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By Anne HartIt was a celebration 20 years in

the making.Twenty years of helping thou-

sands of families in poverty-strick-en rural Appala-chia by providing everything from backpacks stuffed with supplies for school children, wood stoves to help ward off the winter cold, des-perately needed food and cloth-

ing, Christmas gifts for children who would otherwise have none and college scholarships for high schoolers who very much want to continue their education, is quite something to celebrate.

And celebrate they did as some

600 volunteers and other sup-porters of Mission of Hope fi lled the Rothchild Conference Center Thursday evening to rejoice about two decades of helping others and to dedicate themselves to expand-ing the effort.

Who could have imagined that the project Julie Holland started in the garage at her home in West Knoxville with the help of a few friends could have accomplished so much?

Holland had seen a documenta-ry by then WBIR anchor Bill Wil-liams that illustrated the extreme suffering of families who live in remote areas of the southern Ap-palachians, far from towns where help might be available. She de-cided to do something about it.

That fi rst year, 150 children received new clothing for school.

Three months later, Christmas was provided for 1,500 children. Last year, that number totaled 17,000.

Emmette Thompson would tell you it’s all thanks to donors and volunteers, but others would say that it is the energy and the sheer passion for his work that Thomp-son embodies that motivates the thousands who pitch in their mon-ey and goods and time throughout the year.

Thompson was hired as execu-tive director of Mission of Hope in 1996 and still spearheads the or-ganization. He and his small staff work year-round, encouraging volunteers and donors alike to do all they can to further the organi-zation’s mission of help and hope.

And the good works continue to grow exponentially, as Mission of

Thompson

20 years of helping thosewho need it most

Hope buses leave Knoxville month after month loaded with donated furniture and clothing and just about anything else that can be used to help the urgent needs of the recipients, including so many things we all take for granted, such as toothbrushes and tooth-paste, soap and shampoo.

The needs are many and grow-ing, Thompson says, as the coal business, which provided jobs for so many of these families, contin-ues its decline.

Among speakers at last week’s event was Kathy West of Oneida, executive director of the Appala-chian Life Quality Initiative, who told those gathered, “Mission of Hope has been a Godsend in Scott County since 2003. We have seen

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Mission of Hope:

Central High School head coach Bryson Rosser talks with team members

and fans following the Bobcats’ win over Sullivan East, Central’s fi rst home

playoff game since 2005. Photo by J. Valentine

Halls quarterback Andrew Davis keeps the ball

for the Red Devils. Halls defeated Tennessee High

School in the fi rst round of the playoff s, 38-36.

Halls will travel to Sevier County Friday, Nov. 13, for

a 7 p.m. kickoff . This is the fi rst playoff appearance

for the Red Devils since 2007. Photo by K. Woods

Central’s Riley Gaul

scores one of his two

touchdowns to help

the Bobcats beat Sul-

livan East 53-7 in the

fi rst round of the play-

off s. Central will travel

to Greeneville for the

second round on Fri-

day night. Photo by M. Buell

Central, Halls advance in playoff s

Wall of Fame honoree is retired organistBy Courtney Shea

Music enriches a community in so many ways. Central High School grad-

uate Mary Eleanor Jones Pickle, Class of 1942, used her musi-cal talents for decades to enrich worship, support choruses and accompany families through every stage of life.

She served for more than 43 years as the

organist at First Baptist Church of Knoxville.

Jones Pickle

CHS Wall of FameFour outstanding alumni will be inducted into the Cen-

tral High “Wall of Fame” on Saturday, Nov. 21. Mary Elea-nor Jones Pickle (CHS 1942), Joseph B. Gorman, Ph.D. (CHS 1958), William Donald Black, M.D. (CHS 1960) and Phil Keith (CHS 1967) are the 2015 honorees.

The breakfast will be held at the Central High School Commons, 5321 Jacksboro Pike, at 9 a.m., and the cer-emony will follow in the school auditorium featuring a video production of interviews with the honorees. Tickets are $20 and are available at the CHS offi ce and from CHS Alumni and Foundation representatives. Info: R. Larry Smith, 922-5433, or Courtney Shea, 689-5730 or court-shea@aol.com

Born Sept. 22, 1925, Mary El-eanor Jones grew up in Fountain City, the daughter of Samuel and Sadie Jones. Her brother, J.A. “Jim,” was 11 years her senior.

She could walk to the new Foun-tain City Elementary School from their home on Colonial Circle. She showed an early talent for music and began piano lessons with Ber-tha Price Perry at age 7.

After graduating with the fi rst class to complete Fountain City Elementary, she walked up the hill to Central High School.

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Help wanted!The Knox County Elec-

tion Commission is recruiting election offi cials for three 2016 elections and will host fi ve orientation meetings in mid-November.

The elections are March 1, Aug. 4 and Nov. 8. Election offi cials are paid for Election Day in addition to required training. The closest orienta-tion session is at Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road, Monday, Nov. 23, 6 p.m.

Info: Brian Hall at 215-2480

Planting bulbsVolunteers are needed for a

beautifi cation mob sponsored by Keep Knoxville Beautiful 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, meeting at Helen Ross McNabb Center, 201 W. Spring-dale Avenue. One hundred volunteers will plant 60,000 daffodil bulbs along three exits of I-275 (Baxter, Woodland and Heiskell). Holes will re pre-augured; volunteers will plant and cover.

From the McNabb Center buses will take volunteer to the planting sites. Volunteers do not have to commit to the full day, and buses will run throughout the day. Breakfast and lunch will be provided on Saturday and lunch on Sunday. Info on Facebook or call 865-521-6957.

County to buy Hensley land

Knox County Commission will vote Monday, Nov. 16, on the school board’s recommen-dation to purchase the house and land at 4313 Emory Road for $315,000 plus closing costs.

The home of John H. and Bernice Hensley, both de-ceased, has been eyed by the school system for several years because it lies fl at and is adjacent to the campus of Halls Middle School.

School board member Patti Bounds said, “The owner (John Hensley Jr.) is aging and the principals at Halls High and Halls Middle feel (the acquisi-tion) will be very benefi cial for traffi c fl ow.”

Her motion to purchase passed unanimously on a voice vote, but only after questions from board members Gloria Deathridge and Karen Carson.

Russ Oaks, chief operating offi ce for Knox County Schools, said the site is just over three acres and money has been bud-geted for this specifi c purchase. “That’s the appraised price,” he added.

“The land will be used to fa-cilitate traffi c fl ow and parking for both the middle and high schools.”

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hard times, and Mission of Hope is always there to help.”

West described a carni-val that Mission of Hope stages annually for the im-poverished children of Scott County “where everything is free,” and talked about the gratitude of the children who received those back-packs fi lled with school sup-plies and hygiene kits.

Next to take the stage were two students whose college educations are funded by Mission of Hope scholarships.

Daphne Bunch is now a graduate student at Middle Tennessee State Univer-sity, but her relationship with Mission of Hope be-gan when she was a student

at Fairview Elementary School in Scott County. “It was amazing to see the smiles on the faces of chil-dren who wouldn’t have had Christmas without Mission of Hope. I’ll never forget it.”

Later, as a high school senior, “I didn’t know how I was going to be able to pay for college,” Bunch said. “The Mission of Hope scholarship was make or break for me, but the best part is knowing that I have a whole organiza-tion of people pulling for me and praying for me.”

Samantha Botts is now sociology major at Tennes-see Tech, studying on a Mis-sion of Hope Scholarship.

Botts said that when she

was growing up, “Every kid’sfavorite day of school waswhen the principal came onthe intercom and said, ‘Mis-sion of Hope is here.’ As faras I can remember, Missionof Hope has been helping.It is such a blessing to havepeople in my life who be-lieve in me and my future.”

Colleen Addair, WIVKmusic director, encouragedthe audience to become evenmore involved. “Don’t belooking for a billboard thatsays ‘here’s what you’re sup-posed to do.’ Where there isa need, there is a calling. Ifyou’re wondering what youcan do, ask Emmette. Thisis your opportunity. Whatare you going to do with it?”

To learn how you can helpwith the work of Mission ofHope, call 544-7571 or go tomissionofhope.org

At Central, she won fi rst prize in the Kiwanis Club Essay Contest. Her French teacher, Louise Van Gilder, was a favorite. She recalls principal Hassie K. Gresh-am as fair and understand-ing. She played the bassoon for the band under the di-rection of O’Dell Willis, per-formed on the piano with the orchestra and played piano for variety shows and assemblies.

Perry introduced her to the pipe organ during her sophomore year at Central. While still in high school, Jones became organist at Central Baptist Church of Fountain City. She entered the University of Tennessee in 1943, later transferring with a friend and fellow mu-sician, Jane Wauford, to In-diana University at Bloom-ington where she received a bachelor’s degree in music in 1948.

Jones returned to Knox-ville and continued to play the organ for Central Bap-tist. In May 1952, she au-ditioned for the position of organist at First Baptist Church and was selected to succeed Carlotta Epps, who had served for 40 years. That year, Jones also re-ceived her associate cer-tifi cate from the American Guild of Organists, an or-ganization that she would support throughout her ca-reer.

In the early ’50s, she ac-companied the James King

Chorus. Through the chorus she met many singers, and she became the arranger and accompanist for the Trio of Melody – singers Ruth Love, Mary Lee Moser and Almeda Brakebill – which performed at church-es and on the radio. They had a short-lived television show in 1954.

While meeting a friend at the S&W Cafeteria on Gay Street, she was introduced to a young man with tur-quoise eyes. Mary Eleanor Jones began dating Marion McDonald Pickle, a Knox-ville High graduate, and they were married on May 15, 1954. Her husband was transferred to the executive offi ce of GMAC in New York City, and the couple’s fi rst two children, sons Marion III (Mac) and Eddie, were born in New Jersey. The young family moved back to Knoxville in 1957, where three other children, Rob-ert, Betsy and Joe, were born. While raising her family, Mary Eleanor Jones Pickle served as organist-director at First Cumber-land and Eastminster Pres-byterian churches.

Easter 1970, First Bap-tist Church called upon her to again become the church organist, and she contin-ued in that position for 41 years. One of the most ac-complished organists in East Tennessee, on Aug. 14, 2011, she gave a “Grand Re-tirement Recital” that was

attended by a full house at First Baptist.

Pickle was at various times the accompanist for the Knoxville Choral Society, the Smithwood Choral Club and the Knox-ville Women’s Chorus. She often was asked by direc-tor Albert Rule to provide organ accompaniment for Holston High School chorus concerts. Toward the end of her tenure with First Baptist, in addition to the sanctuary choir, she accompanied the Golden Notes choral group.

Pickle was active in the Knoxville Chapter, Ameri-can Guild of Organists, twice serving as sub-dean and dean, as well as chair-ing committees. She as-sisted in organizing free or-gan concerts at downtown churches during the 1982 World’s Fair. Throughout her lifetime, she has re-sponded to hundreds of requests for music, playing for weddings, funerals, con-certs and recitals through-out the community.

Mary Eleanor Jones Pickle resides in South Knoxville with daughter Betsy. She has seven grand-children and six great-grandchildren.

Wall of Fame From page A-1

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The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ordered that the Knoxville City Council must actually vote on pro-posals on zoning which it does or does not favor.

The time honored practice of letting propos-als die for lack of a mo-tion was convenient in that it permitted council members to avoid creat-ing an actual vote where they could be held to ac-count. It seems this deci-sion may have ended the practice.

Expect a few more roll calls in the future. It will make for more account-ability.

■ Michael Grider is the press liaison for Mayor Tim Burchett. He has been with the Mayor for fi ve years. He makes $71,000 a year which is far less than Jess Mayshark who heads up Mayor Rogero’s media operation.

He started out work-ing for WVLT in the news room. He says he has al-ways been interested in politics and is “fairly in-dependent,” but “fi scally conservative.” He says his time with Burchett has been a “fun, growing ex-perience.”

Grider has an easy per-son to work for given Bur-chett’s outreach and ease in talking to citizens of all areas of the county. He seldom has to spend time on damage control for the mayor.

■ As reviews are made to right wrongs and remove offensive symbols from the past, there is a matter from Knoxville which merits a review by the governor. That is the execution of Maurice Mays in 1921.

Former state Rep. Bob Booker, who writes an excellent weekly column for the News Sentinel, has pointed out his conviction came from an all-white jury which deliberated all of 11 minutes on April 22, 1921.

His real crime which generated signifi cant pub-lic comment was that he was a black man who dated a white woman. The News Sentinel, through reporter Matt Lakin, has written extensively on this as has Jack Neely for the old Met-ro Pulse.

Gov. Haslam should pardon Mays posthu-mously as clearly the jury did not do its job with any degree of objectivity or fairness. His former legal counsel, Herbert Slatery (now attorney general) declined the request of the late Knoxville attor-ney Donald Paine on the grounds the governor

should not substitute his judgment for a jury.

Had it been a represen-tative jury or a deliberative one perhaps that would be true, but this jury exclud-ed blacks and reached a verdict in 11 minutes. That seems to be grossly unfair and warrants correction by a pardon.

■ Dean Rice, chief of staff to Burchett, was a pallbearer for the late Sen. Fred Thompson’s services in Nashville on Nov. 6. Rice has been a fi eld representative for Thompson, and his wid-ow asked fi ve fi eld reps to serve as pallbearers, along with three of his grandchildren.

■ There are now fi ve living Knoxville mayors with Randy Tyree, 75, the oldest. Bill Haslam is the youngest. All were pres-ent at the Welcome Center dedication of the Knoxville Botanical Gardens in Au-gust.

All fi ve are fi rsts. Tyree is the fi rst to serve two consecutive 4-year terms. Dan Brown is the fi rst Af-rican American. Rogero is the fi rst woman. Haslam is the fi rst mayor of Knox-ville to become governor of Tennessee. This writ-er was the fi rst mayor to serve four consecutive 4-year terms. Three are Democrats and two are Republicans.

