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By Theresa EdwardsWith three patients, one heart and one

hour to decide. … Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?

The WordPlayers will present “The God Committee” by Mark St. Germain 7:30 p.m. March 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, and 2:30 p.m. March 10 and 17 at Middlebrook Christian Minis-tries, 1540 Robinson Road.

This provocative drama brings an aware-

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Medicine, money and morality clash when the Transplant Selection Committee of St. Patrick’s Hospital has minutes to de-cide which of three patients will get a second chance at life.

During this thrilling race against theclock, this play will keep you on the edge ofyour seat as you question what your own de-cision would be.

This drama is recommended for ages 15 andolder. Tickets are $8 to $12 at the door (cash orcheck) or online at www.wordplayers.org. Thurs-day, March 14, is “pay what you can night.”

A discussion will follow the matinee on Sun-day, March 10.

The WordPlayers will present “The God Committee” with performers (front) Joe Jaynes as Dr. Alex Gorman, Jeni Lamm as Dr. Ann Ross, Lizzie Wouters as Dr.Kierra Banks; (back) Dorothy Giles as Nurse Nella Larkin and Matthew Lloyd as Dr. Jack Klee. Photo by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

Cultural, legal changes aff ect clerks’ bottom lineBy Betty Bean

County Finance Director Chris Caldwell’s report on the court clerks’ collections sounded pretty grim when he gave his financial update at last week’s County Commission chair’s lun-cheon. The numbers are down from last year.

Criminal, Criminal Sessions and 4th Circuit Court Clerk Joy McCroskey’s collections are run-ning $140,000 behind last year’s figures.

Circuit, Civil Sessions and Ju-venile Court Clerk Cathy Quist’s collections are $69,000 behind last year.

On the surface, Clerk and Master of Chancery and Probate Court Howard Hogan’s collec-tions seem to be a bright spot, since they are running about $4,000 ahead of last year, but he says that number is decep-tive, because although collection numbers are up, case filings are down, giving him cause for con-cern about the future.

Jokingly, Caldwell breaks it down to this: “Judges say clerks aren’t collecting. Clerks say judg-es are too quick to forgive (court costs). We take that into account as we do the budget.”

Behind the numbers, however, are existing problems and brew-ing societal and cultural changes that are affecting the fee offices’ bottom lines.

While Chancery Court has a reliable revenue source from handling county tax sales, other traditional sources are drying up. Many divorces that used to be heard in 4th Circuit Court are now going to Chancery Court in-stead (more on that later), but the divorce filings are down overall, probably because of the econo-my.

“Fewer divorces are being filed because people can’t afford them,” Hogan said.

Additionally, while the trend away from taking disputes to tri-al in favor of mediation may ease the financial toll on citizens, it has taken a toll on Chancery Court collections.

Much of the child support collection that used to be done in Chancery Court is now being handled at the state level, creat-ing another loss of fees.

And the long-term judicial commitments that used to bring in thousands of dollars in fees annually vanished with the 2012 closing of Lakeshore Mental Health Institute.

“There’s just not as much trial work, which means there’s not as much filing to generate fees to clerks. From a clerk’s perspec-tive, the more work involved in a case, the higher the court costs. No filings means no counter-claims, no hearings, no subpoe-nas or notices, so fees and com-

missions to the clerks tend to be lower,” Hogan said. “Since my appointment, we have lost four to five positions because of de-creasing workload.”

The financial stress isn’t likely to ease anytime soon – Hogan is keeping an eye on a new workers’ compensation bill that will take those cases out of local courts entirely.

Cathy Quist, who is also an attorney, says the effects of tort reform (another Haslam admin-istration priority) have affected her bottom line.

“We are seeing less of the cases that typically generate the most billing because of mediation and arbitration,” she said. “And while our collection rates range between 95 percent and the high 80s, cases aren’t being filed that generate intermediate case bill-ing. A large number of cases are filed and closed the same day. In a lot of cases, settlements are an-nounced the day they are filed. The culture has changed in the civil courts.”

When the recession hit, Quist’s office saw a 45 percent increase in civil sessions court filings, largely due to credit card companies going after delin-quent accounts. Now, that boom-let is receding.

Filings in civil sessions court increased dramatically after the amount that could be collected in

“small claims” cases increased. This has had the effect of shrink-ing the circuit court docket be-cause plaintiffs can represent themselves in sessions court, where cases tend to generate less paperwork and get resolved much quicker, Quist said. That’s good for the plaintiff, not so good for the clerk’s numbers.

Quist’s office, which used to process short-term mental health commitments, has also been negatively impacted by Lakeshore’s closing.

“We had 34,496 mental health filings in 2011. Last year, Lake-shore closed, and we lost all of them,” she said.

And she, too, is dreading the impact of the governor’s workers’ comp bill.

“As of Jan. 1, 2014, those law-suits will be completely admin-istrative and will be handled by workers’ comp judges,” she said.

Joy McCroskey is in the deep-est hole of the three clerks, but says her office will be getting some help under a new law that has put some teeth into enforce-ment of delinquent collections.

“If the costs aren’t paid in one year, the state can revoke the of-fender’s drivers license. We don’t have a choice,” she said, ad ding that the new law will have no ef-

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‘The God Committee’ by the WordPlayers

HVA WinterGuard“Congratulations are in or-

der to the Hardin Valley Acad-emy WinterGuard for their two outstanding performances at the Winter Guard Internation-al Nashville Regional. Their successful preliminary perfor-mance earned them a spot in the regional fi nals contest for the fi rst time in school history,” said band leader Alex Rector.

➤ See report on A-8

Coff ee BreakIt’s Thursday, and Sage Mor-

gan, director of operations for Random Acts of Flowers (RAF), has the sniffl es. That’s because it’s arranging day, and Sage is allergic to

fl owers. Fortunately for the Knoxville community, she puts up with the discomfort. She was the fi rst employee of the nonprofi t, which was founded in 2008 by Larsen Jay.

In the early days, RAF delivered approximately 15 bouquets each week. Now that the community has caught on to the concept, the number has risen to 600.

➤ See story on page A-2

Lee speaks on courage, cabbage

Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Sharon Lee did not come to Down-town Rotary to talk about the law. She came instead to talk about courage, common bonds and cabbage.

Lee’s presentation included the story of her father, Charles Lee, and of James Hugh Ross, Harold Leibowitz, David Goldin and Bruce Foster.

➤ See story on page A-13

Point of order!Sandra Clark never saw it

coming. Knox County Commis-sion shot down Dave Wright’s proposals for an elected school superintendent and for parti-san school board elections.

Also, the commission fi nally adopted billboard reform, pro-hibiting new digital boards. It was a signal win for Scenic Knoxville and Richard Briggs.

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It’s Thursday, and Sage Morgan, director of opera-tions for Random Acts of Flowers (RAF), has the sniffl es. That’s because it’s arranging day, and Sage is allergic to fl owers. Fortunately for the Knoxville community, she puts up with the discomfort. She was the fi rst employee of the nonprofi t, which was founded in 2008 by Larsen Jay.

In the early days, RAF delivered approximately 15 bou-quets each week. Now that the community has caught on to the concept, the number has risen to 600.

After memorial services, weddings and other func-tions, used fl owers are donated to RAF. Volunteers pick up the arrangements, which are “deconstructed” at the organization’s East Knox headquarters. Then new ar-rangements are created and delivered. On Tuesdays, fl owers go to hospital patients who need extra encourage-ment. On Thursdays, deliveries are made to smaller fa-cilities, like nursing homes, so each resident can receive an arrangement.

Sage moved to Knoxville in 1997 to attend UT, and has stuck around in spite of some wanderlust. She was RAF’s sole employee in the early days, and took up hiking in order to decompress. But she’s even found a way to be generous through her hobby. She’d like to become a “trail angel” by providing food and other necessities to Appala-chian Trail hikers.

“I love sharing,” she says. “We live in a country with a lot of excess. We should share that excess.”

What are you guilty of?I am guilty of consuming large quantities of chocolate!

What is your favorite material possession?My favorite material possession is my backcountry

pack. With it strapped to my back I’ve been able to enjoy quality time in the beautiful mountains that surround us here in East Tennessee.

What are you reading currently?I have just restarted the Wheel of Time series of

which the fi nal (No. 14) has just been released. My father introduced me to fantasy novels with this great series and I am excited to read it all the way through!

What was your most embarrassing moment? Hmmm, I’m not sure I want to share my most embar-

rassing moment but … I once forgot my hiking boots for a weekend backpack trip and realized it when my carpool was over an hour outside of Knoxville!

What are the top three things on your bucket list? I’d like to spend two full weeks in the backcountry.

I’d like to join the Peace Corps and spend two years in a foreign country helping to make positive change. I’d like to attend culinary school in a foreign country.

What is one word others often use to describe you?Crunchy … I make my own cleaning products, I prefer

ayurvedic medicine, and I grow food in my backyard.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I hope to never stop growing and becoming a more responsible steward of our environment, but I would not change a single thing about myself. I am perfect just the way I am!

What is your passion? I am passionate about being a vessel of positive

change in our community and the world at large. This passion takes many forms but I am especially passionate about fulfi lling the mission of Random Acts of Flowers. Having been with this grassroots charity from the very beginning, I have seen how a simple idea can grow to bring a community together.

With whom, living or dead, would you most like to have a long lunch?

I would like to have a long lunch with Pierre Ferrari, President and CEO of Heifer, International. I would take the opportunity to share my passion for his mission, especially the Seeds of Change project that focuses on Appalachian poverty and malnourishment. Perhaps lunch would be a foot in the door to my dream job!

I still can’t quite get the hang of …  … living the simple life. I traveled in Vietnam a few

years ago and I was really struck with the natives’ ability

to live in small spaces, conserve water/electricity/goods, and be respectful of their environment all while living life to the fullest. In the U.S., it is so easy to live exces-sively!

What is the best present you ever received in a box?

Chocolate, of course!

What is the best advice your moth-er ever gave you?

A few years ago my mom told me to get a hobby. That advice compelled me to join the Great Smokies Hiking and Adventure Group (GSHAG). Through GSHAG I have fi nally begun to take advan-tage of the beautiful area in which I live.

What is your social media of choice? I love Facebook! It helps me to keep in touch with

people I have met from all around the world and right here at home.

What is the worst job you have ever had?I was once a fi eld representative for a tobacco com-

pany. It was my job to give out free cigarettes. I am not proud of my part in perpetrating this horrid habit!

What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?I grew up without television so I have no memories

of Saturday morning cartoons. I have not picked up the habit as an adult.

What irritates you?I am irritated by parents who allow time constraints

to come before teaching their children how to eat a healthy diet rather than fast food. The habits our parents help us form as children follow us into adulthood. I have a friend who had a horrid diet but when she became a mom she went the extra mile to make sure she started her children down a healthier path than her own. I have a huge amount of respect for that type of parenting!

What’s one place that everyone should visit?The Bistro at the Bijou Theatre. Partially because of

the great food and laid-back atmosphere, and partially because Martha is a small-business owner who isn’t afraid to stand up for what she believes.

What is your greatest fear? My greatest fear is not having the opportunity to

fulfi ll my bucket list.

If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be? I would love to pack up my life and spend a year trav-

eling and working odd-jobs around the globe. I’d have to do it impulsively because my analytical brain can’t seem to make it a worthy goal!

