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Enhance PowellCarol Evans, executive

director of Legacy Parks Foundation, will speak to Enhance Powell 4-5 p.m. Wednes-day, May 11, at Powell Branch Library. The

meeting is open to all. Evans will talk about the process and benefits of putting a conservation easement on property to limit future devel-opment. This is particularly applicable to land in the f lood plain along Beaver Creek.

Legacy Parks Foundation raised funds for the soon-to-open Clayton Park in Halls. It has led efforts to build the Urban Wilderness in South Kno xville. Info: 865-661-8777.

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Powell High students spread out

in Powell Station Park at a school-

sponsored cookout for seniors.Photos by Justin Bailey

By Sandra ClarkPowell High School princi-

pal Dr. Chad Smith wanted to do something special for his fi rst senior class. So he sponsored a cookout for seniors next door at the Powell Station Park.

Justin Bailey happened by: “It nearly brought tears to my eyes to see the park being used by 50-plus high school kids. Kids under trees, in hammocks, playing soccer. Pic-nics, little pockets of kids lying in the grass, kids walking the trails.

“We said this would be the high school’s park and it REALLY IS!!! I’m pumped! Let’s go make anoth-er one.”

Bailey co-chairs Enhance Pow-ell, a community group that ex-panded the park simply by clean-ing it up. (The same group cleaned up the corner at Brickyard and Emory across from Bojangle’s last summer.)

Once the baskets for disc golf are installed (the pads are already in place), the park will be used by Frisbee-throwing teens and adults.

Enhance Powell is funded by the annual Travis Wegener Memo-rial car show, held each August at Food City. Volunteers are needed to make this year’s event special.

Home Depot, our newest part-ner, has donated fi ve picnic tables, which are scattered in the area known as the outdoor classroom. But the tables are available to any-one who wants to use them. Tim McGhee is leaning on his friends from First Baptist to help paint the tables and the benches.

When Joe Rosson, PHS Class of 2003, delivered the tables, he was wowed. “When I went to Powell, I didn’t know this was here!”

Yes, Joe, the park has always been there. We’re just making it accessible.

Historic Powell Station will be designated with a logo and special promotions in the Shopper. Josh Sellars is polishing off the logo. (It’s hard to get a Panther’s paw and a trail on the same logo.)

Last week, Sage Kohler orga-nized a meeting with Wayne Bla-sius and Leslie Fawaz of the East Tennessee Community Design Center. They are already working with Legacy Parks Foundation to create a low-impact development plan for Collier Preserve. We’re asking for an estimate for them to design a master plan for the Bea-ver Creek Corridor from I-75 to Clinton Highway and for Historic Powell Station (commercial dis-

Powell High seniors fi ll park for

Sidewalk study shows needs in school zonesBy Sandra Clark

Mayor Madeline Rogero called for $2.7 million for sidewalks and crosswalks across the city, when she presented her budget last week, including $750,000 for sidewalks within school Parental Responsibility Zones and another $750,000 for new sidewalk con-struction.

Knox County Mayor Tim Bur-chett will present his budget Mon-day, May 9. We’ll see then what he proposes.

Regardless, sidewalks present a dilemma – residents at planning meetings consistently request them; some like those in West Hills even rally at 7 a.m. to dem-onstrate the need for sidewalks.

Yet sidewalks are a low budget priority for decision-makers, al-

most at the bottom of the wants and needs list.

A January 2014 study prepared for the Knox County Department of Engineering and Public Works by Transportation Consultants Inc. identifi ed locations within the county having the greatest poten-tial and actual usage of walk-to-school trips.

The study showed 22,322 of Knox County’s 59,276 students live within the Parental Responsi-bility Zones where bus transporta-tion is not provided.

Using a complex formula, plan-ners determined the top schools for walkers if sidewalks were in-stalled.

These are, in order: Cedar Bluff Elementary, Londsdale Elemen-tary, Blue Grass Elementary, Belle

Morris Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Powell Elementary, Powell High School and Brickey-McCloud Elementary.

“Using this knowledge about where the greatest pedestrian demand and/or potential exists should provide a focused starting point for pedestrian project plan-ning,” the report concluded.

Seems sensible, yet Knox Coun-ty has built sidewalks over the past 3-4 years at Halls Elementary and from Karns Elementary to Karns Middle – both areas where political pressure was intense and neither was on the priority list.

Just a thought, but why not drop by to chat with Burchett at one of his nine meetings over two days following his budget presen-tation. And we dare you to walk:

Monday, May 9: ■ Budget presentation, 9 a.m.,

City County Building ■ South Knoxville Senior Cen-

ter, 11:30 a.m., 6729 Martel Lane ■ Strang Senior Center, 1:30

p.m., 109 Lovell Road ■ Halls Senior Center, 2:45

p.m., 4405 Crippen Road ■ Carter Senior Center, 4 p.m.,

9040 Asheville Highway ■ Burlington Branch Library,

5:30 p.m., 4614 Asheville HighwayTuesday, May 10:

■ Karns Senior Center, 1 p.m.,8042 Oak Ridge Highway

■ Cedar Bluff Library, 2 p.m.,9045 Cross Park Drive

■ Bearden Library, 3 p.m., 100Golfclub Road

■ Fountain City Library, 4p.m., 5300 Stanton Road

trict along Emory Road and Depot Street).

Carol Evans, executive director of Legacy Parks Foundation, will speak at Enhance Powell’s next meeting, Wednesday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. at Powell Branch Library. Ev-

ans will outline the process, cost and benefi ts of putting a conserva-tion easement on land, especially the land on both sides of Beaver Creek.

Gresham festivalGresham Middle School

will host its second annual Festival on the Hill, 4-7 p.m. Friday, May 6. Events start in the auditorium with a screen-ing of several short films.

During the festival, Gresham chorus will present selections from “High School Musical” and the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra will perform from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Historical re-enactor Gor-don Sisk will bring vintage baseball to life.

Activities will include crafts, lawn games, cake-walk, photo booth, art gallery scavenger hunt and more. The event is free to the commu-nity and concessions will be available for sale.

Thomas kickoff Knox County Commissioner

Bob Thomas will kick off his campaign for county mayor at the same place Tim Burchett announced his candidacy seven or so years ago.

All are invited to a free baloney lunch with R.C. Colas and Moon Pies from 11:30 to 1 p.m. Wednes-day, May 11, at Powell Auction and Realty, 6729 Pleasant Ridge Road behind the Clinton Highway Walmart.

Commissioner Ed Brantley will serve as master of ceremo-nies for his friend and col-league Thomas. Entertainment will be provided by the Chill-billies, and Sammy “Barney” Sawyer will make the rounds.

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Five years ago, fi rst-time par-ents, Chelsey and Aaron, care-fully considered every detail in preparation for their baby girl. Chelsey chose Parkwest not only because her physician’s offi ce was across from the hospital, but also because she watched many of her friends have their babies there, all saying they’d had excellent experi-ences.

When she learned that she was pregnant for a second time, she had no hesitation in choosing Parkwest again. “Our fi rst expe-rience having a child at Parkwest was a wonderful one. We were very well-cared for during our stay, in-cluding assistance and encourage-ment from the lactation consul-tants on staff as I worked to learn how to nurse a baby for the fi rst time. Aaron and I were thrilled to be delivering again at Parkwest. Our daughter, Abigail Jane, was delivered there on Jan. 25, 2010, by Dr. Kori Cottam. She has been my physician since I moved to Knoxville in August 2004, and I couldn’t imagine any other doctor or hospital taking care of us dur-ing such an important time in our lives,” stated Riemann.

Her fi rst delivery presented some complications, so the Rie-manns knew what to expect the second time around.

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During delivery, patients are accompanied by a nurse clinician from East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, who monitors each delivery and can step in if neonatal issues arise. Infants who need additional care can also be quickly transferred to Children’s Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Following delivery, a lactation consultant visits each mother and answers questions about and assists in teaching techniques for breastfeeding. “Babies are not born knowing how to breastfeed, so we try to be hands on and support each mother,” Paris said. “We under-stand that it’s a personal choice and will help no matter what the patient decides. Formula is available, and we abide by parent preference.”

For more information about the Parkwest Childbirth Center, visit www.TreatedWell.com/Childbirth or call (865) 374-PARK.

to greet me and welcome our baby into the world. Thankfully the baby had the same plan and stayed put until that day! Dr. Cot-tam scheduled us to be the fi rst delivery of the day, and we were so impressed that the medical team got me prepped and wheeled back even before the clock struck 8 a.m. as planned!”

“I was the most nervous about experiencing a different type of an-esthesia with the spinal, however, the anesthesiologist and nursing staff were so kind, and it turned out to be a complete breeze.”

Just as planned, Alexander Kenneth Riemann was born Fri-day, Oct. 2, 2015, at 7:54 a.m.,

second childbirth experience, I felt much more at ease and pre-pared. After an attempted labor that did not progress with Abigail, and resulted in a C-section, we planned for a C-section this time.”

