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By Carolyn EvansOne of the town’s founders, Ma-
rie Leonard says Farragut is doing just fi ne. Her husband, the late Bob Leonard, was the town’s fi rst mayor. She continues to volunteer at the Folklife Museum.
Marie Sharp was raised a block off Broadway in downtown Knox-ville, rode trollies home from Knoxville High School, hung out at the soda fountain where her dad was a pharmacist. Kingston Pike, she says, was “a country road.”
Marie, now 89, never realized the role she would play in the town of Farragut’s founding and growth.
Marie was from North Knox-ville and Bob was from South Knoxville when they met in
By Wendy SmithEven though the Farragut Busi-
ness Alliance has scaled down its request from $585,000 over three years to $75,000 for one year, the Farragut Economic Development Committee suggested that the proposed budget needs to be re-worked to further limit the town’s contribution.
FBA board president David Purvis presented the new pro-posal at last week’s EDC meeting. The Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen has requested feedback from the EDC on a new memoran-dum of understanding between the FBA and the town.
The fi rst proposed MOU was ta-bled at the Feb. 11 FBMA meeting, but the board approved $11,100 in temporary funding on Feb. 25 to allow the FBA to operate for the next three months.
A request for $140,000 per year to implement Farragut’s new brand has been removed from the budget. The new budget includes funding for an extended, but not year-round, Shop Farragut pro-gram and $10,000 for contract labor for special events. The addi-tional manpower would allow FBA executive director Allison Sousa
Marie Sharp Leonard refl ects
on the beginnings of the
town of Farragut and the
role her husband played.
Catching up withMarie Leonard
EDC member Pamela Milliken (right) talks to Farragut Business Alliance
board president David Purvis about marketing restrictions placed on Turkey
Creek businesses that are in Farragut. Purvis presented a new proposed FBA
budget to the EDC last week. Photo by Wendy Smith
FBA presents new budget to EDC
church during their high school years. After marriage, they settled in South Knoxville. As a lawyer, Bob’s job took him all over the city, including far-fl ung Concord.
One day, as Marie was driving to a luncheon at Fox Den Country Club, she happened upon a new subdivision called Village Green. At the time, it was three streets, she remembers: Nassau, Heritage and Dominion.
“I was intrigued with this neigh-borhood, with the sidewalks, lamp lights at each house, the clubhouse and pool,” Leonard remembers. “The developer was really ahead of his time.”
She was so intrigued that the Leonards went to visit three hous-es that were for sale in the subdivi-sion, and, in 1971, they bought the house where she still lives.
“I loved living in a subdivision!” she says. “I thought it was such fun. Back then I knew everybody on Heritage, Nassau and Domin-
to devote more time to serving businesses, said Purvis.
The proposed $110,000 an-nual budget would be covered by a $75,000 grant from the town, an estimated $25,000 in sponsor-ships and an estimated $10,000 in event revenues.
Alderman Ron Pinchok, the FBMA’s representative to the EDC, pointed out that sponsorships have grown each year, and 2015 spon-sorships netted over $31,000. An estimate of $35,000 for 2016 could save the town $10,000, he said.
He also suggested that the FBA charge dues.
“I want to continue to help you, but I’d like to see you all become self-sustaining.”
EDC member Phil Dangel, who is also an FBA board member, said the FBA would compete with the Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce if it charged dues be-cause businesses would choose to pay one or the other. As the owner of the Shrimp Dock, he feels that his $1,000 offering to the Taste of Farragut event is his contribution
to the FBA.Pamela Milliken, who was ap-
pointed to the EDC last year, ex-pressed frustration that Zaxby’sin Turkey Creek shopping centercan’t utilize the FBA. She is mar-keting director for the store. Thecombined restrictions of the shop-ping center and the town make itimpossible for her to advertise,she said.
Dangel questioned the need tospend $10,000 on contract laborsince events only occur four timesa year. Sue Stuhl, the town’s Parksand Leisure Services director,said planning for events is a year-round endeavor.
Pinchok said he’d like to see thebudget reworked, and he’s in favorof a hotel/motel tax that wouldbenefi t the FBA as well as parks.
Dangel said he’d prefer that theFBA contract be renewed annu-ally rather than every two to threeyears. EDC members Jim Holla-day and Pinchok agreed.
Resident Robert Hill said thatanything the town does to supportbusiness should be subject to rig-orous, auditable metrics.
“There’s no substitute for num-bers to show you’re doing a jobright.”
March 1 election winners, losers
Sandra Clark makes the case for winners and losers who were not on the March 1 ballot:
Winners: Tim Hutchison, Tim Burchett, Scott Moore.
Losers: Gov. Bill Haslam, Laurens Tullock.
➤ Read Clark on page A-5
Farragut’s outdoor classroom wins an orchid
The town of Farragut was one of seven honorees at the March 1 awards dinner of Keep Knoxville Beautiful, held at The Standard.
The town received a 2016 “or-chid” in the open space category for its outdoor classroom.
Nominated based on its ability to beautify and elevate the local landscape, the outdoor classroom opened in Fall 2014 at the intersec-tion of N. Campbell Station Road and the entrance to Farragut High School to promote civic engage-ment and community involvement in Farragut. The town’s Stormwa-ter Matters Program works hard to make this site a beautiful and edu-cational demonstration space for the community. Since it was con-structed, local schools and volun-teer organizations have “adopted” plots in the classroom to imple-ment service learning projects.
“We are very excited to receive an Orchids Award for the outdoor classroom,” said stormwater coor-dinator Lori Saal. “Many individu-als from the town have participat-ed in its conception, construction and continued maintenance, and we are grateful to have those ef-forts recognized by Keep Knoxville Beautiful.”
Also at the banquet, Keep Knox-ville Beautiful renamed the Ev-ergreen Award to the Mary Lou Horner Beautifi cation Award, given this year to the Knoxville Museum of Art. The Horner award recognizes a former orchid winner whose property has been beauti-fully maintained for at least 10 years since its original recogni-tion. The late Mary Lou Horner, a longtime county commissioner, was a founding member of Keep Knoxville Beautiful and its biggest
Bob Graves, board president for Keep Knoxville Beautiful, with Jason Scott,
former stormwater coordinator for the town of Farragut and Jake Greear,
with McGill & Associates, landscape architects who designed the classroom.
ion Circle. Now there are over 200 homes here.”
The majority of the women in the subdivision were homemak-ers. A women’s club called “The Villagers” met in the daytime at the clubhouse. The garden club met at night so the husbands could watch the kids. Leonard got in-volved in both.
As the kids got older Leonard began looking for a job and “fell into” a position at East Tennessee Orthopedic Clinic, although she had a teaching degree. She began working full-time as an assistant to the physicians.
All around the Leonards, how-ever, things in West Knox County were beginning to shake up.
“We wanted control of roads and services,” says Leonard. “There was a group looking at that, but Bob wasn’t involved in it. Then they started thinking of in-
champion. Other winners are:
■ New Architecture: Contem-porary Women’s Health
■ Redesign/Reuse: Oakwood Senior Living Center and White Lily Flats
■ Restaurant/Cafe/Bar/Brew-ery: Babalu
■ Public Art Project: Bringing Tap Back Water Refi ll Stations
■ Environmental Stewardship: WROL Building
The East Tennessee Communi-ty Design Center served as judges for the awards. Attendees enjoyed music by the Old City Buskers. The event was sponsored by WUOT, Pilot Flying J, Bojangles, Lamar Advertising, the Knoxville Hilton and the Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union.
Farragut Book FestLet your imagination run
wild! Sponsored by the Farra-gut Arts Council and the Far-ragut branch library, the ninth annual Farragut Book Fest for Children will be Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Founders Park at Campbell Station, located next to the library on Campbell Station Road.
Event media sponsor is the Farragut Shopper News. This is a featured Town of Farragut event in conjunction with the 2016 Dogwood Arts Festival.
This educational and free event will offer an array of activities throughout the day, from storytelling to book sign-ings to music.
The fi rst 400 children will receive a free giveaway. Chil-dren are encouraged to dress up as their favorite storybook character; a character parade throughout the park will be held at 10:30 a.m.
These local authors will be on hand to meet participants while selling and signing their books: David Boyce, Bonnie Cadotte, Gayle Green, Thelma Hartigan, Charles Haun, Jennifer Madison, and Adele Roberts.
The event will include art activities, face painting, cookie decorating and the Ruff Read-ing Program.
New this year will be the Bright Star Touring Theatre (brightstartheatre.com). The group will be delivering two performances: Upcycled Cinderella at 11 a.m. and The Reluctant Dragon at 1 p.m.
Free hot dogs, popcorn and lemonade will be available beginning at 11 a.m. while sup-plies last.
In conjunction with this event, the Friends of the Knox County Library will host a used book sale at the Farragut Branch on Friday and Satur-day, April 8 and 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Sherri Gardner Howell
FARRAGUT FACES
community
Marie Leonard From page A-1
corporating, and they were looking for somebody to be in charge. Bob had always been interested in govern-ment. I made the mistake of saying, ‘You can do this,’” she says, with a chuckle.
The Farragut found-ers met late at night in the downstairs room of a Farra-gut pharmacy to look at the possibility of incorporation and address the problem of the lawsuits that would ac-company the move.
“Bob was always good at compromise and that was very helpful because we had lawsuits from Knoxville trying to stop the incorpo-ration,” says Leonard.
When the town was born, Bob Leonard ran for the po-sition of mayor, holding the offi ce from 1980 through 1993 when he decided not to run again.
Marie Leonard contin-ued to work, retiring from the orthopedic clinic af-ter 21 years. She then got involved with the town of Farragut Folklife Museum. “Bob was very anxious for us to have a museum,” Leonard says. “This was a battleground, the battle of Campbell Station. Bul-lets and cannon balls were found in the ground on the farmland here.”
Leonard still volunteers once a month as a docent at the museum and gift shop and is on the beautifi cation committee. As she looks back in time at the town she and her husband helped start, she believes Farragut is doing well.
“We’re still trying to have parks,” she says. “That was also one of Bob’s focuses. He always wanted us to have parks in Farragut, and we’ve continued to get bet-ter at that. We have a town hall that’s functioning. We have good staff at the town hall. And we’ve bought the Campbell Station home (at the corner of Campbell Sta-tion and Kingston Pike), and that’s good. I’d defi nite-ly say we’re moving in the right direction.”
Leonard says her early days gave her the best of two worlds. “I think I was real lucky to have grown up in downtown Knoxville and yet I’ve loved living in Far-ragut. I wouldn’t live any-where else. I have wonder-ful neighbors. My son lives right here in the subdivi-sion, and my daughter lives 10 minutes away. I couldn’t improve on my situation – except if the house were all on one level,” she says, with a laugh.
This was not your gran-ny’s tea time.
And certainly not a tea you would sit for at Down-ton Abbey.
Riley Watkins, age 9, does the
Twist with dad Mike Watkins
at the Father-Daughter Tea.
All that suited the guests at the Father-Daughter Tea sponsored by Christ Cov-enant Church, 12915 Kings-ton Pike, just fi ne. It was just perfect for its audience, and the beautiful setting at The Reserve at Bluebird Hill gave the whole Sunday af-ternoon a touch of elegance
Tea for two – PlusAudrey Hamilton, age 2, thought the day should have a little
pirate action, so she used her nametag as an eye patch, much
to the delight of her sister, Abby, age 8. Dad Jason Hamilton
rolled with the fl ow. Photos by Nancy Anderson
Tim Hawkins and daughter Mollie, age 11, were all about those
cookies.
Hannah Watkins, age 4, loves
her date, her dad, Lucas, and
her goody bag.
The Hamilton family split into two tables, as mom, Kimberly
Hamilton, enjoyed time with her dad, David Weakley, while her
daughters entertained their father at another table.
– and enough freedom for girls-to-be-girls.
