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By Jake Mabe

One of his children asked Phil Peek last month what he wanted for Christ-mas. He had a simple, special request:

“I want the family together.” When you hear what happened to

him last April 16, you’ll understand. That Saturday morning, Peek

headed to a meeting, was hit by a sud-den coughing fi t and passed out while driving on Chert Pit Road (between Middlebrook Pike and Ball Camp).

“As the song says, Jesus took the wheel,” Peek says, “and took me across the lane, through two yards and brought me in contact with a big tree.”

Peek, who is a former teacher at Halls High School, was rushed to UT Hospital. The ambulance drivers told him later they thought they were going to lose him. His vital signs were not good.

“I had 17 fractures in my ribs, two bones broken in my right hand and abdominal bleeding they thought would take care of itself.”

Doctors told Peek’s wife, Linda, that he should be going home by the following Friday. But by Thursday, Peek’s bowels and kidneys were shut-ting down.

Surgery the next morning discov-ered three sections of dead bowel. Peek says his body became septic and

he had to undergo 38 days of dialysis. He also began suffering from acute

respiratory distress syndrome and spent the next fi ve weeks in the acute care in-tensive care unit.

“During those fi ve weeks my lungs col-lapsed three times.”

At one point, Peek’s blood pres-sure dropped to

40/20. The doctors told Linda they’d done everything they could do.

Peek was placed on an oscillat-ing bed to keep his lungs open. He remembers nothing from that fi ve-week period.

“And then my part of the story is the Lord stepped in.”

He was fi nally placed in a private room but could not walk. But, one week after leaving ICU, Peek sud-denly began to improve. He no longer needed dialysis treatments. (He had previously been told he might have to undergo dialysis for six months to a year.)

Sent to the Patricia Neal Reha-bilitation Center for three weeks, he slowly but surely began to learn how to walk again.

“When the therapist told me

Phil Peek’s miracle all the things I’d be doing (using a walker, being able to use the rest room unassisted), I laughed. I didn’t think it would be possible. In my mind, Patricia Neal is a miraculous place, an incredible place.”

He went home June 28. In October, Peek went to his cardi-

ologist for tests. He underwent a tilt table procedure and passed out when nitroglycerin was placed under his tongue.

“The test showed the signal that prevents low heart rate wasn’t getting from my brain to my heart. I needed a pacemaker.”

Hence the coughing fi t that pre-ceded his accident.

“God worked a miracle in my life. He has been so good to me. I’ve had many opportunities to share my story and praise Him for sparing my life.”

Peek fi nished his rehabilitation at Knoxville Orthopedic Center on Emory Road. Friends held a benefi t singing for him at Callahan Road Baptist Church on July 22. He’d set a goal to be able to get up on stage and sing at the benefi t. He needed a walker, but he did it. He sang re-cently at several events with his quartet, New Heights.

“I didn’t know if I’d ever sing

RUS loan is$4.9 million

By Greg Householder

The Hallsdale Powell Utility District will bor-row $4.983 million from the federal Rural Utility Services agency.

The commissioners voted unanimously to take out the loan at last week’s meeting.

Proceeds from the 38-year loan will be used to replace water lines and develop storage within the system for fi re protection and to address pressure

issues in the utility’s 500-plus miles of water lines.

Loans from RUS protect the utility from annexation by the city as long as the loan is outstanding. The utility has four outstanding RUS loans at interest rates of 3.75 percent or lower.

CEO Darren Cardwell confi rmed that former HPUD commissioner Sandra Liford has been hired as the utility’s Hu-man Resources and Public Relations manager. She will be responsible for updating employee policies and pro-cedures to comply with any law changes, updating job

Liford joins HPUD staff To page A-3

titles and descrip-tions and creating job levels, and develop-ing an evaluation program.

She will also

develop wage levels for different positions, look at the feasibility of developing a bill assistance program, develop a curriculum to educate children and adults about the water utility industry and aid teachers with a curriculum that will assist them in teaching the ins and outs of the water and wastewater business.

Her duties will include customer communications, employee development training and evaluations and other duties that may be assigned.

Liford resigned from the board of commissioners on Sept. 19 of last year. She was previously an admin-istrator with Knox County Schools.

In other business, Cardwell reported that the utility set 14 water meters in December and conducted six sewer con-nection inspections. The utility treated 212.3 million gallons of water and 351.9 million gallons of wastewa-ter for the month.

The board re-elected

its current offi cers – Jim Hill, chair; Kevin Julian, secretary; and Robert Crye, treasurer.

The board declared fi ve vehicles surplus and instructed Cardwell to sell them at auction.

The board also approved a debt management policy, a requirement from the state comptroller’s offi ce.

The board approved pay requests to Insituform Technologies for $299,999 for work on the sanitary sewer rehabilitation project and $84,229 to Merkel Brothers for State Route 33 project work.

The board will meet next at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13.

Chick-fi l-A coming

to Emory Road

By Sandra Clark

Construction will start soon for a new Chick-fi l-A restaurant on Emory Road across from Tennova’s North Knoxville Medical Center. “Weather permitting, we’ll break ground next week,” said franchise owner Greg Jones.

Jones expects to hire at least 50 individuals to staff the restaurant, open six days a week but closed on Sundays. He also will bring some em-ployees from his restaurant at 6564 Clinton Highway.

This store will be the “biggest and the best” in the Chick-fi l-A chain, Jones said.

The restaurant will feature an earth tone color scheme and a beverage refresh station in the dining area. The drive-thru will allow multi-orders so traffi c moves faster, and the kitchen will have the latest technology.

Jones said this store, along with one now under construc-tion in Bearden, will test a service model in which the customer orders and pays, then is seated and a staff member brings the food to the table.

The Bearden store, located near Kroger in the Homberg area, should open at the end of April, according to Mar-shall Wilkins, franchise own-er of the stores at Kingston Overlook and Turkey Creek.

While the recession has not been great for business, Wilkins said it’s not been devastating for Chick-fi l-A, probably because the business is positioned between true fast-food and a casual dining restaurant.

The Knoxville area has 11 Chick-fi l-A restaurants and eight franchise owners.

“Don’t try to sell customers (something) as much as take care of them. You’ll be OK,” Wilkins said. See more of his remarks to the Fountain City Business and Professional As-sociation on Page A-5.

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Phil Peek

to Heiskell seniorsBy Ruth White

Knox County Law Director Joe Jarret stopped by to visit the senior adults in Heiskell and shared many useful tips on trav-eling safely overseas.

Jarret is a former active duty U. S. Army Armored Cavalry of-fi cer and former U. S. Air Force special agent with service over-seas.

His tips were practical but often not thought of until it is too late. Following Jarret’s sug-gestions can make traveling go more smoothly and also help ensure proper medical care in case of emergency.

