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By Betty BeanKnox County school board

members were faced with a stark choice last week: Approve a mem-orandum of understanding be-tween Mayor Tim Burchett and Superintendent James McIntyre that leaves teachers with half the pay raise they’d been led to ex-pect, or be stuck with Burchett’s original budget offer, which would leave the school system with a $6.5 million shortfall and mean no raise at all.

Analysis

The day after: What did teachers gain?

It really wasn’t a nail biter.The political reality is there

was little chance that the MOU would fail, given that board mem-ber Doug Harris, a member of the pro-McIntyre faction, had initi-ated the negotiating process and was locked into a yes vote, as were

the four anti-McIntyre faction members – two of whom, Terry Hill of District 6 and Mike Mc-Millan of District 8, are being re-warded with constituent-pleasing new middle schools.

When District 5 board member Karen Carson signaled her inten-tion to vote yes by proposing an amendment making sure that Burchett didn’t hog the credit for the pay raise, any suspense sur-rounding the vote was removed.

Under the terms of the compro-mise, McIntyre agreed to trim $1 million from his original budget request and apply it to teacher raises. Burchett agreed to make a onetime payment to Knox Coun-ty Schools of $3 million to fund APEX (strategic compensation) bonuses promised to teachers who earned them. This leaves open the question of how such bonuses will be funded in the future.

The agreement to sell the An-

drew Johnson Building was ac-cepted with no comment, and little reference was made to a paragraph in the agreement that bars ad-ditional new school construction until 2021, except for a couple of board members who are hoping for new schools in their districts noting that the agreement is “non-binding.”

Board members Tracie Sanger, Lynne Fugate and Gloria Death-ridge made strong cases for turn-ing down the deal, and Sanger was eloquent when she spoke of “have-not” schools – like Inskip Elemen-tary School – whose actual needs “will be superseded by projected needs. We need to address current needs before we address projected needs,” she said.

Several dozen red-shirted teachers who had rallied in sup-port of nonrenewed colleagues before the board meeting stuck around to watch the vote. Most

had little to say about the MOU.When asked how teachers felt

about getting only half of the 4 percent raise that McIntyre – and Gov. Bill Haslam – semi-promised them this year, one teacher activ-ist said teachers are accustomed to getting shafted.

“Once again we’re feeling like an afterthought, but we’re thinking, ‘Something’s better than nothing.’ You can say raises are a priority, and we’ve got to take care of them, but meanwhile teachers are being chased out; veteran teachers are being replaced by young teachers. It’s cheaper that way. And McIntyre keeps creating administrative po-sitions for people like Clifford Da-vis and Russ Oaks. And the $65 million for new schools? Teachers don’t think much about that.”

The teacher tapped Burchett as the big winner in the compromise.

“He’s got McIntyre on a short leash.”

Lanna Reddic and Modern Woodmen

regional director Ben Foote count sealed

bags of macaroni and cheese to be boxed

for Second Harvest. Reddic’s mother is an

administrative assistant in Foote’s offi ce.Photos by Ruth White

KCDC wins $1 million for Five PointsBy Bill Dockery

Knoxville’s Community De-velopment Corp. has won slightly more than $1 million to build new affordable housing in the Five Points neighborhood.

The funding comes in the form of annual tax credits from the Tennessee Housing Develop-ment Agency, a state organiza-tion that supports the construc-tion or renovation of residences in urban areas that need upgrad-ed housing.

“These low-income housing tax credits will allow us to move forward with our master plan for

redevelopment in the Five Points neighborhood,” said Art Cate, ex-ecutive director and chief execu-tive offi cer of KCDC.

The funding will allow KCDC to construct a midrise building that will house 90 units for people who are elderly or disabled. Ground-breaking is expected in January 2016, a year after KCDC applied for the grant. KCDC’s applica-tion was judged on state and local needs for affordable housing and the corporation’s capabilities and reputation. It scored the maxi-mum 100 points possible.

The new housing will replace

the Walter P. Taylor and Dr. Lee Williams homes, which were built in the 1960s.

“The units we’ll be building will have more amenities,” Cate said. “They’ll be more energy effi cient and equipped with modern appli-ances. There will be meeting space within the building, computer ki-osks and space to hold and keep warm mobile meals delivered to the residents.”

Cate said the current design calls for a three-story building with two wings. The primary entrance on the back side of the building will have a covered por-

tico. Six of the 90 units will have two bedrooms; the rest will be single bedroom.

“Now we will go back to the community to fi nalize the de-signs,” Cate said. The meeting will be held in late July at the Walter P. Taylor Boys & Girls Club.

The $1 million grant will lever-age local investment for the fi rst phase of the project, which will be worth $10 million when com-pleted. When later phases are completed and all the old housing has been replaced, the project is expected to be worth a total of $85 million.

By Ruth WhiteBen “Beau” Foote, regional director for Modern

Woodmen of America, enlisted agents, their fami-lies and friends for a meal-packing event June 29 at the regional offi ce, 5915 Rutledge Pike.

“We’re excited to do our part to end hunger in the community,” said Foote. “I hope that it drives others to contribute to their local food pantries and shelters.”

The event supports Modern Woodmen’s Knock Out Hunger campaign, a national effort to prepare and donate 50,000 meals throughout the coun-try. Modern Woodmen’s Tennessee East Region is tasked with packing 10,000 meals.

“It was truly shocking to learn of the food in-security in Tennessee. With Knock Out Hunger, Modern Woodmen can touch lives and secure fu-tures in our region – and around the country – in a huge way,” said Foote.

As a tax-exempt fraternal benefi t society, Mod-ern Woodmen sells life insurance, annuity and in-vestment products. Securities are offered through MWA Financial Services Inc., a wholly-owned sub-sidiary of Modern Woodmen of America.

In 2014, Modern Woodmen and its mem-bers provided more than $19 million and nearly 437,000 volunteer hours for community projects nationwide.

Knock out hunger

Helping others is a family aff air for Modern Woodmen agent Jake Ottinger (in blue) and his children. The Ot-

tingers helped with last week’s meal-packing. Pictured are Riley Ottinger, Ottinger, Gwen Rader (sister of an

agent) and Reese Ottinger.

Ed and Bob coming to Carter

Knox County at-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will host a community meeting 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at Cardin’s Drive-In, 8529 Asheville Highway.

All residents are invited to attend to discuss county issues. Other commissioners may at-tend as well.

Smith to head Richard Yoakley

Seth Smith has been ap-pointed the new principal at

the Richard Yoakley School. He is currently an assistant principal at Central High School.

Smith began his tenure with Knox County

Schools in 1997 as a social studies teacher at Farragut High School and has also been a social studies teacher at Fulton High School. He moved into administration in 2006 as an assistant principal at Carter High School and has also served as an assistant principal at Farragut High School.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the Universi-ty of Tennessee and a master’s in education administration and supervision from Lincoln Memorial University.

Covington kicks off campaign

Michael Covington is run-ning for Knox County Com-mission from District 1 where Commissioner Sam McKenzie

is not seeking re-election.

