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VOL. 51, NO. 3
JANUARY 16, 2012
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By Jake Mabe One of his children asked Phil Peek
last month what he wanted for Christ-mas. He had a simple, special request:
“I want the family together.” When you hear what happened to
him last April 16, you’ll understand. That Saturday morning, Peek
headed to a meeting, was hit by a sud-den coughing fi t and passed out while driving on Chert Pit Road (between Middlebrook Pike and Ball Camp).
“As the song says, Jesus took the wheel,” Peek says, “and took me across the lane, through two yards and brought me in contact with a big tree.”
Peek, who is a former teacher at Halls High School, was rushed to UT Hospital. The ambulance drivers told him later they thought they were going to lose him. His vital signs were not good.
“I had 17 fractures in my ribs, two bones broken in my right hand and abdominal bleeding they thought would take care of itself.”
Doctors told Peek’s wife, Linda, that he should be going home by the following Friday. But by Thursday, Peek’s bowels and kidneys were shut-ting down.
Surgery the next morning discov-ered three sections of dead bowel.
Peek says his body became septic and he had to undergo 38 days of dialysis. He also began suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome and spent the next fi ve weeks in the acute care intensive care unit.
“During those fi ve weeks my lungs collapsed three times.”
At one point, Peek’s blood pres-sure dropped to 40/20. The doctors told Linda they’d done everything they could do.
Peek was placed on an oscillat-ing bed to keep his lungs open. He remembers nothing from that fi ve-week period.
“And then my part of the story is the Lord stepped in.”
He was fi nally placed in a private room but could not walk. But, one week after leaving ICU, Peek sud-denly began to improve. He no longer needed dialysis treatments. (He had previously been told he might have to undergo dialysis for six months to a year.)
Sent to the Patricia Neal Reha-bilitation Center for three weeks, he slowly but surely began to learn how to walk again.
“When the therapist told me all the things I’d be doing (using a walker, being able to use the restroom un-assisted), I laughed. I didn’t think it
Former Halls High School teacher Phil
Peek has recovered from complications
following a car accident last April that
almost took his life. Photo by Jake Mabe
Phil Peek’s miracle
would be possible. In my mind, Pa-tricia Neal is a miraculous place, an incredible place.”
He went home June 28. In October, Peek went to his cardi-
ologist for tests. He underwent a tilt table procedure and passed out when nitroglycerin was placed under his tongue.
“The test showed the signal that prevents low heart rate wasn’t getting from my brain to my heart. I needed a pacemaker.”
Hence the coughing fi t that pre-ceded his accident.
“God worked a miracle in my life. He has been so good to me. I’ve had many opportunities to share my story
and praise Him for sparing my life.” Peek fi nished his rehabilitation at
Knoxville Orthopedic Center on Em-ory Road. Friends held a benefi t sing-ing for him at Callahan Road Baptist Church on July 22. He’d set a goal for himself to be able to get up on stage and sing at the benefi t. He needed a walker, but he did it. He sang recently at several events with his quartet, New Heights.
“I didn’t know if I’d ever sing again, with all those tubes in my throat and a collapsed lung.”
He’ll need surgery soon for a her-nia but is otherwise fi ne.
Peek taught for 13 years at Halls High in special ed and as a CDC-A teacher. He was on staff at Black Oak Heights Baptist Church for 9 1/2 years.
As for what his future holds? “Right now we’re just seeking
God’s will. Our lives are in God’s hands. Whatever He wants for us to do, we’ll go and do.”
He’s been overwhelmed by kind-nesses. The Callahan Road Bap-tist benefi t raised $13,000. People brought food, prayed and sent about 800 cards and letters.
Oh, and the Peeks received one oth-er special Christmastime gift, too. Last December, Phil and Linda celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.
“God has really blessed us.”
By Sandra ClarkConstruction will start soon for
a new Chick-fi l-A restaurant on Emory Road across from Tennova’s North Knoxville Medical Center. “Weather permitting, we’ll break ground next week,” said franchise owner Greg Jones.
Jones expects to hire at least 50 individuals to staff the restaurant, open six days a week but closed on Sundays. He also will bring some employees from his restaurant at
6564 Clinton Highway.This store will be the “biggest
and the best” in the Chick-fi l-A chain, Jones said.
The restaurant will feature an earth tone color scheme and a bev-erage refresh station in the dining area. The drive-thru will allow multi-orders so traffi c moves fast-er, and the kitchen will have the latest technology.
Jones said this store, along with one now under construction in
Bearden, will test a service model in which the customer orders and pays, then is seated and a staff member brings the food to the ta-ble.
The Bearden store, located near Kroger in the Homberg area, should open at the end of April, ac-cording to Marshall Wilkins, fran-chise owner of the stores at Kings-ton Overlook and Turkey Creek.
While the recession has not been great for business, Wilkins said it’s
not been devastating for Chick-fi l-A, probably because the business is positioned between true fast-food and a casual dining restaurant.
The Knoxville area has 11 Chick-fi l-A restaurants and eight fran-chise owners.
“Don’t try to sell customers (something) as much as take care of them. You’ll be OK,” Wilkins said. See more of his remarks to the Fountain City Business and Profes-sional Association on Page A-5.
Chick-fi l-A coming to Emory Road
Betty BeanHalls resident Dana Howard is
raising money to help support the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” project to rebuild the home of David and Mandy Watson, which doubles as Restoration House, a transitional residential facility dedicated to help-ing single mothers who formerly lived in public housing.
Like most Knoxvillians, Howard has been moved by the story of the deeply religious Watsons, who are both products of single-parent homes and were led by personal history and faith to purchase a four-bedroom home on Robinson Road that opened its doors to its fi rst single-mother family in November 2007. Restora-tion House provides assistance to these families for two years.
Unfortunately, the Watsons learned that the house had serious structural problems that they couldn’t afford to fi x, so they joined the fi eld of applicants hoping for a new home when “Extreme Makeover” decided to bring the show to Knoxville. They were fortunate enough to be chosen and were whisked off for a week in Florida while construction proceed-
A whole bunch of Howards visited an “Extreme Makeover” set in Nashville. From left are C.W. Howard, Collin Howard,
Ty Pennington, Justina Howard, Garison Howard, Dana Howard, and Charles “Chaz” Howard, Pennington’s assistant. Photo submitted
Extreme Makeover… has Halls High ties,
Karns address
ed. Meanwhile, volunteers like How-ard went to work.
Inspiring as the Watsons’ story is, Howard has an additional reason to want to help – she has a special tie to the program because her son Charles, better known as Chaz, is “Extreme Makeover” star Ty Pennington’s per-sonal assistant. A 1993 Halls High School graduate, Chaz isn’t autho-rized to speak publicly about the show, but his mom isn’t shy about sharing her observations.
First of all, she loves Ty Penning-ton and bristles when she hears him criticized (as he was when she visited
a shoot in Nashville and he was heck-led from the crowd).
“He is the neatest person. He’s a genuinely nice, fun guy and has been so kind to our family. It’s been a great experience for Charles,” she said.
Chaz Howard, a member of the Madrigals at Halls, got his intro-duction to Pennington thanks to his uncle Eddie Speeks. Speeks was the vice president of Thunder Road Pro-ductions, which was doing sound for RIVR Media’s productions of “Warehouse Warriors” and “Trad-ing Spaces.” Chaz and Pennington
hit it off, and Pennington hired him when the “Extreme Makeover” op-portunity came up.
“Extreme Makeover” has been canceled, but will do occasional specials in the future, and Chaz will continue to do contract work for production companies in the future, Howard said. The Howard family has lived in Halls 30-plus years. Their youngest son, Collin, attends Halls High School. Grand-daughter Justina attends Halls Middle School, and grandson Gari-son is a student at Copper Ridge El-ementary School.
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‘State of the Schools’ at Gresham Thursday
Dr. Jim McIntyre,
superintendent of the
Knox County Schools,
will deliver a “State of
the Schools” report and
address at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 19, at
Gresham Middle School.
The event is open to the
public.
County Mayor Tim
Burchett, school board
chair Thomas Deakins
and Buzz Thomas of the
Great Schools Partnership
will also speak. The
inaugural event is co-
hosted by the Knoxville
Chamber and the Knox
County Council PTA.
The State of the Schools
address will be broadcast
live on Comcast Cable
Channel 10, streamed
live at knoxschools.org
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Falcon Radio 91.1 FM,
East Tennessee’s only
high school radio station.
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Whoever said there are no second acts in Ameri-can life never met Betty Sue Sparks.
Sparks retired in 2004 af-ter a long and distinguished career with Knox County Schools. She began teaching special ed at Christenberry School in 1969 and, after working with several feder-al programs, became prin-cipal at Knoxville Adaptive Educational School in 1981. She served as principal at three other schools before being named elementary supervisor and retiring as the school system’s director of human resources.
And then she got to do something she says she’d al-ways wanted to do. In 2005, Sparks became executive di-rector of the Distinguished Professionals Education In-stitute, initially a three-year program piloted in Knox County Schools through which professionals are trained to become adjunct teachers in critical short-age areas, such as physics or foreign language.
“We knew we had a lot of talent in Knoxville and the surrounding area,” Sparks told the Fontinalis Club at Central Baptist Church of Fountain City last week. “But we had one little prob-lem. You can’t teach in the state of Tennessee without a teaching license.”
Sparks worked initially
Longtime Knox County
Schools educator Betty Sue
Sparks speaks to the Fontinalis
Club at Central Baptist Church
of Fountain City last week
about the Distinguished Pro-
fessionals Education Institute,
which recruits professionals
to teach hard-to-staff classes
in Knox County Schools. Photo by Jake Mabe
Program puts mid-career
professionals into the classroom
with Barry Goss, chair and chief executive offi cer of Pro2Serve; Gordon Fee, who at that time worked at Lock-heed Martin; as well as with Lynn Cagle and Homer Fish-er from UT. The state Depart-ment of Education agreed to issue an adjunct teaching license to professionals who met certain criteria.
Starting small, the group recruited an engineer and stay-at-home mom to teach algebra and a Navy retiree who’d attended Austin-East High School to teach physics.
“And he had stories to tell,” Sparks said. “When you have people with back-ground experience who are enthusiastic, good things happen in the classroom.”
Applicants must have a master’s degree or a bache-lor’s degree with 24 semester hours in the teaching fi eld or their related fi eld, fi ve years of work experience and un-dergo 50 contact hours of pre-service preparation, as well as background checks, the Gallup Teacher Insight (which looks for potential classroom performance ability) as well as complet-
ing Praxis tests in con-tent area and principles of training and learning. The adjunct license is available for certain courses in math, physics, chemistry and for-eign language, as well as for special courses like crimi-nal justice, diesel mechan-ics and health science.
“We even had a retired judge who taught criminal justice,” Sparks says. “She didn’t have any disciplinary problems in the classroom!”
Professionals are pro-vided with a mentor teacher and are evaluated.
“We think we’ve made a huge benefi t and impact,” Sparks says. Students have been able to take courses that would not otherwise have been available. Plus, three Distinguished Professionals who Sparks says were “mid-career folks” went back to school to obtain a teaching license and are now in the classroom full time. Several retired teachers have also re-turned to the classroom.
