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By Anne HartIf world travels are on your

bucket list, there’s a way to reach that goal without ever wandering far from your home.

Just ask local artist Melanie Wood for a tour of her home.

There you may gaze upon fi elds of sunfl owers in Tuscany and idyl-lic farmhouses in the south of France, or acres of bluebonnets in Texas and scenes along the Maine shore. Even closer to home, glimpse sailboats on the Tennes-see River or Ayres Hall on The Hill at the University of Tennessee.

Each scene has been created in

oil paint on canvas, and each is ex-quisite.

Every spring, when Wood and her husband, Tom, open their home in West Knoxville to the public during the Dogwood Arts DeTour event, they re-move their own art collection and replace it with Melanie’s impressionist oils on canvas that literally map the couple’s world travels.

But that isn’t all.Not only does the house show-

case Melanie’s paintings, but so do surrounding terraces and patios, where canvases of all sizes are happily tucked in next to pots of bright red geraniums and bloom-

ing daisies or posed near a cascading wa-terfall whose music provides appropriate ac-companiment

to the lovely blooms – both the liv-ing ones and those on canvas.

It’s a visual wonderland.A high-end interior designer

earlier in her life, Melanie uses

Travel the world with Melanie Woodher skills to showcase her work to its best advantage. Pieces are displayed as they would be in any home – the perfect way to let po-tential buyers know how the art might look on their own walls.

Throughout the living and din-ing areas and in adjacent hallways, there are landscapes of widely varying scenes from this country and others interspersed with fl o-ral compositions.

In the spacious kitchen, coun-tertop easels display paintings of brightly colored roosters, chick-

By Betty BeanA new housing development for

homeless veterans in North Knox-ville is getting strong support from the community.

Washington Oaks consists of three two-story brick buildings at 3225 Washington Pike and will have 16 apartments – one for a res-ident manager and 15 for homeless veterans. A caseworker will be on-site during the day. It will be run by the Helen Ross McNabb Center and is a legacy project of former director Andy Black, who retired last year. Black, himself a veteran, took a personal interest in provid-ing housing for homeless veterans who have received a mental health or substance abuse diagnosis.

The project has received fund-ing from several sources, includ-ing the city of Knoxville, United Way, and a big boost from Randy Boyd, who chaired last year’s United Way campaign.

Helen Ross McNabb spokesper-son Emily Scheuneman said that when HRM representatives heard that Boyd wanted to raise money for a capital need, and preferred to invest in a shovel-ready project,

‘Say It Loud’ at Pellissippi State

Pellissippi State Community College’s Magnolia Avenue Campus will host a showing of “Say It Loud: Knoxville During the Civil Rights Era,” a documentary chronicling local events that were part of the Civil Rights Movement, 2-3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in the community room.

The community is invited to the free event, which features a brief presentation by Theotis Robinson Jr., one of the fi rst African-American students to desegregate the UT campus in 1961. The campus is at 1610 E. Magnolia Ave.

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Biz signs coming to I-640 at mall

Businesses can register now for logo signs at Exit 8 on Interstate 640 at Knoxville Center Mall.

City Council member Nick Della Volpe said, “The door formally opens July 1, but don’t wait.” He, the East Towne Business Alliance and others have worked to obtain signage to support businesses in and around the mall.

Eligible businesses are food, gasoline, lodging or special attractions located within three miles of the exit. If excess stores apply, those closest to the exit will be chosen, Della Volpe said. Annual rate is $527, a price that could increase. Forms are on-line at www.tnlogos.com. Info: state contractor Steve Wolter-man at 877-907-0036.

By Bill DockeryThe Muse Knoxville is undergo-

ing a dramatic renaissance. A new board with a broadened mission has retooled the former East Ten-nessee Discovery Center, which has occupied a quiet corner of Chilhowee Park for decades.

“We’ve had four times the num-ber of visitors in winter 2015 that we had in winter 2014,” said Ellie Kittrell, executive director of the children’s museum, which fea-tures hands-on science exhibits, the city’s only public planetarium and a school outreach program.

“In the calendar year before the renovations, we had fewer than 7,000 visitors, and half of those came during the Tennessee Valley Fair, when we didn’t charge ad-mission. In the last three months, we’ve had 17,000 visitors.”

Kittrell said that membership in the museum is up 600 percent, with some 500 family member-ships representing 1,500 people.

Housing for homeless veterans gets warm welcome

Washington Oaks, a supportive housing development for homeless veter-

ans, is nearing completion.

her membership if they’d be will-ing to do them all.

The answer was yes, and Red-dick’s home (which is within a few blocks of Washington Oaks) is stacked with toasters, mixers, dishes, pots and pans, hand tow-els, linens and everything else needed to fully equip a kitchen.

“Our veterans deserve no less,” Reddick said.

Scheuneman praised Red-dick and her group and said that the new housing development has been warmly received by the neighborhood.

Ronnie Collins, president of the Alice Bell Spring Hill Neigh-borhood Association, said that his group had no problem wel-coming the Helen Ross McNabb project and considers it a great improvement over the previous management of the apartment complex.

“Frankly, it was a problem area,” he said. “We believe this will be well-run and will end up being an asset to the community, particu-larly since it’s for veterans.”

The tentative move-in date is the end of April.

they got right on it and applied for funding for a two-phased proj-ect: a newly constructed building in Inskip and Washington Oaks, both of which will provide wrap-around services.

“We were already in the middle of fundraising, and this helped us complete our veterans’ housing,” she said. “We are very grateful to Randy Boyd and the United Way for helping us complete this project.”

Another group that has stepped

up to the challenge is the Demo-cratic Women of Knoxville, whose members have volunteered to completely furnish 15 kitchens.

Club president Betty Red-dick said the group got involved through one of its members who works for United Way, and at fi rst the plan was to furnish two kitch-ens. But when they heard that the Helen Ross McNabb staff was hav-ing some diffi culty furnishing the rest of the units, she decided to ask

The Muse

Javen Pippens and Austin Gyce race vehicles they made at the mu-

seum’s Lego display. The boys were part of a tour from Princeton Al-

ternative Elementary School, an accelerated school in Birmingham,

Ala., that was touring African-American heritage sites in Knoxville.

On a recent weekday, The Muse Knoxville was crowded with stu-dents, parents and teachers from Dandridge Elementary School and a touring group from Princeton Alternative Elementary School, an accelerated school in Birming-

ham, Ala.The hands-on exhibits and

planetarium were a hive of activity as children raced Lego cars, built with foam building blocks and ex-perimented with microscopes and electronic displays.

That renewed excitement has at-tracted the interest of urban consul-tants recently hired to envision fu-ture growth for the city’s downtown. Urban Land Institute consultants

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A free sign-up will be 9 a.m. until noon Monday, April 20, in the KCHD auditorium, 140 Dameron Ave.

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Concord UMCMalcolm Shell celebrates the

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And Sandra Clark talks about reuses for the house and land at Campbell Station Inn.

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Ron Houser remains cancer-free after major surgery at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in 2012.

‘Still cancer-free’Cancer survivor paid heavy price for ignoring heartburn

Ron Houser was a busy man with places to go, things to do. Meetings, airports, meals on the run. Too busy for this; too busy for that.

“I was very career-minded, and my career took me all over the country – I was everywhere,” said Houser, whose job as a human resources/labor relations execu-tive for a large global health care corporation kept him away from home fi ve days a week for years. “I loved my work. Loved it! I wanted to make that certain level within the corporation, which I did by working hard. But I gave up things to do that, and one of the things I gave up was me.”

More precisely, the Knoxville retiree gave up his esophagus and a portion of his stomach to esoph-ageal cancer, largely because he didn’t follow his doctor’s orders to keep his heartburn under control.

“I can’t blame my cancer and my situation on anybody except Ron Houser because Ron Houser didn’t do what the doctors told him to do,” says the 72-year-old Houser. “I didn’t monitor my health the way that I should.”

