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By Betty BeanBack in 2009, Knox County

commissioned landscape archi-tect Mike Fowler (a founding prin-cipal of Ross/Fowler P.C.) to draw up a master plan for Clayton Park. Halls residents had raised money to buy 11 acres on Norris Free-way and deeded the land to Knox County.

Fowler conducted community meetings, took suggestions and came up with a plan for a passive park that transformed the site’s challenges into assets.

“The master plan prepared by Ross/Fowler takes advantage of such unique site features as an emerging wetland, numerous ex-isting mature trees, open mead-owlands and over 1,000 feet of frontage on Beaver Creek. The proposed Halls Greenway Exten-sion passes through the park and provides linkages to schools and active recreational opportunities in the nearby Halls Community Park,” the narrative said.

The park under construction nearly fi ve years later bears little resemblance to the leafy, multi-purpose passive park Fowler de-scribed. His plan, for which the county paid $14,250, envisioned these features:

■ A multipurpose meadow amphitheater ringed with picnic tables and fi xed seating that could serve as an outdoor classroom or a venue for larger events.

■ A recreation meadow and a system of loop trails.

■ Structured play opportuni-ties.

By Betty BeanChancellor Mike Moyers ruled

last week that Gentry-Griffey Fu-neral Chapel can continue to use its crematory, giving the Foun-tain City funeral home victories in three different forums – the Board of Zoning Appeals, City Council and Knox County Chancery Court. Gentry-Griffey now runs the only such facility in Knox County, a fact it advertises heavily.

Foes of the crematory have in-dicated a willingness to appeal Moyers’ ruling, so the fi ght, which began in 2012 when a group of

Fountain City business owners and homeowners learned after the fact that Gentry-Griffey had obtained a permit to build a cre-matory as an accessory use to the funeral home.

Crematory opponents objected to both the lack of community no-tifi cation and to the designation of the crematory as an accessory use.

Gentry-Griffey partner Eric Botts promised the protesting group that the crematorium would be used only by Gentry-Griffey clients. Further appeals may be forthcoming.

City takes leadin lake cleanup

The slimy green algae covering Fountain City Lake has become a source of embarrassment and ir-ritation to Fountain Citians like Janet Phillips, who says she has made it her business to become a “thorn in the side” of local offi -cials.

It looks as though she has been successful. City Council has set aside $250,000 for repairs and cleanup of the lake in its new bud-get, and Phillips was notifi ed that

the city of Knoxville is advertisingbids for the cleanup process. Thebids will be opened by the end ofthe month, and a contract is ex-pected to go before City Councilat its Aug. 19 meeting, if all goesas planned.

Volunteer inmates from the Knox County Detention Centerwill help remove algae, and thecity’s civil engineering divisionwill preside over the cleanup ef-fort. Construction should beginin October or November; thoseare the driest months of theyear.

The Clayton Park master plan designed

by architect Mike Fowler.

Clayton Park: What might have been

■ A wetland boardwalk and an elevated creekwalk and overlook with interpretive signage.

■ A raised deck/observation platform/teaching station where wetland biology is interpreted in exhibit panels overlooking the wetland.

■ A Tree Top Adventure Play area overlooking the wetland.

“This system of decks, ramps, slides and steps reaches up to in-teract with the canopy of several mature trees,” Fowler’s narrative says.

The most visible difference be-tween the Ross/Fowler plan and

the facts on the ground is trees. Although Knox County Parks and Recreation director Doug Bataille said he plans to replace trees that were removed to accommodate a road from the park entrance on Norris Freeway to the parking area at the top of the hill, it is clear that there will be no canopy of mature trees in the park’s central area.

More diffi cult to envision, but equally substantive, is the impor-tance of the $615,413 greenway (80 percent of the funding from a state grant that is less than three months away from expiring, 20 percent from

the county). The state funding is be-ing jeopardized by the county’s lack of progress on the walking trail, which was meant to connect the park to the campus of Halls Elemen-tary School.

And a county park off Lovell Road, Plumb Cree k Park, already has lost a state grant. Bataille says he hopes to get it back by reap-plying, but he cannot start work at Plumb Creek Park until he fi n-ishes at Clayton. Looking at Clay-ton Park’s parched grass and lack of shade, perhaps Plumb Creek is better off without Bataille’s tender touch.

Gentry-Griffey crematorium legal, chancellor rules

By Betty BeanFormer Brickey-McCloud Ele-

mentary School assistant principal Sheila Earl was moved to tell her story at last Wednesday’s school board meeting after hearing board members at the Monday workshop talk about clamping down on teach-ers who bypass the KCS “chain of command” by going public with complaints about the administra-tion. Earl is fearful of retaliation but promised her daughter she’d be brave because many colleagues have received the same treatment she has and don’t know why.

The last year she was an assis-tant principal, she was evaluated by Knox County Schools’ elementa-ry schools director Nancy Maland, who gave her the highest possible rating – a level 5 score. This result was typical for Earl, a 23-year KCS

employee, so she had reason to be excited when she got a phone call from the KCS human resources de-partment July 19, 2012.

“I naively believed that my time had fi nally come and I was going in to interview for a principalship,” she said. “After all, I had spent nine years as a successful assis-tant principal after 14 years as an award-winning teacher. I had even completed the D-21 program with excellent results as well.”

When she went to the meet-ing with Maland and HR director Kathy Simms, she was stunned to hear that Superintendent James McIntyre had decided to return her to the classroom, a change that carried a 25 percent pay reduction.

“When I asked for the reason why, I was reminded that adminis-trators serve at the pleasure of the

superintendent. (Nancy) Maland acted as a scribe, but she remained silent. (Superintendent) McIntyre was conveniently out of town.”

Maland retired at year’s end.Earl, a single mother, was given

very little time to clear out her of-fi ce, prepare to teach third grade and readjust her family budget to the pay cut. Her former principal said she had no idea why Earl was demoted. Her new principal sug-gested that perhaps this was a test to see how gracefully she handled diffi cult situations and speculated that she might get a promotion the next year.

“That, of course, did not hap-pen,” Earl said.

There was a bit of a silver lining, she thought. Under state guidelines, Earl’s evaluation score qualifi ed her for an APEX bonus, so she had rea-

Demoted Earl speaks out at school boardson to expect some fi nancial help that fall. But when she checked the APEX website in November, the words next to her name were “Em-ployee no longer in good standing.” She attempted to fi nd why she had been labeled a loser, but multiple phone calls and emails got no re-sponse until her sister (acting with-out Earl’s knowledge) contacted the county ethics board.

Finally, in April 2013, she heard from KCS chief accountability offi -cer Nakia Towns, who informed her that being reclassifi ed as a class-room teacher after having been an administrator automatically made her ineligible for the bonus. Earl, who said she has been shocked at the level of micromanagement that classroom teachers have to endure

To page A-3

Urban gardensThe city of Knoxville is

ready to propose changes in the zoning ordinance that will make it easier for individu-als and community groups to establish gardens on privately held land.

Anyone interested in community gardens, urban agriculture or sales of produce from these gardens is invited to meet 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, July 14, at Cansler Family YMCA, 616 Jessamine St. Info: 215-2065.

NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Payouts to paramours

It is not often a serious candidate for the U.S. Senate has in his past a state Supreme Court decision that delves into his personal life, thereby making it public. But such is the case with Gordon Ball, a wealthy Knoxville attorney and Democratic U.S. Senate candi-date in the Aug. 7 primary.

➤ Read Victor Ashe on page A-5

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➤ Read Sandra Clark on page A-4

McIntyre’s mojo melting away

It started as Alice’s Restau-rant. Superintendent James McIntyre could get anything he wanted at any time, generally by an 8-1 vote.

But now McIntyre’s board majority is melting, and neither his contract nor his long-range plan nor the August election will save him. He’s done.

Alice isn’t cooking here anymore.

➤ Read Betty Bean on page A-4

IN THIS ISSUENew greens for Whittle Springs

After a chemical treatment apparently damaged the greens at the city-owned Whittle Springs Golf Course, the city and its golf course manage-ment contractor will replace all 18 putting surfaces.

Whittle Springs Golf Course averages 28,000 rounds of golf a year. Rates for an 18-hole game range from $7 to $29, depending on age, time of day and whether a player walks or rides a cart. .

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nowadays, was required to submit her emails to board chair Lynne Fugate in order to be allowed to speak at the meeting.

Many of the teachers who have been speaking out in recent months were present, although they were harder to pick out in the crowd because most were not wearing their familiar red SPEAK (Stu-dents, Parents, Educators Across Knox County) T-shirts.

Members of a newly formed group, Educators for Excellence, identifi able in bright blue T-shirts em-blazoned with “I (Heart) My Job,” were there as well. Sev-eral members of this group are teachers from Dogwood Elementary School, and many are relatively young. Members of this group spoke at last week’s meetings, hammering the point that teachers really don’t have much to complain about. It is unclear what kinds of pub-lic forum rules apply to their relentlessly positive messag-es. Perhaps “chain of com-mand” restrictions apply only to those who are critical of the administration.

