By Betty BeanSuperintendent James McIntyre is off to a

rocky start with one of his new school board members.

Ninth District school board representative-elect Amber Rountree will be sworn in Sept. 2. She is due to have a baby Sept. 6, and stayed on her job as an elementary school librarian through the end of last school year. She has taken “sick time” as medical leave this sum-mer to preserve her health insurance and will resign Sept. 1. Her Knox County Schools cover-age will remain in force until Sept. 30.

Rountree was elected to the school board on a “no rubber stamp” campaign promise and was one of the most vocal of the teachers wh o spoke out last year against McIntyre’s policies.

Her maternity-leave status became an issue after she participated in a tour McIntyre con-ducted at Dogwood Elementary School Aug. 11. Her former opponent, incumbent Pam Trainor, also attended the tour.

On Aug. 13, McIntyre sent Rountree an email informing her that he had “fi elded a few

questions … about your status, which I answered tactfully. I’m starting to become a bit concerned that some people may perceive it as inappropri-ate for you to be accompany-ing me on school visits while you are a paid school librarian out on medical leave.

“Sorry to broach a poten-tially sensitive subject, but I

just wanted to make sure you know that such questions are being asked.”

On Aug. 18, McIntyre sent another email informing her that she would not be allowed to attend an Aug. 21 orientation session for in-coming board members “given the fact you are out on maternity leave due to physical disabil-ity.” He said he’d set up a separate session for her after Sept. 2.

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Attention teachers:

State Rep. Gloria Johnson wants to make sure teachers of subjects that don’t have TCAP tests know about the Sept. 1 deadline to comply with a new state law that could affect the way they are evaluated.

In the past, 15 percent of their evaluation scores have been based on school-wide or county-wide “literacy” or “nu-meracy” scores (i.e., reading or math scores of students they never taught).

Johnson posted this an-nouncement:

“Is everyone aware that teachers who teach untested subjects now have the ability to choose whatever relevant method they want for their 15 percent as of 7/1/2014?

“You can make up your own measure as long as it is relevant! It has to be approved by superintendent and if there is a disagreement it will go to state BOE.”

State Rep. Harry Brooks sponsored the new law.

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emy’s football team kicked off the season last Friday with many fi rsts that brought out Superintendent James Mc-Intyre along with other elected offi cials.

The night started with a ribbon-cutting ceremony high-lighting the new grandstands, press boxes and concourse areas for George “Dusty” Lennon stadium. The planned upgrades turned into replace-ments after construction crews assessed the condition of the old structure. The new grand-stands increased the seating capacity to 3,500, up from 2,100.

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By Patricia Williams“I can sleep nights and go on,” says Robert “Bob” Booker,

reacting to the recent appointment of Renee Kesler as direc-tor of Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave. “(Kesler) is capable and has the vision and skills to take (Beck) to another level,” said Booker, a local historian who founded Beck Center and has been serving as interim director since health issues forced Avon Rollins to leave the position.

“I take it as a privilege and an honor to do this work and be a part of something so great as Beck (Center),” said Kesler.

Kesler is a licensed ordained minister at Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Brooks Road. She has served on Beck’s board of directors, has chaired the Martin Luth er King Jr. Commem-orative Commission, has worked for Regions Bank and was Knoxville’s community development director under former Mayor Bill Haslam.

“Beck needs to be on the map nationally,” said Kesler.Her agenda includes: incorporating technology and social

media for increased exposure to the vast historical records of Knoxville African-Americans that are housed at Beck Cen-ter; educating and inspiring younger generations about their heritage; and being more engaging with regularly scheduled events and activities.

To schedule group tours, visit www.beckcenter.net or call 524-8461.

The Beck Center needs support. Volunteer opportunities abound, from archiving and maintaining displays to year-around groundskeeping.

If you have heirlooms, memorabilia or information you would like preserved through time for others to enjoy, consid-er donating it to Beck Center. Like her predecessors, Booker and Rollins, Kesler vows to take good care of it.

Jean Ann Washam became emotionally attached to a distinc-tive home on Washington Avenue that she and her husband, Shan-non, were refurbishing as a “labor of love” project.

They wanted to sell to someone who shared their dedication.

New owner Sally Harwell says that the moment she saw the home, she felt an immediate pull. She, her husband, Jonathan, and their children have moved into the two-story house in northeast Knoxville, and it feels like home.

This match made in heaven was made possible by the city of Knoxville’s Blighted Properties Redevelopment Program. The BPRP provides short-term devel-opment and construction fi nanc-ing through subsidized loans for the purpose of redeveloping and renovating unoccupied residen-tial dwelling units for sale, rent or owner occupation.

The Washington Avenue prop-

Robert Booker, founder and interim director of Beck Cultural Exchange Center, assists

Renee Kesler, the newly appointed director. Photo by Patricia Williams

Restored home on Washington Avenue

Kesler plans next level for Beck Center

City program breathes new life into blighted homes

erty is a George Barber-designed house, distinctive because of the glazed blocks used for the exte-

rior. The house was empty and condemned until the Washams discovered it.

“The city was incredibly sup-portive throughout the entire ren-ovation process,” Jean Ann Wash-am says. “Shannon and I wanted to bring the home back to its for-mer glory. The city’s support in realizing the value of older homes and its willingness to invest in this program speaks volumes.”

Loans must be repaid upon completion of the development, when the property is sold, or when the owner obtains permanent fi nancing. As loans are repaid, money is made available to fund additional BPRP applications. Ap-plicants will be notifi ed by mail or email when loan funds are antici-pated to become available.

The Washams received a city loan for $170,521 for the purchase and renovation of the home. Some of the loan was forgiven, as the program allows for lead-based paint remediation.

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Later that day, Rountree sent McIntyre a re-turn email telling him she’d checked with Da-vid Buuck, the chief deputy law director, who assured her that there was no legal reason to bar her from attending the orientation session with fellow board members-elect Terry Hill and Patti Lou Bounds.

