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By Anne HartNot since the 1980s has Knox-
ville seen an event like the one set for the World’s Fair Park in late May.
If you’re a lover of barbecue, you might want to start dieting right now because QueFest, the 2015 Tennessee State Barbecue Championship, is going to be an opportunity to nibble your way to pork paradise.
On May 29 and 30, the heavenly aroma of barbecue will waft over the park as it did when the events called “Riverfest” dotted the site for a few years after the fair closed, when local groups competed for the best barbecue in town.
Those events will look like be-ginner stuff when the Rotary Club of Bearden hosts some 50 or so con-
testants from all over the country at the Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS)-sanctioned QueFest, which will feature two days of intense com-petition for the best barbecue in four categories, live music and lots of other entertainment for the entire family.
The cooking competition for KCBS honors is fi erce and like no other. It is closely monitored and judged by professionals. No ama-teurs here: the winners’ purse to-tals more than $10,000.
The big rigs and fancy motor homes hauling all manner of grill-ing equipment will start arriving at
the park’s South Lawn early on Friday, May 29. By 5
p.m., when the event opens to the public, the cooking will be un-
derway, along with entertainment for the evening.
L e g e n d a r y concert promoter Stephen
Gudis of Nashville is lining up top-fl ight entertainers and bands to perform Friday until 10 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Visitors will be able to wander the site and talk with contestants about their “secret recipes” and special techniques.
And there will be plenty of good food. Event chair Ted Hotz says vendors will include local
Ted Hotz
Rotary barbecue cook-off headed to World’s Fair Park
favorite Dead End BBQ, whose owner, George Ewart, has shared
his expertise with Rotarians as they have planned this event.
“We will also have two other ven-dors from outside this area,” Hotz says, “because we want to give folks the opportunity to
experience the regional differences in barbecue.”
While the list of vendors isn’t complete yet, and while barbecue will unquestionably be the “main course,” Hotz says ice cream and
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‘Standardized’The public is invited to a
free screening of the movie “Standardized: Lies, Money & Civil Rights: How Testing Is Ruining Public Education” from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Bearden Public Library, 100 Golf Club Road. A panel discussion will follow.
FC Town HallFountain City Town Hall
will hear from TDOT offi cials regarding improvements to the Broadway/I-640 interchange at a special called meeting Mon-day, March 9, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 5337 Jacksboro Pike. All are invited. Info: fountaincitytownhall.org
Raised bedsA free public gardening
presentation on raised garden beds by Knox County Mas-ter Gardeners will be noon Thursday, March 12, at Cansler Family YMCA, 616 Jessamine Street. The “lunch and learn” event is free and includes lunch. RSVP requested to 865-637-9622.
By Bill DockeryThe paperwork is in and the
waiting has started.Knoxville’s Community Devel-
opment Corp. completed its ap-plication Feb. 2 for low-income tax credits that will allow KCDC to build 90 new apartments on the site of two 1960s-era housing developments in the Five Points neighborhood of East Knoxville.
In June, KCDC will fi nd out whether it has fi nancial support from the Tennessee Housing De-velopment Authority to break ground on the project in early spring 2016.
“The program is very competi-tive,” said Art Cate, KCDC’s chief operating offi cer. “We are depen-dent on the annual funding cycle through the THDA.”
The current proposal is for phase one of a four-phase, 10-year plan intended to replace the exist-ing Walter P. Taylor and Lee Wil-liams homes with new low-income quarters. It will occupy the empty tract at the corner of Bethel and McConnell.
The upcoming project is not the fi rst to create new apart-ments and tear down old housing
KCDC has applied for state
funding to begin phase
one of a construction
project that will replace
the Walter P. Taylor and
Lee Williams low-income
homes.
to redevelop Five Points housing
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at Five Points. At the same time KCDC was using Hope 6 monies to remake Mechanicsville several years ago, the agency also razed 183 of 500 units in the Taylor and Williams projects.
“Since that early work was off the footprint of Taylor/Williams
By Betsy PickleYour SOUP is on the way, Knox-
ville.Inspired by a program that
started in Chicago and now has taken hold around the globe, the South Knoxville Alliance is launching Knoxville SOUP, a micro-funding program that con-nects community improvement projects with the community.
It’s like Kickstarter, only in per-son. And with food.
Debra Bradshaw, chair of the South Knoxville Alliance, was “coaxed” by her daughter into reading an article about Detroit
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SOUP, which started in Febru-ary 2010 and in its fi rst four years dis-tributed $55,000 to community projects. Brad-shaw immediately thought it was a great idea, and as she shared the concept with SKA members, they
embraced it, too.The SKA will present the fi rst
Knoxville SOUP event Saturday, March 14, in the community room
SOUP time
In the sunshineDoes the Sunshine Law go
too far? Not far enough? Does it give too much power to mayors and political operatives? At-torney Scott Frith lays out the pros and cons of the law here in Shopper-News.
➤ Read his story on page 4
NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Mayor’s meetingsKnox County Mayor Tim
Burchett will host constituent meetings in March to invite comment from citizens. These meetings are open to the pub-lic. Times and locations are:
■ Thursday, March 5, 4-5 p.m., Fountain City Library, 5300 Stanton Road.
■ Monday, March 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Cedar Bluff Li-brary, 9045 Cross Park Drive.
■ Thursday, March 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Bearden Li-brary, 100 Golf Club Road.
■ Monday, March 16, 9-10 a.m., Strang Senior Cen-ter, 109 Lovell Heights Road.
■ Thursday, March 19, 11 a.m. to noon, Karns Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway.
■ Monday, March 23, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Powell Library, 330 W. Emory Road.
■ Wednesday, March 25, 9:30-10:30 a.m., Corryton Se-nior Center, 9331 Davis Drive.
■ Friday, March 27, 11 a.m. to noon, Carter Senior Center, 9036 Asheville Hwy.
■ Monday, March 30, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Howard Pinkston Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike.
2 • MARCH 4, 2015 • Shopper news
health & lifestyles
Obesity has become a signifi cant national health issue. Our society is over-weight. The foods we eat are often poor choices and can lead to obesity.
Morbid obesity, defi ned as having a BMI over 35 and being at risk for obe-sity-related health issues, is closely correlated with serious medical conditions including heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
The Fort Sanders Center for Bariatric Surgery is the answer to the prayers of many who battle obesity and its accompanying is-sues. Bariatric surgeons Dr. Mark Colquitt and Dr. Jonathan Ray have helped more than 2,200 patients lose close to 200,000 pounds through a combination of surgical, spiritual and emotional support.
The atmosphere at the Center for Bariatric Surgery is one of sup-
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Making a lifesaving decisionNo matter how many diets she
tried, Tracie Kitts of Sevierville, 44, couldn’t keep the pounds off.
“I had tried many diets over the years. I could lose weight, but then I’d gain it back and more,” she said.
“I did not really have morbid obesity at fi rst, but I was always 20 to 30 pounds overweight grow-ing up,” she said. “Then, after I got married I gained even more. And then I got pregnant and gained even more!”
By the time Kitts was 40, she was 100 pounds overweight and taking blood pressure and choles-terol medication.
“I had hypertension, high cho-lesterol, and I had a lot of back and joint pain. After talking with one of my doctors, they told me I needed to lose weight or I would develop diabetes because it’s in my family.”
The weight took a toll on her family life as well. “I had a baby and she was growing up, and I couldn’t play with her,” said Kitts. “I went to Dollywood and wasn’t able to ride in the swings with her, which embarrassed me big time.”
