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By Betty Bean When Stan Kelly and Peggy

Leland retired two weeks ago, 45 years of teaching experience at Central High School walked out the door with them.

“I kept asking Stan, ‘Are we re-ally old enough to be doing this?’ ” said Leland, who taught art at Central for 20 years and directed her students in creating high-profi le art projects like the huge banners hanging in the school commons and other areas.

“In my mind, I just thought this was a chance to expose kids who had never had a chance to expe-rience the visual arts to the great artists. Later, I started another project to do framed pictures in the hallways. I hope someone con-tinues it,” Leland said.

“Most of the time, you just know when it’s time,” said Kelly, who spent 25 years teaching his-tory and was one of a dwindling handful of educators left there

Central High School lost 45 years of teaching experience with the early re-

tirement of teachers Stan Kelly and Peggy Leland. Leland’s art students pro-

duced the banner behind them. Photo by Betty Bean

Educators bow out early; cite ‘attack on teachers’

who were also Central High School alumni. And he says he worked at Central much longer than his teaching tenure.

“While I was at UT, Mr. (Dan) Boring let me work as a janitor here, and after that Mr. (Rex) Stooksbury. Then I was a student

teacher here and came here for my fi rst and only teaching job. It all adds up to about 37 years,” Kelly said.

His father, the late Cecil Kelly, spent many years as principal of Fountain City Elementary School and was later a member of the school board. His mother, Polly, was a kindergarten teacher.

“We saw a young man at church yesterday; Mama had him in kin-dergarten, Dad had him in ele-mentary school and I had him at Central. It’s that community con-nection,” Kelly said.

Leland nodded.“That’s what I have loved so

much about Central,” said Leland, who grew up in Oak Ridge, where everybody was from somewhere else. “There just wasn’t that long-term connection.”

Kelly is 60, Leland 62. They don’t seem tired. Kelly’s going to do

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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

By Betty Bean Four years ago, Amelia Crot-

well took a leap of faith and left the Farragut law fi rm where she had built a successful practice to strike out on her own in a whole new direction.

During the course of her work, she had taken the case of an elder-ly woman with dementia who had been swindled. Crotwell found that she enjoyed the process of helping make her client whole, so she started taking similar cases and gradually began developing an elder law practice.

She launched Elder Law of East Tennessee in 2010 and moved the fi rm into one of Knoxville’s land-mark historic buildings, the Wil-liam S. Caswell House at 428 E. Scott Avenue, facing Hall of Fame Boulevard, earlier this year. She is a Certifi ed Elder Law Attorney (CELA) through the National Elder Law Foundation and the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization.

She says she couldn’t be more satisfi ed.

“I have never looked back,” she said. “I am very fulfi lled, profes-sionally and personally. I spend an hour and a half with clients

and get embraced as they leave the building. That didn’t happen when I was doing divorces – well, hardly ever.”

Crotwell started out with a part-time social worker and a part-time paralegal as her only support staff. Now Elder Law of East Tennessee has two attorneys, two social workers, a law clerk, an offi ce manager, a public benefi ts specialist, a public information/marketing specialist, a law clerk , an events coordinator and a sup-port staffer/runner, and isn’t like most other law fi rms.

“People call and get an appoint-ment to speak, free of charge, with one of our social workers. That’s a way for them, and for us, to fi nd out if we are a good fi t. If we are, we’ll invite them in for a consul-tation that can last for up to two hours. We’ll talk about more than they expect to talk about – their living situation, their health, their fi nances, their objectives and their worries and fears,” Crotwell said.

“If we’re retained, we will come up with an action plan for them, and we’ll hold their hand and walk them through it. We also do a lot of teaching.”

The fi rm charges a fl at initial

Staff attorney Sarah E. C. Malia, administrative assistant June Hudson, el-

der care coordinator Connie Taylor, Amelia Crotwell, elder care coordinator

Renee DeLapp, public benefi ts specialist Allison Bradley, law clerk Patrick

Womack, events coordinator Malinda Taylor, support staff er Brianna Eddins.

Elder Care of East Tennessee founder Amelia Crotwell. Photos submitted

New offi cefor Elder Care of East Tennessee

fee with an initial payment and a smaller annual fee thereafter. For their money, clients get all the services the offi ce has to offer and a Life Care Plan, which Crotwell describes as a holistic approach to addressing legal, long-term

care and public benefi ts issues for people with chronic or progressive illnesses, including aging.

“We use a team approach – from a legal perspective, from a

New American citizen Jolie Kalumbi, U.S. Rep. John Duncan Jr., and friend

Machozi Mungilma at Eastminster Presbyterian Church

for the party as Jolie was celebrated for becoming an

American citizen. Of course, the food was hot dogs, po-

tato salad and a fl ag cake. Jolie is from the Democratic

Republic of Congo where she walked over 1,000 miles

to freedom fi ve years ago. Church members and guests

fi lled the church fellowship hall to share in this joyous

occasion. Photo submitted

Take the talent!We shall soon see the dif-

ference in football talent and experience.

Beginning on the last Sun-day in August and continuing for three months, Tennessee will present a case study for the comparison of superior athletic ability and jungle warfare survival.

➤ Read Marvin West on page 5

IN THIS ISSUE

Kroger family helps friends

On Memorial Day weekend, the Kroger family of employees at 4414 Asheville Highway supported one of their own.

Deanna Jackson did not serve in the military but served the community as a loving wife, daughter, sister and mother of two. She passed away May 17 from complica-tions of a stroke she suffered last year at age 32.

Both Deanna and her hus-band, Harris Jackson, worked at the Asheville Highway Kroger.

➤ Read Patricia Williams on page 3

Fountain City honors its best

With Mayor Madeline Rog-ero and U.S. Rep. John Duncan Jr. on hand, the Fountain City Town Hall hosted another wonderful Honor Fountain City Day at the park.

➤ See Sandra Clark’s story on page 8

Expect a battleLast Sunday, state Rep.

Gloria Johnson threw herself a multipurpose birthday/fun-draiser/ ice-cream social in Edgewood Park, near the heart of North Knoxville, which is no longer the geographic heart of the 13th House District.

But it’s where she lives, and it’s where the former chair of the Knox County Democratic Party must win heavily in No-vember if she is to get a second term.

➤ Read Betty Bean on page 4

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health & lifestyles

The early symptoms of

stroke are often overlooked

or ignored. If you suspect

that you or a loved one is

having a stroke, think FAST:

F – FACE: Look at your face. Is one side sagging?

A – ARMS: Hold out your arms. Is one arm lower than the

other or harder to hold in place?

S – SPEECH: Is your speech slurred or garbled?

T – TIME: Time is critical when trying to minimize the eff ects

of stroke.

Call 911 and get to a hospital

as quickly as possible. And be sure

your hospital is a stroke-ready,

Comprehensive Stroke Center, like

Fort Sanders Regional.

Recognize the signs of a stroke FAST!

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is the only

facility in our region to hold a Comprehensive

Commission, as well as multiple CARF*

Accreditations for stroke rehabilitation.

Comprehensive stroke care ~ from diagnosis to

treatment to rehabiliation.

That’s Regional Excellence!

www.fsregional.com* Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

COMPREHENSIVE STROKE CENTER: FORT SANDERS REGIONAL

Local hospital honored again for quality achievement award for stroke care

For the second straight year, Fort Sand-ers Regional has received the Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold-Plus Qual-ity Achievement Award for implementing specifi c quality improvement measures out-lined by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for the treat-ment of stroke patients.

Get With The Guidelines-Stroke helps hospitals provide the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Fort Sanders Regional earned the award by meeting spe-cifi c quality achievement measures for the rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke pa-tients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include aggressive use of medications and risk-reduction therapies aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients.

