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Fort Sumter Cemetery notes

Fort Sumter Community Cemetery is accepting bids for the 2015 mowing season. Forms may be picked up at the cemetery offi ce, 4828 Salem Church Road, after Feb. 20. Bids must be turned in to the cemetery offi ce by March 6. Info: 660-6949.

■ The community is invited to the Fort Sumter Community Cemetery annual meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at the cemetery offi ce building, 4828 Salem Church Road. An update on cemetery develop-ments and improvements will be provided. Volunteers are needed to help with the future of the cemetery. Info: 660-6949.

Where’s Jim?Looking for Dr. Jim Tumb-

lin’s history feature? Find him in Section B of

Shopper-News. This week, he delves into the story of former Knoxville Mayor Martin J. Condon, who presided over the construction of the old Market Square City Hall and some of Knoxville’s first sew-ers.

After serving his first term, he chose not to seek re-election.

➤ See his story on page B-2

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By Sherri Gardner HowellI have bad news for greeting

card companies, restaurants and fl orists. When it comes to fi lling hearts with love on Valentine’s Day, you have some heavy compe-tition that you will never beat.

Elementary schools.My sweet husband, who groans

like all men when February rolls around, has presented me with some very lovely cards, beauti-ful fl owers and delicious dinners for Valentine’s Days through the years. Nothing can compare, how-ever, to the Popsicle sticks picture frame with crayon red hearts on all sides and a second-grade photo of our younger son grinning from ear to ear. The scrawled “I love you Mommy” on the back completes the heart-tug.

And then there is the plaster of Paris handprint from our fi rstborn

when he was 5 with a teacher-as-sisted poem on the back: “Here’s my hand on Valentine’s Day; Hold me close as I grow and play.” Even now, in the midst of trying to de-clutter, I can’t part with the school-made Valentine’s Day cards.

I have been away from elemen-tary schools so long that I don’t even know what’s “allowed” any-more as far as giving Valentines to classmates. I remember my own Valentine’s Days at school, how-ever. Who knew so much could be read into the size and sentiment on silly “tear on the dotted line” Valentines? Yes, class lists were sent home with proper admonish-ments for every child to provide a card for every other child and that no additional “gifts” could be brought to school, unless there was one for everyone.

And, yes, we followed all the

rules in my small town in the 1960s. But that doesn’t mean each chipper “Barbie says: You’re the grooviest” or Yogi Bear’s “I can’t BEAR to be without you” we re-ceived wasn’t analyzed, dissected and conclusions drawn.

I knew Greg Hart loved me after Valentine’s Day in fourth grade. Greg and I both bought The Bea-tles Valentine’s pack to pass out in our classroom that year. We both gave each other the same card: the largest one in the pack with all FOUR Beatles on it and the senti-ment: “Love, Love Me Do. Happy Valentine’s Day.”

I knew it was true love. I, per-sonally, had spent almost an hour deciding between that card and the “All You Need Is Love” smaller card for Greg. It was destiny.

(Destiny took an ugly turn the next year when Greg threw me

Love, love me doLove, love me doover after I won Miss Lexington Junior First Princess. He imme-diately declared his love for Teresa Smith, who won queen. He moved out of town shortly thereafter, but I had nothing to do with that.)

Unfortunately for adult men and women today, all this com-petition from elementary school crushes and children’s handprints doesn’t take the pressure off for Valentine’s Day. We all love to be loved, and we love to be reminded that we are loved. The point, of course, is to look inside the heart of whoever it is you love. You’ll fi nd the right “gift” in whatever brings that smile to his or her face.

And if you just can’t fi gure it out, call an elementary school teacher.

Maddox moves to Corryton School

Aaron Maddox is the in-terim principal at Corryton Elementary School, replac-ing Jamie Sny-der, who will become dean of academics for the new Emer-ald Academy

charter school. Maddox joined Knox County

Schools in 1995 as a teacher at Fountain City Elemen-tary School and also served as teacher at Copper Ridge. He entered administration in 2009 when he was appointed as an assistant principal at Cedar Bluff Elementary School and has served as an assistant principal at Dogwood Elemen-tary since 2012.

Maddox holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Tennessee, a master’s in education from UT and an education specialist degree in administration and supervision from LMU.

By Ruth WhiteThe Halls Crossroads Women’s

League knows how to throw a shindig. That was evident Friday evening as the community came out in record numbers for the group’s annual Chili Chowdown.

In addition to tables lined with more varieties of chili than could be imagined, the Dave Hall Band provided bluegrass music, baked goods were sold and a good time was had by all.

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Dancing the night away

Bill Gray, Judy Jones, Millie Norris and

Ed Norris break out some impromptu

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The Dave Hall Band.

By Sandra ClarkWork is progressing on the county project

to extend a combination sidewalk/green-way from Clayton Park to Halls Elementary School, but a new snag may delay completion past the six months predicted by Mayor Tim Burchett.

Knox County Engineering and Pu blic Works is installing sidewalks on Norris Free-

way (fl agged, but not started) and Anderson-ville Pike (concrete poured). The county will build an asphalt trail along the utility ease-ment between the Walmart development and the businesses that face Emory Road includ-ing the offi ces of Halls Family Physicians and the St. Mary’s senior housing.

That’s the area where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must inspect and sign off on the

plans, according to Doug Bataille, senior di-rector of Parks and Recreation.

“The mitigation work is done and every-thing looks good,” Bataille said, speaking of the work done by Walmart developers TTC Halls. Knox County will take title to the land with restrictions to preserve the wetlands. The county will be responsible for mainte-nance.

Another snag for greenway connector

Ron Rector dances with his grand-

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Lola Berney Berry holds a photo of

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Halls High student Tori Branam (center, pictured with band members R.C.

Jett and Gordon Jett) was invited to sing a couple of songs with The Dave

Hall Band during the Chili Chowdown. Branam sang “Coat of Many Colors,”

sounding very much like a young Dolly Parton.

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By Ruth WhiteA dad is the fi rst man to

steal a girl’s heart, a man who is often the one by whom all other men are measured. He is the protec-tor, one who knows every-thing and can fi x anything.

Dads, your job is a serious one. You are your daughter’s fi rst love, her fi rst Valentine.

The Boys and Girls Club of Halls/Powell hosted its fi fth annual Father/Daugh-ter Dance, a night for young girls to dress up and be dad-

dy’s little girl.The gym was trans-

formed with a beautiful bal-loon arch and balloon “light posts” around the room. A portrait area was set up to provide keepsakes of the event, and refreshments

munion kits, medals, a fi eld organ and displays outlining the courage and selfl ess acts of chaplains in wartime.

The exhibit was devel-oped and designed by Tom Walker, a former exhibit designer for the American Museum of Science and En-ergy in Oak Ridge. Walker has graciously loaned the exhibit to the church for display through the month of February.

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It’s offi cial: God hates in-surance, especially health insurance for poor people.

We have the “Reverend” June Griffi n to thank for revealing His Truth. Her prayer to open the special session of the state Senate scratched seven Republican committee members right where they itch, and Gov. Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal went down 7-4.

Here are seven names to remember next election (or when your medical bills force you into bankruptcy): Frank Niceley, Mike Bell, Janice Bowling, Rusty Crowe, Todd Gardenhire, Brian Kelsey and Kerry Roberts.

Newly-elected Sen. Rich-ard Briggs, Sen. Becky Massey and Sen. Ed Jack-

God hates health insurance

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son were the Republicans who backed the governor. Democratic Sen. Jeff Yarbro also voted for the proposal.

There may be people walking around more de-mented than June Griffi n, but the vast majority of them are medicated. That doesn’t bother Sen. Niceley, who invited Griffi n to pray.

Griffi n is a “watchdog of democracy,” Niceley said. “There are things that hap-pen in this country that scare everybody.”

There certainly are, like Republican supermajori-ties and June Griffi n. In her prayer, Griffi n let God know that the same health insur-ance he provided Moses and the 12 tribes of Israel – none – was good enough for poor folks in Tennessee.

On the brighter side, the Knox County Health De-partment is warning of the dangers of chikungunya:

“With many residents making plans for spring and summer vacations and mis-sion trips to the Caribbean, ... be aware of chikungu-nya.”

Chikungunya is a viral infection transmitted by mosquitos. It causes fever, joint pain, headaches, rash-es and assorted miseries and lasts about a week.

Why have you never heard of chikungunya? First, you probably can’t afford a Caribbean vaca-tion. Second, there’s a much more dangerous viral infec-tion making the rounds in the states: measles.

Unlike chikungunya, measles is transmitted by an infected person, and the number of infected is grow-ing thanks to the unforgiv-able lunacy of the anti-vac-cination crowd.

Unvaccinated children in Disneyland in Decem-ber were exposed to a much greater health threat.

If I were sending bul-letins, I’d make sure I im-pressed parents with the absolute necessity of hav-ing children vaccinated on schedule.

Marvin West

To the new guys who signed up to be Volunteers: Welcome and be advised that Tennessee football is forever – unless you fail miserably, embarrass us something awful or just plain quit.

Tennessee fans never forget. Your obituary will mention that you are an old Vol and whether you made all-SEC.

Proof positive: The recent Shopper column about what happens when the cheering stops just missed matching the record for the most e-mail comments in one week.

Readers generally ap-proved but seven told me, with different tones, that I had overlooked Jim Haslam and his many gas stations. Not so. Too obvious. Big Jim is the ultimate success story and a very, very generous supporter of the university.

Five wondered why at-torney Tim Priest wasn’t mentioned. Similar logic. He is in the spotlight at least 12 Saturdays a year as Vol Network analyst. Good match. Honest without be-

Tennessee fame is forever

ing harsh. I’m a fan.One reader caused this

follow-up column. She thought I should have told you about Alan Cockrell, former quarterback, base-ball all-American and new assistant hitting coach for the New York Yankees. She and I agree the Yankees are/were big time. Trying to instruct Alex Rodriguez is certain to make news.

Cockrell is a baseball lifer but he had his football mo-ments. He was the fi rst Vol freshman to start a game at quarterback, Colorado State, 1981. Two weeks later, he suffered a bad knee inju-ry. It was thought he might be fi nished.

He made it back and threw two touchdown

passes in the dramatic 1982 upset of Alabama (Mike Terry interception game). I remember a 40-something-yard scoring run against LSU in ’83. Alan was a co-star in the Citrus Bowl win over Maryland and Boomer Esiason.

Ah yes, now you remem-ber. That was Cockrell’s last football game. Thereafter, he concentrated on base-ball, won distinction as a slugging outfi elder, was MVP in the SEC tourna-ment and fi rst-round draft choice of the San Francisco Giants, one pick ahead of Mark McGuire.

The theme of his pro ca-reer was never give up. He played and played in nine minor league seasons be-fore the Colorado Rockies fi nally provided the prover-bial September cup of coffee in 1996. He was 33.

Alan appeared in nine games, one as an outfi elder, eight as pinch hitter. He had a double off Tom Glavine and one other hit, two runs batted in, four strikeouts.

