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By Wendy SmithA proposed pocket park dedicat-

ed to former Knoxville musicians Don and Phil Everly could feature a souvenir from another local icon − the Bearden Shoney’s restaurant.

The Bearden Council has been working on the idea for a park at the northeast corner of Kingston Pike and Forest Park Boulevard for more than two years. Council

member Dennis Owen came up with the idea of dedicating the park to the Everly Brothers.

When council members met with Aldi Director of Real Estate Dave Hassen to discuss plans for a Bearden grocery store at the site of the former Ace Hardware, council chair Terry Faulkner thought to ask for the stone on the exterior of the building. Hassen agreed.

Jaren Nugent of Creative Structures removes

stone from the former Ace Hardware store before

demolition begins for an Aldi grocery store. The

stone was salvaged for a proposed pocket park

dedicated to the Everly Brothers. Photo by Wendy Smith

No stone unturnedPocket park coming

together, piece by piece

Shoney’s came to Bearden around 1960, and Parker Brothers Hardware moved into the building in 1993. The stonework was used on most Shoney’s locations, so people associate it with the restau-rant, says Faulkner. Aldi approved the removal of the stone, and Cre-ative Structures General Contrac-tors donated the work.

This adds two more entities to the list of groups and individuals who are working to bring the po-tential park to life.

The city is in the process of ac-quiring the property from TDOT, which purchased it during im-provements to the railroad bridge over Forest Park in 2010. TDOT built a decorative stone wall at the site at Faulkner’s request.

The city has agreed to plant 26 trees at the site. City Council member Duane Grieve will par-tially fund landscaping with a por-tion of his Community Improve-ment 202 funds.

The Bearden Council has asked the East Tennessee Community Design Center to help fi nalize the plans for the pocket park. Fund-raising is expected to begin this spring, and Legacy Parks Foun-dation has agreed to serve as the fi scal agent. Faulkner says there has been considerable interest in donating to the project.

During its heyday, Shoney’s was signifi cant because it was one of two restaurants in Bearden, the other being Pero’s, Faulkner says.

It was signifi cant to her personally because she worked there while she attended UT. She was also courted by her husband, Charles Faulkner, at the restaurant’s drive-in.

She hopes the donated stone can be used in walls or other struc-tures at the park. Plans drawn up by the Bearden Council include a statue of the Everly Brothers, benches and a small stage. The site already has an improved KAT bus stop, and a nearby evergreen tree will serve as the offi cial Bearden Christmas tree, Faulkner says.

Plans also call for a historic marker, similar to those on the Third Creek Greenway that docu-ment Bearden history.

Don and Phil Everly moved to Knoxville in 1953. Both attended West High School, and they per-formed on the Cas Walker show before moving to the Nashville area. Their infl uence has been cited by such artists as John Len-non, Paul McCartney and the Beach Boys.

Faulkner would like for the stage to be called the “Dreams” stage, in honor of their popular rendition of “All I Have To Do Is Dream.” She hopes the park will be a place where people can be in-spired by the famous duo.

“They graduated from high school, moved to Nashville, and in two or three years, they were producing hits. Kids can go down there and get up on that stage and imagine doing the same thing.”

Jim Smith sells his homemade hot sauce to customers at Nourish Knox-

ville’s Winter Market, held in the fellowship hall of Central United Method-

ist Church at 201 E. Third Ave. Smith is the owner of Rushy Springs Farm in

Talbott, Tenn. The Winter Market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every other

Saturday at the church through March 21. Photo by Bill Dockery

Winter warmth

By Sandra ClarkKnox County Schools will be giv-

ing a state-mandated “writing as-sessment” to children in grades 3-11 in February. The mom of a third-grader contacted Shopper-News.

A great day to stay home

AnalysisThe tests will be given on com-

puter, and third-graders will be required to type their answers, she said. The teacher wrote: “This is an online assessment, which means they will read two articles online and then TYPE their 5 paragraph response.”

The kids will have an hour and a half to complete the test with a 30-minute break “in between,” ac-cording to the teacher.

Dr. Elizabeth Alves, chief aca-demic offi cer for Knox County Schools, said this is the fi rst year the test will be administered in grades 3-11. “In the past, it was only given in grades 5, 8 and 11. The test was piloted across the state last year. Our teachers opted not to participate in the pilot.”

Alves said the writing test for grades 5, 8 and 11 was adminis-tered by computer last year and grades 8 and 11 have been tested

on computer for two years.She said student performance

will be reported, but it will not count for teacher evaluation or system accountability purposes.

My fi nal question: In what grade are children taught to type and expected to be profi cient in the skill?”

Alves said: “Instruction in the use of technology and typing varies from school to school. Currently, there is no curriculum from the state for teaching typing at the el-ementary levels; however, there are state standards at each grade level that identify performance expecta-

tions. Elementary students are not graded on profi ciency in typing.”

The parent who contacted Shop-per-News is concerned that her 8-year-old will be typing a fi ve-paragraph response in a timed for-mat. She said her kid visits the tech lab every six days, hardly enough to become profi cient at keyboarding.

The teacher who contacted her said typing practice at home would be helpful because, “Capi-talization, punctuation and inden-tions will be taken into consider-ation on their assessment grade.”

This might be a good day to keep your 8-year-old at home.

Taking the

Penguin PlungeAfter the frigid tempera-

tures last week, Saturday’s Penguin Plunge was defi nitely a labor of love.

And the love and commit-ment were strong as partici-pants gathered at Calhoun’s on the River to jump, fl ip or dive into the Tennessee River to raise funds for Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee.

➤ Details on page A-3

Berry Strong“Eric Berry is already a

model for younger players, an example of how to do it. Before that, he was just a model citi-zen. I remember a high school story of him volunteering as a helper in a dentist’s offi ce. I always suspected the reception-ist was pretty.

“I recall, at UT, him show-ing up in the equipment room the night before a game to help team managers clean and pol-ish helmets. Think about that, star with a scrub brush.”

➤ Read Marvin West on page A-4

Meet me at Wright’s Wright’s Cafeteria has been

around so long it doesn’t really need that last name. The fi rst one works just fi ne.

“Meet me at Wright’s,” is a phrase familiar to genera-tions of Knoxvillians who love great food – mouth-watering fare that tastes like what your grandmother cooked.

➤ Read Anne Hart on page A-13

‘American Sniper’Director Clint Eastwood

knows war movies. His “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” are two of the best in recent years.

“American Sniper” had the potential to make it a trifecta, but Eastwood can’t fi gure out what kind of war movie he’s trying to make.

➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page A-10

Mary Boyce Temple“Along with Lizzie Crozier

French, Mary Boyce Temple organized the Ossoli Circle in 1885 and was elected its fi rst president.

Ossoli is the South’s old-est federated

women’s club.”

➤ Read Jim Tumblin on page B-2

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By Sherri Gardner HowellAfter the frigid tempera-

tures last week, Saturday’s Penguin Plunge was defi -nitely a labor of love.

And the love and commit-ment were strong as partici-pants gathered at Calhoun’s on the River at 11 a.m. Sat-urday, Jan. 10, to jump, fl ip or dive into the Tennessee River to raise funds for Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee.

The goal of the organiza-tion, which has the Penguin Plunge as one of its annual fundraising events, was $15,000. At press time they were close, with pledges still being counted.

The Penguin Plunge is billed as Freezin’ for a

Reason and also gives Big Brothers Big Sisters sup-porters a chance to talk about the program and the scope of what they do in East Tennessee. All funds raised go directly toward matching children with car-ing Big Brother and Big Sis-ter volunteers.

Big Brothers Big Sisters works to help broaden chil-dren’s perspectives and teach them how to make good choices. The “Bigs” work to help their “Littles” get started on the path to fulfi lling their potential and succeeding in school and life.

For more information about Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee: www.TennesseeBig.org.

Making a fashion statement in Penguin Plunge style are Tracy

Clark and Victoria Tucker.

Artists’ works on displayThree artists will be

featured during January at the Parkside Gift Shop, formerly known as the Parkside Open Door Gal-lery in Fountain City.

Denae Oglesby will have handcrafted silver jewelry and Kate McCullough will feature watercolors; both are Fountain City residents. Mary Secrist of Halls will also feature watercolors.

The gift shop is at 213 Hotel Ave. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. Artists throughout the area are juried into Parkside Gift Shop. Info: 357-7624 or 357-2787.

Superheroes from Jimmy’s Pub Team are ready to take a dip for Big Brothers Big Sisters of

East Tennessee. From left are Rebecca Sutton, Steve Sutton, Jay Sutton, John Kee and A.J.

Kee. Photos by Justin Acuff

Todd Richards and Kirk

Finnerty do back fl ips off

the dock near Volunteer

Landing.

Chris Helwick, Andy Lane,

Jennifer Baxter and Scott

Burgett do back fl ips off the

dock into the Tennessee

River.Michael Stokes gives two thumbs up as he takes his backward

dive into the river for Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee.

Penguin Plunge helps raisecold cash for Big Brothers

COMMUNITY NOTES

■ Council of West Knox

County Homeowners meets

7:15 p.m. each fi rst Tuesday,

Peace Lutheran Church, 621

N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info:

www.cwkch.com/.

■ Historic Sutherland Heights

Neighborhood Association.

Info: Marlene Taylor, 951-3773,

taylor8246@bellsouth.net.

■ Lyons View Commu-

nity Club meets 6 p.m.

each second Monday, Lyons

View Community Center,

114 Sprankle Ave. Info: Mary

Brewster, 454-2390.

■ Third and Fourth District

Democrats meet 6 p.m. each

fourth Thursday, Bearden

Public Library, 100 Golf Club

Road. Info: District 3, Suzie

Coff ey, 691-1075; District 4,

Rosina Guerra, rosinag@

earthlink.net or 588-6260, or

Chris Foell, foellmc@aol.com

or 691-8933.

■ West Knox Lions Club

meets 7 p.m. each fi rst

and third Monday, 8529

Kingston Pike. Info: http://

knoxvillewestknoxlionsclub.

org/.

■ West Hills Community Asso-

ciation. Info: Ashley Williams,

313-0282.

