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VOL. 7 NO. 5 A great community newspaper February 4, 2013

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Knoxville natives Colby Woodland and Jason Hamilton visit on the set of

Budweiser’s “Return of the King” commercial. Hamilton has been nominated

for an Art Directors Guild award for the ad’s production design. Photo submitted

By Wendy SmithFormer Knoxville resident Ja-

son Hamilton has been a success-ful production designer in Los An-geles since 1996. He’s received in-dustry recognition, like his recent Art Directors Guild nomination for excellence in production design in commercials for Budweiser’s “Re-turn of the King” ad, which aired during last year’s Super Bowl. And he’s worked with numerous indus-try giants on commercials, music videos, fi lms and photography.

But he has just one goal for 2013 – to spend more time with his family. Yes, he’s found success, but it’s come through hard work. Hundred-hour work weeks aren’t uncommon, he says.

Bearden native enjoys L.A. “There’s definitely not a lot of slacking. It’s not as fun as people think. We have to put in a lot of hours.”

He’d have a hard time convincing anybody that he’s not having fun, though. For one thing, he enjoys the professional company of two Knox-ville-area friends. His art director is Colby Woodland, his best friend since 8th grade. They graduated from Central High School togeth-er. He met prop master Orion Cox from Oak Ridge when they worked together on a fi lm.

For another thing, he gets to do cool stuff. Production designers translate words into reality, Hamil-ton explains. He works closely with directors to create the physical forms required by scripts. That means cre-ating a color palette, guiding ward-robe decisions and working with the

The Bearden High School swim

team celebrates after winning the

Knoxville-Area Interscholastic Swim

League city meet championship. Photosubmitted

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Swimming champs!

By Wendy SmithWest High School social stud-

ies teacher Lou Gallo remem-bers the first time he taught in the school’s mini-auditorium.

It was fall of 2007, and he was team-teaching a class of 70 with English teacher Candace Greer. He and Greer would lug a pro-jector and laptops from home into the room, along with neces-sary cords and books to prop up the projector. He told students to bring a hard surface so they could take notes on their knees.

“We had it down to a science,” he explained to the crowd that attended last week’s dedication of the school’s new state-of-the-art lecture hall.

Those days are gone. The West High School Foundation raised $300,000 to equip the lecture hall with new, com-fortable seats with retractable desks, a high-definition video screen, a new sound system, and pleasant lighting. It’s a 21st-century classroom with Internet access and distance learning ca-pabilities.

It was a team effort, said Jac-queline Holdbrooks, the cur-rent president of the West High School Foundation.

The project was first suggest-ed by former West High princi-pal Greg Roach, she said. When

West High School’s new state-of-the-art lecture hall was

dedicated last week. To demonstrate the facility’s distance

learning capabilities, state Commissioner of Education Kevin

Huff man spoke from Nashville to the gathering. Photo by W. Smith

New life for West High auditorium

the foundation board saw the dark auditorium with no tech-nology other than a projector screen that went up and down at the push of a button, they de-cided to rehabilitate the space.

Funds came from parents as

well as community supporters. For $250, families could “buy” a chair to dedicate to a student or teacher. The foundation raised funds from the community by asking, and asking again, she says.

She is thrilled with the re-sults.

“It’s not just a beautiful room. It’s a room to utilize, to open the eyes of students to allow them to

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Miracle MakerIn 2006, Amy Crawford

returned to teaching after a three-year leave. In her new 8th-grade teaching posi-tion at West Valley Middle School, she found herself

teaching some of the same students she had known as 3rd graders at A.L Lotts Elementary.

“Once I got into the class-room and saw how the kids had changed, it was a real eye-open-ing experience.”

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will host “Welcome to Our School” open houses for par-ents and students who have been rezoned to new elementa-ry schools beginning in August 2013.

Open houses and school tours will be held at A.L. Lotts, Ball Camp and Cedar Bluff elementary schools, Farragut Primary and Farragut Inter-mediate at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, and 1-2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11.

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meets 11:45 a.m. every Mon-

day at TVA West Towers, ninth

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cepting new members. Info:

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■ UT Toastmasters Club meets

at noon every Tuesday at the

Knoxville Convention Center on

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rently accepting new members.

Info: Sara Martin, 603-4756.

■ West Knox Lions Club meets

6:30 p.m. each fi rst and third

Monday at Sullivan’s in Frank-

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By the time you read this, Super Bowl XLVII will be nothing but a memory. But for 15 UT students and fac-ulty members, it’s a memory that will last a lifetime.

This year’s TEAM UT par-

ticipants are (sitting) Destini

Long, Danielle Polk, Taylor Ha-

thorn, Kristy Lancaster, Abby

Bensen, Kristen Petway, and

Sara Frazier; (standing) Alice

Mitchell, Brad Briggs, Deb-

bie Mackey, Bryan Lundquist,

Darren Brown, Fritz Polite, An-

drew Busa, Trey Pence, Chuck

Strickland, Erika Brown, and

Ladina Poltera. Photo submitted

BHS senior Evan Pinion Photo by Wendy Smith

UT students work behind the scenes at the Super Bowl

The group, called TEAM UT, travelled to New Or-leans last week to work with M Group Scenic Studios, the Super Bowl event planner. Fritz Polite, an assistant professor of sports manage-ment at UT, developed the program. This was the sev-enth year UT students have helped behind the scenes at the Super Bowl.

It was Polite’s ninth year to work at the Super Bowl. The fi rst two years, he helped supervise the park-ing lot.

“I’ve gone from the park-ing lot to the suites,” he says.

This year’s TEAM UT as-sisted VIP attendees, like owners and commissioners. Polite coached the students on how to keep their cool

dents, and this is a great project to develop skill sets.”

■ BHS celebrates victories in swimming, wrestlingThe Bearden High School

Aquadogs swam to fi rst place out of 28 local teams at the recent Knoxville-Area Interscholastic Swim League city meet champion-ship. For senior swimmer Evan Pinion, who competed in last summer’s Olympic trials, it was a record-break-ing day. He beat his own two-year-old record in the 200 individual medley, and beat a 17-year-old record in 100 back.

It was also a bittersweet day because it was his last city championship.

“It was a little emotional.”While he’s represented

the U.S. in international competition, it was fun to represent Bearden in local competition, he says.

The meet was his fi rst time back in the pool after taking a few weeks off for an injury. He spent last fall in Atlanta training with Dyna-mo Swim Club, and while he was there, he experimented with different strokes. His work on backstroke paid off.

He also tied a city meet record for the boys’ 400 free relay. Other members of the relay team were Hayden Burns, Bryar Long and Ryan Burcham.

After competing in the state meet on Feb. 8 and 9, Pinion plans to enjoy his last few months as a high school student. He’s glad to be back at Bearden, even though he’s catching up on core classes after being homeschooled last fall.

He begins practice with UT in May.

The Bearden wrestling team competed at the State Dual Wrestling Champion-ship last weekend in Frank-lin. While results weren’t available at press time, this was the fi rst year the team has attended state. Way to go, Bearden wrestlers!

director of photography.“We set the stage, in es-

sence,” he says.Hamilton’s work is famil-

iar to anyone who watches television. In addition to “The Return of the King,” which artfully depicts the end of pro-hibition, he worked on spots for Nike’s “Find Your Great-ness” campaign that aired during last summer’s Olym-pic games. He also worked on the promotion for Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos tacos. That job had a nice perk, he says.

“I got to eat one of the perfect ones.”

Last fall, he traveled to Iceland to shoot an HP print-er commercial set in a fi sh-ing village. A freak storm de-layed fi lming for a few days, and he was happy to return to the California sunshine.

Hamilton has spent enough time around the Hol-lywood elite that he is no longer dazzled by the likes of Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney. He worked with Clooney once, and says the

actor was as impressed by the crew as they were by him. People are people, after all.

But he admits to being starstruck twice. The fi rst time was when he worked on his fi rst music video with rocker Ozzy Osbourne. The second was when he and his wife, Cassiel, saw Paul “Bear” Vasquez, the star of a viral video about a double rainbow, at a restaurant.

The Hamiltons are the proud parents of two daugh-ters: Izzy, 4, and Bowie, 2. They bring the family to Knoxville at least once a year to visit with Jason’s parents, Larry and Sharlyn Bolinger of Bearden, and James Hamilton.

The 17th annual Art Di-rectors Guild Awards were announced on Saturday, Feb. 2, so winners were not available at press time. This year’s Super Bowl Budweiser commercial was also still un-der wraps at press time, but Hamilton shared one not-so-surprising detail.

“The Clydesdales are in it.”

Central grad From page A-1

around celebrities.“You have to act like

you’ve been there before. We’re not spectators, but employees.”

The group also helped with NFL Experience, an event that gave members of the community the op-portunity to interact with players through games and clinics.

The trip wasn’t entirely glamorous. TEAM UT also spent time cleaning up a playground with the UT New Orleans alumni chapter.

The program is highly competitive, Polite says. Ap-plicants wrote essays about their fi ve- and ten-year ca-reer plans, and fi nalists interviewed with three stu-dents who were participat-ing in the program for a sec-ond year. This year’s TEAM UT is made up of undergrad-uate and graduate students studying recreation and sports management, com-munications and business.

TEAM UT raised $30,000 for the trip through various fundrais-ers. The goal of the program is to teach students to lead, Polite says.

“I feel very honored to be able to do this. I love stu-

Lecture hall From page A-1

see what’s out there.”West High School prin-

cipal Katherine Banner announced that students from the UT College of Business Administration will spend several weeks this spring research-ing the best use for the school’s new distance learning capabilities. She looks forward to their rec-ommendations.

Chip Finn, former pres-ident of the West High School Foundation, over-saw much of the project. He told the crowd that he felt a little like Elle Woods, a character in the movie “Legally Blonde,” when she graduated from Harvard and announced, “We did it!”

He thanked the 115 do-nors to the project, who were mostly parents.

“The wonderful thing about West High School parents is that when they

give, they give for every-body.”

He also thanked com-munity partners like the Great Schools Partnership along with Oak Ridge Na-tional Lab, whose gift spe-cifically funded distance learning. He expressed special appreciation for the gift from the West High School PTSO.

“They raised their mon-ey the hard way.”

The lecture hall’s dis-tance learning capabilities were demonstrated when Tennessee commissioner of education Kevin Huff-man spoke to the crowd from Nashville. He ex-pressed excitement for Knox County and West High School as they “take the leap forward.”

“It’s important to em-brace distance learning as a state.”

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“Absolutely false,” Briggs said.

“I did nothing until I talk-ed to the whole leadership of (anti-billboard citizens’ group) Scenic Knoxville, making it clear that if we didn’t make a compromise, all three ordinances would fail.”