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Artist Gerald Vaughn shows a sculpture to Beth Watkins, Bart Watkins and Liz Bobrecht at

Liz-Beth Gallery during its “Champagne and Sugar Artist Reception.” Photo submitted

Mayor Rogero visits Karns

KARNS NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners

meets at 7:15 p.m. each fi rst Tuesday at Peace

Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info:

www.cwkch.com/.

■ Greater Karns Business Association meets

at noon each second Thursday at the Karns

Community Club building at 7708 Oak Ridge

Highway. Info: Alisa Pruett, 603-4273, or www.

karnsbusiness.com/.

■ Karns Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each fi rst

Tuesday at Karns Middle School library. Info:

Lorraine Coff ey, 660-3677.

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero speaks to the 6th District of

the Democratic Party. To her left are Frank Schingle, Elizabeth

Vacanti and Dave Marsden. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

By Theresa EdwardsMadeline Rogero loves

being mayor. Speaking in Karns last week, she thanked attendees at the 6th District Democratic Club for “helping me get elected.”

She said being mayor is a “great job” in part because of her strong leadership team: Terry Alexander, ex-ecutive assistant; William Lyons, chief policy offi cer and deputy to the mayor; Eddie Mannis, chief oper-ating offi cer and deputy to the mayor; Angela Starke, senior director of communi-cations; and Thomas Strick-land Jr., community rela-tions director and special assistant to the mayor.

Rogero spoke of joint ef-forts with UT to revitalize the area around the Cum-berland Avenue Strip.

Tech group moves to Hardin Valley

The East Tennessee Chap-ter of the Society for Tech-nical Communication has moved its meetings to King University at Hardin Valley. The group meets 6-8 p.m., usually on the third Thurs-day of each month. Visitors are welcome.

Technical communica-tors include technical writ-ers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illus-trators, instructional design-ers, academics, information architects, visual designers, web designers and develop-ers, translators and anyone else who makes technical in-formation available to those who need it.

The membership stretches from Nashville to Chattanoo-

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Cultural, legal From page A-1

fect on judges granting in-digent status to defendants who cannot pay their court costs.

She has another ongoing revenue drain in 4th Circuit collection. This is Judge Bill Swann’s court, where 2,556 orders of protection were fi led last year, the vast majority by indigents.

“Ninety percent of them don’t pay,” McCroskey said.

“My staff does everything possible to collect. There are also fewer and fewer law-yers willing to fi le divorces there because Judge Swann makes them go to more me-diation and parenting class-es than the law requires, so they go to Chancery Court where (their clients) don’t have to spend that extra money for classes.”

Finally, she says the big-

gest problem she faces in collections is lack of staff.

“I need more employees. I have 80 – I did have 101, so I’m down to the mini-mum. Last year I didn’t have enough people to do the work. We don’t ask Knox County for money. The fees that we collect pay our salaries and benefits. The county gives us an op-erating allowance.”

ga to Johnson City, so Knox-ville is a central meeting location. Still, it is diffi cult for some people to attend on a weeknight, so the group is experimenting with webcast-ing. This will enable people to view and participate in meet-ings remotely.

Vice president Michael Fawley outlines a new meet-ing format, beginning with tips for technical writers, fol-lowed by a “peek into one day of a technical writer’s life” featuring a different profes-sional each month. After a food and refreshment break, the guest speaker will give a presentation, concluding with a question and answer discussion.

February’s speaker was Rose Raney, a proposal manager at Information In-ternational Associates. She spoke on “crunch time, how to thrive and survive in the trenches.” She offered guidelines on ways to get

documents out accurately and on time. She discussed having a deadline of four hours, one day or two days for a 50-page document.

Fred O’Hara will discuss plagiarism on March 21. He travels all over the world giving presentations and has written for more than 250 publications.

“Our goal is for the meet-ings to be educational and informative, so when people leave they feel they really spent their time wisely, that it was valuable,” said Fawley, adding, “it is a fun atmo-sphere.”

Karns Lions pancake breakfast

The Karns Lions Club will host a pancake break-fast 8-10 a.m. Saturday, March 23, at the Texas Roadhouse, 11001 Turkey Drive. Tickets are $5 and all proceeds will benefi t the Karns Lions Club.

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She sat in the second row, sporting a League of Wom-en Voters observer badge, taking notes as the discus-sion of the facility recently renamed a jail diversion center grew more heated.

Betty Bean

Safety Center proposal gets

‘not in our neighborhood’ response

The speakers – County Commissioner Amy Bro-yles, Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones, Helen Ross McNabb Center CEO Andy Black and District Attorney General Randy Nichols – still call it a safety center, as they have been doing since it was pro-posed in 2008, stressing the need for a way to chan-nel the mentally ill toward treatment instead of jail.

Jones said the $1 million spent on building the safety center is a fraction of the $16 to $20 million it will cost to build a new pod at the chronically-overcrowded county jail. He also said that inmates drawing TennCare and SSI benefi ts see those revoked when they are ar-rested, thus driving them deeper into homelessness.

Treatment at the safety center, which will have 16 critical care service beds, 10

medically monitored de-tox beds and 10-12 sobering sta-tions and a staff of 27, won’t jeopardize SSI or TennCare benefi ts, Jones said.

Whatever it’s called, the most vocal members of the audience of 60-something in the Knox County Health Department auditorium last Tuesday made it clear that they don’t want it in North Knoxville, which they say already has enough so-cial service organizations, homeless facilities and half-way houses. There was some disagreement.

The speakers said the proposed location adjacent to the Helen Ross McNabb Center at 205 W. Springdale Avenue in an industrial zone across Central Avenue from the Oakwood Lincoln Park neighborhood isn’t written in stone.

Broyles pushed back against the suggestion that it should be placed on the site of the defunct Lake-shore Mental Health Insti-tute, saying that she’d ex-plored that idea, and it went nowhere.

Broyles also noted that Helen Ross McNabb, which already provides mental health services at the Knox County Jail, was the only mental health care provider to respond to the county’s request for proposals for a

safety center in 2008. She said she is open to look-ing at other locations and is interested in talking to city offi cials about placing it next to the Knoxville Police Department headquarters on Howard Baker Jr. Av-enue. A suggestion to build it downtown on the State Street property the county acquired in the late ’90s for a justice center got a tepid reception.

Toward the end of the meeting, the LWV observer took off her badge and said she wanted to talk about a close relative who is men-tally ill and was jailed, sub-sequently convicted and labeled a sex offender on a charge of indecent exposure for doing yoga naked on his front porch.

“If a safety center had been available, he might have been diverted to men-tal health treatment instead of the criminal justice sys-tem,” she said. “He subse-quently cycled in and out of jail and Lakeshore, never accepting his diagnosis. He has not had a good outcome and has a felony on his re-cord now (from defending himself from assault with a skateboard and skipping bail during the trial). He not only has poor insight into his situation, but daunting hurdles to overcome just

to get housing and employ-ment, so that is my personal reason for supporting the safety center and hoping that an acceptable location will be found.”

He now has two con-victions and is living in a “Three Strikes and You’re Out” state where he is in jeopardy of drawing a life sentence if he gets into trou-ble again for being mentally ill, she said.

Jones, Nichols, Broyles and Black attempted to re-assure their critics that the safety center would not be dumping mentally ill of-fenders onto the streets of their neighborhood – some-thing that Broyles said is al-ready happening when po-lice drop off drunks at the Tennova emergency room.

Some remained uncon-vinced:

“Don’t put anything else in my zip code, please. I’m tired of writing letters …. Please don’t put anything else on us,” one woman said.

“I’m asking you to trust me,” said Broyles, who lives near the proposed site. “I’m not advocating anything detrimental to our area.”

“Some of us do agree and trust you and support you,” said another audience mem-ber, drawing a sprinkling of applause just before the meeting ended.

It’s hard to understand the push in Nashville to make Knox County school board elections partisan. Shouldn’t this be a refer-endum for Knox voters to decide as opposed to the state Legislature imposing it upon us?

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What’s next? Partisan city elections?

Mayor Rogero opposes it, in response to an inquiry. If one is unhappy with the school board, it is hard to see how making the elec-tions partisan improves it. The board might become 7-2 or 6-3 Republican, but would that change its cur-rent policies?

The next step in this pro-gression would be to make the Knoxville and Farragut city elections partisan. Will our state legislators also impose that upon the voters of Farragut and Knoxville?

■ Mary Pat Tyree, for-mer spouse of mayor Randy Tyree, has been living in Nashville for several years but is considering returning to Knoxville. She indicated she may resume her real estate practice in Knoxville.

■ County mayor Burchett has been tire-lessly advocating tax relief through a reduced sales tax levy on Chapman High-way merchants to assist in reducing the pain they are suffering from the long-closed Henley Street Bridge. Burchett has gotten the lion’s share of atten-tion on this fi ght for city residents.

When asked, city spokes-person Jesse Mayshark assured me Mayor Rog-ero does support Burchett’s fi ght for her neighbors in South Knoxville, but he was unable to state whether this strong Rogero

support would extend to writing, calling or visiting state lawmakers or City Council adopting a resolu-tion. (County Commission adopted such a resolution on Feb. 25.)

Rogero has not been as visible on this issue as Burchett.

■ Governor Haslam has chosen the fi rst woman in Knox County history to be the new Circuit Court Judge to replace Wheeler Rosenbalm who resigned in December 2012. She is Deborah Stevens with the fi rm of Lewis, King, Krieg and Waldrop where she had extensive management and law practice experience.

Married with a daugh-ter, Katie, she will face the voters in the Republican primary in May 2014 and all voters in the August county election in 2014 when she seeks a full 8-year term. She is expected to take her oath this week, at a ceremonial swearing-in with the governor present and to which the public will be invited will occur later.

■ Former Knoxville Police Chief Phil Keith who lives in Fountain City has been awarded the inau-gural Frederick Douglass Family Foundation Human Rights Award. It was given to Keith last month for his work as Knoxville’s Police Chief (he served over 16 years) as well as involve-ment over the past nine years with Amber Alert, which impacts missing and exploited children.

■ Vice mayor Nick Pavlis will hold the fi rst fundraiser of the fi ve council members seeking a second and fi nal term on the council on March 21 at the Outdoor Center.

Pavlis is the only mem-ber who has previously served on council.

He represents South Knoxville. City primary elections are seven months off with the general election following in November.

Point of order!

■ You know it’s spring when

Knox County schools have

three or four events each

night. In addition to basket-

ball tournaments, last Thurs-

day brought the high school

choral concert, the PTA’s big

bash and a parent meeting at

Vine Middle.

■ School board this week:

workshop at 5 p.m. Monday

and monthly meeting at 5

p.m. Wednesday. Reckon

they’ll talk about security?

■ Betty Bean writes this week

about dwindling collections

in three local clerks’ offi ces.

And the prospects look slim

going forward. Apparently

a stealth bill introduced by

Sen. Stacey Campfi eld and

Rep. Roger Kane would take

the fees away from the clerks

entirely and hand them over

to the county mayor.

■ Cathy Quist, Joy McCroskey

and Howard Hogan just

think they’ve got problems!

Sandra Clark

I never saw it coming.Commissioner Mike

Ham mond sidestepped the rush to return Knox County to the 1950s with quick mo-tions to table Commissioner Dave Wright’s efforts to re-quire partisan elections for school board and superin-tendent.

