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IN THIS ISSUE
Rating the school board races
Betty Bean handicaps the four contested school board races including District 6 where four candidates are seeking the seat now held by Thomas Deakins.
Is your choice Bradley Buchanan, Terry Hill, Sandra Rowcliffe or Tamara Shep-herd?
➤ See Bean’s story on page A-4
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Waiting to give blood
is Anna Shelton, an
employee of Burns
Mailing & Printing Inc.
Phyllis Burns heard
of the need for
blood donors while
with her husband,
Ken, during a treat-
ment for his cancer. Photos by Amy Perry
and lets donations fl owCommunity rolls up sleeves
By Sherri Gardner HowellPhyllis Burns has learned a lot since 2010.Always an active business partner in Burns
Mailing & Printing with her husband, Ken, Phyllis suddenly found herself without day-to-day participation from her husband in 2010 after a stroke left him wheelchair bound.
Phyllis concentrated not only on being with Ken, but on making the business her own and working to see it grow.
When Ken was diagnosed in December 2013 with acute myelodysplastic syndrome, a type of cancer that affects the bone marrow and blood, they hitched up their boots and pre-pared to fi ght it.
“With Ken’s other problems, even the mild-est form of chemo just took such a toll on him,” Phyllis relates.
“It was just too hard. He was too sick and having no quality of life. He decided he just wasn’t going to go through any more chemo treatments.”
The Burns partnership developed the atti-tude of truly living every day to its fullest and taking life one day at a time. “We make every day as happy as we can,” says Phyllis. “Ken is home and feeling better, and we have a beach trip on the horizon.”
To get the most out of those days, Ken some-times needs blood transfusions. While he was in the hospital, Phyllis learned about the in-creasing need for blood donors.
“It’s not just something Medic tells you to get a blood drive going,” she says.
“There are people every day who need blood who may not be able to get it as fast as they need it because of shortages.”
While Ken’s needs that day were already taken care of, Phyllis wanted to do something. She reached out to her friends and then to the community for help.
A Medic blood drive at the Burns printing offi ce brought more than 100 people from the Cedar Bluff and surrounding communities, all ready to roll up their sleeves and donate.
“It was heartwarming to see how well it went,” says Phyllis.
The drive was not only good for the blood
banks, it was a balm for the soul, says Phyllis. “It lifted our spirits so to see how this commu-nity cares about people they know, people who are friends of friends and people they don’t know.
“We were so touched and so grateful.”Donations can still be made in Ken’s name
with Medic at the downtown facility or in Far-ragut.
Info: Medic at 524-3074
HVA tacklessafe driving
If a good defense is a winner in sports, perhaps that is also true for safe driving.
Instructors for StreetSafe Driving Academy came to Har-din Valley Academy recently to teach more than 20 teenagers about defensive driving.
➤ Read Nancy Anderson on page A-3
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Bearden: Wendy Smith interviews founders of Fort Kid as the city announces plans to restore it.
Union County: Sandra Clark interviews District At-torney General Lori Phillips-Jones; while Libby Morgan writes about a headless cow.
North/East: Betty Bean has the scoop on city plans to revitalize the Magnolia Avenue Corridor.
Farragut: Stefan Cooper writes about a ice hockey team that won a national tourney.
City salaries: Bet you didn’t know ...
The city of Knoxville is es-sentially a service provider. It’s a people business.
As such, wages and related fringe benefi ts make up the largest part of the city’s $183 million operating budget.
➤ Read Nick Della Volpe on page A-5
Marvin West talks basketball
My mentor ... said “bas-ketball is such a simple game, even you can teach it.”
All you have to do is control time and space – and don’t give up the baseline.
He explained that effort and positioning are key ingredients of defense and rebounding. He said shooting was a bit more complicated, that even the best players rarely made half their shots. He recommended getting as close to the basket as possible before “putting it up.”
➤ Read more from Marvin on A-5 By Jake Mabe The swan takes fl ight.After 32 years on the bench, 4th
Circuit Court Judge Bill Swann announced his retirement last year, shortly after lawyer Greg McMillan said he would seek the job whether Swann ran or not.
Analysis
Lay, McMillan are GOP candidates to replace Swann
Swann is Knox County’s most controversial judge; lawyers and lit-igants either love or hate him. Many just bypass his court entirely, fi ling in Chancery Court and putting a burden on that court’s caseload.
The biggest complaint against Judge Swann is his overreliance on psychologists, with several working in his court, pushing up costs.
The state requires that divorc-ing couples undergo one media-tion session; Swann requires four. The state requires four hours of Parent Education Seminars; Swann requires 12.
It is diffi cult to get a trial date because he has trial “manage-ments,” which require litigants to spend yet another day sitting in the courtroom with their lawyers so that progress toward settle-ment can be “measured.”
Another frequent complaint is his overreliance on Orders of Pro-tection. At one time, Knox County’s 4th Circuit Court issued more OPs than Davidson, Hamilton, Shelby and Sullivan counties combined.
He also has a stable of lawyers who work as his “special masters.” These lawyers have their own robes, dockets and nameplates. When they’re not wielding a gavel, they are practicing in his court, raising the question of how these individuals can be agents of the judge one day and come before him the next.
Candidate Patti Jane Lay is one of these, and Swann has endorsed her to succeed him.
These practices have caused Chancery Court dockets to be-come overloaded with divorce cases. Swann’s critics say he has made the process of getting a di-vorce in Knox County expensive, cumbersome and protracted.
The candidates: Two law-yers seek to replace Judge Swann, a race that will be decided in the May 6 Republican Primary. The winner will face the winner of the Democratic Primary, either Dan-iel Kidd or David Valone, in the general election.
Patti Jane Lay and Greg McMil-lan are campaigning hard – both
in the shadow of Bill Swann.Lay grew up in Fountain City and
Bearden, graduating from Webb School of Knox-ville. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Emory University in Atlanta and a law degree at UT. She and her husband, Tom Baugh, live in Bearden and have three children.
McMillan says he declared his intentions to run in 2006. He graduated from Bearden High before earning a bachelor’s degree and a law degree from UT. He and his wife, Summer, have fi ve children. He is special counsel with the Lewis Thomason law fi rm.
McMillan says he got into the race because “the court hasn’t been working well for the people of Knox County for several years.”
He says he will: ■ Do a better job screening or-
ders of protection, granting them not at the initial stage by special masters but by the court of record. “It eliminates appeals.”
■ Ensure better coordination between law enforcement and the court, making orders of protection simplifi ed, clear and typed rather
than written. ■ Change the way the docket
is handled. He says most cases are fi led in Chancery Court because of
Swann’s “biases,” which have cre-ated a logjam.
■ Change Swann’s snow-day policy, open-ing court even if Knox County gov-ernment is closed for those who can safely make it to
court. On the civil side, McMillan says
he will change the current policy of a 12-hour parenting class to the state-required four-hour class and will look at offering online classes. He says when parents are going through a divorce, their children need them more than ever.
“The court needs to work bet-ter for the people of Knox County. There’s going to be a change (in judges). But it needs to be the right change.”
We were unable to connect with Lay by press time. Candidate bios can be found at their websites, www.pattijanelayforjudge.com and http://mcmillanforjudge.com. Betty Bean contributed to this report.
McMillanLay
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If a good defense is a win-ner in sports, perhaps that is also true for safe driving. Instructors for StreetSafe Driving Academy came to Hardin Valley Academy re-cently to teach more than 20 teenagers about defensive driving.
The school, out of Greens-boro, N.C., was founded by a retired police offi cer who saw a gap between the drivers’ education teens re-ceived and what teens are facing on the roads.
Accident rates for teen-age drivers are higher than for any other age group.
The instructors said that teens are often lack the ex-perience required to recog-nize and avoid dangerous situations.
The only opportunity they have to gain experi-ence in recovering from a mistake is after they’ve al-ready made it, said Danielle Rasecke, one of the Street-Safe instructors.
“It’s pretty much the same thing as handing a teenager a loaded gun. Es-sentially, they’re out there on the road with a 2,500 pound weapon,” she said.
The instructors simulat-ed such things as skidding during wet and dry condi-tions, with students gaining
Ed Brantley, candidate for Knox County Commission, and Terry
Hill, school board candidate, make a friendly bet on who can
pick up the most litter at Hardin Valley’s annual Adopt-a-Road
clean-up day.
Terry Hill hits the ground run-
ning to catch a wayward pa-
per towel on Adopt-a-Road
clean-up day.
StreetSafe instructors Eric Rasecke and his wife, Danielle, inspect their vehicles as they prepare for students. Both are traffi c
safety offi cers from Greensboro, N.C. Photos by Nancy Anderson
Rich Deforest, The Social Farmer, examines the tools of his
trade at the monthly Northwest Knox Business and Profession-
als Association meeting at the Karns Community Center. De-
forest spoke to the group about social media.
Nancy Anderson
Getting behind the wheel with
defensive driving
experience in dealing with these situations.
Info: www.streetsafeus.com
■ Keeping it cleanThey are as much a sign
of spring along the roads of Hardin Valley as the daffo-dils.
More than 30 volunteers grabbed trash bags and headed out recently to clean up the highways and by-ways for the Hardin Valley 17-mile Clean-Up Day.
At day’s end, the group had collected 79 bags of trash along 17 miles. One of the largest fi nds: a discard-ed tractor tire.
Ed Brantley, candidate for Knox County Commis-sion, was helping pick up trash.
“It’s such a shame to see trash along our roads,” said Brantley. “East Tennessee is such a beautiful place. It’s our responsibly to keep our neighborhoods clean, and this is a great way to get to
know your neighbors.”
■ Join the conversationNavigating the many
platforms of social media looking for interesting cat videos is pretty confusing.
Using these outlets to grow a business seems daunting.
The Northwest Knox Business and Profession-als Association jumped into the conversation at its April meeting by inviting Rich Deforest to speak.
Deforest is called The So-cial Farmer, and he special-izes in helping small busi-nesses navigate the worlds of social media.
He said that 50 percent of the American population is under 30 and 96 percent of those people are on line.
He told those gathered that social media give an opportunity to speak to a company’s target market personally and to truly en-gage them in growing in-terested in your product or service.
“The conversation is still going on, you’re just not in it,” said Deforest.
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algebra in public schools because he rarely uses it.
Say what? C a r r i n -
ger is likable and bub-bling with personality. She is wide-ly known
among a key demographic – Republican primary voters – but has both friends and foes there.
Carringer wants it more, and Brantley’s blunders have put him on defense. This is Ed’s race to lose, and he’s made a good start at it.
CorrectionI owe a sincere apology to
Knox County Trustee candi-date Ed Shouse. My profi le of that race contained an error that County Commissioner Dave Wright’s questioning of candidate Barry Hawkins’ non-repayment of $3,000 he received as a CTAS bo-nus when Hawkins worked in the offi ce was a political move aimed to help Shouse.
In fact, it was aimed to help appointed Trustee Craig Leuthold.
The error was uninten-tional. In fact, I like Ed Shouse. He’s smart, calm, experienced and the least po-litical candidate for the job.
sion seats.Thomas is unopposed
in District 10. He says he learned the importance of commu-nity ser-vice when working for Mr. Dick at WIVK. “I will make sure your tax dollars
are not wasted.”Brantley faces former
commissioner and longtime Knox County Republican Party fi xture Michele Car-ringer for the 11th District seat. This race is interesting.
Brantley has painted him-self as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. He’s taken a George H.W. Bush-esque pledge to never raise taxes and wants less government. He says he’s for teachers, more jobs in Knox County (“We need to attract indus-try”), good roads, police pro-tection and effective county services for senior citizens.
Carringer’s election would double the number of women on the commis-sion (now only Amy Broyles serves). She’s a protégé of the late Mary Lou Horner, and her own mom, Irene
McCrary, is a longtime Fountain City leader.
“I feel like the Knox County Re-p u b l i c a n Party needs to let every-one know we still are the party that is con-s e r v a t i v e , and we need to stand by
what we say.”She’s for better schools
and safer neighborhoods, is pro-teacher and pro-police, supports small government and low taxes, and wants to promote small businesses.
When I fi rst saw Thomas and Brantley during a po-litical forum, I started sing-ing Buck Owens’ “Together Again.”
Both are likable, widely known and feel like old friends. My fi rst reaction was “shoo-in.”
But things have taken an interesting turn. Brantley took off on a long-planned vacation with his son during the month of March – key campaign season in a coun-ty in which the Republican is usually the winner.
He got tangled up in questioning the need for
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The Knox County pri-mary elections are upon us. Early voting begins April 16 in this odd kind of election year. The contests that are drawing the most interest are the school board races, primarily because of the controversies surrounding Superintendent James Mc-Intyre. The incumbents are all McIntyre supporters, and all have drawn opposition.
First District challeng-ers Marshall Walker and Robert Boyd are able guys who know their way around schools (Boyd has taught on the college level; Walker is a retired school social work-er) but seem slow to get off the blocks.
Prediction: Incumbent Gloria Deathridge, the vice chair of the board, could win it outright in the prima-ry. But if she doesn’t, watch out. Walker or Boyd (both fi rst-time candidates) could get the hang of this cam-paigning thing and give the voters something to think
Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero hosted lunch for more than 300 volunteers from the Community Action Committee (CAC)
Senior Corps and AmeriCorps. Pictured are speakers Nancy Reid from Foster Grandparents, Beverly Gilmer from Senior Compan-
ions, George “Geo” Hall from RSVP, Rogero, Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill, Blount County Mayor Ed Mitchell and former Knoxville
Mayor Daniel Brown. In 2013, local AmeriCorps members diverted 754 tons of recyclable materials from landfi lls and built or
improved almost 70 miles of trails. Senior Corps contributed 211,009 hours of ser vice. Photo submitted
Nick Della Volpe, serving his second and fi nal term on Knoxville City Council, deserves high praise for bringing up the politically tough issues he has been raising lately. While he hasn’t been successful, he is educating the public as to several city policies that are fi nancially costly and would never happen in the private sector.
