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BUZZ

Rabies clinicsKnox County Health De-

partment and the Knoxville Veterinarian Medical Asso-ciation will hold rabies clinics Saturday, May 14, from 2-4:30 p.m. at several Knox County schools. Dogs and cats should be 3 months of age or older; cost is $10 per animal.

Sites include Bearden High, Bearden Middle, Brickey-McCloud Elementary, Carter Middle, Cedar Bluff Primary, and these elementary schools: Chilhowee, Christenberry, Gibbs, Hardin Valley, Karns, Mount Olive, Norwood, Ritta and Shannondale.

At the vaccination clinics, all pets must be restrained. Dogs should be on a leash, and cats should be in carriers or pillow-cases (a pillowcase is preferred because the vaccine can be administered through the cloth). People with aggressive or un-controllable dogs are advised to leave the pet in the car a nd ask for assistance at registration.

Housing market back from recessionBy Betty Bean

Knox County’s residential hous-ing market, the engine that drives the local economy, has bounced back from a long string of tough years, and those involved in build-ing, regulating and counting the money are happy to put the reces-sion years in the rear view mirror.

“We’re really pleased to see single family home construction recover so well,” said Dwight Van de Vate, Knox County’s senior di-rector of Engineering and Public Works. “Pre-recession, we would sometimes see almost 250 homes a month – clearly unsustainable.

Then we cratered to a low of 35 one month. It’s been a wild ride. Now we have robust, fairly stable devel-opment, at levels we can manage. It’s a good place to be.”

Developer Scott Davis agrees.“In the last 13 months, we’ve

seen a very signifi cant turnaround in the housing market, For six or seven years, we didn’t do anything but fi ght the banks, and now we’re putting lots on the ground at the 2006 rate.”

Davis remembers 2006 as the last good year before the bubble burst.

“The housing boom we saw in

‘07 was clearly not sustainable,” said Davis, who owns Eagle Bend Development. “Now, we’re grow-ing at a nice, healthy rate and our economy has rebounded very well – Knox County’s population has grown by 60,000 in recent years. There’s lots of stuff coming back toward the downtown area, and we’ve got six subdivisions work-ing, plus a 248-unit apartment complex off Hardin Valley Road.”

County Finance Director Chris Caldwell isn’t prone to enthusi-asm, but admits he likes the trends he’s seeing in his budget numbers.

“It’s good to see the growth in the

revenue that appears in our general fund. It’s an indicator that tells us our economy is growing and headed in the right direction and alleviates pressure on the budget.”

In fi scal year 2015, for example, Caldwell said revenue from build-ing permit fees came in at 125 per-cent of budget projections.

“We expected $925,000 and received $1.1 million, and it will be better this year. Through the month of April, we are at $994,000, and I can tell you that a year ago, we were at $879,000. We’re up 13 percent over April of last year.”

By Carol Z. ShaneWhen Noell Lewis chose to

move to East Tennessee from Winston-Salem to establish her own Edward Jones offi ce, she did so because of rather unusual pri-orities.

“If you draw a four-hour ra-dius around Knoxville,” she says, “you’ll fi nd all the best rock climb-ing destinations in the southeast-ern US.”

That’s right. It wasn’t the natu-ral beauty, the vibrant downtown or the Tennessee River. It wasn’t even the Vols. It was, in climber lingo, all those available “crags.”

Lewis and her husband, Craig, met in the New River Gorge of West Virginia. “He literally was being lowered off of a cliff,” she says, when she walked up and in-troduced herself. Now parents of two – daughter Riley, 4, and son Aiden, 8 months – the Lewises never miss a chance to head out for a day of fun, adventure and challenge enjoying their favorite outdoor activity.

The type of climbing they do, called “sport climbing,” allows for only one person to climb at a time, and the ascent is not contingent on a rope system. “The rope is just there,” says Lewis, but it’s there for safety, not active, reasons. The Lewises usually do “single-pitch” climbing, where climbers follow a predetermined path of predrilled carabiners. Strength, endurance and ability to maneuver are of prime importance.

Noell Lewis scales “The

New” in the New River

Gorge in West Virginia. Photo by Dan Brayack

Lewis does both

Rocks and stocks:

Sternberg property back to MPC on ThursdayBy Sandra Clark

The 37-acre tract on Emo-ry Road adjacent to the Powell Branch Library is back on the planning commission’s agenda for rezoning. MPC meets at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at the City County Building.

Now zoned for mixed use – residential and commercial – the owner, Dr. Jim Sternberg, wants a more traditional commercial zon-ing.

MPC staff initially recommend-ed against general commercial and staff were backed by the MPC commissioners. But Sternberg ap-pealed the denial to Knox County Commission where he found sup-port. The issue was remanded to MPC. Executive Director Gerald Green came to Powell, meeting with neighbors and Sternberg in March. He then met privately with Sternberg to hammer out condi-tions for rezoning.

Now staff is recommending approval of planned commercial with multiple conditions:

■ Landscaping – a 10-foot strip installed between development and any street or road to include trees; and a continuous row of shrubs buffering any parking ar-eas. Landscaping can be added as property is developed.

■ Curb cuts will be limited to three on Emory Road, including the existing entrance to the Powell

Animal Hospital and the existing entrance to the residential-style structures (former Bell home-place) to the west.

■ Pedestrian connectivitymust be ensured; including a gre-enway easement along Beaver Creek. Trails or sidewalks shall be installed from the Emory Road sidewalk to the proposed Beaver Creek greenway.

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Pancake breakfastThe Fountain City Lions

Club will hold their annual pancake breakfast, 8-11 a.m. Saturday, May 14, in the Lions Building at Fountain City Park. Tickets are $5 per person for all-you-can-eat pancakes.

Ed and Bob to Happy Holler

At-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will meet constituents 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at the Time Warp Tea Room, 1209 North Central.

Everyone is invited.

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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Two weeks can change your life Stroke survivor gets back on his bike

John McDermid is looking for-ward to the summer days ahead. He has big plans for his new re-cumbent trike.

“Plans are to ride every week-end on the trails around the area, if possible,” says McDermid, 57, who lives in Jefferson County, and works in Hamblen County. The recumbent trike is a multi-terrain vehicle McDermid can use on or off road, with an adjustable seat, rear wheel drive, and front two-wheel steering.

“It has a 28-speed gearing sys-tem like a typical mountain bike,” McDermid explains, “real smooth and comfortable.”

One of the most important fea-tures of the recumbent trike is its stability. McDermid is a stroke survivor who, just a few years ago, could barely walk. Therapy at Pa-tricia Neal Rehabilitation Center helped him get back on the road.

McDermid was at fi rst misdiag-nosed as having vertigo, then fur-ther symptoms were misdiagnosed as being related to the medication he’d been given. On Oct. 14, he lost all use of his limbs, and his wife called 911 for an ambulance to rush him to Knoxville. The fi nal di-agnosis was vertebral artery occlu-sion with dissection and stenosis of the basilar artery, meaning two of his arteries supplying blood to his brain were not doing their job.

Surgery was deemed too risky, so McDermid spent three weeks in the hospital’s critical care unit. The whole experience caught McDermid off guard, because he never suspect-ed he was at risk for a stroke.

Reviewing his risk factors at the time, there weren’t many to count. He’d dealt with a bit of hyperten-sion, and there had been some family history of heart disease, but on the whole, McDermid had been doing all the right things to stay healthy.

“I would say I was in decent shape and good weight as I was cycling quite a bit at the time, feel-ing life was good at 57 years old,”

“I would most defi nitely recommend Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center over any other place in the world,” John McDermid says. McDermid suf-fered a stroke in 2014.

John McDermid is active and on the road again following stroke rehabilitation at PNRC.

McDermid says. “No idea that something like this would happen to me, but it was not your regular stroke, either.”

It was a different person who checked out of the hospital in No-vember 2014. John McDermid, very active and seemingly in good health just a month earlier, now required assistance to accomplish daily tasks.

“I could not walk,” McDermid says, “but was able to move my left

limbs, having recovered some mo-bility on that side.”

