to a 4-5 minority, and depending on the outcome of the Nov. 4 race to re-place Kincannon, the former major-ity would probably be well advised to start practicing a new mantra.

New board member Amber Rountree has one:

“Go big or go home.”Rountree has requested a called

meeting to vote on abolishing SAT-10, an exam for kindergarten through second grade that many educators feel is inappropriate. SAT-10 is not state-mandated, and board chair Mike McMillan is expected to honor her request. Rountree wants a vote before the tests are ordered.

Board member Karen Carson is expected to oppose Rountree’s efforts. Carson said at last week’s mind- and butt-numbing fi ve-hour workshop that it’s the school

IN THIS ISSUE

Street View coming?If you take a stroll on a

Knoxville greenway and you run into a robot riding pig-gyback on the shoulders of a hiker, you have just seen (and been photographed by) a Google Trekker.

But if you try to talk to the hiker, he/she will hand you a card that says, “We’d love to chat, but we have to keep mov-ing!”

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Tribute to Hugh Noe

Anyone in Knox County Republican politics knows the name Hugh Noe.

He was an institution in the Alice Bell community, chairing the GOP committee there for decades. He died Oct. 21 at age 89, just a month shy of 90.

His son, Dr. Ronald E. Noe of Lake City, captured Hugh in his eulogy:

“Dad believed in hard work. (pause) Not so much in vaca-tions. …

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By Betty Bean In the recent past, when teach-

ers or parents asked for relief from Knox County Schools’ test-happy corporate reform regime, Super-intendent James McIntyre and the 8-to-1 school board majority that had his back would tell them to suck it up and get with the program.

Analysis Rountree

School chant: ‘Change is hard’

“Change is hard,” they’d say to tearful mothers telling of their children’s mounting test anxiety.

“Change is hard,” they’d tell teachers saddled with evaluations based on subjects they never taught.

We haven’t heard much of that since that since August elections and Indya Kincannon’s departure whittled McIntyre’s majority down

board’s job to hire a superintendent and set goals. It’s the superinten-dent’s job to de-cide what tests will be adminis-tered.

But Rountree disagrees. She quit her job as a

school librarian to serve on the board. Her South Knox constitu-ents elected her, and she’s not been shy about saying how she feels about McIntyre’s heavy-handed administration.

Rountree, Patti Bounds and Terry Hill have served notice that they intend to own future school board meetings. It’s unlikely that McIntyre’s lengthy, orchestrated

presentations will recur. County Commissioner Charles

Busler said last week that commis-sioners would never allow Mayor Tim Burchett, or any mayor, to sit at their table and control their meetings. In fact, Burchett often stays in his offi ce, monitoring commission meetings and making himself available if needed.

Change is hard. And we should expect change for the Knox Coun-ty Board of Education, starting this week with Amber Rountree’s effort to discontinue high-stakes testing for kids who have not yet learned to read. Are we really that data-driven? And to what goal?

Will Rountree win the vote? Maybe yes, maybe no. But the mes-sage is clear: Go big or go home.

Yes, change is hard.

Burchett sets area meetings

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will host 10 constit-uent meetings during October and November to give citizens the opportu-nity to speak individually with him about

issues that are important to them. These meetings are open to the public.

In the North/East area, Bur-chett met Oct. 27 at Burlington Library. He will be at the Corry-ton Senior Center 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 3; and at the Carter Senior Center 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12.

By Patricia WilliamsIt was a big night at

Carter High School. At the hard-fought football game with the Grizzlies of Grainger High School, Carter also hosted home-coming, Pink Out Night and the Second Harvest Food Bank Challenge.

Danielle Harris was crowned homecoming queen in pre-game cere-

By Patricia Williams

Members of the Carter Senior Center put their best foot forward to sup-port the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Cen-ter coordinator Rebecca Kirkland Quarles rallied a host of business sponsors to provide food, fun, gifts and valuable information to help with the themed Party in Pink.

The sponsors wore pink tutus depicting the theme of the 2014 Komen Race: “Do You Tutu?” The lone male of the group, Mike Andrews of Drayer Physi-cal Therapy, was a real man in his pink shirt. He arrived in a pickup truck pulling a party-sized grill he used to prepare chicken

Carter Senior Center cancer survivors include Anne Winstead, Alice Newport, Shirley Shef-

fi eld, Maria Ortiz, Helen Smith and Mary Ellen Cox. Photo by Patricia Williams

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Additional sponsors were Senior Financial,West Hills Rehabilitation Center and East Tennessee Personal Care Service.

A special gift of support went to Maria Ortiz, who endured the fi rst of her breast cancer treatments just three days before this event.

The effort was dedicat-ed to the memory of Steve Armstrong, who recently lost his battle with breast cancer. Armstrong’s pass-ing is a reminder that men are not immune to the dis-ease and should also get checked early and often.

Former Carter homecoming queen Lori Chandler Hens-

ley stands with her father, James Harris, and her daugh-

ter, Danielle Harris, the 2014 Carter homecoming queen.

More photos on page 8. Photo by Patricia Williams

By Sandra ClarkThe Tennessee Department of

Transportation has responded fa-vorably to the city’s request to allow additional signage along I-640 near the Knoxville Center mall to make interstate motorists aware of the businesses just off the exit ramp.

City Council member Nick Della Volpe has championed the signs and is generally happy with TDOT’s response. He just wonders why it will take up to ni ne months to implement the changes.

In a note to state Sen. Becky Massey, Della Volpe said Sam’s Club at East Towne is ready to rent logo space now. The store invested $8

million for a major upgrade last fall. Della Volpe said Sam’s qualifi es for the logo signs because it sells pre-pared food and gasoline onsite.

Knoxville City Council unani-mously passed a resolution Sept. 16 requesting TDOT to permit logo signs around Exit 8 near Knoxville Center. TDOT currently limits the use of logo signs to only the fi rst exits in and out of those municipalities with populations greater than 100,000.

Commissioner John Schroer responded to Mayor Madeline Rogero that TDOT recently initi-ated a process to re-promulgate the rules that govern this pro-

gram. The rules will be fi nal Oct. 29, 2014.

“Once the rules are fi nal, and provided no changes occur which would impact this aspect of the program, you may consider the city of Knoxville as approved for the use of logo signs,” he wrote.

“All exits inside the city will have to be reviewed on a case by case basis to determine if there is adequate room to place new logo signs. We would anticipate that process to begin once the new logo contract is in place on July 1, 2015.”

The council resolution said logo signs are necessary to provide the traveling public with directional

information needed to identify available services, “especially at exits where the nature of the road elevations and surrounding veg-etation prevent reasonable visual evidence that such commercial services and business can be ob-tained.”

Della Volpe cites 100 indepen-dent businesses near Exit 8 pro-viding some 2,000 jobs. He says businesses are obscured by artifi -cial earthen berms originally built to accommodate crossover bridg-es. “After 40 years, the berms are overgrown with mature veg-etation that hides the businesses from travelers’ view.”

Knox mall inches closer to interstate signs

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Big night at Carter

monies. Anna Leah Drum-mer was fi rst runner-up. The competition was de-termined by the most funds raised. Lori Chan-dler Hensley, Danielle’s mother, was Carter’s fi rst African-American home-coming queen, she said.

The Hornets put a sting on the Grizzlies with a 57-6 win. However, Grainger did not walk away empty-handed. Its students ex-celled in the Second Har-vest Food Bank Challenge

Hope renewedIn the fi rst game of this new

season, Joshua Dobbs made a remarkable difference. His quickness reduced the pres-sure on the offensive line. His speed generated yardage. His ability to throw on the run cre-ated problems for cornerbacks.

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“I jumped at the chance to have Gamma Knife radiation. That’s the only way to go,” said Harriett Prof-fi tt of Knoxville, a grandmother of three. She was fi rst diagnosed with lung cancer in 2012.

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Using the Gamma Knife radio-surgery system requires a team ef-fort. “We have both neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists together in the pre-treatment evaluation, as well as the actual procedure. Spe-cially-trained radiation physicists and nurses also help ensure a safe and pleasant experience for the pa-tient,” explains Hauge.

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Gamma Knife can also be used to treat a number of other brain disor-ders, like non-cancerous tumors of the pituitary gland, tumors of the ear or eye nerves, or malformations of the blood vessels in the brain.

Fort Sanders is an “open” center, meaning Gamma Knife credentialed and trained physicians in the area are welcome to use the technology. Six neurosurgeons and six radia-tion oncologists from Knoxville area hospitals participate regularly at the Fort Sanders Gamma Knife Center.