Long ago and, oh, so far away, there was a magical place called WIVK. Applause for Nick
On April 1, he urged the council to repeal the ordinance that gives all city employees a 2.5 percent automatic pay raise regard-less of what the economy is, what city revenues are or even what the employee’s performance is. County, state and federal employees do not enjoy this ta x-paid benefi t.
Repealing the ordinance would not have deprived employees of a pay raise (as the mayor each year recom-mends what he/she feels is best). But it would have restored fl exibility to the mayor as she makes budget decisions. Instead of wel-coming this initiative, she opposed it. Joining Della Volpe in representing the taxpayers on this vote were council members George Wallace and Duane Grieve.
The audience booed Della Volpe and others who spoke in favor of repeal. While employee opposition is understandable, disrupt-ing the council proceedings is not justifi ed.
Della Volpe has never been a favorite of city em-ployees, who worked hard last November along with the local Democratic Party to defeat him.
Mayor Rogero pointedly did not endorse Della Volpe for a second term while she did endorse at least two others seeking re-election. They came close to ousting Della Volpe but failed. Now he is free to voice his views without political payback.
Almost half of the city employees live outside the city, do not pay city proper-ty taxes and cannot vote in city elections, including one of the two deputy mayors.
Della Volpe has been writing articles in this publication about expensive provisions of the city pen-sion plan that the mayor failed to address in her charter changes. One is the annual 3 percent increase in city pensions regardless of the infl ation level. This benefi ts about 1,800 city
retirees, over half of whom live outside the city.
It will be one of the major reasons the mayor recommends a property-tax increase in 10 days on April 24 at Christenberry ball-fi eld in her budget message.
Della Volpe, an at-torney, is an interesting person. He often speaks at council on many subjects. He is a strong advocate of greenways and worked effectively to install a greenway by Loves Creek in East Knoxville. Several of his colleagues wish he were less outspoken and have urged him to drop the pension comments. My personal view is that he brings to public discussion inconvenient topics on which the public needs to know more.
A property-tax increase should come only when the mayor is also showing serious efforts in cutting nonessential spending. Council must be willing to say no to expenditures that can be deferred, such as the $200,000 for a salary sur-vey that will recommend higher salaries when it is completed. Or a car allow-ance of $5,830 a year for a deputy mayor who walks to work. It is time to re-assess the merit of all car allowances versus actual payment per mile for travel in the city. Which would be less costly to taxpayers?
My guess is council will approve a Rogero property-tax hike but with three or perhaps four council mem-bers voting no.
■ Great news last week that Fort Kid at World’s Fair Park has a new lease on life with Rogero and Beth Waters working together to upgrade it. It had been slated for closure.
■ Cheri Siler on her website advocates raising the minimum wage. She said, when asked by this writer, it should go to $10.10 an hour from the current $7.70. Siler is the Democrat-ic candidate for state senator from District 7.
about. Both are McIntyre critics with deep roots in the community.
Sally Absher and J. Scott Clark, challenging board chair Lynne Fu-gate in District 4, are a study in contrasts. Absher, elected to the state Repub-lican Executive Commit-tee four years ago, is not seeking re-election to that position. She has caught heat for being a former Tea Party activist but says she has pulled back from those causes. She is ener-getic and knowledgeable and sympathetic to teacher concerns.
If Absher suffers from too much publicity, Clark’s had too little. He appears to be running something of a stealth campaign, but his
presence will make it hard for Fugate to win a majority vote in the primary. If she’s forced into a runoff with Absher, she, like Death-ridge, could be in for a most unpleasant summer.
Prediction: Fugate wins, but not by enough to avoid a runoff.
Incumbents Kim Sever-ance in District 7 and Thom-as Deakins in District 6 are stepping down, and while only soon-to-be-retired teacher Patti Lou Bounds submitted a qualifying peti-tion to succeed Severance, there’s a dogfi ght in the Sixth, where four candi-dates are duking it out.
Two of them – Brad Bu-chanan and Tamara Shep-herd – are outright critics of McIntyre’s test-them-till-they-puke methodology. Candidate Terry Hill is vaguely critical of McIntyre and has been more focused on getting a new middle school in Hardin Valley. The fourth candidate, Knox
County Council PTA presi-dent Sandra Rowcliffe, is a vocal McIntyre supporter who has also been vocal in her criticism of teachers who oppose him.
Prediction: Hill, whose husband, daughter and son-in-law are all former offi ceholders, is the most polished candidate in this bunch. Common wisdom is it’s her race to lose, al-though it will be diffi cult for her to break 50 percent in a crowded fi eld, so she shouldn’t plan any extended vacations until after the Au-gust election. Rowcliffe will come in fourth.
District 9 incumbent Pam Trainor, a strong Mc-Intyre supporter, has drawn only a single challenger (al-beit an exceptionally vigor-ous one), so this race will be decided in the primary.
Prediction: Elemen-tary school librarian (who will resign her job if elect-ed) Amber Rountree takes her out.
School board candidates ready for primary
Thomas
Carringer
Brantley
Bob and Ed or Michele
Knoxville’s grand radio station played real coun-try music and was owned by radio pioneer Jim Dick. Its true characters became family – the late Claude Tomlinson, Jean Ash, Bob Thomas, Ed Brantley, Mike Hammond and everybody’s buddy, the late Bobby Den-ton.
Corporate takeovers made WIVK as bland as caf-eteria coffee. Such is life.
Hammond jumped into politics. A successful two-term county commissioner, Hammond is running for Criminal Court clerk. He’s the best candidate for the job, and he will win.
Two radio colleagues are following his lead. Brantley and Thomas – who recently hosted a radio talk show on WNOX – are both running for at-large county commis-
GOV NOTES ■ Ray Jenkins, candidate for
judge, will be honored at a
reception held by Mario Aze-
vedo II and John D. Lockridge
Jr. 5-7 p.m. Monday, April 14,
at Doc’s All American Grill,
7355 Kingston Pike.
■ Bobby Waggoner, candidate
for sheriff , will be honored at
a barbecue at Brasfi eld farm
in Karns, 10106 Rather Road,
4-7 p.m. Saturday, April 19.
Admission is free and all are
invited. The event will include
live music and barbecue. Kids
can enjoy pony rides, a wa-
terwalk, train rides and a visit
from the Easter bunny.
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Basketball is a simple gameI never said I know it all,
but I really thought I under-stood.
Sixty-three years ago, as a high school senior, not yet 17, I concluded my only sea-son as coach of eighth-grade basketball – undefeated and very confi dent.
My mentor was not sur-prised. He had said “basket-ball is such a simple game, even you can teach it.”
All you have to do is con-trol time and space – and don’t give up the baseline.
He explained that effort and positioning are key in-gredients of defense and re-bounding. He said shooting was a bit more complicated, that even the best play-ers rarely made half their shots. He recommended
Marvin West
getting as close to the bas-ket as possible before “put-ting it up.”
He favored passing over dribble penetration but liked that the round ball de-livered predictable bounces. He said 10 players were not enough to clutter the entire fl oor, leaving room for mi-nor strategy.
Way back then, he said caring for the basketball was critical; possession
equaled points.Some years later, when
Dick Campbell was coach at Carson-Newman College, he invested considerable time in refi ning my knowl-edge. After that, I learned by watching a thousand practices conducted by Ray Mears at Tennessee. Some-times I asked Stu Aberdeen what the heck he was doing.
To tell you the truth, those men covered it. I’ve seen and heard 19 versions of the same information, but I haven’t learned a lot of sizzling new stuff.
A few mysteries have come and gone: A motion offense absolutely requires movement. There are intel-ligent debates about when to call or not call timeout,
when to substitute, how to attack devilish zone de-fenses and whether to yell at blundering offi cials or just sit there and take it.
In old age, I have ac-quired empathy for young people in knee pants, stand-ing at the foul line with the season hanging in the bal-ance, the weight of their coach’s job on their shoul-ders, a tick or three on the clock, one to tie, two to win.
Delightful employment and many blessings al-lowed me to listen to and even question some of the all-time great coaches – Pat Summitt, Adolph Rupp, John Wooden, Dean Smith, Al Maguire, Coach K, even Bobby Knight – a couple of times more than I wanted.
What I thought was a rich background did not prepare me for this absolutely crazy Tennessee season past. I cannot explain how a tal-ented team can be so good some games and bad for others.
Two or three times I thought the Volunteers could have given greater ef-fort. Ongoing indecision at point guard was puzzling. There was the obvious ques-tion about tempo. The coach visualized one speed. Some players wanted to go faster.
I was stunned by the seg-ment of the season when those with the ball could not or would not throw it to Jarnell Stokes. The last time when he got it, I was sur-prised. Michigan wasn’t.
Tennessee fans choose how to behave but the Feb-ruary myth of bringing back Bruce Pearl made Cuonzo
Martin’s job more diffi cult.Never saw anything likethat.
It was a pleasant devel-opment that the team coun-tered with its best punch. Itcould have quit.
As if the soap-opera sea-son did not have enoughquirky twists and turns,there was the phone call.Many felt certain Cuonzowas gone to Marquette,more money, less hassle anda better fi t for a Midwesternstaff.
Some said go Zo. Somerepented for past criticisms.
As soon as the coach saidhe still loves Tennessee,some resumed worryingabout his recruiting ten-dencies.
Never has basketball,supposedly a simple game,been so confusing.Marvin West welcomes reader response.
His address is [email protected].
The city of Knoxville is essentially a service pro-vider. It’s a people business.
City salaries examined
NickDella Volpe
As such, wages and re-lated fringe benefi ts make up the largest part of the city’s $183 million operat-ing budget (FY 2013-14). That includes employment of 1,548 dedicated workers and managers, who are paid a total of some $98 mil-lion, including $66 million in direct salaries and $32
million in various fringe benefi ts and pension contri-butions this fi scal year.
Let’s take a closer look at those employment costs, which are growing year over year. With current revenues (mostly property and sales taxes) relatively fl at, the present outlook calls for a cut in services, possible layoffs and/or (gulp) some form of tax increase.
Right now that budget-balancing process is in Mayor Rogero’s hands. City Council will begin its review of her proposed budget in May, with a charter dead-line of mid-June to have the new fi scal-year budget in place by July 1.
Wages = $66 million: There are some 527 police
(422 uniform) and 313 fi re-fi ghters, who (after train-ing) start at a civil-service pay scale of approximately $32,300 and have salaries that range up to $95,500 at the deputy chief level. The city also employs 287 public-service workers, 82 in engineering, 54 in fl eet maintenance and manage-ment, 47 full-time parks and rec, and other workers. All regular city employees (ex-cluding top management) work their way up through a series of civil-service pay grades, with step increases along the way, as they prog-ress in grade. Annual sal-ary surveys adjust those pay scales to keep them com-petitive. See Knoxville ordi-nances 2-450, -458 & -459
on www.municode.com.Fringe Benefits =
$32 million: This in-cludes some $9.8 million in health-care benefits, $16 million in pension contributions (growing by $7.5 million next year to $23.4 million), plus some $8.6 million in other ben-efits, like visual and den-tal insurance, educational incentives and longevity.
Mystery Money. You’ve already heard about the “automatic 2.5 percent pay raises” for city workers, addressed at a recent City Council meeting – the is-sue there was to take this 30-year-old pay perk off au-to-pilot and have all raises addressed by the adminis-tration in light of current budget, infl ation and other economic facts. That was re-jected amidst a highly vocal worker outcry.
But you may not have heard of “Longevity Pay.” City workers (after four years of service) also get longevity pay. This auto-matic “seniority pay” ap-parently entered the city’s budget during the infl a-tion-stressed late 1970s. Workers get $120 x years of service (after the fi rst four years, up to a max of 20 years) added to their pay. Nice work if you can get it.
So, for all the recent out-cry about “just getting by” or needing “to put bread on the table,” these two auto-matic pay increases – whol-ly aside from any scheduled step advances and merit pay under the civil-service pay scales – can give workers an added 5 percent increase.
Take, for example, a 42-year-old fi refi ghter, who likely makes $50,000/year. Theoretically, he could re-
ceive $1,400 to $1,800 in longevity pay (e.g. 15 yrs. x $120), plus a 2.5 percent automatic pay raise of, say, $1,250. That’s nearly a $3,000 pay bump in one year without counting earned merit increases.
To most folks, that might seem more than putting a little bread on the table.
Don’t get me wrong, hard work deserves fair pay.
That should be the job of modern pay scales, not vestiges of yesteryear. Such automatic increases com-pound pension and fringe costs, as they raise base pay under existing formulas. Taxpayer-fi nanced wages should be transparent.
Perhaps the mayor, as CEO, will look at all these costs. Nick Della Volpe represents District 4 on
city council.
“Why, country music, as public entertainment, was born in that Market Hall. It was there that Roy Acuff started sawing his fi ddle for pay, and Lowell Blanchard gave birth to the ‘Merry-Go-Round’ and the ‘Tennes-see Barn Dance.’ ” – former Knoxville News-Sentinel columnist Bert Vincent
Although legendary Knoxville live radio pro-grams the WNOX “Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round” and the “Tennessee Barn Dance” once were held in the old Market House, they soon needed larger quarters.