McDermid was admitted to Pa-tricia Neal Rehabilitation Center for two weeks that changed the course of his life. “I did three hours of therapy Monday through Fri-day, and one hour on Saturdays,” he says. “The physical therapist had me doing a lot of lower limb work like the balance bar, trans-ferring from the wheelchair to the bed and back.”

Therapy took Mc-Dermid from the wheel-chair to a walker, and from the walker to a cane. He was also chal-lenged to master leg ex-ercises, and walking on stairs. An occupational therapist worked on his fi ne motor skills like ty-ing his shoe laces, get-ting dressed and work-ing with his hands.

“Speech therapy was by far the most chal-lenging,” McDermid says, “but rewarding.” The speech therapy consisted of cognizant therapy, problem solv-ing, multitasking, read-ing and writing.

McDermid met ev-ery challenge, and one reason for that was the

attitude of the therapists who were trying to help him. “Their compas-sion, work ethic and dedication to their professions are so apparent that it makes you want to work as hard as humanly possible,” Mc-Dermid says. “They are all so posi-tive that it’s infectious.”

Two weeks later he was re-leased to outpatient therapy closer to home. “Wow, there was a huge transformation,” he marvels.

Faith, family and friends gave McDermid the homegrown sup-port and encouragement he need-ed to heal, and return to his life back home. PNRC gave him the tools to get there.

“I would most defi nitely recom-mend Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center over any other place in the world,” McDermid says. “What they do is truly amazing, the ther-apy has been developed and tried, and it works.”

Stroke is the fourth lead-ing cause of death and a leading cause of serious, long-term adult disability. To learn how Patri-cia Neal Rehabilitation Center is helping stroke survivors get their lives back, visit patneal.org or call 1-800-PAT-NEAL (728-6325).

Think FAST!recognizing a stroke

Use the FAST test to remember the signs of a stroke:

F = FACE: Ask the person to smile. Does one side of the face droop?

A = ARMS: Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?

S = SPEECH: Ask the person to repeat a simple sentence. Does it sound strange or slurred?

T = TIME: If you observe any of these signs, call 911 immediately.

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The voice of experienceThere are several things John

McDermid wishes he had known before he had a stroke, and he hopes to help others who may be at risk. “Know your blood pres-sure, cholesterol level and stress levels,” he advises, “and listen to your body.”

While hospitals in small com-munities can offer great medical services, treatment of a stroke can require more specialized care.

“Know the hospitals that spe-cialize in stroke treatment,” he says. “Always call an ambulance rather than getting someone to

drive you to the hospital, because time saves lives, and speeds up di-agnosis and treatment.”

To those who are already stroke survivors, McDermid offers en-couragement.

“Be positive, listen to your doc-tors, nurses and therapists,” Mc-

Dermid says. “Do everything theytell you to and more, and nevergive up hope.”

McDermid also says a good sup-port system is critical to recovery,so “join a stroke support group,”he says, “and you will be amazedwhat you get out of it.”

Lewis also likes the problem-solving aspect of the sport. She mentions that what works for her husband’s

large hands might not work for her small ones. “Everyone can fi gure out their own way,” she says.

She’s a problem-solver at work, too. Now in her tenth year as an Edward Jones representative, she started her Powell branch of the business by go-ing door to door. She is dedicated to the company. “I got married, moved, bought a house and had two children, all while Edward Jones was here for

me,” she says. “I will retire from Edward Jones. I love being here.”

She often feels as though she’s living a double life. “Monday through Friday I’m in heels and suits,” she says, “but on the weekends we’re outside – poison ivy, snacks, picks, the whole nine yards. I tell my clients ‘my nails will never be manicured.’”

They take the kids, too. “Craig and I love that we get to be outside with our children.” They enjoy teaching the kids about respect and enjoyment of the natural world, and the joys of rock climbing. “It takes you to the most beautiful places that you would never see otherwise.”

And yes, they’re planning on actual rock-climbing lessons for the small fry. “My daughter starts at On-sight Rock Gym this week,” says Lewis. “She’s going to be a ‘mini-crusher!’”

Lewis’ Edward Jones offi ce is located at 3541 W. Emory Road in Powell. If you’re interested in manag-ing your money with this fearless fi nancier, call 865-938-5978.

POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • MAY 11, 2016 • A-3 communityJustin Bailey often cre-

ates this word picture: Imagine leaving your home, walking over to Powell Sta-tion Park, maybe catching a baseball game at the high school and then grabbing a cup of coffee or a snack be-fore walking back home.

Powell has literally thou-sands of homes within walking distance of Powell High School. The traffi c by-pass called Powell Drive has removed thru-traffi c from downtown, leaving a central area to re-invent.

That reinvention is the goal of Enhance Powell, a committee of the Powell Business and Professional Association. Our neighbor-ing communities to the east (Halls) and west (Karns) would trade a lot for the amenities that Powell al-ready has:

■ A town hub – the high school and the new commu-nity center – on a road with small shops and businesses.

■ Diverted thru-traffi c and sidewalks already in place on Emory Road.

■ Powell Station Park – 12 acres of serenity (well, except for the splash pad) adjacent to the high school.

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Broadacres Homeowners

Association. Info: Steven Goodpaster, generalgoodpaster@gmail.com.

■ 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/knoxnorthlions.

■ 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 As-

sociation. Info: Lynn Redmon,688-3136.

■ Powell Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each fi rst Thursday, LionsClub Building, 7145 Old Clin-ton Pike. Info: tnpowelllions@gmail.com.

Sandra Clark

Recreating Historic Powell Station

Top it off with the his-tory of commerce and the old railroad station, and you’ve got the mak-ings for Knox County’s most d e s i r a b l e place to live, outside of d o w n t o w n Knoxville.

E n h a n c e Powell is making it happen.

And Shopper News is here to talk about the past and fu-ture – every week – on the Historic Powell Station page. This writer will tackle weeks two and four – writing about current and future ameni-ties. Sports guy Marvin West (voted most likely to succeed in the Powell High Class of 1951) will write on weeks one and three, capturing tales of the past.

We’re going to promote the businesses already here

on Emory Road and De-pot Street. We’re going to push for design standards for new businesses coming in. And we’re going to be known across Knox County as “the squeakiest wheel.”

From our May 11 Bearden Shopper, in a story by Wendy Smith, take a look at what happened just last week:

Gerald Green, MPC’s executive direc-

tor, met with Bearden resi-dents to dis-cuss new zoning:

“The new zoning won’t

require exist-ing development

to change. The new standards would only be ap-plied to new development or signifi cant redevelopment. The idea behind mixed use zoning requires a 10- to 20-year perspective, Green said.

“Don’t expect the entire corridor to change in a year or two.

“MPC planner Mike Reynolds presented ex-cerpts of the draft code, which contains three uses. Offi ce Mixed Use allows for offi ce uses and housing, but

with limited retail and ser-vice-related options. Neigh-borhood Mixed Use pro-vides for residential, retail, service and commercial de-velopment within walking distance to neighborhoods on a limited footprint − cur-rently fi ve acres. Commer-cial Mixed Use is intended to provide for a variety of residential, retail, service and commercial uses.

“Each mixed use district will have a predetermined use and height, and some may have frontage require-ments.”

Bearden residents, react-ing to the rapid redevelop-ment of downtown, are ask-ing MPC to design mixed use zones which combine retail, commercial and resi-dential sections. This is the antithesis of “sprawl,” in which folks must jump in a car and drive for anything, and parents become chauf-feurs until kids get their driver’s license.

Powell won’t ever be Bearden, but it can be Pow-ell – a town where folks know their neighbors, sup-port their businesses and build a better community. Let’s do it!

Rocks and stocks From page A-1

Noell Lewis

By J.J. StambaughWhen most people think

of East Tennessee’s role in World War II, they think of the development of the atomic bomb at Oak Ridge or the experiences of veter-ans of the bloodiest confl ict in human history.

But the United States didn’t help win the war solely through the soldiers’ efforts, as tremendous and selfl ess as those were. Rather, it was the nation’s unprecedented industrial might that helped trans-form the U.S. into what then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the world’s “arsenal of democracy.”

East Tennessee played a key role in building that arsenal, and for every man in uniform there were sev-eral “women and old men” who took the places of their husbands and sons at fac-tories from Bristol to Chat-tanooga, according to Ray Clift, co-author of the newly released book “East Tennes-see in World War II.”