■ The two recent city elections cost taxpayers over $250,000 with about 10,000 total voters for both elections which comes out to about $25 a voter. How long does this have to con-tinue before something is done to change it? City Council for two years is now composed of nine per-sons, all term limited for a third term.

Five new citizens will be elected to City Council in November 2017. Voter turnout then will be high-er due to more competitive contests for council than this year, but will still be low.

For those who believe the cycle of city elections should be moved to co-incide with state and/or federal elections then a charter amendment must occur and it will require a citizen petition effort to do it as council appears wedded to the current system. Incumbents gen-erally like low turnouts.

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Willie Gault did every-thing in a big way.

Marvin West says he was twice a legend: on the fi eld and in his mind.

Sandra Clark

Sportswriter Marvin West signs his book “Legends of the Ten-

nessee Vols” for students in the authors club at Sarah Moore

Greene Magnet Academy: Dy’Keise Fears-Perez (left) and Ar-

ryana Moore (right).

Willie Gault’s wedding

At the University of Ten-nessee (1979-82), Gault set kickoff return records that still stand; he led the team in all-purpose yardage as a sophomore, junior and senior; he was named all-American in 1982 and was a fi rst-round NFL draft pick.

Gault played 11 seasons with the Bears and Raiders. His Bears won Super Bowl XX.

Willie was fast. He won the SEC in the 110-meter high hurdles twice. He won the SEC indoor champion-ships 60-yard hurdles in 1983, and the 60-yard high hurdles and the 60-yard dash at that year’s NCAA championships. He was on a world record-setting 4x100 meter relay team at the 1983 World Championships.

He made the 1980 Olym-pics team and could have won a medal but for the boycott. He even earned a spot on the U.S. Olympics bobsledding team. Now 55, he continues to set records in senior competitions.

But when West visited with the authors club at Sar-ah Moore Greene school last week, he talked most about the 1983 wedding of Willie Gault and Dainnese Mathis.

“They had 15 brides-maids and 13 groomsmen and three best men,” said West. “They invited some 600 people and about 1,300 showed up.

“Gault was very, very fast. … but never a poster boy for hard work. … He won a Su-per Bowl and danced with the Chicago Ballet.”

Each member of the au-thors club selected a Vol legend to read about and discuss with West. Maurice Jacobs picked Willie Gault.

Dy’Keise Fears-Perez talked about Peyton Man-ning, noting that he came back to UT for his fourth year because he wanted to win a championship. He won neither a champion-ship nor the Heisman Tro-phy. West recalled he led the band in “Rocky Top.”

Arraya Moore read about John Majors, who starred at UT as a player and returned to coach “for 15 or 16 years.” West said Majors was ideal for the tailback position. “In 1956, he was the best player in the SEC. He wasn’t very big, but he knew how to run behind those guards and tackles.”

Larry Seivers, from Clinton, never expected to play for a big-time col-lege, but UT coaches liked

him. “They gave him the last scholarship they had. He was a great player and a humble, good guy.” Seiv-ers caught a 2-point conver-sion to beat Clemson. After college he owned a vending machine business. “He be-came a millionaire when he sold it.”

Heath Shuler came to UT, West said, because the WIVK radio signal reached Bryson City, N.C., where Shuler grew up.

After three years as a “model citizen” quarter-back, Shuler was drafted into the NFL. He later won election twice to Congress.

Reggie White “played hard, but not mean.” He died young at just 43.

Richmond Flowers came

to UT because of racial dis-crimination at the Univer-sity of Alabama, but after graduation he was not ad-mitted to the UT College of Law. So he applied to law school at Bama and was ad-mitted, on the recommen-dation of legendary coach Bear Bryant.

West said “a certain sportswriter” made a point to mention Flowers’ grades every semester – just to re-mind UT what it missed.

West then introduced his wife, Sarah, and read the dedication of his book. The Wests have been married for 62 years and Marvin calls Sarah his “proofreader and moral conscience.

“Every man should be blessed with such a wife.”

Republicans have long dominated Knox County Commission, but Demo-crats used to be a scrappy bunch who found a way to hold onto fi ve or six seats on the 19-member body and fi nagle their way to into the vice-chair slot. Today, Democrats hold just two of nine district seats, and don’t dare even dream of snag-ging the two at-large posi-tions, which leaves them with just their traditional District 1 and 2 strongholds in the heart of the city.

Next year, Republicans are coming for more. Riding a statewide tide of “Red to the Roots” success, they’ve drawn a bead on District 1, which has not elected a Re-publican in living memory, although there was surely a Republican squire from East Knoxville on the old Quarterly Court at some time from its organiza-tion in 1915 to its dissolu-tion in 1980. Party activists have decided that Michael Covington is the guy who can get it done in 2016. He has been campaigning for months and is energetic, talkative and liable to show up anywhere.

The district, which

Republicans target District 1

stretches from Lonsdale to Ft. Sanders, through down-town, and includes Morning-side, Parkridge, Park City, Burlington, Holston Hills, Chilhowee and Spring Hill, has remained a Democratic stronghold. The long line of Democrats this district has elected stretches back at least 50 years, in roughly in-verse order, from Sam McK-enzie to Tank Strickland, Di-ane Jordan, Frank Bowden, Rudy Dirl, Joe Armstrong, Pete Drew, Andrew Dix and the still-revered Dr. Water S.E. Hardy. Even Drew, who hasn’t had any luck getting elected to anything – and Lord knows he’s tried – since he switched parties in 1985, fi rst got elected as a Demo-crat. (Armstrong, after serv-ing 10 years on the commis-sion, took Drew’s House seat in 1988.)

Whether the entourage that shows up with Coving-ton will be an asset or a li-ability could depend on how long it takes for them to fi g-

ure out that Barack Obama carried the city of Knoxville handily and District 1 by a landslide, and that as much fun as it is to trash him at a suburban Republican Club, it’s not a winning strategy to do it in the fi rst district.

And they should check out county election law be-fore saying stuff like own-ing property in the district qualifi es them to vote there in county elections. If they do, they’ll fi nd they can’t vote on “property rights” in a county election, even if the property is inside the city. Ask election administra-tor Cliff Rodgers, who’ll say something like this:

“Property qualifi cation voting only applies in city of Knoxville elections. It doesn’t apply in the county – everybody has a county residence in the state of Tennessee, and I can’t buy property in a different part of the county and vote there, unless a city municipality gives me the right to vote.”

The days of county resi-dents’ wholesale dabbling in city politics were halted by a city charter change in 2000 – see Article VII, sec-tion 703, which restricts property-qualifi ed voting

rights to no more than two voters per 4,000 s q u a r e -foot parcel, which they have owned for at least six months – thus end-

ing the practice of ward heelers buying vacant lots and dividing them into sliv-ers, thus creating a bunch of new voters. Richard Bean tells some pretty funny sto-ries about those days, but allows as how things could get complicated after the election when they had to run around getting signa-tures of 19 – or 29 – proper-ty owners before the prop-erty could be sold.

Finally, Covington’s sup-porters would be well ad-vised to note the Republi-cans like Victor Ashe, Bill Haslam and various mem-bers of the Duncan fam-ily have had success in East Knoxville because they’ve been smart enough to em-phasize constituent services over ideology.

As Dorothy said to Toto, they knew they weren’t in Kansas anymore.

Covington

HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • NOVEMBER 11, 2015 • A-5 government

Wendy Smith

Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission Executive Di-rector Gerald Green has preached the same message since he came to town in July: the MPC wants com-munity feedback.

It was welcome news to the Council of West Knox

C o u n t y Homeown-ers, a group that enjoys giving feed-back. Green spoke to the group last week.

S e c t o r plan up-

dates present an impor-tant opportunity for citi-zen input, he said. Sector plans defi ne how the city, or county, would like for future development to hap-pen. The Northwest County Sector Plan, which includes

Me, myself and IKnox County Mayor Tim Burchett with county commissioners Brad Anders and Ed Brantley

at the dedication of the new pumper for the Karns Fire Department’s Hardin Valley Station

on Saturday morning, Nov. 7. Photo by Nancy Anderson

MPC seeks community feedback

Marvin West

All I intend to say about Tennessee against North Texas in football is that Vol basketball, ready or not, is moving toward the national spotlight.

Big deal coming up for Thanksgiving weekend – fourth annual Barclays Center Classic in uptown Brooklyn, presented by Honda. Last year’s show was presented by Conti-nental Tires. Thought you might want to know, just in case you are considering tires or cars.

There are two divisions to this unusual basketball event. In the junior division, Gardner-Webb will play UT at noon Nov. 22. Army will visit on Nov. 24 for a 7 p.m. game. Other games are oth-er places.

The senior division

Not much about North Texas

matches Cincinnati against Nebraska and George Wash-ington against Tennessee on Nov. 27 in New York City. Check local listings.

The next day, losers play at noon and winners go for the championship at a more convenient 2:30.

The junior division, which includes the Arkan-sas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions and Southeastern Louisi-ana ordinary Lions, doesn’t get to play in the big house, capacity 17,000 or so. It as-sembles at West Point.

Barclays Center is the re-ally big time, home to the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA and New York Islanders of the NHL. Other events horn in. The Ultimate Craft Beer Festival has come and gone. Disney on Ice will have its 100-year celebration. Rock bands Yes and Toto were there.

Barclays has passed Madison Square Garden as the highest-grossing venue in the United States for con-certs and family shows, not counting sports events.

■ Suggestion: If you are going to New York for Tennessee basketball, stay over a day and enjoy Handel’s Messiah at Carn-egie Hall. Discount tickets available.

■ Whispers: Long-suffering faithful fans are

has faded away. Lack of in-terest, said a school offi cial. Lack of appreciation, said I.

Stu Aberdeen, Tennes-see associate coach during the Ray Mears era, famous for the tireless recruit-ment of Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King, coached at Acadia from 1958 to 1966. He led the Axemen to six conference championships, fi ve Maritime titles, a na-tional crown and an overall 122-50 record. Stu won the coach-of-the-year trophy so many times, it was retired.

Stu Aberdeen died in 1979. Acadia inducted him into the school hall of fame. It honored the biggest little man on any basketball fl oor with a four-team Christ-mas holiday tournament. It failed to fl ourish. It was moved to pre-season, then dropped and maybe forgot-ten. It might resume next season. So said the school offi cial.

Best I can tell, there are no Stu Aberdeen monu-ments at Tennessee.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

nervous about what they are not hearing about Ten-nessee basketball recruit-ing. Rick Barnes is teach-ing technique and trying to develop what he has inher-ited. Rob Lanier, ace talent solicitor, is not listed among those in pursuit of four- and fi ve-stars that Kentucky doesn’t want. Barnes was even quoted as saying star ratings don’t matter. Fans suffered the shakes.

■ Memories: The Stu Aberdeen Memorial Tour-nament at Acadia Universi-ty in Wolfville, Nova Scotia,

Hardin Valley, Solway, Ball Camp and West Emory Road, is now being updated.

Once adopted, sector plans can only be changed if surrounding land use or the area’s infrastructure chang-es, he said.

Green gave a primer on the MPC. The planning commission is made up of 15 unpaid members; seven appointed by the city mayor and eight appointed by the county mayor. The paid staff makes recommendations to commissioners, who vote on recommendations to legis-lative bodies.

Neither commissioners

nor staff initiate rezoning requests, he said. Those are made by property owners. When a rezoning is request-ed, staff considers the sec-tor plan, surrounding land use, infrastructure in the zone and the general feel of the area.

Another opportunity for public input is when com-mission hears the rezoning request. When a rezoning is opposed, each side is given fi ve minutes to speak. Con-solidation of comments is recommended. Meetings are at 1:30 p.m. in the Large Assembly Room at the City-County Building.

To avoid a trip downtown, residents can express opin-ions via email, petitions or letters directed to commis-sioners. Views expressed on social media, like those regarding Knox County’s controversial proposed land swap of a portion of Nicholas

Ball Park, can’t be accepted as public comment because it’s not directed to commis-sioners, Green said.

He has ideas for improv-ing the process. He’d like to move back notice on up-coming rezoning requests to give citizens more warning. But the need to notify the community has to be bal-anced with providing a fair timeframe for developers.

Verbatim minutes of MPC meetings are being replaced with audio and video recordings that will be available on the website, www.knoxmpc.org. After

meetings, the time each agenda item was heard will be noted on the agenda to make it easy to fi nd on the recordings.

MPC staff will also be reviewing adopted sector plans to make sure that or-dinance changes are being implemented.

“If the public takes part in the planning process, it’s our responsibility to follow through with that.”

Local ordinances need to be brought into the 21st century, Green says. Pos-sible changes include re-quirements that new sub-

divisions have sidewalks, connectivity to other subdi-visions and open spaces.

He has his own ideas about such updates, but that’s not what matters.

“We don’t know what you want here, so we need your input.”

MPC staff member Liz Albertson says additional public meetings regarding the Northwest County Sec-tor Plan are planned for December. Staff members are available to discuss the sector plan at community meetings. Info: liz.albertson@knoxmpc.org

Green

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Mayor Tim Burchett

will speak to residents at

Morning Pointe of Pow-

ell at 2 p.m. Thursday,

Nov. 19. He will speak on

community issues and

answer questions.

■ Corryton Senior

Center:

9331 Davis Drive688-5882knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday

Off erings include: ex-

ercise classes; card games;

billiards; Senior Meals pro-

gram, 11 a.m. each Friday.

Corryton Senior Shut-in

Visiting Group meeting is

11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13; more

volunteers are welcome.

The center is accepting

donations of any and all

holiday/seasonal decora-

tions (info: Greg, 688-5882).

