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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Candidates to sparAlice Bell/Springhill Neigh-

borhood Association will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, at New Harvest Park, Washing-ton Pike just east of Target. Guests will be candidates for City Council 4th District Nick Della Volpe and Rick Staples.

Ronnie Phillips will show the overall plan for his prop-erty on Washington Pike.

IN THIS ISSUE

Restore Mary Vestal Park!

Betsy Pickle visits the Ves-tal Community Organization and the Sierra Club picnic in Holston Park.

Did someone say free food?

➤ See Betsy’s report on page 3

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East Towne Merchants to meet

East Towne Area Merchants will meet 8-9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 19, at the Cracker Barrel on Millertown Pike.

Steve Borden, TDOT regional director, and Dave Brace, who heads the Knoxville Public Ser-vice Department, will attend to discuss clearing brush, business visibility, signs and a wish list.

Nick Della Volpe, who repre-sents the area on City Council, says the 120 merchants located at the East Towne exit of I-640 account for $2.6 million in local property taxes, generate more than $10 million in state sales tax, and provide some 2,000 jobs. He’s asking for brush clearing to increase vis-ibility and two-way mall roads.

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By Betsy PickleWhen Mayor Madeline Rogero

brought her “Neighborhood Con-nections” series to her home turf, south Knoxville, last Tuesday, she felt the love. But she also felt the frustration many south Knoxvil-lians have over the roadblocks to building a thriving community.

Rogero reeled off a checklist of projects completed or in the works in SoKno that the city has funded or supported, and many of the price tags, i.e. investments, were impres-sive. But when she opened the fl oor to attendees, residents had nearly as many concerns as she had ac-complishments. While the atmo-sphere at Woodlawn Christian Church was consistently cordial, such omnipresent clouds as the ef-fects of the Henley Bridge closure and the fate of the James White Parkway extension cast shadows on the 90-minute meeting.

Defunct businesses on Chap-man Highway and blighted prop-erties in the area were a sore spot. Sidewalks, road improvements

Rogero makes neighborhood connectionand problems at city parks got their share of discussion.

Residents were happy to hear that KAT is looking to create a “super-stop” in south Knoxville so that riders don’t have to travel downtown on one SoKno line to transfer to another SoKno route.

At least 11 neighborhood groups were represented, and Rogero mustered a huge amount of sup-port from her staff, city offi cials and City Council – with about 30 attending – to show that the city is serious about doing right by south Knoxville.

Rogero and Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis, the 1st District council mem-ber, urged people to keep things in perspective and insisted that south Knoxville is no longer “the red-headed stepchild” of the city.

Attendees seemed happy with the tone and substance of the eve-ning.

“It was a great meeting,” said Janice Tocher of the south Wood-lawn Neighborhood Assocation. “These are exciting things.”

Mayor Madeline Rogero feels the love at her South Knox Neighborhood

Connections meeting last week. Photo by Betsy Pickle

Mayor Madeline Rogero and Recreation Director Joe Walsh are fl anked by

City Council members Finbarr Saunders (left) and Nick Della Volpe (right)

following the ribbon-cutting for the Loves Creek Greenway. Photo by S. Clark

City opens Loves Creek greenwayBy Sandra Clark

The city of Knoxville has opened a half-mile crushed-lime-stone trail at Loves Creek which Mayor Madeline Rogero says will extend eventually to Knoxville Center mall and the New Harvest Park.

“It started as a dream,” said 4th District City Council member Nick Della Volpe. He and his neighbors actually cut portions of the trail by hand. At the recent ribbon-cut-ting, Della Volpe related the histo-ry of Buffat Mill, built in 1870, and said the old mill site is still there.

The trailhead is near the coun-ty-owned Spring Place Park where parking is available. Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett help cut the ribbon, and council members Fin-barr Saunders and Daniel Brown attended, as did County Com-missioner Ed Shouse and former commission chair Thomas “Tank” Strickland.

“This was a tag-team project with multiple city and county departments,” said Rogero. City

crews built the trail for an es-timated $35,000 on the Knox County property that resides

within city limits. Inmates from the Knox County Work Release Center cleared brush while Knox-ville’s Public Service Department executed all other construction.

“The greenway will offer citi-zens another opportunity to stay healthy,” said Burchett.

A highlight was an original composition, “Loves Creek,” per-formed by Julianne and Scott White. The catchy tune and lyrics inspired toe-tapping and Rogero’s comment: “Y’all have set a new bar for ribbon-cuttings.” The Whites are members of the Knoxville Songwriters Association.

The new greenway is part of a 10-year city/county Greenways Master Plan, monitored by Knox-ville Parks and Recreation Direc-tor Joe Walsh and Knox County Parks and Recreation Director Doug Bataille.

Info: 311 or www.cityofknox-ville.org/greenways/.

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block, their county. We fi nd them

and tell their stories.We care about what

goes on in schools and neigh-borhoods, about the debates in meeting rooms and restaurant booths. We think you do, too, and we hope this is “the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

While dozens of hardworkers make the paper and bring it to your home, the four folks you’re most likely to see are:

Sandra Clark: Publisher of

Halls Shopper since 1971, she says there are two rules of good newspapering: Show up and spell the names right.