Kitts works as a patient advo-cate in the offi ce of Dr. Jonathan Ray, a bariatric surgeon with the Fort Sanders Center for Bariatric Surgery. Kitts helps patients pre-pare for weight loss surgery, and in 2011, she decided the surgery was right for her as well.
On Dec. 27, 2011, Ray performed a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on Kitts. Using laparoscopic in-struments and several small inci-sions, Ray removed about 80 per-cent of Kitts’ stomach.
The “gastric sleeve” procedure, as it’s commonly called, is an in-creasingly popular option over the older and more traditional gastric
The ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ of bariatric surgeryLearn more about bariatric surgery
Register for informational seminars conducted by sur-geons and staff from the Fort Sanders Regional Center for Bariatric Surgery by calling 865-673-FORT. Seminars will be held on these Thursday evenings:
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center1901 Clinch Ave., Knoxville, TN 37916Classroom #1, Lobby Level
■ Thursday, March 12, at 6 p.m. ■ Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m.
■ Thursday, April 9, at 6 p.m. ■ Thursday, April 23, at 7 p.m.
■ Thursday, May 14, at 6 p.m. ■ Thursday, May 28, at 7 p.m.
■ Thursday, June 11, at 6 p.m. ■ Thursday, June 25, at 7 p.m.
Mark Colquitt, MD and
Jonathan Ray, MD
drink a lot of carbonated drinks. Idon’t drink anything carbonated,although my husband and daugh-ter may drink it when they go out to eat.”
All three of them joined a gymand go three to four days each week. “And if I’m not able to goover the weekend, we do activities like walking, swimming and camp-ing.”
Kitts lost 108 pounds within ayear of her surgery. Her husbandand daughter lost weight as well.
“I have kept it off; I continued totry to eat right and exercise,” she said. “My daughter, husband and Ido a lot of outside things now. Wewalk the track at a local church, wego swimming. And it’s being more mindful of what you put in yourmouth, too.”
Ray said his staff helps each patient to learn new ways of cook-ing, eating and exercising through several classes before and after surgery.
“What we have learned in the last 60 years with bariatric surgery is that this is a lifestyle change,” hesaid. “It’s a change mentally, spiri-tually and psychologically.
“To lose one pound you haveto burn an extra 2,600 to 3,600calories, but walking a mile only expends about 50 to 100 calories.So that’s a whole lot of calories toexpend to lose that weight, and it’s almost impossible when you’re100 pounds overweight.”
Kitts said she would recom-mend Dr. Ray to anyone struggling with obesity.
“Dr. Ray is a joy,” she said. “Hetalks about God, and I’m a Chris-tian. He sits down and talks with you, explains things to you, anyquestions you have, he’s there foryou. Every time my daughter sees Dr. Ray, she always says, ‘He savedmy mom’s life.’ ”
bypass procedure, according to Ray.
Both procedures reduce the size of the stomach, but the sleeve procedure leaves a slightly larger stomach size, about 4 ounces,
compared to 2 ounces for gastric bypass and 64 ounces, a half-gal-lon, for a normal stomach.
The sleeve also carries fewer side effects and complications than the bypass procedure, Ray said.
With any weight loss surgery, the lifestyle changes afterward are even more important than the surgery. Kitts’ whole family, including her hus-band, David, and daugh-ter, Sarah, made changes
to their diet and exercise habits.“We cut out high carb food, any-
thing white,” said Kitts. “We don’t eat a lot of sweets,
and we really push the protein and vegetables and water. We don’t
port and encouragement. Many of our staff members have undergone bariatric surgery and use their ex-perience to help others be success-ful on their journey.
The surgeons offer two main options for their patients: laparo-scopic gastric bypass (usually done as a robotic procedure), in which a smaller stomach pouch is created and a portion of the small intes-tine is rerouted to the pouch; and sleeve gastrectomy, which removes a portion of the stomach and cre-
ates a narrower digestive tube. “The safety of bariat-ric surgery has improved greatly,” Dr. Colquitt said. “Today, the surgical risk of the procedure is compara-ble to having a gallbladder removed.” He said in most instances, the patient goes home within 24 hours after surgery.
“But in order for bar-iatric surgery to succeed,
people have to commit to making the lifestyle changes to support the choice,” Dr. Colquitt said. Dr. Ray added, “Our team will be there for the patient before and after the procedure. We can get them to the door, but they have to walk through it.”
“Our goal is to promote health and wellness and support an obe-sity-free lifestyle,” they say, “and to help our patients become more productive – and fully engaged in life.”
Tracie Kitts shows off
her new fi gure. We
think she looks great!
Tracie Kitts
before bariatric
surgery.
Exercise has
become a key to
maintaining Kitts’s
weight loss.
David Massey, Knoxville neighborhood coordina-tor. “They make many con-tributions, but most make their marks in community beautifi cation and/or atten-tion to the wellbeing of the people living near them.”
The 2015 Neighborhood Conference will be held at the Knoxville Convention Center and will feature 32 workshops, including fi ve for young people, 82 information booths and three breakout sessions. Door prizes will be awarded at the end of the day.
“Early-bird registration ended March 3,” Massey said. “Everyone is welcome to come right up through Saturday, but we may not have a box lunch ready for them.”
The KAT bus system is offering free rides to the
conference, and the Smart Trips program is available for those interested in carpooling, he said.
Mayor Madeline Rogero will recognize the honorees
group some 300 strong that cleans up and beautifi es neglected corners of their community. They also help deliver church food baskets.
■ Sandy Robinson, a 59-year resident of Wesley Hills, has served in various offi ces of the Wesley Hills and West Hills neighbor-hood associations and de-livers the association news-letters.
■ Rita Schwartz, nomi-nated for starting a morning exercise group at Love Tow-ers in Old North Knoxville, knits stockings for older resi-dents and founded the Win Our World urban ministry that sends young people and teenagers to serve the com-munity.
■ Monte Stanley spearheaded the creation of
an Old Se-vier neigh-b o r h o o d garden for m o n a r c h butter f lies and sup-plies South K n o x v i l l e Elementary School and
its students with plants from the greenhouses that bear his name.
■ Ronnie Thompson, who serves as president of the Montgomery Village
residents association off M a r y v i l l e Pike, works with com-m u n i t y agencies on educat ion, health and p a r e n t i n g issues, and started the Paint the Street proj-
ect. ■ Nancy Wallace, who
is known to her West View neighbors for being fi rst on the scene in emergencies, provides church pantry food to non-driving neigh-bors and mows the lawns of eight neighbors.
■ Tonja Warren, past president and current trea-
surer of the Mont gom -ery Village r e s i d e n t s association, is program director for Mont gom -ery Village Ministr ies and helps
residents with personal needs.
■ The award is namedafter the late Diana Conn, who received the fi rst award posthumously in 2013. Info: 215-2113.
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Bill Dockery
World’s Fair Park From page 1
other treats will be available.QueFest represents a tre-
mendous success story for Bearden Rotary. It was just three years ago that club member Oliver Smith IV and Ewart convinced the group that a barbecue cook-off could be a tremendous fundraiser for Rotary’s proj-
ects, both locally and inter-nationally.
Episcopal School of Knoxville hosted the fi rst two years on its West Knox-ville campus, but the crowds quickly outgrew the avail-able space.
The number of volunteers who make it all happen has
also grown. Hotz says a few dozen have been working on QueFest for several months. By the time this year’s event opens, that number will grow to a few hundred.
Mark your calendars. This is one event you don’t want to miss.
KCDC seeks funds From page 1
and used a different fund-ing source, we don’t con-sider it a part of the current project,” Cate said.
The agency used federal stimulus and neighborhood stabilization funds to put back 85 units on the site of the decommissioned East-port Elementary School. The Residences at Eastport combined new construction with part of the existing school structure adjacent to the Taylor/Williams tract.