He launched his campaign July 7 with a reception at Calhoun’s on the River.

Covington is expected to run as a Republi-can in a district that typically elects Democrats. His press release calls him “a real leader in real time.”

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health & lifestyles

Patrick Bolt,

Orthopedic

Spine Surgeon

Scrums, rucks and mauls. Butch Robert-son knows ’em all.

But this is no unsavory cast of characters – they are terms used in rugby, a sport Rob-ertson knows plenty about. After all, he not only played it at North Carolina State, but also racked up more than 750 victories for the University of Tennessee during his 34 years as the Vols’ head coach.

He offi cially left the game in May 2011, but the game never left him, thanks to an injury received during a match about 40 years ago. And thanks to Dr. Patrick Bolt, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Fort Sanders Regional Med-ical Center, Robertson is now back helping his successor, Marty Bradley, keep the Vols winning.

“I was going into a maul (the term used when a player carrying the ball is held by one or more opponents and one or more of his teammates also latch onto the ball-carrier to move toward the goal) and so was my team-mate, who unfortunately either didn’t see me or decided to keep on coming and hit me in the back,” Robertson said, recalling a Satur-day afternoon match when he was playing with the Atlanta Rugby Club.

“It was a case of where the role of a coach is to ensure that players understand the rules and the techniques of the game, but also how to play it safely. The Atlanta team was basi-cally a self-coached team. As such, we just didn’t play it as safely as we could. Since we didn’t have that direction from the sideline, we kind of learned it the hard way and some-times did things we shouldn’t have done.”

That blow to the back resulted in an injury requiring a partial discectomy. The injury was compounded years later by degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis.

“Mr. Robertson had pretty classic spinal stenosis where he had a great deal of diffi culty walking any distance without sitting down,” said Dr. Bolt. “He felt like he had to hold onto a cart at the store which leaned him forward, taking pressure off his back. It was a pretty classic case, and we tried everything we could to avoid surgery.”

For six years Dr. Bolt managed Robert-son’s pain with steroid injections and physi-cal therapy, knowing the day would come when major spinal surgery was needed.

That day came in May 2014 when Robert-son and his family went on vacation to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. “I could hardly walk,” he said. “I just had to push my-self through the pain. I clearly needed sur-gery.”

And Dr. Bolt was just the man to do it. Robertson had been referred to Dr. Bolt

by Michael Casey, MD, Dr. Bolt’s colleague at Fort Sanders Regional, and a rugby fan, friend and team doctor. Dr. Casey once worked with the perennial world-champion All Blacks in New Zealand on a sports medi-cine fellowship.

“The thing I enjoyed about working with them was they had the same set of priorities: they recognized the competitive nature of the

sport and the desire to keep our kids healthy. These guys had established credibility in my mind by the way they approached their ath-letic injury issues,” Robertson said. “Seeing how they responded to on-the-fi eld situations and how they helped kids, it made me realize, ‘You’re not going to get any better than this. These guys know what they’re doing.’ So why, after seeing them in action, would I go to any-one else to get this work done on me?”

The only question in Robertson’s mind was WHEN to do the surgery. With a pro-jected 12-week recovery period and a slew of engagements ahead, he delayed the surgery until Feb. 10 of this year. On that day, he en-tered Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, where Dr. Bolt removed bone with laminecto-

mies at L3-4-5 and fused the L3-4 vertebrateswhich were unstable due to spondylolisthesis(also known as a “slipped disc” or “slidingvertebrate”). He utilized computer navigationto surgically place the pedicle screws to holddiscs in place.

“Because of his previous surgery and theamount of arthritis, his L3 vertebrate had slidin front of the L4 which aggravates the painof spinal stenosis and caused back pain withstanding and walking which was relieved bysitting,” said Dr. Bolt. “A lot of people havespinal stenosis, a lot of people have spondylo-listhesis but only about 1 out of 10 people withthose conditions will need surgery; most ofthe rest can be treated with physical therapyand anti-infl ammatories and injections. Butwhen we do need to do surgery, the most im-portant part of the surgery is getting the pres-sure off the nerves and stabilizing the loosevertebrate.”

Robertson was in the hospital fi ve days, an experience he says was made easier becauseof the staff which he said was “absolutely top-drawer, nice and concerned from beginningto end.”

“Everybody I met on the various nursingfl oors I was on – top to bottom – was cour-teous and concerned,” he said. “My wife,Rebekah, stayed with me three or four of thenights while I was in the hospital and theywere very helpful and courteous to her. Theyreally made a difference in that period thatwas really challenging.”

And once home, Rebekah made the dif-ference. “She was my nurse, my chauffeur,my chef, my ear, my counselor. She just sup-ported me immensely throughout this wholething,” he said of his wife of 38 years.

Today, Robertson says, “I feel great and Iam doing things I hadn’t been able to do ina year.”

One of those things is rugby, helping coachMarty Bradley with the Vols team. Of course,you won’t be seeing him in a “scrum” anytime soon. “Did I tell you how old I would beon my next birthday?” he says with a laugh. “Ididn’t say this wasn’t a fun sport, but I did sayit is a fun sport for young men.”

For more information about spinal proce-dures at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Cen-ter, call 865-673-FORT (3678).

The blow to Butch Robertson’s back all those years ago while playing with the Atlanta Rugby Club may have stuck in his memory, but whether it was directly responsible for his pain some four decades later is diffi cult to say.

“It was probably an indirect result,” said Dr. Patrick Bolt, an orthopedic spine surgeon at

Fort Sanders Regional Medi-cal Center. “Mr. Robertson had a lot of arthritis through-out his back, so there’s re-ally no telling which was at-tributable to an injury some time ago and which was not. I don’t know that distant in-juries always cause future problems, but I would say, in his case, having a prior surgery may have caused it. Sometimes, surgery in the

past can also need surgery in the future.”It’s important to remember, said Dr. Bolt,

degenerative disc disease is “not actually a dis-

ease.”“It’s wear and tear on the spine,” he said.

“The more wear and tear you place on your spine, the worse your degenerative disc disease will be. The spine has only so much capacity to heal and injuries will accumulate over time. I like to use the analogy of a set of tires on a car: You don’t get to change your tire … so the faster your drive and the more you do in the car, the faster the tires wear out.”

Spinal injuries are eventually accompanied by stenosis, a narrowing of the nerve canal due to boney overgrowth caused by wear and tear and arthritis. “Just like you notice arthritic joints in your hands get knobby and swollen, the knuckle joints in your back and neck get knobby and swollen,” said Dr. Bolt.

For temporary relief, Dr. Bolt says heat and ice remain good solutions. “Heat tends to increase blood fl ow to the area and relax muscles. So, if you are trying to induce healing and relax spasming muscles, heat can be help-ful,” he said. “Ice reduces infl ammation. So if

you feel like your back is infl amed or had a re-cent injury, ice can slow down blood fl ow and reduce infl ammation. Unfortunately, neither heat nor ice changes the temperature of the discs – it’s mainly affecting the muscles.”

