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BEARDEN
VOL. 6 NO. 35 A great community newspaper August 27, 2012
NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
IN THIS ISSUE
Coff ee Break A2Wendy Smith A3Government/Politics A4Marvin West/Lynn Hutton A5Malcolm Shell A6Faith A7Kids A8Miracle Makers A9Business A10Calendar A10Health/Lifestyles Sect B
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Town meetingCounty Commissioner
Jeff Ownby has set a town hall meetin for 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road, to discuss the proposed charter amendments to be placed on the upcoming November ballot.
Coff ee BreakJim Cornett is a fi xture in
West Knoxville restaurants. He was an opening partner with P.F. Chang’s, and he started Wok Hay and Dead End BBQ. His latest culinary adventure is Cazzy’s Corner Grill, located in Northshore Town Center.
He became interested in the food biz while working his way through UT.
Pull up a chair and meet Jim Cornett over a Coffee Break.
➤ See page A-2
Miracle MakerKids who complete the In-
ternational Baccalaureate (IB) program at West High School might be better equipped to compete in a global economy than any other graduating seniors in Knox County.
But what is IB?
➤ See Wendy Smith’s story on page A-9
Touring the Bijou’s former brothelBy Jake Mabe
Did you know the Bijou Theatre used to be a broth-el?
Well, I didn’t either. Knew it used to show X-rat-ed movies, back in the ’60s and early ’70s, when that part of downtown Knoxville did its best Times Square impression.
The Bijou opened as a theatre in 1909, but it was part of an existing hotel known as the Lamar House, also a tavern for a time, which opened in 1817. It was also a hospital during the Civil War.
Former president An-drew Jackson was rumored to have partied there. Civil War Col. William Sanders died on the fourth fl oor, perhaps in what was then known as the bridal suite. Some swear his ghost haunts the halls.
Visitors are not allowed onto the fourth fl oor, where the brothel was located, or onto the theatre’s second balcony, which was once re-served strictly for African-Americans. But following a successful screening of early East Tennessee home movies and Cas Walker clips on Aug. 18, Bradley Reeves, co-founder of the Tennes-see Archive of Moving Im-age and Sound, conducted a brief private tour.
Didn’t see any ghosts, but I did see graffi ti, including this bizarre ditty: “He’ll put a horse head in your bed! Sleep with your wife and co-mence (sic) to knifen! (sic).”
You can still see rem-nants of private showers and bathrooms, peeling wallpaper, rotting wood. Through the windows on the north side of the theatre is a spectacular view of Gay Street.
A group calling itself East Tennessee Ghost Seekers says several ghosts, many of them former actors, can
Graffi ti on the walls of the rarely-
seen fourth fl oor at the Bijou Theatre
reads: “He’ll put a horse head in
your bed! Sleep with your wife and
comence (sic) to knifen! (sic)”
A view of Gay Street from the Bijou’s
fourth fl oor, which is not open to visitors.
Bradley Reeves, co-founder of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and
Sound, leads a private tour of the Bijou Theatre’s fourth fl oor, which used to
house a brothel.
The view from the rarely-seen second
balcony at the Bijou, which is also closed
to visitors. This used to be the only spot in
which African-Americans were allowed. The
entrance was via a street-level staircase. Photos by Jake Mabe
By Wendy SmithStudents who have
reached upper grade levels without learning to read have a disability, says Alice Wershing, the educational technology program co-ordinator at the nonprofi t East Tennessee Technology Access Center (ETTAC). That’s why the center, which serves people with disabilities, has a Reading Lab that uses technology to improve literacy.
One example of such technology is Texthelp’s Read&Write Gold software. Ruth Boxley of Texthelp presented a workshop for teachers and parents from ETTAC’s 24-county service area last week. The software is appropriate for those who need help with reading, writing, research and those
learning English as a second language, she said.
Boxley demonstrated how the software can read any viewable document, from a word-processing fi le to a PDF, out loud. It can translate into 52 languages, and provide picture or writ-ten defi nitions.
When students use the software for writing, it of-fers spelling suggestions, even if words are grossly misspelled, like “knowl-edge” for “nolij.” It offers word prediction, which allows a student to select from a list of words with one click. It even identifi es homophones and provides defi nitions so students can choose the correct spelling.
“Think about students who need so much editing,” said Boxley. “This tool really
Ruth Boxley presents a
workshop on Read&Write
Gold software at the East
Tennessee Technology
Access Center. The nonprofi t
provides technology that
makes it easier for people
with disabilities to function. Photo by Wendy Smith
Literacy goes high-techhelps them to become more independent because they can do it.”
The Reading Lab, which is sponsored by Green Moun-tain Coffee, targets middle and high school students, as well as adults who did not fi nish high school. Wershing thinks there are many who could benefi t from the lab if they knew about it.
“Literacy, in this part of the country, is a huge issue.”
The center provides software and technical as-sistance to clients so they can have access to read-ing software at home and at school. It also provides some one-on-one tutoring. Clients are charged $35 per hour for services, but ET-TAC has a sliding scale and also accepts trade items, like school supplies, in lieu of payment. The center is located at 116 Childress St., which is off Chapman High-way, and operating hours
are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Ap-pointments must be sched-uled by calling 219-0130.
ETTAC provides educa-tion and equipment for se-niors that allow them to live independently, adapted toys for children, accessible mu-sic and art, job training, and educational services.
It also has an equipment re-use and loan program that takes donations of used equipment, like computers, wheelchai rs and commu-nication devices, and loans them to people with disabili-ties who need them but can’t afford them.
Upcoming events include a public speaking workshop 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13; Accessible Movie Night, featuring “Happy Feet,” at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21; and information on accessible voting at 10:30 a.m. and noon Tuesday, Sept. 25.
Info: www.discoveret.org/ettac.
be seen fl oating around the theatre or on the stage. Reeves says several people swear to have been tapped
on the shoulder by an un-seen apparition.
I do know the Bijou used to host vaudeville acts, in-
cluding the Marx Brothers. If Groucho returns for a re-union tour, I hope somebody sends up a smoke signal.
Even his corpse would be a riot.Visit Jake Mabe online at jakemabe.
blogspot.com.
XXL opener for UTAs big openers go, this is
size XXL for Derek Dooley, Tyler Bray, the new running attack and the new defense, Marvin West writes.
Opening games are not all the same. Who and where are factors. Value f luctuates.
➤ See Marvin’s story on page A-5
A-2 • AUGUST 27, 2012 • BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS
with Jim Cornett
Coffee Break
It can be your neighbor, club leader, bridge partner, boss, father, teacher – anyone you think would be interesting to Bearden Shopper-News readers. Email suggestions to Wendy Smith, [email protected]. Include contact info if you can.
Jim Cornett is a fixture in West Knoxville restau-rants. He was an opening partner with P.F. Chang’s, and he started Wok Hay and Dead End BBQ. His latest culinary adventure is Cazzy’s Corner Grill, located in Northshore Town Center. It offers “straightforward” American classics in a clean, fun environment, which happens to include a number of big screens.
He became interested in the food biz while working his way through UT. He met his wife, Kathleen, when they both worked at Copper Cellar and Cappucino’s. He still loves the environment.
“We have a lot of fun. It’s like hosting a giant party every night.”
In his youth, he tried to pay the bills by playing mu-sic. Cazzy’s recently hosted a Dirty Guv’nahs concert at Market Square, and Jim admits he was a little envi-ous of the musicians.
“At the end of the day, I’d come back to this. I get to go home every night.”
What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie?“How can you be so obtuse?” – “Shawshank Redemp-
tion”
What are you guilty of?Not going to Confession.
What is your favorite material possession?My guitars.
What are you reading currently?“Drinking with Strangers” by Butch Walker.
What was your most embarrassing moment?There are so many opportunities for embarrassing
moments in the restaurant business. I literally dropped spaghetti on someone’s head once. It was like something you’d see in a movie.
What are the top three things on your bucket list? Travel to Italy, travel to Hong Kong and travel to
Ireland.
What is one word others often use to describe you and why?
Nice guy. Don’t know why.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My receding hairline.
What is your passion? The food and entertainment business.
With whom, living or dead, would you most like to have a long lunch?
My father, who passed away in 1998.
Other than your parents, who has had the biggest infl u-ence on your life?
My wife of 21 years, Kathleen Cornett.
I still can’t quite get the hang of …Computers.
What is the best present you ever received in a box?A guitar.
What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?Wear clean underwear.
What is your social media of choice? I don’t choose to use any social media.
What is the worst job you have ever had?Washing dishes is a hard job, but you hear all, and see
all, in the dish room.
What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?I didn’t have one. I was outside playing.
What irritates you?When the forecasters say “snow” and everyone stays
home, and we get no snow and no business.
What’s one place in Bearden/downtown that everyone should visit?
Rouxbarb, at 130 S. Northshore Drive.
What is your greatest fear? Heights.
If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be? Move to Nashville and become a songwriter.
- Wendy Smith
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Knoxville Writers share memoirs
Bobbi Wolverton thought she would surely lose her new
job as a fl ight at-tendant after she l o o k e d out the w indow during a s t o r m y l a n d -ing and
yelled, “Fire!” As it turns out, she was only seeing a refl ection of the reverse thrusters on the wet pavement.
The story is from Wolverton’s book-in-progress “Behind the Smile,” about her ex-perience working for an airline during the 1960s. Sarah Young, Sherry Hunter and Pat Wells also shared personal stories at the monthly meeting of the Knoxville Writers’ Group, which meets 11:30 a.m. on fourth Wednesdays at Naples.
So long, summer of 2012
Labor Day weekend is fast approaching, and af-ter all those cookouts and fi reworks, summer will of-fi cially be over. But before we hang up the swimsuits and turn on college football, I’m going to review my eight favorite things about sum-mer 2012. (It would be 10 if my publisher gave me more room.)
8. Swim meets. As par-ents, we are required to com-plain about them, but these are basically multi-hour cookouts with old friends. Sometimes we even remem-ber to watch the kids swim.
7. Letting the kids go to bed pool-clean. Yeah, we know what’s really in that water. But if they smell like chlorine, how dirty can they be?
6. Drinking sweet tea. When it’s 97 degrees, it’s important to stay hy-drated. Plus, it takes a lot of carbs to recover from
putting on sunscreen.5. Staying up late. This
was especially fun during the Olympics, when we to-tally lost track of time.
4. Sleeping in. It was the only reason we could enjoy staying up late.
3. Lazy days at the lake. Sure, you can go to the lake in September, but you always have to get home to watch a football game.