From its initial three-year pilot, the program as of last spring has served more than 2,400 students and is expanding to other school districts throughout the state thanks to a First to the Top grant.
Sparks, who remains on the Distinguished Profes-sionals board of directors, is now the Cornerstone Prin-cipal in Residence at the UT Center for Educational Leadership. She helps over-see the Knox County School System’s Leadership Acad-emy, which recruits and trains future principals.
“It’s great to see the en-thusiasm of aspiring lead-ers,” Sparks says. “I also work with the new admin-istrators. They all work so hard. They really do.”
For more information on the Distinguished Professionals Education Institute, visit www.dpteach.com or email executive director Bob Thomas at [email protected].
Harmony Show Chorus sets open houseKnoxville’s Smoky Mountain Harmony Show Chorus, a
member of Sweet Adelines International, invites women of all ages to enjoy an evening of free refreshments, a mini-concert, fun and socializing at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, at the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (rear entrance), 6900 Nubbin Ridge Road.
Sweet Adelines International is an organization of nearly 25,000 women worldwide who sing four-part a cappella harmony, barbershop style.
The local Show Chorus is comprised of women from all walks of life who perform regularly throughout the com-munity, offering their talents for entertainment at civic events and charitable functions. Members share a love for music and the exhilaration of performing and the enjoy-ment of singing.
Info: www.smokymtnharmony.org or 521-6975.
Random acts of kindnessfrom artist Linda Lee
By Betty BeanWhen WATE-TV’s community relations director
Bill Evans read the Shopper-News story about art-ist Linda Lee’s painting of the Lakeshore admin-istration building, it reminded him of the time when Linda and her husband, Chuck, showed up at his Greystone office asking for permission to take pictures of the building’s exterior.
“Several months later, she surprised us with a beautiful painting of Greystone. It hangs in our lobby for all visitors to see,” he said. “In testament to the accuracy of her paintings, I want to share this story with you. As we were admiring her work, I commented on how she had correctly painted the downstairs stained glass windows as semicircles and the upstairs ones as slightly-arched rectangles. Her reply to me was, ‘Oh, yes! And do you want to know how many stones are on the front of the building?’
“I’m glad to see from the accompanying photo that she is doing well. Her passion for painting his-toric buildings in Knoxville is a great gift to us all.”
COMMUNITY CLUBS
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Camp #87 Sons of Confed-
erate Veterans will host
the Lee-Jackson Dinner on
Saturday, Jan. 28, at The
Foundry on the World’s Fair
Site. Doors open at 6 p.m.
with a buffet dinner served
at 7. Tickets are $30 ($15
children 12 and under). Pe-
riod dress or business attire
is suggested. Nora Brooks
will present the life story
of T.J. “Stonewall” Jackson
while in the persona of Anna
Morrison Jackson (Jackson’s
widow). Reservations are
required and seating is
limited. Deadline to RSVP
is Wednesday, Jan. 25. Mail
payments to Lee-Jackson
Dinner, SCV Camp #87, P.O.
Box 943, Knoxville, TN 37901.
The West Knox Toast- ■
master Club meets 6:30
p.m. each Thursday at
Middlebrook Pike UMC, 7324
Middlebrook Pike. Now ac-
cepting new members. Info:
Ken Roberts, 680-3443.
The Scottish Society of ■
Knoxville will celebrate the
253rd birthday of Scottish
poet and lyricist Robert
Burns on Saturday, Jan. 21,
at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Entertainment will include
bagpipes and local Celtic
group Red Haired Mary. Bill
Landry will serve as master
of ceremony. Tickets are
$42 ($40 members). Pay-
ment must be received by
Wednesday, Jan. 18. Make
checks payable to Scottish
Society of Knoxville and
mail them to P.O. Box 50411,
Knoxville, TN 37950. Info:
Brenda, 691-3892 or Ron,
947-3394.
Best selling author Cyn Mob- ■
ley will teach a workshop
on writing query letters 9
a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan.
28, at the Redeemer Church
of Knoxville, 1642 Highland
FOUNTAINCITY NOTES
Fountain City Business and ■
Professional Association
meets at noon each second
Wednesday at Central Baptist
Church of Fountain City.
Lunch is $10. Info: Beth Wade,
971-1971, ext. 372, or bwade@
utfcu.org/.
Ave. Cost is $75. Class size is
limited. Sponsored by the
Knoxville Writers Guild.
Info: www.knoxvillewriters-
guild.org.
Halls High to host Pink OutHalls High School will host a Pink Out basketball
game against Gibbs High on Friday, Jan. 20. Girls tip off at 6:30 p.m. and boys follow at 8 p.m. Every one is encouraged to wear pink (the girls team will have pink uniforms) and support the Susan G. Komen Foundation to help fi nd a cure for breast cancer.
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Her duties will include customer communications, employee development train-ing and evaluations and other duties that may be assigned.
Liford resigned from the board of commissioners on Sept. 19 of last year. She was previously an assistant principal with Knox County Schools.
In other business, Cardwell reported that the utility set 14 water meters in Decem-
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By Betty BeanMark Donaldson kicked
off last week’s pub-lic hearing on crema-toria zoning regulations by conced-ing that K n o x v i l l e needs to get some.
The MPC director also said there’s been more heat than light surrounding the issue, which fl ared up last fall when Fountain City residents learned that Gen-try-Griffey Funeral Chapel had gotten a permit to add a crematorium to its building, which is located on the hill above Fountain City Lake.
About 60 people, includ-ing Gentry-Griffey man-aging partner Eric Botts, turned out for the Tuesday meeting. The meeting was requested by City Council member Nick Della Volpe, who represents Fountain City. While the planning commission cannot over-turn the Fountain City permit, regulations can be strengthened to require public input and more re-strictive zoning for future facilities.
“While more and more Americans are choosing cremation over traditional burials,” Donaldson said, “Knox County has lacked a crematorium and there are just 45 such facilities state-wide to serve Tennessee’s 6.5 million people.
“We may be somewhat underserved in this area, and it’s something we need to address in the zoning code.”
Donaldson said he had not been able to fi nd cred-ible reports of health prob-lems associated with crema-torium emissions.
Botts did not choose to speak, but issued a press release the following day denying many of the charg-es aired the night before. Botts said Gentry-Griffey will employ state-of-the-art technology that will create little to no impact on the air breathed by the sur-rounding community. He defended Gentry-Griffey as a trusted, longtime member of the Fountain City busi-ness community and said the process they under-went to get their permit was
Appeal is this weekAn effort to overturn Gentry-Griffey’s cremato-
rium permit will be heard by the city Board of Zoning Appeals at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in the City County Building small assembly room. The appeal contends the permitting decision was arbitrary and capricious, and cites the city’s denial of a similar per-mit at Highland Memorial Funeral Home in Bearden, which was then being leased by Rose Mortuary.
Community organizer Nan Scott said it’s im-portant for residents to attend. “Your presence will demonstrate to BZA members that it is important to stop this crematory from hurting our property values, our health and our quality of life.”
Donaldson
New Fountain City resident Erin Chady talks with new City
Council member Marshall Stair. Photo by B. Bean
MPC explores crematoria regs
aboveboard and fair.Plenty of crematorium
opponents thought other-wise. Erin Chady said she and her husband, Markus, were preparing to close on their Gibbs Drive home when their Realtor told them about the cremato-rium and said it would give them grounds to be released from their agreement to buy the house, if they chose. The Chadys bought the house anyway, but do not favor the crematorium.
Others addressed the process by which Gentry-Griffey got its permit, par-ticularly citing the lack of
notice to the funeral home’s neighbors.
By the end of the hearing, Donaldson appeared to have softened his view that there was no scientifi c evidence that crematorium emissions are hazardous, calling infor-mation presented “useful.”
One packet included an analysis of emissions at a proposed crematorium in Spring Hill, Tenn. Opposi-tion centered around the emissions issue, and the Spring Hill Board of Mayor and Aldermen defeated the Spring Hill Memorial Park crematorium by an 8-1 vote in November.
RUS loan is$4.9 million
By Greg HouseholderThe Hallsdale Powell
Utility District will borrow $4.983 million from the fed-eral Rural Utility Services agency. The commissioners voted unanimously to take out the loan at last week’s meeting. Proceeds from the 38-year loan will be used to replace water lines and de-velop storage within the sys-tem for fi re protection and to address pressure issues in the utility’s 500-plus miles of water lines.
Loans from RUS protect the utility from annexation by the city as long as the loan is outstanding. The util-ity has four outstanding RUS loans at interest rates of 3.75 percent or lower.
CEO Darren Cardwell confi rmed that former HPUD commissioner Sandra Liford has been hired as the utility’s Human Resources and Public Relations manager. She will be responsible for updating employee policies and proce-dures to comply with any law changes, updating job titles and descriptions and creat-ing job levels, and developing an evaluation program.
She will also develop wage levels for different positions,
Liford joins HPUD staff
Sandra Liford
ber and conducted six sewer connection inspections. The utility treated 212.3 million gallons of water and 351.9 million gallons of wastewater for the month.
The board re-elected its current offi cers – Jim Hill, president of the board; Kevin Julian, secretary; and Robert Crye, treasurer.
The board declared fi ve ve-hicles surplus and instructed Cardwell to dispose of them at auction.
The board also approved a debt management policy, a requirement from the state comptroller’s offi ce.
The board approved pay requests to Insituform Technologies for a total of $299,999 for work on the sanitary sewer rehabilita-tion project and $84,229 to Merkel Brothers Construc-tion for State Route 33 proj-ect work.
The board will meet next at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13.
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Writing for a newspaper is not an occupation given over to sentimentality. The beat least likely to bring out the warm and fuzzy side of a reporter is government with its assortment of the good, the bad and the ugly, so I was unprepared for my own feelings about writing my last column for the Shopper-News. It’s harder to say goodbye than I had imagined.
I’ve always considered “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,” a Douglas Adams book, to bear one of the more memorable and inventive titles in fi ction. I’ve never writ-ten about space-faring dolphins in this column, and if a reader ever sent me fi sh, they got lost in the mail. I have written a couple of times about my time machine, but there’s nothing especially fi shy about time travel, or so Stephen Hawking says.
And we all experience time travel every day, steadily moving forward in time, like it or not. Just a few weeks ago in this column I quoted Satchel Paige’s advice about not looking back. But with all due respect to the legendary Paige, I’d like to take a brief glance in the rearview mirror.
I started as a stringer for the Shopper-News nearly six years ago. What I didn’t know about newspaper reporting could have fi lled several hefty volumes. Who knows why, but our publisher, Sandra Clark, thought I might be worth a tryout.
I soon learned the difference between a writer and a news-paper reporter. Time after time, Sandra trimmed and shaped my 1,000 word essays into stories half the size with twice the merit. Never underestimate the power of a great editor to make a reporter sound a lot smarter than he really is.