Fortunately for Houser, how-ever, his cancer was caught early, and following a complex surgery by Drs. Lacy Harville and Gregory Midis at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center to remove his esophagus and a portion of his stomach, he remains cancer-free 2 1/2 years since his surgery – a major achievement since most patients at his stage live only two years. What’s more, he required no chemotherapy or radiation treat-ments afterward.

“When I fi nished with Dr. Midis at my last appointment, he reached

Complex T.H.E. surgery requires skill, practiceCut down here and up there, remove this

pipe down to there, pull up this drain and hook ’em together up here. It sounds simple enough, but a trans-hiatal esophagectomy (THE) is a lot more complicated than re-working the kitchen plumbing.

As with many complex surgical pro-cedures, data show the best results for esophagectomy (or removal of all or part of the esophagus) come from surgeons whose expertise and skills have sharpened through practice at high-volume medical centers.

In fact, most surgeons and published lit-erature says a surgeon needs to perform a minimum of 12 to 25 esophagectomies per year to maintain profi ciency needed. At Fort Sanders Regional, which has been desig-nated as a Center of Excellence, surgeons perform 20 to 30 per year.

Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Lacy Har-ville has been doing esophagectomies like Ron Houser’s for 23 years, often teaming over the last eight years with Fort Sanders

surgical oncologists Drs. Paul Dudrick or Gregory Midis.

“I used to do them all myself or with my partners, but having Dr. Midis and Dr. Du-drick makes it easier because it’s a two-sur-geon thing,” said Harville. “These are six- to eight-hour operations, but our average time is somewhere between two and three hours, and our average length of hospital stay is down to about eight to 10 days.”

“The bottom line is: We’ve found there are better outcomes when thoracic surgeons and surgical oncologists adopt a team ap-proach for esophageal cancer,” said Dr. Midis. “It’s a logical way to treat patients. With our high volumes, Dr. Harville and I feel comfortable that we have the same out-comes and complication rates as the nation-al standards.”

In Houser’s THE, one incision was made from the bottom of the sternum to the belly button and another was made in the left side of his neck near the carotid artery. The surgeons then could work simultaneously removing the cancerous esophagus and an upper portion of the stomach to reduce the possibility of recurrence.

Then, pulling up the stomach to serve as a replacement esophagus, the surgeons re-connect the stomach and remaining esopha-gus via the neck. Midis also placed a feeding tube in Houser’s small intestine to provide nourishment until he was well enough to eat and drink again.

The surgery does require some lifestyle changes. “These are complex and diffi cultoperations to have, and the patients must live with alterations to their diets after-wards,” said Dr. Midis. In addition, Harvillesaid, patients can no longer lie on their backafter a meal because “we take away all theprotective mechanisms for things to refl uxback. Gravity is their friend once they’ve had a meal.”

Still, Harville said, most patients are able to get back to doing the things theywant to do after surgery. “Now, their dietis a little different,” he cautioned. “ButI would say 85 percent of people will getback to almost their normal diet. It’s justbecause now their stomach, instead of be-ing a big weigh station for food to drop into,it’s now a tube, and they can’t hold as muchfood, so their meals have to be smaller. Butthey also need to be careful because nor-mally your stomach functions to neutralizeeverything.”

Gregory Midis, MDLacy Harville, MD

out both hands in front of me, and as I took his hands he said, ‘Ron, I am glad to tell you that after all the tests you have gone through, you are still cancer-free.’ And he said, ‘I want you to know that that is HUGE!’ ”

“There is generally a high risk of recurrence,” said Dr. Midis. “So when you reach a milestone or an-niversary, that’s an extremely ex-citing important moment.”

“I owe all that to the Good Lord, Dr. Midis, Dr. Harville and to the fi ne treatment that I got at Fort Sanders,” said Houser. “I can’t complain a bit about what they did. They were on top of it.”

Certainly, they took Houser’s

heartburn seriously even if he had not.

He’d had heartburn since his 20s, treating it off and on with over-the-counter antacids. By the 1980s, he was diagnosed with gastroesophageal refl ux disease (GERD or simply “refl ux”) and prescribed a daily dose of omepra-zole to control the acid. “I didn’t always have time to take my medi-cine,” he said. “I thought, ‘It’s just heartburn.’ But when it would get bad, I would take my medicine. When it got better, I’d stop taking it.”

By 2000, his symptoms wors-ened. An endoscopy revealed he not only had a hiatal hernia

but also Barrett’s Esophagus, a precancerous condition caused by chronic, long-term reflux of stomach acid into the lower esophagus.

After the hernia repair, the doc-tors stressed the importance of regularly taking his refl ux medi-cine and monitoring his Barrett’s. “If I didn’t, they said I would have cancer in 10 to 12 years,” Houser said. “But if I didn’t hurt or wasn’t having a problem, I wouldn’t take it. I just said ‘There’s no need of taking it – I’m OK.’ But then when I hurt or would have refl ux come back up, I would get back on it for four, fi ve or six days and it would level out, and I would quit taking

it. So, I was actually doing myself harm.”

A dozen years later, in August2012, he sat in the offi ce of thelate Dr. David Lee, tears welling in his eyes as the gastroenterolo-gist told Houser his Barrett’s had developed into esophageal cancer,the fastest-growing form of can-cer in the United States today. “Icouldn’t believe it,” he said.

An attempted endoscopic mu-cosal resection could not be com-pleted because one of Houser’sthree tumors was too deep.

That left one option: Trans-Hi-atal Esophagetomy (THE), a ma-jor surgery in which the patient’s esophagus is removed and re-placed by a portion of their stom-ach which is used to process food.It’s such a complex operation that it requires the kind of surgical skillthat comes only through repeti-tion.

Houser was referred to Drs.Midis and Harville, who performbetween 20 to 30 of those surger-ies a year – enough to be desig-nated a Center of Excellence dueto its high volume and successful outcomes.

“Thank the Good Lord andthank these doctors’ skills,” saidHouser. “They were able to go inand take all that out. People need to be aware of esophageal cancer,and they need to know some of thecauses. Don’t be like me: ‘Well,I’ve got heartburn … I’ve got a lit-tle refl ux. … It’ll be OK. I’ll take a Tums or I’ll take whatever and it’llbe OK,’ not realizing that the lon-ger it lasts, the bigger and strongerit becomes, and you are really risk-ing that chance of cancer develop-ing within the esophagus and that part of the stomach.”

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Ayres Hall at UT as painted by Melanie Wood.

Melanie Wood adds fi nishing touches to a painting on the terrace outside her studio. Pho-tos by Anne Hart

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ens, vegetables and other gastronomic subjects.

Another room is fi lled with paintings of the Smok-ies, Tellico and other favor-ite spots in East Tennessee, including a rooftop view of downtown Knoxville that depicts the Sunsphere re-fl ecting autumn’s golden colors.

In the garden room where she does her painting, there is inspiration in abundance: cat and dog paintings and a happy one of a Raggedy Ann doll created by her daughter.

Melanie, who is a native of Texas, and Tom, a Mem-

The Muse From page 1

included a throwaway line in their just-released report suggesting that The Muse might relocate to World’s Fair Park. A map included in the report suggests that the chil-dren’s museum might fi nd a home at the corner of West-ern Avenue and 11th Street.

The museum was found-ed in 1976 as a space for community meetings and student art exhibits. By the early 1990s, it had grown into the East Tennessee Discovery Center, with sci-ence exhibits in the building and an outreach program that took science and other educational programs into local schools. Knox County Schools was a major sup-porter for a time.

In the meantime, Kittrell was part of a group formed in 2011 that began to envi-sion a large, interactive chil-dren’s museum for the city.

“The group developed a business plan for a large museum,” Kittrell said. “They raised money for a master design, which was completed in 2013.”

