Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero (center) prepares for a balloon release after addressing the Prayer Vigil of Remembrance at Bethel AME Church last week.

At left are Marty Koontz, Bethel associate minister, and Tanya Tucker, overseer of St. Joseph’s House of Prayer. Photo by Bessie M. Jowers/Bethel AME

Watson is new to Carter Middle

Thomas Watson is the new principal at Carter Middle

School. He replaces one-year principal Chad Smith, who will become the new principal at Powell High School.

Watson be-gan his career

with the Knox County Schools in 1996 as a teacher at Whit-tle Springs Middle School and also served as a teacher at Carter Middle School. In addition to teaching, he has served as an administrative assistant at Green Magnet Science and Math Academy and an assistant principal at Northwest Middle School. He is currently principal at Richard Yoakley School.

Watson holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a bachelor’s in biology, and a master’s in curriculum and instruction, all from the Uni-versity of Tennessee. He also holds an education special-ist degree in administration and supervision from Lincoln Memorial University.

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By Betty BeanOne Saturday evening in 1958, I

settled down in front of the TV at my grandparents’ house to watch “The Gray Ghost,” which celebrat-ed Col. John Mosby, a dashing Confederate whose raiders rode rings around dimwitted Yankees to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” I loved that show.

But Mosby didn’t have time to

draw his sword when my grand-dad came barreling out of the kitchen and told me to fi nd some-thing else to watch.

“Why?” I asked. “Because it’s treason,” he said.

“And I despise it.”I didn’t know what treason was,

but I’ve remembered this small incident for more than 50 years, although it took decades for me

John Alexander Bean, Private, Sixth

Tennessee Infantry, USALearn more

William Rule, Union Army veteran, newspaper reporter and Parson Brownlow protégé who later founded the Knoxville Jour-nal, wrote the most succinct account of what it was like to make the long walk to Cumberland Gap and described it in great detail here:

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Information about the Sixth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, in-cluding rosters, is here:

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A heritage worth remembering: Finding John Bean

to understand what it was really about:

It was the voice of my great-grandfather, challenging me to come fi nd him. He stayed in my ear no matter how many times I saw “Gone With the Wind.”

Here’s what I knew: John Alex-ander Bean was a Union Army vet-eran, but he was no Yankee.

He was a straight-line descen-dant of the long hunters who’d migrated down from Virginia and settled near Jonesborough.

Russell Bean was the fi rst white child born in Tennessee. Russell’s father, Captain Billy Bean, and at least one of his uncles rode 150 miles with John Sevier to whip the British at King’s Mountain and later moved on down the valley to Bean Station and Knox County. A rowdy, restless bunch, some of the Beans continued westward (Judge

Roy Bean was a distant relation), but others, like John A’s grandfa-ther (also named John and a veter-an of the War of 1812) stayed put.

That distant John Bean’s grave is in the Living Waters Baptist

Watson

The afternoon water wagon team pauses in the garden shade at St. John’s

Lutheran Church before hitting the hot streets to serve people standing

near the homeless missions along Broadway. This team includes visitor Hal-

ey Dockery, Seth Howell from St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Columbia,

S.C., Keli Shipley from 1st Presbyterian, Knoxville, Will Trout from St. John’s

Lutheran, Lindy Player, also from St. Andrew’s, and Nolan Romero from Lu-

theran Chapel in Gastonia, N.C. Photo by Bill Dockery

By Bill DockeryWith the thermometer reading

in the mid-90s on the sidewalk, refreshment is as close as a little red wagon holding a tub of cold water.

The only thing more refreshing to the people congregated near the homeless missions on Broadway is the group of youngsters dragging the wagon, ladling out the cool liq-uid, and passing out bubblegum and conversation.

“You’ll see. They are going to be there waiting for us,” Lindy Player predicts as the young people ap-proach adults gathered in a mis-sion courtyard. The wagon and its entourage are quickly surrounded.

The youth are part of Win Our World, an urban ministry started

Youth take cool mission to hot streetsby St. John’s Lutheran Church 12 years ago that now brings as many as 250 young people to serve on the streets and in the social agen-cies of inner-city Knoxville every summer.

“WOW is an immersion expe-rience in urban ministry,” said Amy Figg, associate pastor at St. John’s. “The focus is on faith for-mation, leadership development and hands-on urban ministry.”

On a recent weekday, WOW young people were holding birth-day parties at Guy B. Love Towers, a low-income residential develop-ment; doing cultural education at Global Seeds, a program in the 4th and Gill neighborhood for Iraqi

By Bill DockeryMembers of Knoxville’s reli-

gious community overfl owed the sanctuary at Bethel African Meth-odist Episcopal Church last week to pray and remember the nine churchgoers shot to death in a his-

toric South Carolina church last week.

The interfaith service, “A Prayer Vigil of Remembrance,” was co-hosted by the Bethel AME congre-gation on Boyd’s Bridge Pike and the Overcoming Believers Church

in the wake of the recent shoot-ing at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, where a young white man killed nine African American worshipers in an evening prayer meeting and Bible study.

“We all need one another.

Thank you for being here,” Beth-el minister Keith Mayes told the crowd of over 400 people, which included ministers and members of black and white churches from

Unhappy weekBetty Bean says why Dr. Jim

McIntyre had a most unhappy week in a column titled, “Mc-Intyre’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.”

And this week could be even worse.

➤ Read Betty Bean on page 4

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tival and Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, at Red Gate Farm in Maynardville.

Carnival starts at 5 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each day. Admission is $15 for adults, $8 for kids 4-10 years old, and free for kids age 3 and under.

Info: www.redgaterodeo.com or 992-3303.

Jazz for JoyTaber Gable is the fi rst Joy

of Music School student to at-tend Juilliard.

And he’s coming back for a concert Thursday, July 9, and bringing a jazz quartet along.

He wants everyone to sup-port the school that provided him his foundation, momen-tum and opportunity so that more and more children can take part and see their lives changed through the art and discipline of music.

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Bender, 62, has had a lifetime of adven-tures, but nothing could have prepared her for the ultimate adventure of � ghting to live. Bender has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), cancer and lupus.

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Having temporarily lost her eyesight be-cause of MS in the past, Bender didn’t take it lightly when she suffered intense pain in her right eye while she was at work one night in June of 2012. “I had a really bad headache, and my eye was throbbing,” Bender recalls.

“Most people would have ignored it, but because of my background with MS, the very next morning I called my eye doctor,” Bender says.

The eye doctor referred her to a specialist in Knoxville who performed a variety of tests just two days later. Bender was told there was a protrusion on the back of her right eye, that it was a sign she had cancer somewhere in her body and that she needed to see an on-cologist right away.

Bender’s doctor in Sevierville referred her to Thompson Cancer Survival Center and Li-ebman. Liebman sees patients at TCSC Sevi-er on a regular basis, in addition to working at TCSC Downtown.

Liebman ordered scans to be performed at LeConte Medical Center and brought Bender into the of� ce soon after. “When I walked in she said, ‘We know you have cancer, we just don’t know what kind,’ ” Bender says.

Liebman began to put the call out for oth-er doctors to see Bender and search for the cause. A biopsy on a lung lesion revealed that Bender had stage 4 melanoma.

“That was kind of hard for me to under-stand,” Bender confesses, “but at that point it had gone to my lungs, it had gone to my

brain and it was on my eye.”There had been no tell-tale moles or mys-

terious patches on her skin. Bender learned melanoma can arise in places that aren’t so obvious as sun-exposed skin.

Bender says Liebman had made it clear that � ghting the cancer would be warfare. It proved to be true, and Liebman was ready to do battle.

She immediately had Bender set up an appointment for brachytherapy on the af-fected eye. Liebman set her sights on the brain tumors next.

A � rst MRI had shown three tumors. A new MRI revealed a total of eight. “That’s how fast it was growing,” Bender says.