The biggest benefi t of the Gam-ma Knife is its ability to treat multi-ple tumors at once, up to 15 or more. The Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion is designed to allow treatment of multiple metastatic brain tumors developed from primary cancers outside the brain such as lung, breast, ovarian, colorectal, kidney and melanoma.

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Dr. Hauge agrees. “In a recent study, Gamma Knife was shown to deliver far less radiation to the rest of the body outside the brain than any other currently available cranial radiosurgical technology.”

However, while the Gamma Knife is one-of-a-kind in the area, it is not a cure for everything. Some tumors of the brain will still need traditional surgery. “Gamma Knife adds another treatment option for patients with brain cancers or other non-cancerous abnormalities in the brain,” says Dr. Norman.

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Mayor Madeline Rogero visited Chilhowee Park on Oct. 21 to celebrate two im-provements.

Solar panels have been installed on the roof of the Jacob Building, making it the fi fth city-owned facility to which the solar-energy-producing panels have been added. The 50-kilowatt solar photovoltaic array will help offset greenhouse-gas emis-sions by 50 tons per year.

In addition to offsetting greenhouse gases, the so-lar panels at city-owned fa-cilities will produce nearly enough electricity to power 22 average-sized Knoxville homes each year.

The Jacob Building proj-ect was fi nanced through an innovative public-private partnership that uses third-party fi nancing, with no cap-ital investment by the city. “This type of innovative fi -nancing structure allows us to advance the city’s sustain-ability goals and promote our local renewable energy economy without incurring costs to taxpayers or taking on any fi nancial or perfor-mance risk,” said Rogero.

ARiES Energy designed and installed the solar array at no cost to the city. ARiES partnered with local attorney

Wayne Wykoff, who fi nancedall the project costs, will ownand maintain the solar arrayand will collect most of therevenue from energy that’sproduced. The city will retaina portion of the revenue butassumes no fi nancial obliga-tions or maintenance respon-sibilities.

A 13-stall restroom wasrecently opened on the parkgrounds, directly across thelake from the Jacob Build-ing. The $319,800 additionalso includes a covered areawith eight picnic tables.

“This adds to the com-munity and is great for theneighborhood,” said formerMayor Dan Brown.

The restroom facility wasdesigned by architect Da-mon Falconnier of Falcon-nier Design Co. and built byDanco Inc.

Chilhowee Park and Ex-position Center is a multi-use East Knoxville venueowned by the city of Knox-ville, located blocks awayfrom Interstate 40/75 ac-cess and minutes fromdowntown. The park com-plex includes a three-acrelake, bandstand, gazebo, a4,500-seat amphitheater, a57,100-square-foot exhibi-tion hall, barns, arenas andpicnic shelters.

Former Mayor Dan Brown, Mayor Madeline Rogero and Erin

Gill, director of sustainability, show the new solar panels at the

Jacob Building at Chilhowee Park. Photos by R. White

The new restroom facility at Chilhowee Park will be open daily

from dawn to dusk.

Chilhowee Park gets needed upgrades

Jade and Clarke Blakemore

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Ways: How to Help your Par-

ents.” Photo by Patricia Williams

Minding their Ps and QsBy Patricia Williams

Jade and Clarke Blake-more, 12 and 10 years old re-spectively, are published au-thors. Their book “101 Ways: How to Help Your Parents” gives suggestions on chores that children can do to be helpful, such as washing dishes, taking out the trash and folding clothes.

Ever since Jade was about 8 years old, she could read well enough to navigate the kids’ menu. That’s when dad Marcus decided she could order her own food. Now when the Blakemore family goes out to eat, the girls get lots of attention.

It usually starts when the server asks their parents, “What are the kids going to have?” That’s when Jade and Clarke eloquently place their orders without assistance.

Marcus adds, “We eat out about once a week, and occasionally I let them splurge.” But after suggest-ing fries, the server would be in for another surprise when the girls instead opt for broccoli and applesauce for their side dishes, which they order with a polite “please” and “thank you.”

Meals out would often end with free dessert for the girls – a reward for their good behavior, respectful-ness and good manners.

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The Austin-East color guard, featuring Tranea

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Austin-East drum major Kavon Bullard leads

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Mom Heather Blakemore is a track coach and counsel-or for Knox County Schools. “We decided that our chil-dren would behave properly wherever we needed to take them,” said Heather.

Following in her mother’s footsteps, Jade competes in the U.S. Track and Field Ju-nior Olympics while Clarke continues to explore her op-tions.

The Blakemores’ parent-ing skills have netted more than complimentary des-serts; the girls are celebri-ties in their own right. They have held book signings and spoken to Girl Scout groups,

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And the winners areEverything you ever

(didn’t) want to know about Knox County politics.

In about a week, those who didn’t take advantage of early voting will cast their ballots in local and state general elections.

Feel free to use the peer-less prognostications below as a guide to tasting the thrill of victory by voting for the winning side.

■ State Senate District 7Republican candidate

Richard Briggs is regarded as the un-Stacey, a dignifi ed upgrade from the clownish Campfi eld.

It’s not likely that Briggs will become a target for Jon

LarryVan

Guilder

Stewart or Stephen Colbert, but the good doctor’s core values are little different from the man he looks to replace.

A line in the modern Hip-pocratic Oath reads, “I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is pref-erable to cure.”

Briggs, a respected sur-geon, opposes Medicaid ex-

pansion and the Affordable Care Act, despite the latter’s emphasis on preventive medicine. Go fi gure.

In contrast, Democratic candidate Cheri Siler fa-vors healthcare reform. She supports an increase in the minimum wage, a posi-tion Briggs considers a “job killer.”

Not surprisingly, she’s been unsuccessful in luring her painfully shy opponent to the debate platform. In this overwhelmingly Re-publican district Briggs has nothing to gain from a mod-erated debate.

Residents of the 7th Dis-trict deserve more than just an upgraded vocabulary in

their next state senator, but they aren’t going to get it. Briggs rakes in 70 percent or more of the vote.

■ Gloria Johnson vs. Lane Kiffi nOtherwise known as the

race for State House District 13, the contest has taken a turn for the bizarre.

A fl yer recently mailed by a PAC supporting Republi-can candidate Eddie Smith compared Democratic in-cumbent Gloria Johnson to Lane Kiffi n, “all talk” and “promises, promises.”

If nothing else, this Hail Mary tactic demonstrates that no idea is too desperate or too shopworn not to be repeated.

In 2012, Tennessee Re-publicans employed the

same shtick in a television commercial. Like Kiffi n, said the announcer, John-son’s strategy was to “take the money and run.”

Johnson might consider countering with an endorse-ment from Bo Wallace, the giant-slaying Ole Miss quarterback who led the Rebels to a recent win over Kiffi n’s Alabama Crimson Tide. If Wallace isn’t paid it shouldn’t violate NCAA rules.

If Johnson really wants to play hardball, use six de-grees of separation to link Smith with Derek Dooley and give Kiffi n haters a run for their money.

Johnson has earned an-other term, but this one will be close. When time ex-pires, Johnson 52 percent, Smith 48.

■ Nashville CatsIn the best of all possible

worlds, Republican Mark “Coonrippy” Brown would be squaring off against Democrat Charlie Brown for the governor’s chair.

“Coonrippy” wants the state to give back his “res-cue” raccoon it seized and released into the wild. Char-lie wants his own party to support him. Both are likely to be disappointed.

In the real world, Charlie Brown opposes Republican incumbent Bill Haslam. Even Lloyd’s of London wouldn’t give you odds on the Democrat’s chances.

Brown captured 30 per-cent of likely voters in an Au-gust Rasmussen poll. I’d be surprised to see him reach that percentage on Nov. 4.

The little man who wasn’t there

Candidates Jamie Rowe, Gloria Johnson and Cheri Siler Photoby Betty Bean

Last night I saw upon the stairA little man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayOh, how I wish he’d go away

– From “Antigonish” by William Hughes Mearns

2014 appears to be the year of not showing up – particularly for Republicans Eddie Smith and Richard Briggs, who are employing the same no-show tactic, likely for different reasons.

ic (note the small D) process and makes Briggs look like a wuss, despite the pictures of him decked out in combat gear on his campaign litera-ture.

Smith, who has been ducking public forums in what is thought to be a tight District 13 House race, doesn’t enjoy a name rec-ognition advantage over the incumbent Johnson, despite assaulting voters with a re-lentless negative direct mail campaign that peaked with a ludicrous Alabama Week comparison piece likening Johnson to Lane Kiffi n.