■ Halls Senior Center:

4405 Crippen Road922-0416knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday

Off erings include: card

games; exercise classes;

dance classes; craft classes;

Tai Chi; movie matinee

each Tuesday; Senior

Meals program, noon each

Wednesday. The Knox

County Veterans Services

will provide one-on-one

assistance to veterans and

family members 9 a.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 18.

Register for: Lunch and

Learn: Independent Insur-

ance Consultants, 11:30 a.m.

Monday, Nov. 16; UT Medical:

GI Talk, noon Tuesday, Nov. 17;

Snack and Learn: Humana, 2

p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19.

■ Heiskell Community

Center

9420 Heiskell Road

■ Seniors Luncheon

meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 12. Veter-

ans will be honored and

a traditional Thanksgiv-

ing meal will be served.

All veterans and families

should bring pictures to

be displayed. Bring des-

sert and a friend. Info:

Janice White, 548-0326.

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By Betty BeanThirty years ago, Jerry

LeQuire was not just fa-mous. He was infamous. He evolved from a violent young criminal with convic-tions for cattle rustling and road rage to eventual en-tanglement in international smuggling schemes and in-volvement with the CIA.

His notoriety grew even greater after he was impris-oned for drug smuggling when his brothers and two others were indicted on charges that they had plot-ted to blow up electrical transmission lines, a dam, an airport and a power plant and blame it on terrorists in an elaborate scheme to spring him from prison.

The plan was for LeQuire to volunteer his services to “solve” the case in return for having his sentence reduced.

His notoriety had faded by the time LeQuire died in federal prison last year at age 70, but his name still registers with East Tennes-seans of a certain age, and he cemented his status as a legendary desperado by leaving behind a lingering mystery:

What happened to the $280 million stash he’d earned from the Colombian

drug cartel, the Medellin, for fl ying cocaine into the USA?

Knoxville author Richard Biggs, whose biography of LeQuire, “A Species of In-

sanity,” is on track to be released in Decem-ber, says he doesn’t know – and doesn’t want to know– where (or w h e t h e r )

LeQuire stashed the drug money. But he knows just about everything else about the charming criminal whom he spent some 150 hours in-terviewing.

He and LeQuire became friends in the process, and Biggs had planned to speak on LeQuire’s behalf at a pa-role hearing that was short circuited by a pancreatic cancer diagnosis quickly followed by LeQuire’s death in a prison hospital.

So how did Biggs, who had a distinguished career as an electrical engineer be-fore becoming a published author, get interested in telling the story of a career criminal like LeQuire?

In the beginning, he

was curious because, like LeQuire, Biggs is a na-tive Blount countian. They both attended Everett High School (not at the same time), and they knew many people in common. He started his research in 2011, and began visiting LeQuire in McCreary Prison in Pine Knot, Ky.

“I talked to him so many hours,” Biggs said. “I saw the Jerry that was, and saw the Jerry that is. We talk-ed about everything from people involved to con-spiracies that I won’t men-tion because I want to stay alive to spiritual matters. He’d reconciled his fate, and although he knew that lot the things he’d done were wrong, he still rationalized that he didn’t have a choice, and he was still a dangerous person.

“I was going to appear for him at the parole board. We were friends. Every let-ter, every email, he’d end by saying, ‘Your friend, Jerry.’”

The cast of characters in LeQuire’s story is fascinat-ing, from the lawyers, be-ginning with Franklin Park, a notorious East Tennessee lawyer/bad guy whose mys-terious murder was never solved and in which Lequire

Richard Biggs

Moving to musicMorning Pointe of Powell resident Millie Odle and resi-

dent assistant Caleb Parrish dance to music at the assisted

living and Alzheimer’s memory care community.

Singers from First BaptistThe Golden Oats senior choir from First Baptist Church Knoxville performed for the residents at Morning Pointe of Powell. The choir sings all across Knox County

for other senior adults to promote activity and music among the aging. The choir sang hymns and gospel medleys, closing with “Amazing Grace.”

Biggs pens book on drug kingpinmay (or may not) have been implicated, to LeQuire’s de-fense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, to a Kentucky lawyer called “Lying Larry,” to LeQuire’s treacherous ex-wife. Biggs lays it all out.

Snippets of the story can be found at richardbiggs-

books.com, as well as in-formation about when andwhere the book will becomeavailable.

Biggs has also writtenabout the founding of Mis-sion of Hope and a biographyof Maxine Raines, founder ofLost Sheep Ministries.

“If anyone told you it didn’t scare them, I don’t

k n o w w h e t h e r I’d believe them or not. But we were a s s i g n e d to do a job. We just had a job to do,” he said.

His hap-piest memory from the war was having the good luck to meet up with his brother, Willard, in England. Willard was serving in the Air Force, and U2 bombs fell on Lon-don during their three days of leave there.

In 1945, Hutchison got two weeks of leave at home, then his ship sailed for the Pacifi c via the Panama Canal with a

load of large and small am-munition. His ship stopped in Hawaii, the Soloman Is-lands, Okinawa, the Mar-shall Islands, Corregidor, the Philippines and Korea. While they were in the Philippines, the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.

Hutchison returned home after an honorable discharge in April 1946 and went to work for the Southern Rail-road. He married “the pretti-est girl in the neighborhood,” Evelyn Cupp, in June 1949. The two were together until she passed away almost two years ago. They had two sons and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Hutchison went into the ministry in 1966, serving at Zion Hill in Anderson Coun-ty and Cedar Grove and

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Call it Armistice Day or Veterans Day, Nov. 11 is a day of remembrance, of gratitude, of pride and of grief. It was set aside to honor the sacrifi ce of those Americans who fought in World War I. Still today, those who fought and lived, as well as those who fought and died are remembered and honored at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month.

There have been other wars since, long, agoniz-ing wars, and those vet-erans are also included in the tribute paid to their service.

One would think that by this time, the inhab-itants of Planet Earth would have fi gured out that maybe, just maybe, we should learn to peace-fully share this home we have.

As Rodney King so

They have treated the wound of my people care-lessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

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God made the World in six days fl at On the seventh He said, “I’ll rest.” So He let the thing into orbit swing To give it a dry run test. A billion years went by, Then He took a look at the whirling blob. His spirits fell as He shrugged, “Oh well, it was only a six-day job!”

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plaintively asked, after riots and beatings and killings in California, “Why can’t we all just get along?”

Why, indeed?This sweet little blue

planet that we call home is big enough to allow us all to live here, and to get along! Surely we could take care of it and of our fellow humans!

But no, we fi ght over land and water and oil and mineral rights and politics and religion! We kill each other in wars and riots and on our high-ways.

God forgive and help us!

Community services

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, will serve a

free, traditional Thanksgiving

dinner 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thurs-

day, Nov. 26. The commu-

nity is invited. Info: beaver-

ridgeumc.org or 690-1060.

■ 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. Saturday, Nov.

14, or until boxes are gone.

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.

■ Mount Harmony Baptist

Church will have a commu-

nity food drive for the Pantry

By Cindy Taylor Tim McCarty and wife

Megan share a heart for music and missions. As the new Creative Worship Arts Teacher at Salem Baptist Church, Tim will have the opportunity to put his heart into his calling.

The McCartys hail from Washington state, where Tim served as worship pas-tor at Edgewood Baptist Church for the past eight years. He directed the choir, orchestra, praise bands and teams, drama, tech teams, greeters and ushers. For the past two years he was also responsible for the missions ministry.

“We gained valuable ministry experience and built many deep relation-ships with the people of Edgewood,” said Tim.

Tim and Megan have two children. The couple say having a family has com-pletely changed their per-spective on life’s priorities.

“Our children have shown us how we can live on very little sleep,” said Tim. “And God has placed a strong desire in our hearts to adopt more kids.”

FAITH NOTES

on Saturday, Nov. 14, weather

permitting. Donations may

be dropped off 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Heiskell Fire Department,

9444 Heiskell Road.

■ Mountain View Church of

God in Luttrell will host a free

community dinner of turkey,

dressing and trimmings

noon-4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.

21. Pickup at the drive-thru.

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church,

6125 Lacy Road, off ers

Children’s Clothes Closet and

Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

each third Saturday. Free to

those in the 37912/37849 ZIP

code area.

Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory

Road, hosts Recovery at Pow-

ell at 6 p.m. Tuesdays. The

program embraces people

who struggle with addiction,

compulsive behaviors, loss

and life challenges. Info: re-

coveryatpowell.com or info@

powellchurch.com.

Fundraisers ■ Mountain View Church of

God in Luttrell will hold a

fundraiser beginning at 8 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 14: breakfast of

biscuit/gravy, ham and sau-

sage available for a small price

followed by an old-fashioned

cakewalk and bake sale.

■ Rutledge Pike Missionary

Baptist Church, 10316 Rut-

ledge Pike, will host a benefi t

singing 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

21. All donations and pro-

ceeds will go to Texas Valley

Baptist to help with rebuild-

ing the church, which burned

in August.

Special services ■ Mount Harmony Baptist

Church, 819 Raccoon Valley

Road NE, will host a special

singing 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov.

15, featuring Rick Alan King.

■ Oaks Chapel American

Christian Church, 934 Rac-

coon Valley Road, will begin

a revival at 7 p.m. Friday,

Nov.13. The revival continues

at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday

and 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sun-

day. Speakers will be the Revs.

Jerry Epperson and Richard

Nicely. Everyone welcome.

Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, hosts Morn-

ing Breakfast and Afternoon

Hang Out for youth each

Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible

study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out

Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 690-

1060 or beaverridgeumc.org.

■ Inskip UMC, 714 Cedar Lane,

will host a Noah’s Ark animal

workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday,

Nov. 14. Cost: $30. Includes:

choosing a furry pal, stuffi ng

it, tucking in a wish, personal-

izing a T-shirt for it, naming

it and creating a birth certifi -

cate. Noah’s Ark mascot Mogo

Monkey available for pictures.

Proceeds benefi t Partners for

Children. Info/registration:

689-9516.

The McCarty family: Tim, Theo, Megan and Madelyn.

Tim says he and Megan have felt God’s pull to begin a new ministry as they have begun the process of pre-paring for adoption. They began seeking a church and community that would be a good place for their growing family.

“I started communicat-ing regularly with Salem pastor Allen James and the

church personnel commit-tee in August,” he said. “The more we talked, the more I felt like Salem would be a good fi t for us.”

Tim led a worship ser-vice at Salem at the end of October. At the conclusion of the service he was asked to take the position at the church, and he accepted. He says he has a strong

heart for multigenerational worship.

“Unfortunately, music can be a tool that divides churches more than it unites them. I believe that our love for God is what should unite us.”

At Salem he hopes to see kids singing and wor-shipping God right next to their parents, grand-parents and even great-grandparents. Tim says multigenerational worship requires everyone to value unity over preference.

“I believe our unity through diversity brings even more glory to God. Salem has a beautiful his-tory of serving God and the Halls community. I am hon-ored to be joining the Salem and Halls family.”

The couple plan to live in the area with the people they are serving and are searching for a home in the Halls community. They are looking for a neighborhood where they can develop great relationships with neighbors for years to come. The family will begin their full-time ministry at Salem in January.

By Shannon CareyWhen Burney Hutchison

was drafted into the U.S. Navy in November 1943, he was just 19. The farthest he’d ever been from home was Kentucky. Before his service in World War II end-ed, that Union County boy had traveled the world with the Navy amphibious forces in both the Pacifi c and Eu-ropean theaters, even tak-ing part in the D-Day inva-sion of Normandy.

Looking back, Hutchison remains humble about his role in these historic events. He just feels honored to have served his country.

‘We had a job to do’

Unity in Knox County. He was called to Valley Grove Baptist, his home church, in 1977, where he served as pastor for 33 years. He was also a school board member for eight years and a Union County Commissioner for 22 years.

He has also found pur-pose in his volunteer work with the Tri-County Veter-

ans Honor Guard. The Hon-or Guard conducts military honors at veterans’ funerals in Union, Grainger and Clai-borne counties.

But this service, too, he approaches with humility.

“All we’re really doing is paying our respects to our veterans and their families. I just volunteer to serve be-cause it helps somebody.”

Hutchison

“I wasn’t the only one,” he said. “The real heroes are the ones still over there or buried at sea. A lot of boys never did get to shore.”

Union County lost three young men in the invasion of Normandy.

Hutchison’s ship was LST #522, assigned to shuttle tanks, trucks and troops be-tween England and France.

While Hutchison’s job wasn’t the most dangerous in the war, it did have its risks. Frigid seas with waves some-times 40 feet high and enemy submarines and bombers were always a threat. Once, he saw a German torpedo hit the ship ahead of his, killing fi ve sailors.

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Gibbs Highrepresents at fair

The GHS construction team

of (front) Nick Dorsey, Andrew

Freeman, Landon Haynes;

(back) Will Pergrem and Adam

Geames placed fourth at the

fair with their cutaway of a

home.

Sierra Brooks and Kortney Williams entered in the miscellaneous category for

hair styles and Amberly Choate entered in the casual styled division.

Cosmetology students Shan-

non Burress and Jenna Barnes

earned a second place ribbon

for their braiding entry and

Ilyssa Lowery earned a fourth

place ribbon for her evening

style entry.

The health sciences class entered a baby shower basinet created from diapers and socks. The

project was donated to an organization for distribution of the items, but not before winning the

group a fourth place ribbon. Pictured are Tessa Owens, Amber Nicely, Emily Harden, Kallie Ogle

and Lauren Wallace.

Jose Ordaz earned a

fi rst place ribbon for his

architectural drawing.

Victoria Amanns and Ben Roberts brought home a fi rst place

ribbon for their architectural drawing projects. Photos by R. White

Huff Cook

Halls High players of the week Named Halls High players of the week for their ef-

forts during the team’s win over Heritage are Cooper Cook (#6) and Hunter Huff (#19). The players were se-lected by the coaching staff.

