckettruck

Stump grindingBrush chipperBush hoggingTrimming &

removingLicensed and insured

Over 30 yrs. experienceFree estimates

865-219-9505

TREE WORKAND POWER STUMP GRINDER

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

Garage Sales

North

2-FAMILY SALE - Fri Sept 4, Some furn, mostly home decor. Across the street from Pinnacle Bank on Emory Rd. near Brickey-McCloud Elem.

ESTATE SALE - Fri & Sat, Sept4-5, 9am-?. Lots of collectibles,glassware, Beannie Babies, furni-ture, clothes & much more! 9033 Bud Hawkins Rd off Washington Pk in Corryton.

GARAGE SALE - Fri Sept 4, 8am-5pm,and Sat Sept 5, 8am-1pm. 2810Pruden Drive off Hotel Avenue byFtn City Park.

SALE! - Fri & Sat, Sept 4-5. at 6714Texas Valley Rd. A little bit of every-thing.

VERY VERY LARGE ESTATE SALE - Fri-Sat, Sept 4&5, 8am-4pm. 3901 E. Raccoon Valley Rd. Tools, furn,glassware, Christmas decor, 60 yrs of accumulation!

YARD SALE - Sat Sept 5, 7am-2pm. at8236 Collier Rd in Powell. Lots of items for men, plus HH decor.

Farmer’s Mkt/Trading Post

Farm Buildings

BARNS - SHEDSGARAGES - CARPORTS

PATIO COVERSBUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY

FREE ESTIMATES!

Millen Garage Builders865-679-5330

Farm Products

AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER

USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL

865-986-4264

Logs2Lumber.com

FANNON FENCING

We build all types of Farm Fencing and Pole Barn.

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

(423)200-6600

Livestock & Supplies

BLACK BULLS & BLACK HEIFERS Ready to Breed. Call (865)856-3947

Pets

Found Pets

DOG FOUND - Older black male dog found on McCloud Road. call 922-7748.

Free Pets

KITTENS - Free to good home. Call256-6711.

Merchandise

Antiques

LARGE ANTIQUEWASH KETTLE

and antique iron 2-eyeheater/cook stove.

Serious inquiries only.Call after 4pm (865)932-4203.

WANTED - Military antiques and collectibles

865-368-0682

Appliances

GOOD AS NEW

APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-90532001 E. Magnolia Ave.

S/S COMMERCIAL BBQ GRILL - andsmoker. Heavy-duty, uses propane. Requires 2” ball to pull. Asking $2325.00. Call 661-3797 or 690-3797

Cemetery Lots

2 LOTS together, Greenwood Ceme-tery, sell $2300 each, value $3800 each, (865) 964-9207

2 PLOTS AND VAULTS - in GrandviewCem. Maryville, section 39, $1250 ea. (865)748-3487.

Cemetery Lots

6 PLOTS, HIGHLAND MEMORIAL - Kingston Pike, $7800 + 195 Transfer fee. Section 10, Lot 339. Value = 15K. Call or text, (972) 989-1788.

6 spaces in Lynnhurst Cemetery, Sec.L, rights to monument

(919) 608-1422

GREENWOOD CEMETERY - 2 lots side-by-side, plus 1 lot, Section 1. Call(865)329-0381.

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

Electronics

GoTooky.comReCycle - RePackage - ReWarded

Imagine the feeling of satisfaction when you know that you have done the right thing. If you only recycle

your smart phone, think of GoTooky. Call us at 615-369-6171 or

visit our site www.gotooky.com

Exercise Equipment

TOTAL GYM - with all accessories,used 1 mo. new 2K, asking $950 obo.(865)922-0262.

TREADMILL - Treadmill for sale. Good condition. Call Felicia for a viewing. (865)640-0892

Furniture

BOOK SHELF - Solid oak, creamcolor. 36.5” wide, 11” deep, 84.5” tall. 4 adjustable shelves, 1 fixed.(865)414-8928

DINING ROOM SET - Cresent Dining Table Set solid cherry table w/two leaves makes it 7.5 ft long,8chairs;china hutch w/ dimmer light-ing; inc custom table pad (865)300-1552

GLASS-TOP PICNIC TABLE - and 4chairs $100. Porch swing, green/white cushions $75. Call (865)922-0285.