That was that.

Technically, Cockrell was near fl awless with the bat. He had leadership skills. He had the patience to teach. He stayed in baseball as a scout, coach and manager in the Rockies’ farm system. He helped the big club for a few minutes in 2002 and came back as hitting coach in 2007, the World Series season. Ask Todd Helton how much Cockrell did. Colorado led the National League in batting, on-base percentage and total hits.

Too soon the Rockies re-gressed and Alan was un-employed – for a few days. Seattle wanted him. After that, he worked for the Ari-zona Diamondbacks as mi-nor league hitting coordina-tor.

His period of obscurity is fi nished. Fifty-two New York reporters, bloggers and sports-talk types will ask about growing up in Jo-plin, Mo., about fi ve seasons with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox and about being on the Vols’ all-century base-ball team.

Tennessee quarterback? Really? Do you know Pey-ton Manning?Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

The controversy over radio purchases for E-911 continues, and much of the political fallout for Mayor Rogero was self-infl icted. She was the person who decided not to attend E-911 board meetings and not to instruct her proxy on how to vote. No one made her do it.

In fact, Bill Haslam, as mayor, attended several E-911 board meetings.

The need for a special board meeting would not exist had Rogero been pres-ent and prepared to vote on Jan. 21. It could not come at a worse time for her as she is seeking her second and fi nal mayoral term in September. Skipping every E-911 meeting does not look good.

Her mea culpa excuse for not attending was that the meetings were techni-cal and logistical. Does that mean she might not understand the discus-sion or be bored? Wow! Is she really serious? She could easily take qualifi ed staff with her to assist, as she does at biweekly City Council meetings where she presides.

She says her police and fi re chiefs did nothing wrong, but it is their silence on the radio bids, along with everyone else’s, that has triggered the mayoral demand for a special meet-ing. One assumes they will vote with her when the next meeting is held.

She criticizes the inad-equate website for the 911 board (www.knox911.org) and the absence of bylaws as if this is a new discov-ery. Had she paid atten-tion to 911 over the past three years she would have already known about it and could have solved the mat-ter long before now.

Rogero would be much better off acknowledging error on never attending 911 and pledging to do bet-ter. Voters accept apologies. 911 employees would also welcome a visit from her.

Don Howell, the 911 attorney for 20 years, says the chair can call a special meeting. He is one of the few attorneys who has not

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Rogero’s wound is self-infl icted

raised his rate for services for a public body, being paid $2,000 a month in 1995 and the same in 2015.

■ KAT: Mayor Rog-ero is apparently irked that Mayor Tim Burchett endorsed Hubert Smith (a Rogero appointee to the Knox Area Transit) to be chair of KAT in a recent vote. Jim Richards, man-ager of Mast General Store, was actually elected.

Rogero apparently called Burchett to berate him for sending a letter supporting the Smith candidacy, which had the backing of former Mayor Dan Brown who also serves on the board. She also criticized County Clerk Foster Arnett for endorsing Smith.

Interesting that Rogero has time to call Burchett and Arnett over a minor endorsement letter but has not had time to attend other meetings. County Com-missioner Amy Broyles, a Democrat, also wrote KAT backing Smith, along with city council member Mark Campen.

Normally KAT board meetings are quick and quiet. A contested vote for chair is most unusual, es-pecially with endorsement letters from public offi cials.

■ MPC: The special MPC director search com-mittee is nearing a deci-sion. The committee meets behind closed doors at the direction of Bill Lyons, deputy mayor to Rogero. But the decision is down to three persons who are now being vetted.

A recommendation is a few weeks off. Burchett and Rogero will have to approve it for it to become effective. The MPC board has no voice in the choice as the new director will not report to them but to the two mayors, which makes for an unclear and poten-tially unworkable line of author ity.

The playing fi eld still is not level.

The gates to the stadium have been opened to every-one, but the fi eld is tilted, uneven. Home-fi eld advan-tage is more than a myth. Some teams always have to kick into the wind.

Recently the Shopper-News reported on Robotics Team 5744, the fi rst group of Austin-East students to compete in the FIRST Ro-botics Competition, an in-ternational program that challenges talented high schoolers to solve high-tech science and engineering problems.

The A-E team came to the fi rst stage of the contest both scared and eager. Un-der the leadership of their

Bill Dockery

Let’s level the playing fi eld

Project GRAD director, Tanisha Fitzgerald-Baker, they came to the University of Tennessee College of En-gineering, where they got a crash course in putting to-gether a fundamental robot from a kit. In a grueling 11-hour day, they worked out how to assemble and wire it, and one young man sat down with the program-ming manual and learned to make it obey. Other high school teams with more

experience were generous consultants. Sometime in February, Team 5744 faces its next step – making their robot do the chores the contest requires. They are working on it.

But there’s always a back story, the part that doesn’t make the paper. In this case it was the bureaucracy needed to get the A-E team into the contest.

When Fitzgerald-Baker began to put together the A-E application, she was welcomed by the state FIRST coordinator and ad-ministrators in the College of Engineering. But the ap-plication process had unex-pected barriers: Parents of participating students were required to go online. Only

one family of the half-dozen involved A-E students had ready access to the Internet.

“I had to print out all the forms, send them home for the parents to sign, and take them with me the morn-ing of the competition,” she said. “Then I had to explain why I was bringing paper forms instead of completing the process online.”

The groundskeepers – the people who created the game and drew up the rules – threw up unnecessary barriers for some would-be players because of the as-sumptions they made about the lives and resources of the people they expected to go out for the team.

Expectation is also a ma-jor factor in warping the playing fi eld. When the UT philosophy department cre-ated its Ethics Bowl compe-

tition in 2009, David Goff, the librarian who sponsors the A-E team, quietly ad-mits that there was a lack of respect for the team from the East Knoxville school.

“When we won third place in 2011, everyone was shocked,” he said. Not so much now, for the team went on to win fi rst place in the 2012 and 2013 bowls and came in second in 2014. In fact, for the fi rst time since they began to partici-pate, the A-E team failed to place in the top three fi nish-

ers in the 2015 competition recently.

“Our team knew they did well. We were shocked not to place,” Goff said. “The students deserve the credit. They worked hard and ex-pected to win.”

Downpage in the same issue of the Shopper-News was another story about an uneven playing fi eld – the contest to keep all students in school and out of the ju-venile justice system.

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chair of Tennessee’s Demo-cratic Party:

Elect Democrats. Strengthen the Democratic Party brand. Damage the Republican brand, some-thing she said the opposi-tion is making it easy to do.

“Chip, chip, chip, chip, chip away,” she said, rais-

The Knox County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) has come a long way since private citizens took it over from Knox County Commis-sioners.

The BZA is the last place to appeal a zoning before going to court. Until 2009, county commissioners ap-pointed themselves to the nine-member board.

A 2008 state law barring commissioners from serving on boards or commissions appointed by commission-ers forced all but two board members, Scott Moore and William Daniels, to step down. Daniels had fi nished his term as an interim com-missioner and Moore had been ousted from commis-sion for perjury.

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ing the issue of Chattanooga state Sen. Todd Garden-hire’s getting caught telling a whopper when he claimed he doesn’t get state-subsi-dized medical insurance (Gardenhire was one of fi ve Republican members of the state Senate’s Health Com-mittee who voted to kill Gov. Bill Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal.)

Mancini is a known quantity in Nashville, where she owned a Nash-ville rec ord store and punk

rock venue, had a radio talk show, spent 10 years as an Internet provider and was executive director of Ten-nessee Citizen Action, but not so much across the state, so last week, she hit the road for a statewide tour that, if her Knoxville stop is typical of the others, is as much “get to know me” as “listening.”

“Mary’s kind of data-driven and goal-oriented,” said former state Rep. Glo-ria Johnson, who lost her seat by 183 votes and was also a candidate for state chair until she withdrew to clear the way for Mancini, about whom she is enthusi-astic. “She’s really current on all that stuff and will

utilize those tools to make good things happen.”

Randy Neal, Knoxville’s most prominent progres-sive blogger, describes her as smart, high energy and charismatic.

“Mary did outstanding work as executive director at Tennessee Citizen Action, where she was the go-to person on voting rights and campaign fi nance. … Her challenge now will be fund-raising and recruiting. I don’t know how wired in she is with the old-school Dem-ocrats and money people in Nashville, but maybe a fresh new approach is what the party needs.

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the right path and lead us out of the wilderness. She seems up to the task.”

Organizers tagged the headcount at 125. Mancini pronounced it her biggest crowd of the tour. Repre-sentatives of the civil rights community, labor groups, Young Democrats, College Democrats and party lead-ers from surrounding coun-ties were present.

The Rev. Harold Mid-dlebrook offered the ob-servation that “We have a Democratic pulpit and a Re-publican pew.” Tax reform activists John and Nancy Stewart acknowledged that amending the state consti-tution to outlaw an income tax last year has driven a

stake through the heart of their efforts.

“That’s 38 years of work down the tubes,” John Stewart said, lamenting the diffi culty of communicating the advantages of a system that is not dependent on sales-tax revenue “We need to simplify what we say.”

When a labor union rep-resentative pushed her to take a stand against the Trans Pacifi c Partnership (called “NAFTA on Ste-roids” by opponents), Man-cini didn’t let him down easy:

“I’ll be blunt: I don’t think there’s anything I can do to stop it. My priority is the state. My job is to elect Democrats in Tennessee.”

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trict county commissioner.But that didn’t happen.

Schoonmaker, who was president of the Council of West Knox County Home-owners at the time, was encouraged to apply for the post by then-Commissioner Craig Leuthold. He thought Schoonmaker’s expertise would benefi t the BZA.

Schoonmaker was ap-pointed, along with other community leaders and professional experts from each district: Daniel Brown, Markus Chady, Jean Teague, Larry York, Les Spitzer and Carson Dailey. Daniels be-came the chair.

Politics plays no role in the decisions of the citizen

board, Schoonmaker says. Their decisions are based solely on county ordinances.

There is no time limit on cases. One case lasted four hours, Schoonmaker said.

BZA board members recognized that developers and builders had a tendency to overlook rules, like set-back requirements, and ask for forgiveness later. They changed the fee structure: $200 if construction had not begun; $400 if it had.

In one case, a builder who ignored a setback require-ment had to move a house that was already undeway.

While experts, like archi-tects, are helpful, common sense is the most valuable attribute for board mem-bers, Schoonmaker says. Petitioners seek variances for things they can’t control, like property lines that were established before survey-ing was an exact science. Other times, they create their own hardships, and

it’s important to be able to tell the difference.

Schoonmaker says he’s proud that board mem-bers don’t make deci-sions be-fore they’ve heard a case. Some-times, a case seems simple on

paper, but when it’s present-ed, it calls for a different outcome.

