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Coff ee BreakAs Dr. Alan Gassel prepared

to have his picture taken for this week’s Coffee Break, two of his six dogs wanted their turn in the limelight. Alan was only too happy to

indulge them. Keeping pets happy – and healthy – has been his life’s work.

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By Betty BeanNot so fast, Mr. Mon-

cier.That’s the message Herb

Moncier received from U.S. District Court after a news-paper article announced that he is once again prac-ticing law in federal court after serving a fi ve-year suspension for contempt of court for disobeying a judge who ordered him to shut up. He says he doesn’t know exactly what he must do to be reinstated.

“Evidently there’s a glitch,” he said. “Now I’m being told there’s some-thing more I have to do. I did not expect to be in the position that I’m in today after 43 years of practicing law – at the center of this controversy.

“I’ve cancelled three ap-pointments this week with

new clients who wanted to hire me to be their attor-ney in federal court.”

Actually, Moncier’s pretty much always been in the center of controversy, whether for representing a Group W Bench full of infamous criminals or for forcing the local political establishment to comply with laws that they’d just as soon ignore, and doing it with a frequency, bluster and degree of success that members of the political establishment have found maddening.

His highs are strato-spheric, his lows tragic. And they’re almost always public. As one friend says, “Good or bad, things hap-pen big to Herb.”

Herb’s father, James C. Moncier, was a successful entrepreneur who founded

Not back yet: Moncier’s struggles continue

Herb Moncier at workTo page A-4

a chain of 17 Easy Way Five & Ten Cent Stores and ac-quired three cattle farms where he raised registered Aberdeen Angus. Every spring, Herb, a lifelong animal lover, would adopt a calf to raise and show at the fair in the fall. And every year it was the same – the trauma of selling the calf to the highest bidder, always the White Stores, inevitably followed the triumph of winning a blue ribbon.

“I knew where the calf that I slept with at night in the barn (at the fair) was going to end up, and as long as the White Stores were in business, I would never eat beef from there. I wouldn’t even walk by the counter,” he said.

By Betsy PickleLearning is its own reward. But

winning prizes for learning some-how feels even better.

That’s what came across as 12 students at Farragut Middle School were recognized for their achieve-ments in the C-SPAN StudentCam 2013 documentary competition.

In front of local dignitaries, proud family members and peers, the StudentCam winners were praised and honored May 8 in a ceremony in the FMS gym.

All members of the 8th grade C-SPAN class taught by Karen Rehder, the students, working in teams of three, created fi ve- to eight-minute-long videos with the

theme “Message to the President: What’s the most important issue that the president should consider in 2013?”

Parin Bhaduri, Austin Hoag and Nalin Varma won fi rst prize in the middle-school category for their entry, “Public Transportation in the Nation.” Not only did they re-ceive a ceremonial giant check for $3,000 (they’d already been given the smaller, legal version, split three ways), but they also received a commendation from U.S. Sen. Bob Corker.

Three FMS teams won third prize: Lauren Fiet, Tali Graham and Eunice Baek for “A Game of Risk: Israel and Iran”; Grace Shoff-

ner, Julia Hammon and Maggie Murr for “Education Across the Na-tion”; and Delaney Weller, Lauren Dickerson and Maggie Olson for “Ineffi cient Government Spending: The Foundation of Our Debt.”

All 12 received a proclamation of congratulations from Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, at the request of state Sen. Stacey Campfi eld.

C-SPAN representative Doug Hemmig introduced the winners and elicited reactions from them, while Mayor Ralph McGill and Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre shook their hands.

“I come here every year, seems like,” said Hemmig. Indeed, FMS has won at least one prize yearly

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Celebrating with C-SPAN

Proud fi rst-place winners in the C-SPAN StudentCam documentary contest pose at Farragut Middle School with the “big check.” From left are Doug Hemmig

of C-SPAN, Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill, winners Nalin Varma, Parin Bhaduri and Austin Hoag and Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre.

To page A-3

By Sherri Gardner Howell The Little Engine That Could

will have to pick up some steam to overtake the Farragut/Knox Coun-ty Schools Joint Education Rela-tions Committee in perseverance. For fi ve months, this committee of civic-minded volunteers has been trying to do a good thing for Farra-gut schools, and it just keeps getting more and more complicated.

Here’s the idea in a nutshell: Enrich the curriculum and edu-cation of students in the Far-ragut schools by drawing on all the expert knowledge found in

Getting that ‘vol’ spirit into schools

Analysis

the Farragut citizenry. The idea came fi rst from Mayor

Ralph McGill, who proposed it in early January as a project for the committee.

Committee members jumped on the idea and started with a query to their contacts in the Farragut

schools. Many reported a lukewarm response, with teachers citing too much mandatory curriculum to think about anything else. But there were a few – those little points

of light – who said, “Oh, if I had known an architect, an engineer, a chef for this or that, how that would have enriched the study or project.”

So the committee kept going. Next was to see just how someone goes about volunteering to help in the schools. That led to a Knox County Schools website where vol-unteers fi ll out a form outlining how they would like to help, submit it and wait to hear from the schools. A couple of committee members fi lled out the form to test it.

They heard nothing. But, they were hearing from some principals

and businesses and professionals that this idea had merit, so they kept gathering information and having conversations with school offi cials.

And they are still digging (see the story on page A5), because this is an idea that has no down side. It is good for the teachers because they have a resource that will give added value to concepts they are teaching. It is good for the professionals and business owners because they get to share their knowledge with today’s students. And it will be good for the schools, because it will get today’s professionals and businesses into the schools. They will see all the good, and all the needs.

And we are Volunteers, so they will want to help.

Big SwingEveryone was feeling lucky

on May 7 at Egwani Farms. Not only were the golfers

ready for a fun day on the links, but members of the “Swing Big for Students” golf committee were breathing sighs of relief as the gather-ing clouds moved on and only threatened rain in the morn-ing, with the afternoon ses-sion enjoying some welcome sunshine.

➤ See Farragut Faces on A-3

Miracle for EvieJessica Ashton was 34

weeks pregnant with her sec-ond baby when she received news no mother wants to hear. A routine ultrasound showed fluid in Jessica’s baby girl. On April 5, 2011, a specialist diagnosed the baby with non-immune hydrops, an abnormal collection of f luid in at least two areas: the skin, abdomen, space around the lungs or the pericardial sac around the heart.

➤ See Ashley Baker’s story on A-7

Barbecue blastWest Knox Rotary’s big

barbecue cook-off, which drew nearly 50 teams from across the country, was a fi rst-time event, but those in charge say it won’t be the last.

➤ See Anne Hart’s story on page A-12

since starting participation in the StudentCam contest in 2007. The biggest haul was in 2011, when Rehder’s students earned one fi rst prize, two second prizes, four third prizes and one honor-able mention.

“This is getting to be a habit,” said Mayor Ralph McGill. “And it’s a good habit. The accolades that come to this school as well as the other schools in Farragut just blow us away. We’re not paying tuition to go to those schools, we’re paying taxes, but they are great schools.”

This year saw a record num-ber of entries, Hemmig said, with

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Sweetie and Tinker Bell were ready for their “close-up.” As Dr. Alan Gassel prepared to have his picture taken for this week’s Coffee Break, two of his six dogs wanted their turn in the limelight. Alan was only too happy to indulge them. Keeping pets happy – and healthy – has been his life’s work.

Alan is a veterinarian and the owner/founder of Concord Veterinary Hospital at 11904 Kingston Pike. Originally from Chicago, he moved here in 1977 and opened Concord Veterinary Hospital in 1979 at the site where the offi ce still sits. “We opened in a trailer behind where we were building the offi ce,” says Alan. “The area was different then, not as built-up and more of an eclectic mix of people. We shared a wall with the Big T Market, which many of the people here will remember. We built this new building in 1995.”

Alan has a daughter, Elisa, who lives in the Boston area. He and his wife, Wendy Graziani, who have been married for 21 years, have a daughter, Haley, who attends Midway College and keeps things jumping in the Gassel home – literally.

“Haley is a competitive jumper and has two horses and a busy competition schedule,” says Alan. They also have a horse farm, and Haley not only competes with her horses but is majoring in equine rehabilitation and physical therapy.

Answering the “Bucket List” question had special meaning for Alan. He knows fi rst-hand the importance of not taking things for granted. A runner, Alan had a heart attack in February 2012 when he was running in the Myrtle Beach Marathon. “Runners are a great community,” he says. “A fellow runner saved my life. We went back this year and ran the half-marathon together. This whole Farragut area is a true community. So many people reached out in so many ways and with their prayers. It was pretty overwhelming.”

People who love their pets are a pretty impressive community, too, says Alan. Over the years, veterinary medicine has benefi ted from all the changes in technology and medicine.

“As people’s attitudes toward their pets have grown and deepened, modern medicine and those in the pet business have grown right along with it. I believe people have always had a special love for their pets, but domestic pets used to be more ‘outside’ animals. Now they sleep in the bed with you. They have become more integrated into

the family. So modern medicine and big corporations are helping us keep our pets healthier for longer lives.”

Sit and have a Coffee Break as you get to know Dr. Alan Gassel:

What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie?“I wanna live!” from George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful

Life.”

What are you guilty of?Noshing!

What is your favorite material possession?My Boston Marathon jacket with a few patches from

the years I ran in it.

What are you reading currently?I just fi nished “Thunder Dog,” by Michael Hingson. I

also got stuck in the airport and read two-thirds of “Duel in the Sun,” the story of the 1982 Boston Marathon. I was reading it on the eve of this year’s run.

What are the top three things on your bucket list?We are doing one beginning this summer as my daugh-

ter Haley begins a year-long Grand Prix Horse Jumping competition to qualify for nationals. It will be exciting and fun. Another one is to continue to expand our veterinary medicine services, which we are doing in 2014. I also want to continue to progress toward my previ-ous level of fi tness after my heart attack last year. And, my fantasy since childhood, the Cubs in the World Series during my lifetime!

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

Funny.

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

Learn to fi nish one project before starting the next.

What is your passion? Facilitating and enjoying the human-

animal bond.

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He took America through a very diffi cult time.

Other than your parents, who has had the big-gest infl uence on your life and why?

Mr. Fowler, my 7th grade teacher, who taught and encouraged us to think and ques-tion.

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

What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?

Bring a jacket.

What was your favorite Saturday morning car-toon?

It wasn’t a cartoon, but I loved “Zorro.” He was my alter-ego. “Out of the night when the clear moon is bright, comes a horseman known as Zorro.”

What irritates you?Unkept promises.

What’s one place in Farragut everyone should visit?Concord Trail at Concord Park.

What is your greatest fear? I don’t like bridges that have long spans.

If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be? I’ve kind of always lived by the George Bernard Shaw

quote, “The harder I work, the more I live.” My wife feels that I cannot be in town without going to work. It would be interesting to see if I could prove her wrong for a couple of weeks.

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Pat Myers, tournament director and the college’s director of alumni relations and annual giving, said more than 30 teams played

in the morning and after-noon rounds. Golfers were treated to lunch from Cal-houn’s, goody bags and the opportunity to take home some great items at the si-lent auction.

“Swing Big for Students” raises funds to support scholarships, academic de-partment initiatives, new equipment and technol-ogy, and the Blount County campus. This was the ninth year for the tournament, which had raised more than $114,000 to date.

Signature sponsor for the tournament was Pilot Fly-ing J. First place prizes for the winning teams in the 18-hole shotgun scramble were provided by Randy Burleson and Bistro By The Tracks restaurant.

Bryan Dickey with Wells Fargo, Pat Myers with Pellissippi State

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Monhollen with Pellissippi enjoy getting the goody bags ready

at tournament check-in. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Pellissippi State president Anthony Wise, right, thanks golfers for participating as the afternoon

round begins. Ready to give tournament rules is Trey Roy, general manager at Egwani Farms.

The Any Body Fitness team came out to support the college.

From left are Jay Stewart, Sean Mohr and Bob Stewart.

Checking in for the afternoon round at Egwani Farms are David

Reynolds and Ben Selecman with Pilot. Pilot Flying J was the

signature sponsor for the tournament.

Orpha Brink with Pellissippi organizes the silent auction items, including a bike from Regions

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1,893 fi lms submitted by middle- and high-school students from 44 states, the District of Columbia and Taiwan.

Students decide which issues to address, and part of their video must include supporting footage from C-SPAN. (The winners may be viewed at www.studentcam.org.)

The idea is to get students to think about issues affecting their

C-SPAN From page A-1communities and the nation.

After the ceremony ended, Re-hder explained how the contest benefi ts the C-SPAN class, a com-bination reading/language-arts honors class.

“We use the C-SPAN Student-Cam documentary contest as the vehicle to move our curriculum,” she said.

“It’s worked beautifully for the past few years. It’s interesting and challenging for your high-level stu-dent.