“Fort Sanders Regional is dedicated to improving the quality of stroke care and The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guide-lines-Stroke helps us achieve that goal,” said Fort Sanders Stroke Coordinator Nancy No-ble. “With this award, our hospital demon-strates our commitment to ensure that our

patients receive care based on internation-ally-respected clinical guidelines.”

“We are pleased to recognize Fort Sand-ers Regional for their commitment and ded-

ication to stroke care,” said Deepak L. Bhatt,M.D., M.P.H., national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines steering committee and Executive Director of InterventionalCardiovascular Programs at Brigham andWomen’s Hospital and Professor of Medi-cine at Harvard Medical School. “Studies have shown that hospitals that consistently follow Get With The Guidelines quality im-provement measures can reduce patients’ length of stays and 30-day readmission rates and reduce disparity gaps in care.”

The guidelines also help in implementing prevention measures, which include edu-cating stroke patients to manage their riskfactors and to be aware of warning signs forstroke, and ensuring they take their medi-cations properly. Fort Sanders Regionalmakes customized patient education mate-rials available upon discharge, based on the patients’ individual risk profi les.

According to the American Heart Associ-ation/American Stroke Association, strokeis the No. 4 cause of death and a leadingcause of adult disability in the United States.On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and 795,000 people suffer anew or recurrent stroke each year.

Dr. Elizabeth Hull (emergency medicine), Dr. Keith Woodward (neurointerventional radiology),

Nancy Noble (stroke coordinator) and Dr. Paul Peterson (neurosurgery) celebrate receipt of the

AHA/ASA Gold Plus Award for Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. Fort Sanders is a Joint Com-

mission certifi ed Comprehensive Stroke Center.

Bert and Ellen Sullivan celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with their grandchildren. The

Mississippi residents found themselves at Fort Sanders Regional when visiting East Tennessee in

March. Bert Sullivan received life-saving care after suff ering a stroke and is now back home and

undergoing therapy.

Quick thinking saves stroke victim’s lifeDuring a stroke, every second counts. Ellen Sullivan of Richland, Miss., knew

time was important on March 13, when her husband, Bert Sullivan, suddenly had sever-al symptoms of a stroke. He had one previ-ously in 2001, so she knew it was crucial to get him to a hospital quickly.

A stroke, often called a “brain attack,” is when a blood vessel in the brain becomes blocked or ruptures.

The Sullivans were visiting with family in a Sevierville hotel. They were sitting down to breakfast when Bert’s speech became confused. “And then I saw his face start to droop. I knew he was having a stroke,” Ellen Sullivan said.

“My sister-in-law went to call 911, and the ambulance arrived quickly, and of course they saw he was having a stroke, too,” she said.

Emergency personnel took Sullivan to Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. As a Comprehensive Stroke Center, Fort Sanders has stroke experts on call 24 hours a day and advanced technology and physicians who can remove blood clots or repair bleeds.

“The young man who drove the ambu-lance was so good, we practically fl oated to the hospital,” said Ellen Sullivan. “They took care of Bert and me, and let me know what was going on.”

About 87 percent of strokes are caused by blood clots. If a clot is diagnosed within the fi rst three hours, it can be treated with a powerful clot-busting medication with tPA (tissue plasminogen activator).

While many people do not seek treat-ment during the time window (for example,

if their stroke occurs during the night), Sullivan was fortunate that his stroke hap-pened while he was awake and that his fam-ily called for help.

Sullivan received tPA. He was also taken to Fort Sanders’ neuro-interventional suite. There, neuroradiologist Dr. Eric Nyberg and diagnostic radiologist Dr. Scott Wegryn removed the blot clot in a minimally inva-sive procedure called brain angioplasty.

“This is a good example of an interdisci-plinary team working to provide care,” said Dr. James Hora, a neurologist at Fort Sand-ers who also saw Sullivan.

“The emergency room physician recog-nized the stroke. The interventional radiolo-gist recorded the clot on the CT angiogram. We got called and confi rmed the stroke and discussed the options with Mr. Sullivan and his family, and we made a decision all of us together. Off he went to the neuro-inter-ventional suite, and he did very well,” said Hora.

Ellen Sullivan said all her husband’s treatments were fi nished within two hours. “We were there at 9:10 a.m. and I’d say they were done with everything at 11 a.m.,” she said.

“Dr. Nyberg came into the waiting room, and he was so good about letting us know what was going on. He talked on the phone with my son who is a nurse in Mississippi. I thought that was going above and beyond the call of duty.”

Ellen Sullivan said she received a warm welcome at Fort Sanders.

“The people there were so nice to me,”

said Ellen Sullivan. “Bert got the best of care, and the two young ladies working the desk really took care of us. Even the man cleaning the fl oor offered us cookies from his church. He said they were made with love for all of us.”

Bert Sullivan was able to go home to Mis-sissippi in record time.

“They thought it was going to be two weeks, then it was one week. Well we were out of there in four days!” said Ellen Sulli-van. “I feel like Bert got the best care and they saved his life with their effi ciency and

speed. They worked so well together.” Today, Sullivan is undergoing speech and

physical therapy near his home and is mak-ing steady improvement from his stroke, El-len Sullivan said.

“We’re just praying for complete recov-ery. This was a very emotional, bad time,”she said. “But at Fort Sanders you felt the comfort that you do when you’re at home.”

For more information on the stroke services

available at Fort Sanders, please visit www.

fsregional.com/stroke or call 673-FORT.

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No matter what your fl a-vor of politics, Elaine Evans can create a fl avor of ice cream to suit your taste.

With the upcoming birthday of state Rep. Glo-ria Johnson, Evans thought it would be in good taste to create an ice cream fl avor to honor her. After a few trials, “Gloria’s Bacon and Berries” ice cream got the scoop for Johnson’s Birthday Bash at Edgewood Park.

“I wanted to create some-thing I felt represented Glo-ria,” said Evans, “So I went with quality, traditional, Tennessee ingredients.”

Evans chose Benton’s ba-con, which she buys in Mad-isonville, and fresh-picked strawberries and blackber-ries that are currently in season.

The Johnson clan turned out including Gloria’s mom, Nell; her brother, sister-in-law and nephew, Chuck, Sheri and Landen Johnson (while their older son, Cam-eron, was off on another adventure); and Johnson’s nephew Spencer Rouser and his wife, Stephanie.

Evans prepares custom ice creams by request and for events she caters. Ten-nessee Apple Pie Moonshine was a recent creation for the Biscuit Festival. Yum. For

State Rep. Gloria Johnson

speaks to the gathering at

Edgewood Park.

Elaine Evans serves Gloria’s Bacon and Berries ice cream, cre-

ated especially for state Rep. Gloria Johnson’s birthday. Photos by S. Clark

Karen Latus is on crutches at

the party. Known as “Karen

the Spanish teacher,” she

spoke to the school board

about being evaluated by

English-speakers who asked

her to use less Spanish in her

classroom during their visit.

Patricia Williams

Gloria Johnson getsice cream fl avor

your own custom ice cream, sorbet, gelato, popsicle or other frozen treats for any occasion you can email her at alaineevanscommunica-tions@gmail.com or like her on Facebook at Elaine’s Ice Cream.

■ Kroger friends help JacksonsAs we honored our fallen

heroes and those who have served our country on this past Memorial Day week-end, the Kroger family of employees at 4414 Asheville Highway also supported one of their own.

Deanna Jackson did not serve in the military but served the community as a loving wife, daughter, sis-ter and mother of two. She passed away May 17 from complications of a stroke she suffered last year at age 32.

Both Deanna and her husband, Harris Jackson, worked at the Asheville

Larry Wood with nephew Philip , who volunteered to help with grilling, and Nikki Maddox, who

sold tickets for the grill. Photos by Patricia Williams

Jackson family member include Harris Jackson’s mother, Imo-

gene “Cheryl” Jackson, and sister Shaniqua with his children

Darius and Tamisha.