Despite being offered many potential dates for a League of Women Vot-ers forum, a genteel affair most candidates consider a required campaign ap-pearance, neither Smith nor Briggs could be bothered to fi nd the time. And neither

accepted the joint invitation from County Commission-ers Jeff Ownby (R) and Amy Broyles (D) to appear at a forum at West High School last Thursday (the three District 2 school board can-didates were also invited, and Jamie Rowe was the only one to attend).

Smith did, however, make a guest appearance at South-Doyle Middle School earlier in the week on an evening when parent/teach-er conferences were being held. He stationed himself in the teachers’ break room near the food, where he had easy access to a captive au-dience and was clearly in violation of Knox County Schools’ policy prohibiting political solicitation inside schools:

“Solicitation or adver-tising in any form by can-didates for public offi ce or

But the effect is the same – their would-be constitu-ents are being cheated of the opportunity to hear them defend their positions and

philosophies against those of their Democratic oppo-nents, Gloria Johnson and Cheri Siler. Both men, pre-sumably, are confi dent the R behind their names will secure their elections.

Briggs, the presumed frontrunner for the District 7 Senate seat after his pri-mary victory over Stacey Campfi eld, is likely relying on the well-practiced, Dun-can-family theory of not allowing lesser-known op-ponents the chance to raise their public profi le at his expense. While this makes some strategic sense, it also shortchanges the democrat-

political- or issue-oriented organizations is not per-mitted. Political literature shall not be distributed through the school to stu-dents, nor sent home to parents, nor placed in teachers’ mailboxes, loung-es or on school premises. Political advertising in any form shall not be permit-

ted on school facilities, on school grounds or in school publications.”

Smith refi ned the tac-tic three days later when he sent a campaign worker armed with yard signs and campaign literature to West High School, thus managing to violate KCS policy with-out even being there.

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Tammy Kaousias is the newest member of the Knox County Election Commis-sion and is the appointee of state Rep. Gloria John-son, who has known her for more than 20 years.

An attorney in solo prac-tice of business law, she is a member of St. George Greek Orthodox Church. She met her husband in 1997 in West Java, Indonesia, where they married. He is a Knoxville native, and they live in North Hills.

She is an engaging, com-mitted activist on voting-rights issues.

Kaousias, 48, is one of two Democratic members of the election commission. She wants feedback from the public on whether the election commission should meet at 8 a.m. as it makes it diffi cult for working people to attend if their workday starts at the same time.

She says it is “very un-

fortunate” that Belle Morris School was closed as a vot-ing precinct but is not sure it can be reopened. She feels voting should be accessible and the process transparent and nonpartisan.

She serves on the board of the Knoxville Jazz Or-chestra with such widely known personalities as Hal-lerin Hill, Bill Arant and El-len Robinson. She likes yoga and owns the Glowing Body Yoga Studio off Central Av-enue.

As an election commis-sioner she is paid $300 a month and has declined the county health insurance for which she is eligible.

With the absence of the chair, Christopher Heager-ty, the commission is now tied at two Democrats and two Republicans, making it totally bipartisan. Kaousias is the only commissioner not pictured on the website but plans to correct that soon.

Both Democrats on the Knox County Election Com-mission are women. The GOP has not had a woman serving on the local election commission in over 25 years since Hazel Showalter.

In April 2015, the GOP state legislators will make three recommendations for commissioners to the State Election Commission, which is virtually always honored. It will be interest-ing to see if the GOP legisla-tors, which include at least two new members (Rick Briggs and Martin Daniel), will make any changes in the current lineup. If Hea-

gerty is not back to work at the commission by then he is likely to be replaced.

■ Until 2008 there was a replica of the offi ce of the late Sen. Estes Kefauver at the University of Tennessee Hoskins Library. Then, due to structural concerns, that area of the building was closed and the furniture and photos were placed in stor-age, where they have been for six years. They are not likely to be on public display for some time to come.

The Kefauver family, some of whom live in the San Francisco area now, would like to see the offi ce re-es-tablished. The problem is no one seems able to do it.

The UT library, under the able leadership of Steve Smith, simply does not have a place to locate it. The arti-facts in storage have not di-minished.

Discussion has occurred with the Tennessee State

Museum executive direc-tor in Nashville. However, the museum has much of its current collection, includ-ing over 300 Red Grooms art pieces, in storage, hop-ing for a new museum to be built someday. The likeli-hood of a new state museum in Nashville, which would cost over $160 million (not including new storage space), being built soon is wishful thinking given the needs competing for con-struction funds.

Last July 1, in an email to Lindsay Kefauver, one of the senator’s daughters, the ex-ecutive director of the state museum said the museum “was honored to become the repository” of the collection but she may have spoken too soon as the furniture portion of the collection is actually owned by the U.S. Senate, which stated clearly in 1965 the furniture must be returned to the senate if

not used as a memorial to Kefauver.

Is having the Kefauver collection in storage for six years and facing another six years of storage still a public memorial?

There is also no room for it to be displayed and would simply be in storage in Nash-ville instead of Knoxville if transferred. The commis-sion members were also not informed about this devel-opment at the time but are now aware of it. (This writer is a commission member).

The museum commis-sion will need to set policy on this given that other, more recent Tennessee sen-ators have been nationally known as Senate majority leaders (Baker and Frist) and/or president of the Sen-ate (Al Gore).

■ Sen. Lamar Alexan-der will be at the Knoxville Crowne Plaza Nov. 4 to await the election results.

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By Betty BeanDemocrats once domi-

nated the Volunteer State’s political landscape – both senators, the governor, the General Assembly and most of the congressional del-egation. Now, Republicans control most every nook and crevice of government and Democrats are trying to climb out of the ditch.

One way to begin to do it would be to fi gure out a way to bottle the energy of June Jones, fi eld representative for the U.S. Senate cam-paign of Democratic Party nominee Gordon Ball.

Jones, whose Cedar Lane home is one of the prime yard-sign locations in Knox-ville, made national news in 2012 when vandals kept tearing down her “Tennes-seans for Obama” billboard.

“My yard was a battle-ground,” she said. “Not two days after we put it up, someone tried to steal it.”

So she put the sign back up with deep, reinforced stakes. They came back with a box cutter and sliced it up.

“I was so upset, but you know what? I taped it up… and they did it again. And so I taped it up again and started putting up other signs asking if you’d want to be part of a party that would suppress freedom. The best thing about it was the people that would come to my door and thank me for standing up to them.

“One lady said, ‘I’ve been driving by your house for days.’ I got letters from all over the United States. It was amazing to see all that hate turned into something more.

“My overall personal goal is to make Tennesseans proud to say they’re Demo-crats.”

Jones had more on her mind than signs that year. She was part of Obama’s

The unsinkable June Jones

North Carolina Get Out the Vote operation.

“East Tennessee led the action for the president, and I was over nine counties as a volunteer. We rocked it. The last three weeks of the cam-paign, we had a war room in a condo that a doctor let us borrow. We had tables, chairs and computers in ev-ery room.”

After the North Carolina

polls closed, the group start-ed making calls in Western states as part of the “Rolling Thunder” operation.

That, said Jones, is how to affect the process from a “red” state.

Her conviction that her party can exert its infl uence closer to home isn’t damp-ened by a recent poll show-ing her candidate 21 points behind Republican Lamar

Alexander.“We have absolutely got

them on the RUN!” Jones said. “He’s pounding Gor-don in the press and spend-ing money in the Tri-Cities and Middle Tennessee. La-mar Alexander didn’t fi ght this hard against (primary opponent) Joe Carr! Forty years is enough! We need to change what’s going on in Washington, and until we change WHO’s in Washing-ton, what they’re doing is not going to change.”

Jones is in charge of or-ganizing counties in Middle and upper East Tennessee. The day after this interview, she was headed to meet with Democrats in Hamblen County and with the sheriff of Greene County.

The sheriff of Greene County is a Democrat?

“Yes!” she said. “Pat Han-kins. He’s a Democrat in a very Republican area, and he got voted in. Isn’t that GREAT? We can DO this!”

June Jones at Time Warp Tea Room. Photo by Betty Bean

Trail panoramas may be fi rst for a U.S.

greenway systemBy Bill Dockery

If you take a stroll on a Knoxville greenway and you run into a robot riding piggyback on the shoulders of a hiker, you have just seen (and been photographed by) a Google Trekker.