“I’m able to do everything I need to do within the framework of the documentary process with the ex-ception of literature skills, and that we just plug in when we can. Every-thing else – the research, the media, the language, the writing, the logic, the thinking and interpretation – is all through the project here.”

“I would love to have 10 more of Karen Rehder,” said principal Heather Karnes. “It’s a big, big job. … And what an experience these children are getting. It’s just phe-

nomenal, and it prepares them very well for high school.”

Some participants go on to study journalism or fi lmmaking in college, Hemmig said.

“We haven’t done a ‘where are they now?’ but we know from keep-ing in correspondence with some of them they’ve pursued either journalism or fi lm or some kind of creative arts in college,” he said.

Parin liked the public-affairs and fi lmmaking aspects of the competition, while Austin said he

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As for their partner, Nalin, “He’s saving it up for college,” they said simultaneously, describing the move as “reasonable.”

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His mother, Frances, passed on her relentless drive to her youngest son – “Saying no to my mother was just an invitation to do it another way.”

When he was 10, his big sister Marty was killed in a traffi c accident. His mother salved her grief by throw-ing herself into starting the Knoxville Teen Center, a safe place where young peo-ple had fun and did com-munity service. A couple of generations of Knoxville youth came to know her as “Mama Mon.”

Herb married Rachel Hufstedler, fi nished UT law school in 1970, was commis-sioned into the Army as a captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps and stationed near Washington, D.C. He served as prosecutor before deciding to switch sides.

“The brass liked me as a

prosecutor but not so much as a defense attorney.”

They liked him even less when he took the case of Rob-ert K. Preston, a disgruntled soldier who stole a helicopter and fl ew it onto Richard Nix-on’s White House lawn, get-ting himself shot fi ve times in the process.

He faced 105 years im-prisonment and a dishonor-able discharge, and Moncier made “60 Minutes” by ac-cusing the Joint Chiefs of Staff of command infl uence, a criminal violation of the Code of Uniform Justice.

Then he made Preston his clerk and rode him around in his Army car. Preston got off with a couple of months retraining and an honorable discharge.

A military judge at Ft. Meade tried to send Mon-cier to Cambodia.

After the Army, he and

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The May 2 conference between TVA attorneys and plaintiff attorneys at the Howard Baker Court-house arguing over TVA’s dress code for public hear-ings produced a trial date of Oct. 29. Magistrate Clifford Shirley presided at the conference following Judge Tena Campbell’s decision to allow the issue to go to trial.

Winds of change

However, the more signifi cant news from this hearing, which was not cov-ered by the media despite its being a First Amend-ment issue, is that TVA attorneys told the court that TVA may modify sig-nifi cantly its current rigid policy against costumes or wearing facial paint. They implied the matter had not been well handled.

TVA has fi nally recog-nized that the trial on Oct. 29 may result in a total rejection of the current dress code and provide an embarrassing legal loss at a time when the Obama Administration has TVA on close watch. Whether this attitude change has been dictated by board members like Bill Sansom or Neil Mc-Bride or the new CEO or the legal staff itself is unclear, but it is happening. Winds of change are blowing.

The problem for TVA now is that the plaintiffs must agree with it to avoid going to trial. The plain-tiffs are likely to insist that citizens can dress as they want when attending a TVA public meeting without restrictions.

Magistrate Shirley set a date of May 31 for TVA to work this out in consulta-tion with all parties to the lawsuit. But for Judge Campbell’s ruling, TVA would not have shown any willingness to moderate its

stand. It is amazing how quickly a federal judge’s ruling can alter attitudes.

TVA also has to know that this issue going to trial is but another loser for TVA in terms of hours spent on the case. This combined with a series of issues caus-ing TVA major headaches, from an imperial tree cutting program across the Valley to the Obama Ad-ministration questioning its current role and ownership in the Valley, signal rough waters ahead for TVA.

The smartest thing TVA could do now is drop the whole matter, apologize and do an about-face in the interests of promoting the First Amendment right to free speech.

■ Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre made

a smart choice in hiring deputy police chief Gus Paid-ousis as the schools se-curity chief. Paidousis has been a

Knoxville police offi cer for more than 30 years, start-ing in 1981.

Retired chief Phil Keith, when asked about Paidousis, said he is “an exceptional professional, with integrity and excellent leadership skills. Gus is the consummate law enforce-ment leader, accepting accountability and respon-sibility as fundamental tenets to his execution as a leader.”

■ The McClung Mu-seum of Natural History and Culture, ably led by Jeff Chapman, will celebrate 50 years on May 31 with a reception and program at the Museum on Circle Park Drive.

However, the public is invited the next day 1-5 p.m. June 1, to celebrate the golden anniversary. Chap-man has led the museum effectively for more than 20 years, introducing it to all parts of East Tennessee.

Rachel returned to Knox-ville. He went to work in the attorney general’s offi ce, teaming up with Ralph Har-well as a fearsome duo that never lost a case. Rachel taught school.

Their son Adam was born in 1977. In 1980, their new-born son Nicholas was diag-nosed with cerebral palsy. Rachel was stricken with post-partum depression that deepened when her doctor said Nick was aller-gic to her breast milk.

Herb took her to her par-ents’ home so they could look after her, but she found her father’s gun and ended her life, leaving Herb with a toddler and a severely dis-abled 5-month-old.

He doesn’t know if he would have made it without the help of Harwell and quiet moments spent in the sanc-tuary of Church Street Meth-odist Church that deepened his faith and his resolve.

His sons became the fo-cus of his life. Nicholas lives with him and is his “best buddy.” Adam fi nished law school and started a prac-tice focused on juvenile law.

“Wish I could bottle

Adam. I’d have a formula for other young people. All those years of pain as a sin-gle father, then to see him get over the curve and all of a sudden … it’s just wonder-ful.” Moncier said.

“And the best thing he’s done is marry Paige Chris-tenberry and have Khaki – my granddaughter Kath-erine Rachel. And I’m Papa Herb to her and her brother, William, who is 10.”

Meanwhile, he’s hoping to get his practice back on track, 70 percent of which was in federal court. His fi nancial situation is com-plicated by years of unpaid public interest work that pretty much reshaped coun-ty government.

“There was a complete political regime opposed to what Wanda Moody and later Bee DeSelm (his plain-tiffs in the lawsuits that stopped the justice center and enforced term limits) were doing; and Lord, did they pay the price for it. And I became tainted – maybe justly so because I was crazy enough to do it.

“But I did it because it was right and because the people needed somebody to stand up and help them take their government back.”

Sandra Clark

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is a joke. And that’s the kindest descrip-tion of the bungling bu-reaucrats who have botched political corruption inves-tigations for years. If not inept, try overly political or even corrupt as a descriptor.

The biggest joke may be the slogan atop the TBI web-site: “Truth. Bravery. Integ-rity. That guilt shall not es-cape nor innocence suffer.”

Say what? We’re still waiting for those Ragsdale-era indictments.

And now folks are asking about Trustee John Dun-can.

■ On March 18 at the Halls Republican Club, Duncan said he could not comment on legal diffi cul-ties in his offi ce because of an ongoing TBI probe.

■ In April at the Demo-cratic Club in Karns, Attor-ney General Randy Nichols said he could not proceed until the TBI investiga-tion of the Trustee’s Offi ce wrapped up.

■ Last week, TBI spokes-person Kristin Helm told this newspaper, “at this time I am not able to confi rm nor deny” that an investigation is ongoing.

‘That guilt shall not escape’

So is there a TBI investi-gation or not? Will it be con-cluded before the expiration of the statute of limitations? Why is this hard?

Duncan admitted tak-ing money for educational coursework which he had not completed. He even paid it back.

Duncan’s chief of staff, Josh Burnett, and delin-quent tax attorney, Chad Tindell, resigned and en-tered guilty pleas to the misdemeanor of facilitation of offi cial misconduct last December. Does the buck stop there?

Background: Duncan got elected without opposi-tion after the mere mention of his name cleared the fi eld. He took offi ce Sept.1, 2010, in what many believed was the fi rst step toward suc-ceeding his father, U.S. Rep. John “Jimmy” Duncan Jr.

By December, however, he’d stepped in a mess of trouble when he handed out $3,000 bonuses to employ-ees who were not entitled to them, including himself.

These “incentive pay-ments” rewarded employ-ees who had completed the County Offi cials Certifi cate Training Program to be-come certifi ed public ad-ministrators.

The following October, he handed out even more bonuses.

The bonuses were given to people who didn’t com-plete the course. The news broke in 2012 when investi-gators seized longtime Dun-can friend and employee Zach Brezina’s computer to see whether he’d taken the test for others. As the year wore on, “insiders” kept saying that the pieces were about to fall into place, but deadline after deadline passed without action.

On Dec. 12, Burnett and Tindell resigned and en-tered pleas. Since then, nothing.

And now Duncan is making the rounds of Re-publican clubs giving every indication of running for re-election next summer.

Here’s what our sources say:

■ That the TBI investiga-tion, headed by agent Jerry Spoon, was completed last September.

■ That Tindell and Bur-nett have agreements that their cases will be dropped if no one else is charged. The statute of limitations on such offenses is two years, meaning that time would have been up on the 2010 offenses in December. But Tindell, Burnett and Dun-can waived the statute. The deadline to prosecute 2011 offenses is October.

■ That the investigationwas stymied when the U.S. Attorney’s offi ce became involved, entangling thetrustee’s issues with other matters.

■ That it’s looking likeDuncan is going to walk.

Conclusion: The TBI should fi nish its investiga-tion and turn over its infor-mation to Randy Nichols. Let him or a substitute DA decide whether to pros-ecute.

Otherwise, we suggest a more apt slogan for the top of that TBI website:

“Justice delayed is justice denied.”

GOSSIP AND LIES

■ Gus Paidousis is a great guy,

we’re sure, but hiring him for

$90,000 to hire and supervise

58 other retired cops under

the guise of school secu-

rity is a huge boondoggle.

It’s tough enough to fund

public education without this

empire-building.

■ Tim Burchett, we recall, said

education funding should

be directed toward the

classroom. The expanded

school security budget is an

additional $2 million directed

toward guys watching locked

front doors while possibly

eating doughnuts.

■ Dr. Heather West, a gradu-

ate of Halls High School and

Carson-Newman University

Class of 2005, takes issue with

Brianna Rader’s slam at UT,

writing: “Obviously, the chan-

cellors and trustees of UT felt

the material being presented

during this “Sex Week” was

unsuitable to endorse and/

or display at their “Flagship

University.”

■ Betty Bean, who previously

wrote a feature on West, says

Rader was right. “The UT

administration was fully

informed and on board with

everything Rader was doing

all through the planning

stage, so it wasn’t the content

they had a problem with. It

was only when Stacey Camp-

fi eld and Fox News started in

that they buckled.”

■ Mike Graves, candidate for

district attorney general, will

speak to the Powell Republi-

can Club at 7 p.m. Thursday,

May 16, at Shoney’s on Emory

Road at I-75. Come at 6:30 for

dinner.

■ Wayne Goforth said (private-

ly) following his fi nal school

board meeting as director of

Union County Public Schools:

“It’s like making love with a

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this that I can stand.”

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Sam Patel, owner of Country Inn & Suites and Comfort Suites in Farragut, addresses the Board of Mayor and Aldermen at the May 9 meeting. Patel is opposed to the passage of a hotel/mo-tel tax. Photo by S.F. Neal

Is Farragut getting ready to run business dollars out of town? That seems to be the opinion of at least one hotel/motel owner who says passage of a 3 percent additional tax on his guests may have far-reaching re-percussions.

Proposed hotel/motel tax draws criticism

At its April 25 meet-ing, the BOMA approved on fi rst reading a 3 per-cent hotel/motel tax with only Alderman Bob Markli voting no. The tax, which would add $3 to a $100 room bill, is projected to generate $460,000 in rev-enue. Town offi cials say the revenue is needed to help soften the blow of dwin-dling funds from the Hall Tax. They also see using the

hotel/motel tax to promote economic development and tourism projects.

Sam Patel, owner of Country Inn & Suites and Comfort Suites, ad-dressed the board at its May 9 meeting during the citizen’s forum. He said he understood about the Hall Tax, and said that on paper, the hotel/motel tax “looks great and looks like it might benefit everyone.” The reality, he maintains, is that it will hurt his busi-ness, his guests and sur-rounding businesses.

Patel also objected to no notice being given to business owners that the issue was coming before the board. “One of the major things, I guess this vote went through without proper notification to the businesses that it really affects,” he said, adding he had spoken with other owners, and “no one was aware of it until it hit the press. As soon as we found out, that’s when we started

doing our homework.”He conceded that the

issue had been posted on agendas and discussed in long-term planning. “A lot of us who run hotels also run other businesses, and

we rarely have time to come to these meetings and time to go through board min-utes. It’s really tough to stay in the loop, and that’s our fault. We need to stay more involved, so we will

take the blame on that.”Patel said there is al-

ready a 14.5 percent tax for hotel guests. “They stay here because they know we have better rates than Knoxville, where the tax is 17.25 percent.”