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Cindy Taylor

community

Home Depot guys Joe Rosson and Buck Hawkins

install two picnic tables at Powell Station Park.

Carnival funNoell and Craig Lewis with Aiden and Riley (in stroller) at the

Knox North Lions Club Carnival, held last week at the former

Ingles on Clinton Highway. Noell Lewis is an Edward Jones ad-

visor in Powell. Photo by S. Clark

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Broadacres Homeowners

Association. Info: Steven

Goodpaster, generalgoodpas-

[email protected].

■ Enhance Powell meets 4-5

p.m. each second Wednesday

at the Powell Branch Library.

Info: 661-8777.

■ Knox North Lions Club

meets 1 p.m. each fi rst and

third Wednesday, Puleo’s

Grille, 110 Cedar Lane. Info:

facebook.com/knoxnorth-

lions.

■ Northwest Democratic Club meets 6 p.m. each

fi rst Monday, Austin’s Steak

& Homestyle Buff et, 900

Merchant Drive. Info: Nancy

Stinnette, 688-2160, or Peggy

Emmett, 687-2161.

■ Norwood Homeowners Association. Info: Lynn Red-

mon, 688-3136.

By Cindy TaylorThe Fountain City Art

Center is celebrating its 12th anniversary with great plans for spring and sum-mer programs, art exhibits and special events.

Chris Brock and Andy Le-

Grand will be playing at

the Cocktail Party/Concert

at Ivy Hill Farm June 4 and

at Fountain City Day in the

Park May 30.

Fountain City Art Center celebrates 12 years

“Arriving in Budapest”

watercolor by Jean Porter,

showing through today

(May 4) at Fountain City Art

Center Photos submitted

Classes are open to ages 6-11 and will be taught by Jan

Bolus. Cost is $125 with art materials included.

Coloring contest entries for ages 6-11 will close May 18. Open House and “Make It, Take It” will be Monday, May 30.

On Saturday, June 4, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. it’s off to Ivy Hill Farm for a late spring cocktail party/con-cert and fundraiser. Rain date is June 11.

The Fountain City Art Center Par-3 Golf Tourna-ment fundraiser will begin at 10 a.m. June 18 at Bev-erly Park Golf Course. Info: 689-7688 or [email protected].

The Fountain City Art Center 11th annual Open Show will be June 24-July 21. Opening reception will be 6:30-8 p.m. at the center.

To close out the summer there will be an Open Pho-tography Competition and Exhibition July 29-Aug. 26. This will be the fi rst pho-tography show of its kind at the center and is open to all photographers.

In addition to ongoing free admission and free ex-hibits, the FCAC offers year-round classes and work-shops. Info: [email protected] or 357-2787

Powell High From page A-1

As reported previously, Knox County Engineering has hired a consultant to make a preliminary study of whether a roundabout would work on Emory Road at the intersections of Spring Street and Sharp Road. If it’s feasible, this would make a fabulous en-try to Historic Powell Sta-tion as well as enhance safety and traffi c fl ow at this dangerous intersection (which also fl oods).

The Knoxville Water Col-or Society’s All Media Ex-hibit will remain on display through Wednesday, May 4. The Central High National Art Honor Society Exhibit is May 4-13. May 20 through June 16 will be the Fountain City Art Guild Spring Show and Sale.

The art center will be open Monday, May 30, for the annual Fountain City Day in the Park. Sales of food, books and art will benefi t the center.

The summer will bring opportunities for kids. Art classes will be held 10-11:15 a.m. Wednesdays, June 1-29.


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Sandra Clark

Making them cry, leaving them laughingWhat do we do and why

do we do it?Betty Bean spoke last

week to Dr. Mark Harmon’s UT journalism class. She brought the fi nal copy of the old Knoxville Journal. There’s a staff picture on the front page. Bean stands alone, far in the back, not quite part of the gang but still there as the proud old daily coughed and folded.

“Tell those kids to study for a job with a future,” I ad-vised; but I know she didn’t.

Bean is a true believer.Also last week, a reader

from Halls wrote in part ...“Please forward – as I

type this through the tears still on my cheeks – my thanks and appreciation to Betty Bean for her article, ‘A Killing at Danny Mayfi eld Park.’

“Not being a Knoxville native, I found it to be not only an outstanding piece of history but an opportu-nity for my own heart’s re-fl ection on faith, gratitude, compassion and caring.”

I forwarded the email to Bean with a note: “You’ve made another one cry.”

Bean later said she had expected readers to cry: “I was crying when I wrote it.”

So for every person who calls to complain about our delivery system, another calls to request delivery or extra copies. Very few write to thank us, and that’s OK.

We’re already out chasing the next story.

What we doThe Shopper News team

publishes eight unique newspapers weekly. Rough-ly half of the content is consistent, while the rest is unique to each zone.

I’m the overall editor and “last eyes” on each page be-fore it’s printed.

Also, I coordinate gov-ernment and business cov-erage, manage the colum-nists and go boldly where most reporters fear to tread: MPC sector meetings.

North: Shannon Carey coordinates local content for Halls/Fountain City (our oldest paper), Powell, Union County and North/East (our newest zone).

Ruth White, a Shopper veteran, covers our North kids beat, takes most cover photos and generally gets around the area, assisted by Cindy Taylor.

West: Sherri Gardner Howell coordinates local content for Bearden, Far-ragut, Karns/Hardin Valley and South Knox.

Sara Barrett covers the West kids beat, takes pho-tos and fi lls in when Sherri travels. Betsy Pickle covers South, while Wendy Smith covers Bearden. Newer writers are Carolyn Evans, Farragut, and Nancy Ander-son, Karns/Hardin Valley.

Graphics: Carol Spring-er, Kathryn Woycik and Jodi Littleton put the pages together. In addition, Jodi manages our website.

Ad sales: Coordinated by the News Sentinel team headed by Steve Bowman, the Shopper sales manager is Amy Lutheran, assisted by Patty Fecco, Tony Cran-more and Beverly Holland.

Circulation: Shop-pers are distributed inside the News Sentinel for Knox County subscribers each Wednesday (actually buried

deep in the food section).Additionally, the Shopper

wraps the TMC –Total Mar-ket Coverage – delivery of various pre-prints and gro-cery circulars in Knox and Union counties.

What’s next? As the former Scripps pa-

pers are assimilated into the USA Today network, we will change.

S h o p p e r pages will be produced by pag inat ion s o f t w a r e . The classi-fi ed pages already are.

The web site will be more robust with easy-t o - s e a r c h digital ar-chives.

We will always be cha l lenged to do more with less.

L u c k i l y, the Shopper does that well – hav-ing started with a pencil and a drop box.

So what? You keep

reading and we’ll keep w r i t i n g . That’s our bargain.

Shopper News is leading eff orts to develop

Powell Station Park. At top, seniors enjoy a

school-sponsored cookout at the park.

Home Depot guys donate picnic tables.

Halls High prin-

cipal Mark Duff

captures the

pride of all par-

ents at gradua-

tion as he hugs

his daughter,

Morgan.

Betty Bean features Brian Mc-

Daniel, who crafted the Knoxville

montage above; and yes, that’s

the MPC northwest county sector

plan meeting at right.Kindness awards

at Dogwood

Elementary School

A sample of this week’s work:

North, South, East, West

POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • MAY 4, 2016 • A-5 government

Marvin West

No doubt you have been worrying for weeks about the upcoming Battle at Bris-tol. What if the Hokies upset the Volunteers and derail the exciting run toward the national championship be-fore it really begins?

Oh, you say the big game hasn’t even entered your mind? You have been won-dering if somebody can catch the ball if Joshua Dobbs throws down the fi eld? And you are some-what interested in how bad is Jalen Reeves-Maybin’s bum shoulder and wheth-er Tennessee can win the fourth quarter against Flor-ida and Alabama?

OK, be that way.Virginia Tech people are

probably losing sleep over the big BB (that’s short for Bristol Battle).

“We are aware of the big game on our schedule,” said Chester R. Henderlight, my favorite Hokie. “We’ve never played Notre Dame before. Does it snow before Thanks-giving in South Bend?”

Well, imagine that.With the countdown to

the really big September kickoff in days-hours-min-utes-and-seconds mode, in

Worrying about Battle at Bristol

fl ashing lights no less, are we to believe the Pilot Fly-ing J Battle at Bristol is an incidental novelty, a gim-mick game, largest crowd in the history of football, great video hub named Colossus, a massive show that few will see up close and in person – without a telescope?

This can’t be.Bristol Motor Speedway

is expecting 150,000 paying customers. Think about that – parking, gate receipts, concessions, souvenirs, ex-tra for seat backs.

Curiosity about football in the middle of a race track guarantees ESPN/ABC a worldwide TV audience. Performance Racing Net-work will scatter the radio broadcast to all four turns and far beyond. Multitudes will undoubtedly be up on the edge of their beds or recliners, depending on the hour of the day or night (to

be determined).There will be a variety of

promotional links – NAS-CAR drivers talking about end sweeps, lavish charity dinner, Phillip Fulmer and ex-Vols in a golf tourna-ment, large displays in 650 fuel stops, a really big deal.