The tea was an oppor-tunity for dressing up and hanging out. Friends took
second place as daughters danced, dined and acted silly with their dads, which was the purpose of the out-ing, after all.
Marie Sharp grew up a city girl
in downtown Knoxville, never
dreaming she would be Farra-
gut’s fi rst First Lady.
By Betsy PickleMary Thom Adams has
just taken over the reins of the East Tennessee Tech-nology Access Center, but already she’s set to leave for Havana.
Figuratively speaking.ETTAC’s fi rst fundraiser
since Adams joined as ex-ecutive director on Feb. 8 is the center’s fi fth “A Night in Old Havana,” a fun event featuring authentic Cuban cuisine, a Latin dance show-case, a casino, a high spir-its bar, cigars, coffee and dessert. The “Night” will be 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at the Lighthouse Knoxville Event Center, 6800 Baum Drive.
“And for those who need to see March Madness, they also will be able to do that,” says Adams.
ETTAC is a change from Ijams Nature Center, where Adams worked the past fi ve years. She served as development director and assistant executive direc-tor there. Though just a 10-minute drive from each other, Ijams has been in the spotlight as a main player in the Urban Wilderness initiative, while ETTAC has lived a quiet existence since 2010 on tiny Childress Street.
Founded in 1988, ETTAC is a nonprofi t agency that connects people with dis-abilities to assistive technol-ogy devices that help them live more independently and with dignity. It serves 24 counties in East Tennessee.
Adams fi rst learned of ETTAC while working as a consultant to nonprofi ts. It
was one of her clients. “I thought the work that they did was re-ally phe-nome n a l ,” she says.
W h e n she heard
in late November that the center was looking for a new director, she put her name out there.
“I loved my job at Ijams, so this was a surprise to me in many ways,” she says. “But I really wanted to do this work. I wanted to be in-volved in this organization and to support the people that ETTAC helps. I really wanted to do this. I’m very glad I did. I’m inspired ev-ery day.”
Adams says she’s still learning about her job.
“One of the things that was going to give me great pleasure about this work is the amount that I will learn,” she says.
“What I bring to the table is that I’m an administra-tor. I understand how non-profi ts work. I understand how to manage them. And I know how to raise money. And that’s the part that I can bring here that they need.”
Adams was happy to help bring improvements for people with disabilities to Ijams, and to witness the work of ETTAC is “remark-able.”
“A Night in Old Havana” tickets are $25. To pur-chase, call ETTAC, 219-0137, or visit ettac.org
Adams fi nds inspiring work at ETTAC
Adams
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Wendy Smith
Marvin West
I have been remiss in holding back the Jani Tru-povnieks story . Last week was a start but, borrowing from song, fi lm and politi-cians, “You ain’t seen noth-in’ yet.”
Trupovnieks: Roots, Vol memories, Rhonda
The former Tennessee tackle, largest director of the UT lettermen’s club, is in the midst of a satisfy-ing career in international sales. He has come far from Hopedale, Ohio, but that trip does not compare to his roots.
His father, Janis, was born in rural Latvia in 1919. In an upset of tradition, he was allowed to leave the family farm at age 12 for ad-vanced study and a chance at a better life. He beat long odds and was admitted for university pre-med.
When World War II broke out, Latvia was caught in the middle. Germans threat-ened but the Soviet Union occupied his country. When ordered into that army, Ja-nis fl ed, 300 miles on foot through Lithuania and Po-land, then as a stowaway on a small freighter across the Baltic Sea to Germany.
He was caught but his medical training saved his life. He was assigned to fi eld hospitals.
When Hitler’s Germany
fell, Janis became a dis-placed person. He boarded a crowded train for Göttin-gen with the idea of finally becoming a full-f ledged doctor. All along the way, thousands of other refu-gees tried to climb aboard, even when the train was moving.
Janis Trupovnieks, stand-ing in a coach doorway, held on with one hand and reached the other out to clasp the hand of a young woman. He pulled Ingeborge Matilda Altmann aboard. She was from East Germany, on her way to be a Red Cross nurse. She never made it.
Gottingen orphanages needed nurses.
Three days later, she ac-cepted Janis’ marriage pro-posal.
“I recently found the manifest showing their pas-sage into the United States, at Ellis Island,” said Jani. “My father had made ar-rangements for them to stay with a Latvian couple in Quincy, Ill.”
The young doctor did an internship in Cleveland. He heard about an opportu-nity in Hopedale. He stayed there all his working life. He became a legend of kind-ness, for giving back, for caring even for those who couldn’t pay.
Young Jani grew tall and strong. He was going to play college football at Notre Dame (father’s choice) or Pittsburgh, 45 min-utes away, mom’s prefer-ence. Alas, the Pitt coaches moved to Tennessee. Jim
Dyar turned Jani into a Vol-unteer.
“Jim Dyar was and al-ways will be the greatest in-fl uence in my life. Jim was a fantastic coach and recruit-er, but an even better man.”
Jani’s parents moved to Knoxville to see him play for the famous John Ma-jors. Phillip Fulmer was line coach. Trupovnieks was in-jured as a junior. He started as a senior. Without mean-ing to, he helped Reggie White refi ne his swim move in daily practices.
Trupovnieks, James Berry, Bill Bates and other teammates endured the opening 44-0 loss to Geor-gia and the 43-7 loss to Southern Cal but eventually made it to the Garden State Bowl.
Highlight of his time at Tennessee came before that, in the summer of ’79.
He and other Vols were on Cherokee Lake, in a friend’s boat, “admiring the shore scenery and not paying a lot of attention to what was in front of us.”
Jani heard a scream but it was too late. The boat struck a raft. Rhonda Brimer was aboard.
“Once we made sure she was OK, I got her in the boat, begging her not to sue me. After that, I never let her out of my sight.
“I really impressed her on our fi rst date. It was quarter beer night at a Knoxville baseball game.”
OK, so Jani crashing into Rhonda’s fl oat as an introduction to an eventual marriage wasn’t as good as his dad helping Ingeborge Matilda Altmann onto the train but it’s the best I can do for now.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
address is [email protected]
Proactive planning safeguards neighborhoodsAnyone who’s ever won-
dered how an auto repair shop or an apartment com-plex could spring up next to a subdivision of single-family homes (and that’s ev-eryone who pays attention) should understand sector plans.
Sector plans are born af-ter Metropolitan Planning Commission staff collects information like current land use, population, trans-portation and utilities for a chunk of the city or county. Then, using public feedback, they come up with 15-year plan to guide growth. After it’s adopted, they use it to make decisions about what should be allowed where.
Things change, so sector plans get updated regularly. Once again, citizens are en-couraged to participate.
It’s a good process, ex-cept for the fact that every month, developers request sector plan changes that will
allow them to rezone prop-erty so they can build what they want. There are six re-quested sector plan changes on this week’s MPC agenda, and staff recommends ap-proval on all but one.
County Commissioner John Schoonmaker, a for-mer chair of the Knox Coun-ty Board of Zoning Appeals, always has eye on the MPC agenda. Each month, he makes a report to the Coun-cil of West Knox County Homeowners on agenda items that may be of inter-est.
He thinks sector plan changes are becoming more frequent because most eas-
ily developable land is gone, which encourages develop-ers to build on less appro-priate sites.
MPC Executive Director Gerald Green has an idea that could reduce the num-ber of sector plan changes. Developers could leave those oddball greenfi elds alone and use underutilized commercial land instead.
Green chatted about development while driv-ing down Broadway, where there are numerous ex-amples of under-developed commercial properties. Some are small buildings with large parking lots, oth-ers are simply unattractive.
“That’s our challenge – to use what’s not completely developed.”
Developers like to start from scratch, so they’d pre-fer to rezone empty land, if it’s easy. It takes a com-munity that stands fi rm on rezoning to get them to con-
sider existing commercial property, he says.
That shift in perspective can be slow, but Green wit-nessed such a change while serving as a city planner in Asheville in the 1990s. The city examined the require-ments for rezoning to com-mercial use, and evaluated property along major cor-ridors. They found that the land was worth more than the buildings, which en-couraged redevelopment.
To bring about a simi-lar shift in Knoxville, the community needs to attend planning meetings and talk to elected offi cials about taking a fi rm stance against rezoning to commercial. MPC staff wants to hear from the public, too.
“They’d rather talk to (residents) than see their plans overturned,” Green says.
Another idea is to use neighborhood plans rather
than sector plans to guide development. Neighborhood plans allow citizens to work together to decide how they want an area to look and put necessary development guidelines in place. The Bearden Village Opportuni-ties Plan and the Broadway-Central-Emory Place Small Area Plan are examples within the city. The county doesn’t have any existing neighborhood plans.
Guiding development is hard because it requires a proactive, rather than re-active, approach. It doesn’t work to fi ght development that’s already underway. Residents who want to limit commercial development in their backyard need to get involved today. MPC meets at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, in the Large As-sembly Room at the City County Building.
QUOTABLES ■ Hillary Clinton, asked if
she’s ever told a lie, said she
tries not to. “She’s no George
Washington,” said Powell guy
Bill Vaughan.
■ Sam McKenzie, nearing the
end of his term on County
Commission, voted against
everything associated with
a new Gibbs Middle School.
Most votes were 9-1.
■ Ed Brantley just didn’t want
to give a tax break to the
Tombras Group to buy the
old KUB building downtown.
His was the sole no vote,
triggering a comment from
McKenzie: “It’s a lonely feel-
ing, isn’t it, Ed?”
■ Donald Trump says his
hand size doesn’t mean he’s
lacking in other anatomical
areas. “You just can’t watch
these GOP debates with small
children,” said a blogger.
–S. Clark
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w o r k e d in Knox-ville and Spring City for Bechtel P o w e r Corp., an internation-al engineer-ing and con-s t r u c t i o n
company.Prior to Bechtel, she
worked for Lenoir City as a certifi ed building inspector.
She will report to Peter Ahrens, director of Plans Review and Inspections.
He said one of her fi rst projects will be managing and improving the current form districts section of the zoning code.
These are land develop-ment regulations focused on physical form as com-pared to joint use. Knox-ville’s South Waterfront and Cumberland Avenue project areas are both based on form-based code.
VictorAshe
Betty Bean
Sandra Clark
Jennifer Owen
Owen’s big win surprises even herselfNo one was more sur-
prised by the margin of Jennifer Owen’s victory over Grant Standefer in the District 2 school board race than Jennifer Owen.
“Going into Election Day, I was torn between ‘I might
win by a little bit, or I might lose by a little bit,’” Owen said. “When the polls closed, I had people at each loca-tion who got
the totals and were texting them to me, and I was just shocked. I won every one of them, and thought. ‘Surely that’s not right.’”
Owen went to Shannon-dale School at closing time, expecting to be wiped out, since that’s Standefer’s and incumbent Tracie Sanger’s home precinct. Sanger cam-paigned for Standefer.
“I looked at the Shan-nondale numbers and said, ‘Wow! I’m winning every precinct!’”
So how did she pull off the biggest upset of the campaign season against an opponent who probably had seven times the money plus the endorsement of the daily newspaper and the support of Knoxville’s elite? These were the same advan-tages Sanger enjoyed when she was elected two years ago over Jamie Rowe.
Owen said she believes the effects of the Sanger/Rowe race and Sanger’s performance as a board member played a role in this year’s win.
“A lot of people really thought Jamie was going to
win her race, so they didn’t work very hard for her. That mistake may have helped me more than we will ever know. People who are never involved were asking how to help. I think there was a lot of, ‘We screwed up last time and it can’t happen again.’
Owen credits Standefer for running a very civil cam-paign.
“He was supported by the same people who supported Sanger, and even though he had a very different per-sonality, I was still running against that same big mon-ey. I totally believe things would have been a whole lot meaner if I’d been run-ning against Sanger. Maybe (Standefer) made me a nicer candidate. He’s a really nice guy, even though he didn’t have a clue about the is-sues. His niceness may have helped me.”
