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The destruction of Coach RoachBy Betty Bean

On election night in Grainger County, supporters of longtime state Rep. Dennis “Coach” Roach got together to await the 35th House District Republican Prima-ry returns.

Their candidate fought hard to overcome a tsunami of negative advertising fi nanced by as much as $500,000 from out-of-state special-interest groups blasting Roach for “ghost voting” (the com-mon and fairly innocuous practice of seat-mates pushing the voting button for neighbors who have stepped out to use the restroom or take a smoke). The ads paint-ed it as dangerous and lazy, but Roach’s supporters were cautious-ly optimistic that Roach, a popular teacher and basketball coach who had served since 1994, would sur-vive.

“We thought Jerry was going to get his showing, but it turned out we got our showing,” said Grainger County Commissioner James Acuff.

When the fi nal tally was in, Roach lost by nearly 1,000 votes

Coach Roach Jerry Sexton

to opponent Jerry Sexton, a preacher turned furniture manu-facturer whose Facebook page de-scribes him as “More pro-life than your pastor, more for the Second Amendment than Davy Crockett, and more for traditional marriage than Adam and Eve.”

The real issue that got the at-tention of 501(c)(4) groups like the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity and the Tennessee Fed-eration for Children wasn’t ghost voting at all.

“It all came down to my vote on the vouchers,” said Roach, whose district includes Grainger and parts of Union and Claiborne counties.

Roach was particularly dis-appointed in his Union County showing, where he lost 670-320.

“We thought we might do a little better than that after sav-ing them $497,000 (by pushing to keep the K12 Inc. Virtual Academy open against the wishes of Educa-tion Commissioner Kevin Huff-man). We helped (Union County) save that revenue, and they ran a thank-you in the News Sentinel.

“But I guess what we did didn’t impress them enough to overcome those ads. They were good ads but just about 99 percen t false.”

Roach cast the fateful vote on March 5 in the House Finance Ways & Means subcommittee (aka “the Black Hole”) opposing a school voucher bill that would have directed taxpayer money to private schools.

“I could have very easily voted for them and saved myself this trouble, but I’ve been in educa-tion all my life, and it’s not a real good time to be taking money out of public education,” Roach said. “I’ve run 10 times before but spent

more money in this race than in all my other contests combined.

“We raised about $57,000, and we spent it. The TEA did a mailer or two that didn’t cost me, spent about $7,500 or so, but you com-pare that to $400,000-something … And they did radio, too. We came back and did what we could, but you spend what you’ve got and no more.”

Final contribution tallies won’t be disclosed until October.

Several of Roach’s colleagues chipped in campaign contribu-tions in an attempt to fend off the onslaught, including Rep. Ryan Haynes, who says he’d like to dam the fl ow of outside money.

“Coach is exactly right. The voucher bill is what got him, and there’s way too much money in politics. I’ve never had a constitu-ent come up to me and tell me they wish they could get more money in my hand. The public is right to be concerned about this, and I think it’s incumbent on voters to start saying, ‘Hey, where’s this coming from?’ ”

Lila Honaker

Honaker joins Tennessee Theatre FoundationThe Historic Tennessee Theatre

Foundation has named Lila Hon-aker its communications and de-velopment manager, a move that brings the entertainment market-ing professional ba ck to her roots at the Tennessee Theatre.

“My fi rst job after graduating from the University of Tennessee was with AC Entertainment, mar-keting entertainment for the new-ly reopened theatre,” said Hon-aker. “From the very beginning of my career, it was ingrained in me how special and beautiful the the-atre is. I consider it a tremendous opportunity to be working for the foundation that preserves this his-toric treasure.”

A native of Lebanon, Virginia, Honaker currently resides in the Lincoln Park/Oakwood communi-ty in North Knoxville. She served on the board of the Bijou Theatre from 2011-14 and is involved with Theatre Obsolete, a small, grass-roots performing arts group that makes and performs with pup-pets.

Most recently, Honaker worked nationally as marketing manager with Scripps Networks Interac-tive. Becky Hancock, Tennessee

Theatre executive director, said, “Lila brings with her a background and skill set that will serve the

theatre well. With her background in the performing arts and music and her love for historic preser-

vation, we believe Lila will be a terrifi c brand ambassador for the Tennessee Theatre.”

By Ruth WhiteDeborah Whelan began her

career teaching university-level teachers how to teach dance. She will end it teaching children at Beaumont Elementary School and the Beaumont Magnet Academy the art of movement and dance.

Whelan moved to Tennessee in 1991 when her husband accepted a job at the University of Tennessee. She had worked with dance com-panies of all ages, and now turned her focus to the smaller audience members.

In 1993, she began work at Beaumont, teaching children to

appreciate the art. She taught the students to be comfortable at performances. “We are creating a whole generation of people who will be advocates for dance,” she said. “They may not be profession-al dancers but it is part of their DNA now.”

Beaumont had the state’s fi rst elementary dance program and was among the fi rst elementary magnet schools in Knox County. Initially, the dance program was for the students tagged “talented and gifted,” but it soon became obvious that all children benefi ted from the instruction.

Deborah Whelan

Dance teacher retires from Beaumontand fi fth grades. Students took an active role in creating dances and they thrived when given a problem and were able to come up with so-lutions.

Through the program, the stu-dents don’t copy dance steps but they create their own movement vocabulary. The students also learn history and culture, but the instruction stresses being an art-ist.

As Whelan retires, she will miss the children and dancing the most. She will continue to teach and is planning to work with in-tergenerational dance. Her dream is to have a place for her Beaumont DanceWorks students to continue their study. She also enjoys mak-ing pottery and is a bogey golfer.

In 1995, Whelan started a dance company called Beaumont DanceWorks for students in fourth

Mike Lowe back in the news

When Tommy Schumpert ran for county executive in 1994, Mike Lowe made his move. He ran for trustee as a reformer and promised to depoliticize the offi ce, institute an anti-nepotism policy and end the practice of dunning employees for campaign con-tributions.

➤ Read Betty Bean on page 4

Della Volpe to speak at Town Hall

City Council member Nick Della Volpe will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8, to Fountain City Town Hall, meeting at Church of the Good Shepherd, 5337 Jacksboro Pike. This is a general membership meeting to which community residents are invited.

NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

A-E tailgaters enjoy the game

Beep-beep! That sound means the Austin-East Road-runners are coming.

Wherever the road leads them you will find the Mar-garet Manning Austin-East Tailgaters not far behind.

➤ Read Patricia Williams on page 3

Carter seniors dig inThere are many good cooks

in the Carter community. A recent spread had fresh fried corn, fried okra, baked beans, salads and a variety of des-serts.

➤ Patricia Williams has more on 3

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health & lifestyles

Nicole White, occupational therapist and driving rehabilitation therapist at Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, is excited the Adaptive Driving Program is back. “We can determine whether folks are still safe to drive or whether it’s time to hang up the keys,” White said.