The boards for the Dis-covery Center and The Muse

merged in September 2013. The new board raised funds to renovate the Chilhowee Park facility and reopened that November. Further renovations have followed, including refreshed exhibits and a new public access play-ground. The reinvestment has produced the dramatic increase in visits, Kittrell said.

“We’ve taken a very cal-culated approach to messag-ing what we’re doing,” she said. “We are very thought-ful about bartering promo-tions and website presence with other organizations. Now we need more word-of-mouth. I think we’ve turned a corner and the public is more aware that we exist.”

With the increasing visi-tor traffi c, Kittrell said that The Muse is rapidly out-growing its current space.

“We need 50,000 square feet, and we need to identify our next building,” she said. “We love East Knoxville, and we love downtown. We don’t know where we are going, and we’re not com-mitted to go. We have lots of exciting possibilities.”

Dante Carreno makes music on an electronic harp during avisit to The Muse Knoxville by Dandridge Elementary School.Photos by Bill Dockery

Blenza Davis is on a mis-sion to bring her vision to Knoxville. She starts each day at 5 a.m., helping an in-carcerated nephew get his associate degree and car-ing for an elderly aunt who has diabetes. She is quick to deny that she is capable of doing anything on her own and gives all credit to God.

“God commands us to love Him and love our neighbor as ourselves,” she

Cindy Taylor

Blenza Davis Photo by Cindy Taylor

A museum for Greene is Blenza Davis’ vision

as former principal at Sar-ah Moore Greene School, where she served for 18 years. In her 10 years since retirement, she has contin-ued to promote education.

Davis is a board member of Project Grad and works closely with University of Tennessee professor Dr. Bob Kronick to promote full-ser-vice community schools.

“To me, full-service schools go back to Africa where the entire village worked to make children successful,” she said. “I have so much faith in Dr. Kronick that if he jumped off a cliff I would be right behind him because I would know it was to help some kids.”

She is currently shar-ing her expertise sitting on numerous boards and committees dealing with education issues. But none is closer to her heart than her vision to establish a museum to honor the life and contributions of Sarah Moore Greene, namesake of the East Knoxville school.

“Before Ms. Greene passed away, she wanted her legacy to be a foundation to help stu-dents at Sarah Moore Greene School,” said Davis. “I was allowed to save and catalog some of her belongings, and these will be used to start a museum about her.”

Born in 1910, Greene left a 100-plus-years’ legacy that includes that of longtime educator and civil rights ac-tivist. She was the fi rst Af-rican-American member of the Knoxville City Board of Education and was instru-mental in establishing local community schools. Greene was quoted as saying that her greatest strength was her concern for people less fortunate.

Davis says Greene per-formed unbelievable service for children in Knoxville schools. She thinks Greene was a shining star whose light must be preserved, and a museum would do just that.

Davis is working with the Rev. Renee Kesler, a profes-sional instructor in her own right, and Beck Cultural Ex-change Center, where Davis volunteers, to establish a lo-cation for the museum. Do-nations already have been received, and Davis hopes the museum will progress quickly.

“The museum is in all our visions and we are working on our mission,” said Davis. “We would love to open the museum on Ms. Greene’s birthday. This is still in the planning stages, but it is go-ing to happen.”Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.com

said. “This is how I try to live my life. It brings me personal happiness.”

Davis is probably best remembered by the public

COMMUNITY NOTES

■ Alice Bell Spring Hill Neigh-borhood Association. Info: Ronnie Collins, 637-9630.

■ Beaumont Community Organization. Info: Natasha Murphy, 936-0139.

■ Belle Morris Community Ac-tion Group meets 7 p.m. each second Monday, City View Baptist Church, 2311 Fine Ave. Info: www.bellemorris.com or Rick Wilen, 524-5008.

■ Chilhowee Park Neighbor-hood Association meets 6:30 p.m. each last Tuesday, Admin-istration Building, Knoxville

Zoo. Info: Paul Ruff , 696-6584.

■ Edgewood Park Neighbor-hood Association meets 7 p.m. each third Tuesday, Larry Cox Senior Center, 3109 Ocoee Trail. Info: http://edge-woodpark.us./

■ Excelsior Lodge No. 342 meets 7:30 p.m. each Thurs-day, 10103 Thorn Grove Pike. Info: Bill Emmert, 933-6032 or w.emmert@att.net.

■ First District Democrats meet each fi rst Monday, Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: Tony Brown, 973-4086, or Evelyn Gill, 524-7177.

■ Historic Fourth & Gill Neighborhood Organization meets 6:30 p.m. each second

Monday, Central UMC, 201 Third Ave. Info: Liz Upchurch, 898-1809, lizupchurch1@gmail.com.

■ Inskip Community Asso-ciation meets 6 p.m. each fourth Tuesday, Inskip Baptist Church, 4810 Rowan Road. Info: Betty Jo Mahan, 679-2748 or bettymahan@knology.net.

■ Oakwood Lincoln Park Neigh-borhood Association meets 6:30 p.m. each third Thursday, Community Club House, 916 Shamrock Ave. Info: Bill Hut-ton, 773-5228 or s_wlhutton@yahoo.com.

■ Old North Knoxville meets 6:30 p.m. each second Monday, St. James Episcopal Church Parish

Hall, 1101 N. Broadway. Info: Andie Ray, 548-5221.

■ Parkridge Community Orga-nization meets 6:30 p.m. each fi rst Monday except holidays, Cansler YMCA, 616 Jessamine St. Info: Jerry Caldwell, 329-9943.

■ Second District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each second Thursday, New Hope Mis-sionary Baptist Church, 2504 Cecil Ave. Info: Rick Staples, 385-3589 or funnyman1@comic.com.

■ Thorn Grove Rebekah Lodge No. 13 meets 7:30 p.m. each second and fourth Monday, 10103 Thorn Grove Pike. Info: Mary Jo Poole, 599-7698 or mjp1101@aol.com.

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Marvin West

I have sort of switched sides. I was once a doubter, never a certifi ed critic, but I am now a Mike DeBord ad-vocate.

In the beginning, I was surprised that Butch Jones would try to pass off his old friend, a line coach, as a quarterback guru. So-licitation of supporting quotes from famous names was phony as a $20 Rolex. Remarks were obviously scripted.

That magical transfor-mation still generates skep-ticism, but it no longer mat-ters. DeBord is going to be a better offensive coordinator than was the previous good guy, Mike Bajakian. I don’t know why Mike II wasn’t here earlier. He was avail-able.

DeBord can help Don Mahoney identify and in-struct offensive tackles – which improves the chances of gaining a yard when a yard is critical.

DeBord can assist Rob-ert Gillespie as needed with running backs – which im-

DeBord now de ’man

proves the odds on gaining tough yards.

DeBord can help all con-cerned, starting with Jones, remember and embrace the proven concept of getting the football to playmakers.

DeBord can help win games.

After all that is said and some of it becomes real-ity, Nick Sheridan can help DeBord in the refi nement and polishing of Joshua Dobbs and basic instruction of young quarterbacks.

Presto, all will soon be right in Tennessee’s football world. The Vols may not lose another game. It is just a matter of two more Michi-gan men working closely together.

DeBord, 60, got the bill-board treatment and the

$369,750 raise plus camp supplement and bonus pro-visions. Sheridan, 26, son of an NFL coach, once a walk-on quarterback with the Wolverines, is obscurity personifi ed, a graduate as-sistant at Tennessee after a brief rocket ride fl amed out.

Nick was the offi cial quarterback coach at West-ern Kentucky and South Florida ahead of his time, relatively soon after he was old enough to vote.

OK, so he got fi red. That Willie Taggart’s team went 2-10 certainly wasn’t Nick’s fault. Taggart, the head coach, called plays.