Jake Mabe was also there as a mentor and a friend. There are less stressful occupations than newspaper re-porting, and Jake’s door was always open when I needed a sympathetic ear. (And have I mentioned Jake does a fantastic Elvis impersonation?)
There are many people to thank. Shannon Carey’s success on the advertising side of the newspaper has kept us all employed. Carol Springer in graphics and composi-tion taught me a thing or two about using a camera. Judy Tharpe has forgotten more about Associated Press style than I’ll ever know. Emily Schoen and Sara Barrett fi ll so many varied but indispensable roles that I can’t come close to naming them all.
And then there are the writers. I learn something about this trade every time I read a column by Betty Bean. Wen-dy Smith’s polished style has become the voice of Bearden. Greg Householder, steady as a rock, is the face of Powell. Any newspaper would be proud to host the inimitable Marvin West, and Lynn Hutton remains a reader favorite.
Anne Hart was featured writer for our “30 years in 30 weeks” history of the town of Farragut and performed magnifi cently. Regular feature writers Dr. Jim Tumblin, Dr. Bob Collier and Malcolm Shell always bring some-thing interesting to the table.
Through good times and bad, the raison d’être for this column has been the people involved in local government I reported on. For the most part, I had fun, even when the actors in the current drama (or comedy) didn’t.
The waning years of former Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s administration provided a steady stream of events and characters begging to be parodied. I was lucky enough to be a witness. Along the way I crammed in some investigative reporting and was honored for my work by the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists.
Covering County Commission or the Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen were rarely boring assignments. Most commissioners sooner or later became victims of my curmudgeonly take on events, yet nearly all treated me with remarkable kindness over the years.
Finally, I thank the readers. Even those who disagreed with me typically did so cordially.
It’s been a great ride. OK, Sandra, edit away.Contact Larry Van Guilder at [email protected].
Who says you can’t look back?
Kim Trent and Larry Cox stood in the rain in the Oakwood Elemen-tary School parking lot and looked as grim as the weather while they awaited County Mayor Tim Bur-chett’s press conference.
Knox Heritage director Kim Trent and former City Council
member Larry Cox stand in the Oakwood School parking lot. Photo by Betty Bean
Clock ticking on Oakwood
Like everybody else there, Cox, a former City Council member, and Trent, the executive direc-tor of Knox Heritage, knew the score: unless an angel developer materializes within 30 days with a plan and the wherewithal to save the nearly-100-year-old building, it’s going to meet the wrecking ball.
When Burchett spoke, he sounded regretful, but said the condition of the abandoned building, one wing of which was used as a supply depot before Knox County Schools handed it over to the county’s gener-al government a little more than a year ago, is forcing his hand.
“It’s a shame we don’t take better care of our property,” Burchett said.
He introduced Jon Gus-tin, a professional pho-tographer and manager of E-Government Services in Knox County’s Office of Information Technology, who ventured inside the condemned building the week before to document its condition. The pictures are stark, and show caved-in roofs and ceilings, col-lapsing f loors, and general decay. Gustin described encountering exposed asbestos, rot and rodent droppings.
Cox said he’s not surprised by Burchett’s decision.
“I sponsored a resolu-tion asking the school sys-tem to do something with the building the last year I was in office.”
Cox, who left City Coun-cil in December 2003, at-tended Oakwood Elemen-tary, along with 20 relatives including his parents, chil-dren, siblings and cousins.
Trent is still holding onto a sliver of hope.
“Just another day at the office,” she said.
She has made a life’s work of preserving build-ings like Oakwood, which has been near the top of Knox Heritage’s “Frag-ile 15” list of endangered structures for years.
“A roof on this building 15 years ago would have
stopped this from happen-ing,” she said. She believes the building still could be converted to residential use or housing for senior citizens.
“I spoke with a develop-er yesterday who is willing to talk about saving this iconic structure.”
County Commissioner Amy Broyles, who lives a few blocks from Oakwood,
said she’s sad about what’s happened to Oakwood, but, like Trent, is keeping hope alive. She also said she finds it difficult to criticize the school system.
“It’s hard to justify spending money on an empty building when we are laying off teachers and struggling to main-tain classrooms that are in use,” she said.
Since Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday is today, it is a time to recognize how far we have come with more to do in terms of ensuring equal opportunity for all.
I grew up in a segregated
A time to refl ect
Tennesssee. I recall the ef-forts which then-Mayor John Duncan made to integrate local lunch counters in the ’60s. Duncan does not re-ceive the credit he deserves for those moves, including traveling to the headquar-ters of national chain stores to urge service to all custom-ers at lunch counters.
Nevertheless, it is a time when we should refl ect and recommit to ending any re-maining vestiges of discrim-ination as we enter the sec-ond decade of this century.
Last week when I wrote about the Republican lean-ings of the proposed Harry Tindell district, I had un-
derstood that Rocky Hill and Deane Hill Recreation Center voting precincts would be part of the Tindell district. If that had been true, then Tindell faced major hurdles winning re-election as a Democrat.
However, I have since learned those two pre-cincts are going to Steve Hall, whose district is al-ready safely Republican and now becomes more so. However, when it comes to redistricting, nothing is fi-nal until the bill becomes law and survives the likely court challenge.
Tindell is actually a very credible and knowledgeable state lawmaker who is com-pleting 20 years in Nashville. He is also very quiet and sel-dom in the news. He is prob-ably the least visible of all local lawmakers, although he comes from a long estab-lished Democratic family. His father is Billy Tindell, a long-time county commissioner.
The proposed new dis-trict is more of a tossup. Tindell, if he chooses to run, will not be able to wage his normal quiet campaign. Republicans will come with a candidate. The nominee of either par-
ty has a shot at winning.Statewide, it may not
matter who President Obama faces in the general election as he is unlikely to win Tennessee. At www.fec.gov you can see who gave to all the presidential candidates by zip code and in the entire state. Through September 2011, Obama had raised $270,139 in Tennessee while Repub-lican presidential candi-dates had raised $987,517 in the same period – al-most a 4-to-1 advantage.
Statewide as of three and a half months ago, Mitt Rom-ney had raised $386,330, fol-lowed closely by Texas Gov. Rick Perry at $347,176 (when the new fi gures come in, the difference will be much wid-er in Romney’s favor). Third up was U.S. Rep. Ron Paul at $98,260.
However, if this is nar-rowed down to zip codes that begin with 379, most of Knox County, then Obama raised $22,147 in this pe-riod while the combined Republican presidential candidates raised $125,618 (or a disparity of 6-to-1).
Most of the well-known local Democrats were not on the Obama donor list. In fact,
the single largest donor in Knox County was Julie Miller who gave $1,660 in 19 sepa-rate donations. She is listed as a UT library employee.
The best known Obama donors were Jon Roach, for-mer city law director and husband of KUB chief Min-tha Roach, for $1,000; for-mer federal magistrate Rob-ert Murrian for $300; and Anne Woodle, former school board member and close friend/supporter of Mayor Madeline Rogero, at $350. Also listed at $1,000 each are Judith Burnette and Dr. Lewis Harris Jr.
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sure that Gloria Ray, head of Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corporation, received more than $405,000 in total compensation for 2009, ac-cording to the 990 IRS form, has raised questions as to who approves this sort of compensation. It far exceeds what any other local non-profi t pays its CEO. IRS 990 forms are public record and can be viewed by any citi-zen. KTSC gets most fund-ing through the hotel/motel tax and is therefore spend-ing public money. The fi nal chapter on this revelation has not been written. Many people are speechless at the size of the compensation re-gardless of their warm feel-ings toward the recipient.
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If the politicians talking about job creation would get quiet and listen to Mar-shall Wilkins, it would be an hour well spent.
Eat Mor Chikin
By Greg HouseholderFormer Knoxville mayor-
al candidate Mark Padgett made his fi rst public appearance since his de-feat in last November’s election at the hands of Madeline Rogero last Tuesday at
the Powell Business and Professional Association.
Padgett joked about his ap-pearance being his fi rst since his loss by telling the Powell business leaders, “The calls to speak dry up after you lose.”
Padgett was there as the guest speaker to talk about his experiences that he touted during the campaign of build-ing a business with “$5,000 and a borrowed laptop.”
He told the group of his ear-ly life growing up in Lonsdale and how as a kid he started a T-shirt business where he sold painted shirts. He described the process as using a brush and a knife – “In Lonsdale, you had a knife” – to splatter the paint on the shirts.
He talked of the infl uence of athletics on him as a young-ster. After tearing his ACL in his senior year in high school, he developed a product relat-ed to knee injuries. His father set him up to present the idea to Pete DeBusk of DeRoyal In-dustries. Padgett was only 17 years old.
“Do whatever you do be-cause you love it,” DeBusk told him.
Padgett told the group of his time working for former Gov. Phil Bredesen. It was while working for Bredesen that he got the idea for his company
– eGovernment Solutions – because of the ineffi ciencies he saw and the fact that, at the time, no county in the state of-fered online services.
Padgett had some ad-vice for the Powell business group: “Have your fi rst client lined up before you begin.” He also talked about using peer groups and mentors and about staying power in the market place.
The former mayoral can-didate took questions from the fl oor and when asked about his future political ambitions he answered, “I was raised in a family in-volved in public service. I’m not looking for the next open seat but I think we changed the conversation.”
He alluded to the fact that one of the fi rst appointments of the Rogero administration, entrepreneur Eddie Mannis,
Mark Padgett is back in the saddle
Padgett
Chick-fi l-A franchise owner
Marshall Wilkins (right) talks
with John Fugate, board mem-
ber of the Fountain City BPA
and branch manager of Com-
mercial Bank. Photo by S. ClarkWilkins spoke to a
standing room only crowd at Fountain City Business and Professional Associa-tion last week. There were folks from Halls and West Knoxville in addition to the usual suspects.
“My boss sent me to ask you one thing: When is Chick-fi l-A coming to Halls?” asked one.
Wilkins said a new res-
taurant will open this spring on Emory Road between Halls and Powell and “that’s about as close to Halls as you’ll get.”
He said the Atlanta-based chicken chain’s studies have pegged Halls as a place “where everybody leaves dur-ing the day and comes back at night.” That makes for a great dinner crowd but not so much for lunch, when Chick-fi l-A typically does heavy volume.
Wilkins also disclosed that negotiations are in progress for a location in Fountain City, but “nothing’s offi cial yet.”
Wilkins is the owner of Chick-fi l-A restaurants in Turkey Creek and Kingston. The company has 11 fran-chises in the Knoxville area with eight different owners, he said.
The Chick-fi l-A philoso-
phy is amazing. We’re all about creating “raving fans,” Wilkins said. And he quickly defi ned the term: Raving fans are those who eat with Chick-fi l-A often, tell others about the restaurant and are willing to pay full price.
“We’re not in the chicken business, serving people,” he said. “We’re in the people business, serving chicken.”
The restaurant works to build relationships with cus-tomers, using good food, en-gaged employees and those crazy cows you see on TV and billboards urging folks to “eat mor chikin.”
When the recession hit, Wilkins said Chick-fi l-A de-cided to become more of who we are rather than trying to become something else. “Sales will come and profi ts will come if you focus on the right things.”