His biggest disappoint-ment is the Metropolitan Planning Commission’s lack of action on the discrepancy between the city’s and the county’s minimum size for parking spaces. The coun-ty’s minimum size is 200 square feet, and the city’s is 162 square feet. Business owners in the county regu-larly appear before the BZA, and pay a $200 fee, to re-ceive a variance that allows

them to have the same size parking spaces as business-es in the city.

BZA asked County Com-mission to request that MPC change the county code in January 2012, and there has been no action, he says.

But his time spent with the BZA was overwhelm-ingly positive, he says.

“It was an absolute privilege to serve on BZA. I looked forward to every meeting because it was al-ways a challenge.”

In a recent workshop by the NAACP and the Chil-dren’s Defense Fund, pre-senters used federal fi gures from Knox County Schools to show that African-Amer-ican students are suspended from school almost three times more often than their white fellow students. If dis-ability is factored in, about one in 10 white students will be suspended, while around one in four black students will be sent home.

Students who are sus-pended are much more likely to leave school and fall under the jurisdiction of the crimi-

nal justice system.The assumptions our in-

stitutions make about the lives and resources of our students are the factors that warp the playing surface, that skew even those hon-est attempts to level the fi eld so that everyone gets a fair chance to succeed.

The groundskeepers – schools and courts, govern-ments and charities – must make sure that their own expectations do not tilt the fi eld so that people of color and people with disabilities have no possibility of suc-ceeding.

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By Nancy AndersonThe evening was to be

all about Tom Becker. Still, it came as no surprise that Becker had some other thoughts on where the spot-light should go.

Becker was to be honored on Sunday, Feb. 8, at Bea-ver Ridge United Methodist

Cub Scouts Wyatt Emery

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speak with Tom Becker during

a reception on Feb. 8 to honor

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Saying thanks for scouting leadership

By Sandra ClarkThe fi rst time I heard

of Jerry Cheung was when Tud E t h e r t o n s t o p p e d by to say, “You real ly should try this Chinese restaurant … ”

Tud and Shirley were

super customers and be-came friends with Jerry and Salina Cheung – even to the point of Tud bringing Jerry and his erhu to the DP Club’s summer watermelon-cutting.

There’s no sound like “Rocky Top” on an erhu.

Jerry was an honorary pallbearer and speaker at Tud’s funeral last week.

Tud died Jan. 31 at age 78. The men in his fam-

ily wore overalls to receive friends at Salem Baptist Church.

One-of-a-kind, Tud was a friend to all who worked at making his friends become friends of each other.

Survivors include wife, Shirley; son and daughter-in-law, Randy and Colleen; son, Kenny; daughter, Kim-berley Fitzpatrick; grand-children; and a host of friends.

Tud Etherton

Tud Etherton was friend to all

The men of the Charles “Tud” Etherton family honored him by wearing overalls to the receiving

of friends at Salem Baptist Church. Pictured are Corey Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Kenny Ether-

ton, Randy Etherton, Waylon Etherton, Jason King and Jaxton King (in front).

Church for his dedication to the Boy Scouts of America. Scouting Sunday is an an-nual event at Beaver Ridge that is designed to recog-nize boys and leaders from Cub Scouts to Eagle Scouts for the time and efforts they give to scouting. This year’s celebration was intended to honor Becker, who has more than 50 years of scouting leadership and service un-der his belt.

Becker did the paper-work necessary for three of his fellow leaders – Tim Brown, Brian Damiano and Larry Rose – to receive the Cross and Flame Award and insisted they receive the medallions and recognition during the morning service of Scout Sunday. The Cross and Flame Award is pre-sented by the United Meth-odist Church to adult lead-ers in scouting who have given exceptional service in youth programing and de-velopment.

“You can talk for an hour and still barely touch on all the things Tom Becker has done for us,” says Damiano.

“He’s an amazing man who has made a huge impact on all of us. We intended for today to be about Tom. He’s been involved in this church on all levels for many years. He’s chairman of the trust-ees, sings in the choir, is on pretty much every commit-tee and has been on every mission trip that I know of. Basically, if anything needs done, he’s there to help.”

Becker was appreciative, says pastor Darryll Ras-nake, but wanted to recog-nize the other scout leaders for their service by giving them the Cross and Flame Award on his special day.

“Tom is the one who said we needed to do this for these three men. He said it was important and had already done all the work and gotten the medallions. These guys are good men, an asset to the church and solid leaders,” says Ras-nake.

“They’re the next genera-tion.”

Beaver Ridge UMC has nearly 70 boys invovled in scouting.

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We had reached the por-tion of our worship service when prayer concerns are offered for those who are sick or troubled, for those who are traveling, for those who are searching, seeking.

And then, one woman offered a two-word prayer request that electrifi ed me: She said, quietly, “Big peace.”

I confess that I didn’t hear anything else for quite a while.

“Big peace.” I kept turn-ing that over in my mind. The questions began to tumble: What did big peace mean to her? What might it mean to us, our communi-ty, our country, our world? What would “big peace” look like?

Is big peace possible? What would it take? Are we capable of it? How do we start? What can I do to cre-ate “big peace?”

Then it occurred to me that we have started. This

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Look! On the mountains the feet of one who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace!

(Nahum 1: 15 NRSV)Deep peace of the running wave to you.Deep peace of the fl owing air to you.Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.Deep peace of the shining stars to you.Deep peace of the gentle night to you …Deep peace of Christ to you.

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Big peace

woman – this visionarywoman – knows that ourprayers are too small. Shehas skipped all the specifi c,immediate needs that wefrequently pray for; she hasgone cosmic. She is prayingfor big peace and asking usto join her in that supplica-tion.

Then the scarier ques-tions reared their uglyheads: What will deep peacemean to me? What will Ihave to change? What willthat deep peace require ofme? Wow!

Blessings on a womanwho prays for big peace,who thinks in global, uni-versal, cosmic terms.

FAITH NOTES

By Cindy TaylorPassing by the new sign

at Christ United Methodist Church, you may see a mes-sage that says “Faith Build-ing in progress – Construc-tion for Christ.” The fi rst time I saw it, I mistakenly thought it was referring to the widening of Maynard-ville Highway and its effect on church property.

While the road construc-tion is clearly visible, even more is going on behind the church – and inside the hearts of its members.

A new education wing is underway behind the origi-nal church building to house additional classrooms and a choir room. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of summer, and ad-ditional parking to accom-modate the growing congre-gation is also on the agenda.

Church members do-nated supplies last Novem-ber to Halls High School’s woodworking class for a picnic table and pergola for the CDC outdoor classroom at the school. Both are com-plete, and the picnic table is

wheelchair accessible.Music plays a huge part in

the ministry of the church. Mark Beckley has joined the staff as the new church organist. A new children’s choir has been formed, and the line-dancing ministry continues to grow as danc-ers take their performing talents to local assisted-liv-ing centers.

More than 50 attended Resurrection in Gatlinburg, an event sponsored by the Holston Conference. Christ UMC’s youth will team up with Project Crossroads in July for this year’s mission trip.

The church will celebrate Shrove Tuesday at 6 p.m. Feb. 17 with a feast of pan-cakes and bacon. An Ash Wednesday service will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18. A midweek healing service is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. March 4, and a midweek Communion service will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 11 during Lent. The Spring Fling dinner is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 25, and Easter Sunday sunrise service will

The completed outdoor classroom Photos submitted

Christ UMC youth member Braden Large, keynote speaker the

Rev. Reggie Dabbs and youth member Brock Rogers at the

“Resurrection” conference

Construction continues at (and in front of) Christ UMC.

Building faith at Christ UMC

be April 5 at Mays Chapel Cemetery with breakfast at Christ UMC.

“We are excited about our new addition, the grow-ing traditional and con-temporary services, our community-wide Helping Hands Ministry, children and youth ministries and vi-

brant music,” said associate pastor Charla Sherbakoff. “We invite everyone to come and see the many ways God is at work!”

Christ UMC is at 7535 Maynardville Pike. To view the full calendar, go to www.christumcknox.com. Info: 922-2890. By Steve Higginbotham

It’s a dangerous world out there. We read of one epidemic after another, from AIDS to SARS, from tuberculosis to the fl u. To say the least, we need to take precautions. However, let me warn you of one more epidemic whose beginning literally dates back to the beginning.

This malady has plagued Christians for generations. It is a condition that seems

to render one’s hand immo-bile when reaching for one’s wallet or purse while the collection plate is passed. Interestingly enough, this strange affl iction does not immobilize people when reaching for their wallet or purse at the shopping mall or sporting event.

I don’t know if this ill-ness has an offi cial name yet, but some are calling it “cirrhosis of the giver.” Be careful you don’t catch it!

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Fundraisers ■ Black Oak Ridge Baptist

Church WMU, 6404 Old

Maynardville Pike, is holding

a spaghetti supper/cake walk

fundraiser 6:30 p.m. Friday,

Feb. 13. Supper: $5.

■ Son-Light Baptist Church,

6494 Son-Light Way, will be

selling milk chocolate and

white chocolate covered

strawberries 1-5 p.m. Friday,

Feb. 13, at the church to raise

funds for the kitchen. Cost is

$15 a dozen. To order: 922-

0550.

Community services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian,

4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the

Halls Welfare Ministry food

pantry 6-8 p.m. each second

Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each

fourth Saturday.

■ Dante Church of God, 410

Dante School Road, will

distribute Boxes of Blessings

(food) 9-11 a.m. or until boxes

are gone, Saturday, Feb. 14.

One box per household. Info:

689-4829.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church,

7212 Central Avenue Pike, is

accepting appointments for

the John 5 Food Pantry. Info:

938-2611. Your call will be

returned.

Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Knoxville Day Aglow Light-house weekly Bible study,

9:30-11:30 a.m. beginning

Thursday, Feb. 12, New Cove-

nant Fellowship Church, 6828

Central Avenue Pike. Topic:

“Game Changers” by Graham

Cooke; instructor: Jeannine

Courtney. Info: Diane Shelby,

687-3687.

■ Powell Church hosts Recov-

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Athletes from across the country signed their names on the dotted line and made commitments to play sports at the collegiate level next season.

At Halls High, seniors Jared White and Jakob

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J a r e d , who played tight end for Halls, selected ETSU be-cause he felt that the school will give him the opportu-nity to receive an excellent education and to pursue his dreams of playing Di-

vision 1 football. After two visits to the campus, Jared knew that Johnson City was where he wanted to spend his next four years.

“Playing football for Coach Overton gave me op-portunities to not only see playing time, but to be men-tored by a great coach who cares about the develop-ment of players both on and off the fi eld. He helped me a great deal with the recruit-ing process.”

Attending the sign-

ing with Jared were his parents, Mike and Kelli White, his sister, Katie, coach J.D. Overton and many friends.

Jakob has played middle linebacker at Halls High for four years and is look-

ing forward to playing at Lindsey Wilson Col-lege in Co-lumbia, Ky., next year.

He se-lected LWC because of the welcom-

ing campus atmosphere and the strong football program. He plans to study business.