“Because Eastport was housing for the elderly, we took a few more precautions and made it highly secure by design,” Cate said.
If funded, the fi rst phase will include units to house 90 elderly residents in a single three-story building with elevators and an inte-rior hallway.
“We use a build-relocate-tear-down model of devel-opment,” Cate said. “We build new residential units
on the vacant footprint of the old development, then relocate the residents to the new space, and then tear down the old structures they vacated.”
In addition to the new build at the Taylor and Wil-liams projects, KCDC has facilitated the construction of 29 homes in the larger Five Points neighborhood surrounding the city park at South Chestnut Street and Wilson Avenue.
Soup time From page 1
at Flenniken Landing, 115 Flenniken Ave. Doors open at 6 p.m., and those enter-ing are asked to make a sug-gested donation of $5. At 7 p.m., four groups or indi-viduals selected in advance will have four minutes each to describe the projects for which they seek funding.
They will have a few more minutes to answer questions from attendees, and then everyone will eat a meal of soup, salad, bread and dessert. People will be able to discuss the projects as well as get to know each other in a relaxed setting.
At the end of dinner, at-tendees will vote on the project they want to be funded. The secret votes will be tallied, and the win-ner will get the “gate.”
Deadline for submitting a proposal is Saturday, March 7. Details are at knoxville-soup.org.
“It’s meant to be very
simple and accessible to ev-erybody,” says Bradshaw.
She is excited about see-ing the proposals, but since she is not on the proposal team she will have no say as to which four will be chosen for presentation. While this month she personally favors projects that will help to beautify South Knoxville in preparation for the Dogwood Arts Festival, the crowd will determine the winner.
The winning project won’t necessarily be from South Knoxville.
“We’re kind of biased about South Knoxville,” she says of the SKA, “but the con-cept is bigger than just South Knoxville. Detroit … has a citywide dinner, and then they have (several) neighbor-hood dinners besides.
“We wanted to start with the idea of Knoxville SOUP, not just South Knoxville SOUP. Maybe we’ll end up with a South Knoxville
SOUP and a West Knoxville SOUP and other groups un-der that umbrella. In the meantime, we didn’t feel like we needed to limit ourselves to just us and our neighbors.”
Bradshaw, who expects to see at least 100 attend the kickoff dinner, says the SOUP organizers are still seeking food donations from restaurants. SKA is donating all the non-food supplies.
Future SOUP dinners will move around town.
“Unless something ob-vious and free and perfect comes up, this fi rst year we’re going to pick a different spot every month,” says Brad-shaw. “We fi gure, the more we move it, the more people are going to get exposed to it.
“All we need is a big room and some bathrooms. And a kitchen would be nice, so we’d have sinks.”
For more info, email [email protected].
City’s best neighbors get
shoutoutsThe accomplishments of
the nominees for Knoxville’s highest award for neighbor-liness are many and varied. One started a neighborhood watch. Another knits socks for her elderly neighbors. A third created a neighbor-hood garden for monarch butterfl ies. A fourth makes her neighbors feel like they live in Mayberry.
From butterflies to beautification
14 people have been recognized by their neighbors for their good works
Good Neighbor of the Year award
at a noon luncheon and will name the recipient of the Good Neighbor of the Year award.
The nominees are: ■ Kirk Anderson, “the
mayor of Timbercrest,” is known for pulling people together for social events, tending to neighborhood signage and landscaping, and keeping up with elderly neighbors.
■ Tanisha Fitzgerald Baker, a Project GRAD ad-ministrator at Austin-East High School, is credited with giving her Pleasant Knoll neighborhood a “Mayberry feeling” of belonging and safety for local children. Her villageofknox.com website promotes positive events in East Knoxville.
■ Beth Booker is known for her work on beautifi cation projects, the Old North Knox home tour and the creation of Old North Park.
COMMUNITY NOTES
■ Alice Bell Spring Hill Neigh-
borhood Association. Info:
Ronnie Collins, 637-9630.
■ Beaumont Community
Organization. Info: Natasha
Murphy, 936-0139.
■ Belle Morris Community Ac-
tion Group meets 7 p.m. each
second Monday, City View
Baptist Church, 2311 Fine Ave.
Info: www.bellemorris.com or
Rick Wilen, 524-5008.
■ Chilhowee Park Neighbor-
hood Association meets
6:30 p.m. each last Tuesday,
Administration Building,
Knoxville Zoo. Info: Paul Ruff ,
696-6584.
■ Edgewood Park
Neighborhood Association
meets 7 p.m. each third
Tuesday, Larry Cox Senior
Center, 3109 Ocoee Trail. Info:
edgewoodpark.us./
■ Excelsior Lodge No. 342
meets 7:30 p.m. each Thurs-
day, 10103 Thorn Grove Pike.
Info: Bill Emmert, 933-6032 or
■ First District Democrats meet
each fi rst Monday, Burlington
Branch Library, 4614 Asheville
Highway. Info: Tony Brown,
973-4086, or Evelyn Gill,
524-7177.
■ Historic Fourth & Gill Neighbor-
hood Organization meets 6:30
p.m. each second Monday,
Central UMC, 201 Third Ave.
Info: Liz Upchurch, 898-1809,
■ Inskip Community Asso-
ciation meets 6 p.m. each
fourth Tuesday, Inskip
Baptist Church, 4810 Rowan
Road. Info: Betty Jo Mahan,
679-2748 or bettymahan@
knology.net.
■ Oakwood Lincoln Park Neigh-
borhood Association meets
6:30 p.m. each third Thursday,
Community Club House, 916
Shamrock Ave. Info: Bill Hut-
ton, 773-5228 or s_wlhutton@
yahoo.com.
■ Old North Knoxville meets
6:30 p.m. each second
Monday, St. James Episcopal
Church Parish Hall, 1101 N.
Broadway. Info: Andie Ray,
548-5221.
■ Parkridge Community Orga-
nization meets 6:30 p.m. each
fi rst Monday except holidays,
Cansler YMCA, 616 Jessamine
St. Info: Jerry Caldwell, 329-
9943.
■ Second District Democrats
meet 6 p.m. each second
Thursday, New Hope Mis-
sionary Baptist Church, 2504
Cecil Ave. Info: Rick Staples,
385-3589 or funnyman1@
comic.com.
■ Thorn Grove Rebekah Lodge
No. 13 meets 7:30 p.m. each
second and fourth Monday,
10103 Thorn Grove Pike. Info:
Mary Jo Poole, 599-7698 or
■ Town Hall East. Info: Eston
Williams, 406-5412 or eston_
[email protected]; www.
facebook.com/townhalleast/
info.
In all, 14 people have been recognized by their neigh-bors for their good works. All will be honored at Knox-ville’s Neighborhood Con-ference on Saturday, March 7, and one will be selected for the Diana Conn Good Neighbor of the Year award, given annually by the city’s Offi ce of Neighborhoods.
“These are the people who have become known for their leadership and their service to their neighbor-hoods all over the city,” said
■ G e o r g e Conner, a leader in the Adell Ray Park homeown-ers association, is known as the go-to guy for neigh-borhood prob-lems of all sorts in Northwest Knoxville off Merchant Drive.
■ Sylvia Cook, who lives in the Residences at
E a s t p o r t and has started a n e i g h b o r -hood watch in the East-port/Dr. Lee W i l l i a m s/Five Points n e i g h b o r -hood, has
also has been instrumen-tal in providing training in computers, fi re safety and social security matters for the neighborhood.
■ Linda Denton, a leader in beautifi cation in North Hills, lends her gar-dening expertise to begin-ners in the neighborhood and keeps up with neigh-bors in need.