“We chose to use the Gamma Knife for targeted radiation to the lesions,” says Lieb-man. The Gamma Knife at Fort Sanders Re-gional delivers 192 � nely focused beams of gamma radiation to small targets inside the brain.

The beams converge at a point to treat the affected tissue, while minimizing the dam-age to healthy brain tissue. “This spares the patient some of the side effects of radiation,

which may include memory loss and dif� -culty concentrating,” Liebman says.

Next, Liebman attacked the three lesions on Bender’s lungs. Chemotherapy was start-ed within two weeks of Bender’s � rst GammaKnife procedure.

Liebman recommended the relatively new cancer drug Yervoy (Ipilimumab), andit worked. The cancer stopped spreading andBender was winning the war.

Then just when it seemed like the worst was over, Bender was diagnosed with lu-pus. Bender consulted with Liebman andtogether they determined therapy for thelupus could wait. The best course of actionwould be to keep focusing solely on cancertreatment.

Bender’s diagnosis today is “no evidence of cancer.” She hasn’t required continuingchemotherapy, which is somewhat astound-ing for a stage 4 melanoma patient.

Grateful to be alive, Bender gives credit to God and her oncologist. “If I had gone tosome other doctor somewhere else, I don’tknow that the outcome would have been thesame,” Bender says.

This Sevier County cancer survivor prais-es Liebman for being direct, honest, proac-tive and because, in Bender’s words, “shedoesn’t treat me like I’m just another medi-cal record in her hand.”

Bender is also grateful to her “church family” and her “work family,” who con-stantly offered support. This was especiallyimportant to her since she has no family inEast Tennessee.

Bender didn’t escape this war without some battle scars, she’s lost vision in herright eye, and she remains fully aware thatcancer could come back with a vengeance atany time. That simply motivates her to makethe most of life.

“Every day is special,” Bender says. “Ev-ery day is paradise.”

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Michelene Liebman, MD, says recent years have brought rapid advancements in melano-

ma treatment. Patients who might not have had hope when they were diagnosed a few years ago now have a � ghting chance. Chris Bend-er is one of them.

“The disease-free survival we have obtained with Chris-tine is almost unprecedented except in some clinical trials for stage 4 melanoma,” Li-

ebman says. Yervoy was administered only at initial diagnosis with complete response. “That means she has not had recurrent dis-ease needing frequent chemotherapy.”

Staging is the extent of involvement of can-cer throughout the body, and the stage of the disease directs the treatment recommenda-tions. “Most cases of malignant melanoma are diagnosed at an earlier stage, when surgical excision can be curative,” Liebman explains.

“However, a few patients have metastatic disease at presentation, which means the

cancer has spread to other areas in the body.” Some patients develop metastases after their initial de� nitive treatment.

Bender received immunotheraphy, which uses new drugs like Yervoy (Ipilimumab) to enhance the body’s ability to kill cancer cells by increasing the killing power of the white blood cells.

For some patients, targeted therapies which inhibit cell proliferation are preferred. “Some melanomas have a particular gene mu-tation,” Liebman says. “When targeted gene inhibition therapy is used, the result is the killing of the cancer tumor cells.”

“Stage 4 melanoma carries a poor progno-sis with few months survival if not treated,” Liebman says. “Increased survival by months to years is quite gratifying and a great mile-stone in the treatment of this disease.”

Since her initial treatment in 2012, many more immunotherapy drugs have become available for use in metastatic melanoma. Liebman says these treatments do have side effects, but in general are not as toxic as chemotherapy

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Church graveyard. I’d heard that John A had declined an in-

vitation to join the Confederate Army and walked all the way to Cumberland Gap to join the Union Army and that he’d been tak-en prisoner, escaped and gotten so hungry that he’d boiled an old boot in hopes of get-ting it tender enough for dinner, and that when his children expressed disgust at the notion of trying to eat a boot, he’d snap: “It used to be a cow, didn’t it?”

I’d heard that his biggest regret was missing the chance to shake hands with Abraham Lincoln. I knew he was a stone-cutter by trade and that he’d lost his arm much later in life after he knelt to pray at the funeral of another old soldier, reached down to steady himself on a grave marker and got bitten by a black widow spider. My father remembered that his grandfather al-ways wore a suit and could tie his shoelaces one-handed.

I didn’t give those stories much thought or credence until the Internet age afforded me the means to chase them down. And what I found is that most of them were pretty close to the truth.

John A was 18 when he enlisted in the Sixth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Brigade on April 18, 1862, in Knoxville, an occupied city seething under the burden of sharply divided loyalties. He stood 5-9, had dark hair and gray eyes and was offi cially mus-tered in and assigned to Company D, which was composed entirely of Knox Countians and led by Captain Marcus Bearden, on April 23, in Boston, Ky., near Louisville. This means he enlisted, covered some 70 miles of rough, enemy-occupied terrain on foot from the family farm in Ebenezer to reach Cumberland Gap and was conveyed to Boston in fi ve days’ time.

Military records say he’d been “left sick in hospital, Sept. 17, 1862,” and “Had been reported a deserter but had been captured by the Rebels and not deserted.” The next John A sighting was a memorandum from Prisoner of War records placing him back with the U.S. Army at Camp Lew Wallace in Ohio on Oct. 31.

Here’s the surprise: There were a bunch of Beans in Company D. John A’s father, Henry, enlisted on the same day as John A, as did John A’s uncle, William Camp Bean.

Presumably, they all walked to Kentucky together. A year later, Henry went home and his son George signed up in his place. William Camp Bean would die in Nash-ville, probably of cholera, in 1863. Captain Bearden survived being shot near Mari-etta, Ga., after the Sixth Infantry joined Gen. William T. Sherman at the Battle of Atlanta, which means that Tennessee boys helped burn down Tara, so to speak, before most of them were detached and returned to Nashville while Sherman continued his march to the sea.

On March 30, 1865, the Sixth Tennessee received this offi cial commendation: “Many of these brave men have already served be-yond the term of their enlistment, and their services are gratefully appreciated. We can but bid them a kind farewell with feelings of gratitude and deep solicitude for their future welfare. May they return in safety to their homes to enjoy the liberties of the Government they have so nobly defended.”

A footnote says the Tennesseans “moved on foot and otherwise nearly 10,000 miles.”

John A and George Bean were mustered out on April 24, 1865, nine days after Lin-coln was murdered by a Rebel sympathizer.

According to a cryptic but credible fam-ily Bible account, Henry Bean’s sister, Lydia Bean Duncan (John A’s aunt), became a widow when her husband, a Confederate sympathizer, was “shot by a Bean” in 1865. Lydia, also according to Duncan family re-cords, became the fi rst – and probably the oldest – Knox County woman to register to vote after the passage of the 19th Amend-ment. She was said to have walked to town to register but was later unable to cast her vote due to failing health.

So there it is. John A. Bean turned 18 in an occupied city. He knew he could have been imprisoned or hanged if he’d been caught on that long walk to Kentucky but did it anyway, as did many East Tennessee men.

He lived to become the father of nine, a pillar of Knoxville’s First Methodist Church, a staunch Republican (duh) and an old man whose only recorded regret was that he never got to shake hands with Lin-coln.

And that’s a heritage worth remember-ing.

Keeping the

beat for the

Kuumba Fes-

tival parade Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Kuumba Watoto Drum

and Dance performers

lead the parade.

The words of Maya An-gelou paired with an in-spirational tagline set the stage for the annual Kuum-ba Festival in Knoxville: “ ‘Into a daybreak that’s won-drously clear,’ we rise to-gether, celebrate and uplift our community.”

The African-American arts festival began on June 26 on Market Square and moved to Morningside Park for the subsequent two days. As is tradition, music, dance, ethnic food and in-ternational crafts were the hallmark of the celebration of African heritage.