The fi rst step for senior trav-elers who suffer from serious health problems is to consult a physician before visiting a for-eign country. Once the doctor gives a good bill of health and

Joan Barker and Linda Forrester share a laugh and a hug before the kick off of the

monthly Heiskell Seniors meeting. Photo by Ruth WhiteTo page A-2

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Men’s Banquet at 7 p.m. Sat-urday, Jan. 21, on the cam-pus of Crown College. An open house is 6-7 p.m.

In order to get an idea of a head count – more than 1,000 usually attend – free tickets are being offered. To get a ticket, call 689-4741.

The Faithful Men’s Ban-quet kicks off the Faithful Men’s Conference which will run through Jan. 25. Dr. Robert Bakss will speak at the banquet.

Project ■

Graduation returns After taking last year off,

Project Graduation is back at Powell High School.

At last week’s PBPA meeting, Chris Ogle made the pitch for the program. Project Graduation keeps newly minted high school graduates safe and sound on graduation night.

Ah, those days – on my graduation night a long time ago and in a galaxy far, far away, I graduated, went to dinner with my parents, linked up with a buddy short-ly before midnight and drove all night to Myrtle Beach, S.C., arriving as the sun came up over the Atlantic.

Probably not the smart-est thing to do after being up all day and there were some hair-raising moments when a group of girls we were trav-eling with needed to get gas for their van at an all-night truck stop. The young ladies had been “fl irting” with a bunch of lonely truckers via the C.B. radio and, well, you can guess the rest.

Project Graduation is a good thing. It keeps kids safe in a supervised envi-ronment and prevents those awful tragedies we all too frequently read about the morning after graduation.

So if you can help, call Chris or his wife, Gina, at 947-9464 or 300-3464, or shoot them an email at ogle-bunch@frontiernet.net.

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the Ogles …Chris and Gina’s son, An-

drew, senior All State cross-country and track athlete of Powell High School, has verbally committed to run for Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Congratulations Andrew, Chris and Gina!Currently, the boys plan

to wear plain white T-shirts with the words “Powell Bas-ketball” on them.

If you can help, call Ron at 556-5969.

Mark Padgett ■

speaks to PBPAFormer mayoral candi-

date Mark Padgett spoke to the Powell Business and Professional Association last week.

You can fi nd my story about Mark on Page 5.

In other business, the PBPA approved its 2012 budget of $21,897.82 – about four grand less than last year’s.

Dues notices have gone out and are due Feb. 15. The PBPA’s next meeting is at noon Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the Jubilee Banquet Facility.

Diane Wilkerson, the 2011 PBPA Woman of the Year and future Lions Club District 12N district gov-ernor, will be the Business Spotlight in February. She will be talking about the Powell Lions Club.

Faithful Men’s ■

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Knox County Law Director Joe Jarret chats with Jake Halley at the monthly Heiskell Senior meet-ing. Jarret spoke to the group and shared overseas travel tips. Photo by Ruth White

the OK to travel, other steps should be taken to help the trip run smoothly.

Several questions to ask the doctor include food in-teractions with medication, readjusting regimen when traveling across time zones and checking that vaccina-tions are up-to-date.

For people regularly tak-ing medications, being pre-pared is important. For dai-ly medications, make sure there is enough on hand for the trip. Medications may

not always be available in other countries or are car-ried under different trade names. When packing med-ication, use the original la-beled bottle and do not pack prescriptions in checked luggage. Jarret also advises carrying your doctor’s con-tact information in case of emergency.

Seniors using medica-tions that contain narcotics should get a certifi cation from their doctor before traveling. Some medica-

tions are considered illegal and may not clear customs without proper identifi ca-tion and certifi cation.

Those individuals with allergies or unique medi-cal problems should wear a medical alert bracelet or carry a medical alert card at all times.

Traveling safely overseas may take some extra work on the front end, but can help make the actual event run smoothly and with little interruption.

Jarret off ers travel tips From page 1

Jubilee to host personal safety seminar The Jubilee Banquet Fa-

cility will host Tom Patire, one of America’s leading personal safety experts, as he presents a safety seminar for parents and kids from 6

to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26. Cost is $45 per family (two parents and one child) and $10 per additional child. It is open for children age 5 and up.

The seminar is sponsored by the Knoxville Tiger Rock Tae Kwon Do Academy. To reserve your spot, call 922-0826.

‘Ghost Bird’ intrigues

Sierra ClubBy Wendy Smith

A rare bird born in 1938 had members of the Sierra Club on the edge of their seats last week.

Ijams Nature Center naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales told the story, which is in his book “Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Wood-pecker, 1935-1941.” Tanner,

who passed away in 1991, taught at UT for 32 years. His widow, Nan-cy, helped Bales with the book.

The story of “Sonny

Boy” began on March 6, 1938, when Tanner, 24, was researching the nearly-ex-tinct woodpecker. He’d been watching a pair of birds car-ing for a baby in a nest at the top of a 55-foot red maple in Louisiana and decided to try to tag the nestling.

It took him days to peg the tree so he could climb it quickly while the parents were away. When the op-portunity arose, he scaled the tree and tagged the bird. Then the startled baby jumped out of its nest.

It landed unharmed at the bottom of the tree, and Tanner snapped the only known photos of a young ivory-billed woodpecker. He returned the bird to its nest and named him “Sonny Boy.” Six pictures were pub-lished.

In 2009, when Bales had almost completed his manuscript, Nancy Tanner discovered eight additional photos of “Sonny Boy.”

Smithsonian Magazine published the photos, along with an article by Bales, in September 2010.

The Sierra Club meets at 7 p.m. each second Tuesday at Tennessee Valley Unitar-ian Church, 2931 Kingston Pike.

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By Jake Mabe

Whoever said there are no second acts in Ameri-can life never met Betty Sue Sparks.

Sparks retired in 2004 af-ter a long and distinguished career with Knox County Schools. She began teaching special ed at Christenberry School in 1969 and, after working with several feder-al programs, became prin-cipal at Knoxville Adaptive Educational School in 1981. She served as principal at three other schools before being named elementary supervisor and retiring as the school system’s director of human resources.

And then she got to do something she says she’d al-ways wanted to do. In 2005, Sparks became executive di-rector of the Distinguished Professionals Education In-stitute, initially a three-year program piloted in Knox

County Schools through which professionals are trained to become adjunct teachers in critical short-age areas, such as physics or foreign language.

“We knew we had a lot of talent in Knoxville and the surrounding area,” Sparks told the Fontinalis Club at Central Baptist Church of Fountain City last week. “But we had one little prob-lem. You can’t teach in the state of Tennessee without a teaching license.”

Sparks worked initially with Barry Goss, chair and chief executive offi cer of Pro2Serve; Gordon Fee, who at that time worked at Lock-heed Martin; as well as with Lynn Cagle and Homer Fish-er from UT. The state Depart-ment of Education agreed to issue an adjunct teaching license to professionals who met certain criteria.