So if you want us to show up at your place, just give a call.

Betsy Pickle: A journalist with 30-plus years of experi-ence, Betsy grew up in east Knoxville and has lived in south Knoxville for 21 years. A mem-ber of First Baptist Church and a mentor at an elementary school, she will cover the east and south communities and south area schools.

Ruth White: 11-year veteran of Shopper-News, specializes in

school coverage and photography. Ruth raised three great kids – Joe, David and Caroline – and when they left home she learned to bake cookies. Gourmet cookies. Get to know Ruth White as she covers area schools.

Nancy Whittaker: She will cover business news and maybe sell an ad. She just joined us after a stint in property management with Holrob.

There are many more featured columnists and writers. You’ll enjoy their work as you renew ac-quaintance with old friends such as sports guy Marvin West and meet new ones like Jake Mabe.

Contact us at news@Shopper NewsNow.com or 865-342-6610.

We’re a community newspa-per, and we believe in celebrating community. You may be familiar with other editions of the Shopper-News and our mission to share the heartbeat of each community. This one is all yours.

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The Patricia Neal Innovative Rec-reation Cooperative (IRC), founded in 1994, is a nationally-recognized educa-tion and awareness program that helps people with disabilities enjoy life. “We are celebrating our 20th season to help develop life skills through sports and recreational activities, both for their therapeutic benefi t and just for fun,” according to IRC coordinator Al Kaye. “We use recreation as a way to teach life skills,” explains Kaye, who sees about 600 individuals with physical disabili-ties each year in the East Tennessee Region.

Aided by about 150 volunteers throughout the community – those with and without disabilities – the IRC offers free advice and lessons on adaptive sports equipment to anyone who needs it. The program is funded through the Fort Sanders Foundation with contributions from events like Es-kimo Escapades, corporate grants and private donations. “We are a ‘coopera-tive’ in that we work with many other community groups to pull the clinics together,” says Kaye.

IRC’s core sports include water and snow skiing, marksmanship, Alpine Tower climbing, scuba diving, cycling, paddling and golf, among others. “Ev-ery sport has a different safety level, so that’s one of the things we have to eval-uate,” says Kaye. “Somebody who has brittle bones probably shouldn’t water ski, or someone who’s had pulmonary issues might not be able to scuba be-cause of safety concerns.” We work with many types of physical disabilities to in-clude spinal and brain injured, stroke, amputees and neurologically impaired. The youngest has been snow skiers at age 4 through adults in their 70s.

Even if he can’t provide an experi-ence for a particular sport thru the IRC,Kaye refers people to specialists aroundthe area as a resource. “If someone says I want to learn to fl y, that’s usually notsomething we can teach them, but we do refer them to someone who can,” he says.

The IRC frequently works with peo-ple to adapt sports they might neverhave tried otherwise. “We have folks who’ve never water skied in their lives,and they come out and say, ‘I can do that, it is incredible.’ It’s a win-win situ-ation,” Kaye says.

“We’ve been able to help individu-als get back into life and deal with their abilities. The key is when they give backto help others along the same path.They’re advocates for individuals with disabilities, they’re advocates for pre-vention and they’re good citizens.”

For information about IRC events or donating to the IRC,

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Scholarship program opens doors to renowned rehab

Janice Combs just before the 2011 Knoxville

Covenant Health Marathon 5K

When Janice Combs arrived at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center (PNRC) in 2011, she was without insurance and not able to use her left leg a result of surgery to remove a brain tumor.

But with the help of the PNRC patient scholarship program, Combs was provided an opportunity to spend two weeks participating in inpatient rehab, and she continued outpatient therapy in the following months.

“It probably made the difference between me walking or not walking at all,” Combs said from her home in Oak Ridge. “I’m not sure where I would have ended up without the Pat Neal experience.”

When it was all said and done, she regained the use of her leg and was back to living the active lifestyle she was accustomed to. That included running the 5K at the 2011 Knoxville Covenant Health Marathon beside her case manager from PNRC.

“The fi rst day I arrived at PNRC, I had been confi ned to a hospital bed for nine days,” she said. “I was given a wheelchair, which provided me some freedom and motivation to get moving.”

“I was unable to transport myself from the bed to the chair, yet I eventually got to it. It was an unbelievable experience.”

Combs was able to receive rehabilitation at PNRC because of the patient scholarship program. Started in 2006, the program is designed to help patients who do not have health insurance and are ineligible for state or federal assistance.

The scholarship program is funded by contributions and through the Patricia Neal Golf Classic. This prestigious golf tournament is held annually at

programs. In their fi nal report, CARF cited the scholarship program as an “exemplary conformance to the standards. … This level of funding support is unique to the fi eld and is outstanding.”

For Combs, it goes beyond words what the generosity and her experience in 2011 means.

“There is no way I could have afforded rehabilitation if not for the scholarship program,” Combs said. “They taught me how to take care of myself again.”

The treatment at PNRC continues to impact her everyday life. In April of this year, Combs had another procedure as the brain tumor returned. As her fi ght rages on, she leans on the techniques taught to her by the PNRC staff.

