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Preservation Union County members Marilyn Toppins, Betty Bullen and Jan Frazee invite you to their annual fundraising dinner on Feb. 13. Photo by Libby Morgan

NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

IN THIS ISSUEGet involved!

Five clubs with dozens of members (sometimes the same people) are making Union County a better place.

This week Libby Morgan gives you the lowdown on the Lions Club, the FCE clubs, the Business and Professional Association, the Union County Arts Council and the Maynard-ville Downtown Revitalization Committee.

➤ Read her story on page 3

Little League signups every Tuesday

Union County Little League is holding signups 6-8 p.m. every Tuesday at Food City in Maynardville. Divisions are available for wee ball, T-ball, coach pitch, kid pitch and a senior league. Info: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Union-County-Little-League/299672916801010.

Hog clubHow’s that new 4-H hog

club working? Libby Morgan discovered six of six entrants were winners in recent com-petition.

➤ Pictures on page 7

Math? Oh, my!Union County Public

Schools wants improved math scores this year.

Middle school principal Melanie Maples recruited Shopper-News to help by publishing a weekly math quiz (answers the next week).

Parents will see what kids must learn; kids will see how parents maneuver through math; and we may gain new readers.

Can you work the prob-lems?

➤ Math Fun on page 4

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By Libby MorganStrains of Elvis’ “Blue Hawaii,”

Don Ho and Jimmy Buffett will bring thoughts of warm ocean breezes to a cold February night in Maynardville for Preservation Union County’s annual fundraiser

dinner on Feb. 13.Guests will enjoy a whole roast-

ed pig, Tennessee “poi” (Ellen’s famous grits and cheese), appetiz-ers, Hawaiian-style veggies and delicious pineapple upside-down cake. (No pressure, Betty.)

The interior of the historic Old Hubbs Grove Schoolhouse, now a fellowship hall under the care and ownership of Hubbs Grove Baptist Church, will transform into an island paradise for the “Love Me Tender” luau.

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By Sandra ClarkMaynardville Elementary

School has shown dramatic im-provement on test scores, and prin-cipal Lisa Carter said it’s the result of hard work and collaboration.

The school continues to lag on achievement scores, but made strong gains in what the state calls “adequate yearly progress.”

A couple of years ago the school was labeled “priority” and was at risk of complete reorganization or even state takeover.

Carter said that risk is history as Maynardville Elementary al-most earned a state “reward” des-ignation for last year’s work.

Maynardville Elementary has about 380 students in 21 class-rooms. The school had been burst-ing at the seams with more than 800 students and multiple tem-porary classrooms until Paulette Elementary opened, taking about half of the students and teachers.

Now the portables are gone. Things are settling down.

Lisa Carter (no relation to Di-rector of Schools Jimmy Carter) said a good staff of veteran teach-ers has rallied to improve the scores.

“I’m really proud of what we accomplished,” she said. “We dou-bled our math scores from the pre-vious year.”

Exactly what did the teachers do differently?

Maynardville Elementary School principal Lisa Carter works with Adrianne Jones in the school’s media center. Photo by Ruth White

Focused eff ort raises test scores

Now there are weekly teacher meetings by grade level. Teachers discuss instructional strategies in the classroom.

“We’ve focused on time man-agement,” said Carter. Moving away from teaching by lecture, “we want to see students engaged in peer-to-peer discussion and hands-on activities at least every 20 minutes. A lot of teachers here were already doing that.”

So the strategy involves lec-turing, discussion, hands-on ac-tivities and reteaching points stu-dents have missed.

A former physical education teacher, Carter brought her stop-watch. She has timed such sched-ule-breakers as class visits to the rest rooms.

And while the staff is work-ing toward 5-minute bathroom breaks, they have not cut back on

physical education or recess. Theschool continues a daily snackbreak, but has reduced the time.

“I want to see students engaged, not bored,” said Carter.

And those weekly staff meet-ings include time for teachers tolearn with state and local educa-tors meeting with the teams.

Carter says professional devel-opment is important, and a big re-sult has been increased collabora-tion among teachers.

So what’s next?Union County Public Schools

has targeted math this year. (Seemath quiz from Horace MaynardMiddle School on page 4.)

Intervention is a buzzword, meaning specifi c help for studentswho are not keeping pace. May-nardville Elementary is offeringboth morning and afternoon tu-toring.

Technology helps students learn, but it’s not worth much ifit’s not running.

Trevor Collins from the central offi ce has been wonderful to keepall of the equipment working, shesaid.

“We’ll continue to improve in-structional strategies to makesure students are engaged. We’llcontinue to pull together to helpMaynardville Elem entary be suc-cessful.”

Teachers, parents and kids are eager to see this year’s results.