Clift, a Fountain City na-tive and Vietnam-era vet-eran whose father served in the U.S. Army during World War II, began research-ing the topic last year with longtime friend Dewaine A. Speaks, who had already published two books.

The men were deter-

Dewaine A. Speaks and Ray Clift, co-authors of “East Tennessee in World War II” Photo submitted

It wasn’t just Oak Ridge

mined to shed light on an of-ten-overlooked part of East Tennessee’s history, and to that end they pored through thousands of documents and photos supplied by several universities and companies.

“They opened their hearts out to us,” Speaks said. “They rounded up photos and really bent over backwards helping us.”

While the development of the atomic bomb is dis-cussed in their book’s pages, the focus is on companies like the Aluminum Compa-ny of America (ALCOA), the Fulton Sylphon Company, and the Rohm and Haas Chemical Company (now Dow Chemical).

The use of aluminum from ALCOA in warplanes, for instance, allowed Allied aircraft to fl y faster than those developed by the Ger-mans, said Clift.

Also, one of the nation’s most closely guarded se-cret weapons – the Norden bombsight – used a seam-less metal bellows manufac-tured at Knoxville’s Fulton plant. More than 90,000 Norden bombsights were delivered to the armed ser-vices at the cost of $8,800 apiece, and a part of that wealth made its way into the hands of the many local workers who were key to the device’s success.

had done, and we realize this story has never been told,” Speaks said. “This area did so much during the war .... It really kicked you-know-what.”

The History Press in South Carolina published the book. Several chain bookstores and the East Tennessee Historical So-ciety have agreed to carry

the book, Clift said. Packed with never-before-published photographs, tables and an-ecdotes, the 176-page paper-back volume sells for $21.99.

The authors will host a book launch 9 a.m. Wednes-day, May 18, at the Knox-ville Municipal Golf Course on Schaad Road.

Info: arcadiapublishing.com

New book highlightsEast Tennessee’s WWII role

In fact, the sheer num-bers of products built by the Fulton company are stag-gering: 53 million bellows, 50 million hand grenade fuses, 8 million tail assem-blies for mortar shells, and even the precision altitude detonation devices used in the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.

“The Manhattan project engineers thought the most effi cient altitude for those things to detonate was at 1,890 feet, and they deto-nated at that height because of the bellows,” Speaks ex-plained.

Another major contribu-tion to the war effort came from Rohm and Haas, which developed Plexiglas canopies for aircraft that didn’t shatter or bend light, an important safety feature that the Axis powers’ planes lacked, the authors said.

The book also contains previously secret corre-spondence that sheds light

on the intense cloak-and-dagger efforts over the se crets of atomic fi ssion that ultimately led the Germans to pursue scientifi c dead ends while the U.S. ulti-mately succeeded. The fed-eral government’s pursuit of Axis saboteurs also gets a chapter in the book, an effort that ultimately led to the execution of several German spies.

“More than 90 percent of the information in this book has never before been in print,” Clift said.

More than anything, Clift and Speaks hope their book is a fi tting tribute to the generation that defeated the most powerful enemies ever fought by the U.S. and its allies, especially the 2,250 East Tennessee sol-diers who gave their lives in the confl ict and the 11,000 others who were wounded.

“Many people are so in-terested in what their par-ents and their grandparents

■ Building design: To ensure that new building constructed on the prop-erty are compatible with the character of the Powell community, all new build-ings shall be constructed with street-facing facades of brick, stone or other high quality masonry ma-terial. No vinyl shall be used on the front facade of any building; A minimum of 30 percent of the first f loor of the front facade of all retail buildings shall be windows, doors or other form of glazing.

■ Plan review: The ap-proval of site and building plans for development of all or any portion of the prop-erty shall be through the use on review process, with the MPC having authority to approve the plans. Develop-ment plans may be submit-ted for all of the property or any portion of the property if the development is under-taken in a phased manner.

The North County Sector plan must be amended to al-low this rezoning. Sternberg is represented by land use attorney John King.

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The University of Ten-nessee has its fair share of problems, starting with a perceived lack of leadership.

To fund or not to fund the unusual diversity movement is a really big deal. Legis-lators are assisting in this decision. Prone protesters have clogged campus side-walks. Several professors who weren’t otherwise busy have emerged with carefully considered opinions.

Heavy, heavy hangs the Title IX lawsuit as a very dark cloud over many heads.

The baseball team goes right on losing in the fi nal year of good guy Dave Ser-rano’s coaching contract. Gentle leader Dave Hart may have to make a move.

With no idea of how far away are the Bristol seats

Celebrate! Good news at Tennessee

Marvin West

from the players, excit-able football fans want the Vols to schedule at least one game a year at the race track. About this daydream the boss can smile and re-main relatively calm.

Occasional positive news fl ows from the university but it arrives quietly and causes much smaller head-lines.

For example, today we celebrate academic progress by Tennessee athletes. Ev-erybody got at least a pass-

ing grade. I propose a raise for Dr. Joe Scogin, senior associate athletics director, assistant provost and di-rector general of Thornton Athletics Student Life Cen-ter (wow, what a title).

The Thornton Center provides academic support and assists with personal and career development. Numbers and benefi ciaries say Scogin actually makes a difference.

Thirteen years ago, the NCAA concocted an aca-demic progress formula – points for eligibility, re-tention and graduation of student-athletes – to gain a glimpse into whether schools were actually re-quiring players to go to school. I don’t want to know the complicated details but

the magic number is a four-year APR of 930.

Above that score are de-grees of OK, good and great. Below brings the threat of penalties, probation, loss of scholarships and, Heaven help us, even bowl ineligi-bility.

Tennessee football scored 956, up 11 points over last year, up 24 from two years ago and up 32 from three years ago – back when things were bad. Butch Jones gets a $50,000 bonus for 945 or better. He gets $100,000 if academic progress reaches 965. The coach is in charge of moti-vation. Thirteen of Tennes-see’s 18 sports teams scored higher than the national av-erage. Baseball, cross coun-try, combined swimming

and diving, combined ten-nis, women’s basketball and women’s track were among the programs with perfect 1000 APRs for the past aca-demic year.

You may have heard there was a time when college classes meant little or noth-ing to college athletes. It was said that going to school was just something that had to be done to be eligible to practice and play and make normal progress toward profession-al millions.

“Dumb jocks” was a fa-vorite put-down among crit-ics of college sports.

Derogatory comments are out of style, no longer appropriate.

Through the years, Ten-nessee may have had a dumb jock or three. One comes to mind. There have also been academic giants, going back to Everett Der-ryberry and Nathan Dough-

erty and moving forward to Vols who earn undergradu-ate degrees and add mas-ter’s within four years.

Derryberry, former half-back, went on to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in English. For 24 years, he was president of Tennessee Tech.

Dougherty, former tack-le, supposedly made A in everything. He is in the Col-lege Football Hall of Fame. He hired Bob Neyland as coach of the Vols. He helped organize the Southeastern Conference. The UT engi-neering building honors the great dean’s name.

Former center Bob John-son, College Hall of Fame, NFL standout, prominent Cincinnati business leader, is a member of the all-time Academic All-America team. That’s as good as it gets. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com

NickDella Volpe

Lots of questions about sidewalks have surfaced lately. Go to any community meeting in this city. Every-one wants more sidewalks: kids walking to school, moms pushing strollers, exercisers completing those 10,000 steps, other folks just enjoying a casual stroll out of harm’s way.

What is holding us back? Money, for one thing. Side-walks are costly, and bud-gets are fi nite. The work is included as part of the city’s budget process. Local tax dollars, not state money, pay for the work.

The mayor has proposed $2.7 million in her recent budget for fi scal 2016-17. What will that buy? Rough-ly a mile and a half of new sidewalks.