Central High student Spencer McDonald recently

participat-ed in the All National Honor En-semble con-cert band in Nashville.

Spencer, a junior at CHS, was selected to

participate in the band at the National Association for Music Education Na-

tional Conference. The se-lection is the biggest hon-or a student can earn, asthey are selected throughaudition and must haveachieved All-State statuslast spring to tryout.

Students from 49 statesand the District of Co-lumbia represented at theevent and Spencer was theonly student from KnoxCounty Schools. The finalconcert of the conferencewas held at the Grand OleOpry.

McDonald

McDonald named to All National Honor Ensemble

SCHOOL NOTES ■ Copper Ridge Elementary School will host its inaugural Holiday

Bazaar, 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19. Featuring: Advocare, Jamberry,

Keep Collective, Scentscy, Thirty-One, wreaths, gifts, home décor

and much more. Info: Amy, 387-1162.

Earning a second place ribbon

for their electrical wiring entry

are (front) Damon Rew, Dillion

Thomas; (back) Tucker Davis,

Devin Parker and J’Son Brown.

ing to Gibbs High and she knows what is required and expected of the students to graduate. Her classroom in-struction helps the students earn as many of the 1500 total hours needed to take state boards and become a licensed cosmetologist.

The students consider her “crazy in a good way” and makes learning fun. She isn’t afraid to construc-tively critique her students because she wants them to succeed in their fi eld. “Even if I criticize, I always try to fi nd something positive too,” said Coppinger.

Learning cosmetology is more than hair and nails and instruction goes above and beyond the rubric. Dur-ing the courses they practice math, chemistry, anatomy and even English.

Gibbs is fortunate to have a good mix of nationalities at the school and students are able to work on a variety of hair textures. In addi-tion to providing haircuts, students learn to color hair, braid hair, apply relax-ers, and do manicures and

pedicures. The classroom salon is open to the public on Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 11:50 p.m. To schedule an appointment, contact the school at 689-9130. All services are provided by ad-vance cosmetology students under the supervision of Coppinger.

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CTE spotlight: Welcome to cosmetology!Enter the cosmetology

classroom at Gibbs High School and on any given day you will be greeted with “Welcome to cosmetology!” It may seem like something small, but the friendly greet-ing can be a day changer for many people.

Gibbs High cosmetology instructor Stephanie Coppinger ap-

plies a relaxer to a student’s hair as she talks shop with stu-

dents Aleena Giles and Ailyn Galindo and their classmates.Photos by R. White

Julia Jones applies make up on classmate Megan Gideon dur-

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Instructor Stephanie Coppinger has her students greet classroom guests just as they would if they were entering a salon in town. “The girls know that being friendly and positive can make (or break) a salon ex-perience and I want them to enjoy what they do.”

After spending just a little time in the classroom, it was evident that the stu-dents enjoy what they are learning and who is doing the teaching. Coppinger was an instructor at a cosme-tology school before com-

UT supports programUT Knoxville, in part-

nership with Knox County Schools, has added Inskip Elementary School as the newest member of its Uni-versity-Assisted Commu-nity Schools initiative.

The initiative focuses on high-needs elementary schools to create challeng-ing learning opportunities for students by providing a nurturing environment supported by family, com-munity volunteers and staff.

The fi rst community school was established at Pond Gap Elementary in 2010 with the help of Bob Kronick, a professor of edu-cational psychology coun-seling in UT’s College of Ed-ucation, Health and Human Sciences.

“A lot of people from UT and Knox County Schools have worked diligently over a long period of time to make this happen for Inskip Ele-mentary,” said Kronick. “We look forward to seeing posi-tive growth in the school and the community. This kind of program positively chal-lenges students and encour-ages parents to become more involved with their children and community.”

UT will provide physical education, music and tutor-ing services to the students at Inskip, utilizing a com-bination of faculty, staff, students and community volunteers.

To date, there are nine community schools within Knox County that are sup-ported by either UT or the Great Schools Partnership. Most stay open into the eve-ning and offer additional instructional time as well as recreational, arts, mental health, adult education and other services.

Area Knox County schools celebrated Red Rib-bon Week and spent time discussing the dangers of drug/alcohol use with stu-dents and encouraging them to say no. Many schools used the time to have spirit days and allowed students the

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Fountain City Elementary student council member

Brynn Johnson signs the pledge to be drug free.Photos by R. White

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Highly respected local arborist, William James “Jim” Cortese, ISA, recently used his expertise to age the stately white oak tree (Quer-cus alba) which stands a lone sentinel just behind Food City in Lynnhurst Cemetery on West Adair Drive.

Adair Oak Tree (1926). Unveiling the tombstones of Revolution-

ary War soldiers John Adair and Edward Smith by the Bonny

Kate Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution

are: Sarah Smith Sanders, J. Harvey Smith, Mary Boyce Temple,

Sarah Smith McCampbell. Oct. 26, 1926. Lynnhurst Cemetery. (McClung Historical Collection #200-001-278)

Adair Oak Tree (2015). Dr. John D. Tumblin stands under the Adair Oak recently to provide a

means of comparing the current size of the tree to its 1926 size. (Photograph submitted)

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HISTORY AND MYSTERIES

The John Adair Oak Tree

There has long been speculation about the age of the tree and whether John Adair’s reinterrment in 1926 was under the shade of that tree for a reason.

Adair’s great-grandson, James Harvey Smith (1840-1932) had assisted his fa-ther in removing the last remnants of historic Fort Adair. Had Smith advised the Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution to choose that site because of its his-toric signifi cance, possibly because it was within in the perimeter of the fort?

After viewing the sole available historic photograph of the tree, making current measurements and return-ing to his offi ce to study the information and consult his reference works, Cortese sent the following email:

“I have run the age of the Adair Oak two different ways:

“1) (The age factor in the 1988 “International Soci-ety of Arboriculture Guide for Tree Appraisal” for white oak, Quercus alba, is 5 times the tree diameter.) The tree’s current diameter at 4.5 feet off of the ground is 52.84 inches multiplied by 5 equals 264 years or circa 1751.

“2) Using a millimeter ruler I measured the diam-eter of the current tree with Dr. John Tumblin in the photo. It is 21 mm in diam-eter. Tumblin’s head is 3 mm wide which is equal to an average approximate head diameter size of 6.5 inches.

“In the 1926 photograph,

the tree is 23 mm diameter and the gentleman’s head is 5 mm diameter. Based upon this information and run-ning an algebraic equation, it is my opinion that the tree is approximately 212 years old, circa 1803.

“(Again) based upon my fi gures, it was approxi-mately 120 years old in 1926. Trying to be a good scientist, if we average the two methodologies; then the tree would be 238 years old, circa 1777. The fort and stockade date to 1788. Thus it is conceivable that this tree was standing when the fort was built. It would have been, again in my estima-

ety and its vice president, wrote perhaps the most informative article on the subject.

Her article in the Knox-ville Sentinel (predecessor to the Knoxville News Sen-tinel) on July 22, 1923, is en-titled, “Where Trolleys And Autos Now Run John Adair Built His Stockade While Indians Peered Down From Black Oak.” White inter-viewed John Harvey Smith (probably James Harvey Smith) who was then living in the historic Smith house on the southeastern section of John Adair’s 640-acre land grant (present location of CiCi’s Pizza). There are several signifi cant quotes in the article:

“What was then far out beyond the extreme fron-tier of this city in 1788 and where now is a part of busy North Knoxville out on the Fountain City road (now Broadway) in beauti-ful Lynnhurst cemetery, in the extreme north, between the deep cut driveway and a large lonely oak tree, sleeps John Adair. This place was always known as Adair Burying Hill, and the Hill graveyard on Adair Creek.

“Recently Lynnhurst was being put in order, some bones of early settlers were found, and reinterred in Lynnhurst and Greenwood cemeteries. It was thought that John Adair and wife were among these, but a great-grandson of John Adair, John H. Smith (sic),

who lives on the Adair es-tate in the large brick housebetween the Fountain Cityrailway tracks and Broad-way pike, rememberedwhere his great-grandfatherwas buried and the rocksthat were used to mark hisgrave. He helped his fatherto pull down the old Fortand house of John Adair.

“The Brick House wasbuilt by the late John Smith,the second, in the year of1839. The Fort, stockade,and house of 1788 stood onthe west side of the asphaltroad to Fountain City, be-tween it and where AdairCreek runs, just below thegraveyard. Mr. Smith saidthere were two springs oneon each side of the stock-ade, which supplied the set-tlers, and that always a suf-fi cient amount of water wasbrought in during daylight,and someone with a rifl estood guard while the wom-en and children brought inthe supply.”

The cutline for a photo-graph of the Smith Houseillustrating the article con-tains this sentence, “Adairfort was located directlybetween this house and thegrove, and is indicated by alarge stone marker, thoughthis stone is not shown in thepicture.”

Thanks to Jim Corteseand his expertise in ag-ing trees we may be a stepcloser to locating the exactfootprint of John Adair’s1788 fort.

If only trees could talk.

tion, about 3-5 inches di-ameter and about 15-20 feet tall in 1788.”

Only hours later, Cor-tese would advise that he had run the age of the tree a third way:

“3) Back in the early 1990s, I had my tree crews measure the diameters and count the age via growth rings of trees that we were cutting down. There were six white oaks in that paper work. I ran the numbers on these six trees. Their aver-age diameters were 23.03 inches. Their average age was 88.17 years. Utilizing the algebraic equation that I utilized previously, the large 52.84 inch diameter white oak is 203 years old.

“Thus, we have 264 + 212 + 203 equals 678 divided by 3 equals 226. This would put the tree circa 1789.”

Over the years several research efforts have been made to discover the exact location of Fort Adair, ef-forts that have so far failed to establish that footprint.

The late Katherine Keogh “Kate” White (1853-1938), historian of the Bonny Kate Chapter of the DAR and honorary historian of the Tennessee DAR, who was a charter member of the East Tennessee Historical Soci-

Area farmers markets

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p.m. Tuesdays through late

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■ Knoxville Farmers Market,

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Kingston Pike. Hours: 3-6

p.m. Fridays through late

November.

■ Lakeshore Park Farmers Market, 6410 S. Northshore

Drive. Hours: 3-6 p.m. every

Friday through Nov. 20. Info:

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Call for artists ■ Arts in the Airport:

juried exhibition allows regional artists to compete and display work at McGhee Tyson Airport secured area behind the security gate checkpoint from March 17-Oct. 12. Theme: “Smoky Mountain Air Show.” Entries deadline: midnight Sunday, Feb. 7. Info/appli-cation: knoxalliance.com; Suzanne Cada, 523-7543 or sc@knoxalliance.com

■ Dogwood Arts Festival: juried artists are selected to exhibit and sell their original work in mixed media, clay, draw-ing/pastels, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, painting, photography, sculpture, and wood in April. Info/applica-tion: dogwoodarts.com

■ Gallery of Arts Tribute: a juried exhibi-tion developed to recognize local artists and honor the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Artwork should be delivered 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 4-5. Entry form: knox-alliance.com/MLK.htm; or SASE to Arts & Culture Alliance, P.O. Box 2506, Knoxville TN 37901. Info: Suzanne Cada, 523-7543 or sc@knoxalliance.com

■ Broadway Studios And Gallery, 1127 N Broadway, will host an art exhibit about food. Artists refl ect on food as it pervades lives, from the profound to the mundane. Entry fee is $5 with a limit of three piec-es per artist. Drop off Nov. 20, 21, 27, 28 from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Opening reception and awards night 5-9 p.m. Fri-day, Dec. 4, and the exhibit

will run through Dec. 31. Info: Jessica Gregory, 865-556-8676.

Call for vendors ■ Beaver Ridge UMC,

7754 Oak Ridge Highway, is seeking vendors for the annual Craft Fair to be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. Spaces: $40. Bring your own table or rent one for $10. Info/reservations: 690-1060.

■ Christ UMC is seek-ing vendors for its fall arts and crafts festival, to be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Satur-day, Nov. 14. Info/applica-tion: bsstair@comcast.net or Sherry, 776-1100.

■ Knox Heritage Salvage Shop is accepting applications from vendors for its Holiday Market to be held Dec. 2-19. Products will be sold by The Salvage Shop on consignment, so vendors do not have to be present during market hours. Proceeds will benefi t Knox Heritage. Application deadline: midnight Friday, Nov. 20. Info/applications: knoxheritage.org/salvage.

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Scruffy FestBy Betsy Pickle

The only thing better than standup comedy is conve-nient standup comedy.

Take this weekend’s Scruffy City Comedy Festival (please!). It will span three locations on Market Square – Scruffy City Hall, the Speakeasy at Preservation Pub and Knoxville Uncorked – instead of being spread throughout downtown.

“People can literally walk out the door of one show and into the door of another show and be seated within a minute,” says Matt Ward, the Knoxville comedian and comedy promoter who founded the festival last No-vember. “That allows people to see all the shows if they hang around all weekend, at least part of all the shows.”

Ward and his associates learned a lot from the 2014 fest. One thing that doesn’t worry him is tackling a Uni-versity of Tennessee football game day.

His headliner Saturday night is Midwesterner Jack-ie Kashian.

“Jackie Kashian is a per-fect comic to have on Sat-urday night on a home foot-ball game day,” says Ward. “She has nothing to do with sports. She defi nitely has a dorky, nerdy following, and her material is beautiful in that regard.”

On Saturday afternoon, New Orleans-based festival performer Chris Trew, who is also an improv coach and

‘Menagerie’Elizabeth Beck of Harriman will play Laura in the Roane State

Playmakers production of “The Glass Menagerie.” Show times

are Nov. 13-14 and Nov. 20-21 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays, Nov.

