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By Cindy TaylorThe Powell Lions Club 4th

of July Parade hit its 60th year of cruising the streets of down-town Powell this year to much improved weather over 2013. Hundreds celebrated their in-dependence by tailgating and lining Emory Road to watch the parade pass by.

The Powell Business and Professional Association invit-ed everyone to Powell Station Park afterward for lots of free goodies and an a cappella treat by Sydni Stinnett singing the National Anthem. Stinnett won

the voice competition on Knox-ville Unplugged.

Food City Powell provided free hot dogs at the park while their smoker set up in the park-ing lot at the Clinton Highway store. The smoker will also be at Food City Powell from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 11-12 during the store’s Freshville event. Dur-ing these two days the store will feature a huge produce sale highlighting locally grown pro-duce.

Businesses and individuals in the community participated in the parade and provided

snacks and drinks at the park.PBPA sends thanks to: Farm

Bureau Insurance, UT Federal Credit Union, First Century Bank, Food City, Knoxville Re-alty Executives, the band Wolf Song, Edward Jones Company, Angela Floyd School of Dance, State Farm, Tennova Health and Fitness, One Life Church, Powell Presbyterian Church, Frontier and Hallsdale-Powell Utility District for their gener-ous donations of time and good-ies.

The Powell Lions Club sends thanks to all who participated.

Local singing sensation Sydni Stinnett, 13, performed the National Anthem at the PBPA’s Picnic at Powell

Station Park on July 4. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Resident Nadine Fitchpatrick, Lantern

Alzheimer’s memory care program co-

ordinator Lynda Rose and resident Ethel

Jacobs from Morning Pointe; Jacobs deco-

rated her walker just for the parade. Resi-

dents baked cookies to hand out along

the route.

Celebrating our independence

More parade photos on page A-3

By Betty BeanFormer Brickey-McCloud Ele-

mentary School assistant principal Sheila Earl was moved to tell her story at last Wednesday’s school board meeting after hearing board members at the Monday workshop talk about clamping down on teach-ers who bypass the KCS “chain of command” by going public with complaints about the administra-tion. Earl is fearful of retaliation but promised her daughter she’d be brave because many colleagues have received the same treatment she has and don’t know why.

The last year she was an assis-tant principal, she was evaluated by Knox County Schools’ elementa-ry schools director Nancy Maland, who gave her the highest possible rating – a level 5 score. This result was typical for Earl, a 23-year KCS employee, so she had reason to be excited when she got a phone call from the KCS human resources de-partment July 19, 2012.

“I naively believed that my time had fi nally come and I was going in to interview for a principalship,” she said. “After all, I had spent nine years as a successful assis-tant principal after 14 years as an award-winning teacher. I had even completed the D-21 program with excellent results as well.”

When she went to the meet-ing with Maland and HR director Kathy Simms, she was stunned to hear that Superintendent James McIntyre had decided to return her to the classroom, a change that carried a 25 percent pay reduction.

“When I asked for the reason why, I was reminded that adminis-trators serve at the pleasure of the superintendent. (Nancy) Maland acted as a scribe, but she remained silent. (Superintendent) McIntyre was conveniently out of town.”

Maland retired at year’s end.Earl, a single mother, was given

very little time to clear out her of-fi ce, prepare to teach third grade

and readjust her family budget to the pay cut. Her former principal said she had no idea why Earl was demoted. Her new principal sug-gested that perhaps this was a test to see how gracefully she handled diffi cult situations and speculated that she might get a promotion the next year.

“That, of course, did not hap-pen,” Earl said.

There was a bit of a silver lining, she thought. Under state guidelines, Earl’s evaluation score qualifi ed her for an APEX bonus, so she had rea-son to expect some fi nancial help that fall. But when she checked the APEX website in November, the words next to her name were “Em-ployee no longer in good standing.” She attempted to fi nd why she had been labeled a loser, but multiple phone calls and emails got no re-sponse until her sister (acting with-out Earl’s knowledge) contacted the county ethics board.

Finally, in April 2013, she heard

Demoted Earl speaks out at school board

To page A-3

from KCS chief accountability offi -cer Nakia Towns, who informed her that being reclassifi ed as a class-room teacher after having been an administrator automatically made her ineligible for the bonus.

Earl, who said she has been shocked at the level of microman-agement that classroom teachers have to endure nowadays, was required to submit her emails to board chair Lynne Fugate in order to be allowed to speak at the meet-ing.

Many of the teachers who have been speaking out in recent months were present, although they were harder to pick out in the crowd because most were not wearing their familiar red SPEAK (Students, Parents, Educators Across Knox County) T-shirts.

Members of a newly formed group, Educators for Excellence, identifi able in bright blue T-

By Betty BeanIn 2009, Knox County commis-

sioned Ross/Fowler P.C. to draw a master plan for Clayton Park in Halls. Residents had bought 11 acres on Norris Freeway and deeded the land to Knox County.

Mike Fowler conducted com-munity meetings, took sugges-tions and developed a plan for a park that “takes advantage of such unique site features as an emerg-ing wetland, numerous existing

mature trees, open meadowlands and over 1,000 feet of frontage on Beaver Creek,” the narrative said.

The park now under construc-tion bears little resemblance to the leafy, passive park Fowler de-scribed. His plan, for which the county paid $14,250, envisioned:

■ A multipurpose meadow amphitheater ringed with picnic tables and fi xed seating.

■ A recreation meadow with natural play areas.

■ A wetland boardwalk and an elevated creekwalk and overlook with interpretive signage.

■ A tree-top adventure play area.

“This system of decks, ramps, slides and steps reaches up to in-teract with the canopy of several mature trees,” Fowler’s narrative says.

Now almost every tree has been cut, the ground fl attened. Although Knox County offi cials

promise to replant trees, it is clear there will be no canopy of mature trees in the park’s central area.

Delays could cost Knox County a $615,413 greenway grant at Clay-ton Park, and the county already has lost a state grant for Plumb Creek Park off Lovell Road. Offi cials say they cannot start work at Plumb Creek until Clayton Park is fi nished. Looking at Clayton’s parched grass and lack of shade, perhaps Plumb Creek is better off.

Clayton Park: What might have been

Urban gardensThe city of Knoxville is

ready to propose changes in the zoning ordinance that will make it easier for individu-als and community groups to establish gardens on privately held land.

Anyone interested in community gardens, urban agriculture or sales of produce from these gardens is invited to meet 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, July 14, at Cansler Family YMCA, 616 Jessamine St. Info: 215-2065.