Briggs said he believed that he would lose the votes of Commissioners Ed Shouse and Mike Brown if he dug into an all-or-nothing position.

Commissioners Amy Bro-yles and Sam McKenzie per-suaded Briggs to defer the two ordinances for 90 days and send them to the Met-ropolitan Planning Commis-sion to add use-on-review requirements rather than to withdraw them.

McKenzie warned of “opening up a rabbit hole.”

Broyles argued that hav-ing MPC add use-on-review provisions would be “rea-sonable, simple, easy and it takes care of it without opening a whole big can of worms.”

The amended ordinances passed by a 6-4 vote with R. Larry Smith, Dave Wright, Brad Anders and Jeff Ownby voting no. Mike Hammond was absent.

Joyce Feld and Margot Kline of Scenic Knoxville are standing by Briggs, and say they are pleased with the compromise.

“Richard has been an ab-solutely fabulous partner in this effort,” Feld said. “He has stuck to his word and followed through on every-thing he told us he would do.”

Billboard interests are not happy with the vote, and dropped hints about law-suits.

Briggs said he thinks he did the right thing:

“You get down to a point where everybody’s drawn a line in the sand – all or noth-ing – but we would have had nothing if we hadn’t compro-mised,” Briggs said.

Ordinances must be ap-proved twice, and this one will come up again in Febru-ary.

Ossoli Circle president Lexa Hooten, center, poses with UT President Emeritus Joe Johnson and

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero during the club’s Leadership Day. Photo by Wendy Smith

Ossoli Circle observed Leadership Day by inviting two accomplished leaders – UT President Emeritus Joe Johnson and Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero – to share their thoughts on the topic.

Leaders ‘make good things happen’

Wendy Smith

Johnson, who served as UT president from 1991 to 1999 and interim president from 2003 to 2004, said leaders are those who make good things happen.

He was mentored by Andy Holt during the early years of his UT career. Holt had never supervised more than fi ve employees before becoming UT president in 1959, Johnson said.

“He knew no more about running a university than my black lab dog.”

But Johnson learned from Holt to surround him-self with capable people. A talented staff should be turned loose – and occa-sionally supervised, he said.

He also shared wisdom from a book written by Jew-ish grandmothers, like “A meowing cat can’t catch a mouse,” “Go to bed with dogs and wake up with fl eas,” and “No answer is an answer,” meaning if you see something amiss, you should speak up.

He’s learned from expe-rience that two short sen-tences help things get ac-complished – “Thank you” and “I’m sorry.”

A sense of humor can also smooth ruffl ed feathers and make life more fun.

“People without it are the most boring people in the world,” he said.

Rogero shared the story of her rise to the city’s top leadership position and en-couraged members of the women’s club to get involved in politics. Each person has the power to transform the community, she said.

She followed the ad-vice “Bloom where you are planted” when she moved to Knoxville 32 years ago. She came for her husband’s ca-reer, but the city wasn’t her fi rst choice. She became ac-tive in the community when she joined the fi ght against the development of a travel trailer park near her North Knoxville neighborhood be-fore the 1982 World’s Fair.

In early 1990, Rogero received a call from an elected offi cial encouraging her to run for Knox County Commission. In addition to being a divorced mother of two with an ethnic name, she didn’t feel qualifi ed to take on long-term Repub-lican incumbent Jesse Ca-wood. But after putting to-gether a list of friends, she decided to throw her hat into the ring.

Rogero was patronized for running her campaign by courting voters, rather than elected offi cials or party bosses. Her opponent once introduced her by say-ing, “This is Madeline Rog-ero. Ain’t she purty?” She won by a landslide.

“I have to say, nobody was surprised more than me.”

She joined veterans Bee

DeSelm and Mary Lou Horner along with Wanda Moody as women on the commission. They were lat-er joined by Diane Jordan and Pat Medley, making six women on the then-19 member body, a record.

After losing her 2003 bid for mayor, Rogero took it upon herself to learn every-thing she could about the city. It paid off when her for-mer opponent, Bill Haslam, appointed her community development director three years later. Since winning the 2011 mayoral race, she’s followed the advice given by Johnson and surrounded herself with good people.

Women can get elected, she said, and shouldn’t let fear of criticism keep them from leading.

“If you can’t run, encour-age others to run.”

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The lawsuit challenging TVA’s dress code at public meetings has been trans-ferred in federal court from Judge Thomas Phillips (who is retiring this summer) to Judge Tena Campbell, who is on senior status from Utah but has been hearing cases in the Eastern District of Tennessee for the past several months.

TVA pursues dress code

She has set March 12 at 4 p.m. at the Howard Baker Federal Courthouse in courtroom 1A to hear the Chris Irwin lawsuit against TVA. Actually, she is hear-ing arguments on whether to dismiss the case or not. The public is welcome.

It is amazing TVA is even bothering with dress codes and spending ratepayer money on defending this lawsuit. Who cares if people wear makeup at public hear-ings, face paint or whatever. Chris Irwin (whose views I do not generally support) has a perfect right as a citi-zen in my view to wear face paint and look as serious or silly as he wishes.

It would seem to me with the huge cost overruns TVA has managed to gather that the four new board mem-bers might tell the legal staff to devote their time to more worthwhile endeavors rather than monitoring the attire people wear to public hearings. Don’t they have better things to do?

But still it should be an interesting hearing where you can watch your public money at work. Unless Judge Campbell dismisses the case (rules for TVA and that can be appealed, too) this is but the beginning of the lawsuit.

■ Georgia’s U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who announced his retirement in 2014, has strong Knoxville ties having graduated from UT College of Law in 1968. His wife taught at Sequoyah Elementary while he was a law student here. Sam and Ann Furrow are good local friends of the couple. Cham-bliss is the only UT College of Law graduate currently serving in the U.S Senate.

■ Former state Sen. Roy Herron was elected to chair the Tennessee Democratic Party on Jan. 26 despite the strong support of Mayor Rogero and the may-

ors of Nashville and Mem-phis for his opponent, Dave Garrison. The three mayors issued a statement for Gar-rison. U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, the senior congressional Democrat from Tennessee, also backed Garrison.

Locally, former state Sen. Bill Owen, who serves on both the state and national Democratic committees, disregarded Rogero’s advice and actively supported Her-ron. In a statement on why he backed Herron, Owen cited Herron’s longtime public service, his honest image and his work ethic for the party. Owen also men-tioned his longtime friend-ship with Herron from the Legislature. Owen picked the winner.

Given the overwhelming GOP edge in Tennessee and the low numbers for Demo-crats in the Legislature, Herron has almost no way to go but up in rebuilding the party.

Herron is a former minis-ter and author in addition to being a state lawmaker since 1986. He turns 60 this year and is already drawing a pension of $24,000 a year based on 26 years in the Legislature.

Chances of the Demo-crats beating Bill Haslam for governor or Lamar Alex-ander for U.S. Senate next year are dismal. However, there may be opportunities to win some legislative seats in 2014. Herron is a witty, effective public speaker con-sidered more conservative than many Democrats at the national level, but most Ten-nessee Democrats fi t that description.

■ Three Tennessee governors will gather Feb. 21 at the Baker Center for an evening panel discussion on civility in politics. Partici-pating are Gov. Haslam and former Govs. Phil Brede-sen and Don Sundquist. Bredesen and Sundquist ran against each other in 1994 with Sundquist winning. The public is invited to at-tend. The only other living Tennessee governors are Republicans Winfi eld Dunn and Lamar Alexander.

■ The oldest living for-mer U.S. Senator is Harry F. Byrd Jr. of Virginia who is 98 and lives in Winchester, Va., where he once owned the local newspaper. He turns 100 in 2014. He re-cently gave an interview to BBC on his family hosting Winston Churchill at their home during World War II. Originally a Democrat, he became an independent and was elected as such from Virginia.

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The county’s 4-year-old billboard moratorium was set to expire Jan. 31, and outdoor advertising compa-nies could have lined up at the door to pull permits Feb. 1 if Commissioner Richard Briggs had withdrawn his ordinances to ban conven-tional billboards and elec-tronic message centers.

Briggs was sponsoring three ordinances – one deal-

ing with c o n v e n -tional bill-boards, one with EMCs and one with digital billboards, e mu l at i n g the city’s ban, which

prohibits new billboards and disallows converting conventional billboards to digital.

The weekend before the Jan. 28 meeting, however, Briggs decided that he didn’t have the votes to ban EMCs and “static billboards,” so on Saturday he posted a mes-

Billboard compromise draws criticism, praise

Briggs

sage on the commission’s on-line forum announcing he would withdraw the fi rst two ordinances and only push the digital billboard ban:

“I have met with several of the smaller, local compa-nies that are based in Knox County. Most are small fam-ily businesses that would be adversely affected by a total ban. ...

“The message I receive is ‘let’s regulate, not ban.’

“The owners are not op-posed to sitting down with the MPC, environmental groups, homeowner asso-ciations, and local govern-ment representatives and working on regulations that everyone can live with.”

His announcement im-mediately drew criticism that he had caved to special interests.

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January’s Noah’s Ark-type fl oods had not yet come to the Beaver Creek bot-tomlands when, on Jan. 5, we put up wood duck boxes in the wetlands along my stretch of the creek.

We joined a bright young lady who had crafted some excellent nest boxes as part of a Girl Scout Silver Award project. A family expedition, plus me, to fi nd just the right places for the boxes and to put them up, brought us out on a nice mild January morning.

Lest you think that we were overeager, out there all bundled up, putting up bird nest boxes in the dead of winter, let me remind you that as of now, it is only two months until April! The owls are feeding nestlings, the purple martins’ average ar-rival date is Feb. 12, and the tree swallows will be close behind. It’s time to be clean-ing out those bluebird hous-es and, as we were doing, putting up more housing.

There are 85 species of North American birds that prefer or require cavities in which to hatch and raise their young. Before there were any people around, there were plenty of natural cavities, in large old trees with rotten places and holes where dead limbs had bro-ken off. And the woodpeck-ers were, and still are, prime real estate developers, most of them excavating a new cavity each year for nest-ing, and often, a second one in the fall, for winter roost-

NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier

Wood ducks

and warblers

ing. Then the cavity nesters lesser-equipped for excavat-ing wood could move into the abandoned woodpecker holes.

Now, with a lot of our woods giving way to subdi-visions and malls, and over-achieving tidy types cutting all the dead trees and snags in yards and parks, nesting cavities have become scarce. That whole situation was greatly compounded with the arrival of the alien, ag-gressive starlings and house sparrows. They take which-ever nesting holes they want from the smaller birds, toss-ing out the hatchlings and often killing the parents.

