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By Cindy TaylorPond Gap Elementary

School received a facelift on World Rotary Day Feb. 23, thanks to the com-bined efforts of Knox area Rotary clubs.

Pond Gap principal Susan Espiritu would not guess the value of the im-provements.

“Oh my goodness, I have no idea. They do-nated over $1,500 worth of f lash cards that they are making into tutoring packets for classrooms and tutors to use.

“They completely redid our steps coming from the lower parking lot, repaint-ed our front door and win-dow frame and mulched all our fl ower beds.

“They also power-washed the concrete in front and back. More than 70 Rotarians from five clubs participated and did for our school those things that just don’t get done and that we needed so desperately!

“Rotary is a tremen-dous organization!”

Club members got an early start on the wet, foggy day. George Weh-rmaker, owner of Bright Side Landscaping in Pow-ell, helped organize the event and donated many of the items used in the facelift.

By Cindy TaylorP d G El t

Facelift for Pond Gap

Pond Gap entrance after remulching. More picture on A-11. Photos by Cindy Taylor

Charley Garvey receives

some shovel horseplay

from West Knox Rotary

president Richard Bet-

tis. Gary Ricciardi waits

patiently, holding a post.

The three helped replace

an old set of steps lead-

ing up to the school.

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

County Finance Director Chris Caldwell’s report on the court clerks’ collections sounded pretty grim when he gave his fi nancial update at last week’s County Com-mission chair’s luncheon. The numbers are down from last year.

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

Circuit, Civil Sessions and Juvenile Court Clerk Cathy Quist’s collections are $69,000

behind last year.On the surface, Clerk and Mas-

ter of Chancery and Probate Court Howard Hogan’s collections seem to be a bright spot, since they are running about $4,000 ahead of last year, but he says that number is deceptive, because although collection numbers are up, case fi lings are down, giving him cause for concern about the future.

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

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

While Chancery Court has a reliable revenue source from han-dling county tax sales, other tradi-tional sources are drying up. Many divorces that used to be heard in 4th Circuit Court are now going to Chancery Court instead (more on that later), but the divorce fi l-ings are down overall, probably because of the economy.

“Fewer divorces are being fi led because people can’t afford them,”

Hogan said.Additionally, while the trend

away from taking disputes to trial in favor of mediation may ease the fi nancial toll on citizens, it has taken a toll on Chancery Court collections.

Much of the child support col-lection that used to be done in Chancery Court is now being han-dled at the state level, creating an-other loss of fees.

And the long-term judicial commitments that used to bring in

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By Wendy SmithIn addition to the keys to their

new Habitat for Humanity home, Pastor Magwe Arthemon and his wife, Martha, received numerous gifts from their adopted commu-nity during a recent dedication ceremony.

Habitat board member Marv House gave the family a Bible. Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee donated food for the pantry. Other friends gave the family artwork, sheets, tow-els, tools and a fire extinguisher. And Habitat budget tutor Susan McGuire presented Magwe with a coupon book that he will use to make payments on the Lonsdale house.

Like all other Habitat home-owners, the Arthemons will pay for their new home. But the op-portunity to live in the home is a gift from God, Magwe says. It is

Carolyn Hansen, Phil Watson, Byamungu Arthemon, Magwe Arthemon and

Martha Arthemon participate in the dedication the Arthemons’ new Habi-

tat for Humanity home in Lonsdale. The Burundian family was relocated to

Knoxville in 2008. Photo by Wendy Smith

A new land, new church and new home for Burundian family

the fulfillment of a promise that God made to him while he was living as a refugee in Africa.

He was born in Burundi, Afri-ca, in 1964, but was forced to f lee the war-torn country in 1972. His family lived as refugees in the Congo and then Tanzania for 36 years. While in Tanzania, Magwe received a message from God. He would preach in a new land, and be provided with a church and a home.

In 2004, Burundian refugees began the process of relocation to the U.S., but Magwe was afraid because he was poor, didn’t speak English, and had only lived in the bush, he says. But God told him that if he obeyed, he could do anything.

The Arthemons came to Knox-ville in 2008, and the promises have now been fulfilled. In 2011, Magwe’s congregation, the Light Mission Pentecostal Church, purchased a building on Heiskell Avenue. That same year, the fam-ily enrolled in the Habitat for Humanity program.

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Concert at 2nd Presbyterian

West High School junior Margaret Kramer has taken voice lessons for a year and a half, and the audience at 2nd Presbyterian Church was mes-merized by the purity of her soprano voice when she per-formed last week at a concert for young musicians.

➤ See Wendy’s report on A-7

Coff ee BreakIt’s Thursday, and Sage Mor-

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

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

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

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Lee speaks on courage, cabbage

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

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

➤ See story on page A-12

Point of order!Sandra Clark never saw it

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ayurvedic medicine, and I grow food in my backyard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chocolate, of course!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

fulfi ll my bucket list.

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

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

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“Never Try to Out-Stub-born a Cat” was the theme of the talk Knoxvillian Mallory Kane gave to the Knoxville Writers Group last week.

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for cats – and writers

Harlequin Intrigue novelist

Mallory Kane spoke to the

Knoxville Writers Group last

week. Photo by Wendy Smith

Kane, who will have her 33rd book published by Harlequin Intrigue this spring, says she has always been a writer. She wrote her fi rst novel at age 13, and the story included romance, a

Suzy Compere, Donna Young, and Janice Hixson work the

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are Knoxville Green founder Maria Compere’s granddaughters,

Rebecca, Amanda and Alyx Henry. Photo by Wendy Smith

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wounded hero, a heroine who sees past the hero’s fl aws, murder, danger and a happy ending. Many of the books she’s written as an adult have similar charac-ters and themes, she said.

“A lot of us who write get a lot of it right instinctively because of how much we read.”

In spite of good instincts, Kane experienced eight years of “lovely rejection letters” before she was fi nal-ly published. That’s when she had to emulate her cats, who won’t do anything they don’t want to do.

“Don’t ever, ever, ever, ever give up,” she said.

Early in her career, she joined Romance Writers of America to take advantage of teaching and mentor-ing. She recommended the group to anyone who aspires to being a romance novelist.

For those who prefer to bypass publishing houses, electronic publishing has proven to be lucrative for some of her friends, she said. Those opportunities may dry up soon, however, as publishers fi gure out ways to control that market.

Writers must have perse-verance, luck, patience and a thick skin to succeed, she said.

“Be like a cat.”

■ Knoxville Green raises funds for gazeboKnoxville Green recently

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Active Knoxville Green member Larry Silverstein said that while lots of bulbs went out the door, it was tough to host the event without Maria.