Joyce Billingsley and Jackie Dale sat on a bench at Market Square on Friday, eyes on a sky that threat-ened rain. “I am here to see the dancers I have heard so much about,” said Billings-ley, who recently moved to Knoxville from California. “This is my fi rst festival here, and I can’t wait to see

Drummers, dancers keep

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the dancers.”Chris Douglass watched

as his two excited daugh-ters, Sydnee and Englynn, gave their preferences to a jolly and patient balloon artist, David Perkins. “Pink with white fl owers,” said 5-year-old Englynn, as Syd-nee, age 3, piped in that she wanted the same.

At one of the craft booths, Louise Mogendi and her son, Roy A. Williams, gave impromptu lessons in the Kenyan history of Kisii stone carving. “You know it as soapstone,” said Mo-gendi. “It comes from the Kisii highlands in western

Kenya. My ancestors were carvers of the stone in Ke-nya. We do all the carving by hand.”

The sound of the drums ramped up the excitement – and perhaps drove away the rain – as the parade through Market Square be-gan. The talented Kuumba Watoto Drum and Dance group, the Tennessee Pearls dance teams and a host of costumed characters strut-ted through the square to the drummers’ beats. On stage, under the Kuumba lights, organizers beckoned the crowds forward for the evening concert by Africa Unplugged, a Greensboro, N.C., music group that fea-tures traditional African in-struments.

Morningside Park ac-tivities included an African marketplace, children’s ac-tivities and performances by the Knoxville Jazz All Stars and Alvin Garrett.

Foothills Craft Guild to hold Jury Fest

The Foothills Craft Guild is accepting new member applications from fi ne craft artisans for its second Jury Fest to be held Wednesday, Aug. 12, with take-in days Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 10-11. Info/application: Bob Klassen, bobklassen@char-ter.net, or www.foothills-craftguild.org under the “How to Join” section.

and Irani refuges; and visit-ing the residents at Serene Manor, a nonprofi t nurs-ing home on Wray Street. They help out at Knox Area Rescue Ministries and the Volunteer Ministry Center, as well as Christenberry School, Beardsley Farm and Habitat for Humanity.

At the nursing home, WOW participants talk with the residents, play board-games and Wii bowling, and generally just engage.

“One of our guys said that all they need is joy, and that’s all we take them,” said Liza Hawkins, director of the WOW program.

Hawkins came as a par-ticipant several years ago from her Lutheran church in Murfreesboro before joining the paid summer staff. After graduating from Carson-Newman University in 2014, she hired on as the program’s year-round paid

director. While she may go to graduate school or semi-nary eventually, she said she is “taking time off from school to give back to the ministry that gave so much to me.”

Will Trout, a 15-year-old who attends Gatlinburg-Pittman High School, sees real changes in the youth who come to WOW. “When some of them get here, they are shy and don’t talk a lot, even to people from their own church. By the end of the week, they are dancing and singing with everyone. It makes a great difference.”

The program enriches the experiences of the youth and the lives of the people they interact with, but it also pro-vides concrete help to ser-vice organizations that need an extra hand or two.

“We help them do things,” Hawkins said. “When we wipe down tables, we are

freeing up some of their staff to do other things. It really adds up.”

WOW runs for eight weeks in June and July with an av-erage of 65 participants per week, including volunteers and staff. The middle- and high-schoolers come from churches as far away as North and South Carolina, Florida, Wisconsin and Min-nesota and as close as First Presbyterian, Knoxville. The program houses visitors in the church-owned Beamon Building nearby, with over-fl ow into the church’s class-room spaces.

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across the city. “This is not a black issue or a white issue. It’s not an AME issue, nor a Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or Universal-ist issue. It’s an American issue.”

The program included a series of prayers by promi-nent black and white clergy, interspersed with music from the combined Bethel and Overcoming Believers choirs.

Tanya Tucker, overseer of St. Joseph’s House of Prayer, prayed for “the ability to be patient, kind, and long-suf-fering. Give us the patience to live together in our dif-ferences.” Steve Hancock, pastor of nearby Riverview Baptist Church referred to God when he said “we have you in common.”

Chris Buice, minister at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, said, “We could be home alone but we are here together. We could choose to isolate but instead we choose to con-gregate. Hear our prayer.” Buice’s congregation ex-perienced a similar attack

from a gunman in 2008, killing two churchgoers and wounding seven.

Mayor Madeline Rogero, who led a contingent of city offi cials, said, “In the face of senseless violence, we have no words. We grieve with the families and church in Charleston. We are grateful that hatred and fear are not the true face of our city.”

Doug Banister, pastor of All Souls Church, received amens from the attendees when he said, “We can’t love until we admit that we don’t love.”

Daryl Arnold, pastor at Overcoming Believers Church, challenged the group to be unifi ed against hatred and evil, to keep per-spective and to pray. “If we are going to be a community that walks in power, we’re going to have to be a com-munity of prayer.”

At the end of the service, the worshippers moved to the parking lot to pray one last time and release hun-dreds of black and white balloons as a symbol of ra-cial and religious unity.

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Football coaches, for the most part, are creatures of habit. They are inclined to do what they always have done.

Down and distance are dictatorial. Defensive align-ments are predictable. Play selection for third-and-one is right there in the scouting report, same as last week and last season.

Coaches will tell you that player experience is critical. The late, great Robert R. Neyland said we could ex-pect one loss for each rookie in the starting lineup. Back then, he was talking about sophomores. Today’s rook-ies are freshmen.

In theory, experienced players have great advan-tages. They have learned what it takes. They are less

Tennessee might do something diff erent

Marvin West

likely to make dumb mis-takes. They are far less like-ly to panic in a crisis, even when overmatched.

Coaches count on consis-tency and dependability. It helps them sleep.

Great emphasis is thus placed on returning regu-lars. There is merit to this maxim if those starters were winners, not so much if all they have to show for their efforts are battle scars.

Now and then coaches do the unexpected, set aside the signifi cance of experi-ence or just dare to be dif-ferent, as was Butch Jones last year in choosing talent over letters. Freshman tail-back Jalen Hurd over senior tailback Marlin Lane was a convincing example.

Derek Barnett was the fi rst freshman in UT history to start at defensive end. You know how that turned out. He led in tackles for loss against SEC foes. He had three sacks against Ole Miss and South Carolina. Inexperience didn’t seem to hold him back.

Freshman Jashon Rob-ertson switched from de-fensive tackle in August to right offensive guard and started all 13 games.

Tight end Ethan Wolf did pretty well. Aaron Medley kicked 20 of 26 fi eld goals, including one in the clutch against the Gamecocks. He hit 42 extra points and might have made more if Tennessee had scored more touchdowns.

Defensive backs Todd Kelly Jr. and Emmanuel Moseley looked like they be-longed.

Twelve true freshmen started games, including a school-record seven against Missouri. Some started be-cause of talent. Some start-ed because of need.

Freshmen of 2015 may actually have more ability than the previous group, but there are no automatic starters. One or two or three may shove estab-

lished players aside and take their jobs. The coach relishes the thought of competition.

“We’re going to rely on two true freshman defen-sive tackles to really play a big part in this year’s out-come of many games, so we have to get them ready to go,” Jones said.

He was talking about four- or fi ve-star Kahlil McKenzie (6-3 and down to 330) and four-star Shy Tut-tle (6-3 and 313, a pleasant development in spring prac-tice). They do not resemble spectators.

Drew Richmond, 6-3 and 305, has announced his in-tentions.

“My expectation is for me to start.”

The third-ranked of-fensive tackle in all of high school football does not lack confi dence. He says he can be ready for Day One, Sept.

6, Bowling Green, Tita ns’ place in Nashville. Be there!

“I feel like I am pretty good.”