Holston HIlls Country Club. This year’s tournament will take place on Aug. 26. It is the 29th year for the tournament which brings together hundreds of volunteers and businesses.

Numerous amateur golfers and Tennessee golf professionals from across the country travel to play at one of the state’s top courses. Through the Golf Classic and other events, nearly $4.5 million dollars has been raised for PNRC.

In 2011, PNRC was surveyed and re-accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in 15 separate rehabilitation

“It probably made the diff erence between me walking or not walking at all. I’m not sure where I would have ended up without the Pat Neal experience.” –Janice Combs

“I fi nd myself using the different techniques I was taught two years ago even now. It’s tough to go through this again, but it’s better than not being around at all.”

Unfortunately, not all patients in need are able to participate in the services provided by the Patricia Neal Center. Specifi c guidelines are in place to be considered for the scholarship program.

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The top item on the Ves-tal Community Organiza-tion’s agenda last Monday was bringing Mary Vestal Park back to life.

Those attending the meeting at the South Knox-ville Community Center, which is adjacent to the park, got a look at how

things used to be, thanks to photos brought by ar-chitect and south Knoxvil-lian Gene Burr. Dilapidated structures, out-of-date play-ground equipment, a soggy ball fi eld and an abruptly ending greenway now dis-courage neighbors from us-ing the site.

Discussion of the myriad problems helped focus the group, which decided that a representative should speak out at the South Knoxville Neighborhood Connections meeting the next night (Eric Johnson volunteered). Ways of obtaining non-govern-mental funding to make im-

Bringing back Mary Vestal Park

Sharon West of south Knoxville, Barbara Al-

len of northwest Knoxville and the oldest

woman to through-hike the Appalachian

Trail, and Bernard Shuck of east Knoxville

at the Sierra Club picnic Aug. 13 at Holston

River Park Photos by Betsy Pickle

South Knox business owner

Betty Husain at Mayor Rog-

ero’s Neighborhood Con-

nections meeting Aug. 13

Janice Tocher of South Woodlawn Neighborhood Association

and Eric Johnson of Vestal Community Organization at the

Neighborhood Connections event

Joe Walsh, Knoxville’s director of Parks and Recreation, and

Gene Burr of the Vestal Community Organization at the Neigh-

borhood Connections meeting

Betsy Pickle

provements also were sug-gested.

Community liaison of-fi cer Adam Parnell of the Knoxville Police Depart-ment updated attendees on the resolution of previously reported problems and took notes on new issues.

The VCO meets the sec-ond Monday of each month.

Sierra Club heads east for annual picnic

The Harvey Broome Group of the Sierra Club had its annual summer picnic at Holston River Park last Tuesday. About two dozen members and guests from throughout the area chowed down on grilled veggie hot dogs and burgers (and tradi-tional burgers) plus delicious homemade sides, and enjoyed conversation that covered topics both serious and fun.

Members agreed that walks to Knoxville and Knox County’s parks and greenways are one of the group’s most popular new ventures. Mac Post and Ron Shrieves lead the short treks and have set up a Meetup group open to all: http://www.meetup.com/Knoxville-Greenway-Walkers/. So far they have visited 20 parks and greenways.

Actions this fall will in-clude working to get TVA to stop using coal in its power plants, fi ghting mountain-top removal and trying to convince the University of Tennessee not to frack in its research forest.

The Harvey Broome Group meets every month on the second Tuesday, usually at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Info: http://tennessee.sierraclub.org/broome/Aspx/index.aspx.

By Sandra ClarkWhat a wonderful op-

portunity it is to launch a brand new newspaper.

Each week I’ll be talk-ing with people who have something to say. Hope-fully, I can hear them and you’ll want to read their ideas.

Come on along!

Vibrant leaders promote south and east communities

Volpe

Roberts

Pavlis

Drs. Harry and Ruthie McLeod are celebrating 25 years at Dog-

wood Animal Hospital on Chapman Highway.

marked their 25th anniver-sary at the Dogwood Ani-mal Hospital on Chapman Highway, a full-service fa-cility that includes board-ing and grooming as well as medical attention.

Ruthie is familiar with the Shopper-News and is excited to see the paper ex-pand.

“This is a very wonderful, very stable community,” she said of the neighborhoods

of Colonial Village and Lake Forest.

The hospital is open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 7 to noon on Saturdays. The McLeods also refer to UT and specialists.

The world’s prettiest cell

phone tower got its fl ag last

week. Ronnie Collins and

members of the Alice Bell/

Spring Hill Neighborhood

Association encouraged U.S.

Cellular to make its tower

near the entrance to Knoxville

Center Mall a fl ag pole. Collins

says, “It is very visible from

the interstate and the area

surrounding it. It is lighted at

night, as federal law requires.

It is a very positive improve-

ment for the community.”

Nick Della Volpe says if government can’t make it easier for businesses to prosper, well, “that’s how you become De-troit.”

The en-ergetic fi rst-

term City Council member has organized a group of merchants to lobby hard for improvements in the area around Knoxville Cen-ter mall, saying visitors on I-640 must think they’re traveling through “the val-ley of the Green Giant” rath-er than a vibrant business corridor. All they can see from the highway is trees.

