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By Betty BeanLast week, the Northside

Church of Christ in Heiskell, fac-ing a Metropolitan Planning Com-mission staff recommendation to deny its request to rezone its prop-erty from low density residential to commercial, removed the prop-osition from MPC’s August agenda just hours before the meeting.

In deep West Knoxville, neigh-bors who oppose First Baptist Concord’s request to rezone 26.4 acres at 9635 Westland Drive from public institutional/planned resi-dential to commercial are hun-kered down until October, await-ing the results of a traffi c study conducted while schools are in session that will consider the ef-fects a shopping center could have on the neighborhood.

Meanwhile, North Knoxville neighborhoods are organizing to fi ght a chain of events triggered by Centerpointe Church’s decision

to sell out to a developer who also proposes to buy the iconic How-ard house next door and build a “neighborhood” Walmart on its North Broadway location. A 24-hour payday loan company is al-ready under construction on the south end of the formerly church-owned parcel and a popular inde-pendent Apple computer shop that has been there for 37 years will be displaced. Even though there is considerable commercial activity here, the developer will need to get the property rezoned to accommo-date the new use.

In Inskip, the new owner of a former church building long aban-doned by its Presbyterian congrega-tion and surrounded by single-fam-ily homes was successful in getting the parcel rezoned from low density residential to offi ce over the pro-tests of its nearest neighbors.

Churches enjoy a special sta-tus under city and county zoning

ordinances. The city allows them to move into residential neighbor-hoods, subject to use on review re-quirements. County zoning regu-lations are similar for residential neighborhoods and allow them as a permitted use in agricultural zones (use on review is required in city Ag zones).

But problems between churches and neighborhoods are becoming more common as churches decide to relocate, expand or disband and attempt to maximize their profi ts on the real estate market.

Former City Council member Carlene Malone says it’s time to reconsider churches’ legal status.

“We’re not looking at churches as perhaps they really are today. We need to realize that this is not the little neighorhood church that’s going to stick around forever. It’s a business model. Land is held like a portfolio, and when the time comes to sell, even though they bought it

Church and state and zoningat residential or agricultural pric-es, they want to sell it commercial– at commercial prices.”

Malone said that modern megachurches are a far cry from thetraditional concept of churchesthat are active on Sundays andWednesday nights.

“These are not small uses – notto say they are bad things – but theirimpact is greater than the old neigh-borhood churches. The other thingis, what happens when they leave?Do we continue to allow them as useon review in residential neighbor-hoods because we think they havelow impacts, when actually theymay well be seeking to expand – andif they don’t expand, they may wellmove? Or is it time we start lookingat them as the business model theyactually operate under rather thanlooking at them as enhancements toneighborhoods?”

The First Baptist Concord re-

By Sandra ClarkAn almost 10-year wait is near

an end. Knox County Purchasing is

prepared to re-quest bids for the landscaping proj-ect at the inter-change of I-75 and Emory Road. Jim Snowden, deputy director with the county’s Depart-ment of Engineer-ing and Public

Works, said all state conditions have been met and the project is ready for bid.

Kim Severance is chairing this project for the Powell Business and Professional Association, which will match 20 percent of the $28,000 project and pay any ex-cess over the $28,000.

The specs include two wood-en signs with wooden posts and break-away board saying “Wel-come to Powell,” along with sev-eral trees and shrubs.

Severance said the county will

wait 21 days before closing the bid. The contract will then be recom-mended to TDOT for approval and most likely the contractor will start planting in late September or early October.

The original grant was written by Lillian Williams with the PBPA, and she made sure adequate mon-ey was left in the club’s treasury to pay for the match. When she retired, Severance became the project chair. “We cannot make a change at this point or it all goes away,” she said.

Bid specs call for three bald cypress trees, 18 Kousa dogwoodtrees, 12 redbuds, 13 2-inch redmaple, two river birch, one South-ern magnolia, seven sweet gum,nine white pine, 14 willow oak,one yellow wood and three 2-inchAmerican holly.

Shrubs will include clethra, green velvet boxwood and crim-son pygmy barberry, along withhardwood and pinestraw mulch.

When complete, the project will give Powell the prettiest inter-change in Knox County.

By Sandra ClarkTemple Baptist Academy and

The Crown College are huge eco-nomic generators in Powell, and members of the Powell Business and Professional Association came last week to hear Scott Pau-ley talk about the schools.

“We have watched you grow, and this is a talk we’ve wanted to hear for some time,” said PBPA vice president R. Larry Smith.

Pauley is superintendent of the Temple schools, ranging from pre-school through high school. Da-vid Whitaker is principal and Tim Missey is vice-principal.

Temple Baptist pastor Dr. Clar-ence Sexton wrote, “Since its begin-ning in 1971, Temple Baptist Acad-emy has consistently upheld high academic standards, providing an educational program that honors Christ in both content and quality.”

Temple is an accredited, agen-cy-approved member of AdvancEd (SACS CASI) and the Tennessee

Temple schools impact Powell

Severance

State OK’s interstate landscaping design

Rogero plans Lake update

Mayor Madeline Rogero and members of City Council will meet the public at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the Lions Club Building in Fountain City Park to update citizens on the improvement project underway at Fountain City Lake.

The 125-year-old lake has suffered from excess algae and poor water circulation for decades. Rogero and the coun-cil included $250,000 in this year’s city budget for improve-ments. Work began last fall to repair a leak in the earthen berm that surrounds the lake.

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North/East Knox: In-depth coverage

of festivities at Knoxville Botani-

cal Gardens; red carpet at Sarah

Moore Greene Magnet Academy.

Bearden: Kate Moore juggles jobs;

Wendy Smith goes to Pub Talk at

Cedar Springs.

Halls: Sterchi School gets new play-

ground; Ridgecrest area gets a

cell tower.

Karns: Church of Christ off ers special

camp for special kids;

South: Urban bio blitz; Marble

Springs prepares for fundraiser.

See movies in a whole new way

Nowadays, you never have to leave your house to see a movie.

That’s what Paul Harrill and Darren Hughes are afraid of. More and more, fi lm watchers are giving up on movie the-aters – which don’t offer much variety anyway – and staying home to view either streaming movies or ones on DVD.

➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page A-11

BUZZ

Central’s Sports Hall of Fame

The first class of the Cen-tral High School Sports Hall of Fame will be inducted at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at the school.

Honorees include coach Joel Helton, coach Bud Bales, coach Tommy Schumpert, Tony Cosey, and Lorie Comp-ton Rheinecker. Tickets are $25 which includes breakfast.

Info: J.D. Lambert, [email protected].

Carnival returns The Knox North Lions Club

will host a Back-to-School Carnival Wednesday through Saturday, Aug. 19-22, at the lot just south of the new Food City on Clinton Highway.

All-day rides are $20; open Wednesday and Thursday, 5-10 p.m.; Friday, 5-11 p.m.; and Saturday, 1-11 p.m.

Kiwanis Club of Norwood gives $4,000

The Kiwanis Club of Norwood presents four $1,000

scholarships annually to deserving students. The schol-

arship fund was established in memory of Dr. Drexel

Davis, a club founder. Pictured are scholarship fund

chair Harold Greene; student winners Chase Morris,

Erin Elizabeth Williams and Bryce Brewer; and student

fund executive director Bob Dawson. Not pictu red is

winner Jared Johnson. Photo submitted

help, we are assisting parents in building the lives of their chil-dren,” Pauley wrote in the school’s description.

He said the schools are, No. 1, about Christ. “We’re Baptist people. We can’t coerce others; each person must make his own decision.”

No. 2, the schools are about character. “You have a hard time teaching people to be good with-out God.”

He quoted Pastor Sexton who says, “Taking the high road does not mean choosing between good and bad; it means choosing be-tween the good and the best.”

No. 3, the schools are about community.

“We like being in Powell,” said Pauley, who has been here 21 years. “I met my wife here, and we’ve raised our three children here.

“We want to make a difference in the world, and that starts at home.”

The Crown College has put 2,700 graduates all over the world,he said, “and all the people trainedby us are not on campus.”

The schools take no money from the government, intentionally.

The high school is adding a vo-cational component with trainingcurrently for auto-diesel techni-cians and courses coming soon forcosmetology and HVAC techs.

Pauley announced a Job Fair from 10:30 a.m. until noonThursday, Aug. 20, so area busi-nesses can meet potential em-ployees.

In response to questions, Pau-ley said the Temple schools haveabout 225 on campus and thecollege has nearly 800 students.About half live on campus and theother half commute. He invitedresidents to “just pop in” to theschools at any time.

The Crown College is at 2307 Beaver Creek Drive. Info:thecrowncollege.com

Scott Pauley at PBPA

Association of Christian Schools (TACS).

“Temple Baptist Academy is not a production line. We are not manufacturing cars. With God’s

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health & lifestyles

After going through a procedure at the Center

for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort

Sanders Regional, Ben Garibay is happy to be

back on the basketball court and continuing a

passion he’s had for nearly three decades.

Work hard, play hard. That’s the Ben Garibay way.