Gawain HoustonMr. Gawain Houston occa-

sionally substituted for classes I had, says Ronnie Mincey.

I can remember him giving an oral spelling test. There were probably about 30 words, and as Mr. Houston was very conversational, the ninth word was reached after about 45 minutes.

Mr. Houston inquired what number we were on, and to the answer, “10,” he exclaimed, “Boys, we’re getting some-where now!”

➤ Read his story on page 4

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GRAND GARDENS

By Betty BeanIt was a leap of faith, breaking ground for

the new entrance and visitors center at the Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arbore-tum before having the entire $1.45 million estimated cost in hand. But the board of directors voted to proceed, banking on the belief that potential donors will step up as they see the impressive new project coming out of the ground, complement-ing the stacked-stone walls and ancient trees of the former Howell Nurs-ery property.

B o a r d Chair Joan Ashe is opti-mistic.

“ W e ’ r e getting close. To date, we have raised ap-proximately $1.2 million and we’re hoping that we are showing the community that we are good stewards, progressing and staying true to the mis-sion of what this place is supposed to be.”

The new visitors center will be an ex-pansion and retrofi t of the block house Joe Howell built in the 1960s. Architects De Leon & Primmer Workshop, from Louis-ville, Ky., designed a plan to add glass-and-steel wings and wrap the old building in a rippled wire mesh for a shimmering, trans-lucent look.

“There’s no building in Knoxville like it,” Ashe said. “Lighting will give it a whole different feel: modern, yet somehow rustic. Using the existing building cuts down on the expense. Our goal is to be fi nished by Aug. 1. We chose these architects because they developed Yew Dell Gardens in Louis-ville on property that was an old nursery, like this one. De Leon and Primmer loves working with nonprofi ts, taking what you have and showing how you can use what you have and make the most of it. And what we have here are these gorgeous stone walls.”

The Knoxville Botanical Garden and Ar-boretum encompasses 47 acres of what was once a massive, 2,000-acre property grant-ed to a Howell ancestor for his Revolution-

ary War service.“At one time it was the largest nursery in

the U.S, and started before Knoxville be-came a city,” Ashe said.

Joan Ashe and her husband, Victor, be-came interested in the gardens while they were living in Warsaw during Victor’s stint

as U.S. Ambassador to Poland, after founding board member Jim

McDonough sold them on the idea. They be-

came active sup-porters when they

returned to the U.S. in 2009. The Mar-tha H. Ashe Garden was dedicated in 2010, and is named for Victor Ashe’s mother, who

was active in local gardening

and beautifi ca-tion efforts includ-

ing helping to found the Dogwood Arts Festi-

val.“Victor had already given a sizable

donation to the garden while we were in Poland, and having semi-grown up here, I remember what it was like before Vic-tor took offi ce, when we didn’t have any of these parks – no Lakeshore Park, no Ashe Park, very few greenways – so supporting the garden seemed like a logical continua-tion of that,” she said.

Joan Ashe has chaired the KBGA board since 2011, and although she is stepping down as chair later this year, she’ll remain on the board until 2016.

An Indiana native who had family here, spent childhood summers in Knoxville and moved here to live full time in 1978, she remembers visiting the nurseries with her grandfather, J.R. Moody. Her aunt is for-mer county commissioner Wanda Moody.

“I remember coming out here with my grandpa and coming in from Boyd’s Bridge Pike. I loved the stone walls with the little round houses at the end; I always thought that’s where the princesses lived. That’s how we want it to be, with an allée of trees up to the new visitors center,” Ashe said. “It will welcome people the way they used to come to the garden years ago.”

Joan Ashe

The new Knoxville Botanical Garden visitors center (Image courtesy of De Leon & Primmer Architecture Work-shop)

By Bonny C. MillardPresident Obama’s Jan.

9 visit to Pellissippi State Community College was due in part to the school’s efforts and successes in col-lege access opportunities and training programs for students, PSCC president Dr. Anthony Wise is eager to talk about it.

“I think one of the rea-sons why the president came to Tennessee and to Pellissippi State is because of the work that’s going on,” he said.

Wise cited PSCC strengths including part-nerships with area school systems, strong relation-ships with local businesses and industry, workforce training programs and its long relationship with Knox Achieves, the forerunner of Gov. Bill Haslam’s Tennes-see Promise which in turn led to Obama’s proposed America’s College Promise.

Timing his visit in ad-vance of the annual State of the Union address, Obama hoped to start a national conversation about ways to increase access to the na-tion’s community colleges, as well as changes in manu-facturing and technology,

Dr. Anthony Wise, president of Pellissippi State Communi-ty College Photo by Bonny C. Millard

Wise touts PSCC advantages

Wise said.“We’ve been involved

heavily with the Depart-ment of Energy and the De-partment of Labor and sev-eral grant efforts involved in the advanced manufac-turing training-type pro-grams that would feed into a company like Techmer PM, where the president visited later in the day,” Wise said.