“I keep looking for her,” he said.

Maria’s daughter, Suzy, and three of her grandchil-

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“Things grew for her in away they don’t grow for any-body else,” says Suzy.

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Cultural, legal From page A-1

thousands of dollars in fees annually vanished with the 2012 closing of Lakeshore Mental Health Institute.

“There’s just not as much trial work, which means there’s not as much fi ling to generate fees to clerks. From a clerk’s perspective, the more work involved in a case, the higher the court costs. No fi lings means no counterclaims, no hearings, no subpoenas or notices, so fees and commissions to the clerks tend to be lower,” Hogan said. “Since my ap-pointment, we have lost four to fi ve positions because of decreasing workload.”

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

Cathy Quist, who is also an attorney, says the ef-fects of tort reform (another Haslam administration pri-ority) have affected her bot-tom line.

“We are seeing less of the cases that typically gener-ate the most billing because of mediation and arbitra-tion,” she said. “And while our collection rates range between 95 percent and the high 80s, cases aren’t being fi led that generate interme-diate case billing. A large number of cases are fi led

and closed the same day. In a lot of cases, settlements are announced the day they are fi led. The culture has changed in the civil courts.”

When the recession hit, Quist’s offi ce saw a 45 per-cent increase in civil ses-sions court fi lings, largely due to credit card compa-nies going after delinquent accounts. Now, that boom-let is receding.

Filings in civil sessions court increased dramati-cally after the amount that could be collected in “small claims” cases increased. This has had the effect of shrinking the circuit court docket because plaintiffs can represent themselves in sessions court, where cases tend to generate less paper-work and get resolved much quicker, Quist said. That’s good for the plaintiff, not so good for the clerk’s numbers.

Quist’s offi ce, which used to process short-term men-tal health commitments, has also been negatively impact-ed by Lakeshore’s closing.

“We had 34,496 mental health fi lings in 2011. Last year, Lakeshore closed, and we lost all of them,” she said.

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

“As of Jan. 1, 2014, those lawsuits will be completely administrative and will be handled by workers’ comp

Facelift for Pond Gap From page A-1

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

Clubs involved were Knoxville Breakfast Ro-tary Club, president Scott Taylor; West Knox Rotary Club, president Richard Bettis; Downtown Rotary Club, president Wes Stow-

ers; North Knox Rotary Club, president Chris Ro-hwer; Volunteer Rotary Club, president Cheryl White; Farragut Rotary Club, president Bruce Wil-liamson; and Turkey Creek Sunset Rotary Club, presi-dent Ann Lotspeich.

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

judges,” she said. Joy McCroskey is in the

deepest hole of the three clerks, but says her offi ce will be getting some help under a new law that has put some teeth into enforcement of delinquent collections.

“If the costs aren’t paid in one year, the state can revoke the offender’s drivers license. We don’t have a choice,” she said, ad ding that the new law will have no effect on judges granting indigent status to defendants who cannot pay their court costs.

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

“Ninety percent of them don’t pay,” McCroskey said. “My staff does everything possible to collect. There are also fewer and fewer law-yers willing to fi le divorces

there because Judge Swann makes them go to more me-diation and parenting class-es than the law requires, so they go to Chancery Court where (their clients) don’t have to spend that extra money for classes.”

Finally, she says the big-gest problem she faces in collections is lack of staff.

“I need more employees. I have 80 – I did have 101, so I’m down to the mini-mum. Last year I didn’t have enough people to do the work. We don’t ask Knox County for money. The fees that we collect pay our sala-ries and benefi ts. The coun-ty gives us an operating al-lowance.”

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

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Safety Center proposal gets

‘not in our neighborhood’ response

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some remained uncon-vinced:

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

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

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

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

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What’s next? Partisan city elections?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Point of order!

■ You know it’s spring when

Knox County schools have

three or four events each

night. In addition to basket-

ball tournaments, last Thurs-

day brought the high school

choral concert, the PTA’s big

bash and a parent meeting at

Vine Middle.

■ School board this week:

workshop at 5 p.m. Monday

and monthly meeting at 5

p.m. Wednesday. Reckon

they’ll talk about security?

■ Betty Bean writes this week

about dwindling collections

in three local clerks’ offi ces.

And the prospects look slim

going forward. Apparently

a stealth bill introduced by

Sen. Stacey Campfi eld and

Rep. Roger Kane would take

the fees away from the clerks

entirely and hand them over

to the county mayor.

■ Cathy Quist, Joy McCroskey

and Howard Hogan just

think they’ve got problems!

Sandra Clark

I never saw it coming.Commissioner Mike

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

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

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

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

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

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

Commission on record in support.

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

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

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

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

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

Although a motion to table is nondebatable, the com-

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

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

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

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

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

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

Schools, doesn’t care about security.

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

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

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

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

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

Voting no were Smith, Ownby, Wright and Anders.

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NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier

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

My Grandmother Col-lier’s double jonquils were blooming, the old cool-weather bluegrass was bright green and the birds were singing.

And they were really singing – as if they thought it was already spring (still officially 3 weeks away).

The cardinals and the tufted titmice led the cho-rus, with support from the field and song sparrows, the eastern towhees and the Carolina wrens.

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

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

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

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

These comings and go-ings are part of the local people’s lives; consider the storks returning over the centuries to the chimneys of Europe. The cliff swal-lows of San Juan Capistra-no, having wintered 6,000 miles to the south in Argen-tina, have traditionally re-turned to the Mission each spring on St. Joseph’s day, March 19. And then there are the turkey vultures of Hinckley, Ohio, faithfully returning each year on March 15, in time for their big Buzzard Day Festival.

The seasonal disap-pearance of the birds mys-tified the ancients and not-so-ancient folks who were observant and curi-ous about such things. All those f locks of blackbirds

engineer James Fox, then adapted the device into a tiny 0.018 ounce gizmo that can be attached to the back of a small bird. A sparrow weighs in at about 0.7 ounce; a catbird, around an ounce. The geo-locator contains a clock, battery, light sensor, and microprocessor, squeezed into a miniature device that causes these small birds no distress or prob-lems with their f light. The system is not without its problems – each geoloca-tor costs $200, and they only recover about 20 per-cent of them for analysis. Cloudy weather and even prolonged shade makes evaluations more difficult.

But they have already made many remarkable discoveries into the de-tails of when, where, how far and how fast vari-ous species of our birds travel. They’ve found that our purple martins use a broad area along the Ama-zon River for their winter-ing grounds; one of our

eastern shore-birds, the wil-let, f lies 2,800 miles each fall, before hurri-cane season, to gather for the winter in a small area on the north coast of Brazil.