ETTAC needs computers, medical equipment

If you recently upgraded your computer system, iPad or tablet during the holidays and want to donate your old equipment, the East Tennessee Technology Access Center (ETTAC) will accept XP Windows computers or newer, as well as all iPads, iPods, other mobile devices and tablets. All computers and iPads must be in good working condition.

ETTAC is a regional nonprofi t agency that helps people with disabilities. The staff adapts computers with specialized software and hardware that are then

Start the New Year with a new license plate

Drivers in Tennessee and North Carolina can kick off the New Year by joining the 32,000 others who own vehicles with Friends of the Smokies license plates.

Sales of specialty license plates in North Carolina and Tennessee support priority projects

in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Projects include Student Conservation Association internship positions, Parks as Classrooms and Appalachian Trail Ridgerunner programs in both states.

Seasonal environmental student interns gain a deeper understanding of park ecology while conducting scientifi c research, assisting with resource management projects and eradicating non-native plants and pests.

Through the Parks as Classrooms program, approximately 18,000 students visit the Smokies each year for ranger-led, curriculum-based environmental education. By utilizing the national park as a science classroom, students develop an appreciation for the natural and cultural resources in subject areas including math and science.

The Appalachian Trail Ridgerunner program works to protect resources and enhance the hiking experience along the AT within the national park. Ridgerunners educate backpackers and day

hikers, clear trail debris, report emergencies and pack out litter along more than 70 miles of the AT in the park.

Friends of the Smokies specialty license plates can be purchased for $35 in Tennessee and $30 in North Carolina, independent of plate expiration date. Plates may be purchased at DMV license plate tag offi ces and online at www.FriendsOfTheSmokies.org.

given or loaned to clients to enable them to pursue their educational or employment goals. Hard drives will be wiped clean before distribution. All donations are tax deductible.

ETTAC also has a reuse program for durable medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, lifts and shower seats, which are given to people who cannot afford them.

Computers and medical equipment can be dropped off at ETTAC’s Knoxville offi ce, 116 Childress St., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Info: 219-0130 or www.ettac.org.

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A more fi tting name for the Harvard Crimson might be the fortuitously allitera-tive “Harvard Hypocrites.”

‘H’ is for hypocrite

LarryVan

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As the New York Times recently reported, it isn’t love for the Crimson that’s

behind the red faces of Harvard faculty members. Turns out they’re indignant about being introduced to the reality of health-care reforms many of them sup-ported.

Ivy League, meet The Rest of Us.

Confronted with increas-es in out-of-pocket costs for health care, resulting in part from provisions in the Affordable Care Act, the agitated academics are questioning the university’s

data. Some have gone so far as to devise spreadsheets to crunch the numbers – no mean feat for professors more at home with Aphro-dite than annuities.

One Harvard veteran called the changes “deplor-able, deeply regressive,” while another said the out-of-pocket costs were “equiv-alent to taxing the sick.”

As a member of the un-washed masses who has forked over my “sick tax” for years, it’s hard to over-look their hypocrisy, much less generate sympathy for them.

The new Harvard health

NFL generates a bunch of ugly headlines. None belong to Eric. He is considered a rock-solid pillar among the Chiefs, a natural leader who plays the game the right way and didn’t fl aunt his wealth or honors.

Eric is already a model for younger players, an example of how to do it. Before that, he was just a model citizen. I remember a high school story of him volunteering as a helper in a dentist’s offi ce. I always suspected the receptionist was pretty.

I recall, at UT, him show-ing up in the equipment room the night before a game to help team manag-ers clean and polish hel-mets. Think about that, star with a scrub brush.

I never saw Eric turn cartwheels or otherwise celebrate an interception or touchdown. He just handed the ball to the nearest of-fi cial. He has always been substance over style.

BerryStrong is the get-well theme, but Kansas City defensive end Mike DeVito tweeted a verse from Psalms that I’m going to keep handy, just in case: “O Lord, my God, I cried to You for help, and You have healed me.”Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Marvin West

I do believe it is prayer meeting time.

The sports forums I fol-low, starting with Scout’s VolChat and Rocky Top Board, tell me Tennessee people are praying for one of our favorite sons, Eric Berry.

So are Georgia people and Kentucky people and some from Florida and even Alabama. Out in Kansas, concern for Berry is big.

Eric is 26, a two-time All-American Volunteer, recipient of the Jim Thorpe Award as the nation’s best collegiate defensive back. The Chiefs selected him fi fth in the 2010 draft. He has been that good or better in the NFL.

That was then.The now part is a fi ght

for his life against Hodgkin lymphoma. He is favored to win – a high percentage do – but he is too special and this is too serious to take for granted.

Peyton Manning has checked in. He sees this as a tough fi ght, understands the treatment is challeng-ing, but says Eric is a fi ghter.

“I reached out to him and told him he’s in a lot of peo-

Prayer meeting time

ple’s prayers and thoughts.”Phillip Fulmer is opti-

mistic.“He was always up to the

challenge. I believe he will be in this case.”

Ex-Vol Inky Johnson, inspiration for many, close friend to Berry, says Eric is doing well.

“He’s doing great. He comes from a great fam-ily. Most importantly, Eric knows who’s in control of his situation, and that’s God. When you know who’s in control, you’re at peace with it. So Eric will be fi ne.”

Maybe you know that Berry chose Kansas City number 29 in recognition of Inky. He was 29 at Tennes-see.

We don’t know when the cancer started, but we know when it was found. Quirky story. Late November, Ber-ry put a big hit on Oakland running back Marcel Reece.

The other safety, Husain Abdullah, came fl ying in to get a piece. He also got some of Eric.

Berry got up clutching his chest.

“You all right?” Abdullah asked.

“I’m good,” Berry replied.Later, his shoulder wasn’t

so good. An X-ray didn’t show anything, but when orthopedic physician Cris Barnthouse examined him, things didn’t add up. Berry hurt when he moved his arm but was not sensitive to touch, nor was his strength affected. If his chest was bruised, he would have felt pain in all three tests. Barn-thouse recommended an MRI.

There it was, the intrud-er, a mass that didn’t belong.

Eric chose Atlanta as the battleground, Emory’s can-cer institute. Dr. Christo-pher R. Flowers, a Stanford man, is calling the plays. He says the affl iction is poten-tially curable with standard chemotherapy. Radiation is a secondary approach. Stem cell implants are out there somewhere, if needed.

Flowers did not discuss future football. Or hair loss.

I lack the wisdom to ex-plain why really bad things sometimes happen to really good people. I do know the

Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis is looking for co-sponsors for an ordinance to raise the mayor’s pay, a measure he says is long overdue. The mayor and four of his City Council colleagues will be up for re-election this year.

Pavlis: Time to give mayor more money

“The mayor makes $130,000 a year, and I am going to propose raising it by $12,500, to $142,000. It would take effect at the end of 2015, the day after the next swearing-in. This is the appropriate time to do it,” he said.

“The last increase was voted on in 2003 and didn’t take effect until ’06 – and here it is, 2015. Sure, $12,500 is a big one-time catch up, but if you am-ortize it over a nine-year period, it’s not that big a catch up. I just think our city should be in line with other cities and with county offi cials.”

Most mayors in other cit-ies and County Mayor Tim Burchett make more than Rogero, said Pavlis, whose great-uncle Jack Dance was mayor of Knoxville when he died in 1959.

He said he doesn’t want to see this offi ce become the preserve of the very rich, and said that since city employees are required to be on the job for 10 years before vesting in pension benefi ts and mayors are limited to two four-year terms, mayors will gener-ally be ineligible for pen-sions (Rogero, if re-elected, would be an exception since she served for four years as city development director

under Mayor Bill Haslam before resigning in 2010 to run for mayor). County em-ployees vest in eight years.

“I worry that we’re mak-ing it an exclusive club and knocking out the vast ma-jority of citizens of Knox-ville from consideration,” he said. “If you’re a reason-ably intelligent person with a reasonable job with a pen-sion and benefi ts, the salary has to be up there because you’re giving up your ben-efi ts. We’ve been surveying salaries and benefi ts, and I think this is a good path for us to go down and I think we should look at this more frequently than we have.

“Madeline had no idea this was coming. She wouldn’t be a party to that, anyway – that’s political suicide.”

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Burke makes $151,000. Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton makes $162,925, and Knox Count y Mayor Tim Burchett gets $167,687 annually.

Metro Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s $136,500 makes him a bit of an outlier (in November, the Metro Council turned down a proposal to raise his sal-ary to $180,000).

State law requires the county mayor’s salary to be the highest in the county, but at least six city employ-ees, including Janet Wright (director of information systems) at $168,230, Bill Lyons (deputy to the mayor) at $160,130, Christi Branscom (deputy to the mayor) at $153,120, Charles Swanson (law director) at $152,980, David Rausch (chief of police) at $139,080 and Stephen King (deputy director of engineering) at $133,150 make more money than Rogero.

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plan carries an annual de-ductible of $250 for an indi-vidual and $750 for a family. Those are small fractions of what’s paid by most people who purchased insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

The yearly out-of-pocket limit is $1,500 for individu-als and $4,500 for families.

In sum, Harvard says the plan will pay 91 percent of health-care costs for enroll-ees. Don’t bother looking for a plan through the federal or state exchanges that pays as well.

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The death of Edward W. Brooke, fi rst African-American elected to the U.S. Senate (Massachu-setts), makes astronaut John Glenn the oldest living former U.S. senator at 93.

He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and has an offi ce at Ohio State University.

I used to think that sit-ting through a multi-hour government meeting would be approximately as enjoy-able as having my toenails trimmed with a jackham-mer. But as I’ve become a grownup, the things that interest me have changed. Thank goodness. Other-wise, I’d still be watching soaps with my girlfriends, as I did when I was 14. MPC chair Rebecca Longmire and commissioner Bart Cary rec-

ognize retiring MPC executive director Mark Donaldson, cen-

ter, at last week’s meeting. Photo by Wendy Smith

Remembering

Edward Brooke

The next oldest liv-ing former senators are, in order of age: Ernest Hollings, 93, from South Carolina; Jocelyn Burdick of North Dakota, 92; Paul Laxalt from Nevada, 92; James Buckley from New York, 91; and Bob Dole from Kansas, 91.