Maintaining good spine health, however, is one way to help reduce your risk of injury and degenerative disc disease. Dr. Bolt says the keys to good spine health include:

STOP SMOKING – “Smokers have high-er rates of spine pain and degenerative disc disease,” said Dr. Bolt. “It’s not entirely un-derstood why but it’s thought to be a nicotine effect. Nicotine constricts the small blood ves-sels, and the discs rely on small blood vessels to retain their nutrition. So if you’ve got nicotine in your system, pretty much 24/7, your verte-bral discs are starved of nutrients.”

KEEP YOUR WEIGHT DOWN – Being heavy is associated with spine pain and degen-erative disc disease.

KEEP YOUR CORE STRONG – Sit-ups and walking help strengthen your back and

abdominal muscles, thereby lessening the bur-den on your spine. Find a good exercise pro-gram to help align your pelvis and lower back.

KEEP CORRECT POSTURE – Sit up straight; stand straight. Slouching aggravates back pain. So, if you’ve had poor posture for years, you’ll need to work at it by “practicing” good posture.

AVOID PROLONGED SITTING – “Don’t sit longer than 30 or 40 minutes with-out getting up to take a break,” said Dr. Bolt. “Again, I believe it comes down to interverte-bral disc nutrition. When you have a sustained sitting posture, the intervertebral discs are under pressure and movement is where it ob-tains its nutrition. So, if you’re not moving, it’s starving.”

“A lot of it has to do with genetics, and you can’t help which genes have been passed on to you,” said Dr. Bolt. “The other factors are con-trollable; so we try to focus on the things we can control. There’s no turning back the clock once the damage is done.”

Mauled no moreVols’ retired rugby coach back in the game

Butch Robertson, retired rugby coach at the University of Tennessee, is grateful to Dr. Patrick Bolt

and Fort Sanders Regional for spine surgery that has allowed him to continue helping with the

team and sport he loves so much.

Best spine care? Prevention

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“The area around Mag-nolia Avenue is underval-ued,” said Jennifer Mont-gomery, a principal in East Knox MAMA. “We want to see East Knoxville evolved a way that is unique, that refl ects not only its prop-ert y values but its cultural values. We see commercial activity occurring there and sense the potential for what East Knoxville might be-come.”

Montgomery, a partner in Trotta Montgomery Real Estate, is part of the small group that formed the or-ganization, which is head-quartered in the lobby of the real estate offi ces at 300 West 5th Ave. Others in the group include Sarah and Richard Gamble and John Craig.

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By Ruth WhiteThe Young High School

class of 1945 celebrated its 70th reunion, proving some things never change.

It was easy to pick out class president Herman Sims before he addressed the attendees. Even after 70 years, he spoke with au-thority as the leader of the class. Class secretary Bob-bie Larew Himes was also there, taking special note of the memories shared during the day.

Melvin Gerald Cooper, named Class Casanova, at-tended with his high school sweetheart, YHS cheerlead-er and wife of 67 years, Do-lores Burleson Cooper.

Bart Iddins, who ar-rived at the event sport-ing his letter sweater from his high school days, was also a member of the YHS cheerleading team, reliving memories from those happy times at Young High.

Eighteen class members and their spouses/guests

attended the event at Sher-rill Hills Retirement Resort in West Knoxville, where Sims is a resident. The re-sort provided the meeting area, snacks and drinks and a full-course dinner for the group. Sherrill Hills is at 271 Moss Grove Blvd., be-hind Academy Sports.

East Knox gets a new MAMA

put out a guide to East Knoxville restaurants and plans to publish another soon. “There seems to be a core of restaurants here. There could be the poten-tial here for restaurant va-riety, independent restau-rants.”

Montgomery has been scouting restaurants in Maryville and Asheville that might be interested in locating in eastern parts of the city. She also said MAMA is considering hold-ing a food truck event in East Knoxville.

The organization would also like to fi nd ways to make Chilhowee Park more useful, with walking trails and other amenities and an extension of the Comcast Christmas lights display onto Magnolia Avenue itself.

“Where other parts of the city edge into suburban areas, East Knoxville turns rural very quickly,” Mont-gomery said. “The rural area is much more proxi-mate to downtown on the east side. The linkage to the rural environment increas-es interest in the area.”

East Knox MAMA is also seeking funding to have a sticker printed and expects to soon let East Knoxvil-lians get a MAMA T-shirt online.

Montgomery herself is a Knoxville native who grew up in Fountain City. Her grandfather worked on sub-divisions in West Knoxville as she was growing up, and neighborhood development remains a personal interest of hers. She has a master’s degree in planning from the University of Tennessee and worked at Coldwell Banker, Wallace and Wallace, Real-tors before joining Suzy Trot-ta in their fi rm 12 years ago.

Young High forever more

Bobbie Larew Himes and Her-

man Sims served as secretary

and president, respectively,

for the class of 1945.

Class of 1945 members from Young High School gathered at Sherrill Hills Retirement Resort in West Knoxville for a 70-year reunion.

Pictured at the event are: (seated) Bobbie Larew Himes, Sarah Mae Dickey; (middle) Doris Johnson Johnson, Dolores Burleson Coo-

per, Melvin Gerald Cooper, Jeanne Davis Ford, Joanne Larew Lokkins, Geraldine Pickens Day, J.N. Burgin, Betty Lawson Ford Lyle,

Harold Julian; (back) Bart Iddins, Carl Sharp, Earl Hoff meister, Frank Barnes, Herman Sims and Bill “Orville” Irwin. Photo by R. White

Rose Mary Ballard and Bart Iddins chat about the good ol’ days

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for the 70th class reunion.

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A snapshot of Harold

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New MPC director wants to talkGerald Green doesn’t

have many positive memo-ries of downtown Knoxville from his graduate school days in the early 1980s. He interned in a leased offi ce with no windows, and he re-calls a restaurant on Market Square but can’t remember the name. Beyond Miller’s Department Store and Big Don the Costumier, nothing else stands out.

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Gerald Green takes a break to chat about the challenges of

growth. Photo by Wendy Smith

Now, he thinks the city is great. Downtown, the river, the university, neigh-borhoods, greenways and people provide a great foun-dation, and Knoxville is building on it, he says.

Green is the new ex-ecutive director of the Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, and he’s get-ting his feet wet by reading and by meeting with people. His defi nition of planning is 70 percent education, 20 percent counseling and 10 percent planning.

He was a planner in Ashe-ville, N.C., as it was grow-ing up. During the month he moved there in 1989, the fourth downtown res-

taurant opened. The city’s successful growth led to a lack of affordable housing − something he hopes Knox-ville can avoid. The city also lost its friendliness, he says, which contributed to his decision to accept a job as planning director for Jack-son County, N.C.

The county seat of Jack-son County is Sylva − pop-ulation 2,603. But a rapid population increase was un-derway when Green arrived in 2010. The change allowed him to do different things, like environmental plan-ning, protecting natural re-sources and working with small communities.

Working with small com-munities is the same as working with larger ones, just more personal, he says. He left that post to return to Knoxville.