Owen is a former teacher who has deep subject mat-ter knowledge of education
issues. She designed her own direct mail and spent around $7,000, which she believes was far too much. She also believes Stand-efer’s money wasn’t spent wisely:
“I have a post offi ce box, and I kept getting Grant’s mailers at my house and at the box. It was ‘Oh, there’s another one!’ From the fi rst day, I got two. I was won-dering ‘Can nobody sort out this database?’ They should have taken out my name and the names of people they knew were supporting me. And they should have been taking out the early voters, but they didn’t take out anybody. It was very wasteful.
“I kept thinking, ‘How is this marketing company doing all this?’ All I can assume is the more they spend, the more they get. They wasted money on me, because I wasn’t going to change my vote.”
Lord, send us a signTeam Rogero still has not
erected any signs pointing the way to the new Blount Knox greenway from Buck Karnes Bridge to Marine Park next to the naval sta-tion adjacent to Alco a High-way. City spokesperson Eric Vreeland months ago said signs would be installed, but apparently the memo directing this has not been received. There was great fanfare when this greenway was offi cially opened but not much follow up.
The Rogero Administra-tion has had a tardy record in building greenways in-cluding the one along First Creek and Broadway which was promised by the mayor in her fi rst budget message some four years ago.
One has to wonder what is really happening in the greenway program.
■ State Sen. Dolores Gresham has introduced legislation to alter the makeup of the UT Board of Trustees by reducing its size and dividing the appointments between the two speakers, currently Ron Ramsey and Beth Har-well, and the governor.
The current board and Gov. Bill Haslam oppose the legislation and it may not pass. However, its in-troduction does focus atten-tion on the current board and its role in running the university. Sen. Gresham is a retired lieutenant colonel and an active lawmaker.
Much of the criticism of the board – which include Knoxvillians Raja Jubran, Charles Anderson and Sharon Pryse – has been the board’s refusal to hear public discussion on the Lady Vols name change despite 25,000 signatures on a petition. Other points include little discussion or deliberation at the actual board meetings which are not shown on public televi-sion as the Legislature is.
Gov. Haslam chairs the board by election of the board. He is a board mem-ber by law and appoints the trustees. Haslam does not regularly attend and Jubran as vice chair then chairs the
meetings. There needs to be more actual discussion of items on the agenda at regular board meetings.
The board can change many of the points of criti-cism if it chooses to do so. Otherwise, there will be more annual attempts to alter the board’s makeup. Hopefully, board members will be more proactive than they have been in the past.
■ The Legislature has named the new high school being built at the Tennessee School for the Deaf for Alan Mealka, the recently retired superintendent.
■ State Sen. Brian Kelsey and state Rep. Mary Littleton have intro-duced legislation to have a special election to fi ll any vacancy in the U.S. Senate from Tennessee. This would not often come into play as Tennessee has only had two vacancies in the U.S. Senate since 1960. The fi rst was Estes Kefauver who died in offi ce and then Albert Gore Jr. resigned to become vice president in 1993. Kefauver was replaced by Hub Walters of Morristown and Gore was followed by Harlan Mathews.
Under this legislation, the governor will still ap-point a new senator but he/she would only serve until the special statewide elec-tion was held. Vacancies in Congress are now fi lled by special election and this bill would extend that practice to the U.S. Senate.
■ Knoxville-based Tennessee Clean Water Network headed by Renee Hoyos has criticized the state Department of Envi-ronment and Conservation for cutting the issuance of enforcement orders by 90 percent since 2007. An explanation has not been forthcoming.
Potholes!The city’s Public Service Department is heading
into “pothole season” with 129 service requests pend-ing since January.
The city’s policy is to address service requests for pothole repairs within 48 hours during the business week. This is in addition to regularly scheduled road inspections in which potholes are patched. To report a pothole, just call the 311 city information line or submit a report on 311’s web page at knoxvilletn.gov/pothole.
Last year, the city spent more than $200,000 com-pleting repairs with an estimate of 1,800 potholes patched.
The good ol’ boys are backLet’s review local winners
and losers on March 1.Winners have to in-
clude former Sheriff Tim Hutchison. He stepped out for Donald Trump when nobody else would. Trump’s Tennessee win puts Hutchi-son in the spotlight and he will make the most of it.
Tim Burchett called Bud Armstrong his friend three times in a 30-second TV spot. Bud rolled over the well-funded Nathan Rowell on his way to a second term as county law director.
Scott Moore (and his father-in-law John White-head) survived efforts by Jim Weaver to link White-head to Moore and the Black Wednesday shenanigans. Whitehead’s win, though
narrow, will clear the way for Moore to resume leadership roles in GOP politics.
A notable loser was Com-missioner Jeff Ownby who polled under 16 percent as an incumbent seeking re-elec-tion. Ownby ignored sugges-tions that he step down after his arrest for misdeeds in a public park.
Gov. Bill Haslam didn’t help Marco Rubio with his late endorsement (half of the primary voters had already
voted in early voting), leav-ing politicos wondering why Haslam didn’t just sit it out.
And how can Haslam’s own poll numbers remain so strong when he’s clearly out of step with voters on many key issues?
The biggest loser, how-ever, is Laurens Tullock. His email soliciting funds for Nathan Rowell, Grant Standefer and Buddy Pelot netted considerable cash but no winners, although Pelot will advance to an August runoff with Susan Horn.
■ Looking aheadVictor Ashe will be at-
tending the GOP conven-tion in Cleveland, putting a Shopper columnist on the convention fl oor.
Teachers and their allies are quickly taking over the Knox County Board of Edu-cation.
After September, only two of the fi ve board members who voted to extend Super-intendent Dr. Jim McIntyre’s contract and then voted to give him a quarter-million-dollar buyout will remain.
Ironically, many of the people who support an ap-pointed superintendent are appalled. But without an election for superintendent, the only way teachers or oth-ers can register an opinion is through the school board elections.
And, as non-partisan, district elections without party primaries, the path is clear for teachers to win.
This week, Knoxville is hosting a week-long nation-al conference – the Sustain-able Trails Conference – for the Professional TrailBuild-ers Association. The confer-ence offers trail profession-als the opportunity to build skills, discover the best tools and techniques avail-able in the industry and net-work with others.
“This amazing city is quickly becoming a trail mecca for hikers and moun-tain bikers alike,” said PTBA executive director Michael Passo on selecting Knoxville for the confer-ence. “The amazing public-private partnership that helped create the Urban Wilderness is unlike any we have found in other great trail cities.”
The PTBA also is an-nouncing a new partnership program called the “Lega-
cy Trail,” which will leave Knoxville with a sustain-ably and professionally built trail segment connecting South-Doyle Middle School to an adjacent neighbor-hood and the Urban Wilder-ness. The major portion of the trail building will take place Thursday, March 10, and Friday, March 11, as part of the conference.
The Legacy Trail is being built following last week’s announcement from the Legacy Parks Foundation to name and develop the 100-acre property that had been donated by the Wood family in 2013, which will now be known as Baker Creek Pre-serve.
Construction began on the property last week for the competition-style downhill mountain bike trail. It’s being funded by the $100,000 Bell Helmets
grant awarded to the Appa-lachian Mountain Bike Club last year after a nationwide competition. It adds to the seven additional trails also under construction funded by a $200,000 RTP grant to Legacy Parks from the state of Tennessee.
“It’s great to see increas-ing momentum for the Ur-ban Wilderness and our reputation as an outdoor tourism city,” said Mayor Madeline Rogero. “We’re grateful to Legacy Parks and everyone involved for their part in enhancing the Urban Wilderness.”
City hires inspectorRogero also announced
the hiring of DeAnn Bogus as deputy director for the city’s Plans Review and In-spections Department.
Since 2008, Bogus has
DeAnn Bogus
Trailbuilders in Knoxville this week
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SENIOR NOTES ■ Frank R. Strang Senior
Center
109 Lovell Heights Road670-6693knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Off erings include: card
games; exercise programs;
dance classes; watercolor
classes; Tai Chi; blood pres-
sure checks; Mahjong;
senior-friendly computer
classes. The center’s lounge/
resource area contains a
lending library, puzzle table,
Green Mountain Coff ee,
television and newspa-
pers, along with a “Senior
Services” resource wall. Vet-
erans Services, 11 a.m.-noon
Thursday, March 10.
■ Karns Senior Center
8042 Oak Ridge Highway951-2653knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Off erings include: card
games; dance classes; exer-
cise programs; mahjong; art
classes; farkle dice games;
dominoes; a computer lab;
billiards room; outdoor grill
and kitchen area. Veterans
Services, 9-10 a.m. Friday,
March 18.
■ CAC Offi ce on Aging
2247 Western Ave.524-2786knoxooa@knoxseniors.
org
■ Knox County Senior Services
City County Building400 Main St., Suite 615215-4044 Monday-Friday8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
■ Senior Citizens Infor-mation and Referral Service
2247 Western Ave.524-2786knoxseniors.org
Provides information
about services for persons
age 60+ and those with
disabilities who live in
Knoxville or Knox County
and referrals when needed.
Showandtell at Sherrill Hillsand
Evelyn Smith’s repertoire is varied.
By Sandra ClarkFor “show and tell” at
Sherrill Hills Retirement Community, several resi-dents displayed their art-work. It was varied and quite impressive. And then there was the potato jewelry …
Marty Sanders origi-nated the event last year. A retired teacher, Sanders has lived in nine states and overseas. Her specialty is embroidery, a craft she’s enjoyed since she was a kid. She displayed 12 framed pieces – one for each month of the year – and said she changes them on her door each month. Each features a fl ower.
Growing up in Detroit, Sanders vacationed with family in the Smokies where she “fell in love with the mountains.” Her husband’s career in the U.S. Air Force took them to several states and abroad. After retire-ment, they spent winters at an RV camp in South Texas. The camp had a carpentry shop, ceramics with a kiln, wood carving and quilting. At the fi rst of March, before folks went home, they held a show and tell.
“I knew (at Sherrill Hills) people were doing lots of things. There’s nothing in the show for sale. We just wanted to show each other how we spend our time and what we enjoy doing.”
Evelyn Smith retired to Knoxville to be near family. Originally from Missouri, her family moved a lot be-cause of her husband’s work. They raised three boys.
“I’ve always been in-volved in art,” she says. Her work ranges from vel-vet painting (think Elvis) to theorem painting using
patterns of Mylar. She’s also got cross-stitch and blocks she cut with a handsaw. Her prize piece, however, is a quilt in perfect geometric designs.
Harold Hahn displayed wood carving, a hobby he’s practiced over 15 years. “It’s extremely time consuming,” he said. “You need to be re-tired!”
Hahn carves a bit in his room at Sherrill Hills, say-ing it’s not a messy hobby. Originally from Pennsyl-
vania, Hahn worked as an architect while raising four sons. He says Christmas is fun because he makes a spe-cial carving for each one. He’s especially proud of his carving of the Hahn family crest. “We’re German.”
More next week.
Harold Hahn shows his carvings.
Marty Sanders
organized the
show.
Sanders’ embroidery
The Hahn family crest
Smith’s geometric quilt
FARRAGUT Shopper news • MARCH 9, 2016 • A-7 faith
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By Carolyn EvansA local church is doing its
part to help students have academic success. After a group of volunteers from Two Rivers Church adopted a nearby elementary school, the school saw standardized test scores go up.
Two Rivers Church mem-bers work with students at Eaton Elementary School, located just four miles from the church, and have for many years. Church mem-bers do all sorts of things: tutor, mentor, sponsor coat and shoe drives, bring school supplies and provide food boxes for the needy at Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiv-ing. The mentoring program is through a national group called Kids Hope USA.