While at Halls, Jakob learned a lot from his coach and teammates, most importantly about

having a positive attitude in every aspect of life. He will miss his friends the most when he leaves for Kentucky. “Everyone I know goes here.”

Watching Jakob sign were his parents, Tony Woods and Tessa Thomas, his brother Hutson Woods and his aunt, Karen Woods.

Gibbs High was proud to announce the signing of two seniors on National Signing Day: Hunter Lane and Bren-dan Wilson.

Hunter will attend Aus-tin Peay, where he plans to study in the pre-veterinar-ian fi eld, in the fall. He se-lected AP because of posi-tive experiences with the coaches and a good connec-tion with the other recruits.

While playing under coach Brad Conley at Gibbs,

Hunter learned that hard work equals success. Con-

ley called Hunter a “ t r e m e n -dous kid who is a hard work-er and has de ve lop e d into a great leader.”

A t t e n d -ing the signing were his mom, Barbara Lane, his brother, Oliver, grand-mother Linda Lane, cousin Michael Duffy and many friends and teammates. Dad Chris Lane was unable to at-tend but prior to the event wished his son the best on his big day.

Brendan Wilson will travel to Columbia, Ky., to attend Lindsey Wilson Col-lege in the fall.

He transferred to Gibbs as a sophomore and played cornerback and slot back for

the Eagles. Coach Conley called Brendan a “unique

young man, a great ath-lete with ex-cellent ball-h a n d l i n g skills.” One of the most i mp or t a nt things he l e a r n e d while at

Gibbs was the importance of being part of a brother-hood, a family no matter what.

Selecting LWC was an easy choice for Wilson, who liked the smaller campus and the opportunity to play at the next level. While at Lindsey Wilson, he plans to study sports medicine.

Attending the signing were his parents, Marcus and Tobi Wilson, his sisters Tamia, Loryn and Mick-aela Wilson and a crowd of friends and teammates.

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The Halls High swim team came in second place for Division 2 at the Knox-Area Interscholastic Swim League (KISL) champion-ship meet on Jan. 31. Forty-two teams participated in a fi erce competition, and 10 members of the 14-strong Red Devils team reached the fi nals.

Logan Smith and Charlie Boles placed in the fi nals for all four of their events. Re-sults from the meet include: fourth place, 200 Medley Relay: Isabell Loy, Charli Boles, Christin McCallister and Kristin Cannon; 200

yard Freestyle: Kristin Can-non, 14th, Logan Smith, 13th and Tucker Hardin, 14th; 200 Individual Med-ley: Charli Boles, fi fth; 100 yard Butterfl y: Logan Smith, 10th, Tyler Ledger-wood, 12th; 200 yard Free-style Relay: Tucker Hardin, Tyler Ledgerwood, Nick Wilson and Logan Smith placed ninth; 100 Yard Back Stroke: Isabel Loy, 16th, Quinn Smith, 7th; 100 yard Breast Stroke: Charli Boles, second; 400 yard Free Re-lay, girls: Kristin Cannon, Christin McCallister, Lilia Whittington and Charli

Members of the Halls High swim team include: (front) Brendan Goulde, Dylan Fish, Isabell Loy;

(middle) Tucker Hardin (holding trophy), Lilia Whittington; (back) coach Bryan Goldberg, Tyler

Ledgerwood, Logan Smith, Quinn Smith, Nicholas Wilson, Charli Boles, coach Kara Seaman. Not

pictured are Kristen Cannon, Christin McCallister, Natalie Martin and Lauren Brady. Photo submitted

Challengers cheer squad performs at Halls HighChallenger cheerleaders recently performed during halftime at a Halls High basketball game.

The group cheers for the Challengers basketball league on Tuesday nights at Sharon Baptist

Church, and the girls were thrilled to perform for the crowd at Halls. Pictured are: (front) Annie

Miller, Alli Woods, Faith Kitts, Morgan Holbert, coach Kalie Mengeling, Lydia Williams; (second

row) Hannah Cooper, Briley Fraker, Olivia Kitts, Madison Ray, Jaiden Mathes, Savanna Stooks-

bury; (back) Kennedi Holbert, Hailey Basta and Ashley Arnold. Photo submitted

Halls swim team places second at KISL championship

Boles, seventh; 400 yard Free Relay, boys: Quinn Smith, Tyler Ledgerwood, Tucker Hardin and Logan Smith, sixth.

Textbooks available for public review Parents and community

members who wish to re-view math textbooks and instructional materials pro-

posed for use in the Knox County Schools during the 2015-2016 school year can view the selections at the

Sarah Simpson Professional Development Center, 801 Tipton Ave., through Feb. 20.

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By Betsy PickleA mind is a terrible thing to lose. What’s

worse is realizing that it is slipping away as you are still trying to live your life.

This is true at any age, but “Still Alice” focuses on the horror and tragedy of early-onset Al-zheimer’s disease. Julianne Moore b r i l l i a n t l y captures the struggles of a woman who real-izes perhaps more than most people all that is she is losing as the process marches on.

Alice Howland is a highly regarded linguistics professor at Columbia Univer-sity in New York. She has a strong marriage with John (Alec Baldwin) and has reared three children who are now out on their own: Anna (Kate Bosworth), Lydia (Kristen Stewart) and Tom (Hunter Parrish).

Winding up her regular jog one day, Al-ice is disconcerted when she realizes she doesn’t know where she is. Little details begin to elude her, and she talks to her doc-tor about the problem. When she fi nds out she may have early-onset Alzheimer’s, John promises to see her through the travails.

Alice’s deterioration is pretty fast, and

though she tries to hold on to her life, the disease is stronger than she is.

Other movies have shown how Al-zheimer’s tests a family. This one comes

from the patient’s perspective. Moore digs deep into the

frustration and fear of the experience, us-

ing her eyes, her face and her

body language to express what Al-ice is going through.

This isn’t e s c a p i s t e n t e r t a i n -ment, but

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who’ve been touched by the

disease – a story that’s relatable, a per-formance that is true to life.

The fi lm shows how her family reacts to the crisis; some behav-ior is sadly predictable and some sweetly surprising.

The writing-directing team of Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, who adapted the novel by Lisa Genova, steers clear of manipulation, letting the natural-ism of the situation hit poignant notes.

And, always, there’s Moore, creating a ball of confusion so believable, so powerful that “Still Alice” will stick with you long af-ter you leave the theater.

Romance – or something – is in the air

Has the controversy fi zzled out, or will “Fifty Shades of Grey” reignite the blaze it set off when it de-buted in book form? We’ll know more this weekend, when the R-rated sex fan-tasy arrives in theaters.

It’s interesting that “Fifty Shades” is being marketed as a Valentine’s Day movie but actually debuts on Fri-day the 13th. The fi lm stars Dakota Johnson – daugh-ter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffi th – as literature student Anasta-sia Steele, who goes to in-terview wealthy, handsome Christian Grey (Jamie Dor-nan) and winds up falling for him.

The attraction is mutual, but naïve Anastasia may not be able to keep up with Christian’s nontraditional proclivities or his control-ling nature.

Neither of the stars has an extensive list of credits, so they don’t carry much baggage with them onto the screen (so much for hiding their nakedness!). Johnson appeared in “The Social Network” and “21 Jump Street.” Dornan was in “Ma-rie Antoinette” but probably was seen by more people during his stint as the sher-iff on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time.”

The cast includes Luke Grimes, Jennifer Ehle, Mar-cia Gay Harden and Callum Keith Rennie. Sam Taylor-Johnson directed.

On the surface, “Kings-man: The Secret Service” doesn’t seem to be targeting the libido like “Grey,” but it does star Colin Firth as an extremely well-dressed spy. (And isn’t it odd that he and his “Pride and Prejudice” leading lady, Jennifer Ehle, both have new fi lms out this week?)

Harry Hart (Firth) works for an independent spy agency and has just taken a rough but promising street kid (Taron Egerton) under his wing when an evil genius starts making some scary moves. The Force is strong with this fi lm: “Star Wars” alums Samuel L. Jackson and Mark Hamill both co-star. Michael Caine, Mark Strong and Jack Davenport are also in the fi lm directed by Matthew Vaughn (“X-Men: First Class”).

“Still Alice,” which stars Julianne Moore in an

Oscar-nominated perfor-mance, looks at early-onsetAlzheimer’s from the suf-ferer’s perspective.

Moore plays a linguisticsprofessor who feels the painof the dread disease prob-ably more than most. AlecBaldwin, Kristen Stewartand Kate Bosworth co-stars.

Also scheduled to open locally this week are “Mom-my” and “Mr. Turner.”

Canadian fi lm “Mommy” is about a widowed mother who struggles to keep life on an even keel when her teen-age son – who’s prone to violent outbursts – returns to live with her after being institutionalized.

The fi lm has won and been nominated for several festival and critics’ prizes. Anne Dorval, Antoine-Oliv-ier Pilon and Suzanne Clem-ent star for director Xavier Dolan.

“Mr. Turner” won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival last year and is up for four Oscars: cinematog-raphy, production design, costume design and original score. Timothy Spall plays eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner, whose odd lifestyle makes it hard for the public and royalty to ac-cept him.

Mike Leigh (“Secrets & Lies”) directed the fi lm.

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Alice (Julianne Moore) grapples with

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FRIDAY ■ “Carmen” presented by the Knoxville Opera, 8 p.m., Ten-

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■ Winter Jam 2015 Tour Spectacular, 7:30 p.m., Thompson-

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SUNDAY ■ “Carmen” presented by the Knoxville Opera, 2:30 p.m., Ten-

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656-4444; Knoxville Opera Box Offi ce, 524-0795. Info: www.

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■ Jacob Whitesides in concert, 7:30 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803

S. Gay St. Tickets: $22 advance, $25 day of show, $126.50 VIP.

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Bass-baritone Ryan Kuster thinks that most people can relate to George Bizet’s opera “Carmen,” which is being performed by the Knoxville Opera Com-pany this weekend.

There’s just something about a man in a cape. Audrey Babcock in the title role and Ryan Kuster

as Escamillo the bullfi ghter strike a fi ery pose in Knoxville Opera’s production of Bizet’s “Car-

men.” Photo by Megan Clute Photography

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“For one thing, people will recognize the music. Most people know a lot more of ‘Carmen’ than they think they do. And the story is compelling. There’s no real hero. It’s very human – there’s not a clear moment where you say, ‘Oh, this is the person that I root for.’”

Kuster is intrigued by the shades of gray in the char-acters he plays and prefers to paint even the bad boys as fl awed humans rather than villainous archetypes. “There’s a little bit of bad in the best of us,” he says, “and a little bit of good in the worst of us. It’s not black and white.”

His favorite role so far is Don Giovanni, the title character in Mozart’s op-era based on the legend-ary fi ctional character Don Juan, who just can’t keep away from the women. The notorious libertine eventu-ally has to pay the piper; he’s dragged down to hell by the ghost of the man he murdered. “Why does he do the things he does?” Kuster muses. “What is he trying to silence or compensate for?”