Starting small, the group

Longtime Knox County

Schools educator Betty Sue

Sparks speaks to the Fontinalis

Club at Central Baptist Church

of Fountain City last week

about the Distinguished Pro-

fessionals Education Institute,

which recruits professionals

to teach hard-to-staff classes

in Knox County Schools. Photo by Jake Mabe

Program puts mid-career professionals into the classroomalgebra and a Navy retiree who’d attended Austin-East High School to teach physics.

“And he had stories to tell,” Sparks said. “When you have people with back-ground experience who are enthusiastic, good things happen in the classroom.”

Applicants must have a master’s degree or a bache-lor’s degree with 24 semester hours in the teaching fi eld or their related fi eld, fi ve years of work experience and un-dergo 50 contact hours of pre-service preparation, as well as background checks, the Gallup Teacher Insight (which looks for potential classroom performance ability) as well as complet-ing Praxis tests in con-tent area and principles of training and learning. The adjunct license is available for certain courses in math, physics, chemistry and for-eign language, as well as for

special courses like crimi-nal justice, diesel mechan-ics and health science.

“We even had a retired judge who taught criminal justice,” Sparks says. “She didn’t have any disciplinary problems in the classroom!”

Professionals are pro-vided with a mentor teacher and are evaluated.

“We think we’ve made a huge benefi t and impact,” Sparks says. Students have been able to take courses that would not otherwise have been available. Plus, three Distinguished Pro-fessionals who Sparks says were “mid-career folks” went back to school to ob-tain a teaching license and are now in the classroom full time. Several retired teachers have also returned to the classroom.

From its initial three-year pilot, the program as of last spring has served more

than 2,400 students and is expanding to other school districts throughout the state thanks to a First to the Top grant.

Sparks, who remains on the Distinguished Profes-sionals board of directors, is now the Cornerstone Prin-cipal in Residence at the UT Center for Educational Leadership. She helps over-see the Knox County School System’s Leadership Acad-emy, which recruits and trains future principals.

“It’s great to see the en-thusiasm of aspiring lead-ers,” Sparks says. “I also work with the new admin-istrators. They all work so hard. They really do.”

For more information on the Distinguished Professionals Education Institute, visit www.dpteach.com or email executive director Bob Thomas at bobthomas1@comcast.net.

recruited an engineer and stay-at-home mom to teach

Phil Peek’sFrom page A-1

Harmony Show Chorus sets open houseKnoxville’s Smoky Mountain Harmony Show Chorus, a member of Sweet Ade-

lines International, invites women of all ages to enjoy an evening of free refresh-ments, a mini-concert, fun and socializing at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, at the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (rear entrance), 6900 Nubbin Ridge Road.

Sweet Adelines International is an organization of nearly 25,000 women world-wide who sing four-part a cappella harmony, barbershop style.

The local Show Chorus is comprised of women from all walks of life who per-form regularly throughout the community, offering their talents for entertainment at civic events and charitable functions. Members share a love for music and the exhilaration of performing and the enjoyment of singing.

Info: www.smokymnharmony.org or 521-6975.

again, with all those tubes in my throat and a collapsed lung.”

He’ll need surgery soon for a hernia but is otherwise fi ne.

Peek taught for 13 years at Halls High in special ed and as a CDC-A teacher. He

was on staff at Black Oak Heights Baptist Church for 9 1/2 years.

As for what his future holds?

“Right now we’re just seeking God’s will. Our lives are in God’s hands. What-ever He wants for us to do, we’ll go and do.”

He’s been overwhelmed by kindnesses. The Callahan

Road Baptist benefi t raised $13,000. People brought food, prayed and sent about 800 cards and letters.

Oh, and the Peeks re-ceived one other special Christmastime gift, too. Last December, Phil and Linda celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

“God has really blessed us.”

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Remember that your body uses fat to store toxins, and the fat will be released only when there are acceptable nutrients available and there’s not much toxic waste

coming in that needs to be stored. One more issue to consider is that the thyroid often slows the metabo-lism in the state of toxicity, because allowing your metabolic rate to rise as it should with exercise means burning fat, which means the liver is again faced with metabolic toxins that may harm your body. So once again you can see that if you don’t eliminate the toxins in your system, your body will not allow the thyroid to increase the metabolism for fear that it will lose the fat, which helps eliminate and store the toxins.

To help you assess your own digestive system in a very basic way, I offer two things for you to identify if you have an elimination problem. First, you should be having at least two and preferably three bowel movements per day. Second, you need to have an idea of what your

transit time is. Your transit time is the time it takes for the food to leave your body after you put it in your mouth.

The easiest way to test transit time is to eat approximately one cup of beets and note the time that you ate them. Because of their red color you can then identify when the beets are eliminated in your stool.

Ideally, you should first see the red color of the beets show up in ap-proximately 16 hours (transit time) with the last sign of them showing up in approximately 50-72 hours (retention time). If it’s outside these parameters, you may be having a digestive problem and may benefit from seeking further professional help. Remember, you must excrete your waste in a timely fashion in order to keep your metabolism work-ing and in order to keep your weight under control.

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Writing for a newspaper is not an occupation given over to sentimentality. The beat least likely to bring out the warm and fuzzy side of a reporter is government with its assortment of the good, the bad and the ugly, so I was unprepared for my own feelings about writing my last column for the Shopper-News. It’s harder to say goodbye than I had imagined.

I’ve always considered “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,” a Douglas Adams book, to bear one of the more memorable and inventive titles in fi ction. I’ve never writ-ten about space-faring dolphins in this column, and if a reader ever sent me fi sh, they got lost in the mail. I have written a couple of times about my time machine, but there’s nothing especially fi shy about time travel, or so Stephen Hawking says.

And we all experience time travel every day, steadily moving forward in time, like it or not. Just a few weeks ago in this column I quoted Satchel Paige’s advice about not looking back. But with all due respect to the legendary Paige, I’d like to take a brief glance in the rearview mirror.

I started as a stringer for the Shopper-News nearly six years ago. What I didn’t know about newspaper reporting could have fi lled several hefty volumes. Who knows why, but our publisher, Sandra Clark, thought I might be worth a tryout.

I soon learned the difference between a writer and a news-paper reporter. Time after time, Sandra trimmed and shaped my 1,000 word essays into stories half the size with twice the merit. Never underestimate the power of a great editor to make a reporter sound a lot smarter than he really is.

Jake Mabe was also there as a mentor and a friend. There are less stressful occupations than newspaper re-porting, and Jake’s door was always open when I needed a sympathetic ear. (And have I mentioned Jake does a fantastic Elvis impersonation?)