Tennessee’s Bill Brock is now the 37th oldest living U.S. senator at age 84. He lives in Annapolis, Md.

I had the privilege of knowing Edward Brooke when I worked for Sen. Howard Baker in 1967 and both were freshman sena-tors and Republicans at that time. Both staffs were friendly, and Lamar Alex-ander was Baker’s legisla-tive aide that year.

Brooke had been attor-ney general of Massachu-setts prior to being elected to the Senate in 1966, the same year Howard Baker Jr. was elected to the Sen-ate from Tennessee. The two staffs played softball against each other in the summer.

I met up with Sen.Brooke in 1973 when I was on a private trip to Athens, Greece, and he was meet-ing with Greek leaders.

We were both staying at the Grande Bretagne Hotel on Athens’ famed Constitu-tion Square and ended up having breakfast together.

■ Mike Lowe, former Knox County trustee, is

asking that his trial be moved out of Knox County through his attorney, Greg Isaacs. Without comment-ing on the merits of the case, I know Lowe has an expert attorney when it comes to advocating delays in trials.

Isaacs is also the at-torney for Troy Whiteside, who was indicted over fi ve years ago for homicide, and his case has not yet gone to trial due to a variety of delays. It is currently set to start next month, but no one is holding their breath it will happen.

If this motion for Lowe is successful, that trial is delayed several more months.

If the city of Boston can fi nd a jury to de-cide the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the sus-pects in the Boston Mara-thon bombings, with all the international publicity it has generated, surely Knoxville can provide an objective jury and a fair trial for both Mike Lowe and Troy Whiteside for their respective charges.

The truth is, probably more than two-thirds of the people of Knox County have never heard of Lowe, which means they do not have an opinion of him.

Fewer than half could identify Lowe or Whiteside if shown a photo.

■ Georgia Varlan Man, daughter of Danni and U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan, is the associate general coun-sel for the new Republican governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, effective this week.

She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Tennessee and a 2012 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.

She has been an attor-ney at Kirkland and Ellis in Chicago and will work at the governor’s Chicago legal offi ce.

MPC − better than a soap opera

most local developers and citizens. The developers generally had a similar look − jeans, a sport coat and longish hair. Hip.

The citizens wore their stress like a garment. They sat in groups and whispered together. I understand their fear. Some are facing devel-opment that could have a very real negative impact on their property and, maybe, on their lives.

This is where the dra-ma happens. People don’t like change. Nobody ever says, “I’ve always enjoyed this wooded lot behind my house, where squirrels and birds play. But I don’t mind if someone knocks down the trees and grades with loud equipment in order to build a new hospital/shopping

center/apartment complex behind my house.

“I understand that de-velopment is part of the natural order of things in a growing city like Knoxville.”

To be honest, I tend to side with those citizens − all of them. Our homes are overwhelmingly personal. They are our refuge. It’s cruel to deprive people of the things they love best about their homes for the sake of progress, especially if a developer profi ts from the loss.

Still, I have to admit that, after watching several hours of meetings, I’m beginning to understand the other side.

No matter how surround-ing property owners feel, sick people benefi t from

During my process of ed-ucating myself about local government, I’ve watched a few meetings online and attended a few in person. Last week was my fi rst in-person encounter with the Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC), and I was transfi xed.

Before the meeting be-gan, I examined the audi-ence and found I could pick out the developers, lawyers and concerned citizens. Most of the lawyers I knew by name because a rela-tively small pool represents

By now, everyone in the world and the astronauts in outer space know that Pres-ident Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, vis-ited Pellissippi State Com-munity College last week to announce a national plan of two years of tuition-free community college for any-one willing to work for it.

The plan will be based on Tennessee Promise, a pro-gram with the same incen-tive offered for the fi rst time ever to the class of 2015 throughout our great Volun-teer state.

I am not usually one to follow politics, but I think this is a great idea if we can all make it through the red tape without getting stuck in it.

This is why I support the president’s plan: When cov-ering school news, every

Sara Barrett

The case for tuition-free college

day I visit at least one public school and meet students who blow me away with their ideas.

Students of all ages have shown me projects they’ve created, fundraising they’ve planned and hosted themselves, goals they’ve achieved and dreams they would like to follow upon graduating from high school.

Without Tennessee Promise, many of them would never be able to af-ford college.

I can’t speak for the rest of the country, or even for

everyone else here in Ten-nessee, but I know when I hear a kindergartner tell me an idea she has to help the homeless or I interview a student in the fi fth grade who already has a busi-ness plan to start his own company, I am so glad they will have the support they’ll need right here at home. Not only will they have the po-tential to better themselves, but they’ll better their world – mine and yours – in the process.

During his announce-ment, the president said he hopes to level the playing fi eld among the haves and the have-nots. “We don’t ex-pect everybody to make it,” he said, “but we do expect everybody to get an equal shot.”

It shouldn’t be about what you look like, how you worship or your last name,

he said. I couldn’t agree more. There are many gift-ed children who may not be given the same opportuni-ties because of the area they live in or how much money their parents make.

“No one with drive and discipline should be left out,” the president contin-ued.

“Two years of college will be as free as high school is today.” Once students com-plete the two years of col-lege, they could transfer those credits to a university and essentially get half of a bachelor’s degree free.

The students I meet and write about are a glimpse of the talent thriving in today’s schools.

With a national plan to give them a hand up, their possibilities are endless.Sara Barrett is West Knox school beat re-

porter for Shopper-News.

hospitals. People buy things they need at shopping cen-ters, which supports jobs and produces tax reve-nues that pay for stuff like schools and pothole repair.

People live in the apart-ments, and they’re more likely to be young profes-sionals, like my son, than drug dealers.

It comes down to those who serve, without pay, on the MPC, to make decisions about where such things will be built.

And here’s the good news − they take their jobs seri-ously. They ask questions, and they seek input from citizens, even when the agenda is long and each side has spent its fi ve minutes of talk time.

They’ll never be popular, except maybe with the de-velopers. They will, more often than not, approve de-velopment, even if it hurts the little guy. It’s done, in theory, for the greater good. It’s what they did when your subdivision, your grocery store and your offi ce build-ing were approved.

Whenever two oppos-ing forces come together, there’s high drama. That’s what makes MPC meetings interesting. They’re better than a soap opera.

The “platinum” plans come close, covering 90 percent of costs on aver-age, but are prohibitively expensive for many. “Silver” plans, covering 70 percent, are the most purchased.

Hypocrisy in academia is at least a change of pace from rampant political hy-pocrisy. But with the latter on full display in East Ten-nessee last week, it couldn’t

be ignored.Lamar Alexander and

Bob Corker, Tennessee’s full complement of U.S. senators, were eager to be seen with President Barack Obama as he visited Big Or-ange Country.

Neither made an appear-ance during Obama’s earlier treks to Tennessee (Nash-ville and Memphis), so is it growing admiration for his

leadership that drew them this time?

During a Nov. 20, 2014, interview on Fox, Corker, riled over Obama’s deci-sion to take executive ac-tion on immigration, called his presidency the “worst in modern history.” Obama is “weak,” Corker said, and acting like “a 13-year-old.”

I don’t hear the Carpen-ters singing “Close to You” in that rant. They must want to praise his signature legis-lation.

“The health-care law is an historic mistake that should be delayed, dis-mantled, repealed and re-placed,” Alexander said in a speech before the Senate on Sep. 27, 2013.

Oops.Corker? He voted against

passage of a continuing res-olution that included fund-ing Obamacare and instead supported U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s bill to repeal it.

No denying that ignor-ing one’s own hypocrisy can

be politically useful. And, while sharing a platform with the president, some of the “weakness” that has

steered the country clear of economic and diplomatic disaster for six years might rub off on our senators.

Larry Van Guilder From previous page

Congrats to SchoonmakerLongtime homeowners advocate John

Schoonmaker will replace former Knox County Commissioner Richard Briggs as the District 5 commissioner. He was elect-ed Monday. Tamara Boyer, the only woman in the race, fi nished second.

Schoonmaker will resign from the Board of Zoning Appeals. Briggs was elect-ed to the state Senate in November.Schoonmaker

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■ Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road,

begins its spring series “Movies That Matter” 7 p.m. Friday,

Jan. 16, with two parts of the documentary “The Up Series.”

Discussion of the fi lm will follow, led by Dr. David Howell.

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I was in fourth grade when the Chicorelli broth-ers announced they were going to beat me up after school.

I didn’t know why they’d want to do a thing like that. I was a sweet little boy, just ask my mother. They were both a year older than me, and I didn’t really even know them. Anyway, I had the rest of the day to think about what was going to transpire after school.

My mind began to race. How could I avoid this fi ght? Then it came to me. When school let out, I’d make sure that several of my friends were with me, and we’d walk home together. The bullies would never try anything against all of us together. And I was right. I never had that confrontation with the Chicorelli brothers.

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what to do when I was fac-ing trouble: surround my-self with friends. However, let the devil start picking on someone and what’s the fi rst thing they do? They quit at-tending worship services. They isolate themselves from their friends. They play right into the hands of the devil.

Take it from the expe-rience of a fourth grader who knows. If you’re hav-ing trouble, don’t isolate yourself. Instead, surround yourself with friends who will give you strength when you are weak.

Give it some thought.

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 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

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

A stitch in time

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 Hedy lost her life, she has been immortalized through the exhibit.

“It’s a remembrance, not only of what was lost in the Holocaust, but of the potential for life beyond that,” says Levin.

You understand as well as I do that time fl ows in one direction, and nothing we can do, say or think will change that. On refl ection, I am grateful for that; other-wise, I might possibly have to live some days over and over until I get them right!

Even so, the turning of the year is a gift. Because we have chosen to “subdi-vide diurnity,” as Danish poet/philosopher/architect/city designer Piet Hein de-scribes it, we can deal with time in chunks, rather than be overwhelmed by its im-mensity.

I am willing to take my days, my blessings and my woes one at a time!

There is something fresh and promising about a new year. We have a chance to start over. A new year places us at a new starting line: we have a clean slate; we can change ourselves, our bod-ies, our habits, our outlook.