The handsome singer – he’s been featured on http://barihunks.blogspot.com, a website dedicated to

operatic beefcake – is look-ing forward to performing the part of bullfi ghter Esca-millo this weekend. It’s his fourth time as the dashing matador. He enjoys singing the role and is having fun in rehearsals, though “having to dredge up all that energy time after time is exhaust-ing!”

Understandably so. Kuster belts out what is ar-guably the most famous aria in “Carmen” and one of the most famous in all opera: “Votre Toast,” also known as “The Toreador Song.”

You know the tune. Ev-

eryone does. The same was true in Bizet’s time, appar-ently to his immense frus-tration.

“Bizet wrote ‘Votre Toast’ as a joke,” says Kuster. “He was upset when it became the crowd favorite.”

Indeed, according to the website www.classical-notes.com, the composer wrote the aria “to stroke his star’s ego.” He considered the last-minute composition very much beneath him, re-ferring to it as “fi lth.”

Yet it’s guaranteed to set toes tapping, and strains of the chorus will undoubtedly

linger in memory long after the audience leaves the the-ater: “Toreador, en garde! Toreador! Toreador!”

Kuster’s background in-cludes a prestigious Adler Fellowship with the San Francisco Opera. He’s much in demand these days, having most recently performed as a soloist in Handel’s “Messiah” with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Other fall 2014 appearances included “Don Giovanni” at Memphis Op-era and “Carmen” at Opera Grand Rapids in Michigan. Next up is the role of An-

gelotti in Puccini’s “Tosca” with the Orlando Philhar-monic in Florida.

Originally from Illinois, Kuster now says, “I live out of my suitcases. I’ve done that since 2013.”

The singer thinks that there are signifi cant simi-larities between his bull-fi ghter and Carmen, the free-living temptress.

“In terms of the way they live their lives, they’re well-matched. It’s one day at a time for each of them.”

But if you know the sto-ry, you know that Carmen and the matador are mere-ly “ships that pass in the night,” whereas her main squeeze, tenor Don José, is

so obsessed with Carmen that – well, no spoilers here. You’ll just have to go, see and hear how it all turns out.

The Knoxville Opera Company will present George Bizet’s “Carmen,” sung in French with Eng-lish supertitles, at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Tennessee Theatre. Each performance will be pre-ceded by an opera preview hosted by KOC Maestro Brian Salesky. For tickets and info, call 524-0795 or visit www.knoxvilleopera.com.Send story suggestions to news@shop-

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I have been told by those who know and cook great food not to mess with a good chef’s creation. Don’t ask to substitute the collard greens for a baked potato. Don’t switch up the salad dressings. Chefs don’t just throw this stuff together, they correctly say. There is a symphony of fl avors that should be experienced all together.

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not, eat mussels. I asked for them to be omitted.

Northshore Brasserie, 9430 S. Northshore Drive, serves French cuisine the way the French do it. The food is upscale, imaginative and creatively put together (again, sorry about the mus-sels), but the atmosphere is relaxed. If you mistak-enly think of French food as “frou-frou,” leave that

attitude at the door. Bras-serie serves hearty dishes, and you won’t be looking under a lettuce leaf for your entrée.

Brasserie owners encour-age the neighborhood ap-peal of the restaurant, and the bar is a lively place after working hours. It’s a gather-ing place – for lunch, dinner and in the bar.

In spite of my tinker-

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it and is the perfect accom-paniment to the dish. This is a fork dish with just enough broth to make each mouth-ful perfect. The bread is bet-ter than a spoon for getting that last bit of broth anyway.

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By Sherry WittThe local real estate

and lend-ing mar-kets began 2015 with e n c o u r a g-ing news as n u m b e r s o u t p e r -formed Jan-uary 2014 in virtually

every category. On the heels of a strong December, prop-erty sales experienced their usual decline in January; however, the total number of transfers recorded bested last January’s number by 39.

For the month that ended on Friday, Jan. 30, there were 583 property sales in

Knox County, compared to 544 during the fi rst month of 2014.

The aggregate value of property transferred also came in some $4 million ahead of last January’s pace. About $146 million worth of real estate was bought and sold in Knox County. Mortgage lend-ing refl ected a similar im-provement over last year’s fi gures, as approximately $227 million was loaned against property. That was a modest increase from January 2014, when just under $203 million was loaned in mortgages and refi nancing.

The most notable prop-erty sale of the month was the Brakebill Nursing Home

facility at 5837 Lyons View Pike, which was purchased for $10.75 million. On the lending side, the largest mortgage recorded during January was a construction Deed of Trust in the amount of $14.4 million secured by a 20-acre tract on Chero-kee Trail. Close behind was a loan for $13.9 million fi -nancing property known as Parkside Plaza at 11400 Parkside Drive.

While it may not yet be said that real estate mar-kets have made a full re-covery, it is significant to note that last month pro-duced the largest January totals for property sales in Knox County since 2007. That is hopeful news in-deed.

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Elmcroft hosts Halls B&P breakfast Flapjacks district manager Wendell Cox chats with Marcy McMillan from Elmcroft during the

Halls Business and Professional Association breakfast. The group meets each fi rst Thursday at

various businesses for a light breakfast and networking. Cox said Flapjack’s on Emory Road will

open in February. The March meeting will be hosted by Tennova Health and Fitness from 7:30-9

a.m. Community members are welcome to attend and to meet area business owners. Photo byR. White

Corbin brings Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to Halls Rob Corbin, a certifi ed brown belt and representing Victor Huber Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, has begun

teaching classes inside Fit-N-Fast workout facility in Halls. Corbin has eight years’ experience

and off ers gi and no gi training in a family-friendly environment. Classes are currently off ered

12-1 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Monday through Friday with plans to expand class times. Fit-N-Fast is

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Wilburn, who lives in Fountain City, earned

a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the UT College of Engineering in 2014.

She is currently work-ing with the Messer team on the University of Ten-nessee West Campus Rede-velopment project, a $234 million replacement of the Presidential Court student housing complex.

By Sandra ClarkWendy’s on Clinton

Highway has reopened the dining area after extensive remodeling. Store manager Will Chanaberry said the dining area is “more invit-ing” and the restaurant of-fers free Wi-Fi.

One corner even has four workstations where diners

can plug in their com-puters while eating and w o r k i n g . A n o t h e r corner is d e s i g n e d for those w a t c h -ing the big

game or the morning news with a wall-mounted televi-sion and a cozy electric fi re-place.

A futuristic soft drink machine has three times the choices at most restaurants with one downspout and se-lections made by touching a computer screen. “Each fl a-vor has its own tube,” said

Chanaberry, but the tubes are clustered inside the ma-chine, making for a cleaner look.

Chanaberry said the store employs about 40 peo-ple. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. seven days a week. The restaurant is at 6650 Clin-ton Highway.

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vices has opened its newest branch on Emory Road near Brickey-McCloud School to serve the Halls and Powell communities. Jeremy Cook is the branch manager.

CEO Terry Turner and bank offi cers Robert Mc-Cabe Jr., Mike DiStefano and Missy Wallen also at-tended last week’s opening celebration.

Cook said his is Pinna-cle’s fi fth offi ce in Knoxville. Founded in 2000 in Nash-ville, Pinnacle entered the Knoxville market in 2007 and already is ranked in the top fi ve banks locally. Both Turner and McCabe worked in Knoxville banking before moving to Nashville.

McCabe joked that a branch located near Dry Gap Pike is in “the DMZ between Powell and Halls.”

Turner said Pinnacle’s growth is driven by its

b u s i n e s s model – to hire top lo-cal bank-ers when entering a market. An example is the recent addition of Missy Wal-

len, formerly the local head of BB&T.

Local vendors including Rosa’s Catering and Pow-ell Florist were used at the event. And although park-ing is limited, courtesy vans transported guests from Brickey-McCloud’s parking lot.

“You could have been anywhere in the world to-night,” Cook said, “and you chose to be here with us. Thank you.”

Cookies with the Pinnacle logo were a hit at the opening. Photosby S. Clark

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Wendy’s new look includes a spacious dining room with a fi replace and big screen TV. Photos by S. Clark

Remodeled Wendy’s has reopened

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By Bonny C. MillardBob Sexton, executive di-

rector of the Cerebral Palsy Center, has seen many posi-tive changes in services for people with disabilities dur-ing his 39 years, including increased opportunities for employment.

Sexton, who started as executive director when he was 26 years old, spoke to the Rotary Club of Knox-ville recently about the cen-ter and what he’s learned over the years.

“(The participants) were thought of as individuals who did not have ability and did not have a way to make their own way,” he said. “I’m talking about people with signifi cant disabilities, but

what I’ve learned over a pe-riod of time is that we all

vastly un-derestimat-ed people with dis-abilities.”

In the 1960s and ’70s, servic-es involved c a r e t a k -ing because

people didn’t think that in-dividuals with disabilities could take care of them-selves.

“They have slowly evolved into services that help people to help them-selves and to make their own way,” he said. “I just think that’s a tremendous,

positive change in the way things happen today for people with disabilities.”

Sexton learned early in his career to listen to the people he served rather than assuming what they needed or wanted. He discovered that people with disabilities are like everybody else in that they want to have value and make a difference.

Sexton and his staff started meeting with em-ployers in the 1980s about providing work opportuni-ties. The center now has in-dividuals working with 48 different companies.

“Each of them has a job that fi ts them in a company in our community,” he said.

The center also helps in-

Bob Sexton

Sexton touts CP Centerdividuals fi nd places to live that they are comfortable in as well as providing oppor-tunities to develop relation-ships with others, which en-rich their lives.

Info: www.cpcenter.orgNote: Rotarians from

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Stephen Crawford operates the edger at Ohio Valley Veneer.

Ohio Valley Veneer is hummingBy Libby Morgan

Ohio Valley Veneer (OVV) is boosting the agrarian economy of Union County. The company is buying wal-nut logs from all over the re-gion and employing people at a rate that fi gures, in its seventh month of operation, to be a quarter of a million dollars annually.

Mill manager Walt Van-Hoy, a sawyer all his life, is settling in at his new Maynardville digs and ap-preciates the friendliness

of the locals.“People around here act

like people ought to act. They wave, they ask you if you need help, they strike up a conversation just to be nice. It reminds me of the way things were where I grew up: in the country in Ohio way back when,” says VanHoy.

“We had some startup pains at fi rst, but I’ve got good people here who want to work. They’re making solid paychecks and sup-

porting their families. Nice walnut logs are brought here by local loggers and trucked in by our buyers every day. Things are running great.”

OVV buys walnut logs exclusively, and hundreds of logs are stacked on the lot on Highway 33 in May-nardville across from Union Discount Pharmacy.

Walnut trees in most of East Tennessee are quaran-tined due to thousand can-kers disease (TCD), mean-ing that the wood cannot be

transported out of the area before the bark and cambi-um have been removed.

At the Maynardville mill, the logs go through several large machines and are eventually reduced to one-inch thick boards. Then they’re loaded up to be carried to the main OVV plant in Piketon, Ohio, about 90 miles due east of Cincinnati.