The president’s commu-nity college initiative can be traced back to an eight-year-old back-porch conver-sation between then county mayor Mike Ragsdale and Randy Boyd, CEO of Radio Systems, when Ragsdale

asked for Boyd’s help in cre-ating a college access pro-gram, which became KnoxAchieves.

“We really wouldn’t be here today without that ini-tial conversation …,” Wisesaid.

“Knox Achieves started with a private backing ofdonors who believed it wasimportant for those kids tohave that last-dollar schol-arship opportunity to at-tend a school like PellissippiState.”

America’s College Prom-ise incorporates the idea ofboth federal and state re-sources to provide collegeaccess for students. Wisesaid the president’s planprovides great opportuni-ties for PSCC’s many part-time students, as well as forworking adults.

Wise said he and his staff didn’t have much time toprepare for Obama’s visit.

“It’s a real testament to the great faculty and staffwe have at the college,” Wisesaid. “They found out aboutit Monday morning at thestaff meeting. I said, ‘Hey,guess what? The Presidentof the United States is goingto be here on Friday (Jan. 9),and we’ve got to be ready.’”

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b i r t h d a y with an E l s a / F r o -zen party with family and friends. Abby is the d a u g h t e r of Missy C h a d w e l l

and Tony Hayes and her grandparents are Pete and Nancy Chadwell, all of May-nardville.

Hundreds of civic-mind-ed people in Union County get together every month to support the community with their chosen projects.

The Horace Maynard historic marker in downtown Maynardville Photo by Libby Morgan

Gail Corum chats with Marvin Jeff reys at a recent B & P meeting.

Record-holders new and oldBrady Nease of the Patriots accepts the game ball from Lynn Bowman at a short ceremony on the court. Nease broke Bowman’s individual game scoring record that had stood for 50 years. Photo L. Morgan

Agnes Abella and Martin Shafer are new B & P board members. Photos by Libby Morgan

‘Love Me Tender’ Luau From page 1

beach-y music.“So hunt up your bright-

est colored Hawaiian outfi t and get ready,” says Betty Bullen. “This is going to be one humdinger of a luau!”

Organizers of the event are Betty Bullen, Ellen Perry, Jan Frazee, Susan Boone, Marilyn Toppins and Bonnie Peters.

Preservation Union County is currently restor-ing Oak Grove Schoolhouse in Sharps Chapel. It was built in 1935 and is a Rosen-wald school, built through a program founded by Julius Rosenwald, an owner of Sears-Roebuck. The Ros-

enwald Fund helped build 5,000 rural schools in the South during the Great De-pression.

Most of these schools are long gone, and of the remaining few, many are on the National Register of Historic Places.

The restoration is near-ing completion, the group having replaced the founda-tion, the wall plate and fl oor supports, and removed, re-stored and replaced all the big windows and the plank fl ooring.

More volunteers and funds are needed before the county-owned schoolhouse

can be used as a community center.

Preservation Union County is also responsible for placing the historic marker in downtown May-nardville that describes Horace Maynard’s impor-tance in forming Union County in 1850, and for helping to get the Hamilton-Lay Store in Walker’s Ford and other sites on the Na-tional Register.

Tickets are limited to about 70, so make your res-ervations now by calling Union County Arts at 992-9161.

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Civic clubs gear up for 2015

Libby Morgan

■ Lions Club (every third Monday, noon, at Hardee’s) focuses on eye-sight, and raises money by selling pecans through area businesses and serv-ing Italian ices at games and events.

■ Family and Com-munity Education clubs, with Extension agent Becca Hughes as their coordina-

tor, learn new methods for homemaking and raise money to support many causes. Call her offi ce at 992-8038 for meeting

times. ■ Business and Pro-

fessional Association (each second Tuesday, noon, at Hardee’s) is in its 25th

‘Winter Wednesday’ discount program at the Museum of Appalachia

The Museum of Appa-lachia, an internationally acclaimed living history village and farm, is of-fering a “Winter Wednes-day” discount program to visitors. Each Wednesday during the months of Jan-uary and February, the Museum will welcome its guests for half the stan-dard admission rate.

The Museum grounds, located at 2819 Anderson-ville Highway in Clinton, feature pioneer log struc-tures, artifacts from the Southern Appalachian Mountains, a restaurant, a shop and several indoor attractions.

Info: 494-7680 or www.museumofappalachia.org.

year and takes on several causes, a few of which are: Adopt a Road on Highway 33, a long-running scholar-ship fund and education for business owners.

