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By Betsy PickleLocal politicians and chamber

of commerce types are forever re-ferring to one South Knoxville site or another as a “hidden gem.”

They aren’t lying, probably, but if you’re really after a hidden So-Kno gem that will provide hours of healthy fun and respite from the summer heat, you need to dis-cover Chapman Pool, 608 E. Gov. John Sevier Highway.

Chapman Pool opens for its 52nd season of serving South Knoxville and Seymour on Sat-urday, May 23. Memorial Day weekend is the traditional launch of pool season, and that’s true at Chapman. For Mandy Irvin, it’s a family tradition.

“Opening Day is always a pivot-al time for my family as all of the behind-the-scenes labor between my dad, myself and other volun-

teers is used to benefi t the mem-bers,” says Irvin, the 2015 season pool manager.

Irvin’s grandmother was a founding member of Chapman Pool, and her father was pool man-ager for many years. Irvin, who is lifetime wellness/physical educa-tion teacher and volleyball coach at South-Doyle High School, has been following in her dad’s wake as pool manager for several years.

By Betty BeanBack in February, Gov. Bill

Haslam gave teachers a reason to hope when he included nearly $100 million in his budget to give them a 4 percent raise.

Superintendent James Mc-Intyre made it clear it was past time to do it. Sales-tax revenue numbers were holding their own, and over on the county general government side, the notoriously penurious Mayor Tim Burchett was poised to recommend a 3 per-cent employee raise.

But now, the possibility looms that teachers could be the only Knox County employees who won’t get a pay raise, and there have been fears that the annual merit pay (APEX) bonuses could be in jeopardy as well.

While Knox County Schools personnel were awaiting Mc-

Intyre’s recommendation on how to deal with a budget shortfall, County Commission chair Brad Anders and school board chair Mike McMillan were working out the details to convene a joint com-mission/school board meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 21, at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay St.

Both said everything will be on the table for discussion – includ-ing raising taxes.

“I’ve not had any discussions with Dr. McIntyre regarding cut-ting the teachers’ pay raise (from the 3 percent McIntyre has rec-ommended),” McMillan said. “The question becomes how much are you going to cut?”

Though noncommittal, McMil-lan said he expects discussion of some kind of tax increase to come up at the joint meeting. Anders

was blunt:“We haven’t had a property tax

increase since 1999. I know it’s not popular among Republicans, but I’d like to talk about it. It’s going to get to the point that we have to,” he said.

“And it’s not just for schools for me – I don’t think the schools are as effi cient as they could be. But there are great infrastructure needs across the county.

“We’re on a 100-year rotation on paving roads, for example. We’ve got 2,000 miles of roads in the county, and we’re paving less than 20 miles a year, most years. The Rescue Squad, whom we de-pend on, is in fi nancial trouble. Do we let them fall?

“In my district, we’ve got two parks – Harrell Road and Plumb Creek – sitting, purchased and de-signed, but not done. We’ve got a

subdivision in Karns, the road is coming apart from the curb. We should be doing more sidewalks around schools.”

But for now, the county’s fi nance director, Chris Caldwell, said the problem is simple arithmetic.

Burchett’s budget appropriates $14 million more than last year to Knox County Schools, based on growth in sales and property tax revenues. But the state funding formula covers only 44 percent of KCS teachers, leaving the county to make up the gap – a gap that’s exacerbated by last year’s decision by the school board to spend $4 million from its fund balance.

Caldwell also said automatic step raises are not built into coun-ty general employees’ pay scales (unlike teachers), making it dif-fi cult to draw an apples-to-apples comparison.

Teachers’ raise in play with reduced schools budget

Climb-it changeStarting Friday, Knox-

ville’s climbing enthusiasts will have a home of their own.

Ijams Crag is the newest thing to love about Ijams Nature Center. The outdoor climbing area has 10 climbing routes so far, with another 20 due to open soon. They range from easy to “what was I thinking?”

Benjy Darnell, Kelly Brown, Robert Blackwell, Sam Adams and Charlie VanAnda, with help from others, have been working for months to prepare the site. Rivers Sports Outfi tters, Patagonia, Lowe’s and the city of Knoxville have been the primary supporters.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 4:30 p.m. Friday. Attendees are advised to arrive at 4; it’s a half-mile hike on rocky terrain to get to the site. Parking is limited, and carpooling is encour-aged.

To get to the site using the Ijams entrance on Aberdeen Lane, from Island Home Avenue take Gilbert Lane (op-posite Island Home Baptist Church) to Belvedere Avenue. Turn right onto Aberdeen and continue right at the fork.

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Diving into summer at

Chapman Pool

“In my 29 years, I have never spent a summer away from Chap-man Pool,” says Irvin. “Most of my favorite summertime memories revolve around the pool, from beg-ging my mom to take me – along with my sisters – to the pool every day rain or shine; my 10th birth-day party with an Olympic theme in 1996; watching my PawPaw win

Chapman Pool has one of the few high

diving boards in the area. Photo submitted

SOUP dinner benefi ts food co-opBy Betsy Pickle

The second version of Knoxville SOUP scored extra funding for a new local food co-op.

Held at Ijams Nature Center, the combination dinner/micro-grant initiative, presented by the South Knoxville Alliance, drew its fi rst proposal from outside of South Knoxville this time. Or-ganizers are trying to encour-age individuals and groups from throughout the city that need funding for creative community-improvement projects to take ad-vantage of the program.

The SoKno Food Co-op, 6710 Chapman Highway, won the grant from Saturday night’s donations for dinner – a total of $305 from around 60 attendees. Alan Wil-liams of WVLT served as master of ceremonies.

Willa Essie of the SoKno Food Co-op receives the Knoxville SOUP grant money from master of ceremonies Alan Williams.

sie’s proposal.Alliance House Community of

Knoxville, a 501(c)(3) nonprofi t committed to fi ghting poverty, health issues, illiteracy, inequity and inequality in at-risk commu-nities – particularly in the 37912, 37914, 37915 and 37917 ZIP code areas – was the fi rst non-South Knox contender for a SOUP grant.

The evening’s third proposal was from South Knoxville Ele-mentary School, which was seek-ing funds to create a reading nook.

Attendees listened to the pro-posals, then dined on soup, sand-wiches, salad, fruit and desserts before casting their votes. Knoxville SOUP plans to hold the dinners bi-monthly until they gain the momen-tum to go monthly. They are also looking for a permanent meeting space. Info: knoxvillesoup.com.

Willa Essie, director of the co-op, presented her project at the fi rst Knoxville SOUP in March but did not win the grant. Many at-

tendees mentioned that they had visited the co-op since its open-ing in April, and seeing it in action likely aided the popularity of Es-

TGIF“Think Greenway, It’s Fri-

day” is the rallying cry of the Vestal Community Organiza-tion. The VCO is racing the clock to complete the Mary Vestal Park Greenway Exten-sion before their city chal-lenge grant ends on May 29.

Volunteers are asked to meet along the greenway by Goose Creek 3-6 p.m. Friday, May 22, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday (TGIS?), May 23, to help clear vegetation.

Everyone should sign in at the site so that their work hours will count toward the match grant. Bring gloves and, if possible, tools.

The vote goes onThere’s still time to vote

for the Appalachian Moun-tain Bike Club’s Downtown Downhill trail at the Wood Property in the Bell Built Trail Building Grant Contest. AMBC’s Urban Wilderness Gravity Trail is one of three semifi nalists competing for the East Coast top spot in the contest.

Voting runs through Sun-day (May 24), and national voting to choose between East Coast, Central Region and West Coast winners starts May 27. The overall winner gets $100,000 toward building a “rad” black dia-mond bike trail.

Go to www.bellhelmets.com/bell-built to vote.

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stroke:LIKE IT NEVER EVEN HAPPENED.No comprehensive stroke and rehabilitation center in our region

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Fort Sanders performs clinical trials and procedures

for stroke not available anywhere else in our region.

It was snowing hard. Flakes as big as snow-balls were falling onto Charlotte Wolfenbarg-er’s face as paramedics wheeled her stretcher down the ramp and into the waiting ambu-lance.

Less than 30 minutes earlier, she had opened her blinds and laid across her bed to watch it snow. But then, her left foot shook violently a couple of times and her entire left side went numb. Her left arm was fi xed in a curl up to her chin and her foot was so dead she couldn’t feel the fl oor beneath her.

Was it a stroke? She suspected so, but be-cause she could still talk, she didn’t know for certain. Neither did her husband, David, nor did the paramedics. But once she made it to Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s Emer-gency Department fi ve miles away, there was no doubt – she was diagnosed with an isch-emic stroke, likely caused by atrial fi brillation – one of the leading risk factors in the 800,000 strokes in the United States each year.