So when the 51-year-old Alcoa plant worker was faced with back surgery, he had a question for Dr. Joel Norman, neurosur-geon at the Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Region-al: How soon before he could get back to playing basketball?

For Garibay, Dr. Norman’s answer was a slam dunk.

“Dr. Norman said it was up to me and how well I did whether I could get back to playing again,” said Garibay, who was back on the basketball court at Springbrook Recreation Center within a week after surgery.

“I wasn’t running up and down the court, but I was walking and jogging up and down the court. The next week I began to pick up the pace a little bit, and every week I was go-ing more and more. I think it was the � rst of January when I played the � rst league game, and I played � ve minutes at a time. By the end of the season, around the last of February, I played the entire time in the last two games.”

It was quite an improvement from when Dr. Norman � rst diagnosed Garibay with spondylolisthesis, which is a slippage, or in-stability of the vertebrae.

“It is most commonly seen in elderly pa-tients as the joints between the vertebral bod-ies deteriorate and no longer maintain their integrity,” said Dr. Norman. “In Mr. Garibay’s case, he had a pars defect, which he probably had since he was a child, but didn’t cause him signi� cant problems until he developed com-pression of the nerves as a result of this slip-page. The instability of his lower spine led to compression of the nerves radiating down his leg and into his foot, causing a weakness of the muscles in his foot and ultimately leading to his abnormal gait.”

Garibay’s back problems began three de-cades ago when he was working on a cabin where all the � oor joists had rotted. “I was underneath the crawl space knocking out

Maryville man having a ballafter minimally invasive back surgery

the blocking to replace the joists,” Garibay recounted. “There was just one 2-by-2 brick left, and you wouldn’t think it would hold up anything, but when I hit it, the whole � oor fell in on me and threw me to the ground. If those joists hadn’t been so rotten, it probably would’ve killed me.”

It was the second time within a week Garibay had hurt his back while renovat-ing a log cabin. Just days earlier, he slipped from a 15- to 20-foot scaffold and tumbled down several steps into the home’s base-ment. “That’s when I � rst started having problems,” he said.

The back problems lingered, but without insurance, Garibay settled for occasional chi-ropractic adjustments until landing a job in 2001 as a furnace tender at the Alcoa alumi-num plant. He � nally had health insurance, but the physical demands of the work took a toll over the next dozen years. “Somebody I worked with noticed that my foot was turned sideways and I was dragging it,” he said. “I was bumping into everything and my shins would be bleeding but I couldn’t feel it.”

That’s when he turned to Dr. Norman, who � rst tried controlling the pain with steroid injections.

When that failed, there was only one thing left to do: fuse Garibay’s L5-S1 vertebrae. The minimally invasive surgery entailed placing screws into the L5 and S1 vertebral bodies, re-moving the diseased disc between them that was compressing his nerves, replacing that disc with a “spacer” or “cage” � lled with ma-terial to encourage bone growth and connect-ing the screws to a rod to stabilize his spine.

“This approach allows us to perform the same decompression and fusion as a classic ‘open’ surgery, through much smaller inci-sions,” Dr. Norman explained. “This generally leads to fewer intraoperative complications, and an earlier return to normal activity.”

An early return is just what Garibay want-ed. But his activity is anything but normal for most 51-year-olds.

“Dr. Norman set the standard, and said

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Dr. Joel Norman is a local native who returned to East Tennessee after medi-cal school and now cares for patients in the place he calls “home.” He recently talked about his journey from local boy to well-educated neurosurgeon, and the minimally invasive spine surgery that is changing the lives of his patients.

Tell us your story – where did you go to school, and how did you decide to become a neurosurgeon?I was born in Knox-ville, and raised in Seymour. After I graduated from Sey-mour High School, I went to college at MTSU in Murfrees-boro, then moved

to Johnson City to attend ETSU Quillen College of Medicine. I completed neuro-surgery residency in Lexington, Ky, at the University of Kentucky.

I’ve always had a keen interest in the sciences. I found neuroscience intriguing

and challenging. Once I found my way into the operating room, I knew I had found my calling. Combining my love of neurosci-ence with my love of the operating room, neurosurgery was a natural extension.

What do you like about this area? In other words, why are you still here, instead of in a larger city?

East Tennessee is my home. I love the scenery here, the people here, and the op-portunity to give back to the community that raised me.

I appreciate the hometown feel here and the value that word-of-mouth retains in this community. The greatest compli-ment I receive is when someone tells me they heard about me from one of my pa-tients.

What are some common prob-lems your patients have, and how do you help them?

We treat an expansive variety of problems from brain tumors to herni-ated discs. Many of my spine patients have seen several different medical pro-viders and some have undergone several different treatments for their back and

leg pain before they arrive in my of� ce. Most have complaints of back pain cou-pled with sciatica or nerve pain, typically running down the back of their legs. These patients bene� t from the minimally inva-sive approaches to lumbar discectomies and spinal fusions.

Which patients might be candidates for the surgery? The ideal candidate for minimally in-vasive spinal fusion is someone suffering from back and leg pain due to a spondylolis-thesis, or slippage, of the lumbar vertebrae. This is a condition sometimes missed on an initial workup as it often requires spe-cialized X-rays with the patients bending forward or backward to clearly visualize. Often, patients are pain-free while lying on their back, such as during their MRI scans, but upon standing their pain re-turns.

Can you explain how it works? What are the bene� ts of minimally invasive spine surgery?

Minimally invasive spine surgery uses specialized technology within the operating room to allow for smaller in-

cisions and more precise placement of instrumentation. We are able to actu-ally obtain a CT scan of the patient while they are asleep on the operating room table and customize our surgical approach to the individual patient, in real time. This allows for much smaller incisions and less damage to the tissues surround-ing the spine. Ultimately, this approach gets people back on their feet sooner than is generally necessary for a more tradition-al, open approach to the spine.

What makes the Center for Mini-mally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Cen-ter the best choice for this surgery?

Fort Sanders Regional has demonstrat-ed a true commitment to excellence in spine surgery, and especially minimally invasive neurosurgery. The hospital has been in-strumental in purchasing state-of-the-art intraoperative image guidance that allows minimally invasive surgery to be possible. We have a dedicated team of nurses and technicians in the operating room who are experienced and specially trained to assist in these minimally invasive pro-

cedures. Post-operatively, our nurses are also hand-picked and specially trained in the management of our patients who have undergone minimally invasive spinal procedures, and we have a dedicated � oor of the hospital reserved for neuroscience, and especially spine patients.

What’s it like to also practice medicine in the place where you grew up?

Many of my friends and family still live nearby and it’s been great to recon-nect with people I hadn’t had the op-portunity to see in the years I was away for training. It’s also been an honor and a humbling experience to take care of people who watched me grow up in a small town. I’ve taken care of my school teachers, old friends, and family members of friends who knew me in high school. I have a relatively unique experience in that I graduated high school with many of the same people I started kindergarten with. I’m honored that those people who watched me grow up trust me now with their health.

Meet Dr. Joel Norman local neurosurgeon and Seymour native

I wouldn’t have � exibility like I had before,” said Garibay, who now works in Alcoa’s store room. “I’m still stiff to a certain point but I’m getting back to doing what an old man should be able to do.”

What he’s able to do is run and gun with men 20 to 30 years his junior, playing as many as � ve games every Thursday night until the parks & recreation league season starts around Thanksgiving. It’s something the 6-foot-2 Garibay, who once had dreams of playing collegiately, has been doing for

almost 30 years now. “I don’t drink. I don’tparty. I just play basketball,” said Garibay.“That’s my one vice – playing ball.”

“It hurts my feelings when they say, ‘I’ve got the old man,’” said Garibay. “But by theend of the game, they are usually tryingto catch up with me. They aren’t talking aboutthe ‘old man’ anymore. That makes me feelbetter.”

So did the spine surgery. For the � rst time in seven years, Garibay is back to sleep-ing in his bed rather than a recliner. “I wasconcerned that I wouldn’t be able to do halfthe stuff that I used to do,” said Garibay,adding that he had even bought a tractorlawnmower because he wouldn’t be ableto lift anything anymore. “All I had heardwere horror stories. Everybody kept tellingme they would never have back surgery be-cause everybody they’d ever heard of whohad back surgery were never the same. ButI’m running around lifting stuff like surgerynever happened.”

That’s what Dr. Norman likes to hear.“I think spine surgery should be per-

formed with the ultimate goal of returningto activities patients enjoy,” he said. “Gener-ally, the patients I see have given up on someactivity or sport because of the back and legpain associated with their degenerative con-dition. It’s my goal to see them return to theseactivities. I’m encouraged he should do wellwith basketball. His incentive in undergoingsurgery was to return to the sport he was un-able to play as a result of his condition. Whoam I to tell him he can’t?”

“Mr. Garibay’s course couldn’t havegone any better,” added Dr. Norman. “He’sbeen very pleased with his outcome, andI believe he should be able to return to allactivity without dif� culty. Cases like hisremind us of why we went into medicine.I appreciate the opportunity to improvethe quality of life of my patients and it’sa pleasure to see people return to the lifethey enjoyed prior to being encumberedby pain.”