Helping drivers get back in controlOn the road again,Goin’ places that I’ve never been,Seein’ things that I may never see again,And I can’t wait to get on the road again. – Willie Nelson

Americans love their cars, and for most adults, driving is essen-tial to freedom and independence.

At the Patricia Neal Rehabili-tation Center, the Adaptive Driv-ing Program has returned to help older adults and others with dis-abilities receive the training and support they need to drive safely.

“We assess each patient re-garding their vision, cognition, physical movement and road knowledge,” said Nicole White, an occupational therapist and driving rehabilitation therapist who runs the program. “And we can deter-mine whether folks are still safe to drive or whether it’s time to hang up the keys and look at alternative transportation options.”

Some clients are referred to the Adaptive Driving Program for age-related illnesses like early demen-tia or arthritis, while others are relearning to drive after amputa-tions or spinal cord injuries.

Depending on each client’s needs, White tailors a program individually. First, she performs a number of clinical assessments in-side the clinic to determine range of motion and strength in the cli-ent’s arms and legs, peripheral vision and depth perception, and information processing and deci-sion making skills.

If White determines the client has the ability to drive, the sec-

Is it safe for me to hit the road?The American Occupational Therapy Associa-

tion (AOTA) focuses on how occupational thera-pists can perform professional assessments to de-termine whether seniors can safely drive, and help find assistive technologies to make driving pos-sible.

AOTA’s “aim is to promote an understanding of the importance of mobility and transportation, and to ensure that older adults remain active in the com-munity – shopping, working or volunteering – with the confi dence that transportation will not be the barrier to strand them at home.”

Here are some reasons to consider having a pro-fessional driving assessment done:

■ If you’re feeling less fl exible, not seeing as well or your refl exes have slowed.

■ If you have a medical condition like arthritis, pe-ripheral neuropathy or early stage dementia.

■ If your vision has worsened. ■ If others say you’re not driving safely. ■ If it’s been a long time since you have driven be-

cause of a medical reason. ■ If you’ve moved and are not familiar with your

surroundings.

Senior driving statsAccording to a survey done earlier this year by

AAA, the American Occupational Therapy Asso-ciation and AARP, here are some interesting facts about drivers 65 and older.

■ Nine out of 10 older drivers buckle up when behind the wheel.

■ One-third have taken driver improvement courses.

■ 52 percent drive seven days a week. ■ Drivers in their mid-to-late 80s have ap-

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ond evaluation is completed on the road in one of the program’s vehicles.

“We offer two vehicles, a sedan and minivan, that can be adapted depending on the person’s disabil-ity and what they need to be a safe driver,” said White.

Gas and brake pedals can be op-erated by the use of adaptive hand controls if the patient is unable to use their legs, for example. Turn signals, windshield wipers and the emergency brake can all have

extenders or switches in-stalled to make them easier to reach. Wide-angle mirrors can be attached to assist patients with limited neck movement.

Once she modifi es the vehicle to suit the client, White takes him or her out on the road.

“We start out in the parking lot to introduce the client to the equipment. Then we move onto residential roads, going under 25 miles per hour, then the patient can progress to moderate and

heavy travelled roads, and fi nally they move onto the highways, if appropriate.”

White is right there with them, with her own set of gas and brake pedals on her side of the car in case there’s a problem. “If things get hairy I can take control of the car,” White said with a laugh.

At the end of the program, each client receives a prescription of

equipment to buy for his or herown car to drive safely.

“Once we fi nd out what type of equipment is going to work well for the patient, we provide them with a list of mobility equipmentdealers in the area who can install the prescribed equipment for the patient,” said White. “We go with the client to ensure the equipment is installed and fi ts the client ap-propriately. Then we make sure the client feels comfortable with their newly adapted vehicle.”

“We can do anything that’s con-sidered ‘low-tech,’ ” she added.“Hand controls, left foot accelera-tor and pedal extenders, that kindof thing. If a person requires high-tech equipment (i.e. joystick driv-ing controls, electronic voice scansand touch pad screens) to drive,we can refer them to other drivingprograms that have the expertise to assist the client”

Many of the center’s clientsare older adults whose fami-lies are not certain they’re stillsafe on the road. “For the olderdriver, we can do education ses-sions while they are in the pro-gram about how to compensatefor any deficits they may haveand a review of the rules of theroad. Everyone develops a fewbad habits, like a rolling stop at astop sign, so we can review thingslike that,” said White.

The Adaptive Driving Programis open to anyone with a referralfrom a physician and it is a self-pay program.

“Some people may only need one to two training sessions after the evaluations; others may need more as each client is different,” said White.

For more information about the

Adaptive Driving Program and the

Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center,

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or call 865-541-1446.

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MILESTONETriplets were born April 9 at Fort Sanders Regional to

Ginger Oneill and David Yates of Knoxville. The two boys and a girl are Jake, Jackson and Adalyn. Their big brother and sister, Ayden and Ashlynn Oneill, are having fun get-ting to know the addition to their family. The triplets have been a joy to many family members and a host of friends who have helped since their birth.

Beep-beep! That sound means the Austin-East Roadrunners are coming. Wherever the road leads them you will fi nd the Mar-garet Manning Austin-East Tailgaters not far behind.

Members of the Margaret Manning Austin-East Tailgaters are (front) Georgia Askew, Andrew Henry; (second row) Bonnie Solomon, Vanessa Askew, Minnie Littlejohn, John Woods; (third row) Carlton Scott, Robert Minter, Eugene Minor and George Harper. (Not pictured is Ernest McDuff y, who sat in the handicapped seating with recent back surgery that did not keep him away.) Photos by Patricia Williams

Delpha Watson, David Curl, and Clyde and Shirley Sheffi eld dig in at the Carter Senior Center tailgate potluck luncheon.

Members of Carter Senior Center enjoy watching Jackie Evans treat the center’s coordinator, Rebec-ca Kirkland Quarles, to the Alzheimer’s Ice Bucket Challenge.

Roadrunners continue to run

“We don’t move as fast as we used to but you can expect to see us at every game,” said Robert Minter, a member since 1979. Most of the members are gradu-ates or have longstanding associations with A-E as far back as the 1960s. Oth-ers became members when their children participated in A-E sports. Although club president Vanessa Askew is an A-E graduate, she be-came a tailgater when at-tending her son Lee Curry’s games.

There’s a tailgate meal for every home game, for which Minnie Littlejohn does the shopping and Carlton Scott does the grilling. Menus vary from fi sh to barbeque, hot dogs or wings with trimmings and sides – “soul food,” of course.

I caught up with the tail-gaters at the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony for the upgrades at A-E’s George “Dusty” Lennon Stadium. The group loves the im-provements. They recall the old PA system in use prior to the year 2000.