McIntyre responded the next day:“I certainly appreciate the opinion of the

deputy law director, but I’m not willing to ac-cept the risk, nor any potential appearance of impropriety.”

Rountree again asked the law director’s of-fi ce for guidance. Buuck replied quickly:

“Amber, I am astounded at the disrespectful response of Jim McIntyre to a member of the BOE which body is his employer.”

Buuck shot off an email to McIntyre:“I can fi nd no reason that she should be de-

nied the right to attend the orientation meeting

Jamie Rowe campaign kickoff

Second District school board candidate Jamie Rowe will have a campaign kickoff 5-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at the Fountain City Lions Club building in Fountain City Park.

Andy LeGrand will play the guitar, and light refreshments will be served.

School board races are non-partisan, and Rowe says she won’t take money from politi-cal parties or special-interest groups.

The election to replace Indya Kincannon will be held Nov. 4. Knox County Commission was set to appoint an interim board member Aug. 25.

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Austin-East Magnet Academy’s football team kicked off the season last Friday with many fi rsts that brought out Superintendent James McIntyre along with other elected offi cials.

The night started with a ribbon-cutting ceremony highlighting the new grand-stands, press boxes and concourse areas for George “Dusty” Lennon stadium. The planned upgrades turned into replacements after construction crews assessed the condition of the old structure. The new grandstands increased the seating capacity to 3,500, up from 2,100.

Major renovations were made to the concession stand, locker rooms and restrooms. “We are excited over the new home for the Roadrunners, and we’re looking forward to a great season and a great future,” said Dr. McIntyre.

The night held even greater news as it was an-nounced that Austin-East will become a 1-to-1 com-puter school when iPads are distributed beginning Tuesday, Aug. 26. Parents must accompany their stu-dent for pickup. “The com-munity has waited a while for its turn, and now their patience is paying off,” said school board member Glo-

ria Deathridge, recently re-elected to represent District 1.

Austin-East principal Benny Perry was burst-ing with excitement over all the good news. He an-nounced that the school has worked its way off the state watch list and is no longer ranked among the state’s lowest-performing schools. “Academics go before ev-erything else,” said Perry. “I take pride in this school, and I am proud to be the principal. We will continue to raise the bar.”

No one was prouder than Sam Anderson, former Board of Education member and former director of Parks and Recreation for the city of Knoxville. Although the stadium is named for George “Dusty” Lennon, the fi eld is now the “Samuel P. Anderson Field” where An-derson once coached.

His voice cracked as he shared the bond that his family has with Austin and Austin-East high schools.

Drive a Ford for fundsMarlond Mason, a sales consultant at Lance Cunningham Ford, 4101 Clinton Highway, was able to make money for his commu-nity organization and his paycheck during the recent Lonsdale Homecoming. The dealership sent a selection of Ford’s newest products to be test-driven during the homecoming to raise funds for Center City Youth Sports Program, an organization Mason has been a part of for many years. For each person who took a test drive, Lance Cunningham made a donation through Ford Foundation’s Drive 4 UR Community program.

Artist Lola Rios Swimmer, aka “Wind in Her Hair,” draws art on feathers. Her intricate cre-ations were on display at the Spirit of Nations American In-dian Powwow & Heritage Fes-tival at Chilhowee Park. Info: www.lolarios.com.

on account of her pregnancy and have so advised her.”

McIntyre responded:“Unfortunately, I believe

you have signifi cantly mis-characterized my correspon-dence with Ms. Rountree.”

The next day, Buuck es-corted Rountree across Gay Street to the Andrew John-son Building, where she at-

tended the orientation. Mc-Intyre tweeted a picture of the three new board mem-bers.

There were smiles all around.

The Shopper-News ob-tained the emails last Fri-day after submitting a pub-lic information request to the law director’s offi ce.

Mama makes three From page 1

Blighted homes From page 1

After the sale of the home, $155,000 was repaid to the BPRP.

Becky Wade, the city’s community development director, says the BPRP can be a great help in polish-ing architectural gems that have fallen into disrepair.

“The city is proud to be able to assist in the rede-velopment of older homes, preserving the character of older neighborhoods, get-ting properties back on the tax roll and eliminating blight.”

According to the Washams’ research, the Washington Avenue home was originally a single-fam-ily dwelling, converted to an apartment, and returned to a single-family dwelling.

“Restoring this home was defi nitely a labor of love,” Jean Ann Washam says. “We love historic homes. In fact, all of the homes we’ve restored have been 100 years or older. The entire process is rewarding – dis-covering the character of

the homes and transform-ing them into something beautiful and learning their history.

“This is defi nitely the largest home Shannon and I have worked on. It was overwhelming at times, but we are so pleased with the fi nal effort. The plumbing, electrical and kitchen were updated, but overall we kept to the integrity and history of the home.”

Jonathan and Sally Har-well are from Boston and said that the style of the house immediately made them feel at home. It re-minded them of homes where they grew up.

“This house has stood the test of time and is a sur-vivor; it’s a perfect blend of the Old South with a bit of the Northeast mixed in,” Sally Harwell says. “Our family loves living in the house and this neighbor-hood – a diverse place that we can embrace and call home.” Info: 215-2120.Story provided by city’s offi ce of infor-mation .

Dedicating the new A-E football stadium are: state Rep. Joe Armstrong, school board members Pam Trainor and Gloria Death-ridge, Superintendent James McIntyre, Commissioner Sam McKenzie, state Sen. Becky Massey and A-E principal Benny Perry.

“My grandmother at-tended Austin High School in 1919; my parents, my children and I attended this school,” said Anderson.

Also new to the Road-runnners is head football coach Jeff Phillips, a mem-ber of the Austin-East 2001 Class 3A championship football team. The Road-runners forced fi ve turn-overs in losing to Grace Christian 14-0.

State Sen. Becky Massey, state Rep. Joe Armstrong and Knox County Commis-sioner Sam McKenzie were among those attending.