Big Jim Haslam, chief Pi-lot, will no doubt discuss his connections if asked, tackle times as a Volunteer and how his fi rst gas station just happened to be in Gate City, Va., not far from Bristol.

I’m telling you, this is a major event. Combatants are expecting to race home with more than $4 million per school (to apply toward campus safety and women’s sports).

Tennessee fans have ev-ery reason to be excited about the upcoming sea-son. It projects as the best in a decade, top 10 rank-ing, SEC East plaque all but inscribed. Butch Jones has brilliant playmakers, experience at most every position and fi nally decent depth. He has supposedly strengthened his staff. No excuses, this is it.

Optimism abounds at Virginia Tech for other rea-

sons. The Hokies traded in old-time coach Frank Beamer for bright, younger Justin Fuente, the man who made Memphis the talk of his town.

For years, Tech people had wanted an innovative offense. Fuente brings it. Enthusiastic followers say the Hokies will no longer be boring, predictable and re-luctant to adjust.

I had no idea Virginia Tech was that bad. I had not followed closely. I was aware that the Hokies won the Independence Bowl in overtime.

It seems to me the Battle at Bristol demands sharp er focus. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime presentation. To the best of my knowledge, in the history of college foot-ball, there has never been a big game in the middle of a steep-banked, concrete race track. Could be nothing like this will ever happen again.

Do what? You say East Tennessee State and West-ern Carolina are going to play on the same fi eld a week later?

Oh my.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is [email protected]

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Betty Bean

The school year is limp-ing toward the fi nish line with much unresolved.

Has Mayor Rogero forgotten the Metropolitan Planning Commission? Or does she care?

It is now 10 months since three city vacancies occurred on MPC (starting July 1, 2015). Those are the city seats held by former Knoxville Vice Mayor Jack Sharp, Michael Kane and MPC vice chair Bart Carey.

These three continue as holdovers with no knowl-edge of Rogero’s plans. She can reappoint, replace or do nothing as she is doing now, which continues them month to month. While fi lling MPC seats may not be Rogero’s most important duty, it directly impacts neighborhoods. Why has she not acted?

It is expected she will replace as all three have served two or more terms. Rogero is committed to term limits, but by allow-ing them to continue for 10 months she is effec-tively giving them a par-tial third term. If a replace-ment is ever named on the Rogero watch then he/she will have a shorter term than the normal four years. All three are men and Rogero is expected to add at least one or two women as replacements. But when, if ever, will these replace-ments occur? Rogero owes the public a reason for her almost year-long delay.

What is also surprising is that one of the public reasons for hiring Indya Kincannon was to assist the mayor in making appoint-ments. Obviously with MPC, Rogero has been slow to act on whatever Kincan-non suggested.

■ Wayne Christensen has retired as head of Knox

Youth Sports after 20 busy and produc-tive years. He and his wife, Sara, moved to Knoxville for Chris-tensen to

work for Whittle Communi-cations in 1983. They came from Minneapolis.

By 1996 when he started with KYS, Whittle had folded in Knoxville and he had worked on a Baseball Parent newsletter. But the KYS executive commit-tee that year, consisting in part of Charlie Anderson, Caesar Stair III and Jimmy Haslam, hired Christensen as executive director.

During those two de-cades, he grew the program including adding 3- and 4-year-olds, middle school

Bearden controversy highlights KCS malaiseRogero lags

on MPC choices

Christensen

student who is a former team member has been harassed by a teacher as a result.

The com-plaints came in the wake of the abrupt and un-explained forced resignation of coach Leon-ard Sams, two weeks after he led his team to Bearden’s fi rst-ever state tour-nament run.

Filed by Randy Susong and Adam McKenry, the fi rst complaint says the boosters would never have agreed to take on the task of building a new batting facility if Bartlett had informed them it was not legal for them to do so. They say the problem was aggravated when the popular Sams, for whom the facility was named, was booted from his job, crippling their fundraising ability and leaving the two of them on the hook for a $700 monthly payment. The school board signed off on the plan.

A state audit, released in early April, found several irregularities in the bid and building process, and said the booster club should not have been allowed to take on the construction project:

“The defi ciencies noted above may have been avoid-ed if the Board of Educa-

tion had not allowed other entities to construct facili-ties on school property, but accepted donations from these entities to go toward board-constructed facilities through the board’s normal purchasing and construc-tion process.”

Sams was hired as an as-sistant coach in 2007 and became head coach in 2011. He has been appointed to coach USA Softball’s 18-un-der team in Spain this sum-mer, and several student-athletes transferred into Bearden to play for him.

The Bearden and KCS administrations at fi rst at-tempted to pass his depar-ture off as a mutual deci-sion, but it quickly became evident that Sams did not leave willingly. And when it became clear that the deci-sion was fi nal, only two of 15 returning players stayed with the team.

At the end of last week, Bearden’s record (exclud-ing practice games) was 1-15. Meanwhile, many former players with hopes of playing in college have joined the Tennessee White Lightning, a travel team that plays against high-level competition in North Geor-gia and is coached by Sams. Their record stands at 15-7-1.

In addition to Bartlett, the fi rst ethics complaint names Superintendent James McIntyre, Bearden athletic director and assis-tant principal Nathan Lynn and KCS director of facili-ties management Doug Dill-ingham.

Speaking through KCS’s offi ce of public affairs, Bartlett said he sent the email to his staff “to ad-dress concerns brought to him and the administration by parents and players.”

baseball and lacrosse. KYS reached 2,000 youth a year in the program. KYS also in-cludes baseball, softball, fl ag football and basketball. The KYS budget has been from $500,000 to $750,000 a year. KYS helped rebuild the soccer fi elds at Lakeshore Park and Ruggles Field was added. He says it was “the best job of my life.”

Christensen says “retire-ment” is not part of his future. He is simply moving from one phase of his life to the next. He wants to be involved in something that impacts Knoxville.

KYS has been a major player in youth activities in Knoxville and Christensen was a pivotal part of mak-ing that happen.

■ Mike Chase, founder and owner of Calhoun’s, Copper Cellar and Chesa-peake’s, says that the city revamping of Cumberland Avenue, which will last another year and a half, is costing his Copper Cellar restaurant on Cumberland over $1 million in sales. This does not include the lost city, county and state sales tax that could have been generated by customers.

■ Rickey Hall, UT vice chancellor for diversity, is searching for a new job anywhere. He has been a fi nalist at three places. Clearly his UT days are numbered. With Chancellor Cheek expected to retire this year as he reaches 70, Susan Martin is retiring as provost Aug. 1, and Margie Nichols is leaving the chancellor’s offi ce. In a month it will be a new operation by the start of 2017. Can Athletic Director Dave Hart, who instigated the Lady Vols name change, be far behind? Phil Fulmer is speculated as a new UT athletic director.

■ State personnel held an explanatory meeting on the new $160 million state museum in Nashville here in Knoxville at Pellissippi State on April 12. It was poorly attended with only 18 citizens showing up who were not state employees or consultants. Notice of the meeting was spotty. People were surprised to learn that the new museum has 11,000 less square footage in exhib-it space than the current one being replaced. Advocates of the new museum say it will be much better confi gured.

The last-minute ditching of the year-end tests, ironi-cally known as TNReady (and before that, TCAP), has angered and confused parents from Memphis to Mountain City, and here at home, the impending su-perintendent swap of James McIntyre for interim Buzz Thomas will happen against a backdrop of long-running turmoil at schools like Bearden High as contro-versy over the once-stellar girls softball program en-ters year two.

A formal ethics hearing is scheduled for June 6 to deal with a complaint fi led by two former Bearden soft-ball booster club parents who have gotten stuck with the cost of a new indoor bat-ting facility, and the Shop-per News has learned that a second complaint, trig-gered by an email principal John Bartlett sent to faculty members accusing former softball team members of ridiculing and booing the coach and team at scrim-mage games, is being pre-pared by another parent. This complaint will allege that Bartlett’s accusation is false and that at least one

The practice facility for the

Bearden High School softball team


SENIOR NOTES ■ Karns Senior Center

8042 Oak Ridge Highway951-2653knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Off erings include: card

games; dance classes; exer-

cise programs; mahjong; art

classes; farkle; dominoes;

a computer lab. Muffi ns

for Moms, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Friday, May 6.

Register for: Brown

Bag Lunch: Larry Perry

Photography Slide Show,

noon Thursday, May 5.

Potluck, noon Tuesday, May

10. Musical performance:

Three Nice Guys, 1 p.m.

Wednesday, May 11. African

Photo Safari program, noon

Thursday, May 12; bring

brown bag lunch; RSVP by

May 10.

■ Halls Senior Center4405 Crippen Road922-0416knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday

Off erings include: card

games; exercise classes;

quilting, dominoes, dance

classes; scrapbooking, craft

classes; Tai Chi; movie mati-

nee 2 p.m. Tuesdays; Senior

Meals program, noon

Wednesdays. Monday,

May 9: Muffi ns for Moms,

10 a.m.; Mayor’s Budget

presentation, 2:45 p.m.