But prob-ably the most spectacular ex-ample of this is the story of two birds called northern wheat-ears. They are small, gray and white, sparrow-sized birds that nest in Alaska. These two were fitted with geolocators. After their migrations, they were re-captured and the devices analyzed. And they found that the two little birds had left Fairbanks, Alas-ka, f lown over the Ber-ing Sea, through Russia, across the Arabian desert, and wintered in central Africa – average round-trip distance, 18,640

Migration

and swallows, even the small songbirds – where did they go? There were theories that the swal-lows buried themselves in the mud of ponds to sleep the winter away, and that hummingbirds f lew away south riding on the backs of the geese – they were obviously too small to get very far on their own!

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

Research has revealed that birds find their way by a combination of amaz-ing traits, among them the ability to navigate by the earth’s magnetic field, and to tell the time of day by the sun, even compensat-ing for latitude and longi-tude as they go along.

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

But finding where they actually go, especially to spend the winter, has al-ways been a tough prob-lem to solve.

Some species seem to just disappear into a trackless jungle to the south, or out across the

ocean to Goodness Knows Where. Occasionally the answer was found by bird banding; hundreds or thousands of individuals of a species were fitted with tiny ID leg bands, and then by sheer luck, one or two would be re-covered from birds on the wintering grounds.

That is how a dedicated birder from Memphis sur-prised the ornithologi-cal world by discovering that chimney swifts spend their winters in the jun-gles of Peru.

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

One of his colleagues,

miles – the longest-known migration of any songbird!

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

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

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

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

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

New coach, fi rst spring

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

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

The coach caused a shocking incident on the

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

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

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

Losing Tracy was a siz-able setback. Establishing

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

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

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

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

the better car.JoAnne summarized,

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

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

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

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

Butch Jones’ spring out-look appears better.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com

CrossCurrents

LynnHutton

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

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

Later we discovered that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Support Our Schools was begun in November 2011 by several people who recognized the need for citizen involvement in our public schools.

We are guided by the fundamental belief that our public schools deserve informed and engaged citizen support.

An electronic newsletter that appears weekly or bi-weekly is our primary means of communication. In it, we discuss important issues facing our schools and provide information about various school-related meetings throughout the community.

We invite all interested people to sign up for our newsletter by sending an email to SOS.knoxtn@gmail.com, and to attend school board and county commission meetings when school matters are on the agenda.

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Community Services

■ Catholic Charities

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those with emotional

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By Wendy SmithWest High School junior

Margaret Kramer has taken voice lessons for a year and a half, and the audience at 2nd Presbyterian Church was mesmerized by the pu-rity of her soprano voice when she performed last week at a concert for young musicians. She sang a cho-ral piece, “Panis Angelicus,” then tried something more daring – “I May Never Come Down Again” from the mu-sical Cinderella with a few dance steps thrown in.

She enjoyed having the opportunity to perform in the church’s beautiful sanc-tuary. Though she’s inexpe-rienced as a solo performer, the dancing is what made her nervous.

“That was unfamiliar ter-ritory,” she said later. “It was nerve-wracking.”

Kramer’s voice teacher, Brenda Luggie, teaches two students who performed at the concert. Having the op-portunity to perform pub-licly encourages young mu-sicians who don’t typically have an audience other than their teachers, she said.

“If there’s no audience, it’s not as rewarding.”

That’s why 2nd Presby-terian organist Brenda Go-slee organized the concert, which featured 16 perform-

Arts ‘alive and well’ at 2nd Presbyterian

Bearden High School

junior Parker Dodson talks

with West High School

freshman Bruce Boles fol-

lowing a youth concert at

2nd Presbyterian. Dodson

was sound technician for

the concert.

Evan Davies, a 7th grader at Webb School of Knoxville, per-

formed at a recent concert for young musicians at 2nd Presby-

terian Church. He has played the banjo since age 5.2nd Presbyterian organist Brenda Goslee, center, visits with

photographer Caroline Trotter and her mother, Robin Trotter.

Caroline’s work was on display during a youth concert at the

church. Photos by Wendy Smith

ers as well as the photogra-phy of West High School se-nior Caroline Trotter. Many students in Knoxville put countless hours into their music without receiving recognition for it, Goslee said after the concert.

As she spoke, a few of

the performers lingered on the stage with their instru-ments, playing music and socializing.

“Pop music isn’t all peo-ple like,” she said. “The arts are alive and well here at 2nd Presbyterian!”

A peripheral benefi cia-

ry of the concert was the church’s Condon Bush Me-morial Pipe Organ. In lieu of an admission, Goslee asked for donations toward the purchase of a Great Trumpet for the million-dollar organ. She has been the church’s organist for nine years, and also teaches at Roane State Community College – the only commu-nity college in the country that has an organ program.

Her best friend, Virginia

Rowlett, was head of Roane State’s music department in the 1980s, and she pushed for the development of the program.

Goslee had 16 students last semester. Many of them already have advanced degrees, but just want to learn to play the organ, she said. Some attend smaller churches that can’t afford a professional organist,

and they want to be able to contribute by offering their services. Her oldest student is 81.

She says she has played every organ in town. She is part of the Knoxville chap-ter of the American Guild of Organists, where members get together once a month.

“We all know each other, and we’re all friends.”

Burundian family From page A-1

Knoxville Habitat for Hu-manity, says it takes ap-proximately 16 months for families to complete the process of acquiring a home. The heart of the program is 450 hours of required education. Bud-geting and construction courses are compulsory, and optional classes cover topics like urban garden-ing and voting.

There are now eight Bu-rundian families living in Habitat homes, and four more families are in the program. Program partici-pants are selected based on their need for housing, their willingness to part-ner and their ability to pay a mortgage.

Magwe and Martha are both employed. Burundians are typically hard-working,

says Habitat partnership director Phil Watson. They carry little or no debt, and take their responsibilities very seriously.

Those qualities have made them successful in the program, says Danni Varlan, president of the Habitat board.

“They are like the poster children for Habitat families.”

They are also very fam-

ily-oriented. The Arthe-mons will live in the cozy Lonsdale home with six of their children. Three older children are already out of the house.

Members of the Arthe-mons’ extended family attended the home’s dedi-cation ceremony and the cookout that followed. Some travelled from Ken-tucky, where several Bu-

rundian families have set-tled. Other attendees were from area churches that have partnered with the Light Mission church.

Magwe, vibrant in a jun-gle-themed jacket he made himself, was all smiles as he accepted the keys to his new home.

“I praise God for the day he has made for us, and for you,” he told the crow d.