Heavy Equipment

DAEWOO FORKLIFT, Refurbished, 6000 lb. lift capacity, air tires, triple stage, S/S, L.P. $10,900 (865)216-5387

Hunt/Fish Supplies

SAGE FLY RODS (6) - (8’6” Line 5, 3 pc.)(9’0” line 6) (4 pc; 9’0” Line 7) (4 pc;9’0” Line 8), (3 pc; 9’0” Line 8,) (3 pc; 9’0” Line 9), (3 pc, $365 ea.) Ray(865)389-4495

Lawn & Garden

JOHN DEERE X475 - 192 hrs, 48” deck, like new condition. Reduced to $5795 obo (865)599-0516

LIKE NEW TORO ZERO TURN, TIME-CUTTER MX4250 - 42 in. cut, 24.5 HP, 12.6 hours, upgraded seat, steel welded deck. $3000. (864)680-8053

Med Equip & Supplies

Hospital bed, wheelchair, potty chair, transfer board, bath chair, walkers, briefs size L & XL women’s.

(865)603-3620

Merchandise - Misc.

BUYING COMIC BOOKS small or large collections.

Phone 865-368-7499

GENERATOR BIG 8500 watt, 2015, Honda elec. start. Batt. & whl kit incl. Never used. New retail $4995. Wholesale $3750. 1st $1850 cash, 864-275-6478

Office Furniture/Equip.

BROWN LEATHEROFFICE CHAIR

Swivels, high back, exc cond, $50.Call (865)687-6468

Tickets/Events

BUYINGSEASON TICKETSParking Passes

All Single GamesCASH PAID

(865)384-6867

BUYING SEASON TICKETSPARKING PASSES

ALL GAMESCash Paid

(865)687-1718selectticketservice.com

All Events - Buy - Sell

BUYING TN vs OKLAHOMA TICKETS

& PARKING PASSES865-315-3950

Tickets/Events

I NEED TN vs OKLAHOMA TICKETS

PLEASE CALL RUDY (865) 567-7426

I WILL BUY YOUR TENNESSEE VOLUN-TEERS SEASON TICKETS OR PARK-ING PASS - I will buy your Season Tickets or Season Parking Passesfor the upcoming Tennessee Vols Season. Text or call me to discuss.865-919-2505 (865)919-2505

UT FAN - needs tickets for all homefootball games. (865) 436-2575

UT FOOTBALL SEASON TICKETS - 3 seats 15-17 Sec. Z12 Row 50; indry/shade, seat cushions, $2600, (865)719-3069

UT SEASON FOOTBALL TICKETS - (2) for all home games. Sec. Y7, Row 57,Seats 25 & 26. $1450. (865)755-9090

UT Season Football Tickets, (2) Sec. B,Row 37; (4) Sec. C, Row 41. Call/Text (865) 216-4443

Announcements

Adoptions

ADOPT - loving married couple wishes to adopt a baby. Your child will havea stable and loving home filled withlots of hugs and kisses and a life-time of opportunities. All expenses paid. Please call Kristina & Louis tollfree 1-877-255-4202

LOVING, MARRIED COUPLE wishing to adopt a baby. Will give your child a loving, safe, and happy home. Call

toll free 800-939-6271

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

West

3 BR 2 BA ranch, Bearden, fence, 2car gar., hdwd floors, new roof.$185,000. 865-691-2650

Homes For Sale

BSMNT RANCHER Open flr plan, 3BR/2BA, great rm, kitchen w/oak cabinets, deck. Dnstairs fam rm, laundry rm, 2-car gar w/openers. Move-in ready! New paint, carpet & vinyl. Located at 6956 ST. CROIX LN on cul-de-sac. $153,900. Seller will help w/closing cost. DIRECTIONS: I-75 N to Callahan Rd exit, turn rt, go 1 mi, left on Dante Rd, .25 mi, left onto St. Croix Ln. Call Ken Rymer owner/agent, w/DEAN-SMITH REALTY (865)256-7090

Condos-Unfurn

LIKE NEW 2BR/2BA IN AWESOME LOCATION - 4819 Poplar Crest Way,Like New 2BR/2BA. Just remodeled.New Everything. Tile, Stunning Pergo wood floors, Lighting, Paint, New bathrooms. W/In closets.Deck. Next to Adair park.2 min to Broad-way&I-640. $99k. Will finance@ 6%. $5K down.423-351-3410 (423)351-3410

Lake Property

Lakefront Mfg home, 3/4 acre, 4 BR, 1920 SF, near I-40 Kingston exit, REDUCED to $59,000. (865 )307-0440

Farms & Acreage

6+ ACRES FLAT TO ROLLINGsmall hill at the back with trees, & small stream run-ning through the property. $48,500. 9124 Brock Rd. Call865-922-1863 or 865-740-7660.