On the positive side, a considerable number of our native birds have been given a signifi cant boost in their numbers by humans mak-ing nest boxes. The most noticeable success has been with our eastern bluebirds. The largest and most endur-ing housing development for the birds has happened be-cause of all those folks who through the years have tend-ed to their beloved purple martins.

But many other birds will take to a human-made home: owls, kestrels, wrens (when they’re not nesting in an old hat in your garage), chickadees, titmice, tree

swallows. And that brings us back to the wood ducks, and why the swamp people were down in the creek bottom in January.

There are actually two species of brightly-colored birds in our area that like to live in nest boxes in lowland watery places. The wood duck and the prothonotary warbler both nest in water-oriented habitats. Both like their homes leaning out over the water, if not actually standing in it.

Otherwise the two birds are about as different as any two birds can be. Wood ducks are water birds. They eat stuff that lives in the wa-ter, and their babies can care for themselves and fi nd food almost from the moment they hatch. The warblers are regular bug-eating little land birds; they just happen to

like waterfront property. Wood ducks are wide-

spread now across the east-ern United States, but by the early 1900s they had been hunted nearly to extinction. Hunting laws were passed just in time, and then many wildlife agencies, as well as lots of private citizens, be-gan setting out wood duck nesting boxes such as the ones we were putting up along Beaver Creek. Fortu-nately, the wood ducks have rebounded. They may be our most beautiful duck. Check out that male in his breeding plumage in your bird book!

Their family life is amaz-ing, too. The females lay 10-15 eggs. Then sometimes, other female wood ducks will lay their eggs in there, too, a practice called, appro-priately, “dumping.” The fi rst mama duck can end up with

two or three dozen eggs! When the baby ducks all hatch, they climb out of their nest hole or box, and jump, bounce or splash depending on the nest location. If not near the water, mama duck leads them off, across golf course or busy highway, to the nearest water. The fuzzy baby ducks can swim and fi nd their own food immedi-ately. I have often seen a row of fl uffy wood duck chicks swimming along Beaver Creek behind mama duck. It’s a really nice scene.

Good news for humans: wood ducks exhibit what the ornithologists call strong nest site tenacity. They usu-ally return to the same place to nest, year after year. So we’re hoping our Beaver Creek nest boxes will have tenants this year and next year and on and on. We’ll keep you posted.

That other water-orient-ed, cavity-nesting bird, the prothonotary warbler, also named the golden swamp warbler, is truly golden. They are named after certain Vati-can offi cials who are dressed in splendid golden-yellow robes. The male warbler’s

head, throat and breast light up a gloomy swamp like a ray of sunshine. I saw my fi rst one from a canoe. The bird was making a nest in an old hollow stump by the dark, still waters of the Oke-fenokee Swamp, one of those instant and brief sights you never forget.

Prothonotary warblers live in most of the eastern United States, mainly south of the Ohio River. They es-pecially like willow trees, because they are usually near or in the water and have soft wood that rots quickly to provide good nest holes.

I’ve heard of their nest-ing near the Island Home airport, and around the lake at Kingston. But my favorite place to hear their song in the spring, and usually see them, is Cove Lake State Park. The hollow willow snags standing in the water there make a perfect habi-tat for the golden swamp warblers. I try to go up and stand on the observation platform there at least once every spring just to get my yearly prothonotary warbler fi x.

Prothonotary warblers will use human-made boxes, too. They like boxes about the size of a bluebird box, only with a smaller entrance hole, about 1 ¼ inches. This lets warblers in and keeps some (but not all) other problems out. They lay an unusually large number of eggs for a warbler, 8-10 or so. But their babies follow a more standard program and stay in the nest until they can fl y. And, being out over the water, they have to get it right the fi rst time!

Maybe that’s why they lay so many eggs. Birds can re-ally be interesting.

Carringer

Republican clubs mergeTwo Republican clubs

have merged, re-sulting in a new meet-ing place and date.

Michele Carringer, president, says the of-fi cial name

is the Fountain City and North Knoxville Republi-can Club.

The club won’t meet in February, but will gather at Louis Restaurant on North Broadway at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12. Those wanting dinner should ar-rive at 5:45 p.m.

Other offi cers are Tim Wheeler, vice president; Donna Corbitt, secretary, and Virginia Dunn, trea-surer. Info: 247-5756.

Susano heads state Court of Appeals

Judge Charles D. Susano Jr. has been elected by his peers as presiding judge of the Tennessee Court of Appeals, succeeding Herschel Franks,

who retired at the end of 2012.

Susano has been a member of the Court of Appeals since March 1994, when he was appointed by former Gov. Ned Ray McWherter.

Susano practiced law here prior to 1994. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and attained his law degree from UT, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Tennessee Law Review. He and his wife, Carolyn, live in west Knoxville and have three children.

Susano

Prothonotary warbler

Wood duck

A-6 • FEBRUARY 4, 2013 • BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS

Marvin West

CrossCurrents

LynnHutton

Isaiah wrote, “The wil-derness and the solitary place shall be glad for them,” and I know (really, I do know) that he was writ-

ing about the Lord’s cho-sen people.

However, today, I smile at this verse of Scripture and take it very personally.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

(Isaiah 35: 1 KJV)

The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose. Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair.

(“The Rainbow,” William Wordsworth)

As Lucy (of Peanuts fame) says to Linus, “I have made up a list for you; I call it ‘Things You Might as Well Know.’”

And here is what you “might as well know”: as I have been explaining to my friends and family, “Well, there is this guy….”

Today, “this guy” sent me

Lovely is the rose a bouquet of yellow roses. For no particular reason, except that recently, he had asked me what my favorite fl ower was, and he always pays attention.

Both of us have been alone for a lot of years (that “solitary place” Isaiah men-tioned), but fortunately each of us also had a friend who encouraged us to step out of our comfort zones, and take a chance.

I frequently ponder the fragile hinges our lives turn on. What if one of us had not heeded the encouragement of our friend? What if one of us had been too afraid to

meet a stranger in a public place? What if we had not felt like old friends from the very beginning? What if he had not had eyes as blue as my father’s?

What if, indeed?But we did heed; we were

not afraid; we did feel com-fortable; he did have ex-traordinarily blue eyes; and I did – quite simply – drown in them.

I believe that “the wilder-ness and the solitary place are glad” for us. I believe that our families and friends are glad that we have found one another. I believe that God had a hand in this and

is pleased that we cooper-ated, and that our lives will be enriched by the joy and contentment we have found.

So what lessons have I learned from this unexpect-ed journey?

Be patient. (God works in God’s own time.)

Pay attention. (You may not see a burning bush, but there will be signs.)

Keep your heart strong. (It is a muscle, after all.)

Don’t settle. (When it’s right, you’ll know.)

And last, but certainly not least, God is good, all the time. (But sometimes, He excels!)

Some former insider will someday tell a color-ful tale of how Tennessee faked out rival recruiters and got away with a high school lad who grew up to be an all-American.

Besides the possibility of cheating and lying, foot-ball recruiting may include cloak-and-dagger stories that are slow to spill out of the closet. That’s how com-petitive recruiting is – a lot of stuff happens and almost anything goes but don’t talk and don’t get caught.

Return with me now to yesteryear, 1927. For some strange reason, Bobby Dodd and Paul Hug didn’t really want to be Volun-teers. They rode the bus from Kingsport to Nash-

You might not believe this but …

ville with the idea of play-ing for Vanderbilt. Dodd’s grades were suspect but both signed some kind of papers and were all set to be Commodores.

Robert R. Neyland did not like this news. He wanted Hug and would take Bobby to get Paul. Knoxville sporting goods dealer Frank Callaway was appointed to investigate. He drove to Nashville for

what he considered a res-cue mission.

The rules of that day said a player wasn’t officially in school until he played a game. Callaway went on campus, found the players and explained their mis-take. They repented, gath-ered possessions, squeezed into Callaway’s car and drove east on a sunny Sep-tember afternoon.

Dodd and Hug enrolled at Tennessee the next morning at 10. They were called transfers. That af-ternoon they played in a freshman game, 45-0 over Murphy Institute.

Vanderbilt and others screamed foul. Neyland re-mained silent but suppos-edly smiled.

There was a great tug of war for Richmond Flow-ers of Montgomery, Ala. Schools across America wanted him for football and track but the recruit-ing race came down to Ala-bama and Tennessee. Paul Bryant promised to hire a track coach and build a track. Tennessee had a track and a track coach, Chuck Rohe, and a bright, young football coach, Doug Dickey.

Bryant didn’t dig deep enough to realize he never had a chance. Richmond was fed up with how racial hatred in Alabama politics affected his father. He was going out of state.

Richmond also recog-nized the University of

Tennessee as a bit more so-phisticated and cosmopoli-tan than Alabama, more of a melting pot. Tell your Tide friends it remains so.

UT assistant Clifton Stewart was point man in the long, hard recruitment of Stanley Morgan of Eas-ley, S.C. Morgan’s commit-ment was a big prize for Bill Battle and his staff.

Joy soon took a strange turn. Paul Dietzel, then coach at South Carolina, told Battle that the Game-cocks had to sign Morgan or he would be fired.

Battle’s first coaching job had been with Dietzel at West Point. This dilem-ma was heavy. Bill owed a debt of gratitude to Dietzel but worked for Tennessee.

A Clemson source, mon-itoring Morgan, soon told Tennessee that the super-star was going to South

Carolina. Clifton rushed to Easley, to the little frame house with the old Plym-outh in the yard. The Mor-gans were gone. Neighbors said Stanley’s mother had a new job, a new car and a new place to live.

Clifton found Mrs. Morgan. She confirmed that her new “opportuni-ties” were related to Stan-ley’s decision to become a Gamecock.

A few days later, she called Tennessee. She had quit her job, given up the new house and given back the new Lincoln. She said her son had not smiled once since she had made him switch sides. Sheasked if Tennessee would still take him.Other recruiting stories are in Marvin

West’s first book, Tales of the Tennes-

see Vols. Signed copies are available by

mail from WESTCOM, PO Box 38, May-

nardville, TN 37807. The cost is $20.

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AARP driver safety classesFor registration info about these and all other AARP

driver safety classes, call Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964. ■ 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 6-7, Oak Ridge Senior

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■ 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, and Saturday, Feb. 16, Our Savior

Lutheran Church, 2717 Buff alo Trail, Morristown.

■ 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, East Tennessee Medical Group,

266 Joule St., Alcoa.

■ 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, Rodgersville Senior Center, 497

Main St., Rodgersville.

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will meet 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, at Kern UMC Family Life Cen-

ter, 451 E. Tennessee Ave. in Oak Ridge. The topic of this month’s

program will be “Talk to us about LSVT Loud” presented by local

speech therapists Melissa Grater, Linda Singleton and Tonya Con-

nell. East Tennessee Personal Care Services and Emeritus of Oak

Ridge Assisted Living will provide a light lunch. All are welcome.