His experiences have led him to value good commu-nication. In Asheville, he had good relationships with neighborhoods and devel-opers alike because he com-municated with them.

“Nobody likes to be told no without an explanation.”

He hopes to get off on the right foot here by meeting with neighborhood groups. The city needs to have a bal-ance of single-family and multi-family housing, and he plans to talk to residents about where high-density housing would work best.

Building high-density housing in the right place enhances commercial de-velopment and discourages developers from putting it in the wrong place, he says.

The biggest challenges he will face in Knoxville, aside from communica-tion, are getting buy-in for the city’s vision of growth from the center and identi-fying where county growth should happen. He’s heard that some want to preserve areas in the southern part of the county, and some want to preserve farmland in the east, and he aims to fi nd out if those are shared goals.

When asked for his opin-ion on historic preserva-

tion, he chooses his words carefully. There’s real value in historic properties, but the economics have to work. There has to be a way to re-use them, he says.

While he’s glad to return to Knoxville, he doesn’t an-ticipate being able to relax anytime soon. He plans to spend his evenings meet-ing with the community. His wife, Ashlea Green, still teaches part-time at West-ern Carolina University and plans to commute between Knoxville and Cullowhee, N.C.

Those who wonder which part of town the Greens will call home will have to wait. They are still house shopping.

Recently, comments were attributed to Gov. Bill Haslam regarding the proposed gas tax hike that seemed out of character for him. He was quoted from Shelbyville telling gas tax

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opponents to “bring it on” if they wanted to fi ght a gas tax increase.

As many readers of this column know, Bill Haslam is one of the nicest persons you will ever meet. He is never derogatory about opposing points of view and prefers resolving issues to confrontations. So when he urges opponents to go to war with him, that is not the Bill Haslam we know.

Without commenting on the merit of an increase in the gas tax at this time, all should be able to agree it is a complicated issue with many ramifi cations.

First, Gov. Haslam has not yet made a specifi c pro-posal although it appears he will support an increase. We just do not know if it will be 10 cents or 20 cents or somewhere in between.

We do not know if it will be for bridge replacements, new roads, repairing old roads, urban or rural, or all of the above. In short, there is nothing to support or oppose until the governor puts it on the table.

Second, he will need to lay the groundwork for legislative buy-in. He will need to meet personally with dozens of lawmakers, not in group settings.

He will need to fi nd out what their concerns are and how to meet them. Other-wise, he faces the prospect of another loss along the lines of Insure Tennessee. Many legislators cam-paigned on lower taxes. It may be impossible for them to vote for a tax increase during the 2016 session with that pledge in their platform.

Third, he cannot keep on saying the budget is in great shape as he has for four years and not mention road funding as an issue. Everything cannot be fi ne

one day and then in crisis the next day when it comes to roads.

His new chief of staff, Jim Henry, has a strong legislative background. Henry, 70, is highly re-spected.

The governor will need to listen to his experience and build on it. He has his work cut out for him.

Henry needs to get the Lady Vols fi asco off the front page as the governor, who chairs the University of Tennessee Board of Trust-ees, is getting tarnished by it. One would think the UT leadership, starting with President Joe DiPietro, would realize they have a serious problem that has not been resolved.

Terry Faulkner: The talk at the recent Marshall Stair for Council kick-off reception was about Terry Faulkner, longtime Bearden neighborhood activist, running in 2017 to replace Duane Grieve on City Council. Grieve is term-limited. The current council members, with the exception of Mark Campen, appear strong contenders for re-election, so attention is already turning to who will replace the fi ve district council members who are term-limited in 2017.

Faulkner is a go-to per-son in Bearden and among neighborhood groups citywide. She has spear-headed the new Everly Park idea. She was instrumental in getting Charlie Thomas appointed to City Council to replace then-Vice Mayor Bob Becker, who had moved to Richmond, Va. It took several ballots for Thomas to prevail.

She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UT and the mother of two adult daugh-ters. Council will lose its only woman in 2017 when Brenda Palmer retires unless a woman wins this year.

■ Three members will likely leave MPC in a few months as they are city appointments who have served two terms. Mayor Rogero has a rigid policy of not naming people to a third term. The three are former Vice Mayor Jack Sharp, Bart Carey and Michael Kane. However, it is possible one of them could receive a county ap-pointment as Arthur Clancy did and continue on MPC. Carey is vice chair.

■ Dean Rice, Mayor Burchett’s chief of staff, has been ill at home for the past three weeks. He is recover-ing well from a virus picked up while in Jordan on a private trip. It caused acute pericarditis. The good news is he expects to be back to work soon.

Widening Washington PikeAt left, Jeff Mize, project manager and an engineer with CDM

Smith, shows residents the route of the widened Washington

Pike. Above, residents James McMillan and Kevin Murphy talk

following the public meeting. Photos by S. Clark

Sandra Clark

‘Why are we building this road?’Road projects often gen-

erate their own momentum, especially when an engi-neering fi rm gets involved.

Take Washington Pike, east of Target and New Har-vest Park. You’ll soon reach Murphy Road and a traf-fi c light at Tazewell Pike. It could be a quick route to, well, Gibbs.

If you want to go from New Harvest Park to Gibbs.

Otherwise, why in the world would the city pay $15 million and change to im-

prove a 1.84-mile stretch?“Why are we (city resi-

dents) building this road?” asked Ronnie Collins, presi-dent of the Alice Bell Spring Hill Neighborhood Associa-tion. “And who are we build-ing it for?”

He was echoed by Justin Sterling, East Towne Busi-ness Alliance president.

“The business alliance is not opposed to this, but we’d rather see limited resources used to install a second-chance exit ramp from I-640 and clear out some of the brush (that limits vis-ibility).”

“We’re building it be-cause it’s a city street and it needs improvement,” said city Engineering Director Jim Hagerman, who seemed

annoyed by the question.Project manager Jeff

Mize said after last week’spublic hearing that the en-gineering and right-of-wayacquisition are funded.

The city has diverted some$10 million from this projectto Cumberland Avenue im-provements. Mize said fund-ing is federal, routed throughTDOT and the city.

Why build it? When?And who benefi ts? We needanswers before additionalmoney is invested.

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THROUGH THURSDAY, OCT. 22Tickets on sale for “The Music and the Memo-

ries” show featuring Pat Boone backed by Knoxville swing orchestra The Streamliners, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, Oak Ridge Performing Arts Center, Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. Proceeds go the Oak Ridge High School music department. Info/tickets: www.KnoxvilleTickets.com or 656-4444.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8Afternoon LEGO Club, 2 p.m., Burlington

Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. For kids in fi rst through fi fth grades. Info: 525-5431.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info/registration: 525-5431.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Sponsored by the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers. First visit free. No partner or dance experience required. Adults and children accompanied by an adult welcome. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; www.oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

Summer Fun Picnic and Line Dance Party, noon-2 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info/RSVP: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

THURSDAY, JULY 9Halls Book Club: “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing

of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson, 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Living with Diabetes: Putting the Pieces To-gether, 2-4 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Magician Michael Messing, 4 p.m., Mascot Branch Library, 1927 Library Road. Info: 933-2620.