■ Ben and Heather Burchfi eld Ream were nominated for founding the South Knoxville Old Brooms Brigade, a volunteer
Monte Stanley
Ronnie
Thompson
Sylvia Cook
Tonja Warren
4 • MARCH 4, 2015 • Shopper news
Marvin West
Select civic club mem-bers may have heard this tale in times past. I think of it each time football winter workouts are mentioned.
Exercises between bowl games and spring practice are now very sophisticated, professionally designed to add strength, adjust bulk and enhance certain skills in conjunction with ideal di-ets. I suppose they work.
Long, long ago, the fi rst winter workout I observed was more primitive. Some still think it was hell on Earth. Others have blocked it from their memories. From more than 50 years away, a few now think it wasn’t all that bad, just a lit-tle toughening-up process.
The saga of Section X He installed old mats on the fl oor and hung a heavy rope from on high. Those who thought they wanted to be on his football team were going to do agility drills, wrestle, fi ght and scratch – and then climb that blasted rope, hand over hand, until they bumped their head on the concrete ceiling.
Center Bob Johnson re-members the one-on-one wars, Vols on opposite sides of the mat, no rules, do any-thing you want to get to the other side.
The training tempo was fi erce, frantic, run here, jump there! Down on the mat, up on your feet, seat roll right, jump up again, forward tumble. Every-where a player looked or landed, there was an assis-tant coach yelling for more speed and greater effort.
Dickey said some players were overcome by the after-noon exercises and ambi-ance – and lost their lunch. He admitted the smell was terrible. He spent one of his most dramatic terms on de-scribing the winter workout scene: “A stinking mess.”
Joe Graham hit right in the middle of it.
“There wasn’t room un-der Section X for all of us at once,” said Graham.
Everybody dreaded checking the dorm list for when to report. Early was better.
“Our group arrived to the sound and smell of some of the guys throwing up. In the middle of the winter, the room seemed nearly steamy. Everybody was sweating. I don’t remember the exact time we worked, but it seemed forever.”
Dewey Warren was there and it matched his imagina-tion of Marine boot camp, only worse.
“Under Section X was like a dungeon, dark and smelly, the worst place I’ve ever been.”
Bert Ackermann said it was a learning experience for those who survived.
“It laid the foundation for the great comeback of Ten-nessee football under Doug Dickey.”
Robbie Franklin believes Coach Dickey used the fi rst winter program to fi nd out who really wanted to play football at Tennessee.
Today’s Vols think winter workouts are challenging. Today’s Vols live in a differ-ent world – music, lights, refreshments, exhaust fans.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
address is [email protected].
Winter workouts for Ten-nessee football arrived with young Doug Dickey. The new coach called the pro-gram “off-season condition-ing.”
Best he could tell, the Volunteers had no experi-ence in getting better in January and February, be-fore they practiced getting better in the spring.
Since Tennessee had no workouts, Dickey did not
fi nd it surprising that Ten-nessee had no place set aside for such activities. He sent forth a search commit-tee. It didn’t fi nd much.
As Dickey tells the story, scouts discovered running room at a tobacco ware-house and the agriculture campus. They reported, almost incidentally, some dirty, drab, dreary space once used for storage, on the ground fl oor, in the north-west corner of Neyland Sta-dium, under Section X.
Dickey inspected it and said the room looked like something left over from the Civil War, except the cobwebs appeared older.
Dickey could have made it better. He made it worse.
Scott Frith
Neighborhood eventThe city’s annual Neighborhood Conference will be
7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Knox-ville Convention Center.
Designed for both city and county residents, this free event is an opportunity to connect with other neighborhoods and neighborhood leaders as well as meet elected offi cials and department heads.
The conference includes 32 workshops from fi ght-ing crime to grappling with legal issues faced by home-owner associations. Also featured are 80-plus infor-mation booths, a free continental breakfast, free box lunch, door prizes and a neighborhood T-shirt contest.
Info: David Massey, the city’s neighborhood coor-dinator, at www.cityofknoxville.org/neighborhoods or 215-2113.
If you paid attention only to local media, you might be forgiven for believing that the most pressing problem facing our community is a lack of openness and trans-parency in government. Each breaking scandal, it seems, involves a county commissioner, city coun-cil member or public board member violating the Open Meetings Act (sunshine law) by sending an email or lobbying a fellow board member outside of a public meeting.
The Open Meetings Act states that “… the formation of public policy and deci-sions is public business and shall not be conducted in secret.”
As a result, members of County Commission, City Council and other local public boards cannot delib-
The politics of ‘sunshine’
erate about public business in private. Violations of the law void the actions of the violators and require open deliberations on the issue and another vote.
Nearly all would agree that open, public meetings and the public discussion of the people’s business is a good thing; however, less understood are the prob-lematic and perhaps un-intended consequences of the law that give increased infl uence to the mayor and third parties over the mem-bers of legislative bodies.
In county government, the mayor (unlike commis-sioners) is indirectly em-powered by the law by being able to lobby the commis-sion directly and in private. (As you can imagine, it is easier to keep track of how each commissioner will vote when you can ask them pri-vately.) This same dynamic applies with the superin-tendent of schools and the board of education.
More troubling is that local political bosses can also lobby commissioners and council members inde-pendently, lining up their votes and pushing their own agendas. In fact, because of the restrictions of the open meetings law, well-connect-ed politicos often have a better idea of how the com-mission will vote than the commissioners who actu-
ally get to vote.Ultimately, the open
meetings law doesn’t in-crease openness and trans-parency in government as much as folks believe. Plenty still happens behind closed doors. Instead, the law merely takes political power away from individual commissioners and shifts that power to the mayor, po-litical bosses and other lob-byists.
Recently, the E-911 Board has been in the news due to allegations (later substanti-ated) that board members communicated with one another outside of a public meeting about a new E-911 radio communication sys-tem.
As absurd as it may sound, under current law, the city police chief and the county sheriff are not al-
lowed to discuss the pros and cons of their own radio communication system out-side of a public meeting.
Unfortunately, few have the political courage to ad-dress these problems with the law. Either the so-called “sunshine law” goes too far or doesn’t go far enough.
Regardless, until there are changes, expect more head-lines, more “gotcha” politics over communications be-tween public offi cials, and further distraction from more important issues fac-ing the community.Scott Frith is a local attorney. You can
contact him at [email protected].
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The Estes Kefauver offi ce and collection that was once displayed at the Hoskins Library on the UT-Knoxville campus will not go to the Tennessee State Museum, despite earlier reports to the contrary.
The Museum Commis-sion voted i n January not to accept the collection due to lack of space for storage or display. There was a feeling it would set a precedent for other Tennessee senators to place their papers and memorabilia at the mu-seum that would have to be honored.
In addition to this writer, Knoxvillians Deborah DiPi-etro and Jan Simek serve on the commission board.
Other recent Tennes-see senators have reached greater national promi-nence than Kefauver did as Howard Baker and Bill Frist were majority leaders of the Senate and a third (Al Gore) was president of the Senate as Vice Presi-dent of the United States. Kefauver sought but did not attain such status during his career.
Meanwhile the UT library, led ably by Steve Smith, will continue to keep the material in storage. The issue at some point will become whether storage is the permanent site for the collection or will it be made available for public view-ing as it once was? When will the Hoskins Library be renovated? Only UT knows.
Pay: When City Council adopted a $12,500 annual pay raise for the mayor, only fi ve members signed on as sponsors. Interesting-ly, the only former mayor in the nine-member group, Dan Brown, did not sign it. He said “the timing was not right.”