But if you try to talk to the hiker, he/she will hand you a card that says, “We’d love to chat, but we have to keep moving!”

The card explains that Knoxville and Knox County are partnering with Google to produce a Street View video of the whole green-way system and other notable local landmarks.

When completed, the project will allow armchair hikers to enjoy 86 miles of Knox greenways from the comfort of their computer desks or smart phones. The virtual visuals will comple-ment the elaborate map of trails and parks recently re-leased by the city Parks and Recreation Department.

Both the department and Google public affairs folks decline to talk about the project, but a number of sources have confi rmed that the Street View trek-king has been underway for about a month. The Google website confi rms that Street View imaging is going on now in Knox and Jefferson counties.

Sources say that this project may be the fi rst Street View focusing on a U.S. greenway system, but that could not be confi rmed at press time. A number

of Street Views are avail-able on trails in Yosemite National Park and along Florida beaches.

Most of Google’s Street View images are cap-tured by a multi-camera tower strapped to the top of a small car that is driven along streets and roads. The cameras capture a 360-degree panorama of the passing scenery to form an interactive Google map.

The greenway project makes use of a similar tow-er outfi tted as a 40-pound backpack that sports 15 cameras.

Preparing a Street View video involves four steps: collecting images, matching the images to the ter-rain, stitching the images together seamlessly into a 360-degree panorama and using lasers to create a three-dimensional image that the viewer can move through virtually.

In recent months, Google has expanded use of the Street View technol-ogy to document museums, airport terminals, walks, parks and other scenic locales. In addition to the backpack and car, Street View cameras have been mounted on trolley carts, snowmobiles and tricycles. The company lends the Google Trekker equipment to nonprofi ts and tourism organizations, as well as researchers and universi-ties that can provide access to hard-to-reach places.Contact Bill Dockery at wldockery@icloud.com.

Good man HughBy Sandra Clark

Anyone in Knox County Republican politics knows the name Hugh Noe.

He was an institution in the Alice Bell community, chairing the GOP commit-tee there for decades. He died Oct. 21 at age 89, just a month shy of 90.

His son, Dr. Ronald E. Noe of Lake City, captured Hugh in his eulogy:

“Dad believed in hard work. (pause) Not so much in vacations. …

“He was a man of convic-tion and diligence. He val-ued education, and he loved his grandbabies.

“We are losing a genera-tion of diligence.”

Hugh and Jean were mar-

ried for 62 years. Pastor Toby Everett of their church, Alice Bell Baptist, said, “Jean, I commend you.”

Everyone at the service acknowledged there was never doubt about where Hugh stood.

He liked Tim Burchett back when Tim was a skin-ny kid who tried to save the world by recycling waste vegetation for mulch. Bur-chett landed a contract with the city (he had no competi-tion because no one else saw merit in this endeavor). All city brush was dumped at Tim’s location. He worked from dawn to midnight.

A major blizzard that year overwhelmed every-one. Brush started piling up

and Tim couldn’t process or sell it fast enough.

A city inspector started sniffi ng around Burchett’s mulch yard with an eye to-ward shutting him down. Someone spotted Noe and suggested he was dumping raw sewage on the mulch.

But reporter Betty Bean determined that Noe was pumping out standing wa-ter and disposing of it at the sewage treatment plant, which KUB confi rmed.

“Hugh was a standup guy,” says Bean.

Mr. Noe was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II who served in Japan. He farmed and ran Noe’s Suburban Septic Service for 50 years. Other survivors are daugh-ter-in-law Judy Noe; grand-children, Dr. Katie A. Noe and Drs. Ronald Andrew (Leah) Noe.

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This week, kids and their parents can take advantage of some terrifi c arts experi-ences around town.

Young actors Alex Carter and Ben Barber portray the “cursed”

Baskervilles in the Knoxville Children’s Theatre’s current pro-

duction of “Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Basker-

villes.” Photo by Dennis Perkins

Maestro James Fellenbaum, conductor of the KSO’s lively

Young People’s Concerts, reacts to an explosion in the 2012

performance of “Scientifi c Symphony.” This year’s concert se-

ries is titled “Are We There Yet?” Photo submitted

A great week for kids and the arts

says Fellenbaum, who is the father of a 3-year-old girl.

Jennifer Barnett Harrell, the KSO’s director of educa-tion and community partner-ships, says she is very excited about the performances.

“The idea is that we’re going on an ‘Indiana Jones’- type adventure with Indi-ana Jones’ distant cousin, Tennessee Smith,” she says. University of Tennessee the-ater department professor and local actor Terry Weber will be playing the role of Tennessee Smith, leading the students in an interac-tive adventure.

The kids must fi nd clues to help them fi gure out where they are traveling next. “Some of the clues will be hidden right in the or-chestra,” says Harrell.

Young performers will be featured, including the West African Drum and Dance group from Austin-East Magnet High School.

Special effects, including whitewater rapids and fi re-works, will provide excite-ment.

“Tennessee Smith unfor-tunately gets doused in a couple of European rivers,” Harrell says with a sly grin.

The concerts are geared toward third- to fi fth-grad-ers. Many school groups plan to attend, but individ-ual tickets can also be pur-chased. At press time, some were available.

Performances are Wed-nesday, Oct. 29, and Thurs-day, Oct. 30, at 9:30 and 10:45 a.m., and Friday, Oct. 31, at 9:30 a.m. at the Knox-ville Civic Auditorium.

Info: www.knoxvillesym-phony.com or 523-1178.

■ Elementary SherlockA different kind of expe-

rience awaits you and your youngsters as Knoxville Children’s Theatre presents “Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles,” a new adaptation of the clas-sic mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The story centers on the legend of a ghostly, diaboli-cal hound that has roamed the moors and stalked the Baskerville family for gen-erations.

When Sir Charles Basker-ville is found dead with enormous paw prints near-by, the case grabs the atten-tion of Sherlock Holmes and

Dr. John Watson.Can they solve the mys-

tery of the phantom hound before another Baskerville falls victim to the legend?

Old Sherlock never seems to lose his popularity, and KCT executive director Zack Allen thinks it’s because he “embodies the best and the brightest in us. He’s a care-ful observer, but he also ap-plies his knowledge. I think of him as a ‘mental super-hero.’”

Allen is one of the co-founders of the 7-year-old company, which has pro-duced more than 60 plays.

The current production, adapted by Allen, has a cast of 14 young actors, ages 11 to 17. “It’s sort of thrilling,” he says, “and pretty spooky when the hound starts howling!

“But,” he points out, “there’s no better place to be scared than the theater. It’s a safe place.”

“Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Basker-villes” runs through Nov. 9, with performances at 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturdays; and 3 p.m. Sundays.

Info: http://knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com/ or 865-208-3677.Send story suggestions to news@shop-

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Carol Shane

On Wednesday, Thurs-day and Friday, the Knox-ville Symphony Orchestra is presenting kid-friendly morning concerts. If your child hasn’t experienced the sights and sounds of a real live symphony orchestra, now is the time.

The Sheena McCall Young People’s Concert, named for its benefactor and titled “Are We There Yet?” will feature music from all over the world. Maestro James Fellenbaum, well known as the popular conductor of the annual fall concerts, will be leading the KSO in a musi-cal travelogue.

“We will explore music in a fun way, from Russia to Austria, from Africa to Mex-ico. Not only will students hear what different parts of the world sound like, but – through use of video pro-jection – they can see where these countries are located,”

By Betsy PickleHalloween is almost

upon us, but unless you’re going to a party, life could get pretty boring after the trick-or-treaters head home Friday.

There’s no better way to entertain yourself than a scary-movie night, and

whether you draw from your own library, rent from Red-box or order on demand, you can quench your thirst for gore, comic thrillers or outright horror.

If you lean toward icon-ic slasher baddies, forget Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees and head straight

for the Freddy Krueger aisle. The “Nightmare on Elm Street” series has far less fi ller than the “Friday the 13th” and “Halloween” fi lms combined, and Fred-dy Krueger is a much more personable demon.

(Chill out, John Carpen-ter fans. He was around only

Scare yourself silly – or gory for the fi rst “Halloween.” If you want something really suspenseful, check out his “Assault on Precinct 13.” It’s scare city, no lie.)

I’m not into gore, so you won’t get “Saw” or “Hostel” recommendations from me. But I wouldn’t dismiss anyone who opted for the original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Poltergeist” or an “Alien”/“Aliens” double feature.