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zoning battle is likely to be epic. The property in ques-tion – at 9635 Westland Drive, 5.7 miles from the church’s Kingston Pike ad-dress – has a long history of zoning fi ghts, dating back to 1988 when neighbors op-posed to placing a Pellis-sippi Parkway exit ramp there battled developers to the state Supreme Court. It later became part of the city after a “fi nger annexa-tion,” and attorney Wayne Kline has been involved at every step along the way. He is representing opponents of the First Baptist rezon-ing request and believes the traffi c study will show that commercial develop-ment will be harmful to the neighborhood.

“There’s lots of room for commercial at Northshore,” he said. “Why do you have to bring in a commercial com-ponent to Westland? I think a good traffi c study will say you can’t put commercial development in here and hopefully MPC will do their

job and make sure things are done properly. The pur-pose of zoning regulations is compatibility.”

Ultimately, the issue will land on City Council’s agen-da. Council member Mark Campen, whose district includes the Inskip area as well as North Broadway, and who opposed the rezon-ing request for the former Presbyterian church, said he’ll consider the Westland issues carefully.

“We need to look at when is it OK to open up residen-tial areas to commercial uses,” he said. The owner (of the former church in Inskip) swore that the use wasn’t going to go to any-thing more intense, but we just can’t foretell the future.

We’ve got to be very careful about how we rezone.”

No one from First Baptist Concord (which has nearly 80 employees listed in its online directory) responded to phone calls or emails, but it is represented by attorney Arthur Seymour Jr., who said he’s not sure what the fl ap is about.

“(The Centerpointe site) is a good place for a com-mercial center. It’s an in-terstate interchange. Obvi-ously there are some issues, and we’ll wait for the traffi c study. But it’s a good project and a great location.”

Seymour declined com-ment when asked why First Baptist owns real estate nearly six miles distant from its campus.

When Nita Buell Black passed away last year, the Powell community lost a vi-sionary and avid supporter. Mona Napier lost her best friend.

Steven Miller and Melody McMahan talk with Mona Napier during auditions for an upcoming

Powell Playhouse production. Photo by Cindy Taylor

Mona Napier: Playhouse pals

There was little time to grieve as the Powell Play-house was set for opening night of the play “Every-body Loves Opal” Feb. 27, the same day Buell Black passed. Napier says the show went on, but it was a very emotional night.

“Nita had cast the play and then was diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2014,” said Napier. “She and I discussed letting the cast and board members decide if we should go ahead with the play.”

The decision was made to

go on with production, and Buell Black was pleased with the decision. Since then Na-pier and other community members have kept the Pow-ell Playhouse dream alive just as Nita would have wanted.

Napier was asked by Buell Black to be in charge of tickets and ushers for the fi rst production in 2010. Napier has been a board

member and is current trea-surer. She helps with the playbill, printing and cast party and is in charge of the Playhouse’s annual arts and crafts show. She also works closely with the director.

“With the help of others I try to coordinate and help in any way I can to keep Nita’s dream going,” said Napier. “It hasn’t always been easy.”

Napier says a lot goes on behind the scenes to put on a production. With the help of volunteers and donations from local businesses, those involved in the Playhouse continue to give perfor-mances that she thinks Buell Black would be proud of.

Napier says she was “drug along” everywhere Buell Black went as her sidekick

once they became close. But she has no regrets.

“I got involved with the Playhouse through the right time, right person. God puts people in your life for a rea-son.”

The latest production is “A Day at the Java Shop and the Greyhound Bus Depot.” The cast will include 10 men and seven women. A highlight

will most likely be the cast member who will play the young Johnny Cash. Singing included. No extra charge.

Auditions were held last week, and the cast will be announced soon. The play will run Oct. 15-17. The annual Arts and Crafts Show will be held Nov. 7. Info: www.powellplayhouseinc.com

COMMUNITY NOTES

Stay Sharp as a TackFor anyone who has been

recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia, the YMCA is offering the pilot pro-gram “Stay Sharp as a Tack,” hosted by the Davis Family YMCA, 12133 S. Northshore Drive.

Participants can try an exer-cise regimen that focuses on balance, coordination, cardio improvement and cognitive improvement.

The one-year program will also focus on education for both the client and the caregiv-er and will offer social events like line-dancing, bridge and lunch outings. Info: Matt Mc-Ghee, 777-9622 or [email protected]. Deadline to register is Aug. 28.

REUNION NOTES ■ Graham Family Reunion, Sat-

urday, Aug. 29, Cabin/Tea Room,

Big Ridge State Park. Bring a

covered dish; lunch, 1 p.m.

■ Halls High classes of 1976-1981, 6:30 p.m.-midnight

Saturday, Sept. 26, Red Gate

Farm, 2353 Maynardville

Highway, Maynardville.

■ Powell High Class of 1985,

7-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29,

Southern Depot, 306 W.

Depot Ave. Info: Stacey Berry,

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HEALTH NOTES ■ “Eat Well to Prevent

and Manage Diabetes” workshop, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29, Heart Hos-

pital Conference Room at UT

Medical Center. Hosted by the

UT Medical Center’s Healthy

Living Kitchen team. Cost:

$30. Info/registration: 305-

6970; www.utmedicalcenter.

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Untying the ribbon on the new welcome center at

the Knoxville Botanical Gardens are Mayor Mad-

eline Rogero, Gov. Bill Haslam, board of directors

chair Joan Ashe and Knox County Mayor Tim Bur-

chett. Photo by Ruth White

opens at the KnoxvilleBotanical Gardens

Welcome Center

■ Broadacres Homeowners Association. Info: Steven

Goodpaster, generalgoodpas-

[email protected].

■ Knox North Lions Club

meets 1 p.m. each fi rst and

third Wednesday, Puleo’s

Grille, 110 Cedar Lane. Info:

facebook.com/knoxnorth-

lions.

■ Northwest Democratic Club meets 6 p.m. each

fi rst Monday, Austin’s Steak

& Homestyle Buff et, 900

Merchant Drive. Info: Nancy

Stinnette, 688-2160, or Peggy

Emmett, 687-2161.

■ Norwood Homeowners As-sociation. Info: Lynn Redmon,

688-3136.

■ Powell Alumni Association banquet is the fi rst Saturday

in April. Info: Vivian McFalls,

607-8775.

■ Powell Lions Club meets 7

p.m. each fi rst Thursday, Lions

Club Building, 7145 Old Clin-

ton Pike. Info: tnpowelllions@

gmail.com.

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Jason Zachary scored an impressive win last

week taking the GOP primary for state repre-senta-tive over veteran school board

member Karen Carson. He won in all but two precincts in the West Knox County district.

Carson was backed by Gov. Bill Haslam and state Sen. Richard Briggs. In-sure Tennessee was made the primary issue of the campaign, and it lost. The sole public offi cial openly backing Zachary was state Rep. Roger Kane, who of-fered sage advice.

Carson’s campaign donor list was a signifi -cant, impressive list of state and local VIPs. Even two Knoxville City Council members, George Wallace and Fin-barr Saunders, were on it.

Zachary had back-ing from Germantown state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Commit-tee, and several House legislative leaders such as Jeremy Durham and Glen Casada. However, his base donor list was not nearly as well known as Carson’s.

Zachary had run a surprisingly strong race just one yea r ago for Congress and actually carried Farragut. He kept that support and defeated a much better fi nanced and more experienced offi ceholder (11 years on school board) this time. He proved that high-powered endorsements do not equate to victory.

Knox County Com-mission is expected to appoint Zachary as state representative since he is unopposed in the Sept. 29 general election. He may have a special swearing-in ceremony in Farragut just as Sen. Becky Duncan Massey did in Fountain City after her election.

Zachary will seek a full term in August 2016, which means he will have campaigned for public offi ce three times in three years. Zachary, like his friend Rep. Kane, came out of nowhere to prevail. He is a new name on the political scene.

He will be a conserva-tive voice in Nashville. A gas tax and Insure Ten-nessee will not have his vote. He supports Kane on restoring the Lady Vols name and requiring

Zachary overwhelms opposition

the UT Board of Trustees to have a public forum at its board meetings.

■ The U.S. Senate confi rmed Eric Satz of Nashville to the TVA Board of Directors on Aug. 5. The board now has nine members and for the fi rst time in recent history not one is from East Tennessee, while two are from Nashville and Memphis each. Satz is controversial in Nash-ville but was unknown by U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, who is a Democrat.

■ President Obama has also nominated Rich-ard Howorth, a former mayor of Oxford, Miss., to a second term on the TVA Board. He has the backing of the state’s two Republican senators and should be confi rmed. His term expired last May, but he continues to the end of 2015.

■ Former NATO Ambassador Kurt Volker will speak at the Baker Center at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25. The public is invited. Volker, who now leads the Mc-Cain Institute at the Uni-versity of Arizona, will discuss Iran, Greece and challenges for the United States in Europe.

■ Mary Costa was honored last Friday, Aug. 14, by Gov. Bill and Crissy Haslam in a private cer-emony. She was one of 10 recipients of Tennessee’s highest honor in the arts. Costa was unable to attend the March 17 ceremony in Nashville, so the governor made a private presenta-tion of the Distinguished Artist Award while he was in Knoxville dedicating the new Welcome Center at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens in East Knoxville (formerly Howell Nurs-ery).