Eyesore: If there is one new recent eyesore that is harming the aesthetics of downtown Knoxville, it is the south wall of the Langley garage, which faces Union Avenue and the Pembroke. It is the size of a football fi eld and all a grim gray.
It offends residents of the Pembroke who look out to the north. It is hideous and stunning. How did the city administration let this happen? Putting brick around it would help. Graf-fi ti even would help, too.
Majors: Retired UT
The letter from Emer-ald Academy came dur-ing the snow days and was addressed to the parents/guardians of children zoned to Knoxville’s urban ele-mentary schools and signed by Emerald’s director, Dr. Jon Rysewyk .
Five of the recipients were Christenberry Elementary School faculty members who bring their children to school with them. One fac-ulty member said reading it was like a slap in the face.
It began like this: “You have a choice –
Emerald Academy! Do you know the grades for the school your child is zoned to attend next year and how they compare with Knox County Schools’ overall grades?”
Next came a chart com-paring three years of Chris-tenberry’s math and reading scores with Knox County Schools’ scores. Christen-berry’s are all lower, al-though they improved from Ds in 2012 to Bs in math and
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football coach Johnny Ma-jors is having a hip replace-ment this week. He will not let it slow him down as he heads in mid-April to Australia.
■ The E 911 Board now meets March 13, and Mayor Rogero will at-tend her fi rst meeting ever as mayor. It should be a standing-room-only event. It seems the mayor and her police chief may vote differ-ently on the radio contract. No doubt Rogero wishes it would all go away and her failure to attend this signifi cant board would be forgotten.
■ Kim Trent, head of Knox Heritage, recently moved to Carta Road near Holston Hills and had an open house a few weeks ago that was packed with political types, including council members Marshall Stair and Finbarr Saunders. Trent is being urged to run for City Council in 2017 when Nick Della Volpe can-not seek a third term.
■ DeFord: Also pres-ent at the event and being talked up as a council candidate was longtime Fort Sanders resident and architect Randall DeFord.
Asked if he might run for Nick Pavlis’ seat, also up in 2017, he said, “I am fl at-tered so many people have mentioned it to me. The city faces important and serious issues. I will consider it.”
DeFord was ignored by the Rogero administration when they appointed a task force on the World’s Fair Park. Neighborhood activ-ists were stunned that Fort Sanders was excluded; how-ever, the task force appears to have accomplished little and has become a distant memory.
■ Hannah Parker, 28,becomes one of the young-est persons to serve on the Knox County Election Commission. She’s the fi rst Republican woman in 28 years. As the choice of the Knox GOP legislators, she must be appointed by the state election commission.
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Emerald recruitment letter angers Christenberry faculty
Cs in reading in 2013 and 2014. KCS scored As in both subjects in 2013 and 2014.
The faculty member said the test scores tell only half the story. The other half is the value-added scores, which show that Chris-tenberry students have made steady gains from one school year to the next. These scores were not in-cluded in the letter.
Christenberry assistant principal Tonya Davis Cash posted a scathing comment on her Facebook page, call-ing the letter misleading and ending with an offer:
“I have more current data if you would like to include that with your next propa-ganda. Steve has my num-ber.”
“Steve” is Emerald Youth Foundation CEO Steve Diggs, who lives a
few blocks from Christen-berry and sent his two chil-dren to school there. Many Christenberry students are involved in after-school programs at Emerald Youth Foundation. Diggs an-nounced his charter school plan a year ago.
“I, historically, was a huge fan of Steve Diggs and consider him very bright, hard-working and vision-ary. My husband and I have always bought a table at his fundraising things, but I am real disappointed about this,” said Martha Bratton, who retired fi ve years ago and was Christenberry’s fi rst principal (she was also the last principal at Brown-low and principal at Inskip elementary schools before that).
Bratton said Emerald’s major advantage will be that parents will “self-select” and must agree to be ac-tively involved in their chil-dren’s education. She be-lieves Rysewyk could have touted what his school has
to offer without disparaging other schools.
Rysewyk said he got the students’ addresses from Knox County Schools and wasn’t “taking a shot at Christenberry.” He said that when he was principal at Fulton High School, his stu-dents got similar letters in-forming them of openings at higher-performing schools like Farragut and Bearden.
“The intention was nev-er to upset teachers any-where,” he said.
Diggs said all parents from all the urban feeder schools got the same letter, but he believes Christenber-ry is performing well.
“Maybe we should have had a PR fi rm write the let-ter. I just hope everyone will look at our track record. We’re going to try and do it right … I have no desire to start a private school.”
Next week: A closer look at the program at Emerald Academy, set to open July 15 in the old Moses School downtown.
News that David Dew-hirst was rescuing another endangered Knoxville prop-erty was widely hailed in the city last week.
Dewhirst and associ-ates bought the 84-year-old Kern’s Bakery building on Chapman Highway just across the Henley Bridge from downtown and quickly announced speculative but elaborate plans to trans-form the industrial site into a vague complex of boutique eateries and performance venues like the ones that have brought fresh life to the center city.
No one seemed unhappy. After all, the bakery build-ing is intimately connected to Knoxville’s history, and making it productive again would be a worthy effort. Dewhirst has a record of turning historic but de-crepit urban-core proper-ties into moneymaking real estate ventures.
Dewhirst was expansive about the effects the devel-opment could have on South Knoxville. The News Sen-tinel quoted him as saying, “A lot of people don’t come to South Knoxville because they don’t think there’s a reason to. But we’re going to give them a reason to come to South Knoxville.”
Down and (even more) out in South Knox
Bill Dockery
We’ll ignore for the mo-ment the fact that – practi-cally speaking – the bakery is hardly in South Knoxville at all. Let’s examine that re-mark again: “A lot of people don’t come to South Knox-ville because they don’t think there’s a reason to.”
Apparently a man of Dew hirst’s real estate savvy isn’t aware that (according to the 2009-2013 census estimates) almost 38,000 people have found a reason to go south of the river – without benefi t of bodegas or brew pubs or trendy cafés or music stages. They go (or stay) because South Knox (city and county) is home.
Dewhirst’s notion is but the latest in a tradition of dissing South Knoxville that goes back at least half a century. In the 1950s and ’60s, South Knoxville was derided as “South America” by its more sophisticated northern neighbors. When the James White Parkway
bridge was built in the early 1980s, it was quickly labeled “the Bridge to Nowhere.”
In current parlance, South Knoxville is a “wil-derness” suitable mainly for hiking, jogging or mountain biking expeditions by some of our more urbane urban-ites, many of whom hail from West Knox suburbs. No one has labeled South Knox as District 12 – yet.
Another recent news item illuminates the over-all attitude toward South Knoxville: At the behest of the city, the Urban Land In-stitute has released a study that calls for Henley Street – the six-plus lane connec-tion between I-40 and the Henley Bridge – to be made pedestrian-friendly, with a reduced capacity to handle traffi c headed south and an increase in cafés, shops and other accoutrements of the good life.
Again, this isn’t the fi rst time South Knox has been slighted. A couple of years ago, the extension of James White Parkway to deep South Knox County was vetoed by the city mayor, despite support for the ex-tension from county may-ors of Knox and Sevier. And during the planning stages, the six-lane rehab of the
Henley Bridge was scrapped for a fi ve-lane version at the behest of urbanites who wanted bike lanes instead of vehicular traffi c.
There are still some of the wags that tail the dog who insist that the city should take a jackhammer to the concrete roadways in the First Creek canyon, letting the creek run free again – the connectivity needs of South Knoxvillians be damned. South Knox County and its neighbors in the Seymour community are the only sector of greater Knoxville that are not now served by a limited-access, freeway-engineered road-way.