Kroger employee Harris Jackson with store manager Andy

Bowers

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public benefi ts perspec-tive and from a social work perspective – our goal is to help people fi nd practical solutions to the challenges of aging, to help clients save money and to help them get the care they need,” Crot-well said.

The Caswell house is a sturdy brick American Foursquare, built in 1915 by William S. Caswell, who had served as a courier in the Civil War for his father, a brigadier general in the Confederate army. Caswell became one of Knoxville’s most prosperous real estate developers and donated the land that became Caswell Park.

Crotwell describes her-self as an Air Force brat who lived all around the country and ended up spending her high school years in Oak Ridge. She is a graduate of Oak Ridge High School and the University of Tennessee, where she earned an under-graduate degree in English and a law degree. She grad-uated Summa cum Laude, was a member of the Order of the Coif and clerked for state Supreme Court Justice Gary R. Wade.

She has done a great deal of volunteer work and was a board member and later president of CASA of East Tennessee, an organization that assists abused chil-dren. She developed and currently administers a program for the non-profi t Ride For Life to provide grants covering legal ser-vices for persons who suffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known

lined up to make purchases and not just because the food was good.

This is not the fi rst time the Kroger team has come together to support the community or one of their own. “I’m really proud of the teamwork and efforts they make for the community and each other, said Mike Coggins, regional manager. “We are a community store and a team that comes to-gether to make a difference one person at a time.”

All of the food and the new grill were donated by the store. “Every penny they make today will go to Unity Mortuary, (that also stepped up by making fi nancial ar-rangements with the fam-ily) and other expenses in-curred by the family,” said Coggins.

You could get your car washed for whatever you wanted to donate. Calister Hamlett, a shopper who was not hungry, got her car washed to contribute to the effort. Baked goods prepared by employees and friends were donated to raise additional funds.

Members of Jackson’s family came to express their appreciation for everyone’s labor of love. “I have been helping him with the chil-dren and to handle every-thing as much as I can,” said his mother, Imogene “Cher-yl” Jackson.

“This is really hard for him. She was accompanied by Jackson’s sister Shaniqua and his two adorable chil-dren.

Highway Kroger. Their two kids are Darius, 9, and Tamisha, just 3.

“We are all very close here,” said store manager Andy Bowers. “We are a sec-ond family to each other.”

Shoppers could purchase grilled food prepared on-site, baked goods or $1 tick-ets for a grill.

Larry Wood, a Kroger employee of 35 years, and his nephew Philip, who vol-unteered his services for the cause, prepared fried bar-bequed bologna sandwich-es, fried green tomatoes and the traditional hamburger or hot dog. Shoppers and employees on lunch break,

as Lou Gehrig’s disease. She offers pro bono legal ser-vices through Legal Aid of East Tennessee Inc. and the Tennessee Family Justice Center. She serves on the University of Tennessee Le-gal Clinic Alumni Advisory Board.

During any free time she can grab, she likes to kaya-

king, hiking, bicycling and doing yoga, frequently ac-companied by “Bug,” the beagle mix she rescued from the woods one cold winter day.

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a lot of hiking and kayaking this summer and enjoy the luxury of fall travel, for the fi rst time. Leland is going to spend the summer work-ing in her studio and travel-ing to Italy and will start a part-time job in the fall.

So why are they leaving early?

“I do not believe in a lot of things that are being done – the overly zealous emphasis on data, on test scores – it is an outright attack on teachers,” Leland said.

“I’ve always been evalu-ated by people who have never taught art. Teaching art cannot be compared to an academic class.”

Kelly agreed:“Teaching cannot be

compared to a business. We’re doing so much wrong in education. It’s bad for teachers and horrible for kids. But teachers are easy

to push around. We see these cycles come and go, and we sit back and let them happen. This time, it fi nally broke us.”

Kelly said the emphasis on four-year graduation rates (a Race to the Top requirement) is creating grade infl ation that dam-ages academic integrity.

“A couple of years ago, I was teaching an economics course that is required for graduation. I was asked to turn in the names of kids in danger of failing, and I gave them the name of one boy who never got above a 40 on a test.

“Two weeks later, he walked across the stage and graduated.”

Surprised, Kelly learned the student had been placed in a last-minute, acceler-ated cram session aimed at making him graduation-eligible.

But much as they dis-agree with today’s test-and-assess business model, they don’t regret their career choice.

“I’m leaving a little ear-lier than I intended, but I’ve known so many great kids. I ran into a kid yesterday that I gave a scholarship to, and I was tickled to death to see him. I’ve taught kids of my kids,” Kelly said.

Leland, for whom teach-ing high school art was the fourth career (she’d worked in planning at UT, at TVA in regional arts and at the TVA Credit Union in staff development), says she has no regrets about her teach-ing career.

“I thought I’d stay longer, but I’m happy. I’m glad this was my fourth career. But staying would mean going along with these current policies, and I just can’t do that anymore.”

In praise of mentorsPrincipal Muncie Harbin, left, and Kids’ Hope coordinator Carol Linger, right, recognize 5th-

graders Jinneyfer Delgado, Ciera Moore and Damijah Gourley, who are rising out of the mentor-

ing program at South Knoxville Elementary School. Harbin has retired as principal. Photo by Betsy Pickle

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Betty Bean

Satire alert!Knox County Mayor

Tim Burchett’s embrace of the legendary Bigfoot has sparked a rivalry with his city counterpart, Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero.

If there was any doubt that Mayor Rogero is seeking reelection, it ended with invitations being sent out for a $250 suggested donation for a fundraiser on Wednes-day, June 11, at the Kingston Pike home of former Rogero deputy Eddie Mannis.

Ivan Harmon considers race for mayor

The event has a 70-per-son host committee of both Democrats and Republi-cans. It is an impressive group, although it does include several persons who do business with the city. Light hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served, accord-ing to the invitation. All current council members have been invited by Man-nis via email to be guests at the event (meaning they do not ha ve to pay).

Mannis, who owns Pres-tige Cleaners, recently re-placed the roof on his house after living downtown, sell-ing his condo to TVA CEO Bill Johnson and moving back to his West Knox-ville home. His showcase gardens have been open to the public several times. Mannis hosted a fundraiser for Rogero in 2011.

It is smart politics by Rogero to hold such an event 15 months ahead of the September 2015 mayoral primary. It shows her inten-tions to seek a second and fi nal term (not that there was any doubt). It allows her to showcase broad-based support for her candidacy through her host commit-tee and thus encourage some credible rivals who may want to be mayor to defer their plans until 2019. It also replenishes her campaign bank account and lets people know she will be well-funded.

At present she does not have an announced opponent although former county commissioner, city school board member and city council member Ivan Harmon has said he is considering it. Harmon was an unsuccessful mayoral candidate in 1995 and 2011. He did not make the runoff between Rogero and Mark Padgett in 2011. He says, “I am not going to let her run unopposed. I will decide by August or September. I am in good health.”

No incumbent mayor or council member has lost reelection to a second term since term limits were im-posed. Assuming Rogero’s

reelection, the open seat for mayor in 2019 will likely draw several serious candi-dates including more than one now serving on City Council. All City Council candidates running in 2017 and 2019 will be new as no current council member will be eligible to run in those years.

■ House Speaker John Boehner, who is third in line to the presi-dency after the president and vice president, was in Knoxville May 24 as the main guest for U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan’s fund-raiser at the Pete and Cindi DeBusk home on Cunning-ham Road. Afterward, he and Duncan had dinner at the popular family-owned Litton’s in Fountain City, where he had one of Knox-ville’s best hamburgers. They ate in the back of the restaurant, so most patrons did not realize Boehner was there.

■ The UT proposal for the historic Williams House on Lyons View Pike to be leased for a 50- or 99-year period may be the best possible outcome in terms of saving the house. The signifi cant sticking point will be fi nding a person or persons willing to spend $3 million-plus to renovate the Staub-designed house plus the UT Board of Trustees signing off on it. Not many people fi t that profi le.