2. Summer camping.Some folks prefer camp-ing in the fall, but we like making all those trips to the camp store for ice.
1. Tomatoes. Tomato pie, BLTs and summer sal-ads – enough said.
Wolverton
Tim and Vicki Chaney of Elm Hill Circle celebrate the Fourth of July with friends, family and
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Shoopman, Mary Alice Richesin, Michelle Richesin, Audra Chaney, Allison Chaney, Abbey
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Aaron Shoopman, Ed Peoples, Jake Smithers, Lois Ann Smithers, Jeff Smithers, David Vaughan
and Mark Slemp with son William Slemp on his shoulders. Photo submitted
The Bearden High School Band performed at the grand opening
of the Kroger Marketplace at the corner of Kingston Pike and
Cedar Bluff Road in June. Photo submitted
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By Anne HartHere’s a novel idea: have
the criminals themselves – rather than law-abiding citizens – pay for the online tools that help both law en-forcement and unsuspect-ing neighbors keep track of what crimes have been com-mitted in what areas.
That’s the case with the two online websites used mutually by the Knox Coun-ty Sheriff’s Offi ce, the Knox-ville Police Department, the UT Police Department and a few adjoining counties.
Capt. Robert Hubbs, crime analyst and techni-cian with the KCSO, told members of the Council of West Knox County Home-owners that convicted sex offenders are required to register and pay fees at the
Capt. Robert Hubbs
stance – and can even se-lect what time each day to receive the alert. The site is updated hourly, but alerts are issued only once a day.
Advantages of enter-ing the raidsonline website through the KCSO site in-clude access to news from the department, lists of in-
mates, recent arrests and animal control info.
The site also allows resi-dents to anonymously sub-mit tips to the department concerning actual or sus-pected criminal or illegal activity.
Info: 215-4329 or [email protected]
Tracking crimeSheriff’s Offi ce. It is those fees that pay for the web-sites that are made available to the public.
One of the sites is cri-mereports.com. The other is raidsonline.com, which can be accessed through the KCSO website – knoxsher-iff.org. – and is both com-prehensive and easy to use.
Not only will it show you a map pinpointing what crimes have occurred in the next county or the next neighborhood, it will show what happened next door.
The map uses symbols and color-coded fl ags to track ev-
erything from traffi c stops to homicides, shoplifting, vehicle thefts, breaking and entering, burglary, drug and alcohol violations and much more.
It can be programmed to show just one category of crime – theft of a motor vehicle, for example – or it can be programmed to map more than two dozen crimes.
On the website, citizens can sign up for daily, weekly or monthly alerts within a designated radius of a spe-cifi c address – home, school or place of business, for in-
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GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Gossip is hot about a
possible resignation in the
Courthouse. Already lining
up for the not-yet-vacant
post are R. Larry Smith and
former commissioner Craig
Leuthold.
■ Chris Caldwell, our county’s
new fi nance director, was
asked the impact of giving a
$1,000 bonus to each county
employee who takes training.
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said Chris. “I don’t have a
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Pay comparisons in city government
Taxpayers pay the top 25 employees in Knoxville city government more than $2.87 million a year plus extra longevity pay for 18 of the 25. The highest paid city employees are:
Janet Wright, head of computer services, at $161,864 plus $1,440 in longevity pay for a total of $163,304.
Bill Lyons, deputy may-or, is second at $153,781 while Eddie Mannis, the other deputy mayor, earns almost $7,000 less than Lyons at $146,944 a year. He made a lot more at Pres-tige Cleaners. Not sure why there is a difference.
Joining Mannis at the exact same pay are Law Di-rector Charles Swanson and Christi Branscom, director of public works. Swanson made more in pri-vate practice.
Police Chief David Rausch makes $133,250 a year while Mayor Rog-ero is the 7th highest paid employee at $130,000. Her salary cannot be adjusted during this term. The mayor ought to make more, given her responsibilities, especially when six other city employees make more than she does.
Next in line is Steve King, deputy engineering director, at $126,729 while his boss, Jim Hagerman, makes around $23,000 less at $103,520. King was bumped back from engi-neering director by Mayor Rogero to deputy but he lost only his title, not his pay.
Bob Whetsel makes $118,849 a year, while Fi-nance Director Jim York makes $117,875. Coliseum Director Bob Polk weighs in at $115,242, followed by Fire Chief Stan Sharp at $113,723. Sharp got a pay boost with Rogero but still is behind several persons who do not manage depart-ments as large as his. He is close to $20,000 a year behind the police chief.
Rogero spokeswoman Angela Starke makes $111,476. Far behind is her chief assistant, Jesse May-shark, who makes $65,871. This may be more than Mayshark made at Metro-pulse; however, this dif-ference of $45,605 is huge given what each does.
Brent Johnson in engineering is next at $104,646. Law depart-ment attorney Ron Mills earns $104,089 and Nancy Tompkins in computer services gets $101,133 along with Herman Pauley in the same offi ce.
Civil Service Director Vivian Hatfi eld is at $97,188 and Dawn Foster, who works for Whetsel, is at $92,910.
Service Director David Brace is at $91,737, closely followed by Parks and Rec Director Joe Walsh at $91,682. Both are royally underpaid for what they do.
Deputy Coliseum Di-rector is Dale Dunn at $91,616 and purchasing agent Boyce Evans is at the same amount. At the bottom of the top 25 is Tom Clabo in engineering at $91,242.
■ Anita Cash’s last full week after 32 years at the city is here. She started at 24 working on parking tick-ets. She was president off and on of the City Employ-ees League for 13 years. She worked under six mayors and she tells me that Mayor Rogero and this writer were her favorites, although I certainly never knew it at the time, given the com-ments she threw my way if she felt employee benefi ts were even remotely at risk.
Cash never hesitated to voice her views and says she was never threatened with retaliation. She is a widow now, having lost her husband to cancer, and is the proud mother of Tyler, 23, who is stationed at Fort Hood in Texas after a re-cent tour in Afghanistan.
Anita will be missed and impossible to replace. She is one of a kind. Her fare-well reception is 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in the Atrium of the City County Building on the fi fth fl oor. All are invited.
Last year, Tennessee tax-payers sent $7 million to Union County for the Ten-nessee Virtual Academy. The education for just over 1,000 students in grades K-8 may be virtual, but those dollars are real. And this year the enrollment could double.
The Virtual Academy is owned by K12 Inc., a com-pany founded by former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett and for-mer junk-bond king Mi-chael Milken.
Who thinks this is a good idea?
State Rep. Harry Brooks does. He was the law’s prime sponsor and says he and his colleagues on the House Education Committee had been working to develop a virtual education option for local school districts for some time.
He said Tennessee schools did not have much to offer children with such conditions as autism or se-
Real money for
virtual school
vere allergies, or those who were victims of bullying, or students whose parents want enriched, individual-ized curriculum options.
Brooks said no one in Nashville asked Union County to spearhead the ef-fort. “What Union County did that was unique is that they were able to set up a process to contract to run this K-8 school. No one gave them that responsibility. … They applied for a school number and the Depart-ment of Education granted it.”
Anyone else on board?Not professional educa-
tors. In a March 2012 ar-ticle in “Education Week,” two University of Wisconsin School of Education profes-sors were scathingly critical of the Tennessee law which
they said was lifted nearly verbatim from the Virtual Public Schools Act written by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). A K12 Inc. lobbyist helped write the model bill, the ar-ticle reported.
Not state Rep. Mike Stewart, who told Nashville News Channel 5 the chief ex-ecutive offi cer of K12 made $2.4 million in 2010. “Every new student they sign up is essentially pure profi t for them with a few ancillary costs,” Stewart said.
Not even state Rep. Bill Dunn, who home-schooled his kids and voted for the law. Dunn said K12 may be overcompensated since the funding mechanism was de-signed for brick and mortar schools that are inherently more expensive to operate than cyber schools. Dunn said he and Stewart have similar concerns and may join forces next year to in-troduce legislation to rem-edy the funding formula.
Perhaps not Rep. Ryan Haynes, who also voted for the law. Haynes wanted to give students a way to access course work unavailable to them in their local schools. “That is the impression that a majority of lawmakers were under, and that was
how that bill was sold to the General Assembly,” he said.
Certainly not Union County Trustee Gina Buck-ner, who had to explain why the county’s fund balance dropped from $11.4 million at the end of June to $5.9 million at the end of July.
Buckner said she paid an invoice from K12.
“The commissioners wanted to know what hap-pened,” Buckner said later. “They knew about the virtu-al academy but I don’t think they realized how much money was coming through, and then you realize that it’s going to a for-profi t in Vir-ginia and that some of them are felons and bank frauds, I’m jumping up and down.”
Brooks ascribed much of the criticism of his bill to “an organization out there that is really bent to try and do away with ALEC,” and said doing business with out-of-state corporations is nothing new.
“Everybody we purchase from is out of state – includ-ing the people we buy test-ing and curriculum materi-als from,” he said, adding that if the Tennessee Virtual Academy doesn’t produce good results, the state could take it over from Union County in two years.
Politics of Carter Middle’s gym
Hubert Smith is Mayor Tim
Burchett’s latest appointee to
the board of directors of the
Public Building Authority. The
well-known radio guy and
political gadfl y will make for
livelier meetings. Photo by S. Clark
A new multi-million dol-lar gymnasium for Carter Middle School has been de-layed and may be heading for the graveyard of possibly good ideas.
At Monday’s called meet-ing of the school board, In-dya Kincannon moved to defer the project, for which bids came in over budget. With $2.5 million set aside, the low bid by Merit Con-struction was $3.1 million. The project was whittled to $2.75 million.
Kincannon pointedly ques-tioned Dr. Jim McIntyre:
“Is there a health or safe-ty issue that requires this project?”
Answer: “No, ma’am.”“Does this gymnasium
advance our academic goals?Answer: “No, ma’am.”Kincannon moved to
defer until October, past the deadline for Merit Con-struction to hold its price.
Cindy Buttry, Mike Mc-Millan and Kim Sepesi rallied to Carter’s aid, but board sentiment was for de-ferral. Finally, Kincannon agreed to defer until the board’s September meeting, which means the commis-sion can’t consider the issue today (Aug. 27).
Is this political? You bet.
Each school board dis-trict has capital needs. It’s hard to spend $2.75 million for a new gym for Carter when half the kids at Shan-nondale are in portable classrooms.
You know the list. It was covered in the school board’s budget which Coun-ty Commission did not fully fund. One board member voted no: McMillan. One commissioner led the fi ght against it: Dave Wright.
This writer supported a new elementary school for Carter. So did a majority of the school board, includ-ing Kincannon. But a new Carter gym was part of the previous plan to renovate the current gym for use by the elementary school.
Mayor Burchett “found” the money to build a new elementary school, taking the need for a new middle school gym off the table.
Let’s move on.For a district whose rep-
resentatives never support taxes to pay for projects, the 8th District is doing well.
The Carter Middle School gym should be lined up with all other school needs as the board sorts out its next cap-ital budget.
■ The big scoresFootball season is under-
way, and we will have hun-dreds of fans each Friday hunkered down on concrete bleachers to cheer on the home team.
Where does your school rank on the scores that mat-ter?