Isolation is the kissing cousin of scorn. The think-ing that dominates political culture in Knoxville right now sells “South of the River” short not only in the language it uses but in its dreams of how to connect that area to the wider com-munity. It ignores the long-term harm that can come to the whole region if one sec-tor is systematically cut off from the whole.
The revitalization of Knoxville’s downtown can’t be allowed to strangulate the development of the rest of the city.
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There are some big names showing up this week in movieland, includ-ing Hugh Jackman, Sigour-ney Weaver, Vince Vaughn, Richard Gere, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson.
But no one dominates the screen like Dev Patel, mainly because he’s star-ring in two of the week’s new fi lms: “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and “Chappie.”
Patel, now 24, fi rst caught the world’s attention as Jamal in “Slumdog Mil-lionaire,” which won eight Oscars, among them Best Picture of 2008. His two new fi lms are very different from “Slumdog” – and from each other.
“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is a sequel to the 2012 international hit “The Best Exotic Mari-gold Hotel,” about a group of senior citizens who get an unexpected new lease on life at a ramshackle hotel in India. The hotel’s manager, Sonny (Patel), now has a huge success on his hands and dreams of expanding his empire as he prepares for his own wedding. A new guest named Guy (Gere) adds to the romantic drama at the hotel.
Chappie (Sharlto Copley) tries to understand humanity with the help of Deon (Dev Patel) in
“Chappie.”
Mrs. Kapoor (Lillete Dubey), Sonny (Dev Patel), Guy (Richard Gere) and Sunaina (Tena Desae)
dance the night away in “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.”
Dan (Vince Vaughn), Timothy (Tom Wilkinson) and Mike (David Franco) wind up in a pasture
while in Europe to close the most important deal of their lives in “Unfi nished Business.”
Let’s hear it for the boy wonder
Most of the original cast – Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Tena Desae, Lillete Dubey, Di-ana Hardcastle and Ron-ald Pickup – return for the PG-rated sequel, along with director John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love”).
“Chappie” is set in the near future, where law and order around the world are enforced by an oppressive mechanized police force directed by Hugh Jack-man and owned by a com-pany headed by Sigourney Weaver. When one robot cop, called Chappie, is sto-len and reprogrammed with artifi cial intelligence, his owners will stop at nothing to retrieve him and end his sentient streak.
Patel plays the lonely en-gineering prodigy who re-programs Chappie and gives him the ability to think and feel. Chappie becomes more human than humans,
though his human “parents” – Ninja and Yolandi of the South African rap act Die Antwoord, playing a version of themselves – are confus-ing role models with their differing bents toward good and evil.
South African director Neill Blomkamp used his “District 9” and “Elysium” star Sharlto Copley to play Chappie on the set, after which animators created an animated version of Chap-pie from Copley’s move-ments and expressions. The fi lm is rated R.
The “Marigold” effect also exhibits itself in the week’s third fi lm as Tom Wilkinson – who starred in the original “Best Exotic” movie – stars with Vince Vaughn in “Unfi nished Business.”
Vaughn plays a small business owner who travels with associates Wilkinson and Dave Franco (James Franco’s little brother) to Europe. Their goal is to close the biggest deal of their lives, but they get detoured constantly and improbably, including to a massive sex-fetish event and a global economic summit.
Ken Scott (“Delivery Man”) directed the R-rated comedy.
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■ Deep Fried 5 will perform, 10 p.m., Barley’s in the Old City,
200 E. Jackson Ave. Info: 521-0092.
■ Houndmouth in concert, 8 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay
St. Tickets: $16.50 plus applicable service fees. Info/tickets:
http://www.knoxbijou.com.
■ Midnight Voyage Live: Downlink, Dieselboy and Troll-phace, 9 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Tickets:
$25. Info/tickets: www.intlknox.com.
■ Red, Islander, 3 Years Hollow and Tears to Embers will
perform, 6 p.m., The Concourse, 940 Blackstock Ave. Pre-
sented by Night Owl Music. Tickets: $25. Info/tickets: www.
intlknox.com.
■ Subtle Clutch will perform, 6 p.m., Scruff y City Hall, 32
Market Square. Free and open to all ages.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY ■ Appalachian Ballet Company presents “Cinderella,” 7
p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday, Tennessee Theatre, 604 S.
Gay St. Tickets: all Ticketmaster outlets; Tennessee Theatre
box offi ce, 684-1200 option 2; ticketmaster.com; 800-745-
3000.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY ■ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Clarence Brown Theatre
Mainstage, 1714 Andy Holt Ave. Performances: 7:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: 656-4444, 877-
995-9961 or http://www.clarencebrowntheatre.org.
■ “Alice’s Rumpus In Wonderland,” Knoxville Children’s
Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday;
1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $12 and under.
Info/tickets: http://knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com.
SATURDAY ■ Boss Awesome will perform, 8 p.m., Preservation Pub, 28
Market Square. Tickets: $5, free before 8 p.m. Info: 524-2224.
■ The Dr. E.V. Davidson Teen Step Show, 6 p.m., Knoxville Civic
Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Tickets: Knoxville Civic
Auditorium-Coliseum Box Offi ce, 215-8999; KnoxvilleTickets.
com, 656-4444 or 877-995-9961. Info: 215-8999.
■ Rico Stache Bash, Barley’s, 200 E. Jackson Ave. Charity
event for the UT Small Animal Oncology Department. Info:
521-0092.
■ Swing Dance with The Gamblers, Flynn Dance Center, 828
Tulip Ave. Lindy Hop workshop, 5-7 p.m. Free beginner les-
son, 7:15-8 p.m.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY ■ Phoenix Rising Out of Ashes Tournament No. 2, 7 a.m.,
Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St.
SUNDAY ■ Fleetwood Mac: On With the Show, 8 p.m., Thompson-
Boling Arena. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444 or
877-995-9961; Thompson-Boling Arena box offi ce, 974-0123.
■ “The Tempest,” 3 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre,
Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway,
Maryville. Performed by Aquila Theatre. Tickets: Box Offi ce,
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George’s Championship Chicken features juicy thighs
with a delicious barbecue sauce. Sides are the diner’s
choice. In this case, it was Beans with Smoked Sau-
sage and Red, White and Bleu Slaw. Photo by Mystery Diner
Cellist Andy Bryenton, violinist Gabriel Lefkowitz and pianist Kevin Class will join other local classical music
stars in performances tonight and tomorrow night at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Photo by Stacy Nickell Miller
Jazz Jill-of-all-trades Emily
Mathis headlines a tribute to
women in jazz this coming
First Friday. Photo by Daniel Taylor
By Mystery DinerIt’s not too often that a
menu item has trophies to back up claims of delicious-ness. At Dead End BBQ, George’s Championship Chicken has the trophies and ribbons to back up the bragging.
George is George Ewart, a co-owner with Robert Nutt of the restaurants in Knox-ville and Maryville. He is the mastermind behind the whole Dead End concept. Ewart and the Dead End Society barbecue team have brought home around 50 Top 10 fi nishes in meat cat-
egories, with two of those being grand championships. The chicken has won state-wide fi rst places in Tennes-see and North Carolina.
So, it was with confi dence that the Mystery Diner or-dered the chicken. Sides could be chosen from a long list that includes two baked-bean dishes, macaroni and cheese, corn on the cob, green beans, chips, potato salad and more. I chose the Red, White and Bleu Slaw and Beans with Smoked Sausage.
The chicken thighs – two good sized ones – come topped with a little
Plate it
Dead End BBQ
sauce with Texas toast and a corn muffin. They were so juicy that additional napkins were required. Cooked perfectly with just
a hint of smokiness, the chicken had no need for any other sauce.