Payouts to paramours

It is not often a serious candidate for the U.S. Senate has in his past a state Supreme Court decision that delves into his personal life, thereby making it public. But such is the case with Gordon Ball, a wealthy Knoxville attorney and Democratic U.S. Senate candi-date in the Aug. 7 primary.

➤ Read Victor Ashe on page A-5

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Sandra Clark says if a news-paper is good enough, readers will fi nd it – even if it’s stuffed inside the Wednesday Food section.

➤ Read Sandra Clark on page A-4

McIntyre’s mojo melting away

It started as Alice’s Restau-rant. Superintendent James McIntyre could get anything he wanted at any time, generally by an 8-1 vote.

But now McIntyre’s board majority is melting, and neither his contract nor his long-range plan nor the August election will save him. He’s done.

Alice isn’t cooking here anymore.

➤ Read Betty Bean on page A-4

IN THIS ISSUE

Vols new and old enjoy Rocky Top

Photographer (and some-time insurance guy) Doug Johnson captured the action of the Rocky Top summer basketball league with two shots, while the Powell Smok-ies captured the Knox County baseball tournament champi-onship (8 and under, coach-pitch) at Bower Field.

➤ Pictures on page A-9

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rate, Hunter Thomas, 17, has fought scores of opponents, out-maneuvering them with his quick reflexes.

“I’ve been pretty success-ful at tournaments and won some national ones,” said Hunter, the son of Jerry and Beth Thomas of Powell. Hunter is a junior at Powell High School and works as an assistant instructor of karate at The Wheeler Academy.

Hunter has battled suc-cessfully through a number of health problems as well. Most recently in February 2013, he underwent comprehensive reconstructive surgery on his

hip at Fort S a n d e r s R e g i o n a l M e d i c a l Center.

“His hip was mis-s h a p e n , ” said Dr. Paul Yau, H u n t e r ’ s orthopedic s u r g e o n . “The ball

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Hunter had what’s called “femoroacetabular impinge-ment,” or FAI. It’s a structural disorder of the hip, in which the ball and socket of the hip don’t fit together snuggly and smoothly.

The condition began as a toddler, when Hunter was diagnosed with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. In this condi-tion, blood supply to the bone is cut off and the bone begins to die. Hunter had surgery on his left hip to preserve the bone.

Then when he was 9 years old, Hunter had a similar but more extensive problem in his right hip. At that point, Hunter had surgery and spent five months in a waterproof body cast from his chest to his ankles.

“That was fun,” joked Hunt-er. “The only thing I could do was float in the pool and use a hair dryer to dry off.”

To get him out of the house, Hunter’s parents took him to watch his younger brother Dalton’s karate classes at The Wheeler Academy.

Then, as Hunter got out of the cast, instructors at The Wheeler Academy began to

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work with him on stretching and getting stronger.

“So that’s how Hunter started in karate,” said Beth Thomas.

“He worked his way through that and became a fighter. He won two national championships after that ma-jor surgery. The owner, Chuck Reynolds, stands behind ev-ery student like that, giving them that kind of encour-agement. He was a blessing in our life, as far as making Hunter strong.”

As Hunter grew, he ex-celled in karate and in school. He was named top Christian athlete in 2012 by his school’s Fellowship of Christian Ath-letes club and is thinking about going into the medical field someday.

But in 2013, Hunter’s leg pain kicked up again. “I began having pain from my right hip to my right knee – it would wake me up at night,” said Hunter. “And I have a pretty high pain tolerance.”

Because of Hunter’s his-tory, several doctors said they couldn’t repair his hip, and he is too young for a hip replace-ment. So Beth Thomas began looking outside of Knoxville

for a surgeon who could help.“I did some research and

found a surgeon, Dr. John Clohisy, at Washington Uni-versity in St. Louis, who spe-cialized in adolescent hips,”

said Beth Thomas. “Then,shortly after that, we found out about Dr. Paul Yau at Fort Sanders.”

Yau did his orthopedic fel-lowship training under Clo-hisy in St. Louis, and he is the only physician in the Knox-ville area fellowship trained in this kind of hip impinge-ment surgery.

“One of the things that im-pressed me is that Dr. Yau didn’t immediately say every-thing’s going to be perfect,” said Beth Thomas. “He was cautious, and put so much time and effort into making sure Hunter received the best procedure to last as long as it could.”

“A hip replacement atHunter’s age would be risky,” said Yau. “They wear out and you risk infection the longer you have it in. So I’m hopingwith this surgery to preserve his hip, he can wait another 20 to 30 years before needinga hip replacement.”

Yau reshaped the ball at thetop of Hunter’s femur, and re-paired the damaged cartilageand labrum (soft tissue lin-ing the hip socket), holding itall together with small metalplates.

After surgery, Hunterspent about a month doingphysical therapy in Yau’s of-fice, and then Hunter beganworking behind the desk atThe Wheeler Academy.

By June he was back on themats, and Yau stopped in tosee him work out before giv-ing him the OK to compete in a local tournament in Sep-tember.

“We’ve been through somuch together, I wanted tosee what he could do,” said Yau.

Hunter placed second inthat tournament and firstplace in two others since then,including the Year End Na-tionals in Atlanta. He is back to teaching karate as well.

“Dr. Yau is awesome,” saidHunter. “Some doctors didn’twant to do this surgery, buthe seemed very confident, very curious and careful witheverything. He told me whatwas going to happen and an-swered all my questions.

“As far as my everyday ac-tivity, I haven’t had any pain,” he said. “I’ve gotten full pow-er back in my leg and full flex-ibility.”

The Thomas family saidthey would recommend Dr.Yau and Fort Sanders to any-one facing hip surgery.

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shirts emblazoned with “I (Heart) My Job,” were there as well. Several members of this group are teachers from Dogwood Elemen-tary School, and many are relatively young. Members of this group spoke at last week’s meetings, hammer-ing the point that teachers really don’t have much to complain about. It is unclear what kinds of public forum rules apply to their relent-lessly positive messages. Perhaps “chain of com-mand” restrictions apply only to those who are critical of the administration.

One leader who did not wish to be quoted by name said several SPEAK mem-bers decided not to wear their red shirts to the meet-ing so as not to set up a “Crips versus Bloods” atmo-sphere, since most teachers want the same thing – what’s best for the students.