Needle Tatting Class-Medallion, 2:30-5:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

Seniors meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., the Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road in Heiskell. Activities include Summer BBQ Party with fun, food

and games. Lunch at noon, bingo at 1. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

Teen Write-In and Launch Party, 6-7:30 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynard-ville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

FRIDAY, JULY 10Deadline to register for the hands-on spinning

workshop to be held Saturday, July 18, at Marble Springs State Historic Site, 1220 W. Gov. John Sevier Highway. Cost: $25. Learn how to wash wool, card wool and spin wool using a drop spindle. Info/registration: 573-5508 or email info@marblesprings.net.

Free Movie in the Park at Luttrell City Park. Movie: “Freaky Friday” starts at dusk. Bring blanket or chairs. Sponsored by Luttrell Seniors. Info: 992-0678.

Magician Michael Messing, 2 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

The Union County Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., 1009 Main St., Maynardville. Fresh produce, meat, plants, cut fl owers, artists and craftsmen. New vendors welcome. Info: 992-8038.

SATURDAY, JULY 11East Tennessee Creative Writers Alliance, 10

a.m.-12:30 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Happy Travelers trip: “Southern Fried Nuptials” at the Barter Theatre. Cost: $55, includes transportation and ticket. Info/registration: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 865-406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Faye Wooden, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

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

SUNDAY, JULY 12Sing Out Knoxville meeting, a folk-singing circle

open to everyone, 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Song book provided. Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com or 546-5643.

MONDAY, JULY 13Coffee, Donuts and a Movie: “Fury,” 10:30 a.m.,

Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Rated R; 134 minutes. Info: 525-5431.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 13-17Etiquette classes, 4-5:15 p.m., Imagination Forest,

7613 Blueberry Road. Hosted by the Cardinal School of Etiquette for ages 12-17. Cost: $125. Info/registration: 312-2371 or alwhite07@comcast.net.

MONDAY-SATURDAY, JULY 13-18Anderson County Fair, 5 p.m., Anderson County

Fair Grounds, 218 Nave St., Clinton. Admission: $5; kids 6 and under free. Info: www.andersoncountyfairtn.com.

TUESDAY, JULY 14Diabetes Support Group, 10-11 a.m., Humana

Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Healthy U: Smoking Cessation, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 West-ern Ave. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m.,

Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Sponsored by the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers. First visit free. No partner or dance experience required. Adults and children accompanied by an adult welcome. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; www.oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, JULY 16“Attracting the Good Guys with Herbs,” 3:15-

4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by an Extension Master Gardener. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

Needle Tatting/Crochet/Quilting classes, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby at Turkey Creek. Cost: $25. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

Writing workshop, 6-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Kathleen Fearing. Registration deadline: July 10. Info/registration: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

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The price hike passed, but Gabrielson is glad she spoke up. At the Wednesday night meeting, she strug-gled with her emotions as she weighed in on the com-munity controversy caused by the abrupt dismissal of Bearden’s highly regarded softball coach, who took his team to the state tour-nament only to be told that his services were no longer required.

“I just had some ques-tions I wanted to get an-swered,” she said. “I wanted to come in with a bang and hit the ground running. Adam has prepared me well.”

Gabrielson’s predecessor, Adam Hasan, was also from Bearden High, something she feared would hurt her chances.

“I was pleasantly sur-prised,” she said. “And ob-viously, since student rep is the name of this position, I want to represent as many students as possible, and students need to feel free

to contact me, no matter what.”

When school starts, she plans to stay involved in activities like the student government, Key Club and Math Club. She plays piano and cello and is a member of the school orchestra and the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra.

The daughter of Jay and Elsie Gabrielson, she has two brothers – Keith, a Bearden High School ju-nior and dual varsity ath-lete (football, baseball), and Reese, who is in the seventh grade.

“I’ve gone through pub-lic school my 12 years of schooling,” she said. “I feel like this is not only a way I can give back, but I can rep-resent a diverse culture of students that really need to be heard by the board.”

Gabrielson said she wants to hear from other students. She can be reached via sydney.gabrielson@gmail.com or through Twitter and Facebook.

Bearden High School senior Sydney Gabriel-

son’s fi rst day on the job as stu-dent school board rep-resentative began with a 7 a.m. drive to the Uni-versity of Ten ne s s e e

Medical Center. She’s par-ticipating in the Medical Ex-plorations Program, which allows rising seniors and recent high school graduates to shadow doctors and resi-dents as part of a six-week summer internship.

She was in surgery until 4:15 p.m., then drove down-town to be in her seat in the Andrew Johnson Build-ing in time for the school board’s July workshop meeting at 5 p.m. She didn’t get home until after 10:30.

And she wasn’t shy about jumping right into the ac-tion, zeroing in on the ad-ministration’s request to

Gabrielson

Betty Bean

Student school board rep hits the ground running

raise the prices of tickets to athletic events, passing along questions she’d gotten from students and parents.

“I’d just like to urge the board not to pass this,” she said, citing the fi nancial burden on families who at-tend games.

“I think you will lose stu-dent morale if you increase these ticket prices. Bearden (football) was one and nine last year, and I don’t think students from our school want to go and support a losing team when they have to pay $2 extra.”

Ultimately, the board ap-proved a maximum ticket price increase of $2 per ticket. Football tickets will be up to $8 at the gate, $6 advance student price, with lesser increases for other sporting events.

Effective Aug. 1, a charging fee of 4 cents per minute for Blink members and 6 cents per minute for Blink guests will be applied to stations at two city garages.

The city of Knoxville has reached an agree-ment with Car Charging Group Inc., the largest owner, operator and pro-vider of electric vehicle (EV) charging services, for the continued opera-tion and maintenance of the 10 Blink EV charg-ing stations located at

the Market Square and Civic Coliseum parking garages.

These stations, along with two solar arrays and battery storage, were originally installed by Oak Ridge National Labo-ratory as part of a state-wide Department of En-ergy research project.

The Blink Level 2 EV charging stations quickly recharge an electric ve-hicle’s battery. EV drivers can become a Blink mem-ber at no cost. Info: www.BlinkNetwork.com.

Fee for car charging at 2 city garages

Football is not foreverThere must be a message

in the sad story of Antonio “Tiny” Richardson.

The very large former Volunteer looked like an NFL tackle in high school. All he had to do was learn the nuances and push past lazy periods.

As a Tennessee fresh-man, he was 6-6 and 330 and good enough to play with fi eld-goal units. He got additional experience at garbage time, when the Vols were safely ahead or out of contention.

He played one snap in the victory over Vanderbilt. He lined up at fullback and cleared a path for a Tauren Poole touchdown. Team-

Marvin West

mates said, “Wow!”Richardson was the start-

ing left tackle as a sopho-more, blindside protector for Tyler Bray. Tiny’s big body, perfectly sculpted, fi t per-fectly in Derek Dooley jokes.