■ Green TiesMore seeds of change

were planted into good ground as Socially Equal Energy Efficient Devel-opment hosted the Green Tie Event at Remedy Cof-fee House, 125 W. Jackson Ave.

SEEED provides inner-city youth and young adults (ages 16-28) with life skills, green-jobs training and community-service oppor-tunities that could lead to future “green jobs” for par-ticipants.

Seven students gradu-

ated from the 12-month apprentice program: Leroy Thompson, Chi’ La Par-ton, Kyron Harvey, Naeem Higgs, Jabari Jamison, Bryan Moreno and Jeffrey Cheser. These grads have accomplished many goals, from obtaining their GED to getting an apartment to getting a job to getting into college.

SEEED is accepting ap-plications for its 12-week pre-apprenticeship pro-gram through Aug. 31. The offi ce is at 1617 Dandridge Ave. Info: www.seedknox.org or 936-2326.

Fresh start for Dusty Lennon Stadium

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Elected v appointed school chief: almost persuaded

Betty Bean

I have always accepted the premise that appointed school superintendents are better than elected ones, mostly because I buy the arguments that the appoint-ment process enlarges the talent pool and eliminates the time-suck campaigning.

However. The same-but-differ-

ent sagas of James Mc-Intyre and his predecessor, Charles Q. Lindsey (don’t forget to call them doctor), have almost persuaded me otherwise.

Lindsey came to do bat-tle; won a few, lost a bunch, had some personal foibles that eventually did him in.

McIntyre is a microman-ager whose overreliance on standardized tests and al-legiance to corporate educa-tion reform have made him the most unpopular public offi cial in Knox County. He is said to be a very smart

man, something his ill-con-sidered decision to publicly snipe at Mayor Tim Bur-chett, arguably the most popular local elected offi -cial, doesn’t refl ect.

Considering these is-sues sent me lurching down memory lane to revisit the fi rst elected offi cial I ever thought I knew – mostly be-cause the name Mildred E. Doyle was stamped on my report card just below the line where my fi rst-grade teacher at Fountain City Elementary School, Mrs. Bass, wrote, “Betty talks a little too much.”

Doyle held the job for 30 years (1946-76) and is gen-erally credited with drag-

ging KCS into the modern era. Her resume includes chairing and founding the Alternative Center for Learning, serving on the Maryville College Board of Directors, as president of the Tennessee Education Association and chairing Tennessee’s Superintendent Study Council and the state Commission of Children’s Services. She was a mem-ber of the NEA Finance Commission, the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth and the State Textbook Commission and was inducted into the Knox-ville Sports Hall of Fame in 1983 and the East Ten-nessee Chapter of the Na-tional Football Foundation and Hall of Fame in 1988 and named Colonel Aide de Camp Governor’s Staff by Lamar Alexander in 1984.

The consensus is that she ended her political career

with a defeat only because she stayed one term too long.

Knox County’s last elect-ed superintendent, Allen Morgan, resigned unexpect-edly to join Clayton Homes.

He served from 1992 to 1996, whereupon he be-came Knox County’s fi rst appointed superintendent. He retired after another two years with a list of ac-complishments that is too long to recount on this page. Here are some highlights:

He was one of 30 super-intendents in the Southeast to be a part of the Center for Leadership in School Re-form. He was regional co-chair of Tennessee’s School-to-Career program. He was a 22-year administrator, including 13 years as prin-cipal of Powell High School, which, under his tenure was named a fi nalist in the National Schools Recogni-

tion program and the fi rst Knox County school named “BEST” by the Greater Knoxville Chamber of Com-merce. He co-chaired the Danforth Committee, which researched the University of Tennessee’s methodol-ogy for training school ad-ministrators, and was an elected representative to the Metropolitan Association of School Superintendents.

The year before Morgan retired, he fought off a whole herd of fat cats who tried to force him to hand Maynard Elementary School over to Chris Whittle’s privatiza-tion scheme. He prevailed against some of the most powerful interests in Knox-ville. Could the present su-perintendent do the same (or even want to)?

Not a chance.I’m not quite persuaded

that elected superinten-dents are better than the

appointed kind, but I must reluctantly agree with an astute friend’s observation: “Elected offi cials tend to treat other elected offi cials as peers. They tend to treat appointed offi cials as staff.”

McIntyre owes his job to an elected school board that must go hat in hand to County Commission for funding because it has no taxing authority. I’m not sure how this system was supposed to work in theory, but in practice, it just fl at doesn’t.

Maybe giving the school board the power to levy taxes would change the dy-namic. Maybe it wouldn’t. Or maybe going back to electing a superintendent would set in motion a nat-ural-selection process that would produce someone with the chops to raise mon-ey and/or hell, as needed.

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High noon. The dusty street outside the court-house is as still as a tomb.

Showdown at the K-12 corral

The stillness is broken as two men emerge from the courthouse and stride purposefully into the street. Sheriff Tim “Shoot from the Hip” Burchett and “Big Mac” McIntyre, pistols hol-stered and ready, walk in opposite directions for 10

paces and turn.“OK, this is it, Big Mac.

This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

“Yeah? Well, if you’d keep your nose out of my busi-ness at the K-12 ranch, I wouldn’t be fi xing to give you a dirt nap, sheriff.”

“Your business? You know darn well this county helped you build the K-12. This is taxpayer business, Big Mac, and they’ve had enough of your wasteful ways. Now, draw!”

Big Mac began fumbling with his holster.

“What are you doing?” the exasperated sheriff asked. “I said draw!”

“I ... I don’t feel comfort-able here. Come over to the

corral and you’ll have your showdown, sheriff.”

“Whatever. Let’s get this over with.”

Oddly enough, the K-12 Corral was just across the street from the courthouse.

“No more delays, Big Mac. Now – what the heck? You’ve ambushed me,” the sheriff said, eyeing nine gunslingers who sprang out of hiding to Big Mac’s side.

“Just my little posse, sheriff. They’re going to evaluate my performance after my six-shooter puts a permanent K-12 brand right between your peepers.”