Patel also took issue with the board’s position that the tax won’t hurt local resi-dents because it affects only travelers. He says Farragut residents choose to put vis-iting guests up in town ho-tels, but, if the tax passes, he says people may decide to travel to another exit and stay closer to Knoxville. “That will be displacing ho-tel guests and business to other exits,” he said. “If you go down this road, it’s going to put a bad taste in a lot of businesses’ mouths.”

Mayor Ralph McGill con-ceded that the town should have sent a letter to hotel/motel owners to ask their input before making a de-cision. “We’ve talked about this for a couple of years. It has only been approved on

fi rst reading.” The mayor also noted that unlike sur-rounding areas, hotel/mo-tel owners in Farragut don’t pay a property tax.

A community forum on the hotel/motel tax has since been scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 16, in the board room at Farragut Town Hall. A called meeting of the Far-ragut Business Alliance board will follow.

Another resident, Au-drey Roberts, came to ask consideration of speed bumps for a section of Bel-laire Drive to slow down speeders and also request-ed a wider curve on a hill that she says is so narrow a school bus and delivery truck can’t both pass at the same time. “I’ve talked to four families who live near me and near the hill, and all are in favor of the speed bumps,” she said.

Town Administrator Da-vid Smoak said he would have the town engineer look into her requests.

By Suzanne Foree NealTapping into local “hu-

man capital” once again dominated the meeting of the Farragut/Knox County Schools Joint Education Re-lations Committee meeting on May 7,at Farragut Town Hall.

Mark Littleton, chair, reported on information he received after a conversa-tion with Scott Bacon, su-pervisor of business part-nerships for Knox County Schools.

At issue for the commit-tee is fi nding a way to marry local experts in the business and professional commu-nity with curriculum and projects in the schools in their areas of expertise. It was fi rst suggested months ago by Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill and has been discussed at nearly every committee meeting since.

Stumbling blocks have primarily been process-driven. The committee not-ed that volunteers must be approved by the principal, so building an outside data base of experts would mean those on it would have to go through some sort of ap-proval process. Also, an ex-tensive program of experts partnering with teachers on curriculum subjects would need a coordinator, even though the concept for the program is strictly volun-teers.

“Each school has a form to fi ll out regarding speak-ers and the content to be ad-dressed, and the principal can approve or not,” said retired principal and com-mittee member Julia Craze.

The committee has been searching for a program to use as a model and discus-sion centered on the Pencil Foundation in Nashville. The program strives to link “community resources with its local schools to help young people achieve aca-demic success and prepare for life,” according to the web site.

There is information on how to be a volunteer and how to donate school sup-plies, which is what the Far-ragut committee has been trying to do through the town’s web site.

Littleton also reported that Bacon told him of a new security system for Knox County Schools that will be in place by fall. The school system is completing negotiations with an out-side vendor to handle back-ground checks for some of the volunteers coming into the schools. Not all volun-teers will be required to go through the clearance, just those who fall in “tiers three and four” of the four-tier volunteer vetting pro-

Ed committee digs into getting experts to help in schoolsgram currently in place. In a telephone interview with this reporter, Bacon said that tiers three and four are volunteers who accompany students on overnight trips or are working one-on-one with a student.

Littleton said he and Bacon “both agreed there’s an opportunity in our community to engage all

kinds of experts in science, health care, merchandis-ing and lots of areas. We believe it would be a ben-efit, but it hasn’t gained traction here yet.” The chairman said he is feeling better about the prospect since he has found inter-est growing in at least two schools. “That’s a potential starter,” said Littleton.

In the telephone inter-view, Bacon said the new security system checks federal and local databases and sheriff’s department records, and it should only take a couple of days to re-ceive verifi cation. Volun-teers classifi ed as tier one or two are generally those who come into the school under the supervision of

staff and would not be re-quired to have the back-ground checks. “There are an overwhelmingly large number of volunteers who are going to be in that set-ting,” Bacon said.

“Once we get background checks in place, which the school system pays for, we will be web-based, and anyone on it will be OK,”

Bacon said. He added that the current web page list-ing for volunteers hasn’t been tapped by teachers because of the lack of a verifi cation procedure and process. He expects once the background checks are in place, it will be a better- used resource in the fall. “Dogwood Elementary has had some success with it.”

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Ten years ago, when Doug Dickey was fi nishing up as athletic director at Tennes-see, dear friend Nancy Siler and I had an interesting con-versation about potential re-placements.

Her candidate was Bill Schmidt.

Nancy said he met all re-quirements. He had been an Olympic athlete and a Tennes-see coach, a Chuck Rohe assis-tant. He had a Master’s degree in business with emphasis on accounting. He had served honorably in the military.

He was a borderline ge-nius. As director of sports at the 1982 World’s Fair, he produced a $300,000 profi t while the whole show was do-ing a defi cit.

Nancy had followed Schmidt’s career closely from the time her husband, Tom Siler, had said he would be a star. She recalled when

No way to know

Stokely Van Camp hired Bill as director of development and loaned him to the Los Angeles Olympics. He served Peter Ueberroth as a vice president, responsible for eight sports.

Back at Stokely, or maybe it was Quaker Oats by then, Schmidt was named vice president of worldwide mar-keting of Gatorade. You know what happened to Gatorade.

Nancy thought Bill Schmidt was a natural – smarts, background, person-ality, contacts, skill set – to direct UT athletics as a busi-

ness and lead the Volunteers to even greater success.

UT president John Shu-maker either didn’t ask Nancy or didn’t take her assessment seriously. He interviewed Schmidt but promoted Mike Hamilton, Dickey’s key assis-tant and a brilliant fund-raiser.

“We did a thorough and exhaustive national search,” said Shumaker. His next line was something about the right man at the right time.

We’ll never know how Bill Schmidt would have done. You can guess UT athletics would never have been $223 million in debt.

Schmidt oversaw Gatorade growth from $80 million to $1.8 billion. Signing Michael Jordan to pitch the product may have helped sales.

I remember when Bill said: “Foreign countries didn’t know sports drinks, but they knew Michael Jor-dan. We couldn’t afford him but we did a 10-year endorse-ment deal not knowing how good he would be.”

It took Schmidt a few minutes to catch up with the New York Giants’ postgame ritual of dumping Gatorade on coach Bill Parcells. When he saw it on replay, he said it was advertising better than money could buy.

At the end of that season, he spent some and sent Par-cells a letter.

“We at The Quaker Oats Company, makers of Gato-rade Thirst Quencher, realize that due to the yearlong ‘Gato-rade dunking’ you have been receiving, your wardrobe has probably taken a beating.

“The enclosed check should help remedy the problem; after all, we do feel somewhat responsible for your cleaning bill.”

In the sports marketing world, Bill Schmidt was fi rst considered a pioneer. He be-came a giant. The Sporting News twice listed Schmidt among the most powerful people in sports. He knew ev-erybody. He could get tickets to any event.

Schmidt left Gatorade to become CEO of Oakley sunglasses and apparel. Good old Michael Jordan arranged that deal. Schmidt eventually came back to Knoxville and started his own sports marketing and consulting fi rm, Pegasus. He served as an adjunct pro-fessor at UT. He dabbled in real estate. He played golf. He rode Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

His hometown of Canons-burg, Pa., put up a historical marker commemorating his world status among javelin throwers. He won the bronze at the Munich Olympics, the only American to medal in that event in 61 years and counting.

This summer Bill Schmidt will be inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame. It will be a brief celebration of excellence. No way to know what might have been.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Of all the parables Jesus told, this one is the most be-loved. Perhaps that is because at one time or another we can identify with all the charac-ters in this little drama.

It tells us volumes about

ourselves: our own rebellion and selfi shness, our heed-lessness of the hurt we cause others; our need for love. It also tells us about ourselves as parents: the jumbled emo-tions of love and frustra-

Passive persistenceWhen he had spent everything, a severe famine took

place throughout that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fi elds to feed the pigs. He would gladly have fi lled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, “How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, ‘Father, I have been led astray against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.’ ”

So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was fi lled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.

(Luke 15: 14-20 NRSV)

tion, the joys and sorrows of watching our children go through the stages of ado-lescence, the sense of arrival when they are fi nally grown-ups. It tells us, too, about our-selves as siblings: children raised by the same parents, in the same home, who turn out to be very different, very distinct individuals.

I wonder what it also tells us about the storyteller: Je-sus.

He would have been the elder brother in his fam-ily: Mary’s fi rst-born. Did he know of family anguish fi rst-hand? Did he have a ne’er-do-well younger sibling who broke Joseph’s heart?

This story resonates with me, not because of my own family history, but because of the families I have en-countered in various forms of ministry throughout my ca-reer. I have listened to stories of children who were aban-doned (or worse), of parents whose children rebelled, of brothers and sisters who no longer speak to each other; of children who have no idea where their parents are now.

It is sad, but true: families can fall apart.

Even so, it is clear that Jesus told this story to demonstrate the patience and the forgiving nature of God. But the most fascinating part of it (for me at least) is the father’s standing at the gate, watching, waiting. He didn’t saddle up and ride off in all directions searching for the boy. He didn’t go drag the prodigal home by the scruff of the neck. He did not aban-don his wife and other son, or his responsibilities as head of household.

But on that day when the prodigal’s familiar form came over the hill, the fa-ther was at the gate, look-ing for his boy. Imagine the patience, the forbearance, the self-discipline it had re-quired of the father!

Imagine, too, the restraint that was required to keep the father from ranting about the worry, the heartbreak, the hurt. There was no “well it’s about time!” Or “where in the world have you been?”

His passive persistence had paid off: his boy had come home of his own free will and his own recognition of his folly. The faithful father had been standing at the gate to welcome him.

Jesus didn’t say they all lived happily ever after. But they were a family again, and that, after all, was the point of the parable. It also was God’s intent in sending Jesus into this world: to welcome home all the prodigals.

Thanks be to God!

Green Commu-nity School opened in mid-October with 60 students and an aver-age daily attendance of 35. Many students had committed to other programs, but the school expects to be at full capacity of 65 students next year. Green principals, a guidance counselor, a social worker, and a psychologist selected participants based on grades, standardized test scores and home environment.

The YMCA is the program’s primary sponsor. Project Grad is a partner and Helen Ross McNabb pro-vides a case manager two days a week. The Girl Scouts has given scholarships to 50 girls active in its programs.

The student pro-gram is a series of enrichment experi-ences to supplement the school day. Two afternoons weekly are focused on academic tutoring in small groups. Dur-ing the other three afternoons students participate in art, led by a teacher provided by the Knoxville Museum of Art; fit-ness with a volunteer trainer; golf, with lessons from a YMCA sports director; and gardening (4th and 5th graders) with volunteers from UT Agricultural Exten-sion and ECO Garden.

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By Ashley BakerJessica Ashton was 34

weeks pregnant with her second baby when she re-ceived news no mother wants to hear. A routine ultrasound showed fluid in Jessica’s baby girl. On April 5, 2011, a specialist diagnosed the baby with non-immune hydrops, an abnormal collection of f luid in at least two areas: the skin, abdomen, space around the lungs or the pericardial sac around the heart.

Evie enjoys some cake at her birthday party.

“The first thing the doc-tor said was hydrops,” said Jessica. “I couldn’t believe it. The night before we had read about f luid accumula-tion and how it is next to impossible for a baby to make it.”

“The doctors didn’t tell us the stats,” said Andy

The Ashton family today – Andy, Josiah, Jessica and 2-year-old Evie. Photos by Ashley Baker

Jessica Ashton and baby Evie in April of 2011. Evie was born with non-immune hydrops, which only has a 10 percent survival rate. Photo submitted

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Ashton, husband and fa-ther. “But we knew the stats, and they were fright-ening: 90 percent of babies who have hydrops don’t make it through their first night.”

The doctors also told the Ashtons that Jessica need-ed to deliver immediately, even though she wasn’t full-term. “They needed to get the baby out as soon as possible,” said Jessica. She was taken immediately to delivery.

“Nothing was packed,”

said Andy. “That morn-ing, Jessica thought about packing a bag, but we didn’t.”

Jessica was induced ear-ly the next morning. “I felt like I should be freaking out,” she said. “But there was nothing in me freak-ing out. The Lord knew what was going on, and I felt the Lord’s peace that passes understanding. I knew that He was sover-eign. I knew that He was faithful.”

At 12:14 a.m. Evelyn

Noelle Ashton was born, weighing 7 pounds, 14 ounces. Most of the weight was due to f luid accumula-tion.

“The lasting image in my head was there was no heartbeat, no breath and no sound,” said Andy.