UT connections (Mike Vollmer was a former ad-ministrator at Michigan; Zach Azzanni was offen-sive coordinator at Western Kentucky when Sheridan got his fi rst best job) redi-rected Nick to Knoxville last year. He performed well. He wasn’t able to save Jus-tin Worley’s season, but he helped Dobbs do what he did.

Sheridan is now the

helping hand that makes the DeBord arrangement logical. DeBord determines quarterback philosophy and strategy. Sheridan imple-ments details. What Sheri-dan contributes creates time and space for DeBord to roam the practice fi eld and coordinate the offense.

Amazing what goes on behind the screen. I and oth-ers who wondered what in the world Jones was think-ing didn’t attach proper sig-nifi cance to Sheridan. He is a/the quarterback coach. It so happens he and DeBord speak the same language.

Nick was a reserve QB at Michigan when DeBord was a coordinator there. DeBord and Bill Sheridan, Nick’s dad, were together on the staff at Ann Arbor. They have known each other at least forever, maybe longer.

Butch Jones, being from Michigan, knew all about all those connections. He knew the association would func-tion smoothly before the rest of us (I in particular) fi gured it out.

Alas, now we all know why Butch gets paid more. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Former Knox County Trustee Mike Lowe en-

tered the K n o x C o u n t y Detention C e n t e r April 11 to begin a one-year term he plea-bar-

gained for stealing at least $200,000 while in offi ce.

Now auditors are tight-ening up personnel prac-tices statewide in the wake of Lowe’s plea and a jury conviction of his em-ployee Delbert Morgan, who was paid for time not worked. This case has dramatized the ran-dom personnel practices of elected offi cials across the state.

Indulge me a moment … in 1998 this reporter broke a big political story by examining the paper timecards of employees of then-Circuit Court Clerk Lillian Bean. We published photos show-ing days marked “V” for vacation, “S” for sick, and “LB” for comp days given to those who worked a po-litical day for Bean, such as selling soup beans dur-ing the Museum of Ap-palachia’s annual home-coming.

Bean was subsequently defeated by Cathy Quist Shanks.

Obamacare also puts pressure on counties to maintain accurate per-sonnel records, according to Union County Mayor Mike Williams. Employ-ers now must provide IRS

Lowe fallout ripples across state

Sandra Clark

form 1094-C, showing an offer of employer-pro-vided health insurance based on hours worked.

Williams said he un-derstands why elected of-fi cials might not want to come under a county per-sonnel policy, and they are not required to. “But if they want their own (pol-icy), it must be in writing and consistent.”

If Union County can adopt a unifi ed person-nel policy, why can’t Knox County?

Showing up should be the baseline. No more ghosts. No more “work from homes.” No more comp time for election-eering. No more “comp time” at all. And consis-tent vacation/sick leave.

It’s not fair to the em-ployees who show up and work hard to carry these freeloaders on the public payroll.

And while we wel-come state auditors to the game, it should not fall to underfunded auditors or the random reporter to ferret out abuse. Private businesses monitor work time and pay for produc-tion. Government must do no less.Sandra Clark has published The Shop-per since 1971 and hopes someday to get it right. Contact: 865-661-8777 or sandra.clark@ShopperNewsNow.com.

Mike Lowe

If the fi rst week of con-struction on the Cumber-land Avenue Corridor Proj-ect is a sign of what’s to come, business owners and their employees, workers at two nearby hospitals, plus West Knox and Alcoa High-way motorists getting into and out of downtown bet-ter hunker down for a long, bumpy ride.

The project has begun with utility work in the

Betty Bean

Cumberland complaints grow louder

westbound lanes of Cum-berland and on side streets between Volunteer Boule-vard and 22nd Street, where the road has been narrowed to two lanes.

“I really felt sorry for the guy at the Exxon station,” said Joe Kirk, landlord of the Cumberland Avenue Starbucks. “He was barri-caded in. Nobody wanted to let the cars coming down 22nd Street out, and cus-tomers couldn’t get in.”

“It’s going to be like a two-and-a-half year bliz-zard,” said Copper Cellar Corp. CEO Mike Chase, who opened The Original Cop- To page 9

per Cellar on Cumberland Avenue in 1975. “Nobody comes out during a bliz-zard. On Wednesday night, our business was off 30 per-cent.”

That, coincidentally, is the amount of traffi c plan-ners aim to take off the stretch of road known as The Strip – permanently – to make the area pedestri-

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GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Gov. Bill Haslam was grand marshal for the Mule Day

Parade in Columbia. Actually, this is good news. At least he didn’t march behind the mules.

■ Sen. Bob Corker actually cut to a commercial while being interviewed on WBIR’s “Inside Tennessee.” Corker does a smoother transition than sometime-host Mike Donila. He’s had more experience on TV.

■ State Rep. Ryan Haynes will do a good job as state GOP chair. But why in the world does he want the job? Legislators wield powe r and earn less than $30K. State GOP chairs raise money and earn $100,000+.

The 150th anniversary of the assassination of Presi-dent Lincoln was yesterday (April 14), and the 150th anniversary of his actual death is today. One can only speculate how American history might have been different had he completed his second term instead of his vice president, Andrew

VictorAshe

Greenways lacking

under Rogero

Johnson, a former mayor of Greene ville, Tenn.

■ Greenway advo-cates are perplexed at the limited progress in the construction of greenways in Knoxville under Team Rogero. She has personally been missing in action on this issue as she was with the 911 Board for the fi rst three years of her term. She does not meet with the Green ways Commission or the greenway coordinator on any regular basis.

Consequently, the only signifi cant city-built greenway in her fi rst 3.5 years as mayor is the one on Cherokee Farms called the Knox Blount Greenway, going from Buck Karnes Bridge to Marine Park at 2201 Alcoa Highway. As of this writing there has not been an offi cial opening or announcement, but the greenway is built.

There is no entry at the Buck Karnes Bridge; however, there is parking at Marine Park, which is a county park, and one could easily walk on the greenway from there. The road at the bridge is about 25 feet above the greenway with no means of walking down to it. There is no signage at Marine Park, and a yellow ribbon is in front of part of the entrance.

However, one could easily bike or walk on this fully completed greenway

despite no announcement. It dead-ends at the bridge where one would have to turn around and return to Marine Park.

The Greenways Commis-sion is chaired by the very able Brian Hann, who is the new Will Skelton when it comes to greenways. Sev-eral commission members are frustrated with the snail’s pace at which things are moving. The Urban Wil-derness in South Knoxville was built by private efforts.

Remember the First Creek greenway that Mayor Rogero proudly announced in her fi rst budget message in 2012? It is now almost four years later, and it is not completed or open.

Clearly Team Rogero talks the talk but fails to walk the walk when it comes to greenways. Major big-time excuses and no ac-tion. Until the mayor shows personal interest, greenway construction will move at a glacial pace. Even with the infusion of $1 million from last year’s major property tax hike for greenways, little has happened that is visible.

■ Governing Maga-zine honored Mayor Rog-ero in its March issue with a photo and mention as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2018. Rogero is term-limited if re-elected mayor this September.

■ Meanwhile, busi-nesses on Cumberland Av-enue are losing customers due to the construction un-derway. It almost amounts to a city-sponsored “taking” without compensation. One wonders when the city and council will address this issue of getting folks to Cumberland Avenue. How much inconvenience must occur before someone speaks up?

■ The two mayors will soon annou nce their choice for MPC director. The committee has made its recommendation.Victor Ashe is a former mayor of Knox-ville and U.S. ambassador to Poland. Contact him at: 865-523-6573 or news@ShopperNewsNow.com.

You’re driving down a city street when you see one of Knoxville’s fi nest coming toward you in a classic blue-on-white squad car. Instinc-tively, you let up on the gas, grip the steering wheel a little harder and glance at the speedometer to see how far above the limit you were.