“It was so bad you couldn’t understand what the announcer was saying,” said Minter. Eugene Mi-nor added, “We got tired of not being able to hear.” The group decided to raise funds

to install “a decent system.”They credit Raleigh

Wynn, who was serving an appointment on city coun-cil, for the fi rst $1,500. (Wynn was also the fi rst African-American coach at East High before it became A-E. Wynn celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this year.) In 2000, the tail-gaters proudly had a new system installed at a cost of $5,000.

Tailgater Andrew Henry didn’t stop there. Henry purchased a stove and re-frigerators for the home and guest concession stands that had none.

“We don’t drive far any-more,” said Minter, “Some of us don’t drive at all.” They charter a bus for away games that leaves from the parking lot of Jarnigan’s Mortuary across the street from the school. You can ride with them for a small fee.

The group never con-sidered that they needed a name. Until their fundrais-er and friend passed away in 2002. Then they became the Margaret Manning A-E Tailgaters. Every high school should have such support!

■ Carter seniors’ director gets icyMy visit to the Cart-

er Senior Center, 9040 Asheville Hwy., came on a special day. On the third Wednesday of each month there is a themed potluck. This month, it was Big Or-ange Tailgate – with a sur-prise.

On the night before, cen-ter member Jackie Evans, informed Rebecca Kirkland Quarles, the center coordi-nator, that Quarles should bring a change of clothes. To Quarles’ surprise, Evans

had nominated her to take the Alzheimer’s Ice Bucket challenge, which she did to everyone’s delight.

Most of the group dressed in Tennessee or-ange and brought dishes to share. I must say, there are many good cooks in the Carter community as the spread had fresh fried corn, fried okra, baked beans, sal-ads and a variety of desserts that were all delicious.

The group was joined by guests: Brandon Perry, seniors’ minister at Thorn Grove Christian Church, 728 S. Carter School Road, and Tom Humphreys with information on veterans’ benefi ts. Perry plans to start a “Motivation and Inspira-tion” devotional service at the center soon. After Perry blessed the table, we all dug in.You can contact Patricia Williams at patwilpower@gmail.com

By Sandra ClarkKnoxville City Coun-

cil member Mark Campe n passed along a scary story

about a one-woman crime wave in North Knoxville.

S e e m s the woman stopped at a house on Fieldwood, told the

resident she had run out of gas and asked for money. Wisely, the homeowner of-fered instead to have some-one bring her gasoline. At this point, the woman asked to use the bathroom. Again, the homeowner refused. She watched the woman walk to a neighbor’s house where a 90-year-old man was sitting on the porch.

The stranger walked past him into his house. While she visited his bathroom, he took out his wallet to give her money for gaso-

Mark Campen

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from his wallet. She got away. Neighbors told police she was wearing shorts and a tank top and had messy, blondish hair.

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Democratic leaders speak at KarnsRichard Dawson and Mark Harmon speak at the Demo-cratic Party District 6 meeting at the Karns branch library Aug. 26. Dawson and Harmon were recently elected to the Democratic Party’s State Executive Committee for Senate districts 5 and 7. Photo by Frank Schingle

Betty Bean

Mike Lowe didn’t start life as a courthouse fat cat.

He went to work in the trustee’s offi ce when he was 17, straight out of high school.

When I met him in the mid-’80s, he was a friendly, good-natured guy who’d earned a college degree while holding down a full-time job. His older brother, Tommy, was the county clerk but got turned out of offi ce in 1986, swamped in a sea of scandal. Word around the courthouse was that Mike was nothing like his brother. He was humble and funny and got along with al-most everybody. He cracked jokes about his bad toupee and made friends where

he needed them.

B u t L o w e ’ s boss, Bob B r o o m e , was not a friend. Trustee for about a mil-lion years,

Broome was a legendary courthouse tyrant whose employees lived in a state of voluntary servitude – working in his campaigns,

Mike Lowe

Mike Lowe and the courthouse culture(Editor’s Note: With last week’s conviction for

felony theft of former Trustee Mike Lowe’s so-called phantom employee Delbert Morgan, and the upcom-ing trial of Lowe himself, we are reprising this article by Betty Bean published in Shopper-News March 3, 2009.)

ponying up to buy him lav-ish gifts and hoping to get through the day without be-ing noticed.

Mike excelled at making Bob Broome mad. He was perpetually in the doghouse and at one time was suspend-ed and sent home for two months. I got to know him when I did a series of stories about the deplorable work-ing conditions in the trust-ee’s offi ce. He was friendly, helpful, open and extremely knowledgeable, particularly about that ultimate patron-age institution known as the delinquent tax attorney – the juiciest plum in the trustee’s offi ce and a shocking waste of taxpayer money.

Maybe it was a stretch to call him Cool Hand Luke, but I know fi rsthand he was a standup guy. A whistle-blower, even.

Broome retired in 1990 and was succeeded by Tommy Schumpert, whose affable, reasonable manage-

ment style made the offi ce staff’s lives considerably easier. When Schumpert ran for county executive in 1994, Mike made his move. He ran as a reformer and promised to depoliticize the offi ce, institute an anti-nepotism policy and end the practice of dunning employ-ees for campaign contribu-tions.

His campaign ran like a machine, in part because of the able assistance of a smart young lawyer named Steve Roth, whom everybody fi g-ured was going to become the delinquent tax attorney. Roth worked diligently for Mike, organizing campaign events and phone banks. After the election, a lot of people were shocked when the tax job went instead to attorney Albert Harb.

Mike broke the bad news to Roth over dinner, right after Roth presented him with a handsome clock engraved with the words, “hard work pays off.” Mike kept the clock and kicked Roth to the curb. Harb has gone on to make millions doing a job that could be done in-house at far less expense to the citizens of Knox County.

Term limitsThe same year Mike was

elected, a referendum on term limits made it to the ballot and passed over-whelmingly. Lulled by a

state attorney general who opined that term limits didn’t apply to so-called constitutional offi cers like Mike, the courthouse crowd went about their business, never suspecting that the term limits vote was a UXB that would blow up on them 12 years later.

Meanwhile, Mike was sporting a better toupee and a Lincoln Navigator. He built an upscale house and sold his old one to his chief deputy, Fred Sisk. He start-ed talking about running for county mayor in 2010. His payroll grew as he larded it with retired school ad-ministrators and straight-up political operatives who rarely appeared in the of-fi ce. Tongues began to wag about his lavish lifestyle and employees being squeezed for campaign contributions.

One former employee said he was slow to pitch in money for Lowe’s benefi t golf tournament one year and was instructed to cash in his accrued overtime:

“They called and said Mike said to pay me my over-time. They wrote me a check and I went over and cashed it at the credit union and brought him back $1,000 cash. It was just part of the deal. He had three fundrais-ers a year, and everybody was expected to contribute – it didn’t matter if you were a single mother with a house full of kids to support. They

Sandra Clark

The Knox County Court-house has several new faces at the big desks this week. (And one with no desk at all. Word is that no one told Chancellor Clarence “Ed-die” Pridemore to bring his own furniture.)