■ Over 300 people attended the dedication of the Welcome Center where Gov. Haslam, Mayor Burchett and Mayor Rogero spoke. The crowd was a cross-sec-tion of Knoxville.

Former county mayor Tommy Schumpert along with all fi ve living Knox-ville mayors were present.

Most of City Council were present, along with Sens. Briggs and Massey as well as Reps. Arm-strong, Dunn, Smith, Kane and Brooks plus GOP nominee Zachary.

Jason Zachary

Betty Bean

Carson Dailey has been involved in community is-sues for decades, and a South Knox advocate for longer than that, so it should surprise no one that he’s preparing to run for County Commission next year.

Carson Dailey

Longtime South Knox advocate to

seek County Commission seat

The timing is good since he will be stepping down from his seat on the county Board of Zoning Appeals, where he has served since 2009 when County Com-mission was hit with a court order that forced them to stop appointing themselves to the board, and to make it citizens-only.

He was also one of the fi rst citizens to serve on the county’s Ethics Committee, a position he says was very good preparation to run for the county’s legislative body.

“I learned a lot in the past six years. Serving on

BZA is very interesting and I got a lot of training on zon-ings and how government works.”

Dailey has served as president of his homeown-ers’ group – South-Doyle Neighborhood Association – founded in the late ’70s by Mike Brown, the incumbent commissioner from District 9 who will leave the seat next year.

“When Mike Brown men-tioned that he wasn’t go-ing to seek re-election, we started talking around and my neighbors said, ‘You need to run.’ I said no, that I didn’t have the time. A few months ago, they asked me to run again. I said I’d do it, and so far there’s been a great response. I’ve got a lot of backing.”

Dailey, a 1978 graduate of South-Young High School, said he’s running because he loves Knox County – es-pecially South Knoxville – and wants to make sure it gets its fair share of quality growth.

“South Knoxville’s still the biggest rural area we’ve got right now. We’ve lost our

community schools. When they merged South and Young high schools togeth-er, the two communities went to one gigantic school, and it’s hard for a communi-ty to keep its identity when that happens.”

The summer after Dailey graduated from high school, he took a job at UT work-ing on the Neyland Stadium maintenance crew doing painting, pressure washing and general cleanup. That September, he got a job as a truck driver with Dixie Bearings (now Applied In-dustrial Technologies). He

moved to an inside job the following year and by 1981, he had been promoted to ac-count manager, a position he holds today.

He married Tammy Cur-tis, whom he calls his soul-mate, 35 years ago. They have a son, Jeremy, who is a graphic designer.

Dailey had a setback in March, when he was diag-nosed with kidney cancer and had a kidney removed. He says the cancer was caught early on, and he feels pretty good nowadays, even though he had to give up a hardcore Mountain Dew habit.

If elected, he’s planning to approach County Com-mission with the same de-termination he has brought to BZA and to his fi ght against cancer.

“There’s not a better place to live than South Knoxville, and I want to make sure we get quality growth on the south side,” he said. “We’ve probably got 11-13 payday loan compa-nies along Chapman High-way. I want to help get good quality businesses in here.”

Karen Carson

Sandra Clark

‘We Pray for Children’By Ina Hughes

We pray for children Who put chocolate fi ngers every-

where, Who like to be tickled, Who stomp in puddles and ruin their

new pants, Who sneak Popsicles before supper, Who erase holes in math workbooks, Who can never fi nd their shoes.

And we pray for those Who stare at photographers from be-

hind barbed wire, Who can’t bound down the street in

new sneakers, Who never “counted potatoes,” Who are born in places we wouldn’t

be caught dead in, Who never go to the circus, Who live in an X-rated world.

We pray for children Who bring us sticky kisses and fi st-

fuls of dandelions, Who sleep with the cat and bury

goldfi sh,

Who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money,

Who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink,

Who slurp their soup.

And we pray for those Who never get dessert, Who have no safe blanket to drag be-

hind them, Who can’t fi nd any bread to steal, Who don’t have any rooms to clean up, Whose pictures aren’t on anybody’s

dresser, Whose monsters are real.

We pray for children Who spend all their allowance before

Tuesday, Who throw tantrums in the grocery

store and pick at their food, Who like ghost stories, Who shove dirty clothes under the

bed, Who get visits from the tooth fairy, Who don’t like to be kissed in front of

the car pool,

Who squirm in church and scream on the phone,

Whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry.

And we pray for those Whose nightmares come in the day-

time, Who will eat anything, Who have never seen a dentist, Who are never spoiled by anyone, Who go to bed hungry and cry them-

selves to sleep, Who live and move, but have no be-

ing.

We pray for children Who want to be carried And for those who must, For those we never give up on And for those who never get a second

chance, For those we smother. And for those who will grab the hand

of anybody kind enough to offer it.

We pray for children.Amen. We pray for Children, 1995, William Morrow publish-ers. Used by permission of author.

Dear God (and other prayers)So if Jason Zachary beat

Karen Car-son because it was God’s will, then it follows that God doesn’t like Insure Ten ne s s e e and strong-ly supports s c h o o l

vouchers.And it confi rms some-

thing we’ve long suspected: God really does favor Bap-tists over Methodists.

In Nashville’s Legislative Plaza, word has gone forth. Gov. Haslam is toothless, and Insure Tennessee is a pathway to defeat. Never mind the myriad of local is-sues and personalities that had more to do with the out-come of this race.

And, dear God, why should a minuscule vote in

one of Tennessee’s most af-fl uent districts determine the fate of health insurance for the working poor?

Oh, the irony.Also, we salute the school

voucher proponents who stood shoulder to shoulder with public school teach-ers who will be hurt most by a legislatively mandated voucher program. Way to go, teachers. Guess you showed Karen Carson!

So we all move on. Let’s stop praying for

politicians and start praying for kids.

And let’s start with the absolutely best such prayer I’ve heard. It’s from our friend Ina Hughs, “A Prayer for Children.”

POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • AUGUST 19, 2015 • A-5 government

Wendy Smith

Gerald Green, the new director of the Metropoli-tan Planning Commission, is following through with his commitment to keep in touch with neighborhoods. Last week, he told members of the city’s Neighborhood Advisory Council that he’s aware of the “challenges” of his predecessor, Mark Donaldson, and he wants communication to fl ow both ways.

“I have lots of years of ex-perience, but I don’t know what Knoxville wants. You have to create the vision.”

The Neighborhood Ad-visory Council is composed of neighborhood leaders appointed by Mayor Mad-eline Rogero. The group meets monthly to give feedback to the Offi ce of Neighborhoods, bring is-sues to the attention of the administration and serve as a sounding board for city initiatives.

MPC Executive Di-rector Gerald Green speaks with Boright area representative Lola Alapo after last week’s Neigh-borhood Advisory Council meeting. Photo by Wendy Smith

Green reaches out to neighborhoods

Neighborhoods “defi ne who you are in the com-munity,” but they tend to break down and become less defi ned as areas grow, Green says. He plans to look at ways to protect neighbor-hoods, which are affected by development along cor-ridors.

Certain businesses, like “alternative financing” institutions, ref lect badly on nearby neighborhoods. Communities like Fourth and Gill “pay the price” for easy interstate access with high levels of traffic noise. Balancing those issues is a tough job for MPC, he says.

Marvin West

This Tennessee football team has the potential to do something signifi cant.

Oh no, it does not project as a participant in the na-tional playoffs but it could win nine games. That would be the best since 2007, next to last season for Phillip Fulmer.

These Volunteers could be precursors to really good times. If Butch Jones and his staff can coach as well as they recruit, this season will be one big step toward Southeastern Conference relevance, a future top 10 in the polls, even an occasional victory over Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

The brick-by-brick build-ing job was impressive. Now comes the harder part, go-

Best and worst of times

ing chin to chin with the big boys without backing or get-ting knocked down.

Tennessee fans have waited impatiently for a re-turn of the good, old days. Butch can only guess how it will be when that mission is offi cially accomplished.

Keep in mind that I am only 81. I missed the first peak of the Neyland era and did not fully grasp Bob Suffridge’s description of 1938-40, SEC champs, 31-2 overall, 15 consecutive

games without permitting a point. This was the time of George Cafego, Bowden Wyatt and Ed Molinski, all, along with Suff, in the College Football Hall of Fame.

I saw clearly 1950 and 1951, Doug Atkins, Hank Lauricella, John Michels, playing their way to the Hall, national champs, 21-2 overall. My view was unob-structed. It helped to have a cousin on the team.

One year after Wyatt came as coach, the 1956 Volunteers were terrifi c. John Majors led the charge, perfect regular season, less perfect in the Sugar Bowl.

I thought this was the launch of another dominant period. It wasn’t. The best of times turned into one of the

worst as Wyatt declined, the Vols sagged, Chattanooga staged an ungodly upset, single-wing tailbacks were hard to fi nd and Ole Miss threw into the fl at and ex-posed the 6-2-2-1 defense.