Register for: AARP

Driver safety class, noon-4

p.m. Thursday-Friday, May

12-13; RSVP: 922-0416.

■ Morning Pointe Assisted Living7700 Dannaher Drive686-5771 or morningpointe.com

Upcoming events: “The

Missing Man Table and

POW/MIA Flag Dedication”

ceremony 2 p.m. Friday,

May 27. Conducted

by Rolling Thunder

Tennessee Chapter 3.

Reception follows. RSVP

by May 20: Brittany Ricker,

512-6563; powell-led@

morningpointe.com.

Frank Hall

Knoxville artist Alexander Dumas and Morning Pointe resident Dwight Patterson discuss Du-

mas’ painting “Saipan-1944.” Dumas presented paintings from his “War Series,” featuring accu-

rate depictions of real soldiers who served in World War II. Patterson is a veteran of World War II

whose friend, a Marine, was injured in the Battle of Saipan.

Morning Pointe residents Doris McCurdy, Betty Sibert, Adelyn Mays, Renee Bryant, volunteer De-

nise O’Rourke, Terry Kanopka, Margaret Herbison, Jane Hodges and Gene Woods shop at Mayo’s

Garden Center to purchase fl owers for the raised-bed gardens at the assisted living facility.

Wallace Memorial Baptist

Church’s clown troupe vis-

ited Morning Pointe of Powell.

Rose Albers, as Penelope the

Clown, leads the troupe. She

is pictured with resident Alice

Bivens.

Susie Cox, now a resident,

is sharing her talents for all

to enjoy at the assisted liv-

ing community. Cox sang for

many years with The Gospel

Victory Singers, a group that

performed for area churches.

Originally from Claiborne

County, Cox shared her

group’s album, recorded in

the 1960s.

Who’s WhoTwo residents at Beverly

Park Place Health and Re-hab have been named by the Tennessee Health Care Association (THCA) to its annual “Who’s Who in Ten-nessee Long-term Care.” The program has honored more than 2,300 residents since 1983 who have made noteworthy contributions and helped shape history through their actions.

Frank Hall has always loved music. In his teens, he hosted parties where he imitated Elvis. He later became a “roadie” and met the Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks. He remembers being present when the band wrote some of their fi rst songs.

Clara Harris worked as a baker for Knox County Schools to support her fi ve children and six other chil-dren she took in. A longtime member of Roseberry Bap-tist Church, she sang in the choir, cooked and did ser-

Happenings at Morning Pointe

Nell Hamilton

Open house The Pointe at Lifespring

Senior Living will host a preview open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Satur-

day, May 7, at 3016 S. Mall Road, near O’Charleys and Cracker Barrel. Situated in northeast Knoxville off Washington Pike, the

community is expected to open in fall 2016.

RSVP to Heather Haley at [email protected] or 865-687-5353

vice projects.Nell Hamilton, 100,

a resident of Willow Ridge Center in Maynardville, will also be included in the Who’s Who honors.

Hamilton is retired from the Union County Public Schools where she worked in the cafeteria. She is a member of First Baptist Maynardville, and cred-its her longevity to “hard work.”

All will receive their “Who’s Who” certifi cate during National Nursing Home Week, May 8-14.

POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • MAY 4, 2016 • A-7 faith

Just to be clear, the psalmist and Wordsworth were talking about two different worlds.

The psalmist was talking about the earth, the whole of the known creation. Wordsworth was referring to civilization: the affairs of men, the powers that rule, the day to day business of life.

Lewis and I had a chance recently to get away from business to enjoy the beauty of the earth. After tax season was offi cially over (well, except for the exten-sions – all those folks who somehow needed more time to render unto Caesar), we went to our favorite camp-ground in the mountains.

We left the world of business behind in order to soak up the beauty and quiet and peace of God’s world. We had time to listen to the laughing creek, to watch the mallards sail across the lake, to marvel at the moon rising over the mountains.

It soothes and heals the soul, I assure you.But, as always, we return to the routine. The trick,

however, is this: we – all of us – need to learn to pay attention to this dear little planet, to love it, treasure it, protect it, enjoy it, honor it, preserve it for genera-tions yet unborn.

In so doing, we honor and revere the Creator who thought it all up, and gave it to us to be our home.

Let us do the job God gave us.

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabit-ants of the world stand in awe of him.

(Psalm 33:8 NRSV)The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;Little we see in Nature that is ours.We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.

(“The World Is Too Much with Us,” William Wordsworth)

cross currentsLynn [email protected]

The world with us

The Revs. Jim McNeal and Marc Sasser perform a baptism in an African village.

African children enjoy American treats brought over by the

CRBC mission team. Photos submitted

The Rev. Jim McNeal and

Roger Rhodes work on

the new church building

in Kamaku.

FAITH NOTES

Community services ■ Cross Roads Presbyterian, 4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the Halls

Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and

9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church, 6125 Lacy Road, off ers Children’s

Clothes Closet and Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m. each third Saturday.

Free to those in the 37912/37849 ZIP code area.

Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS

(Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each Friday. Info: Edna Hensley,

771-7788.

■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory Road, hosts Recovery at Powell

each Thursday. Dinner, 6 p.m.; worship, 7; groups, 8:15. The pro-

gram embraces people who struggle with addiction, compulsive

behaviors, loss and life challenges. Info: recoveryatpowell.com or

938-2741.

Special services ■ “Moms Across the Generations” event for all grieving moth-

ers will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at Christus Victor Lutheran

Church, 4110 Central Avenue Pike. The event is hosted by Listening

Hearts. Info: 679-1351 or [email protected].

■ Oaks Chapel American Christian Church, 934 Raccoon Valley

Road, will hold revival on the following dates and times: 7 p.m.

Friday, May 20; 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, May 21; 11 a.m. and 6

p.m. Sunday, May 22; 7 p.m. weeknights. Evangelists are the Rev.

Boyd Myers and the Rev. Phil Seaton. Everyone welcome.

Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, hosts Morning

Breakfast and Afternoon Hang Out for youth each Tuesday. Break-

fast and Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info:

690-1060 or beaverridgeumc.org.

By Cindy Taylor Since 2009, Callahan

Road Baptist Church has made three mission trips to Kenya, Africa. This Febru-ary a mission team from the church spent 10 days there.

The crew of eight built a new church, provided a sev-en-day medical clinic that ministered to more than 250 natives and led and baptized 22 people to faith in Christ.

The original 8- x 12-foot church was made of old used lumber and metal. The new church is more than double the size and was con-structed of new materials.

The people of the villages were grateful to receive the medical care. According to mission team members, the natives have no access to even simple items such as topical medications.

The church also sponsors an orphanage in the town of Salama, where the 2016 mission team ministered to 36 boys and girls.

This year’s team mem-bers included the Rev. Marc Sasser, the Rev. Jim McNe-al, DeWayne O’Dell, Roger Rhodes, Kevin Sullivan, Melissa Green and Melinda Buck.

This trip was McNeal’s second international mis-sion trip.

“I was actually nervous and apprehensive about not even being on the same continent, much less in the same country,” said Mc-Neal. “After the worship on Sunday and meeting the widows in one of the tribes, I went from anxious about being there to the point of being anxious to go back again.”

McNeal says the team garnered a lot of attention because of their skin color. Many natives had never seen a white person. He is already in the process of putting together a team to go back next February.

“I developed such a love for the people and it was re-ciprocated,” he said. “I am so excited to go back again.”

Callahan Road Baptist

Abiding love for the African people

Church is at 1317 Callahan Drive.

Info: www.crbchurch.com or 938-3410.

InterFaith legal advice clinic May 7InterFaith Legal Advice Clinic will be held 9:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at

First Baptist Church of Knoxville, Trentham Hall, 510 W. Main St. Parking will be avail-able in the Trentham Hall Parking lot between Hill, Walnut and Locust streets.

The free legal advice clinic is offered in conjunction with Legal Aid of East Tennessee’s monthly Saturday Bar advice clinic and is hosted by the church to give people a less intimidat-ing environment to talk to a lawyer. Participants in the Faith & Justice Alliance can invite con-gregants from their churches, synagogues and mosques to bring their legal questions as well.

Info: Terry Woods, 384-2175 or [email protected]; Bill Coley, 292-2307 or [email protected]; Ian Hennessey, 637-0203 or [email protected].

Nurse Melissa Green with villagers


Story So Far: The special soccer team of non-athletic boys, practice for their next game by fi nding a way not to practice. But the second game looms.

Our second game was at Shoreham. If South Orange River had a reputation for being great in sports, so did Shoreham. In fact, the schools were rivals. I always won-dered who makes up rivalries. Principals probably cook it up. Maybe they hated each other. Or maybe the school board—any-

thing to avoid talking about budgets—got it going. I didn’t even know anyone from Shoreham. Didn’t even care.

We did get in another practice after the practice when we did not practice. Wasn’t bad. That is, I think we kicked the ball around a bit. The next day we went to a big museum and saw a neat fi lm.