His was strong, common sense advice that would help any business.
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School use fees: Passedon fi rst reading with amend-ments by Indya Kincannon to eliminate the insurance requirement for “routine meetings.” But not before Kincannon groused about secretarial staff using red ink to denote both changes and items moved to another spot in board policy. “We have the whole rainbow of colors to choose from. Make it green or blue … not all red!”
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HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin
In a footnote in his book “Life on the Mississip-pi,” Mark Twain quoted
the Associated Press Tele-gram story of Oct. 19, 1882, relating the death of two of Knoxville’s most promi-nent business owners in the prime of their careers to il-lustrate that violence per-sisted in the South 20 years after the Civil War. In less than two minutes, local his-tory was changed forever.
Thomas O’Conner (1836-1882) was the richest person in the state of Tennessee and, some said, the richest in the South. It was said that his in-fl uence in the Tennessee Leg-islature was “overpowering.” His Melrose Estate, which he had purchased from Judge Oliver P. Temple, was among the fi nest in Knox County. Temple’s 20 acres contained the impressive mansion, ex-perimental fl ower and veg-etable gardens, an extensive fruit orchard, and an out-standing collection of orna-mental shrubs and trees. A large farm pond had been expanded and concreted, and a boat house was built to pro-vide a place for O’Conner’s nieces and nephews to swim, boat and fi sh.
Thomas was born in Hali-fax, Va., on Feb. 29, 1836, the son of John and Rebec-ca (Powell) Conner. When Thomas was 16, he and his brother James moved from Virginia to Knoxville and opened the O’Conner Sad-dlery, choosing to use the original Irish version of their name. Thomas was a Knox-ville alderman (1859-60), but soon moved to Atlanta to establish a saddlery there.
When the Civil War began he joined the 1st Geor-gia Regulars (CSA) and served as a sergeant for eight months. He then resigned and returned to Knoxville to help raise a company of light artillery.
He became senior fi rst lieutenant of Kain’s Artillery Battery (CSA). When Capt. William C. Kain, a Knoxville attor-ney, was ordered to serve in various court martial pro-ceedings, O’Conner assumed command. His battery was heavily engaged at Cumber-land Gap when he was cap-tured on Sept. 9, 1863, and imprisoned at Johnson’s Is-land in Lake Erie near San-dusky, Ohio. He spent almost two years there, along with 2,500 other prisoners, and endured the inadequate food and the exceedingly uncom-fortable damp and penetrat-ing cold conditions.
In June 1865, with the war ended, O’Conner swore al-legiance to the U.S. and was granted amnesty. He soon was in business in Atlanta but, in 1870, he returned to Knoxville to marry Fannie Renshaw House (1832-1923). They lived in the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville about half the year and at Melrose in Knox-ville the other half.
His infl uence with the state government enabled him to lease convict labor and to contract for many projects in railroad construction, coal mining and the manufacture of “Tennessee wagons” at a rate of more than 60 a day. His was probably the most popular farm wagon at the
The Melrose mansion. Formerly owned by Judge Oliver P.
Temple, Melrose was among the city’s most elegant man-
sions, surrounded by fl ower and vegetable gardens and rare
shrubs and trees. Photos courtesy C.M. McClung Historical Collection
Thomas O’Conner
(1836-1882). His investments
in railways, mining, manu-
facturing and banking made
O’Conner the richest person
in the state. He was killed in a
Gay Street shootout on
Oct. 19, 1882.
The Gay Street
shootout of 1882
time in the South and in the prairie states. He built the Cincinnati Southern Railway from the Cumberland Plateau to Chattanooga and became a major owner of the Tennes-see Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., based in Tracy City. He contracted for road work in Louisiana and, in September 1882, led other Knoxville in-vestors to organize the Me-chanic’s National Bank and became its president. In 1877, he was appointed a trustee of East Tennessee University (predecessor to the Univer-sity of Tennessee).
Joseph Alexander Mabry Jr. (1826-1882) was born to Joseph A. Mabry Sr. and Al-ice Scott Mabry on Jan. 26, 1826, on his father’s farm in west Knox County. He was educated in the Knox County
public schools and at Holston College at New
Market. In 1852, he mar-ried Laura E. Churchwell,
daughter of a prominent lo-cal family. He was a major property owner and devel-oper early in life and, in 1853, he and his brother-in-law William G. Swan gave the city the property for Market Square. He was president of the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad and was quite in-fl uential in Nashville in lob-bying for state support of the railroads. He was appointed a trustee of the East Tennessee University in 1854 and was a member of the State Consti-tutional Convention of 1870.
During the Confederate occupation at the outbreak of the Civil War, Mabry per-sonally offered to equip and clothe many Confederate soldiers from his depot of clothing and tents. With the Federal occupation in late 1863, he declared his loyalty to the Union. His mansion on Mabry Hill off Dandridge Pike in East Knoxville was used as a headquarters for each side during their re-spective occupations.
Mabry’s Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad went into receivership in 1871 and was sold. Other fi nancial diffi cul-ty caused him to reduce his extensive land holdings and
sell many of his fi ne horses.O’Conner and Mabry, as
well as many other prominent businesspeople of the time, were engaged in high stakes gambling, including betting at the horse races at the Old Fairgrounds in South Knox-ville. There were rumors that Mabry’s second mansion at Cold Spring Farm (later called Mount Rest Home), which he had sold to O’Conner in 1880, had been won back in a card game by his son, Will, but that O’Conner reneged on the bet.
Will was shot and killed in a fi ght on Dec. 24, 1881. The grief-stricken father somehow concluded that O’Conner had arranged for Will to be murdered. On Oct. 17, 1882, a visibly in-toxicated Mabry confront-ed O’Conner at the Fair Grounds in South Knox-ville; but O’Conner backed off, saying it was neither the time nor the place to settle their dispute. That evening, Mabry sent O’Conner a mes-sage stating that he would “kill him on sight.”
On the morning of Oct. 19, 1882, O’Conner stepped outside the Mechanics’ Bank and spotted Mabry walking
down Gay Street. O’Conner quickly grabbed a double-barreled shotgun and emp-tied both barrels into Mabry, killing him instantly. Hear-ing the commotion, Joseph Mabry III hurried toward the bank and, upon see-ing his father’s body, drew a pistol and shot O’Conner. As O’Conner fell mortally wounded, he managed to reach inside the bank for an-other shotgun and fi re one fi -nal shot, killing the younger Mabry. Seven bystanders were wounded by stray shotfrom O’Conner’s gun.
Three men lay dead: O’Conner, who was in his prime at only 46 years of age; Mabry, who was only 10 years older; and Mabry’s son, a promising young attorney. The contributions they might have made to the community and to the state were lost in less than two minutes.
Author’s Note: Next month’s article will describe the tragic carriage accident at the gates of the Melrose Estate that claimed the life of two prominent bank-ers while Thomas O’Conner’s widow, Fannie R. O’Conner, and the spouse of one of the bankers survived.
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faith
I collect words like some people collect good jokes.
Find a new one (new to me, at least), and I am fas-cinated with its sounds, its etymology (as my Greek etymology professor at UT explained the defi nition of etymology, “all that non-sense in brackets in the dictionary”), its meaning, its pronunciation, its pos-sible uses and its taste in my mouth.
You never know where a new word will crop up, or when a familiar word will pique your curiosity. In this case, just the other day, it was in the comic section of the daily paper.
I have searched for that
it is fairly common. But in the last frame of the strip, one character pointed out that one should be as cha-lant as possible.
Curiosity bells went off in my head immediately. “Non” clearly means not, as in “nonjudgmental.” So, if “nonchalant” means uncon-cerned, what exactly does “chalant” mean? And is it a word at all? Or was it just a comic strip joke?
I thank God for Noah Webster and his ilk.
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (the handiest one at the moment) says that “non-chalant” is from the Old French “non” (not) and “chaloir” (to concern), and is defined as “having an air of easy unconcern or indif-ference.”
Well, there you are, then. “Not concerned.”
So, the last frame of the Sunday comic strip must have been a sincere call for caring, for compassion: “We all need to be as chalant as possible.”
Webster’s also points out that the French “chalant” is related to the Latin “cal-ere”: to be warm. As in the opposite of cool. The oppo-site of nonchalance, then, is warmth, compassion, con-cern and caring. In a word, to be chalant.
Remember the rule: the way to make a new word your own is to use it in a sentence, so: God is chalant – warm, compassionate, concerned and caring.
Besides having a beauti-ful meaning, this fabulous word also has a graceful, elegant French sound. It is a lovely word, entirely worth collecting. I am hap-py to have added it to my collection. It may not be used frequently (it might sound pretentious), but it is mine, to use or keep or share.
And it will remind me that Crankshaft (or who-ever it was!) was right. We all need to be as chalant as possible, because this old world can certainly use all the chalance it can fi nd!
Let’s all be ‘chalant’
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
(Psalm 86:15 NRSV)
comic strip in my stacks ready for recycling and can-not fi nd it again. (If anyone out there can fi nd it for me, please let me know!) I think it was “Crankshaft,” of all strips, and a character in the strip had used the word “nonchalant.”
I knew that “noncha-lant” meant casually un-concerned, offhand, cool. No problem with that one;
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Cross Roads Presbyterian ■
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try food pantry 6-8 p.m. each
second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m.
each fourth Saturday.
Glenwood Baptist Church ■
of Powell will host a Life Line
Screening event Monday, Jan.
23. It will be sponsored by the
University Medical Center.
Preregistration is required.
Info: 1-800-324-1851 or visit
www.lifelinescreening.com/
community-partners.
Knoxville Free Food Market ■ ,
4625 Mill Branch Lane (across
from Tractor Supply in Halls),
distributes free food 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. the third Saturday of
the month. Info: 566-1265.
New Hope Baptist Church ■
Faubert to speak at KFL
Barbara Faubert will be the guest speaker
for the Knox-ville Fellow-ship Lun-cheon at noon Tues-day,
Jan. 17. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.
FCUMC to host ‘Becoming a Love and Logic Parent’Fountain City United Methodist Church will host “Be-
coming a Love and Logic Parent,” a program open to all parents, grandparents, teachers or guardians that will make parenting less stressful, more successful and really fun!
Elizabeth Kose, certifi ed “Love and Logic Independent Facilitator,” will discuss the basic principles and phi-losophies behind becoming a Love and Logic parent. A four-week Sunday evening series, beginning Jan. 29, will be offered on the Love and Logic philosophy, techniques and strategies. Sessions will run from 4-6 p.m. in Wesley Hall at FCUMC.
The course fee is $60 per couple and $45 per person. Reservations are requested but not required. To register or for more info: Elizabeth Kose, 809-9075 or [email protected].
Teen ChallengeBethany O’Donnell and Joanna Burke do a fundraiser,
spreading public awareness of Knoxville’s Teen Chal-
lenge. The organization’s purpose is to help both adults
and teens overcome addictions and abuse. Photo by T. Ed-wards of TEPHOTOS.com
Faubert
CONDOLENCESMynatt Funeral Homes Inc. ■
(922-9195 or 688-2331):
Joy L. Anderson
James William “Jimmy” Andes
Gary Warner Clark
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Robert Lee Johnson Sr.