At last week’s BPA meet-ing, new board member Gail Corum, owner of Brant-ley Bookkeeping Services, spoke to the group about changes in the tax laws.

“If you have purchased health insurance through the Marketplace, you will be issued a 1095A, and you must have it to fi le your tax-es,” she says.

The group voted in two new board members, Agnes Abella, a physical therapist at Tennessee Therapeutics, and Martin Shafer. Pearl Coffey will serve as trea-surer.

■ Union County Arts Council, newly designated as nonprofi t, will soon send out vendor registration

forms for the June 6 Art on Main festival.

Carol Pratt, board chair, recently asked the May-nardville City Council to in-stall electrical access along Main Street, to fund por-table toilets, and to consider building public bathrooms downtown.

“We have a need for facil-ities downtown to give peo-ple access to restrooms for all of our events: car shows, the Christmas tree lighting, the weekly farmers market, the Memorial Day celebra-tion. The restroom inside the art gallery is frequently the only one available, and it’s not always open,” Pratt says.

The Arts Council board expanded last month. Mem-bers are: Susan Boone, Ar-lene Sprague, Betty Bullen, Gloria and Eric Holcomb, Libby Morgan, Ray Hyde, Sharen Smith, Sandy Man-

ter, Beth Weiss, ShirleyKeaton, Randy Turner andNeva Kitts.

The group welcomes any-one who would like to getinvolved. Call Union CountyArts at 992-9161 or [email protected].

■ Downtown Revital-ization Committee con-tinues to discuss the down-town clock tower design andthe logistics of installation.They will soon have a com-pleted drawing to help withfundraising. Contact May-nardville city hall for meet-ing times.

Please note that this is by no means a complete list ofcivic clubs in the county. Ifyou are involved in a clubor organization and wouldlike some publicity, pleaseemail me at [email protected], as we arecompiling a list of meetingtimes and contacts for ourcalendar.

Jessie Lynch Booker, a lifelong resident and prob-ably one of the best-known women in Union County, died on Dec. 29 at age 91. Jessie managed the school lunch program at Horace Maynard High School and later Horace Maynard Mid-dle School for many, many years. Some of the students eating with Jessie are now among the county leadership.

It is quite remarkable that so much change could have occurred in one person’s lifetime. Jessie experienced the change brought about by the Norris Dam Project: a new home, a new school, new friends … and then World War II starting before she even got out of high school. Jessie was a member of the Hor-ace Maynard High School Class of 1941.

I’m told that Jessie’s fi rst job was at Standard Knitting Mill in Knoxville, which back then was the livelihood of many Union Countians – both men and women. The transporta-tion was a Greyhound bus that left Butcher’s Store in Maynardville at 5:30 a.m. and subsequently left the Greyhound terminal on Gay Street at 5:30 p.m. to return to Maynardville. The bus driver “boarded” at Pearl Snodderly’s home.

A few years later, Jessie accepted a teller position at Commercial Bank, which at that time was on Gay Street. After the war ended, Jessie married World War

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Mr. Gawain Houston retired from Horace May-nard High School in 1978, just before I entered eighth grade. Though I never had Mr. Houston as a regular teacher, he did substitute for classes I had.

I can remember Mr. Houston giving an oral spelling test. There were probably about 30 words, and as Mr. Houston was very conversational, the ninth word was reached after about 45 minutes. Mr. Houston inquired what number we were on, and to the answer, “10,” he ex-claimed, “Boys, we’re get-ting somewhere now!”

Mr. Houston spent much time teaching about initia-tive – doing the right thing because it is right. Mr. Houston had such a warm way of explaining this that I took it to heart. Unfortu-nately, my interpretation of initiative almost got me in

A little knowledge is a safe thing

trouble at Lincoln Memorial University.

I was assigned to Dr. Louis Lutz for work study for most of my undergradu-ate years at LMU. His repu-tation as a tough old man preceded him, and fear fell on my soul when I learned I was to work for him. But I came to love and respect Dr. Lutz as a kind-hearted man, the best of bosses. He told me what he wanted up front and gave me time and space to do what he asked. True, he would occasionally cuss me out, but that was just one of the charms of

Jessie will be missed

II veteran, M. T. Booker, but continued her

employment at the bank until their

daughter, Con-nie Lee, came along. Still later, Jessie followed her love of cooking and

became the manager of the

“hot lunch” program at Horace

Maynard High School. She continued her work there or at Horace Maynard Middle School until 2006, when she was 83.

Connie’s untimely death in 1993, and M. T.’s death in 1994, were devastating losses to Jessie, but even in her grief her strength was very evident. Jessie was a good business manager and also helped her husband in his business ventures. M. T. was a State Farm Insurance agent for many years.