You can’t go wrong with any of the classics like James Whale’s “Franken-stein” or “Bride of Franken-stein” or Karl Freund’s “The Mummy.” Boris Karloff is practically required view-ing on Halloween for some folks.

If your zombie awareness begins with “The Walk-ing Dead,” you should try George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn

of the Dead.” For a comic take, go for Edgar Wright’s “Shaun of the Dead.”

As for me, I fancy the fl ut-ter of bat wings, so my pref-erences run to the vampire crowd. No, I’m not talking about “Twilight.” Check out the original or remake of “Fright Night” for fun, or go for blood with Gary Oldman in the 1992 “Dracula” or Frank Langella in my edi-tor’s favorite 1979 version.

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When Harvey Keener of Decatur, Tennessee learned that a large abdominal aortic aneurysm had grown dangerously close to his kidney ar-tery, physicians gave him two options: tradi-tional open surgery to repair the aneurysm, or a minimally-invasive procedure done with a new, custom-made graft stent.

“I chose to go with the new technology,” says Keener. “It was the perfect choice for me.”

An abdominal aortic aneurysm or “AAA” is weak spot on the aorta that balloons out as it passes through the abdomen. If the aneurysm bursts, if is often fatal. Some people, because of their health, or the size or location of the aneu-rysm, are not candidates for the open surgery.

The traditional aneurysm repair surgery normally requires more than a week in the hos-pital, and months of recovery time. With the minimally invasive endograft procedure, a graft device is deployed through a sheath inserted through small incisions in the patient’s groin. Patients usually leave the hospital in a couple days and fully recovery in around 30 days.

Premier Surgical vascular surgeons Donald Akers, Jr., MD, FACS, and Scott Callicutt, MD, FACS, were the fi rst in the Knoxville region to use a new “fenestrated” endograft to repair com-plex abdominal aortic aneurysms. The surgeons were involved in clinical trials for the device.

“The special graft has small fenestrations or holes in it through which stents can be placed to keep blood fl owing to the patient’s kidneys and other organs,” explains Dr. Callicutt.

Each device is custom-made in Austra-lia. “The graft is precisely created using 3-D computer models developed from patient’s CT scans,” says Dr. Akers. “It’s for very select, com-

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plex cases that in the past would have been sent to Vanderbilt or other places for treatment.”

On October 6th, Dr. Akers and Dr. Cal-licutt completed the tenth fenes-trated endovas-cular repair at Tennova Physi-cians Regional. Harvey Keener is grateful to have been one of the ten pa-tients who have

benefi ted so far from the new technology.“I’m told my aneurysm was as big as a grape-

fruit. If I had undergone the open surgery, I would’ve been in the hospital for 2 weeks, and recovering for 3 months,” says Keener. “Instead, I was home in 2 days and walking a mile within 2 weeks.”

And, most importantly, Keener recov-ered in time for his wedding day. “Karen and I were married just 39 days after my surgery. It was perfect.”

Because of the quicker recovery time, Harvey Keeler felt great at his wedding, just 39 days after surgery.

The Fenestrated AAA endo-vascular graft is custom-creat-ed for each patient. Graphic courtesy of Cook Medical

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“I will work hard to be the voice of voters, taxpayers, teachers, students and parents.Together we can change our schools and make them better. I will appreciate your vote.”

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FRIDAY ■ Featured artists at Parkside Open Door Gallery, Fountain

City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave., are Fountain City artists Penny

Berridge and Renita Andrews; and Frank Harvey of Lenoir City.

Berridge will display oil paintings, Andrews will be showing

copper and sterling-silver jewelry and Harvey creates 3-D

garden art. Info/hours: 865-357-7624 or 865-357-2787.

■ Alive After Five concert: “Costume Party” with Boys’ Night

Out, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park

Drive. Tickets: $15; $10 for members/students. Info: 865-934-2039.

■ Fall Fun Fest, 6:30 p.m., Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville

Highway. Hosted by the Christ United Methodist Men’s Club.

Food, games, contest for the best food dip. Entertainment by

Highway 33. Info: 865-922-1412.

SATURDAY ■ Chili Supper, 5-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716

Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Cost: $10. Includes:

homemade chili, cornbread, dessert, drink. Live music by the

Woodpickers. Silent auction. Info: 865-494-9854 or www.

appalachianarts.net.

■ Chili Cook-off fundraiser for Boy Scout Troop 13, 5-8:30

p.m., Fountain City Lions Club. Entry fee for cook-off : $20.

Admission: $5; kids under 5, free. Includes all-you-can-eat

chili, drink, dessert. Silent auction. Info: Dave, 865-659-9626.

■ Harvest Celebration, Thorn Grove Baptist Church, 10200

Thorngrove Pike. Breakfast, 7 a.m.; live auction, 10 a.m.;

lunch, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Children’s activities, baked and canned

goods, live entertainment and more. Proceeds to benefi t

church’s building fund. Info: 865-933-5771 or 865-216-3193.

■ Fall festival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Clapp’s Chapel UMC, 7420 Clapp’s

Chapel Road in Corryton. Fun, food, music. Info: 865-687-4721.

■ Craft Show indoors, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Cumberland Baptist

Church, 5600 Western Ave. Woodworking, crafts, jewelry,

sports cards and more. Lunch served 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

■ Waggin’ Tails 5K Fun Run, 8:30 a.m., Tommy Schumpert

Park, 6400 Fountain City Road. To benefi t Humane

Society of the Tennessee Valley. Info/to register:

humanesocietytennessee.com.

■ Annual barbecue supper, 5-8 p.m., Corryton Masonic

Lodge #321, Emory Road. Donation: $8, 2 for $15, kids under

6 free. Info: 865-216-9956.

■ Farragut Half Marathon, 5K and Kids Run, 9 a.m., Farragut

High School, 11237 Kingston Pike. Hosted by the Knoxville Track

Club. Info: www.ktc.org or Steve Durbin, durb417@gmail.com.

■ Strange Company Reunion Concert, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater,

1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12; some discounts available. Info/

tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

■ “Continuum” presented by GO! Contemporary Dance Works,

3 and 7 p.m., Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave.

Tickets: $12-$20. Info: www.gocontemporarydance.com or

865-539-2475.

■ Arts and craft fair, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m., Middlebrook Pike UMC,

7234 Middlebrook Pike. Pottery, woodworks, jewelry, kettle

corn, Christmas items, handmade items, baked goods, etc.

Breakfast and lunch served. Info: 865-690-8641.

■ Kitten and Cat Adoption Fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town

Petsmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by

Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Continues each Satur-

day. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

■ Craft Fair and Fall Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Piney Grove

Baptist Church, 2109 Piney Grove Church Road. Crafts, chili,

hot dogs, bouncy stuff , music, games and more. To rent

table: Karen Gwinn or email john@pineygroveknox.org or

andrew@pineygroveknox.org.

■ Free family fun day, 1-4 p.m., McClung Museum of Natural

History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive. Showcases the

special temporary exhibit “Birds, Bugs and Blooms: Natural

History Illustration from the 1500s–1800s.” Info: 865-974-

2144 or http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

■ “Nobody Knows” performances, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Knox-

ville Convention Center, 525 Henley St. Info/tickets: www.

MagahaBoardingHouse.com.

SUNDAY, NOV. 2 ■ Opening reception for Knoxville Watercolor Society open

media exhibit, 3-5 p.m., The Omega Gallery, Carson-New-

man University in Jeff erson City. Exhibit open through Dec.

3. Gallery hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Info:

865-471-4985.

■ “Kickin’ It Old School: Southern Fried Performance Poetry,”

5-7 p.m., Preservation Pub’s Speakeasy, Market Square.

Hosted by Sundress Academy for the Arts. Info: http://www.

sundresspublications.com/safta/.

■ The KSO Principal Quartet performance, 2:30 p.m.,

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Tickets: 291-3310, www.

knoxvillesymphony.com, at the door.

Celebrating the seasons isn’t always a healthy thing. Halloween equals candy; Thanksgiving, mashed po-tatoes with gravy and corn-bread dressing; Christmas, pies, cakes and candy canes.

Plate it

Grilled Vegetable Platter at Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill

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At Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill in Turkey Creek, you can celebrate autumn with a platter fea-turing a bountiful harvest that is also a fairly healthy choice.

Seasons is all about changing menus to corre-spond to what’s fresh. Chef Deron Little adds a smor-gasbord of seasonal dishes as the calendar pages turn. His “regular menu” is hard to resist, especially if you have a favorite, but diners will light up their taste buds if they skip over to the sea-sonal offerings to see what Little has cooked up.