There are many people to thank. Shannon Carey’s success on the advertising side of the newspaper has kept us all employed. Carol Springer in graphics and composi-tion taught me a thing or two about using a camera. Judy Tharpe has forgotten more about Associated Press style than I’ll ever know. Emily Schoen and Sara Barrett fi ll so many varied but indispensable roles that I can’t come close to naming them all.

And then there are the writers. I learn something about this trade every time I read a column by Betty Bean. Wen-dy Smith’s polished style has become the voice of Bearden. Greg Householder, steady as a rock, is the face of Powell. Any newspaper would be proud to host the inimitable Marvin West, and Lynn Hutton remains a reader favorite.

Anne Hart was featured writer for our “30 years in 30 weeks” history of the town of Farragut and performed magnifi cently. Regular feature writers Dr. Jim Tumblin, Dr. Bob Collier and Malcolm Shell always bring some-thing interesting to the table.

Through good times and bad, the raison d’être for this column has been the people involved in local government I reported on. For the most part, I had fun, even when the actors in the current drama (or comedy) didn’t.

The waning years of former Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s administration provided a steady stream of events and characters begging to be parodied. I was lucky enough to be a witness. Along the way I crammed in some investigative reporting and was honored for my work by the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists.

Covering County Commission or the Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen were rarely boring assignments. Most commissioners sooner or later became victims of my curmudgeonly take on events, yet nearly all treated me with remarkable kindness over the years.

Finally, I thank the readers. Even those who disagreed with me typically did so cordially.

It’s been a great ride. OK, Sandra, edit away.Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

Who says you can’t look back?

Kim Trent and Larry Cox stood in the rain in the Oakwood Elemen-tary School parking lot and looked as grim as the weather while they awaited County Mayor Tim Bur-chett’s press conference.

Knox Heritage director Kim Trent and former City Council member Larry Cox stand in the Oakwood School parking lot. Photo by Betty Bean

Clock ticking on Oakwood

Like everybody else there, Cox, a former City Council member, and Trent, the executive direc-tor of Knox Heritage, knew the score: unless an angel developer materializes within 30 days with a plan and the wherewithal to save the nearly-100-year-old building, it’s going to meet the wrecking ball.

When Burchett spoke, he sounded regretful, but said the condition of the abandoned building, one wing of which was used as a supply depot before Knox County Schools handed it over to the county’s gener-al government a little more than a year ago, is forcing his hand.

“It’s a shame we don’t take better care of our property,” Burchett said.

He introduced Jon Gus-tin, a professional pho-tographer and manager of E-Government Services in Knox County’s Office of Information Technology, who ventured inside the condemned building the week before to document its condition. The pictures are stark, and show caved-in roofs and ceilings, col-lapsing f loors, and general decay. Gustin described encountering exposed asbestos, rot and rodent droppings.

Cox said he’s not surprised by Burchett’s decision.

“I sponsored a resolu-tion asking the school sys-tem to do something with the building the last year I was in office.”

Cox, who left City Coun-cil in December 2003, at-tended Oakwood Elemen-tary, along with 20 relatives including his parents, chil-dren, siblings and cousins.

Trent is still holding onto a sliver of hope.

“Just another day at the office,” she said.

She has made a life’s work of preserving build-ings like Oakwood, which has been near the top of Knox Heritage’s “Frag-ile 15” list of endangered structures for years.

“A roof on this building 15 years ago would have

stopped this from happen-ing,” she said. She believes the building still could be converted to residential use or housing for senior citizens.

“I spoke with a develop-er yesterday who is willing to talk about saving this iconic structure.”

County Commissioner Amy Broyles, who lives a few blocks from Oakwood,

said she’s sad about what’s happened to Oakwood, but, like Trent, is keeping hope alive. She also said she finds it difficult to criticize the school system.

“It’s hard to justify spending money on an empty building when we are laying off teachers and struggling to main-tain classrooms that are in use,” she said.

Since Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday is today, it is a time to recognize how far we have come with more to do in terms of ensuring equal opportunity for all.

I grew up in a segregated

A time to refl ect

Tennesssee. I recall the ef-forts which then-Mayor John Duncan made to integrate local lunch counters in the ’60s. Duncan does not re-ceive the credit he deserves for those moves, including traveling to the headquar-ters of national chain stores to urge service to all custom-ers at lunch counters.

Nevertheless, it is a time when we should refl ect and recommit to ending any re-maining vestiges of discrim-ination as we enter the sec-ond decade of this century.

Last week when I wrote about the Republican lean-ings of the proposed Harry Tindell district, I had un-

derstood that Rocky Hill and Deane Hill Recreation Center voting precincts would be part of the Tindell district. If that had been true, then Tindell faced major hurdles winning re-election as a Democrat.

However, I have since learned those two pre-cincts are going to Steve Hall, whose district is al-ready safely Republican and now becomes more so. However, when it comes to redistricting, nothing is fi-nal until the bill becomes law and survives the likely court challenge.

Tindell is actually a very credible and knowledgeable state lawmaker who is com-pleting 20 years in Nashville. He is also very quiet and sel-dom in the news. He is prob-ably the least visible of all local lawmakers, although he comes from a long estab-lished Democratic family. His father is Billy Tindell, a long-time county commissioner.

The proposed new dis-trict is more of a tossup. Tindell, if he chooses to run, will not be able to wage his normal quiet campaign. Republicans will come with a candidate. The nominee of either par-

ty has a shot at winning.Statewide, it may not

matter who President Obama faces in the general election as he is unlikely to win Tennessee. At www.fec.gov you can see who gave to all the presidential candidates by zip code and in the entire state. Through September 2011, Obama had raised $270,139 in Tennessee while Repub-lican presidential candi-dates had raised $987,517 in the same period – al-most a 4-to-1 advantage.

Statewide as of three and a half months ago, Mitt Rom-ney had raised $386,330, fol-lowed closely by Texas Gov. Rick Perry at $347,176 (when the new fi gures come in, the difference will be much wid-er in Romney’s favor). Third up was U.S. Rep. Ron Paul at $98,260.

However, if this is nar-rowed down to zip codes that begin with 379, most of Knox County, then Obama raised $22,147 in this pe-riod while the combined Republican presidential candidates raised $125,618 (or a disparity of 6-to-1).

Most of the well-known local Democrats were not on the Obama donor list. In fact,

the single largest donor in Knox County was Julie Miller who gave $1,660 in 19 sepa-rate donations. She is listed as a UT library employee.

The best known Obama donors were Jon Roach, for-mer city law director and husband of KUB chief Min-tha Roach, for $1,000; for-mer federal magistrate Rob-ert Murrian for $300; and Anne Woodle, former school board member and close friend/supporter of Mayor Madeline Rogero, at $350. Also listed at $1,000 each are Judith Burnette and Dr. Lewis Harris Jr.

The recent disclo- ■

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If the politicians talking about job creation would get quiet and listen to Mar-shall Wilkins, it would be an hour well spent.