Preston Williams is a possible starter for later in the season. The day he of-fi cially recovers from knee repairs, he may be the Vols’ best pass receiver. He comes with fi ve recruiting stars and lofty goals.

“I’m going in trying to break records,” he said.

For the already record, Butch Jones is still follow-ing the original blueprint, brick by brick toward the restoration of Tennessee excellence. He hasn’t said it, but he has demonstrated his choice of ability over experi-ence.

There may be other sub-tle changes. Think Mike DeBord, ability and experi-ence, lots of experience.Marvin West invites reader comments.

His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Last Monday, Knox County Commission ver-bally spanked schools su-perintendent James Mc-Intyre before voting 9-1 not to help him out of a potential legal jam by ret-roactively approving a grant he’d accepted last fall without going through the proper legal and procedural channels.

McIntyre’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

On Tuesday morning, the news broke that the previously anonymous “un-indicted co-conspirator” mentioned in the tax fraud indictment of state Rep. Joe Armstrong is McIntyre ally and former school board

chair Sam Anderson.Later Tuesday, McIntyre

announced that Ander-son had resigned from a $42,000-a-year, 16-hour-per-week position as an “advisor” to Knox County Schools that was not pub-licly advertised before An-derson’s hiring.

On Wednesday, it be-came public knowledge that the school bus driver who caused last December’s deadly accident that killed two children and a teacher’s aide was not only text mes-saging at the time of the crash, but also was carrying on an extended conversa-tion with a prostitute, and that parents had been com-plaining to Knox County Schools for more than a year about this driver’s disdain for safety.

On Thursday afternoon, reports surfaced that a group of citizens is shopping

for a lawyer to help them fi le an ouster suit against Mc-

Intyre.All in all,

it was not a good week to be super-intendent.

As seri-ous as Mc-I n t y r e ’ s other em-b a r r a s s -

ments are, the brewing ouster suit is likely connect-ed to the “matching” grant from The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems that McIntyre ac-cepted without getting school board and County Commission approval, as required by law.

Under the terms of the grant, TBC put up $29,700, which Knox County Schools “matched” with $60,300 for salary and another $30,000 for benefi ts to bring Broad

resident Christy Hendler on board as director of plan-ning and improvement. The Broad Center requires its residents be paid at least $90,000 annually.

Hendler’s prior profes-sional experience was with Procter & Gamble, and she has an MBA from Xavier University. No educational background is listed on her Broad Center profi le. She is the fourth Broad resident to have worked for Knox County during the tenure of McIntyre, who is an alum of the Broad Superintendent’s Academy. The Broad Cen-ter is considered a leader in corporate education reform. Its annual report describes the residency program like this:

“Since 2003, the program has recruited and placed early-career executives with private and civic sector experience and advanced

Jim McIntyre

Betty Bean

degrees into two-year, full-time paid positions in ur-ban school districts, state and federal departments of education and top charter management organizations. More than 250 Broad Resi-dents have been placed in 39 school districts, 30 pub-lic charter school manage-ment organizations, seven state departments of edu-cation and the U.S. Depart-ment of Education.”

Because the grant re-quired the county to pony up funds, McIntyre is in legal jeopardy because he failed to secure up-front ap-proval from both the school board and County Commis-sion. Instead, he unilater-ally accepted the grant and got school board approval after the fact. He asked County Commission to do the same but ran into trou-ble when former KCS teach-ers Rob Taylor and Jennifer

Owen appeared at the June commission meeting and urged the commission not to approve the grant.

Taylor accused McIntyre of dodging the school board because the appointment came at a time when he did not enjoy friendly majority.

Owen said McIntyre needs to go:

“This illegal act re-mained hidden for an entire year, the length of the grant. Many such contracts have been handled correctly, and it seems clear that this was not failure to understandthe law. This was willingly and knowingly done, and fi ve Board of Education members chose to become complicit.”

First District Commis-sioner Sam McKenzie was the only yes vote. AmyBroyles was absent.Betty Bean is a columnist for Shopper-

News. Reach her at bbeanster@aol.com.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ School board members

should check the time cards

of former board chair Sam An-

derson, who claimed to have

worked 16 hours per week for

a $42,000 salary.

■ And while they’re at it,

board members should fi nd

out why parent complaints

about the driving habits of

the late James Davenport

were not taken seriously.

■ And fi nally, they should start

looking for a new superin-

tendent.

■ Foster Arnett shuffl ed up

and issued a marriage license

to a same-sex couple only af-

ter the state attorney general

told him he must.

■ Arnett has been working

from suburban branches of

the County Clerk’s offi ce since

suing the Public Building

Authority (and Knox County)

over mold and “unsafe”

working conditions in the

courthouse.

■ Notice how many of the folks

who say marriage should be

between one man and one

woman are working on their

third or fourth?

■ Tim Burchett’s response to

the Supreme Court’s ruling

was, “We will enforce the law.”

That was similar to Gov. Bill

Haslam’s response.

■ Charme Knight Allen, Knox

County’s little-known attor-

ney general, handled criticism

well on TV Sunday.

■ Mike Lowe’s less-than-a-year

sentence was not enough?

asked Stephanie Beecken.

■ Best we could do, said Allen,

pointing out co-defendant

Delbert Morgan’s conviction

led to a 30-day sentence by

the judge. We asked for 10

years and Morgan’s case had

stronger proof than Lowe’s,

she said.

■ Lowe’s plea bargain and

sentence to the county’s

detention facility allows her

offi ce to retain control of him

and Morgan as she seeks res-

titution of some $593,000.

■ “I can’t get more than they

took,” she said. But she

looked like she wants to try.

■ Arthur Seymour Jr. is accus-

tomed to a friendly reception

at Knox County Commission

and Knoxville City Council. He

got less than that last Thurs-

day at the town of Farragut.

■ Seymour didn’t disclose his

client. In fact, he didn’t talk

at all after a standing-room-

only crowd of angry residents

told the Board of Mayor and

Aldermen that the developer

had no right to speak after

withdrawing an agenda item.

■ Bob Markli, an alderman,

said, “Anytime someone

wants to spend $37 million

in our town, we should hear

them.”

■ The apartment applicant will

return. So will the residents.

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THROUGH TUESDAY, JULY 7Enrollment open for foster parenting classes to

be held 5:30-8:30 p.m. each Tuesday beginning July 7 for eight weeks. The classes will be conducted by Camelot in the LaFollette offi ce, 240 W. Central Ave. Info/to enroll: Susan Sharp, 423-566-2451 or ssharp@camelotcare.com.

THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT. 22Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memo-

ries” show featuring Pat Boone backed by Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thurs-day, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Proceeds go the Oak Ridge High School music de-partment. Info/tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1International 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, JULY 2Arts and Crafts with Anna Hughes, 4 p.m., Mascot

Branch Library, 1927 Library Road. Info: 933-2620.Happy Travelers Gathering/Luncheon, 11 a.m.,

North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. Music provided by Mavis and Paul Hughes with Joyful Sound. Free; $7 donation suggested. Info: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

FRIDAY, JULY 3The Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m.,

1009 Main St., Maynardville. Fresh produce, meat, plants, cut fl owers, artists and craftsmen. “First Friday” celebration includes live music, cooking demonstrations, children’s activities, featured agribusinesses and more. New vendors welcome. Info: 992-8038.

SATURDAY, JULY 4Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West

Town Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Premiere of “200 Years of Volunteers,” 7 p.m., East Tennessee PBS. Documentary highlights the events, men and women that earned the state its nickname from the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain to the modern battlefi elds of today.

Young-Williams Animal Center adoption special, noon-4 p.m., adoption fees for cats and dogs 4 years and older will be just $4. Available at Young-Williams Animal Center, 3201 Division St., and the Young-Williams Animal Village, 6400 Kingston Pike. Info: www.young-williams.org.