Lowell Blanchard de-serves credit for their growth and for the growth
of country music. He acted as the talent scout, authored
the comedy skits and was mas-ter of cer-emonies for both pro-grams.
E ngage -ments on the noon “Merry-Go-
Round” or Saturday night’s “Tennessee Barn Dance” launched the early careers of Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, Kitty Wells, the Carter Sis-ters (featuring June Cart-er), Archie “Grandpappy” Campbell, the Carlisles (including Bill’s alter ego
“Hotshot Elmer”), Homer and Jethro, Don Gibson and many others. Some even said that Knoxville could have become the country-music capital that Nashville became but for the lingering aftereffects of the Great De-pression and the oft-cited lack of vision of its civic leaders.
Richard Lowell Blanchard was born on Nov. 5, 1910, in Palmer, Ill., the son of Jay William and Betty Mason Priest Blanchard. His fa-ther was a grocery-store owner and served as mayor of Palmer for 17 years. Low-ell worked for his father, spent summers on a nearby farm and went to work for a
Blanchard
HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin
Many entertainers, such as Roy Acuff , Hom-
er and Jethro, Archie “Grandpappy” Camp-
bell and others were featured here at the
WNOX studio early in their careers.
A forgotten father of country music
drugstore during his high school years. He gained experience as a student radio an-nouncer when he at-tended the University of Illinois, where he graduated in 1933.
During the Cen-tury of Progress Exposition (the Chi-cago World’s Fair), Blanchard acted as the master of ceremo-nies. Then he pursued his early career as a radio announcer in Indiana, Iowa and Michigan. As later confi rmed by former U.S. Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, when Blanchard was program director of a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1932, he hired Ronald Reagan as one of his announcers. Unfortunately, he was not living when his protégée became the 40th president of the United States.
WNOX had begun broad-casting in 1921 with the call letters WNAV, reputedly the
titalented Blanchard,whose jovial naturewas apparent evenover the airwaves.
Blanchard was in-structed to “Do what-ever is necessary tomake the station asuccess in countrymusic.” The one-and-a-half-hour weekday“Merry-Go-Round”and the “TennesseeBarn Dance” soonwere developed withBlanchard as the host.
Their studio wasfi rst in the AndrewJohnson Hotel, nextin the old MarketHouse and eventuallyat 110 S. Gay St fi rst.Blanchard insisted ona live studio orches-tra almost from thestart. For many years,Harry Nides playedthe fi ddle, Jerry Col-
lins the piano, Tony Musco the accordion and Hubert Carter the bass.
He often accompanied various country-music acts in performances over East
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fi rst radio station in Tennes-see and only the eighth in the nation. Scripps-Howard took it over in 1935, made WNOX the call letters and hired R.B. Westergaard as manager. The following year, Westergaard hired the mul-
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Tennessee’s 33 counties and into Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. He host-ed WNOX’s “The Musical Clock,” the early-morning radio show, was a widely known announcer for horse shows and did the “color” for UT sports.
Live country music expe-rienced hard times when the rock ’n’ roll craze hit in the early 1950s and again when television came to Knox-ville in 1953. The FCC de-
nied WNOX a license since Scripps-Howard already had a radio and newspaper presence. Then the station made what probably was an ill-advised move to a remod-eled Whittle Springs Hotel in the suburbs in 1955. The “Merry-Go-Round” and the “Barn Dance” ended in 1961, but Blanchard remained at the station in sales and on special assignment.
He always supported lo-cal causes and chaired the
Easter Seals Society and the March of Dimes. He was a City Council member (1944-45 and 1948-53) and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1963 and for the state legis-lature in 1964.
His health problems be-gan with what he thought was the fl u while attending the L.A. Classic with the UT Vols in 1966. He soon re-covered and returned to his heavy schedule, including a year as general manager
Lowell Blanchard From page A-5
Students from the Com-munity School of the Arts gathered at “The Village” in the Old City recently to add their own kind of music to Knoxville’s Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival.
Founded in 1992, CSA provides quality instruc-tion in all the arts to chil-dren ages 6 to 18. Based at First Presbyterian Church downtown, the school has
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Young musicians ‘bloom’
of the Knoxville Smokies baseball team and then as the team’s radio announcer.
It was a surprise when he was admitted to Fort Sand-ers Hospital in January 1968 with a heart attack. After some weeks he was moved from intensive care and prepared to go home. He had planned to do the color highlights for the bas-ketball game with Auburn the following Saturday. However, he died just after midnight on Monday, Feb. 19, 1968, at the age of 57.
Blanchard attended First Christian Church and
taught the Everyman’s Sun-day school class for many years. He was a member of the Charles M. McKin-ney Lodge F&AM and of Holston Hills Country Club.
After services at Rose Chapel performed by his minister, the Rev. Harry M. Davis, Blanchard was in-terred in Greenwood Cem-etery. He was survived by his wife, Sally Irene Mar-shall, and his four children, Arthur Marshall “Smiley” Blanchard of Knoxville, R. Lowell “Happy” Blanchard Jr. of Manchester, N.H., Becky Lamar Martin
of Kingsport and Sally Blanchard, a sophomore at UT and a varsity swimmer, as well as his mother, fi ve grandchildren, two sisters and a brother.
An honorary “Merry-Go-Round” was held in his memory at the Knox-ville Civic Auditorium sev-eral weeks after his death. Many country-music stars were there to honor him, including Roy Acuff, Kitty Wells, Grandpa Jones, Don Gibson and Skeeter Davis. Blanchard was inductedinto the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame in 1977.
Cooper Jenkins, a 9th-grader at Karns High School, plays a gui-
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who is widely known as a soloist and frontman for the Greg
Horne Band. Cooper is also an accomplished pianist. His par-
ents are Robin and Robert Jenkins.
Madison Craddock, 17, plays the Beatles’ “Penny Lane.” Daugh-
ter of Kim and George Craddock of West Knoxville, she plans to
attend college in the fall and major in business management,
with an eye toward running a nonprofi t one day.
Instructors such as local favorites Greg Horne, Jessica Watson and Ben Maney make the Com-
munity School of the Arts a real destination for young aspiring musicians. The stellar faculty also
includes Knoxville Symphony members and many other local luminaries in several disciplines.
Matthew Rose, 9, plays a song on the violin. His older brother
Joshua, 12, studies piano. Their parents are Laura and Joshua
Rose. Joshua is a sergeant with the Army National Guard who
served a tour in Iraq from 2009 through 2010. The family lives
in West Knoxville. Photos by Carol Zinavage
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for the Arts and the Presi-dent’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
More than 150 young people study classical and jazz piano, cello, violin, gui-tar, mandolin and trumpet there, as well as visual arts, drama and culinary arts.
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The Scripture text quoted above is Peter’s speech on the Day of Pentecost. He quotes the Old Testament prophet Joel with words that are both hopeful and fearsome.
The moon’s turning to blood came to my mind be-cause by the time you read this, you may have seen such a phenomenon.
A total lunar eclipse will have occurred in the wee hours of April 14, and Mars will be closer to the Earth than it has been since 2008.
There is no danger in such an occurrence; these things have been happening for eons, but they are defi nitely
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A blood moon“In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will
pour out my Spirit upon all fl esh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fi re, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
(Acts 2: 18b-21 NRSV)
“There are two ways to live: You can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
(Albert Einstein)
not an everyday event. It is true that in a lunar
eclipse, the moon does turn red. The resulting so-called “blood moon” is a function of a double refraction of the sunlight, during the time the moon is in the Earth’s shad-ow. The sun’s light is refract-ed when it enters the Earth’s atmosphere and again when
By Wendy SmithEach spring and fall, the
United Methodist Women of Ebenezer United Meth-odist Church, 1001 Ebene-zer Road, host a rummage sale and barbecue to ben-efi t the church’s missions program. The recent spring sale offered a wide selec-tion of goods, including the kitchen sink.
UMW President Pat Pat-ton says the two events raise about $8,000 each year.
The women spend about a week setting up for each event, and they enjoy fel-lowship time, as well as the opportunity to shop early. They spent almost $900 at the spring sale before the doors opened.
The church installed a barbecue pit when it moved to the property in 1980, says longtime member Es-tes Stooksbury. For the recent sale, men from the congregation worked in
United Methodist Women Sue Petrie, Linda Parris, Bonnie Adams, Susan McMahon, Jackie Hill, Anne Olson, Pat Patton and Celia
Jackson work at the rummage sale.
Satisfi ed customer Sherry Laymance visits with church mem-
bers Denise Gray and Joan Baird at the Ebenezer United Meth-
odist Church rummage sale and barbecue.
Estes Stooksbury and John Wilson show off the barbecue pit at
Ebenezer United Methodist Church. Photos by Wendy Smith
Amber Welch, Ceri Yates and Barbara Milligan are all smiles as
they help customers check out.
Smokin’ and shoppin’ at Ebenezer
EGG HUNTS ■ Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3-5 p.m. Saturday,
April 19, on the front lawn. Children should bring a parent
and a basket with one dozen plastic eggs fi lled with age-
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Tuesday, April 15, to Mary Emily Morris, 522-9804.
shifts to oversee the smok-ing of 144 Boston butts from Friday afternoon un-til Saturday morning.
Congregational excite-ment is high right now due to plans to expand the building, he says.
it leaves the Earth’s atmo-sphere on its way to the moon. (This double refraction is the same reason the sky looks blue during the day.)
We consider these events almost as entertainment today – wonders to behold because of their rarity. However, in a less scientifi c day, such phenomena were signs and portents, consid-ered to have meaning for humankind: warnings and threats, or affi rmations of a proposed action.
Joel had spoken his prophecy approximately 400 years before Christ, but Pe-ter took up the banner and recited Joel’s words as the in-auguration of a new era. The winds of the Spirit had swept through the little band of be-lievers and set them afl ame with the Good News. The fear and the uncertainty of the time between Jesus’ cru-cifi xion and the resurrection were no more.
No mere lunar eclipse could scare Jesus’ disciples now. Those same men who had cowered behind closed doors following the crucifi x-ion were on fi re and ready to tell a waiting world.
This story makes me ask what it would take to get our attention, to set our churches ablaze with wonder and ur-gency, to be so fi lled with the
Good News that our joy over-fl ows onto everyone we meet.
Have we forgotten the Good News? Have we grown complacent? Bored? Satis-fi ed? Distracted?
If that is the case, what will it take to get our atten-tion? A blood moon?
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Students at Hardin Valley Academy got a taste of the real world at the school’s 6th annual “My Amazing Life” event, a mix of the board game “Life” and the reality show “The Amazing Race.”
‘My Amazing Life’ at Hardin Valley Academy
Hardin Valley Academy student Ahsan Akhter reviews his re-
sults with parent volunteer and co-coordinator of My Amazing
Life, Sue Dolislager. Photos by S. Barrett
Roza Smith
Sara Barrett
Businesses from all over Knoxville set up stations in the gym where students could stop and role play what life might be like after high school.
Upon arrival, students were given fi nancial infor-mation for a career they had previously chosen. They tallied their monthly bud-get and began making faux purchases of everything from student loans to dental needs and groceries.
“I’m impressed at how se-riously they’re taking it,” said Ellen Lloyd, co-coordinator of the event. “They are really paying attention to detail.”
Corey Wilson with Mor-gan Stanley talked to par-ticipants about planning ahead. “They need to real-ize the choices they make now will have an effect in the future,” he said. “They can save a little, a lot or somewhere in the middle,
but I try to encourage ev-eryone to save at least 10 percent of their paycheck. This is the one table (in “My Amazing Life”) where you will see your money again.”
Ahsan Akhter was the fi rst student to complete the exercise, and he was extremely pleased with the results. Ahsan role-played as a physician and if it had been real life he would re-tire a millionaire.
“I was surprised by the price of school tuition and what saving for retirement can do for you in the end,” he said.
After completing the ex-ercise, the students were treated to a piece of retire-ment cake to celebrate.
■ 4-H talent showThe 4-H Club at Karns
Elementary School held a talent show for its mem-bers dur-ing its last meeting of the year. More than half of the m e m b e r s per for med in some
fashion including singing, dancing or playing an in-strument.
Roza Smith proudly showed the group some com-ics she drew in her sketch pad and said she likes to draw a lot. Aleena Crain sang “Jar of Hearts” a cappella after Shelby Conyers played “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the re-corder.
Many students who per-formed were visibly ner-vous, but their peers encour-aged them to be themselves and have fun. The 4th and 5th graders respected each other’s time on stage and ap-plauded enthusiastically after each performance.
At the risk of sounding old, it was inspiring to see a group of young people being so open
minded to others and giving their undivided attention and respect to performances even when they were not person-ally participating.
■ Out go the lightsThe students and faculty
at The Goddard School of Hardin Valley are celebrat-ing Earth Awareness month throughout April.
Students are learning how to preserve their environ-ment and about the earth’s composition. Families have donated empty paper towel rolls, water bottles and old newspapers as raw materials for students to create new items.
In honor of Earth Day, the lights throughout the school will be turned out for one hour 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 22, to help conserve energy. Everyone in the community is encouraged to do the same.
Webb athletesprepare for collegeWebb School of Knox-
ville senior and girls’ tennis team standout Anna Catha-rine Feaster has signed with Davidson College. Present at the signing to show their support were Anna’s broth-er, Nathan, her sister, Mar-garet, and their parents, Samuel and Christy.
Anna is a three-time Prep Extra Girls Tennis
Player of the Year and All-KIL h o n o r e e . In May 2013, she c a p t u r e d her third straight Di-vision II-A girls state
singles tennis title, posting a 16-1 singles record. She led the girls’ tennis team at Webb to its fourth consecu-tive DII-A state team crown.