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When my mother was a stay-at-home mom, her annual January gift to her-self was to put away all the Christmas paraphernalia and then settle in to re-read “Gone with the Wind.” (Her copy of that book eventu-ally fell apart and had to be rebound; it sits in a place of honor on my bookshelf to-day.)

What will you give your-self in the New Year?

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West Valley Middle School’s dance team is pre-paring to compete in the na-tionals at Disneyworld the weekend of Jan. 30.

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TN 37909. WVMS dancers Summer Davis and Amilian Clemes run through

a routine based on “Pirates of the Caribbean.”

Ansley Honeycutt is lifted into the air by Lauren Hull, Tori So-

kolow, Bailey Simpson and Noelle Gatton-Bumpus.

West Valley dance team includes Tori Sokolow, Bailey Simpson, Sydney Schriver, Chloe Anders,

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Manalac, Amilian Clemes, Natalie Adkins and Summer Davis. Photos by S. Barrett

West Valley dance heads to nationals

“This is honestly one of the strongest teams I’ve seen at this school,” said Amanda Varnes, team coach and math teacher. The team began competing at nation-als four years ago and came in second place. The train-ing and rehearsals begin al-most a year prior to compet-ing. West Valley English and language arts teacher Beth Abee is a team sponsor, and a choreographer has also been hired this year.

Varnes attributes the team’s success to the bond among its members. “It’s really more important than the technique,” she said.

In addition to practicing after school, the girls hang out regularly, and a leader-ship breakfast is planned for them each week prior to the competition.

“We don’t have team cap-tains, but the eighth graders assume the responsibili-ties of that role,” she said. Perhaps it’s no coincidence, then, that Varnes was on the school’s fi rst dance team when she was in eighth grade.

Most of the 18 girls on the team take additional dance lessons on their own time and maintain an A/B aver-age, according to Varnes. “We also push them hard academically, and we stay in touch with their teachers,”

she said. The team won fi rst place

and best choreography at a

competition in December and will compete against a dozen of the best teams

from around the country at nationals, including per-forming arts schools.

Austin-East to host youth symposiumThe MLK Commission

Youth Symposium team is partnering with the Knox-ville Chapter of Jack & Jill of America to host a day of youth development and leadership training, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at Austin-East High School.

Jack & Jill will present an oratorical contest concur-rent with the breakout ses-sions for middle and high school students. The Jack & Jill program is designed to inspire and encourage

teens ages 13-18 to embrace and value the art of public speaking. An online regis-tration form for the event is available at www.MLK-knoxville.org.

The event will feature a day packed with activities, food and entertainment and is intended to nurture and develop the next generation of leaders.

Austin-East High School is at 2800 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Info: youth@MLKKnoxville.com.

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School students need to unwind, they head to the West Mall during lunch and between classes for Legos, kinetic sand and beanbag chairs.

Principal John Bartlett said students are inundated by a digital environment and need a break from tech-nology. “We want to encour-age kids to build and create outside of a computer,” said Bartlett.

A couple of months ago, toys were delivered to the high school for the stu-dents’ benefi t. Bartlett said the beanbag chairs are prime real estate during lunchtime, and additional stuffi ng has already been ordered to replenish the

current seats. He would like to add to the Lego supply as

well, but re-alized after ordering the fi rst batch how expen-sive they are.

Is he con-cerned that the Legos may slowly

disappear?Bartlett said the students

respect what they’re given. The West Mall restrooms were renovated six years ago, and fi sh aquariums were added to the hallways – and they’re still intact. “People thought we were crazy for doing it, but we’ve never had any problems. With Bearden kids, we put

out our expectation and they abide by it,” he said.

So far, the activities are a hit with students.

“It really brings cama-raderie to our school,” said student Sydney Gabrielson. “(The Lego table and bean bag chairs) are kind of our hangout.”

One student in particu-lar has enjoyed the Legos; a visually impaired student loves them and has request-ed light-up Legos so he can see them easier.

“It’s my job to create a great culture for learning and a great learning en-vironment,” said Bartlett. “What we do here is a little different. We love our stu-dents.”

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Girl Scouts ‘on Ice’Girl Scout Troop 20355 attended the “Nutcracker on Ice” to see and support fellow Girl

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Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sets his sights on a target in “American Sniper.”

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Josh Gad and Kevin Hart star in “The Wedding Ringer.”

By Betsy PickleDirector Clint Eastwood

knows war movies. His “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” are two of the best in recent years.

“American Sniper” had the potential to make it a trifecta, but Eastwood can’t fi gure out what kind of war movie he’s trying to make.

Based on the story of Chris Kyle, whose like-titled autobiography spent months on the best-seller lists, “American Sniper” has a strong central perfor-mance but little nuance oth-erwise. The one thing that’s inarguable is that Bradley Cooper makes a tremen-dous physical transforma-tion and powerfully conveys the growing inner discon-nect between military and home life.

Eastwood and screen-writer Jason Hall jump around in time at fi rst, but even that gives way to a mostly orthodox chronol-ogy.

Chris Kyle (Cooper) is a Texas rodeo rider who de-cides it’s his duty to defend his country. He joins the Navy SEALs and soon after his training is fi nished he is deployed to Iraq.

Trained as a sniper, he proves exceptionally good at his job, gaining the nick-name “Legend” for his re-cord number of kills. But when he goes home to his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller), he keeps his feelings and experiences to himself.

Chris returns for tour af-ter tour, passionately dedi-cating himself to protecting his brothers in arms. But he can’t save everyone, and unless he fi nds a way to ad-dress his inner demons, he may not be able to save him-self, or his marriage.

“American Sniper” feels right in the details of the Iraq war: the danger, the diffi culty, the tunnel vision of trying to kill the enemy before he or she kills you. It also shows how Chris tries – and fails – to keep his work life separate from his home life with Taya and their growing family.

But each aspect starts to seem redundant, especially Taya’s pleas for Chris to open up to her. And while the script – rightly – refus-es to let in any political or historical revisionism, that only adds to the simplistic nature of the fi lm.

“American Sniper” doesn’t foreshadow – it

blares. His father preaches a message of defending oth-ers, so Chris joins the mili-tary. Young Chris showed a talent for hunting, so he becomes a sniper. Macho cowboy Chris discovers his girlfriend being unfaithful, so macho SEAL Chris fi nds an attractive woman, gently woos her and starts making plans for his version of their perfect life.

Chris never questions the mission, and he takes it as inevitable that a col-league who does should die. If that’s how it went down, that’s fi ne. But after the lengthy buildup to Chris’s inner torture, the solution comes at warp speed. The breakthrough seems too convenient.

Cooper’s bulked-up gi-ant deserves better. The intensity he creates is pal-pable. The pain within him is wrenching.

Simplistic in so many ways, “American Sniper” denies the audience the light-bulb moment that en-sures a connection.

It robs the story of the catharsis it should have earned and makes the de-nouement feel like an after-thought.

Pardon the cliché, but this weekend’s new movies offer something for practi-cally everyone.

For Oscar bait and war-movie fans, there’s “Ameri-can Sniper,” starring Brad-ley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood. (Please see review, this page.)

For the moviegoing main-stream, there’s “Blackhat,” a timely thriller starring Chris “Thor” Hemsworth. Hemsworth plays a jailed hacker recruited by the gov-ernment and furloughed to help stop another hacker who’s trying to collapse the world’s fi nancial markets.

Viola Davis and Wei Tang co-star in the thriller di-rected by Michael Mann, whose last big-screen di-recting gig was 2009’s “Pub-

Cooper impresses, but ‘Sniper’ misses mark

Movie hodgepodge should

satisfy most tastes

lic Enemies.”For families, there’s

“Paddington,” based on the beloved books by Michael Bond. The lovable Peruvian bear is alone in a London train station until the kindly Brown family fi nds him and takes him home. It looks like a happy ending for Pad-dington until an evil muse-um curator (Nicole Kidman) fi nds out about the unusual talking bear.

A top-notch British cast

– Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Michael Gam-bon and Imelda Staunton – stars. Ben Whishaw pro-vides the voice of Padding-ton, who is entirely com-puter generated. Paul King directed.

Finally, for lovers of raunchy comedy, “The Wed-ding Ringer” fi lls the void. Kevin Hart plays a best-man-for-hire who attempts to save the day for a shy young groom trying to im-press his in-laws.

Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Josh Peck, Jorge Garcia, Cloris Leachman, Mimi Rogers and Jenifer Lewis round out the eclectic cast. Screenwriter Jeremy Garelick makes his feature-directing debut.

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THURSDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 15-17 ■ “Love Letters” presented by the Tellico Community Play-

ers, 7:30 p.m., the new Tellico Community Playhouse, 304

Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 at

Village Salon, Salon Anew, the Tellico Village Yacht Club in

Loudon; Kahite Pub & Grille in Vonore; and at the door. Info:

http://tellicocommunityplayhouse.org.

FRIDAY, JAN. 16 ■ Alive After Five concert: Tennessee Sheiks, 6-8:30 p.m.,

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tick-

ets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 16-18 ■ “Huckleberry Finn” presented by Knoxville Children’s

Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m.

Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info:

208-3677, knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com or info@

childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 17 ■ A Night of Improv, 7-8:30 p.m., Nita Buell-Black Auditorium,

Powell High School, 2136 W. Emory Road. Presented by the

Powell Playhouse. Tickets: $10, ages 5 and under free. Featur-

ing a special Powell Playhouse performance. Ticket info:

947-7428, 256-7428.

■ Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II concert, 8 p.m., Civic

Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Part of the Knoxville

News Sentinel Pops Series. Tickets: $35-$89. Tickets: 291-3310

or www.knoxvillesymphony.com.

■ Wade Hill in concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel

Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets:

www.jubileearts.org.

The pork tenderloin is grilled to perfection and fork-tender

at The Grill at Highlands Row. On this plate, the sides are rum

sweet potatoes and roasted acorn squash. Photo by Mystery Diner

Mystery Diner

Plate it

The Grill at Highlands Row

I can never enter The Grill at Highlands Row without a fl ashback to An-drew Morton’s Fine Gifts, one of Knoxville’s premier gift shops that operated at the location.