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Community Services

■ Catholic Charities off ers

counseling for those with

emotional issues who may

not be physically able to

come to the offi ce for therapy.

All information is completely

confi dential. Call 1-877-790-

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only. Info: www.ccetn.org.

■ Bookwalter UMC off ers

One Harvest Food Ministries

to the community. Info and

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■ Glenwood Baptist Church of Powell, 7212 Central Ave.

Pike, is opening the John 5

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Special services ■ Farragut Presbyterian

Church, 209 Jamestowne

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Wednesday, Feb. 13. Supper

will be served at 6 p.m.;

service will be 6:30-7:30 p.m.

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Meetings and classes

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753

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begin a new DivorceCare

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6, and run through April

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■ Glenwood Baptist Church of Powell, 7212 Central

Ave. Pike, hosts “Fit for the

Father,” a program that

promotes body and soul

fitness while serving the

Lord, at 6 p.m. every second

and fourth Thursday. A fee

of $20 covers the class and

the book. Info: 938-2611.

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ed Methodist Church. Photo by Wendy Smith

By Wendy Smith“Do all the good you can,

by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”

That quote, attributed to Methodism founder John Wesley, is Virginia Marsh’s motto. Her history of service to her family, her church and her community would make Wesley proud.

When she and her hus-band, Fred, settled in Tan Rara subdivision with their five sons, the family got in the car and stopped at the first church they saw – Cokesbury United Meth-odist Church. That was in 1969, and the Marshes still worship there.

“Church always meant so much to us,” she says.

Marsh directed Cokes-

bury’s Mother’s Day Out program from 1976 to 1995. She also taught the class for two-year-olds.

“It made me feel like I contributed to a young per-son’s life. Those first three years are so, so important.”

As much as she loves children, she also feels called to serve adults. Over 40 years ago, she joined a Cokesbury United Meth-odist Women outreach to patients at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, which had more than 2,000 patients at the time. The women hosted a party there once a month.

Most people don’t un-derstand mental illness, she says. Like everyone else, the mentally ill want love and kindness, and someone to listen to them. She continues to visit the 12 patients, overseen by

Making the world a better place Knox native promoted

at Carson-NewmanDr. Kina Steed Mal-

lard is now executive vice president and pro-vost at Carson-Newman College. She has been vice president of aca-demic affairs since join-ing Carson-Newman in 2009.

“This promotion is the next logical step in a long, distinguished ad-ministrative career for Dr. Mallard,” said col-lege president Randall O’Brien. “She will be well-positioned to move to a college presidency, if she so desires.”

A Fountain City na-tive, Mallard previously served as academic dean at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. She also served at Union Univer-sity in Jackson, Tenn., as associate provost for fac-ulty and academic devel-opment, as well as chair of the communication

arts department.Mallard received her

undergraduate degree from Middle Tennessee State University. She continued her education at the University of Ten-nessee earning both a master’s degree in orga-nizational communica-tions and a doctorate in communication.

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the Helen Ross McNabb Center, who still live at Lakeshore.

After Marsh retired from the Mother’s Day Out program, she began volunteering at the Love Kitchen with Helen Ashe

and Ellen Turner. She likes to cook, so she enjoyed fixing breakfast and pre-paring meals for shut-ins. She stepped down when her grandson, who lives in Clinton, began kindergar-ten because she wanted to volunteer at his school.

A pillow in Marsh’s liv-ing room reads “A retired husband is a wife’s full-time job.” She devotes much of her time to family now, and continues to help out with hospitality and greeting at church.

She’s still so full of en-ergy that it’s hard for her to sit down for long. But she enjoys reading and the PBS series “Downton Ab-bey.” She also loves to go to the movies, especially if she can take a friend who might not get out other-wise.

“I do what I can to make the world a better place. That’s what God intends for us to do, and we feel so happy when we do it!”

The Clarence Brown Theatre Gala “Hollywood’s Greatest Night” will be at The Orangery on Sunday, Feb. 24, the night of the Oscars®. Tickets are $175. Info: 974-6011.

David Keith, last year’s honoree, will present the CBT’s achievement award to Carol Mayo Jenkins, a Knoxville native and a re-nowned actor.

The award, presented by the Clarence Brown Theatre Advisory Board, recognizes professional excellence associated with

the mission of the Clarence Brown Theatre.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled to recognize Car-ol,” said Liz Stowers, chair of the board. “She has shared her talent with au-diences worldwide. Carol is a valued asset to the arts and we are so very fortu-nate to have her right here in Knoxville, performing regularly at the Clarence Brown Theatre.”

Jenkins trained for three years at the Cen-tral School of Speech and Drama in London and was

one of the founders of the Drama Centre of London, now considered the lead-ing theatrical school in England. She returned to the U.S., joined the Ameri-can Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and then made her Broadway de-but as Natasha in William Ball’s production of Chek-hov’s “Three Sisters.”

Other Broadway appear-ances include “Oedipus Rex” with John Cullum (also a Knoxville native), “First Monday in October” with Jane Alexander and

Henry Fonda, and “The Suicide” with Derek Jacobi.

Augmenting her stage career, Jenkins may best be known for her role as English teacher Elizabeth Sherwood in the award-winning television series “Fame” filmed in Los An-gles. She played Sherwood for five years.

She has worked exten-sively in regional theater since her years in televi-sion. After returning to Knoxville, Jenkins per-formed regularly at the Clarence Brown Theatre.

Former ‘Fame’ actor to be honoredCarol Mayo Jenkins recognized by theatre advisory board

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sing about, that is. Four vocally talented women will deliver singing valentines 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, with all proceeds going to the American Heart Association. Valentines delivered over the phone are available, and chocolates and a card can also be deliv-ered during the in-person performances. Prices range from $25 to $50. Deadline to order is Monday, Feb. 11. Info: Judy, 966-8690.

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Things haven’t changed much over the years at Pay-less Optical Outlet, located in the TJ Maxx shopping center at the intersection of Kingston Pike and Down-town West Boulevard. A pair of glasses is still $35.95, and the friendly face behind the counter belongs to Mark Crawley.

But one thing is different. After managing the store since 2000, Mark is now the owner. Things haven’t changed much for him, he says, except that he’s had to learn QuickBooks. He’s considering opening other stores in the Knoxville area.

Mark and his wife, Alice, met at the 1998 UT vs. Florida football game, which ended well for Mark. The Vols won, and he got the girl. Their two daughters at-tend UT and Cedar Bluff Elementary School.

He grew up in South Knoxville, and moved to Ohio during his teen years. Now he’s firmly planted in West Knoxville.

“I love the family feel of it,” he says.

What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie?“I’m your huckleberry,” from “Tombstone.”

What are you guilty of?Watching the Food Network with my wife.

What is your favorite material possession?My wedding ring.

What are you reading currently? “A Year with Jesus.”

What was your most embarrassing moment? During a golf outing with some friends, I stepped up

to take a tee shot and as I lifted my head, the ball hit the tee box and bounced backwards. Needless to say, my friends still razz me about that swing.

What are the top three things on your bucket list? Sideline passes for a Super Bowl, see/experience the

Northern Lights, and a hunting trip out West.

What is one word others often use to describe you and why?

Dependable – my father always taught me to be a man of your word.

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

My nose.

What is your passion?Helping/serving others.

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

Bill Cosby.

Other than your parents, who has had the biggest infl u-ence on your life?

My grandfather. He taught me the value of hard work.

I still can’t quite get the hang of …  Guitar Hero.

What is the best present you ever received in a box?A complete 1986 baseball card collection.

What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?“Always do your best in everything you do.”

What is your social media of choice? Facebook

What is the worst job you have ever had?

A bag boy at a grocery store in the winter while living in Ohio.

What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?“SuperFriends.” It had the best heroes: Batman, Su-

perman, and Aquaman.

What irritates you?People who drive slow in the fast lane.

What’s one place in Bearden/downtown that everyone should visit?

Tennessee Theatre – especially in December to watch “It’s A Wonderful Life.”

What is your greatest fear?Heights – although I actively attempt to overcome it.

(I have been skydiving and zip lining.)

If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be?Leave tomorrow with my wife on a spontaneous road

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Reach Them to Teach ThemBy Sara Barrett

In 2006, Amy Crawford was about to return to teach-ing after leaving a position at A.L. Lotts Elementary School three years earlier to start a family. In her new 8th-grade teaching position at West Val-ley Middle School, she found herself teaching some of the same students she had known as 3rd graders.

“For me, as an educator, it was really insightful,” said Crawford. “Once I got into the classroom and saw how the kids had changed, it was a real eye-opening experience.

“Instead of coming in with shining eyes and leaning for-ward to listen with interest,” Crawford said, the students were now “real dull, apathet-ic … they went from being thirsty (in the 3rd grade) to being drenched.”

Crawford said her students were still the good kids she had known before. They did what she asked them to do, but they had lost their passion for learn-ing. This made her think of a quote she had heard from a fel-low educator:

“They come in to the schools as ques-tion marks, and they leave as periods.”

“They change from ‘show me, tell me, who, what, how,’ to ‘it is what it is,’” Crawford said.

After praying about it, Crawford lis-tened to a cassette by the 1986 Nation-al Teacher of the Year, Dr. Guy Doud, which she had received in 1988 when she got her fi rst teaching job. She heard his inspirational stories of what really mattered to his students, and stories of the students who asked him to stand up with them on senior night because their parents weren’t available.

“Anytime I got overwhelmed look-ing at data and thinking about teach-ing technique, I would lose my joy for teaching and I would listen to that tape on my way home,” said Crawford.

She listened to Doud’s message and realized the technical part of teaching “will always be part of it, but not the part of it. The part that matters most i s t h e s e students who sit in my class every day, and I can make a dif-ference in their lives.”

Crawford began asking other teach-ers at West Valley if they were getting the same sort of feelings about their roles and what they were seeing in their students. Their answers were similar.

Around this same time, Crawford assigned a writing assignment to her class. She asked them to write a poem by completing sentences such as “I am

West Valley Middle School 8th grader Brayden White shares a laugh with his teacher, Amy Crawford,

founder of Reach Them to Teach Them. Photo by S. Barrett

…” and “I feel …” One student’s work struck a chord with her. He had always sat quietly and didn’t really show an interest in learning. When she read his poem, it included lines such as “I worry that my future will be me, myself and I,” and “I am the cheese and the world is the mouse.”

Crawford knew then that she want-ed to do something, but she wasn’t sure where to start. She wondered if she could get Guy Doud to visit Knoxville.

Crawford contacted Doud. She knew his speaking fee was $3,500 and she didn’t have any idea how to raise the money. She just knew he had to come.

“I wouldn’t be in education right now if it weren’t for him.”