When church member Jan Barton left her job, she knew she wanted to be a part of the efforts. She be-came a mentor at Eaton through Kids Hope in 2009, and she began working an hour each week with a child who needed encourage-ment. Some children need help with their school work, and some just need an adult friend with whom to talk.
“It’s about these kids hav-ing somebody who believes in them, having somebody cheer them on,” Barton says. “The relationships to me are just really rich. The children look forward to the mentors coming every week. I don’t have any chil-dren of my own, but I joke that I have 25 children out
there at Eaton.”The Kids Hope program
at Eaton is one of about 19 from Murfreesboro to Mountain City – all partner-ships between schools and churches. Barton became the director of the Kids Hope chapter that serves Eaton a couple of years ago, and there are now 25 volun-teers who work there each week.
“The motto is ‘One child, one hour, one school, one church,’” she says.
Although new mentors are needed sporadically throughout the year, the biggest need is in August. Volunteers take a three-hour class and undergo a background check.
Barton still has a rela-tionship with the fi rst stu-dent she ever mentored. He was in second grade when they fi rst met and is now fi n-ishing middle school. They still have lunch together once a week, and Barton and her husband, Chris, even go to his basketball games and sometimes take him to movies.
Eaton principal Ashley Talley says the school ben-efi ts from the commitment of Two Rivers and its mem-bers. “We feel richly blessed by Two Rivers Church and their continuous striving to support our community,” says Talley. “They support our school in many avenues and touch not only our stu-dents, but our staff as well. The Kids Hope mentoring
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The word remember ap-pears 115 times in the King James Version of the Bible, an indication that maybe memory is important!
I admit that until I began to consider the importance of the concept, I had failed to see the full import of the word.
If dismember means to take apart, then logically, to re-member must mean put-ting back together.
And that is exactly what we do when we remember. We re-call, re-think, re-see, re-consider, and re-under-stand a comment or a quote or even an event or a scene.
Some memories are hap-py and healing. Others are sad and depressing. But all memories are part and par-cel of who we are, who we have become over the span of years we have lived. And, it seems to me, the longer we live, the better our per-spective on those memories.
Looking back, I remem-ber things I wish I had not done. I remember words
Looking back –
moving forwardDo you have eyes, and fail to see? Do you have ears,
and fail to hear? And do you not remember? (Mark 8: 18 NRSV)
Those who cannot remember the past are con-demned to repeat it.
– George Santayana
I wish I had not said. But those things are irretriev-able, irreversible. I can’t un-say, or un-do, or even un-think those things.
All I can do is learn to do better. To remember more carefully what I need to remember. To let go more quickly the things that I need to let go.
So, when Jesus said “Re-member me,” he was saying two things to his followers: Don’t forget what I have taught you, and remember what you have seen and heard.
Those words still apply to his disciples – us! Remem-ber him. Remember what you have learned. Keep him whole in your heart and mind.
FAITH NOTES
Meetings/classes ■ Central Baptist Bearden,
6300 Deane Hill Drive will
host “Living Fully” Life-
Long Learning Conference,
6-8:30 p.m. Friday, March
11, and 8:30 a.m.-noon
Saturday, March 12. Top-
ics include: Cooking for
Wellness, iPad Technol-
ogy, Benefi ts of Animal
Ownership and What You
Should Know about Estate
Planning. Free and open to
the public. Info: 450-1000,
ext. 100.
■ Sequoyah Hills Presbyte-
rian Church, 3700 Keowee
Ave., will host Grief Care, a
weekly grief support group
for people grieving the
death of a loved one, 6-7:30
p.m. Monday, March 28.
Eight-week program. Info:
522-9804 or sequoyah-
church.org.
Special services ■ St. James Episcopal Church,
1101 N. Broadway, will
host the BucsWorth Men’s
Choir from East Tennessee
University in concert 7:30
p.m. Monday, March 14.
The ETSU Swashbucklers,
a student-led a capella en-
semble, will also perform.
■ Westside Unitarian
Universalist Church,
616 Fretz Road, holds
meditation services
6:30 p.m. each second
and fourth Wednesday.
Includes quiet refl ection,
simple music and readings.
Info: westsideuuc.org.
Vendors/consignors wanted
■ Central Baptist Church-
Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill
Drive, is seeking con-
signors for its children’s
consignment sale, to be
held Friday-Saturday, April
15-16. Fee: $10, nonre-
fundable. Proceeds go
to West Hills Elementary
School Back Pack Program.
Registration: cbcbearden.
org/events. Info: cbbcloth-
588-0586.
Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753
Oak Ridge Highway, is
accepting registration
for its Summer Weekday
Programs for PDO (children
1 year old and walking)
and for TNT (elementary
school-aged children).
Also accepting registration
for Fall Preschool and Fall
PDO. Forms available in
the preschool offi ce. Info:
531-2052.
School/church partnership impacts students
Two Rivers pastor David Gruhn helps an Eaton Elementary
School student at a coat drive.
When Ethan Wallace attended Eaton Elementary School, Jan
Barton of Two Rivers was his mentor. They still stay in touch
today.
program is just one way they love our school. Our students receive an extra supportive adult who is in-vested in their lives both academically and in their
overall well-being.“I’ve been witness to the
transformation brought by this amazing program …, and it’s extremely impact-ful.”
St. Mark UMC celebratesBy Carol Z. Shane
There were smiles, hugs, good food and a festive mood when St. Mark Unit-ed Methodist Church on Northshore Drive celebrat-ed its 60th anniversary on Feb. 28.
Church members old and new – some who had grown up there – gathered together for lighthearted fellowship and fun. “We are a joyful and fun-loving church,” said Sue Bigger-staff, a member since 1971. “Laughter is always within these walls.”
Several longtime St. Mark United Methodist Church members have raised their families there. Pic-
tured are (back) David Biggerstaff , the Rev. Kenny Faught, Lucas and Josh Biggerstaff , Fred Carter,
Bryan Biggerstaff ; (front) Kelly, Dan and Sue Biggerstaff and Mary Ruth Carter. Photos by Carol Z. Shane
Financial minister Carroll
Hewit (at right) , who is retir-
ing this year, has served the
church “for decades,” she says.
With her is the Rev. Kenny
Faught.
Biggerstaff was one of several church members recognized during the ser-vice, which featured a ser-mon by former St. Mark pastor the Rev. Larry Car-roll, who served the church from 1986-1991. Financial minister Carroll Hewit, who retires this year after serv-ing, in her words, “for de-cades,” was honored with a plaque and grateful thanks from current minister the Rev. Kenny Faught and the congregation.
Dave Stott, who’s raised three sons in the church
since he joined 26 years ago, spoke of how active SMUMC is in the com-munity. “Over the last 10 years, we’ve donated $200,000 to the FISH food pantry through a golf tournament that one of our members sponsors,” he said. Among other organi-zations receiving support from St. Mark are Knox Area Rescue Ministries, Habitat for Humanity and Wesley House.
After the service, church members moved to the fel-lowship hall where several long tables groaned with delicacies such as ham bis-cuits, sandwiches and lots of sweets, including home-made cookies and colorful petit fours. Displays set up around the room chroni-cled the history of St. Mark through photos and memo-rabilia.
As the church’s historian, Sue Biggerstaff has cata-logued a lot of that memo-rabilia. “We are a pilgrim people,” she said in her remarks to the congrega-tion. “We, like our spiritual ancestor Israel, are always moving, growing, changing, becoming.
“We are here to serve God’s people through the name of Jesus Christ.”
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A modern twist to quiltingBy Sherri Gardner Howell
Quilting, on its surface, would seem a solitary hob-by. It does, after all, just take one set of hands to ac-complish the desired pur-pose set out when you pick up the needle, fabric and batting.
Women (who are the pri-mary but not only quilters), however, know how to turn utilitarian to social. Since the 19th century in America, quilting has been a handy excuse to gather together for refreshments and socializa-tion while creating some-thing useful for the family. Quilting Bees in mid-19th century America provided needed socialization for women all across the grow-ing country – from farms to cities.
It’s a concept the Knox-ville Modern Quilt Guild
hasn’t forgotten. The MQG is for those in and around Knoxville who are interested in modern quilting design. The group, which is part of an international MQG, meets once a month to share ideas, listen to a short pre-sentation and show-and-tell their latest projects. The group was organized in 2010, just a month after the international group was founded.
A recent meeting at Westminster Presbyterian Church gave members plen-ty to praise as they show-cased their projects, some of which may be destined for the Striped Light Quilt Show, which will be in Knox-ville May 6-8. The guild will choose 10 quilts to represent them at the show.
Info: http://knoxvil-lemqg.blogspot.com/
Cindy Hardin and Cindy Martin enjoy hearing Sandy Donoho
talk about her latest quilting project. Photos by Sherri Gardner HowellPat Pike’s colorful quilt
Christy Cooper was a hit not only with her quilt, but for her
“Don’t Drink and Quilt” T-shirt.
Rosalind Woodard’s beautiful quilt earned admiration from her fellow guild members.
Star quilt by Sarah Elliott
A baby quilt by
Elizabeth Rhea
With the help of Jennifer Grace, Melissa Everett shows the quilt she is working on to fellow guild
members.
FARRAGUT Shopper news • MARCH 9, 2016 • A-9 kids
Webb musicians make All-StateWebb School of Knoxville string students Katelyn Smith, Dan
Primka, (back) Sidney Matlock and Maranda Perez were cho-
sen for this year’s East Tennessee School Band and Orchestra
Association All-State East Orchestra Clinic held in Gatlinburg.
Participants worked with well-known music educators and
conductors from across the country. Sidney also qualifi ed for
the All-State Orchestra. Photo submitted
SCHOOL NOTES ■ West Hills Elemen-
tary participates in the
following programs to
help raise money for the
school: General Mills
“BoxTops for Education,”
Campbell’s “Labels for
Education,” and linking
Food City ValuCards,
Kroger Plus Cards and
Target Red Cards to the
school for points. Info:
539-7850.
Pictured at this year’s Southeastern Championships are Atomic City Aquatic Club mem-
bers Abigail King, Daniel Arnold, Stephen Zhukov, Kendall Goodman, Thais Brown; (middle)
Harper Houk, Sydney Goodman, Madi Cottrell, Ethan Chou, Grant Reed; (back) coach Cam-
eron Higdon, member Alison Craig and head coach Andy Wagner. Photo submitted
Atomic City competes at
Southeastern ChampionshipsBy Sara Barrett
Atomic City Aquatic Club members made a lasting impression at this year’s Southeastern Championships held in Au-burn.
Thais Brown, 12, earned 85 points for his team, making fi nals and placing in the top eight of all six events he swam.
Harper Houk, 14, earned 41 points
with fi fth place fi nishes in two races and seventh place in another.
The Southeastern Championships include competitors from Tennessee, Alabama and the Florida panhandle who make certain time standards. Info: Kristi Houk via text, 556-4070, email [email protected] or visit swim4a-cac.com.
Farragut Intermediate’s artwork on displayStudents from Farra-
gut Intermediate and St. John Neumann Catholic schools were honored for their achievements in art on March 1 during a reception at Farragut’s town hall.
Sara Barrett
The event was held in conjunction with an art exhibit showcasing work selected by art teachers at both schools. Winners re-ceived awards for fi rst, sec-ond and third places during the reception.
FIS art teacher Christy Davis said this year’s nu-merous snow days not only kept students out of class, but put them behind in their artistic creations as well.
“We were literally hand-ing wet work to parents, asking them to mount it for the show,” said Davis. More than 375 works were on display from FIS includ-ing weaving, watercolor and mixed media.
The show was sponsored by the town of Farragut and the Farragut Arts Council.
Fourth grader Re-
becca Gurley poses
with her watercolor
on display at Far-
ragut’s town hall.