In fact, on the bus to Shoreham, Saltz, Radosh and I got into this long discussion about some of the dinosaurs we saw in the

museum. A guide told us no one knows exactly why they died off. We were trying to fi gure out why. Saltz had the best idea. “Probably got into sports,” he suggested.

“Right,” I said, “The Mastodon Mothers versus the Tyran-nosaurus Tiddly-winkers.”

In other words, by the time we got out of the bus at Shoreham, we were in a good mood. Being in the bus alone helped. That happened be-cause after the fi rst game, they gave us -- and us alone — a small bus to use when we needed one. For the whole season. I think they thought that the way we played might be catching.

As for my being captain, that hadn’t amounted to much, except a little kidding. But as we got near the fi eld, Saltz slipped up to me and said, “Remember, the captain always goes down with his ship.”

Actually, it was another beautiful day, one of those early fall days that make you remember summer and wish it were back. Mr. Lester was all smiles. The team was loose. Positively jangling. As we closed in on the fi eld, we could see the Shoreham players working out.

We got ourselves ready. Mr. Lester beck-oned me over. “When the referee calls, you’re supposed to go out and meet the op-posing captain.”

“What for?”He looked blankly at me, blushing slight-

ly. “I can’t say I read that,” he admitted.After a bit, the referee did call. I went out

to the middle. The Shoreham captain was a big guy for a seventh grader, at least twice as wide as me. He held out his hand and we shook. He nearly busted my fi ngers. It’s a wonder he didn’t stomp my foot.

“How’s it going?” he said, dancing up and down as if his shorts were itchy.

“Okay,” I said, putting my hand in my armpit to get back some feeling. “You got a nice fi eld.”

“Little chewed up from our last game.”“Oh? Who with?”“Buckingham.”“Really,” I said, pretending that was the

least interesting thing in the world. “How’d you guys do?”

“We beat them six–zip.”“No kidding,” I said, sorry I asked. In

fact, I decided that my fi rst offi cial duty as team captain was not to tell my teammates that we were about to play the team that had beaten, by 6–0, the team that beat us 32–0.

Meanwhile, the ref was telling us he wanted a good, hard game, but no rough stuff. I felt like saying, “Don’t worry, we do best at bad, soft and easy.” But I didn’t.

“Good luck,” the Shoreham captain said to me.

“Thanks,” I replied, “we’ll need it.”He looked at me a little funny. Probably

thought I was kidding. I wasn’t.I can’t tell you about the whole game.

Just the highlights. Or rather, the lowlights. It wasn’t all that different from the Buck-ingham game.

I do remember being impressed because they didn’t score right away. Not in the fi rst ten seconds, anyway. In fact, I think we had the ball on their side of the fi eld briefl y. What is worth telling about is our fi rst goal.

It came about this way.

They were on the attack. Actu-ally, they were al-ways on the attack.

Just as we were always on the defense. But in this case, they had brought the ball nice-ly down the left line, passed it to the middle guys, pretty much in front of me — that is, in front of the goal.

Meanwhile, my trusty buddy Saltz, as well as Root and Hays, were right in there, fl ailing away, hacking with their feet, rear ends, heads, whatever they found useful and close to the ball. It didn’t work. The ball kept getting closer. To me. I crouched, ready to miss.

The ball squirted loose. Hays was right there and gave it a kick with the swift in-stinct of a true player. Right into our goal.

Point for them.The best part was when the ball went

in and the Shoreham team all lifted their arms. That’s a soccer tradition, airing your armpits after all that footwork. Anyway, I saw Hays lift his arms too, with this great idiot’s grin of success on his face.

Eliscue tipped him off, delicately. “Wrong side, Bozo,” he said.

Hays’s grin dropped like lead weights. He stood there, truly shaken.

At another furious part of the game, I re-member looking across the fi eld and notic-ing that their goaltender was lying fl at on his back, hands beneath his head, taking a sunbath. That really made me mad. I was still glaring at him as their twenty-second goal went whizzing past my eyes.

Final score: 47–0.Guess who won?I wondered, did that make them better

than Buckingham, or us worse?“Well,” said Dorman, as we dragged into

our bus for the ride home, “they said we couldn’t get worse, but we showed them. Lot of points.”

“Yeah, but I scored one of them,” Hays reminded us.

We applauded with slow, regular beats, “Yeah! Hurray!”

Mr. Lester, sitting up front with the driv-er, was doing his best to pretend he didn’t know us by reading one of his books, How to Be a Successful, Winning Coach.

He never did tell me what a captain was supposed to do.

(To be continued.)

Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

CHAPTER FIVE: Second Game: New Heights, New Lows

“a breakfast serials story”Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

Norwood students enjoy math/tech night

REUNION NOTES ■ The Halls High class

of 1971 reunion, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 14, Li’l Jo’s in

Maynardville. Cost: $20 at

the door. BYO spirits or beer

can be purchased at the

restaurant. RSVP: 963-5087,

922-8070 or wolfec4@gmail.

com.

■ Annual Reynolds Family Reunion, 11 a.m. Sunday,

May 15, at Big Ridge State

Park, Tea Room. Bring a

covered dish, fi shing poles,

games to play, cameras.

Lunch, 1 p.m.

■ Central High School Class of 1964’s 70th birthday par-

ty, 6-10 p.m. Saturday, June

25, Grande Event Center,

5441 Clinton Highway. Cost:

$30, includes full buff et.

Info: David, CHS64grad@

gmail.com.

■ Fulton High School Class of 1966 50th reunion,

5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6,

Calhoun’s on the River, 400

Neyland Drive. Cost: $25.

Reservations deadline: July

15. Reservations/payment:

Fulton High School 1966 Re-

union, c/o Doug Welch, 890

Hansmore Place, Knoxville

TN 37919. Info: Doug-

[email protected].

■ The Knoxville Central High School Class of 1966

50th reunion, Saturday, Oct.

8, Beaver Brook Country

Club. Info: Gail Norris Kitts,

[email protected].

Teacher Anne Arehart uses the Aurasma app and an iPad to teach about the planets through

videos created by students in Lauren Sisk’s fourth-grade class.

Norwood Elementary

technology teacher

Tori Sensing helps

a student use the

Cardboard virtual

reality app and viewer

to see Paris. Google

Cardboard is this

generation’s version

of the View Master. Photos by R. White

Third-grade teacher

Tiff any Rodgers races

against Randell Bridges

with math facts during

Norwood Elementary’s

math/tech night. The

event featured a math

scavenger hunt with

an Olympic theme in

honor of the summer

Olympics.

S.O.R. Losers

Lusby signs with Johnson UniversityPowell High senior

Keelie Lusby signed to play bas-ketball at J o h n s o n University next year.

T h e P a n t h e r p o i n t guard has played all four years

at the school and says that being part of the team helped her to become a leader. Coach Christin Webb said, “She’s always a leader, especially on the fl oor. The other team members look up to her for leadership. As the only senior, she knew her role and she ran with it.”

Keelie selected John-son University because it is close to home, and the school has a Christian atmosphere which is im-portant to her. While in college she plans to study sports medicine and be-come a trainer.

At Powell, Keelie was selected to the All-Dis-trict team her sophomore through senior years, was given the Panther Award for the team and was a CAREacter athlete.

Attending the sign-ing with Keelie were her parents Jeff and Missy Lusby; brothers Cole and Cannon; grandparents Roland and Lisa Johans-son, friends and team-mates.

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for these types of people to eat frequently and have protein at every meal. This type of person will want to avoid high glycemic foods that limit their carbohydrates, and stick mainly to low glycemic fruits and vegetables and small amounts of grain.

Mixed oxidizers are people who are actually a combination of both types and can sometimes fl uctuate between one type or the other depending on stress and other external environmental factors. Mixed types obviously have the most freedom with the way they eat but must be in tune with their bodies to know if they are leaning one way or the other from day to day. A mixed oxidizer will generally do better to eat a diet containing approximately 50 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent proteins and 20 percent fats, however this could vary from day to day depending on their stressors.

Losing weight is not as easy as choosing the latest fad diet. It is a process of fi guring out the type of diet you were born to eat and make sure you stay within those parameters during each meal. To get the weight loss you want you need to eat like your body wants to eat, not like the latest fad diet or the way your favorite fi tness model eats.

Next week: You are when you eat

By Dr. Donald G. Wegener

Each one of us is individual, inside and outside. This is why some diets work for some people while others succeed with a totally different type of diet. There are literally hundreds of different diets books available today, each claiming to be the perfect diet for you,

and each one promises to give you increased energy, vitality and weight loss. Figuring out what foods do best for your individual physiology is called metabolic typing. There are three basic metabolic types: slow oxidizers, fast oxidizers and mixed oxidizers.

Slow oxidizers are people who tend to quickly burn up fat and therefore do better on a high carbohydrate diet. A higher carbohydrate intake spares fat to help balance out how quickly food is used for energy in a slow oxidizer. These people usually do best on a ration of 60 percent carbohydrates, 25 percent proteins and 16 percent fat. These are the type of people who feel better when they consume carbohydrates, but they have to be careful not to get addicted to them because too many carbohydrates will make anyone fatter.