Kaitlyn Flickinger, li-bero for Webb’s volleyball
team, has committed to play at M a r y v i l l e C o l l e g e . K a i t l y n ’ s family cel-e b r a t i n g with her at the signing i n c l u d e d
her parents, Jeff and Mela-nie; her brother, Jordan; and her grandfather, Ted Flickinger Sr.
As co-captain of this year’s Division II-A state championship volleyball
team, Kaitlyn helped lead the team to its fi rst state title in the history of Webb’s varsity volleyball program. She also led the team in digs and was a key player in win-ning the 2013 DII-A Region title, picking up All-Region Tournament Team honors along the way.
Kaitlyn was also named to the 2013 TSWA All-State Volleyball Team and All-KIL.
Webb girls basketball guard senior Imani Smith
will play ba sketba l l at Berry C o l l e g e . Present for her sign-ing were Imani’s sis-ters Shel-ley and Bre Smith, her
father, Shay Tate, and her mother, Fran Smith.
Imani lettered four years and helped lead Webb to two state basketball run-ner-up fi nishes and two state basketball titles. This includes this year’s Divi-sion II-A state champion-ship, the team’s fourth state crown and its second in three years.
Although she was in-jured for much of the sea-son, Amani still scored a 3-point basket and a 2-point field goal that were considered critical plays in the championship final, according to head coach Shelley Collier.
Feaster
Flickinger
Smith
Lakers win tournament
The Mystics won this year’s KYS 3-on-3 basketball tournament beating The Mercury 21-16 in the
championship game for a 2-0 tournament record. Pictured are players (front) Taylor Bergner,
Alexis Houser, Arden Spillers, Marguerite Mary, Greer Butler and (back) coaches Bill Bergner,
Ashley Bergner and Shelby Bergner. Photo submitted
Mystics win 3-on-3 championship
Regular season champs The Lakers conquered the 11-12 KYS boys basketball tournament with
a 39-23 win over the Sonics. Pictured are (front) Fred Perkinson, Joey Miller, Arthur Jenkins, Will
Maddox, Corey Ramey, Alex Rice, Michael Williams and (back) coaches Arthur Jenkins, Fred Per-
kinson and Tyler Dougherty. Photo submitted
REUNIONS ■ Central High School’s class
of 1989 will reunite June 14.
Tickets are $35 if purchased by
April 15, $40 afterward. Make
checks payable to CHS Class of
’89 and mail to Felecia Turner,
1103 Darby Lane, Forest, Va.,
24551. Info: Felecia (Robbins)
Turner, feleciaturner@hotmail.
com or Mark Allen, 4davolz@
comcast.net.
■ Powell High School’s class
of 1967 will reunite 5 p.m.
Saturday, May 3, at Bonnie
and Wade Shields’ home, 5320
West Emory Road to celebrate
“Medicare Eligibility: Reach-
ing Age 65”. Admission is $15,
includes a barbecue dinner
and non-alcoholic beverages.
Make checks payable to Brenda
Owens Stephens, 5728 Frontier
Trail, Knoxville, Tenn., 37920.
RSVP to phs67class@comcast.
net or call 573-4395 or 385-7184.
Local classmates are asked to
bring an appetizer or dessert.
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Atomic City Aquatics Club had strong represen-tation at this year’s South-eastern Championships in Nashville with 20 swim-mers competing.
Loki Hondorf and Jake Mason fi nished in the top 10, and Kamden Batchik achieved personal bests in the 50 Free and 50 Breast.
“Southeasterns were a good test for where we are as a team this year,”
said coach Mike Bowman. “Many of our athletes were either training through this meet for even more prestigious championship meets, or were coming off previous championship meets.
“And with many of our athletes being at the bot-tom of their age groups, we should be a force to be reckoned with next year at Southeasterns.”
Atomic City Aquatic Club swimmers Jake Mason, Daniel Ar-
nold, Tanner Alexander, Brady Houk and (back) coach Breanna
Folk rock the pool at the 2014 Southeastern Championships in
Nashville. Photo submitted
Atomic City blasts SE championships
SPORTS NOTES ■ Sign up as an individual player
or bring your own team. Knox
Youth Sports softball is a
developmental recreational
league for girls ages 7-13.
Games are at Lakeshore Park.
The season ends by Memorial
Day weekend. Register online
at knoxyouthsports.com or call
584-6403.
■ Sign up as an individual
player or bring your own
team. Knox Youth Sports
baseball is a developmental
recreational league for boys
and girls ages 3-12. Games are
Monday-Thursday and Sat-
urday at Lakeshore Park with
some games at Sequoyah
Park. The season ends in June.
Register online at knoxyouth-
sports.com or call 584-6403.
■ Knox Youth Sports lacrosse
league is for boys ages
9-14, excluding high school
students. Games are on
Saturdays from 10 a.m. to
noon, and practices are from
6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and
Thursday at Lakeshore Park.
The season ends in late May.
League age is a player’s age
Jan. 1, 2014. Registration
is $175. Register online at
knoxyouthsports.com or call
584-6403.
■ Girls basketball camp for
ages 7-15 will be held 9 a.m.-
3 p.m. June 9-13, at Roane
State Community College in
Harriman. Registration will
be held 8:30-9 a.m. June 9.
Cost is $100 with a team rate
of $85 per player if fi ve or
more team members are at-
tending. Info: Monica Boles,
354-3000, ext. 4388, or email
■ The Rams Spring Classic
Basketball Tournament
for students in grades 5-9
will be Friday and Saturday,
April 25-26, at Grace Christian
Academy. Cost is $175. Info:
Chuck Clevenger, 924-2794,
In lieu of birthday gifts, three 7th graders from Webb School of
Knoxville celebrated their 13th birthdays by asking friends and
classmates to donate to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital.
Hannah Felton, Kate Felton and Caroline Ross raised $1,320 to
give to the neonatal intensive care unit. The girls are pictured
before presenting the big check to ETCH. Photo submitted
A good deed is the perfect present
Waggoner has more than 44 years of law enforcement experience: not only working on the ground, but supervising large multi-state investigations and managing multi-million dollar budgets. He has a Master of Public Administration and has received police certification in three states. He served almost 13 years at the KCSO, the last six of which he was Chief of Detectives. While there, he saw first-hand where improvements need be made, where money is being needlessly wasted, and where resources need to be reallocated to keep the focus on Knox County’s safety.
Political promises and cronyism have long plagued the Sheriff ’s Office, and Waggoner pledges to put an end to it. He’ll hire the best and the brightest based on their experience and qualifications rather than their political connections. He’ll manage the budget with integrity, putting an end to unnecessary purchases and positions. Waggoner will make sure every taxpayer dollar goes to making Knox County safer.
While growing up in the Karns community, Waggoner was strongly influenced by his grandfather, who was Knox County Sheriff for three terms, and his father, who was a detective with the City of Knoxville. They instilled in him a commitment to give back to his country and his community, which Waggoner did: serving in the Army and serving his community with a lifetime career in law enforcement.
In recent years, an increasing number of KCSO officers have been caught overstepping their authority. Whether it’s making a teenager spin on a bat or unlawfully confiscating football tickets to resell, it’s unacceptable and it’s an abuse of power. Just like a successful football coach keeps his players in line, a heriff sets the example for discipline and accountability. Waggoner has a proven track record of being a respected mentor and providing mature, responsible leadership.
Just a few months ago, the current heriff made national news when he made a controversial statement that he would stack immigrants in the Knox County jail like “cordwood.” Waggoner will be a full-time heriff who will not embarrass the community with his words or actions. He’ll be tough but fair, and
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Gospel ensemble to give Easter performance
News from Pellissippi State - Magnolia
By Heather BeckThe I Am gospel ensem-
ble performs a selection of favorite gospel hymns at a concert Tuesday, April 15, at Pellissippi State Com-munity College’s Magnolia Avenue Campus.
Beginning at 6:45 p.m. in the Community Room, the ensemble presents its Easter Celebration Con-cert. Light refreshments are available after the concert ends, about 7:30 p.m.
The concert is free and the community is invited.
“The gospel ensemble has been a wonderful ad-dition to our campus. It’s one more way in which the diversity of our campus is celebrated. This event is a highlight of our spring se-mester,” said Rosalyn Till-
Jenny Kitts, Rodney Simpson, Candice Dendy, Phyllicia Wash-
ington and Druscilla Robertson, I Am gospel ensemble, will
perform April 15 in a free concert at Pellissippi State.
man, dean of the MagnoliaAvenue Campus.
The ensemble is com-posed of Pellissippi Statestudents and is led by Can-dice Dendy, associate profes-sor of transitional studies.The group sings primarily acappella songs, along with afew selections with instru-mental accompaniments.
“We are presenting tra-ditional hymns of Easter, aswell as songs of worship andpraise. We defi nitely wantaudience participation,”Dendy said.
The I Am gospel ensemblewas formed in 2009. “Thename of the group was cho-sen by students as a rep-resentation of our goal: tosing about our faith,” Dendysaid.
Upcoming at the Knoxville Chamber
■ Exclusive Premier Partner
Event featuring coach Butch
Jones, Thursday, April 17,
7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Cherokee
Country Club, 5138 Lyons
View Pike. Premier Partner
members only.
■ Premier Partner Network-
ing Reception, Tuesday, April
22, 5-7 p.m. , Club LeConte.
Premier Partner members
only.
■ Groundbreaking: Mountain
Commerce Bank, Tuesday,
April 22, 11 a.m., 6115 Kings-
ton Pike.
■ Pinnacle Business Awards,
presented by BB&T, will be
announced at a banquet
Friday, May 2, at the Knoxville
Convention Center. The black
tie-optional gala will feature
a silent auction and reception
starting at 6 p.m., followed by
a dinner and awards program
announced by WBIR’s Robin
Wilhoit. The evening will cul-
minate in a champagne toast
to the winners. Bandit Lites
and Sound Ventures will pro-
vide production assistance.
Tickets and table sponsor-
ships can be purchased at
www.knoxvillechamber.com/.
Dawn Distler
Rogero names Distler director of transit
Dawn Distler, a 27-year veteran in the field of public transpor-tation, has been chosen by Mayor Madeline Rogero as the city’s
director of transit. This is a new position cre-ated after the city did not renew its contract with the management company that employed previous KAT general manager Cindy McGinnis.
Distler has been general manager of operations and maintenance for David-son Transit Organization in Nashville since 2010. Prior to that, she served as director of operations, managing a $7 million budget, 270 vehicles and, in fiscal year 2013, a total of 10.45 million rides.
Distler started her tran-sit career as a bus operator for 10 years with Metro Regional Transit Authority in Akron, Ohio, and rose to operations manager for ADA/paratransit services and assistant director of customer services. Her work in Nashville included efficient management of express bus routes, fixed routes, commuter rail and paratransit services that resulted in a 14 percent in-crease in passenger trips.
Distler will assume the new post on June 1.
DeRoyal buysCalifornia company
DeRoyal Industries Inc. has purchased the as-sets of MKMI, an Encino, Calif.-based corporation.
MKMI manufactures the patented Umbilicup Cord Blood Sampling System which is a safety engineered cord blood collection device used for sampling cord blood (Rh and type) without the use of an exposed sharp needle.
The Umbilicup is an important addition to DeRoyal’s line of Birthing and Neonatal products as it helps reduce the chance of needle sticks and expo-sure to blood borne patho-gens in accordance with the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act, said com-pany president and COO Bill Pittman.
KARM gets Darden Restaurant grant
Knox Area Rescue Min-istries will receive a $3,000 grant as part of the Res-taurant Community Grants program from the Darden Restaurants Foundation Inc., the charitable arm of Darden Restaurants.
The donation will enable KARM’s LaunchPoint pro-gram, which provides adult training and goal-setting help as individuals break their cycle of homelessness.
Local restaurants in the Darden group include Red Lobster and Olive Garden.
Since 2012, more than 250 people have suc-cessfully navigated the LaunchPoint program, said Danita McCartney, KARM director of events.
Film & Music Festival expands student off eringsThis year marks the sec-
ond year for The Knoxville Film & Music Festival and the fi fth year for the Knox-ville 24 Hour Film Festi-val, events that drew 5,400 people to downtown Knox-ville last year. To celebrate, Knoxville Film & Music Fes-tival has greatly expanded its student offerings.
Registration will begin
1-3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Scruffy City Hall, 32 Market Square, followed by a work-shop from 3-4 p.m.
The afternoon will wrap up with a Crew and Cast-ing Call Mixer open to all participants from 4-6 p.m. Student registration for the Knoxville 24 Hour Student Competition is $20. Info: www.knoxvillefi lms.com/.