The Grilled Vegetable Platter was a great choice

off the seasonal menu. Features were crookneck squash, zucchini, porto-bello mushrooms, roasted artichokes and Brussels sprouts, accompanied with couscous, fl atbread toast points and hummus spread. I line up on the “no, thank you” side of the Brussels sprouts discussion, so I was shocked when I asked our server if “these little green things” were fried lettuce bites.

“No,” he said, “those are the outer leaves of the Brus-sels sprouts. Chef fl ash-fries them.” I still skipped the bigger bites but scarfed down those crispy little leaves that had fl aked off.

I tried to eat the veg-etables the way I knew Chef would want me to – samples of all on the fork for an or-chestrated taste – and it was delicious. I did fi nd myself moving some of the veg-etables around on the plate as I got full for just “one more bite” of the portobello mushrooms. Seasons Innovative Bar and Grill: 11605

Parkside Drive; 865-392-1121

Upcoming food events: ■ Wine Down Wednesday – 6

to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29,

at Blue Coast Grill & Bar, 37

Market Square downtown.

■ K-Town Vegans Five-Year

Anniversary Potluck Cele-

bration – 6:30 p.m. Thursday,

Oct. 30, Best Western Cedar

Bluff Inn, 420 N. Peters Road;

free. Bring a vegan dish to

pass and your own place set-

ting. Drinks will be supplied.

■ Knoxville Food Tours with

Paula Johnson – 11 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 1, the Bearden

District; $59. Tours limited to

12. Driving tour starts at The

Coop Café, 3701 Sutherland

Ave., and includes Blackhorse

Pub & Brewery and Buttermilk

Sky Pie Shop, plus a mystery

stop. Info: www.knoxville-

foodtours.com.

■ 9th Annual East Tennessee

Chili Cook-Off for Second

Harvest Food Bank – noon

to 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 2,

World’s Fair Park; $15. Over 30

amateur cooking teams will

whip up their tastiest recipes

to compete for the best chili

in town.

■ Alton Brown Live: Edible

Inevitable Tour – 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 4, Tennessee

Theatre, 604 S. Gay St.; $47

to $67. The two-hour show

is a unique blend of standup

comedy, food experimenta-

tion, talk-show antics, multi-

media lecture and live music.

865-684-1200.

■ Naples/Ashe’s Winery Din-

ner – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

6, at Naples, 5500 Kingston

Pike; $75. Featuring Frederick

Wildman Imports.

Send upcoming restaurant events to

news@shoppernewsnow.com.

It may sound like it, but Michael Keaton is not draw-ing on real life for “Bird-man, or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,” due to open at Downtown West on Friday.

The much-admired “Batman” of the fi rst two Tim Burton-directed fi lms about the Dark Knight, Kea-ton was one of the biggest movie stars in the world by the time “Batman Returns” came out in 1992. In the past 22 years, he has done solid and steady work but usually with a much lower profi le.

“Birdman” tells the story of a former movie superhero trying to capture admira-tion from critics and adora-tion from fans by mounting a legitimate Broadway play. But the chaos that sur-

While trying to resuscitate his career, actor Riggan Thomson

(Michael Keaton) also hopes to reconnect with his daughter,

Sam (Emma Stone), in the black comedy “Birdman, or The Un-

expected Virtue of Ignorance.”

Jake Gyllenhaal plays an ambitious young man who gets into

the world of underground crime journalism in “Nightcrawler,”

also starring Rene Russo.

Michael Keaton carries, escapes his past with ‘Birdman’

Betsy Pickle

rounds him and the produc-tion makes any kind of suc-cess a long shot at best.

“Birdman” teams Keaton with acclaimed director Alejandro Gonzalez Inar-ritu (“Amores Perros,” “21 Grams,” “Babel,” “Biutiful”). The fi lm is also a change of pace for Inarritu, whose unfl inching dramas have drawn high praise.

This new black comedy tackles the backstage world of Broadway with continu-ous takes and a script that was a two-year, multi-coun-

try collaboration by Inar-ritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo.

The cast includes Zach Galifi anakis as Keaton’s best friend and producer, Naomi Watts as the play’s leading lady, Edward Nor-ton as the troublemaking last-minute leading man, Emma Stone as Keaton’s just-out-of-rehab daughter and personal assistant and Amy Ryan as his ex-wife.

■ Opening wide Friday is

“Nightcrawler,” starring Jake

Gyllenhaal as a young man

who wants to do something

big. He fi nds his niche when

he stumbles into the world

of freelance crime journalism

in Los Angeles. Racing rivals

to get the fi rst images of a

murder or bereaved family

members, he quickly rises to

the top of the trash-TV heap

as he shows that he will do

absolutely anything to get

the story.

The fi lm marks the direct-

ing debut of screenwriter Dan

Gilroy, whose credits include

one of my favorite fi lms from

2006, Tarsem Singh’s “The

Fall,” as well as “The Bourne

Legacy.” The wonderful Rene

Russo (who happens to be

Gilroy’s wife) stars along with

Bill Paxton and Riz Ahmed.

■ Also opening Friday is “Be-

fore I Go To Sleep,” a thriller

starring Nicole Kidman, Colin

Firth and Mark Strong; based

on the novel by S.J. Watson.

The fi lm is about a woman

who wakes up every day with

no memories due to a trau-

matic accident. Terrifying dis-

coveries make her question

everyone in her life. I know

many women who would love

to question Colin Firth. Or

Mark Strong. Or both.

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Big night at Carter From page 1

Members of the Carter High march-

ing band perform their halftime show

during the Knox County Schools band

exhibition, hosted by Central High.

#64 Logan Hurst and #27

Gage Hamby wrap up a

Grizzly with #33 Carter

Dunlap ready if needed. Photo by Marsha Branch

Superhero The Green Hornet,

aka Zavin Gregg, with Carter

Hornet fans.

Going green to show team support are, top, Ella Burnett (moth-

er of #72 Junior Richards) and Bobbie Inman (both are aunts to

#47 Daniel Bundy) and Inman’s daughter, Haley Inman.

Abby Caylor and Stephanie Swan play percus-

sion for the Fulton High band. Tyler Maples plays guitar for the Fulton band.

Carter High color guard, Caroline Copock, tells a story with col-

orful outfi ts and fl ags.

Carter High majorettes enhance the halftime program with

colorful costumes, twirling talent and on occasion, some fi re

batons. Pictured is Tori Keirsey alongside tuba player Lucas

Cox. Carter High majorettes en-

hance the halftime program

with colorful costumes, twirl-

ing talent and on occasion,

some fi re batons. Pictured is

Tori Keirsey.

Central High hosted a recent band exhibition for Knox County Schools, giv-ing each high school band an opportunity to show off its halftime performance and watch those from schools they don’t see dur-ing the regular football sea-son.

Area bands show their stuff at exhibition

by collecting 7.16 pounds of food per student; compared to Carter’s 7.02 pounds.

A check representing a combined total of 12,721.9 pounds of food was presented to Elaine Streno, executive director of Second Harvest, making students from both schools community service winners.

Pink Out Night had the Hornets in pink jerseys, pro-vided by Farm Bureau Insurance of Tennessee. The jerseys were auctioned with proceeds going to American Cancer Society’s “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” cam-paign.

Farmer Charlie, seen in television commercials for Farm Bureau Insurance, signed pink-themed farmer hats and T-shirts that were provided by Joe Kemp, owner of the local Farm Bureau Insurance agency on Western Avenue.

The football fi eld at Carter has only a few feet of space along the sidelines for the players, coaches and cheerlead-ers to stand – but big things do happen in small spaces.

NORTH/EAST Shopper news • OCTOBER 29, 2014 • 9 businessBy Sara Barrett

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett is launching a Wreaths Across America team in an effort to raise funds to place as many live wreaths as possible on the graves of ve terans buried at three veterans’ cemeteries in Knox County.

He met with Kim Harri-son and others last week.

Harrison’s son, Special-ist Daniel Harrison, was killed Dec. 2, 2004, in Mo-sul, Iraq, during his fi rst deployment to the Middle East. She said to lose a child “is the greatest fear of any veteran’s family, but my son had so many army buddies and I have a strong support group. There are so many without family. (The cem-etery) can be sort of a lonely place, especially at Christ-mastime.”