Roy Eugene Montgomery
Cheryl Branson Norris
Mark Alan Seymour
Virginia Annette Seymour
distributes food from its food
pantry to local families in need
6-8 p.m. every third Thursday.
Info: 688-5330.
Rec programsBeaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753 Oak
Ridge Highway, will have a
beginner yoga class 6-7 p.m.
Mondays in the family life
center. Cost is $10 per class
or $40 for fi ve classes. Bring
a mat, towel and water. Info:
Dena Bower, 567-7615 or email
New Covenant Fellowship ■
Church, 6828 Central Avenue
Pike, will hold Pilates class 5:45
p.m. each Monday for $5. Info:
689-7001.
Women’s programs
Knoxville Day Women’s ■
Aglow Lighthouse will hold a
12-week Bible study 9:30 a.m.
to noon beginning Thursday,
Jan. 26, at New Covenant
Fellowship Church, 6828
Central Ave. Pike. The subject
is “Search for Worth and
Identity” based on the book
“The Search for Signifi cance”
by Robert McGee, led by Beth
Arnurius Cost is $20. Info: Di-
ane Shelby, 687-3687 or Beth
Arnurius, 584-8352.
Workshops and classes
Fairview Baptist Church ■ ,
7424 Fairview Road off East
Emory Road, hosts a Cel-
ebrate Recovery program 7-9
p.m. Thursdays.
New Hope Baptist Church ■ ,
7602 Bud Hawkins Road in
Corryton, hosts Celebrate
Recovery adult and youth
classes 7 p.m. Tuesdays
and 12-step class 6:30 p.m.
Wednesdays. Info: 688-5330.
Dayspring Church ■ , 901
Callahan Drive, Suite 109, will
off er Divorce Care classes
6:30 to 8 p.m. on Monday
evenings. There is no charge
for the 13-week program and
child care will be provided.
Info: 242-3995
Youth programsFirst Lutheran School ■ ,
1207 North Broadway will
hold an open house 6:30 to
8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, for
parents of children in grades
pre-k through 8th. A special
kindergarten roundup ses-
sion will be held 7 to 7:30
p.m. The school features
small classes and before and
after school care programs.
Tuition assistance is also
available. Info: 524-0308.
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HallsToby Strickland
922-5575
Fountain CityLinda Gay Blanc
689-8629
PowellNoell Lewis
938-5978
PowellEric Theiss938-4202
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By Ruth WhiteHalls resident Sarah Bo-
swell is called “Tiny” by her parents, but this 4-year-old is anything but tiny.
Boswell suffers from a condition that caused her thigh bones to turn com-pletely inward and causes her much pain in her legs and hips. Her parents fi rst noticed something unusual with Sarah’s legs when she began crawling and took her to several doctors for a diag-nosis.
After several local doctor visits, the Boswells traveled to Lexington, Ky., and vis-ited the Shriners Hospital. Doctors at Shriners have performed therapy on Sar-ah and have helped her get better.
While visiting the hos-pital in November, she learned that by collecting aluminum can tabs, she can raise money to donate back to the hospital. When asked why she was collecting can tabs, Boswell immediately replied, “To give Shriners lots of money to help kids get better.”
She has been on a mis-sion ever since and has col-lected almost 15 pounds of tabs from all over the United States and Eng-land. A friend started a Facebook page, Help Sarah Collect Can Tabs for Shri-ners, to allow Sarah to tell her story and ask for help.
Sarah Boswell re-
moves aluminum can
tabs to raise money
for Shriners Hospital. Photo by Ruth White
Collecting tabs to give back
She will be collecting tabs through the end of Febru-
ary and will deliver them to the hospital on her next visit in March.
Anyone interested in helping Sarah raise mon-ey to help other children through care at Shriners Hospital may contact Sta-cie Boswell, 661-9996, or Ruth White at the Shopper-News, 922-4136.
Halls Middle basketball girls win New Years tournamentHalls Middle School basketball team brought home the fi rst place trophy from the Halls High
New Years Classic during the winter break. The team went 4-0 by defeating Westview Middle,
East Ridge Middle, Robertsville Middle and Maury Middle schools. Team members honored
during the tournament were All-Tournament team selection and tournament MVP Kaci Mitch-
ell, 3-point shoot out winner Taylor Moon and All-Tournament team selection Lauren White.
The trio scored 49 points, 29 points and 33 points respectively during the event. Photo submitted
SPORTS NOTESRec baseball sign-ups ■ : Halls Community Park spring rec league baseball, 4U-14U sign-up times are 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday in January; Saturday, Feb. 4, and Saturday, Feb. 11. Info: Visit hcpark.org.
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By Ruth WhiteThird grade students at
Halls Elementary School are making a big impact on their community and other countries.
The students are col-lecting empty Caprisun drink pouches, printer cartridges, old cell phones and Elmer’s glue sticks for recycling. They are work-ing in cooperation with Terracycle, a company that converts collected waste into a wide variety of products and materi-als. Instead of receiving money for the items, the students opted to receive points which they donate to different charities.
One of the charities, Heifer International,
used the school’s points to purchase three chicks, a goose and three beehive starters for needy families in countries in Africa and Asia. Through other char-ities, the points provided clean water for one per-son for a year, eight meals for homeless Americans and adopted 1,548 square feet of wildlife land for protection efforts.
“The students are so excited to be helping other people around the world,” said teacher Vir-ginia Fletcher. “Our stu-dents go through so many glue sticks each school year and drink pouches that every one is able to contribute and make a positive impact.”
Halls Elementary School 3rd grade students Zoe Curnell,
Nicholas Johnson and Kenedi Ross show some of the
items collected to help make a diff erence in the world.Photo by Ruth White
Helping others
How do you explain the amazing turn of events? Was it just a matter of money?
In the beginning, when the new head coach had a six-year contract and a gen-erous budget, it was easy to hire assistants. All he had to do was pick and choose and pay too much.
An ugly ending to two losing seasons, coupled with the hint of regression, cre-ated unrest and altered the scene. The result was a sur-prising number of staff va-cancies – and what seemed to be a problem fi nding re-placements.
What if ambitious aides on
Dooley deals with dilemma
the way up looked over the “opportunity” and weighed the risks? They might wonder if football time in Tennessee had become precarious.
Big names parked in rocking chairs and estab-lished assistants with good positions were greedy. They wanted more than they could possibly be worth. Security.
Parachutes. Pensions.That combination ap-
peared to change the search from who do you want to who can you get.
A few weeks ago, early in the patch-and-repair process, Derek Dooley said hundreds of people want to coach at Tennessee. Or maybe it was thousands. He could be correct. He certain-ly found some who would accept orange dollars.
Generally speaking, hir-ing assistants is very im-portant but not absolutely critical. If a new guy doesn’t fi t (think Chuck Smith), just make a change. OK, so
SCHOOL NOTES
Copper RidgeGrandparents Day ■ for kindergarten and 1st grade Friday, Jan. 20;
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it hurts feelings but this is big business. The revolving door shakes up recruiting connections but that soon settles if you send in a bet-ter man.
This dilemma was dif-ferent. Dooley, whether he knows it or not, is under du-ress. His Volunteers need to get better in a hurry, start-ing with national signing day, continuing through winter workouts, surg-ing during spring practice and peaking in September. There is little or no margin for error.
If you think I am kidding or overstating the crisis, you are not hearing the same crit-ics who are threatening re-bellion. If season ticket sales decline and donations dimin-
ish, rock-solid steady Dave Hart might get nervous.
Indeed, there is a mort-gage to pay and a budget to balance.
Hart understands that Dooley, in the beginning, ventured into diffi cult cir-cumstances. That was then. This is now. It might be unfair to demand a certain number of 2012 victories to extend this rehabilitation project but it is not unrea-sonable to expect improve-ment.
That completes the circle and brings us back to the cure for nervous indiges-tion. Even under adverse conditions, it is possible that Dooley has assembled a better staff than he had in the beginning.
Almost certainly, there will be some improvement on the field. The running game just can’t be as bad as it was. In fact, there are talented juniors and soph-omores at several positions who could become all-con-ference players.
Dooley and others have supposedly recruited well, very well, but not as well as key opponents. That par-tially explains why Tennes-see is not gaining ground on the big boys.
The next option is devel-opment – where coaching by assistants suddenly becomes very important. There is now reason for optimism. As devel-opments go, that is amazing.Marvin West invites reader response. His
address is [email protected].
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By Alvin NanceThe Boy Scouts’ website
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stands for certain values and beliefs. Cub Scouting is more than something to do. It’s all about the boy you are and the person you will become.”
As chair of the Chehote District of the Boy Scouts of America, Great Smoky Mountain Council, I am honored to be involved in work that is helping build
future leaders. A recent service project is a good example of the value of scouting.
About a dozen Cub Scouts who live in our Walter P. Taylor neighbor-hood recently gave up their Saturday morning to give back to our commu-nity in a meaningful and lasting way. The Scouts, who were 1st through 5th graders, planted about 30 dogwood trees at The Residences at Eastport, KCDC’s new housing com-plex for seniors.
The trees were donated by the Dogwood Arts Festival, and KCDC was also happy to support the effort. In addition to providing breakfast, KCDC Residences at East-
port property manager Kim Clark instructed the Scouts on how to properly plant trees and helped get them started. Once the trees were planted, Clark took everyone on a tour through the newly opened senior complex.
According to Jervece Steele and Vivian Wil-liams, who headed up the project, the Scouts were excited to have the op-portunity to give back to the community and really enjoyed their day.
Planting trees isn’t easy work, and I admire these Scouts for taking on the task. I applaud the efforts of all involved and look forward to admiring the dogwood blooms each spring for years to come.
News from Knoxville Community Development Corporation (KCDC)
Nance
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Kathleen Robinson has always
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Info: 465-9671. Photo by Ruth WhiteScrumps takes the (cup)cake
By Sandra ClarkGary Weaver has serious
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“We’re taking customer service to the next level,” he said. “Just getting a hear-ing aid is not the end of the story.
“What happens when our patient goes home?
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“Life involves all sorts of different doors. If you hear something growling behind a door, don’t open it.”
Yes, Gary Weaver talks like this. He’s totally com-mitted to caring for his
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ConnectLine is a range of new devices that link wirelessly to hearing aids, connecting the patients to their cell or landline phone, to music, the computer or the television.
“With ConnectLine, your hearing instruments become a personal wire-less headset,” said Gary. He won’t just send the device home with a patient who has no clue how to use it. He
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Do you hear the whole picture?NEWS FROM WEAVER HEARING AID CENTER
The television or phone adaptor streams clear sound to the patient’s hear-ing instrument without the echo or lip synch problems of standard Bluetooth, Gary said. The adaptors have a range up to 30 feet. You can listen to programs at the patient’s preferred volume while the family listens at theirs.
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and no monthly fees. Gary can program in numbers for four emergency contacts: family, friend, neighbor, nurse or E-911.