The coach said he always looked carefully to gauge Tiny’s mood before taking the risk of yelling at him in practice. The coach said he gained confi dence just

standing beside Tiny, that when you have a man like that on your side, you know you have a chance to win.

On trips, the coach wanted Tiny to be fi rst off the bus. He was imposing enough to calm heckling crowds and create inferior-ity complexes.

Richardson played so well in 2012, it was easy to overlook false starts, mis-alignments, holding and other little infractions. In a clash of titans, he defeated South Carolina’s famous Jadeveon Clowney.

The Vols ran 71 plays against that really good Gamecock defense, and Richardson graded high or

at least acceptable on 70. On that other play, Clowney gave him an inside fake, went outside, hit Bray’s passing arm and forced a fumble that essentially won the game.

“To watch how he com-peted the whole game,’’ Dooley said, “it just breaks your heart that Clowney made an incredible play that last play, and it happens to be the one they are going to show on ESPN.”

That play and that loss probably factored in Dool-ey’s departure.

Before the 2013 season, there was talk that Tiny might go early to the NFL.

“The way I see it, I’m the best left tackle in the country.”

Those in the know said fi rst round, maybe top eight.

“That’s motivation, the

thought of seeing your name on draft boards. I see myself as a top-fi ve pick when the time comes, but that’s not my focus right now.”

First, he was going to take care of business.

Richardson didn’t play as well as a junior. He had a gimpy knee or knees. He was a central fi gure in an offensive line that looked great in warmups but un-derachieved. NFL scouts noticed.

Tiny realized football was not forever, that his playing time was limited, that he had better get some while he could. He committed to the draft. He was not spec-tacular at the combine. To his amazement, he endured three days of draft excite-ment without getting a call.

Minnesota signed him

as a free agent. There wasno bonus, none of the pre-dicted millions. He was paid$303,000. His agent andtaxes got their shares.

Tiny was injured in anexhibition game. He neededrepairs. He spent last sea-son on the “unable to per-form” list. He announc edhis retirement from footballa few weeks ago.

First thought was theRobert Burns line, “Thebest-laid plans o’ mice an’men …”

I do believe AntonioRichardson is a good man.He’ll survive. He may excel.I sure hope so.

There must be a messagein his story, a little some-thing about what mighthave been. Marvin West invites reader reaction. Hisaddress is westwest6@netzero.com.

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Alive After Five: John Myers Band, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Tickets: $10; $5 for members/students. Info: 934-2039.

Midnight Voyage LIVE: Snails, 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info/tickets: www.intlknox.com.

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“The Spitfi re Grill,” a soulful & inspiring musical presented by The WordPlayers, Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: wordplayers.org, knoxbijou.com, 684-1200 and at the door.

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current top 40, spirituals and the most challenging, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’” he says. “This cast is up to the music, choreography and teamwork needed to bring a great night of entertain-ment and laughter for the audience.”

Roberts is well-known for his past portrayals of former embattled state Sen. Stacey Campfi eld, whose antics have provided years of fodder for the Follies. Campfi eld will be “honored” with a retrospective featur-ing parodies of the songs “Thanks for the Memories” and “My Way.”

Also honored – for real – will be senior Knoxville News Sentinel sports colum-nist John Adams. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Adams has been named to the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame and the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.

Other parodies include “It’s All About That Bass,” referencing bestselling au-thor Dr. Bill Bass of UT’s Body Farm; “Vote Mad-eline,” a tribute to Mayor Rogero sung to “I Walk the Line”; “Ghostworkers,” sung to the tune of “Ghost-busters,” about the Knox County Trustee scandal; and a brilliant “Republican Rhapsody,” which skew-ers not only Republicans but, well, pretty much ev-erybody. “We’re an equal-opportunity offender,” says Lauver.

Directed by the Clarence Brown Theatre’s musical di-rector, Terry Silver-Alford, the show brings down the house every year, and this year will be no exception.

Masters of ceremo-nies will be Lori Tucker of WATE-TV, John Becker of WBIR-TV and Alan Wil-liams of WVLT-TV. The show will also feature mete-

orologists from local TV sta-tions singing “Let It Snow! Let It Rain! Let It Blow!”

And it’s all for a good cause. Follies proceeds fund journalism and elec-tronic media scholarships at the University of Tennessee and Pellissippi State Com-munity College, as well as educational programs of the Front Page Foundation.

The 37th annual Front Page Follies starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 18, with a cash bar/reception followed by dinner, live auction and the stage show.

Individual tickets are $125, and a portion of each purchase is tax deductible.

To join in the fun with friends or colleagues and get priority seating, people may purchase tables of 10 for $1,250.

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By Betsy PickleThe clash between art

and the machinery of celeb-rity has rarely had as tragic a trajectory as it did with Amy Winehouse.

That’s the takeaway from “Amy,” the poignant new documentary directed by Asif Kapadia.

“Amy” fi nds the everyday voice behind the amazing performing voice of the su-perstar who died less than two months before her 28th birthday in 2011. As a docu-mentary, it’s a remarkable accomplishment – a fi lm created primarily from ex-isting material, much of it from low-tech cell-phone footage, without the talking heads of a traditional doc.

Kapadia has the experts – family, friends and asso-ciates who knew Winehouse best – but he uses voiceovers instead of on-camera inter-views so that he can keep the focus on the singer and show her three-dimension-ality. He also illustrates her story with performances

that chart her deserved rise and disastrous fall.

Those who watched from a distance might have been aware of Winehouse’s blue-sy, non-prefab voice but dismissed her as a musical force because of her highly publicized problems with drugs and alcohol. Fans took her more seriously, but even they wouldn’t have been privy to the insights provided in “Amy.”

Many of those come from Winehouse’s oldest friends, Juliette Ashby and Lauren Gilbert, and her fi rst man-ager and friend Nick Shy-mansky. There are also rev-elations from more famous folk, such as her friend Ya-siin Bey (aka Mos Def) and collaborator Tony Bennett.

The story that emerges is of a precocious yet sensi-tive girl from North London whose parents’ divorce cre-ates a chasm in her own life. That event echoes through her adolescence on into her teens, when rebellion and self-destructive habits form

Also opening …In addition to “Amy,”

three other fi lms make their Knoxville bow this week:

“Self/less” – Ryan Reyn-olds, Natalie Martinez, Mat-thew Goode and Ben Kings-ley. A wealthy man dying of cancer has his consciousness transferred into the body of a healthy young man.

“Minions” – Voicesof Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton. Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by a woman with world-domi-nation aspirations.

“The Gallows” – Re-ese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos. Teens attempt to honor the anniversary of a school tragedy and instead unleash evil.

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Winehouse doc focuses on talent, loss

Friends Juliette Ashby and Amy Winehouse explore music to-gether as teens in “Amy.”

a dangerous but creative al-liance with her poetry/lyr-ics and songwriting.

While the demons are there, the young Amy is fun and, in a way, normal. She uses songwriting as a sort of therapy, but her talent gets her noticed, and she starts down the road to a music career.