BEARDEN NOTES ■ Downtown Speakers Club

meets 11:45 a.m. every

Monday at TVA West Tow-

ers, ninth floor, room 225.

Currently accepting new

members. Info: Jerry Adams,

202-0304.

■ UT Toastmasters Club meets

at noon every Tuesday at the

Knoxville Convention Center

on Henley Street in room

218. Currently accepting

new members. Info: Sara

Martin, 603-4756.

Members of the Wordplayers recently performed “Lift Every Voice” by Doug Floyd for

students at Rocky Hill Elementary School. The three-part play shows the struggles and

triumphs of African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance. Pictured are (front) 5th

graders Zadie Love, Coleman Chapman, Presley Keith; (middle) 5th grader Andie Sexton,

Wordplayer cast member Dominic Gillette, 5th grader Will Maddox; (back) Wordplayer cast

member Rollin Prince, 5th grader Matthew Harshey and Wordplayer cast member Mack

Moore. Most of the characters in the performance are also included in the curriculum of

the students’ social studies class, according to RHES literacy coach Stephanie Prince. Photo by S. Barrett

Kindergarten open house at SES

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Bearden Elementary School students will have their artwork

on display inside The Bijou Theatre’s second-fl oor gallery

throughout March and April. Several types of artwork will be

on display. To visit the exhibit when the theater is not open for

a performance, call the Bijou at 522-0832. Pictured is a two-

point perspective by Bearden Elementary School 5th grader

Maddie McCann that will be part of the exhibit. Photo by S. Barrett

Bearden Elementary art at The Bijou

Sequoyah Elementary

School held its kindergar-

ten open house recently

for parents who may be

considering the school for

their child. Teachers Anna

Cleland, Emily Monday, Les-

lie Cook and Jill Caldwell re-

viewed prevocational skills,

instructional support, daily

schedules and a supply list

with the parents. “Their

(the students’) day is really

long in the beginning, but

we’re here for them,” said

Cleland. She is pictured here showing parents the type of

glue that is required for students. Photo by S. Barrett

The Knoxville Expo Center was packed with vendors and Knox

County 8th-grade students during the annual Career Fair last

week. Students and parents were given an opportunity to

tour the exhibits and talk with representatives from various

businesses, colleges and high schools. Thelma Outlaw and

her son Jonah Higgins chat with UT Federal Credit Union

representative Leah Farmer.

Career fair off erslook into future jobs

Mya Sullivan from Northwest Middle School listens through a

stethoscope as Taylor Cruze and Hailey Lunsford (both from

Bearden Middle) ask questions of Katrenia Hill from Pellissippi

State Community College. Photos by Ruth White

By Theresa EdwardsWith three patients, one

heart and one hour to de-cide. … Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?

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

This provocative drama brings an awareness of the

inner workings of heart transplant programs and the diffi cult decisions inherent with them. How does a do-nor heart get assigned and who makes the decision with several prospective patients?

Medicine, money and morality clash when the Transplant Selection Com-mittee of St. Patrick’s Hos-pital has minutes to decide which of three patients will get a second chance at life.

During this thrilling race

against the clock, this playwill keep you on the edgeof your seat as you ques-tion what your own decisionwould be.

This drama is recom-mended for ages 15 and old-er. Tickets are $8 to $12 atthe door (cash or check) oronline at www.wordplayers.org. Thursday, March 14, is“pay what you can night.”

A discussion will followthe matinee on Sunday,March 10.

The WordPlayers will present “The God Committee” with performers (front) Joe Jaynes as Dr.

Alex Gorman, Jeni Lamm as Dr. Ann Ross, Lizzie Wouters as Dr. Kierra Banks; (back) Dorothy Giles

as Nurse Nella Larkin and Matthew Lloyd as Dr. Jack Klee. Photo by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com

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‘The God Committee’by the WordPlayers

Wordplayers perform at Rocky Hill Elementary

Sequoyah Elementary School 1st-grade teacher Becky

Dockery was recently named teacher of the month by

B97.5. Her student Jake Legg nominated her for the honor.

“We get to do lots of fun stuff ,” said Jake about Dockery’s

class. “Especially math,” he said. Photo by S. Barrett

Dockery named‘teacher of the month’

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In search of truthBy Wendy Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Austin-East librarian leads Ethics Bowl team to second win

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The team practices after school on Tuesdays, and takes advantage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philosophical Association Conference held in Atlanta last December. Photos submitted

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

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

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

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Just when you were wondering how many new apartment complexes Knox-ville can absorb, two out-of-town companies think they have the answer: more than we have now.

New apartments in Deane Hill

Architects rendering of the new Wellsley Park luxury apartments, scheduled to open this year

Offi cials of the Sterling Group, based in the Mid-west, and Braxton Develop-ment, a Montana company, broke ground last week on Wellsley Park, a 249-unit luxury development to be built on 15 acres on Deane Hill Drive at the intersection with Wellsley Park Road.

SGN+A Architects of At-lanta and Cannon & Cannon of Knoxville are the archi-tects and engineers on the project. Total development costs are estimated at $29.5 million.

The market-rate, pet-friendly community will feature a clubhouse, cyber café with Wi-Fi, a media/gaming room, fi tness center with top-of-the-line equip-ment and adjacent tot room.

There will be 14 buildings featuring nine different one-, two- and three-bedroom fl oor plans ranging in square footage from 805 to 1,426.

Other amenities will in-clude a resort-style swim-ming pool with an arbor, grilling and fi repit area, car

care center and recycling cen-ter. Attached and detached garages will also be available. The development is expected to open in late summer.

Brrr – but merchants say its spring

You would never know it from the weather lately, but spring is only 16 days away. Need proof – other than the occasional clump of daffodils that dot the landscape here and there? Go shopping.

As far as local merchants are concerned, winter is gone, over, kaput. So while the temperature still chills to the bone, a tour through local stores will have you believing spring really is just around the corner.

Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than at

Southern Market on Hom-berg Drive, where bunnies and Easter eggs vie for at-tention with other bright and cheery items, which run the gamut from table settings to home décor to garden elements and even jewelry – all in the colors of spring.

The folks at Southern Market are busy preparing for their annual Spring Fling and Outdoor Sale, set for March 14-16. It’s always an event you don’t want to miss, so mark your calendar.

Business SpotlightAll Occasion Party Rent-

als has been on Middle-brook Pike, anchoring the corner at Amherst Road, for so long it’s hard to remem-ber when it wasn’t there.