One leader who did not wish to be quoted by name said several SPEAK mem-

bers decided not to wear their red shirts to the meet-ing so as not to set up a “Crips versus Bloods” atmo-sphere, since most teachers want the same thing – what’s best for the students.

Meanwhile, it has notescaped Earl’s notice that experienced administrators are being moved aside to make room for graduates of the KCS Leadership Acad-emy, which cranks out a doz-en or so “fellows” annually.

Here’s what she saidwhen asked what she’d like to say to this new generation of educators:

“When I was a young,naive teacher, I loved my job. Now that I have gained more experience and wis-dom, I continue to love teaching children. However, I now recognize that not all decisions made on a district level are appropriate for stu-dents on the classroom level or for my own child. Speak-ing up for what we believe is in the best interest of chil-dren is affi rmation of the fact that we love teaching the students of Knox County Schools.”

She signs her emails witha signature quote from Pat Summitt:

“It is what it is, but it willbecome what I make of it.”

Earl speaks out From page A-1

After a chemical treat-ment apparently damaged the greens at the city-owned Whittle Springs Golf Course, the city and its golf course management con-tractor will replace all 18 putting surfaces.

Work was scheduled to begin last week on convert-ing the greens from bent-grass to Champion Bermuda grass, which will grow faster than bentgrass and should allow the greens to return to use within about two months. The golf course at 3113 Valley View Drive will remain open with reduced fees and temporary greens.

“It is obviously unfortu-

nate to have our greens out of commission at the peak of the golf season,” said Joe Walsh, the director of Parks and Recreation. “But Whittle Springs will remain open, and we encourage all of our regular golfers to con-tinue to make use of it or the Municipal Golf Course.”

Both courses are oper-ated for the city by con-tractor Billy Casper Golf, which manages more than 170 properties in 28 states. According to Walsh, Billy Casper personnel on June 23 applied a routine chemi-cal fertilizer to the greens at Whittle Springs. Over the next week, the putting

surfaces began to decline. Samples of soil and fertil-izer have been collected and sent to an independent labo-ratory for evaluation.

The cost of replacing the greens is estimated at $87,000. The city antici-pates a full recovery of any expenses and damages aris-ing out of these events, ac-cording to a city press re-lease.

Whittle Springs Golf Course averages 28,000 rounds of golf a year. Rates for an 18-hole game range from $7 to $29, depend-ing on age, time of day and whether a player walks or rides a cart.

New greens for Whittle

University of Tennessee chemistry professor Dr. Al Hazari knows how to wow a crowd, even when they are just in elementary school.

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Library. Photos by R. White

It’s not magic – it’s science!

Hazari is busy this sum-mer visiting the area li-braries as part of the sum-mer reading program. He’s showing children the won-derful world of science, and although it looks like magic, it isn’t … it’s science.

The demonstration is a fun, interactive event that allows children to partici-pate with the experiments. Attendees were able to learn about density, electricity and much more. Dr. Haz-ari’s advice to the group, “Never lick the spoon in a chemistry lab.”

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The event will be held 4-7 p.m. Saturday, July 12, and will feature hamburg-ers and hot dogs with all the fi xins and watermelon. The lodge is at 5400 N. Broad-way between Fountain City Florist and Central Baptist Church. Donations will be accepted for the meal. Info: Alvin Hammer, 679-8520.

■ Art Center showThe Fountain City Art

Center opened its ninth annual open show June 20 with a reception. The show will be on exhibit through July 13 and features 2-D and 3-D work from local artists.

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ture “Oyster” by David Mann was named Best of Show during the awards ceremony.

The Fountain City Art Center is at 213 Hotel Ave. The center is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Info: 357-2787.

■ Christmas in JulyThe Fountain City Art

Center will host a Christmas in July sale to raise money for the center. The board was given a large number of items from the Mary Jane Bailey estate, including many Christmas decora-tions, more than 300 snow collectibles, table items, jewelry and more.

The sale will be held 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday, July 17-18, and 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 19.

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For most of his tenure as schools superintendent, James McIntyre has had the school board as his per-sonal Alice’s Restaurant. He can get anything he wants, generally by an 8-1 vote:

An employment contract extended to 2017?

Of course! Whiney-butt teachers can go clap eras-ers.

A fi ve-year strategic plan railroaded through by Au-gust?

Sure! Why allow four (or fi ve) new board members to come in and set policy later when a bunch of lame ducks can do it right now?

Want to overturn the recommendation of an im-partial hearing offi cer who overruled your decision to fi re a teacher?

Oops.Last week, the school

board sided with hearing offi cer H. Scott Reams, who had overruled the fi ring of Gibbs High School math-ematics teacher Richard S. Suttle. The board shocked most onlookers by voting

McIntyre mojo melting away

7-0 to turn down McIntyre’s appeal of Reams’ ruling.

McIntyre recommend-ed Suttle for termination just before the start of last school year, citing exces-sive absenteeism, tardiness, inappropriate language, failing to properly “input” grades and wearing white after Labor Day.

Just kidding about the fashion felony, but seriously, he threw the kitchen sink at the guy, characterizing his offenses as ineffi ciency, unprofessional conduct, in-subordination and neglect of duty in a letter dated Aug. 27, 3013 (McIntyre prides himself on being a forward-thinking leader). The school board rubber-stamped the fi ring, and Suttle exercised his option to have a hearing before “an impartial hear-ing offi cer” whose decision

could be appealed back to the school board. At that point he was entitled to be represented by the TEA lawyer Virginia McCoy, a fi erce advocate who is worth the price of union dues.

Teachers don’t usu-ally win these hearings, but Reams came down hard against Knox County Schools, ruling that Sut-tle’s transgressions rated a suspension, but not fi ring. He noted that Suttle had a knack for teaching math to kids who don’t understand it, and that he had satisfac-torily completed an Inten-sive Assistance Program. He also questioned the mo-tives of Suttle’s supervisors:

“Why any administrator at a school with such dismal results in math would take a math teacher with an af-fi nity for low-performing students and assign him to teach PE defi es logical ex-planation.

“Mr. (Lynn) Hill’s expla-nation that he thought it would do Mr. Suttle good to get out and exercise is total-

ly unconvincing.”Several teachers in the

audience snickered when they heard that Suttle’s in-appropriate language was calling a misbehaving stu-dent “Billy Badass.”

Board member Doug Harris moved to affi rm Reams’ decision. Pam Trainor and Gloria Death-ridge agreed. Indya Kincan-non asked if they couldn’t at least revoke Suttle’s ten-ure. The answer was no, to her visible disappointment, prompting one observer to wonder aloud if she was go-ing to poke him with a stick.

(Revoking Suttle’s ten-ure would have the effect of making him a sitting duck for dismissal at the whim of the administration.)

McIntyre’s board major-ity is melting like the Wick-ed Witch of the West under a bucket of ice water, and neither his contract nor his long-range plan nor the Au-gust election will save him. He’s done.

Alice isn’t cooking here anymore.

Next month some of you will go to the polls to select a candidate for state Senate District 7 in the November general election.

It’s an important contest, not merely for the chance to send Stacey Campfi eld packing. Campfi eld faces Richard Briggs and Mike Alford in the Republican primary. Democrats offer Cheri Siler, running unop-posed.

If Alford were anony-mous, we’d call him a stalk-ing horse. Given his past association with Campfi eld, there’s little doubt he’s there to siphon off votes from Briggs.

Campfi eld is a satirist’s

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dream, an embarrassment to most everyone but Camp-fi eld.

As a Knox County Com-missioner, Briggs is re-membered by many for his “reasonable man” argument that let former Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale dodg-ing repaying thousands of dollars in undocumented travel and entertainment expenses.

There’s more to Briggs, of course. He’s a respected surgeon and a U.S. Army combat veteran with the rank of colonel.

If you were sending a surgeon or soldier to Nash-ville, Briggs would be the clear choice. If voters want a clown, it’s Campfi eld in a landslide.

With Democrats scarcer than tour groups bound for Ukraine in East Tennessee, the winner of the Republi-can primary is the presump-tive victor in November. But if you ignore Siler, what will you get for your money in November?

Whether Campfi eld or Briggs, arguably more of the

same. Bottom line, Briggs and Campfi eld are bobble-heads nodding to the same tired refrain.

■ Conservative values (whatever those are these days)? Check.

■ Oppose all tax increas-es? Check.

■ Support your Second Amendment right to be a one-person army? Check.

■ Limit the role of gov-ernment? Check.

Then there is the stan-dard boilerplate support of small business, jobs and education, although Camp-fi eld’s hypocrisy fl ares on the issue of government in the classroom.