Farragut Intermediate School fi fth grader Katelyn Smith
shows her mom, Sarah, and little brother, Drew, her snow-
man artwork. Photos by S. Barrett
FIS art teacher Christy Davis and fi fth grader Thomas Nagy
stand in front of his weaving work (seen above his head).
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By Wendy SmithGideon Fryer remem-
bered that the Market House on Market Square smelled of “overripe fi sh,” and that vendors sold all kinds of meat, including fresh rabbit, and anything else that the land produced. His oral recollections, re-
corded not long before he died in 2014, are preserved at knoxhistories.org.
The website was put to-gether by Liz Teston, UT assistant professor of inte-rior design, with the help of a Community Engage-ment Incentive Grant she received last year from the
university. It includes 16 oral histories collected from seniors who have memo-ries of visiting the Market House. Teston and her stu-dent research assistants continue to add interviews, which are available as re-cordings or documents.
The goal is to create a re-
pository of stories that will allow students, and the pub-lic, to see how Knoxville’s history created a foundation for today’s built environ-ment. The website also has a map that shows the 1917 layout of the city and cur-rent photos that illustrate history’s impact on Market
Market Square today
Oral histories help shapethe future of design
By Wendy SmithKnox County is accept-
ing bids for the creation of a Midway Area Community Plan that would solidify the community’s vision for the area. Other parts of the county, like the Peters/Eb-enezer Road corridor, could benefi t from such a plan, says Council of West Knox County Homeowners presi-dent Margot Kline.
She has long been an advocate for responsible development and reduced visual clutter.
“I’m pro-development. I’m just against ugly devel-opment,” she said during a
presentation on the corri-dor’s assets and challenges at last week’s homeowners meeting.
The main challenge is the fi ve-lane road. The volume and speed of the traffi c has already led to urban decay near Kingston Pike, where private homes have been converted to businesses with parking lots in the front yard.
Assets include historic buildings, like the 1840 Baker Peters House at the corner of Peters Road and Kingston Pike; Statesview, at the intersection of Pe-ters and George Williams
Roads, built in 1806 for city planner Charles McClung; and Blue Grass Elementary School, built in 1936. Many of Knoxville’s founding families are buried in Eb-enezer Cemetery near the intersection of Westland Drive and Ebenezer Road.
Opportunities include Dunn Park, a county-owned parcel near the intersection of Old Ebenezer Road and Peters Road, a potential lo-cation for a greenway path. An open parcel in front of Bexhill subdivision would make an excellent park and neighborhood gathering spot, Kline says.
A view from the Peters Road/Ebenezer
Road corridor. Photo by Wendy Smith
Peters/Ebenezer Road: worth preserving
and Kline likes to think that neighbors played a role in bringing about residential development. The area is at-tractive to homeowners be-
cause of its open spaces and views, she said.
“But if you want it to stick around, be prepared to fi ght.”
Square.Good design considers
both space and place, Teston says. Space is the geometric description of a building, but place is how it feels and looks. Oral histories help defi ne “place.”
The most noticeable thing about the recordings is that they’re highly personal. Fryer, who is well known in Knoxville for helping estab-lish UT’s College of Social Work and co-founding the East Tennessee Community Design Center, among other things, is forthright about his freshman fraternity an-tics. It’s easy for the listener to imagine they’re in the room while he tells his sto-ries.
The oral histories aren’t intended to preserve facts, but to help listeners under-stand the nuances of his-tory. Many memories of the Market House, which existed in some form from 1854 to 1959, are hazy now, but they still convey the ex-perience of place, says Tes-ton. Common recollections include the smell of fi sh, the dark interior and ham sand-wiches sold with homemade mayonnaise.
Collected memories can
help designers understand the identity of a site and the social impact of an area.
“A building doesn’t need to look historic to be ‘of the place,’” she says.
She uses UT’s Art and Architecture Building, de-signed by Bruce McCarty, as an example. It looks com-pletely different from other buildings on campus, but is still “of the place” because it refl ects McCarty with the way it incorporates light and design culture.
Teston was born in Knoxville, but grew up in Atlanta. When she moved to Knoxville, she became aware of “hidden urban connections” that only lo-cals know about, like build-ings that no longer exist. The Market House is one of those. When she saw the building’s bell on Market Square, she felt the void.
“I wanted to understand the experience of the Mar-ket House, the experience of the built environment.”
Now, through the memo-ries of others, everyone can see the sights, and smell the smells, of the Market House.
Many of the oral histories were recorded at local as-sisted living facilities,
Her hope is that home-owners will work with de-velopers to demand quality projects that will cultivate a neighborhood identity and acknowledge the historic signifi cance of the area. Otherwise, it will become just another commercial-ized connector road.
Of particular concern are the open parcels at the inter-section of Westland Drive and Ebenezer Road and in front of Bexhill. Developers will forgo sidewalks, land-scaping and low-level light-ing unless the neighbors de-mand it, she said. She’d like to see attractive, mixed-use development that blends well with residences.
Two parcels on Ebene-zer Road are being built out with single-family homes,
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The Knoxville Symphony League invites you to take part in “Spring Inspirations,” a luncheon featuring food columnist and Southern hospitality expert Ginny McCormack as guest speaker. Attendees will hear mu-sic by KSO concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz.
“The KSO musicians and I are so, so grateful to have the wonderful ladies of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra League as some of our biggest supporters and fans!” Lefkowitz says. “Their incredible work keeps us doing what we do, bringing music to the com-munities of East Tennessee in concert halls, schools, libraries, hospitals, places of worship and more. We just couldn’t do it without them!”
Joining Lefkowitz in a sampling of music from the upcoming Merchant & Gould Concertmaster Series “Gabriel Lefkowitz & Friends,” to be presented at the Knoxville Museum of Art April 6 and 7, is pianist Kevin Class, professor of collaborative piano at the University of Tennessee. The event begins at 10:30 a.m. on March 16 at Cherokee Country Club. Tickets: 765-1660.
By Betsy PickleWhat would convince you
to hike 100 miles? Money? The allure of the outdoors? A bet? Burning calories?
How about a lapel pin or a patch?
The National Park Ser-vice turns 100 this year, and to celebrate, parks across the country are chal-lenging visitors to hike – or jog, ride (bikes or horses) or paddle – 100 miles by December. While some might consider the achieve-ment their reward, others might like picking up some physical recognition at the culminating events in early December.
Close at hand, Superin-tendent Cassius Cash of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has issued the “Hike 100” challenge. If you log 100 miles on any of the Smokies’ maintained trails by Dec. 6, you can at-tend the Hike 100 Celebra-tion on Thursday, Dec. 8, and receive a “Smokies Cen-tennial Challenge – Hike 100” lapel pin.
Big South Fork National
By Carol Z. Shane“He fl ies through the air
with the greatest of ease – that daring young man on the fl ying trapeze!” Even if you don’t know the old song, you’ve undoubtedly seen aerial artists. These days the skill encompasses not only trapeze, but silks – long, colorful banners that hang from on high and sup-port “fl ying” acrobats in diz-zying routines.
Now’s your chance to see local artists display aerial grace when Dragonfl y Aer-
ial Arts Studio presents its fi fth annual “Circus Extrav-aganza.”
Billed on its website as “Knoxville’s Hometown Circus,” the studio annu-ally presents the big show in order to fund educational efforts throughout the year. According to instructor Jill Scheidt, audiences can expect “a two-hour circus with an intermission. Our acts include trapeze, rope, three-dimensional cube, steel circle and ground acts such as unicycle, stilt walk-
ing, ribbon dancing and partner acrobatics.
“The theme this year is a ‘Fantastical Journey.’ We will be asking our audiences to let their imaginations go crazy with our interpreta-tion of giant-sized bugs, hu-man-sized animal puppets, an enchanted tea party and more. This is a great expe-rience that everyone in the family can enjoy.”
Proceeds from the show go toward “Circus for Ev-eryone,” a scholarship pro-gram enabling at-risk youth
to participate in classes and circus camps. Dragonfl y has also worked with Boys and Girls Club, the Community Law Offi ce’s “Summer at the CLO” youth program, Pond Gap Elementary School and Breakthrough Corporation of Knoxville, which pro-vides programs for those on the autism spectrum.
Activities at such events include not only aerial arts but juggling and stilt walk-ing. “We try to provide cir-cus arts for all who want to try,” says Scheidt.
Beautiful Laurel Falls awaits visitors 1.3 miles from the trailhead. Photo by Betsy Pickle
Challenge yourself, celebrate park servicecan couch potato, I am not by nature a hiker. How-ever, I accidentally did a few hikes last year, all con-nected to writing stories, so when I read about the Smokies’ Hike 100, it struck me as doable – 10 miles per month for 10 months (Feb-ruary-November).
Coming from a highly competitive family, I enjoy a challenge. And I’m a sucker for lapel pins. So I contacted a hiker friend, Cindy Span-gler, who has hiked the entire length of the Appa-lachian Trail, and asked if she’d be interested in slow-ing her pace to go on some hikes with me.
She thought it was such a great idea that she invited a whole bunch of people from her church, so there were eight of us who set out for Laurel Falls on the chilly morning of Feb. 20.
Laurel Falls is considered one of the easiest hikes in the park. It’s paved, though the asphalt is broken and uneven in places, and it’s only 1.3 miles to the falls. By the time we reached the .2
mile marker, I was wonder-ing if it would be too humili-ating to ask for the car keys so I could go back and wait for everyone.
For those of the seden-tary persuasion, the incline is taxing. But I soldiered on, primarily because most of my comrades were sev-eral years older, and they showed no signs of strain. One woman with bad knees kindly brought up the rear with me.
I stopped a few times – to take pictures, of course – but I fi nally made it, and the falls were beautiful. A light rain discouraged us from lingering, but it’s a trip I’d like to make again on a pret-tier day.
The challenges are on an honor system. You can download mileage logs from the parks’ websites. I have only 97.4 miles to go.
Info: http://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/gsmnp-hike-100.htm and http://www.nps.gov/biso/learn/news/big-south-fork-centennial-challenge-100-miles-for-100-years.htm.
Knoxville’s Dragonfl y Aerial Arts Studio will present its fi fth annual “Circus Extravaganza” this weekend. Shown are Jill Scheidt,
Maria McGuire, Lissa McLeod, Amber Winters, Christy Muecke and David Stewart. Photo submitted
Symphony League to host Ginny McCormack
Knoxville’s hometown circus And adults get to play, too.
“Most of what we do every day involves adult instruc-tion. We have classes six days a week. We meet you where you are in terms of strength and fi tness, and build upon that,” says Scheidt.
“Overall we try to work with groups in any way we can. We can travel to anoth-er site or a group can come to us. We provide shows or lessons and work with in-dividuals with whatever capabilities they have. If someone is interested they just need to email or give us a call, and we can work to-gether to fi nd a way to incor-porate circus arts into their group activities.”
For this weekend’s event, she says, “we offer discount-ed tickets to various non-profi t groups.”
The Dragonfl y Aerial Arts Studio presents “Cir-cus Extravaganza” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 11, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, and 2 p.m. Sun-day, March 13, at the Pellis-sippi State Community Col-lege location of the Clayton Performing Arts Center, 10915 Hardin Valley Road in Knoxville.
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River and Recreation Area on the Cumberland Plateau is sponsoring the “Centen-nial Challenge: 100 Miles for 100 Years.” Participants can hike, ride and/or pad-dle. The park has 500 miles of multisystem trails in-
cluding more than 70 miles of the Big South Fork River and its tributaries. Those who complete 100 miles by Friday, Dec. 2, are eligible to receive a specially designed patch at the grand fi nale on Saturday, Dec. 3.
January and February were a little tricky for mak-ing outdoor plans, but now that the weather is improv-ing, it should be easy to rack up miles in a Centennial Challenge.
Being a common Ameri-
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Division, the “Old Hickory” division. After training at Camp Sevier in S.C., the bri-gade embarked for France in May 1918. They fought alongside the British and Australians in Belgium through July and August.