She formed a group of teachers and friends, who now call themselves the Dream Team, to help spread the word about the event.

In her Bible study class, Crawford was

asked to think of a goal big-ger than herself

that would require divine intervention to make it happen. When

she told her study group about sched-uling Doud to speak, they offered to do whatever needed to be done to make it happen.

Shortly before the event took place, Crawford checked her mailbox at school and found a cashier’s check for $3,000 made out to her with the purchaser named as “The Dear Lord.” The reason

listed on the check was “His purpose.” “My knees gave out when I saw that

check. At that moment, I said ‘God, you know me, you know my insecurities, my failures, my faults. If you can use me knowing how short I fall, you’ve got me.’

“My life was changed from that day forward. To this day, I still don’t know who the check was from.”

The night before students came back from summer break, Doud spoke to an audience of about 500 at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church. Based on audience feedback, Crawford be-lieved the event had been a success.

The Dream Team grew to about 60 people who had become just as excit-ed about the event as Crawford. They wanted to know where things would go from there. Reach Them to Teach Them was born.

“When you attend the (Reach Them to Teach Them) events, you get the type of support that you don’t get anywhere else,” said Karla Halcomb, a Dream Team member and instructional coach with Knox County Schools. “It fi lls a huge gap. It gives you that deep breath you need.”

“It is our mission to care,” said Crawford, referring to the role of a teacher. “We have to care about our data, we have to care about our num-bers and our graphs.

“I understand that accountability matters. I understand that we have to have a way to measure effectiveness and we want our students to achieve academic standards. But my 20 years in the classroom has taught me that

if we build a foundation of a mutually positive relationship with a child, that child will do everything he or she can to ex-ceed our expectations.”

The Reach Them to Teach Them annual event, which is given a different name each year, has grown to fi ll the Tennessee Theatre. Crawford shares her story of inspiration, and radio talk show host Hal-lerin Hill serves as MC for the evening in addition to sharing his own inspirational words. Hill has played a big part in every event since 2006.

Special guest speakers have included Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fi l-A res-taurants and national motiva-tional speaker Don Bartlette.

Members of the community who want to make a difference can sponsor a seat for a teach-er at the event.

“We don’t want anyone to pay to attend,” said Crawford. Dinner is served and each at-tendee receives a special gift to remember the message of the evening.

Reach Them to Teach Them continues to gain momentum. Teach-ers from Kentucky are now traveling to Knoxville each year to attend the event. The group is also holding a sec-ond event this year in Chattanooga for the fi rst time with Guy Doud as the speaker.

“There is a national need for this,” Crawford said, “if we could do this full-time and have some grants or grow it in some way. This is defi nitely a faith-based organization, and as long as I’m the president of it, that will not change.”

“Teachers are telling us that they need more of this,” said Halcomb.

Crawford says the sky is the limit. She hopes the organization can begin holding regular meetings for teachers to offer moral support, as well as work-shops where they can learn more than statistics and data.

Businesses including Food City and Bread Box have helped with fees, al-though the group is still struggling.

Crawford feels blessed to have been a part of the experience.

“There are still days when I think, ‘Is this real? Am I going to wake up and this will have been a dream?’”

The main point she hopes teachers – and anyone else who has a role in a child’s life – take away from the events is to know that the most important thing they can tell that child is, “You matter. You are here for a reason.”

For more information, visit w w w.reachthem2teachthem.org or email Amy Crawford at amy@reachthem2teachthem.org.

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Hundreds of kindergart-ners throughout Knox Coun-ty celebrated the 100th day of school last week with num-ber-related arts and crafts, 100-piece snacks and more.

SES kindergartner Merek Bor-

relli proudly displays his “Derd-

nuh” snack, which is hundred

spelled backwards. Students

fi lled a bag with 10 pieces of

10 diff erent snacks, which in-

cluded Skittles, pretzels and

goldfi sh. Photos by S. Barrett

Sequoyah Elementary School kindergarten teacher Emily Monday sits with students Morgan

Herren, Jackson Sambrano, Jack Codevilla, Max Cook, Hudson Rowles, Denae Graham and La-

hela Erminger around artwork they made from 100 dots.

SES kindergartner Cooper

Williamson builds a cupcake-

themed counting chart that

goes to 100.

SES teacher Leslie Cook asked her students to write two sen-

tences in honor of the 100th day of school about one thing

they liked to do and one thing they did not like to do. “I like to

eat 100 carrots. I do not like to eat 100 cookies,” was one stu-

dent’s example. Pictured during the exercise are kindergart-

ners Jane Wanjiku and Ayden Frazier.

Rocky Hill Elementary School kindergartners Addison Jordon

and Parker Fortune compare “100 day” medals before digging

into a 100-foot-long banana split with classmates.

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Emily Monday’s class at Sequoyah Elementary made artwork from 100 dot stickers, while Steph-anie Morgan’s students at Bearden Elementary School made their own necklaces from 100 Froot Loops™. Students at Rocky Hill lined the hallway and shared a 100-foot-long ba-nana split after collectively counting to 100.

The 100th day of school celebrations allow students to reap the rewards of learn-ing to count while having fun with their friends. It also lets the faculty loosen up a bit; teachers at Sequoyah Elementary School made their own “100 Day” shirts to wear, and teacher Stephanie Morgan from Bearden El-ementary did 100 exercises – including pushups – with her students.

“In a skirt,” she said.Before he dug in to his

banana split, Rocky Hill Elementary School student Parker Fortune was asked what is his favorite part of kindergarten. “Eating ice cream,” was his answer.

Run for the SchoolsThe Rusty Wallace Hon-

da Run for the Schools will be held Saturday, March 2, at Chilhowee Park and the Knoxville Zoo. The family-friendly event will include music, refreshments, vendor booths and prizes. All participants will receive a complimentary day at the Knoxville Zoo following the race.

The 5k run and walk will start at 8 a.m., and the one-mile family fun walk begins at 8:15 a.m. After awards are given out at 8:45 a.m., a 100-yard dash will be held at 9:30 a.m.

Participants can run to raise funds for a specifi c school. Last year, $9,000 was raised.

Pre-registration runs through Feb. 22. Students are $10, adults are $20 and children 2 and under are free. Registration the day of the event will be held 6:30-8 a.m, and will be $15 for students and $25 for adults. Info: runfortheschools.org.

Note: In last week’s col-umn, I incorrectly identi-fi ed West Valley Middle School teacher Amy Craw-ford as Amy Alexander. I sincerely regret the error.

– S. Barrett

Sequoyah Elementary School kindergarten teachers Leslie

Cook, Anna Cleland, Jill Caldwell and Emily Monday model

their own handmade “100 Day” shirts.

SES kindergartners Bennett

Campbell and Alex Pippin

from Jill Caldwell’s class wait

patiently for recess in their

hand-made “100 Day” T-shirts.

Bearden Elementary School kindergartner Jiziah

Wells displays a strand of 100 Froot Loops™.

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Pump It Up has 130 locations nationwide and rents huge infl atableplay structures, offers parents and organizations a solution for birthdays,team parties, church groups, fi eld trips, corporate team building and spe-cial events.

The local offi ce is at 6612 Deane Hill Drive. Info: 558-3535.

The recent death of Bruce McCarty, master ar-chitect of the 1982 World’s Fair, brought to mind a re-cent chance meeting and opportunity to catch up with Charlie Smith, who was one of the young archi-tects who worked with Mc-Carty to design the fair.

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ate – one centered on fairs, Olympics and other major expositions.

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Anne Hart

Smith

Charlie Smith’s great adventures

tathlon facility in Green-wich Park, near one of the Queen’s residences.

Smith won’t be in town long. Just this week Popu-lous won a $44 million con-tract for a new exhibition hall for the Oklahoma State Fair. That’s in addition to the $400 million contract they recently won for the Oklahoma City Convention Center.

Other projects in the works: the Houston Live-stock Show and Rodeo, the Utah State Fair and Rodeo de Santa Fe, to name just a few. They’re also working on multi-million dollar proj-ects in Beijing, Shanghai and elsewhere.

Smith says that despite appearances, he doesn’t work all the time, and that his wife, Marie, travels with him sometimes. “We’re go-ing to Peru soon, and of course, I always have my fl y rod with me.”

■ An app for thatContractors, architects

and homeowners alike will be interested in a new app just introduced by General Shale.

The mobile app, down-

Wellspring opensWellspring Assisted Living

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loadable free via the iPhone App Store, allows users to browse product colors and sizes in brick, thin brick, pavers and do-it-yourself outdoor living kits and then email favorite selections for fi nal cost calculations with-out leaving the app. The entire process can be com-pleted on the app.

A calculator function en-ables the user to estimate material costs when build-ing with brick or pavers, based on parameters such as square footage, brick size, labor costs and more. Estimates don’t include shipping prices or taxes.

“The mobile app makes building projects easy from concept to completion,” says General Shale president and CEO Dick Green. “It’s a tre-mendous help for contrac-tors, architects and design-ers – or for anyone involved in a building project – espe-cially when they are on the job or planning a construc-tion project.”

Headquartered in John-son City, General Shale’s Knoxville location is at 9714 Parkside Dr. – now a place you can either drop by in person or visit on that app!

■ A fond farewell, times twoEmployees, patients,

family and peers gathered last week at Summit Medi-cal on Parkwest Boulevard to wish well two doctors re-tiring from the family prac-tice group.

Dr. Gary Thomas has been in practice since July of 1978 and Dr. Lance More-head since January of 1979.

Dr. James Morse will be arriving soon from Sum-mit Medical in Lenoir City to join Dr. Kimberly Russell and Dr. John Showalter in the busy practice.

Papa Murphy’s boosts Imagination LibraryPapa Murphy’s Take-N-Bake Pizza has

helped Imagination Library purchase books for the more than 700,000 chil-dren enrolled in the program, and also to get more kids signed up for the popular program. The Imagination Library was created by Dolly Parton in 1996, and pro-vides a new, age-appropriate, hardcover book each month to children from birth

to age 5 at no cost to the family.During November, Papa Murphy’s do-

nated $1 from each personal-sized pizza kit sold at its nine area locations. On Dec. 19, Trina McMahan from Papa Murphy’s presented Holly Kiser from Imagina-tion Library a check for more than $600, which is the equivalent of providing books for 50 children for one year.

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Statistically speaking:UT’s twin goals of academic and athletic success are attainable

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Dead End BBQ: Knoxville’s neighborhood barbecueThe Dead End BBQ owners and staff gather for a photo during a preseason

game in Atlanta. They are: Duayne Huddleston, Rachel Ryan, Michelle

Green, Leah Harville, owner George Ewart, owner Robert Nutt and Daniel

Bryant. Dead End BBQ off ers competition style and quality barbecue in

a restaurant setting. They feature the best barbecue in East Tennessee

and a whole lot more, including salads, sandwiches, desserts and drink

specials. Visit them online at www.deadendbbq.com or better yet, stop by

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smell the delicious aroma for yourself. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday

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business

By Sherri Gardner HowellWith two subjects that ig-

nite passion from their fans – athletics and academics – Dr. Donald Bruce suggests simply letting the data do the talking when discussing the possibility of a happy union.