While there was activity filling the delivery room, a hushed silence plagued the room. As the doctor deliv-ered a perfectly still baby, Jessica began to scream, “Breathe, baby… breathe!” In the midst of quiet, there

was a mother’s cry. “Her lungs weren’t

strong enough to breathe,” said Andy. “They needed to drain the f luid. We didn’t know anything for two hours. Then they came in and said they had her sta-bilized.”

With that, the Ashtons were at the beginning of a 44-day emotional roller-coaster with baby Evie.

“I clung to Isaiah 26:3-4,” said Jessica Ashton. “It says, ‘You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.”

Andy and Jessica were surprised not only by the peace they felt through their faith, but also the overwhelming support of people around them. Three nurses prayed with Jessica before delivery.

Their home church, Christ Church Knoxville, brought meals, babysat their older son and surrounded them in prayer. A network of prayer started all over the nation. Facebook friends and random strangers be-gan to pray for a little girl lying in a NICU bed.

Having both non-im-mune hydrops and holes in her lymphatic system, Evie needed nothing short of a miracle.

As the days passed, Evie’s body began to heal. Fluid levels decreased, and she began to take on the look of a healthy baby.

The Ashtons credit a miracle with saving Evie’s life. In April, as their mir-acle baby celebrated her second birthday, her party wasn’t just about a cute cake and fun decorations. The Ashtons say they see God’s glory and healing powers in Evie’s life.

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By Sara BarrettEach year, Farragut

Primary School kinder-garten teacher Amy An-derson hosts a wedding ceremony for the letters Q and U. The event is a big hit with her students, and Anderson said it is helpful

in teaching them that the two letters almost always go together in the English language.

To prepare for the cer-emony, each student is as-signed a letter for the day. The bride and groom are Q and U, and the ushers and

the wedding party are the rest of the alphabet. Before the wedding vows, a short cartoon is shown to explain how the two letters met.

After a short ceremony – presided over this year by school principal Gina Byrd – the students made

their way to the playground where the bride and groom ran through bubbles in-stead of rice, and the bride threw her bouquet.

Finally, refreshments were served at a small re-ception back in Anderson’s classroom.

Farragut Primary School kindergartners Mary Virginia Gragg

and Benjamin Miller say their pretend vows as the letters Q

and U. Photos by S. Barrett

Kindergartners Chip Shelton and Stetson Beal practice their

bubble-blowing technique to prepare for the bride and

groom’s exit from the school after the marriage of Q and U.

Mary Virginia Gragg and Benjamin Miller pose for pictures with

school principal Gina Byrd, who presided over the wedding

ceremony.

Danika Hutton enjoys her

cupcake during the wedding

reception for the letters Q

and U.

In addition to cupcakes, addi-

tional refreshments included

pretzels and drinks. Kindergart-

ner Matthew Wang attempts

to put all of his pretzels on his

cupcake. (He succeeded.)

The marriage of Q and U

Getting ‘Atomic’ in BirminghamThe Atomic City Aquatic Club posted 87 of the top 105 best

times during a recent meet in Birmingham. Standout swim-

mers included Vidar Hondorf, Jake Mason, Kendal Goodman

and Alison Craig (pictured). Each made the Southeastern cut.

Info: www.swim4acac.com or email coach Mike Bowman at

swim4acac@gmail.com. Photo submitted

Greenway helps Young-Williams

Greenway School students

recently toured Young-

Williams Animal Center,

where they donated $75

from profi ts from the

school store to sponsor

an animal’s adoption fee.

Greenway 6th grader Sofi a

Gholston-Green is pictured

with a photo of Christo-

pher, the Labrador retriever

mix that the students spon-

sored. Photo submitted

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Helping schools is priority at Shoney’s

By Jake MabeAsk Knox County Schools supervi-

sor of business partnerships Scott Ba-con to recommend a business that has long been involved with Knox County Schools’ Partners in Education, and he doesn’t hesitate.

“Shoney’s.” Makes perfect sense. The restaurant

has long marketed itself as a family-friendly restaurant. Shoney’s of Knox-ville president/CEO Bill Baugh says that mind-set includes helping schools.

“We’ve always at Shoney’s, even back when we were the Big Boy, helped education. It’s good community ser-vice and we are interested in promot-ing youth, putting something back into the community.”

Shoney’s opened its fi rst Knoxville franchise in 1962. Baugh says the local franchises’ previous owners, broth-ers Wade, Hillard and Leon Travis, emphasized helping schools. He con-tinued and expanded it after becom-ing president/CEO when Shoney’s of Knoxville, Inc. was established as an Employee Stock Ownership Plan in 1995. Its list of school partnerships is long – and impressive.

Shoney’s has participated in Knox County Schools’ popular school cou-pon book program since 1998.

“That’s a win-win for every-body,” says marketing director Annie LaLonde. “Shoney’s doesn’t do a lot of couponing, but when we do, we want to make sure it’s something that (goes) back to the community.”

Shoney’s participates in A Very Spe-cial Art Fest, an event for students with special needs held at West High School during the Dogwood Arts Festival. Mascot Shoney Bear entertains at the event, as well as at other school-related events and activities throughout the county, including walks, student fairs and reward events.

Over the last fi ve years, Shoney’s has donated more than $5,000 to Knox County Schools through the popular Dine Out for Education fundraiser, a day in which 10 percent of proceeds at p a r t i c i p a t i n g restaurants are earmarked for the school system.

Eighteen years ago, Shoney’s began the KidCare ID program, at which par-ents can receive a free information kit that is readily available in case their child is ever reported missing. The IDs include a color photograph, fi n-

Shoney’s of Knoxville president and chief executive offi cer Bill Baugh stands in front of the Walker Springs Road restaurant. Shon-

ey’s has long been an active member of Knox County Schools’ Partners in Education. Photo by Jake Mabe

gerprints, vital information (height, weight, date of birth), a medical pro-fi le, info on the “Seven Rules of Safe-ty” and a 24-hour National Center for Missing and Exploited Children hot-line number. Participants also receive fun safety items for their family and get to meet Shoney Bear. The event will be held Aug. 23-25 this year at Safety City, Cedar Bluff Elementary School and Foothills Mall in Maryville.

Shoney’s six Knox County locations partner with nearby schools: Sunny-view Primary, Mooreland Heights El-ementary, Dogwood Elementary, East

Knox County Elemen-tary, Pond Gap Ele-

mentary, Bearden Elementary, West Haven Elemen-

tary, Norwood Elementary and Cop-per Ridge Elementary.

LaLonde says these schools and others that do not have an offi cial partner-ship with Shoney’s regularly receive food donations for events, reward cer-tifi cates, and coupons for students and teachers.

In partnership with WOKI News-

Talk 98.7 and radio personality Phil Williams, Shoney’s also recognizes the Shoney’s Super Kid, identifying a stu-dent at four schools who “has been in a tough situation and risen above it,” LaLonde says. The student is picked up at school in a limousine along with three friends, gets to talk with Wil-liams on the radio and is given dinner at the Shoney’s location closest to the student’s school before returning.

“It’s just a fun way to promote school spirit and tell (children) that you don’t have to be the best at everything to be recognized for good work,” LaLonde says.

Shoney’s also partners with WIVK radio and disc jockey Gunner to rec-ognize a Teacher of the Month, who is nominated by students or parents and chosen by WIVK for exceptional work. 2013 Knox County Schools winners were Joan DeDominick at Ritta El-ementary, Ara Langford at Shannon-dale Elementary and Trudy Sturgill at Christenberry Elementary.

In past years, Shoney’s has also worked with East Tennessee Children’s Hospital on Eating and Living Healthy, conducting two programs at Moore-

land Heights Elementary. Shoney’s of Knoxville Inc. was the fi rst non-mu-nicipal building constructed at Safety City, which annually provides 2nd grade students with a safety program on how to safely navigate city streets.

“It went from a group talking to next thing you know they’re down there constructing the building,” Baugh says.

And Shoney’s has helped further the education of its employees in the most basic way:

“We’ve had a lot of servers who worked their way through college while working at Shoney’s and they also put their children through college.”

Shoney’s also sponsors a Kids Zone – family friendly sections – at Knox-ville Ice Bears and Tennessee Smokies games. Since 2011, LaLonde has been a member of Partners in Education’s board of directors.

“And we don’t do any of this for a gain,” Baugh says. “We do it because that’s what we are.”

For more information on Knox County Schools’ Partners in Educa-tion, visit www.knoxschools.org or call Scott Bacon at 594-1909.

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Winning an award for being among the top ten leaders in your industry throughout North America, Latin America and the Caribbean is a big deal.

Winning that award for the fifth year in a row is a staggering achievement, but it wasn’t beyond the reach of Knoxville’s own Chancey & Reynolds.

The prestigious award came recently for the fifth time from Rheem, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of central heating and cooling products. “It is a tremendous honor for us,” says Steve Chancey, Chancey & Reynolds president.

Chancey & Reynolds Inc. was founded in 1978 by Chancey and partner Art Reynolds, and soon became a trusted name throughout East Tennessee. Today it has 52 employees who install and service Rheem’s full line of residential and commercial equipment. Its highly trained service technicians have also won numerous awards.

Chancey says he and Reynolds met while they were students at UT. Both graduated with bachelor of science degrees. When they started their business they intended to focus on solar energy panels, but quickly realized they were a bit ahead of the times and changed their focus to HVAC work.

They soon affiliated with another established Knoxville business, Modern Supply, the Rheem distributor for East Tennessee. Chancey & Reynolds is Modern Supply’s largest customer for Rheem products. Modern Supply thinks so highly of Chancey & Reynolds that they use them to service their own Rheem equipment at the corporate offices and showroom on Lovell Road.

“They’re good customers and it’s been a great relationship,” Modern Supply’s president and chief operating officer Dottie Ramsey says.

Chancey says his company “is committed to delivering

Steve Chancey, president of Chancey & Reynolds

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the best products and service in our industry.” A large part of that effort is making certain the HVAC units installed are the right size for the building, whether residential or commercial. The wrong size unit, whether too large or too small, can cause unnecessarily high energy costs.

Chancey is also especially proud of the company’s service department. “It is excellent, and we service any kind of equipment, not just Rheem.” All employees wear uniforms and drive clearly-marked company vans.

“With residential work, we really strive to make the homeowner comfortable. We

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The company is expanding into counties south of Knoxville. They recently restored an old building at 118 A St. in the heart of old downtown Lenoir City, with space designed especially to better serve that area.

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Jake Green and Meghan Carter plan to start their summer off with a bang.

Greenway School 8th graders Jake Green and Meghan Carter

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Greenway School students to compete nationally

The two 8th grade Gre-enway School students are working hard to perfect their presentations for the National History Day com-petition to be held at the University of Maryland in June.

“We have worked three hours a week for fi ve months,” said Jake. “And that doesn’t include the time we’ve spent working on it at home.”

Jake placed second in the state-level competition, and Meghan took fi rst place. Both projects pertained to TVA.

Jake performed a 10-minute skit he wrote,

Rush Lightning wins tournamentKnoxville’s 11U Rush Lightning

recently won the 12U city tourna-

ment. Pictured are (front) Sean

Vogt, Dante Harris, Cole Poynter,

Jalen Geer; (back) coach Mike

Harris, Grissim Anderson, Ethan

Campbell, Shamarcus Brown and

coach Major Geer. Photo submitted

Laura Ingalls Wilder DayA.L. Lotts Elementary School

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by performing a play for

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dancing and learning about

frontier life. Pictured at the

event are Erika White, Paige

Deel, Maryann Ahmed, Emily

Davis, Halle Bolling and Con-

stance Paris. Photo submitted

Knox County Schools Partners in Education

presented the Barney Thompson Memorial Scholarship to one stu-dent from each high school at a ceremony last Thurs-

day night at the Knoxville Area Association of Real-tors.

Farragut High School’s winner is Jordon Jellicorse.

Jellicorse wins Thompson scholarship

Celtics win tourneyThe NSA Celtics went undefeated to win the 9th grade division of the Battle of Franklin tour-

nament in April. Pictured after the win are (front) William Snyder, Charlie Richards, Casem

Awad, Chris Zion; (back) coach Bill Snyder, Jason Smith, Conley Hamilton, Ben Hoff man, Bryson

Cowden and coach Brett Zion. Photo submitted

Episcopal Schoolof Knoxville

■ The schoolwide spring book

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Collection for GoodwillKnox County elementary

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and Meghan produced a 10-minute documentary with photos she found and recorded her voice along with the images.

Jake and Meghan could compete against more than 100 students in their cat-egories, but they’re not too stressed about it. They both

hope to make lots of friends.When asked what they

like to do outside of school when they’re not working on projects such as the Nation-al History Day competition, Jake and Meghan looked at each other and said at the same time, “We don’t really have a lot of down time.”