MONDAY, JULY 6American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St.,

Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522. Mighty Musical Monday with O’Connor Senior

Singers, noon, Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Lunch of sandwich, chips and a dessert, $5, in the lobby while

supplies last. Program is free. Info: 684-1200.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 6-10Etiquette classes, 4-5:15 p.m., Imagination Forest,

7613 Blueberry Road. Hosted by the Cardinal School of Etiquette for ages 6-12. Cost: $125. Info/registration: 312-2371 or alwhite07@comcast.net.

TUESDAY, JULY 7Drum-Making Workshop, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., East

Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116 Childress St. For teens and adults with and without disabilities. Info: Lorrie or Shaynie, 219-0130.

Happy Travelers trip: “Singin’ in the Rain” at Cumberland County Playhouse with lunch at Cumber-land Mountain State Park. Cost: $55 inclusive. Info/registration: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8Afternoon LEGO Club, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch

Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. For kids in fi rst through fi fth grades. Info: 525-5431.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Com-puter, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Ashe-ville Highway. Info/registration: 525-5431.

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.

THURSDAY, JULY 9Halls Book Club: “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing

of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson, 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

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

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governmentThe controversy over re-

moving the name Lady Vols from most teams (except women’s basketball) con-tinues. It is not going away anytime soon given the let-ter state Rep. Roger Kane wrote (co-signed by 44 other lawmakers) and sent to the UT Board of Trustees.

Kane secured the sig-natures of 45 of the 132 members of the General Assembly without trying. He simply passed the letter around and got a strong re-action. Kane is a solid, con-servative lawmaker from northwest Knox County. He defeated longtime politi-cal powerhouse Sheriff Tim Hutchinson to win the GOP primary and became known as a political giant-killer. Prior to this, he was virtu-ally unknown.

In Nashville, he is re-garded as thoughtful and informed. He has a keen interest in this subject with his daughter having been active in UT sports.

His “Save the Lady Vols” letter got the backing of state Sens. Richard Briggs and Becky Duncan Massey plus Reps. Martin Daniel, Eddie Smith, Bill Dunn and Kane – a majority of the delegation. This cannot be shunted to the sidelines.

What was anyone think-ing when Dave Hart autho-rized and advocated this change, which the campus leadership and system pres-ident then endorsed? Cer-

UT controvers y won’t end soonVictorAshe

tainly not the merits or de-merits of the name change.

Were they not aware of the public relations war this would trigger?

Why did the rollout not have a game plan to sell it to UT alumni and fans across the state?

Did they honestly think 132 state legislators would remain silent when their constituents were calling, emailing, writing letters to the editor and marching? Not for a minute.

Is this name change a fi ght worth fi ghting consid-ering all the other issues the university faces annually?

The leadership is now spending time on this in-stead of funding and man-agement. How vital to UT’s success is this name change?

Does UT’s leadership not realize that this may now be headed to the fl oor of the General Assembly, where legislation could well be in-troduced in 2016 to reverse the name change?

Do the UT leadership and board want to do battle in Nashville in January on this? Are they not aware the Senate can start holding

confi rmation hearings on UT Trustees to get them to listen more carefully to the Lady Vols supporters?

The decision of the UT Board of Trustees not to hear comments on this mat-ter at last week’s Knoxville meetings handed Roger Kane a perfect and under-standable reason to take it to the Legislature. He can now say the entire UT lead-ership has declined to give 45 lawmakers and thou-sands of citizens a day in a public setting to express their views.

UT is relying on legal-isms to avoid public discus-sions. Isn’t a college campus all about hearing different points of view?

Yes, but apparently not when it comes to the Lady Vols name.

UT will ultimately have to make some concessions here. The university may have to reverse course. It cannot stiff the General As-sembly. The governor can-not save it on this issue.

Roger Kane is a law-maker to be taken seriously, and UT will hear more from him. Trustees need to listen to the people in a public set-ting or see a bill passed that they will dislike.

Margie Nichols, a savvy media person, is currently on staff. She knows this region well and could have predicted what has hap-pened. My guess is no one included her as they made

this decision. Now that it has happened, it is not so clear who can get UT out of this controversy.

■ The Rotary Club of Knoxville will host a cen-tennial reception 6-8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31 at the East Tennessee Historical Soci-ety for political and com-munity leaders.

■ Jeff Chapman com-pletes 25 years this week as director of the McClung Museum on the UT campus, which he has led to a level of excellence only dreamed of a few years ago. If you have not visited the museum re-cently you should. It is a special place in Knoxville.

■ City Council mem-ber Marshall Stair has raised $36,000 off a fund-raising letter for his re-election. This is impressive and exceeds the norm for a council candidate. Mayoral candidates have trouble matching that total. All in-cumbents will win and con-tinue the tradition of eight-year terms for mayors and council members since term limits were imposed.

■ Bill Lyons, a member of the Tennessee Historical Commission, says he will vote to remove the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue from the state Capitol if it comes to the commission. Knoxvil-lian Larry Martin chairs the State Capitol Commission, which oversees statutes in the Capitol. He is commis-sioner of fi nance.

Wendy Smith

Open-streets program could foster

bike-friendlinessIt would still be a stretch

to call Knoxville bike-friendly, but there are in-dications that we’re on the right path.

A new bicycle facilities plan maps out needed up-grades to the city’s bicycling infrastructure, and one of the top projects – sidewalks, crosswalks and 800 feet of a 6-foot shoulder on the south side of Kingston Pike at Golfclub Road – has been funded with a $946,000 grant from TDOT.

Over 26,000 votes were cast for an Appalachian Mountain Bike Club plan for a black diamond bike trail in Knoxville’s Urban Wil-derness, netting the group a $100,000 grant in a nation-wide contest sponsored by Bell Helmets.

The next big news may be an event that will al-low the community to hit the streets on bikes, trikes, scooters and feet without the hindrance of cars for a few hours.

The idea of closing city streets to vehicles for a set period of time is new to Knoxville, but the concept has been around for a long time. According to www.openstreetsproject.org, Se-attle Bicycle Sundays began in 1965 with a car-free zone connecting three parks, and the initiative inspired simi-lar events in New York City and San Francisco that are still going on today.

Another source of inspi-ration is Ciclovia, an event that originated in Bogotá, Colombia, in the 1970s. To-day, more than a million people recreate, primarily on bicycle, on 120 kilome-ters of roadway for seven hours each Sunday.

The idea behind Ciclovia and open-streets initiatives is the same. It’s about giving everyone in the community the opportunity to get out and get moving. It’s not a street fair, like the Rossini Festival, or a race, like the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon. It’s fun, free, in-clusive fi tness.

It’s also a way to get the community used to seeing bicycles on the road, which is the fi rst step toward bicy-cle-friendliness.

City of Knoxville Director of Engineering Jim Hager-man says that a committee is discussing the possibility of an open-streets event and that the administration is supportive. While some cit-ies have weekly or monthly events, Knoxville would likely start with a half-day event that could become an-nual.

One challenge would be choosing which streets to close. Open streets typically feature a signature urban street, he says, so Gay Street is an obvious candidate. But sections of Gay Street will be closed over the next six months, making it a poor choice for a fall event.

The route should be small enough for the streets to be full of people, which creates interest.

Gil Penalosa, former commissioner of parks, sport and recreation for the city of Bogotá, talked about Ciclovia at the Ten-nessee Bike Summit held in Knoxville in April. He’s the founder of 8 80 Cities, a Canadian nonprofi t that promotes walking and bik-ing in public spaces.

Knox County commu-nications director Michael Grider liked what he heard. He began commuting via bicycle last year, and he thinks a local event would give more people the oppor-tunity to enjoy cycling.

It’s an attractive event because it requires no (new) infrastructure, he says.

“I’m looking forward to seeing how it evolves.” Reach Wendy Smith at ShopperWendy@

wowway.com.