As Kapadia highlights Winehouse’s lyrics on the screen, using them as the

narrative, she makes her rise from obscurity. A play-ful relationship with drugs grows serious. Boyfriends become another form of de-pendency.

She welcomes success but worries about it. Some of her comments are eerie foreshadowing of the turns her life will take.

“Amy” could have been the ultimate cautionary tale, but it isn’t. It’s viscer-

By Carol ShaneThe wiseguys of local me-

dia are at it again.Writers David Lauver,

Mark Harmon, Megan Jones, Frank Murphy, Er-nie Roberts, Melanie Staten and Vince Staten will be part of a big cast that’s go-ing to bring their irrever-ent script to life at the 37th annual Front Page Follies, happening Saturday night, July 18. You’d think the show would, in theater lin-go, be “frozen” by now, but head writer Lauver is still penning parodies. That’s the nature of news satire – you’ve got to keep up with incoming stories.

“We still have at least one more song to complete,” says Lauver. “For the Lady Vols’ ‘Leggo Our Logo’ skit, we’re writing ‘Stand By Our Brand.’” Skits are often tabled when a more up-to-date, gotta-be-covered news event happens.

Sponsored by the East Tennessee Society of Pro-fessional Journalists, the evening begins with a cash bar/reception and includes a silent auction, good food and a live auction. The eve-ning’s main event is the vaudeville-style, multime-dia musical show, similar to those put on by political satirists The Capitol Steps, but on a local level.

Cast member Ernie Rob-erts is jazzed about this year’s show.

“The music is more di-verse than ever before with movie and show tunes, country music, yodeling,

ally personal and uniquely loyal to its subject. Even with potentially stereotypi-cal villains on board – a self-serving father, a loser beau, various music-biz movers and shakers – and Winehouse’s own blatantly bad choices, this is not a template for a reap-what-you-sow parable.

“Amy” is a portrait of an artist who was pushed into a role she wasn’t prepared to play. It’s also an indictment of the circus that comes with fame, but it doesn’t feel a part of that hypocrisy.

A tribute to the talent of Winehouse, “Amy” re-veals the person behind the hype and the loss the world should feel over her untime-ly death.

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targeted to homeless veter-ans, to homeownership.

Dewey Snapp, 65, is a veteran of the Vietnam War and eight years ago was homeless in Knoxville, liv-ing under a bridge.

Thanks to help from Veterans Affairs and Knox-ville’s Community Develop-ment Corp., Snapp received the keys to his new home. Celebrating with him were

KCDC Section 8 occupancy coordinator Kim Trame and KCDC training specialist Jennifer Bell.

“If I hadn’t had this help, I wouldn’t even be alive to-day,” Snapp said. “I’m tick-led to have my own house and have my freedom. My story proves that if you watch your p’s and q’s and you apply yourself a little bit, you can make some-thing out of nothing.”

Snapp is originally from Sevier County and served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1965 to 1971, including a tour in Vietnam. After he left the military, Snapp be-came a master electrician and worked in construction across the country.

“About eight years ago, I lost everything I had before, and I had nothing,” Snapp

said. “I was nearly dead.”While recuperating from

cancer treatment, Snapp ended up on the street. He found a temporary placement for six months at Samaritan Place, a shelter for homeless seniors run through Catholic Charities of East Tennessee. At a local Veterans Affairs meeting, Snapp heard about VASH, a subsidized rental assistance program that provides Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers to homeless veterans.

“When President Obama fi rst became president, I heard him give a speech that promised no homeless veterans,” Snapp said. “I got lucky, and I was the fourth person to sign up for a VASH voucher in Knoxville.”

Since 2010, veteran homelessness has been re-

duced by 24 percent. More than 69,000 vouchers have been awarded nationwide, including 140 in Knoxville.

In 2011, Snapp began working with KCDC to move toward becoming “mort-gage-ready.”

The Section 8 Home-ownership voucher pays a portion of Snapp’s mort-gage, while all maintenance and utility costs are his re-sponsibility. When present-ing Snapp with the keys to his home, KCDC also gave him a gift card to Home Depot for $50. Snapp said he will complete mainte-nance and upgrades on the home using his experience in construction and electri-cal work. He wants to plant a garden in the backyard and expand his lawnmower repair business.

Justin Sterling, for-merly leas-ing agent for Simon Malls in K nox v i l le , has joined Conversion Proper t ies Inc. as a commercial real estate

broker.Sterling will continue as

president of the East Towne Business Alliance.

“At Simon Property Group, I grew tremendously from the countless positive experiences, relationships and career opportunities,” he said. “They were the building blocks that have allowed me to take another step forward.”

Sterling will be director of retail services and business development at Conversion Properties. Info: www.con-versionprop.com, 865-246-1331 ext. 109, or jsterling@conversionprop.com.

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Lissa McLeod guides intern Betty Mengesha on the fabric ropes.

By Shannon CareyYou could make the case

that our visit to Dragonfl y Aerial Arts Studio is the most fun our interns have had so far.

Teacher Lissa McLeod greeted the group and spoke about the studio and its mission. Then, she invited the interns to take a turn on trapeze and fabrics. There were smiles all around, and this old reporter even got in on the fun.

Dragonfl y offers a full range of classes for aerial arts and circus skills, includ-ing juggling, unicycle riding, tightrope, clowning, trapeze,

and of course those iconic fabrics. McLeod got into aerial arts during her activi-ties as a political organizer. She used the arts to convey messages, moving from huge puppets to stilt-walking.

“When I found aeri-als I was like, this is it,” she said. “There are a lot of things you can learn by getting off the ground and looking at things from a different perspective.”

The studio, located off Central Avenue Pike near Merchants, holds “try-me” classes every Monday night.

“All kinds of people can do it,” said McLeod.

Interns in the airBy Annie Dockery

Knoxville is the fi rst city in Tennessee to adopt the Young Entrepreneurs Acad-emy (YEA), a program de-signed to give young people real-world business experi-ence. For three hours a week for 30 weeks, students from grades six through 12 have the opportunity to create their own real business or social movement.

Lori Fuller of the Knox-ville Chamber of Commerce explained that students will spend the fi rst few weeks brainstorming and develop-ing ideas. Additionally, stu-

dents will learn about pat-ents and business taxes fromlawyers, while also learningmarket analysis. Studentswill implement knowledge toinitiate their own real busi-nesses and work with poten-tial investors. The programwill lead to regional andnational competitions; thenational winner will partici-pate in ABC’S “Shark Tank.”

The program has a lim-ited amount of space andlittle time left to apply; how-ever, spots are still avail-able. Info or to apply: www.knoxvillechamberberber.com/yea

Yea for YEA!

By Shannon CareySomewhere near the intersection of healthy

and delicious is where you’ll fi nd Matt Miller, owner and operator of Good Golly Tamale. Good Golly is a true mobile business, with Miller pedaling to different venues on his food trike.

Miller welcomed Shopper-News interns into the kitchen he uses in Knoxville’s Old City, where he and his help-ers make up to 1,000 tamales every week. Then he served us lunch, and it was fabu-lous.