Eat Mor Chikin

By Greg Householder

Former Knoxville mayor-al candidate Mark Padgett

made his fi rst public appearance since his de-feat in last November’s election at the hands of Madeline Rogero last Tuesday at

the Powell Business and Professional Association.

Padgett joked about his ap-pearance being his fi rst since his loss by telling the Powell business leaders, “The calls to speak dry up after you lose.”

Padgett was there as the guest speaker to talk about his experiences that he touted during the campaign of build-ing a business with “$5,000 and a borrowed laptop.”

He told the group of his ear-ly life growing up in Lonsdale and how as a kid he started a T-shirt business where he sold painted shirts. He described the process as using a brush and a knife – “In Lonsdale, you had a knife” – to splatter the paint on the shirts.

He talked of the infl uence of athletics on him as a young-ster. After tearing his ACL in his senior year in high school, he developed a product relat-ed to knee injuries. His father set him up to present the idea to Pete DeBusk of DeRoyal In-dustries. Padgett was only 17 years old.

“Do whatever you do be-cause you love it,” DeBusk told him.

Padgett told the group of his time working for former Gov. Phil Bredesen. It was while working for Bredesen that he got the idea for his company

– eGovernment Solutions – because of the ineffi ciencies he saw and the fact that, at the time, no county in the state of-fered online services.

Padgett had some ad-vice for the Powell business group: “Have your fi rst client lined up before you begin.” He also talked about using peer groups and mentors and about staying power in the market place.

The former mayoral can-didate took questions from the fl oor and when asked about his future political ambitions he answered, “I was raised in a family in-volved in public service. I’m not looking for the next open seat but I think we changed the conversation.”

He alluded to the fact that one of the fi rst appointments of the Rogero administration, entrepreneur Eddie Mannis,

Mark Padgett is back in the saddle

Padgett

Chick-fi l-A franchise owner

Marshall Wilkins (right) talks

with John Fugate, board mem-

ber of the Fountain City BPA

and branch manager of Com-

mercial Bank. Photo by S. ClarkWilkins spoke to a

standing room only crowd at Fountain City Business and Professional Associa-tion last week. There were folks from Halls and West Knoxville in addition to the usual suspects.

“My boss sent me to ask you one thing: When is Chick-fi l-A coming to Halls?” asked one.

Wilkins said a new res-

taurant will open this spring on Emory Road between Halls and Powell and “that’s about as close to Halls as you’ll get.”

He said the Atlanta-based chicken chain’s studies have pegged Halls as a place “where everybody leaves dur-ing the day and comes back at night.” That makes for a great dinner crowd but not so much for lunch, when Chick-fi l-A typically does heavy volume.

Wilkins also disclosed that negotiations are in progress for a location in Fountain City, but “nothing’s offi cial yet.”

Wilkins is the owner of Chick-fi l-A restaurants in Turkey Creek and Kingston. The company has 11 fran-chises in the Knoxville area with eight different owners, he said.

The Chick-fi l-A philoso-

phy is amazing. We’re all about creating “raving fans,” Wilkins said. And he quickly defi ned the term: Raving fans are those who eat with Chick-fi l-A often, tell others about the restaurant and are willing to pay full price.

“We’re not in the chicken business, serving people,” he said. “We’re in the people business, serving chicken.”

The restaurant works to build relationships with cus-tomers, using good food, en-gaged employees and those crazy cows you see on TV and billboards urging folks to “eat mor chikin.”

When the recession hit, Wilkins said Chick-fi l-A de-cided to become more of who we are rather than trying to become something else. “Sales will come and profi ts will come if you focus on the right things.”

His was strong, common sense advice that would help any business.

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HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

In a footnote in his book “Life on the Mississip-pi,” Mark Twain quoted

the Associated Press Tele-gram story of Oct. 19, 1882, relating the death of two of Knoxville’s most promi-nent business owners in the prime of their careers to il-lustrate that violence per-sisted in the South 20 years after the Civil War. In less than two minutes, local his-tory was changed forever.

Thomas O’Conner (1836-1882) was the richest person in the state of Tennessee and, some said, the richest in the South. It was said that his in-fl uence in the Tennessee Leg-islature was “overpowering.” His Melrose Estate, which he had purchased from Judge Oliver P. Temple, was among the fi nest in Knox County. Temple’s 20 acres contained the impressive mansion, ex-perimental fl ower and veg-etable gardens, an extensive fruit orchard, and an out-standing collection of orna-mental shrubs and trees. A large farm pond had been expanded and concreted, and a boat house was built to pro-vide a place for O’Conner’s nieces and nephews to swim, boat and fi sh.

Thomas was born in Hali-fax, Va., on Feb. 29, 1836, the son of John and Rebec-ca (Powell) Conner. When Thomas was 16, he and his brother James moved from Virginia to Knoxville and opened the O’Conner Sad-dlery, choosing to use the original Irish version of their name. Thomas was a Knox-ville alderman (1859-60), but soon moved to Atlanta to establish a saddlery there.

When the Civil War began he joined the 1st Geor-gia Regulars (CSA) and served as a sergeant for eight months. He then resigned and returned to Knoxville to help raise a company of light artillery.

He became senior fi rst lieutenant of Kain’s Artillery Battery (CSA). When Capt. William C. Kain, a Knoxville attor-ney, was ordered to serve in various court martial pro-ceedings, O’Conner assumed command. His battery was heavily engaged at Cumber-land Gap when he was cap-tured on Sept. 9, 1863, and imprisoned at Johnson’s Is-land in Lake Erie near San-dusky, Ohio. He spent almost two years there, along with 2,500 other prisoners, and endured the inadequate food and the exceedingly uncom-fortable damp and penetrat-ing cold conditions.

In June 1865, with the war ended, O’Conner swore al-legiance to the U.S. and was granted amnesty. He soon was in business in Atlanta but, in 1870, he returned to Knoxville to marry Fannie Renshaw House (1832-1923). They lived in the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville about half the year and at Melrose in Knox-ville the other half.

His infl uence with the state government enabled him to lease convict labor and to contract for many projects in railroad construction, coal mining and the manufacture of “Tennessee wagons” at a rate of more than 60 a day. His was probably the most popular farm wagon at the

The Melrose mansion. Formerly owned by Judge Oliver P.

Temple, Melrose was among the city’s most elegant man-

sions, surrounded by fl ower and vegetable gardens and rare

shrubs and trees. Photos courtesy C.M. McClung Historical Collection

Thomas O’Conner

(1836-1882). His investments

in railways, mining, manu-

facturing and banking made

O’Conner the richest person

in the state. He was killed in a

Gay Street shootout on

Oct. 19, 1882.