Sidewalk cost is estimat-ed by city engineering at an average $350 per linear foot. Do the math. A mile of

Chilhowee Drive in Holston Hills has sidewalks, but some say they’re virtual-ly impassable. The sidewalk, including the curb, is just less than fi ve feet wide with only two feet between the utility pole and the grassy hill beyond it. Photo by Nick Della Volpe

A stroll down sidewalk making

new sidewalk (5,280 feet) costs some $1.85 million, with variations depending on site topography, natural drainage, stormwater pip-ing, ADA compliance and other needs. So, the pro-posed budget could buy roughly 1.5 miles of side-walk, if the projects were all new ones. The proposal actually includes about three-fourths of a mile of repairs to existing, cracked and damaged surfaces, plus a mile of new sidewalk.

How does the city decide which locations get chosen?

I understand Knoxville uses a two-part process. One part is engineering-

based, ranking projects under a point system; the other is the administration’s priority. For new sidewalks, the engineers review and rank requests and observed need for sidewalks under a one- to 14-point assignment matrix, using fi ve criteria which ask:

■ Is it within the paren-tal responsibility zone for schools?

■ Is it a missing segment in an existing walkway?

■ What’s the pedestrian usage?

■ What’s the road’s clas-sifi cation (is it a major or minor arterial, a collector, or a local street)?

■ Is it on a KAT route?Armed with that list, the

administration considers po-litical priorities in choosing how much money is available and what projects to fund. Private contractors are hired to do much of the work.

Repairs to broken and dangerous sidewalk seg-ments are primarily deter-mined by complaints. Prob-lem areas are examined and assigned a priority level (1, 2 or 3). Small repairs can be done by city’s public service crews. Larger ones are con-tracted out, along with the new projects.

The backlog of requested new sidewalk projects is huge. My review of the engi-neering list shows there are 157 projects, covering some 396,315 linear feet of work (that’s 75 miles!), with an estimated total cost of some $138 million. Whew! Takes your breath away. Check back with me in 50 years.

What about new subdivi-sions?

Should Knoxville re-quire developers to include sidewalks as a part of the plans? It is certainly a desir-able amenity and would be

a positive selling point. The curb and gutter work is al-ready required as part of the subdivision roads require-ment.

As I understand it, MPC staff often recommend side-walks during their review, but do not compel their in-clusion. The full commis-sion, a more political body,

acts on these recommenda-tions. It sometimes agreesand sometimes does not.

That policy should bere-evaluated. A communitycommitted to walkabilityshould require new addi-tions to include a sidewalkon at least one side of theinterior roads. Nick Della Volpe represents District 4 onKnoxville City Council.

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Betty Bean

Yogi Berra was supposed to have said, “I didn’t say half of those things I said.”

However that works, one of the things he may have said was something like, “You can observe a lot of stuff by just watching.” Or to enlarge upon that thought a bit, I would say you can ob-serve a lot of new stuff out-doors by just taking time to watch for a little while.

Our friends across the water, those eccentric Brit-ish birders, have a some-what derogatory term for certain of their comrades – “twitcher” – someone who hurriedly birds along, sees a bird, marks his or her bird list, and then is immediate-ly off for the next one, the one just seen immediately forgotten – that’s a twitcher.

But in reality, there is much more going on out there than can be seen with a quick glance at a bird, or a bug or a fl ower. They are all out there in the midst of having lives, often doing interesting and unexpected things. A few personal ex-amples follow.

We’ve had yard tur-keys all winter. There was a momma and fi ve half-grown young ones at fi rst, searching every nook and cranny of our place for grasshoppers, bugs and other edibles. They became

This month marks the end of Sydney Gabrielson’s term as student represen-tative to the Knox County Board of Education. She’ll hand off the job to Sydney Rowell, a rising senior at Hardin Valley Academy, at the June workshop meeting. She’ll give her some Sydney-to-Sydney pointers and try to help her feel at ease.

“We will both sit at the board table and I’ll show her some tricks of the trade – like how you pull your mic down after you talk.”

By then she will have al-ready received her diploma from Bearden High School, where she is class saluta-torian and carries a 4.51 grade point average (more or less – the fi nal calcula-tions haven’t been made yet). Come this fall, she will attend the University of Ala-bama as a UA Fellow – the equivalent of a Haslam Fel-lowship at UT.

Gabrielson credits one special teacher for guiding her probable career path.

“I am planning on major-ing in fi nance or econom-ics, and I’ve never had a teacher be as infl uential in my life as Matt McWhirter, my economics teacher this year. He went to Vanderbilt, then dropped out to become

Jim McIntyre will head up UT’s Center for Educa-tional Leadership start-ing Aug. 1. His salary of $180,000 represents a pay cut from what he made as superintendent of Knox County Schools, but he walked away from his cur-rent job with a year’s salary. In other words, for the upcoming year, he will earn more than twice $180,000.

McIntyre was hired by Bob Rider, dean of the Col-lege of Education, Health and Human Sciences. Since McIntyre is not a tenured professor, he is an at-will employee, according to Margie Nichols, vice chan-cellor for communications.

UT has had a hard time fi lling the job, as Nichols also said that the hiring of McIntyre came after two national searches to fi ll this position failed to produce a candidate whom UTK wanted to hire. Consequently the third try was what academia calls a “targeted search,” which allowed a direct hire of McIntyre. Clearly, this posi-tion has been vacant for some time, but McIntyre was nearby and anxious to remain in Knoxville.

■ Police Chief Da-vid Rausch received a prolonged standing ovation at the May 6 Emerald Youth Foundation breakfast attended by over 1,000 people. Many have gravitat-ed to Rausch over the past several months as he fi ghts gang violence in Knoxville. His boss, Mayor Rogero, was not present.

■ The state’s new $160 million museum in Nashville will have 11,000 fewer square feet than the museum it’s replacing. Advocates say the new mu-seum will be much better confi gured.

One would think the new museum would be larger than the old in order to display its many artifacts as well as over 350 Red Grooms paintings held by the museum. When com-

Dr. Bob Collier

McIntyre was

‘targeted’ hire for UT

pleted, the new museum will almost immediately need to be expanded as it is being built a size too small due to budget constraints.

Forty million of the $160 million is being raised privately with Gov. Haslam taking the lead. Appar-ently no decision has been made on whether the names of donors and amount of gifts will be disclosed. If not, expect it to become a political issue in the name of government transparency.

■ With UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek expected to step down as he nears 70, Susan Martin departs as provost Aug. 1, leaving after serving just two years of her second fi ve-year term. Cheek spokesperson Margie Nichols winds up her work in June. She says over 80 applications have come in for her position. Were any from East Tennessee?

■ State Sen. Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) held a fundraiser in Knox-ville on April 28, which raised over $35,000 for his congressional campaign for the open seat in West Tennessee. He is related to Watty H all, wife of Knox-ville attorney Chris Hall, and is one of 12 candidates in the GOP primary.

The event was co-sponsored by Mayor Tim Burchett, state Sens. Becky Massey, Richard Briggs, Randy McNally, Ken Yager and Doug Overbey, along with Wes Stowers, John Turley, Ed Shouse, Hugh Nystrom and former vice mayors Jack Sharp, Nick Pavlis and Joe Bailey.

Kelsey, 38, chairs the Senate Judiciary Commit-tee. The fundraiser was held at this writer’s home.

Sydney Gabrielson

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a rock star, then went to law school and fi nally decided to teach economics. When they say teachers make a difference, he is living proof of that.”

Soft-spoken and polite, Gabrielson has never shied from speaking about issues affecting her fellow students.

“I guess I’ve been pretty outspoken,” she said. “I re-ally tried to make sure stu-dents’ voices were heard.”

The fi rst issue she weighed in on was a pro-posal to change the way high school classes are scheduled. After talking to students from different parts of the county, she op-posed the plan to go from block scheduling to seven classes per day, an idea that had been pitched as a way to save the county money.

“The students I talked to did not want to change, and ultimately, the student voice outweighed economics,” she said.

Getting to know students from all over Knox County was one of the most enjoy-

able things about being a student rep, she said.

“The best experience of all was getting heav-ily involved in the Knoxville community. Growing up, I was kind of segregated in West Knoxville, but this past year, I’ve learned so much. I learned that Knox-ville is so much more than just where I live.”

Gabrielson joined “Lead-ers for Readers” through the Great Schools Partnership which allowed her to work with second-graders who needed a little extra help.