Daniel Harrison at-tended Carter High School. He has a younger brother, Joshua. His mom’s advice to other military families is this: “You’ve gotta stay

By Patricia WilliamsThe Home Builders Asso-

ciation of Greater Knoxville was established to protect the interests of homeown-ers when building or mak-ing improvements to their homes.

While doing so, the staff had been walking on the same offi ce carpet for 22 years.

“We thought it was time for us to fi x up the place,” said Ashley Burnette, ex-ecutive vice president. The association hosted an open house Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 221 Clark St. to show off its

new look.Among the fi rst things

you see when entering the building is a display of the major streets that defi ne sections of Knoxville. “We want our offi ce to represent the area that we serve,” said Burnette.

He assigned decorating decisions to Julie DuPree of DuPree-Graf Construction LLC, who is secretary and treasurer of HBAGK and chairs the 2014 Parade of Homes.

She coordinated the dé-cor and shopped with area

Burnette

Kim Harrison and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett visit East

Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery. They are holding a photo

of the grave of Harrison’s son, Daniel. Photo by Sara Barrett

Burchett launches wreath project

strong at home so they can s tay strong in the fi eld.”

Burchett said a $15 spon-sorship will pay for a wreath made of live greenery to be placed on a veteran’s grave at either the East Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery on Lyons View Pike, the new East Tennessee State Veter-ans Cemetery on Governor John Sevier Highway or the Knoxville National Cem-etery on Tyson Street near

Old Gray Cemetery.“If you simply sponsor

one wreath or choose to sponsor 100, you are hon-oring veterans and families who have honored our com-munity with their service,” said Burchett. “Whether the men and women buried in our veteran cemeteries were lost during combat or after living a long life, we do this for the family members who are still living.”

There are more than 15,000 veterans buried at the three veterans cemeter-ies in Knox County.

Anyone wanting to spon-sor a wreath can do so by visiting www.knoxcounty.org and clicking on the Wreaths Across America banner. The organization is also offering a “three-for-two” sponsorship special, which means they will do-nate a wreath for every two that are sponsored.

The wreath sponsorship cutoff deadline is Dec. 1. The wreaths will be placed on the graves on Dec. 13.

Harrison said there are many organizations that send care packages to sol-diers. Contact any of the military organizations and they can direct you appro-priately. She said her son’s best friend in the service said she always sent Dan-iel the best care packages, and he would always share everything he got with his buddies “except his Frosted Mini Wheats.”

Helping celebrate are: Scott

Davis, state Reps. Kelly Keisling

and Joe Armstrong, Ashley

Burnette, Julie DuPree, Knox

County Commissioner Randy

Smith, City Council member

Finbarr Saunders and Knoxville

Association of Realtors presi-

dent Doyle Webb. Brittany

Mathes tended bar.

Taking care of home

Company Wrench tailgateCompany Wrench offi cially opened in Knoxville last week with a tailgate party. Pic-

tured at the event are (front) Terry Pulley, Jason Woods, Kim Pulley, Camron Leon-

ard, Kevin Allen; (back) Derrick Hatmaker, Leonard Carden, Zack Sims and Josh

Howiler. The business relocated to 6325 Central Avenue Pike from Cookeville in

June. Info: 865-766-2571. Photo by Sara Barrett

The East Town Business Alliance will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at New Harvest Park Community Center. Justin Sterling, president, invites all busi-ness owners and managers in the East Towne corridor to attend.

Adam Palmer, presi-dent of Saw Works Brewing Company, will discuss why his company chose to set up operations in Knoxville and the importance of having community support for a growing business. Palmer is also an appointed member of the Knoxville Business Advisory Council.

Come a little early to meet your business neigh-bors and enjoy breakfast. Sterling says this is a meet-ing you will not want to miss.

■ Knoxville Center to host Mall-o-weenKnoxville Center invites

families to celebrate Hal-loween in a safe, climate-controlled environment during the annual Mall-o-ween celebration. This year’s festivities will start at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31. Kids

Nancy Whittaker

ETBA to meet on

Nov. 5

can trick-or-treat at retail-ers throughout the mall.

Children are invited to wear costumes and compete in radio’s HOT 104.5 “Hot-o-ween” costume contest. Registration begins at 5 p.m., with the contest start-ing at 6 p.m.

“Mall-o-ween is one of our most popular events,” said Abbey Harris, director of marketing and business development. “It’s a great alternative to traditional trick-or-treating, and we’re proud to be able to provide families with a fun, safe way to enjoy Halloween.”

This event is exclusive to Knoxville Center and will not be held at West TownMall. Only children 12 and under are permitted to trick or treat or wear masks. No toy weapons are allowed, and costumes may be worn only during event hours. Info: www.knoxvillecenter.com.

businesses. As most of the members have a foundation

in construc-tion, mud, dirt or steel, D u P r e e chose colors of steel blue and gray – with a pop of orange, of course.

A m o n g those attending the recep-tion were Knox County Commissioner Charles Busler and City Council member Duane Grieve.

Take advantage of the benefi ts the HBAGK has to offer. Info: www.hbaknoxville.com/.

Amazing that what hap-pened to Justin Worley changed the appearance of Tennessee football.

Thousands of Butch Jones advisers can now see clearly what the coach had overlooked.

In the fi rst game of this new season, Joshua Dobbs made a remarkable differ-ence. His quickness reduced the pressure on the offen-sive line. His speed gener-ated yardage. His ability to throw on the run created problems for cornerbacks.

Astounding that without playing even one previous snap this season, Dobbs was able to produce a couple of rare touchdowns.

OK, there was less heat. The game was essentially over by the time Dobbs en-tered. And his two turnovers contributed to the wreckage that was the eighth consec-utive loss to Alabama.

Josh was not responsible for Amari Cooper. The Tide wideout chewed up Volun-teer pass defenders with a world-record 185 receiving yards in the fi rst quarter.

Offensive coordinator Lane Kiffi n smiled as if he had a little something to do with it.

That dull pain and the 3-5 Tennessee record now have some new feel-better companions – a hint of opti-mism, a ray of hope, even the possibility of better things to come before next year or the next. If there are enough able bodies for a quorum, we’ll fi nd out Saturday night at South Carolina whether this is real or a mirage.

In a weird way, Worley brought this on. The gutty gladiator took the beat-ing, week after week, the price for inept blocking and no running game. The fi -nal straw, an injury to his

shoulder at Ole Miss, forced Jones to cancel the red-shirt plan and allow Dobbs to play.

Those with fl awless 20/20 hindsight may think they see that withholding him for seven games cost a victory or two.

This is called hindsight bias, the tendency to seize a tidbit of new information and alter the facts, to adjust what really happened into what might have or could have or should have. Some so affl icted may even believe they knew it was going to end up this way and why in the heck did it take so long.

Jones left the impression that he waited as long as

Marvin West

20/20 hindsight: Sad that it took an injury

he could, until late August, before choosing a starting quarterback. He probably had valid reasons for pick-ing Worley. Maturity, poise, strength, experience and practice performance could have been in the equation.

Under the assumption that the future just has to be better than the recent past, the coach decided to save a season of Josh eligi-bility until it would be more meaningful, until he could gather more talent around him. Butch gambled that these Vols could qualify for a bowl game without a dual-threat quarterback.

It was going to be really close. It may still be.

Alas, there is now way to know if Dobbs could have made the difference against Florida. All we know for sure is that Worley didn’t.

The need for a quarter-back who can run has been

borderline desperate. Fans understood. Through loud exclamations, they’ve been trying to help the coach. Perhaps you have heard it.

“We need a quarterback that can run! Everybody has one.”

“Butch thinks a ‘mobile quarterback’ is anyone who can do the Vol Walk.”

“We may never beat the big boys unless we get a versatile quarterback, a playmaker with another dimension.”

“Tennessee needs a dual-threat quarterback” sounds like an old phonograph record with a bad groove. Paying customers have been singing that tune, over and over, since Condredge Hol-loway. That was the 1970s.

Dobbs isn’t the “Artful Dodger” but he’s a reason-able facsimile. We’ll see if changing shirts changes November.Marvin West, westwest6@netzero.com

Win and you’re inStefan Cooper

Both are safely inside the playoff bubble at the mo-ment, but neither Gibbs nor Central is resting easy.

The Bobcats travel to the Eagles’ nest on Friday with a spot in next week’s Class 5A playoffs a certainty for the winner. Several four-win teams statewide will make for some intense scoreboard watching late Friday for the loser.

Kickoff at Gibbs is 7:30 p.m.