Siler likewise pledges

support for small business and education, but what candidate doesn’t? So where do her “issues” part com-pany with the Republican contenders?

Most notably, healthcare.Campfi eld’s comparison

of individuals who signed up for health insurance under Obamacare to Nazi Holocaust victims says all you need to know about his stance on expanding healthcare.

The Briggs campaign’s website doesn’t bother with healthcare as an issue. Pan-dering to the base, a physi-cian upholds the right to bear instruments responsi-ble for thousands of deaths and injuries every year but is silent on healthcare.

That, folks, is irony, and it’s morally indefensible.

Siler’s campaign litera-ture notes that “no parent should have to choose be-tween putting food on the table and taking a child to the doctor.” That’s more than a platitude, it’s a fact of life for thousands of Ten-nessee families.

Campfi eld pulled a sur-prise last time around, and it’s not inconceivable that he could do it again. But soldier and surgeon Briggs has to be considered the favorite.

While Siler’s supporters would welcome a Campfi eld upset, Briggs is not invin-cible.

Estimates of the unin-sured in Tennessee run as high as 866,000. Isn’t it time caring for those indi-viduals became a “family value?” At least Cheri Siler thinks so.

Dorothy Conley

In 1968, I fi rst voted in Tennessee. The election was a state primary and a county general. At the sign-in table, I was surprised when the woman in front of me was asked which primary ballot she wanted.

I had lived and voted in several other states, but the notion of choosing between parties in a primary was new to me. The woman said she wanted to vote in both primaries, and despite the offi cial’s attempt to explain the rules, she was indig-nant. It was obvious that she did not understand the difference between a pri-mary and a general election.

Later, when I learned more about Tennessee poli-

Primary confusion

tics, I was surprised at the toleration of open prima-ries.

Since primaries are nom-inating contests, to me it stands to reason that only members of a political party should have a vote on who will be their standard bear-er in a general election.

Otherwise, it is the same as allowing Gator fans to help choose the Vols’ quar-terback when we play Flori-

da. It makes no sense.Studies have shown that

the best-informed voters are those who strongly iden-tify with a party, and the most ill informed are those who do not.

From time to time, dis-cussions arise about wheth-er or not a candidate is a “bona fi de” member of one of our two major parties. In Tennessee, there are no “bona fi de” members of ei-ther one. Voting patterns do not establish membership in a party; only registration can do that.

A closed primary system requires registration by party, which requires some knowledge of a party’s po-litical philosophy. When independents learn that they cannot vote in a party’s primary unless they are members of that party, it

strengthens the two-party system, which, despite re-cent rancid partisanship, has on the whole provided stability to our government.

The best description of an independent voter that I’ve ever read came from Tom Danehy, writing for the Tucson Weekly. To para-phrase him – a high school girl shows up at the softball batting practice of a school in her neighborhood. She doesn’t go to the school, doesn’t like the uniforms or the coach, and doesn’t really want to be part of a team. When she’s not allowed to have her way, she cries, “I’ve been disenfranchised!”

As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing wrong with third parties, but I believe that in order to succeed they must be based on movements that can attract

very wide support. Other-wise, they often serve only as spoilers, as in Florida’s 2000 election, when the Green Party’s Ralph Nader received about 90,000 votes that otherwise would likely have gone to Al Gore. Just think about it.

When I went to vote in 2006 in another section of the county, I had a similar experience to the one in 1968 when I stood behind a young man who requested both party’s ballots. He ac-cepted the offi cial’s expla-nation politely but seemed confused by it. Perhaps learning some basics about politics and elections would prevent this confusion. Many complain about gov-ernment and politics; in-stead, maybe we all should pay more attention and learn about how the system

is supposed to work.Unfortunately, open pri-

maries are not the main problem with our elections. There are more serious ones: obscene amounts of money funding intermina-ble campaigns; meaningless “debates” and political ad-vertising that insults our in-telligence. (Strangely, both alcohol and tobacco ads are not allowed on television, but we see misleading polit-ical advertisements poison our TV screens as elections approach. Sad.)

Let’s hope that someday, more of us will understand that citizenship has respon-sibilities as well as benefi ts. Perhaps then we may com-plain less and learn more about our government. Af-ter all, in this country, we the people are the govern-ment, aren’t we?

Find us, we’re worth itFormer Knox County Com-

missioner Wanda Moody al-ways asks the tough question. Don’t believe me? Ask former Sheriff Tim Hutchison.

“Hi, Wanda,” I said, sitting down at her table at the BBQ lunch preceding Sen. Lamar Alexander’s recent rally at Ce-dar Bluff.

“Why did you switch (the publication date) to Wednes-days?” she asked.

“Money,” I answered, cit-ing a couple of grocery stores that now insert preprints into the Shopper-News.

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“Uh, Patrick Birmingham, I guess,” I mumbled.

“Do you really have much to do with the Shopper these days?” she said.

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Marvin West

When I asked Tennes-see fans about Neyland Stadium experiences, Nate Harrison surprised me with specifi c comments.

In last week’s Shopper, Harrison offered what he hoped was constructive crit-icism about miscommunica-tions, fi rst-aid delays, gate rules set in concrete and two fans who blocked his view and wouldn’t sit down.

As promised, I asked Chris Fuller, UT senior asso-ciate athletics director for all external operations, includ-ing communications, sales and marketing, tickets and special events, for a response.

Chris is a busy man, but he responded, saying, fi rst of all, it was unusual to re-

UT response to stadium issues

ceive word of specifi c prob-lems described by identifi -able sources.

“Sounds like several things here, starting with the mailing address, that we could have done better.”

He spoke of good judg-ment and common sense but also praised the various support groups who are part of a home football game – including different levels of police, ushers and Red

Cross workers.“We work cooperatively,

but it’s easy to understand how not all are on the same page with all issues, espe-cially when you’re dealing with 100,000 people.”

Concerning my favorite hot-button issue, Fuller said there is no policy regarding “standing fans.”

If there was one, he said it would be very diffi cult to enforce.

Fuller invited David El-liott, assistant athletics director for event manage-ment, to chime in.

“Chris is correct. We do not have a policy on ‘stand-ing,’ and I do not know of any place in college or professional athletics that

does. We do ask our ushers to work with a customer-friendly attitude – which it seems they tried to do in talking with the patrons who were standing. We ask that fans try to respect oth-ers in their areas. But, as Chris mentioned, it would be an impossible task to try to enforce.”

Elliott said he has re-ceived very f ew complaints about fans standing in seat-ing areas. He does deal with people who become abusive. He says they are removed so others around them can en-joy the game.

Harrison wanted to es-cort his ailing mother-in-law to their car and return to the stadium. The gate at-

tendant said no way; if you go out, you are out.

Elliott says the SEC has a “no pass-out policy.”

Just guessing, but that is probably intended to elimi-nate halftime trips to cars for liquid refreshments.

Elliott said that in cir-cumstances such as Har-rison reported, gate su-pervisors are expected to intervene as best they can and make a judgment call.

“Sadly, people try to abuse this situation. How-ever there are times when common sense should dic-tate response.”

Elliott said fi rst-aid de-lays are sometimes un-avoidable.

“Our event staff does an excellent job in managing 100,000-plus crowds, but with a number like that, in-cidents happen that do not

go as well as we would like.”He said at early-season

afternoon games, emergen-cy workers have sometimes been inundated with calls due to extreme heat and hu-midity.

“We have had games where we have had 300 treatments.”

I liked Elliott’s attitude. It matched Fuller’s.

“We try to learn from those incidents and seek ways to improve.”

There was no offi cial UT response to my idea for a standing-fan section: no seats, short people in front, tall fans behind, stand for warm-ups, National An-them, the entire game, even intermission, wave both arms nonstop and keep yell-ing, “Go Vols.”Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

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It is not often a serious candidate for the U.S. Sen-ate has in his past a state Supreme Court decision that delves into his per-sonal life, thereby making it public. But such is the case with Gordon Ball, a wealthy Knoxville attorney and Democratic U.S. Sen-ate candidate in the Aug. 7 primary.

He is featured in the case of Marie Larsen-Ball v. Gor-don Ball argued in the state Supreme Court on Sept. 4, 2009, and decided on Jan. 14, 2010, in a decision writ-ten and published by then-Chief Justice Janice Holder, who is retiring in August. It can be found at 301 S.W. 3d 328.

Of the current three jus-tices seeking retention on the court in August, only Cornelia Clark participated in this case. Gary Wade, who was on the court at the time, recused himself due to

Divorce shows Ball’s lavish lifestyle

a longtime friendship with Ball. Only four justices par-ticipated.

The basic issue was whether a $17 million at-torney fee received on Aug. 31, 2006, which occurred after his spouse fi led for di-vorce but before the divorce became fi nal, is part of the marital property and sub-ject to equitable distribution in divorce. The fi nal divorce hearing was a full year later on Aug. 27 and 29, 2007.