Captain Bob Wooldridge shows off the patrol car/taxi used by KPD to educate the public about the costs of driving while in-toxicated. Photo by Bill Dockery

Patrol car/taxi educates about DUI

Bill Dockery

By the time you look up, the cruiser has passed, so you glance in the rearview mirror to see if it’s turning around and – it’s gone! The only thing visible in the mir-ror is a yellow taxi, headed in the other direction.

You’ve just had a sighting of the Knoxville Police De-partment’s latest education-al tool: a patrol car with the traditional police livery on the front half, but painted like a yellow cab on the back half. It’s specifi cally de-signed to persuade you that it’s much cheaper to call a cab than to be caught driv-ing while intoxicated.

“We’re trying to let

people see that they have a choice,” said Capt. Bob Wooldridge, who works in safety education for the de-partment. “We recommend that if someone has an adult beverage, they should never drive – they should call a cab.”

Slogans decorate the taxi end of the vehicle – “Call a Cab” and “Booze It & Lose It” – as well as a calculation of what a cab ride will cost you: “$2 to get in, $2 per mile.”

The numbers spelled out on the hood of the patrol car let you know how much your ride will cost if you are busted for DUI. Including fi nes, loss of license, DUI school, bail, insurance, law-

yer fees, etc., the total for a fi rst offense quickly grows to almost $19,000.

“It’s a wonderful ed-ucational resource,” Wooldridge said. “This car has gone viral.”

KPD offi cers take the half-and-half car to carni-vals, safety fairs, schools, the Knoxville Zoo and neighborhood watch meet-ings. It draws a crowd any-where it shows up, giving of-fi cers a chance to talk about crime prevention, especially those crime and safety is-sues associated with driving under the infl uence.

“We had it out on the Cumberland Avenue Strip for all of UT’s home football games. It was very popu-

lar,” he said. “I drove it to a Chick-fi l-A and people fi led out of the restaurant to look at it.

“We’ve had people pull up beside us at stoplights and snap pictures.”

Wooldridge, who joined the department in time for the 1982 World’s Fair, said that the cruiser-taxi is the most popular resource he has seen in his 33 years with KPD.

“This is our way of be-ing proactive,” he said. “It’s part of our mission to make stronger, safer neighbor-hoods in the city of Knox-ville.”

Patrol offi cer Travis Shuler brought the concept to the department, and the Governor’s Highway Safety Offi ce quickly bought in. The department took de-livery in October 2014. An Internet search showed that several cities across the country are using a similar vehicle.

It’s usually parked at the KPD offi ces at 2422 Min-eral Springs Ave. in North Knoxville, but Wooldridge said the department is hap-py to bring it to community meetings and other special events. The safety education unit can be reached at 215-1510.

Wendy Smith

Austin McLaughlin re-cently moved here from Denver. While he thinks Knoxville folk are friendly in general, he doesn’t see that in the way we drive. His 1.5-mile bicycle commute to the University of Tennessee can be harrowing, depend-ing on how he hits the lights.

Jon Livengood, alternative transportation coordinator for the city, discusses the Bicycle Facilities Plan with Brian Blackmon, project manager of the city’s offi ce of sustainability. Photo by Wendy Smith

Making Knoxville bike-friendly

“It never feels safe,” he admits.

Austin was one of ap-proximately 100 who at-tended the presentation of the fi nal draft of Knoxville’s Bike Facilities Plan, which ranks 120 proposed proj-ects within the city limits. The purpose of the plan is to “advance Knoxville as a city where biking is safe, conve-nient and a desirable mode of transportation for resi-dents and visitors.”

The plan, prepared by Kimley-Horn and Asso-ciates and Toole Design Group, identifi es bike routes that could be enhanced by new bike lanes, greenways and road markings. The estimated cost of all 120 projects is $38 million, but Ernie Boughman of Toole

Design Group emphasized that the document is for planning purposes only. None of the projects will happen without community buy-in.

Why should we buy in? Unlike Austin, most of us would be too frightened to commute via bicycle.

That’s the problem. Knoxville isn’t a bicycling community because it isn’t safe to cycle here. And we will likely be slow to fi nance expensive facilities, like bike lanes, because we’re not a bicycling community. It’s a classic circular argu-ment.

Austin describes Den-ver as progressive and out-doors-oriented. Motorists respect cyclists there be-cause they’re used to seeing

them on the road, he says. He thinks motorists are un-friendly to cyclists here be-cause driving is a necessity in Knoxville.

That’s currently true. Knoxville is a sprawling, suburban city. It’s also true that more cars are being added to our roads every day. Even those of us who will never pedal to work can see the benefi t of some of those cars being parked while their owners ride to work.

The perks of being a bike-centric community go beyond safe bicycle com-mutes. Knoxville would be fitter, rather than fat-ter, and our reputation for being outdoorsy, like Den-ver, would be enhanced. Visitors would come. They

would spend money.The city’s Bicycle Facili-

ties Plan is a blueprint for how to interrupt the circu-lar argument for why we aren’t bike-friendly. Bough-man told those at the meet-ing that other cities have successfully implemented bike plans by creating mo-mentum. People need to talk about, and champion, the proposed bike facilities.

Momentum is also cre-ated by getting facilities “on the ground,” he said. The fi rst project on the list is new bike lanes on Chapman Highway. The estimated bill for the project is $666,500, but state and federal fund-ing could cover up to 80 percent of the cost of new bike facilities.

The plan recommends three phases, each more ex-pensive than the last, over a 10-year period. That model works because communi-ties tend to get on board after they see the positive impact of increased cycling, he said.

As Boughman says, we don’t have to eat the whole elephant at once. We just need to take the fi rst bite. Let’s encourage our elected offi cials to move our city to-ward being a bike-friendly community.

Review the Bicycle Facilities Plan at www.c i t y o f k n o x v i l l e . o r g /bicycleplan.

6 • APRIL 15, 2015 • Shopper news

Video-chatting proves dangerous for a group of high-schoolers in “Unfriended.”

Jonah Hill tries to dig the truth out of James Franco in “True Story.”

Kevin James can’t escape his true calling in “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.”

A troop of macaques scrambles for survival in “Monkey Kingdom.”

By Betsy PickleThis week’s movie lineup

spans four very different worlds.

Disneynature brings us “Monkey Kingdom,” an intimate look at toque macaques on the island of Sri Lanka. Filmmakers follow a low-ranked ma-caque dubbed Maya as she scrambles to survive – and to make a better life for her child.

Timed to honor Earth Day, “Monkey Kingdom” is narrated by Tina Fey. For every ticket sold during opening week (April 17-23), Disneynature will make a donation to Conservation International to help pro-tect monkeys and other en-dangered species in their natural habitats.

Opening exclusively at Downtown West, “True

Story” is based on a true story (duh). Jonah Hill plays a disgraced journalist who forms an uneasy alli-ance with an accused killer, played by James Franco, who claims to have been liv-ing as the reporter.

Trying to get at the truth, the journalist puts his marriage – and possi-bly more – at risk. The cast also includes Felicity Jones, Gretchen Mol and Robert John Burke.

In “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2,” the title character fi nally takes a well-earned vaca-tion, heading for Las Vegas with his teenage daughter before she goes off to col-lege. But he’s not the kind of guy to take a holiday when trouble arises, which it does.

Kevin James returns as Paul Blart from the origi-nal 2009 comedy. The cast

includes Raini Rodriguez, Daniella Alonso, Neil Mc-Donough, D.B. Woodside, Nicholas Turturro, Ana Gasteyer, Bob Clendenin and Shirley Knight.

A dead girl reaches out to her former classmates in “Unfriended,” a new twist on horror. While six friends are video chatting one night, they receive a Skype message from beyond the grave, and they soon believe they are dealing with a su-pernatural power.

Hoping to do for online chat what “The Blair Witch Project” did for video re-corders, “Unfriended” goes into R-rated territory to scare viewers. The cast in-cludes Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halverson, Shelley Hennig and Moses Jacob Storm.