The pendant, worn around the neck, has a range that includes both house and yard. Also included is an emergency wall unit for bedroom or bath which is water resistant and can be mounted near the fl oor for easy access in case of a fall.
Gary demonstrates this
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equipment to potential pa-tients or their caregivers. It’s magic!
“I may go out and do in-home evaluations if request-ed,” he said, telling of one patient who came in several times to say his hearing aid wasn’t working when he watched TV. Turns out his television wasn’t working properly for sound.
“We want to be consul-tants who are concerned about what’s going on when you’re not wearing your hearing aids. Our point of focus this year is to help pa-tients live life to the fullest, 24 hours a day. To help them hear the whole picture.”
Pellissippi State’s Access and Diversity Offi ce will host Caribbean Fest 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, in the Goins Building College Center at 10915 Hardin Val-ley Road.
Parking is available in any lot marked “Open.”
The public is invited to attend this free event, one of several taking place as part of the college’s Black His-tory Month celebration.
Participants can sample jerk chicken with rice, beans and a traditional dessert, Trinidadian black cake.
Music will be performed by Carib Sounds Steel Band starting at 4:30.
The Hotep Dancers, a Knoxville African troupe, will perform two or three dances along with the band.
Pellissippi State plans ‘Caribbean Fest’Info: Gayle Wood, 539- 7160 or [email protected]/.
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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB January 16, 2012
NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
For more information, please call the Fort Sanders
Sleep Disorders Center at (865) 541-1375.
Fort Sanders Professional Building1901 Clinch Avenue, S.W., Suite 303Knoxville, TN 37916
Get Your Life BackChronic sleep deprivation or poor quality sleep can leave you feeling exhausted, irritable and unable to focus. It can also lead to serious health problems.
The professionals at the nationally accredited Fort Sanders Regional Sleep Disorders Center can help you get a refreshing night’s sleep – and get your life back.
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The little machine that saved my life!Folks who suffer from sleep-re-
lated disorders often know there’s a problem, but have trouble pinpoint-ing the cause. Such was the case with 31-year-old Lisa Chapman of Knox-ville. Feeling slightly fatigued in De-cember of 2010, Lisa thought she was just over-stressed with holiday activities. When the New Year rolled around, Lisa’s fatigue worsened.
“I started feeling tired all of the time,” she says. “And then it be-came more diffi cult to get out of bed in the morning.” Lisa went to her doctor who prescribed antibi-otics for a sinus infection, but that didn’t help her fatigue.
“I began falling asleep at my desk – and not just in the after-noons after lunch, but at 10 in the morning! It was terrible. I was so embarrassed!” says Lisa. “One of my co-workers suggested I get a sleep study, but I didn’t do it. My fatigue escalated to the point where I had dozed off a couple of times at the wheel. I was very frightened.”
It wasn’t until Lisa’s boss com-mented (out of concern) on her diffi culty staying awake and fi nish-ing her work that Lisa decided to take action.
Lisa Chapman’s friends say she has life in her eyes now that she’s getting a
good night’s sleep.
“He suggested I get a sleep study at the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center, so I called that day and made my appointment.”
When Chapman met with Dr. Thomas Higgins, neurologist and Sleep Center Medical Director, she explained her symptoms. Dr. Hig-gins immediately thought she was suffering from sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing during sleep. Each pause in breathing can last from a few seconds to min-utes. He scheduled a sleep study for Chapman.
When she settled into bed at the Sleep Center, Chapman thought she was in for a long, restful night. “In the fi rst 1 1/2 hours of Lisa’s sleep study, she stopped breathing 246 times,’ says Dr. Higgins. “She never got beyond the “nodding off”
stage of sleep, which accounts forher extreme fatigue.”
The Sleep Center staff wokeLisa up and immediately placedher on a CPAP, a continuous posi-tive airway pressure machine, thatprovides mild air pressure to keepthe airway open.
Chapman received her ownCPAP and hasn’t missed a nightof wonderful sleep since. “I trulycredit this device and the FortSanders Sleep Disorders Centerwith saving my life! I’m more pro-ductive at work and I can go outwith my friends and enjoy myself,”says Lisa. Her friends have seena positive change in her as well.“They say I’ve got life back in myeyes!”
For more information about the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders
Center, call 865-541-1375.
Sleep apnea is characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing during sleep.
Young people, get more Zzzzs!Increasing numbers of young people aren’t getting
enough sleep. For teenagers, sleep problems are often not caused by medical issues, but rather by poor sleep habits.
According to a 2011 poll by the National Sleep Foun-dation, about 10 percent of teenagers are interrupted by texts every night. And 20 percent say they are awak-ened several times each week.
The poll also found that 95 percent of adults use some type of electronics in the hour before bed, like checking email, texting or watching TV. That can pro-long falling asleep.
Feeling tired? Here are some sleep strategies from the National Sleep Foundation (www.sleepfoundation.org):
Set and stick to a sleep schedule ■ . Go to bed and wake up at the same times each day.
Expose yourself to bright light in the morn- ■ing and avoid it at night. Exposure to bright morn-ing light energizes us and prepares us for a productive day. Alternatively, dim your lights when it’s close to bedtime.
Establish a relaxing bedtime routine ■ . Allow enough time to wind down and relax before going to bed.
Create a cool, comfortable sleeping en- ■vironment that is free of distractions. If you’re fi nding that entertainment or work-related communi-cations are creating anxiety, remove these distractions from your bedroom.
Avoid caffeinated beverages, chocolate ■and tobacco at night.
Avoid large meals and beverages right be- ■fore bedtime.
No nightcaps ■ . Drinking alcohol before bed can rob you of deep sleep and can cause you to wake up too early.
Avoid medicines that delay or disrupt your ■sleep. If you have trouble sleeping, ask your doctor or pharmacist if your medications might be contributing to your sleep problem.
No late-afternoon or evening naps, unless ■you work nights. If you must nap, keep it under 45 minutes and before 3 p.m.
Feeling tired all the time? If you’re still sleepy after eight hours of rest, there might be another underly-ing medical cause to your fatigue.
The best way to detect and solve a sleep problem is to be evaluated by a nationally accredited facility like the Sleep Disorders Center at Fort Sanders Regional Med-ical Center. With a six-bed sleep laboratory, the center, which is a longtime member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, is staffed by two physicians and seven li-censed sleep technologists.
They can determine the root of your sleep problems.
“There are many sleep disorders,” explains Dr. Thomas Higgins, a neurolo-gist, Sleep Medicine physi-cian and Director of the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center. “Medical conditions, neurological problems, poor sleep habits, stress, anxiety and depression – these can all bring about sleep prob-lems.”
The center’s staff per-forms an initial assess-ment on each patient and determines whether an overnight or daytime sleep test is necessary. If so, the patient is connected while they sleep to painless moni-tors for brain wave activity, heart rate, oxygen levels and breathing.
In many cases, Dr. Hig-gins says a common disor-der called “obstructive sleep
Sleep better with the Fort Sanders Sleep Disorders Center
apnea” is to blame for day-time fatigue.
Sleep apnea occurs when the airway relaxes and nar-rows during sleep. This leads to shallow breathing, loud snoring and pauses in breath-ing. The patient never reach-es a deep state of sleep and wakes up still feeling tired.
Sleep apnea is associ-ated with high blood pres-sure, diabetes, stroke and being overweight. “Put two or three of these factors to-gether, and chances are the person has sleep apnea as well,” says Dr. Higgins.
The good news is, there are effective treatments for sleep apnea. The most widely used is a device called CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine which
allows the airway to remain open during the night.
CPAP is extremely effec-tive at stopping apnea for the vast majority of patients, ac-cording to Dr. Higgins. This not only allows the person to get better rest, but it also has other health benefi ts including reduced stress on the heart. Lack of sleep can actually make blood pres-sure and blood sugar levels worse.
“The International Dia-betes Federation recently made a recommendation that newly diagnosed dia-betes patients should be screened for sleep apnea,” explains Dr. Higgins. “If someone has it, it tends to increase the blood sugar and make the body more insulin-
resistant, and aggravate theproblem.”
CPAP machines andmasks have been somewhatuncomfortable to get use toand wear throughout thenight, but Dr. Higgins saysthe devices are getting bet-ter every year, and the SleepCenter staff works with pa-tients to fi nd the one that’sbest for them.
“The technology is ad-vancing very quickly. Thereare always new masks andnosepieces. And CPAP ma-chines have improved. Nowthey’re very quiet,” he says.
For more information about diagnosis and
treatment of your sleep problem, call the Fort Sanders
Sleep Disorders Center at 865-541-1375.
B-2 • JANUARY 16, 2012 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY SHOPPER-NEWS
Sara Barrett
Critter TalesRuth
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The Courtyards Senior Living is putting a new twist to the traditional support groups for Alzheimer’s care-givers and their families.
Last year my husband and I were walking through the zoo with our daughter when a woman greeted us on the walking trail with a beautiful little owl. When I told her I thought she was lucky for getting to work so closely with the animals, she smiled and said, “You can do the same thing. Be-come a volunteer.”
Well, here’s our chance, folks. The Knoxville Zoo is holding its volunteer fair 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this coming Saturday, Jan. 21. Anyone 13 or older can participate but there is limited space available and it’s a pretty competitive program.
Volunteers fi ll a number of different roles at the zoo from assisting with classes and programs and educating the public to helping out with “Boo! at the Zoo.”
Anyone interested in vol-unteering should attend the volunteer fair but it is not
Support group takes new twist
Memory Lane Café is a way for people affected by Alzheimer’s to gather in a comfortable, nonthreaten-ing setting. The café meets at 6:30 p.m. every second Tuesday and individuals are able to mingle and meet other people in the same situation.
“People that attend don’t feel pressured to stand up and talk about their situa-tion,” said Linda Johnson
with Alzheimer’s Tennessee Inc. “The atmosphere is laid back and it’s an opportu-nity to spark conversations, build relationships and learn from one another.”
Caregivers are welcomed to bring family members and loved ones affected with Alzheimer’s, and ac-tivities will be available to keep them involved.
This is the fi rst support group setting of its type in the Southeast and is a way of evolving and meeting the needs and helping caregiv-ers fi nd relief. The Court-yards Senior Living is lo-cated at 815 E. Inskip Drive. Info: 688-2666.
Caroline Huskey (center) sings her turtle song for Michelle
Rhine, Lynn Draper and Cindy Winegar at The Courtyards Se-
nior Living center. Photos by Ruth White Clyde Fulmer, activities director at The Courtyards, chats
with Ken and Sylvia Yates at the fi rst Memory Lane Café.
Linda Hall sits with her mom, Ruth Vurch, who is a resident at The Courtyards in
Fountain City. Hall attended the fi rst Memory Lane Café for individuals with Al-
zheimer’s and likes the idea of interaction with other caregivers and family mem-
bers in a cozy setting.
Help someone brush a boar! Become a volunteer at the Knox-
ville Zoo. Photo courtesy of Knoxville-zoo.org.
Volunteer at the zoo
mandatory. Info: Visit www.knoxville-zoo.org.