“The scariest words I ever heard were when the doctor looked down at me and said, ‘Char-lotte, you are having a stroke,’” she recalls.

Fortunately for Mrs. Wolfenbarger, she had sought treatment quickly enough that Dr. Ar-thur Moore, a neurohospitalist and medical di-rector of Fort Sanders Regional Stroke Center, was able to administer the clot-busting drug called tPA or tissue plasminogen activator, an intravenous thrombolytic that can prevent death or serious disability caused by strokes.

“I don’t know how many minutes it took, but it was quick,” said Mr. Wolfenbarger. “I was sit-ting there beside her, and she said, ‘I can move my foot and feel it now.’ And I took her arm and moved it,” If we moved it, it would move. Then she said, ‘Look here!’ and she moved her fi ngers!”

“They hadn’t even fi nished giving me the IV before I could move my foot,” said Mrs. Wolfenbarger. “It was a miracle! A total mira-cle!”

“I don’t claim to be a miracle worker – that one God can have,” said Dr. Moore. “We just do what we can to help people.”

Miracle or not, Mrs. Wolfenbarger was dis-charged the next day and her symptoms today are “so minimal that no one but a neurologist would fi nd them,” says Dr. Moore. “They won’t interfere with her life whatsoever. That’s the important part. I can look at a CT scan and say,

‘Yes, you’ve had a stroke.’ But if I look at the patient and they are perfectly normal, I don’t care what the scan says.”

The FDA approved tPA almost two decades ago but even today it has been characterized as “vastly underutilized.” In fact, more than 80 percent of the population lives within a one-hour drive of a hospital capable of adminis-tering tPA, but only 4 percent of those people actually receive it.

Why? The reasons vary, not the least of which is

that tPA can be fatal when administered too late or incorrectly. “There’s been a lot of nega-tive press about tPA from some in the emer-gency department community and others saying ‘We don’t like this drug – it increases our liability,’” said Dr. Moore. “But to be quite honest, they’re just wrong. There is so much fa-vorable evidence right now that not giving it is what gets them into trouble.”

The greatest reason tPA isn’t being used fre-quently enough, however, is time. FDA rules require that tPA be given within 3 hours (or, in certain cases, as late as 4.5 hours) of a stroke’s fi rst signs. For that reason, it’s important to note the time when symptoms (sudden confu-sion or speaking; sudden numbness or weak-ness of face, arm or leg on one side; sudden trouble walking, dizziness or loss of balance; sudden headache with no known cause or sud-den vision impairment) fi rst appear.

All too often, however, patients either fail to recognize those signs or discount their signifi -cance and delay treatment.

“The brain is a lot like real estate – every-thing is ‘location, location, location’ because each area of the brain controls something dif-ferent,” said Dr. Moore. “Even experienced doctors can miss the signs. It does happen. If the stroke hits in some of these areas that are relatively not important in the brain, then you may not have any symptoms, or very mild symptoms, and the paramedics may not have noticed it. That does happen. Usually, though, the paramedics tend to be very aggressive with identifying potential stroke patients, and we appreciate that because it lets us get patients in – if they don’t have a stroke, then we haven’t lost anything.”

The best stroke care centers, like Fort Sand-ers, are certifi ed by both the Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/Ameri-

can Stroke Association. That certifi cation en-sures patients receive the best and fastest carepossible by creating Acute Stroke Teams thatutilize best practices. These teams of emer-gency department physicians, neurologists,radiologists and nurses continually search forways to reduce the “Door-To-Needle” time – ameasurement of the time elapsed between en-tering the ER to receiving tPA.

“The national benchmark is 60 minutes, and we are currently at 45 minutes,” said Dr.Moore. “And when I am on, it’s right around 30minutes. I’m proud of that.”

As soon as a stroke is identifi ed, paramed-ics put Fort Sanders’ Acute Stroke Team onstandby. When the patient comes throughthe emergency department doors, the StrokeTeam is immediately paged as the patient re-ceives an identifi cation wrist bracelet and hasblood drawn before being sent directly to theCT department. There, they are met by Dr.Moore or his partner, Dr. James Hora. Aftera quick exam, the patient gets the CT scanwhile the hospital’s pharmacy is preparingthe tPA. “By the end of that scan, I generallyknow if I am going to be able to offer themtPA,” said Dr. Moore, who then discusses therisks and benefi ts with the patient and theirfamily as he accompanies the patient back totheir room.

“If they refuse it, fi ne – we’ve lost a vial of medicine and that’s OK,” said Dr. Moore. “Butif they say, ‘Yes, go ahead. I don’t want to livelike this. Give me the best chance you can,’ it’sready to go as soon as they get into the roomonce we’ve made sure that their blood pres-sure is OK. That’s about all that it takes. But it’smaking sure you follow this very clearly defi nedprocess again and again and again that gets youin the mindset you can reduce the times andthat’s what’s made the biggest differences.”

Charlotte Wolfenbarger is thankful she took that chance.

“People think, ‘I’m going to wait to see if this goes away. I couldn’t be having a stroke!’or ‘I don’t want to look stupid by going to thehospital’ But they’re not going to think you’restupid. Don’t sit and wait to see what’s goingto happen next because what’s going to hap-pen next is you are going to get worse. Call anambulance and go straight to Fort Sanders Re-gional because they are equipped for it. Don’tgo anywhere else.”

Time for a miracleClot-buster speeds Knoxville woman’s recovery from stroke

It’s not just the studies he’s read throughout the years that convinced Dr. Arthur Moore – it was seeing the differ-ence that the clot-busting drug tPA can make in the lives of ischemic stroke pa-tients.

“The benefi ts with tPA amount to about a 30 percent increased chance of minimal to no defi cit and being able to live on your own at three months,” says Dr. Moore, medical director of the Com-prehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sand-ers Regional Medical Center. “It’s not an overnight thing, but we’ve seen it turn patients around.”

Still, he says, the greatest obstacle to reducing death and disability due to stroke remains education of stroke’s warning signs and tPA – and not just educating the patients but health provid-ers, too.

“It starts with recognition on the pa-tient’s part,” he said. “Patients will wake up at night and not be able to move one side and go back to sleep. They’ll say, ‘Awww, it’ll be better in the morning.’ Well, by the time they wake up in the morning, I can’t do anything. That stroke is already there. So that’s No. 1 – in-creased recognition.

“Then, it’s increased recognition on the part of Emergency Medical Services and people in emergency departments where they say, ‘This is a stroke’ but will-ing to take it one step further: ‘This is a stroke and I can treat this.’ It’s recogniz-ing that tPA does have benefi ts. It’s say-ing, ‘We CAN treat this patient and they CAN get better.’ And if they can’t do it there at one hospital, it’s recognizing that they need to send that patient to a higher level of care.”

“Once we start educating people and they’re recognizing and getting to the hospitals, that’s great,” Dr. Moore contin-ued. “But if you have a bottleneck in the hospital – if you sit around for an hour and a half and see if it gets better before we think about giving the medicine – that’s the wrong way to approach stroke. We need to approach it as the emergency that it really is.”

Yet, failure to recognize those signs and seek treatment quickly continues to take a toll on the 800,000 victims each year, causing stroke to be the third-lead-ing cause of death and No. 1 cause of dis-ability in the United States.

Certainly, tPA carries risks – a 6 per-cent chance of bleeding with a 3 percent chance of worsening the symptoms and 1 percent risk of death. Even so, most pa-tients elect to take tPA rather than face a life of disability.

Additionally, the Food and Drug Ad-ministration requires tPA be given within 3 hours of the fi rst signs of stroke, mak-ing stroke treatment a race against the clock. Dr. Moore says Fort Sanders Re-gional is expected to handle hundreds of stroke cases this year. Of those, he proj-ects about a fi fth will be eligible to receive tPA. “It’s highly variable but here lately we’ve been administering tPA about 10 times a month,” he says. “We’re quite a bit higher than the national spectrum as far as percentage of patients. We have a goal this year of greater than 20 percent of not only getting tPA to obviously eli-gible patients, but getting those patients here in enough time to where we can do it. We want to be aggressive because we are comfortable with the medicine. We know what we are doing and when we give it, it helps patients.”

Charlotte Wolfenbarger (right), with her husband, David, is grateful for the quick action from the team of medical experts at the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Fort Sanders Regional.

Education key for treating stroke

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A beauty pageant took place last week in South Knoxville, but no backstab-bings or catfi ghts were in-volved.