Within 72 hours of ar-rival in Ohio, the wood is fi rst steamed to ensure the

disease is entirely exter-minated, and then further milled for a myriad of uses.

“About 40 to 45 percent of the lumber we process is exported. This walnut is in demand all over the world,” says VanHoy.

Ed Robbins started Ohio Valley Veneer in 1990, and he says his company doesn’t focus on veneer at all any-more.

The operation has ac-quired other millworks-related businesses over the years and has real estate holdings in several coun-tries.

VanHoy has worked with Robbins for about 30 years, and when Robbins asked him to go to Tennes-see and run the new mill in Maynardville, VanHoy said, “Why not?”

Both men were born into families with generations of loggers and sawyers.

Robbins hasn’t spent much time in Union County, but says he is looking for-ward to discovering Norris Lake.

“I keep hearing how nice it is. I’m going there next time I’m down,” he says.

VanHoy says he hopes the new 33 Bridge will be fi nished soon. When OVV brings logs from Sharps Chapel or Claiborne Coun-ty, they have to take the long way around, crossing the Clinch on 25E out of New Tazewell.

Note: Once a walnut tree is infected with TCD, it will die, according to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. Ag experts recommend removing any dead or dying walnut trees on your property and burn-ing or burying the wood as soon as possible to reduce the chance of other trees be-ing infected.

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Feb. 19, Knoxville Healing

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■ “Back Pain: A Diff erent

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■ “Diagnostic Scanning: What,

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Cancer Support Community,

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■ “Living with Diabetes: Put-ting the Pieces Together,”

2-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12,

Fountain City Branch Library,

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stress management and

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By Sherri Gardner HowellA look at former

Knoxville Mayor Kyle C. Testerman’s life offers many opportunities for honors and tributes. A member of Knoxville City Council from 1969 to 1971, he was elected mayor in 1972, serving one term, then returning as mayor from 1984 to 1988. Testerman is credited with being a visionary who saw the need for downtown revitalization and was behind the 1987 Downtown Plan that led to the City County Building, TVA Towers, renovation of Market Square and the beautifi cation of Gay Street.

Considered a business-focused mayor, Testerman, in his second term, also tackled the stabilization of the city’s fi nances, which had seen a decline in the bond rating following debt from the 1982 World’s Fair.

A recent honor, however, encompasses not only what Testerman did for the city, but his love of tennis. The dedication and naming of the tennis courts at Tyson Park as the Kyle C. Testerman Tennis Complex on Feb. 2 was a fi tting tribute, says daughter Janet Testerman Creswell.

“When we told dad, he was very honored,” says Creswell. “His involvement in developing the facility and his love of tennis span not only his political career, but his entire life. As we talked about it, he told me that he was very proud of the fact that Tyson Park and … the tennis complex there … brought all segments of the town together. It’s a place where diverse populations come together to enjoy the sport and park.”

Knox County Clerk Foster Arnett, a great and long-time family friend, says Creswell, was the guiding force behind the dedication. “We had talked about it as a family, but Foster really got behind it and took it on, getting it in front of the right committees and the mayor,”

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero congratulates former Mayor

Kyle Testerman.

Looking dapper after the dedication of tennis courts named in

his honor, former Knoxville Mayor Kyle C. Testerman talks with

guests and dignitaries at the ceremony on Feb. 2. Photos submitted

It’s love-all at tennis park dedication

says Creswell. “It turned out to be a great day and a very fi tting honor for dad.”

Testerman grew up in the Lake Avenue area of Knoxville, was on the 1951 Knoxville High School state championship basketball team his junior year, then graduated from McCallie School in Chattanooga. He originally went to the University of Tennessee on a basketball scholarship but switched to tennis. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a law degree from UT.

Creswell says the family was touched and excited to see so many longtime friends come to congratulate Testerman at the dedication. “The whole family was there – my mom (Janet Testerman

By Wendy SmithSequoyah Hills resident

Pamela Schoenewaldt’s novels put readers in a dif-ferent time and place, and, sometimes, in achingly diffi cult circumstances. But the journey is so com-pelling that the reader is happy to go there.

Her fi rst two novels, “When We Were Strang-ers” and “Swimming in the Moon,” received criti-cal praise and awards, and her third, “Under the Same Blue Sky,” will be released in May. After living in such inspiring locales as New York City, San Francisco and Naples, Italy, Schoe-newaldt wrote all three in Knoxville − a place she knew nothing about when she arrived in 2000.

The New Jersey na-tive worked as a freelance writer in San Francisco before she moved to Na-ples in 1990 “for a man.” Her projects included speeches, documentaries and scripts, and most re-quired extensive research. The work taught her to re-search quickly, which set her up well to be a histori-cal novelist, she says.

One of her primary activities in Naples was learning Italian. Her teacher’s beautiful villa, and her musings about how diffi cult it would be to clean, were the initial inspiration for “Swimming in the Moon,” the story of a mother and daughter who are servants in a villa be-fore beginning a new life in Cleveland.

Schoenewaldt’s “man,” Maurizio Conti, became her husband, and his work as a physicist brought the couple to Knoxville. She

Research is key tolocal author’s novels

Crossley), sister (Muffett Testerman Buckner) and her family, brother (Ben Testerman) and his family, my family and all the grandchildren. Dad was so happy to see longtime tennis friends and all the living city councilmen who served with him. It was a good cross-section of people from different areas of his life and a really great day.”

Dignitaries included Mayor Madeline Rogero, Arnett and the former council members who served with Testerman: Ed Shouse, L.B. Steele, Larry Cox, Jean Teague and Jack Sharp.

Pamela Schoenewaldt Photos submitted

found a welcoming writing community here. With-out its generous help, she couldn’t have fi nished her fi rst novel, she says.

She pays it forward by participating in numerous seminars and workshops. Teaching comes naturally to her. She taught at the University of Maryland, European Division, in Italy, and at the Univer-sity of Tennessee. She was also Writer in Residence at UT Library from 2001 to 2003.

Reading fi ction begins with the “willing suspen-sion of disbelief,” she says. A typographical error, put-ting information in solely for educational benefi t or getting a fact wrong can make readers unwilling to continue, she says.

“Why would they trust you after that?”

“Under the Same Blue Sky” is the story of Hazel Renner, the daughter of German shopkeepers in Pittsburgh. She is on the cusp of adulthood as WWI breaks out.

As the war escalates, isolating her community

and fam-ily, Hazel escapes to teach in a country s c h o o l -house. But she can’t e s c a p e

the traumas of war or her mysterious talent for heal-ing. She understands that to move forward, she must fi rst understand her past. As the world rages, she travels to a remarkable castle in New Jersey and post-war Germany to solve the mystery of her mother, and ultimately, of herself.

While Schoenewaldt’s in familiar territory with the historical aspect of the book, it veers into a genre that she’s not tried before − magical realism. That means a magical element, in this case, the supernatu-ral ability to heal, is part of a story that’s otherwise realistic.

The offi cial book launch of “Under the Same Blue Sky” is 7 p.m. Thursday, May 7, at the Laurel The-ater, 1538 Laurel Ave.

Shoenewaldt will teach a dialogue workshop at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St., from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 28. The event is sponsored by the Knoxville Writers’ Guild. To register: www.knoxvillewritersguild.org

In addition to her instructional activities, Schoenewaldt speaks to local book clubs and makes a point to answer all mail from readers. For more information about her books and upcoming events: www.pamelaschoenewaldt.com.

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By Cindy Taylor Just when you thought

holiday eating had passed and it was safe to go back on a diet, along came Chocolatefest 2015. But no one attending seemed to care. Vendors and shoppers looking to perk up a dreary time of year while supporting a good cause focused on delicious desserts instead of calories.

The second annual event

to benefi t Ronald McDonald House was again held at the Knoxville Expo Center. Due to last year’s enormous turnout, 2015 vendors and entertainers switched from the banquet facility area to the exhibit hall, where they had twice as much space.

The hall was fi lled with beautiful sights and delicious smells. Vendors stood ready to distribute more than 1,500 samples to

a sold-out show attended by more than 2,000, many of whom had bought tickets just to get samples. Others came to shop the confection-fi lled booths and variety of exhibitors in the Main Street Shopping Area and to enjoy the entertainment. One highlight of the stage show was Paula Deen impersonator Nice Schultz.

“This is my very fi rst appearance,” she said. “I

was so nervous.”She hid her jitters well.

Schultz wowed the audience with her Deen-like drawl and friendly, comedic demeanor, along with her cooking demonstration, while husband Drew played her straight man. If you missed Schultz’s performance you can follow her at www.ilooklikepaula.com.

Many Knoxville business

owners attended in support of Chocolatefest. Sharon Morton, Jubilee Banquet Facility owner, waited in the long line for an opportunity to encourage friends who were baking and selling at the festival.

“We’re friends with everyone here,” she said. “We do a lot with Visit Knoxville and other groups, so we are happy to come out and support the event.”

Drew Schultz with wife Nice (pronounced Neecee), who

entertains as a Paula Deen impersonator at Chocolatefest

It’s ‘All that!’ Chocolatefest 2015

Siblings Rachel and Sam Cox perform at Chocolatefest.

Jennifer Johnsey, owner of Imagination Forest in Powell, co-sponsored the event with Sugarbakers, WBIR-TV and B97.5.

Awards were given to Kim’s Kandies for most creative confection, Rosa’s Catering for best-tasting sample, Sugarbakers for best taste and appearance as well as for judges’ favorite, The Chocolate Ladies for friendliest booth and for best overall, and to The Grande Event Center for most delicious display. Volunteers from Visit Knoxville helped out at booths and served in the VIP area.

“We appreciate East Tennessee’s support of Chocolatefest,” said Johnsey. “We learn more each year about how to better serve the community and the charitable organization we have selected. We had an amazing turnout again this year with wonderful vendors and shoppers. We will be able to make a nice donation to Ronald McDonald House, and we can’t wait until Chocolatefest 2016!”

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250 apartments proposed for Emory RoadBy Sandra Clark

Metropolitan Planning Commission will consider rezoning land on Emory Road near Central Avenue Pike for 250 apartments. MPC meets at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, and its

staff is recommending ap-proval.

The 14.6-acre tract is currently zoned for planned commercial and mixed use. It contains a house and va-cant land which extends to Beaver Creek.

The applicant is TDK Construction Company, represented by attorney Ar-thur Seymour Jr.

Knox County Commis-sioner Charles Busler said the applicant is willing to grant an easement to allow

construction of a greenway along the creek and has promised to build a ramp for canoe access.

The site is less than one mile from the I-75 inter-change at Emory Road and is 2/10 of a mile from the Powell Branch Library. MPC staff is recommending up to 19 dwelling units per acre for the buildable por-tion of the property, result-

ing in 250 units.“Planned residential is a

preferable zone for this site because it allows cluster-ing of units in the less-con-strained portions of the site and requires development plan approval by MPC prior to construction,” the recom-mendation reads.