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By Anne HartWest Knox Rotary’s big barbecue cook-off, which drew

nearly 50 teams from across the country, was a fi rst-time event, but those in charge say it won’t be the last.

The rainy weather kept the crowd count down, but it did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of either volunteers or visitors, and those who turned out were treated to a spec-tacular event.

From the Hooters wing-eating contest to the ice cream-eating contest to the live entertainment and participation by local celebrities, the “Rocky Top hummin’ and strum-min’ BBQ” was deemed a huge success by club member Oliver Smith IV, who chaired the event along with George Ewart, owner of Knoxville’s Dead End BBQ, and club presi-dent Richard Bettis.

The club’s entire membership was involved, many work-ing for months to manage every detail of the massive un-dertaking, which was offi cially sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society.

A look back at West Knox Rotary’s BBQ cook-off

Event volunteer George Ewart, at left, with some of the staff from his Dead End BBQ restaurant on Sutherland Avenue, serve up

their delicious food.

Kevin Foley, middle school director at Episcopal School of

Knoxville, where the two-day barbecue cookoff took place,

was joined by his wife, Jessie; daughter, Sabrina, and son, Clay

Daniel, at the event.

Linda and Gary Johnson frame West Knox Rotary Club presi-

dent Richard Bettis as the trio stop to visit on the second day of

the Rocky Top BBQ event. Photos by Charles Garvey

Musicians Alex Daley, Eli

Fox and Chandler Buhl,

all 8th-graders at Episco-

pal School of Knoxville,

entertain guests at the

sponsor party which

opened the event on

Friday night.

John Heins, Kathy Garvey, Betty McDonald and Lucy Gibson greet visitors. Helen Harb is in the back.

The contestants in the wing-eating contest sponsored by Hooters chow down as an apprecia-

tive crowd gathers to watch.

Nashville singer-songwriter and Loudon County native Kendra Chantelle, at left, chats with

some fans after her performance on the opening night of the cookoff .

West Knox Rotarians Dr. Walter Beahm and Sam Balloff staff a “March of Dollars” booth, col-

lecting dollar bills to be donated to Rotary’s worldwide eff ort to eradicate polio. Balloff came

up with the idea after fi nding old newspapers promoting the March of Dimes eff ort of several

decades ago, and Beahm volunteered to help him with the project.

Saxophonist Larry

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of West Knox Rotary

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projects of the club.

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Anyone who has ever tried to sell a home knows how diffi cult and confusing real estate transactions can be, especially given the current market conditions. Add to that the pressure of trying not to lose the equity that you have built up over the years, and it can be a recipe for a stressful situation. Fortunately, one local compa-ny’s business model has answers to all of the real estate concerns that sellers face.

LittleFish offers listing packages that are based on how long the seller wants to list the property rather than a commis-sion based on the value. This way, the seller cuts out a large part of the over-head that is normally involved in selling a property through a traditional agency.

“Because of the savings, the seller will either have more room to negotiate or will pocket more money on the sale,” says Rob Mynatt, principal broker at Little-Fish Land and Home.

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Rob Mynatt, principal broker at LittleFish

Land and Home. Photo by Shana Raley-Lusk

When working with LittleFish, sellers schedule their own showings, but can still rely on professionals to help with negotia-

tions and writing the contract if needed. “Our listing packages start at $42 per

month for the subscription-based pack-age, or can be paid up front,” says Rob. “The seller gets the same MLS listing as they would with any other agency in Knoxville, but they also get an additional fi fty plus real estate specifi c websites.”

A relatively young company, LittleFish is growing, and it is due in large part to its loyal client base.

“To date, I have not had anyone come away disappointed,” says Rob. “Until now, we have been largely a ‘grassroots’ and word of mouth agency because of sat-isfi ed people.”

Rob advises potential sellers to take a comprehensive look at the process before making any big decisions where selling is concerned.

“Try to imagine it after the home is sold and you have moved on,” he sug-gests. “Consider all costs involved and

the time you are willing to spend on it. Getting all of the value from your home is a one shot deal. After it is over, there is no going back to get more.”

LittleFish has something to offer every seller and provides a high quality service at a low cost. With plans to open in Mem-phis this summer and Nashville early next year, the agency has hopes of even-tually expanding into other states. Little-Fish will soon be hiring buyer’s agents for the Knoxville area as well.

“Broken down to its simplest form, we save money,” Rob says. “The equity built up in a home comes with years of hard work and sacrifi ce. Consider where it goes before you decide to sell.”

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Dana and Ryan McElveen welcomed guests to their new business on May 3 as they celebrated the opening of Corks Wine and Spirits in Turkey Creek, next to the new Publix. Ryan McElveen hoped the guests would leave feeling they had been to something a little more than the traditional liquor store.

“We wanted to create an environment that is warm and inviting and doesn’t feel like a liquor store,” said McElveen. “We used local materials made by local ar-tisans – custom millwork racks and a checkout area made with repurposed wood from a 100-year-old barn.”

The more than 100 guests at the open house seemed to enjoy “product” as well as the surroundings. “We did a lot of business that night,” said

Corks hosts spirited opening

Corks Wine and Spirits managers Ryan Megar and Kenneth Go join store owners Dana and Ryan

McElveen for a picture before the store’s ribbon-cutting and grand opening party on May 3. Photo by S. Barrett

McElveen. “It was a great event.”

A jazz band entertained as the staff mingled with the guests and answered ques-tions about wines and other spirits. The store holds tast-ings daily and has a Som-melier Club that allows cus-tomers to try new wines with custom selections available for pick-up each month.

“We want to take the mystery out of wines for

the average customer,” said McElveen, who has been a certifi ed Sommelier by the Court of Master Sommeliers since 1996.

■ The Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen have passed a hotel-motel tax for Farragut on fi rst reading, with second and fi nal read-ing, scheduled for the May 23 meeting. To answer ques-tions surrounding the issue, the Farragut Business Alli-ance has scheduled a called board meeting and a com-munity forum at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 16, in the board room at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. The called FBA board meeting will follow.

The tax has been dis-cussed locally for more than two years, with changes in state laws bringing the issue

By Sherri Gardner HowellKnox County Sheriff’s pa-

trol offi cers need a fre-quent-driver mileage pro-gram. They t r a v e l e d more than six million miles patrol-ling the city and county

roads in 2012. “Those were just the miles covered by the police cruisers,” Chief Deputy Eddie Biggs told members of the Rotary Club of Farragut at their regular Wednesday meeting May 8 at Fox Den Country Club.

Biggs gave an overview of the priorities and challenges

of the Sheriff’s offi ce. Du-ties for offi cers cover a wide range, although the patrol-ling offi cers and detectives are the ones most seen by the public. “We have traffi c units, elderly care, aviation, search and rescue, K-9s and several departments to service the courts, just to name a few,” said Biggs. “Knox County is in good hands, and that in-cludes the town of Farragut.”

Cold cases are always in-teresting to the public, espe-cially with the topic being so popular on television, said Biggs. “I understand that be-cause I also fi nd cold cases to be some of the most interest-ing to work. It is interesting to see how cases unfolded in the 1960s and ’70s compared

to how it is done now. We have certainly had a lot of ad-vancements, especially with DNA testing.”

DNA isn’t always the magic answer, however, said Biggs. “First of all, it is very, very expensive, and it is certainly not like television where you get the results and solve the crime in 40 min-utes. The truth is, most of the time we can’t even get the money for DNA testing.”

When asked exactly how expensive the tests were, Biggs replied that the range, depending on whether or not it was the more expensive mitochondrial testing, is be-tween $6,000 up to $20,000 per test. “You can do a paren-tal DNA test for about $600,

On patrol: Sheriff ’s

offi cers cover many miles

to the forefront for many communities. Town Ad-ministrator David Smoak will be on hand to explain the background of the pro-posal, how the proposed tax fi ts with the town’s strategic plan, who it impacts and the planned use of the funds in regard to tourism and eco-

nomic development.Also coming up for FBA

is a community forum on healthcare. “The Future of Health Care and its Impact on Business” will be the topic for a group of panelists at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14, at town hall. Panelists are Jerry W. Askew, senior vice presi-

dent of governmental rela-tions, Tennova Healthcare; Lance Jones, CEO of Ten-nova’s Turkey Creek Medical Center; Pam Lawhorn, vice president, BB&T Insurance Services; and Tim Young, CEO, Summit Healthcare. The forum is open to the community at no charge.

but that is seldom what we are looking for.”

Biggs praised Captain Jeff Palmer, who is precinct cap-tain for Farragut. Farragut has fi ve patrolling offi cers at any given time, with over-

lap during the busy times, said Biggs. “Farragut is very lucky because the incident of violent crime here is very low. We want to make sure it stays that way.”

Bruce Williamson, club

president, congratulated one of the club’s two scholarship winners. Colton Jacoby, a graduating senior at Farra-gut High School, received a $1,500 scholarship to be used at the college of his choice.

Eddie Biggs

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Farragut Town Hall EventsEnjoy these events that are either sponsored by the

Town of Farragut or being held at Farragut Town Hall:

THROUGH MONDAY, MAY 20Young at HeART show

An art show featuring works by the members of the senior-adult Young at HeART art group of Marietta Cumberland Presbyterian Church runs through Monday, May 20, at the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. The exhibit is open during regular Town Hall hours, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.

A public reception will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 19. The art show and reception are free and open to the public. Info: Lauren Cox, 865-966-7057 or lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 14Healthcare forum

The Farragut Business Alliance and the Town of Farragut will sponsor a community forum on “The Future of Healthcare and Its Impact on Business” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 14 at the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

Tim Young, CEO of Summit Healthcare, and Pam Lawhorn, vice president of BB&T Insurance Services, will lead the discussion, which is free and open to the public.

SATURDAY, MAY 18Tie-dye class

The Town of Farragut is offering a Kid’s Tie-Dye Designs class from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

Children age 6 and up are invited to learn how to create a one-of-a-kind piece of wearable art. Participants should bring their own plain white T-shirt or white cotton fabric.

Angela Polly is the instructor. Cost is $5. The registration and payment deadline is Wednesday, May 15. Info: 865-966-7057.

TUESDAYS, JUNE 4-25Pilates class

A four-week Pilates class will be offered 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, beginning June 4, at the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

Pilates is a mind-body exercise that works the whole body. The focus is on correct use of core muscles, spinal alignment and proper breathing. Pilates helps to reduce injury, recover from injury and promote muscular balance. This class has some yoga poses mixed in to enhance fl exibility, strength and breathing. Simon Bradbury is the instructor.

Cost is $40. Registration and payment deadline is Thursday, May 30. Cash, check and credit-card payments are accepted at the Town Hall or over the phone, 865-966-7057.

SATURDAY, JUNE 8Youth fishing rodeo

The 29th annual Bob Watt Youth Fishing Rodeo will be held Saturday, June 8, at Anchor Park, 11730 Turkey Creek Road. Youth ages 13 and under participate in a morning of fi shing and competing for prizes.

On-site registration begins at 9 a.m., with fishing from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

The Town of Farragut will provide the bait, and a limited number of fi shing poles will be available fi rst come, fi rst served for use during the event. Participants are encouraged to bring their own poles. Info: Lauren Cox, 865-966-7057 or lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org.

THROUGH FRIDAY, JUNE 14Movers & Shakers sign-ups

Registration for the Farragut Movers & Shakers

Club is open through 5 p.m. Friday, June 14, at www.townoffarragut.org and at the Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Regular Town Hall hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Students in rising grades kindergarten through 12th grade can sign up for the eighth annual summer exercise program, which runs Monday, May 13-Friday, Aug. 2.

Movers & Shakers Club participants can walk, run, rollerblade, roller skate, ice skate, bicycle and swim laps to reach exercise goals and receive awards based on the total amount of time spent doing physical activities. Students who complete 60 hours of activity can attend a free ice-skating party at Cool Sports on Monday, Aug. 12.

This year, fun “Field Days” will be offered from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday, June 24, and Monday, July 15, at Anchor Park. Students will play games and enjoy healthy snacks while earning program hours. Cost is $5 per day. A Zumbatonic (Zumba for kids) class will be offered this summer at Town Hall. Participation also will count in the program. Info: Lauren Cox, 865-966-7057 or lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org.

THROUGH THURSDAY, JUNE 20Parade registration

The registration form for the Town of Farragut’s 26th annual Independence Day Parade is available at www.townoffarragut.org (click Online Form Center from the homepage) and at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

The parade is set for 9:30 a.m. Thursday, July 4. Deadline for registration is Thursday, June 20, until the Town receives 95 entries or until the lineup area is full, whichever comes first.

Businesses, community organizations, musical groups and bands are encouraged to participate.