$17 million is signifi cant and worth arguing over, es-pecially if one spouse is go-ing to get 40 percent of it.

At the trial court, mari-tal property was valued

in 2007 as $29,650,000, which included the disput-ed $17 million. The Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Frank Clement (son of the late Gov. Frank Clem-ent), held it was marital property, and the Supreme Court agreed. It had to be divided between the two spouses.

It makes fascinating read-ing as it appears in the opin-ion itself that Gordon Ball had a rich lifestyle. The opin-ion even refers to payments of $55,000 to paramours (the court’s language, not mine).

The opinion says: “Both parties enjoy a lavish life-style and spend money on a grand scale. During the marriage (Marie) Ball spent extensive sums of money … and (Gordon) Ball has not been Spartan in his life-style.”

It will be up to the voters in the Democratic primary

to determine the relevance of this in terms of who should carry the Democratic banner against Sen. Lamar Alexander in the November general election. Knoxville attorney Terry Adams is Ball’s principal opponent. Another Knox County resi-dent, John D. King, is seek-ing the GOP nomination.

Whether this part of Ball’s biography infl uences your vote (and how) is up to every Democratic vot-er. This writer thinks you ought to know about it and not learn of it after the pri-mary is over.

Supreme Court: Pre-dictions are that Gary Wade and Sharon Lee are most likely to survive the ef-forts to remove them from the Supreme Court, espe-cially here in East Tennes-see where they are known and liked. Justice Clark is unknown in East Tennes-see. In West Tennessee, the

three are not known as none lives there.

Those wanting a Repub-lican to be chosen for state Attorney General may opt to replace Clark, giving Gov. Bill Haslam an appointment to the court, presumably one who would join the two Republican justices already there in picking a Republican AG. No woman, Republican or African-American has ever been state AG while the Supreme Court has made the selection.

The court picks the At-torney General, a duty unique to Tennessee. In this writer’s opinion, it is the major reason this political fi ght has emerged as many in the GOP, led by Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, want to win the AG offi ce, just as Demo-crats would want the offi ce were the situation reversed.

It is surprising that three incumbents have not gone out to each of the 95 coun-ties in full campaign mode introducing themselves to the media and voters. Wade has been the most active statewide, followed by Lee.

Dr. Rick Briggs seeks to unseat state Sen. Stacey Campfi eld as the GOP nom-inee to run against Demo-crat Cheri Siler in November. Briggs, 61, is a Knox County commissioner. He moved here in 1992. Recently, he was available for an interview.

He criticizes Campfi eld for “the many things he seeks to take away from lo-cal government.”

Briggs has raised some $190,000, mostly from tra-ditional GOP donors who back Gov. Haslam.

He favors the constitu-tional amendments to re-strict abortions, to prohibit a state income tax and to allow the governor to name Supreme Court justices. He says Campfi eld “at times embarrasses the county and state on a national level.”

Briggs, who prefers to be called Rick, strongly criti-cizes the Campfi eld/Steve Hall bill to sell Lakeshore Park. He does not favor an elected school superin-tendent. He says he backs Haslam on what he has done on education.

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“ Leland Price would be a great judge. He’s a very honest person.” —Mary Newsom

“ Leland Price has 17 years’ experience in the legal system.” —Hugh Newsom

A s prosecutor in the Chris Newsom and Channon Christian murder trials, Leland Price

knows firsthand the importance of justice in our courts.

These tragic murders shocked our community and led to one of the most

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Tim Burns, technical director of the Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knox-ville, thinks his dad, Bill, would approve of the vener-able old theater’s new digital projector.

“He was always one to embrace new technology,” says Burns the younger, “and he would appreciate the enhanced quality of the digital presentations.”

The senior Burns spent his life as a movie projec-tionist. Even after he retired in 1984, he came to the Ten-nessee, where he ran every fi lm until 2001.

“My dad started as a projectionist in 1930 at the ripe old age of 11 at the Lyric Theatre in Ashland, Ken-tucky,” says Tim. “He and my mother moved to Knox-

Bill’s son Tim, technical director of the theater,

with the new digital projector Photo by Carol Zinavage

Bill Burns, who ran Tennessee Theatre

movies for 16 years, in a photo from 1993

Ti B h i l

A whole new era of digital fi lms

ville from Charleston, West Virginia, in 1949.

“The fi rst theaters he worked in here were the Lee and Dawn theaters. In 1951 he landed a permanent spot at the Pike Theater and was there for 33 years. The Pike became the Capri Cinema. He would also work relief shifts at the Riviera, Knox-ville and Twin Aire drive-ins and has worked some at most of the other theaters in

town.“I literally grew up in a

projection booth.”Though he describes

himself as a fi lm fan but not a fanatic, Burns does hold many special memo-ries of a young life spent at the movies. In particular, he remembers a showing at the Capri 70, which was located where Bennett Galleries now stands.

“There was nothing like watching a true Cinerama picture on that screen with that sound system! One movie I remember seeing there was ‘Krakatoa, East of Java.’ Before I went down-stairs to watch the movie my dad said, ‘Don’t get sea-sick,’ to which I laughed. In the middle of the movie af-ter the eruption, when the

boat was riding the waves, sure enough! I started get-ting seasick!”

Movies also affected the youngster in a more mean-ingful way. At age 8, watch-ing “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” he asked his dad where the church was that Michelangelo was painting.

“When he explained that it was in Rome I thought, ‘I sure would love to see it, but I guess there is no way I ever would.’ Ten years later my high school band took a trip to Rome. We toured the Vatican, and as I stood in the Sistine Chapel my mind went back to that projection booth watching Charlton Heston painting that ceil-ing.”

Like all professionals in his fi eld, Burns has known

that the days o f fi lms on reels have been numbered for some time. “The Tennessee Theatre has a need for this technol-ogy,” explains Vince Fusco, president of the Tennessee Theatre Foundation board. “Movies come on hard drive now. We have a harder and harder time fi nding 35 mil-limeter fi lm.”

Regal Cinemas donated the new, state-of-the-art digital projector at the be-ginning of this year. Becky Hanson, executive director of the theater, is excited that the new projector is capable not only of showing movies, but can be used for business events and simulcasts such as the popular “Live from the Met” broadcasts. “This is the beginning of a whole new era for the Tennessee,” she says.

“The quality of the pic-

ture and sound is so much better” than

that of the old, obsolescent way, says Fusco. Still, he points out that even this brand-new technology has a limited life span. “Eventual-ly, there won’t even be hard drives,” he says. “Movies will come through a satellite connection.”

For now, Tim Burns is glad to have the new tech-nology in his house. “We’re not going to be in a situation where we’re trying to run stuff that’s past its prime because it’s the only print we can get,” he says. “We can get anything that’s been digitized.

And what would Bill, who passed away in January 2002, think about being put out of work by this spanking new system?

According to his son, he’d say, “It’s been a good run while it lasted.”Send story suggestions to news@Shop-

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But the truth is, my can-dle is simply a reminder of Who is at the center of my life, Who is in charge, who calls, sends, leads, uses, chastens, loves and heals me.

He called himself, among other titles, the Light of the World.

And, He calls you and me to shine.

What good is my poor light, I wonder? Some days it is merely a glimmer, a fl ickering, unsteady, tiny fl ame.

“Doesn’t matter,” Jesus says. “Whatever it is, how-ever small or uncertain, let it shine,” he commands.

So, here are my ques-tions. Is a small fl ame bet-ter than none? Am I being faithful to the Light of the World if my light fl ickers? What if it goes out entirely?

Long many years ago, a pastor I worked with gave me a fi rst-century clay lamp. He was a collector of antiquities and had several of these tiny lamps. It is small enough to fi t into the palm of my hand, and he warned me, “Don’t put oil in it or try to light it. It will

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Moral of this story? Don’t become a relic. Don’t sit on a shelf and be useless.

Do what you are called to do, which is to shine!

You know Christians who shine, don’t you? They are out there, sometimes in the most unexpected places, in the most surprising bodies: tiny babies who have just dropped in from heaven, handicapped grown-ups who refl ect Jesus’ light, the ancient ones who shine with hard-won wisdom.

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FAITH NOTES ■ New Fellowship Church will

host a rummage sale Friday

and Saturday, July 11-12, 9

a.m. across from the new

Paulette Elementary School

on Maynardville Highway.

■ New Fellowship Church

will host the Free Fellowship

Pentacost Singers 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 19. Everyone

is welcome. The church is

located across from the new

Paulette Elementary School.

■ A Medic blood drive will be

held 1-7 p.m. Monday, July 21,

at North Knoxville Seventh-

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July 12, at Dante Church of

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Anyone who would like a box

is invited. You must be pres-

ent to receive a box. Limit one

per household.

By Ruth WhiteThe congregation at Clear

Springs Baptist Church cel-ebrated Independence Day with an annual Freedom Celebration featuring a little preaching, a little fellowship and a whole lot of good food.