“I’ll evaluate it now. It’s lousy.”

“I fi nd that remark ap-palling, sheriff.”

“I don’t care. I’ll take you all on. Slap leather!”

Before Big Mac could clear his gun from the hol-ster, a rowdy gang of sup-porters appeared behind the sheriff.

“What do you know? It’s my buddies from the Bar-KCEA spread,” the sher-iff said. “Guess we’re even now!”

“Hey, some of those people work for me! Trai-tors. I’ll get you when this is over,” Big Mac vowed.

As Burchett’s hand inched toward his gun, Big Mac hesitated.

“I need my sidekick here before we start,” he said.

“Your sidekick?”“Yes, I had to send her

home.”“Why did you send your

sidekick home? What did she do?”

“Nothing. Maybe. I don’t know. But I’m still paying her, so it’s all right.”

“You’re paying your side-kick you sent home for do-ing nothing? See what I mean by wasteful?”

“You’re saying that out of ignorance, sheriff!”

“That’s it! Draw, Big Mac.”

The sheriff’s pistol fl ew

Tim Burchett Jim McIntyre

from his holster aimed squarely at Big Mac’s belly button. But, being a fair man, he stopped before squeezing the trigger as he watched Big Mac struggle unsuccessfully to pull out his own gun.

“Now what?” the frus-trated sheriff asked.

Red-faced, Big Mac re-plied: “It’s the doggone Common Core. I have to conceptualize all the steps involved in pulling the gun from the holster. I know en-gineers who can’t do it.”

“Common Core? As my Daddy would say, here’s something from the Marine Corps!”

With that, the sheriff blazed away with his cus-tom 10-shooter and Big Mac and his posse bit the dust.

Moral: Never take Com-mon Core to a gunfi ght with the Marine Corps.

Mark Donaldson will continue for several more months as MPC director despite resigning. Now it can be told that MPC would not have voted to terminate him at this time. However, he met with Mayor Rogero without Mayor Burchett prior to his resignation, and she explained carefully to him that both mayors felt it was time for him to depart and he no longer had their backing. He got the message and did the smart thing in resigning. It avoids an acri-monious departure.

For those wondering what happens to Dave Hill at MPC, no one is say-ing. Rogero had fi red Hill when she became mayor. Presumably, he will depart with Donaldson, but it is

Political this and that

not confi rmed.MPC’s executive commit-

tee continues to meet with-out compliance with the state’s open-meetings law as it seldom posts meeting no-tices on its website.

■ School Superinten-dent McIntyre must have been having a terrible day when he told County Mayor Tim Burchett to mind his own business. Burchett had inquired about a school em-ployee getting two years’ paid leave. McIntyre should

remember he answers to the public, which pays him, and Burchett is the newly re-elected mayor who speaks for the entire county.

He asked a valid question to which McIntyre and the school board have not given a satisfactory answer. It is hard to justify two whole years of paid leave and no one seeming to know why. McIntyre ought to go to time-out and return with a new understanding of transparency for taxpayers. A News Sentinel editorial has weighed in on it.

■ People are upset over the election of Clar-ence Pridemore as Chancel-lor. He ran as a Republican and won in a GOP sweep. He certainly appears poorly qualifi ed to this writer. Bill Ailor was considered less qualifi ed as well, but when compared to Pridemore, Ailor is seen as Oliver Wen-dell Holmes.

Trying to assign blame as to why Pridemore could be

elected over Daryl Fansler, who was so widely admired, is hard as many are respon-sible, in my view.

However, this writer feels the media (including him-self) failed to do their job in educating the public about him. The major exception was Betty Bean, who writes for the Shopper and did point out salient issues, but not enough voters listened. The TV and print media largely ignored Pridemore and assumed he could not win. Only since the election have his bankruptcies been fully publicized.

Pridemore hid from the media, and the media let him get away with it. The lo-cal Democratic Party never issued news releases or held news conferences. Where were the investigative re-porters from TV and major print media on this one? They had the resources to expose this with front-page stories.

Where was the Knoxville

Bar Association? Why did the bar fail to tell voters about Pridemore with pub-lic news conferences? Why was no poll on judges taken by the bar as the state bar did for the state Supreme Court? Everyone has egg on their faces on this one. Where were the Democrat-ics airing the shortcomings of this GOP candidate?

One has to admit that Chancellor-elect Pride-more is not totally inept as he employed an incredibly brilliant political strategy to win this offi ce by stayin g so far under the radar that no one noticed him until he won. Whether he came up with this plan or someone c oached him is unknown, but it surely worked.

However, Pridemore takes offi ce in four days and will earn more than $165,000 a year plus health insurance, which is more money than he has seen in three years combined.

He resides at 1613 Coro-

nada Lane off Ebeneezer Road in the Bluegrass area of West Knox County. He has been a registered voter since 2000.

Mike Moyers and John Weaver, who are able fellow Chancellors, likely will see their workloads increase.

Hopefully, the media and columnists will learn from this and no longer assume candidate X cannot win.

One wonders if the media will examine the record and campaigns of Cheri Siler and Richard Briggs run-ning for state senate, Gloria Johnson and Eddie Smith running for state represen-tative, or Lamar Alexander and Gordon Ball running for U.S. Senate.

The candidacies of Dem-ocrats Terry Adams and Gordon Ball for U.S. Sen-ate were basically ignored by local media even though both are local residents. Ad-ams won Knox County. Victor Ashe is a former mayor of Knox-

ville who served as U.S. Ambassador to

Poland.

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THROUGH SATURDAY, AUG. 30Accepting applications for driver’s training

course, Walters State Community College. 30-hour class follows the AAA curriculum and runs Saturday, Aug. 30, through Monday, Nov. 17. Cost: $450. Info: Dr. Nicole Cardwell-Hampton, 423-585-6756 or Nicole.Cardwell-Hampton@ws.edu.