Jessie was quick-witted and fun. Her outgoing personality and ready smile attracted many, many lifelong friends. Jessie was a member of First Baptist Church at Maynardville for many years. She is survived by sisters Pauline Lynch Hickman and Mona Lynch George, sisters-in-law Artie and Louise Lynch, many nieces, nephews and cousins. Jessie was laid to rest in Monroe Cemetery on Jan. 2, 2015.

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his gruff exterior. Dr. Lutz could make cursing sound like poetry.

Dr. Lutz often assigned me lengthy tests to type for his biology classes. These tests would have two pages of single-spaced terms to be matched with about 10 pages of single-spaced defi -nitions. I could have made a fortune selling these tests to his students, but fear of Dr. Lutz’s wrath kept me honest and poverty-stricken.

One time the machine in the copy center was down, and Dr. Lutz needed a test the next day. Remembering Mr. Houston’s lesson on ini-tiative, I took it upon myself to have the test copied in the college library. I proudly presented Dr. Lutz with his copies, and he inquired how I got them. I told him, and he exclaimed, “O, my God! Zeigler’s going to hit the roof!”

What I didn’t know was

that the library charged 10cents per copy, far morethan the copy center. Thiscost would be posted tothe science department ac-count, which Dr. RobertZeigler chaired – all uponmy word, which would havebeen fi ne had I been en-dowed with the power of au-thorization.

From this I learned it is fi ne to take initiative, but besure to obtain the necessarybackground informationbefore proceeding.

Dr. Lutz obviously smoothed the incident overwith Dr. Zeigler, for I neverheard another word aboutit, and I continued as Dr.Lutz’s work study studentuntil my senior year, whenI was voluntarily reassignedas an English tutor in thecollege’s Academic SupportCenter.

Next week expect a tale of deception smoothed withhonesty.

You might be crazy if …

Editorial cartoonists are journalists no less than key-board commandos. Most often their cartoons are in-tended to cause the guilty to squirm and the rest of us to think.

Local cartoonist Charlie Daniel has skewered scores of politicians and miscre-ants over his long career, but I’d wager few of the of-fended contemplated mur-der in retaliation.

So, what can we say about the slaughter of cartoonists and others in Paris?

The murderers were de-ranged. Crazy.

There are offenses for which capital punishment can seem justifi ed, like white people singing Otis Redding songs at a karaoke bar, being tailgated at 70 miles per hour or the entire NBA. But this is a serious is-sue, so let’s get serious.

An Al Qaeda branch based in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the Paris atrocity. As an offshoot of mainstream Islam, the group enforces a strict, lit-eralist interpretation of Sharia law among its follow-ers.

According to Al Qaeda’s interpretation of Sharia law:

The punishment for a thief is amputation of the right hand.

Criticizing the Quran, the Muslim holy book, is

punishable by death.Converting a Muslim to

another religion earns a death sentence for both par-ties.

Husbands may beat wives for disobedience.

Adulterers shall be stoned to death, and many more “laws” too numerous to list.

The people who engi-neered and carried out the Paris killings are murder-ous psychopaths, and if you live by and promote the expansion of the laws above, you can’t live too far removed from me.

It’s one thing for a splin-ter religious movement to advocate violence for be-havior which offends its pe-culiar moral standards. We see similar insanity in the U.S., especially among fun-damentalist religious sects. Only a few weeks ago an Arizona pastor said AIDS could be eliminated “if you executed the homos like God recommends.”

It’s another matter when brutality in the name of re-ligion is state-sponsored. Saudi Arabia’s public fl og-ging of a “liberal” (whatever

that means on the ArabianPeninsula) blogger is thelatest example.

Sharia law is the template for Saudi governance. TheQuran is what passes for aconstitution for this U.S.ally.

Murder and savagery cannot hide behind “cul-tural relativism.” I don’tneed to form an opinionwithin the context of Mus-lim society to understandthat executing journalistsis an abomination, that thesuicide-bombing of inno-cents is a vile, cowardly act,or that subjugating womenis wrong.

A debate familiar to an-thropology students con-cerns the Incan practice ofsacrifi cing children to theirgods.

Although we can’t under-stand such cultural values,we do understand that theconcept of human rights hasevolved since the 16th cen-tury – for most of us. Thosewho kill and punish underthe guise of religion woulddrag all humanity back halfa millennium or more.

In the U.S. we devise “humane” ways to kill peo-ple who kill people. Maybethat’s crazy, too. But there’sno doubt about the sanity ofthese Sharia activists.

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If you expect Todd Kelly Junior and Dillon Bates to be as good or better than their fathers …

If you believe in foot-ball bloodlines, the Majors family, the DeLongs, the Colquitts, the Berrys, the Canales, the Reveiz clan, the Johnson brothers from Cleveland, the Lowe broth-ers from Fountain City …

If you think there might be meaningful hand-me-down connections between generations, in football, in academics, in life, you could be interested in Micah Ab-ernathy.