“I was really happy that I could do my own thing and give back to my communi-ty,” she said. “I learned how different students learn and learned to understand how you have to approach every-thing differently.”

Although the work was gratifying, she said the most diffi cult aspect of the position of student rep was handling the turmoil on the board, which is deeply split on a number of funda-mental issues, particularly the performance and phi-losophy of Superintendent James McIntyre.

“Sometimes meetings were very uncomfortable. The board did not agree on many things,” she said.

This summer, she’ll take a break from academics and join several friends to work as lifeguards at Arnstein Jewish Community Center, although her summer break will end the fi rst week in August because she is plan-ning to participate in soror-ity rush.

“Hopefully, my work with the Alabama Fellowship will help me decide exactly what I want to do,” she said. “Civic engagement, or may-be follow in my mom’s foot-steps and go to law school? I’m not sure yet.”

She says nobody’s given her a hard time about going to Alabama, and she’s got one key phrase down pat:

“Roll, Tide, Roll.”

Don’t be a ‘twitcher’

so accustomed to me on the mower and Grandma do-ing her walks, that when we encountered them they would just look up, as if to acknowledge that we were their usual people, and go right on back to grazing.

The group broke up this spring as turkey groups do, but one has still been around, checking the yard out for new spring food items. And one morning a couple of weeks ago, as I sat looking out from the breakfast table, I observed a new thing – the turkey was going through the backyard, picking off the round fl uffy dandelion heads one by one, seeds sticking out from both sides of its beak, till they were all gone. I could only wonder how many dan-delion heads it would take to fi ll up a turkey. Perhaps they’re high in vitamins or minerals.

Another example of the rewards of patiently watch-ing: a recent trip to the Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery in Clinton. We go out there

frequently and drive slowly around the well-kept gravel roads between the big fi sh ponds; the place is always full of interesting birding sights. This was in early April, and the fi rst spring migrants, the various swal-lows, had appeared only about a week before.

Two killdeer were walk-ing back and forth across the road. Instead of just ticking them off the list and mov-ing on to something more interesting, we paused and watched for a bit. And to our amazement, there appeared four baby killdeer, looking like baby Easter chicks on very long legs, scurrying here and there as only baby chicks will do.

And the nervous, watch-ful parents? We got to see them taking turns at the old “broken-wing act,” wherein the parent bird fl ops around, seemingly helplessly in-jured, staying just ahead of the car until we were safely away from their babies; then they zipped away, sud-denly healthy again.

The fact that those kill-deer parents had babies up and going in April meant that the eggs were laid over a month before we saw them, during the cold days of March. A family story un-folding before our very eyes!

Sometimes you go to

Eagle Bend or Norris or the Smokies to observe. And sometimes the observ-ing comes to you. For years we’ve had a pair of loud, bossy and overactive Caro-lina wrens that nest just outside our kitchen window on a ledge inside the back porch roof. We couldn’t avoid observing them if we wanted to. But we wouldn’t miss them for anything.

Carolina wrens are overachievers – they will produce as many as three broods in a season. Both male and female sing, sometimes in duet, and use as many as 40 differ-ent songs. You can usually recognize their singing, just as you would a certain per-son’s singing, by the sound of their voice – in this case, loud, clear, intrusive – rath-er than by the specifi c song they’re doing at the time. They like to start singing early, too, say around day-light. Under the bedroom window.

So as we sit there in the kitchen and eat three meals a day, or read the paper, or do a little paperwork, we can’t help but hear and ob-serve all that baby-wren-rearing activity a few feet away. In addition to un-countable trips back and forth to their nest with bugs and worms for the babies, received with a loud chorus of peeping and cheeping, there are also housekeeping trips away from the nest.

Many nestling birds, wrens included, expel a tidy, white blob of waste called a fecal sac, sort of a pre-wrapped dirty diaper. You will see an adult bird fl y away from the nest with a white object in its beak, to be discarded away from the nest. A clean nest is much less susceptible to parasites and bacteria harmful to the nestlings.

After a few feeding and housekeeping trips to the nest, our wrens take a break by fl ying to a nearby dog-

wood tree and singing loud-ly, just to remind everything within earshot that this is their nest, house and yard. I must say they are a lot more entertaining than w atching the local 6 o’clock news.

Catching a glimpse of a long-sought rare bird is cause for major celebration, but there’s a lot to be said for the remarkable insights into the workings of Nature that can be had by some plain old watching. You observ-ers out there will know what I’m talking about.

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Heiskell Seniors

monthly luncheon/meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, May 12, Heiskell Community Center, 1708 W. Emory Road. Theme: “Ken-tucky Derby.” Speaker: Jake McKinnie with Thrivent. Bring dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

■ Karns Senior Center8042 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 dice games; dominoes; a computer lab; billiards room.

Register for: Yellow Dot Program presentation by Tennessee Highway Patrol, 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 25.

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

Offerings include: card games; exercise classes; quilting, domi-noes, dance classes; scrap-booking, craft classes; Tai Chi; movie matinee 2 p.m. Tuesdays; Senior Meals program, noon Wednes-days.

Register for: AARP Driver safety class, noon-4 p.m. Thursday-Friday, May 12-13; RSVP: 922-0416. Harrah’s trip, 8:30 a.m. Monday, May 23; cost: $30; RSVP by May 18.

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

Ongoing event: Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers Support Group meets 1 p.m. each last Monday.

Call 922-4136 or 218-WEST for advertising infoCall 922-4136 or 218-WEST for advertising info

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By Betsy PickleLaughter and a few tears

mingled as alumni of His-toric Knoxville High School met for their 2016 All-Class Reunion and Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Around 200 alumni and guests gathered at Bearden Banquet Hall for the fes-tivities. The banquet room was decorated with the old school’s colors – blue and white – and photographs and yearbooks from the school, which opened in fall 1910 and closed at the end of the school year in 1951.

The youngest grads are in their early 80s and the old-

est in their late 90s, but the crowd was lively – greeting each other with enthusiastic hugs and handshakes. They were also excited to hear from the speaker, Rick Dover of Dover Developments, who is converting the old high school at 101 E. Fifth Ave. into a senior living residence.

Dover also spoke at last year’s event and at that time was made an honorary KHS alumnus. This year, he gave an update on progress at the building, which he expects to be fi nished by late 2016. One of the main points of interest was making sure the Doughboy statue, hon-

Hal Ernest, standing, left, named an honorary alumnus of Historic Knoxville High School, joins the newly inducted KHS Hall of Fame group: Bill Christenberry, Jack Everett Smith, Steve Cak-mes, Dr. Martin Davis; seated: Dr. Joe Acker, Sara Fisher Frazer, Chris Edmonds (representing his late father, Roddie Edmonds) and Doug Matthews.

Emma Lou Coffi n (class of 1950) and Jim Coffi n and George McAfee (both class of 1944) are ready for the program to begin.

Mary Anne Christenberry Bell, Nancy McCrary Burnett and Reenie Lay Ernest catch up at the reunion.

Harvey Sproul, Knoxville High School Alumni Asso-ciation president, welcomes KHS classmates to the Hall of Fame and all-class reunion at Bearden Banquet Hall.

Historic Knoxville High inducts new Hall of Famers

oring soldiers who died in World War I, would remain on the property. Dover said it will, and he’s working with local government to make sure the site is pro-tected as a park.

Seven of the eight induct-ees were in attendance: Dr. Joe Acker, class of 1935; Steve Cakmes, ‘42; Bill Christenberry, ‘51; Dr. Mar-tin Davis, ‘39; Sara Fisher Frazer, ‘50; Doug Matthews,

‘40; and Jack E. Smith, ‘46. The late Roddie Edmonds, ‘38, was represented by his son, Chris Edmonds.

The group listened re-spectfully as alum Bill Lawhon paid tribute to KHS Alumni Association treasurer Worth Campbell, who died earlier that day. They also had a moment of silence for other classmates who had passed away since the last reunion.

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.

■ Bearden High School Class of ’66 reunion is Oct. 14 at Hunter Valley Farm. Info: Joe Bruner, 399-5951 or jobruner01@yahoo.com.