“Knoxville Center is the 7th largest taxpayer in Knox County,” he said. “We’ve got to help it succeed.”

Dewey Roberts says he’ll be at the Beck C u l t u r a l E x c h a n g e Center for as long as he’s needed. Roberts, a board mem-ber at Beck, came out of

retirement to serve as inter-im executive director when Avon Rollins became ill.

Roberts was mentored by the late Sarah Moore Greene and followed her as president of the local NAACP, an offi ce he held for 20 years. Behind his calm demeanor is the soul of a heck-raiser. He fi led a com-plaint with the U.S. Offi ce

of Civil Rights following the merger of the city and coun-ty school systems, arguing that we continued to oper-ate “a dual system.”

Roberts is pleased with efforts of Superintendent Jim McIntyre to include Af-rican-Americans through-out the system, top to bot-tom and east to west.

He promised to keep us posted on activities at Beck.

Vice Mayor Nick Pav-lis says the merchants in south K n o x v i l l e will survive b e c a u s e “they are f i g h t e r s .” The closure of the Hen-ley Bridge

reduced traffi c from 38,000 cars per day to 9,000 on Chapman Highway to Moody Avenue.

But thanks to skillful lob-bying by Pavlis and others, the city, county and state have kicked in $70,000 for promotions. The merchants have hired Ackermann PR to design a campaign to “brand” the area. Stay tuned on this one.

Pavlis is absolutely excit-ed about prospects for the Chapman Highway corridor and development of recre-ational opportunities in the Urban Wilderness.

After all, when has this town ever had both a mayor and vice mayor from SoKno?

Drs. Ruthie and Har-ry McLeod met in veteri-narian school and became partners in life and busi-ness. The couple have just

outside the hometown and landed in Los Angeles, where he went to work for Amtrak.

He was transferred to the Philadelphia area, and the Swingles stayed in the Northeast for nearly three decades. Rocky was an Am-trak corporate sales rep-resentative whose major responsibility was talking business travel m anagers of major companies into using trains instead of planes.

“I spent the last seven years working in New York, which I loved, but the com-mute was a killer,” he said. “When our daughter, Sarah, got married and moved to San Diego, we just decided to come back here, where all my family is.”

So Rocky retired and the Swingles bought a house on Sheffi eld Drive, near his mother. They closed last Oct. 31. A couple of months later, he started reading sto-ries about Tennova’s plans. He says it didn’t sink in un-til May, when the West Hills Community Association met and invited Tennova

representa-tives to come and speak. Swingle at-tended, and s o m e t h i n g clicked.

“I started t h i n k i n g , ‘This is just not a good idea.’ I met some people who agreed, and we’re off and run-ning.”

S w i n g l e says he tries to be organized, focused and persistent.

He’s not a total rookie, though, and has been able to translate a similar expe-rience he had when he was living in New Jersey and de-velopers wanted to cut down a 50-acre forest behind his home to build an apartment complex.

“At the time, it was one of 25 properties listed for pres-ervation, and I said, ‘This is nuts.’ I’d never done any-thing like this, so I found

out what I could do, put out a fl yer, and people s t a r t e d coming for-ward, say-ing ‘You’re right.’ Even-tually we formed a n o n p r o f i t group to try and preserve land and make sure when there’s development

done, it’s done the right way. New Jersey rules are differ-ent, but really the situation is very similar.”

Additional uncertainty has been added by Health Management Associates’ ownership of Tennova. Af-ter reports of HMA being at loggerheads with the hedge fund that is its larg-est shareholder, Swingle is suggesting that City Council postpone the Middlebrook rezoning until Tennova’s status is made clear.

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Governor gets hometown welcome

munities large and small help me understand what’s happening in the state.

“Unemployment is way too high,” Haslam said. “I need to understand what is working (such as at Cooper

Container) and how we can leverage that.”

Haslam walked through the plant with owner/founder A.C. Cooper and his son, Donnie Cooper.

Surrounded by local of-

fi cials, Republican lead-ers and representatives of the business community, Haslam fi elded comments and questions. “What do you want to tell the gover-nor?” he asked.

Roads were a consistent theme. Union Countians need to get farm prod-ucts and extracted miner-als to market. The county needs retail development to increase the tax base, which has been eroded by residents shopping in Knox County or Kentucky.

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Something is not quite right in what is going on with the possible exten-sion of the James White Parkway from its current termination at Moody Avenue to Gov. John Sevier Highway. Transparency is at risk. The good news is that Gov. Bill Haslam has said he will make the fi nal decision, which means a more level playing fi eld.

VictorAshe

Betty Bean

Sandra Clark

Questions

Months ago, a public hearing was held at which both Mayors Madeline Rog-ero and Tim Burchett along with Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis voiced their opposition to the extension of the park-way due to the new urban wilderness, hiking trails and recreational opportuni-ties that have been created in south Knoxville. Support for improving Chapman Highway was also voiced. There was strong support for this option and opposi-tion to the build option.

TDOT Commissioner John Schroer indicated he would honor local govern-ment feelings even if he personally disagreed. That has now changed.