Over the past few de-

cades, the products the business rents, from tents to chairs to its newer all-inclusive tailgate pack-ages for Tennessee foot-ball fans, have become a fixture. Whether you’re at a wedding or a corporate event, if you’re under a large tent, chances are it belongs to All Occasions.

The Chamber of Com-merce recognized the com-pany and its owner, Terry Turner, last summer with its 2012 Pinnacle Award, and now come additional kudos from Tennessee’s Secretary of State Tre Hargett.

Hargett focuses his “Tennessee Business Spot-light” on various business-es monthly. These are busi-nesses that create jobs, produce quality products

and give back to their local communities.

For the month of March, the spotlight is on busi-nesses that are in the event planning business. Think weddings, proms, and so on.

All Occasions has been in business for 10 years, but originated from a party rentals business founded in 1983. As a partner to founder Chuck Rothstein, Terry Turner has trans-formed the business, which now has nearly 50 employ-ees and supplies events as large as the annual Bonna-roo music festival.

Parents’ Night Out Knoxville’s iconic Or-

angery restaurant has come up with an idea par-ents longing for a relaxing evening out will love.

Friday nights during the month of March, the old folks can enjoy a romantic dinner without interrup-tion from the kiddos.

The restaurant will pro-vide on-site complimentary childcare from the trained professional and certifi ed staff of Middlebrook Play-school. Children will enjoy a fun and safe environment and can even take advan-tage of a child-size meal for a small charge.

Children ages three and up are welcome and res-ervations are required at 588-2964.

Caris taps ClaytonJim Clayton has been ap-

pointed to the board of di-

rectors of Caris Healthcare, the $81.2 million company that offers hospice services through 25 offi ces located in Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia.

Clayton is CEO and sole shareholder of Clayton Bankcorp Inc., which owns 100 percent of Clayton Bank & Trust, 100 percent of American City Bank and 50 percent of Bank of Camden.

Clayton is known for founding Clayton Homes in 1956. He served as chair and CEO for 40 years be-fore selling that company to Warren Buffett in 2003.

Free tax assistanceThe Volunteer Income

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Hours are 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday until April 13.

Last year, VITA did 1,300 returns during the time they were at Good-will. Since the start of the program this year on Jan. 29, VITA has done more than 700 returns, with more than $1.5 million in refunds tallied.

The VITA program is run by certifi ed volunteers who offer free tax assistance to prepare returns for low- to moderate-income families who cannot prepare their own tax returns. For more information about eligibili-ty requirements go to www.irs.gov or contact Goodwill at 588-8567.

By Sherri Gardner HowellRotarians will gather

again Saturday, March 9, in Oak Ridge for a Peace Forum where Ro-tary International presi-dent Sakuji Tanaka of Japan will speak. The forum, hosted by Rotary District 6780, is one of four forums Tanaka will hold and the only one in the continental United States, with the others being in Berlin, Hono-lulu and Hiroshima.

The forum will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Pollard Technology Conference Center on the campus of the Oak Ridge Associated Uni-versities. Tanaka will speak at 9:35 a.m. and is also scheduled to see the International Friendship Bell, which was made in Japan; visit the Secret

City Commemorative Walk, built by the Ro-tary Club of Oak Ridge; and tour the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Farragut Rotary pres-ident Bruce Williamson said that Tanaka’s visit to Oak Ridge combines several themes.

“Sakuji Tanaka se-lected the motto “Peace Through Service” for his presidential year. Com-ing to our area pulls together the themes of peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the fruits of sci-ence and technology re-search in the service of mankind, and Rotary’s appreciation of the work that late Rotarian Bill Sargent in Oak Ridge did to invigorate the global effort to eradicate polio that has been led by Ro-tary.”

Downtown Rotary Club

member Emma Droz-

dowski lends a hand to

Anna Corinne Webb, 6,

while Mark Webb works

the other side.

Peace Forum in Oak Ridge

Downtown Rotary Club president Wes Stowers and assistant

governor over Knoxville clubs Mack Gentry take a break from

their work. Photosby Cindy Taylor

Start the week off right.g

UT NOTES ■ Senior Eric Dixon and junior

Lindsay

Lee are

fi nalists for

Truman

Scholar-

ships,

prestigious

national

academic

awards

that pro-

vide up to

$30,000 for

graduate

study. Tru-

man Schol-

arship

winners

will be an-

nounced

in April

after all

fi nalists are

interviewed by review panels.

Dixon, of Knoxville, will

graduate in December with a

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phy, economics, sociology

and global studies. Lee, of

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Portuguese.

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By Sherri Gardner HowellTennessee Supreme

Court Justice Sharon Lee did not come to talk to the Downtown Rotarians about the law. She came instead to talk about courage, com-mon bonds and cabbage.

Lee spoke at the Feb. 26 meeting of the Downtown Rotary club, giving a pre-sentation that wove togeth-er the stories of fi ve prison-ers of war from World War II with their ties to today’s Tennessee legal commu-nity. Her presentation in-cluded the story of her fa-ther, Charles Lee, and of James Hugh Ross, Harold Leibowitz, David Goldin and Bruce Foster.

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

Justice Sharon Lee accepts her “gavel” from Rotarian Joe

Johnson as he asks her to preside at the trial of House-Hasson

owner and Rotarian Don Hasson. The charge? Not mentioning

Rotary in a newspaper feature about his company.Downtown Rotarians and guests gathered to hear Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Sharon

Lee present a talk on the heroism of Tennessee World War II prisoners of war. From left are

Justice Lee’s uncle, J.D. Lee; Dean Parham Williams of the LMU Law School; Justice Lee; the Rev.

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R. “Skip” Frierson, newly-appointed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Eastern Section. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Brian Salesky, executive director and conductor of the Knoxville

Opera, introduces Downtown Rotarians to Jennifer D’Agostino,

who is playing Cinderella in the opera’s school performances.

The club helps support the opera’s educational programs.

Justice Lee shares stories of courage

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

sistence of his fellow pris-oners.”

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

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

centration Camp to work in deep caves.

“These men showed great courage under extreme cir-cumstances,” said Lee. “They shared a common bond in that they never gave up, never gave in and showed an enor-mous love for their country and their families.

“And they never ate cab-bage again.”

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

By Suzanne Foree NealThere’s a housing boom

hitting the Farragut area, courtesy of World War II, an aging population and a disease that takes the mind and leaves the body behind.

Three different, yet similar facilities designed for senior citizens are set to open in the Farragut area in coming months. The three housing options could well be considered a microcosm of what is happening in our country as baby boomers hit their “golden” years. Some are independent and spry, but ready to downsize. Some need a little help. Some need a lot.