15 and Nov. 22, at 2 p.m. in Harriman. Tickets are $10 ($5 for

students and seniors). Info: 865-354-3000, ext. 5296.

Mia Jackson will headline

Sunday along with Shane

Mauss.Jackie Kashian headlines on

Saturday night.

Andy Sandford headlines the

Scruff y City Comedy Festival

on Friday night.

‘The 33’Mario Sepulveda (Antonio Banderas) is one of 33

Chilean miners trapped 200 stories underground in

“The 33,” based on the 2010 disaster that gripped the

world for nearly 70 days. Director Patricia Riggen’s

fi lm depicts the struggles of the miners, who endured

100-degree temperatures in the collapsed mine, as

well as the heroic eff orts of those trying to rescue

them. The international cast also includes Juliette

Binoche, Rodrigo Santoro, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ga-

briel Byrne, Mario Casas and James Brolin. The movie

opens wide on Nov. 13.

makes comedy accessible

teacher, will lead an improv class for both newcomers and seasoned performers.

“It’s a class on language and communication in im-prov comedy,” says Ward.

Ward has also learned to take bumps in stride. His Friday-night headliner, Ben Kronberg, had to bow out, but he ended up with a replacement who could prove even more popular. The new headliner, Andy Sandford, is a comic out of Atlanta now based in New York City.

“It goes from being kind of a raunchy show on Friday night to being almost a com-pletely clean comedy show,” says Ward, who notes that Sandford has appeared on “Conan” and “Adult Swim.” “Andy’s not 100 percent clean, but he defi nitely isn’t a very controversial comic. He’s more of a wordsmith.”

It’s becoming more com-mon for mid-sized and small cities to have their own comedy festivals, Ward says. Nearly three dozen co-medians will perform at the Scruffy City fest.

“The comedy commu-nities in these cities are growing,” he says. “Some of these places may not have had much live comedy at all before. Now they have a few years under their belt of having standup com-ics come in and do shows, typically produced by local performers. And then those people get excited, and they’re like, ‘Let’s showcase our scene. Let’s do a festi-val.’ So there’s a new fes-tival popping up probably every few months across the country.”

The second time around has been much easier, he says.

“Last year we had such a great response and turnout, it makes this year that much

more legitimate. When I walk into a place to put up a poster, people have heard of the festival, whereas last year we were creating the festival and people weren’t sure about it.”

Ward says there’s some-thing “really big” that will also be announced via the Twitter handle @scruffy-comedy. There also will be some free “pop-up perfor-mances” revealed on Twitter.

He wants “to keep people focused on the shows that we do have on the schedule, but if they don’t happen to be able to make it to those shows give them an alterna-tive at the last second.”

The fest kicks off with an opening-night party at 7 p.m. Friday. The comedy starts at 7 on Saturday and Sunday as well. Sunday’s headliners are Mia Jackson and Shane Mauss. For tick-ets/passes, times and loca-tions visit scruffycitycom-edy.com or The 2nd Annual Scruffy City Comedy Festi-val on Facebook.

By Carol ShaneThere’s a new classical

kid in town, and its name is “Inner Voices.” Made up of four musicians from the Knoxville and Oak Ridge symphonies, the recently-formed string quartet has a fresh objective: to play great music in an intimate, fun setting, and to pick the piec-es the members really want to perform, even if that means playing only parts of larger works. “It’s like a mixed tape,” says violinist Ruth Bacon Edewards.

Indeed, “Mixed Tape” is the name of the group’s inaugural concert, and the setting is just as hip as the idea. “We are having it at The Hive, which is a cre-ative space in my neighbor-hood of Old North,” says cellist Jeanine Wilkinson. “Several of us live near this up-and-coming neighbor-hood and we would love to highlight a new business that just opened.”

Edewards agrees. “We’re just really inspired by the energy in North Knoxville right now. We wanted to be

a part of that.”Wilkinson is largely re-

sponsible for the group’s formation. She’s been thinking about this type of project “for several years. For string players, chamber music is what we live for. It’s such a unique instrumen-tation that permits each player to be a soloist and at the same time be part of an ensemble.” She wanted to get together regularly to rehearse and perform with like-minded, equally-com-mitted musicians.

She discussed the idea with her good friend Kevin Richard Doherty, host of WUOT’s Early Morning Concert.

“I thought the idea sounded amazing,” says Doherty. “So I told Jeanine that if she got the group together I would help her promote it. In this crazy age of technology and instant gratifi cation, I feel like we need classical music and thoughtful music now more than ever.”

Wilkinson called up some of her string-playing

Rachel Loseke, Ruth Bacon Edewards, Christina Graff eo and Jeanine Wilkinson are the members

of “Inner Voices,” a new string quartet making its debut at The Hive this Friday. Photo by CMarlowe Photography

A classical ‘fab four’

friends, and the four had “a social get- together to sight read music and then eat and drink wine, just to make sure the chemistry would be compatible between all of us. We ended up having a ton of fun and decided that we would all love to work together and put on a con-cert.”

Violist Christina Graf-

feo is thrilled to be mak-ing music again after being sidelined by an injury that kept her from symphony playing. A sonographer for Blount Memorial Hospital, she welcomed the chance to join her musical friends. “It is refreshing,” she says of working with “Inner Voic-es.” “I love that!”

And violinist Rachel Los-

eke says, “Ever since I’ve moved here I’ve missed playing chamber music for fun. I feel like it’s the most expressive medium for a string player, aside from solo playing. You get to be collaborating and commu-nicating.”

Loseke is enjoying the social and autonomous as-pects of the venture. “I love

the girls I’m working with. We’re in charge, and we get to do what we want!”

The program includes the winding, mesmerizing fi rst movement from Maurice Ravel’s only string quartet and “Is Now Not Enough?” by Asheville composer Do-sia McKay, as well as music from Mozart, Beethoven and Piazzolla. And in keep-ing with the casual atmo-sphere, the audience is also invited to “join the quartet for a drink after the show.”

Doherty hopes to see an enthusiastic crowd this weekend. “I want to do my part to help classical mu-sic fi nd its stride in the 21st century. More of this is happening, i.e. the Big Ears Festival. We just need more people believing in the cause.”

“Mixed Tape” by “Inner Voices” will be performed at 7 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 13, at The Hive, 854 North Central Street in Knox-ville. Tickets are $10, and doors open at 6:30 p.m. Info: kevinricharddoherty.com

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By Shannon CareySouthEast Bank is doing

its part to help fi nd jobs for those in need.

SouthEast has pledged $25,000 to match donations or pledges to Goodwill Foun-dation of Knoxville made through the end of the year.

The pledge came Oct. 28, during the Scotch, Cigars and Goodwill event held at the SouthEast Bank branch in Farragut. Dr. Robert G. Rosenbaum, former CEO of Goodwill Knoxville and current foundation presi-dent, said the foundation is well on its way to the $25,000 goal.

“So far, we’ve done really well without any real solici-

tation,” Rosenbaum said.The event included a

silent auction, with three strands of cultured pearls donated by Jewelry TV co-owner Bill Collins.

Funds raised will help Goodwill Industries-Knox-ville Inc. to further its mis-sion to provide vocational services and employment for people with barriers to employment. Topping Rosenbaum’s list of great Goodwill programs is new Certifi ed Nursing Assis-tant training. Goodwill also partners with Knox County Schools to help students get real-world training and fi nd better-paying jobs.

“Over the years we’ve grad-

BIZ NOTES ■ Bennett Galleries has

stocked new art, furniture,

jewelry and many unique

items in celebration of its

40th anniversary.

■ K-VA-T Food Stores Inc., parent company for Food

City, has been named a

2015 Healthier Tennessee

Workplace for its commit-

ment to encouraging and

enabling employees to live

a healthy lifestyle both at

work and at home.

■ Candlewood Suites Knoxville has received the

2015 Quality Excellence

Award, given to hotels

achieving distinction in all

aspects of their operation.

Only 85 reached this des-

ignation in the Americas.

The extended-stay hotel

opened here in 1997. The

staff is led by Bart Pember-

ton, general manager; Trish

Cisco, operations manager;

and Dawn Lassiter, director

of sales.

■ Knox County Schools

sold 156,033 coupon books

this year, raising $1.37

million for classrooms and

schools. U.S. Cellular was

the presenting sponsor.

Corporate sponsors were

First Tennessee Founda-

tion, Junk Bee Gone, Rusty

Wallace Automotive and

Stanley Steemer.

■ The District Gallery will

present the works of Joe

Parrott: From Knoxville to

the Mediterranean Dec.

4-30 with an opening

reception 5-8 p.m. Friday,

Dec. 4, at 5113 Kingston

Pike. Parrott will attend the

opening and will off er a

painting demonstration in

the gallery from 1-4 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 5. Info: 865-

200-4452.

■ Commercial Bank will

sponsor an event to benefi t

Alzheimer’s Tennessee

from 3-6 p.m. Friday, Nov.

20, in Fountain City Park.

The Friday Fall Fun Fest,

Tailgate and Cornhole

Tournament is open to all.

■ Girl Scout Council of the

Southern Appalachians

will not increase cookie

prices next year. Locally,

the cookies will continue

to sell for $4 per box. The

council’s 2016 sale will

launch Jan. 16 and extend

through February.

■ Pictures with Santa for

kids 12 and younger will be

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Wallace & Wallace, Realtors,

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p.m. Friday, Dec. 4. Broker

Gina Mills said the offi ce

will have holiday-themed

snacks and activities. Info:

865-687-1111.

News from the Rotary Guy

By Tom KingBob Ely became a Rotar-

ian in 1960 and the Ro-tary Club of Bearden re-cently hon-ored him for 55 years of perfect attendance. Bob’s per-fect atten-

dance translates to having not missed a meeting in ap-proximately 2,860 meetings.

Bob is a past district gov-ernor of 6780 who served in 1981-82. He is a past presi-dent of the club when it was fi rst known as Bearden Ro-tary, then West Knox Ro-tary and last year it became Bearden Rotary again. He was one of the three original charter members when the club began meeting in 1960.

Bob is 89 and underwent brain surgery not long ago. With him at many of these meetings is his wife of 45 years, Dottie. Two years ago Bearden Rotary made her an honorary member.

“I have made up meetings in most ev-ery major city in the U.S. and also in Hawaii, Alaska and South America,” he explained. In fact, in 1982, while attending the Rotary International Convention in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he was in-stalled as district governor of his home district.

During the 1960s he was busy setting up a national sales force for his heating and air products company. As his business took him from Hawaii to Alaska he always attended local Ro-tary Club functions. “I’ve met people from all over the world. It’s been a great ex-perience,” he said.

■ Outsourcing? Not convincedState Sen. Becky Massey

told the North Knox Rotar-ians she’s talked to about 10 individuals from Gov. Haslam to folks in her dis-trict and nothing she’s yet heard has convinced her it’s a good idea to outsource state jobs. She predicted a change in the state’s tax on gasoline to include indexing – adjust-ments for infl ation every three to fi ve years. On abor-tion, she said, “We’re not go-ing to abolish it; it’s the law of the land. We can make it safe for those who participate.”

Bearden’s Bob Ely: 55 years perfect attendance

Tom King

■ International students celebrateThe Rotary Club of Knox-

ville is hosting a Thanksgiv-ing meal for International students at the University of Tennessee on Monday,

Nov. 23, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event will be at the Interna-tional House, located on the UT campus at 1623 Melrose Place.

You can park in front of the building. There is no charge for Rotarians and their families.

■ Crissy Haslam to speakTennessee’s First Lady

– Crissy Haslam – will be speaking to the Tuesday Nov. 24 meeting of the Ro-tary Club of Knoxville at the Marriott Hotel. The meet-ing begins at noon. If you are interested in hearing the wife of Gov. Bill Haslam, call 865-523-8252.

Dr. Robert G. Rosenbaum of Goodwill Foundation pres-

ents John E. Arnold Jr., chair of SouthEast Bank, with a plaque

commemorating SouthEast Bank’s pledge of $25,000 to match

donations or pledges to Goodwill Foundation of Knoxville

made through year end 2015. Photo submitted

State Sen. Becky Massey talks

with North Knox Rotary Club

member Jerry Griff ey. Photo byS. Clark

Dottie Ely joined her husband,

Bob, when he was recognized

for 55 years of perfect atten-

dance by the Rotary Club of

Bearden. Ely was a founding

member of the club. Photo by Charles Garvey

SouthEast Bank boosts Goodwill

uated a phenomenal number of CNAs,” said Rosenbaum. “The goal is to be just purely

mission-supportive to ensure the perpetuity of Goodwill and its programs.”

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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • NOVEMBER 11, 2015 • A-13 business

By Sandra ClarkFormer UT football

player Inky J o h n s o n will speak at the annu-al banquet of the Pow-ell Business and Profes-sional As-sociation 6 p.m. Friday,

Nov. 20, at Tennova North. The venue is limited to 160 seats, and tickets are going fast.

A routine tackled turned into a life-threatening in-jury for Inky Johnson on Sept. 9, 2006, at Neyland Stadium. Now he lives with daily pain, a paralyzed

right arm and constantphysical challenges. Heearned a master’s degreein sport psychology fromUT and devotes much timeto mentoring athletes andunderprivileged youth. Heand his wife, Allison, live inAtlanta with their children,Jada and Inky Jr.

Teresa Underwood ischairing the banquet, as-sisted by Angela Farmer,Denise Girard and others.Tickets at $60 each may bepurchased from Girard atFirst Century Bank, EmoryRoad, by Friday, Nov. 13.Info: 947-5485 x 1802.

The annual banquet rec-ognizes the man and wom-an of the year and the busi-ness person of the year.