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For these reasons, his service to his country, state and county, I respectfully ask all my friends living in Knox County to vote for, support and elect Billy Stokes as Judge, Div. 1, Knox County Circuit Court. - Retired Four Star General, Carl Stiner
Born and raised in Knoxville, attended Beaumont Elem. & Rule Jr-Sr. High, raised his own family here30+ years of litigation experience before the courtsPeer rated AV Lawyer by Martindale-Hubble (Rated: Preeminent)Tennessee Supreme Court Listed R. 31 MediatorVeteran (Active Duty 1979-1982), Honorably Discharged as CPT, Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAGC),
U.S. ArmyFormer Juvenile Counselor, Knoxville Police Department (KPD)Worked a full time job while paying his way through law school at the University of TennesseeMember of American Legion, Post 2; American Legion Riders; Master’s Lodge #244, F&AM; Knoxville Scottish
Rite; The National Rifle Association (NRA); and The Federalist SocietyMember of the American, Tennessee and Knoxville Bar AssociationsMember of the Hamilton Burnett Inn of the American Inns of CourtFormer member of Governor Don Sundquist’s Cabinet, initially appointed Commissioner, Tennessee
Department of Employment Security. Promoted to Governor Sundquist’s Senior Staff as Special Assistant to the Governor
Former Knox County Republican Party ChairmanMayor’s appointee to the City of Knoxville Civil Service Merit System Board for ten yearsAppointed to a City-County Government Efficiency Committee by the Knox County MayorAppointed to the Board of the Knoxville/Knox County Public Building Authority and was elected Chairman of
that body in 2010.Appointed to the Knox County Charter Review Committee by Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett.Co-author of Unemployment Compensation, Survey and Update, Labor Law Journal, 47 (9) at 602-612,
September 1996; Bad Faith: General Application in the Insurer-Insured Relationship, Lorman Education Services, 2007; and various letters and guest columns published in magazines and newspapers, including three articles published in The Congressional Record.
Served as the Governor’s appointee to the Juvenile Justice Reform CommissionServed on the Board of the Knoxville-Knox County Community Services Agency, appointed by Governor Phil
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In the modern world of increasing technology, the risk of � nancial identity theft is higher than ever before. Sadly, senior citizens are often the most common targets for this crime. It is important to recognize how this can occur and how it can be prevented.
1. Prevent scammers before they start.
Many scams are of an intentionally confusing nature so that they can target the elderly. Phone calls or e-mails requesting personal information, including bank information, social security numbers, and the like, can be dangerous. If an offer sounds too good to be true, it most often is. You have no obligation to give any information over the telephone or on the computer. Do not hesitate and do not feel bad about hanging up the phone or deleting an e-mail. If you are unsure, ask someone you know and trust.
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Recognizing the risks of senior citizen fi nancial fraud
fraudulent charges than a credit card company, bank, or other � nancial institution. Keep close tabs on your monetary transactions, and note anything that is out of the ordinary. Make sure to have the phone numbers of banks or credit card companies on-hand so that they can be called at the � rst sign of fraud. In today’s society, this responsibility is similar to keeping your wallet in your pocket, or hanging onto your pocketbook.
Healthy property sales, sluggish lendingNews From The Register Of Deeds
By Sherry WittEven as mortgage lend-
ing contin-ued its slow pace, the local real estate mar-kets fared quite well in March.
For the month end-ing March
31, there were 812 prop-erty transfers recorded in Knox County, compared to just 551 during February. The totals also topped last March’s fi gure by more than 100. The fi rst quarter of 2014 produced almost iden-tical data to 2013 in terms of total property sales.
The aggregate value of land sold in March was just
under $148 million, besting February’s total by nearly $60 million, and also out-pacing the March 2013 fi gure of $137 million. For the fi rst quarter of 2014 ap-proximately $432.7 million worth of property has sold in Knox County, some $50 million ahead of the 2013 pace.
Despite encouraging numbers on the real estate side, mortgage lending mar-kets continued to perform somewhat sluggishly. For the month, around $212 million was loaned against real estate in Knox County. While that was some $50 million more than the Feb-ruary total, it was well be-hind last March’s fi gure of $287 million, leading to speculation that refi nancing
may have reached a satura-tion point.
So far in 2014, about $636 million has been loaned in mortgage transac-tions in Knox County, com-pared to $1.03 billion dur-ing the fi rst quarter of 2013.
The largest real estate sale of the month was for a property on Clinch Avenue in the Fort Sanders com-munity. The parcel sold to Pinecrest 1505 Clinch LLC for $3.4 million. The most notable mortgage recording was a loan for $23,085,000 fi nancing several Captain D’s properties in the area.
With the beauty of an East Tennessee spring upon us, I would like to wish ev-eryone a very happy, safe and joyous Easter.Sherry Witt is Knox County Register of
Deeds
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By Bonny C. MillardA new concept in birth-
day parties has arrived in Knoxville, and the party rolls on – rain or shine.
Knoxville residents might have seen GameTruck Greater Knoxville and its colorful 28-foot trailer around town as it travels to party destinations. This is not the typical birthday party with clowns and bal-loons. It is a mobile video game theater.
GameTruck Greater K n o x v i l l e f r a n c h i s e owner Jeff Maples said they book parties in K n o x v i l l e and the sur-r o u n d i n g counties.
The par-ticipants “don’t have to go anywhere,” he said. “We just bring it to them.”
Additionally, the mo-bile facility provides a safe environment for birthday parties, particularly for younger children, he said. The VIP, or birthday child, receives a prize pack with goodies and T-shirt at end.
Maples recently demon-strated the truck’s unique features and capabilities. With fi ve widescreens, GameTruck offers more than 100 video games and activities for partygoers. A
GameTruck Greater Knoxville franchise owner Jeff Maples shows the setup for the mobile video
game theater. Maples co-owns the franchise with his wife, Theresa. Photos by Bonny C. Millard
Game Truck party business is
bench along the opposite wall can seat between 16-20 people. The truck has win-dows that can be opened up in good weather, but it is fully heated and air con-ditioned, which makes it available year round.
The games are up-to-date and offer something for ev-eryone including sports, car chases, dancing and guitar playing. Games run from individual plays to compe-titions between up to four players. If the children are young, Maples gives par-ents an opportunity to look through the selections fi rst to remove the more mature games that might not be age appropriate.
Maples and his wife and co-owner, Theresa, started booking parties last No-vember. Buying the fran-chise was originally his wife’s idea, he said. While in Atlanta, they saw one of the trucks, and his wife and her son were instantly interested. Although not familiar with the company, Theresa Maples knew that it involved video games be-cause of the trailer’s painted panels. Maples said his wife started trying to book the business for her son’s birth-day.
Later, his wife ap-proached him about buying a franchise, and after con-
sidering the possibilities for a few days, he said yes. Both he and his wife still work outside jobs, but they are available to book a party al-most anytime – except Sun-day mornings.
Maples said he’s the op-erations part of the team while his wife handles most of the marketing.
The minimum party time is one and a half hours, but parties usually run about two hours. Maples stays in the trailer, supervising and answering questions, dur-ing the party.
GameTruck Greater Knoxville is also available for educational programs for schools, for church youth programs and for cor-porate gatherings for team building activities or sum-mer picnics.
Maples said he didn’t know what to expect when they started back in No-vember, even after going through training with the company, but he knew the opportunity was there.
“It’s beginning to grow and getting the word out has been the most important thing,” he said.
GameTruck Greater Knoxville will be at the Smokies Baseball Stadium on Tuesday, April 15.
For more information: www.gametruckparty.com.
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■ Networking: Oasis Day Spa,
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p.m., 10420 Kingston Pike,
Knoxville.
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Charlie Daniel shares laughs
Charlie Daniel
By Bonny C. MillardLong-time editorial car-
toonist Charlie Daniel never had any formal art training, but he’s been drawing since he was old enough to pick up a pencil.
His editorial cartoons have been making people in the East Tennessee re-gion laugh for more than 45 years, and a favorite is “Rosy’s Diner.”
Daniel spoke to the Ro-tary Club of Knoxville re-cently, making his second appearance at the Valued Associates Appreciation Day, and kept the crowd laughing with his stories and his “Optimist” speech of 20 questions.
Daniel explained that back in the 1970s, his boss at an-other newspaper was president of the Opti-mist Club and wanted him to talk to the organization.
Despite a fear of public speaking, he ended up doing the presentation and called it his “Optimist” speech.
Daniel told the group that his fear of public speak-ing developed in childhood when a teacher asked him, “What did God put in the ocean?”
He said octopus, and she laughed at his pronunciation of the word and made him repeat it a couple of times. When his family heard the story, they laughed and made him repeat his answer.
Soon total strangers in his hometown were asking him “What did God put in the ocean?”
In college, he had to give a speech so he thought about
that question, which wouldresult in more laughter than
s p e e c h -making.
U n f o r -t u n a t e l y , the student before him told about how her brother had drowned in the ocean.
The professor told Danielthat the speech would havebeen funny in other circum-stances.
Daniel decided the bestway to avoid his fear of pub-lic speaking was to jump
right into the “Question and Answer” portion,
so he made a list of 20 questions. The fi rst one: “What did God
put into the ocean?” The cartoonist had a
new list of questions and an-swers, including some thatpoked fun at his profession:What is the defi nition of aneditorial writer? One whohides in the bushes duringthe battle and then comesout afterwards and shootsthe wounded.
During the real “Q&A,”the cartoonist said that nosubject has been anointed as“off limits” for his editorialpen.
When asked about hismost controversial cartoon,he said, “hopefully everyday.”
At 80, Daniel continues toentertain his audiences.
His cartoon collection,appraised at $2.5 million,has been donated to the Uni-versity of Tennessee’s libraryand has been digitized.
Seasons brings spring to the table
Amanda Lebo listens as chef and owner Deron
Little talks about the new spring menu at Sea-
sons Innovative Bar and Grille. Photos by Justin Acuff
Back in the kitchen, Chris
Logsdon adds some season-
ing to the dish he is preparing.
By Sherri Gardner HowellThe restaurant Farragut residents
knew as Seasons has been through some changes this year. Owner Deron Little, who opened the original Sea-sons in Renaissance Center in 2006 and a second location in Bearden in 2012, closed both restaurants, part-nered with Kelsey Roze and opened Seasons Innovative Bar and Grille in
Turkey Creek. Located at 11605 Park-side Dr., the restaurant kept to its original concept and rolled out a new spring menu on April 3.
Chef Little’s concept has always been to highlight what is fresh and seasonal at the restaurant. Some fa-vorites stay on the menus, but a new season brings new items and specials that utilize ingredients available fresh
during that time of year. Each show-cases Little’s creative fl air and dedica-tion to classic culinary techniques.
Guests at the Menu Release Party on April 3 got a preview.
Included for spring are such dishes as mango shrimp martini, quick-fried artichoke hearts, spring blossom salad and Mediterranean vegetable sand-wich.
Joy and Rick Lebo toast the new spring off er-
ings during the menu release party at Seasons.
Justin and Tristan Pena enjoy the Seasons
spring menu release party.
UT Federal Credit Union joins ‘Jump$tart’
“Stand Up for Financial Literacy” is a program sup-ported by UT Federal Credit Union and the national and state Jump$tart Coalition. Its goal is to get adults talking with kids about money.
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As an undergraduate at Virginia Tech, I attended an early-morning class that so engrossed me and my 300 classmates that the one-
hour lecture fl ew by. It was James Robertson’s Civil War class.
L a s t week, I at-tended the K n o x v i l l e Civil War
Roundtable and was once again thoroughly engrossed by Dr. Robertson.
He is popular as a speaker and author because he is a social, rather than a mili-tary, historian. In all of his work, he endeavors to cap-ture the feelings of the par-ticipants.
“The Civil War, just like everything else, was hu-man,” he said.
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It’s
Uplifting opening toBy Wendy Smith
The brilliant blooms in front of Susie and Sam McCamy’s Cherokee Boule-vard home are likely to stop traffi c on their own. But during last week’s 54th An-nual Dogwood Luncheon, they shared the stage with equally colorful perform-ers.
Cast members of Cirque du Soleil’s “Varekai” show entertained luncheon at-tendees with antics and ac-robatics among the sunlit tulips. Like the fl owers, they never spoke a word.
This is the 60th anniver-sary of the Sequoyah Hills Dogwood Trail, this year’s featured trail. It begins at Kingston Pike and Chero-kee Boulevard and mean-ders through the neighbor-hood, which is bejeweled with redbud and fl owering crab apple blossoms as well as dogwoods. Trees in the recently restored Talahi Park will be lighted at night, a long-ago tradition of the Knoxville Garden Club.
Brandon Parks, president of the Dogwood Arts Festi-val Board of Directors, al-luded to a comment made by New York newspaper re-porter John Gunther, who called Knoxville “the ugliest city I ever saw in America” in 1947. The remark spurred Knoxville Garden Club members, led by Betsey Creekmore, Martha Ashe and Betsy Goodson, to be-gin a civic-beautifi cation project − the Dogwood Trails − in 1955.
Sequoyah Hills Dogwood Trail
Wendy Smith
The human side of the Civil War
Susie McCamy said that Knoxville’s beautiful fl ow-ers made an impression on her when the couple moved here seven years ago. Her grandfather was a whole-sale fl orist, and she enjoyed playing hide-and-seek among his fl owers as a child. Four years ago, her husband agreed to take their land-
scaping “to the next level” to satisfy her desire for more blooms.
“I didn’t appreciate fl ow-ers as much as Susie,” ad-mits Sam. But with the help of landscapers Scott McMeans and Alison Reyn-olds, they brought their yard to life.
Chief Policy Offi cer and
Deputy to the Mayor Bill Ly-ons spoke on behalf of May-or Madeline Rogero, who could not attend the lun-cheon. The Dogwood Arts Festival makes a terrifi c dif-ference to Knoxville, with its emphasis on beautifi ca-tion and the arts, he said.
“It’s truly transformative. Knoxville would not be the
same without the Dogwood Arts Festival.”
Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett noted that he, Sam McCamy and 2014 Dog-wood Arts Festival Co-chair Bert Bertelkamp all attend-ed Bearden High School.
“When we were boys in school, if we were in Se-quoyah Hills, we were usu-
ally asked to leave,” he said.Ann Graf is the Sequoyah
Hills Trail chair, Sue Callo-way is advisory trail chair and Connie Wallace is open gardens chair. The Dog-wood Trails are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through April 27.