It’s not amazing that Wright offered the resolu-tions, and it’s not a surprise that Hammond moved to table them.

What is amazing is that Hammond prevailed – twice – on votes of 5-4 and 10-1.

The election of the school superintendent is an issue that’s simmered since the appointive process was es-tablished as part of then Gov. Ned McWherter’s edu-cation reforms in the early 1990s.

Just a few weeks ago, the Knox County Republican Party voted to support the election of the school super-intendent upon the urging of Mayor Tim Burchett.

Sen. Frank Niceley intro-ducted legislation to enable such elections, and Wright was trying to get County

Commission on record in support.

Of course, no one actu-ally voted “against” electing a superintendent. Commis-sioners simply voted to put the resolution on the table where it may lie forever.

The partisan school board proposal felt odd. Commissioner Sam McKen-zie said it seemed “rushed, spurious, off the cuff.”

Wright said it’s an issue that “arises in the 8th Dis-trict every spring,” some-what like green onions, I suppose.

Voting with Wright were Jeff Ownby, R. Larry Smith, Tony Norman and Richard Briggs.

Voting to table were Hammond, McKenzie, Amy Broyles, Brad Anders, Ed Shouse and Mike Brown.

Although a motion to table is nondebatable, the com-

missioners debated both of Hammond’s for more than an hour. Larry Smith even tried to offer a friendly amend-ment.

In the end, most com-missioners were averse to meddling in state legislative business. And that’s a re-freshing change we can all support.

It’s hard to know what legislators would ac-complish by making school board races partisan. Most observers believe the cur-rent board has a 6-3 Re-publican majority. There’s no guarantee a 9-0 GOP majority would vote differ-ently.

School security: The debate has heated to the point that school security could be compromised by the public talks of defi cien-cies and fi nger-pointing.

Tony Norman told com-missioners there is “out-rage” over misleading state-ments and the way school security is being handled.

Amy Broyles said it’s “ridiculous” to imply that Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre, who has two children in Knox County

Schools, doesn’t care about security.

“I’m getting really irate over individuals who are trying to score political points over an issue as im-portant as our children’s safety.”

Brad Anders, a city police offi cer, said security can-not be open. “This has been handled badly from day one, and now everyone is defen-sive. Let the process work. Progress is being made.”

Larry Smith predicted the school system will “get a windfall” of funding for enhanced security. “I’m be-hind you,” he told McIntyre, adding that principals are telling him they need more cameras.

Billboards: Richard Briggs fi nally passed a wa-tered-down version of bill-board reform – probably the best he could get – on a 7-4 vote.

The resolution will pro-hibit new digital (“blinky”) billboards in Knox County and prohibit the conversion of existing boards to digital.

Voting no were Smith, Ownby, Wright and Anders.

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Last Tuesday I took a morning stroll around the grounds between rain show-ers, just to get a little outdoor air, before the rest of what was shaping up to be an in-door-type day.

My Grandmother Collier’s double jonquils were bloom-ing, the old cool-weather bluegrass was bright green and the birds were singing.

And they were really sing-ing – as if they thought it was already spring (still offi cially 3 weeks away).

The cardinals and the tufted titmice led the chorus, with support from the fi eld and song sparrows, the east-ern towhees and the Carolina wrens.

Those are all guys who have hung in there with us through the whole drea-ry winter, along with the mockingbird and the brown thrasher, the blue jays and the robins.

This time of the year, with all that morning chorus, it’s hard to believe that, in just six weeks from now, it will all more than double! With the arrival of the spring mi-grants, the songs will mul-tiply so that some mornings it will be hard to sort them all out. Swifts and swallows, vireos and gnatcatchers, cat-birds and wood thrushes, cuckoos and nighthawks, hummingbirds and wood warblers are coming back – species that through the eons have developed a lifestyle that many of us would envy –they live in a world where it is always summer.

Actually, they live here in our environs less than half the year. We are loathe to admit it, but they are really South American birds that have found great success in raising their young by com-ing north for a few months each year. Here, they are able to raise their babies on the high-protein diet available to them in the form of the abundance of insect life that explodes around us every spring – gnats and worms, bugs and caterpillars.

Animal migrations have fascinated and mystifi ed peo-ple through the ages. Birds aren’t the only animals that do it – great herds of animals migrate across the plains of Africa; herds of caribou mi-grate in the vast far north of our continent. Monarch but-terfl ies migrate from as far as Canada to a site in Mexico, to a place where not a single one of them has ever been before. But for sheer huge numbers (think billions), and sheer unimaginable distances, of-ten thousands of miles a year, nothing in the natural world matches the spectacle of the spring and fall fl ights of the birds.

These comings and goings are part of the local people’s lives; consider the storks re-turning over the centuries to the chimneys of Europe. The cliff swallows of San Juan Capistrano, having wintered 6,000 miles to the south in Argentina, have traditionally returned to the Mission each spring on St. Joseph’s day, March 19. And then there are the turkey vultures of Hinck-ley, Ohio, faithfully return-ing each year on March 15, in time for their big Buzzard Day Festival.

The seasonal disappear-ance of the birds mystifi ed the ancients and not-so-ancient folks who were ob-servant and curious about such things. All those fl ocks of blackbirds and swallows, even the small songbirds – where did they go? There were theories that the swal-lows buried themselves in the mud of ponds to sleep the winter away, and that hum-mingbirds fl ew away south riding on the backs of the

MigrationNew gym for KCS

Knoxville Christian School is again adding to its campus and got the go-ahead from Farragut Municipal Planning Commission on Feb. 21. The school will add a gymnasium between the high school and the parking lot.

The most recent addition was a small storage building and batting cage, bullpen and dugout for the baseball fi eld.

Orange barrel alertThe Farragut Municipal Planning Commission

(FMPC) agreed to extensions on letters of credit for Bran-dywine at Turkey Creek for improvements to the Fretz Road and North Campbell Station Road intersection. The developer, Brandywine at Turkey Creek LLC/Bruce Mat-zel, has lagged behind on making the improvements and two separate letters of credit are due to expire in April and May for a total of $205,000.

Community Development Director Ruth Hawk said the town’s concern is that if work doesn’t begin soon, the proj-ect cost could exceed the letters of credit. She said the de-veloper plans to start in the next couple of weeks, weather permitting. If that doesn’t happen, commissioners have approved increasing the total amount to $230,000 or cashing in on some of that credit.

Mark Shipley, town development coordinator, gave FMPC an overview of development in 2012 at the group’s recent meeting. Despite the national trend, Farragut has fared pretty well, he said. Single family detached home building permits were almost double from 2011 to 93, the highest since 2007. The only three rezonings were for commercial property. Subdivision rezonings were down, but could pick up as previously platted lots see develop-ment. There were no new concept plans presented in 2012, not a surprise considering the shaky economy, he said.

Red light citations lag Farragut traffi c citations are down nearly 37 percent

from 2011, primarily thanks to a change in Tennessee state law. A town of Farragut press release says the de-crease can be credited to the 2011 change that prohibits municipalities from giving citations to those who run red lights by failing to stop before turning right on red.

Keeping up with those statistics is the job of the town’s Traffi c Enforcement Program manager Ben Harkins. His report indicated that nearly 15 percent of incidents caught by Redfl ex Traffi c Systems cameras were tossed out.

No agenda, no meetingIn a fi rst for mayor Ralph McGill, the Board of Mayor

and Aldermen meeting set for Thursday, Feb. 28, was can-celed. “There were no items presented for the agenda,” the mayor said. “I guess it’s good we have no issues.”

The BOMA regularly meets the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at 7 p.m. at Farragut Town Hall. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 14.

geese – they were obviously too small to get very far on their own!

Even in more recent times, with world-wide travel and many scientists and natu-ralists out there searching and observing, many of the details of migration remain unknown.

Research has revealed that birds fi nd their way by a combination of amazing traits, among them the abil-ity to navigate by the earth’s magnetic fi eld, and to tell the time of day by the sun, even compensating for lati-tude and longitude as they go along.

They are able to travel thousands of miles every spring, and end up in the same fi eld or yard each spring.

But fi nding where they ac-tually go, especially to spend the winter, has always been a tough problem to solve.

Some species seem to just disappear into a trackless jungle to the south, or out across the ocean to Goodness Knows Where. Occasionally the answer was found by bird banding; hundreds or thou-sands of individuals of a spe-cies were fi tted with tiny ID leg bands, and then by sheer luck, one or two would be recovered from birds on the wintering grounds.

That is how a dedicated

birder from Memphis sur-prised the ornithological world by discovering that chimney swifts spend their winters in the jungles of Peru.

Banding is a very labor-intensive and low-yield en-terprise. But – we’ve put men on the moon and landed a vehicle on Mars. And, we now have some high-tech help in solving some of the mysteries of bird migra-tion. The April issue of Bird-watching magazine has an article about that very thing. It seems that a gentleman with a group called the Brit-ish Antarctic Survey by the interesting name of Vsevolod Afanasyev developed a de-vice called a geolocator and used it to track the legendary wandering albatross on their decades-long travels across the endless southern oceans.

One of his colleagues, engineer James Fox, then adapted the device into a tiny 0.018 ounce gizmo that can be attached to the back of a small bird. A sparrow weighs in at about 0.7 ounce; a cat-bird, around an ounce. The geolocator contains a clock, battery, light sensor, and mi-croprocessor, squeezed into a miniature device that causes these small birds no distress or problems with their fl ight. The system is not without its problems – each geolocator costs $200, and they only

recover about 20 percent of them for analysis. Cloudy weather and even prolonged shade makes evaluations more diffi cult.

But they have already made many remarkable dis-coveries into the details of when, where, how far and how fast various species of our birds travel. They’ve found that our purple mar-tins use a broad area along the Amazon River for their wintering grounds; one of our eastern shorebirds, the willet, fl ies 2,800 miles each fall, before hurricane season, to gather for the winter in a small area on the north coast of Brazil.

But probably the most spectacular example of this is the story of two birds called northern wheatears. They are small, gray and white, sparrow-sized birds that nest in Alaska. These two were fi tted with geolocators. After their migrations, they were recaptured and the devices analyzed. And they found that the two little birds had left Fairbanks, Alaska, fl own over the Bering Sea, through Russia, across the Arabian desert, and wintered in cen-tral Africa – average round-trip distance, 18,640 miles – the longest-known migration of any songbird!

All this research is just beginning. We’re learn-ing that whales can dive more than a mile deep in the ocean, and birds can fl y nearly 20,000 miles in a year’s migration. And yep, there are still an awful lot of things we don’t know. But we surely do know that the arrival of all those singing spring birds each year is an event little short of miracu-lous – and they’ll be here soon. Be watching.

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Spring football with a new coach is an exciting time. Anything may hap-pen. I am reminded of two unusual changeovers with ties to Fayetteville, Ark.

Former Tennessee cap-tain and all-American end Bowden Wyatt had a sen-sational second season as Arkansas coach. The Razor-backs whipped Texas for the fi rst time in 17 years. Arkan-sas won the Southwest Con-ference. Arkansas went to the Cotton Bowl. Fans went nuts.

In celebration, they passed the hat and collected a small fortune. Wyatt tried to discourage wild-eyed generosity but they bought him a new white Cadil-lac and gave him a bundle of leftover cash to divide among assistant coaches.