During the Second Som-me offensive (Aug. 21 to Sept. 2, 1918), after three days of tough combat, Gen. Tyson’s brigade broke through the German’s Hin-denburg line at perhaps its strongest point. The 8,000-man 59th Brigade was in almost continuous combat until Oct. 20. The Brigade won nine of the 12 Con-gressional Medals of Honor earned by the 30th Divi-sion, more than any other division. Gen. Tyson was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
When the armistice was signed on Nov. 11, 1918, Gen. Tyson returned to Knox-ville and resumed his many businesses. He bought the Knoxville Sentinel and be-came its president and pub-lisher and resumed his role in politics.
In 1920 Tennessee Dem-ocrats promoted him for the vice-presidential nomina-tion. He withdrew his name and seconded the nomina-tion of the successful candi-date, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt and the presiden-tial candidate, Gov. James
Lawrence Davis Tyson was born on July 4, 1861, the fi rst son of Richard L. and Margaret Turnage Ty-son, in Pitt County, N.C., near Greenville. The Tyson ancestors had been in Pitt County since the 1720s and, by 1860 at only 25 years of age, Richard Tyson owned a sizeable cotton plantation.
By the end of the Civil War (1861-1865) the family’s net worth was markedly di-minished but was still well above average.
Young Lawrence fi rst at-tended school on the family farm with his two younger sisters and, by 1873, he en-tered Greenville Academy. He won an appointment to
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HISTORY AND MYSTERIES
Gen. Lawrence D. Tyson (1861-1929). Awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal for his service in World
War I, Gen. Tyson was also a prominent attorney,
businessman and U.S. senator. Photo courtesy of the Law-son McGhee Library
Gen. Lawrence D. Tyson(1861-1929)
Redesigned by George F. Barber in 1907, Tyson House is now home to the UT Alumni Aff airs and
Development Offi ces. Photo Courtesy of the C.M. McClung Historical Collection
West Point Military Acad-emy by competitive exami-nation, enrolled in 1879 and graduated in 1883. His fi rst military action came in the mid-1880s when he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry fi ghting dur-ing the Apache Wars and participating in the capture of Geronimo.
On Feb. 10, 1886, Ty-son married Betty Humes McGhee, the daughter of Charles McClung McGhee, railroad fi nancier and Knoxville’s leading busi-nessman. By 1991 then 1st Lt. Tyson was appointed commandant of the Univer-sity of Tennessee’s military science program, possibly due to the infl uence of his father-in-law.
Lt. Tyson wasted little time markedly upgrading the program. He instituted classroom courses in tactics and began artillery train-ing. Refl ecting his West Point years, he held a week-ly dress parade to instill military bearing and pride.
The ambitious professor simultaneously attended UT Law School and re-ceived his LL.B. degree in 1895. Two years later he resigned his army commis-sion and began law practice in Knoxville with future Supreme Court Asso-ciate Justice Edward T. Sanford. He soon became president of the Nashville Street Railway Co., the fi rst of many businesses he would lead.
When the Span-ish-American War be-gan in 1898, Tyson was appointed by the President as a colonel in the volunteer infantry. He recruited and trained a regi-ment and led it to Puerto Rico. With the end of the war, he served as military governor of the northern sector of the island before he was mus-tered out of active service in 1899.
Tyson resumed his law practice in Knoxville and be-came increasingly active in business. He founded and be-came president of the Knox-ville Cotton Mills and the Knoxville Spinning Co. and was on the board of several coal- and iron-mining com-panies. He also had major in-terests in manufacturing and real estate and served on the boards of two banks.
From 1902 to 1908 he served as a brigadier gen-eral and inspector general of the Tennessee National Guard. As a Democrat, he was elected to the Tennes-see House of Representa-tives (1903-1905) and was the fi rst person up to that time to be elected speaker during his fi rst term. Prior to the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, state Leg-islatures elected U.S. sena-tors and Tyson lost the 1913 contest by only a few votes.
When the U.S. entered World War I, Tyson volun-teered and the governor placed him in command of the Tennessee National Guard. He was soon com-missioned as a brigadier general and his unit became the 59th Brigade of the 30th
M. Cox of Ohio, lost the election to Warren G. Hard-
ing and Calvin Coolidge.Gen. Tyson won
the popular election to the U.S. Senate
in 1924 where he sponsored suc-cessful legisla-tion to grant retirement ben-efi ts to World War I veterans. His other major concerns dur-ing his service in the Senate were national defense, world
peace and eco-nomic develop-
ment in the South. In 1926 he sponsored
legislation authorizing the creation of the Great
Smoky Moun-tains National Park.
While he was still serving in the Senate in July 1929, Gen. Tyson required hospitalization
for exhaustion. Due to the rigors of his military service and the loss of his only son, Navy Lt. Charles McGhee Tyson, in air combat over the North Sea in the waning days of the war, he had nev-er fully regained his health.
Gen. Lawrence Davis Tyson, 68, passed away on Aug. 24, 1929. After ser-vices at St. John’s Episco-pal Church, where he had served as a vestryman, he was interred in Old Gray Cemetery. A tall obelisk marks his family plat.
He had served the city as president of the second Appalachian Exposition in 1911, was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, a Mason and president of the board of trustees of the Lawson McGhee Library (1916-1925). In memory of their son, he and his wife had given land on Suther-land Ave. for Knoxville’s fi rst municipal airport and provided the land for Tyson Park.
Betty Humes McGhee Tyson (1865-1933), their only daughter, Isabella Mc-Ghee Tyson (Kenneth N.) Gilpin, and two grandsons survived the general.
Dr. C. Drew Gilpin Faust, Gen. Tyson’s great-grand-daughter, is currently the president of Harvard Uni-versity and an acclaimed author of several books.
HEALTH NOTES ■ “Caring & Coping” Caregiv-
ing Conference, 8 a.m.-3:30
p.m. Tuesday, March 29,
Rothchild Conference Center,
8807 Kingston Pike. Presented
by Alzheimer’s Tennessee.
Info/registration: 544-6288 or
alzTennessee.org.
■ PK Hope Is Alive Parkinson
Support Group of East Ten-
nessee meeting, 11:30 a.m.
EASTER EGG HUNTS
■ Bells Campground Baptist
Church Easter Event, 10
a.m.-noon Saturday, March 26,
7816 Bells Campground Road.
Includes: skits, singing, craft,
an egg hunt for ages 0-fi fth
grade, refreshments and door
prizes. Info: 947-6254.
■ Big Ridge State Park Easter
egg hunt, Saturday, March
26. Rain or shine. Schedule: 10
a.m., 2 years old and younger;
10:30 a.m., 3-4 years old; 1
p.m. 5-7 years old; 1:30 p.m.,
8-10 years old. Bring your
basket. Prizes; Easter Bunny.
Meet at the Park offi ce. Info:
992-5523.
■ First Farragut United Meth-
odist Easter Eggstravagan-
za, 3 p.m. Saturday, March
20. Birth to fi fth grade. Free.
First Farragut UMC, 12733
Kingston Pike.
■ Fountain City Park Easter
Egg Hunt, 9 a.m.-noon Satur-
day, March 19. Schedule: ages
6-8 years, 9:30 a.m.; 3-5 years,
10:15 a.m.; walking to 2 years,
11 a.m.; 9-12 years, 11:45 a.m.
Bring basket. Info: fountain
citybusiness.com.
Tuesday, March 15, Kern UMC
Family Life Center, 451 East
Tennessee Ave., Oak Ridge.
Speaker: Margaret Keele,
physical therapist with Park
West. Info: pkhopeisalive.org;
Karen Sampsell, 482-4867;
pk_hopeisalive@bellsouth.
net.
■ Peninsula Lighthouse
Group of Families Anony-
mous meetings, 6:15-7:15
p.m. each Tuesday, 1451 Dow-
ell Springs Blvd. Newcomers
welcome; no dues/fees; no
sign-up; fi rst names only.
Info: Barbara L., 696-6606 or
■ UT Hospice Adult Grief
Support Group meeting,
5-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March
15, UT Hospice offi ce, 2270
Sutherland Ave. A light sup-
per is served. Info/reservation:
Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.
Shopper news • MARCH 9, 2016 • A-13 businessNews from the Rotary Guy
By Tom KingPeter Shaffer is 7,901
miles from home in Tai-pei, Taiwan, while Forentin “Flo” Kunz is on the other side of the world, and he’s “only” 4,720 miles from home in Kotka, Finland.
Here are a few similari-ties between these two:
Both are from Knoxville.Both are Rotary Youth
Exchange (RYE) students.Both will have been gone
for a year this summer.Both could not speak
the languages of their host countries.
Both live with three host families during the Ex-change.
Both are sponsored by the Rotary Club of Farragut.
Flo Kunz, 16, is the son of Christian and Brigitte Kunz and attends Webb School. Flo was born in Liechten-stein and has lived in Aus-tria, Japan, New York and Tennessee. His native lan-guage is German. Prior to his year in Finland, he had visited Switzerland, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, In-
dia, China, V i e t n a m , Indonesia, M e x i c o , Canada and Hawaii.
Peter, 18, is the son of Mark and C h r i s t i a n Shaffer of the Carter communi-ty in Knox County. He attended Carter High School. He’s learn-ing Manda-rin while in Taiwan and is an Eagle Scout and has worked at Camp Buck Tom.
These two young men are the only RYE students from Knoxville this year. It takes a special kind of stu-dent to leave home for a year, relocate to a foreign country with a different culture, and not speak that language.
Rotary’s Youth Exchange program actually began with a few clubs in Eu-
Peter Shaff er Flo Kunz
Two teens overseas as RYE students
mmuniunty.arter
p
rope in the 1 9 2 0 s . These Eu-ropean ex-c h a n g e s c ont i nue d until World War II and r e s u m e d in 1946. In 1972, the
RI Board of Directors agreed to recom-mend Youth Ex-
change to clubs worldwide as a worthwhile international activity. To-
day, more than 8,000
Youth Exchange students travel
abroad each year to live and study in about 80 coun-tries. Many of these stu-dents are Inbounds to the U.S. from other countries.
Dr. Bill Nichols, a mem-ber of Farragut Rotary, is the District 6780 Outbound chair. He handles the nuts and bolts of all of the Out-bound Exchange students in
the district and works with the students and their fami-lies and their overseas hosts. This year he has seven East Tennessee students abroad and already has eight lined up for next year. The stu-dents must be age 15 to 18 1/2 at the time of departure.
“Rotary Youth Scholar-ships provided by Rotary clubs are valued at $24,000, which covers room, board, tuition and monthly sti-pend for a high school year abroad,” Nichols explains. “It’s a great deal for these students. The student’s fam-ily pays for airfare, insur-ance and some other fees. The Youth Exchange Schol-arships are made possible by our overseas partners and local Rotary clubs.”
Rotary also offers a short-term, 2-month ex-change between two fami-lies in separate countries.
Info: Bill Nichols at 865-567-1119 or www.rye6780.org Tom King is a retired newspaper editor,
a 28-year Rotarian and past president of
the Rotary Club of Farragut. He can be
reached at [email protected]
By Sherry WittComing on the heels of a
rather typical beginning to 2016, local real estate and lend-ing mar-kets expe-rienced an earlier than e x p e c t e d surge dur-ing the month of
February. The month pro-duced 843 property trans-fers in Knox County, easily surpassing January’s total of 661, and besting last Feb-ruary’s number by more than 250. It was the largest number of February trans-fers since 2007.
The total value of prop-erty sold during the month was just under $180 mil-lion, comparing quite fa-vorably to last February when about $148 million was transferred. It must be noted that while the num-bers are encouraging, they are still not back to Febru-ary 2007 levels when the total value of transfers in
Knox County reached near-ly $250 million.