Info: www.dogwoodarts.com
Cirque du Soleil “Varekai” cast members perform during last week’s Dogwood Luncheon, held at the home of Susie and Sam McCamy. Photo by Wendy Smith
Exploring the Human Side of War.” One of his stories was of Lizzie Van Lew, a Unionist who was one of the war’s few female spies.
Van Lew baked bread for Union prisoners and tucked notes into the loaves offering assistance if they escaped. She housed hundreds of es-caped prisoners and passed information to Ulysses S. Grant. In later life, she was ostracized as a traitor.
Robertson described the important role of pets dur-ing the war. Every regiment had a mascot, and animals ranged from farm animals to bears. One was a camel.
The most famous was a bald eagle called “Old Abe” that represented the 8th
Robertson
Wisconsin. Even though he screeched and fl apped his wings during battle, the bird was never hit, and af-ter the war, he was guest of honor at various gatherings.
Robertson named several innovations that came about as a result of the Civil War, including the toilet, canned goods, paper money and home mail delivery, which began in an effort to make grief more private for those receiving death notices.
He shared a 1913 photo-graph of Confederate and Union veterans laughing while reenacting Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.
“They paved the way for us to be together tonight,” he said.
The Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meets on sec-ond Tuesdays at Bearden Banquet Hall. Dinner is at 7 p.m., and the speaker be-gins at 8 p.m. Jerry Wooten, manager of Johnsonville State Historic Park, will speak on May 8.
Sisters Helen Ashe and Ellen Turner, founders of The Love Kitchen, are planning the fi rst Love Kitchen Golf Tournament. It will be held Monday, June 9, at Holston
Hills Country Club. Entry fee is $150; tee sponsorship is $250; driving range spon-sorship is $1,000; and shirt sponsorship is $1,000. Info: TheLoveKitchen.org.
Love Kitchen golf tourney
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It is enrollment season at Paideia Academy for the next school year. Program high-lights include Paideia’s chal-lenging classical curriculum, Christian worldview and fam-ily-focused environment.
The school is accepting ap-plications for Pre-K through 12th grade for 2014-15. Home-school Umbrella is available for grades K-8. School tours are scheduled daily by ap-pointment.
S p ring basketball went to a new level as Paideia’s high
school boys basketball team and faculty took to the court in the Cedar Springs Presbyte-rian Church gymnasium. The players were hoping to make good passes, hit crucial free throws and shots and, most importantly, raise money for Paideia Academy’s Nicene Hall.
The stands were packed with students, parents and teachers ready to cheer on their favorite team, and the line for concessions stayed busy most of the night. Be-fore and after the players took the court, students had some free play shooting on the goals. Halftime was full of action with special music and a three-point shoot-out. Lily Moon was the three-point
challenge winner.
The student team and facul-ty faced off in a lively basket-ball game. The game was close and had lots of stars making big plays. Both teams started
off strong, with the faculty team grasping at a four-point lead in the fi rst half. Joe Bru-no and Mark Baker were top scorers for the gray. Bryson McClurkin and Conlan DeLo-renzo led the maroon. Caleb Norris battled Bruno in three-pointers during the second half. Baker took several good rebounds for the faculty in the fi nal minutes, shutting down the students for a 56-48 win.
Nicene Hall raised almost $1,100 at the event. For the last couple of years the stu-dents have partnered with Beardsley Farm, a suburban food center that grows fresh produce for the needy in our area. Nicene Hall has been working with them to create a garden on the Paideia campus. Proceeds from the basketball game will go towards this goal.
Several Paideia Academy students, including sixth grader Mary Clapp, seventh graders Bryan Hairston and Micah McKee, and eighth grader Ayden Case, attended the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair (SASEF) last week at Thompson-Boling Arena. The fair is open to the 23 regional counties in East Tennessee, and more than 180 students
participated in this year’s Ju-nior Middle School Division.
Micah McKee won Honorable Mention in the Earth and Planetary Science Division for her project, “Clean Water with Morringa Seeds.”
Ayden Case’s project, “Cloud Chamber Droplet Formation,” won sev-eral honors in the Math Division, including:
■ A Certifi cate in Excel-lence from SASEF with a cash prize;
■ The Meteorological and Atmospheric Society’s Award for Research in Atmospheric Sciences with a cash prize and publication in the National At-mospheric and Oceanic Asso-ciation’s monthly newsletter;
■ A Certifi cate of Award from Lockheed Martin and the chance to participate in the USA Science and Engineer-ing Festival in Oct., in Wash-ington, D.C.;
■ The American Nuclear Association’s Award for re-search involving chemistry and physics with a cash prize.
Ayden also became the fi rst Paideia student to place in the SASEF regional fair, receiving fi fth place overall and an addi-tional cash prize.
Paideia Academy is thankful for Ms. Unruh and the parent science committee for all their hard work in supporting these budding young scientists.
Nicene Hall holds spring hoops fundraiser
Paideia high school boys basketball team member Bryson McClurkin
goes up for a shot versus the school faculty team in the Nicene Hall
spring hoops fundraiser.
The faculty team gets pumped up for the game. They are: Kent Capps,
Ryan Garner, Mark Baker, special guest Jacob Stock, James Cowart,
Jonathan Kenigson and Joe Bruno.
Bruce Hairston works to guard
Kent Capps of the Paideia faculty
team.
Teacher Melanie Unruh stands with science fair participants.
Science Fair winners at Paideia
The Paideia Academy Annual Golf Classic will be held on Fri-
day, May 9, at the beautiful Ava-lon Golf and Country Club. The four-man swat tournament will offer an afternoon of friendly
golf to benefi t a worthy organi-zation. Players and/or teams may play 18 holes.
Generous sponsors are pro-viding lots of great prizes – course prizes, putting contest,
goody bag, door prizes, and free lunch for all registered golfers. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Proceeds from this event benefi t Paideia Acad-emy’s Annual Fund which sup-
ports need-based tuition schol-arships and property acquisition for future capital development.
Visit PAgolfclassic.com to register or view sponsorship in-formation.
Paideia to host second Annual Golf Classic
Now Enrolling for 2014-15
Call the school office at 865-670-0440 for details.
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NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK
Parkwest Medical Center remains on the forefront of diagnosing and treating disease with the most
advanced technology available…those who entrust their healthcare to us demand nothing less.
But technology alone isn’t enough to bring healing and comfort to patients and families.
True healthcare begins with something less expensive, non-invasive and pain free. It’s called listening.
At Parkwest…listening is state-of-the-art.
“Rather than being distracted by worries about the future or concerns about the past, (mindfulness) is tuning in to
the present and dealing with what is going on right now,” said Dr. William Blevins, explaining how “mindfulness” is
used as a coping tool.
You’re Invited to attend the 2014 Gammon-Heatherly seminar
Day Session: Tuesday, April 29, 1-3 p.m. Location: Thompson Cancer Survival Center auditorium Cost: $25 per registrant
Evening Session: Tuesday, April 29, 6-8 p.m. *Dinner will be provided at 5 p.m. Location: Parkwest Medical Center classrooms Cost: $35 per registrant
For more information or to register, contact Parkwest Chaplain David Bluford at 373-1630 or Chaplain Randy Tingle at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center at 541-1235
Coping through brokennessGammon-Heatherly Series seeks healing through spirituality
It’s been almost a decade since it happened, but “closure” doesn’t come easily – if at all – when your daughter is murdered on the day of your mother’s funeral.
But that’s what Dr. William Blevins – a loving father who has spent a lifetime helping and teach-ing others how to cope with bro-kenness – found himself facing in August 2004 when his daughter failed to show for lunch before his mother’s funeral.
“My two sons went to her apart-ment which was two miles away to check on her because she didn’t answer the phone. That’s when we discovered that she had been mur-dered,” recounted Blevins, a li-censed professional counselor and retired professor of counseling at Carson-Newman University who will be the guest speaker of this year’s Gammon-Heatherly Series.
The annual Gammon-Heath-erly Series, a seminar focusing on caregivers as well as care re-ceivers, will be presented twice Tuesday, April 29. The fi rst pre-sentation will be at the Thompson Cancer Survival Center’s auditori-um from 1-3 p.m. The second will be at Parkwest Medical Center’s education classrooms beginning with dinner at 5 p.m. and lecture from 6-8 p.m.
Titled “The Power of Spiritu-ality for Health, Wholeness and Well-Being,” the lecture will con-sider practical ways that spiri-tuality positively infl uences our health, quality of life and daily coping ability, especially when circumstances leave us broken and hopeless.
David Bluford, Parkwest chap-lain who organized the event along with Fort Sanders Regional chaplain Randy Tingle, said the series is always “thought-provok-ing and insightful” and provides a good networking opportunity with clergy and lay persons from the community. “We all come to the table with a different desire, and spirituality seeks to look at the person and how that impacts their treatment options,” Bluford said, adding that area clergy, laity, caregivers and care receivers can all benefi t from the lectures.
The lectures fall right in line with the mission of the William Blevins Institute for Spirituality and Mental Health, named in his honor by Carson-Newman Uni-versity following his retirement
Featured speaker Dr. William BlevinsWilliam L. Blevins has a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Car-son-Newman College, a Master of Divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a doctor of philosophy from New Orleans Bap-tist Theological Semi-nary, and an Education Specialist degree from the University of Ten-nessee. He also has
done postdoctoral studies at Oxford University, England.
Blevins joined Carson-Newman’s faculty in 1966, teaching or serving as
chair of the Southern Baptist liberal arts college’s religion department for the next 24 years. In 1994, he launched a master’s program in mental health counseling.
After his retirement in 2012, the university named the William Blevins Institute for Spirituality and Mental Health in his honor. Today, he serves as director of the institute and as an adjunct professor. He is also contin-ues in a private counseling practice as a licensed marriage and family thera-pist and licensed professional coun-selor.
He has authored four books: “Your Family – Your Self”; “Hidden
Grace: Coping With Loss and Grief”; “Care and Maintenance of the Chris-tian Life”; and “Birth of a New Testa-ment.” He is currently writing a fi fth book, this one on aspects of neurosci-ence and the teachings of Jesus. For more than 20 years he has written a weekly newspaper column on family matters.
Blevins and his wife, Carolyn, a retired Baptist historian who retired from Carson-Newman as associate professor of religion emerita, have four children and fi ve grandchildren.
in 2012. “The Institute serves healthcare professionals, teach-ers, students, organizations and all interested persons by provid-ing education, information, re-search, training and services to improve holistic health in our area,” he said. “In addition, the Institute supports and encour-ages dialogue between clinicians, clergy and all others interested in the connection between spiritual-ity, religion and mental health as these promote individual growth and well-being.”
As such, Blevins’ lecture will review recent research on the re-lationship between spirituality, holistic health and general well-being as he seeks to “reframe and defi ne” the concepts of spirituality and holistic health.
“Spirituality and religion are not identical,” he says. “Religion is one expression of spirituality, but spirituality involves more than religious expression/practice; also, healing and curing are not identi-cal. A person can be healed and not cured or cured and not healed. Healing has to do with wholeness.”
What’s more, Blevins says, no less than 100 medical colleges across the United States now of-
fer spirituality in their course-work – proof that conventional medicine is beginning to see its complementary value in treating the whole person.
Blevins, who did his post-doc-toral studies at the prestigious Oxford University in England, recently attended a psychother-apy conference at Harvard Medical School in which “mindful-ness” was closely examined as a coping tool.
“Mindfulness is a technique of tuning in to the present mo-ment,” he ex-plains. “It is under a broad-er category of m e d i t a t i o n but it is a very widely used technique now for people with all manner of problems, or it can either be a spiritual discipline or it can be a
scientifi c discipline. Rather than being distracted by worries about the future or concerns about the past, it is tuning in to the present and dealing with what is going on right now.”
Blevins will also discuss how “spiritual practices” have aided him and his family in coping with the nightmare of his daughter’s death.
“We had to go from the crime scene to a funeral home for my mother’s funeral,” Blevins said. “So it was a pretty big emotional event. Of course, there’s no real complete resolution of any kind for a situation like that.
“My wife and I both are at dif-ferent places now,” he added. “She’s written a book (“A Jour-ney of Peace and Pain: Learning from Loss”) about her response and coping with it, and I’ve just fi nished writing “Hidden Grace: Coping With Loss and Grief”… but spiritual practices like regu-larly practicing gratitude for my daughter helped me cope with the hostility and the negative feelings that I had for the guy who killed her. It’s completely changed my life around emotionally. … I’m a person of faith, too, but the spiri-tual practices help me, my wife and my whole family cope with her death and it sustained us and it has helped us grow as persons through this.”
The Gammon-Heatherly Series at the TCSC Auditorium is $25 per registrant, $35 (dinner included) at the Parkwest lecture. For more information or to register, contact Parkwest Chaplain David Bluford at 373-1630 or Chaplain Randy Tingle at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center at 541-1235. For more information about the Wil-liam Blevins Institute for Spiritu-ality and Mental Health, visit the Counseling area of the Graduate & Adult Studies programs at www.cn.edu.
William L.
Blevins
Memorial Service May 4A memorial service is held quarterly for family mem-
bers who have experienced the loss of a loved one at Parkwest anytime during the previous three months. The purpose of these services is to allow friends and family members the opportunity to come back to our facility, interact with others who have had a similar ex-perience and hear the names read aloud of all those who passed away during this time. Parkwest’s next memorial service is 3 p.m. Sunday, May 4, in the chapel.