ACT scores for 2012 were released last week. Here’s the breakdown for Knox County:
Farragut – 24.0Bearden – 22.9Hardin Valley – 22.7USA Avg. – 21.1West – 21.0Knox County Avg. – 20.6Central – 20.5Halls – 20.4Car ter – 20.0Tennessee Avg. – 19.7Karns – 19.7Powell – 19.4Gibbs – 19.1South-Doyle – 18.4Fulton – 16.9Austin-East – 15.2Kelley Volunteer Academy – 14.5
BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS • AUGUST 27, 2012 • A-5
CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton
TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
(II Corinthians 5:1 NRSV)
This old house once knew its children,This old house once knew its wife.This old house was home and comfortAs they fought the storms of life.
(“This Old House,” Stuart Hamblen)
This old
house
As I write, I am visiting dear friends in a place
where I lived a lifetime ago. As usual, it took us several rounds of negotiating to fi nd a mutually convenient time for my visit: we are – all of us – busy people.
I should have learned ages ago to expect the un-expected with this crew. For example, one day a few months after I met Anne, and when I was expecting Eden, she invited me to her home for lunch with some of her friends. She sug-gested that if I could fi nd a babysitter for Jordan (who was not quite 3) that would be best. “But,” she advised, “don’t not come if you can’t fi nd a sitter. Just bring her with you.”
As big openers go, this is size XXL for Derek Dooley, Tyler
Bray, the new running attack and the new defense.
Opening games are not all the same. Who and where are factors. Value fl uctuates.
Robert R. Neyland had a 19-2 record in openers. Only four were on the road. He lost one at Georgia Tech. Mississippi State was a sur-prise winner on Shields-Watkins Field.
Some fallen foes were named Carson-Newman, Maryville, Cen-tre, Sewanee, Mercer and Chatta-nooga. The General made his own schedule. He was not a gambling man.
Doug Dickey might have had a
national championship in 1967 but for the opener at UCLA. On fourth and two, quarterback Gary Be-ban unraveled a weaving, 20-yard touchdown run that took all the fun out of visiting Disneyland.
Bill Battle endured a home-opening loss to Duke in 1976 be-cause Tennessee could not kick, run or pass for extra points. The score was 21-18. Not incidentally, that was Battle’s fi nal season as coach.
Tennessee lost six openers in John Majors’ fi rst seven years. Most of the damage was infl icted by name opponents. Majors’ re-cord improved when Washington State, New Mexico, Colorado State and Southwestern Louisiana got on the schedule.
Phillip Fulmer went 14-3 in opening games. His teams lost twice at UCLA and once at Cal. The 1994 defeat at Pasadena included heart-break. Senior QB Jerry Colquitt, after waiting forever behind Heath Shuler, suffered a devastating knee injury on the seventh play.
The opening triumph that mattered most was 1998. Tenth-ranked Tennessee went to Syra-cuse not knowing what to expect. Peyton Manning and Leonard Little were in the NFL. Al Wilson remained on duty. Tee Martin was making his fi rst start. Syracuse had Donovan McNabb.
Noon kickoff, sizzling heat wave, strange that a Dutch-oven dome named Carrier had no air conditioning.
Martin completed nine of 26 for 143 yards and two touchdowns to Peerless Price. Tee ran for 81 and a touchdown. Jamal Lewis rushed for 141 yards. McNabb had a huge day, 22 of 28. Syracuse gained 445.
The Vols led 14-10 at halftime and 24-13 going into the fourth quarter. What remained turned into a roller-coaster. Syracuse scored, got the ball back and scored
again. Tee answered, leading an 80 yard drive, highlighted by his 55-yard scramble on third and 10.
The Big Orange was up by four. The home orange got a fi eld goal. Martin fumbled. Syra-cuse used up precious time, bogged down at the UT 2, kicked in a chip shot and led by two.
The clock was clos-ing in on Ten-nessee when a f o u r t h - d o w n pass fell incom-plete. Game over. For at least a second, Vol fans realized Martin was no Manning.
Before reality soaked in too deeply, out fl ew a yellow fl ag, pass interference against the home boys. Amazing. Video said it was a correct call, barely, but things like that just don’t happen on the road.
Fifteen yards, new set of downs! The Vols made the necessary plays to get close enough for Jeff Hall’s
Some openers are bigger than others
Hank Lauricella (27) and General Robert Ney-
land watch Tennessee from the sidelines after
Lauricella set up a score with an electrifying 75-
yard run in the 1951 Cotton Bowl. Neyland was
19-2 in season openers. Photo from Smokey’s Trail.com
winning fi eld goal. This was a great opening vic-
tory, the fi rst date with 1998 desti-ny, the start to the national cham-pionship. The very big opener against North Carolina State may not be so signifi cant.(Marvin West invites reader reaction. His ad-
dress is [email protected])
We had a lovely lunch at Anne’s dining room table, with some of her friends from the neighborhood and the church. We were linger-ing around the table after dessert, when Anne sug-gested, “Well, why don’t we move into the living room and have a baby shower?”
No wonder she told me “Don’t not come.” I was the guest of honor!
So here we are these 20-some years later, 700 miles apart, and still best friends. And it turns out that the week I was able to come (and the week Anne was go-ing to be reasonably free to visit) is the week Anne and
John are renovating a rent-al house they just bought.
Now, I understand that I owe them big-time. When I moved back to Tennes-see from New Jersey, Anne helped me pack my kitchen, and then they loaded up their car with their four kids and John’s tools and drove to Tennessee to help us move into the old farm-house we had bought. John and my husband renovated the long-unused little offi ce on the property; Anne un-packed the very dishes she had packed in New Jersey. Dan, their eldest, cleaned out the old chicken coop. What a lovely job! (In one of
life’s great circles, Dan and his wife will be the ones who live in the house we are working on this week.)
The younger kids played all over the 42 acres: roam-ing amidst the cows and organizing a musical show in the barn loft, much to the disgust of the red fox, who threw me a “Who-are-these-varmints?” look as he abandoned his den under the barn.
So, here we are, together again, pulling out old car-peting, painting cabinets, refurbishing, making new. It set me thinking of the work I need to do at my own house: sorting, tossing,
cleaning; and of the simi-lar work that I should do inside my head and heart and soul.
My spiritual house could use a good sweeping out as well. There are some things I need to get rid of: grudges, regrets, envy, fear. There are a few things I probably should reconsider and re-examine: priorities, dreams, goals.
And I need to remember three lines of wonderful and anonymous advice I used to keep posted in my offi ce:
Give it up;Let it go;Set it free.
REUNIONS ■ The annual Black/Stanley
family reunion, Sunday, Sept.
2, at the original Black family
homesite, 8017 Stanley Road,
Powell. Lunch at 1 p.m. Bring
a covered dish to share and
old pictures.
■ Carter High Class of 1957,
5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at
the Chop House at Exit 407
off I-40. Info: Peggy Wilson,
933-2608, or Sue Walker,
933-3077.
■ Fulton High Class of 1962,
Saturday, Sept. 8, at Beaver
Brook Country Club. Cost
is $40. Info/reservations:
Gale Seymour Eastridge,
687-8446, or Allen Smith,
688-6927.
■ Gibbs High Class of 1977,
Oct. 27. Info: gibbsclas-
[email protected] or 688-
4727 or 922-3060.
■ Gibbs High Class of 1992,
Saturday Sept. 22 at The
Crown and Goose. Cost is
$32.50. RSVP to Stephen
Kennedy, 708-372-0927 or
■ Halls High Class of 1992,
Saturday, Sept. 1, Beaver
Brook. Info: Jennifer Corum,
654-1317 or jennifercorum@
yahoo.com.
■ Rutherford Reunion, 10 a.m.
Saturday, Sept. 8, Big Ridge
State Park tea room. Lunch at
noon. Info: 992-5556.
■ Seal Chapel School, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 2, at Seal Cha-
pel Church. Info: Margaret
Seals Bull, 423-626-3075.
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Today, in large metropolitan areas, you only have to walk about a block to hear several languages being spoken. With the significant increase in the merging of cultures during the past several decades, religious beliefs have f lourished accord-ingly. And in a country known for its tolerance of different re-ligious beliefs, immigrants of different cultures feel secure in transporting their religion with them.
In the early settlement of our area, most migrants who crossed over the mountains were Ulster Scots. Like today’s immigrants, they brought their religion with them, which was mostly Presby-terian. Over several decades other Protestant religions began to take hold. So today, religious beliefs in our area are almost as diverse as
in large metropolitan areas.But in Concord Village 60
years ago, there were only three Christian Protestant denomina-tions: Presbyterian, Method-ist and Baptist. And in keeping with the tradition of diversity and tolerance, they all got along very well. To my knowledge, there was no one of the Catholic or Middle Eastern faith living in the village. There was an A.M.E. Zion church, whose membership was predominately African-American, and like the other three churches, they interacted with other denominations in the community from time to time.
As a young child, I remember going with my friend on spe-cific nights during the summer and sitting on the outside steps to listen to music there. It was truly inspirational.
In fact, denominational dif-ferences were never given much consideration. We only knew that a neighbor went to the white frame church on the corner or the red brick church a block away, or the cream-col-ored brick church on the cor-ner of Front Street and Olive Road. And it was not unusual for someone to visit all three churches during a month, and they were never considered by the host church as prospective members. Indeed, such a solici-tation would have been consid-ered rude.
My family belonged to Con-cord Methodist Church which was founded in the mid-19th century by John Stone. For a number of years services were held in his home.
When the Masonic building was built in 1870, the Method-ists used that facility until 1877 when they joined the Presby-terians in their new church at the corner of Second and Clay streets. The two congregations worshiped together and attend-ed Sunday school together until 1920 when the Methodists built their new church at the corner of Second Street and Olive Road.
Meeting together was advan-tageous to both denominations
since each depended on circuit riders who only preached two Sundays each month. But by combining the two, and making some slight changes in sched-uled Sundays, they could enjoy a sermon every week. The Bap-tist denomination was started by marble quarry workers from upper East Tennessee who built their first church on Olive Road in the late 19th century.
One tradition was the fifth Sunday night singing. On each month that had five Sundays, the singings were rotated be-tween churches. And as I recall, the Baptists were collectively the best singers. However, each church had individuals who were talented. In our church, Mrs. Evelyn Boring Bondurant, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was an exceptional soprano.
The Baptist and Method-ist churches were only located about 50 feet apart and neither had a central cooling system. So, during the summer months they left the windows open, and, if you listened carefully, you could get the benefit of two separate sermons. However, one prob-lem that was never solved was the coordination of praying and singing. When one was praying,
the other would be singing and vice-versa.
Another distraction was speed boats running up and down the lake pulling skiers. And I can remember our min-ister exclaiming that, “They are going to hell.” I always won-dered about that exclamation because I didn’t know whether he was condemning them be-cause they were not in church or because they were interfering with his sermon.