Major legislation spon-sored by state Sen. B e c k y Massey to help victims of stran-gulation, a crime often involved in d o m e s t i c violence, is

among 171 new laws set to take effect today (July 1).

The new law redefi nes strangulation to include: “intentionally or knowingly impeding normal breathing or circulation of the blood by applying pressure to the throat or neck or by block-ing the nose and mouth of another person, regardless

of whether that conduct re-sults in any visible injury or whether the person has any intent to kill or protractedly injure the victim.”

Massey explains: “Cur-rently the defi nition of strangulation requires the act must be ‘intentional,’ which is a higher standard of proof. By adding ‘know-ingly’ it puts the defi nition of strangulation more in line with similar criminal acts to protect victims of domestic violence.

“Present law also requires a visible injury in cases of strangulation. In some cases, visible injury cannot be seen unless the victim dies and an autopsy is performed and does not account for cases in

which the victim escaped.”Massey said that stran-

gulation victims are seven times more likely to become victims of homicide and that 50 percent of all domestic violence homicide victims are strangled at least once before they are murdered.

Massey also sponsored two other bills set for enact-ment today. Both protect children including a new law that adds to the residen-tial and work restrictions for sexual offenders to pro-hibit them from being alone with a minor in addition to being prohibited from re-siding with a minor.

The other new law re-quires parents whose chil-dren have been removed

from their care due to drug abuse to demonstrate a com-mitment to responsible par-enting before they can re-gain custody.

Before the child can be re-turned, the parent must not be the subject of a criminal investigation for at least 90 days, resolve any former and pending investigations by child protective services to the satisfaction of the court, and pass two consecutive drug screens.

“I am very pleased that these new laws are set for enactment and believe they will make a difference in protecting some of our state’s most vulnerable vic-tims from being harmed,” Massey said.

Massey passes tough-on-crime laws

Sen. Massey

6 • JULY 1, 2015 • Shopper news interns

By Charlie HamiltonHave you ever shopped

at one of the local KARM Thrift Stores? Did you know that a portion of your pur-chase went toward aiding the Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries shelter for the homeless?

Yes, KARM is a nonprofi t organization that started in 1960 and has been helping our community’s homeless for 55 years. KARM houses over 400 men, women and children each night, and serves nearly 1,000 meals every day for people in need.

KARM has many differ-

ent programs to help home-less people get back on their feet and return to normal life. Around 25-30 percent of the homeless population has some type of mental illness, and close to 12-15 percent are some of our country’s veterans. All over this coun-try mental health intuitions have been closing their doors to these people, and care for veterans has deteriorated.

If all of the community will come together we can all end homeless in our community. Thank you, Su-san Renfro, for our tour of this great organization.

Knox Area Rescue Ministries

director of marketing and

communications Sue Renfro

provides a tour for the Shop-

per interns. Photo by Amanda Mc-Donald

A reminder of God’s grace adorns the wall over a bed in KARM’s

men’s facility. Photo by Maddie Ogle

The KARM women’s facility holds just over 100 beds, providing

a safe resting place each night. Photo by Amanda McDonald

Ministry of

healing at KARMBy Shannon Carey

Shopper-News interns paid another visit to Knox-ville Area Rescue Ministries this year, and Sue Renfro was once again our guide.

From the bustling kitch-en to the uplifting Launch-point and Bridge transition-al programs, interns got an eye-opening view of what it means to be homeless or work with the homeless in Knoxville.

Renfro said KARM is working on updating the men’s dormitory and add-ing buildings to Serenity Women’s Ministry to serve as shelter for intact fami-lies. Fundraising efforts are ongoing.

Also new this year is KARM’s Arts on Broadway program, which brings pro-fessional performances to KARM’s guests.

KARM urges independenceBy Emma Dale

Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries hosts the male half of their 400 nightly guests in a long, bare, grey room outfi tted with indus-trial looking bunks in rows. Each bed is numbered, and after each man checks in at a table outside the hall (a process that included being registered in HMIS, a sort of national homeless net-work), he receives a bunk number along with sheets, a

blanket and a pillowcase to go on said bunk.

Sue Renfro, director of marketing and communi-cations, says that KARM has been working on the problem of having home-less “regulars” consistently staying there, by redirect-ing them toward different programs that encourage job-searching and an over-all search for independence.

“We’re a ‘Motel 5,’ not a Motel 6,” she said.

We can end homelessness

Tales of a VolunteenBy Emma Dale

The fi rst day of my job as a Volunteen at Children’s Hospital, I get handed a bad

picture of me on an ID and an ugly khaki vest.

“OK, so they’re not the most attractive,” Cathy, who’s one of the two women

maelstroms in charge of the program, says as she holds it up to me, “But, they have pockets!” She gestures to the two gigantic abysses on either side of the vest.

I’m given a laminated card detailing in tiny print nearly everything, Cathy tells me, that could go wrong in the four hours my shift spans. The appropri-ate reaction, in equally tiny words, is almost always “Go to the nearest nurse’s station and await further instruc-tion.” Basically, whatever happens, don’t get involved unless you want the paper-work fi lled out afterwards to give the Himalayas a run for their money.

That seems to be the gen-eral consensus with most of my work there, too. Just like every other Volunteen who put on his or her khaki vest, I had heady aspirations of making changes, of being inspirational; and just like every Volunteen that padded up and down the halls of the hospital, I eventually real-ized my job consisted of this:

*knock, knock, knock*“Hello, I’m Emma from

Child Life Services.“Is there anything I can

get you today?”*mumble, mumble*“No? You sure? We’ve got

Matthew McConaughey movies, books, toys…”

*grumble, cough*“OK. Have a great day.”*tries to close the door

softly and fails*

That’s as life-changing as my work gets, most of the time. I get a drink from the cafeteria, contemplate whether I can get away with unbuttoning my vest, and drag my feet when it’s time to go organize a playroom, or make paper bag puppets

(One time, while man-ning the information desk, two of us made 50. Fifty). Sometimes I even wonder if the lengthy registration process was worth it.

But then a little moment happens that makes up for the three hours and 55 min-utes I spend doing nearly nothing.

The little girl I’m watch-ing in the patient room stretches her arms up to me to be picked up.

A child wearing only a diaper and an IV shrieks in joy when we give him a Spi-derman plane.

A mom brags in broken English about her baby’s ad-vanced motor skills on the elevator ride up to the cardi-ology unit.

A girl I saw entering the doctor’s offi ce in tears fl ounces out an hour later, animated and smiling when we let her pick a stuffed ani-mal to take home.

Those are the little things that overshadow even the moment you realize that some of the children you’re putting butterfl y stick-on tattoos on aren’t ever going to walk out of this building.

They’re the little things that make being a Volunteen and having to wear an awful vest all worth it.

Emma Dale

“It brings positive art and beauty to our residents,” Renfro said. “It is part of our ministry of healing.”

By Maggie WilliamsLast Tuesday the Shopper-News interns delivered

Mobile Meals for senior citizens in North Knoxville. It was a very enlightening experience for me and all of us who were involved.

We split into three groups, and each group had a delivery route. Each route has around eight stops on it, and every day 60 routes are delivered. That’s a lot of deliveries!

This program helps the community in a way people don’t normally think about. The people were very ap-preciative of us. One man, when asked how his day was, replied, “Any day I wake up is a good day.” The other recipients had similar responses. This is an ex-perience I won’t soon forget.

Shopper interns Charlie Ham-

ilton, Abi Nicholson and Mad-

die Ogle prepare to deliver

Mobile Meals to a resident. Photo by Amanda McDonald

Laken Scott, Mobile Meals coordinator Shelly Woodrick, Anne Marie Higginbotham, Peggy Williams and Bet-

ty Mengesha fi nish volunteer orientation and are ready to head out to deliver meals. Photo by Amanda McDonald

Mobile Meals: delivering more than foodBy Ruth White

Mobile Meals delivers close to 800 meals every day to individuals in Knox County. The hot, well-bal-anced meals are distributed by many volunteer drivers.