Fast oxidizers are people who tend to burn carbohydrates quickly and therefore require a relatively large amount of fats and proteins in their diet to balance out their metabolism. If you are a fast oxidizer you will want to experiment with a diet that has roughly 30 percent carbohydrates, 40 percent proteins and 30 percent fats. It is important

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PHS seniors honored at awards day

By Ruth WhiteSenior awards day at

Powell High School was a day to recognize graduat-ing seniors for their hard work and college selections, as well as to award scholar-ships and top honors.

Community and state awards were given out,

RuthWhite

Brittany Tol-

son was pre-

sented the

John Mauer

Award and

was named

Female Ath-

lete of the

Year, an hon-

Peyton Alford

was named

Powell High

School Male

Athlete of

the Year by

the coaching

staff .

Sarah Wilbanks received the National Honor Society award for

service.

Brandon Brown was presented the Hoyt Orr Award by assistant

principal Jan Deaderick. Photos by R. White

Tess McCarter was presented the Barney Thompson Award

during the recognition ceremony.

ored given by the PHS coach-

ing staff .

some in memory of former students. Individuals going into the military were recog-nized and top athletes were honored. Awards were pre-sented in each of the school departments, recognizing those who worked hard.

Following the ceremony, the senior class celebrated with a picnic and received yearbooks.

Parents and students were welcomed to North-west Middle School for an expo night to show off the programs and great things happening at the school.

Northwest hosts expo night

The event was geared mainly for rising fi fth grad-ers, to give them a look in-side the school and talk to staff members, but current students also attended.

One of the neatest fea-tures of the night was visit-ing the school store. Rising fi fth grade students were given a Pride Ticket during the event to spend in the store that evening. Items in the store include school supplies, small toys, games, food items and more. Teach-er Constance Cox oversees the operation of the store but gives her students many responsibilities.

On Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, stu-dents take carts fi lled with supplies through the hall-ways, allowing purchases to be made using Pride Tickets instead of cash. The tickets are earned through good behavior, and students en-joy collecting them to save for a special item.

During the expo night, community partners do-nated items such as water bottles, waterproof phone pockets, t-shirts and more. Any items not sold were added to the inventory, giv-ing students even more se-lection and reason to keep up the good behavior.

Northwest Middle School cheerleaders Mary Hazelwood, Jamya Lewis and Nevaeh Farmer

hosted the expo night, greeting guests and providing information to make everyone’s night go

smoothly. Photos by R. White

Cami James helps cus-

tomers in the school

store during expo

night with teacher

Constance Cox.

Northwest

volleyball team

members Allie

Williams and

Kyrsten Cooper

answer questions

regarding the

school’s fi rst

volleyball team.

CALL FOR ARTISTS

■ Submissions for “The Word,” an art competi-

tion that asks artists to

look deeply into the

meaning and use of

words throughout his-

tory and in our daily lives,

are being accepted by

Broadway Studios and

Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway.

Entries will be accepted

11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday-

Saturday, May 26-28. Info:

Jessica Gregory, 556-8676;

BroadwayStudiosAnd

Gallery.com; Broadway

StudiosAndGallery@

gmail.com.

■ The Tennessee Arts Commission is accept-

ing application for its

Arts Build Communities

(ABC) grants until 4:30

p.m. (CST) Friday, July

1. The grants will be

distributed through-

out all arts disciplines

as recognized by the

Tennessee Arts Com-

mission, including

dance, music, opera/

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On April 24, some lucky folks stepped back in time with the 26th annual His-toric Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes. Less than two miles from downtown Knoxville, the historic area features more than 250 residential structures. Many locals and former residents spent the gorgeous day strolling amongst beautifully re-stored early 1900’s Crafts-man style homes and bun-galows.

“The Fourth and Gill neighborhood is one of Knoxville’s premier his-toric districts,” said Jenny Wright, president and Tour of Homes co-chair. “The tour included the Greystone mansion and Central UMC, one of the city’s most beau-tiful examples of Gothic Re-vival architecture.”

Six local artists were showcased during the tour. Artist Heather Quinsey moved to North Knoxville from Ontario and says she loves living in the area. Quinsey works with found items to create one-of-a-kind collages and took the opportunity to show her art on her front porch during the tour.

Cindy Taylor

Historic hamlet

Homeowners Ben Lee and Lisi Schoenbach live on Luttrell Street with their three children. Their home was a featured residence on the tour. They rented for two years, then purchased the home in 2004. Lee says North Knoxville is a great place to live.

“We love our neighbors and love that we have side-walks,” he said. “We also like how close we are to downtown so we can walk down there a lot.”

Tim Parker has lived in the neighborhood more than 25 years. He and wife Missy love their neighborhood.

“My wife grew up in West Knoxville and never knew this part of town ex-isted,” he said. “It is such a great place to live. We know all of our neighbors and have probably been in ev-ery house. All of us in the neighborhood buy different

tools and then share them. We found this house on a Sunday stroll and have been here long enough now to see a whole new generation move in.”

Tour attendees walked at their own pace through the open residences or rode a guided trolley.

Mark your calendar now for the 27th Anniversary Tour of Homes to be held April 23, 2017.

Tour volunteers Tim Parker, Judy and David visit on Parker’s

front porch after the tour.

Homes in the Fourth and Gill area feature beautiful architec-

tural details. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Artist Heather Quin-

sey with one of her

favorite pieces.

Lola Jean Lundy, Emma Lane and Athen York work their own

fresh-made lemonade stand during the home tour.

Sarah Henson and Cody Hurley take a moment in front of the Lee home on Luttrell Street.

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It’s a lot like that peanut butter and jelly thing, this literacy relationship about books and reading between the Bearden Rotary Club and Pond Gap Elementary School. It’s been going on for 10-plus years with no signs of slowing.

On Friday, April 15, a group of Bearden Rotarians delivered a backlog of books to the Pond Gap library. “About fi ve years ago we started asking their librar-ian for a list of books for their library,” said Rotarian Dick Hinton. “Our club buys the books and we have our weekly speakers sign the in-side cover and then donate them to their library.”

Bearden Rotarians who helped deliver the books were Hinton, Gary Ric-ciardi, John Heins and club president Tom Daughtrey.

“Pond Gap School is high poverty and it happens to be in the Bearden area. The ‘Rotary Reader’ program was one of our fi rst regu-lar activities, but over the years we’ve done a range of things,” says Hinton, who heads up the reading pro-gram. “Every Friday there will be four slots open for club Rotarians to fi ll, to spend 20 minutes or so

Partners in books and reading

By Carol Z. ShaneWhen you walk into Everything

Mushrooms on Sevier Avenue in South Knoxville, you walk into a whole new world. Jars of dried mushrooms in a dizzying variety line the walls, books about grow-ing and using them fi ll tables. Cultivation supplies and pieces of apparatus – “inoculation loop,” “surgical steel scalpel,” “culture tubes” – crowd the shelves. Out back there’s a greenhouse and a variety of logs sprouting shiitakes.

Store manager Sean McKay is eager to share the art and craft of mushroom cultivation with everyone. And Everything Mush-rooms makes it easy for the most clueless beginner to start this rewarding, and ultimately deli-cious, hobby. Gesturing toward a log leaning against the wall in the store, McKay says, “Put it in your yard and let Mother Nature

do the work for you!”A Montana transplant whose

background is in forestry, McKay moved here to take a job at Black-berry Farm. Then, “I fell in love with an East Tennessee gal,” he says, “so I guess I’m stuck!” But he says there are much worse

places to be stuck. “Geographical-ly we’re in a very good location.” With the nearby mountains and forests, “this is a rich mushroom-ing environment.”

In business for 10 years and offering dried gourmet and me-dicinal mushrooms, truffl es and truffl e oils, mushroom oils and dressings, soup mixes and sea-sonings, Everything Mushrooms is a real destination for foodies

in the know. But, says McKay, the South Knox location is actually the “front of the house for a very big operation.” Everything Mush-rooms does most of it business online.

“There are probably only a doz-en or so such stores in the whole country,” he says. It’s defi nitely a niche market, but the business’s products are much in demand by restaurants, chefs and farmers, as well as home hobbyists.

And, as with any hobby, you can take it as far and as deep as you want. A beginner’s kit costs less than $20, and those more ad-vanced can fi nd everything they need here, too. McKay demon-strates several ways of cultivating the fabulous fungi – six-pound spawn blocks of sawdust fi lled with germinating cultures; liquid cultures that can be injected into a growing medium; individually-

sized bags of inoculated wooden dowels for plugging your own logs.

Spawn? Fungi? Inocula-tion? If it all sounds a bit exotic, don’t worry. “You’re actually look-ing at a very clean product,” says McK-ay. “Everything is natural and steril-ized.” And the dedi-cated staffers are there to help. “It’s not like you’re just putting something in the ground,” says McKay. “Customer service is something we really pride our-selves on.”