But these aren’t the tamales you get at the local diner. These are tra-ditional Central American tamales, corn masa with natural fi llings wrapped in real corn husks.

“It’s a lot more nutritious than just cornmeal,” Miller said of the organic, non-GMO masa he orders in bulk from San Diego.

Good Golly got its start when a friend of Miller’s came back from a trip to Central America and wanted to make a burrito cart business. Miller, who had worked in food ser-vice for some time, wanted to be self-employed and got on board. The plan changed from burritos to tamales since burritos get soggy over time, but the corn husks keep ta-males hot and fresh with just a little steam. Then the friend moved to California, and Miller forged ahead.

“Pieces of it just started coming together,” Miller said. A neighbor gave Miller the trike, then a friend built

the warming box on back. He started mak-ing tamales during the day at the Public

House.“We actually paid rent with ta-males,” he said. Good Golly is

now using the kitchen in the former Aisle 9 grocery in

the Old City.And those delicious

recipes? They come from the Lawson-McGhee Li-brary and Miller’s head.

“I’m a pretty intuitive cook,” he said. “I read through a bunch of dif-ferent recipes, and then

I just made stuff up and continue to make things up.

We don’t really have strict recipes.”

Miller and his helpers are committed to the busi-ness. Miller said he has put in 90 hours per week for the past month. Sometimes he

gets catering orders which require even more time.“If you’re thinking that you might want to start a food

cart, think long and hard, because it’s a lot of work,” he told the interns. “But I like it. I like doing it. Whatever you want to do, just do it with all your heart and soul. It feels good to be able to own the work and care for it.”

Good Golly Tamale visits the Market Square Farmers Market every Wednesday and Saturday, and visits other venues throughout the week. Find them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more info.

Good eatin’ with Good Golly Tamale

Intern Maggie Williams helps serve bean soup to the group at the Good Golly Tamale kitchen in the Old City.

By Shannon CareyInterns passed a fun

afternoon on Market Square in downtown Knoxville, starting with a visit to the Knoxville Chamber. Communi-cations and Marketing Manager Jenny Wood-bery gave the interns a tour of the facility and a summary of what the Chamber does.

Of the Chamber’s more than 2,000 member busi-nesses, 80 percent are small, local enterprises. The Chamber helps ad-vise start-ups and advo-

cates for businesses in public policy.

Woodbery holds a journalism degree, so the interns’ visit was fun for her, as is her job writing for the Chamber.

“The variety of every-thing we do, it’s fun for me as a writer,” she said. “I get to write about everything.”

Interns visited the shops on Market Square, including getting Italian ice at Rita’s. Then, they walked through the alley on the east side of Mar-ket Square to admire the graffi ti art there.

Touring Market Square

Justin Sterling

By Sandra ClarkKnoxville Mayor Mad-

eline Rogero says right-of-way acquisition will be suspended and another public meeting held before any work is done on the pro-posed widening of Wash-ington Pike from Greenway Drive to Murphy Road in northeast Knoxville.

This aligns her with a majority of those attending the June 30 public hearing at New Harvest Park com-munity center. That’s when Ronnie Collins, president of the Alice Bell Spring Hill Neighborhood Association, suggested city taxpayers are being asked to fund a road project that benefi ts resi-dents outside the city.

And Justin Sterling, president of a business group formed to stimulate

business around Knoxville Center mall, said the money could be better spent on a “second chance” exit ramp from I-640 and brush clear-ing to enhance visibility.

Sterling said in all of his discussions he’s never heard a business manager or owner say the most press-ing problem is widening Washington Pike to Murphy Road.

Nick Weander, vice presi-dent of the homeowners group in Shannon Valley Farms, said his neighbors are “very much in support of the bike lanes and side-walks” that are part of the widening project.

City Council members Nick Della Volpe, Daniel Brown and Finbarr Saunders attended, as did MPC com-missioner Rebecca Longmire

and BZA commissioner Kev-in Murphy.

Jeff Mize, project manager with contractor CDM Smith, said when fi nished the proj-ect will cost some $15 million to widen 1.84 miles.

It will improve east-west connectivity to adequately serve residents and busi-nesses. It will minimize confl icts among pedestri-ans, bicycles and vehicles while enhancing the city’s greenway system. It will in-crease tree cover and dem-onstrate “best practices” for stormwater management.

James McMillan said steep slopes will require a larger than usual right-of-way.

Mize said the bike lanes and sidewalks would stop near Kitts Café. He has designed four-foot wide

bike lanes and 6-foot wide sidewalks on both sides of Washington Pike, along with four lanes for traffi c and a center turn lane.

Rogero, in a press state-ment, said the road will eventually be widened to relieve traffi c congestion, but she will wait to give the Metropolitan Plan-ning Commission and City Council time to develop a proposed Corridor Overlay ordinance that would allow stakeholders along com-mercial corridors to develop design guidelines for new development.

Right-of-way acquisi-tion would take about 18 months. Construction, once it is funded, will take an-other 2.5 years. The project is funded 80 percent by the state with federal dollars. By Sherry Witt

The summer of 2015 is off and rolling for the local

real estate and lending m a r k e t s . And if June was any in-dication, it could be a record set-ter. The m o n t h ending on

Tuesday, June 30, brought 1,173 property transfers to Knox County – nearly 200 more than June 2014. The data continued to show an upward trend in real estate activity that began in early spring.

The total value of land transferred was a whopping $345 million, easily sur-passing May’s healthy ag-gregate of $218 million, and making June the largest month for transfers since October 2011 when the St. Mary’s medical facili-ties were sold to Tennova. Last June about $207 mil-lion worth of property was transferred in Knox County.

The spring surge in mort-

gage lending translated to a summer spike in June, as $483 million was borrowed against real estate – a 57 percent increase over last June’s fi gure.

The largest real estate transfer recorded was the sale of property owned by University Residences-Knox-ville LLC, located at the in-tersection of Cherokee Trail and Edington Road. The resi-dential complex sold for $42 million to Quarry Trail LLC. That particular transaction also produced the largest mortgage loan of the month, a Deed of Trust in the amount of $31.5 million.

At the year’s midway point, the data are indicat-ing a clear improvement over 2014 in both real estate sales and mortgage lend-ing. As of June 30, approxi-mately $1.26 billion worth of property has sold in Knox County, compared to about $981 million a year ago. Mortgages and refi nancing have produced total lend-ing of more than $1.9 billion in 2015, compared to $1.38 billion at the six- month mark of 2014.

Sherry Witt

News from Offi ce of Register of Deeds

June brings bumper crop

Sterling joins Conversion Properties

Dewey Snapp

Snapp gets a home under new programNews from Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation (KCDC)

Rogero suspends R-O-W buys on Washington Pike project

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Additionally, Cook served in the Army as a military police investigator and hand-to-hand combat instructor, leaving in 2008 as, he says, the last Vietnam veteran from Knoxville, where he moved more than 10 years ago, to retire from military service.

While James Cook is famous in fi ghting circles, Jimmy Logston made his reputation as a musician. Cook,

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