Last week the Shopper interns spent the morning handing out food and chat-ting with several residents during the day. Many meal recipients were pleasantly surprised to be greeted by fi ve smiling individuals (as opposed to the standard one or two) who were eager to talk and listen to stories.

Several residents invited the group inside and shared memories of family with the interns. One woman shared stories of her fi ve children and showed the group por-

traits of each hanging on her dining room wall. Although her life has had a few bumpy spots, she stated that she has been very blessed and is happy to have some of her children living near her. As the group left, she hugged each intern a big hug, appre-ciative of their time to listen.

Another meal recipient, a couple who has been mar-ried for almost 70 years, shared stories about their family, the gentleman’s mil-itary service and their love of being outdoors.

This day, the residents in the Sterchi and Inskip area that experienced meal de-livery times fi ve, received more than food, but the gift of companionship and friendship.

Woodrick keeps Mobile Meals moving

By Betty MengeshaThere are many people

in Knoxville who have reached an age where they must depend on others to acquire food or cannot af-ford to feed themselves. Luckily, Mobile Meals, also known as Meals on Wheels, has developed an organiza-tion to reach out to these individuals and better their living conditions.

So much work is put in to help the process move smoothly. A major part of this process is the volun-teer work. Imagine hav-ing to organize 80 volun-teers every day, making sure that new volunteers are educated on how the system works, everyone is given a route to feed over 800 people, and no harsh weathers prevent anyone from having a meal.

Well, Shelly Woodrick

does all of this every day as the volunteer coordinator of Mobile Meals.

Woodrick has been work-ing with Mobile Meals for two years. She has had sev-eral experiences with media and other non-profi t orga-nizations. She has a true passion for helping those in need and that is what led her to Mobile Meals.

With all the expenses that seniors are struggling with these days, Woodrick puts effort into aiding any-one in need as best as she can.

She says, “We try to keep them in their home as long as we can.”

Mobile Meals has been around in Knoxville since 1971, and they continue to help as many as they can. If you would like to volunteer or offer a donation call 865-524-2786.

Privileged to help By Maddie Ogle

The smell of salmon pat-ties and tartar sauce drew us toward the Mobile Meals kitchen. We sat around a rectangular table as Shelly Woodrick, volunteer coor-dinator, described our task.

We set out with maps showing the locations of peo-

ple who had ordered meals – a choice of hot or cold.

After we delivered all of the food to the many people, I realized from the kind words of appreciation that this service is very impor-tant. At the end of the day, I felt very privileged to have helped these people.

Mobile Meals a great experience

Shopper news • JULY 1, 2015 • 7 weekenderFRIDAY, JULY 3

■ Midnight Voyage LIVE: One More Time (A Tribute to Daft

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

tickets: www.intlknox.com.

■ Red, White and Blues Pre-Independence Day Picnic

and Casey Abrams Concert, 6:30 p.m., The Lawn at

Renaissance|Farragut, 12700-12800 Kingston Pike. Family-

friendly event. Bring lawn chairs. Info/tickets: www.

farragutbusiness.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 4 ■ Boys & Girls Club of Tennessee Valley Duck Race, 2:02

p.m., World’s Fair Park, 1060 World’s Fair Park Drive. Benefi ts

the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley.

■ Clinton Fireworks and 4th of July Event, 5 p.m., Lakefront

Park. Free event. Info: 457-0642.

■ Festival on the Fourth, 4-10 p.m., World’s Fair Park, 1060

World’s Fair Park Drive. Free festival; held rain or shine.

■ Independence Day Concert, 8 p.m., World’s Fair Park.

Performed by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Free com-

munity concert open to the public; no tickets required.

■ Independence Day Concert and Fireworks Show, 7:30

p.m., A.K. Bissell Park, 1403 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge.

Bring lawn chair or blanket. Concert by Oak Ridge Commu-

nity Band. Free; donations accepted. Info: www.orcb.org or

482-3568.

■ July 4th Celebration and Anvil Shoot, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Mu-

seum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway, Clinton.

Includes demonstrations, music, food and more. Info: 494-

7680 or www.museumofappalachia.org.

■ Let Freedom Ring: 4th of July at Marble Springs, 10 a.m.-5

p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 W. Gov. John

Sevier Highway. Free; donations appreciated. Info: 573-5508,

info@marblesprings.net or www.marblesprings.net.

■ Norris Day July 4th Celebration on the Norris Commons.

Presented by the Norris Lions Club. Lots of activities. Bar-

becue pork and chicken dinner with all the sides served by

the Norris Lions Club, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Norris Middle School

cafeteria. Info: 368-4884.

■ Rocky Top July 4th Celebration, George Templin Athletic

Field. Live music, food, infl atables, games and more. Fire-

works, 10 p.m.

■ Sons of the Revolutions Celebration, 10 a.m., James

White’s Fort courtyard, 205 E. Hill Ave. Free admission; dona-

tions accepted. Info: www.jameswhitesfort.org.

■ The Secret City Excursion Train, Heritage Center, Oak

Ridge. Departure times: 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. Info: www.

secretcityrailroad.com or 241-2140.

■ Town of Farragut Independence Day Parade, 9:30 a.m.,

beginning on Kingston Pike at Lendon Welch Way and con-

tinuing to Boring Road.

■ Wine and Canvas – Festival on the 4th Art Walk, 2-8 p.m.,

World’s Fair Park, 1060 World’s Fair Park Drive. Featuring

30-minute demonstration classes on 8”x10” canvases. Free.

SUNDAY, JULY 5 ■ Native American Flute Circle, 4 p.m., Ijams Nature Center,

2915 Island Home Ave. Everyone welcome. To register: 577-

4717.

By Carol ShaneAnd now for a good ol’

American success story.The kind of story that

doesn’t happen very often, but when it does says a lot about the American spirit.

At the age of 11, Taber Gable began studying piano at the Joy of Music School, which provides free music lessons to kids who for vari-ous reasons wouldn’t ordi-narily be able to have them. Blessed with natural talent, he practiced diligently.

Along with mastery of the instrument, he garnered respect from staff and col-leagues for what the school’s executive director, Frank Graffeo, calls “his work eth-ic and pursuit of the highest musical goals.” He gradu-ated from West High School and won a full music schol-arship to the University of Hartford in Connecticut, graduating in 2014.

And now he’s at Juilliard.

Studying with Wynton Mar-salis. Ever hear of him?

Not only that, he seems to be a prince of a person. Graffeo says, “Ever since Taber became a part of the Joy of Music School family, he has distinguished him-self as a person of humility, abundant talent and over-fl owing grace. It has been an unparalleled pleasure to watch and hear his develop-ment as a man and as a mu-sician.

“No matter how accom-plished he becomes as a mu-sician, he has demonstrated his full development as an accomplished human being through his desire to give back to the teachers and administrators of the Joy of Music School.”

Gable is indeed giving back. Because of his love for and appreciation of the Joy of Music School, he and three of his Juilliard jazz co-horts are in town to perform

a benefi t concert. Gable says, “My motiva-

tion was to give back and show appreciation and gratitude to all those who have supported me. In the last fi ve years I haven’t had much time to be home or show the benefi ts that my schooling has granted me, so I fi gured it was time. It was also a brief chance for me to get away from the big city and come back home and bring along my musical friends who have become family away from home, and show them my Tennes-see home.”

Joining Taber are drum-mer Jonathan Barber, gui-tarist Andrew Renfroe and bass player Lesly Valbrun.