Betsy Pickle

Ageless beauty

Eleven residents of Is-land Home Park Health and Rehab (formerly Hillcrest South) competed in Thurs-day’s contest, and everyone was a winner. Literally. Ev-erybody got a trophy.

And all were richly de-served.

Some of the women were a little shy, but most of them beamed as they paraded in front of family, friends and staff. The facility’s CNAs had scoured thrift stores looking for fancy fi xings, and on the big day they helped the con-testants with their outfi ts, hair and makeup.

The effect was magical.Eleanor Pickle, glowing

in an off-white macramé-style dress, with a fl ower-bedecked black hat that had many saying she looked like Queen Elizabeth, won the title of Miss Island Home. She received roses, a trophy, a sash and a tiara. (Full dis-closure: Eleanor is my aunt. She’s also the fi rst Pickle I know of to win a beauty contest!)

Phyllis Harper, fi rst runner-up, looked royal in blue. Millie Russell, sec-ond runner-up, stunned in a red-sequined dress and matching hat.

Miss Congeniality Alice Shaffer was right in style with a purple chevron dress.

The other awards went to: Edith Banks, Best Make-up; Burtie Burns, Miss Per-sonality; Jean Hobock, Best Dressed; Carrie Mellon, Most Photogenic; Rhonda Ogle, Best Accessories; Peggie Phillips, Best Hair; and Trula Thompson, Best Smile.

It was a big week for the health center as Dr. Deaver Shattuck stepped into the role of medical director. A meet-and-greet was held for

Phyllis Harper, fi rst runner-up

Millie Russell, second runner-up

Eleanor Pickle, Miss Island Home Park Photos by Betsy Pickle

Alice Shaff er, Miss Congenial-ity

Before and afterThe south column at the entrance to Island Home Park is al-most as good as new. After being knocked down by a com-mercial truck driver on May 7, the 106-year-old column drew an outcry not just about the damage but also about truck drivers ignoring detour signs during the partial closure of Island Home Avenue. The city has increased signage to make drivers aware of the detour. Meanwhile, the owner of Allied Toyotalift, whose business the errant driver was trying to reach, acted quickly to restore the column. He hired CEP Builders – owner Charles Ed-ward Pruitt and his brother, Tim – who had it back up with only the lamp missing as of last Saturday. Photos by Betsy Pickle

him last Tuesday.

■ Candoro restorationGood news, bad news.The bad news is, the reno-

vation work on the Candoro Marble building has been pushed back to June 2016. The good news is, Candoro is available for booking events until June 2016.

The Aslan Foundation, which owns the Candoro building, has some other projects it needs to complete before starting on Candoro. So – lucky break for wed-ding and party planners!

Chapman Pool From page 1

‘Most Painful Dive’ each year on the Fourth of July; being ‘too young’ to play sand volleyball with the teenagers, but quickly pav-ing my way; winning my fi rst Greased Watermelon; to spending time with my favorite people, whether it be swim team, lifeguards or fellow members.

“My hope is to keep Chap-man Pool a place where memories are made for years to come.”

Chapman Pool is a non-profi t 501c(7) organization overseen by a volunteer

board. The private recre-ation club bases membership fees on the number of family members and offers special rates for seniors, grandpar-ents and babysitters.

The Olympic-sized pool – 3 feet deep in the shal-low end and 12 feet deep in the deep end – is open daily May 23 through Aug. 8 and has at least one lifeguard on duty at all times. It is one of the few community pools in the area to have a high dive. It also has a wading pool for preschoolers.

Amenities include free

swimming lessons, a conces-sion stand, a pavilion with picnic tables, and a grassy area for play. Members can also bring their own food, and there is free wifi .

Member Molly Gilbert says Chapman Pool seems different from other area pools.

“I like the family-friendly atmosphere,” she says. “You don’t have to be worried about the words that are be-ing said or the music that’s being played. It’s like step-ping back into 1950. We go at least three to four times a week, usually in the evening hours when people go home

for dinner and you feel like you have the pool to your-self.”

From now through Sun-day, June 14, the $50 ini-tiation fee will be waived for new members who mention this story or the promotion on the Chapman Pool Face-book page. There will be an open house from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 13, to which the community is invited. Cost is $5 (free for members). Those joining that day will have their ad-mission charges deducted from their membership.

Info: 573-8312 or Chap-man Pool on Facebook.

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Lynn Porter doesn’t believe in sugarcoating reality, and she’s confi dent that her 16-year-old daughter, Amber, is prepared for what she’s going to hear when the man who gunned down her father six years ago stands before a judge May 28 and pleads guilty to volun-tary manslaughter.

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Victims speak as Whiteside faces judgmentOn the west side

Whiteside’s legal issues appear to have had little effect on his so-cial, professional or political life. Within a couple of weeks of the shooting, he helped stage a gala fundraiser to celebrate the open-ing of the new Duncan School of Law.

In spring 2011, he co-hosted a lavish Las Vegas bachelor party for Zane Duncan, younger son of U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan and younger brother of then-trustee John Duncan III. Invited guests included a gaggle of prominent Republican political aspirants.

In June, a grand jury bumped Whiteside’s charge up to fi rst-degree murder. The following January, White side set aside his partisan preferences and served as an on-the-scene reporter for a

local TV sta-tion at the 2013 inaugu-ration of Presi-dent Barack Obama.

His most recent TV ap-pearance was as a proud parent when his son, a stu-dent at Webb School and point guard of

the varsity basketball team, inked the papers for a basketball schol-arship to Cornell University.

MPi Solutions, headed by Whi-teside’s wife, Jackie, aggressively pitches its expertise on the com-pany website:

“MPi Solutions offers a variety of services aimed at businesses seeking government contracts. … The New Wall Street is the U.S. Government! Are you ready to benefi t from the change? Let us help you. Large or small, just starting out or celebrating your 100th anniversary, we may have a solution for you.”

On the east sideWhiteside had other business-

es, including a Burlington event space called the Broker, which was set ablaze in February 2004. Three days later, a fi re broke out in Sudderth’s new nightclub, Phatz Sports Grill, a few blocks away. A second blaze further damaged Phatz a few months later. Each man suspected the other of arson, witnesses say.

Sources say the judge will hear proof that Whiteside and Sud-derth were rivals in yet another business. It wasn’t a T-shirt shop they were patronizing the night of the shooting (as described in media accounts), but an adjacent gambling establishment. They had been locked in a bitter dis-pute over a small, spring-mounted plastic device called “slap dice,” much sought after by craps play-ers. Whiteside had been importing them from Asia and making a tidy profi t; Sudderth was horning into the franchise. At least one crime-scene witness reported seeing Sudderth make a sudden U-turn on Martin Luther King Boulevard when he saw Whiteside’s SUV in the parking lot that night.

There is no dispute that Sud-

derth and Whiteside had a loud confrontation inside the “T-shirt shop,” or that Sudderth was or-dered to leave, or that Whiteside went outside shortly thereafter and within seconds, shot Sud-derth with a 9 mm Glock, left his body in the parking lot, got into his car and drove a block and a half to fl ag down a police offi cer and turn himself in. Investigators confi scated Whiteside’s handgun and picked up 14 spent shells from the pavement at the crime scene. An autopsy would show that 13 shots connected, mostly to Sud-derth’s side and back.

Lynn Porter ridicules White-side’s self-defense claim, saying that Sudderth made it his busi-ness to let everyone know he was unarmed because he was a con-victed felon and subject to a fi ve-year sentence if found to be carry-ing a gun.

She was shocked when Dan Armstrong, the newly elected Third Judicial District Attorney General who inherited the case from his predecessor, informed her of the plea agreement on April 27. But after prayerful consider-ation, she says she’s going to be at peace, whatever the outcome.

Moving on“I’m asking the judge to give

him the whole 21 years (the top of the sentencing range), but I’m just going to ask God to give me his peace and comfort,” Porter said.

after her relationship ended in 2003. She says he and his family were strongly supportive when she battled cancer, and that Sudderth always supported his daughter, emotionally and fi nancially.

Isaacs has stayed busy, and last month shepherded former Knox County Trustee Mike Lowe to a sweet plea deal on charges of defrauding the county by hir-ing ghost employees to perform phantom jobs. A couple of Lowe’s “ghost” employees were outside auditors/tax collectors, a position Troy Whiteside held 2000-2004. Lowe had a dozen outside auditors. Ed Shouse, who is now the trustee, has fi ve, a number he says is suffi -cient to the needs of the offi ce.

Neither Isaacs nor Armstrong would comment for the record. Moncier confi rmed that he will take up the wrongful death suit against Whiteside when the crimi-nal case is concluded.