Entering Friday, the Eagles (5-4, 3-4 District 4AAA) occupy the No. 25 position in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association’s updated Class 5A postseason selections.

at halftime. Jeremiah How-ard ran for 100 yards on 12 carries with an 11-yard scoring run against Oak Ridge. At least three quar-ters of that kind of football, and Central is sure to be in the hunt on Friday.

Last meeting: 2013 – Gibbs 24, Central 14

The Breakdown: This one could hardly be any closer.

With Booth running the show, Gibbs has looked su-per in wins over Karns (34-17) and Powell (39-6) in its last two games. Central has one of the area’s top play-

makers in senior receiver Cedric Washington. Junior quarterback Austin Kirby is a cool-headed passer with plenty of targets in addition to Washington.

The big ones are always won with defense, and in se-nior Hunter Lane, a 6-foot-3, 250-pound All-State defensive end selection a year ago, Gibbs has one of the best on that side of the ball you’ll see this season. If Central can’t keep him out of Kirby’s backfi eld, it could be a long night.

The Bobcats (4-5, 3-4) are three spots back at 28.

The top 32 after Friday make the playoffs. Playoff pairings are released Sat-urday.

The Eagles and Bobcats both have reasons to feel good about their chances Friday. Gibbs quarterback Preston Booth had a hand in four Eagle touchdowns in the opening half in a 39-6 win at Powell last week. Running for three scores,

the Gibbs fi eld general also had a 49-yard touchdown pass to Ethan Warden. Brendan Wilson ran back a Powell punt 41 yards for a touchdown.

Central didn’t fare so well last week at Oak Ridge, fall-ing to the Wildcats, 48-7, but look closer.

The unbeaten Wildcats, who meet equally unbeaten Anderson County for the district championship on Friday, led the Bobcats, 3-0,

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Fall AmeriCorps Members at Emerald YouthEmerald Youth Foundation celebrates its Fall 2014 AmeriCorps members! They are (back) Jessica

Scott, Jaquan Smith, Dean Taylor, Denson Ligon, Keidre Shaw, Cristen Franklin, Timothy Ramsey,

Karson Jones; (middle) Neil Tate, Amanda Smith, Leanne Palmer, Khadijah Rucker, Samantha

Bates, “Tess” Woodhull, LLatricia Williams; (front) Justin Hawkersmith, Emily Blankenship, Re-

becca Woodall-Winton, Mikah Cole and August Moultry. Not pictured are Ryan Adeniran, Taylor

Kirk, Taylor Jones, Tyler Hardin, Madison Moreland and LaKiera Grimes.

When Emerald Youth Foundation helped launch a girls’ volleyball team at Vine Middle School last fall, seventh-grader Alaysia McGhee, 12, jumped at the chance to play. Now 13 and an eighth-grader, Alaysia is playing on the volleyball team for the second year.

Francine McGhee, her mother, heartily approves. “Alaysia plays every sport she can. She runs track at Vine and plays basketball. She plays tennis during the summer. I am hoping that someday she will get a scholarship,” she said.

Alaysia added, “I like ev-erything about volleyball.”

Vine is one of three Knoxville middle schools that now fi eld girls’ volley-ball teams with the help of Emerald Youth Foundation. The result is that girls have another opportunity to rep-resent their school athleti-cally, said Dwayne Sanders, Emerald Youth sports di-rector.

Emerald Youth serves more than 1,400 urban kids yearly through faith, aca-demic and sports programs.

Sanders said that even though many girls have played in Emerald’s longstanding recreation volleyball league, very few urban schools had a volleyball team for them.

Emerald launched a vol-leyball team at Whittle Springs Middle School in 2012, Vine Middle School in 2013 and Holston Middle School this fall.

Alaysia McGhee (right) sets up the ball for Treasure Rowe to hit

over the net. The girls play on Vine Middle School’s volleyball

team sponsored by Emerald Youth.

Emerald Youth launches Volleyballin urban middle schools

Steve Diggs

Our area is fi lled with many heroes who are

w o r k i n g hard on b e h a l f of chil-dren. Let me tell you about one of t h e s e , L a r r y Martin.

What I love most about Larry is that he continu-ally and quietly works for the well-being of Tennes-see’s young people.

Larry is best known around the state for his high-profi le, public roles: as Tennessee Commis-sioner of Finance and Ad-ministration, as deputy to the mayor of Knoxville from 2006 to 2011, and as COO of First Tennessee Financial Services before he entered government service. But his work on behalf of kids never stops.

In 2012, Larry joined Gov. Bill Haslam’s ad-ministration, but Larry’s work in Nashville hasn’t kept him from continuing to serve in Knoxville.

Larry has been a long-standing leader with Em-erald Youth, providing important strategic and fi nancial direction for our ministry.

A Message from Steve

Larry Martin, 2014 Legacy Dinner honoree, spends time

with Emerald Youth kids during a recent tour of the Ten-

nessee State Capitol.

The Kirks demonstrate how to hold off an attacker with your feet.

“What is the difference between a bad guy and a friend?”

Michelle Kirk asked that of a group of Emerald Youth Foundation middle-school girls recently.

Kirk is a women’s self-defense instructor.

“A friend is someone you can trust to care about you. A bad guy is someone you can’t,” said Beverly, a Vine Middle School student.

“I like that answer,” said

Kirk. “A bad guy doesn’t care about anyone but him-self, as long as he gets what he wants.”

Kirk and her son, Joshua, recently taught middle-school girls at two Emerald ministries, Virginia Avenue Ministry and Mount Zion Baptist Church, how to protect themselves against would-be predators.

National statistics show an increase in attacks of all kinds against girls and

Middle-school girls learnself-defense techniques

young women – sexual as-saults, predatory behavior in daily life settings, and date rape.

Kirk said girls should learn to recognize and avoid predators.

Through her business, Pink Diamond Defense, she teaches self-defense for girls and women, including non-credit courses at Pellissippi State Community College.

Kirk said that if a girl is attacked, she should loudly scream “No!” and “Help!”

The Kirks showed each girl how to break an arm hold with her hands and how to kick off an attacker by dropping on her back with her feet up.

Each girl got to try out these and other techniques on the spot.

At Mount Zion, girls gave the presentation a thumbs-up.

“It was good. I liked that we could go up there and learn it ourselves,” said Des-tiny, 13.

“Often women have a hard time setting boundar-ies,” said Kirk afterward.

“ I want them to know it’s OK to say ‘No.’ I want them to think, ‘When someone in-vades my space, what am I going to do?’ ”

Sanders anticipates launching teams at North-west and South-Doyle mid-dle schools in the future.

As team sponsor, Em-erald Youth transports the teams to the games. Emer-ald also provides coaches and uniforms, runs the prac-tices and pays league fees.

In season, the teams played other middle schools at the Knoxville Volleyball Academy in Hardin Valley and at K2 Volleyball Acad-emy in Louisville.

Chris Hames at K2 and Jamie Petrik at KVA pro-vided tournament opportu-nities as well as overall sup-port to Emerald’s program. The teams practice weekly at the Emerald Youth gym at 1718 N. Central St.

“There aren’t enough sports opportunities for girls,” said Sanders.

“Offering them another sport to participate in is huge. Playing volleyball gives girls a chance to be part of a team and to be a feeder program for their high school.”

Outside the school league teams, Emerald offers girls the opportunity to play club-level volleyball as well.

“We had three club teams last year play in six compet-itive tournaments and hope to have four to fi ve teams this year,” Sanders said.

Under his leadership, Emerald now offers club- and recreation-level sports in soccer, basketball, track, baseball and swimming.

And Emerald Youth isn’t the only organization to which Larry is commit-ted. He currently serves on the boards of East Ten-nessee Children’s Hospital and the University of Ten-nessee Foundation, and he’s provided leadership to the Great Smoky Moun-tain Council-Boy Scouts of America, Knoxville Cham-ber, and United Way of Greater Knoxville, among many other organizations.

When a group of Em-erald Youth kids visited the Tennessee Capitol re-cently, he spent an entire afternoon giving them a “behind the scenes” tour and talk.

Larry’s own endorse-ment of Emerald Youth recently gave us great en-couragement: “Emerald is a dynamic organization, very attuned to be relevant and meeting the needs of the community.”

Emerald Youth was pleased to honor Larry with its highest accolade, The Legacy Award, at the sixth annual Legacy Din-ner benefi t on Monday, Oct. 27. at the Knoxville Convention Center.

Sincerely,

Steve DiggsPresident & CEOEmerald Youth Foundation