Monkeys, murders and

mall cops vie for audiences

many as the host of WUOT’s Morning Concert, says her last experience playing on-stage was in “Tommy” in 2009. In the current pro-duction, she says, “The band is like the house band in an old, beaten-down theater. It’s dark, falling apart and perhaps a little shady. We’ve all, including most of the ac-tors, seen better days.”

Dodson is intrigued by the orchestral scoring. In the original productions, seven players covered a to-tal of 23 parts, including some unlikely instruments. “So,” says Dodson, “some-one is supposed to know how to play guitar, bando-neon, cello and banjo.”

CBT music director Terry Silver-Alford will share du-ties this time with visit-ing music director Michael Elliott, musical theater coordinator at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. Silver-Alford will play key-

board and conduct. “The orchestration is haunting and dissonant – a German music-hall sound with an edge,” he says. “The musi-cal numbers don’t function the same way as in a tradi-tional musical. They are of-ten very presentational and serve as commentary in the ideas or themes in the story. Brecht often used music as a ‘distancing effect’ to keep the audience reminded that they are in a theater watch-ing a show.”

He’s enjoying what he calls a “mélange of styles,” ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to tango to jazz.

CBT’s artistic director, Calvin MacLean, directs the show. Anyone in his posi-tion has his hands full, but in this case, along with the usual formidable respon-sibilities, he had to choose – from a long list – an Eng-lish translation from the original German. “We chose

Robert David MacDonald’s translation with lyrics by Jeremy Sams because of its clarity and wit,” says MacLean. He especially likes the song translations because they have “Brecht’s biting irony and humor. The play text makes the action clear, and the dialogue has Brecht’s insightful com-mentary but with a contem-porary edge.”

As Macheath sings near the end, “What’s picking a lock compared to buying shares? What’s breaking into a bank compared to founding one? What’s mur-dering a man compared to employing one?”

“The Threepenny Opera” runs through May 3 and is recommended for mature audiences. For more in-formation, visit clarence-browntheatre.com or call 974-5161.Send story suggestions to news@shop-

pernewsnow.com.

Shopper news • APRIL 15, 2015 • 7 weekenderFRIDAY-SATURDAY

■ The 5th Woman 2015, 8-10 p.m., Ula Love Doughty Carousel

Theatre, 1704 Andy Holt Ave. Info/tickets: www.eventbee.

com/event?eid=168526933.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ The Threepenny Opera, Clarence Brown Theatre

Mainstage, 1714 Andy Holt Ave. Performances: 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: www.

clarencebrowntheatre.com.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY ■ Orchid show and sale, Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island

Home Ave. Hosted by the Smoky Mountain Orchid

Society. Admission free. Info: smos@frontier.com or www.

smokymtnorchidsociety.com.

FRIDAY ■ Alive After Five concert: Leftfoot Dave & The Magic Hats,

6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park

Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

■ Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, “Pastorale,” 7:30 p.m.,

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Part of the KSO Moxley

Carmichael Masterworks Series. Tickets: 291-3310; www.

tennesseetheatre.com; at the door.

■ Dancing for the Horses, 6 p.m., Grande Event Center, 5441

Clinton Highway. Local stars paired with professional danc-

ers compete before a panel of celebrity judges. Fundraising

event for Horse Haven of Tennessee. Info/tickets: www.

horsehaventn.org/dancing.

■ Knoxville Skies Star Show, 4:30-5 p.m., The Muse planetar-

ium, 12804 Pecos Road. Tickets: $2. Can purchase without

museum admission. Info: www.themuseknoxville.org.

■ Midnight Voyage Live: TAUK, 9 p.m., The International, 940

Blackstock Ave. Info/tickets: www.intlknox.com.

■ The Black Cadillacs, with Sol Cat, Johnny Astro & The

Big Bang, 8 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Info/tickets:

knoxbijou.com.

SATURDAY ■ Breaking Beats with Themed DJ Set by Breaking Bad’s RJ

Mitte, 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info/

tickets: www.intlknox.com.

■ EarthFest 2015, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., World’s Fair Park. Activities

include scavenger hunt, live music, activities and crafts for

kids, Mercury thermometer exchange, exhibits and more.

Free event. Info: www.knox-earthfest.org.

■ Kukuly and the Gypsy Fuego perform, 8 p.m., Laurel

Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Vintage jazz. Tickets: $12, some

discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

■ River & Rail Theatre Inaugural Fundraiser and Preview,

7:30 p.m., Emporium Center for Arts and Culture, 100

S. Gay St. Free admission. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and

drinks provided. RSVP requested. Info: 407-0727; info@

riverandrailtheatre.com.

■ Tennessee Valley Doll & Toy Show, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Holi-

day Inn West, 9134 Executive Park Drive. Antique to modern.

Tickets: adults $6; ages 1-12 free. Info: www.knightshows.

com.

■ Three Rivers Rambler Springtime Express Steam Train Rides, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., Three Rivers Rambler, Volunteer

Landing. Info/reservations: www.ThreeRiversRambler.com.

SUNDAY ■ Bill Burr: The Billy Bible Belt Tour, 8 p.m., Tennessee The-

atre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: all Ticketmaster locations, www.

tennesseetheatre.com.

■ Brahms Requiem, 6 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre,

Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway,

Maryville. Presented by the Knoxville Choral Society and

the Carson-Newman A Cappella Choir. Tickets: adults $20,

students $10; available at the door. Info: 981-8263, www.

claytonartscenter.com.

By Carol Shane“The Threepenny Op-

era,” opening tomorrow night (April 16) at the Clar-ence Brown Theatre, is not exactly the feel-good family fun event of the year. But it’s hugely popular for a reason. Newsweek magazine has even called it “the greatest musical of all time.”

At the center of it all is Macheath, one of the most famous antiheroes in the world of stage musicals. He’s the one Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong sang about in “Mack the Knife.” The lyr-ics have been called “violent and seedy” by NPR’s Mur-ray Horowitz, and it’s fair to say the rest of the show can be described the same way. It is, after all, about a class struggle between the haves and the have-nots.

Adapted by dramatist Bertolt Brecht and com-poser Kurt Weill from “The Beggar’s Opera,” written by John Gay in the 18th cen-tury, the musical debuted in Berlin in 1928 and was in-stantly popular. By the time Brecht and Weill fl ed Hit-ler’s takeover of Germany in 1933, it had been translated into 18 different languages, with thousands of perfor-mances to its credit.

Central to the play is Weill’s score, infused with the spiky, swinging rhythms of jazz and blues. And this time, instead of hunkering down in the orchestra pit, the band will play onstage.

“It’s defi nitely exciting to have the costume and makeup experience!” says Melony Dodson, who covers a variety of instruments on the synthesizer for the pro-duction. Dodson, known to

Brian Herriott as

Macheath and

Lise Bruneau as

Jenny Diver in

Clarence Brown

Theatre’s cur-

rent production

of “The Three-

penny Opera” Photo submitted

Mackie’s back in town

Share your family’s milestones with us!Send announcements to news@ShopperNewsNow.com

Celebrating an event?

By Mystery DinerShould there be a test

before you are allowed to get married that the two of you have to be able to share a pizza with only minor substitutions?

That’s probably not a good idea. I have heard some happy-looking cou-ples order “half and half” pizzas that shouldn’t be allowed in the same room, much less on the same crust. “Ummm, we’ll have the large Hawaiian. Hold the pineapple on her half and the ham on mine. Add pepperoni on one half and fi gs on the other …”

If you want a pizza with fl avors you never thought you would like but are ab-solutely delicious, go to To-mato Head. There is one at

Market Square and one at the Gallery Shopping Cen-ter.

Tomato Head began almost 25 years ago as a lunch-only spot in a strug-gling Market Square. Called the Flying Tomato, the restaurant was open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. only. Owner Mahasti Vafaie didn’t really want pizza on the menu. The space she was renting, however, had a pizza oven that the land-owner didn’t want to move, so a tradition was born.