He and Isaacs are old comrades who teamed up to defend accused serial killer Tom “Zoo Man” Hus-key in the longest-running, most expensive murder trial in Ten-nessee history, and, despite over-whelming evidence of guilt, won something of a victory when they helped Huskey avoid the death penalty via mistrial on a quadru-ple murder charge in 1999, leaving him to serve a 66-year sentence on multiple rape charges.

As adversaries in Wilson v. Whiteside, they threatened each other with gag orders, lobbed in-sults and wooed reporters as they battled their way up to the Court of Appeals.

Moncier offered a preview of his case when he described Sud-derth as “a big, jovial fellow – very responsible, punctual and intel-ligent. A businessman. There’s an old saying about justice delayed,” he said.

“And I believe the last line of that saying is ‘justice denied.’ ”

Troy Whiteside Knox County mug shot

Sources say he will probably serve

seven years.

This is the unedited letter 16-year-old Amber Sudderth has written to the court re-garding the sentencing of Troy Whiteside for killing her fa-ther:

“Ever since August 22, 2009, my life has changed drastically. That’s the day you took my fa-ther’s life and took him away from me.

“Taking my father away from me has caused me so much heartache and pain. … He was my best friend and to lose him is like losing a part of me.

“His death caused many is-sues like heartache and fi nan-cial problems. Even though my mama and daddy were not married they had a bond like no other. Seeing her struggle then losing him is still the worst feeling ever.

“We (me and my mom) struggle every day to get by without him and his help. My daddy was also there for me whenever I needed him. Some-

times my life feels empty with-out him.

“People make my daddy out to be all these things, but I don’t care. That is still my dad-dy, regardless. Mr. Whiteside

‘My life feels empty without him’

you don’t seem to be any less scary than they say my dad was.

“Honestly, you are scary to me. I never knew how I would face you because of what you’ve done. Nobody deserves to have their life taken away like this, not even you.

“I’ll forgive you, yes I do. But I’ll never forget what you did. It will always live with me. I’ll never forget hearing the words, ‘He didn’t make it.’ That will always replay in my head. You have kids. Can you imagine if someone took you away from them and they had to suffer through this?

“I wish my daddy was still here, but since he’s not justice should be served. There is no reason for u to shoot someone that many times. It’s not self-defense. It’s murder. Straight murder. I have siblings and in know they feel the heartache. I was the closest one to my father and our bond was be-yond strong. And now I have to live with knowing someone took my best friend from me.”

–Amber Sudderth

“I’ve turned it all over to

God. It will be made right

in God’s time, and in the

meantime, I’m not going

to let anybody steal my joy.

There’s nothing I can do

about it anyway.”

Sources say he will probably serve seven years.

Porter and her daughter, like the rest of Stacy Sudderth’s friends and family, had hoped for a mur-der conviction for the politically connected Troy Donovan “Pete” Whiteside.

To them, this is just the latest in a string of disap-pointments.

Ten days af-ter the shoot-ing, Sudderth’s survivors gath-ered at the City County Building for W h i t e s i d e ’ s s c h e d u l e d Sessions Court arraignment. They were shocked to learn that he’d already been arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder in an unpublicized hearing held at the Knox County Sheriff ’s De-tention Facility the day before. His bond was reduced from $750,000 to $50,000, and they had received no notification of the hearing.

Attorney Herb Moncier, who had represented Sudderth in an earlier murder-for-hire case and won an acquittal, had been retained by Sudderth’s mother, Erma Jean Wilson, to fi le a wrong-ful death claim against Whiteside. He challenged the arraignment but was rebuffed by Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz and the Court of Appeals, which ruled that defen-dants’ rights trump those of vic-tims. The civil suit has been in legal limbo, awaiting resolution of the criminal case, although Whi-teside’s attorney, Greg Isaacs, at-tempted to have it dismissed when Mrs. Wilson died in 2010. Lynn Porter says Wilson grieved herself to death.

Sudderth’s friends and fam-ily were further surprised when District Attorney General Randy Nichols and every Criminal Court judge in Knox County except Lei-bowitz, who has since retired, bowed out of the case due to con-fl icts of interest. Whiteside has been liberal with campaign con-tributions.

Porter and Sudderth, both Al-coa natives, had broken up by the time Sudderth moved to Knox-ville. She knew little of his busi-ness dealings here, and less about the documented feud with White-side, who grew up in Lonsdale but moved to West Knox County after his business, a minority contract-ing fi rm called MPi Business Solu-tions, took off.

“I’ve turned it all over to God. It will be made right in God’s time, and in the meantime, I’m not going to let anybody steal my joy. There’s nothing I can do about it anyway.”

Amber has written a letter

to the judge (see sidebar), which she hopes to be allowed to read in court. Part of the letter is ad-dressed to Whiteside. She says she forgives him.

Porter said she has always lev-eled with Amber about the way the man who called her his “Booger-Bear” lived and died, and she’s been honest about the cascade of troubles that have plagued her since she was the victim of a bru-tal 1998 rape and home invasion that drove her to leave the com-munity where both she and Stacy grew up, and resulted in Stacy be-ing tried and acquitted of murder-for-hire in the death of one of the accused rapists.

And maybe most diffi cult of all, Porter has been honest about the two bouts of breast cancer she has survived since 2003. Amber worries about losing her mother, and has been hurt by the sear-ing headlines describing White-side (who has no prior criminal record) as a respected business leader and Sudderth as a danger-ous felon. Along with the rest of the family, she suffered through repeated postponements and de-lays while Whiteside walked free. A low point was when he showed up at Amber’s school to watch his son’s basketball team play.

Porter fought through her struggles and earned a bachelor’s degree from Tusculum College while working at Denso, and re-mained friends with Sudderth

Shopper news • MAY 20, 2015 • 5 government

Marvin West

Billy Joe O’Kain, a pitcher on the most successful Ten-nessee baseball team, didn’t make it to the big leagues. I thought he might.

Never wanted anyone to feel sorry for me

O’Kain was a star for the 1951 Vols, second in the Col-lege World Series. The team had a 20-3 season, best winning percentage in UT history.

Soon thereafter, baseball and life took bad hops.

On a surprisingly cold and wet July evening in Winner, S.D., O’Kain was

pitching for an independent team against an all-star del-egation from Cuba. Some-thing wasn’t right in his shoulder, but he kept trying. The Cubans knocked him around. Billy tried some more. That was his nature.

The next day and for a week, doctors tried to deter-mine the cause of his affl ic-tion. They failed.

At UT the following spring, O’Kain confi rmed what he already knew, that he wasn’t as effective as he had been, that his fastball had slowed, that his shoul-der might never be the same.

All was not lost. Bill mar-ried his sweetheart, Ruby McGinnis, and forfeited his UT scholarship. Robert R. Neyland, athletic director, did not fund married ath-letes. He demanded full-

time devotion.O’Kain became an elec-

trician apprentice in Oak Ridge, saved some money, returned to UT and hit an-other roadblock. He sud-denly couldn’t see properly.

Doctors discovered retinal hemorrhaging but couldn’t fi nd the cause. He made the elite hospi-tal rounds – Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins and Vander-bilt. No precise determina-tion, no cure.

“I drove part of the way home from Baltimore and realized I couldn’t see very well. We didn’t use the word ‘blind.’ It was a bad word. But by 1954, I was.”

A weak man would have crumbled. A fi ghter would have been discouraged. O’Kain never considered giving up. He signed up for a fi ve-month rehabilitation

program at the Arkansas Enterprises for the Blind.

He met Dick Freeling, a World War II victim who had been shot in the face and had lost senses of taste and smell – and sight.

“Bill Freeling was a won-derful man with a positive outlook on life. He was a ham radio operator and an insurance agent.”

Bill O’Kain became a ham radio operator. He opened an insurance agency in the basement of his Oak Ridge home.

Nothing to it, folks. He walked to work. Well, some-times he tumbled down the steps, but he got up and kept on keeping on in business for 40 years.

Bill is father of two. He is twice a grandfather. He has two great-grandchil-dren. Because Ruby was a

bowler, Bill bowled. He has been a deacon at Roberts-ville Baptist. He talks with radio friends “all over the world.”

Bill says Ruby has been the winning edge in his life. Before he hired a secre-tary and then two, she did the insurance paperwork at night after getting home from her day job. She was his tour guide all the years they had season tickets to Tennessee football and bas-ketball.

Do what? Go to games you can’t see?

“I can feel them,” said O’Kain. “I can be part of the excitement. I can go to a Tennessee baseball game and know the team is play-ing on the fi eld where I played.”