On July 1, Schroer came to Knoxville and met with Burchett and his chief of staff Dean Rice, along with state Sens. Becky Massey, Stacey Campfi eld, Frank Niceley and Doug Overbey and state Rep. Harry Brooks. Schroer was accompanied by fi ve TDOT staffers.

On background this writer was told that Schroer said he no longer felt obligated to honor local opposition as it was a regional project and not a local project, despite it be-ing built almost entirely in Knox County.

The legislators basically listened to the proposal and were noncommittal.

This writer was also told TDOT clearly indicated that the extension will go for-ward, with a news confer-ence expected in the near future that will announce three items:

■ Henley Bridge reconstruction will be completed earlier than the current delay states.

■ Chapman High-way improvements will be made, and

■ The extension of the parkway will occur.

Rogero was in Washing-ton on July 10, so Schroer returned to Knoxville on July 17 for a similar meet-ing with Rogero without legislators or council members present. Deputy Mayor Bill Lyons was in the meeting with her.

While Burchett appears to have changed his op-position to the extension, he also says the extension is not likely to occur and feels other road projects in Knox County have a higher priority such as Oak Ridge Highway being improved from Schaad Road out to its intersection with Pellissippi Parkway.

Neither of these sig-nifi cant meetings was announced to the public or sun-shined although state law may not have required it. However, all of this occurred more than fi ve weeks ago and it happened under the radar screen.

Rogero says she still op-poses the extension but has not indicated what steps she will take if the TDOT commissioner insists on ignoring the majority views of the public hearing his department held. She and Lyons had lunch on Aug. 7 with Haslam, who will have the ultimate voice on this matter. The governor told WBIR-TV he will weigh in on this hometown issue.

To harm two south Knoxville parks in a pro-cess that was not a process but a series of unan-nounced meetings calls into question the public hearing held months ago. What would the city response to this be?

It would be hard to argue that this project is the No. 1 road project in Knox Coun-ty given the issues on Oak Ridge Highway. The cost of the James White extension far exceeds normal road projects at $105 million for 5 miles of asphalt.

Finally, what happened in a few months to make this a regional project? And who stands to benefi t from the extension?

Who is Rocky Swingle?The short answer is he’s a

West Hills resident and the leader of the opposition to the proposed Tennova hos-pital on Middlebrook Pike.

“This small county has a loud voice. This is Governor Haslam country,” someone yelled.

“It’s great to see a local business that saw a need and met it,” Haslam said, after touring the Cooper Container Corporation.

“Being in Nashville can make you see things a cer-tain way, while trips to com-

Rocky Swingle

New West Hills leader emerges

Since he stepped in, this opposition has grown from a few isolated voices to a full-fl edged movement, complete with nearly 300 yard signs, paper and online petitions and a Facebook page.

The guy’s good.The longer answer is he’s

a native Knoxvillian whose family moved to West Hills from south Knoxville just in time for him to enroll in the 7th grade at West Hills Elementary School. He is a 1965 Bearden High School graduate who received de-grees from the University of Tennessee in 1969 and 1973, whereupon he and his wife, Jenny, decided to venture

on south Knox road project

MY TWO CENTS

JakeMabe

Kenneth Pinkney had seen it all.

Twenty-two years in the Marines. Tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

‘Can you walk in my shoes?’

Kenneth “Sarge” Pinkney, principal of Geeter Middle School in Memphis, speaks to Halls Middle School faculty last week. Photos by Jake Mabe

to students at an elemen-tary school. He became a volunteer, then a teacher’s assistant. Now, he’s spent 14 years as an administrator and is currently principal of Geeter Middle School in Memphis.

“Children are my pas-sion,” he said. “When I was a Marine, I protected these United States with all of my heart. I never thought I’d be in a situation where kids would be in harm’s way.”

As principal, he’s talked to students who face gun-fi re regularly on the walk to school and back. He re-arranged his schedule to

When he retired from active duty, he thought he’d become a security guard. Then he was asked to speak

arrive at school at 6 a.m. because one parent had to drop her daughter off that early before going to work. He found out the girl was hiding in the bushes until somebody arrived.

“You gotta go that extra mile because (kids ask) ‘can you walk in my shoes?’

“I drove one of my kids home one night and the complex had Memphis Po-lice Department offi cers in front. They looked like a SWAT team. I said, ‘Why are they here?’ My student said, ‘Those are our security offi cers for the night.’ It was almost like I was back in Af-ghanistan somewhere.”

Pinkney says poverty is rampant in Memphis but also affects a sizable popu-lation of all students.

“Two things help escape poverty – education and relationships. Students re-spond to those they respect.”

He told of an A student who started missing school – 54 days. He went to the kid’s house to discover he was caring for his grandfa-ther, who had Alzheimer’s.

A teacher was furious at a student who was sleeping in class. Pinkney said, “Have you asked her what’s wrong?”

Pinkney did – and found the 8th grader had two chil-dren and had taken one to a clinic the previous night.

The teacher later told Pinkney, “I didn’t know.”

“That’s because you didn’t ask,” he said. “You just as-sumed she was being defi ant.

“Students really want to know that you care about them.

“You’re in a life-changing business. You’re in a min-istry that not everyone can do.”