Meanwhile, it has not escaped Earl’s notice that experienced administrators are being moved aside to make room for graduates of the KCS Leadership Acad-emy, which cranks out a doz-en or so “fellows” annually.

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For most of his tenure as schools superintendent, James McIntyre has had the school board as his per-sonal Alice’s Restaurant. He can get anything he wants, generally by an 8-1 vote:

An employment contract extended to 2017?

Of course! Whiney-butt teachers can go clap eras-ers.

A fi ve-year strategic plan railroaded through by Au-gust?

Sure! Why allow four (or fi ve) new board members to come in and set policy later when a bunch of lame ducks can do it right now?

Want to overturn the recommendation of an im-partial hearing offi cer who overruled your decision to fi re a teacher?

Oops.Last week, the school

board sided with hearing offi cer H. Scott Reams, who had overruled the fi ring of Gibbs High School math-ematics teacher Richard S. Suttle. The board shocked most onlookers by voting

McIntyre mojo melting away

7-0 to turn down McIntyre’s appeal of Reams’ ruling.

McIntyre recommend-ed Suttle for termination just before the start of last school year, citing exces-sive absenteeism, tardiness, inappropriate language, failing to properly “input” grades and wearing white after Labor Day.

Just kidding about the fashion felony, but seriously, he threw the kitchen sink at the guy, characterizing his offenses as ineffi ciency, unprofessional conduct, in-subordination and neglect of duty in a letter dated Aug. 27, 3013 (McIntyre prides himself on being a forward-thinking leader). The school board rubber-stamped the fi ring, and Suttle exercised his option to have a hearing before “an impartial hear-ing offi cer” whose decision

could be appealed back to the school board. At that point he was entitled to be represented by the TEA lawyer Virginia McCoy, a fi erce advocate who is worth the price of union dues.

Teachers don’t usu-ally win these hearings, but Reams came down hard against Knox County Schools, ruling that Sut-tle’s transgressions rated a suspension, but not fi ring. He noted that Suttle had a knack for teaching math to kids who don’t understand it, and that he had satisfac-torily completed an Inten-sive Assistance Program. He also questioned the mo-tives of Suttle’s supervisors:

“Why any administrator at a school with such dismal results in math would take a math teacher with an af-fi nity for low-performing students and assign him to teach PE defi es logical ex-planation.

“Mr. (Lynn) Hill’s expla-nation that he thought it would do Mr. Suttle good to get out and exercise is total-

ly unconvincing.”Several teachers in the

audience snickered when they heard that Suttle’s in-appropriate language was calling a misbehaving stu-dent “Billy Badass.”

Board member Doug Harris moved to affi rm Reams’ decision. Pam Trainor and Gloria Death-ridge agreed. Indya Kincan-non asked if they couldn’t at least revoke Suttle’s ten-ure. The answer was no, to her visible disappointment, prompting one observer to wonder aloud if she was go-ing to poke him with a stick.

(Revoking Suttle’s ten-ure would have the effect of making him a sitting duck for dismissal at the whim of the administration.)

McIntyre’s board major-ity is melting like the Wick-ed Witch of the West under a bucket of ice water, and neither his contract nor his long-range plan nor the Au-gust election will save him. He’s done.

Alice isn’t cooking here anymore.

Next month some of you will go to the polls to select a candidate for state Senate District 7 in the November general election.

It’s an important contest, not merely for the chance to send Stacey Campfi eld packing. Campfi eld faces Richard Briggs and Mike Alford in the Republican primary. Democrats offer Cheri Siler, running unop-posed.

If Alford were anony-mous, we’d call him a stalk-ing horse. Given his past association with Campfi eld, there’s little doubt he’s there to siphon off votes from Briggs.

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dream, an embarrassment to most everyone but Camp-fi eld.

As a Knox County Com-missioner, Briggs is re-membered by many for his “reasonable man” argument that let former Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale dodg-ing repaying thousands of dollars in undocumented travel and entertainment expenses.

There’s more to Briggs, of course. He’s a respected surgeon and a U.S. Army combat veteran with the rank of colonel.

If you were sending a surgeon or soldier to Nash-ville, Briggs would be the clear choice. If voters want a clown, it’s Campfi eld in a landslide.

With Democrats scarcer than tour groups bound for Ukraine in East Tennessee, the winner of the Republi-can primary is the presump-tive victor in November. But if you ignore Siler, what will you get for your money in November?

Whether Campfi eld or Briggs, arguably more of the

same. Bottom line, Briggs and Campfi eld are bobble-heads nodding to the same tired refrain.

■ Conservative values (whatever those are these days)? Check.

■ Oppose all tax increas-es? Check.

■ Support your Second Amendment right to be a one-person army? Check.

■ Limit the role of gov-ernment? Check.

Then there is the stan-dard boilerplate support of small business, jobs and education, although Camp-fi eld’s hypocrisy fl ares on the issue of government in the classroom.

Siler likewise pledges

support for small business and education, but what candidate doesn’t? So where do her “issues” part com-pany with the Republican contenders?

Most notably, healthcare.Campfi eld’s comparison

of individuals who signed up for health insurance under Obamacare to Nazi Holocaust victims says all you need to know about his stance on expanding healthcare.

The Briggs campaign’s website doesn’t bother with healthcare as an issue. Pan-dering to the base, a physi-cian upholds the right to bear instruments responsi-ble for thousands of deaths and injuries every year but is silent on healthcare.

That, folks, is irony, and it’s morally indefensible.

Siler’s campaign litera-ture notes that “no parent should have to choose be-tween putting food on the table and taking a child to the doctor.” That’s more than a platitude, it’s a fact of life for thousands of Ten-nessee families.

Campfi eld pulled a sur-prise last time around, and it’s not inconceivable that he could do it again. But soldier and surgeon Briggs has to be considered the favorite.

While Siler’s supporters would welcome a Campfi eld upset, Briggs is not invin-cible.

Estimates of the unin-sured in Tennessee run as high as 866,000. Isn’t it time caring for those indi-viduals became a “family value?” At least Cheri Siler thinks so.

Dorothy Conley

In 1968, I fi rst voted in Tennessee. The election was a state primary and a county general. At the sign-in table, I was surprised when the woman in front of me was asked which primary ballot she wanted.

I had lived and voted in several other states, but the notion of choosing between parties in a primary was new to me. The woman said she wanted to vote in both primaries, and despite the offi cial’s attempt to explain the rules, she was indig-nant. It was obvious that she did not understand the difference between a pri-mary and a general election.