After spending that large a sum, are they willing for it to revert to the University at some future point? Good news is that there is posi-tive movement to rescue the house from neglect. But this story is far from being concluded.

■ City Council mem-ber Marshall Stair is moving to North Knoxville in a few months to a home he is purchasing on East Anderson Avenue. Stair currently lives downtown on Market Street. His new home is a 1900 Colonial that labor from the neighborhood has helped restore, according to the sign in the front yard. More can be found on it at www.facebook.com/theAn-dersonProject.ONK, which clearly shows how much hard labor went into rescu-ing this house. His purchase and occupancy of the house shows strong personal com-mitment to historic preser-vation and neighborhood revitalization.

As an at-large member Stair is not required to live in any particular district. The other at-large mem-bers live in West Knox. All three are up for reelection in 2015, along with council member Mark Campen.

Bigfoot and Yeti and mayors, oh my!

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“I proclaim June 2 Yeti Day in Knoxville,” Rogero recently announced. “We don’t need no stinkin’ Big-foot in our fair city.”

“That’s a danged politi-cal maneuver,” Burchett re-sponded, “trying to distract city folks from the tax in-crease. Besides, everybody knows Bigfoot would make spaghetti of the Yeti.”

Rogero disagrees, and says she is personally lead-ing the hunt for the Yeti in downtown Knoxville.

“I thought I spotted it on the sixth fl oor of the City

County Building yesterday,” Rogero said, “but it was just Burchett’s communica-tions guy, Michael Grider.” Rogero later apologized for bashing Grider with the Louisville Slugger she uses for the annual City-County softball game.

Not to be outdone, Bur-chett has been trolling countywide for Bigfoot with his Nikon camera.

“Thought I had the ras-cal cornered last Thursday evening outside Wright’s Cafeteria,” Burchett said. “I want to say publicly how sorry I am for smashing Michael Grider in the head with my tripod. Get well soon, Big Sexy!”

Interest in the Bigfoot-Yeti rivalry has spread be-yond the mayors’ offi ces.

“I smell opportunity,” said Knox County Commis-sioner Amy Broyles. “Tour-ist dollars could make up for the property-tax increase we didn’t get – again.”

Broyles says she will bring resolutions before County Commission and City Coun-

cil proposing the purchase of specially equipped patrol cars to be manned 24/7 by sheriff’s deputies and city police offi cers.

“I’m volunteering to ride shotgun,” Broyles said. “And when the Safety Center is completed we’ll have the perfect place to house and display the critters.”

Other commissioners ex-pressed support for Broyles’ idea.

Richard Briggs, who will claim the local record for most honorifi cs if elected to the state Senate this fall, sees merit in the proposal.

“Can I fi t Commissioner Colonel Senator-elect Dr. Richard Briggs on a stan-dard business card? Is that the question? Snaring Big-foot or the Yeti will be a snap, by comparison,” Briggs said.

Commissioner Jeff Own-by has also signed on to the Broyles initiative.

“I’m very interested, I guess you’d say bi-curious, about both those big fel-lows,” Ownby said.

In Nashville, even Gov.

Bill Haslam is taking notes.“If the electric chair is

cruel and inhuman, how about a date with old Big-foot for condemned prison-ers?” Haslam mused. “Put ’em in a steel cage, let ’em rassle, invite the public, closed-circuit television, the works!” the governor crowed before being nudged away by several aides.

Out west, Farragut May-or Ralph McGill took little note of the Burchett-Rogero contretemps.

“We have very strict codes in Farragut,” McGill said. “Hairy monsters have no place in this town unless they play for the high school football team or guard our liquor taxes.”

Should Bigfoot or the Yeti slip into Farragut, he add-ed, they would be “cited on sight.”

UPDATE: After his re-lease from the hospital, Mi-chael Grider was cited by a Farragut codes-enforcement offi cial who subsequently apologized for the mistake in iden tity.

Last Sunday, state Rep. Gloria Johnson threw her-self a multipurpose birth-day/fundraiser/ ice-cream social in Edgewood Park, near the heart of North Knoxville, which is no lon-ger the geographic heart of the 13th House District.

But it’s where she lives, and it’s where the former chair of the Knox County Democratic Party must win heavily in November if she is to get a second term.

The 13th has been send-ing Democrats to Nashville for more than 50 years, with the exception of the brief tenure of Republican Joe Burchfi eld, who won a special election in 1989 over the widow of the late Ted Ray Miller to serve out the second year of the term vacated by the death of the incumbent. Burchfi eld was promptly defeated in 1990 by Harry Tindell, who re-mained in offi ce until 2012 despite numerous attempts to oust him by candidates with ties to conservative Re-

Eddie Smith and Lanna Keck Smith

at Honor Fountain City Day.

Gloria Johnson (at top) poses with family at her birthday bash in Edgewood

Park. At left are her nephew and his wife, Spencer and Stephanie Rouser; on

the right are her brother and sister-in-law, Chuck and Sheri Johnson, and

their son, Landen; Gloria’s mom (center) is Nell Johnson. Photo by Patricia Williams

Expect a battle in the fi ghting 13th

publicans Stacey Campfi eld and Bill Dunn.

Tindell, a fi scal conserva-tive who specialized in gov-ernment fi nances, became an important cog in the power structure of a House dominated by Democrats and was the favorite Demo-crat of a lot of Republicans. Over the years, he survived the gradual GOP takeover of the House unscathed.

The Republican takeover was completed with the wave election of 2010, which gave the GOP the power to redraw House district lines. By 2012, the 13th District had been stretched south and west with the addition of Bonny Kate, Mount Olive and Sequoyah Hills. Pri-vately, Republicans main-tained that it could have been worse, but for their re-

spect for Tindell, who none-theless bowed out in 2012.

Common wisdom was that the Republicans would take the seat, but Johnson, a special-education teach-er fresh off a 2011 run for state Senate that nobody expected her to win against Republican Becky Duncan Massey (she mostly ran be-cause no other Democrat volunteered to take the bayonet in the breadbasket), took the House seat with a strong election-day show-ing in the North Knoxville wards, where demographics skew older and more sym-pathetic to the labor, educa-tion and civil-rights issues that are her strengths.

This year, two Repub-licans will go at it in the primary – the heavily self-fi nanced Jason Emert, a Far-ragut High School graduate and former Blount County resident who moved to Se-quoyah Hills a year ago and has a recently acquired law degree from the University of Miami and a penchant for

shooting himself in the foot, and Eddie Smith, an ar-ranger of church music and Inskip resident who grew up in Alice Bell and is mar-ried to former Miss Tennes-see Lanna Keck and has ties to Bill Dunn (who is now a committee chair and wields power commensurate to that which Tindell enjoyed when his party ruled Capi-tol Hill).

It will be ugly.Smith will be heavily out-

spent by Emert but should win the primary. And the November battle with John-son, who will have the sup-port of a legion of ticked-off teachers, will be epic.

Note: A photo accom-panying last week’s col-umn about a campaign reception for Chancellor Daryl Fansler identified his colleague, Chancellor Mike Moyers, as a Fansler “supporter.” Moyers says he was merely in atten-dance at the reception and the Fansler sticker he was wearing was a nametag.

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Marvin West

We shall soon see the difference in football talent and experience.

Beginning on the last Sunday in August and con-tinuing for three months, Tennessee will present a case study for the com-parison of superior athletic ability and jungle warfare survival.

Butch Jones has assem-bled a bright, young cast of highly regarded prospects. Alas, the foundation of his brick-by-brick building program is thin. There just aren’t many Volunteers who have enjoyed learning expe-riences against Southeast-ern Conference foes.

That’s double trouble. There haven’t been many winning games to enjoy, and there are too few seniors.