Inky Johnson

‘Inky’ is coming to Powell

By Sandra ClarkTennova continues to

be an economic engine for Halls, Powell and commu-nities north of Knox County. Rob Followell, CEO of Ten-nova North, spoke recently to the Powell Business and Professional Association.

Tennova has added a 3D mammography machine. Followell said the ER has 38,000 visits each year and Tennova North will expand the emergency room by 25 percent.

“We’re adding a second linear accelerator to expand our services,” he said. Ten-nova has made a multi-mil-lion dollar investment in its Digestive Disease Institute. He made no promises, but said Tennova North is expe-riencing double digit growth and he looks forward to sig-nifi cant capital investment going forward.

In Anderson County

Brickey-McCloud hosts breakfast clubBrickey-McCloud Elementary principal Robbie Norman (right)

serves muffi ns to Dennis Jones during the monthly meeting

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Thursday of every month to enable community and business

members to network. Photo by R. White

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Planners see a new look for BroadwayBy Sandra Clark

The funding is not in place, but we’ve got to start some-where.

T h a t a t t i t u d e brought an o v e r f l o w crowd to Saint James E p i s c o p a l

Church last week – busi-ness owners, neighborhood residents, city employees and contractors – to dis-cuss a revival of Broadway from Hall of Fame Drive to Branson Avenue, just north of the Fulton High School campus.

Take this seriously, folks. Look no farther than Cum-berland Avenue to see the

sweep of city government once it has a renewal plan.

Wayne Blasius (director) and Leslie Fawaz (studio de-sign director) of the East Ten-nessee Community Design Center are taking the lead, working with David Massey of the city’s Offi ce of Neigh-borhoods, the Broadway Cor-ridor Task Force and others to get folks talking.

Fawaz said discussion of money can come later. She asked attendees to imagine ways to make Broadway more accessible to business-es, more connected among neighborhoods and friend-lier to pedestrians and bik-ers.

Discussion topics includ-ed:

■ Traffi c – Should traf-fi c lanes be reduced to pro-

vide space for landscaping, wider sidewalks and bike lanes? Should parking be on-street or moved to the back or side of businesses?

■ Bus stops – Fawaz said Broadway in the most used bus line for KAT. Could usage be increased with big-ger bus-stop shelters, per-haps providing bike racks?

■ Consistency in street signage, lights and land-scaping – this included whether participants pre-ferred tall, skinny shrubs or bushy trees (bushy won).

Someone suggested ex-tending First Creek Gre-enway along the Broadway Corridor. “Walking is the most common form of phys-ical activity and the oldest form of transportation,” said a consultant.

It was almost urban ar-chitecture as a cure for diabetes. The spirit moves among people of a common mind who gather in a small room with PowerPoint slides and 60 clickers.

The only option that never won was to leave Broadway as it is. As City Council member Marshall Stair said recently, “Our corridors are ugly.”

It seems the neighbor-hoods beside Broadway are coming back faster than the businesses. Turning that around through design and public/private investment makes sense.

Fawaz said details of last week’s meeting will be on-line this week.

Stay tuned. This discus-sion has just begun.

(where Followell will chair the Chamber of Commerce next year), Tennova has ex-panded on the Summit phy-sicians’ practice to create a complex with a total of three buildings featuring two po-diatrists, expanded primary care, speech therapy and occupational therapy.

Tennova has added a neu-

rologist, Dr. Jose Cardenas in the past year and will be expanding his offi ce in the former offi ce of Dr. Kristy Newton, who recently re-tired.

The Tennova Women’s Care Group has expanded and was moved to a new-ly renovated suite on the ground fl oor of the Profes-

sional Plaza B located on the Tennova NKMC campus.

“We’re constantly re-cruiting physicians to meet the needs of the area, and added 20 physicians in the last four years.

“We’ve brought up the level of service and are proud of our family atmo-sphere.”

Leslie Fawaz

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB November 11, 2015

NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Dr. Paul Yau

It’s called partial knee replacement, but Dr. Paul Yau calls it the “new normal,” a 30- to 45-minute same-day surgery fol-lowed by such a quick recovery that it bor-ders on the miraculous.

Case in point: Patient Rodney Loveland, a retired mechanic in Dandridge.

“Before his � rst follow-up visit, he cut down a tree and chopped it into logs! Who does that three weeks out from sur-gery, really?!” exclaimed Dr. Yau, an orthopedic surgeon with Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “But that’s how quick this surgery is. His is actually a fairly typical experience. It’s sort of miraculous, but

it happens like clockwork. We just accept it as the new normal.”

Knee replacement surgery such as the one Dr. Yau performed on Loveland in September makes up only a small percent-age of knee surgeries performed in the U.S. That’s partly because the osteoarthri-tis deterioration must be con� ned to only one or two of the three compartments of the knee. Osteoarthritis occurs most fre-quently (about 80 percent of the time) in

the medial or inside part of the knee. It’s also usually the � rst place it appears.

“When you analyze the biomechanics of the knee, the inner part of the knee is actu-ally the most important part,” said Dr. Yau. “It takes about 70 to 75 percent of the stress of any activity: walking, jumping, bending, getting up in the morning, putting on your shoes, getting in your car, walking down-stairs. Your body weight mainly goes to the inner part of the knee.”

Each case is different, however, and only an orthopedic surgeon can determine what’s best for a patient.

The surgery is also known as partial knee resurfacing because the surgeon shaves the surface damaged by osteoar-thritis, then caps the bone with metal com-ponents and restores the lost cartilage with a high-density plastic insert.

The advantages are immense: less trauma to the tissue, less pain, less bleed-ing (the incision may be as small as 3 to 4 inches) and faster recovery.

“The partial has really become more and more popular because it’s less surgery,” said Dr. Yau. “The other bene� t is you get to keep your ligaments. With a total knee re-placement, surgeons typically remove the ACL and often PCL – the central ligaments

with the knee. With the partial, you get to keep all those structures, and because you do, the knee feels more normal, particu-larly when people squat or bend deeply, or when they try to pivot, twist, turn corners or walk on uneven surfaces like a hiking trail, or out in a � eld. Those ligaments do a ton for people’s stability, their con� dence with the knee, their strength, their coordi-nation, their endurance and just their feel-ings of having a normal knee – to the point where some people with partials forget they ever had surgery.”

A decade ago, same-day partial knee replacements were unheard of. Today, Dr. Yau said, the procedure is done in only a handful of centers across America but with great success.

“You need a surgeon and a team that can operate in narrower margins,” said Dr. Yau. “You have to hit the bullseye with your surgery, your implant, how you han-dle the tissues, the anesthesia and all the medications given to the patient in that perioperative period – the 8 to 10 hours around surgery. If you don’t nail all those every time, patients will struggle.”

The percentage of knee patients receiv-ing a partial versus total knee replacement, he said, is historically low: around 20-25

percent. “But I would say that as we get better with the surgery and better at using this implant, we could reach as high as 50 to 60 percent of patients who are candi-dates,” he said.

“As awareness grows I expect interest to continue to grow,” said Dr. Yau. “The patient experience to date has been amaz-ing, and patients are so thankful to be back on their feet so soon. They have rapidly regained function quicker than any of the expectations they, their friends or their therapists had before surgery. I see the recovery time shortened when patients go home. They reach all the milestones and checkpoints in about half the time as pa-tients who follow the traditional pathway.”

Another patient of Dr. Yau mowed four lawns the day before his first follow-up appointment.

“That’s fine, because we do this sur-gery so that people can do those things again,” said Dr. Yau. “We don’t do it just so they can lie around. We do this so they can be active, go on dates with their spouses and take care of their homes. That’s the whole point of this – so they can go back to being productive members of society, their community, their fami-lies, and live life to the fullest.”

Retired auto technician gets new knee, same-day serviceRodney Loveland began tinkering with

cars almost a half century ago, a time when cars still had carburetors, foot-operated dimmer switches and windows raised and lowered by hand crank.

But times change, and as the retired me-chanic will tell you, “Stuff wears out – no way around it.”

That includes people parts, too, and the 68-year-old Loveland, with two back sur-geries and a shoulder surgery, is no excep-tion. Years of twisting, turning, bending, squatting, pushing and pulling – under the hood, under the car and under the dash-board – took its toll. So when a night of bowling wore out his left knee, he � gured he was in for a major repair job: total knee replacement and a lengthy rehabilitation period of six months.

“The only sport I do is bowling, and I could bowl, but my leg hurt when I was done, and it hurt the next morning when I got up,” he said. “Then one morning after bowling, I got up and I couldn’t walk on it. I was done. I literally could not walk. My pri-mary doctor gave me a steroid injection, but it didn’t help because it was too far gone by then. He said it was bone on bone, and that I probably needed a total knee replacement.”

Loveland delayed the inevitable for two and a half months. “I was walking on a cane. I was in bad shape. I really was,” he said. “My wife and kids got on me about it. It was just an aching, aggravating pain. I knew I had to do something.”

At the recommendation of family mem-bers, Loveland turned to Dr. Paul Yau, an orthopedic surgeon with Fort Sanders Re-gional Medical Center. But instead of to-tal knee replacement, Dr. Yau had a better

Body mechanicsidea: a partial knee replacement that would take only 30 to 45 minutes of surgery and a hospital stay measured in hours that would have Loveland back on his feet in no time at all.

“If you have a car and one tire is blown, there’s really no point in replacing all the tires,” Dr. Yau explained. “You just have one bad tire. So the partials have been really good for orthopedics because now we can just take the one ‘tire’ that is bad.”

“Dr. Yau looked at the X-rays, and when he came into that room, the � rst thing he said to me was, ‘I can � x you with only a par-tial knee replacement,’” said Loveland. “He gave me a brochure about it. It’s called knee resurfacing, and he explained that they’ve been doing this in Europe for years, but it is relatively new in the United States. He said there’s less rehab time and a shorter recov-ery time. So I said, ‘Hey, bring it on! Let’s do it!’”

So, on Sept. 9, Loveland arrived at Fort Sanders around 8 a.m. and was back home in Dandridge the same afternoon. “I came home on a walker and walked around the house,” he said. “That was a Wednesday, and by Friday I was at physical therapy in Kodak. But I was walking on a cane by the second or third physical therapy ses-sion. I probably went to physical therapy 10 times in all. Finally I said, ‘I can do all these stretching exercises at home already.’ So they said, ‘OK, you’re � ne. You’re good to go.’ I’m amazed because this is the � rst time in three years that I’m walking without a limp.”

A former garage owner, Loveland was ex-pecting the medical equivalent of an engine change but instead received same-day ser-

Retired mechanic Rodney Loveland found relief from his aching joints thanks to a partial knee replacement by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Paul Yau at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Cen-ter. “I’m amazed because this is the fi rst time in three years that I’m walk-ing without a limp,” said Loveland.

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“I was expecting six months’ recovery time and all this rehab, but it’s only beenabout a month and a half since I had itdone, and you can see how well I can getaround. I was up on a ladder yesterday,working on a roof – don’t tell Dr. Yau!”he said with a laugh. “He is so personable.You don’t feel like you’re talking to a doc-tor. You feel like you’re talking to a buddyor something. He comes in and we’re talk-ing about knees, and the next thing I know,we’re talking about riding motorcycles.He’s just a great guy!”

Loveland was equally impressed with his stay at Fort Sanders, although it was onlyfor a few brief hours. “Fort Sanders, theway they run that place, it was wham!” hesaid. “Smooth! Click! Click! Click! If you’vegot to get something done, they were great!I was very pleased with the whole pro-cedure and the folks in Dr. Yau’s of� ce. Ithought Fort Sanders was amazing.”

Loveland now hopes that he’ll not only be able to return to the bowling lanes soon, butthat he’ll do so with less pain and more game.

“I hope this helps my game. I need some-thing to improve it!” he joked. “When you’re right-handed, you slide with your left kneeand bending. So I sort of bowled in an up-right posture, and didn’t really slide,” he said and laughed. “I didn’t have that pretty delivery. I’m the guy who was on the teambecause they needed a handicap. But I’m ea-ger to see if it’s made a difference.”

For more information about par-tial knee replacements at Fort Sand-ers Regional, call 865-673-FORT or goto www.fsregional.com.

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1953 CHEV 3600 PK UP, frame off res-toration, $11,000. 1978 GMC PK UP, Factory 454 big block. $10,000. Both in great shape. (Both for $18,000).(865)250-8252.

1963 1/2 Galaxie, black w/red int., 390 HP Gold eng., solid. $11,000. Serious inquiries only 865-742-2878

1969 Cougar, original, white w/blacktop, solid, no rust, Serious inquiries only, $12,000. (865) 742-2878.

Buick Skylark 1965 custom musclecar, 1800 mi since restored, 454Chevy, $10,500. (865)302-1033.

JAGUAR E-TYPE - 1961-1975. I would like to buy a 1970 or 1971 Mercedes 280SL, or a 1961 - 1975 Jaguar XKE, or a Porsche 911, 912 or a 1970sor 1980’s Ferrari. I am willing tobuy running or not running. Any Condition. I’m a local guy living in Grainger county. If you have one or know of one please call

Call (865)621-4012.

STUDEBAKER COMMANDER - 1938. 4dr., project car. $3000 firm or possi-ble trade. (865)435-6855.

TOYOTA TERCEL 1988. Extra clean, no scratches, runs great, AC, AT, 113kmi., $3250. (865)936-4326.

Vehicles Wanted

FAST$$ CASH $$

4 JUNK AUTOS

865-216-5052865-856-8106

JUNK CAR MAFIA Buying junk vehicles any condition.

865-455-7419

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

RANGER BASS BOAT 1987 - 150 HPJohnson, garage kept, exc. cond. $4500. (865)258-3758.