Doug Dickey restored or-der. I still think Steve Kiner, Jack Reynolds and Jackie Walker were the best line-backer trio I have seen. That was 1969.

Dickey went away. Bob Woodruff erred in choosing bright, young (very young) end coach Bill Battle as his replacement.

Battle did fi ne with Dickey’s recruits. Those Vols thrashed Dickey’s fi rst Florida team and walloped undefeated Air Force in the Sugar Bowl. Ah yes, those were good times.

Erosion was measured by one less victory per year.

Majors was Tennessee coach from 1977 through 1992. This was an up and down era. He won eight in his fi fth season, nine in ’83, gave us the legendary Sugar Vols in 1985 and peaked in 1989-90.

Simple summation of the Fulmer years: 100 more wins than losses, na-tional championship, best of times. Butch Jones has heard about this. He may have seen video of Peyton Manning or Al Wilson or some of the great offensive linemen.

Fulmer was a first-bal-lot Hall of Fame honoree. His teams beat up on Ala-bama. They had trouble with Florida.

Firing Fulmer without a plan led to the absolute worst of times. Lane Kiffi n was a bad joke. Derek Dool-ey was … well, let’s just say some of the scores and stats were horrible, worst in the forever history of Tennessee football. Forget not that a really good day was spoiled by the chaotic inability to count to 11. Do remember that Kentucky won with a reserve receiver playing quarterback.

From that mess, Butch Jones has rebuilt the Vol-unteers. You may not rec-ognize alternate uniforms but results should appear more like the Tennessee scoreboard is supposed to look. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is [email protected].

ordinances is a challenge. One of his goals is to make the organization of the city and county ordinances sim-ilar.

During his tenure with the city of Asheville, he spent four years on a com-plete rewrite of the city code. Such an endeavor here would require an enormous amount of staff time, but he thinks it may be necessary for development to happen “the way it should.” He’d

recommend hiring a con-sultant.

“You don’t make a lot of friends doing that.”

He took notes as repre-sentatives shared neighbor-hood concerns. Lauren Rid-er of Old North Knoxville says that those who want to open new businesses on Central have to choose be-tween rezoning or request-ing a variance in order to redevelop. David Gillette of Mechanicsville says his

neighbors want to know about possible redevelop-ment on the Knoxville Col-lege campus. Travetta John-son said Parkridge residents are concerned that the new owner of a neighborhood church building will allow it to languish.

Green said he would stay in touch with neighborhood coordinator David Massey and attend, or send staff members, to future neigh-borhood meetings.

Corridors present a num-ber of challenges. He plans to look at ways to encourage new development and rede-velopment of property along corridors like Chapman Highway and Broadway that will benefi t nearby neigh-borhoods.

Green thinks diversity of housing is one of Knox-ville’s strengths. The cur-rent trend is a preference for smaller, lower-maintenance housing with walkability. That needs to be considered when corridors are devel-oped because they need to offer walkability while still serving those in cars.

Looking at Knoxville and Knox County zoning code is like stepping into a time machine, he says. The code isn’t keeping up with cur-rent trends and needs to be re-examined, but that would stretch the MPC’s small staff.

Dealing with two sets of


SENIOR NOTES ■ Karns Senior Center:

Wednesday, Aug. 19: 9

a.m. billiards, quilting; 10

a.m. dominoes, crochet;

11 a.m. open game; 1

p.m. Rook.

Thursday, Aug. 20: 9

a.m. billiards, quilting;

11:30 a.m. Main Munch;1

p.m. pinochle; 1:30 p.m.

Zumba Gold.

Friday, Aug. 21: 9 a.m.

SAIL exercise, billiards;

11 a.m. cross-stitch,

Driver Testing, Senior

Meals (must sign up); 1

p.m. movie time.

Monday, Aug. 24: 9 a.m.

SAIL exercise, billiards,

quilting; 9:30 a.m. cloth

painting; 10 a.m. Food

City Tour, dominoes; 11

a.m. open game.

Tuesday, Aug. 25: 9 a.m.

billiards; 1 p.m. pinochle;

1:30 p.m. Zumba Gold.

Info: 688-5882

■ Halls Senior Center:

Wednesday, Aug. 19: 9

a.m. Veterans Services;

10 a.m. bingo, hand &

foot; 12:30 p.m. bridge; 1

p.m. Rook, SAIL exercise.

Thursday, Aug. 20: 10

a.m. line dancing, quilt-

ing; 11 a.m., exercise;

1 p.m. ballroom dance

class.

Friday, Aug. 21: 9:30

a.m. Pilates; 10 a.m.

euchre, Farkle; 11 a.m.

SAIL exercise; 11:30 a.m.

art class; noon Mexican

Train dominoes; 2 p.m.

Zumba Gold.

Monday, Aug. 24: 9 a.m.

scrapbooking; 10 a.m.

pinochle, bridge, hand &

foot; 1 p.m. Rook, SAIL

Tuesday, Aug. 25: 10 a.m.

canasta; 11 a.m. exercise;

noon Super Seniors with

Amedysis; 12:30 p.m.

Mexican Train domi-

noes; 1:30 p.m. hand

& foot; 2 p.m. movie

matinee: “Survivor.”

Info: 922-0416

By Cindy TaylorThe newest, cutest fash-

ion statement has got to be tiny tennis shoes for min-iature horses. Elders at The Courtyards Senior Living got to see them fi rsthand Aug. 10 when volunteers from Shangri-La Thera-peutic Academy of Riding (STAR) brought a miniature horse and donkey for a visit.

Thanks to the invention of mini tennis shoes from Build-a-Bear and animal diapers, Flash the donkey and Honey the horse were allowed to make their way through the facility greeting the elders.

“The horses don’t seem to mind the shoes at all,” said STAR volunteer Susanna Dimmick.

Many residents had donned their cowboy hats and bandannas and had been waiting patiently for the horses to arrive. Wade Clemons returned to the fa-cility just as the horse and

Marie Nevader wears her

western hat while waiting to

greet the horses.

Samantha Lyons visits with her aunt, Edna Clark, while waiting

for the horses. Clark just celebrated her 94th birthday.

Flash, with Makeda Renfro-Sargent and STAR volunteer Susan-

na Dimmick, and Honey with STAR volunteer Donna Philips get

ready to go inside. Makeda was visiting her great-grandmoth-

er, Frances Nixon.

Katherine Mazzato, Wade Clemons and Ruby Freeman are among the fi rst elders

to greet Honey. Check out those pink tennis shoes on Honey. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Small horses bring big benefi ts

donkey arrived. He was quick to buddy up to Flash.

“They want me to come inside, but I don’t want to leave Flash,” he said.

Kathy Broggy is the life enrichment director at The Courtyards. She knows it is important to keep seniors actively engaged with ani-mals.

“One of our elders grew up on a ranch and she really wanted to see some horses, so we took a group to the Shangri-La ranch and they had the best time,” she said. “Having (STAR) visit us means those who couldn’t make the trip to the ranch will get to enjoy time with the horse and donkey right here.”

Broggy says bringing outside resources into a memory care facility is a mission of The Courtyards. Family members said they appreciated the work by em-ployees to keep the elders in continuing contact with

animals and children.STAR is a nonprofi t that

helps people with disabili-ties ride and care for horses.

Next up: Anne Hart talks with

former Knox County Law

Director Charlie Maner.

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I am not an alarmist, but I am alarmed.

Scientists tell us that we are using (and abus-ing) the resources of the earth at rates that are unsustainable. There is a limit to what we can stain, gobble up, destroy, with-out destroying ourselves.

Even animals know not to foul their own nest!

John Muir was born 177 years ago this week. He loved this earth, but more importantly, he re-spected it and understood its ecological balance. He saw that we did not love Mother Earth as we should, and he foresaw the coming crisis.

There are those who scoff at global warming, who don’t fret about our casual use of resources, who couldn’t care less about how much oil we pump out of the ground.

However, there is a point of no return, a point at which we cannot re-verse the damage. Then battles will be fought over

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.

(Genesis 2: 15 NRSV)When we try to pick out anything by itself, we

fi nd it hitched to everything else in the Universe.(John Muir, naturalist and conservationist)

The tipping point

CrossCurrents

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water, food, clothing and shelter. This will not be a war, but very personal, local fi ghts for the neces-sities of life.

There will be extinc-tion of entire species of animals, and that will ultimately include the hu-man animal.

There was a time we feared the destruction of the earth by nuclear ho-locaust, which is still a possibility, perhaps less remote now than in the last 40 years. One nuclear scientist said then that he did not know what weapons would be used in World War III, but he was certain that World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church,

7212 Central Avenue Pike, is

accepting appointments for

the John 5 Food Pantry. Info:

938-2611. Your call will be

returned.

■ Powell Presbyterian Church, 2910 W. Emory Road,

will host a Second Harvest

Mobile Food Pantry 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29, with the

parking lot opening 6 a.m. No

prerequirements to receive

food. Volunteers should arrive

7 a.m. Info: 938-8311; www.

powellpcusa.org.

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church,

6125 Lacy Road, off ers

Children’s Clothes Closet and

Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

each third Saturday. Free to

those in the 37912/37849 ZIP

code area.