Talent or experience? Take your pick

Back when freshmen were not allowed to play because of perceived im-maturity and sophomores were considered generally inadequate, the late, great Robert R. Neyland said col-lege teams could expect to lose one game for each un-derclassman in the starting lineup.

Thankfully that philoso-phy is no longer applicable. There aren’t enough games.

Now is an OK time to guess which Tennessee

freshmen might be in the opening lineup against Utah State. Offensive tack-le Coleman Thomas, tight end Ethen Wolf and corner Emmanuel Moseley are best bets. Wide receiver Josh Malone appears ready enough. Tailback Jalen Hurd is not far behind. At least two incoming missiles will try to take a safety spot. A rookie could become a starting linebacker. I sup-pose it is possible that a freshman could be a defen-sive tackle. Another rookie might emerge as kicker.

Sophomores? They are everywhere. Neyland would shudder.

In trying to compare the values of talent and experi-ence, consider this: Coaches can intensify practice to a

level that is somewhat simi-lar to “experience.” There is no way to fake talent. You are or are not athletic. You can or can’t run fast. Reaction time is excellent or less. You can jump or you can’t. OK, that doesn’t matter as much if you are a big, strong lineman.

Talent can be enhanced with improved technique, but it is really hard to teach speed.

Coach Jones knew what he was getting into when he took the Tennessee job. As soon as he analyzed the roster, he saw that his sec-ond season would likely be more challenging than his fi rst. He inherited experi-enced linemen on both sides of the ball, but they would soon be gone. He couldn’t be sure that Tiny would go

but he did.I remember when the

coach said: “I knew right away that we were in trou-ble in Year 2 in terms of depth and experience. We had to make a commitment in recruiting.”

Did they ever! Butch and his people recruited one of the fi nest classes in the country. As is almost always the case, most new Vols are very young.

The truth is that Jones still doesn’t know what his defense will look like un-til the summer freshmen are integrated into the pro-gram. There is powerful incoming potential among linebackers and defensive backs, but it is too early to forecast what Derek Bar-nett, Dewayne Hendrix,

Charles Mosley and Michael Sawyers can do.

There is evolution to come. Jones says there is no way around playing some rookies in the defensive front.

“That’s just where we are. And, as we know, this is an unforgiving league when it comes to the line of scrim-mage.”

Coaching tip based on many years of observation: If you really must make a choice, take talent over experience. There will be mistakes. There will also be more big plays.

NFL scouts prove that point each spring. They sometimes recommend bas-ketball players.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com .

Around these parts, the month of June is about the busiest time of the year, at least in the bird world. All those nice calm birds that spent the winter munching seeds at our feeders have had a big dose of hormones kick in. They’ve been joined by dozens of migrant species like hummingbirds, house wrens, swallows and vireos, jostling for both groceries and housing opportunities.

Dr. Bob Collier

A d th t thh

A busy June: Nesting

The neighborhood is full of drama, with such famil-iar characters as super-moms, absentee dads and overworked parents trying to cope with fussy, demand-ing kids. Of course, we’re not talking reality shows here, we’re into actual life in the June bird world.

The name of the game is nesting. The object of the game is to produce as many new baby birds in as short a time as possible. Nesting includes building a place, laying some eggs, sitting on them till they hatch (the process called incubation by the biologists) and then feeding those hatchlings from dawn to dark till they go from helpless little blobs to independent, fl ying crea-

tures. This all takes place in a

late-May-to-June frenzy of activity covering two or three weeks and is often followed up with a second round of the same stuff, producing a second, and sometimes, here in the South, a third brood.

At our house we are pres-ently hosting (or putting up with) nests of Carolina wrens (back porch – they tried hard for the garage), cardinals (crepe myrtle bush just outside my desk window; momma bird gives me a scolding every time I sit at my desk) and phoebes (on a shelf I built for them last year, under my shed-roof overhang). And then the bluebirds and the house wrens are in constant dis-putes over who gets which nest box this year.

The blue jays, instead of being loud and raucous, are skulking around the yard, quietly gathering food, a sure sign of a nest with babies, and the blue-gray gnatcatchers are just fi nish-ing up their fi rst brood and are starting on their second.

Bird nests come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. They range from the tiny hummingbird nest woven from cobwebs and lichens, to the massive hundred-pound-plus pile of sticks constructed by our bald eagles. The artistry ranges from the carefully woven baskets of the orioles and vireos, to the precise, mud-

lined cups of the robins, to the half-dozen twigs thrown together by the mourning doves. The killdeers don’t even bother – they just plunk their eggs down on a driveway or in a parking lot somewhere and call it a nest.

After the nests are built and eggs laid, then comes the easy part – incubation. The average length of time to hatching for our smaller songbirds is about 11 days. Ah, but then – feeding.

Bird parents face one common sight all day long every day – a nest full of big, wide-open, hungry mouths. Baby birds must have pro-tein to develop properly, and even species that usu-ally eat seeds feed their growing youngsters protein. This means caterpillars,

worms, spiders, insects. As many as they can fi nd, con-stantly foraging, day after day. People have watched and counted the feeding trips parents make to their nests, and some number in the hundreds per day.

This is interesting and fun to watch, but think also of the millions of grubs eating your lawn, and caterpillars eating your garden and trees, and gnats and mosquitoes tormenting you, that are gathered each spring and fed to growing birds, that would otherwise be eating us people out of house and home! There is no way we could ever keep up.

Just like in the average American neighborhood, the arrangements for rearing a family vary from one house-

hold to another, only with the birds it’s determined by the species. For example, our good old American robins mostly cooperate in the en-terprise, with the male bird helping the female build her nest, then keeping a watch-ful eye on things while she incubates the eggs for 12 to 14 days. The dad then joins the mom in the monumen-tal task of stuffi ng hundreds of worms and caterpillars into the ever-open hungry mouths till the babies are off the nest and on their way.

The opposite end of that spectrum is the humming-bird family. The male ruby-throated hummingbirds se-lect a territory each spring that offers good nesting sites and an adequate food sup-ply. A female comes along and chooses a male based

upon the quality of terri-tory he oversees. They mate, and then that’s it for the father. Away he goes, and the female then builds the nest, lays the eggs and sits on them, with brief breaks for a bite to eat. When they hatch, super-mom fi nds all the food and feeds the two babies by herself.

What’s really amazing is that she will often mate and start a second nest by herself, while fi nishing up with the fi rst one! Certainly something for the neighbors to watch and talk about over the back fence.

But all this June activity is not just programmed into the birds for our entertain-ment. Mother Nature has worked things out so that on average, over the years, we will end up with about the same total number of birds each season. And it’s not easy being a baby bird.

Weather such as cold snaps and storms, disease and predators, especially outdoor house cats, wipe out millions each year. Many fi rst-year birds fail to make it back to their nest-ing grounds on that fi rst migration. And so to replace all those losses, plus losing parent birds annually as well, there has to be a good-sized batch of replacement birds each year.

It’s a huge job, and it takes a lot of trips to the nest with your mouth full of worms. But it seems to be a system that’s worked out well through the eons. Just be glad that kids don’t grow that fast. Imagine what jeans and sneakers would cost.

Human Animal Bond in Tennessee (HABIT) is hold-ing a free meeting for those interested in becoming vol-unteers tonight (June 2) at 6:30 in room A118 at the UT College of Veterinary Medicine, 2407 River Drive. Parking is available in Lot 66 behind the veterinary college.

News for animal lovers

Carol Zinavage

Carol’s Corner

Victor Ashe Park. Presented by PetSafe, the dog-friendly event is 10 a.m.-1 p.m. with early-registration check-in and day-of-event registra-tion starting at 9 a.m.

Proceeds will benefi t the Abby Gibson Veterinary Medicine Scholarship En-dowment at UTCVM, HAB-IT, HALT (Humans and Ani-mals Learning Together,)

and the Knoxville Zoo’s Zoo-Fund for Kids.