Vafaie made fresh bread and desserts each morn-ing and jumped in as a supporter of the arts and neighborhood. Her busi-ness and infl uence on Market Square grew as the

At Tomato Head, this pizza features a white sauce with blue

cheese, walnuts, Roma tomatoes and ricotta cheese. Photo by Mystery Diner

Tomato HeadBlue Cheese and Walnut Pizza

downtown area did.There is a lot more than

pizza on the menu. The sandwiches offer fl avor combinations that make you scratch your head be-fore you order, then pat your stomach afterward. The homemade soup choices are often a happy surprise, and the vegetar-ian offerings aren’t just for vegans.

The Blue Cheese and Walnut Pizza is one of the restaurant’s white pizzas. The white sauce is a per-fect backdrop for the blue cheese, Roma tomatoes and ricotta cheese to shine. The walnuts add not only fl avor but a good crunch. The pizza is delicious. Share it with someone you love – no substitutions!

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■ STEAM night at Green Magnet Green Magnet Academy

faculty welcomed parents and community members to see the wonderful work of their students on STEAM night.

Artwork and creations lined the hallways, the li-brary featured learning ac-tivities using Lego blocks, and experiments by the old-er students were on display upstairs. Some of the work by fourth- and fi fth-grade students included fraction quilts, phases of the moon, closed electrical circuits, geometrics and looking through a camera lens.

The school curriculum features science, technol-ogy, engineering, art and mathematics.

Keioshana James shows her guests the puppet (above her right shoul-

der) that she created for the play “The Boy

That Cried Wolf.”

Teacher Ann Kimble works with Evan Puleo using Lego blocks to create short vowel sounds

during Green Magnet’s STEAM expo.

Green Magnet Academy teacher Edward Moore shows guests a display on creating art through coordinates. Pho-tos by R. White

Talian Troutman, Kaylynn Wells, Taygen Troutman

and Telanie Troutman race to the fi nish line

during a sack race at East Knox Elementary.

Sugar Plum and friends from ‘Shrek’In last week’s Shopper-News, the Sugar Plum Fairy (pink hair) from Holston Middle School’s performance of “Shrek the Musical Jr.” was misidentifi ed. The Sugar Plum Fairy was played by Katelyn Mundt.

Brooklyn Seal is a jump-roping pro at the health fair.

Camdyn Seal shows off her Hula-Hoop skills dur-ing East Knox Elemen-tary’s health fair. Photos by R. White

East Knox Elementary hosted a health fair for stu-dents last week, opening the school to parents later that evening.

Inside the lobby were games for the kids, includ-ing an egg race, jump-rope contest, Hula-Hoops, three-

Health fair features fun, safetylegged race and sack race.

The gym area was set up with booths featuring in-formation on safety from the sheriff’s department, the Epilepsy Foundation and Medic, plus booths from Knoxville TVA Credit Union, Girl Scouts, Smoke-

Free Knoxville and more.During the day session,

students learned the proper use of dialing 9-1-1, dis-cussed bike safety, learned about good oral health and found out how to recognize poisonous plants.

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Many people know FISH Hospitality Pantries as a nonprofi t organization pro-viding free food for Knox-ville families in need. A job may have been lost, a family member may be sick and medical bills piling up, grandparents may have the unexpected responsibility of caring for grandchildren – there are any number of reasons a family may need help.

However, feeding the hungry is not the only ser-vice provided at FISH. “You teach me/I teach you” is a program that enables new immigrants and native English speakers to learn from each other. For im-migrants, learning English is of utmost importance for them to survive in their new country. English-speaking

By Sandra ClarkJack McCoy has a big

smile and a heart for kids. He’s going to make some-body a great employee someday. Heck, he’ll prob-ably start his own business.

Jack is a student of land-scape design at UT, a mem-ber of the class of Dr. Garry Menendez that’s looking over plans for expanding the Powell Station Park.

And in his spare time, Jack works at Stanley’s Greenhouses and Plant Farm.

While he may shovel errrr … mulch at work, he was a hero to the dozen kids in the newspaper club at Sarah Moore Greene Mag-net Academy.

Jack talked about his col-lege major, showed sketches of his landscape designs

and led a planting expedi-tion outside to put bulbs in the courtyard.

Keeping in mind that we’re working with our fi ve senses, listen to some quotes:

“The bulb was crunche (sic),” wrote Malaya Thomas.

“Jack is a landscape artist who is AWESOME,” wrote Safari Bahati.

“We planted seeds and talked about it. Jack goes to college, and he demon-strated planting techniques. And we dug a little hole to plant (our bulb),” said Mirna Cardenas.

“I saw a different type of seed,” wrote Jada Byas.

Madison Thomas noted, “I felt soft dirt and smelled leaves. It was hot – very hot.”

Another kid said, “It was so much fun, I hope we see

our plants again.”Jatoria White wrote

about hearing Wesley Mills’ (who lives across the street) dog bark. His dogs are named Sophie and Nakita.

Wesley wrote about “kicking holes in the dirt,” referring to our lack of a spade. We kicked holes and dug them out with plastic spoons. This won’t make our greatest-hits slide show.

Eddys Garcia is working on irony: “Hey, Jack made a fun contest out of drawing a tree and then we planted seeds for colorful fl owers … and the most hilarious thing was we digged with tiny spoons.

“He landscaped our minds and our garden!”

Destiny Woods always sums up a program well: “Hey, a landscape artist

named Jack McCoy had a fun contest about who could draw the best tree. We left the teachers in to vote while we planted fl owers. But when we got back, we asked who won and he said, ‘Ev-eryone. You all won.’

“In about a week our littletrophies will sprout out of the ground.

“Next week you will hearabout our journey to WBIR-TV, Channel 10, to meet (teacher April’s husband) Mr. Lamb.”

Hmmm. Was wonderingwhy two kids started their paragraph with “Hey” but then remembered – when I teach people to write a lead, I say, “Pretend you’re lean-ing over the back fence to tell your neighbor what we did.” And I always start that sentence with “Hey.” Oops!

Nancy Whittaker

Jack McCoy talks with Malaya Thomas. Photo by Eddys Garcia

FISH volunteers Emma Ellis-Cosigua and Lissy Myers Photo by Nancy Whittaker

Plant guy talks design

Volunteers at FISH Pantries

participants learn Spanish or other languages, foster-ing a feeling of acceptance for everyone. Volunteer Emma Ellis-Cosigua facili-tates the program.

At age 13, Ellis-Cosigua didn’t speak English and was forced to move to Brooklyn, N.Y., from Gua-temala in 1976 after an earthquake destroyed her community. She remembers how badly she wanted to go back home. Determined to learn English, she now

feels she is drawn to FISH because of her childhood experiences. She knows the importance of being able to

communicate. “New people can share their struggles in a safe place where people can help each other,” says

Ellis-Cosigua. She has been a volunteer for two years.

Lissy Myers has been a volunteer at FISH for al-most seven years. Of Ger-man descent, Myers was in a Communist concentra-tion camp in Yugoslavia and knows what it’s like to be a child and to be hungry. “Since I experienced hun-ger myself, I knew I wanted to help other people,” says Myers. “The fi rst day I was a volunteer at FISH, I went home on a high.”

Convincing her husband, Joe, to volunteer “just one time” was not easy. Recent-ly retired, he did not want to give up his golf days. He reluctantly went with My-ers on her second day and has been a volunteer ever since. Lissy works primarily with Boost Bags, a program

that started four years ago. Only natural or organic nu-tritional foods are included in the bags, which are given to children under 18.

The Community Chest section of FISH provides clothing and shoes for $1 each. Household items are also priced way below mar-ket value. Chris Berney has been a volunteer as manag-er of the Community Chest at 122 W. Scott Ave. for four years. His mother, Barbara Berney, manages the main location at 1508 N. Central St.. Donations help cover expenses such as utilities and can be dropped off at either location.