Planners estimated 66 public and private school kids, ages 5-18, and 2,175

average daily vehicle trips.At press time, no objectionshad been recorded at theMPC.

Information is availableon the MPC website at www.knoxmpc.org, and viewersmay watch Thursday’smeeting on Comcast CableChannel 12.

Busler said the plans callfor “high-end apartments.”

Construction of Tenno-va’s hospital near I-75 hasdriven development in thearea.

Powell property ownerDr. Bob Collier said hecounted 22 eating estab-lishments around the inter-change.

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Fred Thomforde is grateful for Dr. Edward Tieng and the staff

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‘Excellent treatment’ for prostate cancerred Knoxville attorney makes case for early detection

Retired Knoxville attorney makes case for early detectionIt was a freak accident – Fred

Thomforde of Knoxville had just hooked the ball to the left and down a hill. Upset over the shot, he hopped into his golf cart and sped toward the ball.

But when he pressed the brakes, the cart began sliding on the wet grass. “Like some kind of fool, I stuck my foot out to stop it, and boom! Hit a bump, went up in the air and came down with my groin on the handle,” Thomforde re-counted.

While it hurt and caused some bruising, the 70-year-old retired attorney didn’t think much about it until later that evening when blood in his urine prompted him to seek medical attention, a decision that not only would change his life, but save it as well.

For it was that visit to his pri-mary care doctor, Dr. Michael Passarello, in 2008 that got him a referral to Dr. Edward Tieng, a urologist at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center – a decision that ul-timately led to Tieng’s early detec-tion of prostate cancer.

Dr. Tieng determined Thom-forde’s golf cart injury was not seri-ous but, because of the blood in the urine and because Thomforde had been a smoker, the doctor moved cautiously. He ordered a test to determine the amount of prostate-specifi c antigen (PSA) in Thom-forde’s blood. That test came back

Speed kills: PSA velocity aids in early detectionRiding a bike, getting a digital rectal exam,

certain medications and age are among the things that can cause it to rise.

Herbal mixtures, obesity, aspirin and cho-lesterol-lowering drugs can cause it to fall.

It can yield false-negative or false-positive results, making your day or ruining it.

It’s the Prostate-Specifi c Antigen test, a tool for measuring the level of a protein pro-duced by the prostate gland. The higher the level, the more likely is a man’s chance of prostate cancer.

Since its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in 1986, it has been the stan-dard for prostate cancer screening. Now, however, it is under scrutiny by some advi-sory groups which recommend against it be-cause of questions surrounding its accuracy.

PSA levels of 4.0 nanograms per milliliter and lower are considered by most doctors as “normal” and any levels above that would merit a biopsy. Recent studies, however, have shown that some men with levels below 4.0 have cancer and men with higher levels do not have cancer.

“There is now so much controversy re-garding using PSA as a value and I tell my patients outright, especially nowadays, that it’s not the best test,” said Dr. Edward Tieng, urologist at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “There are a fair number of patients

who will have a normal PSA but their pros-tate nodules feel like cancer. That’s why you can’t just base prostate screening on the PSA levels alone.”

Tieng says, instead, he uses the PSA test in conjunction with a host of other tools, including the digital rectal exam which, he says, a lot of men prefer not to have but tells his patients, “you don’t die of embarrass-ment, but you can die from cancer.”

An equally important factor, says Dr. Tieng, is PSA “velocity,” which is not a sepa-rate test but rather a measure of how quickly the PSA is rising over time, a potential indi-cator of a cancer’s aggressiveness.

PSA velocity is the measurement that prompted Tieng to recommend a biopsy to patient Fred Thomforde although his PSA level was still considered normal. “If the PSA level rises more than .75 nanograms per mil-liliter (ng/mL) over a 12- to 18-month period, to me, that is considered abnormal and I am a little more aggressive in making sure there is not something causing that rise in PSA,” said Dr. Tieng.

Other types of PSA tests used by Dr. Tieng are the age-adjusted test and the percent-free test. The age-adjusted test takes into ac-count that PSA levels are normally higher in older men even when they have no cancer. The percent-free PSA looks at the amount

of protein that circulates free vs. attached to blood proteins. Men with prostate cancer have a lower percentage of free PSA.

Sometimes, doctors use a PSA density test to measure the size of the prostate using a transrectal ultrasound because levels run higher in men with larger prostate glands. It is not considered as useful as the percent-free PSA test, however.

Because prostate cancer is typically slow-growing, Dr. Tieng says a patient’s age and other health issues are also taken into con-sideration when diagnosing and treating. Also, those with a family history of prostate cancer and African-Americans have a slightly higher risk.

“Prostate cancer takes about 10 to 15 years to grow to the point that it may actually kill a patient if not treated at all,” said Dr. Tieng. “That’s why I tell folks, the ones that are most likely to benefi t from early detection and more aggressive therapy are the ones who expect to live another 10 to 15 years.”

Once cancer is suspected and a biopsy confi rms the diagnosis and imaging shows the extent of the cancer, Dr. Tieng says the patient will have a choice to make. One pub-lished report says most of the 217,000 men diagnosed in the United States with prostate cancer each year are in their mid-60s or older and have a low risk of dying from the disease

if they defer treatment. But, the report con-tinued, more than 90 percent with low-riskcancer, including 80 percent of those 75 andolder, opt for treatment.

“There are tons of options out there, they all work and they all have side effects,” saidDr. Tieng. “A lot is dependent on the patient in terms on what they want to do when they weigh out the risks and the benefi ts. In mypractice, I feel with surgery, you get yourside effects early on but it gets better overtime. With radiation, you do well initially before the effects of radiation catch up with you. If you compare both groups 10 years out, the side effect profi les are pretty similarin terms of incontinence and erectile dys-function.”

Dr. Tieng believes that radical prostatec-tomy – whether performed in the traditional“open” procedure or with the daVinci robotwhich is less bloody and offers the surgeon abetter visualization – is often the better solu-tion.

“Surgery is a good option, but it’s defi nitely not for everybody,” he said. “It’s the most in-vasive option, but my advice toward surgeryversus other treatments is you know exactlywhat your found pathology is because studieshave shown that the biopsy specimens don’talways correlate with the actual cancer. Youmay have more or you may have less.”

with a PSA score of .8 nanograms per milliliter – well within the nor-mal range.

“I think the ‘danger zone’ is something like 2 and above,” Thomforde said of the PSA score. “I never got into the danger zone, but early in 2010, Dr. Tieng said, ‘They are still normal, but these levels are rising.’ He wanted to check it again in three months.”

Three months later, the PSA lev-

el was still within the normal range, but Thomforde was asked to return yet again. “I’m still in the normal range,” he said. “I started out at .8 but now I’m at 1.8. So we had a long talk.”

It was during that “talk” that Dr. Tieng recommended Thomforde undergo a biopsy, a procedure in which 12 core samples were re-moved from the prostate gland by a needle. The biopsied tissue

was then sent to a laboratory and “graded” by a pathologist who as-signed it a Gleason score, a scoring system of 2 to 10 used to describe the cells’ appearance. A score of 2 to 4 indicates the cells appear normal, 5 to 7 indicates interme-diate risk of prostate cancer and 8 to 10 indicates an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Thomforde’s Gleason score was 7.

“I guess everybody reacts differ-ently when they hear ‘you have can-cer,’ but for me, it came like a blow to the soul,” said Thomforde, who previously had undergone surgery and radiation treatment for a form of cancer called sarcoma a year and a half earlier. “I may have been more mentally prepared for this than a lot of people. I don’t think you ever get completely prepared for the news that you have cancer but I had at least been through it.”

To determine whether Thom-forde’s prostate cancer had spread, Dr. Tieng ordered CT and bone scans. When the imaging indicated that his cancer was contained to the prostate, Dr. Tieng presented Thomforde with his options.

“By this time, I had a good re-lationship with Dr. Tieng and had complete confi dence in him – he’s a very likable person but very pro-fessional,” said Thomforde. “He explained to me the various options – there’s radiation treatment, hor-mone treatments and so forth – and

I fi nally said to him, ‘I will defer toyour judgment on this’ and he said,‘If I were you in your particular con-dition and health, I would recom-mend surgery.’ I didn’t even thinkabout it. I just said, ‘Let’s do it.’ ”

In an almost 3-hour minimallyinvasive procedure, Dr. Tieng usedFort Sanders’ da Vinci® robot toremove Thomforde’s cancerousprostate gland. The pathologist lat-er confi rmed that Thomforde wascancer-free.

“I was a little uncomfortablethe fi rst couple of days or so, andthere was a little leakage for a fewmonths but even that wasn’t all thatserious. When you consider whatthe risk was, it was pretty minor,”said Thomforde. “My body hadreturned to normal within aboutthree months or so.”

“My hospital experience was ex-cellent, my recovery was excellent:Nurses, technicians, lab people, thedoctors, the whole experience tome was fi rst rate,” said Thomforde.“My PSA never got into the ‘dangerzone’ per se but Dr. Tieng made ajudgment based on his personalhistory with me. Rather than justkeep going with the PSA, he wentwith the biopsy and it caught thecancer while it was confi ned to theprostate. Early detection made allthe difference.”

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Martin J. Condon was born on Oct. 29, 1858, near Rogersville in Hawkins County, where his father was building a section of the Rogersville and Jefferson Railway. Martin was the youngest of the seven sons of John and Bridget Gray Condon, natives of County Clare, Ireland. John Condon was a Civil War veteran and successful contractor who had the distinction of erect-ing the large stone piers for the old Gay Street Bridge. Two of Martin’s brothers in the politically active family, Michael J. (1846-1900) and Stephen P. Condon (1855-1926), were city aldermen in the 1880s.

Martin Condon attended local schools and the Uni-versity of Tennessee but graduated from George-town College in Washing-ton. He soon returned to Knoxville to become a clerk at Condon Brothers Whole-sale Grocers on Gay Street, a business owned by his two older brothers.

On Jan. 22, 1882, Martin J. Condon married Mar-garet McMillan, daughter of prominent businessman Alexander McMillan and Margaret Alexander McMil-lan, who was the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Ebenezer Alexander and a lineal de-scendant of James White, Knoxville’s founder.

After he served on the City Charter Committee, the school board and sev-eral other boards, Condon earned the moniker “Irish-American statesman.” He was eventually chosen as

the Democratic candidate for the offi ce of mayor in a heated closed-door meeting and defeated Republican candidate Wyman Clark in a surprising landslide: 2,229 to 1,304.

At barely 30 years of age, Martin Con-don had won in every ward of the city to be-come the fi rst Demo-crat and the youngest ever to win the offi ce, serv-ing from 1888 to 1890. Dur-ing this boom time he was able to oversee several civic i m p r o v e -ments, in-c l u d i n g the Market Street City Hall and some of the city’s fi rst sewers. Af-ter his term was complete, Mayor Condon chose not to seek re-election but to pur-sue his business interests elsewhere.