The parade will begin in the Farragut High School parking lot. Participants must be in line at the parking lot no later than 8:30 a.m. July 4. To get on the parade mailing list, receive a registration form by mail or fax, or confirm your registration form has been received, contact Arleen Higginbotham, 865-966-7057 or arleen.higginbotham@townoffarragut.org.

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Jonathan Meystrik takes control of the ball versus King’s Academy.

NEWS FROM PAIDEIA ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Members of the Paideia Academy Knights middle school varsity soccer team are: (front) Ayden Case, Paul Menard, Drew Clapp, Ben Seaman, Seth Kenny, Bryan Hairston, Connor

Cross, Kensi Gray; (back) coach Chris Meystrik, Matthew Menard, Samuel Sadler, Jonathan Meystrik, Caleb Bethel, Bryce Kenny, Sarah Badgett, Caleb Norris, Trey Kelly, Daryl Driscoll

and coach Randy Sadler. Photos by Tricia Kenny

Paideia’s fi rst Golf Classic a success Paideia Academy’s fi rst Golf Classic was a great success!

The four-man swat tournament was played last week at Avalon Golf and Country Club to raise money for the school’s Annual Fund. The school plans to make the Golf Classic an annual fundraising event.

“We were overwhelmed at the amount of support that we had for this fi rst tournament,” said Steve Bethel, Paideia Academy’s development director and tournament organizer. “Our commu-nity really came together to sponsor and play – we couldn’t have imagined a better turnout.”

Twenty-one teams played for great prizes and giveaways, gen-erously donated by school families and area businesses. Spon-sors included Breeding Barbecue, Aubrey’s, Chick-fi l-A, Clayton Homes, Coca-Cola, Gentry Tipton & McLemore, Ruby Tuesday, Smokey Mountain Tops, Ted Russell Ford and the Woodlands.

Proceeds directly benefi t students through need-based tu-ition scholarships and property acquisition for future capital development.

Bethel hopes that the tournament will continue to build on this early success.

“We hope that everyone who participates in Paideia Academy’s Golf Classic will get a feel for the special quality of our students and families and the unique benefi ts that our school has to offer,” Bethel said. “We want to educate servant leaders who will give back to the community that has given so much to them.”

To learn more about sponsorship opportunities for Paideia Academy’s events, visit paideiaknoxville.org.

Paideia wins KISL championship

Ben Seaman (center) and goalkeeper Drew Clapp (right) defend against a goal attempt by King’s Academy.

Paideia Academy beat King’s Academy Tuesday night, 6-3, to clinch the KISL Varsity Soccer Championship title. This is Pai-deia’s third year to fi eld a mid-dle school team and their fi rst league title.

“I told the team we needed to desire the toughest path to the championship, and we got it,” coach Chris Meystrik said. “We played the best team in the league on their home fi eld. I couldn’t be more proud of our team!”

When these two teams met early in the season, the game end-ed in a 3-3 tie. Both teams went on to fi nish regular season play with one loss each in addition to the tie, and faced off in this game as co-champions of the league.

The Knights were up 4-0 at half time, but King’s Academy fought hard and pulled the game to 5-3 before Paideia scored their fi nal goal.

Caleb Bethel scored fi ve of Pai-deia’s goals. Jonathan Meystrik added one goal of his own while assisting on three of Bethel’s. Caleb Norris also had a strong offensive game with solid passes and good teamwork, and Con-nor Cross played a stellar game at center midfi eld both offensively and defensively.

Goalkeeper Drew Clapp was clutch in goal for the Knights with some brilliant saves includ-ing a one-on-one that changed the momentum of the game while there was still no score. He got plenty of solid defense from Ayden Case, Ben Seaman, Paul Menard and Sarah Badgett, who

made it tough for King’s offense to get the ball through.

Seth Kenny and Kensi Gray worked hard at midfi eld to keep the ball moving.

The entire team played a great game. Coach Meystrik said, “Ev-ery game is always a full team effort and we played a very good King’ s Academy team. It has been a long season not defi ned by any one win.”

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Change of heartHeart attack turns doubter into sleep evangelist

He’d had rough nights before, the kind when Warren Wilson would wake up the next morning feeling drowsy, tired, achey or as if he’d been beaten in his sleep.

But March 21, 2011, was far worse than usual – that was the day he woke up with a heart at-tack.

It was also the day that set Wilson to thinking about wheth-er there might be a link between his sleeplessness and his heart attack.

“My wife had been telling me for years that she thought I might have sleep apnea, and I’d been ignoring her,” said Wilson, whose wife Gail works in recov-ery at Parkwest Medical Center. “I thought, ‘Snoring is a manly thing to do. All men snore!’ But while I was laid up in the hospital, she mentioned it again. A couple of the nurses in the Cardiac Care Unit even mentioned it. They thought I may have sleep apnea because they had seen me stop breathing too.”

Wilson, however, was still un-convinced. After all, he only had blockage to one artery in his heart and that was 100 percent blocked – something that, he reasoned, “might have been all that lard I ate as a kid.”

But six months after his heart attack, again urged by his wife, Wilson walked into the Sleep Dis-orders Center at Parkwest where he was examined by Dr. Bert Hampton, a board-certifi ed sleep specialist.

“After my initial evaluation of Mr. Wilson, I felt there was a very high probability that he had obstructive sleep apnea and that it had played a major role in his heart attack,” said Hampton who ordered a “split-night sleep study” for Wilson.

“In a split-night study, if ob-structive sleep apnea can be docu-mented in the fi rst two hours of sleep, the remainder of the night can be used to determine what CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) pressure and mask work for the patient,” Hampton ex-plained. “Sometimes, a split-night study is planned ahead of time and sometimes it is done emergently due to the severity of the patient’s

Six months after his heart attack, Warren

Wilson (left) met with Dr. Bert Hampton for

an evaluation of his sleeping disorder.

sleep apnea. Mr. Wilson’s study was planned as a split-night study, but if it had not been planned, he would have met criteria to do a split-night study emergently due to the severity of his sleep apnea.”

So severe, in fact, was Wilson’s apnea that he had only been asleep an hour and 18 minutes when he was awakened by a technician with a CPAP mask in hand saying, “You need this!”

The verdict? Wilson’s blood oxygen satura-

tion fell to a low of 57 percent (92 to 98 is considered normal), and most importantly, he had “stopped breathing” 66 times during those 78 minutes.

Wilson puts it this way: “If somebody is suffocating you 66 times an hour – somebody grab-bing your throat 66 times an hour – that can’t be good for you. That’s what sleep apnea does. The word apnea, by the way, is Latin for ‘without air.’”

In fact, Hampton said, the phrase “stopped breathing” isn’t entirely accurate when describing

obstructive sleep apnea. “More ac-curately, what is occurring is par-tial or complete collapse of the air-way through the back of the throat which blocks airfl ow to the lungs,” said Hampton.

According to Hampton, Wilson was trying to breathe in his sleep but the relaxation of his tongue, pharyngeal and jaw muscles was causing his throat to collapse and causing him to breathe through his mouth.

“Usually mouth breathers keep their mouth shut when using CPAP but occasionally a person’s mouth may not stay shut while us-ing CPAP,” said Hampton. “If this happens, the patient needs to use either a chin strap or a mask that goes over the nose and mouth to prevent air from the CPAP from leaking out the mouth. Most people who use CPAP, use a na-sal mask or nasal pillows and do not need a chin strap or mask that goes over the nose and mouth.”

While Wilson’s CPAP machine has a chin strap, he has no com-plaints at all.

Wake Refreshed.

Sleep apnea more serious than you might think

Hampton says more

education is needed about the

health risks of sleep apnea.

It’s about more than just getting a good night’s sleep.

In fact, sleep apnea is a serious, potentially life-threatening condition that is far more common than generally understood with as many as 18 million Americans estimated to have it.

It occurs in all age groups and both genders and is more common in men, although it may be under-diagnosed in women and young African-Americans.

“The awareness of the medical community and the general public that obstructive sleep apnea is a major health issue has increased signifi cantly but still many patients with obstructive sleep apnea go undiagnosed,” said Dr. Bert Hampton of the Sleep

“I sleep many, many nights like ababy. It seems like years since Ihad a full night’s sleep from lyingdown to getting up. And since theCPAP machine blows humidifi edair into your nostrils, you don’thave a problem with dry sinuses.It’s not diffi cult to travel with ei-ther. It comes in its own little caseand I take it with me wherever Igo. It’s like that credit card – Inever leave home without it.”

Greg Belcher, manager of Parkwest’s

Sleep Disorders Center, shows one

of the various CPAP devices used in

treating sleep apnea.

“I have become an evangelist for sleep stud-ies and CPAP machines,” he says. “I tell everyone about it. I am like the guy who quit smoking – I tell everyone how great it is to have found a fi x to the problem. I think some people fear wearing that nose hose. Some are very resistant to that – Who can sleep with that noisy thing running? But today’s machines are whisper quiet. People have apprehensions about it. But I tell you, it’s much better than the al-ternative, and that person lying beside you is less likely of having a heart attack, stroke or diabetes.”

Now, Wilson is sleeping the sleep of the just.

“I don’t wake myself up suf-focating like I used to,” he says.

Disorders Center at Parkwest Medical Center. “Efforts need to continue to be made to raise the

awareness of the importance of diagnosing and treating sleep apnea.”

Hampton says that lack of knowledge about the affects of sleep apnea could have a serious impact on their health.

“A lot of people still don’t fully understand that obstructive sleep apnea is a risk factor for numerous major health problems including hypertension, diabetes, heart attacks, heart arrhythmias, strokes and even a form of dementia,” he said. “It is also a risk factor for work and driving accidents, poor school and work performance, headaches, memory and concentration problems, sexual dysfunction and low testosterone levels,

daytime sleepiness and fatigue. So education about the adverse health effects and quality of life effects of sleep apnea is extremely important.”

But diagnosis of sleep apnea is not simple because there can be many different causes. Primary care doctors, pulmonologists, neurologists or other doctors with specialty training in sleep disorders may be involved in making a defi nitive diagnosis and initiating treatment.

Diagnostic tests usually are performed in a sleep center, but new technology may allow some sleep studies to be conducted in the patient’s home.

Hampton says the test alone is a stumbling block for many people

who have anxiety over sleepingwhile hooked up to wires and notwanting to use a CPAP machine orbelieving they would not be able totolerate it.

“Most patients that come to a certifi ed sleep center and are evaluated by a certifi ed sleep specialist for sleep apnea and then are recommended to have a sleep study will have a high probability of having sleep apnea,” saidHampton. “The best treatment option for obstructive sleepapnea is CPAP (or some relatedform of CPAP therapy) so many of these patients will be treated with CPAP. But there are other potential treatment options andthese can be discussed with thesleep specialist.”

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Dr. Cheryl Greenacre, as-sociate professor of avian and zoological medicine at the UT Veterinary Medical Center, wants you to know something about that baby bird that you saw fl opping on your lawn.

The kids are alright

“People bring in fawns all the time,” says Greenacre. “There’s a lot of hard work, time and money that goes into saving lives. If we have people bringing in healthy young animals, it takes time and attention away from the ones who really do need help, and greatly taxes our resources.”

And it puts a serious kink in nature’s system, which is intended to teach the baby how to live in the wild.

In cases of injured wild-life, Greenacre and her col-leagues mostly focus on triage. The animal is then handed over to be treated off site by specialists li-censed by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Everything possible is done to get the animal back to the wild with 100 percent of its athletic ability.

Right now we’re smack in the middle of baby bird season, and fl edglings are

everywhere. Once they leave the nest, they’re on their own. They can’t fl y very well, which is why the parents stick around for a few weeks.

If you feel you absolutely have to do something to get a baby bird out of harm’s way, put it far back in shrubbery nearby, and lock your cats and dogs inside the house.

On a related note, the good doctor has recently op-erated on two magnifi cent birds of prey: a bald eagle and a red-tailed hawk. Both had been shot. The bald eagle made it. The hawk didn’t.

All hawks, owls, and golden and bald eagles are protected by federal law. If you see someone trying to shoot one of these birds, re-port them.

And leave that baby ani-mal alone, because the kids really are alright.Send your interesting animal stories to

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“It’s perfectly normal,” she says. “It’s trying to de-velop muscle tone, and its parents are nearby. Leave it alone.”

Dr. Greenacre compares wildlife babies to human teenagers.

“They’re learning how to live life, but they’re mak-ing lots of mistakes. One of their mistakes is being out in the open.”

There are a lot of Good Samaritans out there who see a baby animal all alone and pick it up, assuming that it’s in distress. This phe-nomenon even has a name: “spring kidnapping.” It not only applies to birds, but to rabbits, squirrels, deer and other types of wildlife.

But the best course of ac-tion is simply none. It’s all part of nature’s plan.