THROUGH MONDAY, SEPT 1Seeking crafters to purchase table at Dante

Church of God annual fall sale, to be held Sept. 20. Table: $25. Info/ application: lenacoker@yahoo.com.

THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 5Seeking vendors for Craft Fair and Community

Yard Sale to be held Saturday, Sept. 13, North Side Y, 7609 Maynardville Pike. Space: $20; tables: $5 each. Info/to register: 922-9622.

THROUGH SATURDAY, SEPT. 20Deadline for vendor registration, “Son” Fest,

to be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, New Hope Baptist Church, 7602 Bud Hawkins Road. Booth rental: $25. Info; Tammy Lamb, 604-7634.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27Computer Workshops: Internet and Email

Basics, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Ashe-ville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 525-5431.

Networking Today North Knoxville meet-ing, 9 a.m., Imagination Forest, 7613 Blueberry Road. Meets each Wednesday. Info: Brian Williams, Brian_DWilliams@mac.com.

Free music lessons by Eric Holcomb, 3-5 p.m., UC Arts on Main Street in Maynardville. Donation to gal-lery encouraged. Continues each Wednesday.

THURSDAY, AUG. 28Cruise Night, 6-9 p.m., 6215 Riverview Crossing

Drive in front of old Food Lion at Asheville Highway. All makes, models, years and clubs welcome. No charge. Door prizes.

Halls Book Discussion Group, 1-2 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Book selection: “The All Girls Filling Station” by Fannie Flagg. Info: 922-2552.

Free movie and popcorn, 11:15 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Movie: “Jack Reacher” with Tom Cruise. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

FRIDAY, AUG. 29Farm Fresh Fridays: Union County Farmers Mar-

ket, 4-7 p.m., downtown Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.Softball at Big Ridge State Park, 5:30-7:30 p.m.,

Big Ridge State Park, 1015 Big Ridge Park Road. Fun, family orientated softball games. Info: 992-5523.

Applebee’s Kickoff for a Cause tailgate party, 3 p.m.-1 a.m., Applebee’s, 2912 Knoxville Center Drive. Proceeds to benefi t My Son Shines Fund to build new playground at Carter Park. Live band, bounce houses, dunk tank, raffl e prizes, specialty cocktails, food and fun.

Rivalry Friday Tailgate Party, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Alcoa vs. Maryville football game televised live on big screen, 7:30. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, AUG. 29-30Open auditions for Museum of Appalachia Porch

Pickers music program, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Museum’s Gift Shop, 2819 Andersonville Highway, Clinton. Acoustic instruments only; prepare to perform up to three songs. Info: 494-7680 or www.museumofappalachia.org.

SATURDAY, AUG. 30Charity Carnival for Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Building Fund, 3-8 p.m., on the church property across from the high school. Theme basket auction, 6 p.m. All welcome.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.

Yoga, 9-10:15 a.m., Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Bring yoga/Pilates mat, towel, water. No fee; donations accepted. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or www.narrowridge.org.

Boomsday, Bluegrass and Barbecue celebra-tion, 6 p.m., Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Ave. Dinner, 7:30. Tickets: $60 per adult; children under 12 are free. Info/advance tickets: www.mabryhazen.com or 522-8661.

Local Authors Reading Round-Up, 2:30-5 p.m.,

Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road. David Hunter, Beverly Connor and Charles Connor will discuss their works. Book signing to follow. Info: 947-6210.

“Pitch In And Pitch A Tent For The Home-less” benefi t, 7 p.m., Mount Harmony Baptist Church, 819 Raccoon Valley Road. Featuring Spoken For Praise Team. Love offerings may be sent to: P.O. Box 478, Heiskell, TN 37754. Info: Michael Parsley: 257-8419.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 2UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meet-

ing, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice offi ce, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3Networking Today North Knoxville meeting,

9 a.m., Imagination Forest, 7613 Blueberry Road. Meets each Wednesday. Info: Brian Williams, Brian_DWilliams@mac.com.

Free music lessons by Eric Holcomb, 3-5 p.m., UC Arts on Main Street in Maynardville. Donation to gal-lery encouraged. Continues each Wednesday.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 4Cruise Night, 6-9 p.m., 6215 Riverview Crossing

Drive in front of old Food Lion at Asheville Highway. All makes, models, years and clubs welcome. No charge. Door prizes.

Pajama-rama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Vintage Fashion Show and Sale to benefi t Goodwill Industries-Knoxville Inc., 6 p.m., Downtown Knoxville Hilton. Tickets: $40 each or $375 for a table of 10; must be ordered in advance. For tickets: 588-8567.

Bee Friends beekeeping group meeting, 6:30 p.m., Walters State University Auditorium on Tazewell Campus. Speaker: Stephanie Tarwater, president of Blount Co Beekeepers Assoc. Topic: preparing hives for winter. Info: 617-9013.

Free movie and popcorn, 11:15 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Movie: “Now You See Me” with Morgan Freeman and Isla Fisher. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Knoxville AAA offi ce, 100 W. 5th Ave. Cost: mem-bers, $30; nonmembers, $35. Preregistration required. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 5Farm Fresh Fridays: Union County Farmers Mar-

ket, 4-7 p.m., downtown Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

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Democrats, and many well-heeled Republicans, are appalled that voters failed to re-elect two lo-cal Democratic judges this month. Chancellor Daryl Fansler had served Knox County for 16 years. Circuit Court Judge Harold Wim-berly had been on the bench for 27 years. Both were well regarded by local attorneys and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike for their work.

The voters didn’t care and fi red both of them on a party-line vote.

The outrage from local attorneys and politicos has been as virulent as it has been predictable.

Scott Frith

Party affi liation all that matters in local races

“The voters are just stu-pid,” some say. Others ar-gue that their Republican replacements are unquali-fi ed for the job. Many of the local political elite are just plain baffl ed that the voters would turn out long-tenured judges with good reputations for Republican attorneys.