Goodbye and good luck

So long, Randy Nichols. You were a good DA, even if you wouldn’t go after Rags-dale.

So long, judges Work-man, Leibowitz, Fansler, Wimberly and Swann. Here’s hoping you enjoy re-tirement and don’t have to make a decision for weeks.

Interim Trustee Craig Leuthold and veteran Crim-inal Court clerk Joy McCro-skey have been replaced.

Four of 11 county com-missioners are moving on: Tony Norman, R. Larry Smith, Mike Hammond and Ed Shouse. And four of nine school board members are no more: Thomas Deakins, Indya Kincannon, Kim Sev-erance and Pam Trainor.

What’s ahead? How about Dave Wright

getting elected to chair the Knox County Commission, joined by Mike McMillan as school board chair? Cou-pled with Law Director Bud Armstrong and Property As-sessor Phil Ballard, the 8th District would assert more political power than ever before. This would bode well for a Gibbs Middle School and not so well for attempts to rezone farmland for in-dustrial use at Midway.

■ Jim McIntyre cannot repair the damage he’s done to morale in Knox County Schools. He’s the wrong guy in the top job, and the school system will lurch along until he’s gone – hopefully soon.

In a little more than 60 days, we will know if Demo-crat Gloria Johnson or Re-publican Eddie Smith will serve in the state House of Representatives from Knox County for two years. It is the only genuinely contested race in Knox County on Nov. 4.

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Gloria Johnson

Johnson and Smith is best race left

Both parties are anxious to win. Johnson’s local Dem-ocratic Party suffered a melt-down Aug. 7, losing every countywide offi ce. They want to avoid another humiliation. Smith narrowly defeated his GOP primary opponent in an upset over Jason Emert.

Johnson is a smart, en-ergetic and determined of-fi ceholder. She has a unique ability to reach the media. While she is badly outnum-bered in Nashville (71 GOP to 28 Democrats) she has made up for that by using her offi ce to publicize her views far beyond her district.

She has effectively battled Common Core and the Knox County school system. Local

schoolteachers love her. State Democrats consider her a ris-ing star. Several Republican state legislators loathe her.

She has made a name for herself. She is an educa-tor and has taken an unpaid leave of absence from the school system to campaign this fall. Smith also opposes Common Core.

Smith, a former music leader at Sevier Heights Bap-tist Church, is a hard worker. He is personable and down to earth. His wife, the former Lanna Keck, is known to many Knoxvillians as Miss Tennessee 1997. They are the parents of two children. He is a conservative blue-collar Republican.

The state GOP has as-signed Zach Huff to help full time in his campaign, which the party funds. Huff worked in Bill Ailor’s suc-cessful campaign for Circuit Court judge in August.

District 13 must be rated a toss-up. Democratic Judges Daryl Fansler and Harold Wimberly carried the district by comfortable margins while losing countywide to Repub-licans considered by many to be less qualifi ed.

In the contest for Criminal Court judge where both nomi-

■ County Commis-sioner Ed Brantley made news even before he took offi ce yesterday by being listed by the Democratic Gordon Ball for U.S. Senate campaign as a supporter in one of their news releases. Local Republicans were aghast that Brantley would openly endorse a Democrat, and the phones were busy.

However, when this writ-er contacted Brantley last week, he said it was untrue. “No one has talked to me about being on the list (of Ball supporters).”

However, Brantley is not a fan of Lamar Alexander either as he said he was “not supporting either one (can-didate) at this point.” Still unclear whether Brantley will back the GOP ticket in-cluding Alexander or not.

He did say he favored a new chair for County Com-mission (Brad Anders is current chair as of Aug. 29) and felt the position, which is chosen by the full com-mission, should be rotated from time to time.

■ Beau Fancher ofKnoxville has been made East Tennessee fi eld rep for the Alexander for Senate campaign.

Eddie Smith

nees were viewed as qualifi ed, Democrat Leland Price won the district by 12 votes over Republican Scott Green, who won countywide by a sub-stantial margin.

Johnson denies she is liberal, saying, “What are the liberal bills I have intro-duced?”

MetroPulse has reported that Johnson is under con-sideration to be Democratic Party chair or executive di-rector next year.

When asked by this writ-er if she might do this she responded, “I have not had time to think about it.”

Presumably that means she is focused on winning re-election. However, that answer also fails to answer the question of whether she would or would not seek the position in January. She could legally do both jobs.

kept running tabs. If you didn’t, his henchmen would make it so uncomfortable on you that you’d have no choice but to quit.”

The whole term-limits adventure has been a slow-moving fi asco for Lowe, who, with lawyer Harb and other offi ceholders, made repeated attempts to fl out the will of the people and hang on to the public pap. The courthouse crowd tried legislative solutions and lawsuits and swapping jobs with their seconds-in-com-mand. They sued to over-turn the county charter, which got their appointed replacements kicked out and put Mike temporar-ily back in command. Last year (2008) he ran for

property assessor and lost, and recently is said to have been interested in the job of elections administrator.

But headlines in the past week – “TBI probing payroll practices in the trustee’s of-fi ce”– are unlikely to vault him back into power. He’s lawyered up and hunkered down while his remaining supporters grump that Sisk has thrown Mike under the bus.

There’s a saying from Greek antiquity, “The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding fi ne.”

The wheels started mov-ing the year Mike Lowe was elected to public offi ce, but now somebody else is blow-ing the whistle.

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Back in mid-August, I was heading into the house just at dusk when I was stopped by a sight I hadn’t seen all summer. There, zip-ping back and forth with their amazingly agile fl ut-tering fl ight, were two bats!

Fledermaus in trouble

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By Sandra ClarkR ichard Bean and Judge

Tim Irwin hosted a huge crowd at the dedication last week of an expansion of the Juvenile Court facilities on Division Street. The $3.925 million project was funded by Knox County.

Mayor Tim Burchett said, “Improvements like

these aren’t cheap, but they help ensure young people in the juvenile justice system will leave with a chance to become productive adults.

“When a family has a child going through the sys-tem, it’s diffi cult for every-one. This expansion allows families to have one central location for everything from

visitation, court or some other program.”

Knoxville Mayor Made-line Rogero called it a “hap-py day” for Judge Irwin and Bean, superintendent of the service center.

“This $4 million project added 9,925 square feet to the Richard L. Bean Ser-vice Center. There are four

d l k h ’ h b h i i i

Juvenile Justice Center expands new courtrooms, and all the child support services are located here now.”

Circuit Court Judge Dale Workman was master of cer-emonies. Other hosts were Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones, Juvenile Court Clerk Cathy Shanks and County Com-mission chair Brad Anders.

Randy Kenner gave this writer a quick tour. The project includes mediation facilities and expanded waiting areas including

a playroom for kids, and each courtroom now has a large-screen TV so hear-ings can be conducted via Skype.