Classes/meetings ■ Bookwalter UMC, 4218

By Cindy Taylor When people refer to

folks as “The Salt of the earth” they probably have a group in mind similar to many members of Bishop-ville Baptist Church. Talk to almost any member and you are likely to hear, “I’ve been here most of my life.”

Bishopville members are celebrating their 145th an-niversary with Homecom-ing August 23. While the church is currently seeking a pastor, former pastor and present associate pastor the Rev. Ed Bounds has been keeping the pulpit fi lled. Bounds has been attending Bishopville more than 30 years and was lead pastor for six of those.

Mary Herrell has spent most of her life at Bishop-ville. Many early baptisms were performed in Bull Run Creek or in the creek on her grandfather’s prop-erty. The church is multi-

Bishopville members Don and Pat Madgett, associate pastor the Rev. Ed Bounds, Bobbie Kennedy-Jones and Mary Herrell. Most

are lifetime members. Photos by Cindy Taylor

VBS group at Bishopville circa 1950

Bishopville celebrating 145 years

generational with many families going back several generations.

“My mama brought me here when I was just a little thing,” she said. “I came

here when it was a white siding church.”

The present building sits on the original site which has housed three sanctu-aries since the church was founded in 1870. The fi rst building was a log building. A white siding building fol-

lowed in the early 1800s but was replaced when it slid off its foundation. Herrell says her uncle told them it would do just that. The current brick building has stood since the early 1960s with an expansion in the early 1980s.

Homecoming will feature lunch on the grounds fol-lowing an 11 a.m. service. Gospel singing group “In-side Out” will perform. All are welcome.

Bishopville Baptist Church is at 9507 Depot Street in Heiskell.

FAITH NOTESCentral Avenue Pike, will host

“Dealing with Anger and Bad

Attitudes in Children and

Their Parents” seminar, 6:30

p.m. Friday, Aug. 21. Cost: $20

each/$30 couple. Advance

registration required. Info/

registration: biblicalparenting.

org/register or 609-771-8002.

■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church, 323 W. Emory

Road, hosts Recovery at Pow-

ell at 6 p.m. Tuesdays. The

program embraces people

who struggle with addiction,

compulsive behaviors, loss

and life challenges. Info: re-

coveryatpowell.com or info@

powellchurch.com.

Music programs ■ Mount Harmony Baptist

Church, 819 Raccoon Valley

Road NE, will host a Gospel

singing, 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

29. Featured group: Crimson

Ridge.

Special services ■ Bishopville Baptist Church,

9507 Depot St., Heiskell,

will celebrate Homecoming

during the 11 a.m. service

Sunday, Aug. 23, with gospel

singing group Inside Out.

Food served after service.

Everyone welcome.

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A special camp

for special friendsBy Sara Barrett

Special education teacher and Karns Church of Christ member Kim Higginbo-tham has worked with many special needs children over the years. After doing some research, she discovered about 80 percent of the fam-ilies never attended church service of any kind.

The reasons they gave were varied, said Higginbo-tham, including “their child wasn’t welcomed in any of the children’s activities; their child was wheeled into the corner and left there un-til they were picked up; or their child cannot handle sensory overload.”

Parents had also made attempts to fi nd someone to care for their child during Bible class, but they were told by church leadership the church wasn’t respon-sible for fi nding babysitters.

Higginbotham decided to take matters into her own hands.

Surveys were sent to families in several congre-gations around town asking whether their congregation offered any special services or programs for the child or their parents and whether they have been offered any outreach services within the community for special needs children.

The responses Higgin-botham received showed a bare cupboard for special needs children and their families. “As the church, we should be looking for ways to minister to all people, so I thought we could surely fi nd a way to make a place for these precious children.”

Higginbotham ap-proached the congregation at Karns Church of Christ with the idea for “Forever

His” Special Needs Day Camp. The program will include outdoor activities, crafts, games and more.

A staff of volunteers will include a physician, several registered nurses, thera-pists and special educa-tion teachers in addition to general volunteers from the church and surrounding community. The goal is to allow any child, no matter

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what their physical limita-tions are, to participate to the fullest.

“We really want this day to focus on children who cannot successfully attend a typical VBS program. Spe-cial considerations must be made for each camper’s safety, medical needs, food sensitivities, bathroom or diapering needs and mobil-ity and sensory issues. We want to be prepared for whatever need a child comes to us with,” she said.

Each child will have at least one volunteer “buddy” to help them participate. “Oh my, we’ve had so many volunteers … our fi rst meet-ing, 40 showed up and an-other 20 just couldn’t make it to that particular meeting. Everyone’s really excited,” she said.

If the camp is successful, Higginbotham would like to plan additional events throughout the year for spe-cial needs families includ-ing a day this December.

“Forever His” Special Needs Day Camp will be held 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Karns Church of Christ, 6612 Bea-ver Ridge Road. This fi rst year there will be limited enrollment. Deadline for registration is Saturday, Sept. 19. Forms are avail-able online at karnscoc.org/forever-his-special-needs-day-camp/.

“Special-needs kids are born sinless as we all are, but unlike the rest of us, they never let sin defi le them. They live their lives in innocence and come to the end of their lives just as pure and safe as babies. They truly are forever His,” says Higginbotham.

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Cutting the ribbon on the new electronic sign at Pleasant Ridge are PTO vice president Sophie Kershaw, school board member

Terry Hill, secretary Stacey Trumble, treasurer Beth Kirkland and president Hannah Gump. Photo by R. White

School board member Terry Hill fl ips the switch on the new sign

at Pleasant Ridge and applauds as the fi rst message fl ashes.

Thanks to the hard work of Knox County Schools maintenance staff, parents and PTO members, Lowe’s and the Kiwanis Club, Pleasant Ridge Elementary opened to the new school year with several improve-ments.

Take notice of the new playground fence that keeps children safe as they play during recess. While walk-ing to the building, note the fresh landscaping at one of the memorial gardens.

While inside, look around and check out the new energy-effi cient lighting throughout the building, the new wainscoting and paint in the main lobby/hallway

and feel the comfort of the energy-effi cient HVAC sys-tem in the building.

The school also has a new electronic sign installed at the entrance to keep parents informed of meeting dates and other school activities.

“This is a huge accom-plishment after two years of persistent fund raising,” said school board member Terry Hill, who was thanked by the staff as being a huge part of getting the new sign. Principal Jessica Birdsong called the sign a testament to how much the commu-nity cares about the school and is thankful to everyone who worked to have the sign installed.

Knox County Schools, the Knoxville Police Depart-ment and the Knox County Sheriff’s Offi ce have teamed to make sure that children in the school system are safe, whether in the class-room or on the school bus.

“Every day it’s top pri-ority to keep our children safe,” said Superintendent Jim McIntyre. “Additional strategies are being added to enhance safety.” One of the fi rst requirements will be additional training of school bus drivers, with a focus on distracted driv-ing. A ride-along system is being developed where a uniformed offi cer will ride a school bus periodically to double-check skills and safety practices.

Knox County Schools is currently looking into fund-ing for video cameras for all buses, to record the driver

and the activity on the bus. The fi nal step in the safety plan is a third-party com-prehensive and detailed re-view of the transportation program.

The school system works with KPD and KCSO to have a uniformed offi cer in every school. The offi cers can be a police offi cer, sheriff’s depu-ty or school resource offi cer depending on the need at each school. School doors are locked during the day, and visitors are required to check in at the front offi ce of every school upon entering.

“We are doing every-thing possible to assure the safety of our children in the schools,” said KPD Chief David Rausch. Schools are in session and police offi cers are monitoring school zones and neighborhood bus stops ready to enforce proper and safe speed limits.

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(Bearden Art District) to participate in “Art For The Holidays” show in November-December. Info: 438-4154; [email protected].

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

Memories” show featuring Pat Boone and Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Info/tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

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

Knox County Veterans Service Offi ce visit, 9-10 a.m., Halls Senior Center, 4405 Crippen Road. One-on-one assistance to explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family member with fi ling for VA benefi ts.

THURSDAY, AUG. 20An Evening with Al Wilson and Friends,

6:30-8:30 p.m., East Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116 Childress St. Tickets: $50. Tickets not available at the door. ETTAC fundraiser. Info/tickets: 219-0130 or ettac.org.

Praise Song Fest, 6:30 p.m., Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville Highway. Featuring: Highway 33, Sarah Holloway, Katelyn Parker and Nancy Hodges. Cost: $10. Nursery provided. Info: 922-1412.

FRIDAY, AUG. 21Big Ridge Bluegrass Festival, Big Ridge State

Park. Arts and crafts demonstrations and booths, 4 p.m.-dark; music, 7 p.m.-midnight. Info: tnstateparks.com/parks/events/big-ridge.

Knox County Veterans Service Offi ce visit, 9-10 a.m., Karns Senior Center, 8042 Oak Ridge Highway. One-on-one assistance to explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family member with fi ling for their VA benefi ts.

Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., 1009 Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

SATURDAY, AUG. 22Film night with potluck meal, 6-9 p.m., Narrow

Ridge’s Mac Smith Resource Center, 936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Bring covered dish to share. Info: 497-3603 or [email protected].