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Note: TDOT’s problems with the Henley Bridge are mir-rored in Union County where the state has been trying for years now to fi nish the bridge over Norris Lake on Hwy. 33. Veteran reporter Marvin West asks, “What went wrong?”

By Marvin WestWe could call the High-

way 33 bridge dilemma “a comedy of errors” but Wil-liam Shakespeare wouldn’t like that. His early play was a farce loaded with slap-stick. The bridge saga is sad.

Years and years and years ago, Tennessee Department of Transportation engineers determined the ancient bridge over Norris Lake had fallen into disrepair, was weak in places and needed to be replaced. It was built in 1936.

Periodic inspections pro-duced the occasional scare story, followed by repairs. Paint covered rust and made everybody feel better.

The bridge did not col-lapse, even when 18-wheel-ers squeezed past each other, but the locals who regularly drove that route did grow restless. Some with children riding school buses to and from Maynard-ville mentioned frequent use of nerve medicine until the kids were again safe at home.

A bartender at Bubba’s Brews Sports Pub and Grill said replacing the bridge was at least 10 years overdue.

As is often the case, mon-ey was a problem. There were times when funds were supposedly available in the state budget but more pressing needs or areas with greater political clout emerged. Good old Veterans Memorial Bridge remained much as it was.

ApprovalThe big breakthrough

came in 2009. The price of steel dropped by half and the feds came up with an economic stimulus package. Then-state Sen. Mike Faulk announced that TDOT had approved replacement.

“This was a priority of mine in the State Senate from day one,” he said. ”The current bridge is in terrible shape and is very dangerous due to the angle of the ap-proaches.”

Chad Faulkner, then-state representative for the region, said amen.

“Senator Faulk and I have been in constant con-tact with Department of Transportation in support of this bridge project. We are extremely pleased that it has been approved. This replacement is critical to the safety of local citizens who cross the bridge, especially in the winter months when there is snow and ice.”

Need for replacement was reinforced in 2010 with these fi ndings: Super-structure condition rat-ing: Serious. Substructure condition: Poor. Appraisal: Structurally defi cient.

Strict load limits were im-posed. Heavy haulers faced a 70-mile detour.

Mountain States Contrac-tors, somehow aligned with Britton Bridge, won the con-tract with a bid of $22.4 mil-lion. The new bridge was to be fi nished by the summer of 2012. That didn’t happen.

DelayMountain States work-

ers built about one third of the project but discovered precarious conditions in the bedrock in deep water. They needed to blast out places to pour concrete bases to sup-port new pillars but the hot spots were 15 feet from the old pillars, and with unsta-ble rock, that was much too close for comfort.

Time out.For a while, there was

cause for disagreement. State engineers were cer-tain their plans were at least perfect. Builders trying to do arthroscopic construc-tion 100 feet deep thought the risk was greater than the reward.

The new bridge was sud-denly dead in the water. This being Union County, you should have heard the com-mentary. They put it in the wrong place. The company went bankrupt. The old bridge may fall at any given moment. Don’t even fi sh under it.

Best rumor was TDOT would put in a ferry.

Whose fault?How could this happen,

you ask? Did anybody check the bottom of the lake to pre-view potential problems?

A contractors’ spokesper-son said, “We used state en-gineering information and specifi cations to prepare our bid.”

Mark Nagi of TDOT said, “TDOT performed the regu-lar soils/geo-tech investi-gations into the strata that make up the streambed under Norris Lake immedi-ately adjacent to the existing bridge.”

Was human error in-volved in this turn of events?

TDOT answer from Nagi: “Not necessarily.”

Was there a better way to assess the stability of bedrock in advance of this project?

TDOT answer: “TDOT used new foundation data as well as existing TVA data.”

With the proximity to the old bridge, should the weak-ness have been anticipated?

TDOT answer: “It is dif-fi cult to say that this was an unknown issue as the proximity of the new piers

Bridge dilemma a comedy of errors? Not exactly

Highway 33 bridge with abandoned piers (at top) and, at right, the new bridge in 1936, from the Tennessee State Archives.

and footings to the old piers was always known. How-ever, after the contractor did some preliminary work and raised concerns about the stability of the exist-ing bridge during blasting, TDOT and the contractor agreed that drilled shaft foundations would elimi-nate any risks that were present.”

Next question: Who was the geological engineer?

TDOT answer: “The de-partment has had several geological and structural engineers during the pro-cess …”

RegroupEngineers went back to

the drawing board. Mean-while, Mountain States equipment was parked. This did not produce good return on investment.

Nothing visible happened at the Highway 33 bridge for more than a year. Sometime during that lull, the state and the contractor parted ways. The contract was cancelled. The state paid Mountain States what it was owed. Mountain States set aside purchased material for the next builder. Nobody sued anybody.

Travelers have been pro-

tected during short seg-ments of the confusion. The Tennessee Highway Patrol, working fi ve-hour shifts on overtime, spot check trucks for loads exceeding man-dated limits. TDOT is pay-ing for the offi cers and gas to keep car air conditioners or heaters running.

“We have been working this assignment for almost a

year,” said THP spokesper-son Dalya J. Qualls.