On the lending side, therewas defi nitely good newsas about $280 million wasloaned in mortgages andrefi nancing. This fi gure wasup from $220 million inJanuary, and far outpacedlast February’s total mort-gage loan amount of $194million.
The largest propertytransfer of the month wasthe sale of a medical facil-ity located at the intersec-tion of Hall of Fame Driveand James White Parkway.The parcel was sold to MPAImaging Associates for $4.5million. The largest mort-gage recorded was a loanfor $28.6 million, fi nanc-ing a proposed develop-ment known as AventineNorthshore Apartments,located near the 9700 blockof Northshore Drive.
This new burst of activ-ity reminds us that spring isindeed just around the cor-ner, and with that in mind,I would like to wish each ofyou a very blessed Easterand Passover season.
February brings early spring to local markets
Sherry Witt
News from Offi ce of Register of Deeds
FARRAGUT CHAMBER EVENTS ■ Thursday, March 10, 8-9:30 a.m., networking: Home2Suites, 380
N. Peters Road.
■ Thursday, March 17, 8-9:30 a.m., networking: Volunteer Ministry
Center, 511 N. Broadway.
■ Tuesday, March 22, 7:30-9 a.m., Breakfast Speaker Series featur-
ing Knox County Clerk of Courts Mike Hammond, District Attorney
Charme Allen, Sheriff ’s Offi ce Chief Deputy Lee Trammel. Tickets:
$30 members/$40 nonmembers. Info/tickets: 675-7057 or Info@
farragutchamber.com.
Chamber visits Fairfi eld InnFairfi eld Inn & Suites Knoxville West area chief engineer
Jeremy Lindsey gets a little good-natured ribbing from
staff ers just prior to welcoming more than 30 business
professionals during last week’s Farragut West Knox
Chamber networking event held at the hotel on 11763
Snyder Rd. Pictured are guest services manager Allie
Newman, Lindsey, and director of sales Kate Conger. Photo by Nancy Anderson
Doyle supports tree plantingsFourth Grade Foresters from four West Knox
schools planted trees on Arbor Day thanks to the sponsorship of State Farm agent Cindy Doyle. Some 500 kids from A.L. Lotts, Hardin Valley, Concord Christian and St. John Neumann elementary schools received trees to take home and plant.
“Planting trees is a simple, inexpensive and easy way to clean the air we breathe,” said Doyle. “This project is a great personal learning activity for elementary students who are developing their skills and knowledge to take care of our environment.”
History award nominations soughtThe East Tennessee
Historical Society (ETHS) invites nominations from across East Tennessee for Awards of Excellence in the fi eld of history.
The annual awards rec-ognize individuals and or-ganizations that have made signifi cant contributions to the preservation, promo-tion, programming and in-terpretation of the region’s history. The postmark dead-line for award applications is April 8.
Info: 215-8824 or eastTNhistory.org
Bearden students to play with symphonyFifty Bearden High
School students will per-form with members of the Knoxville Symphony in a free concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 10, in the Bearden High School audi-torium. This concert is open
to the public and sponsored by Sandra Powell Emond.
The young musicians sit “side-by-side” with a professional musician and share a music stand for two rehearsals and one perfor-mance.
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NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK
Heart-stopperClose one puts voice of the Lady Vols on the road again
Leaving the hospital with a new heart disease diagnosis calls for a new lifestyle. Often this lifestyle change begins with a cardiac rehabilitation program. At the Parkwest Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpa-tient Program (CROP) at Fort Sanders West, a combined program of education and exercise helps patients grow in physi-cal strength and knowledge, allowing them to easily manage their heart con-dition and reduce their chance of future hospital visits.
Upon arriving at CROP, patients are thoroughly evaluated based on individual knowledge, needs and preferences. An
exercise physiologist assesses each pa-tient’s abilities and creates a personal fi t-ness program to meet their cardiac goals. Thereafter, most patients follow an ap-pointment schedule of three days a week for three months.
Exercise at Cardiac Rehab involves a combined use of stationary bicycles, el-liptical machines, treadmills, weights and steps. During activity, each patient is supervised by a heart monitor. As a patient’s heart grows stronger, their ex-ercise regimen is adjusted for maximum benefi t.
While some patients are convinced that
they can achieve the same results at home or by joining a gym, the majority change their mind after a visit to cardiac rehab.
Karen Kirkland, RN CMM, works with patients at rehab and states, “We hear a lot that patients thought the exercise they were doing before a heart event was enough or the right kind of exercise, but after they attend cardiac rehab they tell us they learned that they really weren’t exer-cising the right way, or at
least not enough to improve their heart health.”
The constant monitoring and adjust-ment offered at cardiac rehab ensures that patients’ efforts in healthy living are not in vain.
Patients repeatedly state that it’s well worth the time to improve their health and change the course of their lives.
You can learn more about car-diac rehabilitation and heart health at TreatedWell.com under the Clinical Services section, or call Parkwest Cardiac Rehab at 865-531-5560.
Mickey Dearstone enjoys
interacting with the staff
at Parkwest Cardiac Rehab.
He’s pictured here with
registered nurse Amy Dale.
As the long-time voice of the Lady Vols basketball team, sports announcer Mickey Dearstone has seen his share of barnburners and heart-stoppers.
But the burning in his chest after the March 2, 2015 remote broad-cast of the Lady Vol Illustrated talk show on WNML (The Sports Animal) wasn’t “the worst case of indigestion times 100” he thought it was – it was a real heart-stopper, a heart attack that sent him to the emergency depart-ment at Parkwest Medical Center and started him on the path to a healthier lifestyle.
In fact, the 62-year-old sports-caster says the three days a week he puts into the Parkwest Cardiac Rehab program at Fort Sanders West has not only helped him shed pounds and feel better, but has lit-erally saved his life.
Known as “Phase II,” the pro-gram includes three days each week for 12 weeks. Each session is two hours with one hour of medically supervised and moni-tored exercise and an hour-long group education.
“If you have a heart attack, stent or bypass, you’re crazy if you don’t do it,” said Dearstone, whose right coronary artery was almost 90 percent blocked before being reopened with a stent placed by Parkwest cardiologist J. Michael Harper, MD. “You’ll never be as healthy as you could be if you don’t do it. I was an athlete when I was in school, and I still play golf but that was the only workout I ever did. So I wasn’t in the best of shape anyway. I’m an ex-smoker; I quit smoking back before I started gaining that weight.”
“I was 61 and I was probably the youngest person here,” said Dearstone, program director for WNML. “I’m not going to lie to you and say that there wasn’t a time or two when I thought, ‘What am I doing here?’ But then I start-ed working out, and I began feel-ing better.”
He weighed 195 when he had the heart attack, but within a few short weeks he had shed 17 pounds of body fat and had learned not only what to eat, but how and when he should eat. “The classes that were more helpful to me were the ones on nutrition,” he said.
“I had to learn not to count calo-ries, but how to stop eating when I wasn’t hungry. Once I learned to do that, or rather once I started making myself do that, I was fi ne.”
Fine, that is, until April 29. That was the day when cardiac re-hab staff noticed that Dearstone seemed to be tiring more easily than usual during his workout. “I was watching the monitor and his heart rate began to drop: 70, 60, 50 … ,” said registered nurse Karen Kirkland, who was keeping close watch on Dearstone via his heart monitor.
“About three minutes into my workout on the bike, I literally got so weak I could not pedal the bike,” said Dearstone, whose heart rate had dropped to 42. “It was almost like I was riding the bike and hit a brick wall. So I got off and went and sat down.” Within seconds, he found himself sur-rounded by Kirkland, respiratory therapist Shelli Hendee, exercise physiologist Rhonnda Cloinger and registered nurse Amy Dale.
“I told them, ‘I feel weak. I am going to pass out,’” said Dear-stone, whose heart rate had fallen to 15 beats per minute. “The next
thing I know, I went into cardiac arrest and when I woke up, I’m ly-ing on my back.”
“He slumped over and at that point, he was gone – totally un-responsive, no respiration, no pulse,” said Dale, who immedi-ately began chest compressions on him. “I only had to do the compressions for maybe 30 sec-onds, and we began to see some response.”
When he opened his eyes, Dr. Manisha Thakur, a primary care physician whose offi ces are just down the hallway, was with him, and an ambulance was on its way from Parkwest. “By the time Dr. Thakur was here she didn’t have to do anything, but she was here to provide backup if we did need her,” said Dale. “We just wanted to make sure that Mickey was stable, and then let EMS get him to the hospital.”
After another angiogram and
night in Parkwest, it was deter-mined that Dearstone’s frighten-ing episode was caused by a reac-tion to his heart medicine, which was reduced by half a dose.
“A lot of people would say, ‘They darned near killed him,’” said Dearstone with a laugh. “But no, actually, Amy saved my life. I’ll al-ways be grateful for that. If I had been someplace else, I probably would have died. What if I’d been on the golf course instead of being here on a heart monitor?”
Dearstone rebounded well enough to not only continue the program, but to complete it. Then, as an extra precaution, he chose to continue with the “Phase III” maintenance program on his own.
“When I started out doing just three minutes on each machine (stationary bicycle, elliptical, treadmill and arm ergometer), I knew I had a long way to go,” he said. “Now, I can do 50 minutes
of cardio and not even be breath-ing hard.”
He’s also lost 23 pounds to reach his college weight of 173, and vows he’ll continue with the program “until I can’t do it any-more.”
“The other day a guy asked me, ‘How much weight are you doing those curls with?’ I said, ‘Twenty pounds in each hand.’ And he goes, ‘Show off!’” Dearstone said with a laugh. “Now, if I was next door at Fort Sanders Health & Fit-ness Center, they’d laugh at me for doing just 20 pounds. But that’s
the difference: I’m not com-peting against some-
body 30 years old who has been working
out for a long time. I’m not com-peting against anybody. A lot of people my age would be intimidated to go to a regu-lar gym. But there’s no in-
timidation here because they’re
all in the same boat. I’m not trying
to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
Maybe not, but many were surprised to see Dearstone behind the microphone for the SEC tournament just two days after his heart attack, and then again two weeks later in Spokane as the Lady Vols battled Gonzaga in the NCAA regional playoffs.
The Lady Vols won, 73-69, to advance to the Spokane Regional Finals, but it was a heart-stopper: the Lady Vols shot only 32 percent from the fl oor and trailed by 17 points before making 21 of 22 free throws to win.
“After the game, I was going to get something to eat, and as I was getting on the hotel elevator, I met Cierra Burdick, a senior on the team, getting off,” Dearstone recalled. “I said, ‘C.B., what the heck?! One heart attack isn’t enough for a man so you have to try and give him a second one?’ She laughed and said, ‘Sorry about that, Mickey D! At least you’d die doing something you enjoy.’”
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Automobiles for Sale
BUICK LACROSSE - 2005, 85K mi, leather, silver, exc cond., $7900.(865) 376-7644; 399-3408
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Sports and Imports
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Guns & Ammunition
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Household Goods
109 PC. JOHANN HAVILAND BLUE GARLAND CHINA - 12 place settings + extra serving pieces.$200.00 (865)386-8470
Lawn & Garden
CUB CADET - Zero turn, 46” cut, 23 HP, $2400/b.o. 37 hours. Phone(865)457-8793
DR POWER GRADER 48”, remote con-trol, Pull with ATV or riding mower. New $1500, sell for $600. Needs new battery. (423)921-9001
JOHN DEERE GX 335 - 54” deck, 291hrs, like new. $4995 obo (865)599-0516
Merchandise - Misc.
KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS! - Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers/KIT Complete Treatment System Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com (618)351-7570
UTILITY TRAILERSALL SIZES AVAILABLE
Musical
Everett studio piano, style 31, exc cond, 1 owner, $800. (865)223-1227
Sporting Goods
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Store Fixtures
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Tools
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Adoptions
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Manufactured Homes
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Condos Unfurnished
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HALLS - 2 BR, 1.5BA, no pets. $625/mo. $550 dep.