Isaac Chandler and Ken-ny Walker kicked off the event with patriotic music and the congregation rais-ing their voices in song. Assistant District Attorney Leland Price spoke briefl y and was called “a man with a servant’s heart” by pastor Jerry Vittatoe.

Vittatoe brought a brief message and said, “I wanted to do a big hoorah for our nation, but I’m troubled with the direction it’s go-ing.” Vittatoe read from Psalm 80, describing it as words of a patriot of Israel. He talked of how God’s hand

Isaac Chandler and Kenny Walker perform prior to the service.Maddie Tackett listens to the sermon during the Freedom Ser-

vice at Clear Springs Baptist. Photos by R. White

Leland Price, center, celebrates with his parents, Peggy and

Hugh Price, at the Freedom Celebration. Price was the guest

speaker at the event.

Kylie Cardwell enjoys a fl ag

cookie during the fellowship

time.

By Cindy TaylorPowell Church, in co-

operation with Cokesbury UMC, will host Recovery every Tuesday evening. The program is a Christ-centered, biblically based recovery plan that focuses on individuals and families who are struggling with emotional distress and ad-diction issues.

“Although we don’t like to talk about it, addiction to drugs and alcohol is at the top of the list of problems for people in this communi-ty,” said Powell Church pas-tor G.W. Boles. “We think it’s time to face those prob-lems. We invite anyone who is dealing with compulsive behavior, addiction issues or life’s hurts, habits and hang-ups to participate in Recovery at Powell.”

Recovery combines the principles of organizations like Alcoholics Anony-mous, Narcotics Anony-mous and Al-Anon with a Christ-centered approach. There is a strong focus on the 12 steps of recovery, open share group meetings,

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The weekly program be-gins at 6 p.m. with a meal, followed by worship at 7 p.m. Small sharing groups will convene at 8:15 p.m. and end about one hour later. There is no charge to participate in the program.

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vice at Clear Spprings Baaptptpp ist. Photos by R. White

Celebrating freedom

has been upon America but how the great values it was built on have been trampled and mocked.

“We cannot live away

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Vittatoe stressed how he wants this to be a Godly na-

tion as when he was grow-ing up, but reminded at-tendees how God has been invited out. “Our nation was founded by men of principle and faith. God is the great-est hope of America. Don’t give up hope.”

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Culinary students Kayla Wetz, Kayla Cordell, Matt Leatherwood and John Hampton prepare to

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Chris Smith feeds her husband, Mark, green goddess crab

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Gonzo Gourmet owner Brandon Wilson serves up a delicious and healthy lunch to go.

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Wilson also appreciated the help he received in class from specialists who ex-plained the business aspect,

which he says prepared him for the amount of time he spends in front of his computer instead of in the kitchen.

“Literally 80 percent of the time I’m keep-ing up with inspections, taxes and insurance,” said Wilson, instead of doing the

part of the business he loves most, which is, of course, cooking.

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Tom and Judy Von Berg have lunch under a tent in front of

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know what to expect. One week they’re learning how to carve an ice sculpture with a chain saw, and the next week they’re dishing out healthy pasta from the kitchen of a food truck.

“We take students with no experience who are pas-sionate but green and try to make them well rounded,” said program director Greg Eisele.

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Gonzo Gourmet food trailer owner Brandon Wil-son is a graduate of the pro-gram’s inaugural semester under Eisele. Wilson opened his business last October, serving dishes on the curbs of downtown Knoxville.

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Music lovers enjoy a performance by the Barstool Romeos at the

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as Sophie Schaur, who’s almost 6 months old, scopes out the

Meadow Lark scene.

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Defending the Constitution I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and that is exactly what I work to do each day.

Balanced Budget I don’t believe in spending money we don’t have. With one of the most fiscally conservative voting records in Congress, I consistently vote to reduce government spending in order to protect Social Security and control the federal debt.

Growing our Economy I want to eliminate government over-regulation so more businesses can open and expand, creating better jobs for Americans. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed my re-election saying it will, “produce sustained economical growth, help create jobs and get our country back on track.”

Repealing Obamacare I believe the biggest problem with the so-called Affordable Care Act is that it is unaffordable already. I will continue to speak out against it at every opportunity, and I believe our federal dollars are better spent on things like improving care for our nation’s veterans.

America First I oppose spending billions of dollars on people in foreign countries who hate us. We need to stop trying to take care of the whole world and start taking care of our own country and putting the American people first once again.

By Patricia WilliamsThe First Tee life skills

summer program for chil-dren ages 6-17 is under-way at seven golf courses throughout Knoxville in-c luding The Wee Course at Williams Creek Golf Course, 2351 Dandridge Ave. Williams Creek was rated one of the Top 10 par-3 courses in the country by Golf Range magazine, ac-cording to Diondre Jackson, executive director of the First Tee of Greater Knox-ville program. It is open to the public and is only about two miles from downtown Knoxville.

Children in the summer program at Williams Creek attend from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.

“We are not trying to cre-ate another Tiger Woods,” explains Jackson.

“We teach core values that go with the game of golf, that help kids transi-tion into adulthood.”

The grounds also include a gym, a learning center and game rooms. Children participate in a variety of activities that are fun and challenging while build-ing healthy habits and life skills.

Jackson applauds the positive difference he and the staff are making in the lives of the participants. “I have had the pleasure of having coffee with young men who started here when they were just little kids,” he says.

Jackson says the pro-gram is very competitive and the kids are challenged academically. Upon comple-tion, students may qualify for golf scholarships ac-cepted at 30 colleges in the country.

Jeremy Fultz, Carter High grad, and Todd McGill Jr., South-Doyle grad, are recent scholarship winners. McGill has been in the pro-gram for 10 years.

Golfers Greg Treece, Gary Adkins and Rick Southers travel from

Powell and Halls to play at The Wee Course.

First Tee’s summer program underway

Touring the beautiful apartment homes known as Legends at Oak Grove made me wonder why I don’t move there. Adam Chavira, prop-erty manager, loves this place, and his enthusiasm is contagious.

Adam Chavira, property manager; Adrienne Boler, leasing con-

sultant; and Steve Heydel, assistant property manager, with

the Legends at Oak Grove

Nancy Whittaker

Legends at Oak Grove – like ‘coming home’

ity. Legends participates in the DNA-based Poo Prints program, which enables the staff to know which resident didn’t clean up after their dog.

There is a dog park, pet spa, car care center, pool-side Internet access, ex-ecutive business center, children’s play area, fi tness center – the list goes on and on.

The apartments them-selves hav e more excep-tional features than I ex-pected: garden tubs, large walk-in closets, built-in microwaves, built-in linen closets, kitchen islands and pre-wiring for high-speed Internet access.

Chavira encourages pro-spective residents to just come by to let a member of the team show you around. Legends is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.

Info: www.LegendsAtOakGrove.com or 688-4881.

■ Sterling now heads ETABPA The East Towne Area

Business and Professional Association has a new presi-dent.

Justin Sterling, leasing agent for Knoxville Center

mall, follows the founding pr e s ident , K a e l y n F a r m e r , manager of Buckle. The announce-ment came at the July 1 meeting at New Har-vest Park. S t e r l i n g t h a n k e d Farmer for her service and pledged to keep the m o m e n -tum of the group going strong.

J a n e t Edkins, CEO of Jay Designs Inc., shared tips and tricks for businesses to get the most out of social media. She also discussed ways to maximize the impact of a business website.

Website creation is one of her specialties. Edkins can be reached at 966-3271 or CEO@JayDesignsInc.com.

Taco Bell was breakfast sponsor and furnished a de-licious meal with an array of its new breakfast choices.

The next meeting will be at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6. The ETABPA encourages all businesses in the area to join.

Edkins

Sterling

Food City has created two administrative posi-

tions and elevated two staff members to serve.

Don Mascola is the vice president for infor-mation

technology and in-store services. He has headed in-store services since 2008 and has 22 years total with Food City.

Haskel Bledsoe is now director of security/loss prevention. He previously

served as district manager for the company, respon-

sible for 17 Food City locations within the Tri-City market. With over 30 years of industry experience, Bledsoe

began his career with Giant Food Markets in Kingsport at age 16. He joined Food City in 2002 as a project manager. He was later pro-moted to store manager and then district manager.

Mascola Bledsoe

Food City promotes two

Built on 22 acres just past Target on Washington Pike, this gated community makes you feel “at home” the moment you drive into the property. There are nu-merous amenities and sur-prising features at every

turn.The complex features

spacious one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments with the option for sun-rooms or patio/balcony and outside storage. For over-night visitors, a guest suite (furnished, two bedrooms, two baths) is available for $75 per night.

I caught up with Chavira in the amazing clubhouse, which is available to resi-dents for parties and show-ers for a nominal fee.

Next was the saltwater, resort-style swimming pool with a poolside entertain-ment area including a fi re-place, bar and grills.