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Family Justice Center named for Randy NicholsDistrict Attorney General Randy Nichols (speaking) pretended to be surprised last week when
the maintenance crew pulled a big canvas cover hanging over the front of the Family Justice
Center on Harriet Tubman Street to reveal that the building will henceforth be known as the
Randall E. Nichols Family Justice Center. Nichols is retiring this year. Mayor Tim Burchett (in back)
presided. The Family Justice Center serves victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and
provides the services of prosecutors, investigators, clergy and social service professionals. Photoby Betty Bean
By Betty Bean“Walk the streets of a city
torn in two by divided loy-alties and then get an over-view of the fi ghting from the observation deck of the Sunsphere. Spies, bridge burners, miracle shots, be-trayal and battle.”
Laura Still tells stories. She’s written plays and po-etry and in the fall will pub-lish “A Haunted History of Knoxville,” a book of ghost stories based on the guided walking tours of downtown she’s been conducting for the past couple of years. There’s the Civil War Tour (described above), a Ghost Tour, a Gunslingers’ Tour, a Musical History Tour, a Lit-erary Heritage Tour and an Early Years Tour.
She got the idea for Knox-ville Walking Tours when she was working at the Visi-tors Center and tourists kept asking if she knew someone who could walk around with them and explain Knoxville history.
When she told her boy-friend and business partner, Brent Minchey, about it, he thought she should give it a try.
“He nagged me, and my friend Andie Ray nagged me, and the fi rst tour started in June 2012,” she said. She has consulted with writer/historian Jack Neely, who has given her access to all of his writings and research and has been a great source of encouragement.
Still, whose poetry collec-tion “Guardians” was pub-lished in 2009, would have gotten around to launching the walking-tour business sooner, but she got a schol-arship to study poetry at a
Laura Still conducts a Ghost Tour. Photo submitted
Telling Knoxville’s stories:
A walk with Laura Still
Marilyn Kallett seminar in Auvillar, France, that was too good to pass up.
“She teaches there every year, through the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and had been encouraging me to apply. I fi nally got an ap-plication in early enough to be eligible to go, and it was great! It was a work/study scholarship, and all I had to do was wash dishes. People joked and called me Cinder-ella, but it really wasn’t very hard, and it didn’t interfere with writing poetry.”
Originally from the Tri-Cities, Still came to Knox-ville when she was 20 to take her fi rst job as a dental hygienist.
“I was going to stay a couple of years, but here I am, 34 years later, still here. Knoxville does that to you.”
She is the mother of two sons, Winston and Bren-nan Sullivan. Winston is an opera singer with a master’s degree in vocal performance from the Uni-versity of West Virginia in Morgantown. Brennan is a freshman at ETSU major-ing in pre-physical therapy, but is also a talented singer and actor who sometimes helps with the walking tours when he is in town.
Church Street United Methodist Church has been a big part of her family’s life and was the inspiration for a 2010 book of plays she wrote after participating in a chil-dren’s drama workshop. She teaches Sunday school there and has participated in 14 annual nativity pageants.
Her job as a dental hy-gienist went away when the
By Betty BeanLooking for a fun, educa-
tional, no-cost spring and summer activity for pre-schoolers in a beautiful set-ting close to home?
Check out Stories in the Garden at Knoxville Botani-cal Garden and Arboretum at 1 p.m. every Wednesday until Halloween, sponsored by the University of Tennes-see’s ECO Garden project.
ECO stands for “Every Child Outdoors,” says Wen-dy Prothro Howard, ECO Garden program coordina-tor. The project is funded by the Tennessee Department of Health through a “Proj-ect Diabetes” grant and administered by Howard’s employer, the University of Tennessee’s Human Dimen-
sions Research Lab at the Forestry, Wildlife and Fish-eries Department.
“Stories in the Garden is free, and so is everything else we do here, except sum-mer camp,” Howard said. “It’s here on the grounds in an area called the outdoor classroom. There’s a but-terfl y garden nearby, along with a council ring built by Boy Scouts a couple of years ago and a stage under the trees.”
The story hour, now in its second year, was created by UT senior Anna Robinson, who was doing an intern-ship at the botanical garden. She and Howard worked to-gether and designed a for-mat that includes reading a gardening-related story,
a craft, an outdoor activity and a snack.
Area businesses have helped. Last year, Earth Fare came on a day the kids were reading about earth-worms and brought cups of cookie-crumb “dirt” fi lled with granola and gummi worms – very popular, Howard said.
“With Project Diabetes, we are trying to get kids learning where food comes from so they can begin to make good choices of healthy snacks as opposed to candy bars.” Howard said. “They really get ex-cited.”
Knoxville Botanical Gar-dens and Arboretum is at 2743 Wimpole Ave. in East Knoxville.
Summer fun for preschoolers
Stories in the garden
Wendy Prothro Howard Photo by Betty Bean
dentist she worked for shut down his practice, and she has worked at Three Rivers Market in recent years. Her
tour business is growing, and she does them year-round, except for January and February. The cost is
reasonable ($10-$30), and she can be reached at 865-309-4522 or at [email protected].
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THROUGH TUESDAY, APRIL 15Registration open for UT-led Wildfl ower
Pilgrimage to be held April 15-19. Tickets: $75 per person for two or more days; $50 for single-day tickets; $15 students with ID. To register: http://www.springwildfl owerpilgrimage.org. Info: 436-7318, ext. 222.
THROUGH WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16Deadline for early team registration for the
KARM Dragon Boat Festival. Early registration includes a discounted fee and other options. The KARM Dragon Boat Festival is 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 21. Info/to register: www.karm.org/dragonboats or 633-7625.
THROUGH SATURDAY, MAY 17Tickets on sale for Tennessee Theatre’s annual
“Stars on Stage” event. Kenny Rogers will headline the event, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 17. Proceeds will benefi t the Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation.
THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 8Registration open for AMSE Science Explorer
Camp for rising 5th, 6th and 7th graders. Two sessions: June 9-13, June 16-20. Info/to register: http://amse.org/visitors/summer-camps/.
MONDAY, APRIL 14Tennessee Shines featuring Knoxville native
Robby Hecht and The Sea The Sea, 7 p.m., WDVX studio, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Broad-cast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets: $10, at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Info: www.WDVX.com.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15Computer Workshops: Word 2007 Basics,
5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215-8700.
Parent workshop: “College Planning and Admis-sions,” 7-8:30 p.m., Lane Music in Franklin Square, 9648 Kingston Pike. Hosted by Collegiate Blueprint and Test-ing Solutions. Info: Jesse Hedrick, [email protected]; Laurie Brandow, [email protected].
UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meeting, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice offi ce, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reserva-tion: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16Book Sandwiched In lunch and learn, noon,
East Tennessee History Center auditorium, 601 S. Gay St. Topic: “Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know” by Robert Paarlberg, presented by UT history professor Dr. John Bohstedt. Info: 215-8801.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17Parent to Parent Support meeting for parents of
children with mental health diagnoses, 6-8 p.m., K-TOWN Youth Empowerment Network, 901 E. Summit Hill Drive. Info: Alicia, 474-6692 or [email protected].
Empty Bowls charity event, 6-8 p.m., Einstein Bros. Bagels, 11693 Parkside Dr. All donations to benefi t Fish Pantry, associated with the United Methodist Church. Last seating, 7:30. Tickets: Farragut High School offi ce, 966-9775 during school hours; or stop by Einstein Bros. Bagels. Hosted by Einstein Bros. Bagels and Farragut High School chapter National Art Honor Society (NAHS).
Maundy Thursday Service, 7 p.m., Beaver Ridge United Methodist Church, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 690-1060; www.beaverridgeumc.com.
Maundy Thursday, Holy Eucharist with Foot Wash-ing and Stripping of the Altar, 7 p.m., St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway, Knoxville. Info: 523-5687.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18Good Friday Service, noon, Beaver Ridge United
Methodist Church, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 690-1060; www.beaverridgeumc.com.
Good Friday Liturgy, noon, St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway. Stations of the Cross, 1 and 3 p.m.; Good Friday Liturgy, featuring the chant ensemble Orison, 7 p.m. Info: 523-5687.
Concert of Darkness, 7 p.m., Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road. Admission is free; $5 donation suggested. Info: www.westsideuuc.org.
SATURDAY, APRIL 19Poets Marilyn Kallet and Keith Norris will
read, 3 p.m., Historic Westwood, 3425 Kingston Pike. Part of Poets for Preservation spring poetry series. Refreshments served. Guests invited to look around the newly restored mansion after the readings.
Girls on the Run 5k, 9 a.m., West Bicycles in the Village Green Shopping Center, 11531 Kingston Pike. Day of registration, 8 a.m., $25. Online registration, http://www.gotrknoxville.org, $20. Info: http://www.gotrknoxville.org.
Free charity workout, 9 a.m., Unlimited Train-ing Systems, 142 N. Martinwood Road. Sponsored by EdFinancial Services to benefi t Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee. Suggested donation: $10.
Thunder Road 2014, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., American Commissary, 1209 E. Broadway in Lenoir City. Book signing by “Return to Thunder Road” author Alex Gab-bad; appearance by Rick Toombs. Cars from all eras welcome. No entry fee. Info: 816-3519.
SUNDAY, APRIL 20Sunrise Service, 7 a.m., Beaver Ridge United Meth-
odist Church, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway. Easter Sun-day Worship Service, 9 and 11 a.m. Info: 690-1060; www.beaverridgeumc.com.
Easter Vigil, 6:45 a.m., St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 N. Broadway. Festival Eucharist, 10:30 a.m., fol-lowed by Easter Egg hunt. Info: 523-5687.
MONDAY, APRIL 21Tennessee Shines featuring The Naughty Knots,
7 p.m., WDVX studio, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets: $10, at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Info: www.WDVX.com.
Application deadline for Biscuit Baking Contest held during the International Biscuit Festival. Finalists will bake live at the Festival. Info/applications: www.BiscuitFest.com.
“Massacre at Cavett Station,” 6 p.m. Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.,
Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike. Guest speaker: bestselling Irish author Glenn Meade. All-inclu-sive lunch: $12. RSVP by Monday, April 21: 983-3740.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24Boutique sale preview party and silent auc-
tion to benefi t Knoxville Habitat for Humanity, 5:30-8:30 p.m., The Gallery of Knoxville, 7240 Kingston Pike. Tickets: $25. Info/tickets: 523-3539, https://www.knoxvillehabitatforhumanity.com/boutique.
Parent to Parent Support meeting for parents of children with mental health diagnoses, 6-8 p.m., K-TOWN Youth Empowerment Network, 901 E. Summit Hill Drive. Info: Alicia, 474-6692 or [email protected].
Free acrylic painting demonstration by artist Terry Chandler, 5-7 p.m., Art and Frame Outlet, 10811 Kingston Pike. Light hors d’oeuvres served; free hand-signed print from the artist. Everyone invited.
THURSDAYS, APRIL 24-MAY 22Diabetes Management Series, 6:30 p.m., Knox
County Health Department auditorium, 140 Dameron Ave. Free fi ve-part series; open to the public. To register: 215-5170.
FRIDAY, APRIL 25UT Science Forum speaker: Pete Claussen,
founder and CEO of Gulf and Ohio Railways Inc. and Knoxville Locomotive Works, noon, Room C-D of Thomp-son-Boling Arena. Topic: “Green Locomotives.” Free and open to the public. Info: http://scienceforum.utk.edu.
ARTitude 2014 – Inspired Creations Celebrat-ing Courage and Survivorship, 7-10 p.m., Atrium at Cherokee Mills, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Features a silent auction, as well as an Artist Marketplace. All proceeds benefi t Cancer Support Community. Info: 546-4661; www.CancerSupportET.org; or Margaux Cowan-Banker, [email protected].
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 25-26Bowl For Kids’ Sake at Fountain Lanes, 3315 N
Broadway St. Times: 4-9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat-urday. To register a team: www.BowlForKidsToday.org.
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Lost & Found 13 LOST MIXED BREED
DOG. Brown/white, 30-35 lbs., Collar, Neutered, Micro-chipped. Last seen: South Roane Cty, near Paint Rock - close to Kingston, Loudon, Sweetwater. 865-717-3884; 250-4368
Special Notices 15
WERE YOU IM-PLANTED WITH A
ST. JUDE RIATA
DEFIBRILLATOR LEAD WIRE
between June 2001 and December 2010? Have you had this
lead replaced, capped or did you receive
shocks from the lead? You may be entitled
to compensation. Contact Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727
Adoption 21ADOPT: LOVING
MOM & DAD promise your baby warmth and security. Exp. paid. Denise and
Nick, 1-866-664-1213.
Homes 40CHEAP Houses For Sale
Up to 60% OFF 865-309-5222
www.CheapHousesTN.com
NEW CONSTRUCTION 3/2, 2 car garage, 1 acre. $218,000.
865-429-1309.
Cemetery Lots 492 sites outer containers,
Lynnhurst Cemetery, open/closing fees all incl. 865-925-2318
Real Estate Wanted 50WE BUY HOUSES
Any Reason, Any Condition 865-548-8267
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Real Estate Service 53Prevent Foreclosure
Free Help 865-365-8888
www.PreventForeclosureKnoxville.com
Comm. Prop. - Rent 66CA$H for your House! Cash Offer in 24 Hours
865-365-8888 HVBuysHouses.com
Apts - Unfurnished 711 BR Powell, NOW 1/2 rent. Gorgeous, all appl, DW, disp., stove/ref. water pd. $150 DD. Secured bldg. $510 mo. 865-384-1099
Apts - Furnished 72WALBROOK STUDIOS
251-3607 $140 weekly. Discount
avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic
Cable. No Lse.