Later, when I learned more about Tennessee poli-

Primary confusion

tics, I was surprised at the toleration of open prima-ries.

Since primaries are nom-inating contests, to me it stands to reason that only members of a political party should have a vote on who will be their standard bear-er in a general election.

Otherwise, it is the same as allowing Gator fans to help choose the Vols’ quar-terback when we play Flori-

da. It makes no sense.Studies have shown that

the best-informed voters are those who strongly iden-tify with a party, and the most ill informed are those who do not.

From time to time, dis-cussions arise about wheth-er or not a candidate is a “bona fi de” member of one of our two major parties. In Tennessee, there are no “bona fi de” members of ei-ther one. Voting patterns do not establish membership in a party; only registration can do that.

A closed primary system requires registration by party, which requires some knowledge of a party’s po-litical philosophy. When independents learn that they cannot vote in a party’s primary unless they are members of that party, it

strengthens the two-party system, which, despite re-cent rancid partisanship, has on the whole provided stability to our government.

The best description of an independent voter that I’ve ever read came from Tom Danehy, writing for the Tucson Weekly. To para-phrase him – a high school girl shows up at the softball batting practice of a school in her neighborhood. She doesn’t go to the school, doesn’t like the uniforms or the coach, and doesn’t really want to be part of a team. When she’s not allowed to have her way, she cries, “I’ve been disenfranchised!”

As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing wrong with third parties, but I believe that in order to succeed they must be based on movements that can attract

very wide support. Other-wise, they often serve only as spoilers, as in Florida’s 2000 election, when the Green Party’s Ralph Nader received about 90,000 votes that otherwise would likely have gone to Al Gore. Just think about it.

When I went to vote in 2006 in another section of the county, I had a similar experience to the one in 1968 when I stood behind a young man who requested both party’s ballots. He ac-cepted the offi cial’s expla-nation politely but seemed confused by it. Perhaps learning some basics about politics and elections would prevent this confusion. Many complain about gov-ernment and politics; in-stead, maybe we all should pay more attention and learn about how the system

is supposed to work.Unfortunately, open pri-

maries are not the main problem with our elections. There are more serious ones: obscene amounts of money funding intermina-ble campaigns; meaningless “debates” and political ad-vertising that insults our in-telligence. (Strangely, both alcohol and tobacco ads are not allowed on television, but we see misleading polit-ical advertisements poison our TV screens as elections approach. Sad.)

Let’s hope that someday, more of us will understand that citizenship has respon-sibilities as well as benefi ts. Perhaps then we may com-plain less and learn more about our government. Af-ter all, in this country, we the people are the govern-ment, aren’t we?

Find us, we’re worth itFormer Knox County Com-

missioner Wanda Moody al-ways asks the tough question. Don’t believe me? Ask former Sheriff Tim Hutchison.

“Hi, Wanda,” I said, sitting down at her table at the BBQ lunch preceding Sen. Lamar Alexander’s recent rally at Ce-dar Bluff.

“Why did you switch (the publication date) to Wednes-days?” she asked.

“Money,” I answered, cit-ing a couple of grocery stores that now insert preprints into the Shopper-News.

“Who sold that deal?” she quickly retorted.

“Uh, Patrick Birmingham, I guess,” I mumbled.

“Do you really have much to do with the Shopper these days?” she said.

Sigh. I’m working harder than

ever before. We’ve got eight zoned editions of Shopper-News with specifi c commu-nity coverage in each. We’re serving areas that I’ve always wanted to cover. Now to make the time to do it well!

To cap it off, with our switch to Wednesdays, the Shopper is buried behind several grocery ads inside the News Sentinel’s Food section for delivery to KNS subscrib-ers.

Non-subscribers fi nd us easily as the wrapper for pre-prints. Subscribers must look inside the Wednesday food section. No-brainer.

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When I asked Tennes-see fans about Neyland Stadium experiences, Nate Harrison surprised me with specifi c comments.

In last week’s Shopper, Harrison offered what he hoped was constructive crit-icism about miscommunica-tions, fi rst-aid delays, gate rules set in concrete and two fans who blocked his view and wouldn’t sit down.

As promised, I asked Chris Fuller, UT senior asso-ciate athletics director for all external operations, includ-ing communications, sales and marketing, tickets and special events, for a response.

Chris is a busy man, but he responded, saying, fi rst of all, it was unusual to re-

UT response to stadium issues

ceive word of specifi c prob-lems described by identifi -able sources.

“Sounds like several things here, starting with the mailing address, that we could have done better.”

He spoke of good judg-ment and common sense but also praised the various support groups who are part of a home football game – including different levels of police, ushers and Red

Cross workers.“We work cooperatively,

but it’s easy to understand how not all are on the same page with all issues, espe-cially when you’re dealing with 100,000 people.”

Concerning my favorite hot-button issue, Fuller said there is no policy regarding “standing fans.”

If there was one, he said it would be very diffi cult to enforce.

Fuller invited David El-liott, assistant athletics director for event manage-ment, to chime in.

“Chris is correct. We do not have a policy on ‘stand-ing,’ and I do not know of any place in college or professional athletics that

does. We do ask our ushers to work with a customer-friendly attitude – which it seems they tried to do in talking with the patrons who were standing. We ask that fans try to respect oth-ers in their areas. But, as Chris mentioned, it would be an impossible task to try to enforce.”

Elliott said he has re-ceived very f ew complaints about fans standing in seat-ing areas. He does deal with people who become abusive. He says they are removed so others around them can en-joy the game.

Harrison wanted to es-cort his ailing mother-in-law to their car and return to the stadium. The gate at-

tendant said no way; if you go out, you are out.

Elliott says the SEC has a “no pass-out policy.”

Just guessing, but that is probably intended to elimi-nate halftime trips to cars for liquid refreshments.

Elliott said that in cir-cumstances such as Har-rison reported, gate su-pervisors are expected to intervene as best they can and make a judgment call.

“Sadly, people try to abuse this situation. How-ever there are times when common sense should dic-tate response.”

Elliott said fi rst-aid de-lays are sometimes un-avoidable.

“Our event staff does an excellent job in managing 100,000-plus crowds, but with a number like that, in-cidents happen that do not

go as well as we would like.”He said at early-season

afternoon games, emergen-cy workers have sometimes been inundated with calls due to extreme heat and hu-midity.

“We have had games where we have had 300 treatments.”

I liked Elliott’s attitude. It matched Fuller’s.