Last year’s Walk & Wag was an absolute blast. You won’t fi nd better, happier, more caring people on the planet. This year there are contests, demonstrations by the Knox County Sheriff’s K-9 unit, music, food, prize drawings and a scavenger hunt. The Knoxville Zoo

ZooMobile will be on hand. Plus there’s a new “kids’ zone” with all kinds of fun games and activities. Info: www.abbygibson.org/.

■ Don’t try to help those fl edglingsOn my daily walks, I can’t

help noticing an awful lot of scruffy baby birds fl oun-dering in the underbrush. Sometimes we’ll spot a baby bunny.

Are these infants in trou-ble?

They aren’t.Just keep your distance

(and your dog inside or on

a short leash) and let the parents of these fl edglings do what they know is best for their babies, says Janet Pezzi, a licensed veterinary medical technician with the Avian, Exotics and Zoologi-cal Medicine and Surgery service at the UT Veterinary Medical Center.

HABIT promotes the bond between people and animals, sponsoring ani-mal-assisted therapy pro-grams for all ages in many different settings, includ-ing nursing and retirement homes, assisted-living cen-ters, hospitals, physical re-habilitation centers and area schools. Info: www.vet.utk.edu/habit/.

■ Walk the waggersThe Abby Gibson Memo-

rial Foundation will hold its third annual Walk & Wag event Saturday, June 7, at

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MONDAY, JUNE 2American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran

St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 387-5522.

TUESDAY, JUNE 3Neighborhood Watch meeting: Big Ridge 4th

District, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School. UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group

meeting, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice office, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reser-vation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

Amazingly Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 10:30 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Knoxville Day Aglow Lighthouse outreach meeting, 9:30-11:30 a.m., New Covenant Fellow-ship Church, 6828 Central Avenue Pike. Speaker: Patty Johnson. Bring dish to share if possible. Bev-erages and child care provided. Info: Diane Shelby, 687-3687.

Summer Reading Program: Ronald Mc-Donald, 1 p.m., Luttrell Public Library. Info: 992-0208.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4Fun on the Farm presented by Tennessee Valley

Fair, 11:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Computer Workshop: Introducing the Computer, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Preregistration required. Info/to preregister: 525-5431.

Summer Library Club presents magician Michael Messing, 11 a.m., North Knoxville Branch Library, 2901 Ocoee Trail. Info: 525-7036.

THURSDAY, JUNE 5Fun With Shakespeare, 3 p.m. Norwood Branch

Library, 1110 Merchants Drive. The Tennessee Stage Company will present an interactive workshop de-signed especially for elementary-school-age children,

focusing on the play “Much Ado About Nothing.” Info: 688-2454.

Summer Library Club presents magician Mi-chael Messing, 4 p.m., Mascot Branch Library, 1927 Library Road. Info: 933-2620.

Summer Library Club presents the Zoomo-bile, 4 p.m., Corryton Branch Library, 7733 Corryton Road. Info: 688-1501.

Pajama Rama, 6:30 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road. Kids can wear PJs and bring a favorite stuffed animal or toy. Info: 947-6210.

Bee Friends beekeeping group meeting, 6:30 p.m., Walters State Community College Tazewell Cam-pus auditorium. Speaker: Lynda Rizzardi, executive VP of the Tennessee Beekeeping Association and president of the Knox County Beekeepers. Info: 617-9013.

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 Countywide Rally for all candidates in Union

County, 7-10 p.m., Wilson Park. Live music; food. In case of rain, will be held in UCHS commons.

Farm Fresh Fridays: Union County Farmers Mar-ket, 4-7 p.m., downtown Maynardville. Info: 992-8038.

“Frankly Speaking about Lung Cancer,” noon-1:30 p.m., Tennova Health Care, North Knoxville Medical Center, Sister Elizabeth Assembly Room 1st Floor, 7565 Dannaher Drive, Powell. Speaker: Hesamm Gharavi, MD, of Tennessee Cancer Specialists. Light lunch provided. RSVP: 546-4661.

Summer Library Club presents the Zoomo-bile, 2 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stan-ton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Yard Sale/Multiple Family to benefi t Union County HOSA, 8 a.m., front parking lot of Union County High School. Baby stuff, furniture, household items/decor, seasonal stuff, clothes for all ages, toys and more.

SATURDAY JUNE 7Cades Cove tour with Bill Landry, 9 a.m.,

departing from the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. Tickets: $50 per person; includes light snacks and a cold beverage. Reservations required: 448-8838.

The Art of Handmade Books, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Bob Meadows. Part of the Featured Tennessee Artist Workshops Series. Registration deadline May 31. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

Art on Main Street Festival, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Main Street in Maynardville. Featuring artisans, live music, vendors, Lil Thunder Railroad ride for children, student art contest. Info: 992-9161.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Emagene Rea-gen, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stan-ton Road. Info: 689-2681.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road.

Info: 947-6210.Friends Mini Used Book Sale, 1-5 p.m., Burl-

ington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

Hard Knox Roller Girls in roller derby double-header, 6 p.m., Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker Ave. Brawlers vs. Smoky Mountain Roller Girls; All Stars vs. Vette City Rollergirls. Tickets: $12 at the door, $10 in advance. Tickets available at Coliseum box offi ce, team members and team website. Info: www.hardknoxrollergirls.com.

Community yard sale, 8 a.m.-noon, Bookwalter UMC, 4218 Central Avenue Pike. No setup fee; bring own table; setup 7 a.m. Info: 689-3349.

Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantry, 7:30 a.m., Powell Presbyterian Church, 2910 W. Emory Road. Parking lot will open at 6 a.m. No prerequirement to receive food. Volunteers should arrive at 6:30. Info: 938-8311 or www.powellpcusa.org.

Church yard sale, 8 a.m., Fountain Valley Church, 705 Satterfi eld Road.

Community Fun Festival, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Clear Branch Baptist Church, 1300 Tazewell Pike in Corryton. Admission free. Proceeds benefi t outreach programs.

MONDAY, JUNE 9Market Basket, 6-9 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft

Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Sheri Burns. Registration deadline: June 2. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

Coffee, Donuts and a Movie: “Saving Mr. Banks,” 10:45 a.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. PG-13, 110 minutes. Info: 525-5431.

Family Movie Night: “The Nut Job,” 5:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. PG, 85 minutes, Info: 525-5431.

TUESDAY, JUNE 10“Kid-to-Kid: Fun with a Purpose,” 5:30-7 p.m.,

Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Will help children gain coping skills and they will have opportunities to talk about a loved one’s cancer diagno-sis while also having fun. Parents are invited to attend “Talking to Kids about Cancer” at the same time. RSVP: 546-4661.

Summer Reading Program: Danse Et Plus Dance Studio, 1 p.m., Luttrell Public Library. Info: 992-0208.

Concert by Lake Junaluska Singers, 7 p.m., St. Paul UMC, 4014 Garden Drive. A love offering will be collected during the concert. Everyone welcome.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11Computer Workshops: Internet and Email

Basics, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Ashe-ville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. To register: 525-5431.

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Jacob Nipper, Carrell Campbell, and Keen Gardner carry the sponges for their teams. Photos by Betty Bean

By Betty BeanWhether you’re a student

or a teacher, the middle weeks of May can be tough to get through. Tests are done and kids who are sim-ply counting down the days until summer vacation can be hard to motivate.

But last week, Unity Day at Whittle Springs Middle School was a good antidote to spring fever. The culmina-tion of a year’s worth of work by Project U, a grant-fund-ed, student-led countywide middle-school anti-bullying initiative, Whittle Springs Unity Day was a celebration that involved every student in the school in physical and mental exercises.