Folks older than I, how-ever, will quickly point out that The Grill at Highlands Row has actually returned the building at 4705 Old Kingston Pike to its original use. The Highlands Grill was one of Knoxville’s fi nest dining establishments from the early 1930s to the early 1960s.

The new restaurant was opened in 2010 by Knoxville developer Tom Weiss, Chad Barger and Pat McMullan. They feature sophisticated Southern cuisine and strive to buy locally whenever pos-sible. Steaks and seafood are favorites on the menu, and guests are always eager to see what culinary twists the chef has put on tradi-tional Southern favorites.

For my night out at High-lands, I went for the grilled pork tenderloin. I was hav-ing a hard time deciding between the tenderloin and the mountain trout, primar-ily because I don’t like col-lard greens, which was one of the side dishes with the tenderloin. The kind waiter let me substitute the col-lards for the roasted acorn squash, which came with the trout, so I was happy.

The master griller knew what he or she was doing with the pork tenderloin. Beautifully presented with grill marks and cooked per-fectly with just a whisper of pink, the pork was fork-ten-der and delicious. The dark

rum whipped sweet pota-toes and aforementioned acorn squash were incred-ible accompaniments to the pork.

My only complaint was the brandy peppercorn sauce under the pork ten-derloin. I was really look-

ing forward to that sauce, expecting the warm, dark sweetness of brandy with just a hint of heat from the peppercorns. The pepper-corns stole the show, howev-er, and I found myself avoid-ing the sauce as I gobbled up the wonderful tenderloin.

By Carol ShaneJanuary isn’t typically

thought of as the cheeri-est month, what with the brightness of the holidays over and done with and tax season looming. Add in the usual cold, gray weather, and you’ve got a prescrip-tion for downheartedness.

But there’s plenty of color around if you know where to look.

The Arts and Culture Al-liance of Knoxville is cur-rently presenting the works of seven East Tennessee art-ists in “New Group Exhibi-tion in the Balcony,” which opened with a warm, con-vivial reception at the Em-porium Center on Jan. 9.

Visitors mingled, snacked on treats from the Melting Pot, viewed the art-work and visited with par-ticipating artists.

Lynn Corsi Bland from Gatlinburg mixes wax with oil to create her colorful, blocked abstracts. She says the wax “gives the oil body so you can move it around.” She uses various tools, in-cluding a palette knife and a brayer (a type of hand roll-er) to manipulate the paint.

Bland has taught at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts along with an-other featured artist, Jen-nifer Willard, whose fabric works borrow from fairy tales. Using embroidery on hand-dyed material, Wil-lard incorporates darker, more ambiguous aspects of the stories to add an in-triguing conceptual layer to

The power of

Amy Porter, music director at Redeemer Church of Knoxville,

enjoys the evening with her outgoing 9-year-old daughter, Fio-

na. “Did you know I play the violin?” asks Fiona. The two stand

in front of Tony Sobota’s “Heat Source.” Photos by Carol Shane

Painter and caricaturist Tony

Sobota draws a customized

“doodle” for Amy Simmer-

man of Farragut. In the

background, South Knoxvil-

lian Barry Jenkins gives his

wife, Maria, an aff ectionate

peck on the shoulder.

seven

the hand-stitched pieces. Tony Sobota’s brilliant

draftsmanship takes cen-ter stage in his paintings, most of which feature some kind of industrial presence: a spark-spitting smelter, a conveyor belt tower, steel girders, coal-mining appa-ratuses. The viewer can al-most hear the clang and feel the weight of these immense machines. “I love the archi-tecture of industry,” says Sobota, “and I’ve become a downright factory junkie of late.”

Sobota is also interested in “manmade versus living realities,” so human ele-ments are often included: a rumpled coal miner, a mus-ing face.

Tony Henson’s big, viv-id abstract-expressionist works dominate much of one wall of the exhibit. Eight years ago, he broke his

right hand – yes, he’s right-handed – in three places in “a stupid accident.” Hen-son, who up until then had been a representational artist, found that he could no longer hold a brush or pen, even after a period of recovery. He experimented with applying paint to can-vas directly with his hands. As he healed, he moved on to using tools such as squee-gees and palette knives and, eventually, brushes.

He now says the accident “was a blessing because my paintings got better!”

The Shopper’s own copy editor, Emily Shane, has seven pieces in the show. Shane uses discarded book covers with bright graphic designs to create optical fl ights of fancy. “Oasis,” an installation consisting of nine squares, appears to contain many layers. Some

viewers see a pool in the depths; others imagine that they’re gazing through the piece to the sky. “I like mak-ing art that doesn’t try to tell a story,” Shane says. “Ten people can look at the same piece and see it 10 different ways.”

Beth Meadows’ paintings superimpose a punked-out model in unlikely settings like the great hall from “The Sound of Music.” Her work has been shown at Old City Java and Relix Variety Theatre. A transplant from Memphis, Meadows runs The Salvage Room for the nonprofi t Knox Heritage and is also the director of the 17th Street Studios.

Terina Gillette teaches art classes for all ages in her Holston Hills home. Her pieces show a love for texture. “I call them wall sculpture,” she says. Gillette

also provides chalk art for various local businesses, in-cluding the popular Dean’s Restaurant in Fountain City. Like all seven artists featured in the show, she is driven by her creative vi-sion.

“I like to say that she has an affair with a guy named ‘Art,’” says Gillette’s hus-

band, Daniel, “and if she doesn’t see him occasion-ally, she gets irritable!”

The “New Group Exhibi-tion in the Balcony” runs through Jan. 31 at the Em-porium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Hours and info: www.knoxalliance.com.Send story suggestions to news@shop-

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Julie Predny of the Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce

greets Marci Stiles, co-owner of Mind Yer P’s and Q’s, during

the craft beer and wine lounge’s ribbon-cutting event. Photosby Shannon Carey

Mind Yer P’s and Q’s bartender Lori Griffi th serves a glass of

wine during the ribbon-cutting.

By Shannon CareyFriends Marci Stiles and

Hollie Hennessy saw a need in Farragut, a need for an upscale craft beer and wine lounge.

The pair, both Farragut residents, opened Mind Yer P’s and Q’s in Novem-ber 2014, and business has been great. At a Farragut West Knox Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting Jan. 7, Mayor Ralph McGill wished Stiles and Hennessy the best and mentioned that Mind Yer P’s and Q’s is one of two businesses so far to open in the town under the new “tavern” classifi cation.

“We keep expanding our horizons. Welcome to Far-ragut!” he said.

The lounge has 24 beers

on tap and 30 wines ready to serve, along with appe-tizers. They have some li-quors, but no mixed drinks. They host trivia nights on Tuesdays and live music on the weekends. They’re even starting wine and beer appreciation classes this month.

But what about that unique name? Stiles said it means lots of things. The classic minding your man-ners is in there, but so is “pints and quarts” and “prime and quality.”

“It’s been a great adven-ture,” said Stiles.

Mind Yer P’s and Q’s is located in the Renaissance Center, 12744 Kingston Pike Suite 104. Info: www.min-dyerpsandqs.com.

Chamber welcomes beer and wine lounge

By Bonny C. MillardTwo former Wellspring

facilities, purchased last fall by Fortress Investment Group, provide residential units for people needing services in memory care and assisted living. The proper-ties are under the manage-ment of Blue Harbor Senior Living, whose headquarters are in Portland, Ore.

Regional sales leader Caroline Wilder said the properties were renamed: Maple Court Senior Liv-ing in Powell and Raintree Terrace Senior Living in Bearden. Fortress has 24 properties nationwide, but these are the only two in Tennessee, she said.

Maple Court is a 56-bed memory-care facility for those with dementia or Al-zheimer’s who need secure living conditions. Wilder said in the industry it is known as a “standalone memory-care neighbor-hood.” It offers residents both security and interior freedom to move about the building. Dementia behav-iors include wandering, so this facility gives residents the space to do that, she said.

“What I love about Maple Court is that it doesn’t feel like a memory-care neigh-borhood,” Wilder said. “Typically speaking, mem-ory care is kind of closed off and away from – and secured from – everything. The fact that it’s a specialty built-alone memory-care (facility) means that once you walk in the secured doors in the front of the building, everything’s open. There’s a beautiful indoor courtyard.”

The enclosed courtyard gives residents a safe place to go outside and even work

Raintree Terrace

Senior Living activi-

ties assistant Mary

Magyar visits with

resident Mary Rust

during a recent

afternoon tea party. Photos by Bonny C. Millard

Raintree Terrace Senior Living health services director Crystal Murphy, Maple Court

Senior Living maintenance director Jim Williams and receptionist LaVonne Murray

At home at Raintree Terrace

in raised-bed gardens.Raintree Terrace is dif-

ferent from Maple Court in that it offers both memory-care and assisted-living units. The memory-care unit has 16 beds while the assisted-living area is larg-er, with 48 beds.

Wilder said Raintree Ter-race has a condo-like atmo-sphere because of the ame-nities.

“When you walk into the dining room, there’s a large stacked-stone fi replace that’s just gorgeous. Off the dining room, there are two doors that go to a cov-ered deck. That’s upstairs, and even downstairs in our memory care, there’s a pri-

vate secured patio so that the residents who are in memory care can enjoy the outdoors in a secured envi-ronment.”

Both facilities offer indi-vidual or double-occupancy rooms, which provide so-cialization and lower resi-dency costs.

“We offer companion suites, or shared suites, as an alternative,” she said. “It’s particularly helpful in memory care because stud-ies show that individuals with Alzheimer’s or demen-tia do better socially when they have a roommate.”

Amanda Spencer is the executive director at Rain-tree, and Cindy Winegar,

who started this month, is the executive director of Maple Court. Both directors have been in the business for years, Wilder added.

The two senior living residences have full-time dining services and avail-able 24-hour nursing care, and each has about 30 em-ployees, including activi-ties directors. Residents go for group outings such as a recent trip to Gatlinburg to see the Christmas lights. Wilder said the centers also hold family nights and holi-day dinners.

Info: www.raintreeter-raceseniorliving.com and www.maplectseniorliving.com.

Fans of the Arts and Crafts movement will get a special treat at 11 a.m. Sat-urday, Jan. 17, when Stick-ley Furniture historian Mike Danial visits Braden’s Lifestyles Furniture in Tur-key Creek.