Bruce, professor in the Center for Business and Eco-nomic Research and UT’s faculty athletics representa-tive, spoke at the Rotary Club of Farragut on Jan. 30.

Bringing a research model to UT’s goals of excelling in athletics and becoming a Top 25 public research univer-sity shows that the two goals are not mutually exclusive, Bruce said. “Those who say we must sacrifi ce football, for example, to be a Top 25 pub-lic research university don’t know their data,” said Bruce. “When sports teams don’t do as well as the average fan would like, the fan looks for something to blame. The uni-versity’s drive to be in the Top 25 academically has been cited as a reason. What a silly notion, and one that won’t

stand up to the facts.”

B r u c e showed cur-rent and past lists of the U.S. News and World Re-port’s Top 25 Public Uni-

versities and discussed com-parisons with colleges that rank in the top in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). “Every Division I school on the Top 25 (academic list) with the exception of the University of California at Berkeley has been in the Top 25 BCS rankings,” he said.

Bruce said progress is be-ing made toward UT’s goal of hitting the Top 25 public universities list. “We were No. 50 last year and are at No. 46 this year. Over the years, we have been as good as 37 (2006) and as low as 52 (2010).”

As to what it will take to get to the Top 25, Bruce told the Rotarians that the uni-

versity has to continue to do better in improving under-graduates’ ACT scores, in re-tention and in improving the six-year graduation rate.

“We are making progress in all three – some steady and some slow – but prog-ress,” he said. “We also have to continue to improve in the areas of graduate degrees, re-search expenditures, faculty salaries and infrastructure and resources, but I believe our main benchmark is in how well our undergraduates do.”

Bruce said that in his role as athletics representa-tive, he always has things he can point to with pride in meetings with faculty from the other 12 SEC schools. “I believe we now have a fi rm commitment from the top in our athletic programs to set high academic expectations for the student athletes,” Bruce said. “And I can al-ways wear my (UT women’s basketball) shirt. The women show everyone that it can be done.”

Donald Bruce

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Meeya Lowery, Kaycee Hendricks, Courtney Clift and Mat-

thew Montgomery enjoy a day at Grace Christian Academy. Photo by Kara McKamey

By Shannon MorrisHave you ever wished you

could fi nd out more about Grace Christian Academy? If so, attending an Open House is the perfect way to get your questions answered. Our next Open House is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb.10th. Here, you can meet some of our amazing teach-ers and staff members, tour the classrooms and facilities, and collect the important in-formation that you will need as you consider Grace for your child’s education. Par-

ents and their children are invited, as are grandparents and anyone else who desires to get an inside look at the school. Beyond just seeing the physical location, you can also get a glimpse at the heartbeat of Grace, which is to lead, build and equip stu-dents to succeed, all in the name of Jesus. Please make your plans now to be a part of this terrifi c event, and allow us to help in any way that we can as you prayerfully con-sider your child’s educational opportunities.

Open house Feb. 10

By Shannon MorrisThe Grace Christian Acade-

my drama department cordially invites you to enjoy the upcom-ing presentation of “The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe,” based on the book by C.S. Lewis.

The high school drama de-partment is proud to present this amazing story, which fea-tures a cast of 33 students (15 cast members and 19 extras). The production tells the story

of three children who discover a wardrobe closet that, upon entering, opens the door to ad-venture and discovery.

The beautiful costumes for the production were designed by Dewayne and Sandy Clift, and the incredible set was cre-ated by Jeff Delaney, who is noted for his work on the Nativ-ity Pageant of Knoxville, along with the design skills of Karyn Sloas and Teresa McNelly.

This is a true dramatic pre-sentation, as the show will have no music or choreography. The students, under the direction of GCA drama teacher Tonya Wil-son, have been working very hard to create a top-quality show that both the school fam-ily and the public will be sure to enjoy. Join us at 1 p.m. or 7 p.m. Feb. 12, in the Grace Baptist Church Worship Center. Ad-mission is free.

Narnia comes to Grace

Katie Borden is the White Witch and Sean Sloas is

Aslan in the Grace Christian Academy production

of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

Jaylen Haluska (kneeling) Abigail Seal, Sarah Hawk,

Jonathan Seal are the Pevensie children in the Grace

Christian Academy production of “The Lion, the

Witch and the Wardrobe.” Photos byJulie Bass

By Shannon MorrisEach year, Grace Christian

Academy hosts Spiritual Em-phasis Week for the middle school and high school students. This year’s event, which was held Jan. 28 through Feb. 1, was called “Tear Down the Walls, Break Free, Twenty Thirteen,” and proved to be yet another powerful time of spiritual re-freshment and renewal for the students and faculty.

The guest speaker, the Rev. Paul Woods, challenged students in the areas of breaking down any walls or barriers that sepa-rate us from being what Christ wants them to be. For students, those walls often are comprised of the typical negative tempta-tions like drugs and alcohol. However, even some things we might not think of as evil, such as social media, video games, mov-ies and television, can distract us from our spiritual development. Students were challenged to rec-ognize and prevent such things from becoming walls that divide and distract them as they seek to follow God.

‘Tearing Down the Walls’

Rachael Asher, Chase Reynolds, Tyler King and Heath Hatmaker lead

students in worship during Grace Christian Academy’s Spiritual Em-

phasis Week. Photo by Randy Down

Woods is the youth pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in Jack-sonville, Fla. He is the Profes-sor of Youth Ministry at Trinity Baptist College. Serving in youth ministry for 18 years, Woods has a unique understanding of students in a Christian school environment, as he also assists at Trinity Christian School in Jacksonville. Woods was used by God in a mighty way during this critical week at Grace, and our campus has experienced a fresh excitement about living for Christ in all areas of life.

Chase Reynolds and

Heath Hatmaker

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Time and oxygen therapy help woman’s woundsIt’s said that “time heals all wounds,” but

in Rachel Orr’s case, it’s taken many months and high doses of 100 percent oxygen to help heal her severe wounds. The Farragut woman suffers from a rare form of vasculi-tis, a disorder that infl ames the blood ves-sels and can cut the blood supply to your organs and tissues. The cause of vasculitis isn’t always clear, but sometimes it’s trig-gered by an infection, cancer, an immune system disorder or an allergic reaction.

Orr suspects a scratch on her leg from a rose bush may have triggered her infl am-mation. As a diabetic, the 61-year-old was always mindful of cuts and scratches, and kept her diabetes under control. But she was shocked by what happened next.

“I woke up a few days later and my left foot had suddenly swelled overnight,” she remembers. The swelling then spread to her right foot, leaving her leg weak and red.

Orr, who is a retired Registered Nurse, sought medical help, but physicians were baffl ed.

“I went to 15 different providers before I fi nally got a diagnosis,” says Orr. Within months, the swelling had progressed to her left and right arm and her fi ngers began turning black.

“It was so frustrating,” says Orr. “I was in constant pain. It felt like my skin was burn-ing all the time. I kept trying to get help.”

Finally, Orr was diagnosed with Bechet’s vasculitis. By now, she was also experienc-ing deep ulcers on her fi ngers and feet. One of her physicians referred her to Dr. Douglas Schuchmann with the Fort Sanders Wound

Months of intensive

hyperbaric oxygen

therapy are helping to

heal deep ulcers on Rachel

Orr’s feet and hands.

Rachel Orr’s fi ngers before and

after hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Treatment Center. Dr. Schuchmann recom-mended hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy for the diabetic wounds on her feet. The ox-ygen sessions would also help with the dam-age to her hands caused by her vasculitis.

After months of two-hour HBO treat-ments fi ve days a week, Orr is grateful to see her wounds slowly healing.

“It’s just a miracle,” she says. During the long sessions, Orr says she usually prays, re-

fl ects, and thinks of the family and friends who have helped her throughout her long ordeal.

“I’m so thankful for the loving support I’ve received,” she says. “The Wound Treat-ment and HBO staff here at Fort Sanders has also been excellent. They are compas-sionate and professional, and have a caring spirit that is genuine.”

Orr, who looks forward to healing enough to return to the volunteer community nurs-

ing work she enjoys, has advice for others suffering from painful severe wounds.

“You have to understand that healing isa slow process. You have to have hope, faithand patience, but don’t give up. There ishelp and healing!”

For more information about treatment at the Fort Sanders Wound Treatment Center,

call 865-541-2784 or go to www.fsregional.com/woundcare.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy heals diffi cult wounds

Hyperbaric oxygen

therapy forces

oxygen into the

tissue, encouraging

the formation of new

blood vessels and

promoting healing.

Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatments are an important therapy in diabetic wound care. “People are fascinated with these treatments,” says Dr. George Schuchmann, medical director of the Fort Sanders Wound Treatment Center. “But they’re not for ev-eryone, and they’re not a panacea.”

The Fort Sanders Wound Treatment Center has two hyperbaric oxygen cham-bers in its outpatient clinic that are used to treat certain deep tissue wounds that may not heal with conventional therapies alone.

“The chamber delivers extra oxygen to the soft tissues, which helps bolster the im-mune system,” explains Dr. Schuchmann.

Each treatment inside the oxygen cham-ber is called a “dive” because of the increase in atmospheric pressure. The clear cham-bers are each 7 feet long, large enough to hold one person weighing up to 350 pounds. The patient slides in on a bed, and the chamber is sealed and fi lled with 100 per-cent oxygen.

Then, a technician slowly increases the

atmospheric pressure inside the chamber to a pressure two to three times that of the outside atmosphere. As the patient breathes and lies in the chamber, the increased atmo-spheric pressure forces 10 to 15 times more oxygen into the patient’s blood stream and tissues than normal.

At the Fort Sanders Wound Treatment Center the chambers are used for outpa-tient, long-term care of wounds, bone in-fections called osteomylitis, wounds caused by cancer radiation treatments and for the healing of skin grafts.

Most major insurance companies, includ-ing Medicare, cover hyperbaric oxygen treat-ments for the treatment of serious diabetic wounds. Quick wound healing is important to prevent a serious life-threatening infec-tion. Studies show that diabetic patients who use hyperbaric oxygen treatment along with traditional wound care signifi cantly reduce their risk of amputations of the foot or leg from diabetic ulcers.

The major drawback to hyperbaric oxy-

gen treatment is that it requires between 20 and 30 treatments to be effective.