Opening in Farragut are Sherrill Hills, an in-dependent living develop-ment by Resort Lifestyle Communities; Clarity Pointe, a facility for de-mentia and Alzheimer pa-tients only; and Autumn Care II, a combination assisted living and de-

mentia/Alzheimer’s care facility.

Beginning this week, Farragut Shopper-News will look at these three fa-cilities and what they plan to offer residents, begin-ning with Sherrill Hills.

Sherrill Hills is for se-niors 55 years old and older who want an active lifestyle and are ready to trade a large empty house for a resort-type lifestyle. It will open in July high atop a hill behind Academy Sports on Kingston Pike.

Resort Lifestyle Com-munities just opened a similar facility in Memphis and brings its next inde-pendent living model to Knoxville. Developers say it is the first of its kind for Knoxville. Sherrill Hills will have 128 units offer-ing studio, one-, two- or three-bedroom unfur-nished units at a cost of $2,530 to $4,650 a month all inclusive, except for personal phone. The goal

Aging gracefully Residents at the retirement com-

munity of Sherrill Hills will be able to

choose from two dining facilities if

they don’t want to cook. Shown here

is the fi ne-dining room. Photo submitted by Resort Lifestyle Communities.

New facilities off er options for seniors

Bob and Nancy Epstein are the marketing team

for the new lifestyle retirement community of

Sherrill Hills under construction behind them on

Moss Grove Boulevard. The development tops

the hill behind Academy Sports on Kingston Pike. Photo by Suzanne Foree Neal.

is for someone to move in and stay until the end of his or her life. If in-home

care is need later, it is available through a local sub-contractor for an ad-ditional cost.

Bob and Nancy Epstein are the Sherrill Hills mar-keting agents. Bob Epstein says that about 85 percent of the residents will “age in place and live the rest of their lives in our commu-nities.” The development is designed to offer residents the amenities of an up-scale hotel but with a com-munity feel.

For those who want to cook for themselves, each unit comes with a full-size kitchen. If not, two dining rooms serve three meals a day every day. “The kitchen opens to the dining room,” Bob Epstein says. “They can get whatever they want cooked right in front of them and cooked to order.” For the munchies, there is a snack station with ice cream, popcorn and other treats.

There’s also a com-plete fitness center with equipment designed just for seniors, a post office, bank, salon, movie theater, dance f loor, whirlpool, gift shop/pharmacy, library, valet parking, social activ-ities, travel program and emergency call system. Bob Epstein notes there’s also something for the grandchildren and other big kids: a game arcade.

A party room can be re-served for family celebra-tions, and residents may also bring their pets.

Sherrill Hills also of-fers units that are com-pletely handicapped ac-cessible. Residents come and go as they please, with vehicle pickup and drop off provided at the main entrance. If they no lon-ger drive, transportation is available. The Epsteins say their retirement com-munities attract all ages of seniors, making for a lot of diversity.

“This allows them to have a great quality of life,” Bob Epstein says. “Experts say we need a positive mental attitude and socialization, nutrition and exercise.”

Epstein says his goal is to educate people on the options available for se-niors before there is an emergency need. “So often we get frantic phone calls instead of inquiries,” he says of adult children try-ing to find a suitable place for aging parents when the single-family home gets to be too much.

The age for residents begins at 55 because there is sometimes a market for couples that age. “Younger people are tired of caring for a house,” says Nancy Epstein. “They want the good life and to have fun. That’s the beautiful part. Everyone is seeking to live life, do something and not just sit at home.”

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

By Shannon Morris

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

Grace students sign for college sports

Grace football players Will McKa-

mey, Austin Arnold and Jesse Gar-

ren sign to play college ball while

family and coaches look on. Photo by Randy Down

Cody Stooksbury Photo by Randy Down

Kate Black Photo by Sophia De La Rosa

Chase Newsome and Ty Myers Photo by Miranda Fox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Shannon Morris

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

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

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

Grace wrestler Todd Hargis Photo by Shannon Johnson

Grace teams win in district, region

looking forward to another ex-citing season.

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

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

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

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

By Shannon Morris

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

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

Congratulations to the

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

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

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

Band-tastic

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

ticipated in the East Tennessee School Band and Orchestra As-

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

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB March 4, 2013

NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

EXTRAORDINARY CARE FOR KNOXVILLE’S ACTIVE FAMILIES

3 Convenient locations:Downtown Knoxville

Halls

Powell

For more information please call (865) 541-1300

Fort Sanders Therapy Center Manager Stephen

Karp works with headache patients to relieve

their pain.

Physical therapy helps keep you moving

Ice or heatHow do you choose?

Which is better on an injury, ice or heat? According to Ste-phen Karp, manager of the Fort Sanders Therapy Center, that de-pends on what you’re treating, for how long and what you hope to achieve.

Heat before exercise Heat improves blood flow to tissues, so it can relax tight mus-

cles and reduce a muscle spasm. It’s best to use heat before ex-ercise to increase the flexibility of stiff joints and muscles. Heat therapy can also help ease the pain of chronic arthritis, as long as the joint is not swollen.

Heat after injury Don’t apply heat directly after an injury or exercise, as that can

make swelling and pain worse. When your initial pain has subsid-ed, apply heat for about 15 to 20 minutes at a time, but be careful to buffer your skin with clothing to prevent burns. “And don’t use a heating pad while sleeping,” adds Karp. “People have suffered serious burns to their skin from heating pads left unmonitored.”

Ice after exercise or injury Using an ice pack is best immediately after an injury or the

overuse of joints and muscles during a workout or run. Cold re-duces swelling and pain by causing the blood vessels to constrict and narrow.

Apply an ice pack to an injury for about 10 minutes at a time, but let the skin warm up again before applying another ice pack. This can be repeated several times each day for three days.

“Overusing an already aggravated muscle or joint can lead to more serious damage,” adds Karp. “If you have any persistent pain in a joint or muscle for more than several days, you should see your doctor.”

Your physician may suggest that you alter your activities to provide relief to the joint or muscle affected. Or, you may be re-ferred to a physical therapist for more targeted treatment.

Physical therapy – for headaches? Yes!If you think of “physical therapy,” most people

associate it with the treatment of joint or muscle pain. But, did you know there is also physical therapy designed to alleviate headaches?

It’s offered at the Fort Sanders Therapy Cen-ter, next to Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. Therapy Center manager Stephen Karp special-izes in chronic neck pain and headache therapy. Karp is well known in the medical community for being able to resolve some of the most diffi cult cases for patients in a short period of time.