Stickley Furniture was founded in the early 1900s by Gustav Stickley and his brothers. The Mission-style furniture line quickly gained recognition due to solid construction and qual-ity. The Stickley brothers also partnered with archi-tects William Morris and Harvey Ellis, becoming forerunners of the Ameri-can Arts and Crafts move-ment.

While Stickley Furni-ture is now owned by the Audi family of New York, the company’s integrity and commitment to quality remain. While at Braden, Danial will speak about the Arts and Crafts movement

Mike Danial

Historian Danial to visit Braden’s

as well as the “rescue” ofStickley Furniture by theAudi family. He will alsospeak about furniture res-toration, care and construc-tion.

Braden’s Lifestyles Fur-niture is at 11105 TurkeyDrive. Info: Carrie Grey,382-8530.

Mrs. Brown is a beautiful

5-year-old female American

rabbit who lives indoors

and is litter box trained. She

is available at YWAC’s 3201

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Robin Griffi n, the latest generation to run things at Wright’s

Cafeteria, with her dad, David Wright Photo by A. Hart

By Anne HartWright’s Cafeteria has

been around so long it doesn’t really need that last name. The fi rst one works just fi ne.

“Meet me at Wright’s,” is a phrase familiar to genera-tions of Knoxvillians who love great food – mouth-watering fare that tastes like what your grandmother cooked: chicken and dump-lings, country fried steak with gravy, fried okra, sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows, yeast rolls hot from the oven, banana pudding, strawberry short-cake and plenty of sweet tea to wash it all down. Yum.

Hungry yet? Then head on over to 5403 Middle-brook Pike any weekday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and on Thursday evening – known to the regulars as “Wright’s Night” – be-tween 4:30 and 7:30. David Wright, his daughter, Rob-in Griffi n, and the always friendly staff will fi x you right up.

You’ll fi nd more than two dozen entrees, although not all are served every day. There are easily that many selections of vegetables and fresh salads, and the ar-ray of homemade desserts is guaranteed to kick to the curb any New Year’s resolu-tion concerning weight loss.

Best of all, everything is cooked on site daily, so it’s always fresh.

Wright’s Cafeteria has been in operation for 50 years now, but the family business from which it orig-inated started in 1938. That was the year Harry Bean, maternal grandfather of Da-vid Wright, the family patri-arch these days, opened a grocery store where the caf-eteria now stands.

Meet me at Wright’s: a familiar refrain

It was a small place, oc-cupying what is now the side room of the cafeteria. After World War II ended, Harry Bean went back to his fi rst love, farming, and his daughter and son-in-law, J. B. and Ella Mae Wright, took over.

In the mid-1950s, they added to the grocery store, expanding it to the size now occupied by the cafeteria.

In the early 1960s, a rental opened up across the street from the grocery store, and Ella Mae, who had always loved to cook, started a little restaurant there, serving plate lunches.

Soon, Ella Mae talked her husband into letting her take over a part of the gro-cery store – that side room – for a restaurant.

Customers loved it. By about 1965, J. B. and Ella Mae had turned the whole place into a cafeteria. It has remained hugely popular to this day.

“Mother has always been a great cook,” David Wright says, “and Dad was always dabbling at it, so they made

a good team.”David and his wife, Don-

na, were living in Athens, Tenn., where David had been a sales supervisor with Nabisco for about 12 years. “In about 1975, Mother and Dad wanted to retire, so Donna and I moved back and took over. Donna really ran things. She was a great cook herself, and she had all of Mother’s recipes.”

Donna still keeps the books, but doesn’t come to the restaurant much. She’s busy helping with grand-daughter Lainee. Donna’s spot at the cafeteria has been taken by daughter Robin. “And she really runs things now,” David says. “She is a really good cook. One thing she does is make all of the yeast rolls every morning and Thursday night.”

So what does David do nowadays? Other than stand at the head of the serving line fi lling plates and greet-ing most of his long-time customers by name? He still goes out to personally buy the fresh produce. “I’m real

picky about what I buy. I like to look at it myself.”

You may have to stand in line for a bit when you get to Wright’s, but you’ll never be bored. If you don’t see friends to greet, or the usual gaggle of elected offi cials who will be only too happy to jaw with you, spend time enjoying the UT football memorabilia lining the walls of both the main din-ing room and the side room. There’s plenty to bring back all kinds of Big Orange memories.

And if you’re there at lunchtime on Friday, you may be greeted by 97-year-old Ella Mae Wright herself. “She has her hair done every Friday and then stops in to speak to everybody. She’s in great health, and we love it when she comes by.”

You never know who you’ll see at Wright’s. David says many years ago a guy thought he’d rob the place in the middle of lunch. He knocked the cashier off her stool, grabbed the money and made for the door.

“The cashier tackled him before he got outside,” Da-vid laughs, “but what he didn’t know was there were four state troopers eating lunch with us who hopped up and handcuffed him and hauled him off.”

Never a dull moment at Wright’s.

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Amanda Hemphill, holding baby Jordan, joins husband Josh

Hemphill in celebrating the ribbon-cutting of his new State

Farm agency in Farragut.

By Shannon CareyBeing a small business

owner runs in Josh Hemp-hill’s family. His father and grandfather were small business owners, and now Hemphill is passing along that passion. His infant son, Jordan, who was front and center at the Farragut West Knox Chamber’s ribbon-cutting for Hemphill’s new State Farm agency Jan. 9, sported a State Farm shirt in mother Amanda’s arms.

Native Knoxvillian Hemphill has been with State Farm for nine years, working at another agen-cy in town. When Farra-

gut State Farm agent JackPlauche retired, Hemphillgot what he calls “a dreamcome true” – a chance tohave his own agency.

Farragut Town Adminis-trator David Smoak and Ju-lie Predny of the Chamberwere among the crowd ofwell-wishers at the ribbon-cutting.

Josh Hemphill’s StateFarm agency offers a widerange of insurance and fi -nancial services. The offi ceis located in Farragut TownSquare shopping center,11420 Kingston Pike. Info:675-3999 or www.sfagent-josh.com

Like father, like son at Hemphill agency

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It’s a place for those whose lives were changed forever in the blink of an eye. It’s where the sickest of the sick come to be treated, and where

each year, hundreds of people come to have their lives rebuilt and abilities restored.

It’s Patricia Neal Rehabili-tation Center, the 73-bed acute care re-hab hospital that serves not just Fort

Sanders Regional within which it is located, but all Covenant Health fa-cilities, East Tennessee and beyond.

Way beyond.“We had a patient from Australia

who was in an accident while visit-ing this country and had a spinal cord injury,” says Dr. Mary Dillon, medical director of PNRC since 2003. “We were able to rehab the

patient well enough that they could make the 24-hour fl ight home with this new disability. Then, coordinat-ing with international, socialized medicine was also quite a learning experience.”

Navigating the many twists and tangles of red tape, however, is hardly new to the scores of health professionals involved in caring for PNRC patients. Since 2010, the gov-ernment-mandated guidelines for admission to rehabilitation centers have become increasingly stringent, making it more challenging for pa-tients to get the care they need.

“When a patient is admitted for inpatient rehabilitation at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, they have to meet admission require-ments established by the govern-ment for ‘medical necessity’ as well as rehab needs,” said Dr. Dillon, a physiatrist. “You have to be sick enough to require a hospital level of care but well enough to participate in an intensive, multiple-disciplin-ary, inter-disciplinary therapy pro-gram.”

Helping smooth that process is the relationships Dr. Dillon and her team have built with physicians throughout the Covenant network, a network that continues to grow and now serves 23 counties in East Ten-nessee. As new facilities are added, such as Cumberland Medical Center in Crossville and Claiborne Medical Center in Tazewell, Dillon and her team work to develop relationships with the new facilities to better un-derstand their capabilities as well as offer PNRC’s services when needed.

Another important role in ma-neuvering government guidelines is that of the admissions liaison, specially trained registered nurses and social workers assigned to each Covenant hospital to evaluate and process referrals from those facili-ties to PNRC.

“That’s a vital role,” said Dillon. “We have licensed persons in that role to collate the referral data. The ultimate decision for admission or not admitting, however, has to be made by a physician with training in rehabilitation. A lot of it is seman-

tics. It’s knowing how to capture the medical intensity of the care needed. The goal is to get the patient to the level of care in the post-acute con-tinuum that will best meet their needs and best utilize their resourc-es.”

Each year about 750 to 800 pa-tients with a variety of illnesses or injuries are admitted to PNRC. About 80 percent of those come from Parkwest Medical Center, Uni-versity of Tennessee Medical Center and Fort Sanders Regional with the balance mostly coming from other Covenant facilities although refer-rals often come from Nashville, Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities in Ten-nessee and many other states as well.

Countless others, whose condi-tion does not qualify for inpatient care, receive help as a PNRC out-patient or may be referred back to a Covenant therapy center closer to home. Still others may be referred to a skilled care nursing facility or home health care.

But for those who do qualify for

admission to PNRC, quality care is ahallmark. The nationally acclaimedfacility has won numerous nation-al awards, including four CrystalAwards, the top award given forpatient satisfaction by ProfessionalResearch Consultants, a nationallyknown health care research com-pany. What’s more, PNRC’s rate ofreadmission within 30 days of dis-charge is lower than the regionaland national averages.

“Our goal is to provide excellentcare to everyone,” said Dr. Dillon.“We strive to restore abilities andrebuild lives. We maximize theirfunctional independence. Patientsadmitted to PNRC tend to come insicker, get home sooner and stayhome longer with fewer readmis-sions. While changes in health careare making it more challenging toget into PNRC, once you are admit-ted, we’ll provide you with excellentcare, among the best rehabilitationin the nation.”

For more information and a

virtual tour video, visit PatNeal.org

or call 865-541-1446.

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“It was not just a hospital where you are

treated as an individual but you made

friends, made friends for life,” said Phyllis

Kirksey of her experience at Patricia Neal

Rehabilitation Center in Knoxville.

After a series of surgeries, Kirksey is now on

her feet and walking thanks to the excellent

rehabilitation experienced at the facility.