So whether you’re just looking for a way to expand your gourmet tastes, or you’re in search of a new adventure that will reward you and your family for years to come, plan a visit

to Everything Mushrooms – in person, by phone or on its website.

Everything Mushrooms is located at 1004 Sevier

Avenue in Knox-ville. Info: 865-

234-0977 or everything-mushrooms.com

Sean McKay

BIZ NOTES ■ Clarence L. Vaughn III is the new executive director of the Police

Advisory and Review Committee, which reviews citizen com-

plaints and internal aff airs reports involving the Knoxville Police

Department. Vaughn holds an MBA from Syracuse University and

a bachelor’s in business administration from Florida A&M. He has

worked in banking and business consulting since 2007. Vaughn

moved to Knoxville 11 years ago. His wife, Syreeta, is a native

Knoxvillian. They have two daughters.

■ Andrew Clark is a new vice president at Barge Waggoner Sumner

and Cannon Inc., appointed during the annual stockholders’ meet-

ing April 23. Clark leads the water services team in the Knoxville

offi ce. His projects include water and wastewater planning and

treatment, pumping stations, replacements and rehabilitations.

Clark earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UT.

■ Steve Cruze has been named chief operating offi cer of Premier

Surgical Associates. He previously worked as practice manager for

Premier’s Fort Sanders Regional offi ce. He is a retired U.S. Army

master sergeant, serving for 21 years as a health care specialist.

Cruze served in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom

with the 10th Mountain Division. He lives in Powell with his wife

and two children.

■ Jerry Epps M.D. has been named senior vice president and chief

medical offi cer of the UT Medical Center. Epps, who has more

than three decades of experience as an anesthesiologist and in

physician leadership, most recently served as chair of the Depart-

ment of Anesthesiology with the medical center and UT Graduate

School of Medicine. Epps replaces Dr. Jack Lacey, who retired after

four decades with the medical center. A native of Benton, Ky.,

Epps lives in Knoxville with his wife of 40 years, Eleesa. Their adult

daughter, Courtney Epps Read, also lives in Knoxville.

■ Fountain City Business and Professional Association meets

11:45 a.m. each second Wednesday, Central Baptist Church fel-

lowship hall. President is John Fugate, [email protected] or

688-0062.

■ Halls Business and Professional Association meets noon each

third Tuesday, Beaver Brook Country Club. President is Carl Tindell,

[email protected] or 922-7751.

■ Powell Business and Professional Association meets noon

each second Tuesday, Jubilee Banquet Facility. President is John

Bayless, [email protected] or 947-8224.

CruzeClarkVaughn Dr. Epps

Rotarians and school personnel are pictured with students from Ms. Harrison’s third grade

classroom: (front) Alijah Davidson, Tyrese Mack, Rylee Greaney, Miracle Jackson, Jillian Mc-

Guire; (middle) Nevaeh Strickland, Sirvontez Jones, Saif Abdulameer, Joshua Ogle, Adonta

Jones; (back) assistant principal Arrin Alaniz, Gary Ricciardi, Dick Hinton, librarian Michelle

Broyles, John Heins and Bearden club president Tom Daughtrey.

Everything Mushrooms lives up to its name

A shiitake mush-

room is ready to

harvest from a

log of white oak.

The red blob on

the tip is a wax

plug that had

previously held

the cultivating

medium in place

within the wood.

reading books to the students.”Hinton adds that school administra-

tors have asked then to recruit men to read since it’s rare for the students to see a man in that role.

The Rotary Club of Farragut has the same books-for-the li-brary program with Ball Camp Elementary School as does the Ro-tary Club of Knoxville with Sarah Moore Greene Elementary.

■ Elkmont work to startWe recently reported that the Rotary

Club of Knoxville will help restore the amphitheater at the Elkmont Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The club’s fi rst Work Day at Elkmont

will be on Saturday, June 4, at 9 a.m. The work will be followed by a pic-

nic lunch at Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area.

REUNION NOTES ■ The Halls High class of 1971 reunion, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 14, Li’l Jo’s in Maynardville. Cost:

$20 at the door. BYO spirits or beer can be

purchased at the restaurant. RSVP: 963-5087,

922-8070 or [email protected].

■ Annual Reynolds Family Reunion, 11 a.m.

Sunday, May 15, at Big Ridge State Park, Tea

Room. Bring a covered dish, fi shing poles,

games to play, cameras. Lunch, 1 p.m.

■ Central High School Class of 1964’s 70th

birthday party, 6-10 p.m. Saturday, June 25,

Grande Event Center, 5441 Clinton Highway.

Cost: $30, includes full buff et. Info: David,

[email protected].

■ Fulton High School Class of 1966 50th re-

union, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, Calhoun’s on

the River, 400 Neyland Drive. Cost: $25. Reserva-

tions deadline: July 15. Reservations/payment:

Fulton High School 1966 Reunion, c/o Doug

Welch, 890 Hansmore Place, Knoxville TN 37919.

Info: [email protected].

Mother’s Day at Knoxville Center Knoxville Center will celebrate Mother’s

Day in style with makeovers, giveaways and a “Calling All Moms” fashion show on Saturday, May 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Center Court.

Moms are invited to enjoy complimen-tary styling, makeovers, makeup tips and live beauty demonstrations. From 2-3 p.m., attendees can catch a glimpse of the newest trends during a “Calling All Moms” fashion

show, featuring looks from Belk, Buckle, JCPenney, Loralei’s and Sears.

“We are excited to host this fun and en-tertaining event for the moms of Knoxville,” said Lara Sievers, the mall’s general man-ager. “Knoxville Center is proud to be a com-munity resource as the place to shop, relax and spend time with friends and family.”

Info: knoxvillecenter.com or 865-544- 1500


THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 16Online registration open for the Marine Mud

Run, to be held Saturday, Sept. 17. Individual waves, 8 a.m.; team waves, 11:30 a.m. Course: 3 miles of off-road running, which entails some obstacles, hills and mud pits. Registration deadline: Friday, Sept. 16, or until total registrants reaches 3150. Info/registration: knoxmud.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, MAY 5Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Preregistration required. Info/registration: 922-2552.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 5-7Spring sale, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Northside Christian

Church, 4008 Tazewell Pike. Items include: tools, household items, clothing, furniture, books and more. Proceeds go to church ministries.

FRIDAY, MAY 6Opening reception for “Body of Art” exhibition

by Annamaria Gundlach, 5-9 p.m., Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway. Exhibit on display through May 31. Info: BroadwayStudiosAndGallery.com or Jessica Gregory, 556-8676.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 6-7Garage sale, New Hope Baptist Church 7115

Tipton Lane off of East Beaver Creek. Follow signs.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 6-8“The Best Man” performed by the Encore

Theatrical Company, Walters State Community College Morristown campus. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: etcplays.org or 423-318-8331.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 6-22“Snow White and Rose Red,” Knoxville Children’s

Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info/tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; [email protected]; 208-3677.

SATURDAY, MAY 7Bee Friends beekeeping club’s annual free fi eld

day, noon, Well Being Conference Center in Tazewell. Club president will open a honeybee hive and explain what is going on; meet and talk with local beekeepers; refreshments. Info: WellBeingCC.org or 626-9000.

“College Financial Planning” workshop, 10:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Presented by Darrell Keathley, COFFE. Info: 922-2552.

Flea market and more, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Trinity UMC, 5613 Western Ave. Other activities include: United Methodist Men pancake breakfast, 8-10 a.m.; Medic blood drive; car wash; bake sale. All proceeds go to special mission projects.

Kitten 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.

North Hills Garden Club Private Garden Tour, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., North Hills neighborhood. Featuring seven private residential gardens located along the neighborhood’s boulevards. Rain date: May 14. Also includes silent auction. Proceeds go to beautifi cation of the neighborhood’s boulevards and park. Info: facebook.com/NorthHillsGardenClub.

Plant sale, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell UMC, 9420 Heiskell Road.

Plant sale, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Sale will run for approximately two weeks. Info: appalachianarts.net, 494-9854.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 7-8Blooms Days Festival and Marketplace, 9 a.m.-

5 p.m., UT Gardens, 2518 Jacob Drive. Cost: $8, one day; $12, both days. Featuring: specialty plants, unique garden goods, live music, garden workshops, children’s activities and more. Info/schedule of workshops: utgardens.tennessee.edu.

MONDAY, MAY 9The Dollywood Penguin Players will perform a

storybook after school, 3:30 p.m., Luttrell Public Library community center room. A popcorn and water snack will be provided. All ages welcome.

“Find your park: Great Smoky Mountains National Park” 1-2 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Dana Soehn, GSNP spokesperson. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Transit of Mercury Stargazing Workshop, 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 W. Governor John Sevier Highway. Event is free, but donations appreciated. Bring lunch and proper eye protection. Info: 573-5508; [email protected]; marblesprings.net.