Because he once saw Mickey Mantle in action,

O’Kain has long been a fan of the Yankees – and the Braves and a few other teams. He buys a radio package to follow baseball closely.

“I can see the action through a play-by-play announcer. Television announcers aren’t much help. They talk about too many things unrelated to what’s happening on the field.”

Bill O’Kain, 84, will ad-dress the lunch bunch next week at Lake Forest Presby-terian Church. He will tell the audience that God has blessed his life.

“I’ve tried to do the best I can with what I have. I never wanted anyone to feel sorry for me.”Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan and wife Lynn are selling their home on Butternut Circle in Sugarwood sub-division in Farragut. They plan to move into a smaller, one-level home in Knox County once their current home sells. They also own a lake house in Grainger County, which is part of the second congressional dis-trict.

■ Jason Zachary is defi nitely running for state representative to replace Ryan Haynes. He has pur-chased a home in the dis-trict. He won the Farragut portion of the district in his race for Congress in August 2014. Others are expected to run, too, but this time Zachary will be taken seri-

Duncans are selling Farragut home

VictorAshe

ously by all. Others may in-clude Lou Moran and Karen Carson. Former Farragut Mayor Eddy Ford has his house for sale and will not run. His wife, Linda, is re-covering from knee surgery.

■ Nashville: While Knoxville may be a cake-walk for Mayor Rogero’s re-election (with no one else running), Nashville faces a hot and heavy contest with seven credible candidates (all Democrats) as Mayor

Karl Dean retires after two terms as mayor.

These candidates are all well funded (all having raised over $500,000 each and several at $1 million). For one, at least, funding is unlimited due to his wealth. Two are women and one is African-American, Howard Gentry, who stands an ex-cellent chance of being in the runoff should no one get 50 percent of the vote plus one. No Republican is run-ning.

Candidates are Metro Council member Megan Barry, attorney Charles Robert Bone, David Fox, multimillionaire Bill Free-man, Criminal Court Clerk Howard Gentry (former vice mayor), Jeremy Kane and

Linda Eskind Rebrovick (daughter of Jane Eskind).

The upcoming city of Knoxville election is such a snoozer that less than 7 per-cent of the registered voters (or 6,500 voters) may actu-ally vote. The challengers to the incumbents to date are not seen as signifi cant.

■ Books: In modern times, only three persons have written books on the complete history of Knox-ville. They were Betsey Creekmore Sr.; Bill Ma-cArthur, along with Lu-cille Deaderick; and Bruce Wheeler, who with Mike McDonald wrote “Knox-ville: Mountain City in the New South” in 2003, pub-lished by the University of Tennessee Press.

Wheeler, 75, is the only one still living. I had lunch with him May 4 at The Orangery. He now lives in Wears Valley in Sevier County and is open to writ-ing an updated edition of his book, now 12 years old.

In fact, his 2003 book was an updated version of his earlier Knoxville his-tory. Wheeler said it would take six months to update the prior book and then the printing. In all likelihood, if he started soon, a new book could be published in early 2016. The 2003 edition sold over 1,200 copies.

A decision has not been made to do it, but much has happened since 2003 that should be recorded.

Jack Neely and Bob

Booker are also very able local historians. Neely has written several outstanding books, but his books gener-ally are targeted to a specifi c issue such as the Tennes-see Theatre. Booker has a great grasp of our African-American history. Both could write solid histories of the whole city should they decide to take on the chal-lenge.

■ On a personal note, Joan and I were in Rich-mond May 10 for our daugh-ter’s, Martha Ashe, 22, graduation from the Uni-versity of Richmond with a summa cum laude degree in business. Our son, J Victor, 25 on May 22, lives in San Jose, Calif., where he works for Cisco Systems.

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6 • MAY 20, 2015 • Shopper news

By Mystery DinerLitton’s Market, Res-

taurant and Bakery has some dedicated purists. Their passion is the bur-ger. Add whatever sides you want, choose cheese or not, but don’t leave Lit-ton’s without eating the burger.

They have a point. The juicy, hand-patted Lit-ton Burger on a home-made bun with lettuce, tomato and onion is the cornerstone on which the restaurant part of the business was built. When Eldridge Litton founded Litton’s Market in 1946, it sold groceries, hardware, feed and gas, but not burgers. It was 1962 when Eldridge and his son, Ed-win, added a deli counter and sold the fi rst Litton Burger for 89 cents.

Barry and Kelly, the third generation of Lit-tons, are at the helm now. Today’s Litton Burger grew from a customer request in 1981. Barry cooked a hamburger on the market’s three-legged skillet – an eight-ounce burger with bacon on a hoagie bun for $1.99.

Being a rebel, Mystery Diner pushed the limit and ordered the Litton Thunder Road Burger. Having had the home-made chicken salad – take a tub home! – the lure of homemade pi-mento cheese on top of the famous burgers was too much to resist. The sautéed onions and jala-

peno peppers as toppers complete the symphony of fl avors.

Rebelling again, I chose a baked sweet po-tato instead of fries, then stole a few fries from my friend’s plate. Both were delicious.

The Thunder Road Burger was perfectly cooked. The pimento cheese was all melty and rich with fl avor that per-fectly complemented the burger and the onions. The buns at Litton’s are fresh, beautifully toasted and delicious. Thunder Road is simply a terrifi c entrée.

But here’s the thing about Litton’s: At some point, you gotta get past the burger. The quality of the food starts with the burger, but it doesn’t stop there. The salads are fresh and huge, with a home-made blue cheese dress-ing that is good enough to dip your fries in. The chicken salad is fi rst class. The steaks are high-end restaurant quality. Don’t even get me started on the onion rings. Desserts are in a class by themselves, with the coconut cream pie and red velvet cake at the top of the list.

If you eat out regu-larly, Litton’s can offer you a variety of great food choices. Every time I go, I vow to order something different, and I am stead-fast in my resolve – right up to the moment they de-liver the burger.

Shopper news • MAY 20, 2015 • 7 weekenderFRIDAY

■ Marble City Shooters in concert, Casual Pint Fountain City, 4842 Harvest Mill Way.

■ Midnight Voyage Live: Vaski and Marley Carroll, 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info/tickets: www.intlknox.com.

■ SAFTA Stage presents “Cages,” 7 p.m., The Emporium’s Black Box, 100 S. Gay St. Plays include: “Tortillas” by Cathy Adams, “A Brief Play” by Alicia Cole, “Shelter” by Laryssa Wirstiuk and “Unactualized” by Saba Waheed. Tickets: $12 in advance or $15 at the door. Info/tickets: www.sundresspublications.com/safta/programs.htm.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ Smoky Mountain Quilters 2015 Quilt Show, Maryville Col-

lege Cooper Athletic Center. Times: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

SATURDAY ■ Angela Floyd School for the Dancer Spring Dance Con-

cert, 5 p.m., Knoxville Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Info/tickets: Knoxville Civic Auditorium-Coliseum Box Offi ce, 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.com outlets.

■ ATL Takeover in concert, 9 p.m., The Concourse, 940 Black-stock Ave. Info/tickets: www.intlknox.com.

■ Ijams Creature Feature, 10 a.m., Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave. For all ages. Free program, donations to support animal care welcome.

■ Knoxville Track Club Expo 10K and 5K, 8 a.m., 100 block of Gay Street. Race-day registration, 6:15 a.m. Info: www.ktc.org; Justin Emert, emertj@comcast.net, or Kristy Altman, knoxvilletrackclub@gmail.com.

■ Old Time Mountain Music Jam, 1-3 p.m., Candoro Arts and Heritage Center, 4450 Candora Ave. Info: Trudy, 384-1273, or www.candoromarble.org.

■ Sheryl Crow in concert, 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Info/tickets: www.tennesseetheatre.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, the Tennessee Theatre box offi ce and 800-745-3000.

■ Social Paddle at The Cove!, 9-11 a.m., The Cove at Concord Park, 11808 Northshore Drive. All rental locations are open.

■ Storytellers and Craft Share, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Walter P. Hardy Park, 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Featuring: “The Story of The Elements” and the “Dreamcatcher”; Kokopelli story sticks craft project; songs and dances. Free event. Bring picnic lunch.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY ■ Statehood Day celebration, Marble Springs State Historic

Site, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway. Times: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Living history interpreters depict frontier life. Free and open to the public; donations appreciated. Info: 573-5508, www.marblesprings.net.