Many lawyers and politi-cal folks don’t think party

affi liation matters on the bench, but Knox County voters apparently do be-lieve party affi liation mat-ters. Few voters have ever appeared in court before Chancellor Fansler or Judge Wimberly, but nearly every voter has some opinion on the difference between a Democrat and a Republi-can. In fact, for many vot-ers, party affi liation is the only qualifi cation that mat-ters.

In today’s hyper-partisan political climate, Republi-can voters in a Republican county are going to vote for a Republican judge. For many, if a judge chooses to be in the same party as

Barack Obama, then he doesn’t have the good judg-ment to be a judge in Knox County.

As a result of this elec-tion, expect calls by Demo-crats (and some Repub-licans) for non-partisan judicial races.

Of cou rse, Democrats fa-vored partisan judicial rac-es when Democrats could win elections. Now that Democrats can’t win elec-tions with party affi liation listed on the ballot, we must “remove politics from the courtroom.”

There’s an old saying that “You can’t win an election if you don’t run.” For local Democrats, the new mantra

has become, “You can’t win if you have a Republican op-ponent.” There are no lon-ger any countywide elected Democrats in Knox County.

A couple of other thoughts on the election:

State Democrats have taken comfort in the fact that the Democratic-ap-pointed state Supreme Court members were re-tained, despite Lt. Gov. Ramsey’s efforts to oust the three remaining Bredesen appointees. It is more likely that the only reason these Supreme Court justices sur-vived is that the state ballots do not list party affi liation beside each justice’s name.

The Republican primary

in the 13th legislative dis-trict has been decided with Eddie Smith set to take on fi rst-term, incumbent Rep. Gloria Johnson this No-vember. Local Democrats have thus far been confi dent of Johnson’s re-election chances.

To the contrary, expect Eddie Smith to easily defeat Johnson. To use language from the fi nancial sector, November 2014 will be “peak Republican” in Ten-nessee. If a Republican was ever going to win a seat in Tennessee, it will be in this political climate this No-vember.Scott Frith is a local attorney. You can

contact him at scott@pleadthefrith.com

For teenagers growing up in Concord, the park and its environs created a virtual fairyland playground for most of us. It included an Olympic-size public swim-ming pool and a marina that provided summer em-ployment.

Malcolm Shell

Concord Park’s big foot sightings

And for those of us old enough to drive, it provided nooks and crannies that became preferred secluded parking spots for lovers. And since the park had its own security patrol, it was also a safe place to park.

But in the mid-1950s, it also served as the habitat for an awesome-looking creature that could only be described as “big foot.”

The fi rst sighting was by

a Concord boat dock em-ployee named “Red” Moore. After that, only the brave ventured into the area to park after dark.

Now since Red was known for his tall tales, his sighting was at fi rst con-sidered just another Red Moore tale. But when he was walking home one eve-ning just after sundown, the creature ran across the road just about 20 yards from him. Red shined his fl ash-light on the creature, and when it stopped and looked at him he ran back into the boat dock hollering: “ape, ape, ape.”

When the other boat dock employees saw the pure horror on Red’s face, they began to wonder if there could be a kernel of truth in his story.

Red was not the only one who encountered the crea-ture. Cars driving around the park loop often sighted the creature in their head-lights running across the

road in front of them. The sightings started to draw increased attention when people with more credibility than Red began reporting sightings.

And fi nally, when park offi cers reported seeing the creature, big foot’s existence was fi rmly established.

The sightings were re-ported in local newspa-pers, and soon people from other areas began to drive through the park hoping to catch sight of the mysteri-ous “big foot.” And for a community where people seldom locked their doors at night, citizens not only be-gan to lock their doors but also loaded their shotguns and kept them handy.

Finally, some of Con-cord’s citizens decided to form a hunting party to scour the park looking in every possible hiding place. And as news of the “posse” grew, other began to join in the search. Surprisingly, public sightings began to

decline and the formation of the posse resulted in the creature’s complete disap-pearance. After that, “big foot” was never seen again.

The truth about big foot was fi nally solved when an ape costume was discovered in a hiding place at the Con-cord swimming pool.

The managing propri-etor, Joe Kimsey, son of Knoxville Chief of Police Joe Kimsey Sr., originally obtained the costume to frighten Red Moore and never intended it to go any further than a onetime prank on Red. But when the story began to spread, Joe saw another opportunity to draw people to the park and hopefully increase swim-mers at the pool. Joe was always looking for ways to promote the pool, and he immediately recognized that “big foot” could play a major part in his promotion schemes.

Joe even allowed for in-terviews with the press where he claimed to have seen the creature. But when hunting parties were formed, Joe recognized

that he could possibly get shot and that trigger-happy hunters might also shoot someone else. So, big foot disappeared just as quickly as it appeared on that warm summer evening when Red Moore fi rst spotted it on his way home.

I don’t remember if the truth ever became public knowledge, or whether the lack of sightings just eventu-ally caused a lack of interest among the public. I do know that gradually the park be-gan to draw lovers back to their old parking spots, but I suspect there was never the feeling of security that existed before big foot.

There are just a handful of people left who still re-member the “big foot” scare.

During summer months, I often worked on weekends at Lakeland Service Cen-ter on Concord Road where sportsmen always stopped to fi ll their outboard fuel tanks and stock their cool-ers with beer.

Almost everyone who came in was interested in big foot, and I was available to provide the latest infor-

mation on sightings. “Have you actually seen

the creature?” people would ask. I always answered: “No, but I have friends who have seen it, and they described it as about eight foot tall and said it ran like a man. There would be no way someone could outrun the creature,” I told them.

The sightings were very timely since they occurred during a time when stories of big foot sightings spread throughout the nation.

I am not sure about the credibility of these sight-ings, but they created curi-osity even among the most skeptical.

And our area had a big foot that rivaled even the most credible sightings.

Today, when I drive around the park loop and pass those spots where sightings occurred, I chuck-le to myself when I recall pointing out those spots to newcomers to the commu-nity. But I usually got the same question from them that many of the locals also asked during the scare.