For information on how you can become a volunteer or make a donation, go to www.fi shpantry.org or call 523-7900.

Cumberland complaints From page 4

an- and bicycle-friendly. To that end, sidewalks will be widened and the four-lane Strip – perhaps the most heavily traveled street in the city – will be narrowed to two traffi c lanes separat-ed by a median, with spaces for left turns at selected in-tersections.

The plan began with the Knox Regional Transporta-tion Planning Organization, was adopted by the Met-ropolitan Planning Com-mission and City Council in 2007 and was enthusi-astically championed by then-council member Joe Hultquist, who called it his “legacy project” when he ran unsuccessfully for may-or in 2011.

Its estimated completion date is August 2017. Its cost doubled after Mayor Mad-eline Rogero snatched away $10 million earmarked for widening Washington Pike near Murphy Road and re-directed it to Cumberland Avenue in hopes of attract-ing a bidder after nobody responded to the fi rst re-quest for proposals.

Ronnie Collins, president of the Alice Bell Spring Hill Neighborhood Association, has mixed feelings about the money swap. On one hand, he says it’s just another ex-ample of empty promises to help the East side; but on the other hand, he thinks it may be a blessing because, “It may kill a project (Wash-ington Pike) we are not sure is good for the community. We’re not sure because we can’t get any information about ideas and plans for the project.”

Jim Bletner, a longtime Sequoyah Hills area neigh-borhood leader who has lived or worked near Cum-berland Avenue since 1958, said he’s highly dubious about the project because so many things have changed since the original study: UT-ordered street clos-ings, new housing creating demands for more parking space.

“I think it may go down in history as one of the big-gest boondoggles in this community.”

Chase, who has had to fi ght off city, state and even the federal government to protect his businesses over the past 40 years, said he’s frustrated to hear city offi -cials complain that business owners didn’t speak out soon enough.

“I’m just getting too old to fi ght,” he said. “But they’re pushing me that way.”

Chase has a suggestion. He says it’s not too late to allow three lanes of traf-fi c – an eastbound lane, a westbound lane and a turn lane that would serve as an additional rush hour traf-fi c lane eastbound in the morning, westbound in the afternoon.

Bob Monday, who owns property leased to FedEx Offi ce and Walgreens, said he expects this construction project to have the same effect on Cumberland Av-enue businesses as Henley Bridge construction had on Chapman Highway, only worse. “Business on Chap-man Highway is beginning to come back. On Cumber-land, it won’t.”

HEALTH NOTES ■ The Alexander Technique, An Introduction, 2-4 p.m. Tuesday,

April 21, Knoxville Healing Center, 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Pre-registration with confi rmation is required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or www.AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

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THROUGH WEDNESDAY, MAY 20Applications accepted for the Great Smoky

Mountains Trout Adventure Camp for middle-school girls and boys, sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Trout Unlimited to be held June 15-20 at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info/applications: http://www.tntroutadventure.org.

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

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m.,

Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Sponsored by the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers. First visit free. No partner or dance experience required. Adults and children accompanied by an adult welcome. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; www.oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, APRIL 16“Plan Before You Plant: Maximizing the Output

of Your Raised Beds,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guid-ance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Knox County Master Gardeners. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 16-18“The Night of January 16th” presented by the

Powell Playhouse at Jubilee Banquet Center, 6700 Jubilee Center Way. Thursday-Saturday evening: din-

ner, 5:30 and play, 7; Saturday matinee: lunch, 12:30 p.m. and play, 2 p.m. Tickets: $10 at the door; Saturday matinee only, seniors, $5. Dinner and lunch reservations required: 938-2112. Ticket info: Mona, 256-7428.

FRIDAY, APRIL 17Celebration of the Young Child, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.,

Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, 461 West Outer Drive, Oak Ridge. Admission: $6. Info: Carroll Welch, 482-1074, ext. 105; www.childrensmuseumofoakridge.org.

Healthy U: Headaches Decoded, 10-11 a.m., Hu-mana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18Boy Scout Troop 13 yard-sale fundraiser, 9

a.m.-3 p.m., near Fountain City Park. If rain, will move to Lions Club building at Fountain City Park. To do-nate items: Dave Ringley, RingleyDave@gmail.com, or Candy, 377-3908.

Country breakfast, bake sale and white elephant sale, 7-10 a.m., Mascot UMC, 9426 Mascot Road. Sponsored by Mascot United Methodist Women. Info: 933-1236.

Cystic Fibrosis Walk-A-Thon, 9 a.m., Wilson Park in Maynardville.

Family Fun Day: Drawn from the McClung Museum, 1 p.m., McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Featuring activities, crafts, tours and more while exploring the new tempo-rary exhibit, “Drawn from the McClung Museum.” Free and open to the public.

Flea Market, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Loveland Baptist Church, 1320 Spring Hill Road. Rain or shine. Table rental: $20. Proceeds go to Nicaragua Missionaries.

Fulton High School band art and craft sale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., parking lot behind the football fi eld, 2509 N. Broadway.

“International Flavors,” 7:30 p.m., Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center. Presented by the Oak Ridge Symphony. Tickets: $25, adults; $10 ages 19-29; 18 and younger, free. Final concert this year.

Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee WALK, 9 a.m., UT Gardens, 2518 Jacob Drive. To register/donate: www.alztennessee.org/KnoxWalk2015. Info: 544-6288.

New Life UMC Spring Flea Market, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 7921 Millertown Pike. Hot tamales, breakfast, lunch and more.

Pancake Jamboree and Bake Sale, 8 a.m.-noon, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Broadway at Emory Place. Hosted by Northside Kiwanis Club. Tickets: $4; $10 for families up to 4. Proceeds to benefi t Aktion Club of Northside, Knoxville at the Cerebral Palsy Center and Key Clubs at Central, Fulton and Halls high schools.

Youth Fundraiser Spaghetti Dinner, 5-7 p.m., Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Church, 4365 May-nardville Highway. Sit down and takeout available. Cost:

$5 or $20 per family. All proceeds go to the youth group. Info/advance orders: 992-7222.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19Walters State Community Band Spring Con-

cert, 3 p.m, “Z” Buda Assembly Hall and Gymnasium. Admission is free. Info: 585-6922.

MONDAY, APRIL 20Luttrell Seniors Lunch, 10 a.m., Union County

Senior Center, 298 Main St., Maynardville. Bring salads or dessert to go with Subway sandwiches.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21Halls Outdoor Classroom Celebration, 6-8:30

p.m., at the outdoor classroom. BBQ, homemade ice cream, s’mores, music by the Halls High Jazz Band, children’s activities and pie-eating contest. Everyone welcome.

Healthy Cooking Demo: Gluten-Free and Egg/Dairy-Free Recipes, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22Biscuit & Gravy Breakfast, 7:30-9:30 a.m., Union

County Senior Center, 298 Main St., Maynardville. Cost: $5. Info: 992-3292.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Sponsored by the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers. First visit free. No partner or dance experience required. Adults and chil-dren accompanied by an adult welcome. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; www.oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

Preparing Your Book for Self-Publication, 6-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Kathleen Fearing. Registration deadline: April 15. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 24-25Rocky Top Bluegrass Festival, 5:30-11 p.m.

Friday and 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, George Templin Memorial Athletic Field, 214 N. Main St., Rocky Top. Performers: Bobby Osborne and Rocky Top X-Press, Lonesome River Band, Blue Highway, Junior Sisk and Rambler’s Choice, The Boxcars, Flatt Lonesome. Featuring arts and crafts and food vendors. Tickets: $25 Friday, $35 Saturday, $50 two-day pass plus tax; children under 10 free. Info/tickets/schedule: www.rockytopbluegrassfestival.com or 1-800-524-3602.

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