Legends at Oak Grove is very pet friendly. “Our team loves dogs,” says Chavira. Keeping the community clean and safe is a top prior-

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Noweta and Arissa garden club members tour Oakes farm. Pictured are Marjorie Gardner, Margaret Trammell, Regena Richard-

son, Debbie Johnson, Jennifer Hinson, Evelyn Lorenz, Carole Whited, Jean Hiser and Carol Ward.

Marjorie Gardner, Margaret Trammell (seated) and Regena

Richardson kid around on the giant rocking chair during a tour

at Oakes Daylilies. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Noweta Garden Club member Margaret Trammell admires the

blooms at Oakes Daylilies.

Noweta in colorThe Noweta and Arissa

garden clubs joined July 2 for a fi eld trip to Oakes Day-lilies. Ken Oakes explained the workings of the fl ower farm and took the group through the different vari-eties of daylilies.

“I never planned to make this my calling,” said Oakes. “My family started small

and slowly just kept adding plants until we became the gardens you see here.”

Oakes Farm boasts more than 1, 000 varieties of daylilies in almost ev-ery color except blue. The Noweta Garden Club meets at 10 a.m. each fi rst Tuesday. Info: ccwhited@aol.com.

Wendy Smith

Lakeshore hospital comes down

By now, demolition has begun that will transform what used to be Lakeshore Mental Health Institute into Lakeshore Park.

Starting this week, the upholstery building, smoke stack, laundry building, Waterside Building, De-partment of Health Build-ing, Chota Building, Vil-lage Mall, Baker Building, Keller Building and the boiler house will be razed. Five structures will remain at Lakeshore Park: two cot-tages, the Administration Building, the chapel and a central services warehouse. Restoration of the historic Administration Building is

The Chota Building is one of ten that will be razed as the city

transitions the former Lakeshore Mental Health Institute to

Lakeshore Park. Photos by Wendy Smith

already underway.The city plans to spend

more than $5 million on demolition, infrastructure and improvements on the park this year. While the ex-panded Lakeshore Park will likely be the crown jewel of Knoxville’s parks, we will be losing a signifi cant slice of history.

As I drove through the campus to get a last look at the buildings that will soon come down, I was keenly aware of the many lives that were touched by East Ten-nessee Hospital for the In-sane (1886), which became Eastern State Psychiatric Hospital (1927), which be-came Lakeshore Mental Health Institute (1977).

If your life, or a family member’s life, was impacted by the former mental hos-pital, I’d like to hear your story. Shoot me an email at shopperwendy@wowway.com.

Crafty kids’ workshopPaulk and Co., 510 Wil-

liams Street, will host “Crafty Kids in the Gallery” summertime workshop 2-5 p.m. Sunday, July 13.

Participants will make “coolio” magnets and design their own T-shirts. Hands-on instruction will be pro-vided by resident Crafty Lady Sarah Brobst. Parents are invited to join in the fun or tour the Urban Garden Wilderness Experiment.

Children over age 5 can be left at the event while their parents go out for lunch.

A healthy snack buf-fet and cold drinks will be served. Admission is $20 for the fi rst child and $10 for each sibling. To participate in T-shirt design, children will need to bring a shirt from home. Reservations are required and space is limited to 20 children, ages 3 and up. Info: events@paulkandco.com.

Host an exchange studentWorld Heritage Student

Exchange Program, a non-profi t organization, is look-ing for local host families for high school students from around the world for the 2014-15 school year.

Families will provide room, board and guidance. Couples, single parents and families with or without children living at home are

all encouraged to apply.Each exchange student is

fully insured, brings their own spending money and expects to bear their share of household responsibili-ties and participate in nor-mal family activities.

Info: Adrienne Smith, 240-4144 or www.whhosts.com.

Gardening with children workshop

UT Gardens will host a symposium on getting children to garden 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, for those interested in the impact gardening can make on children’s education. Teachers will also learn ways to fund their school’s garden.

Cost is $30 ($15 for college students). Register online by 5 p.m. Monday, July 28, at https://utgardens.wildapricot.org/GWC. Info: Derrick Stowell, 974-7151 or dstowell@utk.edu.

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Powell teen back in actionWith a black belt in ka-

rate, Hunter Thomas, 17, has fought scores of opponents, out-maneuvering them with his quick reflexes.

“I’ve been pretty successful at tournaments and won some national ones,” said Hunter, the son of Jerry and Beth Thomas of Powell. Hunter is a rising senior at Powell High School and works as an as-sistant instructor of karate at The Wheeler Academy.

Hunter has battled suc-cessfully through a number of health problems as well. Most recently in February 2013, he underwent comprehensive reconstructive surgery on his

hip at Fort S a n d e r s R e g i o n a l M e d i c a l Center.

“His hip was mis-s h a p e n , ” said Dr. Paul Yau, H u n t e r ’ s orthopedic s u r g e o n . “The ball

of the hip should be round like a ball, and his was more like a roughened mushroom, so it was tearing cartilage and roll-ing out of the socket. I made the joint round for him and repaired two cartilage tears so he could have a chance to be active, run, kick and par-ticipate in martial arts.”

Hunter had what’s called “femoroacetabular impinge-ment,” or FAI. It’s a structural disorder of the hip, in which the ball and socket of the hip don’t fit together snuggly and smoothly.

The condition began as a toddler, when Hunter was diagnosed with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. In this condi-tion, blood supply to the bone is cut off and the bone begins to die. Hunter had surgery on his left hip to preserve the bone.

Then when he was 9 years old, Hunter had a similar but more extensive problem in his right hip. At that point, Hunter had surgery and spent five months in a waterproof body cast from his chest to his ankles.

“That was fun,” joked Hunt-er. “The only thing I could do was float in the pool and use a hair dryer to dry off.”

To get him out of the house, Hunter’s parents took him to watch his younger brother Dalton’s karate classes at The Wheeler Academy.

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Arthroscopy for hipsAlthough Hunter Thomas’ surgery was done through an

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work with him on stretching and getting stronger.

“So that’s how Hunter started in karate,” said Beth Thomas.

“He worked his way through that and became a fighter. He won two national championships after that ma-jor surgery. The owner, Chuck Reynolds, stands behind ev-ery student like that, giving them that kind of encour-agement. He was a blessing in our life, as far as making Hunter strong.”

As Hunter grew, he ex-celled in karate and in school. He was named top Christian athlete in 2012 by his school’s Fellowship of Christian Ath-letes club and is thinking about going into the medical field someday.

But in 2013, Hunter’s leg pain kicked up again. “I began having pain from my right hip to my right knee – it would wake me up at night,” said Hunter. “And I have a pretty high pain tolerance.”

Because of Hunter’s his-tory, several doctors said they couldn’t repair his hip, and he is too young for a hip replace-ment. So Beth Thomas began looking outside of Knoxville

for a surgeon who could help.“I did some research and

found a surgeon, Dr. John Clohisy, at Washington Uni-versity in St. Louis, who spe-cialized in adolescent hips,”

said Beth Thomas. “Then,shortly after that, we found out about Dr. Paul Yau at Fort Sanders.”

Yau did his orthopedic fel-lowship training under Clo-hisy in St. Louis, and he is the only physician in the Knox-ville area fellowship trained in this kind of hip impinge-ment surgery.

“One of the things that im-pressed me is that Dr. Yau didn’t immediately say every-thing’s going to be perfect,” said Beth Thomas. “He was cautious, and put so much time and effort into making sure Hunter received the best procedure to last as long as it could.”

“A hip replacement atHunter’s age would be risky,” said Yau. “They wear out and you risk infection the longer you have it in. So I’m hopingwith this surgery to preserve his hip, he can wait another 20 to 30 years before needinga hip replacement.”

Yau reshaped the ball at thetop of Hunter’s femur, and re-paired the damaged cartilageand labrum (soft tissue lin-ing the hip socket), holding itall together with small metalplates.

After surgery, Hunterspent about a month doingphysical therapy in Yau’s of-fice, and then Hunter beganworking behind the desk atThe Wheeler Academy.

By June 2013 he was backon the mats, and Yau stoppedin to see him work out beforegiving him the OK to compete in a local tournament in Sep-tember.

“We’ve been through somuch together, I wanted to see what he could do,” said Yau.

Hunter placed second inthat tournament and first place in two others since then, including the Year End Na-tionals in Atlanta. He is back to teaching karate as well.

“Dr. Yau is awesome,” saidHunter. “Some doctors didn’twant to do this surgery, buthe seemed very confident, very curious and careful witheverything. He told me whatwas going to happen and an-swered all my questions.

“As far as my everyday ac-tivity, I haven’t had any pain,” he said. “I’ve gotten full pow-er back in my leg and full flex-ibility.”

The Thomas family saidthey would recommend Dr.Yau and Fort Sanders to any-one facing hip surgery.