“Are you kidding me?”

6 • AUGUST 27, 2014 • NORTH/EAST Shopper news kids

Carter High quarterback Jonathan Freeman watches as his team’s defense battles on the fi eld. Photos by R. White

Boston Seymour carries water for the team.

Fulton cheerleaders Asia White and Elicia Faulkner look at pho-tos taken by yearbook staff member Simmone Smith prior to kick off .

Carter majorettes Tori Keirsey, Madison Inman, Taylor Bodin-Henderson and Ashlee Carney wait in the stands until the band’s halftime show.

Bob Black was honored by the city of Knoxville for 50 years of coaching prior to Fulton’s fi rst football game. Black was a 1960 graduate of Fulton and played in the 1960 city/county All Star game. He went on to Carson Newman College where he was an All-American football player. He returned to Fulton as foot-ball coach in 1969 and was later named athletic director. Photos by R. White

Carter High principal Ryan Siebe, Carter Elementary principal Shay Siler and Carter Middle principal Dr. Chad Smith were given the ALS ice bucket challenge and they stepped up at halftime of last week’s game. Carter cheerleaders Makyla Chol-lman and Hunter Chollman did the honors of dousing Siebe with a bucket of ice water. The principals joined to raise aware-ness and money for ALS as 3 schools: 1 Carter.

Dominique Williams and Kentel Williams lead the team on to the fi eld. The Falcons defeated Powell High School 83-3.

Carter cheerleaders Alyssa Dutton and Makyla Chollman, along with the CHS cheer squad, lead the student body in “Go Hornets” from the sidelines.

Let the homecoming campaigning begin! Cruze Farm set up a booth at the game to support homecoming candidate Lily Sorah, who is running for the baseball team. Pictured are CHS baseball player Nick Bain, Emily Spruiell, Brooklyn Summers, CHS baseball player Blake Dutton, Sorah and Christen Spruiell.

Welcome to the Falcons’ nest

Carter Hornet prideBy Ruth White

There is someone about being at a football stadium in East Tennessee on Friday (and sometimes Thursday) night. The air feels electric as the team, band, parents and fans fi le in to grab the best seats.

Many are there to watch what they hope will be a great game of football, but

others come to meet up with friends, watch a fam-ily member in the band or on the sidelines cheering for their team.

Shopper-News photogra-phers will be out at games this fall and plan to capture the essence of what brings people to the fi eld week af-ter week, in the sweltering heat or the freezing cold.

Shopper news • AUGUST 27, 2014 • 7 business

Premier Surgical Associates has added three general surgeons, a surgical oncologist, and a vascular surgeon to four of the group’s Knox-ville hospital locations.

Marcus A. Barber, M.D., of Premier at Tennova North Knoxville and Physicians Re-

gional, is a vascular and endovascular surgeon. A graduate of Wichita State University, Dr. Barber earned his medical de-gree from the University of Kansas School of Medi-cine, where he also com-pleted his general surgery residency. He completed a vascular surgery fellow-ship at Baylor University Medical Center.

Also joining Premier’s Tennova North Knoxville and Physicians Re-gional Medical Centers location is general sur-geon Jessica Louise Vinsant, M.D. She is the fourth generation of the Vinsant family to serve as a physician in East Ten-nessee. Vinsant grew up in Knoxville, before graduat-ing from Syracuse Univer-sity. She earned her MBA from Wright State Univer-sity in Dayton, Ohio, and her medical degree from Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. Vin-sant completed her general surgery residency at East Tennessee State Uni-versity’s Quillen College of Medicine.

Joel Fontaine “Trey” Bradley III, M.D., of Premier at Fort Sanders Regional, is a general surgeon who is experienced in abdomi-nal wall reconstruction, and complex hernia repair. Bradley, a graduate of the University

of Memphis, earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery resi-dency at the University of South Carolina, Palmetto Health Richland and both research and clinical min-imally invasive surgery fellowships at Carolinas HealthCare System.

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the Fort Sanders Regional Premier Surgical location is surgical oncologist Troy Franklin Kimsey, M.D., FACS. A graduate of the Uni-versity of Georgia, Kimsey earned his medical

degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Au-gusta and also completed his residency there. Kim-sey completed a fellow-ship in surgical oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Prior to joining Premier Surgical, Kimsey spent six years practicing broad-based general surgical oncology and helping in the devel-opment of a communi-

ty-based regional cancer center in Southwest Georgia.

Kristopher Burton Williams, M.D., has joined Premier Surgical as a general sur-geon in the group’s Parkwest Medical Center offi ce. A graduate of the University of Vir-ginia, Williams earned his master’s degree from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth Uni-versity and his medical degree from East Ten-nessee State Univer-sity’s Quillen College of Medicine. He completed his internship and gen-eral surgery residency at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, M.D., and his fellowship in minimally invasive surgery at Carolinas Medical Center in Char-lotte, N.C. Williams has special experience in abdominal wall reconstruction and complex hernia repair.

“We are pleased to have these fi ve outstand-ing surgeons join our group,” says Kevin Burris, CEO of Premier Surgical Associates. "Their ex-perience and expertise will be a great benefi t to our patients in East Tennessee."

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David Moon in his offi ce at Riverview Tower. Photo by Betty Bean

By Betty BeanHe grew up in George

Wallace’s Alabama and had a picture of Richard Nixon’s Oval Offi ce on the back of his bedroom door. His grandmother dated Wal-lace’s predecessor gover-nor, Big Jim Folsom, whom Moon describes as “not quite a benevolent dictator, but as honest as you could be as an executive politician in the South in the 1950s.”

He remembers crying the day Nixon resigned.

He didn’t grow up wealthy, and learned the value of a dollar chop-ping cotton. By his senior year at Hazel Green High School, he knew he was go-ing to leave. At 6-5 and 260 pounds, he was a highly re-cruited football player and valedictorian of the HGHS Class of 1981. He could have played on anybody’s team, but wanted to come to Ten-nessee. There was just one obstacle in the way:

He dreaded saying no to Bear Bryant.