Particularly vulnerable to well-meaning “rescuers” are animals such as rabbits and fawns that have been taught by their mothers to stay still, blend in with the environment and wait for a parent’s return. When the animal doesn’t fl ee from an approaching human, many people assume it’s injured and needs help.

Knoxville Zoo’s board of directors has chosen Lisa New

as the zoo’s new executive director. New has served as

interim executive director since January. She previously

served as the zoo’s senior director of animal collections

and conservation, and has been employed by the

Knoxville Zoo since 1990. Photo submitted

New named zoo’s executive

director

HEALTH NOTES ■ UT Hospice Adult Grief Sup-

port Group meets 5-6:30 p.m.

each fi rst and third Tuesday in

the UT Hospice offi ce at 2270

Sutherland Ave. A light supper

is served. Info or reservation:

Brenda Fletcher, 544-6279.

■ UT Hospice, serving patients

and families in Knox and

15 surrounding counties,

conducts ongoing orientation

sessions for adults (18 and

older) interested in becoming

volunteers with the program.

No medical experience is

required. Training is provided.

Info: Penny Sparks, 544-6279.

Bruster is this week’s adopt-

able animal from Young-

Williams Animal Center. He

is a sweet, loving 2-year-old

miniature smooth haired

Dachshund mix. His adop-

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getting neutered, vaccina-

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Bruster at Young-Williams’

Kingston Pike location or

call 215-6599 for more in-

formation. See all of the

center’s adoptable animals

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Meet Bruster

If you have an elderly loved one who might need some company, you may want to consider contacting Knox PAWS (Placing Ani-mals with Seniors).

Sometimes friends come in furry packages. Photo submitted

Sara Barrett

Help for PAWS

Started in 2004 with a partnership between the Offi ce on Aging and Young-Williams Animal Center, Knox PAWS helps match se-niors with animals looking for homes.

Initially, the program was funded by donations from the community and the Dorothy Kidd Memo-rial Fund, but the funding is no longer available and the program needs ongoing fi nancial support. A big part of the program is defraying the cost of vaccinations and other adoption fees.

A “dog-friendly” fund-raiser will be held to benefi t Knox PAWS 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, at Stanley’s Greenhouse, 3029 Daven-port Road. Current clients of the organization will be on hand for a meet and greet. There will be live mu-sic, and refreshments will

be served. Dogs are also invited to the event. Tickets are $25 at the door. Info: w w w. k nox s e n ior s .or g /paws.html

Senior theaterLocal senior theater

troupe The Silver Stage Players will host the Dar-nell Players, a senior the-ater troupe from Atlanta, for three performances of the original work “The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Original Biographical Sto-ries Illustrated with Music and Pictures” 1 p.m. Fri-day, May 31, at the John T. O’Connor Senior Center and 7 p.m. at the Beck Cultural Center, and 7 p.m. Satur-day, June 1, at the Broad-way Academy of Performing Arts.

A meet and greet recep-tion will follow the two eve-ning performances.

The two senior groups originally met in 2008 at a biannual senior theater festival. When they met the second time last year, they began putting together a performance based on their shared experience in story-telling. “The Soundtrack of Our Lives” is the result.

Admission is free to all performances although a $5 donation is suggested. All proceeds from Friday’s evening performance will be given to Beck Cultural Center, and all other funds raised will go toward travel expenses for the Darnell Players. Info: 625-9877 or email director@wildthymeplayers.org.

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Homes 40CHEAP Houses For Sale

Up to 60% OFF 865-309-5222

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For Sale By Owner 40a5 ROOM HOME, Old

North Knox, 2 BR, LR, DR, kit., CH&A, new roof, $39,000 firm. 865-414-5152

FARRAGUT SCHOOLS: 4BR/3.5BA,

3370 SF, $375K, forsalebyowner.com/

23940418

MOVE IN READY Open House 5/18 & 19 2023 Houstonia Dr.

(Ftn City) Rancher 3BR / 2BA, FR, DR, 1st Fl laundry, hdwd floors. Walk-out bsmt offers LR, BR, BA, laundry, potential rental suite, detached garage & so much more. $134,950. Call Owner/Agent (Lic. in VA) 804-339-6529

Cemetery Lots 492 GRAVE Sites at

New Gray Cemetery, Western Ave. To-days value $1395 ea. Both $1500. Transfer fee incl. 865-368-8143

Real Estate Wanted 50WE BUY HOUSES

Any Reason, Any Condition 865-548-8267

www.ttrei.com

Real Estate Service 53Prevent Foreclosure

Free Help 865-268-3888

www.PreventForeclosureKnoxville.com

Commercial Prop-Sale 601 ACRE on Hardin

Valley with ware-house & office, $250,000. 865-806-3274

***Web ID# 246181***

Wanted To Buy 63

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Comm. Prop. - Rent 66CA$H for your House! Cash Offer in 24 Hours

865-365-8888 www.TNHouseRelief.com

Apts - Furnished 72

WALBROOK STUDIOS 251-3607

$140 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic

Cable. No Lse.

Condo Rentals 762BR, 2.5BA Ftn City, off Broadway near 640, Priv. patio, one car gar., $850/mo.

$50/mo. HOA. Call 865-679-8105.

Farragut. 2 BR, 1.5 BA condo, patio, pool, near Turkey Creek, $750 mo. 865-776-0830

KARNS 1 or 2 BR, all appls., $500 to $950. No pets. 865-599-5810, 865-660-3584

Rooms-Roommates 772 Female Roommates Wanted to share 3 BR House w/same. Incl. Utilities. Phone 865-382-4007

Manf’d Homes - Sale 85I BUY OLDER

MOBILE HOMES. 1990 up, any size OK.

865-384-5643

Business Opp. 130TOP HOME-BASED

FRANCHISE $500-$2,100 start up

& $150-$250/mo. Includes everything: supplies & support.

423-736-3271 ExtraIncome-Builder.com

Store Equipment 133bHEAVY DUTY steel

storage racks with 4x8 adjustable shelves, 18 total shelves, $1,800. Leeds 219-8746

Dogs 141Boxer Pups NKC, 6 wks,

fawn w/blk mask, tails, dew claws, wormed, $250. 865-765-1571

Cockapoo Puppies, 7 wks old, no shedding, should be very small when grown, vet ckd, 1st shots & wormed. $400. 423-312-1404 lv msg

COCKER SPANIEL Pups CKC, tri-color, home raised, $375. 931-445-3939; 931-644-5333

***Web ID# 245768***

ENGLISH BULLDOGS AKC, 3 males, born 4/25/13. Taking dep. Vet ck. Shots, micro-chipped, 1 yr. health

guar. $1500. Take Credit Cards. 865-385-0667 www.floreskennels.com ***Web ID# 246464***

GERMAN Shepherd AKC fem, 5 mos, ch. bloodline, show quality, all S & W, $500. 931-863-7520

***Web ID# 247620***

Say: I SAW IT

in the

GERMAN Shepherd Pup, 5 mos., AKC fem., shots current, $450. 865-406-5542

***Web ID# 245656***

MALTESE PUPS, Male, female, AKC, small. $400 & up. 423-733-2857; 423-300-9043.

MIN. PINSCHER PUPPIES, born 3/21/13, black & tan, $125. 865-313-1339

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds

Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles,

Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots

& wormed. We do layaways. Health guar. Div. of Animal Welfare

State of TN Dept. of Health.

Lic # COB0000000015. 423-566-3647

SHIH TZU puppies, 3 beautiful males, Shots & wormed. registered. $200. 865-740-6322

***Web ID# 247692***

ST. BERNARD Pups F, spayed, all vetted. www.NorDogs.9f.com

$900. 865-945-7063 ***Web ID# 246548***

YORKIE BABY FACE PUPS,

Small, 2 males. 423-784-3242.

***Web ID# 245332***

YORKIES 1 1/2 yr male, 1 yr fem. shots, housebroken. aw-some pets. 865-227-7141

YORKI Puppies, AKC 10 wks., ch. lines, Males, S&W, 865-463-2049, 865-441-6161

Free Pets 145

ADOPT! Looking for an addi-tion to the family?

Visit Young-Williams Animal Center, the official shelter for

Knoxville & Knox County.

Call 215-6599 or visit

knoxpets.org

Farmer’s Market 150ALLIS CHALMERS

TRACTOR. 40 HP. PS, live PTO. $5200. 865-458-2929

BLACK SALER'S Bulls, Yearlings, & Breeding Age. Call Dennis Bailey 423-626-3875; 423-526-7821

Building Materials 1882 8X10 heavy wooden

garage doors, all hardware, $200 ea. Call 865-556-3704.

ENTRANCE DOOR with 2 side panels & transom, new, solid wood, $1,000 (cost $3,200 new). 865-591-0249

***Web ID# 247175***

Flowers-Plants 189

IRIS FOR SALE Over 100 kinds. Begins May 3. $4 / Rhizome

6005 Green Valley Dr. Holston Hills, Knox.

Lawn-Garden Equip. 190CUB CADET lawn

mower LT1050, 50" cut, $1,400. Call 865-789-5519.

Machinery-Equip. 193NISSAN FORKLIFT,

lift cap. 3,000 lbs., pneumatic tires,

$4,500. 865-216-5387

Music Instruments 198Wurlitzer Professional

Organ. Wurlitzer Centura Professional Organ Model 805. Best offer. 931-707-8699

Household Furn. 204BIG SALE!

B & C MATTRESS, Full $99, Queen, $125, King, $199. Pillow Top.

865-805-3058.

L-Shaped Sect.couch w/chaise built in. Earth tone. Gorgeous. 5 mo. old. $1000/b.o. Pd. $1200; 865-387-8612

Flea Markets 212PALLETS OF CONSUMER

GOODS $250. Call Alan @ 423-736-4220

Antiques 21648" OAK ROLL TOP

DESK, great cond., $350.

Call 865-680-2493

Oak table, 5 legs, 4 chairs $450. Cor. china cab., lighted glass, shelves, $250. 865-992-9609

***Web ID# 245952***

Medical Supplies 219LIFT CHAIR, large

size, maroon color, $600. Used less than 1 yr. 865-548-1300

NEW MERITS 3-whl mobility scooter. Perfect cond. $500. Call 689-2585.

Boats Motors 23214' JON BOAT, 25 hp

Mercury motor, elec. start & trailer. $1,500. 865-524-2782

ALUM. fishing boat, 2001, 14' Suzuki 25 HP 4 stroke mtr. w/trlr. $3700. 865-567-5676.

BOSTON WHALER 15', 60 HP Mercury, less than 100 hrs, $11,500. 865-577-1427

SEARAY 1988 22' cuddy cabin w/inboard/ outboard V6 eng. trlr. incl. $5000. 423-920-0701 ***Web ID# 242816***

TRACKER PAN FISH 16, like brand new, stick steering, 40HP Merc. Numerous extras. Only

$4350. 865-300-5132.

YAMAHA WAVERUNNER 2005 FX Cruiser, 100 hrs,

4S, 3 sts, great shape, $6,800. 865-335-2931

***Web ID# 242996***

Campers 235CARRI-LITE 5th Whl

Trailer, 1999, 32' 2 Slide Outs, $10,000. 931-707-9177

***WEB ID# 247608***

Fleetwood Wilderness 2003, 27', qn. BR, 1 lg. slide out, in exc. cond.

$7000. 865-255-3933.

TOYHAULER 2010, TV, stereo, tub, shower, 3 burner stove, exc. cond. $12,800. 865-856-0098

***Web ID# 242399***

Motor Homes 2372012 Gulfstream BT

Cruiser, 31', 8100 mi, 1 slide, TV/DVR, sleeps 4-5, 450 V10, w/car dolly & cover, pwr awning, 1 owner, $60,000 obo. Listed $104K. 865-607-6761

***Web ID# 247920***

FMC 30', 440 Chrysl. Industrial gas motor, many opts. $10,000. 865-577-1427

FOREST RIVER SUNSEEKER 2008, Class C, only 5800 mi. Has it all! V10, 2 slides, flat screen TVs, gen. has only 16 hrs. Always covered. Same as new. $48,000/bo. 865-438-8680

***Web ID# 247349***

Motor Homes 237GEORGIA BOY 1999,

Reduced $19k. Class A, 34', V10, LR slide, 34K mi, very clean, flat screen, rear camera, lots more. New batt. Runs great. 865-310-5212

***Web ID# 246855***

PACE ARROW 2006, 36', with RV lot in Townsend, TN. $112,000. 865-908-8212

WINNEBAGO BRAVE 1999, 43,872 mi, very little usage. $19,500 obo. 865-988-3490

Motorcycles 2381947 SIMPLEX

SERVI-CYCLE, all orig. $2,000. 865-368-9828 before 8pm

***Web ID# 246698***

GOLDWING TRIKE 1989, GL1500, 74k mi., $15,000 obo. Call 865-988-3490.