Today, the only original church remaining in the vil-lage is Concord Presbyterian. Both the Baptist and Methodist churches moved to their current locations in Farragut in the ear-ly 1960s and have experienced tremendous growth.
But one element that has been lost is the feeling of community which has been replaced with competition for new members. And, of course, all three church-es have a wonderful music min-istry, but they no longer carry out the traditions of fifth Sun-day night singings, joint picnics and fish fries.
Perhaps some of these tradi-tions can be revived in this grow-ing community, which would go a long way toward promoting the small village atmosphere.
Religious life in Concord Village
Jimmy Hyams predicts eight
wins for the UT Vols this football
season. Photo by Sherri Gardner Howell
Hyams predicts good ones for
UT VolsBy Sherri Gardner Howell
Numbers both on and off the scoreboard will tell the tale for the Univer-sity of Tennessee Volun-teers this football season: 60,000 season tickets sold for 2012 are not enough; eight wins will be enough; 37 student tickets left out of 4,600 for the opener
in Atlanta is more than enough.
Jimmy Hyams, co-host of the top-rated radio show “SportsTalk,” brought an update and his thoughts on everything “orange” to the Aug. 22 meeting of the Rotary Club of Farragut. Hyams talked about foot-ball and basketball, Bruce Pearl’s future, Cuonzo Martin and Holly Warlick and even Minnesota Vi-kings recruit Harrison Smith. Here are some of his thoughts:
Numbers game Derek Dooley needs to win no less than eight games this season to not be in danger of losing his job as head coach. Hyams predicts an 8 wins, 4 loss-es season, with losses to Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and one more.
Sam Pittman, new Vols offensive line coach, was a good hire. “He relates to the players, can motivate and is a good teacher.
“UT sold 60,000 season tickets for 2012 football. That isn’t enough and is the fewest they have sold since the stadium expan-sion. The pressure is on to increase fan support.”
Tennessee still travels well. “Out of 4,600 tickets set back for students for the opening game in Geor-gia against North Carolina State, all but 37 tickets have been sold. There will be a lot of orange at the Chick-fil-A opener.
“I don’t believe Bruce Pearl will coach again at UT because I believe we have a winner in Cuonzo Martin.” Hyams says he believes Pearl will find a good fit with ESPN as a commentator this year and “may come to see him-self as the man to step in for Dick Vitale.”
■ Holly Warlick not only has big shoes to fill,
but “they weren’t going to be that good this year anyway. It is hard to re-place a legend and will be
a tough year and challenge for Holly.”
■ Recruiting for men’sand women’s basketball is big this year. The women “need another star like a Chamique Holdsclaw and Tamika Catchings. UT men have six of the top 60 prospects in the nation right here in Tennessee this year. Cuonzo Martin needs to get two of them.”
■ Harrison Smith, for-mer Catholic High School and Notre Dame gridiron star will do well with the Minnesota Vikings. “What a great guy. I think he will do really, really well, and the Vikings think he is go-ing to be really good.”
BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS • AUGUST 27, 2012 • A-7
WORSHIP NOTES
Community Services
■ Concord UMC’s Caregiver
Support Group, affiliated
with Alzheimer’s Tennessee
Inc., meets 10-11:30 a.m.
each first Tuesday in Room
226 at the church, 11020
Roane Drive. Anyone in the
community who gives care
to an elderly individual is
invited. Refreshments will
be served. Info: 675-2835.
■ Catholic Charities now
offers counseling for those
with emotional issues who
may not be physically able
to come to the office for
therapy. Licensed profes-
sionals are available over
the phone, and the first
session is free. Subsequent
sessions are provided on an
income-based sliding scale.
All information is completely
confidential. Call 1-877-790-
6369. Nonemergency calls
only. Info: www.ccetn.org.
■ Powell Presbyterian Church, 2910 W. Emory Road,
will host a Second Harvest
Mobile Food Pantry on Sat-
urday, Sept. 1. The parking
lot will open at 6 a.m., and
food will be distributed at
7:30. No prerequirements to
receive food. Volunteers are
welcome from 7-10 a.m. Info:
938-8311.
■ Sequoyah Hills Presbyte-rian Church, 3700 Keowee
Ave., will host GriefShare, a
weekly grief support group
for people grieving the
death of a loved one, 6-7:30
p.m. Monday, Sept. 10 for
eight weeks. Info: 522-9804
or www.sequoyahchurch.
Food banks ■ Cross Roads Presbyterian
hosts the Halls Welfare Minis-
try food pantry 6-8 p.m. each
second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m.
each fourth Saturday.
■ Dante Church of God will be
distributing Boxes of Bless-
ings (food) 9-11 a.m. or until
boxes are gone Saturday,
Sept. 8. Anyone present may
receive a box of food, one per
household. Info: 689-4829.
■ Knoxville Free Food Market,
4625 Mill Branch Lane, distrib-
utes free food 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. each third Saturday. Info:
566-1265.
■ New Hope Baptist Church Food Pantry distributes food
boxes 5-6:30 p.m. each third
Thursday. Info: 688-5330.
Music services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC is
seeking choir members.
Rehearsals are 6:30-7:30
p.m. Wednesday. Church
membership is not required
but some music-reading
knowledge is helpful.
■ New Beverly Baptist will
host The Freemans 6 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 9. Love off ering
will be taken. Info: 546-001 or
www.NewBeverly.org.
Revivals ■ Inskip UMC will hold camp
meeting services 7 p.m.
Friday thought Sunday,
Sept. 7-9, with an additional
service 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
The Rev. Bishop Richard
Looney, retired, evangelist
and leader in the South-
eastern Jurisdiction of The
United Methodist Church,
will preach during each of
the services.
Pasta cook-off raises $50k for Family Promise
By Theresa EdwardsFamily Promise of
Knoxville reached its goal of $50,000 at the 2012 pasta cook-off at Sacred Heart Cathedral.
“We’re excited, very happy,” exclaimed event chair Pam Douglas. “It’s worth the work. This pro-vides the operating funds for Family Promise of Knoxville.”
“It’s been great. Every-body is happy,” said Joyce Shoudy, executive director of Family Promise. “We’ve been recruiting sponsors for several months.” They had $43,000 raised before the event even began.
Family Promise is a non-profit organization which helps homeless and low-income families achieve sustainable independence. It provides a day place where people can use a computer, telephone, laun-dry facilities, and storage. It provides an address so clients can apply for vari-ous assistance programs such as food stamps.
Overnight stays are made available at 16 area churches. A shuttle trans-ports children to school and adults to either work or the day house.
Services provided have helped four families or 14 family members at a time. The group needs a new day center to enable a sec-ond rotation to serve more families. Their service is unlike various shelters in that the families stay to-gether.
The pasta cook-off in-volved many volunteers’ ef-forts. It was a fantastic event bringing hundreds to enjoy the great food, live band en-tertainment by Y’uns, infl at-able slides for children, gift
shop, silent auction and live cake auction.
The gift shop con-tained many items made by guests, including cards handmade with children’s artwork. Jewelry was made and donated by De-nessee McBayne, a gradu-ate of the Family Promise program who now has in-dependent housing and a job. She is the group’s new-est board member.
The pasta cook-off win-ner chosen by the celeb-rity judges was Team 3 – Church of the Ascension Episcopal Church, Church Street United Methodist Church and First Christian Church. Lisa Holts cooked the winning Beale Street BBQ Spaghetti from Ann O’Connor’s recipe.
The crowd pleaser award again went to Team 7 – First Farragut United Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church of Lenoir City and St. Eliza-beth Episcopal Church – with Vegetarian Lasagna made with Spinach.
Jennifer Alexander of B97.5 and Erin Donovan, WBIR’s “Darin
Erin,” show the “Coach purse” cake made by Sugar Buzz as it is
auctioned off . Mary Beth New purchased the cake decorated
with gold accents to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary
with husband Bill New.
County Commissioner Mike
Hammond judges the 15 en-
tries at the 2012 pasta cook-
off along with other celebri-
ties. Hammond was also the
dessert auctioneer. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
Leah DiGiandomenico and Holly Marsh get ready to taste
pastas. They work at Alcoa Aluminum which donated $1,500
to Family Promise.
Lisa Holts, Jennifer Bohlken and Ciony Locklar serve guests the
pasta they cooked up. Lisa Holts’ Team 3 won the contest with
their Beale Street BBQ Spaghetti.
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New teachers get settled at Sequoyah
Sequoyah Elementary School 5th grade teacher Edward Pierce is shown some love by
students Peyton Dooley, Elizabeth Bernard, Jackson Breazeale, Walker Smith, John Cupp,
Sandra Perez and Andrew Mixon. When the students heard Pierce was getting his picture
taken, they all ran to his side. Photos by S. Barrett
Matthew Ayres takes a moment from teaching his 4th grade class at Sequoyah Elementary
School to hear what student Henry Taylor has to say. Ayres found a way to keep things interest-
ing by incorporating balloons into the day’s lesson.
Rebecca Cobble (center) takes a break from teaching 1st grade
at Sequoyah Elementary School to enjoy lunch with fellow
teachers Kay Dockery and Missy Irwin.
Sequoyah Elementary School 2nd grade students Ben Motley,
Sam Brott and Camille Clark head to lunch with teacher Darla
Robbins who is teaching her fi rst year at the school.
SPORTS NOTES ■ Flag football at the West
Side Y for girls and boys ages
6-13. Register by Aug. 31.
Cost is $60 per person for Y
members; $80 per person for
program members. Mention
reading this in the Shopper
and receive a $10 discount
for each child you sign up.
To register: Samuel McCahill,
690-9622, or email wssports@
ymcaknoxville.org. Info: www.
ymcaknoxville.org.
■ Baseball tournament at
Halls Community Park, Sat-
urday and Sunday, Sept. 8-9.
Open to all T-ball, 6u coach
pitch and 8u-14u. Info: 992-
5504 or [email protected].
■ The Dr. Tom Kim Charity Golf Tournament will be
held Wednesday, Sept. 26,
at Egwani Farms Golf Course
in Rockford. All proceeds
will benefi t the Free Medical
PTA forumThe Knox County Council PTA will hold its annual
education forum “The 21st Century Classroom” 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Andrew Johnson building, 912 S. Gay St. Featured speakers will be Dr. Mark Edwards of Mooresville, N.C. and Ken Green from the Tennessee Department of Education. They will discuss Common Core standards and what it means for your child. Everyone is invited. RSVP by Monday, Aug. 27, by emailing [email protected].
By Theresa EdwardsMaking blankets was
not only a craft service project for the American Heritage Girls, it was also a lesson in the joy of giving as they donated 20 to the Fresenius Dialysis Center.
“The patients will be thrilled with these gifts,”
American Heritage Girls Rebekah Witt and Laken Scott deliver handmade blankets to Barbara
Standridge at the Fresenius Dialysis Center. Photo by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
American Heritage Girls donate homemade blankets
Sequoyah Elementary School teacher Lindsey Sellmer (cen-
ter) has already made lots of fans among the 5th graders, in-
cluding Kellar Smith and Elie Creswell.