SUNDAY ■ SAFTA Stage presents “Cages,” 3 p.m., The Emporium’s

Black Box, 100 S. Gay St. Plays include: “Tortillas” by Cathy Adams, “A Brief Play” by Alicia Cole, “Shelter” by Laryssa Wirstiuk and “Unactualized” by Saba Waheed. Tickets: $12 in advance or $15 at the door. Info/tickets: www.sundresspublications.com/safta/programs.htm.

By Betsy PickleOscar nominee Carey

Mulligan (“An Education”) stars in a new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s liter-ary classic “Far From the Madding Crowd,” opening Friday exclusively at Down-town West.

Mulligan plays Bathshe-ba Everdene, an unusually independent heiress who fi nds herself with three suit-ors: a sheep farmer (Matth-ias Schoenaerts), a dashing offi cer (Tom Sturridge) and a prosperous landowner (Michael Sheen). She must decide which – if any – is

right for her.Thomas Vinterberg (“The

Celebration”), co-founder (along with Lars von Trier) of the Dogme 95 movement, directed the fi lm.

Oscar winner George Clooney is back on the screen in “Tomorrowland,” a fi lm inspired by Walt Dis-ney’s Tomorrowland section of Disneyland and Epcot Center at Disney World.

Clooney plays a former boy genius who went into seclusion when his belief that a better world could ex-ist was destroyed. A science-loving, enthusiastic teen

(Britt Robertson) forces him to go on an adventure to prove that a secret world – Tomorrowland – exists.

Hugh Laurie, Tim Mc-Graw, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key and Judy Greer also star for two-time Oscar-winning director Brad Bird. The fi lm opens in wide release on Friday.

Also opening wide is “Poltergeist,” a remake of director Tobe Hooper’s 1982 horror classic.

Gil Kenan (“Monster House”) directed the new version, which stars Sam

Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt as a couple who move with their three chil-dren into a house in a sub-division that has seen better days.

Strange things imme-diately begin happening in their home, and when their younger daughter dis-appears, they realize that she has been abducted by supernatural forces. They call on a paranormal expert (Jared Harris) and a univer-sity professor (Jane Adams) for help.

Sam Raimi served as a producer on the fi lm.

By Carol ShaneReady for a fun family

outing? One with plenty of violence?

At fi rst glance those two things don’t go together. That’s why it’s important to stress that it’s theatrical violence. And not with guns – no, not by a (groan) long shot. We’re talking swords and quarterstaffs.

This weekend and the next in Harriman, Tenn., lords and ladies will be gathering for the Tennes-see Medieval Faire, and you’re invited. If you’ve ever longed to play dress-up, revel in food and drink from another era, cheer on a real, live jouster or just watch

otherwise sane grownups playing a very high-level form of make-believe, now’s your chance.

The event is produced by Lars and Barrie Paulson, Florida transplants and Ringling Medieval Faire vets who saw opportunity in East Tennessee for some “adventure tourism.” Own-ers and operators of Dark Horse Entertainment, LLC, Lars has specialized in car-pentry – he’s built sets and props for Pigeon Forge’s Titanic Museum, among others – and Barrie has her pedigree in fi ght training and performing. Though she proudly holds credentials in unarmed, single sword and

Thunder Road BurgerMatthias Schoenaerts and Carey Mulligan get close in “Far From the Madding Crowd.”

The Steele Sisters, who bill them-selves as “Beauties with Blades,” will appear at the Tennes-see Medieval Faire this weekend and next. In real life, their names are Nicole Skelly and Saman-tha MacDon-ald, and they get along just fi ne. Photo by Photo Persuasion

for youJoust “There is something for everyone,” Barrie says. “We have live jousting, warriors’ chess, trick shows, Celtic music, belly dancing, tur-key legs.” By the way, dads, there’s plenty of ale, and those frosty tankards are brought to you by “wench-es.” Beer alternatives are also provided. Women may prefer the “quality crafts, interactive period dance, handsome knights and ro-mantic actors.” Kids will enjoy puppet shows, sto-rytellers, games, warhorse and pony rides, and toy ven-dors. There are interactive comedy shows and plenty of good food.

And you and your little ones may end up learning a bit about history in the process. “It’s a new tradi-tion – joust for you,” says the website.

The Tennessee Medieval Faire will run the next two weekends, including Memo-rial Day weekend: May 23-25 and 30-31. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Ticket prices are $14.95 for ages 13 and up, $7.95 for ages 5 to 12, free for ages 4 and under. Free parking is included. The fes-tival is located at 550 Fiske Road in Harriman.

More info: www.TMFaire.com or visit Facebook. Send story suggestions to news@shoppernewsnow.com.

‘Madding Crowd,’ ‘Tomorrowland,’ ‘Poltergeist’ off er variety

quarterstaff battle – “an extremely diffi cult gold star to get” – she mostly directs performers now.

“It’s been Lars’ lifelong dream to build a Medieval/Renaissance festival ‘right’ from the ground up, in-stead of fi xing other people’s festivals and managing them,” Barrie says. The pair mounted a preview show last October and decided to go full-tilt (sorry) in May 2015 with a three-weekend grand opening.

“It takes a lot of time, money, hard work and com-munity support,” Barrie says. “Medieval/Renais-sance festivals have a re-gional draw. The closest permanent sites for Renais-sance festivals are 150-250 miles away, near Nashville, Atlanta, Charlotte and Lou-isville.” To the Paulsons, East Tennessee seemed ripe for its own permanent site, especially considering the prevalence of Scots-Irish lineage in the area. “If you go up the Appalachian fam-ily tree,” says Barrie, “you get kings and queens. So we want to honor the region’s Celtic heritage.”

And what will you fi nd at the Tennessee Medieval Faire?

George Clooney plays a disillusioned inventor in “Tomorrowland.”

8 • MAY 20, 2015 • Shopper news

By Anne HartLegend has it that at the

end of every rainbow there’s a pot of gold, but at Mission of Hope, the rainbow that graces its logo signifi es something far more valuable than gold.

At the end of Mission of Hope’s rainbow stand dozens of young people with stars in their eyes and dreams in their hearts, each clutching a high school diploma and the promise of a college scholar-ship awarded by the organiza-tion that serves the families of poverty-stricken rural Appalachia in countless ways throughout the year.

One of those scholarship recipients is rising Middle Tennessee State University

(MTSU) junior Kellie Taylor. Mission of Hope Executive

Director Emmette Thompson describes her as “the zenith of what Mission of Hope has done so far in rural, dis-tressed communities.”

Poised, articulate, utterly delightful and well on the way to realizing her dreams, Kel-lie was a sixth grader in one of those rural schools when she fi rst encountered Mission of Hope.

“I remember when they came at Christmas and Santa pulled back those big sheets and uncovered all those toys and bikes and all kinds of wonderful things. It was one of the best days ever.”

It’s apparent, though, that

Kellie Taylor had also learned all about generosity at home. “My mom wanted me to give some of my toys to other kids,” she remembers with a smile.

That magical day in the life of a sixth grader marked the beginning of a long-term relationship between Kellie and Mission of Hope.

When she graduated from high school, Kellie says she cried when once again a sheet covering a big table was pulled back and every single student who had been award-ed a college scholarship from Mission of Hope also received a brand new laptop computer to help them in their college studies.

NEWS FROM MISSION OF HOPE

Kellie Taylor Photo by A. Hart

Thompson

What’s at the end of your rainbow?“It was very emotional for

everyone,” she recalls.Off to college with lap-

top in hand and a major in organizational communica-tions and minors in Spanish and psychology ahead of her, she landed a position as a reporter for the MTSU school newspaper her very fi rst semester.

And that was just the beginning.

Now she has won what she excitedly terms “my dream internship.”

In the fall she will head to Orlando to work at Disney World for a semester while continuing her work toward a degree at MTSU online.

“I can’t wait,” she enthuses. “I feel mature, but I’m a kid at heart. Every work uniform there is a costume. When I was a kid I used to dream of things like being a movie star, but this is a bigger dream than I ever had before.”

Kellie says one of the best things about having a Mis-sion of Hope scholarship is that “they don’t just hand you money and let you go. They stay with you. I have a mentor who sends me cards and keeps up with me and encourages me, and I feel like Emmette is my best friend.

Emmette Thompson says the schol-arship pro-gram, funded by donations, has seen great success. Thir-teen schol-arships are awarded an-

nually. To date, 73 have been granted, 17 recipients have graduated and two students

are in graduate school. “So far, of all the kids we

have helped, 87 percent are the fi rst in their family to graduate from high school, 97 percent are the fi rst to gradu-ate from college. With over-whelming percentages, they will make sure their children graduate. We are breaking the cycle of poverty one kid at a time.”

Thompson says that while Mission of Hope is known for gifts to children at Christmas and school supplies at the start of the school year, the program is ongoing through-out the year.