“It was great care, it re-ally was,” said Beth Thomas.“They were really good to him.”

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THROUGH FRIDAY, JULY 11Registration open for the Crown Educa-

tion Camp for students in grades 7-12. Three tracks available: Crown Music Camp, Crown STEM Camp and Crown Vocational Skills Camp. Info/preregistra-tion: http://thecrowncollege.com/educationcamp or 1-877-MY-CROWN.

THROUGH SATURDAY, JULY 19Early registration for Upward Football/

Cheer signups, $75. Registration between July 19 and Aug. 11, $90. Info/to register and pay: 219-8673; www.corrytonchurch.com and go to the “Upward” link; on Facebook, Corryton Church Upward Sports League; Twitter, @CorrytonUpward.

THROUGH SATURDAY, AUG. 23Registration open for Lakeside of the Smok-

ies Triathlon: 1.5k open water swim on Douglas Lake, 40k bike ride on rolling rural roads and 10k run on rolling roads. Info/to register: 250-3618 or http://racedayevents.net/events/lakeside-of-the-smokies-triathlon/.

THURSDAY, JULY 10VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynard-

ville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.Monthly Seniors Meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.,

Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road. Speaker: Theresa Hensley with Morning Pointe. Lunch, noon; bingo, 1 p.m. Program is free, donations appreciated. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

FRIDAY, JULY 11Farm Fresh Fridays: Union County Farmers Mar-

ket, 4-7 p.m., downtown Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

Concert on the Commons, 7-9 p.m., Norris Town Commons. Featuring: Hippy Nuts. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket. Info/schedule: www.facebook.com/pages/Concerts-On-The-Commons/210787865610690 or www.cityofnorris.com.

Mr. Rich’s Super Science Tennessee, 12:15-2 p.m., Maynardville Public Library, 296 Main St. Info: 992-7106.

Communitywide fi reworks show, following 7 p.m. rally, The Crown College Campus, 2307 West Bea-ver Creek Drive. Everyone invited; admission free.

Volunteer Traveler Square Dance Club dance, 7:30 p.m., Square Dance Center Inc., 820 Tulip St. Theme: Melon Fest. Caller: Bill Fox. Info: Janice Fox, 689-2665.

Free Family Movie in the Park at Luttrell City Park. Movie will start at dusk. Bring chairs or blankets. Candies, chips, soda and popcorn available for purchase. Info: 992 0678.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 11-27“Thumbelina” presented by the Knoxville Chil-

dren’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/reservations: 208-3677 or www.knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 12Cades Cove tour with Bill Landry, 9 a.m.,

departing from the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. Tickets: $50 per person; includes light snacks and a cold beverage. Reservations required: 448-8838.

Wheel Throwing: One Bag/One Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Sandra McEntire. Registration deadline: July 5. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., WMRD 94.5 FM, 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All pickers and singers welcome.

Yoga, 9-10:15 a.m., Narrow Ridge outdoor stage or Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road., Washburn. Bring yoga/Pilates mat, towel, water. No fee; donations accepted. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or www.narrowridge.org.

Benefi t Ride for the First Baptist Mobile Ministry, First Baptist Church of Powell. Registration: 8 a.m.; ride begins 9 a.m. Lunch provided. No fee but donations accepted. All bikes and bikers welcome. Info: Don Wadley, 679-4045; Debbie Garrett, 599-9141; or email sweetnlow1298@comcast.net

Big Clinch River Cleanup, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway, Nor-ris. Begins with breakfast and briefi ng for registered volunteers. To register: http://crctu.org and click on

Big Cleanup Registration. Info: Buzz Buffi ngton, buzz.buffi ngton@gmail.com or 463-7167; or Jim Ferguson, jimferguson41@gmail.com or 494-8081.

Car Show to benefi t Josh Hensley’s family and Brit-tany Branch, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Union County High School parking lot. Info: Aircooled Hooligans on Facebook.

Fundraiser meal: Hamburgers, hot dogs, all the fi xin’s and watermelon, 4-7 p.m., Bright Hope Lodge #557 F. &A.M., 5400 N. Broadway. Cost: Suggested donation, $5; all donations appreciated.

SUNDAY, JULY 13Little Greenbrier School Old Harp shape note

singing, 2 p.m., Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info: Robin Goddard, 982-6148 or rlgoddard@aol.com.

MONDAY, JULY 14Registration deadline for Rhythm of the

Mountains camp – The Music, Art and Dance of the Appalachian Mountains – to be held 8:30 a.m.-noon Monday through Thursday, July 21-24, Central Baptist Church of Fountain City. For children who have completed grades 1-6. Cost: $35, includes concert shirt and daily snacks. Concert: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24. Info/registration: http://www.cbcfc.org/fi ne-arts-camp-registration/ or 688-2421.

MONDAY-THURSDAY, JULY 14-17Kids Support Camp, a free four-day camp for

kids who have a loved one facing cancer, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., The Cancer Support Community East Tennessee, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Info: 546-4661.

TUESDAY, JULY 15UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meet-

ing, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice offi ce, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

Summer Reading Program: Zoomobile, 1 p.m., Luttrell Public Library. Info: 992-0208.

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

Old College Monthly Harp Singing, 6 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 123 S. Jackson St., Athens, Tenn. Info: Cora Sweatt, 423 745-0248.

Sevier County Monthly Old Harp Singing, 7 p.m., Middle Creek UMC, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge. Info: David Sarten, 428-0874.

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Dr. Bob Collier

Unless you possess a time machine, there are only a couple of ways I know to prolong spring-time, at least on this side of the Equator – go higher or go north. But why prolong springtime anyway? Why, to continue to enjoy spring bird migration, of course. To spend more mornings surrounded by singing and courting birds, up from their wintertime hangouts in their spiffy spring feath-ers, active and conspicuous. And an Eden-like backdrop of fresh spring wildfl owers is certainly a nice accompa-niment to the scene.

Thus, during the recent and seemingly unending winter, we searched for a place where we could indeed fi nd spring again, after the one in Tennessee was done. And we found just such a place, in northwestern Montana, which is actually farther north than northern Maine, and higher, too.

The place? The Nature Conservancy’s 18,000-acre Pine Butte Swamp Pre-serve and its adjacent Pine Butte Guest Ranch. Located just where the high-rolling shortgrass prairie that oc-cupies the eastern two-thirds of Montana meets the fi rst row of craggy, snow-capped Rocky Mountains, the property rises abruptly

Big Sky birding

from 4,500 feet above sea level out on the plains to over 8,500 feet up on the mountain peaks.

One could expect a late spring there, with lots of dif-ferent birds and lots of fl ow-ers. And then the clincher: the birding program that week at the ranch was to be led by famous fi eld-guide author and bird artist David Allen Sibley. Sibley, from Massachusetts, was to be joined by a co-leader, Keith Hansen, another bird artist and author, from the coast of California. It sounded like an excellent team, and they proved to be just that-expert and very enjoyable.

The actual program was the fi rst week of June, so Spouse and I headed out the last week of May and birded our way to western Montana. Along the way, we enjoyed some great his-tory lessons. We crossed the path of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806) sev-eral times as we proceeded along the Missouri River from St. Louis, Missouri, to

Great Falls, Montana. There are numerous parks, monu-ments and exhibits along their route, and the mag-nifi cent Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls, where we spent an en-tire day.

Finally, a couple of hours northwest of Great Falls and 2,300 miles from home, we found the Pine Butte Guest Ranch nestled down amongst a batch of big rugged mountains, and sitting beside the rushing, snowmelt-fi lled South Fork of the Teton River. And just down the road and out onto the prairie is the Pine Butte Swamp Preserve itself. Now, you wouldn’t expect to fi nd a swamp in Montana, and although the Pine Butte Swamp Preserve is wet, it isn’t really a swamp – it’s a fen.

That means that rather than having a big area of dark stagnant water stand-ing around out there, there are lots of seeps, springs and little springs fi lled with clear, cool groundwater from the mountains, which creates an interesting wet-land in an otherwise sparse and arid countryside. That, in turn, attracts all sorts of plants and animals.

The wetlands turned out to be bad for the original ranchers. They had hoped to drain the “swamp” and grow crops and cattle – only the swamp wouldn’t drain. The ranch failed, and later became available, and

the Nature Conservancy bought it. Which is great for nature. Now protected and with plenty of water, it is full of wild things – deer, elk, moose, bobcats, golden eagles. And grizzly bears.

Lewis and Clark fi rst de-scribed the grizzly, at that time unknown to science. They wrote that they were “verry large and turrible.” And they indeed had a num-ber of very close calls with them in Montana. The area of the Pine Butte Preserve has the largest concentra-tion of grizzlies in North America. The momma griz-zlies bring their new cubs down from the mountains in the spring to feed out in the wetlands below. All the ranch hands carry a can of “bear spray” on their belts, and we were all warned to stay aware of our surround-ings and not wander around alone.