Fish Fry Fundraiser, 4 p.m., Powell Masonic Lodge #582, 7700 Fersner Road. Live music by David West and guests.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info: feralfelinefriends.org.

Senior Ballroom Dance, 7-9 p.m., Halls Senior Center, 4405 Crippen Road. Admission: $5. Live music by Mood Swing. Info: 922-0416.

TUESDAY AUG.25A “Pig” Event with Chef Jeffrey DeAlejandro

of OliBea, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $60. Info/registration: 922-9916; avantisavoia.com.

BRIDGES Support Group, 6-7:30 p.m., Carter Branch Library, 9036 Asheville Highway. Info: 933-5438.

“Normal Aging vs. Dementia,” 11 a.m.-noon, Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info/RSVP: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26Computer Workshops: 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.

Knox County Veterans Service Offi ce visit, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Carter Senior Center, 9040 Asheville Highway. One-on-one assistance to explain VA benefi ts, answer questions, and assist veterans and family member with fi ling for VA benefi ts.

THURSDAY, AUG. 27“So You Want to Start Anew ... Perennial

Garden,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Speakers: Extension Master Gardeners Carolyn Kiser and Barbara Emery. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, AUG. 27-28AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., Halls

Senior Center, 4410 Crippen Road. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, AUG. 27-29The Picky Chick Fall Consignment Sale,

Knoxville Expo Center, 5441 Clinton Highway. Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday (1/2 off sale). Info: thepickychick.com.

FRIDAY, AUG. 28Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., 1009

Main St., Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

SATURDAY, AUG. 29Downtown Dragon, Drum and Paddle Dragon

Boat Race, 8 a.m., Volunteer Landing. Proceeds go to Tennessee Clean Water Network.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Info: feralfelinefriends.org.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 1Horace Maynard High School Class of 1965

quarterly meeting, 1 p.m., Hardee’s in Maynardville. December’s luncheon will be planned. Info: Pearl Coffey, 256-5315.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

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

FRIDAY, SEPT. 4Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., 1009

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That’s what Paul Har-rill and Darren Hughes are afraid of. More and more, fi lm watchers are giving up on movie theaters – which don’t offer much variety anyway – and staying home to view either streaming movies or ones on DVD.

They miss out on both the communal aspect of movie-going and, for the most part, the opportunity to see something different.

Harrill and Hughes came up with The Public Cinema to change that. Rotating be-tween the Knoxville Muse-um of Art, Scruffy City Hall and the Pilot Light, they are screening fi lms that don’t play at Knoxville’s tradi-tional theaters, and they’re trying to build community at the same time.

“What’s really driving my interest in it is the com-munal aspect, the fact that however many show up … these are 20, 40, 60, 80 people that showed up be-cause of a common interest in seeing something differ-ent,” says Harrill. “Getting all those people in the same room and getting them to meet each other and talk to each other – because they don’t know each other – is really valuable.

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By Carol ShaneNelda Hill, central li-

brary services manager for the Knox County library system, is glad to be back on board with the Knoxville Jazz Festival, which she co-founded with pianist Don-ald Brown in 2006.

Because of setbacks in the economy, the nonprofi t festival had been on hiatus since 2010. But now things are looking brighter, and Hill is excited about this year’s featured guests.

Jazz saxophone icon Benny Golson is a veteran of the Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Earl Bostic and Art Blakey bands. He’s also the only liv-

Opening Friday at Downtown West, “The End of the Tour” details the fi ve-day interview of au-

thor David Foster Wallace (“Infi nite Jest”) by Rolling Stone

writer David Lipsky. Jason Segel gives an incredible per-

formance as the uncomfortable, unknowable doomed

author, while Jesse Eisenberg is strong as the admiring

yet resentful and often unlikable interviewer. Director

James Ponsoldt creates an atmospheric ride that reveals

the complex structure of art as seen through the prism of

fame. – Mini review by Betsy Pickle

“Tu dors Nicole” will play at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, at the Knoxville Museum of Art.

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ing jazz artist to have writ-ten eight standards for jazz repertoire, including “Killer Joe,” covered by Manhattan Transfer and Quincy Jones, among many others. As Hill says, “They’re songs that you hear all the time that you don’t realize you know.”

Golson’s career spans 60 years, and he’s composed

and arranged music for such disparate artists as Count Basie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Mama Cass Elliott, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gil-lespie, the Monkees, Peggy Lee, Itzhak Perlman, Oscar Peterson, Lou Rawls, Mick-ey Rooney, Diana Ross, Mel Torme and Dusty Spring-fi eld.

You’ve heard his music on “M*A*S*H,” “Mannix,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Mod Squad,” “The Partridge Family” and the Academy Awards. He’s also a prolifi c composer of advertising jingles.

But mostly, he’s an ac-knowledged world-class master of jazz who is still

going strong at 85 years of age.

University of Tennessee jazz professor and drum-mer Keith R. Brown calls Golson, simply, “the best of the best.” He’s such a fan that he’ll be hosting “Benny Golson: Something About That Sax (man)” at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Aug. 20, at the Lawson McGhee Library meeting room. It’s a great chance to learn more about Golson and his massive in-fl uence on the jazz world.

Also featured at the fes-tival is French pianist Man-uel Rocheman, a favorite of Donald Brown’s. “He blew me away, he was so good,” says the world-renowned pi-anist and local treasure. “If you love jazz you must come to this concert and discover what Europe and the rest of the world already know.”

Both artists will appear at the Bijou on Friday night, Aug. 28.

The next day, “Jazz in a Hot Scruffy City” begins as local historian and Knox-ville Mercury writer Jack Neely leads a “Jazz Jaunt”

through downtown Knox-ville. Scruffy City Hall on Market Square will feature local jazz performers all day long as well as classic jazz fi lms, a tribute to local jazz legend Bill Scarlett, a lec-ture by Bill McGowan and R.B. Morris and an all-star jazz jam. And pianist Keith L. Brown will have a CD release party at the Square Room at 8 p.m.

“It’s a sweet little festi-val,” says Hill.

The 2015 Knoxville Jazz Festival opens at 8 p.m. Fri-day, Aug. 28, at the Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St., in downtown Knoxville. Ben-ny Golson performs fi rst, followed by Manuel Roche-man. Tickets are $35.

“Jazz in a Hot, Scruffy City” begins at 11 a.m. Sat-urday, Aug. 29, and runs until 11 p.m., with general admission for the Scruffy City Hall events priced at $5. Tickets for Keith L. Brown’s CD release party are $20. Info: knoxjazzfest.org/new-events/.Send story suggestions to News@

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about expanding not just your tastes and the movies you’ve seen but the people you know, enriching your life.”

After a test run of a few fi lms in the spring, The Public Cinema started its fall season last Wednesday at Scruffy City Hall with the short “Judy Judy Judy” and the feature “I Believe in Unicorns.” Next up is the French-Canadian comedy-drama “Tu dors Nicole” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, at the KMA.

Hughes says that once they arranged to screen at the three locations, they decided to “program for the

venue. So we’ve come up with these three different strands of programming.”

The Scruffy City series is “Made in the U.S.A.” – “American independents of various sizes,” says Hughes. “Flicker and Wow” is the series at the Pilot Light. “We’re doing edgier stuff, so it’s avant garde, experimen-tal things.”

The KMA series is “Inter-national Currents,” cinema from other countries.

Harrill and Hughes have been friends for more than a decade, and they’ve been kicking around ideas for a fi lm club or fi lm series al-most as long. Harrill, the

Dee and Jimmy Haslam Professor of Film at the Uni-versity of Tennessee, is an award-winning fi lmmaker whose feature “Something, Anything” debuted last year at the Sarasota Film Festi-val. Hughes is a communi-cations professional for the UT Foundation and a fi lm critic for niche publications.

They started The Public Cinema by calling in favors from fi lmmakers and dis-tributors to get fi lms. The streaming service Fandor recently signed on as pre-senting sponsor for the Public Cinema, and thanks to it and the support of an anonymous donor, Harrill

and Hughes are guaranteed to keep showing movies – usually three a month – for at least a year.

Hughes sees the project as similar to First Friday, “where you walk around, you go into galleries and see what they’re painting, what they’re sculpting. Movies and the cinema have be-come excluded from the conversation about public art.”

“The community’s not having to do anything ex-cept fi gure out if they’re cu-rious and show up and enjoy themselves,” says Harrill.

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For the month ending July 31, there were 1,220 property transfers re-corded, which comfortably surpassed the June total of 1,173. By comparison, last July saw 1,065 transfers.

The total value of prop-erty sold in July was a robust $247.3 million. Although that fi gure placed July in the top 10 months since 2008, it was well short of June’s four-year record total of $345 million. Despite fewer actual transactions, July 2014’s sales produced a greater ag-gregate property value, as al-

most $292 million worth of land was transferred.

Mortgage lending in July was steady, but no-where near record levels as about $307 million was loaned in mortgages and refi nancing. Last July ap-proximately $347 million was borrowed against real property in Knox County. Even so, mortgage lending thus far in 2015 continues to outperform the same period of 2014 by more than half a billion dollars.