Eliza is back homeDuring the fi rst week of
January I wrote about Eliza, a dog that had been adopted from the Humane Society in Knoxville 10 years ago and was lost last month while vis-iting friends here in town.
A good Samaritan who wished to remain anony-mous called me the week the story came out and said Eliza had been found sitting on someone’s front porch in the Rocky Hill area. She has been reunited with her family.
SENIOR NOTES
AARP driversafety classes
For registration info about these and all other AARP driver safety classes, call Barbara Manis, 922-5648.
Noon to 4 p.m. Wednes-■ day and Thursday, Jan. 18-19, John T. O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St.
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thurs-■ day and Friday, Jan. 19-20, Farragut town hall, 11408 Municipal Dr.
Open call for ‘Connections’
The Fountain City Art Center is currently accepting submissions for its upcom-ing themed exhibit “Con-nections” to be on display Friday, Feb. 24, through Fri-day, March 23. The way the artists interpret the theme will be considered during the judging process.
The entry fee for non-FCAC members is $20 per entry ($10 for members) with a limit of two entries per per-son. If your work is 36” x 36”, submit only one entry. Works that have been submitted previously for other exhibits may not be entered. Submis-sions will be accepted 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, and judging will take place Wednesday, Feb. 22.
An opening reception will be held for the exhibit 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Awards will be announced at 7 p.m. Prizes will include $125 for Best of Show, $100 for fi rst place, $75 for second place, $50 for third place and $25 for honorable mention.
Art Center hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. most Satur-days. The center is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Info: 357-2787, e-mail [email protected] or come by the center at 213 Hotel Ave.
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FTN CITY – 3BR/2.5BA w/bonus or 4th BR. Featuring 9' ceilings & hdwd on main, arched doorways, Corian counter-tops, lg kit w/extra JennAir cooktop built-in island, central vac, over-sized 2-car gar, fenced yard & covered porch. $229,900 (784017)
FTN CITY – 3BR 2BA Remodeled.-Plumb, Elect & more. 26x9.6 cvrd frnt porch, wd floors, brick fp w/ custom built-ins, kit w/tile and track lighting, unfnshd bsmnt & 1-car garage/wrk-shop. $159,900 Laura Bailey (775489)
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FTN CITY – Well kept 3BR/2BA, 2-story w/master on main. This home features: Eat-in kitchen, level back-yard w/wood fence. Possible lease purchase w/5k down $99,500 (770228)
HALLS – 3.7 acres & well built 2BR/1BA, ready to move in. Land is mostly cleared w/additional old home site that has existing drainfield, 2-storage bldgs. $95,000 (782724)
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Special Notices 15DAV Chapter 24 has
FREE RENTAL OF POWER OR MANUAL
WHEEL CHAIRS available for any area disabled veteran. Also looking for donations of used wheelchairs
(power only). Call 765-0510 for information.
HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT
SURGERY If you had hip or knee replacement surgery
between 2005 - present & suffered problems,
you may be entitled to compensation.
Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727
The northeast Knox Utility District Board of Commissioners will hold the regular monthly meeting on Monday, January 23, 2012, at 8:30 a.m. in their office located at 7214 Washington Pike, Corryton, TN. If special accommoda-tions are needed, please call 687-5345.
Homes 40SELL YOUR HOUSE
IN 9 DAYS 865-365-8888
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For Sale By Owner 40a2BR/1BA ON 2 acres at
5720 Old Tazewell Pk. Basement, heat/air, well water. $64,900. Call 992-8657.
FSBO 3BR/2BA. 1500 sq ft North Knox close to town. $142,900. Call 235-7444.
FSBO IN BLAINE 2BR/1BA with living room & kit. Sits on 1.43 acres. 933-1274 or 898-1311.
NEWPORT. 3 BR, 2 BA, 2 story, approx 2 yrs old with 1568 +/- SF. 361 Woodson Dr. Asking $114,900 & owner will finance w/$5,750 dwn. Bill 877-488-5060, ext 323
Sale or Rent, Tellico Village, 2700 sf, 4 br, 3 1/2 ba w/bonus, 2 car
gar, $260K. 4 1/2% assumable FHA loan.
865-388-5476 ***Web ID# 900489***
Farms & Land 45
FSBO. $129,900
2 yr old house & 44 acres located at 1245 Snake Hollow Road,
Sneedville. House has 3 BR & 2 BA, total of 1,056 SF. Owner will finance with $7,000 down. Call Bill at
877-488-5060 ext 323.
Cemetery Lots 49HIGHLAND MEM.
$2,100 ea; $7,800 for all 4. Mountain views. 865-386-1630
Cemetery Lots 49Highland Memorial, 8
lots together, Sec. 20, with monument rights, $10,000. 404-580-9975
Real Estate Wanted 50WE BUY HOUSES, any reason, any con-dition. 865-548-8267
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HALLS. 720 - 2880 SF. 4 units. Parking at door. C H/A. Like new. Poss. sale. 865-300-0532
HALLS OFFICES Singles $350/mo. Call Steve at 679-3903.
Apts - Unfurnished 713BR/2BA,1500 sq ft, no
steps. 5 yrs old, 2-car gar, level yard. No pets, no smoking. $985/mo. 567-4156
HALLS AREA 1/BR/1BA Kitchen w/appls, lg l-rm/dining rm, lg yard. Patio, private en-trance. Mature adults, no pets. Utils & cable incl'd. $650/mo + dep. 256-6100.
Like New brick townhouse, 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, Turkey Creek area. No pets.
Credit ck. $350 dep. $650 mo. 1 yr lease. 865-986-0905 ***Web ID# 920265***
SOUTH, 2 BR, 1 BA, 1200SF, appls., priv. $675/mo+dep, no pets/ smoking. 865-577-6289
St. Mary's Area. 2 BR, carpet, C H/A, appls & util. furn., $585 mo., $250 dep. 423-504-2679
Apts - Furnished 72WALBROOK STUDIOS
251-3607 $140 weekly. Discount
avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic
Cable. No Lse.
Duplexes 73CEDAR BLUFF AREA
3BR town home, 2BA, frplc, laundry rm, new carpet, 1 yr lease,
$770 mo. $250 dep. 865-216-5736 or 694-8414.
FARRAGUT/NEAR TURKEY CREEK 2BR, 1BA, laundry rm, family neighborhood, 1 yr lease,
$680 mo. $250 dam. dep. 865-216-5736 OR 694-8414
NORTH KNOXVILLE 2BR, w/d conn, dw. Super-clean! No pets. Hdwd flrs. $525/mo + dam dep, refs. 922-7114 or 216-5732
Houses - Unfurnished 743 BR, 1 BA in Del
Rio, TN, near N.C. border, beautiful country setting with creek. $550 mo, $550 dep. 865-414-4366
3 BR, 2 1/2 BA home off John Sevier near UT/downtown, stove, frig., & W/D hookups. $850/mo. + dep. No pets. Credit check.
865-385-2860
4 BR, 3 BA, 2 car gar., fenced yard, off Lovell Rd., Hardin
Valley/Farragut Schls Avail. Feb. 1. New
paint/carpet. $1300/mo [email protected]
BEARDEN - WEST Nice 1BR home, big yard, bus line, stove, refrig., no pets, lease.
$500. O/A. 588-7416.
CLAXTON-Powell, 3BR 2 BA, spacious,
convenient, 1st/L/DD No pets. 865-748-3644
COUNTRY COTTAGE 2BR/1BA. Cute & cozy Powell/Halls area. $400/ mo + dep. 938-3628
FOR RENT South Knoxville –
Ford Valley Rd, 6 rms, 1 bath, Cent. Ht/Air,
range, refrig. no pets, lease req., $590/mo.
G.T. Ballenger, Realtors, 865-688-3946
UPDATED 3 BR, 2 BA, close to down-town, $850 mo. Pet OK. 865-850-4179
WEST, 3BR, 2BA, freshly updated,
trash included. $850 mo. 865-740-9215.
WEST, Log Cabin, 3BR, 2BA, sunroom, 751 Dixon Rd. $875. Call 865-966-3621.
Condo Rentals 76HALLS AREA 2-STORY
TOWNHOUSE 2 large BR/1.5BA kitchen appls incl'd, W/D conn. No pets, $550/mo + $550 dam-age dep. 1-yr lease. 254-9552, 388-3232
IRRESISTIBLE 3 BR condo for rent, 2 1/2 baths, near UT, $900/mo. Mike 916-474-9218, 865-357-8281
***Web ID# 918036***
N.E. New 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, 2 car gar., frpl, lots of upgrades, $950 mo. 599-8174; 865-938-7200
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Manf’d Homes - Sale 85
OWNER FINANCE 2, 3 & 4 Bedrooms, Call 865-250-4205, for info.
Manf’d Homes - Rent 862BR/1BA ON private lot
at 7431 Blacks Ferry Rd. For rent: $350/dep, $500/mo rent. Call 947-9557 for application.
2BR, 2BA mobile home in Strawberry Plains, $425 per mo. + DD. 865-254-2374.
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General 109#1 BEAUTY CO. AVON
Reps Needed! Only $10 to start! Call Marie at 865-705-3949.
Part Time 123PART TIME nursery
worker position available. St. Paul UMC, 4014 Garden Dr. Child care ex-perience and back-ground check re-quired. For informa-tion, contact Ginny Turner at 742-4520.
Dogs 141American Bulldog
puppies, NKC, S&W, paper trained, ready 1/17, $650. youtube.com/ taylorsabd 865-235-1193
***Web ID# 917969***
AMERICAN Pit Bull Terrier pups, ADBA reg., blue nosed, 3 M, 1 F, POP, $300-$500. 865-816-2172; 660-8331.
***Web ID# 918399***
BOXER PUPPIES AKC Reg., S & W, 2 F, 6 wks old, $285. 865-765-2722.
CHIHUAHUA/Poodle mix puppy M, 7 wks adorable, blk & wht $250. 865-257-6002
Chihuahua Puppies 8 wks, shots/wormed
865-932-2333. ***Web ID# 919374***
CHIHUAHUA Puppies, Male & Female, reg. shots, wormed. $200 & up. Call 865-637-4277.
DOBERMAN PUPS, AKC, $300. Tails, dew claws docked, wormed, white, fawn, & blue avail. 865-279-1948.
ENGLISH Springer Spaniel pups, AKC reg. $500. 423-618-9033 or 423-834-0988.
***Web ID# 919627***
LAB PUPPIES, Chocolate, 1 M, 1 F,
6 wks. old, $150. 423-494-4481; 423-562-1525
***Web ID# 917389***
LAB PUPS, yellow, AKC, all shots, wormed, Ch. bldlns. $500. 865-599-9703
***Web ID# 917813***
Maltese adorable puppies, AKC reg, born 12/7, 2M, 2F, parents on prem. $600. 423-598-3139
***Web ID# 920613***
MALTIPOOS, 7 wks., paper trained, black & white, M $350; F $400. 423-442-9996
***Web ID# 919941***
MIN. SCHNAUZER, female, 10 wks old, choc., full pedigree, $450. 423-645-1895
***Web ID# 919077***
PIT BULL PUPS ADBA registered,
423-625-9192
PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds Maltese,
Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles, Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, shots &
wormed. We do layaways. Health
guar. Div. of Animal Welfare State of TN
Dept. of Health. Lic # COB0000000015.