Harley Davidson 2005 Electra Glide, Standard, only 8859 mi, $11,500. 865-207-7809

H.D. 2006 ULTRA Classic, mint cond., lots of chrome, garage kept, $13,900 OBO. 865-591-7847

ATV’s 238a1998 300 GREEN

HONDA 4-Wheeler with wench, $3,200. Call 865-789-5519.

Autos Wanted 253A BETTER CASH

OFFER for junk cars, trucks, vans, running

or not. 865-456-3500

I BUY JUNK CARS & TRUCKS.

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

Auto Accessories 254 2012 NISSAN Altima 6

spoke wheel, like new, Sell $250. List $375. 865-531-6290

Utility Trailers 255UTILITY TRAILERS

All Sizes Available 865-986-5626

smokeymountaintrailers.com

Vans 256CHEVY UPLANDER

2008 LS, 73K mi., 7 pass., loaded, maroon, $9500 obo. 865-591-0249 ***Web ID# 244428***

DODGE MAXI Cargo Van 1999, 220k mi, runs good. $2000. 423-736-2176

HONDA ODYSSEY Touring 2010, fully loaded, 23K mi., exc. cond. $22,500. 423-295-5393.

Trucks 257CHEV. SSR PU, 2004,

slingshot yellow, 25K mi., like new, $26,000. 865-712-3170

***Web ID# 245227***

Trucks 257TOYOTA TACOMA

2003, 4 wheel drive, 5 speed, $10,995. Call 865-696-7946.

TOYOTA TUNDRA SR5 2000, AT, 4 dr., black w/gray int. spray in bedliner, exc. cond. new tires, 130K mi., $9000 obo. 423-312-8256.

***Web ID# 246869***

4 Wheel Drive 258CHEV. 2007 2500 HD, Duramax diesel w /Allison transm., 4 dr LT, red, 74k mi, $32,000/b.o. 865-389-6673 ***Web ID# 245457***

FORD F-150 XLT 1995, Red, 4WD, V8, 5.0, 101,000 mi. New whls. & tires, tinted windows, great cond. $4500. 865-207-0316.

***Web ID# 243525***

JEEP CJ5 304 1977, V8, Many extras, runs and drives great. $5K, 806-1189.

TOYOTA T-100, 1996 extra cab 4x4 SR5. Running boards, Bdliner, grnd eff. $4,995. 865-748-0391

Antiques Classics 2601928 MODEL A Ford

Coupe, excellent cond., $16,000. 423-351-3100

1949 CHEV Coupe, AT, small V8, PS, teal w/gray int., CLEAN. $18,000. 865-992-9609

***Web ID# 245927***

1988 S-10 Hot Rod Truck, apprx 425 HP, many extras, $6,800. 865-603-0322

Chev Impala Conv. 1961, 283 AT, red w/black top, project car, $16,000. 865-256-7201

***Web ID# 244744***

Chevrolet Fleetmaster Coupe 1948, 100% restored, 458 mi. on restoration. $20,000. 865-635-1898

***Web ID# 245403***

CROWNLINE 2008 EX-240 deck boat, less than 100 hrs. Ab-solutely mint cond. Black & white, 5.7L V8, stainless prop. Sony stereo syst. Fresh water tank & head, never used. Great family boat. Kept in dry, stack storage, never kept in water. Looks & performs perfect. $36,900/b.o. 865-227-8360; 865-692-9282 ***Web ID# 247333***

FORD COUPE 1936, project car, 2 dr w/rumble seat, $8,000. 865-256-7201

***Web ID# 244753***

FORD PU 1940 Street Rod, all Ford, new bed, fenders, parts. $18,000. 865-591-4239

FORD RANGER Splash 1993, 5.0 eng. AT w/overdrive, $3,250. 865-591-4239

MERCURY Cougar, 1969 Convertible V8 needs to be restored $3,500. 865-216-5387

Antiques Classics 260OLDSMOBILE REGENCY 1978

403 (6.6L), V8, Top of line, garaged, loaded,

865-719-0368 ***Web ID# 243621***

VOLKSWAGEN 1963, all original, runs great, perfect cond. All paperwork. $6500. 865-216-1304

***Web ID# 246226***

Sport Utility 261CADILLAC Escalade 2007, 50K mi., diamond white, non-smoker,

22" wheels. Only $34,750. 865-300-5132.

HONDA PILOT 2010 EXL, leather, DVD, 50K mi, exc cond, $20,500. 423-295-5393

NISSAN Xterra 2004, 92K mi, 1 owner, exc cond, clean Car Fax, $8500. 423-562-0875

Imports 262HONDA ACCORD EXL

2011, V-6, 270 HP, 4 dr sedan, gunmetal grey, loaded, all features exc. nav. 19" Grey Alloy wheels, 20k mi. LIKE NEW. All recom-mended dealer maint. Still under warr. $23,500. 865-428-2038; 865-654-2638

***Web ID# 247023***

KIA OPTIMA 2007, 80K mi, great cond., great gas mileage, $7975. 865-680-2656

***Web ID# 238355***

LEXUS ES300 2003 Clean car fax, black, loaded, tint wind., new tires. $7,995. 865-556-9162

LEXUS LS430, 2001 Sedan, loaded, leather, 1 owner, 136K mi $8,950

406-7407 or 219-8746

MERCEDES CLK 2002, 55 AMG convertible. 58k mi. Blk on blk $8000. 865-250-1480

MERCEDES SLK 300 HT convertible, 2010, 9800 mi., selling for $36,000, (list 56,500) Call 865-806-6026.

***Web ID# 243486*** NISSAN ALTIMA

1999, 30 mpg, all power incl sunrf, $3360. 865-603-0322

VOLKSWAGEN Beetle 2012, black pearl, loaded, pristine! 10,600 mi. $22,500. 865-933-6802; 865-235-2633

***Web ID# 242469***

VW JETTA SE 2011 40K miles, $15,995.

Call 865-690-8528.

Sports 264CHEVY SSR 2004,

47K mi., AT V8, black w/ghost flames, gar. kept. $25,000. Call 865-992-5330.

PORSCHE BOXTER 1999, white, black top & int. Exc. shape. 45k mi. $13,000. 865-207-5942

***Web ID# 243939***

Domestic 265BUICK 1991 Park Ave

Ultra, loaded, extra clean, garage kept, drive anywhere, 865-406-5915

Cadillac Deville 2003 Diamond Red, fully loaded, $4900. 865-680-2656

Cadillac DTS 2001, fully loaded, lthr seats, sunrf, 143K mi, 8 cyl, silver ext, gray int, $3,200. Scott Co. 205-259-9453

***Web ID# 246715***

CADILLAC FLEET-WOOD Brougham 1994, 4 dr., 1 owner, garaged, like new, 149K mi., $3,500. 865-690-6836

Dodge Challenger SRT8 2011, fully loaded, 1 owner, 21K mi, mint, $36,000. 865-200-1949

MERC. TRACER 1997 LS, sport pkg, 2.0 auto., AC, must see $2,650. 865-643-7103

Fencing 327FENCE WORK Instal-

lation & repair. Free est. 43 yrs exp! Call 973-2626.

Flooring 330

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stallation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328

Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER

SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.

Handyman 335CARPENTRY, PLUMBING,

painting, siding. Free est, 30+ yrs exp!

Call 607-2227.

Lawn Care 339TRACTOR WORK,

bush hog, grading & tilling. $50 job minimum. 235-6004

Pressure Washing 350

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Roofing / Siding 352

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Tree Service 357

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FARRAGUT LIBRARY CALENDARStorytimes and events at the Farragut Library, 417

N. Campbell Station Road. A parent or guardian must accompany each child, except for Older Preschool. For info, call 865-777-1750.

■ Monday, May 13, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Storytime for ages 3-5.

■ Tuesday, May 14, 10:30 a.m. – Older Preschool Storytime for ages 4-6.

■ Wednesday, May 15, 10:30 a.m. – Baby Bookworms for infants to age 2.

■ Thursday, May 16, 10:30 a.m. – Toddler Storytime for ages 2-3.

■ Friday, May 17, 10:30 a.m. – Preschool Storytime for ages 3-5.

THROUGH SUNDAY, MAY 19Call for photo entries

The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville is accepting entries of photographic works for Knoxville Photo 2013, a juried exhibition that will be on display July 5-26 at The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St.

Deadline for entries is midnight Sunday, May 19. The competition is open to all artists.

Entries must be original works completed within the past two years in these categories: The Human Experience; Our Earth; Travel; and Digital Imagination. The nonrefundable entry fee is $30 for up to three images ($20 for alliance members and students). Up to seven additional images may be submitted for $5 each ($4 for members/students).

Apply online and/or download an application at www.knoxalliance.com/photo.html or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Suzanne Cada, Arts & Culture Alliance, P.O. Box 2506, Knoxville, TN 37901. Prizes include at least $600 in cash awards.

MONDAY, MAY 13Job Resources Group

The Job Resources Group will meet from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 13, at Concord United Methodist Church, 11020 Roane Drive.

The group provides assistance in preparing for interviews, revising resumes and fi nding employment.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15Salsarita’s grand opening

Bettye Sisco, president of the Farragut/West Knox Chamber of Commerce, will help dedicate the newest local Salsarita’s, the Fresh Mexican Cantina at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, by rolling a large burrito with select special guests.

The new restaurant in Cedar Bluff on Kingston Pike, in front of Academy Sports, will open offi cially at 11 a.m., with the fi rst 100 guests each receiving a Cantina Club Card preloaded with amounts ranging from $10 to $100. One of the guests will win free Salsarita’s for a year.

At 2 p.m. there will be two eating contests, one in which participants will attempt to down four ounces of Salsarita’s Tres Fuegos Hot Salsa and another in which participants see who can eat a large Salsarita’s burrito the fastest. Winners from both contests will receive free Salsarita’s chips and salsa for a year.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15Grocery-store tour

UT Medical Center’s Healthy Living Kitchen team will feature a grocery-store tour with registered dietitian Janet Seiber at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, at Food City, 11501 Hardin Valley Road.

Seiber will provide tips on healthy grocery shopping, comparing food labels and selecting food items that fi t attendees’ desired eating plans.

The program is free, but registration is required. To register, call 865-305-6970 or visit www.utmedicalcenter.org/hlk.

THURSDAY, MAY 16Free budget classes

The Good Samaritan Center of Loudon County offers free budget classes on the third Thursday of each month at the center, 119 “A” St., Lenoir City.

The classes are provided by CredAbility, a nonprofi t credit counseling and education agency, and offer one-on-one help with the basics of personal fi nance.

To register, call Paula Roach, 865-986-1777, ext. 12.

THURSDAYS, MAY 16-AUG. 8DivorceCare

DivorceCare will be offered from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays from May 16 through Aug. 8 at Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike.

The series lasts 13 weeks, but those interested may attend any session.

For more info, email care@fellowshipknox.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 18Frazier Chapter, DAR

Samuel Frazier Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at the

Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road.Member Tracy Liverman and her son, L.B.

Liverman, will present the program, “The History and Celebration of Our Country’s Flag.” For more info, call 865-675-6420.

SATURDAY, MAY 18UDC Hannum Chapter

The Captain W.Y.C. Hannum Chapter #1881, United Daughters of the Confederacy will meet at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at Green Meadow Country Club in Alcoa.

The business session will begin at 11 a.m., followed by lunch. The program topic “General James Longstreet” will be presented by the General James Longstreet Chapter 954 Children of the Confederacy Chapter.

Visitors are welcome. For reservations or more info, call Charlotte Miller, 865-448-6716.

MONDAY, MAY 20Job Resources Group

The Job Resources Group will meet from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 13, at Concord United Methodist Church, 11020 Roane Drive.

The group provides assistance in preparing for interviews, revising resumes and fi nding employment.

TUESDAY, MAY 28PK Hope Is Alive

The PK Hope Is Alive Parkinson Support Group of East Tennessee will meet

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, in the Family Life Center at Kern United Methodist Church, 451 E. Tennessee Ave., in Oak Ridge. This month’s program will be “BIG,” a physical therapy program for those with Parkinson’s, presented by physical therapist Margaret Keele.

East Tennessee Personal Care Services will provide a light lunch. Family and care-support partners of those with Parkinson’s are welcome.

The group is affi liated with the Parkinson Disease Foundation and National Parkinson Foundation. For more info, contact Karen Sampsell, 865-482-4867 or pk_hopeisalive@bellsouth.net, or visit www.pkhopeisalive.org.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4Caregiver Support Group

The Caregiver Support Group will meet 10 a.m.-noon Tuesday, June 4, in Room 293 at Concord United Methodist Church,

The support group, which is affi liated with Alzheim-er’s Tennessee Inc., meets on the fi rst Tuesday of each month. Anyone in the community who gives care to an elderly individual is welcome to attend.

Refreshments will be provided. For more info, call 865-675-2835.

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