“We try to learn from those incidents and seek ways to improve.”

There was no offi cial UT response to my idea for a standing-fan section: no seats, short people in front, tall fans behind, stand for warm-ups, National An-them, the entire game, even intermission, wave both arms nonstop and keep yell-ing, “Go Vols.”Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is [email protected].

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It is not often a serious candidate for the U.S. Sen-ate has in his past a state Supreme Court decision that delves into his per-sonal life, thereby making it public. But such is the case with Gordon Ball, a wealthy Knoxville attorney and Democratic U.S. Sen-ate candidate in the Aug. 7 primary.

He is featured in the case of Marie Larsen-Ball v. Gor-don Ball argued in the state Supreme Court on Sept. 4, 2009, and decided on Jan. 14, 2010, in a decision writ-ten and published by then-Chief Justice Janice Holder, who is retiring in August. It can be found at 301 S.W. 3d 328.

Of the current three jus-tices seeking retention on the court in August, only Cornelia Clark participated in this case. Gary Wade, who was on the court at the time, recused himself due to

Divorce shows Ball’s lavish lifestyle

a longtime friendship with Ball. Only four justices par-ticipated.

The basic issue was whether a $17 million at-torney fee received on Aug. 31, 2006, which occurred after his spouse fi led for di-vorce but before the divorce became fi nal, is part of the marital property and sub-ject to equitable distribution in divorce. The fi nal divorce hearing was a full year later on Aug. 27 and 29, 2007.

$17 million is signifi cant and worth arguing over, es-pecially if one spouse is go-ing to get 40 percent of it.

At the trial court, mari-tal property was valued

in 2007 as $29,650,000, which included the disput-ed $17 million. The Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Frank Clement (son of the late Gov. Frank Clem-ent), held it was marital property, and the Supreme Court agreed. It had to be divided between the two spouses.

It makes fascinating read-ing as it appears in the opin-ion itself that Gordon Ball had a rich lifestyle. The opin-ion even refers to payments of $55,000 to paramours (the court’s language, not mine).

The opinion says: “Both parties enjoy a lavish life-style and spend money on a grand scale. During the marriage (Marie) Ball spent extensive sums of money … and (Gordon) Ball has not been Spartan in his life-style.”

It will be up to the voters in the Democratic primary

to determine the relevance of this in terms of who should carry the Democratic banner against Sen. Lamar Alexander in the November general election. Knoxville attorney Terry Adams is Ball’s principal opponent. Another Knox County resi-dent, John D. King, is seek-ing the GOP nomination.

Whether this part of Ball’s biography infl uences your vote (and how) is up to every Democratic vot-er. This writer thinks you ought to know about it and not learn of it after the pri-mary is over.

Supreme Court: Pre-dictions are that Gary Wade and Sharon Lee are most likely to survive the ef-forts to remove them from the Supreme Court, espe-cially here in East Tennes-see where they are known and liked. Justice Clark is unknown in East Tennes-see. In West Tennessee, the

three are not known as none lives there.

Those wanting a Repub-lican to be chosen for state Attorney General may opt to replace Clark, giving Gov. Bill Haslam an appointment to the court, presumably one who would join the two Republican justices already there in picking a Republican AG. No woman, Republican or African-American has ever been state AG while the Supreme Court has made the selection.

The court picks the At-torney General, a duty unique to Tennessee. In this writer’s opinion, it is the major reason this political fi ght has emerged as many in the GOP, led by Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, want to win the AG offi ce, just as Demo-crats would want the offi ce were the situation reversed.

It is surprising that three incumbents have not gone out to each of the 95 coun-ties in full campaign mode introducing themselves to the media and voters. Wade has been the most active statewide, followed by Lee.

Dr. Rick Briggs seeks to unseat state Sen. Stacey Campfi eld as the GOP nom-inee to run against Demo-crat Cheri Siler in November. Briggs, 61, is a Knox County commissioner. He moved here in 1992. Recently, he was available for an interview.

He criticizes Campfi eld for “the many things he seeks to take away from lo-cal government.”

Briggs has raised some $190,000, mostly from tra-ditional GOP donors who back Gov. Haslam.

He favors the constitu-tional amendments to re-strict abortions, to prohibit a state income tax and to allow the governor to name Supreme Court justices. He says Campfi eld “at times embarrasses the county and state on a national level.”

Briggs, who prefers to be called Rick, strongly criti-cizes the Campfi eld/Steve Hall bill to sell Lakeshore Park. He does not favor an elected school superin-tendent. He says he backs Haslam on what he has done on education.

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Tim Burns, technical director of the Tennes-see Theatre in downtown Knoxville, thinks his dad, Bill, would approve of the venerable old theater’s new digital projector.

“He was always one to embrace new technology,” says Burns the younger, “and he would appreciate the enhanced quality of the digital presentations.”

The senior Burns spent his life as a movie projec-tionist. Even after he re-tired in 1984, he came to the Tennessee, where he ran every fi lm until 2001.

“My dad started as a projectionist in 1930 at the ripe old age of 11 at the Lyric Theatre in Ashland, Kentucky,” says Tim. “He and my mother moved to Knoxville from Charleston, West Virginia, in 1949.

“The fi rst theaters he worked in here were the Lee and Dawn theaters. In 1951 he landed a permanent spot at the Pike Theater and was there for 33 years. The Pike became the Capri Cin-ema. He would also work relief shifts at the Riviera, Knoxville and Twin Aire drive-ins and has worked some at most of the other theaters in town.

“I literally grew up in a projection booth.”

Though he describes himself as a fi lm fan but not a fanatic, Burns does hold many special memo-ries of a young life spent at the movies. In particular, he remembers a showing at the Capri 70, which was located where Bennett Gal-leries now stands.

“There was nothing like watching a true Cinerama picture on that screen with that sound system! One movie I remember see-ing there was ‘Krakatoa,

A whole new era of digital fi lms

East of Java.’ Before I went downstairs to watch the movie my dad said, ‘Don’t

get seasick,’ to which I laughed. In the middle of the mov-ie after the e r u p t i o n , when the boat was riding the waves, sure

enough! I started getting seasick!”

Movies also affected the y o u n g s t e r in a more meaningful way. At age 8, watching “The Agony and the Ec-stasy,” he asked his dad where the church

was that Michelangelo was painting.

“When he explained that it was in Rome I thought, ‘I sure would love to see it, but I guess there is no way I ever would.’ Ten years later my high school band took a trip to Rome. We toured the Vatican, and as I stood in the Sistine Chapel my mind went back to that projection booth watching Charlton Heston painting that ceil-ing.”