“This saves on transpor-tation costs (for offenders held in adult facilities),” said Kenner, a former re-porter who now works in the clerk’s office.

The smaller courtrooms are used by magistrates, ap-pointed by Irwin, who hear cases at his direction. The ex-

pansion includes modular of-fi ces for the magistrates.

Security is tight at the facility, where juvenile of-fenders from the region are housed.

We peeked into Irwin’s main courtroom. Sure enough, a box of stuffed ani-mals sits on his desk, ready to comfort frightened kids. The court handles custody and child-support issues as well as criminal and status offenses.

Board of Trustees for the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center are Gail Jarvis, chair Terry Hen-ley and Chris Coff ey. Photos by S. Clark

At a board meeting following the ribbon-cutting are Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin, Richard L. Bean, superindent; and Kay McClain, assistant superintendent.

Commissioner Amy Broyles’ outrage at County Commission’s Aug. 25 meet-ing brought her to the verge of tears and just a hair’s breadth from joining a dis-tinguished lineup of blub-bering politicians.

Broyles was unhappy over her fellow commis-sioners’ rejection of her candidate for the vacant 2nd District school board seat. Indya Kincannon held the seat before resigning to

LarryVan

Guilder

Cry me a rivershould be nestled between Freedonia and Sylvania and governed by Rufus T. Fire-fl y. Kincannon’s departure gave her the perfect excuse to channel Groucho and belt out “Hello, I Must Be Going” at her last board meeting, but she passed and likely will never enjoy such a gold-en opportunity again.

And while we’re digress-ing, may as well note Com-missioner Sam McKenzie’s reference to “puppet mas-

ters” in the same meeting at which Broyles melted down.

Science-fi ction afi cio-nados will recall Robert Heinlein’s tale of “puppet master” slugs who invaded Earth and by stealth and guile attached themselves to the backs of their clue-less victims. The aliens’ aim was nothing less than world domination, something like the Koch brothers’ agenda, but with considerably less cash and more panache.

In fairness to McKen-zie, a video review of past commission meetings does reveal suspicious bulges on the shoulders of some commissioners, but in at least one instance the lump turned out to be nothing more sinister than an over-sized Bluetooth earpiece re-ceiver amplifi er … tuned to a puppet master. Yes, those were the days.

If her commission mates

continue to foil Broyles’ best-laid plans, she could unleash a saline fountain of umbrage, but she’d still trail serial leakers like John Boehner by hundreds of buckets.

Boehner didn’t earn the sobriquet “Weeper of the House” for his sunny dis-position. He’s left a trail of tears on the fl oor of the House, at party conven-tions, in school rooms, even, most famously, during a “60 Minutes” interview a few years ago.

About the only time for-mer Speaker Boehner has managed to plug the water-works was during the de-bate over raising the federal debt ceiling in 2011. Not a glimmer of moisture cloud-ed his eyes at the specter of the U.S. defaulting on its debt and triggering a global depression.

So, while “Boys Don’t Cry” was a provocative

movie, as a description of male political sangfroid the title doesn’t hold water.

Think back to those thrilling days of yesteryear when real men wore polyes-ter leisure suits – the ’70s. In 1972, Edmund Muskie was a strong candidate for the Democratic presiden-tial nomination when he seemed to lose his compo-sure in New Hampshire while defending his wife against attacks in the Man-chester Union-Leader.

Muskie claimed that what the press reported as tears were actually melting snowfl akes. Tears or snow, his presidential hopes were washed away.

If only Muskie could have stemmed the tide until he was elected. Clinton, both Bushes and Obama all shed a few in the Oval Offi ce.

So, take heart, Amy, and no stump speeches during a snowstorm.

travel with her husband to Slovenia.

By the way, Marx Broth-ers fans surely noticed that Slovenia sounds as if it

They were very busy at what bats do, scooping up mosquitoes, moths and gnats from the darkening sky. Bats, of course, are the only mammals that can fl y. And they don’t just fl ap along somewhere; they are speedy, dodgy masters of the air, able to turn on a dime and leave you nine cents change. And with each feint and turn, there’s a good chance that one more pesky insect has been eliminated.

There are a thousand or so species around the globe, most of them living in the tropics, where they fi nd a good, steady supply of food year-round. We have some 16 kinds in Tennessee. The majority of them eat mostly insects, but there are also species of bats, larger ones, that eat mostly fruit. A few species have adapted to eat-ing fi sh. And then there are the vampire bats, which, as everyone knows, like a snack of blood now and then.

Bats have some science-fi ction-like features that have a lot to do with our fascination with them. Their amazing bat wings consist of thin membranes of skin stretched across their greatly elongated fore-arms and fi ngers, plus more membrane between their hind limbs that help navi-gate their erratic fl ight. And seeing in the dark? While the big fruit-eating bats do see well in the dark, our small insect-eating ones do a thing called echoloca-tion. Just like a submarine listening to the pings from its sonar, the bats put out a constant stream of nois-

es of such high frequency that human ears can’t hear them. The bats’ ears are so sensitive that they must automatically close with each sound, so their own noise won’t deafen them. Then they open to hear the sounds bounce back – from rocks, trees, power lines – and prey. They automatical-ly compensate for the speed and direction of a fl ying mosquito, calculate its exact location and unerringly nab it at high speed, in the dark. Remarkable, indeed.

Vampire bats have given bats a bit of a bad reputation. Zipping low over people’s heads in the dark and living upside down in caves prob-ably hasn’t helped either.

And bats occasionally carry rabies and a couple of other bad diseases (never pick one up!), but overall, they are of immense benefi t to us all.

A bat consumes half its body weight in insects every night – around 3,000 bugs per bat! That adds up to a lot of mosquitoes – a group of 1,000 bats can eat four tons of insects a year. It is estimated that bats save our agriculture folks up to $50 million a year in insect-control services.

But our bats are dying off by the millions. A fun-gus causes a disease in bats, called white-nose syndrome and nearly always fatal. Since so many bats live together in very close quarters in a sin-gle cave, sometimes in the thousands, and since many of our bats migrate widely, the disease spreads quickly from one bat to innumer-able others and is carried far and wide.

White-nose syndrome has so far killed over 7 mil-lion North American bats. If most or all of our bats were to die off, think of the tons and tons of insects that had been eaten nightly, but then left up there in the sky to reproduce at their regular enormous rate. A lot of seri-ous scientifi c work is under-way to study the fungus and how it works and is spread. In Europe where it is from, the bats survive, but they have been living with it for eons. In the meantime, if you are so lucky as to see a bat or two around, note

them well and remember what you saw. It may be a long time till you see an-other one.

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Marvin West

Trooper Taylor, one of the most colorful (and some might say controversial) coaches in college football, returns to Neyland Stadi-um Saturday as cornerback counselor for the Arkansas State Red Wolves.