Manufactured Homes

I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES.

1990 up, any size OK.865-384-5643

Mobile Homes/Lots

VOLUNTEER VILLAGE Pool, Club house. Lots -- $99/mo. (865)250-4205

For Sale By Owner

3BR, 2 1/2BA WEST, New carpet, fenced backyard, 1432Overton Ln.,off Middlebrook Pk. $169,900. Call(865)250-5530.

Automobiles for Sale Automobiles for Sale

Ray Varner

2026 N. Charles Seivers Blvd. • 2026 N. Charles Seivers Blvd. • Clinton, TN 37716Clinton, TN 37716865-457-0704 or 1-800-579-4561865-457-0704 or 1-800-579-4561

www.rayvarnerford.comwww.rayvarnerford.com

SPECIALS OF THE WEEK! SAVE $$$

Dan Varner

Price includes $399 dock fee. Plus tax, tag & title WAC. Dealer retains all rebates. Restrictions may apply. See dealer for details. Prices good through next week.

Travis Varner

'12 Nissan Altima 2.5 SL, leather, moon roof, low miles! R1752...................................$15,955'13 Ford Escape SE, 4x4. 2.0 Ecoboost, factory warranty! R1756 .................................... $21,900'15 Ford Explorer, Limited, 1-owner, all the options, save 1,000's from new $$$! R1754 $33,900'12 Ford Flex, Titanium, fully loaded, vav, roof, wheels, low miles! R1773 ........................$29,950

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SEEKING VENDORSThe Union County Heritage Festival is seeking

arts-and-crafts vendors, food vendors, demonstra-tors and nonprofi t booths for the festival, to be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Wilson Park in Maynardville. The festival draws more than 4,000 people each year. Info/booth pricing: Marilyn Toppins, [email protected].

THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT. 22Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memo-

ries” show featuring Pat Boone and Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Info/tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2International 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, SEPT. 3Bee Friends beekeepers group meeting, 6:30 p.m.,

auditorium on Tazewell campus of Walters State. Info: 617-9013.

Goodwill Vintage Fashion Show and Sale, 6 p.m., Hilton Knoxville, 501 W. Church Ave. Tickets: $40; includes dinner, fashion show and entrance to the Vintage Boutique. Info: goodwillknoxville.org/vintage; 588-8567.

Movie and Popcorn: “Elsa and Fred,” 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 4Grand opening: Broadway Studios & Gallery, 5-9

p.m., 1127 N. Broadway. Featuring “Gaudy Gold Frame Show.” Info: BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com.

Karaoke, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub & Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091.

Union County Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., 1009 Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 5Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West

Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info: feralfelinefriends.org.

Spaghetti supper, New Fellowship Church, 120 Pine Drive, Maynardville. Dinner, silent auction, cake-walk, gospel music. $5 donation requested; proceeds to church building fund.

The Reignsmen will perform, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub & Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091.

Zombie Car Wash and Rummage Sale, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Frightworks parking lot next to Bojan-gles’ in Powell. Car wash: $5 suggested donation. Pro-ceeds benefi t Powell High School Theater Department.

MONDAY, SEPT. 7American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St.,

Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 8Happy Travelers Lunch and Gathering, North

Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. Enter-tainment by David West & the Cider Mountain Boys and comedian Hattie. No charge; suggested contribu-tion, $7. Info/reservations: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting, 7 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Program at 8 p.m. Speaker: Dennis E. Frye, chief his-torian at Harpers Ferry National Park. Topic: “Septem-ber Suspense, Lincoln’s most tenuous time.” Lecture only: $3; dinner and lecture: $17. RSVP deadline: noon Monday, Sept. 7, to 671-9001.