The Gay Street shootout of 1882

time in the South and in the prairie states. He built the Cincinnati Southern Railway from the Cumberland Plateau to Chattanooga and became a major owner of the Tennes-see Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., based in Tracy City. He contracted for road work in Louisiana and, in September 1882, led other Knoxville in-vestors to organize the Me-chanic’s National Bank and became its president. In 1877, he was appointed a trustee of East Tennessee University (predecessor to the Univer-sity of Tennessee).

Joseph Alexander Mabry Jr. (1826-1882) was born to Joseph A. Mabry Sr. and Al-ice Scott Mabry on Jan. 26, 1826, on his father’s farm in west Knox County. He was educated in the Knox County

public schools and at Holston College at New

Market. In 1852, he mar-ried Laura E. Churchwell,

daughter of a prominent lo-cal family. He was a major property owner and devel-oper early in life and, in 1853, he and his brother-in-law William G. Swan gave the city the property for Market Square. He was president of the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad and was quite in-fl uential in Nashville in lob-bying for state support of the railroads. He was appointed a trustee of the East Tennessee University in 1854 and was a member of the State Consti-tutional Convention of 1870.

During the Confederate occupation at the outbreak of the Civil War, Mabry per-sonally offered to equip and clothe many Confederate soldiers from his depot of clothing and tents. With the Federal occupation in late 1863, he declared his loyalty to the Union. His mansion on Mabry Hill off Dandridge Pike in East Knoxville was used as a headquarters for each side during their re-spective occupations.

Mabry’s Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad went into receivership in 1871 and was sold. Other fi nancial diffi cul-ty caused him to reduce his extensive land holdings and

sell many of his fi ne horses.O’Conner and Mabry, as

well as many other prominent businesspeople of the time, were engaged in high stakes gambling, including betting at the horse races at the Old Fairgrounds in South Knox-ville. There were rumors that Mabry’s second mansion at Cold Spring Farm (later called Mount Rest Home), which he had sold to O’Conner in 1880, had been won back in a card game by his son, Will, but that O’Conner reneged on the bet.

Will was shot and killed in a fi ght on Dec. 24, 1881. The grief-stricken father somehow concluded that O’Conner had arranged for Will to be murdered. On Oct. 17, 1882, a visibly in-toxicated Mabry confront-ed O’Conner at the Fair Grounds in South Knox-ville; but O’Conner backed off, saying it was neither the time nor the place to settle their dispute. That evening, Mabry sent O’Conner a mes-sage stating that he would “kill him on sight.”

On the morning of Oct. 19, 1882, O’Conner stepped outside the Mechanics’ Bank and spotted Mabry walking

down Gay Street. O’Conner quickly grabbed a double-barreled shotgun and emp-tied both barrels into Mabry, killing him instantly. Hear-ing the commotion, Joseph Mabry III hurried toward the bank and, upon see-ing his father’s body, drew a pistol and shot O’Conner. As O’Conner fell mortally wounded, he managed to reach inside the bank for an-other shotgun and fi re one fi -nal shot, killing the younger Mabry. Seven bystanders were wounded by stray shotfrom O’Conner’s gun.

Three men lay dead: O’Conner, who was in his prime at only 46 years of age; Mabry, who was only 10 years older; and Mabry’s son, a promising young attorney. The contributions they might have made to the community and to the state were lost in less than two minutes.

Author’s Note: Next month’s article will describe the tragic carriage accident at the gates of the Melrose Estate that claimed the life of two prominent bank-ers while Thomas O’Conner’s widow, Fannie R. O’Conner, and the spouse of one of the bankers survived.

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I collect words like some people collect good jokes.

Find a new one (new to me, at least), and I am fas-cinated with its sounds, its etymology (as my Greek etymology professor at UT explained the defi nition of etymology, “all that non-sense in brackets in the dictionary”), its meaning, its pronunciation, its pos-sible uses and its taste in my mouth.

You never know where a new word will crop up, or when a familiar word will pique your curiosity. In this case, just the other day, it was in the comic section of the daily paper.

I have searched for that

it is fairly common. But in the last frame of the strip, one character pointed out that one should be as cha-lant as possible.

Curiosity bells went off in my head immediately. “Non” clearly means not, as in “nonjudgmental.” So, if “nonchalant” means uncon-cerned, what exactly does “chalant” mean? And is it a word at all? Or was it just a comic strip joke?

I thank God for Noah Webster and his ilk.

Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (the handiest one at the moment) says that “non-chalant” is from the Old French “non” (not) and “chaloir” (to concern), and is defined as “having an air of easy unconcern or indif-ference.”

Well, there you are, then. “Not concerned.”

So, the last frame of the Sunday comic strip must have been a sincere call for caring, for compassion: “We all need to be as chalant as possible.”

Webster’s also points out that the French “chalant” is related to the Latin “cal-ere”: to be warm. As in the opposite of cool. The oppo-site of nonchalance, then, is warmth, compassion, con-cern and caring. In a word, to be chalant.

Remember the rule: the way to make a new word your own is to use it in a sentence, so: God is chalant – warm, compassionate, concerned and caring.

Besides having a beauti-ful meaning, this fabulous word also has a graceful, elegant French sound. It is a lovely word, entirely worth collecting. I am hap-py to have added it to my collection. It may not be used frequently (it might sound pretentious), but it is mine, to use or keep or share.

And it will remind me that Crankshaft (or who-ever it was!) was right. We all need to be as chalant as possible, because this old world can certainly use all the chalance it can fi nd!

Let’s all be ‘chalant’

But you, O Lord, are a Godmerciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

(Psalm 86:15 NRSV)

comic strip in my stacks ready for recycling and can-not fi nd it again. (If anyone out there can fi nd it for me, please let me know!) I think it was “Crankshaft,” of all strips, and a character in the strip had used the word “nonchalant.”

I knew that “noncha-lant” meant casually un-concerned, offhand, cool. No problem with that one;

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Elizabeth Kose, certifi ed “Love and Logic Independent Facilitator,” will discuss the basic principles and phi-losophies behind becoming a Love and Logic parent. A four-week Sunday evening series, beginning Jan. 29, will be offered on the Love and Logic philosophy, techniques and strategies. Sessions will run from 4-6 p.m. in Wesley Hall at FCUMC.

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Teen ChallengeBethany O’Donnell and Joanna Burke do a fundraiser,

spreading public awareness of Knoxville’s Teen Chal-

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and teens overcome addictions and abuse. Photo by T. Ed-wards of TEPHOTOS.com

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food pantry to local families

in need 6-8 p.m. every third

Thursday. Info: 688-5330.

Rec programsBeaver Ridge UMC ■ , 7753

Oak Ridge Highway, will

have a beginner yoga class

6-7 p.m. Mondays in the

family life center. Cost is

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classes. Bring a mat, towel

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class 5:45 p.m. each Monday

for $5. Info: 689-7001.