“It’s not painful, but it is a large time commitment,” Dr. Schuchmann explains. “Most patients require two hours a day of treatments, fi ve days a week, for about six weeks.”

Plus, the treatment is not safe for every-one, he adds. Increased atmospheric pres-sure in the chamber can worsen certain medical conditions like pneumothorax (a collapsed lung), congestive heart failure, cataracts or seizure disorders. The oxygen chamber is also not suitable for pregnant women or those with other underlying re-spiratory problems.

“But, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be very benefi cial for some people as an ad-junct treatment,” summarizes Dr. Schuch-mann.

For more information about hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the Fort Sanders Wound

Treatment Center, call 865-541-2784 or go to www.fsregional.com/woundcare.

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Barnyard TalesKathryn Woycik

Visiting the Fain farmOn a beautiful country

road in Hardin Valley is a barn more than 100 years old. The road is named But-termilk Road, an appropriate name for a family farm. The Fain family purchased 67 acres in 1910 for $200, which was a large sum of money at the time.

George and Barsha Fain had 15 children, raising 12 of them on this property. They lived in an old two-story farmhouse with no electricity or plumbing. The home was heated by wood. Two lanterns lit their way in the night. Snow blew through the cracks in the walls in winter.

Life was hard but fulfi ll-ing. The children were all musicians who played the piano, banjo, fi ddles or gui-tars.

In 1932, the barn and garage were built. Both have remained there for 83 years. In 1940 the corn crib, smokehouse, woodhouse, blacksmith shop and two-seater were added. A two-seater, you ask? It isn’t a wagon or carriage, as I fi rst thought, but an outhouse. And, yes, it had two seats side by side!

and barn once were and, in 2000, built his retire-ment home among the other buildings. Even the original walkway and hedges re-main. Glenn and his wife, Wanda, are proud of their heritage and the memories they hold dear.

Anyone wanting to share the age, history, or story of their barn, email woycikK@ShopperNewsNow.com.

The smokehouse and blacksmith shop were built

about 1940.

The woodhouse held kindling and

wood to supply the house for heat. The

barn was built in 1932 and the corn crib

was added in 1940. Photos by K. Woycik

A two-seater was the family

outhouse having seating for two!

Each of the children had their own chores. They helped raise horses, cows, chickens and hogs. The meat was stored in the smokehouse. Corn, pea-nuts and other crops were grown. A stream provided water, and a team of horses hauled water to the house in buckets.

A two-room schoolhouse was originally located on the corner of Graybeal and Buttermilk roads. Many of the Fain children received their education from one teacher, who taught eight grades.

Both George and Bar-sha had died by 1943. Three sons and a daugh-ter remained on the farm. In 1967, they tore the farmhouse down, kicked

the chickens out of their coop and moved in for four months while re-building the home.

Last week, I met Glenn Fain, George’s grandson. Glenn grew up on Middlebrook Pike and spent two weeks each summer help-ing his grandpa. His job was to shell corn for the chickens. He recalled the times when he would stick three chicken feathers in the end of a corn cob and throw it like a football. He called a “whirligig.”

Glenn has lived and worked in Chattanoga and Morristown. He obtained the original piece of land where the family house

Carol Zinavage

Carol’sCritter Corner

John Niceley, who raises grain-fed beef and teaches horsemanship at his family’s Strong Stock Farm on Rut-ledge Pike, never expected to be invaded by opera singers.

Carter Scott whoops it up on Callie the Pallie Photo by Stephanie L. Boyd

Horse opera

His daughter Carrie is a soprano with The UT Opera Theater, but this is some-thing else altogether. Niceley is providing horses and rider training for Knoxville Opera’s current production of Giaco-mo Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden West.”

It’s set during the California Gold Rush of the late 1800s. The story centers around a re-formed criminal, the woman who believes in him and the sheriff who wants him dead. And it’s all in Italian.

Talk about a Spaghetti Western.

Several of the characters will ride onto the stage of the Tennessee Theatre on real horses this weekend when the opera is performed. Niceley has been teaching the stars of the show how to look as if they’ve been riding all their lives and how to manage their horses in close quarters.

“They are the nicest folks, and they’re all doing so well,” says Niceley. “The way they’ve improved since day one is just astonishing.”

Soprano Carter Scott has enjoyed her experiences at Strong Stock Farm. Practic-ing a diffi cult maneuver with her horse, Callie the Pallie, she eventually succeeded.

“John Niceley told me to go off by myself and think about it for a minute, to let it sink in,” she says. “It’s a lot like singing. Sometimes you practice something the wrong way over and over. And when you fi nally get it right, you need to stop and think about it for a while.”

Scott is, however, con-cerned that Niceley’s little black Pekingese dog, Pepper, isn’t really clear on one im-portant detail.

“She got between me and my horse and just demanded to be petted. It’s obvious that she thinks she’s the diva.”

The singers and their horses must maneuver in tight spaces while they’re onstage. For that reason, all riders will mount and dis-mount from the right side, which is not standard.

“There’s a window in the way,” laughs bass Ricardo Rivera, referring to the stage set. Though Rivera him-self is young, he is playing a much older man. Niceley has been working with him to slow his movements while in the saddle.

Stay tuned for next week’s second installment, when you’ll learn how perfor-mance week went for the equine stars and their rid-ers, as well as the answer to the question on everyone’s minds: will the shows be “accident-free”?Send your interesting animal stories to

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By Sara BarrettDick and Ellen Tisdale

have lived in the same house in Farragut, just off Grigsby Chapel Road, since July 1978. They built one of the fi rst houses in the Wood-chase subdivision and have enjoyed watching the area around them grow. But they may have enjoyed watching the families in their neigh-borhood grow and fl ourish even more.

The Tisdales moved to Woodchase from the Gulf Park neighborhood in Cedar Bluff “because that area was so built up, we wanted to move further west,” said El-len. “We never expected we would have a Turkey Creek, but we love it.”

“We knew it would grow,” said Dick, “but I can’t say that we anticipated what we have now.”

Dick is retired from sell-ing waterproof footwear and Ellen is retired from her job as a teaching assis-tant at Farragut Intermedi-ate School.

Their daughter, Lisa, at-tended Farragut schools. Dick and Ellen now regu-larly visit Lisa, her husband, John, and their two chil-dren, 8-year-old Jack and 10-year-old Julia, at their home in Alabama.

Although the Tisdales love spending time with

Farragut residents Dick and Ellen Tisdale have enjoyed

watching the area grow over the last 30 years. Photo by S. Barrett

‘Back when’ in Farragut

their own grandchildren, they fi nd themselves sub-stituting as grandparents for others quite frequent-ly.

“We have reared many families,” said Dick, as he and Ellen talk about visit-ing the Farragut schools with their neighbors’ children for Grandpar-ents Day. They estimate that over the last 30 years they’ve watched four or fi ve families come and go from one house alone.

Dick remembers shop-ping at the A&P on Kings-ton Pike where Walgreens and the new Costco now sit. At the time, it was the only grocery in town.

The Frontier House was the only restaurant in the area, and it was further up Kingston Pike. The building is no longer standing, but it was lo-cated across from what is now Volunteer Pharmacy.

“Folks would bring their brown bags in at dinner,” Dick said, since alcohol could not yet be sold legally in the area.

The Tisdales enjoy the occasional trip away, with a trip to two to Europe under their belt. But they are most happy with the life they’ve built in Far-ragut near their extend-ed family in the homes around them.

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CONTINUING“Red,” the 2010 Tony Award-winning drama by

John Logan, has evening performances at 7:30 and matinees at 2 p.m. through Sunday, Feb. 17, at UT’s Carousel Theatre. Ticket prices vary; call the Clarence Brown Theatre box offi ce, 974-5161, or Tickets Unlimited, 656-4444.

The Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd., presents “Of Giants and Dwarfs,” recent works including paintings, drawings and installations by American artist and set designer Michael Zansky, through Tuesday, Feb. 26. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursdays; and 1-4 p.m. Sundays. Info: 974-3200 or www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu.

Goodwill Industries in Bearden is holding a materials drive through Thursday, Feb. 28, Project Wear and Share, to fund 15 vocational training programs. Gently used clothing and linens dropped off at Prestige Cleaners, Crown Cleaners and Laundry, and Executive Cleaners will receive a complimentary cleaning before being donated to Goodwill for sale.

“Splendid Treasures of the Turkomen Tribes from Central Asia,” an exhibit of more than 50 handcrafted items of elaborate silver, gilt jewelry, carpets and textiles from the semi-nomadic Turkomen tribes of Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, will be on display through Sunday, May 12, at the Frank H. McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive, on the UT campus. A free program for families will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. Museum hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Info: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

“Becoming a Volunteer State: Tennessee in the War of 1812” is on display through Sunday, May 19, at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. The traveling exhibit from the Tennessee State Museum commemorates the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and the role Tennessee played in the war. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

MONDAY, FEB. 4Lydia Salnikova, Russian-born singer-

keyboardist, will perform songs from her upcoming album, “Valentine Circle,” 12-1 p.m. on the Blue Plate Special at the WDVX studio at the Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. Salnikova’s CD release party will be 8-10 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Speakeasy at Preservation Pub, 28 Market Square.

GriefShare, a support group for people grieving the death of a loved one, will be held 6-7:30 p.m. at Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3700 Keowee Ave. The group will meet weekly through March 18. Info: 522- 9804 or www.sequoyahchurch.org.

The WordPlayers will tour the original one-act presentation “Lift Every Voice” throughout East

Tennessee during February, and the public is invited to a free fi nal dress rehearsal at 7:30 p.m. at Middlebrook Christian Ministries, 1540 Robinson Road. The program tells the story and infl uence of the Harlem Renaissance. Info: 539-2490.

Tennessee Shines will feature alt-country rockers the Matt Woods Band and Nashville singer-songwriter Stephen Simmons at 7 p.m. at the WDVX studio at the Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St.; broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets are $10 and are available at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door, while supplies last. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Children 14 and under accompanied by a parent are admitted free.

TUESDAY, FEB. 5The Tennessee Human Rights Commission

will host a public roundtable discussion 3-5 p.m. at the Beck Cultural Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave. The event will inform citizens about THRC’s work and services and provide an opportunity for them to bring issues facing the area to the commission’s attention. Free, but RSVP required. RSVP: 615-253-1608 or http://knoxvilleroundtablediscussionthrc.eventbrite.com/.

Frank H. McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive, will host William R. Fowler, a professor at Vanderbilt University, lecturing on “Landscape and Practice: Archaeology of the Spanish Conquest Town of Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador,” at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.

The Council of West Knox County Homeowners will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. David Massey, director of the Knoxville Offi ce of Neighborhoods, will present information about the Neighborhood Conference for City and County Neighborhoods, set for Saturday, March 23, at the Knoxville Convention Center. Refreshments start at 7:15.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6American Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook Pike,

offers weekly information sessions on nurse assistant, EKG and phlebotomy training 10-11 a.m. Info: 862-3508.