Red Wolves? For genera-tions, that team was called Indians. Political correct-ness caused the change.

Blaise Taylor, 5-9, 170-pound freshman defen-sive back, son of the coach and lovely Evi, will also arrive as a Red Wolf. I remember him as a 10-year-old playing for the Knoxville Fire.

The Taylors were in town for four years. They left af-ter the 2007 season when

Trooper returns to town

Phillip Fulmer hired Dave Clawson as new offensive coordinator of the Volun-teers. Trooper wanted that job, and when he didn’t get it, he moved on – to Okla-homa State as I recall.

Clawson failed, but in-siders understood Fulmer’s logic. In a whisper, they said Trooper stood out in recruiting and sideline exuberance, marked by a

representative supposedly passed the collection plate and offered the quarterback to the highest contributor. Several schools were on the fringe of this transaction. Cam, who had no idea what was going on, chose Auburn.

The NCAA shook its fi st but couldn’t fi nd the jail key. Nobody said Trooper did it.

In the spring of 2010, Auburn reported a few mis-steps linked to the Tiger Prowl and stretch limos and Hummers. Trooper may have been docked for suspi-cion of creative recruiting.

Auburn had a little prob-lem with grade changes and a cash offer to a player to skip the NFL draft. Out in the real world, people with no true facts thought of Trooper and said where there is smoke, there is of-

ten a hot torch.It was obviously unfair

to blame everything on Trooper just because he was there. We do believe he was investigated for resound-ing recruiting success in Thibodaux, La.

Meanwhile, Auburn won a national championship and Trooper got a big ring. Players loved him. His pay went up to $475,000. Dur-ing a team visit to the White House, he chest-bumped Barack Obama. I am not making this up.

A strange story popped up in Memphis. Auburn signed Jovon Robinson, but the NCAA ruled him ineligible because of falsifi ed grades. Again, some of the fallout found Trooper but nothing happened. Paid investiga-tors fell short of proof.

Summation: Recruiter of the year, often envied, sometimes accused, never convicted.

Eventually, Trooper’s boss, Gene Chizik, was fi red for not winning enough na-tional championships. Au-burn asked Trooper to stick around, to hold the recruit-ing class together during the search for a new coach. In-teresting, very interesting.

Gus Malzahn did not retain Trooper Taylor, but Auburn paid him for 2013 and six months of this year. He coached last season at Auburn High, where Blaise played.

Sources say father and son were not a package deal at Arkansas State, just a bold hire and nifty recruiting.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

waving towel and cap worn backward so as not to in-terfere with chest bumps. Indeed, Taylor has a fl air for the dramatic.

Years ago I liked him. I think I still do. Trooper pro-fesses to believe the hand of God guides him to the right place at the right time.

In 2009, that was Au-burn. Soon and very soon the school reported NCAA violations related to some-thing called the Big Cat re-cruiting weekend. The New York Times said Trooper Taylor was quarantined for several months.

Next was the Cam New-ton saga. Cam’s dad, the Rev. Cecil, and a fi nancial

Fulton cheerleaders Asia White and Makaley Black form a vic-tory V after the game. Photos by Patricia Williams

The Falcons fl ock onto the fi eld, through a bannered apology to the Bearden Bulldogs, held skyward by Falcon cheerleaders topped by Asia White and Me-kayla Hartsell. Among the fi rst Falcons to land were James Davis, Hayden Williard and Blair Smith.

The Fulton High School Alumni Association was represented by Homer “Andy” Anderson, Angela Roach, Hope and daughter Emily Ellis. Asso-ciation members will host their 5th Wall of Fame Banquet on homecom-ing eve, Oct. 2. Go to www.fultonfalcons.com or call Bill Warwick at 865-755-3333.

The Falcons don new uniforms for the matchup with Bearden. Led by head coach Rob Black and assistant coach Bob Black, the Falcons descend upon the fi eld from the top of the stadium as the home team’s fans cheer them on. Fulton took the win, 84-0.

Powell hung on with a goal-line stand as time ex-pired last season, Karns leaving Scarbro Stadium on the business end of a sting-ing, 19-13 defeat.

The rematch is at Karns on Friday.

So, as the fates would have it, is the Powell coach.

After a year at the Pan-ther helm, Tobi Kilgore left to take the head coaching job at Karns following last season. The challenge of injecting some consistency in the Beaver program was part of the draw, Kilgore said. A chance for profes-sional advancement in terms of education sealed the deal.

It all left new Powell coach John Allen, the fourth

Stefan Cooper

Panthers to KarnsRivals primed for

super-heated installment

man to head the Panthers in four seasons, with a lot on his plate. Basically, this one is swimming in subplots.

Last season: Karns (1-9), Powell (5-5)

Last meeting: Powell 19, Karns 13

The offenses: Allen brings the wing-T with him to Powell, and, in junior Connor Sepsi, he’s got the quarterback to run it. He’ll use backs Cody Reed and Dominique Moore to help him control the ball.

Upcoming FridayAustin-East at FultonBearden at Heritage

Carter vs. Pigeon ForgeCentral at Campbell County

Farragut vs. Lenoir CityGrace Academy at Tellico Plains

Gibbs at Anderson CountyHalls: Open

Hardin Valley Academy at William BlountKarns vs. Powell

Knoxville Catholic at CAKKnoxville Webb: Open

South-Doyle vs. Jeff erson CountyWest vs. Maryville

The Panthers have a re-ceiver/linebacker, 6-foot-6 junior Darel Middleton, whom Tennessee is keeping an eye on.

Kilgore likes the spread offense with lots of receiv-ers. At 5-9, junior quarter-back Greg Tye is a throw-on-the-move passer, one who threw for better than 1,600 yards last season. The play-makers are running back Will Smith and wide out Joe Faulkenberry.

The defenses: With the Beavers’ 3-4, linebacker-fueled defense and the Pan-thers in the wing-T, this one could be a classic. That’s a lot of guys running into each other when Karns goes on defense. Faulkenberry is the key for the Beavers.

The Panthers, who deploy in a 3-5 under Allen, use more linebackers than the Beavers to slow opponents. The spread offense working against that many mobile defenders makes for some fast, fast, really fast play.

The Breakdown: Mid-

dleton is as big a linebackeras you’ll see at any level.How will Karns account forhim? Does Powell blitz withhim? Do the Panthers usehim in coverage? How doesKarns defend Middleton ifPowell throws?

The spread vs. the wing-Trepresents a classic battle inoffensive philosophy. Powellwill want to hold on to theball; Karns will want to getit and go.

The Tye that binds – anddecides – this one couldvery well be the Beaverquarterback. A slick signalcaller in the spread can in-fl ict a lot of damage. DevinHarper, a 6-4 junior, givesTye a big receiving target ofhis own.

Why this one in-trigues: This one has tohave the fan bases for bothschools fi red up. Karns re-members how close it waslast year. The Panthers re-member, too. Then theircoach left.