The road backFriendsville woman fi nds friends, mobility at Patricia Neal

Progressive myelopathy. Cauda equina syn-drome. Thoracic disk herniation. Peripheral polyneuropathy.

You name it – Phyllis Kirksey seemed to have everything – except the ability to move her legs.

“It really wasn’t pain – it was inability to do anything,” she recalls. “Your mind tells you to lift your leg and go up the stairs, but it won’t do it. It was just like I weighed 400 pounds. I just couldn’t move.”

Nobody knows what caused this latest in a long history of back problems, but it set the re-tired pharmacist on a path to her sixth surgery followed by two weeks of rehabilitation as a spinal cord injury patient at Patricia Neal Re-habilitation Center.

It happened soon after returning from her son’s wedding that Kirksey, wife of Dr. Jim Kirksey, an ER physician at Fort Sanders Re-gional Medical Center, suddenly found her-self unable to climb any of the stairs in their Friendsville tri-level home.

Soon, Dr. Merrill White, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Parkwest Medical Center, was laying out her options: Undergo an extensive 12-hour multi-level spinal decompression and recon-struction or spend the rest of her life in a wheel-chair.

“Dr. White shoots straight from the hip,” said Mrs. Kirksey. “He said, ‘You’ve got a 50 percent chance of getting better, a 10 percent chance of getting worse and a 40 percent chance of being just like you are. But being like you are is better than what you will be if you don’t have surgery because you will continue to get worse.’ It wasn’t a pretty picture to paint. So, I gambled on 50 percent and I won.”

Of course, it wasn’t an easy victory.After the July 3 surgery by Dr. White and

cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Brent Grishkin, Mrs. Kirksey recovered at Parkwest for a week. “I was the Pillow Lady,” she said with a laugh. “I had a pillow here, a pillow in front, a pillow in back, pillow between my knees. I was pil-lowed up – and don’t move me!”

But White had other plans. The next day, he had Mrs. Kirksey to stand on her own two feet. Walking, however, would take awhile longer.

Discharged from Parkwest a week after surgery, she was sent to Patricia Neal Reha-

Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center serves Covenant and beyond

bilitation Center where she was immediately impressed by the staff.

“When I was fi rst admitted, everyone came in and introduced themselves and explained their job position and if there was anything I needed related to their expertise, just let them know,” she said. “Everybody had a smile on their face. It was a very uplifting, encouraging atmosphere.

“Of course, Day One they are going to get

you to your feet. They let you know from the very beginning that, ‘You’re not here to be wait-ed on!’ ” she said with a laugh. “That was the whole atmosphere. They present you with chal-lenges, then you go in and you do it, and you don’t think you will be able to accomplish, but by golly, after a few days, I was doing exactly what they said. Everybody was very encourag-ing.”

By the end of the fi rst of two weeks at PNRC, she was walking the full length of an exercise bar and climbing steps, well on her way to meeting her personal goal of caring for herself and getting in and out of her multi-level home.

She was also learning to maneuver her wheelchair, taking part in an obstacle course

throughout different fl oors of Fort Sanders Re-gional. “I look at people in wheelchairs in themall or wherever now in a whole different per-spective,” she says. “I know what they are goingthrough because I’ve been there even if was fora short period.”

Perhaps just as important were the lessons learned in group sessions with new-foundfriends in similar situations. “There was cama-raderie there,” she said. “I learned everyone’sname. It was interesting to see the change eachother went through. In the beginning, somewere real withdrawn and focused on their ownpain, but by the end of two weeks, they weremore concerned about how others were feel-ing. You really got to know one another.

“It was not just a hospital where you are treated as an individual but you made friends,made friends for life,” she added. “And youtake your own problems in a new perspective.OK, I’ve got this condition and I’m having trou-ble walking, but you know what? I didn’t reallyhave a choice in the surgery because, if I hadn’thad the surgery, I would have been in a wheel-chair for life. That was my option, and I didn’twant that. So you deal … thank God there wasan alternative!”

Today, Mrs. Kirksey moves about her homewith the aid of a cane and can climb any fl ightof stairs in her home. If she is going a long-dis-tance, she uses a walker.

But the wheelchair she took home from Pa-tricia Neal Rehabilitation Center sits at a din-ing table, unused except by a son-in-law whosays it’s comfortable to his own bad back.

The surgeons, rehabilitation physicians or physiatrists, therapists and nurses have donetheir part. The rest, she says, is up to her.

“It’s easy to say, ‘Why is this happening to me?’ But if you really, really search your heartand take in these experiences and use them fora better good, then so be it. It is what it is. I amjust thankful that I can do what I can do.”

“I would not wish anybody to go through what any of us at Pat Neal had to go through,”she added. “But if life deals you an unfortunatecircumstance where you are in that position,then you couldn’t go to a better place for rehab.They have the ability to reach any type person.They were wonderful. They were great in everyway.”

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Those who followed the Washington scene in the 1950s, particularly during President Truman’s administra-tion, will remember Perle Mes-ta. She was the socialite who gave the parties that ev-eryone aspired to attend. When Truman appoint-ed her U.S. Ambassa-dor to Luxembourg, she continued her lavish parties there.

Long before that time, Knoxville’s Mary Boyce Temple moved into either Washington’s May-fl ower or Willard hotel during each winter’s social season. There she practiced the skills that had made her mother famous for hosting at her Mel-rose Estate, enter-taining celebrities such as Gov. William G. Brownlow, presidential candidate John Bell, and Civil War generals John G. Foster and Ulysses S. Grant.

Born on July 6, 1856, Mary Boyce Tem-ple was the only child of Judge Oliver Perry Temple (1820-1907) and Scotia C. Hume Temple (1832-1889). O.P. Temple was a staunch Unionist in the days leading up to the Civil War and became one of the most celebrated jurists of his day.

He was a busy practicing attorney before he became chancellor of the Eighth Chan-cery district (1866-1870) and of the Second District (1870-1878). At one point he had the highest personal income of anyone in Knox County. As a member of the Univer-sity of Tennessee board of Trustees for 54 years, he was an early and persistent pro-moter of improvements in agriculture and transportation.

Of his four published books, “East Ten-nessee and the Civil War” (1899) has been the most infl uential, with its detailed ac-

count of the events leading up to Tennes-see’s secession, the Bridge Burning Incident

and the Great Locomotive Chase.From 1862 to 1865, the Tem-ple family lived at Melrose

Estate, among the fi nest in Knox County, where they

entertained many visit-ing dignitaries. Now the site of UT’s Hess Hall, Temple’s 20 acres contained the impressive Melrose mansion, experi-mental fl ower and vegetable gardens, an extensive fruit

orchard and an out-standing collection of

ornamental shrubs and trees.

Mary Boyce at-tended local schools but obtained much of her education from frequent travel with her family, as well as

from the family’s extensive library. She ma-triculated at Vassar College, then an exclu-sive school for women only, and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1887, the fi rst Southern woman to graduate from the college. Founded in 1861 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Vassar is on the banks of the Hudson River, halfway between the capital, Albany, and New York City. No doubt its location in a center of so much of America’s history en-hanced her interest in the subject.

When she returned to Knoxville, she found her mother in ill health, and the two traveled widely seeking a physician or cli-mate that would help her. However, Scotia Hume Temple passed away in May 1889 while they were in New York City. Her body was returned to Knoxville and interred in Old Gray Cemetery where a tall obelisk was placed in her honor.

Miss Temple lived with her father for many years in a home at the southeast cor-ner of Market and Cumberland. The house

HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

Mary Boyce Temple(1856-1929)

Philanthropist, socialite and suff rag-

ist, Miss Mary Boyce Temple (1856-

1929) was active in Knoxville, Nash-

ville and Washington. Photos courtesy of the C.M. McClung Historical Collection

Adair Monument in Lynnhurst Cemetery. On Oct. 26, 1926, Mary Boyce Temple represented the

Bonny Kate Chapter of the DAR at the dedication of John Adair’s monument. In the front are

Sarah Smith Sanders, J. Harvey Smith, Temple and Sarah Smith McCampbell.

also became a center of Knoxville’s social life, where Mary Boyce assisted her father with hosting and with the research and writing that would result in the publication of his four books. Her father passed away in 1907, and she completed the editing of his fourth book, “Notable Men of Tennes-see (1833 to 1875),” which was published in 1912.

Along with Lizzie Crozier French, Tem-ple organized the Ossoli Circle in 1885 and was elected its fi rst president. Ossoli, the South’s oldest federated women’s club, chose promotion of its members’ intellectu-al and moral development as its fi rst goal. Later, they chose projects that would aid in the education of mountain children and in other social, economic and civic activity.

In 1893, she organized the Bonny Kate Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), named for the second wife of John Sevier. She served as regent of the chapter for many years and also served as vice president-general of the national DAR (1898-99). Eventually she was named life regent of the chapter. She always at-tended the national congresses; she was often called upon to preside and was said to have a “particular genius” in conducting the meetings.

In recognition of her work at the local, state and national level, Gov. Benton Mc-Millan appointed Temple to represent Ten-nessee at the Paris Exposition in 1900. She would later represent the state in Stock-holm and Rio de Janeiro. She attended the

St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 as the lone woman on the Jury of Higher Education, and in 1913 she helped organize Knoxville’s National Conservation Exposition.

When developers threatened to raze Blount Mansion in 1925, Mary Boyce wrote her personal check for $100 to secure the option for the DAR She became the fi rst president of the Blount Mansion Associa-tion and means were found to save the man-sion. An ardent suffragist, Temple became president of the Knox County chapter of the League of Women Voters in the 1920s.

In 1922, Mary Boyce moved to 623 Hill Ave. and lived there until her death.

Originally occupied by the Chambliss family, the house had several owners and underwent many structural changes after her death and was scheduled for demoli-tion. Fortunately, Brian Pittman, a local architect, purchased it in 2006 and has ex-pended much effort in its authentic resto-ration. The two-story house includes a Co-lonial Revival-style porch, bay windows in the parlor and master bedroom and origi-nal exterior brick and iron. The interior fea-tures elegant woodwork, including an oak staircase and two impressive pocket doors.