The most notable land transfer recorded last month was the sale of com-mercial property located at 9175 Kingston Pike near the intersection with Cedar Bluff Road. The parcel sold for just under $4.8 mil-lion. The largest lending transaction of the month was a loan in the amount of $11,364,372 against prop-erty at 612 Clyde Street in northwest Knoxville.

As of July 31, there have been almost 800 more property transfers recorded in Knox County than dur-ing the fi rst seven months of 2014.

Summer sizzles for real estate market

Witt

News from Offi ce of Register of Deeds

The Helen Ross McNabb Center has promoted Dr.

Kellye Hud-son to its fi rst direc-tor of nurs-ing.

H u d s o n will work to intro-duce an integrated health-care

approach to the center’s outpatient mental health services, as well as oversee clinical staff, research and education for future expan-sion. Hudson has been with the center since August 2009, and she will continue to provide direct services

to clients in addition to her new responsibilities.

Hudson completed her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in nursing at the University of Tennessee.

Tennessee legislation has made it possible for commu-nity mental health centers to hire primary-care physi-cians and explore integrated health-care models. This new initiative will allow in-dividuals living with serious mental illness, who statisti-cally face an increased risk of having chronic medi-cal conditions, to be better served with a well-rounded team of medical specialists.

Info: mcnabbcenter.org or 865-637-9711.

Kellye Hudson

Hudson is McNabb’s director of nursing

Kelle Shultz, president of Knoxville Habitat for Hu-manity, was recognized as the 2015 Outstanding Lead-er of the Year at the Tennes-see Habitat for Humanity State Impact Awards held in Murfreesboro.

This annual award is pre-sented to an individual who has demonstrated exempla-ry leadership, compassion, commitment and vision within their organization and community.

Shultz joined Habitat for

Humanity in 1994 after em-barking on a Habitat global village trip to Nicaragua. A Knoxville native, she serves on the Board of Visitors for the College of Arts and Sci-ences for the University of Tennessee. She is also a graduate of the 1999 Leader-ship Knoxville class and the 2002 class of University of Tennessee Associates. She has also participated in non-profi t leadership programs at Harvard Business School and UT.

Kelle Shultz accepts an impact award from state Sen. Jim Tracy. Photo submitted

Shultz recognized as outst anding leader

Rotary Club of Knoxville president Sandy Martin and district governor Beth Stubbs.

Downtown Rotary cited for 100th year

been tapped to serve as in-ternational president, she said. The most recent is John Germ of Chattanooga, who will serve in 2016-17.

“There’s only one other

district in the world that’s had three Rotary presi-dents,” Stubbs said.

In addition to the certifi -cate, Stubbs acknowledged member Sam Weaver and

his wife, Carol, who have become major donors, level 3, for a lifetime contribution of $50,000 or more and pre-sented them with a crystal medallion.

Stubbs said Rotary has several top priorities for the coming year. These include using technology to better measure goals and com-

municate information aboutprojects, continuing to growmembership, continuing tofund the foundation, per-forming more humanitar-ian service and growingyouth-based programs.

“It’s so inspiring all thatyou do, and all that I hopeyou will continue to do inthe future.”

By Bonny C. MillardRotary District Gov. Beth

Stubbs congratulated the Rotary Club of Knoxville on its upcoming historic anni-versary and applauded the work the club does.

“I have something really special to pres-ent to you. What an honor for me to be district governor in a year that is so momen-tous for this club,” she said. “You’re celebrating your hundredth year.”

Stubbs, of the Maryville-Alcoa Rotary Club, pre-sented club president Sandy Martin with a certifi cate signed by Rotary Interna-tional President Ravi Ra-

vindran, Rotary Club of Sri Lanka.

The club has several events planned at the end of this month to celebrate the 100-year anniversary, Sept.

1, 1915 – Sept. 1, 2015. Stubbs walked

around the room ac-knowledging a num-ber of Rotarians

she has worked with in the past including

Brooks Clark, Ed Ander-son, Townes Osborne, Don Hasson, Sam Albritton and Frank Rothermel and com-mended their service to the organization.

This district, 6780, is special because it’s had three members who have

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The alliance is a collaborative as-sociation of higher education insti-

tutions dedicated to providing edu-cational opportunities for working adults.

The Corporate Award recognizes businesses that support higher educa-tion’s crucial role in workforce devel-

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ees by providing internal and external training. The company also provides internships and co-op opportunities to students throughout the area.

The East Tennessee College Alliance has honored SL Tennessee for its support of higher education. Pictured are Roane State president Dr. Chris Whaley; Yeonsoo Chung, human resources manager at SL Tennessee; Scott Laska, SL Tennessee business de-velopment manager; Y.K. Woo, SL America president; Kim Harris, Roane State job placement director; and Maria Gonzales, Roane State director of student enrollment and recruitment.

Clinton-based company gets award

By Sandra ClarkThe Metropolitan Plan-

ning Commission approved last week a new road and a monument sign on 24 acres at the southwest intersec-tion of Clinton Highway and West Emory Road toward Karns.

The wooded land in-cludes a utility easement and Beaver Creek fl oodway.

Chris Ooten, represent-ing Weigel’s, said his com-pany will build a new store there and will create two other lots for additional commercial use, perhaps a

bank, offi ce or retail.“We have no (specifi c)

plans on what will happen at the corner or on the large lot adjacent to the subdivi-sion,” said Ooten.

“We will leave a 50-foot (wooded) buffer at the prop-erty line. There’s a lot of moving parts on this piece of property.”

A road will be cut to enable access from Clinton Highway and Emory Road. The cur-rent Weigel’s store, on leased property at the same inter-section, will be closed when the new store opens.

Powell’s new Weigel’s gets fi rst OK

BIZ NOTES ■ Josh Anderson has joined

the Metropolitan Planning Commission as webmaster and graphic designer. He pre-viously worked at the Ruby Tuesday headquarters. He and his wife recently moved into a Craftsman home on

Oklahoma Avenue.

■ BNI is organizing a new chap-ter in West Knox, meeting from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at Tennessee State Bank, 11470 Parkside Drive. Info: [email protected] or 865-323-8555.

The Anderson County Chamber of Commerce wel-comes Robby Richart and Nick Forrester, Titan Po-litical Strategies, who will present a seminar on busi-ness branding from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at the chamber offi ce.

The seminar will include a brief presentation about brand development, fol-lowed by a fun question-and-answer session.

The Titan founding part-ners will also answer ad-ditional questions about branding, advertising or marketing attendees may have.

Robby Richart developed his skills through managing numerous political cam-paigns for over a decade. As a partner in Titan, he utilizes his knowledge of demographics, branding, targeted media, innovative messaging and copy writing

Robby Richard and Nick For-rester

How to brand your business

Bart and Cindy Elkins of The Front Porch

By Sandra Clark In business clubs as in po-

litical campaigns, sometimes you can feel the momentum. That’s the case this year with the Powell Business and Pro-fessional Association.

PBPA president John Bayless is ecstatic.

Saturday’s Tennessee Valley Mustang Club’s car show was awesome. Don and Cindy Wegener were every-where. John and his brother, Mike Bayless, were selling hamburgers and hot dog platters for $6. Food City was a wonderful host. (Pic-tures and details next week.)

All proceeds from the car show, held in memory of Travis Wegener, will go to the PBPA’s Enhance Powell

committee. ■ Justin Bailey is about

to start pouring concrete for the disc golf pads in Powell Station Park. Two commu-nity workdays cleared most of the underbrush. John Bayless says, “This project is coming along and will be a great centerpiece for the Powell community. If you were unable to make it out to either of the two work-days, I’m sure Justin will be scheduling more.”

■ Kim Severance re-ported that Knox County will let bids this week or next for the interstate inter-change landscaping project that PBPA launched almost 10 years ago under the lead-ership of Lillian Williams.

Fantastic things happening in Powell

to build the most effective advertising campaigns.

Nick Forrester has 10 years of experience in the political, government and higher-education arenas. As a partner in Titan, he uti-lizes his experience in bud-gets, business development and government relations to advise clients. In addition to being a certifi ed public ad-ministrator, Forrester has an M.B.A. and served on the Roane County Commission from 2010 to 2014.

Info: 865-457-2559.

(Story on page 1.) Just don’t suggest changing anything!

■ Teresa Long and Amy Moffi tt will host a Business After Hours from 5:30 to 7

p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at First Tennessee Bank, 2121 W. Emory Road. This is a networking event for PBPA members and their guests.

RSVP by Sept. 8 to [email protected]

■ Bart and Cindy El-kins talked about The Front Porch Restaurant dur-ing the Business Spotlight meeting segment.

“My whole life I’ve been looking for a place like this,” said Bart. “We’ve been very well received, especially by the PBPA.

“The Front Porch is open now and serving some pret-ty incredible food.”

The Elkinses moved to Powell and opened a restau-rant and primitive gift shop in the old Harrell home on the corner of Emory Road and Spring Street. “The Front Porch is just the be-ginning of what Powell will be,” said Bart Elkins.


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