The Project U club spon-sor, Jen Tedder, a school behavior liaison whose objective has been to help students to improve atten-dance, academic achieve-ment and social-skill devel-opment, said a big part of her job, in addition to com-batting bullying, is “helping students fi nd the tools that they need to overcome bar-riers to school success.”

She said that some of the kids didn’t quite understand the purpose of the games and initially found it hard to work together.

“But it was well worth the effort,” she said.

The games included the sponge relay, which in-volved dividing into teams and having kids run, three at a time, dry sponges in hand, to a kiddie pool some 50 yards away. They soaked the sponge, ran back to the starting point and squeezed out the sponges into the team bowl to see which bowl fi lled fastest. There

Keyasia Davis outruns the sponge race pack.

Zoe Poorman leaps forward.

Whittle Springs Unity Dayis fun with a purpose

was also a diffi cult hula-hoop relay and a mummy race that involved wrap-ping up a classmate in toilet paper.

“We celebrated work-ing together to achieve a purpose. We played games that demonstrated the impact if everyone works together. And it was fun!” Tedder said.

She said Unity Day was a good refl ection of Project

U’s year, which included activities like giving ev-ery 5th-grader a Project U wristband and a video about bullying, writing uplifting slogans on the school walk-way with sidewalk chalk and launching a “No-mirror Monday” that involved the Project U kids covering the school’s mirrors.

“More kids are willing to say if someone is bullying them now. I’ve heard kids

get onto other kids, saying, ‘You’re wearing that (Proj-ect U) wristband. You’re not supposed to talk to people like that.’

“I’ve had so many kids come to me and ask if they could join Project U. It grew over time, and now there are lots more kids willing to help,” Tedder said. “What I’m hearing now is, ‘Are we going to do it again next year?’ ”

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NEWS FROM EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE

Thirty-six AmeriCorps members have begun a sum-mer term with JustLead, Emerald Youth Foundation’s neighborhood-based program for urban youth. They will lead young people in a variety of health and educational programs this summer, and of course, have lots of fun with the kids.

AmeriCorps, a program of the U.S. Corporation for Na-tional and Community Service, engages more than 80,000

Americans in intensive service each year at nonprofi ts, schools, public agencies, and community and faith-based groups across the country.

If interested in Emerald Youth’s AmeriCorps program, contact Rachel Davis at rdavis@emeraldyouth.org.

Emerald Youth is recruiting this summer for part-time school year AmeriCorps positions, to begin in Au-gust.

AmeriCorps members serve with Emerald Youth this summer

Thomasiah Agnew, left, Lucia Vasquez and drama camp direc-

tor Mary Johnson perform in the play, “Talent Town, Tennes-

see,” during JustLead Camp Week last summer.

Vacation times often hold a hidden barb for inner city children and teens.

Higher rates of poverty and unemployment, greater numbers of single-parent households and a smaller stock of recreational facili-ties in the central city mean that urban kids seldom go on the vacations they see advertised. Many children simply spend the days roam-ing their neighborhoods or staying at home alone.

Emerald Youth offers a range of programming in a safe place. The organization also supports youth spiri-tually and helps them stay sharp academically, includ-ing preparing them for col-lege.

Through JustLead, its neighborhood-based minis-try, Emerald offers daytime and evening programming, via a network of urban churches and faith-based organizations. The newest is Laurel Church of Christ at 3457 Kingston Pike which is offering a day camp this summer for interested chil-dren who are rising second through eighth graders.

A highlight is JustLead

Camp Week, June 16-20, when more than 200 children will choose one themed-day camp, ranging from outdoor adventures to gardening or dance. The entire week is generously sponsored by Variety of Eastern Tennessee and con-cludes with a daylong trip to Knoxville Zoo – an always-popular event.

“Our intention behind JustLead Camp Week is to expose kids to something they really enjoy. We also want to provide camp op-tions the kids might not otherwise have access to or be able to participate in,” said Emerald Youth staff member Kent Stanger.

Other events will in-clude a middle school trip to Carowinds Amusement Park in Charlotte, N.C, and opportunities for high school students to visit col-leges, learn about careers, and enjoy hiking and tub-ing.

“We have a heavy em-phasis on the out-of-doors and relationship-building. We use the summer and the weather while we’ve got it,” Stanger said.

Summertime fun, safetyEmerald Youth Foundation off ers

Ava Garrett, 8, a rising third-grader at Halls El-ementary School, got the thrill of her life the evening of May 10.

During pregame cer-emonies at Regal Soccer Stadium, before the Knox-ville Force sparred with the Nashville FC, Ava and her Emerald Youth soc-cer teammates got to walk onto the fi eld with the Force players.

The children formed a “V” for the adult team to walk through. They stood on the fi eld with the Force as the introduction and an-nouncements were made and the crowd sang the na-tional anthem. Then the game roared into play.

Ava, who stood with goalkeeper Marcel Bar-wanietz, is eager to go to an-other Force game. She said she loved watching the adult players up close. “It was fun to watch them play. Not on TV, but in real life,” she said.

Her EY soccer teammate Ella Marie Reyes, 8, said she liked watching the adults execute diffi cult moves. “I want to see how competitive teams are and how aggres-sive you have to be,” added Ella, a rising fourth-grader at Beaumont Elementary.

Ava and Ella said they think all Knoxville chil-dren and youth who play soccer will enjoy the games of both men and women,

Knoxville Force soccer gamesmake ideal summer entertainment

Knoxville Force player Travis Bolton, Emerald Force players Ju-

lio Rico and Nevaeh Harness, and Paige Hoff man of the wom-

en’s Force team.

Knoxville’s semi-pro soccer teams. Returning title spon-sors this year include ORNL Federal Credit Union (for the men) and Pro2Serve (for the women).

The games are ideal, summer night outings for families and are played at beautiful Regal Soccer Stadium on the Univer-sity of Tennessee campus. The next home game of the Force will be Friday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m., when they take on the Atlanta Silverbacks Reserves.

Since its inception in 2011, the Knoxville Force has enjoyed a positive asso-ciation with Emerald Youth. Recently, the relationship between Emerald Youth’s soccer program and Knox-

ville Soccer LLC, owner of the both Force teams, be-came more formal. In April, the two organizations began a merger to become one club.

“This partnership will allow us to advance our commitment to bringing a higher level of the world’s most popular sport, soc-cer, to Knoxville in a man-ner that should have a ma-jor positive impact on our area’s urban youth. We are extremely pleased to be able to work with Emerald Youth Foundation,” said Dr. Barry Goss, president of Knoxville Soccer LLC.

Emerald Youth’s soccer program will now be known as the Emerald Force Soc-cer Club, a junior club to the Knoxville Force. It is a rela-

tionship common in cities with a professional soccer team.

Emerald Force looks for-ward to strengthening its soccer program, which now includes about 300 children playing on academy teams and at least fi ve club teams this fall. Knoxville Force will continue to grow as a regional team in the Nation-al Premier Soccer League.

Schedules and ticket info at www.knoxvilleforce.com.

Emerald Youth’s sum-mer swim team – the Emer-ald Force – has a lineup of swimmers raring to go.

New head coach Justin Baxter is the former swim coach at Bearden High School.

“We are looking forward to a good season. We expect to have stronger swimmers this year,” said Dwayne Sanders, Emerald Youth sports director. “Justin thinks we can win a meet or two. We have at least four swimmers now who swim year-round.”

Emerald’s team can ac-commodate 50 swimmers.

Emerald Force has a schedule of four regu-lar meets plus the Smoky Mountain Invitational Meet July 13 and the City Swim Meet July 25.

Swimmer A.J. Humphries at a

meet last summer.

Swimmers race to summer season

As a competitive sport for kids, swimming receives high marks: it is low-injury, promotes fi tness and helps prevent obesity, which af-fl icts about 40 percent of urban Knoxville youth. It is also an ideal lifelong sport.