Like all professionals in his fi eld, Burns has known that the days of fi lms on reels have been numbered

for some time. “The Ten-nessee Theatre has a need for this technology,” ex-plains Vince Fusco, presi-dent of the Tennessee The-atre Foundation board. “Movies come on hard drive now. We have a harder and harder time fi nding 35 mil-limeter fi lm.”

Regal Cinemas donated the new, state-of-the-art digital projector at the be-ginning of this year. Becky Hanson, executive direc-tor of the theater, is excited that the new projector is capable not only of showing movies, but can be used for business events and simul-casts such as the popular “Live from the Met” broad-casts. “This is the begin-ning of a whole new era for the Tennessee,” she says.

“The quality of the pic-ture and sound is so much better” than that of the old, obsolescent way, says Fusco. Still, he points out that even this brand-new technology has a limited life span. “Eventually, there won’t even be hard drives,” he says. “Movies will come through a satellite connec-tion.”

For now, Tim Burns is glad to have the new tech-nology in his house. “We’re not going to be in a situ-ation where we’re trying to run stuff that’s past its prime because it’s the only print we can get,” he says. “We can get anything that’s been digitized.

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You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill can-not be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

(Matthew 5: 14-16 NRSV)Light one candle for love, one bright candle for loveHe brings love to everyone, He comes, He comes.

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I work best with a candle burning.

I have been called (usu-ally in good-natured teas-ing) a fi rebug, a pyromaniac and a heathen because of my love of candles.

But the truth is, my can-dle is simply a reminder of Who is at the center of my life, Who is in charge, who calls, sends, leads, uses, chastens, loves and heals me.

He called himself, among other titles, the Light of the World.

And, He calls you and me to shine.

What good is my poor light, I wonder? Some days it is merely a glimmer, a fl ickering, unsteady, tiny fl ame.

“Doesn’t matter,” Jesus says. “Whatever it is, how-ever small or uncertain, let it shine,” he commands.

So, here are my ques-tions. Is a small fl ame bet-ter than none? Am I being faithful to the Light of the World if my light fl ickers? What if it goes out entirely?

Long many years ago, a pastor I worked with gave me a fi rst-century clay lamp. He was a collector of antiquities and had several of these tiny lamps. It is small enough to fi t into the palm of my hand, and he warned me, “Don’t put oil in it or try to light it. It will

disintegrate if you do.” So it sits in a glass case

on top of my writing desk. And it preaches to me.

You see, if it had been in use all these centuries, used for its intended purpose, it would still be usable. But because it has sat for rough-ly 2,000 years with no oil and no fl ame, it is a relic. Beautiful, dear, precious to me, but useless.

Moral of this story? Don’t become a relic. Don’t sit on a shelf and be useless.

Do what you are called to do, which is to shine!

You know Christians who shine, don’t you? They are out there, sometimes in the most unexpected places, in the most surprising bodies: tiny babies who have just dropped in from heaven, handicapped grown-ups who refl ect Jesus’ light, the ancient ones who shine with hard-won wisdom.

Watch for them; they will bless you, and you will walk away with a little refl ected glory shining on your face, in your soul.

By Cindy TaylorPowell Church, in co-

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“Although we don’t like to talk about it, addiction to drugs and alcohol is at the top of the list of problems for people in this communi-ty,” said Powell Church pas-tor G.W. Boles. “We think it’s time to face those prob-lems. We invite anyone who is dealing with compulsive behavior, addiction issues or life’s hurts, habits and hang-ups to participate in Recovery at Powell.”

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By Ruth WhiteThe congregation at Clear

Springs Baptist Church cel-ebrated Independence Day with an annual Freedom Celebration featuring a little preaching, a little fellowship and a whole lot of good food.

Isaac Chandler and Ken-ny Walker kicked off the event with patriotic music and the congregation rais-ing their voices in song. Assistant District Attorney Leland Price spoke briefl y

and was called “a man with a servant’s heart” by pastor Jerry Vittatoe.

Vittatoe brought a brief message and said, “I wanted to do a big hoorah for our nation, but I’m troubled with the direction it’s go-ing.” Vittatoe read from Psalm 80, describing it as words of a patriot of Israel. He talked of how God’s hand has been upon America but how the great values it was built on have been trampled

and mocked. “We cannot live away

from the will of God and the word of God and expect God to bless our prayers.”

Vittatoe stressed how he wants this to be a Godly na-tion as when he was grow-ing up, but reminded at-tendees how God has been invited out. “Our nation was founded by men of principle and faith. God is the great-est hope of America. Don’t give up hope.”

Isaac Chandler and

Kenny Walker perform

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Service at Clear Springs Bap-

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Peggy and Hugh Price, at the Freedom Celebration.

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The students of UT’s culinary program never know what to expect. One week they’re learning how to carve an ice sculpture with a chain saw, and the next week they’re dishing out healthy pasta from the kitchen of a food truck.

“We take students with no experience who are pas-sionate but green and try to make them well rounded,” said program director Greg Eisele. During a 12-week program, students create food to serve at 10 events in-cluding an Asian buffet and an appreciation luncheon for Red Cross volunteers.

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“Literally 80 percent of the time I’m keeping up with inspections, taxes and insurance,” said Wilson, instead of doing the part of the business he loves most, which is, of course, cooking.

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By Patricia WilliamsThe First Tee life skills

summer program for chil-dren ages 6-17 is under-way at seven golf courses throughout Knoxville in-c luding The Wee Course at Williams Creek Golf Course, 2351 Dandridge Ave. Williams Creek was rated one of the Top 10 par-3 courses in the country by Golf Range magazine, ac-cording to Diondre Jackson, executive director of the First Tee of Greater Knox-ville program. It is open to the public and is only about two miles from downtown Knoxville.

Children in the summer program at Williams Creek attend from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.

“We are not trying to cre-ate another Tiger Woods,” explains Jackson.

“We teach core values that go with the game of golf, that help kids transi-tion into adulthood.”

The grounds also include a gym, a learning center and game rooms. Children participate in a variety of activities that are fun and challenging while build-ing healthy habits and life skills.

Jackson applauds the positive difference he and the staff are making in the lives of the participants. “I have had the pleasure of having coffee with young men who started here when they were just little kids,” he says.