This is mostly ceremonial. There are six overtime shifts. The old bridge is unguarded 19 hours a day and on its own all of the seventh day.

The state eventually came up with different bridge plans and requirements. Key change is core drilling instead of blasting. Kay and

Kay Contracting of London, Ky., won the revised proj-ect in February with a bid of $18,310,000. It fi nally went to work a few days ago. It may or may not fi nish the bridge by the middle of next year.

After the eventual rib-bon-cutting and political speeches, the next big event will be the very exciting re-moval of the old bridge.

Most of what Mountain States accomplished, al-tered approaches and six pillars, will be used by Kay and Kay. Years of delays are gone forever. TDOT says it doesn’t know yet how much money was lost.

It takes a long time to count to $7 million. Or may-be $10 million.

Piers for the new bridge alongside the old one Photo by Cindy Taylor

Swimming hole at Fort Dickerson

Nick Pavlis says changes are coming to the park at Fort Dickerson with the entryway aligned with Woodlawn Pike and the lake opened to “at-your-own-risk” swimming and paddle boats. Drive in and take a look. The overlook is clearly marked and easily acces-sible. It’s beautiful and most of us don’t even know it’s there.

– S. Clark

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By Betsy PickleStudents at South-Doyle

High took the fi rst day of school in stride. New teach-ers – check. New state stan-dards – check. A visit from Knox County Schools Su-perintendent Jim McIntyre – check.

Principal Tim Berry met with each class to give a rousing pep talk. McIntyre toured the school with an entourage. The students were unfazed.

“What you see is what you get with our kids,” said vice principal Sherry Smith. “They are buying into their greatness.”

When Berry took over as principal of South-Doyle two years ago, he’d heard the test scores weren’t great and that apathy and disci-pline were issues.

But once the students ar-rived and he started getting to know them, Berry real-ized the bad publicity was undeserved.

“A lot of the things that I’d heard about the school just weren’t true,” he said in an earlier interview. “I had a lot of kids who just want-ed somebody to believe in them.”

Berry and his leadership team made that a priority, and then they began work-

ing on getting the students to believe in themselves. Earning a spot as one of 11 Knox County schools to par-ticipate in the 1:1 Technol-ogy Challenge was a major part of that.

“Just to see the kids and the pride they had was pretty cool,” said Berry. “They didn’t know what we won; they just knew we had won.

“I sat back and really learned a lit-tle bit about our school that day, that they felt like they’d been pushed down for so long, and to win some-thing that maybe some other promi-nent schools hadn’t gotten” was a thrill.

Each one of South-Doyle’s approximately 1,200 students, and all the teach-ers, will receive a MacBook Pro – probably in mid- to late September. Berry is confi dent that the kids will adapt easily. He’s even formed a Student Technol-

ogy Committee to help him with some of the decisions the school is making.

“They’re really, really smart when it comes to this stuff,” he said. The 30 or so students on the committee are “people that I feel can have a lasting impact on

this change that we’re going through and even assist our teachers with some of the transition.

“For once, we’ve got stu-dents teaching teachers.”

Berry was enthusiastic about his fi rst-day meetings with each class.

“We know through our Twitter all summer long that students are excited

The fi nal days of sum-mer were busy in Knox County as teachers set up their rooms, and attended training and ribbons were cut on two new schools – Northshore Elementary and Carter Elementary.

The parking lot at Carter Elementary was packed with students, teachers, community members and everyone else who is thrilled to get a new school for the children in the Carter area.

Principal Shay Siler wel-comed the crowd to the of-fi cial opening of the school and to the bright and col-orful learning experience ahead.

Superintendent Jim Mc-Intyre expressed his excite-ment as to what the new building will enable to hap-pen in the classroom. “Our focus is on providing high quality instruction in the classrooms, and the teach-ers at Carter are commit-ted to the children,” he said. McIntyre called Mayor Tim Burchett “a great friend to education” and said that al-though they may sometimes disagree on the means they always agree on the goal.

The road to the new school was bumpy but worth the trip. “We kept the faith and we were suc-cessful,” said school board

Buying into their greatness

RuthWhite

All the buzz at Carter Elementary

Celebrating back to school By Ruth WhiteMayor Tim Burchett

hosted his Back to School Bash at the Expo Center last week and more than 1,100 backpacks were handed out within 23 minutes. United Healthcare was a major contributor to the event and helped get out much-need-ed school supplies to Knox County students.

Vendors handed out cot-ton candy, chips and salsa from Salsaritas; Papa Mur-phy’s pizza straight from the oven; and refreshing treats from Wendy’s. Activities included face painting, free books, bounce house, mar-tial arts and dance demon-strations and games.

Baylee Barto and Mackenzie

Redcay get a hug from United

Healthcare’s Health E. Hound.

Touring South-Doyle High School on the fi rst day of school are Emily Barton, assistant com-

missioner, state Department of Education; Jim McIntyre, superintendent, Knox County Schools;

Tim Berry, principal, South-Doyle; and school board member Pam Trainor. Photo by Betsy Pickle

about the technology,” he said. “They know change is coming. There’s a buzz out there right now that some-thing special is happening, and we saw it today.”