Ah, but the birds. The state of Montana may have only nine people per square mile, but it boasts a bird list of nearly 400 species. We were hoping to see consider-ably over 100 for the trip. At the ranch each day, we bird-ed for an hour before break-fast, and then we were away, either out onto the prairie or up into the mountains, to see what we could see. Our searches for prairie birds out on the grassy hilltops showed us why Montana is called “Big Sky Country.” You could see nearly forever in every direction, and the sky did indeed look bigger than any I ever saw.

Out in the arid West, lakes attract large numbers of birds. We spent one day at a huge lake, appropri-ately called Freezeout Lake; it was 43 degrees that day. Big rafts of birds were ev-erywhere. We observed 15

species of ducks, four gulls, three terns, and more than a dozen other water-related species – white pelicans, grebes, herons, marbled godwits and yellow-headed blackbirds.

Up in the mountains we spied numerous bird won-ders, small and large, from tiny male calliope hum-mingbirds doing their big swooping courtship fl ights to majestic prairie falcons and golden eagles, nesting high up on the sheer cliffs above us. We saw birds that only a true birder could love, with names like MacGilli-vray’s warbler, Townsend’s solitaire, gray jay, Clark’s nutcracker. My favorite bird of the trip has to be the amazing American dip-per – a little gray bird that gathers its food by walk-ing along the bottoms of rushing mountain streams, searching for aquatic bugs and larvae as nonchalantly as if it were pecking around in my yard.

Our species list grew and grew, and when at last we had to bid the ranch good-bye we had tallied up 142 species for the fi ve days we had spent there. That plus a whole array of new wild-fl owers, lots of scenery and history, and some of the best steaks you ever ate, made for a trip that we would gladly repeat any year – except that there are a lot of other places out there, where we hope to prolong springtime again in the years ahead.

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Apts - Furnished 72WALBROOK STUDIOS

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Healthcare 110180 COUNSELING

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Industrial Trades 112NEED WELDERS.

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Dogs 141American Bulldog

puppies, NKC reg, champ parents, S&W, $350-$500. 865-438-5473

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Australian Shepherd Puppies, 9 wks old, 1st shots & wormed. $300. 865-690-1623; 622-0233

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GREAT DANE PUPS, AKC, Choc, $600 - 1200

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Great Pyrenees / Mtn Cur Mix Puppies, Females, $100.

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Mini Dachshund puppies, dapple, 2 M $125 ea 2 F $175 ea. 865-266-9193 or 760-937-0152

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Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles,

Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots

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CATERPILLAR 951 crawler loader, $3,600; 865-573-7588

Lawn-Garden Equip. 19042" CUT

HYDROSTATIC CRAFTSMAN, $475.

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TV/Electronics 197T/T CLEARAUDIO

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Music Instruments 198HD DRUM Machine,

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Misc. Items 203WHIRLPOOL

FREEZER $200. Spinet piano $300. Outside grill $20. 5-shelf bookcase $20. 688-7754. Also - ga-rage full of flea market items $300 for all!

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FORD TIOGA CAMPER 1994, new awning, sleeps 8, $9500. 865-573-3032

Motor Homes 237ITASCA Navion K 2010,

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Motorcycles 238HARLEY DAVIDSON

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HARLEY DAVIDSON Evolution Sportster, 1200 CC, 5800 mi, like new. $4000. 865-522-8818.

HARLEY DAVIDSON Ultra Classic 2009, $4500 in upgrades. 1200 mi.

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Harley Davidson Ultra Classic. 2013 Only 1000 mi. Selling for health reasons. Discount price. Info 865-805-8038

SUZUKI 125 DRZ Dirt Bike. 2007, exc. cond. new rear tire. $1050. 865-577-2079.

YAMAHA ROAD Star 1600, 15k mi, garage kept, Silverado pkg. $3500. 423-923-8146

Autos Wanted 253

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Utility Trailers 2552 HORSE Trailer w/dressing room, custom shelving,

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NISSAN QUEST SE 2004 Loaded

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Trucks 257FORD F150 STX 2007,

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FORD RANGER V6, AT, 2004, Std. Cab, 1 ownr, 82,230 mi. $7500. 865-523-8736

Honda Ridgeline 2013, RTL, 4x4, 300 mi, all fact. opts., maroon ext., tan int., navig., moonroof,

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4 Wheel Drive 258FORD F150 2005 4x4,

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JEEP TJ Wrangler 1999, 4L, 5 spd, soft top, RV tow bar, $7,000. 865-310-8850

TOYOTA TACOMA 2003, V6, 4WD manual, Xtra Cab, 183K mi.,

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Antiques Classics 2601978 OLDS REGENCY 98 Sedan, all orig., call

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Antiques Classics 260FORD GALAXY 500,

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Sport Utility 261FORD ESCAPE 2010,

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HONDA CRV EXL 2012, AWD, 28.7K mi., exc. cond. Asking $24,250. 865-322-6369.

HONDA PILOT 2011 touring, lthr., DVD, 43K mi., $22,900. Call 423-295-5393.

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Mercedes E420 1997, 1 local family ownr, perf. maint., gar. kept. 170K mi, white/grey leather, beautiful & safe sport sedan. $5,200. 865-567-3555

MINI COOPER 2007, exc. cond. Sport package. $11,050. 865-250-4443

NISSAN MAXIMA 2001 GLE, gray, exc. cond. 145k mi, Leather int. $4400. 865-567-6098

TOYOTA COROLLA 2001, 90k mi, good cond. Good back to school car. $3500/bo. 865-919-4102

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Domestic 265CADILLAC SRX 2004,

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CHEV HHR LS 2008, sunburst orange, 45K mi, new tires, $9300. 865-919-2333

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FORD FUSION SE 2012, exc. cond. $14,000. 865-250-4443

Mercury Grand Marquis LS 2009, silver, auto, alloys, cruise, cli-mate, tan leather, Michelins, 121k, clean, maintained, $7800. Steve @ 865-607-3802

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NW KNOX – One-of-a-kind! All brick 4BR/3BA, sits on 2.93 acres. Featuring: Sep living down w/1BR/1BA, full kit & living area. Wrap-around decking, Det 24x24 gar. Hdwd under carpet. Up-dates: New carpet & vinyl. New roof. Underground utilities. $225,000 (889738)

HALLS – Residental building lot in Stone-wood Hills. One of the larger lots in private cul-de-sac Reduced. $34,000 (866279)

POWELL – 3BR/2BA, 2-story w/natural bamboo hdwd fl rs, vaulted ceilings, crown moldings, lg fam rm w/stone gas FP. Kit w/breakfast bar, formal DR. Mstr suite on main w/Jacuzzi & sep shower, walk-in closets. Lg bonus rm. Oversized 12 x 48 deck great for entertaining. Reduced. $264,999 (864076)

WEST KNOX – Looking for a deal? Priced 22k below appraised value. Lot in upscale community near Ft Loudon Lake. Features: Sidewalks, walking trails, private pond & just mins from Turkey Creek. $115,000 (875769)

POWELL – Great 1-level, 2BR/2BA. This home features: Vaulted ceilings, Arch design, mstr w/walk-in. Hall BA shared w/2nd BR, pre-wired for sec sys & floored pull-down attic stg. Private fenced back patio area. $129,900 (844872)

HALLS – Well kept 3BR/2.5BA, 2-story w/bonus rm or 4th BR. 12x12.6 screened-in porch, fenced backyard. Lots of stg w/tall crawlspace for stg. Updates include: HVAC gas & water heater. Washer & Dryer to remain. $175,000 (891028)

N KNOX – This all brick, 3BR features: LR & formal DR. Screened porch over-looking fenced backyard, stg bldg & attached 2-car gar. Reduced. $129,000 (879299)

HALLS – 67+ acres w/pond & mostly wooded w/several possible bldg sites. Well has been dug. Additional ac-cess to backside of property. $399,900 (891268)

HALLS – Peaceful retreat! Custom 4+BR w/pond view features: 17' ceilings foyer & fam rm, mstr suite on main w/FP. Gourmet kit w/butler’s pantry. Bonus rm up w/offi ce & full BA access. Plenty of stg. 3-car attached gar w/220 wiring. $799,900 (891206)

POWELL – This all brick, 4BR/2.5BA, bsmt rancher sits on a lg lot. The 4th BR/of-fi ce is down w/half BA & rec rm. New updates including: Roof spring 2014, cabinets, vanity tops, toilets & deck. $149,900 (892549)

POWELL – 31.88 acres, great potential development. This property is located approx 2 miles from I-75. Zoned PR w/concept plan for Ridgewood Village S/D. $499,000 (887924)

KARNS – Spacious, open, 2BR/2BA, ranch, end-unit condo at end of street. Well cared for, this home features: Kit w/all stainless appliances & eat-at bar in dining area. 2-car gar. $149,900 (882179)