He is the son of Dr. Ralph David Abernathy III and the grandson of the best friend

Do you believe in bloodlines?

and closest ally of Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr.

The Abernathy fam-ily background is in civil rights. Micah and older brother Ralph David IV have created a new direc-tion. They are football play-ers. They run fast. They are Volunteers-to-be.

Micah, 6-1 and 182, from Norcross, Ga., out of Greater Atlanta Christian

School, is ranked among the top prep cornerbacks in the country. He chose Tennes-see over Georgia and offers from Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State and a few dozen others.

Ralph David IV is a re-cent graduate of Cincinnati. He has a remaining year of eligibility and decided to play for the coach who origi-nally recruited him.

Several years ago Butch Jones convinced the Aber-nathy family he was on the up-and-up. The then Cin-cinnati coach did what he said he would do for the fi rst son. The sales talk was eas-ier the second time around.

Micah grew up as a run-

ning back. He remained one last season. He had some large numbers in playoff games, 194 yards rushing and three touchdowns in one, 260 total yards in an-other.

His coach, Tim Hardy, says Micah is a home-run hitter who gets into the secondary and goodbye, he is gone. Very big-play guy. Game changer. The coach says his future is defen-sive back. Quick reactions. Smart. Sees and interprets. Still learning.

Ralph David was part running back, part slot re-ceiver and kick returner for the Bearcats. His career highlight was a 90-yard touchdown return against Vanderbilt in the 2011 Lib-erty Bowl.

He played better for

Jones than he did for Tom-my Tuberville. In fact, he didn’t do much this past season. He had injuries. He sort of faded away.

Of course Ralph David and the familiarity with Jones and his staff were factors in the recruitment of Micah. Both Aberna-thys know the coaches as real people, away from the arena. They’ve seen them as husbands and fathers.

“Great guys,” said Micah.Dr. Abernathy says his

boys are OK guys, too. He says they have been raised the right way, in a Chris-tian home. He says they will bring integrity. He says they will play the game as it is meant to be played.

The history of the Aber-nathy family is the struggle, the hurt, a few arrests, some

SPORTS NOTES ■ Baseball signups for

3U-14U will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 24, 31 and Feb. 7, at Halls Community Park. Info: hcpark.org or [email protected].

ridicule and a few n-words. Dr. Abernathy says his

sons don’t see color. Theydo recognize racism. But, ifthey are around people whodon’t care about black andwhite, they are comfortable.The father sounds as ifhe is fi lled with joy thatRalph David IV and Micahchose Tennessee. He hasbeen quoted as saying “Wecouldn’t be prouder.”Marvin West invites reader reaction. Hisaddress is [email protected].

Knoxville’s second an-nual Race 4 Their Lives, held Jan. 10, drew 316 par-ticipants with 281 running in the 5K and another 35 registered for the walk, ac-cording to race organizer Pam Cantrell.

Another 100 people vol-unteered for the race event

which was based at Market Square. The temperature was 23 at race time, Cantrell said.

More than $17,000 was raised, according to orga-nizer Karen Harper. Money will be given to Freedom 4/24, a nonprofi t organi-zation that “exists to raise

awareness of the sexual ex-ploitation and human traf-fi cking of women and chil-dren around the world and to provide fi nancial sup-port to partner organiza-tions dedicated to bringing freedom and doing justice,” according to the website, www.freedom424.org.

A group of runners warm up in Market Square before the Run 4 Their Lives race.

Katie Howe, Pam Cantrell, and Karen Houston at the Run 4 Their Lives volunteer table in The Square Room.

Tim and Cindi Spaulding with their children Ewan

and Eva, in the back of the stroller, and Ezra in the

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Runners brave the cold in Race 4 Their Lives

Kim Day leads the runners in a pre-run warm up.

6 • JANUARY 21, 2015 • UNION COUNTY Shopper news faith

Okay, I will admit it: in my youth, I was a musical snob. In my own defense, I was too young when Elvis broke on the scene to un-derstand or appreciate his talent. I came to appreciate him much later.

So, I was surprised when his song “One Pair of Hands” showed up in our church service on Sunday. Even as I enjoyed listening to the song, this column was already taking shape.

Jesus’ hands. We see them in many different ways in Scripture!

We see them as tiny fi sts, as Jesus was laid down to sleep in a manger, in a cold and drafty stable. We see them as young and willing, helping Joseph in the car-penter’s shop. We see them as healing and comforting: reaching out to the young, the old, the lame, the hun-gry, the sick, even the dead!