“I start with an assessment of a patient’s pos-ture. How patients stand can contribute to their head/neck pain,” says Karp. “Just a few simple, but targeted exercises can provide relief.” Some patients also may need coaching on sleeping po-

sitions – as these also contribute to the stressplaced on neck muscles.

While the Fort Sanders Therapy Center treats all kinds of conditions, the use of physical ther-apy for headaches is growing. “We’ve had quitea few headache patients,” explains Karp. “Manyof them have postural issues that were easily re-solved with physical therapy.”

Karp works closely with neurologists to assurethat the therapy he provides is in concert with their treatment.

For more information

about headache relief and

other types physical therapy off ered,

contact the Fort Sanders Therapy Centers

at 865-541-1300.

Perhaps like Humpty Dumpty in the nursery rhyme, Wilma Leath of Mascot, 72, has been “put back together” many times.

Leath has struggled with fibromy-algia for nearly 30 years, she said. It’s a disease that causes muscle pain and weakness. “It makes me prone to fall-ing,” she said. “I have not had a break, thank the good Lord, but I’ve had many falls. And I’ve got a few plastic parts,” she added with a laugh.

For recovery, Leath counts on Fort Sanders Therapy Center. “I’ve been going to Fort Sanders for years,” she said.

“Dr. (J. MacDonald) Burkhart is my doctor. He usually writes me a prescrip-tion for physical therapy and says, ‘Take it to Louanne (Clabough, senior physi-cal therapist).’ She’s the one who takes care of me most of the time,” said Leath.

Leath’s latest surgery was in Novem-ber 2012 on her shoulder, to repair a torn rotator cuff. She has been working with the therapy staff to improve her range of motion for her arm and reduce pain.

Leath said that over the years, the Fort Sanders staff has taught her exer-cises to help her manage the pain of fi-bromyalgia. “I do the exercise at home,” she said. “If I didn’t, I might have been

in a wheelchair already. At night, I sometimes can’t sleep from the pain.

“They taught me techniques I can do

at home to relax and stretch my neck and shoulders. But you can’t give in to the pain. I’m an active person even with my ail-ments.”

Leath said she has tried other therapy centers over the years, but said she prefers the staff at Fort Sanders Therapy Center.

“It is top rate. I have watched them work with other people throughout the years, and they are very compassionate,” she said. “And they are very pas-sionate about whatever part they are treating – arms, back, neck. Many times I have dread-ed going, but I know they’re going to help me, so that’s an incentive.”

Fort Sanders Therapy Center is located in the Newland Pro-fessional Building on Laurel Avenue. It provides outpatient physical therapy for patients recovering from injury, joint replacement surgery, head-aches, neck and back pain, balance disorders, and other health problems.

While many physical therapy centers group patients together, Fort Sanders

treats them individually. “Our patients see licensed clinicians every time they’re here,” said Stephen Karp, a physical therapist and manager of the center. “We spend one-on-one time with all our patients at every visit.”

Fort Sanders’ physical therapistshave a wide range of treatment options at the center, including stretches, exer-cise, heat, ice and other treatments to ease pain and increase flexibility and strength.

“Our goal is to get the patient backto the normalcy of daily activity,” said Karp.

Patients typically come for eight to 10visits, for about 30 minutes each, Karpsaid. Visits are usually covered by insur-ance and are recommended especially after surgeries like knee replacement orrotator cuff repair.

“That’s a very painful, debilitatinginjury, and a very slow, arduous pro-cess of recovery,” said Karp of rota-tor cuff surgery. “It takes the skill of a physical therapist to get you back to where you need to be.”

Covenant Health also has therapycenters in Halls, Powell, Sevier County, Lenoir City and Roane County.

For information about a center nearest to

you, call 865-541-1300.

Wilma Leath

B-2 • MARCH 4, 2013 • SHOPPER-NEWS

Member of Boys and Girls

Club program Dynasty of

Divas thank the women

of Purses with Purpose

for funding their activi-

ties. Pictured are Endasia

Duckett, Shakhya Single-

ton, Keondra McKinney,

program director Shauna

McKinney, Jameiya Mills

and Janecissa Brown. Photos submitted

Purses with Purpose shops in BeardenMore than 20 women

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boys and Girls Club executive director Lisa Hurst chats with

Purses with Purpose women’s philanthropy group members

Purvis Schwartz and Lillian Mashburn.

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

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

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

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

to other Boys and Girls Club members.”

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

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

Singing ValentinesSinging Valentines were delivered last month by the group Mountain Breeze. One lucky

recipient was also surprised by a visit from her husband during the group’s performance.

Pictured are Mountain Breeze singers Belinda Price and Judy Linn, singing to Valentine

recipient Ginny Weatherstone and her husband, Rick, and Mountain Breeze singers Fulvia

Galli and Anna Miller. All proceeds from the group’s performances were given to the Ameri-

can Heart Association. Photo submitted

UT College of Veterinary Medicine ophthalmologist Dan Ward,

assisted by Heather Wilkerson, examines a furry patient. Photo courtesy of UTCVM

Special ‘opps’

Carol Zinavage

Carol’sCritter Corner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

news@ShopperNewsNow.com

By Sara BarrettArbor Terrace held a

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

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

Laughlin and Rhodes told the group a little about themselves.

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

The birthday girls

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

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

Michigan State because that’s where her husband played.

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

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

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CRYPTS 2-2 person burial

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Apts - Furnished 72WALBROOK STUDIOS

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Duplexes 73FARRAGUT AREA

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Dogs 141American Bulldog pups,

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

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

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

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PUG PUPPIES 6 wks old, 2 Males -

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PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles,

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

Dogs 141SHELTIE PUPPIES,

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

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Horses 1434 horse gooseneck

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

Free Pets 145

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Farmer’s Market 150

HAY FOR SALE Round bales, $20/roll

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Shop Tools-Engines 194COMPLETE WOOD-

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Misc. Items 203RESTAURANT

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

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Household Appliances 204aWHIRLPOOL Side by

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

Antiques 216OAK REFRIGERATOR,

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Medical Supplies 219DALTON ELECTRIC

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

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

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Boats Motors 232ODYSSEY 2007

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

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

new, 90HP Yamaha 4 stroke, Yellow, white

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

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

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

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

***Web ID# 213604***

Motorcycles 238H.D. SOFTAIL Deuce

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

***Web ID# 213635***

Autos Wanted 253A BETTER CASH

OFFER for junk cars, trucks, vans, running

or not. 865-456-3500

I BUY JUNK CARS & TRUCKS.