Just out of curiosity – and because this is, after
Musical talent will be in abundance tonight, Thurs-day and Friday of this week when two different events – one classical, one jazz – take place at the Knoxville Museum of Art and the Em-porium’s Black Box Theatre.
The Knoxville Sym-phony Orchestra’s popular Concertmaster Series will present concerts tonight and tomorrow featuring KSO Concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz and Kevin Class in a series of very entertain-ing short violin and piano pieces.
The program opens with the delightful swing and sway of Fritz Kreisler’s “Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven.”
Classical music is often self-referential. Here Kreis-ler, the great violin virtuoso and composer, takes a fa-miliar theme by another composer and adapts it to his style. Maybe you could call it “sampling,” in a very broad sense. Kreisler as P. Diddy? Why not? At any rate, it’s the kind of piece that will make you smile.
Maurice Ravel’s sensuous “Pièce en Forme de Habane-ra” follows on the program. I know a piano teacher who says, “The French guys write better Spanish music than the Spanish guys do.”
Carol Shane
Ravel certainly does shine in his Spanish writing, and this piece is no exception.
Gabriel Fauré’s tender “Berceuse” (“Lullaby”) has one of those beautiful, melt-ing melodies so typical of the composer. And violin fi reworks will fl y on “Per-petuum Mobile” by Franz Ries. It’s a real showpiece, and Lefkowitz, who plays the most diffi cult passages with ease and fl air, is sure to keep audience members on the edge of their seats.
The concert concludes with Dvorak’s “String Quin-tet in G Major.” Joining Lefkowitz on that work will be violinist Gordon Tsai, violist Katy Gawne, cellist Andy Bryenton and bassist Steve Benne. Having just performed Dvorak’s reli-gious cantata “Stabat Ma-ter” in conjunction with the Knoxville Choral Society, these musicians are well-versed in the composer’s lyrical, romantic style.
“Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends,” part of the
KSO Merchant & Gould Concertmaster Series, will be presented on Wednesday, March 4, and Thursday, March 5, at 7 p.m. at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Tickets are $20. Info: 865-523-1178 or www.knoxvillesymphony.com
Over on Gay Street, the Black Box Theatre at the Emporium will be the venue for “Women in Jazz,” fea-turing local jazz stars pia-nist/vocalist Emily Mathis, trumpeter/vocalist Pamela Klicka, bassist Cheryl Dow and vocalist Kelle Jolly. In recognition of Women’s His-tory Month, the group will highlight the contributions of women jazz composers and performers, including Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Mary Lou Williams and others.
Mathis, who is overseeing the project, is well-known to local jazz fans for her laid-back style and versatility – she plays fl ute in addition to singing and playing piano.
“I’m really excited about performing in a concert that features the music of wom-en jazz composers,” says Mathis. “I appreciate the opportunity to learn about women in jazz and the con-tributions they have made to this area of music.”
KSO conductor Lucas
Richman, who also knows a great deal about jazz, has said that singer Jolly re-minds him of “a young Sar-ah Vaughan.” Jolly is also the host of WUOT’s Jazz Jam.
Bassist Cheryl Dow, a decades-long veteran of the Knoxville music scene, is highly regarded in both the classical and jazz worlds. And trumpeter Pamela Klic-ka brings her bright sassy style into the mix. Klicka teaches trumpet at Knox-ville’s Community School of the Arts and is known for getting her students in-volved in jazz projects of all types. Under her guidance, the kids lead local luminar-ies in bands of their own.
Mathis is looking for-ward to sharing the stage with her colleagues. “It will be a great joy to perform with them,” she says. “Each of these very talented musi-cians will bring something unique to this special night of jazz. It should be fun!”
“Women in Jazz – a Trib-ute Concert” will be pre-sented from 7 to 9 p.m. on First Friday, March 6, at the Emporium Building’s Black Box Theatre, 100 S. Gay St. in Knoxville. Admission is free.Send story suggestions to news@
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all, a barbecue joint – I tasted the three sauces of-fered for those who think the meat is a side dish to the sauce. Peacefully Dead is very mild and has a sweet fl avor. Gratefully Dead is very smoky and just a little sweet, but not very spicy. Dead End Red is the spici-est of the three, but still not
three-alarm hot.The restaurant’s name is
a tribute to the home cook who started it all. Ewart and his neighbors would gather at the end of a dead-end street to barbecue. From that neighborhood gather-ing, the barbecue team and eventually the restaurant were born.
8 • MARCH 4, 2015 • NORTH/EAST Shopper news kids
THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 13Volunteers needed for the Saturday, March
14, “Lucky Kidney Run,” benefi tting the East Tennessee Kidney Foundation. Info/to register: volunteerknoxville.org.
THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 27Call for local authors of children’s books for
“Farragut Book Fest for Children” to be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Founders Park at Campbell Station. Info/to register: www.townoffarragut.org/register and click the Programs tab; Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive; 966-7057.
THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 10Tickets available for Rhythm N’ Blooms music
festival, on stages set exclusively along downtown Knox-ville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Features fi rst-timers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musi-cal backgrounds. Info/tickets: www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com.
THROUGH WEDNESDAY, MAY 20Applications accepted for the Great Smoky Moun-
tains Trout Adventure Camp for middle-school girls and boys, sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Trout Unlimited, to be held June 15-20 at Great Smoky Moun-tains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info/applications: http://www.tntroutadventure.org.
THROUGH SATURDAY, JUNE 20Online registration open for Race to benefi t the
Corryton Community Food Pantry, to be held Saturday, June 20. Event is part of “The Run and See Tennessee Grand Prix Series.” To register: https://runnerreg.us/corryton8mile. Info: [email protected]; [email protected]; or Joyce Harrell, 705-7684.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4AAA Driver Improvement Course, 5:30-9:30
p.m., AAA offi ce, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Four-hour course. Helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members, $35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.
Computer Workshop: Introducing the Com-puter, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Ashe-ville Highway. Info/to register: 525-5431.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee Walk Kick-
off Luncheon, noon, Buddy’s BBQ Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Walk will be held Saturday, April 18, at UT Gardens. Info/reservations: Kay Watson, 544-6288, x225 or [email protected].
Pajama-rama Storytime, 6:30 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.
THURSDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 5-82015 Boat Show, Knoxville Convention Center,
701 Henley St. Times: 2-9 p.m. Thursday, noon-9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $9 adults, children under 10 free.
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Beaumont to host exhibit nightBeaumont Magnet Academy will
host Exhibit Night, 5-7 p.m. Thurs-day, March 5. The event will feature student artwork and give parents an inside look at the accomplishments of the students.
Region update: Fulton High’s Jody Wright Gymna-
sium was packed last weekend for the semifi nal and fi nal rounds of basketball.
In the semifi nal round, the Fulton girls defeated CAK, 56-51, and advanced to play Gatlinburg-Pittman in the fi nals. The Falcon girls defeated GPHS, 55-45, to win the 2AA region title.
For the boys’ teams, Fulton defeated Catholic, 71-65, in the semifi nal round and Carter rolled over CAK, 76-48, to set a face-off between Fulton and Carter in the fi nals. During the Region 2AA cham-pionship game, the Carter Hornets de-feated the Fulton Falcons, 62-52.
Fulton’s Elicia Faulkner hustles down the court for the Falcons in regional basketball action against Kingston. Fulton girls de-
feated Kingston, 73-47, to advance to the semifi nal round.
Fulton’s Joe Kimber gets his hands out
and defl ects a shot by Catholic’s Chase
Kuershen. Fulton went on to beat
Catholic, 71-65, in the semifi nals and
faced Carter in the region fi nal round.