■ Central High School Class of 1964’s

70th birthday party, 6-10 p.m. Satur-day, June 25, Grande Event Center, 5441 Clinton Highway. Cost: $30, includes full buff et. Info: David, CHS-64grad@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 Reunion, c/o Doug Welch, 890 Hansmore Place, Knoxville TN 37919. Info: Dougwelch1948@yahoo.com.

■ The Knoxville Central High School Class of 1966 50th reunion, Saturday, Oct. 8, Beaver Brook Country Club. Info: Gail Norris Kitts, gnkitts@yahoo.com.

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

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cross currentsLynn Pitts

lpitts48@yahoo.com

Sometimes when I am looking for something else, I stumble across a Biblical text which I have somehow missed (or forgotten).

That is how I discovered the word Mazzaroth. I was wandering around in Job’s frustration, and there it was. Say, what? Who?

So I looked it up (which my mother taught me so well to do: “Let’s look it up,” she always said) and there it is: Mazzaroth! Which, of course, sent me to the foot-notes. No meaningful help there. That is where the all-knowing Internet came to the rescue.

Mazzaroth is a very old name for the 12 constella-tions of the Zodiac; it is a tool that uses the stars to tell a story. Fair enough.

However, there is more learning to be done! The word Mazzaroth is also a hapax legomenon! (Could I possibly make this stuff up?) A hapax legomenon is a word that appears only once in a text.

Really, I worry about the scholars who go through books looking for hapax legomenons. Do they truly have nothing else to do? And then I begin to wonder if legomenons is actually the correct plural form of lego-menon. Turns out, it isn’t; the correct plural is legome-na. (Begins to sound like “Leggo my Egg-o, doesn’t it?)

If you have read thus far in these musings, I suspect you are one of “us” – those people who love to learn, and especially love to learn unusual and very new, or very old words!

Of stars and wordsCan you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the

cords of Orion? Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with it s chil-dren? Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

(Job 38:31-33 NRSV)

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.

■ Dante Church of God, 410 Dante School Road, will distrib-ute “Boxes of Blessings” (food) 9-11 a.m. Saturday, May 14, or until boxes are gone. One box per household. Info: 689-4829.

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church, 6125 Lacy Road, off ers Chil-dren’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 program embraces people who struggle with ad-diction, compulsive behaviors, loss and life challenges. Info: recoveryatpowell.com or 938-2741.

Special services ■ 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 Morn-

ing Breakfast and Afternoon Hang Out for youth each Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 690-1060 or beaverridgeumc.org.

By Cindy TaylorRising seniors at Temple

Baptist Academy got a bit of fi nancial help last week for their upcoming trip to Europe. The academy, along with parents Janee and Brian Helget, coordinated the fi rst Indoor Motorcycle Show to benefi t the travelers.

Vendors were on hand selling one-of-a-kind hand-made crafts; other booths featured snack food, jew-elry and giveaways. A $5 buffet lunch was offered by the students. Trophies were awarded to bikes in various categories.

Dennis Sitter won fi rst place in cruisers with Dan-iel Carpenter taking second and Chris Cutria winning third. For street bikes, Steve Arden won fi rst place and David Kennedy won fi rst- and second-place trophies.

The Rev. Lynn Rozar and wife Linda took fi rst place in touring bikes for their 2015 Indian Roadmaster which featured a sidecar and pull-behind trailer. The Rozars traveled from the Green-eville/Johnson City area to participate in the inaugural event. The couple say they love to ride and restore an-tique cycles.

“We like to travel and this bike is our usual mode for special trips,” said Lynn. “We’ve been riding mo-torcycles together for 30

First-place winners for their Indian touring bike, Linda and Lynn Rozar, talk with Temple Baptist Church pastor the Rev. Clarence Sexton.

Esther Sengmany enjoys some time on Knox County sheriff ’s

deputy Steve Lane’s motorcycle.

Rising seniors at Temple Baptist Academy Braden Pe-pin, Adrian LeBron, Stephen Lockett and Noah Alexan-der greet visitors at the door with ukulele music during the motorcycle show.

Janee and Brian Helget with the Polaris Slingshot on loan

from Tommy’s Motorsports for the motorcycle show

Photos by Cindy Taylor

Biking for Europe

By Carol Z. ShaneIt will be a special evening this Sunday, May 15, when

Salem Baptist Church presents “A Night of Worship.” This group-led musical evening features all ages, and will be followed by a reception honoring musician Bill Hunter and his 20 years of service to SBC.

“This year, we at Salem have placed a huge emphasis on multi-generational worship,” says Worship Arts Pastor Tim McCarty. “We want to see kids worshipping the Lord right next to their parents and grandparents. This night is a perfect example of that.

“Our preschool choir and elementary choir will be shar-ing a couple songs each. They will also join with our stu-dents and adults to sing a fun arrangement of ‘Thrive’ by Casting Crowns.”

McCarty says, “In addition to music from our choirs and instrumentalists, the pastoral staff is going to be walking through the question, ‘Why Do We Sing?’ We believe God has given us the gift of music for many different reasons, and we’re going to be sharing nine of those reasons through-out the night. Following the worship service, we will have a special reception to honor Bill Hunter, who has been serving

‘A Night of Worship’ at Salem Baptist as an instrumentalist at Salem for the last 20 years.”“I am grateful for Bill and his family, who are actively in-

volved in the life of our church family,” says the Rev. Allen James. “Bill is a faithful servant and a talented musician.”

McCarty says, “We are truly looking forward to this special night of worship and we would welcome anyone from the community to join us!”

“A Night of Worship” happens at 6:30 p.m. this Sunday, May 15, at Salem Baptist Church, 8201 Hill Road in Halls. Info: 865-922-3490 or mysalembaptist.com.Send story suggestions to news@shoppernewsnow.com.

years.”The seniors’ yearly trip

to Europe costs an aver-age of $4,000 per student and comes out of their own pocket. The show, held in the great hall at Crown Col-lege, was the fi rst fundraiser of its kind for the academy.

“The seniors make the trip to Europe every year and it is very expensive,”

said the Helgets, whose daughter just returned and whose son plans to make the trip in 2020. “Any money we raise will go straight to the kids who work the show to help lower their cost for the trip.”

Eighth-grade students at Temple take a trip to Nash-ville to visit the Tennessee State Capitol, sophomores

take a trip to Washington D.C. where they visit the U. S. Capitol and seniors make the trip overseas to visit Crown College’s sister col-lege in England.

Plans are to make the indoor show a yearly event. The 2017 fundraiser is scheduled for April 29.Contact Cindy Taylor at ctaylorsn@gmail.com

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Northwest crowns teacher superlativesBy Ruth White

Northwest Middle School PTSA president Kristie Lee brought fun and celebration to the school as Knox County celebrated teachers for their hard work and dedication.

Lee organized a series of events that showed the staff how much they are appreciat-ed for caring for the students

on a daily basis. Teacher Ap-preciation Week featured six staff members being honored with student-elected superla-tives. Lee called the event “a ridiculously silly ceremony featuring crowns and sash-es,” and it didn’t disappoint. Each teacher that saw the crowning area (whether they won a superlative or not) was

appreciative of the festivities.Winners each received

a sash, crown, corsage, gift bag and bragging rights. Powell Florist donated the corsages, Brandon’s Awards provided the trophies, Cole-man’s Printing provided the engraving and Home De-pot provided the rug for the crowning area.

Sixth-grade principal Amelia Baker shows her best pageant face after being crowned Best Dressed.

Leon Gray and Emily Garcia were crowned Mr. and Miss Northwest 2016.

Jennifer McFarlane was voted the funniest staff member by the students.

Eighth-grade science teacher Brandon Clowers was sur-prised to be named the Best Teacher at Northwest.

Northwest Middle School sixth-grade princi-pal Jack Owen was voted Best Principal by thestudent body. Photos by R. White

MILESTONE ■ U.S. Air Force Airman Hunter L. Ricks

graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San An-tonio. Ricks, a 2015 graduate of Halls High School, is the son of Rhonda M. Baker.

Story So Far: As S.O.R.’s special soccer team continues to loose, and lose badly, pressure to win is about to applied.

I knew we were heading for trouble when every team member got a message from our principal, Mr. Sullivan. He wanted to see us during our lunch hour.