“We say that we bloom like a tree with roots and branches. The roots are the elementary schools and mountain ministry centers. We make the donations to them and they do the distri-bution because they know the families and where the needs are greatest.”

The branches are re-sources: back-to-school items, construction, health care, scholarship and evangelism.

A total of 27 elementary schools, which feed into 13 high schools, and 55 ministry centers are served.

Kellie Taylor doesn’t know what her career will be after graduation, but she says one of the fi rst things she will do “is give back to a child. Em-mette told me just today that someone has to pick up the baton.”

She wants to see more young people standing at the end of that rainbow.

For additional informa-tion or to make a donation to Mission of Hope: 584-7571 or www.missionofhope.org.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20Books Sandwiched In: “Age of Ambition,” noon,

East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 215-8801.

Dollywood Penguin Players present “Old Bear and His Cub,” 11 a.m., Sequoyah Branch Library, 1140 Southgate Road. Info: 525-1541.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, MAY 20-21AARP Safe Driving class, noon-4 p.m.,

O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/to regis-ter: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, MAY 21Closet Organizing 101, 1 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch

Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Presented by profes-sional organizer Karen Sprinkle. Info: 470-7033.

Dollywood Penguin Players present “Old Bear and His Cub,” 11 a.m., Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 470-8663.

Growing “Killer Tomatoes” class, 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Free to the public. Presented by Master Gardeners Joe Pardue and Marcia Griswold. Info: 329-8892.

Summer Slam at Mead’s Quarry, 6-9 p.m., Ijams Beer Garden at Mead’s Quarry. Free event. Craft beer, food, music; River Sports boat rentals available; trail running group will depart at 6:30. Info: 577-4717, http://ijams.org.

FRIDAY, MAY 22Pellissippi State New Student Orientation for

summer 2015 semester, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Info/to register: www.pstcc.edu/orientation or 694-6400.

SATURDAY, MAY 23Neighborhood Party, 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m., Crestwood

Hills Recreation Center pool, 8740 Fox Lonas Road. Free admission. Includes: bounce house, games, volley-ball, swimming. Food available for purchase.

Rugby Roots: Appalachian Arts with a British Beat event, Rugby’s Spring Festival featuring musicians, dancers and storytellers; food vendors. Daytime perfor-mances, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. CDT; Twangtown Paramours in concert, 6 p.m. CDT, Rebecca Johnson Theatre. Tickets: $5, daytime only; $5 concert only; $8, both.

SATURDAY-MONDAY, MAY 23-25Tennessee Medieval Faire, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 550

Fiske Road, Harriman. Tickets: $14.95 for ages 13 and up, $7.95 for ages 5-12, free for ages 4 and under. Info: www.TMFaire.com and on Facebook.

TUESDAY, MAY 26Computer Workshops: Excel, 5:30 p.m., East

Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215- 8700.

“Savvy Social Security Planning: What Baby Boomers Need to Know to Maximize Retirement Income” noncredit course. 6:30-8:30 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley campus. Full schedule of class times and locations: www.pstcc.edu/bcs. Info: 539-7167.

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By Betsy PickleOne message was on the

agenda at the South-Doyle Middle School stadium last Friday: Be a buddy, not a bully.

If the message didn’t get through to students, it wasn’t for lack of trying by Knoxville Police Depart-ment Chief David Rausch, principal Beth Blevins and a secret weapon – “Sterl the Pearl.”

Former University of Tennessee quarterback Sterling Henton testifi ed to the hazards of bullying dur-ing his energetic address to the middle-schoolers.

Growing up in New Jersey, he said, he was on both sides of bullying situations.

“Bullying is wrong in ev-ery circumstance,” he said.

Henton advised students to tell their principal when they witness or experience bullying. He also said not to buy into the current hyped-up anti-police sentiment.

“They are here to serve and protect you,” he said.

The DJ and motivational speaker said his mother al-ways kept him on his toes.

“I could not deal with the disappointment on my mother’s face if I did some-thing wrong,” he said.

He reminded the students that they were in “middle” school and couldn’t be ex-pected to have all the an-swers, “but you know right from wrong.”

He also urged them to think about how they’d feel if their little sisters, little brothers or mothers were bullied.

The pep rally marked the culmination of the third year of KPD’s anti-bullying campaign. Students re-ceived T-shirts, water bot-tles and mini footballs, all reminding them to stand up to bullying.

By Betsy PickleGraduation season isn’t just about mor-

tarboards and long gowns.Students at South Knoxville Elementary

School who participate in the Kids Hope USA mentoring program had a ceremony of their own during a mentor/mentee cel-ebration last Thursday. The fi fth-graders received certifi cates for completing the program.

Three of the mentoring pairs – Roddre-cus Gourley and Dan Andrews, Sydney Lee and Carolyn Monday, and JaDarius Norries and Russ Linger – have been together for four years. Students in fi rst through fi fth grade are eligible to have mentors.

In partnership with Big Brothers Big

Sisters of East Tennessee, Kids Hope USA volunteers from First Baptist Church are matched with students and spend an hour or more one-on-one with their student each week at the school. Some mentors also serve as a community-based Big Brother or Big Sister after they’ve partnered with their child at least a year.

This school year, SKES had 27 Kids Hope USA mentors and another three mentors directly through BBBS, for a total of 30. The new match coordinator for BBBS, Na-dine Lay, was introduced at the celebration. She will be in charge of matching students with mentors. There are about 150 students at SKES, and every child would love to have a mentor.

■ Blevins leaving SDMSBeth Blevins, possibly

the only principal in Knox County Schools to have “manager of a rock band” on her resume, has been ap-pointed principal at West View Elementary School and is leaving South-Doyle Middle School at the end of this school year.

Blevins was a member of the inaugural class of the Principal Leadership Acad-emy and was one of an elite few principals in Tennessee chosen to visit Shanghai,

China, in 2013 to observe and analyze teaching meth-

ods there.S i n c e

j o i n i n g Knox Coun-ty Schools in 1993, she has also worked at C h i l h o w -ee, Cop-per Ridge,

Brickey, Beaumont Magnet and Northwest Middle in roles including Talented

and Gifted teacher, read-ing coach, literacy manager and assistant principal. She started her teaching career in Georgia.

Taiwo Sutton, an as-sistant principal at Fulton High School, has been ap-pointed principal at South-Doyle Middle. He has been with KCS since July 2014 af-ter serving for several years as a principal and vice prin-cipal at a number of schools in Ohio.

– Betsy Pickle

Beth Blevins

First-grader Ra’Shya Lee shares a snack with principal Tanna Nicely.

Special night of musicMount Olive Elementary School’s fi fth-graders – joined by the school’s fi fth-graders from 2008 (aka members of the South-Doyle High School Class of 2015) presented a patriotic concert last week at Mount Olive Baptist Church. Music teacher Rob Huff aker directed the choir, which performed such numbers as “God Bless America,” “American Tears” and “Sa-lute to the Armed Forces.” Veterans from the community attended along with Mount Olive families, making it a very special night for the community. Photo submitted

Kids Hope USA director Carol Linger keeps the food coming as Jerry Gist and mentor Steve Madden lead the line. Behind them are Jacob Ward and mentor Bill Coley and Cynthia Floyd and mentor Elaine Rhodes.

South-Doyle Middle students get revved up at the anti-bullying pep rally as mini footballs are tossed into the crowd.

With their mentors standing behind them, South Knoxville Elementary School fi fth-graders show off the certifi cates honoring them for completing the Kids Hope USA program: JaDarius Norries (mentor Russ Linger not pictured); Roddrecus Gourley/Dan Andrews; Cyrus Cruze/Gray Sullivan; Cynthia Floyd/Elaine Rhodes; Sydney Lee/Carolyn Monday; and Juvino Delgado/Allen Ware. Not pictured are Kensley Rivers and mentor Marie Sims. Photos by Betsy Pickle

Ex-Vol QB Henton lends voice to anti-bullying rally

Mentoring partners celebrate at SKES

Schools in the South Su-dan that are led by honorary Bearden Rotary member Anita Henderlight are just one benefi ciary. Rotarians helped Henderlight start a school for girls and built a well that serves more than 1,000 people a day.

Appuhn said that over the past seven years, Rotary Foundation Global Grants to Mexico have provided for 44 kidney transplants and built enough water tanks to provide 91,000 children clean drinking water in their schools.

Other projects have in-

cluded a computer training center in a shelter for girls, solar panels in an orphan-age, equipment for an au-tism center and cleft lip and palate surgeries.