Campers & RV’s

1978 Holiday Rambler 24’ travel trailer, hunting camp special, located near Wartburg, TN. $1400. (865)457-5918.

2006 arctic fox camper with slide, and 2007 Dodge 3500 dully for sale. $40,000 OBO for the whole set-up.Will sell the camper for 15,000 with out the truck, but can’t sell thetruck until the camper is sold. (863) 602-5373.

CAMPERS WANTED

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

Motorhomes.Will pay Cash

(423) 504-8036

REDUCED. 2004 Holiday RamblerVacationer 37 PCT, exc cond, gas Ford V10, low miles - 25K+, 3 slides,sitting rm off BR, french doors from BR to bath, dbl refrig w/ice maker, elec. awning, full body paint, stored indoors, Need to sell. $49,900 nego. 865-357-2417 or 304-444-7761

Golf Carts

2002 Electric Club Car, many options and extras, $2,500;

Call Tom at 865-379-9843 or 865-300-1229.

Motorcycles/Mopeds

1998 HARLEY DAVIDSON FLH TOURING Gar. kept. low mi, Many extras. Very nice. $5900. Health reas. 865-268-5855

Off Road Vehicles

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

money without sacrificing speed or quality.

GOAD MOTORSPORTSEast Tennessee’s largest

CFMOTODEALER

138 Sky View Drive,Helenwood, TN

Full Maintenance, Parts & Repairs.

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

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

Jobs

Driver/Transport

DRIVERS! - CDL-A 1yr. Guaranteed Home Time. Excellent Pay Package.

Monthly Bonus Program. 100% No-Touch. BCBS/Dental/Vision.

Plenty of miles. 877-704-3773

DRIVERS: - No-Touch! Get Home, GetPaid! Excellent Pay Per Wk! Strong Benefits Package Including Bonus-es! CDL-A 1yr exp. 855-454-0392

ServicesOffered

Adult Care/Services

CHRISTIANExperienced home caregiver will

do light housekeeping, errands. Nancy (865)214-3518

Air Cond/Heating

HOMETOWN AIR“Back to the basics”

Lennox17.00 S.E.E.R Heat Pump

Financing Available

Alterations & Sewing

ALTERATIONSBY FAITH

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

(865)938-1041

Cleaning Services

HOUSE CLEANINGReasonable rates, good referenc-

es. Call (865)680-7652

Contractors/Builders

LICENSED GENERAL CONTRACTOR

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

Herman Love (865)922-8804

Dozer Work/Tractor

• Bobcat w/Backhoe Attachment• Footer• Above-Ground Pools• Sewer Installations• Landscaping• Bush Hogging• Driveways• Firewood etc.

BOBCAT/BACKHOESmall dump truck. Small jobs

welcome & appreciated! Call 688-4803 or 660-9645.

Fuel & Wood

FIREWOOD FOR SALEAll hardwood, will deliver. $60/

rick. Call (865)992-0943 or (865)332-7055.

Home Maint./Repair

HANDYMANCARPENTRY, PLUMBING, painting,

siding. Free est. 30+ yrs exp! (865)607-2227

HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICEWill clean front & back, $20 &

up. Quality work, guaranteed.(865)288-0556

HONEST& DEPENDABLE!

Small jobs welcome. Exp’d in carpentry, drywall, painting,

plumbing. Reasonable, refs avail.Call Dick at (865)947-1445

Lamps/Light Services

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

design and installation. Call (865)680-2076

Landscaping/Lawn Service

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

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

(865)680-2076

Pet/Vet Services

PROFESSIONALPET SITTING

Reasonable rates, short notice care available. 25 years experi-

ence. Call or text (865)680-6848.

Plumbing

All Types of Residential & Commercial Plumbing

MASTER PLUMBER40 Years Experience � Licensed & Bonded

922-8728 � 257-3193

DAVID HELTON

PLUMBING CO.

Tree Services

EDWARDS TREE SERVICEInterior Pruning, Complete

Removal, Power Stump Grinding

Insured • Free Estimates

922-0645Workers Comp Liability

Owner Operator Roger Hankins

497-3797Pruning • Logging

Bush HoggingStump Removal

Insured FREE ESTIMATES • LIFETIME EXPERIENCE

HankinsTree Service

Blank’s Tree Work

All types of Tree Care and Stump Removal

FULLY INSURED FREE ESTIMATES

924-7536

Will beat written estimates w/comparable credentials.

LOCAL CALL

Breeden's Tree Service

Aerial buckettruck

Stump grindingBrush chipperBush hoggingTrimming &

removingLicensed and insured

Over 30 yrs. experienceFree estimates

865-219-9505

TREE WORKAND POWER STUMP GRINDER

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

News Sentinel LocalfiedsBuy & Sell fast!

Garage Sales

North

GARAGE SALE - Nov 13 & 14, 9am-5pm.Village at Beaver Brook, 2930 Tita-nium Lane. Tanning bed, clothes, & HH items.

Farmer’s Mkt/Trading Post

Farm Buildings

BARNS - SHEDSGARAGES - CARPORTS

PATIO COVERSBUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY

FREE ESTIMATES!

Millen Garage Builders865-679-5330

Farm Equipment

1937 Oliver 70 Row Crop tractor, $3,000 obo. 865-213-3342

763 Bobcat skid loader, runs strong, good tires, $9900. (865)475-1182

Farm Products

AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER

USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL

865-986-4264

Logs2Lumber.com

FANNON FENCING

We build all types of Farm Fencing and Pole Barn.

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

(423)200-6600

Livestock & Supplies

19 BLACK ANGUS COWS - & 1 BLACK ANGUS BULL (865)310-0318

Pets

Lost Pets

LOST DOG - Female Brindle ChihuahuaMix with white chest, weight 12 lbs.Answers to Roise wearing a red col-lar, last seen in Meadow Crest S/D off of Emory Rd. Reward offered.865-679-2576 or 865-604-0960

Merchandise

Antiques

Set of China, made in USA, 106 yrs old, Crown Pottery Company #9377, 24 pcs, $2,000. (865) 689-2229

WANTED - Military antiques and collectibles

865-368-0682

Appliances

GOOD AS NEW

APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-90532001 E. Magnolia Ave.

Auctions

ABSOLUTE AUCTION OF ENTIRE INVENTORY OF

COLONIAL HARDWARE STOREat 6204 Chapman Highway on

Saturday, Nov. 21st at 10:30 AM All inventory to be sold including tools, paint supplies, gardening

tools, pipes and plumbing supplies, all sizes of nails, bolts, screws &

washers + much more! Call 1-800-540-5744, ext. 9017

or visit www.PozyAuctions.com for more information.

KELLER WILLIAMS POZY TEAM & POZY AUCTIONS

Firm# 5581. Each Keller Williams office is independently owned & operated.

Cemetery Lots

2 LOTS - Highland Memorial, value $2500 each. Sell $1300 each. 865-414-4615

2 LOTS in Highland Memorial onSutherland Ave., Veterans Garden. $2,900 each. (828) 635-0714

2 SIDE BY SIDE LOTS - in LynnhurstCemetary - Masonic section. Valued at $5100. Selling for $3500. Call 865-687-8018 & leave message.

HIGHLAND MEMORIAL CEMETERY - 4plots together. $7,850. (317)727-2764

LYNNHURST CEMETERY - 2 plots, side-by-side. $2,000 or best offer. Valued at $3,500/ea. Serious inquiries only. (865)705-5877

Collectibles

A COMPLETE SET - of Goebel Hummel annual plates: 1971 to 1996 withpretty bas-release dolls on them, such as the “apple tree” boy & girl and the “umbrella” boy & girl. $3000. Certified check or cash.

Phone: 865-922-1819. Ask for Barbara.

Collectibles

BUYING OLD US COINS90% silver, halves, quarters & dimes,

old silver dollars, proof sets, silver & gold eagles, krands & maple leafs, class rings, wedding bands, anything

10, 14, & 18k gold old currency before 1928

WEST SIDE COINS & COLLECTIBLES7004 KINGSTON PK

CALL 584-8070

Lawn & Garden

DR Power Grader 48”, 12 scarifying teeth, remote control. Pull with ATV or riding mower. Sell $1,100. New $1,500. Needs new battery. (423) 921-9001

Med Equip & Supplies

LIKE NEW - Hosp. Bed, A Lift, MedicalChair, Foldable Wheel Chair, etc.Call for details, (865)971-4293

Merchandise - Misc.

4 STACK HEATERS V220; one exercise bike; one 18,000 BTU air conditioner. Call 922-3020 and leave a message.$350 for everything!

Metal Buildings

METAL BUILDING SHED - 20’x40’ Long,complete with beams, perlins, sid-ing, roofing and all self tapping screws, front hgt. 15’4”, back hgt.11’4”. (865)803-3633.

Tickets/Events

4 UT Season Basketball Tickets, Sec.118, with G-10 parking pass. $1985. (865) 599-5192

BUYING SEC CHAMP CASH PAID

UT FOOTBALL

UT BASKETBALL

PARKING PASSES

(865)687-1718selectticketservice.com

All Events - Buy - Sell

BUYING TN vs N. Texas Tickets & PARKING PASSES

865-315-3950

I NEED TN vs N. TEXAS Tickets

PLEASE CALL RUDY (865) 567-7426

Wanted

NEED CHRISTMAS MONEY? - I will pay good prices for your

vintage toys, old costume jewelry, old shaving items, lighters & any

advertising items & old Halloween items. (865)441-2884

Announcements

Adoptions

ADOPT:

A loving Mom, a devoted Dad, and a bright future are waiting to welcome

your baby! Expenses paid. Anne & Colin.

1-877-246-6780

ADOPT: Happily married couple readyto devote our life and love to your newborn. Expenses paid. Please call Rob and Susan 1-844-615-5374, www.robandsueadopt.com.

Financial

Consolidation Loans

FIRST SUN FINANCEWe make loans up to $1000. We do

credit starter & rebuilder loans. Call today, 30 minute approvals.

See manager for details.865-687-3228

Real EstateSales

West

FOR SALE BY OWNER836 TREE TRUNK RD 37934

3 BR, 2 BA, 2 car gar. Move in ready. $158,500. For info call (865)567-0859

Condos-Unfurn

FARRAGUT OFF PARKSIDE DR. 2 BR, 1 BA, 1100 SF, secure, priv., move inready, $99,900. (865) 368-2375

Condos-Unfurn

WEST, GREYWOOD CROSSING. Movein Ready, 2BR, 2 full BA, 1 level, FP, deck, new hdwd flrs, new appl, new paint in/out. Refrig & W/D. 2 car gar.w/storage. $159,900. (865)966-0277

Duplex/Multiplex-Unfurn

SEYMOUR ON PRIV. FARM

2 BR, mtn view, water/yd maint. furn. Great for elderly & others. Nice & quiet. Carport. F&B decks.

W&D. Dr. Berry (865)256-6111

Lake Property

RENTAL/SALE/OWNER FINANCE 4/3/2 Tellico Village, Panoramic LakeView. Nicely kept up. (774)487-4158.

SHORT SALE. Watts Bar lakefront. 3 BR townhome. Dock, hdwd flrs,granite, S/S appls, 25 min to Tur-key Creek. 3 units pre-approved at $199,900 each. (865)924-0791

Manufactured Homes

I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES.

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

For Sale By Owner

FARMINGTON / BLUEGRASS1809 Penwood Dr, Remodeled

Split/Foyer, new roof, 3BR 2.5BA Frpl, new appls., fenced yard, kids play

fort, Garage. 1604 SF. $174,900. (865)705-4955.

HOME IN KINGSTON on 11+ acres, Hamilton Ln., unrestricted 3BR, 2BA, city water, shown by appt. only, (865)376-7681; 865-617-1272.

Real EstateRentals

Apartments - Unfurn.

1 BR POWELL SPECIALno cr. ck, no pet fee, water paid,

All appls, $520/mo. 865-938-6424 or 865-384-1099.

1,2,3 BR

$355 - $460/mo.

GREAT VALUE

RIVERSIDE MANORALCOA HWY 970-2267

*Pools, Laundries, Appl.*5 min. to UT & airport

www.riversidemanorapts.com

BROADWAY TOWERS62 AND OLDER

Or Physically Mobility Impaired1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site.

Immediate housing if qualified.Section 8-202.

865-524-4092 for appt.TDD 1-800-927-9275

MORNINGSIDE GARDENS1 BR Apt Now AvailableELDERLY OR DISABLED

COMPLEX

A/C, Heat, Water & Electric Incl,OnSite Laundry, Computer Center

& Resident ServicesGreat location! On the Bus Line!

Close to Shopping! Rent Based on Income,

Some Restrictions ApplyCall 865-523-4133. TODAY

for more information

NORWOOD MANOR APTS. Accepting Applications 1, 2, & 3 BR. On busline Equal Housing Opportunity 865-689-2312

Homes Unfurnished

ALL BRICK 3 BR RANCHER IN WEST HILLS PARK - Hdwd floors, updated

baths & open kitchen area. Cul-de-sac wooded lot w/back fenced.

Family room w/lots of windows. Only $1,200/mo. Call (865)201-1003

FARMINGTON SUBD (Ebenezer &Northshore) - 1628 Dunraven. 3 BR,2.5 BA, new carpet/paint/deck, den,laund rm, 2 car gar., 1 yr lease, $1250 mo + $1250 sec dep. (865)207-0996

NORTH - 4 BR, 2 1/2 BA, Incl all s/sappls, shows like model. In subd. w/lrg comm. pool & amenities. $1375.Call Lydia 865-804-6012

Condos Unfurnished

2BR, 2 FULL BA, HALLS, Kit/DR combo, 1 car gar., priv. patio, all appls., veryquiet. $790/mo. (865)712-8326.