SCHOOL NOTESWest Hills Elementary
■ Box Tops for Education from
General Mills’ products and
Labels for Education from
Campbell’s products are
being collected to purchase
supplies for the school. La-
bels can be dropped off in the
silver collection box at the
front of the school or can be
mailed to: West Hills Elemen-
tary School, 409 Vanosdale
Drive, Knoxville, TN 37909.
Info: email Jill Schmudde at
Sequoyah Elementary
■ PTA will meet the second
Wednesday of each month,
10:45-11:45 a.m. in the library.
All parents are invited.
Bearden Elementary
■ First full day of kindergarten
will be 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 28. Back to school parents’ meeting for kindergarten will be held 6
p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30. New parent coff ee will be held
7:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in
the library. Coupon book sale
starts Sept. 6. Open house is
6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
13. PTA will meet the fi rst
Thursday of each month in the
library.
Bearden High School graduate and Tennessee
Tech freshman Rob Jones has been awarded a scholar-ship by the Bab-cock and Wilcox Company
(B&W). The four-year scholarship is worth $1,500 annually and is one of 12 awarded to children of B&W
Bearden grad gets scholarship
Rob Jones
employees.Jones is the son of
Kelley and Steve Jones. He is a National Merit Scholar, an Eagle Scout and a trombone player for the Golden Eagles marching band. He plans to major in me-chanical engineering.
B&W scholarships are awarded based on aca-demic achievement and potential, financial need and the relevance of the student’s course of study to the company’s business.
said clinical social worker Barbara Standridge. “It’s an uncomfortable proce-dure, so anything we can do to make it more pleasant for them is appreciated.”
“It’s fun (being an Amer-ican Heritage Girl) and a really good opportunity to have,” said Laken Scott. Her aunt had kidney dialy-sis, so she was glad to help others going through it.
Other girls decorated cakes for the East Tennes-see Children’s Home.
“American Heritage Girls
emphasizes faith, service and fun,” said troop coor-dinator Amy Hamby-Scott. Troop TN0413 meets at Knoxville Christian School the fi rst and third Tuesday evenings of each month.
“We are excited about our new Cub Scout pack that just chartered at KCS. AHG and the Cub Scouts meet on the same night, so you can have something for your sons and daughters on the same night,” said Hamby-Scott.
Info: www.ahgonline.org or www.ahgtn0413.org.
Clinic of America. Deadline
to register is Aug. 29. Info:
www/charitygolftourna-
ment.com or 777-1490.
■ Knox Youth Sports fall baseball registration for
ages 3-12, featuring T-ball,
coach-pitch, farm, 9-10 and
11-12 leagues. Season begins
early September. Info on
each league, fees and to
register: www.KnoxYouthS-
ports.com.
■ Knox Youth Sports fl ag football registration for
boys and girls ages 4-14. Fee
for all age groups: $175. Sea-
son begins early September.
Info: Joe Riff ey, 300-8526. To
register: www.KnoxYouth
Sports.com.
■ Knox Youth Sports fall la-crosse registration for boys
age 9-14 (no high school
students). The registration
fee: $175. Info: 584-6403. To
register: www.KnoxYouth
Sports.com.
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Kids who complete the In-ternational Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme
at West High School might be better equipped to compete in a global economy than any other graduating seniors in Knox County. But what is IB?
Students enrolled in the full IB diploma program at West take six core classes both semes-ters for two years. Additionally, they write a 4,000-word essay, devote three hours each week to creativity, art and service, and take a two-year course called Theory of Knowledge. Candi-dates take IB exams in all six courses, and must receive a cu-mulative score of 24 points to receive an IB diploma.
It’s a schedule that’s simi-lar in rigor to taking seven AP classes at a time, says Sarah Bast, coordinator of the West IB program. But what makes IB unique in Knox County isn’t the rigor. It’s the emphasis on criti-cal thinking.
Graham Treasure is a mem-ber of West’s fi rst graduating IB class. IB courses are different because students spend more time interpreting information than regurgitating it for multiple-choice tests, he says. Courses are writing-intensive, and tests are in essay form. Oral presentations and class discussions emphasize a world perspective.
“You have to be able to think on your feet, and you have to be account-able for what you say.”
Universities recognize the value of such an education. Depending on the institution, students who gradu-ate with a full IB diploma may receive enough credit to start college as soph-omores, Bast says. They will also be qualifi ed to study overseas, since the diploma is accepted internationally.
“Schools in the United Kingdom and Scotland are trying to attract stu-dents from the United States. Because students can earn this diploma, it does open doors for them,” says Bast.
IB is a non-profi t educational foun-dation that pro-vides quality international education in a worldwide community of schools. According to the IB website, 12 schools in Tennessee offer the IB diploma program, and only three are in East Tennessee.
West High offered the IB program for the fi rst time last year. Since it’s a two-year program, it was only avail-able to juniors. There are 45 seniors
The West High School IB program:
Sarah Bast is the coordinator of the International Baccalaureate Programme at West High School. She
is also the dedicated guidance counselor for students who are enrolled in IB classes. Photo by Wendy Smith
International Baccalaureate around the world ■ IB, founded in 1968, off ers four programs for ages 3 to 19, including the diploma program.
■ Over a million students participate in IB programs in 3,464 schools in 143 countries.
■ Diploma programs are off ered in 781 schools in the U.S.
■ Twelve schools in Tennessee off er diploma programs.
■ East Tennessee Schools with diploma programs are Science Hill High School in
Johnson City, Signal Mountain Middle/High School in Signal Mountain, and West High
School in Knoxville.
Information from www.ibo.org
Group 1: Language
Extended Essay
Theory of Knowledge (TOK)
Creativity, Action, Service (CAS)
Group 2: Second
Language
Group 3: Individuals and
Societies
Group 6: The Arts
Group 4: Experimental
Sciences
Group 5: Mathematics
enrolled this year, and slightly more juniors. Because of the rigor of the program, Bast expects some attrition.
It’s not just rigorous for the stu-dents. Each staff member who teaches an IB class has received special train-ing, and Bast has devoted herself to understanding the curriculum and the complex assessment process. She is also the dedicated guidance coun-
selor for students enrolled in the program.
Former ad-m i n i s t r a t o r Donna Wright, who recent-ly accepted a
job with Williamson County Schools, ex-
amined the IB program when she was principal at West in the 1990s. Bast was part of a team of teachers who researched the program further and proposed it to the school board in 2007, but funding was unavailable at the time. The school began the two-year application process in 2009 when
it received federal stimulus funds as a Title I school.
West became a magnet school when it began offering the IB pro-gram. Like the L&N STEM Acad-emy, the school received more re-quests for transfers than it could
accommodate this year, says Bast.
Students who apply for the diploma program are usually, but not always, enrolled in hon-ors classes during freshman and sophomore years. The applica-tion for the program, which is completed the spring of sopho-more year, includes an essay, grades, ACT PLAN test scores and an interview.
The typical applicant is “that kid who is driven to take as many of the top classes as they can,” says Bast.
Treasure is one of those. As soon as he heard about the pro-gram, he knew he would apply.
“I didn’t want to wake up and realize I had a shot that I didn’t take,” he says. “I always felt like I should push myself as hard as I can.”
Students can also take IB courses without enrolling in the diploma program. At gradua-tion, they receive a certifi cate noting courses completed and grades received.
Shannon Siebe, the IB cur-riculum principal at West, says
costs for the program include a $10,400 annual fee and approximately $2,000 for each teacher who receives train-ing. Those costs are covered by magnet school funds.
Since the program began, four trained IB teachers have left Knox County Schools to teach in Blount County Schools. Former West High principal Greg Roach left the school in 2011 after being hired as principal of Maryville High School.
West’s IB program, and the students who participate in it, should be a source of great pride for our community. Bet-ter funding of our school system would allow Knox County to grow such inno-vative programs rather than give them away to neighboring counties.
Each semester for two years, IB full diploma candidates take one class from
groups 1-5, and the 6th subject can be Fine Art from group 6, or another class
from groups 1-5. Candidates also take Theory of Knowledge and an elective each
semester. The Extended Essay and Creativity, Action and Service requirements are
ongoing during junior and senior years.
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MONDAY, AUG. 27The Tennessee Shines Radio Show will feature
Red June and John Paul Keith at 7 p.m. at the WDVX studio at the Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. The performance will be broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets to be in the studio audience for the live show are $10 and are available at WDVX and at www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Remain-ing tickets will be sold at the door, while supplies last. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Students get in free by show-ing their valid student IDs at the door. Children 14 and under accompanied by a parent are admitted free.
MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27 TO SEPT. 12
“Masks of Michoacan,” a special traveling art exhibit from Mexico, will be on display Monday, Aug. 27 through Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Bagwell Center for Media and Art gallery at Pellissippi State Community Col-lege’s Hardin Valley campus. An opening reception will be at 3:15 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, at the Bagwell Center’s lobby. Regular exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Info or to schedule a group tour: Linnette Legg, 539-7064 or [email protected]. To request accommodations for a disability: 694-6607 or [email protected].
TUESDAY, AUG. 28Holly Warlick, head coach of the UT women’s
basketball team, will speak to a joint meeting of area Rotary Clubs at the Knoxville Marriott, 500 E. Hill Ave. Lunch starts at noon. Warlick will begin speaking around 12:30 p.m.
West African Dance and aerobic class, 6-7 p.m. Tuesdays at Broadway Performing Arts Center. $10 ($5 children). Info: Takia Faniyi, 455-0772, or [email protected].
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 29Lilly Sutton will lead an introduction to the
Alexander Technique at 10 a.m. at the Bearden branch library, 100 Golf Club Road. The Alexander Technique is a way of moving that eradicates harmful tension in the body. It improves ease and freedom of movement, support and coordination and can be applied to sitting, lying down, standing, walking, lifting and other daily activities. The program is free, but preregistration is required. Info and to register: 387-7600 or www.Lil-lySutton.com.
The Market Square Farmers Market is open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Nov. 17 on historic Market Square in downtown Knoxville. Everything at the open-air market is grown or made by vendors in East Tennessee. Products vary by season. Free parking is available on Saturdays in the Market Square, Locust Street and State Street garages and at meters. Parking is $1 per hour on Wednesdays at all three garages.
THURSDAY, AUG. 30The deadline to register for the Tennessee Valley
Fair’s pageants is Aug. 30: Little Miss Pageant, ages 7-9, and Princess Pageant, ages 10-12, on Sept. 7; and Baby Contest, cute babies ages 9-36 months (boys and girls); Junior Fairest of the Fair, ages 13-15; and Fairest of the Fair, ages 16-21, on Sept. 8. Info: http://tnvalleyfair.org and click on “Contests” or 215-1480.