Women’s programs

Knoxville Day Women’s ■

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hold a 12-week Bible study

9:30 a.m. to noon begin-

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Pike. The subject is “Search

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Workshops and classes

Fairview Baptist Church ■ ,

7424 Fairview Road off

East Emory Road, hosts a

Celebrate Recovery program

7-9 p.m. Thursdays.

New Hope Baptist Church ■ ,

7602 Bud Hawkins Road in

Corryton, hosts Celebrate Re-

covery adult and youth classes

7 p.m. Tuesdays and 12-step

class 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

Info: 688-5330.

Dayspring Church ■ , 901 Cal-

lahan Drive, Suite 109, will off er

Divorce Care classes 6:30 to

8 p.m. on Monday evenings.

There is no charge for the 13-

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Youth programsFirst Lutheran School ■ ,

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COMMUNITY CLUBS

The West Knox Toastmaster ■

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UMC, 7324 Middlebrook Pike.

Now accepting new members.

Info: Ken Roberts, 680-3443.

Best selling author Cyn Mob- ■

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writing query letters 9 a.m. to

noon Saturday, Jan. 28, at the

Redeemer Church of Knox-

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Faubert to speak at KFL

Barbara Faubert will be the guest speaker

for the Knox-ville Fellow-ship Lun-cheon at noon Tues-day,

Jan. 17. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.

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Panther hoops heading into meat of schedule

By Greg Householder

The Powell High School boys and girls basketball teams returned to classes last week and headed into the meat of the 2011-12 schedule.

Last Monday, the boys downed Anderson County 61-50 in a game rescheduled from the previous week due to the newly refi nished fl oor in Jeff Hunter Gymnasium.

The girls knocked off the Mavericks 31-27, also on Monday.

The boys brought a 10-4 overall record and 4-2 dis-trict record into last Tues-day’s home game with Ful-ton. The Falcons proved too much for the Panthers and the boys fell 62-41. Clay Payne led Powell with 14 points and Steven Parsons had 11.

Fulton proved too much for the girls as well. The girls, 8-7 (4-4) going into Tuesday’s game with the Falcons, fell 44-38. Dami-yah Moore led the Panthers

with 13 points and Shea Coker scored 12.

Powell traveled to Karns last Friday. Results of Fri-day’s games were unavail-able at press time.

This week, the Panthers entertain Hardin Valley Academy on Tuesday and host Clinton on Friday. The girls lost to the Hawks 39-18 on Nov. 29, while the boys won 76-49. On Dec. 13, the girls lost to Clinton 43-42 as the boys came away with a 51-41 win over the Dragons.

PHS Project Graduation group seeks funds

By Greg Householder

After a one year hiatus, a group of Powell High School Class of 2012 parents is seeking to revive Project Graduation.

Project Graduation is an all-night lock-in for newly minted high school gradu-ates on graduation night. The kids are provided with plenty of food, drinks, games and activities in a safe, secure and super-vised environment. It is the last official class activ-ity the class will have until its first reunion.

Chris and Gina Ogle are heading up the effort in conjunction with PHS PTA. A group of senior parents met last Tuesday to discuss fundraising ideas.

Tom Householder, store manager of the Home De-pot in Powell and a senior parent, pledged $1,000 in merchandise to get the fundraising effort going.

The group is seeking cash donations or donation in kind of food, soft drinks,

prizes, gift cards or any-thing to help to make the night a memorable one for the new graduates.

This year’s Project Gradu-ation will be held from 10 p.m. May 19 (Graduation Night) until 6 a.m. May 20 at the Jubilee Banquet Facility off Callahan Road. Activities will include karaoke, basket-ball, movies and more.

Individuals or local businesses that would like to donate to Project Gradu-ation should contact Kim Fortner, 385-0223.

The group is also seek-ing chaperones for the night of the event. Parents who would like to help with Proj-ect Graduation should con-tact the Ogles at 947-9464 or 300-3464 or email ogle-bunch@frontiernet.net.

Donations made pay-able to Powell High School Project Graduation may be mailed to Project Gradua-tion, Powell High School, 2136 W. Emory Road, Pow-ell, TN 37849. Responses no later than April 1 will be appreciated.

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How do you explain the amazing turn of events? Was it just a matter of money?

In the beginning, when the new head coach had a six-year contract and a generous budget, it was easy to hire assistants. All he had to do was pick and choose and pay too much.

An ugly ending to two losing seasons, coupled with the hint of regression, created unrest and altered the scene. The result was a surprising number of staff vacancies – and what seemed to be a problem finding replacements.

What if ambitious aides on the way up looked over the “opportunity” and weighed the risks? They might wonder if football time in Tennessee had become precarious.

Dooley deals with dilemma

Big names parked in rock-ing chairs and established as-sistants with good positions were greedy. They wanted more than they could possi-bly be worth. Security. Para-chutes. Pensions.

That combination ap-peared to change the search from who do you want to who can you get.

A few weeks ago, early in the patch-and-repair process, Derek Dooley said hundreds of people want to coach at Tennessee. Or

maybe it was thousands. He could be correct. He certain-ly found some who would accept orange dollars.

Generally speaking, hir-ing assistants is very im-portant but not absolutely critical. If a new guy doesn’t fi t (think Chuck Smith), just make a change. OK, so it hurts feelings but this is big business. The revolving door shakes up recruiting connec-tions but that soon settles if you send in a better man.

This dilemma was dif-ferent. Dooley, whether he knows it or not, is under duress. His Volunteers need to get better in a hur-ry, starting with national signing day, continuing through winter workouts, surging during spring practice and peaking in

September. There is little or no margin for error.

If you think I am kid-ding or overstating the crisis, you are not hearing the same critics who are threatening rebellion. If season ticket sales decline and donations diminish, rock-solid steady Dave Hart might get nervous.

Indeed, there is a mort-gage to pay and a budget to balance.

Hart understands that Dooley, in the beginning, ven-tured into diffi cult circum-stances. That was then. This is now. It might be unfair to demand a certain number of 2012 victories to extend this rehabilitation project but it is not unreasonable to expect improvement.

That completes the circle and brings us back to the cure for nervous indiges-tion. Even under adverse

conditions, it is possible that Dooley has assembled a better staff than he had in the beginning.

Almost certainly, there will be some improvement on the field. The running game just can’t be as bad as it was. In fact, there are talented juniors and soph-omores at several positions who could become all-con-ference players.

Dooley and others have supposedly recruited well, very well, but not as well as key opponents. That par-tially explains why Tennes-see is not gaining ground on the big boys.

The next option is de-velopment – where coach-ing by assistants suddenly becomes very important. There is now reason for op-timism. As developments go, that is amazing.Marvin West invites reader response. His

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By Sandra ClarkGary Weaver has serious

plans for 2012.

“We’re taking customer service to the next level,” he said. “Just getting a hear-ing aid is not the end of the story.

“What happens when our patient goes home?