If you remember the good old days, perhaps you recall what happened. In early Jan-uary 1955 Wyatt drove that

New coach, fi rst spring

’55 Cadillac from Fayetteville to Knoxville. His old coach, Robert R. Neyland, had called him home. Bowden was the new coach at Ten-nessee. Key aides came with him, back pockets stuffed with bonus loot.

Wyatt led an amazing transformation at Tennessee. He increased intensity. He established discipline. Play-ers gained toughness, physi-cally and mentally. One of his colorful sayings was “Hitch up your guts and let’s go.”

The coach caused a shocking incident on the

second day of spring. Full-back Tom Tracy was a very talented runner and free spirit but not a proponent of strict training rules.

Opposite personalities of coach and star player hint-ed of a possible clash. One happened. Tracy suffered leg cramps in a scrimmage. He thrashed around on the grass and called for train-er Mickey O’Brien. Other players downshifted into neutral in anticipation of a pause that refreshes.

Wyatt ignored the fallen Tracy, ordered a manager to move the ball fi ve yards forward, called for another fullback and re-ignited the scrimmage. Tracy was of-fended at the lack of offi cial compassion. That evening he threatened to leave. Wy-att dispatched two assis-tants to help him pack.

Losing Tracy was a siz-able setback. Establishing

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authority enhanced Wyatt’s infl uence. A year later, Ten-nessee had one of the best teams in school history.

Doug Dickey, coach on the fi eld as Florida quar-terback, became a young assistant at Arkansas. At age 31, he was named head coach at Tennessee. That was a shock. Few knew who he was. Bob Woodruff, new as the Vols’ athletic direc-tor, knew. He was Doug’s college coach.

The Dickey family, Doug, JoAnne and three children, moved from Fayetteville to Knoxville without benefi t of a complimentary Cadil-lac. Blowing snow inhibited their two-car caravan. One set of wheels was decent, the other a clunker Doug had driven to work.

Along the way, ropes came loose and suitcases blew off the top of a car. It took a while but scattered stuff was recovered. Then, the old car broke down. Everybody and everything had to be crammed into

the better car.JoAnne summarized,

saying no matter how or when the Dickeys eventu-ally left Tennessee, “We couldn’t be as bad off as when we came.”

Dickey thought he must fi nd a quarterback in the spring of ’64. He was switching from the historic single-wing formation. The center had to hand the ball to somebody.

Dickey tried Hal Want-land, tough enough for any assignment but not quick enough. He tried David Leake, waiter in the team dining hall who walked on as a football player and wasn’t half bad. Art Galiffa, nephew of a former Army all-American, eventually won the job.

Believe me, there was no way to tell by watching spring practice that great things were about to happen.

Butch Jones’ spring out-look appears better.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com

CrossCurrents

LynnHutton

When I realized the date on which this column would be published, I was reminded of my fi rst pregnancy.

My doctor informed me that my due date would be on or about March 4. Our best friends at the time had also been married for sev-eral years and had no chil-dren. When we told them our happy news, including the projected due date, our friend Paul chuckled and said, “March fourth! Hm-m-m. That sounds strong and determined! Almost like an order: ‘March forth!’”

Later we discovered that

Paul and his wife were ex-pecting about the same time, and so were my husband’s business partner and his wife. It was a veritable popu-lation explosion, there in our little West Virginia town.

When I went into labor at about fi ve in the morn-ing on the fourth of March, I thought, “Wow, my doc-tor was right on! He hit the due date exactly!” We drove through the early morn-ing darkness to the hospital and decided on her name as we headed up the hill to the parking lot. She would be Sarah Jordan.

Jordan, however, did not feel bound by my doctor’s prediction of a due date. She had other ideas. To be blunt, she dilly-dallied.

I freely admit that I was a rookie at this labor business and wasn’t sure how to go about it. Labor went on for some 21 hours before Jordan made her debut in this world. By that time it was no longer the fourth of March, but the fi fth, and I was exhausted, but happy. Jordan, on the other hand, was outraged that she had been pushed out of her warm, secure dark place, fl oating inside my

March forth!This day is a day of distress…; children have come to

the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. (Isaiah 37: 3b NRSV)

tummy, and into a bright, cold world where gravity be-gan its pull on her.

By that time, my husband’s business partner and his wife were just down the hall, also in the throes of labor. Their Amy also took her own sweet time, and was born on the sixth of March.

My Jordan has been a “march forth” kind of a gal ever since that day. As a tod-dler, her declaration of inde-pendence was an emphatic “Baby do it!” (meaning “Let me do this by myself!”).

She has grown into an ac-complished, capable woman who knows her own abilities. She has dreams and plans and goals, and the strength, stamina and determination to make them happen.

I ponder sometimes the way in which a day – any day – can suddenly take on im-portance, meaning, celebra-

tion or sadness. I notice days: the birthdays (or deaths) of high school friends and teachers, of colleagues and composers, of presidents or princes. I notice anniversa-ries of events big and small, days of infamy, saints’ days.

I also take note of the ways in which special occasions seem to cluster in my family. January was always chock-full of birthdays in my par-ents’ generation; nowadays, April is the month studded with stars on the calendar. I am grateful for the people whose days (and lives) I cel-ebrate.

Today I am most espe-cially grateful for my Jor-dan, who marched forth, and made March fi fth a holiday in our family. And I gladly for-give her dilly-dallying on the day before her birth. Heaven knows she has not done so since!

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Special services

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By Ashley BakerJohn Dominic Crossan,

New Testament scholar and for-mer Catho-lic priest known for co-chairing the contro-versial Je-sus Seminar in the 1980s and 1990s, will deliver

four lectures at St. Eliza-beth’s Episcopal Church on Friday and Saturday, March 15-16.

Crossan will offer lectures on the world, life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Cros-san’s presentations share his teachings on Jesus, in which he suggests that Jesus did not perform many miracles, physically rise from the dead or die as punishment for hu-manity’s sins. His teachings have left distractors saying that his beliefs offer people an excuse to diminish Jesus’ importance. While many fans send letters of thanks upon hearing his teaching, many of his critics call him a “blas-phemer” and even “demonic.”

Scholarly view Jesus Seminar co-chair to off er look at historical Jesus

New Testament scholar and controversial co-chair of the Jesus Seminars John Dominic Crossan

examines a ruin in Antioch, Priene. In biblical days, Antioch was the place where Paul of Tarsus

gave his fi rst sermon to the Gentiles. Photos submitted by John Crossan

Crossan

While controversial, Crossan is considered a major fi gure in the fi elds of anthropology of the ancient Mediterranean and New Testament studies. He has appeared in television doc-umentaries about Jesus and the Bible and has dedicated his life to researching the historical Jesus.

Crossan invites people

to look at Jesus through the lens of the fi rst century. “If we don’t put it back in the fi rst century,” Crossan said about the Bible, “we can make it mean whatever we want it to mean.”

Crossan says his research and framework for teaching stem from his methodol-ogy of study. He believes that the four gospels of the

Bible are to be interpreted metaphorically, not liter-ally. “Metaphors are a way of seeing,” Crossan says. “It does the most important things in life.”

Drawing from other his-torical documents such as the Gospel of Thomas, Cros-san teaches people to look through a fi rst century lens in order to fi nd a historical

Jesus, one that would con-sider Jesus a real man, but not fully God.

Crossan’s scholastic ca-reer began when he joined the Servites, a Roman Catho-lic monastic order, at age 16. After six years of studying philosophy and theology, he was ordained a priest in 1957.

In 1969, Crossan asked permission to leave the priesthood and the Servite Order. “I left primarily in order to marry, but also to avoid a confl ict of interest between priestly loyalty and scholarly honesty.” The of-fi cial letter of permission from the Vatican was dated July 4, which Crossan con-sidered “rather appropriate.”

After leaving the priest-hood, Crossan joined the faculty at DePaul University in Chicago. Crossan serves as professor of religious studies and has published 27 books, including “The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jew-ish Peasant;” “The Birth of Christianity: Discover-ing What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus;” and “In

By Theresa EdwardsChristian country bass

soloist Justin Terry present-ed a concert at West Haven Baptist Church, performing original songs from his CD “Inspired.”

A Knoxville native, Terry sings at various churches and performed at Dolly-wood’s National Southern Gospel and Harvest Cel-ebration last October.

“We appreciate him com-ing here tonight and ap-preciate his ministry,” said music director Kenny Sykes. Info: www.justinterry.net/.

Justin Terry at West Haven Baptist Church

Ella Hunter meets Justin Terry

after his concert.

Music director Kenny Sykes and

pastor Geoff Prows applaud.Justin Terry in concert at West Haven Baptist Church. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s King-dom,” which he co-authored with the archaeologist Jon-athan L. Reed.

Crossan currently spends his time speaking, writing and taking pilgrimages to Ephesus, Turkey and Ire-land with his wife, Sarah.

The lecture series will be held at Episcopal School of Knoxville, 950 Episco-pal School Way. Crossan will deliver four 90-minute lectures, beginning with a 7:30 p.m. presentation on The World of Jesus on Fri-day, March 15. The Satur-day schedule includes The Life of Jesus at 9 a.m.; The Death of Jesus at 11 a.m.; and The Resurrection of Je-sus at 1:30 p.m.

The cost for all four lec-tures is $45 and includes lunch on March 16. To regis-ter: www.stelizchurch.org.

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Karns students Storm the HillKarns High School’s Student Government Association travelled to Nashville recently for Storm the Hill, which gives students achance to learn more about the legislative process and possibly meet legislators. Pictured are participants (front) Morgin Grant,Alexis McDonald, Caitlyn Cogswell, Jocelyn Mendoza, Denisha Ragland, Brady Jackson, Maggie Sumner, Morgan Schneider,teacher Cori Hackworth; (back) Lindsey Wright, Andrew Rines, Jeremiah Wojtowicz, Kailee Alred, Sarah Herald, Jessica Severs,Colin Matlock, Kacie Bowerman, Caty Davis, Haleigh Reddick and teacher Jill Shinlever. Photo submitted

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When David Goff, the librarian at Austin-East High School, was asked to put together an Ethics Bowl team, he wasn’t familiar with the competition. But school admin-istrators were trying to boost test scores, and the contest seemed like a way to encourage academically-minded students. So, four years ago, Goff took on the challenge.

In February, Austin-East beat nine other local schools to take first place in the Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl held at UT – for the second year in a row. Karns High School came in second, and Chris-tian Academy of Knoxville placed third.

The team is successful because the students work well together, says freshman member Ashton Ahern-Cook.

“If someone’s stuck, someone else jumps right in and helps them.”

Collaboration is key to the com-petition, which is about students working together to come up with ethical solutions to real-life prob-lems. To prepare for this year’s competition, teams were given a collection of cases to study. One addressed problems facing polar bears.

Polar bears are predicted to be-come extinct in the next 70 years, the case says, and one way to save the species is through captive breeding in zoos. Captive breed-ing has helped save other species, and some have even been reintro-duced into the wild. But some say polar bears aren’t good candidates for captive breeding because their natural lifestyle includes roaming thousands of miles in arctic condi-tions. Opponents of captive breed-ing of polar bears say more em-phasis should be placed on global warming, which has destroyed the bears’ habitat.

The Austin-East Ethics Bowl team discussed the case dur-ing a recent practice, and agreed that an increase in po-lar bear exhib-its in zoos was not an ethical way to save the species. They came up with other possible solutions, like captive breeding in large, natural areas.