The evening’s host will be Hallerin Hilton Hill of New-stalk 98.7 WOKI, and food will be provided by Holly’s Eventful Dining. The event sponsor is Clayton Bank, with additional support

from World Travel.In case you were wonder-

ing, Taber is the fi rst Joy of Music School student to at-tend Juilliard. He wants ev-eryone to support the school that provided him his foun-dation, momentum and op-portunity so that more and more children can take part and see their lives changed through the art and disci-pline of music.

But, says Graffeo, “The gratitude runs both ways. We are honored to have played a role in his growth.”

Juilliard Jazz for Joy takes place at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, July 9, at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Tickets range from $25 to $125. Top-level tick-ets include a private recep-tion afterward with Taber and his friends. Tickets are available at 525-6806 or at http://bit.ly/1GAodFl.Send story suggestions to news@shop-

pernewsnow.com.

Pianist Taber Gable, now studying at Juilliard, brings his jazz quartet home next week to benefi t the Joy of Music School. Also

pictured is saxophonist Marquis McGee. Photo submitted

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Jazz for Joy

Strippers and sci fi , oh my!

Rome (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Mike (Channing Tatum) get into it as Ken (Matt Bomer), Tarzan

(Kevin Nash), Richie (Joe Manganiello) and Tito (Adam Rodriguez) watch in “Magic Mike XXL.”

By Betsy PickleThe summer of sequels

continues this week, with two biggies hitting local screens today (Wednesday) to get an extra slice of that holiday pie.

Size matters in “Magic Mike XXL.” The R-rated sequel to the pulchritudi-nous 2012 hit picks up three years after the fi rst. Mike (Channing Tatum) has left the stripper life, but he can’t resist rejoining the Kings of Tampa when they decide to go out with one last big show in Myrtle Beach.

Producers are counting on the same magic as be-fore. The cast also includes Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Adam Rodriguez,

Jada Pinkett Smith, Amber Heard, Donald Glover, Kev-in Nash, Elizabeth Banks and Andie MacDowell. Gregory Jacobs directed.

Expect a lot of “He’s back” jokes to accompany “Terminator Genisys,” a PG-13 reboot of director James Cameron’s 1984 clas-sic. Once again, John Con-nor (Jason Clarke) sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sar-ah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and save the human race, but when Kyle arrives he discovers the timeline has been fractured. He must depend on unexpected al-lies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), to complete his new mission

of resetting the future.Alan Taylor directs the

re-envisioned “Genisys,” which also stars J.K. Sim-mons, Courtney B. Vance and Sandrine Holt.

Opening on Friday at Downtown West is “The Overnight.” Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Schilling) and their son, RJ (R.J. Hermes), are new to Los Angeles, and they’re happy to meet Kurt (Jason Schwartzman) and Char-lotte (Judith Godreche) and their son, Max (Max Mori-tt). But a family play date grows increasingly bizarre as the night wears on.

Patrick Brice wrote and directed the R-rated com-edy.

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While the name may be somewhat deceiving, in that there is no religious training for participants, the mission of the Young Women’s Christian Asso-ciation (YWCA) hasn’t changed since its founding in 1899.

The organization is still a social ser-vice agency with its primary mission “to help women who are alone and need help and have no place to go,” ac-cording to Marigail Mullin, CEO of the Knoxville YWCA since 2006.

Speaking to the Rotary Club of Bearden, Mullin said the downtown YWCA offers refuge to women in tran-sition in its 58-bed facility.

But that shelter isn’t free. The wom-en must fi nd jobs and pay $60 a week in rent. They may stay no longer than two years, and there is always a wait-ing list for the available space.

Mullin said the case histories of the residents “are very hard to read.

There are 58 different stories, but one thing they all have in common is that

they have decided to change their lives. We meet with them, we work with them, but we don’t do it for them.”

There is a large staff that works with the victims of domes-tic violence, with the court system and with

the Family Justice Center. “We want to alleviate pain, stress and danger,” Mullin told the group.

Mullin said the program has an 85 percent success rate of women who are able to live on their own and support themselves within the two-year time period.

The Phyllis Wheatley Branch YWCA, located in East Knoxville, has a different mission, Mullin said, serv-

ing as a community center and offer-ing an after-school program to some 300 students from Vine Middle School yearly.

With help from a federal grant, the organization has also developed curriculum for a new program called “Game Changers.” The program will teach middle school boys about do-mestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking and ways in which they can prevent violence against women and girls.

The YWCA is partnering with four local organizations in the mentoring program: 100 Black men of Knox-ville, Emerald Youth Foundation, the Knoxville Area Urban League and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Knoxville.

Mullin said the local YWCA is funded by the United Way, grants and donations from the public. It works in collaboration with about 100 other or-ganizations.

M. Mullin

YWCA provides vital social services

Fun at the Circle GRosalie Inman from Morning Pointe of Lenoir City Assisted

Living feeds a llama at the Circle G Ranch Safari in Strawberry

Plains. Visiting the ranch was a bucket list favorite for several

residents. Photo submitted

Korean War vets tell their stories

Veterans Mose Lobetti, Fred Fogarty, Buddy Wallace and Tom Mercer. Wallace, a Vietnam War

veteran, said he attended the event because he wanted “to honor our heroes.” The others at his

table all fought in the Korean War. Photo by Anne Hart

By Anne HartMany of their stories

were heartbreaking. And in the telling, occasionally a voice would break and tears would come and there would be a pause before the speaker could begin again.

Some arrived in wheel chairs, others on walkers, still others surprisingly spry considering their age.

A few needed help in standing to take the mi-crophone from the master of ceremonies, local TV personality Gary Loe, who moved gently through the crowd of several hundred that packed Buddy’s Ban-quet Hall, giving everyone who wanted to speak the opportunity to do so.

The occasion marked the 65th anniversary of the invasion of South Korea by North Korea on June 25, 1950 – a war that the United States quickly entered – and the story tellers included both the American soldiers

who fought in that war and natives of South Korea who now call Knoxville home.

The annual reunion was started a few years back by former Knoxville City Council member Rex Davis, himself a veteran of that war, who had only three others at his home for that fi rst reunion, where war ex-periences were shared. The reunion has grown dramati-cally since then, and it’s no wonder why.

These old soldiers are the real thing. The stories they tell are true. These men lived their stories.

They were young when they went to war – many just teenagers. Some volun-teered, others were drafted, but the one thing they have in common is pride – that they fought and saved South Korea from a horrible fate and then came safely home.

And they remember the friends they fought along-side who didn’t return –

some 54,000 in all. Another 103,000 were wounded, 8,000 are still listed as missing in action and 4,000 were held as prisoners of war until the war ended.

Davis said, “This is a time for remembering the past and celebrating the present,” and then added with his huge trademark grin, “Seeing this big crowd puts a smile on my face that an undertaker couldn’t take off.”

And then the stories be-gan.

Many mentioned the terrible cold they endured while fi ghting – tempera-tures 20, 30 and 40 degrees below zero.

One veteran told of be-ing assigned to pick up the bodies of American soldiers from the battlefi eld – bod-ies that the enemy had wired to explode when moved.

Dick Whitson, who fought at Pork Chop Hill, proposed a toast “to those

guys who didn’t get to grow up and be old men.”

Jim Coffi n said his last view of Korea was “horizon-tal.” He was hit by a grenade while on a stretcher being carried to a helicopter.

But it wasn’t all gloom and doom.

The appreciation voiced

by the native Koreans in the audience was overwhelm-ing.

Dr. Kenneth Kim, presi-dent of New Hope Mission, told the veterans, “Because of your sacrifi ce, our two countries are now the clos-est of allies and South Korea is now a highly industrial-

ized nation. You were therefor our country – fi ghtingnot for your country but forours. We will never forget.

“Thank you for protect-ing our country and defend-ing our way of life. We can-not thank you enough forprotecting the freedoms weall hold so dear.”