Don’t need a lot morethan that.

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By Phyllis NicholsCarrie Turner wants

to be self-suf f ic ient , and the K n o x v i l l e Area Ur-ban League has stepped up to help ensure her success, no matter how

big or small the need.“Every time I’ve walked

through the Urban League’s doors for help, they’ve pro-vided a sense of direction,” Turner said.

Recently, Turner encoun-tered a situation where she wasn’t sure where to turn for help to keep her home. While between jobs, she had fallen behind on mortgage payments. Then, Turner re-membered the local Urban League offers housing and community development services.

“I didn’t have family members or friends to ask for help,” Turner said. “The Urban League was my only alternative. After provid-ing them with the informa-tion needed, they provided a loan and removed the stressful situation. I’m so glad the Urban League was there for me.”

The Knoxville Area Ur-ban League believes every adult in America should have access to the fi nancial security that comes from

Greg Greer has joined Knox Area Rescue Minis-tries as vice president-pro-

grams. In this

role, he will p r o v i d e s t r a t e g i c leadership and opera-tional over-sight of the daily work of the min-

istry, help set ministry tone and assist in planning for the future.

KARM’s ministry in-cludes the overnight shel-ters for men, women and women with children, resi-dential recovery programs, The Bridge transitional housing, LaunchPoint, job training initiatives and var-ious community outreach efforts.

Burt Rosen, president and CEO, said, “We have pa-tiently and prayerfully wait-ed for God to bring a person with the unique gifts, skills and heart to fi ll this vital ministry role at KARM. ... We are thrilled to have Greg on the team.”

Greer comes to KARM from Providence Church in West Knoxville, where he has served as the executive pastor since 2008 and pas-tor of administration for the four years prior to that.

Before entering the min-istry in 2003, he served as regional business manager for Roche Diagnostic Cor-poration and national sales manager and director of patient care marketing for DeRoyal Industries.

Greer holds an MBA from Lincoln Memorial Univer-sity and expects to receive a master’s in Christian Lead-ership from Dallas Theolog-ical Seminary in 2015. He and wife Deena have three children and have lived in Knoxville since 1996.

Greg Greer

Greg Greer joins KARM

Nichols

News from The Knoxville Area Urban League

Urban League steersclients to right path

owning a home. The organi-zation provides homeown-ership counselors who are trained to create custom-ized plans for each client. Someone like Turner, who was able to keep her home, now can focus on employ-ment and achieving com-plete self-suffi ciency.

Now that Turner is in good standing on her mort-gage, she is taking computer classes and job training at the Urban League. The classes have increased her confi dence in her ability to accomplish her goal of working in an offi ce.

“The computer classes are great because they start you from the beginning,” she said. “The teachers didn’t assume I knew any-thing. They started with the basics and have helped me grow.”

Turner hopes others in the community who need help will reach out to the Ur-ban League for assistance.

“No matter what you need, whether it’s help with payments or you’re looking for a job, they take you step-by-step through the things you need to accomplish to reach your goal,” she said.

“They’re honest about your shortcomings and show you how to overcome them. It’s a great organiza-tion and the services they provide are excellent.”

Info: 865-524-5511. Phyllis Nichols is president and CEO of the Knoxville Area Urban League.

I stopped by Angelic Ministries to check on cur-rent needs and just to say hello to friends I have made there. I was excited to learn about their upcoming fund-raiser.

For anyone not familiar with this ministry, last year over 5,000 families in crisis were helped. Betsy Frazier, founder, and her dedicat-ed staff of volunteers help families who have been re-ferred by other agencies or churches.

Angelic Ministries’ goal is to provide furniture, household items, clothing, hygiene products and food for immediate needs. They work with families to help them become independent and fi nd employment.

Pastor Tony Earl is in the process of planning a fall fundraiser. This year’s event

Nancy Whittaker

Catching up with Angelic Ministries

Tony Earl, pastor of Angelic Ministries, has been busy planning a fall fundraiser.

will be held from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 6 at the UT Conference Center. The UT Culinary Department will prepare a delicious meal and minis-try leaders will provide in-formation to guests about the ministry. There will be a graduation for men who have completed programs associated with the minis-try.

The needs of Angelic Ministries continue to grow. The most urgently needed items at this time are:

■ Plates

■ Measuring Spoons ■ Manual Can Openers ■ Bath Towels ■ Wash Cloths ■ Sheets and Pillow Cases ■ Pillows ■ Non Perishable Food ■ Hygiene Items

Angelic Ministries is lo-cated at the corner of N. Central and Oklahoma. Items can be dropped off Monday through Thursday from 8-4 at the Oklahoma entrance.

Items can also be left in the drop box.

For large item pick-up or tickets for the fundraiser, call 523-8884.

Grand opening at Wayward ArtsThe public is invited to attend the grand opening of Wayward Arts from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, at Knoxville Center mall. The ribbon-cutting will be at 10, complete with speech-es and fanfare! Dominique and Jacob Lacey invite you to join them for coff ee, cake and prizes. Wayward Arts is located up-stairs across from The Rush. Photo by Nancy Whittaker

By Sandra ClarkFormer U.S. Ambassador

to Egypt Margaret Scobey has no secret solution to the turmoil in the Middle East, but she sure knows a lot about it and offered a pro-vocative talk to the North Knox Rotary last week.

Looking at recent his-tory, Scobey fi rst discussed the Cold War period when events were viewed as us (USA) versus them (USSR). She said the 1990s were relatively tranquil with the United States seen as the world’s leader. Then came 9/11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. We said Saddam had weapons of mass destruc-tion. He didn’t. We desta-bilized a country without a clear plan for putting it back together.

Recently we’ve had a shooting war between Is-rael and Hamas, the United Arab Emirates conducting independent air strikes on Libya, a civil war in Syria, and unrest across the re-gion. “And nobody is asking the United States” for per-mission, Scobey said.

“(The Obama) Adminis-tration came in with hope but had not done its home-work.”

Then she smiled. “The United States did not cause all the problems in the Mid-dle East. Those people are quite capable of …”

Our country’s foreign policy should be keyed to our self-interests: defense of our homeland and our ability to conduct commerce overseas, she said.

The Rotarians pelted her with questions. Eli Driver said, “Every time we get in-volved in other countries, we screw up.” Perhaps, said Sc-obey, but look at our achieve-ment in World War II.

Is the Middle East a place for democracy? “Your defi -nition of freedom and jus-

Self-interest should direct U.S. policy

tice is different than theirs,” she countered.

What about women? “The role of women varies enormously based on socio-economic status. Poverty is not good for women. Fami-lies with money fi nd ways to take care of the women.”

Did you feel safe? “Yes.”Long-term prospects for

the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS)? “They appear to want to establish a transna-tional Islamic state … ISIS is taking advantage of insta-bility, but I don’t see them with a seat in the UN.”