His uncle Byrd Williams had played on two national championship teams at Ala-bama, and it was assumed that Moon, whose parents lived on the University of Alabama campus in Tus-caloosa when he was born, would opt to join the Crim-son Tide. When he was 10 years old, he got Bryant to autograph a book, and told him, “I’m going to play for you one day.”

So when his Uncle told him he couldn’t go to Ten-nessee until he informed Coach Bryant of his inten-tions face-to-face, he wasn’t surprised. But that doesn’t mean it was easy.

“I was so nervous I teared up,” he said. “The week of Thanksgiving 1980, which was the week of the Ala-bama/Auburn game, Coach Bryant was at practice, and

Moon manages more than money

I spent most of practice with him. We had dinner af-terward, and he said, ‘Byrd tells me you haven’t made a decision.’

“I said, ‘Coach, I’m going to go to Tennessee.’”

Bryant took the news with his typical aplomb, but later that day, Bryant’s de-fensive coordinator, Knox-ville native Ken Donahue told Moon he’d never beat Alabama at Tennessee.

“We went 3-1 against Alabama when I was there. When Coach Majors hired (Donahue) in ’85, I remind-ed him of that,” Moon said.

Moon came to Knoxville in the summer of 1981 to play football for Johnny Ma-jors and has called it home ever since. He played on Phillip Fulmer’s offensive line and was named the se-nior male athlete with the highest grade point average in 1984.

He says he won his wife, Sien (pronounced Shawn), in a card game.

“Her brother was a waiter at Gibbs Hall, and brought her to Antonio’s, on the Strip, where a bunch of us were playing cards. We were all interested in making her

acquaintance, so we cut the cards. I cheated and got fi rst shot,” he said.

His intention when he ar-rived at UT was to sign with the NFL after graduation, move to New York and even-tually become a rich money manager. But two ACL tears made him rearrange his dreams, get an MBA and an early start on the career he’d wanted since his uncle gave him a book written by War-ren Buffet’s college profes-sor when he was a kid.

Today, Moon Capital Management, which man-ages money for individuals, corporations and nonprof-its, occupies a comfortable suite in Riverview Tower. The fi rm’s president’s offi ce has a tall desk that holds a bank of computer screens and a fl oor-to-ceiling glass window that frames a spec-tacular view of the spot where the Holston and French Broad meet to form the Tennessee River and the rolling hills beyond. He can see a bit of his farm on the bank of the Holston. It takes him nine minutes to get to work by car, or 15 by pon-toon boat.

“We go out and meet with

the management of compa-nies. I sit around and read stock annual reports all day,” Moon said. “We have someone who does fi nancial planning and an ex-man-ager of a local UBS offi ce who works with clients. I have another guy I feed raw meat and won’t let him out of the room – just pay him to think.

“Here’s what makes us different: every stock we buy for our clients, we buy for ourselves, and not just a lit-tle bit. Every bit of my liquid net worth is invested in the same stock portfolio as our clients own. And I sleep with my most important client – we manage my wife’s IRA.”

Moon has written for many publications and has a regular column on the business page of the daily paper. His most recent proj-ect, “Thoughts are Things,” is a self-published book of inspirational daily devotion-als for children that began as short messages he’d leave for his twins, Wheeler and Bethany, now 14, who were still in bed when he left for work in the mornings. After collecting a couple of years’ worth of aphorisms, he de-cided to compile them into a book with a thought for ev-ery day of the year. Edited by Bill Rukeyser and illustrated with line drawings by a pair of Albanian sisters, Bora and Jona Shehu. The book’s success has shocked him, al-though he’s not sure exactly how many he has sold.

He was even more shocked to learn that his book has been named Best Juvenile Inspirational Book 2014 by Independent Pub-lishers.

“I thought it was good. Ruykeyser said it was good, and it’s been received in ways and places I never anticipated. It’s really cool, sophomoric as that sounds.”

Justin Hartley moved from Roanoke, Va., to Knox-ville to attend UT. It didn’t take long for him to become a true Vol. After graduation, he decided to make Knox-ville his permanent home.

Hartley has been in the wireless in-dustry since 2008, and he knew he wanted to eventu-ally own his own busi-ness. After m e e t i n g with Jus-

tin Sterling, leasing agent at Knoxville Center mall, Hartley says the mall was “by far the best place” for his new venture. He lives only fi ve minutes away and wants to serve people in his own community.

With an extensive knowl-edge of the wireless in-dustry, he has seen many changes over the years but says pre-paid services have recently started booming. With the many advantages of pre-paid service, Hartley says “more and more people are going this route.”

Hartley is excited to offer plans and services to every-one. With numerous choices for each provider, there is a plan to suit everyone’s needs. No credit checks, no contracts, and no early ter-mination fees are just a few of the benefi ts. Some phones which were activated by an-other carrier can even be switched.

H2 Cellular offers a va-riety of models and phone styles. You can also bring

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your phone in if you just want to sell it. Hartley says he is the only store of this type servicing the area in and around Knoxville Cen-ter mall.

H2 Cellular handles Page Plus, Net 10 and Simple Mo-bile, carriers he says operate off of the “big guys’ towers.” This enables these pre-paid carriers to offer similar ser-vice as the major providers.

Hartley decided on the name H2 Cellular, using a combination of his last name and his grandfather’s fi rst name. He and his grandfather were very close and Hartley wanted to hon-or his memory.

H2 Cellular is located on the upper level of the mall across from Claire’s. Hours are Monday through Satur-day from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6.

ETABPA to meet Sept. 3The East Towne Area

Business and Professional Association will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 3, at New Harvest Park Community Center at 8 a.m.

State Farm Insurance agent Mike Davis will speak on risk management and how to grow a business. New president Justin Ster-ling encourages everyone associated with businesses along the I640 corridor to attend. Come early and have breakfast while networking.

Justin Hartley

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