CONDO - WEST. Colonies. 2 BR, 1.5 BA, frpl, pool, tennis cts. View of SmokyMtns. $795/mo + dep. No pets. Avail Now. (865) 216-8053

There’s no place like...here

Real Estate

Landscaping/Lawn Service

Legals Legals

Automobiles for Sale Automobiles for Sale

865-356-9276www.meesetotallawncare.com

Leaf removal, gutter cleaning, landscape installation, outdoor lighting & more!

NOTICE OF ACCOUNTING AND SETTLEMENT IN THE CHANCERY

COURT FOR KNOX COUNTY, PROBATE DIVISION

TO: Christina Pappas and George Pappas

IN RE: Estate of Norman F. Goble

Docket Number 74247-2

In this cause, it appearing that an accounting/settlement has been fi led by the personal representative, which is sworn to, and it further appearing that the

following benefi ciaries and unknown heirs are non-residents of the State of Ten-nessee or whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained upon diligent search and inquiry, to wit: Christina Pappas and George Pappas, pursuant to TCA § 30-2-603 this notice is published to advise the above benefi ciaries and all interested par-ties that the Clerk and Master will take the account of the personal representa-

tive on the 9th day of December, 2015, in the Probate Courtroom, Room 352 City County Building, 400 Main Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. The settlement may be

continued from time to time as provided by TCA § 30-2-605.This 26th day of October, 2015. Signed Kimberly Greene, Personal Representative

Ray Varner

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HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news • NOVEMBER 11, 2015 • B-3

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, NOV. 12

Fall Festival Luncheon hosted by the Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection, 10:45 a.m., Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Guest speaker: Anne Hart from Johns Island, S.C. Topic: “Finding the Missing Piece to the Puzzle.” Featuring silent and live auctions; vendor sales, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: $12. Complimentary child care by reservation only. Info/RSVP: 315-8182 or knoxvillechristianwomen@gmail.com.

Improving Postural Balance with the Alex-ander Technique, 10:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $55. Preregistration with confi rma-tion required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Living with Diabetes: Putting the Pieces To-gether, 2-4:30 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

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

FRIDAY, NOV. 13

“Friday Night Lights” Alzheimer’s Tennessee 5K Glow Run and Walk, 6 p.m., Lakeshore Park. Entry fee: $35. Registration: alzTennessee.org. Info/sponsorships: Kay Watson, kay.watson@TNalz.org, or 544-6288.

SATURDAY, NOV. 14

Fall Arts & Craft Festival, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Highway. Info/application: bsstair@comcast.net

Fall Festival, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Faithway Baptist Church, 4402 Crippen Road, across from the Senior Cen-ter; several vendors selling crafts, Christmas gifts, jew-elry and baked goods including pies, cakes and candies. Lunch will be available at 11:30; donations accepted.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Performance Anxiety and the Alexander Technique, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $80. Preregistration with confi rmation required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

SUNDAY, NOV. 15

The Steeles in concert, 6 p.m., New Beverly Bap-tist Church, 3320 New Beverly Church Road. Preach-ing by Dr. Jeff Steele. No admission charge, but love offering will be taken. Info: 546-0001, NewBeverly.org.

TUESDAY, NOV. 17

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

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18

“End-of-Life Plan,” 2:30 p.m., Humana Guid-ance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speaker: Susie Stiles, LCSW. Info: 329-8892 (TTY: 711).

Dine and Discover, noon-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. David Butler, executive director of the Knoxville Museum of Art, will present “A Look Over the Horizon.” Free and open to the public. Info: knoxart.org.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

“Using Legal Tools for Life Decisions,” 1:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speaker: elder law attorney Monica Franklin, CELA. Info: 329-8892 (TTY: 711).

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, NOV. 18-19

AARP Driver Safety classes, noon-4 p.m.,

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

THURSDAY, NOV. 19

Plainview 7th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Plainview Community Center. Info: 992-5212.

SATURDAY, NOV. 21

Emory Road, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) meeting 10:30 a.m., East Ten-nessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Speaker: Sonja DuBois, a WWII Holocaust survivor. Topic: “Preserving the Legacy.”

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Unity of the Community, Building Community through the Heart of Yoga, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Lindsay Young Downtown Y, 605 W. Clinch Ave. Light refresh-ments, yoga classes and more. Info: 622-9025.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 21-22

Foothills Craft Guild Fine Craft Show, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Jacob Build-ing in Chilhowee Park. Includes a free “Kids’ Make It & Take It Booth” sponsored by the Appalachian Arts Craft Center. Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors; children 13 and under are free.

TUESDAY, NOV. 24

Happy Travelers’ Thanksgiving lunch and gathering, 10:30 a.m., North Acres Baptist Church fellowship hall, 5803 Millertown Pike. Music by Eternal Vision. No charge; suggested contribution, $7. Deadline to sign up: Friday, Nov. 21. Info/sign-up: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 27-28

Open house, Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Info: 494-9854 or appalachianarts.net.

TUESDAY, DEC. 1

AARP Driver Safety classes, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., GFWC Ossoli Circle, 2511 Kingston Pike. Info/registra-tion: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clin-ton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, DEC. 3

Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.

SATURDAY, DEC. 5

Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6 p.m., with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmersMarket.org or NourishKnoxville.org.

SUNDAY, DEC. 6

“Let’s Build a Santa with Wool,” 1-4 p.m., Appa-lachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructors: Nancy Shedden and Karen Bills. Registration deadline: Nov. 29. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

MONDAY, DEC. 7

American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.

TUESDAY, DEC. 8

Paulette 6th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Paulette Elementary School cafeteria. Info: 992-5212.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9

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

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

THURSDAY, DEC. 10

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

SATURDAY, DEC. 12

Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6 p.m., with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmersMarket.org or NourishKnoxville.org.

SUNDAY, DEC. 13

“Bread Basket,” 2-5 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Sheri Burns. Registration deadline: Dec. 6. Info/regis-tration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

Free drop-in art activities for families, 1-4 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Docent tours in English, 2 p.m., and in Spanish, 3 p.m. Info: knoxart.org.

Historic Ramsey House Candlelight Tour, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Featur-ing holiday treats, Christmas carols and tours of the decorated, candlelit historic home. Admission free; donations appreciated. Info: 546-0745 or www.ramseyhouse.org.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, DEC. 14-15

AARP Driver Safety classes, noon-4 p.m., Ameri-can Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook Pike. Info/registra-tion: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

TUESDAY, DEC. 15

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

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16

Dine and Discover, noon-1 p.m., Knoxville Mu-seum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Adam Alfrey, East Tennessee History Center, and Steve Cotham, manager of McClung Historical Collection, will present “An Inside Look at Lloyd Branson.” Free and open to the public. Info: knoxart.org.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clin-ton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, DEC. 17

Plainview 7th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Plainview Community Center. Info: 992-5212.

SATURDAY, DEC. 19

Market Square Holiday Market, noon-6 p.m., with farm vendors selling until 3 p.m. near the Market Square stage, and craft vendors and food trucks open until 6 p.m. on Union Avenue adjacent to Market Square and along Market Street. Info: MarketSquareFarmersMarket.org or NourishKnoxville.org.

TUESDAYS, JAN. 12, 19, 26, FEB. 2, 9, 16

“Refl ections, Light and Magic” class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $150/nonmembers $175. Materials list provided. Info/registration: knoxart.org.

WEDNESDAYS, JAN. 20, 27

“Beautiful, Vibrant Alcohol Inks” class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $50/nonmembers $65. Info/registration: knoxart.org.

WEDNESDAYS, JAN. 20, 27

“Mosaics Keepsake Box” class, 2-4 p.m., Knox-ville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $50/nonmembers $65. Info/registra-tion: knoxart.org.

MONDAY, FEB. 1, 8, 15

“Mask Making and Face Jugs” (clay sculpture) class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cost: KMA members $90/non-members $110. Info/registration: knoxart.org.

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NEWS FROM SOUTHEASTERN RETINA ASSOCIATES

Southeastern Retina Associates

Tod A. McMillan, M.D.

Nicholas G. Anderson, M.D.

Joseph M. Googe, Jr., M.D.p g , ,

Stephen L. Perkins, M.D.

James H. Miller, Jr., M.D. ,

R. Keith Shuler, Jr., M.D.

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

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

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

865-251-0727www.SoutheasternRetina.com

4 Knoxville Offices to Serve YouAs well as offices in: Oak Ridge, Maryville, Harriman, Sevierville, Crossville, Morristown, Cleveland,

Chattanooga, Dalton, GA, Rome, GA, Kingsport, Johnson City, Bristol, Abingdon, VA.

Experience Expertise Excellence

Providing comprehensive Retina Care in East Tennessee for over 35 years. Nationally recognized as the

Most Experienced Retina Team in East Tennessee.

The Only Fellowship-Trained Medical and Surgical Retina Specialists in the Region

Diseases and Surgery of the Retina and Vitreous

Diabetic RetinopathyRetinal Vein and Artery OcclusionFlashes and Floaters

the most common diabetic eye diseaseDiabetic Retinopathy:

Diabetic retinopathy is a common complication

of diabetes and is a leading cause of preventable blindness among American adults. Approximately 45 percent of diabetics will de-velop some form of diabetic eye disease. The good news is that pre-ventative measures and current treatments can help keep your vi-sion clear and bright.

Diabetic retinopathy is caused by changes in the blood vessels of the retina. As the disease pro-gresses, these blood vessels can become damaged. When these vessels are damaged, they prevent parts of the retina from receiving blood and nutrients. This damage to the normal blood vessels can in turn lead to the growth of abnor-mal blood vessels or to leakage of fl uid into the central retina.

One major way diabetes can cause vision loss is through leak-age of fl uid into the central retina. Normally, the retina helps trans-form light entering the eye into a clear picture seen in the brain. The macula is the highly sensitive area of the retina that is responsible for our sharp, central vision. Fluid buildup in the macula, known as macular edema, can cause grad-ual and painless vision loss. Main-taining good blood sugar control is critical as it can help delay the onset of fl uid buildup. However, at

least 30 percent of patients with diabetes for more than 20 years have some macular edema. Fortu-nately, regular eye exams and early treatment can halt the progression of the disease and help maintain good vision in most patients.

Physician researchers are cur-rently working to improve treat-ments for complications of dia-betic retinopathy. The Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR) is the nation’s leading diabetic research pro-gram and coordinates the efforts of over 110 diabetic retinal disease centers in the U.S. Southeastern Retina Associates is East Tennes-see’s only DRCR center and has been nationally recognized by the DRCR for excellence in their re-search efforts. The National Insti-tute of Health and the DRCR work in tandem advancing medical re-search of diabetes-induced retinal disorders.

For the last two years, South-eastern Retina Knoxville, also ser-vicing Maryville, Oak Ridge, Se-vierville, Morristown, Harriman and Crossville, has won the top site award. “This level of clinical excellence for our patients is im-portant for Southeastern Retina and we are honored to receive this award,” said Dr. Stephen Perkins.

Nonproliferative diabet-ic retinopathy (NPDR), also

known as background retinopa-thy, is diabetic retinopathy in the early stages, characterized by tiny blood vessels in the retina leaking blood or fl uid. The retina can swell due to this leakage and form de-posits called exudates. Mild NPDR is common among people with diabetes and usually does not af-fect their vision. When vision is af-fected, it is due to macular edema (swelling or thickening of the mac-ula) or macular ischemia (closing of small blood vessels, causing vi-sion to blur).

Proliferative diabetic reti-nopathy (PDR) is growth of new, abnormal blood vessels on the sur-face of the retina or optic nerve as a healing response to the widespread closure of the normal retinal blood vessels. Unfortunately, the new blood vessels do not resupply the retina with normal blood fl ow, and they may be accompanied by scar tissue which may cause wrinkling or detachment of the retina. PDR may cause more severe vision loss than NPDR because it can affect both central and peripheral vi-sion. PDR may lead to vision loss from vitreous hemorrhage (blood leaking into the clear, gel-like sub-stance that fi lls the eye), traction retinal detachment (scar tissue wrinkling or pulling the retina out of position, causing visual distor-tion), or neovascular glaucoma (ab-normal blood vessel growth in the

iris and drainage channels in front of the eye, causing pressure in the eye and possible damage to the op-tic nerve).

Diagnosis and treatmentA medical eye exam is the best

way to check for changes inside your eye. Those with Type 1 dia-betes should schedule an eye exam with an eye doctor within fi ve years of being diagnosed. Those with Type 2 diabetes should have an exam at the time of diagnosis. Pregnant women with diabetes should have an exam in the fi rst trimester, because retinopathy can progress quickly during preg-nancy. The frequency of follow-ups aimed at early detection and treat-ment of problems – ideally even before vision loss has occurred – will be determined by your doctor.

There are several treatments for retinopathy including tradi-tional therapies like laser and vit-rectomy surgery. Newer therapy focuses on injections of medicine into the eye. A major breakthrough has been the development of anti-VEGF medication which can stop the growth of abnormal blood ves-sels and reverse vessel leakage.

Know the symptoms of DME.

■ Blurred vision

■ Straight lines that look crooked

■ Dark spots or “fl oaters” in the line of vision

■ Washed out colors

What are the risk factors for DME? The major risk factors for DME are:

■ The severity of a patient’s dia-betic retinopathy

■ How long a person has had dia-betes

■ High blood sugar

■ High blood pressure

■ High lipid levels

How to help reduce the risk of DME. The best way to reduce the risk of DME is to control the diabetes by doing the following:

■ Make sure blood sugar levels are within target range every day

■ Use diabetes medicine as direc-tor by a healthcare professional

■ Eat nutritious foods in modera-tion, and exercise regularly to maintain a healthy weight

■ Keep blood pressure in a normal range

■ Don’t smoke

■ See an eye doctor at least once a year for a dilated eye exam

Southeastern Retina will con-tinue to participate in research for diabetes-related retinal diseases and will be actively involved in up-coming clinical trials to help offer the best treatments for the Knox-ville area community.