TUESDAY, MAY 10Paulette 6th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Paulette Elementary School cafeteria. Info: 992-5212.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11Computer Workshop: Internet and Email Basics,

2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer’ or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, MAY 12“Getting Your House in Order” seminar, 2-3

p.m.., Physicians Regional Medical Center, 900 East Oak Hill Ave., Emerald Room. Free; registration required. Info/registration: 1-855-TENNOVA (836-6682) or Tennova.com.

“Grow Veggies Anywhere,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Amy Haun. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

Halls Book Club: “The Rosie Project,” 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Living with Diabetes: Putting the Pieces Together, 2-4:30 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

Union County Family Community and Education (FCE) clubs spring luncheon and meeting, 10:30 a.m., Community Baptist Church on Highway 61West. “Music in the Air ... the Musical Heritage of East Tennessee” covered dish luncheon will be hosted by the Big Ridge FCE Club. Guest speaker: Jack Neely, executive director of the Knoxville History Project. The community is invited. RSVP by May 1 to Gloria Halcomb, 585-4774.

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KidsBy Carol Z. Shane

K athy Hart, manager of the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra Associa-tion, had no idea what she was starting

when she gathered 15 young string players in her basement in 1994. In the ensuing 22 years, under the guidance and care of the violin teacher and dedicated educator, the program has grown to include hundreds of kids from all over the region, rehearsing and performing in fi ve different ensembles, each with its own conductor.

“This is my passion,” says Hart.This summer, many of those young play-

ers are headed to string camp. “The KSYO summer string camp is one

of the favorite weeks for the staff, alumni and current students to work together, make great music and have fun,” says Hart. “A theme is picked each year and music is selected based on that theme. Classes are organized to work with the theme as well. The 2016 theme is ‘That’s Entertainment’ – music from movie, musical and TV show themes. During the week, KSO musicians and local teachers coach and assist the par-ticipants.”

The camp happens this year from June 20-24 and is open to any and all string stu-dents at various levels of ability, not just current KSYO members. Originally sched-uled to take place at Bearden High School, the camp may instead move to Hardin Val-ley Academy, due to renovations at BHS. But

By Carol Z. Shane

Young musicians at camp

These young string players work hard and have fun. Shown rehearsing are Anna Anderson, 11, Michelle Waters, 18, Kelsie Edie, 14, and Pedro

Lima, 17. In the background are Katherine Spann, 13, and Caroline Farmer, a UT junior who coaches the young players. Photo by Carol Z. ShaneTo page 2

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the high level of education, music-making and fun will be the same no matter the location.

“Great traditions have carried on for more than a decade now,” says Hart. “Two of my favorites are wacky-tacky dress day and the fi nal piece on the concert where all students, staff and instructors perform together on an arrangement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, fi rst movement. At the 2015 camp, we had 215 playing the fi nale! It’s been ex-citing to see this camp grow, and it’s so rewarding to see the new faces at auditions for Youth Orchestra the follow-ing fall still excited from their camp experience!”

And how do the kids feel about it? “There are so many cool people there!” says Matthew

Keever, a cellist. “And lots of fun activities,” adds violinist Hannah Shipstad.

For more information about the KSYO’s 22nd annual summer string camp, including requirements for eligibility, visit knoxvillesymphony.com or email [email protected]

These young musicians are looking forward to summer string

camp. Shown (back) are Lindsey Hedrick, 14, Matthew Keever,14,

Gregory Croisdale, 16, Elliott Mills, 16, Candace Pang, 16, and

Katelyn Hedrick, 13. In the front are Abby Arsenault, 12, Kristina

McCune, 14, and Hannah Shipstad, 13. Photo by Carol Z. Shane

Shopper news • MAY 4, 2016 • MY-3

By Betty Bean

T he folks at Emerald Youth Foun-dation are looking forward to another summer full of kids.

In addition to emerald Youth Sports comprehensive year-round program of leagues, teams and clinics for baseball, basketball, soccer, swimming, track and volleyball, Emerald Youth Foundation serves more than 300 young people in summer programs.

Just Lead, EYF’s after school minis-try, will continue its programs through-out the summer at Mt. Zion Baptist, Emerald Avenue United Methodist, Vir-ginia Avenue Ministry, Laurel Church of Christ, Hope Central, Second United

Methodist Church and Western Heights Baptist Center, the seven city churches who partner with EYF to provide after-school programs during the school year.

Activity groups are broken down by age. Elementary school kids, for ex-ample, will take fi eld trips to places like Pigeon Forge and area swimming pools.

“We really enjoy taking our kids to Ijams Park, and we’ll probably have some kids over at Beardsley Farm too,” said John Crooks, EYF’s marketing and communications director.

The biggest event of the summer is Just Lead Camp Week, June 13-17, where kids involved in summer pro-grams will get a chance to pick unique

camps they’d like to be involved with.There will be an outdoors camp

where 20 to 30 kids will go fi shing and kayaking. For kids who love acting, there’s theater camp, where they will perform a play at the end of the week. For future business leaders, here’s Junior Achievement BizTown in Clinton, equipped with a radio station, a Pilot Food Mart and other establishments where kids can learn what it’s like to run a business. There’s a sports camp with opportunities for focus on several dif-ferent sports.

The camp, Crooks said, is one of the most popular events Emerald Youth Foundation offers during the year.

Emerald Youth kids learn

during the summer through

experiences such as Junior

Achievement BizTown in Clinton.

Emerald Youth Foundation

Abner, an Emerald Youth

participant at Laurel Church of

Christ, shows off his catch to Gary

Milton of Youth Spiritual Outdoor

Adventures, host of the camp.

Children who want to go to camp will be asked to list their top three choices, and the EYF staff will make assign-ment based on several factors, including available space and prior camp experi-ence.

“We try to give the kids a broad range of experiences,” Crooks said. “Variety of Eastern Tennessee generously sponsors camp week, and it takes a lot of effort to pull it off.”

Info: emeraldyouth.org/contact-us or 865-637-3227

off ers summer of fun

MY-4 • MAY 4, 2016 • Shopper news

OBy Carol Z. Shane

I f you’re looking for a cool new way for kids to have fun this summer, look no further than Knoxville’s ice rinks.

Both Cool Sports in Farragut and the Ice Chalet in Bearden offer summer skating camps and ice hockey lessons.

Adults can get in on the fun, too. “Ice skating promotes healthy living and fun for ALL ages” says Cool Sports’ website.

Nikki Copeland-Ronayne, director of fi gure skating for Cool Sports, has been skating since she was 5 years old and competing since she was 6. After at-tending the University of Tennessee, she auditioned for Holiday on Ice and toured Europe with the show. “I spent almost four years of my life traveling to new cities and arenas and have performed in front of thousands of skating enthusi-asts,” she says. “My life has been nothing short of exciting!”

Copeland-Ronayne has spent the last 13 years developing a skating program at Cool Sports utilizing the US Figure Skat-ing curriculum. She says her program is dedicated to “building skaters who not only skate for recreational enjoyment, but also compete amongst other elite level skaters throughout the Southeast.

“I often think of all of the lessons that I have learned from being a fi gure skater,” she says. “Get up when you fall down. Smile even when we feel like cry-ing. Learn from your mistakes and bask in the glory of your successes. Cherish those around you that encourage you to be better than you already are.

“Whenever I’m with a student I try to always nurture their strengths, and point out areas that need a little attention. I’m defi nitely a big ‘cookie’ coach – good stuff fi rst, then stuff to work on, followed by good stuff.”

Over at the Ice Chalet, the ice rink fl oor is currently being rebuilt. Accord-ing to Julia Hardin, director of the Ice

The cool place to be

Ice skating is a great way for kids to cool off this summer. Shown at the Ice Chalet are Aaron

Blake, Sara Beth Bogartz, Heather Helton and Ellie Tidwell.

Cool Sports off ers many choices in ice sports for youngsters. Shown from left are Corinne Oliphant, Alia Smith, Micah Foster, Morgan

Newman, KyLee Toole, Charlotte Rogers, Catherine Rivers, Jenna Schoonheim, Aimee Wagner, Molly Haymore, Bonnie Dudley, Alisha

Sarley, Eunyoung Hong, Skyler Shipstad, Skye Armstrong and Chloe Wagner. Photos submitted

Chalet’s skating school, it’s the fi rst major renovation since the business opened in 1962. “We usually close in April and May” for maintenance, she says, but this renovation will allow the rink to stay open year-round. Their “Swizzle and Siz-zle” summer skating camp for beginner and intermediate skaters begins June 27.

Hardin says, “I grew up at the Ice Chalet.” A graphic designer, she previ-ously worked for Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she also taught skating. When she returned to Knoxville in the late ’90s, “I decided I’d like to teach skating in my home rink.”

Beginning skaters are taught every-thing they need to know in order to become accomplished, but “we do it with an emphasis on fun,” she says. “It’s the cool place to be in the middle of a very hot time of year!”

Cool Sports is located at 110 South Watt Road. Info: coolsportstn.com or 218-4500. The Ice Chalet is located at 100 Lebanon Street in the Bearden area. Info: chaleticerinks.com or 588-1858.

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