423-566-0467
SHELLIONS (Sheltie/Papillion),
7 wks, 1st shots, $350. 423-442-9996
***Web ID# 919945***
SHIH TZUs, born 11/20, no papers, beautiful markings, 1st S&W, $250 & $275. 865-556-5818
***Web ID# 918201***
SIBERIAN Husky AKC Pups, champ lines, shots, $500. 865-995-1386
***Web ID# 918910***
STANDARD POODLE, AKC, 8 months old, white Male, $150.
865-221-1378
Dogs 141YORKIE-POO
PUPPIES, males very small, 865-426-8317 or 865-963-1965
***Web ID# 917850***
YORKIE TERRIER Pup, 8 wks, AKC, female, $500. Call 865-291-8428.
Pet Services 144�������������
PET GROOMING Wait or drop off.
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Free Pets 1452 PARAKEETS - free
giveaway. Includes large cage. Call 257-5653.
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FREE TO GOOD HOME: 2 ADORABLE KITTENS, 11 weeks old. 1 female part Per-sian, 1 b/w male. 705-3193
Farmer’s Market 150BLACK HEIFERS
& BULLS Call 865-856-3947
HAY, JD rolls, 4x5, $25. Call 865-235-6119.
I'm Paying Top Dollar for Standing Timber, hardwood & pine. 5 acres or more. Call 865-982-2606; 382-7529
Air Cond/Heating 187ASHLEY WOOD
STOVE. Good condi-tion. $140. Call 922-6253.
Building Materials 188STEEL BUILDINGS - Save THOUSANDS on 2011 Closeouts!!
Limited availability, 20x30, 30x40, others.
Save $$$, buy now for spring. Discounted shipping. Display
savings also! Call 866-352-0469
Buildings for Sale 191STEEL BUILDINGS
Save on 2011 close-outs!! Ltd avail, 20x30, 30x40, etc. Save $$$, buy now for spring. Discounted shipping. Display savings also! 866-352-0469
Household Furn. 204Mattresses. Sealy, Stearns & Foster, Serta, Qn & King
$399-$599. 865-947-2337
Antiques 216
RARE BOOKCASE, 1876, historical info. stamped on back, black walnut & pine, great cond. Phone picts. avail. $800 obo. Complete info. 865-604-7237
Auctions 217HAMMERHEAD
AUCTIONS. Oscar Martin, auctioneer. TAL #6117, TFL 5517. Every Tuesday night, 6:30 p.m., Northside Commu-nity Center, behind Washburn School. First auction Jan. 10. Free $'s and door prizes. 865-497-3076.
Campers 235DUTCHMAN 26RLS, Classic 2003, 29', big
slide, slps 6, like new, $10,500. 606-269-2925 ***Web ID# 915829***
ATV’s 238aJOHN DEERE Gator
4x2, great shape, $4300. Gatlinburg 865-548-4565
Autos Wanted 253Cash For Junk Cars, Trucks, Vans. Fast Free Pickup. 865-556-
8956; 865-363-0318
Auto Accessories 2544 17" like new Michelin tires. 225/60/17. $125 ea. Call 865-591-2630
Vans 256OLDS Silhouette 2003,
tan, leather, 101K mi, fully loaded, exc cond, $5900. 865-771-9837
***Web ID# 919440***
Trucks 257CHEVY 2500 HD 2006,
4 WD, utility bed, 6L V8, towing/snow plow pkg., 8' bed, ladder rk, exc. run-ning 1 owner $15,000 Paul 865-405-5554
Antiques Classics 26015 Antique Cars
from 1953 to 1970 6 are convertibles.
865-898-4200
Sport Utility 261CHEVY TAHOE 1999,
4 dr, 4x4, all pwr, white w/gray lthr, 132K mi, $5,200. 865-384-5082
Imports 262BMW 2006 325CI, Cont., Blk/Wht, tan leather, 6 cyl, all pwr, 44k mi., garage kept, great cond., good for summer fun. $17,500 firm. 865-453-9939 or 865-654-9939 ***Web ID# 920375***
HONDA ACCORD 2001 2 dr, lady owner / driven. 121k mi. $5250. 865-661-1865
HONDA ACCORD 2006, Champagne, 39k mi, exc. cond. $12,900. 865-922-9013
MERCEDES S-430 2000, 83K miles, white/gray, this car is perfect- body/mechanical/
electrical. Meticulous Maintenance, $15,000. Price includes add'l set of (4) 18" chrome wheels with new low-profile tires. 423-667-2900
***Web ID# 919429***
Toyota Camry 1994, exc. cond. Loaded. Very econ. & reliable. $2995. 865-397-7918
VW PASSAT GLX 2003, auto, all pwr., lthr., sunrf., 64K mi., $7900. 865-693-1626.
Domestic 265CHEVROLET IM-
PALA 2010, like new in/out, 59k mi, $11,700. 337-288-5572
CHEVY CAMARO coupe 1991, V8, 60K mi., good shape, $6,000. 865-691-3797
LINCOLN Town Car, 1999, silver, leather inter., 2nd owner, very good cond. Asking $2,950, KBB = $3250, 865-308-3802
***Web ID# 917567***
Air Cond / Heating 301
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Alterations/Sewing 303ALTERATIONS
BY FAITH Men women, children.
Custom-tailored clothes for ladies of all
sizes plus kids! Faith Koker 938-1041
Attorney 306
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Cement / Concrete 315
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Childcare 316
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Childcare 316
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Cleanin g 318CHRISTIAN CLEANING
LADY SERVICE. De-pendable, refs, Call 705-5943.
CLEANING BY TIF-FANY. Halls area, Weekly, references. 925-2403
GET STARTED ON SPRING CLEANING! Cleaning, window & car-pet clng. Homes & offices! Lic'd ins'd & bonded. Est & refs avail. Call 363-8207 or 809-8543.
HOUSE CLEANING
Call Vivian 924-2579
Wkly, bi-wkly, 1-time
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Electrical 323V O L E l e c t r i c � I ns t a l l a t i o n � R e p a i r � M a i n t e n a n c e � S e r v i c e U p -
g r a d e s � Ca b l e � P h o n e L i n es
S ma l l j o b s w e l c o m e .
L i c e n s e d / I n s u r e d O f c : 9 4 5 - 3 0 5 4 C e l l : 7 0 5 - 6 3 5 7
Elderly Care 324 CAREGIVER LOOKING to take care of or be a companion to your elderly. 5 days/wk, nights or over-nights. Lt house-keeping, drive to doc or hairdresser, lt meal prep. No heavy lifting. Call Marie at 947-1063.
CHRISTIAN CARE-GIVER seeking employment. 12 yrs exp. 971-1917.
I AM a senior caregiver, will take care of your sick loved one, cook, clean house, give meds, take to doctor, whatever it takes to do the job. Refs. 566-3115.
Excavating/Gradin g 326
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dump truck. Small jobs welcome & appreciated! Call 688-4803 or 660-9645.
Fencing 327UPRIGHT FENC-
ING, all types, free estimates. Licensed & insured. When you want the job done right, call 689-1020.
Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE instal-
lation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 32 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328
Furniture Refinish. 331DENNY'S FURNITURE
REPAIR. Refinish, re-glue, etc. 45 yrs exp! 922-6529 or 466-4221
Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER
SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.
Landscaping 338LANDSCAPING MGMT
Design, install, mulch, small tree/shrub work, weeding, bed renewal, debri clean-up. Free estimates, 25 yrs exp!
Mark Lusby 679-9848
Lawn Care 339
^ ABC LAWN &
SEALCOATING Comm/Res. Pine
straw mulch, hedge-trimming, tree/ stump
removal, gutters cleaned. 377-3819
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SERVICE Mowing, mulching,
bed clean-up, aera-tion, over-seeding, trimming, fertiliz-ing. Free est, rea-sonable! 925 -4595
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COOPER'S BUDGET LAWN CARE. Cheaper than the rest, but still the best. Aeration, mulch-ing, mowing, trimming, fertilizing, overseeding, etc. Dependable, free estimates. 384-5039.
EDDIE'S LAWN SERVICE Comm/res/condos, lic'd & ins'd. Attention to detail! 776-4529
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Call 360-0406 www.woodplumbing.
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Plumbing 348
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Remodeling 351CARPENTRY, VI-
NYL windows, doors, siding, floor jacking & leveling, painting, plumbing, elec, bsmnt water-proofing, hvac re-pair, floor & attic in-sulation. 455-5042
Licensed General Contractor
Restoration, remodel-ing, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, sun-
rooms, garages, etc. Residential & commer-
cial, free estimates. 922-8804, Herman Love.
SPROLES DESIGN CONSTRUCTION *Repairs/additions
*Garages/roofs/decks *Siding/paint/floors 938-4848 or 363-4848
Roofing / Siding 352
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Tree Service 357
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219-9505
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7908 Dighton Way: Cute 2BR/2BA rancher in Powell, well main-tained and looks new throughout, walk-in laundry rm, new vinyl in kit, heating unit
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5012 Marvell: Beautiful, level lot in the Halls community 4 big BRs, 2.5 BAs. Over 3,000SF,
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DeborahHill-Hobby207-5587
HALLS! REDUCED TO $143,900! – Condo/PUD - Handicap accessible! No stairs! 3BR/2 tile BAs, end unit on culdesac, approx 1,800 SF +/-, huge great rm w/gas log FP, DR w/tray ceiling & molding, tile laundry rm, sunny, tile kit w/breakfast rm, huge mstr suite w/WIC, sep garden tub & shower, dbl vanity, covered deck w/gas grill, oversized 2-car gar w/stg, crawl space. MLS# 782416
NORTH! $119,500! VIEWS OF WHITTLE SPRINGS GOLF COURSE! This home will WOW you. Step back in time. Remarkable, like new mas-terpiece w/many updates incl: Refi n hdwd fl rs, fresh paint, updated elec. & plumbing, newer H&A, 2 BRs + unfi nished walk-up attic for possible 3rd BR or bonus rm. LR w/FP, DR, gal-ley kit w/moveable island, laundry rm, side screened porch, new duct work, newer Low E windows, bsmt w/gar. MLS# 764737
OFF OAKRIDGE HWY! $174,900! hdwd fl rs or ceramic tile in all rms & granite kit tops are just a few of the upgrades. Over 2,000 SF +/- incl: 3BR/2.5BA, LR w/gas log FP, lg FR w/tile fl rs open to kit w/gor-geous granite tops, work isle, S/S appl, formal DR, updated lighting & plumb-ing fi xtures, freshly painted interior, extended decking w/solar lighting, lg stg bldg w/loft, level backyard w/greenway view. MLS# 780593
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’07 Ford Explorer XLT 4x4 16K miles, Extra c lean .............................
$25,930
’05 Nissan Frontier King CAB 2wd 32K miles ..................................................
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’05 Lincoln Navigator Ultimate, 4x4, Loaded, 24K
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