Teams don’t just base their an-swers on gut feelings. They are required to learn, and use, four ethical systems. One is duty eth-

Austin-East librarian leads Ethics Bowl team to second win

ics, a system that follows the rules in spite of consequences. In conse-quence-based ethics, decisions are based on increased happiness. A third system is virtue-based, which means choosing the middle ground between two opposing ideas. The fourth is relationship-based, which places primary importance on rela-tionships.

Unlike a debate team, arguing is not part of an Ethics Bowl competition.

“They collaborate in the search for truth, and recognize that none of us has all the answers,” says Goff. “I don’t have all the answers. I encourage them to explore the theories. They might even present alternative points of view.”

There’s no particular profile for students who choose to par-

ticipate in Ethics Bowl. Captain Raven Ragsdale plans on a ca-reer in medicine,

and captain Parrel Appolis is interested in music. Ahern-Cook,

the team’s only freshman, wants to be a dentist.

“They’re all unique. It encour-ages kids who are deep thinkers and have inquiring minds. It’s not a debate – it’s more like a Socratic competition,” says Goff.

The team practices after school on Tuesdays, and takes advantage

of Austin-East’s extended school day with a half-hour practice in the library on Mondays. Team captains manage the in-school practice on their own.

“They’re very ethical,” Goff jokes.The team will travel to Chapel

Hill, N.C., to compete in the first National Ethics Bowl at the Univer-sity of North Carolina on April 19-

20, pending resolution of transpor-tation problems, he says.

For Ahern-Cook, the Ethics Bowl team is just one thing that makes Austin-East an exceptional school.

“I think this is the best school in Knox County. We have small class-es, and great teachers. Mr. Goff is a great teacher. I don’t know what I’d do without him. I love school.”

Austin-East High School Ethics Bowl captains Raven Ragsdale and Parrel Appolis discuss the team’s 2012 win at the American

Philosophical Association Conference held in Atlanta last December. Photos submitted

Skai Harris, Alicia Lewis, Parrel Appolis, David Goff , Shadia Prater and Shaquille Johnson

celebrate the team’s fi rst-place win at the 2013 Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl held

at UT in February. Not pictured: Raven Ragsdale and Ashton Ahern-Cook.

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By Sara BarrettFor some stu-

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At least once a week students that are “librarians in training” spend about 30 minutes reshelving books that have been returned or straightening books already on the shelves.

“We get to play a couple of games online fi rst to learn about shelving,” said 7th grader Jennaly Nolan of the training they receive.

Each student has to be familiar with the Dewey Decimal System before they begin the program. Each volunteer is given a set of shelves in the library for which they are responsi-ble. Jennaly and two of her friends take care of the fi c-tion shelves.

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Farragut Middle School 7th graders Colleen Fang, Kelly Bond

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Farragut Middle School 8th

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Seventh grader ColleenFang volunteered in the pro-gram while in the 5th gradeat Farragut Intermediateand decided to participateagain in middle school.

“I like to do it because it’shelping out the school,” said8th-grade student DaytinMohr.

Librarian Andrea Youngsaid there aren’t as manyvolunteers for the programthis year, but for those whoparticipate it does look goodon a college application.

Cedar Bluff Middle School recently held its annual spelling

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speller Cole Lawrence (6th grade).

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Spelling beeLisa Oakley from the East Tennessee Historical Society vis-

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Cedar Bluff Middle School

8th-grade student Max

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Holocaust survivor Sonja Dubois talks with students at Cedar Bluff Middle School about their

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News from Cedar Bluff Middle

Farragut High ■ FHS Admirals Performing Arts

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Pond Gap Elementary School received a facelift on World Rotary Day Feb. 23, thanks to the combined ef-forts of Knox area Rotary clubs.

Club members got an early start on the wet, foggy day beginning with the play-ground and working their way up to mulching, re-building steps and painting. George Wehrmaker, owner of Bright Side Landscaping in Powell, helped organize the event and donated many of the items used in the facelift.

“This is an annual event done by the local clubs,” said Wehrmaker. “All of the clubs come together for one ma-jor project and this year we chose Pond Gap.”

Clubs involved were Knox-ville Breakfast Rotary Club, president Scott Taylor; West Knox Rotary Club, president

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Assistant district gover-nors Patty Daughtrey and Mack Gentry helped bring the project together.

Peace Forum in ORRotarians will gather

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With slides, facts and anecdotes, Lee told some of the stories of the hardships and sacrifi ces the young soldiers made during World War II, stories she says the men themselves rarely talk-ed about once they returned home. The men she profi led all have descendants who are in the legal community in Tennessee. Harold Lei-bowitz, for example, is the father of Criminal Court Judge Mary Beth Leibow-itz, and Bruce Foster is the father of Knoxville lawyer Bruce Foster Jr.

Justice Sharon Lee accepts her “gavel” from Rotarian Joe Johnson as he asks her to preside at the trial of House-Hasson owner and Rotarian Don Hasson. The charge? Not mentioning Rotary in a newspaper feature about his company.

Downtown Rotarians and guests gathered to hear Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Sharon Lee present a talk on the heroism of Tennessee World War II prisoners of war. From left are Justice Lee’s uncle, J.D. Lee; Dean Parham Williams of the LMU Law School; Justice Lee; the Rev. William C. Pender, Rotarian and senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church; and Judge Thomas R. “Skip” Frierson, newly-appointed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Eastern Section. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Brian Salesky, executive director and conductor of the Knoxville Opera, introduces Downtown Rotarians to Jennifer D’Agostino, who is playing Cinderella in the opera’s school performances. The club helps support the opera’s educational programs.

Justice Lee shares stories of courage

In the story of her fa-ther, Lee told of the waist gunner’s parachute down into Germany after his plane was hit, having been shot in the head, shoulder, back and wrist. “After capture, he was con-fined for 10 days with no medical care and sent to Stalag 4,” she said. “They had no food, very little heat and he had only the blood-stained clothes he was wearing. He was very sick and only survived be-cause of the persistence of

his fellow prisoners.”A ride on a small cattle

car with 60 other men fol-lowed as the Germans re-moved the prisoners from Stalag 4 to Stalag Luft 1. One year and one day af-ter being captured, he was freed on May 13, 1945. “He was 6 feet, 5 inches tall and weighed 86 pounds when he came home,” Lee said.

Other stories related to participation in the Battle of the Bulge and POWs be-ing sent to the Berga Con-centration Camp to work in

deep caves.“These men showed

great courage under ex-treme circumstances,” said Lee. “They shared a com-mon bond in that they nev-er gave up, never gave in and showed an enormous love for their country and their families.

“And they never ate cab-bage again.”

Downtown Rotary meets at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Marriott Hotel, 500 Hill Ave. Info: www.knoxvillerotary.org.

FARRAGUT NOTES ■ Farragut Rotary Club meets at noon each Wednesday at the

Fox Den Country Club.

■ Free budget classes are held from noon-1 p.m. each third Thursday at the Good Samaritan Center, 119 A. St. in Lenoir City. Everyone is invited. No preregistration is required. Info: annaseal@credibility.org.

■ Memoir Writing Group meets 7 p.m. each second Thursday at Panera Bread, 733 Louisville Road.

■ West Knox Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each first and third Monday at Sullivan’s in Franklin Square, 9648 Kingston Pike.

Tribute to Women nominations soughtThe YWCA is accepting nominations for its an-

nual Tribute to Women Event, which will be held Thursday, Aug. 15. The finalists for each category will be announced in early June.

Nominations for all-female groups will be accept-ed in addition to those for individuals. Nomination forms are available online at www.ywcaknox.com.

All nominations must be postmarked, emailed or hand delivered by 11 p.m. May 1. All nominees must reside, be employed or be active in Anderson, Blount, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Roane, Sevier or Union counties.

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“A Father-Daughter Dance”

Saturday, March 167-9 p.m.

Fathers and daughters of all ages – and all family members – are invited to enjoy an evening of dancing to music by a DJ,

light refreshments and a craft! Photos will be taken of each couple and can be purchased following the event via a photo website.

TICKETSCouple Ticket: $15 in advance / $20 at door

Each Additional Ticket: $5 in advance / $8 at doorAdvance tickets can be purchased at townoffarragut.org (for a couple with up to two

additional people; a nominal convenience fee will be assessed) and at the Farragut Town Hall

(Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) through noon on Friday, March 15.

Info: townoffarragut.org or 865-966-7057

The Town of Farragut and Kiwanis Club of Farragut present the 8th Annual

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By Sherri Gardner HowellStudent members of the

National Art Honors Society brushed off the welcome mat and partnered again this year with Einstein Bros. Bagels for the Empty Bowls project on Feb. 25, at the Farragut res-taurant on Campbell Station Road.

The project combines the artistic talents of the students with a project to feed the hun-gry in the area. Farragut art students make bowls, then sell tickets for guests to come to Einstein Bros. Bagels to have dinner. Yvonne and Jon Kid-der, managers of Einstein’s, close all but the drive-through to regular guests so the stu-dents and their teachers can take over the restaurant. For a $15 donation, patrons can

pick out a handmade bowl, sit at a table and be served soup, bread, dessert and drink by the art students.

Soup choices this year were chicken noodle, turkey chili or southwestern veg-etarian, and a smorgasbord of breads and bagels were offered as accompaniments. Teachers Wendie Love and Martha Robbins were in charge of the event, which was coordinated by co-chairs Zack Ashburn and Jordan Butzine, both seniors at FHS.

Benefi ting this year was Sister Martha’s Pantry, a charity and food pantry run by the Sisters of Mercy. Es-timates are that between 40 and 50 tickets were sold, and donations were also collected at the event.

Soup’s on, with a side of creativity

Students created a wide variety of handmade bowls for the Empty Bowls fundraiser. Helping Yvonne Kidder of Einstein Bros. Bagels, seated left, and Farragut High art teacher Wendie Love, seated right, showcase some of the bowls are Ellie Osborne, left, and Megan Chang, right.

Service with a smile is what Megan Carden and Matthew Jackson got as they participated in the Empty Bowls fundraiser at Einstein Bros. Bagels for Farragut High School. Serving the bread to go with their soup are Timothy Grossman and Taylor Forward, both seniors at Farragut.

Tough decisions await Terry and Cathy Sharp as they choose their bowls for their soup. Help-ing is Martha Robbins, art teacher at Farragut High School and the representative for the National Art Honors Society. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Providing music for Empty Bowls was Courtney Sharp.

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

By Shannon Morris

Many of our Grace High School athletes enjoy success that extends to the college lev-el, and this year has been no different.

Grace students sign for college sports

Grace football players Will McKa-

mey, Austin Arnold and Jesse Gar-

ren sign to play college ball while

family and coaches look on. Photo by Randy Down

Cody Stooksbury Photo by Randy Down

Kate Black Photo by Sophia De La Rosa

Chase Newsome and Ty Myers Photo by Miranda Fox

Several members of the 2013 graduating class have al-ready signed national Letters of Intent to play their respec-tive sports at the next level. They are: Kate Black, softball, Campbellsville University; Will McKamey, football, U.S.

Naval Academy; Austin Ar-nold, football Centre College; Jesse Garren, football, South-eastern University; Ty Myers, baseball, Johnson University; Chase Newsome, baseball, Bryan College; Cody Stooks-bury, soccer, University of the Cumberlands.