Open enrollment for beginner’s square dance class, 7 p.m., Square Dance Center, 828 Tulip St. Les-

sons $5; fi rst lesson free. Info: R.G. Pratt, 947-3238.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9International 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, SEPT. 10AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30

p.m., AAA offi ce, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254; Stephanie, 862-9252.

First Lutheran 55-Alive seniors group meeting, noon, First Lutheran Church, 1207 N. Broadway. A hot lunch ($8), prepared by school chef Stacy Takonis, will be served at 12:30. Program at 1 p.m.: Ed and Jo Niedens speaking on Rome to Copenhagen and Celebrating D-Day at Normandy. Reservations required: 524-0366.

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

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11Country Dancing for Seniors, 6:30-10 p.m.,

RiverView Family Farm, 12130 Prater Lane. Lessons, 6:30-7. No alcohol, no smoking. Featuring: two step, swing, line, couples, disco, waltz, mixers and more. Info: 988-8043; 966-1120.

Karaoke, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub & Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091.

Union County Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., 1009 Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 12AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-4:30

p.m., AAA offi ce, 100 W. 5th Ave. Eight-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254; Stephanie, 862-9252.

Hogskin History Day, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Admission and parking are free. Info: Mitzi, 497-3603; narrowridge.org.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info: feralfelinefriends.org.

Thunder Road Author Rally, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., May-nardville Public Library, Main Street, Maynardville. Lo-cal authors attending. Meet-and-greet, book sales, book signings. Info: 992-7106.

MONDAYS, SEPT. 14, 21, 28“Handbuilding With Clay” class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Janet McCracken. Regis-tration deadline: Sept. 7. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 15Fall Festival, 5-7 p.m., Morning Pointe, 7700 Dan-

naher Drive. Free to the community. Food, classic car show, bounce house, balloon magic and more. Charlie Katts concert, 6:15-7 p.m. Celebrating National Assisted Living Week. Info: 686-5771.

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

Open enrollment for beginner’s square dance class, 7 p.m., Square Dance Center, 828 Tulip St. Lessons $5; fi rst lesson free. Info: R.G. Pratt, 947-3238.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m.,

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

Sharps Chapel Fish Fry, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Sharps Chapel Senior Center. Bring a side dish to share. Info: 992-3292.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18Karaoke, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub &

Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091.Union County Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., 1009

Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West

Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info: feralfelinefriends.org.

Luttrell Music Festival, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Luttrell

City Park. Music, vendors, activities and more. Info: lut-trellbluegrass.com.

“Salvage Jewelry” class, 1-4 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Sarah Brobst. Registration deadline: Sept. 12. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 19-20Country Market, Historic Ramsey House, 2614

Thorn Grove Pike. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Arts, crafts, antiques, classic car cruise-in, Model T club, music and more. Admission: $5; 12 and under free. Info: ramseyhouse.org.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20Gospel singing featuring the Sneed Family, 6 p.m.,

New Beverly Baptist Church, 3320 New Beverly Church Road. Free, but love offering will be taken. Info: 546-0001; NewBeverly.org.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, SEPT. 21-OCT. 2Submissions accepted for jurying process at

Appalachian Arts Craft Center in Norris. Must include completed forms, three samples of work and $25 jury fee. Info/forms: www.appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; 2716 Andersonville Highway in Norris.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 22“Basic Wire Wrapped Rings” class, 6-7:30 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Kathy King. Registration deadline: Sept. 15. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

Open enrollment for beginner’s square dance class, 7 p.m., Square Dance Center, 828 Tulip St. Lessons $5; fi rst lesson free. Info: R.G. Pratt, 947-3238.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, SEPT. 23-24AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., John T.

O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registra-tion: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 25Karaoke, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub &

Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091.Union County Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., 1009

Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 26Beverly Park Place Fall Festival, 10 a.m.-3:30

p.m., 5321 Beverly Park Circle. Features: kids station, bounce house, face painting, games, crafts and vendors, live music, and food. Crafts people/vendors wanting to rent a $20 spot to set up sales: 687-1321, ext. 2053.

Chili Cook-Off, Colwyn Street in Cumberland Gap. Hosted by Claiborne County Chamber of Commerce. Admission free. Includes arts, crafts, antiques booths. Vendor/cook-off entry/sponsorship info: 423-626-4149; [email protected]; claibornecounty.com.