“What do you think he wants?” Porter asked me. Since I was captain, they thought I had answers.

“I think we’re only going to be allowed to play third-grade teams,” suggested Root, looking up from an electronic diagram that reminded me of a plate of spaghetti.

Mr. Sullivan, the principal, didn’t strike me as a sports guy. He was small, thin, pinched up and tense. His offi ce was the storage room for every trophy, ribbon and fl ag the school had ever won. I mean, walk in there, and you knew you were expected

to win.Mr. Sullivan began with a smile. “So, this

is the Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team. How’s it going?” he asked.

“Could be worse,” said Fenwick.“Next game,” agreed Barish.“You’re not going to give up, are you?”

asked Mr. Sullivan. I suspect most of us wanted to say “Yes.”“I suppose you think you’re not very

good,” he said.“Honesty is the best policy,” said Eliscue.“You’re new to the game,” said Mr. Sul-

livan. “Have faith in yourselves. I know you can do well.”

“How come you know,” asked Saltz, “and we don’t?”

Mr. Sullivan seemed taken aback. “I just do,” he said.

“Any evidence?” asked Barish.

“Boys,” said Sullivan, “if you believe in yourselves, you can do anything.” He ges-tured to the trophies. “Don’t have a defeat-ist attitude. It will haunt you the rest of your lives. Do I look like an athlete?”

“No.”“Well, I run

t w e n t y - s e v e n miles once a week. Now look at me.”

I did. I didn’t see any difference.

“How come you do it?” asked Por-ter.

“I like it.”“Well, we don’t

like this,” Hays said.

“Besides, we stink,” put in Ra-dosh.

“As long as you believe that,” said Sullivan, “you’ll lose. Find the true South Orange River attitude: never accept defeat.”

“Even if we lose?” I said.He ignored me. “Don’t give up. Look at

me in the eye and promise.”I did, which is when I noticed he was

slightly cross-eyed. It took the edge off my promise.

He let us go then, telling us he’d come to one of our games to cheer.

Before splitting up, we stood outside his offi ce. “I’m beginning to think we might be an embarrassment to someone,” said Saltz.

“Maybe he’ll call the whole thing off.”We let that fond but empty hope cheer us.“I think they want to teach us a lesson,”

I said.“Which is?” asked Barish.No one knew.As we started to scatter, I called, “An-

other game Friday. Sanger School. Don’t forget.”

“I’m trying,” said Dorman.Saltz stayed by my side. “I made up a

team poem,” he said. “Want to hear it?”“Do I have a choice?”He pulled out his notebook and read:“There once was a team from South Or-

ange River,Who simply could never deliver.Given a way to choose,They always found new ways to lose,That marvelous, special, seventh-grade team from beautiful, successful, never-winning and always-losing South Orange River.”“You and Shakespeare,” I said.“Think he was good in sports?” he asked.“Sure, right fi eld for the London Loo-

gies.”Sanger School came to our fi eld. That

meant we could have had a crowd of people watching. We did have a crowd, or rather a crowdette. A little girl wandered by. She wasn’t older than fi ve. Whatever she saw, she was very smart or we were very obvi-ously bad. After ten minutes, she left. We were already losing by fi ve goals.

Main highlight of the game: In the sec-ond period, Fenwick took a nasty kick in the shins. Down he went, yelling, screaming, and crying bloody murder. He was rolling on his back, holding on to his leg, trying to make sure it stayed on.

As I’ve learned, what you’re supposed to do is nothing. Ignore it. Play on. Hang tough. Be men.

Not us. I mean, the guy was our friend, even if he was great in math. Without even thinking about it, we all rushed over and stood around trying to make him feel bet-

ter.The referee ran up to us, yelling that we

were supposed to keep playing.“He’s hurt,” I explained. Fenwick was, I

admit, yelling softer by then.“Ball’s still in

play!” cried theref. “Ball’s still inplay!”

Sure enough.They scored a goal.Walked it in. Whatdid we care? It wasonly one of twenty-two.

Later, in thelocker room, Mr.Lester called us toattention.

“Gentlemen,” hesaid, “I think it’svery kind of you tobe concerned whena teammate gets

hurt. But the game is such that you’re notsupposed to stop. Fenwick, you weren’t hurtso badly, were you?”

“No.”“He looked it,” I said.“Perhaps more startled than hurt,” sug-

gested Mr. Lester. “The thing is, they scoreda goal.”

“They scored lots of goals,” Root remind-ed him. “We’ve got only one Fenwick.”

Mr. Lester blushed and sighed. “Tell me,gentlemen,” he said, “are you getting anypleasure from this?”

There was a long, long silence.“Any?” he tried again.“We stink,” said Lifsom. “We really do.

We’re never going to win. Wouldn’t it bebetter to just give up?”

Mr. Lester stood tall. We stood short. Hehad a look I’d not seen before. I bet GeneralRobert E. Lee had exactly that look when hesent his men on Pickett’s Charge up Cem-etery Ridge at Gettysburg.

“Gentlemen,” he said, “I want you toknow, I believe in you.” He actually made afi st. I never even knew Mr. Lester had one.“You can win!”

I had this uncomfortable feeling. “How?”I wanted to know.

“Because you won’t give up.”“We’d like to,” said Eliscue.“Gentlemen,” cried Mr. Lester, “don’t be

losers. Be winners.”“I got an A-plus on my last math test,”

said Fenwick. “Mr. Fenwick,” said Mr. Lester, shouting

in his smallest, lowest voice, “I’m talkingabout sports.”

“Oh,” said Fenwick.“Three more games,” said Mr. Lester.

“Believe!”In school the next day, I was working on

the history project with Lucy Neblet. Wewere hunched over this table, having a goodtime. Out of nowhere, the school newspaper— which the kids make up — came fl utter-ing down to cover our work.

“Hey!” I cried, looking up to see who didit. There was Cat-Face Charlie, a kid fromclass, who everyone knew had a crush onLucy.

“What’s the idea?” I said to him.“Look!” he said, pointing at the newspa-

per and grinning.I looked. On the front page, in headlines,

it read:NEW TEAM HAS WORST START INSCHOOL HISTORY!I turned. Lucy was looking at me sort of

funny. All I could think was, “Three gamesto go.” I hoped.

(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 SIX: Advice from S.O.R.’s Principal“a breakfast serials story”S.O.R. Losers Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

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Imagination Playersvisit Powell Elementary

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Schade Harris dresses up as Old Bear to help tell a story

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THROUGH SUNDAY, MAY 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; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com; 208-3677.

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 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.

Heiskell Seniors monthly luncheon/meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Community Center, 1708 W. Emory Road. Theme: “Kentucky Derby.” Speaker: Jake McKinnie with Thrivent. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

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

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. Info: Gloria Halcomb, 585-4774.

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

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 12-13AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., Halls

Senior Center, 4410 Crippen Road. Registration: 922-0416. Info: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

FRIDAY, MAY 13Free Movie In The Park at Luttrell Park. Movie

begins at dusk. Bring chairs or blanket. Free Movie Night at Beaver Dam Baptist Church

featuring “Woodlawn,” 7 p.m., third fl oor education building, 4328 E. Emory Road. Free popcorn and drinks. Info: 922-2322.

Gala Day, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Union County Senior Citizens Center, 298 Main St., Maynardville. Bring dish to go with barbecue. Info: 992-3292 or 992-0361.

Halls Middle School Spring Carnival, 4:30-8:30 p.m., 4317 E. Emory Road. Activities include: carnival games, live bluegrass music, basket auctions, silent auction and more. Free admission. Unlimited carnival game wristbands: $5. Food available for purchase: Buddy’s BBQ, Bruster’s, pizza and more.

SATURDAY, MAY 14American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life,

4-10 p.m., Fountain City Park. Theme: “Paint Your World Purple.” Activities include: food, games, a silent auction, entertainment and opportunities to support the American Cancer Society; survivors and caregivers will be recognized along with a special luminaria ceremony.

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.

The Primitive Quartet will sing, 6 p.m., Faithway Baptist Church, 4402 Crippen Road.