Houses - Unfurnished 74NORTH, Ftn. City,
brick 3BR, 2BA, 2 car gar. Very Nice. $895. No pets, Credit ck.,
865-680-1954.
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Picture SNBLANK-THREE.eps Size: 1 x 3
GROOMING SALON interviewing for PT bather/brusher posi-tion. Must be de-pendable, mature, flexible & moti-vated. Call 865-777-2275 to set up inter-view.
Healthcare 110PRIVATE DUTY CNA needed for UT Med Center Home Care, contact Kelly Noel 865.544.6260 or kelly. [email protected]
Store Equipment 133b11 GLASS DOORS
WALK IN COOLER. Made by Warren,
23 1/2'x 7 1/2' inside Dimensions. 36"
service door, $6000 obo. 865-318-9399.
Dogs 141Australian Shepherd
Puppies, 8 wks. old, 1st S & W. $300. 865-690-1623; 865-622-0233
***Web ID# 394154***
Boston Terrier Pups, CKC, 3M - 1 neut., all pup vacs, P.O.P., $500. 865-216-5770
***Web ID# 392503***
COLLIE, Purebred Lassie w/papers, 8 mo. Needs loving home. $100. 865-919-4626
Doberman Pups, 6 wks, S&W, blacks & blues, parents on couch, $300. 865-428-6981
***Web ID# 392357***
GERMAN SHEPHERD MALE PUP AKC
Black & red 865-856-6548
GER. SHEPHERD Pups, sable, wht, shots, champ. bldln, $189. 865-712-2366
***Web ID# 392597***
MIN. SCHNAUZERS, Reg., 1 black male, 1 black fem., 8 wks old, $400. 423-736-0277
***Web ID# 394761***
PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds
Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles,
Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots
& wormed. We do layaways. Health guar. Div. of Animal Welfare
State of TN Dept. of Health.
Lic # COB0000000015. 423-566-3647
judyspuppynursery.com
SHELTIE PUPPIES, AKC, 2nd deworming, 1st shots, 1 F sable merle, 1 male dark sable & white, 2 F dark sable & white, parents on site. $350. 865-523-4715
SHELTIES, Sable & white, AKC Reg. Ch.
bldln. 16 mo.- 3 yrs. M & F. $400-$800. Account death ASSA member, breeder & exhibitor
offering Shelties for sale to companion homes.
Spay & neuter contracts only. 865-719-2040
Dogs 141Weimaraner puppies,
AKC reg. $500, 5M, 5F, vet ckd, health guar., tails docked, dew claws removed, shots/wormed, 423-231-3185
***Web ID# 392917***
Horses 1432004 EXISS 3 horse
slant load w/living quarters & new awning, $9,999. 865-607-3093
Free Pets 145
ADOPT! Looking for an addi-tion to the family?
Visit Young-Williams Animal Center, the official shelter for
Knoxville & Knox County.
Call 215-6599 or visit
knoxpets.org
Farmer’s Market 150LIKE NEW Kubota tractor w/box blade, $11,500. Call Walter,
865-988-7364.
Building Materials 188Cherry & Walnut
lumber, rough sawn 1" & thicker, seasoned, approx 2500 board ft. Claxton area. Call 918-633-9964
Lawn-Garden Equip. 19042" CUT John Deere,
$625. Ready for mowing. Phone 865-922-6408
INTERNATIONAL CUB CADET 102 tractor, $1250. 865-546-6438
Computers 196DELL PC fully encl.
oak wood cab. $400 all. Will sell sep. 423-215-2211.
Music Instruments 198ROLAND AT70 Organ,
Beautiful, electronics refurbished. Warranty. $2450. 865-258-3400
Misc. Items 203HOBART MEAT SLICER
12". $180
865-428-5870
Household Furn. 204Bed, Pillow top mattress
set. Never used. $165. Can deliver. 404-587-0806
QUEEN SIZE
MATTRESS SET
NEW IN PLASTIC,
$199. 865-805-3058.
Household Appliances 204a
GOOD AS NEW APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty 865-851-9053 2001 E. Magnolia Ave. LG Appliances, like
new. Dishwasher $450. Dbl Oven $1800. Gas Cook Top, 5 burner, $750. Microwave $275. Or best offers. 865-690-1295
Collectibles 213WANTED: OLD 78
RPM RECORDS (Victrola hand crank phonograph type)
from 1920's-30's, espe-cially early country, guitar blues, some jazz. 423-507-9004
Arts Crafts 215Dozens of ceramic
molds for sale. Have been in storage. No reasonable offer
refused. 865-307-3625
Quilting Frame
Z44 professional Fabra- Fast edition hand quilting frame. Top of the line. Extends as large as king sz, folds up even with fabric installed, fully adjustable, incl: Start Right leader cloth (gridded cloth), fully assembled. Will deliver Knox Co. $400. 865-932-4344
***Web ID# 392588***
Bicycles 218MEN & Women's 7
speed bikes. New $375 ea. Now $150 ea. Many extras. 2 bike carrier rack, new $320, now $100. Len. Cty, 865-986-4988
Medical Supplies 219Adj. Queen bed with
mattress, frame, box sprgs & controls, $450 obo. 865-690-1150
China Crystal Flatware 221178 pc Chinese blue &
white rice pattern china $350, estate items & more. 865-458-6088 Tellico
Sporting Goods 223ELEC. E-Z-GO GOLF CART 2006, exc. cond. w/ windshield, top, club cvr. $1750. 865-274-2071
Boats Motors 2322007 24' Tritoon, 350
HP I/O Mercruiser, 62 hrs, located in Ten Mile. $20,000 firm. 865-717-4799
2013 Bass Tracker boat & trailer, 60 HP 4-stroke Mercury, 20 hrs, trolling motor, fish finder, gar. kept. Exc cond. $13,000. Karns area, 217-750-2564
***Web ID# 392567***
BAYLINER, 175BR, 2010, 17.5 ft., bow rider, runabout, 135 hp i/o, very cln. w/ low hrs., trailer, $12,500, 865-250-4306
Houseboat. Somerset 1985, 62x14', V8 Mercury eng. new 2006, gas 335 HP. Trade for townhouse or condo or sell $79,000. 865-224-4546
TAHOE 2004 Q4 S/F, 20' 190 HP Mercruiser,
I/O, exc. cond. $10,500 neg. Call for
more info. 423-562-1338.
X18 LAKESPORT 2005 40 HP Yamaha motor w/trl. mtr., $4500. 865-771-2702.
***Web ID# 390051***
Campers 2352012 19' Gulfstream
Amerilite camper, like new, sleeps 4, $8,500. 865-455-9626
2012 KZ Travel Trailer, 28', priced to sell. www.rvregistry.com/ 1003270.htm or call 865-456-7770 for info.
***Web ID# 388763***
EVEREST BY KEYSTONE, 32' 5th
wheel, new roof & AC, 2 slide outs, exc. cond. $16,000/bo, 865-457-4955
FOREST RIVER Mini-Lite Travel Trailer, 2010, 18' all fiber glass 24,000 lbs. fully equipped. Absolutely like new. $9,800. 865-567-8322
Rockwood Signature Ultralite 8317SS 2010, 33', like new, loaded, $19,000, NADA 29,609.
Call 865-599-2869.
Campers 235
NEW & PRE-OWNED INVENTORY SALE
2014 MODEL SALE CHECK US OUT AT
Northgaterv.com or call 865-681-3030
Motor Homes 2372003 FOURWIND 5000 Class C motor home,
8,800 mi. $28,995. 865-539-4358
BLUE OX Tow Bar, new $1000; sell for $300. Lenoir City 865-986-4988
DUTCHMAN 1998 C-CLASS
31 ft., 29,000 mil. $18,000; 865-257-1554 HOLIDAY RAMBLER PST 2003, 38 ft diesel, Pristine! Luxury mod. 3 slides. 35,200 mi. Great amenities, $65,000 (NADA $70,000+). 865-567-4774 / 397-3664
Motorcycles 238 CAN-AM SPYDER ST 2013, less than 50 mi, lots of motorcycle clothes, Why spend $3,000 more? Reduced to $18,250 /reas. offer. $22,000 invested. 865-233-2545; 250-5531
HARLEY DAVIDSON Ultra Classic 2009, black & a lot of chrome. 1100 mi., $17,500. 423-404-2862.
HD 1200 Sportster eng. trans. 2006 take out. Runs good. Have receipt. Other parts avail. $1550. 865-690-2690
HD 1980 Shovelhead, 1340cc, red, eng. rebuilt, $5,000 obo. Tony 423-377-9970
HD Road King FLHR 2008, Recently serviced with 2 new tires and brakes. Two-Tone Red. Mike 865-254-8468
HONDA SHADOW VT700C 1985, adult
owned, water cooled, good tires, 11K mi.,
$2500 obo. 865-988-8832, or 548-1176.
Kawasaki Classic 1600 2003, 9600 mi, mustang seat, windshield $3,975. 865-335-4766
SUZUKI 1994 1400 Intruder, 20k mi, gar. kept, beaut. extra chrome, bags & more. $2500. 865-521-4179
SUZUKI 2006, S-50, 5,300 mi. Exc. Cond., lots of extras, Not a scratch
on it. $3,500; 865-363-4295
Auto Accessories 254
FORD GRANADA Good Body Parts. Call 865-724-3530
Vans 256CHEVY Venture 2001
LS, dual AC, Onstar, loaded, 3 row seats, Video, rear AC, 158K mi, pretty maroon color, exc cond., $4400. Call or text 703-501-0175
***Web ID# 392646***
DODGE Caliper 2008 SXT, 87k mi. Exc. cond. $8000. Call or Text 703-501-0175
***Web ID# 392633***
Dodge Caravan Handi-cap Van 2005, 49k mi, trans. seat, $17,500. 865-544-0070
FORD 2004 Freestar SES, white, exc cond., loaded, Ult. soccer mom's car, 3 row seats, remov. Heat or AC in rear. 178k mi, $4400 firm. Call or text 703-501-0175
***Web ID# 392642***
HONDA ODYSSEY 2004, loaded, great cond., clean. $6200. Call 865-363-9018. MAZDA MPV,
2002, $1500, 865-577-2458 Leave Message.
Nissan Quest SE 2004 ult. perf. soccer mom van, 160k mi, every opt. Pwr slid drs. Nav., 3 DVD, dual AC, $8,000. Call or text 703-501-0175 ***Web ID# 392637***
Trucks 257FORD RANGER 1994 PU, 5 spd., air, $3195.
Call 865-684-3468.
GMC SIERRA SLE crew cab 2008, 37K mi., Michelins, Immaculate! $22,900. 865-382-0365.
Honda Ridgeline 2013, 6 mos old, 300 mi, 4x4, every factory opt. deep
cherry red, tan int., $37,500 firm. 865-429-8585
Comm Trucks Buses 259Ford F700 Chip Truck
1983, complete & in working order, Reduced for quick sale $2350 or make offer. 705-7077
HINO FE2620 Flatbed 2000, 37,000 mil.
great shape, $17,000 Call 423-569-8062
Antiques Classics 260CHEVY CORVETTE 1981, T-top, red w/blk leather int. 8403 mi. $16,500/bo. 865-689-8377 ***Web ID# 393170***
CHRYSLER Crossfire 2006 conv. Black on
black, 6 stick! Heated seats, all pwr. $13,900. 57K mi., 239-200-5191. ***Web ID# 389621***
Sport Utility 261CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT 2005, 4 dr., 124K mi., black ext., drk. gray int., good cond.
Asking $10,500. Call 865-342-5500.
Imports 262BMW 2002 325i Conv.,
nav., spec. rims & tires, exc cond, all opts. $7,200. Call or text 703-501-0175
***Web ID# 392639***
BMW 2005 645i conv., nav., lthr, every opt., beautiful car, 97K mi, $23,000. Call or text 703-501-0175
***Web ID# 392648***
BMW 745i 2002, every opt. incl. back priv. shades, perf. car. $9000. Call or text 703-501-0175
***Web ID# 392652***
CHRYSLER SEBRING conv. 24K mi., like
new. $3500 firm. Call Walter 865-988-7364.
TOYOTA Camry XLE 1999, V6, lthr., Alloy
whls, sunroof, spoiler, new brakes & rotors, garaged, well maint. records, Exc., 167K
mi., $5500. 865-531-9005; Call 865-680-6272.
Toyota Corolla 2006, 108K mi, AT, 4 dr, champagne, good cond. $6,500. 865-363-3741
***Web ID# 391121***
VOLVO 1991 240, AT, AC, pwr wind., great cond. Dep. & safe. $3600. 865-661-7369
Sports 264CHEVY CORVETTE
'07, only 9K mi., Monterey Red, AT, next thing to new, $34,995- 865-376-5167
SHELBY GT 500 Coupe 2008, 6300 mi, exc. cond. $35,000. 865-232-2330
***Web ID# 394942***
Domestic 265Buick Lucerne 2006,
loaded, CXL, V8, black, 82K mi, $8500. 865-988-6427
FORD PROBE 1993, great 2nd car., 2.0 eng. super gas mi., $2500. 865-922-8778.
Elderly Care 324RESIDENTIAL HOME CARE for your elderly loved
one with 24-hr care. Registered nurse.
Lic'd/bonded. 7 days/wk. 865-335-6337
Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE in-
stallation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328
Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER
SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.
Landscaping 338
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& LAWNCARE Spring Specials!
Res. Lawns $25. Brn hdwd mulch $30/yd
installed. Dyed mulch $45/yd installed. Brush removal/
cleanup. 865-250-9405
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