A lifelong member of Second Presbyte-rian Church, Mary Boyce Temple passed away on May 16, 1929, leaving a lasting legacy as a welfare worker, preservation ac-tivist, philanthropist, historian and author. Her services were conducted by Dr. Clifford Barbour, and she was interred with her par-ents in Old Gray Cemetery.

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Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 3:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24.Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com or myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

Tennessee Shines: Michaela Anne and poet Susan O’Dell Underwood, 7 p.m., Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Tickets: $10, free for students with valid ID and children ages 14 and under. Info/tickets: WDVX.com.

TUESDAY, JAN. 20Computer Workshops: Excel 2007, 2 p.m.,

East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215- 8700.

Healthy Cooking Demonstration, 10-11 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

TUESDAYS, JAN. 20-FEB. 24Pilates class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., community room

in Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Simon Bradbury. Cost: $50. Info/to register beginning Jan. 12: www.townoffarragut.org/register or 218-3375.

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

Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JAN. 22-23Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Series: Tchai-

kovsky’s “Symphony No. 4” performed by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets start at $15. Info/tickets: 291-3310 or www.knoxvillesymphony.com.

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

classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24.Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com or myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

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. 24“La Femme Bohème,” an all-female cast of Puc-

cini’s opera “La Bohème,” 7:30 p.m., NV nightclub, 125 E Jackson Ave. Presented by the Marble City Opera. Admission: adults, $20; students, $10. Tickets: knoxtix.com or at the door.

The Dismembered Tennesseans in concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Becca Tedesco, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

West Knox Preschool and Activities Fair, 9:30-11:30 a.m., First Baptist Concord, 11704 Kingston Pike. Hosted by MOMs Club of Farragut. Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/317471285105701/.

MONDAY, JAN. 26Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes,

3:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby classroom, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24.Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com or myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

Tennessee Shines: The Hello Strangers, 7 p.m., Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Tickets: $10, free for students with valid ID and children ages 14 and under. Info/tickets: WDVX.com.

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 jibrown@king.edu.

Opening preview of new exhibits: “LIFT: Con-temporary Printmaking in the Third Dimension” and “Contemporary Focus 2015,” 5:30-7:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Free. Both exhibits run Jan. 30-April 19. Info: http://www.knoxart.org/.

FRIDAY, JAN. 30Alive After Five concert: Soul Connection, 6-8:30

p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

SATURDAY, JAN. 31Beginning Genealogy, 1-4 p.m., East Tennes-

see History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Instructor: Ann Blomquist, Med. Preregistration required. Info/to regis-ter beginning Jan. 20: 215-8809.

“La Femme Bohème,” an all-female cast of Puc-cini’s opera “La Bohème,” 7:30 p.m., NV nightclub, 125 E Jackson Ave. Presented by the Marble City Opera. Admission: adults, $20; students, $10. Tickets: knoxtix.com or at the door.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Laurie Fisher, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Sean McCol-lough, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

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SatisfiEDANOTHER REASON PEOPLE PREFER PARKWEST

Parkwest Emergency Department has received top decile

ratings in patient satisfaction for more than a decade.

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When should I go to the emergency department?According to the latest govern-

ment statistics, approximately 136 million people are treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) ev-ery year. These patients are treated for a wide variety of medical condi-tions.

How do you decide when a medical condition rises to the level of an emergency? The Ameri-can College of Emergency Physi-cians (ACEP) offers the following list of warning signs that indicate when something may be a medical emergency:

■ Diffi culty breathing, shortness of breath

■ Chest or upper abdominal pain or pressure

■ Fainting, sudden dizziness, weakness

■ Changes in vision ■ Confusion or changes in men-

tal status ■ Any sudden or severe pain ■ Uncontrolled bleeding ■ Severe or persistent vomiting

or diarrhea ■ Coughing or vomiting blood ■ Suicidal feelings ■ Diffi culty speaking ■ Shortness of breath ■ Unusual abdominal pain

“If you think you or a loved one might be experiencing a medi-cal emergency, come to the ED to have a doctor examine you,” says Parkwest Emergency Department Medical Director Brian Braxton, MD. “If you think the condition is life-threatening or the person’s con-dition will worsen on the way to the hospital, you need to call 911 so the local Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provider can come to you.”

The Parkwest Emergency De-partment sees patients based on the severity of their illnesses or inju-ries, not fi rst-come, fi rst-served. To get the best care as quickly as pos-sible, note the following advice:

■ Bring a list of medications and allergies. What’s the name of the medication you are taking? How often do you take it and for how long? A list of allergies is important, especially if you have many. Be sure to include medications, foods, in-sects or any other product that may cause an allergic reaction. Parkwest can provide wallet-sized medication info cards free of charge if you’d like one. To get a medication info card, ask anyone in the ED or contact Parkwest Marketing at 373-1000.

■ Know your immuniza-

tions. These immunizations main-ly include Tetanus, Flu and Hepati-tis B for adults.

■ Remain calm. It is diffi cult to remain composed if you’ve beenbadly injured, but a calm attitudecan help improve communicationwith the doctors and nurses who are caring for you.

■ If you think you or a loved one is experiencing a cardiac emergency, call 911. EMS per-sonnel and ambulances are pre-pared to handle these types of emergencies and can start some treatment modalities while en routeto Parkwest. Plus, we’ll know you’recoming and can triage you faster than if you come on your own.

“Communication is importantwhen you arrive at an emergency department,” says Braxton. “As an ED physician, I want to know as much about the patient as I canas quickly as I can, so the proper treatment can begin. There can be long waits in all EDs as doctorsand nurses tend to those with the most severe conditions fi rst. Tell us if your level of pain increases or if there is any change in your condi-tion while you’re waiting so we may better meet your needs.”

Cold or ? How can you tell?When you wake up sneezing,

coughing, and have that achy, fever-ish, can’t-move-a-muscle feeling, how do you know whether you have a cold or the fl u? While it can be hard to tell, it’s important to know the dif-ference between the symptoms. A cold is a milder respiratory illness that can make you feel badly for a few days, while the fl u can make you feel very sick for a few days to weeks. The fl u can also result in serious health problems such as pneumonia which may require hospitalization.

What are common cold symptoms?

Cold symptoms usually begin with a sore throat, which usually goes away after a day or two. Nasal symptoms, like a runny nose or congestion, fol-low with a cough by the fourth and fi fth days. Fever is not typical in adults. Cold symptoms may cause wa-tery nasal secretions for the fi rst few days. Later, these secretions may be-come thicker and darker. Dark mucus is natural and does not always mean you have developed a bacterial infec-tion.

When do I call the doctor?

If you already have f lu or cold symptoms, call your doctor if you also have any of the following:

■ Persistent fever: A fever lasting more than three days can be a sign of a bacterial infection that should be treated.

■ Painful swallowing: Al-though a sore throat from a cold or f lu can cause mild discomfort, severe pain could mean strep throat, which requires treatment by a doctor.

■ Persistent coughing: When a cough doesn’t go away af-ter two or three weeks, it could be bronchitis, which may need an an-

tibiotic. Asthma is another causeof persistent coughing.

■ Persistent congestionand headaches: When colds andallergies cause congestion andblockage of sinus passages, theycan lead to a sinus infection. Ifyou have pain around the eyes andface with thick nasal discharge af-ter a week, you may have a sinusinfection and possibly need anantibiotic. Most sinus infections,however, do not need an antibi-otic.

In some cases, you may needemergency medical attentionright away. In adults, signs of acrisis include:

■ Severe chest pain ■ Severe headache

■ Shortness ofbreath

■ Dizziness ■ Confusion ■ Persistent vomit-

ing

Can I prevent fl u or cold symptoms?

Just like cold vi-ruses, f lu virusesenter your bodythrough the mucousmembranes of thenose, eyes or mouth.Every time you touchyour hand to oneof these areas, youcould be infectingyourself with a virus.It is essential to keephands germ-free withfrequent washing toprevent both f lu andcold symptoms. Fluvaccinations can beobtained throughyour family doctor orat several area walk-in clinics.

How long do cold symptoms last?

Cold symptoms usually last for about a week. During the fi rst three days that you have cold symptoms, you are contagious and can pass the cold to others, so stay home and get some rest. If your symptoms do not improve after a week, you may have a bacterial infection and could need antibiotics.

What are common fl u symptoms?

Flu symptoms are usually more severe than cold symptoms and come on more quickly. Symptoms of fl u include sore throat, fever, headache, mus-cle aches and sore-ness, congestion, and cough. Some types of fl u are also associated with vomiting and di-arrhea.

How long do fl u symptoms last?

Most fl u symptoms gradually improve in two to fi ve days, but it’s not uncommon to feel run down for a week or more. A com-mon complication of the fl u is pneumonia, particularly in the young, elderly or peo-ple with lung or heart problems. If you notice shortness of breath, let your doctor know. An-other common sign of

pneumonia is fever that comes back after having been gone for a day or two.

Is it fl u or cold symptoms?

“Take your temperature,” says Braxton. “Flu symptoms often mim-ic cold symptoms, but a cold rarely causes a fever above 101 degrees. With the fl u, you will probably have a fever initially and you will feel miserable. Body and muscle aches are also more common with the fl u.”

Symptoms Cold FluFever Sometimes, usually mild Usual; higher (100-102 F; occasion-

ally higher); lasts three to four days

Headache Occasionally Common

General Aches Pains

Slight Usual; often severe

Fatigue, Weakness Sometimes Usual; can last two to three weeks

Extreme Exhaustion Never Usual; at the beginning of the illness

Stuffy Nose Common Sometimes

Sneezing Usual Sometimes

Sore Throat Common Sometimes

Chest Discomfort, Cough

Mild to moderate; hacking cough

Common; can become severe

Complications Sinus congestion; middle ear infection

Sinusitis, bronchitis, ear infection, pneumonia; can be life-threatening

Prevention Wash hands often; avoid close contact with anyone with a cold

Wash hands often; avoid close con-tact with anyone who has fl u symp-toms; get the annual fl u vaccine

Treatment Decongestants; pain reliev-er/fever reducer medicines

Decongestants, pain relievers or fever reducers are available over the coun-ter; prescription antiviral drugs for fl u may be given in some cases.

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