These most recent signees have demonstrated the nec-essary discipline and effort it takes to achieve such high levels of recognition. Not only has Grace Christian Academy played a role in preparing them for this next exciting step in their lives, the school has also been vitally involved in the spiritual and educational devel-

opment of these young people. We pray for these, and others to follow, as they continue on their exciting journeys.

Members of the Grace Christian Academy girls basketball team are: (front) Mckenna Wilson, Abby Smith, D’Anna

Johnson, Sydney Duggins, McKenzie Krebs, Morgan Cleveland; (back) Abbey Parrott, Lauren Hensley, Calynne

Pridemore, Katherine Griffi th, Jennifer Bell, Carolena Pridemore and Bethany Hunt. Photo by Creative Images

By Shannon Morris

The athletic department at Grace Christian Academy has experienced several “fi rsts” in re-cent days.

The Rams wrestling squad has had a tremendous season, culminating with four Grace wrestlers qualifying to compete in the TSSAA State Tournament this year. The wrestlers, Austin Saporito, Dalton Jinkins, Patrick Smith and Todd Hargis, put up valiant efforts in their matches, with Hargis, a junior weighing 138 pounds, progressing to the quar-terfi nals before eventually losing to a returning medal winner.

Congratulations to Todd for being the fi rst GCA Ram wres-tler to make it to a state tourna-ment quarterfi nal match. With this young group of wrestlers all returning next year, we are

Grace wrestler Todd Hargis Photo by Shannon Johnson

Grace teams win in district, region

looking forward to another ex-citing season.

Our high school girls bas-ketball team fi nished the regu-lar season as District Champs, making GCA history. The team, coached by Paul Pridemore, Bob-by Thompson and Keith Duggins, has shown tenacity and resil-

ience, and has managed success despite several injuries to key players during the season.

The girls fi nished the regular season as the fi rst-place team and followed that by winning the district tournament as well. They are continuing on into Regional postseason action as they prepare for sectionals after becoming the Region 2 champions.

The Grace middle school boys basketball team recently con-cluded another successful season, fi nishing the year with a record of 22-2. As a result, they became League Champions and Regional Champions, and fi nished the year by winning the TMSAA East Ten-nessee Championship. Congratu-lations to coach Billy Wilson and this great group of guys for a job well done. The future of GCA bas-ketball is very bright!

By Shannon Morris

The Grace Christian Acad-emy middle school band recently participated in the East Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association’s Solo and Ensemble Festival, an event that gives students the opportunity to demon-strate mastery of their cho-sen instruments.

The purpose of the ETSBOA is to promote the advancement of instrumental music educa-tion in schools, and to encour-age music activities among the schools of East Tennessee. To that end, the Grace band members certainly showed a high level of interest in instru-mental music and an amazing level of talent.

Congratulations to the

students who participated in the ETSBOA Solo and En-semble Festival representing Grace Christian Academy. They are: 6th graders Na-than Addis, Eli Clapp, Meeya Lowery and Virginia Pirkle; 7th grader Adam Chamber-lain; 8th graders Tim Thack-er and Emma Yambert.

Several young high school band members participated as well. They are McKenna Krebs, Ryan Randles, Brandon Teas-ley and Clayton Hickey.

Each of these gifted young musicians returned from the festival with superior rat-ings. Special thanks go to Grace band director Larry Adams for all of his hard work with these standout student instrumentalists.

Band-tastic

Eli Clapp, Tim Thacker, Emma Yambert and Clayton Hickey par-

ticipated in the East Tennessee School Band and Orchestra As-

sociation’s Solo and Ensemble Festival. Photo by Larry Adams

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Walk in the parkDouble hip replacement doesn’t deter hiker from Mount LeConte summit

Double hip surgery enabled Sarah

Weeks to continue her lifelong

love of hiking.

Hike Mount LeConte?Sarah Weeks has been there,

done that, got the T-shirt.Twice.That’s no small feat for any-

one, but for Weeks, an active 58-year-old who had undergone a double hip replacement, hik-ing to the summit of one of the highest peaks in the Appala-chian Mountain range was, by her own definition, “a miracle.”

“I’d first noticed the pain while hiking about 15 years be-fore my first surgery. It came on gradually,” said Weeks, a lifelong hiker who is director of development with Friends of the Smokies, a nonprofit or-ganization whose mission is to assist the National Park Service preserve and protect the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by raising funds and pub-lic awareness, and providing volunteers for needed projects.

When an MRI failed to re-veal any noticeable problem, she shrugged it off. Later, as the pain became more intense, she tried an exercise routine suggested to her by an athletics trainer.

The pain eventually led her to a chiropractor who, after view-ing her X-rays, told Weeks that she would eventually need a hip replacement. Despite the pain, she put it off another couple years before finally limping into the offices of Dr. Hal Cates, an

orthopedic sur-geon at Parkwest Medical Cen-ter who recom-mended total hip replacement.

“I had put it off as long as possible,” said Weeks. “By that time, both hips

were bone on bone.”Cates, who performs about

200 total hip replacements per year, says Weeks suffered from severe osteoarthritis, one of any 100 diseases that may lead to the hip’s deterioration. While single hip replacement is by far the most common, Cates said about 20 percent of patients have the opposite hip replaced within five years.

“In general, very few people have equal disease or equal pain in each hip – one is usually affected more than the other,” Cates said. “But after they see how much relief the surgery has given them, most people re-quest it on the other hip. Some-times, though, replacing one hip will take the weight load off the other hip and that relieves the pain enough. There’s a lot of unpredictability.”

First performed in 1960, hip replacement surgery is one of the most successful operations in all of medicine, according to the American Academy of Or-thopedic Medicine. Since that time, advances in surgical tech-niques and technology have so increased the effectiveness that

Dr. Hal Cates

285,000 total hip replacements are performed each year.

Still, Weeks had never had surgery of any sort – not even a tonsillectomy. “So this was a huge thing for me,” she said. “That’s why the education Park-west provided before the sur-gery was so comforting. I was required to take a class to pre-pare for the surgery. They gave me a three-ring binder note-book and went over what to expect the day of the surgery, what exercises to do before the surgery, what exercises to do af-

ter the surgery, what to expect week by week as far in terms of recovery, what kind of mobility I would have and what I should be able to do at each step of the way.”

Her left hip came first with Cates performing the replace-ment in November 2009. The right hip replacement came nine months later, in August 2010.

“The surgical pain was noth-ing compared to the pain I was in before the surgery,” said Weeks. “Once I had the first

one done and was so pain-free, I realized how much pain I had been in and how much I’d been suffering.”

“My other hip went really bad really fast, and by the time I had the second hip replace-ment, I wasn’t able to walk at all,” she added. “I had been tak-ing anti-inf lammatories and that had helped. But I had to go off of that for a week before the second surgery, and by that time I was walking on a cane.”

The most difficult part of the recovery process was not being

able to enjoy hiking and f ly fish-ing – something she had donesince she was a child. She wasso enamored by the great out-doors that, as a student at theUniversity of Tennessee, sheoften spent her fall afternoonshiking in the Smokies – not go-ing to the Volunteers’ footballgames. “That was my escape,”she said.

But that escape had to waitawhile while Weeks workedthrough physical therapy, al-lowing time for her musclesto reknit and her hips to fullymend.

“The occupational therapyand physical therapy I got whileI was in the hospital was fabu-lous,” she said. “They teach youhow to get in and out of a car,how to take a bath or showerand you’re doing it before youleave. Between the care I got atthe hospital and my friend whotook care of me once I got home,I was very fortunate.”

Weeks, however, also did herpart by setting herself a goal, agoal that rises a vertical milefrom its base in Gatlinburg toa snow-capped peak where onlythe stout-hearted (and stout-legged) hiker dare to tread.

“That’s my goal – to hikeMount LeConte again,” she toldthe physical therapist who hadnoticed she was wearing oneof those Mount LeConte Lodgesouvenir T-shirts one can getonly after making it to the sum-mit.

From the Alum Cave trail, it’s5.5 miles. “It’s straight up,” sheadds. “It’s the shortest route,but it’s also the most difficult.But I wanted to go again be-cause it is difficult. And therewards are so great! It’s oneof those bucket list challengespeople have if they care abouthiking in the park.”

Last July, Weeks made it tothe top again. Two months later,she did it again.

“My muscles suffered, but myhips were fi ne,” she reported.“That was what was so amazing –there was no problem at all withmy hips. It was just amazing.”

She has become an evangelistof sorts, telling others about thedifference the hip replacementsurgery has made in her life.“I have friends my age who aresuffering like I was, and theyare trying to put it off. But Itell them, ‘My quality of life isrestored. I’m hiking again. I’mfly fishing again. I’m walkingagain.’ You know the next 20years are the best 20 years I’vegot left and my quality of lifefor those years has dramaticallyimproved. It’s been a miracleas far as I’m concerned. I maynot live to be 80 but my qualityof life now and then is the dif-ference between day and night.That’s why I want to hike – be-cause I can!”

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Member of Boys and Girls Club program Dynasty of

Divas thank the women of Purses with Purpose for funding their activi-

ties. Pictured are Endasia Duckett, Shakhya Single-

ton, Keondra McKinney, program director Shauna

McKinney, Jameiya Mills and Janecissa Brown.

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Purses with Purpose shops in BeardenMore than 20 women

gathered last week at G&G Interiors in Bearden to cel-ebrate a year of supporting women in the community through the women’s phi-lanthropy group Purses with Purpose.

Purses with Purpose is the women’s giving circle created in 2009 to raise funds to support programs of the Boys and Girls Club that foster leadership skills and independence in young women.

“We believe that every person has a purpose and every life has a meaning,” said Michelle Hardin, Boys and Girls Club board mem-ber and one of the founding members of Purses with Purpose. “Our greatest legacy as women is these young girls. That’s why we created this philanthropy group. ”

At the celebration event, guests enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and shopped for a good cause. G&G Interi-ors donated 20 percent of its sales from the entire day to Purses with Pur-pose.

“This is our fourth year hosting this celebration event,” said Merri Lee Fox, owner of G&G Interi-ors. “This organization is great because it’s women supporting women. The members of Purses with Purpose are strong, em-powered women leaders investing in the lives of young women in our com-munity.”

Purses with Purpose members donate $200 into a pooled fund and collec-tively decide how to invest the money in programs of-fered to the female mem-bers of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Val-ley. Once a year, the Purses with Purpose group hears descriptions from several Boys and Girls Club pro-grams and votes on a new program to support the fol-lowing year.

This year, the women chose Dynasty of Divas, a program that helps young girls develop skills in pro-fessional development, artistic expression, physi-cal activity, developing healthy relationships and self-esteem. About 15 girls from the Moses Teen Cen-ter participate in Dynasty of Divas, and five of these girls attended the celebra-tion event with program director Shauna McKin-ney to thank the group for funding their program.

“The Dynasty of Di-vas program is a group of young girls that want a sense of community. Ev-erything they learn is ser-vice learning,” said McKin-ney. “Every skill they learn builds self-esteem and team building, and they take these skills and give it back to the community.”

The “Divas Give Back” community service events range from community carnivals to gospel festi-vals and making cupcakes for the Boys and Girls Club

Boys and Girls Club executive director Lisa Hurst chats with Purses with Purpose women’s philanthropy group members Purvis Schwartz and Lillian Mashburn.