In addition, ultrasound craniotomy equipment has been provided to a regional trauma center that has be-come a training center for other doctors.

Because of his own good works and dedication to Rotary projects, Appuhn was awarded the important Service Above Self award at the recent District 6780 Conference in Pigeon Forge.

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By Sandra Clark Food City has always

got something going on. Last week it was a charity golf tournament and media gathering in Sevierville. Af-ter a great buffet lunch and an update by president/CEO Steven Smith, Food City sent us away with a neat gift bag of computer peripher-als and a box of fresh Scott’s strawberries.

What’s not to like?We saw John Jones, for-

mer Halls guy who moved to Abingdon, Va., when he was promoted. Emerson Breeden was there. He’s on his 61st year with the com-pany. John Edd Wampler of sausage fame gave the invocation. Drew Hembree, grandson of the founder, was introduced as interim director of marketing – a fresh, young face for Food City.

Jones presented a check for $235,000 to the Ju-venile Diabetes Research Foundation. The funds were collected from customers

By Sandra ClarkGreenwood Cemetery is

getting a facelift from its new owners, Dennis and Kim Bridges from Bridges Funeral Home.

The cemetery was opened 115 years ago by Dr. Reuben and Frances Kesterson to memorialize their son, Rob-ert Neil, who died at age 3.

Fountain City historian Dr. Jim Tumblin relates the story on his website. Robert was initially buried near Dr. Kes-terson’s parents in Old Gray Cemetery. Frances and Reu-ben toured the country, in-specting cemeteries to build a fi tting memorial to their son. They found it at Green-Wood, a 478-acre rural cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The Kestersons bought 175 acres on Tazewell Pike and erected a 45-foot marble obelisk to memorialize their son. Tumblin said it was sit-uated to be visible from the upstairs dormer windows of the Kesterson home.

Dr. Kesterson was the fi rst licensed dentist to practice in Knoxville. He and Fran-ces enjoyed the town’s fi rst Cadillac, a bright red coupe.

Kim Powers Bridges is a fan. She bought a bright red and white electric car to give tours of the cemetery. She’s visited with Dr. Tum-blin and spent time at the Lawson-McGhee Library to learn the history of the Kes-tersons and their cemetery.

Most important, she and husband Dennis view them-selves as caretakers of the Kestersons’ vision.

On Friday, May 22, they will celebrate the history of Greenwood Cemetery, 3500 Tazewell Pike. Guided golf cart tours will be provided all weekend.

While much remains to be done, the Bridges family has made major improve-ments since buying the cem-etery last October.

Workers have cleared the area around the Kesterson family plot. Several monu-ments have been steam-washed. An old chain-link fence at the front of the prop-erty is gone and will be re-placed by black rail fencing. Seasonal fl owers have been added to the front gate, and the offi ce is being renovated.

Kim Bridges is especially

eager to obtain pictures, fam-ily histories and memorabilia from the cemetery’s past.

With almost 25,000 peo-ple interred here, there has to be much history, she said. Sadly, previous owners dis-posed of much of that his-tory. “We have all records here since 1900,” she said. “We have a burial card for every person.

“We waited (from Octo-ber until May) to announce the ownership change be-cause we wanted to ‘show’ rather than ‘tell’ what we will do,” she said.

Kim, an Oklahoma na-tive, and Dennis, who grew up in Karns, met while working for a large funeral home corporation. Kim said her orange suit caught his eye. Between them they have six kids, ranging in age from 12 to 36.

Dennis, a funeral home director, fulfi lled a lifelong dream when the couple opened Bridges Funeral Home in 2004. They also own cemeteries in three states, but Knoxville is home. “When I’m in town, I’m here,” Kim said of Greenwood.

By Sandra Clark“It’s better to be lucky

than smart.” That’s the word from Bill Weigel, the man who cites the corn dog as his chief contribution to the business that bears his name.

Weigel amused and in-spired at last week’s Powell Business and Professional Association meeting. And he reconnected with old friends in the community where Weigel’s was born.

Weigel’s is the story of an immigrant family who bought “farmland” in Wart-burg, moved to Forks of the River and fi nally settled on 600 acres in Powell. The Broadacres Farm is now the Broadacres subdivision, home to almost 900 fami-lies.

The Weigel’s story is one of caution, observation and steady growth. From veg-etable farming to four cows, to milk processing to home delivery to milk depots to walk-in convenience stores, the Weigel family changed with the times.

The logo – a white W offset on a bright red back-ground – was created in

Mary Moreland, executive director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; Kassie Per-

kins, Miss Food City 2015; and John Jones, Food City’s executive vice president/director of store

operations.

Shipwash named equity and compliance director

Patrick Shipwash has joined the staff of Pellis-

sippi State C o m m u -nity College as the new e x e c u t i v e director of equity and compliance.

In his role, Ship-wash will

serve as affi rmative action offi cer, equity and compli-ance offi cer, Title IX and Title VI coordinator, and ADA (Americans With Dis-abilities Act) offi cer.

Previously, Shipwash worked for TVA’s law en-forcement branch, the Tennessee Department of Human Services’ Of-fi ce of Inspector General, and Southern California Edison’s equal opportunity and ethics and compliance offi ces. He retired from Southern California Edison in 2013.

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Food City grows; supports JDRF

who purchased a “sneaker” at checkout March 28 to May 3.

Smith said over the past fi ve years Food City and its customers have contributed more than $900,000 to the organization.

And Juvenile Diabetes is just one of the company’s partners. There are School Bucks, which supports local schools, and Race for Hun-ger, which supports area

food banks.Smith talked about the

growth of Sevier County. “We have fi ve stores here now and a sixth will start this year.” He said his dad, Jack Smith, began the gro-cery chain in 1955 with one Piggly Wiggly.

Food City has grown to annual sales of $2.3 billion, “and we’re No. 1 or No. 2 in every market where we serve,” Smith said.

Food City has introduced a new website and an en-hanced ValuCard that can upload targeted coupons to customers. Next up is curbside grocery pickup at selected stores. A new store is being built in Blaine (Grainger County), part of a $60 million capital invest-ment this year. And next year’s media lunch will bring more innovations.

I’m ready.

Bill Weigel speaking to Powell

Business and Professional As-

sociation.

1995. “I didn’t like (the mar-keting mater ials) at fi rst. It made us look like a gas sta-tion,” Weigel said.

With the new century came a new logo, an em-phasis on coffee, creation of branded products like Skim D’Lite and egg nog, and most recently the addition of fresh bakery items.

Weigel’s now operates 63 stores in the region. And you’ve got to fi gure Billy Weigel had a bit more to do with that than just the corn dog.

New owners for Greenwood Cemetery

By Anne HartRotarians are known in-

ternationally for their gen-erosity of both spirit and fi nances.

The two attributes have combined over many years to virtually eradicate po-lio globally, and to provide dictionaries for every third-grader in public schools lo-cally.

The good works done by Rotarians are innumerable, and Maryville-Alcoa Rotar-ian Ron Appuhn, who chairs the Heart2Heart program of District 6780, recently showed members of the Ro-tary Club of Bearden just how their donations grow exponentially when they are matched by grants from the Rotary Foundation.

Ron Appuhn heads Rotary’s

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Appuhn expounds on service projects

By Sandra ClarkBaldwin S. Lee, professor of art at the

University of Tennessee, brought a unique message to the North Knox Rotary Club last week.

An artist and photogra-pher, Lee talked of his life as a fi rst-generation Asian-American born in New York City in 1951. Be-fore coming to Knox-ville in 1982, he was head of the photog-raphy department

and a full-time assistant professor of photography at the College of Art in Boston.

Lee is a graduate of Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology, where he studied with Minor White. He received a master’s degree in 1975 from Yale University School of Art, where he studied with Walker Evans.

While he enjoyed learning from Evans, he would have appreciated the opportunity more had he known then the lasting impact of Evans’ photography of people and rural

communities during the Great Depression. Lee mentioned Evans’ Knoxville connec-

tion. He collaborated with James Agee on “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” in 1941. Lee himself learned about the South by driving some 1,900 miles from Knoxville through Georgia and Florida, over to Loui-siana by way of Alabama and Mississippi, up to Memphis and back across Tennessee

to Knoxville. He carried his camera to capture images of Southern life in the early 1980s.

In response to questions, Lee said the advent of digital photography

does not mean there are no more good photographs. “It just means there are more

photographs and the good ones are harder to fi nd – a needle in a bigger haystack.”

What is a good photograph? someone asked.

“It must be convincing; it must look real. And it should tell you something about re-ality that you did not know,” Lee said. “The best pictures make you reconsider what you thought you knew.”

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