I think of his hands when I cup my own hands to receive the bread of Holy Communion. I remember those frightened, bereaved, confused disciples hid-ing after Jesus’ crucifi x-

By Wendy SmithJewish clothing designer

Hedy Strnad was all but forgotten after her death in the Holocaust. But dresses created from a handful of her designs give insight into a world where even talented, professional Jews with American connections couldn’t escape the Nazis.

The story began in Prague and continued to Milwaukee. Now, thanks to a Knoxville connection, it will be told here.

Ellie Gettinger and Ellen Iroff grew up worshipping together at Heska Amuna Synagogue. Gettinger, infl uenced by a scholarship

trip to Israel, chose a Jewish professional career and became the educator of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee (JMM). Iroff, who was active in Bearden High School’s drama department, studied costume design at the College of Charleston and eventually became the school’s costume shop manager. That makes them the perfect duo to tell Hedy’s story.

A letter from Hedy’s husband, Paul Strnad, was discovered in the basement of a home in a Milwaukee suburb in 1997. The letter, mailed to Paul’s American cousin in 1939, included a

One of Hedy Strnad’s designs, as seen in the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.

A stitch in time

photo of the couple and eight of Hedy’s dress designs. The package was intended to prove that the couple could support themselves if granted a visa to the U.S.− their only possible escape from a situation that was growing increasingly dire for Jews in Czechoslovakia.

In spite of the cousin’s efforts, the Strnads didn’t escape.

The letter and designs were put on display at the museum in 2008. Interest in the material led to further research on the couple and a commission for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s costume shop to recreate Hedy’s designs.

Five people worked on the dresses for over a year. They even silk-screened fabrics to match the prints in the designs, says Barb Levin, Ellie Gettinger’s mother.

The result is an

exhibit at JMM called “Stitching History from the Holocaust.” The dresses are especially poignant because they demonstrate Hedy’s remarkable talent, Levin says.

“When you walk into the room (with the dresses), there’s a loud noise because they are really loud and chattery.”

The community is invited to hear Gettinger and Iroff speak about the exhibit at two events at the Arnstein Jewish Community Center, 6800 Deane Hill Drive.

At 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18, they will show a 30-minute PBS documentary on the exhibit, and Iroff will discuss the skills used to replicate the historical dress designs. At 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19, both women will discuss the role of dressmaking and tailoring in the Jewish experience.

Paul and Hedy’s story isn’t just about one couple, Levin says. It’s about two brothers who each raised a family − one in Prague and one in Milwaukee. The American side of the family is alive and well, while the Czech side was extinguished.

But it’s also a story of hope. Even though Hedylost her life, she has beenimmortalized through theexhibit.

“It’s a remembrance, not only of what was lostin the Holocaust, but of thepotential for life beyondthat,” says Levin.

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FAITH NOTES ■ Irwin’s Chapel UMC,

358 Old Valley Road in Sharps Chapel, will host the Washams perform-ing during the 10 a.m. worship service Sunday, Jan. 25.

Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself.(Luke 24: 39a NRSV)

One pair of hands formed the valleys,The ocean, the rivers and the sand.His hands are so strong, so when life goes wrong,Put your faith in the one pair of hands.

(“One Pair of Hands,” by Billie Campbell and Mann Curtis)

ion. I remember how hesuddenly appeared amongthem, showing up in spiteof locked doors. (What wasour fi rst clue that this wasthe resurrected Savior, aliveforevermore??!) I rememberhow, once again, he was hu-man and divine: he askedfor something to eat!

In the presence of those hands, I stand convictedof my own shortcomings.What good have I done withmy hands?

REUNION NOTES ■ All Halls High 1975

grads who are interested in a 40-year reunion are encouraged to send contact information to Cathy Hickey-Johnson at

[email protected] as soon as possible. Those interested in serving on the planning committee should email Tim Witt at [email protected].

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Brantley is a cen-ter on the ba sketba l l team and came within two inches

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She is the daughter of Stochia and Ricky Brantley of Sharps Chapel, where Madison says she has so

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nior with a 3.47 GPA, is acenter on the basketballteam. He plans to attendWalters State and become aland surveyor. His parentsare Gina and Andy Buckner.

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National Guard visits UCHSRecruiters from the National Guard visit Union County High School with promotional items and news of how students can serve with the Guard while attending college. Students Ethan Ely, Matthew Willis, Spencer Holt and Jeremy Naglitch talk with Sgt. 1st Class Michael Lloyd and Staff Sgt. Mark Goodman.

Your back and spine are made up of a complex latticework of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves that are critical to the functioning of your entire body. The spinal cord is the highway on which signals travel back and forth between the brain and the other parts of the body. It runs down the middle of the back, keeping the spinal cord and its offshoots free of obstruction – one of the keys to health and the smooth functioning of your body.