He moved to Nashville and became a co-founder of the Bruton-Condon Snuff Co. The company proved successful and was soon sold to the Atlantic Snuff Co., with Condon remaining in Nashville as district man-ager. Later the ASC was sold to the American Snuff Co.

His next big step came in 1902 when he was of-

fered the presidency of the American Tobacco Co. He accepted and moved to New York City. It was there that Condon came to know

intimately the group of fi nanciers gener-

ally credited with developing the

large tobacco dynasties. He survived the Dukes, the Cobbs, the Hills and the Ryans to become the

last of the old-school to-bacco mil-lionaires.

The Con-dons’ Span-ish Renais-sance-style r e s i d e n c e in New York was situ-ated on fi ve and one-half acres in Pelham

Manor in upscale Westches-ter County.

The mansion featured fi rst and second fl oors with numerous bedrooms, baths, and closets. There were also eight servants’ rooms with two baths on a separate wing.

The third fl oor contained a spacious private chapel in which Mass was held for the family and staff on a regular basis. There were numerous porches and terraces. The grounds contained a stable with four stalls, space for six automobiles and some harness rooms.

Martin J. Condon (1858-

1940). Elected Knoxville

mayor in a landslide,

Condon presided over

the construction of the

old Market Square City

Hall and some of the city’s

fi rst sewers. Courtesy of the University of Tennessee Special

Collections

The Pelham Manor estate. Located only 10 miles from Manhat-

tan, this Spanish Renaissance mansion befi t Martin J. Condon’s

status as one of America’s last tobacco barons. Photograph courtesy of Blake Bell, Esq. of the Westchester County Historical Society

HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

Martin J. Condon(1858-1940)

endorsing notes held by a bank that failed, plunging him into bankruptcy. At the time, he owned the Pelham Manor mansion in which his equity was $220,000, another home in Nashville with $15,000 equity, an automobile and a $91,000 brokerage account due him from Moore & Schley Hold-ing Co.

In August 1912, the U.S. District Court in New York approved the bankruptcy with debts of approxi-mately $5,000,000, less his acknowledged assets. He boldly predicted that he would make a fi nancial comeback. His prediction was confi rmed in the April 1934 report of the Securi-ties and Exchange Commis-sion showing Mr. Condon’s earnings for the previous year to be $65,000, one of the highest salaries in

this country just as it was emerging from the Great Depression.

Having been a member of the Knoxville Reds base-ball team as a young man, he had always loved sports. His less intense business life in Memphis enabled him to return to duck hunt-ing and play more golf, and he became “the Dean of Tennessee Golf,” winning numerous trophies and medals.

Martin J. Condon died of pneumonia in Memphis on Feb. 24, 1940, at the age of 82. Services were held in the Church of the Immacu-late Conception there, and he was interred in Calvary Cemetery in Memphis. His wife of 52 years had pre-ceded him on Jun. 23, 1933. They were survived by their two children, Martin Jr. and Mary.

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In 1910, President Theo-dore Roosevelt’s “Trust Busting” campaign targeted big oil, banks and railroads. The American Tobacco Co. was charged with Sherman Anti-Trust violations also, and by 1912, the Supreme Court ruled that ATC’s mo-nopoly must be divided into three private companies.

Condon chose the Ameri-can Snuff Co. and moved to Memphis, the location of most of its production and warehouses, with a factory branch in Clarksville. He would remain with the com-pany for 38 years. His other business interests included the Carnegie Trust Co. and the Tate Springs Hotel and Resort. Although he trav-eled extensively, often to Cuba, his preferred vaca-tion destination for over 50 years was his Tate Springs resort in East Tennessee, where he enjoyed the “Ep-son waters” and the golf.

He actually created two vast fortunes because, after creating his fi rst fortune, he was adjudged bankrupt in August 1912. As a direc-tor of the Carnegie Trust Co. he made the mistake of

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4 pm Friday for Wednesday’s paper.

THROUGH SATURDAY, FEB. 28“Buy One, Get One Free” admission tickets

available for Knoxville Zoo. Tickets can be purchased at the zoo ticket window during regular zoo hours. Info: 637-5331, ext. 300 or knoxvillezoo.org.

THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 27Call for local authors of children’s books for

“Farragut Book Fest for Children” to be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Founders Park at Campbell Station. $25 fee includes tent, table, two chairs and lunch at the event; authors will supply their books, decorations and signage. No fee: bring own set-up materials, which must include a tent fi tting a 10’x10’ space. Info/to register: www.townoffarragut.org/register and click the Programs tab; Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive; 966-7057.

THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 10Tickets available for Rhythm N’ Blooms music

festival, on stages set exclusively along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Features fi rst-timers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Info/tickets: www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

THROUGH SATURDAY, JUNE 20Online registration open for Race to benefi t

the Corryton Community Food Pantry, to be held Saturday, June 20. Event is part of “The Run and See Tennessee Grand Prix Series.” To register: https://runnerreg.us/corryton8mile. Info: corryton8miler@yahoo.com; ron.fuller@totalracesolutions.com; or Joyce Harrell, 705-7684.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11Burlington LEGO Club, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch

Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. For grades 1-5. Info: 525-5431.

THURSDAY, FEB. 12AAA Safe Driving for Mature Operators, 8:30

a.m.-4:30 p.m., John T. O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Cost: $10. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

55 Alive Seniors meeting, noon, First Lutheran Church meeting room, 1207 N. Broadway. Cost of hot luncheon: $8. Speaker: Chris Pluger, a Lutheran Bible Translator and Missionary. Topic: His life in Petauker, Zambia. Public invited; reservations required. Info/res-ervations: 524-0366.

The Heiskell Community Seniors program, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road. Speaker: R. Larry Smith. Topic: History of UT men’s basketball. “Chocolatefest” entries must be at the center by 10:30 a.m. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

Read About It, Talk About It: “Dog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery,” 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Say It Loud! documentary,, 6:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

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

FRIDAY, FEB. 13Valentine dinner fundraiser, 6 p.m., the Old

Southern Terminal, 306 W. Depot St. Hosted by the Grace Christian Academy baseball team. Music: The Lore Family. Speaker: Tim Lovelace. Dinner served by The Foundry. Tickets: $125. Info/tickets: coach Mitchell Turner, mturner@gcarams.org; Dave Dunaway, dhdunaway@aol.com; staff of Legal Properties Inc., 524-3670; Grace Christian Academy baseball team, 5914 Beaver Ridge Road, Knoxville TN, 37939; 691-3427.

SATURDAY, FEB. 14Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11

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

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

SUNDAY, FEB. 15“Remembering Red,” A Tribute to Red Skel-

ton featuring Brian Hoffman, 4 p.m., Historic Grove Theater, 123 Randolph Road, Oak Ridge. Tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444, 877-995-9961 or at the door. Special Group rates: 288-0672.

MONDAY, FEB. 16Crochet Class, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby,

6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

Luttrell Seniors luncheon, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the community center off Tazewell Pike. Everyone wel-come. Box lunches will be provided.

Open house for prospective families, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Freedom Christian Academy, 4615 Asheville Highway.

TUESDAY, FEB. 17Crochet Mania, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Burlington

Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: Candee Fultz, cdfultz10@comcast.net.

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

Mardi Gras cooking class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/to regis-ter: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia.com.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18Computer Workshop: Word Basics, 2 p.m.,

Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Re-quires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 525-5431.

THURSDAY, FEB. 19Burlington Game Night, 5:30-8 p.m., Burlington

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

FRIDAY, FEB. 20Chili Fundraiser hosted by the Union County Little

League, 5:30-8 p.m., Maynardville Elementary School. Cost: $5 for bowl of chili, drink and cookie. Silent auc-tion. Info: Union County Little League Facebook page.

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B-4 • FEBRUARY 11, 2015 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

FURNITURE First Come, First Sold!EASY CREDIT TERMS •

Public Sale of Contents Dillman’s Furniture 6805 Maynardville Hwy., Knoxville, TN

READ EVERY WORDWe say to you in all

sincerity, forget everything you ever knew about sales… this is it, a wall-to-wall total liquidation that includes every single piece of furniture and bedding! Buy by the piece or carload. Bulk bids welcome!

DRIVE UP TO 100-200 MILES & STILL SAVE!

Bring Your Trucks & TrailersOur Delivery Crews will be unable

to handle a sale of this magnitude… Please make arrangements to pick up your purchases – if this is not possible, we will arrange delivery at an extra charge! Everything sold on first come, first serve basis! Bring your trucks & trailers!

Here’s the story... After 3 decades, an East TN furniture retailer has closed their doors. Dillman’s Furniture has

purchased remaining inventory at a fraction of its original cost. We are passing the savings on to you!

EVERYTHING GOES! Be early for choice bargains!

E-Z Credit Terms, FREE lay-a-way!

ALL GOODS TO BE SOLD ON THE SPOT

ORTHOPEDIC QUEEN

MATTRESS SETS

ROCKERRECLINERS

ASSORTED COFFEE TABLE &

2 END TABLES

OAK TABLE & 4 CHAIRS

WOODBUNK BEDS

TWIN BUNK BEDMATTRESSES

LEATHERSECTIONAL W/CHAISE

$1098

Statement from the Management of Dillman’s Furniture

$188 $175 $373 $148 $88Twin ea pc...........................$58Full ea pc.............................$68Queen ea pc.........................$88King Set...............................$388Bonus Bed Frames..............$29Memory Foam Queen Set............................$478

MATTRESSES & FOUNDATIONS

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865.922.7557(Halls Crossroads)

6805 Maynardville Hwy

WALL-to-WALL $500,000 Furniture & Mattress SELL OFF!

ACT NOW! TIME IS SHORT!ACT NOW! TIME IS SHORT! BUYING MUST BE FAST!BUYING MUST BE FAST!

Use your TAX REFUND!!Layaway NOW!

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SITE OF FORMER MYNATT’S

WAS 1 ONLY FLOOR MODELS NOW

$999 Sofa/Loveseat.......................$588$ 39 Floor Lamp (as is).................$ 10$399 Curio Cabinet........................$175$ 79 Area Rugs..............................$ 22$379 Wood Bench..........................$ 75$299 Wood Top Table/4 Chairs......$188$148 Bookcases.............................$ 98$999 4-Pc Bedroom Suite..............$588$899 Lift Recliner...........................$646$399 Sofa........................................$175

WAS NOW

$ 69 Plant Stand...........................$ 25$399 Loveseat ...............................$148$299 Chair......................................$ 99$ 89 End Table...............................$ 33$899 Reclining Loveseat...............$399$168 Wood 4-Drawer Chest..........$128$ 98 Headboard.............................$ 25$499 Dresser & Hutch....................$197$798 Sleeper Sofa..........................$598

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Oak Dressers........$298Oak Headboard.......$45Oak Coffee Table.....$25Asst. Pictures..........$10/upWood DayBed..........$175Memory FoamPillows....................$25Sheet Sets...............$18

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