“Can she hear the smoke detector at night? Can he hear his turn signal while driving? Can she hear the phone ring? The dog bark? The door bell?

“Life involves all sorts of different doors. If you hear something growling behind a door, don’t open it.”

Yes, Gary Weaver talks like this. He’s totally com-mitted to caring for his

patients with both good quality equipment and take-home service.

He determines his pa-tient’s lifestyle and recom-mends appropriate tech-nology to ensure safety for the hearing impaired even when sleeping.

ConnectLine is a range of new devices that link wirelessly to hearing aids, connecting the patients to their cell or landline phone, to music, the computer or the television.

“With ConnectLine, your hearing instruments become a personal wire-less headset,” said Gary. He won’t just send the device home with a patient who has no clue how to use it. He

will program it and demon-strate it until the patient is comfortable with it.

The ConnectLine micro-phone can be worn by the person you’re listening to. Clip it on the lapel of your Sunday School teacher or offer it as a necklace to your dinner companion. The mi-crophone transmits their voices wirelessly to your hearing instrument over a distance of up to 30 feet. It also fi lters out background noise, such as in a restau-rant.

Because the sound is transmitted directly to your ear, the speaker’s voice is not amplifi ed to create dis-turbance for others in the room.

Do you hear the whole picture?NEWS FROM WEAVER HEARING AID CENTER

The television or phone adaptor streams clear sound to the patient’s hear-ing instrument without the echo or lip synch problems of standard Bluetooth, Gary said. The adaptors have a range up to 30 feet. You can listen to programs at the patient’s preferred volume while the family listens at theirs.

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“We want to be consul-tants who are concerned about what’s going on when you’re not wearing your hearing aids. Our point of focus this year is to help pa-tients live life to the fullest, 24 hours a day. To help them hear the whole picture.”

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By Alvin Nance

The Boy Scouts’ website states: “Being a Cub Scout means you are a mem-ber of a worldwide youth move-ment that

stands for certain values and beliefs. Cub Scouting is more than something to do. It’s all about the boy you are and the person you will become.”

As chair of the Chehote District of the Boy Scouts of America, Great Smoky Mountain Council, I am honored to be involved in work that is helping build

future leaders. A recent service project is a good example of the value of scouting.

About a dozen Cub Scouts who live in our Walter P. Taylor neighbor-hood recently gave up their Saturday morning to give back to our commu-nity in a meaningful and lasting way. The Scouts, who were 1st through 5th graders, planted about 30 dogwood trees at The Residences at Eastport, KCDC’s new housing com-plex for seniors.

The trees were donated by the Dogwood Arts Festival, and KCDC was also happy to support the effort. In addition to providing breakfast, KCDC Residences at East-

port property manager Kim Clark instructed the Scouts on how to properly plant trees and helped get them started. Once the trees were planted, Clark took everyone on a tour through the newly opened senior complex.

According to Jervece Steele and Vivian Wil-liams, who headed up the project, the Scouts were excited to have the op-portunity to give back to the community and really enjoyed their day.

Planting trees isn’t easy work, and I admire these Scouts for taking on the task. I applaud the efforts of all involved and look forward to admiring the dogwood blooms each spring for years to come.

News from Knoxville Community Development Corporation (KCDC)

Nance

Cub Scouts give back to community

Tennova ‘Goes Red’ for womenKonnie Anderson (center) holds a pair of jeans she wore before losing 140 pounds in two and a

half years. Anderson is a charter member of Tennova Health and Fitness. With her are Tennova

Health and Fitness member Vickie Pettit and Nicole Lipsey of the American Heart Association. The

occasion was a Jan. 10 kick-off to Tennova’s second year of partnership with the American Heart

Association and Tennova’s sponsorship of the “Go Red for Women” campaign. Photo by S. Carey

Walmart donates gear to Seiber Restoration Josh Debity, Barry Harper, Brian Gideon, Roger Seiber, Nyalee Seiber, T.J. Capps and Mark Seiber

take part in the Halls Walmart’s donation of cold weather gear to Seiber Restoration, which is in-

stalling the masonry work for the “Extreme Home Makeover” house in Knoxville. Photo submitted

Random acts of kindnessfrom artist Linda Lee

By Betty Bean

When WATE-TV’s community relations director Bill Evans read the Shopper-News story about art-ist Linda Lee’s painting of the Lakeshore admin-istration building, it reminded him of the time when Linda and her husband, Chuck, showed up at his Greystone office asking for permission to take pictures of the building’s exterior.

“Several months later, she surprised us with a beautiful painting of Greystone. It hangs in our lobby for all visitors to see,” he said. “In testament to the accuracy of her paintings, I want to share this story with you. As we were admiring her work, I commented on how she had correctly painted the downstairs stained glass windows as semicircles and the upstairs ones as slightly-arched rectangles. Her reply to me was, ‘Oh, yes! And do you want to know how many stones are on the front of the building?’

“I’m glad to see from the accompanying photo that she is doing well. Her passion for painting his-toric buildings in Knoxville is a great gift to us all.”

Mize gets the ‘Daisy’An extraordinary nurse

has been honored as Physicians R e g i o n a l M e d i c a l Center’s re-cipient of the Daisy Award For Extraordi-nary Nurs-

es. Tennova Healthcare presents the monthly award in collaboration with The American Organization of Nurse Executives and the Daisy Foundation.

Phyllis Mize, RN, got the December honor. She will celebrate her 40th year in the nursing profession in May. She works on 2 Cen-tral, the Cardiovascular Interventional Unit, at Phy-sicians and has been recog-nized repeatedly by her pa-tients and their families for going above and beyond.

Trish McDaniel, chief nursing offi cer for Physicians, said, “Nurses are heroes ev-ery day, and it’s important that our nurses know their work and efforts are highly valued and appreciated. The Daisy Foundation provides one way for us to do that.”

Mize

Check out updates on all your favorite articles throughout the week at

www.ShopperNewsNow.com

HEALTH NOTESGrief support groups at Fort Sanders Sevier ■

Hospital 6 p.m. the first Thursday of each

month; 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. the third Wednes-

day of each month at the Covenant Home

Care Knoxville office; and 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

the fourth Wednesday of each month at

the Covenant Home Care Oak Ridge office.

Registration is required. Info or to register:

541-4500.

Lung cancer support group meets 6 p.m. the ■

third Monday every month at Baptist West

Cancer Center, 10820 Parkside Drive. No

charge, light refreshments served. Info: Trish

or Amanda, 218-7081.

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# 676 Food City Pharmacy1950 Western Ave., Knoxville, TN

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# 677 Food City Pharmacy5078 Clinton Hwy., Knoxville, TN

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# 694 Food City Pharmacy284 Morrell Road, Knoxville, TN

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30 locations in the greater Knoxville area!NOTE: NOT ALL LOCATIONS LISTED BELOW ARE PICTURED ON THE MAP