Scobey was posted to Egypt from 2008 to July 2011 and was previously ambassador to Syria. She was deputy commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washing-ton, D.C., when she retired.

Along the way, she was political counselor in Bagh-dad, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in both Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Sanaa, Yemen. She held ear-lier assignments in Jerusa-lem, Kuwait, Pakistan and Peru.

A Memphis native, Sc-obey holds degrees in his-tory from UT and pursued doctoral studies before join-ing the Foreign Service. She now lives in Knoxville.

Ambassador Margaret Scobey

Jay Smelser

Jay Smelser joins Knox County Parks and Rec

Jay Smelser has joined Knox County as deputy director of recreation. He attended the Halls Busi-ness and Professional Association with Di-rector Doug Bataille in August.

Smelser worked for the town of Far-ragut for fi ve years. Bataille said he will work with youth and adult sports for Knox County. Requirements for the position in-cluded a bachelor’s degree in recreation or a related fi eld, supplemented by fi ve years of experience. The posted salary was $51,177.09.

Helen Ross McNabb Foundation has added four new members:

■ Betsey Bush, commu-nity volunteer

■ Richard Montgomery, state of Tennessee

■ Don Rogers, retired, Rogers Petroleum

■ Mitch Steenrod, Pilot Flying J Inc.

The Helen Ross McNabb Foundation supports the work of the Helen Ross McNabb Center. The foun-dation’s staff and 30-mem-ber volunteer board actively raise, hold and invest funds on behalf of the center, a not-for-profi t provider of behavioral health services in East Tennessee.

McNabb Foundation adds four

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THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 12Exhibits on display at Fountain City Art Center:

“A QuARTet of Visions” by Aleex Conner, J. Austin Jennings, Kay Jursik and Linda Leilani Bohanan; stu-dent exhibits feature watercolors by students of Mary Secrist and Kate McCullough. FCAC address: 213 Hotel Ave. Info: 357-2787.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3Networking Today North Knoxville meet-

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Free music lessons by Eric Holcomb, 3-5 p.m., UC Arts on Main Street in Maynardville. Donation to gallery encouraged. Continues each Wednesday.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Comput-er, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Preregistration required. Info/to register: 525-5431.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 4Cruise Night, 6-9 p.m., 6215 Riverview Crossing

Drive in front of old Food Lion at Asheville Highway. All makes, models, years and clubs welcome. No charge. Door prizes.

Pajama-rama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Vintage Fashion Show and Sale to benefi t Goodwill Industries-Knoxville Inc., 6 p.m., Downtown Knoxville Hilton. Tickets: $40 each or $375 for a table of 10; must be ordered in advance. For tickets: 588-8567.

Bee Friends beekeeping group meeting, 6:30 p.m., Walters State University Auditorium on Tazewell Campus. Speaker: Stephanie Tarwater, president of Blount Co Beekeepers Assoc. Topic: preparing hives for winter. Info: 617-9013.

Free movie and popcorn, 11:15 a.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Movie: “Now You See Me” with Morgan Freeman and Isla Fisher. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Knoxville AAA offi ce, 100 W. 5th Ave. Cost: mem-bers, $30; nonmembers, $35. Preregistration required. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

Kids Rocket Science with Miss Shelley, 10 a.m., Imagination Forest, 7613 Blueberry Road. Ages 5-12. 4-week class. Cost: $40/child; $20/sibling. Info/to pre-register: 947-7789 or www.imaginationforest.com.

Art with Miss Shelley, 11 a.m., Imagination For-est, 7613 Blueberry Road. Ages 5-12. 4-week class. Cost: $40/child; $20/sibling. Info/to preregister: 947-7789 or www.imaginationforest.com.

Fun Science with Miss Lindsay: Electricity Fun, 4 p.m., Imagination Forest, 7613 Blueberry Road. Ages 5-15. Cost: $10/child; $5 for sibling. Info/to preregister: 947-7789 or www.imaginationforest.com.

Twinkle Toes Trio with Miss Lindsay: “Happy Feet,” 5 p.m., Imagination Forest, 7613 Blueberry Road. Ages 2 1/2-5. Cost: $10/class; $40/month. . Info/to pre-register: 947-7789 or www.imaginationforest.com.

Mom’s Night Out Book Club: “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch” by Sally Bedell Smith, 6:30 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 5Farm Fresh Fridays: Union County Farmers Mar-

ket, 4-7 p.m., downtown Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.Adult painting class, 6-8 p.m., Imagination Forest,

7613 Blueberry Road. Ages 13 and up. Info/to preregis-ter: 947-7789 or www.imaginationforest.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, SEPT. 5-6Rummage sale, 8 a.m.-noon, Faith UMC, 1120 Dry

Gap Pike. Variety of items including baked goods. Info: 688-1000.

Rummage sale, 8:30 a.m., Christ UMC, 7535 May-nardville Highway. A little bit of everything.

Children’s consignment sale, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday/8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Bookwalter UMC, 4218 Central Avenue Pike. Info: bookwalter-umc.org or 689-3349.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 6Cades Cove tour with Bill Landry, 9 a.m.,

departing from the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. Tickets: $50 per person; includes light snacks and a cold beverage. Reservations required: 448-8838.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main Street. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.

Yoga, 9-10:15 a.m., Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Bring yoga/Pilates mat, towel, water. No fee; donations accepted. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or www.narrowridge.org.

Walk A Thon and Memorial Balloon Launch, 11 a.m., Lil’ Jo’s Barbeque, 2805 Maynardville Highway. Hosted by Senior Citizens Home Assistance Services. Live music, noon-2 p.m. Info/walking forms/ memorial balloon cards: Kim Partin, 964-5367, or Joanne Rosen-balm, 423-259-1108.

Celebrity Waiter Dinner, 6:30 p.m., hosted by the American Cancer Society, 205 Main in Clinton. Info: Kelly Lenz, 457-1649 or CPTCKLENZ@aol.com.

Friends Mini Used Book Sale, 1-4 p.m., Burl-ington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 7Mavis Hughes and the Joyful Sounds in concert, 6:30

p.m., North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. No charge; love offering will be taken.

MONDAY, SEPT. 8American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran

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

Deadline for craft and food vendor applica-tions for Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival, to be held 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, Cove Lake State Park in Caryville. Info/craft vendor applica-tion: http://louiebluie.org/vendor-application/; food vendor application: http://louiebluie.org/louie-bluie-food-vendor-applic/.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 9Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting,

7 p.m., Buddy’s Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Dr. Earl J. Hess, local historian. Topic: “Peters-burg, Battle of the Crater.” Dinner: $15 members; $17 nonmembers; lecture only: $3. RSVP by noon Monday, Sept. 8: 671-9001.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10Networking Today North Knoxville meeting,

9 a.m., Imagination Forest, 7613 Blueberry Road. Meets each Wednesday. Info: Brian Williams, Brian_DWil-liams@mac.com.

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