The U.S. Centers for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion have found that Afri-can-American children ages 5-14 are almost three times more likely to drown than white children.

But programs like Emer-ald’s are creating a differ-ence. Last year, several Em-erald swimmers went on to swim in the fall and winter with the Tennessee Aquat-ics competitive swim club.

Emerald leads more than 200 children to swim les-sons each fall, spring and summer. Presently, kids are taking lessons through the Learn to Swim program at the YWCA.

At the Ed Cothren pool, where the team practices, urban children are gain-ing profi ciency with every stroke.

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Next time you’re on Chapman Highway, roll the windows down and inhale. The delicious aroma waft-ing through the air is prob-ably coming from The Vil-lage Bakery.

Nancy Whittaker

James Shelton has mastered the art of The Village Bakery’s

most popular cookie, Thumbprints, with help from his mom,

Tina. Photo by Nancy Whittaker

Choosing a cookie at The Village Bakery

In the past month, sev-eral people randomly men-tioned this iconic business. As soon as I learned about the large variety of cookies, I knew this would be a fun and tempting story.

Tina Shelton grew up in an Oak Ridge bakery and learned many tricks of the trade. She fell in love with the creative process and knew this would be her life’s work.

Theodore McMahan opened The Village Bak-ery in 1980. Tina became the owner in 1988. Her son, James, following in his mother’s footsteps, also grew up in the bakery. Lo-cated at 6202 Chapman Highway, Tina and James are very proud that they own the oldest bakery in Knoxville.

James is a UT graduate with a communications de-gree with a concentration

on advertising. After grad-uation, Tina mentioned she might retire and sell the bakery. James didn’t want that to happen so he jumped in.

Now the mother and son duo spend 8-9 hours a day together. Their relation-ship is full of teasing and could almost become a stand-up comedy act. Tina

says she is excited now that they have another em-ployee whose name is also Tina. Now when someone says “Tina did it,” guess who gets the blame.

The Village Bakery’s No. 1 seller is defi nitely Thumb-print cookies. While I was there, several people came in to pick up a dozen or two. Thumbprints are just one of

a huge variety of cookies. Itook home a box of “one ofeach” so I could decide whatwould become my favorite.Don’t even attempt to picka favorite. Each bite left memore confused and saying,“OK – now I think this oneis the best!”

Cakes are an importantpart of the bakery’s busi-ness. All cakes are “madefrom scratch” and decoratedto order. Whether you needa wedding cake or are cel-ebrating a birthday or anyother special occasion, callTina and James at 577-9616. They are experts ondecorating and will createa delicious and beautifulcake.

Tina’s brother and hiswife have become the offi -cial apple peelers for the Ap-ple Stack Cakes. Fortunatelyfor customers, this deliciouscake is offered year round.It is so good, people out-side of the area are having itshipped to them.

The Village Bakery isopen weekdays 9-5 and Sat-urdays 8-2. Check out someof their creations on theirFacebook page.

While you are there,take time to check out thesigns and pictures. My fa-vorite picture was James,at age 5, rolling out dough.My favorite sign: “Everytime I say the word diet, Iwash my mouth out withchocolate.”

Knoxville Mayor Mad-eline Rogero is riding the buzz.

On Monday, the mayor spoke of the momentum around Knoxville. “A budget is not just a fi nancial docu-ment,” she said in Fountain City Park. “It’s about our vi-sion for our city. It is where we set our priorities and invest in the future that we want to see.

She drew loud applause from the neighborhood crowd when she men-tioned her budget includes $250,000 to make a “long-term solution” to the algae problems at Fountain City Lake.

On Tuesday, she secured passage of her budget and its accompanying 34-cent property tax increase. The vote wasn’t even close.

On Wednesday, we learned of a fund-raiser set for Wednesday, June 11, at the Kingston Pike home of Eddie Mannis, owner of Prestige Cleaners. It’s a $250 ticket with a 70-per-son host committee of Dem-ocrats and Republicans. Rogero is running for re-election, and I’m not betting against her.

We’ve always known Rogero was smart. Now we’re learning that she’s tough enough to fi ght and survive in the quagmire known as city politics. She’s a Democrat, which could limit her options for higher offi ce. But she’s sure riding high on the buzz of prog-ress, energy and optimism for the city.

People forget that the late U.S. Rep. John Duncan secured victory in his fi rst election to Congress on the buzz created by urban re-newal, construction of the Civic Coliseum and a mas-sive annexation that nearly doubled the size of the city.

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero gives the keynote address at

Honor Fountain City Day. Photo by S. Clark

Riding the buzz

Sandra Clark

Well, and he had a little help from Mose Lobetti and friends.

■ QuotableJustice Sharon Lee, a

lifelong Democrat who was appointed to the state Su-preme Court by Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen:

“Well, I’m troubled by the partisan attack on our judicial system,” Lee said. “Politics has no place in the courtroom.”

■ UpcomingEast Towne Area

Business and Profes-sional Association will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday, June 4, at New Harvest Park Community Center with breakfast sponsored by Legends at Oak Grove Apartment Homes. The guest speaker will be Mike North, dean of the Straw-berry Plains Campus of Pellissippi State Communi-ty College. Potential mem-bers and interested busi-ness people are invited to fi nd out what the east side buzz is all about.

Powell Business and Professional Associa-tion will meet at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, June 10, at Jubilee Banquet Facility. The presi-dent is Sage Kohler.

Halls Business and Professional Asso-ciation will meet at noon Tuesday, June 17, at Beaver Brook Country Club. The president is Bob Crye.

Rogero pledges bike, pedestrian connector at Broadway and 640

Liz Brown and Jeff Patin were honored as Woman and Man of

the Year by Fountain City Town Hall. Photos by S. Clark

By Sandra ClarkMayor Madeline Rogero

has pledged city support for a project the state Depart-ment of Transportation said it could not fund.

Rogero wants to main-tain safe, convenient access for pedestrians and bicy-clists from Fountain City to downtown, especially at the soon-to-be redesigned in-tersection of Broadway and Interstate 640.

In her budget address earlier this year, Rogero said, “A total of $2.18 mil-lion is allocated to sidewalks and crosswalks including $350,000 to begin design and land acquisition for sidewalks on Old Broadway at I-640. This is a critical walking and bicycle linkage that we are committed to building.”

Speaking at Honor Foun-tain City Day on May 26, she reiterated that support. “Great neighborhoods also need great connections to the rest of the city. That’s why my Engineering De-partment is working to make sure that as TDOT redesigns the interchange of Broadway and 640, we

Ken Clonniger accepts the Friend of Fountain City award from

Town Hall chair Daniel Dunn.

Daniel Dunn presents the chair’s award to Tyler Pavlis.

Melanie and Alfred McCoy ac-

cepted the award for residen-

tial beautifi cation. Their home

on Lynnwood was featured in

last week’s Shopper-News.

also create good pedestrian connections down along Old Broadway.

“We want to make sure you all can get to and from Fountain City as easily as possible, in whatever way you choose,” she said.

Rogero said the city is studying traffi c signal tim-ing for the entire stretch of Broadway from downtown to 640.

“This is the beginning of a move to better, smarter traffi c technology – traffi c lights that can talk to each other and make sure traffi c moves as effi ciently as pos-sible.”

Sensing less time at red lights, the crowd applauded enthusiastically.

And the big oaks liter-ally rattled when Rogero said $250,000 will be spent toward “long-term needs” to clean up Fountain City Lake, “Fountain City’s most recognizable landmark” since it was built in 1890. She praised the Lions Club which maintains the park and lake, but said there are major needs outside the scope of what volunteers can provide.

Daniel Dunn chaired the Honor Fountain City Day ceremony, giving the chair’s award to his friend Tyler Pavlis and presenting the “Friend of Fountain City” award to outgoing chair Ken Cloninger.

Afterwards, U.S. Rep. John Duncan Jr. continued

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