“Becoming a Volunteer State: Tennessee in the War of 1812” exhibit curator Myers E. Brown II will lead a Brown Bag Lecture and Gallery Tour at noon at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St.

Knoxville City Council Sign Ordinance Task Force will meet at 4 p.m. in the Board Room at KCDC, 901 N. Broadway.

THURSDAY, FEB. 7Knoxville Writers’ Guild will have Brian Griffi n

and Mark Harmon, Ph.D., speak about writing to deal with tragedy at the guild’s monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Both men were at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in July 2008 when a man entered the sanctuary and fi red a shotgun at congregants, killing two people and wounding seven. A $2 donation is requested at the door.

FRIDAY, FEB. 8Connect: Fellowship for Women! will meet at

9:30 a.m. in Epworth Hall at Cokesbury UMC, 9915 Kingston Pike. Warm brunch will be served. Free childcare.

GFWC Ossoli Circle will hold a card party and luncheon 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Ossoli Clubhouse, 2511 Kingston Pike. Proceeds will benefi t The Next Door. Info/reservations: Minga Barnes, 233-3044.

UT Science Forum weekly brown-bag lunch series will feature Thomas C. Namey, former professor of medicine and nutrition and former associate director of the UT Nutrition Institute, presenting “Low Testosterone: Implications for Men’s Health Far Beyond Sex,” in Room C-D of Thompson-Boling Arena.

Echo Ridge, 8458 Gleason Drive, will host a Chocolate Extravaganza for the community, especially seniors, at 3:30 p.m. Free; RSVP required, 769-0111.

Dirk Powell, old-time fi ddler, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Powell was featured in “The Great High Mountain Tour,” an outgrowth of the Academy Award-winning fi lm “Cold Mountain,” in which he appeared on screen. Tickets: $15. Available: www.knoxtix.com, 523-7521 and at the door.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, FEB. 8-10The 16th annual Jammin’ in Your Jammies,

a benefi t for Children’s Hospital, will be held at the Holiday Inn-World’s Fair Park. A family of four can stay 5 p.m. Friday-Saturday brunch or 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday brunch and enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment, including swimming in the hotel pool, karaoke, gymnastics lessons and special animal guest appearances. Tickets: $150 ($80 tax-deductible); additional family members are $20 per person. Info/register: 541-8745.

SATURDAY, FEB. 9Historic Cherokee Caverns, 8524 Oak Ridge

Highway, will offer guided public tours discussing the geologic beauty and history of the caverns during the “Warm Up in the Cave” event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: $8 (age 7 and up). Info: www.cherokeecaverns.com.

A Daddy-Daughter Dance with proceeds going to the Relevé Competition Dance Team will be held 2-4 p.m. at Backstage Dance Company, 5548 Washington Pike. Cost: $20 per couple, $10 each additional daughter. Price includes food, dancing and a keepsake photo. Info: karawilson702@comcast.net.

Echo Ridge, 8458 Gleason Drive, will host a Sweetheart Dance for the community, especially seniors, at 7 p.m. Free; RSVP required, 769-0111.

Project Runaway, a fashion show to benefi t at-risk youth, will be at 7 p.m. at the Foundry. Local designers will present creations reconstructed from thrift-store purchases, and local boutiques will show their latest collections and have items available for sale. Event will include a live band, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets: $25 (10 for UT students with ID). Proceeds benefi t Child & Family Tennessee’s Runaway Shelter. Tickets/info: www.projectrunawayknox.com.

Bonnie Keen, contemporary Christian singer, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Metropolitan Community Church, 7820 Redeemer Lane. Tickets: $25 for concert and dinner, $15 concert only. Info: 531-2539.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, FEB. 9-10GO! Contemporary Dance Works will premiere

the original, full-length contemporary ballet “Unsung Heroes: Women of World War II” at 8 p.m. Feb. 9 and 2 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Advance reserved seats: $22 ($17 students/seniors): at the door: $27 ($22). Available: Bijou box offi ce, 684-1200; GO!, 539-2475 or www.gocontemporarydance.com.

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It’s more empathetic than sympathetic because, going through this more advanced training, you have a better understanding that they may be mentally ill but they’re still a person. – Offi cer Matthew Gentry

like this. It’s when they’re off their medication or if they’re having an episode, that’s why they are show-ing these symptoms and that’s why they’re acting that way.”

Randy Myers, an offi cer with the Oak Ridge Police Department, echoed a similar sentiment after touring Peninsula.

“It’s very helpful because it lets us see the other side and get their perspective on things and under-stand that they are going through a real crisis,” he said. “… it helps us understand, and try to relate from that perspective, especially if we’re the ones being attacked or whatever. It’s not us they’re at-tacking, they’re just acting out.”

Not surprisingly, Liz Clary, Peninsula’s director of patient ser-vices, says the majority of its pa-tients – 90 to 95 percent – don’t come to the facility of their own free will, but in handcuffs and in the back of a patrol car.

“The state is trying to change that and has worked with emer-

gency room physicians, but there are liability and safety issues to be considered,” she said. “There are patients who absolutely need to be contained when they are be-ing brought to us. But a lot of these patients don’t – they should be brought in by family members. It’s very traumatic to be hand-cuffed, shackled, put into the back of a po-lice car and brought here. There’s nothing therapeutic about that.”

Furthermore, Clary said, the Peninsula staff is trained to avoid physically restraining patients whenever possible. Every incident

in which a patient is restrained is captured on the many video cam-eras throughout the facility and studied.

“We look at every seclusion and every restraint and we ask, ‘What can we learn from this? What could have been done differ-ently? What could we have done to prevent it?’ The law says that you do it if they are a danger to themselves or to others, but with the kids, you’ve got to think about what kind of damage your do-ing by putting them in restraints. You don’t want to do it. Our goal

in the restraint is to make sure weare providing a safe environment,and when you use seclusion andrestraint that’s what we look at astreatment failure. We did some-thing wrong. Even though yousometimes think that’s the onlyway possible, when you look backit, there really are some things youcould do.”

Even after 38 years in law en-forcement, Gary Johns, an offi cerwith the Anderson County Sher-iff’s Offi ce, says he came awaywith some valuable lessons.

“I’ve been a policeman a longtime, and there are a couple ofthings that I never thought aboutuntil this,” said Johns. “Especiallyif you’ve been doing this a longtime, you get that hardcore atti-tude about a lot of things and thiskind of brings everything back toearth.”

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Crisis managementLaw enforcement offi cers learn to diffuse crisis situations

It was one of those calls Offi cer Matthew Gentry says “could’ve end-ed really, really badly” but didn’t.

A distraught man armed with a butcher knife stood in the middle of the street, slicing away at his arms in an attempt to commit suicide.

“Long story short, I was able to talk him into putting the knife down and actually convinced him to com-ply with my commands to sit on the ground,” Gentry recounted. “I was then able to handcuff him and place him in the ambulance. I had every opportunity in the world to Taser him but didn’t because he was com-plying with the orders I was giving him. Since then, I’ve dealt with him two or three other times, and we’re on a fi rst-name basis now.”

Gentry, an offi cer with the Knox-ville Police Department, tells the story to make a point – Crisis In-tervention Team training is helping law enforcement offi cers diffuse po-tentially deadly encounters with the mentally ill.

First launched by the Memphis Police Department in 1988 after a tragic shooting in which a police of-fi cer killed a mentally dis-turbed man, the CIT pro-gram was developed by the MPD in collaboration with the local chapter of the Na-tional Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and men-tal health providers to im-prove police training and procedures in response to mental illness crisis.

Today, the “Memphis Model,” as it has become known, has been adopted in more than 35 states and hundreds of communities.

It’s what drew almost 50 offi cers from law enforcement agen-cies in Anderson, Blount, Hamil-ton, Knox and Roane counties to Peninsula Hospital in Louisville on two occasions recently to get a fi rst-hand look at the mental health community, its patients, medical providers and the families affected by mental illness.

The Peninsula “fi eld trip” is but a part of a 40-hour training course that delves far deeper into mental health issues than does a state-required course. Similar visits are made to Knox Area Rescue Minis-tries, the Psycho-Social Rehab Cen-ter and Mobile Crisis.

The CIT classes, which take place at Ridgeview Psychiatric Hos-pital or the Law Enforcement Inno-vation Center in Oak Ridge, provide instruction in de-escalation tech-niques, suicide risk assessment, involuntary commitment laws and procedures, street encounters, dual diagnoses and mental illness in children, adolescents and the el-derly.

“It’s not reinventing the wheel – it’s basically showing that person that you care, that you are there for them, to allow them to talk and show them that you are listening to them and there to help resolve that situation,” said Gentry, who has now become a certifi ed CIT trainer.

“It’s more empathetic than sym-pathetic because, going through this more advanced training, you have a better understanding that they may be mentally ill but they’re still a person. They’re not always

Knox County Sheriff ’s Offi ce offi cers attending the recent

Crisis Intervention Team training at Peninsula are, from

left: Front Row – Andy Collins, Jon Underwood, Jason

Moyers, Bobby Law, Jeremy McCord and Tim Sellers; Back

Row – Peninsula nurse managers Ann Cooper and Amy

Spangler, Sgt. Mark Belliveau, Billy Douglas, Cas Clark,

Benji Gresham, Charles Kuykendall, Greg Stanley and

Peninsula Clinical Manager Dr. Charlotte Frye.

Knoxville Police Department offi cers attended a CIT training last month

at Peninsula. Left to right, they are: Front Row -- Sam Henard, Amy

Boyd, Caryn Heitz, Terri Moore, Susan Coker and Matthew Gentry; Back

Row -- Peninsula’s Director of Patient Services Liz Clary, Peninsula nurse

manager Ann Cooper, Matt Peters, Michael Rupe, David Gerlach, Jason

Artymovich, Brad Cox, Alan Meisheid, Peninsula Clinical Manager Dr.

Charlotte Frye and Peninsula nurse manager Amy Spangler.

Knox County law enforcement offi cers listen as

Sheryl McCormick, coordinator of Peninsula’s peer

support and recovery training, tells of her own battle

with mental illness.

Liz Clary, director of

patient care services

at Peninsula, talks with

offi cers during recent

Crisis Intervention Team

training.

Offi cer Matthew Gentry of the Knoxville Police Department has

undergone training to become a certifi ed CIT trainer.

Recovery is a Journey has a strong history of helping

people with serious mental illness and substance abuse move their lives forward into recovery. Dozens of classes provide support on the journey. See the complete class catalog at www.peninsulabehavioralhealth.com, or call for more information.