Beth Wolf, Fran Petty and Charlie Bettis shop for a good cause at the Purses with Purpose Celebration Event at G&G Interiors to benefi t the Boys and Girls Club.

board. The girls recently completed an American Red Cross babysitting cer-tification course. They will soon host a Mother’s Day Out for four hours on a Sat-urday to benefit about 20 mothers in their commu-nities. They are also plan-ning a gospel fest in late March, which will raise

money for Haiti. “Most of the girls in Dy-

nasty of Divas come from the Christenberry, North-ridge Crossing and Walter P. Taylor Boys and Girls Clubs,” said McKinney. “In the fall, they will have two mentees each at these clubs, so I’m really excited for them to pay it forward

to other Boys and Girls Club members.”

Donna Dempster an-nounced a $50,000 goal for the next year. Purses

with Purpose will meet this May to select a new program to support for the following school calendar year. Info: bgctnv.org .

Singing ValentinesSinging Valentines were delivered last month by the group Mountain Breeze. One lucky recipient was also surprised by a visit from her husband during the group’s performance. Pictured are Mountain Breeze singers Belinda Price and Judy Linn, singing to Valentine recipient Ginny Weatherstone and her husband, Rick, and Mountain Breeze singers Fulvia Galli and Anna Miller. All proceeds from the group’s performances were given to the Ameri-can Heart Association. Photo submitted

UT College of Veterinary Medicine ophthalmologist Dan Ward, assisted by Heather Wilkerson, examines a furry patient. Photo courtesy of UTCVM

Special ‘opps’

Carol Zinavage

Carol’sCritter Corner

This week holds several wonderful opportunities for young animal lovers. First of all, the Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest is ac-cepting entries.

It’s a pretty big deal. The grand prize winner gets a trip to Washington, D.C. One of the judges is Jack Hanna of “Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild.” (Some of you may also remember Hanna’s oc-casional visits to Johnny Car-son on “The Tonight Show.”)

There are four categories: K through 2nd grade, grades 3-5, grades 6-8 and grades 9-12. Homeschoolers are also eligible, so all you parents and teachers out there, be on the lookout for young artistic talent!

Started in 2006 by the U.S. Congress, Endangered Species Day is a celebration of America’s rarest plant and animal species. The Youth Art Contest provides grade-school students of all ages with an opportunity to learn about threatened and endangered species in this country, and express their knowledge and sup-port through artwork. En-tries must be postmarked by March 15. Info: http://www.endangeredspeciesday.org/.

In other animal news, the UT College of Veterinary Medicine is now accepting applicants for their Veteri-nary Summer Experience.

High school juniors and se-niors with a cumulative GPAof at least 3.0 are eligible.

Folks, this is truly a goldenopportunity for any teen whois considering veterinarymedicine as a career. It’s of-fered by one of the most pres-tigious veterinary schools inthe country, and it’s a paidposition as an employee ofThe University of Tennessee.

Selected students willspend six weeks working at alocal veterinary practice, andone week as guests of the UTCollege of Veterinary Medi-cine. While there, they willbe involved in various edu-cational programs includinglectures, laboratories andclinical rotations.

The deadline for applica-tion submission is March 15.All the info you need, alongwith the application, can befound at http://www.vet.utk.edu/summerexperience/.

Clearly, it’s a grand timefor a new generation of ani-mal lovers to step up to theplate!

Animal lovers of all agesshould make note of a spe-cial upcoming ceremony. K-9Veterans Day, sponsored bythe German Shepherd DogClub of East Tennessee, isscheduled for 1 p.m. Satur-day, March 16. The event isfree and will take place, rainor shine, at the War Dog Me-morial located in front of theveterinary college at 2407River Drive in Knoxville. Thepublic is invited. Past attend-ees describe the ceremony as“very moving.” The CritterCorner plans to be there!Send your interesting animal stories tonews@ShopperNewsNow.com

By Sara BarrettArbor Terrace held a

party last week to celebrate residents’ birthdays for Feb-ruary and to welcome new residents.

Residents Stella Laughlin and Ginny Rhodes were in-troduced by engagement di-rector Erin Parten as “twins born of different mothers,” which got a big laugh from the attendees.

Laughlin and Rhodes told the group a little about themselves.

Laughlin has lived at Ar-bor Terrace for about two years, after living in Oak Ridge for 32 years. She loves the change because “I don’t have to wash dishes or cook,” she said.

The birthday girls

Arbor Terrace residents Stella Laughlin and Ginny Rhodes Photo by S. Barrett

Rhodes talked about her love of all things basketball. When asked why she liked basketball, she said, “I don’t like it. I love it.” Her favorite teams to follow are in the Big Ten Conference, specifi cally

Michigan State because that’s where her husband played.

Birthday cake was served to everyone after they all sang “Rocky Top” to welcome the newcomers in the room.

Tell everyone how proud you are of them!Send announcements to news@ShopperNewsNow.com

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Cemetery Lots 49

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Sutherland Ave $16,000 obo.

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Real Estate Service 53Prevent Foreclosure

Free Help 865-268-3888

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Investment Prop-Sale 61CENTRAL FLORIDA, mobile home park w/lakefront. Develop for 52 dbl wides. Ready to go. $395,000 cash. 352-303-7170

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Apts - Unfurnished 711BR, 1BA APT. North,

$415 mo., $200 dep. Freshly remodeled. 865-660-2710 9-5pm.

HALLS TOWNHOUSE 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, appls., $525 + dep. 865-363-4263

Apts - Furnished 72WALBROOK STUDIOS

251-3607 $140 weekly. Discount

avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic

Cable. No Lse.

Duplexes 73FARRAGUT AREA

2BR, 1BA, laundry room, family neighborhood ,

$680 mo, $250 dep, 1 yr lse. 216-5736 or 694-8414.

Houses - Unfurnished 742 BR, 2 BA, in Laurel

Valley, Townsend, furn., trash pickup,

quiet, peaceful, no pets please. 865-448-6867

3BR, 2 1/2 BA, 2100 SF, Powell, $1250 mo. hrdwd, tile & new carpet, gas FP, 2 car gar., storage shed. 865-607-7890.

HALLS, Great Location All Brick 3BR, 2BA, w/hrdwd flrs. 2 car gar., $950 mo. Call 599-8174 or 938-7200.

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Condo Rentals 76NEW CONDO. 2 BR, 2BA, 1 car garage, no pets. $750/mo. $700 dep. www.urbanparkvillas.com

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WEST, NEW CONDO 2BR, 2BA, 2 car

garage, $850/mo. $800 dep. No Pets.

www.urbanparkvillas.com Doyle 254-9552

Manf’d Homes - Sale 85I BUY OLDER

MOBILE HOMES. 1990 up, any size OK.

865-384-5643

Manf’d Homes - Rent 863BR, 2BA, private lot,

16x80, 2002, $675 mo. East Knox Co. Call 865-924-3231.

Trucking Opportunities 106DRIVERS: Start up

to $.40 per mile. Home Weekly. CDL-A, 6Mos. OTR Exp. Required. 50 Brand

New Coronados You’ll be Proud to Drive!

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good record and vehicle. Must pass drug and

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Dogs 141American Bulldog pups,

NKC reg, born 12/31, champion parents, $350-$500. 865-456-2625

***Web ID# 216521***

BOSTON TERRIER PUPPY, fem. AKC, 5 mos.old, beautiful, $250. 865-556-5949

Golden Doodle, fem, 2 yrs old, very pretty & friendly, not spayed, $700. 865-577-0001.

Golden Retriever puppies, AKC reg, 7 wks old, 4 M, 3 F, vet ckd, 1st shots & wormed, dame & sire on site. $325. 865-806-3197

Italian Mastiffs, M & F, 17 wks. shots UTD, ears/tails done. Ch. lines. $1200/up. 423-823-1247 ***Web ID# 214111***

LAB PUPPIES . 3 BLACK FEM. $350 EA., 1 CHOC. MALE, $500 . 4 WKS OLD.

full blooded. Email beautifullabpuppies@aol.com

or text 865-221-4353 ***Web ID# 216236***

LAB PUPPIES, choc., AKC, 2 Males, $300. Call or text 865-654-7013 or 865-654-0013

PUG PUPPIES 6 wks old, 2 Males -

fawn w/blk mask, $300 each. 865-771-1134.

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles,

Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots

& wormed. We do layaways. Health guar. Div. of Animal Welfare

State of TN Dept. of Health.

Lic # COB0000000015. 423-566-3647

YORKIES - Beautiful AKC pups, ready now, 3M, MC/VS. 865-661-0095

Dogs 141SHELTIE PUPPIES,

AKC, ch. bldlns, beautiful Sable & wht, M & F, ASSA Mem-ber. 865-719-2040.

***Web ID# 214335***

Yorkies, Tiny AKC 1 M, 1 F, 6 wks, blk & gold, No checks. $500 ea. 865-363-5704

***Web ID# 215156***

Horses 1434 horse gooseneck

trlr, brand WW, new tires, must see. $4,000 obo. 931-863-4336; 931-544-3320

Free Pets 145

ADOPT! Looking for an addi-tion to the family?

Visit Young-Williams Animal Center, the official shelter for

Knoxville & Knox County.

Call 215-6599 or visit

knoxpets.org

Farmer’s Market 150

HAY FOR SALE Round bales, $20/roll

865-368-8968

Lawn-Garden Equip. 1905 FT John Deere belly

grooming mower, good cond., $900. Call 423-620-0078.

Honda Riding Mower, 18 HP, water cooled, 46" cut Hydrastatic. $1100. 865-257-8672

***Web ID# 214393***

MOWER, Bobcat, 48", hydro walk behind w/sulkey. 17 HP Kawasaki, appx 150 hrs, great cond. $3500. 865-679-3484

***Web ID# 211097***

Shop Tools-Engines 194COMPLETE WOOD-

WORKING SHOP for sale. Table Saw, Jointer, Planer, Workbench, Cabinets, clamps, tools, more! 865-405-0245

Misc. Items 203RESTAURANT

SEATING PACKAGE 140 seats, booths & tables, used, great

cond. Contact @RonSmith1202@charter.net

Household Furn. 204BIG SALE!

B & C MATTRESS, NEW - $125 PILLOW TOP QUEEN SIZE.

865-805-3058.

Household Furn. 204QUEEN PILLOW TOP MATTRESS. $90. Must sacrifice.

New. $90. 865-640-4600.

QUEEN PILLOW Top Mattress Set. $125, brand new. Call 865-804-4410.

Household Appliances 204aWHIRLPOOL Side by

side refrig. 3 yrs. $500. Kenmore S by S $400. Both exc. cond. 865-804-3477.

Antiques 216OAK REFRIGERATOR,

75"H, 25"D, 86"W. $2800. 865-376-5366 aft. 5pm.