The Mickey Hart Band will perform at 9 p.m. at The Valarium, 1213 Western Ave. Hart is best known for his nearly three decades as percussionist for the Grate-ful Dead. Tickets are $27 in advance, $30 at the door. There is a $3 surcharge for patrons under 21 (18 and up only). Doors open at 8 p.m. Info: www.mickeyhart.net or www.thevalarium.com.
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, AUG. 30 TO SEPT. 16
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” the Tony Award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical, will play on the Clarence Brown Theatre main-stage with shows at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 30-31, Sept. 1, 4-7 and 11-14; and 2 p.m. Sept. 2, 9 and 16. Award-winning “Winter’s Bone” star Dale Dickey, a Knoxville native, will play Mrs. Lovett, with TV/fi lm veteran Jeff Austin as Sweeney Todd. Joining the large cast will be 38 musi-cians from the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Tickets: 291-3310, 974-5161, www.knoxvillesymphony.com or www.clarencebrowntheatre.com.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 2The 25th annual Boomsday Festival will cap a
day of fun activities with the nation’s largest Labor Day fi reworks display. Fireworks launched from the railroad bridge over the Tennessee River in downtown Knoxville begin at about 9:30 p.m., but entertainment and food are
available starting at 1 p.m. along Neyland Drive. There will be a Family Fun Zone, food and beverages; music acts on the Q93.1 performance stage; and wrestling at 6 p.m. at Calhoun’s on the River. Glow-in-the-dark Booms-day Bandz are on sale at Pilot locations for $1 each and benefi t the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley. Admission: free. Nominal fees for food, drink and park-ing. Info: 342-9192 or www.boomsday.org.
MONDAY, SEPT. 3The Rubber Duck Race, benefi ting the Boys and
Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, will start at 12:02 p.m. at the World’s Fair Park pond. Pre-race activities and on-site adoptions begin at 10:30 a.m. Grand prize is $10,000. First prize is $5,000. Second prize is a $2,500 gas certifi cate and a Royal Caribbean cruise. Cost to adopt a single duck is $5; adoption packages are avail-able. Info: www.TennesseeValleyDuckRace.com.
The Tennessee Shines Radio Show will feature Jerry Butler & The Blu-Js and Bethany Hankins at 7 p.m. at the WDVX studio at the Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St. The performance will be broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets to be in the studio audience for the live show are $10 and are available at WDVX and at www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door, while supplies last. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Children 14 and under accompanied by a parent are admitted free.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 4The District Gallery, 5113 Kingston Pike, will open
“Equine Spirit,” a group show of horse-inspired fi ne art and craft that will run through Sept. 29. An artist reception with live music by the Dirty Dougs will be held 5:30-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14. Participating art-ists include Donna Conliffe, Gary Dagnan, Ruth Koh, Jane Schmidt, Dan Addington, Nan Jacobsohn, Mase Lucas and Rachael McCampbell. A portion of the show proceeds will benefi t Horse Haven of Tennessee (www.horsehaventn.org), a nonprofi t rescue operation for abused and neglected equine. Info: 200-4452 or www.TheDistrictGallery.com.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5The East Tennessee Association for Female
Executives will have its monthly meeting at 11:30 a.m. at The Orangery, 5412 Kingston Pike. Joan Markel will speak on the role of Knoxville women during the Civil War. Cost is $25 for visitors. Reservations: www.etafe.org.
Melba! with the Geof Bradfi eld Septet will be fea-tured at the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra’s Jazz Lunch at noon at the Square Room, 4 Market Square. Tickets are $15 for students/seniors, $20 general admission and include lunch. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Info and tickets: www.thesquareroom.com.
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NEWS FROM SEQUOYAH DENTAL ARTS
By Shannon CareyPatients at Sequoyah Dental Arts are in good
hands.Owner Dr. Pablo Foncea is taking a year
away from the practice to do mission work in Guatemala. He and his family are dedicating a year to helping orphaned children there.
After careful consideration, Dr. Foncea se-lected Dr. Whittaker Moss, a graduate of UT Knoxville and UT’s College of Dentistry in Memphis, to be his associate in the practice. Dr. Moss worked side-by-side with Dr. Foncea for a month before Dr. Foncea left for the mis-sion fi eld. Now, Dr. Moss will continue to care for patients at Sequoyah Dental Arts, and he is accepting new patients as well.
“Dr. Foncea and I really have similar ideas and philosophies about dentistry,”
said Dr. Moss.
Sequoyah Dental Arts patients are used to an excellent standard of care, with a focus on help-ing patients relax and even enjoy dental treat-ments. The offi ce is decorated to create a calm, inviting, spa-like atmosphere. There are even state-of-the-art video glasses in two of the exam rooms through which patients can view movies while receiving treatment.
But the movies aren’t the only high-tech items at Sequoyah Dental Arts. From anes-thesia techniques to materials available for aesthetic restoration, Dr. Moss said the latest dentistry technology can help make a patient’s experience far more comfortable than they may remember.
“Some patients are scared because of an experience they had many years ago,” he said.
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Dr. Whittaker Moss is the new associate at
Sequoyah Dental Arts. Photo by S. Carey
“Things are a lot better now. Even injections are less painful. With new materials that are out, even patients without teeth can chew apples and corn on the cob when they never thought they could.”
Dr. Moss loves helping people. When decid-ing on a career, he shadowed medical profes-sionals in several fi elds, and he quickly realized that dentistry was right for him.
“A lot of people come in with a problem you can fix that day,” he said. “I want to help people in the most conservative way pos-sible.”
Dr. Foncea will be back in the summer of 2013, but Dr. Moss is planning on putting down roots in Knoxville.
“I’m looking forward to settling down here in Knoxville and building a client base that will stay with me for a long time,” he said.
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By Anne HartFred White was a 4-year-old liv-
ing in Griffi n, Ga., when he watched the University of Georgia’s 1982 Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker play foot-ball on TV.
“That was when I grabbed a football
for the fi rst time,” former UT Vols standout Fred White told West Knox Rotarians last week. “I’ve loved the game ever since.”
White was recruited by some big names, including Notre Dame, but his grandfather, who was screen-ing the coaches, chose UT after he watched coach Phillip Fulmer, “in his nice shoes, walk through the muddy, plowed fi elds like it was nothing to look at the crops.”
White played for UT with Pey-ton Manning, Tee Martin and other greats, and was a member of the 1998 team that won the SEC cham-pionship, went on to become na-tional champions and was the only team in UT history to achieve a 13-0 season.
It was all about teamwork, White said. Members of the team were close friends then and have stayed close friends through the years since – so close that 35 members of that group recently traveled to Puerto Rico for the wedding of a teammate.
The rule they played by, White said, was “you play for the guy be-side you fi rst, the team second and then the coaches and fans. We worked hard every day and pulled each other up.”
White’s prediction for this year: “I think they’re going to be a very, very good football team. They have lots of talent. It will be Dooley’s best team.”
Fred White
Fred White recalls
Vols glory daysBy Rob Webb
It’s the start to another school year, and kids are already back in the classroom and on the roads. More than 23 million students across the United States begin and end their days on a school bus. Many parents
don’t realize, however, that the greater danger lies not with rid-ing the bus but with traveling to and from the bus stop and getting on and off the bus.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-istration, more kids die when hit by a school bus than while riding in one. Bus drivers have a blind spot of approximately 10
feet around a bus, which can be a difficult concept for younger children. Half of the pedestri-ans involved in school bus ac-cidents are between the ages of 5 and 7.
As you prepare your kids for school with backpacks, paper and pencils, make sure you also provide them with information about getting to school safely. Here are a few tips:■ Arrive at the bus stop at least fi ve
minutes before the bus is scheduled
to arrive.
■ When the bus approaches, stand at
least three giant steps away from the
curb, and line up away from the street.
■ Wait until the bus stops, the door
opens and the driver says it’s OK
before entering the bus.
■ Never walk behind the bus.
■ Walk where the driver can see you
and you can see the driver. Walk
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at least five giant steps in front of
the bus.
■ Be careful that clothing with draw-
strings and book bags with straps
don’t get caught in the handrails or
doors.
■ Cross the street with an adult until
age 10.
■ Cross the street at corners, using traf-
fi c signals and crosswalks.
■ Never run out into the street or cross
between parked cars.
Adults must also prepare for the new school year. Drivers should drive more slowly and carefully before and after school hours and be alert for children walking in the street, especially near bus stops. And remember: Yellow fl ashing lights on a school bus indicate the bus is preparing to stop, and red fl ashing lights mean cars must come to a complete stop on both sides of the street to allow children to cross.
With attention to these safety rules, both kids and parents can enjoy a safe school year.
BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS • AUGUST 27, 2012 • A-11
either in vocal music or handbells. In the seventh and eighth grades, students enter into a more open electives program that includes courses in band, strings, handbells, chorus, drama, and visual arts. Every spring, Middle Schoolers can also participate in an afterschool drama production.
Those introductory experiences in the Lower and Middle Schools prepare students to more fully participate in the Upper School fi ne arts program, which offers more than 30 different classes. Upper School students may take classes in ceramics, photography, drawing, painting, three-dimensional design, scenic or set design, digital imaging, drama, band, strings, and all levels of choral music. In addition, they have the opportunity both fall and spring to be part of a large drama/musical production.
To complement its arts curriculum, Webb School offers an Artist-In-Residence Program, an on-campus teaching and learning experience for students. The program provides a view
into the real world of art by exposing students to professional artists and inspiring them to explore their own creative abilities. During their four- to six-week tenures at Webb each fall and spring, guest artists critique student work and supplement instruction, as well as work on their own pieces. Now in its 11th year, Webb’s Artist-In-Residence Program has hosted nationally acclaimed artists recognized for their work in a myriad of media.
Webb School embraces the notion that creativity may very well be the currency of the 21st century, and although there are numerous venues for inspiring and exhibiting creativity, the arts certainly hold a prominent place in that mix.
NEWS FROM WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE
By Scott Hutchinson,By Scott Hutchinson,Webb School PresidentWebb School President
The role of the arts in the development of a young person’s life cannot
be overestimated. In all of its various forms, the arts provide fundamental avenues for self-expression and self-exploration, and their inclusion in a full school experience is critical. At Webb School of Knoxville, the arts add balance to a rigorous academic day and provide a needed and varied outlet for students
in all three divisions.In Webb’s Lower School, all students
– kindergarten through grade fi ve – participate in the arts program. Students take both visual arts and music classes twice a week. In visual arts, children express their ideas through both two- and three-dimensional forms. They develop skills in drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, ceramics, and fi ber arts as they explore basic art concepts. The Lower School’s music classes consist of a broad-based, multi-faceted curriculum designed to provide a foundation of musical concepts and skills; and expose students to a variety of musical styles. In addition to those two staples, Lower School children may take dance classes or private strings instruction,
The Arts: An Integral Part of the Webb Experience
At Webb School of Knoxville, the arts add balance to a rigorous academic day and provide a needed and varied outlet for students in all three divisions.