The Great Smoky Mountains Salamander Ball, 6:30-10 p.m., the Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knox-ville Zoo Drive. A masquerade ball and fundraiser for Discover Life in America. For adults and kids of all ages. Come dressed as a favorite Smoky Mountain critter. Info/registration: Todd Witcher, 430-4757 or [email protected]; dlia.org.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info: feralfelinefriends.org.

“Mold making for potters” class, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Peter Rose. Registration deadline: Sept. 19. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 26-27“Mosaic Birdbath Workshop” class, 10 a.m.-5

p.m. Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. In-structor: Jessica Kortz. Registration deadline: Sept. 19. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 27Neighborhood Festival, 5 p.m., St. Paul UMC, 4014

Garden Drive. Concert by PromisedLand Gospel Quartet in the sanctuary followed by a barbecue dinner with all the trimmings under a tent in the front parking lot.

FRIDAY, OCT. 2Karaoke, 6-10 p.m., Bubba Brew’s Sports Pub &

Grill, Beach Island Marina. Info: 992-3091.

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NEWS FROM SOUTHEASTERN RETINA ASSOCIATES

Southeastern Retina awarded for vision-saving research

Southeastern Retina Associates, with 10 locations serving the

Knoxville region, recently won the Top Site Award for clinical research from the National Eye Insti-tute’s Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research network. Southeastern Retina also has 8 other offi ces throughout East TN, Southwest VA and Northern GA.

This marks the third year that Southeastern Retina Associates has won this pres-tigious national award.

The award means that Southeastern Retina As-sociates has demonstrated outstanding performance out of the 115 US participating sites of the DRCR network.

The award doesn’t just mean that they’ve signed up the most patients for clini-cal trials. It means that they provide the highest level of cutting-edge care to the patients enrolled in their clinical trials.

For 20 years, Southeastern Retina Associates has been at the forefront of clinical trials to treat various eye diseases, including age-related macu-lar degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular disorders, and other ocular conditions.

These trials have helped bring life-changing treat-ments to those who need them most.

“By actively participating in clinical trials, Southeast-ern Retina physicians can provide their patients with access to sight-saving treat-ments not available at other practices in the region,” said Dr. Nick Anderson.

Over the years, Southeast-ern Retina Associates has become a center for chal-lenging case referrals, and their top-notch physicians and cutting-edge technology make it the ideal choice.

“I was the second person in the group,” said Dr. Joseph

Googe Jr. “I have watched the group grow. One of the great things we’ve succeeded in is recruiting really good doc-tors who trained at the top programs in the country. It has been very gratifying.”

Southeastern Retina Asso-ciates boasts an all-star staff of physicians with an impres-sive list of credentials. With medical schools and oph-thalmology residencies like Duke, Emory and Vander-bilt, and retinal fellowships at facilities like Wills Eye Hospital and the Massachu-setts Ear and Eye Infi rmary of Harvard University, the depth of knowledge is some of the best in the country.

According to Dr. Googe, advances in technology have made fundamental changes in the way Southeastern Retina Associates treats patients.

“The technology just ex-ploded and changed how we treat a lot of eye disease, es-

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Specializing in:Macular DegenerationIntravitreal Injection for Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Eye Disease

Our retina specialists utilize the most advanced therapies and surgical approaches to provide the best treatment available.

Southeastern Retina Associates also maintains active clinical trials and research programs to provide cutting-edge treatments to East Tennessee.

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“By actively participating in clinical trials, Southeastern Retina physicians can provide their patients with access to sight-saving treatments not available at other practices in the region.”

– Dr. Nick Anderson

pecially in the last 10 years,” he said.

“When I fi rst started, we didn’t have much treatment for what we diagnosed. Now, new treatments have been developed. We see a lot of patients with macular degen-eration and diabetic reti-nopathy, and now we have better treatments for those conditions.”

Much of these better treatments are due to clinical trials conducted at South-eastern Retina Associates.

Dr. Keith Shuler says, “We are always looking at potential new therapies by participating in national clinical trials, it is just part of what we do.”

SERA is currently enroll-ing patients in trials for age-related macular degenera-tion, diabetic eye disease and retinal vein occlusions.

To ask about clinical trials now enrolling, patients and referring physicians may call 1-888-KnoxRet (566-9738).


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