Medical Supplies 219DALTON ELECTRIC

wheel chair/scooter lk new, holds 300 lbs $800. 865-661-6408

LIFT CHAIR/Recliner brown, $300. 4 Wheel rocker, lg. with hand-brake $100. 865-694-0380

Garage Sales 225THE PICKY CHICK CONSIGNMENT

3/7 10am-8pm 3/8 10am-8pm

3/9 9am-3pm KNOXVILLE

EXPO CENTER 5441 Clinton Hwy, Quality Spring &

Summer Clothing, Toys, Shoes,

Baby Equipment, Furniture, Etc…

www.thepickychick.com

Boats Motors 232ODYSSEY 2007

PONTOON BOAT, 22', Evinrude 115, exc. cond., new

trailer, many access. $17,500. 865-922-1105,

865-607-5912 ***Web ID# 211257***

SUN CATHCER PONTOON 2006, 22', seats 12, like

new, 90HP Yamaha 4 stroke, Yellow, white

& green. Drive on Shorelander trailer. $15,000. 423-312-8256. ***Web ID# 215664***

Motor Homes 237HOLIDAY RAMBLER Endeavor 37 ft, 1999. Kit. & LR slide. Die-sel. Loaded. Gar. kept. $45,000. 865-908-0858 ***Web ID# 210767***

NEWMAR MOUNTAIN AIR 2005 43 ft., 4 slides, ext.

warr. loaded, $137,000. Call 865-986-5854.

***Web ID# 213604***

Motorcycles 238H.D. SOFTAIL Deuce

2004, 9K mi., new tires, lots upgrades $10,995. 865-230-5608

***Web ID# 213635***

Autos Wanted 253A BETTER CASH

OFFER for junk cars, trucks, vans, running

or not. 865-456-3500

I BUY JUNK CARS & TRUCKS.

865-307-3051 or 865-938-6915.

WANT TO BUY 2003 Anniversary Corvette Conv., stick shift only low mi. 423-371-3123

Auto Accessories 2541998 Thru 2002

DODGE Viper RT10 hard top, Gray color. $2000. 865-250-1480

***Web ID# 213849***

Utility Trailers 255UTILITY TRAILERS

All Sizes Available 865-986-5626

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Trucks 257CHEV. CHEYENNE

1997 extra cab, 2 WD, V8, AT, PS, PB, AC, $4200. 689-8362

***Web ID# 216321***

DODGE QUAD CAB 2008, Big Horn, white, new Michelin tires, all power, chrome step rails, camper top, spray in bedliner, 82K mi., exc. cond., $15,500. 865-789-9543

***Web ID# 216526***

FORD F250 1990, 460 ext cab, 67K act mi, LB, AT, very clean, $5,300. 865-966-9580

***Web ID# 210561***

FORD F350 2002 Crew Cab Dually 7.3 power stroke diesel Lariat, charcoal w/gray lthr. int., AT, exc. cond. 5th wheel, new tires, new battery, only 40K mi., $21,000. 423-312-8256.

***Web ID# 215659***

Toyota Tacoma 2007, Crew Cab, V6, AT, AC, PW, PDL, silver, 50K mi, gar. kept, $21,000. 865-617-9904

***Web ID# 211571***

4 Wheel Drive 258DODGE 2500 2001 SLT

truck, quad cab, long bed, 5.9 turbo diesel, 243k mi, lots of chrome. $8000. Chris 865-599-7706.

***Web ID# 210238***

FORD F350 2007 Super Duty, Crew Cab, diesel, 1 ownr, $16,000 OBO. 931-863-4336; 931-544-3320

Sport Utility 261TOYOTA Highlander 2002, 4WD, fold down seats, 18-20 MPG, 166K mi. $7600. 865-659-3364 ***Web ID# 215569***

Imports 262

ACURA TL 2007, 1 Owner, Loaded, Leather, All Pwr, Exc. Cond., $14,000. 865-556-5101 ***WEB ID# 213630***

BMW 328i 2011, X drive AWD 4 dr sedan. Exc. cond. 50k mi. $27,000. 423-581-5889

***Web ID# 212570***

BMW 740il 1998 luxury sedan, leather, loaded, clean, 110k mi, $5450. 865-577-4069

***Web ID# 211604***

BMW Z4 2.5, 2005, 52.5K mi., auto., Black/Tan int. $14,500. 205-368-4008

HONDA ACCORD LX 2005, 4 cyl, AT, 136k mi, 1 owner, has dmg $5200 w/parts to repair. Runs & drives. 865-250-1480

***Web ID# 213847***

Mercedes S430 2000, white, loaded w/all opts, 142K mi, $9,000 obo. 423-748-9705

***Web ID# 213556***

PORSCHE 928S, 1985 (2) both run, $8,500 for 2 cars. 865-898-4200 rewalls@bellsouth.net

TOYOTA AVALON XL 1999, loaded, sunroof, leather, exc. in/out. $3795. 865-397-7918

***Web ID# 210120***

VW GOLF 2003 GT, 1.8T, 5 sp, bought new, silver w/blk int. 20k mi, $10,00/b.o. 865-250-1480

***Web ID# 213852***

Sports 264CHEVY CORVETTE

Z06, 2001, 20,451 mi. New tires, all orig. Serious calls only. $23,500. 423-836-0900

Domestic 265BUICK Lucerne 2007,

V6, loaded, clean, like new. 52K mi. $11,950. 865-577-4069

CADILLAC 2006 CTS, sport pkg, all opt., svc records, black / black, $10,975. 865-680-2656.

***Web ID# 210877***

CADILLAC Eldorado 1998, beautiful, exc. in/out, $5,000. 865-689-4984, 865-850-2822

***Web ID# 211328***

CHEVROLET Cavaliar 2005, 4 dr, 73k mi, Clinton, $5300/bo. 859-893-3074

***Web ID# 210959***

Domestic 265CHEVY COBALT LT

2007, silver metallic sun/moonroof, low mi., AT, gray lthr., new Michelins, be-low Kelly blue book @ $7800. 865-414-0187

***Web ID# 210518***

CHEVY Monte Carlo, 1986, Big Block 454, $10,000 sale or trade. 865-494-0286

***Web ID# 215955***

Cement / Concrete 315

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CONCRETE & BLOCK 25+ yrs exp. Drive-ways, sidewalks, all types pours, Versa-lock walls, excavat-ing. Call 363-3054.

Fencing 327AAA FENCING Re-

pairs & More. You buy it, we install it! Call 604-6911.

B&W FENCE. Installa-tions & repair. Free est. 43 yrs exp! Call 689-9572 or 237-8090.

Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE in-

stallation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328

Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER

SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.

Lawn Care 339ASK US! NO JOB

TOO BIG OR SMALL! Lawnwork, excavat-ing, haul away your

junk. Give us a call at 363-3054 OR 548-0962

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Roofing / Siding 352

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THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 15Farragut Artist Directory

The deadline to be included in the next update of the Farragut Artist Directory is Friday, March 15.

Local artists are invited to submit their information to the Town of Farragut, which makes the directory available at www.townoffarragut.org. Click Departments tab, Parks & Leisure Services, Arts & Culture; or call 865-966-7057 to access an application.

The directory is updated twice a year and is divided into four categories: Individual Literary Artists, Individual Performing Artists, Individual Visual Artists and Performing Groups.

The completed form may be returned in person or via mail to the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive, Farragut, TN 37934; by fax to 865-675-2096; or by email to lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org.

THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 29Book Fest call for authors

The Farragut Arts Council is seeking local authors of children’s books to participate in the sixth annual Farragut Book Fest for Children.

Book Fest, hosted by the council in conjunction with the Town of Farragut and the Knox County Public Library Farragut Branch, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at Campbell Station Park. Authors will be accepted until spaces are full; fi rst come, fi rst served.

The fest will include storytelling, book signings, music and art activities. Reading and learning are the primary objectives. Children will have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with participating authors, discovering their books and characters while offering the authors the chance to promote and sell their books.

Authors will be provided a tent, table and chairs to use; there is no charge to participate. They will supply their books, decorations and signage.

Interested authors should contact Farragut Arts Council member Sandra Dean, deansk@tds.net or 865-966-8356, or Lauren Cox, lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org or 865-966-7057, for more info and to request an application.

MONDAY, MARCH 4Job Resources Group

The Job Resources Group will meet from 8:30 to

10:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at Concord United Methodist Church, 11020 Roane Drive.

The group provides assistance in preparing for interviews, revising resumes and fi nding employment.

MONDAY, MARCH 4Home remodeling info

The Town of Farragut Community Development Department will host an information session on home remodeling at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

The seminar will be led by the Town’s codes offi cials Steve Coker, John Householder and Elliott Sievers, fi re marshal Dan Johnson and fi re inspector Colin Cumesty. Any Farragut resident or homeowner interested in learning about permitting requirements for home remodeling or improvements may attend.

The session will provide answers to questions about building codes, permits and inspections. In addition, Johnson will discuss the importance of installing a residential sprinkler system.

For more info, contact the Community Development Department, 865-966-7057.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 4-8Primary school art show

The Town of Farragut continues to host the 2013 Farragut Primary School Art Show through Friday, March 8, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Young artists from Farragut Primary School and Concord Christian School are represented.

There will be a reception for the artists and their families from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5.

The show is open during regular business hours, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. It is free and open to the public.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5Caregiver Support Group

The Caregiver Support Group will meet from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 5, in Room 293 at Concord United Methodist Church, 11020 Roane Drive. Concord UMC is the home of CADES (Concord Adult Day Enrichment Services).

The support group, affi liated with Alzheimer’s Tennessee Inc., meets at 10 a.m. on the fi rst Tuesday of each month. Anyone in the community who gives care to an elderly individual is welcome to attend.

For more info, call 865-674-2835.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5Pellissippi honors recital

The annual Student Honors Recital will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, in the Clayton Performing Arts Center at Pellissippi State Community College’s Hardin Valley Campus. The recital will feature the best student performers who are taking private instruction in voice or instrument.

Each of the 18 selected musicians will perform one

piece, with musical genres ranging from bluegrass to classical. The soloists were selected by a panel of Pellissippi State faculty members based on talent, skill level and academic achievement in traditional courses.

Many of the students are pursuing the college’s new two-year Associate of Fine Arts degree, concentrating in music. All credits will transfer to other Tennessee Board of Regents institutions.

Some of the performers also are recipients of Pellissippi State Foundation scholarships. Auditions for students who will be enrolled at Pellissippi State during the fall 2013 semester and who are interested in pursuing a music scholarship will take place on March 28 and April 4 at the Hardin Valley Campus.

The recital is free, but donations will be accepted at the door for the Pellissippi State Foundation on behalf of the Music Scholarship Fund.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7Health Council applications

The Town of Farragut, City of Knoxville and Knox County are seeking members for the Community Health Council. The council will facilitate a community-wide approach to improving the health of all people in Knox County.

Farragut citizens interested in being considered for the two town appointments may apply at www.townoffarragut.org (click Online Form Center from the homepage) or at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Thursday, March 7.

Those interested in being elected as a community-at-large member can apply at www.healthyknox.org or contact Together! Healthy Knox coordinator Erin Read at erin.read@knoxcounty.org for more info. New members will begin terms in April.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9Consignment sale

Concord United Methodist Church is sponsoring a children’s consignment sale from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 9, at the church, 11020 Roane Drive. A half-price sale will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m.

The sale will feature quality, gently used clothing, toys, books, furniture and other items for children from babies through teens. For more info, call 865-996-6728 or visit www.concordumc.com.

SUNDAY, MARCH 10Steinway anniversary event

Steinway & Sons 160th anniversary will be celebrated at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 10, at the American Piano Gallery, 11651 Parkside Drive.

Knoxville Choral Society Young Pianist winner and Nashville International Piano Competition winner Carolyn Craig will perform. Craig is a junior at West High School and a piano student of Fay Adams and David Brunell.

The event also will include a presentation of “The Secrets of Steinway” and a discussion of the history of Steinway & Sons, which dates back to March 5, 1853 when the company was officially founded.

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