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

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

Auto Accessories 2541998 Thru 2002

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

***Web ID# 213849***

Utility Trailers 255UTILITY TRAILERS

All Sizes Available 865-986-5626

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Trucks 257CHEV. CHEYENNE

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

***Web ID# 216321***

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

***Web ID# 216526***

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

***Web ID# 210561***

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

***Web ID# 215659***

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

***Web ID# 211571***

4 Wheel Drive 258DODGE 2500 2001 SLT

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

***Web ID# 210238***

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

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

Imports 262

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

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

***Web ID# 212570***

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

***Web ID# 211604***

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

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

***Web ID# 213847***

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

***Web ID# 213556***

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

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

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

***Web ID# 213852***

Sports 264CHEVY CORVETTE

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

Domestic 265BUICK Lucerne 2007,

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

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

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

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Domestic 265CHEVY COBALT LT

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CONTINUING “A Raisin in the Sun,” directed by Woodie

King Jr. and starring visiting guest artists Lonette McKee and Jaymes Jorsling, is at UT’s Clarence Brown Theatre through March 10. Evening performances are at 7:30 and matinees at 2 p.m. Ticket prices vary. Available: 974-5161, 656-4444 or www.clarencebrowntheatre.com.

“Fieldwork,” an installation by Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson, continues through March 23 at the UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St. Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is presenting two shows through March 28 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. “March Brushstrokes: Tennessee Artists Association Juried Show” features original art by more than 40 Tennessee artists. “Body Language” is a juried exhibition of drawings of the human fi gure by nearly 25 local artists. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St., will feature recent works by jeweler Kristine Taylor of Knoxville and photographer Ronald Sullivan of Oak Ridge through March 31. Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

“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 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. Museum hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Info: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

11th annual KARM Dragon Boat Festival early-bird registration is open through April 15, at $750 for community and corporate teams. After April 15, cost is $850. The festival is June 22 at The Cove at Concord Park. Info: www.karm.org/dragonboats.

“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 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, MARCH 4GFWC Ossoli Circle will meet: 9:45 a.m. coffee:

10:30 a.m. poetry winners; 11:30 a.m. business

meeting at the Ossoli clubhouse, 2511 Kingston Pike. “Job Help Mondays” will be held 1-3 p.m.

Mondays throughout March at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Reference librarians will help with job applications, online forms and setting up email addresses for people seeking employment. First come, first served.

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.

Tennessee Shines will feature singer-songwriter Tim Easton, Knoxville indie-folk band The High Jump Heart and Maryville College professor/author Kim Trevathan 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: $10, 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.

“Kunta Kinteh Island,” a documentary about an island where slaves were held in Gambia during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, will be screened at 8 p.m. at UT’s Clarence Brown Theatre. Reception at 7 p.m.; Q&A at 8 p.m. with writer-director Elvin Ross. RSVP: Beth Gladden, 974-9008 or bgladden@utk.edu. www.kuntakintehislandmovie.com.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, MARCH 4-5Gene Yang, an award-winning graphic novelist,

will speak to educators at 7 p.m. March 4 at the UT Hodges Library Auditorium, focusing on how to select comic books for the classroom and how to use comics to promote literacy, engage students and help students think critically about media. At 6 p.m. March 5, Yang will lead a workshop on how to make a comic book. Both events are free and open to the public. Registration is required for the workshop; call 215-8700 or visit www.knoxlib.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 American Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook Pike,

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

Gregory Partain, professor of piano at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., will present a solo recital at 8 p.m. in the James R. Cox Auditorium in UT’s Alumni Memorial Building. Free.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7 Knoxville Writers’ Guild will meet at 7 p.m.

at Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. T Cooper will read from and discuss his latest book, “Real Man Adventures.” Cost: $2 donation requested at the door.

FRIDAY, MARCH 8The East Tennessee Technology Access

Center, 116 Childress St., will host a workshop

targeted to parents, teachers and speech language pathologists on strategies to promote communication for people with autism 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Speech pathologist John Halloran will lead the workshop focusing on LAMP (Language Acquisition through Motor Planning). Cost: $79. Register: www.aacandautism.com/trng or 866-998-1726. Info: www.ettac.org or 219-0130.

UT Science Forum weekly brown-bag lunch series will feature Paul Campbell Erwin, professor and head of the Department of Public Health, discussing “John Snow and Cholera: The Foundation for Modern Disease Investigation,” at noon in Room C-D of Thompson-Boling Arena.

A benefi t concert for Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center will take place at the Birdhouse, 800 N. Fourth Ave., with 6 p.m. light refreshments and 7-9 p.m. poetry (Susan O’Dell Underwood) and music (The Emancipators and Wise Old River). Donations suggested.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 8-9NCIS: Navigating the Choices of Singleness, a

singles conference, will be held 6:30-9:30 p.m. March 8 and 8:30-11:30 a.m. March 9 at Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike. Cost: $10 per person. Register: www.fellowshipknox.org. Info: kwhite@fellowshipknox.org.

Intimate Allies: Facing Together the Four Greatest Challenges in Marriage, a marriage conference, will be held 6:30-9:30 p.m. March 8 and 8:30-11:30 a.m. March 9 at Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike. Cost: $10 per person. Register: www.fellowshipknox.org. Info: kwhite@fellowshipknox.org.

Guitarist Steve Kaufman, three-time winner of the National Flatpicking Championships, will offer a ladies-only, all-level, eight-hour mandolin workshop at MainStay Suites (Knoxville Airport), 361 Fountain View Circle, Alcoa. Fee: $90 (nonrefundable deposit of $45 required to hold a space, with balance due first day of workshop). Registration: JoEllen, 982-3808 or jo@flatpik.com. Special hotel rates: Teagan, 379-7799.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 8-10The 44th Jubilee Festival will have 7 p.m.

concerts March 8-9 celebrating traditional mountain music and free Old Harp Singing and potluck starting at 10 a.m. March 10 at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Artists include Daron Douglas, Check Engine, Possum Riot and Leah Gardner. March 8-9 tickets: $12 at www.knoxtix.com, 523-7521 and at the door.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 8-17The WordPlayers will present “The God

Committee” at 7:30 p.m. March 8, 9, 13, 15 and 16 and at 2:30 p.m. March 10 and 17 at The WordPlayers’ Theatre @ MCM, 1540 Robinson Road. Tickets: $8-$12; www.wordplayers.org or at the door with cash or check. A discussion will follow the March 10 matinee. Info: 539-2490.

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

Double hip surgery enabled Sarah

Weeks to continue her lifelong

love of hiking.

Hike Mount LeConte?Sarah Weeks has been there,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

were bone on bone.”Cates, who performs about

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

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

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

Dr. Hal Cates

285,000 total hip replacements are performed each year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most difficult part of the recovery process was not being

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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