Jackson says the pro-gram is very competitive and the kids are challenged academically. Upon comple-tion, students may qualify for golf scholarships ac-cepted at 30 colleges in the country.

Jeremy Fultz, Carter High grad, and Todd McGill Jr., South-Doyle grad, are recent scholarship winners. McGill has been in the pro-gram for 10 years.

Golfers Greg Treece, Gary Adkins and Rick Southers travel from

Powell and Halls to play at The Wee Course.

First Tee’s summer program underway

Touring the beautiful apartment homes known as Legends at Oak Grove made me wonder why I don’t move there. Adam Chavira, prop-erty manager, loves this place, and his enthusiasm is contagious.

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ity. Legends participates in the DNA-based Poo Prints program, which enables the staff to know which resident didn’t clean up after their dog.

There is a dog park, pet spa, car care center, pool-side Internet access, ex-ecutive business center, children’s play area, fi tness center – the list goes on and on.

The apartments them-selves hav e more excep-tional features than I ex-pected: garden tubs, large walk-in closets, built-in microwaves, built-in linen closets, kitchen islands and pre-wiring for high-speed Internet access.

Chavira encourages pro-spective residents to just come by to let a member of the team show you around. Legends is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.

Info: www.LegendsAtOakGrove.com or 688-4881.

■ Sterling now heads ETABPA The East Towne Area

Business and Professional Association has a new presi-dent.

Justin Sterling, leasing agent for Knoxville Center

mall, follows the founding pr e s ident , K a e l y n F a r m e r , manager of Buckle. The announce-ment came at the July 1 meeting at New Har-vest Park. S t e r l i n g t h a n k e d Farmer for her service and pledged to keep the m o m e n -tum of the group going strong.

J a n e t Edkins, CEO of Jay Designs Inc., shared tips and tricks for businesses to get the most out of social media. She also discussed ways to maximize the impact of a business website.

Website creation is one of her specialties. Edkins can be reached at 966-3271 or [email protected].

Taco Bell was breakfast sponsor and furnished a de-licious meal with an array of its new breakfast choices.

The next meeting will be at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6. The ETABPA encourages all businesses in the area to join.

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Built on 22 acres just past Target on Washington Pike, this gated community makes you feel “at home” the moment you drive into the property. There are nu-merous amenities and sur-prising features at every

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Next was the saltwater, resort-style swimming pool with a poolside entertain-ment area including a fi re-place, bar and grills.

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UT Gardens will host its annual symposium on get-ting children to garden 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, for anyone interest-ed in the impact gardening can make on children’s edu-cation.

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ways to fund their school’s garden.

Cost is $30 ($15 for col-lege students). Register on-line by 5 p.m. Monday, July 28, at https://utgardens.wildapricot.org/GWC. Info: Derrick Stowell, 974-7151 or [email protected].

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Paulk and Co., 510 Wil-liams Street, will host “Crafty Kids in the Gallery” summertime workshop 2-5 p.m. Sunday, July 13.

Participants will make “coolio” magnets and design their own T-shirts. Hands-on instruction will be pro-vided by resident Crafty Lady Sarah Brobst.

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Unless you possess a time machine, there are only a couple of ways I know to prolong springtime, at least on this side of the Equa-tor – go higher or go north. Why prolong springtime? To continue to enjoy spring bird migration, of course. To spend more mornings surrounded by singing and courting birds, up from their wintertime hangouts in their spiffy spring feath-ers, active and conspicuous. And an Eden-like backdrop of fresh spring wildfl owers is certainly a nice accompa-niment to the scene.

Thus, during the recent winter, we searched for a place where we could indeed fi nd spring again, after the one in Tennessee was done.

Big Sky birding

And we found just such a place, in northwestern Montana, which is actually farther north than northern Maine, and higher, too.

The place? The Nature Conservancy’s 18,000-acre Pine Butte Swamp Pre-serve and its adjacent Pine Butte Guest Ranch. Located just where the high-rolling shortgrass prairie that oc-cupies the eastern two-thirds of Montana meets the fi rst row of craggy, snow-

capped Rocky Mountains, the property rises abruptly from 4,500 feet above sea level out on the plains to over 8,500 feet up on the mountain peaks.

One could expect a late spring there, with lots of dif-ferent birds and lots of fl ow-ers. And then the clincher: the birding program that week at the ranch was to be led by famous fi eld-guide author and bird artist David Allen Sibley. Sibley, from Massachusetts, was to be joined by a co-leader, Keith Hansen, another bird artist and author, from the coast of California. It sounded like an excellent team, and they proved to be just that – expert and very enjoyable.

The program was the fi rst week of June, so Spouse and I headed out the last week of May and birded our way to western Montana. Along the way, we enjoyed some great

history lessons. We crossed the path of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806) several times as we proceeded along the Mis-souri River from St. Louis to Great Falls. There are nu-merous parks, monuments and exhibits along their route, and the magnifi cent Lewis and Clark Interpre-tive Center in Great Falls, where we spent an entire day.

Finally, a couple of hours northwest of Great Falls and 2,300 miles from home, we found the Pine Butte Guest Ranch nestled down amongst a batch of big rugged moun-tains, and sitting beside the rushing, snowmelt-fi lled South Fork of the Teton River. And just down the road and out onto the prairie is the Pine Butte Swamp Preserve itself. Now, you wouldn’t expect to fi nd a swamp in Montana, and although the Pine Butte

Swamp Preserve is wet, it isn’t really a swamp – it’s a fen.

That means that rather than having a big area of dark stagnant water stand-ing around out there, there are lots of seeps, springs and little springs fi lled with clear, cool groundwater from the mountains, which creates an interesting wet-land in an otherwise sparse and arid countryside. That, in turn, attracts all sorts of plants and animals.

The wetlands turned out to be bad for the original ranchers. They had hoped to drain the “swamp” and grow crops and cattle – only the swamp wouldn’t drain. The ranch failed, and later became available, and the Nature Conservancy bought it. Which is great for nature. Now protected and with plenty of water, it is full of wild things – deer, elk, moose, bobcats, golden eagles. And grizzly bears.

Lewis and Clark fi rst de-scribed the grizzly, at that time unknown to science. They wrote that they were “verry large and turrible.” And they indeed had a num-ber of very close calls with them in Montana. The area of the Pine Butte Preserve has the largest concentration of grizzlies in North America. The momma grizzlies bring their new cubs down from the mountains in the spring to feed out in the wetlands below. Ranch hands carry a can of “bear spray” on their belts, and we were warned to stay aware and not wander around alone.