Carter’s Blake Dutton goes airborne and lays in two points in the region semifi nals
against CAK. The Hornets won, 76-48, and faced Fulton in the fi nals. Photos by R. White
Kay Kay Fain passes the ball to a teammate during a recent
game of the regional tournament.
Kentel Williams brings the ball down-
court for Fulton during recent basket-
ball action in the regional tournament.
Makaley Black, the only senior
basketball cheerleader, shows
spirit as the Falcon girls’ and
boys’ teams both defeat
Kingston to advance to the
semifi nal round of the region
tournament. Photos by R. White
Fulton hosts region basketballAll the recent snow put
a hold on area district and region basketball action. Once the roads cleared, Ful-ton opened the gym and the games got underway before the second round of snow.
Dale Dickey’s mom, Missy, started coaxing her
friends to see Dale p e r f o r m when the kid was a street ur-chin in “Oli-ver Twist.” Even then she was de-t e r m i n e d
to make her living as a per-former. And she has.
Dale’s career has includ-ed roles in “Winter’s Bone” and the TV series “My Name Is Earl,” but folks around here recall her powerful presence on the Clarence Brown Theatre stage, most recently in “A Streetcar
square feet). While on the Board of Zoning Appeals, he watched new businesses “fi le an appeal, stand in line, wait a month or more and pay $200 to ask (BZA) to let them conform.”
Now Schoonmaker is a member of the County Com-mission. He pounced on Dave Hill, representing the MPC, at last week’s meeting.
Hill, who rejoined MPC in April, said he was aware of BZA’s request. He fi rst asked the city and county mayors what they thought. Then he launched a compre-hensive review of parking lot regs including stormwa-ter runoff. “I guess we could break out that one line,” he said.
“I make that motion,” said Schoonmaker. “And I second,” said Commissioner Mike Brown.
Wow! At this rate we might see a change some-time this year.
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UT Law off ering free tax helpAs part of the IRS Vol-
unteer Income Tax As-sistance (VITA) program, UT Law students will of-fer free tax preparation help and electronic fi ling to qualifying members of the community. The program is available to those who generally make $53,000 or less, persons with disabilities, the el-derly and limited-Eng-lish-speaking taxpayers who need assistance in
preparing their own tax returns.
The services are avail-able 5-7:30 p.m. Wednes-days and Thursdays through April 15 in Suite 157 of the College of Law, 1505 W. Cumberland Ave. Appointments are not re-quired. Visit www.tiny.utk.edu/vita to learn what documents are needed. Info: Morgan, 974-2492 or [email protected].
Free tax assistance availableVolunteer Income Tax
Assistance (VITA) pro-gram, which offers free tax preparation by certifi ed vol-unteers to low-to moderate-income families and house-holds, is available at three locations:
Goodwill, 5307 Kingston Pike: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tues-days through Thursdays and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Satur-days, through April 15.
Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri-days through April 10.
Westside Unitarian Uni-
versalist Church, 616 Fretz Road: 5-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, through April 14.
Documents needed in-clude: Social Security card and birthday for each per-son on the return; taxpayer photo ID; original W-2s, 1099Rs, SSA1099s, etc., for all income; proof of health insurance – a new require-ment. Optional documents: last year’s return, proof of account for direct deposit and expenses for deduc-tions.
Info: www.irs.gov.
Just talk to Nick Pavlis a few minutes and you’ll have no doubt about the future of South Knoxville. “People are starting to see the re-surgence since the (Henley) bridge has reopened. This is what I have been wait-ing for. It just excites me so much,” says Pavlis.
Pavlis, Knoxville vice-mayor and city council member, can’t hide his en-thusiasm. “The announce-ment of the mixed-use plans for the Kern’s facility, four new businesses along Se-vier Avenue that are in vari-ous stages before opening, plus the new Dunkin’ Do-nuts show confi dence in the area,” Pavlis says. “We also have new businesses along Chapman Highway.”
One of those new busi-nesses is Foxx Trott Fash-ions. Owner Charles Brown
Charles Brown, owner of Foxx Trott Fashions, is proud to be
part of South Knoxville’s revitalization. Photo by Nancy Whittaker
Revitalization includes new boutique
Nancy Whittaker
is proud to be part of the new growth in South Knox-ville. Originally from Ken-tucky, Brown moved to Knoxville 25 years ago. With a background in retail and management, Brown knew he wanted to open a fun business with a wide va-riety of fashions. After vis-iting numerous stores and learning new trends, Brown opened his boutique.
When it comes to wom-en’s apparel, Foxx Trott Fashions defi nitely has
Good things for good people
something for everyone. When asked what age group he markets to, Brown laughs and says, “I cater to young, middle age and senior … pretty much everyone. I carry traditional clothes for offi ce, church and work but also have fun and trendy fashions.”
Brown has been busy working to fi nd top designs at great prices. His goal is to have name-brand boutique clothes with prices closer to outlet prices. “Our inven-tory all comes from New York and California,” says Brown. Jon & Anna New York fashions are found throughout the store, as are Aggie, Daisy, Potter’s Pot and Leshop. Check out any of these designers online to see their amazing clothes – then head to Foxx Trott to fi nd amazingly low prices.
Brown stocks many ac-cessories as well. Scarves are currently popular, and Foxx Trott Fashions has a great selection. Costume jewelry, including vanilla and chocolate faux pearls, is also available at affordable prices. “Seventy percent of everything in the store is between $3 and $30,” says Brown.
Sizes from small to ex-tra large and plus sizes are all available. Located in the Chapman Commons Center at 4560 Chapman Highway (Big Lots Shopping Center), the store is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Gift certifi cates are available. A grand open-ing is planned for March 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Look for details in next week’s Shopper. Contact Foxx Trott Fashions at 540-6947.
Tech’s College of Engineer-ing.
I covered D e g g e s ’ visit with t hen- st ate Sen. Jamie Wo o d s o n . They stood on the cor-ner of Em-ory Road and Norris
Freeway and talked about a greenway connector from Clayton Park to Halls El-ementary School. Pictures on the front page of this week’s Halls Shopper show that construction now un-derway.
■ Jared Fogle, “The Subway Guy,” will be show-ing up around town this summer. He’s a partner with Thompson Cancer Sur-
Named Desire” and “Swee-ney Todd.” She will receive an honorary Master of Fine Arts degree.
Marian Wright Edelman heads the Children’s De-
fense Fund, whose head-quarters are at the for-mer Alex Haley farm in Clinton. Her work has made a d i f ferenc e in the lives
of numerous kids over time. She will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane letters and speak at the College of Communications and Infor-mation commencement on May 8. These will be just the ninth and 10th honorary de-grees that UT-Knoxville has awarded.
■ Paul Degges, deputy commissioner and chief en-gineer with the Tennessee Department of Transporta-tion, has been honored with the Tennessee Tech Engi-neer of Distinction award.
The award recognizes professional excellence, character and dedication to
The University of Ten-nessee is awarding honor-ary degrees to two different yet deserving people.
Dickey
Edelman
Degges
Sandra Clark
vival Center and Covenant Health in the annual Race Against Cancer. Subway will be the named sponsor of the 5K race.
Covenant CEO Tony Spe-zia said Subway is widely known for promoting ac-tive and healthy lifestyles. “The Subway Race Against
Cancer is an asset for the community because all of the funds raised stay here to support health care needs in East Tennessee.”
■ John Schoonmaker may yet secure consistency in parking space sizes be-tween the city (162 square feet) and the county (200
Jared Fogle and
Michael Holtz
at the Covenant
press conference.
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