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WEST UNFURN. CONDO - WrenwoodSubd. Community pool, 2 BR, 1 BA,LR, kit., DR, appl, W/D.$700 + dep. No pets or smoking. Close to TurkeyCreek. Extra storage. (865)966-9202
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THROUGH SUNDAY, MARCH 13
Knoxville Children’s Theatre presents “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; [email protected].
THROUGH SUNDAY, MARCH 20
Tennessee Stage Company New Play Festival, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. Perfor-mances: 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: 546-4280.
THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 15
Selected works by artist Kay List on exhibit, Envision Art Gallery, 4050 Sutherland Ave. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday. Info: kaylistart.com; envisionartgallery.com; 438-4154.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
Clarence Brown Theatre: Season For Youth Student Matinees, 9:30 a.m., Ula Love Carousel Theatre, UT campus. Performance of “A Lesson Before Dying.” Recommended for mature middle schoolers and up. Info: clarencebrowntheatre/season-for-youth.
The Foothills Craft Guild JuryFest. Membership applicants must reside in Tennessee, and crafts must be of original design produced within the past two years. Info: foothillscraftguild.org; Bob Klassen, [email protected], or Ken Shipley, [email protected].
“Getting Your House in Order” seminar, 2-3 p.m., Turkey Creek Medical Center, 10820 Parkside Drive, classroom #1. Free; registration required. Info/registration: 1-855-TENNOVA (836-6682) or Tennova.com.
“The Legacy and Challenge of Suffrage: Votes for Women in Tennessee” Brown Bag Lecture, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Speaker: Wanda Sobieski. Free and open to the public. Info: 215-8824 or EastTNHistory.org.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, MARCH 9-10
AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Fort Sanders Senior Center, 1220 W. Main St., Sevierville. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
Appalachian family square dance, 8 p.m., Lau-rel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Sponsored by Knoxville Square Dance. Music by The Hellgramites. Callers: Leo Collins, Stan Sharp and Ruth Simmons. No experi-ence necessary. Admission: $7, $5 students and JCA members. Info: jubileearts.org.
CAC AmeriCorps Opportunity Fair, 1-5 p.m., John T. O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. For students/adults ages 18-25 interested in a year of national service. Positions include: Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Ijams Nature Center, city of Knoxville, University of Tennessee and more.
“Ready, Set, Sow: Don’t Jump the Gun,” Hu-mana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Barb O’Neil. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 10-11
AARP Driver Safety class, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Karns Senior Center, 8032 Oak Ridge Highway. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.
THURSDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 10-13
The Downtown Knoxville Boat Show, Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St. Doors open: 2-9 p.m. Thursday; noon-9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $9, children under 10 free. Info/schedule: downtownknoxvilleboatshow.com or on Facebook.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
Clarence Brown Theatre: Season For Youth Student Matinees, 9:30 a.m., Ula Love Carousel Theatre, UT campus. Performance of “A Lesson Before Dying.” Recommended for mature middle schoolers and up. Info: clarencebrowntheatre/season-for-youth.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fair, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Knox County Health Department Community Room, 140 Dameron Ave. Info: Katheryne Nix, [email protected] or 215-5170.
The Gibson Brothers and Lonesome River Band, 7 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Info/tickets: 684-1200; Tennessee Theatre box offi ce; all Ticketmaster outlets; KnoxBijou.com.
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and The 5th Dimension in concert, 8 p.m., Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Tickets start at $35. Info/tickets: knoxvillesymphony.com.
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
Cinderella Project of TN Glam Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., St. John Nuemann School Gym, 625 St. John Court. Open to all high school girls who are in need of the perfect prom dress. All dresses fi rst come, fi rst served. No fees or soliciting. Info: Kelly DuCote, 304-1090 or [email protected]; Leea DeWitte, 941-224-5520.
The Freight Hoppers Old-Time String Band, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Rescheduled from Jan. 23. Tickets: $14, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.
Happy Travelers trip: Powell Playhouse produc-tion of “Harvey,” 2 p.m., Jubilee Banquet Hall, Callahan Road. Bus leaves North Acres Baptist Church, 12:45 p.m.; Expo Center, 1:15 p.m. Info/reservations: Derrell Frye, 938-8884 or 254-8884.
Ijams Creative Series: Making a Gourd Bird-house, 1-3 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Ages 10 and up. Fee: $20; includes all materials. Info/registration: 577-4717, ext. 110.
Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.
National Girl Scout Day, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Amer-ican Museum of Science and Energy, 300 S Tulane Ave., Oak Ridge. Free admission to AMSE and the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge for Girl Scouts in uniform and their families. Info: 576-3200 or amse.org.
“Pruning Roses” hands-on workshop, 10:30 a.m.-noon, All Saints Catholic Church, 620 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Presented by Master Gardeners Carolyn Kiser, Carolyn Noey and Marsha Lehman. Bring pruners, gloves and kneeling pads. Info: knoxcountymastergardener.org or 215-2340.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Brianna Hanson, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
Scavenger Hunt, Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Cost: $50/team. Proceeds benefi t Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont. Info/registration: 448-6709; gsmit.org/hunt.html.
The Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival featuring Darryl Worley, 8 p.m., Dollywood’s Dream-More Resort, 2525 Dreammore Way. Info/tickets: SMSWF.com or 604-9066.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 12-13
“Raw Material” – Living Art workshop, 3-5 p.m., Emporium Annex Studio, 100 S. Gay St. Info: circlemoderndance.com.
SUNDAY, MARCH 13
Clarence Brown Theatre: Sunday Symposium with Dr. Michelle D. Commander, 2 p.m., Ula Love Car-ousel Theatre, UT campus. Post-performance discus-sion on “A Lesson Before Dying” and its themes. Info: clarencebrowntheatre.com.
Sing Out Knoxville folk singing circle, 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Open to everyone.
MONDAY, MARCH 14
All Over the Page: “Landline,” 6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.
TUESDAY, MARCH 15
Computer Workshop: “Introducing the Com-puter,” 2-4:15 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistration required. Info/registration: 215-8700.
“Women’s Pay Equity: Why It Matters To You!” forum, 6:30-8 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitar-ian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: Anne Loy, [email protected], 281-9689; Linda Murawski, [email protected], 607-8032; Knoxville-tn.aauw.net.
TUESDAYS, MARCH 15-29
“Melville Madness,” 6:30-8:00 p.m., Lawson Mc-Ghee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. A 3-part guided dis-cussion of “Moby-Dick,” facilitated by UTK’s Dr. Dawn Coleman. Part of UTK’s Melville Festival to be held April 7-8. The public is invited.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16
Knoxville Symphony League Spring Lun-cheon, 11:30 a.m., Cherokee Country Club. Check-in, tablescapes viewing and book signing, 10:30 a.m. Guest speaker: cookbook author and southern hospitality expert Ginny McCormack. Performance by Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster, Gabriel Lefkowitz. Reservations deadline: March 7. Info: 765-1660.
THURSDAY, MARCH 17
“On a Hill Far Away” presented by the Word-Players, 11 a.m., North Acres Baptist Church sanctuary, 5803 Millertown Pike. Cost: $10, includes lunch after presentation. Reservation deadline: Monday, March 14. Info/reservations: 254-8884.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 17-18
KSO Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Se-ries: “Pictures at an Exhibition,” 7:30 p.m., Tennessee
Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Info/tickets: knoxvillesymphony.com.
FRIDAY, MARCH 18
Cafe Mortel, 1:30-4 p.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Everyone welcome. Info: 588-8813.
World Storytelling Day with the Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association, 1 p.m., Boys & Girls Club of Maryville, 510 S. Washington St., Maryville. Donations appreciated. Info: Sheri Liles, 680-8453, [email protected], smokymountaintellers.org.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 18-20
Women in Jazz Jazz Festival. Variety of concerts and activities in various venues. Concert tickets: knoxtix.com. Info: Kelle Jolly, 622-7174; [email protected]; womeninjazzjamfestival.com.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19
Arbor Day celebration, 1-5 p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 West Governor John Sevier Highway. Free; donations appreciated. Info: marblesprings.net; 573-5508; [email protected].
“Civil War Genealogy on the Internet,” 1-3 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Instruc-tor: Eric Head, BA, Knox Co. Archives and/or Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD, ScD. Preregistration, valid email address, good Internet searching capabilities required. Info/registration beginning March 7: 215-8809.
East Tennessee Kidney Foundation’s Lucky Kidney Run and Irish Festival, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Market Square. Festival features: live music, dancing, vendor booths, and kids’ infl atables and midway games. Info/Run or walk registration: etkidney.org.
Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.
“A Night in Old Havana” ETTAC fundraiser, 6:30-10 p.m., Lighthouse Knoxville Event Center, 6800 Baum Drive. Includes: authentic Cuban food and music, a Latin dance showcase, casino game tables, a silent auction, a coffee and dessert bar, cigars bar and door and raffl e prizes. Tickets: $25. Tickets: ettac.org/nohregistration2016.html; 219-0130, ext. 221. Info: Mat Jones, 219-0130, ext. 228, or [email protected].
Saturday Stories and Songs: Sarah Rysewyk, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
Seymour’s spring Roads and Rivers Day, 9 a.m.-noon, Seymour First Baptist Church, 11621 Chap-man Highway. Volunteers will receive gloves, safety vests, litter pickers if wanted, and water. Info: Amparo Flores, 405-9958.
Spring Hike: Fort Loudoun Fort Tour, 2-3 p.m., Visitor Center, 338 Fort Loudoun Road, Vonore. Leader: Ranger Joshua Kirby. Info: 423-884-6217.
Wild Bird Eggstravaganza, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., UT Gardens. Learn to attract birds to a home garden and create natural crafts. Kids leave with bird house, a bird feeder, a bird nest model and an egg model. Activities include egg hunt and photo opportunity with Easter Bunny. Cost: $6. For ages 12 and under. Registration deadline: 5 p.m. Thursday, March 17. Info/registration: tiny.utk.edu/eggstravaganza.
Yard sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway. Spots are $10 or donate items to the youth section of the sale. Info: 690-1060.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 19-20
“The Secrets of Fine Art Photography” pre-sented by J Way Photography, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. Cost: $200. Info/registration: 214-6364.
MONDAY, MARCH 21
Computer Workshops: “Word Basics,” 5:30-7:45 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 215-8700.
“Introduction to Beekeeping” class, 6-9 p.m., Clinton Community Center in Clinton. Open to anyone interested in beekeeping. Sponsored by the Anderson County Beekeepers Association. Info/registration: 463-8541 or [email protected].
“Ready, Set, Sow: Don’t Jump the Gun” work-shop, 1-2 p.m., Davis Family YMCA, 12133 S. North-shore Drive. Presented by Master Gardener Barb O’Neil. Free and open to the public. Info: 777-9622.
MONDAY-TUESDAY, MARCH 21-22
Advanced iPad/iPhone for Seniors, 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $45. Reg-istration/payment deadline: Monday, March 21. Info/registration: 218-3375; townoffarragut.org/register; in person at Town Hall.
TUESDAY, MARCH 22
An evening with best-selling author Erik Lar-son, 7 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Larson will discuss his latest book, “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.” Info/tickets: http://www.knoxbijou.com.
Auditions for “Snow White & Rose Red,” 4:30-7:30 p.m., Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Church-well Ave. By appointment only. Fourteen available roles; ages 9-18. For appointment: email Dennis Perkins, [email protected], including name, age gender and preferred time.
“E-Commerce and Online Shops” professional development seminar, noon-1 p.m., the Emporium, 100 S. Gay St. Cost: $5 members of Arts & Culture Alli-ance/$8 nonmembers. Info/registration: 523-7543; [email protected].
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