Ah, but the birds. The state of Montana may have only nine people per square mile, but it boasts a bird list of nearly 400 species. We were hoping to see con-siderably over 100 for the trip. Each day we birded for an hour before breakfast, and then we were away, ei-ther out onto the prairie or up into the mountains, to see what we could see. Our

searches for prairie birds out on the grassy hilltops showed us why Montana is called “Big Sky Country.” You could see nearly forever in every direction, and the sky did indeed look bigger than any I ever saw.

Out in the arid West, lakes attract large numbers of birds. We spent one day at a huge lake, appropriately called Freezeout Lake; it was 43 degrees that day. Big rafts of birds were everywhere. We observed 15 species of ducks, 4 gulls, three terns, and more than a dozen oth-er water-related species – white pelicans, grebes, her-ons, marbled godwits and yellow-headed blackbirds.

Up in the mountains we spied numerous bird won-ders, small and large, from tiny male calliope hum-mingbirds doing their big swooping courtship fl ights to majestic prairie falcons and golden eagles, nesting high up on the sheer cliffs above us. We saw birds that only a true birder could love, with names like MacGilli-vray’s warbler, Townsend’s solitaire, gray jay, Clark’s nutcracker. My favorite bird of the trip has to be the amazing American dip-per – a little gray bird that gathers its food by walk-ing along the bottoms of rushing mountain streams, searching for aquatic bugs and larvae as nonchalantly as if it were pecking around in my yard.

Our species list grew and grew, and when at last we had to bid the ranch good-bye we had tallied up 142 species over fi ve days. That plus a whole array of new wildfl owers, lots of scen-ery and history, and some of the best steaks you ever ate, made for a trip that we would gladly repeat any year – except that there are a lot of other places out there, where we hope to pro-long springtime again in the years ahead.

Lakeshore hospital comes downBy Wendy Smith

By now, demolition has begun that will transform what used to be Lakeshore Mental Health Institute into Lakeshore Park.

Starting this week, the upholstery building, smoke stack, laundry building, Waterside Building, De-partment of Health Build-ing, Chota Building, Vil-lage Mall, Baker Building, Keller Building and the boiler house will be razed. Five structures will remain at Lakeshore Park: two cot-tages, the Administration Building, the chapel and a central services warehouse. Restoration of the historic Administration Building is already underway.

The city plans to spend more than $5 million on demolition, infrastructure

and improvements on the park this year. While the ex-panded Lakeshore Park will likely be the crown jewel of Knoxville’s parks, we will be losing a signifi cant slice of history.

As I drove through the campus to get a last look at the buildings that will soon come down, I was keenly aware of the many lives that were touched by East Ten-nessee Hospital for the In-sane (1886), which became Eastern State Psychiatric Hospital (1927), which be-came Lakeshore Mental Health Institute (1977).

If your life, or a family member’s life, was impacted by the former mental hos-pital, I’d like to hear your story. Shoot me an email at [email protected].

The Chota Building is one of ten that will be razed as the city

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SATURDAY, JULY 12Cades Cove tour with Bill Landry, 9 a.m., depart-

ing from the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. Tickets: $50 per person; includes light snacks and a cold beverage. Reservations required: 448-8838.

Wheel Throwing: One Bag/One Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Sandra McEntire. Registration deadline: July 5. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., WMRD 94.5 FM, 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All pickers and singers welcome.

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

Benefi t Ride for the First Baptist Mobile Ministry, First Baptist Church of Powell. Registration: 8 a.m.; ride begins 9 a.m. Lunch provided. No fee but donations accepted. All bikes and bikers welcome. Info: Don Wadley, 679-4045; Debbie Garrett, 599-9141; or email [email protected]

Big Clinch River Cleanup, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway, Nor-ris. Begins with breakfast and briefi ng for registered volunteers. To register: http://crctu.org and click on Big Cleanup Registration. Info: Buzz Buffi ngton, buzz.buffi [email protected] or 463-7167; or Jim Ferguson, [email protected] or 494-8081.

Car Show to benefi t Josh Hensley’s family and Brit-tany Branch, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Union County High School parking lot. Info: Aircooled Hooligans on Facebook.

Fundraiser meal: Hamburgers, hot dogs, all the fi xin’s and watermelon, 4-7 p.m., Bright Hope Lodge #557 F. &A.M., 5400 N. Broadway. Cost: Suggested donation, $5; all donations appreciated.

SUNDAY, JULY 13Little Greenbrier School Old Harp shape note

singing, 2 p.m., Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Info: Robin Goddard, 982-6148 or [email protected].

MONDAY, JULY 14Registration deadline for Rhythm of the

Mountains camp – The Music, Art and Dance of the Appalachian Mountains – to be held 8:30 a.m.-noon Monday through Thursday, July 21-24, Central Baptist Church of Fountain City. For children who have completed grades 1-6. Cost: $35, includes concert shirt and daily snacks. Concert: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24. Info/registration: http://www.cbcfc.org/fi ne-arts-camp-registration/ or 688-2421.

MONDAY-THURSDAY, JULY 14-17Kids Support Camp, a free four-day camp for

kids who have a loved one facing cancer, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., The Cancer Support Community East Tennessee, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Info: 546-4661.

TUESDAY, JULY 15UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meet-

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

Summer Reading Program: Zoomobile, 1 p.m., Luttrell Public Library. Info: 992-0208.

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

Old College Monthly Harp Singing, 6 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 123 S. Jackson St., Athens, Tenn. Info: Cora Sweatt, 423 745-0248.

Sevier County Monthly Old Harp Singing, 7 p.m., Middle Creek UMC, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge. Info: David Sarten, 428-0874.

Chef Arnold’s Pasta and Noodle Making Class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Limited space. Info/to register: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia.com.

Knox County Veterans Services Outreach program, 10-11 a.m., Corryton Senior Center, 9331 Davis Drive. One-on-one assistance to veterans and family mem-bers; explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family member with fi ling for VA benefi ts.

TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS, JULY 15-AUG. 2

Free chess camp for ages 5-18, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., St. Luke Episcopal Church, 600 S. Chestnut St. Light snack served. Space limited. To register: Michael Moore, [email protected] or 360-6706.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16Knox County Veterans Services Outreach

program, 9-10 a.m., Halls Senior Center, 4405 Crip-pen Road. One-on-one assistance to veterans and family members; explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family member with fi ling for VA benefi ts.

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