Spring East Tennessee Plant Swap, 10 a.m., New

Harvest Park, 4775 New Harvest Lane. Setup begins 9:45. Potluck lunch 11:30 a.m.; verify potluck and list of food on Swap Forum. Info/rules/link to forum: www.easttnplantswap.com.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 14-15“Tapestry Weaving Basics,” 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway. Instructor: Tommye Scanlin. Bring a frame loom and lunch. Info/registration: appalachianarts.net; 494-9854; in person at the Center.

MONDAY, MAY 16Senior lunch, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Luttrell Community

Center, 115 Park Road. Lunch will be barbecue; entertainment by Tommy White. All seniors welcome. Bring a dish to share.

Monday Night Book Club: “Women of the Silk,” 6-8 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

TUESDAY, MAY 17“Carbs: the good, the bad and the ugly,” 10

a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Followed by a healthy cooking demo at 11. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

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

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

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

Sharps Chapel Seniors Fish Fry, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sharps Chapel Community Building, 1550 Sharps Chapel Road. Bring a side dish. Info: 992-3292 or 992-0361.

THURSDAY, MAY 19Family Pajama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Halls

Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.Plainview 7th District Neighborhood Watch

meeting, 7 p.m., Plainview Community Center. Info: 992-5212.

FRIDAY, MAY 20Shakespeare for Kids, 2 p.m., Fountain City

Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 689-2681.

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Amanda Sellars stands by a retail display at Clover Cottage in Powell, but she gets most of her sales from myclovercottage.comJosh Sellars shows off his newest vinyl printer.

BIZ NOTES ■ Fountain City Business and

Professional Association meets 11:45 a.m. each second Wednesday, Central Baptist Church fellowship hall. Guest speaker for May 11 meeting will be state rep. Bill Dunn. President is John Fugate, jfugate43@gmail.com or 688-0062.

■ Halls Business and Profes-

sional Association meets noon each third Tuesday, Bea-ver Brook Country Club. Presi-dent is Carl Tindell, carlt@tindells.com or 922-7751.

■ Powell Business and Profes-

sional Association meets noon each second Tuesday, Jubilee Banquet Facility. Presi-dent is John Bayless, john.bayless@ftr.com or 947-8224.

Shannon Carey has launched The Plucky Pen, a writing service aimed at making life easier for small business owners.

“Everyone I know has a blog, or they should,” s aid Carey. “But if you’re run-ning a small business you probably don’t have time to update it. It’s just one more thing to do, but keep-ing your blog current is vital to growing your business these days.”

Carey also offers social media, proofreading and an array of other writing ser-vices.

A graduate of Halls High and Maryville Col-lege, Carey worked for 10 years for Shopper News in news writing and adver-tising sales. Her award-winning Moms 101 column documented the first years of her son’s life. She also launched the Union Coun-ty Shopper News, which is

still running strong.She says: “My work at Shopper

News set me up to write well for your business, no matter what that business is. For the Shopper, I covered ev-erything from boutiques to high-tech. I’m a quick study, and I’m great at making you look good.”

Current clients include a local marketing fi rm, Great Valley Wine Trail (formerly Thunder Road Wine Trail) and Braxton-Bragg’s “Slip-pery Rock Gazette.” Carey is also a Shopper-News free-lance writer.

“I love getting to know hard-working business people,” said Carey. “I love helping people tell their sto-ries. I hope you’ll let me tell yours.”

Info: thepluckypen.com, shannon.b.carey@gmail.com, or fi nd Plucky Pen on Facebook, Twitter or Insta-gram.

Carey launches blogging service

By Sandra ClarkWho says American free

enterprise is dead?Surely not Josh and

Amanda Sellers. The young entrepreneurs represent the next generation of Powell business, and they’ve found a home in Powell’s oldest commercial building.

Amanda bought property at the corner of Commerce Road and Depot Street to relocate Clover Cottage, her 5-year business, from Foun-tain City. Her dad helped with restoration and she moved in, only to be fl ooded when a waterline broke. She had no idea the county was planning to close the rail-road crossing at Commerce Road, severely reducing ac-cess to her store.

“Hallsdale Powell (util-ity) was easy to work with and the insurance covered our (inventory) loss,” Aman-da says. Knox County is ex-ploring ways to improve the intersection at Emory Road and Depot to support safe traffi c fl ow. Amanda fi gures things will be OK. Besides, she’s got garments to de-sign, trade shows to attend and sales to be made.

Sellars says more than 90 percent of her business is

J.R. Williams & Bros., circa 1910. Josh Sellars reproduces old photos on canvas and mounts the print on old barnwood. He recently bought a barn, just for the wood. This example of his work hangs in the retail store at Clover Cottage.

Building business in 2016 and beyondRegister of Deeds

Sherry Witt

865-215-2330 or sherry@knoxrod.org

After steady progress in March, local real estate and lending markets turned signifi cantly upward in April. We saw 1,113 property transfers in Knox County, easily surpassing the March total of 991, and also well ahead of the April 2015 pace of 918 sales.

The total value of property transferred leaped from $198 million in March to nearly $241 million during April. This was an increase of some $65 million over last April’s fi gure of $176 million. It was the largest April output of total real estate sales since 2007.

On the lending side, just over $347 million was bor-rowed against real property in Knox County, besting the March total by more than $50 million. By com-parison, about $317 million was loaned in mortgages in refi nancing during April 2015.

The most notable real estate transfer of the month was an $8.576 million commercial sale involving a ho-tel property off Peters Road near the Market Place in West Knoxville. The largest mortgage transaction was a loan for $10.25 million fi nancing the Trinity Hills se-nior living facility off Asheville Highway.

With one third of the year in the books, 2016 ap-pears on pace to outperform last year in both real es-tate transfers and mortgage lending. As of April 30, approximately $771.6 million worth of land has been sold here, compared to about $691 million during the fi rst four months of 2015. Mortgage lending is cur-rently running around $60 million ahead of last year’s levels.

All of us at the Register’s offi ce were saddened by the passing of Mrs. Peggy Bright, mother of our long-time record room supervisor, Bill Bright. The Bright family has meant so much to us through the years, and I know many people have been touched by their kindness and generosity. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Real estate markets spring forward

This plaque on the exterior wall of 1905 Depot Street tracks the building’s use from 1921 to 1988 as the J.E. Groner & Co., a Powell Station landmark.

wholesale. She’s already out of space to stock merchan-dise which she has made in China, shipped to Powell and repackaged for ship-ment across the Southeast. “One day a UPS truck pulled up and everything inside was for her,” said Josh.

Josh and Amanda have been married only since February. He seems amazed at her energy and drive. “She works me to death,” he grins.

Josh owns and operates

chat, especially about the building. “We’ve heard 50 million stories,” says Aman-da. “Some say (the building) was a movie theater or a bathhouse or the train de-pot. We hear the movie the-ater most.”

Amanda studied busi-ness at UT, but she learned her craft by attending cloth-ing trade shows with her grandmother and a neigh-bor. She’s been going since age 13.

Creativity is a key. With-out legal protection, her de-signs are copied by Chinese vendors. “We have to stay a week and a half ahead,” she says. That, and labor costs, are reasons she cannot open a factory to produce her hair bows and baby clothes in Powell. Being a wholesaler, she has to turn out a lot of product in a short time. She accepts piracy as a cost of doing businesses and just creates new designs.

“We’re Southern, baby,” says Amanda, describing a camoufl age onesie that sells well at gun shows.

She and her mom have visited the Chinese facto-ries that make her products. Tales from that trip are for another column.

Drop by to see the build-ing and meet Amanda and Josh Sellars. Their pace is warp speed, but the prem-ise remains the same: pro-duce and sell something people want to buy and you’ll succeed.

Knox Graphix, located adja-cent to Clover Cottage. His website and Facebook page show the range of his work. “Customize, customize, cus-tomize,” he says of his busi-ness plan. He’s bought most of his equipment off Craig’s List, including a new heat-based gadget that presses an image onto a shirt so that it can’t be felt. Josh prints team gear, T-shirts and posters on vinyl or canvas. He offers em-broidery. He’s also creative.

When he heard Enhance Powell needed a logo for Historic Powell Station, he quickly produced examples. Bart Elkins at The Front Porch picked his favorite and put it on his door. Guess that’s how we got a logo.

Customers drop in to

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