As for the teachers, they’re starting to feel more comfortable with the lap-tops.

“We’re still going to do ongoing professional devel-opment; it’s going to take

some time,” said Berry. “But we have a lot of coaching sessions that we’re doing with teachers on 30-Minute Thursdays, professional-de-velopment sessions before and after school.”

Berry is a fan of his stu-dents and faculty. Last year the school adopted the theme “Reveal Your Great-ness” – or #ryg – to combat the second-banana mindset

that had arisen over the past several years.

Berry’s own high-school experience was one of win-ning, albeit more in athlet-ics than in academics. The Loudon County native was an All State basketball play-er; his sister and father were both All Americans.

After a year at Hiwassee College, where he played basketball, he went to UT

and stud-ied busi-ness, but he “hated the c l a s s e s . ” His advisor, the late Bill B u t e f i s h , asked him what he did like – “sci-ence, chem-istry and bi-ology.”

“We just started talk-ing about things that you could do

with that,” said Berry. “He said, ‘I think you’d make a great teacher.’ So I got into the program. I did some fi eld experiences, and I fell in love with it.”

He was a little more hesi-tant about going after his advanced degrees in educa-tion and becoming an ad-ministrator.

“I liked the idea of mak-ing decisions beyond the

four walls of the classroom and felt like I could make a difference where I was at the time,” he said. “But I had to be convinced that you could make a difference because I felt like the closer you were to kids, the more positive impact you could have.”

After spending 21 years as a teacher and adminis-trator before running for and losing out on the school superintendent’s position in Loudon County, Berry decided it was time to look farther afi eld.

“I had been keeping track of Dr. Jim McIntyre and the progress he was making in Knox County, and I was looking to work for someone who was a visionary and had great leadership,” he said.

Having McIntyre visit on the fi rst day was “awesome,” he said.

“It shows that he has trust in us to lead this ini-tiative. He’s called us trail-blazers before, and it only solidifi es that when we see him enter the building on the fi rst day.”

Berry also believes solid-ly that he’s where he’s meant to be.

“When I decided to leave Loudon County, I prayed that God would put me where I was needed,” said Berry

“And from day one, I knew that he wanted me at South-Doyle.”

Carter Elementary principal Shay Siler welcomes everyone to

offi cial opening of the new school. Photos by Ruth White

Jack and Jake Vineyard eagerly wait for the moment they can

explore their new school building.

County Commissioner Dave Wright and Emily Garrison listen

to speeches.

Lilah Grace Kitts meets her new teacher, Angela Allen, at the

offi cial opening. Allen handed out back-to-school goodie bags

to all of her students to welcome them to 3rd grade.

member Mike McMillan. “The community will enjoy this facility for decades to come.” McMillan thanked Burchett for taking up the cause and making the new school become a reality.

The mayor mentioned one child by name – Em-ily Garrison – who will en-ter kindergarten this year. Commissioner Dave Wright shared with the mayor that Garrison’s grandmother saw the article about Carter Elementary in the Shopper-News. The grandmother recognized Wright’s wife, Pat, from a photo at the event and chatted with her when she saw her in Foun-tain City. Emily’s grand-mother shared with Pat Wright how every day they drove by the school build-ing and Emily would say, “That’s my Big Girl school.”

Emily’s excitement about starting school in a new building is just part of the magic that will happen each day in the classroom.

P.J. and Tyree West examine

an animal skull at the zoo

booth.

Ashanti Kyle visited the face

painting booth and emerged

looking like a butterfl y.

Brysen Lay and his sister Brooke enjoy looking at animal skulls,

skins and other items at the Knoxville Zoo booth.

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Ferguson completes basic training

Army Pfc. Michael S. Ferguson has gradu-ated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fi tness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifl e marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, fi eld tactics, military courtesy, mil-itary justice system, basic fi rst aid, foot marches, and fi eld training exercises.

Ferguson is the son of Wesley Ferguson and the grandson of Jack Stanton. He is a 2012 graduate of South-Doyle High School.

By Ruth WhiteFor many families, own-

ing a home can be a goal that seems to be out of reach. T h r o u g h Neig hb or -hood Hous-ing and The K n o x v i l l e Leadership

Foundation, the possibility of home ownership isn’t im-possible.

To date, two homes have been built in the River Meadow subdivision and the development will result in 10 three bedroom, two bath single family homes. The homes will be avail-able for purchase by low income families that qual-ify through the Knoxville

Leadership Foundation’s Homebuyer Readiness Pro-gram.

The Foundation is weav-ing the fabric of a strong community and has built 55 homes in Knoxville to date. The Homebuyer Readiness Program prepares indi-viduals to purchase a home by creating a personalized plan. Participants in the program learn to manage their fi nances in order to at-tain homeownership.

“This project serves as a substantial investment for NHI and its funding part-ners and serves as a strong foundation for fi nancial sta-bility of low income fami-lies,” said NHI president Chris Martin.

Info: 524-2774 or www.klf.org/.

Steve Pearson, new home construction director with Neigh-

borhood Housing, shows guests the kitchen area of the new

home. Photo by Ruth White

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