Hutchinson
Webb’s Upper School fine arts program offers more than 30 different classes. Students can sign up for ceramics, photography, drawing, paint-ing, three-dimensional design, scenic or set design, digital imaging, drama, band and strings courses, and all levels of choral music.
All Webb Lower School students take both visual arts and music classes twice a week. In visual arts, children develop skills in drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, ceramics, and fi ber arts as they explore basic art concepts.
With a greater number of arts classes provided in Webb’s Middle School, students enter into a more expanded program that includes courses in band, strings, chorus, handbells, visual arts, and drama.
play in a Lower School orchestra, and/or participate in a drama production.
In the Middle School, the number and variety of arts classes increases. Every sixth grader is required to participate in an exploratory program that includes visual arts, instrumental music, drama and a class
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NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK
The chill of victoryParkwest surgeon lands spot in U.S. Ski Team physician pool
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You’ll have to pardon Dr. Chris Shaver if the recent Summer Olym-pics in London weren’t his cup of tea. No, his sport is best served cold with lots of sugar.
That’s because Shaver, an ortho-pedic surgeon at Parkwest Medi-cal Center, has a lifelong love affair with the ski slopes – one that has now earned him a place in the phy-sician pool for the United States Ski Team.
“Free ski and moguls is my cup of tea,” Shaver said, referring to the two alpine events he loves best. “Skiing is a sport where, unless you get to the level of these guys on the U.S. Ski Team, there are no rules – you just go out, and if it’s fun, you do it. You can go fast. You can go slow. You can try tricks, and on every run you can try to make yourself better or you can just have a nice, relaxing afternoon.”
Although he fi rst applied in 2009 (the same year he began his prac-tice), it wasn’t until last summer that the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) informed Shav-er of his selection as a U.S. Ski Team physician.
The lengthy approval process included, of course, requisite background and reference checks, followed by an intensive medical emergency workshop in Beaver Creek, Colo., and fi nally his fi rst test assignment – the NorAm Freestyle Moguls and NorAm Aerials in Park City, Utah, events that attracted not only former World Cup skiers looking to make a comeback from injury, but also other international athletes and club teams.
“During that period, I was evalu-ated for getting along with the ath-letes, getting along with the coach-es, knowing what I’m talking about and being available,” said Shaver. “They don’t really evaluate your skiing skills although I assumed if you’re interested in doing this that you can get down a hill pretty quick-ly. I mean, one of the requirements is that you need to be able to ski a World Cup course. You don’t have to ski it at the speed these athletes do, but you have to be able to get down it safely and get to the athletes in an expedient manner.”
Shaver laughs when asked for a self-evaluation of his ski skills. “That’s a hard question – I could always get better, much better,” he said. “When I’m out West, I’m probably a 6 or 7 out of 10. I can get down anything on the mountain – it might not be pretty, but there’s nothing I can’t get down, and I can make some things look kind of pretty. Here in the western North Carolina mountains, I’m probably a 9 out of 10 but that comes with the territory. It’s a whole different ballgame when you’re skiing with people who ski 110 days out of the year for 20 years and you only ski 10 days out of the year.”
Shaver admits that he’s some-thing of an oddity on the ski slopes – a Southern boy from Greeneville, Tenn., who was hooked on his fi rst ski trip with a church group to Sug-ar Mountain, N.C. “I looked like the normal Southern Appalachian fi rst-time skier in my camoufl age and a
Dr. Chris Shaver, shown on the
slopes of Park City, Utah, during
last year’s NorAm Freestyle Moguls
event, looks forward to his next
assignments with the U.S. Ski
Team’s physician pool.
blaze orange UT jacket, but I fell in love with it,” he said.
Before long, he and his buddies were spending most winter week-ends on Sugar Mountain or Beech Mountain. Sometimes, they even made weekday trips after school for night skiing, returning home around midnight.
As a college freshman, he was elected to the cabinet of the Uni-versity of Tennessee Ski and Snow-board Club and began organizing trips to ski resorts out West. “When I went to medical school, I kept that up, not with the UT ski team but I organized ski trips for my med school classmates,” said Shaver. “Then, when I got into residency, I would fi nd educational courses that coincided with the mountains. So I would get up at 6 in the morning, go do the education until 9 or 10, ski the rest of the day, and then back to studying from 4 until 7 p.m.”
It was during this time that he fi rst heard about the U.S. Ski Team’s physician pool through one of his residency teachers, Dr. Jason Folk. Folk, an orthopedist in Greenville, S.C., was a member of the physician pool and would spend two weeks each summer with the U.S. team when it trained in New Zealand.
“He would tell me all these sto-ries about it, and I knew it was something I’d like to do too,” said Shaver. “So, I just kept bugging him, kept saying, ‘Jason, you’ve got to re-
member me. I want to get involved in this.’ ”
Before he could offi cially join the pool of about 120 physicians (pri-marily general practitioners from ski towns and orthopedic surgeons from around the country), Shaver had to attend the Medical Emer-gency in Skiing and Snowboarding (MESS) Corps’ workshop.
“It was a three- or four-day in-
tensive primer on the type of emer-gencies that you’ll see on the hill in skiing and snowboarding, what to evaluate for and what to do,” explained Shaver. “Some of those things were commonplace for what I do in my practice or my normal training and some were not. For example, they give you these kits to put in chest tubes like the emergen-cy room physicians do in trauma bays. I haven’t had to do that, but some have had to do that on the slope because of collapsed lungs or things like that.”
Ski injuries, Shaver said, can
range from anything like a sprained ankle all the way to “something that would make you think they’d been in a car accident.”
“Some of these guys are going 70, 80, 90 miles per hour on certain courses, and it’s literally like they are having a car wreck without the car around them,” he said. “They wipe out and go into the fence or go into a fl ip, and it’s essentially a car
wreck. So, the injuries, especially, in downhill can be horrifi c.”
Should he encounter a serious or life-threatening injury on the slopes, Shaver said, his role would be to stabilize the patient before sending them on to the local hospital.
“I think some people have some-what of a misperception of what I’m doing,” he said. “Obviously, I’m not licensed to perform orthopedic surgery in Utah or Sweden or some-thing like that. But what I do is eval-uate the athletes when they have an injury or when they have a nagging problem. I evaluate what I think
their problem is or what I think the injury they’ve sustained is. Is thissomething that they can continueto compete on? Do we need to putthem in a brace? Do we need to tape them up? Do we need to get them on certain medications or physical therapy regimens? Do they need X-rays or MRIs or go to the emergency room? There are certain things that we wouldn’t and can’t do medically on the hill – attempt to defi nitively treat life-threatening injuries, ma-jor dislocations, severe concussionsand things like that.”
Another common mispercep-tion, Shaver said, is that he’ll be at-tending the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Plum assignments like that, he said, go to veteran physi-cians in the pool who are able to make the required four- to six-week commitment.
Instead, he’s eagerly awaiting his next assignment – a moguls event in Stowe, Vt., later this winter. “With three small children (ages 7, 5 and 22 months), I’m probably go-ing to stay in the States or Canada,”he says. “I don’t really want to be inNorway. But later on, when my chil-dren are a little older, we’ll do that and we’ll make it a family vacation.”
For more information about orthopedics or
physician referral, visit TreatedWell.com
or call 374.PARK.
Shaver, who learned to ski on the
mountains of western North Carolina, is
right at home on the moguls course in
Park City, Utah.
Some of these guys are going 70, 80, 90 miles per hour on certain courses, and it’s literally like they are having a car wreck without the car around them. - Dr. Chris Shaver
Shaver says trying to keep up with World Cup events is diffi cult in East
Tennessee where football tends to dominate the sports pages.
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Dogs 141AM. PIT BULL Terrier
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COLLIE Puppies, AKC, sable/white, 9 wks Lassie look-a-likes, shots, $500. 828-389-1787
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English Bulldog puppies, AKC, born 7/7, vet chkd w/shots, males $1200. 865-804-0590
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ENGLISH COON Hound Puppies, 3 girls, 6 boys, 1st shot. UKC Reg. $175. 865-983-3564
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Horses 143DAVY CROCKETT
STABLES will be selling kids & youth horses.
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Free Pets 145
ADOPT!
Looking for a lost pet or a new one?
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Farmer’s Market 150JOHN DEERE trac-
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Music Instruments 198Complete Sound sys-
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RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSE NOTICETake notice that Turkey Creek Partners, 10745 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37934, has applied to the Town of Farragut for a Certifi cate of Compliance and has or will apply to the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission at Nashville for a retail liquor license for a store to be named Knoxville Wine & Spirits located at 10745 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Knox County, TN 37934, at real property owned by Costco Wholesale Corp., 999 Lake Dr, Issaquah, WA 98027. Turkey Creek Partners is a general partner-ship to be owned by James L. Turner, Managing Partner, 10224 S. River Trail, Knoxville, TN 37922; Amelia D. Maddox, General Partner, 530 Church St., Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219; Tommye M. Working, General Partner, 7709 Indian Springs Dr., Nashville, TN 37221; and Stanley Griffi n, General Partner, 1005 Graves Rd., Strawberry Plains, TN 37871.All persons wishing to be heard on the certifi cate of compliance may personally or through counsel appear or submit their views in writing at Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Dr., Farragut, TN 37934, on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 7:00 P.M.Th e Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission will consider the application at a later date to be set by the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission in Nashville, Tennessee. Interested persons may personally or through counsel submit their views in writing by the hearing date to be scheduled by the TABC. Anyone with questions concerning this applica-tion or the laws relating to it may call or write the Alcoholic Beverage Commission at 226 Capitol Boulevard Bldg., Suite 300, Nashville, TN 37243, (615) 741-1602.
Pat Barbiere teaches Tai Chi classes at Strang Se-nior Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tai Chi 1 begins at 8:45 a.m. and Tai Chi 2 begins at 10.
Tai Chi instructor Pat Barbiere
leads a class at Strang Senior
Center. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHO-TOS.com
Sheila Slimbarski and other se-
niors fi ll the room for a Tai Chi
class.
Tai Chi at Strang
The exercises are gentle sets of movements to pro-mote well-being, with a full range of motion and the continuous turning of the waist and spine.
For those unable to do exercises standing, anoth-er class at Strang is “Sit N Be Fit” at 12:30 p.m. Mon-days and Thursdays.
Mayor Tim Burchett in-vites seniors to an appre-ciation picnic 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at John Tarleton Park, 3201 Division St. RSVP by Sept. 14: 215-4007. There will be free lunch, entertainment and a mini health fair.
Organ concert at StrangHugh Livingston returns for a concert on the Lowery organ 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12. Livingston describes the organ as an
“orchestra in a box,” simply amazing.