The spinal column, through which the cord runs, is made up of more than 30 individual bones, collectively called the vertebrae. They are separated by fl exible pads of cartilage called discs. The spinal cord runs from the base of the brain down through a corridor created by holes in the vertebrae. Nerves emanate between the

vertebrae and carry signals to the rest of the body.

The spine has four sections: the upper part, essentially the neck, is called the cervical spine; the upper back, the thoracic; the lower back, the lumbar; and below that the sacrum and the coccyx, commonly called the tailbone. It is in the lumbar region where most back pain develops.

The spinal cord actually ends just below the rib cage. From there, nerves that reach the lower back and legs grow through the spinal column and form a bundle that looks like a horse’s tail. Hence its Latin name, cauda equina. Talk with your chiropractor for more information on the back.

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THROUGH FRIDAY, JAN. 30Submissions accepted for jurying process for

Appalachian Arts Craft Center until noon. Include completed forms and three samples of work. Cost: nonrefundable $25 jurying fee. Info/forms: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

THROUGH SUNDAY, FEB. 1“Huckleberry Finn” presented by Knoxville Chil-

dren’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info: 208-3677, knoxvillechildrens theatre.com or [email protected].

THROUGH SATURDAY, FEB. 28“Buy One, Get One Free” admission tickets

available for Knoxville Zoo. Tickets can be purchased at the zoo ticket window during regular zoo hours. Info: 637-5331, ext. 300 or knoxvillezoo.org.

THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 10Tickets available for Rhythm N’ Blooms music

festival, on stages set exclusively along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Features fi rst-timers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Info/tickets: www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, JAN. 21-22AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m.,

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

THURSDAY, JAN. 22Family Pajama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Halls

Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Come in your

pajamas and bring your best stuffed friend to the library to hear cozy winter stories, make a snowy craft and enjoy cookies and juice. Info: 922-2552.

FRIDAY JAN. 23Beginner Crochet class, 4-7 p.m., Hobby Lobby

classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway, Knoxville. Cost: $24.Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected] or myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

EVOO (extra virgin olive oil) and Balsamic Vinegar Tasting, 6:30-7:20 p.m. or 7:45-8:35 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $5. Info/to register: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 23-24Unwanted medicine collection and a used mer-

cury thermometer exchange, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Healthy Liv-ing Expo at the Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St. Residents turning in medications or thermometers will receive one free entry to the Healthy Living Expo.

SATURDAY, JAN. 24Saturday Stories and Songs: Melissa Mastro-

giovanni, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

MONDAY, JAN. 26Burlington LEGO Club, 6 p.m., Burlington Branch

Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. For grades 1-5. Info: 525-5431.

Free Motion Quilting Class, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway, Knoxville. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected] or myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 3:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway, Knoxville. Cost: $24.Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected] or myquilt place.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28Bits ‘n Pieces Quilt Guild meeting, 1 p.m., Norris

Community Center, Norris. Program: Show and Tell of everyone’s best quilting-related Christmas presents. Guests and new members welcome. Info: Diane Bogan, 377-3837, or [email protected].

Computer Workshop: Word 2007 Basics, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville High-way. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 525-5431.

THURSDAY, JAN. 29An Evening with Coaching Legend Johnny

Majors, 6:30 p.m., King University Hardin Valley Campus, 10950 Spring Bluff Way. Tickets: $30; $200 for table of eight. Includes dinner. Proceeds benefi t King University’s fund for scholarships and programs. Dead-line to purchase tickets: Jan. 22. Info/tickets: Jenny Brown, 423-652-4864 or [email protected].

FRIDAY, JAN. 30Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting Class,

3:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway, Knoxville. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected] or myquilt place.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

SATURDAY, JAN. 31Chocolatefest Knoxville, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Knox-

ville Expo Center. To benefi t Knoxville’s Ronald Mc-Donald House. Admission and parking are free. Tasting pass ticket: $15; VIP pass ticket, $30. Tickets: www.chocolatefestknoxville.com; Sugarbakers Cake, Candy & Supplies, 514 Merchants Road; Imagination Forest, 7613 Blueberry Road; at the door.

Gospel singing, 7 p.m., Mount Harmony Baptist Church, 819 Raccoon Valley Road NE, Heiskell. Fea-turing The Walker Boys bluegrass gospel group from Clinton. The church is also collecting nonperishable food items for the church pantry. Everyone welcome.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Emagene Reagen, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

MONDAY, FEB. 2American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran

St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting Class, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway, Knoxville. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, [email protected] or myquilt place.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

SATURDAY, FEB. 7Friends Mini Used Book Sale, 1-4 p.m., Burl-

ington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

Hot Chocolate and Cool Crafts, 2-5 p.m., Appala-chian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Registration deadline: Jan. 31. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

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