HEALTH NOTES ■ The annual flu shot
clinic offered by East
Tennessee Medical Group,
266 Joule St., Alcoa,
will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Tuesday through
Friday, Sept. 4-28. Most
insurance accepted; no
appointment necessary.
Info: 984-ETMG (3864) or
www.etmg.net.
■ The fourth annual Pink
Ribbon Celebration will
be held 6 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 11, at the Knoxville
Expo Center. The
entertainment includes
pianist/entertainer Jim
Brickman, nationally
known speaker and
breast cancer survivor
Barbara Dooley and
comedian Leanne
Morgan. Individual tickets
are $60. Sponsorships
are available. Info: www.
pinkribboncelebration.
com; Janine Mingie, 607-
9664 or janine.mingie@
hma.com.
■ The 2013 Covenant
Health Knoxville
Marathon has added a
two-person relay to next
year’s events. Registration
is currently open. The
marathon will be held
Sunday, April 7. Info
and to register: www.
knoxvillemarathon.com.
■ The eighth annual
charity golf tournament
hosted by the Epilepsy
Foundation of East
Tennessee and the YMCA
will be 1 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 13, at Three Ridges
Golf Course. Lunch will
be served at 11:30 a.m.
Sponsors and players are
needed. Info: 522-4991 or
922-9622.
■ The “Making Strides
Against Breast Cancer”
5k will be held 3 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 7, at the
Knoxville Civic Coliseum
Plaza, 800 Howard
Baker Ave. Registration
opens at 2 p.m. Info:
558-4048 or www.
makingstridesknoxville.
org.
Unexpected artists
Rebel is a playful
8-month-old Coon-
hound/Blue Tick mix
who needs an active
home where he can run
and play. His adoption
fee has been paid by the
Furry Friends program,
and you can meet him at
Young-Williams Animal
Center’s Division Street
location. Hours there
and at the Kingston
Pike location are noon
to 6 p.m. daily. See all of
Young-Williams’s adopt-
able animals online at
w w w.young-will iams.
org.
Rebel atYoung-Williams
Sara Barrett
Critter Tales
If you’re looking for some-thing different to decorate your walls, check out the masterpieces in the “Art-work Gone Wild” exhibit. Animals from the Knoxville Zoo will put their best work on display at the Emporium Center from Friday, Sept. 7, through Friday, Sept. 28.
The “Meerkat Mob” creates one-of-a-kind artwork to help raise
money for the Knoxville Zoo’s enrichment program. Photos submittedTo help enrich the lives
of the animals living at the zoo, their keepers teach them how to paint with brushes and their fi ngers or paws. Animals can also walk across a canvas with paint on their feet and make a unique work of art. Each piece will be displayed with a picture of the artist and a certifi cate of authenticity.
All work will be sold to benefi t the zoo’s enrichment program which helps ensure the well-being of the zoo’s residents. Not only does the program help with the ani-mals’ mental and physical state, it can also improve the success of breeding pro-grams and adaptability to new situations, according to
info released by the zoo.An opening reception for
the exhibit will be held 5-9 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Empori-um Center, with video dem-onstrations of the artists at work. It is a teaser for the zoo’s “Art Gone Wild” event 6-8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21. Info: www.knoxalliance.com.
SHOPPER-NEWS • AUGUST 27, 2012 • B-3
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Wellness Check-in: a six-week check-in to as-sess your initial progress
Full Re-assessment: a six-month biometric as-sessment and fi tness test to measure your progress
Results Tracking: your own personal login area which provides ac-cess to a multitude of fi tness tools, including food intake and exercise tracking, nutritional analysis charts to help you manage your food intake, activity logs to keep track of calories burned and more.Ashley Kouma is manager of client
relations at Provision Health & Well-
ness, 232-1414.
Ashley Kouma
NEWS FROM PROVISION HEALTH & WELLNESS
Membership benefi ts
Feeling overwhelmed by all the mixed messages out there about food? Frustrated and just wanting to figure out what works for you? Every
person’s body is unique. Each of us have a different biochemistry that determines how our bodies use food and what food we like and don’t
like. Ultimately, our bodies are communicating with us all the time, and our job is to listen, identify what they’re asking for, and respond
appropriately. We work with people who are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired - be that chronic headaches, digestive upset, low energy
levels, extra weight, or generally not feeling good. Together, we’ll unravel the complexity around food, listen to your body’s signals, and
give it what it needs to heal itself, shed pounds, and truly thrive!
3 MONTH NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING PACKAGE:Experience an in-depth, one-on-one health and nutritional package at Provision Health & Wellness. We’ll customize a program that fits your
individual needs and goals by equipping you with numerous tools and resources to help you achieve them. Your personal dietitian will even
join you on a trip to the grocery store.
Call today to receive your personalized blueprint for healthy success!
HELP MANAGE THE FOLLOWING:
Cholesterol Blood Pressure Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome Food Allergies/Intolerances
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Weight Fibromyalgia Arthrits
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Here’s the schedule of the fi rst bootcamp: ■ Monday, Sept, 10, 6:30-7:30
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(includes weigh-in and measurements)
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energy of a group in sessions that include cardio, strength, sprints and more.
B-4 • AUGUST 27, 2012 • BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS
health & lifestyles
On her 23rd birthday last September, Angela Conner of Corryton didn’t feel well enough to celebrate. “I just felt really tired,” remembers Conner. “I was supposed to go out with friends and family, but I felt so ter-rible I went to bed.”
The next morning, Conner collapsed while taking a shower. Her mother rushed her to a Knoxville hospital, where they mis-diagnosed her with a migraine headache. The doctor gave her a shot and sent her home.
Unfortunately, Conner was not better. She slept for nearly 48 hours. And when she woke up, she was suddenly paralyzed.
“I couldn’t move at all,” Conner says. “I was completely paralyzed. I yelled for my father, and he took me to the hospi-tal.”
Choosing a different hospital this time,
Conner received a spinal tap and an unusual diagnosis: Guillain-Barré syndrome, which is a serious disorder that occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the nervous system. This leads to severe muscle weakness and, in many cases, pa-ralysis.
Conner’s paralysis spread from her legs and arms toward her lungs, and she was ad-mitted to the intensive care unit.
“My lungs were collapsing; my speech
Physical therapists at Patricia Neal
Rehabilitation Center helped
24-year-old Angela Conner regain
her independence after a rare
muscle disorder left her paralyzed.
“When I got to the Patricia Neal Center, I was completely paralyzed, including my face. I couldn’t smile and could hardly talk.” – Angela Conner
Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center gives woman her smile back
Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center
■ Founded in 1978
■ Nationally recognized center for
rehabilitating stroke, spinal cord,
orthopedic, cancer and brain injury
patients
■ Named after Patricia Neal, an
Academy Award-winning Knoxvillian
and stroke survivor
■ More than 30,000 inpatients treated
since 1978
■ With 73 patient beds, Patricia Neal
Rehabilitation Center is one of the
largest inpatient rehabilitation centers
in the United States
■ 15 accreditations from Commission
on Accreditation of Rehabilitation
Facilities (CARF)
■ The fi rst and only rehabilitation center
in the U.S. to win four Crystal Awards
from Professional Research Consults
(PRC)
was very slurred,” she says. The paralysis stopped just short of reaching her lungs, but Conner spent 10 days in the Intensive Care Unit. Because she was still paralyzed when she was discharged from the hospital, Conner was sent to Knoxville’s Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center located at Fort Sand-ers Regional.
“That is when I started my recovery,” Conner admits. “When I got there, I was
completely paralyzed, including my face. I couldn’t smile and could hardly talk.”
Conner worked daily with the Center’s specialized team of physical, speech and oc-cupational therapists to restore her move-ment and speech. She wanted to walk again, of course. But there was another big goal for Conner.
“I really wanted to smile again, because smiling is everything,” explains Conner,
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who did promotional mod-eling and beauty pageants as a girl. “Even if I couldnever walk again, I wanted to be able to smile.”
The rehabilitation therapists at Patricia Neal
worked to give Conner much to smile about.For the next six weeks, they helped Connerregain her physical skills and strength.
She recovered more quickly than anyone expected. By November, Conner was able touse her hands well enough to open a sodacan.
“I was on top of the world that day,” she remembers. “My faith in God and my family and the people at Patricia Neal were a hugepart of my recovery.”
At Thanksgiving, Conner was still in awheelchair, but doing outpatient therapy at Patricia Neal. By Christmas, Connerwas taking steps using a walker. “It was atremendous achievement, and I am very blessed,” says Conner.
She fi nished with outpatient therapy in February 2012. “On my last day of therapy, Iwas running laps,” she laughs. “My experienceat Patricia Neal was great. I don’t know whatI would have done without the people there.”
Best of all, Conner can smile again. “I didget my smile back. It’s a little different – I’mstill healing and there’s still a little paralysison my face. But then I’m a different personnow, too,” says Conner.
Today she is back at work and takingcare of her young son. Conner greatly ap-preciates the care she received and recom-mends Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center to anyone recovering from a brain injury orillness.
“Going through something like this is lifechanging, but the people at Patricia Neal help you adjust. They’re always smiling andwelcoming. They care. It’s more than a jobfor them.”
FAST FACTS
Rebuilding lives at
Patricia Neal Rehabilitation CenterAn estimated six million people live
with some form of paralysis, most often caused by stroke or spinal cord injury.
Since 1978, the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center has offered advanced treatment for stroke, spinal cord injuries and other life-altering events that impair mobility and brain function.
“Patricia Neal is an acute inpatient rehabilitation facility,” explains Mary Dillon, M.D., medical director of the Center. “It is a hospital level of care, so the rehabilitation is occurring almost immediately after the acute event. It’s the most intense, comprehensive, specialized care you can fi nd.”
With 73 inpatient beds, the Patricia Neal Center is nationally known for its rehabilitation of spinal cord patients. But many don’t realize it’s also for stroke patients as well.
“Our patients work hard, but it isn’t boot camp,” says Dillon. “We have taken care of all
ages, even including someone who was over 100!”
Patricia Neal offers state-of-the-art equipment that many other rehab centers don’t have. The center features training kitchens, bathrooms, and even an apartment where patients practice everyday tasks.
The center holds 15 accreditations by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilita-tion Facilities and each physician is board-certifi ed in physical medicine and rehabilita-
tion, a specialty not often found in other care settings.
And perhaps most importantly, the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center has a staff of doctors, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, speech language experts, behavioral medicine specialists, RT case managers, dietitians and numerous others working together as an interdisciplinary team to develop an individual treatment plan specifi cally for each patient’s needs.
“When people ask why Patricia Neal is the place to go, I tell them that we
are a comprehensive rehabilitation center,” explains Dr. Dillon. “Our staff supports you in each stage of your recovery. Ultimately, our goal is to help each patient become as independent as possible. We strive to restore abilities and rebuild lives.”
For more information about
the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center,
go to www.patneal.org
or call 865-541-1446.
